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There are programs to sync Android Devices (such as Double Twist), but I find it much easier to just mount the internal SD on my GalaxyS and drag and drop it. This being said, I hardly ever use my phone for music (since I also have a Zune) so it doesn't bother me much.
As far as I know for my GalaxyS there is a partition on the internal storage for the "Internal SD" and the external SD is handled as a different card. Both mount separately and operate interdependently. So you would have to split that 40GB of music between both Internal and External SD cards.
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For better or for worse... I doubt Jeff Bezos, Meg Ryan, Larry Page, or even Jacqueline Novogratz would be attending and interacting at a conference that wasn't at least some bit elitist. To know that the fellow attendees are "peers" who have some comparable "level of achievement" puts them in a different mindset than being surrounded by people who are extremely passionate about something but may not have as much of a track record. The former scenario is networking for them, the latter is putting in face time/public relations. I think that if you make the TED conference itself more open, then you'll lose some of the big name people. The big name people who do attend will be in that "lecture to the audience" mode and likely leave right after the speeches.

TEDx is the non-elitist version of the TED. I think these are just as inspiring and motivating, but without the distraction of the big names. The character of the event is different(less money, prestige, and social posturing in the room) but the spirit of sharing ideas and doing what we can is the same. I think there is a place for both TED and TEDx in the world. Whichever you most want to attend depends on your own personal goals and circumstances.
I appreciate the compliment. I kinda knew it would not be read by many because of its length - so I didn't even bother to submit it to hacker news. But I was pleasantly surprised today to see it on the front page. I have been thinking about breaking it up into smaller articles - but something in me has resisted. The most important point requires the reader to stitch together a great number of different threads - and would be largely intelligible without the background.

I tried to explain the idea over at esr's blog - because I thought the crowd there might be interested and might get it. Amusingly esr let loose at me (called me a sloppy thinker no less!) - and I realised it just couldn't be articulated in small bytes of info.

But yeah - intimacy comes at a great cost of time - the time spent really getting to know a person through great chats and extended exploration. This article assumes intimacy with the world because of the time required to invest in it. But if just a few people like yourself get a chance to look at it - and maybe even refine some of the ideas (which they certainly need) - then that's good enough for a first effort.
I don't quite understand what you're trying to get at. Are you saying that cloud providers should provide you some sort of insured access to data in case something catastrophic happens, or are you saying that you should be able to store encrypted data in the cloud so the cloud provider or another authority cannot read it?

As for the former problem, cloud storage providers such as Amazon S3 already provide more redundancy for your data than you could possibly design cost-effectively on your own (in fact, they even offer a _reduced_ redundancy service if you don't want to pay for the S3 redundancy).

The latter "problem" isn't really a problem --- it's entirely up to you to encrypt the data you want to store in the cloud and keep the key to yourself, and you can easily have an encrypted frontend to your S3 block storage or even your Dropbox folder. I don't see the relevance of something like SUNDR... IIRC, it is a way to merely store your data on an untrusted service. However, most business use the cloud for computation (which of course requires storage). So SUNDR won't apply when you have to trust both computation and storage to an untrusted entity?

You could of course run a distribution on your compute node VM that encrypts data going out of the VM to the cloud provider infrastructure, but the benefit is limited because your applications are finally running on the provider's hardware. I suppose we need to wait until that homomorphic encryption stuff becomes real :)
> I want my neatly organized music library to sync 1:1 without me having to do anything.

I'm longing for an intelligent way to sync. I have just now 200 GB of mp3s (and I'm not alone, nor exceptional, and I still have several hundreds CDs to convert), so syncing 1:1 simply can't work at all until we have terabytes in our portable devices.
Definitely, I do huge sales through it.
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I've just learned of the L-1 (subtypes L-1A and L-1B) US visa, which seems to me ideal to what Startup Visa is intended to cover. Of course, this requires the startup to have an office in the applicant's country, but at least in come cases (for example, the widely publicised case of Zemanta's co-founder) that is already true, while in others it shouldn't be too difficult to achieve.
I own an IT services company and we have a medical vertical. There is a demand for this and I am a big fan of what you are doing. What I can tell you however is that no amount of iPad UI wizardy will overcome the hairball that is EMR/EHR. Table stakes are Meaningful Use certification and assurance, HL7, Labs, PACS, HIS integration and the list goes on and on. The hardest work happens there, and Dr. Chrono will need "street cred" there to grow.
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At first while I was reading this article I was really REALLY bummed out. I was so excited when they discovered extra terrestrial life that, even though the initial link posted on HN came from Fox News and the second came from Yahoo!, I still believed it. I'm just that big an optimist.

This guy put me in my place, though. The Journal of Cosmology does look like a complete and utter joke of a website. Fox may as well just take to syndicating Nexus magazine.

It's not all bad news though! Just as I was beginning to get seriously down in the dumps I saw that, NO JOKE, I'm the 999,999th visitor to scienceblogs.com!

Not only that, but I have been RANDOMLY SELECTED to become the possible winner of an Apple product! That news really bouyed my spirits!

In all seriousness: if this dude wants to go round shitting on other people's websites he should reconsider his choice in 3rd party ad network.
Yes, I worked on quite a few boosting / bagging / random forests classifiers. The key thing I learned, though, was that it wasn't possible to take the _entire_ dataset for some problem, throw even an ensemble method at it, and expect high detection and low FP rates. As you noted, one has to filter and prune using domain knowledge or hand-verified heuristics before you'd see decent performance.
You assume that there is, or should be, one authentic you, but that's just not the case for most people.

Everyone has at least three personae. - the one you show to family members, the one you show to friends, and the one you show at work, and you may have more. Each one is authentic, but they're authentic to the specific context that you are in.

For example, I rarely swear at work - I have to be very frustrated or angry to do it there. A few minor words may slip out from time to time when I'm talking to family, but again, they don't hear it from me very often. On the other hand, with some of my friends I swear all the time.

In real life you can usually understand the context you are in pretty easily. Online it also used to be pretty simple - you would have one or more handles that you would use on different sites, and you generally acted appropriate to the image you presented using that handle. But now Facebook wants to combine all of that. They can present it as simplifying things for you - after all, you no longer have to manage all these different accounts right? But it also means that no matter where you are, you have to decide which "you" to present.

This is going to cause problems. --Those of us who understand the consequences are likely to either avoid sites that force you to authenticate through Facebook (this is my option), or start treating Facebook like Linkedin and do your best to prevent anything that may present you in an unflattering light to a potential employer. Young people aren't as likely to get this right away, and I fear that it's going to hurt them in the future.
>Staging is generally most useful when you are showing a working version of what you are building to a client (or anyone who might need to see it) while you are still in development.

Yes I do have 4 people to demo to.

>This is especially important when you have multiple developers because you don't know what the other guy is doing.

Yes I have 2 developers working independently. I hired them to increase the speed of development. Plus myself, that is 3 people working on different parts.

so my question is how do i get someone to help me?
or point me to the right resources?

I am getting the feeling that i am being perceived as someone enamored with a buzzword and ignoring basics.

I am also getting the feeling that the term continuous deployment is perceived as a gigantic ball of multiple scripts and processes for deployment, only suited for projects of a certain size.

I am going to state the following unspoken assumptions of mine. My bad that I unknowingly assumed that other readers believe in the same assumptions.

Hope this will help the discussion.

From a web application perspective, my assumptions are

a) continuous deployment/integration means able to (as much as possible) automate the process of deployment of the code on a server preferably one where the configuration is identical to the production server. regardless how much the code is completed.

b) continuous deployment/integration means able to (as much as possible) automate the process of testing the deployed code against unit tests or functional tests therefore allowing developers to add new features or re-factor existing code without fear of integration risks.

Again, I would like to seek help to automate (as much as possible) the process of deployment.

I already have Capistrano working but to a production environment.

I am not looking to hire from HN readers, though I do not rule that out. at the very least point me to good places to look for such people.

Like a stranger in another country, I need directions. Either take me where I want to go, or tell me where I can ask for better directions.

I hope that analogy works to express what I am asking for.

Thank you very much to all feedback so far.
The market is there, it's just that no one really pays attention to it. The options currently out there are all pricey (for the 'starving artist' types that musicians tend to be anyway), bloated (the latest Guitar Pro has Effects Pedals for crying out loud), and just expect musicians to instinctively know what to do when given nearly half a screenful of buttons. Just the other day I noticed a Sibelius manual at my local bookstore that was the size of a phone book! If you're a songwriter, all you want to do is basically get to the point where you could record a demo of your stuff; the last thing you're gonna want to do, is waste your time going through a huge tome just to write your stuff down.

I'm actually working on a startup that's looking to solve this problem, and we're fully confident that good, affordable, and simple yet well-thought-out music notation software is something that musicians everywhere are going to have a huge sigh of relief over. We're even applying to the summer YC session in hopes of accomplishing this faster :)

oh, and our url is http://www.tabrat.com by the way (still only a splash page though).
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Splitting it up would definitely detract from the point. I doubt many would discern the irony in it.

One thing that's relevant: very few "hackers" obtain really good, close friends early in life. I've been lucky to have found a few very, very good friendships in middle and high school, and very few since. It continually amazes me how shallow and disconnected most people remain for most of their lives -- I find myself coming back to old friendships constantly (in terms of thinking about how we relate to each other). For example, playing in a band in high school was educational. Being so intimate (in certain ways) with my friends to a point where we could play musically and make mistakes and recover through mere eye contact was quite an experience.

It's something that's difficult to replicate, especially in a field that's so disconnected from human contact. I really appreciated this article because it articulated something I've felt for a long time but haven't been disciplined enough to accurately reflect upon.
I do leave wiggle room in the words because I often analyze how systems are changing. Such analysis is based on hunches and presumption and experiences that can't always fully be revealed publicly without leading people astray or adding unnecessary risk.

If I am too ridged in how I write & then Google changes their approach in a slightly different way, then I look like the bad guy for not being 100% right 100% of the time.

Predicting the future is hard.

And since some people read your writing months or years after you type something, being too rigid in a changing ecosystem is going to lead some folks astray. This is only compounded by the verticalization of search, SEO strategies being different in different regions of the world, SEO strategies having different levels of risks vs reward for different types of organizations, etc.

Also in some cases Google has been known to have a vindictive side, which throws other presumptions out the window. You learn a new part of "the algorithm" when you are put up to vote for public lynching on a Google engineer's blog. :D

That said, they typically are pretty fair. Though there are some absurd exceptions. ;)

I am more for promoting questioning authority & encouraging testing than a static paint-by-number approach. That can make it seem like the writer is being obtuse or translucent, but that is far better than saying "always do X" and then have someone get utterly destroyed for following the tip.

Also we do run a number of sites. And our approach is based on "do what works." I may criticize Google's approach to something while testing how well it works. I don't control their ecoysystem, but I do monitor how it works and run many tests in parallel.

For the record with eHow, I don't mind them existing and am totally cool with Google being fine with them. What I do think is laughable though is the following combination:

- Google claiming they can't judge content quality when they frequently judge the intent of links (with far less information available)

- Google writing an algorithm to catch content farms which torches 10's of thousands of smaller websites while somehow missing eHow

- Google torching some people for using expired domains, but not giving a crap if eHow buys a registrar and does it in bulk (which is yet another side of "the algorithm" most people do not understand)

Ultimately I am fine with search engines doing whatever they feel they should. All I ask is for consistency in enforcement & approach. If they assume you are guilty & should be destroyed for doing x, then they shouldn't preach their moral superiority when they fund someone doing 100x or 1000x worse than what was worth torching you over.

I haven't had any sites fully torched in quite a long time, but I can tell you that the site that was penalized to the most extreme level was not doing anywhere near the same level of shady crap that eHow was doing recently. It was not even in the same league or solar system! But I know if I followed eHow's lead on some of that stuff I would get torched.
> Criticizing being always easy, let's see how we can make things different :

Good point!
> I was tightly following what Goldman had done during recession.

What were you doing? What do you mean people were too professional?

How did you get the job? What sort of experience/background do you have?
You must see your self from outside yourself and understand that you may be experiencing many things as a result from circumstance and happenstance. You body chemistry could make you feel all kinds of things. You must distinguish between your temporal disposition and the permanent results of other actions. You must be intelligent about your own biased cognitive perspective, no?
If you put your friends into groups...

This does not seem to be true. When I click the lock and choose "Customize" I am given a text box in which I can type the names of individual friends, one by one. Groups don't seem to have much -- anything? -- to do with it.

So, yes, you're right, but I'd revise "it's a pain in the ass" to "it's an epic pain in the ass."
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Initially, of course there is no problem with local deployments aka localhost.

Now there IS.

Because I need to have https, some pages have now broken.

Clearly the developers I recently hired and myself CANNOT test against https on local deployments.

>The other advantage is that by the time you are seriously ready to automate your build, it may be quite different from what you have now -- it depends on where your project goes, if you make a large pivot, mix in new technologies, and so on.

Yes I agree with you. But what I am asking is that currently, the code has grown to a size where i need to have the proper amount of automated processes for deployment and testing and I do NOT have the chops to do it myself.

So I would like to have some directions as to how to go about it myself? or hire someone to aid me?
> I also think you miss the point of academic papers. The goal is not to build a product, but rather to understand algorithms.

I actually don't, being a researcher myself (not in ML, but in a field that uses a lot of it). I'm just saying that real-world datasets in the industry are nothing like the toy datasets that a lot of papers from universities are written with... there's a lot more noise, and you'd never be able to get a good classification (for example) using just one coherent set of techniques.

On the other hand, KDD/WWW/ICML and other data mining conferences are increasingly dominated by industry folks now, so my experience may not be as common anymore.
Yes it is deeply wrong
http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=61693)

Node.js + Web Workers (http://bit.ly/dAnzEQ) makes more sense (in spite of I think all of this is crazy)
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I've worked on an iPad app targeted at an entire state's hospitals.

Doctors, particularly specialists that travel, love their iPhones. They love tablets/iPads. You don't need to convince them. You need to convince the accountants, insurers and lawyers.
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US cons:

- imigration

US pros:

- open a company with one phone call to IRS

- get funding is feasible

- most companies will deal with you (e.g. app store)

non-US pros:

- easy to get visa

- health care :)

non-US cons:

- a full month of bureaucracy to open a company.

- some three months to close it. more if you ever had any employee

- funding? hahahaha
new devices are going to change the way we use our windowing managers. For example on my air things close and open so fast I try to close most things (especially those that remember their state) when I'm not looking at them - I don't minimise I close.

Looking at the gnome 3 design can't help wondering if someone shouldn't be thinking of putting it on a tablet eventually (or rather working on a tablet directed branch) - might meet the "open" needs of hackers more than android.
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Is that true about hackers not really having close friends? I don't know as many hackers as I would like - but two of my very closest friends are hackers (and how I came to be exposed to the culture). Besides that - I've always assumed that hacker culture is very closely related to nerd culture - wherein I find the greatest propensity for intimacy.
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Thanks for the idea. I think i'll implement the 'gift' mechanism.
Hum. Completely artificial distinction. I'm both an artist and an hacker, and so are countless other peoples. Was Leonardo Da Vinci an artist, or a hacker? The most preposterous part is when he conflates "philosophers" with artists, this is ridiculous. Was Descartes an artist? Leibniz? Newton?

Overall, this is an irrational, artistic piece, and too long with that :)
> Even the idea of "authenticity" is given to us, a (rather lame) invention of the 19th Century Romantics, Freud, and the 1960s.

They popularized a version (and Sartre's idea of "bad faith" is probably the proximal source of modern popularity), but you can find it in basically the entire individualist tradition of Western philosophy. Rousseau spends a lot of time discussing it, for example; in addition to discussing the political effects of social relations, he worries about whether societies produce conformity and reduce people's expression of their genuine personality/autonomy (see e.g. his writing on amour-propre, and his obsession with taking [and writing about] solitary walks).
I checked one out a few days ago too and I agree that the power button is very badly placed - it literally took me several minutes to figure out how to turn it on. Of course, once you know where it is isn't not an issue, but it's not the best first impression. I imagine most people will fumble around the sides for a few seconds before they just give up and move on to the iPad.
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Which API?

Well obviously they don't know because they're just guessing what Google is doing to begin with.

Grr... given that I'm going to using the twitter API, something with details would have been nice...
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