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No more than Linux apps have to be GPL.
I've been working on a plant food startup for the last year. I think the plant food we are developing could be effective against this citrus disease.

If anyone reading this knows any citrus growers affected by the disease I will send them a free sample to test if they will report the results to me.
Well, yes and no. OWS was indeed shut down by municipalities using tough and even exceptional tactics, but the fact that it could be was a sign of deeper problems.

I think it's important to keep in mind the distinctions between broader social moods, specific organizations, and tactics, all of which together make up a social movement.

The American Civil Rights movement is an interesting comparison point, because it's a social movement that met with some success and is pretty well-known. It had organizations like SNCC and the SCLC that organically grew from a broader social base--the burgeoning black middle class, well-educated liberal whites--that gave it staying power. And it was able to rationally coordinate specific tactics that went beyond pushing legal briefs and went toward crystallizing specific instances of the injustices of the South. To make a retronym, it could Occupy the front section in public buses and seats at restaurants. And the power of those actions is that it would force governments to either react against them, revealing the profound violence involved in the system, or show that the government was unwilling to enforce its laws, which would effectively repeal them. (This is all very stylized, of course.) And individual tactics could and did coalesce into an organizational strategy, which is the key point.

How does OWS compare? You definitely have the discontent and the social base for it. And you have the tactics. God, you have more tactics than you can count. New forms of government, a bold attempt to force governments to instantiate violence by throwing your bodies in an area you'd live in and occupy, crews of people who, in a matter of weeks, managed to construct some level of waste management and food provision.

But, if you remove the people from the area they've Occupied... all those tactics fall apart. If you pull out that keystone, the whole logic of it crumbles. And then all you are left with is the original generalized discontent.

I think it would be very fair to lay the blame for that at Occupy's doorstep, if Occupy had a doorstep. Building a movement out of a tactic and social malaise leaves you vulnerable to the fact that as soon as anyone finds a way to respond to the tactic, the movement dies on the vine.
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If YC ever got to the point where it needed donation from alumni to survive it would mean it has failed. That is if it got to the point of no-longer graduating successful companies which generate heaps of money for them, then there would be no purpose in keeping it going.
Yeah, and family too, what a drag on the career! Vacations?, forget about it. I mean hobbies?, that isn't going to do anything for corporate.

When it comes to lifestyle, choice trumps IMO, and no, I don't smoke.
Does anyone know if either of these platforms support hardware accelerated H.264 decoding? And, do either HTML5 or Flash in these environments support using it?
Even self-piloting flying cars would be a disaster. They'd be limited in speed, and the traffic collision avoidance systems would eat up too much time due to the constant slowdowns and changes in direction. Not to mention that it's impossible to simply stop in the air.

I doubt flying cars will ever be a reality. What will be reality are sustainable, electric, self-driving vehicles.

Not the pipe dream of 20th-century futurists.
With all due respect that's a long time to use GA without understanding how it works. Here's a good article by Google's GA evangelist I would highly recommend to everybody in this thread who are throwing out anecdotes.

http://cutroni.com/blog/2012/02/29/understanding-google-anal...
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Why not do it based on tweets ?
Your username really suits your childish attitude.
> Why go to a place to play games when I can just play the games directly.

Any new game will require you to set up a user account, download or install something, learn the controls, and so forth. A game inside of Second Life would decrease each of these problems if not remove them entirely. That's the potential.

Yes, it has been tried multiple times (in addition to the ones you mentioned, I founded a startup called Syntensity in that field), and always failed.

I think the problem is gaining initial momentum. Second Life had that, no one else did. But Second Life squandered it.
Those poor nuts and fruit, with all their flesh being eaten :( eat a cow today to save them!
"Can't you tell the difference"

Apparently not.
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Today is my 7 months since i am learning Java , I have completed 3 books for Java till now
1.Java Software Solutions: Foundations of Program Design 2.Java How To Program 3.Head First Java

Should i start to learn another programming language ?

I started a little bit Python is it a good idea or bad ?

If bad which one you recommend it for me ( to find job online more easy , it' fun , and it's related to java ) ?
Point taken - and I agree with your frustration, etc. All satirists and devoted ranters must remember the chief hazard of their occupation, however, which is becoming that which they parody, or rail against.
I have the impression life is gritty in all sectors of the Indian economy, so why the hit piece on manufacturing right before elections in India?
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You are an ignorant fool. Do some Google search and check it out. Just coming here and typing "Ha" is nothing. As an Indian myself, what the article is saying is so obvious that your comments are laughable.
If you read the Wikipedia article that the author linked to in that assertion[1], you'll find that it mostly agrees with you:

> In Raskin's sense and according to his definition, an interface is not modal as long as the user is fully aware of its current state.

Given this definition, eliminating modes is as simple as making sure that the user is aware of what mode they are in at all times. This makes your assertion problematic:

> To think that you can simplify your model of computers to the point that you can eliminate modes is to simplify your model to the point that it is useless for a great many things.

I don't think you would argue against the notion that users should be made aware of what mode they are in. A pretty common example comes from the CSS `cursor` property:

- If its `default`, clicking should have no effect

- If its `pointer`, clicking should have an effect

- If its `move`, clicking and dragging should have an effect

These cues are far from useless and help transition a modal interface into a modeless one.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_(computer_interface)
India is a massive country and all the numbers you look at are huge. The problem with big numbers is they hide many many many little numbers. So what happens in the north east resembles nothing in the south west, what happens in some cities resembles nothing in other cities etc. Yet we have these meaningless pan India number, sort of like measuring the temperature of the universe and getting exited by that number.

The problem with any write up generalizing personal experience up to "India scale" is the same problem we see with "big data". When there is much more information than any single person can actually digest, what ends up happening is people just spot the patterns they are already familiar with...and that is what your post represents.
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I've recently wondered if shaking the head to signify disagreement or refusal stems from that being an effective way for a child to refuse food it doesn't want. My son shakes his head almost reflexively, and it makes it very hard to feed him something he doesn't want.
All of them very true. One of the biggest problems is corruption is rooted in the culture. Every person believes every other person can be bought. And its true as well. The people making laws are corrupt to their bone but if the people in charge of enforcing are corrupt as well that leads to hopelessness.
If more people used Symbian, it would be a much better platform, too.
Reusing modes can actually be quite good if you're concerned about space efficiency.

For example, having excessive controls in the car stereo might be a bad idea since drivers could potentially be distracted. So having the big volume knob to fine tune the bass level for example would be much more preferable to having six individual knobs that the user would have to look through and find.
I did a research a while back. For an entrepreneur, there are only two things he can make broadly, products and services. While services is a another thing, new products depend on a major workforce of prototyping industry.

Product Development in short is: Idea --> CAD File -- Prototype

It appears, that most of the prototyping firms, do not pick up from in the middle, i.e, If I had a Idea, no firm was ready to produce a CAD file. Even China based prototyping companies only take CAD files, and do not help you, with the CAD generation.

Meaning, if you don't undergo, a extensive training in software like Solidworks or AutoCAD which is both expensive and time consuming, or not find a engineer already well trained in them, you have no scope of converting your idea into a reality.

This is a bottle neck for entrepreneurs in India.
The University of Phoenix receives an incredible amount of taxpayer subsidies. Between budget cuts and the low-quality instruction it (and similar schools) provide, I think that's the most ripe for disruption.
I own a Samsung TV, a camera by them, and used to own a cell phone by them. My friend also has a GS3.

All of them are just poorly-designed, cheap imitations of Blackberry and Apple UI design. The Smart TV interface is a disaster. It's a mess; nothing works and the supposedly "smart" touchpad integrated into the remote constantly misses what I want to select.

The camera is decent; but it's only a camera, so not very much going on there.

The phone I used to own (a feature phone by the name of SGH-A867) was also okay with regards to UI. It was fairly intuitive and worked well; although AT&T probably designed most of the software for the phone. It was, however, on the hardware front poorly designed. The touch screen stopped responding after a year of light use. Unacceptable.

The GS3 that my friend owned really seemed promising. But the polycarbonate construction left a lot to be desired and the UI felt like a hobbled-together, piecemeal catastrophe.

I bought a Nexus 4 and am enamored by it. It's perfect.
Because the purpose of life is to work, produce as much as possible?

Talk about an addiction, an unhealthy dependence, obsession with a metric that has nothing to do with either happyness or fullfilment.

Almost as if we're actually craving enslavement. As if chasing promotions, or wealth as if we're gaining XP or coins in a videogame, is a better way to spend our time, health and energy on.

Im not saying there is no pot abuse, or working is evil, or other hippy logic, i just wanted to point out that this particular argument is flawed.
Anyone know if that Android tablet has H264 hardware-assisted decoding onboard? If it does, then the myth that H264 was more efficient for power use is basically busted.
This implies that people buying a new phone actually have detailed knowledge about the underlying OS. But a lot of sold Android smartphones are cheap ones. I know lots of "mormal" people that barely know Android is powering their phones. They will not miss their favorite apps because they have none and seldom install new apps on their phone. Thats the "mass market" that Samsung could address with its own OS.
Very true. I feel like I'm sitting at a PDP-11, except a PDP-11 would be more intuitive than the Smart TV interface. I only use my Apple TV as an interface for Netflix, Hulu+, etc. now; the only thing I touch the actual TV controls for are changing sources.
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Paying off a software developer for an exclusive is, by some measures bad. But how bad is it? Worse than Netflix having exclusive content? Worse than exclusive games on consoles?

There is a lot not to like about Samsung's approach to "differentiation," but this seems like a minor, petty basis for condemning Samsung as harmful to the overall Android ecosystem.

It is also alarmist to say Google is in a weak position relative to Samsung.

Compared with Amazon, who compete directly with parts of Google's ecosystem on an Android-derived platform, Samsung is a model citizen, if you look at the world that way.

Google is content to leave a large penumbra of non-Google-ecosystem Android devices in the market without exerting any pressure to reign them in. Why worry on Google's behalf?
After reading the first paragraph of the first description, I couldn't think of anything more perfect:

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His comment was perfectly clear, enjoyable, valuable, relevant, and came with a link to a great article.

The fact that you're insulting him for his valuable and interesting contribution is an outrage. Why don't you go pick on someone else, someone who doesn't contribute, who doesn't post great links, who doesn't have an entertaining style.

Not everyone has to be a robotic autistic technical writer on this casual internet forum.

Posts should be judged by their content and style. Your nerdy hatred toward the colloquial /s tag comes off as dry, dweebish, vindictive pedantry.

I'm aware that you represent the HN Zeitgeist to some extent but that pretty much just exemplifies the problem here. You're engaging in the "automatic middle brow dismissal" that pg has identified as majorly obnoxious.

You think sarcasm tags are "too urban" for HN. How fucking classy of you. /s
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Whether or not that is the trend, it still sucks for the people who used it daily, such as myself. Your reasoning is sound, but that doesn't mean those of us who used it shouldn't be upset, or that those who no have need for it and possibly didn't even know about it until now shouldn't agree that it sounded useful.

I'm not trying to say google owes it to us to keep the service running or anything like that. They're a business and it's their prerogative to make decisions like this. I'm reminded of a Wayne Gretsky quote though, roughly "I don't skate to where the puck is, but where it's going to be." And that's solid reasoning. But from my perspective, with a team as strong as Google's, it wouldn't hurt them to leave a player where the puck is either.
To be fair, that one is more than twice the weight of a chromebook (5.5 lbs vs 2.5).
This is only an issue because the mobile app doesn't have Replies yet. once the mobile apps support it the chronological issue will go away. Relax.
This is an amusing story, but it's not accurate. America just lacks the British size distinction between rocks and stones, and someone (likely a Brit) made up this explanation as a way to poke fun at Americans.

After all, when it's time for a proper riot no one really cares about the subtext of the name of the thing they're chucking. "Hey, share some of those stones with me, I bet I can smash that cop's windshield." "They're rocks, Jake - we're anarchists, not perverts."
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Do you mind explaining why you don't find meat particularly exciting? I personally have nothing much against vegetarians -- in all honesty my current diet (cheaper) is probably closer to that of a vegetarian's -- but whenever they dismiss meat as "uninteresting" they all seem to actually be quite ignorant of meat, and that they all seem to have ever bought theirs out of a styrofoam, shrinkwrapped package from a supermarket rather than a good butcher.

But yes, a nice spicy black bean burger sounds interesting!
Well, they needed to do something about the comments on really large pages, because those were useless before: you'd see a disconnected selection of the 25 most recent comments and a link "2864 comments, click here to show 25 more". Those people were only sort of / sometimes responding to each other, and even when they were the comments all had tunnel-vision on the most recent 25. Even just showing "comments on this massive post made by your friends" would be an epic improvement (and something it seems they are now both able to do and are actually doing), but that already breaks chronology even without "bubbling".
Hmm... Timed modes are bad?

I toyed with the idea of a timed keyboard for mobiles/pads; a variant of the Hexagon game controls -- basically left and right buttons, turning a wheel of chars really quickly. (After a while with Hexagon, you get really good timing.)

The keyboard would need some additional way to fine tune the last selected char a few steps up/down on the wheel.

I assumed that similar models have been tried and found too slow. Or too demanding on concentration.
For ethical reasons? Interesting. Have you considered eating free range chicken? Or perhaps Halal meat?
I think HTML5 video can do fullscreen even in embeds, but you have to explicitly enable it on the iframe when you embed the video. By default HTML5 content in iframes can't go fullscreen unless you set the attribute on the iframe (Flash ignores this, of course)
A large proportion of Minecraft players are kids. I've written about this in The Minecraft Generation: A distinct demographic cohort. [1] This will be the first generation of children to grow up with a lot of experience in virtual worlds.

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Modes are mostly bad when there is no feedback that you're in a given mode. If there's plenty of feedback, it's fine.

Think of your currently active app on a mobile device. It's a mode. But if you're in Chrome, you will not accidentally open a link instead of drawing a line because you thought you were in SketchBookX.
As someone who eats meat all the time, I also couldn't be more excited.

First this stuff will be an inferior meat substitute.

Then it'll be an equivalent meat substitute.

Then it'll improve upon nature itself, and we'll be eating things that taste ten times better than bacon, and fifty times better than steak, and it will all be without a twinge of guilt.
I had an economics professor who noted that one of the main reasons rich countries don't suffer from famines is because they have a lot of livestock. When there's a food shortage, livestock can be slaughtered early to provide extra meat and free up food crops for human consumption that would normally be used to feed the livestock.

Maybe this technology has too much potential to dangerously destabilize the world food situation for it to be fundable by a government.
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You are entitled to a PF/pension if you are an employee of,a form. But if you are an employee of a labor firm which then sends you to Mahindra and Mahindra to work - you are not entitled to a pension from Mahindra.

On top of that if you get fired after two years, you haven't worked long enough to be counted as an employee of the labor form or as a de facto employee of Mahindra. Hence no PF for you.

This is the scam people are forced to use as common place because of higher and fire laws heavily favouring labor.

Edit: I must add that firms also,actively try to screw labor over. I used the word forced because I was referring to a firm which did not have malicious intent.

As for searching, try Wikipedia. It will get you to the labor laws in question and from there the laws of the land.

Further the issue with anecdote is when they are extrapolated too far from a single incident.

But I am regurgitating the experience of multiple different individuals who have worked in many different firms.

This is the basis upon which the firms expansion plans are made.

Also, after the murder of the manager at the maruti plant, there's is yet another distinct urge to remove labor from the equation and avoid situations where your managers can be killed.

Heck - Labor management firms exist, and are used in every industry in India. You can see references to them in multiple news articles when the issue of labor is discussed.

The level of disintermediation required that makes outsourcing labor viable as a business model is in itself a red flag.

Further this is what HR managers and consultants take for granted - they are the ones who named firms which use interns as cheap throwaway labor, and a plethora of,other practices that horrified me but were treated as commonplace and business-as-usual.

If you haven't seen as absenteeism for festivals and so on, I must ask where your factories are located.
If by "historically" you mean over the past 1000 years or so (the first university was the University of Bologne, ~1088), then yes. Significant democratization of university education is largely a phenomenon of the post WWII era. In the US, the GI Bill. In Europe, various public funding mechanisms.

This democratization was controversial at the time, though it also coincided with the biggest boom in global wealth the world has ever seen. I suspect this is more correlative than causal, and is tied to the increasing energy available to world economies through fossil fuels. That said, technological increases supported in part by broader education have increased productivity ($GPD/GWh) as well.
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I disagree with the car stereo timed mode example. Imagine someone doesn't know beforehand how to cancel out of the settings. Now, they either have to figure that out while driving or they have to sit with their stereo on a useless menu screen until they stop. This is exacerbated by the fact that your average driver isn't familiar with computer menus in the first place, so they have no idea what they're supposed to do unless it's plainly spelled out for them.

I suppose my grievance is with this:

> If I have changed my mind and don’t want to set up the TV or adjust the bass, I will just press cancel myself.

Sure, the über hacker would just press cancel because they know that's what they should do. The rest of the world, who doesn't have nearly as much experience with computer interfaces as you do? They might not even know what a cancel button is, let alone that they should look for it.
I expect there still going to use sunlight/plants as a feed-stock in this process.
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As a vegetarian who remembers liking the taste of meat, I forgot that one. Thanks.
Forced registration to read it would be my guess. Nothing else against it really personally. Some people just don't like having to create an account to (passively) participate in a community. I read hacker news for well over a year before I decided to create an actual account for posting.

If I feel I reach a point I can contribute something useful to a community, that is when I create an account. However, I think forcing people to create an account either detours some or nudges others to participate more (whether they have anything useful to contribute or not).
Probably many interesting 20% projects that are hosted in some way.

Their problem, as always, is they have no way to organize their interface. Google just simply (lol) isn't that good at UI design.