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Are you targeting a specific physical size with the concepts? Like someone else said, that device looks fairly big. It seems reasonable that what is best for a big display might not be best for a small one.

Also, as a general suggestion, one of the -worst- things about the current desktop is manual window management - please, please come up with an automatic system that works! The iPhone sidesteps this by only allowing one app at a time, but with several apps it'll be one of the make-or-break aspects of these devices...
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Macmillan’s Amazon Beatdown Proves Content Is King
Why not?

It is the dominant category in the US and has been often been used as a reason for discrimination in the past especially among supporters for segregation.

By using a concrete example, I hope I can help him or others realize absurdity of his views.
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Selecting multiple blocks of text. Scrolling with the mouse wheel. / for quick find (and ' for links).

edit: I wonder if this is similar to the difference between Windows and Mac. Windows might be inconsistent in the small things (e.g. button padding), but it gets the large things right. Mac gets the small things right but the large things horribly, horribly wrong. Chrome seems to get the small things right too (e.g. tab animations), but overall Firefox does much better.
Soccer-Champions League final tops Super Bowl in TV survey
Sane mouse wheel scrolling, by the looks of it.
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OK, but I don't see why the player needs to be tailored to the codec. Why wouldn't this player work for Theora as well?
Oh no! It's the end of tinkering!
West May Swap Oil Dependency for Dependency on China's Green Tech
Okay, fair enough, I'm probably blowing this out of proportion. That comment caught my attention because I've always sensed antagonism between YC and the other accelerators, which seems unwarranted.

I think your responses in this thread do indicate that, to some extent, you think they have unfairly stolen the YC model and their existence is unjust.
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Couldn't resist passing on this link:

http://www.s-anand.net/calvinandhobbes.html

(An interface to search C & H quotes and download them)
Well, I am just saying that is the right's position, and I can see that it is at least plausible (i.e. I could imagine such a state of affairs). I am not claiming that it is correct, nor am I trying to convince others.
I believe people don't get why Calvin and Hobbes became as big as it did, which is simply because it's fans responded to it in their own personal ways.

> What readers take away from it is up to them. Once the strip is published, readers bring their own experiences to it, and the work takes on a life of its own. Everyone responds differently to different parts.

I believe the thing that spoke to me most out of anything I've ever read was this: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2003/01/01/the-child-on-the-train...

To most this is a sad and unfortunate story, which is how I originally took it. However, when I picked up his book covering the past of Whatever it took on a completely different meaning. My life and perceptions changed quite radically in the intervening years, and years later it's still a difficult subject to deal with publicly. It's a catch 22, you feel bad for bringing it up because it's not only difficult for people to deal with, but it's also an awkward subject to breach. However, it's an issue that truly requires to be discussed as 1/4 of couples experience it, but discussing it hits the first snag. The emotions are seriously conflicting as you're exceptionally happy, and then it goes away. You're upset and depressed, however there is an awkwardness to the emotions as nothing feels like it was ever lost. It's almost like having a false-positive test, but much more profound.

Calvin and Hobbes provided ways for its readership to relate, and apparently managed it profoundly with a vast assortment of people. It's one thing to cater yourself to the general public en masse, but it's something worlds apart when you relate to the general public en masse.
It's not that Macmillan's content is king. It's that Macmillan controls a significant /quantity/ of content, and Amazon is no longer the only outlet in town.

As a thought exercise, try to imagine an individual publisher attempting this. Perhaps you might disagree, but I personally find it extremely hard to imagine such a scenario in all seriousness. Without quantity as leverage, Amazon's terms would have been accepted without fuss.
A Chrome-modified script I'm looking at uses `localStorage.setItem(name, value)` and `localStorage.getItem(name)` to re-implement `GM_setValue` and `GM_getValue`. The author stores and recovers type info as the first character of the data.
I stopped reading after I noticed the word "likely" is used 7 times in the single page article...
As to libertarian complaints, really I am articulating the position of the fiscal right, i.e. fiscal conservatives. We are discussing the federal budget, after all.

Whether old people and the AARP embrace Medicare in a selfish stab at the identity-politics cookie jar does not affect the classical republican (and indeed, liberal) platform. Note that I am not referring to and am in fact counter-indicating the GOP.

The are plenty of old democrats, too.
Cool. So what do you do with it?
Look, I agree with you in theory, but in practice these reasons are an exception rather than the rule. 99 times out of 100 that's not why a company gets rejected (and in the one case when it does get rejected for that reason and that reason only, the founders know it).

VC business is too binary and too cutthroat for these things to matter in any other than exceptionally odd cases. Since nine out of ten investments fail, they need to fund companies that have a chance of giving a 10x return just to break even. Considering that the limited partners could put their money into treasuries instead, they probably need to double the fund's worth to justify a high risk investment. That means that other than breaking even, they need a company that has absolutely massive returns. A google, basically.

There is no "ok", "good", "fantastic" and "really fantastic". It's either a google or they're out of businesses. So if a company like that comes along, unless it's a really edge case, all other reasons get swept under the rug. And if a company isn't a google, well then, it wasn't a good investment for a VC business model anyway.
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HTTP Digest support pretty much requires you to hash passwords using MD5(salt:password), if there’s a way to support HTTP Digest while storing bcrypt hashed passwords I’d love to know.

Why do we care about HTTP Digest? It provides a standard technique to avoid sending clear passwords from client to server. This is particularly handy when the client server communication isn’t encrypted (a poor man’s SSL if you will), but sounds like a good idea in general.

In principle you could create a variant of HTTP Digest using bcrypt instead of MD5 however you’d break browser and rss reader compatibility and AFAIK there are currently no javascript bcrypt implementations.

Hence I’m guessing that web apps storing bcrypt hashed passwords are forced to send clear-ish passwords from client to server and therefore must rely on the presence of an ssl/https connection.

Obviously ssl should be used whenever possible, but I wonder to what extent sending clear passwords doesn’t create other forms of vulnerability?
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What am I missing here? Ebooks aren't fitting the bill? Because of low adoption?
Agreed. How I read it 'deformation' is being used to describe an irreversible change to the metal foam's structure. This is akin to the flex-frames used in glasses, they frequently lose their originally designed form (deforming), however they will retain it once the external force is removed.

I believe they should be using 'permanent deformation' here to clarify the importance. Although I'm sure there's likely a better and more accurate term out there.

It is confusing if you read 'deform' as you would for the result gained from poking styrofoam or bending a spoon.
I have no idea what you mean by "google backwards".

Anyway, thanks! I keep an eye on this project.
You can use an Apple keyboard to play JamLegend. It's awesome and works great:

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> minus some of the bandwidth costs

It wasn't: Ajaxian.bw--; Cortes.bw.noop

It was: Ajaxian.bw -= cost; Cortes.bw += cost
If you want to complain, I'd advise you to email us and say so, or volunteer to do the camera work. The CSUA doesn't have to film this, but does. This is strictly extra, using (last I checked) a flipcam, and an unpaid student who's mainly watching. As far as I know, we have $0 budgeted to recording.

--CSUA member and former president
Oh come on. China is not totalitarian and has not been for decades. It is authoritarian at most, and considering the effective one-party nature of most long-lasting "democratic" states these days, I'm not even sure that word means anything anymore. It is impossible for non-establishment actors to organise politically in most big countries and the only difference is the fertility of the grounds for political unrest, and the mechanism by which opposition is put down.

Mostly-competent entrenched ruling class (with token democracy) vs. mostly-competent entrenched ruling class (without the token democracy). That's what we're looking at here, and quite honestly, I am not sure that the periodic input of a disinterested and politically naive bunch of voters is all it's cracked up to be.
A Massive $75 Million Round Streams Into Ustream.
I contacted someone at AWS through a friend and asked him basic architectural questions, like if he can confirm that they are running Linux in Dom0. However, AWS can not give such details as long as you do not have a valid business need and sign a NDA, which I declined. If they are so closed about basic questions about their architecture, I doubt they will give in-depth details.
The "this smells like MSFT" bell was ringing loudly in my head as well.
Automatically generated tag clouds for discussions would make it easier to find interesting parts (if any).
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Most interesting part of this article is that the money is raised mostly by Japanese banks, earmarked for Japanese / Asian scaling.

Interesting to me because $75m+ buy you a lot of technical talent overseas to build your own - what is it about ustream that makes it so compelling as an investment target vs. a new start-up buildout?
I like it, but would like to see something more general.

Copy-move detection would be neat: http://www.lemonodor.com/archives/2008/02/protecting_journal...
They got a great team over there. I expect nothing less from them. Jam on!
> It's the same as pretty much any big company - underperformers are notified that they're underperforming, put on a performance improvement plan to help improve their performance, and if they still don't improve, they're fired.

On the teams I was on, this was true in theory but not in practice. There were a few weak performers. If they were mediocre, they slipped by unnoticed; if they were really bad, they would get a ton of performance improvement meetings, second chances, etc, and firing was put off for as long as possible. Not sure if this was due to legal fears or what, but it was my anecdotal experience over 3 years.
I want privacy because it's a self-explanatory, daily part of the human condition that every human understands from the time they're small. I don't have to explain it, I refuse to justify my need for it, and I will do whatever I have to do to protect it. Including breaking your $#)($& laws.

Consequently, I will never take a job for which a piss-check is a condition of employment. For one thing, that is self-incrimination, from which I'm protected by the 5th amendment. And I'm not signing away my constitutional rights to work for some totalitarian employer.
A fourth option is to submit the app in advance, but release it to the store at a later time. On release date of the iPad, get one, drive home, test your app, and if it's running well enough, put it online in the store.
What's the rationale for Google getting in on the hardware business anyway? Are they so concerned that Apple will dominate the metal that the web is viewed under that they have to take matters into their own hands? It seems a bit extreme.
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Ustream is a top 600 site. If you started from scratch, not only is there no guarantee that you'd even reach that level(market now is saturated) but even if you did, it'd take you 3-4 years to get there.
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Here is one link: http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2009/09/16/ARMCortexA9SMPDe...

Also Anandtech on the Cortex A9:
http://www.anandtech.com/gadgets/showdoc.aspx?i=3714&p=3

and the pages around that.
Have you discovered that if you have something that someone else wants, and they have something you want, and you swap, then you can both end up happier?

Have you discovered that it's tricky to carry with you for exchange purposes every conceivable desire of the guy that owns the grocery store, and thought that it might be handy to introduce an abstraction layer?
I agree. I think it would have been even better had comments not be allowed, so the piece could stand on its own as a whole. It sort of reminds me of the tech industry's version of Dadaist poetry.
MacRuby doesn't run on an interpreter, it has several ways of running with JIT bytecode compiling as its default.

The biggest hurdle for MacRuby is that it uses garbage collection, which isn't available on the iPhone OS.

Applications will still need to be 'signed' to run on the iPhone.
I think it's safe to say that you guys think, at a company-wide level, that you're smarter, on average, than any other Software Company (I hesitate to suggest that Google is merely a Software company, but failed to come up with a better way of putting it) around. That's kind of what I was driving at with what I said before, and I apologize if it came off at all snarky or anything.

However, I think it's only fair to add that, in my interactions with "Googlers" in other situations (i.e. not recruitment) have been really fantastic. Namely, I'd say that the Chromium guys have been amazing, and they're making it a joy to try to get involved (related to a school project out of the scope of this conversation).

In short, I'd be more swayed by the recruiters (who are often engineers) if I felt like they weren't just trying to intimidate me with Google's prestige all the time. We know already :)
This is just the start of many more videos we'll be posting... sorry for the shakiness, this was our first!

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It's not a great result, but it was private property - I was thrown out of a friend's wedding at the Eagle's because my hair was too long! (collar length!)

Kind of pales next to people not being allowed to demonstrate unless they 1. have a permit and/or 2. are willing to stand inside a fenced-off area. Or to gather together on private property to attend a rave party (invaded by SWAT team, in Utah).

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You misunderstand me. I slow down at stop signs to thoroughly verify that no one is coming (and if it is a dangerous stop then I tend to stop completely), but I simply don't follow "the letter of the law". There is no logical reason to insist that my wheels come to a "full and complete stop" when I can clearly see the way is clear. If I somehow didn't perceive an oncoming vehicle normally I would be about as likely to not perceive it if I followed the law exactly.
The materials science term for permanent deformation is plastic deformation. Deformation from which the material spontaneously recovers is called elastic deformation.

I think the article is indicating that the metal foam can undergo up to 80% elastic deformation.
Exactly. I'm not flying through intersections without even touching my brakes. My point was about following the law to the letter.
1. Well before joining a startup you should be sure of two things, you believe in the product, and you believe in the founders.
2. If you plan joining a startup , plan on being there for at least two years, before you decide if it will pan out or not.
3. Expect to work a lot more than you probably are.
4. You're current job won't be as hurt as you think, believe me life goes on at every company, and you're leaving won't hurt as much as you think and should not be part of your consideration.
5. If you really want to work on something innovative to expand your skills work on your own product that interests you on your free time.
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First it was Zynga and now it is Ustream. Who said raising funds is difficult? No seriously, I have difficulty understanding how can such exorbitant amount of funding is justified during a VC round.
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I guess my biggest problem with your point is the fact that you say:

> The free market does not provide forcible wealth redistribution.

The fact that you draw this distinction seems to imply that you simultaneously concede that some redistribution of wealth is necessary, but also believe that this distribution can be possible without forcible intervention.

If this is not your position, I apologize. But if it is, I think it's naive at best. If the recent economic crisis has shown us anything, it is that, without force, not a penny will be pried from the hands of the financial institutions and corporations that control most of this country's wealth, let alone redistributed.
I'm a graduate student in computer science but I have an MA in math, so I think I can offer some perspective on the question of what mathematicians do all day. I've frequently joked with friends and colleagues that if I had to explain what I do to my early school-age nephew, I'd tell him "I count, color, draw pictures, and talk to people." And, really, in terms of the actual activities I do, that's accurate.

But, the point of all these activities is to solve problems. It's been famously attributed to Erdos that "a mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." In this case, of course, theorems are the problems we set ourselves to solve, often without any care or concern whether they reflect anything in the real world.

This then brings me to something one of my professors once said: "mathematicians today are doing the science of 200 years from now." I think it's more accurate to say we're building the tools necessary for the science of 200 years from now, but then his little quip loses something in pithiness. Nonetheless, when I think about all the mathematics I've studied and the ways in which it's been applied, I think I can agree with the sentiment behind it.

Finally, though it was Newton (who would probably consider himself primarily a physicist rather than a mathematician) who said he stood upon the shoulders of giants, I'd like to mention that mathematicians owe perhaps the greatest debt of all scientists to those who came before them. I was taught things in undergrad math courses that were research-level mathematics only 100 years ago, and I've done homework exercises in grad school that were originally the basis for PhD theses some 70-ish years ago.
Not every VC firm expects 90% failures.

As a very public counter example, Fred Wilson has stated that his lifetime failure rate is 20%. To get it that low, he most definitely had to pass a lot of profitable but high volatility opportunities.

Highway 12 Ventures has 20 companies listed in it's portfolio, and 5 of them are already successful exits. Their portfolio is not large enough to allow for very low success rates, and their past experience seems to re-confirm that they do not generally invest in super-high-risk activities.

Further, VCs are not interchangeable. They have different areas of expertise. This will lead to them investing in markets they understand, and often passing on opportunities in markets where they're less familiar, even if everything seems perfectly reasonable.

Accusing them of being dishonest for noting that they routinely pass on good investments is absurd. I'm certain that they do so on a very regular basis.
but but we've never actually preprocessed text at ludicrous speed before...
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Take that, HTML5!

Seriously, though, I don't know enough about music to make that work right but it's pretty impressive. Would be cool if Flash allowed local MIDI devices to connect.