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J.K. Rowling, D.C. Fontana, C.L. Moore, probably many others.
It's also about efficiency. Nuclear power plants regularly live beyond their designed lifespan of 30-40 years. If a new reactor can be built with 45% efficiency rather that the 33% of existing light water reactors get, that alone will justify the delay.
Bizchair.com around the holidays had some great deals.
So your explanation for the iPhone phenomenon is that Apple use its (certainly smaller) ad budget supernaturally much better than everyone else...?

Do you have any supporting data which shows that Apple's marketing is that much better than e.g. Nokia's? In all the markets they both sell in?!

Please note that your hand waving, trying to sell a model by sounding convincing, is also known as marketing. :-)

Do try to make a case, it would be interesting.

Start with answering: Why hasn't everyone hired away the Apple advertisement geniuses a long time ago if they are so much better with fewer features?

Edit: A little clearer and removed 2nd half (it was beating a dead horse).
Yeah pretty vivid. I'd have gone with much more muted colors to avoid the day-care center look.
Jonah Lehrer: ADHD and Time
The original link is:

http://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/02/books/two-artists-neither-...
'"Why did I put up with that for so long?" 'It' being the awful call performance (data and apps were great).'

Maybe it was because the data and apps were great?
You are more concerned about obfuscation of code than the fact that a major software developer ripped of someone's code, is a little troubling.

Whether he obfuscation code or not has absolutely zero importance in this context.
Ask HN: What's up with HN slowdown, mixpanel analytics to blame?
Okay, my first clue was the CSS file didn't load, oh well no biggie.

But Firebug didn't report a 404 or any other error.

Oh well, I can read the headlines no problem.

Finally, next day I notice mixpanel.com in my status bar while waiting (and waiting) for the CSS to load.

Any chance they could speed up their response?
I just pretty-printed the largest JS file loaded in their homepage. The result doesn't look obfuscated by any means.

Removing whitespace != Obfuscating

Don't take their claims at face-value, get your facts straight.

Disclaimer: I'm not claiming that obfuscating (or not) makes any difference with regards to MS infringing on their codebase, just pointing out that it's not actually very obfuscated as claimed by their developer.
There is a reason why all the carriers in the US subsidize phones with long contracts. The reason is that Americans like to spread out their purchases. Offering the opportunity to not do so isn't going to have a major impact because too few people want to buy their phone outright for it to matter.

In any case, the vision I'm questioning is the design vision. If the sales method were the only novel thing about this device, Google could as easily have paid another company to release their newest phone through Google's portal instead of directly through the network.
Interesting article, particularly in regards to the tax credit for office spaces (I happen to be in Pittsburgh, might be useful knowledge for the future).

I guess I don't agree with everyone else here, but I think it all came together well and I actually enjoy the color choices
Some of that is just an engineering resource problem. If you can bring yourself to watch Peter Jackson's awful King Kong remake, the giant ape looks incredibly good while creatures in the valley of the dinosaurs are dreadful...on the big screen I was able to spot that they'd been done by two different FX teams (CG/compositing geek here, so I'm abnormally fussy).
Is this link working for anyone else? I'm getting a 503.
Too ambitious? I'm thinking 2020 will look pretty much like 2010 which looks pretty much like 2000 :-(
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=993922
Isn't is customary to put your photo on your CV in the UK? Why is it shocking to have the faces of your realtor when you have the faces of future employees?

(I am not sure if this is an out-dated tradition, but I remember applying for study abroad they wanted a photo with that application as well.)
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If you consider all the functionality you can get with apps as potential features, that's far more features than any other phone.
The chassis has 2.5" bays, and so do the SSDs we used. However, the only MLC SSDs available were 1.8" versions, hence my comment. We had to work pretty hard to get any of them!
She was free to pick a male sounding name. Problem solved. Also, it is just her story, it is not clear if she did "equal work" with her female name. She picked the name for something she did not want to be associated with - perhaps it simply was a different kind of writing that tends to pay better?
See my comment above about the employee perks. I forgot to mention the fridge is already stocked with drinks and snacks. I am indeed learning and appreciate your feedback.
I like that it's colorful, even if the colors are kind of hamhanded; it's good for your office to have an identity. I wish we could paint our offices (we could, but we need to be able to trade up to bigger offices on very little notice).
Kurzweil is a bit optimistic on timing. His predictions will come through probably at:

2010 + (2020-2010)*PI

Not sure if I will be around :), or he for that matter!
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I agree, because it is just gossip with a political motive.
Well, I kind of put it like that because there's surely no reason to switch from emacs to vim on the basis of features/portability. I've switched to vi lately for my quick little editing tasks, in part because it's ideologically a better Unix editor.

I also put it like that because I like to be a dick.
In Common Lisp:

EPEEN> #u"http://google.com"
#<URI http://google.com>

Thanks to the PURI library :-)

The twitter example.

EPEEN> (let ((json (http-request #u"http://twitter.com/statuses/show/6592721580.json")))
(cdr (assoc :text (decode-json-from-string (octets-to-string json)))))
"He nose the truth."

Using puri, cl-json, drakma and babel.
IBM's text-to-speech tech is pretty impressive.

http://www.research.ibm.com/tts/coredemo.shtml

Try putting "Hi there, it seems you come from Hacker News. Do you like it there?" with the male voice.
Forget it. Email should be terse, and plain text, especially if it's unsolicited. Anything long or full of images and multiple fonts goes straight to the "Junk" folder.
I think also I should not have punched up the saturation in the photos!
Which is another way of saying, maybe the book is not in Medieval Italian. You can't write 35k words in a language, jumble the letters, and have it come out with such aberrant statistical properties.

Citing Wikipedia:

"the Voynich manuscript's "language" is quite unlike European languages in several aspects. Firstly, there are practically no words comprising more than ten glyphs, yet there are also few one- or two-letter words. The distribution of letters within words is also rather peculiar: some characters only occur at the beginning of a word, some only at the end, and some always in the middle section."

The link pvg pasted mentions other difficulties.
There are an infinite number of poor conclusions that can be drawn logically from that bad assumption. I only picked the most likely response for a typical reader[1]. Whether it's a broad feminist agenda is mostly beside the point.

The point is that the discussion cannot stop with the sexism label. It's impossible to make progress when you conclude by blaming vague 19th century ideas about gender. There's nowhere to go from there. That's my problem with the article.

[1] For example, the poster who wrote this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=994830
A good backup is one that can be restored.
I thought TextMate was the cool editor nowadays.
Wow, are you serious? What ended up as the solution?
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I agree with your point that some amount of planning is always useful in the face of uncertainty. It's only when things are certain or utterly routine that no plan is required.

"Most start-ups can get away without a written business plan because the founders have everything that would be in a plan in their head."

Even when the founders have it in their heads, writing up a one to two page set of key assumptions and objectives can uncover disconnects, and writing them down allows you to solicit input more widely from friends, employees, and advisors. No successful startup is ever just the founders: you are always asking prospects, customers, partners, friends, advisors, employees, and anyone else with relevant knowledge for advice and feedback.
So, according to that, the school shouldn't suspend a student for bullying. Instead, the bullied child should take the bullier to court for slander.

Seems to me that with the alleged bullier pleading 1st amendment, the alleged bullyee has no choice but to go via the courts to obtain redress.

I really don't see how that can improve things, but it seems that it's the situation according to the law.
> Women not being rewarded equally for equal work is a fundamental wrong which should be corrected for the betterment of our society.

And how do you propose we fix it?
Looking younger has many advantages, but also some drawbacks. People tends not to take you seriously. Or maybe it's me.

I don't think it's you. I'm 39 and I still get carded when I'm clean-shaven, which is one reason I wear a beard. Now, a lot of places have absurd policies ('we card if you look under 30') to avoid losing their alcohol sales license, but being told it's a compliment on my youthful looks gets old after a while.

Side note: after so many years of looking fresh-faced, I'm increasingly aware of actual changes in my looks and health as I age. I doubt this study corrects for the possibility of people who party their way into an early grave from a misplaced sense of personal immortality.
Indeed. What did Kurzweil predict in 2000 that would happen by 2010? That our phones would be basically the same, MP3 players would achieve more market penetration, that a high end PC bought three years ago would be good enough to run any of today's high-end games or apps? (When was the last time you could say that?) That human genome research would turn out have practically no near-term usefulness? That we'd all be somewhat poorer than we were a decade ago?
I'm not sure about the UK but it is expected in many (if not most) countries.
Great, another glorified RSS reader for $2
Login, voting, and commenting was planned from the start and is coming within the next couple weeks. (ie: after my exams) Most of it is already built-out and just needs some polish.

Here's what it looks like now:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4595/hn-vote.png
37% of people commute by bike in Copenhagen thanks to this infrastructure
2000 like 2010? You don’t really believe that, right?
In an ideal world (and apparently this is already a feature in some Java IDEs) you would just tell your editor how you wanted curly braces and whitespace formatted, and it would always show it to you that way.

My understanding of the existing implementation, I believe its in IDEA, is that it will do this, and save new changes back in whatever style had the highest frequency when the file was opened.

I'm a fan of having project wide style guidelines. But, if you seriously don't use open source code because of where the curly braces are, you're being pretty stupid.
In order for it to happen at all the appendix needs to become so troublesome that everybody dies before they can reproduce. My son was born 3 weeks ago. My appendix could do me in tomorrow and the genes that express for it will likely go on.
With backups being such a common thing, and something you probably could do but would rather not worry about, I don't see why you wouldn't outsource them.

Simple backups are easy. Understanding when something is sufficiently backed up and how to know whether it is backed up can be quite complex, particularly if large amounts of data is involved.

USB drives work great for a desktop with 1 TB, but not so well for 20TB. Then there is the question of how you know whether everything is sufficiently backed up, whether it is free from corruption, how you will move the backup data to a live server in the event of a restore.
I believe that's a fairly well-understood effect: the physical characteristics that we associate with 'age' are literally the visual symptoms of the body gradually falling into disrepair.

This study seems to go a bit deeper, testing whether this heuristic assessment of 'age' from the states of visible systems is a useful proxy for the 'age' of non-visible ones.

If there were no relationship, one would expect that apparent age would have no identifiable correlation with longevity.
>Women not being rewarded equally for equal work is a fundamental wrong

Unless you're proposing communism in the absolute, I'm not sure how you can enforce what an audience (including many women) likes or doesn't like. The fact that what they think they like or not is in some way based on unconscious arguments to authority is not something you can legislate.
Go has goto.

Unlike goto as used in the linux kernel, exceptions will jump up the call stack god knows where.

And in essence exceptions are not goto, but camefrom.
The web equivalent of donating an organ
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Agreed - Also in Pittsburgh here. Looks like he was able to get office space on the North Side that qualifies for that tax credit. Not a bad area at all - just a short walk along the riverfront park to PNC Park/Heinz Field!
Reintroducing Soho Haven
Dear fellow hackers,

Its been a couple of months since me and Chris started looking for fellow entrepreneurs to join in our effort to create an office space community in New York City. Since then, Soho Haven has become an immense success, we now have over a dozen companies working side by side, sharing ideas and solving interesting problems.

Since tech is your thing, we want to invite you to stay updated with the goings on that we are planning for the upcoming year. Our companies all have exciting ideas in the works, and as a community we are planning all kinds of events - happy hours, tech presentations and collaborations with other coworking spaces around the city. We are releasing our new website at http://www.sohohaven.com, come check us out.

We are always excited to get to know more entrepreneurs, so don't hesitate to reach out. We might be full at the moment, but as companies grow spots will soon become available.

Looking forward to see you in and around New York, be it at Hackers & Founders, Tech Meetup or here at the Haven.

Best Regards,

Erik Nygren
Co-founder of Atma Tech and happy Soho Haven house manager.
You're missing the point by miles, buddy. When you find some time, go beyond the simplest example.
Sounds good, suggestions as to an absolute source of meaning, that doesn't fly in the face of rationality?
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The URL is supposed to be http://sirql.dwavesys.com, I am not sure why it is cut-off in the title.
(Re note: a good reason, therefore, to publish a mainstream-style article alongside the academic paper?)
If you see an ad that says “I sold the house pictured here for $300,000”, then for all you know, the guy sitting at the next desk over could have sold it for $350,000.
Clickable: http://www.sohohaven.com/
For what Kurzweil actually predicted around 2000, check out his book The Age of Spiritual Machines. It's wildly wrong about some things and overly optimistic about others, but still a pretty interesting read.
are you kidding me? After the PC/Laptop/screen the type of chair is very very important.
Any developer that is worth something, knows that they will have to sit down for long period of time, it better be a good chair.

If not, then it shows a lot about the employer.
You risk looking like a company that buys cheap desktops, and and small screens to save money, but don't realise they are loosing tons in the way of lost productivity.

At home I have an $200 Ikea chair, and it is really nice. Not bank breaking for sure, but I expect my employer buy something similar in comfort level. Doesn't have to be a top of the line, but something that I can sit for few hours at a time without breaking my back.

I learned it the hard way, but I will never work in a place that cheaps out on chairs.

If you can't afford a $200 chair per employee, then you shouldn't be hiring. You need founders, and they can bring their own chair.
Check the URL in your browser....and the author of the article being discussed. Sufficient explanation for anything that will transpire here.
Is this the App that spammed me on Twitter because I mentioned Hacker News? No thanks!
Cheaper to buy as a part, not cheaper to implement. Given that last.fm has a bunch of boxes with the data already on them, replacing them all with SSD versions sounds like a more expensive solution than a bunch of buffering proxies to me.

And in any case, I said "complicated", not "cheaper", and I'll stand by that. Complexity has costs all by itself.
Joel sounds like he's replacing Don Dodge.
Until you try to open a comment thread and catch the next article down, or heaven help you try to poke the up/down arrows.

Still, most of that could be handled with just a little white space between articles on the front page.
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I think not hiring because you can't afford $200 chairs is silly-I can either hire you now or wait until I can afford 600 chairs. There are part time employees out there too! I was specifically referring to the fact that as an employer I am doing the best I can to get good chairs within a budget. These chairs are extremely comfortable and happened to be affordable.

I went to IKEA looking for chairs—and hated all of them. To me, these chairs are very comfortable.
The Lotus v. Borland decision was, in fact, about an interface that was keystroke-for-keystroke identical between the two applications. Again, there's a very clear case here for copyright infringement of the code. Mixing that with a much less clear case based on the status of the "interface" is just not a good idea.
I protest! In places where folks squat for the toilet their whole lives, adults actually maintain the strength and flexibility to squat, whereas we soft types lose it.
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Of course it has context if this is being presented as a legal issue. The original article doesn't really mention it (although it's easier to assume now with the hindsight of a complete comment thread). I believe you are "even more guilty" if you de-obfuscate someone's code, then copy and republish/reuse.
I was recently checking the stats on one of my youtube videos. 5,300+ views, and the demographics showed 100% male viewers. Admittedly, it was an OS demo, but I'm pretty sure at least a few women watched it. It's just that you'd be a fool to identify yourself as a woman on something like Youtube.
The fact that genetically identical twins can have such different apparent ages suggests a younger sample would be fraught with lifestyle variable problems. Even if you could record the data perfectly, trying to control for those variables would be a logistical nightmare.

I'd be interested to see deeper follow-ups with increasingly-younger samples, but the only scientific conclusion one can draw from this study is whether or not a hypothesized relationship between 'apparent' age and 'actual' age are trivially falsifiable. (apparently not)

That the marketing and press over-reach is a social failing; not a fault of the study.
edit: my bad

I found this article to be uninformative and lacking content.
...until you forget to check in important changes, or neglect to add a seemingly trivial configuration file to your SCM.

Whereas, a policy of automatically backing up everything except for your exclude list would have saved your bacon.
I don't think it's that stills are "further" as much as that the error doesn't accumulate.
We did something similar with Citizen Space I in San Francisco (CS has since relocated to the ground floor of the same building in a different space, with decor less to my liking).

http://www.flickr.com/photos/laughingsquid/294769682/

As you will see from the photo we were able to create a very slick space for little money - mainly using Ikea furniture.

I believe we worked out that our budget for 6 people was less than 3 Aeron chairs.
The best startup office tip I have heard is buying sheets of 'Solid White Tileboard' from home depot. It is a material used in commercial shower installations that works well as a white board. 8x12 sheet is ~14 dollars.
It's possible the pen name helped on her side too--she may have started writing more to her expectations of a male writer (different style, sentence structure, etc), which in turn might have sold better.
<i>a 5 minute warning wouldn't actually be useful because if there was a save point, you've saved,</i>

Not with cloud storage where disk I/O costs money. You really only want to save at the end of a task rather than during it. Or you save the results off-cloud in a back store hosted elsewhere.

(all of which assumes you are working at scale, where the cumulative costs become prohibitive)
That's a good point. I plan to A/B test the offer extensively, but I may have started a bit on the conservative side.
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Well, what's the difference between the average human lifespan in 2000 and the average human lifespan in 2010? The Internet is very different than it was (though more in form than in function), various industries have risen or fallen, and so on, and - probably what the parent post was talking about - that all fits very tidily into the normal pattern of human history. No-one can meaningfully predict what technologies will be popular in 2020, or what the geopolitical situation will be, but it seems a plausible bet that there will not be anything fundamentally different about it.
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Me too. The last office I was in was all grey and white. I would prefer lots of colours even if they are all mismatched. It's better than looking like a prison.
No because this could become a hack... using the mechanism I describe above I could keep instances going at below market rate.

I can see some people gaming the system in this way if the system allows it
No idea. Talking about it honestly is a good start.
That's pretty expensive, isn't it? (I assume those are inches, not feet).
In order for it to happen at all the appendix needs to become so troublesome that everybody dies before they can reproduce.

Not at all; it just needs to reduce the average number of children the average person has. Any mutation that makes it "less troublesome" on average would be favoured.
I always thought those ads were designed to say "we are not a faceless corporate machine; you will be dealing with an actual human."
Sounds like fun, readable anywhere?
My assumption was that Men With Pens was founded well after she realized her male pen name was outperforming her real name. I didn't think she made Men With Pens hyper-masculine as a test, but just as an extension of using a male pen name.
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Not able to find that on the Home Depot website. Do you have a link by any chance?