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Most popular metal is basically adolescent lord of the rings fanfiction, I think rap music might manage to stand up to that on a metric of depth, let alone social relevance or whatever else you might want to apply.
Words cannot describe how much I hate their new-since-Lion full-screen thing. Other than that, I agree, OSX does multi-desktop better than most, and far simpler setup.
I like Chrome. I think it's a better browser than Firefox. Having to switch back, after several years settling into Chrome's extensions and configurations, would really piss me off. But I'll do it if Chrome implements this bullshit and Firefox doesn't.

Wonder if I've still got tabs saved from the last time I seriously used Firefox, years ago. Probably not...
what about sms support?
It seems that we need to map and better understand the relationship between innovation and demand. If our basic needs (food, housing etc) can be satisfied for a fraction of what they used to cost due to innovation, where will the excess demand come from? We're left with population growth as our only growth factor.

If our basic needs as a society can be met by a small fraction of the working force due to innovation then we're left trying to expand the definition of what our "needs" are to create demand for the remainder of society.

As the author mentions, even the poorer echelons of society now have technology that didn't even exist a decade or two ago. It's the relationship between innovation, needs and demand that I find most intriguing.
> why do you oppose DRM? It's been around for years.

So has syphilis.
What's so bad about implementing RPC via HTTP using Json or similar? Sticking to just REST "verbs" seems ridiculous to me... unless you're making yet another CRUD app, then I suppose it works out fine.
> not always

Exactly. Some of them are pretty good.
Huh. Not according to the "What's New?" link on the site. Unless I'm misunderstanding what they're talking about (a distinct possibility)
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If content owners want to leave money on the table, that is their prerogative. Assuming there was no Netflix, et al., it would just drive more gray market piracy. That isn't something content providers want. As it happens, DRM or not, piracy happens. I don't see this standard changing that.
You are also assuming that there would be no available content without DRM, but if traditional content providers couldn't sell their product to consumers anymore, I think it is more likely that non-traditional content providers, those that agree to distribute content that isn't encumbered with DRM restrictions, would become more successful. It is a shift from having content force feed to us by corporations, to a system where independent creators have greater exposure.
I don't need their content and I'm less likely to consume it if they insist on locking it up. I do believe in paying for the content I receive, and I would continue to do so if the stream didn't have DRM.
I could fool the algorithm with: "Only the book cover was good."
I've experienced the same "nobody has the vision" thing quite a few times myself, just to go on and see others do it and be quite successful.

I've learned to not say "nobody has the vision", instead I say "I must not have explained it in a way that made it obvious and compelling".

Rather than putting the burden on them to see things your way, keep tweaking your pitch until you're seeing it there's.

There was an interesting experience I had while in an incubator where somebody asked a friend about his company, and he went into a long buzzword filled description of what he was building. The guy who asked was fazed, and didn't understand it. I stepped in and said "the do x,y,z making it better for a,b,c", and the guy got it.

We kept saying we'd do a pitch day where we'd listen to other people pitch our businesses, that way you hear what others are taking away, and you may get better insight into how people are understanding what you're doing, and what THEY think is important about it, rather than what you think is important.

Just thought I'd share that and maybe you could benefit by tweaking your discussions with your friends.
I don't want to be that guy, specially it's open source. But I would not buy a book from Packt Publishing because of this[1]
[1]https://plus.google.com/+PaulIrish/posts/XzFaHHPNSfe
A man with next to no brain is better at math than me, who, according to my doc after a CT(?) scan, have a remarkably dense brain...
Thanks for the correction.

So I'm curious -- do NYSE and NASDAQ have an agreement not to assign the same ticker?
Mozilla had one great strength.
It doesn't matter how much grey matter you have if those neurons aren't connected in any meaningful way.
you also can't PUT from an embedded flash app
We can only watch the streaming video if the DRM provider wants to provide a plugin (following the EME spec) for your platform.

That will make Firefox on Haiku less functional than Firefox on Windows. (and if the plugin were able to run everywhere, it would be trivial to work around: Just run on a system without a protected AV path)
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Really.

The 286 is a 16-bit CPU so there would have been various
memory limits. http://www.os2museum.com/wp/?page_id=313 has some details on what it can do, but not much mention of limits...
That's not very telling when what they were claiming was aneutronic fusion.
Citation needed, otherwise all sweeping generalizations are valid based on opinion alone.

People are pretty dynamic, even if common traits exist (and "knowledge / seeking knowledge" is not citable), its a dumb claim.
An especially interesting thing about machine learning algorithms is that even understanding the algorithm itself will often tell you nothing about its biases: the biases often come from the training data. The article talks about this a little bit, but I think it's a very important point for programmers in particular. For one, this means that even an open source algorithm, with the best intentions, might have significantly detrimental biases.

This also explains why I personally do not find machine learning satisfying. It's obviously very useful, and I'm not making a judgement about the field, but I just find solving a problem with machine learning to often feel empty. You get a solution, sure, but you get no additional insight on the problem itself. And I'm often far more interested in this insight than in any given problem itself.

I certainly find the underlying principles fascinating, but that fascination usually does not translate to whatever field machine learning is used for. Writing a system for identifying cat pictures will teach you quite a bit about "identifying", but not very much about cats.

Ultimately, all this just means that you have to pay attention to what your machine learning algorithm is doing right now, even if you understand the algorithm itself really well.
The problem with this poll is that there is no baseline image to compare with. They should have also taken a photo with a high end camera/lens so we can compare how accurate the color reproduction is. Also it seems that they are not all shot at the same time or exact same spot, lighting appears different from image to image.

Its a good idea so hopefully someone will make a similar poll taking care of these considerations.
The point is to avoid implicit state. By treating the change in state as a first class citizen you can be explicit about the change. In my experience, managing state is very difficult in large applications. Most of the bugs I've dealt with have been the result of our design not being explicit enough.
I believe the fullscreen mode, as implemented in Mountain Lion, was largely intended to be used on Apple laptops with smaller displays.

The first time I used the feature on a Macbook Air without an external display I suddenly 'got' it. It made a lot more sense.

(That said, at least Mavericks doesn't make it unusable on a multi-display setup.)

Edit: Incorrectly thought fullscreen mode was introduced in Lion
Also interesting is if impressions should be counting followers of the tweet author or only if the follower reads it.

Many users are following so many accounts that they can only read only a small subset of their timeline. I wonder if Twitter's apps and services also have to evolve substantially like Facebook's did to include more elaborate filtering and ranking options.
That's not a journal. It's a pre-print archive (hence the name). There's a difference.
The first five years of CSS articles were: "How I got two columns in CSS" and "How I ditched tables for two columns in CSS".

This does not make me think of CSS as a well specified standard to be used to style content in a manner needed by the web.
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>To be fair, OS X always worked well with multiple displays (I would know),

As I work with multiple displays, I think you're sugar-coating it to say it works "well." In fact, Apple knows how horrible it is. That's part of the reason they are displaying the full-screen support as a major upgrade with their new OS release. It is currently so bad, that not only do I find myself frustrated, the PR and dev teams at Apple want to shout about their fix from the rooftops.
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Yet you're missing the other half of the equation. The porn business still makes a crapton of money. Maybe not as much as in its heighday (it's hard to tell), and maybe not by the same sort of folks that were doing it a few decades ago, but it's still a thriving and lucrative business.
Why is this mobile-specific? It seems like desktops too could benefit from not having to be redirected through Google.
>As the author mentions, even the poorer echelons of society now have technology that didn't even exist a decade or two ago.

Yet they're faced with ~2.5-4x higher costs for essentials like healthcare, education and housing.

I'd happily ditch my smartphone if I could reverse the price increases on those things.
Does it finally have good flash and JS blockers? Regardless, i hate the tab system and address bar search in Chrome, wish it was like Firefox's, then I'd switch because it's faster...
Greplin was useful, worked and helped several times.
No need for an official API, just create a post request with the right parameters.
It's very kind of you to respond! I would certainly never trust it to share with someone else :) but I'm perfectly happy to accept the risk myself.

But it's not just me using a system like this. Everyone using SuperGenPass is using something similar too. That's why I think it's important to talk about it more.
> A recent survey found that 76 percent of consumers check online reviews before buying

Bullshit.
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Everything in nature happens along exponential growth curves, so those years are meaningless. This means that not much appears to happen for long periods (few 100k years at most though), then suddenly exponential growth changes everything. As soon as the growth factor increases I would expect to see massive, unpredictable changes 5-10 generation lengths later, assuming a growth factor of 2.

> why is it unreasonable to expect human activities to provide a similar amount of stabilization, even if greater amounts exceed our grasp?

Because of thermodynamics. Given that you start from a system that is not in thermodynamic equilibrium (the earth is not, nor would it be desirable if it was), large sudden changes are par for the course, not an exception.

There is disagreement on whether it is even possible to halt the changes. You can certainly make the change turn out differently (does not mean better, just different). Thermodynamics takes it as an assumption that it is not (you cannot stabilize (ie. "cool") a gas by adding energy, no matter how large the amount, you can only let it expand into a larger area or bring it into contact with something much more stable than it is, and you'll destabilize the large thing in the process).

The causal problem here (in mathematical terms) is that while it is certainly true that "X" caused change "Y", and that Y is large, the absence of "X" would have lead to an equally large change "Z". Take for example the "3-body" phenomenon : Take the solar system. Move one 1kg rock in the asteroid belt (or almost anywhere else) 1 meter in any direction. Wait 10000 years. Look at the effect it had. Counterintuitively, planetary orbits will differ significantly as a result of that tiny movement. It won't take long for that rock to affect the paths of rocks near it through gravity. The change will grow, and before you know it it significantly affects the paths of the thousands of huge "temporary comets" that get catapulted out of the asteroid belt on a regular basis. A few of those will come close to a moon, and "slingshot" around them, significantly affecting the orbit of said moon, which will affect the path of the planet it's orbiting. Any small difference in orbit will build up over time into the positions and orbits of those planets and before you know it, nothing looks alike anymore.
A lot of the discussion on this thread has descended into a slanging match about French regulation and work life balance vs US libertarianism and customer service. This is mostly missing the main point which is that Amazon has an unfair advantage because they are large enough to take advantage of loopholes in EU sales tax law to gain a ~15% price advantage over local businesses selling the same products. France can't change the sales tax rate of neighbouring countries so they have introduced a new law which is a hack that tries to cancel out this unfair advantage in other ways, and they must be careful to do this without infringing EU competition law. Hence the targeting of certain business practises of 'internet retailers'.
If you can access it, then so can someone else. If you can't access it, then why bother building the system in the first place?
But if content providers refuse to not use DRM anyways, won't Haiku users still lose out regardless?

If you can't use HTML5 DRM with Netflix your other options are either Silver light or a native app and Haiku has neither.

I'd say HTML5 DRM is the far lesser evil in this case.
Non-tech BA/PM dude. This is the more inspirational (or actionable / get my ass off and just get some projects loping around in my head done) that is bookmarked vs all of the brain-dump 100x links of "how to" build _x.

The semantic argument of "coder" | "programmer" | :developer" | "computer scientist"| versus "built some cool stuff in ~1/2 a year, and now am continuing the journey", is hilarious in juxtaposition of "everyone should code" as a meme or call to arms.

So, should only specific persons of an aptitude to sophistry be admitted as "positive" related to "learning to code"?
slava @ rethink here. Our team is really small. Even if everyone upvoted our stories (they don't -- many people don't even have HN accounts), it would only account for 5-10% of the upvotes; less for some of the more popular stories. The same is probably true for 42 floors. I find that their blog posts are quite good.

I suspect the "friendly upvote effect" has a lot to do with getting to the front page (which admittedly is important), but that doesn't make up for low quality content.
Did you use it on a regular basis and had it set as your home page or was it useful only when you couldn't find something any other way?
Probably he was confident that they were too lazy to do it, and infact they didn't but just whined..
I challenge this. How much does a creative designer make as a freelancer? My company hires designers for $60 an hour minimum and often more. So in 75 minutes you make back a months worth of software fees? $75 is not a lot of money to a professional who has to create graphics.

For a teen who wants to edit their iPhone photos before uploading to Facebook, $75 per month would be a lot. But that's not Adobe's target market.
Chernobyl is habitable. It's a bit of a land mine, as there're some places with extremely high radiation, but on average it's fine. Wild life feel very good there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_the_Chernobyl_disast...

To make Chernobyl comfortable for people, a cleaning effort is needed, but it's of manageable size.
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"White knighting"? Fuck off, troll.
"You seem to have monetized irritating people"
I tried to fool it with, "My excitement for the movie, as well as the director's IQ, was room temperature... in Celsius." and while the individual words were either positive, neutral, or unknown, the overall sentence was negative. I'm impressed!
Mozilla should refuse adding any of this junk into the browser.
It's not hacker culture where I come from, and it continues only if people enjoy it with all the consequences. There's a difference between a slightly snarky exchange at the office and a forum where people come to talk about ideas. An "eat shit and die" culture might be entertaining for a short while, but ultimately it becomes self-destructive when nobody cares to post or show anything new and everything old gets worshipped by consensus.

Yes, I have no problem telling someone on ShowHN where I see the issues with their project. But that's different from a blanket "come back when you're a Rails-powered millionaire, and by the way if you're not one already you'll never amount to anything" attitude as expressed above.

There is no question that a community like that is possible, you'd just have to wait for all the "losers" to clear out. So if that's really what HN is about to you, ramp it up! But lazy malevolence is still not the same as hacker culture, if such a thing even exists as a singular concept.
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We should combine our skills. I can accurately predict where everyone will end up in 150-200 years :-)
Wow, this is really fast. Anyone have insight on how they can provide stats like this so fast? Is it precalculated?
Did you read the rest of my comment? Was I really "sugarcoating" it when I said they intentionally and needlessly crippled full screen?
Bookmark all tabs, exit one browser, open another, import the bookmarks. Mozilla and Chrome can import each other's bookmarks.

BTW I switched to Firefox on my laptop since it seems to be much less resource-hungry than Chrome. Not painful.
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Which could be a decent salary for an offshore virtual assistant with a focus on leads?
I use both browsers regularly, but Firefox out of preference. It amazes me at how under performing chrome has become over the years. Font rendering, for one. The fact that they STILL don't have DirectWrite font rendering on Windows, something that has been with IE and FF since FF 3.6, amazes me.

Good luck trying to get a webfont to render the same (or look any good) in Chrome as it does in IE and FF on Winderps. The sheer fact that it isn't IE for once...

The font thing, while somewhat recent in usage, should have been in Chrome ages ago. Not going to bother getting into Chromes other more critical flaws as I feel like these threads devolve into this kind of shit too easily.

Just sucks that Chrome has gone from this cool browser that actually is progressive, to some kind of Ad-friendly extension of Google that just qualifies as "better than IE!".

Methinks you should jump on FF, it's better, and not because it may not support some arbitrary HTMl5 spec that we wont see for half a decade.
Its at two levels.

Its trivial to make a system where the content of the messages can only be read by the recipient. PGP and GPG email is an example of this end-to-end encryption.

The weakness in these schemes is two-fold: the update mechanism for the software (e.g. if its web-based, do you trust the server that serves the page?) and authentication: how do you know that the credentials you have for the recipient are accurate?

Its less trivial to make a system where who-is-corresponding-with-whom is obscured. Onion Routing (e.g. TOR) is in this direction, but there are laborious ways to peel the onion.

All in all, a hard problem.
isnt there a caching and idempotency implication ? from what I had learned long back - GET, PUT, DELETE are supposed to be idempotent [1]

POST is not - so possibly it's considered safer to use among muggles.

I also think PUT and DELETE are not cacheable, while POST is (given the right set of headers).

caveat: I might be completely wrong about my interpretation.

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html
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I think this could be great for new employees, but I don't think I'd want to live there after the first year. All of the people that I've talked to lived in Menlo/Mountain for the first year or so but now have moved out to places like SF.
Layout is a very different problem than styling. I think it's an absolute shame we're now just getting sophisticated layout management, but the styling has been around for a while, and it works fine.
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I don't think anyone thought they were jsp for the client side... but surely they need some form of server technology for the server side -- and jsp would be perfectly usable for that?
Means you lack the discipline to push yourself hard enough to ben good at math... Or your brain is dense in the wrong sections (without a dense/large PFC, what's the point of the rest of it?)... Or you haven't learned the right techniques... Or your environment keeps you from using your brain 100% (living with people dumber/lazier than you does this)... Or...
>Yet they're faced with ~2.5-4x higher costs for essentials like healthcare, education and housing.

Good point. Interestingly education is one of the industries that seems to be least disrupted by technology.

The authors point somewhat still stands for healthcare, though. He uses 1939 as a benchmark. Penicillin was first manufactured in 1942. Today a generic antibiotic is just a few cents a pill. Some of the most essential healthcare that would have been just a dream in '39 is nearly free today.

Healthcare costs may be drastically increased in the US (although just $60/mo here in Canada) compared to what they used to be but the offering has changed completely as well.
Except that windows can no longer span multiple displays.
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Your t-shirts look great!

I don't expect a t-shirt from you but maybe you could provide a template?
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because some stupid waf only allow POST/GET methods on port 80.
Off topic, but brings to mind another technique famously used by Goldman when they dumped over a billion pages to the 50 staffers in the Federal Crisis Inquiry Commission:

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Creepy and fascinating story. Thanks for sharing.

I do have two questions, though:

1. Polaroid wasn't making a black and white integral film in 1980, and FujiFilm didn't make instant film until 1981. Kodak's instant film was color. So how did Kraft produce an instant B+W image?

2. Did you really drink 2-3 beers and then get on a motorbike?
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