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Someone should write an article on why technologists are so excited/desperate for the future in which they believe all the right things must surely happen because all the right reasons are in place.
A lot of what makes comedy work in the first place is cultural capital. Shows like The Simpsons et al. make use of shared cultural experiences to be funny. I'd expect that I would miss most jokes for a long while if I went to another country, even if I spoke the language. I don't think that using cultural references diminishes Conan's humor at all.

However, if making a big transition in writing is necessary to make things work on the web, I can't imagine anyone being better suited than Conan and his team.
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But really, this isn't the important part, because the forecast horizon of both games are finite, which means in both games at some point you have to stop looking at possibilities and evaluate board position of leaf nodes. And chess has a less-imperfect method for that.

Actually, that makes a big difference. Because you can look ahead farther in chess, the intermediate scoring can be less accurate, as you have a real chance of looking far enough ahead to have turned your positional advantage into a material advantage.

Using the size of the board as a proxy for the number of legal moves, looking ahead N moves in chess requires evaluating approximately 64^N intermediate states, and go requires 361^N. That means that with equivalent computing power, looking ahead N moves in chess will let you look about N^0.177 in go. Thus, a computer that can look ahead 40 moves in chess wouldn't quite be able to look 2 moves ahead in go, without very aggressive pruning of the moves that it considers.
The demise of CSS seems a little dramatic. Sass looks sort of cool, and I'm glad it exists, but it seems more like a small nicety rather than a fundamental, web development game changer.
The resistance to auto updating software is the amount of risk involved.

If say Chrome was your sole web browser and an update broke compatibility with a business process, who is responsible?

It's a constant struggle to balance the business needs of predictable use and the need to stay competitive with up to date products. Mainframes and WinXP's default browser will continue to stay until the benefits can be clearly shown to out weigh the risks.
He went on to turn the article into a book that was published last month: http://www.amazon.com/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right/d...

This is something we're trying to apply to our operations. Definitely not an easy task to convince everyone to use them and like the article says, many people think checklists are beneath them so it's helpful when I can point to data in medicine or now like the article, venture capital.
You're not over thinking it, the web has trained people to trust it with their credit cards, while your application has to establish itself a new.

The best thing you can do is mimick the visual cues of browser security and put a big fat golden lock somewhere on the screen, and show other cues of encryption in use (say, show a certificate verification dialog.)

Of course, use OpenSSL! This goes without saying. Don't fake security if you're sending sensitive stuff in plain text.

Just to be sure your users don't have a keylogger (specially on Win32) provide an on-screen keyboard/keypad and accept input only through that, or encourage it over the actual keyboard. The more security hoops people jump through the better they like it, at least I do.
I suppose it comes down to human psychology. People are more used to entering CC info on a secure site (https padlock icon all that) rather than their desktop apps. Maybe the easiest solution would be to send users to a secure URL?
This is a really nice article. Venture capital industry reminds me of primitive medicine - people used to do things because it intuitively felt right, but had no rigorous means of telling good ideas from bad ideas (and hence, made mistakes about half the time). Statistics revolutionized medicine, and some day will revolutionize early stage investment.

It seems like even the most fundamental questions aren't answered yet - how do VCs do compared to how they would have done if they picked the companies that pitch to them at random? How do they do compared to each other (if you manage to control for the fact that top-tier VCs get to pick the best deals later in the game my guess is there will be no difference)? How do they do over long term compared to investing into treasuries or other safe instruments (it's comparing apples to oranges, but there is valuable information there)?

Considering that even these simple questions aren't answered, any rigorous study of the VC industry is like a breath of fresh air. At least we know now that checklists work.
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Family Guy and Futurama were originally cancelled by Fox and it took years of good ratings by re-running these shows on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim for Fox to take a second look at them.

So, I don't know if Fox would keep a Conan show long enough to let it flourish. Maybe Conan should get it in writing that Fox can't do what NBC did.
Decently crafted? Would anyone be fooled by it? I think you mean that it was humorously crafted, and if so I agree. Notice that the book is about a "magical troll".
I figure its a better deal than the ones that cost 1000+ for an early bird ticket.
This reminds me vaguely of what Coffeescript does for Javascript (http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/). It's a nicer, more modern syntax than the underlying language.

The killer is that they both require a compile to make it usable by a web browser. It would be far nicer if the compilers were written in JS and processed the languages dynamically.

The final compile before deployment can still happen via command-line tool, but this lets developers work in a simple edit-save-refresh environment.
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Several also keep a regular schedule on the metro, riding at the same times and getting on and off at the same stops. I brought enough food to become friends w/ several whose schedule overlapped with mine.
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This actually seems really helpful. I can see variables saving me a lot of time. I hate going back to a sheet I haven't used in a while and not knowing what any of the colors are.

But I think it's silly to say that a tool to help you write better CSS will lead to the demise of CSS.
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Fair observation.... but the point was that people were interested enough to have a look at this auction (much to my surprise). The auction listing cost $5 but the fun I had interacting with the sites users kept me entertained at work all week :) Not everything has to be about money
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Or even better, a server-side module or component that Apache sends all .sass files to, and it outputs css.
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I read the title and I thought "this is going to say 'because it's better'. When does that correlate with massive technology standard popularity?".

What's next for CSS? Probably CSS Current_Version+1, designed by committee, late, missing really desirable and important features and including really lame and awkward features, not exhaustively specified and not implemented completely by anything other than Opera, and not done in the same way on all browsers.

"Someone should write an article on why technologists are so excited/desperate for the future"

Nobody ever writes about a utopian future filled with backwards compatibility and design by committee. Is the future more rosy because it works as an imagined place without the thorns and caterpillars and fungi and drought and hay fever and pollen allergies and cheap imported roses and Monsanto seeds?
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I don't think the idea that people will use tools to automate generation of CSS is a new idea, nor is it worth claiming the "demise of CSS" over it since it's only a paper-thin abstraction over CSS anyway. People aren't calling web scripting languages "the death of HTML", afterall.

I'm not sure the analogy between languages compiling to machine code is a particularly good one. High-level languages compile to machine code because it's extremely tricky to create or update hardware to support high-level languages, and machine code is especially ugly. Neither of these apply to anywhere near the same extent to CSS, which significantly reduces the advantages of added abstractions.

I'd also be way of calling Sass a "programming language". CSS preprocessor would be more accurate.
> Something doesn't feel right in all of this case. Like we are missing something.

I have a very hard time imagining anything short of this guy having a history of blowing things up that would be reason enough for an arrest.

> I suspect there was some otherp particular reason the police were worried he may take extreme action secondary to the tweet; it would explain things more clearly.

Because you would hope that that would be the case ?

That's just wishful thinking on your part I'm afraid, I have absolutely no problem in believing that it happened the way it has been described, by now the police is well aware this thing is going to blow up in their faces if there was even a remotely plausible reason they would have trotted it out on a leash for display by now.

> Hundreds of people are reported eah month as veiwing kiddy porn. The majority are innocent but you will struggle to find too many people who will disagree With them beig investigated.

Being investigated for the possession of child pornography because of anonymous tips makes it far too easy to smear people and to use the police as attack dogs in personal vendettas.

It also basically gives the authorities carte-blanche to go and investigate anybody at all claiming there was an anonymous tip, and I think that for that reason alone this ia a bad development.

I realize you may probably disagree but if a person is 'so concerned' about this that they would report you but not concerned enough that they would make that report without being anonymous then it is most likely a sick prank being pulled on someone.

If it weren't then there would almost always be someone in the vicinity of the individual being reported that would have the balls to face the perp over this and make a non-anonymous report.

The lucky few child pornographers that only have cowards in their circle of acquaintances we'd have to learn to live with.

> If a concerend indvidual, perhaps someone who knows he guy, as worried by what he read and reported it what do the police do?

I would think that even a personal visit is one step too far, a simple letter that would state that the guy is because of this 'flagged' and if there is any indication that there is more to it then it might be time for doing something about it. Until then make sure that when he gets on a plane that his luggage gets some extra tlc.

> as I said, I can't help feeling there is a touch more to this than a busy body stalking Twitter :-)

You have a lot of faith in the law, which is nice. I've seen tons of incompetence far worse than this so I'm very much on the side that has absolutely no problem believing the story as it is told.
That's great growth for two months. It would be awesome if you do a little writeup here or on your blog about some of the techniques you're using to promote the site and the lessons learned from this.

Also, just something I noticed, your main site is still showing a 2009 copyright date in the footer.
Exactly. CSS changed html dramatically. Sass most certainly does not do the same for CSS. If anything, imho, CSS will evolve to allow some of the "oh great and wonderful" Sass `abilities`.

Okay fine. I'll admit it. I'm hugely disappointed after reading a title like that- and an article like that. The exact phrase isn't coming to mind, but it's something like "All developers are excited about their new technology and think it will change the future" (But in reality it wont matter in five years).
Sadly the article over-exaggerates the amount of computer chess Magnus plays. Few grandmasters do. Chess software is good for analysis and study of the board but not so much for actually playing against. For direct quotations from Magnus regarding this issue see http://www.nationalpost.com/life/story.html?id=2392166
I'm a vim guy, so this is all hearsay.. but there are supposedly vi keybindings available for emacs (and emacs keybinds for vim). I know vim has Lua bindings, and I would be very surprised to hear that emacs didn't.

So look around.. you might find something close to what you're looking for.
Adam Carolla started his own podcast as well last March when his radio show was cancelled, and is expanding his podcast to a "network" of podcasts, was #1 podcast of the year on iTunes, etc.

So, yes, a celebrity like Conan O'Brien would definitely get a huge head start in terms of audience but the amount of money going online is surely much much lower than what he'd get from a major traditional broadcast company.
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mpd is what I'm using, since ditching Amarok (hate 2.0 and 1.4 is dead to me now that gentoo's switched from KDE 3 to 4)...

But mpd has one crushing flaw: no ratings! I don't know how people live without them.

I'm hoping sometime soon xmms2 will become stable enough to be useful, as it's supposed to have some sort of ratings support, and is build around the same kind of philosophy that mpd and Unix have.
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yeah that was my first thought too, but they don't allow commercial videos - even for their paid account :(

Are you getting slow download of the video? It's hosted on amazon s3 so should be ok.
You can probably work backwards from the KB article to the underlying problem.

This is listed as a workaround:

"Configure the value of the DelayedDesktopSwitchTimeout registry entry. This value determines the time-out interval of a session before Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 switches between sessions."

In Windows, the login screen and user desktops run in different window manager sessions. There's a similar KB article that explains this in a little more detail:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940452

"This issue occurs because the logon process runs in session 0. However, the logon script process runs in a different session. A 30-second delay occurs before Windows Vista switches from session 0 to another session. When the logon script interacts with you before the logon script process is complete, you have to wait for the 30-second time-out interval of session 0. To fix this problem, change the time-out interval to less than 30 seconds."

The login scripts in Windows run before the user's desktop appears. It seems reasonable that there's a trigger sent from a process that runs after the login script terminates that tells the OS to switch from session 0 to the new user's session. This is likely to prevent the desktop from flickering between the different login states.

In case there's a problem with logging in that wasn't expected, there's a failsafe timer, defaulting to 30s (hence the 30s login delay in both KB articles) that triggers the switch from session 0 regardless of the login state.

Given that, and the reference to stopping the "Desktop Window Manager Session Manager" in the linked KB, I would imagine that the solid-color desktop interferes with the login process by either crashing the service that renders the background, therefore failing to send the appropriate trigger or triggers a different code path that fails to send the signal.
I'd guess the way the Paul Chambers incident was dealt with was as harsh as it is because the underwear bomber story happened about three weeks before his tweet. No one in the chain of people he dealt with wanted to be in the position the person who said don't worry about the underwear bomber is in.
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I believe that if you use Compass, it has a command line utility that watches for changes and then compiles the appropriate files automatically when changes occur. This makes your workflow similar to working with css where you have refresh to see your changes.

See documentation for more detail:
http://wiki.github.com/chriseppstein/compass/command-line-to...
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:( You're right, I celebrated too early when I heard the PA charges were dropped.

Also, thank you Hacker News for ignoring my baiting statements about the police. It'll take 5-7 years for the courts to rule one way or another about the legality of the police action.
Powershell seems to go against the whole "Windows philosophy" (ie. monolithic, inscruitable, and dumbed-down).

More seriously, I have no doubt that many Windows admins are using it, but it's not likely too many typical Windows users even know what it is.
While I understand the analogy, it is a bit extreme. The gap between C and assembly quite wide, while the work Sass is doing looks relatively trivial.
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I guess there's a big difference between one skilled person using checklists to remind himself, and when a "checklist" is really an excuse to throw in 10 layers of design-by-committee.

If you're one person who is developing your own intuitions and developing checklists to remind yourself of insights, it probably works pretty well. When you're considering checklist item number n you'll bring your acquired experience and intuition to bear on the checklist item, but if you didn't codify it in a checklist you maybe would have just completely forgotten to check criterion n.
I wonder how much of this is simply due to poker's recent surge in popularity, thus creating a much larger pool of potential talent to draw from.
Again, I admire his contributions/work, but there's no reason for me to admire him as a person.
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Thinking of several startups I remember acquired by AOL, I get an impression that AOL is a startups graveyard company.

If I'll have a full list of it, I might get a better picture, based on figures.
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I agree, CSS preprocessor is a more fitting term.

It does trivial macro expansion and arithmetic. No control or data structures.
To be fair this isn't my technology. I didn't invent Sass. But having used it for over two years now I can say it is a huge improvement over CSS. And yes hopefully the features found in Sass will eventually make it into CSS, but if it replaces CSS or is incorporated into CSS isn't that the same thing?
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Possibly. Perhaps it correlates better with the gap between C and C++.
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But finding a good idea is apparently not all that hard, Smart learnt.

Can someone share this know-how with us, please?

If you were to invest in Google in its early days, would consider a yet another search engine a good idea?

So basically, a good idea means that you're better than your competitors?

Or if you created something unique, how do you know it's going to work on the market?
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Think about most of his show, either skits written but a crew of writers, or advertising the latest blockbuster movie with some big star. He might be able to run a monologue online by himself, but I doubt he'd have the cash flow to support a prop/writing staff, or be widely viewed enough to bring on a-list celebs during their PR runs.
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