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Actually I think a leak is more helpful than either the author himself releasing the proof publicly or keeping everything under wraps.

Especially since the cold fusion thing[1], researchers have been loath to publicly announce revolutionary findings lest the findings fail to pan out. Researchers don't want to be known as publicity-seeking cranks, they want to be known as earnest and honest academics, which I suspect entails playing to the in-crowd and letting the system work[2]--the system being to talk to your colleagues before hand, release everything through peer-reviewed journals, and if everything passes muster, you've eliminated any risks to your reputation while achieving renown as the guy who proved P != NP.

On the other hand, having the proof publicly available to anyone who can understand it can massively parallelize the process of having it verified, or having errors found and potentially corrected. Meanwhile, the researcher's reputation is maintained, because he did the right thing, and if any errors are found he'll be judged to have acted prudently and conservatively in advance of having his findings reviewed.

[1] Fleischmann and Pons publicly claimed to have discovered a means to induce nuclear fusion at room temperature in 1989, but their results couldn't be replicated.

[2] And the system does work--this is no criticism.
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> decent high-volume + organization sketching applications

What makes for 'decent' in your terminology?

Obviously the primary organization tool is going to be the timeline, but what other organization tools do you feel a need for? tags? contacts? would it need to be able to pull text out of a sketch?

You mention high-volume; what do most sketching apps you've met do that limits the speed and volume of creation?
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fwiw, I agree with you (minus individuals who are mentally handicapped due to congenital problems) and whenever I've posited the same I've been rebuffed, too. I don't know why.
Google: opt-in should be the default. This would really save them much of the agony.

And can someone please kill the cookie model of doing business? Cookies should be limited to storing session info across one site only. Many people (I can't say that most) at least take this for granted.

I'm all for personalization, but tracking of individual activity without a user's knowledge is disaster waiting to happen.
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Posterous, who uses Rackspace for hosting, was recently the target of a DoS attack. I got an email from them stating that they were addressing it and also offered some workarounds.

In a situation like this, who is responsible for fixing/addressing/getting sites back up? I'd imagine it would be the host but I'm curious as to the work done by Posterous.
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My cousin worked for LiquidMetal a number of years back (7-10 or so) when their primary market was golf clubs. Even back then it was well known within the company that the long-term plan was mobile devices. They even had a few prototypes made in China to help with pitches.

LiquidMetal is substantially stronger than other metals. It's not about the bouncing. It is perfect for saving weight and especially thickness. At the time the only issue was cost, but I assume they have covered good ground on that front over the last decade.

As for the technology itself, my understanding is that they cool the alloy in a particular way that leaves its molecules unaligned -- like a liquid. This makes it much stronger.

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Given your circumstances, why do you even have an opinion about $500 professional cooking books?

Sorry you got dumped on --- I'm really just commenting to point out that this is priced along the lines of TAOCP --- but really why are you even thinking about this stuff?

I meant what I said. Cooks Illustrated is excellent, and they publish so many books every year that you can get (absolutely great) older editions for ultra cheap.

And also, I meant it: don't torrent books.
Fine. In broad terms, he leveraged the file sharing networks of the time. He put the name of our site on files that were shared very often and we had our college friends seed them on various services. It seemed crazy at first, but there is a big difference between no one seeing your name and thousands of people seeing your name. In retrospect, it was a brilliant move.

My point was that critical mass and viral growth are powerful concepts, and some times all it takes is one little push to get things moving.
I honestly believe that most execs have an open door policy. The issue is that the cultures of most companies don't encourage or develop the comfort of lay employees to waltz in and start a conversation. Even at the director level in a large company, it is exceedingly rare (and refreshing) to find people who will question a position statement or a decision made by someone more than one step above them in the food chain. It takes a lot of effort to counteract this.

Generally speaking, open door policies are meaningless at a lot of companies because the people they're intended to benefit are not developed in a way such that they'd actually have a clue what to say/ask if they did take advantage of the policy.

This is the same reason I prefer to sit in a cube rather than an office when visiting our global locations.
To the downvoters, why is it OK to ignore the law with by far the greatest impact on how California manages it's budget when explaining California's budget and political problems?
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Yes, but what about the "if it's already receiving them" part? I don't know exactly how the cable providers provision their networks, but I'd be very surprised if my local set's registration had to go more than one or maybe two hops up the router chain to find one that was already receiving all 150 channels. Otherwise it's hard for me to believe that changing channels would be as fast as it is (effectively instantaneous). (Note, I'm not saying this is a necessary feature of any multicast setup, just that it seems like it would have to be set up that way for the cable providers because of user expectations.)
Considering that you are a freelancer, you should know there are plenty of people out there who will hire you and never know or care how old you are (or even ask.)

I never discourage people on any of their business ideas. If I had all the answers I would be in some other business than freelance web development making a lot more money.

I only ask that people who ask me about getting started learn on their own because that's how I got started and being able to build that information on your own is a necessary part of learning. Also, if you don't have the passion to be able to pick this stuff up on your own then you won't have the passion to continue learning.
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Not necessarily hacking related.
"green ideology . . . is a form of puritanical suffering-and-atonement religious fundamentalism."

Wow. Well said.

I thought I was the only one who felt that way.

I want that on a t-shirt.
but you left out the part of my metaphor that included selling the scanned book later on. That is where the issue can be become public. That is where you're affecting the livelihood of said authors/publishers.

I'm really playing devil's advocate here, I do very large amounts of scraping online for various projects and do not bat an eye lash at what I'm doing. If it's online, it's there for the taking. If you don't want me to scrape it, hide it.
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Guess I'm lucky. I have Verizon fios where I live (Long Beach CA). I get 25 Mb up and down. (I only pay for 25/15 but I get 25/25, not complaining). I pay $100 a month for that and HD TV. Not super cheap, but cheaper than Comcast which I previously had been using.
these are all really common amongst the affiliate marketers. and it is just the tip of the iceberg. affiliate marketing is filled with some seriously sleazy people who do far worse.
I've tried to come up with which use-cases make sense for C#'s dynamic as well..
Where I mostly could figure that it would really help is with COM interop. Working with something like MS Office is fairly painful in C#3, since you have to pass the "Missing" argument to each of the 20-30 arguments that every method can take, and cast the result of every method.. The named arguments feature would also be useful there.

I've been fortunate enough to avoid having to interop with COM that directly recently, so haven't had to find out whether or not it makes a difference.
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But when you own a website that does "deserve" to rank and Google's algorithm allows for spammers to get to the top, then you have no recourse but to fight fire with fire.

If I had a great site about my acai berry product, but stuck only to white hat seo techniques, I would literally never rank for that keyword. I would never get that traffic, never get the exposure, because there are people out there who are taking advantage of the holes in Google's algo while I am "sticking to the rules".

You have to remember that Google publishes rules for 2 reasons: 1) so that you don't participate in shady tactics that polute the internet (for the greater good) and 2) because their job is to clean up search results so the less "spam" that is produced, the easier their job is.

EDIT: left out a key word
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Google is not an elected representative either. They work for the market, not the people.
It's unseemly that such a fact-less ad-hominem attack on environmentalists receives such a high score.

To the upvotters, please read Graham's How to Disagree http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html

Actually, I'd say this comment, with its name calling like "quasi-religious ideology" and "fundemantalist cults", should be classified as DH0 under Graham's hierarchy. Even if you believe that environmentalists are the cause of California's problems you must agree there are just no facts argued here.
In in a "tiered internet" projects like GNUnet and FreeNet are at risk.

Service provider routers with deep packet inspection and similar technology will simply turn a little dial until bandwidth for GNUnet et. al. slows to a trickle.

That's why this is such a touchy issue.

Any attempt on the part of Google/Verizon to not come out directly in favor and clearly stating support of Network Neutrality, is in fact a PC way of saying that they don't support it.
So because Im poor, I shouldn't keep reading about all sorts of things on the forefront of technology, or at least form some sort of an opinion? And money is hardly an indicator of intelligence.

Yeah, my situation sucks. Really sucks. However, I will still keep learning and doing, even if I have to skirt the law here and there to do as such. And if your point of not using torrents is because it's "bad", guess that makes me bad. I've downloaded all sorts of material, quite a bit which is not offered in any format.

And yes, when I was better off, I did buy stuff that I could easily have gotten for free. But your high and mighty attitude would never excuse it for any reason, an attitude I despise.
It has to be a combined effort. The hosting company is like the fire department - when your house is on fire they come through with axes and hoses because their focus is saving lives, not property. When your site is being attacked, the hosting company focuses on stopping the attack, but you'll end up fixing a lot of security holes and patching code afterwards.

For example, when I worked at Internet Brands, when several of our sites were attacked last year, our hosting company installed a Palo Alto firewall in front of our load balancer. It stopped the attacks overnight, but some sites became unbearably slow or unresponsive. It turns out that it was blocking some legitimate traffic (e.g. requests for RSS feeds for vBulletin forums, curl API requests). We had to go through hundreds of sites to look for things like this to patch.
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And, generally Pythonistas are drawn towards Mercurial/Bitbucket.
dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1590122
The visualization at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870330970457541... (linked from this article) is just terrible - it's at the very least a pointless way to display the time data, at worst deliberately misleading as to what the size of the green parts represent (a quick view of that animation would make a viewer think "ZOMG, they're using more and more of my search data as time goes on, aaaagh, and everything else is getting worse, too!").

I'm all for interactive data viz, but come on...nothing bugs me more than a flashy moving chart that obscures the data that it purports to present.
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wouldn't the term "OVERcautious" imply too much caution? Caution is fine, great in fact. But too much of anything is ...
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When I was broke I read lots of books but certainly didn't care about what a patent trolling dong from Microsoft thought about Sous Vide (still don't). Maybe that's what t.ptacek meant?
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there is absolutely no chance of untiering it

That's a pretty strong statement. Why is there absolutely no chance?
Thanks, Earl, for checking out the video. Check back soon...the current tool is really the MVP we wanted to get out the door. The GUI has all sorts of UI prettiness on the way, including arbitrary page aggregation, time-series plots for all that data, and even more visibility into how keywords/ads are doing.

To answer your question: from a business POV, it's no different than Clickable (EfficientFrontier and Co. are way out of most SMBs' price range). We think our approach is a lot better: by putting the tool in the browser, we make campaign management painless. We also have more automation that Clickable, so, through time, the GrokBar becomes a sort of marketing autopilot.
I discovered the re-appearing part when I left my notebook in a place where it froze. All my corrections came back. It was a little disconcerting to see erased ideas pop up like ghosts behind the new ideas.
Good Calories, Bad Calories has a pretty robust bibliography, and the author, Gary Taubes, is a well respected science reporter. It would be a mistake to characterize his book in the way you have. Check it out from the library and read some of it yourself. :)
"The level of success probably depends pretty heavily on the type of product you're trying to build and the resulting level of communication that's required. For enterprise software (or perhaps I should say "domain-specific apps" or something), you really need a customer proxy/subject matter expert on hand that you're talking to on a fairly constant basis, because the developers themselves aren't really experts in the domain; as a result, you want your development setup optimized for high-bandwidth communication."

I totally agree with this. I work in this kind of environment, where I need to collaborate with about a half-dozen (non-software) engineers on the product design, and working with them when they are/I am offsite is much more difficult than when we are all in the office. I inevitably spend most of the day reading and writing e-mails and on conference calls when this is the case, and most of the day working on the product when it is not. Five minutes sitting around a whiteboard in person dissecting a problem can often replace an hour-long conference call or thousands of words of e-mail correspondence.
I can't back this up with numbers but I think there is confusion about the point to point link speed of wireless technologies and their total capacity.

Eg: just because one person can potentially get 20Mbps out of a 4G connection does not mean that there is enough spectrum that 1 million people can all do it at once in down town San Francisco.

Wired connections scale linearly with the number of wires you lay (almost unlimited, although it is expensive). Wireless quickly hits the limits of physics (for any given amount of spectrum there is a theoretical hard limit to the amount of data you can send over it for a given power budget no matter what technology you employ - and spectrum itself is intrinsically limited).
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You say that his current job has been financially rough on the family. Being a freelance webdeveloper is going to be financially challanging for the family too. Especially in the beginning when he hasn't build up a group of clients it can be really bad. For the young developers that is easier to cope with since they usually don't have mortgages/kids going to college etc.

So, will he keep his job as a contractor to sustain a stable income (in case this is stable considering the current financial climate)? Does he have a financial buffer to cope with times when he doesn't have freelance work? Will you send him work to do? If so this does make you kind of responsible for a part of the family income too.

What I would tell my dad: start doing it on the side, only when you have build up a big enough group of clients go for it full-time. I don't think the age is a problem some clients even like it when you are a bit older.
Extortion is illegal with or without Net Neutrality.

Skype and Verizon are both only in business because users find the services worth their money. That can change. If users are getting ripped off by shitty service, then it has ceased to be invisible to the users.

Blockbuster is a horrible example. A lot of good that deal did them! This monopolized monoculture you describe has been crushed and blown to bits long ago by Netflix, Amazon, Apple and the rest of the internet.

These are conspiracy theories, not rational arguments.
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If shipment cost is reasonably low, just deliver predetermined items (e.g. those recommended by Amazon) to customers, have them pay for what they consumed and return the rest.

Or, if storage cost at customers is low and items do not perish, leave the items they didn't consume at their site. Later they may find them useful and pay for them. This is actually the model employed by some of medical drug resellers in Japan.
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That's the best thing about ethics, if you convinced yourself it was ethical then it was ethical for you. For someone else maybe, maybe not. Everyone gets their own, entirely personally prioritized set :)
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Facebook is not free. There is a psychological price and a spiritual tax to pay, both are sly enough to go unnoticed by 90% of Facebook’s users. They are called ‘users’ for a good reason; users = addicts. The product itself is designed like a potent drug that exploits reptilian and mammillian frailties for additional profit. Cynic, you say? Just look for yourself, it’s hard to deny that the founders behind Facebook saw an ocean of data waiting to be exploited for billions of dollars.
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Head spinning. At least I got that bit about LFP... mostly.

The coolest thing about this all is watching the Internet doing what it was built for. Real-time collaboration on a massive scale. The whole of the relevant scientific communities all in one virtual space clamoring at a hundred virtual whiteboards. I love living in the future.
Look at Interval Training / HIIT / Fartleks -- you shouldn't be doing hours of cardio in a gym for weight loss. And look at doing Resistance training before you do those.. (Basically -- Alwyn Cosgrove's hierarchy is probably the best guide: http://alwyncosgrove.com/2010/01/hierarchy-of-fat-loss/ )

Long hours of cardio are what you do when you a) Really enjoy it and b) Have time. If it's a nice day - go for a bike ride or a run... but if you're stuck inside in the gym - optimise your time.
The biggest problem I have with this is that the rationalization for why the "unique characteristics" of wireless networks require no network neutrality is completely missing.

Limited bandwidth? But why does limited bandwidth mean it's ok to prejudice services? Why does that make it ok that YouTube can purchase prioritized service over GlueTube? Doesn't having a limited resource make it more important to share that resource around rather than less important? Isn't that the way it works everywhere else (eg: limited water supplies usually mean we regulate the price and ensure Grandma doesn't have to pay way more than BigCompany or we know that Grandma is getting no water).

The "still-developing nature" of the service? I still don't get it. If anything the immature nature of the services mean that the nascent network needs more protection, not less. We just don't know how it is going to evolve - ok fine - but doesn't uncertainty counsel more caution rather than lack of caution? We can always relax rules later if they are determined to be harmful. It will be very hard to wind back a non-network-neutrality situation once that has emerged and established itself if we determine it is harmful.

Perhaps I can buy these arguments if they are made sufficiently, but there just isn't enough detail here to make a sound logical link. I'm not going to say they are evil, but I do think Google has got some explaining to do.
I wonder what the ethics of 'flattering spam' are a la the comments on this blog post
http://www.cynotwhynot.com/blog/post/MSBuild-missing-Microso...

On one hand its spam, but on the other the author can pretend it was a nice comment from an online handbag store owner.
It seems like caution in most circumstances is _not_ to regulate it.
DOS had one customer with at least thousands of units sold before MS even started on it. Apple and Google were projects-turned-businesses, but the original Apple computer had more orders than inventory at the very beginning. (Funny, their latest iPhone still has more orders than inventory.)
Precisely! I found the crowdsourcing approach that got started at http://geomblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/on-deolalikar-proof-cro... amazing. Terence Tao had done a similar thing, not for paper review but to prove some theorems.

Compared to this, the rigid approach adopted in Math Overflow to close any discussion on the issue seems so 19th century. See the discussion here: http://meta.mathoverflow.net/discussion/590/