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I find that if the advert is non-intrusive, blends in with the design of the site that I'm reading and is relevant to what I'm looking for then I'm more likely to click an ad. Even more so if there's a discount offered.

Probably the biggest example is Amazon affiliate links. The other day I was looking for a new Bicycle pump, so I looked at different bicycle pumps online and visited a random blog where the author bitched about bicycle pump problems they had, then talked about a pump they bought that solved the problem. Sure enough, at the end of the post was a link to Amazon for the same model, so off I clicked.
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It says there are three holes, so I'm guessing at least one is dedicated to hoses.
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If you didn't noticed, I always put "OSI Layer N" in the double quotes.
It's just an example of well known stack. My comment has nothing to do with networking protocols.

Recently some people refer to it, to explain some concepts.
Some even comparing Peninsula in Bay Area to OSI, where is San-Francisco is "OSI Level 7" and Cupertino is "OSI Level 1" ;)
Google search ads is one of the only ones I respond to, and mostly when I'm searching for a specific product or product type.
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if you find the design of the site's annoying for reading, you may be willing to the readability version of it on a gingle pdf file

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/135679/output.pdf
As a Spaniard and Spanish native speaker, i agree with you. Also, from Wikipedia's page for 2666:

"Over 1100 pages long in its Spanish edition and almost 900 in its English translation"

Seems like English it's a bit more direct than Spanish in average. The wording is shorter.
Almost every piece of ESR's writing suffers due to his assertions of brilliance or being the unofficial representative of hackerdom. This is usually present in almost every sentence. If you're not an ESR fan it's excruciating.

It's a shame because he's a genuinely skilled writer, especially with parodic forms like this. Luckily there is no "Eric" character in these koans.
"Meta-contrarianism" is a good phrase to capture this phenomenon. In computers, I associate it with the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABA_problem and in life, with the joke about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down

The part that misses for me is his (my pronoun choice is conscious signalling [double 'l' is too, I suppose {as are the parentheticals}]) emphasis on triads.

For me, the key concept is that one never knows which level one is at. There is no absolute "level 1", just the "level n" that you occupy, and "level not n", which is never clearly n - 1 or n + 1.

One frequently assumes that those who disagree with you are missing something, but every now and then you have to wonder if they actually one ahead. And it happens often enough that people I think I agree with are actually viewing the situation in a completely foreign way.

Are there philosophical movements that deal with these situations? What names would I search for? What should I read?
Ask HN: Password entry on mobile devices; how can it be improved?
For various reasons I've had to use three different personal phones recently; one Windows Mobile 6, one Android 2.2, and an older-style Sony Ericsson candybar.

They all have the same problem - entering passwords is awkward. Further, I purchased 1Password for Mac yesterday and decided to go through some older passwords and update them and I realised how much MORE awkward it is when you've got a good (complex) password!

Android's idea to replace PIN for unlocking the phone was to use a pattern which the user draws with their finger on-screen. I don't use this personally on my droid, but I've played with it and it seems to work quite well.

However it is for a specific purpose, and cannot be used for my HN password which I use on both my computer and my phone. This seems like a very difficult problem to solve, but one which I feel is very interesting and could be valuable. I'm not going to be looking at it myself, I was just compelled to ask this question by my experiences this weekend.

Is there anybody out there solving this problem?
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Easy. Dialup. A twisted single-pair phone cable can be/is extremely light, and I'm pretty sure they can transmit that far.

Of course, the engineer in me wants to know how well sound waves propagate down the holes, and wants to implement dialup or DSL with actual sound waves
Good point, that makes a lot of sense.
"Second, the work angels are doing aren't for the founders - it's towards ROI."

Some Angels are focused on that. Others have a different take, from Ron Conway's Email:

"I want to clarify once and for all my total disagreement with your values and motives for being investors.

I have stated consistently for year that I invest because I love helping entrepenuers and watching them learn and succeed."

And, as someone who's been through several startups, and seen those run by seasoned 'serial entrepreneurs' (who've learned the hard way, and could be angels in their own right (and later have done so), and some run by first timers (who haven't even heard of the phrase "term sheet", let alone know how to negotiate one) - I'd suggest that there is a certain class of founder, an entrepreneur out to build a great product for the first time, that while not a 'baby in a diaper', is a 'babe in the woods' - and having someone who is working for _them_, rather than 'ROI' can quite often make all the difference between success and failure.

VCs (at least the three or four I've had exposure to at my low level) are focused on returns. Great angels are focused on helping entrepreneurs succeed. A VC will pursue a strategy that results in complete and utter failure for some of their investments, if it means overall greater returns for their aggregate portfolio of companies. That's just not in the DNA of the few angels I know.

I'd be cautious in trying to understand what the motivator is for these angels - for some of them, their mission is even more important than charity - it's a higher calling in which they are trying to help entrepreneurs succeed, rather than simply chase the almighty dollar. The money is important insofar as it is an indicator of their success, and as a tool to continue their mission - but not necessarily the objective.
They are seeking the ability to tap anything they want, any time they want.

That is a balance between what and what?
How'd you handle the issue of employee theft? I'm a heavy drinker, friendly, and I tip well, so generally at the end of the night my tab comes out to 50% or less of what it should be.

As a consumer I've seen this handled differently at many places, so I'm wondering what worked for you. I've had bartenders who I knew were just not ringing up my drinks, bartenders who had me on the comp list, bartenders who'd mix up a jug of free shots at the beginning of the night, bartenders who'd ring my drunks as staff/girlfriend drinks, etc etc. One of my current bars has a friend-of-the-bar/in-the-biz program, and I get a percentage off of all my drinks. As a consumer, it's the method I prefer the most, because even when I show up on the wrong night or one of my regular bartenders has the day off, I still get some sort of discount at the end of the night, even if my tab isn't missing the beer or two it usually is.

I'm asking because I realize two things: 1) even though I always bring people in with me who wouldn't have gone to that particular bar without me, the bar is definitely losing potential profit on me individually. My stool could be taken up by some guy off the street who's paying full price for everything. 2) I tend to follow bartenders like hairdressers. I really don't care where I'm getting my hair cut or where I'm drinking my beer. I care that everyone knows my name, that my first drink is on the bar before I sit down, and that I feel like I'm getting a deal at the end of the night. I have left bars never to return when a favorite bartender got fired or quit.
Sounds sort of like a "Yes Men" press release, TBH.
BORING. How much longer will this go on? I don't come to HN to read infinite responses to the boring news that investors meet and chat. Who the hell cares?
Totally agree! A cross-disciplinary approach is definitely the future of... well pretty much every industry, thanks for the advice :)
To fake being an extravert is not that difficult when you've mastered the skill of meaningless chit chat. However, I've noticed that to acquire that skill you need an active interest in the person you're communicating with. I've noticed that people with a natural interest in other people seem to be perceived as extraverts. To learn that interest in other people can be a challenging task and after twenty years of practice I still haven't mastered it myself...
Sometimes, yes, but this does not explain many debates about (American) politics - where there's often a lot of heat and very little light, and no real attempt to convince the other side.
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I think there's a wide spectrum of introvertedness, and sometimes people tend to lump together shyness, social anxiety, lack of social skills and lack of self confidence in with being an introvert.

For the introverts who can function normally and simply find socializing exhausting, thats great for them, but there are also introverts who are deeply affected by those other problems (myself included), and I feel like they/we are at a big disadvantage.

I don't know to what extent this applies to the OP, but he sounds a bit like me. I've progressively become less social since high school (to the point that I'm often referred to as "the quiet one") and haven't really tried to do anything about it, even though I'd like to.
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For that matter, so are most of the common "big data" applications (grinding through log files)

Dude you work at Yelp in Search? Seriously?

What about companies like Palantir? or Cloudera?

I understand Yelp's Log file might be full of shit, but there are countless companies out there which use the same Big Data technology for doing interesting analysis, right from companies like walmart who do transaction analysis to pharmaceuticals like pfizer which use the same technology in developing new drugs. Just because your log file is crap does not means all log files are crap.

Has HN affected your brain or what? You say you received PhD in Computational Biology? I seriously doubt that now.

http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2009/10/analyzing-human-genomes...

Oh btw Yelp is surely one of those useless Web 2.0 companies like posterous. (at least facebook is building social infrastructure and drawing people towards internet ) Last heard you were accused of blackmailing restaurants. How is that working for you.

Before talking crap about Big Data, go out and read about its credible applications.
I'm an introvert, but because I'm the oldest child in a large family (and had to take charge a lot) and opinionated by nature, I appear to others as extroverted.

However I'm definitely introverted, so much so that I designed a game back in 2009 to get out of my comfort zone more.

It's called Rejection Therapy, and it's here: http://www.rejectiontherapy.com

It's not meant to change who you fundamentally are, but it will help broaden your horizons.
Argh, cost of iteration is definitely going to be a major factor to consider, thanks for pointing it out.

And the "Sell before build" approach definitely worths a try if I'm building something b2b, but for b2c it probably won't work. Most of the b2c startups nowadays don't make any money until 2 - 3 years down the track. But I guess this tactic can apply to selling my b2c idea to investors.
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I read this title as them wanting less wiretaps.. doh !
I think Hacker News is strong supporting evidence of your point. There is some ability to display/leverage social standing here, but by and large, it is a platform of anonymous commenters commenting simply for the pleasure of discussion.

That, and anonymously validating our own intelligence through the karma system - but it seems the prior benefit is a larger pull.
Actually the project offers a free patch for the VM to download that you can use today.

But I agree that JRebel is the more robust solution right now.
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They have optical cable.
Meta-contrarians are just early-adopters of the synthesis stage of a dialectic:

"Hegelian dialectic... a thesis, giving rise to its reaction, an antithesis, which contradicts or negates the thesis, and the tension between the two being resolved by means of a synthesis." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic#Hegelian_dialectic

Anyway, could these be programmer triads/dialectics?

* Objects are superior/closures are superior/Scala?
* Statically-typed/dynamically-typed/some combo of both
* Optimize/generalize/do each as required
* Waterfall/Agile/(TDD/BDD?)
* Relational/NoSQL/???
Different levels of behaviour are associated with different levels of consciousness. For your example of conspicuous consumption, all the crosses seem possible. In my social circles, I'd guess that in general the most common are to "buy unconsciously" and to "avoid consciously". It would probably depend on your specific example.

I wouldn't think of it as a trap, though. It's more of a situational awareness. People will react differently based on the signals you send. Is the trap to signal consciously or unconsciously? Because consciously not signalling might turn out to be the trap to avoid. But then again, so might any of the three other combinations
Apparently, you do since you care enough to reply.
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I read somewhere that hipsters almost universally deny being hipsters.
I don't think the article makes that assumption at all. I think it is just talking about how we act when we do signal.
Um, court order?

You really think a world with no law enforcement is a better one?

Before you misunderstand me, there is no way they will get what they want, but I can still understand their problem.
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There is a contradiction, because the argument in the article assumes the signalling of social standing is THE reason for the behavior.

Opinions like

A person who is somewhat intelligent will conspicuously
signal eir intelligence by holding difficult-to-understand
opinions. A person who is very intelligent will
conspicuously signal that ey feels no need to
conspicuously signal eir intelligence, by deliberately not
holding difficult-to-understand opinions.

are incredibly annoying. It's one of those opinions that are almost impossible to defend against or disprove, because of the vague nature of 'conspicuously' and 'difficult-to-understand'. Actually, I think you can attack it as form a meta-contrarianism itself: anti-intellectuals will hold the above opinion, intellectuals will denounce that opinion and meta-contrarians will claim that 'people cannot help but be influenced by concern for their social standing, so there is some truth in the assertions of anti-intellectuals that intellectuals show behavior which seems to be intended solely to make it harder for non-intellectuals to enter their field', which polarizes into the quoted opinion.
The karma system has got to be a huge magnet for this kind of discussion.
Incredibly expensive, something everyone talks about, obnoxious, and it just won't go away?

Oh, wait no. Apparently BP, Halliburton, et al. are just like the US Military harvesting Unobtanium. OK, got it.
I say it is psychology. Android tells you what the applications are able to do and by being rather explicite about it, it is scary.

It would be great if a user could sandbox those permissions or even outright block them, but I guess that would just lead to malconfiguration, confusion and blind bug reports. Maybe a custom mod will do it some day. I rooted yesterday and now have an iptables based firewall installed that lets me control what applications can access the internet (I guess there are loopholes around it but it is better than nothing).
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I'd hardly consider Business Insider to be mainstream.
There's even a High Score List: http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
If there is any truth in what is argued, then this argument itself can be considered to be a display of intellectual hipster meta-contrarianism. Furthermore, any balanced position/argument could be indicted as 'intellectual hipster meta-contrarianism'. In that case, this article adds absolutely nothing to your understanding of the world and people's behavior. It's just pretending to show some deep insight, by knitting together platitudes about peoples' behavior in a seemingly novel and intellectual way.

Or, to be somewhat less of an 'intellectual hipster meta-...-meta-contrarian' (ain't I (un)cool?): what is argued is way to strong and way to broadly applied. 'Lesswrong' usually worries about the practicality of matters and this, on the one hand, just not an important factor, and on the other hand, irrelevant, even if it was, because you still have to counter the actual arguments that are made. If being an 'intellectual hipster meta-contrarian' means taking a balanced position, for instance on

- KKK-style racist / politically correct liberal / "but there are scientifically proven
genetic differences"
- misogyny / women's rights movement / men's rights movement
- conservative / liberal / libertarian
- don't care about Africa / give aid to Africa / don't give aid to Africa

then, by God, let's have more 'intellectual hipster meta-contrarian's. If it doesn't in practice, for most 'intellectual hipster meta-contrarian's mean 'taking a balanced position', for whatever reason, then I think it's just an empty denomination.
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That's common in state universities. Some TAs at the University of Arizona teach 4 sections. (each once a week)
Plain-text requirement is almost offensive.

However, I've been toying around with the idea to link bunch of dedicated servers with OpenVPN tunnels and let users connect to them via OpenVPN server (tls) also.

The idea is to form a closed or separate network with services and have it be privacy friendly network.

The main point I am trying to make is that we the people should be able to, and be allowed to run and manage our own network that isn't wiretapped constantly by for-profit intel contractors.
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Or the set of people embroiled in the schema of partisanship and the set of people who are highly intelligent are disjoint.
What's surprising to me is that this problem was identified in 1985 (or earlier), yet the industry didn't solve it for a decade or so.
We hold user group sessions (Java and Siebel) at a local bar/restaurant on Monday evenings. It's great for us as it's nice and quiet. It may not be a huge boost to their revenue, but it is consistent. It may be worth looking into encouraging that type of activity on your dead Mondays.
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... regular expressions are easier to work with if you use the /x modifier so you can whitespace fill it and document the regex itself ...

Absolutely agree. I made a similar comment on HN post Regex: a little Clojure DSL for readable, compositional regexes only a few days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1719554
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I've noticed this as well.

However, once I note something down I might as well throw the piece of paper away. When I need the knowledge in a fuzzy way (obscure reference, seed of an idea etc.) it will just be there. If I need it specifically (like on an exam) noting it down or pretty much anything doesn't help, I have to study for the occasion and when I do my notes are too incomplete to be of help, I have to confer a more reliable source.
Fine I would have thought, assuming the person in question is suitably qualified in other areas. I think being a CEO is more about business strategy, business development and requires helicopter view of all a businesses operations - sales, marketing, IT, finance etc. Of course you need _some_ knowledge and understanding of the businesses products and services - but you probably don't need a degree in chem eng. A CEO's remit is a broad one - a generalist not necessarily a specialist. To check this, take a look at the CEOs of FTSE100/Fortune500 firms.
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The example of the complication involved in making Strings in switch statements efficient intrigues me. The point is that implementations are more complicated than they might first seem. But it looks in this case like the additional complication was (in part, at least) a choice.

I don't see why the initial implementation couldn't be simpler. Wouldn't the simple implementation have similar performance to the status quo (i.e. using if statements), with the immediate benefit of cleaner syntax? In fact, why should this level of optimisation be part of the JSR at all? It sounds like something the JVM implementers could optimise without any change to the way the switch works. Tying it to the JSR makes the spec more complicated, delays an initial version and forces this optimisation to be prioritised over others.
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The link points to a github repository, which doesn't really have any information. Some digging takes you to a real description of what this is and how it works:

http://code.quirkey.com/sammy/index.html
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It’s almost impossible that we will be contacted by little green men, stepping out of their flying saucers in front of the white house. Instead, if the SETI search continues at its current pace, it is possible that some time in the next few decades we will have our first evidence of an extra-terrestrial intelligence. This could be either in the form of received radio signals, or an exo-planet, who's atmosphere shows telltale markers of an industrial civilization.

What happens next is as much a political question as a scientific one. Even if we sit on the news for years, its obvious that someone is eventually going to try and send a signal back. The UN has a role to play in ensuring that first contact is handled in a calm and thought out way. Unless there is somebody in a position to co-ordinate things, every other country with a radio telescope will be beaming up signals. Would you really want first contact to come from the US, China, North Korea, Russia and France, all at the same time? It’s good that the UN is thinking about these problems now, so that if, and when that momentous day does arrive, we are prepared to speak clearly, with one unified voice.
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> What I disagreed with was the notion that the Internet deserved to be produced

quite pointless argument to have on the Internet
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Title doesn't really reflect the contents of the article that well...
This should have been your blog post