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"Start a Vlog" are there a real number of people watching these?

For me, if it's not in text, it's out: whether in video or podcast.
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And lose the $5 a minute phone calls? I doubt it.
I used to play a lot of cards. Like, a whole lot. Every now and then a card-playing friend of mine would complain about their luck, and I always answered the same way:

"People don't gamble on Chess."

So very quickly:

> Their approach is to think of a soccer game as an experiment to determine which of two teams is the best. The question then is this: what is the probability that the outcome of the experiment truly represents the relative abilities of the two teams. And the answer, unfortunately, is not very probable.

This is not a bug; it is a feature. Spectator sports have drama and theatrics and exist first as entertainment, and only second as a contest of skill.

In Major League Baseball, the New York Yankees are far and away the best team this year. It's not even close. Almost all their position players are between top 3 and top 10 at their position, they have a very solid top of the rotation and mid rotation, and good to amazing relief pitching.

They'll compete with eight other teams to win baseball's championship, the World Series. I'd put their chances around 22% of winning it all. But they're far and away, clearly, the best team in baseball.

But that's why people watch. People don't gamble on Chess.
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This isn't a "public directory", it's a collection of links of interest to Hackers. I wouldn't call your service Hacker News material.
So there's WiFi on planes now?
You're not that paranoid, this scenario is one of the reasons why I never log in to my registrars accounts on any PC except the one that I control myself (a linux box).

Read this for an interesting story:

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/breaking-gmail-security-flaw-mo...
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Yeah not sure about HNers but there is The Startup Club.
Because Google isn't Microsoft, it's stupid but that's how people think.

I use Google Docs' for my writing, but you can bet sure as shit that I have a backup just in case (in fact I have a backup on my PC, external hard drive, web server and as an attachment in gmail).
> Let me blow your minds, though: what if CL cost two dollars?

It's well understood that the psychological difference between free and $1 is much larger than the difference between $1 and $2.
Miss the point of cup competitions more?

The whole point of tournaments like this is to encourage upsets. In fact, the whole point of soccer being scored the way it is is to encourage upsets. There have been studies that show that low-scoring games like soccer have a higher likelihood of upsets than high-scoring games like American football.

The chance of an upset is why lower lever teams play so hard. It's why higher-level teams still have to play their socks off instead of just cruising. It's why the goals that are scored are exciting goals, not just half-assed following of the play book. It's about not just being the best team technically, it's about being able to play at that level consistently. It's about having to work for a cup win.

If those muppets are so enamoured with stats, maybe they should just declare who the best team in the world is now from the stats of their player's league games, and then we can dispense with the world cup altogether and have a more accurate result to boot? No? Sounds ridiculous? Then this entire study is a waste of time.
Well, one thing is that it stands out in my mind as best of class. So if someone asked me about file syncing, they come to mind. Whenever people want to share files, I tell them about dropbox.
I dont quite understand the relevance of that? $8M is probably a lot of money from where this guy is sitting :)
The points aren't necessarily contradictory. There are probably tons of programmers who buy books about various fashionable methodologies but don't continue using them in the long run. Writing the examples in Java would make sense as a lingua franca, even if he didn't believe that TDD would be adopted by the Java community.
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Hugely successful to the point that they can buy Skype for $billions just for the hell of it?
The issue isn't the cost; it's the fact that other passengers likely want a quiet flying experience.
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I think their intent is to restore everything. The computing museum is what draws the majority of people in, but they're not going to stay long if the grounds look like they haven't been touched since WW2.
It's good. How is ww.com doing now? I'm actually in a similar situation with openphotovr.org - the competing services from Google and Microsoft turned out to be not nearly so popular (or well-implemented) as I'd feared, and it almost makes sense for me to start pushing the site again.
Hi Sam. There's actually no reason that you couldn't use this in the UK if you wanted to; shipping costs would just end up being a bit higher. Eventually, I'm sure we'll have some international sellers on our system to help out with that as well, but baby steps!

We've talked to a few industrial design firms, and they agree with you on the finishing aspect. The issue is that unlike uploading a file, there are a _lot_ of ways that those kinds of things can be done. Imagine filling out a form on how you'd like finishing to go! So we've sort of come to a middle option. After you're quoted, but before you've accepted, there's a commenting feature that allows you to have a dialogue with the seller, so that you could ask for these kinds of things, and they could adjust their quote. We'll be looking into how to make that process easier in the future, to be sure. As you've said, it's pretty important.

I'm assuming by 'machined' components you mean subtractive processes like CNC? That'll be even farther down the support list, but yes, we'll get there at some point. The relative number of types of machines that do 3D printing and laser cutting are tiny compared to the number of CNC machines, so we figured that it would be a good beachead to start with.

We don't have any bias against having international sellers. As far as your 5x difference goes, there aren't that many SLS machines in the UK, but lots of milling machines in China. Add in the whole £ vs 元 thing, and I can certainly see how China'd come out cheaper. However, you have a lot of turn around time, and I've heard of some people having intellectual property concerns, unfounded or not.

The best thing about the Internet is that it levels the playing field for everyone!
It's thriving because it just works. Works when you're offline. Works if you try to save conflicting copies of a file. Works if you accidentally delete a file. Works if you need to retrieve an old version of a file. Works if your internet connection is spotty.

Rather than punting on the hard issues and creating another WebDAV-like service, they actually created something that just works.
It's possible to leave your child with your iPhone. Perhaps a child could even be sucking on the corner while you're away. Most people don't consider an iPhone a hazardous device to put it out-of-reach.
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What is the spam/gold ratio on ebay?

The reputation system and the monetary charges do help to curb problem users. The problems are still there, but not as bad as they would be. Or as bad as they are on Craigslist.

On the other hand, the Craigslist approach to fighting this sort of thing is "keep it local." But they've gone as far as they can with that.
Slowly dying, and has been doing so for the last 5 years or so. There is a lot of competition out there and we've shrunk little by little.

We're in talks with a company about some major move though, so maybe we can get it to be top of the line again without breaking the bank.

To be honest, in spite of making tons of money from it I really can't get excited over webcams any more, it's been enough. Time for fresh blood.
I guess the point is that the people deciding whether to get you in as a speaker will watch it.
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Yes. I know Airtran has it. $6 for a 2 hour flight. I'll be on Hacker News for 2 hours straight one day next week.
I suspect that there is significant sample/perception bias in noticing the mental illnesses and suicides of famous people, because they are famous and attract attention. There are probably a lot of uncreative people who have significant mood disorder issues.
The flip side of this, I think, is that you may get 90% of the overall benefit of static typing from just checking boundaries between modules and other fundamental static analysis, not the really far out stuff that makes for cutting-edge research papers. While it can do some really impressive things after that, there may be diminishing returns.

I'm not a type system expert by any means, and I didn't really see what the point of static typing was until I learned OCaml, but I wonder if there's a practical middle ground here. Perhaps dynamic typing with optional inferred types or declarations.
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Ask HN: What do you think of prepopulation to seed a service?
This idea of pre-populating a web service with information from people and companies seems to be growing. One company that has done a nice job of this is teachstreet.com. They allow people to recommend teachers. That recommendation then results in a stub of a page for that educator with their name and the review the recommending person submitted for the teacher's class. The teacher gets an email indicating that they've been recommended. They then visit this site and can claim the page or delete it if they do not want it posted. Once they claim it they then have a number of nice tools to use to help them gain more students etc. Zillow.com also does a nice job of this. They gather all the publicly available information for your house, tie it to bing's bird's eye view, and even include an estimate on what your house is worth. Like with teachstreet, you can then "claim" your house and modify the listing if you are trying to sell your home. One more example: Seth Godin recently prepopulated/gathered information from the Web on a number of brands. Many felt that he went too far and accused him of brandjacking (http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=139261).

One clear value in pre-population is that you can provide users/institutions with free tools that they don't currently have. They might feel awkward about going to a site that has their information posted (w/out their acknowledgement), but then feel pleased to discover the tools you are offering. On the other hand, they might feel wronged and just want to delete the account.

The question is: Do we do more harm than good with prepopulating user and institution information?

To put this in a bit more context, we are considering prepopulating school information at www.nixty.com. Basically, we'd provide a nice home page, file-sharing area, announcement area etc. In addition, we'd give people the option of launching a LMS (think Blackboard). The LMS would be free to start, but cost more as the institution added more users.
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I didn't come across that Scientific American article before (which this link discusses) but it indeed is one of the best explanations I've found so far--imho.
Well, of how their reputation system... There's a lot of room for experimentation.
Furthermore, the contest is not skill-on-paper or skill-over-a-season, the contest is skill-right-now. The NE Patriots won 18 straight American football games (the only team to have an undefeated 16-game regular season), yet they still had to try to win the Super Bowl. They came within a couple of minutes of doing so until an improbable catch gave the Giants the chance to win the game. As ESPN's Chris Berman once said, 'that's why they play the game.'
Because of ergonomics, tablets will be more successful for content consumption type of activities like eBooks or entertainment, primarily on bed or sofa, but not at desk.

All input on touchscreen including innovative gestures still requires users to place their fingers directly onto their eyeballs: either with head looking down or with hands rising up. Both postures are not very productive for programming or desk jobs and can't sustain for long hours.

iPhone is more successful because of light weight and more sensors. To make tablets usage experience better, Internet tethering and sensor sharing via iPhone will help a lot.
Yeah I've been to a couple of recent presentations - am part of it on Facebook. There are a couple of characters, but most attendees seem to either be aspiring life coaches or business parasites. I've yet to meet a programmer (at least one who knew what he was talking about).
That's really a great point but Joel's board is not exactly the same as Craig's list. Joel's point was that Craig removed the revenue from classified ads, when the money was being used for the public good. He acknowledged that the classified ads market was fair game, but he disagrees with Craig's view that he's doing the most good keeping it free.

I think there's a notable difference to Craig's list being free vs Joel's job board costing hundreds of dollars to post. ($400 iirc) With Joel's board he's inviting competitors to under cut him, and there's still a thriving job market outside of his control. Craig's list on the other hand could be argued that by keeping the cost to zero he's making it difficult for anyone to make money off of classified ads because there's always a place to go for free ads. And if nobody else can make money at it then they can't have the option to fund Investigative Journalism and democracy and all that.

I do fail to see why any other industry couldn't fund reporting, but classified ads were a good fit.

Now I really enjoyed the argument he made, but I think Joel should put his money where his mouth is. Joel never argued that Craig should fund reporting as a good business decision, he argued that if Craig wants to serve the greater good (which Craig argues he does) funding reporting is a better way to do it. I'd like to see Joel take a % of his job board and fund the greater good. Part of the problem is how does one help fund investigative reporting? I'd say invest in a newspaper but they might not be the best source. He should run some experiments, hire an investigative blogger, start a grant program for reporter interns, stuff like that. It's his money, but this is obviously a topic he feels strongly about.
I don't find flying experiences particularly quiet without calls.
It more than just works. It works awesomely across multiple platforms.

It's simple (automatic) to use but not simplistic. Its power ramps up when you need it (file recovery) and fades away when you don't.

It doesn't get in the way (with advertising, installing crapware, charging micropayments, proprietary restrictions/formats, etc.)
We have one and a half operating systems, Windows and Windows Mobile. Windows Mobile is kind of a half because it’s not entirely the same as Windows. And everyday, I say I’d love to get those two things to share more.

Say, like Apple, Steve?
Any user, even with a carrier-locked phone, can download a file to his computer and use free utilities to install that on his phone.

It's my understanding that the process is even easier than this. If you alter one option in the phone's settings, you can install Android programs downloaded directly through the phone's web browser -- no additional hardware needed.
[Candidate B]... is very loyal.

Apologies for going on a tangential rant, but why is it that employees are expected to be loyal to companies, but companies can lay off employees on less than a day’s notice? This is something that angers me.

I told my current company that my loyalties to the company will be symmetric to their loyalties to me. Surprisingly, I still got hired.
I develop .NET I can use notepad and csc for free or I can buy tools from MS that save me time. Halfway house is SharpDevelop which is free but not as good as Visual Studio. I don't mind paying for cool tools but it sucks to have to pay to release software.
> Which reminds me, how many people in "the real world" actually profile their programs? I bet a lot of performance gains could be found that way in any language.

Not enough, I'd say. Particularly since just scrutinizing the first few things a profiler catches can make a tremendous difference. For example, in an hour of profiling and tuning a project of mine, I fixed two hotspots that each led to an independent 20x speedup. 400x total. Half the runtime is just disk IO now.
But to win this fight, all Google has to do is to be better able to respond to customer needs than Microsoft. Maybe you're right, and they're going to lose. Customers stand a good chance of winning either way, though.
A mediocre and overly long list aimed mostly at Windows users. More blogfluff.
My main points of enquiry were: 1) was Turing openly homosexual back in the days of Bletchley Park - those homosexuals around now that new him say he was but this seems quite bizarre when you consider that his fiancee who he also worked closely with did not know, she may (as I suspect) have realised that he had those tendencies before he said, but that's not being openly homosexual. I think he was probably bisexual but more probably fixated on a specific person. Which brings us to 2) was his relationship as a 40 yo with a 19 yo typical of his relationships and is that an indicator of my hypothesis that he was fixated.

To a lesser extent I'd also be curious to know if (3) had he been having an affair with a girl 20 years his junior in that time period (1950s) then how would society have treated him?

Age difference can and has been compared across all types of sexual relationship - your comment is like saying fitness can't be compared between vegetarians and omnivores as their fitness is bound to be different, I disagree. Youths are more impressionable and easier to "corrupt" than older people with more self-knowledge and experience.

A large proportion of heterosexual relationships don't result in children and homosexuals are now able to adopt so nurturing ability is not a clear difference that would allow age-gaps in one sector of society and not in another.

One of the points of social pressure to long term relationships, particularly in the 1950s and before, would be reducing the spread of disease. Syphilis killed something like 1 in 6 children in the early 1900s. Thus, sexual relationships outside of marriage were strongly discouraged in the middle classes, it was not primarily a question of children - my point is that I don't think Turing would have faired much better if he were a heterosexual ephebophile.

Normalcy here is only relevant as an indicator, most of us are abnormal in some way, if I wished to prove Turing abnormal then I'd answer the question "how many were awarded an OBE in the war for doing maths?".
Maybe it's an offshoot of the "reality distortion field" research.
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"any sufficiently sophisticated form of programming is going to be indistinguishable from object-oriented programming"

Um, no. Ever heard of Functional Programming? How about programming certain types of embedded systems? And advanced!?
I followed the directions at http://feature-enable.blogspot.com/ , and it worked out perfectly. You basically put a modified copy of grub in a certain directory structure on a USB key and reboot your laptop. The laptop's EFI firmware (normally hidden by a BIOS emulator) sees the modified grub and loads it instead of the BIOS. Then you get to poke some flash values, and reboot. It's a little scary, but I haven't heard of anybody breaking their laptops from it. It worked for me.
What if publishing a blog post cost $1? Would people spend more time thinking them through?
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If Craigslist charged $1 dollar I would have a really good Idea for an ad based website.
The reason why the interpreted language + C = 90% speed equation has never quite worked out for me is that much of the speed advantage of compiled languages comes from lower memory consumption.

Python's __slots__, collections.namedtuple, array and struct modules do help a lot to reduce memory consumption. Sadly, it's not nearly good enough to write significant parts of my code in Python (which I would love to do)
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Yeah similar experience, hence haven't really been back.
Number of airlines, Virgin for example. I believe Alaska either has it or will have it soon
very old (original 1914)

http://djm.cc/library/Calculus_Made_Easy_Thompson.pdf
My initial premise was that Turing's 21 year seniority over his sexual partner was unusual and may indicate an underlying psychological condition, possibly ephebophilia or maybe - as I speculated - a fixation on a particular person. The statistics available don't show this to be true but they do show that large age gaps are relatively uncommon even in [modern] homosexual relationships. This gives a little weight to my speculation which was dismissed out of hand.

This may not be the place, but it was not I who raised the subject.

Aside: Yes I believe sex outside marriage is wrong (not the subject here) yet no-one calls me an adultery basher, slut basher or an ephebophile basher; curious.
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How does that compare to dvtm?

http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm/
It's easy, just ask conferences. Finding good speakers is hard for organisers and they're glad to have things made easier for themselves.

Previous experience helps a lot. There are a lot of small user groups and barcamps which are ideal for practice.
Better examples: the face recognition in a camera, the route finding in a GPS map, and Google.
Couldn't have said it better.

I think this was pretty shallow analysis by the author, but to his very first point - I do think it's the elephant in the room for a lot of startups. One of the most consistent pieces of advice/feedback I've heard from serial entrepreneurs and VCs is to stay razor focus.
When your competitor has raised $8M in funding and you barely have $50k you get the feeling that it is not a fair competition. (And it can not be fair, no matter what you say...). But when your product gets better reviews, you suddenly become more optimistic.;)
"""quick and light scripting languages such as PHP, Python, and Ruby."

I really hope the author means quick development time. Also, it's not exactly fair to classify C and assembly programmers together.
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The difference is that the feedback loop for Microsoft for, say, Excel is that they want to sell 50,000-seat site licenses to accounting firms and will do what they need to do technologically and commercially in order to do that. As an aside, Excel becomes a superset of what other users need. The feedback loop for Google's spreadsheet is... what?

Remember Google's users are not its customers, they're its product.
This is first-week-of-freshmen-data-structures-course material. Hardly advanced.
I work for an IT firm, and I end up giving tons of sites an email to use trials, but I dislike doing so just to see a demo. For me, I prefer demos to give me an option to contact the company at the end of the demo, but I realize that this may not be terribly helpful to you as I'm not likely to contact you if the demo turned me off for some reason.

I would maybe give a place to enter your email address before the demo starts, but make it optional. You could also put a short survey at the end of the demo for feedback. I'm actually fairly likely to fill out a (very) short survey, especially if I didn't like something. The way I see it, I don't want to really risk being inundated with unwanted email from a company, but I'm willing to give my opinion and add an email contact if I think it will be used for improving the product rather than to try advertising to me.
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