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This would make it easier to find for me, since I tend to ignore logos at the bottom of webpages.

EDIT: On second thought, maybe at the top would be better:

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I think the real lesson here is that you had a very smart (and rare) girlfriend.
It seems a strong improvement, at least in principle. Bias toward early comments has been a big problem. However what I have long thought of as the main problem remains: the people who are doing the voting. Karma does not solve this problem either, by the way; arguably it exacerbates it.
I refuse to buy a desktop LCD until I can get an even mildly decent PPI. At least 125. 300 would be fantastic. Till then, I have 3 backup FW900s.
Yes. :-/

Well, I don't think that's much of a lesson to people other than me.
I can't help thinking this takes the wrong direction entirely. The real solution is to make human languages mono-lingual!
What is DB2 pureScale?
Reexamining what makes health care so expensive.
Not sure about that. This would tend to promote flame wars, and (on reddit) pun threads.
And Self Important. I think most of the reason Twitter gets so much face time on the blogs is because people using it want to believe they're on the ground floor of some kind of revolution. So it becomes a self-referential cycle of pumping yourself up by making Twitter into a cause you're a part of.

The real relevance of the "retweet controversy" is that the changes were a no-brainer (if people can edit a retweet they can claim the original tweeter said something s/he didn't). The uproar was really just that the users felt they should be consulted before anything is changed.
I don't know about that. I know I've given up on relationships in the past based on superficial reasons only to realize how important certain factors like the one above mattered.
Non Kindle experience - shipped a gadget as a gift to a friend. Got the address wrong, called them before the delivery but after it had shipped out. They tried to change the address, but couldn't, so they shipped out another one to the right address for no extra charge.

Amazon definitely rocks.
I live in a country that is 20,000 square kilometers, next to nothing. Within that 100x200 Km rectangle there are 4 languages, 'regular dutch', 'Gronings', 'Frysian' and 'Limburgs', each of those differ from each other so strongly that you'd have to live in a place for a long time to get the hang of it, they're that different.

I really don't see how that is even a remotely attainable goal. You can't force people not to speak a language (and besides that, even if you could you probably shouldn't).

If we're going to converge on a single language then it will probably be a Chinese/Spanish/English hybrid of some sort, and it will take a very long time (tens of thousands of years ?) before it will happen. And landmasses being separate from each other there will still be plenty of pockets where 'old' languages will linger long after the majority of the world will speak a single language, asymptotically approaching unity.
I don't think it matters what it was made in. You can use ANY language, tool, JS, whatever, as long as you are a talented UI designer. I think people tend to think that they can make these great UI's faster and easier by using certain tools, but I don't believe that is the case. YUI may make it faster to create Javascript tables that can be sorted and searched on the client-side, but you still have to learn that system and integrate it into what you have already created. Pick a language, a JS framework, etc, and master it and any UI will be easier and faster to create.
Only two percent of all tweets contain the word Twitter. The trend is actually going down if you can see the six-month view.

http://trendistic.com/twitter
It sounds like watching porn is more beneficial than hanging around with HN people. At least if sperm fitness is your main priority.
This is true, but my understanding is TCP's congestion control mechanism is far from ideal and the root cause of its performance problems.
Well, all I can say to that is I wasn't the one who gave up on the relationship.
Is social media a fad? Or the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution?
What worries me with 'growth over revenue' is that they are presented as a tradeoff. The implication is that they are essentially operating a loss leader to trap users in and then they will degrade the free produt to extract revenues. As a twitter user, this makes me look to the exits.
"The rise of HMOs was enabled by an earlier federal government attempt to rein in health care costs, the Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973. The idea behind HMOs was that these insurers would control costs by offering a wide array of preventive care to their subscribers. That sounds like a plausible idea until one realizes that people, on average, change insurers every four years or so. An insurer that invested in preventive care was unlikely to reap the cost-saving benefits."

That's an interesting response to the HMO phenomenon, which I remember was touted as a solution to ballooning health care costs. The cost containment didn't happen, which is an important lesson for today's predictions about efforts to contain health care costs.
"Basic complexity"?
Regular Expression Tool for Live Editing/Testing of RegExps made with jQuery
English is the de facto lingua franca for the simple reason that I can say something like that and be perfectly understandable to any English speaker (and without a college of cardinals breathing down my neck about the purity of the sacred language).
I'm not sure but by the pattern I see by naked eye I guess it's something like this:

rank = (upvote-downvote)/some_time_dependent_stuff
Innovation: You Facebook, you tweet now lifelog
Perhaps it's inconvenient for them that they have to read it in English

You know that English is the official language of India? Government and commerce use it as a neutral language between the dozens of languages and dialects that are used in the different regions of India. Now if only the EU would get its act together...
Microsoft Windows 7 to be launched tonight
Perhaps I should have included a smiley.

I agree that I would prefer a screen with no glare. However, I prefer the glossy screens with their high brightness and contrast (at least, so it seems to me) over matte screens with lower brightness and contrast. I find that even though I can see the reflections when they're pointed out, in practice I don't notice them any more, partially because they're at a different depth than the data on the screen.
Theres some expandable options on the left side with more details and available calls. Try "standard tracking" for starters.
Getting Real (free book about starting a startup)
Can you give an example of a young company that managed to legally sidestep that sort of regulation?
Inspiration, thank you.
I'm pretty sure it is using some form of browser detection. In Safari I get a <video> element, and in Firefox, I get an <object> with an <embed>.
That is a fine thing, but it is not the reason English is the lingua franca.
Atari founder Nolan Bushnell on managing Steve Jobs and more
If you are constantly having to raise cash, raise cash, raise cash -- you pretty soon get diluted down. What you really want to do -- and what I've been telling my boys -- the objective is not to raise money.
So basically they Wired is just writing about user-driven feature requests and spinning it into a "mob rule" meme? I'm not sure if that's what the article is about because I couldn't read past the capitalized "Retweet Incident" without cringing.
Really? When I worked with IBM my Indian coworkers only spoke English when not speaking with other Indians.

It doesn't matter though. Drop in Russian, Japanese, or Italian: my point still stands.
Yeah, this one's going straight into my bookmarks file. I've never been able to quite get my head around regular expressions -- they don't work the way I think -- and yet I keep writing things that use them.

Thank you for posting this.
The depth cue is a good one.

The interesting thing is that you mention the high brightness and contrast, I'm writing this on a cheapie LG 24" and I have the brightness turned down considerably from the default settings, and in low light I turn it down even further. I noticed that since I started doing that my eyes are a lot less 'tired' after sitting behind the machine for a whole day.

It used to be so bad that it simply hurt to work in longer stretches.
ABB’s Super Fast Industrial Robots Impress [Videos]
I've never understood the idea behind the "preview pane", all you do with email is read it, so what does a preview do other than show you the message? And how is that any different from simply reading the email? Then again I've never been a power email user so maybe I just don't "get" it.
In my experience I've found running a Cappucino app to be rather slow, but definitely +1 on the mention of 280 slides, I really respect the work their doing, especially making such a great UI Web app.
Yep - the Indian outsourcing types I've dealt with speak to each other in very fast, heavily-accented English and to non-Indians in slow, slightly-accented English.
He dismisses "lack of support for modern programming practice" far, far too easily. Clojure is modern. CL is not. That lack of modernity is a serious reason not to use it.
This is my first jQuery "app" (mini-app). After going through numerous write/print debug loops writing Regular Expressions and being inspired by Crockford's "JavaScript: The Good Parts" this seemed like a fun tool to try and write in JavaScript/jQuery. Appreciate any feedback.

Hope this Regular Expression tool is useful to other HN readers!
Why Saving is for Suckers
I actually saw this yesterday when I was trying to download the video for later watching when I was offline. It surprised me a little to see it on a production website, but I was thrilled to see it. It even has that "Quicktime X" look in Leopard, too.
Add in the word 'tweet' and 'retweet' and you're sitting at around 3% of all tweets (give or take). For reference, this is about 5-10 times higher than any other common term I checked (facebook, google, internet, car, obama, etc.) For futher reference, the words 'work' and 'new' both come in around the same amount (3-4%)
Well, wifi internationally in Kindle works only in very few countries.
Players not willing to play under the captaincy of Younis
I have at times been accused of being a raving right wing, gun loving, lunatic libertarian. Even I appreciate companies that work to reduce environmental impact of their products. I mean where will I take my assault rifle to shoot Bambi if the forests are covered in e-waste? I don't make purchasing decisions purely based on performance benefits, I base them on a range of things that I value. Whether you believe in AGW or not, conservation of natural resources is a good thing.

Also, I find stickers on products aesthetically offensive.
wikispaces (uses jquery)
I interpret "Lisp" to mean "any Lisp," since none of the reasons he gives are really related to CL in particular.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=894642
In that case, why hide it behind an "unguessable" link?
The risk psychology of the anti-vaccine movement
...or you could have gone for the traditional, slightly simpler solution, which is to have a setInterval function that monitors window height/width, stores a timestamp for the last time that the window changed, and stores a simple state code.

With that method, you can easily create your own event generator and post events for when the window begins changing, when it is still changing, and when it is done changing.

His method is pretty neat, though.
How should out-of-state tuition be understood?
After all, aren't side-projects more likely to fail than projects you put all your energy and time and heart and soul into?

IMO Side-projects which don't have to support you financially are more likely to succeed because you get to define succeed for yourself - "I sold a copy, yay success".

Whilst a full-time occupation has to feed you and pay for everything else you need to live, and possibly your family too, that means there's an automatic in built requirement to make money. If you fail to make enough money day-to-day to survive then you fail, period.
Symbian OS kernel source available
How to throw a launch party (on the cheap)
U.S. bailout program increased moral hazard: watchdog
Yes, but look at how the word "tweet" is used. Calling it self-referential is a bit of a stretch, it just means "message" within twitter.
Doesn't that have something to do with the British Empire?
That's the easiest and most superficial rationalization for not bothering to try a Lisp (any Lisp), but also the least compelling argument against it, and likely not even the most significant actual reason you haven't bothered to learn it.
Quitting the Paint Factory by Mark Slouka
Care Plans in the Cloud
There was a comment in the blog "when do we believe everything in advertisement".

There are laws against false advertising. You can't do it, major fines and lawsuits. Otherwise I'd sell toothpaste claiming it cured cancer. Prove me wrong, and if you do, good for you, you win a death by cancer.
Burned Out? Take a Creative Sabbatical
Sometimes the best UI is the one you don't remember.
In practice I fully agree. I was just playing devil's advocate describing a situation where it would be justifiable to pay to pitch. The conditions you'd have to meet would be referenceable clients, both entrepreneurs that got funding + active, known investors with a public track record.

TechCrunch50 is probably the closest to this - they get a rich pool of applicants because of the publicity + prize + success of previous winners and presenters. But they don't charge.
> unfortunately no, but will hire some the minute we can!

I suspect that one important question during the YC process will be how you know whether the ones that you hire are any good. Or, more important, great rather than good.

Have you addressed the issues in the relevant PG essay?

Another issus is finding them. As Joel Spolsky points out, they have jobs and aren't looking.
I had a similar experience with Direct TV. They installed my dish without permission from my building management, I got a takedown notice, and didnt want to pay the 430 dollar termination fee. Turns out they could not install without permission and they did. This is beside the fact that they totally fucked up my order. And their service sucks ass.

I called multiple times and sent 5 emails, each getting closer and closer to a lawsuit. $400 from someone willing to fight is less pricey than a day or two in court. They just don't want to give this to anyone, if you are willing to fight you will usually get what you deserve.

In this case, the guy already had laws listed and probably just made it clear that there will be a day in court. Its cheaper to take the $400 hit.
Seems to agree with Google's estimates, although they don't break things up by age: http://www.google.org/flutrends/

Before everyone panics, however, I'm pretty sure this kind of statistic is self-reinforcing: if reports of flu are higher, and those reports are broadcast, people are more likely to go to the hospital when they exhibit flu symptoms, making the flu counts higher yet.

The media coverage of the swine flu might very well have set off this cycle.

Addendum: it isn't necessarily a bad thing - according to this hypothesis, if people who would have died of the flu this year are more likely to go to the hospital, and so less people should die. Or it might be that those who die of flu have reasons for not going to the hospital unaffected by media.
That's where I think governments do their best work - setting up clear rules that cause the interests of companies and the public to be aligned, then letting "the market" perform within that rule framework.
Here's my 'mini review':

I tried a whole pile of people, some famous, some very famous and some regular people. If 'tracked.com' stores massive amounts of information about people there was not much evidence for that. The only people that came up were those in the finance industry.

The site is terribly slow as well.
Great tool. I built something similar for an internal project at my startup inspired by these two projects by Oliver Steele:

http://osteele.com/tools/rework/

http://osteele.com/tools/reanimator/
How to fly anywhere cheap
Congrats! When I read the first tagline I thought great... just another clone of Basecamp/Harvest/Freshbooks/Tickspot/etc. But it looks like you're doing something really unique and I like it.

I also love your signup form. Everyone should geo-target like that.

One note: the CSS of the app in Safari 4 has some problems, particularly around the top menu bar.
There's no "savings" vs. CPython: Memory usage is still 2-3x that of Python 2.6.1.

(Edit: Or did you mean that the 2009Q2->Q3 savings was 930% greater than the Q1->Q2 savings?)
Uptick in IPO filings 'move back to better times'
Don't call it brainstorming: 10 tips for better innovation
You can't force people not to speak a language

You can certainly try. Lots of governments have tried, at one time or another, to suppress minority languages.

But as it happens you don't need to stop people from speaking Frysian. You just need to convince them to learn more than one language, which people do fairly easily, as you obviously know very well. [1]

Preserving existing languages, while conducting national or international business in a lingua franca, is one thing. Trying to move your internationally-connected business from a lingua franca to a mutually-unintelligible language that you have just created (and which, therefore, isn't being routinely learned at age 2 by kids with native-speaking parents and grandparents) is going to be much more difficult. You are fighting Metcalfe's Law all the way, and now that Google and Stack Overflow have been invented Metcalfe's Law is more powerful than ever. Frankly, if the French or German versions of Python didn't evolve pre-Web, pre cell-phone, pre-Skype, it's hard to imagine them evolving now. [2] I fear they will have to be constructed under laboratory conditions and maintained on life support.

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[1] By "people" I of course mean "people who weren't educated in Central Ohio, USA".

[2] Mandarin Chinese is a more interesting case, though. It could be that poor Chinese-character support in computer hardware and software -- and the fact that the Chinese economic powerhouse was just that much smaller -- was what prevented a Chinese-native programming language from evolving before now. (It can't be from a lack of speakers!)
The HMO trend was based on the assumption that people were usually going to work for the same company for a long time. It made tons of sense, and still does in a union-provided health plan context, for example.

Perhaps the trend will be for employers to pay the tax, drop their company-based health plans, and then their employees will purchase their own plans that follow them around. Then, these plans will keep individuals in longer, making it more worthwhile to focus on prevention and overall health.
Yep. Guns. Lots and lots of guns. Big ones.
It's a silly test to begin with. It doesn't take into account shortened URLs which are a big part of the Twitter discussion. It can't take into account phrases like "Democratization of News" or "New Media". It doesn't even take into account stemming ("tweeet" has a dramatically different graph than "tweeting")

It just doesn't prove a thing
I've never been a big fan of Apple's mouses... but this looks pretty sweet
You are attaching too much meaning to an expression. Who cares if you write functional programs? It doesn't matter.

But calling a bunch of mutable state and non-composable program fragments that run from top to bottom is not really functional programming, and calling it that just confuses people. The idea of language is to be able to speak clearly about something; having a nebulous expression with no meaning is not helpful, right?
Ask HN: Review my weekend project GitTwitIt
It may not be a fundamental problem for people that know it well. But, first impressions matter nonetheless.
Edit:Spelling
They may be growing oranges, but they're not selling any oranges. Say what you want, but sooner or later that's going to present a problem for the company's viability.
Who would win in a fight between Erlang and Rails?
Right, they're comparing against themselves.
There are also signalling aspects to paying and going to court.
Can't you make a smartboard with a laptop, projector and wiimote ... http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/

Then you might want specific software but I'm sure it's available - tablet-PC software should probably do it.
I must concede there are indeed implementation difficulties in my revolutionary plan.

Chinese(Mandarin?)/Spanish/English seems reasonable; I suppose it could be introduced over several decades. But aren't there serious formal deficiencies with Chinese systems? That would need a major redesign effort . . .
I was joking about the syntax and the way how I just can't wrap my brain around reading lisp and matching parentheses.

I was not joking about the recursive and functional nature of Lisp, both of which I'm finding very interesting (and my coworker is, in fact, a big fan of Haskell)
Wow, reAnimator is incredible. Great links.
You are right to point out that on a 27" screen, you would have to sit farther away.

I am still on 10.4 though. One thing that bugs me is the size of the mouse cursor. It is too small for me -- I increase it and it all becomes jagged and ugly.
I wanted to familiarize myself with a nosql database. So I decided to use mongohq which is a hosted mongodb.

This site lets you send Twitter updates when you push to GitHub. GitHub provides similar functionality but it's pretty lame since you have to hand over your creds. OAuth ftw!
Lecture Notes on Convexity
they are most definitely VERY successful as a brand...
I like FireRift:

http://www.firerift.com/

Great looking CMS with ajax (oooh! ajax!!) everywhere
I also read this as one of the most important points in the article.

I wonder if requiring insurance companies to accept all customers, regardless of risk or pre-existing conditions, would create incentives for insurers to promote more preventative care.

Since customers could still switch providers, insurers wouldn't know whether or not they'd be holding the short straw when the customer gets sick in 10 years, but that wouldn't matter since they'd have the same chance as any other insurer of 'reap[ing] the cost-saving benefits' of their own preventative care.
Does anyone have a copy of this paper ("The Kelly Criterion and the Stock Market" Louis M Rotando, Edward O Thorp, The American Mathematical Monthly (1992) vol. 99 (10) pp. 922-931) I am having a very difficult time locating it. Thanks
This is based around an inside out view of life.

I was not born. born happened first, and the creature existed for a while, and "I" am the emergent sentience.

It wasn't "my" sperm since at that point I wasn't. "I" couldn't have been born anywhere else, at any other time, into any other situation or any other family. It's a nonsense idea.
People who don't vaccinate their children do so as a luxury provided by the vast majority who do vaccinate.
Why The Founders of PayPal And HotorNot Helped This Dropout
Better, it's like saying "FWD" in email. It's just meta-data.
If I wanted to used Lisp, I wouldn't know which version to use. That would be a problem to me.
I was hoping to see something like "It's unambiguous only around three-quarters of the time." Alas.