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Good point on the scrambling, never saw it that way.

I have a passion for learning everything around the industry, I have been commended for my work ethics and design skills regularly by peers and professors.

I don't know what else I should focus on
The NOT gate might be difficult to build ;)
I am in the process of trying this and it has become much less simple. Certainly for HSBC a remote account opening is considered "next to impossible" - it requires above branch level sponsorship from the bank which in practise means turnover 1m+. I am told US anti terror laws have made a big impact on opening non resident accounts in past few months

I am hoping I can workaround the problems but my bank managers expectations are low - I may be visitin the states sooner than planned.
This.

Only partially related, but I'm sick of people coming up with more, 'better' ways to communicate which are then embraced by a subset of my friends and colleagues. My email arrives on my phone, on my laptop, on my (and any) PC, in an easy to read, indexable, exportable and simple format, wherever I am in the world, in near real time. I have had the same email address for ~ 12 years and with Google's spam filter I get zero spam. I actively manage mailing list subscriptions and have no problems there either.

Seriously, for people asking where their jet pack is - take a step back and think about all of that.

It's infuriating for me that my friends choose to use Facebook, Twitter DMs, any number of 'groundbreaking' proprietary messaging apps and a million other message transports (don't get me started on iMessage). Email is a message, in text format (with optional binary attachments), between a number of people. Nothing more, nothing less.

The world has bigger problems to solve.
Indeed. A great protocol is a flexible protocol, and restricting email to one authentication and/or encryption protocol would prevent it from adapting to advances in cryptography.
Look, I know the rules. That's why I leave the comma out.
As a showoff hack it might do, but I have the feeling that this system has combined the conciseness of assembler with the ease of manipulation of Minecraft blocks...
No love for autojump? (https://github.com/joelthelion/autojump/wiki)
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For #1: "Why were you going so fast?"
From what I remember as an observer, nationality always was a point of pride in the European demoscene, even when tongue in cheek.
I had to use RVM and edit some config files in order to get Rails to run at all. Might not be a big deal of people who are used to that kind of thing, but it did not make a good first impression to beginner like me.

This doesn’t seem to be isolated to Rails though, Django seems to have gotten harder. I actually gave up installing Django due to a localization bug.
While at RAD he's also worked on the D3D stack for Larrabee under contract with Intel and on optimizing the low-level graphics layer for Iggy (RAD's Flash-based UI middleware) across several platforms.
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I think you're right about having new, different ways to integrate advertising, but don't forget that (compared to the web) it's much easier to charge the user directly.
Your piece of paper example caught me a bit off guard. It sounds pretty similar to a quine ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing) ). I think that the same thing is possible with a demo - write the code to render a piece of paper from an array of letters, and put that part of the source code into the array.
Or the 4k remake of Chaos Theory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFAIaclLrKE. Elevated is a classic and a complete aesthetic package, but it's still a one-effect intro. Chaos Theory 4k is more varied but unfortunately it has a shitty synth.
The Hitchhiker's Guide wasn't really user-editable, just radically disorganized.
Linux is still not ready for prime time as far as graphics is concerned. Window is still the strongest platform for graphically intense applications that push the GPU due to the quality of Windows drivers being better than Linux and Mac OS.
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I can understand that he might get annoyed with the culture of trying to make programming "cool" by having everything at bars, but seriously, he needs to get over himself. That said, I'm quitting drinking/smoking for a month so it will be interesting to see things from his perspective.
Well, as one piece of data, I certainly mean the system, rather than any one client, when I say "email."

When I say "email me," I don't mean "make something show up in gmail," I mean, send me a message over the email protocol. I don't use email as a to-do list. I use it for correspondence, often with people who use other clients.

My conception of email is client-agnostic, and I think almost everyone I deal with (admittedly outside of the tech/valley/startup inside) thinks of it the same way. I hear things like "I'll shoot you an email," or "I need to check my email," or "what program do you use for email?", none of which imply that the speaker intends to be talking about an app.

Texting isn't an app, the telephone isn't an app, email isn't an app, at least for many people.
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...the responsibility for pricing decisions should rest with authors and publishers. If they price fairly and competitively, customers will reward them. If they price too high, customers will migrate to lower-cost books.

I agree authors and publishers should set prices, but not in collusion. As for the argument consumers will migrate to lower-cost books, that may hold for some genres, but books are not really fungible. The books I am interested in are each unique works.
They claim to have built it already, and given that the AND gate is actually a tripartite output of a∧¬b, a∧b, ¬a∧b the NOT seems to be trivial.

Note: this is not level based logic, but billiard ball logic. If I understood that better I'd write a concise, illuminating explanation of why ¬a∧¬b is missing in the AND gate's outputs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billiard_ball_computer
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just updated the about page
"New"

Blog announcement: http://blog.chromium.org/2010/09/webp-new-image-format-for-w...

Earlier discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2569881
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WebP is 2 years old by this point in time. Is there anything new that I missed?
I am well aware of that, having created a transcript ( http://www.gwern.net/docs/1955-nash ) of it. A cryptosystem that the NSA rejected because it was too easily broken is obviously not in the same category of information as what I was responding to.
Good point, it reveals a lack of organizational and leadership skills. If one is so wanted that his inbox is quickly full either he has to reduce workload or hire staff and delegate.
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Hey Kaolinite 5,

Thank you for looking at my project. I have added the iPhone app download link and the screen shot gallery. There was a little bug in Javascript, preventing the Plan creation for new visitors. I have fixed that as well so plan creation should be good to go now.
I used the custom checkboxes just for the visual appeal, however if they are causing a delay and are being unresponsive I will change then to native checkboxes in my next deployment.

Once again thank you for appreciating my little effort. Please let me know if you would like any new features to be added
Funny, but irrelevant.
jep, see Eiffel. Convention is indexing from 1. (but it allows you to do it in whatever way you want, start from 3 if you want, because hey why not -.-)
I have an amicable solution. Don't let big publishing be a cartel setting prices willy-nilly, and if it bothers him that Amazon or whomever wants to have a sale on a book, they can negotiate a "bulk buy" of the paper or ebook with the author or publisher and then discount it however they choose.

But, he's insane if he thinks collusion is the answer.
Nice example. I like Scala, but its a huge leap from Java. Kotlin clearly tries to mitigate this while still having some nice terseness which Scala also fails at. Hopefully Kotlin will get some traction.
I thought this was obvious, but I guess not. When people say email is broken, they mean that their email client is broken. When people talk about fixing email, they mean producing a better email client. That the OP doesn't get this obscures his message to the point that I don't even think I get what he's saying. In the end, he doesn't disagree with people who say email is broken, because he tells them just to fix the client.

Can anyone offer some links to recent/current projects that want to "fix" email by changing the protocol?
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Sure kickstarter are likely to say that - what choices have they got? If they can;t deny, either they must say "we screwed up, we'll change", or spin it as "there's more to it than that".

The second option is by far the easier (psychologically and materially), but they may be forced to do the first eventually anyway.
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> "A way to fight your traffic tickets. The paper was awarded a special prize of $400 that the author did not have to pay to the state of California."

Good economics reasoning too - losing a loss is as good as gaining a gain.
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little story of how I came across Paul Graham's essay, hackerdom, and trying to transform myself to a developer.
"Fix bugs first" is a principle that saved me once when a project was getting into trouble due to everybody (developer & sale people alike) willing to add features instead of fixing poorly working ones, leading to an increasing lack of quality and customers anger.
"The gal conducting our training reminds us again that we cannot miss any days our first week. There are NO exceptions to this policy. She says to take Brian, for example, who's here with us in training today. Brian already went through this training, but then during his first week his lady had a baby, so he missed a day and he had to be fired. Having to start the application process over could cost a brand-new dad like Brian a couple of weeks' worth of work and pay. Okay? Everybody turn around and look at Brian. Welcome back, Brian. Don't end up like Brian."

It's amazing we allow this. It should be illegal.
What makes you so sure that 99.99% of people using email think it's a todo list and why do think they mean their email client?
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> By assuming responsibility for the roles once played by publishers, authors are earning up to 70% of the list price as their e-book royalty versus the 17.5% paid by traditional publishers.

I'm trying to figure out why this is a dark day for the future of books. It sounds to me like authors just got a sizable raise.
I think you are probably right that most aren't proposing changing the actual protocol. However, I think part of what the post is reacting to is the marketing around the ideas for new clients, or the perceived need for new clients.

I haven't been following this so closely, but the articles I have read seem to position these proposals as changes to e-mail as a system, if not as a protocol. I leave thinking the authors want to do something radical, to alter something longstanding, to go up against giant, ingrained players and conventions.

I don't think this post would have happened if we were instead hearing more about "new ways to use e-mail," or "adding functionality to an email client." I think the narrative is more like, as others in the thread have referenced, PG's frighteningly ambitious ideas, more like visionaries who are daring to challenge something so established.

Making a new email client that has some extra features is one thing. Changing email forever is another. I think that's what the post is reacting to.

Edit: and, anyway, I think sharpening the discussion by invoking the difference between the client and the protocol is useful, and hopefully will make future conversations about this more clear.
Previous discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3641184 (208 comments) and there are a few other dupe submissions, with 6 or fewer comments.
Ask HN: [email] what is the solution? 
I put some thought into email solutions vs. email improvements after PG posted this: http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html

I have to state that I know I receive nowhere near the quantity of emails I imagine PG does in a day. That being said, I am still able to see the waste that is the back and forth on projects, the waste that is reading useless content in order to get to useful content, and I can see the waste that is incoming message after incoming message with none to little organization.

Then, I read these:

1-	http://blog.killtheradio.net/technology/email-is-not-broken-its-a-framework-not-an-application/

2-	http://gd0t.com/node/23 (“how to fix email while still keeping email”)

3-	http://dewith.com/2012/this-is-the-mail-system/

4-	https://joncalhoun.posterous.com/email-sucks-this-is-how-we-fix-it

Now I am seriously curious; not only to who/what is correct, not only to what the future will bring and who will bring it, but mostly to what PG’s thoughts are to the notion that email is not broken.

Where does the solution that solves his email issues fit into all of this?
Zimbabwe indeed has got one the most affordable education system ,no matter where you live there is a school easily accessible.Also education is the biggest employer .However its really hard a tertiary level to get the most out of your education because of the economic situation.
These are PG's words: "This new protocol should be a todo list protocol, not a messaging protocol,"

http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html
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I may agree with you on a basic level but this is far more trouble for Google than it seems.

Mobile apps are incredibly inexpensive compared to their desktop counterparts and a user will always prefer less ads.

Facebook's plan for mobile ads is to embed them in a user's news feed. Google can't do this with search or they will completely poison it along with G+ results.

All relevant info suggests that consumers are using dedicated apps for search and Google can't buy every startup to compete against Amazon, Apple and Facebook.
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Hmm, doesn't seem to work in Opera 11.62
Yeah, from poking around the history, looks like Google has just about got added (but not tagged into a release - 0.1.3 is still current) all the features Mozilla saw as blockers previously, so it's possible the format could be added to Firefox and start seeing more traction soon

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=600919
The Internet may be too democratizing for any government to let stand. When citizens have transparent access to what their government is really up to, those inside the government may be held accountable, which is not something they will take kindly to.

All of this hubbub regarding the Internet has occurred because of a very small percentage of users making waves (whether positive like those reporting the Greenpeace images or negative like those "organizing" the London riot).

The only way governments can hope to control is through voluntary self-regulation as a result of fear of that government. We need everybody to be a thorn. That's the only way we won't end up in some Brave New 1984.
If I understand his argument correctly, @markcoker is suggesting that if Lord of the Rings is too expensive people will buy Eragon instead?

Okay, could understand the lack of knowledge of basic economics, but I'd have hoped that someone who has started their own business would at least have read a couple of wikipedia pages on the subject.
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Hurts my eyes a bit.
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Maybe a demonstration of its (lack of) success, if people do not even remember it anymore :)
I noticed that there is a wider trend to write articles with headlines such as "<This common thing in our lives> is broken, HERE is how to fix it!". Try and think about other ones (TV, search, music...)

This type of writing sure gets people excited and attracts many readers but it's a quite destructive way to think of our world. Just because something has certain annoying problems or has maybe become boring and mundane does not mean that the only way to make it better is to completely reconstruct it. Most "It's broken" essays usually come with a dangerous degree of hubris and presuppose that in order to make things better, the offending industry needs full destruction before it can be rebuilt and renewed in the image of writer's glorious new vision (often times this vision is not even presented - it seems that something being "broken" implies that there is a better and completely different way of doing it). Lessons learned doing things the old way become meaningless or at least decline in value because, well it's broken.. we didn't really learn that much right?

I agree that sometimes a complete re-framing is needed to get on the (more) correct path towards making something better or at least just to allow yourself to "think outside of the box". But going on a deconstruction campaign of everything that's served us reasonably well thus far is another box which you can easily trap yourself into.
The publishing industry has a chance to actually make the transition into the electronic commerce world a success. What has worked in the past isn't going to make the transition.

One of the larger problems is the lack of a second sale. Many people, especially in non-fiction, looks to second sales as a way to add to their knowledge base. Without second sale there has to be a more effective method of engaging these people and it is price.

Collusion among the publishers ensures that the logical price dropping for ebooks wouldn't happen as it should normally.

Smashwords has done a ton to ensure ebooks have entered the market by mitigating the normal distributorship model. I can see where they are coming from in terms of author royalties, but other publishers will look to protect the old business models.
It's very glitchy in Chrome 18.0.1025.162 . Parts of the image get clipped off during and after the transitions, and there's some random pausing.
I've worked as a designer in the [pop] music industry. As much as you don't want this list view when you're picking hotel dates, I can assure you that experimental stuff like this has it's place. Please don't respond with blanket statements ruling out it's use. Good designers are quite capable of deciding when and when-not to use this kind of stuff.
Hey, they're not all terrible!

... okay, a lot of them are pretty terrible. But I suspect a lot of the terrible ones are drawn in by a desire to ride on the coat-tails of the not-so-terrible ones (Dr McNinja, SMBC, etc).
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jekyll is what powers github pages. This post deals with some code philosophy behind static blog generation.
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I essentially find his argument incoherent. What's he complaining about, that publishers don't have the right to illegally fix prices? They can set prices to whatever they want but can do so on their own marketplaces. Amazon has the right to impose whatever it wants on their marketplace. You don't have to sell there. Now we can once again make this argument that Amazon dominates the marketplace and you HAVE to sell there to sell any books, but that argument is ridiculous. Plenty of small publishers are selling books solely by themselves or with limited agreements with independent marketplaces.

This seems like sour grapes from more middlemen who are unneeded. This is why the music industry is so bitter--because the Internet makes them irrelevant. There will be a need for promotion, yes, but I'd rather pay a smart literary agent 15% or even 20% to handle that rather than some publisher where I'm basically getting dimes on the backend. I'm not aware of any promotion that Smashwords ever executed that reached me, so clearly they are not even doing a great job.

It's a dark day for industry middlemen and that's it.

BY THE WAY, I will pay a premium well over $20 if you distribute your ebooks in multiple DRM free formats. I just paid $40 for the InDesign CS5 Classroom in a Book yesterday which came with a PDF and an EPUB. If publishers are too lazy to do that, we have no use for them anyway.
Sigh. It's sad that not a week goes by without having to defend internet freedom. ACTA, SOPA, PIPA, and now this retardation. Everyone expects this kind of crap from third world countries run by iron-fisted dictators or nutty religious strongholds. Not from countries that were once thought to be cilivised.

It's sicking that we always seem to be on the defending side here. Seems unfair, too. Is there no way that we can put a stop to this sort of BS for good?
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Assume for a moment that all authors in a given genre are interchangeable. In other words, they're unskilled labor, and it's really the publishers who bring all the value to the table.

Come to think of it, I am sure a lot of very successful people in the publishing industry view it this way.
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Exactly, is and will stay irrelevant for web developers until it gets adopted by more browsers. Google displays PNG still today on Google.com for Chrome users.
I've got plenty of stories just like that from the mid-90's

And this is precisely why I don't think it's a good idea to try and abstract crap away like the damn filesystem for software development/IDE. I bet it would be cheaper, less complex and for the overall good to instead teach developers how to wrangle files(if that really is a problem worth solving)

I wonder if it's time for a "I used to have to work with Microsoft Tech in the 90's" Meetup/Support Group :)
I didn't know this whole demoscene existed. This is amazing.
Warn HN: USPS changed their tracking URL
USPS just changed their tracking URL without warning. The old URL no longer works.

The old URL was http://trkcnfrm1.smi.usps.com/PTSInternetWeb/InterLabelInquiry.do?origTrackNum=NUMBER

The new URL is:

https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction.action?tLabels=NUMBER
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I disagree. Pricing decisions should rest with the party doing the selling. They have both the most market information and most expertise. They can find equilibrium prices the fastest and most efficiently.

Author's and publisher's are free to set up stores and set the price on the goods they sell. But if they have an intermediary, they should set an MSRP and accept the price might be changed.