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Don't you use your brain and common sense to make all decisions, whether you're religious or not? Yeah, some religious people do tend to say silly things like "Atheists are less moral, they can't make moral decisions without religion" << but I think this is because they miss another aspect of life: society defines morals, not just religion.

Religion is a shaper, but there's only so much defined in religion. Example: Religion doesn't say anything about illegal downloading. It's not exactly the "stealing" talked about in the bible, because hey nobody loses anything, just potential profit. There's no exact matching scenario in the bible...you kind of extrapolate. Where does the rest of your morality regarding such matters come from? Oh yah, your brain! Your common sense. Oh, what's that? Right, common sense is based on society -- norms and outside influences.

Now sure, religion is a big part of people. It has strong ties with society, helping to shape the morality found in societies. Remember how parts of the bible were once used to justify slavery? Does anyone try to use the bible to support slavery anymore? Psh. But hey, if your religion says you can kill people, you wouldn't (logically speaking) just do so in any country today, because you make the decision in your brain "I won't do it or I'll go to jail." Society says no." Same with stuff like gay marriage. Some Christians learn to adapt to having members of the homosexual community in their congregations. Others can't deal just yet cause people dislike change. Regardless, in 100 years, it's a nonissue and virtually everyone agrees, morally speaking. Society wins. It happened with segregation, it happened with gender barriers, it'll happen again.

Disclaimer: I am religious, I'm a Christian to be exact. But yeah, I don't claim that Christians are any more moral than anyone else. Morality is relative from a perspective that doesn't assume existence of God.

^ if you're a Christian, do know that I believe in moral absolutes. But that's only assuming the existence of God, because in that sense morals are defined by the nature of God.
..does this basically rule out future researchers making a grid out of ps3s, since they'll have to hunt down machines earlier than this specific firmware?
But is it worth $86M?
I believe the side-effect of having owners meet is very valuable (just like having a kid around actually helps to start a conversation with someone).

This may come out as a dog-owner dating site :)
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Okay, you made me laugh. Points for that. Jesus.
And you shouldn't. Just like you shouldn't dismiss validity because it's emotion-based.
However, DSPS individuals may have their clocks running periods long enough to find it hard to fit to 24 hours. They also push their clocks ahead by activity late in the evening (the process opposite to the morning reset synchronization). DSPS individuals, when given a chance to sleep when they want, will tend to go to sleep later and later. They will also wake up later and later.

This is a perfect description of my dilemma. I've been struggling with school/college for years because of this crap -- now at least I have a reasonable excuse for all the classes I withdrew from to avoid failing.
Perhaps. But ideas wouldn't be getting ignored simply because they're different or unpopular.
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I would suggest not basing your pricing on costs. Instead, base it on the value your users will perceive from your service. On reason is that the per-user costs are likely to be too small for you to measure. (Pricing based on costs also auto-commoditizes your offering.)
No, I used tags. I just didn't use them on the player.

Given an outside-generated MP3 (as opposed to one I ripped from CD), I had scripts that would look at the tags to figure out where to put the file in my directory hierarchy.

Said directory hierarchy would then be synced to the Archos, where it would be accessed via the file browser.

To this day, I still miss this approach when I want to listen to classical music. I felt like listening to Beethoven's 5th symphony a couple days ago at work, and it took me about 5 minutes to find it on my iPhone. It would have taken me 5 seconds on my old Archos. The iPhone/iPod pretty much falls apart when faced with music that doesn't fit into the genre/artist/album classification.
grandalf; your posting essentially an off topic rant over and over in these threads. That kind of behavior (i.e. a rant agenda) is generally frowned upon here - you should know that dude!

Your not going to get any kindlier ears simply by reposting it every time this topic comes up...

It's an impractical suggestion that would be bad for Google and Wikileaks
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I know I shouldn't read HN
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I think you should realize that it may turn out you will actually primarily cater to dog owners looking for dates with other dog owners.
Makes more sense that way, a dog breeding network is too niche and small. Dating/recreational activities for dog owners might be better.
Stealing isn't taking financial value from someone else, it's taking advantage of someone else's work without providing some form of recompense. When you pirate a film, you're saying to all the actors, director(s), all the people involved in making the film, all the people who backed it financially, and all the people who pushed it from idea to finished product that whilst you think they did a good enough job to warrant spending two hours of your time watching and enjoying it, you don't value the (often) years of their lives and the huge sums of money they put in to bring you that two hours of experience.

If it was worth watching, then you should give something in return. Otherwise it's theft. Not financial theft, as as you noted, it's potential profit they've lost. But it's still theft nonetheless.

That aside, I agree with the rest.
There was an interesting article on HN recently: http://blog.boxedice.com/2010/03/07/choosing-a-price-for-you...

Might be of relevance to you.
No one crazy enough to work on wikileaks would be in it for something as intangible as "the truth." At least these guys are willing to admit they're after the adrenaline rush one gets from destroying people you disagree with.
Wow this looks really good. Thanks for the link.
I used to be a fervent seeker of intellectually stimulating "general" forums/communities too. I've found a few and two things are apparent to me because of the experiences:

- without specific focus, you get overrun by people that desire "general" intellectual discussion because it's easier to be general than it is specific and generality always dilutes the culture of a group by introducing subjects that not all are interested in (contrast that with specificity, where a specific focus is shared as a common interest between the participants)

- without specific focus, one is arbitrarily created by the."popular" contributors and shuts out any one (by creating a point of focus) that isn't in sync or interested.

My advice: figure out what specifically it is that you want to have a dialectic exchange about and find a community for it. Any sort of off topic discussion will occur in their cafe or off topic areas where the same intellectuals will do some cognitive "offload" by talking about other things that are interesting.

Philosophy, physics, mathematics, programming, DIY, electronics, space advocacy, psychology, etc... are all subject areas I can think of that have many (stimulating) communities built to serve the sole purpose of exploring and developing ideas and thought for the subject matter.

Get specific!
Speaking as someone who made a living from virtual goods for five years, the article presents valid points and observations but could have been more specific on the positive aspects.

Then again, I am struggling myself to come up with much positive(longer term, not in the sense of immediate satisfaction from the Skinner box) for virtual goods, as they are being sold.

"And just as with other goods and services, it is possible to use virtual goods in business that contributes positively to people's lives, as well as in business that exploits people and harms them."

I went through the PhD thesis - http://info.tse.fi/julkaisut/vk/Ae11_2009.pdf of the author looking for the positive examples, but could not find any.
Ask HN: How do I write a legal disclaimer for my startup? 
I've been building a web based app with a friend for about 3 months as a side project. We hope to go live in about another month or so.

One of the things we don't have sorted out is the 'legal disclaimer' text that you see on all websites.

Without giving too much away (!) our application allows the easy management of recipes / shopping lists. We do not sell anything but provide a tool that users can use as is.

We are not charging for the use of this tool (we may go down the freemium route later if we add new features).

What is the best way to go about sorting out this part of the site? We are based in the UK.

edit: My other question is which I forgot to ask is 'is it even worth having one?'
http://www.wikileak.org did publish a Wikileaks partial financial donors list. It also ended up on wikileaks.org. See https://p10.secure.hostingprod.com/@spyblog.org.uk/ssl/wikil...
I find the whole trend of online studying quite disturbing. From what I've seen, it defines studying as sitting in awe and trying to soak up the knowledge flowing from professors, and strives to replace it with possibly more efficient channels and call it the next best thing. All the while completely ignoring the second, in my opinion equally important, part of studying - peer to peer socialization.

It's just an immature paradigm still. Obviously the web has proven itself to be an outstanding medium for peer-to-peer socialization, and it's only a matter of time before online education taps into this.
I disagree with you there. There are extraordinarily smart people in every aspect of life and in every university so paying for the privilege of surrounding yourself with smart people is a really poor way to spend your money since you can find them for free.
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Disagree with you on that one as well. Every postdoc in the math department tells the same story. Go to the library, find something that interests you, spend every waking moment with the subject, find an advisor, write a thesis. Nowhere in any of their stories do they mention going to class designed by world class researchers and learning from lectures.
destroying people you disagree with.

Isn't there a slight irony there... (in the use of the word destroy).

If that is their aim I don't think Wikileaks can really take the moral high ground over the recently released intelligence document concerning them ;)

something as intangible as "the truth."

Possibly truth was an unfortunate choice of word. "Objective" was the key part i meant to get across.
I did some more research and digging through my books.

A Universal Turing machine is one that can read programs from its own tape.

Infinite tapes are necessary for the halting problem, to allow programs to run infintely on infinite memory.

Turing Completeness is when the machine is proven to be equivalent to a Turing Machine, i.e. it can be programmed to solve any algorithmical problem.
You should make it more tailored (but not explicitly mention that) it's for dog owners to meet each other. For example, meeting other "friendly dogs and dog owners" or something like that.

Everyone knows it's not for doggie breeding, most pets are spayed or neutered.
This already existed in desktop form. Microsoft included network versions of checkers, backgammon and others which would go out and find a random opponent.
This is pretty awesome. I wish that more APIs were better designed, though I think that the best APIs come out when you can iterate on their design with enough flexibility to remove the pain points and common questions.

The author gets it exactly right on the topic of Java's GUI APIs, which are world-renowned for their terribleness.
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I guess it would be more accurate to say "the strength needed to contain pressurized Coke wouldn't jive with a crushable bottle", and stackability just comes as a freebie?
I really enjoy flyertalk.com for travel and frequent flyer discussions. Their subdomains for particular programs are ripe with really detailed info how to maximize value from any miles you accumulate (even if you earn the miles through methods other than flying). This was the home of Pudding Guy, the miles hacker who collected yogurt tops and earned something like 10 million frequent flyer miles for < $2,000. That's a lot of free flying.
The definition of "kid" keeps expanding. I'm in graduate school and the students call each other kids. One once asked me, "are you the kid who..." - I'm 34 years old.
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"singlehandedly" is giving us way too much credit, but we did help a lot with the design of the spec for the HTML5 video element, shipped the first implementation in any browser, and gave a lot of early feedback on the spec.
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In my completely unprofesional opinion, and with absolutly no experiance in this area, I would advise you to skip freemium. I am guessing that if you go with freemium you are going to get a bunch of people using it who are just adding an FAQ to their freepages 'website' and are unable to or never plan to upgrade to a paid version. The money will probably be in going after big buisnesses, colleges, NPOs, etc. who want to find out what their customer's questions really are. (Or possibly you could have a freemium version that had advertisements in it, and have the ads pay for everything.)

I also recall seeing several people complain about how it is often those who are not paying for the service that cause the most customer service difficulties.
SystemTap (the kernel probing tool build into Linux) is coming along pretty well - I needed to create something to alert me when arbitrary apps set TCP_NODELAY last week, spend a little while looking at SystemTap, made a simple script that probes at tcp.setsockopt(), got the info I needed, and printed it presentably.

I added the script to http://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki/WarStories . Check it out and others, it's pretty easy to pick up.
Funny, but typing CString in google reveals some new interesting products.
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So hard that I stopped reading after a paragraph. The opinion of someone that can't be bothered to present his ideas in a readable fashion is usually worthless, because they pay equally little attention to the content of their ramblings.
having kids in the title makes the article much more click-worthy. You have to stand out somehow among all the other polyphasic sleep experiment blogs, right?
Prepare for 'Two kids accepted to Y Combinator's funding program' articles in the future.
haha yeah, dealing with customer that aren't really paying can be a pain. In fact, I'm going after businesses, focusing on B2B, so I agree with skipping freemium.
I play one of these silly online games. The draw is simple: my friends play it and it only takes a few minutes a day to move forward. I'm close to ditching it though because they've changed the game to be completely unable to progress without my attention and it's not good enough to justify more investment than I've already given it.
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Needs pictures, even stock photos would be a start. Try 99designs for a decent logo.

Agreed that this site has some promise.
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Using otheros limits the number of accessible CPUs. So is this really practical anyways?
You must be kidding me. Please do some research on CIA history. Even the most ardent supporters of CIA knows this.
We have a book by John Levine, but it's too outdated.

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Anyone interested in an up-to-date version of such a book?
I have a legal disclaimer. It is the least visited page on my site. Feel free to steal it and rewrite to make your own.

This strikes me as one of those stupid box-checking steps that serves no good at all. Your defense against litigation is not that you mumble magic words which have paranormal power to scare away the solicitors. Your defense against litigation is that nobody will sue you because your site tracks recipes. If for some reason someone should get very POed at you, you will send them a conciliatory email and refund all the money they paid, and that will be the end of it.
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How to blog insightful cows. No, that doesn't work.

If you can't put your finger on what's going on here, you need to first learn what an intransitive verb is. Then, that "blog" is such a verb (from the OS X dictionary, which I assume is based on common usage, seeing that it's such a new word). "Sleep" is another example of such a verb. You don't sleep the bed any more than you blog the post (or the cow). That's why we have the word "write".

Now, would you even say "How to write insightful" rather than "How to write insightful posts"? Because if you would, you actually want to be saying "How to write insightfully" - writing insightfully is the act of writing "insightful x", but dropping the x. You see, they already thought of that. Grammar acrobatics should be left to people who have a very strong command of the language - it will destroy your writing otherwise.
Going to a cinema is as tangible as any virtual good. It's an experience nothing more.
Things like cigarettes are detrimental to you.

People buy fancy cars/houses/clothes to one-up others all the time. Why not buy some virtual gold/farm-goods.
I second that actually, totally :)

I would just ensure that the freemium costs remain under control (that was the meaning I wanted to convey, at least).
My next SAAS app will be paid-only, at least at the beginning.
Tab completion is pushing the tab key at the command line or in an editor (it's often not tab in an editor, eclipse uses control-space I think). The computer will then complete what you were typing for you as if by magic. I have written whole dissertations just by typing the title and then leaving a heavy book on the tab key.

Different commands lines and editors vary, but in general tab completion will complete the current word/filename/command if it is unambiguous, and provide some kind of listing if it is ambiguous -- so on the bash command line it will beep if it can't complete, but pushing tab twice will then show all the possible completion.
Zones too.
I think they offer more then what the usual jail does.
Never really used both of them, but.. yeah, zones sound nice, too :)

Also, solaris is probably the most stable OS i've ever worked with.
I think "single handed" is potentially a little far fetched.

But the hype around the iPad is certainly a huge trigger.
They already have to hunt down specific models, as the PS3 Slim doesn’t have this functionality.
Reading your comment I wondered what's the most common: paid or freemium ?

Based on the little current dataset from http://kingapi.com, we have 11 freemium and 8 paid (not sure how statistically relevant it is though).
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Automatic device detection interests me - what does that mean?

Is that: older browsers with no HTML5 (or ones with no H.264) support will get the Flash version or iPad/iPhone will get HTML5 and everything else Flash?
That's exactly how dogster.com started, a free dating site for dogs (walking dates, etc) which lead to more than the occasional real date for single owners. There are/were a few clones too.

One question is why dogster.com, who was clearly the leader, shifted direction towards being more of a portal and less of a dating site.
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The comparison with TechCrunch in not relevant, i guess that only a small percentage of the average techie tc user visited the site, let alone buy anything. A girl oriented site/whatever was a better way to promote something like this.
Btw, i'm impressed with the results too, trying this with a more tech related vlogger (if there are any) for a more tech/web2.0 related startup could be a nice experiment.
A few comments about the basic design of the front page. I'm not a designer or anything, so take with a grain of salt.

The design is nice, but has a little bit of a "thrown together" look: the different things on the page don't really seem like they belong together.

I'd recommend a few things:

1. Align the logo of the site to the left (aligned with the text below).

2. Since I assume your subscription form at the bottom is not the most important thing, I'd make it much smaller, and move it to the right (someplace more out of the way). Where it is now, it looks like it should be the login form.

3. On that note, I'd move the login form to where the subscription form is now, and make it much bigger. Also, I'd probably make the "new user" link even bigger than that, since you'll mostly be getting new users for now. I'd probably make it a separate, very large, "call to action" button, and center it in the screen (ala Drop Box).

4. Last thing: I don't know what plentyoffish.com is, and that's in the first sentence of your site. You really don't want me leaving your site first thing.
i think this is fixed now, but if anyone sees any 500s again, you can e-mail in a bug report to bugs@quora.com . thanks and sorry for the trouble.
Seems like the last thing they need is to really answer all kinds of questions. Otherwise I just might get an answer somewhere on a good old forum.
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This is just terrible news. Good luck to sony and game devs finding new programmers to code SPU's now.