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In case anyone from launchrock is reading this: I'd be much more likely to use launchrock if I could embed the relevant functionality (signups, sharing, referrals) using javascript.

You're about to reimplement every tool that somebody would want to use to set up a landing page, beginning with an editor. What if I want to use a wordpress blog as my landing page. What if I wanted to embed the launchrock lead gen tools with some announcement that is posted on another site? I think that'd be useful and you wouldn't have to build so many things.
Probably the faster than light neutrino a little while back. Turned out to be a loose cable if I recall correctly.
I remember viaweb, or webgen as I think it was called at the time, I was at Pointcast then who were also skirting around Yahoo. Back then I am not sure there was much of a distinction between computer engineering and either of CS or double E. It seemed prudent in the 90's to also get a good grounding in the digital systems side of computer science because it was a time where knowledge of the hardware gave software a significant edge. Which this is still true in some areas today, for most people, concepts like byte alignment and endian'ness are irrelevant.

From what I remember there were quite a few making web based software, Hayden's Critical Path for example springs to mind, and of course Yahoo and Nutscrape (as it was fondly called by those unfortunate enough to have to work on it)
Not sure what the "not including silicon" means in that first story. Nevertheless, these are evolutionary improvements, not the revolutionary ones implied by the hyped headlines. Don't get me wrong -- I'd love to see PV power production become prevalent. I've been waiting decades now, regularly reading stories about "paint-on" solar cells, etc., and getting frustrated at how the "paint-on" and "spray on" thing keeps getting headlines year after year, decade after decade, but somehow never becoming a product. Isn't it rational to question when the same "game changing" idea keeps making headlines, across years & decades?
I suspect they could use data URL scheme as in RFC2397.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme and http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2397.txt
I once worked with a guy who rigged his phone and car with a gizmo that would allow him to send texts that he would input using just one button that he wouldn't even have to look at: he would just use it to tap out Morse code and when he was finished, the message would be sent via SMS. I don't remember whether he could listen to inbound messages in Morse code, but it would be a logical conclusion.

I imagine it's still somewhat distracting, but a lot less than actually looking at the phone.
Against chrome: a manifesto
Starbucks, Google and Amazon grilled over tax avoidance
Coinbase.com will allow you to buy up to $100 with a 1% fee. It's pretty much what I'm recommending these days to Americans.

http://howdoyouusebitcoins.com/
It would be odd if he uses his hacking talent to avoid the authorities. Would make for an interesting movie down the line. Having said that, is Belize like Mexico (Napoleonic law, i.e. guilty until proven innocent)?
Even in 2010, 1 hour is not acceptable, but a reasonable number to expect from a high-end, lightweight 2012 laptop would be around 7 hours (using Linux).
To counter your examples, Google would like you to use Google Music and Google+ Hangouts, both of which work on the Chromebook. As long as you keep yourself confined to the Google ecosystem, the Chromebook is quite powerful.
Good luck everybody.

If you fail, don't worry, keep learning, iterating and hustling.

We failed last time, made some changes and then successfully raised from great early stage investors.
I have a bigger problem with leaving jackets/coats at bars & restaurants. I also have had occasions where somebody took my coat by accident. Just last week, somebody also mistakenly grabbed my suitcase from the overhead compartment of an airplane.

Assuming this would work just as well for non-wallets, I think this is pretty cool.
Looks like this one: http://www.azfonts.net/load_font/high_tower_text.html
Sadly, the people that can't talk and drive can't do anything and drive well simultaneously. Further, they're likely unaware of their shitty driving and will replace "Being on the phone" with something else: eating, makeup, futzing with the radio, otherwise not paying attention to what they're doing.

How about: people pay the hell attention to the roader. As both a driver and biker, I'd be DEAD several times in the last two months and I'm in a medium sized city in the Midwest, it's not like there's an excuse for the times when bad drivers have been a risk to me.
Yes, they're a hack, but this is HACKer News, right? :-) More correctly, though, as Adam pointed out, the switch statement implementation of protothreads is a hack.

However, I'd like to also point out that it's a very useful hack. In the tiny embedded micros I work with, something like CPC would be much too heavy weight. Protothreads take 2 bytes of RAM per "thread", and you can even get that down to 1 byte if you use __COUNTER__ instead of __LINE__. Protothreads also have the huge advantage of working in regular C and C++, meaning standard tools just work.
Ask HN: Why most of the startups don't make Facebook apps?
I am just wondering why entrepreneurs don't prefer to make their products based on Facebook platforms despite of having a larger user base? In past we had successful examples like Zynga yet many did not follow that route. Is there some particular reason behind that?
Any other authentication provider you had in mind, or just a direct login?
Can you publish your numbers afterward? Or just whether you thought it was worth it? (Or something along those lines)

I have seen this strategy recommended to gauge interest, but have always been wary of doing it myself (for exactly this reason: people being like "wtf? this isn't real?").

It is probably one of those things that should be done, even if it makes you uncomfortable.
I like the direction of his broader category, "distracted driving". For years I always thought that "baby on board" was pretentious and meant that you should be careful, because if you cause an accident you might kill a baby. Now I'm older, wiser (and have a child now). What "Baby on Board" means is that the driver is seriously distracted.

edit: I'm being sarcastic; I don't see any difference between a properly implemented hands-free environment and having a passenger: you must still keep your eyes on the road, your ears listening for interesting events, and your mind tracking all the vehicles and pedestrians near you.
Buffering [0] and Caching [1].

The front-end specifically asks for pages in 200-chunks. So whether you slide to page 299,300 or 385, it will request 200-400 from the API. This means I can then very easily serve these requests out of Redis [1] and during usage spikes, requests never hit the disk :)

[0] https://github.com/doda/rewindhn/blob/master/static/rewind/j...

[1] https://github.com/doda/rewindhn/blob/master/server.py#L25
http://www.nature.com/news/neutrinos-not-faster-than-light-1...

Although it seems like the gp misread decay.
Ask HN:  Best book or resource on general problem solving?
What is the best book on how to problem solve that you know?
"The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy." -L. Von Mises
Hacking Gmail
It isn't "general purpose."
More of these articles please! I really like hearing from other mobile people.

Macbook pro is a no-go; the battery life is dropping fast. And it's not old. My Macbook 13 inch is better but also going down. Even with a new battery it's just too short lived... I have a Hypermac battery and that's definitely the best buy for mobile mac use. It is really great, but they cost way too much (imho). I really the way these machines 'feel', but battery life is more important for me.

When I am in a cramped space or need a lot of time and need all my development stuff (even Java), I use my Pandora which works like charm. For a bit less power and same form factor I also still use my Zaurus C860 which works fine and runs things like Haskell fine. It's just not that easy to do some Crash when bored/relaxing.

Pandora has over 10 hours battery life for me and I can swap batteries in no time (so 20 hours). Disadvantage; it's extremely small and low res. I would recommend and buy one any time.

Transformer prime (TF700) and Pandora are really great; both very portable systems and just work on the Pandora (full linux install with SSH/VNC/X).

I think, if it could install Linux, the Nexus 10 with a keyboard would be great solution. The resolution is insane and only for that I will get it. With a bit of hacking it seems like a fantastic 'monitor extension with a brain'.
The problem with oil, is that it is an inelastic commodity. During the oil shocks of the 70's prices had to rise by 400% before demand started to fall.

Also the notion of a country being energy independent when relying upon oil is a silly one. In the global economy, we want everyone to have relatively cheap energy, if not the global standard of living will fall.
Humans are running in a relay marathon of knowledge. Physics always seems to stagnate, then jump. The jumps come when a bunch of smart people can collocate and communicate. That's the recipe, and that's the only recipe. It's hard to share the energy in the room when you are not in the same room.

The cause of the jump though is not a bunch of people getting together, it's someone crazy enough to throw the first stone. It's someone crazy enough to question the structure science has created. It's someone daring enough to break it all apart, for the benefit of humanity, to let us rebuild and get closer to the correct path. One person starts a revolution. All the smart people look at all the pieces that broke and see how they can fit together in a new way.

I can't see this happening in 'new physics'. Yes, they are doing amazing things, things no one has ever been daring enough to do before. But quite frankly, they aren't diverse enough to solve their own problems they created. It's incredibly hard to solve the problems you made. There are no analogies to the problems physics is asking as of yet. To get analogies, you have to have people wander into your problem and say 'Hey! I was doing something like that for my Neuroscience research yesterday, maybe there's a connection!'. We aren't going to get that though, Physics has gone too far down the hole to relate to other fields. Unless they do what they always do, and just make new ones.
My favorite regex of all time
That time frame is not really accurate. Big accelerators, like many massive projects, are always years behind schedule. Back before the SSC was canceled, it and the LHC were both scheduled to turn on about a decade ago. But since the LHC actually got built, it experienced the real-life hiccups that would have delayed the SSC by years too.
Being digital and decentralized are 2 significant advantages. Unless you are a luddite preferring to send cash in the mail!
>People sometimes think they could improve the startup scene in their town by starting something like Y Combinator there, but in fact it will have near zero effect
http://www.paulgraham.com/maybe.html

Y Combinator's first batch was in Boston, this essay explain why being in Silicon Valley in important and why it's very difficult to replicate.
PSN game dev: "my personal Derrick the Deathfin debts run to £40,000. oops."
Indieconf conference for web freelancers this Saturday
Hello all:

The third annual indieconf for web freelancers is this Saturday in Raleigh, NC. The conference focuses on the non-tech side of working for yourself (business, marketing, financial, legal, motivational, etc).

Held in Raleigh, we're now attracting speakers and attendees from around the country (and at least a couple from Canada!). Our speakers hail from North Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Louisiana and Virginia this year, and include a range of experience, with lawyers, accountants, product creators, community managers, tech freelancers, authors and more.

If you're interested in attending, we've still got some tickets left - you can learn more at http://indieconf.com or register directly at http://indieconf2012.eventbrite.com
And in how many guises these "simple" problems have presented themselves over those years.
The biggest problem with texting or talking while driving is that your attention is focused on texting or talking rather than on the road. Adding the additional cognitive load of interpreting Morse code may make things worse rather than better.
History of the world in 100 seconds
Most of the anti-fracking rhetoric you see online is overblown. Sure, it might have some negative externalities (like all energy production), but domestic fracking is certainly more environmentally friendly than Saudi oil production.
There is no "Google version". Internally, we use the same SSH app that you would use, which works great. It's not a terminal: you can't do anything locally. But it's a perfectly decent developer environment as long as all you tools and editor are terminal or web applications (mine are).
"Everybody I know who earns anywhere close to enough to take 6 month of the year off work themselves half to death."

This isn't true for everyone, it just depends on your lifestyle. In Silicon Valley you can earn 100k a year being a programmer that asks for standard 9-5 hours (or 10-6), so the real question is whether you can live on ~50k a year.
But my f5 key is almost worn out! :)
This makes perfect sense, best of luck getting through the applications and thanks for postponing the applications for those effected by the hurricane.
Meta: I clicked through to this link without pause but then I noticed the tld. Is that enough to get you blocked on corporate networks?

And on the flip side, can you get in trouble for visting it?
one or both parties had a mid-life crisis, tried to reinvent themselves to assuage their existential angst, divorced, utterly alienated their partner in the process and ended up bitterly regretting it.

I seem to recall a study that showed many partners were much happier with each other after the pressures of marriage were removed from their relationship. I think there is a strong argument to be made that the actions and later regret of those people you refer to is a direct result of having no "escape hatch" in marriage. Destroying everything you have is often the only way out, even if it would have been prudent for the couple to just end the marriage and keep the relationship. But that brings us back to the parent's point: Who ends a marriage to increase the happiness of the relationship? Nobody. Divorce implies an end.
Although this might be covered in peak oil, there's a specific term that you might find interesting. EROEI - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_returned_on_energy_inves...

Basically, if you need to burn one barrel of oil to extract one barrel of oil from the ground, then you have already lost. Here, "burn" is used very loosely and is an all encompassing term including electricity for workers, rigs etc. and also the physical petrol required for transport to the refinery and end customers. The cost obviously also includes the initial investment and factors in the life of the rig installation itself as well.

It seems that we're currently at an EROEI of 10:1 and it's declining pretty steadily (kind of obvious). The wiki article is pretty informative. And, a cursory search on reddit for the term "peak oil" also returns quite a few interesting results. Caveat Emptor though, since there are some loony conspiracy theories posted as well, so it's up to you to sift the wheat from the chaff.
Everyone else is making apps to make the wallet obsolete, and I think I speak on behalf of all men when I say kudos to them for doing so.

So it's a an odd time to be making a product that makes it bigger. This seems like making something to rewind your VHS tape the year before everyone bought a DVD player.
People being assholes on the internet isn't new, nor is the fact that administrative failure in the form of moderation is the reason why communities of all sizes go down the drain. While Reddit wants to thrive on the fact that there are very little limitations to the platform as a whole, the problems they are facing are due in part to the fact that there are no repercussions for trolls, doxxing and the like.

There are a lot of reasons people want to stay anonymous that has nothing to do with cowardice, and that's why I cited the RealID case, because it sprouted a lot of conversation on why we prefer to remain unknown and separate our real selves from other personas. The [wonderful] acceptance speech Lana Wachowski gave last month during the Human Rights Campaign Awards went into why both her and her brother preferred staying out of the spotlight, but what it specifically meant to her as someone that was susceptible to unwanted attention and criticisms. As a woman, I can relate, and that's why I am so adamant about this issue.

> Why? If you really can't stand behind your opinion, what's the point in having it in the first place?

This is a really naive way of looking at opinions. They change. People grow. Why do people post anonymously to begin with? To avoid witch hunts by people that don't believe what they do, potentially dangerous people who are willing to trace that name to your workplace, your address or even just use your likeness to propagate lies. How many services are there to de-rank unsavory Google results under your name? It's truly better to be safe than sorry.
That one visceral UK anti-texting PSA needs to be mandatory viewing like, everywhere.
Good breakdown. As far as things that can be replaced by Priuses and Teslas (original point upthread), I think you're looking at just the 34% from passenger cars. So you end up with taking a bite out of (not zeroing) 2% of global emissions.
A rooster is an interesting choice of a prize. Few farmers, even the locavore/small kind, breed their own chickens anymore. And they tend to be banned in a lot of areas. The type of cooking they are perfect for (chicken soup from scratch)is not something the average person tends to do anymore. So not many people want roosters.
Sure it is. What makes it not general purpose? You can write and execute programs on it. How much more general purpose can you get?
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I work 6-9 months each year, taking at least 3 months off for creative projects/travelling.

Easiest way to do this was reduce expenses. When I was with my ex, I lived on about 90% of earnings. Being single (for most of the last 5 years) I've been living off a lot less, but with a lot more travelling. (normally around 35-40%, but last financial year was 50% as I had six months off)
The reviews are "odd." People name a ton of issues and drawbacks but then go on to say they love it and give it full stars.

The price is appealing but I cannot see much else that interests me. Some people were saying it cannot even make office documents, open video files, or audio. Those are big damn drawbacks.
I think the biggest impact of real names on Quora is their impact on quality and personal branding. People post on Quora a lot more for vanity/business promotion than they do on Reddit. So from that standpoint, Reddit is much richer in what people will say but also a lot noisier. What it implies to me is that Quora has a much lower ceiling for engagement, especially since everything is public (unlike Google+ or Facebook) so people are especially careful about what they say there. In other words, Quora simply can't take over the world because the vast majority of people don't want to have their thoughts so publicly available.
That's rather strange for Apple then, to cut the branch they sit on.
Nothing preventing there from being one, aside from the good 'ol risk of 51% attack.
This article seems to focus mainly on digital signatures. Encryption does not necessarily involve ensuring data source authenticity.

If you have an SHA hash as part of the request url and you can trust the SHA hash calculator to verify the authenticity of the final file then you can trust the whole encryption layer to return whatever data it wants because hash verify will refuse tampered servers.

The trick is to ensure the hash calculator is 100% untampered. For the more paranoid people this means using command line hash calculator for this just as it's used for linux distro .iso files etc.
I agree with this and logged in to comment on the same issues. It makes for a very difficult user experience. I went through the site for some minutes, and it was very hard to use.
I moved from a place where it was illegal (NSW, Australia) to somewhere it wasn't (Colorado, USA).

People still did it in Australia, but no where near as much as here.

My biggest peeve is actually because of the people who are holding the phone to their ear. I have almost been sideswiped a stupid amount of times because someone is holding the phone/hand/arm up on the left side and decides to change lanes without looking, while talking and with body position blocking vision. It makes me angry that mine and others lives are less important than delaying their conversation.
Yes, I know consumers are not the issue. Cargo is, and that's why I brought it up, your original argument only mentions cars specifically and everyone driving hybrid is going to make little impact and as things currently stand everyone driving fully electric won't do squat. I think we are beating the same drum though.

The map of country size comparison... should the land mass off a country determine your "allowed usage" or should be be proportional to population? Since the higher your population the more energy needs you have... I'm sure there is some complex set of graphs related to this somewhere...

The sarc comment is for your extremely generalized comment, it's very much an American view on the "rest of world" and makes you sound very ignorant. I fully agree with your US influence comment though, and not just within that region, but that's a whole other story...

What the US needs to do is reduce it dependence on oil so that it becomes less difficult to hurt it's economy. Oil will run out at some point (aside from the irreparable harm that is being down to the environment) and at the moment all they are doing is shifting the problem on to the next generation.
Haha, thank you mercuryrising. That's quite the interesting comparison. A few thoughts:

- Python.org is quite a simple web app, it would be interesting to run this against something a little more complex like a long wikipedia article or http://www.nytimes.com/ or even the Alexa Top 500

- It would also be interesting to split the times between parsing and selecting as I feel that's where the difference between pq and lxml comes in.

All in all it seems BS4 is quite a bit faster than I gave it credit for (especially factoring in parsing+selecting instead of just the former)
I thought the same until a couple coworkers and I got chromeboxes and google io. I don't code or even download images from my camera on it but it lives plugged into a monitor in the living room and the statelessness, fast boot and auto updates make it the perfect "forget about it until i need it for netflix or surfing the web" pc.

The window manager is also beautiful and I am hoping the os and ecosystem develop into something I can use for real work.
Not really, I imagine the wallet will still be alive and well for at least another 10 years.

Until every little shop and flea market is accepting square for everything (I've yet to see anyone using square in the UK yet).

Not to mention having somewhere to put credit cards, business cards, discount cards, receipts and all that other stuff.

Plus a wallet is still a fashion item.

I agree that this does look kinda big though.

It might also be better to have this somehow sown into the wallet itself, if your wallet is stolen the first thing the thief would do is throw this away.