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Sounds almost like Nietzsche on solitude. If you can't control your environment then you become a product of it. It's difficult to force yourself to NOT think about something. The brain is a very reactive piece of equipment.

If I said "Don't think about the hexagon on top of Saturn" how many of you would actually be able to avoid considering it?
We still have to figure out the licensing. We're currently more busy with hacking our software than thinking about licensing. So I don't have an answer for your questions.
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I'm not the author (just the submitter), but I did try the example you mentioned and it worked fine for me. Are you sure you typed everything exactly as it was listed? If so, I'm sure the author would appreciate the feedback. You can find his contact info here: http://chrisdone.com/
He's from Dobbs Ferry. He went to Phillips Exeter and Harvard. He graduated high school in 2002, so the "zberg02" username makes sense. No one has logged into the account since 2002 so it definitely wasn't faked recently, and it's unlikely it was faked before he was well known.

Seems likely it's his.
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PG talks about the problem of having a top idea that he didn't want, something practical like making money or impractical like disputes, stealing his ambient-thought time.

I have the opposite problem: practical things that need some ambient thought to really get right (day-to-day work, money stuff) fall by the wayside, while things that I care about or find more interesting (like programming projects or relationships) take all the ambient time. Anyone else find this happening? Have coping strategies?

I guess I have a long way to go towards controlling my ambient thought. Maybe this is part of why I always had trouble "forcing myself" to study effectively?
A good use case for Google wave.
Though Google wave has not been much of a success, but it has really helped a lot of small virtual companies like the ones mentioned in post to collaborate. Its totally free of cost and saves a lot of bucks!
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I think this is why meditation can be so beneficial. With practice, you can take control of the thoughts going through your mind, eventually becoming quite good at it. Later on, say at work (or in the shower), you can then make the top thing on your to-do list the top idea in your mind.

Usually my top idea is a lot more fun to think about than all the other nonsense (conflicts, minutiae, etc) so that helps too.
I'll soon start doing in-depth blogposts with examples on how stackvm works.

But a quick summary is that we have node-rfb collect VNC updates, push them to node-png or node-jpeg which merges the updates and creates an image that then gets pushed via dnode to browser, which then draws it at the right location (absolute positioning of images).
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I think pg had a good essay on this topic:
http://www.paulgraham.com/organic.html

basically, it says that it's better to try to create something that you want, because when you're young you will have a very difficult time understanding what someone else wants.
Also, you are more likely to be motivated if you are creating something for yourself. Creating something for someone else is too much like work (without the salary)
Half a billion is a nice number, but the number isn't what really matters here

Right, what matters is the bigger number, 25 billion, which is what Facebook is worth.
It helps to mix good thoughts with good style.
Are they hits to the front page? Direct would suggest something like a Twitter client or email. But I don't see much mention of your url on Twitter. Perhaps it's been shortened. Really annoying that there's probably no way to figure out what's going on in that case. What's the network distribution of your visitors? Does it look legit?
Yes, I was suspecting that the underlying data excluded slaves. Not sure I buy the "paycheck" argument --- presumably in the less tamed regions of the US, there were plenty of other people who hardly ever handled money.
If you're in NYC and know more about machine learning than just being "interested in" it, drop me a line at jbooth@proclivitysystems.com. We (along with several other startups) apply machine learning algorithms to big datasets for a business - most of us don't have PhDs.
"I think that mistake is a symptom of the prizes-for-all narcissism that says ... every crude doodle is a work of art if the doodler really meant it."

It is. Art is a process as well as a result. Whether the result is good art, mediocre art, or bad art is the real question here, and some art is undeniably terrible.
A) Mozart died poor and alone because he was an alcoholic and was horrible with money. His music was tremendously popular during his time.

B) Mozart was raised as a professional musician from an early age by his musician father, performing to royalty as a child prodigy. His JOB was court musician. Given his upbringing and employment, how could he NOT care about what others thought about his music? How could he NOT cater to their tastes?
You have 10 karma. The list of those who don't yet make that association is quite extensive.
We don't have any business experience but we hope to gather enough attention that by the time we launch everyone wants a copy of our software already. :)
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wouldn't this be better if you could only go to the same level or lower, thus preventing server/~user1 pretending to be server/~user2?

does this break real use cases?
"The InNova patent was awarded to inventor and mathematician Robert Uomini nearly 15 years ago when Internet email was still in its formative stages."

I understand the internet had a big bump in popularity in '95, but wasn't the "formative stage" of email much earlier?
> It's meaningless to argue about 'levels of similarity', in a legal context. The question is whether the second author based himself on the artistic values that the original author put in the work.

That's an excellent point, and I understand that. But as a practical matter, it seems like "levels of similarity" would be at the heart of an argument that document B was "based on" document A. Having direct evidence that B was based on A seems a less likely scenario, although a legally much more straightforward one.

To take your play example, I may assert your script was based on my book, but if you deny it I'm stuck with trying to demonstrate that the similarities between the two are above and beyond what we'd expect from mere coincidence, right?

> So if someone blends two works into one (without permission), he's violating 2 author's copyrights.

This is more in the realm of philosophy than legality, but what I was getting at is this: I think there's a pretty strong and conventional argument to be made that much of what we call "creativity" is really a synthesis of pre-existing works and pre-existing ideas. At some point we start to consider this synthesis more inspiration than plagiarism. Intellectually I think it is interesting to consider where that line lies. (And, taking us back to the world of algorithms, whether you could claim, for instance, that a sophisticated enough markov-chain, given a large and diverse enough body of input, is eventually creating new works rather than simply synthesizing existing ones.)
I love reading these essays so much. There's something about the tone, perhaps because it's slightly playful and a bit pensive, that causes the curiosity at the core of the writing to become the unstated focal point. And for some reason, I find it more enjoyable to find meaning in things when they aren't explicitly written. Kind of like a special bond you have with someone, even a perfect stranger, when you're the only group of people to really "catch the drift".

I love the process of trying to figure things out that happens in these essays. Really, it's just great. Keep it up pg.
Buy stuff from others. Don't pirate. Good karma. Work is rewarded by God in some way. If your reality if broken, just realize it might be in the form of entertainment and not money. "As you measure out, it will be measured unto you."
"We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn"

That was last January. Didn't take long...
If your intent is to hide what you're doing from your LAN/ISP, there is a snag with Firefox. It will leak DNS requests locally unless you go to about:config and set "network.proxy.socks_remote_dns" to "true"
Of course there is also a limit in our time about how much the kernel community can grow.

That limit probably increases somewhat asymptotically to the human population. The actual kernel community size will probably increase slower, though. I think that increase is lower than the increase of how development in IT will simplify things.

I.e., if my assumption stays true, there wont be any problem.
To be honest, we haven't looked at RDP yet. We're been building everything on top of VNC. We did not look because we didn't have the necessary libraries written like node-bufferlist (for easy binary protocol parsing) and dnode (for sending stuff around easily). But now that we have, we'll soon look into RDP.
I just submitted a job request through that site to him, to fix some privacy bugs in a "large social networking" application thinking that would be funny. Damn, if he didn't reply back within 30 seconds and tell me to just "Relax, retire, enjoy your family. It's just a web site. Not worth it."
Just in case pg sees this: it might be good to change the CSS so that the links in downvoted comments are light-gray as well. Right now, the link unfortunately stands out.
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Exactly. If it makes business sense to wait for someone to accidentally infringe on your patent, you clearly shouldn't have that patent.
That's funny; I'm almost sure I've read the same basic idea somewhere else within the past year or two, but I can't for the life of me remember where. I thought it was Joel on Software, but a little Googling didn't turn it up. Anyone else?
I actually agree with you on the component of HFT/speculation in general that is fighting over the distribution of profits rather than creating profits (i.e., beating other traders to the punch); this creates no new gains. Of course, once we reach the point where most of HFT/trading is fighting over distribution of profits, we've reached the point where it is barely profitable. Presumably smart people will start exiting in droves at that time - I certainly plan to do so.

But I suspect that the transition to HFT over human market makers/daytraders is a net gain even with regards to smart people creating value; isn't it a good thing to have 3 geeks writing programs to replace 100 daytraders? (Based on your previous comment, I assume you agree with me that profitable day/swing trading does create value.) In general, isn't replacing lots of humans by a few smart people + machines a good thing?
I just gave your comment one point.
This reminds me of the famous poem "Desiderata" by Max Ehrmann. Same sort of philosophy.

http://www.fleurdelis.com/desiderata.htm

"Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit." is a good method of keeping overly dramatic interpersonal interactions from affecting your top idea.
Sure, since the software is opensource, anyone can set it up and use it for self hosted vms.
Great article. I disagree though with the notion that being vulnerable is the common trait. Definitely being a misfit is. As the article says "the great entrepreneur in 2010 is the one who goes to Disneyland and asks: is this all there is?"

Always question what everyone takes for granted.
They haven't always been globally sequential though. It used to be of the form AAAABBBBB where AAAA was the school ID and BBBBB was the user ID within that school.

I don't know where they started the current sequential IDs from, but it was probably at least 100,000,000, which would have allowed for 3 digit school IDs.

I could be totally wrong though.
Facebook user ids are not generated sequentially.
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Continuing off-topic, the ultimate Holmes was portrayed by Jeremy Brett in the several TV series based on the novels and short stories. I do not think they are well-known in the U.S. so I would recommend checking them out if interested in things holmesian.
http://www.paulgraham.com/hamming.html

If you are deeply immersed and committed to a topic, day after day after day, your subconscious has nothing to do but work on your problem. And so you wake up one morning, or on some afternoon, and there's the answer. For those who don't get committed to their current problem, the subconscious goofs off on other things and doesn't produce the big result. So the way to manage yourself is that when you have a real important problem you don't let anything else get the center of your attention - you keep your thoughts on the problem. Keep your subconscious starved so it has to work on your problem, so you can sleep peacefully and get the answer in the morning, free.
Wow, this is such a simple, yet powerful, idea. It's one of those "why didn't I think of that" ones. Another good time to discover your real top idea is at 3 am when you wake up thinking about it.
This would be a constructive conversation without the "it just works, it could be way worse" arguments.
The 100% opensource is actually very motivating. We want to create new libs that everyone else can use, then the same people who use it contribute back and fix bugs for us. It's lovely.

And we can also reuse our libs later in more projects. Very awesome.
Here you go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKFjJ9m_P8Y
Dead giveaway for developers who know math, you mean.
we don't openly disclose revenue numbers, but we're very profitable. there's lots more to the pro package than just removing the footer link :)
Obligatory IANAL, but I don't see why this is such a big deal:
the corporation that currently owns Facebook almost certainly didn't exist when this was signed (let's assume it was!). So Ceglia's claim is against Zuckerberg, not Facebook. At most he would have claim to a certain amount of IP that became what Facebook currently is. So he may have partial ownership of a small amount of Facebook.

If so, this whole thing just degenerates into two sets of lawyers figuring out how much it takes to make him shut up and go away.
This is a neat trick, and I've used it a lot -- but worth pointing out that this should really only be done over a local network. X11 apps tend to be VERY chatty, and very slow when forwarded over the internet. I'd recommend VNC or FreeNX to do remote X11 apps over the internet.
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I love the UI as well, especially the seating charts. So much information at a glance, and easily beats the other sites. They're my starting point for Blazers tickets :)
Based on real life experience, IMO some people would rather extend the definition of "fad" to include Google and Microsoft than stop calling Facebook a "fad".
I realized the ability of my unconscious mind to solve hard problems some time around high school. I made good use of it in college, especially in courses involving coming up with algorithms or proofs. I could rarely come up with a good solution consciously, but if I spent 30 minutes thinking about the problem right before bed, the next morning optimal answers would come easily.

I also formed a habit of driving at least an hour away to do regular shopping (groceries and such) on weekends. The long drive on the mostly empty highways let me daydream without distraction, kind of like a long shower. I made a lot of architectural decisions for my web apps while on those drives.
I don't understand why they never supported push notifications, it would have worked almost as well, and probably conserved battery. Seems like the ideal use case for push notifications.
Minor but terribly important point: get a better microphone. And increase the volume. These videos are the only public interface to your project right now.

Otherwise: I've been a huge fan of your writing since I discovered your blog and I was genuinely excited to see you were starting a large-scale project (as a business or otherwise). I would invest in you in a second if there were some mechanism by which I modestly could. Good luck.
I'm more researcher than startup-type, but to me they are both about getting the 'preparation meets luck' kind of ideas where you feel like you've got a leg up on the rest of the pack. When that happens, it's all you want to think about - it's fun and exciting and hard work all at the same time. Without the combination of the idea and the preparation you don't get the self-catalyzing reaction to boost you to some new 'ground state'. You're back to watching WWII reruns on the history channel (for example).
Could be, but I'm remembering the specific example of a programmer's mind in the shower.
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Do you code at all or is your work/skillset/future relating to something else entirely?
Sounds good except for the full frame sensor. It is just silly on a camera of this type. It would make the camera way too expensive it would require too much auxiliary electronics and memory to operate, which would also increase cost and power requirements. Also full frame makes the DOF relatively narrow which is a problem for a camera with such a rough and uncertain method of focusing. (I am sure a lot of the original Holga photos were out of focus).

He should redo it with a crop sensor. Even one of the small sensors of snapshot cameras would probably work for this.
"I knew it (in the shower) was a good time to have ideas. Now I'd go further: now I'd say it's hard to do a really good job on anything you don't think about in the shower."

This is so very true. It is incredibly hard to get myself motivated about things I do not think about in the shower. On the other hand, it is impossible to stop myself from working towards things I do think about.

Sometimes this is scary -- its almost as if I don't have any control over what I will be passionately pursuing.
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Completely agree.

To make matters worse, the optimization usually results in making things at least slightly more complex. When you actually do get around to doing what really needs to be done, you'll often find that the job is now at least slightly more difficult.
You can "cheat" if you want to appear to rebel against digital by applying an approriate filter to the output of a digital image.

iPhone even has an app called "Hipstermatic" to will make your iPhone pictures look like they are taken with a Holga.

There is a lot to be said though for experimenting and a hands-on approach to photography : making your own lesnes, alternive developing processes and so on. Then it is more about the process, the learning experience, rather than just the final result.
That looks really good. Minimalism in cameras appeals to me, especially as they keep getting bigger and screen-y-er and button-y-er. And the batteries keep dying sooner.

I do think it could use an aperture control, however. And having to remove the lens each time is not an alternative (as it looks like they would go there). F-stop is critical to cameras. Add another ring to the lens, maybe.
is this an argument that the world hasn't changed since our grandparents were our age?
This is the greatest html5 feature I've never heard of, and it's really going to change how everybody make web apps.

Here's my wild prediction: 10 years from now, with the benefit of hindsight, we will trace the moment where Google's Page Rank empire started to crumble to the introduction of this html5 feature.

However, discovering this makes me wonder what other incredibly useful but as yet unknown html5 features are out there in the wild?
I like your idea... it makes me wonder if it's possible to change your own "ground state". It certainly seems like it would be an awesome lifehack if you could change it over time to suit your objectives.
Even more than salary in the US is the cost of getting elected. The CA governors race is going into the 9 digits. It cost millions to elect a congressman, 10's of millions for a senator. The only one with that kind of money are unions, corporations, and rich candidates. The candidates are bought and have to deliver. This is corruption on a massive and pervasive scale. And it's legal.
A nice actionable insight, "You can't directly control where your thoughts drift. If you're controlling them, they're not drifting. But can control them indirectly, by controlling what situations you let yourself get into."
No you don't. Harder to develop and support for Apple is what I mean.
So the GUI should be so shit, that you have to learn it to use it well?
Thanks for the tips. Gonna get myself a better one.

Btw, you're only the 2nd person who tells me the videos are quiet, but as I listen to them, the sound levels are ok.
Cookies have this problem, too (anyone from the same domain sees your cookies, and you can't really count on the cookie path). So does XMLHTTPRequest. Same origin[1] is pretty much the governing rule here; there wasn't any point in making pushState any more secure than the rest of the system.

1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same_origin_policy
I don't like to throw mud in the face of Google since I like their products and am still not sure myself how I feel about their Jan decision.

But this is just... lame.

If they are so susceptible to sales and the bottom line, they should never have made such a big deal about it back in Jan.
Making a VPN over ssh using a 10.0.0.0 address:

http://bodhizazen.net/Tutorials/VPN-Over-SSH/
Starting Strength is a good resource for learning proper weightlifting form and routines.
http://www.amazon.com/Starting-Strength-2nd-Mark-Rippetoe/dp...

There is also a wiki covering some of the material with videos:
http://startingstrength.wikia.com/wiki/Starting_Strength_Wik...
Receiving stolen property requires quite a few things ( like reasonable suspicion the items are stolen ) for that to be an option for charges. Stockholders clearly don't have that.

I personally doubt stockholders will lose a single share no matter what happens.
Going to reiterate what some people have said here already. Chances are you can't do anything. This is the internet after all. There's a small chance the person will take down the content just from a polite email from you. Assuming this won't work the only other course of action is spending $$. This route will be a money sink for you so the only reason to do this is ego or you just have money to burn.
Any GPL-like license, yes. But people like to bring up the AGPL because it means "Muhahaha, if they ever run it as a service over the net it means they have to share their source!" as if it has any benefit to their commercial product.
There is a concept in common law called "A thief cannot pass good title". I'm not sure exactly how it applies to stocks though, if at all.
Mark Zuckerberg does this a lot, even without an excuse, reportedly (the driving to think).
The effectiveness of thinking in the shower is why I hate shower curtains. If you have a proper transparent glass shower screen instead, you can write and draw on it as it steams up.

When I get my own place, this will be my first renovation: the ultimate thinking shower.
It's not his taste – it's objective criticism of the user interface.
I refer to this as my "back brain processing".

I've had conversations where I tell people that I'll do the work that they want me to, but it will only be a fore-brain effort because I've got a much more interesting problem percolating.

And I try -- hard -- to avoid working for/with/on anything that doesn't engage the back brain.