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Thanks for the compliment, and let me just say... we bought the Nati-Geo map software for over $100, and MyTopo's maps have more details, more trails, and more landmarks. Just hands down better.

And were working on a game overlay for this now called Gaia Quest :)

Stay tuned!
X-rays and Gamma rays are "only" electro-magentic radiation too. As are microwaves, and most people wouldn't place their heads into a running microwave oven.

I'm not saying that the radiation used in MRI would be harmful, but saying that its harmless because it's electro-magnetic is just plain wrong.
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Ask HN: Why is dropbox.com redirecting to Google?
I randomly check dropbox.com to see if getdropbox.com has acquired it yet, and I see it redirects to a Google error page now?
i agree with you, but i've seen SO many public service announcements about Do Not Shake Babies that i've stopped questioning this. now, when i hold babies, i'm overly cautious not to jostle them.
Auto-focus on most cameras (those that use phase / contrast detecton AF, at least) doesn't emit anything, unless you mean emissions from the circuitry used to control it. Some cameras have a AF assist light for helping the AF in low light, but that won't come on in daylight.

You do need to focus at distance with long, fast lenses.
Okay, but I can write code just as quickly in Perl or Python and it'll be several times faster than Ruby. I can write that's Haskell that's just as elegant and concise (although it takes me slightly longer) and that runs orders of magnitude faster.

Increasingly, I'm unclear on what this unique advantage is that Ruby supposedly has that makes up for the atrocious implementation.
Um, no why would I think that?

You're calling out the results on the basis of "confusion", when Dharmesh clearly addresses this within the post itself. The article doesn't even contain the word startup at all.
I'm curious as to how a second-hand private yacht ($1,200 mil) can be worth more than the build cost of the largest cruise ship in the world ($700 mil). Don't watercrafts depreciate like crazy?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Queen_Mary_2
No expert, but is it possible that this technology could be coupled with cameras using an object recognition algorithm? Once it had narrowed the space, it could then scan.
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Unbelievable, I'll take the 'over the top titles' but false economic statements like:
"When his seeds were used widely in 1963, Mexico instantly went from famine-prone to a wheat-exporter. Their wheat harvest was six times greater after"

I guess that's why Mexico has been a net wheat IMPORTER since the 70's , subsidized and even banned wheat imports to protect the agro industry. Relevant sources without the sensationalist tones:

http://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&q=cache%3ApHwA9V6vKXgJ%...

http://translate.google.com.mx/translate?hl=en&sl=es&...
Isn't that the Google Apps standard 404 page for hosted domains?
I wonder if there would be a market for a baby muzzle with some sort of tubing mechanism to ensure that the little snotball didn't choke to death on their own mucus.
Not the CCD. Handheld detectors (like this one http://www.lightinthebox.com/Super-Sleuth-Camera-Detector_p5...) work by strobing an array of very bright LEDs and looking for reflections from lenses. I've seen manufacturers claim it's good out to 900 feet and I see no reason it wouldn't work in principle, but a shrewd paparazzi could probably just set up a few ordinary mirrors around his observation point and confuse the system that way.

Sounds like a repurposed military anti-sniper device or similar. Then again maybe the whole thing is just exaggeration designed to give paparazzi nightmares about having their retinas burned.
can an EB-5 visa (using the special case of 500K) be used for a tech company? anyone here who is an immigration lawyer?
dropbox.com seems to be registered through Godaddy; if it were Google-owned it would use markmonitor.
> No one should ever be able to buy their way into a country with raw cash.

Then you, too, support reform of the existing US immigration laws (see Kirk's comment above -- investing $1m will get you in).
Safe bet, as IIRC he had missiles installed.
I've done exactly this. There's a huge number of cheeses. And they're quite distinct.
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Just purchased. Already like it better than MotionX. Is there a way to search for nearby trails (other than the trails on the scanned topo maps)? not just waypoints?

edit: just noticed the other posts about TrailBehind app. Awesome. Now I am all set.
We all know each other and mostly hang out on twitter to be honest. Try me (@kirkwy), @monkchips, @monadic, @cpswan, @codepope, @leastfixedpoint, ...

Seriously, though, I've not really noticed not being back in a local "tech cluster" on a day-to-day basis these days (except that when I meet people that aren't in the industry they have NO idea what I do; in the valley, everybody has some clue). Mostly we like to know who each other are so we can all drink together. Tech social functions, like ALL social functions here, involve much beer.
i'm going, too. anyone want to do a hn meet up, at least briefly? feels kind of silly, what with being surrounded by tons of startup folks already, but might still be fun.

since not much of the schedule is known, i'm giving the following shoutout:

meet in the middle of the oval at 8:50am. the oval is the circular green between kresge, the student center and the chapel. i have an inverse mohawk and will likely be wearing patch-work shorts and tshirt.
Through a "dedicated" RSS reader, Liferea.
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This has been covered a few times already.

Here's one:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=819926
Three cheers to Kirk for pointing out the particularly demeaning way in which gay people are treated for the purposes of immigration. Everybody knows that marriage is viewed as the "easier" way of getting into the US: find somebody who likes you enough to marry you for two years, then you can divorce and you can keep the green card. But if you're gay? Get to the back of the line.
I read this, curious when the new rating system would be in place, but the next contest info surprised me:

"The data set of more than 100 million entries will include information about renters’ ages, gender, ZIP codes..."

Isn't that enough to identify many of the raters?
"(j) last but not the least lots of parentheses :-), which are actually a lot friendlier than they may seem at first (to the extent that they are actually a feature to help reduce syntax clutter)"

Rich Hickey made a point of the fact that Clojure's macros for calling Java methods can require fewer parentheses than the same calls written in Java. So, helping reduce syntax clutter is right. But "lots of parentheses" maybe not as true as people assume. They are just more noticeable in Clojure because Java has so many other kinds of boiler plate that make all the Java parentheses less noticeable.
I don't really have a problem with that. I'm self-employed most of the times, but during the occasional "sortof hired" periods I like to take work ethics seriously. And I definitely don't mind a nice quiet clean office - again, not at all something I'd do on my own, but I definitely wouldn't mind such a policy. There is a bit of zen in 5 minutes of cleaning up at the end of the day.
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Sorry Joel, no way to search for Trails yet. However, we are thinking about further integrating the EveryTrail API so you could search their trail DB, insead of just doing uploads.

Better than Motion-X huh? You make me feel all warm and fuzzy. Feel free to say something to that effect in your review :)
I am not sure I am hot on the startup vs small company distinction, because there exist so many examples of cross-overs. First, there are a lot of tech "startups" (meeting pg's definition) that have preferred to stay small, becoming "lifestyle businesses" as the pejorative term has it (no, it is not my preferred term!). I bet I can think of many that started out as startups, but would not meet pg's definition of startup anymore; there may even be a few YC-backed companies in that list. The opposite also occurs and has occurred, a non-scalable-model based small business morphing into a scalable company.

At some level, all taxonomies break down, but startup vs small business taxonomy isn't very strong to begin with.
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To paraphrase your question: "why act angrily when that will unlikely soothe the child?".

The answer seems obvious: because one is angry. That's why I specified that having poor impulse control is a factor.
I believe I have more say in how the FCC operates than I do in AT&T and Comcast.

Perhaps that's the problem. Other people, who may have very different values than you, also have say in how the FCC operates. Since we've long ago crossed a line limiting the federal government to enumerated powers, and that protecting our physical safety is now at least as important as protecting our freedoms, it's easy to imagine a regime where some majority elects to silence some minority of [porn readers | gay supporters | militia supporters | whatever unpopular minority].
Excellent find, and much more detailed than most BBC articles. The scope of both the challenges and the opportunities is sobering. I think they're on the right track to push for information structure in parallel with other kids, rather than following the sequential path history suggests.
IANAN. The sensor detection sounds pretty unlikely. But what about some other possible methods:

The end of an SLR lens is domed/convex, and slightly reflective (even the best ones are slightly). The lens would have to be pointed at the ship for the system to care about it. In that state, shining a laser at the lens and detecting the reflection would pick up the reflection profile of the convex surface (you'd need a 2d array of sensors to pick up the range of return angles as the laser moves from the center of the lens), and finding the center would be fairly easy - so you'd know where to fire. How many other reflective convex surfaces have their axis of rotation pointed straight at the boat?

I imagine this is mostly a problem when in dock, or at anchor, where the paparazzi are probably all in one location (or a few), so the search space could be very quickly narrowed down by a human.

Seems like a pretty frivolous way to spend money, but at least it's being spent.
There's a whole sub-genre of science fiction written in the late 1950s which took for granted that in the future there would be wars for food and perpetual famine due to an ongoing population explosion. The green revolution and birth control are the two simple but world-changing inventions that staved off that apocalypse, which seemed so inevitable at the time.
There are some trails in the Places list, but not based on the trail track. USGS just has a waypoint indicator for a bunch of popular trails.
voted down for misleading title. i'm still alive.
To be fair, an academic administrator is not really an academic.
Ask HN: Is it just me or does Firefox suck now?
Ever since I upgraded to 3.5 Firefox always crashes and fails to load pages. Updates didn't help. WTF Mozilla. Is it just me?
FYI: That's absolutely not true. Read It Later came out 5 months before Instapaper and had offline reading nearly a year before IP.
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Can I buy this in the UK? I clicked on the AppStore link on your web site which took me to a general iTunes splash page.
This is exactly why our company is using a combination of JRuby and Java. There's some big "infrastructure" bits (like search) that really are better done in Java, and it's wonderful to be able to leverage that while still using nice terse Ruby for the majority of our code.

There are those that prefer to use MRI or YARV with C, and more power to 'em. However, I'm getting too old and lazy to spend all my time chasing down memory bugs.
Financial gain is independent of learning new roles and environments. I wouldn't be comfortable in a job where I wasn't constantly expanding my knowledge and learning new things. However, once I make enough money to cover good food, nice housing, and a few adult toys, I couldn't care less about how much I earn. Making more money is a very small factor in my career decisions.
Americans need to learn the art of agreeing to disagree. It's a shame it always goes back to EVIL vs. GOOD in most political debates. This is exactly why partisans try to promote childish political discourse because the idea of a bunch of people with different opinions figuring out a reasonable compromise makes them obsolete.
An MRI below about 5-6 teslas is perfectly safe provided there is no ferrous shrapnel in your body. If there is shrapnel in your body, the magnet will pull it out and cut your body in the process.

(The X-ray is done to make sure you don't have any shrapnel and also because it is cheaper. If the X-ray reveals the problem, you can avoid the more expensive MRI.)

RF radiation will only harm the human body at very high field strengths (think microwave oven). The typical medical machine only gets 1-3 teslas, though a few research machines can reach the 6-8 tesla neighborhood (e.g., Dan Sodickson has an 8 tesla machine here at NYU).
Norman Borlaug on Penn and Teller's Bullshit! program:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIvNopv9Pa8
I haven't experienced any increased crashing but I don't use FF that often anymore so it's hard to generalize. I mostly used FF because it was faster than IE. Now I use WebKit because it's faster than FF. I don't care about a kitchen sink selection of plugins and themes -- I just want a very fast browser.
instead he's killed us all

700 years ago there were two million people in my country, now 60,000,000+
The research mentioned in the above article was actually done by Greg Korah Hartman. He did this for a google tech talk , you can view it over here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2SED6sewRw .
Although you quote it, you are ignoring the second half of what I said. "There should be a means of pursuing ..."

Example.

I submitted here to HN a link to a PDF which is copyrighted. That has been uploaded to scribd without acknowledgement. When I contacted scribd to ask them to take it down they said it was the responsibility of the copyright owner to make a formal request for takedown.

Who ticked the box? I certainly didn't. Who checked that the person ticking the box had any right to do so? Scribd certainly didn't.

Scribd make no effort to ensure that copyright is not breached. There is no traceability. Their "efforts" are ineffective and insufficient.

Someone made a comparison with ISPs. The difference is that if I host material in breach of copyright, my ISP can cut me off. Getting back on is a pain, and costs money.

If someone uploads material to scribd in breach of copyright, there are no sanctions, there is no culpability.

It might be legal, but I believe it to be immoral.

I'm repeating myself. Perhaps I should shut up and go away before I get really angry.
That was done with beers at the systems lab at my old school. Machines could be renamed if you brought in the professor who ran it a 6-pack of the beer you wanted to be the name.
Nice work. How long till every one of our doctors has easy access to something like this ?
"... This is my favorite image btw - my eyeballs look awesome! ..."

The immediate thing that struck me is the lack of internal structure symmetry. The folding is different between the left and the right hemisphere.
This is an honest question: How does creating more food prevent these problems? Won't populations grow enough to consume all available food? Haven't populations in 3rd world countries exploded since the "green revolution"?
I have constant problems with Firefox, but they are all related to add-ons. When I turn all of them off, the thing runs smoothly. Of course, the add-ons are why I use Firefox in the first place.
Nope, "Egypt's Christians are divided over a piece of advice given by Pope Shenouda III, the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, who urged followers not to eat pork over health reasons."

All the quotes are from Egyptians including several church leaders in Egypt.

I love the "Scientists say" editorialising in it too ... hilarious.
I used to work in tech support, so I have to ask...did you restart your computer? ;)

It is probably some plugin that worked perfectly under 3.0 that is not playing well under 3.5. Try disabling all of your plugins and re-enabling them one by one. For me it was BetterGmail that was crashing FireFox. Disabling it fixed everything.
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Looks like the banner is haning inside the athletic center/hockey rink, your ad placement is all wrong. It's should be in 36-100 or something.
Netflix instant watch is such a killer feature. If they could arrange concurrent live broadcasts through Instant Watch, I'd even consent to watching commercials.
Canada.

My folks immigrated from Taiwan to Canada about 15 years ago using the skilled migrant program, when I was just a kid - and the process could not have been better (not to mention superior to the US). Apply, interview (with offices all around the world, you don't even have to travel to Canada), get your papers, fly over.

From day 1 we were treated as equals - and never as unwelcome disturbances (which is how I feel all the damned time here in the US). My folks were allowed to work for anyone and everyone - certainly no bullshit employer-chain like the H-1B visa. We were given the same universal health coverage, the same social benefits... we were equal to a citizen in every way except the vote.

If it's of anyone's interest, we looked at the USA before applying to Canada, but the system was too onerous and far too risky to be of serious consideration. For one thing, for someone who wanted to start a new life with his family in another country, being chained to an employer who would abuse you knowing you cannot quit simply wasn't an appeal. Nor was the incredibly long process to get the green card and finally citizenship (we had Canadian citizenship within 3 years of arrival).

IMHO the US lost out big time. My family earns several times the Canadian average income, and pays taxes on all of it. My mother is an entrepreneur who has supported her local economy - and their kids are all highly educated tax-paying individuals. We were a huge net-win for Canada, and if the US was somewhat less retarded in its immigration policies, we would've easily have been Americans.
Staved = Pushed back the date.

....

I'm honestly not sure why people are dazzled by this guy. Partly it was...his specific intention to increase yields, which make him seem like a humanitarian. The Fordson tractor did more for agriculture (and, much much much more for the economy and day-to-day existence) than this guy. Is Henry Ford the greatest human being who ever lived?
Dust off the film camera. Take that, Roman.
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All fair points.

That being said though, your future choices are sometimes dictated by the results of your past choices. (i.e., the kid is always going to be more important that your startup dreams if you are a responsible adult)
This is somewhat useful, but a little terse. It would be nice if each anti-pattern included a link to a more detailed discussion.

Also, I detect pro-GPL bias.
Interesting. I suppose that if this is really true, and you're confident that women are systematically undervalued by employers and VCs, you can exploit that opportunity.

If you don't think this is true, but you still feel some kind of partisan attachment to the idea that men and women will achieve equal results in equivalent endeavors, you'll probably write a Huffpo article about it.
When you get down to it, all the code really just ends up being machine code. Many popular languages now allow you to build interfaces to use the generic C libraries.

This lets you do the complicated, high-level stuff in a language suited for it, and do the nitty-gritty stuff in C or your favorite compiled language.

It's very important to pick the right tool for the job, and these days that doesn't even have to be one tool at a time.
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I am the writer of the article in question, and probably I can answer some of the points raised. (I noticed this entry late through the HackerNews RSS feed.)

@Maciek416 : I can relate to what you said. I am working on this -- http://code.google.com/p/bitumenframework/

@mahmud : I can understand your frustration. My target audience were Java people unaware of LISP/FP & benefits.

@jimbokun : I agree with what you said. The reason I said "lots of parentheses" is that's how most LISP newbies perceive it. I wanted to get people to agree with what I said before I can expect them to adopt. In a friendly way.

@yannis : I think even Rich Hickey's PDF was great. ;-)
I do support reform - but I may be convinced that $1M can buy immigration. The main thing I objected to in OP's idea was the extreme possibility (nay, certainty) that a low-amount ($200K and less I say) would result in legitimized human trafficking - people who "immigrate" and then are practically owned by those who paid for their way in. You raise this bar high enough and the possibility disappears.

That being said, the whole idea still sounds sort of sketchy to me. The US (like all industrialized nations) doesn't really need capital - not $1M at a time anyways. What it needs is skilled labour - things that will help the country compete internationally. IMHO skilled labour really ought to be the only form of immigration.
I clicked a tag cloud once. It wasn't that great.
> (IIRC, sleep deprivation has been shown to lead to increased medical errors.)

It has[1]. However, it's not as cut-and-dried as it might seem at first. Decreased hours for physicians lead to more handoffs between physicians, and each handoff is a potential source of error[2].

Therefore, a proper balance between hours and handoffs, as well as new institutional practices, are required to bring patient safety to an optimal level.

[1]: http://sumerdoc.blogspot.com/2006/04/sleep-deprivation-leads...

[2]: http://www.boston.com/news/health/blog/2008/09/hazards_of_ha...
I think the title is more clever than the article. Traditionally, a mirage is a false vision of safety in a dangerous place. If the idea of Mojito Island drives you to keep going in a hostile environment: great. I don't see the suggestion that taking the payoff was the wrong thing, just that reality on the other side did not meet expectations. Sure, it may not be what you wanted, but if you walked that extra distance to get there, rather than giving up and dying, where's the trouble?
I know I sort of disagreed with you before (way back when this first came up) but Im coming more and more to this way of thinking.

They're potentially screwing me as a user - if I innocently click on a scraping link and import a PDF with no understanding who is then responsible?
I think if the cable industry had a platform for developers to make apps (like on iphone/android etc), the cable software could have been much better. Look at time-warner/comcast/at&t interface - they all suck so much yet there is no one to tell them the first thing about good design or functionality.

I think it is inevitable that this would change in the next few years (with entrants like apple or google in cable business) and you would have all the functionality of netflix on cable. This would be the end of dvds altogether and netflix would die as a business model just like blockbuster is dying today and video tapes died back in time.