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Funny you should ask.

Our IT guys just screwed up both UPS & Fedex's systems here at work just last week. I'm a programmer at a distribution company, and had a front row seat to the mess.

We had a power surge that fried two of our shipping stations, and the last backup was about a week old. Since all the stations are identical, they cloned the hard drive from one station and put the image onto the two replacement stations, thereby getting them up and running quickly.

The imaged system and the replacements then started generating identical tracking numbers. While the packages arrived correctly (the address is encoded into the barcode), the tracking information was garbage on the both companies websites. It would show packages jumping from California to Georgia in a matter of minutes for instance. Packages were delivered multiple times, etc. No major harm was done, but customer's who were attempting to track their packages were very confused.

Not sure what you can gleam from this, but at the very least it's obvious that neither company treats the tracking number as unique, and they don't use them for anything of importance internally.
Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow. It's no new thing for the old cronies to eat, in advance, the productivity of the younger generation. They'll sell off the country's future to protect what they have today. The only way around it is to leave; there will be no tolerance of a revolution.
A set of photographs of the tribe were indeed published by msnbc.com and others in May 2008. However, the images above - which were made available to the media for the first time yesterday - are not the same photographs. A Survival International spokesperson has just confirmed to me that the images were taken in June 2010. For the sake of clarity and accuracy, I have therefore updated the title of this post to say Newly-released photos rather than New photos.
The controversy over the 2008 pictures was sparked by an article in The Observer headlined Secret of the "lost" tribe that wasn't. Later in 2008, Stephen Pritchard, that newspaper's readers' editor, wrote a follow-up piece in which he said the original article had misrepresented the situation.

http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/02/01/5965571-newl...
Just saw this. Awesome article. On another note, what is a geological statistician?
Looks like they will have to wait a year before they actually break the surface of the lake. From wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Vostok

"The researchers switched to a new thermal drill head with a clean silicon-oil fluid to drill the rest of the way.[17] Instead of drilling all the way into the water, they will stop just above it, when a sensor on the thermal drill detects free water. At that point, the drill will be stopped and extracted from the bore hole, thereby lowering the pressure beneath it and drawing water into the hole and left for quite some time to freeze, creating a plug of frozen ice in the bottom of the hole. Finally, next summer, the team would drill down again to take a sample of that ice and analyse it.[1][18]"
Will Braintree work for you?

http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/
>BTW: you to know that Western medicine is not the only medicine in the world.

There is only one class of medicine in the world, and is scientific. Your attempt to frame science-based medicine as a racial or cultural property ("Western") lies at the root of your reasoning fallacies: you reinterpret comparison between industrialized and tribal humans as cultural/racial, regardless of whether race or culture has anything to do with it. The superiority of empirical medicine is not cultural hegemony. The life-saving knowledge of microbe theory and hygiene is not a religious belief that be can relativized with shamanist "healing."
Actually, I was just suggesting that using commands like PSUBSCRIBE, PUBLISH are probably "high-latency" safe, because the general use cases (job queues, delayed writes, real-time web) for that are "soft realtime."

High latency won't mesh well in a situation where you need to do 100s or 1000s of writes at per request, or 100s of reads at a time, and so a hosted service seems less ideal to me for those situations.

Maybe my outlook on this is wrong, or I'm misinformed.

EDIT: catching up on other threads, it seems as though latency will be less an issue since they'll host on EC2, or Rackspace Cloud, or wherever demand is needed. That's smart, and not something I initially thought of.
>Preserving their backwards culture so they can continue lives of misery and suffering is just as disgusting as the Prime Directive.

The point is that they are not suffering.

Modern anthropology and the best science actually indicates that tribal hunter-gatherers experience higher levels of happiness and satisfaction than your typical citizen of an agricultural society.

Tribal hunter-gatherers have healthier diets, live longer without outside interference, have more social harmony, deeper longer lasting social bonds, etc. All the ingredients for deep, lasting, and fulfilling happiness.

They are living precisely how humans evolved to live. From the perspective of "suffering" agriculture is actually a step backwards. Nonetheless agricultural societies dominate because agricultural societies have higher populations, stronger diseases (natural disease warfare) and better military technology.

It is natural that agriculture dominates and pushes out the tribal lifestyle. However on the basis of suffering/misery it is actually the agriculturalists who are worse off.

A great book that details this phenomenon was recently released for the public called Sex At Dawn.
Zuck is probably wondering how he can get them on Facebook at this very moment.
Whether it's "taking off" (!) or not remains to be seen ;)
Thanks for your good wishes :)

Exciting though! phlux is being super helpful in guiding me in the right direction to make something of it!
"The housing bubble simply could not have occurred without financially illiterate people making bets they didn't understand in the hopes of getting rich quick."

A financially illiterate person who makes a bad bet does so with someone lending them money. In the case of the mortgage market it is a financially literate person giving them money. It's not mere convenience to place greater blame with (investment) banks.
Right; runtime library.

Often they are not even that; they appear to be but compilers can replace them bodily with super-optimized code so they get better benchmarks.
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Yeah, right, and tell your 200 friends to do the same.
The child in the first picture has very big and modern looking blade on his hand and a metallic pot is on the ground as pointed out by Keyframe in an another comment. Far from uncontacted.
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Respectable people like Jacob Bronowski, David Deutsch, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali -- not to mention easily over 100 million Americans -- believe this kind of thing. Don't be so shocked by a mainstream point of view.

It is not xenophobic to be pro-civilization, to think that allowing people the option to join civilization is good for them, or to wish aliens would come along and share advanced knowledge with us (thus radically transforming our world).

Change is not bad or scary on principle. Change is a necessary aspect of improvement. Improvement exists. I'm not going to force my idea of improvement on anyone, but I damn well am going to offer it to them and give them the choice.

Maybe you are ignorant of how some Western organizations strive to keep uncivilized people backwards against those people's will by putting up barriers between them and integration with the modern world. They treat them a little like a zoo. That's disgusting.

(You might have dodged Godwin's law if you hadn't included the parenthetical about it... :)
What about the missionaries who stopped indigenous peoples' crazy blood soaked ways and widespread human sacrifice rituals? The Aztecs in particular were quite psycho.

With the daily stories of decapitated bodies and mass slayings in connection with the drug cartels in Mexico, sometimes a wonder about the cultural link back to the Aztec ways.
This is the post I'd give a 100 upvotes to.
The situation is one of the designer's own creation.

If the client never paid anything up front, that's just bad business practice. If the designer delivered and launched the site without having yet collected a dime, that's more bad practice. And if the designer continued to host the site while never getting paid, that's just stupidity.

Rather than being controlled by his emotions, this designer would have been a lot better off kicking those pesky feelings out of the building and viewing the situation as a learning experience, then creating business practices as a result.

For example, adopt a policy of getting 50% down at project start with the other 50% due within 30 days of site launch. If a client starts dragging their feet on payment, remind them of the clause in the contract where the penalties for non-payment were outlined. You did get a signed contract, right?

Sometimes clients don't want to pay and unfortunately nobody starts out in business with great judgment about who is and isn't going to pay. That judgment comes from experience, which is unfortunately built through exercising bad judgment.
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Hi HN!

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Makes me wonder if aliens are not treating us also as uncontacted tribe but on a larger scale.
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I don't know the answer either, but I sure as hell know it's not my decision to make for somebody else.

Your point about possible alien intelligences is an excellent one. How would we want to be treated if the shoe were on the other foot? I don't know my answer -- I suspect I would be all for change even if it were uncomfortable. But I absolutely know that I would be the one to make my personal decision about the matter. That's not for others to decide for me.

We have a word for a situation where beings are allowed to live in fake isolation, while we secretly observe them and feel great about ourselves for letting them live as close to their natural state as we can allow. It's called a "zoo"
I think I voted you up, but not sure! Go Aihui go!
Ask HN: How can I market to SxSW without a badge
I have an mvp that is going to be ready in the next couple of weeks. I'd like to release it a week or so before SxSW to work out a couple of kinks and then go to Austin and market it like hell. I'm not sure how things are set up there(I've never been). Is there a good place to 'intercept' people without being in the convention center?

Alternatively, is there a good way to pick up an 'unused' registration? Maybe someone had an employee registered but is no longer associated with said employee.

SxSW is a unique opportunity for me because I live in Houston and have sister that I can stay with in Austin.

If you haven't figured it out. I'm trying to boot strap this with basically no cash.
Debt can go away but bad education doesn't.
I never actually said we shouldn't contact them or offer assistance. Before I go to the gym, I'll argue what I think is with your point.

For those who think they should be left in isolation, why is it bad to contact them and expose them to our civilization, but good to invent new things and businesses and cultural systems in our civilization?

For example, entrepreneurs invented television and birth control. These inventions changed everything for us and our culture. How is it ok for someone to invent television but not ok for us to contact an isolated tribe and show them what the rest of the world is doing?

How is it ok for someone to invent a way for hetero women to make more choices about their bodies and their sexuality, but not ok for us to offer them medicine so that they can make more choices about their bodies?

We hackers espouse a philosophy of creating change. How is it ok to create change for our culture but not ok to create change for theirs?
Since they have never paid for the site, copyright and ownership of the site remain with the developer.
I wonder how many people that declare bankruptcy own a big flat screen TV with a DirectTV subscription with at least one premium package (Showtime, HBO, etc)?
maybe a little context will help. from our blog...

Late last night, we received an email from Mahmoud Hashim, an Egyptian living in Toronto. Like us, he has watched with horror as peaceful demonstrators have been killed in the violence in Egypt. He told us about the growing movement to help document the martyrs losing their lives in the streets and pointed us to a collaborative Google Doc that is being circulated around the world to aid the process. Mahmoud wrote "I realized then that the least we can do is not forget these brave young men and women, and to honor them by letting the whole nation know who they were" He then asked us for a favor: Could we take the data being collected from observers in Egypt and make a more visually compelling website. He wanted us to "create a page that will help young people honor the memory of those heroes and for the whole world to see and then dive deeper."

This email came at the very end of a long day, but we knew what we had to do. We rolled up our sleeves and stayed up late into the evening creating a special online memorial to the Egyptian martyrs. A place to remember their sacrifices and know that these are not just numbers. We hope that this can be a place that shows the world what is happening and helps a little to remember each of the lives lost that they might not be wasted and that the violence may end. You can see it at 1000Memories.com/Egypt

If you have any information about someone killed in Egypt, we have linked our site to the Google Doc that has been used to record deaths. We are totally committed to continually updating our memorial as the Google Doc is updated. We currently have 32 names, but know there are hundreds more still undocumented.

This is exactly why we started 1000Memories in the first place: to help the living pay tribute and remember the ones we admire and love. We're glad to have an opportunity to do our part.
Mac-centric dating service helps users find the Apple of their eye
Blekko have one for adsense ids, not sure if they have a slashtag for GA though.
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I love this - so useful.
I am really getting a kick out of the ironic juxtaposition of the most technologically primitive segment of the world population getting space up here at the top of Hacker News. After all, the Hacker News audience represents arguably the most technologically sophisticated segment of the world population.
apple fanboi circlejerk? Got it.

Yup; and here is the proof: "...because I honestly think Apple people are a different kind of people"
This article is too long for what it delivers. Most of it is a derivative of what all the talking heads say: "Ideas are meaningless. Execution is everything".

The value of this article can be boiled down to the following sentence. If you're not a technical co-founder be prepared to show off your sales and marketing chops before you start looking for one.
"So, they overextended themselves and THEN lost a job or had a medical emergency. The problem is people choose to live on the edge financially, which I think is irresponsible, especially if you have others who depend on you for their life."

This is exactly true. Someone above mentioned that people buy houses, to get into a good school district. Why can't we allow people in bad school districts to go to another school? I will give you the answer: teacher's unions.

I always try to have at least 6 months (IE: I could survive for six months without a job) salary in the bank. I got laid off a couple of weeks ago and now I'm fine. Many people I know, that decided to live beyond their means, are now worried that if they lose their job, they will be in trouble.

Everyone wants to blame the medical system (which does need work) and ignore personal responsibility. Medical emergencies that result in bankruptcy probably happen to less than 5% of the population. It's almost as bad as the terrorist fear mongering.
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I am actually part of the Meetup Everywhere team, and it's been really exciting to see Al Jazeera use the platform we launched a few weeks ago to organize their base. We're really hoping that Everywhere can become a go-to solution for distributed movements like this.

I attended (well, hosted/organized) the last AJE Meetup here at our office last night and it was a really good time. I recommend checking to see if there's anything going on in your local community... Not because I work on the product, just because I really enjoyed what came out of the event for me.
>> many of today's startups don't actually sell anything. They have a feature, not a business. Is Path really an eCommerce site? Hipster? <<

I was referring to the term 'eCommerce' in a somewhat broader context; a context in which eCommerce is equivalent to (gosh! I can't find the 'equivalent to' symbol on the keyboard - not even with the Alt+Num Pad key combinations - can you beat that!!!):

Physical goods / soft (digital/electronic) goods / advertising

>> ...ads aren't exactly a "product". They're an extra level above your service, and are notoriously much more difficult to pull off successfully <<

Partly agree, partly disagree.

This boils down to how you define a 'product'.

In my books, a product is something that you - or someone else - makes that others would be/are willing to pay (money) for. If a web site can generate advertising inventory (via traffic/eyeballs/members) that someone is willing to purchase, that is (nearly) as much of a product as a car/laptop/pizza/pair of nike shoes.

Think about this: If ads weren't a product (that sold for $$), where do you think Google would be today?

Now, if you say that Google is a (big?) part of Bubble 2.0, you just could be on terra firma there, but you'd find yourself hard-pressed to convince many people (myself included) of that.

>> and [ads] are notoriously much more difficult to pull off successfully <<

This, probably, is the most valid (such as it may be) point of your whole argument so far, with certain reservations.

What you probably mean here is that ads on typical social networking/forum web sites are generally low paying and if this is what you're saying, I'd agree with you whole heartedly. (We have a [regional] SN site averaging about 1M page views a month that generates < $100/mo on ad revenues. Although at no point during the 4+ years since we launched it have we really focused on revenue generation/maximisation, to be fair to the argument, that's neither here nor there).

>> Selling products, however, is much more concrete. <<

No argument with that, but as I mentioned above, it depends on how do you define a "product".

Back it comes to you now. :-)
Have you seen Microsoft CHESS?

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/chess/

Tests different interleavings of multithreaded code. Maybe there are other tools like this out there.
I also have a Thinkpad, and I think they solve this quite nicely. You can clearly differentiate between the 3 buttons due to how '3D' and sculpted each button is. None of the buttons feel the same to the thumb. (At least for the Trackpoint buttons. The touchpad buttons are as terrible as any other laptop manufacturer).
Mainly because I don't have any plans to have kids, but I'm also not the sort to take that kind of risk. I'd rather supplement a bad school with good resources at home and plenty of guidance.
I voted. I have had a bacon maple cupcake.
>Primitive people's lives are short, yes. But that they are uncomfortable and brutish is at best an uninformed value judgment that supports the narrative of civilization.

Then let them make their own value judgement. Offer them 80-year life expectancies and the extravagant luxury of modern life; let them make their own choices. Xenophanes isn't the one arguing for forced isolation -- for keeping the truth of the world secret from them.
Check the FAQ first:

http://www.uncontactedtribes.org/articles/3109-questions-and...

But could this be because they don’t see the benefits of ‘our’ way of life? If they knew, might they want to join us?

They won’t get the chance. In reality, the future offered by the settler society is to ‘join’ at the lowest possible level – often as beggars and prostitutes. History proves that tribal peoples end up in a far worse state after contact, often dead.
Sorry, I don't understand how email could be seen as public, let alone the phone. (Except in as much as they're not secure channels, but neither is facebook.)

Could someone explain what this means?
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I think it's because when we invent television we don't lose anything. Once we show these people the modern world, there is no going back. It makes it a difficult moral dilema.
IIRC, the Spaniards stopped the Aztecs with smallpox and the measles.

http://www.thenagain.info/WebChron/Americas/Cortes.CP.html

But let's not quibble a minor point like that. The question I raised was simply how our perspective today differs from their perspective back in colonial times, with an eye to considering the possibility that we are fallible and that what we sincerely believe is in someone else's best interests may not be in their best interests.

I'm not saying we can't or shouldn't contact or help them, I'm saying we should be careful, because it may be that what we think is good for them today turns out to be bad for them. That doesn't mean we shouldn't act, but isn't it worth thinking carefully before making choices?
The shortness of tribal people's lives has been greatly exaggerated. In fact, it's pure myth.

The book Sex at Dawn demonstrates this using the latest anthropology and archaeology if you want to know more.

Until recently, it was normal for tribal societies to live longer on average than agricultural societies. All of the statistics that support the idea that tribal life is short were done very poorly and skewed by abortion/infanticide.

Tribal societies would have the same lifespans on average as our society does today and perhaps even longer because they had far healthier diets and always got lots of exercise.

However, they would keep their numbers low through infanticide and eugenics. For instance a baby with birth defects would often be allowed to die and abortions using certain drugs were normal.

Anyway, the idea that tribal life was brutish, solitary and short is utterly wrong on every point.

The science indicates clearly:

- it was less brutish on average with more social harmony and warfare was less painful for all involved

- it was not short at all, quite the contrary. Only modern agricultural societies, through scientific medicine, have begun to approach the lifespans of tribal societies who are not interfered with. This was just a myth from the very start.

- it was not solitary. Our society is solitary. In a tribal society, every person is surrounded by lifelong friends and relatives at every moment of every day for their entire lives. Modern man can scarcely imagine the depths of human bonding that tribal societies experience.
Or just declare bankruptcy.
I heart lovewithfood and you should too! It needs a table and there's no doubt about it!
I've been using Moleskine notebooks for years; if you do get one, let us know how it goes. I expect it not to work very well, but every so often my expectations are confounded in a delightful way, the most recent being the Livescribe pen (see James Fallows's description here: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2009/07/my-new... ). Based on his recommendation, I bought one and, shockingly, it works as advertised and is vastly more convenient than conventional dictaphones or pen/paper.