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Alright, a few of the top comments point out the good of the Foursquares and Facebooks of the world.

Except, that's not the point - on anything beyond the personal scale the question is not, "which of these two do we want?" but "how much of each do we want?" She asks: "How well are our resources allocated?"

I think there's a strong case that we're under-invested in some of the largest problems of society - personally I'm working towards reforming government http://votereports.org/, and I can tell you the government directly spends some 40% of the GDP, and indirectly affects every other bit of it. Do we have anything close to 40% of developers working on disrupting our stodgy old government? How about 5%? 1%? I know of 3 good folks I work alongside (including these folks: http://circlevoting.com/), and a handful of other part-time, side-job efforts. But is that a proper reflection of the relative return of the problem, when compared to hundreds of facebookers or dozens elsewhere?

Health care is 17% of GDP. What are the big, disruptive health care startups? Who is going to build the tool that enables doctors and patients to circumvent the worst of the system? Or something that serves the economic purpose of insurance while avoiding the onerous regulations thereof? I've had the pleasure to meet with Jay Parkinson of http://thefuturewell.com, and I'll bet he could put the 30-some foursquare developers to better use.

Again, this isn't an either/or question, but a question of resource allocation.

Perhaps what we've done so far has made sense because those are the easy questions to answer - the money is there and the consumers are willing. But sooner or later we're going to have to recognize that the biggest problems of society deserve more of our attention.
Unfortunately, it has been drilled into retail investors to use stop-loss orders. Stop-limit orders are also more expensive for a retail investor.

Hopefully, some good came out of this and people became more careful.
Funny story ... Adobe shipped a broken update manager with CS4.

Then to patch people's computers, they relied on notifications given when visiting websites like ... http://community.adobe.com/help/

It required users to manually download and install a patch :)
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no, that's not it. this was flash based, and actually downloaded files to your computer from various CDNs to test their speed/latency.
Just think why some countries are good in football, and others are good in baseball. It does make a difference what kind of sports is the most visible and prestigious - talent really does focus on those sports.
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As does CrashPlan, and deduplication too, and it's cheaper than S3. It also runs on Solaris, Windows, etc., using file system monitoring to pick up changes.
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JungleDisk does encryption and you only have to pay for S3 usage after the one-off license fee.
Yes, but Adobe obviously elects not to pay people to solve those problems. The question, then, becomes 'why'.
Before announcing our social features last sunday, we were in public beta, even if we didn't call it that, because we mostly only told our friends. So we were around 30 visits a day. hehe…

After we announced the social features we had 150 visits a day and after the submission to news.yc, 1,500.

We have 438 users as of right now. (HN brought us ~150 users)
I agree with our analysis and opinion. There must be a mean to check people who check people, and make them accountable for what they do. This is obvious to me.

My point is that I don't think this incident is a significant citizen right threat and while you focus on it, all the other much more dramatic threats to your democracy and nation ideal gets unnoticed and go on.
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IMHO that would be a catastrophe for Apple: the existence of MS Office being the only reason Mac OS X (and not Linux) is an accepted alternative for employees inside many companies (including at Adobe btw).

Sorry, but CS is niche software used by certain professionals. MS Office / Exchange are used by everybody else ;)

And I wouldn't bet against Microsoft for providing an alternative to CS: judging from the experience of using Microsoft Blend, they are rookies, but they can manage it.
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It wasn't completely fixed in IE7, unfortunately:

" However, as some web developers have pointed out, those changes don’t solve the problem entirely. IE still leaves behind anything not attached to the tree when we tear down the markup. In addition, sites that users keep open for extended periods of time, such as Web-based mail, can still cause IE’s memory usage to continually grow if the site doesn’t take care to avoid the leak patterns."

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2007/11/29/tools-for-dete...

It's still a major pain in the back.
Well, yes and no. In theory it sounds like it ought, but look at fusion research: for the last 50 years it's always been 30 years away, which by sheer coincidence is about the length of a post-doc career. And look at the old Soviet Empire or China today: their central planning ought to have made it possible to attract talent to "grand challenge" projects, but it just isn't happening.
I went for a job interview about a year ago - one of the strangest I've ever had - in which precisely such a secret vehicle tracking device was described. Apparently they broadcast at a very low baud rate in order to reduce the amount of energy emissions which could be detected by counter-surveillance operations.
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Actually there have been internal talks / rumors about the possibility of Apple buying Adobe (1-2 years ago): guess it didn't work out.
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Which is exactly what would've happened if the "winner" was hired in the first place without crowdsourcing. What's your point?
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Your last sentence is an example of when I would like to vote "my displeasure" with a down arrow.

As others have mentioned, you make a bold claim, yet fail to give anything concrete as proof that it is "much easier".
And here I was thinking that it was both demand and supply. Damn you, Adam Smith!
Would you really call it a $200k company with a 409a valuation? You say "a little more" -- definitely less than $500k or so?

I'd probably bail on a $200k company with 5 years of effort sunk into it, on the principle of "throwing good money after bad", or at least try to shift it into a different line of business, or try to get my involvement down to 5h/week while producing $50-100k/yr of revenue, and doing something else.
The 'warrant' part is unrelated to the ownership issue of the tracking device. Even if it was used under unlawful circumstances, the FBI remains owner of the device. To take an extreme example, if I throw a brick through your window with a note attached to it 'this brick is owned by jimmy jones and I have no intention of relinquishing ownership', I remain owner of the brick. That I'm liable for the damage caused by it is self-evident. (the note is to preempt a digression into 'apparent abandonment of property' or whatever the exact wording it is in the appropriate jurisdiction)

'Ownership' of something, and 'committing a crime' with that something are orthogonal. Apart from some specifically designated by law items (drugs, weapons), committing a crime with something does not change its ownership status. I don't quite see the controversy here (that is, after one steps back and looks over the 'oh my god! big gubmint is spying on us!' knee-jerk reaction. Let's not forget the kid (from what I gathered...) was apparently connected to organized crime, even if only through blood).
>There must be a mean to check people who check people, and make them accountable for what they do.

In this case that mean (means as in a 'way' or man? either way, something) is us. well, the news media and us. In a democracy, the ultimate "watchers" are "the people"

This watcher is certainly not perfect, but it's what we've got. To understand the American you must understand that he is deeply suspicious of authority. Yes, the government has it's own checks and balances... but I trust them about as far as I can spit.

As for this particular incident, well, most Americans consider their car to be the most private of property. Some places you'll get shot for messing with another man's truck. It's just not something you do. Regardless of what some court says, nearly every American on the street would consider attaching a tracking device to his car a major violation of his privacy and dignity.
Im confused, this post of yours seems a tad contradictory to your post about "setting up environments in RoR etc".
I haven't read all comments on this, but I get the feeling a lot of HN-ers are not too fond of the article.

Personally it struck a chord with me.

In a previous life I worked at a non-profit aimed at doing 'R&D' in a social context (yes, this is vague and that was just one of the things making me leave...). Although I've left this organisation disillusioned and a lot more cynical about non-profits and their methods / goals, I still strive to use my skills for the betterment of all. Not that I always succeed (I'm by far not a saint), but I try to give something back. In my case I do this by offering a lot of my stuff under a open source license or Creative Commons license. Still, I sometimes wonder if I could/should strive to do more in the real world with tangible / physical results. Staring at a screen all day long and hoping my virtual work will lead to some positive results in the 'real' world and be meaningful for people occasionally makes me feel like I'm fooling myself. Therefore I think that the gist of Jolie's article hits the nail right on the head and asks the difficult question (for all of us regardless of skills or area of expertise): what have you been trying to do not just for the betterment of yourself, but also for the betterment of other's? Trying to combine this in your work is something I belief is worth striving for, even if we cannot always achieve it.
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I also have to ask: Where are all the education startups? We have a massive, high-speed communication tool and I don't see much changing with respect to education. There are a few things out there (the Khan Academies of the world), but they're very few and far between.
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Good to see Pivotal Labs getting some of the credit they deserve.
Correction: guy's family wasn't organized crime, I misremembered - father was a Muslim leader. No mention of what that entails more specifically. Still without knowing more it does seriously detract from that part of my point.
Stage 1: Create a massively successful app.

Stage 2: Give back

at Stage 1.5: Jolie complains that we aren't doing stage 2.

Well for most of us we aren't at stage 2. Didn't Zuckberg who has just finish stage 1 give 100 million to education?
Didn't Bill Gates, another stage 1 success, get 40 billionaires to give away most of their wealth to charity?

The question arises why don't start at stage 2 first. Well, sequence matter. Think of stage 1 as taking off your clothes and stage 2 as bathing. You do stage 2 first you end up without your skin being washed and wet clothes.

So far there isn't much technology that has been successful in those areas Jolie think start-up should focus, but with the apps you criticize, they have been making loads of money. In terms of risk, it is better to choose the latter type of business and then seek to help solve the other problems with the money generating from the first, same outcome but lower risk.

As Jay-z would say:

"And the music i be makin

I dumb down for my audience

And double my dollars

They criticize me for it

Yet they all yell "Holla"

If skills sold

Truth be told

I'd probably be

Lyricly

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Truthfully

I wanna rhyme like Common Sense

(But i did five Mil)

I ain't been rhymin like Common since

When your sense got that much in common

And you been hustlin since

Your inception

Fuck perception

Go with what makes sense

Since

I know what i'm up against

We as rappers must decide what's most impor-tant

And i can't help the poor if i'm one of them

So i got rich and gave back

To me that's the win, win"- Moment of Clarity

Paraphrase, if solving homeless problem made money that is what entrepreneurs would be doing, but since it is not they choose problems with lil significant and give back that is the win,win. They are still changing the world but in a different sequence that reduces risk and ensures changing the world is more likely.
Isn't the main reason that Facebook is winning that they are really, really aggressive about making people invite their friends? MySpace also grew by getting access to people's Inbox and spamming their contacts, but FB might have taken it to the next level.

I hardly ever log into, but FB seems extremely pushy to me. They constantly push people at me who might be my friends. Either I could invite them, or I could make them use FB more by befriending them.

Facebook is just a more subtle version of Farmville in that respect...
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Baloney. Here in the Netherlands, scientists working at universities and research institutes get a pretty decent salary. Sure, they don't get filthy rich, but fortunately there are more than enough people who don't care about that. The thing is: if getting rich is your primary objective, you're not going to save the world anyway. People working on antibiotics just because it's the best paying job, will leave as soon as another job gets them more money. You can't solve that by fixing the system, because it's not the system that's broken.
I think the article is not attacking Facebook or Twitter. It's attacking the infinite clones of them.
I'll give you a problem: There isn't a PHP Qr Code decoder in the web.

Why hadn't anyone gave a damn about it? Because it's hard, take time and you simply don't know how to start and how to monetize.

I'll give you another problem: Google don't happen to give the best search result. You'll (in many cases) get SEO spammed results. Why not re-invent a new search engine? Sure there are SE startups, but not enough for the solution to get solved.
I think a lot of points mentioned/not mentioned in this article are debatable...Security,Features,Target audience... But this article by Evan Williams is almost timeless( written in 2005, Pre Zynga, pre Facebook)
http://evhead.com/2005/11/ten-rules-for-web-startups.asp
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I take this to mean that if the nodes are disconnected from each other, Synctus disallows all access to certain files on node A; i.e. the files that node B currently owns.

Do I understand correctly?
But how does knowing about this phenomenon change it?
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I was under the impression that it's nearly impossible to compete with adobe in this market because they've patented all important algorithms.
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It's not so much lousy memories, it's that law enforcement are compelled to give evidence against you (as Miranda and various worldwide cautions spell out) but they do not legally have to say anything that proves your innocence.

At least that's the bit that convinces me there's no good to be had in talking to law enforcement.
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"Baloney. Here in the Netherlands, scientists working at universities and research institutes get a pretty decent salary. Sure, they don't get filthy rich, but fortunately there are more than enough people who don't care about that."

Maybe it's baloney in the Netherlands, but it's not baloney in the states. I do happen to know what a post-doc makes in the Netherlands (I had a job offer there), and it wasn't anything to get excited about (it was about on par with the earning power of a post-doc in a mid-sized city in the US -- which isn't much). But you're right about one thing: nobody is in danger of getting rich.

That said, I believe you're overlooking one incredibly important difference between life in the US and life in the Netherlands: we don't have a robust social welfare system to support us in old age. Taking 10+ years to do a PhD and post-doc in the US eats into your prime earning years, and puts retirement at risk. From this perspective, the "system" is indeed broken; there's a much stronger financial incentive to start saving while you're young.
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Technically they cross but only in the way MS Office crosses paths with Apple's iWork - that is one utterly runs the other one down.

Hardly anyone is paying for Expression Studio in the way they are for Adobe CS. The people using it are doing so because it was bundled.
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> That's the problem with javascript, kinda hard to prevent people from screwing around and editing it in-place.

Not if you use a module pattern with private methods.

But the real problem you should be addressing, and one which applies to any internet app, is people directly sending data to the server. Whether it's initiated by JS or flash or anything is not relevant - sure it's sometimes easier to hack about with JS apps, but if you fix people being about to open telnet and spoof the raw data, then you fix all those holes at the server, and that leaves you free to entirely change the way your code works in the future, instead of having to re-code misguided security fixes.
Realistically though I don't think this is expected to be a v.1 hit, I think they're learning the way Apple have been with Apple TV over the past few years.

It's clear that streaming movies and shows via the internet to a TV, along with possible other services, is going to be big business one day.

This is just the big boys warming up, trying to work out what works and what doesn't and jockeying for position.
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Is the linked website real? "Photo: Wikidemia Commons" ??

This link may be more informative: http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dbvIvqx2eu3bnMMiDfa9ho_...

China is going to be really mad! I hope they don't harm him for this. I guess the world is watching - now, but later? And secret less noticeable stuff?

Anyone know if he agreed to accept the prize?
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That sounds odd, since if it was sharded by term, then a given search would only need to go to a handful of servers (one for each term) and then the intermediate result combined. But with it sharded by document, every query has to go to all the nodes in each replica/cluster.

Exactly. Then a flash crowd occurs and your shard fails to service requests.
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Personally, I would have been much more amenable to an argument why this is not Hacker News versus why HN is Reddit.
If you are a good designer, this will work.

I bought a design on 99designs. Had a great experience with the designer, who I recommended to my friends, and now she is getting loads of work.

I'd say that's truly meritocratic <- a good thing.
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Congratulations to Mr Liu - his imprisonment remains a sign of how far China has yet to travel.
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I don't think one spleling mistake is enough to condemn a site as fake.

It's clearly legitimate; highest rank on google for "nobel", listed on wikipedia as the official site, etc etc etc
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I have a very hard time seeing anything that requires a keyboard as being any kind of success outside of the techie community.

Typing on a TV screen sucks, it sucks a lot.
Fantastic. Inspiring, and a little bit of a kick in the back-side. There's nothing wrong with games or social media, but they shouldn't be the only thing we have to offer.

You've probably seen the Nathan Myhrvold quote: 'the old Silicon Valley was about solving really hard problems.'

While a Web App Startup may not be able to solve every problem, we can do more than offer empty self-gratification.
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I believe it's using 'oEmbed' to advertise the excerpt to Twitter -- so other websites can easily export excerpts to NewTwitter's second pane, as well.
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Here is the statement Mr Liu made to the court when being sentenced:

I hope to be the last victim of China's endless literary inquisition, and that after this no one else will ever be jailed for their speech.

Freedom of expression is the basis of human rights, the source of humanity and the mother of truth. To block freedom of speech is to trample on human rights, to strangle humanity and to suppress the truth.
Apparently, China blacked out both CNN and BBC when the announcement was made (http://twitter.com/joCNN/status/26731788647).
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