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The moon may have fewer natural resources than Mars, but it seems strange to not practice building habitats in the Earth's backyard. "Lunarcrete" is one way to build bunkers (using materials already on the moon) that keep out gamma rays and extreme surface temperatures.

The moon is also close enough that I could imagine a private company like Virgin Galactic building lunar resorts in a couple decades. :D
I've always loved this style of microsoft advertising. nobody else in the industry has this kind of humor.
I'm working on something similar to a lot of what you're describing with a custom CMS and the dynamic pushState. I'd be interested in hearing more about your approach. If you want to shoot me an email - tgriesser10 at gmail dot com.
How the new monopolies are destroying open markets
Just tried downloading IE9 from their site.

It gave me IE8 because I am running XP. HAH.
Type-level Fibonacci numbers in Scala
We ended up doing something similar here with multiple views. Similar, but different. Our app is very desktop like, with basically a layout container with sub-parts that re-render. Instead of a "widget" system, I created a parent-child hierarchy, where parents would bubble child events on up. This way, the router just receives app notifications from a 3rd or 4th level child and can decide to "switch" the main view. The parents cleaned up the kids.

It worked for this app, but I don't think our pattern was particularly useful unless you had to build the kind of complex "pseudo-multiframe" kind of app we were building.

This is why I love the approach of backbone. It's easy to read, and establish new patterns. Our "multiple view" pattern we're using is a little different from what sendhub is doing, but I think it was fairly direct for both of us to get what we want.
I'm pretty sure _why is aware that people wonder about him. He'd be in touch if he wanted to.
Extjs solves this by abstracting the dom. When you want to remove a component from its parent, you call the remove() method and it handles all the dom unbinding behind the scenes. You never interact with the dom api directly. Adding content is done by calling the add() method of the parent and passing it a child component instance. It also decouples rendering from component construction. You can have an entire component hierarchy with operational events and fully interactive from the code's perspective, that isn't rendered to the dom at all.
You can also git-add -i to go through the staging area & stage/unstage individual patches.
This is absurd--is PayPal really serious about this? I keep expecting a video from the Onion to show up when I click on the links. Once Yahoo! dies it's slow, litigious death -- PayPal needs to be the next to go. This is not indicative of the innovation I know happens in the Valley.
I agree with you: "Just because you can't code, doesn't mean you can't build a business - and vice versa - just because you can code, doesn't mean you can build a business."

I have worked for start-ups where people told me what to do, and also have my own bootstrapped start-up. I prefer the later. I think it is important to be well rounded in abilities from coding to business development. That way, you can see through people's bullshit a lot easier, and there is plenty of that going around in the industry.

Having said that, you can be an ideas person, but those ideas better be successful more times than not. Success five years ago and failures at every turn since does not exactly invoke confidence.
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You'd think. But you can get much greater differences in pricing if you find out who you're talking to before you give them a price. That's really hard to do with online self-signup.
Yeah, sure. I'll let someone use a smart phone to take a picture of my credit card. That has to be the dumbest idea ever.
But isn't this like hating on the architect because he didn't actually build the beautiful building by hand? You still like the building and give the architect credit for it, not the builder(s).
Ask HN: Are we addicted to screens?
Smartphones -> everyone has one, they had screens in the past too, but they weren't so resourceful
Elevator -> there's a screen showing news, ads
Restaurant, bars -> TV
Leisure -> Videogames, TV, computer
Go to a club -> screens projecting videos or images increasingly more common
Work -> PC
Take a photo -> See through a screen
See a live band -> Sometimes you have to watch it through the screen, or it's more practical to watch it through the live filming, some nuts pay a lot to watch a music show through the tiny screen of their cameras/phones, because they're recording

It's kinda unsettling to me how much more time of the day nowadays is spent with your eyes hooked to a screen

And it makes me wonder if we are not addicted to looking at them, you can see a lot of times if there's a screen in a place, even a interesting one, like a party, some people can't help but get their eyeballs fixed into it and gently ignore the rest

The other day I was at home drinking with friends and I brought my notebook to the living room to put some music, little time after, they picked it up and started the "youtube party", I had no interest at all in watching tiny videos instead of having a conversation and it seriously bothered me..
The same "Youtube party" friend constantly shifts from the people to playing pointless games on the smartphone(yeah, he's kind of a retard)

so, what happens? Is it because I'm a programmer and am already tired of excessive lack of interpersonal interactions or does anyone feel the same sometimes?
Your Dell XPS has 1920 * 1080 resolution, that is, around 2M pixels. The iPad has 2048 * 1536 which is 3M pixels. Your claim "the screen area of the 15.6" laptop is twice that of the tablet" is actually irrelevant considering the number of pixels and the processing power needed to move all these pixels around for all smooth animations.

iPad is definitely impressive engineering feat.
Andy Rubin and the Android team had a pretty big impact on Google.
I have tried a Blizzard beta before, they have lots of nice error reporting functionality which I reported several bugs on

I don't know how you expect for them to get good data on what people do to accurately test unless they do a large scale beta to test it
Or use git citool or an emacs mode like egg or magit (other editors have similar) that let you conveniently stage by hunk or line.
Honestly I'm no expert. But I'd find it very surprising if there was much difference at the same lumens output. The backlight is not per-pixel in a LED-backlit display (maybe you're thinking of OLED displays?), though I understand it's often per-region to allow large dark areas to be under-lit.

And note that LED backlights are routinely put up as having overall lower power consumption than CCFL panels like the one in my laptop.

Really my point is this: that's a laptop-sized battery in that thing, and it's seeing only slightly super-laptop power draw.
It's not that Microsoft writes terrible software, it's that they deliberately cripple things like HTML5 which threaten to establish a new non-proprietary non-Windows platform as the standard to which all software will be written.

Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft. Also, ;)
Very simple. His plate is not empty. He offered the plate which was accepted. Simple.
You can always run coffee at the command line.
The severity of the problem was pretty clearly and concisely conveyed: "This is a very bad bug, and you should fix it ASAP. Don't wait."

As for how many people it practically affects, that could well hurt. Saying anything more than "Applications are broadly vulnerable to this problem." like he did elsewhere in this thread could very well point out specific, detectable vulnerable instances. That's a bad thing. Just wait and more info will be out, but heed his advice!
Most places sell it OTC, globally.
I didn't say there was anything wrong with it; people do worse things out of social pressure and there are far more obnoxious ways to express narcissism, but I don't see any of your rationales falling outside of those two categories.
we all too often beat up on founders that stay at their jobs before committing full time to a startup. staying at your job isn't always a bad idea at first. taking the risk out of the startup lifestyle suggests this guy will do the same with investors' money when it comes to the life of his new company.
I wish I could hide feeds with no unread items in it, and also hide the middle panel (not sure why it's needed, in Reeder as well).
I remember hearing in 2008 that Google valued engineers at 1-3m per. At Google's scale, an engineer can theoretically create at least that much value over a normal tenure (and denies their competition access to that resource).

Google makes $1.2M/yr/employee... Presumably quite a bit more if you count dollars per engineer. I know it's not quite so simple as "add an engineer and make more revenue", but it seems correlative.
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First off, congrats on the launching the site! It looks great. I played with it but I am having a hard time trying to figure out the business model. Is the key revenue stream advertising?

When I look at last.fm, it also sells other music related items such as ringtones, and also advertises. I can't understand last.fm as well.
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I may be wrong but I interpreted a "professional company" as a "professional services company" Companies where the main value offered is the services of the partners of the firm. As far as I knew, these companies were not public because they reserve stock for the professionals working in the firm.
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I am not sure I believe that Australians have a higher purchasing power than Americans. Certainly for an example I'm more familiar with, the game costs NZ$109.99 in New Zealand, which is US$90 at the moment. I can assure you that the purchasing power of an average NZer is less than that of an average American, so goodness knows why it has to be so much more expensive. This is fairly standard on a lot of things - books, DVDs etc - and I can only presume it's simply because they know they can get away with it because people have gotten used to games costing about $100 without worrying about what that means in the publisher's native currency.
Shoe laces are more functional.
Your point misses the mark: with the 1/2 of the battery of your notebook iPad moves 50% more pixels for twice as long:

It's 2 * 1.5 * 2 = 6 times more efficient than your notebook. Of course, usage patterns are also different, but it's still wonderful piece of engineering.
> Remember, buy low, sell high.

Over the years, I've learned it's more effective to: buy when there is doom and gloom (blood on the street), sell when there is nothing but good news (about the company, industry).

For example, when there is a crash and everyone is saying: wait some more, the bottom is not reached yet, it's all going to shit, then buy.

You should also always buy in steps, buy 30% now, wait some more, buy another 30%, wait some more, buy remaining 40%. This helps tremendously with your nerves and emotions.
Funny you should ask that, of Ed in particular.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2564099

Of course, you are welcome to judge it as simple ego-stroking or whatever, but quite a few people would disagree.
Ah, a Centos/Red Hat thing.
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Along the same line, I've stopped applying for jobs that don't list some sort of salary. That shows me that either you're ashamed of the salary you're offering or you want to exploit candidate ignorance in order to get them to work for a salary that isn't competitive.

It's deceptive, and it's not fair.
It can't. All modern chips have thermal protection. It'll just throttle down if it gets too hot.
Educators dedicated to teaching your kid how to build a robot
How about http://intigi.com ? (I'm a co-founder)
My argument should be pretty easy to refute then; name one reason, other than social pressure or narcissism, to wear a suit.
Oh no, PayPal's legendary customer disservice comes to small businesses across America.

When's Square's IPO again? :-/
You would understand what he brings to the table if you had any idea how difficult it is to create "one previous successful project" on the scale of Digg. Kevin has demonstrated an ability to create something with a huge following from nothing, which is a skill set that your average Google developer does not have.
you can use git gui (included) for a mouse-friendly way of doing this.
Because there are people who work for reasons other than attaining monetary wealth.
Yeah, I started with TJoC, but it felt like watching a movie before reading the book: it's fun, but you miss many of the insights that went into producing the movie.

So I backed up, practiced some (koans, 4clojure, Euler), read Stuart Sierra's Programming Clojure and then read TJoC. Both excellent books, btw.
Not necessarily. Facebook may have just been driving up the price for Google.
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"but I will never get sucked into some big
company’s CRM and get hounded by commission-seeking
salespeople/vultures."

Exactly what is the OP problem?

All salespeople are "vultures"???

And anybody on commission "hounds" you?

That's right only YOU have a right as an entitled person to earn a living. Everyone else is superfluous and there to serve you efficiently and at the lowest possible cost.

I have news for you. There is nothing that I like better than a salesperson that hounds me and is on commission. That's the way you sometimes get your best deal. Based on my many years of experience buying things. They are hungry to make quota and if you play it right you save money.

Go deal with clerks and order takers if you want. I'd rather deal with people hungry for my business.
You are correct, that's why people like Joel Greenblatt want to create equally weighted indexes.
This is where I sit on Kevin Rose. He's mostly a product guy, and he brings past success and a big 'test-market' following to ANY product he touches.

I'm hard-pressed to discredit someone who got Digg the attention it got, then maintained and built a personal following that he unquestionably influences, and THEN spearheaded a product that you may not love but did get 150k users and was damn beautiful to boot.

I'm not a fanboy, but Kevin Rose is on a short list of people who can really fuel a product and it doesn't require technical knowledge or even 'having the idea' for that to be valuable.
The concern is not a disaster that necessarily destroys Earth itself - an extinction event for humans is enough. There are plenty of species that have gone extinct before (including some close relatives) and since it's obviously never happened to us we have little idea of its shape or likelihood.

The very distance that makes Mars so hard to reach would be good protection against such an unexpected event (whether it's unintended effects of scientific experiments, novel WMDs, grey goo etc.). There is no way to create a similarly isolated colony on Earth, even if we discount the problem that nobody would want to live in such a place. (As opposed to the many people, reared on SciFi, who would volunteer for Mars quite eagerly.)
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Apple's procurement is far beyond "booking capacity". They effectively provide the economy-of-scale for something like an iPad retina display to be economically produced in the first place. No one else has that kind of power.
This seems like a pretty terrible workflow to me, do others here actually work like this?

I only use git-add -p when I've screwed up and didn't commit when I should have, so I have to split the current commit into two. It seems to me that rebase -i and merge --squash are better suited to re-writing history in the way that's being done here. I'm especially distrustful of any workflow that includes the line "I eyeball the diff".

But I'm no git guru. Is this a common way to work? Are there advantages over the alternatives?
They also forgot the air quotes around "trusted"
Not sure what you mean. Pixels don't take power by themselves (and of course screen area does take power all by itself). Moving them does, sure, but the GPU (GeForce 420M) in my laptop is signicantly faster (literally 5x the GFLOPs per spec) than the 4x SGX 54x cores in the A5X.

I'm not making a platform flame here or asking you to defend your favorite device. I'm just expressing surprise at the apparent power draw of a device that conventional wisdom claims is exceedingly thrifty.
It will be very interesting to see this strategy applied to, let's say, Windows XP, the Start menu, the WIMP paradigm etc.. when Microsoft is tired of those!
Is there some reason these are mutually exclusive?
How Social Media Makes Things Happen
Sadly, I believe all of these ports run slightly different dialects of Clojure (beyond the things that must be different, like interacting with code written in other languages).
I'm not a game theorist (and I'd welcome an opinion/correction from one), but I don't think the original paper's conclusion is very interesting, or has much bearing on real life.

Their result (that jokers, defectors, and cooperators will cycle) depends on some bizarre features of the joker:

- Jokers don't damage other jokers. This is why jokers drive out defectors.

- Jokers don't benefit from public goods. This is why jokers don't arise when there are lots of cooperators.

- The public good benefits that jokers forgo are redistributed back onto the cooperators. This is why cooperators flourish in joker populations: they produce a benefit for a large population, which then gets focused back on their small population.

This last feature is the really weird one. No public good I can think of can be redistributed this way [1]; indeed, goods that _can_ be efficiently reallocated like this tend to be naturally modeled as private goods.

Consider a public good: say, clean air. In this model we would have cooperators, who go out of their way to keep the air clean; defectors, who prefer air to be cleaner, but save effort by polluting; and jokers, who are indifferent to air pollution, produce a large amount of pollution, and somehow transfer the health benefits of clean air back onto the cooperators. Thus, if we added a single cooperator to a population of jokers, the cooperator would get a massive health benefit from not polluting, because of all the jokers "not consuming" the benefit. This is clearly nonsensical.

In short, the paper's conclusions follow from its premises, but its premises have nothing to do with any real situation that I can think of [2].

[1] There are a lot of public goods that degrade as more people use them, but not in a way that matches the math in this paper. Can anyone think of an example where this paper's conclusion would hold?

[2] Of course one can say that all game theory is an abstraction, which is true, but it still proceeds from a simplified model of reality, rather than totally arbitrary assumptions. This paper in particular would be getting no attention if the "joker" strategy didn't have a compelling real-world analogue. Furthermore, the problem here is not that their model is too simple, but that it adds weird, artificial features without explanation or justification.

(EDIT: Changed "small amount of pollution" to "large amount of pollution", as jokers do more damage than defectors.)
Do you mean something like the "Best guess for..."? In that case, I've seen it on a bunch of factual queries. Try searching for something like the "Size of France".
Intigi sounds like it's targeted to marketers. I'm looking for more of a consumer-oriented site.

thanks
That's a big reason I've steered clear of "top ten" funds lately... I just don't want that much AAPL in my portfolio.

Especially the 1Q AAPL curve: very bubble-y. I'd be much more prone to buy if it was a steadier growth curve instead of an exponent.
Did you search for Monet[1]? The artworks are actually listed at the bottom (as noted in the article, actually) so they aren't really even suggesting they are the most relevant results. I don't see why offering additional information is seen as a bad thing? It's not like it shows up whenever Monet is in the query[2].

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=monet
[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=monets+birthplace
High-DPI displays have a lower pixel aperture ratio than traditional displays, so the backlight needs to be brighter to give the same perceived brightness. Supposedly the new iPad retina display uses twice as many backlighting elements as the iPad 2.

I don't believe switching is the major component in the display's power draw, since adjusting brightness has such a significant effect on battery life. If switching was the dominant factor, you would expect battery life to be roughly independent of brightness settings.
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max ventilla -> aardvark
feedshow? It's free, but, somewhat slow to update.
We're smart. We live almost entirely in structures and cities that are very remote from the idyllic world you describe. When was the last time you saw your food grow?

There are technological hurdles to living on Mars, but not much we already don't know how to handle. Food, water, air - that's the minimum, and thats not all that hard given raw materials and energy, which is abundant on Mars.
My simple removable drive is called Dropbox, and it's available at every computer, phone, or tablet I use.
Even better: it's a correctly-rounded implementation for nearly half of the input space!
Yes, we know. But it is a good way tell the general population that the Turing Award is the most prestigious award in computer science.
Zeromq forked
Not sure of the reasons behind this apart from those on the faq linked. Can anyone fill me in on what happened and what this means for the future of zeromq?
Something like this?:
https://www.google.com/search?q=specific+gravity+of+gold
This, while cool, just seems like the wrong way to go about things. I like this solution or something like it: https://github.com/mindbrix/UIImage-PDF
What you decry is standard journalistic fare. Tracking down a central figure in your article is a mark of investigative journalism. The individual's desires for privacy do not, by that fact alone, afford them the right to never have anyone try and contact them.

We respect his privacy both because of his contributions, and because his feelings are clear. That does not mean everyone else on Earth is obliged to.
Your comment's FunScore accurately reflects the level of Fun your comment brought to this message thread. The system works! :)

(I said, when his comment was light grey...)
Which is abundant on Mars as solar energy, with its thin atmosphere.
There's a few advantages to doing things this way.

If you ever want to git-bisect your code-base to track down when you introduced a bug then you'll be very thankful that every commit is functional and passes your test-suite (apart from the tests relevant to new features on a topic branch of course). Having to hop forwards and backwards from each git-bisect point looking for a functional commit is a huge waste of time.

Breaking your changes into clean commits with proper explanatory commit messages also makes it much easier for people working on the code in the future to work out the intent of various parts of the code.

Think of a messy commit history as a form of technical debt: Sure it's quicker to just move forward with development, but if you have a history that breaks things down into clean commits with well written explanatory commit messages then you're making life much, much easier for whoever has to debug that code in the future. Odds are that that person is going to be you & by the time you come back to the code you've have forgotten all about it and be forced to spelunk through the commit history in order to work out what on earth you were doing. Think of it as a service to your future self :)
Let's not choose between artificial dilemmas. Do them all.