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Other fun Japanese inventions (culling from Wikipedia):

The Biplane
Graphing Calculator
Solar powered calculator
Camcorder
Digital Camera
Blue lasers
VCRs
Anything made by Nintendo
Flash memory
Various types of steel
Quartz wristwatch
The continuously variable transmission

Yep, nothing innovative or new there.
One person's definition of good with computers is another person's definition of a script kiddy. :) I was called "good with computers" just because able to modify the toolbars in Word 97. (Not to mention knowing html!)
Since there's probably a lot of ticked off designers in this thread...

I could use some designer help with an open source project I'm working on. http://grokphoto.org

And for the record, no, I never have and never will use one of these logo crowdsourcing shops. Great design is far too important imo.
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This is a hard space to get real reviews that are not either PR puff pieces or providers stuffing in shill reviews. Are you working with phones that support a real SIP stack or will this be taking existing analog/POTS phones and attaching adapters? Are you willing/interested in dealing with the setup and maintenance costs of running your own PBX via Asterix? Two that I have had relatively good experiences with are Nextiva and Vocalocity and I have heard reasonably good things about Packet8 (those subtle qualifiers you see there are because there is always something you can complain about for any particular VOIP provider -- no one has reached the level of being "great" yet.) Nextiva has decent virtual fax services and can support a real fax machine with an adapter, but my adapter just shipped yesterday so I can't yet say whether or not it works as advertised or how well it integrates into the rest of their vFax system.
I'd suggest that any way you get around a given system has hack value. As someone else mentioned: social engineers have been called "hackers" before.

When I was doing penetration tests a decade ago, some of my best client engagements required little technical skill to gain access to some of the most prized data on the network (HR, Payroll, access to update the website). You'd be surprised how far you can get in many organizations without exploiting a single software or technology weakness.
I was hosting with GoDaddy but now only use them for domain registration. I'd say their managed service is for people who have a simple website to host. If you're looking for something specific from your environment, then any kind of shared hosting wouldn't be appropriate.

I don't have any experience about Rackspace.

Having said that, I now host on webfaction which is still a shared host but they're developer friendly and usually accommodate requests(libraries or apps on server) if it's reasonable enough. As a customer, I recommend them.
My naive interpretation is that both of these situations involve assigning "intelligence" to a machine or system built by a human w/o said human's continued intervention.

I'm thinking about the systems, not the rules within the systems. If the "official" philosophy line is that it's all about those rules, well maybe that's why official philosophy is so damn confusing.

I just finished reading "On Intelligence" by Jeff Hawkins, let me recommend that as a really well written and lucid explanation of the meaning of intelligence. If Numenta can build systems that can replicate what a 2 year old can do given a 2 year old's memory and sensory capabilities, I'll be ready to say that Jeff's explanation wins, and that philosophers better find something else that's impossible to prove or disprove (like the existence of God) to go argue about.
Get a scanner, Efax (http://www.efax.com/) and VoIP provider (we use http://www.gradwell.com/ but are in the UK) and you're all set.
In Other News: Real hackers will now be monitoring pager communications for the signals sent to these cars and do it themselves without the company website.
Off topic but what's this for? You're looking at indexing comments related to specific links?

Or is this just for fun?
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I asked a similar question sometime back and there were good responses: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=865297

I ended up rolling FreeSwitch on a dedicated server on-site. I found it to be very extensible and reliable and I would almost always recommend it over Asterisk. Also deployed a couple Linksys SPA-3102 analog-to-IP gateway devices for existing lines - this is your best bet with faxes which transmit poorly over the public internet (unless you deal with T.38 and all that). I also use Flowroute (http://www.flowroute.com/) for all outgoing calls and for an extra incoming phone line (what's known as a DID). Their rates are reasonable and support is good, no problems so far. All extensions are using Polycom Soundpoint phones which sound great, have the best speakerphones I've heard, and are extremely customizable to boot. Although their XML config format was created by a madman :) Email me if you want more info about our setup.

Alternatively, check out Phonebooth, which I believe just launched the other day. They allow you to use Polycom phones too: http://www.phonebooth.com/ and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1194615
Its unlikely that people will visit sites with a timer on but they might be interested in knowing how much time they have spent on a site. So, instead of reverse timer a simple timer will probably do the work. Also it will be great to have it as a browser plugin
Apple syncs music and movies without giving other apps an opportunity to do the same. I don't see this happening either, sorry. :(
Some is just misuse of statistics, but there are some stronger claims from various corners that the general meta-procedure is unsound. In particular, scientists get to pick among a number of different statistical tests, and scientific results using very different choices of statistical frameworks then end up aggregated: someone finds out X about heart attacks using method y, and someone else finds out X' using method z, and now medicine is said to know both X and X'.

More formally, most attempts to "lift" statistical inference into logical inference are unsound. A lot of scientists have, at least informally, a mixed model of: we acquire facts statistically (via e.g. hypothesis tests), then once we have those facts, we reason about them logically (using the usual rules of logical argument). But if you try to formalize this, e.g. building a system that derives facts from data by statistical hypothesis testing, and then uses first-order logical inference on the resulting fact base, you quickly get paradoxes.
We use fuguphone.com but its Canada only. Its basically just hosted asterisk. I'd look for a local one that can transfer you numbers.
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Roman numerals are best thought of less as a numbering system (as we think of our modern system) but a semi-overgrown counting system. If you start out with hashmarks and sort of let it evolve, you can see pretty easily how they got to what they had. It's obviously limiting but not entirely stupid, when put into context.
Thanks for pointing that out...fixed it :).
That looks like a great book, thanks for the recommendation.
I know right? Seems like the data can stand on it's own without the embellishment. Omitting important data just makes me distrust the author.
it's not.
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These systems have come a long way since I last looked in on this technology.

When I lived in Detroit the Mel Farr autogroup has a system (that I believe was semi-proprietary/in-house design) that they would install on high-risk loan vehicles. It was activated over a pager network and would allow them to remotely disable the starter on a vehicle if the weekly (yes, weekly) payment hadn't been made in time.

It was not an uncommon occurrence to hear of of see vehicles that were left running 24/7 until the owner could scrape up enough cash for their payment. The system at that time only disables the starter, so once the car was running you were good as long as you didn't shut it off.

Obviously the maturity of this system has come a long way since that time (1996ish).
The fact that you consider 1988 to be "fairly recently" shows how badly　US copyright laws and lobbying efforts have skewed people's perceptions. In 1988, there was no Facebook, Youtube, Google, Amazon, or web, cellphones were virtually unheard of, many of the people on this forum were unborn, the Berlin wall was standing and Michael Jackson was at the top of the world. It was a long, long time ago.

The justification for intellectual "property" is to encourage creators to work that will eventually belong to the public. I cannot believe that an author's decision to write a book at that time was influenced by whether or not could continue extracting profits in today's world.

The original copyright term of 14 years might have been defensible for books in that time, but extensions are very, very hard to justify in terms of the benefits to society.
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I would love ArsTechnica for my Kindle. I would pay the $1.99 a week for that.
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When I read the headline, that's more along the lines of what I was expecting in this story.

I learned long ago to take the default position that any given system is overwhelmingly more likely to be insecure than secure, unless it or one like it has already been hacked and exposed in a well-publicized, highly embarrassing/costly situation. And even then it's more likely to be insecure than reasonably secure.

I keep waiting for remote shutoff systems like the one discussed in the article, OnStar and the ones law enforcement has oft-proposed to be blown wide open.
I wasn't assuming you were a newb, just that you didn't have much exposure to what are commonly regarded as well designed Ruby libraries. It didn't occur to me that you'd have had that exposure and yet sound as if you were shocked and appalled about what is common practice.

I still would really like to see examples of well designed open source Ruby projects that follow what you consider to be decent design principles. I think that'd make a much stronger case for your argument, and might open my eyes to something that's been in a blind spot.

Personally, I feel like a certain amount of API design is bound to what consumers will expect. We can certainly stretch and shift their tendencies, but if we fly in the face of them, our perfection in a vacuum will never be appreciated.
Here's his article on it: http://thestartuplawyer.com/incorporation/the-delaware-freak...

His example comes to $175.

And it may be much worse depending on specifics or if you take this specific advice but incorporate in another state.
For SSL, you generally need a dedicated IP address, not a dedicated host. Newer versions of the protocol allow for multiple SSL certs on a single IP, but most places don't do that. If you have only 1 SSL cert, you probably are fine.

Godaddy's servers are highly variable in performance. So you may have periods where your site is unusable.

As a bootstrapped startup, you presumably have SOME money. I wouldn't use Godaddy just because they're cheapest, though -- spend your money on hosting before anything, as your website is your product. And as google reminds us, your website's performance is also part of your product.
They had it, but it wasn't mass-produced, and nearly all doses went to soldiers on the front that had suffered injuries or amputations. There wasn't enough for ordinary infections - they'd even collect the urine of soldiers being dosed so that excreted penicillin could be distilled and re-used.

I figure that the story took place either during the war or slightly after (late 1940s). Penicillin wasn't mass-produced and available to consumers until the 1950s.
Basically, your energy use roughly varies with seasons. So you can apply some analysis techniques to tease out how much of your energy is for heating, cooling, hot water, etc. Most of the data you can get reliably is monthly bill data, so we just do it in aggregate. I've seen some systems (for electric only) that do more granular data, i.e. hourly, or even real-time, and once you have those, you can tell much more - but that requires an installation of devices, and doesn't tell you about all of your energy use.

You can then normalize it for size of the house, and weather conditions, and now you can compare buildings in different parts of the country,

Once you have a model of the building, you can then make predictions about what the energy use should be if you make certain improvements, which leads to many possibilities.

We are more focused on multi-family buildings, which have larger energy use and more opportunity for savings (but also complexity - you won't see steam-heated single-family homes :-))

There are some guys that are doing this for single-family homes, i.e. Microsoft Hohm is one, though I am not sure their analysis is quite as good.
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Pretty cool idea, but I wonder how comfortable people will actually be with interacting with the film that way in a crowded theater.
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Unless you don't value your time much, I wouldn't bother dealing with any software setup yourself. (I've hacked a bit on the FreeSWITCH project, and I still would just buy a hosted solution from someone for my own PBX rather than deal with it myself.)

There's plenty of hosted PBX systems out there, but I've heard a lot of great things about RingCentral. (And no, I don't work for them. If anything, they're somewhat of a competitor.)
Random thoughts.

Why would I want to have my DB instance sitting out in the internet rather then next door to my applications

Are you only offering MySQL?

What are you offering over every other hosting company that provides LAMP stacks? (Price/Tools/Uptime/Expereince?)

What is your backup strategy?
Big deal. I'll be impressed when he can do that to my '72 Pinto.
> The founder (or any employer) has a responsibility to shareholders to pay employees as little as possible.

that's why there is equity compensation - something that Garmin didn't provide adequately
Every time I view a contact, it talks to a domain such as facebook.mobileclient.xobni.com or linkedin2.mobileclient.xobni.com. Am I correct in guessing that these are indexes of the respective sites and that identifying info about my contacts is being sent?
In other news, the dollar was very close to hitting parity today:

http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=USDCAD=X&t=1d
> If you accept the offer, just mail in your card and within a few days, cardpool.com will mail you a check.

I wonder how they deal with gift cards bought with stolen credit cards? If the gift card gets cancelled by the retailer after Cardpool verifies it and sends the cheque, they're out the money.

This could be an easy way to liquidate the balance on a card.
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Is 99designs yours? Do you own or work for a similar company? You seem to be defending these practices beyond that of a disinterested observer.

Yes, Coca-Cola spends a lot of money. I've seen plenty of projects where they've wasted it. That's not the point and this isn't about that particular company.

I'm not sure where this "couture" stuff comes from, nobody speaks that way outside the fashion industry. Those of us in the design industry make a point to design a logo that is appropriate to the client.

Which brings me to another point: communication. It doesn't exist in any realistic form in 99designs or any of their competition. A one-on-one relationship with a designer can steer the client away from trends and copy-cat design and towards something long-lasting, professional, appropriate and even affordable (how many of your can afford full 4-color offset for everything you produce including large-scale signage?). Professional design has little to do with being snotty or "couture." You wouldn't build your building without an architect and you shouldn't build your brand without a designer. A 1-person company (I've owned a few) can benefit greatly from a designer consulting on the identity.

When you think of design: think function. Don't focus on the form. Yes, a tremendous part of our education and experience is in creating something beautiful, efficient and visually engaging. But just as much is put in to something function correctly. I've saved clients thousands of dollars by designing materials to be more efficient.

If cost is a concern, go directly to the designer. Here's a little secret: creative directors don't really do shit. Designers come up with the ideas, create the iterations and execute them. Many design agencies pay their designers around $30/hour with few benefits while they charge $200+/hour. Find a designer you like (portfolios and references) and see if they can fit your budget.

Finally: If you can't afford a few hundred for a logo then you don't really have a business do you? It takes money to make money. If that kind of investment in your business isn't possible then you're either not serious or you're not going to make it anyway.
"Some economists, however, don't believe....there aren't 20-dollar bills lying around waiting to be picked up....why didn't the free market vacuum them up?"

I've always thought that inefficiencies are built in so industries, like the coal companies, can stay in business.
"you won't see steam-heated single-family homes :-)"

Actually, I have one! ;-)

(Technically, it's a 3-apartment house, but each apartment has their own steam boiler.)
if you have vested share scheme with a 1 year cliff then also have 'acceleration on change control' i.e. if you get bought out early then you don't want to be waiting years for the remainder of your money, get the payment accelerated
I know someone that works in Dr. Berggren's group, and they are indeed doing some nifty things. She is working on taking electron beam lithography down to a 5nm feature size (as opposed to 28nm-32nm currently in production flash memory and microprocessors), and has been successful enough to publish it.

One thing to note is that the group works almost exclusively on process technology. While my friend can create 5nm features, that is still a couple steps away from creating a useful circuit at that scale.
How is Garmin's resources being used, and how is the company coming to harm from all of this? That's a very specious claim unless you have information the rest of us don't.

All the team is doing is saying "hey, we built this for Garmin, but now we're on our own. If you think we do good work, come talk to us!" - how are they unfairly profiting from Garmin's product? I suppose you also refuse to talk about past work at previous employers on your resume/during interviews? Otherwise you'd be guilty of the same level of unfair profit.

Furthermore, Garmin's resources aren't being used. Garmin isn't paying for the server that this page is on, in fact, Garmin's not paying for any of this attempt at advertising. What's your stance on this? Should all former employees of a company disavow their previous employment and not use any showing off of previous work (publicly accessible work, mind you!) to seek more employment?

As for your first claim: the company is worrying about itself, and the team is worrying about itself. Everyone is a selfish, but rational actor in this situation. Nobody is evil - and I find it disingenuous to paint the team as profiteers when you fail to do so to Garmin also.
Picking winning movies is apparently pretty much impossible. That was the whole point of the old Studio System; it allowed the movie makers to limit risk.

The government broke up the studio system and now they limit risk by bilking foreign investors of capital, from what I gather.
And yet, even for your hypothetical, you use the term "market signals." ;)

If you look at markets through an information-centric lens, it seems possible to draw a clear distinction between actions that introduce external data and those that are pure acts of deduction, no matter how brilliant.
I used to tell myself that creativity would be the last thing that technology would be able to replace. As someone who designs for a living that was somehow comforting.

I realize now how wrong I was.

It's not that technology will ultimately be able to replace creativity it's that it will commoditize some parts of it such as logo's, websites layouts etc.

Making a logo is not design it's illustration. You don't solve problems with logos you create a style.

Templates and logo's go hand in hand with the types of companies that needs them.

If your company can really be made with logos and templates then good for you.

I am happy there are companies out there such as 99designs, they make something that should be simple cheap.

But it's not design, it's not problem solving. The day that computers will be able to do that then we are all out of jobs anyway.
If we define a "deficiency" as "expected level" of something, then we don't know if they had a deficiency. Regarding your definition, I don't have a testosterone deficiency, but I'd certainly perform better as an athlete if I took anabolic steroids.

Regarding creatine levels, all we know from the study is that after the supplementation, they had significantly more in their body. Maybe the results would be the same for omnivores - we don't know until someone runs the experiment. Even within this data, I'd like to see the vegans and vegetarians graphed separately.
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Are those who predict 'America is in decline' right this time?
Oh me too, I much prefer SIP and weave.
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Well, the example assumed the startup's gross assets were $250,000. If gross assets were $100,000 the tax would be $75 (actual calculation gives you $70 but min is $75).
I've been grousing about the state of science lately in some other comments; this is basically what I was talking about. It's still the best method to the truth we've got, but it needs some upgrades.

One other big error I'm reasonably confident about (though I'd welcome corrections from those who know more stats) is that the p-value, in addition to its other faults and misinterpretations, is usually used in a manner that assumes a Gaussian distribution. While the Central Limit Theorum does mean we tend to see that more often than some other distributions, it is not true that it is safe to simply assume your data is Gaussian. You really need to demonstrate that it is, first, then you can start using Gaussian-based tools on the data.
Nobody who cares deeply about their "brand identity" is going to go this route. Most companies don't care deeply about their brand identity.

To demonstrate that, let's play a game. Go to Hoovers. Pick a major metro area. Drill down into "Banking & Finance", "Investment Management", and then drill into the 2nd or 3rd largest city in that metro area (in Chicago, that's something like Schaumburg or Naperville).

Now Google the top employers in the resulting set, and pick the company with the median-quality logo, and the company with the worst-quality logo.

I'm betting that in some major metros (Chicago is an example of this), the median and the worst-quality logo is worse than the typical 99designs logo.

In webtwopointopia, we're in a very status-conscious, egocentric estuary of the US economy. It's easy to forget that a lot of things we care deeply about (Helvetica! Not Arial!!!) are absolutely irrelevant to most customers.