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I think you need to add more example where your service could be helpful. People don't realize what problems you solve until you show them. More examples, more customers.
All problems can be overcome, @bobbyflanders, if you just let the light of Jesus flood into your life! :)

(sorry, I meant 'bikes', not Jesus).

EDIT: I knew this would get down-voted. No sense of humour these bicyclists ;)

I my case, I have a short commute, but mostly drive it, because cycling is much more effort, and much less comfortable than driving. Sorry to have an incorrect opinion.
I think a powerful part of Facebook is the photosharing operation - I believe it is the biggest photosharing site on the web now. Without it I think it could die off quicker.

I myself have been using the site less and less over the last 6 months but I still log in at least daily.

I think it will be a generation gap that will end it- people in their early teens will not want to be on the same social networking site as their mothers and fathers!
I don't think, that your conclusion fits with the article.

Because there's not a big disconnection between feeling and thinking. If you
feel in a direction, then you will certainly also think in this direction.
Because your feelings are colouring your thoughts. It's like you already feel
the conclusion and are only searching for rational arguments.

I think that the article doesn't go far enough, because you shouldn't only
question your thinking, but also your feelings.
Fixies (fixed gear bicycles) are illegal in traffic in almost all places and are intended for track use only.
If the event is a demoparty, I'll just lock the screen. In other places, I'll usually bring my laptop along.
Not just a conspiracy, but laud voices. He has plenty of support and is a well known figure at least now and they say that in a communist country if you want to speak out against the regime become a well known and loved novelist.

So even if they can be above the law in theory, they would attract the wrath of the public in practice.

Anyway, the fact that that guy from the defence has put on a very serious looking and almost mean face just makes you think of kids in school saying give me back my hat.
No thats not the case. You still have to use S3 as the origin.

This is talking about allowing you to assign a default root document, e.g. a index.html so that requests to (e.g.) http://cache.mydomain.com/ will return something.
That might be the case, but another thing that might be at work over here is that people do have biases/prejudices that they are unwilling to expose in front of others. Someone smart enough can easily hide their real feelings on a subject in most situations, but as soon as they get annoyed, threatened or angry it starts to come tumbling out.

Perhaps, over here he simply encountered a few people with unresolved issues and got a raw deal because of it.

On the other hand, this happened when Google was relatively young an interesting question is, what happens in large organizations? When you hire people they tend to bring their baggage in them. So, now the question becomes how can a culture be created that allows people to transcend their prejudices?

I just don't know.
Where would he go instead?
Probably haven't come back from their $200K holiday yet. Or they spent their 15K rentacoder budget and are trying to figure out how they can pay someone to write it for them without dipping too deeply into their hooker and coke money.

In all seriousness though, didn't they plan to have a working version by the end of this month? I wonder will they manage...
agreed on the RMS propaganda stuff.

But I'm sincerely interested to know why you say that their implementations are braindamaged.
That seems surprisingly generous towards GCSE English. I know one straight-A student that I went to school with that swore he would never read another book in his life after leaving his Higher English exam (Scottish equivalent of A-level or whatever they are called these days). I'd imagine that if you weren't already a reader then it wouldn't have fired you up to become one either.
Unlikely IMO. Update-in-place is one major feature of MongoDB. If you need MVCC you may be better off using CouchDB or Riak.
Patents might have been built to protect unique and game-changing innovations simply being copied by a major plyer in the market, but they certainly weren't designed to stop people from building obvious enhancements to their product because someone else did it first.

The patent review process wouldn't work quickly enough to save them anyway.
Running Hackers and Founders, I've come aross a ton of young founders that have gotten seed rounds. And, a ton of them are hiring.

I think one reason for the trend is that a number of rich people have soured on the idea of paying someone at BigCo finance to manage their money for them in the stock market. A lot of portfolio's have recovered most of the losses from the past 2 years of stock market craziness, and a lot of them are seeing the benefit of diversifying their investments with angel investing.

Multiply that trend times 500 to 5000 millionaires in Silicon Valley, and you have a sellers market in angel investing. That is, there are a lot of angel investors looking for startups to invest in early.
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Is it considered fair use to include copyrighted material in a patent application?
The trick is to build something which earns income in the short term (which might be the shelf life of the service)so any buyout comes as a nice little bonus rather than something you desperately need to compensate you for the time and money invested.
Which makes this a particularly bad piece from the register, since their opening lines are

"The Software Freedom Conservancy has secured $90,000 in damages for willful infringement of GPLv2, plus nearly $50,000 in costs from Westinghouse Digital Electronics over its illegal distribution of the Unix utility BusyBox. The company has also been ordered to stop shipping product loaded with BusyBox."

When it's just about 100% sure that those awards will never be realised.
Wtf!!

By applying the "AJAX makes it non-free" logic, every HTTP request is non-free. I mean, I don't release my httpd.conf so everything server side is a secret - i.e. mod-rewrite rules.

If you value freedom of your devices you'd be better off promoting Coreboot than this silly nonsense.
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I think the point is to not think too much. Feelings certainly color thoughts but the article makes the point that if you do too much thinking then the color provided by your feelings is washed out and you are left with rationalization which can often work against your interests.
By "rainiest" I did mean "highest number of rainy days" rather than "highest amount of precipitation".
Ask HN: Brothers (/sisters) as co-founders?
Does anyone have experience with this? From a financier's standpoint, is it a good thing to have one's own brother (or sister, as the case may be) involved in a venture?

I figure, on the one hand the brother can't really bail (and you can't really bail) since you can't "escape your own blood". So when times get rough, the probability is high the core team will stick through. But there's also another saying, by which you "can't choose your family but you can choose your friends".

Whether you can make it work or not probably really depends on your specific family bonds and compatibility. But from a purely outsider's perspective, is a brother-brother venture perceived as more risky or less risky than "normal" co-founderships#?

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# Not sure this is even an English word but I suppose it's clear what I mean to say.
I shifted to Atlanta for college, and even the campus is not that bike friendly. I am terrified of cars, and for some reason most people in cars in atlanta are mean.
I lived in Austin itself, and I would consider many of the roads seriously dangerous. There are no really roads meant to accommodate bikers, only roads for cars (Anderson Mill Road and Parmer Lane come to mind). The stupid thing, from a biker point of view, is that even if you try to bike on smaller roads, at some point you are forced to join a big road. Also, since urban planning didn't take into account alternative modes of transportation, the distance to bike is ironically much longer than if you take your car(in Europe it's usually the contrary since you can bike on all roads, so it reduces the distance). So, I really see biking as transportation strongly discouraged there. Big up to Austinites who ride their bike though!
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I got all requests failed on testing page load for http://beta.crowdeo.com

Also, I'd like to be able to test server speed by more than ping latency, i.e. actual throughput between various points.
Objective thinking in any domain is hard. I don't see why pointing out that people don't get enough practice in actual rational thinking when it comes to their preferences is depressing?
But that's not the point of the article. It's about your bias, and to see it, it's not enough to only look at your thoughts.
Absolutely nothing, which is what the "flag" link is for.
Use a project I'm working on now:

http://www.needanym.com (crowdsourced company naming)
Nothing wrong with letting people know, either.
I was excited to see a new movement in database schemes that provide a different way of storing data outside a relational database model however a couple things bother me. Firstly calling it nosql, its just complete disrespect of sql and relational databases, could there not have been a more mature response and have it termed as something relevant?

Secondly what scares me and I find hilarious is people who so quickly jump onto this movement, moving the entirety of their critical data without understanding the potential downfalls, such as data loss with no warning. As a key value store for non critical data, this kind of thing is brilliant, and data loss can be managed, maybe not tolerated in a high throughput environment where "cache misses" are a concern but otherwise yea its great. Still look at facebook, twitter, friendfeed, who are all still using mysql and scaling out in their own way.
Nokia is reportedly seeking an outsider to revive it. Bad idea
Are you mixing up `teacher' and experimentator? Because the subject who's tested is the `teacher' and can't be far away from herself.
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Also Haskell seems to discourage exceptions. They are possible to raise everywhere and catchable in the IO Monad --- but they do not play along nicely. It's often better to wrap up your error handling in a Maybe or Either or Error Monad. (In level of increasing sophistication.)
Generally speaking, U.S. States' regulations on how corporations can fire/hire employees favor the Corps.

However, the U.S. is also highly litigious in the civil courts. If you feel you've been wronged, there are a multitude of ways to bring up a lawsuit... and plenty of lawyers who would be willing to take your case (especially with "tens of millions of dollars" of denied stock options on the line).
Presumably the "Where dae ye think ye are? Benidorm?" rant :-)
Islands in lakes in islands in lakes ...
The author says 'after 10 years' with HTML, which isn't very long.

Ask someone working in hypertext long enough to know what VERONICA stands for -- they'll know what HREF means!

But funny you mention Wikipedia. Looks like it has the answer:

> with the attribute "href" (HREF is an abbreviation for "Hypertext REFerence"[3])

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

> [3] Tim Berners-Lee, Making a Server ("HREF" is for "hypertext reference")

http://www.w3.org/Provider/ServerWriter.html
Quick google turns ups:

Disney was founded by two brothers.

Columbia Pictures was founded by two brothers and apparently a third unrelated individual.

Aflac was founded by three brothers.

Conoco-Philips was founded by two brothers.

I'm sure you could find lots of other examples if you tried. I think one of the advantages of such a situation is superior communication due to years and years of practice/context. My sons want to found a company together. They blow my mind with the way they work cooperatively, sometimes without saying a word, just because they both know what the other will do. So I can readily imagine this dynamic in other situations, assuming the brothers have a good, solid relationship. (Another truism being that most murders are committed by someone close to you, such as a blood relative, lover, or business partner.)
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Hehe. You're right of course. I guess I think if it as a way of stopping the boat.
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http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html

"The first occurrence of the character sequence "</" (end-tag open delimiter) is treated as terminating the end of the element's content."

Of course browsers never implemented this correctly.
You did guess wrong - it seems to be 'head reference' actually. As the article explains, the original links were conceptualized with two anchors, the 'head' and the 'tail', and 'href' is the reference to the head of the link.
There was also WAIS, which was interesting in it own respect. you would open "databases" across the net and search for info that you where interested in. A lot of counterculture stuff was available as well as a lot of good programming documents. The process got pretty cumbersome after the net expanded past the universities and government establishments. It did not scale well.

To the GP poster. I can remember a time before the net (it seems like yesterday) and back then we had local BBS services that some tech guy, in the local community, usually ran. There where also some regional and national BBS networks. They would advertise them in the back of DR. Dobb's and some of the other computer hobbyist magazines.

In some ways, that was a cooler time to be into computing, everything was new, everything was exclusive because it took some technical know how to get onto these networks. Small things where groundbreaking developments back then. Computers where slow so you had to be resourceful and creative when developing.

Don't get me wrong, I love where we have come, but back then there was a sense of being part of a revolution, it may just have been because, I was a little younger than you are now, but it seemed so much more fascinating back then.
I believe Obama outlawed "clove cigs".

Please, think of the children.

Children are now only allowed clove cigars.
There seems to be a misconception in the USA that everything healthy must be fancy. Make rice and lentils, chop a tomato and an onion, fry an egg: congratulations, you just ate a full, healthy meal for less than $2. Time wasted: approximately 10 minutes.

Even better: take turns cooking for the team. 5 people, 20 minutes of work: you're down to 4 wasted minutes per person. That's less than you need to walk to Jack in the box.
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I think there's a missing word in this sentence: "What I'm saying is that the kind of help that matters, you may not have to be a board member to give."
I remember the first time I worked out that life's not fair. There's no over-arching justice to ensure that just because someone beats be at one thing they won't beat me at another. Nature as a whole has no sense of fair play. The best you can do is get on with life.

Having said that, if you treat people well you often find that their sense of fair play gives you a safety net.

But always remember:

"Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you
differently is selling something."

— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

ADDED IN EDIT: I've just been checking - although the line is in the film, it's not in the book.
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It is. I especially liked this part:

Nowhere is the comfortable illusion of bottlefed normalcy more carefully preserved than in discussions of cognitive development. When I ask groups of health professionals if they are familiar with the study on parental smoking and IQ (1), someone always tells me that the children of smoking mothers had "lower IQs." When I ask about the study of premature infants fed either human milk or artificial milk (2), someone always knows that the breastmilk-fed babies were "smarter." I have never seen either study presented any other way by the media--or even by the authors themselves. Even health professionals are shocked when I rephrase the results using breastfeeding as the norm: the artificially-fed children, like children of smokers, had lower IQs.

Inverting reality becomes even more misleading when we use percentages, because the numbers change depending on what we choose as our standard. If B is 3/4 of A, then a is 4/3 of B. Choose A as the standard, and B is 25% less. Choose B as the standard, and A is 33 1/3% more. Thus, if an item costing 100 units is put on sale for "25% less,"the price becomes 75. When the sale is over, and the item is marked back up, it must be marked up 33 1/3% to get the price up to 100. Those same figures appear in a recent study (3), which found a "25% decrease" in breast cancer rates among women who were breastfed as infants. Restated using breastfed health as the norm, there was a 33-1/3% increase in breast cancer rates among women who were artificially fed. Imagine the different impact those two statements would have on the public.
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Ask HN: Why do team collaboration webapps suck?
Hi, fellow HNers. Is it just me or do team collaboration webapps suck?

Most of my collaboration/communication is still done through email and IM.

Whenever I've tried to get teams I have worked with to use a wiki or other collaboration tool I see a fall off in usage after an initial rush. Even if they do use it, the content uploaded/ gathered is sparse.

Usually only the content that people explicitly want to share(like minutes of meeting, presentations) go into the wiki, if they ever do, but most of the time its just sent as an email.

They either think its a pain to login, into the tool and put in stuff, when it could just be mailed in. Or just completely forget about it and go back to the old way of doing things.

- Is this a common thing when trying a new tool?

- How did you get across this hurdle?

- Is most of your collaboration done through e-mail, IM, Phone calls and twitter?

- Do you regularly come across more information/data (articles, tutorials, presentations) that your team could benefit from, but isn't as important as something you'd put into a wiki?

- what thought triggers you into putting something into a wiki or some other tool?
My elementary school teacher was very confused by my LOGO programs - they produced no graphic output. I mostly wrote bizarre choose-your-own-adventure IF. It was pretty bad.

(b. 1978; I'm in the net.legends file, to my eternal shame)
What I got from the article was that too much thinking makes people deviate from expert opinion. This is a bad thing because experts in general tend to be more objective in their domain of expertise and are better able to judge things based on merit instead of some other metric. I think it's less about bias and more about false rationalization being the default state of thinking when it comes to non-experts and one way to not fall into this trap is to not overthink. You could also avoid this trap by becoming an expert but that requires time and hard work and trusting your initial gut reactions and intuitions can often lead to better results when you don't have the time to become an expert in some domain.
Although not emboldened, this sentence in the abstract best explained the jam tasting problem: "Proactively used reasoning also favors decisions that are easy to justify but not necessarily better." That is, the students focused on the quantity of reasons, not necessarily the most important reasons.

It reminds me of the Bayesian stuff I've been reading about on lesswrong.com. And in that way, it best describes 'rationalisation': an overemphasis of less important aspects of a problem domain, often because of bias or because of difficulty in discovering the more important aspects, as in the jam example.
Sounds like an interesting idea. Perhaps you should even focus explicitly on pleasing, say, patio11 (if he agrees to give you feedback).

Stuff that's optimized for on specific person (or a very small group) often also gets better responses from the a much wider audience, then if you went for a `generic' person in the first place. (I can go and find the sources for this.)
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Bringing in intelligent people sounds like a good contribution to me. No matter what the software thinks `contribution' should be.
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IMO Facebook is too big and real to be a fad. That doesn't mean that they can be taken over one day by another service, but they are managed very well (unlike Myspace) and have an excellent product vision. I knew myspace would crash and burn eventually, I hated that site from early on. Surfing myspace was too godamned annoying with animated GIFs, background music, random friend requests, and spam. Facebook however, gave everyone what they wanted; information and connections to people they know.

I still use facebook everyday and I'm a year out of college. I probably engage with less features (like wall commenting, photo uploading, apps, games) than I used to and do more passive browsing.

I think the next big "social network" won't be recognized as a social network. It will gather an audience based on some form of engagement revolving around a winning feature set. Kind of like the way Twitter came along, but with a better feature fit that would eventually creep into Facebook territory.
Gut feelings are also subject to bias.
I say friends, family trumps startup. And since a startup is a high pressure environment I would think twice before putting a relationship I value under that kind of stress.
at no point is the stock any more "liquid" from the perspective of the firm.
On HN the fear is "Are we turning into Reddit?".

On Reddit the comparison used to be Digg. (I left three years ago, so I don't know what happened in the mean time.)
"...that human reason has nothing to do with finding the truth, or locating the best alternative. Instead, it’s all about argumentation."

I've come to the conclusion that our brain is not trying to produce an accurate model of reality. It is trying to choose good experiences over bad experiences. If it ends up constructing an accurate model of some part of reality, that's a side effect.
Are you specifically referring to the Taliban-trained monkey soldiers, motivated by bananas and peanuts?

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