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You should look into vector map tiles! Basically, you create a little JSON snippet for every image that the map server returns, and then overlay it in the client. There's support for JSON tiles in Polymaps (<http://polymaps.org/>).
It seems as if the college idiom has graduated alongside the people going on to found startups. In college it was "Good grades. A social life. Sleep. Choose two because you can't have all three." Now it's the more mature but still very similar "Startup. Significant other. Health."
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This situation is the perfect, legitimate situation where patents make sense. I really wonder why Andrea Rossi doesn't simply patent his invention, and let the whole world know how - and if - it really works.
If this gets verified that it produces more energy than it requires to get the thing started, our world will be revolutionized! Can't wait for the update. We can finally get rid of all the oil heads.
The pagination is dead in Safari and Chrome when looking through the company list, so I'm unable to browse the companies. Changing the number of results per page doesn't do anything either, and the "page" dropdown is empty.
Sort of yes. But the dead ends are usually (almost) ignored. Also, what you study is the modern refinement of things people came up with long ago. People don't usually read what Gauss wrote; instead they read a modern text-book.
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That doesn't sound accurate to me...

You're not always talking to everybody. On Facebook you can create friend lists, and then post things that are only visible to the people in the chosen list, in the same way that you can share things with only certain "Circles" on Google+. For example, I have different lists for "Close Friends", "Family", "Work Friends", "Random Acquaintances", etc. If I choose, I can share a post with only my "close friends" list, and none of my family or work friends will see it.

This problem has been solved already. On Google+ the concept is called "Circles". On Facebook, they call them "Friends Lists". Why does everyone on HN praise Google+ Circles, but ignore or hate the Facebook Friends Lists feature?
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The only way a services can be non-intrusive is if you, the user, pay for it. If you paid for the full cost of developing and supporting a solution that did not require such things as advertising and social graph mining in order to build, grow and support a company you'd get a much better product. You'd probably get a product that is far more sensitive to the needs and wants of it's paying client user-base.

That's one of the problems with this culture of everything being free on the 'net. Free isn't really free. Businesses don't run on air. They run on money. The user always pays. If it isn't in real currency it will be in ways the company can convert into currency. That's just the way it is.

Aspects of your post bother me to some extent because you are complaining about services you are not paying for. I think that is a very important distinction. Don't get me wrong, I have lots of problems with some of the services you mention in your post. I simply choose not to use them.

I also happen to think that people who use ad blockers are just short of thieves. It's hypocritical to navigate to a site and make use of its free services and, at the same time, go out of your way to deny them revenue. It's like someone figuring out a way to make you work and legally not pay you for it.
There's an informal italian patent on this. But not an international one, because "offend against the generally accepted laws of physics and established theories".
I've never understood the rush of groups to claim they are being ignored by Big Media. Let's try an get a pulse from major outlets...

BBC (1st article): http://www.bbc.co.uk/

NYT (2nd article): http://www.nytimes.com/pages/world/index.html

CNN (1st article): http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/

AlJ (2nd article): http://www.aljazeera.com/

MSNBC (1st article): http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3032507/ns/world_news/
It wasn't a very good point when followed by speculation of his/hers own.
You should be able to make a Firefox OS app with Gedit or any text editor, or any set of browser tools (Firefox desktop browsers have a good set, and even a FFos emulator). I'm quite excited for Firefox OS myself, if I could find a decent turn-by-turn navigation web-app I'd ditch Android...
So.... you'd rather keep paying for it and not own it, than pay for it once and not own it?
When working from home, I have an external monitor and a mechanical keyboard that both hookup to my laptop. From my experience, you get best of both worlds.
I suspect this will need several independent verifications, all of which meet the most stringent standards of scientific rigor.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Isolate the system in a Caloric chamber, once the device is at operating temperatures, and prove beyond all doubt that there are no hidden energy inputs.

Measure heat generated for a period of many hours. The results should be obvious.

Document everything for easy repeatability.

The Rossi-Focardi "E-Cat" is being seriously questioned. Their credibility is not great. I won't outright call it a scam yet, but I have grave doubts.
Andrea Rossi is a guy with a history of being a charlatan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Rossi_(entrepreneur)
ive been following this ever since the hoopla a few years ago. I want it to be real and I want to see the world changed by it, but until I see more verification I'm not getting my hope sup.
meh I'll wait until the paper is peer reviewed before I get excited. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
While this may be handy for the CSR, I could see this leading to unpleasantly surprised users if the CSR references something they typed but didn't send.

From a technical perspective this is neat, but from a user experience perspective, I wonder how they surface the fact that this is happening?

I would suspect that lots of people refine a post box's content before hitting send, without really expecting anyone to be watching what they do..
If Google doesn't pay Mozilla, Yahoo or Microsoft will. Furthermore, the reason Google pays so much money to Mozilla is not out of goodwill, but for all the revenue that Google makes off of the traffic the search bar generates. Google not paying Mozilla to be the default search provider would be cutting off its nose to spite its face.
Not really a "bulk" solution at all...

"- Edit the file so it contains just the undesirable links."

That's the part where intensive manual labor comes in, weeding through those links one by one.
Cold fusion CONFIRMED - for people who live in rooms at temperatures of 859.1 degrees centrigrade, apparently. And who don't need their research papers to be peer-reviewed :)
Is this considered a bad thing?

On the contrary, I would describe it as normal, in the sense that all of these web technologies are just tools and protocols. Any software developer with broad experience ought to be looking at general software architecture principles and programming techniques and testing strategies and all the rest and then choosing whatever tools help them get the result they need.

"Front-end developer" and "back-end developer" always seem like "C programmer" or "Python programmer" to me: they're job titles you use when you don't have enough experience with different tools and techniques yet to drop the qualifiers and just call yourself a web developer or programmer. And those in turn are just titles you use until you realise it's all about building something useful and the job title doesn't actually matter at all except perhaps as a convenient shorthand for initially finding people you can talk with intelligently about getting stuff done.
It's true it isn't high-effort. That said, referencing xkcd (if not done solely for the humor) can be a nice way of succinctly presenting an idea that you would have made a mess of explaining yourself.
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Ask HN: The IPS LCD revolution, what monitor do you suggest for a startup? 
It’s been sometime since Atwood posted the IPS LCD revolution [1] and the followup to that [2].

How has the scene changed since last July? Have the prices come down? Which is the most value option out there I can buy from taobao, 360buy etc? Are there any major flaws in these LCD’s?

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It will be lovely if this pans out. It will be a challenge as well.

But besides the requirement of proof, the curiosity that Rossi continues to seek out funds when, if true, he could be building power plants and under cutting everyone on their cost of power. And thus crushing the power industry and becoming independently wealthy.

So that makes me skeptical. And like radio in the past, without understanding how it works, we don't make progress very quickly. Radio turned out to be a real thing, and this could too, but so far I'm still betting on the 'don't pass' line.
Is it me, or has HN been invaded by SEO consultants (case in point: OP). There's quite a bit more SEO-related topics these days. It seems to have started a few months ago, and it's getting worse.
I can't see too much on the second link. What's the point if it is password protected and you don't give it away?
This is why I want patents to be limited by how much work was put into creating that "invention". If it only took you a couple of days to come up with it and implement it, then I seriously doubt it's a world changing invention, and something others couldn't have come up with, anywhere in the world.

What Andreas is doing will obviously take more than a few days to invent.
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It seems like it was created to solve a serious problem for users. As a user, however, I would feel a lot less comfortable using any website that I know has this service, if I choose not to send something, my decision should be respected.
Almost: http://xkcd.com/307/
The problem with using Singapore as an example of anything is that it's a sovereign city-state, as opposed to a more geographically and demographically dispersed nation.

Absolute power can scale up to a certain point. At the end of the day, the dictator-for-life can drive around and see things in his city that need fixing. He can also limit rivals to the throne by centralizing authority.

In a larger country, you can't scale up the dictatorial machine as effectively... you're dependent on the bureaucracy or governors/viceroys to run things in the provinces, which creates a raft of other problems.
No, I'm really not. Please don't exaggerate like that.

I'm saying they have a way of restoring your account (and it's worth noting that this person claims to have gotten in touch with a "representative").
Well, exactly. It genuinely might, or it genuinely might not. We don't know.
It seems likely to me that the marketing people are working with a third party to do that actual construction and installation of the adverts. Their options for what physical shaped plastic the advert will go in are certainly limited and there may be no option for flat plastic, or the marketers may not realize the utility of such an option. But I would be very surprised if the marketers could specify a custom shape for the plastic.
Are you using route53 to do an alias AND have the root domain use SSL? The setup at route53 is confounding me. I thought I'd setup a CNAME www.domain.com that points to sub.herokussl.com, and than an A record Alias that points domain.com to www.domain.com. But Amazon seems to not avow that the CNAME record is a "Record Set" that I can use for this.
Hey HN - OP here (ayo at Hipmob). We've been working on tools to give our customers more insight on what's happening with their users. We started by just giving a typing indicator, and thought we could give our customers a hand by letting them look a little deeper. Would love your thoughts/comments here, or just email me at ayo@hipmob.com.
At least Oracle and IBM VM do support NUMA. Surely there might be other vendors supporting as well.

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/vm/per...

http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v8r5/index.jsp?top...

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i use free xmpp servers to talk with people who I "met" on free websites. Many people provide services for free because they believe in a shared good. It's not all money money.
At the least, don't give me crap 403 Forbidden. just tell me to login again which even though annoying, will at least let me get the shit done that i intended to do.
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Consumers should care. Because the platform that makes developers the most money is the one they are going to spend the most time on.

Hence more features, better quality experience etc.
i like this approach a lot too. it takes a fair amount of discipline to do properly though.

ideally you want to be able to, on some level, iterate on different apps at different rates, and also share apps between various different stacks.
If you use a Cheney GC, how much does escape analysis help?

Everything that would be stack allocated will die in the first generation, and Cheney's algorithm is indifferent to the amount of garbage.
> "Google+ really was on to something with its circles:... I could use google +, but no one else does"

I wonder how much of Google+'s 'use' problem relates to this feature working extremely well.

You section off people you like to keep in contact with, just not on a daily basis. You then don't send most of your day-to-day posts their way. They look at Google+ and see a wasteland.

And whenever they mention Google+, you can't just say "I love it and use it daily; I just put you in the 'Siberia' circle". The only answer is "I don't use it much." Which re-affirms their view of the service as being basically empty.
I disagree. I think family and social life help rest and heal an intelligent mind. I think a person that is at the top of their field is there not because they work 80 hour weeks, but because they have a certain spark in the manner that they approach their work; an ability to look at things objectively and from a distance, something that is hard to achieve by obsessively focusing on a single facet of life.
How about:

$ ld a.o -U _main -U start
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I'm completely in favor of this. Garbage collection has no place in the core definition of any language that targets OS kernels and other high-performance applications. It's sad how we have so many languages that fix many of C++'s problems (e.g. D and Go), but not without the addition of a garbage collector.
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FTA: "If Rossi and Focardi’s cold fusion technology turns out to be real..."

The peer review process should really be exercised before looking to publish an article, to avoid just such lines.
The real difference is in disclosing the "secret sauce": a patent needs to disclose it, that's the whole point of patents. If that's not so, then it isn't really a patent on this (supposed) invention.
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This is also where I receive value from facebook; I grew up in Saudi Arabia and all my childhood friends scattered around the globe. There is no other tool like facebook that lets me both maintain meaningful contact with friends & find undiscovered friends spanning large geographies. Relatedly, I've always found facebook's geography-based search tools (friends/posts & content in a city/region)have left much to be desired.

I agree with the article author's opinion that Facebook IS growing less useful for me. As Graue said in above post, though, this really only applies to me and my reactions to MY OWN social circle.
More info on the page on this particular device:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Catalyzer

Note particularly: Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel commented at scienceblogs saying Rossi did not allow the reactants or products to be measured on this occasion. In the previous tests there were not enough Nickel-62 and Nickel-64 (the only two isotopes which can fuse with hydrogen), at 3.6% and 0.9% respectively, in the reactants to explain the 10% copper output; these isotope levels are typical of natural copper, rather than of fusion by-product. According to Siegel, Rossi also refused to unplug the machine while it was operating despite it being an easy way to surreptitiously power the device. He also added that the supposedly independent testers had to rely on data supplied by Rossi.
From a user perspective, I appreciate the choice that two distinct platforms with different goals offer.

Apple is clearly the "high end" platform: the devices are often considerably more expensive, and thus likely to be purchased by users with more disposable income, which implies they might be more willing/able to spend money on apps.

I personally prefer Android systems because phones/tablets are not worth much to me and I'm not willing to pay much. I bought my smartphone (no contract) for $50 (about the max I'd be willing to spend), and my tablet for $200 (also about the max I'd be willing to spend). If an app has a price-tag, I'm usually not interested. (Ads are ok, though).

So in that sense, I'm an ideal/average Android user. I didn't buy my devices to use apps, I bought them for cheap network connectivity on the go.

Apple users have a more app-centered model which leads to higher revenues. It's no surprise to me that app developers focus on Apple, and that's fine with me. My co-workers are always showing me the latest app they bought on their latest iPhone or iPad. When their equipment breaks, they expect (and indeed do) have it serviced. (If my equipment breaks, I'll throw it away and buy something similar; I have no expectation of service). They're the ideal Apple consumer.
I've never come across an openpgp smartcard, any particular one you recommend? I might look into this, seems like a very good idea.
The title is misleading.

From a casual reading of the wikipedia article it appears that there are Baccalauréat qualifications (professional, technology) that you can obtain without a philosophy test.

So philosophy seems a requirement for the general Baccalauréat.

Here is the wikipedia link to the Baccalauréat qualification http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baccalaur%C3%A9at
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Not sure if you were trying to be snarky with the lmgtfy but that didn't actually bring anything up.

Look at this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies

I quickly looked through them and didn't find anything directly relating to symbolic logic. Most of symbolic logic was trying to understand what was at first pretty confusing notation and then trying to figure out how to represent things like sets without using Venn Diagrams.

At the end of the day I don't think you start to understand any larger truths about logic. Knowing how to write out De Morgan's law with symbols is frankly kinda useless.

Maybe it helps with mathematical thinking, but that's not relevant to most people.
We are recommending this one: http://fab.com/inspiration/photo-frame-white-18x24

It's cheap and looks great around the poster.

Although for some reason Fab took the BUY link down. But they'll probably put it back up again soon.
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It's a huge premium. This would be like a $20 phone if Samsung made it.
> weeks of organic link building

There is no such thing as organic link building. It is either organic or you're building links.
This idea on its surface sounds horrible. First, it feels like it crosses some ethical lines. Second, if you help a user and tell them (or, let it slip) that you figured out their problem by spying on their typing, they will probably be horrified.
Ah, I thought you meant a pass through connecter you would plug into your phone.
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Here's a great breakdown of why this paper is junk science: http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2013/05/21/the-e-cat...

Simply put, they didn't actually exclude external sources of power, nor did they properly measure before and after fusion. The test also happened only when the device was on. This isn't an independent review; it's equivalent to me looking at it and saying "wow, that box is pretty!"
On related note - there is also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon-catalyzed_fusion - also works in "lower" temperature, just needs some muons...
Facebook doesn't really want to pick that up.

What keeps people coming back is the illusion of activity. The sound and fury. If/when people close out the noise successfully, it winds up looking a lot like an email box.
The goal is to give customers tools they can use responsibly, and allow them exercise judgement. This is obviously the leading edge and we thought long and hard before enabling the functionality. One idea we have towards making visitors more comfortable with this would be to create a notification that enables visitors to see that what they're typing can be seen? Hopefully customer feedback helps us figure out which direction to go here.

EDIT: After getting feedback from some customers, we're building in an optout so that users

a. know that what they're typing can be seen, and
b. can opt out of their typing being seen at all.
It is a markdown based editor.Saves drafts in the browser. I tested it on the latest versions of internet explorer, firefox and chrome.

There are two modes. In the editing mode edit the title and the body of the draft. Loose focus to enter the preview mode where you can see a preview of what you have typed. In preview the drafts are saved automatically.

Also it is open source
It's articles like this one that make me wonder why anyone is submitting pieces from the NYT, et al. Their audience is simply not HN's audience.
"which hasn’t yet undergone peer review"

"The device subject to testing was powered by 360 W for a total of 96 hours, and produced in all
2034 W thermal."

When it does, and the reviewers find that the authors can't even get their units correct, this will be dismissed like every other cold fusion experiment.
Pretty neat. I can see this being a huge time-saver. Whenever I have to fill out these kinds of forms, I always wish there were a central API that doctors / dentists / etc. could pull my information from. I also think that it's silly to write it on a piece of paper that someone else, then, has to enter into their database.

May I ask what you are using to generate the PDFs? I am working on a project to help science fair students fill out their ISEF paperwork and am using the pdfkit gem which seems to work pretty well. Looks like you might be doing something similar—especially when you're placing fields on an image background (fax).
Met Ruan and John at the Hack Reactor open house two weeks ago. Super nice guys and Smidge is a great concept. Really happy to see it get some recognition.
If I enable hipmob.com in NoScript on this site, it hard-locks Firefox, pegging the CPU. Running 21.0 on Linux.
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I will be screwed big time. Gmail is not just my email but stores a lot of critical data files/attachments and conversations since history.
I will be upset but I won't lose my sleep over it. I don't depend blindly on it to manage critical stuff