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It certainly is a difficult sell to the average user. For most Internet Banking, it's already implemented, but try to get users to accept that when using Facebook or access to their mail.

In Denmark we have a public system called "NemID". It is a 2-factor authentication, which relies on a card with one-time codes, or eventually, a physical key-generator. It is used to anything related to Internet Banking or access to the public services on the internet, such as application for university, change in tax return, and the like. Unless you can incorporate such a system, which ensure that most uses already have the needed physical token, I not convinced you can pull it off.
Governemnt intervention is wrong only if we're talking about perfectly efficient markets. But regulation is a good thing when:

1) It's not a market – there are not enough competing companies. (Which is the case of network operators.)

2) Customers don't make optimal market decisions.
The problem is with the mentality. I take issue with statements, such as:

> people unwilling to put in a bit of effort to improve their lives

Such statements puts the blame on them and make it sound as if it is within grasp for them to be thin and they are unwilling to do it. It is also my belief that people saying such nonsense never had to lose a lot of weight in their lives, otherwise they wouldn't be saying it, as the effort needed can't possibly be classified as "a bit".

It's also an ignorant statement. Here's a medical fact for you to consider - Type 2 Diabetics in an advanced stage may very well die of hunger without losing weight.

And btw, I haven't downvoted you - instead I flagged your comment, because I consider your thoughts to be against HN's policy.

But yeah, the fat people downvoted you ;-)
> He assumes that you should go to Harvard because you want to get a good job and leave with the best qualifications. This is not why you should go to Harvard. [...] students should really be going to Harvard to become better people.

Nevertheless, that is why people DO go to Harvard. For qualifications, connections, and the boost to their reputation. $250,000 (assuming you graduate in 4 years) is an awfully expensive way to become a better person if that is your sole goal.
Seems clear he is doing this to increase his personal brand as the "real life tony stark" as opposed to it actually being useful for engineering. His personal brand is an enormous asset on the balance sheet of his companies, so I really respect this - but lets call it what it is.
What if this technology simply let you rotate, pan, zoom, etc. using your other hand, which would otherwise be unused?

I don't do 3D modelling so I'm not sure if this would actually be an improvement, but getting the other hand into play seems like a good jump from regular one-handed mouse-intensive work.
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That voicemails are not subject to roaming charges within the EU is a quite recent thing, and I'm not sure if it's a result of regulation or if the operators have just pre-empted being forced to do it. When roaming outside of the EU, you can still expect to get hit with massive charges for receiving voicemail.

It's result of a quirk of how voicemail calls get routed: If you set up call diversion to your voicemail with your network, you'd not pay anything.

But if you fail to answer, or divert calls to voicemail with your phone, the calls would get routed to the network your phone is active in, you'd fail to answer, and the call would get routed back by the operator you're roaming with, rather than having that operator somehow just signal that the calls should be diverted at source, and you'd get to pay for the pleasure.

At least that's the excuse the operators used. Of course it was particularly shitty that they'd charge people extortionate rates due to shortcomings of the way they do call routing.
Hey, that's not quite true. ;-)

I wrote most of our javascript on firefox. My firefox has no add-ons except the Firebug. Could it be one of your extensions? Have you tried refreshing it? Which version/OS?

We use howler.js to play the sounds. I have to say that I was a bit surprised to find Chrome/Safari/IE can play mp3 but Firefox plays ogg. I even had to submit a patch[1] so that howler.js can work on firefox under some weird edge cases.

[1]: https://github.com/goldfire/howler.js/pull/62
You should promote more this solution of yours. Big thumb up!
I remember there was an alternative to this(open source) but i can't find it, anyone?
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Please stop making physical analogies, those are nothing alike.

You've given them all your documents and asked them to index, filter and store them.

> not to catalog it and make a note somewhere that this person has AIDS, is divorced, lost his house in foreclosure etc etc etc.

But remember the raw data is always going to be there, so anyone with access to the raw data could draw these conclusions too.
Thanks for clarifying. I'm still a bit confused and since I've thought of doing this same thing at a potential startup I'd love to know the details.

So you searched for lake listings on other sites, contacted the lister and offered to add them into your system? What kind of response rate did you get for that? I'd imagine you wouldn't hear back from most of them?

How about adding them by default and then contacting them and saying "I've add your listing to our site so you can have an idea of how it works. If you choose not to join, let me know and I'll delete it."
Yes, in theory. But it would be difficult and risky.
Hard to be a decent software engineer without learning discrete math, proofs, algorithms & data structures. These boot camps unfortunately don't teach these topics with any depth. They might be a good fit depending on your goals, but I am skeptical that they are a replacement for a traditional CS degree.
This idea is very old and there is nothing new here. The first interface allowing to move object on screen using gesture or touch screen were abandoned. Why? because maintaining your arms in the air to manipulate object is exhausting. You cannot work more than a few minutes at a time.
Much more promising are brain-computer interface.
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Yes, but the regulation covers maximum prices - it doesn't prevent operators from giving their subsidiaries lower prices. Though they're shooting themselves in the foot if they do, I think, as the EU would likely point to that and make it clear that it's either anti-competitive or a clear sign that the caps can be lowered further.
Why not tell the rest of the story ?

Then a crisis happened, where a lot of banker's decisions turned out wrong due to factors that cannot reasonably be said to be the fault of those bankers. A lot of people, who were told beforehand that their money was indeed at risk in trade for that "interest" demanded the government step in and guarantee the deposits (which the government didn't do for them, but implemented for all savings from then on).

This meant that anytime a sizable bank would topple, it would cost the government massive amounts of money, which meant the government became complicit, by necessity more than by bribes, in making banks grow and bailing them out if "risk" strikes.

Which is what you're complaining about.

BTW: the "risking your own capital" demand also meant that only the wealthiest of people and their immediate families could reasonably get jobs at banks, for obvious reasons. And I'm certainly not unhappy that particular tidbit ended.
If you like stories about people who make better "thought leaders" than "individual contributors", consider also Florence Nightingale, whose hands-on work during the Crimean War contributed her hospital's having the the highest death rate of any hospital in the East during the Crimean War. Nevertheless her contributions to modern nursing — largely done from her bed during her 50-year post-war "bedridden period" — are widely accepted as having done a lot of good for the field.
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I drive a seven year old motorcycle and carburetors + ethanol = nightmare. A tank of gas with the ethanol admixture will often go bad enough to gum up the carbs in just a few weeks. I've had the engine stall out under me in potentially dangerous situations twice because of this. Damn corn farmer lobby.
Everybody has a limited amount of willpower (search for willpower depletion).

If someone's spending all his willpower just enduring an awful workplace or otherwise going through an awful day, it's a lot more likely s/he will be an alcoholic or overeat.
Most schools seem to keep up their placement numbers not by dropping students but by counting any job they get as a job in their field. Oh you got a job at mcdonalds? Well they have computers so that counts.
> I'm assuming you agree there should be some age cut off point, unless you think sex with infants is fine and dandy so long as infants aren't looking to testify against the paedophile.

Just up front, the form of that argument will lose you a lot of respect.

Here are three approaches to sex with infants that don't involve a cutoff age at all:

- Physical maturity threshold, e.g. menstruation / ejaculation. In a sense, this is the approach we use to drinking and driving.

- Mental maturity threshold -- an infant is not capable of anything, and so is guaranteed to fall on the banned side of the line. The biggest use of this kind of thing that I'm aware of is trying juveniles as adults.

- Just figure that nobody wants to have sex with infants. (This isn't, in the literal sense, true; I believe the youngest documented mother was two. However, it can easily be so-close-to-true-that-enforcement-is-a-loss-to-society.) This is the approach we use to prevent people from bombing trains, subways, museums, city buses, and pretty much everything else except airplanes.
That's what a space navigator does, and I find it pretty useless. The whole thing looks pretty lame to me. Essentially Apple's multitouch conventions partially translated to motion tracking.
> Would it be a problem if they were?

This is something I feel could be. I don't expect my emails to be somehow secret to google, and having targeted ads within gmail is fine by me. However I don't like the idea of them popping up on external sites when visited with my browser, or a browser I've used. There they could be revealing information about me to external parties.
Even if they would do that, it would be a good thing, because the fees would be spreaded among all customers. Customers won't have to worry about roaming charges, which is a positive change for no additional costs on average.
> accept a slightly hire risk of death due to terrorism in exchange for a more private and anonymous Internet

All the spying has not lowered the risk of death due to terrorism a bit. There is good evidence the actions taken to curb terrorism actually made the world a lot more unstable, increasing the global terror risk. And that is if we don't count invading countries looking for WMDs that didn't exist or drone strikes as terrorism.
Not to discount the technical analysis, but it still begs the question of whether any of those points matter for non-designers, or for the business. Just because they didn't go through an agency doesn't mean the logo won't be successful and the attention won't help the business.

I hate to bring up Google, but they've done pretty well despite having a history of logos no self-respecting agency would ever produce.
does this mean that Elon Musk is Iron Man??
I'll have to go against the grain here, but this isn't anything special.

The Leap has been around for a good while, the Occulus Rift has been around for a good while, and 3D Laser Sintering has been around for a while, along with every other technology they're using for this application.

Also, I believe they're the wrong people to use it. Making the feedback involved visual instead of mathematical/geometrical has it's applications (quickly looking through the design), but it'll still have to be made to precise tolerances, and that's an engineers job, not a sculptors.

On the other hand, it's perfect for sculptors and designers. If their setup is considerably improved in resolution, designers can get very fast visual feedback, and trying out things suddenly becomes very cheap. Architects can mold parts of their buildings, your furniture can get those last brushes before it's milled out, and your phone can be molded to "just perfect".

But this isn't a Musk thing, nor is it an Iron Man thing, the idea has been floating around for a good while, the tech is there, they just went ahead and made it. That's not groundbreaking, and it isn't revolutionizing manufacturing.
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SageMath[0] is another alternative, which I personally prefer as it's a bit more mature.

I also had a bad experience with Enthought EPD which resulted in a weirdly broken system python.

0: http://www.sagemath.org/
Browser shouldn't share its cache, except it can also deal with privacy issue.
I'm running Firefox 23.0.1 on Linux, everything is fine.
Since when does designing something consist only of zooming and panning the obviously already designed object? Nice for presentation, but now try offestting a single component a couple of mm with it, which is something you typically do a lot in CAD.
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Most people fail to realize that the elite university phenomenon and the absurd tuition fees are not so much about producing qualified graduates but about "costly signals" in game theoretic sense.

When "elite" businesses like Goldman Sachs filter for these signals they are playing a very safe game and it works for them.

They might be able to afford overlooking other candidates. Other businesses often certainly can't.

I also have to question if this costly signalling game is beneficial for the society both in human and economic terms.

From the major online course providers I haven't seen a lot of effort disrupting the game.
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You are right. This has no engineering benefits, but it surely helps the Tesla & SpaceX Stock.
This could be the case for the internet, but AFAIU not (so far) for the calls or SMS. No roaming fees means that if you have a Bulgarian SIM and live in Denmark and you call a Bulgarian number, you will pay as if you were in Bulgaria. But they can still tax you more when you're calling to the Danish or any non-Bulgarian number.

Anyway, for people who rather use internet than make phone calls, this can be a good deal indeed.
> This looks nice, but I doubt that it's really much more productive...

You're missing the point. Musk's life is actually an elaborate experiment to see what would happen if you took a very smart 11 year-old and gave him a billion dollars to build toys.
I love how you think that the lifestyle a developer salary buys in San Francisco is available to developers in Berlin. I may not have not worked in Berlin, but I did work in Frankfurt.

On a developer salary, you cannot get a decent apartment in the middle of the popular neighborhoods in Frankfurt. Berlin is no different, nor is any other place in Europe I know of. In Frankfurt, it is true that a developer salary is comparable to what a factory worker makes. It is higher, but we're talking 20-30% higher, maybe 50% at the end of your career, no more. Something that irritated me to no end in Europe is that decision power and salary are determined mainly by seniority, number of years worked at the company, not ability and certainly not knowledge.
First, I didn't say that fat people downvoted me, as it was clear (at least to me) that I was talking about people unwilling to exercise in general, fat or thin it doesn't matter (sitting all day kills you anyway). I was irked by the completely false statement that after 30 the body simply starts an unstoppable decaying process. Just look around, how many people in their 30s you see struggling to remain thin? No one. If you're thin and you stick to your diet, you'll still be thin for all of your 30s. Let's not spread around B.S. just to prove our point, it's just not true.

Lastly, instead of considering someone's thoughts to be against HN' policy, look here, it might be helpful:
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
And won't this potentially slow down the loading of your site (well, everything you're doing on the internet, really) as well, if your user's are using bandwidth to simultaneously seeding to others?
When your best case for universities is "education isn't the thing that really matters", you know they are in trouble.
> Hack Reactor claims that 100 percent of its graduates are now employed as software engineers, with an average salary in the six figures

Oh come on!
"If customers were being tricked into paying roaming charges in nefarious ways;"

Like, living on the border and your phone checks into the wrong side of the border and you get billed 1000nds? Tricked like that?
"Elon Musk Learns Leap Motion and builds a grabbing tool" should probably be the title. I don't get what the hype is all about. It looks as though as his team just created a program that can change the position and rotation of a virtual model in space. I know the community here on HN seems to worship Elon Musk, but that demo definitely was NOT making the Iron Man gesture interface real.
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Not a great deal of privacy problems, SSL content is excluded by default and you are just asking local peers if they have a binary matching a SHA hash.

The privacy leak might be that you are surfing the net when you should be working, however a firewall could give you that same amount of information anyway.
Well, let's be precise here. The EU changes, like many EU changes are intended to create a "free market". It's not possible to have a free market without some level of government support (e.g. courts, contracts, regulations about externalities etc.). With utilities it's particularl crucial due to network effects.

The telecom situation in the USA, much like their healthcare, is not messed up because it's a free market, it's messed up because governments, under the guise of creating a free market, introduce absolutely brain-dead regulations that achieve the exact opposite of a free market and the corporations take advantage of that to gouge consumers, free from worries about competition because it's not a free market.
I do not agree. The reason logos usually are expensive and take months: Because what else? If I have a multi-million Dollar marketing budget, sure the logo will take a good chunk of that, not only, say one permille (still enough to pay 5 designers for a week). If I want to change the perception of my company, I will not rush.

Does this mean the logo will perform better than one a design student made over the weekend? No.

Do many months of work prevent a failure? No.

In the end, Yahoo wants profit through revenue through site usage through loyal users. Does letter spacing have an influence on this? I doubt it.
Well, Activex was windows only. At least you can run in three big platforms now. And probably Android later. This is not activex, perhaps Adobe AIR is kind of similar, but it was not web centric.
the tech is there, they just went ahead and made it. That's not groundbreaking

And that's where we disagree.

To me that's the very definition of groundbreaking.
You would expect that they can unplug these somewhere... Guess not :P
I hope any site that is going to use it, will ask its visitors for permission first.

PeerCDN website completely avoids this matter, making them seem like fancy squatters.
Using the resources of a third party without its explicit consent, is infringement afaik.
WebRTC seems to become a great piece of technology. Hopefully the NSA hasn't made its encryption useless, too. It would be great if it was still secure, since it's also P2P, so harder to do any of that "lawful" mass interception.
Just like the world wide web was nothing special since at the time it was invented

* tcp/ip and the internet had been around for a good while
* client/server document browsing had been around for a good while and
* hypertext documents with clickable links generated from markup
had been around for while (microsoft help viewer)

The ideas behind the WWW had been floating around for a good while.
TBL just went ahead and made it.
konstantintin, there in no need to be MEAN.
How is 1002 adults a good sample for a survey about "internet population"?
I agree with this assessment - apparently taking this task so lightly (especially given the poor outcome) is a baffling and shocking misstep, so bad that I have to think hard about if there is some hidden angle I'm not seeing, some genius act of extremely subtle performance marketing. It would seem extreme to judge a CEO by something relatively trivial and unimportant such as this, but honestly the way this project was handled makes me very bearish on Yahoo under Mayer.
No difference in the opening. The difference is in what they do with the data, which is what I believe the lawsuit is about.
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> [...] since Knuth highly values the reproducibility of the output of all versions of TeX, any changed version must not be called TEX, TeX, or anything confusingly similar.

I have heard that to be the reason that some don't want to "fix" TeX/LaTeX.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX#License

LaTeX also has a similar clause (or whatever you call it): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX_Project_Public_License#Un...
Yeah, I feel for those agencies, and at times like this I'm glad to be a software developer. A whippersnapper may say he can do my job over a weekend, but delivering it is another thing entirely.

I don't think we have to bring up Google. In fact, we don't even have to go beyond Yahoo. For all the talk on design and building a strong visual identity, Yahoo in its glory days was visually atrocious. And it didn't mater a lick.
>homogenise network technology and allow for a real single EU telecom space.

Won't that lead to a slowdown in the development and implementation of new wireless technology? What incentive would governments have to upgrade existing cell towers to new technology?

Electric cables, water pipes, and gas lines don't need to be replaced every 5 years by new technology.
Then try Anaconda[0], I haven't had any problems with it so far and it includes IPython and most scientific libraries a Python programmer needs.

0: https://store.continuum.io/cshop/anaconda/
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Networks can never work with capitalism, as there's more benefit to extending an existing network than creating multiple competing networks. Roads, Internet, wired phones. Thus the network might as well be owned and run by the government, and access to it sold to the public/companies.
Of course this will be useful for engineering. Maybe not in it's current state but in future, better versions.

He and his team are trying out some really cool ideas. While most of us work on apps that involve displaying text and pictures, this guy has the good fortune to be able to play with rockets and cars etc. Good for the World that not everybody is working on another app.
Seems like anti-intellectualism. Just because you can't recognize an outstanding logo doesn't mean there is no such thing - it is an art form and a science, which is the reason there are superstars in the field who command hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees. (Whether or not a logo has a real impact on business performance is another discussion.)
> Another really excellent thing the EU did is to mandate mini USB as phone chargers

Wasn't it the Chinese who originally mandated that? Either way, it's a good thing.
You know how computer always makes some sort of sound in a Hollywood movie? I always liked that.

And from all software with sound effects, this is the closest to useful. Good job.