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This violates trademarks, so I bet it Google will move on it very quickly.

Whois on the domain:
http://whois.domaintools.com/bingisnotgoogle.com
I wish the iPhone supported Bluetooth keyboards (or some form of external keyboard). It would make using SSH and such much more pleasant. Maybe someone will use the external peripheral framework in OS 3.0 to add an external keyboard. I've seen one hack that did add a keyboard.

Does either of the Android phones support Bluetooth keyboards?
Measuring the Universe
Can someone explain the purpose or joke of this site to me?
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My university library always make me feel actually buying the book. And I've done that some times. Most other times I've given up on the library book.
Building the smart grid
I suspect that Bing's search results are being displayed under Google's interface.
Then gripe to Steve Jobs (or whomever), he was the one who convinced Apple engineers to remove the dual hotswap bays that used to be standard on the PowerBook line around the time of the marketing transition to "MacBook." A user used to be able to forgo a optical drive to have a second battery installed...
Weakly so. The idea is that you want the wing to stall and lose lift before it generates that design load limit you don't want to overstress. You generate lift by increasing angle of attack, but the idea is that the wing should stall, and thus stop generating lift, before. The amount of lift a wing can generate depends on its airspeed, so if you keep the airspeed down, the only situation in which it could generate a dangerous amount of lift would be if you entered a region of very high horizontal windshear such that the airspeed all of a sudden increases to above maneuvering speed. (So in principle you should be at least the gust speed below maneuvering speed to be safe, so here is where the margin of safety enters. But it's a second order effect.)
From his quotes page:

Tragedy of Life is that you can’t commit suicide.

I just read some of his posts. Definitely a man who lived extreme.
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I'm not sure how they'd be doing that and still giving each tweet a number so close to all the others. I have no idea where you see a "public timeline" as people mentioned above, so I just did a search for "i"... the following tweets were about a second apart.

2088840357 2088840362 (difference of 5, and that's without a real public timeline where you could easily prove each tweet takes the next number in a sequence)

So it isn't as if they're using UUIDs or something unique... they very much seem to be relying on a single counter (currently).
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...

Googled military spending by GDP
No, it's just a <frame>d Google.
Think of a way integrating a Twitter conversation. Question & related replies. That'll add some more value to the service I guess.
Well, it would be bad news if a medium that had only existed for a few years and had <3% of the marketplace were declining in its market share, wouldn't it?

I don't know why you think the assertion is absurd. It seems like a pretty sensible assertion to me, but I don't know very much about marketing. Do you have time to share some of your marketing experience that makes it so obvious to you that online and offline ads aren't in competition?

It seems like, at a minimum, online and offline advertisers are in competition. If online ads are sufficiently good at getting customers to buy from you, and your competitors are only advertising offline, then you're going to take market share away from them — and have more money to plow into online ads. If particular advertisers can shift part of their advertising spend between online and offline, that represents a more direct kind of competition between online and offline advertising.
> Of course the proliferation of mini and micro SD cards has lessened the effectiveness of this plan...

Not really, it might be hastening it. You can get housings for mini and micro cards that work with full size SD slots, and USB housings that convert the smaller cards into a plug-in drive. I wouldn't be surprised if there's one out there that does both.
Call me old-fashioned, but operating without regard to government regulation is never a good idea, unless you don't mind ending up in prison. If this guy was taking that as a calculated risk, well, he lost. The fact that PayPal got away with it doesn't change things-- some folks get lucky, but luck is not a viable strategy.
ALTER TABLE twits MODIFY COLUMN twitid BIGINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL

There, fixed, send check for $20 to donations@redcross.org

Call me back when they reach 18446744073709551615
Elitism is not the issue. The reality is how most people respond to things without thinking. They see bad writing, they think negatively of the author. (If they see good writing, they think positively.) You can use their response to your advantage, or you can be "non-elitist" and have your writing ignored.

I am not trying to be an advocate for either side, I am just explaining the facts.
Ask HN: How many of you play music?
I think that most of people have the common passion - music.

Many people just listen and enjoy. But I would like to know, how many of hackers actually play the music and which music style?
Why is this near the top of Hacker News this morning?
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Anyone notice the footnote on the estimated time of crossing?

"3 the average tweets per second and the Twitpocalypse date are a rough approximation, please do not schedule any vacation around that date"
PHP is not a language. It's a template engine gone berserk.
The whole discussion was pointless, since the foundation members obviously didn't have any intention of pursuing necessary actions or the fortitude to take a firm stance. As such, all they did was waste the time of everybody involved. Sorry, but don't bother writing a warning if you have no intention of holding the line or negotiating a compromise.
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Maybe I'm just paranoid, but I index the tweet id's in Tipjoy with a string:
tweetId = models.CharField(max_length=50, db_index=True)
Is it by design that the picture of pg sitting at the table surrounded by founders is reminiscent of da Vinci's The Last Supper ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Supper_(Leonardo) )?
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China spends more per dollar of GDP on the military - very interesting.
For a first guess, if there were 5 writing dbs, each could write every 5th id, starting at a different index (0,1,2,3,4).

You'd end up with globally unique ids, and as long as your writes were (approx.) evenly distributed, all 5 sequences would be (approx.) close to each other.

Who knows, they might have 100 writable dbs, with only 70% up at any point in time, meaning only 70% of all integers are actually used.. anyway, I don't know, I can just imagine them doing something like this if they wanted certain things from the system.
Suggest the user and ip are both banned.
Guitar, Bass, electro-tinkerings and the odd bit of (bad) singing.

From metal to Folky-acoustic, via rock.
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I play guitar in a band.
Mostly pop/blues/soul/rock, and a tiny bit of jazz.
"Bonnie and Clyde, that's only because they're young and good-looking," scoffs Detective Terry Sweeney of the Philadelphia police. "These two were complete idiots. If this was two fat fucks from South Philly, it would have been Turner and Hooch."
These days the instrument I play most is acoustic guitar, primarily out of convenience.

In the past (and when time allows) I've made almost anything into an instrument, and recorded styles that range from classical to noise.

For me the music I make has more to do with the context in which it is made than a purposeful selection of style, instruments and genre.
I suspect for a lot of people coding against Twitter the notion of integers being signed or unsigned is about as foreign to their experience as pointer arithmetic. I do not consider that a bad thing.

irb > "2,147,483,647".gsub(",","").to_i + 1

2147483648

(Forgive the extra code necessary to strip out the commas. The Windows irb console leaves a little to be desired in terms of midline editing.)
I have never borrowed a book from a library and then later bought the same book. On the other hand, some of the pirated ebooks in my collection have turned out to be valuable enough to sell me on the convenience of owning a physical copy.

Your anecdote vs. my anecdote. I think that neither of us has a very strong case that piracy and/or libraries help authors sell more books.
This has been asked before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=428776

and my comment from that thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=428969
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I don't play but I compose quite a bit (mostly random electronic styles) for my own personal listening.
Couldn't disagree more on his statement: "Never start a company just to start it. You start a company because you have an idea that you think will be great for some customer and great ideas are always worth doing"

IMHO the biggest reasons to start a company is just to start it. The biggest companies have started that way - most famously HP. Ideas are mostly incidental and most of the time the first ones rarely work out. The biggest ideas are not really that clear early on - Writely was only a great idea because it got acquired by Google.
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I play guitar and bongos for fun with my friends.
There's also an online survey -- THAT we had no trouble filling. You can collect facts in an online survey when you know all reasonable/possible multiple-choice answers ("Which IDE do you use?") but they are useless for asking, "Why?" or "What would make you change your mind?" Those do need a conversation.

I do try to avoid pestering communities, truly I do. Mostly I'm an ordinary participant!
In other places I have worked, this is referred to as "having thick skin". Essentially, you need to be able to accept criticism of your code when it is valid and be willing and ready to change it.
Marvelous article, this is why I still frequent HN. The couple reminded me of this stanza in Ferlinghetti's "Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes":

"...with two garbagemen in red plastic blazers//
standing on the back stoop//
one on each side hanging on//
and looking down into//
an elegant open Mercedes//
with an elegant couple in it//
The man//
in a hip three-piece linen suit//
with shoulder-lenght blond hair&sunglassed//
The young blond woman so casually coifed//
with short skirt and coloured stokings//
on the way to his architect's office//
...
And both scavengers gazing down//
as from a great distance//
at the cool couple//
as if they were watching some odorless TV ad//
in which everything is always possible..."
Actually the first two I did took closer to an hour. And neither of the guys were bored.

I did say I was charming... or maybe I just have interesting questions to ask.
Ask HN: Web Censorship, does your employer use and how do you circumvent it?
On a daily basis my legitimate (as well as otherwise) use of the web is thwarted by my employer's internet censorship software.<p>The selection of sites blocked seems at times to be almost random. One day a site is blocked, the next it's not and then back again.<p>What's your experience as a user, administrator or spectator of these systems and do you believe they are good or evil?
Call me old-fashioned, but operating without regard to government regulation is never a good idea

You're old-fashioned.

Operating in violation of government regulation is often a bad idea, but operating without regard to it is the only way you can start a business at all. No one has the money to do an exhaustive review to ensure their own compliance with all regulations, not least because after they did this, they'd be spending yet more money complying, while all their competitors sailed along in ignorance and made more money.

The first startup I was involved with was a competitor to e-gold, and one of the conditions of my relationship with them was that I had to move outside the US while I was involved on a day-to-day basis with their hardware and software, because they saw this coming (this was 2001). Of course, being so careful cost lots of extra money, and that helped sink them before they ever really became a noticeable competitor.
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They must read HN. It now says:

2 at a rate of 151 tweets per seconds
Very cool little article.

Apple's introduction to Rails development touches on this subject but something more detailed yet still concise is greatly appreciated.
Electric guitar at the moment. Blues, jazz lately.
What about N downvotes per day, possibly based on the log of your karma? This reserves them for something that really bothers me, but limits the power of a like-minded community. It might also help to display the downvotes in red next to the total, since a downvote would be more scarce than an upvote, and may be more informative.
You should read about eckart wintzen
-edit, with you I mean Paul Graham.
He founded BSO - it-company- in the Netherlands, now known as part of Atos Origin, but lost it old strategy of staying small while growing big, but that old strategy is very interesting.
So is the anti-intellectual retort that technically correct writing doesn't matter since people can manage to make sense of variously tortured constructions. People can figure out many aesthetically brain-dead web pages too, but I don't see a lot of critical comments of the critics of those counseling forebearance since the website can be used no matter how difficult it is.

At the very least, correct grammar reduces the friction of transmitting your ideas to other people.
Ask HN: Cross-platform smartphone development
With the rise and mainstream acceptance of smartphone apps, are developers targeting a specific platform and sticking with it or is it more common for a developer to focus on spreading their apps to as many platforms as possible?

If cross-platform development is your choice, what tools, techniques or approaches do you take to make this easier without reducing quality?
I'm an amateur with no formal training; play fingerstyle guitar, sing and beatbox. Love jamming in the street.
You have a very good point, and I slightly disagree with that statement in the blog post. But I think the core point he was trying to make has some validity. Perhaps it could be more accurately (if less succinctly) said:

"The specific technologies you learn today will either fade into obscurity or else evolve dramatically. To remain at the high end, you must continue to either follow those evolutions, learn the newer technologies, or preferably both."

For instance, I am not a FORTRAN or ruby expert, but I understand they have both evolved enormously since their initial release and someone who has not kept up will at least be at a disadvantage. I do follow MS SQL Server closely and someone who learned on say MS SQL Server 6.5 would miss out on a lot of advantages of MS SQL Server 2008 if they had not made the effort to keep up with the evolutions in between.

As a side note, I knew a lady like that. She was a nice person, but she learned SQL Server 6.5 just to get a job and did not keep up with the changes. A lot of the code she wrote had to be run in compatibility mode and of course she missed out on newer features that would have made her code faster and easier to read simultaneously. She ended up getting laid off.

As for Cobol, correct me if I am wrong, but very little new development is done there, it is mostly maintenance coding and small upgrades for very old systems. Even if it paid the bills, I would not want to wind up as that guy maintaining ancient code that was simply too entrenched to be replaced yet personally.
I think it would be a little too much of a coincidence if it was unintentional, especially as the article repeatedly mentions pg's exploits as a painter including the fact that he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Italy.
guitar. punk rock. krylls.com.

there, i got the url in. sweet.
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I'm a percussionist with a miniscule amount of guitar knowledge. :) As far as style, I've played everything from big band music and hymns through scream-o. I prefer not to lock into a style of anything.
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I guess you are being downmodded for being insensitive - but you make a good point.
I would like to argue the C language argument here. If I want to shoot myself in the foot, the language should let me. If I want to paint the Mona Lisa, the language should let me.

PHP does that.
Single reeds and a bit of piano and percussion.

Classically trained, but I do a lot of jazz too.
They do censor, and I installed a covert internet connection which I pay for myself -- Verizon FIOS.

May seem excessive, but that's just how I roll.

I believe they are completely evil, always counterproductive, and make me likely to leave a workplace if I cannot subvert them.
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I recently tried cuil again. When I first tried i, I was very disappointed, but now I find it quite nice. Not on par with Google yet, IMHO, but not much worse.

And they respect privacy. They don't even keep IP addresses. (Except, I just looked at their privacy policy and they say that may change in the near future. That would be disappointing.)

And I like the fact that sites don't have to be popular to get to the top of the search, just relevant...

http://www.cuil.com/
I'm learning the piano at the moment, I'm learning classical music.
Just this morning, I clicked for the first time on the small 'Ads by Google' link above a picture advertisement, and gave Google a piece of my mind on it. It started by the pic being of battered and shot young men ("beat up your friends").

Around here, they're showing ads by those scammers who promise free phone games or whatever to the young and naive, who then find themselves enrolled in a paid weekly subscription, charged to the phone account. Someone made them put a small cryptic price-tag on the pics, but still ...

This kind of scam is also all over the free (and not only) newspapers. The ad-carriers smell the money and do it, but the real fault is with the telecom operators, who are allowed to act as currency issuers, and get a nice fat cut.

P.S. My last line to Google, about the scammers, was "Cut them off. The stench clings." That goes triple for the telecom operators. They get the money now, and the guys in charge get their bonuses. Their name being mud doesn't seem to get to the bottom line, but it will.

P.P.S. The carrier with a clear 'no scams, no money transfers' policy will get my kids phones in a couple of years, and possibly the rest of the family. Companies would probably also appreciate it. Rub two brain cells together, marketing guys.
I play guitar, sing, and compose for the Signals. (http://www.myspace.com/thesignalsuk)
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Couldn't agree more... But it does still do a good job...
play carnatic violin and sing (south indian classical)... used to hate it in school.. what an idiot!!!
Do you think that bands like Signals would like to auction their unique things (guitar, signed tshirt, special call ... like NIN drummer) to get some revenue?
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Having owned the 2G, a refurbished 3G, and now wanting a 3GS I have to say the hardware is worth it. AT&T, though, has a lot to learn about customers.

Apple had to point them out like a sore thumb at the keynote because they were not ready. The slide with all the supporting carriers is a tell tale sign of just how behind AT&T is.

MMS is already supported on their other phones. Tethering is already available for some other phones. What is stopping them from allowing their iPhone customers access to these basic features until Summer? It's silly.

My QoS has been pretty inconsistent as of late, and I'm certain it has to do with growing pains. Hopefully this bold act by Apple forces AT&T to grow up and compete. Otherwise, here's hoping Verizon gets the next go with exclusivity.
Guitar, bass guitar, double bass, and most low brass. Progressive rock, blues, and jazz, baby.
Your comment isn't relevant.
I think Chinese business people lost all the ethics in this economic recession.
I play my desk, the hand rest on the chair... i even play with my laptop keyboard when i'm on a role coding.

And i'm proud of it too :-)
The US's dominant roll in NATO makes this graph misleading. For decades, Europe has essentially had a subsidized military through alliance with the US. They complain about increased US influence, but it's actually directly caused by who is defending whom.
I'm waiting for the OpenPandora, http://openpandora.org/
PHP will let you paint the Mona Lisa at favicon resolution.
drummer, gothenburg-style metal
I did some reporting on another digital gold currency company called e-bullion that imploded after the cofounder's wife (who was the other cofounder) was murdered in Los Angeles last year:

http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/08/22/e-bullions-lawyer...

A lot of people, ranging from participants in bogus HYIP schemes to gold bugs who want to invest in gold without physically handling bullion, got burned when the FBI and IRS raided e-bullion's offices and shut down the website.

The money is now being fought over by the cofounder, the estate of his wife, and the feds, who say they want to appoint a receiver to return the money to depositors.
drums, guitar, piano/keyboards in that order.

i write melodic alt rock songs and produce hip hop as well.
It screams "ego". I'm not surprised he had difficulty coming to terms with the damage done because of his software.

I feel for the rest of the family. I can't even begin to imagine what it feels like to lose three relatives to suicide in a such a short span of time.
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I've been an amateur composer for a decade, and picked up guitar recently.

On a side note, coding VSI instruments and then utilizing them in my music can be really gratifying. (And sometimes annoying too, when after dozens of man-hours it still sounds like aliased hell.)
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