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Think about students in CS classes who already have their textbooks on their iPads but need to lug around a notebook just for some trivial coding. IMO this might be an interesting target group. HOWEVER the current language support does not really do that group justice. Add at least C, C++, Java and maybe Pascal and Basic (high school CS classes) syntax highlighting to cover a good portion of CS classes.
I thought the same thing then I really thought about it and I suppose you can say it seems like its trying real hard to be Google. I could be way off base but this is how I tried to understand the criticism of the name Bing and how it could be perceived as a Google ripoff:

To most people, Google has no meaning. Only some math nerds and smart people realize its a number. To the rest it's just a funny sounding word. So then I imagine a meeting full of Microsoft marketing guys thinking of names that are similar to Google. I imagine them throwing out random suggestions of short combinations of meaningless syllables (think: names like Bitly but with no meaning in either syllable). So then they're all at this meeting shouting "Fetchrig!","Mocklet" at each other then someone says those are too long. Then the single syllable names come out: "Zing" Shoop", "Zune" (and then someone says "we already did Zune"). The meeting then gets real quiet and someone's Hot Pocket gets done cooking and just after the microwave makes its signature noise someone jumps up and declares "Let's call it Bing!" and Microsoft's new search engine was born.

But in all seriousness it could've been an attempt to think of a meaningless word like Google that can be used in the same way people say "Google it". So with Bing you have a meaningless funny sounding word that lends itself just as easily to the "Just X it" phrase.

It's actually so simple it might have to be wrong. Why don't you just Bing it?
There are 3 bodies here, the Earth, the Moon and the Sun.

During the equinox the equator of the Earth lines up with the Sun-Earth axis. I can see that being significant in all sorts of ways. At other times of year, in a complicated maneuver, the Sun is going to pull the satellite off of that plane of orbit.
There was a draft of GPLv3 that included such a clause. This was dropped with the development of Affero GPL license. The final version of GPLv3 dropped all language regarding web services. If you want to use a GPL-like license for a web application, then the AGPL is the license to use.
I know these two plumbers that make a lot of cash. They have gold coins hanging over their heads, just hanging there waiting for them to jump up into them to 'collect' them! And if you think that's weird wait until I tell you about this dinosaur/turtle kind of guy they have to fight from time to time......
I understand your point, but 'evil do-ers' break existing laws then this could be considered evidence.

I'm fairy sure a mix privacy & contract laws in my country would hold companies subject to this as its stands if you didn't agree to allow them to do it in a EULA.

Because if I'm not mistaken by accepting the request you are agreeing to contractual obligations... so the server has to accept your contract to engage in transactions... the server can choose to accept or deny this transaction... by default accepting the contract.

Of course you would have a good defence against this a well, so agreed you'd need it standardised to make it a real threat against a company in court. Would be interesting to see played out in court TBH.

Also if stances are made like this then changes will never manifest, because its close to useless now doesn't mean it won't become a foundation for something later.
I'm guessing that building a self-driving car is a much harder problem than a self-driving airplane, and we seem to be making substantial progress on the car front.
Not only social pressure, but perhaps legal pressure too.
Derek Sivers: There is no speed limit. Actually, very true I think.

http://sivers.org/kimo
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You mean like playing on people's fears of paywalling by saying something like

"If we don't alllow web advertising to be unregulated, all good content will be paywalled."

You mean that kind of irrational fearmongering?
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The FTC would likely investigate, if you had a non-trivial number of users. You really don't want this.
Terms with Outsourced development team
I am starting a project where I am getting an offshore software company to develop my beta product. Even though I have a technical co-founder, but we are both involved with getting a beta client so thought would outsource the low level programming. We are going to develop the high level workflows and let them code the application. I am looking for advice on how I can come up creative ways to pay the offshore team. Some ideas that I have:
1) Come up with the number of hours/man months its going to take to develop the initial release and put a dollar value to it. So lets say its going to take 100 hours to develop the initial product and we put $10/hr, so makes it $1000 total. Instead of offering equity, I want to offer that once we make money or raise capital, we will give them $1500 back for the risk that they are taking.
2) Offer some sort of equity with a buyback option.
Are there any other creative ways that any of you have used?
The colleges themselves are partially to blame for the stigmatization of vocational schools. It's in their economic interest to funnel students through the system even if it's not relevant for their careers.
Surprised that I didn't see a single mention of meteor.js.

Check it out. The way meteor does client/server code-reuse is the archetype of node.js possibilities.
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Awesome! A fantastic step in the right direction for iPad development.

Feature request: hooper selection.
I wouldn't say Chinese is "obsolete". Written chinese does not convey pronunciation at all and therefore changes very slowly compared to spoken chinese. That meant even though chinese people from different regions of china couldn't always communicate using spoken chinese because of language divergence they could communicate by writing. I think this has had an effect on the unity of China - over thousands of years it stayed as a single nation; in comparison the Europe where many languages have diverged from Latin and where there are many nation-states where people are bound together by their language.

If China was not united during the incursions by European countries in the 1800's, maybe they'd have ended up even worse off.

With today's technology, would you say Chinese is now un-obsoleted?
Was thinking the exact same thing.
I think that you should explain why you feel this way instead of simply asserting your (possibly) gut reaction.
The usage of "his woman" would be routed from translation of Bible from Hebrew. In Hebrew, there is only one word for (Ish) man, and husband, or (Isha) woman, and wife.

English translations translated freely taking preference for poetic sound.

So as long as the bible is part of English speaking culture the usage of woman as wife will be common.

Something I find interesting about Persian culture. In Persian the word Zan means both wife and woman, but there is another more formal word Khanom. Which is always to be used when speaking or referring to someone older than you. I wouldn't be surprised if this is due to the etymology of the two word being from different languages.
I think you're both right. Thiel is right that most folks don't need to go to college and it's horribly over-priced, etc. You're right that we have a lot of investors with a large personal self-ish financial interest in having as many developers and engineers, especially younger/cheaper ones, available to execute on their startup ideas and/or to "invest" (buy lottery tickets on) in them. So you're both right. No contradiction.
Peacetime CEO/Wartime CEO
http://bhorowitz.com/2011/04/15/peacetime-ceowartime-ceo/
The inventor in the garage is a real, re-occurring figure in the rise of industries, although the author is correct that these figures are more commercializers and integrators than scientific trailblazers. The irony is that there's no greater example than the namesake of Bell Labs...
Not exactly a blog post, but truly better heard than read.

"The Crickets Have Arthritis"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VrZE8MCnIA
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If the manufacturer is at fault, then the manufacturer is responsible. If Ms. Fong was at fault, then she would be responsible.

However the problem here is that the renter was at fault, but he/she is dead, so now they're trying to pin the responsibility on the closest related entity (even though with NO fault by Ms. Fong) that can also pay the costs.

If the person who died (or his/her family) has no claims to compensation from Ms. Fong, then why would the people he/she injured have any claims from her?
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>>If they don't appeal to you, don't go to them

By the same logic if we don't like OP's opinion, we should stop reading and may be stop questioning him instead?

People will and should question any new practice.
Probably not, since this article is about smartphones.

Edit: but I see your point (I think) - iPod Touch users are also buyers from the iOS app store. The latest data I can find is on ad requests, which is only tangentially related to adoption, but those numbers [1] suggest that there are a little more than a third as many iPod Touch users as there are iPhone users, and a bit more than half as many iPad users as there are iPhone users. Of course, there are a lot of non-smartphone Android devices out there now, too, so it's difficult to factor that in.

[1] http://www.bgr.com/2011/12/06/top-3-connected-devices-in-u-s...
Processing was my first "real" programming language[1]. It's not bad but it doesn't have anonymous functions! It does provide a language with a small set of API functions for the user to manipulate graphics with; If someone was intending to learn programming because they want to make a game, I'd suggest they learn Processing over Python, but if they wanted to become a learn more about CS concepts, data structures, algorithms, etc, I'd suggest Python instead. (I know... people don't know data structures exist before they know about programming, but I'm saying I might be able to figure it out from what they want to do with programming.)

[1] My first real programming language was BASIC. I moved on to processing when I got sick of it and didn't know why. Now I do, the only data structure in the BASIC I used was the array and there were no functions, just procedures where you have to use boilerplate to get them to return values.
You're complainimg to the wrong audience.

I rarely need Arabic bidi support in a shell, and if I do, I tend to copy paste from a proper text editor.
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Stop calling research products "Microsoft's new X." If it was a serious social network, you'd be hearing much more about it than this.
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Except that Google+ is the new backbone of Google, not a research project.
I can't say much about Python, but I can vouch for Processing as a beginner's language- I've used it with great success to teach game programming to middle-schoolers and high-schoolers. In general Processing does a good job of easing beginners into the important parts of Java- sequential code, procedure definitions and eventually classes- without quite as much boilerplate. After a few days of Processing I usually try to cap things off with writing a command-line application in ordinary Java, and usually the only mysterious thing I have to explain at that point is what the "public" modifier does.
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I am sorry, I was out of town. My bad, I now see what you were suggesting. I am much clear about the concept. I also looked at your source code and I am assuming that amazon is paying you CPA right?

May be you should apply for shopping.com partners program and negotiate CPC payment based on their rate card. That way, you immediately start making CPC money when you drive traffic and you are not just bound to amazon. Though, amazon is good starting point as Shopping.com will ask to see your website (as a small demo). They are little slow but you can also try shopzilla affiliate program (CPC only).

Once you get good traction and traffic starts building, you will start getting offers straight from various merchants.

Hope things work out well!

Good luck :)
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Now here's a case where having points visible would help those not-in-the-know to see what those-who-are-in-the-know think of the he said/she said between DigitalSea and hartror above

Given you can't see points, hartror is correct, and here's a collection of tyre retailer names as evidence

Kmart Tyre & Auto Service

Welshpool Tyre Service

Berry's Tyres

Fremantle Tyrepower

Ian Diffen World of Tyres & Mufflers

West State Tyre Service

National Tyres

(you get the idea)
The high wages of the plumber are naturally a function of supply and demand. They are often in part a result of a dearth or even a complete absence of competition.

If there were an overabundance of available skilled plumbers in every community, the wages might drop.

Needless to say, in any given US community there is often a shortage of available skilled plumbers but rarely a shortage of young people with college degrees.

PayPal, Thiel's claim to fame, had one competitor: X.com.
And they merged.
We can finally rest assured our computers are safe, since all evil packets get filtered. Right?
I tested out of High School a year early and moved to Los Angeles to focus on only what I wanted to do: Act, write, direct. I'm probably not representative of everyone in technology without a college degree, but nevertheless, when I realized Dream #1 wasn't happening, I tool my tech experience in retail to the start-up world, and then settled in to a decent career, which is only getting better with time. Part of me agrees with all this, but with a grain of salt. It's not the path for everyone. Put me in a room of geeks and I can hold my own; put me in a group of more well-rounded folks, fans of opera and the like (tongue in cheek, folks), I couldn't hold my own and would be bored to death. But that's not just due to personal taste, but a total lack of exposure.

My mother never encouraged me to go to school and I spent all my time in my room reading SciFi and Fantasy novels. But I was very smart, and now that I have a kid of my own, I see that same intelligence in her and, guess what, I'm sending her to college. No matter what. She'll have opportunities to do great things, and I wouldn't fault her for pausing college to work on a start-up company, but I would fault her for not finishing school, even if it took a decade or two. See, I want her to be able to sit in that room with all the socialites and hold her own, as easily as she could in a room full of geeks. That said, until the United States improves its view of education and makes some radical changes, my daughter will NOT be going to college in the States. Maybe University of Helsinki? :)

Good luck to all the Thiel Fellows. I think it is needed, for both an _alternative_ and as a reminder to folks in the States that there is a serious problem with the education system...
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No need to change the HN guidelines, folks.

However, it looks like Asimov's three laws could use an addendum: Be a good sport and a gentleman when significant things happen to people in your community. Apply soft-skill known as "heart".
You make a good point and I agree with you, I just wish you had not put "period" at the end of your sentence. If you point stands good, but putting period like really is kinda close minded, don't you think?

If your point is strong you should have no need to throw your hands up in the air and say "end of discussion" which is what period pretty much means. Your making the call that this discussion is over because you know best.

I had to post this, your 'period' distracted your entire argument for me.
Well I'm sure she knew the risks and realized it's safe because the ridesharing company would probably cover her.

I'm sure the special laws are there to be explicit since they already figured it made no sense to make the rental company at fault in situations like this. But this gives even more reason why Ms. Fong shouldn't legally be at fault since she's just like a rental company.
I think ipython is widely appreciated in the scientific/numeric python community.
Yes, I agree but I don't do any Arabic editing in terminal. The only time I bump up against this problem is when in Arabic IRC channels with irssi, and all the letters are separated and backwards. I usually switch to IRCCloud's web IRC when I'm chatting in Arabic channels anyways.
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Paste could not be saved. Please try again later."

Damn.
You're thinking of Deferred Gratification, and specifically the results of the Stanford Marshmallow Experiment. Basically they put a marshmallow in front of children and said, "You can eat this marshmallow now, but if you don't eat it then when I get back you will get a second marshmallow". Then they leave the room and come back something like 10 minutes later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_gratification

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experimen...

It's not mentioned in those articles, but one of the differences in those who didn't eat the marshmallow was that they used coping strategies to distract themselves. Things like singing to themselves, looking around the room, or drumming on the table. I think I recall a follow-up experiment that's not mentioned in those articles where they taught these coping strategies to a group of children then ran the experiment and, sure enough, far more of them were able to resist eating the marshmallow than in the control group.
Richard Hamming: You and Your Research:

http://www.paulgraham.com/hamming.html
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The Do Not Track movement and its whole premise is useless. I've blogged about why this is so a while ago: http://blog.idleworx.com/2012/02/do-not-track-movement-is-us...
Comments were never "on" for HN job postings.
Jesus' words (or Lincoln's, if you wish) apply here:

"If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand."
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I almost always get the desktop version of sites on Chrome/Android too. I looked into this in detail and it's just stupid user-agent sniffing; Chrome on Android specifically sends the string "Mobile" to indicate that it's a mobile device. (My UA is currently "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.0.4; Galaxy Nexus Build/IMM76F) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.166 Mobile Safari/535.19".)
fair enough, i just feel its an issue that needs a strong stance, but i understand your concerns. I removed it.
What if they're not in the USA?
In the 48th and 49th year lenders would make loans that would be much smaller and more realistically paid off in the short term. There is no way that debtors can force lenders to lend if they don't think it's a good deal.

As you get closer and closer to a Jubilee year it would get harder to get a big loan. People would put of large projects until the first years of a new cycle.
They only have 5 months of burn rate left, they are doing a big rearchitecture of their site, and they go on a "hacking retreat" in New Zealand?

I understand that taking a break and getting perspective while in the midst of a lot of work can be effective, but this seems a little bit extravagant.
The next three by units (Bridgestone, Michelin, Goodyear) all do commercial/industrial/aviation, I think Goodyear falls out a bit at the top end. 400 tonne trucks use Bridgestone/Michelin, the Airbus A380 uses Bridgestone, for what it's worth.

Would be cool to see it ranked like that though.
About Radical Honsety

http://www.esquire.com/print-this/honesty0707?page=all
I'd like to give a full response but I'm afraid it would be too long.

Long story short: I'm hoping to use this debt forgiveness project as a way of building momentum for a large scale debt strike/debt refusal campaign.
I think point 1 (and by extension point 2) is a little overstated. Many, many people wouldn't set foot in a small aircraft, be it a Cessna or this. This idea is for those individuals that would easily obtain (or use) a PPL if it wasn't such a daunting financial commitment to fly.

It actually is quite challenging to design an aircraft that is efficient, capable (as in 4+ people) and cheap to operate.

The Pipistrel Panthera and the Icon A5 are about as close as it comes, but both have serious shortcomings. Panthera is fricken expensive to buy and unproven, and A5 is that and not very capable. The average Cessna and/or Piper cub is still the easiest way to get into the sky in something useful for more than a lap around the airport.

I'd love to see something that isn't going to cost the price of a house to buy and the average salary to fly before we look to make everyone a pilot, because that challenge alone is a long, long way off.
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the three things that make this new, as far as i can see, are:

- the configuration. i don't understand what the aerodynamic advantages of a "boxwing" are, but apparently this has those while avoiding problems with stalling. it's also stronger / more compact and places the engine closer to the centre of gravity than a traditional "propeller at the front" design.

- the engine. initially, diesel, which is unusual for aircraft, and eventually electric.

- suction of air through parts of the wing to give laminar flow (reduce turbulence) and so increase efficiency.

a lot of the site reads like over-hyped snake oil, they don't have any published papers (never mind peer reviewed), and it sounds like they don't have good numerical results from full 3d simulations (but argue they are limited anyway). on the other hand, it doesn't seem to be complete bullshit - they have a working 1/4 scale model, for example, and seems to have been accepted into some kind of x-prize-like competition organised by nasa.
And for reference:

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Steve Yegge's "Math For Programmers" was one of the (too) few posts I've read that actually resulted in action on my part. It made me realize how much I had let my math skills atrophy since college, and I invested a substantial amount of time trying to bring them back up to scratch.

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/math-for-programmers...
People frequently talk about college as if you can only go when you are 18.

If a budding entrepreneur skips college at 18, he can still go back later.

Skipping college at 18 still may not be the right thing to do... but these conversations frequently overplay the finality of the decision.
I suspect they wouldn't have gotten the insurance payout without a legally sound excuse.
I send this as part of my "last e-mail" to students every semester:

This is the post that could but probably won't change your life: "There’s no speed limit. (The lessons that changed my life)" http://sivers.org/kimo . I say "could," because most of you probably won't click the link; of those of you who do, most of you won't read the whole thing; of those of you who do, most of you won't get it; of those who do, most won't implement it. On the off chance that one out of 50 of you let this change your life, however, I'm sending it. Derek Sivers, who posted "There's no speed limit," also wrote a book called Anything You Want, [1] and reading it is probably one of the best ways you can spend an hour.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/dp/1936719118?ie=UTF8&tag=thstsst-...