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The 1850-1880 campaign to abolish patents:

> Abolitionist lobby faded away mid-1870s, as most European countries retreated to tariff protection (prompted by influx of cheap N. American grain and severe economic downturn).
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.usc.es/epip/do...
An web app like iOS5 Map
I can do 25mph on my road bike on a flat road for 10 minutes, and i'm not that good of a cyclist. 25 mph is way too slow for city speed limits and nobody drives it as a result. The minimum standard should be 30mph. In Canada the standard city speed limit is 50km/h, which converts to about 31mph. I find in Canada that people tend to follow the 50km/h speed limit far more readily. Nobody really follows the 25mph limit in the USA.

Since people like even numbers, the standard speed limit in america should be 30mph, not 25mph.
The system you're describing (which is a real thing) would allow you to measure your absolute orientation.

The gyroscopes in iDevices only measure rotational acceleration, which is only the second derivative of your orientation, so you need to do a bit more work to extract an (slightly error-prone) orientation out of it.
Cool experiment! Have you thought about measuring your waking body temperature as well (as an indication of your basal metabolic rate) ? What are you using to measure your blood pressure?
None! (ok one ridiculously small thing - you could add a Favicon). It will obviously change as you scale to more campuses. Exciting! :)
Microsoft: 'To fill 6,000 jobs, we'll pay $10K per visa'
Better brakes. A porsche boxster will stop a lot sooner than your same weight honda civic.
I think it's fucking gorgeous.

On what could be improved:

-Too much text in the lower left. You can use less characters and communicate the same thing better. Such as...

-'Leave your email and we'll let you know when Shoutt arives' change to 'Request a beta invite' and change from 14px to 18-20px. Alternately, remove this text entirely and change button text from 'Submit' to 'Request Invite'.

-Logo could use a bit more spice

-Where you say 'what do you want to shoutt about', I'd use your logo in place of 'shoutt'

-'an app for you and your campus' can be moved under the logo and put it on one line instead of two. Alternately you can move 'Exclusively at Stanford University' under the logo.

-Make the button and email form a bit smaller in relation to everything else. And consider something with a more low-key/elegant look, like rounded corners and with effects when the cursor is in the box: see Bootstrap forms. I'd also change the placeholder text to a more low-key font color, same with the button color. It shouldn't draw so much attention (at least not if it says 'Submit' if it says 'Request Invite' drawing attention is good).

Just incremental improvements, everything looks great as is. Feel free to email me if you want to follow up or for future feedback.

Good luck!
I love the ad for Southwest at the bottom.
You could have been thinking about Elite Plus from 1991, which I only found out about yesterday

http://www.frontierastro.co.uk/Elite/eliteplus.html

Also an OpenGL version of Frontier exists, base on the disassembled Atari ST release

http://tom.noflag.org.uk/glfrontier.html
> existing nuclear powered aircraft carriers don't always have large amounts of electricity to spare

The limitation isn't the nuclear reactors, it's the electrical generators, which are only sized to make a small fraction of the total power the reactors are capable of. Most of the reactor power is for moving the ship, not making electricity.
Cool experiment! Have you thought about measuring your waking body temperature as well (as an indication of your basal metabolic rate) ?

I haven't thought of that and I don't know of a good way of measuring that. Currently, I only count the total cumulative steps roughly in a 24 hours period.

What are you using to measure your blood pressure?

I just use a blood pressure cuff.

If you want to know about my process for selecting tools and using them, see the section on tool on my essay I linked to in the original post.
Thanks for that - just added it.
Unless you're LaunchRock or similar your product is not a landing page. Feedback on a temporary "give me your email address" placeholder page is the last thing you should be asking for and especially acting on in any stage between deciding to make something and launching something.

Energy spent on your landing page is energy you should have spent preparing to delete it.
> 600 MW total, although I'm not sure if that's the output of the steam powered electrical generators, or if it's the theoretical amount of energy in the steam coming out of the reactor

It's the latter. Most of that power goes to moving the ship, not making electricity.
Does anyone know what the buttons do? I could venture a guess but I'm not like... 100% clear on what does what.
How many people have actually been asked Fizzbuzz in an interview? I recently interviewed at several places, before deciding I'd rather try my hand at independent consulting. At least two were companies with (apparently) superb engineering teams. But no one asked me this question, or any preliminary coding question at all. I was asked to code, but only after the companies had paid money to fly me out, put me up in a hotel, and have their team spend a day talking with me. I would be delighted to be asked this question, because I'd take it as a sign that the company values its time and is discriminating in its hiring.
In a public capacity, certainly. The DHS should work with other branches of government to ensure that the conversations of all public employees are recorded and sent to the public at large for review.

By having her conversations recorded and played back in Wal-Marts average citizens could report any suspicious activity she makes to a Wal-Mart manager. What if a Wal-Mart customer recognized someone she was meeting with as a terrorist in disguise. Or that someone had brought more than 2 oz of water to a meeting and that it might be a bomb.

These are important measures that she should be taking to ensure her freedom. Just like the government monitors our conversations at 655 Folsom to protect our freedom, we should monitor theirs to ensure their freedom. Government officials usually enjoy the most amount of freedom in a society, we know that terrorists hate us for our freedom and we know that they've attempted to destroy government buildings during 9/11, therefore the public should be on high alert to help government officials maintain their freedom by monitoring all their communications. It's really the least we can do to protect them from freedom hating terrorists.

Unless she's a terrorist herself, or doesn't love freedom I'm not sure why she would be trying to hide her conversations from us.
I don't think the distinction is that clear-cut.

One of the reasons that governments don't want to write good laws is because there is too little incentive to write good laws, and too much incentive to write bad laws. One solution might be to replace those irresponsible lawmakers, or at least augment them, with those who actually do have an incentive to write good laws.

Participatory democracy is not simply the idea that more people can write better laws. The number of participants, by itself, is meaningless. Part of the idea is that if you invite a diverse range of individuals and groups to participate in the process, at least some of them will have enough motivation, passion, and intellectual prowess to outmatch the ones who don't. Open-source software might not have any performance advantages over proprietary alternatives, but at least it will be easier for somebody to spot a backdoor.

I have a lot of respect for people who are trying their best to curb the influence of money on politics. But if the idea is that politicians will want to write good laws once the influence of money is gone, I think that's just as naive as the idea that you're criticizing. No matter how we tweak our campaign financing regulations, there will always be people who don't want to write good laws, and those kinds of people have an unfortunate tendency to want to become politicians. To ignore this crooked aspect of humanity is a fundamental misapprehension of how government works.

So, electing the right sort of people is only half the solution. The only way to ensure that those who are elected keep wanting to write good laws is to force them to write good laws or else face severe repercussions (e.g. being recalled or thrown in jail). But in order for the rest of us to detect deviations from good lawmaking and inflict appropriate repercussions on responsible parties, first we need to know what the hell is going on. So even if having more eyes does not automatically lead to better laws, at least it will make it a bit more difficult for those who write bad laws to get away with it. It's a lot more difficult to get away with a backdoor if the relevant commit was signed with your key and the whole world knows it.

"Our elected 'representatives' don't represent us in any literal sense, as if we were doing the ruling 'through them'. That is nonsense. They rule and we don't. But because we can easily deprive them of power at certain intervals, they have (at least theoretically) the incentive to rule in a way responsive to our interests." - Jean Hampton, Political Philosophy
Such as declaring thermonuclear war on android, that's a business decision which was made for business reasons, and has been great for business.
Hi there. I think there's been a misunderstanding.

We're actually launching this week at Stanford (our app has already been approved by Apple). The launch page is to get the email addresses of interested people and to create a pre-launch buzz at the school. We also have our pre-launch marketing on the campus going on.
The map sort of explains the concept. Don't have the points fade away: let them stack. Gives us time to read the texts, and let the messages aggregate on screen.

A real flourish would be to show a device with your app running on it. Same deal: phone, black background, white text box. Show the message text typing out on the phone, have it disappear, then fade in the message. Now the concept is crystal clear.

You can get rid of Fall 2012 probably. But otherwise really nice and polished. Looks great on a big screen.
Because she's throwing around the term casually, like people do? "I'm really OCD about this" ≠ actual self-diagnosis of OCD
The dolly shot (the rails shot) near the end stutters on Chrome 21 on Mountain Lion. I think it's probably always stuttering, but it's only really obvious then. Maybe cut the dolly shot?
I would pay for any service if I had guarantees that my data would not be sold or used for third party profit in any way.
Hey doctorpangloss, thanks for the feedback!

Once we launch (this week) we're going to change the site to have much more information, including a demo of the app.
Well, second to none of the operating systems I am using (also includes Mac OS X and couple of Windows versions). The point being is that package management on OS X is not on the level of Ubuntu (or Debian for that matter).
It's pixel-doubled like every other non-native-Retina app on your Mac. Why is it Firefox's problem if Apple didn't bother to go to the trouble of making non-Retina applications readable on a Retina display? The fact that they don't even bother to do filtering when pixel doubling is probably a big contributor to readability issues (note that Vista and W7 do filtering when doing DPI adjustment, likely for this exact reason), not to mention the fact that it appears to be doing subpixel antialiasing when there are no subpixels to address (WTF, Apple?)
You can use a separate GPS logger to record your tracks and import them back to the app. GPS logger is usually small, light-weight, long batter life, and better in receiving GPS signal when there is no Internet connection. You just need a GPS logger and a charger. That's all.
I think we do have a misunderstanding - I see this page as the modern day equivalent of an "under construction" page, that should be replaced as soon as humanly possible because every eyeball on it is an eyeball wasted.

Even the early signups have to be convinced twice to try your app, the fewer people who see your launch page instead of your launched page the better.
Stephen Few: Big Data, Big Deal
Not correct. Multiprocess browsers like Chrome don't actually run an entire browser in each process (that isn't realistically possible) because the individual tabs need to collaborate for the proper functioning of things like caches, cookies, etc.
When the REC button is red, the app start recording your locations (even in background). Make sure there are at least 3 GPS signal bars, or no locations will be recorded.
For me both windows look almost the same. And definitely Firefox is not "unusable" from this single screenshot.

Could you write more what is wrong with firefox on this screenshot?
He continues on, saying that [ground calibration] doesn't work for very long due to errors in the reported rates of change.
How about an educated electorate that votes and votes good representatives into office who will diligently represent the interests of their informed electorate? Read through that sentence again, let it soak in, you will begin to see everything that is wrong with the American political system.
Some new importing sources are considering. Google Latitude is no doubt one of them. Stay tuned.
The rule of law and tenth amendment mean that the federal government can't just do whatever the president wants. They have to be authorized specifically by Congress, and event then there are limits.

Congress, in the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act, has said that the feds can ask for records, and can additionally forbid people to say that they have been asked. It doesn't say they can compel people to lie.

If the government orders them to do it, they can take the government to court, or they can just say no. The government then has to arrest them and try to convict them. Either way, a court would have to decide for sure. In this case, probably the Supreme Court, in that compelled speech has often been ruled as against the first amendment.
I recommend RMaps for Android. There's an alternative version of Mobile Atlas Creator out there on the internets that makes map downloads from multiple sources like Google Maps, Bing Maps etc possible.
Thanks. We already fixed this on our website, and will be fixed in the app in version 1.2 (version 1.1 was already submitted for review).
Hi Wilfra.

Awesome! Thanks for the feedback...really useful. We've changed the "Leave your email..." to "Request a beta invite". And we made the fonts slightly low-key.

We'll look into the other changes for the layout and incorporate them.
Man, I wish that Amazon would run the health care system. They are so smart. They always beat the system.
It's actually only tens of square meters.
Open source death-ray would possibly work (no I havent read TFA only the title)
"Anti-Apple postings are reflexively upvoted by dopes."

What exactly do you mean here? Your opinion doesn't have to hateful or demeaning.
If only those pictures were of the same thing. The first one is obviously the front of a rack, where all the cables are meant to be non-permanent to afford you flexibility.

The second picture is the back of a rack of punch-down blocks, which are meant to be permanent. The only time these changes is when there is a bad wire; vs the front of the rack, you change that wiring all the time. That being said, I've seen bad wiring, rather than be pulled out of the bundles, just cut and a new, supplementary cable put in in it's place, and not strictly part of the established bundles (but still neatly run).

The back of the racks are neat purely so you can be flexible on the front. Now, obviously, one can create neat front-rack cable layouts too, and potentially run into the problem you had redoing all the bundles, but the neatness is directly related to the intended permanence of the wiring.
Thanks, I'll take a look. Looks comprehensive.
(1) It's once-seen, always seen.
(2) You can use a separate GPS logger to record your tracks and import them back to the app. A dedicated GPS logger is usually small, light-weight, long battery life, and better for receiving GPS signal when there is no Internet connection.
I once had a candidate claiming to be a senior PHP programmer solve fizzbuzz by doing something like this:
if (strpos($i/3, ".") != null)
or something like that. I was sad.
Do you measure these at the same time of the day?
Intel debuts Clover Trail for tablets, launches new Atom Inside brand
Unfortunately, iOS 5 is required at least.
Thanks. We already fixed that. ;)
IMO phone screen (if it really is a "screen" and not a full "interview") should be fifteen minutes or less. I usually ask a few very specifically CS101 type questions to see if they remember any of it, and if they don't, they don't come in for an interview.
The utility treats each checked-in locations as part of a track. But you don't actually follow the route to visit each places, right? That's why those locations won't be imported. You need to find a tool to convert those locations to tracks. Each track only contains one location. That will work.
In the 'under construction' context - of course it should be replaced as soon as possible - startups want to launch. But having one there is much better than the alternative, which is to have nothing. Think about it more in terms of market validation than customer acquisition.
The Inflection Point Around 40
Yep. And know the percentage of area you have explored around the world, around a continent, and around a country.
Any difference between the gyro and the cabin therefore indicates the orientation of the plane relative to the ground.

Unless you flew far enough that local level ground is no longer approximately parallel with level ground where you took off.
Man, that's exactly how I felt. I think we need a tl;dr for this -- it was incredibly frustrating.
> personal email remains personal

If you believe that, why cite Palin's Yahoo! account as an example?

> [Napolitano is] isolated from what [she is] protecting

Her choice is congruent with the limitations of the protocol, and for that I respect her.
If. If I can restart a web server without restarting memcache and have a new process handle new requests while the old process handles existing requests, it's clearly possible for a browser to change its rendering engine for new tabs.
Heathrow has always been terrible for me - except once, when I entered the UK from New Zealand without showing anyone my passport. I didn't even get it out my bag. This was pre 9/11 but it weirded me out so much that I nearly walked back to check with someone that all was ok.
Finnish Nazi Terrorist Site Abusing Tor For Death Threats
There's no need for anybody speaking English natively. Even without, English is the natural common language of the EU. A nice example is Pan-European university student networks such as IAESTE, AEGEE and BEST. English is the common language inside these organisations. The members do not even think twice about it. This is the case despite the fact that AEGEE is a French acronym and BEST has no member universities in English speaking countries.

Similarly, virtually any company in Europe that has more than one accepted work floor language, has $NATIONAL_LANGUAGE and English. And any company where the work floor language is not the national language, it's English.

Really, this battle has long ago been won. Only some archaic government institutions like the EU itself pretend that languages other than English still make a chance at becoming the lingua franca of Europe. Whether or not the UK currently is in a Euro-mood does not influence this at all.

Oh, and you forgot about Ireland.
End of the Bubble or Just a Correction?
The text is blurry on the Retina MBP in Chrome. Looks fine in Safari.
>elected official

who voted for her?
The following CSS will fit the background image to the page dimensions and eliminate the letter boxing for all viewport ratios.

-webkit-background-size: cover;
-moz-background-size: cover;
-o-background-size: cover;
background-size: cover;

Before: http://bit.ly/NY7ZtE

After: http://bit.ly/POyEaA
they are not good at handling some of alerts(transaction alerts), hard to manage if u have multiple accounts and ur transferring money between those accounts.
The app looks pretty great. Being able to incorporate the geolocation data from foursquare, instagram, flickr, facebook, etc. would aid in not feeling like you have to think of your traveling as starting when you downloaded the app.
I lived in Finland for a year 10 years ago, and my experience is the exact opposite.

They have a funny accent though.
You're right, and it's also data and algorithms. A handful of fancy patents on basic smartphone functionality will be no match against hardcore algorithm development and data management.

Google maps is astonishingly good. The data is accurate, and it always maximizes the amount of information at any zoom level. The depth of quality isn't about features, it's about mastery of a complex dataset.

It's not just maps. Google Now vs Siri. Ask yourself which will evolve faster? Where will these products be in 2 years? 5 years? I predict an increasing gap.

Google has deep experience developing algorithms and managing data. Apple will have trouble matching this.

I love Apple. I used to work there. But they need to wake up a little.
If Google new there was a conference room in a persons current building named the location of an event I would bet it would be smart enough to use that instead. Maybe as more places start using Google indoor mapping this particular problem will be fixed. Most of the errors will likely just be a lack of context provided to Google or a lack of information available in a format Google can access.
If you have a launch date a countdown would be great, as would giving some sort of incentive to share.
I just use a blood pressure cuff.

I was wondering what kind of cuff. The electronic ones or the old-school ones? (My original question was too vague, sorry about that.)

As for the wake up temperature, measure your temperature as soon as you wake up (keep an electronic thermometer on your bed table.) Some people also measure it 3/6/9 hours after waking as well.
Why would someone use Shoutt instead of something like Twitter or Facebook?
Germany real GDP growth per capita is very close to that average, so without the German industrial powerhouse, it would be pretty much the same.
As an amateur pilot, it sounds like this was an unfortunate course of events, but was handled properly. For example, when the altimeter stopped working, it was the right decision to turn back to Heathrow. When the second plane was deemed not airworthy, it was the right decision to not fly it. There are many reasons why an airplane can be unsafe to fly, and it's not always possible to prevent these incidents from happening, even with good maintenance. The best that can be done is thorough preflight checks while on the ground, and an emergency landing if issues crop up while airborne, however slight.

I'll concede that American Airlines could have treated its customers with more courtesy, offering them food and drink. It's certainly possible that American could have performed better maintenance on their planes. But it's good to know that their pilots are safe, and won't risk flying over the ocean if they have a slight (realistically irrelevant, given GPS) instrument issue.
Butterfly Labs releases production specs on new Bitcoin mining ASICs
> Energy spent on your landing page is energy you should have spent preparing to delete it.

This "Lean Startup" attitude is a great way to suppress inspiration, creativity, etc.
As a former long-time engineer there, it's nice to see them getting some praise here - thanks - there's a ton of impressive technology and data behind their engine, and that's without me knowing what they've been up to in the past year or so.
C-ObjC Block and Debugger
Once it's commercialized it won't be off the beaten path for long.
Wow thanks! We made the change.