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And probably never will be, Apple have moved on to DisplayPort.
There are so many of these sites, the shortest url I know involved in this is tv.org ( http://tv.org/join.php ).

Credit card companies block sites like allofmp3.com but still help these kinds of scammers. As soon as they start blocking/refusing these kind of sites it gets a whole lot harder for them to scam people...
Are you sure they aren't E-IPS?

(also, the 24" Cinema Display uses H-IPS — which is better than S-IPS and E-IPS — and is LED backlit)
http://dabbledb.com/demo/ wowed me when I first saw it (still does). It was developed using the Seaside framework which has clean support for continuations.
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It's as wide as the old 30" Cinema Display, FWIW.
That's in a very expensive (mainly residential) area in Central London called Marylebone. The asking price for an average flat in that area is around £2 million ($3.25 million) at the moment. I would be really surprised if that was the real premises of that company. Most likely they just rent a mailbox there.
Filespots: http://www.filespots.com/en/index.html - ExtJS

Beatiful display of a pure JavaScript application, that not only looks great, but also works great.
Yep, Gmail's interactivity with its keyboard shortcuts, navigation, settings, chat application and etc is extremely impresive. What's even more amazing is that most of this stuff is all done on one page cross-browser. This is the kind of application I'm talking about. What tools do you use to keep the complexity of such an app under control?
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Sure, but a demo is not very convenient (download, install, test, uninstall, download full game, install...). I guess they want to get people to buy who were so far not prepared to buy, so a low barrier to entry might be good.
I'm so glad that someone is keeping it real when it comes to functional programming. sigh

You don't mention where you saw all the "global variables", but I'll bet that what you saw were actually vars used in conjunction with binding.

Are we really to the point where only monadic IO is acceptable to the high priests of functional programming?

FP has always had two parallel tracks, the ML school and the lisp school. Maybe you prefer the former, but just because you really, really like Haskell doesn't mean you get to bar all other lisps from the FP club (as all of your problems with clojure -- i.e. it not being haskell -- certainly apply to all lisps I've worked with).
The ongoing work of making clojure self-hosting will make the CLR port easier, and make things like a Obj-C, LLVM, etc., port possible.
Congrats to both teams.

I just looked at Loopt's jobs page and was surprised to see they use a lot of Microsoft technologies. Do any other startups here use .Net, MSSQL etc?
> All that probability shorthand can be unambiguously translated to formal definitions quite easily. But doing so would be analogous to writing a complex program in assembly - doable (and defined pretty much by the very fact that this is doable) but not very productive (and thus not worth doing unless you are debugging or something).

Actually I kind of disagree here.

With R or Haskell you can easily work directly with probability densities learned from data. One frequently uses the exact Bayes' rule expression with P(X), P(Y), and P(X|Y) all being known functions to get P(Y|X).

See for example functions like ecdf, which takes in an N vector of points on a 1D line and returns an actual function, namely the empirical cumulative density.

http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/stats/html/ec...

Can be very handy when you want empirical quantiles (e.g. "what percentage of the time do I expect to see 12000 hits in a day, given this single column with the hits for each of the last 200 days").
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Are you familiar at all with the PDF format? ...uses real-world units (millimeters, points)

...and has an obnoxious dimensional limit of 5.08 meters on each side. It would have been so much better to be based on no units at all, just ratios or floats. Besides, the PDF viewer generally has no fucking idea what size your screen is.

Therefore my original claim that 1 inch is 1 inch on all properly configured readers still holds true

You're begging the question in the classical sense. Your original claim holds true given that you assume that it's true.

Nobody has their display resolution configured correctly in Acrobat except by accident or anal-retentiveness. I'd bet you $5 that it's not correctly set on your computer -- go ahead, zoom to "actual size" and hold a matching piece of paper up to the screen.

It's actually quite baffling that there isn't more noise about the insanity that 1 inch rarely is 1 inch

It's not 1984 anymore, noone gives a shit. Users rightly care more about being able to see what they're looking at than some hypothetical WYSIWYG benefit.
My wife is Chinese and she is hooked on it. Basically there is something like a vegetable patch and you grow fruit or vegetables in it. There is also an oversize dog that is supposed to guard your patch, but he only reacts if you buy food for him (in real money). You can steal as well as sell your products. There is also a big element of social media as you can interact with other players. With qq you can send messages or talk.

It is very addictive, as my wife never used to do much with her computer but now spends a considerable time with the game.

The game looks are elementary as if it came out of a children's book. The beauty of web applications they never stop to surprise me. Who ever thought twits or happy farm would be so successful.
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The author of the article already abused the notation before he said what is wrong with it. P(A) usually denotes the probability function and p(x) is a probability density function.

The problem is that the distinction between evens and variables isn't always clear.
Google Calendar. I tried to do a google calendar clone in GWT, and I came to admire many features of google calendar, like dynamically selecting a range on the mini calendar and gcal will update the main view.

Its so simple and intuitive yet so sophisticated :)
Right Jason, wrong company you mean. That's what you get for posting at 5:30 in the morning... apologies to both Jasons ;)
Reason why this works:

1. You have to keep playing the game otherwise you lose. You can't just stop and go on later, once started, you are invested

2. When you play, you get your reward kick, which is the basis of all addiction. Every small achievement makes you more and more stuck to it. So achievements are small but constant.

3. Other people grow rich when you grow poor. I.e, people steal your stuff, and humans have an instinct against allowing people steal their stuff. So you always come back to watch it
I've been using ExtJS for a couple of years now. It's a great gui framework and it looks really good too.
I've seen the MIT OCW courses, and yeah, professors seem to be pretty efficient with them.
I meant these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promethean_Ltd
They overlooked Kevin Mitnick's business card, which is probably the coolest ever!

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Yeah, those mice really suck. So does the Mighty Mouse, because you have to physically remove your other finger from the mouse to right click. And so, it seems, will the Magic Mouse — just watching the manner in which the guy demonstrating it has to contort his hand makes me think, ‘Oww’.
Google Maps. The first time I saw the scrollable tiles, I was blown away.
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I'd like the option to use SSD too. Aside from the performance improvement, it would make the machine completely quite (fan not running and no CD spinning, though) at night :)
While many apps provide zoom for content they present, I am yet to find an app that allows increasing font size in its UI elements (Though I think OSX should solve this problem in some standard way, not individual apps).

Regarding screen size - the fonts are OK on my MBP too, but 27" is another story - you have to sit farther from such a huge screen. iCal and many other apps on my parents' iMac 24" are pretty much unusable because of tiny font sizes.
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Africa is not a country.
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Let me guess, you use one of those pressboard corner computer hutches with fifteen hundred shelves and hidden compartments, complete with printer cart on casters and CD rack, as your desk; and a folding chair you picked up at a rummage sale to sit on? Sorry, I couldn’t resist ;)

Snarkiness aside, I do care about what the non-glowing part looks like. The aesthetics of the space I’m in materially effect my general mood and productivity level, and having control over that environment is one of the reasons I’m self-employed, because I can’t stand being surrounded by plastic, linoleum, and carpeted cubicle walls.

Objectively, it looks no different than any other piece of consumer electronics. But that’s the general problem I’m lamenting. If I’m spending $1,300, can’t they spend some money on the product design and make it look sleek, sexy, and expensive? For $1,300 I want to be proud to have it on my desk! Of course, since most people don’t care what the housing looks like, that’s exactly why they don’t, so I don’t blame them.
The census says the native born population has been over 86% for well over a century, so (assuming commonplace xenophobia) most of us have no living ancestors who immigrated. And I think there has long been a perception that emigration is such a drastic step that most were either raised by a poorly-functioning society (which they are now fleeing) or not highly valued by their society (which basically got rid of them). Even the proverbial "poor, tired, huddled massses" weren't eagerly welcomed, and they were racially and culturally more similar to the average native (and more willing to assimilate) than many immigrants today.
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I don't really understand why what you said disagrees with what your parent said?
The DPI of the 27" iMac display is 108 vs 133 on the 17" MBP. It's closer to the 110 DPI on 15" MBP. I use a 13" with 113 DPI and feel the text size is not that bad.
nook retains important reading rituals like bookmarking, making notes, and highlighting passages.

Bookmarkings seems easy enough.

Even highlighting I can imagine an approach.

But note taking? How are they planning to do this? Notes in books are usually in the margins and have a line drawn to where the person is taking notes. I'm really curious to see how this works.

Edit: Spelling
Google Maps, very very good.
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When was the last time you used Midomi?

I think it's pretty well established that Midomi is faster and has better music recognition than Shazam. There's a few video comparisons out there that show this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-EK50DWDn0

http://revision3.com/appjudgment/ip_mau_shazamvsmidomi
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At the moment there's no way to find a previous discussion of a particular link. I wanted to see discussion of the Coding Horror post on SSDs and the only way to find it was to attempt to submit the URL myself and get redirected to page.

Anyone else feel this would be useful to have as exposed functinality?
I bet you've applied a service pack or a hotfix tho'.
I don't really see the problem in the first place: we're just writing less by assuming that the subscript is identical to the argument (except maybe for capitalization) - and if it's not, people usually disambiguate by adding the subscripts back in.

You would have to be a twisted soul to write P(x|y) if x is drawn from r.v. Y and y from r.v. X and P[Y|X] is the distribution in question.
It's interesting, because as well made as gmail is, I simply can't bring myself to think of it as a good UI. I just don't find the interface particularly usable.

I spend ages looking through the buttons trying to remember where the one is for creating a new message.
It seems arbitrary what's a button and what's a link.
Grouping of 'concepts' seem utterly arbitrary (notably the list of choices presented in the dropdown next to 'reply' in a message chain).

I just don't think I've ever been hugely impressed with googles UI credentials - everyone always seems to put them up as some kinds of genius in terms of usability but I just don't see it.

Ok, google maps is a notable exception.
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Most of those cards seem to be for companies with a more artistic nature. Architects, designers, printers and the like. For companies like that spending time and money on business cards is a good idea, since your business card in effect becomes a mini portfolio, and the first example of your work that potential new customers will see. If you're a graphic designer and your business card show no indication of design skills (or worse, bad design skills) I'll probably be less likely to call you if I need design work done.
I thought happy farms came first? I assumed most US companies quickly copied the Chinese version, FarmVille being one of the last clones, but more successful than their predecessors (like farmtown).
Perhaps I read too quickly -- when he said:

> All that probability shorthand can be unambiguously translated to formal definitions quite easily. But doing so would be analogous to writing a complex program in assembly

One possible interpretation (probably, in retrospect, the right one) is that he meant that Whitehead/Russell style axiomatization of probability was in theory possible, but would not be of much value.

I read it initially (likely wrongly in retrospect) as saying that translating the equations into an unambiguous formal computer readable definition would be intractable and/or only of theoretical interest.
I am surprised no one's mentioned http://www.thesixtyone.com/ yet...
that'll be great. I'm using the google search "query" site:http://news.ycombinator.com/ method (very impresssive) for now, but a search option will be welcome.
In general, in the long term, immigration is vastly a net positive.

The waves of migration from Europe in the early 20th century brought with them their share of crime and poverty. There was even a jewish mafia, but I'll stake that right against Feynman any day.

In general, technology and education are the best contributions to productivity growth, which in turn is the best proxy we currently have to good living ("happiness economics" is a growing field that aims to produce a better proxy). These immigrants are making life better for everyone.

Full disclosure: I have immigrated twice, about to get my US citizenship (passed the test, need to be sworn in). Probably not gonna win a nobel prize, but as an entrepreneur hope to be creating jobs.
seriously. I built an app before doing graffitigeo and it never launched because calendars are harder than they look to build (I wasn't using a framework, just building purely from scratch at the time in php and javascript).
Get this, plus their Electronic Brick starter kit, and you have some great tools to hack hardware.
I agree with the above poster. The US government must act in the best interest of their citizens and no one else. That means that they should give green cards and VISAs to people that will add value to the USA (scientists, college graduates).

But they should not allow the social problems of other countries in (i.e. the bottom of the pile). The lower echelons of 3rd world society are often drawn to immigrate to 1st world countries since they can earn a decent salary w.r.t their lack of qualifications and get free health care/social services.

> If you've ever wondered why the rest of the world tends to think poorly of the US, this is it.

Europe has extremely strict immigration policies. Japan is stricter than 99% of all other countries. Yet the world does not think poorly of those countries. Why would the USA be an exception?
>> I would argue that they are frequently more frugal so the money is locked away from the economy.

The money is typically locked away in the country where they're residing. That money can work as investment money.

You're also forgetting about the taxes they pay.
insanely good overall experience. still blows my mind how finely tuned everything has become.
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Awesome
grooveshark.com - beautiful ui, good experience minus the delays in screen transitions. but really smooth and clean ui
The documentation seems to be incomplete ( http://code.google.com/intl/da-DK/apis/analytics/docs/gwo/ ). It seems to mostly cover authentication and reading of a feed?
> You would have to be a twisted soul to write P(x|y) if x is drawn from r.v. Y and y from r.v. X and P[Y|X] is the distribution in question.

Sure, that would be perverse. What I was referring to was more the fact that capital X and lowercase x look similar on the page and (more importantly) sound similar in my head.

Pedagogically I've found that saying "X takes on the value x" confuses a LOT of undergraduates.

Also, at least for me, if I start slinging around RVs and need to get closed form solutions, it can start to be very important to distinguish between X and the value it takes on as k or u, particularly when trying to do conditional expectations or get explicit distributions on functions of multiple RVs. It's sort of an aural Hungarian notation.
You don't really have that option with Apple hardware. You take what they give you. Unless you like opening the cases of computers which are designed to discourage you from doing so.

But again, the seek times are the important thing, not transfer bandwidth.
Another giant departs.

Some time ago I discovered that one of the advisors for my undergraduate degree was a good friend of Turing. I never knew, and now that I finally do know, it's too late to talk with him about it. It's too late to let him talk about his time and accomplishments with someone who would appreciate them.

Now I discover that my Ph.D. great-grandfather was personally invited by Turing to join the team at Bletchley, and was regarded by many as second only to Turing himself.

My past is disappearing, often without my even knowing it existed.

So what about you? Who are the giants in your background? Did you go to college/university? Were you lectured by someone apparently indistinguished? Are you sure they are complete unknowns?

Most people have a story to tell, and many, perhaps most, are worth listening to. But sometimes there are stories that need the right kind of audience.

Might that be you?

EDIT:

I've been down-mud for this comment, and I'm not really surprised. I was in two minds as to whether to submit it, since it's not really Hacker News. But then, neither is the original submission.

Think of this as a comment that you should eat right and exercise properly, because otherwise your body won't work well enough to support your brain. In a similar vein, get to know the giants that surround you, otherwise you lose the opportunity, and might fail to learn things you later value.

Just my $0.02.
Too bad it looks like they still use the glossy finish. Especially on a screen that size, it's got to be tricky to find a geometric configuration in which you get no reflections throughout the day.
Yeah, so true, especially considering it's the tab immediately left of this one in my browser.
+1 for Google Maps. I've noticed several times that Microsoft's map technology is more accurate, but i keep using Google Maps because of the superior UI.
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http://www.webmynd.com/html/hackernews.html

Maybe that should added to the FAQ ?
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here is what I get:

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It might have to do with being logged in to a google account too.
Facebook. The whole experience is so tight.

And the chat program/shortcut bar at the bottom is very impressive, and must have been so hard to get right cross-browser.
I would be interested to see a detailed comparison of the above and SQS which I've used to great success with the python library boto (http://code.google.com/p/boto/). And yes, I googled and haven't found anything good :)

I haven't used ActiveMQ before due to no reason other than horror stories from basically everyone I know who has used it heavily.

RabbitMQ seems like an interesting solution to explore if I ever need more speed than SQS provides.
Actually I have to completely disagree. Technically this is very hard to get right, monetizing it is a lot easier.

It is quite hard, believe me. Definitely not a weekend project. When it's as simple as recognizing clean audio, it's indeed not very hard. The problems start with (a) background noise (b) karaoke and mono audio input as without stereo channels removing the vocals is very hard (c) radio stations and television broadcasters often speed up songs a bit to fit in the timeslot.

The monetizing bit is a lot simpler. I can't really talk about that because of NDAs I've signed but as a hint, think about B2B instead of selling it to consumers. What big companies need to track music? How could audio recognition help them?
The music never stops playing - the entire website is implemented in AJAX? Wow!
I'll stick my neck out and say Facebook has an awesome UI. (No idea what was used to make it.) When I first joined Facebook some weeks ago, I was floored by how many features there are and how every single one is usability-optimized for me the newcomer, catching my eye exactly when I need it. The attention to detail is amazing. Sure, it's all just text, pics and videos, but... I'd been making online maps for years, have some fairly advanced stuff under my belt, and still felt like a newbie when I saw Facebook.
"If Boudica had been more successful, doing the work would make sense. But it has remained small, and the link spam attack will probably tip her over to a decision she’s already been debating, of whether it makes sense to continue working at it."

In other words, link spammers didn't kill the site. They just pushed a decision she was already contemplating.
I really like the simplicity and 'cue card' approach of Femtoo.com, it also tackles tricky concepts for non-techy users in a non-assuming way.

http://www.femtoo.com
This isn't about empty credentials but about track record.

His track record is that he has used the device, that he has written software for it, and that he helped investigate the issue. He says the device is slow, and he says what he considers slow in terms of seconds.

I don't think reporting a simple observation like that or paying attention to someone reporting it lays claim to any kind of usability expert status. He credibly said Q. I don't know what that has to do with X, Y or Z at all.

If someone tells me the traffic light is red, I don't reply by asking whether he's a traffic lights expert.

But if you're just expressing general astonishment about waves of popularity and public attention, I'm with you. It's futile to resist that though. I think the only way to deal with it is to judge each statement on its own merit.
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