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Sooooo fakity fakely fake!

It's oh so convenient that the cameraman "happens" to look down and the camera happens to blur (what is it refocusing on?) between the time when the wings are resting on the ground and when they are picked up and ready for the test flight. Then the camera is conveniently moving and keeping things just a tad blurry while the wings start up. If you compare the appearance of the wings before and after the cut you'll notice some slight differences.

You tell me, does this look real or fake? http://i.imgur.com/YtPMI.png
As a former .NET guy, I have to take issue with the Microsoft devs chiming in about how great the .NET stack is for upgradeability.

Upgrading an ASP.NET web forms app to ASP.NET MVC is painful, and in many cases requires a full scale rewrite due to the high coupling of front and backend code in WebForms apps.

While Microsoft hasn't abandoned Web Forms, it's clearly behind the times in terms of modern web development and Microsoft isn't making much of an effort to bring it up to speed.

Comparing the upgrade of a Rails 2.3 app to 3.0 is a much better story IMO, and a far more realistic upgrade for even the largest apps.
The advantage you have as a web or app store developer is that if you make a mistake, you can always correct it by shipping a new version. Just imagine the stress that's on the Windows Update or Chrome update teams. If an update to Windows Update itself or to Chrome update itself turns out to be wrong, millions of users could be stuck with a non-upgradeable piece of software and each user would be forced to fix it manually.
I wouldn't have called it poor English! I wouldn't have guessed from the text that you aren't a native English speaker - I had to check your About page to be sure.

Your writing isn't as polished as, say, Paul Graham's writing, but then very few people can write at that standard.
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> With this environment, you can easily work in private, no distraction mode, or in full social mode...

Bingo. It seems that so many people operate under the assumption that there is only one way to work (social or private). The truth is that some people tend to be more productive working mostly alone and others tend to be more productive spending most of their time in direct collaboration. Also, some tasks lend themselves to private, heads-down work and others lend themselves to group collaboration. An office environment needs to have the flexibility for this.

Any office setup that only allows for one style of work is bound to have problems.
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I get you, but I just think that prerequisite knowledge is often not going to be chronologically published.

I was thinking along the lines of the Netflix recommendation engine based on topics covered in a text and the overall 'grade level' of the book. There's been some good work done in the latter, eg "The Art of Plain Talk" which has a system for analyzing the grade level of a given piece of writing.
I had the same problem but I still got an email for the download link so it's no big deal.
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I made this for a nested comment, I'll bring it up a level. Think this looks real? http://i.imgur.com/YtPMI.png

The grass in the second one (suspected CGI) isn't even the same color or saturation level.
I'm not partial to that name but my recommendation is to sell it and come up with another name later. Branding is what you make of it.
Often the most productive hour of my day design-wise is the hour long run at lunchtime.

Not only that it makes the afternoon far more productive too as I am much more awake than if I skip it.
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Since all the videos are numbered n of 14 - how did he know in advance that he would need exactly 14 videos for documenting his flight?
The disregard for the physics of the situation is actually quite insulting. The "demonstration" is so far from realistic its not even worth a debunking.

Here is an example of what this man is claiming to have done, actually being done, by a team of engineers working for years:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E77j1imdhQ
Interesting... if anything, I see hints (no proof!) of the reverse implication: success => genuine interest.
Can you point out the CGI? Not disagreeing or anything, I just know where to look for the CGI.
Interesting that Jamie Hyneman of the MythBusters fame Doesn't think it was faked. According him to the science checks out ! http://www.tested.com/articles/43440-thoughts-on-the-mechani...
Actually, the X11 License (sometimes called the "MIT License", but MIT has used many licenses) is GPL-compatible:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#X11License
See post below.
I think you know (and we all know) that that's impossible by now.
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Well, no, it's quite obviously fake... Does no-one else see that?

(Not for any logical reasons, but the video just looks fake!)
If you're interested, take a look at the post further down this thread.
It proves no such thing. There are many people who do what they love and are failures.
Yes, but physical proximity has been steadily growing less important for thousands of years.

It used to be that you needed to convince Ugg, the big man of your tribe. Then you had to travel to Babylon -- or instead send clay tablets. Then you could be heard in Alexandria from Rome if papyrus copies of your words were transcribed and shipped. Eventually the printing press, telegraph and regular steam train schedules meant information about your speech in Paris could be news in Berlin in hours.

Today, in a few seconds, I put my hypothesis on the nature of the internet to a few hundred strangers scattered across the globe.

That's what I mean by a quantitative change. At each step, the number of people you could potentially reach has increased; the cost of doing so has fallen. I don't see it as a qualitative change, though, I see it as a series of smaller stepwise improvements.
Excellent. The first few pages look great. Really nice layout and decent typography.

I barely know what a PSD is, so I cheaped out with the $2.99 edition, way less than an egg sandwich from Starbucks.

Hopefully this will help give me some inspiration for an iPhone app I want to build.
Your git clone link seems to be outdated, it should be https://github.com/bestiejs/json3.git .
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I've checked out of keeping track of StackExchange. I'm sure for those that can be bothered keeping track of evolving mechanics, meta-ness, and the Area 51 business, it's rewarding. Me, I only recognise the existence of StackOverflow. Great site.
As a user I love the no-nonsense straight to the point (and download) page, but as a HN'er I'd like to know more about it (and the company) before installing the software.
I don't think that makes any sense at all. Like any organization or group, it is seeking the best. In fact, I would imagine they'd be delighted bringing in folks even YC could learn from. I'm sure PG would be the first to say he doesn't have all the answers and cannot magically make every team be successful. Suggesting it's a deficiency in morality is absurd.
...but there apparently is enough of it where a 60 mSec advantage is worth the $1,500,000,000 investment.
Great video. Notice the difference in the motion of the wings? So much more fluid and natural than the flat and rigid motion of the video from the Wired article.
The original post submitted to HN, where it accumulated 33 points and 1 comment:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2960820
Here's a KickStarter idea:

1. Make a micro-dock for the iPhone that includes a functional tiny keyboard.
2. For super cool points, make it look like a Compaq 5250 (Pentium class) laptop, with scaled proportions.

The screen on those was 800x600 with quite a big border, so there's room to work with.
I thought social gaming was the future. What is going on with this company in relation to the market?
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You can edit video titles...
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I think you're right. 2004 was probably just his move to Portland.
Ad: 90%, funny joke: 20%, real: 5%

Why does it add up to 115%? Because apparently basic physics is bullshit so why not math?
In many cases, this distinction is unnecessary. Even big companies like Microsoft have a long ways to go; their workforce is 76% male.

Source: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/inside_ms.mspx
Both those articles are about income inequality and tells us nothing about how progressive the tax system is.

Both articles cite the 47% figure, as I stated above. Your source uses a figure of 33%, which is why it (and you) conclude that the US tax system is more progressive.

And did you read the article you just cited? I don't think it means what you think it means. FTA:

"Among the industrial democracies where income inequality is increasing, it's much worse in the United States than it is almost anywhere else. Among 34 nations recently surveyed by the OECD, the United States got beat only by Turkey, Mexico, and Chile."

and

"If you omit government redistribution from the calculations in the previous paragraph then four countries that previously were more equal in incomes than the U.S.—Portugal, Italy, Israel, and Germany—become less equal than the U.S."

The article pretty clearly contradicts your own argument.

If I'm well-off, why do I care how much someone else has?

Indeed, let them eat cake. A time-tested strategy.
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There are already tags. My thought is that they seem to be trying to solve the same kind of noise issues that Reddit's subreddits solve, except Reddit does a much better job. Having to open up a separate account on each site (linked by one big virtual account) is really messy, in my opinion.
Look out everybody, this guy's been here for almost 1000 days!
This is a perfect illustration of the how data is an important tool, and yet blindly relying on observable statistics can have problematic results.
So I don't get it, how are these supposed to be powered 24/7? This just seems like a publicity gimmick to me.

If they were serious, wouldn't some form of high-altitude solar balloon with solar powered rotors be better?
`Object('hi')` produces the equivalent of `new String('hi')`.

The stringify behavior is spec'ed here http://es5.github.com/#x15.12.3 [Step 4b of the abstract operation Str(key, holder) algorithm].

See http://cl.ly/2E1l2X3X3U1B2N1d3G1k.
"Death is just as natural as sex." was what I was responding to. Sex happens far, far, far more often than death, let alone violent death. No-one will die more than once, but most people have sex a great number of times.
Liquid Mountaineering looks to be the exact opposite of this.

That was clearly a platform just under the surface of the water. The actual footage was genuine, they just weren't doing what they claimed to be doing, whereas this certainly looks to be a total fake job.

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I played with one today and didn't actually feel much of a difference. I was much, much more blown away by the iPhone 4 screen (it looked ABSURDLY better).
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Best practice is to keep 100% current on security patches (which are often delivered as backports to older/stable versions, e.g. by Debian).

Anything beyond that, and there are multiple schools of thought. One is to keep upgrading bleeding-edge in near realtime -- this keeps you ahead of a lot of known vulnerabilities, gets you access to features, etc., but imposes a cost in constantly fixing bugs.

Another is to do big batch upgrades periodically -- e.g. always updating to Ubuntu Stable within a month or two of release. This breaks more stuff all at once, and has periods of less current software being in production, but is a reasonable compromise.

Another is to deploy things once, get them working, and then leave them in place (with as few upgrades as possible) for as long as possible, then do what is basically a forklift upgrade as required. It has the lowest ongoing cost for maintenance. For something with extensive safety or security critical code which can only be audited and certified at great expense, this is commonly done -- but leads to nice tasty 0-day exploits working well against the most critical systems. It also leads to losing the organizational knowledge, resources, etc. to upgrade.
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Yeah, I think it may be a combo punch of poisoning the well (rage levels are already high from talks of racism) and Appeal to motive (why are you defending the racists?).

Also there are some unspoken social rules that many forget when online. When in a very sensitive (emotional) conversation, being logical with no appeal to the emotion can appear cold, or excusing of the behavior that they are condemning (correctly or not).
I just threw in the towel and switched to mutt. I'd been meaning to try it out for a while anyway, and this was exactly the opportunity I needed to motivate me.

(For anyone who's curious to try it out- I couldn't be happier, and mutt + offlineimap + mairix has ended up being the perfect combination for me... far better than Gmail web was at its best).
No this is the details I really want. I really like to understand technically what is going on before I use a service. So far Cloud Flare has not returned my requests for a "Sales" talk. I am just not going to turn over my NPO stuff to them without understanding!

Can you explain how they would dispatch the traffic internally without a Virtual host? a rewrite rule, perhaps?

How do they get my static content? Do they just wget or curl it? Do I provide it? I assume it has expiration so if I change my CSS users dont get served the old stuff for very long?

We could e-mail privately if you dont mind too. My e-mail is in my profile.
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If this actually worked, wouldn't he have done it dozens of times, and have videos of each flight?
Though in the OP video, there isn't any claim that it's human powered, so it's a bit different even if still implausible.
Finally.

I'm not even happy, simply relieved. It's taken years and years to begin affirming what should you obvious: you shouldn't be allowed to patent nature. It boggles the mind how it came to this, how we arrived at the notion that someone could patent nature. Software patents are bad enough, whereas patents on biological aspects are much more dangerous. Take gene patents--these patents set biology back years every time someone receives one.
The reasoning behind the ruling might make it a good time to try to appeal a business process patent.
Stallmann got a MacArthur Fellowship, worth USD240,000 in 1990 [1], and a Grace Murray Hopper Award and a Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award, which had some money attached. Torvalds and Stallmann also had a share of a 100 million yen prize in 2001. It's not quite in the Zuckerberg league, but it at least means he shouldn't have to worry about where the next meal is coming from.

[1] http://tech.mit.edu/V110/N30/rms.30n.html
dude, i think taking pricing advice from most people on HN will put you in the poor house. i think you charged way too little. when it seems like a stupidly amazing bargain, it usually is!

i heard an axiom once re: pricing that you want customers to be begrudgingly, but willingly, paying you. that's when you know you're charging enough :)

either way - thanks!
Ahh that makes sense. I appreciate your research finding that part in the spec.
I'm grateful for this case, if for no other reason, that wherever the US finally, eventually draws a line in ridiculousness with regards to "Intellectual Property", the rest of the world seems to have no choice but to adopt it as the least common denominator.

This is particularly so for the UK and other Anglo countries.

So, a good decision, indeed.
Re #2: I'm also curious about how you go about deciding what UI elements should be on the page. When I sit down to design a UI, I have the hardest time deciding on what blocks to plop down. Should 'this' be a button or a link, or should 'that' be emphasized or de-emphasized? Do I even need this element on the page? I usually feel like I'm so far off on these large scale questions that the finer points you describe aren't worth worrying about yet.

Any chance of a second UI ebook dedicated to these (trivial to experts, I'm sure) concepts? I'm a developer at heart, not a designer. Design doesn't come easy.
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P.S. Some months ago I deleted my account with Paypal for moral reasons. When I tried to put in my credit card info, Paypal recognized my card as belonging to a deleted account and refused to accept my payment. Grrrrr.
Going to rephrase a different comment I made earlier:

All of these stack exchanges seem to be trying to solve the same kinds of noise issues that Reddit's subreddits solve, except Reddit does a much better job. No question in my mind.

Thoughts:

- Having to open a new account on each site (linked to one big virtual account) is messy. I get why they may not want reputation/badges to carry-over from site to site. Personally I believe doing so causes even more fragmentation and makes the barrier to entry too painful if you have to repeat it across several sites (I'd prefer to see a better mix of carrying over some stuff while starting over with others), but the fragmentation of the login/account itself is what really bothers me.

- On Reddit, anyone can open a subreddit about anything. On Stack Exchange, new sites have to be proposed on Area51 before they are beta tested and released. All of this effort so... what? They don't have sites that nobody visits? Would anybody notice sites that nobody visits? On Reddit, popular subreddits emerge organically. Unknown subreddits are basically invisible. It all just works. Stack Exchange should be more of a metareddit (.com). Stack Exchange even has a great page for featuring their sites by size and category:
http://stackexchange.com/sites

- On Stack Exchange, if I regularly frequent multiple sites, I need to visit them separately. This results in several tabs that I flip between when I'm in the mood for answering questions. On Reddit, all of my subreddits just feed through my front page, or I can input a custom URL which lets me view only a subset of my subreddits. I would love to do this with Stack Exchange.
The question is how do you get there (and stay there) legally and affordably.
That's in F, which is about 33C.

If it was C, that would be close to the temperature of boiling water (about 100C).

Note: I'm not saying that's hot or cold, that's subjective. I'm just making sure we're comparing oranges with oranges.
Murdering people was never common, certainly nowhere near as common as having sex. Don't forget that the histories you look at highlight the murders and wars just like modern-day journalism does - because it's "interesting and different". For example, the vikings are burned into our collective memory as vicious raiders - but they were traders that got on well with their neighbours. Murder has always been something out of the ordinary, right back to the bloke who jotted down "Thou shalt not kill"
No. 2 has been done a lot and is very hard to monetize and scale? There's a lot of people tackling 3 and 5 (including tbe aforementioned pinterest) and 3 doesn't seem practical/useful at all, imho...
No, it doesn't imply that.

Sure it does. Your first comment flatly stated that the wealthy in the US pay more of the overall tax burden than in other countries. Then to support your argument you cited a source that says it's actually the most progressive of the OECD countries.

I happen to think the source is wrong, but if it's not and you're right, the unmistakable conclusion is that European policies result in less progressive taxation. So if the conservative objective is a 'fair' tax rate in which everyone pays in direct proportion to what they earn, then Europe is (according to your argument) closer to this ideal than the US is. It follows then that their policies, according to you, are more favorable to the wealthy than the US and that we would be better off pursuing those policies. How can you on one hand argue that Europe is fairer and on the other hand argue that we shouldn't follow their example?
Has there been any actual confirmation of that? i.e. an official ruling from the PCI standards council?

Other than the long-term storage of credit card numbers stuff, most of it focuses on security measures I'd want someone using Stripe to have implemented.

After all, if someone hacks the server, they're going to have an easy time adjusting the flow to save the CC# that's supposed to only be going to Stripe.
Disclosure: I fell for this. That said here is another red flag:

The guys reaction at the end of the video is not one of triumph and excitement. Here are some videos of what real reactions look like:

First time skydiving:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...

Breaking a world record:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...

Winning:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOcf6oEiRT0&feature=playe...

*Edit - Fixed last link
FWIW: I work on MDN.

In short: We're in the process of basically rewriting the wiki software from scratch, right now [1]. There are a lot of growing pains. MediaWiki won't cut it.

Pull requests welcome!

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/kuma
Arguments as soldiers: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Arguments_as_soldiers
dochub.io pulls data from MDN. They deserve hugs. <3
What would you rather we used, other than developer.mozilla.org?
I've run across Prufrock451 before on the Paradox gaming boards, where he was known years ago as one of the most creative AAR (After Action Report) writers.

Two of his most popular works, both dating from 2002:

- WAAR of the Worlds, in which aliens invade (and are then repulsed by another player who alternated game sessions with Prufrock451). http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?44563-WAA...

- The Great Game Redux - Sibir, whose plot bears a striking resemblance to Rome Sweet Rome. A Englishman in 1909 is transported to Siberia in 1419 and attempts to transform the tribes into a modern country. http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?35699-The...

Both were written against a backdrop of a (heavily modified) game of Europa Universalis 2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Universalis_II).
Believe it or not, HTTP vs HTTPS is not the problem. As I mentioned in another thread:

We're rewriting the wiki basically from scratch [1]. There are problems and growing pains. Pull requests welcome!

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/kuma
No, I defiantly have, and it does. For a standard 13 years in the making, the number of decent FULL FEATURED implementations is minuscule. Stuff that mostly works likes Inkscape tends to use it's own dialect and not fully support all the features.
Now I don't feel so bad about spending a month of my time to make our search results page 40ms faster at Indeed.com
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The majority: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_keyboard#QWERTY-based_layout...
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Thanks tptacek. I'm not sure you are allowed to be wrong about questions like this, so next time make sure you are prepared;)

For posterity's sake if anyone is interested in pornin's suggestion at SO:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/3532136/915268
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Admittedly, this is me being ridiculously lazy, but others are lazy too, so I will share. I probably would have read through the whole thing tonight, but I'm on my ipad, so it downloading as a zip file is a bit of a pain. A more mobile-friendly option would be nice.

I look forward to reading it tomorrow.
Other confirmed man powered flight tests:

Snowbird ornithopter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E77j1imdhQ

MIT Daedalus
http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/Daedalus/HTML/
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