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There is some truth here, especially in regards to more intelligent people taking a mainstream view that lacks the illusion of nuanced thought. That said, I find it hard to read an article on "intellectual hipsterism" that claims the average IQ of their readers is 145. The page the author links to in support of that claim mentions two giant caveats: First, IQ is a notoriously difficult to measure metric of questionable validity, and second, the scores are self-reported. The reported values range from 120-180. Essentially, the survey suggests that the top half of their readership is in the top 1% of the national population. Even their bottom half is in the top 10%, by their statistics. This suggests a fatal flaw in the survey, and to mention the resulting statistic in such an offhand manner and with no warning to the reader of the problems with it suggests at best laziness, and at worst intellectual dishonesty on the part of the author. I find it hard, therefore, to take their argument at face value. That's not to say it's invalid, merely that the author's conduct does not support its validity.
To me this seems less like planning and more like task tracking. Everybody alread knows / has decided what the task they had to perform on each day so it was a simple matter of executing and recording the results. The hard part of planning - breaking the problems into small tasks and deciding the order of execution based on dependencies, deciding whether something is even worth doing, etc. was only summarily covered.
Yes, but the reason these brands weren't doing this before Gilt was because they were afraid selling excess inventory at a discount would associate their goods with that lower price-point.

Gilt gets around this by maintaining a semi-private space and having one-day sales.

Groupon isn't private, but it's time-constrained in the same way and for the same reason.

If I know a sale is on for one day only, I'm going to understand that the deal doesn't represent the every-day price.

Besides, we're in the middle of a huge recession. Damn straight people are price sensitive!
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I disagree: you should put in version control each library that your project depends on. I don't see what Maven adds beyond introducing an artificial dependency on a tool outside of your control.
There's a great deal of good info out there on personal finance blogs, websites and books regarding mortgages and affordability. There is no shortage of good information.

Remember most people are making the single biggest purchase of their lives, so if they're not prepared to do a LOT of research and due diligence then I kinda feel they only have themselves to blame.

The problem I see is that many people seem to think they can stick their head in the sand and buy in help. Unfortunately said bought help might have other motivations than their clients which can lead to problems (see 2007 real estate crash and Great Recession).
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Let me get this straight, the drone is inaccurate by the worst case 13m. So the drone itself is off by at most 13m, while being 26,000ft in the air. This hardly seems like a major issue to me, according to wikipedia the Predator drone is equipped with hellfire munition, which have their own laser guided trajectory. Depending on the type the hellfire munition has approximately 8000ft range, so something tells me the drone itself doesn't guide the hellfire to the ground.

But 13m? I'm no munitions/combat expert, but I assume 13m discrepancy, even if it does apply to the hellfire itself, won't make much of a difference. Something is going to get blown up anyway, even if it is off by 13meters the target will essentially no longer be there.
The permissions are grouped under such broad categories to give the user a decent chance of understanding what they mean and getting through the permission dialog in a reasonable amount of time. The permission structure needs to strike a balance between granularity and usability.

It's certainly not ideal but I doubt that users are even paying attention to the permission dialog as it is.

A fun experiment would be to publish an innocuous free app that requests every single permission for no apparent reason. I wonder what percentage of users would actually decline to run it.
I always assume that everyone I meet has at least one interesting story to tell. Then I set myself a task to get them to tell it to me.
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this is much more readable font-wise :)
Don't get hooked on the term "fail." Continuously evolve your product (Seesmic comes to mind, among countless others) - and never give up.
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Death actually is great. It's not being meta-contrarian to see that. There was a great speech by Steve Jobs making just this point (and I don't think he was trying to signal his intelligence by saying so?)

My death is bad for me (somewhat -- I'm not sure I'd enjoy living forever) but great for the world.

I understand that the point of the article absolutely is not to argue about the goodness or badness of death, but isn't it regrettable that the main example they use is so flawed?
Why not convert it into a community-powered video translation site (and possibly add subtitling capabilities- allow users to enter text to display at bottom)? Also, why not market the kids and teenagers that want to do MST3000-like overdubbing? ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Science_Theater_3000 )

You might have trouble getting people to pay for it, but maybe you could convert to a non-profit if the goal was to provide tools to help the blind, the deaf, or to translate important works.

A big problem I see with the site now is that there is nothing on the front page that says what it does. You can't expect it to be content driven before people understand what it is or why they should be adding content. Also, how and where were you marketing it? Web apps aren't like the game from the the movie "Field of Dreams". If you build it, people only come if they know that their work will not be wasted. You should have the app say that it will reupload the edited video to Youtube, Vimeo, etc., and that its purpose is just simple Saas video editing for translation (and perhaps subtitling).
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Say what? I did no such thing.

I am talking only about the ability of the FBI to conduct court ordered wiretaps.

Right now companies can create internet based products without even thinking about the idea of wiretaps. Making a policy that companies should create procedures for dealing with ordered wiretaps from the beginning sounds like a good idea to me. (The encryption part doesn't though.)

Did you even read the article?
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Every time a professor complained, "you students worry too much about grades and not enough about learning," I wanted to respond, "and you teachers worry too much about tenure and not enough about teaching." Of course I never actually said it, being too worried about grades....
Err, the other obvious explanation is that whoever was at these meeting really don't have anything to hide, and Arrington is grossly exaggerating the few anonymous tips he's gotten.
That is more than two lines of code obfuscated into two lines...
but i like his idea to make this tiny enough to fit in a tweet.
Am I the only one that is entirely moot about being an introvert / extrovert? It makes no difference if I spend a few weeks constantly socializing, or a few weeks entirely on my own.
Just as an example, once an offline console game goes gold master, it usually doesn't get updated any further.
He's one of the most famous programmers in the Valley. Pincus and Zuckerberg know him. He doesn't need any exposure; he's just trying to help the OP.
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In other news, researchers also announced that 100% of America's imports come from other countries.
sad they say they aren't doing so well:

"It means if our DRM system breaks, like for example our server melts down with the floods of sales we unfortunately aren’t getting, or Puppygames goes completely bust because you buggers aren’t buying nearly enough games for us to survive,"
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" Hint: you’re not :("
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It's funny, but nonsensical. A counter would be to tell a story about one student explaining every last detail of some device and the other student still not understanding, while the GUI student just shows a picture and everything is instantly clear.

IMO command line "interfaces" are only suitable to programs. A command line interface is basically a language for communicating with the program. I'd rather not spend the time learning a substantial amount of the language just to be able to use the program for common tasks.

An example of this is revision control systems. I always personally liked darcs but was limited to the command line interface. When I tried out GitX I made the switch instantly after being loyal to darcs for years. Sadly there are still things you have to use the command line for in GitX but there is no reason it has to stay that way.
To prevent this there are surveillance cameras that insert the cash receipt data onto the video. They also save key frames with every transaction so you can later jump directly to them.

For instance: http://www.eaglevision1.com/Text-Inserter1.htm
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Mechanical turk was my best bet until I discovered it only allows US companies to create tasks.
There's always the possibility that (1) will one day change. For example, when, in some state of emergency, the US decides to back one political strength over another. I'm not military or historical expert, so I might be wrong, but I could easily see this happening in countries like Mexico.
LOL do you honestly think this is going to make one bit of difference? Flash sites are pretty much standard for all nightclubs, dance/rave parties and related things, I'm quite sure that the audience prefers a shining moving website over 'accessibility'. I'm also pretty sure 95% of the target audience that even bothers to visit the site won't even know that it's a flash site, and they surely aren't going to make the decision on whether or not to visit the club based on whether or not the website is flash or 'plain' html.
We should have such a 'bar designer' write an article on the main trick that makes designing bars different from designing other things, that'd be really interesting methinks. Is the guy you talked to a fried/acquaintance? You think you can get him to let up some more tricks ;) ?
HackerNews has ruined my ability to read articles like this.

I got one paragraph in, saw him call somebody an "idiot", and hit the back button. Comments here have shown that ad hominem attacks are a strong indicator of a bad argument, so I've been trained to filter them out.
This thread sort of shows exactly why ESR is where he is. Everybody seems to have a strongly held opinion of him, positive or otherwise.
And indeed, the continued existence and use of both the telephone and the postal service demonstrate in an unarguable way that email is not "more efficient" - it's just different.

Email, telephone and the postal service are three different modes of communication, each of which is useful for a specific category of communication. To that list, I'd add Twitter, IM, IRC, online forums/BBs/newsgroups, social news sites, talking in person, having a meeting, sleeping together, having a fight, having a meal, going out drinking, etc.

Each of those modes of communication is appropriate in a specific set of circumstances for a specific type of communication. None of them is "more efficient" in an absolute sense. It depends on the context.
IMHO, Arrington misinterpreted the core purpose of the meeting and fanned the flames of damaging rumours across the Internet. Poor form if you ask me.

It appears that the first meeting was focused on improving the financing options for startups whilst the second meeting appears to have focused on improving the ROI for investors.

Can someone explain why this is a problem?

If angel investors don't make a good return after risking their own capital, their funds will be diverted elsewhere (as per the rules of a capitalist system) and that is a huge disadvantage to the startup space because valuations will still decrease anyway.

Summary - angelgate is a non-story. Move on people. There's nothing to see here apart from another chance to procrastinate instead of working on your startup (which is highly likely to fail anyway)
Maybe he should have announced it as 'Freedom Unix'? That way 'free' wouldn't have been interpreted as in 'free beer' ;-)
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Since they new about the September 11 stuff before it happend, but still did not prevent it, they should not be awarded more money, toys or power but rather punished for their failure.

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Also a good proxy for recent BBC Horizon programmes, I'm afraid.
> they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.

That's the limiting factor indeed. However, even if taxation is much lower in Bolivia or Burma or Afghanistan, I doubt they'd be happier there even with 0% taxation. Happiness and disposable income are positively correlated, but not proportional, especially for higher incomes.

Moreover, many fortunes built in America are dependent on USA. Intel or Microsoft couldn't have been built in Albania. This co-dependence between the country and its businesses allows the former to command financial support from the later.

This is where the bar metaphor falls into pieces: the drinkers spend money together, but don't make this money co-dependently. If they were, the rich guy wouldn't leave because it would remove his source of income.

Intel couldn't relocate to Zimbabwe, hire local engineers and keep making money. It could maybe entertain the fiction that its money is made in Caiman Island or some other fiscal paradise, but that would be a gross lie; for US state representatives to tolerate such an absurd claim, some form of corruption would most likely be necessary.
IIRC it was solved. It only took very long for the big players in the industry to adopt the solution.
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I haven't seen it posted on here (or elsewhere) yet

It will probably get uploaded to the scribd http://www.scribd.com/ycdocs once released
Allowing the app to affect the permission UI in any way will probably just end up as a vector for social attacks. You will see a lot of reasons like "You MUST click the Yes button below to complete the installation of ThingyWoo" or "DO YOU WANT FREE HOT SEXY BLAH BLAH? CLICK YES NOW!!!"
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Thanks! Post back CA-specific bar info if you have any. I'm not in the market to buy up his bar or equipment yet, though.
Not really - you _still_ can't script the installation of it, which means that you have to sit and type a bunch of numbers foreach and every single program you want to install.
I hate how you were down voted for pointing out a simple truth. Every industry government gets involved in, it passes laws making competition illegal. We had a thriving and quickly growing mail industry in this country before government took it over (for the purpose of censorship at the time) and made delivering first class mail illegal. They actually do sting operations and fine companies caught forwarding "non time sensitive mail" via fedex!

This is just one example. Obama took over general motors by force, against the will of bond holders and handed out a large chunk to the unions.... And then a few months later a big scare was started against Toyota on spurious grounds. This is not a coincidence.

Recently they made it illegal to sell private health insurance (not fully in effect yet so you can still get it, though prices are rising) and soon only government insurance will be available, though private companies will be allowed to underwrite, presuming of course, that they currier enough favor with government regulators.

The very definition of government-- a monopoly on the use of force over a geographic region- is anti competitive, as it prevents ant other governments from forming in the area... Even if the people in a particular area prefer a different form of government.
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Evidence that there is no such thing as DRM done right?
Just thought I'd add this, here in Europe (Switzerland to be precise) nobody I've ever met uses Twitter. Facebook is omnipresent (omnipotent? ;)), but most folk don't even seem to know of Twitter (apart from techies, but still no users). Of course, small sample size etc.
MyGengo.com is an API-based play in this area. MT would have given you crap.
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This has absolutely nothing to do with racism and makes light of racism by the analogy that preferring a specific language is like racism.

It's not.
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You're not thinking it through completely. It is perfectly fine if I'm not his target customer. Same is true for others like me; we're just not the intended target customer.

On the other hand, a javascript/flash-only site can be problematic for search engines, even those engines with the supposed capacity to parse javascript/flash. Outside of the search engine issue is, of course, linking by by human beings. How would you send a friend a link to a show, event, or location page? --You can't.

It really doesn't matter if the target audience is expected to be ignorant or indifferent to security concerns. You can still give them the "shining moving website" with flash in addition to more accessible content. The important part is accessibility improves usefulness and effectiveness.

The site exist to promote the club, but the current design states, "If you use an iPhone, you're not welcome here." Can you honestly say the entire target audience doesn't use iPhones? In essence, the design defeats the purpose. And no, I do not own an iPhone, but that's beside the point.
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In the past 5 years, I've had quite a few moments that I thought 'Man, I wish I could have that as a video clip.' Unfortunately, it was just some random event and there's no way I'd wear this thing for months just to hopefully catch some 30 second segment of life.

But maybe others are less rational than I am and it'll result in a lot of awesome youtube clips.
This kind of math is the origin of the so called "bush tax cuts forth rich". Bush proposed cutting the tax rate for the lowest bracket in half giving the poorest the biggest benefit, but that didn't make it past the democrats. In e end, the poorest got the biggest percentage tax cuts and the highest bracket got the smallest...yet despite helping the poorest taxpayers the most people call these tax cuts "for the rich". In fact, how many of You even knew the lowest bracket had a dramatically higher percentage cut?
I care enough about hacking to try and keep HN a useful place. Unfortunately it seems most people here are just interested in gossip and giving Techcrunch pageviews.
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