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At the risk of mentioning "that" company, Bing is not a horrible home page. While I still have iGoogle as my home page on most machines, I have two of them with Win 8 where I've found IE to work better, and the Bing home page is not bad. Combine that with the native gadgets in the Windows desktop, and you're almost there.

Even so, I will miss iGoogle. I presume someone out there has an "iGiggle" domain for a new portal startup waiting in the wings?
I've just posted a couple of projects and love the way it looks. As for the live-demo part, I haven't uploaded the apps yet, wondering if you'll be streaming audio, as my apps are sound-centric (Sonic Wire Sculptor, Numby)

Great job!
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really impressive campaign this company is putting on about toys.
Whoa! http://www.bitmit.net/en/trade/i/2592-o-j-simpson-if-i-did-i...

Someone is selling a copy of the OJ Simpson book.
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From Wikipedia: "According to a Newsweek story, all 400,000 printed copies were recalled for 'pulping', except for one, locked away in a vault at News Corp.[6] One copy did show up on eBay on January 15, 2007, with a starting bid of $1500, and sold for over $65,000 fueling speculation about whether News Corp. was able to destroy all printed copies.[citation needed] James Wolcott of Vanity Fair obtained a "pristine hardcover" copy of the book for a review published in January 2007.[7]"

This is quite an interesting auction here, considering the circumstances.

Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_I_Did_It
I wrote a detailed set of articles for GameDev back at the time (2004) that goes the whole way - full regex matcher (for simple regexes) including NFA/DFA construction.

First two articles:

* http://eli.thegreenplace.net/files/docs/forays/col1.html

* http://eli.thegreenplace.net/files/docs/forays/col2.html

The rest listed here: http://eli.thegreenplace.net/articles/
I wasn't expecting anyone to upvote it, but why does it matter who's upvoting it? You're not God, and can't dictate what others should upvote or downvote.
This case, had it gone to trial, would have had very grave repercussions for anyone who makes a living on the Internet. The fact that it is being dropped is (A) good news for the people that like Oatmeal and (B) good news for anyone who tries to make a dime online. Since I would wager the bulk of the people that frequent Hacker News fall into one or both of those camps, I would think that this story would be relevant.
A parody of what? I'm not sure what you mean.
It's a steal. We spent a quarter of a trillion dollars on the Shuttle program and ISS. And about $133 billion on the GM bailout. The Higgs theory will have unknown implications that will resound for centuries. Spending 0.03% of a single year's GDP of the US+EU is a small price to pay for such a fundamental insight into the nature of our Universe.
I wonder if you could somehow ride the field lines when these things snap, like some sort of cosmic railgun for firing things off into deep space.
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I built something like this:

https://github.com/fractastical/Hacker-News-Filter

Filters by domain, keyword, and karma points.

On the friends branch you can also create your groups of friends and the main page will show how many of your friends have commented on any given story.
I'm excited for this one! We've managed to secure a very nice space overlooking Shibuya(thanks to GMO), with plenty more capacity so you can spread out, sit down, and enjoy good conversations.

As always, we're trying to keep the event focused on HN readers and business/technology enthusiasts, designers, coders, entrepreneurs and investors, so if you'd like to come along and bring your friends who fit into these categories, we have plenty of space.

Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Good work! I would say that the over all feel may be a bit too trendy/hip for microsoft's business market, but I can see this being very strong for the younger crowd. Thanks for sharing!
Amen. I used to try to control when I woke up by setting an alarm clock. Now I control it by having a regular schedule, getting plenty of sleep and making sure there's bright light, hopefully natural, at the time I want to wake.

It reminds me of when I was a young sysadmin, leaping from emergency to emergency, alarm to alarm. That was fun, but eventually I realized that the maximally lazy approach was to rig things so that alarms were never necessary.
Love your tinfoil hat, there.
It's very very tough to believe this. Google said the same thing 7 years ago, and look at what the OP observes now.

Can you really afford to wait 7 years for Google for the "just create good content" guys to win? Unless you got a budget of millions, and time to wait, the answer is No.

That doesn't mean you should get out your blackhat. But it means you have to proactively improve your SEO, rather than relying on good quality content. You play the game, but you ditch the blackhat strategies.
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"Capitalism says that in order to improve your life you must first improve the lives of others."

I absolutely love this quote. It so succinctly wraps up the core idea of PG's essay "How to make wealth - "http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html
I think everyone should write that quote down and reread it before even thinking about executing their next great idea.
What was the most popular prior?
The approach to problem solving you acquire from any rigorous scientific endeavor will benefit you for the rest of your life. These benefits will probably still apply regardless of whether or not you go on to be a practitioner.

I suspect we can find more than a few data points here.
I'm a current student, and I believe that a major reason behind the skyrocketing enrollments in CS is that the introductory classes are immensely popular and well-organized (disclosure: I TA a couple of those classes). There seems to be an idea in a lot of the other engineering departments that you have to suffer through the introductory classes in order to get to the interesting topics. The Stanford CS classes give people interesting challenges while covering a lot of the basics of CS. Of course there's still a long way to go after that, but it's a start. The second half of the introductory series is pretty rigorous, too, and I've seen at least a handful of interview questions I've been asked pop up in that class.

I don't know how many people were inspired by the iOS class, but it doesn't seem to be super popular on campus. I do know a fair amount of people (myself included) who had never programmed before Stanford and were simply motivated to keep going after the introductory sequence. There's definitely a snowball effect, but it wouldn't happen without a great curriculum.
We are building LiveLoop's mobile client for iOS, and not Android, for monetary reasons, and I feel that I can justify this easily.

First of all, the cost of developing for Android, for us, would be higher, because our code to render slides is somewhat resolution-dependent and iDevices come in fewer resolution variants than Android devices. One could make the claim that we should be doing everything in a completely resolution-adaptive way, but we haven't.

Second, developing for iPhone gives you the iPad for a negligible development cost, giving you access to the tablet market where Android does not have a meaningful presence yet. The great thing about the tablet market is that people spend more money on similar-functionality apps for iPad than for iPhone.

Third, the fact of the matter is that while you can make money on the Android market, the revenue economics of iOS apps are currently completely dominating Android. Both upfront and recurring revenue is higher on iOS. We don't have any qualms about leaving Android on the table today -- obviously, changes in any of these three premises, or huge growth in Android marketshare on tabloid and handheld, could change this.
France has export controls too [1], as most of the G20 [2]. However I do not believe that the entire export control regime is flawed, since it is primarily designed to prevent proliferation to less sophisticated countries who have to buy entire weapon systems. In the case of china these controls do not work well, since China can also integrate dual-use goods themselves.

[1] http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/france-priorities/disarmame...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassenaar_Arrangement
Great idea! I can really see this taking over this growing "marketplace" space. How do you render these demos/simulations on the browser
The reason I know about this case and its updates is precisely because of HN. You make it sound like this is a mainstream news story. It's not. It belongs here.
> The comments this story will attract on HN will not likely add anything to the discussion that's been going on across the Interwebs.

Please share where these magical communities can be found and I'll leave Hacker News. As far as I'm concerned, the HN community as a whole is extremely diverse, intellectual, and inquisitive - something I have yet to find elsewhere. That's why I'm still here. The quality discussions are exactly why I stick around.
I introduced statecharts to the SproutCore community in 2008, and there are a few really nice libraries that have grown out of that. Statecharts are now a standard part of SproutCore development, both at Apple and in the larger community.

I also teach a course on how to combine MVC architecture with statecharts. It's pretty easy, but non-obvious, and once you learn how, you'll end up using statecharts for the rest of your life. No one goes back to the 'old' way of spreading application state among controller objects.

There are two different statechart implementations in Blossom: https://github.com/fohr/blossom

One is for the application logic, the other is for writing individual views (called "behaviors", but they're statecharts).

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Shameless plug for my 3.5 hour MVC+statecharts course: http://erichocean.com/training/app.html

Even though it's targeted at SproutCore devs, the concepts apply to any application MVC environment, e.g. Backbone, Qt, Cocoa, etc.
Try a VPN :)
> Most of it is a lot of fuck-ups and political favors.

There is a contradiction there perhaps. Political favors includes buckling due to lobbying. Then US govt. is just a proxy for large banking interests, the military industrial complex, pharmaceuticals, large agribusiness etc. So no the govt. might not have really cared about MU but maybe MPAA cared and when they care they line pockets and make promises about future rewards
Opera owns fastmail.fm. fastmail.fm could be seen as competition to Gmail. Related?
We don't stream sound at the moment but it's a good idea. We're looking at ways we can extend the tech to incorporate sound, thanks for your feedback! http://kickfolio.com/apitaru
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That was my take, although my comment above may have come across as snarky. I just find it hard to imagine someone is claiming Microsoft is moving in the right direction by taking their mobile desktop (which may work quite well) and trying to force it onto the desktop (which will be a massive disaster). Although I seriously doubt Metro ever actually shows up much on desktops - they are already sweeping it under the rug after the initial backlash.
This is not a only blocking problem for HTML5 gaming. Chrome Canvas latency problem, Firefox canvas performance bug, HTML5 "poor" Audio, HTML5 "poor" video, Canvas "poor" API, SVG never works correctly, underestimated fragmentation cost, poor programming language (why the hell did they abandon ECMAScript 4?), when the hell can we use WebGL? etc...

People was complaining Flash was vendor lock-in. So kicked out Flash and now we are prisoners of fucking browsers. Kicked out poor Adobe, and Apple, Google and MS rules! Yay! Do you enjoy this?

I think plug-ins were clever, liberal and democratic software designing. We were able to choice the best technology we want to use (including Java Applet, Unity Web Player, Silverlight and even Shockwave). We were even able to develop our plug-ins freely. We had a freedom of programming language other than fucking JavaScript.

I feel people's enthusiasm for HTML5 is completely wrong. At least they should stop saying "HTML5 is a cool technology" "HTML5 is an open technology". COMPLETELY WRONG.
I respect your opinion and agree with the viewpoint in regards to many other pieces of contet being submitted to HN these days, but not in respect to this.

While there has been an almost farcical air around this whole case, there are important legal matters underlying it. Those matters, relating to freedoms of speech and copyright, are very important to our audience here on HN. I submit the argument that this particular posting is valid based on those terms.

I am happy that there are still those of us who wish to continue the high quality of content and commentary we have grown to expect on HN, so I do salute you for your opinion and shared ethics.
I would like to hear what a real day-in-as-a-HackNY-fellow is like.
I don't know about google but I "punished" them already when I heard they're looking to sell and the buyer might be facebook. I doubt it's just me.

Opera is not open source, they distribute only binaries. If the new buyer stuffs it with rubbish you don't want, there's nothing you can do about it other than switch. Might as well switch to chrome and learn to use chrome's developer tools when I'm not in the middle of something.

Of course, I will continue to test anything I make on Opera, it's just been dropped as my primary browser.
HumBio (Human Biology) for quite a few years and I think before that, it was either International Relations or Economics. HumBio is really popular because of pre-meds and other people who want to get into bio-related jobs/grad programs.
WOW and too think alot of people were worried about playstation PS/3's going to china as they were super powerful processing chips at one stage and at the same time well, just read the article.

The whole aspect that you can sell something for non milatary use and it has a milatary use is crazy if you have a ban. A ban should be blanket or non. Allowing obvious abusable loopholes is just a silly position to be in.

What next - they purchase a load of nukes on the pretence there to be used as christmas tree ornaments. Crazy.
The overall flaw in this system is that it assumes that there are always people worth firing. But some companies - and let's think of smaller start ups as an example - try to hire really well, and there are some shops that are loaded with talented people. Stacking them and firing the 'worst' performers because of a metric is basically just cutting talent. My take is that if a company thinks they have 10% of people on staff worth firing every year, fix the hiring process - that's the problem.
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Seriously,...no body even noticed MogoTix ticketing Facebook's f8 event last year? www.mogotix.com my startup. However, I don't believe MogoTix is the disruption this industry needs.
Scalping is asshole behavior. It is that simple. Don't sugarcoat it in talk of 'smoothing' markets. The scalpers do not add any value to the transaction. They merely inflate the price.

I'm so sick of HN over-intellectualizing topics in order to avoid the difficult discussions of ethics. I'm guessing they're avoided because (gasp) it isn't objective. The horror!
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I would think Fastmail is fairly insignificant to the Google thinking. My guess is they are most interested in the mobile presence, especially as Opera are moving further into advertising. Also they would probably like to see them generally weakened so a competitor can't use them as a entry point such as Facebook recently attempting to purchase Opera.
I think the post made the organization look very bad. I am not sure why anyone would want to post a self-parody on the root blog.
I see you your personal observations of Reddit and raise you my 20 years of online discussions in many different kinds of forums, from usenet to email to a variety of websites.

In that time I've consistently found that people who try to set meta rules are a bigger drag on communities like this than occasional offbeat stories with no strong tie to the community. The remit of this site is supposed to be things of interest to hackers. Clearly a lot of hackers find this story interesting, and are interested to hear the end of it.

Speaking personally, I don't follow a lot of news aggregators at the moment, and so am glad that it appeared here.
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Hey guys, great use of Pieceable to innovate the app feedback piece. I like your templates too!

How are you guarding against other upstarts in this space like ooomf (http://ooomf.com) that are also bringing great design to mobile app landing pages (where launchrock et. al. don't shine as much?)

Also, any hope to solve the app preview problem in a way that doesn't use Flash so that it can run on Mobile Safarai?
So if mass and charge are both just attributes of particles, what is the "charge equivalent" of the Higgs boson? And if there isn't one, then why is it assumed the HB exists? Why cant particles have a innate "mass charge" in the same way they have an "electric charge"?
Paypal provides a mechanism for the merchant to show proof of delivery. Generally, if you use UPS or Fedex, all you have to do is forward them delivery confirmation or the tracking number, and they free up your funds.

For intangible goods, you simply need to show proof that the item purchased is intangible.

Paypal isn't perfect, but if it really screwed over merchants the way you suggest they do, they would have gone out of business years ago.
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Being excellent at a single thing rarely correlates to anything meaningful in life. In real working conditions you need negociation skills, relationship skills, team-working skills and a well rounded knowledge about a number of things. I don't see why someone would be looking at a single factor to judge someone else's abilities.
Good for you. As long as we're making up numbers: I can get 100% of what I need done in 80% of the time as you, simply because I use superior tools that eliminate menial labour. Get out of your bubble.
The author says "no worse off than before", as if the human suffering created by such a massive transition has no impact on the overall wellbeing of the nation.

It'd be funny if the implications didn't make me so sad.
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Thanks. Autobahn does not make extra calls to Hacker News because Paul Graham has voiced complaints about such behavior (e.g. scrapers). I've avoided requesting additional pages beyond what the user normally navigates to. However, new features are definitely coming!

I launched with many super-polished features in 0.1 and I will try to keep the same standard. I'll check yours out!
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Hey HN, I am working on an idea and wish to gather your opinions regarding this idea of mine. So basically we are watching more videos online. We may wonder where we can get certain products that were shown within the video. For instance, I may be watching a video and wondered where can I get the mobile phone or the set of clothing used by the character within the video. If there is such a system whereby you can view products shown within the video and can click on links that can direct them to where they can find more information, would you use it?

Any feedback and chance of collaboration is welcomed. Thanks for the attention!
The escrow service can donate the money to charity. Since the seller never gets it, there's no disincentive for fraud in the first place.
Alright, so this was yesterday:

I got up around 8:30 AM to get to work in SoHo by 10 AM. I live in a dorm at NYU with a floor full of other HackNY fellows really central to NYC, which is amazing. I made breakfast and ground some coffee and worked on a personal Node.js project then walked to SoHo around 9:30AM. Work started at 10AM. I work as a front-end engineering intern primarily with Backbone.js and Require.js lately, so I spent between 10AM-6:30PM doing a quick standup, then coding or getting food from the kitchen (I eat a lot).

Then at 6:30, which is relatively early for me to leave, myself and another intern (non HackNY), went over to Pivotal Labs. We don't usually get to bring other interns with us, but we were having an intern buddy night. When we first got to Pivotal Labs we ate dinner and networked. I got to catch up with a lot of the other fellows and their "intern buddies." We're having a demo day coming up soon so we were all sharing what we would present.

Then Josh Knowles, of Pivotal Labs, gave a talk on the process of developing software and took questions along the way. I got to ask 2-3 on agile software development, recruiting and automation. It was like tech lead 101. After the talk we were allowed to ask him questions separately, but I was all questioned out, so I went out to a bar with my intern buddy and another friend of the program and we talked about the startup spaces we were interested in and how to encourage technology innovation on our respective campuses. I then talked to my suitemates (also HackNY, sans one) about everything from girl stuff to Ruby on Rails database preferences. The peers are one of my favorite parts of the program. Living on a floor full of hackers is incredibly inspiring and we get so much done by inspiring (and sometimes competing) with each other.

So yeah, that's a real day in the life.
What is an OR major please? Google didn't help.
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HN has clearly defined 'meta rules' that have been casually and sometimes not so casually enforced since its inception.

It seems like we have an equal number of decades of experience, and it also doesn't matter either way. It's irrelevant and a logical fallacy in itself.
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wow, I never thought I'd be mentioned in hackernews. Always a pleasure to contribute and help out fellow developers. Thanks for the post!
And Biden is going to save America from Barrack Hussein? :)

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Very nice! I'd prefer to see the user's karma on the little popup though, rather than beside the link I clicked.
The moment a community loses its sense of humor is the point at which it is little more than someone's hype machine. There has to be something to break the mood every so often or the community will burn itself out! Especially in a high tension environment like the startup world.