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pbhjon JPEGrescan: unique way to losslessly shrink any JPEG file

an equivalent to how pngcrush works then

pbhjon CKEditor 3.0, formerly known as FCKEditor, released (WYSIWYG editor)

http://www.google.co.uk/trends?q=(ckeditor|fckeditor)%2Ctiny...

pbhjon Google, Gmail experiencing downtime worldwide

Thats: %d - 2 digit day number by month; %b - 3 letter month name; %Y - 4 digit year CE; for those who don't recall so well.

pbhjon Google, Gmail experiencing downtime worldwide

Of course I meant a justification for the mixed up ordering as being of greater utility (more easily parsed, understood, less confused, more easily read, better sorted, more standardised with other users) than the other common orderings.

Let the word go forth ... your logical justification please?

pbhjon Is your product an Ice Cream Glove or a Snuggie?

I don't think their market moves that much, slippers might be OTT.

pbhjon Is your product an Ice Cream Glove or a Snuggie?

When it's cold I sleep in my bathrobe (we call it a "dressing gown" which is a particularly poor name for it as one wears it when not getting dressed!). It has long sleeves, is below the knee in length and snug - very comfortable.

pbhjon Is your product an Ice Cream Glove or a Snuggie?

No you couldn't, suppose your A does better in the first market and your B worse (accounting for size) in the second. You choose A. Which does even worse in second market. B was doing the best job for the second market, it is just that market is less open to your product, B would have totally pwned in the first market.

You have to do the A/B within the same market to get useful results.

pbhjon A 5 Minute Intelligence Test for Kids

lol

pbhjon A 5 Minute Intelligence Test for Kids

It's 99% correlated (in line with) the longer test method. OK. Then you learn that there were 77 in the study. So they got the result wrong 1% of the time, for 0.8 of a child?

Shenanigans.

"the two tests have a 99% correlation"

"they recruited 77 gifted children through"

[yes, it could be a rounding error]

pbhjon How A Forum Site Grew Monthly Revenue From $400 to $400,000

"My take away: easier to make money off rich firms than poor individuals."

A worthy insight IMO, one of those 'I know it but it helps to be reminded' comments.

pbhjon Google, Gmail experiencing downtime worldwide

US date order always makes me laugh - it's like people looked at date order and thought if the day comes before the month that will be the European way, lets flip it. Then they realised that would be YYYY-mm-dd and so be ISO standard order, dang can't have that, hey lets have a mixture.

I know it didn't happen this way but some sort of logical order would be good.

pbhjon Developers, Be Warned: Apple Has Apparently TMed Those Glossy Chat Bubbles

They can request you don't use it as condition for access to their platform - claiming it's a trademark is different. The mark (in the EC at least) needs to be indicative of the origin of goods or services and needs to be distinctive in order to achieve that aim - chat bubbles are not distinctive and are not indicative that Apple Computers Inc. are providing the service. Fail IMO.

pbhjon Thousands call for Turing apology

Was he homosexual or bisexual - his engagement and his acknowledgement to his fiancée that he had "homosexual tendencies" (eg http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Clarke_J... ) suggests that he was not exclusively attracted to men what actual sexual activity he undertook is not known to men nor I suspect to anyone else who didn't share whatever arena he chose for his affairs.

The manner in which he was arrested rather suggests a honeytrap [I'm speculating here, assess for yourself] - which could account for any animosity of the UK Government, not particularly wanting to reward spies that fell victim to enemy traps. The other point at issue may be that Turing as a 40 year old was picking up teenagers for sex (according to the reports of his arrest) - would someone now be knighted who knowingly followed that sort of promiscuous lifestyle? Would you expect that to be true also in the mid 20th century?

Turing was a great mathematician and left a great legacy in that field, other aspects of his character appear less clear.

pbhjon Thousands call for Turing apology

"By all means express regret that a previous government did such and such" Of course the government didn't act unilaterally against the wishes of the people - they implemented the laws as required by society at the time.

pbhjon [dead]

One of, if not the, scariest moment of my life was waking up at home on the couch and not knowing where I was or who I was. It lasted for maybe 5 minutes and then things started fading back as I wandered about the house. Frightened the life out of me.

pbhjon The End of Religious Wars

It's about programming, bad title.

pbhjon HTML 5 Starts Looking Real

I don't do a lot of web design but for my last two projects I was v.close to switching back to HTML4 to make the transition up to 5 easier when it's finalised. I think my next project (for myself) will be HTML5 but I can't quite bring myself to give up the XHTML ideology yet.

pbhjon What do you hate not doing?

Um, sex!? Or was that to obvious.

pbhjon Traffic Hacks: How One Driver Can Vastly Improve Traffic

Wouldn't that be "I pity the fool who breaks the two second rule"?

pbhjon Inside the Cafe at Facebook Headquarters

When you have a good job, good food and good company times are nearly always good.

I'm sure the varied interesting diet pays off in staff motivation and happiness.

pbhjon Please don't use hnreputation

You could simply name all respondents by their response position in the thread, first is person1 (hope that's not too limiting!):

person1:yay person2:people here like intelligent comments person3:go to digg if you want to yay all the time person1:yay

And have an option to reveal names and/or show them on the mouseover link for personX.

pbhjon Traffic Hacks: How One Driver Can Vastly Improve Traffic

"only a fool breaks the 3 second rule" (takes roughly 3s to say)

pbhjon Traffic Hacks: How One Driver Can Vastly Improve Traffic

Where do you drive?

I tend to leave about twice the gap of other vehicles on the motorway, still strictly not the full stopping distance (but having been a motorcyclist I feel I read ahead well). I always find that people invade my stopping/slowing space; then one drops back and another car is in there.

I'm in the UK.

pbhjon The Hacker Survey

He could have got reasonable country data without any extra questions by using an ip-to-location API; I think Google have one available.

pbhjon Scientists Develop "Intelligent" Coffee Mug

It's industrial design or product engineering, not science. They applied a known system of using "phase change material" to regulate the normalisation of the temperature of the contents of a vessel, in this case coffee/beer in a mug/stein.

Interesting though.

pbhjon The curse of knowledge: Mistaking your beliefs for those of others

If Denise moves the ball to the bucket then perhaps putting balls in buckets is more common than putting balls in other containers. Sally being a child is likely to mirror Denises behaviours and therefore is probably more likely to place the ball in the bucket herself. She is thus more likely to look there than in other containers in which she herself would not place the ball.

If one knows that the ball is in the bucket this reinforces the concept that balls go in buckets or reminds one that more often than not people put balls in buckets.

Similar to the way that lots of people pick the same number in a given range or pick the same fruit when asked, etc., the most likely container for people to pick may be a bucket. People could be responding to an innate understanding of this fact; possibly without realising it.

Speculation, but still a decent logical explanation IMO.

A pre-experiment should be performed by asking people which vessel a ball should be placed in; the experiment in question could then choose only vessels with matching preference as ball receptacles as the options.

pbhjon 4Chan launches embarrassing attack on devout Christians on Facebook

You say he is "overstating [your] claims" yet you wish the death of all religious people? You flame and then smother so that you can flame once more it seems.

pbhjon 4Chan launches embarrassing attack on devout Christians on Facebook

So basically you find you can't use logical discourse or demonstrate your truths scientifically and so resort to ad hominem attacks?

pbhjon Firefox 3.5 is "location-aware"

What network are you on, if your access is via a corporate net then perhaps your connection is being tunneled to another location first; or maybe it's picking up a proxy server address?

pbhjon Ask HN: Haiku?

Pointless post What's my response Flag it!

[I think I got it right, never done Haiku before]