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Much of the Internet can be traced back to UNIX traditions. We like things to be organized in a hierarchy, much like a filesystem. And, since we puny humans are better at remembering names than numbers, we give our computers names.

Combine the two concepts, and we end up with a hierarchy of names. And because all of the computers in the world are connected to this global hierarchy, TLDs were introduced to add some order to the chaos. By introducing TLDs, we were able to start to categorize companies from universities from network infrastructure providers, etc... and thus everyone could find their place in the global name hierarchy. Even the TLDs are part of a single root object in the hierarchy(.).

It wasn't until things started to scale that we had issues with domains.
Never played the games, but I bought the bundle and downloaded these two soundtracks to listen to while I work. You're absolutely correct, these are great and easily worth what I paid on their own. They make me excited to get to play the games themselves tonight!
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Hey gmig, thanks for checking out Beluga. I just tried in Firefox 13, and I couldn't reproduce the issue. Do you have anything that could be messing with your referrer, like addons? On api calls, as a safety precaution, we check to make sure the browser referrer is correct.
Predicting burglary patterns through math modeling of crime
japhyr, the paid iOS and desktop versions of this have much more descriptive feedback (what to fix, etc)
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Just a tip for those who aren't web devs: the page layout can be fixed by removing the comment/element via Chrome's inspector.

Right-click on the comment, choose "Inspect Element", and delete it.

And of course the same could be done with any modern browser's inspector.
After so many sales of the same games, mostly on steam, I'm surprised there are still enough customers around for stuff like this...
Google's products seem very buggy, and they don't seem to give much of a crap about fixing them.

That's the essence of Silicon Valley right there. The Cool Kids don't fix bugs. They don't test their code much beyond "Well, it doesn't crash for me.". The Cool Kids only write new code using the latest and greatest programming languages - because they're cool, naturally. (Yes, this flies in the face of the JavaJavaJava slant mentioned in the article - must be some interesting forces there to keep all of the Interns and College Grads from incessantly advocating for whatever teaching language they used in school.)
Brilliant. Raising awareness will not let people forget and become comfortable with the status quo.
Didn't even know that Meteor was a YC company. Does anyone know what their original product was?
My institution has introduced similar programs. I question their utility in the face of the cost of college and the shelf-life of what you can learn in a 4-year classroom setting (not to mention general ed requirements).
Yeah, in terms of curriculum differences, CS is definitely a lot more theoretical, with heavier math and pure CS courses, while SE has project management components, more programming, some computer science, some Computer Engineering courses and even some Electrical Courses.

In Waterloo's case, the whole "knowing CS, but not how to program" falls flat, since we have an amazing co-op program where you can easily 2 year-ish of experience at different companies by the time you graduate, so most CS students that come out, do come out of the CS with Co-op, and as a result are great programmers.
Interesting. What do you think of Agner Fog's work?
Yeah that's a very good point. We'll change that sentence now :).

Edit: Updated page and added attribution.
You might be interested in Ward Cunningham's "Whole Value" pattern [1] which is part of his awesome CHECKS pattern language [2]:

[1] http://c2.com/ppr/checks.html#1

[2] http://c2.com/ppr/checks.html
It's not really the same as someone knocking on my door. It's much less intrusive and it's something I can deal with on my own time.

When someone knocks on my door it's usually around dinner time, and just because of my general demographics it's probably also not likely to be something I am interested in. I have no interest in buying cleaning products (and giving my credit card information) from some random person who walked up to my house.

I do however have an interest in new clothing styles from a store I shop at frequently or as in Patrick's example new learning materials he is putting out. Also, email can be dealt with when I am ready to deal with it and it's pretty easy to just click delete, delete, delete. I personally find it much harder to turn away (although I will do it) a desperate looking person standing on my doorstep.
I'm going to disagree here. Jarrod, a designer, wanted to create a book that would be beneficial to you (presumably, a developer). He had a skill you wanted to know more about to use to your benefit, which is probably why you signed up for his list.

By getting potential customers early own, not only is he more motivated to get the book out the door, but he can also talk to his first customers to see exactly what they want to learn that he can teach.

Great work, Jarrod!
Clearly it starts by getting someone to write you a $9M check to develop your Javascript library (excuse me, "platform").

This gold rush is so depressingly familiar. But that's not to speak ill of Meteor-the-product, which looks pretty nifty (albeit not $9M of nifty).
willyt, the Mac/Windows version of this sim lets you see the effects of ISO, f-stop, and all those other "post-snap" adjustments in real time.
No, but there are people who say "this one offers to cover costs for my medical condition, and this one doesn't". And if those costs run into 10s of thousands of dollars, that kind of matters.

And if you're bringing any smarts to the table, you know what conditions you're especially at risk for, too, so presumably you do pick the insurance plan that is most likely to protect you from catastrophic financial losses.

(And if you make less than the tech industry usually does - say, only $25K a year - that $1000 deductible sure is a lot more expensive than the $500 one)
I know what you mean - same in JS. It was a little unnerving for me to write code in JS without semi colons after every line.

It gets to the point where sometimes I'll chat on facebook and after finishing a thought I'll type ';' at the end of a sentence. Weird, I know.
I don't know how you actually measure how long a lookup takes, but just FYI if you're interested in the number of lookups you're doing from the various caches (and in things like number of missed branch predictions you're causing), you can use OProfile or Cachegrind. OProfile is a bit more complicated to set up because the flags you need to set are processor-specific, but it causes much less slowdown.
The "patronage model" for free software freelancers
The inmates are truly running the asylum

Exactly, this is why I always tell people that if you let technical people run companies you'll run into huge failures like you see with companies like Google and Facebook.
In my case (astronomy) we have to store the units regardless and they're always together, but in light of changing requirements, I'm not sure it would be overkill to make this explicit up-front even if there weren't explicit requirements to do so.
Indeed. The ARM stuff is hobbyist only, now. I wouldn't want to run production stuff on one.

People really think super tiny machines are very very amazing. I wonder if it's a discontinuity in value perception.

The Atom probably uses a bunch more power, though.

(Personally I am fond of x86 SBCs such as PCEngines Alix, since they run normal OSs, like you said.)
OTOH, I like receiving most email, excepting for the really low quality "v1agra 4 u" spam, or Nigerian 419 scams or whatever. But well written, non scammy email, which is pitching a product or service that I actually might have a need for, doesn't actually bother me at all. And the emails from companies I'm already doing business with are usually very valuable. Amazon, for example, "knows" my musical taste well enough to email me and let me know when there is, for example, a new Motorhead album out. That's cool. Mondo cool.
What you're saying is that Lobster, Bello, and Museo offend your sensibilities and are used frequently. That doesn't mean they are of poor quality. Bad choices? Maybe. Bad typeface designs? No.
Was it ever "officially" announced that Meteor was part of YC? I've followed the original launch post but can't remember that mentioned. (I looked back and didn't find anything either)

I find it interesting to see this project as well as Diaspora (S12) and LightTable (S12) be part of Y Combinator, since they're all companies built around open-source projects (IIRC). (with two of them who "started out" on Kickstarter)
To the extent that one of the goals of the Constitution is to establish an unstable and flawed government with three branches that are deliberately designed to both depend on each other and to really get in each other's way, Common Law might be an apt choice.
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Your math is correct, but you could be off by a factor of 100, which explains why VCs are interested.

You assumed the best they can do is one meal per day per city. So in effect, they'd have 10 users (actively eating) per day per location. Why did you pick that number?

I have been involved in that space for 2 years. We definitely have moved more way more than that number of people (to lunch) for one location.

So maybe they'll reach 100 groups per day, at scale. Just like Meetup today has hundreds of meetups everyday in large cities. Now you're talking $100M in revenue, which means a valuation approaching $1B. VCs do invest in such odds.

EDIT: if it makes you feel any better, tens of VCs I pitched to did conclude that the market was too small.
First search was "Foster the People." Looks empty.
I thought your analysis was pretty thorough. I was originally going to ask if you were an analyst somewhere.

Sometimes when I see people wondering why a deal that appears to make no sense was completed, and I am an insider to the deal, there actually is material stuff that isn't public. But sometimes there isn't...
I got into trouble once at an interview, when I answered a question about joining two data sets by writing a SQL join. The interviewer didn't know how to think of the performance of SQL - he was assuming I'd write something iterative so we could talk Big-O. Which is to say - a lot of tools used in the real world don't easily submit to Big-O, and some academic types resist learning them for that reason.
What's funny about this is the changes are not only the typeface. The creator is also correcting proximity, alignment, etc. I'd argue those factors make a much bigger difference in the quality of a design than typeface choice.
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I use Gmail a lot so what works for me is the app Remember The Milk. On the desktop it loads a task list on the right side of the Gmail screen. I put daily tasks there but for meetings I still take the time to enter it in the google calendar
I would be lucid in a dream and want to wake up. I would force myself out of the dream. Then, I would experience sleep paralysis. Usually, the best option was to fall back asleep.
this seems like pretty standard REST
You mentioned Avatar, which chose Papyrus, narrowly missing Trajan the movie font -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t87QKdOJNv8
Making a 100 sec task taking 1 sec is a 9900% improvement, because in the same amount of time, you can do that task 99 more times.
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Not that it matters too much, but why did you call it Beluga? Beluga is a pretty famous Facebook acquisition, and is the first thing I think of when I see Beluga, besides the whale!
FYI for @gmail.com users:

"We've hit a rate limit sending to gmail.com addresses, our email provider is working on it though!"

[https://twitter.com/humble/status/208273636589715457]

Edit: I received mine, so it looks like it is working now.
Given that you see a jacket with a buxom woman in a skimpy dress being embraced by a leprechaun with Fabio-pecs, would you assume that this fact has no predictive value with regards to the question "Is this, in fact, a quality work of literature?" No, of course you'd assume it is pulp, which is why people whose business is selling quality works of literature don't package it as pulp.

Most of us are not in the business of selling anonymous writing written by people of no particular expertise which is designed to have a shelf-life of twenty minutes and yet we spend extraordinarily amounts of time producing things in a cover which says exactly that. We should, instead, devote more of our limited resources to creating work in the cover that says "important things you should act upon immediately from the people you trust more than anyone in the world about this topic."
Ah, but I can tell the cheap genre material by the cover. So it works, after all :)
Congrats Meteor. That's awesome!
a Turning machine is not a man-made thing! Turing-complete systems exist in natural reality, and a the Turing machine is just a way to explain them.
> Actually, it's not so cut and dried.

Nothing ever is, but the GP asked for a citation, and I provided one, and a short version for those in a rush.
If over 50% of the domains out there are in the .com namespace, why will creating more gTLDs change that? If the 14 gTLDs created in the past 28 years haven't gained traction, what makes you think .lol or .youtube will?!
1. pay a dollar try it out.

2. I feel this is completely okay, you are not stealing from them because you cover the charges for your purchase and if you use steam for download you are not wasting their bandwidth.

All of the games are excellent so I bet you will enjoy at least two of them.
I was shooting for the same thing. This guy does not seems to know anything about typography and his article is ridiculously small for such a big topic.

Comic Sans is grotesque and was badly designed from the start. One has to wonder why it was popular, i'm sure there is a ton of article about that (surely the author should have deepen a bit in the subject and check that),

But if I would have to guess, in the 2000 debut it was one of the widely available fonts that had a different (poor) look.

Lobster is NOTHING like comic sans, it's a good font unfortunately overused. That's it.
Are banks giving preferential treatment to female technologists?
Everything's subjective to a point, but when it doesn't scale and people are using them for tiny app logos and subheadings, sensibility has nothing to do with it. Not to mention these fonts are generally used in conjunction with some pretty terrible layer or CSS effects.
I'd have to watch it again to be 100% sure, but - going from memory - I believe every single book mentioned in that scene was real. Certainly the "pink shirt book" (IBM Guide to PCs) is real, as is the Dragon book (compiler theory) and the "Rainbow books".
As a very new listener (as of like 15 minutes ago), I was happy to chip in a bit. Already hooked to the ambient station.

Even though it seems they'd prefer never to have ads, I wouldn't mind them having a few advertisements at the top of every hour, or some similar arrangement. I wonder how much sparse ad placement would help.
How on earth could it ever be a good thing -- much less non-evil -- for a single company (say, one with the "Google Docs" trademark) to exclusively control a broad, generic TLD (say, ".docs")? Given the $185,000 application fee, this is just another way the big players can tilt the playing field against disruptive competitors aiming for their core products. (Think .apps, .search, .mail, .social, etc.)

Let's hope consumers ignore these new TLDs and this dies a horrible, expensive death for everyone involved.
Google Applies for .Google, .Docs, .YouTube and .LOL Top-Level Domains
From my hometown (Oslo) you found «Obama killed me» to be in favor of him. I'm not sure it is (or not), but still, kind of funny.

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/lGXZA.png
i like what i see, unfortunately for me, i have so much data/notes on Evernote, and organised so well, that i'm locked in the product. for me swapping services right now would be a real nightmare
Yeah, the "red box" stuff was legit, it's just that A. few payphones seem to even exist anymore, and B. the ones that do are mostly COCOTs, not Telco operated phones that are (or were) susceptible to red-boxing.
That's how 90% of the Mac games you buy work.
I'd say .pro didn't gain traction because of the lengthy and restrictive application process
I didn't know the Facebook acquired company. It made total sense for me as the original service is called GrooveShark...
To be fair, there will be an obscene number of novelty .lol domains registered - but it still wont make a dent in the .com namespace
More interesting: rush hour. Security?
Further, when you make a purchase, your download link also has an option to increase your donation (in case OP feels that he wants to contribute more than a dollar later one).

And as far as bandwidth goes, there is a Bittorrent download option that probably beats out the Steam servers anyway.
If a person is a self-taught programmer with ten years of experience working in a good company, then you are obviously programming for that company in a sufficient capacity even if you are unable to solve puzzles offered up by human resource managers that found them on Google by typing in "Questions for Programming Interviews." Programming is not about being able to solve brain teasers. Programming is about being able to deliver quality code. If the language handles most of these data structures for you or if you have used them before without actually considering it, then you obviously know their importance even if you cannot put it into words under stress. Do not degrade people that cannot repeat verbatim some useless information they read in a book or solve brain teasers in minutes (unless they had already seen those puzzles.) Being able to work hard, clean, in a team, and supply a functional product on time according to specifications are the most important traits.
I think "obamanation" and all its variants can be interpreted either way. It is used with a negative connotation in many cases, e.g. obamanation.com or the book "The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality."
I absolutely see where you're coming from, but let me ask you this:

I go out today and forge a $400 million dollar check from Paul Graham. I put it in at the bank and the teller, who's totally asleep at the wheel, cashes it for me. Now, the government wants to charge me with check fraud, since I signed the check and I'm obviously not Paul Graham. I want to use those $400 million dollars of Paul Graham's money to pay for my own legal defense. Would you say that, since the government hasn't proven that I've done something illegal until the end of the trial, that I should have the right to use all of the money I've stolen to pay for that defense? Or should that account be frozen for the duration of the trial so that, in the event that I am found guilty, the money could be returned to his account?
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For what it is worth, I think you may also be getting some overlap with collage sports. "Bama" in that context refers to the University of Alabama with "GoBama" and "NoBama" possibly being from fans and rivals respectively.

Not to say that either doesn't deserve pitchfork wielding mobs...
Pointer arithmetic can be safe
The Maximum Z-Index Value
Oh. You could have mentioned that. :P

Astronomy is the one field where it makes perfect sense to store the units, because basically nobody agrees on what the standard should be. My professor in college joked that if you had 5 astronomers in the room, you'd get 10 different sets of "standard" units.
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Hi Sattiso, this is great feedback. I've noted your feature request for consideration in our future product roadmap.
Think Mars instead of Moon. Musk has stated that he wants to take this all the way to Mars.
We really like using aquatic references at Grooveshark, and since the beginning this project's code name was Beluga. We really liked the name, and, since Facebook absorbed the Beluga you're referring to for their talented employees, we decided to keep the name.
Also, don't forget that the USA was in the middle of a space race (which was an extension of a broader arms race [1]) with the Soviet Union. I wouldn't be surprised if the US government considered recovering the space craft and crew to be an issue of national security. The stakes for SpaceX are much lower, so comparing their expenditures isn't fair.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Race
At Pwinty- we collect emails (conversion rate 5-10%), and then try and guide users through the process.

Firstly- its a great way to engage with users where you might not offer exactly what they want (do you print canvases, how about xyz). We get most of our feature ideas from our users wanting something that we don't yet offer.

I also try and schedule in a Skype call with all of our users to understand exactly what they want from us, and how we can help them (I think this also convinces them that there's a real person there they can do business with).

Once we've got their emails, we probably convert about 20% into 'making API calls'. However, I'm expecting that to increase over time (lots of people sign up, but are just working out how they're going to build their app, rather than actually doing it).

It's also worth following up non-active users after 1,3 and 6 months. You can often get useful info that you'd otherwise miss 'we decided not to use you because x,y,z; we canned the project but are keen to use you in the future etc)
In Germany it is "Informatics" a portmanteau of "information" and "automatic", since the field is about automatic information processing in general.
Ask HN: Help me track down a lunch thief 
Our company has been growing and we've added a lot of people in the last six months.

About a month ago, I received a report that an employees' lunch was missing from the community fridge. I've received a similar report from a second and third employee as of today. The hot pocket box was there, but alas, the hot pocket was not.

In discussions with the people affected, we agree to several things:

1. Our company has a very "one big family" vibe. Putting up "stop stealing our hot pockets" sign or mounting a camera over the fridge is not what we want to do culture wise.

2. We want to catch the one person who is stealing stuff, remove them from the company and get back to our usual way of living.

Within these parameters, we've got several ideas, none of which sound quite clever enough:

1. Buy some of that "it only shows under UV light" powder, then go around after something is stolen shining it on people. Obvious holes.

2. Put a camera inside the frige and hope we get a face and a known "honeypot" lunch taken.

3. Put some kind of RF device on the food, wait until something goes missing and walk around until it registers.

HN, I need something better. We need to turn this bad thing into an awesome crime solving event. Suggestions welcome!
They have effectively re-done all of the Mercury goals and most of the Gemini goals (the last being the whole man in space part).

How about developing an arm module with a separate reentry system that can hang out in the "trunk?"
I don't have any add-ons/plugins that change or block the referrer. I disabled the add-ons/plugins I did have and still got the error. Though I created a new profile under Firefox 13 and the site worked fine on the new profile. Must be something wrong with my regular profile then.