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Light Table isn’t late.

The tentative plan is to release a full beta around the turn of the year and have an official launch May of next year. As it stands currently, it will include all the things I've shown in the video for both JavaScript and Clojure, but should we continue to get more funding we can add even more.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ibdknox/light-table
That's America's problem as well. The majority of gun homicides committed in the United States are either directly drug related, committed by gangs who exist primarily because of drug prohibition, or committed by felons previously arrested for drug crimes.
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Minor detail: " . . . 37 000 km², that's larger than Belgium, Israel, Lebanon and most US states."
Its smaller than all but nine US states. To put it in perspective, its smaller than West Virginia, larger than Maryland.
While he's very much on the right track here, his mention of celebrities muddles the point somewhat.

In most states (perhaps all), it is illegal to use someone's likeness for advertising without their consent. This is regardless of their status as a celebrity or not.

This is why photographers who think their photos might be used commercially should get model releases from any identifiable persons in their photos. They should also give copies of those releases to any company that wants to use the photo commercially, so that company can defend themselves if the model tries to sue.

The Photo Attorney blog has a more detailed article about it: http://www.photoattorney.com/2009/05/when-you-definitely-nee...
Other than Googling it for you, no. I vaguely followed the controversy at the time and so I don't have any specific source.
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It’s a sad day: I am starting to realize I am old.

I went to the website, saw it was a card game and thought I would learn more about it as I like card games. I play card games.

I clicked on "How do I play Cards Against Humanity" under the "Your dumb questions" but quickly lost interest when I would have had to click on "Read the fucking rules" to learn more about the game.

I get it... it is probably an edgy game... it probably is not for me. I guess I will never know as I just don’t want to "read the fucking rules".

EDIT: Fixed typo.
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Especially if you also like Facebook has a German office.
Oh, we aren't even all programmers. I am a former military wife and homeschooling mom with a homegrown solution for my incurable deadly genetic disorder, trying to figure out how to use the web as an education platform of some sort and means to make money. It is still somewhat up in the air what direction that will go in. So, in part, I am a wannabe programmer who currently knows a smidgeon of html and css.

Now you should feel TONS better about what you do! :-P
I have a lot of respect for Amazon; Bezos's quote definitely explains a lot of their appeal. So many businesspeople are so focused on short-term costs that they are unable to make long-term wins. Bezos has been busily crushing those people for nearly 20 years. I really hope American business culture eventually unlearns the MBA-school dogma that leads them to the charge-customers-more approach.

That said, Amazon definitely has problems. E.g., how they treat employees:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-f...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3101876
Calorie estimates are never perfect, but a rough estimate is much better than nothing.
I'll leave it then - maybe the cool core concepts will inspire someone. Thanks.
It is sort of buried, at one of my startups we made a 1U server that went into the phone closet, we found a place in Milpitas that could make us 20 - 30 at a time, and then when we started growing and needed 100 at a time they basically told us "No, we can't do that."

That was my first experience with a manufacturer where I got to see what it was that making 100 changed vs making 20. In our case it was mostly all of the various parts that came from different places, so you needed to stage a bunch of things and that difference in delivery times meant that to build a 100 reliably for some components you were holding on to stock of like 500 of other things. That tied up a tremendous amount of money, and the risk was if something went wrong you might have parts to make 80% of 500 things but not the same 80%! It was maddening, and very complex. We had a gal whose job it was was to talk to suppliers basically all day every day and help get things 'kitted'.
[Obligatory IANAL Warning yada yada]

The question of whether they can use someone's likeness is an interesting one, and the answer to that apparently varies from state to state. Instagram could probably get you to sign away the right to use your own likeness in their ads, but that wouldn't apply to people who don't use their service.

I'm not sure how jurisdictions of other states apply (any actual lawyers want to weigh in?) but Instagram is based in California where (if you can believe it), publicity rights are quite strong (even dead celebrities get protection there). There's a little gray area that Instagram could exploit there, but I think the example Wheaton described there would be a pretty easy meal for Rauch's lawyers. At the very least, Instagram's legal team would almost certainly say "fuck no" if the marketing department showed them an ad like that without getting permission to use her likeness.
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actually this is the 'midpoint' method. verlet is different in that it negates needing the first order term altogether, which is instead gotten at any instant from the previous and current position (zeroth order term).

but yes, verlet is much more powerful for game physics, especially when coupled with constraints since it allows all kinds of non-trivial behaviour (angular momentum) to fall out.
The light ray came from the floor 1 foot below the event horizon, and your eyes are 3 feet away from it

No, this is incorrect. You are thinking of the event horizon as a "place in space". It's not. It's an outgoing light ray. And "locations" with a given radius inside the horizon are not places in space either; they are moments of time.

Here's how to unpack what I just said in more detail. What kind of curve is a curve of constant r (and constant theta, phi if we include the angular coordinates)? Our ordinary intuition about how "space" works says that a curve of constant r is timelike; that is, it is a possible worldline for an object. This means that an object can "stay in the same place" by staying at constant r for all time.

If a black hole is present, however, this ordinary intuition is only valid outside the event horizon. Outside the horizon, curves of constant r are timelike. However, the event horizon is a curve of constant r, and it is not timelike: it's null. It's the path of an outgoing light ray. A light ray always moves at the speed of light; it can never "stay in the same place". So you can't think of the event horizon as "a place in space" the way you can think of a curve of constant r outside the horizon.

Inside the horizon, a curve of constant r is spacelike. The physical meaning of a spacelike curve is that it is the set of all events that happen "at the same time" for some observer. So a curve of constant r inside the horizon is "a moment of time" rather than "a place in space".

So a light ray that is emitted "1 foot below the horizon" is really emitted "1 foot to the future of the horizon". Or, since light travels about 1 foot per nanosecond, the light from your feet is emitted 1 nanosecond to the future of the horizon. That light can't travel "upward" to meet your feet; that would mean traveling into the past. Instead, your feet have to fall through the horizon to meet the light.
The problem seems to be that no one has figured out the "right" balance of power for these projects.

With VC, they're a small, tight-knit group and can ruin your reputation if you waste their money or fail in bad faith (or if you fail in good faith and they're upset about it). However, this capability is abused all over the place. One of the reasons why extortions like multiple liquidation preferences and participating preferred exist is that the VC can pick up a phone and turn off other interest in firms that should be competitors.

On the other hand, with Kickstarter, average donors on the scale of $100 don't have the "teeth" or incentive to fairly punish those who fail them in bad faith, and in the absence of such punishments, you either get a scammer problem (bad-faith failure is unpunished and recurs) or an overreactive "lynch mob" behavior (good-faith failure is punished).

What's right for a growing business and artistic projects is between those two points, I would think.

That said, if anywhere close to half of all Kickstarter projects succeed eventually, then it's doing way better than corporate software. I'd bet that what is completed is of high quality, as well.

Also, the reason I really want to see Kickstarter succeed has less to do with the funding model and more with the making of cool stuff. Kickstarter means more people can work on useful, meaningful projects rather than serving The Man, and that's a great thing there should be more of.
Am I the only one who thinks that tying your model to the database is a bad idea and that adding "concerns" doesn't fix that fundamental problem?
Opening iBooks on my iPad 2 takes 3-10 seconds. I'd love to see that shrink to 20 milliseconds. Until then, I'm not satisfied.
I'm not suggesting that they should go internet-only, just that they may want to consider making their website ... consistent and readable ?

I don't care that they don't have shopping carts, or "buy now" buttons, or online payments, or shipping calculators, or modern web technologies, or nice image carousels.

I do care that I can't read some of their pages, that there are basic spelling errors on the homepage, that they have no search box, that products are hard to find, and that certain image thumbnails are so small and badly shot as to render them useless.

It's great that they are running a business they enjoy, and promoting face-to-face contact with customers (more should), but it's not an excuse for incompetency.

Whether they like it or not the website is an advert for their business, and in it's current state it looks like they're advertising a half-digested pizza, vomitted onto the pavement by a demented baboon.
What is really underestimated and forgotten are the calories of the daily casually snacks and drinks.
>Recently the places I've lived have all had calorie counts on menus.

The Affordable Care Act required displaying calorie counts across the entire United States. http://www.fda.gov/food/labelingnutrition/ucm217762.htm

Wasn't a coincidence you saw those counts in all the recent places you've lived (assuming you live in the US).
Entitlement is using a free service and then complaining about the rules. Especially funny considering the rant was written on Google+, which has similar terms of use.
Assuming it's a real study and they actually gather new data and run some experiments, what are the possible results?

1) The machines are unsafe and should be removed immediately

2) The machines are unsafe for people that pass through them at some given frequency (like 5x a year or something)

3) The machines are completely safe

4) ?

Results 1 and 2 would mean that many air travelers would feel entitled to some sort of compensation.

There's going to be a lot of external pressure to find result #3, so I'm glad it's an 'independent' study.
Can anyone 'splain, using little words, or refer me to a 'splanation of just enough Rails info to follow this article?

(Highly amused formerly chubby gal who felt fine about her body back in the day and got drawn into reading this piece by the ridiculous "sexist!" accusations -- highly amused because this stupid stuff might lead me down the slippery slope to actually begin learning to program. Thus any cooperation is much appreciated. Mmkay? Thanks!)
I feel like most people complaining about the whole 'Instagram will use photos in advertisements' make it seem like the advertisements are going to be on television or newspapers, etc. Or that said advertisements will say "Celebrity X uses IG, you should too".

To me is seems like the ads are going to be more along the lines of promoted restaurants and/or venues using photos the people you follow have taken. IG basically knows where everyone goes based on people voluntarily tagging images, and can now serve ads based on that in the same way FB serves ads from pages you like.

An ad that says, 'Your friend recently went to X (with a photo they took at said venue)', is a pretty engaging advertisement in my mind.
I think the fact you're looking at fast food menus could be the problem. Cook food from scratch -- it's fun and healthy.
Would love to see a more detailed post on how Scala helps you specifically.
I'm happy for your success, but as a developer, having one app for each of {French, German, Swedish} sounds like spam. It reminds me of "auto wallpaper" apps or the like.

The actual question of course is: how does establishing a unifying brand fare compared with a bazillion of generic apps?
> Too many rhinos dispersed across too far a distance. Unlike elephants rhinos don't necessarily herd in large groups. Many of the rhinos killed were either alone or in a small group of 2-4.

My google searching suggests there are 5k-10k black rhinos in the world. Seems plausible to monitor each one with a dedicated UAV, once you take into account economies of scale.
You eat X calories, you use Y calories. If X > Y most of the difference is stored (as fat), if Y > X your body burn the energy stored (fat, at some point, but it depends).

It's simple math and it's scientifically proven. 2000 kcal are 2000kcal, it doesn't matter if they come from a single burger or 10kg of lettuce.

It's not what you eat, it is how much you eat.
Banks often approve transactions where the billing address doesn't match - this is because the financial burden of the fraud is borne by the merchant.

But the response does indicate whether the numeric portion of the street address matched and whether the zip matched. The merchant can choose to reject the order based on this information. In our case, we accept the order if either matches.

Many merchants also are looking at the IP location from which the order was placed. Depending on the country it may raise enough red flags to reject the order.
I backed HexBright in mid-2011. I should be getting my flashlight sometime in the next few months. I was under the impression I'd be getting it in time for Christmas last year, but going back through their updates I don't see them mentioning a specific date so I'm not sure why I was under that impression. In any event, a year and a half is a pretty long wait, but I think it will turn out to have been worth it.
I always wonder during those discussions - what exactly is a "real" name
supposed to be? I don't have "real" name. Rather, I have many chosen names, and
a name my parents gave me. I consider all of these names real, as they refer to
a facet of my personality, a part of me.

I do have a legal name - my birth name. It's but one of many. Why is my legal
name important? It isn't. I don't even consider it my primary name. The
concept of one single "real" name is severely retarded and flies in the face of
reality. We need to get rid of this concept, along with the illusion of a
single identity. I simply am not the same person when I am with my parents,
when I'm with my meatspace friends, or if I'm hanging out on IRC with people I
know pretty well, but have never seen or met. I'm someone different here on HN
than I am on 4chan, or any other message board. That's perfectly human, and no
company or law will ever change that.
I am occasionally aware of using my spatial memory to pin down parts of code - it might help that I am quite used to computer games, where you switch maps (The example that comes to mind is Deus Ex)
Is this pretty much what you'd do in Django by using abstract base models as a mixin?

I've got an abstract model 'PageLike' that contains a bunch of fields common to all page-like concrete models (title, metadata, content, last modified etc)

Or is there something more going on here?
Okay, let me temper my statement a bit. DHH is good at marketing, he knows how to stir the pot. He may have not specifically targeted this at HN, but it's hard to believe that he did not assume that this would not make it to HN.
Hi! Thank you for the response! When my friend and I made the video we decided to leave out hair nets and gloves. Spirit-Energy is the translation of Hü-Chi - the name of my chocolate. I'm a spirited acupuncturist. Dark chocolate and some of my ingredients are considered superfood. But no I have not checked with a lawyer. The statement about nutrigenomics was meant to support that we are what we eat.
I'm certain that you are not; however, in many cases, the ActiveRecord pattern is perfectly fine.
And yet another reason why the serious competitors would turn off almost all graphics so that all you saw were colored boxes running around in colored boxes.
There's a non-profit to support development of LFTR here:
https://www.facebook.com/EnergyFromThorium?ref=nf

If you are an American, another thing you can do is sign the petition to stop the destruction of the U233.

http://wh.gov/5Rmc
Interesting to see some evidence for my anecdotal experience that people severely overestimate McDonald's calorie counts (not to mention unhealthiness).

People look at me like I'm a crazy person when I tell them you could eat 4 cheeseburgers a day and still lose weight (provided you don't each much else, granted, but still).

I wonder if McDonald's ever ran any research on whether trying to reanchor their food as healthy would boost or hurt their sales.
Kickstarter is an interesting mix of promotion and distribution. Projects are seeking not just money, but to find an audience of evangelists and early adopters for their products.

Delivery on time (by providing realistic estimates) can help make sure that people don't turn on the project and start generating negative publicity about the project.
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Don't assume as much, as recent as today: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20713985
It's better to ship late than to ship a piece of hardware you later have to recall (I write this as a bit of hardware from a recent kickstarter project awaits pickup by Fedex. It's being recalled by the manufacturer to fix a firmware bug. They were kind enough to send a postage-pre-paid box). :)
Here's http://lee.fov120.com/ecoop.pdf Lee Salzman's (the brains behind Slate) paper on Prototype with Multi-Dispatch.
Unfortunately the search algorithms/hotlists work much better for separate editions then unified editions of many things.
It's a direct reference to a blog post from 6 years ago that was widely discussed in the early days of rails:

http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2006/10/18/skinny-controller-fat...

This is the first I've heard anyone interpret "Model" in the context of software as pertaining to sex, gender, etc.
> Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something
(e.g. to ask us questions about Y Combinator, or to
ask or complain about moderation). If you want to say
something to us, please send it to info@ycombinator.com.

+1

An user account getting banned isn't something which should be discussed. You should be sending a mail.

Also, it doesn't look like you are hell-banned http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=zeynalov I have "show dead=true" in my profile, and am not seeing any of your comments as dead. If you were hell-banned, your comments would appear fine to you, but will be dead on submission and won't be visible to non-logged in or logged in with "show dead=false"(default) users.

If you do send an email, I would suggest rather than playing blame games or asking for reason, simply go for "I am banned, and I can't see why. Can you please unban me?".
So what you're saying is that unless it's a photograph of themselves or a shot sans people, they won't be able to use it?
I - fail to follow.

You don't see a reason to enforce the real name policy, but are opposed to a ruling/request to be explicit about that?

Censorship is always a tough subject. For one, because I actually think that 'free speech' in the US sense doesn't apply locally (there are quite some things you cannot state/show/do and I tend to like that. But I wouldn't consider myself pro-censorship. On the contrary, even).

Ignoring that: Why is 'blocking German users from using the service' censorship and evil, but 'blocking everyone from using a name that they'd like to use, potentially locking/deleting their account after requesting people to hand out official, government provided IDs to a random company on the internet' not censorship?

For me? Same thing. In both cases it's the company that acts and blocks/"censors" a number of potential users.
Having a calorie count on the menu is helpful. The state of California started requiring this a few years ago and it has influenced what I order.

As an example, before the calorie count I would occasionally go for a tuna sandwich at Subway. I knew that the sandwich wasn't a healthy choice, but after seeing 1,000+ calories next to it on the menu I stopped ordering it. When you see items on the menu in the 1,000+ range and others half of that for the same portion it should influence your chooses.
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The Swiss are an obvious exception, although their gun-grabbers are steady tightening things.

But I think you're wrong about the path that restrictions would take in the US: the slowly boiling a frog approach won't accomplish the goal, anything too quick, sharp and raw will merely spark the 2nd American Civil War during which "gun violence" will go way up. And most any restriction scheme will increase gun violence, if only on the part of the authorities using force to seize guns and the like.

Maybe in the long term public attitudes could be changed, the 2nd Amendment repealed, and the path you envision might happen, but that's the work of generations and will require a reversal of the renorming of gun ownership we've seen in the last quarter century (I take Florida's 1987 establishment of a shall issue concealed carry license regime as the start; today 42 states have them, de facto or de jure).
If there were actual competition in the ISP space anywhere in the US outside of the densest metro areas it wouldn't be possible for incumbents to exert their monopoly power like this. It's a drag on US economic activity, and one of the clearest examples of what institutionalized corruption looks like in America today.
> The cultures of the world that live the longest do not do organized exercise: http://blog.ted.com/2010/01/06/how_to_live_to/

Were we ever talking about living longer? Exercise is important because improves blood flow to the brain, and therefore brain function. It can make you happier and better rested.

Longevity is impacted by a lot of other lifestyle factors, many of which have nothing to do with exercise.

So basically you're conflating those other cultures' incidental lack of cardiovascular exercise with the fact that they live longer (which is due to completely unrelated factors), and then making the specious claim that exercising leads to shorter life spans.

> Going to the gym is largely an Americanism. Not exactly a culture I'd want to emulate for healthiness.

Going to the gym isn't an "Americanism", it's something done by a certain percentage of Americans who are significantly healthier than the American population at large.

The fact that you're even suggesting that intense exercise at the gym is bad for your health is just appalling.

> Consistent movement is much more healthy than sporadic bouts of high intensity. Walking everywhere is just about the healthiest thing you can do.

I never said that you shouldn't walk around, it has its benefits too. My point is that "walking around" is not "exercise".