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> All of you criticizing this need to open up your minds

This type of attitude is infuriating - if a claim can survive the crucible of peer review then it we can be much, much more certain that it is true and correct. If humans were to posses a limited form of precognition that would be awesome - but before we can claim to posses a thing we must be sure that it is real.
OpenGovernment is a great idea and I wish the team building it all of the best. OpenGovernment will be the only competitor so far to a startup I've been working on the past 3 years: http://www.openpoll.us. It's exciting to see other people prove your idea is a good one. That being said, I think a release of OpenGovernment with only 5 states is a little premature.(I'm waiting to have all states complete before releasing my MVP.) I am very interested in seeing what they come up with.
Password locking your iPhone is not a forensically secure technique. A better idea would be to keep anything incriminating off it, and (obviously) not to get arrested.
True, but stats like "survival rates after diagnosis of major disease" seem to focus fairly well on healthcare quality. And Japan has a pretty old population, with a lot of smokers and a very high-sodium diet.

In any case, our lousy diet is partly due to agricultural subsidies that make processed and fast food cheaper than raw produce. A really good healthcare reform would fix that too.

If we really wanted to be smart, we'd phase out coal while we were at it. Estimates for health problems caused by the coal industry are pretty startling.
> No drivers were provided for any flavor of Linux, and none were available short of building from source on our own. We do not feel this meets any reasonable standard for 'available'.

You can always complain your favorite distro doesn't build for non-existent hardware...

Come on. It's not like it's been available for any meaningful amount of time. Besides, building a kernel is not exactly rocket science, specially under Ubuntu. If you feel threatened by the required tools, maybe Linux is not the OS for you.

And, BTW, if that will be the biggest disappointment of 2011, I'm relieved. I only wonder how it will work with Wayland.
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My bet is a crappy pseudo-random number generator, or other software bug.
Pomplamoose is a musical act that seems to have attained a level of success primarily through YouTube and commercials (recent holiday Hyundai ad) instead of touring.
the more tests you do, the sooner you'll see a fluke on average

In other words, if you toss a coin 1,000 times, then it's hideously unlikely that you'll see a run of 100 consecutive heads. But if you toss the coin 100,000,000 times, you shouldn't be too surprised to see that 100-toss run buried in there somewhere, even though the odds of getting 100 in a row are so small.

Right?
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Even without a hard copy, how would you be able to view the video but not download it? YouTube, Vimeo, etc. are all downloadable with a variety of Firefox plugins & desktop applications.

Let's say that you can solve that problem, perhaps there's a solution out there that I'm not aware of. You still have the ability to record it at the same quality it plays using CamStudio or any other kind of screen recording software.

Ok, so let's pretend you've managed to block any kind of downloading, any kind of screen recording program and any kind of site vulnerability. If I were the kind of person who wanted to download photos to start a scandal, I'd just take a picture of the screen with a digital camera. Sure, the resolution might suffer slightly but with a tripod and a little trial and error I bet I could get them pretty nice.

I like the idea of being in control of when they're deleted from the server or having a time limit, I just don't think it's possible to control where the content ends up.
Figuring out what time is may be what causes civilizations to go extinct. Once you figure out how to probe the earlier states of the universe you find everything vanishes, along with the evidence that the civilization ever existed. This may be why our visible universe is not teeming with chit-chat.
> then by all means bring them to your arrest.

Most people are not given notice of their arrest.
What is up with the gender-changing in the pronouns? I know it's off topic, but it really feels funky to read that.
In fact I have paid for a Chrome extension. I've been using http://www.activeinboxhq.com/ Active Inbox since it was in beta on Firefox and it has been instrumental in getting my mail from thousands of unread or processed emails to regularly hitting a Zero Inbox.

I pay mainly to keep development going rather than paying X to buy Y. I think of it more like donating to NPR knowing that I am more likely to receive value in the future by paying now.
Agreed. In my case I used Ubuntu on a desktop machine (with dual monitors), totally eliminating all of the author's screen related issues.

Scrolling, IMO, is both a "not what I'm used to" thing and a polish issue. I just got used to it.
There's going to be an interesting Supreme Court case when the police bother to recover a Gmail session cookie from someone's phone or laptop and use it to dive into their email. My guess is the Gmail account owner will win, because when you seize my housekey during an arrest, you do not get to search my house.

The reason this hasn't happened already, though, is that the police aren't generally trawling through the Gmail accounts of drug suspects. They have more drug suspects on eyewitness and hand-to-hands than they can deal with; read _Cop in the Hood_ for examples of state prosecutors refusing to pursue cases because drugs seized from suspects "could, for all the apprehending officer knew, have been an Oreo cookie".

This is mostly just a fun topic to chatter about.
It seems the traffic Hacker News is sending Reddit is causing it to topple!
RSS isn't dead it just needs to be repurposed.
I think you missed the point.

1. People recalled as many as possible.

2. People were divided into two groups, control and experimental.

3. Experimental group was asked to retype the words.

4. Control group was asked to go home.

5. Experimental group found to score better on initial test.
perhaps if they weren't morally broken. (blah blah, morals are gray, etc etc)
This is true, but I'd add a caution: just because something seems outlandish or improbable doesn't mean it actually has a low prior probability. Human intuition on what's weird and what's not is not a reliable oracle of prior probability. If you're going to give the prior an actual number, you better base it on actual facts.

In your example, based on existing data, it is indeed fair - some dogs do sometimes eat homework, whereas there are no verified accounts of aliens stealing it. So that's a legitimate adjustment of priors. Particularly if you actually have data on the incidence of paper-hungry dogs.

But in science and philosophy, there's lots of important questions for which we can't legitimately calculate priors, and "it would be too weird" is not at all relevant when determining their values.
Agreed. Biting the bullet.
Ugh, reminds me of the undergrad psych research I participated in. When your original hypothesis doesn't turn out, just run correlations on your data until you find something to write about. Publish or perish, right?
> if the dating site works

That's a mighty big if. Especially for an adult dating site, where I'd guess the guy/girl ratio would be at least 500:1.
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This was here yesterday and got deleted.
The Whole Foods list was also mentioned in the article.
Intel and AMD have released open source drivers. Nvidia is sticking to the patent and DRM excuses.
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If it would give me some value - of course.

What I would like though is an opportunity to back off... There is no approval process with the chrome extensions, so I would like to know that if the thing doesn't work as advertised I can get my money back.
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i do actually, with a rss reader, your only skimming the new news on the site. Obviously some is irrelevant, but its an amazing way to stay up to date on whats going on in dev land.
The actual troublemaker is free glutamic acid, a molecule with flavor-enhancing properties. It's one of the basic amino acids that make up proteins. No one reacts badly when they eat it if it's linked up to other amino acids, but when it's running around free it causes reactions in some people.

A largish dose of free glutamic acid will trigger a migraine for me (and my dad) consistently. It's anecdotal, but I'm confident that this particular anecdote would hold up in a double-blind test.

Monosodium glutamate (MSG) disassociates into sodium and free glutamic acid in food; that's why it's often added. But any ingredient that contains broken up protein can be an issue; e.g. hydrolyzed soy protein or autolyzed yeast extract. MSG has a bad rep, so often foodmakers will try to slip free glutamic acid in some other way (often while shouting on the package, "NO MSG").

Food that benefits a lot from the flavor enhancer, such as canned soups, will almost always have a lot of it. Lots of stuff has _some_ amount of free glutamic acid (such as broccoli, like the article mentions) but (speaking personally), it's not enough to trigger a reaction.

There aren't many foods our ancestors would've eaten that contained lots of free glutamic acid. We're talking about the same molecule that serves as an excitatory neurotransmitter in your brain. It turns out that if you eat a lot of it, it's possible to get a headache (other people claim other ailments). Not much is known about the specifics of the mechanism, but it's not that implausible.
Could someone here please explain the likely mechanics of how this DRM will work? I must presume that decrypted content would not be available to the OS and would ostensibly only be exported from the GPU via some video output (HDMI w/ HDCP, etc.)?

Presuming this is the case, how would key management happen? Would every chip have its own unique keypair? If not, an attack similar to the one linked to here by JohhnieCache would render this scheme useless. If each keypair is unique, how would a particular content provider know that a public key was actually one paired with a private key only contained in Intel's silicon? Would Intel provide a registry of all valid public keys to content providers? If there is no such central registry, would the public keys themselves be signed by Intel so that content providers could be certain of their origin?

Please correct any wrong assumptions on my part. I know little of cryptography compared to many here, but I am frustrated by how little technical commentary has accompanied the articles I have read about this new processor family.
Although people have been voting "No" and "Not...yet", I think the answer to your question is simple:

If your extension solves a problem that a person values at X amount of money, they'll pay up to X for it. If the extension creates Y amount of value, they'll pay up to somewhere slightly under Y.
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Same here. I learned the same things as OP did too. Git, vim etc..
Ask HN: A paper magazine wants my app for its companion DVD. Should I accept?
I have a Windows application that I am selling from my website using PayPal and a home-made protection/activation system. I have been contacted by an IT paper magazine that wants to make an editorial of my app and put it on the companion DVD. The app will also be available for download on their website for two months. I sell the app around $10 a copy on my website, and they offer around $500 of license fee for me giving them the right to put it on their DVD and website. The sells on my website have not been great, so I might take their offer.

Is the license fee of $500 that they are offering an industry standard, or should I negotiate for more money? I know I'm greedy =)

Should I do it?

Thank you HN!
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Or a wiki, more appropriately.
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Two foods have reliably caused symptoms that I connect with MSG: the fried rice from one particular place near where I went to school, and Doritos. I can eat equivalent amounts of other fried rice or corn chips without symptoms.
Unfortunately not, and not for any rational reason. It's the same reason I don't buy iPhone apps: because the vast majority are free.

There's an implicit valuation when one uses the term "chrome extension". When analyzing how much it is worth to me, I subconsciously compare it to other Chrome extensions, not other bits of code. I might be perfectly happy to pay for MS Office, even when OpenOffice is free, simply because most productivity applications command a premium. It seems right to pay for it. Even a $0.99 fee for a chrome extension or, for that matter, an iPhone app, presents a significant enough disincentive that I likely won't purchase it. In fact, I've never paid for any piece of software that wasn't a game or preloaded on my system.

Now, I'm not everybody. Certainly, there will be those out there who would be willing to pay for a Chrome extension, but I wouldn't count on them being the majority. If you do decide to charge for it, make sure that you set a value that accurately reflects what you feel it is worth, rather than what might entice people to use it. A $0.99 fee is high enough to stop most people from paying, while low enough to be pointless for you. Consider $9.99. I doubt that only 10% of the people who would pay $1 would pay $10. If I'm right, you make more money by charging more.

As to your idea, keep in mind that Chrome is still a browser with a small market share. If you really do want to make your idea pay, consider releasing a version for FF, IE9, Safari, etc. Or just make a website.
Thanks that is informative. Do you think having a free version is a bad idea, if you ultimately aim for revenue through a paid version?
"YOU remain in control of them, so you never end up starring in your own sex tape scandal if a nasty breakup occurs." How so? If an image, video, text or audio of any kind, in any format reaches someone else's computer, THEY are now also in control of it if they really want to be, no matter how hard you try and protect it. What do you think the MPAA/RIAA fussing is all about?
It's not just the kernel; there are several different packages that need to be compiled. I think this article gives a better explanation of the situation: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODk3M...
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Creating an environment where people regularly work for the chance of being paid, is immoral imo.

You can argue that no one forces these people to work - but that same argument could also be used by the proprietor of a child-labour camp or sweat shop.
Ask for $750 and negotiate from there don't go below $501 though. #classic
Create a currency that cant be stolen/diluted without breaking 1024 bit encryption and a password. Entities like the federal reserve can just print money out of thin air, diluting my past hard work.

It shouldn't be too hard to create a system of person to person wealth transfer utilizing thumb drives and laptops that exchange receipts of units of human labor that can't be diluted by simply making more human labor receipts.

Of course, whoever champions this kind of thing will disappear in the night along with their family. Imagine working a days labor, and being able to redeem that 100 years later in full. Something like this would have to begin operation after a complete revolution, and would have to earn a place next to the right to free speech. The basic right of encryption in data and currency.
Actually, some people are allergic to MSG. My wife is allergic to corn and corn derived foods such as MSG. MSG might also exist in broccoli but not in the MSG powder many people refer to when talking about MSG.
Your last line represent my sentiments exactly.
It's easy to get lost in the day-to-day and fail to view things objectively. Every factoid like this helps me to keep an objective view - and to keep on my career path.
The other part is the assumption that "natural" molcules are inherently better.

I wouldn't say "inherently better", but...

Through evolution, we've adapted to molecules present in the environment, and because other organisms have similar tolerance to toxins, eating them is usually safer than eating a random substance.

It's just a heuristic, of course, reasonable people may disagree. I was just pointing out that the OP's position is not "obviously dumb".

I disagree that it's reasonable to be wary of chemicals - it's a triumph of rubbish marketing.

It goes both way: companies producing artificial products (including drugs) have massive advertising budgets, but there's no ad touting the merits of oranges and tap water.

Honest question: if I find a new mammalian species and try to sell its meat, do I need FDA approval?

EDIT: In your top post, you're objecting to the man's argument that "it's natural therefore it's safe". I agree with you that it's naive in this context. I guess I misread your post and argued against something else :/
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I agree with your point that sole props are cheap and simple. My comment was within the context of the submission. The author recommended creating a "placeholder" entity to be able to pass years-in-business requirement, and unfortunately, for situations where that requirement exists in the first place, a sole proprietorship is not going to fly.

And yes, I meant accountant's fees. You don't just have your IRS filings, you also have the state and the city which depending on your location require multiple filings plus UBT and other complications. So you have a minimum of 15 different filings (1 yearly plus 4 quarterly, times 3 for federal, state and city), and usually more. I am not sure where you live - personally, I've filed in the US, East and West coast and Midwest and it's never cost me anywhere near $75. Perhaps you and your accountant have been ignoring deductions, self-employment taxes, UBT, etc. I simply don't see how you could have a professional CPA charge $75 for all that.

As far DIY tax prep I think it's a waste of your time to understand all the complexities. Tax requirements change every year and sometimes mid-year... if you are a consultant, your time is best spent doing what you know.

(So did I understand correctly that your accountant files just one yearly form in addition to your personal taxes? That doesn't sound right. If you are not in the US, you can probably gamble on not being audited, otherwise I'd be looking for a new accountant asap, and paying him to re-file your previous years as well).
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Another reason I'm not buying Facebook:

I don't have the $10 million required by Goldman Sachs to be involved.
Hmm, what other thing does this sound like?

Yes, yes, yes. Music groups are small businesses and bootstrapping is now a model that makes sense for many of them. But although there are many parallels between musicians and startups (labels are the VCs of music etc.), there are some significant differences. For example, one of the tenets of bootstrapping is the pivot. If you're not profitable, take what you've learned and change your direction. For musicians this is far more difficult I believe. Like many popular artists, DMB's success stems from their unique 'sound'. This sound is a special mixture of each members personality and is very hard to change up while still remaining genuine. Founders certainly have a similar effect on their startups product, but I believe its far easier to hire a new designer than to stop playing the music you feel in your heart.

tl;dr - Music is business but its also an art. There needs to be a new bootstrapping methodology tailored towards music.
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I will donate for a plugin or extension that I want to install on every system the browser runs on. Like NoScript.
(Well, as a Firefox user, I would not spend money on Chrome extensions...)

Hm, looking back on my install base, it looks like I will have to donate some money this year on Adblock+, RequestPolicy, Certificate Patrol, Web Developer's Toolbar, Firebug.
MSG isn't derived from corn, and even if the sugar that fed the yeast that made the glutamate came from corn, by the time it's commercially sold MSG it is so chemically pure that it would be irrelevant.
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This is the reason...because they don't have to! A company...excuse me a mammoth of Google size is not distracted and moved by little seemingly meaningless issues unless they get to a point that they have to address this issue.

If Google was a small startup that would have been the first thing they tacked to keep innovation & momentum charging forward and therefore gain traction and a larger userbase.
Unfortunatley, publishing these kind of claims prematurely help the more gullible among us to fall for ridiculous claims from psychics and others who would take advantage of them.

True. But on the other hand, publishing ridiculous claims and incorrect results is a necessary part of science.

When we publish only results we know to be correct, because they agree with mainstream beliefs, we introduce a bias into the scientific process. In reality, if you publish 20 experiments with p=0.05 [1], 1 of them should be incorrect. If less than 1 in 20 of your papers isn't wrong (assuming p=0.05 is the gold standard), you are not doing science.

You can see a perfect illustration of this when people tried to reproduce Millikan's oil drop experiment. I'll quote Feynman: Millikan measured the charge on an electron...got an answer which we now know not to be quite right...It's interesting to look at the history of measurements of the charge of an electron, after Millikan. If you plot them as a function of time, you find that one is a little bit bigger than Millikan's, and the next one's a little bit bigger than that, and the next one's a little bit bigger than that, until finally they settle down to a number which is higher.

Why didn't they discover the new number was higher right away? It's a thing that scientists are ashamed of - this history - because it's apparent that people did things like this: When they got a number that was too high above Millikan's, they thought something must be wrong - and they would look for and find a reason why something might be wrong. When they got a number close to Millikan's value they didn't look so hard. And so they eliminated the numbers that were too far off, and did other things like that...

This is why I'm an advocate of accepting/rejecting scientific papers based solely on methodology, with referees being given no information about the conclusions and with authors being forbidden from post-hoc tweaks. You do your experiment, and if you disagree with Millikan/conclude that ESP exists, so be it. Everyone is allowed to be wrong 5% of the time.

[1] I'm wearing my frequentist hat for the purposes of this post. Even if you are a Bayesian, you should still publish, however.