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did not listen people very well. I've heard them but did not actually listen. I kept on talking and talking.

I couldn't care less if you're some guy with a fancy idea in his head with no clue on how to do anything about it or if you're Paul Graham himself, as soon as you stop listening to what others have to say, you're failing.

My father rarely had anything insightful to say but one thing he did say that really stuck with me was "As soon as you believe you're the smartest man in the room, you're in the wrong room". His point being that you should never stop learning from others and always seek out opinions of those more experienced or simply those with alternative experience to your own.
I grew up in a developing country in a small town, I had to drop out of high school since it was becoming unaffordable, with access to a small library where most of the books weren't even in English. I learned electronics from those books, but most of it covered PNP transistors which were rare instead of NPN transistors which I could easily strip from old broken radios. I learned about computers from those books, and taught myself programming, where the books were mostly about the Commodore 64 and I was learning BASIC while the world out there was using PCs with C and Pascal. I taught myself enough to assemble my first PC from broken parts, and developed enough skills to allow me to move to a city, then to move to the UK, and other countries.

Was I lucky, or better educated? I also have that question of why do people who live in developed first world countries with free high school education and large libraries (containing books in the best language for information, and computers) don't see themselves as extremely lucky already. Why, with the massive head start they have that I didn't have, don't they go and make something of themselves and their lives?
You would look a gift horse in the mouth if the mafia gave it you right?

It'd come with strings attached...
Yes, indeed, we are also looking into this.

BrowserStack (another browser-in-the-cloud provider) has an API [0] which would make this task quite easy. Just add another build step with a script that POST to /browser that contains the URL of the Buster server.
(They also have tunneling support.)

[0] http://www.browserstack.com/automated-browser-testing-api
...and what is to become of bookstores?
I think it's too bad that the top discussion on the entire issue is the silly argument about a trademark. But since that's the case, I don't see it as a misunderstanding of how trademarks work, but a perfect way of demonstrating how fatuous Facebook's trademark claims have become. After trademarks on the words face[1] and book[2] now they also claim to own the letters fb. How is that any different then someone trademarking socialmediawebsiteforumblogimagegallerynews.com™ and suing the Internet out of existence. Even WordPress suggests using wp in a domain[3] instead of the word wordpress. Facebook never had a problem with domains that used fb before, they're only complaining now as an excuse to shut down a service they don't Like™.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/23/patent-office-agrees-to-fac...

[2] http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/159628/teachbo...

[3] http://wordpress.org/about/domains/
They promise to change the terms of service.
Your point 1 is basically correct. Just to be pedantic, I'd adjust that to he "created and led the creation of the first versions of a fast-growing system that attracted great investment and wealth", rather than "created" (which suggests out of thin air).

Definitely agree with your point 2.
I don't think it will be significant. People who use the torrents know to quickly google something like "the pirate bay proxy" and get access back.

"Can't stop the signal, Mal."
The market is an emergent phenomenon. It's not a designed institution. Hayek talks about this misattribution as the root cause of a lot of misunderstanding.

People do think of ways to adjust for things about the market that they don't like. Those adjustments are generally imposed from outside by force of law and quite a few of them are later modified or removed because they had seriously unpleasant side-effects (such as the total disappearance of a market).

Being angry at an emergent phenomenon like markets is like being angry at the weather, or upset about evolution. It's pointless.
You have never seen a "chemical trails used to control thought", "revolutionary air fueled engine" and "this guy is sick now and needs blood before May 1999" on social media?
The funny thing is: Facebook just blocked me from posting this link (even when processed by a link-shortener to be http://is.gd/facebook_megalomania ), saying it has been "blocked for being spammy or unsafe"!
To me, the problem isn't with the OS, it is with the hardware. Android phone/tablet manufacturers had the chance to create a truely open ecosystem but instead they have opted to copy the Apple method of locking down everything.
Perhaps "technical founders have less far to fall" makes more sense, though even that doesn't fully work. Technical founders, at the moment being in high-demand, more so will be able to rebound.
http://194.71.107.80/ still works at least here in Belgium.
Eh, it's still saying "trust me, I know about this, it's normal, everyone does it." Saying things rather than showing them.
Mobile Growth Stats
Is there not a single unbiased sentence in this article?

I'm no fan of the Surface or Windows 8, but this is just ridiculous.
You need to avoid lumping all economists into a single heading. It's easy to debunk abstract models by saying "they're not a model of the real world!"

Well, yes. The economists know that.
Giving away $500 Million is giving away $500 Million. The charity is receiving $500 million. Zuck doesn't get anything for it at all. If he earnt so much that he was able to write off $500 million, that just means he pays less tax on the rest. But at 30% tax rate, and if the whole lot was deductible (it wouldn't be), it's still $350 million out of his pocket. He's not benefiting (financially) in any way.
I don't know if it qualify as "big data", but to fetch, index, classify (meta-data analysis) and rerank daily (6 hours) a set of more than 5 millions medical publications, the stack is simple :

- Glassfish 3 (EJB, JPA, JSF)

- PostgreSQL 9

- Lucene (used as an index and as a NoSQL store)

- hardware: blazing fast SSD and 8GB+ RAM for PostgreSQL

I'm impressed by PostgreSQL, handling without a fuss tables containing more than 60 millions entries (well, I like tuning the DB conf and the ORM, it's usually the best effort/result ratio in devs :)
It's likely he can carry the deduction forward.

(I do understand that he only saves some portion of the $500 million so it doesn't make sense to say he is doing it for tax purposes.)
6 Years of Baltimore Homicide on an Animated Heatmap
So, should the Internet Explorer team also be banned from facebook? They too "interfere with the way Facebook is rendered to its users".
CVE-2012-2553: Windows Kernel VDM use-after-free in win32k.sys
Email Subject Line Performance
^^^ This is a good point. I knew he'd fail at the first line when he claimed to know everything. That's not a good attitude to jump into any situation.
Something like Diaspora?
I set up a donor advised fund (DAF) with the Silicon Valley Community Foundation when I sold my company in 2000. At that time they had the policy of selling all the donated shares immediately. It turned out to be one of the best things I did. Now I have more time available to look into how to give money in meaningful effective ways and I have a pot of money available for this thru the DAF where I don't have to be doing the math on whether or not I can 'afford' the donation. My post acquisition world has been much richer for the interactions I've had with people I respect that stemmed from this.
The part we should be talking about is the people who run these "non-profits" who line their pockets with money. Not saying this one does but MANY of them do.
In the past people would serve "stuff", and I'd have a client to receive that stuff.

The whole point of the WWW is that you must not rely on your user having a particular browser. Or operating system. Or display resolution. Or a display at all. You serve valid stuff and allow the client to parse it how they like. You can suggest nice font sizes and good contrast colours, but if they want to view it at 72 pt in pink on yellow they can.

Lots of the WWW ignores the fact that people may be using different screens or different whatever to view the content. Luckily we're moving away from fixed font sizes and a little fixed width blob of content in the middle of an otherwise white screen, but there are still weird lock ins around.

And Facebook are just following this trend - "this is our content, and it's our service, and you'll view it how we want you to".

Your wider point is a good one though. If people are annoyed at ads they should stop visiting the site serving those ads, with maybe a polite email explaining why they're not going to visit again.
What on earth does "what most people feel" have to do with anything? Nobody in Germany seemed to care that much about what Hitler was doing until they lost the war.
Easy Hangout with your friends
Hi all,

We are two childhood friends, crazy about technology and with many dreams. We developed a free iphone app called Happylous and you can already download it from AppStore.

What is Happylous

It is an application which allows you to create, organize and share quickly hangouts with your friends. Forget the dozens of SMS, emails or the endless debates on Facebook. Just create a "hangout", specify time and place, send invitations to your friends and let them choose whether or not they will attend. Happylous also suggests places around you with happy hour, restaurants or nightlife spots, outdoors and more.

Is the ideal solution for all groups, especially now in the holiday season.

The Happylous is free and you can find it in the App Store here:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/happylous/id583654181?ls=1&mt=8

Also find more information on the site www.happylous.com

Merry Christmas and Happylous New Year

Pavlos
Technical cofounders have everything to lose.

If you are any good, you have a job and, therefore, the opportunity cost of launching a startup is massive.
I love this one:

"Fearful of losing ad contracts, most sites pointed out that this was actually a clear indicator of the success of Surface, it was doing great, the entire OEM and partner ecosystem just couldn’t match Microsoft’s superior design prowess."

I guess they somewhat allude to their journalistic abilities with their domain name.
He explains it right in the text.

if (someBool)
return A;

...

if (!someBool)
return B;

Now - both cases are covered. The result will be A or B, never anything else. Statements after the second return are unreachable.
Against the homeless. I'm not sure what your question is.
What's your point? Customers will choose the mix of cost and risk that makes them comfortable.
Disclaimer: I haven't seen the movie yet, in any format.

But I did see the clip of the Bilbo and Gollum scene played on Colbert the other week. Martin Freeman (who I've loved in other stuff, like Sherlock) was fucking terrible.

If the calibre of delivery is like that, I'm expecting unexpected rubbish. Even one of the scenes from McKellen Colbert played was pretty shit. Maybe I'm expecting too much from what is meant to be a kids book.

My point is, forget FPS -- if the acting is shit, nothing will help.
I agree; it seems incredibly biased. But then again, all the positive reviews following the release of Windows 8 and the Surface sure struck me as odd.

In any case; I am not sure there are any unbiased articles in the tale of Windows 8.

For what it's worth, the article does have some facts in it (you just have to read through all the clutter of Microsoft bashing), that OEMs are not happy about the Surface and that certainly not going to be pleased by Microsoft's decision to sell it outside of their own stores and website.
And, of course, the fact that he was hired by the two guys who actually came up with this idea, stole the idea from them and purposely lead them along into believing he was working for them when in fact he was competing with them with their own idea.

So yea, I'd probably stick with "took wealth".
> When Amazon commits to building a product, they don't just give up if the first few attempts don't pan out, unlike some of their competitors (I'm looking at you Microsoft Zune).

Ironically, it was Microsoft the ones who knew how to iterate and never gave up (it is not good enough until version 3).
$27.71 above foundation. Yes, that's a lot of wealth.
Thanks for the link, for some reason I thought that book was on a different topic. I've found a series of lectures from Harvard Extension using the Artin Algebra book. I'm going to use that (and the new edition of the book) to pick up on the concepts I'm missing (over the course of the next few months)

The previous course I took with CourseRA had a decent amount of Prof and TA interaction, and the forums were well tended. But, I guess that could be down to the fact that the course was being used by the professor to instruct his actual University students at the same time.
I don't think this is a meaningful addition. Resilient systems are not static, they evolve; that's how they become resilient in the first place.
One would have a pretty blood difficult argument in that case. Was anyone in any of these countries actually using FB?
So here's the list of folks that Microsoft has pissed off this year: OEMs, developers with yet another wave of API changes and such, CIOs with increased licensing costs and power users with Windows 8. (Not to mention shareholders, employees, etc...) Starting to look like an HP sized problem...

Even some of my hardcore Redmond loving co-workers have been playing with Linux and we have discuss the possibility of utilizing some of the nifty Python/C data tools that have matured over the last decade for analysis and ETL.
The portrayal of the dwarves is consistent with their characterization in the book.
I agree that people do not have “the right” to use Facebook, neither are people obliged to.

That doesn’t meant that you can’t just not use Facebook. Social networks, in particular Facebook, have become a central part of social interaction. You can’t simply use another network, because they’re not interoperable. Your friends aren’t there, and you’ll be missing out.
I also don't get why the article seems so mad or angry; if they really dislike Microsoft, shouldn't they be happy about this?
The Python condition. Why PyPy is the future of Python
Google strikes back against big thumbs
Point-of-Sale Skimmers: No Charge…Yet
My point (as another commenter pointed), was more that, as long as you do not put a lot of money in, you'll have ample opportunities to recover, even in the worst case. Especially in the market we are in. This does not invalid your point, as I agree that there is plenty of jobs and money to do around here in the sector.
You might consider Facebook as a weapon and a destructive force, but don't state it as a fact.

As far as streaming facial recognition data to various agencies - source? Do they comply with various legal orders? Most definitely. Do they send all of their data to police agencies? I highly doubt it.
The article is poorly written, it does not show that the author did any attempt at a problem analysis, much less searching the internet or a Ubuntu community forum.

How is that relevant for the larger Hacker News community? It does not even help you who is in the same situation, other than giving you the feeling you're not alone.

How does that have to do with what I'm running?
`nvidia-settings` is a commandline utility to control graphic card configuration. It's used to set things like SyncToVBlank, FSAA level, Vibrance, multihead positioning, and even GPU and Fan speed, since you can also query temperature.

Hacking the original nvidia drivers is pretty much impossible, they are closed source after all :)

One of the first things I've implmeented when I learned programming was mapping ACPI events of multimedia buttons to various calls to XMMS. Having something physical to relate to while coding is a big help for me, and makes a lot of sense. I assume that's one of the reasons a lot of people get arduino, rPi, beagleboard, etc... If it moves or interacts with the environment, it's easier to wrap your head around it, and more rewarding when you get it to behave as you want it to.
Agreed. Not only does an active listening habit reward you with more efficient learning, but the body language that results comes off as much more charismatic.
There are HTML classes and CSS selectors, but no CSS classes.
Not to mention that in true 3D you would be able to look anywhere you wanted in the picture instead of what's in focus. 3D will (hopefully!) go down as one of the most ridiculous fads ever conceived.
Digital media's Citizen  Kane
I might be willing to accept a lot of strings for 500mil ... just saying.
I don't think eye tracking and do any good, because recognizing of familiar shapes and then mapping them to a familiar constructs and "structures" comes first.

So, reading a code with familiar shape is one thing (that why Lisp has such emphasis on the form of an expression, and Python put that into extreme), while reading long.chains.of.unfamiliar.methods.is.another.)

Then comes recognition of a familiar zones (areas) of an expression, expecting particular kind of sub-expressions here and there. Then match what you have seen with known whole things.

Lets say it is a recursive process of reduction to something already known by examining shapes, forms, and details.

So, shape matters. Small procedures, around ten lines matters. Naming matters, and, especially, using one-letter, non-confusing (no meaning) names for just a placeholders matters.

Let say that this solved in Lambda Calculus (by a naming strategy), and then in Lisp (by shapping strategy) by accident.)
Video: How To Convert Your Site to Responsive Design
I imagine once you have a guaranteed $10-$20 million to your name, you'd not need or have any attachment to any money after that.
Configuring multiple Forms Authentication sections with NancyFX
My preferred tool for marketing websites is http://middlemanapp.com/ . On top of handling the markdown, erb -> html generation it also takes care of minifying of js and css, handles sass, less and setting image sizes automatically. It's not my project but I really love it :)
Poll: What would you rather build now? High-growth startup or small business?
At this point, it's really hard to tell whether the HN crowd is geared towards fast-growing startups, or small businesses that would sustain a good living for the foreseeable future. Perhaps this poll could help. So tell me, HN, if you were to start a company, what would you rather build right now?
High-growth startup
I would simply build something. Whatever way it goes, I don't mind
I guess it depends what you categorize as social media. I think bloggers also fall into the social media camp. There's a very thin line between bloggers and journalists. Would you say the bloggers on huffington post talk chain-mails and heresy? I think in China the big name bloggers are probably equally respected as any journalist would be.

I'm slightly doubtful that someone would create a fake scene of 22 kids who got stabbed, for the purposes of social media juice.
> There is nothing mutually exclusive about running a business and being honest.

That's why his comment about "running a business" being a "blanket excuse for intellectual dishonesty in general." seemed offensive to me, as it paints a lot of people with a very broad brush. It seems like the kind of one-liner point scoring one finds on, ahem, other unnamed sites.
Interesting, I didn't know that story was buried. People have been advocating downplaying the role of the killer in the recent Kindergarten massacre and focusing on the victims in the fear that the attention paid to the killer would promote copycats. However, burying the whole Kindergarten story was not suggested.
I'm pretty sure they'd like to use Android everywhere. Given that it has already so many apps and customers know the name. Additionally the OEMs get a lot more freedom than what they have with Windows, yet won't feel as lost as with any Linux distribution.
"In any case; I am not sure there are any unbiased articles in the tale of Windows 8."

It's hard to dig the facts out of the machine. I was sitting in a Windows 8/Azure presentation last week and ask the Microsoft presenter several uncomfortable questions that he didn't want to answer. :(
Quite interesting, but he didn't convince me that there are inherent, insurmountable problems with 48FPS or 3D 48FPS, even though that seemed to be implied.

It's early days, and there may be ways to work around the problems.

For example, with it showing too much sharp detail (too much for the viewer to take in at once), there may be ways to keep certain sharp detail while reducing the rest of it.
> "reasonably forseeable" is hard to define.

It certainly is. The concept of negligence was reinvented or reintroduced into the Common Law starting in 1932 with Donoghue v Stevenson and the lawyers have been wrestling with it ever since. I hated Torts as a student, it's a damn fiddly area of law. Give me Trusts any day of the week.

Still: if you want to study how intelligent people have mapped out the concept of "reasonably foreseeable", then lawyers -- particularly Scots lawyers who also look to Roman law -- are the people to talk to for inspiration.
HFR is superior to 24fps in every conceivable way.

Film makers have a wide variety of creative tools available to them to help them tell a story, of which HFR is one. We're talking about art, not a technical quest to reproduce reality as closely as possible.
The fact that it runs entirely on web technologies is what they are saying makes it more open. Though I am not sure I fully agree with this because they are using special javascript api's implemented in the OS to access the hardware. Unless Android and iOS devices adopt these javascript API's, you are still in the same boat as developing for any other app eco system.
No tired eyes, real world is infinite frame rate. You will get better 'natural' (psycho visual) motion blur as you approach that infinite frame rate. The required artificial blur to hide the lack of smooth motion will be reduced although can always be increased for artistic effect if desired.

Of course LCD displays will be locked to particular refresh rates on a TV probably 24Hz, 50Hz or 60Hz (although it may then apply motion compensated interpolation to take them up to 96-120Hz or even 192-240Hz but these are often turned off in 'Game' mode to reduce latency and provide less lag between input and result).

* Infinte frame rate is effectively whatever your mind can't distinguish from infinite.
JavaScript Auto-Completion for Notepad++
The basic advice in the article seems to be: use consulting as well as doing a lean startup to achieve (i) a fluid stream of income [from consulting] and (ii) a hopefully-growing stream of passive income [from startup].
(As far as I can tell, it's also what Patrick 'kalzumeus' McKenzie and others are recommending).

Part of the "nothing to lose" assumption seems to be that doing a startup gives you a learning effect that outweighs the lost revenue you had to give up for doing a (failed/failing) startup in the first place?
> you are forced to keep reminding certain people that you exist and that you can be contacted

perhaps those people need to pay more attention to you, instead of to your facebook status and/or wall. Real friends sms or call once in a while.
Interesting...I started using the "Missing e" plugin for Tumblr...but after Tumblr kept giving me dire warnings about how I was compromising my security and being an otherwise bad person, I disabled it, thinking that at some point Tumblr might just hellban the plugin users. (Also, the plugin wasn't as useful for my usecases as I had hoped.)