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Blogs and landing pages should be treated separately. For a blog, a pointless stock image still serves the purpose of visually breaking up the article so it doesn't look like a big wall of text.

I agree with you though that I would have liked to see some numbers, but otherwise it was a good article that should at least give you some ideas on what to test next.
My dad worked at Bell Labs in the 80s, and he's always telling me about the quality of the experience there.

I'm not sure if it was the politics, or the people, but he said there was an Apple or Google-like quality of innovation and inspiration. What's amazing though is that this innovation extended to basic research as well, and not just consumer products. He always tells me that when his team was using an early implementation of C++, a member simply called up Bjarne (creator of C++), and got an answer within seconds.

I agree with others about shifting research locations, but I think we have some fundamental problems with the attitudes of research. I've researched heavily outside of school for the past 4 years (thousands of hours, multiple publications) and the thing I've learned is that there's gotta be a better way to do this. Labs aren't the best place for industry and academia to talk to each other, because we'll always have conflicting motives.

Perhaps a move towards more technology incubation from university research - a Y-Combinator for universities, perhaps - is the future.
Huh? ICS was announced on October 19th, not released. The first release didn't come until mid-November, when the GSM Galaxy Nexus went on sale.
Note that this requires you to look at the battery.

My BMW, for example, has its battery in a very obscure location (behind the seats) and there are mere terminals in the hood for jumping.
Probably Lab Snacks from ThorLabs.
In most states math education is completely fad driven.

Textbook selection committees are usually staffed with people who do not understand the subject, and when domain experts are asked to donate their time to evaluate materials, their feedback is ignored as the only purpose of having them aboard was to apply to the dog and pony show evaluation proceedings a sheen of legitimacy.

Textbook publishers spend millions each year wining and dining members of committees, providing them with gifts and trips and sometimes even setting them up with speaking fees that are a masked form of bribery and kickbacks. It's a well known problem and has been going on for decades. It's very similar to the way the pharmaceutical rep industry works.

I strongly recommend everyone read "Judging Books by Their Covers" by Richard Feynman for his experience in the process, which remains the standard modus operandi to this day:

http://www.textbookleague.org/103feyn.htm

As the editor's postscript to that article summarizes:

"As a rule, however, state agencies don't want legitimate evaluations of the textbooks that publishers submit for adoption, because the agencies are allied with the publishers. The adoption proceedings staged by these agencies are not designed to help school districts, to protect students, or to serve the interests of taxpayers. Rather, they are designed to serve the interests of the publishers, to generate approvals and certifications for the publishers' books, and to help the publishers sell those books to local schools."

These dynamics are part of why I strongly oppose calls for national standardization, the streamlining and centralization of would lead to a much larger and more difficult to combat corruption as greasy palm edu-bureaucrats rake in the dough for selling out the country.
And to add to this, give more control to regulate the comments/submissions to users with higher Karma points.
it becomes a privilege to those people spending more time to give value to the community, to also curate the comments.
My dad was a Bell alum, and I agree completely. It's rare to have this convergence of genius, creativity, and perhaps most importantly money - but when it happens, society is forever improved.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3636287
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Just a note to the author:

I'm getting a lot of [Math Processing Errors] when I view your article: http://imgur.com/PSeMX I haven't looked at the source to see what was going on, so it might be that I'm blocking flash or something.

Otherwise, it was great! :) Thanks for a fun read!
I am the developer. Yes, please contact us if your usage is low but you are commercial. I'm sure we can figure something out that is fair.
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You could create an SMS-alert fairly easy for free by using the iftt.com alerts.

I have several alerts set up to send me email when new blog posts are being submitted, among these I actually have one for RaspberryPi.

Why should I pay $5 to find out if a $25 computer becomes available, if I can do it for free.
The magician wasn't holding the card if I read this correctly.
Are people checking the link before upvoting? This part of the book seems essentially unwritten so far. Not sure why it was posted.
appreciated, however I don't think that people mean "design" as in aesthetic design when they say "invented"

for example, the spinning beach ball is patented... I think we have passed the point where "patented" has anything to do with what people think of as "invention"
Actually, the Russian time zone change only changes the rules of those time zoned, not the geographical extent of them. Since we just return a tz id, users can just use an updated tz database (any up-to-date Linux system has this) to get the gmt offset at a particular time.
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I had (1) RSI too. The solution is in ergonomics, not a new mouse or keyboard or wrist support or whatever.

It's all about the way you sit in front of the computer.

Your wrists should be around elbow-level or a little lower when typing, your feet should be on the floor, and the upper half of your screen should be roughly at eye-level or a little below.

All of this is affected by the height of your desk, your chair, and of course your monitor.

- Are you using a laptop and looking downwards at the screen? -Expect neck pain.
- Are you sitting too low? -Expect pain in your forearms.
- Are you sitting too high? -Expect wrist pain.

1) I still kind of have RSI. If I'm doing something wrong, my forearms get irritated quite fast.
Russia is even worse than that. One year they "cancel winter time", essentially moving to daylight saving time for the whole year. And now parliament is discussing reversing that.
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Most generally, it will trick any command into thinking that it's not writing to a tty ; so piping into cat will often remove colors.
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That's the issue, how do we know how much is required to create new works?

If new works are still being produced - and right now, they're being produced more than ever - we know there is enough.

perhaps more money would also create better new works?

Define "better work".

I would also assume that piracy is not necessarily uniform, something popular with a younger more tech savvy audience would be more likely to be pirated (I assume at least).

Possibly, but again, I don't find that relevant.

We have legal coercion to do many things , for example to pay taxes or honor contracts that you may have signed (including EULAs etc). Not sure why this should particularly be different, you need some method of enforcement otherwise you would be essentially running an honesty system.

And we also don't have legal coercion for many other things. Fashion, for example, does not rely on copyright and still manages to be a vibrant community of creation.

Legal coercion should be reserved to when it's actually necessary. I'm not convinced it is in this case.

Very few other industries can exist purely on what would essentially be donations so not sure why IP should be different.

(I don't like the term IP. I'm talking about copyright.)

Show me another industry where the marginal costs are essentially 0. Music, movies, software, etc creation is different from most other industries for that fact alone.

A counter question to this; If you create a piece of IP then what additional rights should you have over everyone else? Should somebody else be able to use it for something you might deem distasteful without your permission, perhaps misrepresenting your views in the process?

Yes, they should be able to use it for something I might deem distasteful. I don't like censorship. If they misrepresenting my views, then they're defaming me. I don't need copyright to protect myself from that.

Should somebody else be able to take credit for your work?

No, because that would be fraud. Again, you don't need copyright, just basic consumer protection.

For example say you write and record a song and a large company with more resources than you decides to take your song and have somebody else perform it and they make serious money doing this do they owe you anything?

Sure. In fact, if more money alone makes a better song, I question the artistic quality of that work.

Or if they decide to host your work on a website with adverts (essentially what TPB did/does) do you have any right to a portion of that ad revenue?

No, why should I?
I've been a huge fan of this show since I caught about 2 episodes of the Canadian version years ago. I was glad to see Shark Tanke come to america. On the wikipedia page you can find that the show has been licensed around the world and varies in name by country (e.g.: Tigers Den, Shark Den, Shark Tank, Dragons Den, etc.) and originated in Japan.

The thing is, I can't find any way to watch the BBC or the Canadian versions online.

I can VPN to most countries so its not the geographic restrictions so much as it doesn't seem there's a HULU in every country.

Any suggestions for how or more importantly where to watch the UK or Canadian versions of this show? Maybe Australian even? Or singapore? Hong Kong? (just listing all the english speaking countries that might have produced it.)
Do you think they'll just close up shop? Of course not.

Some stores on the margin will be driven bankrupt by the increased costs, and these stores will close up shop.
While college is primarily an opportunity to prepare for a profession, it is a great opportunity to build a social life as well that would carry beyond just college years. Colleges offer beginner's wellness courses for various hobbies or sports. Take them to try activities and find what you like. It will be much easier to make and retain friends when you have a common interest that involves doing something together beyond just watching TV or movies or eating. The wellness courses at universities are also more comfortable as everyone is of the same background.

A lot of beginner's courses outside of universities are targeted to kids (AKA not you). While you could take wellness courses at universities while working, it's not easy to schedule (unlike night courses on professional topics).
> How about work as the incentive?

Here's how I look at it. You can either apply force (by making the urban poor work at some crappy job) ; or you can apply attraction, and have them move themselves (by offering a significant economic incentive to work). Ye old carrot and stick solution. :)

I believe the former (stick) has been tried many times, and it doesn't work quite as well. People just don't like others telling them what to do.

But by giving a significant incentive (a carrot), you make the person themselves affect change; and it is more sustainable.

Anyways: these are just ideas that I'm hoping can spur some discussion. Looking at the number of urban poor, the current system isn't working.
Because the publishers could choose to be competent and reform their industry, but are instead eating their own seed corn. Outsourcing your technical expertise to lowest bidders in the third world is suicide in any business.
Like the grand-parent, I have definitely used a Unix variant (CX/SX?) which required a command to do redirection.
I'm surprised that none of the doctors suggested taking a break. That's the first thing the doctor I saw recommended: get up and walk around for a minute or two every hour. That was in my first year of professional programming, over ten years ago, and the problems never came back.

I think there are some doctors who make a blanket assumption that patients never successfully maintain lifestyle changes, so you might as well jump straight to drugs or surgery. That is probably 95% accurate, but I believe the 5% who are able to improve their lifestyles deserve consideration even if that means treatment is delayed for the 95% who won't, and there are plenty of doctors who agree. It was just the author's bad luck that all the doctors he saw ruled out lifestyle changes because of ignorance or cynicism.

On another note, an important thing for people working at computers to know is that typing may not be the culprit. Simply sitting at your computer can damage your body if you're tense, have bad posture, or maintain the same posture for long periods of time. The problems I had originated in my neck, not my hands or arms.

Also, for years I only had good posture when I was paying consistent attention. When my attention to my posture lapsed for too long (at the keyboard or anywhere else) I would sag back into my bad posture. I made a breakthrough when I discovered that a session lifting weights or kettlebells makes it easy for me to maintain good posture for the next couple of days. My "good" posture now is better than my old "good" posture, and if I've been in the gym recently, it comes naturally instead of requiring constant effort. I invested a significant amount of thought and effort into developing decent weightlifting form, but the effect on my posture is a physical aftereffect of the lifting itself -- knowing isn't enough, and apparently simply being in shape isn't enough, either, because my posture starts to slip after just a few days. My slack posture now is a little better than the sagging posture that used to come naturally, but it's still pretty bad.
Yes it is for Indian market. I would love to build social network for Indian musicians. That's also one of my several ideas but due to my last two unsuccessful attempts to build a community I know it is a difficult, time consuming and painful process(not impossible).

According to you which one is a better strategy -
a) Build a community and then a store around it.
b) Build a store and then a community around it.

One such site that has both e-commerce and community is http://www.bodybuilding.com
i) A clear set things which are known to be off-topic. (Topics which are almost entirely polarising, where you're never going to change someone's opinion, and normally not welcome here.)

ii) Insisting on reasonable behaviour, letting users know what's expected, and being able to down mod them when they fail.

iii) Use of down arrows only to moderate unsuitable comments, not just comments with which you disagree.

iv) A niche target audience, who may need to buy / sell things to from each other, or who may work for each other, or who may need to raise money etc etc.

If you're interested in online communities I usually recommend "meatball wiki", but that's more about wikis.
Henry Ford also thought it was important that his workers be able to purchase the product that they are making in order to drive the economy. Turking isn't even going to feed you.
I completely agree, which is why I was also confused that the referenced study was on offline ad design and copy, their first screenshot was a landing page, their second screenshot was an online news article, and their third screenshot was a blog post.
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I think the serif just extends way back. Look at the "m", it seems to confirm this.
Ping me on twitter @kzorz or check my profile. I'm not an seo-er myself, but may be able to connect you to someone good. Do prepare to spend more money though.
A very nice (but a bit academic) way to look at "cat" as a monadic "return" on unix pipes :

http://okmij.org/ftp/Computation/monadic-shell.html
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use Camel Case (aka Upper Camel Case) for classes: VelocityResponseWriter

This is also called Pascal case.
"Certainly, a HN thread won't end up filled with a side discussion about office restroom design."

I like those really tall faucets, the ones used by surgeons when they scrub in. I want one in my office restroom, so that I can easily wash up to my elbows after a messy coding session, and I don't care to listen to the moralists who tell me that those faucets are only for surgeons.
There's an argument to be made (not necessarily by me) that if you have to spend a lot of time communicating your value proposition to your market, there may be something wrong with your product. The value proposition of your product should be self-evident.
But every store in that business would see their labor costs rise proportionately, so the net effect would be zero. If Walgreens' costs go up by 5%, so will Rite Aid's, CVS's, etc. Stores will just pass on the costs to the consumers. Plus, the labor cost of stores like Walgreens are very small compared to the merchandise costs. And the high-paying jobs (Pharmacists, etc.) would not be affected anyways, since you're just raising the minimum wage.

Other than Walmart, you'd be hard-pressed to find a business where the minimum-wage employees are a significant cost item in the budget.
Hey, not to shoot you down but there is definitely a transformer in the iphone supply. Second, building switching supplies that can supply an arbitrary output voltage/current isn't practical or economical. Third, don't you want a power supply for every piece of equipment? You don't really want to have to unplug one thing to plug another thing in do you?
If the company hires someone, they may shut down the interview pipeline and tell everyone else 'tbnt' with no explanation. There's lots of reasons either side could end the interview process. It's not helpful to reply to the email unless they specifically said that your submission was wrong, and any reply will probably just be ignored.
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Medial capitals have always been around in English, but the use has exploded of late, and a lot of people think it looks silly, as though a word is missing a space or a letter is randomly miscased. It looks alright in personal names because we’re used to it—no one complains about MacDonald, DeLuca, LeBlanc, or O’Shaughnessy. But the phenomenon of medial capitals in company names is really only about 40 years old. There are many well-known examples—YouTube, PayPal, RadioShack, PlayStation, &c., but I think they succeed by sheer volume and dot-com kitsch.

The only time it really bothers me is when budding authors are trying to come up with fantasy names. They use (what I lovingly call) Dread Intercapitals alongside Dread Apostrophes and Dread Accents to make names that look like Harâk’Thür—presumably in imitation of Tolkien, who actually knew what he was doing, and had internally consistent language models.
This is a great idea. Unfortunately, I think I remember one of my electronics lecturers at uni telling us that generally communication/feedback with power supplies is dangerous because you introduce the possibility of unexpected power surges propagating in the other direction. It's apparently very hard/expensive to have both communication and protection against this. I'd love for someone to correct me, especially as this might not apply to the newer designs.
Do you use the original or homeschool edition? I'm planning to pick up a set soon.
I think building dorms to house the population would be a significant obstacle to this approach.
Having been in the middle of this churn in WA what you see is that textbook publishers play a critical role. It often plays out like this:

1) Student test scores get worse or a new state test is implemented and shows that students are doing poorly.

2) The school board is pushed to fix the problem. They're not math experts.

3) The textbook publishing industry pushes their experts to advocate their latest series of textbooks and teaching methods.

4) The school board then changes the district to a new curriculum with the new textbook.

This pattern plays out all over the country. And repeats over time.
Gladly the industry seems to be (slowly) standardizing on micro-USB plugs, except for laptops. That means nowadays I only have to carry two bricks with me (MicroUSB + Macbook charger).

Personally I'd really love if everyone moved to a common MicroUSB MagSafe form-factor. But apparently there are some patents in the way...
I could be wrong, but as far as I know iOS doesn't allow third-party applications to access/intercept text messages, while Android does.
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(Time to burn some karma for going against the grain..)

On the other hand, I find movies with constant foul language tedious to watch. I'm happy that movie producers have a financial incentive to really think about whether language really adds to the story or is being thrown in because it is easier to have an actor say f*ck than to have her actually, you know, act out her character's emotions.

Yes, the MPAA is prudish and has gotten more prudish over the years (there is no way the original Exorcist would be rated R today). I also think ratings could be made more objective (but some subjectiveness will remain). Finally, the MPAA shouldn't be the ones doing the rating, simply because of the conflicts of interest involved.
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OMG! You guys! Aside from a few, most comments here are discussing how to actually do this efficiently. I think this might be forgivable as I assume many of you are quite young, but are you really suggesting exploiting poor populations for menial work w/o social benefits, without dignity, suggesting they walk into some booth, put in a few hours of work without even the physical presence of co-workers and bosses that can appreciate their work?

Again, I'd like to attribute the responses to the commenters' young age, and I trust your good intentions, but hackers, engineers and all entrepreneurs should really learn something about work-relations, social policy and ethics.
Because there's supposed to be a space there. You can be forgiven perhaps if the things you're concatenating are not words, like ServInt does where Serv Int would look weird, but when you just take words and mash them together, that's not suddenly a brand: that's a typo.

I guess the problem is that it just gets dreary. Just to confine myself to web hosts: DreamHost. HostGator. HostMonster. HostOrca. KnownHost. StartLogic. TotalChoice.

Go on, try to say NearlyFreeHosting in one breath, no pauses. That's the name of that company. Someone actually named their company "neerlafrihostin."

You don't have to go as far as A Small Orange does, where you choose a branding that makes me think of a webcomic. You could just be like Liquid Web and Media Temple -- give me your name with those spaces intact. CamelCase is for programming languages and the occasional wiki -- and it's still ugly in those places too; I just don't see great alternatives there.
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Your comment seems rather irrelevant to the article. Please read it for context.