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Funny, but no. :)

I met most of my expat friends at the beginning of their visa processes (vacationers or students who want to stay, or fell in love with someone here), so I don't think survivorship bias plays a role in my own observations.
Agreed with the former although it was mostly in passing, but I suspect a lot of the latter will be abrogated. How long with the public sector unions be able to get people making e.g. 40K to keep sacrificing to keep people making e.g. 80K fat and happy? SS and Medicare are bigger problems, but are in part amenable to adjustments at the edges (e.g. raising the retirement age).

I give this higher marks for the emphasis on including state and local governments when scoring the US deficits.

At a macro level this is important ... although as a resident of a state and local governments that are in fairly good fiscal shape, have balanced tax policies (i.e. not too much from the extremely variable incomes of "the rich" or from any one tax source), etc., it's not clear how much e.g. California's Greece like behavior will affect me.
To be clear, these Mac Minis are running regular OS X, not OS X Server. I bought one of these back when they first started, using PPC Mac Minis, and everything was as advertised. My motivation at the time was basically just to see if there were any major advantages to using OS X on the server, over Linux (I was using and still use CentOS and Debian on other servers). I didn't really find any such advantages, so after the contract was finished, I had them send me the Mac Mini.
> ... Facebook as examples of big successful apps that were technically terrific very early.

Whoa whoa? Where’d you get that idea? When it started its back-end was technically atrocious, written in a big pile of php spaghetti on Zuckerberg’s subnotebook, its front-end had barely any features, and it crashed all the time.

But it didn’t really matter, because the user base was in the thousands for quite some time, and then organized in a school-by-school way that let them easily handle the load by throwing hardware at it.

Then within a year or two, they had more money than they knew what to do with, and could hire people to do a nearly complete back-end rewrite.
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I use one with a cloth band that's snug enough to keep it from sliding down; the cloth makes it sufficiently comfortable when a bit snug.

It's also small and very modest in scope, just an analog hours and minutes hands display (yes, I'm old fashioned).
If you visit m.youtube.com you'll see they also offer .3gp files for mobile. If I'm not mistaken, even in some different resolutions.
Prosecution depends on what pics the staff were emailing around. If forensics turns up salacious pictures, along with inept cover ups that demonstrate intent, then the fishing expedition starts. Depending on how out of control the school was, the Feds could end up with an open-ended fishing expedition into staff home computers and a warehouse full of evidence.
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Well, that's because it appears to be based on spying that the plaintiff claims mistook candy for drugs.

But I'm sure that child porn is firmly in the background: if or more administrators were abusing the web cam feature such that they saw the above, you know they'll have been seeing students without all their clothes on (or likely at least this student, if it just so happens this was the only spying incident and it was based on a prior report of his doing drugs or whatever).

Sounds like a situation that calls for some small pieces of tape to cover the built in camera and mike.
"X rules for writing" articles are inherently stupid. Writing (as so many other forms of art) means following a set of arbitrary rules. Make up your own arbitrary rules, be the best at that and enjoy the fame.
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Those causes are certainly sympathetic to anarchism, but I'm pretty sure that the early 20th century anarchists really were anarchists. They were pretty open about their goals; just like the people we currently call terrorists.

Libertarian socialism is now the most polite label for the anarchist political philosophy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialism I prefer to call it left libertarianism.
Is that not a solution to the threat of atomic war? Seems to be working ok so far.
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"... One problem with opening the upper echelons to lower classes, is that the lower classes are more desperate for money and thus more easily corrupted. ..."

Really? Can you explain how are the lower classes more corruptible? Are you really suggesting that your hierarchy in society determines honesty?

"... His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy. ..."

The problem with using Bush as an example is that Prescott Bush - Grandfather to both President Bush Snr & Jnr - worked with the enemy in WW2 ~ http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldw...
Education has transformed significantly since 1995 because of the internet. Some good, some not so good.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/learni...
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Ugh, and it got to the second page.
There's a few video links, but the main demonstration (with the explanatory voice-over) is this one: http://graphics.cs.williams.edu/papers/PhotonHPG09/ISPM-HPG0... (~5 min, 41MB)
Generally, I agree with your point: articles like this one are inherently misguided.

But I would argue that this is because the best writing often breaks many such "rules."
Everyone -- thanks a lot for all the answers and insights.
That helped.
To give you more details, since some are curious, they are just beginning, about a month or two. There is some code but its not more then 5-10% of what is needed for public beta.

One other advice I got is to strive to stay with ~3-4% after all dilutions, which should be estimated as being diluted 1/3 for three times. so to stay with 3% i should start with 10.5% (->6.9% => 4.6% => 3%).

One other detail I didn't mention is that they want me to keep my day job (me salary paying job i currently have), until the first round (seed money).
Currently the three of them also keep their day job, so we are all kind of equal on that aspect.

Regarding the founders abilities, they have design/biz dev/ceo experience.
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From what the video doesn't show, it appears that Flyfire is not actually a new display technology, it is just a neat "what if" idea that they turned into a concept video.

The majority of the ML's output is a mix of creative dreams and proof of concept prototypes, rather than new technologies.
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Can you summarize what safe harbor provisions were removed? It wasn't clear to me from Stack's writing what, exactly, technical folks were being exempt from.
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I have no idea what these guys are talking about, but this is a tangent:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tangent_to_a_curve.svg

And AB is orthogonal to CD:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Perpendicular-coloured.svg
Facebook only supported 3 or 4 import formats, but Octazen supports at least 21 different services. Maybe they wanted the technology as well as the people who know how to use the technology? Likely cheaper and faster than getting 3 to 4 engineers on the task and then waiting 6 months.
I completely forgot about these guys but I think they have been doing this for a while. I can think of a number of reasons you might want to do this and one of those would be to use the Apple HTTP video streaming software that was released last year.

It is also interesting that GoDaddy just released OSX hosting although at a higher cost using XServe boxes and Parrallels. http://www.godaddy.com/hosting/mac-hosting.aspx
There's Hackers and Founders, that I organize. We're based on the penninsula, but we're going to start having meetups in SF every 4-6 weeks. http://www.hackersandfounders.com
The FireFly project is similar in some ways to this, its an actual implementation however: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~dixa/projects/firefly/

It uses LEDs with PIC processors on each LED, the smart LEDs are then connected to each other in a parallel arrangement I believe. The power to the LEDs is used both as current for the LEDs as well as a data line.

Upon start up the LEDs becon out their unique ID, negotiated by communicating over their data lines. A webcam is then used to detect the position of the LEDs by their ID.

So effectively the chain of LEDs can be arbitrarily scattered, and by detecting the position of the LEDs in 3D space, their software then allows images etc. to be displayed.
I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that in order to ride the current wave of science-fiction-as-reality I'll need a smartphone.
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Ever heard of the Deborah Number ? The name comes frome the bible :

"The mountains flowed before the Lord" in a song by prophetess Deborah recorded in the Bible (Judges 5:5)

It's actually used in rheology to describe if a materials acts more like a liquid or a solid. Even mountains acts like liquid at a big enough time scale :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_number
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I once set my facebook email as a super old hotmail address all the way back from high school. I wanted all the notification spam sent to an email I would never check. I later get a "suggestion" to friend a very random person with a vaguely familiar name who I have 0 mutual friends with.

The name was an alumini of a college I didn't go to, who I once emailed to setup an admissions interview with.

Facebook clearly has already been scraping email headers (or at least had an agreement with microsoft to do so).
Well of course; but if that's what they find would you not agree CP laws would start to apply :)

Your right about the fishing trip though. In this case, while I disagree in general with open ended investigations, I'd support it - great punishment in a way to invade the privacy of these people, see how the like it :) (I know that's a somewhat petty attitude).
Another HN contributor did a much better job than I could: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1137930

My only caveat is that as far as I remember this is something that Pat Moynihan in the middle of the night slipped into a COBRA bill (one of those last minute 1,000 page catch alls to continue funding the government) instead of something subjected to any debate in the Congress. Yep, it did happen in the same year as the tax changes, but not e.g. in the same bill or as I recall at the same time.
I bought one of these hats recently http://www.truffaux.com (I think it's the Snakeskin one.. nice and simple) and I'm very happy with it. Like subwindow says: don't wear it all the time. I just wear it every now and then. Sometimes I feel like a bit of a wanker by wearing something that's not super normal, but I think that's probably generated by self-consciousness and doesn't really have much validity. At least that's what I tell myself :)
I found it a pain to use, in that file locations etc. are different from both Linux and Solaris; the management apps weren't all that special either - I ended up using the command line to automate things.

I think the main attraction would be for folks that already have a lot of Mac systems.
As used as a term of art "fishing expedition" just isn't correct usage here. Those are searches etc. that are based on a pretext and are looking for anything possible to zap someone.

In this case, we are presuming that a broad based search won't happen unless and until evidence of real violations are found, upon which the FBI will naturally want to discover the scope of them.

Even then, to search an individual's home computer without any evidence the individual was engaged in wrongdoing would in theory not hold up in court. But the FBI is famously abusive and publicity hungry and "child p0rn is the root password to the US Constitution".
If record companies can’t adapt to this new world, they will die out; and without advances, so will the futures of many talented bands.

I think there is a bit of a double-standard here. While digital music technology is disabling the ability for record companies to make money using their current model, it is enabling musicians to do more of what the record companies used to provide.

A talented musician today can record, edit and mix an album using computers and software that can be obtained for free or less(1). They can then distribute and promote a single world-wide and make the album available in both electronic and physical formats with small or no up-front cost and no ongoing risk (excess inventory, etc.). As this article points out, videos can be made for small amounts of money and distributed world-wide (as long as you haven't already sold your right to do so) to promote the band and the album as well.

There certainly are things that are still hard to do without a record company behind you but a significant amount of the risk these companies used to incur (namely studio time, marketing and distribution) are now all within the reach of anyone with talent and ambition.

Essentially musicians (and to an extent, novelists and filmmakers) are enjoying the position that software developers have enjoyed for decades. That is to say, it is not easy, or common, to see "rock stars" emerge from this process but with the reduced overhead it allows, it is possible to "make art your day-job" with a much smaller fan/customer base than it would be if you had to foot the bill for an entire studio and all of the other musicians that come with it.

So I believe, that to imply that the demise of record companies (as we know them) will be anything but a net gain for good music, is a dubious assumption.

(1)Many companies now pay to have computers capable of these tasks disposed of so you may even get paid to acquire the hardware, and there have been open-source applications capable of multitrack digital recording for years.
This was something I actually hadn't seen before in this debate:

companies are cutting back spending on all but their biggest stars, and not signing nearly as many new acts.

I can sort of see how the big labels could stumble along their old path using heavy-handed techniques and lobbying for stronger copyright laws keep themselves in power as long as they actually supplied a constant stream of new music.

But not investing in their own future - that makes their demise a certainty.
Do not use url shorterners.
Do not create a linkbaiting title.

That said, the demo by Doug Engelbart from 1968 (which is what you should have used as a title) is very impressive. I saw it ten years ago in my human-computer interaction course, and everyone was completely blown away by it then, and it's still very impressive.
You mean on HN because we won't see the domain next to the link?
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3 OS X machines gave me more trouble than 100s of linux boxes. They kept locking up, hard, whenever load got above "looked at severely." We had remotely controllable PDUs, so we could power cycle over ssh, but it was still a pita.

No matter how much you love OS X on the desktop, I would stay the hell away from it in the server room. Apple just doesn't care enough to fix the problems, and/or there aren't enough people using it that way to get all the kinks out.

I'm also pretty sure mac mini's don't have ECC memory. And ECC is not optional on a server: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf
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After the initial conviction was set aside, after 4 delays in sentencing, "[...] facing health problems, Amero pleaded guilty to one count of misdemeanor disorderly conduct, paying a $100 fine and losing her teaching license, just to settle the case."
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I agree with the goal, but I think a page in this flippant style does not effectively promote that goal. It's also at odds with the visual and verbal tone of the rest of the site.

Something like the following, intended to briefly summarize the issue and solutions, might be more effective:

This site uses modern web standards, common to most modern sites and supported by most modern browsers.

You're viewing this error page because you're using an older browser that does not support modern standards.

Possible solutions:

- upgrade to [Internet Explorer 8]
- install [Firefox]
- install [Chrome]
- install [Safari]
- install [Opera]

If you're using one of the browsers listed above and you're still seeing this page, please ping me on Twitter at @kentbrew.
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Ouch, that sounds painful. I still use my 2+ year old MacBook a lot because Ubuntu seems to work perfectly on it. I have a new 4 core Toshiba that has been a nightmare re: Ubuntu. I decided to wait for the next Ubuntu release.
I see two likely scenarios:

1. A prissy, overbearing administrator did this carefully, with due attention to privacy of records.

2. Misuse of the webcams was rife and uncontrolled. School staff were emailing funny webcam captures with no regard for privacy, public opinion, or self preservation. The investigation will rapidly turn into "copy every hard drive touched by a staff member". I.e., a fishing expedition.
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Allegedly selling drugs. The "child" claims he was photographed holding "Mike and Ike candy": "Official: FBI probing Pa. school webcam spy case" (an AP story): http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02...
And I wouldn't change a thing. Feel free to contribute content to change it though. Please avoid trying to pass laws.
Yeah, I can believe that, PA seems to have a lot of fantastically corrupt public officials. This is after all the state with the "cash for kids" scheme, where judges took bribes/extorted money from a private prison and in turn threw thousands of kids into it, plenty completely innocent (e.g. one in a case for publishing a web page that was derogatory towards a teacher). If it wasn't all involving Democrats, it would be worldwide headline news, instead the judges were allowed to plea bargain to quite modest tax evasion charges.
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Not at all. The network would exist - it would just be all encrypted and you couldn't navigate it unless you held the key to each successive node. To the end user, it could be more or less just like Facebook, and they could forget that it was encrypted while using it.

It'd be hard to monetize because social network money (what there is of it) is all based on contextual and targeted advertising, or on gathering user statistics. Both would be impossible if all the data were encrypted.
As much as this would make for a nice concert/show gizmo, I'm also interested in those tiny helicopters themselves. To control them with such precision would be impressive (well from a non specialist point of view). Yet I can't seem to find info about them on either of the labs' sites (this one and the ARES lab). There could be many other use for such swarms (I'm thinking controlling a local set of cameras to get different angles, but I'm sure there are so much more).
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Yeah, in fact it was manybooks that led me to macminicolo. I hadn't seen manybooks until yesterday. Neat site. Nice typography.
"The mother of all demos" was used for this particular demo by Douglas Crockford in one of his public lectures about Javascript, http://yuiblog.com/crockford/. I also recommend watching that, btw.
Besides the fact that this title is catchy - what's wrong with that? - it also tells more about the content than "the demo by Doug Engelbart from 1968". Surprisingly, not that many people know or care who Doug Engelbart is.
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An argument against action in the face of uncertainty actually favors reducing CO2 production. The climate we have seems pretty good; overall, the world is comfortable and productive. So why risk changing it by pumping unprecedented amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere? Looking at the problem objectively, it seems like our current course of action is the most radical one. Contrary to your suggestion, we ARE acting radically in the face of uncertainty. And it's not even a 50/50 proposition: we are acting radically in the blind hope that the LESS probable outcome will happen.

In this case, those urging CO2 curbs are the conservatives, and those pushing to produce more CO2 are the radicals.
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Also Jeff Minter's games, most recently Space Giraffe and Gridrunner Revolution. SG in particular is designed around getting you in the zone and giving you so much information to process that you have to filter everything else out.
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This was Fromm's particular insight about modern industrial civilisation; in past social and productive orders, it was easier to see your oppressor, often in singularity. But now, not only is his nature infinitely more obscured, but, in fact, he is a legitimately anonymous, organic whole. Nobody in particular to hold responsible.
Unlikely, from my experience people back office/middle office people are far more likely to use it than front office people. Which probably skews the data a lot. FO people are much more likely to use Reuters instant messaging or Bloomberg to keep in-touch, etc.
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So you're saying that someone (individual or organization) should choose an opinion and stick to it forever, even in light of facts, policy changes etc?