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Geeks, comedians and academics are putting the fun back into science
It's right there in the second section of the list.
Regarding popularity by country: I don't know, but I would speculate that decreased access in Burundi, Guinea, etc. means they don't use the internet for mundane stuff... shopping or looking at cats.

Thus Obama may constitute a larger proportion of searches in those places than in the US.
Who cares? With most of the phones being sold with contract, this is just a gimmick. What does it have going for it other than a cheap price anyways? Poor camera? no expandable memory? No LTE? Poor speakers? Manufacturer with questionable quality record?
I'm currently on a $30 T-Mobile Mothly4G plan on a Galaxy Nexus. The catch is that, in my area, T-Mobile's service isn't quite as good as Verizon's, who I was previously with.

And that's it. That is literally the only complaint I've had and, for $30 a month, I'm willing to live with that.
I turn 35 this year, and I had computers with much smaller drives but the first HD I purchased was a 212MB for around $200 of my hard earned money. I bought it used. this also reminds me why a cd burner at 650 MB, more if you overburn was so incredible! given the size of hardrives now we need something well into the TB range to give us the same use. I enjoyed the jaunt down memory lane.
I would be curious to see a HN poll of people's sentiment towards job demand across the US and different countries. I know in both Silicon Valley and in Chicago demand is pretty high right now for all kinds of tech, but especially for the sort of young full-stack generalists that startups seems to focus the most on hiring. At one point in 2008-2009 it felt a little worse - I was happy to have a job at a big IT consulting firm - but now for the most part my then-colleagues and I feel like we have huge amounts of choice. How are other folks / other geographies seeing the trends in their area?
Your post reminded me of this other young kid I know and his friends who hunted for bugs for a tech company in exchange for online resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates#Early_life

I hope that inspires you in your current and future career!
I've heard it repeated that the Nexus 4 can be used with T-Mobile prepaid, but can it be used with Virgin Mobile USA? VM looks to be $35/month rather than the $50/month that T-Mobile costs.
I had the 4.65" Galaxy Nexus; it was still usable but just barely. I'd have a hard time being convinced to go any bigger (I'm now on a 4.3" Razr M; no fault of the SGN, I switched networks and can't stand TouchWiz)
You've been sold a lie.

There's a reason it's called Gene EXPRESSION.
A Singaporean friend of mine just saw my posting of the same United States editorial on my Facebook wall, and she suggested the 29 October 2012 article "A less exam-centric approach to build character, creativity,"

http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC121029-0000030/A-les...

featuring quotations from a speech by Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam of Singapore as a possible response. It does appear that people respond to incentives, and the Singapore education system has set up pretty good incentives for one set of behaviors, with an ongoing debate in that slowly democratizing society about what behaviors to encourage for the next stage of Singapore's development.

AFTER EDIT: I just reread all the other comments in this thread, in light of what they are saying in response to one another. I should respond to a couple that come from someone evidently much younger than I am, who has spent time in Singapore as a foreign resident (with what language background?).

At the top comment level:

Foreign languages are almost never taught

Grandchild to that comment (from same HN participant):

The three ethnic groups in Singapore

As a member of the older generation, I can remember when Singapore had a lot more than the current "three ethnic groups" (that would be Chinese, Malay, and Indian, by the reckoning of Singapore) as an actual linguistic matter. To both points, by the Singapore government's own statistics,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Singapore#Langu...

as recently as 1990 there was no one language of the four languages that are official in Singapore--Malay, (Modern Standard) Chinese, English, and Tamil--that was even spoken at home in the majority of homes in Singapore. School instruction has been in English since independence in 1965, but only a tiny minority of the population spoke English at home in my generation. I would have to consider a country that has four official languages from four different language families, NONE of which the plurality of the population spoke at home just a generation ago, a very successful country in teaching second languages. And if today people in Singapore think that "Chinese" is one ethnic group, they have forgotten a lot of ethnic division between Hokkien speakers and Hakka speakers and Cantonese speakers (who speak mutually incomprehensible Sinitic languages, all of which I have studied in addition to Mandarin) that is also very recent history in that country and other parts of the Chinese-speaking world.
I do the same thing at my work, but I have an honor system where people can keep a tab on a notepad. I buy everything at Costco as the prices are about 1/3 less than what you see on amazon. I round up to the nearest quarter to make life easy for everyone. I have a slightly different selection as well. Below are some of the hot items not listed on this post:
Nature Valley Bar - Protein (Peanut Butter & Dark Chocolate).
Individual Kirkland Trail Mix.
Individual Tropicana OJ.
Premier Protein Bars.
Premier Protein Chocolate Drink.
Lara Bars.
Trio Bars.
5-hour energy.
Cheese Sticks.
Vanilla Whey Protein.

My go to meal is Quaker Oatmeal mixed with Vanilla Whey Protein. I'll eat that 1-2 times a day. Cost for that combo is $0.75, not bad if you ask me. Just trying to give people some good ideas here :)
Design Freebies
Virgin (Sprint) is CDMA; impossible.
10gen is conducting free MongoDB classes on edX (MOOC platform by Harvard+MIT+Berkeley) currently.

https://education.10gen.com/courses

M101: MongoDB for Developers

M102: MongoDB for DBAs
Cool project! Just wondering why you decided to roll your own
parser. Is there a lua parser generator library?

I've been working on a source translator, sort of like coffeescript for VimL [1], and I can't imagine writing the parser myself instead a BNF grammar (but please correct me if I'm wrong, I only took a cursory look at the src)

[1] https://github.com/luke-gru/riml
> It sure didn't look like an afterthought.

I don't remember the marketing around it; I believe you they made a splash. But technically, it didn't look like IBM spent a lot designing it.

> there was CP/M-86 (in an IBM box) on the shelf right along side PC-DOS (IBM branded MS-DOS)

That was after IBM PC was already a hit. When it was introduced, and for quite a while after, only PC DOS was available.

> I saw nothing at all to recommend it over PC-DOS. It was not a "real" operating system any more than PC-DOS was.

That is correct. Also, when CP/M-86 was finally introduced, it had no software (all CP/M software at the time was 8080 or more commonly Z-80), whereas PC-DOS=MS-DOS had already amassed a nontrivial software catalog.

> There was no conspiracy against it, and it was not technically superior.

I totally agree, never said it was. But I do remember reading that the IBM thought process was that CP/M-86 was the "serious" operating system, since CP/M had business software already (wordprocessors, payroll software - don't remember if VisiCalc was already ported to CP/M at the time), whereas PC-DOS was a newcomer, and therefore cannot be taken seriously (except as a stopgap measure).
I didn't think I would like the big screen on my Galaxy Nexus, but now I don't think I could go back to a smaller screen.
IMHO, it may be a contradiction - there is no need for any specific program to encourage some specific group (even if one is a member of a given group, and could take advantage of the program for profit in the short run, because one don't get better in the long run by having it easier it the short run)

I can't say anything about paypal - I wasn't there, and I don't like to pass judgements.

But if they indeed were that dumb not to hire a good candidate only for the sports he plays, it's no wonder their product sucks more an more. Personally, I'm eagerly waiting for a competitor until bitcoin gets more momentum.

BTW one thing I'd like to say - the opportunity in coding is there for everyone - it's even more open than the NBA because the judge is the market, and with the current technology everyone can easily start a tech company and compete globally.

It's a pure and perfect competition.

There's no need to be hired be a company - you create your company and show your product to the market. If it works, if it does what people need, you will get money.
"Value" is an aggregate of features, service and price among other data points.

And contract subsidies are slowly falling out of fashion as phone tech stabilizes, more people are interested in prepaid, and operators realize that the subsidy game is making them all collectively lose money to manufacturers.
Android Strategy
Church numerals in and of themselves aren't that mind-blowing compared to finding out that the "predecessor" function can be written in lambda-I lambda calculus. lambda-I calculus is the variant where every bound variable has to make an appearance in the body of the lambda expression: %x.%y.x doesn't count as a valid expression since the bound variable 'y' doesn't appear in the body of the expression. Now, how do you find the predecessof of Church Numeral 3 (%f.%n.f (f (f n)))?
Is this a joke? I hope this is some kind of sarcastic prank to make a point. If it isn't then this whole startup trend,and that's what it's becoming - a trendy thing to do - has gone too far.
That certainly does not preclude early voting by mail. Mail-in ballots are entirely preferable to the inconvenient and understaffed polls in most every other state.
Go to gmail. On the bottom click on Other Sessions or something like that (can't remember the wording). It should show all IPs associated with the account.

Chrome Sync is notoriously bad at reporting what it is or isn't doing, at least in my experiences.

If I were you I'd turn on 2-factor auth and forget about it.
I'm not on contract so I don't get my phones subsidized (for this exact reason - I want more choice). I don't need LTE and in any case the carriers in my area charge more for LTE than HSPA+. The value proposition seems very attractive to consumers like me. And I'm sure there are many more out there who find this phone in the "sweet spot" of price vs. features. Price is no gimmick in the free market.
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Uhm, all I read was whine, whine and more whine.
- Too long unemployed and getting weird looks at interviews? Create your own consulting company, say "provided consulting to <your expertise>". Swallow down that your customers where your mom, aunt, uncle or your next neighbour. Why did you apply for this job? Expanding your horizon, sharpen your skills, new adventures, the whole shebang
- company having requirements no one can fullfil? guess what, the company is probably shit anyway
- get a job at some coder shop, even if it is below your standard
- if you have done consultancy for any money house - please don't call yourself anything technical (like speed traders) but go rot in hell
> "Underrepresentation does not equal racism" is also a great idea to cite - who cares about one's representation?

It does not 'equal' racism, but then again I don't want to even use the word "racism" in a discussion unless I'm 100% confident everybody agrees on the definition. All too often in discussions like this, I encounter people who have their own pet definitions for the meaning of words like "equality" and "freedom" and "racism/racist."

Now I'm guessing you are posting a rhetorical question, but I'll answer it as if you have an open mind and want to hear from people with a diversity of viewpoints. I don't measure results by representation, but I care deeply about removing obstacles to equal representation

> Profits are what matters

To you. Not to me. Or at least, not more than equality of opportunity.

http://raganwald.posterous.com/the-keep
I think this device is solid.

I'll probably end up waiting until some consumer reviews are out, but I can't see why this isn't a perfect albeit perhaps niche device for me.

I don't want a contract phone, I could care less about LTE and pure Android seems like a solid OS. I'll probably give this guy a go on either Straight Talk or Solavei. Worst case scenario is that I end up not liking it and using an upgrade on an iPhone.
Also as far as I know VM doesn't let you "bring your own phone". You can supposedly fake a serial number (or whatever identifier they use) of another phone that you purchased, but that's unadvisable.

I hear that Simple Mobile and Straight Talk are valid options.
What a poor review, I personally dont get the hype surrounding LTE (sure it's a great protocol but hardly widely adopted), or understand the need to spend the 1st 2 paragraphs bleeting on about it. HSPA+ does everything I need (and probably more).

This and the accompanying video are a much more informative and entertaining read. http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/29/3570034/inside-android-bu...

Regardless I will be picking one up! Cracked my Galaxy Nexus's screen this morning.

(NB: In New Zealand things might be different elsewhere).
Sometimes it's good for developers to use an average or slightly below-average machine (for testing, at least) so that they feel the pain of inefficient code more deeply.

With the latest releases of OS X, I am convinced the entire Apple development staff got SSDs way before I did.
http://catchvar.com/nodejs-server-and-web-sockets-on-amazon-...

This is what I found useful when I was first setting up Node.js on EC2.
Referral links in a blog post are a big turn-off for me. I know that they don't make the product any more expensive, but I still think they are a bad incentive.
> Death is unexpected and unwelcome. And completely inevitable.

DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
Completely agree with learning the clojure core functions. It helps significantly when working with clojures data structures to know whats available.

I also made the newbie mistake of writing simple hash mapping functions that were already well implemented. The problem is coming from Ruby,/Java you're not intuitively aware of the standard functions compared to going from one OO language to another.
SEEKING WORK. Remote. (I'm based in Calgary, AB, Canada).

I'm a generalist, full stack web developer.

I can quickly jump in to an existing product and get productive from the get go; making improvements, adding features, fixing bugs, etc.

The choice of language/library should not matter. I'm versatile; I can adapt to your setup.

I have experience with: Python (Django, Flask), Go, Postgres, CouchDB, Redis, jQuery, Backbone.js, Knockout.js, Bootstrap.

I care about what I do and strive to deliver quality.

I love working with other developers in small collaborative teams.

You can reach me via email: hasan.aljudy@gmail.com

http://hasenj.org
I don't think of MENSA == genius. More like the top 5% in smarts. True geniuses IMO are much rarer.
It seems to me that he did not keep his skills aligned up with the market. You've got to be looking 3 years ahead. Does it ever say what skills he has?
Totally, I went from the Droid OG to the Galaxy Nexus and swore I would never go any larger, although it feel's kind of small now after using a Galaxy Note on and off!
> if nobody is forced to contend with your mind, nobody knows it exists.

I'm sure this has already been explored somewhere, but I've always wondered what it says about us as humans that we consider our lives in isolation to be meaningless, but put a bunch of meaningless people together into a society, and impacting them becomes very meaningful. What's going on here, synergy?
Nice for a lifestyle freelancer, but could be problematic for a speculative startup, except as an occasional offsite. Might make the team soft. Perhaps a 'startup purgatory' instead?
sure, I don't mind mixing, but I don't vote for checking for exact resolutions, but rather ranges of resolution ratios. Instead of checking for "width == 586" check for width/height and checking to seeing if it's close to 16/9 or 3/2 or 4/3 and then using specific UI for those cases, but still keep the layout relative.
How was it life-changing?
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I think he would get similar reactions even without a camera. Imagine a stranger just sitting at your table or standing there staring at you.
* Some apps do. Developers that truly care will add manuals and accessibility, regardless of whether the OS requires it. Developers that don't care or treat it like boilerplate are a problem.

* Not all developers are good writers. Not all developers budget their time or money on good writers.

* Some developers stand back and let users or communities handle support.

* Some developers use their website for support, so it's accessible no matter what you have in your hands.

* One strives to imitate the platform. But if mobile devices ship with physical help booklets, what can purely-digital apps imitate?

* Some writers make their money off of App For Dummies drivel. Should developers interfere with that market?
Well it depends. Your argument about too few white players is a little misleading. Lots of white athletes go into other professional sports (football, baseball, hockey, soccer).

On the flipside, it's pretty hard for Latin American, African American, and Asian Americans to be full-time actors as most American shows/movies cast Caucasian Americans. Doesn't matter how good an actor the individual is if they are excluded purely because of their race.
> I was assuming you would write your own.

That only works if you do it in machine code (and your hex-editor is clean). The point of the whole thing is that you can use compilers from untrusted sources, just provided you use several of them, and trust that at least one of the compilers you are checking won't have the same modifications as the others.
Cloud Mining is now open source
Cloud Mining automatically builds exploratory faceted search systems. It leverages Sphinx as a full text retrieval engine and fSphinx for faceted search. SimSearch is used for item based search. The facets support different visualizations such as tag clouds, histogram counts or a rose diagram and can be extended with pluggins.
apologies for my ignorance :(
Yep. That and I'm sure that it sparked more people of color to move upon tech.
So if you suffered a brain injury, would you love yourself less?
What's so great about compiling to Lua?
Ask HN: Is there a legal way to participate in prediction markets?
I am a US resident and it seems that I cannot use my US accounts to legally pay for Intrade. I am wondering, considering the rise of prediction markets, is it possible for US residents to participate in these markets legally?
Very cool project! nice work, keep it up. more effects!
Couldn't you argue part of the test is whether the test taker can determine the test maker's thinking? ;-)
Virtual goods for Diablo II.
Really, really nice. Thanks!
Because their computers are clogged with viruses?
I'm in the US and I share your thoughts. Having seen LTE (on an AT&T phone), it's quite nice, but not noticeably faster than HSPA+ (T-Mo US) for general usage. I have no issue waiting until the various LTE networks are more fleshed out and the LTE chips are a bit better battery-wise.
Having owned both, I can. Not so much with web browsing but with compile/test cycles, every little bit makes a noticable difference. (Remember when Linux kernel compiles took 20 minutes? Now 20 seconds feels like a long time.)
I have the 4.65" GN and have no problems one-handing it. Of course, I'm tall with big mitts - I wear XXL or XXXL in gloves, but my 5'4" wife has one as well and has no complaints.

With all that said, I will say that I have to imagine the size would make things less than optimal for some folks, but I don't think it's a matter of device size so much as the way most software behaves.

I'd like to see more apps consider a bit more than simply extending their basic portrait / landscape layouts.

I'm disappointed I haven't seen more things along the lines of the old Xoom radial menu [1] or the split and / or off-center controls you can find in some third-party keyboards.

1: http://cdn3.jeftek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Xoom-Brows... (Couldn't find a more recent picture, the more recent version has several layers of buttons.)
I work in media, specifically journalism. By and large, they're "stories." What makes news "news" is pretty much the same thing that makes entertainment "entertainment" (uniqueness, continuity, composition, etc.). There's a big difference between gathering and filtering facts of the day and writing a news piece, which requires the gathering and filtering of facts, while presenting them in a narrative format, with quotes and conflict (which is sometimes called balance, but I tend to disagree with that argument). For most news with a short lead time, it's produced by formula (see: the inverted pyramid), and often decided by editors shooting from the hip as to what is a good story.
Glad you like it! We'll be adding more shortly!
Well sure, but it's still useful, just not something you might automatically want.

My credit card issuer effectively acts as an escrow agent, and I love that fact when ordering from companies. It has saved me more than once, too.
Star Wars one is the best :)
Bookmarked!
Alternate Headline: DuckDuckGo chief, trying to rustle up more users from Google personalization-fear-baiting, spoon feeds article to WSJ.

What'd I miss?
>Science used to be the opposite of entertaining...

In the late 19th century, scientific lectures attracted quite an audience, I believe. Perhaps science was more accessible to the general public, due to its lesser complexity..?

"Mythbusters" certainly demonstrated that there is a demand for science-oriented entertainment.
I loved the default one, it seems like Windows 8 metro dashboard icons' loading animation.
They certainly aren't obligated to, but when an employee of a business that does this complains about difficulty using software because of regioning, DRM, or similar, why are you so incredulous that someone points it out?
It seems like a lot of people over think intelligence and success. Properly balanced or even an excess of serotonin and norepinephrine are what primarily ensures survival and procreation, which generally translates into happiness and sufficient wealth. Trying to measure and identify abstract cognitive ability like IQ tests do is almost somewhat of an autism spectrum-esque devotion. While some smart men and women may contribute greatly to society it's unusual for it to be a personal victory or indeed be as significant as dozens of better predictors of personal trajectory. Over-thinking things may even position excess cognitive function as a net negative drag on success.
With Amazon playing the game of undercutting the entire market until everyone else is dead, the only way to win is not to play.

Every single purchase from Amazon — book or otherwise — is a vote for Bezos' monopoly over your culture.
This may have nothing to do with personalization. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/search-evaluation-at-...
"We also make use of experiments, in which small fractions of queries are shown results from alternative search approaches."

Many small experiments can lead to differences for a reasonably large fraction of queries.
10 happened before 2000, in 1997 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_versus_Garry_Kasparov.

Also, regarding 15, I believe actuaries are now expecting 100 year average lifespans for people born around 2010.

Also, 17 might arguably be true.

Totally agree with you regarding Omni, though. I was too young to really get what I was skimming through, but even just seeing the cover art at the library every week was really inspiring.