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Ah, you're in Chicago.

I think you'd find it's different in Silicon Valley.

Which is not to suggest in the slightest that you'd be out of place in an open sport jacket and collared shirt sans tie. But if you prefer a hoodie and flip-flops, I think you'd find you could indulge that preference more freely here.
Time for "Fools around me" - tick tock
In the United States, writing a book makes it copyrighted. It's impossible to not. You can then grant it to the public domain, but it was still copyrighted at conception.
Amazing effect! Here's hoping it's still cool to me after I see it after every blog's "more posts" link.
I'm not sure this is another April Fool's Joke. I didn't find anywhere where it said "April Fools" but maybe I'm wrong.
there's a morse code gmail (Gmail Tap) as well.
I really wasn't trying to throw a stick in the mud in terms of a hard scientific date which is why I phrased it how I did. That said my reference wasn't so much toward "the old world" which I take to mean in the last few thousand years but rather on more of an evolutionary scale, that is millions of years ago.
I downvoted your comment (and probably was the first to do given that it was still black when I downvoted it) here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3782072 which lead you to immediately post this. Considering you clearly think your comment was constructive (or else you wouldn't have posted this) I'll explain why you were downvoted into oblivion.

Your comment was ridiculous self promotion with a splash of topic relevancy. It was laced with narcissistic bullshit. If you don't want to get downvoted, stick to the topic, not how you (at 23, with 13 years of design experience) are better than 99% of the designers and then link to a bunch of sites that, while certainly are not unattractive, are not what I would include in my list of greatest websites ever designed.
Wow - you're especially lucky given that you said "each side". One of the problems with Commodore floppies was that if you punched a notch to use the unintended "other side", you were taking a few risks:

- That side wasn't necessarily quality tested. Since disks, like CPUs today, were binned, you could often use the "bad" side anyway, as the failure rates went down on the production runs.

- That side didn't have a dust filter, or whatever you call those little felt pads.

- If it DID have a dust filter, it might have been in a position to catch the dust on a true double-sided drive, which would be spinning in the opposite direction, and so would end up being useless to you.

- Or, worse, if the pad was napped, like velour, spinning in the opposite direction would actually release all the dust that had been captured. That would be bad.

Or at least this was the lore that we passed around on BBS's at the time. It could have been every bit as wrong as the truism "When your computer crashes, try wrapping your disk drive in tinfoil" (which was in fact true if your problem was RF from the TV hitting the poorly-shielded-and-filtered serial cable, but otherwise either useless or a good way to overheat your drive).
Who wants to bet that this one isn't a joke?
(Go back and play with it even longer: give it a good 30-60 seconds.)
Entering one of their vehicles in real NASCAR seems rather impossible, but perhaps an exhibition race? Still a long shot, but maybe... here's hoping.
This is what I don't get. Are the new Apple policies just for show, if they can kill at will any app they want if it brings bad publicity? In the end the fundamental thinking behind the App Store is still "we won't allow what we don't like".
Interesting idea to use an April fools joke to raise awareness about probably one of the lesser known projects.
My favorite part of this article...

[T]his course is tied to two courses offered by the English department on J.R.R. Tolkien and Anglo-Saxon literature. Students in the computing course put concepts to immediate use by analyzing large bodies of text. The syllabus is more like what one would find for a humanities course.

Too often introductory CS programs focus on the "how" of programming. By showing students the "why" and "what" first, you immediately have a more compelling case for keeping them engaged. This is true of all subjects I suppose, but CS is somewhat unique in that there are problems waiting to be solved almost everywhere.
I'm interested in what happened when I only partially folded the items.

What's intriguing about using 3D this way is that, like a zoomable user interface, it can reduce the visual space that lower priority visual items take up but still hint at their semantic meaning.

However, I also noticed the supposedly less important information actually looks more interesting than the top-level content (which is flat on the screen), and so it became a distraction and backfired.
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I'm kind of hoping this is real, I'd love to see a robot racer take on the humans at least once.
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Wow, this really looks like it might be another "gmail" in that it's such a ridiculously awesome thing that releasing it on April 1st will keep everyone guessing if its actually real.
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When evaluating the bugginess of Flash on Linux, consider that Adobe was releasing a single libflashplayer.so with binary compatibility for a variety of Linux distros compiled with different versions of gcc, with different library versions, ALSA or OSS audio APIs, buggy OpenGL drivers, and NPAPIs for multiple versions of Firefox and Chrome browsers. And the Flash Player codebase dates back to FutureSplash circa 1993-1995. Developing "consumer" software for Linux is a challenging (and expensive) proposition.
They wouldn't allow search this advanced because they fear SEO's would come up with technique to abuse it to their advantage. Otherwise it'd probably been out already.
Likely an April fools, but actually seems like a good idea. The car could be lighter, wouldn't make as many mistakes, and could help get people comfortable with the idea of autonomous vehicles.
Something interesting happens if you set all the variables to 0.
"... We try to distribute our books as slowly and carefully as possible. We're too small to fail." The press is run by volunteers -- the editorial team, writers and designers aren't paid for their efforts, and all have other day jobs, according to Fitch... The press also places great emphasis on book design, which explains its unique typographic choices and quality, textured covers, made affordable thanks to a unique partnership with Kodak digital printing. Once a manuscript is edited and a cover is designed, the next step is to print 3,000 copies and distribute many of them to over 50 independent bookstores across the country. These costs are covered by the company's status as a nonprofit. ... ...All participating authors retain the rights to their work and have the ability to re-release their novels through traditional publishing houses."

One way to get real books back into circulation.
Agreed, but that doesn't changes my stance / point so I didn't elaborate as it is mostly irrelevant in today's society unless there are some statistics that I am unaware of regarding reproductive success of children whom travel through orphanage systems or similar mechanisms that exist to support child who's parents can not support them.
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If this page didn't look like something out of geocities in 1998 I might consider using it. :P
The video ( http://www.nascar.com/video/none/none/120331/cup-mar-google/ ) the site links to on NASCAR.com is pretty well done. I mention it because I almost missed it.
If copyrights and patents are "(intellectual) property" and valued accordingly, how much revenue could the government obtain if they made companies pay annual "property taxes" on them?
I'd actually love to see an iea like this come to fruition. It will probably be something more like an autonomous robot fight. But, it brings something tangible and a different dimension to competitions among coders
If history is any indication, I would expect it to play out like this:

1. A few awesome sites adopt it first.
2. Eventually everyone catches on.
3. People take it *way* overboard.
4. Users become thoroughly annoyed.
5. Eventually return to sanity.
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I believe in the context of his statement:

"... it's about showing respect for the guys you're meeting, showing that you want to be taken seriously, that you care, and that you take the meeting seriously..."

I may be interpreting this incorrectly, but those qualify as things that may make you a better person (in said situation) as you are showing respect for the other individual.
the different google teams have always done their own jokes. it's still two hours to go before it's even the 1st in california, i'm sure there'll be more.
Strong privacy regulation might slow down the progress, but there is no way to stop the tide. The technologies to identify, categorize, and link people are only going to get better. In 100 years, privacy as we know it will not exist.

We can accept this fact and educate ourselves about the implications, or we can stick our heads in the sand and hope it all goes away.

In this specific example, I would hope this app gets widely publicized, not shut down. I would rather more people understand the implications of social networks, instead of trying to protect "the innocent" from the inevitable. A sleezeball that uses this app to manipulate women will likely cause considerable pain. But I expect women would adapt rather quickly and be less likely to trust some random guy in a bar just because he seems to know everything about them.
This technology can also be used in reverse. A woman could run an analysis on the guy they just met and verify that he is actually who he claims to be.

The technology will be developed, either in secret or in public. I would rather everyone have the tool, rather than the few that want it bad enough to develop it in secret.

This change in privacy will likely cause social upheaval and change they way we interact with people. Is that a bad thing, or is it just different?

In my opinion, regulation will never beat technology. You can slow it down for a time, but the consequences of our progress are eventually realized.
Self-censorship is a cornerstone of human social behavior. Even if I think you're a complete asshole, it's often neither necessary nor appropriate for me to say that, or even hint at it. More or less all of us do this. it's called choosing one's words.

Facebook is another modality of human speech. At first, we spoke and things lived in the minds of listeners alone, or to those to whom the words were related. Then, with writing, we could record words durably, and any who could read and had access to the text could know what we say. Now what we say is durable and trivially disseminated to thousands, perhaps millions.

By all means, speak your mind. But consider first if you want what you have to said known by all possible recipients of the speech, and if you're wiling to deal with all consequences thereof.

Edit: none of which is to say that forcing people to divulge passwords for or the content of social media for employment purposes is remotely ok. It's not.
Am I totally wrong in that I thought we had no downvotes on Hacker News?
I realize this is probably an April Fools' prank, but I'm guessing that a race around a fixed track would actually be a great way to test autonomous cars: you don't need to worry about pedestrians, bicyclists, stoplights, pets, traffic laws, etc; all you have to do is focus on driving and turning at high speeds, and on the other cars on the track.
April fools day aside, this may show why Y-combinator is interested in finding teams working on search startups. The joke is funny because this is what people often want.
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Quite the contrary. It shows disrespect to assume that they would judge you based on dress rather than merit.
Copyright terms that are too long are not worth the price. Copyright renewal would be much better.
That was my thought exactly. Google's April Fools don't often have any link to reality (I still remember the moonplex, that was cool), so in this case because the self-driving car is already successful, it sounds stupid to have such a tiny step as a joke. Of course, the video someone else put in the comments does have some "foolsworthy" comments by drivers especially... We'll know for sure tomorrow!
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Instead of having half the front page be April Fools posts, let's have one thread so we can post links and chuckle at them.
There are at least 8 so far: Google Maps in 8-bit, Google Really Advanced Search, Chrome Multitask Mode, Google Racing, Gmail Tap, Google Weather Control, The YouTube Collection, and Google AdWords Click-to-Teleport Extensions.
Ironically, that Cult of Mac article has an apptap ad for Girls Around Me…
Agreed, I get annoyed when other programmers look at me askew for choosing to dress better than them. A lot of times it feels like there is a hacker dress code, it's just inverted.
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Ask HN: Coderwall-api Gem and post. Feedback?
This is my first attempt at a real project like this. The plan is to support any future updates to the api. Hoping to get some feedback on the code and on the blog post.

Thanks!
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I've learned to never buy from a dealer. Finding someone selling a car that is 3-5 years old, decent mileage, and a decent price is by no means as difficult as people believe.

Bought my first car, cash, for 5000 in 2006 (it was a 2000 Mazda Protege); ran it until 2012 so that's 800-900 per year). Then I sold it for 2100, with it having 160,000 miles on it.

I then bought a 1999, cutlass with 32,000 miles but a non-working radio for 2200. (radio got me a discount) Both vehicles retain value extremely well, the cutlass for instance is still valued at 3300. I'm expecting to flip my cutlass in no less than 6 but probably not more than 10 years for around 2000 dollars again. Maybe 2200, maybe 1800.

You just have to know the value of your car, what you want, and how/when to sell. Tip: Sell in Feb/March/April when many high-schools will be sending a fresh batch of road-rage demons on the roads in the coming months. Parents and poor people make the best bait. You can often 'see' where they will haggle too. I posted an ad at 2200, knowing I'd get an offer of 2000, and then negotiated the sale back up to 2100. Predictable.
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I confess I did not see that. Still, I don't think one is a precise judge of talent one minute and the next minute (having determined that all other things are equal) switches to filtering for conformity. It's much more likely to be the other way around: first we see through our filters and then we judge what we see. Especially when what we're judging is something intangible like talent.
Haha hilarious. Loved the LL Cool J cameo!
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I agree. And luckily, we have the luxury of setting requirements for our prospective employers.

Some people do not have this luxury. And that is why you should care.
If you like that idea, you might like the Perspective Wall (CHI '91) by Mackinlay, Robertson and Card. Abstract:

"""
Tasks that involve large information spaces overwhelm workspaces that do not support efficient use of space and time. For example, case studies indicate that information often contains linear components, which can result in 2D layouts with wide, inefficient aspect rations. This paper describes a technique called Perspective Wall for visualizing linear information by smoothly integrating detailed and contextual views. It uses hardware support for 3D interactive animation to fold wide 2D layouts into intuitive 3D visualizations that have a center panel for detail and two perspective panels for context. The resulting visualization supports efficient use of space and time.
"""

PDF: http://www2.parc.com/istl/projects/uir/publications/items/UI...
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Awesome. Morse code for your Android. Ship-to-shore coming soon! I think someone hit the publish button on the April Fools content early.
I like this.

There is something to be said for building relationships through a gradual process of learning the eccentricities of the other person (over time).
April Fools. But oddly enough I like the idea - and its not ridiculous like yesteryears'. The technology sure exists.
I wonder if any existing rule prevents them from entering? I doubt anyone previously saw the need to say "all cars must have drivers".
It's illustratively boring: the very process of reading it is so boring, illustrating the monotony of his startup, which led to him quitting his start up. That was the point of Moby Dick, to be boring and monotonous so as to demonstrate the nature of whaling. I'm not sure why people hated this comparison so much, it's extremely apt and not meant to be insulting at all.
I put the app we used in the video up on Play Market: http://goo.gl/IZN16

It's a real Android input manager, you can use it (more or less) as a real keyboard :)

The code will be open-sourced here: https://code.google.com/p/morse-keyboard/
I know a few people who are prohibited, as part of their employment, from being on FaceBook. One of them is a teacher.
Also, on stackoverflow there is a limit to the total number of votes any one person can make per day.
No joke: Al Franken rings alarm over Facebook, Google
Agreed, what a perfect April's joke prelude.

(unrelated, but still interesting: I guess the guy with the mustache looks kind of familiar, too...)
Short answer: Learn them both. Start with node.js.
Adblock seems broken due to their cat nonsense.
There's something called "signaling theory" that has uncovered the "root mechanisms" of human relations and is comparable to calculus? That sounds like an absurd fantasy. I'll have to look it up.
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I can't find it, but there was a thread on HN where it was mentioned that some YC alum (I think the first ever) showed up in suits and were told to lose them.
As a one-armed programmer, I think I'm srsly offended by this.
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The validity of those tweets aside, why would a CEO even bother engaging this? He's the head of an incredibly successful company and made millions with the help of some very talented staff.
Why three buttons? Morse code only needs one (as is obvious from any telegraph key)—short press for dot, long press for dash, short pause for intercharacter gap, long pause for interword gap. Then you could type at least eight messages concurrently.
I agree. In general, it's a good idea to recognize the diversity in the ways people have learned to be productive.

Also, I've been hearing about Peopleware a lot recently. Thanks for reminding me.
The "factually incorrect" is a tricky one because often the downvoters may be misinformed about the topic themselves. I agree with some others that in such a situation it is much better to reply with a correction instead of downvoting. Simply downvoting in this instance is bordering on "I disagree with this".

In fact, I would argue even if the original poster was misinformed, starting a thread of conversation which will inform him and potentially others, will still have an overall positive outcome for the community.

Aside from this, the other criteria are a good list in my opinion.
If this is true I will be taking my news in tautology form from now on.
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Woah, this is freaky. I just posted a similar experiment to my personal collection minutes apart. There are some fundamental limitations to CSS3 animation at the moment, like not being able to animate gradient backgrounds. You can read about it here: http://taitems.tumblr.com/post/20267547479/3d-accordion-effe... - apologies for the self-promotion.
Is this real? This looks kinda cool, but I don't trust anything on this day of all days!
I must not be communicating clearly this evening. What I meant was, (somewhat tongue-in-cheek) similarly, calculus grants us deeper understanding of otherwise confusing mathematical/physical/etc systems, but is far too tedious to apply to life every minute of every day.

As for 'root mechanisms', perhaps "mechanisms" wasn't precisely the right word, but it's up there with game theory. It is typically applied to animals observed in nature- yet that said, we too are animals, and it takes but a moment's thought to recognize it in action among humans.
Where is the option If it used an amazing fast version of QNX, had lots of quality apps, great maps, a perfect browser with good canvas and WebGL performance, BL LE/RFID, a great screen, 72h battery life and decent design (and maybe an absurdly thin slide-out keyboard)?
I'm not sure I follow. Are you suggesting that if there was an accounting error, the USPS lost all $80 billion in 1961?

Perhaps you're simply unfamiliar with the accounting error issue as outlined in the article.
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Stack overflow does this, but I think only under certain conditions. Like if the question has been upvoted, or if you are the first person. I am not too familiar with how they do it.

I disagree a bit on the fan-boy downvotes. From what I have observed, anecdotally ofcourse, there are many fan boy comments with no downvotes than those that get downvoted by fanboys..
This. I've never understood why people aren't offended by obvious attempts to manipulate them using something as shallow as a costume. It's a dead giveaway that I'm expecting to meet at least one person I haven't begun taking seriously. (Which is not to say I'm above doing that to people who I believe will expect it.)
The reason you can only search for whole words is that it's straightforward to build an inverted index for whole words, but it takes dramatically more storage to make an index to search for arbitrary substrings, since there are exponentially many substrings of each string, most of which you would never want to search for.
Did you mean noiseless flights? Can I keep the elder out too?
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