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Where would I go if HN shutdown for 1 month - reddit

Would I come back - definitely!
isn't that due to just showing a splash screen and loading the app in the background? I'm sure I read it somewhere. Anyway it is a smart way to make hardware feel faster and more responsive, I did the same when developing an embedded touchscreen.
I one day hope to be able to close an application on my computer by showing it my middle finger. It would make ragequits much more satisfying.
Really fascinating to see my Javascript vs Python speed (the two I type the most in), JS around 45 and Python around 65. Super interested to see what the blog post shows!
The problem is that it takes someone fighting a lawsuit for hundreds of thoudsands of dollars to get a patent declared invalid (and it's never a sure thing) , but only a few hundred or thousand dollars to get a new patent.
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You're right. Their marketplace model has been built out. Amazon's use of the locker system is an incredible opportunity and as exceptional validation of the technology.

And of course, the open platform to all carriers.
Maybe you should get in touch with the OpenSocial movement: http://www.opensocial.org/

Combine forces.
Plastic makes a portable device much more durable than aluminum. The impact is much smaller when it falls to the ground, because it is light. And the shock is not distributed to the glass screen that much, because plastic is more flexible than aluminum.
Check out Elastic: https://elasticsales.com/what-we-do/

(I don't work for them and haven't used them, but it sounds like they're doing exactly the thing you're looking for.)
They also need to set a precedent Samsung has a LONG history of knocking off the competition's products in particular from Sony, Panasonic etc. And I guess Apple is just trying to make sure they don't end up being the next company to fall from the top.
Don't know if I'll have time (or the skills) to finish Level 8 (it looks pretty intense), but the other levels were a lot of fun. This was done really well - thanks for doing it!
It doesn't really matter in a country like CR though - it's got a tiny population and online shopping is a pain in the ass, it can barely even contribute to a revival let alone support one within its own borders.
Here is problem. Patented algorithms/software usually don't have any physical world implementation. Thus it is math by your definition.
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No, regardless of UI, I think the dilemma of having to buy yourself the least popular one to get an extra t-shirt is important. And what would happen to your buisness model if everybody liked (and ordered) t-shirt A but nominated t-shirt B? You would have to ship two t-shirts to everybobdy, whereas your current plan guarantees that no more than 20% of customers get a free t-shirt --- which also makes it more challenging to play the game.
Ultimately, what makes patent trolls so dangerous is that they're an asymmetric threat: one troll needs only the resources to fight one lawsuit to be able to make thousands of companies pay the extortion fee, and while only one of them would have to fight and win, it isn't rational for any one of them to do so
Could that be sthe solution? Victims setting up shared defense funds to get the patents overturned, where each victim only has to pay a few thousand dollars?
Don't know where I'd go but I didn't "come back" to many forums, slashdot, digg or reddit when whichever one of us outgrew the other.
Well I believe that is my typo....So I deserve the blame for this!
Peter Thiel’s Quick $1B Facebook Share Sale Lacks Precedent
Driving a car? There's an app for that
I failed to address your other main charge. Putting "faith" in man made abstractions and scientific models, that is so often put forward by the religious (and the guy writing the nature article as well).

Let's clarify beliefs first. There are two kinds of beliefs. One is based on evidence, logic, reason, testable repeatable experiments. Rational mind has no option but to accept their truthfulness (sometimes after laborious examination of evidence or step by step verification of logical deduction). You could go on and deny obvious truth, but that leads to cognitive dissonance and is rather mentally taxing. The other belief is opposite, it is not based on any evidence at all and it is called faith. You are believing things without having sufficient or any evidence for it. Note also that all religions are faith based. If they were based on evidence, religion would be a branch of science, it would be a scientific theory. Put another way, if you destroyed all holy books they would never be re-created again in their present form by future generations. But destroy all scientific knowledge and it will be re-created again. Why? Precisely because science is based on testing your ideas and models. This is why science is often discovered and re-discovered by independent people, living in completely different cultures. This is why science in China, or India is the same as science in USA or Argentina.

It takes no faith to believe in Newton's laws. Who hasn't watched their physics professor use compressor to pump out air of two glass tubes and see feather and metal ball fall with equal speed, or seen the conservation of momentum demonstrated etc. Yes, it takes a lot of effort to test and devise experiments, but it is doable and many of us have done it for large sections of scientific knowledge. In fact, if it weren't possible to independently replicate an experiment and verify the results, then someone is doing poor science. It's simple as that.

Contrast that with faith based beliefs. It all really boils down to you putting faith in other people who say there is a god, and not only that, they also know his mind, what he wants us to do. And people never ask for ordinary evidence from them for their extraordinary claims, they just accept it. And what brand of delusion of this kind you get indoctrinated into is highly correlated with where you were born. And isn't it also amazing that what ever religion you get indoctrinated into feels like the right one? :D.

In fact, all discussions with the religious people always boil down to "evidence or shut up". The rest of discussion degenerates into psychology and dealing with fears of leaving various delusions.
His answers are really fantastic reading.

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/43690/whats-a-mathematicia...

What a sad thing, to have such a person leave us.
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and has been done a long time before that all over europe...
Such data is called ordinal (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_of_measurement#Ordinal_s...). You could use arithmetic means etc. if the distance between the categories were equal. Unfortunately, nobody defined what 1, 2, 3 ... stars mean.
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Well, in a decentralized social network you'd have to make sure the tentpole you are living under is able to hold the weight.

This is decentralized. In my expectation this network is not about a few celebs having millions of followers. I'd love to see it become peer to peer on the human level. Friends who are actually real friends, or at least people you have met and have had a real human interaction with.
Creating JOINS between Excel tables
I would use this service if:

1) Only an email and password were required to use it (I don't use facebook).

2) It were robust, reliable, and fast; artists without a label or a consistent way of publishing songs shouldn't be a problem. In other words, if I can't rely on this service to track all the artists I listen to, its value significantly diminishes for me.

With that said, I realize you're in beta, and you're off to a great start by addressing a real problem.
Very nice.

One minor thing: practice sessions are called "lessons" but nothing is actually taught.
When I saw the headline I thought data haven. Hilariously over-hyped headline. What is the NY Times coming to these days?
Orkut statistics are quite interesting - most of the people are 24-34, then 35-44 group is relatively small and 45-54 is much bigger.

I wonder how accurate this data is.
Like most people I put my Galaxy Nexus in a case shortly after purchase and never see the plastic.
I'd go to Reddit but reluctantly. Frankly I dont know of a good HN replacement. I'd certainly be coming back each day to see if it's no longer down.
I dunno, but Mouin HN is great for iOS.
I think you should call your server TBD and then make up what it stands for :) It's harder than I thought, but the "T" is obviously Tent ..
> to discover its public IP:PORT

What about switches that want to run from behind a NAT? Could it be that UDP was chosen with this in mind? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UDP_hole_punching)
Do you really want them to have to write SQL queries? There are tons of modern tools that solve this issue including the latest version of Excel (personal bias :)).

A simple tutorial on how to use PivotTables would probably get them 90% there.
Think Sea Sheperd.
I would be forced to go back to work :-(
It would be nice if you mentioned what was in the link rather then posting it without context. In this case: "It's Official: Vinyl Sales Up 39 Percent In 2011..."
I would go to a site where people know that "shut down" is spelled with two words.
I agree that the lack of touch feedback is a terrible experience. But this is nevertheless an amazing piece of technology that opens new doors to a lot of applications (in the sense "apply", not software). We've seen what the community around Kinect has been able to build with much less powerful captors. I'm excited to see what people might imagine and achieve with this one.
Moreover, nothing prevents you to couple this impressive captor with any other device that would provide you with other sensorial feedbacks.
And why narrowing it down to a control device? Why couldn't it be used to gather other kinds of input? Monitoring activity? Assisted vision? Who knows what people have in mind for it?
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What are some of the factors that go into determining which strategy to pursue for paid web applications?
But a PDF doesn't have to be A4/Letter. I published a book recently (ebook in PDF, ePub and mobi and paperback) and decided to use 6.69 x 9.61 inches for the PDF. I found that this size looks good on paper and on screen.
20 year old here doing his part to bring the average post quality on HN down to rock bottom!
Hacker News is 44% 18-24 year olds, 77% male

And they hate America and Jesus.
I use iTerm2 on OS X with window splitting, with focus that follows mouse. Here is an example using several vim processes:

http://i.imgur.com/Xsh8f.png

Of course, you lose the ability to use vim copy buffers between the processes, but it works well and I like the look of it.
Whats the accuracy of those numbers? In research, statistics are normally followed by a accuracy estimation.
I really want to like (and buy) this "publication as a richer experience" as we need to find a way of getting beyond are book-like mentality in building documents that will essentially be read on a computer anyways. However, I don't really understand how to apply this technique in a way that could be successful and fairly generalized (i.e., it could become my new writing style). For better and worse, static linear prose allows the author to control the story that the reader is perceiving completely, it is quite efficient especially if the author can actually write! Anything else, like figures with verbose captions or lists, is often not very effective and a paper smell (like a code smell).

We'll need many more experiments like what Bret Victor is doing here before we can successfully evolve what is basically a 7000 year old format.
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It lays out the windows automatically in Vim like dwm and similar window managers do on X11. Manually opening and moving windows is a bit tedious, this might help.
It is a studied fact that both myspace and twitter have been more adopted by the popular music scene (hip hop, pop, rock) than other technologies, and that both have much higher percentages of black users than other similar sites on the Internet (and in the military, it was mainly enlisted using myspace, and officers using facebook; guess which one they blocked after 3 months?) This article, for example: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2010/08/...

"Urban" seems like a pretty fair term for teenaged/young adult hip-hop and related culture people, which does include more black people than the general population. However, a black 40 year old college cs professor or engineering professional is more likely to be on facebook (or linkedin, or researchgate, or hn) than twitter, so it's not really a racial thing, it's cultural, which is probably more tied to age and interests than anything else.
According to Merriam Webster 'shutdown' has been used to mean the cessation of activity since 1888 at least: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shutdown, although M-W only has it as a noun.

Collins lists verb versions as well: http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/shutdown

OUP also has it: http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/shutdown
It says there "This is a 3-D model." below the thumbnail of your image.
Side effects are included in the absurd legal-patent-weaving language, to get around the pesky thou-shalt-not-patent-abstract-or-natural-ideas rule, but the side effects are not germane to the patent.

There is a logical dilemma with allowing patents based on software side-effects.

Patent attempt #1 is some computation made to effect side effect A.

Patent attempt #2 is the same computation made to effect side effect B.

If you grant both patents, you have acknowledged that the computation is irrelevant to the patent. The side effect, which is often the goal that was set out to be achieved through computation, is not a secret in need of patent protection to encourage public disclosure, so the patent rationale fails.

If you grant only the first patent, you claim that the computation in part affects the novelty of patents, therefore the novelty of math affects the novelty of patents.

This is taken to the extreme where the non-math portion of a patent is a general purpose computer. The meaningful parts of a patent are the math. The general-purpose computer that handles all the side effects is necessary, but uninteresting, and not in the least bit novel.

Most of the time, specific side effects aren't even mentioned in the patents. Here's an MP4-related patent:

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sec...

The patent, like other software patents, tries to tie the completely functional core (mathematical) idea to a physical computer, but what the trick amounts to is

any arbitrary math function + specification of a general purpose computer + money => patent

(insofar as the math function is novel and not trivial in the opinion of a patent examiner)
In my these are the only numbers that matter: "% change a habitable planet develops life" and "% chance change that life develops intelligence". Those are the most uncertain, and cause most difference in the result. Also, it's a bit unrealistic that smallest number you can choose is 1%, I doubt 1 in 100 earth-like planets will develop life.
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At Ikea, you need to know what to look for. The drawers are a problem. Solved by specifically looking for sturdier drawers.
I don't want to be negative, but $34 for a 124 page book seems a bit steep. What's more, the fact it's 37 interviews over 124 pages means that on average it's only 3.3 pages (including pictures) per 'interview' / example.

If we expect a standard introduction / conclusion to the book, then I expect the average number of pages per example would be even less.

Looking at the sample on his site, it doesn't exactly go that in depth with the questioning.

I think the key attraction to this book and many other 'self help / get rich / be successful' style books, is that people get drawn in by the 'examples' and hope that somewhere in the pages there is the answer that they've been looking for, the golden piece of information that's going to guarantee them success. However, their time may have been better used trying to execute their idea, rather than just trying to read things which reiterate the success of others.

- If this was $12 I would have not been so negative, but for $34 it just seems steep considering the potential lack of real value it will give.
No, more due to a agressive suspending of background processes. A app cant run in the background if it's not doing something that absolutely need to run in the background.
Why Twitter’s restrictions won’t usher in a resurgence in blogging
Have you been to the dojo? Most of the life happens on the first floor. Also, most of the parties happen where there's a giant garage door. It's not like the second floor is lacking in ways down and out of the building. It's also a converted warehouse, not much to light up. Would sprinklers be nice? Sure. But the place is not exactly a disaster waiting to happen.
Nowhere in particular, but I'm sure as hell my productivity would boost :)
Refactoring your data structures is different though, is it not? In an RDBMS, you have to migrate your data when the schema changes, correct?

If you have, say, 100 million records in Mongo DB and you decide you need to refactor your data schemas, how long will it take you to do that?

The problem is that an RDBMS is very rigid typically on data input but very flexible on data output. if you change data input you MUST migrate data with it. MongoDB and others are very flexible with data input but what you get out is more or less what you have told it to store. This is a very different problem. You lose the ability to continue to refactor your data structure semantics beyond a certain point. This is not really the case with an RDBMS.

BTW, I have started to get PostgreSQL object-relational modelling and it is amazing. I suspect that although the barrier to entry (due to knowledge requried) is high, multiple table inheritance ought to allow far more agile development of database schemata than standard relational models allow, and at the same time do full intelligent database stuff.
This is very great!

I was considering doing something like this in the terminal, possibly using an adaptation of gtypist. However, I the more I thought about it, I realized that I would be better off writing a module for my everyday text editor, since I would have access to completion, copy/paste, indention, macros, etc.

I don't want to 'talk down' all the work you did with this. I'm really glad you made it and I am going to use it, for sure.

Keep up the great work!
blaming the decline of the industry on the sound quality of mp3 is plain bs. well encoded mp3 with bitrates higher than 169kbps have repeatedly been shown indistinguishable from the original.

for an informed discussion and public listening test you may want to check the hydrogenaudio forums:

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showforum=40

more background info in this article on audio codecs by christopher “monty” montgomery of ogg-vorbis fame:

http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html
Death to the $700k Seed Round
Sounds about right, and similar to what happened between Google's real-time search and Twitter. Guess no one should be surprised about this happening if work with Twitter ...
r/programming is good
And I'm having trouble typing brackets () on Chrome + OSX.
Too bad, because I started to enjoy myself.
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Well, that's what editors are for! ;)
Reddit's code deploy tool is now open source
I'm willing to bet that any revolution in this field will involve Victor; one of the most fascinating thinkers in all of HCI.
I see a lot of smaller bands putting their record out on just vinyl, but providing it with a download code for DRM free MP3.
http://www.reddit.com/r/hackernews As long as everyone goes there, we can make it work.
No. It's not. Within the last two days, a comment was upvoted which implied that a VM like the JVM was the same as a virtualization platform such as Xen or KVM.
Never ever have I imagined I'd be inspired by what Arnold says!
>> we make it really easy for our users to contact us within the app

Care to elaborate on the details?

Are you using someone else's service or you built your own?

Why did you decide to provide 2 feeback mechanisms - email and in-app?

I see the value of user feeback, but isn't it quite burdensome?
I thought the context was abundantly clear from the parent, although adding the title undeniably provided enough information to allow me to skim over the link altogether!
It's even worse. The way things currently are incentivizes patent trolls to NOT create anything. Because then the companies they're suing might have a defensive patent they could use against the troll to exact a settlement. Patent trolls are incentivized to not create any value lest that value be used against them.
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I think this has just started to cross it. It's not perfect, but it's damn close. Of course, if they would have opened the eyes, I would likely think this was weird as hell.
The facial expressions did look eerily like Stalone's, yes.
I'm 23 too. I'm not on 4chan, but it may be true that I'm a little bit more careful of what I say here than on reddit (depending on the subreddit of course).
lol, fail math.
I am a programmer yet still I don't get what this is. If an app wants to send JSON to another app why not use HTTP for that. DNS will take care of the routing. The only thing that seems novel to me is their use of UDP which is faster then HTTP.
Same here. I'm using swedish layout, and it could not recognize semicolon

It wasn't even enough to press the corresponding button where semicolon is placed on English layout, I had to actually switch keyboard-layout and then press the correct button to get past it.
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To be honest, by the time they are ready for production, Java 8 will provide the most of the features they are promising. So for developers who only want to have lambdas and slightly better libraries (like ability to call filter on a collection), there is no need to move. Just wait for Java 8.

On the other hand, for programmers doing some more serious stuff than just moving data from database to the website, they offer too little to be attractive, and they actually haven't solved any problem that Scala hasn't solved (Ceylon's generics reification - a good joke, man). They are nowhere near Scala in expressiveness and flexibility and being only slightly better than Java is not enough for power-coders. There were some languages targeted as "better Java", e.g. Nice long time ago and they also failed.

From the alternative languages for JVM, currently only Clojure and Scala (and probably Groovy too) got some serious usage in industry. All others are still in kindergarden.
What is App.net to you?
noisebridge is in SF not mountain view.
Despite going downhill continuously for half a decade, slashdot still gets the job done for about 50% of the big stories that come thru HN.

For more startup-ish news, TechCrunch and GeekWire.
Quora.

Or I might actually get some work done.
Yeah, all that stuff is the article is great, but the Facebook experts here on HN (aged 18-24, most likely) said what Thiel did is no big deal. He's just diversifying. And besides, there's the upcoming Facebook Wallet (TM). It's gonna be big, big, big. Huge.

Bloomberg? What do they know?
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