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My good friend's dad did one of these when we was in his fifties.

You are typically allowed to have people pace you (run along with you), so my friend ran with his dad from the 60 mile point to the 80 mile point. I remember my friend making a comment that sounded to me as the most ludicrous thing ever. His dad was really struggling around the 75 mile mark. His comment was this:

"Dad, I know this is tough, but there is really only 5 more miles of hard terrain. After that its just 20 easy miles."
Thank you, that's very concrete.
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It would be great if I could integrate it with my web apps by giving users a unique URL per project without requiring them to login.
The only thing I really take issue with is the Child Porn smoke screen that is constantly used; it's a none issue compared to the general issue with these devices. It's like with web filtering: CP is used as an excuse to get people onside.

Case in point: this article uses "girl" even though the person in question is 29 - a Woman. It by no means makes the situation any better (clearly), but it allows the Sun to segue into the pedophile aspect nicely.... bah
I had heard Apple got its name from the story about an apple hitting Newton's head, though this site doesn't mention it.

I also heard a, less credible, rumour that it had to do with Turing instead of Newton because the Apple logo has a bite taken out of it.
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How can it be unfair if people volunteer for it? I agree that work should be paid for, but how about taking on some responsibility in negotiating one's own price?

At least if claiming it is unfair, one should explain why people are forced to do unpaid internships. Pointing at individual companies doesn't cut it.
I don't know what could be a better example of the public not-liking something and the state doing it anyway "in the public interest"

But it seems to be part of a trend.

In the states the same yahoos that were screaming at the top of their lungs a couple of years ago about terrorism laws just made them all permanent.

I won't go into other examples of the state intervening and controlling our personal lives -- hopefully that one example was bland enough for this crowd. I think this is HN-related because not all uses of new technology is bringing forth a bright, sunny day. Lots of disturbing stuff coming down the pike. There's a helluva lot of spin with these devices and other state intrusions -- from both sides.
Another example is OS X's active screen corners.

If I set the upper right corner to something useful, like 'Beam me up Scotty', I have about a .5 probability of transporting back to the Enterprise when I really wanted to find a file.

Active corners are cool, but they make a couple other functions difficult to use.
I quite like falling asleep while listening to something, but I wish there was some way that my iPod could work out that I've gone to sleep and cut out at that point.

Maybe an app that requires you to hold the iPod vertically and pauses audio playback out when it goes into any other position for more than a configurable number of seconds?
> So, I'm not going to waste any time getting into an argument with someone with deficient argumentation skills

Right, coming from someone whose debating skills amount to putting words into another person's mouth (or writing)

Now, just where did you read about "the police bust into his home, hauled him into custody, scaring the crap out of his wife and children, and searched everything. He was likely suspended from work, pending his clearing. And even after being cleared, there's no guarantee that the suspicion disappeared before the Dan guy was convicted."?

Seriously, where did you get that?

You seem to fabricate more and more fantasy as you go along . . .
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I'm not going to claim that its impossible for the US to (eventually) fall into third world status or that there aren't serious balance of trade issues to be dealt with. However there are two things that are not being considered here:

1) The export of information and skills is very important and becoming increasingly more important.

2) A lot of the issues in economics are generally self-correcting. This doesn't mean that there won't be pain along the way in the US, but it seems unlikely to take the US all the way to third world status.

Of course, I realize that these self-correct effects tend to come with open/fluid markets, which we don't have. However, as global trade increases, markets should become more open/fluid (which, in the end, should benefit more than just the US).

Edit: Small change for clarity.
I wouldn't read too much into what the Sun has to say as this contradicts what Mrs Barret said here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8303983.stm

"Ms Barrett said the black-and-white image would only be seen by one officer in a remote location before it was deleted."

The interesting bit being "remote location", how would she have been able to hear him?
Well, you obviously need to search in Austrian ;)
This is nonsense. Go to a real third world county and you will see a massive difference between the USA and there. This article claims any country with "a high level of debt, an income distribution concentrated in the top 1% of the population, and an economy based on export of raw materials and import of manufactured products."

most of these apply to every country in the world.
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Yeah but you have to understand that the general public doesn't use facts and logic to form conclusions. They use social queues, and they need road signs--tribal banners, if you want--to know which side they should be on.

We at HN are (generally) on the side for whom "child porn" is a rallying cry, and no one outside of our little bubble of the universe will understand why we would agree with the premise, but still argue against the banner, just because of silly facts and logic.

I've given up on rational discourse in the public. I'm content with my tribal banners waving, as long as they are waving in the right direction.
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I recently tried tumblr and it provides a quite a nice user experience. However, I'm already using wordpress in my own domain, and no intention of moving my blog right now. I'm just wondering whether there are any open source blogging platforms like tumblr/posterous.
I'm the author of the post. I posted it here because I think it can be relevant to programmers.

I understand many people like to work at night, but for those who are ok with getting up early, it's really something worth trying. In my (limited) experience it's not hard to study programming topics when you just woke up, instead it takes a good 30 minutes or more if you want to concentrate on a bright monitor (but you can use a dark color theme to solve that).

Regarding productivity, the reason I believe waking up early works is because you get a big amount of high quality, uninterrupted time, where you are fresh and not tired from the day.
If under your definition the USA is a heading towards being a third world country then perhaps you should consider your definition of a third world country inadequate.
> Words are used to communicate and sometimes get misused and take on a new meaning; that's just the way it goes.

I sure hope that's not always the way it goes. Because then "then" would soon mean "than" and "than" would mean "then".
Anyone who says you need to be technical in a startup is obviously not practicing much of 4 steps to epiphany.

Having someone to make those face to face meetings, do all the phone calls, write up their research and iterate on the business model while you are developing is a huge advantage. Anyone who says otherwise hasn't really gone out there and done the face to face research in my opinion.

I noticed on days when I had to do both for various reasons my productivity dropped dramatically because a meeting either face to face or online is a huge context switch c.f. changing to a different programming task.
In my opinion, the world is not over populated - that in itself is just wrong. I say this because we're screwing up the planet in all sorts of ways, the population size itself, only increases the speed at which we accomplish that.

That said, we don't have any real form of population control besides natural disasters. Which isn't really effective in the long run.
Nice. Very similar to something I've been working a lot on recently.
I'm sorry, it's a shame then :)
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It makes a couple good points, but he loses credibility by fudging numbers and comparing apples to oranges, like saying we've accumulated $1.375 trillion in debt to China since 1967, when in fact that's the sum of what we've borrowed without considering what we've paid back (it's all revolving debt).
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SAT results count for very little these days. At universities like Harvard, a perfect score will not get you in.

Even at University of Michigan, a state school, a 1360 on the SAT is worth the same as a 1600: http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:mZNMh_wonTIJ:www.umich.e...
I wondered about that myself, however, it is plausible in a sense.
I've also heard the same. The multicolored apple in the logo was apparently supposed to signify the cyanide that caused Turing's death.
I don't think all the wealthy people are evil people who exploited the poor.

What about YC millionaires and other type of people who gain their wealth by producing what people want?

What percentage of the affluent is actually a bunch of parasites who is only good for manipulating government regulations to keep out competitors?
Not every country in the world can export raw materials and import manufactured products. Someone has to make the products. Who? China.
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Spot on. The Diffrence a college degree can make when you are looking for your initial job is enormous.

if you do engineering from a Top rated college in India (IIT), the starting salary(Annual) would be 20,000 USD

if you do engineering from a Medium Rated college in India ,the starting salary(Annual) would be 10,000 USD

if you do engineering from a Low Rated college in India , the starting salary(Annual) would be 5,000 USD

all these cases, only if you have scored more than 65 or 70 % in the course. If you haven't, then majority of the big companies doesn't even consider your resume.

If you are really good, but with no degree, most of the companies won't take you in. The ones which do, would take you in as an intern with pay as low as 1000 USD/Annum. (Sometimes with no pay).

I have a cousin who is immensley talented on the networking side, but he has no engineering degree. it took him nearly 7 years to reach the initial pay of a person with an engineering degree.
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In the same newspaper and related - "Al Qaeda gives female suicide bombers exploding breast implants to 'destroy jet'.

"the chemicals are virtually impossible to detect by airport security scanners."

"The surgeons are also believed to have previously inserted the chemical into male bombers buttocks"

If these can't be detected by body scanners, there seems little point having body scanners. Probably better to interview flyers and monitor for suspicious activity.
Third world countries don't have universal healthcare! Now if you lot can just adopt the metric system we'll be getting somewhere. :)
I'm scared to extrapolate and assume this is the natural extension of the end of privacy - your naked body.
Oh absolutely. I contributed to a book on the French hadopi laws discussing whether it really would have an affect on child porn - by filtering it out.

Talking to some French friends (who I got to recommend it to people :)) they all said people were interested, but ultimately too condition by the phrase "child porn" to change their opinion...
This is from the Sun, a well known trash paper. I wouldn't take anything they publish seriously.
I'll bite. I believe people who say "why can't they work for free if they want to?" aren't seeing the big picture. What's been happening in some areas (not IT), like people working on culture (museums mainly), is that the company will avoid paying at any cost. This means they will keep you working for free as an intern until you decide to leave or they are required to give you a work contract. Then, when you leave, they just get another intern and this goes on and on.

So you'd ask "why are people falling for this?" and the answer is quite simple: there's too many people who'd like to work on culture but it's not a gold mine for companies so they can't pay even if they wanted to. So you keep accepting internships to get a better CV but it never stops. I can't count the number of friends I have in this situation for years and years. I'm not kidding: more than ten years trying internships and with amazing CVs living with parents because you can't afford living by yourself.

I can imagine this happening in IT too since there's so many people wanting to work on this area. People need to qualify and I'm not talking about a degree, you need to practice and learn by yourself so you can have a real advantage over everyone else and escape the never ending internships.
I agree that it sounds like meditation. In a yoga class I attend, which combines an hour of light flow yoga with about a half-hour meditation (first about 20 minutes prone on the back, and then 10 minutes sitting cross-legged), I often enter a sort of immediate REM-like state. While the teacher was talking about clearing our minds, I was having wild, vivid, waking dreams. It's pretty fun to get into that state, and it definitely makes me feel good afterwards. The OP's "napping" sounds a lot like this.
Many countries considered third world actually do offer universal healthcare. This includes many Latin American countries and I would suspect many Asian countries as well.
>Like, say, the "delete all my work" button?

Why on earth would an application designer provide a non-recoverable way to delete everything in the first place?
I don't really see the point of this article.
Of course some people who were rejected get successful, and some who get into Harvard don't, it's not like it was possible to predict anyone success with 100 % accuracy.
It would be interresting to have the percentage of people who get into the best universities and succeed in their life, and the percentage of people who were rejected but still managed to succeed.
But we'll have to find a way to measure "success" first...
(Sorry for the spelling or grammar mistakes, I really need to improve my english)
... And yet "Outlook 2000, 2003, Express" make up 32% of all email clients found in their study. My point isn't that these are in high use, but that they are vastly over counted (and even then meaningless to try and find providers as there are plenty of people using Gmail inside of Outlook).
Because you're leaving their hosted service and you don't want them to continue datamining your documents?
The United States will always be a first world country because that is the definition of first world. First/second/third world status never changes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_World

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_world

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_world

Man, I'm starting to sound like a broken record.
Ubuntu seem to be aware of these kinds of arguments:

http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/03/23/ubuntu-community-team-op...
> Right, coming from someone whose debating skills amount to putting words into another person's mouth (or writing)

I called it as I read it. You pointed it out as something commendable that he preyed on the strong rather than the weak. I responded that preying is never commendable, and that he prayed on plenty of weak people. So far you've done nothing to explain your position to me, except to throw profanities.

> Now, just where did you read about "the police bust into his home .." Seriously, where did you get that?

I didn't, but extrapolated it from the the way Dan was apprehended (by a SWAT team one time, though at no point is it mentioned that anyone considered him even remotely dangerous). I should have added "it's likely that ..". Fantasy? Perhaps - but what do you think happens to a security-systems-installer who's named as the perpetrator behind a multi-$100.000 hoist?
Interesting analysis, but with 80% of the profit going direct to the journalist, I have a hard time imagining how they give their sales staff a decent commission AND cover their overhead. In such sales-driven industries, the commission alone regularly hits 15% and upward.

That means at best, without a dedicated sales staff, there's going to be a lot of that remainder traffic that doesn't require sales staff and pulls in even lower margins.

Edit: The blog post goes into all these issues quite well, including factoring in a commission in his calculations. So, yay original poster
I agree. This whole exploited the poor is such an old tired marxist argument.

There is definitely a big difference between rich and poor here but there is incredible diversity amongst the rich and there are a lot of them.
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The Creative Commons "noncommercial" restriction being vague is quite important. A lot of content is being published under the CC licenses, and it would be good to get some clarification. For example, would an ad-supported re-publishing of the content be against the license?

Anyone know of authoritative definitions of this clause?
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To bring the thread back onto topic, the article needs editing. One example, substituting "anybody" for "everybody" in the above excerpt would make more sense.
Does it even want, or need, to? That's probably a more interesting question, though this is still a fairly sophisticated argument he's making, not the "Microsoft sucks!" article that you might guess from the headline.
The only thing scarier than the censorship and reasons for it (i.e. human rights issues, corruption, etc...), is how powerful China would be if they ever straightened up.
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I don't know what a composition editor is. But an information manager is, generally, one of the wide range of applications that take unstructured, file-like data and provide an application interface to them. What that entails varies, but there's often indexing (and powerful search), tagging, and sometimes NLP–a snippets manager, or a PIM like Eaglefiler, Together, Yojimbo, DEVONthink and many many more.

EDIT: You might mean, "what's a composition interface?" In which case it's a text-editor component, with some added UI sugar like current line highlighting, word count, splitting, typewriting scrolling, full-screen mode, et cetera. You know, an interface for composing text.
"I would talk it over with the support hotline."

Why would you have any hopes of this having any effect? If you think the system is broken, it seems very unlikely some low level employee will take it upon them to escalate the problem to management. They'll just go "sorry, company rules, nothing we can do about it".

Typically hotlines are actually just glorified "choose your own adventure" books. That is, instead of having to do the reading yourself, the hotline staff does it for you. None of the prescripted paths lead to "here is an interesting idea that management might want to hear about".
When I set up an active screen corner action, I always go for the top-right corner first, because that's the corner my cursor is least likely to hit. I always bring up the spotlight menu with the keyboard, because there's nothing useful to do with it without moving my hands to keyboard anyways. Since search results can be picked using the arrow keys, there's no need to move your cursor away from the part of the screen that you're working in.
It's not really relevant to the point he's trying to make but a simple low-tech hack is to write your message first, then put in the recipients email addresses.

With no email address, any accidental send will fail.
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His descriptions are mixed up. First one is best case, third one worst case.
What it really means is that online ads simply don't pull in enough money to support journalism, except in weird edge cases-- another business model is needed.

Exactly what that business model might look like is left as an exercise for the reader.
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I'm not sure I understand the point of saving few kilobytes in an application's images.

Does it change anything for the user?
Note that the article is three years old.
Thanks, it was also a good story, nothing like our geek criminal mastermind (because he is evidently a geek) :) but an enjoyable story nonetheless . . . can you fellows tell I enjoy true crime stories? Both entertaining and informative, it's the only topic I read besides tech . . .
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I'm not sure I fully understand, but if by 'not a data silo' you mean you're ok with having an application to view these things, but prefer that they be stored as real files, rather than a flat database, I strongly recommend EagleFiler. No one of its features is very shiny or mindblowing as the NLP of DEVONthink, for instance, but it's very well thought out and efficient. In particular I think it has the best 'capture' function for taking the frontmost document from the current application and saving it to the EF database (which consists of an index file as well as a regular Finder-friendly file hierarchy)
There's no formatting at all, except auto-formatting that you define yourself, which will recognize plaintext tags.

So you could define markdown in it? I googled a bit, and only found people wishing you could, so maybe there's something I'm missing.
I don't know of any such vim mode but I'd be very interested to hear about it. The closest I have is a script that turns on things like wrap-by-word and scroll-by-visual-line (given that in prose, what vim thinks of as lines, we think of as paragraphs)
Since MSFT entered the Web search market, it is in their interest to maintain a solid presence in the browser market. The only way they can achieve this (besides having a large OS market) is by making a superior browser.

As long as they adopt open standards I have no problem with it.

Personally, I will never use IE browser even if it is the fastest, most compliant browser around. IE have scarred me too much during my web design days to ever fully trust them. I will stick with Chrome & Firefox.