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Seriously, harlequin novels? That implies that books like these are both a dime-a-dozen and uncreative in addition to being fictional - nothing could be further from the truth. Strauss' writing is interesting precisely because it's about really crazy subjects that no one else writes about, or at least where the existing literature is aimed at very narrow audiences. I don't know about the "quality of writing"; this seems to be a quality you can define to mean just about anything. I agree that some of Strauss' plot devices are pretty lame and predictable - you'd probably not want to discuss his technique in a literature program. And like all supposedly "real" novels, there's probably a decent amount of distortions and exaggerations. But his books are engaging, and very much in the direction of "satisfy intellectual curiosity" that I love. No one is supposed to be manipulating social situations like the characters of "The Game", and yet it happens.

I found it eye-opening in a lot of ways, and it brings a host of new questions: what is "genuine" social interaction? How much of people's personality is learned and internalized behavior? How much of sexual attraction is? Should you try to change your personality for something that is supposedly better, and can it be done? In relation to dominance/submission in social situation (the implicit structure of command and leadership that automatically arises when a group of people meets), how much is genuine (or "natural" - what does "natural" even mean?) and to what degrees do natural leaders actively manipulate the people around them?

You shouldn't read books just for some supposed literary value, the real value comes from the questions you have when you're done.
Neither. Someone from the Phoenix Suns, note: http://twitter.com/tipjoy

We'll try to move it to be a charitable angle, rather than direct cash.
Who do they think is fooled by neither admitting or denying the allegations?
Yeah. I'm willing to forgive most blunders, and I am not actually investing in the stock market yet. But when I do I'd highly doubt that I'd ever E trade.
"There will be no addtional features and functionality for users, this upgrade will be strictly to signal intent to the community."

So basically, all you get for your $20 a month is a badge saying that you're cooler than people who didn't pay. And for your premium membership, you still get the same crap service that freeloaders get.

Are people really that stupid? Asking people to pay something for nothing reeks of arrogance. I'm starting to think Frind got lucky with PoF.
Where are the legal documents posted that the lawyers mentioned?
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Wish there was a way to read this online but The Little Schemer http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/BTLS/ made the first couple chapters of SICP a little easier for self study.
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Perhaps I'm too jaded, but I don't think that details really influence the political impact. My point, as tptacek points out, is that it changes the nature of the conversation in washington.
They are getting hit hard for this. Their stock has lost over 13% of its value today.
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yikes... http://twitter.com/THE_REAL_SHAQ/status/1285621312
whoops. http://twitter.com/the_real_shaq : "Stay away fr. Happy Bday Shaq site. Nothin ta do wit me. Shudderdown. Shame shame All I want is friends, thank u all"
According to the Migration Policy Institute (http://www.migrationinformation.org), about 6,195,000 immigrants arrived legally into the United States between 1995 and 2000. I grabbed this pretty quickly off the web. I'd imagine the numbers were even higher between 2000 and 2005.

It always surprises me that people who are ok with a million immigrants a year, but maybe not ok with a whole lot more than that, are accused of being anti-immigrant.

I'm all for "letting people from everywhere come in and live their American Dream", but as a practical matter, I think there have to be limits. Well over a million a year, in my opinion, seems like a pretty generous limit, even for a fairly large country like the US.
Yes, that's what I thought as well.

On the subject of tipjoy, a useful option would be to allow people to just collect recipients that they are interested in giving to, and then split $10 or whatever between them at the end of the month. I think this would have two advantages: reduce the effect of Clay Shirky's micropayment decision cost problem, and allow people to budget more easily (which will make them less scared of giving money).

(I was thinking of doing this until I heard of tipjoy, curse you :-).
Failed:

http://twitter.com/tipjoy/status/1285537683

"a representative from the Phoenix Suns asked us. I presume the gifting / money site is what they didn't like."

Ouch. That sucks.
I already watch all my "TV" online, and I tell my TV addicted friends that they will too, in the near future. I would never go back to broadcast television - instead of thinking "I wonder what's on tonight?" it's "Hmmm, what do I feel like watching right now?"

BTW - I'm 50 yrs old, and I worked in television, including production, from 1989-2003. Now I work online, at home, when I want...
You have as much right to move to Idaho as someone from Idaho has to come to California. This isn't the case internationally.
Well spoken. It's interesting to see how different browser usage and resolution settings can be from one market segment to another.
Yes, and it's been supersmooth so far today.
I agree about paper books.

Does anyone who feels the same have a kindle? Supposedly the screen is more like paper. Wondering how well that works...
Here's the back story: http://sesquipedalis.blogspot.com/2009/02/finally-use-for-tw... (via @timoreilly)

Definitely keepin it real.
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Let me go further... I used to work at EMI from June 05 - Dec 08 in their Global Technology Department.
GM will go bust unless it gets another $15bn. Best case sees 47k jobs cut.
It is very much like paper. (The display area is smaller than the average hard-cover book, however, but that doesn't bother me too much.) The only thing I don't like about the Kindle is that you can't skim to get an overview of the book or newspaper... you basically have to use the table of contents or read it in order. Not so bad for books, kind of annoying for local news.

(The killer feature of the Kindle, though, is the effortless buying feature. When you have to pay $30 and go to the store or wait 5 days for shipping, you tend to not buy books. When you can click a button and start reading on a paper-like screen instantly, it becomes much easier to read all the books that you've been "meaning to" read. But I digress.)
Did you ask about ombop.com, the name that this thread about?
Brilliant name! Well played =)
I've been to Mexico and India (Bangalore) and it provides a wake up call on how lucky I am to have been born in California, obtained my degree and get a job at a fortune 50 company. Travel is a good way to get out of your shell and experience what it's like outside your own little world.
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What is this snippet supposed to tell me? Looks completely meaningless to me.
http://twitter.com/tipjoy/status/1285707381
Relations, not functions. Prolog.
Be prepared for stiff competition from ZOMGFTWPOP.
Not if you're happy with it!
Tom's hardware forced all the data to the outer sectors of the hard drive. While this reduces capacity it also cuts down on seek time significantly, which would have a tremendous effect on hard drive performance in a database scenario. It appears they got >100% performance boost in database benchmarks with this technique. See this benchmark result: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/short-stroking-hdd,2157-...
Thanks for pointing out ohai.com. These types of start-ups are definitely worth tracking; I have a hunch they'll do very well. They provide a much more immersive and meaningful experience than MySpace, and also provide incentive (points) for coming back. On top of that, no registration is required to get started.

On the other hand, it's basically Yahoo Games repackaged for a younger, hipper audience... not exactly innovative.
They've derived exact mathematical expressions for the shapes and locations of those flow separations, and it sounded like the whole derivation was based on the assumption of incompressibility, so I'm not sure how extensible their approach is to compressible flow.

That said, it's totally true that you could use this sort of code in gasdynamics situations where the compressibility doesn't matter much, as you pointed out.

The experimental setup they validated their code with used three liquids -- Fluorinert, glycerol, and vegetable oil -- shearing past each other and the walls of a container while being stirred slowly. All incompressible, true, but perhaps chosen for experimental convenience rather than any problem with their theory's handling of compressibility.
Programmatic cross browser testing?
I've recently moved from backend programming to webapps. Obviously cross browser testing is an annoying problem, and I'm wondering if there is a tool to help that.

There are tools like Selenium/Webdriver that push buttons, but I'm looking for something that parses a website's HTML/CSS/JS and warns you about problems. Sort of like "you're using an X tag inside of a Y. That is known to look poor on IE6". I guess you could call it lint for the web.

Does such a thing exist? If not, why? It sounds useful to me.
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Summary: tail recursion FTW!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail_recursion
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I'm a developer at a small company that aggregates local data. Just recently members of our team acquired and integrated movie listing data. I'd love to hear any thoughts and suggestions, about the movie listings or the rest of the site.

http://www.connectorlocal.com/movies/
When do you know that somebody can be trusted again? Serious question - I am not sure about the best way to go about it.

A spontaneous feeling would be that maybe someone should earn the trust somehow, so I wouldn't necessarily simply put them in a position where they can do the same things they did before. (Like not employing child abusers in child care). Anyway, it is hard to tell without knowing more about the person in question.
Have you dealt with many recruiters? I seriously doubt that most recruiters would have done a better job in this situation.
I don't know about an earthquake, never felt one, but in all honesty I would rather read an article the 140 characters would be a tease as much specifics couldn't be given.

If you think about it twitter would be good for traffic or something like that, but only if a radio station or some larger element was relaying the message.

The same goes for a natural disaster, I'm not going to go look and see about a tornado or something along those lines on twitter, but a news company could relay it to me and this is about the biggest use I see of twitter search.

In all honesty if I was searching for a subject it would be because I am aware of it and want to learn more, be it a disaster, story, or subject; twitter to me is exactly what it claims to be a way to update your status quickly and as much as you want.
Don't forget about our Hacker News SICP Book Club too: http://groups.google.com/group/hacker-news-reads-sicp
It tells you that Prolog's list append function has far more general applicability than just appending lists. Because of the way Prolog is designed you can use that function definition to do destructuring pattern matches on lists - to find differences, etc.

It means the tools you write for one use can be used completely differently than you intended, and in ways that continue to give you those "whoa!" moments.
The timeliness of Twitter is definitely amazing. I think a lot of things will break via Twitter, and IIRC the emergency landing in the Hudson was one of these stories. It's the undisputed champ of quickly getting information "out there" ... provided you matter to enough people for it to begin to spread virally.

It's definitely cool to see people's take on ultra-current events, and Twitter search can provide the Who, What, Where, When, and Why, but does not dig very deep into any of them. And because of the vast amounts of noise, it also requires you to know beforehand what you're looking for.

What Twitter search is amazing at is eyewitness accounts in realtime for things you're actively seeking... but to me eyewitness accounts are only one aspect of the story, and usually I'm not seeking anything in particular. News has its place, and Twitter has its place, I don't see them intersecting over any other aspect than eyewitness accounts.
Dated 2003.
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Thing is though, you aren't viewing 140 characters at a time. You're viewing a page of 20 of the most recent 140-character posts from a variety of people (all with differing perspectives) at the same time. It's not better or worse than a news outlet, it's just different.

For my recent experience (a comment on this page): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=504849
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Someone should really make a hybrid E-Ink/LCD reader. A transparent LCD overlay (with backlight) for skimming, that switches off after you stare at the same page for a few seconds and re-displays the current rendered page on the E-Ink display underneath.
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I'll grant no one will read this but you (maybe?), since it's so far off the front page and everyone else's radar. Overall, your thoughts are excellent, but I have a bit of a bone to pick here:

(I recall one coworker at a job, when we looked, had done 12 CVS checkins during a given period where the average was close to 100 and the next lowest was in the 30s, or something like that. Illustrative!)

Not a good example. Number of commits is an n-th level approximation to measuring productivity. As an example from my own life recently, I just finished doing a massive refactor on a rather integral part of my current employer's website.

Due to the bad shape this module was in, any change I made to it would result in a broken program until I had done a considerable amount more refactoring both within the module, and all the other places it was tightly coupled within the code. The philosophy of "if it works, don't fuck with it" didn't apply here, because it didn't work when it was thrown my way, and it was almost indecipherable as well. So I set to work refactoring, more to decipher the code than to fix the problem; it was impossible to keep enough of a logical model of it in my head to reason through the misbehavor. Every time I changed something, 3 other things would break, making building the mental model I needed even harder.

For a number of weeks, I had something non-functioning, and something that would be completely worthless if committed into repository (I was backing it up elsewhere at the time). The best these commits would've been is the SCM version of status reports of a system without cohesion, which would have been a complete waste of everyone's time.

To be clear, I am absolutely against monolithic refactorings about 99% of the time, and I did a tremendous amount of soul-searching through all of this. I worried that I was making this far more difficult than I needed to make it, that there were smaller changes than I was making that would allow everything to work out. But every time I'd try to find a easier way out, I'd hit a point where I found such tight coupling that changing one thing would necessitate 20 changes elsewhere, and things would cascade from there.

When I got to a point where it started functioning again, I committed all the changes in at that point. One commit, but a lot of lines of code, and even more deep thinking went into this work. At this point, I am now committing more frequently, as the remaining issues are worked out of the rewrite.

I guess the moral of the story here is: don't just focus on the number of commits, focus on what went into them. If these 12 commits were on par effort-wise with the 30 commits on average of everyone else, something is wrong; otherwise, the guy hitting 12 commits might just have deeper, more difficult work to do.
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Ask HN: Have you ever paid for a "Pay as You Wish" album? If so how much?
Just curious... but does anyone actually donate money when you can download albums for free online? For example what Radiohead did.
The SEO isn't a problem, although "branding" is more ephemeral.

I think it's a good move, personally. The site started off as a casual dating site and has gradually moved towards casual gaming.

"I'm in like with you" certainly doesn't make me think games, and "omgpop" works well for teenage girls, which is a good segment to target for casual gaming.
Ah, thank you for rekindling that memory.

Prolog, where you just type what you want to achieve, and it goes ahead and does it for you. I really couldn't wrap my head around it for some time. I read up on backtracking and chased around derivations on paper to satisfy myself that something like append really worked.
Basically what's going on is this, but with lists:

3 + 5 = X?

X = 8

3 + X = 8?

X = 5

5 + X = 8?

X = 3

In most programming languages, you can't infer a parameter by specifying a result.

(Though that's not strictly what's going on here, either)

You could further say something like X + Y = 8 and get

X = 0, Y = 8

X = 1, Y = 7

etc.
for some definitions.

Which is, as the OP was getting at, sometimes incredibly useful.
You mean if one keeps learning after SICP? Bad example, because SICP tells you how to implement exactly this functionality (among other things).
How do you know it's crap? I think it works well if you're targeting teenagers. Maybe that's exactly what they're doing.
Ah thanks for clarifying. Now it makes sense.
Are there any real world applications for this, for us mortal web developers?
As has already been mentioned, thats not a function, it is a functor. It indicates a relation between two objects. Specifically, it tells the prolog runtime that a list appended to an empty list is just the list itself and that the resultant list and the first list argument should have the same prefix. Another thing to note is that the append function piggy-backs on the prolog version of list-appended cons-cells so that append function example is a bit deceiving. However, the power of prolog should not overlooked. For example, a call to append(X, Y, [1, 2, 3]) would have returned all possible values of X and Y which append to [1, 2, 3]. Something much harder in other languages.

An extremely (imho) good source for information on logic programs and how they are implemented is here: http://www.ida.liu.se/~ulfni/lpp/

A more practical guide to actually compiling these logic programs efficiently (or as efficient as they can be) is documented in Modern Compiler Design by Dick Grune et al. They actually describe the workings of a somewhat simplified workings of a Warren Abstract Machine (WAM) which can (to my knowledge) now approach to within an order of magnitude of standard programming languages. Pretty amazing when the generality of logic programming is considered. Details on the WAM here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Abstract_Machine
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Have you talked with any, or are you just guessing? For all you know they ran a targeted ad campaign and picked the highest converting product name for their target demographic.

That's what I'd do, at least as an input into the decision-making process.

That aside, having built products for teenagers, I think this name is totally fine. They all use txtspk and omgpop makes perfect sense in that vernacular.
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(At first I thought this was a joke, but it's up to +4.)

I think you're mistaken. I tried IE6 and IE7 just now, and they don't do SVG (though it nicely offers to save the file).

I think you're thinking of something called "VML". IE does have that, but it's not the same as SVG, not as full-featured as SVG, and nobody else supports it. Maybe that would solve some of my problems, but I'd never even heard of it before -- though I'm sure checking it out now!

I think the URL you meant to post was <http://code.google.com/p/explorercanvas/>. I looked at the source, and it uses VML, not SVG.
They started using OAuth in private beta so you do not need to share your password and you can revoke access to any application.
It's essentially text search, but there is also a surprisingly useful near:[location] keyword that is good for local searches.
You do realise that industry has tons and tons of research that has never been published. Most academics I know have never searched the patent database, which is only the tip of the iceberg.
It may also boost your cost by 1000%. This is a relatively poor article; you can short-stroke without any special utilities by simply creating a smaller partition and they didn't test the Intel X25-E.
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Well luck definitely had a huge component of it. Speaking of his new subscription model, I wouldn't exactly call it "stupid," (nor would I call it especially smart) I just think he didn't explain it correctly.

That's the psychology that the luxury goods market exploits. A $30,000 watch won't tell time any more accurately than a $30 watch, nor will it look much better than, say, a $500 watch, but some people who can spring for luxury items do simply as a token of wealth. Just look at the stereotypical nouveau riche spending habits.
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Is Strauss actually a good writer/reporter?

My take on Strauss is that he's a prep school kid trying to play Hunter S. Thompson. His writing is good. His topics are slightly edgy but still pretty safe. They're also the things nerds fantasize about... being a casanova or rock star or james bond or hanging out with porn stars.
Paid users will probably get their profiles pushed out a lot more so they will get more matches. Paying for faster matching.
Has anybody ever seen this website before?

It feels like if you hired a "webmaster" from the mid 1990s to build you a domain parking page.

It is AWFUL.
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I payed 13 dollars for a copy of Girl Talk Animal Party. I will admit the reason I payed $13 was because he requested $10 if you were going to download the flaks. At that point he stated he would mail me a copy of the cd in addition if I payed $3 for shipping and handling.
If you're asking "are there potentially awesome applications of this?" then the answer is probably "yes".

If you're asking "is there anything in the wild that I would know of and uses this?" then the answer is probably "no".

Most of the prolog projects I've ever seen are pretty inbred; implementing compilers or interpreters, hooks for another language-type things. Though it must be said that I'm not deeply embedded in the prolog community.