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How do you feel about the content on the Help page (http://distilbio.com/help)? Do you want to see some of that on the homepage itself?
off-topic: love the greek-lettered ordered list.
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Indian Idol 6 has come after 2 years for all indian singers to participate, half of the audition has been done.Let's see how it goes this time.
Hey, I think the Pope is very well dressed for a major religious leader. And he has a wide selection of very nice hats.
Sometimes you get so frustrated with being polite and civil and have no patience but to let loose with as vivid a picture of the problem as you can possibly unleash.

Civility leads to complacency. That was the post of someone with some serious conviction, not a passive participant who was indifferent to standards.
I'm not inclined to exposing them directly as the recipes rayburst uses are custom and not open source or redistributable.
Another related perspective on earth oceans. Take a thimble of water and pour it into the ocean. Allow sufficient time for it to evenly mix. Now scoop a new thimble of water out of that ocean. Your new thimble will have several molecules from the original thimble of water.

Orders of magnitude and all that. To me though this shows how connected all of our resources are and how dangerous pollution can be.
Our versions of usability are different. When I purchase a smartphone, I expect to have more than just an ability to make a phone call. Smartphone means email, web, gps, maps, etc and also means doing those things well (this isn't year 2001 anymore).

Perhaps being a software engineer I have a spoiled sense of what it means to do thing well. The native AT&T apps don't just fail to do things well but clearly have a message "We don't give a damn about you nor this phone. This is our crapware and you have no choice but to use it".
Cm7 here too. Open maps and start dragging it.

It's not the hardware power. It's bad coding. even gmaps fails at standard nonblocking coding for fluid interface.
wow, it's almost like typing on a real computer.
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How does it differ? I don't really get it.
Lee stopped editing in 1972. Wolfman left in 1980. So, what happened during that time?

Various writer-editors were given the title of editor-in-chief but they really didn't do that job. Roy Thomas, Len Wein, Wolfman, Gerry Conway (for less than 2 months), and then Archie Goodwin all had a significant amount of reprinted comics published because the new issues weren't done in time. Readers hate reprinted stories. (The only writer-editor who did not become editor-in-chief was Steve Gerber.)

What stopped this trend? Marvel hired an editor to be an editor-in-chief. This annoyed a few of the writer-editors and so most left in dramatic diva fashion.

Most comic fans do consider the 60's Marvel as equally good as the 80's Marvel, which includes Walter Simonson's Thor, Frank Miller's Daredevil, Byrne's Fantastic Four, Roger Stern and John Romita Jr's Amazing Spider-Man, and Claremont, et al's X-Men.

70's DC is an example of how to ruin a company. Without detailing their editorial problems, let's focus on two significant events. Sometime during 1972 and 1974, Marvel starts to outside DC for the first time in history. Except for a handful of months, this has been true until very recently. The second event is known as the DC implosion. DC screwed up and had to cancel a large number of their titles. Much of their talent landed jobs at Marvel.

So Wolfman and the other writer-editors jumping ship for DC was not a step up. It was a step away from meeting deadlines, and other responsibilities. Lee understood that no editor-in-chief could edit the writer-editors, which is likely why he left when he did.
Bangs? is that like using "site" in Google?

Using Google:

If I want to find a movie, I type site:imdb.com Avengers

If I want to find a recipe, I type site:allrecipes.com pizza

If I want to play music right now I type site:grooveshark.com AC-DC Thunderstruck
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I disagree. It is a useful perspective because it flies in the face of one's intuited perspective. How many of us would have estimated that the volume of water would be so small? We visualize the oceans as really deep gouges on the Earth's surface because to our puny asses a depth of 1 to 8 miles sounds amazingly deep. We'd never guess that even with miles deep depressions and miles high mountains, the Earth is smoother than a billiard ball:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/08/te...

Combining both of these counter-intuitive perspectives tells us that our oceans are akin to a very thin film of water on a wet billiard ball. A thin dirty film is all that billions of bacteria needs to thrive on a billiard ball, and a thin dirty film is all that billions of animals and plants need to thrive on Earth.
Yes, we can compare. Doesn't matter if Google is old and DDG is young. It does not change the fact that people have a need for good privacy terms and in this case, privacy is THE feature that DDG is offering.
Wait, seriously? That sounds like a "just-so" story, and I'm gonna have to call bullshit on it. The tradition of wearing a cover ("hat") as part of one's uniform both predates and extends far beyond any practical necessity to instill helmet discipline.

I mean, sure, it creates a bit of an instinctual reminder to put something on your head when you go outside, so it's helpful, but that doesn't mean that was the original rationale, especially when the same regulations apply to guys who spend their days staring at a radar scope in CIC or something. And let's be honest, lots of military traditions are kind of arbitrary (like the part where if you're walking with someone, the senior ranking person is on the right hand side--what, do you get shot at more often from the left hand side?) Having to adapt to a bunch of arbitrary traditions might have some benefit in discipline or something, but each individual tradition isn't necessarily there for a practical reason. Especially when a bunch of those traditions are actively dropped in combat zones--i.e. you don't salute so they don't know who to shoot at.
I'd say it's harder to find correlation in Fashion than to predict the market.

Everyone i know in design and marketing everyone blabs about how lack of marketing killed hats.

But no one i know also happens to have breakfast talks everyday with a anthropologist phd studying fashion.
Yes, sort of. I believe the current theory is that much of Earth's water came from thousands or millions of meteorites that carried ice and/or hydrogen and oxygen compounds that later stabilized to water. This would have happened during the solar system's infancy, when there were far more asteroids flying around our solar system. In fact, it is thought that the planets started this way. Lots of free flying rock colliding together, gaining mass, gravity, etc. over billions of years.
I'd love to see where you found this information. I wasn't able to find it in Chrome's source, but I didn't have the change to do a deep dive.
This "accident" reminds me of what I read a week ago in the article "How geniuses think".
And it was this: "GENIUSES PREPARE THEMSELVES FOR CHANCE. Whenever we attempt to do something and fail, we end up doing something else." So when you're up to something interesting drop everything else and study it. It might pay off.

Link article (http://www.creativitypost.com/create/how_geniuses_think)
I can't help thinking that number would be of use if you were trying to estimate the worldwide cardinality of techno-hipsters.
And ? Zynga wasn't buying an app. They were buying a team.
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Say wat you want of php. But it's (insert personal pejorative option) made for it.

Sure Its a_little_inconsistent AndSomewhatChaotic

But all the basics for the web are incredible accessible right away.

With every other language you have to start with a framework.

I find php easier than rails to prototype applications and do fast hacks that need a web face.

It's simply the right tool for the job on those occasions. Of course, later they become huge systems...
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Very nice article, but I did not like the example data he was using.

The problem is that both population and tournament city could be dependent on year.

Population (obviously) changes from year-to-year, so either his original data is incorrect or he's recording a city's latest population along with all historic tennis championship winners -- neither interpretation makes a lot of sense. Why not use something unlikely to change such as either elevation or country?

Likewise, tournament city is not a fixed value for a tournament. For example, the Australian Open, which he uses as one of his examples, has also been set in Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth, Christchurch (NZ), and Hastings (NZ).

To resolve this, he would either have to introduce a two column primary key (tournament, year), or pick some simpler data. I suggest the latter.

Even with all of this criticism, I think it's one of the cleanest introductions of the normal forms for beginners.
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One of my favorite things about DDG is the bang, and my absolute favorite bang (when I use one) is !g. Because the URL for the resulting page is just the search, without all the cruft.

!g googol
https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=googol

direct via google:
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&gs_nf=1&cp=6&gs_id=36&xhr=t&q=googol&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&oq=googol&aq=0&aqi=h1g-s1g2g-s1&aql=&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=aa8b317ec80710f&biw=1036&bih=663

Whenever I want to send a google search to someone, I do it via DDG. Although I usually send DDG searches, to help promote DDG.
1961 was too early for hair to be that long then. Sure, maybe the counterculture was starting to get shaggy, but longer hair didn't really come into its own until the late 60's and 70's. And by the 00's it had pretty much gone away.
That's why e.g. Flask exists: it gives you the basics, plus light structure and templating and routing and XSS protection and deployment options and whatever else. With no setup and no boilerplate.

It's about as much effort as typing `<?php`.
And i hope it's going to the users and apple is next in line as a facilitator.

If that happens i will go back to give justice the benefit of the doubt.
I was in Las Vegas last week.

Las Vegas is the only place I've seen the 50c piece.

On this trip, I also saw a $2 bill. I hadn't seen one of these for a few years.

Going to coins for the $1 is an interesting idea that the US hasn't really got behind. I used to live in the UK when the 1 and 2 pound coins were first introduced. One of the hidden costs of these coins is that trouser (pants) pockets wear out much, much faster with the big and heavy coins. I've never had holes in my pockets in the US, and I always had them in the UK
A friend who really loved the game tried to show it to me, but it kept having server problems. I wonder if that was just an isolated case or if it was frequent, in which case it could drive off users.
What's wrong with mysql?
I'm a long term user of pair.com's service, and my feelings are mixed on this.

I tend to think that "Pair" is no more unique than the "Scrolls" term that Mojang/Bethesda were arguing about in the games area recently.

In this case, the product types are even more different (dating vs web hosting).

Personally I think that Pair (the dating app) was pretty dumb by picking that name when they don't own it as a domain - historically I've disagreed with say 37signals and their arguments that owning the obvious domain names of their products not mattering. It does matter, whether or not you buy into "everyone uses search to find things", if only to reduce the likelyhood of phishing attacks.

In short, don't confuse people. Don't launch a product with a name that is someone else's domain (unless it's a scummy/obvious squatter). Do own the domain that corresponds to your product. This make sense, other things generally do not.
This guy failed to cover web.py which is one of the fastest ways to start prototyping a web app in python. =/

http://webpy.org/

I personally use it for a small app which returns (and stores) search suggestions from redis.
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Agreed. As soon as I got past the "why on earth is Pair joining YC?" and realized that Pair wasn't Pair, my next thought was "doesn't anyone at YC have enough sense to advise against using the name of a very large and well established company?"

Starting a mobile software company called Pair and saying "but we're a mobile software company, not a web hosting company" is like starting a motorized bicycle company called General Motors and saying "but we're selling motorized bicycles, not cars". I don't know or care what the lawyers are going to make out of this; it stinks no matter who wins.
Not really. They were buying $120,000 per day of an in-app sales. DS was the only OMGPOP hit; had they not succeed financially with DS, Zynga wouldn't have had bought them.
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ny never quite saw the car change. I still rather public transportation there over driving anytime.

As i bet all that crowd on the occupy did too.
These are very valid points that I did not consider when I was constructing the example data.

I've replaced city and population with country and area to reduce confusion.
Changing syntax for marketing reasons seems bad from my point of view, I like pythonish syntaxes, like in haml, CoffeScript etc. So changing to JS was a back step.
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can you imagine it to be a penny stock? they are right now where they were in january.
I don't think I can write a HN-worthy response to this. I'm really just disappointed and a little offended. Socially inept people are not beyond help. Giving up on them, and encouraging everyone else to treat them as hopeless cases, is not constructive and can easily become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Most social conventions are not innate. Everyone has to learn them at some point. Some are just later than others.
Yes, and tradition. A woman can get hired to work at a bank with pierced ears, but probably not with a pierced nose. There's nothing in the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics that says one is more acceptable than the other, though. It's purely cultural.

That difference will be gone in ten years if it isn't already, although oldsters will continue to bemoan it for another twenty.
Is the article only half done? It was talking about "See wrapped responses below" but found zilch!
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It wont happen. Just like the US should switch to the metric system.
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"MySQL is the PHP of databases". Strange, I just had this sentence popping in my head yesterday. I'm seriously considering writing a list of its wrong doings.

Great article overall.
That's a nice sentiment that's completely inaccurate. Even 6 years ago when I first started programming Python, simple Python cgi scripts were very easy to write. It's as simple as:

print """\
Content-type: text/html

<html>...</html>"""

With %(var)s interpolation, you can even slap in locals() easily to trivially put variables' values into the page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)

Of course it's not the only cognitive attribute that's important (I don't know of any evidence that ability to get things done correlates with g).

BTW, realized that the article didn't explicitly state that the computer science class was introductory, which changes things somewhat.
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I'd be interested in reading that list!
The article talks about both trade dress and design patents. That said a court's decision about design patents can involve whether a consumer would be confused. There's a short article that talks about the legal rules for design patent infringement at http://www.designpatentschool.com/assets/Oake_SEPT11%20V2.pd....
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Point taken.

But I didn't have in mind 'hippie hair' but even moderate length hair. For me, any hair that hangs down below the level of the hat brim makes a hat unwearable.

But I was brainwashed by the Marines, so my mileage may vary.
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Thanks, codeflo. I calculated similar numbers and only gave a very crude approximation but I will take your word for it. Obviously, with the thermal distribution according to altitude it's a poorly defined problem.

Most intuitively, this means that when looking at some object on earth ~5 miles away, you are looking through roughly as much air as you are when looking at any given planet or star above you in the sky.

I think this is an interesting comparison.
Forty-five years of Stalin-esque communism meant sports and education were the only acceptable ways to compete in Romania.

I am just wondering what were acceptable ways to compete 15 years before 'Stalin-esque' communism during 'Iron Guard' times? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Guard
Just installed it. Works well.
> a very thin film of water on a wet billiard ball

You're right. The average depth of the ocean is about 4km, while the earth's radius is about 6371km.
I'd say the necessity of this post is why PHP is as popular as it is. With PHP, there are no package managers I have to install; there is no template language to learn; there is often no version control; there is no "framework"; etc. You just drop in a .php file and, most likely, it will just run. If I need a quick dynamic page on my server, it's much easier to do this in PHP than in Python or Ruby.

Until Python or Ruby have that kind of simplicity, they can't overtake PHP. While it might not be the kind of design that leads to well-designed web apps or even good code, it is the kind of design that leads to more — especially less technical, or, like me, lazy — users. It's up to the developers of those languages if this is even a market they want. There may need to be something new to do the same job as PHP, but better, without the innumerable warts.
To be fair, people get bored of mobile apps, in general, pretty easily. I remember playing Draw Something constantly for a few weeks then I eventually stopped playing because it got old pretty fast. I don't think Zynga is the reason why this is happening.
As an Indian who grew up in a medium sized town in India and who has lived in a medium sized town in the US, I would argue that the US health system is much much superior to the Indian heath system. If you want to talk about private clinics in India, compare them with the treatment that you will get in the US if you are paying out of pocket (as you'd do in private clinics in India), or at least with what you'd get if you have a good insurance plan in the US. The quality of treatment in the US is much better.

People facing an expensive medical procedure may have higher chance of survival in India, but people facing emergency medical procedure certainly do not. Have you ever faced a medical emergency outside of the big metropolitan cities in India? My father had a cardiac arrest and he lost his life because neither the ambulance nor the hospital had a working defibrillator. And could not find one for the three hours that he was in the hospital (This incident took place in a state capital and not some tiny town). In contrast, the emergency response system in the US is amazing. Even the ambulances are well equipped with emergency care equipment.
While that's true (and I do love Flask), PHP comes installed on every discount web host. Deploying a PHP app is as easy as using FTP, deploying a Python app can be -- but doesn't have to be -- complex. I'd say this is the bigger sticking point than the framework.

Obviously Heroku and other PAAS providers are changing the game as far as deployment ease. It should be to see what happens in the next few years on that front.
Every smartphone-equipped college student played Robot Unicorn Attack for a month at one point too. It's a pretty well-made game, hilarious, fairly demanding...and absolutely boring after you play it for the 50th time.

At this point, the speed of viral distribution represents both the blessing and the curse of social companies. You can take your exponential growth this month and extrapolate it over the next year, but that doesn't take into account the dozen newcomers that will catch the attention of the fickle 15M next month. When Metcalfe's law works on a scale of weeks instead of years, network effects become more transient and less valuable. Hopefully this helps teach the market that eyeballs alone should not justify an enormous purchase price.
I like java for web app development, simply because it has a well-structured api and a massive community of developers who have run in to the majority of the road blocks you will most likely encounter on the way to launching your app.
Well yeah, but Beatlemania didn't start until the late 60's (the Beatles came to America in 1964) and at the time their haircuts were considered scandalously shaggy. If you think of the range of hair lengths, for men, in 1961 it wasn't much different from what's acceptable in the military or in the 1950's. But in the 1970's, shaggy Luke Skywalker hair was fairly normal, moreso than it is today for instance.
Apparently, it isn't PostgreSQL; If you have no need for Postgres features and you're not familiar with it, sticking to MySQL is fine.
I bought a baseball cap today, because I sport a buzzcut and I'm temporarily working in a climate where the sun is burning. So I need it to protect myself from the sun.

Could it be that the decline of the hat came with the office culture? Most people I see outdoor working actually wear something on their heads.
Obligatory question: does it have support for vi-like bindings? Also, what about wireless keyboards?
What frameworks and platforms would you recommend for web development with java? I am writing my senior project at college in java (mainly because of the wide amount of image processing libraries available) and would love to add web capabilities.
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Also hats add useless complexity, together with ties, foulards, business suits. The question is what disappears next?

Watches? I am not wearing any since I started to carry phones.
Another suitable addition: different sized polymer banknotes for the vision impaired, durability and increased difficulty in counterfeiting.
It is a fairly awesome text editor, great syntax highlighting, great snippets and navigation features.

What makes it less than ideal for me is lack of Dropbox syncing: You can download and upload stuff alright, but you always have to explicitly do so. It does not download changes automatically and it does not push them automatically, either.
Basically, it treats Dropbox like FTP. If it was not for that, I would use it every day.
I complete agree! :D
gonna give this a go. recommended by simon!
"associate FB with positive emotions, not negative ones"

So basically, it wants to be the Disneyland of the Internet?

Laudable. Although I can't tell if my early adopter bias is telling me this is an avenue for disruption, or whethrer such safe pablum is the ticket to riches for reaching the masses. I am now leaning towards this being a big step in the AOLification of FB.
What about the rest of of the western world?
> His education, the fact that he is a chessmaster, and that respectable people think he's smart is irrelevant.

Really? I disagree. I think those are at least relevant and actually significant.