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Why did she care about tenure? She could have just focused exclusively on the startup, making it more likely to succeed.
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How do you "recover" from something like this? If I had done something like what she did, and I had full memory of it, I would attempt suicide - not out of some perverse sense of duty, but as a way to escape.

(I believe that the soul dies with the body, and that supernatural events are categorically impossible. So when I say "escape", I mean a completely different thing than a religious person would mean.)
My startup, https://snaptic.com , is trying to help them wake up by building a better note taking app.

We are on Android, iPhone, and web.

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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1089905
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Just in case people are still wondering, this is one of many articles under the heading "Fiction?" in the on site's sidebar.
Nick Bostrom has written a paper about just that, arguing that we may be living inside a computer simulation. It's an interesting read. See http://www.simulation-argument.com/
Same here, flag it.
Yes this is a sad list. "why i love being single.... cost cutting, low phone bills (same carrier mobile to mobile is usually free), Freedom to look around other cute chicks..."

Ask Men has a better version http://www.askmen.com/money/how_to/37_how_to.html
This reminds me of the Zen proverb that I ran across a few months ago, and now have pasted on the wall above my desk:

"To know and not to do is not yet to know."

There is something very real in the action taken from knowledge that looks so minor in foresight, and is so huge in hindsight. Like Goethe's famous quote about the power of action.

There is also the book "The Knowing-Doing Gap", which takes this idea into the organizational context.
I did not know about stratus (http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/stratus/), looks interesting! Now let's hope Red5 is planning to provide stratus/RTMFP support soon...
Do me a favour, save the child if it's in your power and think about all the possible parallel universe outcomes over a nice glass of chablis later.
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While I agree with the gist of the article, I find the following piece of advice counterproductive, especially when applied to math texts: "Read at the speed of understanding—don’t disengage from the hard stuff just to finish an article. When you start to glaze, or skim, or you feel like you’re just sort of scanning over the forms of words, reboot."

My advice is quite the opposite: do not try to understand the article left-to-right, top-to-bottom. Skim (omitting the hard parts) as many times as necessary to get the general ideas and only then attack the hard parts.
7Gbits/s saturated over a month is 2,247 TB

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=7Gb%2Fs+in+TB%2Fmon...

So at your €15/TB i would be €33,705 / month

Also €15/TB seems low as prices around the US are $0.10/GB so $100/TB which would equate to around $200k/month

Of course when you are pushing that much data you're going to want to pay per Mbit/s and with bandwidth as low as $3/Mbit we get around $21,000/month

What is probably happening here is that this guy has 7 dedicate servers at about $150 each per month that have a gigabit connection with say a couple of TB data allowance for each server and he's just saying that he has a capacity of 7Gb/s. The chat client is probably peer to peer so the video bandwidth for him is not that critical.
countdown to the mixergy guy tracking him down.
"HOW SOME RUSSIAN KID BUILT A SITE THAT'S BIGGER THAN YOURS"
...and how you could do it, too!
What broke the argument and suspense for me was that there was no explanation of the Fermi paradox. With 14 million type 2 and 3 civilizations and billions on our level he need to address that paradox for the story to be interesting.
Indeed. You can run the MS Windows client in WINE - but it doesn't integrate well at all.
I don't believe that the purpose of advertisements is to reassure customers AFTER they've spent the money. That doesn't make sense to me. Future sale is influenced by good service over the length of ownership. I don't agree that post-sale ego-stroking is even a factor.

I do however believe and agree that beliefs are self reinforcing (see I failed again, just like I knew I would)
Perhaps she had received information or suspected that she was going to be left out of that as well.
I don't believe she would "recover" from this. She will quite likely spend along time in a prison psych ward.

John Hinkley, Jr who shot Reagan in 1981 was sent to a psych ward and is still under the care of the psychiatric facility, even though now allowed conditional release.
I like the idea. Important point though (I think): the yellow/orange you used is both hard to my eyes and difficult to read.

HTH.
The use of "its" was correct in the original title.
It seems wrong to write an article about Canonical (Ubuntu) and Microsoft without mentioning "Bug #1": https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1
You do know that much of human suffering is not caused by humans? Earthquakes, viruses and all that stuff. Oh, yeah, death, too, of course. But I wouldn't be very mad at god because of that. I also wouldn't respect him very much. I'm pretty blind to the suffering of animals or sometimes even other humans (I was much more shocked when I heard about the death of my grandpa than when I heard about the earthquake in Haiti). So I can understand his perspective. But god doesn't exist anyway, so this point is pretty moot.

Also: omniscient and omnipotent? Does not compute.
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Pablo the hacker behind it, presented in detail at DLD, and I was lucky enough to see it. They were able to detect between the species of mosquito that are carriers and those that weren't.
And Pablo also pointed out that their target would be $10--especially if volume would be reached...
This is a fairly old meme - Circa 2003 - though I think they've added a new introductory paragraph. Turns out it was mostly a hoax. Still an enjoyable read.

[Citation: http://www.uer.ca/forum_showthread_archive.asp?threadid=8951]
NAT/Firewalls are a bitch. I'm not a Flash expert, but as far as I know it can only open TCP connections, and only to specially set up servers (which respond positively to a policy request on a certain port). Punching holes in firewalls is pretty much a UDP-only thing in practice; Skype is one of the few apps that truly pull it off, and even that's not 100% reliable.

You could in theory do it with a signed Java applet, though it will ask the user for permission for access to his entire computer, and it's not something you'd throw together in a few weeks.
Just because you're successful in one area doesn't necessarily mean you should stop caring about your goals in another area. Most PhDs care about tenure. Academic and entrepreneurial goals are not necessarily compatible.
I like the concept; the transaction cost of micropayments is reduced by separating the decision of how much to pay from the act of making the payment.
Apple's iPad could be game-changer in digital-media censorship
Great execution. I know it's supposed to be anonymous, but I wouldn't require that. Have optional fields for a website, blog, GitHub (or Google Code or whatever the hell) public code repository, and projects they've worked on. I noticed a number of people have links to one or more of these in the Short Answers section; that to me shows that the site's focus on anonymous communication may not be the right choice for everyone.
> justice requires her death.

All do respect, but WTF?

There's no question that what she did was horrible, but how is it `just' to kill someone in response? Perhaps revenge and barbaric `justice' in the tradition of lex talionis (eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth) would encourage such a response, but I can see no benefit; it won't bring the dead back to life.

In fact, it is my opinion that the only valid motivations for punishment are:
- deterrence.
- protection of society and the perpetrator from each other.
- rehabilitation.
- moral denouncement.

These ideas are not unique to me. In fact, they're quite popular in international politics, and are part of the legal codes of certain countries. For example, The Criminal Code of Canada includes:

Purpose and Principles of Sentencing

Purpose
718. The fundamental purpose of sentencing is to contribute, along with crime prevention initiatives, to respect for the law and the maintenance of a just, peaceful and safe society by imposing just sanctions that have one or more of the following objectives:
(a) to denounce unlawful conduct;
(b) to deter the offender and other persons from committing offences;
(c) to separate offenders from society, where necessary;
(d) to assist in rehabilitating offenders;
(e) to provide reparations for harm done to victims or to the community; and
(f) to promote a sense of responsibility in offenders, and acknowledgment of the harm done to victims and to the community.

-- http://laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/C-46/page-16.html#anchorbo-ga:...
When will people come to their senses? How many more senseless killings are required before we can take action? Ban academia now!
Google Buzz Privacy Update Has Users Seeing Stars, Not Private Email Addresses
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/eula/stratus.html

I don't see anything in the TOS against advertising.

Nor in the FAQ, with regards to commercial applications:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/stratus/

Edit: That's an article. We're talking about the actual TOS, which does not specifically disallow advertising: i think they simply want to make sure people aren't billing for access to p2p services (which is stated clearly in the TOS).
Social Engineering Scammers Offer Live Support
World may not be warming, say scientists
I'm reminded of a saying I heard once:

Those that know and know that they know are wise, follow them.
Those that know and know not that they know are asleep, wake them.
Those that know not and know that they know not are students , teach them.
Those that know not and know not that they know not are fools, shun them.

As the article notes, we're all a little of each, rather than one of the above, but for me, it captures it nicely.
I think Ron Gilbert himself said on his blog that it hardly seemed worth it now that it had basically been done in the Pirates of the Caribbean
YC Company Needs Some FB Connect Help For A Week Or Two
We need some help to add FB Connect features into our Twitter app before we launch in 2 weeks. Most notable features include "invite friends" and "publish to wall/feed". It probably won't take long at all. We are running at full bandwidth right now.

Are you the person to help us? Please email me: 1daysports@gmail.com
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From John Galt's speech in Atlas Shrugged:

"Justice is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake the character of men as you cannot fake the character of nature, that you must judge all men as conscientiously as you judge inanimate objects, with the same respect for truth, with the same incorruptible vision, by as pure and as rational a process of identification — that every man must be judged for what he is and treated accordingly, that just as you do not pay a higher price for a rusty chunk of scrap than for a piece of shining metal, so you do not value a rotter above a hero — that your moral appraisal is the coin paying men for their virtues or vices, and this payment demands of you as scrupulous an honor as you bring to financial transactions—that to withhold your contempt from men’s vices is an act of moral counterfeiting, and to withhold your admiration from their virtues is an act of moral embezzlement — that to place any other concern higher than justice is to devaluate your moral currency and defraud the good in favor of the evil, since only the good can lose by a default of justice and only the evil can profit—and that the bottom of the pit at the end of that road, the act of moral bankruptcy, is to punish men for their virtues and reward them for their vices, that that is the collapse to full depravity, the Black Mass of the worship of death, the dedication of your consciousness to the destruction of existence."

That's the moral case; note what I said in the parent comment about the practicality of capital punishment.
TED Day 2: Augmented Reality, Pivot, and Mosquito-zapping Lasers
I'm not sure what your consider "ridiculous" about the statistics. They are simply indicators of material wealth. Could you tell me which statistics you feel are "ridiculous" and why?

What the article shows is that in terms of living conditions, the American poor do not suffer much. Most of them have enough space to live in (more than Manhattan bankers you probably consider rich), enough food to eat (also more than those Manhattan bankers, judging by waistlines), a car to drive and all sorts of household appliances. In short, the poor have all their material needs met, and they manage this with only 16 hours of work/week.

In fact, the article shows that the modern poor are richer than the middle class of the recent past. In short, you can take the modern era's productivity gains and spend it on leisure rather than material wealth. Millions of people already do so.
As a Linux user I use evernote through the web interface primarily for web clipping, and it works quite well in that respect. For notes I need cloud-available I just write them in whatever and then put them either in toodledo or google docs/zoho.

I definitely agree there is no perfect one ring to rule them all solution. Not sure there is for any OS.
This is quite amazing... the mixing of maps, street view, augmented reality, geotagged imagery, in such a fluid interface is impressive. Hopefully this technology will spread all around (instead of focusing on a small area just being a proof-of-concept).

I think the next step is seamlessly integrating this with mobile devices, so simply panning the mobile device would overlay other images, street view, videos and other goodness in real time. (kind of like google goggles, except in real time with much more fluid integration)
I've always thought this sort of thing would make for an interesting way for publishers of websites to monetize their traffic. Instead of showing ads, a publisher could make it so each page view meant a small unit of work was completed.

A company could do business like an ad network, but instead of matching advertisers with publishers and serving ads, it would match groups needing computing resources with publishers and handle everything involved with serving out units of work and collecting the results.
My simple guess for that 1 sentence: 'Wish for a Twitter app.'
DOJ Launches Intellectual-property-enforcement Task Force
Ten thousand is the magic number
Actually, that's pretty much accurate. I initially didn't even realise this was written by ESR and just assumed the author was very inexperienced. ESR however should know better, though to be honest I don't even know if the guy still writes code. I hate to stoop to ad hominem attacks, but re-reading it knowing that it's him I get the impression this was a petty reaction to some feud with a GCC dev. In any case I'd love to know who the hell is upvoting this "story".
PriceWaterhouseCoopers Releases 2009 Patent Litigation Study on Trolls
Yes, but the problem with this is that you can't just enter a stream of text. If I'm in a math class, attempting to take notes, I have to point and click on those apps.

With apps that support LaTeX, I can just type $, start typing math, and type another $ to go back to regular text. Sure, I'll have to type things like \int, but that's still faster than trying to find the integral button in OneNote.

Edit: fix typo.
I was thinking more along the lines of 'eugenics'
40s-era Mechanical Fire Control Computers Explained
the same way any other app would
What's the value in dumping 50 links on your readers? Are we supposed to read all that? Isn't it the function of the editor to go through them and select their picks, thus saving us time by presenting only the best content? I really don't get these long lists.
Eighty years without flippers
So here's how it works: Flash 10 has built in p2p support. Firewalls can block this, so if the firewall to the far peer is blocked,the near peer falls back to Stratus (adobe Server), which probably has a socket? open to the far peer.
> 7Gbits/s saturated over a month is 2,247 TB

Even the best calculation is wrong when you plug in the wrong friggin data... I confused myself from converting gbit to GB and ended up with 0.7 gbit instead of 7 .. :-S

> Also €15/TB seems low

That's why I do business with them :) It's hetzner.de, and their "rootserver" (€49/month and up) comes with 2.000 GB free traffic. Extra is free, but capped at 10 mbit, or €14.90/TB. The servers are connected at 100 mbit, though. I'd guess that's just to keep the ethernet infrastructure cheap, and a gbit connection would be possible for a fee.

I'm not affiliated with them, just a happy customer.
> Flash 10 has built in p2p support.

Oh!
Flamebait. Some technologies are better hits than others, and anecdotes about can openers and books don't seem like enough to generalize to the statement "Technology for the sake of technology is a waste of time", which I personally disagree with.

My own anecdote about can openers: I use an old-fashioned one, though my friend's little old grandma has a cool electric one under which she just has to hold the can while it magnetizes the top and cuts it off. She could probably use the old-fashioned can opener, but arthritis is still annoying.
> HTTP authentication while not particularly great in the browser ( mainly because of UI/logging out issues )

You know, with all the little browser-chrome experiments that have been going on lately, I'm really surprised that no one has tried to make HTTP-authentication-based login/logout/account management as painless as HTML-served variants. I'd imagine that it would couple with the little "lock" icon in the URL/status bar, making it have four states instead of two: "insecure, secure, insecurely logged in, and securely logged in" where clicking on it brings up a menu to both view credentials and change your password/edit profile/log out/close account/sign up/anything else browser makers want to implement. (They could be distinct, of course, but I like the idea of making "insecure" look scary so that users would be deterred from sending credentials through it.
I've seen my fair share of compiler (and even assembler) bugs, but they were almost all in customised, proprietary compilers for game consoles. Those get nowhere near the number of eyeballs that GCC does. 99 times out of a 100, weird bugs are my own stupid fault. The ratio is even higher for multithreaded code.
Look harder then:

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashmediaserver/articles/p2p_ap...

"Stratus is for non-commercial use only."

Additionally, when you receive your beta access they show additional docs letting you know that if you want to run ads/make money you need to look into livecycle. Even had a adobe rep contact us after we launched one of our p2p services informing us of such.
"some men do eke out contentment, and they get there by gradually ratcheting down their expectations. Their appetites fade. They compromise, and rationalize, and eventually settle.

That’s the loser’s consolation prize."

The problem with this view is that being content with what you have makes you a loser. In fact, whenever I read something piece that attempts to divide people up between the categories of winners and losers, I always end up feeling like I would just rather not play that game.

(not to say there isn't some good advice in there, especially about not feeling too comfortable. i just find the winners/losers paradigm pretty limited)
I so don't get why people are not encouraged to use pass phrases rather than single words as they are both easy to remember and long.

Take the example weak password "iloveu" if you changed that to "i love beer" or "i love big cocks" you rocket from weak to strong. You can even work the name of the site in there "i love facebook" or "i love hacker news".

/me shakes head

btw. what's a "strenght meter"?
As a counterpoint to the dumb users googling for "facebook login" and typing their password into the site that was the first hit, here's a case where the people who get to chatroulette by googling for it come out ahead, because Google corrects the obvious typos and brings up the real site as the first result. ;-)
Does journler have better formatting than Evernote?
You can get a TB traffic for 15€ (Gigabit port) in Europe.
Actually - I just noticed from the comments that people are not sure how will this work. Monthly payments or per-click payments. I'd be happy to mark some pages for monthly support, but the whole idea is not that clear yet...
> If you believe in free will, God couldn't be causing any of the suffering to happen. People have been given the complete choice to do whatever they please, and this world is a product of that. This world's suffering is our own.

Free will is an elegant answer, if we accept it... But what about natural disasters?

>Allowing something to happen != causing

No, but Jehova seems to have gone a lot farther than that in the OT. Killing innocent children -- infants even -- for being first-born comes to mind...

> Secondly, who are you, in your own infinitesimally small amount of knowledge, to question an omniscient, omnipotent being?

Someone who believes that certain things are intrinsically wrong, regardless of whether the perpetrator is God.
Have to live in the US to register (properly). Asks for state name. Oh, well...
I never said that profitability was the main criteria here. I just seems obvious to me that Apple creates a great blend of hardware and software that is pretty much unmatched in the industry. That doesn't mean their products are perfect for everyone or that I even own one -- just that they get how to build hardware and software. That's fairly rare in this industry.

Now your argument seems to be that regardless of what they do, profitability is no way related? They're profitable because they make products that people like and buy. If they weren't profitable it would because people don't like their products and don't buy them. I'd say that's rather significant.
whose got no life that they would ever think to look at even one of those 50 freakin' links... my god - sorry for the poor bastard that compiled a list like that knowing it will never get looked at
part 2: http://www.eugeneleeslover.com/VIDEOS/fire_control_computer_...
It looks like Flash 10.1 added something built in to do the UDP-firewall-punching and connection setup for peer-to-peer video between Flash clients: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/stratus/

No idea if that's what he's using or he rolled his own. Using Stratus seems like the most obvious option, but it looks like it's limited beta only, and the beta EULA prohibits commercial use, so if he's using it, it's unofficially.
5 things I wish I learned in Business School [video]
All else being equal, capital punishment is a great deterrent: 100% effective at preventing that person from committing that crime again. Of course, things are rarely equal, and I agree with maxharris that the impossibility of correcting errors means that capital punishment should be off limits for justice systems.

More to your point, though, I think that a justice system which was ultimately based on retribution would have all the positive qualities you speak of as valid motivations. Fitting the punishment to the crime is very difficult unless you have a way to measure how bad the crime was. An eye for an eye, as a default outcome, would provide a quantitative starting point for negotiations between (living) victims and the original aggressor. Of course, this doesn't help much for the dead.
Great idea. This definitely solves a real problem.
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