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What I read Fuller did was simply catnap whenever he felt the urge. I also heard he never slept regularly again after starting this. I worked for an architect who spent a summer at Black Mountain, he said Fuller would just lie down and take a nap anywhere, even in the middle of giving a lecture (which I think was an exaggeration, being active, even just lecturing, is the best way I know of to stay awake and alert).
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Sure, everyone should think about that, but there is a traditional way to mitigate some of the risks. It's called a contract. Very few services of any kind would exist if everyone just walked away.

My conclusion from all of this is that the web is not as different from earlier "platforms" as some make it appear. If I want to build on someone's service, I make a contract that sets out the rights and obligations of either side.

I'm not a lawyer so I wonder how ToS are related to contracts. Does google have the right to change the ToS unilaterally without notification or agreement?
Just why would anyone really want to measure pollution on their ride. It's like measuring the temperature : interesting to know but precious little is added by the accuracy. You don't need to know the exact temperature to know when to put on a coat, you don't need to know the Nox readings to tell if one path has more pollution than another. Pointless gold plating.
I think the amount of people not in either program far outweighs the number actually connected with either. And founders who have gotten into both regularly post here, although I think there are more YC people. So I don't think it's actually quite so biased.
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The author thought to replicate Youtube for a specific audience. First with his own content, that didn't work too well. Luckily enough, Youtube created an API to get specific content.

So now the author had the same business model as Youtube, except aimed at a specific part of their audience, and he was using their content, not paying them a dime, and wants to make money off it.

The story makes perfect sense. For Google.
Yeah, that could be the case. In mine it was based on their open social stuff for orkut. If you loose that data source, then your users do no care much.
Regardless of everything else, the timeline Ron describes makes pretty sad reading. What amazes me always is that sleazy people seem to think the truth will never come out.
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Cool, maybe Google will figure out how to reverse entropy.
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at least he was claiming it was done

True enough, but we never what he was claiming was done. It was just better.

Though I admit, yours is much worse...
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That's a given. If someone is putting out software that bad, I'm not even going to think of using it, so it doesn't come into consideration. Hell, I don't even know of any modern browser that bad; I have no idea where your 99% comes from. Even IE passes that test now.
No it doesn't, and that's why the Hans Andersen story is so timeless. Foolishness in the form of being too quick to believe your own prejudices is, alas, a common failing.
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There are already several free anti-virus software available (avast, clam, etc.) No, they don't catch everything.
From the about page:

I created dancePROOF aiming for it to be the blog and community where you, as a teenager or young adult, can come to find help with the questions in your life that you can’t easily find answers to.

Even for teenagers and young adults, however, this is a pretty lousy list.
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A lot of YC companies have trendy names and designs, but the phenomenon is in no way limited to YC. You see that all over the valley.
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Everything pure in programming will tend to have similar problems I guess. I like languages where imperative, object oriented and functional constructs can be mixed together, and I think Ruby is one of the best languages from this point of view.
> The complex knowledge required to develop such software is subject to intellectual property rights, making it difficult to turn into a commercial product.

Intellectual property rights aren't a security mechanism.

If the people in power at GSM are this clueless about security, I don't think they will ever be capable of producing anything usably secure.
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Going by that logic, I probably shouldn't be writing iPhone apps :)

BTW, Panic's Audion vs iTunes story seems similar from a tangent. http://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/
Patents? Surely not. Their original intent was to have the technology out in the open. I suspect you're thinking of trade secrets.
the confusion between real limitations and pure syntax makes more sense when you realise he's using erlang. erlang's syntax is not exactly wonderful. but the reason you would use erlang isn't because it's a great functional language, but because it is a great distributed/reliable language.

the fact that the author is dropping erlang because of (largely) syntax issues, without apparently understanding what they are losing that other languages - imperative or functional - simply don't provide suggests they shouldn't be given that much weight...
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Here's an interesting quote from article:

"In short, [Backus's lecture] is a progress report on a valid research effort but suffers badly from aggressive overselling of its significance, long before convincing results have been reached. This is the more regrettable as it has been published by way of Turing Award Lecture."
so i guess this shows no-one is always right...
Not as irresponsible as advising someone to deliberately violate a legal agreement.

I think I'm in the minority on this since as I write this, your comment is +41 and I see similar ones lower with a lot of agreement.

So, downmod me if you want... I still say shame on you.

"Just do it... "everyone else is doing it"... what a load of bs
It probably wouldn't be so much of a problem if you could enter into some kind of deal with Google where you would pay a monthly fee in return for access to their API (for example) and Google would have a financial incentive to allow you to keep using it.

In this case, however, the guy was expecting to get something for free to build his business on and that, I think, is just plain silly.
heh. but programming on a laptop in a chair with armrests can be frustrating (i have a beanbag in the corner of my office that's perhaps a better candidate for best programming chair ever...)
Totally impractical as a work chair. You'd kick your desk over the second you reclined.
It's worth reading this* paper by the EFF about legal exposure of p2p developers, it talks about contributory infringement and related topics.

* http://www.eff.org/wp/iaal-what-peer-peer-developers-need-kn...
You're discarding entertainment features, which is nontrivial when it comes to the webapp space.
It's not vague at all. If you're totlol.com and all your content is from YouTube, you're in violation of the TOS. If, on the other hand, you have a blog that occasionally posts YouTube videos but a lot of other content as well, you should be fine.
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Does the EFF (or someone like them) handle TOS violation litigation? If not, how can a little one-man shop compete against an entity like Google in court?

Sure, the reasonableagreement people sound cool... but who, specifically, is going to front him the money needed to litigate against MegaCorp?
Sorry, Zed. Now, would you please stop nodding me down?
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However, how this new Accord is going to drive the world's response to climate change is in question, because it is seriously underpowered. The promises of the major polluting nations and proposals of the Accord fall very short of stopping many very dangerous global warming effects. President Obama acknowledged this in his closing press briefing. Environmentalists earlier had circulated a leaked United Nations analysis of the major proposals presented at COP-15, which said “global emissions will remain on an unsustainable pathway" that could lead to an additional 2.2 o C / 4 o F temperature rise from today.
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Being forced to re-design code written with the wrong assumptions doesn't qualify as proof that (purely) functional programming "doesn't work".
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I am aware that cocos2d is a layer over pyglet but it is a very good way of doing sprite animations. I like both pyglet and cocos2d and prefer them over pygame which in my opinion is not 'pythonic' enough.
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>In a few days, the first decade of the 21st century and of the third millennium will come to an end.

Sigh. Given that our calendar started with year one and not year zero, the first decade of the 21st century started in 2001 and will end at the close of 2010.

/datenerd
Current state of CNTV:

1. Online Flash streaming

2. P2P ActiveX and client called CBox, can live streaming (approx. 2 minute delay than actual TV) and on-demand to an archive of over 30 state/provincial channels.

Personally I kinda like the CCTVMusic Channel, especially its traditional Chinese music programmes you can't find elsewhere.

btw, are there any progress in P2PNext project?
+1 for beanbag chairs.
I think I'm going to stick with my Aeron.
and it doesn't end well if you fall asleep with a laptop
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That's really cool that we're implementing a lot of the sci-fi. What hasn't been done yet? What bits of Multivac don't exist at the GOOG yet?
I'm personally very interested in learning Android development. I'm familiar with building web apps in PHP and Python (Django) but I've never played around with Java or done anything other than websites with scripting languages.

I think that as a developer the biggest roadblock to me making apps for my Android device is 1) the verbosity and different syntax of Java (which I am becoming more familiar with) and the way that the apps are organized. And of course the whole XML shenanigans (I'm not too fond of it in general, it's WAY too verbose).

As I said, I am definitely very interested in creating apps for my device, but I also feel that one of the biggest friction points for Android becoming as popular as tne iPhone is the fact that it's built on Java.

Disclaimer: I'm a little buzzed so if this comment is lame, I apologize.
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PlanetErlang reproduces whatever is in the rss feed. I just switched the RSS feed of ErlangInside.com to summaries yesterday because anytime i publish something they get the credit (and the backlinks).
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I think he means up/down travel, not how much your fingers move when typing.
Here's a data point: YC took some investment money, which could be indicative of a lot of things. How is TechStars funded? Has that changed lately?

Not much of a data point, for sure, but to really know anything, you'd have to talk to the people involved and get them to reveal information they may well not want to reveal.
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There should be some filtering based on post content. Seriously, no one who's looking for Clojure information is interested in what my favorite albums in the 2000s are.
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I had Aeron at office and didn't like it that much...

sure you can customize it every imaginable way, still it's conservative and quite static chair, and it wasn't that comfortable for really long hacking sessions
I dunno, my girlfriend is an occupational therapist, she would probably have a mental breakdown about how unergonomic this chair would be to use with your workstation.
Believe what you want to believe. Since you are jumping to conclusions, I don't think discussion would make sense.

The fact remains that the data set has been published openly. If it is cooked, everybody is free to point it out.

I hope the IEA has published the missing data from the Russian territory? Then it should be a simple matter of another Perl script to complete the data. Problem solved. If you have a link to the missing data, please provide it.

However, I don't think such a data set should just be used as a proof for anything. The perl script in the article her was an interesting play, but I don't think the person who wrote it is a climate researcher. He is just some guy visualizing some data that was floating around. The interpretation is another matter.
That's a pretty big claim to be implying - that TS has less exits than YC and are second string. Do you have the numbers in front of you, or was it a guess? I've heard otherwise, so wonder where you get your information from.
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So you define millennium as "years passed since year 1", and think that those who count "years passed since year -1" are wrong? Interesting.
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Judging by the language in the title, you're probably right, he's 18. We read those books when I was in high school in 1966.
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programmers and creative people in general are usually impractical type. well, at least a lot of them. myself included
I'm not a big proponent of all of these new HTML replacers. They don't really buy you anything--this one just gets rid of angle brackets as far as I can see, and adds CSS style #id and .classname. Now, instead of angle brackets, we have to use tabs, or spaces, or some other delimiter (I saw | in there for continuing a line).

The best way I've found of representing XML/XHTML or even HTML for that matter, is with X-Expressions--a subset of S-Expressions. But, they are most useful in a language that fully supports S-Expressions, like Lisp, since you can then use standard functions to generate your markup for you.
There's just something wrong about creating a language with a language to produce about in a third language. As Brian Kernighan told Dustin Hoffman one time, "Learn to code!".
I apparently have the feature on my Linux machine, but not on my Windows install, and both are reportedly up to date...
I no longer fall for languages that only change the syntax for something the author thinks it's cuter...
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Yes, I think that for HTML, "better tools" is the right answer. HTML is something that can be shared between people with various backgrounds, skills, and toolsets. I can write it in Emacs on Ubuntu, and send it to some guy who will work on it in Windows with Notepad, who can send it to someone else who will open it with Chrome on a Mac.

These things might be ok for small, tight teams, but I don't see them as buying that much in the long term, as opposed to tools that let you be more productive with HTML.
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I also like the use of negative space in these 2 logos

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In that case, one should have a separate feed for items tagged 'clojure'.

That's the way almost all planets work. Keyword based filtering is not fool proof.
I don't get the point behind having a "home page". Maybe if I owned an active website or blog, I'd have reason to start there. Maybe.

The last thing I want is additional startup latency, so I set my home page to about:blank. Am I missing something? Maybe this is fodder for Ask-HN.
The chair is nice and interesting, but it's good only for relaxation, not for working. I don't know how many people could work, or better said type, while laying on their back. Also, I prefer laying on a bed or a couch.
this could almost be embedded, which would be much cooler i think. you'd have to define objects with names from html tokens and do some ugly hacking with python's operators. you'd also have to add something other than space between strings (a "+" might be ok).

but once you've done that, this could be very neat. no processors - just constructing html in python.

(i don't know if this sounds crazy or not, but you can see the same kind of approach in lepl, which i wrote. the main problem is operator precedence.)
I agree. Nor do I call them beautiful.
While your language^3 comment is technically true, this seems to be simply shifting one markup syntax to another, using a language to perform the translation.

In addition, using something like SHPAML requires knowledge of the final output syntax, so the person using it must already know how to code.

Edit: In reading my response, it seems too curt. I definitely see your point, but more so in contexts other than this.
I've had a dream, for years, of buying a La-Z-Boy, the Datahand keyboard, and either mounting a monitor on the ceiling or getting some really good resolution video goggles.

After mounting half the datahand on each arm of the easy chair, and reclining, I figure I'd have reached the ultimate nirvana of ergonomic computing. Unfortunately, I'm still a long way from being rich enough to justify dropping $1K on a friggin' keyboard.
I see two main problems with your arguments:

1) Security online is an international problem. One government cannot solve the problem, even it were a good idea.

2) Your arguments comparing this to the military are fundamentally flawed. The US military has its basis in the Constitution, and has been refined by many further laws/acts over the course of US history. That structure is what keeps them in line. No such structure exists for your proposal.
What puzzles me is that even a simple USB hub (so that you can plug in a mouse or a pen) seems beyond most manufacturers. A few months ago, I managed to snag a keyboard with two USB ports and a scroll-wheel (the SlimStarPro from Genius), which promptly vanished from local retailer shelves.

Not having reason to care about key rollover issues, I'd gladly trade the top rows of special-function buttons for a single small trackball in the wrist-rest area (as seen in early laptops such as the Apple Powerbook 100 of the 90s). I suppose it's "inconceivable" to sell that nowadays ...
Almost all code is initially written with the wrong assumptions.
Having worked in Oncology drug development before, I don't waste my time with articles where the headline is "X kills cancer in (mice|cell lines|rats)". We've cured cancer so many times in rodents, if I were a mouse, I'd take up smoking unfiltered Marlboros while working at a nuclear waste disposal site in the Ukraine.

The primary reason there are so many false starts in cancer therapy is that there are zero reliable model organisms for doing cancer research. The closest things we have are: cancer cell lines (human cells derived from tumors and coaxed to grow forever in cell culture) and mice (often given tumors by embedding human cancer cell lines). Both of these scenarios are hugely artificial.

The cancer cell lines are so mutated and freakish that they grow outside a living organism and replicate forever in culture. So there's always the question when you have something kills them: is it because you're knocking out some basic cancer mechanism? Or instead is it that you're knocking out whatever it is that lets them live on piece of glass? Their DNA is certainly even more messed up than garden variety in vivo human cancer.

Mouse models are problematic because the mouse immune system, while similar to humans, is not the same. Plus if you're embedding human cancer cell lines into the mouse to give it cancer, what exactly are you curing?

Finally, there is the issue that we know that human cancers are highly tissue-specific. So while we talk about "cancer" as if it's one disease, it's actually a multitude of different diseases with the same rough outward phenotype. This (along with many other factors) is one of the reasons we've gotten really good at breast cancer treatment: many of the modern drugs target a particular feature of breast cancer to shut down tumor cells. But even in that case, there are other varieties of breast cancer where those drugs don't work at all.

Long story short: it all sucks a whole lot. This is why there is over a 90% (I forget the exact figure) failure rate of cancer therapies in early clinical trials. There's a huge opportunity for an enterprising biotechnologist/bioengineer to improve that number by even 10%.
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