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Sorry to go all meta, but I don't think flagging is the appropriate action here.

You (and at least one other account) have been posting f5.com articles here for a year, and while they're not 100% off-topic they basically never get voted up, which should tell you that we're not interested:
http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=joepruitt

You don't post comments, or articles from anywhere f5.com, which tells me you're not really interested in HN site except to promote yourself. You post so many articles that are of no interest that I (and probably most other readers) have stopped clicking through. That means that even if you posted something really interesting, I wouldn't see it.

I'd suggest you either stop wasting your time and leave, or exercise some restraint and post only the articles that are truly relevant to this community. Then we might actually start listening again.
If your "business" is dependent on repackaging otherwise free content — that you may not have the rights to — then, is it really a surprise that it gets shut down?
Having all of your apps located in a big zoomable space has many of the advantages of a list. Also, if the desktop space is large enough, why not just have the application window sitting in there?

I think many of the metaphors of computers could be collapsed into just two or three large zoomable spaces. Have a desktop with your apps and documents, which would behave somewhat like the current OS X dock. It would have more representational real estate -- namely the whole screen. Actually, it would be even larger, since it is zoomable. Like the dock/desktop, it represents your current "working set." But to put an item back, you'd just have to right-click and select "put back." Bringing an item to your desktop wouldn't move it, so much as give it a visible alias there. There would also be a larger zoomable space which would just contain everything. Perhaps you could have an indexing scheme with the apps along the left edge, with their associated documents trailing out to the right in order of decreasing recency. The "Finder" app would have everything associated with it, of course.
Yahoo And Microsoft Picked The Wrong Fight
Agreed. This post doesn't bring anything more than the PR itself: there was more and more conflicts of interest. I think we all understand this.

Besides, it was odd for some time now that Schmidt was still on the board. I don't think anybody is surprised or shocked. The only thing is that it fuels the Google Voice story a bit more.
The Scheme Proposition
What makes OP think that it's any different anywhere else. Every single thing he complained about, I have experienced in the work place.

If you have a problem with time, space, noise, others, whatever, you need to find a way to solve that problem. With one big difference: there are no "incompletes" at work.

The problem isn't grad school. It's OP. I sure hope he finds a way to solve it. If he can't hack it there, he surely won't be able to hack it here.
Not true. The lawyers probably assumed he was prepared because he showed up, and he showed up carrying 100 pages of something.

If you're sitting on the best possible hand in Texas Hold 'Em, and you get your opponent to fold without ever having to show your hand, your hand had influence on how things worked out. Presumably, you wouldn't have been as confident and aggressive with your hand if it wasn't good.

You could, of course, bluff, but that's a risk.
I think this is interesting but if you have enough physical access to the computer to install a keyboard that is compromised then you probably already enough access to compromise the computer in dozens of other ways.
Your sarcasm is noted, but misplaced. I came in first in the school spelling bee every year throughout my childhood (until 8th grade, where I came in second), without drilling for it, competing with kids who did drill for it, so my disclaimer is just being realistic.

It's not a particularly important talent, since as I said, orthography is far from the most important part of learning a language; if it were, I might feel embarrassed about bringing it up.

But in context, it's important to point out that my experience with learning scripts probably doesn't generalize that well, and normal people's experience will be an order of magnitude worse. If you have a way I could have explained that without either sounding conceited (to you) or simply not mentioning my experience at all, I'd like to hear it.
You're completely right about lack of research. I try not to make that same mistake again but with every new endeavor I do.
I suspect that that statement was not meant to include murderers.
You try and cut corners, it'll come bite you sometimes. Oh no, not every time -- then you'd learn your lesson. But sometimes.
he actually helped reformat it, I edited my original post.
You mean arranged via gmail/gtalk?
Why is it that so few Europeans believe that diabetes can be cured via prayer? Is it that state-run religions aren't as market-savvy as the "free-market" churches in the US? Are Europeans better educated? I presume the author probably is also referring to an embrace of creationism as well. What is it that went right in Europe (or just didn't go awry)?
If you have a lot of trouble with deliberately directing your attention, you should probably ask a mental health doctor to evaluate you for ADD ("Attention Deficit Disorder"). It's possible that you've had ADD all your life and covered for it with your high intelligence, but now that the demands on your attention are much higher in grad school, your deficit in allocating attention is becoming a problem.
An interactive map of businesses on Twitter
I live right down the street from you (Alabama and Greenbriar) but I wonder if we live in the same city. I moved here from the decaying corpse of St. Louis to take a job with Continental Airlines (HQ'd right here in Houston by the way).

The busses and freeways are packed with people going to work. The bars on Westheimer are overflowing on the weekends. The Galleria is full of shoppers.

Go to St. Louis or Rochester, NY and then come back to Houston. People here are happy I am one of them. No place is perfect but Houston does better than most.
Very much enjoyed listening to this. Graham's enthusiasm is palpable and infectious, and his knowledge of the subfield is clearly second to none.
In Long Island, most people just hire a lawyer to contest their assessment. There are law firms that do clever direct mail postcards with exactly how much you can save, and the fee is a percent of your tax savings so you can't really lose.
Hehe, very nice writing. I'm just at the point where I can appreciate how much work it is - and it's a lot.

Reading/writing is especially criminal. The best resource I found so far is http://smart.fm, both for kanji and vocabulary. It works, but what I lack most is something to read at a 3rd grade - 5th grade japanese. Any ideas? It can be anything remotely interesting, from children's stories to learning materials.

Also, if you'd be willing to say more... I'm a lot more interested in how you managed to find qualified work in Japan, especially as a programmer. To be honest, this worries be about the same as the kanji, or more.
Hypertext-like linking and hiding is so universal nowadays, why do we have to parse whatever language just to achieve it? That's a lot of complex programming work we could avoid, and channel that effort into making cooler tools.

(It's not just parsing. We have to write little tools to take the parsed code, then infer relationships within it. Why not just make explicit links?)
Ja riktigt ja! Ja ikke sant! In fact I live in Norway now :-) But I am danish :-0

The short version of a complicated story: we pretty much gave up on the country - The Faroe Islands. No funding of the kind you are talking about. And overall a non progressive culture.

I see I ought to further investigate the possibilities here in Norway.
"But if you still must use pie charts, I beg you not to use 3D pie charts. Please, they are simply an abomination. Making them 3D just makes them even harder to interpret."

I agree! I never understood why a pie chart (with the principal value of showing the relative size of each chunk compared to the others) would be rotated and distorted in such a way to make the relative sizes indiscernible.

Pie charts have such limited value... I wonder if part of the reason they became so popular was how simple it is to draw one - if you have a protractor, pencil, and a calculator, it is a very quick process. When you are no longer limited by drawing time, though, there seems to be very little worthwhile in the design. I wish they never made the transition to the computing age...
560,000 fewer online job ads posted this year
cull (verb)
2. select or obtain from a large quantity or a variety of sources.

cherry-pick (verb)
selectively choose (the best things or people) from those available

prefer (verb, preferred, preferring)
1 like (someone or something) better than another or others; tend to choose
Well, in all honesty English is _not_ a foreign language. Except maybe for the Chinese and Japanese, who have a strong enough culture to survive without it.
Probably means someone's script crashed.
I wish the article had more facts and was more scientific. Blanket assertions like "we'll need 5 billion more cows" do not convince me.

Anybody read about John Jeavon's work? I just bought his book (How to Grow More Vegetables) a couple of days ago. He claims that we have the technology to create self-sustaining farms which can feed a person on about 4000 sqft. Present day agriculture requires between 9000 and 30,000 sqft per person.

So it's entirely unclear to me that industrial agriculture is the only way to feed the planet.

Certainly his method is human-intensive (by design), so you can't have situations like a family of 2 adults farming 1000 acres of corn. So it's unlikely to be adopted in the US.

Web sites: www.growbiointensive.org

And they have a store in Palo Alto: www.bountifulgardens.org
Yes, but even that subset has tremendous value, if only because you will probably assign different values to different methods of communication.

Communications methods that have a cost associated with them are used for more important stuff than those that are free.

When the telegraph was introduced it certainly wasn't wasted on trivialities, every word cost money.

The phone still costs money, even if the amount per word is so low that in practice it is also used for many trivial communications.

The cost of email and IM is so low that most of it is trivial, spam exists for that one reason only. If an email would cost you 25 cts then spam would be non-existent.

So the graph of who calls who probably has significant value, possibly more than who mails who or who IMs who.
Awesome I've installed Imacros. Perhaps I'll go and get my assessment lowered too.
Advice on designing scientific posters [or other information-dense prints]
TIGSource has been tracking Langdell and Edge Games for a while now: http://www.tigsource.com/pages/edge-games

The guy sounds like scum.
The only time eating beef makes sense wrt energy efficient is if they are raised on soils/climates incapable of producing food crops humans can eat (i.e., grassland with low rainfall).

FYI: people in the rest of the world do eat the way in you describe. i.e., a vegetable-and-grain based diet with a little bit of meat now and again.

The one week's food photo series from different parts of the world will make it abundantly clear.

Btw, 1 lb of beef takes 7 lb of corn to produce (cows in America are primarily fed corn). Are you seriously claiming that eating the cow instead of the corn is more efficient?
Building Startup Sales Teams
I wish I could upvote this more than once. Thanks for the submit! Crazy useful/interesting article!
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Are you trying to say that we wouldn't have to parse hypertext? I'm sorry, I'm not understanding your argument.
The app store is not a free market, regardless of what developers would like to imagine.
Actually, I've been to USA for quite a lot of times (in which I stayed for several months) and came back with no problem… America is a place of extremes, be those good or bad. So getting back home is very easy if you consider the bad stuff, like the high criminality in some places (looking at CSI just doesn’t feel the same as when I lived in Europe), the religious towns where Jesus is some kind of money making superstar, the wasteful mentality, the obscene hospitalization prices etc. But of course for all the bad stuff there is an equally extremely good side, like the openness of people, the energy and get things done attitude, be it having a block party on top of an apartment building in NY queens in 5 minutes to starting an NGO or a firm, the by and large hardworking people, the creativity of the place is quite high also etc.
The manuscripts of Dijkstra
Hernacki's law: I am willing to do whatever it takes to get what I want.

Hernacki's corrolary: You may not have to actually do it, you just have to be willing to do it.
In one or more of his stories, a proprietor of a small business was lauded by the community for killing a would-be burgler and putting his head on a spike outside the restaurant. (e.g., Time Enough For Love, the married identical twins and proprieters of a restaurant).

So, yes, I think it was.
Netflix Streaming Coming To The iPhone
Clearly, Apple approved those apsp because (though useless) nothing was outwardly wrong with them.
And clearly they revoked because of a pattern of brazen violation of the IP rules of the app store agreement.

Saying Apple was wrong in this is to suggest they must personally validate the ownership of all intellectual property of every app before approval.

And that's just absurd.
"I am increasingly convinced that these elements of the nation are not the flip side of the greatness of America, they are part of that greatness."

Too bad we can't ask the girl.
And yet are happy to type them on an OS that is connected to the internet but that they don't have the source code to
The Most Horrible Blog Post Ever
Where does that quote come from? Did Khalid post them?
Google Chrome to Get Bookmark Sync
That sounds like me. I'm still at the 'get girls to write your assignment' stage.

Tell me you're from TN (India)
Local online news video: What’s working and what’s not in content
Boo to the WSJ for blocking the link. Here's ZDNet's take:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=22069
There is no such thing as a time without a timezone. There is no such thing as 11:23 am. There are in fact at least 30 11:23ams on any given day.

If I was designing a datetime library, it would raise an exception if you tried to give it a time without a timezone. There would be no implicit timezones, no default arguments.

If you think this is being pedantic... you've clearly never worked with times coming from multiple timezones at once, and, as this article shows, you probably live in UTC since even within one timezone you tend to get different defaults between localtime and UTC. And everybody gets incorrectly-set machines with just-flat-wrong timezones and correspondingly skewed clocks.

If you ever parse a time without a timezone, that's a bug. If you have a time and you can't parse it because you don't know the timezone, that's a bug in whatever is emitting the time.

IMNSHO, this is right up there with "there is no such thing as a string without an encoding" in importance.
hey, hey, one metaphor at a time!
Well, my first impression on reading about this was, basically, "OK, so if somebody manages an exploit which gives them total control of the computer, they can use it to... have total control of the computer. This is news?"

If (that's a big if) this can be made practical, the fact that it depends on you already owning the machine before you use it seems to make it unattractive; if you've already got that access, there's more interesting stuff you can do.
We have a strict work schedule of 12 hours a day 6 days a week.

Maybe that explains how he's able to test all of his 5 apps that are made everyday in his company.
There is an interview (2003) with the author of Launchbar (which does something like the article describes) where he explains how the concept evolved: http://macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/developer/2003/09/25/innov...

From the interview:

»I realized that I spent a considerable amount of time with task-switching activities — searching for the very same applications, documents, files and folders on my hard disk again and again. The better those items were organized in hierarchical structures such as folders and subfolders, the more time it took to reveal these items.«

[…]

»The very first "prototype" was not even an application. It all began with dozens of little shell scripts and a tiny Terminal window. Each of the scripts had a very short one- or two-letter name and just opened one specific application or document. The Terminal window was placed in one of the screen corners, allowing us to bring it to the front quickly using the mouse. When we wanted to launch Interface Builder, for instance, we just had to click that screen corner, enter "IB"«

The idea was later taken to the extreme by Quicksilver: http://www.blacktree.com/ — the author of which now does Google’s Quick Search Box: http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2009/06/introducing-google-qui...
You're making my argument: "neither he nor any of the plaintiffs witnesses contributed any proof of the "actual damages.""

That's not entirely true, as the record companies did briefly call their own lawyers to testify as to ownership of the songs, thereby establishing Tenenbaum's wrongful (i.e., unpaid) use of them. Ergo, $0.99 actual damages.

Otherwise, that's the whole point: we have a $22,500 award (per song) on $0.99 proven damages. That means the vast majority of the award -- over 20,000-to-1 -- is for punitive damages, triggering Gore/Campbell due process concerns.

What part of that don't you get? The fact that a statute says this is okay is meaningless: the constitution prevails.
I actually like it. Becomes kind of a talking point and with all the URL shorteners out there I don't think it would be a problem anyways.
Or with a USB key and 18seconds alone with a machine you can undetectably infect it in such a way that a full disk wipe and reinstall doesn't clean it.

More interesting now?
What about the game Mirror's edge? No, wait, that's published by a large company with a legal department. Not easy target there.
I always viewed the tax value as a cheap and easy appraisal. That way, when I go to sell the home, I can at least say: "I'm not selling for less than tax value."

At pennies on the $100, I bet I'll make more from the sale by having a higher tax assessment, than I would save in annual taxes if i got it lowered.
Most informed people on the issue aren't arguing that Apple should treat the App Store like it's a free market. I quite agree - it's not, and Apple shouldn't have to make it so. What people have a problem with is the inconsistency. Apple has intentionally made the App Store a major business platform, and start-up developers invest a great deal of time working on those Apps. When Apple begins to harm developer interests inconsistently and only in accordance with their own interests (regardless of obvious obligations), then people have every right to complain.
Are you kidding? or do you have a stone for your heart?

An innocent eleven year old kid died because her parents are morons, and you respond to that with a wisecrack taken out of context.

<quote>

The night before she died - and she would have been in intense discomfort - her parents called the founder of a religious website and prayed with him on the telephone. But they did not call a doctor.

If Kara had been taken to hospital, even at that late stage, insulin could have saved her. She could have been home in a few days and chirpy by the end of the week, as my son was.

</quote>
I am really happy that Apple did this. There are multiple developers who are trying to do exactly what Khalid is doing with copyright infringement and taking advantage of dumb/stupid people (surprisingly some of his apps were in top 100 with 5 copied pictures @ $4.99).

This will definitely give a sigh of relief to legitimate developers.
I would love to know the real answer to this. I suspect it has something to do with how easy it is to form a church here and get it tax-exempt status (I have no experience in this area of course, but from what I've heard it's much easier in the US than it is in Europe).
my ISP sent me a mail, offering an exclusive deal to get a credit card that was without extra charges for life, plus a huge number of freebies, cash backs, discounts and stuff. i clicked the link to the sign up form. i clicked on the sign up button. nothing happened.

i checked the source code. apparently the submit button was supposed to call a javascript function, but the function name was misspelled. so i entered javascript:doFormSubmit or whatever the function was called, in the address bar.

the application was accepted.

i checked the day before the offer expired. the form code still had the typo.

i'd like to believe i'm the only guy who got the 40% discount on a new microwave over and a new tv and 2 years of 25% discount on movie tickets :)
There are several thousand people in Detroit whose livelihood is dependent on a company called Caraco Pharmaceuticals. Wonderful company, generic drugs is their business. This fact doesn't change the reality of Detroit's economy. It is still dependent on the car industry.

Just as Houston's is still dependent on the energy sector and government spending. Despite the fact that you may never have had a job that "...had anything to do with the oil industry, even peripherally". Government spending is what put you and a lot of other people through college. As long as this is the case, the future of Houston's economy is precarious.

A lot of people want to move away from oil, and everyone wants the government to stop spending so much money. Houston has to make plans for what's next. Or we are in for some hard times. You too. Your friends won't be able to work their way through college at the JSC, for instance. Or consider that the value of your house will go down. The quality of your schools will suffer, public and private. etc . . . etc . . .

Perhaps my point is better illustrated by having you do a thought experiment. Consider what it is like to live in Detroit, and work for Caraco.
org-mode in Emacs is nice for outline-oriented note-taking, and it can export to LaTeX.
I have a friend interning at Hadoop over the summer. I'm particularly interested in how their business model will work. Their branch of Hadoop I believe is being offered for free, and they're basically cloud computing consultants with the goal of customizing Hadoop for different industries/clients. It's a huge market opportunity.
then its up to apple not to approve the stuff during the approval process. They pretty much used a nuclear option, without trying something less lethal.
See my reply above. The record companies did indeed prove unauthorized use of the songs by Tenenbaum, and thus the approximately $0.99.

Your "cannot separate" argument completely misses the point: just because Congress lumps compensatory and punitive damages together in one statute doesn't mean constitutional protections don't apply. If that were the case, Congress would easily legislate its way around every Supreme Court ruling by lumping issues together.

Are you arguing there is no punitive element at all to the statutory damages? If so, then why are the damages raised for the exact same conduct if it is "willful?"