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Even if their statistical shenanigans would be scientifically "accurate" (which I still doubt), by no means would I, morally and ethically, consider them "right".

I'm the stereotypical reclusive, clinically shy geek, but I've gotten past puberty, and stopped considering penetration to be the "end game". Note that those douchebags seem to be exclusively care about that, there's no "relationship artist" trade that I'm aware of.
That just because if you had gas in the middle it would be uncomfortable for long drives.

It's the same reason the clutch is on the side as well, not in them middle.

I suppose you could swap the cluch and gas (leaving brake in the middle) - but clutch comes first, then gas, so the convention of first on the left is realized.
I'm planning to, it coincides perfectly when i finish my exams! And the social algos one to.
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They paid the mechanical royalties on the score for the music. It's absolutely allowed on that basis.

The whole kerfuffle was with the cover art, which was not licensed, and Jay Meisel has said the he would not license. It's unclear if he would have prevailed in court, but that was potentially far more expensive for both parties than the settlement that wound up happening.
Actually Cancel/OK is backwards. :)

I had to swap their positions in firefox - one of the first things I changed when I ran it for the first time.

> "OK" can be construed to mean "OK, well then obviously don't do that!"

And yes can be construed to mean "yes don't do that" - come on, that's a completely ridiculous argument!
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RadioLab had a show recently on this subject, it's really well put. a must listen episode.
Most staving artists are already "selling out" -- the reality is that if your audience is small that selling t-shirts on cafepress may give you some coffee money if you are lucky but not enough to earn a living. In fact most artists already support themselves with other jobs to make their art, so there isn't much time after that left to promote it. And then lastly art is art -- even if it's great, it just might not be the right thing at the right time and the right place.
Gnome currently apes Apple. Positive actions are on the right.
Social Entrepreneurship is: Solitary
Can we get a mod to clarify the title rules please? This is getting annoying.
5 domains, I paid U$ 50 for a year, I'll probably release 3 of them, as they were for side projects that never got started.
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That assumes the noise is uncorrelated. It's not hard to imagine scenarios where it's correlated.
And as well as 'hunt the app' you can also play 'hunt the content' on ZDNet's Web site where the body copy starts a whole 960 pixels down the page below a 980x420 Flash ad! :-)
I have the feeling that most HN readers have their colour perceptions affected far more by the limited spectrum of an RGB LCD than anything else.

For instance - I challenge anyone reading this to tell me what colours are not represented well on their screen. The spectrum is wide and 3 channels is really 'tolerable' rather than 'good' coverage. In reality there is a vast range of violets, reds and green-yellow-orange in the world that are represented as muddy-blurs of other colours rather than themselves on screen...

Nobody seems to make the same fuss over quality of colour and the visual spectrum on computers as say, audiophiles do about miniscule differences in what they hear. I'm not quite sure why this is.
To save some frustration, I'd recommend starting with the DataStax Cassandra documentation: http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.1/index

For "timeline" type data like this, I'd recommend reading these two explanations:

http://rubyscale.com/blog/2011/03/06/basic-time-series-with-...

http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/advanced-time-series-with-c...

P.S. comments on your blog are 404ing
"OK" can mean: "ok yes you've changed my mind, I agree, bad idea".

"Cancel" never means: "cancel and proceed".
I know I read somewhere (but I can't remember where now), that it's far superior to put the actual actions you're doing in the buttons, rather than a completely non-descriptive OK/Cancel.

Not "Do you really want to quit? OK / Cancel" but "Do you really want to quit? Quit / Cancel".
Here's that episode for anyone interested: http://www.radiolab.org/2012/may/21/
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I'm 14 years old. I have been doing all of the classes on Udacity since the beginning. All of them. I even did the first class on Artificial Intelligence before they created Udacity. So...as I heard about this new challenge, I got extremely excited. A free visit to Stanford?! That sounds amazing! But I don't have many connections to collect points for my team.

So I'm turning to you. Yes – you. The one who's reading this right now. Every person helps. I truly mean that. Hopefully you can help my dream turn into a reality.

In order to join, go to this url: http://www.udacity.com/hschallenge/team/join/agpzfnVkYWNpdHl1cgwLEgRVc2VyGOuyCgw

Let's win this thing!
Thanks for reaching out to me Daniel. What do you mean by 'ready-to-run' app? Is it fair to have my expectations that I laid out - i.e. with say an admin & user already created, and maybe one or two authorization rules set up?

Or is that fanciful thinking?

I guess the issue is just a disconnect between what I perceive as this particular template being able to do (based on my impressions from the docs) - and what it actually does.
After spending a few weeks using the Windows 8 Release Preview (on a mouse and keyboard PC), I came to the same conclusions as this article. Metro is fine for touch devices, and Windows 7 is fine, if not great for desktop PCs, but the combination of the two simply doesn't work for me. I would be much more excited about Windows 8 if I had the option to turn Metro off completely and just go back to the Windows 7 UX when I'm running on a desktop or laptop. I'm also not a fan of the "ribbonizing" of applications that, in my opinion, never needed it, and don't benefit from the change (e.g. Windows Explorer). Microsoft can point out all the research and design goodness they want about the ribbon and Metro, but ultimately, the Windows 8 experience feels very clumsy and disjointed to me, almost bad enough for me to want to skip this version.

The final straw was the "Metro overhaul" that they did for Visual Studio 2012. I'm baffled by the decisions to remove all color from the application and turn it into a big, gray, amorphous blob.
I was referring to the cover art, not the music. In my mind it was a parody of the original and should have been fine. The new cover art fit the transformative definition.
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This is true, but irrelevant. The human visual system adapts to reconstruct what it believes a surface color is, based on the colors of the overall image. Classic example:

http://content.screencast.com/users/shawnpresser/folders/Jin...

A and B are exactly the same RGB color, even though they appear completely different.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9Sen1HTu5o

So in truth, yes, the LCD spectrum is limited, but you can still achieve an overall "look and feel" regardless of the smaller gamut. Our perception of any specific color is dominated by other colors around it in the scene.
I haven't checked recently but nVidia also used to provide decent support for FreeBSD and Solaris.
What do you count as a success? The only solid markers of success are sex, blowjobs and a girl meeting you on a different day, i.e. for a date. In that order. Everything else is 'harmless flirting,' basically meaningless as an indicator of 'success.'
It is worth pointing out that this guy is biased. His business, iFixit, is based on third party repairs. If this trend towards un-repairability continues it will threaten his business.

For the rest of us, who cares if third parties can't repair our MacBooks, just take them to Apple. I'd rather have thinner and more integrated hardware.
Linus is so ridiculously out of DHH's league that just the existence of this comparison is asinine.
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My next linux laptop will probably be a Dell XPS from the Sputnik project: http://bartongeorge.net/2012/05/07/introducing-project-sputn...

I think it's interesting because of the notion of having some sort of Chef or other configuration management on Github, and then being able to fork that for particular development purposes or preferences and switch between them. I gather from some of the other interviews that the sputnik project is aiming for something like that.

As far as hardware goes, I like Lenovo ThninkPads best, and the Dell E65xx series that kind of copy them are also pretty good. I expect to screw around googling driver settings and etc on any new hardware I buy, so I'm not to worried about "just working". Someone else's definition of everything "just working" probably isn't good enough for me anyway.

Running clones of specific production environments in a VM is a good idea, using it as your main everyday interface is not, IMHO.
This is fascinating. By teaching our kids to use our culture's color words, we are training them in a specific classification skill, so that when they see a color, the name of its class comes to mind.
Drop in the bucket ...
I've always harbored the hope that nVidia is working behind the scenes on a release that supports KMS/Wayland, and that the release of Optimus support will be released simultaneously. It makes sense when you consider that Optimus support is probably a pretty big change and putting that investment in the legacy X11 non-KMS driver would be a waste when KMS will be a requirement for all new distros in 2 years' time.

It's worth noting that just last night they released a stable driver that (finally) supports RandR 1.2. From what I understand this was also a significant change and it may bode well for future standardization improvements like KMS (moves multi-monitor management away from the proprietary TwinView driver components into standard xrandr, for instance, so that is complexity the KMS version will not have to handle).

Fingers crossed that they release this imaginary driver soon. :)
I work for a medium-large technology company supplying mission critical software (very large amounts of money are involved). We use Tcl for the vast majority of our software. We may head towards Java in the future, but not so much due to any failings of Tcl, more because it is easier to recruit Java programmers.

I think the general consensus at our company is that Tcl was the right choice, although our programmers do occasionally gripe at some Tcl shortcomings.
Thats a slightly separate point. Your mind sees colour in many different ways. One of these (at a higher-level) is as shapes and relative-tones as you describe. Other parts of the brain and the body work at a much lower-level however, which is why (for instance) people innately enjoy natural-sunshine and get depressed when sitting inside under lightbulbs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_affective_disorder is one, well researched side of this).
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www.sixflags.com

Can't put the URL in the URL field for some reason (probably because it redirects).
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Another title change example: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4121698

I submitted a link with the title: 'Linus to Nvidia: "Fuck You"', which was changed to: 'Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds'

My original title was much more accurate (especially since I linked to a specific part of the video).
Seriously, one of the best and most actionable articles you'll read this week. (n.b. This sort of thing prints money for companies at pretty much all sizes. Well, after you've got enough customers to worry about cancellations.)

I'll probably write something about this eventually. There are a lot of generalizable tactics which repeatably work well. (Email engagement is probably the highest bang for the buck, considering that you can implement it in about an afternoon and, coming from the starting point "We send no email", it will virtually immediately produce visible results.)
Are you propagandizing against government (not that there's anything wrong with that) or asking a factual question?
Which items from your analysis made a the most difference?
This is really unfortunate and takes away from HN. I'm fully in favor of defaulting to maintaining the original title but often it's so vague to be completely meaningless. Most people don't have time to click on every link so we simply pass on content that we would have read with a descriptive title. Generally I just pass the first time and check it out if it's still on the front page later; thinking it might be worthwhile if it's popular enough to still be there.

Of course, in this case, it is a descriptive title for the talk but completely takes away the specific thing the submission is about. This is slightly less bad but still bad.
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Some. What are you wondering?
Anyone else frequent http://freaky.staticusers.net/ back in the day? I always found their forums full of goodies [esp if you were interested in hacking from or into osx / os9] - pity it seems to have been taken down! [google still has some of it though].
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Who's the comedian? I have about 300 tabs open, tell me if kippt will help. Personally, I'm curious if there are comedians similar to, or indeed a whole lot more unexpected than, Mitch Hedberg.
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> Why is everyone now on the side of the original content creator

They are? I'm not. It's pretty clear fair use to me - you can't fold the painting, it's not intended for that.
Kind of like how when you're going to choose a variable name, you don't do a linguistic study first?
Congratulations on the impressive result. It seems you have a good product but the real change appears to be encouraging those who wouldn't use your system properly to improve their habits.

I wish you could work out more concretely why the situation improved but with three substantial improvements (that likely impact different customers in different ways) that's difficult.
I could imagine "drop[ping] prices by 15-60%" would help those not using your product fully for example as even if they don't use all the features they don't feel like they're overpaying.
Does DataSift have a service that returns up to date follower data? I thought they dealt only in Tweet streams.
"Do you really want to cancel?" Cancel/OK
Demetri Martin. Supposedly he's similar to Mitch Hedberg and Steven Wright.

I'd actually recommend Steven Wright if you like Mitch Hedberg. He's more deadpan but rather similar.
All allocated in 6? minutes and requires following on twitter. This allocation mechanism seems about as classy as "punch the monkey" banner ads.

I've been waiting for a reasonably priced Canadian VPS. just let me pay for it and sign up ffs....
Haven't finished reading it myself, but here: http://basalgangster.macgui.com/RetroMacComputing/The_Long_V...
I'm a huge linode fan and I feel guilty for my reaction to this giveaway ... which just happens to be ... "meh". I guess they've gotten to a point where giving out free RAM increases is not a sustainable endeavor :\
That's my #1 Twitter tool... thanks for making it!
You could serve up HSTS records via http, which IE on XP doesn't support either. That'll ensure that all of your repeat visitors use https directly.

Also, many sites still serve up their unauthenticated homepages via http only, and such sites should have no problem checking for IE on XP and providing a link that'll work.

Depending on the nature of your traffic and how it arrives (e.g. via integration with third-party sites via scripts you've written), you might also have the opportunity to provide the appropriate fallback links to users before they ever reach your site for the first time.

And all of the above assumes you have enough IE-on-XP users to not just write them off entirely.
Thanks for the kind words, Patrick.

Your writing and approach (viz. "engineer who thinks like a marketer") has changed how I look at what I do from "write code" to "scalably reach profitable customers so they'll pay me for a technological solution to a painful problem."

And agree re: email engagement!
Our hypothesis is that the biggest reason for the change was price. If it's a good use of my time, I'll run another analysis in a couple months to see if I can isolate the reasons for change.
The link in my previous post has more background. Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, John Dryden, Jane Austen and so on were hardly writing in "American English." In fact the non-ly adverb is a relic of Anglo-Saxon declension and is present in all modern Englishes, much like the few remaining English accusatives ("him," "her," "them", etc.).

Contrary to the comment above, "awful curious" isn't incorrect usage. It's only ambiguous if you start from the assumption of an error (missing punctuation, missing conjunction, or missing -ly).

English is rich with similar constructions that are widely mistaken for errors due to prescriptions in basic style guides, which is about as far as most folks' knowledge of the language extends. Another common one is the comma splice, which isn't an error as long as you know to call it asyndeton or parataxis.
This is interesting because in Arabic colours are presented very differently than in English. I'm not sure about other languages but in Arabic colours are a bit more "looser" for lack of a better term. There are more shades of red for instance because Arabs were used to different shades of red in their horses and deserts. The colours are less defined for instance "the colour between red and brown" (as many horses are) or "the colour of ash" are used instead of "the colour red / grey". Colours also have properties and traits which define them (some colours are strong or thick and others are weak).

Perhaps any HN Arabic grammarians might be able to discuss this further.
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When I put "saygent" in the second field:

> $100k fine for linking to saygent.com

> $200k royalty fee for using the term 'Saygent' in anchor text

Yet it shows $350,000 total fine.
Someone should break into the gallery in pink-panther style, fold up one of the paintings along the crease lines, then sign it and number it with their own telephone number and leave it on display in the middle of the floor. That would definitely count as transformative art.
Furthermore, the woman who posed the question indicated that she knew the Optimus drivers were going to be troublesome for linux. Why would you try to combine two technologies that you know are troublesome to get working together and then complain about it?
What distro are you using? Did you use aticonfig --dual-head to setup your xorg.conf file ?
I think the article's explanations for button-ordering are good but I wish their examples didn't violate other dialog design principles in the process.

One mistake their examples make is to include an "X" (close) button in dialogs that contain button choices. The "X" action is ambiguous in dialogs and is especially bad if all actions are equally probable (e.g. "Don't Save", "Cancel" and "Save" all seem likely to map to "X"). GUI toolkits don't seem to force any consistent interpretation of "X", and in fact the programmer might forget to wire up the "X" to any action at all. It's preferable for the "X" button to not be there so that the user can focus on the action buttons.

Another (admittedly minor) issue is the spelling "Ok". It's not pronounced "awk" or "oke"; it's both spelled and pronounced "OK". It does have a whole-word form and that word is "Okay". So it can either be "OK" or "Okay" but it should not be "Ok". In dialogs it is very conventional to use the short form of "OK".
Do any children's advocacy groups support the bill?

Looking past the title, what exactly does the text of the bill say? Explain it to me. (Hint: you can be guilty of this even if no minors are involved.) Wouldn't our children be better served by a more clearly written bill?

Doesn't RCW 9.68A.101 already make this crime a class A felony? What situations, exactly, are covered by this bill but not existing law?
He said they are now upstreaming tegra (super? / supra?)

I guess he's talking about pushing out some new driver support.
You definitely have a free will -- you are free to define asking price.

:-)
The current moderation system isn't scaling. This post is a good example to illustrate the problem.

At first glance it appears to be a flamebait title, and hence a mod who sees it may feel it's a no-brainer - correct it and move on.

However, there's a nuance to it - that is exactly how Linus Torvalds expresses himself, and the original title ("Linus to Nvidia: Fuck You!", or something close to that) captured his sentiment accurately, so maybe it's not flamebait after all.

Or maybe it is flamebait even despite that, since Linus's SOP is to sometimes start flamewars to make a point, break through the red tape, or otherwise just make a command decision and move on.

Clearly plenty of room for moderation error, a nd that's just one submission. What's a mod to do?

So on the one hand, there has been a spate of godawfully-titled submissions in recent months:

1. "X things you should ... whatever" type titles (clearly banned in the HN posting guidelines)

2. Too short and uninformative (like a word or three).

3. Sensationalism, flamebait, miscategorized comparison results, etc.

4. more I'm sure...

But on the other hand, the mod system has problems as well:

1. Nobody even knows what the mod system is

2. Nobody knows who the mods are.

3. There's no way to give feedback on moderations, for the ones that were incorrectly modded.

4. Too many false positives (posts that shouldn't be modded but are, resulting comments like saurik's above, and entire threads complaining this problem).

5. Too many false negatives that slip through anyway.

And of course, not part of the mod system, but too many submitters just don't know how to descriptively, accurately, concretely title submissions anyway, increasing the volume a seemingly too-small group of mods has to deal with.

HN isn't the first social media site to have problems like this, but most others have a full-time dev team working on solving them, and they evolve certain solutions like Slashdot's meta-moderation or Reddit's user-run/modded subreddits.

So I don't think the mod system in its current form can scale with those problems, but on a more meta level I'm not sure that PG can scale as the developer of the mod system, given that YC takes 110% of his time.

Just trying to identify the problem before attempting to solve it, any thoughts?
If you're going to downvote this, I'd appreciate as to why.
This makes me that we really are but neural networks running on massive CPUs called brain. We need training data to accomplish much of anything. And the training data is the result of the analysis from previous generations, especially our parents.
That's probably more Vitamin D differences than colour.
Thanks, glad to know I've helped someone.
Can you give a specific example? I have a not insignificant amount of experience with thousands of servers under my belt and I have yet to ever need to type "ed" into a server. I did find edlin useful in DOS 4, but that was ancient times.