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> After trying to quit several times

I think that's an important point. Even if you don't quit this time, you have to keep trying.

I tried to quit at least six or seven times before finally succeeding eight years ago. The last time, I used nicotine gum for about a week. Before that, I had quit for up to a month, more than once, with help from either the patch or gum. All my relapses came during social situations.
Ok, so DailyCandy is for fashion/style/shopping, Thrillist is for food/drink/shopping, IdealBite is for green, and Vital Juice is for fitness/nutrition ...

Seems like there are other huge markets that are ideal for email newsletters:

- Sports news/scores for your city

- Investing (daily stock tips and news)

- Real estate (select listings that just went on the market in your city with good pictures like jet setter does)

- Arts & entertainment (museum, gallery, theater, and movie stuff—though I think DailyCandy does some of this)

I'm sure some of these exist (especially investing) but weren't mentioned but I bet many are old-school and the spaces are ripe for improvement.
The difference between phones, and all other products, is that phones don't work unless you're currently in a business relationship with some telecom or another. It's a bit more like selling someone a nuclear reactor—they're beholden to your rules as long as they have no other source of fissile materials.
That's exactly the opposite of this article's argument.
Just my little vote:

I find the ".aspx" ending to be ugly too, in addition to being sneaky free advertising for their platform.
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I'm a Vassar CS student as well, and our sysadmin's setup is as awesome as it looks. The first time I met him, I was a little intimidated by how plugged in he is. And yeah, it really is hard to tell when he's using it sometimes. He'll walk through the lab, you'll tell him there's a problem with your account, he'll look into the distance for a second, and he'll tell you he's fixed it.
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I think he's painting a bit too open and free picture of Hinduism here. Also, the consistent superlatives used in describing the "glorious" open-source Hinduism and the "closed-source" Western/Middle-Eastern religions is a bit drab. He seems like he wants to capitalize on the goodness that is associated with the term "open-source" and link that goodness to Hinduism, and associate the negativity associated to "close-source" with Western/Middle-Eastern religions. They shouldn't be compared like this without painting a false picture.

There are many sects within Hinduism = true. There are many sects within nearly any other religion = true. Should you be able to add something to the body of a religion without any push-back? Can you? I doubt it and it would be silly if you could. Can you do that to any open-source project? Nope, unless you fork, and at that point it's a new "sect" or possibly "religion" anyway.

If you must compare them, they are simply different levels of open.
Yes, they do. I am pretty sure they have already removed one application. Lets wait to hear what google says before we all go crazy.
I've said this before, but I think the optimal would be to leverage the OS's vm by relocating subpage objects to create coherence by putting frequently coaccessed objects on the same page.

I'm pretty ignorant on systems programing, but I gather on most platforms there's a way to create a custom page fault handler, that could preserve your custom serialization format. Depending on how redis objects are linked however, allowing relocation may be complicated.
*In fact, the logical disconnect between effect and cause is probably a strength rather than a weakness.

Absolutely. I remember reading about an artificial life program which had evolving creatures try to survive in a very harsh artificial world. The strategies developed seemed less than optimal on the face of it, but when the writers of the program hand-coded their own supposedly "perfect" strategy, the increased efficiency of their strategy actually led to a lower overall survival rate. Only after that could they see why.
This was a good comment until it kind of got sidetracked at the end. I'd say 37signals' advice is irrelevant and unhelpful to him because he's not starting the kind of startup that they are advocating. I think if he had just pointed that out it would have been an interesting observation.
Considering that Social Networking site data is skewed due to not accounting for apps, could it be possible that is happening in the Social Bookmark space as well? Do Reddit and Slashdot have iPhone/Android apps?
You're not accounting for newsstand revenue. If they went all digital, newsstand revenue would disappear. If they didn't go all digital, they wouldn't spend all $240 million on paper subscribers. So either way it's not a fair comparison.
For me it's not so much a physical addiction as it is a habit. I'm a web developer and I feel like I have to smoke to think through a problem or for an excuse to step away from the keyboard for a few minutes. I need to find an alternative.
I'm really appreciating all the reports.

One of the folks in my dental office suggested (a) use mouthwash and, ideally, dental floss after each lapse; (b) make a chart and track your progress - make a game of it. That kind of jives with the patches, lozenges, etc. and adds some twists.

Seems stupid, doesn't it? Don't want to smoke? Well, then don't! But... some know... it's easy to make a long series of "Ok, just one more."
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I use a bean bag under my wrist when I use the Wacom touch pad. Works great.
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Random thing not mentioned in the blog post: If you use the dvorak layout, you don't need to change to qwerty before hitting the button on your yubikey. It gets automatically parsed and converted.
Advertisers do pay to reach demographics on Hulu - just look at all the advertisement breaks in videos on Hulu. The problem is that there is no distinction between Hulu users who also watch Television and Hulu users who do not watch television; this compounds the problem of not knowing if the Hulu users who watch Television are a sufficiently representative sample of Television viewers to predict whether a show would succeed.

Which is probably what you meant, but your phrasing was (to me) a bit off.
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Again since the article doesn't mention which app was malicious it's hard to say but when I looked up the wallpaper apps developed by "jackeey,wallpaper" I see the apps requiring the following permissions:

android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION

android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE

android.permission.INTERNET

android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE

android.permission.SET_WALLPAPER

android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

It seems strange for a wallpaper app to require internet access.
Even though I bought my Kindle less than a year ago, I am considering switching to the new version. All my wishes are fulfilled in this version:

* WiFi support = blog access, web browser, full content in subscriptions and hopefully lower prices for international users

* better contrast (I found Kindle2's contrast lacking)

* Even lighter

* Better Forward/Backward buttons positioning

* Improved PDF support

Oh, and I love the dark color ;-)
Here is a very interesting stat from a blog post about their motivation for doing personalized deals (http://groublogpon.com/cities/why-we-built-personalized-deal...):

"Over 35,000 merchants are queued to be featured on Groupon, and with 97% of our merchants wanting to be featured again".

That's an incredible number of merchants. I wonder how many of them would be willing to jump over to one of Groupon's many competitors?
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I ran a mid sized website that way briefly. Put simply: oom behavior can be far worse than a swap storm depending on how coupled your app servers are.
Their strategy, as I recall, is to make sure the information remains available even when it's politically unpopular. E.g., they provided info about Kaupthing when some media in Iceland was gagged: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wikileaks#Ban...
I though that what zavulon is saying was common sense. I assume people who are downvoting him don't hang out in bars and clubs much, or aren't going there to pick up girls.
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Hmmm... HN - consumptive service or productivity tool?
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I wouldn't be too hasty about using Genie's case study to generalize about language acquisition. Genie was also horribly abused and neglected, without adequate access to sunlight or nutrition, for the formative years of her life.

In other words, lack of access to language was not the only variable in her case. Of course, a controlled study of this would be unethical, so case studies are all we have, and we can't be picky about them. But neither should we make assumptions about what variables are actually being measured in a case study. That requires a controlled experiment.
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I agree it's a flaw. I do think it is better than iOS but it is still a huge problem. It is one of simultaneously too much and too little granularity. If you provide too much granularity it overwhelms users, while if you provide too little it forces people to approve too wide a scope.

For example, the music app I just installed wants access to the phone state and identity. At first I baulked and said WTF does a music app need that for? And of course, the answer is it wants to make the music quieter / pause when a call comes in. But to do that it needs access to the identity of my phone because that seems to be lumped into the same bucket as the "state" of my phone. It also needs internet access because it wants to download album art. So these completely innocuous features also mean it could be tracking my location and reporting it to the web. How do I tell an evil app from a good one? I don't know - all I do is read the comments.

I think Android needs to make the model richer while also streamlining certain sets of permissions into standard profiles that people can understand. For example, the set of minimal permissions to support ads in an app should be simply presented as "to present location based ads", not a set of 5 permissions that overwhelm people. This should in turn be honed by Google into a minimal set of permissions internally so that an app that just wants to present ads can't actually track me and report my location to arbitrary web sites.

I hope Google is thinking about this stuff. I think it's in a reasonable state at the moment if it is just on a development curve. If this is how Google thinks it should stay then it is not enough and is going to become a serious problem.
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Call me when they have something other than a demo. If this demo was from Google, I could see it happening. But not from MSFT, specially if it more expensive (we don't know) to implement this and if there is no near term profit making potential. Thats, in my opinion, how MSFT works.

On the other hand, if there is something cool developed by Google, they will implement it and think about making money later (if it gains traction). Not necessarily because they are altruistic, but because thats how they work.

You will never see something like Google Wave coming out of MSFT; where Google obviously invested a lot of money, opened it up (mostly) for everyone to do what they want and after more than one year in no money is being made and unlikely to be profitable any time soon, if ever.
Hn is not a social bookmarking website.
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Wow that is amazing. What he is saying about it as well has long been a dream. I hope WebGL can do for 3d content/games what Flash did for video when youtube hit. Easy, accessible, fast loading content:

Mark DeLoura:
I think Flash will continue to be a very viable platform. The Flash toolset is pretty frickin' amazing, and there are a ton of happy Flash developers out there, and great games galore.

I would like to see higher-fidelity 3D content on the web though. It's been a dream of many people going back to VRML days. WebGL and Native Client are two solutions to this that will be integrated into the Chrome browser. At Google I/O we talked about Unity running inside of Native Client, which combines the hardware acceleration and security of Native Client with the fantastic toolset and runtime from Unity. It's peanut butter and chocolate (well, for me). :) This is a platform I'm really excited about for 3D web games.
I would almost prefer a list of just HN users.
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interesting, I can see how that would be frustrating.

I tend to use the map view for that kind of thing, with the right level of zoom seeing the names of cross roads and that kind of detail is easy and quick.

To each their own however, clearly this will be loved by many.
Bing has run ads. Google too, at the last Superbowl.

Eharmony has been profitable since 2004, with $250 million annual revenue.

Another counterexample: Ancestry.com
Interesting article, paving the way for the 'hip replacement' of the future.

I expect that in the coming decade we will see more of these stem cell related re-generation proofs of concept, which will slowly work their way in to treatments.
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This scared me. I just installed a wallpaper app yesterday and while doing so thought "that's weird, why does it my personal information, phone calls etcs". But I still got the app. I guess my excuse is being used to my iphone, I didn't think about exactly how much access I was granting to this random app.

Anyway, I just checked, and the wallpaper app I had wasn't from jackeey. It's a top free app on the marketplace named Backgrounds by Stylem Media. And, it requires access to network communication, personal information, storage, phone calls, and system tools.

I have no idea how the warnings are generated.
Maybe devs are just including random libraries in their app (copy paste?) which are setting off these warnings? If not, why does this wallpaper app need my personal info?

Anyway, good wake up call, I will definitely be more careful wrt what I install on my phone.

EDIT: App request: something that logs/polices information going out from my phone. Firewall? we'll be needing a anti-virus next :(
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yeah, it could be. I do use street view, but just because I find it useful to have a visual of the entrance and location of the place I am going.

But I agree, aside from the playful inclination to go and explore, its never been a big thing for me.
HN is many things to many people, and to some it is definitely a social bookmarking site. It even has something called a 'bookmarklet', if you have a description of HN that does not include the social bookmarking aspect (posting links and discussing them) then I'm very interested in to what you think HN is.
From my reading of the article, it seems like they tracked the number of laptops which failed and needed repairs, not the number which failed and were repaired. So no, higher retained value doesn't explain it.

Even if they were looking at how many were repaired (where lower retained value could tilt repair percentage downward, by making people disinclined to repair them, as you suggest) this would merely make other brands of laptops less reliable (with lower numbers caused by fewer damaged laptops being repaired); correcting for it wouldn't improve Mac/IBM/Lenovo's numbers, though it could damage the others, making them seem better by comparison.
Am I the only one that read the article and thought that part of the problem had to do with the fact that he was sending out "thousands of resumes" in the last two months?

I really expected to come to the comments on this post and see a lot of responses about that. It doesn't sound at all like he was trying to target his market at all. It sounds as though his plan was to simply spam his way to finding a job.
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I'd be curious to hear in what sense you consider online dating sites failures. Your assertion that advertising in other media makes them a failure is, well, just that; an assertion. I don't have any numbers on the financials of the companies, but the general consensus of people that I know is that OKCupid is a fine place to waste time, but that if you really want to meet people you need to go to the pay sites (precisely because the financial barrier-to-entry keeps away all the people who aren't really interested in dating).
"And, it requires access to network communication, personal information, storage, phone calls, and system tools."

This seems like a clear warning to me for wallpaper app. Would you install such an app on your PC/Mac?
I had an experience that I believe is related to something mentioned by Ildefonso about why it is so hard to explain the inability to think correctly about a problem and also related to the nature of idea formation.

I had a conceptual problem that was bothering me. It nagged at me for days. I worked my way around the issue in every sort of way I could, but couldn't make any headway. Then as I was pacing frantically I discovered the answer. The answer was right. The answer was pure. The answer was perfect. It was so perfect and pure it became a part of my being. As I stood there I realised that the problem was slipping away from me. I clutched the wisps of the arguments that had failed in a vain attempt to remember what the problem had been so that I might help others that I knew were also struggling... but the problem had been totally and utterly destroyed. I remember the experience, but not the problem or even the solution.

Sometimes you loose something by learning something.
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My guess (though no stats) is that a decent proportion of the early-adopter/techie crowd actually has JS purposely off, via an extension like NoScript. Probably a bigger proportion than among "normal" people, though I assume still a smallish minority.
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Slashdot always had a tendency to discuss stuff without reading the article first, or at all.

So it doesn't drive as much traffic as you might expect, but when your site does get mentioned on /. it gets much more traffic than a HN posting.

Also, there probably is very little overlap between the typical /. covered site and the sites that woopra covers, /. is not really a start-up related site.

If you were to re-run the numbers with all of google analytics covered sites (impossible to get the data, unfortunately) you'd likely get a different picture.

The barrier to entry for a successful HN posting is much lower than it is on /., the volume of 'posted' stories on /. is much lower too.

All in all less surprising than you'd think at first sight.
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Some context:

WalterGR commented on reddit that this rant is actually in response to this tweet by Marco Tabini:

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"@ijansch Private has absolutely no useful role in open-source code." ( http://twitter.com/mtabini/status/18867470296 )

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Marco is the co-founder of "a consulting firm that specializes in information architecture, code and security auditing, large-scale deployments and optimization".

More information:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/cusyw/wikileaks...
It's a forum. Most of the threads are started with a link to discuss but not all.

I mean, how is it useful as bookmarks, social or otherwise? Are you able to save something so you can return to it later?

There are lots of bookmark lets that have nothing to do with bookmarking. It's just a way to execute some JavaScript in the context of a page.

Most of the sites there aren't social bookmarking, either. SU has the functionality, though.

For what it's worth, I'm the one who coined the term.
Fighting with the OS - such as the VM system - is one of the primary arguments for exokernel-style OSs; see

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

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/exo.html

(In fact, I think one of their use cases showing an order of magnitude or 2 improvement specifically involves pairing an app with a custom VM algorithm.)
This sounds a case of: mind your own business. Sometimes people will only learn the hard way.
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That depends on the user. It is the opposite of a productivity tool for some.