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Longer interview:

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There is extremely glaring factual mistake in this text.

"And guess what wave frequency x-ray backscatter machines use? Hint: THz. http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.5294

Sorry. You missed by a multiplier of 10000-10000000. X-rays go from tens of petahertz to tens of exahertz.

X-rays have frequencies way above visible light and terahertz waves have frequencies way below visible light. So this is quite glaring error. Is this intentional to increase doubts about x-ray backscattering or just a honest mistake?

Just to clarify for everyone who requires some source for this claim:
"X-radiation (composed of X-rays) is a form of electromagnetic radiation. X-rays have a wavelength in the range of 0.01 to 10 nanometers, corresponding to frequencies in the range 30 petahertz to 30 exahertz (3 × 1016 Hz to 3 × 1019 Hz) and energies in the range 120 eV to 120 keV."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray

[EDIT] Removed few sentences which were written before morning coffee, the post was tad impolite before.
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> Google Wave is a Google's property and anything related to Wave technology will make a good reason for Google to sue Facebook

Actually, the underlying protocol is open and some of the related software has been released under an Apache license:

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Wave_Federation_Protocol

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Wave#Open_source
One easy explanation is that a cold beer doesn't make you feel as good, and morphine is administered only in a controlled environment.
> For optimization, the idea is that each shopper in a grocery store solves some complicated problem in nonlinear, integer, stochastic optimization just to get the groceries. This nonsense is part of their rational assumption.

I do this, and it's a real problem. It takes me forever to buy groceries.
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Wouldn't it be more valuable to create a twitter account for the startup and get involved? By giving time to the community on twitter you reinforce the impression that you care about the users. Respond to @messages and keep people up to date on what you're working at. If you're good, you'll get coverage through followers and retweets, and it'll be free.

Maybe I'm misreading this, but promoted tweets look ripe for abuse by people who think social media is just ``another source of free traffic.'' (I've stolen that from the blurb of this article: http://blog.kissmetrics.com/social-media-abuse/.) The truth is, for me, that I automatically ignore content that is an obvious form of advertising.

To summarize, Perhaps you'll get more ROI with an active (and free) twitter account than with one-shot ads that cost a lot.

As a final question: What is the lifespan of a promoted tweet? Are they less transient than normal tweets?
In case anyone is interested, here's essentially the same idea from months ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1435640

There was significant discussion from an even earlier submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1377651

It was also submitted again, but with no discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1383888
Good point, but can you set that to interact with you when stuff tries to go across ? Not just to set exceptions for programs to be able to listen on ports and stuff that is ?
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He's only got himself to blame - he clicked 'Accept' on every single one of those 2000+ friends. If he didn't want that many, he shouldn't have added them.
It speaks about many other things, like best media player, best browser, and such...

And I am glad we won the media player category.
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Indeed , you are right with the GmbH, it's more a branding name for the service, probably not the best , but I hope, since it's special, it'll be easy for peoples to remember, because you may need to read it a couple of time to remeber it, I think it's unique.
- No , it should not be the web address , that's exactly why I added the "omit the dots" tooltip alike line there, peoples were just entering the full domain name, the idea is to make it clear to the user, that he should use the name he wish for his site , it has some SEO pros.

- Peoples can choose the plan they wish to have with one click, I could either leave it blank, means when someone click on the "mobilize now" button, it pops an error messae asking to select the plan , but since the pro plan is the plan I recommend best, I choose to set it as defalut instead.
- Will check and update the category alignment.
yup, thanks for pointing that, will update it (Christina's name) right now. Thanks for the feedback

Edit clickable: http://www.gmbhnews.net/ , http://www.gmbhnews.com
thinq.co.uk has stood by Apple before

Someone dispatch the re-education squad!
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Great suggestion/comment (and example with xkcd). Have a look at the public Flattr wishlist which includes a bookmarklet to drag-n-drop for people to use -- https://flattr.com/wishlist

We'll try to contact as many people as possible (more straightforward with specific websites/pages, harder to achieve for say comments on a blog post, etc). Please keep the feedback and suggestions coming!
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Possibly, and the ld50 of beer is definitely higher than that of vodka. What are you trying to say? I don't think the amount ingested is very interesting here...
In name only. New case, new screen, new board, new storage, new everything.

Are you doing that thing where you know that it is completely different but you pretend that you don't know? It's a form of lying.
Actually, all available evidence points to the fact that legalising drugs like heroin actually decreases their usage. Would you suddenly take up heroin if it was legal? Do you know anyone who would?

If marijuana were legal I might use it. Conversely, I don't think I know anyone who uses marijuana/heroin but would stop using it if it were legal.

I haven't seen the evidence either way; I just made the point in my original post as something to consider.
Ask HN: Have you architected an auto-update feature?
Have you architected the auto-update feature of an application, including the implementation on the client side as well as the infrastructure required at the server side? How did you scale it from a few hundreds of end-users to a few hundred thousands? What were the unexpected problems? Did you make the application contact "updates.<vendor>.com" at random intervals? Did you use anycast? Did you host the infrastructure in different datacenters? How did you prevent bad updates from breaking the auto-update client?

I would love to hear answers from engineers having participated in the design of, for example, Windows Update, Google Update for Chrome, or popular antivirus software.
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More harmful to society as a whole. Not more harmful to the affected individuals.

Blame BBC for an ambiguous headline.

The conclusion of the study should be that the government should spend more effort fighting alcoholism than LSD abuse. Most likely, it already does. The conclusion should not be that young people should start experimenting with LSD instead of alcohol.
"I'm a little surprised at the number of "no remote" in this thread. I've done some great work remotely, and with the right tools I think a team can "gel" and really work well together. Any comments?"

In my experience, remote work is offered to specific individuals who are already known to the people making the offer - through a shared work history, impressive open source contributions, a recommendation by a trusted person, unique knowledge/skillsets etc. You don't generally see ads for these.

People who put out generic ads looking for fairly generic skill sets etc, have plenty of choice locally and/or don't know anyone, remote or otherwise, who could fill that position. They are, in a sense just throwing an ad out there (or a post on HN), hoping to find someone who'll come into the office and work locally. Why go through the hassle of wading through the thousands of resumes you'll get from all over the world (and you will!), 99.99% of which are crap ?

I get approached for remote work all the time. Partly this is because I have a somewhat uncommon skill set and partly because I know/have worked with a lot of ultra sharp people and they remember me when they need someone. Most of the time I have to turn them down because I am already on a project and so not free - which is a common situation. As with "normal" jobs, the people you want often have great jobs/projects already and have no intention of "moving".

Fwiw, I know half a dozen or so people here in Bangalore who are working remotely for companies in the USA. In every case remote work was offered to them (no one ever sent in a CV) because they were known to be very good at what they do and had no intention of moving to San Fransisco (or wherever).

Remote work can be a win-win but a distributed team has a very different feel than a collocated one and not many people want the hassle - and it is a hassle if you aren't willing to change your working style.

Things seem to be changing though. A really strong dev can get (great) remote work with some effort these days. The very best, say Lars Bak, have never had any problems working from wherever they choose to. As with many things, demand and supply determines everything.

Fwiw, my advice to folks seeking remote work is Be very good, and be known to be very good (iow focus on what you know and who you know) and you will never lack for work, remote or otherwise.
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There really doesn't seem to be a way to change those close/min/max buttons. Couldn't find any utility for doing that either. Can you use keyboard shortcuts like ⌘Q to do it instead?
That's an interesting analogy but flawed because getting traction for a better search engine does not depend on network effects nearly as much as it does for a better social network.

If none of my friends use Google, it's still as valuable to me. If none of my friends use Facebook,...
Well, there is a hidden externality here. Traditionally helpesk and tester roles have been a "feeder" for sysadmin and developer roles. They are entry level jobs that are easier to get, a company gets to see who is talented and ambitions and they "move up" to more complex and technical work. If that pipeline disappears because helpdesk and testing have moved offshore, then the Western IT firms lose the ability to hire capable people that for whatever reason haven't gone the CS degree route, and those people lose the opportunity to get into the industry too.

Penny wise, pound foolish.
And email doesn't make it any easier to connect with friends and family than paper based mail does. Oh wait.. it does...

Facebook has a number of features for communication that email doesn't have:

1) Passive communication: the fact you can go and check someone's profile and see what they have been up to is very powerful

2) Default public communication. By making communication public by default it lets your other friends and family benefit from any communication you do with a 3rd party

3) No email addresses - people change email addresses a lot more than they should. The only comparable problem on Facebook is when women get married and change their lastname, but I've never seen any problems arising from this.

That really just scratches the surface of the differences.

Sometimes, doing something better really is enough to make a huge difference.
If you cap the number of people in a network in any way, all you are doing is limiting its growth. A social network without growth is not a social network.
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> there's a lot of supposition in the whole "Apple is going to lock the Mac down" line of thought.

True. Actually, I doubt they will lock it down.

However: Apple's online stores, beginning with iTunes, and heading into the various app stores, have been a huge success, and, from a business standpoint, they would be foolish not to do something almost identical for the Mac. (I know they're going to do it; it's the "almost identical" part that I'm pointing out.)

And then, of course, from developers' point of view, Apple has created something wonderful. It is now possible to sell a file for $1/copy, never deal directly with end users, and make decent money at it. So given a Mac app store, developers signing on is obvious.

The result is that, even if the OS itself is not locked down (which, as I said, I consider unlikely), we end up with a situation in which getting quality software requires giving Apple control of your machine.

That is what I consider unacceptable. Quality software is why I bought a Mac. Linux's opennness, scriptability, etc., is great, but there is nothing on Linux with anywhere near the polish and usability of iMovie, GarageBand, etc. Nor will there be for some time, I think. And when that kind of thing moves over to the we-run-your-computer world, then I don't see any options left for a home computer I'd be willing to buy.
Actually, all available evidence points to the fact that legalising drugs like heroin actually decreases their usage. Would you suddenly take up heroin if it was legal? Do you know anyone who would?

But then why is alcohol and tobacco use so prevalent, since those substances are legal? Did the number of drinkers decrease in the U.S. after Prohibition was lifted?

I also wonder if we would see the same sort of safety issues if, say, alcohol was banned but marijuana and cocaine were legalized (driving under the influence, violence--not with pot, I suppose)?
Someone who would know has been saying that Facebook is offering very substantial stock grants to get senior people.

I'm sure Lars is well-off as he is, but my understanding is that an order-of-magnitude more money is a real possibility.
I can testify it's definitely not a placebo as I first suspected with "legal highs".

Cool! How did you set up the double-blind study?
Nice to see the south of Germany represented (Stuttgart here) :)
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That's fascinating. If someone as accomplished as Fuller has done it and most people haven't heard of it, let alone read the archives themselves... it shows how vain it is to hope that anyone will be interested in the marks we leave behind.
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No, I don't think the Mac will be locked down.

I do think the good software is going to start being app-store-only, and that will require giving Apple full access to my machine. Good software is why I got a Mac. Not being able to get good software without giving Apple the ability to delete files of mine that they don't like, is why I might not get another.

We'll see.
For vim there are some plugins, but it's probably not that mature. Emacs has good integration with gdb.
Kind of inevitable I guess. The problem Hyves has is that there just isn't a compelling enough reason for most people to update Hyves after you've done everything you want to do on Facebook .. and these days there are VERY few people who are on Hyves and NOT on Facebook .. it was just duplication of effort.
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Well, I've learned to be impatient and not wait my turn, when a discussion requires it. That kind of social interaction tires me out though. I like calm. Excitement only prevents rational thinking.
Good point, but I do wonder if there would be viral opportunities that arise because of the limitation, through value of invitations, etc. Picking and choosing the people for your group rather than seeing if they'll join so you can find and friend them.
Gentler approach? Anti-smoking is reaching prohibition like levels in most countries. You're banned from smoking everywhere to the point you're banned from smoking in your own vehicle if someone else is present regardless of whether or not the passengers smoke themselves.

IIRC here in Canada it's illegal to smoke in a work vehicle, it's illegal to smoke in your own vehicle if you have a passenger under 18. You can't smoke within X-feet of a building entrance. They're trying to make it illegal to smoke in your own home if you have anyone under 18 living there.

I really don't see this as a gentle approach. I'm a non-smoker, I don't give a crap where people smoke and I see this illegalization of smoking to be severely harmful to our society. Given the link between certain genes and smoking, why not make autism illegal? I mean it's harmful to the users and is harmful to society by costing us billions in unearned wages and medical costs.

I'm sick of this nanny state bullshit. At the rate governments are regressing, we will be at full prohibition before we ever see marijuana or LSD legalized.
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Fantastic ... there is also the "minority game" in which in each round each participant decides (at the same time) "up" or "down" and those who guessed the minority opinion get a point, the majority lose one. People have tried to model the stock market with this repeated game.
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In what way are you giving Apple control of your machine?

It's an install and download mechanism which you can use or not use.
Actually, all available evidence points to the fact that legalising drugs like heroin actually decreases their usage. Would you suddenly take up heroin if it was legal? Do you know anyone who would?

I wouldn't use heroin if legal, but it's possible that the next generation, not being subject to mass anti-drug marketing campaigns, would use it in higher numbers.

The question is whether that matters, and that's a debate that's hard to have in an environment of politically motivated and emotionally charged scare campaigns.
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Let me compare Tobacco and Heroin.

I smoke, since I was young, it was silly, but I'd seen others do it and was offered cigarettes from a buddy and got hooked.

Thinking about it, the only reason I would never try heroin now, is I've seen what it can do to people, from movies mostly (ironically ones that are not suitable for children to watch).

If heroin was legal, I think kids who have no idea what the hell they're getting into would be the ones to be affected.

So you're right, most adults wouldn't take up heroin if it suddenly became legal - but I bet a lot of kids would.
I /think/ the argument for legalisation lowering heroin use is that if it were legal, certain unscrupulous people would not be pushing it on fragile members of society, and getting them hooked for financial gain. If an addicted prostitute or other user could walk away from a pusher and life of crime and get the heroin on prescription (with an eye to coming off it in the long term), then the thought is that use and dealing would go down. (Why don't users now just go an get methadone/other substitute - I've read that is because they are pretty awful replacements).

This is what has happened (to some extent) in Portugal: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1893946,00.ht...
I have something similar for Vim. Plain textfiles under svn are a great organization tool. Need to try orgmode sometime so I can copy its features :)
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Well said! I have exactly the same feelings.
Viral and limitation don't go hand in hand. Paul Buchheit made this point realy well in his startup school talk couple of years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZxP0i9ah8E#t=21m56s
The Mac App Store will be most helpful to the small unestablished developers, since it will alleviate things like marketing, billing, support, etc.

Bigger more established developers (like Panic, Bare Bones Software, Delicious Monster, The Iconfactory, The Omni Group, just to name a few) have already solved these problems (not in perpetuity and not without limit, of course).

I don't think that companies like these are going to place the fate of their best-selling software in Apple's hands for the relatively small gains the Mac App Store will provide them. That is not to say that I think they'll stay out of the Mac App Store either, it's just to say that it won't be Mac App Store exclusive.

I expect most of them to "try out" the Mac App Store with new software releases of smaller scope, rather than retrofit their best-selling software and offer them exclusively on Mac App Store, with the straightjacket that comes with it.

Where they go from there will depend on the results of the Mac App Store. They won't be forced to use it for their key software, so they won't if it doesn't suit their needs.

I think the Mac App Store is going to be an absolutely enormous runaway success. But not because you can find already established and popular software on there.
By generation he means in this design revision - this air is drastically different to the last one. I owned the first Unibody Macbook Pro, ordered it an hour after release... I'm on my third motherboard. Sometimes the first batch of hardware has issues fixed later on.