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Ask HN: how to track replies to your own comments on different blogs
Hello,
I guess a lot of readers are in the same situation: you leave comment on a lot of blogs or websites (including HN), and would like to answer any question tot these comments. How do you keep tracks of replies to your comments? Only a few blogs have an option to receive an e-mail for each reply.

I found sometimes week later that somebody ask a question to me regarding a comment, I would like to be able to answer quickly without visiting 100+ sites manually daily.

Any free webapp that would take care of it?
i always ,,loved'' the variation that goes like: if 0.99... != 1, then there has to be an x that 0.99.... + x = 1.0 (or to say 1 - 0.99.. > 0 must hold), so you can start to find this x (as 0.01, 0.001, 0.0001, etc.) and fail of course. this is not so ,,simple'' as your examples (or the (10*0.99.. - 0.99..)/9) but lights the point where most people go wrong here (at least for me)
A very clever app. One of the best I've seen for iPhone :)
I have a hunch that a strategy of making small trades with a clearly embedded but arbitrary signal will expose a weakness in these systems for incorrectly targeting local maxima - eg if you start making meaningless trades in penny stocks where the volume Vn = Vn-1 +/- Phi, or whatever - sooner or later your arbitrary but very very consistent signal will be read as a 'strategy' and amplified by a robot.

You'd need to do a bit better: you would have to set up a situation where your strategy triggers algorithm A, which triggers B, which at some point leads to A being triggered again. You might do something like have one options strategy, and one equity strategy, and then do equity and options trades in the same company.
Milk and Turing, especially Turing, were from different eras than ours. It's a lot more dangerous before the paradigm shift (and boy has this paradigm shifted). Shepard's case, from what I've read, was a lot more ambiguous.

Edit: I'm not arguing that there's no more anti-gay violence, just that the social context has changed radically. The aftermath of the recent incident in Fort Worth will be interesting to follow in this respect.
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True. I wasn't saying it to criticize people for not making the very difficult decision. I have total respect for the difficulties associated with coming out, etc.
I liked the Ribbon a lot before I got used to the Mac mentality of "reduce buttons at all costs". Ribbons work far better than lots of drop-down menus when you're dealing with something ridiculously complex.

OS X used to have an awesome theming app called Shapeshifter, which doesn't yet work for OS X. There was one ultrapervasive theme called Gaia that I've always wanted to play with and couldn't, since I came in on Leopard. Check it out: http://macthemes2.net/2007/08/10/theme-review-gaia/
Also, wealthy people who keep servants think that Hispanics are congenitally soft-spoken and obedient.

We can't discard the importance of random samples just because we want the world to correspond to our existing mindsets. Take the same stupid college kids, plant them in the middle of Detroit and see what happens to their levels of "prejudice".
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Yeah, I just thought it was time for a little bullish naïveté.
My submission: http://mandelaonline.info/helloworld.html
"First impressions of Windows 7 from a Mac user:

* I’m slightly amused that there were 8 updates already."

3 months after buying my first Apple product (MacBook Aluminium), I find out that an old Java vulnerability was still unpatched. They finally patched it, what, a couple of weeks ago? I welcome updates, I don't know what's so amusing.
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Ask HN: Well Designed Sites using the Twitter API?
Hi, I was wondering if anyone could point me towards some well designed sites that are using the Twitter API. Similar to http://tweetingtoohard.com/
I hope this isn't taken as snarky as it sounds when I say it out loud, but in my experience, the average federal employee is the last person I'd expect to be entrepreneurial in the least.

And do note that I say that as a federal contractor.
Study doesn't do anything really interesting, but neither is creating a keyword index for a keyword based search all that interesting either.

Considering that Google code search is not intended to search English (for which their regular search technology would most likely suffice for that) using regular expressions, then I agree that the naive study implementation you've quoted is, basically, not what Google is using for code search. However, there's no reason that the frequency tables need to be static nor need to be constructed solely from from C programs and English text. Frequency tables can be continuously updated based on the input corpus and the input corpus should be the code that is being searched. Part of search is being able to rule out significant portions of the search space in the name of getting positive results as fast as possible, so being able to fail quickly for most inputs (considering the example regular expression only returns three hits, it seems a wide majority don't match), a study-like implementation would appear to be a possibility.
Taking lovers from other places and ethnic groups takes prejudices way down too. Lying in bed together, half delirious, you can talk about all those things that are taboo to bring up about in polite conversation. That way, you actually learn more about a culture's unique traits and idiosyncrasies where most people would be embarrassed to ask about those things to someone they know more casually.
Having to have stuff explained to you does not make you stupid.

This entire thesis is crap.
I at least googled before asking, but what's the DC equivalent?
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I used to use that for easier reading. Irony being, now that my Firefox skin and menubar are both black, it just makes them obnoxiously bright.

f.lux is wonderful though - lowers the colour temperature based on time of day, so you don't have a harsh 9100K monitor at 11 pm. Windows and Mac - http://www.stereopsis.com/flux/

ed: for even more fun, play with 'Filters' in the ColorSync Utility
Hah, well, as you authored it you know what it says better than I! :)

But I'm inclined to say that "they're at greater risk of implementation flaws because of their design" -- and unlike you, for me I believe that itself does actually count as a design flaw.

(And on a side topic/rant since you mention the ELF loader: were I to have Google's resources, I would be far more paranoid than they about this whole thing. e.g.: the ELF loader doesn't need to be fantastically speedy; why not write it using tools/languages with stronger guarantees of memory safety? (That would hold for anything that wasn't inner-loop stuff, as well.)

Another example: The verifier & safety of the allowed instructions are the crown jewels; why not hire the pointy-headed folks who do formal verification for some stronger assurances that the allowed instructions really are safe and that the verifier is complete?)

Edit to add: And if changing the language & tooling isn't feasible, they could have at least pulled a neat trick and run the ELF loader (and similarly exposed code) within their own sandbox, rather than outside of it.
Under normal circumstances I'd be applauding the banks for refusing these IOUs but the banks took bailout money and they do owe something to the people of California morally if not legally. People in California helped bail them out and if they're asking for your help it seems only fair to give it to them. I seriously doubt that Obama would allow these IOUs to actually be worthless so what's the risk exactly?

I didn't think the banks could get less popular but apparently they're trying to surprise us all on that front. California is a mess and this latest development certainly hasn't helped.
I was looking at a MacBook Air at a Fry's electronics, which had the inverted look, and I couldn't figure out what the hell was going on with the screen. I made sure to google control+option+command+8 before hitting it though...
Excellent! Playing with it now.

EDIT: Dammit, its Gaia theme is a third-party remake that's very glitchy. To its credit, it didn't delete system-crucial files when I removed all the testing themes.
"Agile works because agile has always worked, even before there was some lame-ass marketing phrase called "agile". That means your grand-dad working on the Apollo moon shot probably used some agile techniques, as did guys on the Manhattan project."

OTOH, one problem with "agile" is that it tries to blur the line between itself and anything that was successful. Hence there is never a failed agile project.

"Oh the project failed? that because they didn't do "true" agile."

or the even more insidious, "Oh Toyota has great production processes? That is because they are "agile"

or "The Apollo moon shot went off well? they must have been agile. "

In most cases, such similarity evolves from having overbroad generalizations and/or squinting from various angles till some vague similarity is seen.

"No True Scotsman" is a constantly recurring theme in the various agile mailing lists.

A "methodology" that never fails, and never acknowledges failure (except when practitioners do something that isn't "true agile"), is something that is very suspicious from an engineers pov.

This is not to invalidate your (Daniel's) many good points. Just something to be aware of, especially when dealing with people who vend development methodologies for a living. Most of the agile "gurus" can't code for nuts.
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It's not often you hear of Microsoft setting design or usability trends, but the Office ribbon has seen a pretty vast uptake. As a UI designer I have personally implemented it in various web apps. I'm looking forward to what Microsoft does next, honestly.
Wharton is pretty well known
Aha!

This is something I've wanted for a long time [1]. No, I don't think anyone built it yet, sadly.

Basically I was thinking about a browser extension/plugin that would understand that I am posting something on a webpage, and then it would monitor/crawl this webpage, and let me know when a reaction (say, a reply or upvote) happens.

It's something that would require a lot of work, but doable, specially if you start targetting the largest websites (social networks, digg/reddit) and platforms (wordpress installations).

[1]http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1d46g/hey_reddi...
Windows is dead. I know of no developers using Windows anymore, myself included, except for gaming, visual studio or directx development. Everything programming-wise is nix focused and Mac won because of that. OSX is the perfect *nix backend with usable front end.

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I guess I've always posted only on HN and not individual blogs, mainly because I hate to spend even a few seconds signing in to these various sites.

The disadvantage is that the bloggers might not actually see what's said here; but I've found that a surprising number of them do. (And "threads" at the top of the page shows any replies to your comments here.)

Some blogs accumulate inflammatory or vacuous comments, which is another reason it can be nice to focus only on the discussions at HN. :)
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If not realizing that 95% of your consumer loans (not just 95% of mortgages) are sub-prime mortgages, and then keeping them on the books because of what amounts to a pure gamble on housing prices isn't turning a blind eye to risk, I don't know is.

The article points fingers in a lot of directions, but it does spend quite a bit of time on Cassano. Maybe you pick him out if you're going to pick out one guy at AIG, but this was clearly a case of everyone involved carefully ignoring things that might have upset the money flows.

In the end there are some winners, and a lot of people left holding the bill (mostly taxpayers). Coincidentally, the winners, by and large, happen to be the ones with the most political influence. See: http://fora.tv/2009/06/01/Michael_Lewis_The_End_of_Wall_Stre...
It would be easy enough to use ImageMagick to quantize the image to a limited color palette, create individual images for each color, trace them using POTrace, and then combine them back together. That's not to say that there wouldn't be an infinite amount of tweaking, but I've basically implemented this before.
Okay, you got a tremendous many comments. Some good advice, some bad. Mine might be a bit more unorthodox.

Here's my experience - driven men don't become less driven. You need a woman who is filled with excitement and joy at the thrill of being with a driven man. You'll never have peace with a girl who doesn't like you being too busy, and you'll come to resent her if you give up your goals. Also, this might not be politically correct to say, but I've seen a tremendous many woman get a guy to scale down for her, only to have her interest wane and she leaves. Guys get furious about that later.

For me, the key is having women in my life who understand and appreciate what I do. The best way, I found, is to find a girl who has the kind of father you aspire to be like. I tend to date the daughters of self-made men who were incredibly driven. The daughter of that kind of man has kind of an intuitive understanding of when to tell you to take a break, when to leave you alone, and so on. She also understands what she's getting with you.

Never suppress your dreams and ambitions for a woman - if you do, you'll resent her and that's not a healthy foundation for your relationship. If you're driven, you'll need the kind of woman who thrives with a driven man.
Marco has a tendency to be a snot. He's very bright, writes well, and I usually agree with the basics of what he's saying (in this case, his talk about their overcluttering made me think this was worth a submit), but he frequently sells past an agreeable point.
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can we please find another word for "MBA" or just use suits instead? Pretty sure just because someone has an MBA it isn't a bad thing.
The game designers write the laws of physics, the players write the Code of Hammurabi.

I think a great example of this comes from Eve-Online:
There are no friendly fire restrictions, but people generally agree that shooting your teammate is a bad thing, so it's not generally done.
However there are some corporations that have a different culture, and your ship is destroyed by your commander to set an example to keep the fleet in line.

This is one of the main reasons I find Eve interesting; The single shard sandbox style brings out a much more interesting social dynamic. The only game I know of that has a daily updated map of player territories, here's a time lapse of almost 2 years of player warefare, ending with the destruction of one of the in game superpowers, in 59sec: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8MuyMlT9hY
I can sum up the entire reply on this statement alone.

You cannot, and I resent your attempt to do so. You're just retreating into vagueness instead of arguing pertinent points. You're also projecting opinions on me that I haven't stated, apparently because you're more comfortable with parrotable dogma than relating your own opinions. Suddenly, instead of arguing for my own specific statements, you expect me to argue against extremely general statements about technology and phrophetic claims of inevitibility. You'd might as well say "God wills it" for all the passivity and coarseness of thought you've expressed here.

You're making the worst sort of argument that a person can make about transhumanism when you pretend that everything with turn out perfectly in some distant future regardless of the actions taken by people in the meantime. That is faith, not reason, and I'll have no part of it.

Reality is not an implementation detail. We're done here.
Hollywood has an entire genre known as the 'buddy movie' based on this phenomenon. Two or more people from opposite sides of the tracks are forced by circumstances to team up; respect and friendship follow.

Oh well, Captain Obvious saves the day once more.
Wow, that's neat! Now I'm watching my favorite YouTube cooking videos and pretending I'm a nuclear scientist.
Just saw your edit.

> Her argument was a sort of "given that you aren't going to anywhere with me, I want to quit of the startup"

I have a friend who runs a very successful IT company in Tokyo. When it was first going, his girlfriend came over to his company and helped make it work for less than she was being paid before. A great girl.

A couple years in, they were having a fight outside of the office. They go into the office and he asks her for some documents or some such, and she kind of blows him off. And there's other staff in the office.

He says, "Let's speak outside."

They walk outside, and he says, "If you ever pull this kind of shit and bring our personal life into work again, you're fired on the spot. We can fight after work. Now we're going inside and doing our jobs."

After that - no problems, the company runs like a well-oiled machine, even when they're having personal problems. This is very important - it's dangerous enough to mix work and romance, you need to do everything you can to keep them separated and not have her use work as romantic leverage.
If you'd find it helpful to read up on what features Drupal offers, so you can compare with what you know about Joomla, I just wrote an article on this last night:
http://returncontrol.com/what-does-drupal-provide-out-of-the...

In the article, I actually address the same point you make about Drupal being a "framework" (or "platform") rather than a CMS. In summary, it's probably best to think of Drupal as a "Web construction kit" rather than a CMS because its modular architecture allows you to plug in all sorts of features that go well beyond typical content management.
I'm sure the spec authors would love to make that simplification too, but one of their goals is compatibility with deployed browsers. <!DOCTYPE html> works to trigger standards mode in all currently-popular browsers.
Even without the ability to trace to an exact purchaser, to be able to correlate multiple documents to the same person, or use the printer as corroborating evidence after finding a suspect by other means, would be very valuable to law enforcement.

And unless the printer is only used for disfavored purposes, its other output is in circulation. Who's to say there's not a ad hoc registry maintained by paper samples culled from filed forms or even trash dumps and recycling bins. ("That serial number was never registered but it was sold from a retail store in Cleveland in 2002 and its printouts were seen in recycling flows in Maryland in 2006.")
If there's a flaw in democracy, it's that people can use any criteria they want to vote. :) If people ignore all logic and vote entirely based on a candidate's name or color, there's really nothing stopping them.

But what would discourage such shallow thinking, is a media that sets a good example. If newscasters' generalizations are closer to the best interests of voters (e.g. "popularity among people in <profession>"), it may have a positive effect on attitudes in society.
Speak for yourself. I know the precious few people I'd give up some of my ambitions for. There's never a soundtrack involved but the quiet confidence remains.
The fact that you don't know any developer that is using Windows doesn't mean that is true.
The large array of apps that Windows support is still to massive to consider it dead.
I know, you could VM everything, but is not practical to do so.
'Minority' status is very local. Globally, Asians are in the majority - and indeed, have lately become so here in San Francisco too. I left for a few years in 1999 and when I came back 5 years later I noticed the demographic shift on the first day.
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I only know developers using Windows. Does that cancels your argument?
Well, that's the optimistic outcome. The pessimistic outcome is that the gay child gets disinherited, the gay friend loses a close friend, and so forth.
That makes sense. There can be multiple client groups, I suppose.
Ah. Much better.
The media's job isn't to "set an example", it's to report things as they are. As things are, people vote differently based upon sex and race, because they have different experiences and viewpoints and stations in life due to sex and race.

Even when all the candidates are white males, black people tend to vote for the white male that supports affirmative action and civil rights over the white male who does not.
I think its unrealistic to build a general web-based solution

Maybe not a perfectly "general" solution, but there are lots of domains where data is analyzed that would benefit from a powerful web-based analytic environment.

these datasets are usually huge

Not all interesting datasets are huge. Some large data sets can easily be shared among users -- Amazon already hosts a lot of common data sets in EC2 already, for example. Given the steadily-decreasing cost of bandwidth and the fact that you don't need interactive response (at least for the initial data load), I don't think it's that impractical for a pretty wide set of scenarios.
I welcome updates, I don't know what's so amusing.

Exactly, the update manager in Ubuntu boots up every couple of days for me to make sure my installation is the most up to date possible.

Is this the part where Marco starts slagging off Linux too?

Updates are good - it shows that someone is taking an active interest in maintaining a stable product and I think it is foolish to present blatant bias here when that aspect of your argument can be easily disproven.

Yes, Microsoft is copying Apple - They did it before with the first Windows, they'll more than likely do it again in the future.

Get over it fanboys.