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A few years ago there were games such as Rollercoaster Tycoon and the like (see http://mises.org/article.aspx?control=772 )
I think it's fairly obvious that Blu-Ray will succeed by any reasonable measure of success and it's fairly clear it's going to be the next-generation disk format of choice.

The question is whether it will supplant DVD in terms of popularity, and that's a much murkier question.
The euro actually is a disaster for most european countries. It's nothing but a fixed-parity system and as such it's likely to break down soon.
- Internet advertising that doesn't suck. Adwords doesn't count. This would make it easier to monetize websites.

- Micropayments.

- Cheap, accurate simulation of protein folding and other biological systems. This would be a step towards greater control of our bodies and easier, more powerful development of medical treatments.

- Affordable whole genome (and other ome) sequencing, with the result that there's lots of data freely available about people's omes cross-referenced to various facts about them (such as height, blood pressure, diseases, etc). Anybody with a computer could then be a scientist, trying to figure out what it all means.
I suspect the real discriminator in that is the inability to serve adds to an SMB share.
http://stackoverflow.com/ is a good place for this kind of questions.
I have seen more spam in my gmail spam box this month. These are anecdotes, not data.
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If anyone has watched the video the page links to, would you care to summarise it please?
I think Nokia would be a much better fit for Palm.

Nokia are desperately lacking a next-generation smartphone platform, they have plenty of hardware experience, they have relatively little penetration in the US where the Palm brand could potentially help them gain marketshare, and the ability to use the strong Nokia brand in other markets would help sales of any Palm phones.
If you really want to attempt this, the correct approach would be to approach the problem from the perspective that gravity is the force you have to defeat. Find a way to reduce this force significantly and you may find a cheap solution.

For example, magnets defeat this force. Look for things that can work against gravity even in the absence of air.
I unexpectedly got 20,000+ u/hits from StumbleUpon to a dynamic PHP page last year on a shared hosting account and there wasn't even a blip - how much traffic are you expecting exactly?

I just wonder if you're unnecessarily wasting effort..
Edit: slices should be of distinct values.

In that case, [1, 2, 3, ... m - 1, n - m*(m-1)/2] is a trivial solution.
I live on the fifth floor, so I have enough time to dress when the door bell rings ;-)
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Sure (even with the distinctness requirement that wasn't originally there). n1=1, n2=2, ..., and nm = whatever's left. This will only work if n is at least 1+2+...+m = m(m+1)/2, but if that isn't true then there's no solution.
It was a joke, although there was another HN posting recently about a big "personal homepage" site going down without warning or backups. Apparently a lot of people really lost their content for good, and for some reason Google cache and internet archive couldn't help.

Also, hard drive recovery services already exist and cost serious money. I don't think it would necessarily be evil to charge quite a bit for backing up internet content. After all, the costs for doing the backing up are probably significant.
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I'm not buying this home media server stuff. They're not developed enough to compete with regular movie discs in this generation.
Yeah unfortunately the altitude isn't really the problem. It's high speeds that you want. The altitude just gets you away from the atmosphere which will stop you achieving the high speeds.
That's a special case
I see that sort of site just turning into a mutual-masturbation forum with people continuously trying to justify their intelligence and not discussing anything worthwhile.
Jet airplanes also give you something like 600 mph of initial velocity. In the case of Pegasus and Space Ship One, they are like the first stage rocket.

The Rocket Equation is pretty nasty. When your required delta-v goes up, your reaction mass requirement goes up faster than a polynomial function. Saving the initial 600 mph is very significant. Balloons -- only sounding rockets use those, but they don't do anything but gain altitude anyhow. If you need escape velocity or orbit, then they are pretty much useless. (You might as well build a slightly bigger rocket.)

Please actually do the physics before you post vacuous statements like:

The physics is there and probably workable.

People are having "intelligent discussions" about balloon assisted launch? Eternal September has gotten to HN!
well right now the ball is in your court. There really aren't that many jobs out there, so you can get a decent programmer who'll take the pay cut just to have a job.

But you do have some other options.

You can give out different titles, lets say someone is just starting out, and you start calling them senior developer on paper, no impact now, but for their next job they'll be able to ask for a lot more money .

The stock options etc have been mentioned, so I won't cover it.

Office space, stay away from the cubicles, and have a relaxed policy.

Workhours, instead of working 9 to 5, offer them to work 10 to 5. + have general flexibility, better to have a good programmer for 4 days, than have someone crappy for 5.

Basically use small stuff like this to make yourself appealing to a certain niche of programmers. So that they'll be much more willing to take a pay cut and work for you.
Would it be emulate the canvas tag seemlessly for browsers that don't support it such as IE?
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I would like to see myself solve P ? NP.
So much more complicated is an understatement. Complications with IP, firing and sickness spring to mind.

If you know the person well you still need to be careful with the contract but you should be less likely to fire them and get into an argument about equity.
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Not a competitor until they actually release it... but, it probably would make a big dent in dropboxe's sales. Either that or it would make cloud storage more popular and it would make dropbox more popular as a result.
"There really aren't that many jobs out there, so you can get a decent programmer who'll take the pay cut just to have a job."

Taking a pay cut is one thing, working for free (just equity) is something else entirely. Not sure if the current situation gives you any kind of an advantage to recruit people for equity only compensation. (If I understand the top post correctly).
It's not "too long" so much as it is "too long for the value or fun in reading it."

When I got to the paragraph that starts with "There was a time when we gave the Cloud (before it was a Cloud) a big pass" I thought it might start to get interesting. Instead I found this convoluted moon-laser analogy. That's when I finally realized the article was going nowhere and considered the whole thing a waste of time.

I'm not sure who your intended audience is but it clearly is not me.
Yes! That way users relying on non-Unicode software or without huge font packages installed correctly see garbage.
Horrible horrible idea. If you can't install an IDE(Why are you using an IDE anyway), and compiler, you're probably not going to make a good developer.
What if the computer is too old to run Firefox 3? Serious question.

My fiancee was fixing up an old computer to give to our nephew, and when she tried to install Firefox, it refused, essentially saying, "Your computer is too old." * She grabbed a 2.x install file from OldApps.com, but many of the people still running IE6 won't be tech savvy enough to do that, and are likely to be running really old computers. (And even when FF can be installed, it tends to suck up memory. What do you do with a computer that maxes out at 128MB ram?)

* I think it was a memory issue, but mainly I remember that it was unexpectedly off-putting.
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See also
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=442419
> "Its absolutely drives you nuts because everything, from business information, to server configuration, and even even the interface - menu items, buttons, page layout, links, is stored in the database."

There's a good reason for this. At any big company, it's much easier to change a value in a database table than it is to make a code change.
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protip: Use Generating functions. Piece of cake if you use them for this problem.
Edit: slices should be of distinct values.

You can't do it with positive integers if n<m(m+1)/2, or with non-negative integers if n<m(m-1)/2. If there is no restriction then there are, again, trivial solutions.

Why are you doing this? As someone else has said, this does smell of homework. If it is homework, then tell us what you've tried. If it isn't, then tell us what it's for.

You continue to underspecify your problem. What are you trying to achieve?
I recall somewhere seeing very similar types of very general questions on an exam to enter the chinese civil service.
No, there is no problem here.

Consumers don't backup because it's messy. The could takes away the messiness: backups (and all the other sysadmin stuff) happen automatically. It is an improvement over the current situation.

There is a similar case with businesses: businesses do backup because they have to, but it is still messy. Businesses like to outsource messy stuff that is not core to what they do to others, and these others are in the cloud again because it is cost effective. So you may use Google Apps and back up your mail on Amazon S3 if you are that paranoid about losing your data.
Yeah, if this law professor were at all confident in his pronouncements he would publish his views somewhere where other law professors could see and critique them--not on some layman's Facebook page.
ok, am I the only fool who got a bit teary eyed when going through whitehouse.gov? Whether you agree with his politics or not, you have to admit that he is going to change the way we interact with our government.

"President Obama started his career as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago, where he saw firsthand what people can do when they come together for a common cause"
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Sure, they're represented as objects in the JVM, and you can access this via refection; but they're not treated as objects in Java's syntax. I'd argue that OOP is a property of a language's syntax, rather than how it is internally represented.
When my physics teacher lent me Euclid rules, OK?(1) I was struck by how effectively and engagingly comics could explain concepts and help build mental models. Scott McCloud analyses the medium superbly in Understanding Comics (Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Comics-Invisible-Scott-M...; TED: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/scott_mccloud_on_comics.h...).

Which are your favourite non-fiction comics?

(1) Euclid rules, OK? is now titled Here's Looking at Euclid and can be downloaded from the linked page.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=354593
They seem to have done little to solve their groups.google.com newsgroup spam problem. And that was once the most useful part of the Internet.
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To think about it, knowing the person well might even be worse if you end up in a sticky situation. Not only have you just lost a friend, but your reputation as well. Moreover, chances are high that he/she will be in the same social circles as you - which ends up getting even more messy
Rather than necessarily setting all wages the same, providing a minimum stipend* may retain many of the same positive effects without eliminating economic rewards for more work, innovation, etc. The first 10k or so can do a lot to help people get people out of the zone where they have to make bad long-term choices just to make ends meet week to week.

Of course, the wealth still needs to come from somewhere, but for sake of argument.

* Say $10-20,000, though setting this to something realistic will actually depend on a lot of variables, both personal and regional. Defining "equal wages" is tricky. (Also, the possibility of sudden, huge medical costs, for example, can sabotage the entire system, but that's true now.)
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I doubt the possibility of emulating canvas tag in ie using this technique, because its very limited compared to canvas (for example, its not possible to draw lines).

This technique can bring cross-browser support of drawing polygons.
If you've been flamed for this recently, then you have probably been informed of the idea's utter bankruptcy. Why post it again?
1) Achieve revenues.

2) Hire freelancers for well-defined specific tasks targeted at increasing revenues, aiming at the low-hanging fruit first.

3) Repeat until you have your own private island.

This works for other skilled workers besides programmers, too. I don't make nearly enough from BCC to hire my writer full time (she has a masters degree and has commitments that make full time impossible at any price) but I get an awful lot of bang out of $100 per month.
The review is pretty vague, but presumably the book is about the display: table CSS property, which IE8 will support as the first IE browser.

The review says "the techniques that will be available to us very, very soon." Actually the techniques have been available for years in the other browsers, but obviously couldn't be used widely since IE didnt support it. The release of IE8 will not change that because IE7 (and even IE 6) will be around for many years to come.

But of course it is a step in the right direction.
As a developer, something I worked out with a startup trying to save some cash was that I would work for about half my normal hourly rate up-front.

Then I would take a share in the startup's revenue (not equity - say 20% of gross income) until the other half of my hourly rate was made up for - this could take a year or two years etc, or if the startup is very successful it could only take 3 months; but it is capped to the total 50% of the hourly rate * number of hours worked.

I also would take an extra share of revenue, say for the first year, as a potential bonus for taking on the risk of possibly not earning my full developer rate if the startup fails. This extra could be 5% or 10% of the first year or two years' revenue but is not capped and so if the startup is very successful the developer could do quite well, but the founders have not sacrificed any long-term equity in their business.

I thought that was a nice way to give the developer a share of the business' success without actually giving up equity, and also without asking the developer to take a total risk that they could have wasted their time and never receive anything for it.
Ask HN: my islandreefjob.com application..social hack?
islandreefjob.com is offering $AUD120,000 + 6 months rent free on an island near the great barrier reef. Being at a loose end I have setup www.islandreefwin.co.uk and suggest the money be used to fly in people to stay who would never otherwise have the chance. I would still like to go, but my idea doesn't depend on me(they could always get someone with better hair for example).

And yes, the website sucks.Simple and ugly, like me. Views, suggestions?

I am still waiting for the idea to go 'viral', sigh.
I can't know this for sure, but I would hope those sorts of comments/attitudes would be voted down.

A modification on the idea would be to only allow a site with people who have a net worth greater than a certain amount or who are in certain positions of responsibility or power (like CEOs of companies with a market cap greater than 10 million). You could extend this for any classification system: people with doctorate degrees, people with X many years of experience in Y field, etc.

Basically I would be interested to see what sort of news and discussions would evolve from a meritocracy-based community. Think of the benefit that comes from the TED speaker's community.
Just to launch into blue sky:

* I'd like something more cinematic like Animoto. Not constrained to the 10-12 slides, 4-5 bullet points each.

* I'd also like a tool that could help with just talking (no slides).

Just throwing it out there.
I'm not a database specialist, so I hope you will allow me to ask a daft question. Why, in the user table is the password held as a TinyBLOB. To allow for Unicode, or somesuch?
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I have the urge to fork this, modify the score coding to give a smoother gradient between total failure and pure success, and then solve the game with a genetic algorithm.

Except I'm at work, so I can't do it. So I'll just post my idea on Hacker News and settle for the idea that someone, somewhere, might.
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Doesn't something like AppJet solve this ?

http://appjet.com/
I'm no web designer expert but won't screen patterns be used as default design for web site when they shouldn't. I mean, will they be as overused as programming design patterns? Don't forget that the singleton ruined a part of my life.
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SQLEditor might be worth a look:

http://www.malcolmhardie.com/sqleditor/

Costs $70-something I think, but has a free trial and generates the SQL to set up the tables from your diagrams.
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Making long-distance plane travel shorter at a reasonable rate

Long version:

I live in London and home is in Malaysia, which is 13 hour flight. I would really really love an airline that can make that journey down to (about half) 6-8 hours at a reasonable rate. At the moment, flights might be somewhere between £700-£800 return - I wouldn't really mind forking out £300 more just to fly there in less time.
Those aren't compress... wait.. yessss that's exactly what they are. Compression artifacts. Move along. You didn't see nuthin'.
If you google "tivo for car radio" you'll see that you're not the only one, and that there doesn't appear to be such a product yet. I see money asking to be made.
All good humor contains and element of truth, so I thought I'd mention the same was possible elsewhere. Maybe I should have made the joke first. shrug
I think this is great. Excellent work. I think we need more work identifying useful patterns to: 1. make it easier for users & 2. save development time and effort on standard views.
if interested in integer partitions this python should do the job

def intpart(n):

if n == 0:

yield []

for k in range(1,n+1):

for p in intpart(n-k):

yield [k] + p

i believe that this isn't truly integer partitions because it will count 4 = 1,1,2,1 and 1,1,1,2 as different partitions but that's all I can give you between breakfast and work.

see wikipedia for integer partiton or young tableau for more on these interesting objects
The title makes it sound like it's an informative article but as olavk mentions, it's a review and a rather vague review at that.
Downmods with no comments to a serious proposition -> Mac zealots, morons or some combination of these.
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This is creative, but the problem with clever 'backpay' solutions and startups is that often they are starved for cash, so the extra 5% or 10% is valuable money that they could be using to grow the business.

From an owner's perspective, I would never spend future revenue today. What if your not making enough money to pay the bills, yet have to give a percentage of revenue to a developer? They aren't going to stick around if things get tough.

It would be slightly safer to agree to a percentage of profit, but much better to just give a percentage of the company. The same could be said for replacing the lower salary. When you go to work for a startup there is a reason you get paid less: cash in the early stages is extraordinarily precious. This can not be said loud enough. I would not work for a company that didn't understand this.

It's a battle to start a company, and you really need everyone "in the same boat". If it sinks, everyone loses out.
well I didn't mean equity only, I was more thinking of perks on top of salary to get the candidates. If someone is working for equity only they are a co-founder in my book.
On the whole I agree, people who desire to be good at something usually know when they're not good. While they're working on their skill and sharpening their mental tools, they are likely to get frustrated and quit. Ira is saying, don't quit, understand that this 'dark stage' is the process, and work through it.
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Well Obama did not waste any time to start giving in to our enemies. When the ACLU is quoted as praising the presidents polices on the treatment of war criminals we are screwed! The ACLU is always trying to free murderers, pedophiles and terrorists but never protecting America. Bastards….
I don't expect to make money off this site, but I do hope to make some headway as my first true website...

Let me know what you all think. Its a Drinking site which will one day bring all the drinking activities together hopefully.
I didn't say it was good humour ;)
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Having 1 div per scanline for a circle is going to get pretty memory hungry and slow.
I think UI patterns are a good thing because there is only a small number of good solutions to any given UI-problem but an infinite number of ways to screw it up. Identifying and explaining a few proven solutions for the most common tasks can help newcomers to make good choices instead of reinventing the wheel (potentially badly) every time.
Ask HN: Wrong choices during development, who pays?
What is your opinion?

During software development you have to make choices. How to develop or which api to use. Suppose during development you discover you made the wrong choice. Two weeks of work down the drain or a useless license you bought. Who has to pay for these mistakes, the client who agreed on the proposed method or the development company? I think the latter, what do you think? And even better, how to prevent such situations?
Circle is made of trapezoids, it takes 18 divs to draw the circle from the page.
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Definitely an interesting idea. Here's a few things:

- Iterate on the design: I'd start on the color scheme, since it's easy to get right. Resources: http://www.wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html http://beta.dailycolorscheme.com/

- Random design tip: Please don't use a grey gradient on everything. It looks like everything has a layer of virtual dust on it. Try black or white, and then tweaking the transparency/opacity of the gradient down to 25-75%.

- Maybe I'm alone, but I never really thought tag clouds were a great data visualization. Regardless, I think another way to explore the games is worth pursuing. Example: http://www.extratasty.com/recipes
Also, the way Cable/DSL are structured now with lower upload speeds, this could be painfully slow the first time it's run for people. Also, what happens when you want to sync a ripped DVD or large graphics file?
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You silly people. Emacs has fixes for most of these problems built in since v22.