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Visualization, if you have the underlying motivation, is how to get started. Then after 5 minutes of focus can be right into it..

At the moment I've gone through my morning websites, consumed everything I need to, replied to emails I need to, and now this is my second visit to HN ... so it times to make my work environment a clean slate, eliminate all distractions, and focus for a little while... perhaps I'm not awake enough for the focus required though either... |)
It was published before the election.
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or even drivers in generals - I'd still prefer closed but working NVIDIA drivers over the crap that ATI puts out
You appear to be arguing that because (1) the historical foundations of free-market economics come from a group different from the one now called "conservative", and (2) the people now called "liberal" also make overoptimistic assumptions about people's rationality, it's wrong to say that (3) the people boosting markets like Intrade as reliable information sources tend to be the ones now called "conservative".

But there is no contradiction of any sort between (1,2) and (3).

Which is maybe just as well, because in fact (3) is true.

(It seems to me that (1) is an interesting but irrelevant historical point, and (2) is merely irrelevant smoke-blowing, whose best explanation is that you're more partisan than you let on here. But I could be wrong.)
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http://geospeak.co.uk - talk about places on Google Maps.
October 10, 201212:49 PM

A month before the election.
There is a book that connects large-scale geology with the human-scale history by arguing how the former affects the later. It's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel "Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond.
Yeah this is not the case. It just sets it for the next available 9pm.
I don't think that disposable consumerism poses any risk whatsoever to the future of the species. And the normal consumer good we purchases make up only a tiny fraction of humanity's impact on the environment.

I think being defined by not owning anything at all is a serious risk, and one that I myself has fallen into. A sort of semi-hipster attitude about having the cheapest furniture. But I think it's probably more healthy to err on that side. And I agree, you need to have something more.
Not to trivialise your question, because scaling to tens of thousands of database TPS transactions is difficult.

But it is commercially solved. If you turn up with a fistful of money, Oracle, IBM, Sybase and a bunch of other companies would love to handle that for you.
There is some talk of porting it to the JVM or LLVM

http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/home/expert-panel-discussion...
Github is an easier problem: generate pages.

Twitter has to deal with very high fanout and low cacheability.
Pointless article. Galaxy S III outsold the iPhone 4S because the iPhone 5 came out.
This is a great book. It's fascinating to consider how much of world history has been influenced by where wheat was first cultivated.
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I don't think people realize how common a practice it is for one site to ask another for permission to republish an article. I would happily accept a republishing request from NPR.
exactly my thought, wondering why it made first page on HN.
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I'm glad it does. I only found out about it in 2007.
No it's most likely just overconfidence in the market by a few individuals.

Intrade actually checked for manipulation themselves:

"We checked this out for potential manipulation - it certainly fit the pattern at first glance.
However, during the period you reference above 40 individuals bought Romney shares and no individual bought more than 15% of the shares traded during that period. A look at those 40 accounts shows nothing suspicious.
So we don't believe this was manipulation but more a run on Romney when the market was unusually thin."

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/10/should-p...

However, even without this spike the Intrade market was misaligned for more than 24 hours. A few of our arbitrage customers made huge amounts of money (outside our software) trading 5-10% arbs between Intrade and Matchbook. This is extremely uncommon.

Disclaimer: I'm one of the developers behind sports arbitrage software RebelBetting (http://www.rebelbetting.com)
The parts that aren't already replaced are heavily patched and can't really be used by a default install.
Student life is not always easier than work life. The level of 'freedom and perks' you feel depends more on the culture of your cohort/workplace and your commitment than on being a student vs having a job.

I went from grad school to Google in nyc, where the working culture supported going home by around 6pm. That felt like the opposite of grad school, where I regularly slept in my office.
You didn't read what I wrote. Group A is defined by an OR clause - some people in group A have SSN % 104 == 7, others are disadvantaged but don't have SSN % 104 == 7.

Statistically, group A has been and is on the receiving end of many institutional oppressions that keep them excluded from accessing higher education. We can tweak the definition of A a bit if it makes the analogy easier:

Group A = people who are either victims of racism directly OR people with SSN % 104 == 7.

Some members of group A have suffered racism, others have not. Just like group B. Both groups are statistically more likely to be racism victims, but plenty of people in those groups have not suffered racism in any significant way.

How do you distinguish between group A and group B? None of the criteria you have stated here actually differentiate between them.
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A slightly more accurate headline: "Flagship Android phone beats year old iPhone in sales in the same quarter the newest iPhone was released".

If you add iPhone 5 sales for that quarter to the iPhone 4s sales you get 24 million, 6 million more than for the S III. You have to look at this data with extremely narrowly focused, Android tinted lenses to make this look like any kind of victory for Samsung.

It does show that at last a flagship Android phone is managing to sell in iPhone-like numbers. That's a good thing for Android and for the health of competition in the smartphone market. Samsung are doing well.
Do visit the discussion here: https://github.com/h5bp/lazyweb-requests/issues/82 (Its mentioned in the article, just giving it some extra attention)
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It looks like it is a redirect to news.ycombinator.com. Any reason to change it from the way it was before?
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I wouldn't normally care about the state of GNOME, but as a developer myself I'm in a really sorry state of affairs regarding GTK itself.

At some point with 2.x, GTK stopped being GIMP's toolkit and became part of GNOME. Fortunately it remained more or less self-contained, but it's no longer the case with GTK3.

As an user, I cringe about the usability and responsiveness of GTK3 applications. I really dislike how the built-in dialogs have become. I don't like how some widgets now work. No (easy) theming (as a reversed color theme user) is also a major letdown.

I always considered GTK a nice toolkit from the user's perspective, and up to GTK 1.x it was also considerably faster than QT. GTK2 killed that, and at the same time removed any support for exotic OSes. I had 1-line patches refused under pretty much the same reasons you read in the article.

But as an user I still preferred GTK because of some nice unix-centric features (tear-off menus -- that disappeared at some point, column-based file browsers -- again killed later, user-customizable key bindings on any application -- can you still do that? I don't even care anymore, low memory, fast engines, etc).

But now QT is just superior in any front. QT has native support for OO and nice, consistent, multi-platform API, whereas GTK3 still depends of the shitty glib stack that pretends to be an OO framework (and doing a poor job at it). Ever got random glib warnings by GTK applications on the console? My xsession-errors is full of them. As a developer I just cringe at GTK. It was always bad from day 1, but now it doesn't really make any more sense. Whenever I need to consider a toolkit for a C-only based program (where QT or FLTK is not an option), I usually go for UIP. It's a shame that the looks of these toolkits do not integrate in the rest of the UI.

Right now I actively remove any GTK3 application. Whenever an application gets rebuilt I switch to a QT counterpart, which is usually more responsive and more stable over time. GTK didn't deserve this.
Isn't that just the default configuration of the panels, or do you mean a time more than 5 years ago? I've used XFCE off and on for about 5 years. I remember the default look being more like CDE, but I usually customized the panels to look more like GNOME 2.x back then. The defaults today look more like GNOME 2.x, but I don't think the functionality has changed much, just the default configuration.
I have a friend who spent his childhood in the Soviet Union who'd probably like to disagree with you about that.
I live in Birmingham AL and the existence of the black belt is common knowledge here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Belt_(U.S._region)

As a kid, I assumed it was called the black belt because of the black people, not knowing it's because the soil is black.
The article forgot to mention that the Galaxy S III also outsold the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 3GS!
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but HackerSpaces are more about the space since you have to store your hardware somewhere and there's more tools involved. With software all you need is a laptop so an OpenHack could maybe migrate around more easily.
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Interesting idea there, about delaying by a measure and not running for the shortest delay since it's still not good enough.
Or money+incumbency

Roosevelt,Truman,Eisenhower,Johnson,Nixon,Reagan,Clinton,BushII all had plenty of time to plan for 2nd term.

Of course so did Ford, Carter and Bush I.

There may not be enough samples to get a good p-value, but more often than not the recipe of "just don't mess up too bad" gets a another term for a sitting President.
I'm the OP. Just wanted to share a site some old college buddies started. I think it's a very nice setup. They control the supply chain entirely. They have both an on-demand and subscription model.

Personally I like it b/c I can get flowers sent to my wife regularly. And I really like that they wont resort to the old bait-and-switch that I always see from the likes of FTD where the advertised of listed flowers are $19, but the eventual price somehow reaches $60.
Thanks for the comment - glad I can contribute something in my ultra niche of knowledge and experience.
It's still interesting that the Galaxy S III outsold any other single smartphone. Sure, it's because there were two iPhones competing for sales, but it's still significant.
> Two golden quotes from a Gnome dev.

That's not a Gnome dev that's William Jon McCann, the main Gnome 3 designer. That McCann claims ignorance of XFCE without shame is pretty shocking.
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I'm a newbie to Rails, yet every free time I can get around to I try to build a Kickstarter for charity in Vietnam. Still in development (http://charitymap.herokuapp.com)
Please tell me who you work for, so I know to avoid any of your products. Using BBC Basic like this terrifies me. If anything, because its total lack of type safety for anything but the simplest of values.
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I had similar experience, but the only good point was I learned my mistake fast around 21 days.
F# has been open source for quite a while. I'm guessing they are seeing some resistance to adoption due to the affiliation with Microsoft. They've always been quite independent, compared to the C# team, so I wonder what this even means. Porting to LLVM and/or JVM would be wonderful for the language though, it really is up there with Clojure as one of the more exciting functional languages under development.
Wait a second, is there any reason why the SIII (or any other phone for that matter) shouldn't be able to outsell the iPhone 5?
In recent US politics, it is a fair assumption. More than fifty years ago, it was not. Historically, the Republicans were "the party of Lincoln" and the Democrats were the party of the segregated South(1).

One might attribute the beginning of the polar reversal to Truman's integration of the military services, but by the time of the Kennedy administration sent paratrooper's to Oxford the seeds from which the Dixiecrats grew were clearly sown.

(1) The popular image of a segregated South is of course correct, but segregation was a national policy (e.g. the military). It enjoyed popularity in the North as well (e.g. at the time Jackie Robinson came to the Dodgers there were no Major League teams in the former Confederacy and the only Southern city with a team was Washington D.C. Despite not being subject to any state law and home to the Federal government, it was a bastion of Jim Crow.
>I'd like to point out that, interestingly enough, the most disappointing aspect has been reading online text, such as HN, . . . and Chrome's fancy font boosting technology manages to make some of the HN comments annoyingly small.

That is probably not limited to the Galaxy Note or to Samsung: HN comments on a Nexus 7 have the same problem: text size on some comments is tiny compared to other comments (at least if you set the text size to large or huge in Chrome's Acessibility options).

Puzzlingly, Firefox does the same thing even though it uses a different rendering engine than Chrome does.
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Typically the iPhone sells the most because the whole iOS ecosystem is limited to a few devices. With android there are so many options to chose from that one brand rarely outsells its Apple counterpart even though Android as a whole has a far greater marketshare.

The S3 outselling the iPhone 5 would be a pretty big deal.
Are you the author of the original article?
I found it not only highly interesting but also very well written.
I'm sorry I didn't realize the link I posted wasn't the original.
I totally did miss the link back to the original in the footer and (unfortunately) I guess most other people will.
The hackerne.ws domain has never been under the control of PG or YC, so it was always a security breach waiting to happen (password sniffing).
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I'm not the original author. And in my experience, that link at the bottom will send plenty of people back to the original who otherwise never would have heard of the blog.
It's even more impressive considering how hard it is to beat all the other Android phones with similar specs in the market, too. The switch from one specific Android phone to another is so much easier than from an iPhone to an Android phone. In this regard Apple has much less direct competition.

So when one phone reaches iPhone-level numbers, despite the fact that you could easily replace it with another similar specced Android phone, it makes it all the more impressive.

That being said, as an Android user, I don't really like this outcome. The fact that one Android manufacturer is getting close to Apple's sales numbers is pretty meaningless to me, and the fact that one Android manufacturer can sell 50% of Android phones is actually pretty worrisome. I'd rather have 5 top manufacturers with 15% or so market share each. Apple users may be fine with an "Apple monopoly" in the iOS market, but I'm not fine with a Samsung monopoly in the Android market.

But I guess it's all about the Pareto principle and other power laws like that, so it may be just a fact of life. At least it might be a lot easier to change who is the biggest Android company a few years down the road, if Samsung slips.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4756675

Just pointing out this has already been asked.
Even if the iPhone4S sales were canabalized by the upcoming iPhone5, its still a major achievement for a single Android phone to come close to the iPhone sales numbers, which is basically one of the most hyped/popular consumer electronic device of all time.
Correct, and for those interested in approaching Celluloid, here is post that demonstrates a concurrent "Hello, world" program: http://danielsz.posterous.com/167870244
I think a greater number of U.S. participants on Intrade is one of the better explanations.

I wouldn't be surprised if personal biases play a bigger factor than the media.
I think it essentially is a question of personal character. I consider myself very lazy and procrastinate all the time, so it would not help to just cover the clocks for me to get things done. I would still procrastine, probably even more.

The change needs to happen on a completely different level to get out of the old routines of laziness and inability to focus.
I'm talking about some kind of life-changing experience. For example, people being diagnosed with cancer often makes them appreciate life and spend their time more carefully -- or something else that has an impact on our core values and instincts.
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i tend to agree with this philosophy. although i don't spend as much time as OP in selecting the perfect item, I do agree that finding something of great quality will pay dividends for years to come. My dad bought the very best Sony tv he could find when he came to America in the 80's, and that thing was still in use (and looking good!) up until a few years ago. In this example it actually saved us money, but in other cases (i.e. my first nice car), it just brought lots of joy to use it every single day.
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Ribbonfarm has an interesting counterpoint, based on a speech by Bruce Sterling, that essentially promotes buying 'the best' in a very limited amount of cases, and buying cheap in all other cases, with some actually interesting socio-political observations thrown in for good measure:

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/12/08/acting-dead-trading-up-...
The EFL are amazing! E17 is a compositing WM with great software rendering. The software rendering is so fast that you can mistake it for hardware accelerated.

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Ribbonfarm has an interesting counterpoint, based on a speech by Bruce Sterling, that essentially promotes buying 'the best' in a very limited amount of cases, and buying cheap in all other cases, with some actually interesting socialo-political observations thrown in for good measure:

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/12/08/acting-dead-trading-up-...
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While the Galaxy S III is doing very well for Samsung, once again the article makes the mistake of comparing "shipped" numbers verses "sold" numbers.

Given that those have been wildly inaccurate in the past (see the evidence in the Apple Samsung trial) it somewhat undermines the point of the article and the title itself.
I love having a decent looking default theme rather than a forest of ugly ones as well. However, the default theme is nowhere near pretty, or even usable on smaller screen sizes. I have a 10" netbook that runs Gnome like a dream, but there is so much wasted space due to the size of the panel and further in the size of title bars. Considering they default to one button on it, there is no reason it should be as large as it is.

That said I still use Gnome3, and I donate to theme developers who make themes that make the desktop more usable to me.
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Iowa is where Obama upset the presumptive nominee, Hillary Clinton four years ago. It is overwhelmingly made up of a constituencies which tend to vote Republican. Not only did he win the caucuses, he flipped the state in the general election and carried it by a substantial margin in his reelection.

If you ever go to Iowa, you won't see many people likely to vote for Obama on the basis of racial affinity.
>To me, Dustin is advocating a very practical position of minimalism. It's about starting from scratch and thinking carefully about everything you own.

Very many people would agree with this. They'd agree with it even if Dustin Curtis said it. This is not the bit that people have trouble with.

Dustin Curtis goes on to say:-

> Reasonable people would probably not spend the time to read a book about the history of flatware, buy twenty sets, and test the feeling of each metal utensil against their teeth. That sounds completely insane. But who cares about reasonable people?

The set he likes sells at MOMA for $50. $50 * 20 = $1000 just on evaluation sets of cutlery.

I can safely say that my cheap cutlery cost me significantly less that $1000, functions well, and will last me the rest of my life.

It's great that there are designers who like this kind of thing. It's great that there are publishers like Phaidon who sell books about door handles or flatware or whatnot. (It's a shame they have a viciously unpleasant website - (http://www.phaidon.com/designclassics/) )

But, really, "good enough" is for many people good enough.

At least Dustin Curtis is saying "buy things that are beautiful because they perform their function well" and not "who cares if it does what it should do, look at the nice twiddley bit on the handle". See, for example quite a lot of stuff at Yanko.
because who doesn't like to start their morning with a little Iphone Vs. Android fight?
It seems Rubbermaid doesn't have the shelves I bought anymore and the closest equivalent is: http://www.menards.com/main/storage-organization/garage-outd...

They go up/down quick, hold a lot of weight, and last forever (easy to sell to the next person).
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How is that headline more accurate? The original one clearly states the facts, that the S3 had more sales than the 4S in this quarter, making it the best selling piece of hardware. And the article itself says that this was probably because of the iPhone 5 release.

I don't understand why you're so quick to defend Apple by changing the metric, despite nobody saying that this is any sort of "victory" for Samsung. It's an obvious result of the iPhone 5 release, it will be on top of the charts the next quarter as usual. If you're going to make it an iPhone vs. Android thing then you should compare the sales of all iPhones and all Android phones, you can't pick and choose a few from each category.
Why does this require the courts? Can't FOX just refuse to renew their contract with Dish TV and then Dish will be without Fox channels?
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> Remember installing linux for the first time to try it out?

I am starting to think this will happen soon.
Hedgers are giving money away (on average) in order to hedge against undesirable outcomes.

If speculators respond to incentives and take their money, markets will be pushed back to normal. I think Robin Hanson even has a paper or two proving this is the equilibrium strategy. As the article indicates, he even put his money where his mouth is.