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I hate to be a nit picker on what is otherwise such a good post, but I have to pick a nit with this point:

> But no one else has ever enabled an independent developer like myself to connect with so many potential customers

The internet enabled that 10 or 15 years ago and there are countless individual devs who've created successful software products and whole businesses by selling direct. Even better, these people aren't bound to anybody's corporate teat the way iOS developers are to Apple. Apple certainly created a useful new market segment for the individual developer to address but I find this hubris about it pretty sickening sometimes.
I wonder why they don't add the <rant> tag to the HTML5 standard.
After I read the intro, I thought to myself “okay, it’s statically-typed where Scheme is not. So why is that an advantage?” I don’t want to read about how to use a new language without knowing what advantages that language has over other languages, so I can know if it’s right for my needs. Therefore, I think the Features/Motivation section should be at the top, right under Syntax, not way at the bottom.
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Also, using fashion from their own era enabled the artist to describe the social contexts. So you know who are wealthy people, who are servants, policemen etc, because they wear the stuff you expect them to. Otherwise you'd have to explain "the guys with the red jumpsuits are police, the yellow..."
Why oh why lifehacker do you always redirect me to uk.lifehacker.com and lose the article I was trying to look at.
Bringing the total number of affected users down to 38,660.

Not nothing, but not a lot either. My company has an exchange server for 200 or so people, and at any one point there are probably one or two people who are waiting for a password reset, errors with Calendar, public folder permissions errors, or other human error on the part of the helpdesk interns. That's a 100x increase from Google's error rate in this scenario, but it's perfectly acceptable within the context of our organisation.

That's why we have tape backups (which can take some time / effort to restore from). I think the difference is that if a user at my company has a problem they can call a human being and be told that someone is working on it, but with Google you can't do that.
Would you argue it was Michael Bay's name that convinced people to buy tickets for Transformers? Or Sigourney Weavers name on Avatar? I suggest examining the all time box office records:

http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/
The problem is arguably not too many choices, but too many indistinct choices. This is something I've been banging on about from a game design perspective - having a dizzying array of skills or research options can be exciting, or it can be overwhelming and boring, depending on how each option is characterized and distinguished from the rest.

Less is only better insofar as it widens the "difference gap" between each option.
According to wikipedia, I think this is technically the NanoSail-D2 satellite as the first was lost on launch.
Comical?

Well, no hang-gliders yet, but have you seen those cops on their segways? Just saying...
Yes, I'm bothered by this term, too. On the other hand, what term should we use, that is easy to understand and broadly (if not to the highest level of detail) describes a wide range of drugs with widely varying effects? Something like 'intellectual performance enhancer' is longer, sounds more pretentious and isn't much more accurate, either.

Then again, if all my problems were as severe as this one, I'd be a happy camper ;)
You'll believe anything you read online, won't you?
I think you've nipped it in the bud. There are always going to be good guys and bad guys. The best thing we can do (which is actually pretty effective) is set up the system such that the people are rewarded for the good and not for the bad.
Firstly, good job on the design: the most important elements of your landing page stick out within the crucial first few seconds...take a quick look at the following EyeQuant analysis, which shows what users will see within their orientation phase:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eyequant/5488580976/

Headline: check
Screenshots: check
Social Proof: check
Call to Action for musicians: check

(EyeQuant is my neurotechnology startup - we deliver over 90% of eye-tracking study's accuracy within seconds via a web service at http://eyequant.com)

However, I think you want to work on your message(s). First of all, you have two audiences (as reflected by your two call to action buttons):

1. musicians who'd like their music to go viral
2. listeners who'd like to discover new music

It would make sense to either have two distinct blocks on your landing page, where each comes with a single value proposition that is tailored towards each target segment:

1. "Let your tracks go viral via Facebook!" <-- more often than not, headlines like these convert much better than generic product descriptions (as in your current message...)
2. "Discover and download free music now!" <-- note how the second call to action in your current design is barely visible. A good workaround would be to introduce a second color that reflects the "other" value proposition in general, too.
Oops. The effect is real, but I typed one of the numbers wrong and the math of my example is incorrect. It's called the "Base Rate Fallacy" if you want to look it up, though.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Base_rate_fal...
The problem is twofold:

(1) semantics (fun for the whole family!) what does deep linking mean in this context? We all say deep linking is bad, but to some the pre-populated query isn't deep linking, but to others it is.

(2) one of the (entirely sensible) things the Wolfram Alpha guys seem to be saying is "please don't hook bots up to us". Now no doubt some will bluster and say that if it is there in public they have a right to consume all the bandwidth and resources - after all if they didn't want people to do that they should just [insert complex but fragile technological solution that would quickly fail or be worked around]. As it happens, what this guy was doing falls into that category of automated client.

So on the basis of either one of those (if you squint real hard) I can see Wolfram Alpha's point of view.
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Is this a quirky, alternate title? :-)
It appears that using the /g/… URL variation gives one black-and-white pictures, and leaving it out gives one color pictures, but it would be nice if you would just say that on the home page, rather than leaving us to experiment and figure it out for ourselves. Leaving out the explanation might be excusable if two sample links on the homepage just led to color and black-and-white versions of the same kitten picture, but that isn’t the case.
In that case, you win at being a pedant and miss out on some cool talks by smart people.
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I am not a lifetime customer, I pay $15/month. I have never received a migration offer and I don't have a "tricked out" account. I only really care about my email and I don't have any now for four days. Fool that I am my registrar has the email of record being the one hosted by joyent so I cant even move until you get my email up and running. I don't think you can even begin to feel my frustration. Despite the new status last night, saying everything is back up for most people, I am not. The Timeliness of support responses is also a joke, my companies email has been down for four days and you appear to be working 9 to 5 on the issue.
Neither Michael Bay nor Sigourney Weaver have much involvement with special effects.

And, actually, what convinced me to see Avatar were the special effects. And there wouldn't be enough special effects in the world to convince me to go to a movie theater to watch Transformers.
hm tried it on mac snow leopard and all i get is an empty white frame. :((

i have kde3 installed on the mac. might that cause some problems?
It's used in the course "Abstract Algebra" (Harvard). Lecture videos are available: http://www.extension.harvard.edu/openlearning/math222/ Benedict Gross is a great lecturer and I recommend watching them.
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Phew! :-P

I got used to it over time, but sometimes it nags at me.
Exactly. Probably the most hedonistic period of my life was when I was employed by an insurance company. 9 hours per day of mind-numbing tedium followed by a few crazy hours afterwards. If I was to write a book about those days, I'm guessing the form filing, claims handling and endless insurance exams would fill very little space. To an outsider it might seem that insurance is very rock & roll.

As an aside, I know many musicians. No one you'll have heard of but a few of them are doing quite well here and could be on their way somewhere. They all have full time jobs and work like dogs. They'll drive 300 miles to do a show and be back to the office at 9am the next morning. To watch them when they're 'on' though, you'd think they led the carefree live of a rock star.
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Sorry, there seems to be some confusion. I'm trying to suggest that the majority of blockbusters aren't star lead anymore, they're visual effects lead. Perhaps people aren't interested in seeing effects engineers receiving awards, but they're certainly interested in seeing our work.
FYI, there is currently ongoing work on HTDP2 -> http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/
I confirm this experience and the anecdotal evidence I gathered is quite similar.

Edit: Almost forgot - I also had a female boss I would work for in a beat. I must mention that she was more of a tomboy - but still what a woman: pragmatic, ambitious, decisive, tough but fair. All the general qualities one would expect from a man, but with added softness of female persuasion and communication skills.
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I'm pretty sure that if we were that worried about health and safety we wouldn't send troops into war zones.
What happens when 70% of people are okay with something, in a country ruled by the people?
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If America works like I think it does you also have to find a politician first, that isn't obliged to any big corporation and running with that flag.
I've never used any of these drugs myself, but arguments like "if you use this, you'll never learn <some skill which author thinks is important>" always seem a bit dull to me:

Isn't the main value of new technologies/drugs/utilities that people don't have to do things the 'old way' anymore? Nobody is using a slide rule these days, but why should they?
it's nice that jean wrote

> if you are a single female you can have first pick of a lot of really nice available guys

just nice and life-asserting. for me.
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The other 30% fight all that much harder to take it away from the rest of us.
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Now considering a solution that involves a class of both undergrads and Masters level students. Will see if the bureaucrats will allow that.

Will not engage in the debate on teach/born entrepreneurs.

I would have quoted Piaget and Papert on learning.

The point on willingness to change is in fact the real issue. Trying to determine if the motivations are correctly assessed.
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I actually wrote a post with similar sentiments a while back - "Being a Girl in CS Doesn't Suck":
http://blog.pamelafox.org/2009/10/being-girl-in-cs-doesnt-su...

As for the casual attire, I think it goes both ways. I'm totally into casual most of the times (to the point of wearing my head-to-toe footed pajamas to work), but then the days when I want to dress up or wear a mini-skirt or whatever, I feel like I'm standing out a bit too much and wish I was in the pop music industry instead. But alas, I have no singing talent and no autotune device, so back to coding I go.
For those as clueless as I was: http://www.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-whitepaper
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I don't know anything about LULZ, but given the content of the HBGary emails it's entirely possible that "personas" are deployed on this and other noteworthy forums, in accordance with their rent-a-bot business model. However, at least on HN it would be difficult for these to be "botted out", due to the usually higher quality commenting, although voting up "noisy" submissions could degrade the overall quality.
Well I don't know, what happened to slavery in the south of the united states?

Just because it's supported by "the public" does not mean it's good, smart or of any interest. Case in point, "the public" seems to like Fox News and Jersey Shore a lot.

I never thought popularity was a good indicator of quality or correctness (though popularity may tell you what you need to be popular, that is a different issue), and that "the public"'s view aligns with mine on this topic is irrelevant, what is needed is still actual arguments.

The only interest here is that it could make discussions on public policy re. piracy easier to have. Not holding my breath though.
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Is anyone else sick of the use of the term piracy to try and make copyright infringement sound more threatening?
Witches get burnt, slaves get bought and sold, and religious persecution is rampant.
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The title reminded me of "The Fountainhead" quote. Or is it a common one?
At first I saw the source (torrentfreak) and thought it would be a survey of their users... But it actually seems like it is a viably study with a good spread of the subjects. I am actually not that surprised. First of all, it's a Danish study. As I am myself living in the south of Sweden, I know that we and the danish have similar views, and that piracy is pretty well accepted here.

Even more interesting, would be a survey within a bigger geographical spread. Is there differences within Europe? What about the rest of the world? Are the opinions similar world wide? I would also appreciate a more detailed view into the selection of the group that answered.

The most interesting thing about the article is that it is spun very heavily in the direction of piracy... The actual answers about piracy for private use, is that less than 20% accept piracy, slightly over 30% not accepting it. The rest have answered that they are sceptical to piracy for personal use.

Accept is 7-10 on a scale from 1-10, sceptical is 2-6 and don't accept is 1 on the same scale. All from the linked report in Danish.
I'm okay with people having a schedule and that sometimes they squeeze me in between appointments — all of my friends work or study — but I'm less okay with people engaging in a conversation with other people or checking their email/Facebook/Twitter.
Beggars can't be choosers perhaps but couldn't both halves of a relationship being similar get ubalanced? Maybe just a little bit more understanding, or opportunitiy, makes up for that...
I do not know if I have undiagnosed ADD. Occasionally I wonder, especially those times when I go to put on my shoes to leave the house and discover that 30 minutes have passed and I've only managed to put one of them on because somehow I've started doing something else.

Either way, I've used Adderall while programming (for which I do not have a prescription), and even small amounts make a significant difference in number of levels of abstraction and detail I can hold in my head at once, and how quickly I can both initially reach and drop back into 'flow' when interrupted. The best analogy I've come up with is that increases your mental RAM - so I'm not having to write anything to swap. Got a really nasty pile of code you need to refactor, or even completely rearchitect? Adderall lets you fit a whole lot more of the problem space in your head at once.

Sometimes on very rare occasions, I can somehow hit that sweet spot with caffeine and get the same effect as Adderall. But it happens very rarely - too easy to under or overshoot the caffeine dose, and even when I do manage to pull it off, the perfect mental RAM increase only seems to last about 45 mins. With Adderall, it happens every time, and I can can stay in that state for 12 hours or more.

I don't use Adderall frequently. It's kinda a pain in the ass to get, and a little pricey. But when you're just stuck on something, it can really help you break through that mental wall.
In fairness to those criticizing Kurzweil, the timing of his predictions _does_ matter, because he's arguing that technological growth is a fast exponential, leading to super-human intelligence by 2040 or so. So if he's off by 5 years on wearable computers, he might be off by 40 years in his ultimate prediction, or growth might be an s-curve instead of an exponential.
I took a quick look - you do have some interesting ideas in there.

I was wondering though, how would you go about implementing this:

====================

Webapp: Search engine for search engines

You enter your search and it directs it through the most relevant search engine.

chinese restaurant -> Yelp

ruby tutorials -> delicious

===========================

What I mean is, with so many possible keywords/phrases, how would you go about determining a relevant destination corresponding to each different query?

We've been working on something pretty close to this for quite some time; have had some breakthroughs; but it's been an uphill battle, to say the least. :-)
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And this is precisely why we need still more posts.

You know why we don't need a "benefits of being a male software engineer" post? Because every day is a "benefits of being a male software engineer" day for male software engineers.

You should probably have a read of http://amptoons.com/blog/the-male-privilege-checklist/ . As a rule when it comes to this sort of material, if it makes you feel uncomfortable and defensive, please think about why this is before commenting.

I'd love to see a post about "benefits of being a male social worker", or any other female-dominated field! As a feminist (3rd wave), I don't think equality is possible without addressing the problems faced by men, as well as women. Men in such jobs are routinely mocked by other men and subjected to ridicule by our masculine culture society. And that sucks.
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What is the use of this question without context? You could check the ratings/stats on TED.com and pick what is most popular. Quora is slightly different demographics than general TED audience, but is this minor difference worth asking such a question? I don't think so.
Only 70%? In my social circle it would be 100%, and has been for years. Ironically I still spend more on media than anyone else I know, piracy or no ..
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As long as the monetary gains to those higher up the scale are disproportionately higher in comparison to their skill or performance advantage, relative positioning matters a great deal. If the best doctor has an imaginary skill rating of 99%, and the next best 98%, and the next 97%, the best doctor won't be earning merely 2.06% more than the guy at 97%; he'll probably be earning 200% more. For certain products and professions, people want the best, and will pay out of all proportion for it.

There are other aspects too, of course. Third-level education, outside of technical disciplines in particular, is largely about signalling, not learning outcomes; it's a socialization process for the middle class, a badge that encourages particular social groups to accept you as one of their own, and without which you will not advance far.
As I've pointed out before piracy is a misnomer. Sharing has always been an integral part of the way people are exposed to and consume art. There are even institutions that have been built up to support such things for older media: libraries, used book stores, radio stations, museums. We treasure and value such institutions because they help to preserve and to spread our art and our culture.

However, when you take this incredibly vital and ingrained mechanism for spreading appreciation and knowledge of various works of art and you translate it to the limits (or lack thereof) and character of modern communications and storage technologies you get a phenomena which externally is nearly indistinguishable from piracy (at least without further context of individual behavior).

To put it lightly this is a very serious problem. Imagine if libraries and museums were as much legal pariahs as speakeasies during prohibition, how would the world be different? And yet increasingly the collision of outmoded legal frameworks (already bent beyond reasonable measure by the corrupting influence of large "intellectual property" institutions such as Disney and Sony) with technological advancement is leading to conflict and strife between ordinary people engaging in traditionally ordinary behavior and governing institutions who see that behavior as a dangerous threat.

P.S. Whether sharing in the digital realm is compatible with profit is an equally important question, but the onus is on producers to figure that out (current evidence seems to indicate that it's not such a big problem, given record box office revenue in 2010, for example). It's quite simply infeasible (technologically, legally, socially, and culturally) to demand that people stop sharing because the power of sharing and of stealing are too closely related.
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Here's a similar HN discussion awhile back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=442022
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That's hardly ironic at all, it's merely counter-intuitive if you accept the notion that sharing == piracy (see my other post). If you reject that notion then the idea that greater enthusiasm for media by way of sharing should be correlated with greater media expenditures follows quite logically and directly.
> What is the problem that you are solving?

>> in Evernote, but it’s not convenient for writing. It’s too cluttered and distracting for that.

now, is the problem being solved identified or not? and can we skip to 'business behind it' part?

> And then sell the solution, I really don’t have much to say about this since I am also learning about this very part of the game.