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I agree with some of the others about the scribd slideshow on the front page. Maybe link to it instead? I have no problem with you using scribd/slideshow instead of a video. I believe scribd allows you to customize the player and potentially remove some of the excess buttons that others mentioned are irrelevant. Then again maybe simply moving it to another "feature tour" type of page would be sufficient to remove that complaint.

For me, in FF on OSX, the padding around the scribd player was hosed. The word "exactly" in your pitch-text actually runs UNDER the player for me.

Towards the bottom of your main page you have "What information is your web site is leaking?" That sentence needs to be reworded.

I am not a huge fan of the disabled versions of your icons once you sign in. For example, the email/twitter disabled icons look like you opened the original/enabled version in Paint and just drew a red diagonal line across the icon with your mouse.

I'm a bit confused by your graph when you are logged in as well. You are using what almost look like random symbols on the graph. For example, I see a red plus, blue diamond, and green diamond. Is there a corresponding red minus? Are there blue pluses? I just found that a bit confusing.

Other than those few complaints I think the site looks really well done. I like the design and think it's a pretty cool idea. I like how you take snapshots of the site's HTML to see if something was changed that should not have been. I guess I'm curious what happens when something was changed intentionally? Do I still get an alert that I have to then ignore?

Hopefully this won't be out of line but I would like to suggest that you try out my newly launched site, http://www.launchly.com to get additional feedback on your new site and track your launch. Launchly is all about getting you the feedback you need to succeed.
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I know nothing about physics - I took a class in high school, and that's it - but there are a couple of explanations:

1) These are old lecture and the whole particle/wave thing, while known, was just thought of differently back in the 1960's.
2) My guess - he's making a generalization to set up for a "blow your mind" moment later in the lecture series.

I know nothing about (1), but I do (2) all the time when I teach.

One of the things I do is that I try to simplify the building blocks of whatever I teach early on. I simplify things and I repeat them both verbally and visually, doing everything I can to drill my students with these facts. Then, later in the class, I show the exception cases. This does two things: 1) it gets their attention and 2) it reminds them of the general rule. I love doing this because you can immediately see comprehension in students' faces and it re-establishes my control over the classroom. (Anyone who's taught knows that a dialogue in a lecture room is doomed to failure; you're the teacher - you're in charge.)

My guess - again, I know nothing about physics and nothing about Feynman - is that he's making a tactical decision in how he presents material to maximize student learning over the totality of the lecture course.
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The negativity in this article isn't necessary. I like C# I would want to say that the more Linux / Unix C# code will be written maybe and just maybe it will get MS to write an open source .NET framework not just for windows. That's the words I want to read
Requesting an entirely new file for CSS and Javascript is probably significantly more expensive (time-wise if not bandwidth-wise) than sending down more bytes for this one page.
I'm spending my free hours trying to write a Steampunk themed vertical shooter game using PyGame. The code is at

http://github.com/nibrahim/Xenon-Retroblast/tree/master
Ask HN: Bitbucket and GitHub integration
Is it possible to share source code both on Bitbucket and GitHub without doing twice the work each time I update the codebase?

With hg-git integration (http://hg-git.github.com/), this should in principle be possible.
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You're right! I didn't look closely enough. You can indeed symbolize 72 with the method shown in the picture.

Now that I finally get what viggity was saying however, I think that what you can count to with two hands wasn't what was significant -- it was that a full, open hand was worth 60.
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I interview people for my employer, and we're not even allowed to ask. It's impossible to tell - if you do ask someone their religion and then don't hire them, you'd better have some rock-solid paperwork to back you up (e.g. show their score on a standard list of questions is less than the candidate you did hire). That's just how it is.
O'Reilly "Learning OpenCV" is very well written and covers a wide range of topics.

http://www.amazon.com/Learning-OpenCV-Computer-Vision-Librar...
Good point. Your business is a good example of one in which you are able to charge reasonably aggressive prices even to a demographic that is not normally considered monied.

That people are often willing to pay far more than you'd think is certainly not limited to enterprises and the wealthy.
The "versions" you're comparing aren't the same thing. Windows has a new version in the open source sense every month, and it's distributed automatically.
For one time, the first. After that it would come from the browser cache with a bandwidth cost of zero. If every user makes a few queries daily the savings would surely be bigger than not closing a few tags here and there. And I still see lots of onclicks, and spans with multiple CSS class names. Their layout is not that complicated, surely there's room to optimize that too.
Their goal is not saving bandwidth costs: their goal is having their pages render faster. I can't find the link (will search in a bit) but I recently saw an article on Google where they had statistics on the number of searches they lost when their pages rendered a bit slower.
I've been kind of worried about this for a while. Week economic conditions place selection pressure on companies to learn to do more with less, and technology steadily improves the tools that are available to reach that goal. When the economy starts to turn around these companies may not need to hire more workers to meet rising demand. The recovery from the recession was called "jobless" and I suspect that this one will be even worse.
Perhaps I am too influenced in my opinions of philosophy by my girlfriend, an ardent adherent to Kantian (transcendental) idealism - and she's German, to boot. We've gotten into heated standoffs over it, so we've mutually agreed not to bring it up.

I agree that a priori knowledge is tautological and subject to refutation via Gödel; and as a self-described software engineer (as opposed to a computer scientist) I suspect I have an inherent bias towards valuing empiricism over idealism.

I don't subscribe too strongly to the "blank slate" idea, at least not insofar as it relates to the "nature vs. nurture" debate. I believe a lot more is embedded in the nature, in the inherited evolutionary makeup, than most people would like to admit. I think much "knowledge" (such as how to acquire language) is "baked in" at the physical level, in the genome and proteome; but of course, this knowledge is not a priori, it comes from the "experience" that the evolutionary line of mechanical interactions has shaped.
Godel did not show that "no moderately complex system can be both complete and consistent". What Godel showed was that a recursively enumerable set of axioms that is rich enough to contain the natural numbers could not be complete and consistent.

The second order Peano axioms for the natural numbers have only one model up to isomorphism. The second order axioms are not computable, that is not recursively enumerable. The first order Peano axioms are recursively enumerable but have infinitely non-isomorphic models to them.

What Russel and Whitehead tried to do was to remove humans from mathematical knowledge by finding a system of computable - that is, find a mechanical process for determining whether or not a proof was correct. Godel showed that this is not possible. This is the reason why Penrose and some others think that AI will never reach the level of human intelligence.

Not sure if this impacts your points. But it definitely is not the case that no moderately complex system can be both complete and consistent. In fact his completeness result demonstrates the incorrectness of your statement. Just take as your axiomatic system the collection of all true statements in whatever system you are working with. That's a complete axiomatic system. It's not helpful because there is no easy to use (think computable) criteria for finding out what statements are axioms and which ones aren't.
No it doesn't: this makes sense for everyone. Scale would be involved if they were out to save a few bytes per request, to save on bandwidth. However, they are out to lower the per user load/rendering time, which is completely independent of the scale of the company delivering the page (assuming the delivery scales well enough that extra traffic does not lower page delivery time, but that is usually the case).
I wish he'd spend his time on more constructive and realistic concerns instead of dreaming up doomsday scenarios and generally sounding like a zealot bent on destroying any chance of Linux having a mainstream future on the desktop. How about:

"Therefore, we should not include any obnoxious orange and bathroom brown colored themes in the default installation of GNU/Linux distributions"

I could get down with that one.
are you saying open source video codecs use less power? Do you have a reference for that?
My theory on it is something between "pack" benefit and "individual" benefit. I believe that depression is beneficial to pack hunters.

It goes like this: Operating in groups offers a great advantage. If a member of the group is lost, however, there follows a period of time where the group is more vulnerable. They haven't yet adapted (tactically) to a smaller group, so business as usual could end up getting them killed.

A period of mourning, however, with lowered dangerous activity, puts the group in less danger while they recoup from their loss. During this time they're more likely to gain new members, train young ones or simply adapt their tactics to fit their smaller numbers.

Think of it like this: Take Kobe off the team and the Lakers start to really suck. However, let them fill the fifth spot and rethink their strategies... and they start to look like a good team again.
So far it has only been shown that he spent the money. Personally, there is not a doubt on my mind that he will open source the books and I really don't understand why kragen doubt's it, but logically, he is right that Gates might still decide not to 'open source' (a strange term for books?) them.
Well, I like the tone of this post also much better :) Yes I am the poster, I got the insults there previously a bit personal :)

I agree with you that it is a sociological problem being tackled here. Indeed, if we succeed in this it will be a great social innovation. I am far from seeing it easy and obvious, but a bumpy ride we're all going to learn from. As I see now, we'll either become a full fledged channel for embedding constructive feedback to companies, or a new recruiting place with a different, proactive method.

However, I am not the one inventing this thing up just to prove something to companies. My statements are based on Eric Von Hippel's work from the 80s: "The Sources of Innovation" and "Democratizing Innovation" - The Lead User Theory. And you need to see that this is not something new, as many are already doing it. The only thing is - they have to ask for it - explicitly like Dell and Starbucks, implicitly like Lego and Harley Davidson. What we suggest is something to enrich it a bit more - self initiated input, whether it is a current user or not. Moreover, we are giving back for the input, they aren't, while they still get the input? People want to contribute, Open Source, wikis, this discussion we are having here (thank you).

You are right that most people do not want to participate and as you say out of those that have ideas most lack the willingness to act. We are trying to make them share, and maybe when others see they'll change their mind? I don't know, that is truly brave thing to ask, so lets see where it goes?

The target audience are young people and students, who are given incentives and awards for it. I guess for money and recommendations as well visibilities, students "want to be inventors, journalists and musicians." If it helps them get closer to companies, why not? I truly believe that student ideas should be seen by companies, and others.

Also, we are not founded as a company yet, and maybe we'll take the route of a non-profit. Call this a big experiment, we'll all learn something from it.

I do not expect anyone to agree with me on the blog post, those are truly personal beliefs. I didn't attack anyone in particular but processes, so I don't see a reason for any revolt from anyone.

Thank you for these insights, and regarding #3 I will rewrite the tone later so I don't get my head chopped off, served something else rather than coffee in a bar, or hit by a bus :))
Why would you expect Java to be supported by RMS and the FSF before it was fully open sourced? That's fairly basic to their worldview. Throwing out absurd accusations about them trying to protect C/C++ makes you seem a bit partisan on this issue.
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To address your second concern, all quantum particles (this includes photons) have wavelike properties (including wavelength), and thus can show wavelike effects, such as interference. For example, a ray of light contains a huge number of photons and obeys certain wave equations, but if the intensity is decreased enough, the light is found to impinge in discrete units, which have been named photons.

When Feynman says light is particles, he means that it comes in discrete units, not that it behaves as a stream of tiny billiard balls with classical behavior.
Did you miss them suing Tom Tom for VFAT?

Some info on the latest patent workaround suggested for the kernel:
http://lwn.net/Articles/338941/

They claim to have another 250 such patents.
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One of the best introductory articles on pricing I've read: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie...
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if induction doesn't actually work we'll never know that for certain. what is the alternative to induction? stop trying?
epistemic hand wringing over the fact that induction might fail us isn't useful.
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There's a fine line here; how does one know whether their situation is special or if what worked for them is applicable to others? As you say, overzealous generalization yields bad advice, but it's easier for consumers of advice (us) to filter than to generate. I'd rather read 100 founder stories and conclude that 95 of those weren't applicable to me than to lose the five that were.

The greater worry, in my mind, is that people like to avoid the "I would have done X differently" or "I found that assumption Y was inapplicable/inaccurate," which are super-valuable advice types.
My company shut down two weeks ago (with little drama), and I was back in the job market. I got three jobs offers within two weeks, all with a significant raise what I was making, and one "name your price" type of offer.

If you are a really good engineer with special skills, there is no recession for you.

If all you did is some php app, or some bug fixing here and there (mediocre engineer in a big corp), then you probably gonna have trouble finding a job.

It is a skilled based economy right now, and people with skills either find jobs right away, or just start their own companies.
"He awarded the prize to himself"

So he also earns the award for the worst competition ever.
See facts and figures? Absolutely.

In light of the whipping their "facts" on PHP optimization recommendations have received here ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=676856 ), it's best not to take pronouncements from a google post as coming from on high.
Fantastic, thanks so much for posting!
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"The first step in dealing with a crisis is to recognize that it exists."

The rest of Bob Herbert's article is just as insightful.
Q: Is there anything you specifically learned from Steve Jobs over the years?

B.G.: Well, Steve's kind of a fanatic about things, and you know, I think fanaticism is underrated. I'm a fanatic about running the engineering groups and the quality of them. Steve is a fanatic about the user experience and the design, and it clearly has made a huge difference for Apple that he says that it all has to come together -- not some committee-type view that has a list of things, but rather a holistic view. That's a deep insight.
I think he's right. Google's home HTML is only 5kB, which is pretty low these days, and their images and CSS aren't much more. If your page size is less than 10kB, those couple of bytes start making a difference. Google have probably literally optmised everything else they can optimise. Image atlas to reduce it to one file, they have a CDN, Custom web server, custom OS kernel, etc., some of which helps far more than some closing tag.
perhaps, I met a bunch of people that night :)
I personally find the 'Non sequitur' more obvious: "If we lose the use of C#, we will lose them [applications written in C#] too."

It's obviously possible to port C# applications to other programming languages. One example is Tomboy, which was ported to C++ (the port is called gNote). Also, a GNOME developer once tried to port a C# application to Java: His conclusion was, IIRC, that it's rather easy since both languages are very similar. This shows that even if the community looses all free C# implementations, it would not loose all the C# applications.

Anyway, what I find more interesting: You seem to say that Stallman usually argues his case properly. I find this hard to believe.

Could you show me any important argument made by him that does not rest on a logical fallacy? I'd be deeply grateful.
What if they will only be available under DRM/proprietary format?
Ok, I got on #3... Kicked out that personalized bitterness as you say =) Diplomacy will have to wait :D
GvR: "But it hasn't really gotten any less complex to create the simplest of simple UIs."

ANY .Net GUI is much simpler than a similar GUI written for the old Microsoft Foundation Class Library.
When was the last time you've seen a C# app that conforms to the ECMA standard? Most apps written in C# make such heavy use of the Windows API that they are as importable as possible.

If you believe that MS is pushing open standard, you are at best naive.
The ability to translate between two programming languages is called a compiler. There is theoretically nothing stopping anyone from writing a anything-to-anything "converter" (you mean compiler).
Evolution is essentially an algorithm. That's why we can use logic to predict that genes that regulate behavior for "less successful individuals to slink away and accept starvation" are unlikely to arise, since not a single one of the ancestors of that individual were less successful and slunk away to accept starvation.
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That's all well and good, but you said/implied you dislike MJ's music.

Now you're talking about this hammer --> face -type of music, which should be unrelated to the issue at hand - 'light pop'.

Were you, in fact, not talking about 'light pop' when you said "I strongly dislike this type of music"?

If so, it would seem that you were participating in some other conversation, which would be really weird.
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In short, there's clever software that finds connections between emails, and it's had some surprisingly good successes. Here are some salacious examples to titivate you, but we're not going to tell you anything about what it actually does, how it works, or cases where it didn't find anything.

As with most of these sorts of items I'm left hanging, no better off because I knew these sorts of tools existed, and worse off because I've wasted 5 minutes trying to find some detail or content.
This marks the second time that I've read an article linked on Hacker News, come away with the impression that it was written by a raving lunatic conspiracy theorist, followed the "comments" here, and discovered that it was written by this same author.

Has anybody else here had the same experience?

This confirms to me that I don't have any personal bias against this guy (since I'm reading his articles blind). I just can't find any common ground from which to empathize with anything he has yet written. He's somewhat well known, is he not? Is all of his writing like this?
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I haven't been able to come up with any strong ideas, so I'd like to give this group the opportunity. It may be a fun exercise, or a nightmare, but either way it'll be something different for a little while.

Submit your ideas and vote the best ones up to the top. Once a field of ideas has been established and I think a winner emerges I shall start a marathon session until completion.

Challenge me with wild ideas, or suggest simple tools to improve upon whatever already exists.. but whatever it is, explain why it would be valuable to you and others.

I'm open to the idea of giving the person who submits the winning idea a stake in the project, but as I'm in the UK it may be difficult to do so formally. Feel free to discuss whatever you think would be appropriate and I'll do my best to come up with something fair to reward your creativity.

Let's be tweetin!
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Have you tested that the sequence is optimal? What if pngcrush changes the image in a way that will make on of the later steps miss it's most promising optimization? Oh the joys of combinatorial explosion...
This would have been a good thing to put on the site itself. It explains what we're looking at.

As the grandparent explains, this article has no context in the title ("[unspellable] website launched"), and no context in the target site. It's just a black hole (or rather a grey hole, given the site's look and feel). I made it back here without any idea what it was or why I had been sent there.

The grandparent's assessment was completely correct and delivered constructively. It should not have been voted down.
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