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Right now, the federal government provides very large subsidies to nuclear power operators.

Ok, but then to be fair a substantial portion of the defense budget should be counted as subsidies to oil companies.

And yet nuclear power is very expensive all over the world. Nuclear power plants are almost always over budget and late no matter where they're built.

The French seem to not be starving. And large projects being late and over budget is not at all surprising, regardless of the field.
How is your approach different from http://neil.fraser.name/writing/sync/ ? You said you aren't doing any diffs - so are you just creating a patch per user action (like typing the character "a" is actually represented as a patch for insertion of a at position 0?). I looked at using differential synchronization at some point, but it has even higher latency/way more memory usage than OT approaches (the server needs to have a full copy of the document per client). You can't constantly be diffing and sending patches using the synch-diff approach - rather you have synchronization cycles that happen every few seconds.
I think twitter does the same.
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Just bought it and trying it out. Very nice app! It runs pretty well on my slowish MyTouch. Everything works as expected (better than expected actually). The map download is particularly nicely implemented (well, I somewhat take that back. A download progress bar would be nice :).
Agreed, I should of called it flash/javascript.

Through flash it streams audio live to a red5 server where sphinx is used for decoding. Open sourcing the red5 app soon so hopefully people can get use out of it whether embedded in a webpage or as a flash application(such as a flash game). It will be easier with html5.
If you click Saved Maps from the menu, then the table will show the progress of each map :)

Thanks for the compliments! One nice thing about the Android app is we have already been working on the iPhone app for many moons, so there were a lot of lessons learned. The biggest one I think is that we launched a very minimal feature set at first - on the iPhone we included tracking, waypoints, and all kinds of stuff right of the bat.

Because of this, our iPhone app started out buggy and we have had to do significant refactoring over time. Also, we later cut some features we originally viewed as important.

I always thought I understood the credo of launch a "mimimum viable product," but I really didn't until after launching something that WASN'T it.
Hmm,

I can't help but feel, uh, angry, at experts - Wong or Zuckerberg or whoever - who claim that no cares about privacy, they just "think they care about privacy". When employers, potential employers and potential-stalkers are all actively Googling people, a large portion of the population should care about privacy. I'd say the opposite is true to Wong's glib statement - the people will care more and more about privacy as they learn all the implication.

Anyone who's vulnerable in one way or another will care about privacy - the simplest examples are employees who's job situation is insecure and women and children who might face threats from stranger. Anyone that a state might look askance at would another example (and it's not just the US state).
Ran it on chrome and finished successfully.
If you are serious about people getting to use it, consider putting the source directly on the site, along with comments suitable for the layman. I'm sharing this link and having people say "But what if it steals my info!" and while I can tell them it's open source and they can look at the code themselves, that's not something the majority of my friends can do.
Is anyone looking for remote teams? I'm sure bootstrapped startups could do a lot of projects on the side to improve their cashflow...
tl;dw a cane for blind people using two proximity sensors to warn the user of obstructions or pitfalls, from 3 14-yo girls in a Palestinian high school. They're now in CA participating in an Intel-sponsored science fair.

Wow - an impressive and clever hack, leveraging cheap, simple technology in an easy-to-use design for a really worthwhile purpose - one that will benefit blind people worldwide, and from high-schoolers, no less. So much bad news comes out of the Middle East that it's heartening to hear of science being applied to such constructive ends.
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Very few good games on Android.

If by "good" you mean "console-like 3d models and in-your-face graphics", then yes. But there are many very good games on Android. I know I've wasted enough time with things like drop7. It's consuming me. :)
That's actually a much more interesting list! Thanks.
fair enough, but can you say anything about what kind of app it is? is it a game / a productivity utility / etc.?
Ok, but then to be fair a substantial portion of the defense budget should be counted as subsidies to oil companies.

I've heard this before and it makes no sense to me. The US spends a lot of money on defense because Americans love the military and use it to funnel money into all sorts of places that would otherwise be quite poor. And most US military operations around the world don't do anything to reduce the price of oil. I mean, Iraq is not exactly giving us oil for free now is it?

The French seem to not be starving.

True, they're not. But the original claim was that liberal opposition to nuclear power was the problem. My counterclaim was that you will find zero support amongst American conservatives for a nuclear power policy anything like the successful one used in France. Can you point to any important American conservatives who publicly speak favorably about the France's nuclear system and advocate for adopting it in the US?

And large projects being late and over budget is not at all surprising, regardless of the field.

I have friends that do design and construction for power plants and, according to them, the cost and schedule overruns in nuclear plant construction really are surprising.
Time for some http://modifyheaders.mozdev.org/

edit: panopticlick gets plugin and font list via javascript; modifyheaders can't do anything about that ...
I'm surprised this article didn't mention Fold.It (by the same people as Rosetta) which does not just let you contribute CPU cycles to grid calculations, but allows users to add their brainpower by actually working on protein folding interactively, and builds useful skills in the process. I came across it a year ago, and was surprised to find what a fun hobby protein-folding can be.

http://fold.it/portal/
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Same purpose as scheduling a department meeting -- it feels better than doing nothing.
Fair enough - I only just now realized that it's only the HN headline that focuses on the working for free part.
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I'd go one step further and say that some of this is even a design flaw in the platform. Depending on developers to check a system setting to see if they should make updates is absolutely backwards. The OS should provide an API that allows an app to request an update, but is denied if the user's settings don't allow it.
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Hmmm... I see it now. I guess I just found a bug as the first time I tried downloading the app. I clicked save and it just stalled for a long while until I clicked cancel.

But I still don't see any download indicator in the notification drop-down which is typical for Android apps.
Its a noble goal - but Windows Mobile failed to make this work and I think Android will too. Applications claim resources. You need to be able to kill apps to free resources - think open file or locked database.
Once, sure they are victims.

After 3 times, plus all the other security issues that have been raised about godaddy, this is incompetence, not victimhood.
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I believe it actually gets the font lists using a tiny flash app. Check out this project for an example:

http://github.com/gabriel/font-detect-js
Serves as a deterrent effect. If there were no enforcement ever, lots of people from sites like HN would be thinking of fun, clever new ways to post/share stuff. Since there is, only a smaller segment of the hacker population is willing to put up with the legal hassle.
Funny thing is I would actually prefer downloading from official (maybe more legal) sources if I would find way to do that in my country, with my favorite OS, without stupid DRM restrictions and warnings and maybe for sane prices. But living in Germany and using Linux - such a movie-download service does to my knowledge in 2010 still not exist and is also not in sight.

Something like eDonkey but at the cost of lets say 1€ per GB and I would be happy. Then a DVD would be same price like cheap DVD's in a shop and I can decide to go with lower-quality if I don't want to spend as much.

I don't even know why producers don't just do that. Or maybe they do in other countries?
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It's not a virus, it's just a thing that invites all your friends.
Make sure you watch this guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84zqbXUQIHc (presentation at google).

They developed a lot of systems using OT, even going so far as doing collaborative autocad. There are papers on that if you search for CoMaya and CoAutoCAD. The complexity, especially of the last one, is mind boggling though.
I am too, and I have a default installation. How did fonts get so unique?
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I always see sites that decide either they allow everything or they shut down. Why is obfuscation never an option?

What if you had separate sites dedicated to each of the following steps:

1. Start a bt site, advertised as a site for baking recipes. Seed the site with tons of existing videos on baking, to increase legitimacy.

2. Create a translator site for each baking-related keyword. For example, "muffins" = "Lost".

3. Write a browser plug-in that translates the baking site into the real torrent site.

Who would one sue then? Would it not work simply because the __AA would constantly request torrents to be taken down?

I know TPB has a political agenda, so they might not want to do this.. but sites like mininova could have.
Yes, it is.
Examples of how people sign their publications after retirement:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20440016
also
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10700398

or, if you do not want to mention retired or former, nor start your own company, just provide your home address and indicate your preferred/non-preferred reviewers
Even if not for the traffic page but for your own statistics. I too highly recommend using Google Analytics or installing Urchin.
true, I'd like it to be more than just a pet service website. Just using pet service as a start.
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http://www.eztakes.com/

I haven't tried it yet. 5000 titles. Decidedly non-mainstream.
The hand-drawn periodic table in the background is sad.

Cheers for the girls, hope they make it to the prize.
Ok, would you mind emailing me at andrew@gaiagps.com?

I'd like to ask a couple questions, and then we'll fix it.
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Pretty shocking, especially considering the equity he's presumably walking away from. More power to him.
Reminded me of Douglas Adams and John Lloyd (creator of QI)'s The Meaning of Liff:

http://folk.uio.no/alied/TMoL.html
I saw this demoed by Cambridge Consultants nearly 10 years ago. Let's hope these kids get it to market where it can actually be used by people.

Cambridge Consultants' press release about their "bat cane": http://www.cambridgeconsultants.com/news_pr58.html
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I played around with this for work and fonts appear to be the biggest culprit of selling you out. User Agents can be somewhat unique depending on what you've installed that may have modified them, but fonts are far worse. From what I gather, the flash app returns the fonts in installed ordered and not alphabetical. So unless your system is factory fresh, it may still be distinguishable from someone else with the exact same setup, provided you installed any fonts (or apps w/included fonts) in a different order.
I agree with you but i've seen cases where we needed extra functionality to push some logic to the template, since that's what the design/UI guys use. It could have been done without adding separate template tags, but it certainly seems cleaner/logically consistent to keep things together and have the views/presentation as loosely bound as possible.

And for some reason, i don't personally enjoy polluting my views with statements that do nothing but populate context variables.
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Thanks! Sorry for the delay; I've sent you specific feedback in an email.
I think more serious crimes go to the head of the queue; that's precisely why TWC doesn't have time to investigate pirates.
What's the difference? It's a web virus of sorts, isn't it?
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As awesome as the new CSRF functionality is, it has a bit of a gotcha with upgrading (some preexisting forms will fail), so if you are moving from 1.1 to 1.2 keep that in mind.
It wouldn't work because the first site would still be facilitating copyright infringement, and thus still subject to legal pressure. Calling it by a code-name doesn't remove its copyright, nor does hiding it amongst legally redistributable torrents.

Simply put, you'd sue everyone involved in the creation of that infrastructure. The second site and the guy who wrote the browser plugin may be able to escape unscathed, but the first site would be in exactly the same predicament as The Pirate Bay, Mininova, etc., except with the added bonus of trying to hide what they were doing. That wouldn't go over well in court.
You could argue about the precise definition of a virus and all that, but I think this classifies more as malware that just spreads around. Spam-ware maybe?
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There actually are Android User Interface Guidelines, albeit less comprehensive than Apple's equivalent:

http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/i...

... but it is certainly true that there is no review or enforcement mechanism in place to help developers conform to these guidelines.
It's a fun app, not quite a game. It uses your phone's hardware in an amusing way.
I use DTerm for this sort of thing. I wrote a blog post on my DTerm workflow over at http://iterative.ly/dterm-the-macs-missing-command-line
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They need to switch to a complete distributed architecture.
Where the site, the tracker, everything is hosted by users. This way, no corporate tools can target them.

The "how" is much more complicated though.
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The stash has its own reflog

git gc only prunes nodes unreachable from branches AND the reflog, which I think by default is 30 days long
Thing is, there's nothing wrong with thinking of fun, clever ways to post/share stuff. If nothing else, you can do it to anticipate what the bad guys might do, on the same principle as any other kind of attack research.
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"navigation under an infinite scroll field - hates this." You're right I will need to address that.

"I have to load your whole dataset to see what is up with your site."
What do you mean by that can you clarify?
I doubt he's walking away from much equity at all. He's been with Twitter a long time. If he isn't 100% vested, he's got to be pretty close.
Given the recent discussion[1] that closures might not make it in Java 7, it is good to see this proposal from Brian Goetz of Oracle.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1342154
Very useful. Thanks for the post.
I strongly encourage people to read the release notes before upgrading, there are backwards incompatible changes from 1.1
Thank you and congratulations to the team!
You probably should have posted this as a comment in one of the existing threads; looks like it got ignored.

Is there a privacy-centric mode of generating income that will effectively have these seeds pay for themselves?

This is the key question IMO, and I suspect the answer is no. Diaspora (or a similar project) will force people to confront this issue; if you really want privacy, then you should be willing to pay for it. If you want something that is free and private, you're just a whiner.

As for mass adoption, I think the answer is an interoperable hybrid of paid/private and free/data-mined, as I said here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1353975
In a similar (but perhaps unrelated) vein, his hypothetical about amateurs freely volunteering their words to the New York Times is precisely what has been happening in the photography world for quite a few years, with a resulting range of pricing: Flickr, vs. stock photography sites, vs. traditional publishers like Getty.
We've had the bank discussion here before, and some of it seems to come down to the fact that banks are required to do a lot of regulatory stuff that is not 'simple'.
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This tool rocked! I thought I was pretty closed out with my privacy but was insecure on 2 elements, all sorted now! good work!
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I've wanted to do something very much like this in a future startup. Banking does suck.

Unfortunately, it's debatable how much of banks' suckiness is avoidable. Retail banking is caught in a vice-grip between fierce competition for low margins and government regulations. For example, from what I understand you pretty much have to run mainframes with certain antiquated, government-approved software to process stuff through ACH. KYC rules prevent extremely efficient account openings. Etc, etc.

I'll be curious to see how this goes.
SimpleBank looks interesting - I assume this is a 'virtual' bank and they are just reselling some other bank but putting their interface on it.

Anyone know any details?
For background, Silvaco Data systems makes chip-testing software. A competitor, Circuit Semantics Inc., misappropriated, modified, and resold Silvaco's source code, and were successfully sued for this. Intel and some other manufacturers who had bought and used CSI's software (but did not have access to the source code) were asked to stop using it by Silvaco following that judgment, but refused. Silvaco sued, lost, appealed, and were denied.

Referring to an 8,000 page appendix of legal reference material entered by Silvaco's attorneys, which duplicated the court's own record and included 27 copies of a 103 page index to its own contents, Judge Rushing grumbled that 'Seldom have so many trees died for so little.'

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Appeal Court ruling: http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=1115553154677364...
On the other hand, it also adds to the publicity, doesn't it?

They probably assume the deterrent effect has a greater impact than all the press and the buzz about banning and shuting down?
If Windows 3.11 required a 32-bit CPU, why was it called a 16-bit OS?
There's also an implementation in Factor:

http://re-factor.blogspot.com/2010/05/creating-fake-data.htm...
Shall I just make a german version of the whole thing (the strings humans see, not the debug stuff) or do you plan for internationalisation (argh, what's the word) support? Don't do it just because I might do a translation, sometimes I lose interest in things. ;)

edit: It's mostly the htmlContent array and lines with the word "message" in them, correct? I don't know Javascript.
I'm less concerned by the UI. I think the market will gradually sort out; and I don't really mind that my file manager has a distinct look to my twitter feed, etc.

I am more bothered by the chaos on the SD card, and the apparently complete lack of guidance from Google on standard locations. It's just a mess of root directory folders of arbitrary names. You hope that your selected media directory names won't conflict with something that an app may choose in the future. (I personally use _music, _video etc. both to avoid conflict and to come up top in most alphabetical listings.)
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Cross platform development is difficult. No way around that.
In their evaluation it appears they are comparing their server written in C or C++ (since they call OS functions like poll) to SEDA which is written in Java. In the original SEDA paper, if I remember correctly, the authors noted SEDA wasn't as fast as one of the servers written in C that they used for comparison reasons, but the authors were just trying to demonstrate a proof of concept of the architecture.

This doesn't seem like a particularly fair comparison of architectural ideas. A better one IMHO would have been to implement their server in Java or re implement SEDA in C.
I think the problem is that firms are coming out with something equivalent to what they thought the iPad was, not something which would excel the iPad's configuration. The only device I've seen that comes close is the WePad and it's too expensive.
Any company building enterprise level products puts thought and experimentation into choosing their algorithms. Google just advertises their research publicly as part of their branding.
I just figured they wouldn't appreciate it because it 'harvests' data from facebook... in the same way they didn't like that firefox extension that converted the email address images into plain text.
It's nice to see the occasional reminder of this, among all the Web 2.0-ness around here :-)

A lot of apps still need to run in the Dark Ages that are desktop development, Balkanization and all.
interestingly, the comments on advanced task killer (android auto-kill app) show that most users have no idea how android apps work--they are autokilling many apps that autoserialized state to disk and don't consume a single resource until reopened. or, maybe it's me who misunderstands.
Do you know of any resources that differentiate the different type of investment styles? I see you mentioned value investors and know there are other types.

Finance is one of those worlds that's so big, it's kind of hard to find a place to start digging in.
The amount of banking suckage is very dependent on what country you live and bank in (I say this from experience of living in the UK and the US). I'd be really interested to know how much of the variance is due to local laws, and how much is just "this is the way we've always done things here".
We are a 2 person start-up and have been through exactly the same mental re-adjustment. We started by defining success as 6 figure investment and 7 figure exit. We're now happy to define it as a positive trend: maybe 5 figure investment - or bootstrap sales - and a sustainable business or 6 figure exit. This adjustment comes from seeing how hard it really is to sell a product, no matter how good, and a belief that what really matters is the trend not absolute outcomes, so long as you are constantly learning along the way.
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startups like WePay seem to be overcoming this.
Oh, I thought I was going to see a talk but instead I get an event page. :-(
Yeah but would it be worth anything pre-IPO?
oh no...

Don't get me wrong if they pulls this off it will rock.

But we've discussed this before... and it is a hard problem. Extremely Hard
Why? I thought he didn't care about programming at all
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