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It had to compete with general ignorance of its value. Many would argue that's a more difficult hurdle.
they're acting perfectly rationally: they see third party clients as a threat to their ability to monetise, so they're killing them

why anyone would expect a business to do anything else is beyond my understanding!
Another useful tip for navigation - when using the fuzzy search, you can start typing a filename to jump to that file, then with that still in the search box, hit # and start typing a keyword to jump to in that file.

So if you wanted to find something with the class btn_order in index.aspx, in Windows you'd hit CTRL-P and type "index#btn", hit enter, and there you are. You can of course scroll up/down through the available files matching the filter before you hit # -- the keyword search applies to the currently selected file.
I think that just hits on a larger organizational problem that seems to be common to both national parties:
A staggering amount of the services and resources that I would think the state/national party would build up and have on-hand, they simply don't appear to have. (To say nothing of the coordination they don't seem to have)

e.g. Obama wasn't building/running a DNC-wide system and sharing it with all the candidates. His campaign built it on their own, for their one race and now-built, all indications are that it's going to be wound-down or morphed into a citizen mobilization sort of effort to drive "call your congressman"-type efforts.

Maybe political campaigning laws prohibit massive transfers of 'property' like that. I don't know. But it doesn't even sound like the DNC is looking to build their own system to share with future candidates.

And perhaps political campaign laws prohibit the national party from transferring down that much assistance to local races. That, I also don't know. I don't even know if, say, the GOP could legally lock up a sweet bulk price for buying signage/buttons/tshirts/etc and act as cheaper-middleman for their candidates.

There seems to be a hard line between each campaign and the rest of the organization and that leaves each campaign is largely 'on their own' for anything other than maybe lining up endorsements or speaking dates to get friendly faces to show up for local campaign events.
No noticeable change (still cannot read it).
I went used car shopping two weeks ago. I was genuinely looking for a car, but the social scientist inside of me was equally curious to observe the sales tactics. I understood many of their tactics to try to get me to sell myself the car. But I didn't get one thing: handing me off to several different people when it was obvious I wasn't totally sold on the car I liked best. I'd find myself talking to a new person about the price I'd be willing to pay. Or I'd have the floor manager show me around. And before leaving, the sales manager wanted to introduce me to some random guy I'd never talked to before. Why I would want to meet that guy, I have no idea.
The Register hints at an interesting new development - name and shame the "innovators":

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/13/apple_page_turn_desi...

"This massively complex concept required three inventors to craft it: Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill, Mikio Inose, and Stephen Lemay."
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True, but, also from there:

For lower-resolution devices, and devices with unusual viewing distances, it is recommended instead that the anchor unit be the pixel unit. For such devices it is recommended that the pixel unit refer to the whole number of device pixels that best approximates the reference pixel.
What did you build this in?
You bring up a great point. To classify something as a trend or not a trend, we have to use this artificial black box to supply ourselves with examples of what's a trend and what isn't. The nice thing, IMO (and this is something I admittedly gloss over at the very end) is that doing prediction/forecasting with this method is almost the same as doing classification, even though you don't have any labeled examples when doing prediction. To do classification, we compare current activity to past examples of activity, and decide if it looks like the positive examples or the negative examples. For prediction, we compare current activity to past activity, and see how similar-looking past activity continued to evolve over time.
So would you say the same thing about people that abuse regulations adopted honestly in the spirit of helping the public and now having been captured by special interests abuse it to serve their own interest?

For example, most taxi cab regulations were passed in an era where the public had extremely unsafe and unclear transportation in an unfettered race to the bottom, (were being extorted by drivers, unsafe cars and unlicensed drivers, no insurance, etc etc). So in many municipalities regulations after much debate were passed to address these concerns that the market seemed unable to correct.

Now after enough time has passed, are the usages by taxi companies of those regulations to insure their market dominance in your view acting rationally or in an abusive manner?
You can shape packet flows at the GGSN. GGSNs are edge routers and that's where features like traffic shaping are usually available.
For those who don't know the backstory, as I didn't: Openfeint was acquired by Gree last year for $104 million.
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Unfortunately neither the tech-press, nor the anti-IP-period crowd have a particularly good grasp on just what utility patents cover, nor any apparent interest in learning.

So hoping they'll recognize, learn and appreciate the difference between a utility and a design patent seems a bit optimistic.
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"Shouldn't the GOP have been funding an Orca-like system starting in 2008? I mean, how many elections does the other guy have to deploy superior technology to great effect before you start making your own better tech?"

The GOP probably leveraged a Orca-like system, sold the hardware and outsourced the software for a short term profit gain.
Is it bad that I'm as interested in the facts on this page as the graphic design? I had no idea Custora had killer designers onboard.
"There has been much speculation on the turing completeness of the C Preprocessor, but I believe this is the first demonstrative proof that the C preprocessor is turing complete. This uses no GCC extensions and other than the rules for macro evaluation the only 'features' it takes advantage of are token pasting and variable argument macros."

Can anyone confirm that this is really the first demonstrative proof of this kind?
The master at that is Logitech. Every six months or so they decide to start new irrelevant lists adding in every customer they have ever had for any product.

My other pet peeve is that unsubscribe is one click. Anything more is hostile, especially those that want you to login or perform similar tricks.
That's because you're implicitly telling them "I recommend margaritas". Try telling them "our margaritas aren't very good and are overpriced, but order one" and see how well your Jedi mind tricks fare.
> Now it's too late.

I wouldn't go that far.
Determining whether a thing's a single stream would be down to finding where it touched down in the world of either fiat currency exchange, or purchasable stuff.

I don't know if it's NP complete. But my guess is no. I can immediately think of algorithms (maybe crude ones, I am no statistician) that could be used to attack it, and they require a lot of iteration, not an explosion of recursion.
He has. This post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4789877 has more details.

But I think it was clear before this. Message-passing between non-shared state actors is a fundamentally different animal than "traditional" shared-state programing, whereas what is commonly thought of as OOP (special method-call syntax, class-based coding) is just sugar on any other language without changing the way things work under the hood.

Certainly, using the word "object" was unfortunate because it distracted people whereas "message-passing" is more to the point, but if you see what it was supposed to achieve there really is only one thing it could mean.
The whole POINT of OpenFeint was basically: Hey, indie game developers! We know that building and running a game server is really hard and expensive. Why don't you let us run the servers for you, and you just use our (fairly simple and easy-to-integrate) SDK to make some calls to set high scores and unlock achievements?
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I imagine there are various fixed and variable parts to some of these deals (no inside knowledge).

Imagine though that you are selling exclusive rights to your catalog for a fixed period of time (say 2 years). You would want to maximise revenue while managing risk. As a content provider you may not have sufficient information to figure out what the likely number of views will be in two years times as there are multiple factors you don't have much historical data on (viewer behavior, projected growth rate). Fixed bids are a lot easier to compare than comparing how you think Amazon Instant and Netflix growth rates and customer behavior will change over time.
One piece of good advice:
"A good deal today will be a good deal tomorrow."

Live by that advice and you will always be free to walk away and think about it.
Hopefully this is useful. I've seen very little discussion on pricing models for SaaS in the startup community.
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From what I can tell it doesn't affect current clients, only new ones.
A prime example of a difference between Google and Apple both on HN front page at the same time. "Apple patents the page turn": http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/16/apple-now-owns-the-... Then Google open sources a book scanner.
I suspect Über would have a different answer to the apparently assumed one in your question.
I'm a little surprised to see the NY Times perpetuating the hysteria that typically follows patent issues with exaggeration of their scope and claims.

This is a design patent, meaning that Apple has protection for this specific animation and not page-turn animations in general. Note that many of the references cited (a good one is the O'Reilly article from 2004) depict page-turn animations, but differ from this specific one.
To me, it seems like they may have a long term plan for monetization which requires users to visit the website rather than using a client.
If there's a recursion limit, can you not write a program that fails to terminate?
i think the point was to emphasize the contrast these people made against the typical political campaign culture
People in the US don't know how to haggle, it's just not part of our culture, so you were done from the second you started talking to him. The first step is learning to walk away from something like this - something that may be nice to have, but that you don't really want. You should have given up when he talked you down to $100 for the lot. Seriously, you didn't need or even want the product, why buy it? There is a decent chance he would have come after you and dropped the price though -- that's the first sign you can start talking seriously about price, everything before that is pure profit for him. And if he didn't chase you down, you're not out anything, and can come by later and see if he'll take a lower offer. I've walked away from vendors like this not once but twice and gotten a price at a quarter of what was originally offered as the lowest possible price.

The opportunity to do this kind of bargaining just comes up so rarely, it's hard to get good at it unless you spend time in developing countries. The much harder skill is to be able to do this for something you really want, something you've already made up your mind to purchase. Which is a shame, since this particular skill does come into play all the time in the US, particularly when it comes to big purchases like cars or houses where bargaining is expected. We have a weird culture.
Exactly, and they sold out and screwed the indies.

If you think OpenFeint had issues, just try getting your concerns addressed now that (a) GREE is in Japan, (b) time shifted 13 or so hours ahead of the US, and (c) works in YEN and uses at least two levels of currency conversion to compute your revenues.
A prime example of a difference between Google and Apple both on HN front page at the same time. "Google Books team open sources a book scanner": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4793974.
Goddamn, I've never seen a clearer example of the colloquial term "butt hurt". Twitter is a company, they built something, they support it, they have the right to control it, and they have arbitrary rights over it. More tellingly, they have a very good point.

It reminds me of the craigslist haters, and my response to them. I don't hate craigslist for stopping third parties from using their data because, frankly, it hurts their brand if "druggycriminalroommates.com" starts syndicating their apartment ads.

That said, don't think that I'm some sort of right-wing capitalist fascist. No, I don't think everything should be privately owned and controlled. There are some things that should remain public: internet infrastructure being one of them. My personal belief is that the only real egalitarian, open system is one that relies on that infrastructure, and ONLY on that infrastructure. This vision requires that people either a) run their own servers, or b) pay money to someone else to run servers (or parts of servers). (Other possibilities for payment exist, of course, such as bartering information for service, etc.)

I mean, twitter is free to control, the OP is free to complain about that control, but the solution presented (don't develop anything for twitter) is ridiculous and immature.
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Mailchimp is a great example of this. They have pages upon pages of free guides and information, and even give out email templates for free.
I still don't understand why everyone is getting angry about this. It doesn't affect clients made before they introduced the new rule. The only people who get hurt are the idiots who ignore twitter and build a business which uses their API in a way they have said not to.
I just walk off. If anyone follows me through the mall screaming at me (which has happened, at the very same mall listed here!) I immediately go complain to mall management..... who do nothing, because apparently a gimmick kiosk selling $2 bottles of goo for $100 pays them a lot of rent.

One mall I went to in semi-rural Ohio had it right -- the kiosks had little boxes taped on the floor around each kiosk, and the hucksters weren't allowed to leave their box. It was easy to go to a mall to shop, not to be yelled at like some kind of third-world bazaar.
I know C well, but check out links like these on news sites occasionally. (Just like this story)

This book reminded me of an online C tutorial that proceeded to teach C in a functional style. I don't remember if they explicitly stated it was FP when presenting the material.

The style was really clean. The author avoided assignment as much as possible. All variables were initialized as if they were 'let' statements. Variables were
never re-used.

I just can't find the link anywhere.

Does anybody know that web page that I'm referring to?
My initial feeling is that this is a subset of Popcorn.js's functionality. (I haven't ever used Popcorn.js, though.) Is that correct?
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I actually used to work at OpenFeint (and was there through the GREE acquisition). This is a sad day for me.
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On OS X, they appear to do the same thing.

On Windows, ctrl-t doesn't seem to do anything.

I don't have Sublime set up on Linux so I can test there.

I suspect the author has an older configuration since he's been using it for almost 2 years, and that the keybinding probably changed since then to cmd-p.
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Can you read this well? Is this just a fad that everyone is getting on, or is there a legitimate reason for having a gray background with a slightly darker gray text color?

Short of that, cool site. It'd be nice to see how many comments are on a submission, and if clicking 'comments' didn't load a new tab.
That's not really the point I was making. My point is that you don't have to understand the workings of a clock (or its subcomponents) to be able to build one given the subcomponents and an example from which to work. Simply mimicking exactly what you observe will produce the desired outcome.

There are lots of examples where the underlying workings are not understood, and yet useful work is done. Look at medicine for example. For thousands of years people knew that if you mix herb A and B and boil them for time X you get something that fights infection or helps with headache. The underlying biochemistry doesn't need to be known or understood to be able to follow the steps to get the desired outcome.

The same might hold true for the brain. If we can catalogue all the connections and information pathways (chemical, electrical), we may not need to be able to explain how every combination of subcomponents interact, but, we may know that a particular arrangement gives the outcome we're after.

PS: "the search space of ideas is vast, and one can't reasonably be expected to exhaust them all even with help."

That's true but in this example we're not searching for anything. Over millions of years one solution to intelligence, from an infinity of other possibilities has already evolved. Each of us already has a working version of what we want to replicate in our own skull. Now we need to tease out all of the cogs and springs and how they are arranged, arrange them in the same ways, and unless there truly is a metaphysical component we will have something indistinguishable from human intelligence/consciousness.
Neither of these are the case in Sublime Text 2. cmd-n opens a new tab and cmd+shift+n opens a new window.
He was wrong. Certainly even the bit of truth that is left in his statement is mostly misleading. Inflation is always better understood by looking at prices: What is it that leads businesses to change their prices? Why do they raise prices, and why do they get away with it?

For a bit of back story: What this quote of Friedman is intended to convey is the incorrect idea that there is always a causal link from an increase of the money supply to a rise in the price level. The rise in the price level is explained by a prior increase of the money supply, and this increase of the money supply is supposed to be the prime cause.

This is wrong on several counts: (1) there can be a causal link from the price level to an increase of the money supply, because money is endogenous; (2) as neither the real size of the economy nor the velocity of money (Q and V in MV = PQ) are constant, the price level and the money supply can move independently from each other; (3) in practice, growth in the money supply and rises in the price level are both caused together by other causes (such as rising cost of imports or institutionalized wage increases).

The most important thing to understand is that our monetary system is endogenous: How much money is out there is decided by banks and debtors. Every time a business goes to a bank and takes out a loan, the money supply grows. Every time a business pays a loan back, the money supply shrinks.

This explains why the causality tends to go the other way from what monetarists believe: When wages rise or the cost of inputs of production rises, businesses take out larger loans to cover their upcoming production, hence the money supply grows as a consequence of inflation.

Friedman and other monetarists are very much working from a gold standard and hence exogenous money mind set, so it is no surprise that they get this wrong: they are starting off from incorrect assumptions about how our monetary system works.

That is not to say that it cannot go the other direction. It can go both ways. Which is why what one should really look at is how prices are set in the economy. Since most prices are administered somehow, usually controlled by longer term contracts, you need to understand how the negotiation of those contracts works.
Ayo from Hipmob here. You make fair points (I've actually had a number of conversations specifically about this in the last couple of weeks) particularly in light of some recent political scandals. I have you thought through what an alternate (non poly) app/language set would look like? How would you describe it to the people who it's for? (Asking for my edification - such apps would be trivial to build on Hipmob, so if we're going to do it, I'd welcome some feedback on how - can discuss here or ping me at ayo at hipmob dot com.
Yep[0].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_unintended_consequences
Thanks very much for the feedback!
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> Taking away money from the rich to help the economic welfare of society is like taking your best football players off the field and sitting them on the bench for the benefit of your football team.

By that logic, tax brackets should be regressive so that the "best" players pay 0% or, better yet, negative.

I don't comprehend your "intuition" on granparent's post about cash. You imply all of it is being invested, which is absolutely not true.
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Sure, but it's not illegal to own a seedbox or private server... For all they know, you're seeding/downloading legal torrents.
"With the new number 69 seducing me, my strong “no” quickly changed to a “maybe”, and then to a “yes”. "

This is not the first time I was seduced by the number 69. There's something about that number that's seductive. Like how all the cable TV packages are $69. I wonder what it is about that number that is so attractive to everyone in the US -- it doesn't seem to be that way in other countries.
Can you open an issue for this please (maybe with a screen)? I keep forgetting to check it.
Or the harsh whims of building maintenance. I wonder what percentage of thermostats sold in the world are the ones in offices not wired to anything...
That doesn't explain nor excuse the fact that Orca was launched the day of the election when the Narwhal team was practicing with severe outage scenarios a month before that, preparing for the worst.
Yeah, I've used dynamic method calls in Objective-C and I just Ruby easier to use when doing those types of tasks.
An even better one IMO is @, same thing as with # but it uses symbols.
Personally, my use of Prime is significantly different than Netflix.

I've rarely used Prime free content, but I have rented a number of recent movies and "bought" a few recent seasons of TV shows.

Off the top of my head, Amazon has collected more cash from me for video streaming in the last 6 months than Netflix, but I've been consuming probably 10x more data from Netflix.

I wonder if / how Hastings comparison accounts for this?
Impressive. Massively impressive. Does this count towards your thesis in any way? I'd hate the kind of effort this required to go to waste when PhDs sucks the life out of your for 6-8 years (at least in the US.)
That's a patent application, which was rejected earlier this year in light of a prior IBM patent (http://www.google.com/patents/US5463725) and another of Apple's (http://www.google.com/patents/US7469381).
Rumor has it they are (the designer responsible for it left a little while back). No idea why they would have patented it.