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Great. I hope they will sell Mac apps too so I can have an alternate distribution channel for my apps.
I would like to see this result in a frustrated James Cameron building his own Mars probe for filmmaking
Thanks for the Kindle link. Preordered!
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Probably a lot of people do. Is a common attitude between hackers to take the world as a place to learn from, and to tinker with. I did a few things too, but then I got hired to design programs that would prevent people from doing what I was doing. And I became (for a while) a white hat hacker.

This attitude is a blessing... and a curse. And scare the shit out of the people that take safety in the use of brute force and the law. As a side bar, once I saw an episode of "The Twilight Zone" were the state would test kids at a young age (around 10) to calculate their IQ, and if it was high, then they would be deem a danger to society and be legally killed on the spot, and the ashes sent to the parents with a note on the death sentence of their unlawful son. Awful, I know, but I don't think we are that far.
> Where as topics like elisp (1200) are almost neglected.

Not sure what is your complaint here. Of course there are few elisp questions compared to Java questions: there are so many fewer elisp programmers! And from what I see most of the elisp questions do get answers, i.e. they aren't neglected. In my experience the same holds for Haskell questions.

That said, I don't think your question should have been downvoted and blocked, and I upvoted it just in case.
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And now we need a "space" filter for instagram
IIRC, you can only loan a Kindle book exactly once and to one person.

They're being unreasonable and pushing people who cared enough to to jump through that to just buy or pirate it.
Yup, I got hit too.
He's not running with GC permanently disabled, he's only disabled the automatic GC because of the huge overhead required (claiming 1-second pauses every few seconds). He also mentions it's trivial to enable manual GC and run that via setInterval/setTimeout/what-have-you.
My story: We used to learn Pascal in my high school programming classes. Each Pascal program ends with an “end” keyword followed by a full stop (“.”), at least if I remember correctly. I wrote a resident program that would monitor the keyboard and screen and when it detected a full stop inserted after the “end” keyword, an animated critter would appear (made of custom characters inserted into the ACII table) and eat the dot, thus making the listing impossible to compile. I didn’t write the viral code, so that it took some social engineering to run the program on my classmate’s account, but boy it was fun when he started complaining to the teacher that he can’t run the source code because of some creature eating his dots :-)
I gain nothing in either instance.
Would be better to have the pop-over on 'onHover' instead of 'onClick'. Ability to turn on/off certain feeds would be good too.

I was working on a similar treemap visualization for the links of my twitter feed though I ended up abandoning the project.
SSL is in flight encryption, not at rest encryption. Maybe Toodledo do that, too.
I'm the OP. The traffic from that query is negligible for us. My proximate motivation was to answer the question posed and the specific questions at the bottom of the post. My root motivation is to better understand the implications of the Filter Bubble.
"You Either Die A Hero Or You Become The Villain"

Or you suffer the fate 99.99% of people face: disappearing into the void as an unknown, without a soul caring about you. Actually, it's more like 100%.
Yeesh, I don't even remember the Phoenix lander. Kinda crazy that there have been enough to start losing track of them.
In the TED talk he actually explains that wiring, plumbing and painting can be automated with his planned machine(among other processes).

I think you're selling the idea short.
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Because "We're going to make a spec that is intentionally vague on the one section that some people will bend over backwards to willfully misapply" is bad politics and "We're going to tighten standards across the board, but remain silent on two fundamental and well understood cornerstone concepts because they're likely to make people mad" is terrible policy.

Besides, the people who are opposed to teaching evolution and/or climate science are going to take a microscope to any new science teaching standard, so we may as well be up front about the goals and get the fight over with at the frontend.
Because 99.9% of people on the internet right now have no idea what a BBS is/was.
That's the thing about these types of benchmarks. They're useful for showing that node has the throughput -- at a low level -- to serve a huge number of concurrent connections, but it doesn't translate directly to huge application throughput if you're relying on things like database access over a network. In practice, each of these problems must be solved individually.

I don't mean to minimize this accomplishment. If you're assuming you need 100k database connections in order to scale, you might be solving the wrong problem. Scaling is a matter of moving data as close to the CPU as possible. This means in-memory caching is where real performance comes in. I don't care how good your language/framework is, you can't defeat the physics of slow I/O over a network.
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well, at least upgrading to version "2" is free for existing users
I would have to second the developer problem. You can have a perfect cross platform UI toolkit, but if the developer doesn't take effort to make it fit everywhere it becomes off. A simple example was message box's. Qt has the ability for you to tell it which button is "yes" and which is "no" and then it will automatically swap the order depending on which desktop environment it is running in, but if the developer just hard codes some strings for the button text there isn't much that Qt can do. Same goes for file menu shortcuts, etc

How many times have you seen an app that is suppose to look 100% like an iOS app badly ported over to android where everything "works", but doesn't fit in.
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just curious, why they are releasing only black and white pictures
You mean this one? http://superuser.com/a/419167

It wasn't on SO, but in any case, all the edits did were fix spelling/capitalization; why would that be bad?
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Nokia reminds me of the last days of Sun - so much mismanagement.
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I think the you misinterpreted his question by rushing past the TechCrunch headline.

If you see a headline that says "Dewey Defeats Truman" you expect to read a story explaining that Truman has been defeated. Similarly, if you see a headline that says "Grid Reinvents The Spreadsheet" you expect to read a story that explains that the spreadsheet has been reinvented.

In the story itself, the founders don't pretend that Grid has a reinvented spreadsheet ready to go. They have an interesting proof of concept that they intend to enhance until it reinvents the spreadsheet.

A reader, having been misled by the headline (not misled by the founders) is naturally going to ask atacrawl's question. Any criticism implied in such a question is properly directed at TechCrunch, not at Grid.

In atacrawl's position, I would be distressed at the people "agreeing" with the snark you misread from his question.
Because people are desperate for this to be realistic, the same way people pumped money into Diaspora, even though it was backed by a team that's never shipped product before, that all just recently left college.

I want Ouya to succeed, but I just don't see how it can happen. They are extremely aggressive both on schedule and pricing, and more than that, the team has no experience shipping consumer electronics - and hardware manufacturing is a huge, huge expertise in and of itself.

So you have a very, very inexperienced team trying to ship a consumer electronics device faster and cheaper than pretty much any other experienced manufacturer who have been doing this for decades.

I'm not sure if most backers realize quite how big of a leap this is.
$8.5 million isn't enough for a mass-produced game console.

You said it yourself--you want the negativity to stop because you personally want it to succeed. And that seems to be what Ouya has become, a focal point for a lot of fantasy and idealism about disrupting the market without much pragmatism or common sense to back it. Couple that with Ouya's misleading marketing, and the arguments raised by naysayers are justified.
Your question was downvoted because it basically reads as, "I want to do X. Please do it for me." The site is supposed to be a replacement for a smart coworker. You wouldn't ask your coworker to do something like that, you'd ask him for help with a specific part of it. Asking otherwise just comes across as freeloading.
Insurance companies are probably willing to let it slide if you let someone else who's insured drive your car

Not just probably: I called my insurance to put someone on my insurance, and the customer service rep grilled me about how often they would use it and for what purpose ("Are they using it to commute to work?"), and then strongly recommended I not buy any additional coverage, stating that my existing coverage covered them as well, no problem.
My indescretion was a boot sector virus that would randomly seize control of the computer long enough to beep the theme song to "Cheers". Oh and spread to the boot sector of any disk inseted. To be diabolical it randomly chose to play the song or simply silently reinfect others each time it spread.

They (at my highschool computer lab) were still battling to eradicate it years after I left. I am ashamed. Somewhat.
This is (probably) the answer in question: http://superuser.com/a/419167.

It was edited (not by me, just to be clear) to fix some minor typos, not for content. Here is the diff: http://superuser.com/posts/419167/revisions.

I guess having "hz" edited into "Hz" might strike some people as being "anal", but I think it's a very decent improvement. Of course, I'm not trying to imply anything about Mr Carmack's knowledge about unit symbols, I just think he wrote his answer too quickly to care.

I consider it a feature that someone else can step in and clean it up a bit.
Could you explain how the hypothetical pickpocketing scheme works?
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I think the GP made his point for him.
I think you somehow didn't take the left turn at Albuquerque. My statement was:

Don't put the blanket statement out there.

Your blanket statement was:

I have found that there are two things you can never reason with, religion and nationalism.

I wasn't responding to your comparison of India and China, I was responding to your blanket statement. I gave an example of how your blanket statement is not so universal, drawing an easy example a country in your discussion topic. I have nothing to add to the discussion on comparing China and India, as I feel that's been discussed comprehensively enough.
I have PMP. I occasionally see employers ask for PMP or Prince2 Certfication on a job spec.

I don't think it makes you a good project manager, but it can be a way of weeding out people that are entirely clueless about project management.

It can also help if an organisation has standardised on a project management approach, so everyone uses the same names for Project Initiations, Business Requirements etc etc.
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First, I want to say thanks for putting yourself out there.

However, I think there's one thing that needs to be reiterated, for everybody who's reading hacker news and thinking about starting a company:

The world probably does not need yet another incarnation of project management/collaboration software.

If I had a dollar for every first-time entrepreneur who told me they were starting a new project management tool for team collaboration app, I'm probably have enough to A-round my own company.

That's not to say it's not possible to succeed here – Trello is a case in point – but one has to realize that Joel has been in the project management space for probably close to a decade. It's even probable that he would've failed except for the fact he has such a large online following that just happens to be his target audience.

To use the example below, if 9/10 startups fail then probably 49/50 of project management/collaboration startups fail.

By all means, do a startup, but at least give yourself a fighting chance.
I'm going to go ahead and qualify this next statement by saying that I know little to nothing about high frequency trading and little about finance in general, but when Wired covers technology subjects I do have in depth knowledge about it's riddled with sloppy reporting and sensationalism. This has happened enough times that I usually skip their coverage entirely and when I do read their stories I do so with a very skeptical eye.

This piece may be different, but I would have know way to know since it's outside my field. It just makes me sad that I can no longer give them the benefit of the doubt. I used to love Wired. However, as I've become more and more knowledgeable about web technology and marketing over the course of my career, the more I see them as one more sensationalistic rag doing bad science and technology reporting for the mainstream.
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The long console cycle this generation has been a great thing for consumers - we are still seeing incredible limits being pushed on both the Xbox and PS3, and has been a tremendous boon for the public, who are no longer on $400-500-every-2-years upgrade cycles.

If you really want to be at the very bleeding edge of what's possible in gaming, the PC market is alive and well. The console market is more affordable and consequently more inclusive.

> "This kind of money is clearly a message the world needs a product like this."

I doubt this. There's a [very small] market for a product like this. The power of the internet is that this [very small] demographic can come together, pool their resources, and create something they all want. This does not mean that there's a mass-market or mainstream product waiting to jump out.
IMO they should use more RESTful URIs, like `/foo.json` and `/bar.raw` (or even `/bar/raw`) instead of `/foo$json` and `/bar?raw`. Github does that.
That's because it's still an emerging piece of tech ;)
Yup, each buyer can only loan each book 1 time. http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2... And only on books where the author explicitly allows, which makes this takedown even sillier.
Recent updates to Taxonomy have used DNA testing along with genetic drift to move things around a fair bit. So, in the modern context it's really more a map of evolutionary change than a list of animals with their traits.

Which leaves Anatomy and Cellular biology, but again only when looking at individual species. Even just showing the 'fish' like stage of a human embryo brings up rather difficult questions without evolutionary context. As is a lot of the stranger parts of Anatomy and Cellular biology.

PS: By 'fish' I mean when you basically have head + spine and before leg's show up.
Interesting how the author choose to profile only fellows whose ventures had no revenue. Kind of like a indirect finger poking.
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My go-to example these days is the `find` utility. Sure, you could try to recurse through directories yourself -- but links (both sym- and hard) make it surprisingly non-trivial to get right.
Really? http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=mdn...
Sure, that's NY Times after all!
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Concentration Camps? Are you really going to make that parallel, we're talking about less than 200 prisoners, who are well-fed, guarded by soldiers who must go out of their way not to offend their charges' religion. Americans in jail for minor drug possession are treated worse than Gitmo prisoners. As far as torture, you don't know anything about which you type. Ask the Vietnamese, Chinese, Iranians, Russians and Turks about torture, then waterboarding will seem like a 5 year old girl's birthday party. It's very easy to be sanctimonious from the comfort of your chair.

Make your argument, but don't venture into hyperbole fueled by Michael Moore delusions.

As far as terrorism being helped by copyright infringement, that IS a stretch. It's like saying terrorism is helped by Coca-Cola sales because some rogue mosque happens to have a Coke machine.
I am unsure how the delimiter between the resource name and the requested content-type can be more or less "RESTful".
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If you exclude the plumbing, electrics and foundations, houses can already easily be built in a day.
Absolutely agree, but with one high-value request: If Monday needs half a lettuce, Tuesday needs to use the other half. By the end of the week I don't want a fridge full of leftovers.
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I'm confused - the author assumes an android powered camera should have the same usage expectations as a tablet or phone...

And that's a terrible mistake. I don't care how capable my Angry Birds experience is on my camera. I care about applications written to enhance the photo-and-videographic functionality of my camera.

I'm fine with Nikon throwing on a custom launcher, if that's what they need to do to work around Android's touch-focus. I'm fine (and in fact, prefer) folks authoring applications specifically to the Nikon camera's interface.

And there's so much opportunity to extend a camera's capabilities, once it can run 3rd party applications. Auto stitching panoramas. Unwrapping spherical maps. Chromakeying. Instagram-esque filters. Subject tracking. Realtime preview and control over wifi and bluetooth via companion devices. Panning motor control. Multiple camera's automagically synchronizing. Etc etc.

The author uses Parrot's Asteroid car stereo system as an example for how a non-standard usage and non-standard UI are bound to fail. But that's a really weak comparison. Who do you think is more likely to grow a robust 3rd party ecosystem - a one-off experiment in a crowded, cost-sensitive market (a $350 device for bleeding edge enthusiasts), or an oft-upgraded stable of professionals who are already spending multiple thousands on equipment to be more productive?

The alternative is Nikon creates their own OS and development environment. But why compete with a flourishing platform, when you can just simply use it?
"are they really looked highly upon when it comes to getting actual work done "

Certificates are neither necessary nor sufficient to be able to get a good job in my opinion and experience. Like you said, work speaks for itself. Certification on your Resume/CV might get you the interview call. But when it comes to hiring someone,what really matters is "can you get shit done and can you work with a team".
It never would have lasted anyways. The author kept the site running in the hopes that he would eventually be able to collect Amazon affiliate revenue. I imagine that Amazon would have cut the site off very quickly.
> Insurance companies are probably willing to let it slide if you let someone else who's insured drive your car

In the UK insurance companies will go out of their way to deny claims.
It should be noted, as well, that the Hazcams and Navcams are "build-to-print" exact copies of the ones that flew on the MERs in 2003. So most of the images we've been seeing thus far are actually taken with tech much older than the Mastcams, probably designed around the turn of the millennium. And there's nothing wrong with that -- they are very reliable and do exactly what is needed.

Source: http://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/publications/Mark_Maimone/f...
Yeah, that was the first thing I noticed. This article seems to paint the picture that ALL fellows are not generating revenue.
I do wonder why we're not switching from oil to natural gas a lot faster though.

Short version: The market works.

Slightly less short version: You would switch to natural gas if natural gas achieved the same goals at oil at enough of a lower cost to make it worth the switching costs. Part of the cost of oil is based on people's projections of the price of oil in the future; if one expects oil to be much more dear in the future than it is now, one should either buy oil and consume it now or buy oil and sell it later. Buying oil today drives up the price of oiil.

One plausible reason one could think that oil would be more expensive in the future is if one thinks demand will outstrip supply. If one believes the future will hold an acceptable substitute for oil, one will be less likely to believe that future demand will exceed supply, and as a result one will believe the future price for oil will decline relative to today. This causes one to sell oil, propagating the price fall in the oil-demand-has-fallen future into the oil-demand-has-not-fallen-yet today. Which, at the margin, slightly delays "the future."

Or, to put it another way: the credible announcement that we're ten years away from totally solving fossil fuels would cause the present price of all of them to crater.
Same here. I come to HN in hopes of finding such good info.
Note that Knight has clarified that it lost closer to $270 million rather than the $440 million it originally estimated [1].

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-08/joyce-tells-clients...
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Then you can just enter BIOS to set it all up from scratch.
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This feels odd. Can companies write off operational losses as tax exemptions?