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Relatively rarely. I usually try to develop an intuitive sense of where my argument wants to go before I start typing, and I'm sure many a potential comment has been culled this way. When I'm typing along and find that I hit a contradiction, or something indicating something in my intuition has gone afoul, my first thought is usually: huh, I wonder how many other people think this. I've found that seeing someone's train of thought is at least as interesting as seeing where it concluded.

On the other hand, there have been many times where I'd thought about commenting, but could not get an intuitive grasp of what I wanted to say, and would keep deleting the first sentence as soon as I wrote it. On those occasions, I would just press 'Back' and keep reading.
In principle you can build your own android image from the public git tree. This would be the first type. My understanding is that people have figured out how to hack the google apps (gmail, market, etc) onto these pure open-source images, so switching between the types is technically possible, but probably infringes copyright and/or violates eulas.
I was in a similar situation a few years ago. I worked for a couple of top software companies, and had a job that most people would have loved. But, somehow I was unsatisfied. It got harder and harder to do productive work. After some soul searching, my conclusion was that I just didn't want to be an engineer.

I decided to go to business school. Two years later, I'm graduating and starting a software company. But I have a new set of tools and contacts that I didn't have before, as well as a different perspective on business. I'm looking forward to doing things other than just coding (although I'm going to have to write some code, since there are only three of us).

Have you considered grad school? A lot of ex-engineers do well in finance or law. Business school in particular gives you two years to explore potential job options and figure out what you want to do with your life.
Re #1 - drop monthly and increase per-use fees (to $10-20) and your idea will find its audience.

Monthly fees drag the customers in a long-term relationship that they most likely don't want to be entering. Setting the per-use fee that low serves no purpose. If you want to go after customers with no money, you will get them. Instead however you could go for those who can pay, and you would still be able to acquire them, since the idea works for them as well.
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I'd really like to see code developed with an environment like Etherpad.

Seeing PG write his essay (http://etherpad.com/ep/pad/slider/13sentences) was great, but seeing code being written and getting an insight into the process of development would be even better. I think it'd also be a useful introspection tool to understand your way of working.

I'd tried to record my own development sessions using screen capture, but that just ground my machine to a halt. Does anyone know of any software for recording an Emacs session and playing it back in "real-time" (e.g. I'd like to see where I paused to think vs. a compressed time version).

If you're interested in working on a project like this, drop me a line!
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> and kelvin = Celsius - 273

kelvin = Celsius + ~273.15
jrockway is a bright person who happens to be a smarmy jerk every time he gets into arguing one of his pet peeves. I've learned to ignore his jackassery and respect him for when he talks about the things he's really bright about.

Operating system debates are like sports team arguments: yes, one sports team is better than all the others, but nobody will ever agree on just which that is, the arguments get far too fierce, and it's the greatest waste of time imaginable.
Very frequently, because I can't be arsed to join in most conversations. I actually try to post more when I don't expect my post to result in a debate, because I've learned that nothing good comes out of online debate.
I take issues with your qualification that it's "simply" deflation.

Inflation is taken to be a bad thing since, if the price (in whatever currency we're using) of goods and services suddenly increases by, say, 1000% in a short time, people who purchase those goods and services are screwed, which also means people who sell them are eventually screwed (since they have no market in which to sell their goods and services).

But deflation is at least equally bad: if I _sell_ goods or services, and the price (again in whatever currency we're using) drops 1000% in a short time, then I and everyone else who sells goods and services is screwed, which means people who would buy goods and services are screwed (since everybody who was selling them just went out of business).

This is why gold can be a good investment in the modern age, but not a good currency; any time a new development results in rapid economic expansion, it would be accompanied by wild fluctuations in the (gold) currency, tending toward crippling deflation.

It's also why I'm harping on the fact that money _as money_ must by definition have no intrinsic value. Its job is not to have value. Its job is to stand in for things of value so that we don't have to use insanely complex barter schemes.

And since gold is, for reasons surpassing understanding, held to have value far beyond anything attributable to the actual substance (which is "valuable" in itself only as, for example, part of electrical components), gold is an absolutely terrible basis for a currency in this modern world.
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If you can install any app on the free version, though, why not just install GMail etc? Perhaps not an officially sanctioned app, but I'm sure you could find/make one that would get the job done.

I guess I don't really get where the tension is in the three options. Usually, e.g., you get more options but have to pay more. He seems to hint that handset makers and carriers trade autonomy for more polished software, but doesn't really make it clear.
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woah, I've been using Emacs for years and never heard of Elpa. I always managed my .emacs by hand ...

ELPA may be worth looking into though.

Anyone have any first hand experience?
See discussion thread at newmogul: http://www.newmogul.com/item?id=10583
do you already have a single score for each one?

you could just take scores and average them. use a weighted average if you think certain services' scores are more important than others.

is the problem they're on different scales? you already said you wanted 0-100, so just turn all the data points per service into percentiles, then average said percentiles to get a per-person score.

there are of course a zillion other ways to do it depending on what exactly you have and what you want...
At least 1/3 of the time. Often, I'll start to write an argument or an opinion, and then realize halfway through that the argument is wrong or the opinion is actually crap now that I'm looking at it in words.

Also, being from a conservative Texas town, I tend to have knee jerk reactions to more "liberal" stories and tend to want to blurt things out like "screw the poor people, it's all their fault". I don't really mean this, it just comes out from my upbringing. I usually delete those, unless I'm just really angry or have an insight as to why people feel that way in such-and-such a circumstance.
He asked how it was different from a search engine, it doesn't take you to the site with the information it is making a business out of others information on its own site.
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The tiers are aimed at the carriers, not at end users. The logic being that the (typical) end user is not going to be changing to a non-carrier-sanctioned version of the OS.

I don't fully understand the difference between tiers 2 and 3, but it looks like the big picture is basically you don't get to put the Google signature apps on your phone unless you enter some kind of agreement with them.
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(Answering myself,) apparently pyparsing[1] composes grammars from grammar objects in the spirit of parser combinators.

[1] http://pyparsing.wikispaces.com/
Can anyone share their experiences with coding PHP in Emacs?
Last year the 1-15 Miami Dolphins brought back the left-for-dead Wildcat formation into the NFL and went from last to first.

To be accurate, the loss of Tom Brady and the addition of Brett Favre within the division helped Miami get 1st place instead of 3rd. If the Patriots beat Miami by having Tom Brady in just that game, then the seedings would have been Patriots, Jets, Miami, Buffalo. Miami had just enough success to compete with the Brady-less Patriots and interception-king Favre, barely winning the tiebreakers against them.

Also, the loss of Tom Brady in game one of the season likely inspired Miami, and beating the Patriots without Tom Brady, as well. In fact, the wildcat formation was first used against the Patriots, if I am not mistaken. Had the Patriots beaten them, would they have tried it again? Also, Bill Parcells didn't throw those balls; their players were versatile.

The problem isn't that underdogs don't take more chances.
The problem is that underdogs don't know how to do it.
Being an underdog startup is tough enough. Not knowing how to compete is even tougher.

This sounds fancy, but I don't see what you're saying.
ever seen a .emacs file after a savage CUSTOMIZE attack? well, ime, emacs and its packages are best managed by hand.
Thank you for the reply - things make sense after reading it. I know a few people like Hsu - they usually are convinced that they are objective and are absolutely unable to grasp the fact that other people might have different values and goals. They are conviniently overlooking things they don't like. These people often do achieve much but are absolutely dreadful to deal with.
Very often I seem to have many things to say but only in order to find out that I really just needed to sort out what I feel about the issue myself. Then I rarely feel the need to post my findings, especially if it's a debate. Sometimes I do but indeed my posts tend to be rather personal, and possibly not much use for anyone else but myself.
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I think it is mostly due to inertia.It will be good if we can have one new story featured on frontpage always to get more exposure for the new stories
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Now this is a good reason to support the Pirate Party if you have one in your country.
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whats the advantage of using Clojure over common lisp or scheme?
Maybe the front page could include a couple random (and marked new) stories from the new page.
Clojure runs on the Java virtual machine, so you can run (mostly) anywhere and take advantage of the huge amount of libraries. It also has built-in support for concurrency with software transactional memory.

See http://clojure.org/rationale for more information
As a point of reference, I've never heard of these clinics.
No, I go to internet forums so I can suffer run of the mouth disease with impunity. I do proofread and edit my posts carefully to avoid making an undue ass out of myself, insofar as 1 minute of proofreading can do.
The best description I was ever given of the probabilistic method:
"It's not like we're searching for a needle in a haystack here. We're searching for hay in a haystack... But every time we reach in, we find a needle" - Laszlo Babai
This was said of the Ramsey number (Example 1) which is very hard to construct examples of (AFAIK there isn't an algorithm to do it), even though a randomly generated graph will be an example with probability tending toward 1.
They don't even have to do that. Considering you can only get the iPhone from AT&T, that leaves plenty of other carriers for the android powered ones
Dude, it sounds like you are really stressed out. Consider the situation you are in (eerily similar to my own, but I haven't left to work on my webapp yet) : lots of job hopping, obvious talent for CS, staring in frustration at being unable to execute a dream, bit of money saved up. I think you need to recognize that you are in a transition period in life and that life is about your emotions and your body as well as your intellect and your wallet. First off, take a yoga class TOMORROW and learn to relax and look at ergonomics info to learn how to avoid neck strain. You're unlikely to make your way out of a desk job if you want a decent life in this day and age. Allow yourself to be completely passive, to attain the beginner's mind and look at the world with no judgement or preconception. You don't need to make a decision now or tomorrow. I think you're burnt out. Relax for a month and do nothing but take things IN don't try to put anything OUT. Rejuvenate and refresh, think about your life. Have a few drinks or whatever turns you on. After a few weeks, take stock and realize you only have so many options ahead of you to make money and live a nice life. Pick the best one, make a plan and then execute on it. Make sure it is realistic and can be pulled off (at least a visible stage 1) in 3 months. If you go back to CS don't be afraid to watch some lectures on academicearth to make sure your bases are sound. Good luck!
So, I've been an ER nurse for the last 15 years. I run the Hackers and Founders Silicon Valley meetup, and I love to support startup ideas. It's extremely rare that I don't support a startup idea or give it a fair shake.

This is a spectacularly bad idea. I can unequivocally say without a doubt that if you pursue this service, someone will die.

Why? Because I've seen it happen.

Part of my job as an ER nurse is to triage patients that come in. Triage involves sorting through the dozens of patients that come in every night, and decide who can wait and who cannot because they have a life threatening emergency. People having symptoms of a heart attack move to the front of the line. People who ate a bad taco and have the shits get seen on a space available basis. That's the gig. I sort patients: sort_by_acuity([bad taco, bad taco, bad taco, heart attack, runny nose, cough, gun shot wound, ear infection, headache, headache, headache, stroke, headache]).

I've been doing this job for 15 years, and I have seen plenty of triage mistakes that can change people's lives for ever. I've made a few myself. You care for thousands of patients a year, you're going to drop a ball every now and then. But, I have a lot of experience doing this, and I have a lot of knowledge and very good instincts on when someone is very ill. Patients do not have that knowledge and I would never trust your customers to make that decision when life and death is on the line.

This is why ER's are almost universally abysmal at judging how long it's going to take to be seen by the doctor. The same team that is taking care of your earache at 3am or helping you get stitches after you cut your finger on your computer case, is the same team that can crack your chest open and do open heart massage on you after a thug sticks a knife in your heart. We take care of bladder infections and dying babies, sometimes right next door to each other at the same time. ER's are built for safety, not speed or even convenience. The fact that in the US, they are primarily the only type of physician that can be seen 24/7 without an appointment is an unfortunate effect of our health care system. But, we have to care for the sickest patients first, and you can never predict when the next ambulance is going to roll through the door. So, ER's suck at estimating wait times. But, you will, eventually see a doctor.

Now, I understand that you have a disclaimer that says that people should call 911 for Emergencies, and that they will not use your service for life threatening emergencies. I don't think that's not going to keep you from getting sued when Uncle Bob dies of his massive heart attack that he though was a bad burrito and put his name on your waiting list. That's also not going to help you sleep at night thinking about how you might have prevented Uncle Bob's death.

I'm not trying to flame you. I'm really not trying to be nasty. I'm just trying to communicate what a big, big, huge mistake I believe this application is. Please, shut it down.
Hey quick feature request for hn, can we have a tag thing for well written pieces like these that are actually about startups as opposed to fluff pieces that I can find on digg/slashdot/reddit?
Like most others, I check in code changes with references to the issue tracking system.

To browse those check in comments with diffs, is an abstracted version of what you want. Would the exact keyboard strikes really be a benefit?

(Well, I'd love to see some sessions with real Emacs wizards, personally. But that isn't what you talk about?)
Yeah, yeah, funny - but what might be more interesting is the degree of gender-neutrality of the names "Ashton" and "Demi".
In my experience, customize is usually pretty good about only adding code to the bottom of my .emacs in a separate section (although, I rarely use it)
There are usually 2 reasons that I write a comment but don't post it:

1. In a debate, I am refuting/counter-pointing the prior argument, but otherwise not moving the debate forward. I sometimes have to remind myself that on-line debates are not the same as verbal debates. If you say something, then I refute what you're saying, but someone in the audience doesn't hear/understand, then there is value in repeating myself. However, on-line the discussion remains for any interested party to review. Almost always a simple point->counterpoint->rebuttal discussion is sufficient.

2. I realize that I'd rather keep my opinions to myself. I have this odd feeling with on-line forums that I'm occasionally shouting into the wind. In person, a discussion/debate serves to strengthen a interpersonal bond. On-line, where identity is less defined and quite often others could care less who's saying what, my contributions to the debate serve the debate, not myself. I realize its selfish, but it's also a subtle reminder that I should probably be channeling my energies into something that I can hold up at some point in the future and identify as "my work".
I understand the organizational differences between Chromium and Chrome--where Chromium is the open source basis of Chrome--but I cannot find any listing of the functional differences between them. I tried Chromium on Linux, but its early state meant that anything different could easily be not implemented.
It's not the exact key strikes I'm trying to record, it's more seeing how the shape of the code changes over time (e.g. variable names changing as the problem is understood more fully).

My code commits tend to be when I've reached a milestone (made a test pass for example), but I don't commit enough to understand the thought process that made me write the code that way.
I get him... my girlfriend is dragging me off to a kayaking course this weekend. I'll probably have to spend lots of weekends lounging around in an archipelago this summer.

(As others noted, there are zip lock bags. I'd not spend the double price or more, either.)
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Yeah I do. I've deleted one comment RIGHT after posting too.

Never deleted comments which are being judged (Upvoted(obviosly) or down voted). I am man enough to bear the judgments.

One thing this community do for good is they only let quality comments in.
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Especially if (it turns out) the wifi SSID to which you are connecting does not actually belong to the starbucks (or some indie coffee shop offering wifi) but some black hat in an office in the building with the starbucks.
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I just installed it and I tried this on it as well as Firefox:

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I must say that the difference in speed is impressive, even though the score did not display. Still, not too shabby for an alpha!
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Deep Blue '97, which beat Kasparov, was a: "RS/6000 SP Thin P2SC-based system with 30-nodes, with each node containing a 120 MHz P2SC microprocessor for a total of 30, enhanced with 480 special purpose VLSI chess chips." (from Wikipedia)

I'd be interested to know what exactly those VLSI chips contained ... My hunch is that a few dozen modern FPGAs should be able to match a few hundred ASICs from over a decade ago. Then it shouldn't cost more than ~$10K for enough hardware.

Hsu could easily bootstrap that sort of machine. Then, after winning a World Computer Chess Championship, he would be in a much better position to issue a challenge to Kasporov.
I tend to delete my comments if I feel that they wont have any effect on the discussion or if I don't think that I will have the time to come back and follow up.

Or if I'm angry, that's always a good reason not to post :)
Fen-hsiung Hsu's letter (the original post) has a ring of truth to me: it sounds like a sincere story of someone who doesn't know how to continue with a project that's personally important without the corporate backing that he started with.

This reply is pure mockery -- it could have been written by anyone, there's no personal feel at all.

How much faith should we put in our truth-identifying heuristics?
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I believe there is a consensus in the chess world that given any incentive, it would be easy for someone to put together a machine that can beat any human alive.

The algorithms at this point are well-known and tested; it's just a matter of having enough hardware to search deeply enough to match a world-champion player within the tournament time constraints.

edit: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=54499
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Alas, I'm allergic. To dogs, not girls, though given my luck with the latter, maybe it's both.