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Thanks, robomartin, for your thoughtful commentary. You are right 100%, through and through. Unfortunately, as I learned long time ago, it seems to me that much of the people on HN believe that gov't is never at fault. That regulation, taxation, and other forms of gov't oppression are good things. Ever. Especially, when reassured by a politician.

Today's progressives are just sheeple. They will believe blindly any politician that says "for the children's future" or "for teachers and fire fighters," so let's raise taxes or strangle pharmaceutical companies.

A "progressive" used to mean "believe in individual" or "believe in freedom." Today it means "believe in gov't" or "believe in regulation" or "believe in politically correct speech", etc etc (the list is long).

Progressives, in other words, are just statists.
"I realize that I cannot stay a technician in the U.S. economy."
Perhaps it's gotten better lately, but I found browsing with Tor last time I did it to be painfully slow, with some pages taking forever to load. Didn't run a speedtest, though.
I was ambiguous on purpose, I was hoping to see how people would define it.
In my case, there is a country whose country code top level domain is very appealing for my company. But it's an oppressive and totalitarian regime - it's not a country I want to be associated with, although 99.99% of people would never even know what country the domain name belongs to.
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You are free to believe whatever you want, based on whatever criteria you want. But to argue that something is right or wrong because someone else has more money, has no weight.

Re-read yesbabyyes comment. It makes no argument other than "who are you", "they are famous and accomplished" and "they are rich." It's a poor argument.
Fighting cancer is a $200B+ industry. It's not cured yet because 1 million people would suddenly be unemployed.
I wouldn't be surprised if there were. If anyone knows of any, please share here.

Glen is bringing a lot of what he learned doing transport modeling and advertising analysis to the project - but we don't have any reference material specific to what we're doing now.
I want a DAMNodeInserted event
DOM Level 3 Mutation Events were deprecated a while back due to performance and implementation concerns (http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Events/#events-mutationevents - http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom/2009AprJun/0072.html). While there has been talk of a replacement for these events (http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/wiki/MutationReplacement), I began to wonder if there was a way to listen for any of them without using the deprecated mutation event interface...turns out there is, at least for DOMNodeInserted (the event I needed). With the method I devised you can listen for DOM node insertions as long as your browser supports CSS3 Animations. In addition, it also allows you to scope the event to a subset of nodes based on the CSS selector you choose.

Check it out and let me know what you think!
He needs to sell his product in a different country. If the system is broken here, he should go elsewhere and see if he can make a change.
Quick shoutout to the folks at JTV, Twitch, Exec, YC, our investors, AWS, and many many helpful friends - without all of your support this wouldn't have been possible. Also quick thanks to Mike Krieger from Instagram - his scaling presentation convinced us that a couple smart dudes and AWS can scale anything. Now, back to work!
Obama bump much better than Colbert bump.
Why it's kind of a compliment to be reported to the FTC
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did you actually check this against the unix dictionary?
I only found: ['as', 'fa', 'fi', 'we']
Interesting read. Vector Victor sounds like a linear correlation algorithm. I wonder what coefficient they're using under the hood...
We will be using Android. But might also consider other new OS.
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Using a vector representation may be a more practical approach as retina-style screens become more pervasive. Microsoft Research has an interesting paper on this from last year's SIGGRAPH: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/kopf/pixelart/

That said, once you switch over to more advanced scaling, the artist loses a lot of the fine control over the result that can really make pixel art shine.
Naming an app is hard, and goes hand-in-hand with its function
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CISPA veto recommended by White House, bill's authors defend it
If you wish to do something like import a large svn project you will find that git is dramatically faster and doesn't require you to build/acquire svn with swig bindings.
does blekko DB partition data base on primary key or it just query all nodes everytime like elasticsearch?
I agree with you somewhat. I'm a fulltime Linux user and also working as a programmer, for me Linux is the perfect system as it gives me full control and is, IMO, superior to Windows as a developing platform which is what I mainly use it for, although I also dabble alot with graphics in various forms using Blender,Gimp,Inkscape and Mypaint. Anyway, for me Linux just fits like a glove, I have total control when configuring which means it ends up tailor-made for my needs which in turn leads to increased productivity (like when I discovered tiling window managers and automatically setting up my workspaces for different types of activity).

However, the vast amount of computer users out there doesn't need any of this, they use their computers as mere consumers and the OS is just something from which they launch their favourite applications and perhaps use to organise their personal files in folders. That said I don't think they particularly like Windows (nor dislike), it's just there and for the great majority there's really no reason to go through the hardship of learning a new OS environment and for most likely also new software. One could argue price but I reckon most think of Windows as something which comes for free with their computer purchase, or if not it actually comes for free when they pirate it just like they do with Photoshop (which seems to be installed in just about every windows machine I've ever come across).

So no, I don't think Steam will cause a massive user influx, I do however think that it lower the barrier of entry for those who ARE considering a move to Linux (relatively few as they may be), and that's a good thing.
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This is one of the big problems that most people have with anonymity, but I believe that the freedom of speech is important. If the government has the capability to shut down the scary stuff like child porn, it also has the ability to shut down important stuff like criticism.

These corners of the internet aren't pretty but they play an important role within our society.
Is Git really that hard to use? I've used ClearCase, Perforce, CVS, SVN, and Git. They all have their benefits and idiosyncrasies. Git is not that hard. I do have to search for its usage and example from time to time for less frequently used commands, but that's the same for the others.
Both Intel's Ivy Bridge and AMD's Radeon HD 7700/7800/7900M have been released this week. I expect the MacBook Pro and iMac lines to be refreshed.
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I don't understand how "mv", with relative and absolute pathnames, is implementation leakage.
yes it would be the same as a native app, you would release a free app and then a pro app with the ad code removed.
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Great point! Getting things done in 40 or less hours a week is a great feat. Now, "being busy" for more than that amount of hours is not.
The technique in that paper kills the effect completely. Its a way to de-pixel the pixel art. Also, vector representations quickly become much more CPU intensive. Would be more efficient to scale the pixels as suggested above.
Studies have shown otherwise; why does he think businesses went to 40 hour weeks in the first place? Concern for their employees? Don't make me laugh.

Mostly because of union pressure, actually.
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All this supposed stability doesn't seem to be reflected in a growing number of desktop products for Linux, not even ones that don't require a specific "download infrastructure" like recent games (which is really just a way of enforcing DRM, something that might not even be possible in the Linux world), so I'm really not convinced the main obstacle to commercial Linux development for the desktop is the distribution channel.

I think the bottom line is the opportunity price, and it's still way too high for Linux overall -- it's harder to support, harder to develop against, brings a several-orders-of-magnitude-smaller userbase who mostly resents having to pay for software... easy deployment won't change that figure very much, IMHO, but I'd be more than happy to be proven wrong.
I do think git is better than mercurial in significant ways, at least how it was circa 2010:

- tag handling in hg is (was ?) horrible

- I think using integers for revisions, even if just in the UI is a very confusing feature, as it gives a false sense of familiarity (hg like every DVCS I know internally uses unique ids for revisions).

- too many ways to do branching that all have +/-. While you can do it in a similar way to git, you don't have all the UI that makes it so useful.

- the notion of tip is a major UI wart as well.

On the + for mercurial: definitely better support for cross platform, more consistant UI, better performances on windows.
After having the app in the background for a few hours, I tried to use it to browse again but nothing happening. I had to force close the app and restart it to be able to use it. Is this normal and, if not, is this a known issue that is going to be corrected? Edit: in fact, it seems to do this as soon as my phone times out into auto-sleep :/
Actually, it would be great to have a company so efficient that you could pay a large staff a middle-class salary for 15 minutes per person-week of actual work. The ultimate vacation policy!

Now I've got to repress my urge to write a socialist parody of Office Space.
A disconnected system is a secure system. The statement above the line you quoted says

Solution
We are currently unaware of a practical solution to this problem.

What's the point of a remote management switch you can't access?
That seems like you might be measuring something other than total donation -- just donation to one specific charity.

Sure, if I pass on donating to MIT today (IMO they have enough money already), I might not get around to it ever. But, given that I am unlikely to have kids, if I die, my money will all be going to some charity or set of charities eventually.

(I do donate now, mainly to groups like MAPS and EFF, but my income and liquid net worth are pretty insignificant compared to my goal.)
I'd go further: Facebook has no value. Fred Wilson was talking about musical chairs recently, my reading of this oracle is that the end if the game might be Facebook IPO: everyone jumping in, enormous uncontrolled valuation, and at the same time all the cool kids leaving FB for a newer cooler thing where their parent or bosses are unlikely to be.
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I started Personal MBA (http://personalmba.com) a few years ago as a side project. It's now a six-figure publishing business that's growing rapidly. Offers include trade published books, self-published books, online courses, live training, and consulting. (Recently, I've been moving to less consulting and more products.) I quit my job at a big corporation a few years ago to work on the business full-time.

I don't have employees, have very low overhead, have zero consumer/business debt, and we're in the process of building a house. I choose new projects primarily based on what I find most interesting, and I have no need to chase financing to grow.

My wife also runs a bootstrapped six-figure publishing business in a different market. That business was built in a lot less time, and she was able to recoup production expenses for three high-priced professional training courses that sell very well to an addressable market.

We also spend a lot of time with our daughter, which is why we both chose to build bootstrapped businesses.

Building a great bootstrapped business is definitely possible. Keep at it.
Maybe it is a UNIX/non-UNIX thing...

I have been using UNIX-type operating systems almost exclusively for the whole of my professional life so have zero appreciation for the troubles people have when approaching UNIX tools from a Windows (or whatever) mindset.

Git (and the whole toolchain and OS for that matter) is much more about DWIS than DWIM and that does not click for a lot of people.
I agree that software solutions can be leveraged for more financial success than (say) hardware solutions. I also decided to switch focus (at least temporarily) from what would have been a medical devices startup to software for that reason, among others.

But I think an entrepreneur's skill set is more of a limiting factor in the type of startup he/she can decide to pursue. After all there are problems that are potentially more lucrative than social networks but if you don't have the domain expertise or technical knowledge to solve those problems you may not even know they exist and if you did, would not be able to solve them.

There's a more extensive discussion on this here: http://swombat.com/2012/1/19/idea-reach-cofounder-myth
How would you know if its a "substantial and positive step" if you are not familiar with everything in the bill?
No, it wasn't just you!
> Try looking at what happened to pages using Flash or Java applets in (ironically) the initial LTS release of Firefox a few weeks ago, for example, or consider the Chrome/H.264 fiasco

I think you missed the "standards" part.
As much as I agree with the rest of the article, I have no idea what is meant by this "implementation leakage". Relative and absolute paths are a part of the fundamental Unix interface.
I would be interested in talking to you. Can you contact me (plg at stanfordalumni dot org)
Honestly, if I knew how to run a passive-income business, I'd be doing it.

Think: our field is one of the few where the average worker owns his own means-of-production. Practical impact: the 40-60 hours you don't have to spend getting an income each week, if you have a passive income, can be spent on building awesome open-source projects you release for free to undercut those who like living in cubicles.
Given that "how people donate money" (or spend money, or invest money seems to conflict with what they claim are their stated preferences, I wonder which is more representative. I'd bet on the revealed preferences by actions.

Basically no one would say (or is allowed to say in polite company) that they care more about having art available locally than the lives of a thousand people in some third-world country that they'll never meet. Yet, it seems pretty obvious that donations to local art save fewer lives than the anti-malarial mosquito nets, and should be obvious to the people donating.
I don't know on which ground the author can claim Google don't know the art of bouquets. Seemed a bit gratuitous for me, when referring to a company owning search, Chrome, Gmail, maps, Android, YouTube. Is it because they didn't discontinue Knol yet?
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VMware confirms source code leak, LulzSec-affiliated hacker claims credit
Its fascinating and frightening watching the advancement of the legal powers and psychology necessary for a dictatorship in the USA. Its an open question whether Americans will see it in time to stop it before said powers are used to suspend the constitution, in the "public interest" (via the Democrats) or "national security" (via the Republicans). In the end, the specific rationalization won't matter. Don't forget, the Nazis did not "take over" Germany but were legally voted into office where they proceeded to legally suspend the rights of German citizens.

It is no accident that the US government is trying to control and throttle the internet. As dictatorships around the world have discovered, its the internet and freedom OR dictatorship. Our homegrown power lusters, such as Obama, are paying lip service to our rights while doing everything in their power to abrogate them. The internet has destroyed the traditional means (primarily via the NYT and the MSM) of controlling the political discourse and agenda . Like it or not, we are in the middle of the greatest social revolution since the invention of the printing press destroyed the power of the Catholic Church. See Clay Shirky's article on this topic; http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking...

Nobody really knows how this will turn out.
I think there are tons of reasons to prefer Mercurial over git (ease of use on Windows in the early days being a big one). I also think there are a smaller number of potentially more significant reasons to prefer git.

But I think it's almost completely impossible to separate the success of Git from the tools ecosystem. I really think Mercurial would have been at least as popular as git in the long run if it had something as good as Github behind it from the beginning.

The benefits of Github are truly astounding.
The author suggests aliases and while I use aliases daily, I don't believe that will solve the problem he references. I think providing a better mental model for what exactly git is doing through visual metaphors is the biggest help to those learning git. I've found something as simple as the chart here to help explain the concepts of adding and staging http://gitready.com/beginner/2009/01/18/the-staging-area.htm...
It was just an exercise. Maybe I'll name the next one "xfwkl".
Whenever I hear people say stuff like this I there is a huge part of me that wants to say: Science and magic are not the same thing, just because you can describe something does not mean you can actually do it. I realize it's not productive, but people seem to confuse sci-fi physics and medicine with actual physics and medicine.

The simplest explanation I have come up with goes something like this. Cancer is you, the only thing that cancer describes is the breakdown of the billion year contract that enabled Multicellular organism to exist in the first place. There is no single way to tell cancer from non cancer and just as importantly almost cancer cells from normal healthy cells. You can literally have 2 different cancers at the same time that are closer to you genetically than each other. Out of something like 10^(10^10) viable forms of cancer, a few themes are vastly more common, but the edge cases are effectively endless.

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/personalized-m...

PS: A billion years from now we might not find a way to travel faster than light because it might not be possible. It might not seem like it, but I am not convinced it's possible cure all possible forms of cancer in a human body. However, people with cancer are serving far longer after all this research than they where 40 years ago and continuing down this path hopefully we can transform cancer from one of the more common and nasty ways to die to something as rare as lighting strikes.
Huh? I don't get it.
So here's what I don't get: If people give them money to invest, and they generat returns for the investors in a way that the investors are happy with, what does it matter what fees they charge? It is a mutually beneficial transaction. The investors make money, the fees make the company money. Now the company money that goes directly to the owners, rather than say direct expenses, is the owner's personal money. It is their profit from the transaction. This is what they are giving 50% of away.

The only way I can read your argument, is that the investment company should stop being generally profitable for the owners, and return more money to the investors. How does this make business sense? It would be like saying "Apple makes profit from selling iPhones, and just gives it away to shareholders. They should really bow to the customers and lower the costs and socialist bullshit to the shareholders". Unless of course Apple share holders are magical unicorns who deserve it, and the partners in a VC firm don't.
No arguments there. But I suppose if you want a tooltip framework that also bizarrely functions as modal dialogs, hover menus, alerts, notifications, ........., and maybe even tooltips, qtip2 would probably cover your bases.

Either way cool plugin.
You're right. I wasn't thinking in terms of mobile (doh). Good catch.
Ask HN front enders - what window height do you design for?
What's the min height you design for - talking about front page - "above the fold" height?
The real question is of marginal productivity-per-hour. We know that work-hours have a diminishing-returns point passed somewhere around 30-50 (depending on the person and the occupation and the match between them). I think of it this way: if you really need to work more hours to get more done, only keep doing it as long as your productivity-per-hour stays the same. That's the point where you're making a zero-sum trade of more hours for more stuff done.

However, there's also another really important aspect! If you only ever focus on working harder, anyone who works smarter can come along and beat you while working less than you. Beating them through sheer work-ethic will easily push you into negative returns-per-hour, destroying you and your business through sheer desperation.

For example, anyone with a source-control tool will be several times more productive in software engineering than someone who didn't use one and has to manually revert his changes. Remember, this used to actually happen.

So when you're working hard overtime, watch your back! You could be competing against someone cleverer than yourself.
Thanks, daenz. That's what "usually I don't do this" was referring to -- which is a lazy cop out, I agree. Usually I don't do that, either. My bad.

It may not make it better, but I think I did it because jimmyvanhalen's argument was, to me, so... Preposterous. As I understand him, he is basically arguing that if you feel that you have money to give to charity, you should give that to whomever gave you that money. I wonder what he feels about my, admittedly ridiculously small, donations to charity. Am I, too, wrong to give? Should I lower my fees and "give" that money to my clients instead?
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