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Surprised that site has not done a teardown of the (more expensive) Phillips bulbs that have similar specs. They've been around longer and are the ugly oddly shaped yellow plastic ones. Mine have a bit of a buzzing sound when dimmed, even though the packaging claims this won't happen... am thinking of moving to Crees but it would be nice to see a comparison of the innards.
I sincerely doubt they would use their external JS to take down competitors websites. They would instantly lose any trust across the whole internet.
The thing that's interesting about this format is that it seems to be an update to one of the more interesting ad platforms out there: The Deck.

(It's the ad platform Gruber and LaughingSquid, among others, use.)

The Deck is neat because it focuses less on the type of content and more on the quality of the publishers in the network. But the problem is, it's invite only. While there are other ad platforms that do similar things, what's nice about this is that it appears to treat the publisher as nice as the advertiser.

We need more networks where individual traffic is less important than the quality of the publisher and audience. This is a really good start on that front.
They are different cultures, it's not about polish. They think differently, thus they act differently.

You are talking like the British/Romans spoke of themselves in the empire days... We are a bit past that now. No one needs your civilisation or your manners... They might need your money though. ;)
You only have to put up with it for a few more days. Once my antidepressants kick in I'll go back to one comment a week.
It's interesting to see that 13.04 comes with Mongo 2.2.4 pre-installed. If it's always running, it's going to make getting started with Mongo that much easier.
The same way all that "value" you might get from a loving family, good friends, good weather and high self-esteem. Things have value even if they don't have a $ price attached.
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Well, put your liabilitites into your balance sheet. It's your company, the only one you'll fool by taking them out is yourself. And you are a fool if you want to fool yourself.

But yeah, if you are investing in other people's companies, you must seek those.
> What if I don't want to do that? What if I just want to write books? I can't make a living from that unless I also become a showman or sell some kind of other crap?

Welcome to the creative industry. The previous copy-protected market guarantees your living in no way. The vast majority of talent is simply fighting obscurity. You're arguing about the results of fame, which is very rare.
Sure, though it is worth pointing out that they must compete with people who are using copyrights to their advantage. Even competing against the businesses that benefit from copyright, Pioneer One is able to survive; I suspect that in the absence of copyrights, Pioneer One would be more financially viable.
Prentiss also says Sherman drew up a will one week before he died and gave it to his secretary.

And they didn't consider this a massive red flag?
That's interesting...
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Is this what you're referring to?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5246071
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An excellent example of why HTML5 should have included namespaces. How would this validate or do people not care about that anymore?
"Google and Facebook (etc) are paying them great salaries, equal to what they pay US employees (even though the expenses are higher with visa and relocation costs)."

Is there a possibility, though, that what they pay US employees is influenced by the ability to grant visas to non-citizen workers? In that sense, the program could still suppress wages.
My experience is the same. I work in NLP, and I've found that at least everything administered by ACL (probably our largest professional organization) is pretty much always available.
I had upwards of 20 CFL light bulbs in my house and over time I noticed that they typically were cracking at the base, thereby leaking whatever was in them, after a few years of use. After you replace 20 with 20 more, and repeat a few times, the numbers start to add up. I decided to get rid of them. And I don't eat tuna.
Source for huaweis bid being more expensive?

There are ways to verify, surely, checksum builds/roms etc.
Bash is not suitable for large systems/teams. MySQL depends on image blobs.

However both of these are wildly popular. They slot into existing systems, making them easy to pick up and use.
This is really worrisome - all I read about secret organizations shows how crazy they become with time.
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A2 (nee Bluebottle) is the successor to Oberon, but remains
compatible in the sense that you can run the classic Oberon
System 3 as an application within Bluebottle.

http://bluebottle.ethz.ch/download.html

(My Eyes! The goggles do nothing!)

You could probably boot the ISO image in a virtual machine (VMWare or such).

There's a version of Bluebottle that runs as an application on Windows. Here (A2.r4701.zip):

http://www.ocp.inf.ethz.ch/wiki/OCP/WinAos

A few things to note:

(1) unpack the zip file
(2) Open a2\WinAos\Aos.EXE

Note that Aos.EXE will run full screen. There's no obvious way
to minimize or hide it, but you can Ctrl-TAB back to another
program.

The system log is displayed by default near the upper left
corner of the screen. You'll want to close this as Oberon and
Aos can not both be managing it at the same time.

(3) Close the System log by clicking the red button in the
upper right corner of the System log window.

You'll see a palette of buttons in the lower left corner
of the screen. We'll be using that to start Oberon.

There are two ways to start the hosted Oberon: full screen
or within an Aos window. Since we're here for Oberon, we'll
start it full screen.

(4) Click "Deveop" in the top row of buttons.
(5) Click "Oberon FullScreen" which is revealed as the
left-most bottom-most button.

To exit Oberon click "Quit" in Popups.Tool and choose "Shutdown".

To exit Aos click "System" and then "Shutdown" on the button
palette in the bottom left of the screen.

Happy exploring!
This is a cool explanation. I've wondered for years why the rest of my family doesn't seem to get the same sense of elation from metal. I supposed that music is a language, and they simply haven't "learned" metal, the same way I haven't "learned" country, but one wants an explanation that sheds light on the odd relationship between metal and classical.
The developer should absolutely follow the checklist as well, otherwise he's wasting the reviewers time.

So, what you're describing is actually a good yes/no question: "Is the best algorithm for the problem used?" (or, better: "Has functionality that is available in a library been implemented by hand?", but that's not your point :) )

No, flights use checklists for even completely routine thing (especially for routine things, because that's where sloppiness will manifest itself first). For an example, if you forget to set flaps correctly before you hit the throttle for take off, you're going to have a bad time, so that's on the checklist. (Of course, these things are largely automated now, so modern aircrafts will yell at you if you don't. I think Airbuses will even override the throttle)
Just wondering how many people have actually installed Bing Desktop, Google Desktop or any other desktop search on Windows. Why does Ubuntu think their more discriminating user base need these SMART search features when the common John and Jane shunned it?

It's all about privacy and companies trying to get you to buy more things are the worst offenders of viruses and invasion of privacy on the web.
Those things don't translate into food automatically.
This is why I use Cloudy [http://askcloudy.com/]. They don't do any of this nonsense and it's better to see reviews from friends anyway.
Your verdict on whether to continue building this
The problem is that businesses live and die on making money. Accounting keeps track of your money, and by my made-up-but-probably-true commutative property, accounting keeps track of your business.

If you are managing a business, you should be managing accounting by default.
It seems that Yelp is turning into something like the BBB, ultimately holding the good name of organizations hostage, whether or not that was the original intent.
No, I'm not okay with that, but I don't think someone who linked to that copycat site is committing a crime!
I would like to know if any of you think I should continue building this. Please take a minute to see the animation and let me know!

The HN verdict is important to me.
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We don't have much of a choice unless we want to regress into a pre-state hunter gatherer society

Yikes, so we become a police state or we go roll things back 5000 years. Amazing.

It's like the United States wasn't a world power and thriving before the New Deal.
>This sounds nice, but the problem is that the author creates value, the downloaders receive value, but no exchange is made.

That's where you're wrong. An audience is value in and of itself. The trouble most authors have is with leveraging that value. Traditionally they'd handed the keys over to a big publisher and hoped for the best -- a sucker bet if I'd ever seen one. Now that the exclusive power of distribution has been stripped away from traditional publishers there's actually more opportunity than ever for an author to find and derive value from an audience; it just takes more savvy (and less luck).
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I'll add another vote for SASS/Compass. That system has saved me tons of heartache and hair-rending (and I don't have the hair to spare). SASS makes it easier to organize your CSS than to leave it unorganized. It almost makes CSS fun.
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I obsess about lighting plenty (more than just color temperature - florescent flicker that most people don't notice irritates me to no end,) but I don't subscribe to the idea that incandescent light sources are automatically better.

I recently acquired a 40W-equivalent version of this bulb, and in A/B testing vs a 57W "efficient" incandescent, I lost track of which bulb was which. The LED bulb actually had a warmer color that the incandescent, plus very similar brightness.

Of course, most of my bulbs are horrible, dim, slow, ugly, toxic, cool white CCFLs, installed by the previous owner (even in fixtures with exposed bulbs,) so pretty much any bulbs constitute a serious improvement.
Of course it would be a completely stupid thing for Twitter to do (unless they get hacked). Just saying that technically it is possible.
Try Switch LEDs: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/11/... . They're actually available, and I have a couple, which are pretty good, though the upfront cost is high.
With some effort it could result in an internal server error. With no effort it could result in an "Internal Server Error" being printed.
It puts food on your table in the same way it did for PSY (the "Gangnam Style" guy)... People learn about you, and will pay a premium for almost anything you touch. For example, to see you live, or to speak to you about anything, or to buy your old house or car at substantially more than it's worth. In short, you become a celebrity. That is the intangible value created for yourself, as a reward for the intangible value you create for society. It works in areas like math and research too. Publishing research will get you a better job. Similarly, having your song copied will give you more income, even if it's just a tip - like a waitress, or a street mime.

It's a spectrum of risk - from donations to Kickstarter - and nowhere in there is copyright - a restriction on other people's creative work (to the detriment of everyone, including yourself) - necessary.
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IT's the same authors, I think. They also published this in a book a couple years ago.
"too much of a hazel"? What does this mean?
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I guess it's the difference between making music then getting famous as opposed to making music because you want to be famous. Each lead to totally different approaches (working consistently and making a lot of gigs versus getting a big label to launch you early on). Building a business is the same thing.
Another problem is that the research hasn't been collected into a manager-friendly tome like the Gang of Four book. The software industry is overflowing with snake oil, and we need to replace it with science if we want to see this turn into a real engineering discipline. I'm tired of bikeshedding and holy wars -- show me the science!
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the only thing i use yelp for nowadays is directions and general info like phone number or hours of operations.

looking restaurants / dry cleaners / whatever up in google and/or apple maps is pretty much useless when you're on the go.

whereas on yelp, you simply enter the name (or ethnic category), click on the map, and there you go.

quite frankly i stopped using yelp for reviews as soon as the idiots took over. /hipster
> Where as a mainstream language like ... molds itself to the existing OSes ...

Oberon the system was an environment; Oberon the language was a language.

The problem is that the C environment is so dominant that we don't usually think of C in the same terms, or remember that systems languages like Oberon are intended to be used for writing OS-like and filesystem-like elements.
To stick down the idea of copying as a universal good is to oversimplify things just as much as to insist than an author has an infinite moral right to make completely unrestrained profit from the things they derive from society for the rest of time.

It's an appealing notion, copying sounds fine when you phrase it as an act of love, and within certain limits; fan works and the like; it is. However, if you have unrestrained copying then people will copy in a predatory manner as well. For instance, by aggregating your work and others work through a portal so that you never see any advantage from it - or by putting your work into something that has a much greater cultural presence and effectively taking ownership of it.
> That would only prove that people can pirate the game.

You said it. It means that DRM doesn't do anything useful about pirating. The moment "you can pirate the game", it will be pirated. Or you can put it this way - the moment someone puts a DRM stripped version to bittorrent - it becomes available for anyone who wants to pirate it. And it happens all the time. So, again, what other proof do you need, to admit that DRM doesn't affect piracy?

> It doesn't tell us whether the same number of people actually do or whether any casual copying is deterred

Forget about casual copying. The bulk of pirating happens through the networks like bittorent and the like. If you claim that DRM is needed to stop "casual copying" - it's very silly, since any "pirate" who is determined to copy something won't go to ask friends for casual copies. They'll go to torrent networks. So what good did DRM achieve?

> Something involving hard data on sales and piracy trends with and without DRM

You'll never get hard data, since it's not possible. You can only use heuristics, and they all point in the same direction - DRM does not hurt pirates in the least. It hurts legitimate users.

> Ubisoft did change their stance on the DRM after the PR disaster associated with the AC2 launch

Will, major DRM fiascos happen. SimCity fiasco demonstrated that. Sometimes it's enough to clear their brains, but often not. I meant that in most cases execs don't care at all. As CDPR said in the interview I linked above:

Fortunately and unfortunately at the same time, games are becoming huge business. And as with every growing business, there are a lot of people coming in who… have no clue about games and could work in any other industry. They are not asking themselves the question “What is the experience of a gamer?” Or “Is this proposition fair?” But rather, they just look to see if the column in Excel adds up well or not, and if they can have a good explanation for their bosses. As funny as this might sound, DRM is the best explanation, the best “I will cover my ass” thing. I strongly believe that this is the main reason the industry has not abandoned it until today, and to be frank this annoys me a hell of a lot. You are asking, “So why is it taking so long for them to listen?” The answer is very simple: They do not listen, as most of them do not care. As long as the numbers in Excel will add up they will not change anything.

I agree with that 100%. Because if those execs would care about user experience, DRM wouldn't exist.

And what he said about using piracy/DRM as an excuse for incompetence - that was very well spotted. I.e. imagine someone makes a film, game etc. and gets poor sales. They can admit the product was really not so good, so people don't care to buy it, or these execs can point to others and say - Look, so many sales were lost due to pirates! But with DRM - we did all we could to stop them, so it's not our fault.... I.e. DRM can easily be used as a fake excuse to avoid being blamed for the poor quality of the stuff they produce.
I'm one of the co-founders of NewsTrapper. Our MVP currently only finds the stories related to the original one you followed, but our long term plan is to build in summarised timelines. Like you, I don't want to have to sift through loads of story either and just want to get the jist of what I'm interested in.

Our big vision is that eventually we'll be able to build up a searchable collection of summarised timelines on nearly any news stories or articles we crawl on the web.
The numbers are crazy.

What they were selling was $40 gift certificates for $20.
Then they sold a $30 good for a $40 gift certificate.

They recorded this as a $40 sale with a $30 cost and $20 marketing. The implication that you can eventually cut back on the marketing, which is obviously false.

IMO, the $40 should never appear in anything that could be construed as revenues. Sure, you can work it such that you'll end up with the proper ($10) loss, but they never received an actual $40, their only (well, majority) revenue appeared in the form of $20 payments from the group selling the gift certificates.
What you seem to be saying is that in order to use a personal computer, you should be an expert.

I disagree, and I'm glad that most people disagree as well. User-friendliness is important regardless of what system it is, even Linux. Have you noticed that the most successful distributions of Linux are the ones that are most friendly to beginners?

This elitism is destructive and serves only to make the "experts" smug and keep everyone else in the dark. I've found that the real experts are the ones who are writing guides for solving issues so that beginners can solve them too. That way, everyone benefits... and the beginners get to learn too. Almost all of my experience with config files has come from having a problem, Googling it, copy-pasting some commands into the terminal, and then becoming interested and messing around with it.
The book "Project Oberon: The Design of an Operating System and Compiler" http://www.amazon.com/Project-Oberon-Design-Operating-Compil... contains a detailed explanation of the design for the Oberon compiler and operating system. Not only it is well written with clear explanations, but it also includes the full source code for the compiler and operating system in less than 550 pages!

I learned some interesting compiler techniques from reading that book.
I've owned a bunch of those IKEA CFL bulbs. Some -- like yours -- have lasted years while others have died within a year or two. Despite their unpredictable nature I still prefer them to most big box store CFLs I've tried.
I'm not talking about Huawei's bid being more expensive.

I'm talking about the cost of hiring Australian-certified source code auditors, developers of software to be used to certify Huawei kit, ongoing re-certification of Huawei firmware updates, the time spent by regulators even worrying about this on an ongoing basis, etc., etc.

It all adds up to the total cost of ownership (TCO). So I feel sorry for Huawei but if people are truly worried about the Communist Party of China forcing them to sell pre-hacked kit then it's going to be a rough slog for them. Trust is easy to lose but hard to regain.
There's got to be an opportunity for Twitter to monetize that instead of fighting it and pissing everyone off.

Agreed, and speaking personally, I would love to pay Twitter $XXX/month, especially if it included some form of "we'll reply to X emails within an hour" support.

The fact that they're not even charging $20/month for minimal API access is baffling to me. I'd expect it'd only help reduce spam as well!
First, some things are objective. Try being a woman working for Middle Eastern business-people and say it's "just culture."

Second, Rome won in the end. The people that conquered them ultimately took on their culture. So it will be with Anglo-American culture. Even if in the future India and China are dominant, their culture will come to resemble ours. Indeed, that phenomenon has already been happening in India for 200+ years via British colonization.
That's useless to me. When I want recommendations it's because I'm somewhere other than where I live and the people I know live.
If the claims are true, it's a big deal. Losing half a star on Yelp can translate into 20 percent fewer people coming to your restaurant on a busy Friday night, according to a study by two UC Berkeley economists: http://www.dailycal.org/2012/09/06/online-customer-reviews-a...
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I've been trawling the net and the YCombinator Website and can't find 1) any mention of startup school 2013 or 2) any indication when it might be announced. Does anyone in the HN crowd know if it's going to be happening again this year? I'd love to attend, but if it's going to be in October again, it seems like it should have already been announced.
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This is not the first, second, or third time such allegations have been raised, but they always devolve into he-said/she-said.

Restauranteurs, when you're calling Yelp to ask about missing reviews, RECORD THE CONVERSATION! One recording of a Yelp rep saying something like that is game over.
> Which, to me, implies that you were also ...

Not "also". My point was that the OP's statement disregards the issue of qualification by saying that everyone who wants a position should get one. I emphasized the issue of qualifications, and not "also" but alone.

My use of the word "unfairly" moves the standard to qualified people, which contrasts with that of the OP.