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The various languages in China do not begin to even approach anything like mutual intelligibility. They are not dialects but separate languages, much in the way Spanish and Romanian are different languages even though they both started as Latin.
Take all your data with you, and go talk to him. Don't just send a pile of stuff over.
What are the theoretical and practical weaknesses of Objective-C?
Hey, just like groovy's "".execute()
Is this your website? I'm getting this error - Fatal error: Call to undefined function node_access_needs_rebuild() in /home/wtuse/public_html/sites/all/modules/taxonomy_access/taxonomy_access.module on line 598
You seem to be talking about a "potential" audience. Statistics for actual usage is quite different.
> Movies and TV shows will be the least of English hegemony.

I disagree. Movies, TV, and Music are a powerful way to spread a language because it is a great content is the best way to learn a language, and pop culture attracts young people to the language at an age when it is realistic to learn another language.

Scandinavians tend to be excellent English speakers. One possible reason is that they don't dub TV there. Young people want to know English so they can talk about the cool tv shows and music, and they also get a ton of practice because they watch so much English TV.
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It's important to note that the batteries are replaceable with a visit to the Genius bar. In the case of this light, there is no such option. You won't be able to take 20-30 lightbulbs from your house and upgrade the radio in five years, you'll just have to replace the lightbulbs.
Well that's not very nice.
So much help, so few startups
Would you have any example of this, working out?
* I mean, you buy something on amazon, sell on ebay?
* How much you increase in the price?
That's still non-intuitive. Just do a search about centering (or X problem in CSS) and see the thousands of threads and questions and corner cases, hacks and exceptions.

The whole thing feels like you are stretching something beyond what it was intended to be used for.

Things like element positioning should be so so simple that if you search about it, you get nothing back because no one had a problem to ask for solutions.

Although I must say I'm not mocking CSS in particular, most web technologies feel this way because they were designed many years ago for a web that was supposed to have simple 'documents' like an article, text and paragraphs and today each component of it is expected to do a lot more.

It's not getting all that much better either because each new version and improvement is building on top of the previous decisions, etc...
I think this is really the money quote -

Almost always, having one major investor with a lot of skin in the game is better
than a “party round” with lots of people in for a small amount. When the company
needs help with a “party round” no one has enough at stake to do real work to help.
Conversely, when a single investor has real money at stake, then they have real
upside to help the company grow, and real money at risk if the company is in
trouble, so will be there when help is needed.
Ask HN: What are the best resources for learning CSS?
As a programmer, I'm interested in learning how best to structure CSS. I'd love some better information on the theory behind structuring CSS classes, hierarchies, etc.

Does anyone know of any good books or sites that discuss CSS in broader terms rather than explaining specific implementations of different designs?

Thanks for the help!
I'm not sure what point he's trying to get across, beyond a description of the current American healthcare situation wrt. founders.

My wife is an entrepreneur. I've thought about starting up at various points in recent years and health insurance is one issue that has given me pause. Right now, I'm happy to have a great job doing what I love that provides benefits for us both.
Fuck the audience. If they are so easily offended they should get therapy instead of calling others sociopaths. Offence is taken, not given.
It really depends on how you define a language and a speaker. I have heard estimates that English is currently the most spoken language of all time. (at least on earth). With over half of the worlds population being familiar with at least a few words, 1.8 billion people with basic competency, and a steady trend of English words being adopted into most other living languages.
This topic is stressing.

God says...
C:\Text\WEALTH.TXT

e of their land and labour, would
fall, and would be expressed or represented by a smaller quantity of
silver than before; but their real value would be the same as before,
and would be sufficient to maintain, command, and employ the same
quantity of labour. As the nominal value of their goods would fall, the
real value of what remained of their gold and silver would rise, and a
smaller quantity of those metals would answer all the same purposes of
commerce and circulation which had employed a great
Hi - the creator, Bard Canning here. That's actually a really great idea. I've emailed them about it. But, I'm not going to hold my breath. They don't appear to know much about post-production enhancement methods, etc. The "advanced" post-processing by the company shown involved nothing more than rendering the frames as a movie. They appeared to have done nothing at all to stabilize the individual RGB frames or to correct the histogram or color balance.
I wouldn't want to attempt this by de-converting the video footage - it would just be too ugle and low-resolution. But here's hoping that they allow me access to the original frame scans.

Thanks for the great idea, guys!
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Excel, still Microsoft's best product?
> The point I was trying to make was not that it cant be done but you end up mixing Xlib and xcb regardless. Its that xcb cant be used stand alone. In that sense its crippled.

GLX is the weak spot, not XCB. And GLX is not something that we can change. Hopefully the situation will improve, either through a GLX+XCB backend, EGL or Wayland.

You can't get rid of Xlib, but you can still benefit from XCB by using it for the non-gl stuff, which would be the majority of Qt, or any other X11+OpenGL app for that matter.

And it would make no sense whatsoever to try to use a pre-XCB version of Xlib. Unlike XCB, which is machine generated and (partially) formally verified, Xlib has had bugs at a whole different scale.

> By the way thank you for taking your time and writing those docs, being there isn't much on XCB as it is. Maybe you can talk some sense into the XCB guys to take a couple weeks of and document XCB properly.

XCB is a machine generated library based on X11 specifications. The X11 specs are the documentation you want, just apply XCB coding conventions like the XCB source generator does. I don't want to bug the devs, they have better things to do than writing docs for noobs.
Right, but I would be willing to do it.
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That's actually not a bad idea... the footage does appear to be quite long - and with having to stabilize the three RGB channel frames separately it would take three times as long.

I would probably have to put aside a significant chunk of time in order to get it done.

People have been so amazing and supportive of the Curiosity video - I might just give it a try!

It would certainly be a big project - but wouldn't it be amazing to make the first ever color movie crisp, clear and stable!
There was some good discussion about it on Reddit, and Twitter. I recommend checking out the reddit thread to better understand this point of view.

However, even though reading this stuff made me think the blogger is probably right - it's a little off-putting that he doesn't seem to think his speech code should apply to him: https://mobile.twitter.com/eassumption/status/24663647380006...

Makes you question the whole credibility of the radical feminist ethic, if they can't even follow their own rules. Or as I like to think of it after seeing that tweet, the "radical feminist reality distortion field".
Yes it is. Looks like a temporary cache issue. Cleared the cache and it's all back to normal. Thanks for pointing this out!
If you could actually guarantee that I would get a really high quality product, that worked, and didn't have lots of bugs (it can have a few tweeks still needed), I can customers people being interested. What you would need is to ensure that the end product is awesome and DOES work. More so what I can see is this as a business idea - where people can come to a company for an amazingly fast turnaround time. Dealing with web design and development firms is a disaster from my experience. Even the level of customer care they provide when you approach with a potential $20,000 is terrible.
If anyone's interested, I have started implementing Reynold's demos on an HTML 5 canvas:

http://www.etiennek.com/demos/html5steering/
Thanks - someone just did which is how I found this post.
We (the human race) would be worse off if we only had a handful of words or numbers, yet I believe that respecting words and numbers as property is nonsensical and harmful.
When I was on my own for health insurance, I went with Kaiser. It cost $120/month or so, which is definitely affordable (you may have to make a choice though - do you really need a cell phone with a data plan, or cable TV?). Many people bad-mouth Kaiser, even though it is an NPO, for their service, but I actually had good experiences with them (including a surgery). Our healthcare system actually is pretty great, if you do not believe me try getting a major surgery done in another country. We do need to work on reducing costs (particularly the cost of drugs and medical equipment), but there will always be a certain cost for healthcare until AI takes over (it already is doing accurate diagnoses, if you have trouble believing that). Many people make the mistake that healthcare is a "right" -- it is actually a commodity, like food, or trash service, or...you name it. I'm not against universal healthcare, but the money for it has to come from somewhere, and maybe our government is not the best solution for it given their track record of screwing up budgets.
This reminds me of HipHop for PHP. HipHop lowers PHP to C++, with a direct mapping for control flow (control structures, exceptions) and a runtime library for everything else. Apparently it works very well.
Your fallacious argument intrigues me. Fallacious because we can still live quite well without there being intellectual property. Could you expand upon your theme? Perhaps I'm not following.
You would enjoy Bill Bryson's book Mother Tongue. At one point (several hundred years ago) English was going through a period of simplification and rationalization but it was also during that period that dictionaries, newspapers etc become popular. Consequently some words had already become consistent and some hadn't and we are somewhat stuck with poor timing. http://www.amazon.com/The-Mother-Tongue-English-That/dp/0380...

Esperanto is an attempt at a equal international language for all. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto

Because English and English speakers are happy to adapt and change, the simplification is happening. Look at text messaging where superfluous extra words and letters get dropped, as does case. Even Hollywood is careful to keep language simple in their popular movies aimed at a worldwide audience.
Linux doesn't have Apple's budget, true, but neither did Apple, when they started the OSX project. Remember, when Jobs came back on board and made the decision to pivot to Unix, Apple was roughly 90 days from bankruptcy. Apple of 2000 was not the fearsome behemoth that Apple of 2012 is.

At the time, there were many commercial Linux distributors - Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE all spring to mind - and any one of them could have beaten Apple to the punch in offering a Unix desktop environment that was easy to use and, for lack of a better term, pretty. They didn't, though. Why not? I think the need to build on top of X is one thing that hampered Linux desktop environments when competing with OSX.
For all we know he could have produced the thousand ifs from the solution of a decision tree.
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Yes. But we were talking about Sparrow and Sparrow is an IMAP client.
One could argue that tyranny of choice is caused by inconsistency, rather than the choice itself.

For example, if you have five things to choose from, it's probably not too hard. Let's say you instead have the choice of 5 binary attributes, with any choice of attributes being available. Your five choices have now selected one of 32 products.

Now imagine you have to choose 5 binary attributes, but certain combinations of those attributes are not available. On paper, your choice could be said to be easier, since the product range is smaller, but the inconsistency forces you to have to consider every one of the 25 combinations (for example), and your brain explodes.
80,000 messages a day is still ridiculously minuscule. It's a rounding error. Average them how you like. Assume exponential growth. Whatever. It's still around the same number of messages that go on in say a single channel on freenode.
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I'm not a "you have to have a business plan" person at ALL, but working on one for my own startup helped me IMMENSELY in communicating the idea, the value proposition, how we are going to gain users, and how we're going to scale. Because I spent so many hours refining that document--just for my own benefit--I can speak about the inner workings of the business more confidently. It also gave me the chance to anticipate problems and address them before investors or customers could teach me about them the hard way. Obviously, a good business plan (or "business planning document," or "cool-ass outline," whatever verbiage you want to use to describe it) won't save you from a ton of hard lessons to be surmounted, but it gets your head in the game from the onset if you begin with one.

Besides the normal mapping and purpose you should outline, it helps to think of a list of objectives and then detail meaningful, practical ways you are going to achieve those. That's where you ask that investor for help, and bring all the data and numbers you can.
Throwing exceptions when a command returns non-zero exit status is very useful indeed. However, this isn't very different from using the shell's own && operator.

I still believe that wrapping shell commands with functions is the way to go. Functions can intelligently check their arguments and prevent propagation of dangerous (or otherwise obviously incorrect) arguments.
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Nope. It's actual monthly audience.

Got any (recent) data?
"To license the use of images or clips, please contact Science and Society Picture Library."

That's unfortunate. If they released the raw digital data to the public, I bet someone out there would take it on themselves to restore it much further.
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I would imagine posting a bunch of tweets at once with the same number, and deleting the ones which didn't match. That's assuming that deleted tweets completely disappear though.
I would say that I have the exact opposite opinion of you: the manual is not so great at narration because it is really extensive. Consider the example you gave: the postgres tutorial makes no assumption that you can even connect to the database or have the 'createdb' binary, and fairly exhaustively addresses each error case, whereas the MySQL tutorial at this stage presume you have a the mysql binaries and database session live already. In the stage of the tutorial that is most similar to the 'createdb' step is more similar to this page:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/connecting-disconnect...

Whereby it's presumed that if you cannot get a connection you should talk to your administrator and give up. That may not be bad advice: the exhaustive covering of error cases by postgres tutorial may detract from rather than enhance the exercise.

I agree that Postgres' default authentication system one uses for development -- based on the account name -- probably deserves a different kind of explanation. It's an approach considerably better that most other software that it's probably worth keeping (especially for someone who hates more passwords), in spite of figuring out a way to explain it.

All in all, I basically don't agree with the notion that it is "abridged." It could be improved, but I think you are repeatedly using these words describing the scantness of the documentation whereas I think it is borderline over-detailed as it is. Perhaps a different kind of information presentation is required, is what I think.

Although still nascent, this lack of narrative documentation is probably why Craig started writing http://postgresguide.com/. This doesn't do a good job of explaining how to install the software, but is a lot more conversational than the Postgres documentation:

http://postgresguide.com/SQL/select.html

vs

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/sql-select.html

Clearly, one is more complete in some sense, but it's not going to help the beginner.
Great points all across for bootstrapping. Unfortunately it is uncommon as many startup entrepreneurs look to seek funding before reaching profitability.
Yea the threat of free substitutes is really strong. Plus prices of real estate in NYC and Singapore are insanely expensive.

Where are you based now?
After fixing the header typo the other thing my script needed to do was watch for "VERIFIED\r\n" then close the socket itself. Not just "VERIFIED" and the socket being closed by the server.

A longer explanation,
http://jimlowrey.blogspot.com/2012/09/subject-action-require...
> ... get their own "hollywoods" and music on, and they also get at least equal footing in the world trade-ways (commerce).

And the way they do that is by including English. For example see the second paragraph of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollywood or consider the recent Korean pop success "Gangnam Style".
Now it's back, it must be related to the 300+ simultaneous visitors on the site right now. I believe I know what the fix is, I just don't want to risk breaking the site right now in order to address it.
Is it just me, or do these read more like a list of objectives to accomplish than a set of methods for achieving objectives? Let's look at a few random ones:

Plan and prioritize first to establish clear path for achieving your goals. Beware – planning uses a lot of energy and meet serious resistance from the brain.

Okay. Great. Planning and prioritization meets serious resistance from the brain. Got it. Any tips on how to overcome that resistance?

Do one conscious active task at a time. Brain has very limited working memory and processing capacity (about 4 items). Multitasking seriously reduce your IQ and performance as brain can work only in the serial mode.

Sure. That's easy to write in a blog post (so easy that I've literally seen hundreds of blog posts saying this very thing). But how do you reduce multitasking? How do you cut down on the urge to "just check email/IMs/Facebook/whatever for just 10 seconds"?

Start your sprint on the full power and eagerly run until the end of your committed time. Put yourself in the champion mindset to achieve your goals. Forget about everything else and run, run, run…

And what is this "champion mindset", exactly, and how do I go about achieving this Zen state?

I don't mean to be harsh, even though I've probably come off as being extremely harsh above. It's just that I've seen posts like this go by again and again in my HN feed. They all seem to say the same (or at least, very similar, things) and none of them seem to notice the inherent irony of posting productivity tips on a site that is so notorious for sucking productivity, it has inbuilt mechanisms to limit the time you spend on it.
So are you saying this is demeaning to yourself in some way?
Not sure I agree that this is magic. Syntactic sugar? Definitely. But it doesn't obscure any of the underlying logic.
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My point stands that the iPhone exists because of the scientists and engineers who created the technolgoies. Just because Jobs was the figurehead does not mean he should be attributed with the success of apple technology, which probably wasn't even developed specifically for apple.
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Just imagine what would have happened if 301/302 redirects had been replaced with delegation, OpenID style. We might not have an Internet yet.
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I wear the same thing every day for this exact reason
Because not everyone who wants to buy from the Apple store has a iWhatever...

It's ludicrously shortsighted, you'd actually think they'd want to make it easy for people with competitor products to buy from Apple not harder!
If you watch the explanatory video, you see that successive frames were subject to different filters. A spinning color filter (blue, green, red) ran in front of the film, and within each set of three frames, you had successive shots filtered for blue, green, and red. In any scene in which there was motion of either the subject or the camera, you'll then see a slight mis-registration of each of the three component colors. It's an artifact of the process.

Modern film works by combining all three colors on a single spool of film and bringing out the color through the development process. An alternate method would be to shoot with three separate lenses onto three separate frames, though you'd then get parallax color artifacts (as with the Prokudin-Gorskii process, posted to HN recently).
I doubt iOS is the reason they went through all this trouble. The performance even on the iPhone 4S is miserable.
Samsung: "It doesn't take a genius."
I think the nesting is more a symptom of too much coupling. Coffeescript makes the nesting _look_ nicer, but i dont think it solves anything really.
OK...I risked it, it's fixed. Thanks again for pointing that out!
been watching shark tank off and on for a few seasons, love it!

always wondered why it didn't provoke much discussion in Silicon Valley... at least that I was aware of. most of my friends don't even know about the show. Until now at least :)

What's been most interesting are the types of companies and the investor perspectives that seem to vary enough from what you hear about here in Silicon Valley that it makes you think...

The bar for positive reactions from the sharks is definitely to have "traction" in terms of real revenue/sales... going in front of them and saying you have thousands or millions of users probably won't cut it (except maybe with Cuban) but who knows, haven't seen that sort of company present yet...

on one of the past seasons, there was a Silicon Valley type startup that got acquired by Chegg in 2011 called NoteHall
Only one master bulb has a full WiFi setup, which consumes 2-3W. The rest of the bulbs communicate with the master using an 802.15.4 mesh network (which is very very energy efficient).
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The bulbs communicate with their master bulb using 802.15.4, so you'd just need one replacement master that supports whatever new wifi standard emerges. Of course the company itself also needs to still exist in 25 years...
Android's XML layouts feel a lot like a non-braindead web. There are a lot of similarities really, but simple things like vertically centering an element are as easy as they should be.

Text scaling can be a PITA though.