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There are demonstrations where, given a set of cues, or just a vague description of a products, designers converge of very very similar designs. We all live in the same culture, and are exposed to the same stimuli... unintentional or convergent replication of ideas is not only possible, but reasonably common.

Additionally, many industries are IP-free, and are doing excellent nonetheless: recipes and fashion come to mind.
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Inconsolata has pretty low symbol coverage, right? Not a problem if you stick to ASCII, I suppose…
That version did not include a library manager.
Personally, the only alternative that I can think of is suicide. Not a nice thought, but I cannot really think of any other way.
Valve set to reveal their own VR hardware
Pet project with Erlang's ChicagoBoss
I'm going to respond to all of you at once by saying this: bcrypt is the best possible solution that we are aware of. It's infeasible for anyone but the most resourceful adversaries to brute force your hashed IP, and even then it's still expensive.

However, that's part of why we're open source. You can't trust us when we say that we aren't storing your IP. We could be doing it and you'd have no way of being able to tell. If you're concerned about this, run a private instance of MediaCrush. There are instructions in the README, it's pretty easy to set up.
It's got a very nice way of handling text size and other text "attributes". All the various kinds ("faces") of text are arranged in an inheritance hierarchy, so a change in the size of the text in the base of the hierarchy propagates to all of the text in the application (minus the size of the text in the title bar, which is of course controlled by the operating system).

So for example, to make all Emacs text (except the title-bar text) pretty darn big, you just eval the following:

(set-face-attribute 'default nil :height 200)
> However its the only application I didnt know how to copy and paste in when I started using it, its still the only application I use that I dont know how to resize the text in.

Ah, you must have never tried vim. :)
Evolution of the Winter Olympics (gif set)
This is true and a lot of people relate to automated testing as something to ask about hard competitive style programming challenges. It can be fun too. Eg: http://www.itasoftware.com/careers/puzzle_archive.html
germany and japan moved fast, the US and the USSR struck hard...
I think, he's responded to the article http://betanews.com/2004/11/10/death-knell-sounds-for-nullso...
Of course, one would expect there to be more search traffic for "buy bitcoin" than for "sell bitcoin", regardless of the actual demand for bitcoins, since most people would want to learn how to buy first, and in the process would also learn how to sell.
I don't mind people earning money off my hard work? I already did it, and was already paid for it. The only problem I see is that customers are being scammed into thinking they purchased a unique logo... there is contract law to resolve such problems.
Britannica's expert model also risks some pretty biased and incomplete articles, depending on the expert chosen. There's a relationship between being prominent in a field and being willing and able to write a comprehensive, neutral overview of the field, but it's not quite the same thing, and some top researchers are very bad at the latter.
Watching that video and reading the IndiGoGo write-up, I think this campaign should be a poster-child of how not to do a crowdfunding campaign.

Their product should be engaging, it should be something cool, that people want, instead, to me, the message from the company president comes across as condescending.

"NOMAD’s goal is to reduce consumerism", but why? Can you reduce consumerism by selling a new good? The goal of reducing a personal footprint makes perfect sense, a reductionist and minimalist philosophy, great, but the way they outline it, it all sounds so negative.

Lastly, don't show me engineering plans for a very simple house, show me the house. Go out into a field and build one if it is going to be so easy. It doesn't have to be exactly like the one you want to build, but show me that the company president believes enough that he actually lives in one of these houses.
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I'm so bummed about this.

It's my favorite media player.

It was the first media player in its day that payed every file you threw at it.

It has never disappointed me since.

I really wish the owner would opensource it though if he doesn't have the time to maintain it I'm sure there's hundreds of thousands of people who will.
Microsoft selling real anti-Google ‘Scroogled’ tees and mugs
You can create challenges on your own.
Ask HN: Upvoting blocked?
Has anyone else this problem?

When I want to upvote a story, my vote is not accepted:

The upvote arrow disappears (as usual), but the vote counter stays exactly the same when the page is refreshed.

This happens both when I try to upvote something on the comments page and on the front page (list).

Why? Why am I being blocked like this? I didn't do anything wrong and my "karma" is currently at 1359.

If this is HN's idea of "democracy", then I'm definitely out of here.

Please let me know what this is all about.

Thanks.
The point is not which big companies have signed the document - the question is which companies have attached $donations$ to their signature.
PayPal's interactive API playground
Beautiful app, congrats!

If I may ask, how do you get the color?
I disagree.

Sure string instruments give you more control but at the end of the day, it's only timbre, harmonics and timing (plus the mysterious immeasurable Q factor which I dub musicality). If this gives you the ability to generate more harmonic components through multiple chords and changes the timbre, then it's a valuable device. I mean a cheap analogue monosynth for example has many good qualities and is not short of utility in music.

I'm sure the harp players were just as pissed as you are when they knocked it on its side and added hammers and keys.
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Can't agree more. There are loads of examples show that surveillance cameras did play an important role in crime prevention and criminal convictions, but they are conveniently ignored in the article ... He made some valid points, but using surveillance cameras to support them? I don't buy it.
> I am fairly determined to use web based applications only

That sounds really unpleasant to me. Why on earth would you want to do that?
heh good point, 'use' in this context means more than the brief panic on a new machine when I remember :wq and add export EDITOR=emacs to my profile
> If you happen to think this is a good idea, please register your approval by making a tiny payment (eg one satoshi) to 1SPEKXiV6NF9Xg6Ridw2qUtV83T8TRJZZ. Larger donations accepted, if you like ;-)

This is a strange way to cast a vote. Nonetheless I doubt spammers would have any problem with creating bitcoin accounts with a small amount of money in them - one email/bitcoin wallet could send millions of emails before anyone takes action via the "sentinel" route.

And as mark242/craphound points out: "Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once"
gubatron, you've been banned for a year now.
I have a couple HTML documents open on my MacBook, iPad, and iPhone. All three look different.

I opened a couple of eBooks on Kindle and iBooks on my MacBook, iPad, and iPhone. All three look different.

All three use Display Postscript, CoreGraphics and Quartz. All three look different. WYSIWG depends on where.

I don't own a printer, but I bet if I printed from all three devices all three documents would look different.
OCaml tips
Quick! Someone add emacs bindings to MS Word, change the styling a little bit, and we can get Stallman to unknowingly be using the devil's software :)
These Companies Build The Technology Used To Spy On You
This have been solved by Bitcoin. People driven by greed are cooperating on building one blockchain. Then, they'd be happy to pay pennies for safe, secure and clean email system.
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On the whole, drug resistant bacteria will likely remain as capable in other characteristics. Due to the complex nature of DNA (specifically gene functions), genetic codes tends to be multipurpose. When select for any one attribute (e.g drug resistance) you could potentially affect zero or more other attributes. You just won't know which ones (based on today's bio-genetics understanding). So there is no reason to expect drug resistant bacteria to be weaker.

You are right bacteria have proven very cable at appropriating useful DNA from across the species. Also, we can reasonably expect drug resistant bacteria to spread just like other bacteria spreads (i.e varied methods and levels of difficulty). Among the factors that affect the spread of bacteria is the mobility of the host. If a host dies in timely fashion the bacteria spreads less and if they linger around longer the opportunity to spread increases. Like other infectious pathogens, this is mainly species dependent. When a multitude of antibiotic resistant bacteria spread around sufficiently are a common stay in the ether then they become part of the random bacteria that would likely infect if you just got a cut.
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Because I likely dont think the things you relate to web software being unpleasant are inherent to the actual platform and can be fixed, both by 3rd parties producing better web based software and by the platforms themselves being fixed.

That combined with the advantages of having a single, cross platform runtime platform that is shared as opposed to owned as being too important to ignore, I think its silly that people have to consider writing the same app 3 times at a minimum to reach a reasonable portion of the audience.
Killer app for Bitcoin is Bitcoin itself. Digital gold that can't be easily confiscated, can be cheaply stored and transferred and resist a lot of censorship.

It can also encode various cool contracts that are impossible to do otherwise: http://blog.oleganza.com/post/58240549599/contracts-without-... (well, this requires a UI, but it's already supported by the network).
I don't we can make exactly this generalisation, but certainly from the existence of superbugs responsible for one disease it follows

1. neither that those superbugs will come to dominate the bacteria responsible for that disease (superbugs might never be strong outside the hospital, say)

2. nor that superbugs will emerge for many other diseases.

She's painting a worst-case scenario, which has a consciousness-raising value, but no one should be saying that doom is upon us.
One difference is that changing the length of a varchar column in an existing table can be a major pain if you have other database objects that must be the same type. For example, any views which also carry this column will need to be dropped and recreated (or otherwise modified), or else Postgres won't allow you to make the change.

Working with the text datatype and using check constraints on length makes this much easier.
The national identity register was scrapped after it was started, that wouldn't have happened if Labour had stayed in power. The Lib Dems were the main party opposing it, it's one of the reasons I wanted them in.
Ask HN: Is Black Friday related news on topic?
We're sure to start seeing a lot of Black Friday related submissions, I'd really like to hear what people think about upvoting these types of stories if they are relevant to you.

If they are relative and substantive and you feel like it -- I personally think you need all three to get the upvote, since you are impacting your own view, and everyone else's view.

While there's no explicit downvote feature, there are also obviously a lot of things you can do to push down a post.

So please weigh in on both sides of the aisle!
None of the other uses really justify the current price though. That's the point.

Clearly the value of a Bitcoin is not $0. He's not claiming that. He's claiming that if you think it is worth more than the current price of $680, then you are essentially betting on Bitcoin's current Chinese swell to continue.
This. I've been trying to explain to people on r/bitcoin and r/bitcoinmarkets that I'm pretty sure that the Chinese have well polished ways and means of getting money out of China, in spite of capital controls.

When the mafia figures out bitcoin is a good way to do this things will start looking quite different.
The problem with this idea is that with current Bitcoin protocol implementation it will not work. As of Bitcoin 0.8.2 the network doesn't relay transactions with "dust" outputs - transactions that are sending 0.00005430 BTC or less [1]. This check was implemented, ironically, to prevent spam, because one could flood the network with one-satoshi transactions which could take much space and bandwidth.

[1] https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/2577
Note that I'm talking about specific consumer startups with crazy growth before employee #50, not some entire class of startups. Rocketships only.

The press estimates Snapchat's current employee count at 30. I think it's probably a bit higher. Imagine you've been in a cave, so you haven't heard that VCs aren't already $1B+ bullish on them. They show you their user numbers and offer you 0.07% to be employee #50. Aren't you stoked? I would be.
No - but I will. Thanks for the answer.
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You might want to give plain TeX a try--it's surprisingly lightweight (once you learn how to change font sizes and/or decide not to care). A lot of the bloat comes from LaTeX and using 'eplain' will give you most of the crossreferencing and bibliography commands (if you need it).
Running latexmk -pvc in a separate terminal will give you rebuilt dvis on the fly (or pdfs). AucTeX can generate inline previews for plain tex just as well as LaTeX.

Of course, org mode is the standard recommendation for "emacs based markdown replacement with inline math previews"
> So can you put an index on a TEXT column in PG?

Yes, but the default index (btree) will generate an error if you try to insert data above 8k. The hash index will work.

Not that it makes much sense to use an index (rather than FTS) on such an amount of data.
Stallman always seems like a caricature of himself to me.

I think he did the world good deeds, but fun that gets made of him and the stuff he says himself are indistinguishable to me.
What? I'm Irish and my grandparents ate meat, fish or eggs pretty much every day of their lives
I know nothing about LUA syntax, so I also have no idea which part of this is new and which part is ordinary LUA.

Is
-- calculate sum(x for x^2 in 1..n)
a comment or is it the output of a code transform?
Understand the difference.

Well I don't see a difference. Better that a minority live in the ghetto so that the rest don't have to? Each time you clarify all I see is my original conclusion being confirmed. Perhaps it is you who don't understand the consequences of the policies you are promoting.
Markets tend to price in future usage. Are there indications that bitcoins will be extremely valuable in the future ? Yes.

Is there progress being made every day with bitcoins ? Yes.

Is there global potential for bitcoin to be used as some form of currency ? Yes. (it is already being used in small amounts in several places)

Markets tend to price these things in. Investor sentiment is optimistic. Bitcoins current position certainly doesn't justify this price. But the market has priced in the future.
This is a sad day in computer history. Winamp was my first default music player and first true love of a computer program. It was in the end of the 1990s and ICQ ruled internet chatting and mp3s was new thing.

I used Winamp everyday. We shared music from dorm to dorm on the campus network. Everyone had Winamp. Parties had a dedicated Winamp computer with all the playlists with music available from the campus network.

We searched the net with Phoenix (now called Firefox) or Opera to find all the album art work. We installed beautiful Winamp skins and was amazed at audio 3d-visualization plugins that Winamp offered.

Winamp was early on handling multiple audio cards. I had dual audio cards, one just for Winamp connected to my HiFi equipment and the other for the rest of the Windows sounds connected to the computer table speakers.

Early with global hotkey support. Plugins that showed GUI popups of the music playing. Fraunhofer codec support. And it was super fast.

And I still remember the uproar when Winamp 3 was released. True fanboys stayed with the Winamp 2 release for many years, the classic.

Sad this has to end, but Winamp never successfully adopted to a world with full fledged media library players like iTunes or Windows Media Player. Back in the day we used Windows Explorer (or Norton Commander) to cataloged all our music and soon a community based naming standard convention of music was "created" by mutual agreement.

And then came music streaming.

Bye Winamp!

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The Pursuit of Mastery or Why I Created FacileThings
Apparently learning Ruby on Rails is easier as mastering keyboard
So why don't we set up a UK political party with a philosophy that cascades out of these concerns? A party that is built on Libertarian, participatory principles, committed to policy-making that is informed by in-depth technical expertise and empirical analysis, open data, and broad, open participation, where weight is given to contributions by merit, and by the expertise and experience of the participant, rather than political affiliation and deal-making pork-politics.

A party that is empowered by the development of new tools and technologies to enhance and support broad participation and effective decision making. A party that is not encumbered by the past: A party that self-consciously makes a break from historical partisan divides, and uses it's unique position to bridge left and right, and to take the best ideas, where-soever they might originate.

A party that believes that the electorate is far from stupid, and that attention to fundamentals and excellence in policy will, given time, shine through. A party that pays attention to details, and that cares about policy execution as much as short-term media coverage. A party that can effectively fight the inefficiency, corruption, cronyism and restrictive practices that plague big government and big business in equal measure. A party that can more than restore the freedom that our people and our markets have lost; but enhance it.

Freedom. Fairness. Effectiveness.

Achieved through: Transparency. Simplicity. Broad participation.

Supported by: Policy-agnostic decision-support processes & technologies.
Yes I realise the importance of a testing set too. I see that as just another level validation. Hierarchies of left out data. If you understand in your heart what cross validation is, then the step to using a testing set is a trivial extension.

I brought up cross validation in particular, because I see PhDs eating books on advanced techniques like structure learning. But they have no practical experience. And they ignore the basics for so long, as they don't realise validation is the most important bit. If you have not drawn the curve of training set error, validation error against training time, you have no done machine learning yet...

This article doesn't mention it either :(
Webix Integration with Online Geographical Maps
If I could sell you the dictionary for millions I would stop complaining.
The coffee cup: Many of the cups are identical. Not similar, but identical. I think that different designers would sketch cups that are very nearly the same, but I find it hard to accept that they'd create identical cups. Using steam for F is an idea that many people would arrive at, but these examples are again identical spirals and lengths. (The coffee bean example in the lower right corner stands out because it's obviously nothing like the logo)
Interestingly, some of bitcoin's roots originate from spam fighting. The idea of the 'proof of work' function that is used by bitcoin came out of the idea of Hashcash http://www.hashcash.org/ (as referenced in Satoshi's white-paper).

The hashcash idea wasn't so successful, although it's still around and somewhat useful. One problem of hashcash was that the difficulty didn't adjust, making it somewhat unfair, not taking in account GPUs, etc.

On the other hand, bitcoin solves the difficulty problem that was with hashcash. Perhaps in the future, bitcoin could be used for ensuring the smooth delivery of priority emails.
That's actually an interesting point. It's possible that people on BTC China are not in fact moving their bitcoins out of the exchange and selling them on another exchange to launder money. They're possibly holding bitcoins in their BTC China wallets. Those transactions will not influence the over all bitcoin transaction volume.

Furthermore, per exchange volumes have been insanely high over the past few days. See: http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/

What you basically pointed out points towards the premise of the article being false. It's not money laundering, it's something else.
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I don't think spending a satoshi is a problem for any serious spammer.
>think of the viola organista as a synthesizer or a sampler

Definitely. Or even as a kind of crude sequencer, as demonstrated (I believe unintentionally) by this test clip of a similar instrument: [1]

The instrument is called a geigenwerk, which I gather is approximately just a smaller viola organista. The builder's page [2] has excellent documentation of the inner mechanism, which sadly was absent from the video of the OP.

[1]http://obuchi.music.coocan.jp/Geigenwerk/Geigenwerk3/Image/M...

[2]http://obuchi.music.coocan.jp/Geigenwerk/index-e.htm
His logos are actually pretty decent - not so much 'horrible' as 'rough hand-drawn concept sketches'. His singing, though....shudder.
can't you make it automatic, taking the news with rss and stop it if you get a warrant?
If it takes that many words to explain why a blog post is shit, then perhaps there was actually something substantive there which the author disagreed with. I think the argument would be better served by dropping the attack against 'the article' and focus on telling me the real point.
The problem as I see it is that, contrary to popular belief, sending spam is not free, so this merely increases the cost a little.

The difference between free and $n is greater than that between $n and ($n * 2).
20 MB/s, my phone has USB Host :-)
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(Since I can't edit that post anymore, what I linked to was a bar graph showing how many minutes of work it takes to earn the sum needed to purchase 500ml of beer in various countries, based on 2011 retail prices and national median wage.)
The tea cup is a manipulation of the original - they flipped the tree and changed the colours, but it's a copy apart from that. It's pretty blatant.

I don't know about law, but I feel the designers are right to feel grumpy about it.
> That's a lot of ops complexity you can save yourself right there.

If you're doing that kind of sustained request volume then you'd like have web server redundancy for availability reasons , right? Reverse proxying from nginx to a Go app vs. a flask/uwsgi app becomes a pretty small problem.

I'm definitely not arguing that Go isn't more "scalable". By all of our measures, it is. I'm talking about the huge sacrifices you make to productivity to use it as a developer for specifically modern web development.
To be fair, depending on keyboard layout curly braces might not be printed on the keyboard keys, for example my macbook pro with SV layout gives no indication where they might be (and what key combination is needed)