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J. Edgar Hoover was gay. He was so gay in fact that he had to organize a massive scale anti gay witch hunt.

Don't underestimate lengths people will go, to cover their inner feelings.

I really wonder what Zuckenberg's daddy and mommy issues are.
Plays in the 100s of millions sure.

Unique users in the 100s of millions? I'm doubtful.
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Intentional spelling "mistake"?
I know this is offtopic, but I'll throw it out here anyway. My Last.fm account is 3 or 4 years old. I was 16 then, I'm 20 now. My tastes today are radically different from what they were 4 years ago. 4 years ago I used to listen to KoRn, Marilyn Manson and Eminem, and nothing much besides. Predictably enough, they were the top 3 artists in my Last.fm charts for a long time. Now my tastes have not only changed, they've become more varied. Some of the artists I listen to now have pushed my old favorites down the charts, but the old favorites still appear the top 10, and Marilyn Manson is still #1.

Sadly, Last.fm insists on listing heavy metal and rap artists as my top recommendations. I'd kill for a music discovery service that could take my changing tasted into account.
The idea that rich kids are more liberated is wrong headed. It's'simply myopic. There's'not even an attempt to explore the inherent advantages of the "other."

Insight a rich kid can never have being merely one of dozens that shot into my fatigued head.
firefox 4 linux doesn't seem to work for me but it could be noscript.
ok lets flesh the idea out.

you have a single sign on that allows you to create multiple persona's e.g. public, family and friends

when posting you would have the ability/requirement to tag content as being accessible to individuals in groups you have associated with each persona.

sounds like a bit of a pain in the ass that would become very unwieldy beyond a few groups.
Hasn't this been true of every dual-GPU card? (With the possible exception of the more power-hungry aspect.) It's slower and more expensive because it has a smaller overall cooling system than two cards, so the chips need to be under-clocked and spec'd for higher-temperature operation.
sadly there is IE on that list, even if is a new version, after some time it will become the new IE6, a buggy non standard browser, just ditch IE completely and save the internet.
I think the rules may differ in Europe (the way things are classified)

Nope. Sales is NOT a liability, and there is no accounting fiction. Sales are also not an asset. They are an income. The money earned from the sale is the asset. I think you may be confusing ledger credits with liabilities.

All credits are not increases in liabilities, but all increases in liabilities are credits.

Good background on Wikipedia:
[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debits_and_credits ]
[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-entry_accounting_system ]
[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accounting_equation ]
Actually, you should just do it.
The polls tutorial is reply well written, and I am a firm believer that the best way to learn something is by hacking some project out of it. Good luck !
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Related discussion from Less Wrong:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/k9/the_logical_fallacy_of_generaliza...

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Generalization_from_fictional_e...
I would gladly pay as much as they need to cover the costs plus make some extra money if they brought GV to Switzerland.

A central number and web based voicemail are features important enough for me that I would gladly pay for them.
Don't forget the barriers to entry for technology. You have to have some combination of math, computer skills, and design knowledge, either a balance or amazing proficiency at one of them, so that rules out anyone who has been told they're "not a tech guy." On top of all that you practically have to be _over-confident_ in your skills and take a huge risk doing a startup.

You might say ambitious people wouldn't be subject to those restraints, but if we could do away with cognitive tendencies we wouldn't be dealing with these class barriers anyway.
I have tried different .fla and if there is a line of actionscript (even if not used) the conversion fails.

http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2011/03/wallaby-flash-to-html5-...
For simple Django hosting, there's Djangy.com, but you have to be quick because they're discontinuing the service.
Yes - the administrative stuff is important when contributing. Bug tracker + versioning might save you effort in cases when the bug you found is already being worked on or maybe even has a fix waiting for release.
> It's crude otherwise I would release code.

Everything starts out crude--release it anyway! Seriously.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_Papers

Please, tell us you were trolling. Please. Unlike the tech culture geniuses at AOL, I'm okay with "trolls", but I like to know them when I see them. I'm hoping no one is really that ignorant.
Spelling mistake corrected. Thanks.
> The right is to free speech, not to anonymity.

This statement is demonstrably false.

Anonymous communications have an important place in our political and social discourse. The Supreme Court has ruled repeatedly that the right to anonymous free speech is protected by the First Amendment. A much-cited 1995 Supreme Court ruling in McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission reads:

Protections for anonymous speech are vital to democratic discourse. Allowing dissenters to shield their identities frees them to express critical, minority views . . . Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. . . . It thus exemplifies the purpose behind the Bill of Rights, and of the First Amendment in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation . . . at the hand of an intolerant society.

The tradition of anonymous speech is older than the United States. Founders Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay wrote the Federalist Papers under the pseudonym "Publius," and "the Federal Farmer" spoke up in rebuttal. The US Supreme Court has repeatedly recognized rights to speak anonymously derived from the First Amendment.

http://www.eff.org/issues/anonymity
I think the market has once again made it clear that my opinions differ from most people. I can rant about how terrible modern popular books, TV shows and movies are for a while if you'd like. :-)
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10 months?

http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100/09/countdown/cd_lis... <-- That was the 2009 top list.
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The market is growing, so it's not as simple as that. It's more like RIM is capturing below market rate from the new smartphone users, Apple is almost exactly at market rate and Android's scooping up the rest.

How people move between platforms would be interesting, and become more important as smartphones reach saturation, but you can't really speculate from this data.
> If things are so bad, then why _are_ people trying so hard to get in? Do you see long lines outside the Chinese embassy? The Indian embassy?

I really, really hate this line of argument. "Oh the US is so great that everyone wants to be here! Do you see these kind of lines to get into North Korea?", well obviously not. I think you'll find similar lines to get into western Europe though. Why do you feel compelled to compare the US to 3rd world countries?
This is a very good point, one that I thought about noting in a response where I discussed my identities online, but chose not to. --Luckily I'm at a point in my life - both physically and mentally - where I don't have to hide who I am to others. So to that extent, I don't feel that I have to try to either hide or specifically state that I'm gay in any normal social interaction.

Unfortunately many people - even in the US - don't have this luxury. I saw the way the one person in my high school was brave enough to come out was ostracized, and given that I was already a target, I knew there was no way I could put up with what he had to go through. For Facebook to be working this hard to strip away the ability for people to have one image in public and another in private, well, it could end up hurting a lot of people.
What we need is a browser "persona" plugin, that allows you to swap in and out different accounts when it indicates you are on a FB enabled page.
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Saying something is "old" is not a good enough reason to make people give it up.

Instead, tell them it's unsafe and insecure and it's free and super easy to use a newer browser. Then you've got something. Tell them them IE6 won't be deleted just in case they need to go back for some reason.

My car is over 10 years old, gets better mpg than many of today's cars and still has airbags. An argument that "it's old, better upgrade" wouldn't fly with me (unless somehow it was free and easy to upgrade, lol).
But in a way, the article is begging the question by presuming that the categories are objectively meaningful. What's a 'teenager' and what's an 'adult'?

If our brains are continuously changing throughout our lives, you'll see differences on either side of any arbitrary cutoff point.
"IE w/ Chrome Frame plugin" would be a better choice than asking them to upgrade to IE8.
Here's an image of what Android was going to look like before the iPhone came out:

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_1IECTAB2-to/TWV9IKxwQOI/A...

And here's the Samsung Galaxy Pro that was just announced:

http://www.eurodroid.com/2011/03/update-product-shot-of-the-...

It's remarkable the influence Apple has had.
What I mean is, everyone used to be entrepreneurs and most switched right over to the mentality that you have to "get a job". Why would modern entrepreneur children have a different view?
I think you mean "extracted" or "opened," not "expunged" (expunged means sealed or erased, the opposite of what I assume you intend).

That being said, I work on anti-abuse systems at Facebook and I'm pretty sure we don't "plug all your comments into NSA supercomputers." What evidence do you have that indicates we do such a thing?
I prefer http://browser-update.org/ as it is a little less intrusive than a centered popup.

Of course, you may want intrusive (like if your site is horribly broken in IE6) or you may prefer not to direct users to a wordy explanation page, so this is a pretty good option.
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The the ActionScripts.
I think they did a great marketing job. They released in December (good timing for Christmas) at the cheapest price point. Probably great timing to help it into the top 10 initially. Then they made sure they looked after their users by consistently giving new levels for free for the first 6-12 months. Heck they are still giving free updates now! People love that, in turn the more users took the time to give it good reviews which then helped sell to more people & keep it in the top ten.
Has anyone ever taken the time to explain why the apparently scary prospect of people "racing to the bottom" is bad for me as a consumer or member of society?

The original usage was about states competing by offering better terms to corporations. These "better terms" were worse for the people living in the state because they got less tax income and less worker protection. But they are the vendors in that analogy, the customer/corporation was very happy with how things worked out.

Am I really supposed to shed tears over a corporation's business model being a bit more like operating in a free market?
just wanted to say 'thank you' for submitting this.

the amount of love in the comments is overwhelming. (and it might be a naive and inappropriate thing to say but it's odd that it takes 'facing death' in order to gather that amount of love on the webs. or wherever.)
I'm so tired of the whole thing, I'm not even keeping track of it anymore. Reform these days(1) has just become doublespeak for "like it is now, only more so". Status_quo++.

They're going to do what they're going to do. Its going to be the opposite of what would be best for us, and we'll find a way to work around it.

(1)I think perhaps this is the way its always been, and I was just too young to notice.
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Its fun.Its more fun in IE :)
The LG Optimus screen is capacitive. You can get a stylus for it but it's a special capacitive one.
It's funny, I clicked on the link to read this, and suddenly he mentions Katrin. I worked with her on a small project, and was hugely impressed by her skill and her in general. Whoever gets to work with her is quite lucky!

Best of luck to Katrin and Bart - too bad I can't relocate to Sydney :D
To be fair, its not that bad. When I lived in the states unlimited nights and weekends started at 7PM and lasted 8AM. I also had Sprint SERO which was completely unlimited at $99/mo. + $25 in taxes.

When I moved to France, unlimited and unrestricted calling plans didn't exist yet and the talking time was pretty measly. Even now their nights and weekend billings were awkward 8PM-Midnight, Saturday afternoons - Sunday Midnight. They gave you a feature that was practically worthless.

This explains why SMS took so long to get off the ground there. A message cost $0.15, which is about the cost of a voice call, and unlimited messaging plans were $15-20 in addition to your voice plan. That money could be better spent on an even bigger plan with 1000 minutes. That and T9 sucked as a keyboard interface.

Eventually, I hope the rest of the world gets real
I think that's missing the point of how wrong it can be. That quote frames it as a moral issue. Different ways of acting in different contexts is not a moral issue unless you're deliberately going out of your way to hide something you don't want others to learn about you because you know it's immoral (or whatever). Most differences of behaviour in most contexts is not an issue of morality, whether or not other subjects in said contexts learn about those differences.
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This article isn't clear whether it means all cookies or just cookies that are tracking users cross-website. I really, really hope it means the latter.
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You can teach your kids coding. Then give them your ideas and guide them. howz that? :)
The company I work for does not only web demos but face to face demos involving a sales guy travelling to the customer site, sometimes multiple times. This is for a SaaS app. I think some organisations are stuck in a certain way of purchasing software. One recently apparently had a half day meeting with a team of 12 'architects' to discuss implementing the software. To be clear, we're a pretty regular SaaS vendor although it is thick client there's very little they need to worry about. Certainly the questions they were asking seemed to be more relevant to a software product we install on their servers.

Although the old saying says 'no one got sacked for buying IBM' possibly when people are prepared to suggest not buying IBM (or the equivalent) there still not prepared to suggest changing how the solution is bought.
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Hey, thanks for posting it here. I am the author of the study. Here are some additional charts for fellow HNers:

Most voted words at HN: http://ediscope.labs.yahoo.net/final/hackernews_positive.png

Least voted words at HN: http://ediscope.labs.yahoo.net/final/hackernews_negative.png

These trends are pretty volatile. The data was collected at the time when Larry Page was announced to succeed Eric Schmidt. They were pretty hot that day.
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Same here. I have tried all the samples from http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/samples.html - and everytime the result is "FLA version not supported"
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I can certainly throw up at the thought of a Flash to HTML5 converter ...
excellent product, and excellent story! from the video introduction, the user interface seems to be a little antiquated, what are you using for the right click menu? it reminds me of solaris CDE menus :)

how did you guys get started? the idea is really novel.
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A problem with that article is fundamental, but unfortunately not uncommon, misunderstanding of free speech.

A website is a private property.

You have no more right to leave a comment on my website than I have to come to your house and bore you with a speech on politics.

My free speech rights allow me to publish my thoughts on my blog or publish them in my newspaper. Free speech, however, is not about allowing me to publish my thoughts on your blog or giving me right to publish an op-ed in New York Times, anonymously.

So saying:

"But to force all comments into the realm of "single real identity" public exposure -- as Facebook now appears intent on doing -- is unacceptable, reprehensible, dangerous, and utterly at odds with basic free speech rights in the United States at least."

,as dire and dramatic as it sounds, is, frankly, utter bullshit.

Today we have unprecedented ability to exercise our rights to free speech, anonymous or otherwise, so let's not fall for demagogy of people who want to pollute web with worthless comments while hiding behind principles of free speech (while completely misunderstanding those principles).
What don't Adobe get? It's not that Flash is bad "just" because it's not HTML5, it's also bad because it enables crap things. HTML5 or not, that's always going to be the case.
"Qt desktop development had pretty much reached the end"

That might have been Henrik Hartz. I think he meant that there's nothing revolutionary happening right now on the desktop so they only have to keep up with new OS versions.
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The stats I saw on Pixar's render farm is 3000 AMD processors. Without knowing the exact CPU, let's pick a reasonable estimate that each cranks out about 5 mhps. That's a total hashspeed of 15 ghps. The current bitcoin network is pumping out over 500 ghps. No one would even notice if Pixar put the whole farm on bitcoin mining.
never mind that, what happens when you're cruising along at 30000 feet and apple decides your app is no longer approved?
I haven't read the directive, but in the article it does say:

"Specifically excluded by the directive are cookies that log what people have put in online shopping baskets."
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I thought people just built sharding into the application level when using MySQL stuff - I'd imagine the same thing works just fine for PostgreSQL. Or were you talking about something else?
The answer is, it doesn't. This is why it is completely anonymous to use Tor with Bittorrent, but only if you use a transparent proxy configuration.
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In reference to the claimed $200M exit.
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I found both "Manhood" and "Raising Boys" by Steve Biddulph ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Biddulph ) interesting reads. I can't say I agreed with everything in them, but they were thought provoking with the obligatory "that's obvious... why hadn't I thought of that already?" moments of a well written book.

If you happen to be Christian I also found "Healing the Masculine Soul" (Dalby, http://www.amazon.com/Healing-Masculine-Soul-Restoration-Man... ) helpful, but it is both explicitly Christian and theology heavy.

Edit: sorry, posted this in reply to the wrong comment by mistake.
Your point is?
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I've thought about that idea as well.

Not only for facebook, but the same applies to Google and other trackers. Many sites link to your Google account. This is possible because your cookies can be shared/accessible by scripts communicating between sites (and checking referers).

To isolate them you'd essentially need something like firefox profiles -- isolating cookies and credentials per persona. But to be more usable it needs to be more integrated into the browser somehow, and more lightweight, as running multiple firefox profiles is a bit clunky.
No it is not the best example. Yes it is not real. You are concentrating a bit too much on the first sentence which has a little (if not anything) to do with the second (which is my fault ... I needed something to associate with). The point being raised is that sometimes some are quick to comment when under anonymity (no inhibition) rather than use their reasoning to go through what they are going to say. Though the first comment might be true, intelligent etc.. be wary of who that affects (because the people who read are real and they have feelings). Anonymity for some, skips that wary stage and leaves it up to the reader to either feed the fire or salvage.

The related discussion from ramchip (though a great read) is only weakly related again to the first sentence. I could tell my girlfriend I love her very much or I can tell her every ounce of annoyance she gives to me, first comment versus what you actually want to impart to produce a constructive and stable relationship. I want to be thoughtful and sincere not quick to the punch (Nothing at all to do with with whether the medical condition is real or not because the morals and values are learned).

In case this derailed, I am talking about users who leave the first thing that came to mind and had no thought of the consequences since under anonymity.
15-year US resident here. Got my Green Card after 7 years. Was transferred to London and came back to US as Multi-National Manager. Got my GC within 6 months of application (i.e applied after 6.5 years) .

One thing I want to share is that, if you wanted to start a company on H1 / L1, it is fine and there are very few restrictions. You might have to do it part time and declare it to your employer and INS, and you cannot sponsor your own GC etc.

And how many H1 / L1 holders really want to start a company on their own? I doubt if the numbers are sizeable.

Even if you are raving to start a company tomorrow on a H1 / L1, what is the problem with tying up with a local GC or Citizen and register a company?

I am not being cheeky, just trying to understand where the pain points are.
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