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Heh, interesting argument, I haven't looked at it like that.

Although I still see JSON as a great accomplishment not for what it is technically but for the following it has (ie. the social aspect, the actual developers using it).

PS: I'm actually typing this on my MacBook Pro.
Doug Crockford made JSON so perfect it is timeless, hence no native Date format. (http://twitter.com/CrockfordFacts/status/10895664527)
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I don't think you're right. They seem to have a policy of strong censorship, but not at any cost. I think this applies to related are as well. Controlling the costs of their censorship is important to them. So, for example I wouldn't be surprised if one of the things they asked themselves was 'If we block Google completely, are there any services that we can't live without?'
>Why should 'laws' decreed anywhere be respected?
Punishments!

>Should laws that are counter to one's values be respected?
From the individual's point of view, they will have a unique risk-vs-reward threshold value for each 'law', and if its smaller then a corresponding risk-vs-reward ratio such as 'the harshness of punishment x rate of discovery / gains from breaking law', then they will break it.

>Should laws that seek to prevent a full human experience be respected?

I think your question is very general, for example I do not share the values of a psychopath serial killer, even if killing to the killer is their definition of 'full human experience'.

>Should we continue to support the artificial constructs of nation-states? Why?

To the individual from a practical point of view, supporting or non-supporting is a non-issue - its only when a significant or critical mass of people feel disdain for a government or leadership will change occur, and inevitably it will morph in to another nation-state construct, thats how history is like.
Or to put it differently, a choice between due process and political campaigning.
You should investigate some of the events that go on.

Here are some more internationally minded ones:

Tokyo2point0 - web related: http://www.tokyo2point0.net/

Business In Japan - general: http://businessinjapan.jp/

TLUG - Linux related: http://tlug.jp/

MobileMonday - mobile related: http://www.mobilemonday.jp/

Ninjava - General Technical - http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ninjava/ (presentation tomorrow!)

For Japanese technical events, check out this calendar:
https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=fvijvohm91uifvd9hr...

You could also check out Tokyo Hacker Space: http://www.tokyohackerspace.org/

Once you start participating in the community, you'll find more and more ways to meet other like-minded people.
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What are you, 12?
Their customers don't all want the same thing, so they can't "do what their customers want", even if they wanted to.

What they can't do is only whatever would cause massive amounts of customers to stop using their products.
What people actually pay for (content or distribution) is largely irrelevant (IMO). The news business was only about connecting advertisers with an audience. As soon as advertisers found a better (and more measurable) way to connect with their target audience, they simply moved on.
Interestingly, Stern Hu pleaded guilty to bribery recently:

http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Stern-Hu-...
This could be implemented beautifully if the form tag accepts a parameter "patch", which would, when set to true, only send the fields and values which were actually modified by the user and not the whole bunch of fields in the edit form.
On the web, people use H.264 involuntarily because Flash supports it and most video sites use Flash.

Theora is a good equivalent to the commonly used Baseline profile.
< form method="patch" > should take care of it.
How have I never figured this out before? It seems so obvious in retrospect.

I have keyword searches setup in Firefox for StackOverflow, ServerFault, and SuperUser, but I hated getting blog and meta results in my StackOverflow searches. This will help in a big way.

Much appreciated!
Check out the next Pechakucha night in Tokyo maybe? The few entrepreneurs that I know usually attend.
According to the FreeBSD chflags(1) manpage:

The chflags command first appeared in 4.4BSD.

Which puts it about seven years after this story.
What a beautiful example of OSM data use. Making something like this would be impossible without free map data.
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That set of use cases (adding semantics for resource modification to HTTP) is pretty much what WebDAV was designed for, wasn't it?
Thanks for this thread, I was just thinking about this myself and was going to ask HN... figured I'd check the ASK section first.
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To me, the Service example you gave was actually another form of a controller, albiet one that is not a classic, HTTP-oriented, stateless controller. I have not thought this through yet -- but I suspect the state machines that manage lifecycles would be better implemented as separate set of controllers; "services" is an OK name for this abstraction, but there is probably a better one.

Rails 3 makes it easier to swap out controllers and routers. (It also loads everything under app/ by default, so you can name app/observers or app/services without having to add in extra load paths by hand). It should not be difficult to implement a parallel workflow engine, for example, that uses a shared persistence stack (models) yet manages data lifecycle, and respond to messages rather than stateless RESTful resource APIs.

Good thoughts, good article.
Science can help us resolve the question of what it is that we do in fact value. As in the example of valuing rocks little, and primates greatly.

What we value is a matter of fact, it is complex and not directly clear to us, so it's exactly the kind of problem we need science to help with.
That's a pretty sad piece of advice. If you're over 30 and haven't made something of yourself the best thing you can do is realize that time is passing you by and get moving rather than listen to this defeatist crap.
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Would be nice to have a similar dashboard for each country in the world.
Richard Williams (of Roger Rabbit fame)wrote an excellent book about animation called "The Animator's Survival Kit".

Upvoted. As an fan of animation this is indeed an excellent book.

Another one I particularly enjoyed is "The Illusion of Life" - particularly the early chapters in which the authors describe describe Walt Disney Studios during their startup days.

Fascinating stuff.
Although it doesn't address your questions directly, this talk about making money online by David Heinemeier Hansson, co-founder of 37Signals and creator of Ruby on Rails, makes quite a lot of sense when you're juggling around all the thoughts about becoming an entrepeneur.
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/981-the-secret-to-making-mone...
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Thanks for posting this. Sometimes I wonder if HN should automatically replace the 'popular glosses' with the actual papers being discussed. The paper is indeed a lot less clear, although it does make substantially the same claims made in the linked article. It just doesn't do a great job of defending those claims.

The biggest problem would seem to be that Experiment 1 showed that rats given a 8% HFCS solution for 12 hours a day gain more significantly more weight than rats given the same solution for 24 hours a day, even though both groups consume the same total number of calories. While this might be a possible effect, the most likely conclusion is that 'statistically significant' does not in this case mean reproducible.

The second big problem with the 'HFCS is worse than sugar' interpretation is that in Experiment 2 (6 months instead of 8 weeks), they dropped the sucrose comparison from all the males in the long-term study! The females did show weight gain for a diet that allowed 24 hour access to HFCS, but no weight gain was observed for female rats allowed to free-feed on either sucrose of HFCS for 12 hours a day. Not just no difference between them, NO WEIGHT GAIN over just chow.

From this, they conclude "HFCS caused an increase in body weight greater than that of sucrose in both male and female rats." Sure, just not in the same experiment. And not in many cases. "Less clear" is an understatement. "Disgrace" get closer, but doesn't manage to convey my anger that the authors can do this while still remaining employed.
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Respect to Google! But I'm afraid the servers in Hong Kong will be blocked very soon.
It could be the case that a scientific exploration of human values would show that (for example) truth-telling is more important than its consequences in what we consider good.

Only one way to find out!
>I'd play it safe and hit up individual writers, build buzz from the ground up.

This. The lower tier writers of today are the big cheeses of tomorrow. It often pays dividends in the future to give them exclusives today and make their job a little easier.

Besides, There are quite a few of the bigger named bloggers who subscribe to some smaller name blogs. If your site is good enough, like cream it will eventually float to the top.
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>westerners bullying China has been pounded by the CCP for the past 60 years so its very easy to troll that line to great success.

Actually it was 'trolled' long before the CCP came in to power by revolutionaries, and most likely citizens.

The history of China has been miserable for the past two centuries, culminated defeat in opium wars and wars with Japan has resulted in compensation with land and money. Several unsuccessful civil uprisings has also cost many lives and ruined the economy - many people in that time lived in poverty!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China#Dynastic_rule
Completely agree.

Grab a photoshop book and get going. Another book I'd suggest is Stephen Krug's "Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability" if you want to get into it a little further.

If a site is easy and intuitive to use, people will use it. It doesn't matter if it is pixel perfect with respect to design.

Also, I would start getting a "mood board" together which is essentially a collection of designs, colours and whatnot that you like.

Just collect them together in a folder or better yet print them out and hang them on a board/wall. That way, you have a visual cue on where you're heading and it helps you out.
What an interesting piece. Resonates with me a lot.
>His theory basically boils down to “morality is acting in a way that creates the least human suffering"

You've got it flat-out wrong.

Suffering is one value where he's pretty sure he's got the right factual answer, and some good answers on achieving the value, so he used it as an example.

He DID say that all human values he's seen boil down to being about conscious experience, but that's also a factual claim. There could be values outside of that.
"how long does it take that stock to move $0.10?"

I guess that really depends which direction you're talking about.

If you're not careful, having it move down 10 cents is fairly easy to accomplish and then all you're doing is working to lose money.

I would not go the investing route if I was the OP.
PATCH, like PUT, can be used in an idempotent manner using the "If-Matches" header. If the content being PATCHed matches a given ETag, then the path will be applied, otherwise the path will not be applied and a 412 Precondition Failed should be returned.
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Has anyone here tried this?

Not first hand, but I have a friend who codes while working as a building attendant.

Money isn't great, you have to work odd hours - but he says the best shifts are the late night ones because nobody bothers you and its quiet.
I will just say like everyone is, that you should start doing designing on Photoshop as much as possible but it takes time to learn design. I have been doing it since last two years and only now starting to create designs that I will use myself (since I am my own harshest critic).

I have although so far only done projects for myself but I'd love to try out new things if it's worth it.

Shoot me an email (on my profile page) if you seek any help.
Even if that's true, why are spinning it like it's some kind of evil thing? They're giving you a product for free and you still want them to pay hidden costs for you? How are they supposed to feed their programmers if they don't make profit?
They didn't turn away from taking money on moral grounds. In fact, they censored results for 4 years until now. Why now do you think, after 4 years they are changing their stance?

Did it take them four years to come to their senses? Why now?
To me, if the intent and main effect are to basically trick people into paying for something they don't really want, it's at least sleazy, if not outright dishonest. There are legitimate uses for trial offers, so it's a bit of a judgment case, and I think depends to a large extent on just how clearly the terms are communicated. In particular, it should be very clear to customers of average sophistication exactly what will be rebilled, and exactly what they need to do to avoid the rebill if they'd like to cancel--- and the cancelling should be easy.
since echo still worked, why would you need grep for that one?
Are you surprised?

How long do you think it took for them to beat it out of him?
I did it for a bit in college. Graveyard shift, lone person in an office building. Basically my job was to lower the fire insurance premium by having someone in the building all night. 2-3 times a night I'd walk through the building and make sure it was all still there, the rest of the time I read, did homework, etc.
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Sounds very good. I'm in Kobe, but I go to Tokyo every now and then...
And the numbers seem to indicate that they are choosing to use Baidu over Google more and more. Google has less than 20% of the search market in china and it's declining.
Thanks for the list! I'll check these carefully...
Are you sure you got the order right. The standard pyramide rather goes like: explain people how to do it, help them doing it, let them do it, let them explain to/tutor other peoples how to do it.
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... I would have most-certainly lost the server and everything on it. I have since switched to a combination of slicehost and linode.

Switching to a different VPS provider is not the right way to prevent data loss. Doing backups is the right way to prevent data loss. :-)
Er... I don't develop for Irix, but I know my code compiles on it for some of my work because I've had user feedback from Irix users.

I also don't develop on Freescale Coldfire, I use a cross-compile toolchain, and an emulator for testing.

I don't develop on Solaris, I deploy code and use virtualisation for testing on OpenSolaris.
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For handheld stuff like the iPad and iPhone, my point definitely stands. You wouldn't try to develop symbian software on a Nokia N95.

As for developing Win32 apps on a Linux box, you can using Wine or Mono. Likewise you can do the reverse.
I wonder if they were even verified. Like, could I go on there now and just say I'm the first dude, and ask them to take it down? Or would Google request that I send in a picture to prove it?
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There is a Pechakucha in Kansai too, I'll definitely give it a try.
How is this gonna work then? Will he have to take down every video that someone complains about, losing all the views and everything? That sucks. Maybe he should start uploading to a new site.

I wonder if Ben Folds will get similar complaints, forcing him to upload an edited video as well. Perhaps by that dude on the toilet (Hey BAM! ...on the can.)
If you asked most people to name 2 or 3 current Professors of Ethics you'd find Peter Singer at the top of your list. I wonder if he can also refute Bentham on day one of a good Ethics class as you can.

I would certainly not call Sam Sam Harris an amateur and I would place a large bet on his close familiarity with Aquinas, Kant as well as Bentham or Singer with whom he is in agreement from his degrees in philosophy, his constant debates on the subject and his professional life as a writer and lecturer on the subject.

He is a proponent of treating questions of a moral, religious or transcendental nature as scientific questions to be approached via reason. He is a neuroscientist.

* I'm think Thomas Aquinas was a saint, not a knight.
Though the linked blog post mentions 3.6.2 being due for release March 30, the subsequent post announces an earlier release, and it is available from 'check for updates' right now.
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Ok, let me see.

I really like the idea but it needs to be clear.

What about the other side of the coin? Do the investors become a part of the company?

As an investor, I would like to own even a fraction of the company.

What's there to ensure the startups wouldn't just be irresponsible with the money invested?

What if you don't have enough social capital?

I think you should try to show answers to these questions on your start up page or a how it works page or a video. Not explicitly but implicit thru examples of your service being used. I know that you have raised money for your demo, but how much? who gave? what did you give in return? what steps did you take to ensure you will be responsible?
I wonder how many man-hours Facebook initially put in while restricting users to schools only, man-hours that would have been saved if they just used the current "Facebook is for everyone!" mindset that they have now...
I got into this situation once. I got pretty far into my recovery before being stymied by the discovery that tar is only distributed via tar archives: http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/tar.html
Surely a 2 port hub would work and would be simple enough? That's how I assumed it'd work. Obviously you'd run out of power after 3 or 4 maybe, but that'd be enough to be useful.

You can get pretty tiny 4 port hubs now.
Thanks! Generic Modafinil for $2.20/200mg instead of the usual $6/100mg online for the branded stuff. I'd previously stuck with Adrafinil before, since it's $1/300mg online. The Olmifon packages I've gotten have been labeled at $0.15/pill over the counter in France.

But HOLY SHIT that was the sketchiest web checkout process I can possibly imagine that doesn't involve physical handoffs of unmarked bills.

So you start off with a normal inventory based shopping cart system, but then none of the 5 sketchy looking payment options is configured — instead you go to a separately hosted shopping cart system, and add a stack of gift certificates to that cart in bill denominations. To check out there you have to create an account with a sketchy credit-card-based Paypal competitor called AlertPay, who's signup process has questions about your Citizenship, DOB, and Occupation, ostensibly for some kind of Patriot Act compliance. After doing that you are redirected back to the second shopping cart system, where you have to click through two pages to generate each gift certificate UUID, which it warns you will only be rendered once. Then you add each gift certificate to the first cart until your balance is negative $15 to cover shipping. Now you can proceed to checkout.

You'd think it was the least-converting system ever devised, but the extra %600 discount on top of the standard overseas drug discounting is a powerful motivator.
You are right that Carlsen would probably win, but not because he is "better". I remember Kasparov himself commented on this issue recently, saying something like since he doesn't already plays competitive chess, his intuition is not that sharp, while Carlsen is more in shape.

Overall, I consider Kasparov to be the best chess player ever, while Carlsen has a potential to be at least as good as Kasparov was in his best years. Overall, I am happy that those two came together.
If you want to do business to business, then sure. Personally I don't particularly enjoy that.

Also the point about 'avoiding scaling problems' is sort of funny. You can certainly avoid scaling problems if you don't try and grow big.
Yeah, but even in Britain respected publications are free to speak their mind about inappropriate government actions, like cases where freedom of speech is violated, like this one ...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/philipjohnston...

Which is even debatable if it was the right thing to do, and it's not like you can't find that movie (Fitna) on the Internet with a simple Google search.

Sorry, but this article is just setting up a straw man.

And it's the same story all over ... governments try to impose more restrictions to "protect" it's citizens ... people fight back by rioting or voting against the government. That's how democracy works ... you win some, you lose some, but mostly it's a balance (I'm thinking about the state of affairs in the EU here).

What really worries me is the current situations where many people and companies are paying lip service to China's policies, even though it's not in their interest to do so.

Sooner or later other governments will adopt similar policies ... hey, if it works so wonderfully in China, why shouldn't it work for the rest of the world? Australia is apparently doing just that ... although it's not like Australia hasn't been guilty of other crimes against humanity, like genocide, so personally I don't have any expectations from them.
We'll have to wait for the sentence to be handed down, if any jail time / execution is handed, that would really be interesting!
I wasn't disparaging it, I'm just pointing out that it's the bluntest possible instrument. And sometimes that's what you need to get the job done.
Now all that has to happen is to get this puppy on the majority of Windows boxes in the world.
That depends on the block size. If you're using 40MB blocks, for example, then seek costs are not going to dominate, and you can afford to stitch together a couple of deduped blocks. Where you're going to find duplicated files that are large enough that blocks so large make sense is another question.
The CCP _is_ the government. The distinction is that government is operated with officials that sit on the administration side and others that sit on the "party" side. They all have their functions.

Here's an anecdote for you: a young chinese lady contracted HIV from a hospital blood transfusion. When it was found out, she was fired from her job and her family threw her out.

She sued. Not just her employer and the government hospital but the government as well for not protecting her. She won.

There are quite a few stories of the little person going up against government and winning.

A few months ago, a waitress at a restaurant (hotel) was being accosted by two drunk men..assuming she was about to get raped, she stabbed them. I think one of them died. Turns out they were high level local officials. The girl was given leniency by the court as they understood it was self-defense.
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