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The past few years I've been living an expat traveler lifestyle.

I imagine that you're doing work while traveling. How does that play out with regards to visas and taxation?
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We got rid of anything paper below 10. So now 1, 2, 5 coins (and some for cents) and bills 10 and up. We used to have paper bills for 1, 2 and 5 before, nobody misses them.
Academics love to get a taste of that defense budget via research grants, but yeah, agreed. Lots of waste inherent in the military-industrial complex.

Plus there’s the whole killing people thing.
The higher you get, the harder you fall. Their foundation is built upon false assumptions of invincibility and permanence. People WILL leave when something 'cooler' and/or 'smarter' is created. Facebook is not exempt from this basic fact of business. People are fickle and are converted with the right words, images, and features.

Facebook has an Achilles heel that can't be overlooked, that is it's complete dependence on people sharing as much as they can with as many people as possible. That is going to eventually turn something that was once clean and simple into something cluttered and complex. It's already happening...

Another major factor, they have hit their ceiling for media attention. They have actually broken it and are now starting to get on some people's nerves. It's only natural...it happened to Apple and Google too. Remember how innocent and perfect they once seemed?

P.S. (I am not a "Facebook hater" or anti-Zuckerberg. I respect the founder and his baby. This is just plain obvious to me.)
Google has been at that for so much longer, though. While Facebook can mine my profile, Google has years of AdSense data about the actual sites I visit and what I do there, in addition to profile info from several different portions of my Google account (assuming they use that, I don't actually know).
yeah making this a wiki would be kickass
Unless they are going to put FIDOnet back online (or is it still around?) you need a backbone for the internet, which means governments can always control and close it at will.

The mere fact the US is pursuing such an option is a demonstration of bad government that threatens and controls it's people with FUD.
You are not crazy my friend. You are sane. I think the investors who invest at this valuation are insane and in need of a serious meditation session.
I think you're overestimating Scoble's incredulity. From reading him, and seeing him speak, and meeting him in person, my impression is he's nearly incapable of sarcasm.
The US can't make you leave North America, but if they find out you're in violation of a visa waiver

I don't understand. If you fly into the US, then enter Canada via land crossing, they will stamp your passport upon leaving the US, thereby terminating your automatic tourist 'visa'. When you return to the US via land crossing, they will give you a new passport stamp.
when we started http://www.virtualrockstars.com we didn't even consider for one second optimizing for IE6. I believe the few percentage of IE6 browser still (!) in use out there are web devs being forced to test on IE6 (and some companies with IT departments too lazy to upgrade)
Really they should have hired him to work on console security, as well as officially allowing the system to be modded to allow home brew, take away the incentive for the homebrew people to further enabled piracy and get it seems the best person to defend their console against piracy in the future.
Yup, that's the same savings as ending the Iraq war 5.5 days earlier.
You aren't thinking 'washington'

- it's undignified to slip coins into a striper's panties
Crocodoc is listed as having $0 in funding, but they took in money last July. I'm not sure the dollar amount.
Snipshot was W06.
I wish it would read 'Executed' vs 'died'. I'm pretty sure crimes against humanity is a capital offense.
just noticed, it IS a wiki of sorts. you can add founders and investments. nice work.
My experience is the same. Rote, repetitive tasks based largely on muscle memory can be done along with cognitive activities like listening to lectures or the radio, but anything that requires abstract reasoning feels very difficult when I'm trying to do two or more things at once.
Like the clever way that your baggage comes off a belt that is basically open to the street.

So while you spend 2hours getting through immigration your cases are just sitting there - if you are lucky there is a single old women supposedly checking baggage tags.
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The actual costs of defending the United States against Canadian aggression is probably only 10% of what we now spend.

One has to wonder how much we'd save if we simply had term limits, proportional representation or instant runoff voting.

We need representation that actually represents our actual interests instead of being so easily bought and sold.
It probably costs that much in gasoline carting the things around.
Agreed. They should square, triangular or spherical so there is no confusion. :-)
In 30 years, we'll be having this conversation about getting rid of the $100 bill.
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You can just pass the equation in Wolfram Alpha directly and you have your answer! The font is crystal clear and the equation is quite simple.
(Based on what they've currently said, which I wouldn't trust, personally)

They aren't looking for identifying information. They are looking for location information to prove that San Francisco is an appropriate venu. IP addresses will give them pretty strong location evidence, regardless of who was behind that IP.
It's not that similar. There are no ridges, I've never had a hard time telling them apart. The Susan B Anthony coin was pretty badly designed, with both ridges and silver color.
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Has anybody tested that the banner renders find in IE6 ;-)?
I'm using jQuery's ajax() function to make the request. The same origin policy prevents the script from receiving the data returned by the request or even seeing whether it succeeded or not. But timing is not hidden, so I can see how long the request takes.

Personally, I think JavaScript in the browser is a really ugly way to program. What could have been a simple loop or tail-recursive iteration over a list ended up requiring three continuations.
You'd be surprised how much more you can find to do with simultaneous 5 axis, not to mention how much it can decrease machining time . . . you can use a relatively huge cutting tool and still get a great finish.
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Agreed. I suspect this notion that you incur mental cost from screen-switching comes from those who have not used a tiling window manager. Once you get used to this, a desktop is clumsy/painful to use.

I have the same layout every day: screen 1 is tmux with several xterms, one running vim; screen 2 is the browser; 3 is email; 4 is remote connections; etc.

I constantly toggle alt-1 and alt-2 to jump between vim and the browser and it takes no mental effort. Why not put them side by side? I could, but I prefer full screen.

[Your down-voter could perhaps re-read the guidelines.]
"... Firstly, the Earth is a sphere, ..."

Technically it's what is called an "Geoid"[0] but for most purposes the description of an "oblate spheroid" [1] will do. Those "shortest straight distances" are called "great circles" or geodesic; an arc between two points on a spheroid also called a great distance. Technically, because the Earth isn't spheroidal but oblate, the shortest distance isn't quite a great circle. [2] The maps used for aeronautical navigation are "gnomonic" in projection to show great circles as straight lines. [3]

[0] http://www.kartografie.nl/geometrics/reference%20surfaces/re...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblate_spheroid

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_circle

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnomonic_projection
> work for a place that causes suicide thanks to usurious interest rate

Wow, I had never heard about this. I found an article about it in case anyone else is interested: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11997571
Yes...except for this:
Getting to focus on your algorithms and overall experience, and not dealing with ridiculous, time consuming, soul sapping optimizations which shouldn’t have to be discovered in the first place.

I work in a consulting shop that develops apps for all three platforms. I love my windows phone and I think the development tools and the framework are better than iPhone/Android. That said, there are some serious performance problems on wp7 and it takes a deep knowledge of the platform to avoid them. I've spent way too much time optimizing on wp7 just to get passable performance for a list of items with thumbnails. This is a such a basic scenario and it's extremely hard to get right. The navigation stack isn't good either. I like the back button as a user but dealing with scenarios where a user can jump to the first page of an app or when you need to navigate and avoid putting a page in the back stack and you run out of options.
The fact that intelligence is shaping our future faster than evolution does not affect the fact that evolution is still proceeding at the current moment in our species.
5.5 billion, that's a LOT of money, that's almost 0.2% of the annual federal budget.

sigh
As Marie Antoinette almost certainly didn't say, let them use tens.
Just tried it out and it's surprisingly fast at downloading! (700mb file in just a couple of minutes) Also, having worked with the guys who made this, I can definitely say I'm looking forward to seeing a lot more exciting stuff from them.
I think that's the "unknown" piece you're looking at.

4 founders are much more common than 5.
We'll be in a heap of trouble, because there are no larger denominations.
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And as open source slowly eats into their proprietary products, they have less and less to differentiate themselves from any other software company, and it becomes harder to lock customers in to their platform.
Yes. Definitely. Ratpoison has another keybind for switching which monitor is the recipient of window change commands.
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Can somebody who is more versed in this board explain to me why a comment like this would be downvoted? I don't understand what is wrong with this type of comment. Additionally, the comment I made responding to it was downvoted. I'm honestly curious...
This is true, a very-fast screen switcher mitigates the cost heavily, maybe even negates it entirely. Alt-tab never did it for me, too unpredictable. On OSX, while developing with a single monitor, I pretty often split my things between 4 desktops, and it's great.

On Windows, on the other hand, nothing switches quickly. Ever. And it takes a long time for applications to "wake up" after even short periods of non-use. Nothing but a second monitor has ever saved me.

On the iPad, currently, the situation is far worse than even Windows users suffer through. Double-tap the home button, and click the application (maybe scrolling between), which isn't in a static location. That's a non-screen action, followed by a change in the UI, followed by a touch, followed by a comparatively-slow transition. I liked someone-here's suggestion of gestures solving this, but single-tasking on anything without a separate keyboard is a total efficiency-crap-shoot everywhere, from what I've seen.
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I was somewhat disappointed this wasn't talking about network transit. That would have been especially interesting.
I need some design work for one of my projects. It's actually a byproduct of my main startup that I've decided to market as well.

I will working on pulling together a bit of information for you before contacting so that we can discuss your interest.

Cheers.
Can I give you a link? http://server.theadvocates.org/ruwart/questions_maint.php?Ca...

Mary Ruwart (2008 Libertarian Party presidental nomination) answers a very similar question about roads.

The short answer is: Most of the infrastructure would be built and maintained by the people who lived next to them. A university and some nearby business(es) might build a high speed connection. Then some adjacent neighborhoods might tie in. As low-cost regional hubs grow, entrepreneurs might focus on cost effective inter-regional infrastructure.
From what I read on quora, CCavenue is a pain to deal with for startups. Also, they don't support recurring payments.
thanks, cheae. I will definitely check it out.
Disclaimer: My experiences are based on the current german web landscape, so I don't know if this is true for other countries.

I don't include IE6 anymore in my web pages. If it works, ok, if not, well... too bad. In the last year, no customer ever really wanted to have an IE6 site.

The Problem with a site like this from Microsoft is, it is not the normal household PC which is still running IE6. There might be a few, but that number should be close to zero. It is the big companies, who are not switching to a newer version, because they have special software programmed for IE6 with funny activeX elements and big domain stuff behind so they can't simply flip the switch, and if it works, why should they upgrade? They don't want to throw a whole bunch of money at this problem. Thats sad, but you can't do anything about it...
Losing your own money is in the same category as having people laugh at you. It feels awful, and indirectly it can reduce your chances of survival, but it doesn't actually harm you physically like a head injury.
Sadly HP is probably just looking to push WebOS into printers.
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i agree the green color is in between them. The color should be in a gradient proportional to the percentage, and unknown obviously does not fit on that scale. It should be off the gradient.
You just didn't get the overall idea of the post.

Talking to a woman at the supermarket has the inherent "risk" of being ridiculed, while having the obvious objective upside that it might get you laid - or at least makes you a more confident person. In the same way (now regarding business), pouring time and money into a startup has the inherent risk of said startup going under (and losing some past time and/or money), while the obvious objective upside that if the company makes it big, you're a billionaire. Hell even if it doesn't you've earned experience you can apply in your future endeavors, and you didn't have to listen to 7am lectures at the local college for four years to get to not learn even a tenth of what you learn failing at building a startup.
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Run often had BASIC programs that built machine language routines from DATA statements, just a series of numbers. At one point they changed the program so that one of the bytes in each DATA statement was a checksum, and it would tell you if the rest of the line was accurate or not. That helped a lot.

My mom likes to say "I was just having fun, typing in the games and playing them, but you were actually learning something."
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As seen on Reddit.

Also:

http://philanthropy.com/blogs/social-philanthropy/is-apple-a...

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/06/nonprofit-develope...
For what it's worth it worked amazingly fast for me in Panama. It generally takes around 6 to 10 seconds for the sms to arrive from people a meter from myself. Twilio's sms arrived a two or three seconds after I pressed send.
Neat. You could drop the HTTP part and use pure DNS:

$ dig @auth-ns hashed-password.andy.tel naptr

NXDOMAIN on failure, NAPTR record (or a set of records) on success.

Your comment about DNS being an API is right on.
I'd agree with you if they hadn't recently announced the Pre 3, Veer, and http://www.palm.com/us/products/pads/touchpad/index.html
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To clarify: on entry to the US, a visa-waiver national is given allowance for a 90 day stay (usually). If the traveller leaves the US, but remains in North America, and then re-enters the US, they won't give you an additional 90 days. Instead, they'll just treat it as a continuation of your initial 90 day authorization.

Note that it isn't illegal to enter the US for two months, and then spend two months in Canada. It's just that the US won't let you back in until you've left North America. How exactly (or even if) they know you've left North America, I have no idea.
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Jamie -- I look forward to coming back to this comment in 12 months and seeing what the world looks like for Greplin. I think they are awesome, but the world will have to get more silo'd before it can be more open -- hopefully greplin isn't the victim in that process. :-)
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Make no mistake, they're fundamentally wrong.
How does this affect seeding? Do they seed the file until it's an even ratio? I think services like this have a place in the bittorent ecology as long as they are responsible to the network.
When I got here it was just one downvote, so it's probably risky to ascribe one reason to it, and this is way too much of a generalization anyway, but I'll put it out there anyway...

I've met a lot of hacker types who are vehement about the fact that they are not racist or sexist, to the point that they take offense that women are kept out of technical fields due to sexism. I believe this could lead to a kneejerk reaction that gender equality is a non-issue, and any attempts to address it are nothing more than affirmative action undermining technical merit.
It's a very common problem with certain levels of firmware. Fortunately, OCZ has been very good for replacing bricked drives for us, almost no questions asked, so yes, keep backups.

Drives fail. SSDs are no exception. That doesn't mean it doesn't drive me crazy when they do, however. :-)
By the same token, he could have already sold most of it. $70B is the valuation established by those who have already bought shares, after all. It's in their interest to convince the rest of us that they got a good deal. Heck, if $70B is such an insane valuation, you'd have to be insane not to sell out at that price.
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One of the reasons reasons that Facebook is implementing features for third party sites (like buttons, the new comment system) is that Facebook wants to collect the same type of data that Google collects with AdSense.

The profile data and the interactions between users on Facebook is much richer than the interactions and profiles on Google. Facebook will eventually derive more value from their data than Google does from theirs.
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to be fair, the author lambasts health magazines in a gym's waiting room/lobby, while the article appears in one of those magazines.
sorry, meant to write "...ironic to you that the word paralysis rhymes with ..."
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EDIT: and MSNBC:Dems, and...
To read and write posts, a user has to register. FetLife will not let a user register unless he or she fills out a form asking for his or her birthday.

Although most users will just make up a false birthday, a lot of non-technical users who do not know how far a true birthday goes to uniquely identifying them will provide their true birthday.

Also correct me if I am wrong, but there is no significant benefit to the user, the other users or the web site to having everyone provide a birthday when they register.

If FetLife is so careless with the privacy of their users in this visible way, it makes me wonder which less visible ways (e.g., not patching security holes or not hiring sysadmins willing and able to do the hard work of keeping user data out of the hand of attackers) in which it is careless with privacy.
Fan page with 26 million fans hacked and distributing affiliate stuff
I have no idea if this will get any response, but I'm hoping someone in the HN community who sees this will have the contacts in or out of Facebook to get this sorted:

Rihannas Facebook fan page which has 26 million fans has been "hacked" for days now, it's repeatedly posting links to affiliate stuff (sign up to 10 rewards get a free ipad etc) and it's getting annoying. My voice won't get heard, so wondering if anyone can get it looked into? I went as far as emailing Mashable (who will report on anything) to hope they'd "investigate" it by using their contacts, but alas nothing happened.

I say hacked, I suspect it's either someone at her PRs firm doing it for personal gain, or they've approved an app for wall access that is being used by the developer for nefarious purposes.

http://www.facebook.com/rihanna/

http://www.facebook.com/rihanna/posts/10150100761776676

If they remove it again (normally the links stay alive for 15 mins and then are deleted: http://samuel.imgur.com/42A6V#cR0wd)

current link is: http://apps.facebook.com/rihannaspecial/

If anyone knows where I can send this and get it noticed, please say :-)
No, definitely not. All that matters is you can communicate well and get the job done.

Personally, I would remove the fact that you are based in Bangladesh from your about page. A few years ago I did freelance work and found I could get a better response rate when I mentioned that I was Canadian (even though I was living in China at the time).

Here's what might be going through a prospective's client's mind when they find you. They like your designs, then they read your About page and start forming a price in their mind - maybe $500 - $1000 because you are in Bangladesh. Then when you quote your price, it is way over what they were thinking so they go elsewhere.

Discrimination? Yes. But, like a resume, you don't want to give people anything that could take you out of the running before you've had a chance.

If they ask you where you're located, don't lie but don't bring it up either unless they do first.

I would also spice up the About page and say more about what you offer and why you are good to work with.

Also, I like the VLC website. I visited that site for the first time in a while recently and noticed the new design and thought it looked really good.
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I'm listed as a founder, and there's a link to my LinkedIn profile, but when I login with that LinkedIn auth, I can't edit details about my company. I should be able to :)