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The mystery is how it can be so confusing, and how measurement and entanglement can be so mysterious, while at the same time, it can be so accurate a predictive theory. Any time you use a laser, as in an optical drive you rely upon a quantum effect that was derived before it was discovered. The energy levels of electrons in chemicals, of the affinities between chemicals, the reaction cross-sections of the fusion processes that power our stars, of the voltages in the millions of transistors in your microprocessor, you're relying on precise effects that are calculated with the quantum theory. It's not a scam, it's a mystery.
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Hi,
I'm just about to transition my server from test into production and I'm thinking it's about time to get some kind of anit-virus installed.

What windows AV do people recommend?
You're right, of course, about the documentation being awful. I was actually working on fixing that at the end, but every time I'd spend a few evenings writing docs (which was a few more evenings where I didn't get to do what I wanted to do), people would ask questions on the list not covered by what I'd just documented...and I'd get discouraged all over again. Docs help, for sure, and I painted myself into a corner where there was too much to document in the amount of time I could afford to spend on it. My fault.

I actually used a website for handling feature requests and patches (lighthouseapp.com), and it worked great. But even the best tested patch for a known bug still needs review. It needs to be applied and tested locally. It needs an update to the ChangeLog. And eventually it needs to be bundled and released, each new release requiring (at minimum) some release notes and a blog post announcing it.

It was a bunch of little things that got more and more annoying. I would have loved to distribute the load across more devs, but aside from a few who would review patches on specific topics (Scott Chacon, for instance, helped with git issues), it was all me, all the time.
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Am I reading this right? Are you actually saying ExplorerCanvas (canvas on top of VML) is faster than native canvas in firefox, webkit, etc?

I have some experience with this -- my site uses canvas / ExplorerCanvas quite a lot -- ExplorerCanvas is both buggy and extremely slow for any kind of animation. Particularly long running animation (as in games). I wish it wasn't so.

VML may or may not perform well, but it's a different kind of api than canvas. In VML, like SVG, you're intended to draw a bunch of shapes and then manipulate them. To animate a circle crossing the screen, you draw the circle and the move it every tick. The library manages the redraws, etc.

With canvas, you redraw every frame. So, to animate that circle you draw it in a different position every tick.

If you run canvas on top of VML you end up redrawing a lot of extra elements which get reinserted into the dom at every step.

They're just fundamentally different approaches and the impedance mismatch kills ExplorerCanvas's performance. If this has changed recently, btw, I'd love to hear about it!
I went there and no one was wearing these shirts. Delicious food, and still not Hacker News.
try pencil -its a firefox plugin.

http://www.evolus.vn/Pencil/
Actually, the way ebay works, he didn't neccecarily have to be taking advantage of them.

As I recall, you set a maximum bid and an incremental bid, and ebay automatically outbids other people for you until your maximum bid was reached.

He could've set a maximum bid of $60k, but, when no one else bid, wound up winning at the starting bid- which was set by the district at $1.
Invest in a favicon :-)
I like it.

Where can I find the chemistry, biology, neuroscience, psychology, economics, and physics versions?
You're still thinking like a developer (like Bram) by emphasizing the merging algorithm too much. It wasn't Linus's experience merging that helped him design the superior software. It was all the rest of his project-management experience, which helped him realize the role of merging within the broader system.
That's seriously messed up. I was borderline okay with Hulu's original ban, but this is just immature.

I think it will come back to bite them anyway, since poking Boxee users in the eye like this will just encourage them to make workarounds.
Well I linked this page instead of the original mailing list thread for two reasons:

1. He strips all the 'pissing' out of the matches... the underlying argument got kind of bitter.

2. His commentary summarizes the important parts on one page, and points out the fundamental difference in their viewpoints. Namely, Bram was focused on making the best merge tool, whereas Linus was focused on making something so merging ends up being a small part of the larger goal of versioning the underlying content instead of just files.
here's the answer for everyone.. get a cheap used pc, for around 100 or less. Hook it up to your tv, using vga or hdmi. Buy wireless mouse and keyboard, or gyro mouse. Enjoy hulu, crackle, comedy central, youtube, and what ever other content you want. Its that easy.
W3M: tiny graphical browser; good to check documentation
I would guess that clipping is being used to "even" out the volume, similar to compression. Maybe the pop crowd perfers the clipping sound.
Avoid DNS if at all possible.

I've used these guys for years, simple and really reliable:
http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/s0306/price/dns.html

More recently, Godaddy (and I'm sure other registrars?) includes DNS hosting for free-- It's a crappy interface, but simple and gets the job done.
A summary and PDFs of the contents of the presentation are available at http://events.ccc.de/congress/2007/Fahrplan/events/2303.en.h...
"It was a bunch of little things that got more and more annoying."

What you need to do is write a script to automate those small but repetitive tasks! I heard about this great bit of software to do that for you called Capi.. oh.

I was going to add, I think a factor contributing to the lack of ongoing support you received is simply capistrano's place in the stack. Unlike Rails or other libraries, it very much has a "deal with it once then forget about it" usage pattern, which would seem to discourage ongoing participation. Or if there was some kind of missing feature "blocking" the envisaged deploy scenario, that would create a pressing need to "get this in NOW!" - and then forget about it.

The simple position of Capistrano as the deploy mechanism - a critical "bottleneck" through which one must pass but then safely forgotten - could be the reason for the "all me, all the time" dynamic.

Anyway, glad to see you don't seem bitter. Good luck and looking forward to future projects.
Is installing anti-virus standard practice on Windows servers? I always assumed that they (unlike consumer versions of Windows) were locked down enough that, just like with Linux servers, as long as you enabled a firewall and kept up with updates, you would be okay.
This is just fantastic, thank you!
You should be kidding!
Do you want to compare linux built-in security with Microsoft's security holes and vulnerability?
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I don't have any stats, but my Zeitgeist-ometer tells me that it certainly has, and by a wide margin. It would be very difficult to get reliable numbers but I would be surprised if GitHub alone doesn't have more projects on it than every other DVCS put together. Projects are actually migrating to it from svn, which is a powerful vote of confidence. Perl just did a few weeks ago.

Yep, Git's won all right.
Some background:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5274040.stm
Unisys was one of the best-known mainframe companies, second only to IBM (well, and possibly Tandem and Amdahl).
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Can you add an rss feed?
This was really awesome to watch, for a few reasons.

I've never seen PG in person or on video. Based on his essays and comments I was expecting someone, for some reason, with a beard.. and maybe a medium-paced speaker with nothing in particular too exciting about him. I don't know why, but I just wasn't expecting someone all that exciting. Turns out he's an overgrown kid who is genuinely enthusiastic and into what he does. I cannot wait to get involved with people like him, and I'll read anything he posts with that enthusiasm in mind. (And I vow never to try to guess what somebody is like based on online text... it's just impossible)

Another reason I enjoyed it was that I'd heard of AngelConf, and I know what Angel investors are, have worked with a couple, and I've read about it, etc, etc. But up until watching this video, I realize I only knew the world in a surreal sense. There are actually conferences with people devoting their time and energy into investing angel-sized amounts of money, and it seems like an awesome niche to be involved in. I cannot wait until I can afford to place bets on businesses. Up until now, my only outlet for this has been my time, not my money.

As a side remark... this "surreal problem" happens to me a lot, particularly with social things. I think it's because if you show me a chunk of code, I can look at it and eventually figure "yeah, ok, I see what's going on here." And if you explain to me how some social system works, and it makes sense, I'll think "yeah, ok, I see." But what I've not factored in is all the information you send/receive when being involved in that social system, the subconscious decisions you learn to make, things like that. I guess that experiencing the "Blink" effect first hand, or in this case as a derivative of watching video, effectively opens the doors in my mind and shows me there's a lot more to understand and explore. I really love it when that happens.

The third major reason I enjoyed this was the content. I never really read anything from the Angel's perspective or watched much videos, so it was really cool to see the types of advice they have to juggle around, and what things are typical in the progress (just by how they're talked about). How much to invest? How much percent to take? How to valuate? It's great to know that in the world of seeding businesses, it really is as much an organic process as it seems like... something I'll recall when I'm not sure if I'm doing things right, crossing into new territory, etc.

Thanks, PG. Ever thought of doing videos like these to supplement essays? It really helps points get through a lot better.

edit: this is also good: http://www.justin.tv/clip/1c8fd85375b
If you can't you can make them.

http://arclanguage.org/
VCS performance tests (hg,bzr,git)
his blog seems to have a lot of posts on the subject
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/jst/
One thing that's worth pointing out is that Unisys's shares are trading at 33¢, and its market capitalization is down to US$120M. This share price is about 4% of the heights it reached in 1999, when it started to enforce these patents against GIF. It's low enough that I'm surprised they're still listed on the NYSE.

It wouldn't be surprising if a patent pirate company like Intellectual Ventures or Walker Digital acquired Unisys's patent portfolio, either at bankruptcy auction or by acquiring the company today.
Maybe the parent comment was downmodded so quickly because it adds nothing to the conversation (except self-congratulation).
If a competitor takes your code, modifies it, and resells it as closed source software, you sue and win.

I guess you're talking specifically about GPL-style copyleft, not Apache or BSD licensing?

There's an additional alternative: the competitor takes the code and adds features to it, then sells services on top of it. This is kind of a best-case scenario: you get free R&D.
The car is one, but I would have thought the iPod was the obvious example (and other portable music players, of course).

People use them to listen to music in noisy environments with bud-style headphones. If the dynamic range is too high, you simply can't hear anything too quiet in the mix. And if you do turn it up, you'll be deafened when the loud part kicks in. I consider myself a bit of an audio nut but even I choose "hot" mixes when I'm sitting on the train.

Not sure what the solution is other than providing two mixes of each track. Perhaps a feature for future media formats.
Since our interests overlap almost exactly (not a huge chemistry fan), I'd be interested in putting together a subject-specific suite of versions.
Hulu goes Medieval on Boxee, damn it.
The problems you're describing are independent of whether software is open-source or not. There's plenty of proprietary software with no support, no training, nobody to blame if things go wrong, with terrible UI design, no way to get new features you need, no marketing, and no guarantee of updates. Any random Computer Associates product from 1999 would qualify for nearly all of those, as would most custom software, and that's before we even get into proprietary shareware. And there's plenty of free software that's at the opposite end of the spectrum.
Not being new to it doesn't preclude me from arguing that it doesn't make logical sense. Some forms of "racism" at least seem somewhat rational, ie associating muslims with terrorism after 9/11 makes more sense to me than doing it with sikhs (just because the latter wear turbans). And I argue that this case is one that does not make sense at all. If he was actually an H1B holder working for the government, or even at any point had held an H1B, there would at least be a proximate connection.
Gordon,

Let me paraphrase your sentiment here. You think that my fatal flaw is that while simultaneously pursuing the extracurricular interests that included houseSYSTEM and running my own company (which is presently more profitable than Facebook despite its relatively small size), I was diligent in completing my coursework? That's my huge mistake?

As I describe pretty clearly in the book, I worked on the version control system and houseSYSTEM and many other things (everything you now see on http://www.thinkcomputer.com) simultaneously. Even in hindsight, I'm glad I worked on those things. I just wish I hadn't talked to Mark about them.

Like anyone I've made plenty of mistakes, and I'm perfectly willing to discuss them in relation to entrepreneurship, but clearly you've got some sort of other issue with me. Despite my best efforts to figure it out, I still don't know what it is.

Best of luck.

Aaron
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Quality care takes time. I am not going to dictate how people do their jobs. If they need more time then they can take more time; if this allows them to see less patients per day but spend more quality time doing their job, less prone to errors, and more comfortably, I don't see a problem. If there happens to be a shortage of doctors' time that is perhaps another issue unrelated to the quality of care they are giving.
so true... completely agree on this.. I am exactly in the same boat. It is tough out there.
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C'mon, you want to compete with MySpace and Friendster and Orkut in 2004? Your business plan is to compete against Google and Friendster? (MySpace hadn't been bought by News Corp. yet, and I think I hadn't heard of it, but maybe an entrepreneurial-minded person would have.)
> I would prefer her not to be spending time transcribing her notes from one system to another.

Ok. But data needs to be entered in the system somehow and patients need care and attention; and it makes sense to me to focus on one thing at a time, especially with a mission critical field such as health care.

> You could employ someone else to transcribe her notes at a salary more reasonable for the work but it is still, or at least should be, an unnecessary overhead.

People differ philosophically concerning what is important in health care. Some want quality and some want cheap ( most probably want both ). I don't work in the health care industry but I am curious how doctors would want to have their jobs structured at HMOs; do doctors want less patients and more time spent with them or do they want less time and the ability to see more patients?
Can someone explain to me how domain squatters add more value to the world than beggars? (Leaving aside that beggars usually have an excuse for not being able to find productive work.)
I would also check out Amit Singh's book on the subject, "What is Mac OS X?".
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Better than writing yet another CVS. And many of the late entrants to social-networking did OK -- Facebook, Bebo, others regionally.
By downvoting him, are we encouraging people like Aaron to use HN? Because I really don't think that domain-squatting counts as either hacking or productive economic activity ("making something people want", as pg puts it); when it's being done in order to get paid for worthless clicks, it's borderline fraud. Neither does suing companies engaged in productive activity, such as Google and Facebook. This guy is a menace to all of us who are engaged in trying to make a living by making something people want.

And you want to make sure he feels welcome on this forum?

I mean, admittedly, it's not like he's making his living by destroying the reputations of people who are making things people want (like Valleywag), but he's hardly making a positive contribution. If he had never been born, the world would be that much better for the rest of us.
In a discussion like this you need to talk about averages, otherwise you can claim anything. Your example with the hooker shows that she can make a million, but I can just as easily come up with an example of the hooker that repeatedly got robbed by her pimp and made no money at all. Neither example proves anything about the average hooker.
would rather leave them the $39 in stead of spending it on this.
Also: sixdegrees.com.
I got a better idea, pick a fucking career you enjoy instead of one with the highest ROI. Money (beyond necessities) is a worthless life goal.
* For better or worse, real customers will stick with the
"original brand".
* The fork won't get any of the community support the
original did, and will always be out of sync.
* Whatever community forms around the original project
will angrily reject the fork.

I don't believe this is always true--usually the superior* fork wins out. Take Firefox or xorg. Both of them effectively replaced the projects from which they came.

* Where superior here means technically, or aesthetically or friendlier to contributers or whatever.
I do not know of any federal or state US laws against discriminating by hair color.
Also, as has been reported in the press, the two developers of Codeville have spent some years not on speaking terms. And Linus knows how to foster a community of developers, and in fact already had one attached to him; Bram has not been observed to have this skill.
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Well, it's certainly beaten the crap out of Codeville, Monotone, OpenCM, darcs, ArX, and the other various decentralized source control systems that have been presented at CodeCon (Bram's conference), including the one Bram wrote.

I decided that Git had won about a year ago, so I switched to it (from CVS and darcs). Mercurial still looked like it might be a reasonable competitor at the time, and it certainly isn't going to disappear, but Git is definitely in the lead at this point.
Like the idea, but a few problems:

- Sites that aren't super active yet for me must have RSS. RSS is my callback mechanism. There are probably only 10 sites that I visit on a routine basis, but I subscribe to 45 (mostly low volume) RSS feeds. Alternative for me these days is Twitter.

- As others mentioned green color is bad. I can barely read the title.

- "Academic" is too vague. Academic for what? Computer science? Any papers on anything? Professor's union meeting write-ups? Specials in the U. Toronto snack bar? Note: Current "Hacker News" ousted the previously more specific name, "Startup News".

- Is this different from http://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/ ?
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Not a pedal, but do you know the TriAxis? http://www.mesaboogie.com/Product_Info/Rackmount-Preamps/Tri...
I had my Google AdSense account terminated a few years ago, too. I emailed Google asking why and never heard anything back. I remember being frustrated about it since I wasn't doing anything that would have been considered sketchy. I should've sued and become internet famous... ugh.
Allow users to subscribe to other HN users' synopses, such that I would only see my favorite commenter's synopsis. Simply place it to the right of the link, taking up all that space that is not being used yet; put the synopsis in a more transparent color than the other text- like the <0 down-modded comments.

We ( as synopsis authors ) would invent shortcuts for rating and summarizing the content that would fit to the right or be truncated. And when a user clicks on comments, the full synopsis is always at the top of the comments.

And maybe the descriptors that different users would implement ( like their own tags/ratings for the content ) would become unique to that user, eventually, and have contextual meaning to that author. Each synopsis author would have their own tags that they could reuse. Only people who subscribed to that author could see their synopsis so authors' silly or cryptic or worthless synopsis descriptors would not clutter HN readers' experience unless they subscribed to a particular s-author ( synopsis author ).

So each user could have a customized right-hand HN site by subscribing to other synopsis authors and each synopsis author would have their own ways ( tags, most likely to start ) for communicating concise summaries/likes/dislikes of the content posted on HN.

This is the thread that started this suggestion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=503983

I wanted to move this thread here, since it is more appropriate.
Why deal with the tv set? My even cheaper setup: live in a tiny apt where the home office is in the living room and just rotate the monitor towards the couch when you want to watch stuff online. Works especially well with an apple remote.