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I have a similar attachment to 403 because of SunOS 4.0.3.

Someone working on Tron Legacy must have a similar feeling as if you look really closely at the desktop in the trailer you can see it shows "SolarOS 4.0.1".
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they could always leverage a combination of infrastructure and peer-to-peer technology.

That was going to be my first question, if they use some adhoc stuff or not? Considering it is an iPhone app (maybe not) and ofcourse there are technical challenges of who hosts the message.
This is the perfect attitude with which to face the Internet.
Your distributed ISP idea is already being. Well here in Cape Town, South Africa.

The URL is http://www.ctwug.za.net/ .
I thought this already happened, with localised adverts being shown to different audiences?
The sporting leagues would disallow this in their rights deals, IMO.
Hi, I'm writing an article on problems PhD students encounter for New Scientist -- if your other half is willing, I;d really like to talk to her. Thanks,
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A survey won't produce enough sample points to be statistically significant. You'd get more statistically reliable numbers using Google Keyword Tool. For example, if you're thinking of making a voip app for the android, GKT shows 9,900 global monthly searches for "voip android," which is a lot lower than the 3.35M that voip searches get and the 13.6M that android searches get. Both are big markets, and I can't imagine "guesswork" that would somehow arrive at 10k by combining the 2 market numbers of 3M and 13M. Google Keyword Tool would be one of the most reliable ways to give you the confidence or warning signs you need to dive in or avoid implementation.
P.S. My email address is shanta.barley@googlemail.com
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It is very reliable for the given task. If the site is supposed to help an ordinary user, detecting robots or spoofing is completely irrelevant.
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It isn't, 0.999... is, but 0.999 is exactly 0.001 less than 1.
Much of the solution to this is straight forward. Methodologies should be clearly expressed in detail at the start of the paper; all studies should be publicly logged before they start (so it's not possible to hide studies which say the "wrong" thing); resources should be made available so factors such as randomisation can be properly understood and executed with little or no additional effort. The more information is available the more likely

I'd go on but Ben Goldacre has said it all far better than I could, and in far greater detail in his book Bad Science which I think has just been released in the US (http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Science-Quacks-Pharma-Flacks/dp/08...).

What is important though is not to assume that because the evidence for conventional medicine is sometimes weak, that that in some way makes the case for less mainstream alternatives.

Flaws in one do not in any way strengthen the other, and for alternative medicine the evidence and studies are almost always either even weaker or non-existent.
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Ask HN: Why is there no 'like' button on Twitter?
I was on Facebook the other day and updated my status, it was nothing dramatic - just congratulations Ellie on the baby'. I could have just as easily updated this status on Twitter.

Around 4 hours later I logged into Facebook and to my amazement 9 people had liked my status. They didn't comment but were clearly happy that Ellie had had the baby and felt compelled 'to like'.

This got me to thinking - why is there not a 'like' button on Twitter. I know you can Retweet but some of the friends who liked my status have a different set of friends to me and so if they would have posted the news on their Facebook stream it would have meant nothing to anybody.

The amount of times I see good news on Twitter and think 'yeah that is cool' if I see it on Facebook I can like it and that person (however sad this may be) is pleased because they have brightened up someones day.

If Twitter introduced 'like' I would use it. Would you?
My Co founder and I had the same problems. The solution? Skype+Screenr :). It worked out fine.

Good luck in your application.
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I know people in the software field who have "regular jobs" and earn ~$200K and have been for many years.

Wow. Where, and in what branch of the industry?
So people can't get the functionality without Google being able to data-mine.
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I appreciate that it is not for everyone, but given how many people use the Facebook like functionality do you think that this could not carry over to Twitter and be equally effective?
Probably no. Twitter is good as it is: a mean of comunication
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Thank you for the great response.
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>>Absolutely nothing happens when you microwave a glass of water that wouldn't also happen [...]

You can roll your eyes all you like it won't make that true.

The parent made a general statement for which I believe there to be clear factual objection which I mentioned. The only logical contradiction would be to show the falsehood of such objection. I did consider saying "obviously this isn't the mechanism here" but I think the take-away is that you shouldn't make universal statements that are obviously false.

This does actually then have a bearing on the matter in hand. If the universal is false then it opens the path for other unknown mechanisms to be considered that may also contradict such a universal statement. If people are willing to make such demonstrably false claims at such a low level then trusting them to clearly and accurately present the more complex situations becomes extremely difficult [for me].

Perhaps I'm unique in this but if you lie to me about one thing then I'm disinclined to believe you about another.
The Facebook Status and the Twitter status are fundamentally the same thing. You are telling the world what is on your mind. The like functionality in Facebook is a means of communication - someone clicks like and says I like your opinion on this, your good news, your joke, the fact you are in a good mood.

Now if Twitter has the same status functionality could 'like' not be equally effective?
So the teen girls sending 4,050 average a month are sending a text every 7.5min on average while awake?? If that's the average what are the top, say, 10% doing?
From my few years of experience analysing London traffic data, it was clear that traffic follows an extremely predictable hourly pattern day after day, week after week, year after year. Except for specific holiday periods.

Look on the air quality section of the US EPA site - they might have some traffic data.
The twitter analogue is the "re-tweet" which IMHO is pretty obnoxious; your stream gets clogged with your friends RT'ing things about people you've a) never heard of and b) if you had and you cared, you'd just follow them yourself.

Twitter at scale is a one-way "write only" medium.
Again, as with your other objection you're defending a invalid statement claimed as a universal truth that is demonstrably false.

>>To receive EM energy you need a structure that's a substantial fraction of the wavelength.

Except you don't and again the point is that it is non-obvious (or at least was) that fractal antennae would work and again this leads us to the position that we shouldn't simply assume we know the truth of extremely complex systems and particularly not based on hand-wavy false statements.

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Edit: FWIW I don't believe that cell-phones|mobiles cause cancer (generally, though I can imagine there are very specific instances where it might occur and that there are doubtless mechanisms that we don't understand at play).
Twitter does have this functionality - it's called a ReTweet. Terminology differs, but it's essentially the same thing - both likes and retweets show up in the user's timelines, and both indicate liking what someone else has said.
Exactly. That kind of slopiness makes this more confusing than it needs to be.
What about the little 'favourite star'? Surely that achieves the exact same thing ultimately?. I think, but I can't remember for sure, that the number of times a tweet has been favourited is returned by the api, so clients could show it if they wanted.

FWIW, I do not personally like the 'Like' button in Facebook at all. The most banal things get 'liked' which totally devalues it. A 'Does not like' button would have been more interesting :)
I don't understand your line of thinking. I agree that facebook status and twitter are essentially the same thing (and the same level of useless), but if you like one particular feature of one site why not just use that site and not the other site. If twitter keeps on replicating the same things fb does then why do we have two different websites.
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From a technical point of view they are the same thing, both are short 'status' updates.

However they are used in different ways, by different users for different things. People mostly use twitter as a 'microblog'. It's like a blog, but each 'blog post' is limited to be very small. People use Facebook status updates to tell people what they are doing and to tell their friends things. If I see your facebook updates, you can see mine. Twitter is not like that. Facebook is for socializing, twitter is like newspapers. They are different, ergo it doesn't make sense to make them identical
Early in my marriage, when I had a couple kids and 2 student loans to pay, I was having trouble stretching between pay-checks and used payday loans several times. They are a nightmare, because you are stealing from next month and you have nothing to show for the money spent on fees. It's a black hole when you have limited resources. Saying that, banks are as bad or worse with their $20-$30 per transaction 'convenience' overdraft fees, which, if you lose track, can pile up on one and two dollar debit card purchase.

I don't know if I'd go so far to say they don't exist, but I do have a lot of sympathy for the borrowers.
This reinforces my belief that Ballmer is a key reason for MS's image problem. The appear reactive and rudderless. It's embarrassing to have to defend yourself like that. MS is like a big whale shark: formidable because of it's size, but lacking the speed and teeth to be a predator.
If I like something in Facebook then only the person who's status it is sees that like. It does not appear in my stream to all my friends. If I RT something on Twitter then I am saying that I want all my followers to see this status. I don't want that, I just want to tell someone that I like their status without involving all my followers.
I just came across this, but you might also want to take a look at Sshguard.

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[edit: added footnote 2]

> 1. Why do I still have to carry a plastic laminated ID?

Sarah is thinking way too small in this one. "You leave the house with just your keys and a phone. Perfect. And yet, if I want to drive down to the corner market, I still have to carry a plastic Driver’s License." Why is she carrying keys in her future perfect state? The phone has a unique ID in it (actually, three or four)[2]. Her house door should unlock when she approaches and lock when she leaves. Use GPS/tower position info plus the inertial system (gotta add a gyro) in the phone gives very good location information. Ditto for her unlocking/locking her car.

* Bluetooth (plus secure encryption and authentication) seems like a perfect way to do this wirelessly.

* There are cars that already have wireless keys that work this way.

* Security required to use RF based keying has been solved (and broken) already.

* Passports and some drivers licenses have RFIDs in them already. Put that info (securely!) into the phone already.

> 2. Food in pill form.

Gaak. I feel your pain, but I'm not sure I like the proposed solution.

> 3. Teleportation.

Aside from the risk of being mixed up with fly DNA[1], Sarah is being too literal minded with this. Virtual teleportation is coming online with telepresence robots, for instance, Anybot. http://www.anybots.com/#front

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[1] The Fly (1958) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051622/

[2] This makes the smartphone the mark of the beast. See Revelation 13:16-18 (King James Version, slightly edited ;-) http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=revelation%2013:...

16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a [IMEI] in their right hand, or [against] their [heads]:

17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is [#666 (mon)].
There are plenty of ways of censuring policemen which don't involve offering plaintiffs a risk-free way of enriching themselves.
Govt regulate these loans unless they are willing to share the risks & responsibilities.
Yes a dislike button is a must! I thought the star was me favouriting a tweet. I can see it but the person who's tweet is can't see that I have done that. I could be wrong though and like you say Facebook like is not for everyone anyway.
Nitpick - careful about using the term "British legal system". Scotland has a different legal system.
Here in the UK it is incredibly common, especially with cases like injury at work. Known as 'No-Win No-Fee' in adverts.
Flaws in one do not in any way strengthen the other, and for alternative medicine the evidence and studies are almost always either even weaker or non-existent.

exp(This).
I think what you're finding is that facebook is far better for 'personal 2 way communication', whilst twitter is better for mass announcement.

It's a different scale of working. FWIW, I much prefer facebook, especially for things like family announcements.
Not only robots or spoofing modify UserAgent. Mobile devices, HTTP client apps, validators, libraries, feed readers, or privacy-concious users can also do that.

Then again, if one's user base includes none of the above, one can certainly enjoy maximum reliability.
Shouldn't it be "sending AND receiving" .. sorry, it's the programmer in me.
Mike Rowe (Dirty Jobs) is trying to dispel the myth that hard work is bad and desk jobs are good. He gave a great talk at TED, available here: http://www.ted.com/talks/mike_rowe_celebrates_dirty_jobs.htm...
Horse collars invented (int China) before 500AD,

Look at that article again. Some early form of the horse collar may have been around in China around AD200-250, but the finished form wasn't until 450-500. Rome fell in 476.

Besides, consider what kind of contact Rome had with China. Nobody traveled all the way from Rome to China; instead, goods were relayed: China to India, India to Arabia, Arabia to Constantinople, Constantinople to Rome. And the caravans through Arabia didn't use horses; goods were carried on camels. So there was no route for the horse collar to take, as a live technology. Somebody in China could have tried exporting horse collars, but it wouldn't have worked--only very valuable items were worth shipping all that way.

Europe didn't adopt until 1000AD.

We weren't talking about Europe, we were talking about the Roman Empire.
My ideas:

- Voice over crowdsourcing: A 99designs type of site where you submit your video and script, and voice professionals submit a recording.

- Bathroom finder: A mobile device app that finds the nearest public restroom.

- Javascript manager: Many media sites load 10-20 external scripts, and occasionally they interfere with page loading. The manager would not only manage rotation, but also optimize loading and swap sources for slow loading scripts.
This isn't a bad idea at all, though some ability to alter the allocation of the pool at the discretion of the judge would be helpful
(mainly to stop the potential for self-representing entities to launch frivolous suits purely to earn an equivalent amount to the legal fees BigCorp spends on defending themselves)
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You're high.
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Ask HN: Review my startup, symbyoz.com
I know ... 4am is not a reasonable time to go to sleep (nor to wake up) but hey, you know the rap ...

So I completed a major iteration of my side project, an online notebook to organize and share ideas and advices with friends.

Here's the site http://www.symbyoz.com

The site is still a bit slow and rough in the edges but it's functional. Your feedback and advices will be really precious.

Also I'm looking for driven and talented programmers, hackers or enthusiasts who aren't afraid to tackle big challenges, handle hard problems and put up with the pains of starting a new business.

If interested, contact me directly on the site.

Thanks.
It does. Sorta. It makes your browser the one in the middle. Also: try opening the site with javascript turned off.
Since the author is Conrad, the well balanced human, and the book is named LoL, does it show how to implement the first Lands of Lore? :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lands_of_Lore:_The_Throne_of_Ch...
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A £25 per month product that a significant portion of the market wants to use is a good starting point to:
i) understand what people actually want and are prepared to pay more for
ii) show a strong background in the market when it comes to the series of pitches and tedious sales cycles associated with the £10,000 enterprise licences you might be able to sell to the bigger players
I like the overall look and feel of it - kudos for getting it going. I think the little graphics (Killer Startups and Best of the Web) kill any credibility that the site was trying to build - at least to me - so I would suggest dumping those. The comic doesn't size well. I couldn't easily read it even though it was a PNG (so I didn't bother).
I have heard this 'erratic publications could harm their reputation' idea, but I don't buy it. Erratic publications can only harm their own authors.
He has incredibly flexible arms.
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You know - posts like this are just too open-ended to make me interested. Oh sure - there are dozens or even hundreds of people here on HN who just want to talk so you'll probably get responses. The rest of us - we look at a post like this and think, "If he/she was truly interested in getting suggestions, he/she would have put more info in the post. It's too generic as it is. Also, OP didn't bother listing any of his/her favorites. It's just comment/karma-bait."
Hint: it involves suits and traveling a lot.
Why? Because Twitter is not Facebook. Why do they need to have the same features?
The dislike button has been suggested many times (and I think I have even seen fb groups demanding one). I think the reason they don't implement it is quite simple: it would damage the feel-good atmosphere. Imagine downvotes on new profile pictures or excited status updates.
I tried following you but I think I failed. What specific questions do you want answers to or advice on? I have a lot of experience in the screencast arena and I'm happy to offer tips/ideas but I can't really figure out what you are asking.
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What about the little 'favourite star'? Surely that achieves the exact same thing ultimately?

The favorite button in it's current form is more like a bookmark button in my opinion. What's missing is that can't see who favorited a tweet.

In our (web-based) client we implemented this missing funcionality, renamed the button to "Like" and it works pretty well, it's being used a lot.

I think, but I can't remember for sure, that the number of times a tweet has been favourited is returned by the api, so clients could show it if they wanted.

No, it's not returned unfortunately.
Because there's no way to tell who's responsible and who isn't at that level with a sufficiently small expenditure on getting that information to make it profitable.

Then maybe the loan shouldn't be getting made. If an industry can't ethically do business, maybe it shouldn't exist. If there's a serious problem that industry is solving (and there is), then maybe it's time for society to step in.

Welcome to reality - sometimes it really sucks.

I'd like to think that drawing attention to suckage could result in people doing something to make it suck less. We don't have to blindly accept our current reality, we can work to change it.
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