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If this story turns out to be true my first questions would be:

1) Do the arsenic-feeding microbes have DNA/RNA or some other system in place?

2) Do they appear to be subject to natural selection?

3) Have they spent this entire time in the lake?
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Milestones. You can work on multiple projects, it might even be encouraged in the beginning stages of a startup. If you can get your ideas built into semi-working prototypes they'll be in a better place should you decide to come back to them later. On several occasions I've built proof-of-concepts but ended getting bored of it, leaving it on the back-burner, but later be able to take all that working code and incorporate it into my other projects.
I'm looking for someone non-technical to work with since I'm more on the tech side. I have some ideas about real-estate based software, time management software, event planning software but haven't really dug into it as yet. I do have a rough outline so someone to bounce back ideas with would be great. I'm located in Toronto.
They are already doing that. Not much good if people can't get to the .torrent file. (Yes, I know about DHT and that you can just mirror .torrent files. It's still inconvenient enough that most won't bother.)
This article is totally speculation. They don't even know what NASA's announcement is. This reminds me of the speculation about Apple's announcement, and the resulting disappointment when it turned out to be just an announcement that the Beatles were now on iTunes.

I'm going to pass on the speculation and wait for the real announcement from NASA.
"2) Do they appear to be subject to natural selection?"

why would they not be subject to natural selection?
ALL the more reason why Assange should stop prancing around like a f*ing queen and just release the entire trove in one big torrent. By dishing out the documents slowly (their own FAQ claims they'll release the docs over a period of months to maximize exposure), he's setting himself up for such attacks.

They can always release their analysis and interesting findings later.
If I may plug the 140kit (http://140kit.com) which is an open source Twitter mining and analytics solution that uses the streaming API to make downloading millions of Tweets in easily accessible formats quick and easy for anyone.

(doh, it looks like its down for some reason. Well, when it's back up- its there. I'm sure you could find the github repo and run it yourself since it is open source). Written in Rails.
If life began twice on Earth, it almost surely developed somewhere else.
Are they properly formatted for the Kindle, though? In the Gutenberg-derived version of Moby Dick that I read, they capitalized words italicized in the original, and replaced £ with L. Aesthetically displeasing, to say the least. I'd pay a dollar to avoid the bad results of storing masters in a lossy format (which Gutenberg's masters seem to be, although I'm not sure about this), but I rather doubt that this can be had for just a dollar.
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Thank you!
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Most students will be unfamiliar with what a research paper is. A research paper is a document which requires thorough investigation into a topic. How you write a research paper will explain your understanding of the topic to the reader. Therefore, it is vital that you write well.
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AFAIK, Opera is one of the most popular browsers throughout all of Eastern Europe (I think it's #1 in Ukraine).

From what I know, a large part of this is that back in the day, internet connections in those regions were so slow that Opera's feature set (which at the time was far and away better than other options) made browsing a much better experience. It aggressively cached content, allowed easy access to disabling images, didn't automatically reload pages while navigating back through history, etc.
Unless it's a leggy brunette with green skin, I don't wanna hear about it.
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Probably works fine for PCs, but for iPhones, iPads and other devices that are more uniform, they'll probably have to stick with cookies.

Do phones' timestamps differ?
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"If you make a sufficient salary this can be extended to everything you do and you might reach the conclusion that it's best if you do nothing besides working and sleeping."

working, playing, and sleeping. Fiddling with audio files, washing your car, cutting grass... these are not playing, sleeping, or profitable working.

If I had the money, you can bet I would pay for people or tools to take care of pointless, Sisyphean daily chores.
How far can a business go without a website?
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If your willing to take a loooooong time, you can take the interplanetary highway. Basically, by carefully picking your path, you can essentially move from Lagrange point to Lagrange point, where changing directions is nearly free.
I'm assuming a feed reader here, but someone really needs to work on their copy and not assume I have any idea what your product is.
Since we're in the realm of speculation, perhaps NASA found working (alien) nanobots that are somehow programmed not to turn Earth into grey goo.
When I saw the title, I thought it was going to be about the FBI trying to find the source of WikiLeaks material.
Depends on what the alternative activity is.

Put it this way: he could waste the time fiddling with audio files, or he could be having sex. Which is a better use of time?
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Two very important things you should fix:

1.) Stop that animation! It gives headache while reading your app summary.

2.) Screenshots should be there. EDIT: Specially because after download, all I see is a login box. So even after downloading the app, I have no clue what I'm getting at.

EDIT: The animation also gives my Mac a stroke.

EDIT: After trying to use your app. Where do I register? I tried putting random stuff and it says "Google Reader login failed". So is this about Google Reader by any chance?
I know. Figured changing the title would put me in a worse position than just keeping it as it is. Perhaps a moderator can change it to something more appropriate.
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I like the how he's "doing this pro se" and if the customer doesn't knuckle under he will take this case right to the Supreme Court. It's hard to get spittle flecks on electronic communication, but this guy seems to have managed it.

He who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client - except this time, maybe the causality runs the other way.
I would love to see this for Erlang!
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You sir are correct! I didn't download because the animation don't inspire confidence and the lack of screenshots meant I wasn't even sure what I was getting into.
What browser are you using? Safari is at 20% on my four year old MBP.

(I’m also not sure whether comments like this are necessary. This submission is not in any way about the website, your remark seems wildly off-topic to me.)
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The focus is Internet/software startups. We take startups of all stages from idea stage to post-funded/post-revenue.

There is no "typical" presentation - it should really be centered around what you're trying to get out of the presentation. But personally the most successful I've seen talk almost exclusively about the service/product being offered. The presentation isn't a time to convey everything about what you're doing - it's more about getting people to come and talk to you afterward to learn more.

Hope that helps.
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FWIW, I think you might be misreading the audience of the post. The majority of readers at LW subscribe to not-directly-causal decision theories under which they would cooperate with another rational agent in the one-shot PD; it may distract you, but not most.

I agree with you, however, that it isn't the greatest analogy.
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I guess I might have phrased the question differently. I recently saw a video somewhere of Richard Dawkins talking about what he thinks of the possibility of extraterrestrial life, and among other things he was talking about his high degree of certainty that whatever life may exist on other planets, it's likely to be subject to the same forces of natural selection as exist for life here on Earth. It would be very nice to have a second example to suggest, "wherever life happens, evolution as-we-know-it happens".
Yeah, by disorganized I really meant some parts that are supposed to be "riot"-like. We try to do a fairly well choreographed event so that people know what is going to happen but also have time for random chance meetings to occur that turn into gold for the participants.
My experience tells me those who are defending this business out of principle have never been truly, truly scammed.
I very much doubt that this will be the website for the finished app. This is just a place where you can for now download the completely unfinished beta. The app is not really out yet.

As you can see on the website for his iPhone app [1] and iPad app [2] the developer is very capable of creating informative and practical websites to present his products.

[1] http://reederapp.com/2/

[2] http://reederapp.com/ipad/
There's nothing here that really shows that "life began not just once but at least twice on Earth." Just because they have different metabolism (even dramatically different) it doesn't exclude the possibility that life began once and then branched (via evolution) into these two groups that derive their energy from different elements. After all, sulfur-reducing bacteria (which use sulfur instead of oxygen) are well-known and nobody suggests independent origins for them.
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The 1+ year thing stands out as the best idea there.
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It should be pointed out that there's a fairly vast range of metabolisms already known for bacteria. The test of whether life developed twice will be how whatever-it-is stores its genome (DNA?) and how it goes about making useful molecules (proteins, etc). All currently known life does this in roughly the same way. *

* (discounting viruses, which are oddities that probably arose from cellular life)
I foresee a future where the Adblock crowd runs a plugin that randomizes the data returned by browsers. It wouldn't take many variations in user agent strings, reported browser plugins, and system fonts to give you a quasi-anonymous footprint each time you visit a website.
The question we should all be asking is: why on Earth do browsers transmit all of this information to web servers in the first place?

A few details, window size for example, might have a legitimate purpose and could at least be requested by the web server and provided optionally. However, this sort of fingerprinting technique is pretty obvious to anyone who's ever stuck an analyser on their system and looked at what a typical HTTP transaction to fetch a web page looks like. As far as I can see, there is no need for most of it.
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Seth Godin says we own Wikipedia. But a comment on a recent post on my blog suggests this may not be true.

http://r2.ly/5zam
They could use TCP time stamps to estimate the clock skew of devices, as they access web services.

See "Remote physical device fingerprinting - Tadayoshi Kohno, Andre Broido, kc claffy"
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Great post. I don't know a lot about how well this would work in practice (perhaps Matt Cutts could comment), but anchor text link gaming is a huge problem and this sounds like a decent solution.

Many of Google's results have started to 'feel' really bad lately - I'm doing a lot more wading through crap and a lot less finding what I want quickly.
Do we really own Wikipedia?
Those are good pages.

However, the point of HN and beta versions is to have meaningful feedback. We would do a serious disservice to the community if we don't be honest about what exactly sucked.

I think he might be willing to do a similar homepage for his final app. It would hurt him if he goes off beta with the present animated feel. Maybe he's willing to try something new. I seriously vote against it if he is.
All 7/11's and Safeway's in my area have ATMs.

I also have a USAA account, which reimburses up to $15 in ATM transactions AND has mobile deposit via Android or iOS.
I just read 4 Step to Epiphany by Steve Blank and it seems that the book is geared towards situations exactly like yours. I'd highly recommend it.
There is nothing about living in a tiny little house in the future in this video. But I like the approach. Heck, forget houses, many apartment dwellers already live in tiny spaces.
Sample size seems to be a significant issue here. I'm one of two people on the site that had my user agent (1 in 638851), and while it's rare, sure, there are obviously a lot more than two people in the world running chromium x64 opensuse. Looking at the data it seems like most of the responses are bog standard for my particular software install, so it's basically saying I'm unique because:

* user-agent
* time zone
* screen size

Surely my TZ=EST and screen=1366x768x24 can't be too helpful in a large sample size.

And once chromium updates yet again, I think I'll be lost to the EFF test. It'll still see me as unique, but I'll be a different "unique" than the last time.

It does seem like browsers could easily cut back on user-agent details to the benefit of their customers privacy and security. Is it really necessary to tell every website I visit that I'm x64 instead of i386 just in case I'm not smart enough to know which download now button to click? It's probably most useful to malware domains for determining which version of the latest flash 0-day to push to me. And are we sure we need the exact build number of every browser? Most revisions of chrome aren't changing anything in the rendering behavior.
I have paid one or two dollars on the Kindle store for books I could have downloaded for free because when you buy a book from Amazon, they keep an archive of it on their servers, including reading position, bookmarks, and annotations, and they synchronize this information across all of your registered devices. The convenience of this feature, along with better formatting, has sometimes been worth the money.

I have done the process of downloading and copying to the Kindle for some works that were either not available in the store. Although it's not difficult, it's not as easy as the Kindle store. This is another case of sometimes easy beats free.
I like what he's got here. One of the things with small spaces is making sure they are well laid out. You can make 96 sq/ft more functional than 400 sq/ft if you have a great layout.

From 2007-2009 I lived in a tiny ~180 square foot apartment on Saint Botolph's Street in Boston. It was fairly well laid out fortunately, and I was able to fit a ton in there, including a desk with 36 rack spaces, several keyboards, a 5-piece drumkit, 8 guitars, two guitar amps, a 700 piece vinyl collection, a few hundred books, a wine rack, a twin bed, filing cabinet, an aeron chair, etc.

When it was clean and together it was very nice and didn't feel crowded or cluttered at all. Fitting more than 4 people in there though was exceedingly tight.

I'm actually always impressed when I go to Ikea. The 'rooms' they have setup on the floor seem highly functional and spacious, but are actually pretty small.

The worst thing that kills most small apartments is poor layouts, too many doors/windows, all the footage being in the wallway, poorly placed radiators, inaccessible electrical outlets (only one in the room or something silly like that), or random pipes right in the middle of the room. One of my friends has a random 4 inch pipe in the middle of her bathroom in her NYC apartment, and another in the hallway. Worst architect ever. You just have to squeeze around it.
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If there's imperfect replication and death, natural selection happens. It's a mathematical fact; observation is unnecessary for confirmation.

Although I haven't seen the video, and Dawkins is a smart guy, so perhaps he was making some related point.
I made and shipped Pepbot.

http://pepbot.com

It's a temp disposable mail service with the ability to automate the boring confirmation task (register > wait confirmation mail > click the link > success) that many services require.
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There's very little usage of either Emacs or vim at these competitions (they seem to prefer a simple text editor). Also, they code fast, literally at the limit of how fast they can type! Maybe it's a consequence of the language choice (typically C++)...
Or maybe the found a portal into another dimension containing giant tentacles floating in the sky.
Also, 24ways.org is updating as well. Not sure if it merits a post in it's own (or if this is too off topic), but this is the first year that I haven't missed it.
The point of HN is also to have people with a little more sense than the average Joe tester.

You're giving feedback about the wrong thing. The point of this beta is clearly to improve the app, not his website. In fact, that's not even the app's own website (which is http://reederapp.com/). He's using his studio's.
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Wordpress has had lots of security issues; see tptacek's comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1328261

Given their prioritization of ease-of-use over security, why would anyone want to run your own WP install, instead of wordpress.com or jekyll (static site) + disqus?
Is it scientifically possible that life does not exist on other worlds? This is a serious question. Billions of galaxies, each with billions of stars...it would be mind boggling to me that it would be possible that we are the only planet in the universe with life. Has anyone studied the possibility -- a sort of reverse Drakes equation (for life in general) -- that we could be the only planet with life?
Other, similar phrases:

- "Anyone who is defending this child molester was never molested as a child."

- "Anyone who is defending this racist has never been the victim of prejudice."

Some events overtrain our minds, such that we can never emotionally react to them in a genuinely rational way again. However, we can stop ourselves from doing this, by holding fast to the one principle that has always, always worked: Innocent until proven guilty, please.
In the Future? sigh...
That makes me wonder if there are any "you can't get there from here"s in biology.. metabolic bases that are so different that they could not have been progenitors of each other through evolution. I suppose the answer is probabilistic.
It doesn't seem off topic to me. People post their projects or other people's projects they feel excited about on HN to gain publicity and receive criticism.

While the original intent is about the actual application, Reeder, everyone needs to navigate their website to obtain the application. If the website is unusable for some, it is fair criticism to tell them so since it can portray the project in a negative light. I personally think the scrolling "bubbles", or whatever it may be, is completely unnecessary. Other sites that have intensive scripts that do peg my CPU to the point it makes my fans spin up on my laptop tend to be show stoppers for me as well. I would categorize these sites, which aren't designed to show off the latest browser technology, in the same group as sites that download large, unoptimized images and unneeded assets. They become un-accessible to certain demographics.

disclaimer: I only spent a few seconds on the site before closing the tab due to the site's colors clashing with my morning eyes and being very flashy without providing any immediate description of what it was about.
I was quite curious what this whole made@gloria website is all about and searched around for a bit because the website doesn’t provide any context. Gloria is apparently a cafe in Zürich and the website was put up by a otherwise unrelated group of developers who meet there. It looks like it’s merely supposed to link to the different projects of the different developers. It doesn’t look like it will ever be the actual website for any project.
Because of the ease of use.
And if you had worked more, maybe you would have the money.
Which varies from individual to individual. This program seems to favor a more mature Hacker.
Ironically, it's also an interesting commentary on how quickly groupthink and follow-the-leader actions take over on social news sites.

Did everyone who originally downvoted the "epic fail" post realise the context and just not like jokes on HN, or did a couple of people choose to downvote, and then more people see what looked like a Reddit-esque joke that was being downvoted and just join in without understanding the point of the post?

As others pointed out, a similar mentality could explain the results on the Yelp page we are discussing, even if the entire thing was actually orchestrated by a competitor and/or triggered by a single unhappy customer where we don't know the full story.
> many apartment dwellers already live in tiny spaces.

True that. People in Hongkong or Japan are already living in teeny tiny house/apartments. And some go to extreme lengths to maximise their space.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg9qnWg9kak - Apartment with movable modules in Hongkong )
How about 1 - chance_of_life_on_other_worlds?
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Are you talking about Superrationality (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superrationality)?

Still strikes me as changing the rules and then pretending you've said something new about the original unchanged form. Kind of like saying you'd choose white in the "You must choose black game". I'm a bit disappointed if this kind of sloppy logic/mysticism is popular on LessWrong.
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