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I was amazed that you were able to prepare that much food. Then I read the part about drinking 21 drinks while doing it. Impressive!
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i'm just updating a web app in /var/sites. git pull followed by an alias to a few commands to rebuild templates and reload the server.

i guess there are at least two views of updating web servers: the servers themselves and the web application. the latter is a lot more self contained. i forgot about the former. i set that up once, backed it up, and pray that i don't have to touch it again :-p
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/02/stop_patting_your...

"Good grief. This ridiculous study is making the rounds of the atheist community, with its claim that liberals and atheists are smarter than conservatives and religious people. Look at the numbers!"
oh i dunno, a year ago probably?
Measuring programming (books) progress by lines of code (lines of text) is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight
Perhaps, though I suspect many a depressed person might be prefer to write in private. And I would think the goal of the writing would be focused on the problem, not an ongoing commentary on the state of Ruby, democracy in America, or Julie & Julia recipes. An excellent article.
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Except it isn't. Google both. You'll see the proper use and a bunch of people confusing it with 'conscious of', just like you do.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conscientious

Try it with the synonyms. You can't be meticulous or scrupulous of something - just like 'conscientious'.
I think the point is being sued worked out very well for Verizon, as it drew more attention to their claims of having a superior network to AT&T. (As you said, if they did not have the money and lawyers to dispute AT&T's claims it may have been a different story.)
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A recent take on the ceding of economic control to more and more actors within the economy as enabled by cloud computing.
Yes, but that's not my only point, the other problem is that piracy is as widespread it seems for 3$ iphone games than for 50$ games... So the argument that lowering prices reduces the number of pirates seems a little bit optimistic to me.

OT:
For rick888, below: it seems that all your comments are marked as dead... which is a pity because from reading your past comments I can't figure why you'd be banned... You should try to contact pg over that.
I second jdg that it was really poor form to name it after the original site. It demonstrates a lack of integrity, and I would count it against you in hiring.
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> In any event I find it hard to grasp your position. You don't think that being employed by the government means that you shouldn't have the protection of a contract, and you do think that public employee contracts should be limited in ways that private employee contracts aren't.

It's quite easy to grasp. I think that public employee contracts shouldn't have certain provisions.

The "right" to a contract does not imply the right to any possible contract. We already restrict private employee contracts - I'm just saying that there should be somewhat different restrictions on public employee contracts. Folks who object to the restrictions specific to public employee contracts are free to seek private employee contracts more to their liking.
Here's a link to the original submission of "Things your lawyer won't tell you" on HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1146976
Asteroidal resources are unique and diverse. In general, they are different from the dirt beneath our feet and the ores that we mine from our planet's crust. Likewise, they are much different than the Moon, Mars, and other planets' crusts. Asteroids are much more metal-rich, like the core of the Earth, Moon, Mars and any other planet, and unlike their crusts. The asteroids are normally not as enriched in oxides, silicates, and the other lighterweight elements that floated up to dominate a planetary crust. Many asteroids are like a mixture of a planetary metal core plus a crust plus the mantle in between. Some are entirely like a core or a mantle or a crust, having come from a large parent body which was broken up. In most asteroids, free metal is abundant in the mix, and often dominant. This free metal can be used without any further industrial processing.

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Nice writeup. Sinatra with builder is just about perfect for implementing web services, dynamically generated RSS feeds, simple web apps, etc. Nicely complements using Rails for rich web apps.
I dunno-- the Seattle startup scene has seen pretty insane growth over the last 5 years... It was purportedly nearly non-existant 5-7 years ago. Harj and I threw together a YC Seattle meetup that was over 100 people in about a week.

You could attend a startup related event in Seattle almost every day of the week.

I did some really weak science and found:

"In 2007, 45 of 110 (41%) acquired companies were in the Valley. In 2008, only 18 of 115 (16%) were."

(whole post with sources: http://bit.ly/bDpam)

I also (with some help) crunched all Crunchbase data here: http://bit.ly/Mapl1

The globalization make sense to me. 5 years ago, you couldn't even roll the dice without a million bucks. Now plenty of startups spin up with pennies. And while the Valley has a few advantages, the really CLEAR advantage that it has (which has diminishing value for the earliest stages) has always been the huge number of investors.

Still, though-- starting up might be getting easier, but when you need funding relocation might still be right thing to do.
The intention, over the next year or so, is to hook this tech up to an interactive game world (as opposed to generating English text). As the player makes choices, more and more constraints are added to the story generator while possibilities for future story trajectories to just those that are in the intersection of the player choices and the authors constraints on the story (such as which roles each character may manifest).

I've actually made a little web-service wrapper of lparse/smodels so that it will be easier to integrate answer-set programming into Flash games. Teh src: http://github.com/rndmcnlly/ASPaaS
It can be. But when the primary goal is to get unsuspecting viewers to click (by mistake) on ad content, it's not.
> In what universe is privatised health coverage humane?

I expected at least some defense of "efficent govt".

What definition of "humane" are we using? (Be careful - the US has universal govt-provided healthcare. Most people opt out.) Are you claiming that govt healthcare is necessarily "humane"?
Personal loans, are really a solution?
We might be able to make metal foils so cheap we could just use them once and throw them away!
I have patents on both discriminatory and non-discriminatory licensing rates. I also have a patent on patents, and patent offices. I have also patented all thought and communication. Resistance is futile. All your base are belong to us.
There are plenty of countries with larger debt problems than the US. I don't think this union is so much about getting a check from Congress than it is tipping the legislative balance a little bit less in favor of giant corporations than it currently is. US law has little in the way of worker protection, and is quite hostile to small business as well. Reminder that Congress is basically owned by the richest 99.99th percentile (who have seen their wealth increase of late, I might add).

It's too bad that it takes a collapse of the economy before we can see agitation for this sort of stuff, rather than during fatter times when it should be easier, but I guess it's hard to think about the future for a vast majority of the population.
...or use curl.
> sacrificing performance for functionality

That's what I feel about Firefox compared to Chrome or Opera.
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I think Seattle was crawling with startups in the mid-nineties (the windows 3.1 era). Things go in cycles.
Well if you can't think of any negative consequences that might result from having a large organized group of people with little to do and less to lose, I'd say you have a poor imagination.
I feel bad. I was distracted when I opened the article...
so my eyes went like this:

1: headline: "Google develops prototype mirror for solar energy"

2: picture of rather bald man with some mild reflection going on http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/bto/20090910/Bill_Weihl.jpg

unbidden, my mind connected the two and decided google's new mirror technology was bald men.

I'm so sorry.
That's trendy to say, and there's a lot of truth to it, but the fact of the matter is that the number of lines of code in a project does convey useful information about its complexity. More accurate would be to say that it's only one dimension in a multi-dimensional metric.

Just like with an airplane, if we add in the weight and what it's made of and used for all of the sudden it becomes a pretty interesting metric.
More than just looking like an OS 9 app, they boot your computer directly into the app (off a USB stick in my case). Supposedly their hardware diagnostic tools also have the same look and feel. It's probably so they can code directly to the hardware without a messy OS in the way.

I tried to ask the guy about the graph and what the quadrants meant but he claimed it was secret and wouldn't tell me what the axes represented (they were unlabeled).

There was also a whole lot of numbers on the right hand side and he looked for a number in there but, again, wouldn't tell me which ones were important to their warranty program.
It's not really supposed to, is it? There are plenty of parts that could make a profit, but we prefer the government providing stuff for free instead. For example, if the federal government were allowed to hold copyrights, it could make good money licensing all sorts of military photographs (WW2 photography alone would be worth quite a bit). And the rate for interstate highway travel that the market would bear is probably higher than $0.00/mile. Instead photographs are public domain, and highways are free.
Which Firefox extensions would you miss if you used Opera? Opera has built in support for tab thumbnails, mouse gestures, Greasemonkey scripts, widgets, etc.
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"the eye sees finely mixed colors as different colors"

These are hardly finely mixed. I'm 1.5 feet form my 24" monitor, looking at the thing, amazed at the illusion. I clearly see distinct stripes of color. I have to block out the bordering color with my fingers to perceive the real color.
Perhaps FexEx and UPS could "destroy" the USPS if they didn't have to worry about guaranteeing relatively quick delivery for envelopes from Kirby, WY to Boone, TN for the same inexpensive price as deliveries within a few blocks. The USPS may have laws supporting it, but don't we have expectations of it that far exceed whatever private business could hope to accomplish for profit?

(And, naively, aren't there many private businesses that couldn't make a profit without laws supporting them?)
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Why is this religious crap polluting HN? I don't want to see it, stop posting it please. kthnxbai
"...all browser conventions go out the window: bookmarks, the back button, and deep linking."

Actually all of those things can be managed (quite well) with SWFAddress.

http://www.asual.com/swfaddress/

That's not to say, however, that I agree with the article. Flash really should be used a hell of a lot less on the web. No 'main site' should be built all-Flash, however it is ideal for things like interactive product micro-sites.
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That's easy. Because mostly guys go to Google conferences and hackathons where the Google guys pass out Android phones.
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Unfortunately this article overlooks the "startup" costs for developing and deploying the requisite technologies for harvesting the profits (which are significant enough to preclude privatization, IMO).

And there is another more grievous oversight in the article which pertains to the sinister slight-of-hand on the administration's policy: they intend to slough off the cost of developing and deploying what portends to be mankind's greatest engineering feat, while planning to reap the profits: do you really think for one second that good old Uncle Sam will not find away to skim away a hefty share of these (potential) profits? do you think that such asteroids will be corporate or "social" property (read government)?

Tying together one last point, does anyone really believe that this administration has a new found faith in the free markets - or is all of this pandering and innuendo just a red hearing to keep us from sobering up to the cold fact that the promising Constellation project was just killed?
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Thank you, finally one person who comments on the environmental aspect of this notion.
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He's also got an amazing series on his blog about concurrent programming languages, called Concur.next. If you're a language and tooling geek, it's pure gold.

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/09/27/Concur-dot...

Mr. Bray is also notable for having one of the most amazing and intelligent 'comments' sections I've ever seen on a blog. Good reading.
Wars and corporate entitlements cost more than creating opportunities for the poor.
You're not very well informed, it appears.
WOW, I guess no one on HN remotely thinks humans and the earth are facing any sort of environmental problems at the moment. All everyone here is talking about is the profit margins and logistics of pulling this preposterous, albeit very cool, idea off. I'm all for adventure, technology, progress, blah blah blah. I am thrilled about the possibilities of space. But realistically I think we as a species need to better undertand ourselves and create better; more sustainable systems on our native plannet before we embalance our natural habit and ecosystem on an intergalactic scale.
How much traction do you have? You may want to consider shutting down the current site and opening a new one without mentioning his name or company. That's what the core of the issue seems to be.
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What would be a lot more compelling is to see the unemployed form their own angel investment networks in a similar "local node" format.

Unemployed don't have lots of bucks to invest, but take $1000 each from 10 - 20 people, invest in best local biz plan, and you’re going to be creating jobs, stimulating the local community, and can at least give the unemployed people something to market (and earn an ROI on eventually).
I was with the author before the lame foursquare plug. I am not going to go to a coffee shop anywhere and ask anybody what foursquare is, because that does not prove anything and I am not going to foursquare's advertising for free. But I am going to make mental note that any blogger that mentions foursquare gratuitously without relevance is a shill and should not be trusted.
yeah, I'd prefer a group dinner party as well. Mostly because I don't know how I'd pitch my girlfriend on "hey, this guy from the internet is going to come to our house to cook".

Will send you both an email.
>Pretty much the same.

Except for the difference between wars and social programs, which can be pretty significant if you are on the receiving end.
Yes, but in international waters there are no real sanctions, and no patrols to check. When closer to shore it sometimes gets checked, but in my experience very few vessels are caught, and even fewer are fined, if their AIS is simply off.

However, the amendment is news to me - thank you.
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(Sorry if a quote sounded empty and cute, I will elaborate my thoughts.)

- Sintara is small (and arguably beautiful), a book on it should be small. Being small doesnot mean it shouldnot be called book.

- Wasn't our biggest gripe with J2ee monster was the enormous complexity, and to handle them the large books required. Wasn't that why rails Django were hailed as game changers?
http://i44.tinypic.com/98uhs6.png

Smaller frameworks with smaller learning curve and books take that even further.
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Give us Flash's source code. That's the problem. Nobody cares about specs, they care that they can't use their computer when a website using Flash is open.

If you were a programmer, you'd know that bugs can be fixed. But not by sitting around and complaining, but by writing code. Since Adobe won't let anyone fix their code, so the only solution left is to stop using Flash (and start using something else). The "something else" is improving browser support for fast Javascript, Canvas, video, 3d acceleration, etc.
Here is something to think about, nearly everyone who's been intimately involved in supporting habitat in space has developed a deep and abiding respect for how difficult it is and how fragile and precious the biosphere we take for granted is.

Our world is a small watery dot floating in the dark. We don't have a backup.
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However, I don't want it to link directly back to me (this is not for tax dodging; I will happily pay my taxes). I just want my involvement with the startup to remain anonymous until I succeed [no need to broadcast my failures to the world.]

Is there anyway to setup this up?
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Nice article overall, however...
"2. Trick the Ubisoft servers into believing you have a legit copy, so that they will let you save your game."
I haven't got a clue what exactly their mechanism is, but I believe that this is a solved problem in cryptography which should be intractably hard to solve if implemented properly.
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Probably, yeah. If I was being critical of the policy I would be more concerned. I think it's actually a good alternative. All the information in there is public knowledge otherwise.
Yes. The Patent Office.
Wifi on an SD card, and geolocation by skyhook. Work well?
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Yay, "void" instead of "nil". I'm going to switch immediately...
It's pretty simple. You bought a product. If it's a good product, you are smart because you chose it. If it sucks, you're the sucker who got duped. Therefor, there's an incentive to think that things you own are better than they really are. There's a real name for this, but I can't remember what it's called.

Take a look at Craigslist whenever you'd like some more examples.
RWW article on the same: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_granted_patent...
My poor mushy brain cannot comprehend stars moving like giant comets, in fact some of these have sub 20 year orbits by the looks of it which i doubt too many comets have (as short period comets have short periods of life).

I doubt we will ever exhaust the skies of things to discover and thats without even setting our foot there.
You can even do that in half the bytes by making use of all unary operators together:

-~+[]

-~ is a good proxy for ++ when incrementing unassigned variables.
There's far better places to startup than the valley, there always have been though. That's nothing new.

Probably if you're into the whole 'build to get acquired' thing, then it's an advantage, but if you're in it to build a profitable company then I'd say the valley puts you at a disadvantage. High cost of living, no public health care, not to mention all the software patent DMCA sue everyone legal risks.
There's productive depression and unproductive depression. Some people aren't compelled into productive depression.

Productive depression is a dignified depression¸ where the person realizes that the object of the angst is a little elusive. They know what the problem isn't, and it is never the most obvious thing. They do their best to manage it and figure out what the real problem is.

Unproductive depression is simply where you stop thinking about the problem too soon. Either blaming a facade of the depression, the most obvious and apparent source of the depression, or by giving up hope that the facade is solvable. Essentially, these people give up and stagnate.

There is nothing more pathetic than seeing someone profusely blame the wrong thing for their depression. There's little chance of these people escaping into productive work, because they've given up. They can't even start by realizing that what they think is depressing them, might not actually be what is depressing them. That's step point five!

Depression does not make genius.

Where do I think productive depression originates? Well, I partly think it's a conscious choice where the intelligent person chooses not to ignore a problem, and there are a lot of problems to be depressed about. Stuff that does not need to exist. This really is only my opinion, but we shouldn't have to deal with depression. We shouldn't need to "cope" with stupid, arcane ideas. But we'll just have to manage for now.
It would have behooved you to say that you agreed with what John Gruber said, instead of just paraphrasing what he said:

"I think what Apple was getting squeamish about wasn’t the sexy apps themselves, but the cheesiness that the sexy apps (and their prominence in best selling lists) was bestowing upon the general feel and vibe of the App Store. One thing I wasn’t aware of before the recent crackdown was the degree to which these apps were seeping into various non-entertainment categories. E.g., like half the “new” apps in the “productivity” category featured imagery of large-breasted bikini-clad women."
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