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Levying "designer arrogance" on Google is laughable. Google has never made decisions based on the principles of design before, so why would one assume the design process is to blame here? I think this is a result of people who don't understand design abusing style and visual trends.

The authors criticisms are legitimate and directly related to the design, but to assume an arrogant designer is at the top pushing these changes is frankly offensive. It's the same old engineers calling the shots at Google. But now, they just seem to be trying to keep up with other well designed products, like a little kid putting on his dad's Italian suit, wondering why he doesn't look great. Pleas, don't blame the tailor.
Not sure if it would be such a economic bomb. Assuming there are many mineable asteroids, others would enter the market. So the long term effect would be that the cost of natural resources approaches the marginal cost of extraction. And markets should have time to adjust as there is increasingly better information on what the initial extractions will look like. It will certianly disrupt the commodities sector, ending many companies and giving rise to incredibly large new ones. And the implications of the new commodity prices would ripple through the rest of the economy. I think it will seem like a bomb to those companies displaced, but for the economy as a whole not as much.
If it takes longer than 10 seconds you don't have the right answer.
Did you miss the part where Path was caught hacking users phones to steal their addressbooks?
I recently bought a computer from a computer reseller (great way to go, IMHO) who had never heard of Ubuntu. He had tried to install Red Hat once back in the day, but that was about it.
This sounds like MBA advice and is good, general business practice, however highly intelligent people capable of extraordinary things often do not act in accordance with these rules (likely because they are PHDs and not MBA students). I imagine this stuff is only on the surface and PG and others are able to evaluate the depth of a person and what they are truly capable of (or maybe not I've never met them).
The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, by Heinlein, explores some of the potential labor and social issues.
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While the button is tiny, is it really highly utilized, with the entire conversation being in the threaded view?
It didn't end so well for Bill Gates personally (or Microsoft), though one could argue tech as a whole suffered since the spreading of the same paranoia is likely bad. This article reminded me of an aside from Naggum ( http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3141310154691952@naggum.... ) though since the same behavior happens so often it's hard to say whether the instances inspire further instances or if it's just something about human nature (Dvorak mentioning youth). The Naggum quote:

"but of course, Lisp isn't dying -- it's just that if you think in terms
of the imminent end of the world, _everything_ is soon food for the great
garbage collector in the sky and whoever is not scrambling in panic looks
like they aren't moving and have been passed by or are dying.

"the problem I see is not that Bill Gates has shaped the world of useless
trinkets in software, but has also managed to spread his competitiveness
and his personal fear of losing to imaginary competitors to businesses
and homes everywhere, so now everybody is _afraid_ of losing some battle
which isn't happening, instead of getting about their own lives. like,
if you aren't using today's fad language in the very latest version of
the IDE, you'll be left behind. aaaugh! but it's good that some people
run like they are scared out of their wits. if they suddenly disappear
over the edge of a cliff, a good number of people will notice in time and _not_ follow them. those are the ones that matter.

"you can scare most people most of the time, but you can't scare all of
the people all of the time -- some will always use Common Lisp."
This is so fascinating thank you!
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>Imagine if you had unlimited funds to defend your delusions.

I'd hire the crack tech writing team of Devorak, Cringley, Arrington, and Siegler to work full time on my never-to-be-published biography.
Insurance companies don't have to screw up for people to benefit from having insurance.

>the market moved before his order was filled.

In what tangible way is this different from "the market moved before Fry got his order in"?

The market for a particular stock depends on there being people who are willing to buy it. Saying "the market moved" blurs the fact that there simply weren't any buyers at that price any more by the time he got his order in.

If we're talking about a stock with a lot of volume, and Fry "jumps the queue" by setting a limit order in the current spread (something I almost always do myself, FWIW, based on that same investing advice I mentioned), then he'll sell his stock with or without HFTs. What value does the HFT add in this case?

The argument is that HFTs add liquidity. Don't HFTs only work with stocks that have high volume? How is adding liquidity when there's already high volume a value?
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One of the main problems why the 'clean design' has not actually benefitted users is because of gmails feature creep. Where once I could just write and recieve mail, now, by default, I have 'stars', 'circles', 'importance markers', '+ share', 'notifications', 'gadgets'... etc. all confusing my view of my mail. Most users don't want any of these things, and they certainly don't want to have to spend mental energy realising they dont want them, then hunting around in settings menus to see if you can actually turn them off...

There are some good design additions in the revised gmail too, but IMHO the above is really what makes gmail feel much more cluttered and cumbersome than it was before....
Your “plain text” probably has some implicit structure. XML, JSON, ProtocolBuffers, just make that structure explicit.

Dropping to plain text only to run sed or grep is a classic case of “if you have a hammer….” XML has a myriad of tools that do make your life easier — you just need to learn to embrace them.
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Pop the compose into a new window and/or tab? The assumption is probably that tabs and windows are built into your browser, why build another layer of tabs?
http://www.pointclouds.org/blog/trcs/

Trimble is sponsoring development of several projects in different research areas involving 3D perception, as part of the second PCL code sprint.

PCL is the Point Cloud Library from Willowgarage that also created ROS, PR2 and Turtlebot. These guys are surely trying to do some good stuff for 3D. Hope the sketchup community benefits from this acquisition
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This is both stimulating and depressing at the same time. As if there's only one correct way of thinking and communicating. Why conform yourself to someone else's nature? You're not Steve Jobs, and you're not pg, you are yourself -- forget the pro-tip and be yourself.
I think it's bc they found out about how airbnb used robots, scrapers and fake gmail accounts to scrub Craigslist and spam people listing their apt.
I don't understand - why should they allow AirBnB postings in the first place? When someone comes to Craigslist, I think the assumption is that you'll be doing business on Craigslist and not through a third party site like AirBnB. Why should they allow another company to take advantage of their audience if they don't want to?
For servers, I'm using Linux and will be using Linux for a long time. But for desktop/mobile, I have abandoned Linux for Mac a long time ago. For things that I see (font) and I feel (touchpad), Linux/Windows is way behind Mac. Many people talk about technical aspects, but to me the most important things are the interface between human and computers. Steve Jobs understood this since day 1. And those who use Macs (including Linus) understand this.
The Washington Monument was capped with aluminium because at the time it was as valuable as silver. 2 years later aluminium became a common metal.
Well, you might avoid a lawsuit, but you'd still be a shining example of sexism.

Or does "youthful blondes" = fair haired girls and boys?
I’ve looked into it. Seems like a promising language, and it does quite a few things right. Still, I feel a bit uncomfortable endorsing it wholesale while I work on my own linguistic magnum opus. ;)
Nonsense, XPath works very well with streamed content, and there are even implementations of XPath engines for FPGA and GPGPU, all of which have very strict memory limitations.

DOM is completely optional, and you only need it for convenience or to observe the modifications, e.g. the way browsers make use of it.

Just think how you would compile any XPath expression — it’s very similar to REGEX, only for structured data.
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I use it all the time. I've found that clicking on the previous messages in the conversation view is much slower (requires hitting their servers, which are usually slow). But clicking on the "..." must not require a server hit, because it's instant.
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Their control would be quite short lived. I haven't heard that they have anything that someone else could not do.

If this appears very valuable, and especially once proven, you can bet other investors will do the same.
With the Google folks running things, yes, that's very possible. Someone who's more savvy and experienced in these kinds of things would find ways around that problem, like De Beers has.
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What are the recommended Programming language to be used for Start Up Project?
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I just want to know what language is recommended for Start Up project?

I want to create Start Up project someday. I only know PHP. I currently developing a website for my Portfolio and Im using CodeIgniter? Is PHP is ok to use?

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Who says they're awful? You just don't like them.

Fair enough that you don't, but putting your opinion forward as fact (like most of the people here and the OP) doesn't really advance the argument. Perhaps a lot of people have trouble finding the compose button on first use?
Yes, the developer is from Russia. But there's a nice english documentation as well: http://instead.syscall.ru/wiki/en/gamedev/documentation
Plus, INSTEAD supports URQ games that have a much more simplified syntax.
I'm not sure I completely followed your example, but note that the straightforward syntax for multiple outputs from Make does the wrong thing. Here's a discussion of how to make it do what you really want.

http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Multip...
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Diamonds aren't worth very much. Try reselling a diamond to find out how little they're really worth.
I don't know that I really have much to add about the color cycling; seems like everyone's covered the topic pretty well! Delightful to see so many people interested in these old techniques.

The thing that unfortunately gets a little lost in the demo is the way in which the color cycling (along with clever color palette fading and some sprite animation) was used as a means to create a world that looked like it was really alive for the whole month long… When you started the app up in the morning, you saw the sunrise. If you tuned in at night, you could see the fireflies. Each day the moon progressed in its cycle. Some days it was sunny, others it rained. Clouds slowly marched across the sky. The whole effect was quite enchanting. Regardless of if we use color cycling or not, I'd love to do something like that again.
Rendezvous with Rama has a lot of back story involving early solar system exploration/settling, and the main plot is exploration of an unknown object. One of my all time favorite books, but the sequels are mediocre at best.

http://www.amazon.com/Rendezvous-Rama-Arthur-Charles-Clarke/...
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I disagree. I've been an Airbnb host for 6 months now ($13k+ of revenue so far for our spare bedroom / couch in prime SF location, fantastic reviews). We used to use the Craigslist posting feature in the early days, but we now get so many requests that we actually have to decline most, just from organic Airbnb search and referrals. The quality of users referred through Craigslist has historically been lower than organic Airbnb users, so stopping Craigslist was a no-brainer. In fact, the only bad experience we've ever had was a Craigslist guest.
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diamonds aren't artificially scarce to control demand, they're artificially scarce due to low demand. bringing a gigantic chunk of platinum to earth isn't going to increase the utility of platinum, although if prices fall far enough it may increase the utilization
This page really has a different lesson than what you think. The lesson is not "respond quickly"; that only shows that you can think on your feet. While that's useful, you don't build a business by thinking on your feet. The real lesson is that you should have already answered these questions. Before you try to get funding, you should already know who's going to use your product. Before you launch, you should know who your competitors are. Before talking to anyone you don't know about your product, you should be able to describe your product quickly.

You're trying to convince YC to invest in you. Why would anyone want to give money to founders who haven't thought about these questions?
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Absolutely. The cool features like remind me if there is no reply in the next 2 days has been one of the many features I use everyday. I have recommended this to so many folks now.
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I'm defiantly going to try this
Just created an account. Really liking it so far: clean and simple.
This, like your blog post, is about volume and not about liquidity. Do you have any evidence regarding liquidity? When answering, bear in mind that "liquidity" increases with the depth of the book, increases as the spread narrows, and does not have anything to do with "volume."
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> These guys are doing a disservice to the American public.

This comment blows my mind. How quickly we take things for granted is astounding.

CL is a largely FREE site – I for one have sold around $1k of stuff I didn't want on there in the last decade or so – not much, but I paid exactly $0 for that. Try that with eBay or, even better, your local newspaper classifieds.

The entitlement that lurks behind comments like the one above – or at least the hyperbole within it is amusing, at best.

CL works – it's far from perfect, sure, but it's perfectly free for most users and most things – the change it has brought about and the value its given to its users makes it a textbook case for service to the American public in my book.

Now, if we want to talk about how it can be made better, sure, there's a lot there, but don't blow it up to be a crime against humanity, or God, King or Country...
It’s completely reasonable to say that we only know the upshot of events after we see them. Many things are not understood at the time.

But many contemporary understandings are basically correct.

If you do a Google Books search for the phrase “first world war” in the range 1914–1935[0], you’ll find that many people were using it basically as we do. They grasped that Versailles set up another war, and that globalization meant it too would involve all of Europe (i.e., “the world”). We see more now, but they had the basics. We could have that good an understanding of manufacturing.

I’m not trying to refute your point, only to temper it.

0. http://www.google.com/search?q=%22first+world+war%22&btn...
Why do people still associate FP with Lisp even though HN is supposed to be a lisper hangout :P
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Great analogy between a designer's idea of "taste", and the engineers equivalent "elegance".

To take it further, just as the shortest code isn't always the best, the most minimal design is also not best by default.
Wow, congratulations! That's a big seed round with some great investors, and SMS is probably the best channel for a lot of marketing messages.
I (the author of Ninja) think tup is a fine choice for your project.

Ninja was designed to work within a specific pragmatic context: a very large project (Chrome) that had existing constraints on how the build works. (This design also makes Ninja suitable for use from CMake, which means you can use Ninja to build e.g. LLVM in a manner faster than the existing alternatives.)

Here is a longer post on the subject.
https://groups.google.com/group/ninja-build/msg/b52e7d3b77bb...

Most projects should probably not use Ninja. A previous iteration of the home page tried to scare users away. I could probably improve that.
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Revorad, I've been looking at the x220t tablet for, wow, a long time. Any experience with these tablets under Ubuntu? Seems like that beastie, with 4G and an SSD, would be pretty nice. Kills me to buy a laptop that ships with Windows, though 1783 OTD seems not too crazy considering I'll probably be sinking a lot of time into tweaking Ubuntu anyway (or maybe suse -- one of the early tablet linux guys worked for Novell)
note that google also has a privacy policy in addition to a TOS. Most of the hypothetical horrible things that people are assuming the TOS allows google to do with your data are forbidden by their privacy policy.
The problem is that Dropbox may, at their sole discretion, decide that providing ads is part of "the Service". Under their TOS, they could do that without changing it.

Realistically, Dropbox won't ever do that. But the key thing here is that Dropbox's TOS does not explicitly state exactly what rights they believe they need to operate with.
This is what is needed to finally get real private money into space exploration. With those kinds of resources waiting out there, private companies have significant incentive to pick up where NASA left off.
Has everybody forgotten that it's REALLY expensive to get into space? Per the BBC,

They struggle to see how it could be cost-effective, even with platinum and gold worth nearly £35 per gram ($1,600 an ounce). An upcoming Nasa mission to return just 60g (two ounces) of material from an asteroid to Earth will cost about $1bn.

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17827347)

So a back of the envelope calculation: Assuming that it costs as much to haul gold from orbit to Earth, and the Space X Falcon can haul 6.4+ tons per flight, we could bring down $167,116,800 of gold per flight. Since each launch costs $80M+, we're down to $80M of profit. However, this assumes we're just plucking gold out of orbit, not hauling asteroids to orbit, harvesting and processing the gold, and dealing with all of the logistics of this operation - which are bound to be very expensive. It's ambitious to be sure, but we're very far away from platinum as the new aluminum.

Price of gold per ounce: http://goo.gl/htL7b
Falcon launch costs: http://goo.gl/SWZlw
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Has anyone ever used a color e-paper display as the monitor to their computer? Can it be done currently? I think it would be nice to code with that kind of display.
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Great demo, and I'm glad we are starting to explore web apis outside of http, but let's not forget that Websockets generally fail over mobile networks due to the use of invisible proxying by carriers, etc.
They would be the De Beers of precious metals [1]. With that kind of wealth at stake, the monopoly wouldn't last long. You'd see competition from other private ventures, as well as from countries (Russia, China, ...).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Beers#Diamond_monopoly
They assume that it's probably pretty similar to the surface, which is a good assumption as long as the asteroid hasn't undergone geological processes to cause differentiation. If it's spherical, it has enough to gravity to have made itself that way, and stuff probably melted and floated and sank and it's probably not the same on the inside as the outside. If it's not spherical, it's probably a pretty uniform blob of stuff all the way through.

They know what's on the surface by looking at IR and radio spectra. This is complicated by overlapping spectra from different minerals, but you can still get a pretty good idea of what range of minerals are there. And since we know the elemental compositions of the minerals on Earth that produce the same spectra, we can use that to predict how much of any particular element the asteroid contains.