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$100 cheaper than an iPad with equivalent storage, but if customers compare the base model of each, they're the same. Not to mention that Apple's website offers the previous model for $100 less.
The best practical advice on willpower that I've read is from an old classic, William James's Principles of Psychology. It's a long and dense chapter and resuming it here doesn't do it any justice. But I will try anyway:

1. Holding your attention fixed on an action eventually causes you to do that action. E.g. try relaxing and imagining all the little motions and then the final state of making a fist. Your hand will, after a few seconds, move of its own accord and make a fist.

2. The second part of willpower is to tolerate distractions and difficulties. James's phrase is "I will have it even so". E.g.:

"Do the dishes"

"But the water is cold"

"I will have it even so"

"But there are so many"

"I will have it even so"

"But there's an interesting article on HN"

"I will have it even so"

Your mileage may vary (I'd certainly be interested in hearing back), but personally I've been using this technique to do a number of unappealing but necessary tasks without too much of a feeling of effort.

Regarding the article, I would propose that there are two kinds of willpower. One is "tyrannical", where you simply force yourself to do something; this feels like it requires effort, and is depletable. The other is more "persuasive", using techniques similar to the one described above; it requires more preliminary thought, but reduces or eliminates the feeling of effort and is thus not depletable.
So true dawernik. Most of it depend on the quality of the content, product. Let's care about the beautiful package when you are big enough ;-)
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Poland has still no access to the airplane remains: http://www.wbj.pl/article-59216-russia-to-return-smolensk-cr...

The wreck was left on open air for several months: http://en.rian.ru/world/20110112/162110789.html

..than washed by Russians: http://freepl.info/2380-tu-154-wreckage-washed-itself
For those who don't like TC, $499, $599, or $699. According to the mistakenly launched product page.
I think a lot of developers realise this, and resort to quick sugar hits to pump the brain up when working long hours (or maybe it's just me?). Of course this is a solution that quickly works against you.
From the article:
The Guardian...reports that George's team dumped about 100 tonnes of iron sulphate into the ocean from a fishing boat 370 kilometres west of Haida Gwaii in July.

From Wiki:
Iron(II) sulfate (Br.E. iron(II) sulphate) or ferrous sulfate is the chemical compound with the formula FeSO4. It is used medically to treat iron deficiency, and also for industrial applications.

So it's not like they dumped a bunch of scrap iron parts or old machinery into the ocean. This is a fairly common chemical compound with many biological uses.
He didn't wear socks or attend to his appearance. That's not made-up is it?
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http://hckrnews.com is all you need.
So if I keep drinking glucose every now and then would it benefit in keeping my willpower up?
Look -- as long as "data scientist" is a sexy job title, a lot of different jobs are going to claim they fall under that umbrella. I have an applied math background, and I'm fine with scientific computing, but I have much less experience with databases. I'm a very different candidate than a software engineer who took a machine learning course. Maybe in a few years we'll have more intelligent language for making those distinctions.

It shouldn't be surprising or bad news that some "data scientists" have deeper knowledge than others. We're going through a quantitative revolution -- many fields and industries are nearly untouched by statistical analysis/machine learning, and so there's a lot of low-hanging fruit in going from "nothing" to "something." Even somebody who only knows a little can add value at these margins. But, of course, that won't be true forever -- look at quantitative finance, which is very competitive and requires a lot of education, because the low-hanging fruit was picked in the 90's.

There's room in this world for the statistician, the mathematician, the database engineer, the AI guy, the data visualization expert, the codemonkey who knows a few ML methods, etc.
I help put on a yearly pop culture convention here in Sydney (http://www.smash.org.au). Started with 900 people showing up, now at 6000+. Kind of nuts. :)

(Quite an adventure, if not a profitable one; it's a not-for-profit association and we all volunteer our time outside of regular work.)
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As early adopter of WP7, i'll make that mistake again. Those devices always looks great on commercials and (biased) reviews, but when you start using them on daily basis you notice that they're missing some important features (like buggy notifications on WP7).

Also, metro apps often crashes on my desktop Win8 rtm, and not third party-ones ....
What if pigs are raised on these shrimp that have been raised on pig feces (recursive)?
Will invite you this afternoon so you get an idea! Cheers.
Whoever thinks they can create something that has "government approved quality" in 48 hours is crazy. We are not crazy.

As stated before, we wanted to use the data that is already there and make it available in a userfriendly way, something the current geocoders for OSM don't really do.

When you talk about the claim I make, that I wish OSM is going to be the first goto place when people want to search something on a map is still valid. It's my wish, not a general statement I'm making. And hey, it worked with Wikipedia. For many people it's the first place they go to when they are looking for information, so I think this can also work for OSM
Great! There is a need of similar solutions. However, a few comments.

The encryption is interesting but most developers will not care whether it is there or not. So if you don't need it yourself, don't spent too much time on it in future development. That is just an advice.

Second your database creation, is not simple enough.

WaspFactory.createDatabase("/sdcard/","myDatabase")

is simple, but why not having

WaspFactory.createDatabase("myDatabase")

and store the database at some default place (the private folder of the app for example?)

or even

WaspFactory.createDatabase()

and store the database at default place with a default name.

One last thing. Your store seems great to replace the default android preferences, because it can store complex data in a simple way. Keep the good work.
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It runs Office.
Hey - I'm inviting you this afternoon! Thanks.
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New things cost more than old things.
I really like the look of this. I don't mind Windows and if I didn't have an iPad - which I only use for consuming content and browsing the web - I would probably consider getting one. Maybe when Apple stops supporting iPad2 eh?

The problem for me is the price. With Apple you know you are paying a premium for what is a luxury item.

Microsoft's brand to me isn't luxury. Its functional or economical. Its like the XBOX. Its a nice system but its middle of range in terms of cost, design and specs. Maybe this is the start of Microsoft re-branding? The trouble is I still have memories of cheap laptops taking a minute+ to boot up running windows. I associate these horrible machines with the Microsoft brand. This is why I find it hard to see myself paying what is essentially an Apple price for a Microsoft product.
Since no one else has commented ...

I find it interesting that even this is tied to an Xbox Live Gold account. Questionable decision, but I expect this browser won't be used all that much. I think the majority of people use another device for surfing while at their TV.
Sometimes I'm a little sad about && and || as well (I'm a Python guy myself) but I get that Rust is trying to target C++ programmers first and foremost, and a little bit of familiarity goes a long way towards comforting newcomers. And judging by the number of self-proclaimed Python programmers lurking in in #rust (including at least one quite famous one), it hasn't been a complete turn-off.

Then again, the "C familiarity" rationale would seem to contradict the choice of `match` over `switch`, though I think pattern-matching is a sufficiently big deal to warrant a distinct keyword. It's an interesting comparison to Rust's old `tag` keyword, which was finally changed to `enum` because the easiest way to explain it was "look, they're basically C enums, but better". Personally I think the keyword should have remained `tag`, but you can't win 'em all. :)
Yeah, appointing the speaker is a problem. Good ones can be great, bad ones dreadful.
"Nobody in England"
Or Scotland, where he's from.
UK Government Blocks Hacker Gary McKinnon’s US Extradition
A REPL is extremely useful for learning, debugging (instead of using print statements, embed an interpreter to see exactly what is going wrong — IPython's one-line embed() for example), sketching (embed into an incomplete part of your program, try out a few things, when it works paste it to your source), and documentation (IPython's ? and ?? — completion is also part of that).
A little off-topic, but does anyone know why Modafinil is so powerful on willpower (i.e. capacity to power through things one doesn't care about)? Anecdotally it's as though it removes all "willpower barriers" - those little objections one uses to avoid doing things (e.g. "but the water is cold").

I initially put it down to it being used when people are sleep-deprived (as I find willpower is easier when sleep-deprived) but it's even more effective when rested.
We'll have to wait and see if a big part of that storage is not used by the Windows OS, which is much larger than iOS, unless they don't count that storage, but they might.

Also, it still has a regular resolution. I would expect at least a 1080p resolution at that price. The 9" Kindle Fire has one, and it sells for $300. That's $200 difference,and the Surface still doesn't have that high of a resolution.
It doesn't actually affect the decisions too much in these particular cases. The cases for and against extradition are invariably fought over issues of human rights, and the law is quite clear that British and EU statutes apply equally to everyone regardless of nationality, at least in considering most of these issues. While the person is in the UK/EU, the national governments cannot use their nationality to overrule any HR arguments against extradition, unless the law specifically prescribes a difference course of action based on nationality, which must not unduly remove any of their human rights.
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Ask HN: Can this be done in CSS3?
http://lostworldsfairs.com/eldorado/ Can the transition effects of the blimp images be done with CSS3, or do you need JS?
I am not a lawyer, but I feel comfortable making a moral judgement that there are ethical and unethical business practices, and a world of difference between a company which dominates by providing the best product and a company which dominates by destroying its competition. Heck, I'd even claim there is a third type of monopoly, an economy of scale monopoly, where a company dominates because its size allows it to profitably sell cheaper than any smaller competitor. It's winning because its big, not because it's good, even if it isn't sending lawyers after its competitors or selling at a loss to run competition out of business.

I'll also agree that no matter the basis of the monopoly every company must be watched carefully to ensure it doesn't start abusing its power, but I still think it is reasonable to consider how a company got to be a monopoly.
I'm glad to see this here. I've been a beta user and it's really helped me get a good view of how far into the future money will take me.
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Excellent comment, I thoroughly enjoyed reading that.

Would you mind expanding on your last paragraph re: Haskell ? After a few months of casually studying Clojure I've decided to switch my focus to Haskell and so far I'm very impressed and actually finding it to be a bit 'easier' to work with, so I'd be very interested in hearing more about what I should expect from the language overall.
Basically Clojure is a nice Lisp designed by a Java/C/C++-expert and programmer (!) (Rich Hickey) for himself. Lots of Java developers find it interesting, because they have similar programming needs. Then they joined him.

Common Lisp is a Lisp designed for Lisp programmers. As a Lisp programmer I want more Lisp, not less Lisp. I also want it close to the metal. If I use 'Unix', I want to have access to C and 'Unix'. Not so much Java. On the Mac I want to interface to Objective-C and C - not Java.

It's not that Common Lisp users will give up just because someone comes up with another Lisp derived language. We seen them a few times: Dylan, ISLisp, Newlisp, R6RS, Arc, Clojure, ... some claimed even that Ruby or Javascript were Lisps. There'll be more in the future.
iPad and Android will get Office in spring, too, and it will probably cost $30 at most, otherwise no one will get it, and moving them to these 2 platforms would have been a pointless exercise.

But I still fail to see how this is a major selling point on a tablet. I'm sure Quick Office and Apple's office suite provide more than enough functionality for most people, and an experience that isn't too cumbersome.

But what bothers me most about it when people mention this is that they seem to think that because it has Office, it just washes away all the app advantage that the iPad or even Android have on tablets. And that's nowhere near being true. The Surface does have a lower value because of lack of apps, and that should be reflected in the price. There's little reason in getting a $500 Windows RT tablet over a $250 Nexus 7 (half the price, same performance).
http://www.guildsmanship.com - game from a framework that models OGL-SRD based FRPG
That's not really what I meant. I phrased it incorrectly, forming my opinion as I wrote. I was trying to say that there should be specific rules that are followed in cases of computer crimes. Rules that should apply to all persons and that all countries should sign on to follow. I think this needs to be done because of the issues of jurisdiction. Treating everyone on a case by case basis is unfair and time consuming as this case showed. So you are right, a blanket statement of no extradition for computer crimes is wrong.
Only one post crosses into 4 digit territory...

http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=1000

...it's an interesting one though. Justifies sticking with HN as your news outlet.
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and yet, ironically, if it had been an englishman, anything unpleasant would have been cheered on by the scots (for those who are unaware - casual anti-english 'racism' is absolutely common, accepted, unquestioned).

i lived and worked in scotland for a couple of years.
This makes sense.

It's a "The way to Tara is via Holyhead" kind of thing.
Yes, definitely looks like a conspiracy theory (sarcasm):
http://goo.gl/YREux (by www.simulate-events.com)
Exclusive : Gary McKinnon wins 10-year fight against US extradition
In the unlikely event that anyone checks back, I'm holding off on making the visualization until the Felix Baumgartner team (hopefully) releases the official data, which would ideally include his vitals during the jump. There just aren't enough data points here to make an interesting visualization. I could extrapolate everything, but that's not the kind of visualization I have in mind. So I'll cross my fingers and hope the team releases the data in the coming days.
I know, I was implying that beagleboard/pandabaord may be being sold at a limited profit much like the launchpad boards, to attract interest to the platform.
Airplanes don't blow up randomly.

A proof of an explosion (which this is not) would be proof of an assasination.
HN brought down your site?

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Wasn't D the replacement of C++?
I was thinking more in terms of the way candidates are anonymously matched.

NB: I don't know anything about dating or dating sites.
His "victim" was in the US and he knew that, so I don't think its so simple.

The problem I, and I think most people, have is twofold :
1 - There was and is no clear legal framework for intro-jurisdictional crimes like this. The law should be settled and clear before it is applied, otherwise people cannot asses whether their actions will break a law.
2 - The US criminal charges and punishments with which he is threatened appear to be grossly disproportionate to his actual actions. This wouldn't be an issue if he were guaranteed a fair trial, but the connection between the "victim" and the "prosecutor" (ie. both US gov) and statements made by the prosecution and US Government suggest that he may not get a fair trial.
I think you underestimate the dominance of MS Office, and the ability to use it as a selling point.
Lack of Flash is mentioned with no further comment. Funny how things change.
Here's the recent top ten submissions into Hacker News (all above 440 points). I'm happy to see the top ten has a pretty good variety of topics.

* Conway's Game of Life, using floating point values instead of integers (jwz.org)
* Show HN: We open sourced Lockitron's crowdfunding app (selfstarter.us)
* 37signals Earns Millions Each Year. Its CEO’s Model? His Cleaning Lady (fastcompany.com)
* Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array? (stackoverflow.com)
* I Have 50 Dollars (ihave50dollars.com)
* Why was a scam company able to raise $76 Million Series B?
* The Five Stages of Hosting (blog.pinboard.in)
* Where has all the money in the world gone? (reddit.com)
* If Software Is Eating The World, Why Don't Coders Get Any Respect?
* Hit men, click whores, and paid apologists: Welcome to the Silicon Cesspool (realdanlyons.com)

EDIT: As rwos as pooriaazimi point out, these are not the absolute top ten, but only the top ten among the recent submissions. My bad!
My experience with Numbers on the iPad is pretty awful. Even at the price I kind of felt cheated. It might not be possible to do a good office suite on a touch centric device but I'm not sure anyone has really tried up to this point. The number of people needing such a thing is still relatively small (but obviously growing).
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Thanks for your comment and the good luck, too! Glad you like the screenshots.

Simulations are definitely on my roadmap, along with an API to let people extend the app themselves, and much more.

Euro, dollar and more currencies are supported, it's just "one currency at once" for now.

On bootstrap, localization etc: as this is a bootstrapped service (I'm a freelancer), I wanted to keep a very low overhead of development for now, so I pretty much removed everything I could remove, and leveraged existing stuff as I could.

I will work on a better/more polished UI, localization etc once we (my wife-associate and I) become profitable.

I'll have a look at your app, thanks a lot!
Look some bankers have made some mistakes. I'm sure you were lovely to the one that offered you a mortgage. What about the one that sold that mortgage as part of a pool to another so they could offer your neighbour a mortgage? We need bankers...
They could have released this with an Atom processor at the same price. Windows RT is such a huge gamble for Microsoft. It will either sell enough copies to push developers to Metro or turn a lot of people off to Windows 8 before the "Pro" tablets even come out.
Isn't this supposed to be expensive, to be in the place where 90% of other Windows RT tablet manufacturers will look UP to, but cut down on little details to keep the price low and another 10% of them to take it as a lowest feature set and build up from it for the PURE LUXURY segment above?

(I know, this is not a strategy to sell a lot of products, but it's a good strategy for building a thriving and healthy ecosystem around the product, and Microsoft seems to get this more and more, same as they seem to get open-source on the Azure and to open up in other ways... they finally realized that they are A DINOSAUR (more in the size meaning than in the backwardsness) and they need around them an ecosystem rich enough to support dinosaurs too, in order to survive!)
This was put to an end by "Early Day Motion 1623: Top Hats and Parliamentary Procedure" [1]

Quote: "That this House believes the procedure whereby honourable Members are required to wear a top hat or other suitable head covering during certain proceedings on the floor of the House should be ended; calls upon the Select Committee on Procedure to recommend ending the practice; and believes that this whole procedure brings the House into disrepute across the world."

[1] http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/business-pape...
Not the price point many people were hoping for.

So now I have to do a "proof of concept" that I can use it for business - I'm going to download Win8 and test apps before I ever buy the tablet.
You could at least create the appearance of order by creating an electronic system that registers the desire to speak, then selects speakers at random and/or in order of request or seniority, automatically alerting the chairperson at certain intervals to ensure a fair distribution of time.
We use Pivotal Tracker, Skype group chat, TeamViewer, Dropbox, and email. I'm pretty happy with this setup for daily/weekly product development and planning. I do want to give Trello a try though, to keep track of hi-level tasks (e.g. doing research) and on-going brainstorms (e.g. strategic product decisions) that are not immediately tactical/dev tasks. Would love to hear thoughts from people who use Trello or other tools for these purposes.
I'd love for there to be a "Show HN" filter as well. My favorite part of Hacker News is seeing what others have built.
Right or not right is subjective as other have said already, so what is right for me, may not be right for you. For me coding right is the following:

1) If I return in a month, I can still quickly understand what the code does.
2) When I modify part of the code I can do it easily without modifying too much other parts of it.
3) Someone else reading my code, who has never seen it before can read and understand it easily.

One other thing to remember is that right code also depends on the project you are doing. What is right for a small quick app is not the same as what is right for a big entreprise application. If there are many people in a project then you may need to code in a more documented way, but the same thing will be overkill if you just test a simple feature.

A great place to learn is from open source projects. Some of them have lots of contributors and if they don't their code right, the project will become a mess. Learn from their practice and apply it.

My very last advice is no matter what you decide is right code, be consistent. Don't code one day in one way and the next day in another way.
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