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See, you're changing the goalposts. I'm talking about TV, you're talking about mass media in general. I'm comparing, say, 1945 and 1965, you're comparing 1810 and 2010. (Or 1610 and 2010.) There are too many confounds and you can't just throw everything since then (wider college education, mass publication) in with television as if they're even remotely the same thing.

I know there are a handful of TV series that constitute legitimate art, and an even rarer handful of those which are even popular. But by and large, TV isn't an improvement to the average person's level of culture or education. It's not necessarily a setback, but it's not an improvement, either.
Suggestions? Zeitgeist [1] + Tracker [2] if you're on linux...

[1] http://zeitgeist-project.com/

[2] http://projects.gnome.org/tracker/
Illegal immigrants don't pay income taxes but their employers do contribute payroll and social security payments. Not disagreeing at all, just clarifying for non-US readers; wehave a lot of distinct taxes.
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Unless the state has a "stop and identify" statute on the books, you cannot be arrested for refusing to identify yourself.

24 states have such a statute. My new home state, California, has none.
Usually the investors, founders and board members fuck around with the corporate structure, option splits and preferred vs. Common stock so that the employee options are worthless, anyway.

That's not common in successful startups. No successful startup would want to alienate their employees this way. It wouldn't be worth it, just to recapture a few percent of stock.

Common stock only gets massively diluted when a company is in trouble. And usually startups in trouble end up dying, or getting bought in a fire sale, so in those cases the equity isn't worth much anyway.
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True, but also consider how those two sites evolved. When I post a tweet, I know that it is essentially the same as me taking out an ad in the paper or shouting it at people in the pub. I'm fairly careful with regards to what I post. When I started using Facebook, it was very much about communicating with the group of people you have approved as friends. Over time it has transformed into something much more public, I believe without the bulk of the userbase realising.
Who hires them and how do they find clients? (on their own or are they working for McKinsey or similar group?)

And if you have details, how much can they charge?

Edit: in my experience it is not very easy to get paid to just crunch numbers. Even if you can find a job that is supposed to be analytics, 90% of the work is data munging.
You are right. I meant http://www.cherrypal.com. A typo. http://www.pricewatch.com has a few machines in the $120 to $200 range, usually refurbs.
I think it's a cardinal sin for Cappuccino to replace native scrollbars and native scrolling. Maybe your UI gets to look a teeny bit more unified, but scrolling is almost as primitive an interaction as mousing. It is carefully tuned on every operating system and changing its behavior for one part of my screen always sets off my nerves. This non-native feeling is the sort of thing that Flash usually gets flak for.

Would you use a website if it messed with your mousing speed or your cursor? You would you grind your teeth. I feel similarly about non-native scrolling.

The only exception I will grant is for people developing fling scrolling for webapps on the iPhone and iPad, because that is carefully tuned to mimic one operating system on one kind of device. Anything for more general web browsers, however, can make no assumptions and should leave my scrolling alone.
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If anyone has any specific questions about the site, the setup or anything else, I'd be more than happy to answer them.
Sitting in one of these (goofy, overpriced) chairs does not involve tensing any muscles other than those used for balance, which don't really get tired, so that's probably the worst analogy on the internet today. These chairs are meant to rest your legs, not your back. Your back doesn't need to be supported all day. It is the support. There are people who stand for 8 or more hours a day, you know. And they're healthier for it.
If you want to do that, can't you just send a message (rather than a wall post) to your sisters, wife, and/or dad?
Yeah, I do realize that this would be ideal for people. It would be possible to point an mx record at me, and I could add your custom domain. So you could point your app.yourdomain.com MX record to my IP. I would know that based on your api key that requests coming from you should be created with the 'app.yourdomain.com' address and not maskedmail.net. That capability is actually built into how I have it set up now. If you are interested I would be happy to talk more about how we could get that set up.

Thanks for the feedback
Advanced filtering - you can fake it now by putting something like joe) AND (subject:cars OR subject:boats in the filter box, but I'd like a more user-friendly way to do it.
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Funny, I used to joke that "democracy" really comes from Deimos, brother of Phobos, and thus should be spelt differently.
Most startups are not successful. This way the executives the VCs installed when the company started to fail can walk away with something when they fold the company into another company in their portfolio and disguise it as an acquisition.

Edit: I think you edited your post as I made mine and made my point for me.
No doubt. Those who do not follow police officer instructions to produce identification, even in states without "stop and identify" statutes, will find themselves risking an obstruction charge. It may be dropped at the state/city attorney's discretion later, but it will create a very unpleasant period of time.

Case in point: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/418746_video.html
For this kind of business, Math is easy. But finding clients who are willing to pay is hard, VERY hard.
To be fair, the Tooth Fairies only provided the quote about how much people sit around. The actual data seems to be from a study by "Dr Waseem Bashir of the Department of Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging at the University of Alberta Hospital", so presumably can be trusted.
I suppose one in ten. This is a wise attitude. I am inclined to work with people like that.
We had a scam over here a bunch of years ago that took the low-tech route instead. Easy-to-use, painless and fast mosquito-killing system advertised. Upon payment, the lucky owner received two pieces of plywood with a handle on each, plus instructions on how to quickly move the plywood pieces together with the mosquito between them.

I had fun laughing at the audacity at the time, but I think using this system I'd actually have fun using the system instead of having fun at the expense of the users. =)
Bike to work, if it is possible. For me it is actually faster than using public transport, and it does wonders for my health, since I am not physically active at most other times (especially when working).
I have had some good experiences with oDesk, but even those ended with the providers "disappearing" somewhat mysteriously.

I think oDesk encourages ripoffs.

From their home page: Christine, Independent contractor, Enjoys automatic, guaranteed payment"

It helps them, at the risk of alienating the people who pay.

Wonder if that will last.

I for one went to Elance just to try!
For email, anonymity and disposability go together IMO. The main problem you want to avoid is getting spammed or harrassed through an address that you can't afford to turn off. I currently pay Sneakemail a yearly fee for a service that helps me do that.

So I would love to see this API fleshed out with some management features and maybe support for self-hosted MX.
Can't wait for the day when even messages get exposed bit by bit to APIs and third parties. It will get slipped in as a default one day, and before you know it...
... Unless you sneeze? :)
E.g. https://proxy1china.appspot.com
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When I last looked on the forums, there was someone new asking for it several times a week. But Google seem determined not to implement this feature. I can see that it might be rather complex to implement.
Ask HN: Hacker's netbook recommendations below $250 shipped?
My HP laptop is dying slowly and I'd like to replace it with something smaller that can comfortably run Ubuntu and maybe a bit of Clojure + Ruby dev work on the side. I'm completely out of the loop when it comes to the netbook market. Should I look at eeePC? Dell Minis?

Thanks for your help.
I wonder if this story would have seen daylight with the headline "Kickstarting your marketing". The headline is an editorial decision that you, the HN submitter, get to make, and I disagree that it is always tacky -- although I won't argue this particular case. Novum may not have respected the author's link title, but he did help popularize his content.
>This is quite discouraging to read...

It's quite discouraging to see criticism from someone who didn't read what they're attacking. The article plainly states that electrons in metals are hopping all the time, even when the current is zero. Go read it. That's the whole point of that section. A bit hard to miss, unless you leapt to a wrong conclusion after only reading the title.

> because electrons "fill in" the gaps

The article specifically describes this effect. It's probably not wise to criticize things you haven't bothered to read.

That section is a simplified introduction to the concept of "electron sea" and "drift velocity." It debunks the common grade-school textbook error that electrons in metal wires only start hopping between atoms if someone connects that wire in a battery circuit (where the electrons also are supposed to remain stuck to individual metal atoms when current is zero.) This is a serious textbook misconception because it teaches kids that the electron sea doesn't exist, and it prevents them from grasping the "full pipes" fluid analogy of electric circuits as well as later concepts of metallic bond, metal reflectivity, lack of brittleness, etc.
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Simple solutions are quite often the best. I do not see a problem with this as it does make perfect sense. Oil floats but is not a solid and hay is a very textured solid that would affix itself to oil pretty strongly (think getting oil on your hands vs on a pane of glass).
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I dunno. They're really comfortable. I haven't sat on them for more than about 2 hours in one go, but my experience with them has been good so far.

One thing though, the one I've used isn't a rocking chair; it has wheels instead. The rocking may make a difference.
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In one word: Marketing.

Either Organic (SEO), Social media (Twitter, Facebook, Blog posts) or PPC (AdWords, Ads on relevant blogs).
That's what I figured. Thanks a lot for clarifying. :)
That is a good breakdown of Scoble's open letter, it was more of a love letter than a dear john letter. As mentioned, the gist of the letter is that, according to Scoble, the PR issue will blow over if Mark Zuckerberg invites Scoble over to his house.
What would be nice if there was some kind of foot activated gadget that would talk with the ipad. When pressed it would flip to the next sheet. This would eliminate the breaks when the player has to move the hand off the piano to flip to the next page.
Because Hangul is an alphabet.
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Let Facebook know you care about your privacy
That actually doesn't do the trick because there is only one line 9 asterisks wide when it should be two. I don't think you can accomplish this replacing max/min with any combination of abs.
By "liking" that page, it will add it to your profile so that your activities will read "Monitoring my Facebook privacy settings."
Maybe they could release a foot pedal iPhone app to go along with it?
This sounds like something thats going to cause a lot of people to confuse correlation with causation.
This is an interesting filtering process. Presumably, there will be some who attend this event already identified (based on their resumes) as desirable candidates for one or more companies.

Will this be asynchronous knowledge or will the attendees and companies have contact and/or show interest in advance?
I've seen very few variable-width websites in recent years. Fixed-width (at around 960px) seems to be a much more standard design practice. This happened for a couple reasons. Chiefly, monitors have gotten wide, and percent-based widths often get too wide. Secondly, browser zoom has become more available, giving variable width little advantage over a fixed width.
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Do you know if NYC is the same?
I have a good friend who has asked me to look for opportunities to work at a startup, preferably in China.

He wants to be a founder deeper in the future, but wants to work under a serial entrepreneur first, for the experience.
This seems like a much better solution than dispersing chemical agents into the water. KISS.
Much of the attention they are getting is down to timing. The real trick is to find a way to sustain attention until they actually deliver something.
Aha, thanks. Points 2 and 3 are particularly interesting. I guess they explain why you couldn't just bring in an angel investor as a "co-founder" (or, you could, but it'd have to be handled in an unconventional and delicate manner).
Looks promising providing the "mouse" and keyboard are actually ok to use. Most ways of getting the web on your tv have an ok pointing device but having to use that same device to click on a keyboard on the screen is just awful. Drops my typing speed from a word per 1 or 2 seconds to a letter every 2 or 3 seconds :(
This idea was originally geared towards people building applications that would provide users of their site with an anonymous alias. So that you can get anonymously contacted, and then depending on how it is configured trash the alias. I guess it could potentially work for personal use too.
So how do you find out whether they're ignorant of that? A good way is to search for things that people probably didn't mean to reveal publicly.

If a large number of people don't know what they're doing, that's a UI design fail. It doesn't matter whether they should have known.

(I suspect Twitter has the same problem. People should know it's completely public, but I suspect many don't.)
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I think the exciting thing is the fundraising and the momentum (against facebook?). I wouldn't bet on the project succeeding, but I would (did) give $50 just to support the experiment.
> Many of the textbooks he was reading... were using the pedagogical technique of Lie-to-children

Wrong, the textbook authors fully believe those misconceptions themselves. I discovered this sad fact during my K6 education consulting work back in the 80s. Lies-to-children are very different than author misconceptions: they must be carefully constructed so that they don't install permanent major misconceptions in student's minds.

For example, the idea that atoms are like tiny solar systems is a "Lie" which simply explains atomic structure in classical terms, and which turns out to be relatively harmless. It doesn't form any enormous learning barrier which entirely derails our later ability to understand orbitals and quantum chem.

Good articles on the author-misconception topic: R. Feynman's "Judging books by their covers" and S J Gould's "The case of the creeping fox terrier clone"
Why would SAP buy Sybase? Hint: It's not for the database.
From what I read somewhere (I think it was posted here, but I can't find it at the moment), a large amount of the oil is suspended in the water beneath the surface.
I could read this hour long speech in fifteen minutes.

I couldn't find a transcript.

Here he is talking about the book: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1132371...
PGP support in Gmail would be great.
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This is complete horseshit. Would you like to see snapshots of htop cpu usage with the <video> youtube beta enabled/disabled?

edit: Oh wait, if they meant in Windows, then that makes some sense since Flash actually might suck less. Either way, I'm sure that native accelerated playback is coming eventually.

All I know is, I can't watch more than two, ahem, YouTube videos at once unless it's using HTML5/video.

edit2: Either way, this article is just silly. It's over the top and in your face when it has no right to be. Unless you want to ignore all Linux/Mac/iPad/Android users and also want to ignore the fact that eventually native/hardware-accel playback will hit other platforms as well even with h264 or v8 video.
probably because Apple realizes that the computer is still too hard for the average joe to use. Macs might be easy, but my mom still has trouble getting the thing to find the printer -- and she's a chemistry professor at a top 20 university.
Sure, I get that. But my point was that I don't see the trashing.
The awesomeness of this title blows my mind.

Flagged.
Hey guys, I'm the one he was criticizing, and I'm voting him back up off 0 on this comment.

1. That may have been hyperbole. A better way to phrase it would be "A state where the tech sector seems to have as little presence as a country with no tech sector at all."

2. My wife and I talked after this. She said she understands the sacrifice I'm making to stay here. I said I I understand that she wants to live near her family.
The Dell Mini 10n comes with Ubuntu out of the box, which may be a consideration.

I'd recommend getting something with a near-full-size keyboard, which means at least 10" screen. I picked up a used Acer Aspire One a year ago. It was cheap, and still runs great, but the small keyboard is a pain.
Except no one can verify what you do exactly. You always tell the immigration officer at the airport (if he/she asks you) that you're visiting for "meetings". But who does meetings 9-5 every day for 2-3 weeks?

Basically you're OK as long as you don't get paid for your work there. My friend works in the oil/gas industry and he keeps flying to different countries frequently and works there for almost 3-4 weeks. But he doesn't get paid in that country (he gets some per-diem allowance but that's all).
Fundable had much bigger problems than a bad front page design. Kickstarter has been doing alright, but this is the first time they've really made a big public splash, and it's pretty clear that Facebook and Diaspora are driving that attention. This post seems like a weird post-hoc explanation that's ignoring the obvious.
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I did read that and I think you're missing a key distinction.

Custom controls aren't wrong. There's a very limited number of native controls, but a seemingly infinite number of ways to display and interact with data. So all but the most simple of apps are going to require custom controls.

Some apps take this further and replace every control in the application with custom one. Notably Logic/Aperture, Final Cut, a great deal of iPhone apps and all games. Done well, this can give a sense of context to the user (especially important in games) and make it look cool.

What I object to is requiring a full replacement of native controls because the application was written using Cappuccino. This is arbitrary: there's no reason why a temperature converter app written in Cappuccino should look any different to the exact same app written in Cocoa. There's no benefit of context to the user - the toolkit used is merely an implementation detail.

Meanwhile, what would be minor design irritations in a single app are magnified to become major design flaws when they affect all Cappuccino apps. I'm not going to pick on specific things since it's beta software, but if you're going to replace everything, you've got to be absolutely sure it's implemented immaculately. Otherwise overall usability is going to suffer. It seems it would be easier to go with native controls and avoid the fuss.
I'm curious, how much faster would it run if these tests were written in native code?
I've I'm working on something sufficiently interesting to get into "hack mode", then yeah, I can work for hours on end without even thinking about food. If I'm working on something boring (but has to be done...), then I'm much more likely to find myself fighting the boredom with an occasional snack.
I'm surprised he didn't mention sleep. There is a well- established correlation between sleep deprivation and weight gain. Not that I am acting on this knowledge, particularly. But someone could!
For those like me that didn't know about the famous O-ring demonstration: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Commission#Role_of_Richa...
Yea ditto here. I have a lunch at 1 and then work to 10PM without eating.

Such a bad habit, plus I'm so late getting out that I just hit up fast food and eating after 10 is terrible for your metabolism..
Boulder - usually seen as an enclave of hippies, marijuana dispensaries and rock climbers - has become a hotbed of capitalism.

As a native Coloradoan, I must say Boulder has been commonly known as a white bread, vastly overpriced, pretentious suburb for the last 30 years.

Populated mostly with college students who leave after graduating. Rent and SUV maintenance being prohibitively expensive in that city without a real job.

Affluent college town coddles young businesses? It would be shocking if they didn't.

(Did I mention I hate Boulder?)
Bravo! Seeing this app makes me want to get an iPad just to play around with it. Well, almost:

As a fairly serious amateur pianist, I definitely appreciate that this could let me ditch my dusty bookshelf of heavy scores, turn pages for me, and keep track of my location on the page. But the real deal-breaker for me is that it doesn't look like I can annotate the music with fingerings and expressive marks. When first learning a piece I probably spend as much time scribbling on the score [in pencil!] as I do reading it with fingers.

This would still be immensely useful for sight-reading though, where page-turns are a much bigger issue than fingering and expression. But it seems ironic to start out learning a piece with Etude, only to graduate back to paper later.

All in all though, this is some really exciting technology.

Nitpick: the built-in synthesizer seems to have a pretty lazy right foot. Pedagogically speaking it'd actually be better to drop the pedaling altogether rather than obscure the harmony -- make it a setting? Even better: make it respect pedaling marks in the score!
I'd love to read more about how to pitch effectively to users.

Anyone have articles they'd recommend?
You could do it with a plain old text editor afaics. It looks like a regular Cappuccino project. (edit: that is, if you only want to deploy it for the web. I don't know about building a desktop version)

Btw it does support labels, they're just not displayed in the list. If it showed labels in the list, supported filtering, and showed label colours I would use it for github issues 100% right now.

It's a really cool app but I'm more excited about it being open source.