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It does, however, change the validity of the "peer reviewed" status the paper has received, and thereby undermines the entire reason this paper has gotten so much attention.

If the journal is not credible, has published unreliable science in the past, has a stated agenda, and does not have an above-board peer-review process, then it is no more worthy of trust than the World News Daily.

Undermining the credibility of the journal a paper is published in is fair game when the credibility of the journal is the only reason any credibility is assigned to the paper.
have contacted Daryl. This is legitimate folks.
> This puts the user back in control of their internet activities, the way it should be.

Why should the user be in solely in control of how a content producer's material is consumed? The vision you reference scares me a bit: We've already got a "race to the bottom" among manual laborers in the world, now we're looking to dedifferentiate and disempower our content producers as well? If I put effort into writing a movie review, I think it's reasonable to expect some control over how it is consumed (e.g., people look at ads that benefit me, pay me, or maybe just come look at my website with a pretty picture of my face to make me feel special).

Don't get me wrong: I like having some freedom in how I use content. I like having my music unencumbered by DRM to use on any current or future device I might buy. I like using Google Reader to keep my finger on the pulses of all of my hobbies. But I also sympathize with publishers about the Kindle DRM (and laud Amazon's attempts to make my Kindle content available on lots of platforms and devices) and with websites that just put a quick blurb or title in their RSS feed to force me to come to their site if I am interested.

Sadly, I haven't yet heard a proposal for how content should work in the future that strikes the right balance. We seem to have publishers pushing toward extreme inflexibility and "freedom" advocates pushing towards (what you describe) a situation that diminishes any benefits (financial or otherwise) of content production. I hope we can find a way to empower content producers while providing users with flexible (though, probably not entirely unencumbered or "free") ways of consuming content. The status quo, even with its annoying ads and restrictions, seems better to me than either of the extremes.
Now that's a hacker.

People like that are the true gamers. (cue a grumpy Scotsman).

The ability to see the rules, see past the rules, and see into the structure of the question, then deal with that are the real hallmarks of what makes the hacker culture great.
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That women and men probably have different approaches to risk and reward, and that instinctively, women may choose more secure career paths over riskier ones.

There is much evidence of this, and not just in tech startups, and it's not merely anecdotal, though I think the overwhelming nature of the anecdotal is pretty convincing on its own. Vastly more men die in the line of work than women do, across many fields, for example. More men than women were pioneers by a couple orders of magnitude. More men choose the military, police or fire department as their career than women by an order of magnitude. More men become astronauts, revolutionaries, and stock brokers.

It seems highly unlikely that these disparities are entirely systemic, or based entirely on our society's norms and expectations; though I'm willing to believe that some of the differences are based on environment rather than genetics, and I hope that if I have daughters they will be given ample opportunities to choose any path they want, including startups (in whatever field startups are interesting in 25-30 years).

My point is that it is silly to suggest that just encouraging girls to take a more active interest in math and sciences will not solve this gender disparity. And, it may even be impossible to "solve" it. Women may just not want to start companies at the same rate as men. If that's the case, there's nothing we can do to "fix" it. I quoted "solve" and "fix" because it assumes that there's something wrong with people who don't want to start companies. I don't know that that's the case. We might be the ones taking unnecessary risks for things that may not be as good for long-term health, happiness, and well-being. After all, once basic needs are met, money doesn't buy happiness, and startups can be a lonely and stressful process that lasts years and may never pay off.
Cool idea!

If nothing else, some of the posts will make you laugh: "someone should make a site called wetpussies.org and upload nothing but videos/pictures of people giving their cat a bath. "

Great job, btw.
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Absolutely Awesome! Love Carcasonne and love Lego ;) yes, i'm a big kid! ;)
Is there any source code available any where? (I only skimmed the paper.)
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It could be, all they needed to do was record the first time the user ran the app. That would get most people.
Anyone can apply to become a TED fellow (http://www.ted.com/pages/view/id/247). A couple of people I know personally have been past fellows. Going by what I've seen, it may be easier to become a TED fellow than to be selected for Y Combinator, but that's another argument.

On the contrary, the registration fee for the TED INK conference held in Lonavala, India recently was $2200 a pop for residents (http://theinkconference.com/Register), which no middle class Indian can afford. Even that didn't guarantee that one would actually get a seat, 'cause surprise! They will "..review each application form in detail to find the right match of attendees". Amazing.
i wonder if he's using the emigration argument to try and convince people to support this, or at least get their attention. i'm not sure if people will get behind the founder frustration argument, but if people think jobs are at risk they might be swayed more easily. i thought the argument was pretty convincing in the story--you saw more than half the people in that room raised their hands when asked if they thought they might move back or get kicked out of the country.

you don't have to look at stats to realize how frustrating this is for startup founders. anyone who has done a startup with an international cofounder (i've done one where both my cofounders were international), you know how much of a pointless hassle this is. you can look for stats on this and it may or may not show the severity of the emigration problem, but this is a real and frustrating thing to deal with. it's just the wrong thing founders should be worrying about.

personally, i don't think this will cause a major increase in emigration (although it's hard to define "major"), but you're forcing students who would prefer to do a startup to go work for a large company (one that will sponsor their visa) out of school.
TED has some really good talks. Have I ever been invited? No. But I've also never been invited over to the people who live down the street. And what's even worse, when I requested a podcast of their interior they called the police.

There are so many things that I don't get invited to, its the things that I do get invited to I look at with suspicion. And the fact that TED gives me free access to their talks, makes them OK in my book.
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This current Pope in particular, or Pope's in general?
Orkut launched a month before facebook, not that it matters now.

http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=facebook%2Corkut...
Technology does not change the world, are you serious? To believe that you must think that everything from irrigation techniques that allowed agriculture and formation of cities to improved forms of transportation and communication that allowed cultures to meet did not have impact.

She also says that the people criticizing TED have not been, when the first link she uses is the story of someone that has been to TED. The articles she talks about could use more 'journalism' and 'a simple google search' to improve them, but no mention of anything that is actually wrong with them.
I think they should have gone for an about.me/flavors.me presentation . If anything, just to pull away from the facebook look.
No incentive to act on genuine complaints on user-generated content?
I love this. They seem to fall into a few categories: Silly and impossible, "I want a website to take my boredom away," and the mildly disturbing. Oh, and some not horrible ideas. thumbs up
The overall article assumes that or speaks for the cases where the complaints are insincere and how the law "protects" the websites.

But what if the complaints are genuine? The law seems to give the websites no incentive to do the right thing!!
I think the fact that it has any credibility at all is more due to the fact that the author works at NASA.

Again, I'm not saying that the paper is any good. I'm just saying that people should refute the claims in the paper instead of attacking the delivery method.
from my experience you can only play 1 level before it requires you to be connected to a network
yours is not the only story. While not directly Trumpet Winsock related, I did write an IRC client for DOS, later ported to Windows. I used to spend some time online chatting with folks who had low self esteem and on occasions found myself counselling people whose only connection with reality was the Internet. For these people, the Internet was a lifeline without which they may well have committed suicide or otherwise gone to places where few return.

I am so glad you found peace and a greater sense of belonging to the world.
The Posix-Breaking Party that the author describes could be implemented by using any COW file system for the backing store. For example, the new SCSI Unmap support in ZFS:
http://gdamore.blogspot.com/2011/03/comstar-and-scsi-unmap.h...
Use Charles or another proxy and find what feed the page is loading, then parse that. At least two requests need to be made anyway.
This, and it bears saying that _being_ elite is going to change your outlook.

TED is great for what it is - trying to gather the "best of the best" and get their messages out. Worthy ideas can come from far more humble and marginal groups of people, too. But those groups get less backing, so of course there's going to be a division.
I'm sure that's how you see it, but the fact is, that the OP posited the idea that unions were incompatible with a healthy education system. There are simply too many counter-examples to that.

Further, you've pushed the conversation into a discussion about race and class by way of an abstract hypothetical. From your posting history, I'm not really interested in having such a complex discussion with you.
I'm the one who originally suggested processing the postfix log as a way to get ahead on bounce processing for mass mailings, and that derwiki decided to do it with map-reduce is awesome.

Doing it the "traditional way", having an email alias that runs a script, or a .forward file with a pipe directive, doesn't scale, especially when you have a cluster of SMTP machines and a centralized store for email address information. You'd end up putting all your changes into a log file anyway and bulk processing that, you might as well just use the log file that postfix already generates (especially if you're using something like scribe to aggregate logs from entire clusters).

Obviously, you still need to process bounces generated by the recipient/remote MX mail systems, but that's easier done with a POP/IMAP client, and is significantly fewer transactions to process overall because most sites reject mail immediately (rather than accepting it, queuing it, and bouncing it later).
If broadcasters offered an ad-free option, presumably their best audience (from advertisers' view) would choose this. This would make the ad audience much less lucrative for the broadcasters.
This isn't true. What evidence do you have that bots downvote on reddit? The reddit guys came by our Cloudkick office late last year and flat denied there are any bots they know of that downvote when I asked them. If you don't have any real reason to know about bots on Reddit you should probably not persist in continuing to pass on this fantasy.
DHTML is server-side. You mean AJAX. Also, think of the page as an interface to a more lightweight web service. You should probably be parsing that directly.
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Yeah, just like every university website ever.

Case in point: a couple of weeks ago I was building a web-based tool under contract for conducting studies for a university's psychology department. I sent them over a functional prototype with a note that I hadn't done any design work on it yet, and they were blown away. Some direct quotes: "that looks amazing." and "we love it".
Yeah. If I was James Cameron, I'd have better things to be excited about - like Avatar 2 - than to be looking forward to speaking at TED. The ones who have it all, don't really need it
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The fact that young people don't have thousands of dollars to spend on an annual conference isn't "ageism". Older people simply have more discretionary income.
How *not* to run an open-source project...
The issue is the market. From what I've seen and read, Android owners are less likely to pay for apps, so devs have to resort to advertising to get their revenues.
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This is great! Good job!
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The entire point of these questions is that they're things you:

1. Likely remember

2. Nobody else would know.

Personally, I nearly always use the "make your own question" box, if offered.

I'm waiting for the day when "upload a public key" is the preferred authentication method...
Reading this awful, pompous, self congratulating prose and imagining a thousand people like her gathered at the same place exchanging ideas gives me the willies.

I was not one of the lucky ones allowed the privilege to pay 10 k to attend, but I will have to drive by long beach today, so I must be careful to fill up my tank so as to avoid any possibility of accidentally getting stuck in Long Beach and having one of those geniuses curate at me.

But we have not thought of the real victims of TED. What of actual curators. You know the people in museums. They get a quiet harmless job, and then that blabbering pack of idiots pick up the word that describes their profession, and soon anybody that has anything to do with "curating" will be universally hated and ridiculed.
Heh, it's funny, I'm about to do almost this exact same thing. We're in the Bay Area and my wife-like-person / girlfriend got a job at Microsoft in Redmond so to Seattle we go. My company is actually based there and is hiring: http://pathable.com/hiring-front-end-back-end-developer/. Might be a good fit.
obvious - like the radios in nazi germany ;)
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If you are using Facebook connect simply to authenticate users,I don't think its worth the risk.You should build your own system for this. If you are doing something more involved and more useful to the facebook user, the risk might be worth it.
How can i make it work on osx?
I don't care if it's elite. Elite is not a bad thing.

(Speaking of elite, don't get me started on "elite" being a bad label for politicians -- I WANT the elite, the best of the bet, running our country.)
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it depends on what you mean by "experience." I think buzz is easily superior to twitter, but I use twitter because the community I engage with is there.

does the existence of picasa's online albums somehow harm google because only some people use them?
GMail strikes me as a good example. Google maps. Can't think of any from Microsoft, but that's probably just because I haven't used a Microsoft product in 3 years. Actually Bing seems to be doing decently well.
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w/ a little 3rd party app called sizeup... Not ideal, but a workable solution that keeps me productive on the platform.

One of the nice things about OS X for sure is that many of the major pain points in the raw OS can be resolved with 3rd party applications. The community, tired of dealing with these minor unaddressed annoyances, has usually resolved most of these issues on their own -- there are 2 or 3 apps of some kind for most of the major OS rough spots.

One of the bad things about OS X for sure is that many of the major pain points in the raw OS have to be resolved with 3rd party applications. The community, tired of dealing with these minor unaddressed annoyances, usually has to resolve most of these issues on their own -- there are 2 or 3 apps of some kind for most of the major OS rough spots.
Oh, the power and beauty of the pentatonic scale.
Feature idea: Add a "This is a good idea" button so users can vote up uncommon and plausible ones.
In summary: start a blog.

Isn't this pretty much startup 101 by now? I would imagine anyone on Hacker News who founds a startup and has even just an inkling of an idea on what to write about, would start a blog about it as the most basic of marketing effort.
Making comments like that is part of the shtick

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shtick

of PZ Myers when he writes blog posts. Most of his conduct in writing posts on his blog would not be considered civil or decorous conduct here on HN, but he knows his biology, and his reply to the biological aspects of the recently reported claim should be taken seriously. PZ Myers also had one of the first good analyses on the Web of the claim that a different scientist affiliated with NASA had found an "arsenic-based" life form. Not so, as PZ aptly pointed out.

Anyway, PZ continues in his blog post to write, "So let's look at the paper, Fossils of Cyanobacteria in CI1 Carbonaceous Meteorites: Implications to Life on Comets, Europa, and Enceladus." He then comments that he can't even count on links to the website for the article staying valid, because of the way the website is administered, but he proceeds to analyze the content of the paper, and to find it below the usual standard of biology papers about newly discovered microorganisms.

In other words, it is not always valid in either direction to judge a message by its messenger or its medium. Sometimes good factual points are made with less than ideal decorum.
Sounds like FreeBSD has burned so many bridges that they're having to post want ads like this.
I went to the link to check that this title was actually the given title of the article.

Really?

Netflix uses at peak, 20% of the bandwidth at certain hours of the day, which is itself an elastic resource (that is, most connections can burst to a much higher level of bandwidth well beyond the average or median Mbps).

What this is really about is that Netflix exposes the liars who have been claiming to sell you "unlimited" bandwidth for a set monthly price - as soon as you start using more than 5% of the DSL or cable capacity, they scream and whine and moan.

If, like Comcast, they also provide content that Netflix competes with, they scream and whine and moan even louder.
The problem is Google isn't hungry. They don't make these things work because they don't have to. AdSense will always put food on the table, so they don't have the sense of urgency to fix this. It's a common problem for companies that already have a cash cow and then try to develop or acquire secondary services, e.g. Yahoo with Delicious. They don't have the sense of urgency, executive focus and the commitment to make them work.
this is an excellent idea!
You are right. But on the other side of the coin, death is something we can can come to terms with, something we sometimes must come to terms with.

The thing that I think you find unsettling roots from the fact you feel you need to prevent discussion of your mortality from being "normal". This man needs his mortality to be a "normal" thing. It is happening to him, and soon, so putting it into a context of "normal" life helps with that.
I felt compelled to collect his responses.

http://blog.dustingetz.com/51-hours-left-to-live
Hm, that's interesting.

In terms of product development, perhaps Google would be better off implementing a Y-Combinator based model where 2 to 5 people work on products by themselves -- away from Google's offices. They'd do this anywhere they'd want -- living together in a house/apartment, working from coffee shops, etc. They'd have access to Google's resources if/when they'd need them (kind of like how YC now has significant resources to help out its companies -- e.g. TechCrunch for initial distribution), but would not be required to use them.

The ultimate metric for a web property is getting repeat users at scale, so that's the #1 goal.

But as you say, Google doesn't really suffer from this problem at least initially (they can always get a substantial amount of immediate users for any new product).

The problem is, are they products people want? Are they products that'll generate repeat users at scale?

I wonder if the people building products at Google are building things for themselves, or for what they think people want.

The best products are made with one user in mind, and that user is the maker.
The intent probably isn't there, but that is the effect. Does the fee need to be that high? If not, do they want more young people to attend? If so, it's too high.
Sour grapes?

In reality, I suspect that the truth about TED lies somewhere between "pretentious circle-jerk" and "conference of the world's most inspired thinkers".
Great stuff comes to TED, but to be honest, I don't know if I've seen great stuff come out of it, other than videos of talks that could have been recorded at a local community college.

Oh, and of course it's elitist, charging $10000 for an invite-only conference is the very definition of elitist. If it was populist, I think you'd see a very different approach to organizing.

There are versions of TED that are more ad hoc and grassroots that happen every day, and it seems like those are the places where the cool things happen.
I agree. And let me retell the story from a different point of view: Even if you're a humble .Net (I know, I know.. You'll get a lot of interesting looks mentioning OS and .Net) developer by day, you can easily dive into very nice and cool OS projects.

I've (online only) met one of the coolest guys ever due to him maintaining a very nice project that I use a _lot_ and me being able to contribue a teeny tiny bit of code. Hey, although I'm a cross-platform guy (Windows during the day, Linux in the evening) I could help with experiences on both platforms. Don't hide behind "Not on Linux (or *BSD, to stay somewhat on topic), cannot help".

There's a downside though: If you like the contribution, like the people that do the actual work (i.e. the maintainer) than you might end up with a little guilt for not being more active. I know I do...
No. It takes data from the network and puts it into files. That's all. It doesn't inject, interpret, or decrypt data.
The important point there is that in a lot of cases the product doesn't actually matter. What matters is the community and social expectations that emerge around the product, and it's pretty difficult to nurture those with a huge launch day dump of unrelated people.