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repeat of my reply upthread:

So if we assume that your interpretation of the data is correct, Australia is just as big an emitter as the US, and they emit roughly 4 TIMES as much as China does. If my interpretation was correct, they emit 5 TIMES the US and 11 TIMES China.

My point being that the material point stands in either case. That is, even if we were to all agree to your interpretation, China is still not the problem. Why then, is all of the attention on China and the US? Clearly there are other emitters just as profligate. In fact, in the case of China, most of the other nations are far larger emitters per capita.

I maintain that the negative attention given to China and the US is due to the fact that being anti US and anti China is the height of political fashion. Clearly, the people denigrating China don't take Australia to task for what we have both established as demonstrably far more egregious behavior.
Also a repeat of my reply:

So if we assume that your interpretation of the data is correct, Australia is just as big an emitter as the US, and they emit roughly 4 TIMES as much as China does. If my interpretation was correct, they emit 5 TIMES the US and 11 TIMES China.

My point being that the material point stands in either case. That is, even if we were to all agree to your interpretation, China is still not the problem. Why then, is all of the attention on China and the US? Clearly there are other emitters just as profligate. In fact, in the case of China, most of the other nations are far larger emitters per capita.

I maintain that the negative attention given to China and the US is due to the fact that being anti US and anti China is the height of political fashion. Clearly, the people denigrating China don't take Australia to task for what we have both established as demonstrably far more egregious behavior.
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OK, but it's been broken for ages. There is a simple python script floating around that you can run on Kindle books to turn them into .html files. The decryption key is just your Kindle's serial number (which I believe is available via USB, so typing it in is not strictly necessary).

If you don't have a Kindle, that might be a problem though. But I think Amazon lets you "register" a Kindle, so you can just make up a serial number, buy books, and decrypt them.

Basically, the DRM scheme is just a joke to keep publishers happy. If your eyes can see something, it can be copied.
The name WePay is on the mark. Asking people for money is awkward. But, WePay frames the process in a very clever way: a collaboration rather than a collection.

I think the name WePay reduces the creepyness of asking people for money lower than any cooperative payment brand yet. In the end, the creepyness of WePay may be low enough to work.

I proposed this business to a few partners in 2005, but we couldn't come up with a name that could sell it. Now, I'm terribly jealous.

Very well done guys.
1. No. See #2.

2. Yes.
Their SSL certificate expired in October. That is less than ideal.
That naively assumes that you jump up then fall. They could simply climb up steps and drop down, thus resulting in a net movement. Over time we would move into moon collision orbit.
That depends on which wrong ideas you're thinking about.

Actually writing down pseudo-code is good at flushing out hidden assumptions, points of confusion, etc. I've found that tracing through pseudo-code can help identify bottlenecks and design flaws. And it is all much cheaper than a real program. So you get to discard a lot of wrong ideas quickly.

However coding up a test program and being able to run through cases quickly on a computer catches slightly different classes of mistakes. You might not catch a logic error in your code, but you are more likely to figure out how an external API works.

I think that both skills are valuable, and both let you discard wrong ideas quickly. They just catch different kinds of wrong ideas. :-)
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Only they were different leaders.

Traditionally PRC had two factions. The Maoists and the rivals, let's call them the pragmatists. The Maoists were bent on communist doctrines and making great leaps. The pragmatists were more into what already works. The heads of the pragmatists were Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Shaoqi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deng_xiaoping

The famine as you mentioned was attributed in part to Mao's radical policies, and because so Mao stepped down while Liu Shaoqi took his chair for a few years. While Liu was in power he played with capitalist policies similar to those in place today (this was the early 60s), Mao got paranoid and ousted him and Deng, and cultural revolution was launched in part to undo their popularity. Liu died in house arrest.

After Mao died in the late 70s, Deng took over and finally switched to market economy. The current line of leaders descended from his faction of pragmatists. Maoism is pretty much dead in China, a new split in the party is between the populists and the princelings, much more similiar to the dichotomy of liberals and conservatives in the west.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generations_of_Chinese_leadersh...
That is indeed a better rant :-)
"you signify some kind of status to potential superiors"

Sorry to burst your bubble, but I think this is why the vast majority of people go to college.
I attend the University of Alberta and this is the first I've heard of a controversy, so I think the story may be a bit overblown. I don't recall seeing any of the posters campus was supposedly 'awash' with.
4chan isn't /b/ alone. There are plenty of niche boards which are worth hanging out on if they're relevant to your interests, without being the toilet that is /b/.
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Of all the things to worry about, and there is probably a list of hundreds, the one thing you should absolutely never, ever be concerned about is the company's name.

Off the top of my head in less than 15 seconds:

o payshare
o allpay
o wefund
o alldollar
o gofund
o gopay
o paynow

But, think about the great companies out there with names that really don't mean much:

Google
Yahoo
Zynga

The company I work for is named after the _road_ it was founded on - it was just supposed to be a temporary thing, but it "took."

The key is to generate value.
"except at Google"

It dawned on me at my last cube farm that some companies really are like high school, while others are like college.
> ... because it's the only place on earth where everyone is college-level smart.

Not true - there's plenty of places where most of the people you'll meet are quite intelligent, and not everyone in college are college-level smart. If you go to Harvard, sure, it's all fairly smart people. The average state school? Not so much.

As for places with lots of smart people, it's very worth it to go get coffee at the Ritz Carlton sometimes. It's $10 for a pot of coffee that'll serve 2-3 people, so it's only like $5 to go if you go with a friend or the girlfriend, and it's good coffee. There'll be smart people there from out of town, often having a quick bite to eat alone while reading a newspaper. Contrary to popular belief, wealthy people tend to be very friendly and approachable if you're polite, complimentary, and interested in striking up a chat - I've met a fair few intelligent people while having coffee at a nice hotel or ex-pat bar or other place like that.

If you're willing to try to charm a little bit too, you can probably talk your way into the business class/first class lounges with decent success when you're flying, and people inside tend to be a smart, a bit bored, and quite receptive to having a conversation.

There's lots of places to meet smart people. University is good for some smart people, but not all. I enjoyed some of the business and technical classes I took, but absolutely went nuts with the "general requirements" and the rote busywork it entailed.

So there's lots of places to meet smart people besides university. And seriously, I'd recommend anyone who isn't comfortable in "wealthy places" to go have a pot of coffee at the Ritz Carlton. It's $10, cheaper than a mid-end restaurant lunch. Strike up a conversation with someone. Might change your life, but at the very least you get more comfortable in the environment.
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>except maybe at Google

You really think Google is the only company with uniformly well-educated employees? Microsoft, Goldman, McKinsey, etc - there are plenty of companies out there where you'll smart and educated colleagues.
Filevault is okay for protecting your data from being stolen when your laptop is. It only encrypts your home directory, so you have no assurance about the integrity of the rest of your system. If you're only worried about getting your laptop stolen, not a big deal. On the other hand, if you're super paranoid that someone came in and tainted your system when you were away from your computer for 10 minutes, maybe you want a different solution.

Of course, usual advice applies (strong passwords, including the master password if you set it)
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Kudos for bringing this up. Saul Griffith also weighs in quite reasonably on this issue:

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/01/energy-literacy-4-ho.ht...
> In defense of the average guy, not everyone can go out and do great things, otherwise those things wouldn't be considered great anymore.

I incredibly, firmly disagree with this. The average person actualizes maybe - maybe 3% of their potential. It's possible for almost anyone to reach high level domain mastery in at least 2-3 fields in their lifetime, and make a at least a couple profound contributions in those fields. There's some hard tradeoffs involved, but it's something that almost anyone is capable of if they want it.
I flew first-class for the first time last year and couldn't believe what I had been missing (I always thought the best part would be the seats or service).
The loans aren't low interest rate, and the costs of education keep rising. Unfortunately, rising tuition rates aren't going to the professors.

Straight (no banks -- direct lending) department of education loans are 6.8% and 7.9% for the most common loans.

I'll pay over $95,000 in interest over 10 years on department of education student loans. I don't own a car or a house. I have no credit card debt. I came out of undergrad with $0 in debt.
I'm fairly convinced that college will be obsolete by the time my children are old enough to attend. World shrinking fast, and don't forget about smart siblings.
I have now! ;)
These two books will get you started, I was very much in the same boat as you and endeavored to improve my mathematical skills in a self directed manner.

"Practical Mathematics", C. I. Palmer (great for practice and learning your stuff in a framework that isn't boring)

"Mathematics for the Nonmathematician", Morris Kline (great for staying inspired, it teaches a lot of history with good exercises)

This website also has some great recommendations for books: http://math-blog.com/2007/07/17/ten-must-read-books-about-ma...

Good luck! I've enjoyed math much more since I've tackled it on my own time and under my own desire.
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stifling of independent thought

O rly.

In brief, I think people who participate in shaping 4chan are bad and they should feel bad.

No, I'm not, I shouldn't and I don't. I see and encourage many excellent things at 4chan. I also see a lot of BS and pathetic nonsense....as I'd expect from adolescents. Your argument amounts to 'I hate people because some of them are bad', which is to say not very much at all.
Also consider that a lawsuit for police abuse or wrongful arrest can easily cost millions (based on NYCs regular annual payouts for misdeeds). In that regard, $4m in exchange for avoiding/winning lawsuits could be a bargain.
Hey Jason, A bit off-topic: but can you comment on what a typical email looks like which gets through all your filters and you actually read it and visit the site? Do you prefer lengthy emails with all details about a startup or do you just prefer a brief email at first with a link to the site?
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Interesting.

One thing that strikes me is that CO2 is a better asphyxiating agent than nitrogen: it is inert to combustion and it is 47.3% denser than N2, so it will stay put if you can keep it under 147.3% of ambient temperature. And people are looking for places to sequester CO2, anyway. It will asphyxiate animals and people too, though, so you'd better not have any leaks...
Learning math from Wikipedia is like learning foreign languages from a dictionary. It seems that you are intent on believing what you chose to believe, though, so good luck with that.
Of course branding is important. Branding is one of the principle ways "value" is built.

Building something people want is not enough. After the building bit, you need to convince people to use whatever it is you created.

What is more, often a brand contributes the majority of a product's value. Consider the entire apparel industry.

So if you can't figure out how to brand a product and you can't figure out how to market a product and you can't figure out how to sell a product, I don't think it is very clever to build the product.

And Google and Yahoo do mean something. They are whimsical and lyrical and memorable.

I don't think these would "take":

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wesearch
gosearch
searchnow
If I may offer some negative feedback...for a site that specializes in Style, it simply looks massively crappy. I mean, the colors on the site don't even match.

I don't know whether it's a problem with the stack-exchange sites in general, but I have yet to see a single one (other than the mother ship) that does not look like utter crap.
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of course, patenting mathematics isn't allowed :)
I guess this does not apply generally to the hacker community. Most of us have a mid-life crisis starting at about the age of 22 and carrying well over sixty. :)
I'd be seriously impressed by anyone who could actually learn math or physics from wikipedia. Those articles are so poorly written and jargon heavy that I rarely learn anything from them.

Happily the computer science articles tend to make at least a little sense. But then I already have a degree in the field.
I'm a CS major, and while I admittedly wasn't fully aware of what "computer science" entailed, I knew enough to know I wanted to study it. And I don't regret it.
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Wikipedia is a great way to get introduced to topics. Like any other encyclopedia (not dictionary) it serves as a great way to get a high-level overview of a topic. There's plenty of other resources on the internet for more in-depth information -- including free PDF versions of books.
GoboLinux is really quite nifty, but are they still doing that thing where they try and selectively hide the normal linux filesystem structure?

I approve of their goals, the method just seemed cracktastic.
So I know more about your current knowledge, can you answer these questions?

What is x if x+5=13?

What is x if x times 5 = 13?

What is x if x+13=5?

What is -23 times 7?

What is -5 times -14?

You probably find those completely trivial, I know. Can you give me an example of the sort of question you would find more challenging?

And I'm serious. If you're serious, knowing how you answer these questions means a lot.

The other thing is - what do you think mathematics is? I'm not yet sure what you think you want to learn. Can you tell me more?
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I think they are being pragmatic, but that you're being too dismissive of the potential costs if this strategy has long-term negative repercussions.
I wouldn't try for tech-blog coverage at all. The overlap with your intended audience is approximately nil. And what if you did get tech-blog validation/coverage? It would only encourage copycats.

That said, I like the idea -- one of the better StackExchange verticals I've seen. But to beat other similar sites -- perhaps even sibling StackExchange sites -- your initial community is all-important. The only successful 'launch' is one that brings the right kind of askers/answerers... and I suspect most of those people aren't rushing to check out 'launched' products; they instead stumble onto new sites by a variety of paths generally unaffected by 'launch' publicity.

And to echo other commenters: the design/color-scheme doesn't say 'stylish' to me, and I suspect for your audience, that could be important. (The dark purple makes me think more of a sports site, and the manila-yellow makes everything look like a field-needing-input.)

Can you follow the design cues of some emblematic sites in the fashion/beauty category? Does StackExchange platform provide any way to A/B test different looks?

Good luck!
I'd suggest that the attention is on China and the US primarily because they are respectively the number 1 and 2 total emitters of CO2, making up about 40% of the global total. But it's hard to prove why people believe what they do, so I offer this only as opinion.

I'd agree that political fashion likely plays a strong role, but your reluctance to retract your misinterpretation regarding the units of the data makes my unwilling to discuss this with you further. Claiming the the point stands in either case, whether or not this is true, forces me to flip the bozo bit.
I'm not sure what you meant by unavailable to tourists.

Nobody forces you to stay with a tour or anything, it's not like North Korea. Of course, if you stick to a guided-tour, you probably won't see too much. If you leave the city, you can find plenty of backpackers.

The friendliness probably has more to do with the culture being more laid-back then political freedom.
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I'm not sure. I hadn't thought about it until now, I was just so obsessed with getting it done. I don't see why not. I want everyone to benefit from my activities. I could even do a tutorial on my blog explaining the decisions I made while crafting it.

What licenses would people recommend for a service based software project like this? MIT? It would kind of be appropriate considering the inspiration.
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Sorry you had to deal with a sales person. If you had dealt with a sales professional, they would have asked you the relevant info and asked you questions that helped add value to your decision making. Sucks when you know you're dealing with a script, rather than an intelligent person and you're just trying to figure out the magic words to get the real pricing.
Yeah. I'm just one data point, and a pretty unimportant one at that, but to be honest the climate "discussions" have pretty much killed HN for me.

Which is good, actually; I'm getting more done, and HN isn't having to suffer my negative influence. ;-)
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Your argument fails in two ways. First, 4chan does not operate any kind of Karma system (although theoretically, it could) so considerations of what is acceptable are moot; justbecause you can post something obnoxious and tired there doesn't mean you'll get a positive response.

To me, the main metric of acceptability at 4can is whether something gets a lot of positive feedback, which will only happen if it's funny in the temporary context in which it exists (and everything is potentially funny in the right context; yes, everything).

The second point of failure is not recognizing the significance of anonymous posting. In one sense it allows vandals and the irresponsible to shelter behind the 4chan Guy Fawkes mask, but in another it means that there is no particular gain for posting - whether it's outrageous, intelligent, or funny.

A post there succeeds or fails on its own merits, such as they are and such as the audience is at any given time. Sure, you can post cliche or offensive stuff of the form 'niggers CP niggers', but the only response you'll get is from other people who think along those lines, and you'll quickly fall off the end of page 10 (or 15 or whatever it now). Post something outrageous like a naughty comic nobody has seen before, and you'll get some feedback...but that won't help you tomorrow. Or indeed, 10 minutes later. Your critiques of people posting outrageous material to be cool and popular would make sense if there were persistent identities on 4chan, but the vast majority of participants choose to embrace the disposable nature of 'anonymous'.

I'm not arguing that it's particularly deep, although it can be. Rather, I am arguing that your criticisms of its shallowness are meaningless in a context where identity is not commoditized. People talk a lot of shit there, as we all know, but they also discuss things that they wouldn't if it weren't so easy do so anonymously.
interpretation of the data

Come on now, you're having a hard enough time reading the legend, there isn't much interpretation going on.
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I would rather listen to Moot's rambling thoughts on emerging culture than than those of a small army of academic sociologists. While I think the study of sociology has value, Moot's opinions are those of someone with a million troubled siblings. I'll take experience over theory anyday.
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Want to share more about talking your way into the lounges?
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Ok let me restate that, because that was not what I meant to say.

What I meant to say was that if everyone went out and achieved 100% of their potential, it wouldn't be impressive anymore.

We all have the potential to achieve roughly equal results, but what stops most of us is desire and persistance.