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The RAF didn't fly in formation during night bombing attacks, rather they flew in "streams" often hundreds of miles long. So there wouldn't have been hundreds of turrets to bring to bear on a single fighter.

I think you're also overestimating how easy it would be to spot a blacked out fighter at night. A popular german night fighter tactic was often to sneak up beneath a bomber and then pitch the nose of the fighter up sharply while firing, racking the bomber's belly with cannon fire.

Many fighters were equipped with guns mounted in a vertical configuration called Schräge Musik. The guns would fire automatically when a magnetometer detected an enemy bomber was overhead.
They don't have any public documentation but you can sign up for a free test account and access the API docs from the control panel.

As to pricing, it depends on your transaction volume. The only link I can find is in Dutch but it's relatively straight-forward (and maybe Google Translate can help you out).

http://www.internetkassa.com/ogone-abonnementen/
To live the way he describes, you don't need "no goals", you only need to be able to let go of goals that require steps that you're not passionate about right now. It often takes goals to get me doing things, which is good.

The trouble with goals for me comes when following a goal makes me lose sight of the greater goal, which is feeling good in a wholesome, sustainable way. I've followed external goals to the point where I became very ugly inside at points in my life. The older I get, the less I tend to abide paths that require me to step significant distances away from the greater goal -- that is, to feel bad in the present.

In a sense, I've learned to live my life by a greedy algorithm: do what feels best in the present, and don't worry too much about the future. The mathematician in me is very suspicious of this leading to optimal attainment in my life. In my better moments though, I remember that the greater goal isn't "attainment" per se, but simply the quality of feeling in the present, and those worries dissipate...
The version of the quote I've heard has "from time to time" at the end of it. With more context:

> Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
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I saw your linkedin profile, looks like you started your own venture early this year. Why are you looking at another one right now?
i'd like to understand the thinking behind "fb has crested" and wanting to take down your page and get out. i haven't seen the movie, so maybe i'm missing something.

to the point of still being findable, use http://about.me or http://extendr.com/ to avoid disappearing.

and strangely enough, the SERP for "matt albiniak" on DDG has twitter first, linkedin second, and facebook third.
You can delete your account here: http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_ac...
http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_ac...

In the last few months, Facebook has amended their help pages to be more clear that there is also a permanent delete option. It suspends your account for 30 days, then purges it. I used this, and as promised I could no longer log in after the 30 days were up. The comments I had left on others' posts were removed, and photos I was tagged in had the tags dropped.
"Zen Habits" certainly seems like an oxymoron.
You aren't taking the circumstances into account. The question these guys got wasn't to optimize plane safety, it was more something like "we will be building 1000 more of these planes next week. What should we different about them to make them better?" There simply wasn't time for nuance.
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I see the sex industry go for this, only needs more resolution...
True, it was a much lighter car, but it also lacked the high-tech machining that we see today. That such huge advances were made in all aspects but mileage is somewhat telling as to the priorities of the industry. Sell cars & sell gas, lots of it.

Once public outcry for better mileage got loud enough (in the last decade basically) have we finally seen greater increases in MPG. Of course the oil & auto companies still fight mandatory MPG improvement legislation tooth & nail.
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I think this depends on what you define as "better". Certainly totalitarian regimes have lower economic growth. But if you measure economic growth as your measure of "better" then it seems that democracy is not as much a determinant as the economic system (eg: the more capitalist the faster the growth, higher the standard of living, the more powerful the central government and thus the more socialist, the lower the standard of living and the slower the growth.)

I wouldn't call China a democracy, but they have given up a lot of central power and are growing fast.

Certainly there are also example of successful societies that have lasted for very long periods of time that are not democracies, such as tribal communities. They don't exhibit significant economic growth, but they also are far less likely to make war, which would be a good candidate for being "Better" (it is bad to lose a generation of men every couple of generations.) Their lower economic growth may also be a result of their lower war making, but their higher standards of living of the populace relative to the overall standard of living, when compared to democracies, argues again for their form of government being superior.

My point being that it is very common for a culture to reinforce in its members a perception that the cultures way of doing things is "right" and that it produces a better outcome-- and it does it in such a way that people presume that this to be a fact, rather than a bias.
Same here. I never take notes for general concepts (application architecture, features, design, etc). I only write down things that I know are very specific and that I won't be able to recall from memory later (IP addresses, phone numbers, URLs, passwords for other peoples' accounts, etc). I find that not writing down the high level concepts helps me to both remember them better and tackle problems with a fresh mind, unencumbered by unimportant details.
That's an interesting question, yet seems somewhat difficult to study. Several studies show that couples in "hostile relationships" do heal slower than "healthy relationships" (fighting affects the immune system). But I haven't been able to find anything with data regarding immune responses in "hostile relationships" vs being single. Those in hostile relationships have already increased their lifespan, although the hostility was likely not present for the entire relationship.
Although there is something to be said for running the same software stack on your desktop as your server.

Though, I'll grant you, web development on OS X is really nice.
> Have you ever noticed that you can remember perfectly well what someone said to you, but you don’t remember exactly what words she used? Or perhaps you can recall what was said but not in what language it was said.

Whatever else the article may have gotten right, this is false for me. I can, essentially, play back an audio recording of what a person just said. It doesn't work as well on languages I don't understand, but the recording is still there, it just ends up corrupted quickly because it takes a lot more to remember full audio than a few words. Also, I don't think I've ever forgotten which language something was said in, even though I can understand both French and Japanese.

That said, I have certainly noticed that other people never seem to get the words right, even when repeating things someone just said and it always bugged me that they'd change the words to things I just said a second ago.
> We can more or less now what you're thinking about.

i really hope he doesn't know what we're thinking, this must be a freudian slip for google instant.
Depending on the homophobia present at the school and the struggle a lot of young people have with their sexuality, that's not entirely surprising. (If you look closely you can find one or two same sex pairings, though one of them is two girls in a triangle with a guy; make of that what you will.)
The title of the article is: Where does the Laffer curve bend? I think it is more interesting to ask about when rather than where.

Consider this old argument which purports to show that raising taxes and raising them again will still bring in the revenue. Rich people spend future income. They look at their income and take out a loan to buy a sports car or a boat. Now they are on the hook for their out goings. If income tax goes up, they are going to have to work harder to find extra money to pay the tax and keep up their payments.

I don't like this argument. Which is different from saying that I think it is false. I think it has psychological realism, people would rather work harder than sell the boat and repay the loan. But I don't like the argument because I think it is cruel and short-termist. People who get caught on that hook aren't going to enjoy the experience. Perhaps they pay off the loan and cut back. Perhaps they suffer from stress and have to take some months off work. Whatever. Five years later they will be off the hook, one way or another and they will not forget.

When is the Laffer curve? If taxes rates go too high that might not be immediately apparent as it takes a few years for the decline in revenue to take place as people wriggle off the hook. If tax rates come back down I cannot see people who have be burned before rushing to rejoin the rat-race. Revenues will rise with a demographic slowness as those who have down-shifted age out of the workplace.

There is also a generational aspect with many of the next generation of doctors, lawyers, and businessmen being the children of doctors, lawyers, and businessmen. Building a career takes a lot of discipline and it is much easier if you have a parent or aunt or uncle showing you the way and living a well rewarded life that shows you that it is worth it.

The really tricky when question is: what level of taxation blocks the inter-generational transmission of cultural capital and results in a new 1960's in which young people turn on, tune in, and drop out.
In Germany, StudiVZ (a German facebook clone) was quite notorious for being privacy-challenged, to the point where people started calling it StasiVZ (after the former secret police of the GDR).

What happened was that people removed all identifying information from their profiles and changed their names to something that was not recognizable for anyone to search (i.e., either you had them already in the contact list, or you couldn't find their profile without asking them).

AFAIK, Facebook wants you to have your real name on your profile (as per TOS), but a friend with a stalker problem didn't have any problem to get it set to something non-namelike.

IMO, a combination of a non-searchable name and restricted privacy settings for things like "who can tag you in pictures" and "who can see my posts" should solve the bulk of the issue.

Extra points for blocking third-party inclusion of facebook.com scripts or images in your ad blocker (which also blocks the "sign in via facebook" javascript code, like-buttons etc. - these are probably the biggest privacy issues outside facebook itself).
"In the computer science terminology, an O(N) algorithm is considered “naive”, and in the computer security terminology, it even has a name - “brute force”"

WTF?
OS X has a package manager, it just isn't installed by default. Checkout MacPorts or Homebrew.
There's also C++Robots: http://www.gamerz.net/c++robots/
It's more the outer circle of friends that I am concerned about; the close friends already know I am not a facebook person anymore.
What do you mean by jumping around?
I just wish the questioners would take the time to ask more detailed question and follow-up with replies themselves.
Wow. When I was a kid I was fascinated by watching bugs for hours, I even kept (and fed by capturing mosquitoes) garden spiders with their eggs in a plastic box, just to watch the spiders catch the prey and the egg hatch those dozens of litltle spideys.

But the one mysterious bug that I knew nothing about was this one. My parents couldn't tell me what was it, nor it appeared in any of my books and magazines...but I was completelly fascinated to see it carrying roaches around at my grandma's front yard. At the time I thought the green fella was hypnotizing the roach then "riding" it to it's place for dinner.

You can't imagine how happy I am to finally learn the name of that bug and what in the world he did with the roaches, thank you!
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I posted it as "evidence of some interesting new phenomenon": a journalist finds a decent way to push back against online abusiveness. The story isn't really about one guy, it's about human relations and the value of human life. In other words the real story is all meta, but the reporter had the sense do it unobtrusively and keep the focus on Neil.

There's a secondary way in which this is an interesting phenomenon, too: the story is being picked up by other media outlets because it resonates with many people. I caught part of an interview with the reporter on CBC radio last night. While they did talk explicitly about the meta aspect (what prompted you to write it, what were you trying to achieve, how do you think the internet is affecting people), they also had the sense to devote most of the piece to Neil Smith. What the reporter figured out is that by focusing on the details of this individual, he could make a general point more powerfully than by stating it in general. That excites my curiosity.

Edit: There are two common responses to nasty online comments: argue with them or ignore them. Most people figure out after a while that arguing just feeds the trolls, so ignoring is better. But this guy came up with an innovative way to respond: he elevated the thing that they belittled; he picked it up and polished it off and showed that it was beautiful. He found a way to give beauty for ashes. That's just not very common.
For now, yeah. It's an extension of how the Startup Visa movement used gov2. Elected officials and their offices really only want to hear from their constituents; if you make it easier for them to verify that feedback is coming from their constituents while you simultaneously make it easier for constituents to engage, then (theoretically) through the size of the crowds, you can drown out highly motivated special interests. (Of course, lobbyists are free to use Votizen and are the short-term potential advertisers on the platform.)
I don't care that it has crested (though it has) -- I care about the privacy concerns, and I don't want my high school friends finding my dad and my current grad school social circle all on the same page (yuck!).
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I've heard from reliable sources that Verizon will have a W7 phone, but it won't be until early next year. Supposedly has more to do with Verizon's phone system than anything else though.
Microsoft's mentality reminds me of a recent TedTalk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHopJHSlVo4

The researcher concludes that when you tell others what you are going to do, that your mind tricks itself into believing that the task has already been achieved, and reduces the incentive to do the hard work to actually achieve it. Thus, when Steve Balmer gushes to the press and says that iPhone is going to get obliterated, it probably reduces the chances of that actually happening.
OneNote. Amazing tool.
In a democracy, politicians rent the country. In China, the leaders own it.
People care more about their property if they have a long term interest in it.

This may be true, but you're also classifying human beings as property with this statement. What happens when 1 billion people realize they're mere puppets of their leaders. Benevolent or not, Man typically rebels against his owner.

I also think the entire comparison of China to a large business is fascinating. A corporations primary duty is to generate wealth for its shareholders. Who are China's shareholders? The typical worker living off $1000 a year, or the far wealthier upper class? Running businesses like a business is great, but I have my doubts on how the strategies translate to running a country.
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I suggest installing the FacebookBlocker extension:

http://webgraph.com/resources/facebookblocker/
If Microsoft can keep their phone software from getting captured by Microsoft, that would be a good thing in my mind. IMO, it is impossible to overstate the horror of a world run by a single corporation, and I'm afraid that iOS is merely serving to empower that scenario at the expense of the consumer.
One thing that is missing from this discussion is the difference between the situation we find ourselves in and our country as designed. The US was designed to be a federation of states, in fact, it was created as a confederation. The constitutional congress did create a central federal government, but it created one with a strict limit on its powers in the enumerated powers clause, and was only passed with an additional 10 amendments, all of which explicitly removes powers from the federal government that it wasn't granted in the body of the document, but that the holdouts wanted to make absolutely sure where held for the states and the individuals.

In the time since the writing of the constitution, the federal government has grown in power, and now is in complete violation of the constitution. %99 of the activities, or more, are illegal under the constitution.

This is the massive centralization of power that the founders attempted to avoid.

Talking about lobbyists having too much power is like talking about the fleas on the dog that is menacing you. It is the dog that is the problem. IF the power were not illegally centralized in washington DC the lobbyists (and the politicians) would not have the inordinate power they have.

Decentralization- that is, state level power- is more democratic because state representatives are more attentive and easier to reach by voters. AT the state level, an individual vote has much more impact.
I've heard of one lifelogger who has video of the first time he met his wife. He didn't know it would be an important occasion until much later.

I don't understand complaints about resolution/storage/etc. Those will only get better with time. So instead of objecting to the idea itself you're basically saying, "I'm going to start using this 18 months after people who think it's worthwhile now."
All of the comments here seem to be about which tools are used to take notes. That's an interesting part of the problem, and it may be what the OP was looking for, but I'm more interested in finding out which notes you keep and how you organize them and use them later than what format or tool they're stored in. When you're reading or learning something, when do you stop and think "I should make a note of that"?
Do you have a website? If you do, this would be a lot easier. If not - well you can always message everyone a copy of your email address one week before you disappear.

In my experience it's not that hard to get out of Facebook - the friends who do want to find you will either Google for you or ask people they know are your friends for contact information. And that's for the really urgent stuff. Just make sure you have a Google-able presence (maybe a Google profile?), an email that's easy to find and you're good to go.

Good luck with the move! :)
>It's just unbelievable that Sony is launching phones running Android 1.6 now which can't be updated by Google directly like it can the Nexus One.

Did you buy one of those Sony phones?

Probably not. In fact that major disadvantage of Sony's entrants is incredibly well known, and has heavily worked against them. Which is exactly how the market is supposed to work.

Having said that, it's humorous that Microsoft is now looked to as a good example. For anyone who owned a Windows Mobile device before, there is a long history of Microsoft grunting out a version onto the market, and then abandoning. The amount of support for that Moto Q after it was released was exactly 0, and that wasn't Motorola's fault. Microsoft gets bored quickly.
Just delete the account and move on. If you attempt to make a "Why I'm too cool/smart to use Facebook anymore" sort of post you're just going to come off as an elitist.
Are we raising a generation of nincompoops?
Evernote ?
Hey, that's my site!
My father used to tell me "it's all about the journey, not the goal".

As a kid I thought that was silly, but as I grew older it made more sense.

As an adult, I would sum up that statement as follows: When you look back on you life, would you like to say look at all these goals I completed, or look at how much I enjoyed the journey of all my years?
The thing about shares is, if you have more than %50, then you can do almost anything you want, provided that you haven't entered into an agreement with the minority shareholders that prevents it.

So, it is important, if you are a minority shareholder to have an anti-dilution clause in your agreements.
I rarely visit the Facebook site, and only then via a different browser than my main browser, which isn't logged in to Facebook, so it doesn't have the cookies etc. It is also ad-blocking the Facebook domains.

To get notified of interesting things happening, I subscribe to Facebook RSS feeds. JWZ made a listing of some of them here: http://jwz.livejournal.com/1144527.html About the only thing it doesn't include is photo updates.

With this setup, I visit Facebook perhaps once a week.
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You can't fully leave Facebook. People can still tag you on photos they take even when you don't have an account. (Just a text tag, but it could still be incriminating...)
No, this has been occurring for forever... is no one on HN on Facebook? I mean, I don't blame you, but when you click "Like" it has ALWAYS posted "Blah likes [omg women kills her daughter] on [stupidspam.com]".

Again, nothing new, at all.
Ask HN: How do I make a submission link to HN?
I'm sure you've seen it: a "share this" link of some sort on some Website that leads to a submission page at a social news site like reddit or digg. Often, these things include indications of how many upvotes or downvotes a page has received.

What I'd really like is a link like this that actually indicates whether it has already been submitted -- and, if so, how many comments have been made for that submission -- at Hacker News. Failing that, just a simple "submit this" that does the same thing as my browser bookmarklet would do well enough.

I'm not quite familiar enough with JavaScript to have figured this out on my own and, frankly, I'd rather do it without client side scripting if I can, but any help would be appreciated. I feel like I'm missing something obvious.