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You are correct. I am not in disagreement with you. We definitely need a way to authenticate people. But like I said, authenticating systems need to be fool-proof enough to not allow false positives yet flexible enough to allow people to screw up and get a fresh start without wiping all their data. These two goals, by definition are the equivalent of trying to look towards the left and right at the same time.
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I frequently work with one vertical split in the middle with a class file on one side and the related spec on the other. I can relate to wanting to have a standard layout. I just frequently, split up the windows even more as I work. I used to find splits difficult to manage, but then I got used to/addicted to them. Personally, I would have difficulty with a fixed layout, but I can understand how it could be appealing.
Hey, I thought of tentpole too (that's what's getting the tent up and running).
Materials Scientist here.

There are no small-scale diamonds present in the material. On the small scale, the material is a carbon glass (an unordered, or amorphous solid), distinct from diamond, which is an ordered crystal. Typically, high density glasses are stronger than crystals made from the same elements, so the strength of the material isn't particularly surprising, rather it's the processing of the new material that is novel.

It's also worth noting that this isn't even the first carbon-based material stronger than diamond. Lonsdaleite is a closely related structure that is significantly stronger. It is much less common, however, naturally occurring only in meteorites.
A century ago, people also lit Christmas trees with candles (electric Christmas lights were not widely available until 1903).

Here's the thing about 'relevant facts': you could each have a mountain of them (the same mountain, even): and still reach diametrically opposing conclusions, precisely because this is a philosophical debate.

As with most political debates, this one can easily be reduced to two schools of thought: either the individual exists for themselves, wherein the highest moral value is liberty, or the individual exists at the behest of society, wherein the highest moral value is servitude.

In the case of the latter, it is a part of society's mandate to protect itself from the individual. The only question becomes, how far do you go? As evidenced by this thread, intelligent people can disagree about what is reasonable or necessary.

Science/<Deity> help us if we continue our relentless march toward democracy, where the answer to that question increasingly derives from society's lowest common denominator.

Edit: Exposition/self-indulgent philosophizing.
A description of "the radiation risk" does not imply that there is a radiation risk.

At some level, lead is radioactive. So is coal. So is atmospheric carbon. However, we don't consider any of these radiation risk. (They're instances of a more general rule, namely that almost everything is radioactive, which means that we can talk about the radiation risk of almost anything.)

That's why your reference didn't talk about radiation dangers associated with depleted uranium.
This has nothing to do with the recording industry. The reason the record is / has died is progress. The labels didn't shut down record stores in Costa Rica, people stopped caring about them. There barely even is a recording industry in Costa Rica and this is the most developed country of centroamerica.

The reason latinos want MP3s and MP3 players is they're cheap as piss and they can jump on limewire in any internet cafe and download more songs. It's convenience and it's progress and it's why the MP3 won everywhere, not just in CR.
This was literally EXACTLY what I was looking for. Gave up, came to dick around on Hacker News instead, found my answer. Fuck yeah.

So what's the moral here?
Ask HN: Anyone making a living from Android apps?
i know this market is problematic , but it will be interesting to read some story's to get good perspective.

also comparison between the AppStore and google play will be great
Hopefully it's just a bug and someone'll push a change because it's definitely interesting.

It also needs an API so you can replace images automatically as part of your build or upload process.
I love my TF300, especially with the dock. I'd like the extra screen res but since I only watch SD video and browse the web, 1200x800 is more than fine. Higher resolution would be useful with multitasking, but for full screen apps I'll keep my $100.
I'm too interested in this,
As far as i believe, its very difficult.
As a single data point, a colleague of mine is a 50+ developer, who was a nurse in the army until a little over a decade ago - and he learned for the sake of a career change, he didn't move into something that he was already doing on the side, or had done when young.
It's a wonderful place to stay. It's a fabulous place to met programmers and to be inspired. I am so glad I choose chez jj than single room in SF.

Downsides? Many.
1. There's a lot happening and so many interesting people that your productively may at times waver.
2. You are sleeping in a bunk.
3. Awesome people.
4. The entire space is shared. Privacy?
Probably. Something along the lines "if your product is crap but looks very much like our product, people will think that our product is crap".
CTO living off the grid!

How in the first place he got in? When I joined as a software engineer after college my father received three phones calls over a period of 7 days and one of them was from the police (my father's reaction to me was "what have you done?"). All on our home base phone, for my background check. Arranged by my would-be employer. Though I never quite understood how police called him, because here police doesn't do the background verification for private firm. Maybe the caller lied.

Anyway, hard to imagine that kind of lapse in the mighty United States of America.
> 2. You are >trying< to sleep in a bunk.

FTFY. ;)
I... I honestly don't know how to respond to something so ludicrous.
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"I don’t really market it much but I working on that department."

Hey, before I pay $34 for your book, can you make sure its edited for grammar? If this is in the sample, I'm afraid of what the rest of the book will contain.
Yep this has to be fixed.
I can strongly recommend the large Galant desk. It's basically indestructible, and a nice design (just one giant smooth flat surface, with nicely adjustable legs). I basically don't use anything else to work on now if I can help it.

Also have bought some large sturdy wardrobes. Can't speak for the rest of their stuff as it never seemed sturdy enough in the store to buy anything else.
Well, let's see. Twitter has 500M registered accounts (according to Wikipedia) and a churn rate of about ~80% as of 2010[1], a (very) ballpark estimate of active users is 100M.

While you personally may not have met anyone who uses it, I know a lot of people who do and they are certainly not all in "Valleywood." And I'm pretty sure no active user is using it "because they think they are supposed to"; there's no evidence that suggests people who aren't really that interested in Twitter keep coming back to use it out of a mysterious sense of obligation.

[1]: http://liesdamnedliesstatistics.com/2010/01/80-twitter-accou...
I don't print ANYTHING. Except papers. If I find a good one, I print it out, read it with my red pen, and mark all over it. When I'm done, I print it out again and start over. I do this until there is no longer a need to use my red pen. Only then do I consider that paper to have been "read".
They want the catalog to look cheap though, and Verdana certainly helps with that…

The font nerd in me died a little bit when they switched.
the ipad handles this without slowing down...
Sounds like a really interesting product, and something we'll definitely check out, but to be very clear...interviews != surveys.

In terms of customer discovery and problem identification, absolutely nothing beats interviews. Surveys may have their place when it comes to getting demographic information or validating a market size, but interviews should not be replaced with surveys.
ON vs ML, nice

But there's also the stack. XML has XSD for validation and documentation; XSLT and XQuery for transformation; and most people seem to like XPath. The overwhelming response to analogues for JSON is horror - don't pollute our simplicity! - and acknowledgement that while some tasks do indeed need these features, the XML stack already has them. The corruption of XML is what keeps JSON clean.
And that is why there are no software patents in Poland - software is math. In fact every software ever created could be written as math formula in lambda calculus.
This made me aware that i typed ":" with my RING FINGER. wow. What have I been doing...
By and large, I'd agree with you, but consider that people are still people when they're off work. By that I mean, if the decision maker you're looking for could easily be on Mechanical Turk in their off time. I can promise there are Music Teachers on mTurk, just like there are marketers, hr reps, sales people, real estate agents, etc.
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In mTurk, you can select which countries your workers are in and you could use Skype instead of Google Voice.
Not racist, it's true. MySpace became a ghetto - of all sorts of colors and races. Twitter has been much of the same...
I really enjoyed your presentation for that reason - you did a great job of building a narrative that wasn't exactly "We're X for Y in a $Z billion market". I did consider your HN vote count and Kickstarter numbers similar to an "up and to the right" graph, but is your distinction that you only displayed them, and didn't weave them into the pitch?
> OS X terminal didn't support mouse

It does not, you have to use the MouseTerm SIMBL plugin.
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The main difference in my eyes is that activity feeds and messages can create a backlog. The user experience isn't quite right either--different types of messages still look exactly the same. But different dashboard widgets could have radically different user experiences.
Interestingly, the vinyl record is still making a comeback in the US, even while MP3s continue their inevitable spread.
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For a long time Amazon fulfilled only their own products (and some large partners) from their warehouses. Now, it's offered to everyone as Fulfillment by Amazon service. No doubt Amazon will offer the locker service, if the market is there.
twitter has apps?

I mean, I'm kidding, mostly, but really, what are twitter apps for? slightly easier input from a phone? I thought that most of the value of twitter was that it was 'like a rss aggrigator but easier'
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The bashing of MP3 in that article is unwarranted. I can't find any decent source, but I'm pretty sure a 192kbps MP3 is indistinguishable from a CD for 99.999% of the people. Especially with the crappy included headphones everyone is using.

I would bet you my day salary I could find an article from 30 years ago, bashing CD's vs vinyl in exactly the same way.
I see less of this on ios devices, but that may be because I keep up–to-date with newer hardware. I guess devs are targeting the older devices that are still in use -- together with the restricted multitasking on ios, this probably side-steps most memory problems.

(Except for the odd memory hog that occasionally gets terminated while in use, like the Facebook app).
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I'm rooting for App.net, but I highly doubt that the post-Twitter era will simply involve a comparable Twitter replacement.

Personally I believe that the post-Twitter days will involve a shift away from micro sharing towards long form writing and better ways to have discussions with peers.
i believe the Note branded products are supposed to be the premium line.
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> implicit racism

Really? What race was implied? The OP attributed mass market/middle school/urban ghetto with intelligence, which subsequently is correlative.

Not sure how race was ever implied here...
If you guys helped me with the h1b, I would surely over-deliver what you want.

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> It's effectively being reclassified as a form of autism

That's like saying astrology is being reclassified as a form of astronomy. Something like that happened, but we all know the outcome of that battle.

> why on earth would psychologists "abandon" a diagnosis that they "love" because it's "bread on their table"?

Because of public exposure. Because of articles like this one:

http://arachnoid.com/trouble_with_psychology

Psychologists realized their behavior was obviously and solely self-serving, even to non-specialists. So, just as with Recovered Memory Therapy, they called a halt to something that could only do them more harm.

> I already waste too much time jousting with conspiracy theorists on HN.

That only makes sense if psychologists are the conspiracy theorists, because it is psychologists who are demanding this change. Case in point -- Theodore Insel, sitting director of the NIMH, calls for the same change that I do:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=faulty-circ...

Quote: "In most areas of medicine, doctors have historically tried to glean something about the underlying cause of a patient’s illness before figuring out a treatment that addresses the source of the problem. When it came to mental or behavioral disorders in the past, however, no physical cause was detectable so the problem was long assumed by doctors to be solely “mental,” and psychological therapies followed suit.

Today scientific approaches based on modern biology, neuroscience and genomics are replacing nearly a century of purely psychological theories, yielding new approaches to the treatment of mental illnesses."

Sound familiar?
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> software is math

No, it's not. Math does not have side-effects. Software does have side-effects since it runs on physical devices connected to the physical world.
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I assume, I missed something obvious here. Just curious - What?
I think you're grossly over-estimating the difficulty of defining a protocol.

It's not writing the protocol that I find the most difficult. It's reimplementing everything the uses the protocol.

Load balancers know how to load balance straight TCP.

Which is only useful if all the nodes are exactly the same, but that prevents you from distributing the data across them based on the user profiles, and then load balance according to the user id, as (if I'm not mistaken) Netflix does. Since they're using subdomains as user identifiers, you'd get that for free using an existing, well-tested HTTP load balancer.

HTTP caching servers are an HTTP-centric idea.

That's a tautology. The question is: are they a useful idea? Is being able to take advantage of existing and deployed solutions like CDNs useful? Seems to me like it would be.

The 'libraries' you'll need can be much, much smaller when all you need is a bit of framing and serialization, instead of a complete complex RFC compliant HTTP client stack.

I think you underestimate the advantages that some of the core HTTP concepts provide.
the python channel was incredibly useful when I repeatedly missed no brainer things when i was first starting out. Any library's irc will probably have at least one person who knows the library inside and out, and can help you with a problem. It's really incredible you can do all this for free!
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Ask HN: What is the best way to network in the Bay Area?
I'm coming from Europe to the bay area for a few days in September looking to meet people in the high tech industry. I'm planning on kicking off my own venture there and would like to get some first had advice and tips.
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Ask HN: What are the best online SQL reporting/BI tools for SMBs?
We need to grant access to our marketing team to run simple SQL queries against our database (e.g., how many customers bought in the last month). Ideally, this would be a SaaS reporting/analysis tool so we all we need to do is grant read privileges to a new user.
Seems like the sales charts is rather insignificant.
Ah! Swedish keyboard here (English operator though). Pity that was fun until I got to a bracket.
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I used to think so too.But learning touch typing has made me to better document my code. I no longer fret about writing API documentation, I almost add API documentation most of the methods I write.

The blog post[1] Steve Yegge was the one that triggered me to consider touch typing seriously.

1. http://steve-yegge.blogspot.in/2008/09/programmings-dirtiest...
Sure, but if the implementation of those and other features are rubbish then how much does checking those boxes count for?

I'm not making any judgements here, that's for the reviewer to decide, but surely in general the quality of the implementation matters, no?
If you don't go to college and can find a good job, there's plenty of professionals in that range. I'm 25 and been programming professionally for 5 years.
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I have the same issues using US International on OSX 10.6.
Also, a lot of those are probably purchased by some media/radio/archiving companies.
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I don't understand this cheap plastic argument. The plastic makes the device both lighter and more durable than other materials. If weight and durability do not define build quality for a mobile device, what does?
One of the startups actually did that.
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I used to DJ and think something has been lost with the virtualization of media, which is why I'm in no hurry to get a Kindle. But when you say vinyl's making a comeback, I'm skeptical of whether this amounts to more than a niche market of hipsters, among whom the space and cost requirements of collecting vinyl can serve as a status marker. Could you expand on your comment?
I always used terminal vim when on Linux, but after I got a macbook (from work - I'd never buy one), I'm pretty happy with MacVim. Give it a shot.

Pretty much everything works out of the box as with the terminal version, you just get a few usability improvements (OS-integrated clipboard, mouse selections create vim selections and vice versa, etc).
A lot of IKEA criticism here, but what they are doing is actually pretty neat.

All of their products are probably designed in some sort of CAD software, which means they already have the models necessary to do these sort of mockups.

It still must have taken them foresight and money to get from "having models" to "easily arranging and realistically rendering", but now that they are there they can save money, update their catalogs faster, and generate less waste.

Fairly obvious, yet still a cool practice. Wonder how many other companies are doing something similar.
" Let people store their own data, and offer API endpoints giving facebook, twitter, etc access."

That is the goal of unhosted. http://unhosted.org/
I really whish their RemoteStorage protocol would gain traction.

The locker project is heading into the same direction, although with a different approach. Posting content to Facebook et al and then recollecting it into your locker. http://www.lockerproject.org/
> bashing CD's vs vinyl in exactly the same way

And tubes vs. mosfets.
I just checked the fifth image from the top (the kitchen)
http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/OB-UG852_IKEAb0_G_...
in the real catalog. I would never have guessed it was not real when browsing through it. If I knew there were some it could have been a candidate because there are no people in it. But otherwise, it looks like a very regular photograph.

EDIT: Mistake! I did not look at the correct image, mine was similar but different. Disregard the above.

EDIT 2: So this means I am looking at a picture in the catalog that I don't know whether it is real or rendered. But knowing that they new render some images, that the image has no people in it (which is not uncommon in the catalog), and that especially the cupboard doors have some artificial feeling to them, my guess is that "my" image is rendered too. But also, there is a bottle of olive oil on the counter, and its brand is a brand that is common in Sweden, and contains details on the label that seems authentic. So they put much effort into small details in that case.
Ask HN: Where would you go if HN shutdown for 1 month?
From all the talks about HN lacking in many areas for some users, I was wondering where HN folks visit for quality content/comment/userbase?

Side question: Would you come back if it shutdown for a month?
Understand that your position is one of naturalism, not one of science. Science does not presume to discuss what may or may not lie beyond the observable world.

Consider Carl Sagan:

"An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling evidence. Because God can be relegated to remote times and places and to ultimate causes, we would have to know a great deal more about the universe than we do now to be sure that no such God exists. To be certain of the existence of God and to be certain of the nonexistence of God seem to me to be the confident extremes in a subject so riddled with doubt and uncertainty as to inspire very little confidence indeed."

It is as much folly to advocate militant secularism as it is to advocate blind faith. You are caught red-handed. Consider your ways.

"Come now, let us reason together" - Isaiah 1:18
For the troll, legal is their business, and the costs much lower because the ARE the lawyers. And they will not easily back off because that news would spread and suddenly everyone would ignore them, which would make their business much harder. It's not the same as frauds that send out tens of thousands of fake invoices for $50 in the hope that many will pay out of laziness and without spending time on research. Patent troll "license fees" are too high for that.
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And if you don't like reading HTML:

http://telehash.org/v2.html
This idea is pretty neat but I don't really understand how you detect your competition. Would they really register/login with an email based on their main domain and not use a throwable email or at least a personal one ?

Same for the media/influencer do they really use daily their work email to test applications/websites? When I was testing applications/sites most of the time I used a throwable emails first to check without fearing to be spammed later on my work email. But I'm not the target so maybe it makes sense for them?

Can we provide specific names you don't have to improve the list for everyone ?
http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2012/120104vinyl/
Is motion capture not capable of recording full lip movement? The facial muscles look correct, but the lips are dead. For instance I noticed the 3d mesh lips don't pucker outwards when saying words like "you"