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Very, very interesting reply. I think that this "personality decay" is a risk worth concern, but I don't think it's as bad as people think it is. Old people become "set in their ways", I think, because with less life to live there is less risk people wish to take with new modes of thought. (Yes, thinking is risky. See: the link between creativity and mental illness, or the fact that substances LSD, despite its physically innocuous nature, can, if used unwisely and with a bit of bad luck, have devastating psychic consequences.)

I don't think this personality decay will be a major problem. When people have nearly infinite life left and all physical manifestations of aging can be held back, I think people will retain all advantages of youth, without the disadvantages after 40 years or so (although behaviors of 100-year-olds in post-aging world may be considered "immature").

Part of why I feel this way is that, as a Buddhist, I don't see much difference between spending (say) 100,000 years in 1200 bodies or in one of them. Impermanence is constant regardless of life span; constantly, thoughts are being born and dying. It's not that different: short lifespans vs. long ones. The current arrangement just shakes us up a lot more. We have 20 years (+/- 15 depending on how terms are defined) of uptime before we are fully formed and spend our last 10 years "unwinding" and not very productive, with this process culminating in a complete loss of physical memory (and complete submission to the force of karma and the will of God-- Buddhism doesn't require belief in God, but I'm a deist) every 80 years or so.

Most changes humanity has made have been slightly positive, but have only enabled and made easier (not guaranteed or enforced) happiness and spiritual progress. In this regard, their improvements to the human condition have been non-negligible but have only increased what is possible, not so much what is realized. I expect post-aging humanity to be similar. Life may become more comfortable without losing all of one's memories (and facing, since no one knows for sure what happens after death, the possibility of nonexistence) every 80-100 years, but it won't become better unless people make spiritual progress, which can't be imposed upon people or "given" through technology. People have to take it up on their own when they are ready. My concern regarding a post-aging and post-scarcity world is that people will just turn into spiritual procrastinators.
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You know, he could have just taped bacon to a cat.
Wow, absolutely horrific site design. I can barely even read a single word.
why no one mentioned Sendgrid? For $10 a month he can send 10000 emails which is more than enough. Sendgrid has Newsletter App and also great deliverability.
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In fact, to me, it would be a bit of a red flag. Unless you were actually doing iOS development.
Actually, I am just plain less likely to read it, but I agree with your premise.
Well, since we have one and not the other, I don't really think you can call that an open question.
Have you asked why they think that? I'd like to know their reasoning. I certainly understand the allure of the device, I just can't see where the idea of it doing more than they are already doing on their computers comes from, unless they are simply referring to apps that are only available on iPad.
Funny, I can't seem to find the article where I said much of anything about Lala, post- or pre-acquisition by Apple, let alone the one where I claimed they were "revolutionary".

Please let me know the URL for that piece.
Did you actually read my whole comment, or just the first few words?
You could also make the argument that managing to get paid to do what you would do on your own time anyway - that shows a certain amount of drive and intelligence.
That's what happens in a hype-driven market - when startups aren't expected to make real money (eg Twitter's evaluations vs income) decisions are made based on hype, which is influenced by track record, celebrity status, media attention etc.

All publicity is good publicity for Color right now and following Slide's lead is exactly what it's meant to do.
This is why I love HN. I find things here, which I never knew I needed so much.
In addition to being easier to install, Redshift has the benefit of working properly in multi-monitor environments.

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> We found a niche

OK. But who's your target market? How do you envision people using your game? In a game that is strictly multiplayer, I think you really have to understand the social context.

While I quite enjoy playing board games like Carcassonne or Arkham Horror with friends, or even stuff like air hockey on the iPad, I don't really see much lasting appeal in a game like this which is quite simple and so directly competitive.

In short, I think you need more interesting game modes.
My religious viewpoint, as a deist who believes existence in a higher power to be the most rational belief but denies the existence of "miracles", divine interventionism, prophecy or revealed religion: qualia is a miracle, probably the only one in this world, and the only one we need.
That interpretation requires a lack of intellectual curiosity that borders upon the obtuse. From the link above, which it appears you didn't bother to read:

Japan has suffered 195 tsunamis since 400, according to Japan’s Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, which produced a report on tsunami threats to nuclear plants on the opposite coast to Dai-Ichi in July 2008. Three in the past three decades had waves of more than 10 meters.

A 7.6-magnitude quake in 1896 off the east coast of Japan created waves as high as 38 meters, while an 8.6- magnitude temblor in 1933 led to a surge as high as 29 meters, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Yes, it was a very big earthquake and they were very unlucky, but the country is famously earthquake prone. I mean, nobody expected that Indonesian earthquake to be as big as it was either. they had an earthquake 15 years ago that wiped $100m off their GDP and killed thousands, and which surprised everyone considerably. If they are being astonished by natural phenomena on a regular basis then maybe their intellectual confidence is somewhat misplaced. The concept of >10 meter waves off the coast of Japan is hardly beyond imagination: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Ok7XT4IAwo/TRQYSauk1gI/AAAAAAAAAH...
A few things I'm doing/done:

1. Selling random stuff on Craigslist and Ebay. Say, that bike trainer is really cool, but I haven't used it in awhile, and I should go ride outside anyway. Ditto for every other non-essential item I own.

2. Setting up a few minor content-type sites. I wrote a bunch of articles awhile ago and never did anything with them. I'm spending this weekend setting up a simple wordpress site to host them. Not going to make me rich, obviously, but anything helps.

3. Start a minor side business. If you can figure out a way to spend an equal amount of time (say, 20 hours/week) and make more money than a comparable random job, do it. You'll learn more and it'll look awesome on a resume. (I'm doing this too).

4. I've looked into using AirBnb to host. Not sure if I will end up using it, but if you've got the space (and the comfort level) you can definitely pay the rent with it.
Id be very surprised if more than 100 of those employees were involved in this decision.
I think most blog comment forms have a "website " field for a reason, though. There's a tactic quid pro quo there. Leave a comment, add value to the discussion, maybe a few people will click on your link. And the vast majority of bloggers I know are happy to get comments. A well-placed comment on an unknown or up-and-coming blog can make the author's day.
well yes, indexed web - otherwise it would be all the data everywhere bar a few nuclear facilities.
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The question is only how relevant the link and comment itself is.
Just updated - love the slider. 3800k turns out to be the perfect temperature for the room I'm in, so right in-between the old presets for tungsten and fluorescent.

Having the ability to fine tune it like this is really nice.
Reminds me of:

http://blog.jgc.org/2010/01/more-fun-with-toys-ikea-lillabo-...
Since most office workers spend the majority of their time behind a computer screen, it makes up for all the contact we lost Pre-Internet.
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Ask/Rant: Has HN become a programming language forum
I've been lurking here for quite a while and I am seeing the majority of upvoted posts are related to this language or that language. Is that really what we want this community to be? There are a gazillion online communities for programmers to talk shop but there are very few places that are geared towards startup / entrepreneurship.

To add context, I am a professional software developer.
I saved a few bucks a month by upgrading my cellphone plan. Old subscription might result in old price, etc. I use this money to power an Google AppEngine instance.
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Google has never open sourced an Android version before it estimated it ready. Honeycomb is no different.

I don't understand the fuss.
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The simple truth is that everybody has their own, different definition for "the essence of open source".

When you open source something, it's simply impossible to satisfy everyone. Just be patient, Honeycomb will be opensourced eventually.
In all seriousness, I would love to know. (not the 1st Q but the warum's and wieviel's of data dollars)
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Do you really think this crypto blacklist is a result of internal politics rather than external? If so, why?
That's an amazingly naive observation.

My simple question to you is: why do you think that?

Shipping a mobile operating system is an impossibly complex task, but surely you can understand a parallel with a simple application: just because you wrote an app that's being successful doesn't mean you're ready to open source it the same day you release it. Maybe you want to clean it up, or refactor it, or make it easier to be reused by the open source community.
Brings to mind a blog entry of Chris Dixon's back on 8/5/09: "Reading my friends’ tweets helps me keep connected with them, the same way bumping into them on the street and exchanging small talk does. The content isn’t as important as the connection shared and presence felt."
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> Android has never been that open. If Google was committed to a truly open source mobile operating system, they would have released it under the GPLv3.

Maybe, but then it would have failed in the market place.
You just can't load code from external sources. I am not familiar with iScheme, but Pixie Scheme III is a scheme REPL and when you quit the app your work is gone... You can cut and paste into another app (notes or something that will sync with dropbox) but according to Apple's rules if you interpret code you can only run code you include yourself or that which is entered by the user.
Lecturing on open source a company that has done more to open source mobile operating systems than any other company in history.

Good times.
> I think that this hits the nail on the head. If the code is ready to be used by consumers, it should be ready for developers to inspect it.

I take it you're not a developer?

Putting running applications in users' hands is priority #1, and it usually goes at the expense of the cleanliness of the code.

Once you're happy with the mindshare that your application has gained, you look at the code and clean it up before releasing it.
Because shared trauma bonds people into the group that gives them their identity. If you go to some other store, or are indifferent enough about the thing that you can wait a few weeks for it, well then you're not a true believer, are you?

Shared trauma is the reason for hazing new entrants into something and the various painful religious rituals, circumcision being the one that comes to mind. You value something more when it cost you something. That iPad is much more cherished when you had to endure something to get it.

This does not make Apple a cult, just a lifestyle brand that has become a badge of identity. BMW have also just about managed to be seen as "different" and "special", despite being very widely owned, at least in Europe.
I think the haircut part is much stranger. The iPad is about moving people into the multitouch paradigm.
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Android is an exciting use case for Mirah. The other JVM languages run into the runtime library and performance problems mentioned towards the beginning of the article.
Can't adjust brightness? Ubuntu handles my brightness hotkeys and I keep the brightness pretty low anyway. For latenight I also use the compiz hotkey for negative color windows. (It may have to be enabled, and probably won't work on integrated gfx.) It is Win+N and pages go white on black instantly.
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The haircut part is about not having to leave campus and go do errands on a weekend, so your weekends can be about having fun (or more realistically, doing more work for the startup ;-)). It's actually pretty handy, being able to tuck away a 20-minute haircut appointment in between two meetings.
El Reg talked to Microsoft and claims it's a bug. Still, why would changing one's country make HTTPS available again? Why those countries?

All in all, it really makes them look bad, even if there's an innocent explanation.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/26/microsoft_https_hotm...
I enjoy language related subjects as much as I enjoy startup discussions. Unfortunately I don't agree with you (OP) in regards to removing valid technical or language topics in favor of pure startup discussions as both are valuable to me and I'm sure others share the sentiment, hence why they probably why you see a lot of them.
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Does it count as irony that when I loaded this link I hit a SO maintenance page with this image at top: http://sstatic.net/stackoverflow/img/offline-ide-1.png ?
"cubicle for spot"? What does that mean?
Great design, love the concept!
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Inflation is higher in SV than elsewhere in the US. I imagine all that money going almost directly into real-estate prices.
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Does anyone know what the song/melody playing in the background of the video is from?
Waiting in line for half a day for something is a pretty low barrier of entry to measure 'crazy' by.
How on earth did this linkbait make it to front page? I know it's Friday and the editors would like to begin their weekends, but really?
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Companies let their employees bring their dogs to work. Dog=spot (popular name for a dog, google "see spot run")
This is a really cool development.

Depending on context, there may be cases where I want a strict search. Other times I may want Soundex-style (phonetic) matches, matches based on word form (different tense, number, gender, etc...), or matches based on common misspellings.

Having already built a couple of apps with IndexTank, I'm curious about controlling the degree of fuzziness in an API call. Can this be controlled through a parameter on a per-query basis?
I don't question that running a service should cost money. I question why hardware I buy and host should be apparently unable to do its job without relying on an external service whose survival is not assured. It's another instance of building an appliance for consumers that could have been a full-fledged tool we relate to as human beings.
Why did I do this? As computer security expert Ben Laurie
has stated, Sudoku is "a denial of service attack on human
intellect". My wife was infected by the virus, and I wanted
to convince her that the problem had been solved and didn't
need any more of her time.

Very true.
Hi HN, this was my blog post. I fully expect the Wattvision to pay for itself in about a year based on what I've seen in the 3ish weeks I've had it (our latest power bill was almost $20 off from last year for about the same average temperature).

I thought we were a pretty energy conservative-household, but seeing the immediate effects that certain appliances and lights have on our consumption has changed how Mom, Dad and all the kids (even our 7 year old) use electricity. We know which light banks cost the most to use and when we leave everyone makes sure to check lights and shut down everything else we don't need.

Also, you can see live data for free. If you don't see the value in API and alerts, don't do the monthly payment options.

The original setup was actually far easier than I posted. When I first installed it, I had tucked the entire device into my phone utility box and had zero wires going inside the house. I reconsidered that plan after deciding that the box might get too hot in the summer. Fortunately I found some existing cabling and my OCD genes kicked in when I realized I could bring the gateway device inside with all my other blinking lights.

I expect most folks will simply run the (exorbitantly long) cable from the sensor through a window or other existing conduit. The original setup took under an hour for me and was working fine.
I uninstalled it the moment I realized i can't remove my photo from the app. I guess it will be stored permanently public in Color.

(Yes, you can slide the photo left to remove it, but it'd still show up in my stream!)
I think the average Apple fan has shifted in the past few years. I've been using Macs for a while (steady since the G3 was into'ed), and I can definitely say that there're a lot more en vogue now than they were in the past. Given that, it's harder to pinpoint why so many people line up for an iPad (simply given that there are so many more people in the demographic in question).

Speaking to the "old" Apple fan, I think that there's a sense of loyalty and a sense of being on the cutting edge.

As I said, I've been using Apple products exclusively (at home) since '99, and I've grown to feel a sense of attachment to the company. Something about Apple products clicked with me, and I felt the desire to foster a niche provider. This feeling is, I'm sure, compounded by the fact that I felt I was "in" on something and wanted to be even more in by adopting the latest and greatest.

I remember saying, "My voice is my password" over and over to no avail after Steve demoed voice passwords in a version of OS 9 that I promptly purchased. It didn't matter that it didn't work; Steve had shown what it was supposed to be, and I bought in. Even while I was dealing with a faulty product, I still felt like I was part of something great, and at its heart, the feature was cool and innovative, even if the implementation fell far short.

Those are the reasons I feel so much a part of the Mac world, but I guess the author is asking about why Apple clicks with people. That answer's far more complex, and one I definitely can't answer in a general sense. If I think back to when I really jumped on the bandwagon, I'd have to say that I was impressed by Apple's way of doing things differently, focusing on the best and focusing on the consumer.

Apple definitely did things differently than MS in the late 90s and early 2000s, and to me, their differences felt more focused on what I wanted to do. I wanted an easy way to get on the internet, and I wanted an un-compex system for managing my stuff. Apple felt like they wanted to make these things easy for me. And as far as focusing on the best, it seemed like Apple was striving for the best, most of the time. I remember my Apple monitor having a premium Mitsubishi tube in it, and the G3 being a hell of a processor. Maybe there were better components on the market, but Apple tried to put together a really nice package, and I liked it. Since then, I've become a professional programmer, and I question whether I would have liked Apple if I was looking for a development platform back then. I honestly don't know, but I do know that their decision to embrace Unix at the core of their OS has served them well within the more technical community.

So I guess the bottom line is that Apple provides a different experience, and for those of us that buy into it, it's worth a little sacrifice to get to be the first and to ensure that Apple will live to see another day. That wasn't always as sure a thing as it is now.

And if you're looking for an answer to why the cool people want to be the first with an iPad 2 and a leather Smart Cover, look elsewhere.
I remember doing something very similar in college. My first cut used a hideous object model, but my second go at it used a 3 dimensional matrix to track all of the data and was much faster and space efficient.

The "Why?" at the end of the article pretty much sums up why I can't play most board games and puzzles. Once you 'solve' sudoku, chess, connect 6, ect. it really takes the fun out of it, even if your brain doesn't calculate the solution as quick as your code.
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Hopefully we agree here that the most important goal is to understand the entire chain of events (from plant design to construction to operation to earthquake to tsunami to power failure to meltdown to vessel breach), in order to better avoid something like this happening again in the future.

Insofar as a containment vessel appears to have failed--regardless of the reasons--gross negligence by the firm that constructed it, which is known to have led to a structural flaw that could hasten a breach in another vessel at the same plant, is not "unrelated" news.

I'm probably being unfair, but your snarky dismissal of this article seems to amount to, "act of god; nothing to learn here; move right along".

Your implicit premise seems to be that no reasonable containment vessel standards could have been envisioned or successfully engineered to survive a total, prolonged power failure--in this case the result of a 30' wave hitting the plant's diesel generators. Therefore, because that unlikely event occurred, everyone is off the hook for structural flaws that could have hastened any subsequent meltdown and breach. I don't buy the premise, or the conclusion given the premise.

I think the point of the containment vessel is to be a last line of defense in case everything else goes wrong. So when everything else goes wrong you don't get to say "everything else went wrong, so it's not really relevant whether some of the vessels were poorly made".

In any case, I suspect we're arguing "at" rather than with each other now, so I'm happy to give you the last word and then drop it, unless you'd really like a response...
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