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Wonderful, thank you very much.

I love Discourses - it is some of most insightful and inspiring writings ever. I feel sad for people who just read The Prince and then dedicated their career towards analyzing Machiavelli's motives and tarnishing the name of Nicollo, while in reality making fools of themselves.

For the record: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2095855

Also as a shameless plug, I have realized that The Prince is a tongue in cheek piece even before reading The Discourses.
The documentary "Why we fight" opens with Eisenhovers farewell speech and addresses this very problem. It'a available on Google video here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9219858826421983682# and is worth watching.
This site is little beyond a bunch of affiliate links. How does it have 4 upvotes?
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This story makes me so sad, not because people are stealing her work, but because the author doesn't look at those 800 people a week as potential fans who would fund her next book.

Forget about selling the book itself, use the book as a way to find new fans. If half those 800 people each week signed up for her email list or followed her on Twitter, she would have a huge fan base which should could tap to FUND HER NEXT BOOK on Kickstarter.

Sell the making of the content, not the consumption of the content.

The hardcore fans will want her to write the next book, so they will fund it. Some percentage of the random people who download her book will turn into hardcore fans. It's a scalable, repeatable cycle.

400 people a week = 20k in a year. 5% of that giving $15 is $15,000, her entire advance.

EDIT: I did basically this model for documentaries and built an audience of a million members.
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It does not have to be perfect. The children who are likely to play with this have different standards than rich kids expecting to be professionals. As long as it can take the wear and tear, it's just fine.
Less sensational headline: Facebook Now Allows You to Share Your Phone Number & Address With Third-Party Apps
How do you make money? If it's in the public domain, what do you sell?
Where's your magic layer?
I have watched Jeopardy. It's questions are no more obscurely worded than what my mom types into a search engine. The search engine is often able to produce reasonable results, which is impressive in isolation and I recognize the difficulty of that, but not something to make a huge PR event out of, as there are many applications with similar parsing ability (like search engines).

Jeopardy always words something in the same format with a lot of information about the answer. Perhaps I am too far removed, but to me it doesn't seem like a huge advance in natural language research or anything worth all this attention. It's clearly a PR event purchased by IBM to try to sell more software along that line, hardly revolutionary.
This lab has several other videos with quad rotor robots like this (e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvRTALJp8DM), but don't worry about them escaping and starting a robot domination: they rely on infrared motion capture systems in that room for extremely precise location sensing.

Once GPS gets sub-meter accuracy, then we should start worrying.
Even if MSFT ever sell an ARM port of Windows Server and if you are running big server tasks (Oracle, SQLServer, IIS)etc then you will still need Intel for the horsepower.

If the servers are just low power, high efficiency file servers then every NAS already uses an ARM core to run Samba
I agree, this is the reason DRM should be relaxed to allow 20-30% of the book be readable without license. As it stands it's 100% readable when the DRM is stripped off.
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Right on.

As Fred Wilson points out this is partially a political problem: getting most people to agree to necessary changes.

It is tough to cut defense spending however. Throughout history the rich and powerful have become richer and more powerful through wars. The chances of the government acting in the best interest of our country is about zero.

Another way that the rich get richer is on the "war on X" where X can be terror, drugs, etc. I just heard a good lecture on how much illegal drug money gets money-laundered through Wall Street by the drug cartels. Good luck changing that.
Right, but the point RWW was trying to make is that the dialog doesn't exactly scream "we're sharing your phone number!" It looks very similar to any other dialog 90% of the Internet might click through without so much as a glance.
Security questions are an insecure gaping whole in online security
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In comparing the cost drivers of physical vs electonic books, in addition to physical manufacturing the cost of physical distribution must also be considered. The latter includes both labor and fuel costs.

I would have imagined these physical costs to be significant, though not the main or dominant cost drivers.

I would also love to see some numbers.

Update: Clearly ebook distribution has costs that physical book distribution does not. The implication here is that I believe the marginal costs of electronic distribution, on a per-book or even per-title basis, to be minimal relative to physical. But I acknowledge that this too is only in my imagination and not based on empirical fact.
I hope they have a very good screening process... the fact that you have the key at some point means > go to locksmith and make duplicate > steal things from it a month later after a few others have rented it

I would prefer personally approving people who want to rent my car...
My boys started at age 4. They could type before they could write. Built their own computers in the 6th grade (probably started late with that).

We used/played with computers Together. They weren't raised by them. First we sat in front together and played Hugo mystery games. Later we put all the computers on a round table where we could see one another, play cooperative games, talk and socialize.

One boy is an Army Ranger. Another is in graduate school CS at CMU. The 3rd is competing on cello at ASTA nationals.

The computer was an incidental part of their growing up, like the blender or the car. And TV is lots more corrosive - none of my boys watch TV much, too boring, you can't interact, plots are moronic and predictable.

Anyway, no there is no 'too young'. Its all in what you do with them.
Hey, could you contact alain@smartlyedu.com please? This sounds very interesting :)

We were thinking of pursuing something similar.
Don't forget UdiWWW, released in 1995 too.
>Thanks, we'll notify you when we come to your area

I travel a lot lately, why can't I browse all areas that have opened up?
> Ruby is faster than Perl

Only if you focus on a single number - the median - and ignore the complete overlap of the measurements shown by the boxplot and interquartile range.
"Globalization, social networks, massive change taking place. Blah blah blah"

About as stereotypically Harvard a piece I've seen. It's similar to what one may observe in the wild when birds puff up their bellies to look intimidating. While it may impress a mate or scare off a potential predator, keen wildlife observers know it's just a show.

The substance of the piece did not justify its volume.
Where's the option to choose which items get sent? Looks like all or nothing.
The way you wrote this, you make it sound like book pricing is a giant conspiracy to defraud the public. The fact is, very few competantly marketed products are ever sold with cost-based pricing; avoidance of cost-based pricing is literally marketing 101.

The notion that you might be swayed by a true reckoning of the cost basis for a book is thus a little strange. What do you care? If the market price for a popular ebook is $0.50 less than what Amazon is charging, any author capable of writing a popular book could make a mint taking their book directly to market.
A platform for people to submit ways to improve the current state of anything they think is sub par, like a school curriculum, bad traffic intersection, poor park maintenance, etc. it could show you suggested improvements near to you, and people could upvote ideas they believe in. empowered people could see what the community wants and volunteer time towards improvements, or some could be used as petitions for local govt, schoolboards, etc
Use absolute URLs, a lot of scrapers don't put a lot of effort into rewriting URLs so you can lead users back to the real site. Plus Google will take links coming from the scraped site to your site as an indication that you're the original source, and as a bonus you'll get PR for it as well.
Right, but they're saving travel time. When one drone is flying back to grab a piece, the next drone is lowering a piece into place.
There's the rub. The money's NOT THERE... The US is spending what it doesn't have, and has to stop doing that...
What should an "ambitious non-technologist" do with a promising Start-up idea?
I'm a college student with what I think could be an enormous start-up idea (I know, I know). But seriously, enormous. I'm not a coder and I don't know any despite doing an extensive comb of campus. Is there a place or trusted website I can pitch ideas and get tech people? What are the most efficient steps for someone in my position? Thanks.
I consider it a significant black mark on a product, open source or otherwise, if it doesn't have native packages for the most popular Linux distros. It's even better if they provide a yum or apt repository.

It is a challenge to do so, but if we can do it for our products (which have vast and complicated dependency chains and need to perform a huge amount of post-configuration in order to be easy for non-technical users to use), damned near any other project ought to be able to do it.

The vast majority of really ugly security issues I've seen have been due to people having installed something from source, sometimes years ago, and not realizing they're running exploitable software because their package manager tells them they're up to date. This reason alone should be enough to keep people using the native package manager for as much as possible. But there are many other good reasons, a few of which have been touched on in this article.
Anybody know the weight of each column?
Correction: I was wrong on lack of client-side support - it should work, except for IE, which don't support getters.
Making the front page on Reddit surely helped as well.
I would much prefer to stay at an AirBnB place than a hotel even at the same price (though getting comparable accommodations for half the price is obviously a plus). I've met a lot of interesting people as hosts that I've gone out with, shared dinners with, etc. that I would've never had at a hotel. I can see how this may change as it gets more popular and mainstream, though.

I've used it quite a bit and have had nothing but good experiences, but I'm rather selective about where I want to stay. That said, I do think there is a problem with not wanting to leave negative feedback for fear of retaliation, and it certainly is going to be one of the biggest problems as they grow.

For reference I've stayed at maybe a dozen places in the last 9 months, mostly in SF, SD, and NoCal.
Try Sococo teamspace. Window sharing, chat, voice, doc, really neat presence indicators. Its built exactly for a distributed development team.

Runs on Windows, Mac, Linux.
What's a lame article worth?
Pricing is set by the owner - as well as the option for hourly, daily, or weekly.

When I first joined Getaround, I had the same doubt. I wasn't sure if people would be willing to rent their cars out - full insurance, tracking, or not.

What's been interesting is the type of signups we've gotten - there are a bunch of regular cars, of course, but right off the bat we saw a lot of luxury vehicles as well (the Tesla being only one example).

We've seen an interesting trend, kind of similar to what the folks at Airbnb saw - sure, there's people who are doing it for the money, but there's actually quite a few people who've signed up because they want to help out their community/friends who need cars once in a while, or just because they want to share their cool cars with as many people as possible.
yeah i store all of my materials for school, including high res versions of all of my textbooks so I can look them up and print things if needed. Also about 2 gb of audio lectures that are not otherwise mirrored online. I wish it had the space to store all my music, but I don't really have the money at the moment for a paid account. someday.
Ouch.

I can't help but think using the Swedish Google to search for Russian is hardly a perfect example of science here.

Why isn't he using google.ru? I have no idea if it would return different results, but his current article doesn't prove as much as he thinks it does.

(Although, Library of Congress? Seriously?)
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So if I call up my local library and make sure the book is available, it is ethical to download the pirated copy... right?
im not sure what kind of video streaming you are doing, but for the ammount of data you have you may be better off hosting your site on a low end VM like slice host and then streaming your videos off s3
Get paid for good deeds?
Another way to say "they can get away with it" is "enough customers still find the product more valuable than the cash price set for it"
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I swear I thought the headline said "cat sharing" when it came up in my feed reader.
These are all legitimate issues you bring up, but they're all issues that normal car rental companies face too. How do they handle it?
Airbnb for cars. Very cool idea, but some concerns:

I assume the car is unlocked via a cellular uplink, rather than connecting as a local hotspot over wifi or bluetooth (since you can track the car online). What happens when it's in a garage with no signal?

Many newer cars have chips in the keys, tied to a system in the engine that prevents it from starting without the proper code. This means I have to leave a key in their box to start the car. If someone smashes the window, it's now much easier for them to steal my car.

I'd worry about wear-and-tear. Rental cars are rolled every couple years, you can buy cheap because they are often beaten.
I believe this is to date the sanest article related to the H.264/WebM debacle; it clearly, and with detail, brings out the fact that H.264 is open. However, it fails to clarify a very important detail to this discussion, surrounding the royalty issue: H.264 coding/decoding is free-of-charge to implement, distribute and use in non-commercial contexts.

Google's, Mozilla's and Opera's actions and careless, uninformed (or possibly intentionally slanderous) responses in this discussion clearly show that their issue with H.264 isn't that H.264 isn't open enough, but rather that it isn't gratis enough.
I have been wondering that for a while; why isn't there a conditional permissions system that you can choose what gets shared or not. It wouldn't be that hard for app developers to sanity check for what is available or not, and tell the user if it is an issue.

The all of nothing mentality is flawed, much like most of Facebook's decisions it seems. (imo)
They're also a lot easier to move and set up than cranes.
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I was just thinking something similar. I would put more emphasis on the volunteering, as petition based stuff doesn't really improve things. Turn it into a location based community task site.

People and charities can pitch to projects that require volunteers in their area. Each project can be discussed with threads. Could be as simple as "We're landscaping the local park at the weekend, turn up bring the kids and help" one day stuff, to "shelter needs volunteers for ongoing stuff". The project could be discussed and planned in their own threads, and users gain karma for their volunteer work.
It's not about money being there or not, government budgets don't work like that. It's about saddling the next generation with more and more debt. It's trading the future for short term gains.
I agree, that is the one feature I really need.
I'd think that H.264 isn't subject to this definition - or, at worst, it falls in a gray area of sorts - as the H.264 technology is unencumbered by license fees if it's used non-commercially. No developer of gratis software using MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 tech. has ever been subjected to a legal case initiated by the MPEG-LA.
Agree. Read Paul Kennedy and think of Britain in 1914.
I'm not sure I follow the connection from being "verbal minority" to being a "tastemaker". You can definitely be both, but just being one doesn't mean you're the other.
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Great article about language as the last man standing against globalism. If you ever have to manage the translation of a piece of software into a different language, you will find two kinds:
One in western chars where you can get a feeling about the translators work and one in different chars like russian, japanese, chinese, arabic where you don't get a ghost of idea what is written there.

For search engines this is much harder: if you don't employ a sufficient numbers of native speakers for these languages, you will never get sufficient results. All other employees can't help you out. Translation software is useless, if you don't know how to weight the possible results from the cultural canon.
A cyrillic reader expects to find the russian state library on top when looking for a lib, not the library of congress.
No, you should check out the book so they know people are interested in it and perhaps then will order more copies. Maybe it would then be ok to download it and use it for the period you have it checked out, but even that is debatable because then you might be supporting the continuation of the illegal distribution, causing more people to download it illegally.
ICs. I understand down to the level of circuits built out of logic gates, and I understand up to the level of transistors (well, to the extent that anyone ever understands quantum mechanics); but the step from logic gates to layers of doped silicon is magic as far as I'm concerned.
Hehe, that's my post too! I was trying to make people to contribute info!
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I'm a computer engineering student. As such I have a lot of classes with electrical engineers on the one side, and computer science majors on the other.

The EE kids like programming because it's a means to an end. It let's them simulate whatever it is the are working on in a very effective manner. They would never program for fun.

The CS kids like programming because it's a means to create. They enjoy the end result, a game, a website, an algorithm. They thrive on abstraction because it increases their productivity.

The computer engineers are just fascinated by everything. They often find assembly as fascinating as Lisp. These are the students who don't believe in magic layers, and will tinker their way lower and lower until they contemplate over whether they should take a class on solid-state physics because CPU architecture is relatively clear to them and they want to really understand how transistors work.

It may be different at other schools, but this article seems to describe computer engineers at their best.
When considering only commodity vehicles (a Honda Accord or whatever), the motivation of most urban renters is likely a low friction way to go to Costco on a Saturday, etc. without the cost/bother of owning a vehicle. However, the motivation for someone to pay more to rent, say, a BMW for the afternoon is quite different and probably not one which would give the BMW's owner warm fuzzies.

It seems that Getaround might actually be preferable to traditional car rental methods because of the low friction associated with the transaction. Enterprise Rent-A-Car will pick you up, but you have to go back to the retail location to fill-out paperwork and drop off the kid who brought the car to you. It would be so much easier to just use a car already located in your building's parking garage.

I looked at the Getaround site and couldn't find any details about how the in-car gizmo works. This support thread has some clues:

http://support.getaround.com/discussions/questions/8-power-f...

I'm a bit bothered by the statement "without giving too much away..." Security through obscurity? I presume that the CarKit does not integrate with the vehicle ignition? If not, must a person who rents his vehicle leave an ignition key in the vehicle? If so, the iPhone app implicitly becomes a location tool for easy-to-steal vehicles. Just smash a window and start up the car. If the carkit does indeed replace the need for a physical key, I suppose the security concerns would be no worse than those associated with aftermarket remote starters. It is bothersome that Getaround is not more forthcoming about the technology.
Wondering how much this site differs from:

http://relayrides.com/
http://www.spride.com/
http://www.whipcar.com/

Has anyone used any of these services?

Very cool idea and hope that the legitimate concerns are mollified.
'I'm taking issue with your statement "if chinese, Indians and Koreans do well"'

Check the author lines a bit more carefully, please.

"And then you next have to look at the statistics you want to compare."

Actually, you provided the stats, I didn't look for anything. The stats you provided failed to make the point you wanted them to make. Then I simply reacted to your moving of the goalposts.

The problem is that you're basically correct that you can't just look at one stat, so you don't understand why I'm not just agreeing with you, but my problem is that your point is vacuous without spending a lot more time on it. There is a sea of statistics out there and you can slice whatever result you want out of them. It takes a lot more work to actually establish causation or even real-world significance of such things, which you're not doing.

If everybody's being discriminated against, and I can bend the stats to show everybody's got some sort of disadvantage somewhere, then it isn't obvious that anybody is. More work is needed than merely citing the stats showing the particular localized problems. Nobody gets life handed to them on a silver platter as a result of their race. (Those that do get life handed to them on a silver platter get it by other means, primarily rich parents, which dominates the race concern.)
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Not really. That implies Facebook are offering a way to push your phone number and data into third party apps.

What they are infact doing is now allowing third-parties to request extra, and very very personal, information about you using the same dialog that people have effectively now been trained to basically click-through.

I really think this dialog needs two things:

1) Something that highlights the fact you are allowing third-parties access beyond your basic profile. All personal information is not equal.

2) A way for the user to opt out of sharing this extra information. As a result, the app may have to deny you access if it really really does need your address (why it would is hard to imagine), but this "all or nothing" approach seems wrong to me.
By chance is your idea a free and open social network that will destroy Facebook overnight and make billions of dollars?
would be a great place for classrooms, 4h groups,churches, etc to find a place or task for volunteering. Maybe groups cou lk d have their own pages where it shows their past and upcoming volunteer stuff, and how it overlaps with what others in the community are doing