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Thanks! Ruby on Rails Tutorial follows the same basic philosophy as RailsSpace, including its treatment of gems. See, e.g., my comment at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=986514.
For those who still can't forget that sound effect, Patrick was the author of Crystal Quest.

I dimly recall turning up for a meeting just as the infamous station wagon/windscreen/police incident was winding down, and the reason they were going faster and faster was that the "stunt man" was finding it easier to roll over the car.

With a fair speed, lots of jumpers, and a well timed jump & turn, he could neatly roll up and over that car and tumble off the back (until the windscreen let go.)
Cezanne can't be blamed for the lion. This is a drawing of a statue in the Louvre. The sculptor may have made the lion small intentionally. But the human was pretty anatomically correct as far as I remember.
It's very hard to identify any sufficiently powerful group with any identifiable profit motive for fraudulent sex research either.

People sometimes push an agenda for irrational ideological reasons rather than simply profit.

Incidentally, bad sex research was fairly common. Homosexuality used to be classified as a disease, for example.
Watch First Round Capital’s Startups Sing About Their Big Dreams
Hell of a lot of words to pretty much just recover, "Build something people need."
The shake-and-share ability looks great. Let's hope that catches on, as that would make photo sharing really easy (and fun).
Thanks for stomping on my dreams. :P

In any case, Haskell's not the only institution that's tried to deprecate fail:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/4724703.stm
There are more videos here: http://www.youtube.com/user/flodihn
Just as AT&T announces plans to reduce bandwidth... wonderful timing.
Here's my opinion on fads -- you gotta take a risk BEFORE they're ultra-popular and make sure that some of the first apps available for them are yours.

Then, as the apps market becomes more saturated, either: (1) diversify by developing LOTS of apps or by congregating other apps under your brand, or (2) become a freelance developer for that platform, advertising your first-app-to-market experience.

If you're a latecomer to the market and didn't take that initial risk, your chances of success don't seem to be great -- the market is saturated, and you don't have the platform experience to attract the highest hourly wages. (And now, getting experience by making apps won't be as profitable since the market is saturated.)
Very interesting idea. I will probably even be a customer some day within the next year. I've seen several pieces that I like. The website gives me a feeling that I'm buying something unique (almost) directly from the artist. I like that feeling.

My first impression of the site is that I see a big blank white space on your home page (next to the green holiday gift certificate). That feels like a glaring hole, especially above the fold on your front page. Perhaps you could use that space to emphasize the relatively small text above it: "Real art, from real artists. No prints, no reproductions."

Speaking of the holiday gift card, the green banner says I can save $100 on a purchase over $500, then the product details page says, "Holiday Special: Get $50 off a $500 order."

The "Zoom & Explore" feature isn't useful. The magnifier shows me a pixelated version of the regular image. I think I would prefer to just see a higher-resolution image with your watermark. Also, the first time I opened the "Zoom & Explore" feature, I couldn't move the magnification and magnifier size sliders.

Going back to your site's strengths, I like that on the product details page, there is a picture of the artist with their name and location. It gives a nice personal touch.

I hope you keep up the good work, and I wish for the best for you.
I can't conceive of any self-interested goal that's furthered by combating anthropogenic climate change, other than mitigating the effects of it actually happening.

Wow. Really? It's not that hard. When billions of dollars move around, there's always a destination. The beneficiaries are:

1. Unproductive countries that sell carbon credits to productive countries.

2. Financial firms that skim the transaction.

3. Politicians, who move one (well, many) steps closer to the longstanding goal of controlling the means of production and distribution.
This is exactly the problem. By saying something is 'inherent' you are essentially saying that there can be no debate on the issue. I believe that the whole notion of 'privacy' is actually a learned social construct, not something inborn like physical pain.
Civil disobedience is appropriate for individuals, not institutions.

You say this, yet oddly you you seem to put little moral weight on individual actions.

If an institution collectively performs an act that is evil, and the law does not act to punish it, do you truly place no responsibility on the individuals who participated? An institution cannot act except via the individuals who comprise it. Diffusion of responsibility is anathema to a moral society; great evil can be performed on behalf of institutions by "good" people when it isn't their "responsibility".

The reality, of course, is that people usually rationalize their way out of being complicit in evil, and in any case are almost never held responsible for their participation, but I don't often hear people promoting that as a good thing!
Many aspects of modern society thoroughly perplex me, specifically the excessive cleanliness exhibited primarily in urban centres

On another forum I read today that "it seems that rural areas are the only parts of the US that use common sense anymore." I really hope that's not true, but a lot of what I see around me appears to confirm that. Around here, kids run around and well, act like kids -- they get absolutely filthy in record time. My 9 year old walks half a mile home from the school bus stop without anyone panicking that he'll be kidnapped on the way. Subzero temperatures are not an excuse for him to get out of doing outdoor chores. He plays with the outside cats that are not declawed and live on a diet of mice, baby rabbits and the occasional unlucky bird. Who knows what parasites they carry. I've watched him drop his pants and pee in the middle of the road when he though no one was looking. And he perpetually amazes me with his talent for finding wet, sticky mud within seconds of walking outside. OMG!!! We're such awful parentz!!!!

Yet he is the very picture of health. How can this possibly happen?
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&h...

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&...

from the second link:

It was a failed rocket launch from submarine

Sources in the Russian military confirmed to tv2nyhetene.no that the Bulava missile has been launched from a submarine on Wednesday morning.
Secret Bump API?
You know, the government told librarians they had to turn over the lists of books people checked out from the library and so they stopped storing that information. They delete it.

I applaud the librarians for standing up to the government. Google... not so much.
Yes, I read it and learned a lot. Apparently Russia lacked a diaspora. I never knew that! In fact, I am burning all my Vladimir Nabakov books on the grounds that he is a liar.

Also the Chinese wanted reform and the Russians did not. Gorbachev somehow conned the entire Soviet Union to end communism when everyone wanted it to keep going.

Basicaly a lot of lessons learned.
russians are gearing up. Lock & load! It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum - and I'm all out of gum!
Carmageddon was such a great game. Just pure sandbox-style fun factor from start to finish. At least half of the fun of GTA came out of copying carmageddon.

I won't lie - when I first started driving at 15 years old, I had instinctive urges to run over pedestrians. I had played this game a lot.
I think because the mode of criticism and the mode of presentation are the same (the Internet), snobs feel especially threatened and forced to put down amateurs. It'd be like amateur and pro photographs hanging in a gallery side-by-side. Meanwhile, the forum you're describing is a neutral ground on another medium.
By mini, it's probably meant milli; so yes, there's three orders of magnitude difference. Wait till we get to nano and pico blogging: your status in less than one character!
For all the pretension in this piece, I think the design on that page is pretty poor.

Serifed fonts can be very pretty on the page, but are tricky to use on the web. The low resolution (~100ppi) of current monitors brutalizes them in small sizes. Trying to use them the way he's doing is the result of an ignorance of the limitations of his medium.

Reading through the article (after magnifying a few times to make it readable), he seems to be grappling for some "arteest" notion of design.

The fact is though, that designers have work because a very large number of web sites need published. They do not need to be masterpieces. They need to support and conform to the needs of the information and workflow of the site. They need to support and reinforce the client's brand. And they need to not turn people away by being archaic or ugly.

You don't need a Pollock or Warhol to do that kind of work. In fact, it'd be a terrific waste of money to hire that kind of talent to design an online store. There is an army of solid designers out there who can meet the above requirements.

I'd also like to add that, as a web developer, I find print designers (or designers who went to school and studied print design) to be the absolute worst to work with. They do not understand the limitations of the web. They don't make designs that can flow, and can handle content created by the client through their CMS. They produce unusably rigid designs and then get emotional when they're changed to meet the needs of the client.
Ask HN: help me set the price for TotalFinder
Hi, I'm a current maintainer of the Visor project and the guy behind http://binaryage.com.

These rainy days I'm working on TotalFinder which is augmented Finder.app (http://totalfinder.binaryage.com).

I had that crazy idea that maybe it is so cool that someone would actually pay for it. Why? I would probably pay for it and there is also quite many happy Visor users out there.

Because it is a product for hackers, I want to ask here how much are you potentially willing to spend for it. To be specific imagine it already has that dual-panel feature (see the feature list of on the site):
I would never install SIMBL like this
I would use it if I got it for free
I would pay $5
I would pay $10
I would pay $15
I would pay $20
I would pay more
But huge pools of data are a temptation to break trust in the way that leaving a gun in the middle of the street is an invitation to steal it.
I'd like to see an Erlang implementation of a WebSocket server, anyone know if this has been attempted?
why do developers think the shake thing is useful or fun? seriously, it looks ridiculous when you're trying to do it in public. you look like you're pissed off at your phone and trying to get it to work by shaking it.

just get rid of the gimmick and make a button initiate the action.
This is a great example of why Wired hasn't been relevant for years.

"Even as the science of global warming gets stronger", where have they been? Perhaps they're in "denial" of ClimateGate?

When you bet against the common sense of the American people you are taking a bet with long odds.
http://flowingdata.com/ has a few resources and sources.. I think the answer is - for the really high quality stuff - the end result is normally always Photoshop/Illustrator.
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"But he didn't, of course. Instead he told us that the innocent have nothing to hide."

Please keep in mind you're commenting about a snippet of a televised interview. For all you know Eric Schmidt agrees with everything you wrote above. (He may have even said something along these lines and it was edited out.) He certainly did not say or even imply "the innocent have nothing to hide."
We considered a button but ended up going against it. It doesn't scale - the button doesn't give us enough data. People don't time their presses well enough and if the app becomes successful we'll have a hard time telling apart presses that occur close to each other (both in time and space).

We've also considered a 4 digit pin but that confused users. It turns out that users intuitively understand the shake UX to transfer the contents from one phone to another.
As mentioned already, the book Peopleware has a section the Black Team, which predates this article by quite a few years.
That there are a lot of corporate users still using IE 6 is only part of the claim that that group makes up most of the IE 6 user base.
I think the accelerometer data is very useful to detect devices.
Because the magical broadband fairy is going to put up all of those towers and lay all of those cables for free?
Also, a snob who is truly threatened by amateurs is either a) a poor designer himself, or b) a cynic who doesn't respect his audience enough to know good design from bad. In either case, he's not fun to work with.
For each company in this list there are another 50 failed attempts at cracking the same market. Several of which probably had the same or superior technical merits but the wrong business approach, had personality issues, or had plain bad luck.

There are likely other less sexy product ideas where the expected return on investment is much larger because the ideas aren't as obvious or the fields addressed aren't your in your typical hacker domain and haven't gotten the loving care of good software development.
Bumping the phones against each other creates a certain motion signature you can use to identify the pair of phones in the transaction.
I think he is overlooking governance. In Michigan the leaders were in denial over the loss of manufacturing and to this day spend millions chasing a shrinking base of jobs. http://www.mackinac.org/article.aspx?ID=11457

Add to it a series of Detroit mayors who drove business away and looted the city and its schools and you have a modern day third world city.
I read this in a South African newspaper. But in fairness, without a citation this is worthless.

I see posts claiming a 100,000 works in the formal sector (i.e. working for formal companies). The number of Chinese working in the informal sector or illegally would be unknown.

But the 20% figure is most probably wrong.
What happens when you want to share but you aren't with that person?

For me the vast majority of the times I'm sharing it's with someone that physically isn't with me. Maybe I'm just a special case.
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There's an option to send somebody an email with a link, or you can do twitter, flickr, or facebook.
The information super highway is every bit as important to the future of our nation as vehicle highways were in the 1950's.

For the most part, you don't have to pay to drive on Interstates. There are exceptions in and around some major cities like Chicago, but imagine where we would be today if it cost money to drive on every road.

We couldn't leave a project like the highway system in the hands of a private corporation. Imagine what we could build with investment from an organization with a vision of decades rather than months.
The major difference between medical services and fire/police services is that the former is a private good (rivalrous and excludible), whereas the latter is a public good (nonrivalrous and nonexcludible).

This means that an unregulated market will yield a shortage of police/fire services, but will provide a market clearing amount of medical services.
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But there isn't an AltGr key on that keyboard! I actually have AltGr mapped to my right alt. There's only one alt keyboard in that key
The website is actually more powerful for long-distance transfers. For example, the recipient can download all the hi-res photos as a zip file.

If you're not in person, just use the app email him a link to the event.
Like they said in the article "A few Russians had emigrated to the United States and Israel.", though the number is probably much smaller in comparison.

I think it's saying that Russia being more urbanized, the Russians' lives were much better off to begin with, so there wasn't as much momentum for change. If you compare per capita GDP, Russia is still about three times as much as China, the margin was even bigger back then.

The reform happened mostly in the countryside, while in cities the workers under the protective umbrella of state-owned enterprises were much more resistant to change. It just happened that Russia had a larger portion city workers than China.
Facebook’s annoyances are outweighing it’s utility.

Do you think this leaves room in the social networking market for another company to do better and to grow at the expense of Facebook? MySpace once looked unstoppable, but now seems to be in decline. Could the same happen to Facebook?
TekSavvy is amazing. Set-up is fast, they deal with Bell's screwups when they happen (this is a when, not an if), and when you call them, a person answers, with no music-on-hold.

They will also set up a workaround for Bell's throttling if you ask them (it involves a fake multilink PPP login, without the second line).
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e.g. I fondly recall the use of the 'Haversine formula' (calc. distance on a sphere with given lat, lng) built in SQL, instead of using one of the available Geo ruby libraries/ gems (although I'm not sure, if those gems were available back in 07).
I've downloaded a few versions of the "Danish text" from scribd, and I can't find the numbers that this article is quoting. It seems that it was just drafted with placeholders like "$X" and "[XX]%".

Can anyone tell me what language in the document supports this quote from the article?

"Not allow poor countries to emit more than 1.44 tonnes of carbon per person by 2050, while allowing rich countries to emit 2.67 tonnes."

I'm not saying this isn't true. But I can't find it.
We beta tested this and were very happy with the results. The program is simple to use, works as expected and you really can't ask for more.
The above 20% is probably wrong.

Just note that the citations from the CIA world factbook is probably worthless. In the official demographics of South Africa for example, neither illegal immigration or temporary migration is noted.

This is fairly high though (as much as 3 million Zimbabweans and many people form other African countries such as Somalia).
> Foucault argued that the very act of being watched was dehumanizing.

Was any data involved in his 'studies'? Was 'dehumanising' somehow defined independently? I suspect his arguments are more philosophical musing relying on circular logic, unstated assumptions and social norms, rather like pretty much everything I seem to read from Schneier. I'm sure they sound rather clever but do they really amount to much more than a circle jerk?

One could just as easily argue that 'need for privacy' is just a learned social construct.
I don't think you're being entirely fair - there is a problem with amateurs who reach beyond their abilities. A professional designer generates good work on demand, as opposed to an amateur one who does so at their own pace.

In this case, the amateur can have a portfolio of works he's done over years, cherry picking the best, and looking as good as the professional who can do this three times over every week.

And customers do not know this. This is the same as it goes in photography: amateurs who have a hit rate of 1% or less can still accumulate a respectable body of good work by sheer time and volume alone. This doesn't mean you can shove them into a wedding reception and get results.

I've met many a wedding photographer who complain of amateurs taking their business - and then failing to deliver, thus damaging the image of commercial photographers as a whole.

It's hard to say where the line is drawn between competent and incompetent, but either way I think the concern is at least a valid one - there's no good way to surface the real, regularly reproducible quality of work for a designer.
He's quoting a snippet of the interview. I have no reason to believe he hasn't read or watched more of the interview. If he has, then he's commenting on more than just that snippet. What's more, the interview is available to you. Why not look at it (if you haven't already) and see if that part of the interview is taken out of context, and explain why it's taken out of context, if you think it is?

Also, if it seems it might have been taken out of context, people should rail on what he said anyway, so he has a chance to defend himself. If he doesn't defend himself, there's a pretty good chance he meant it.

It seems like Google might be coming out of the closet as a regular megacorp, just like Apple did a few years ago when it started using DRM, and again a couple of years ago when it made a deal with AT&T, and finally put away any question of them being an exception to the rule when it came out with its app store.
Apologies, time zone differences mean I went to bed before I saw this.

For what its worth, I have a cultural studies degree that cost me six figures. (They had a buy one, get one free deal when I got a degree that had typically results in a career.) I'm going to punt on the question of whether Native American studies is valuable or not. Its sort of like ballet dancing -- I don't have any need for it myself, but don't have any malice in my heart for people who like it. (The question of whether it is commercially valuable or not is an empirical one. Empirically, it just isn't.)

I understand that she did a lot of work to get her degree in a commercially suboptimal field and lifestyle career in churning out more holders of degrees in the same field. She thinks that, rather than having to have slaved so hard for that, I should have to slave so hard for that -- read her last paragraph where she wants society to recalibrate its priorities (i.e. tax folks to pay her to get the schooling to do the job that too many people want to do and too few people want to pay for).
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> I believe that the whole notion of 'privacy' is actually a learned social construct

I, and many others, including Schneier think you are wrong. Privacy is a basic human need, a fundamental part of our psychology that is as deeply entrenched as all our other basic needs and emotions. We are not whole, happy, fulfilled human beings without it. I guess one can debate whether this fits the definition of "inherent" or not. But I don't think it's necessary to pursue it beyond this point because it doesn't really matter - once something is a basic human need, taking it away from them is wrong.
What a great video.
This is great! I've been toying around the idea of a game in my head for a while now, but every JS game engine I come across is terribly slow. This definitely seems like a leap in the right direction, congrats!
I can't quite put my finger on it, but the voice in the video sorta bugs me. It has that infomercial-ist tone which leaves me with the impression that the product is worse than it seems.
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The feature was added to webkit so both safari, chrome and other will get the feature and so is firefox https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472529