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WakeMate sounds really cool but I don't sleep alone. It's all about waking you at the perfect time isn't it. That means I get woken up all refreshed and my partner is going to be cranky? Not designed for couples?
data.gov and other US gov data sites are getting severe cuts even though they're saving money (http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=35&sid=2327798)

Very upsetting for fans of open / accessible (government) data.

FWIW, petition at http://sunlightfoundation.com/savethedata/
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I would join that company.
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I will also note that women tend to talk less about men and their physical attributes than men do about women and their physical attributes

I often wonder if this is a generational thing. This seems to be true of the women I know my age (in their mid 30s, but this has been true when younger as well), but I am also friends with a couple of groups now in their mid 20s and they are very happy to talk about the physical attributes of the guys they know to a level of detail and intimacy that I would never feel comfortable talking about with my male friends.
That is a perfectly reasonable question. I didn't do any testing -- it was an experimental campaign and totally flamed out. If it had been anywhere in the general ballpark of feasible, I would happily have started iterating, but $35 CPA to the free trial of a thirty dollar product did not strike me as something which was amenable to iterate-quickly-to-victory.
The sad thing about this post is that I think he's actually serious. That might sound harsh and defensive, but from my perspective (principal of a firm that exists to help clients design amazing products) his perspective belies a local maxima.

In other words, he just hasn't worked with a great team to get something off the ground. There's any number of reasons for that: perhaps he's not a good personality fit (a UX team has to be highly opinionated to be effective) or maybe he just hasn't been introduced to the right fit and doesn't realize that Mrs. Right is out there for him.

That said, bringing in an external group isn't the right fit for everything. I agree with Tony Hsieh that outsourcing their fulfillment and tech support would have been a disaster.

But it's equally crazy for Brian Eno to learn Objective-C to release Bloom, don't you think?
Well, if you use any alarm clocks isn't that the case already?

I've been using my wakemate for a few weeks now in a shared bed, but my girlfriend wakes up several hours earlier than me. Since I'm able to ignore her alarm I've never had an issue.

I imagine that since the wakemate wakes up fairly gently (most of the alarm sounds it comes with are pretty calm) and since it tries to wake you up during your lightest sleep, your partner is likely not in their lightest. At worst they could rise to near-awake until you shut off your alarm.

Even if you could have two wakemates syncing together finding a shared near-awake state to wake you both up might be statistically difficult :)
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Be careful with that -- Facebook is indeed cheap advertising, but it tends to convert very poorly for services charging money.

So, while yes, it might be 'cheap' traffic, that doesn't necessarily make it cost effective.

If you're attempting to just get eyeballs, then by all means, it's a great way to potentially get shared around. If you're hoping to actually get sales out of your ad spend, then AdSense is usually the safer bet.

As with all things, your mileage may vary.
Think the bigger question here is, how long till you (we) end up paying to bypass the wall.

If the Times does have content worth paying for, then perhaps we'll stop freeloading and pay for it, right? :)
I've taken a shot at this very problem - curious what you think about it. http://brainsy.net
I got hired as a ski instructor at Breckenridge in Colorado after having been on skis 4 times in my life, 3 of them on the mountains of North Carolina.

There were two reasons I was able to get a job.

1. I had been a white water raft guide the two previous summers, which I also had only done a few times before getting a job. I got into this because I paid $250 to attend a raft guide school, which as long as you make it thru they will offer you a job.

2. Mainly, because I was courteous and clean cut during my interview. I told them flat out that I was not the best skier but I would show up on time everyday and that I knew they would likely train the heck out of me. Plus I knew they would stick me with people that had never skied before. So I just had to be a little bit better than them.

That was about 3 years ago. I can tell you know it would probably be even easier as most resorts depend heavily on foreign workers for everything, not just low paid jobs, and visas have become very hard to come by. I would say a third of my fellow instructors were from another country.
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Very cool news.

However, I see something like this and I wonder: "wow, Facebook is valued at over 10 times this purchase price (which is already inflated by virtue of it being a purchasing price)." I don't know what to draw from that; intuitively I see less value in Facebook, but I certainly haven't done an in-depth analysis.
The same thing occured to me. The same thing probably occured to everyone that read the article, because that's exactly what the article says:

"The findings in the current study are limited in their application as this study models hair loss related to stress and thus may not be relevant to hair loss brought on by factors other than stress."
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Go for it. So many places set an arbitrary deadline because they know a few will come in late, so they build in a buffer. Plus you never know, someone may back out for some reason and they need another one to round out the numbers.
I'm predicting the big problem that Kevin Rose will solve on mobile then will be social task-list which lets you check-in to activities and have your social graph digg them up.
UX is something people feel, a UX/UI designer have to put on end-user's shoes and be emotionally attached to it, as an artist and as a human-being.

You can copy their work but it's hard to copy their genuine motivation, inspiration and emotions, the real brains behind the design.

UX people cultivate their inspiration through art, social interactions, sciences, relationships, love, passion, nature, architecture, etc. because they invest heavily on their emotions, their inspiration to design a good UX/UI.
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I thought this was going to be something like when I ssh into a remote system and run 'tcpdump' without filtering out port 22. :)
I don't see the point in attacking the character of people who have accomplished great things.

What does a person's private life have to do with their struggle against a government? Usually, not very much. It's just a more intellectual version of gossip rags. Just trying to tear down historical celebrities.
For both the Theory of Geek and CoderStack ad campaigns going from initial ad to an optimized ad dropped eCPC by two orders of magnitude. Optimization has a huge impact on Facebook Ads.

Although if you're paying $0.05/click for traffic on Google there's probably less upside for you then someone who's paying $0.50/click on Google.
Extremely impressive. Can't wait to see how this is applied to everyday problems. Kudo's to this gentleman.
If you're an Amazon Prime subscriber, you can watch this movie for free on Amazon Instant Video. It's quite interesting, for those of us who are typography geeks.
Another great use for the Tags - Summary Pages.

Look at the bottom of the Tags Summary panel when you click on the "Find Tags" button. You should see a "Create Summary Page" option. It's a great way to create summary/wrapup's of meetings and projects.
Six-country study concludes media piracy is a failure of market, not law
https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle/commit/33efa5ac62eaf9cf... is the point where I get confused.

In a normal tunnel setup, one tunnels at the IP layer, and dumps all IP packets into the tunnel. At the far end of the tunnel, packets are sent onwards based on the far end's routing table. Things like DNS "just work" because everything happens at a layer below TCP and UDP. In this system, he's making it work for each non-tcp using layer 4 protocol separately, leading to weirdness like rewriting /etc/hosts.

For tcp, he's nating all traffic locally to a local server, which then multiplexes all incoming traffic into the ssh connection. The remote side then unmultiplexes the data. I don't fully understand how this avoids tcp over tcp. Maybe I'm dumb. [edit: yeah, I'm dumb. the tcp connection is terminated at the local server, the contents are pumped over the ssh connection, and the remote side opens a new tcp connection]

I wrote this mostly because I read the readme and went "but how does it work?".
Hey, you're talking to somebody who's doing almost all of his programming these days in j2me! Sometimes the customer restricts the craftsman's selection of tools... :-)
Fantastic. I guess you (I'm assuming you work for dotcloud) just need to make it clearer in the docs.
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Hello, we are looking for a home for our startups servers. We prefer a datacenter near downtown San Francisco, and will need 1/3 cabinet to start, and probably 5Mbps bandwidth with peak of 100Mbps. Any recommendations, anybody have any buddy/fellow HN rates/discounts they could lend? Thanks.
I have always wondered if knowing programming languages counts as being bilingual or whether most languages are just an obscure subset of english? Do non native english speakers find they have to know/learn english to program?
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- Stigma (as already covered), especially if you're under 30. I knew a guy that was mostly bald by 20 - it was hell for him.

- 'bald is sexy' only applies to shaved bald, not pattern baldness. Shaved bald is a very high-maintenance haircut

- lack of options in how you can style your hair

- warmth

- scalp protection from injury

- sunburn

- some helmets and other headgear are not really designed for baldness (some also leave unattractive marks)

- sweat control

- self-identity (rockabilly fans like quiffs...)

I'm tall (198cm / 6'6") and the world is not built for me. I do more damage to myself now that I'm balding than when I had hair when I hit a low doorway. I now reflexify duck a bit any time I pass through a door, even if it's 250cm high...
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Dispute indeed. Napster failed legally because had a central datastore that aided in transferring the music. They just weren't passing around links, they were passing around files, too.
TI's press release page is here:
http://www.ti.com/acquire
The blog post is here:
http://e2e.ti.com/blogs_/b/realworld/archive/2011/04/04/ti-t...
(The first is basically the outline of the second...)

The statement, "TI, which makes low-power chips, said..." is a huge understatement. TI dabbles in every area of electronics. Their 30,000 analog parts are supplemented by >70,000 other parts, and that number only accounts for parts which are available from Digikey.
I'm running chrome in incognito mode without being logged in, and oddly enough I'm neither being prompted to login, nor subjected (so far) to any article limitations.

I'm not sure whether to feel guilty or not. I _am_ finding myself using my WSJ subscription (which I do pay for) a whole lot more from my iPad as I run into article limitations on the NYT there.
Where's the RF connector to hook up to the TV if need be?

I'd like to send one back in time to myself circa 1982 ... but what good is it if there's no capable display device?
Firebug's killing me. It's so useful, but so slow!
Sure:

The bid-ask spread paper:
"the black period is associated with a bid-ask spread narrower by about 2 bps"

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=related:bZ0CEWMhg4YJ:sch...

http://www.cib.espol.edu.ec/Digipath/D_Papers/38570.pdf

Another well cited but controversial paper:

http://foba.lakeheadu.ca/gradojevic/5079/meulbroek(1992)_ins...

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=3127308622037385070&...

From those two, you can build your way up to the more current papers using the "Cited by" feature. For more quality, focus on papers written on the more known journals (eg: journal of finance, journal of financial economcs, RFS, and so on).

Also, see the 1997 SCOTUS ruling on insider trading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insider_trading#Court_decisions

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/96-842.ZO.html

IANAL, but their "misappropiation" argument can arguably apply in this case.

Cheers
sshuttle does not (currently) attempt to do anything other than TCP and DNS. UDP ought to be possible (other than that UDP-over-TCP could have similar problems to TCP-over-TCP, ie. that packets are never lost and this could confuse a hypothetical UDP-based congestion control algorithm). ICMP is probably not possible unless we run the server side as root.

The "--auto-hosts" option you linked to is not the same as the "--dns" option. auto-hosts doesn't capture DNS at all; instead it just adds to your local /etc/hosts. I use this feature much more than --dns, actually, because unlike --dns, it works great if you have multiple tunnels to different offices open at once. (You get all the hostnames from all the offices.)

sshuttle was originally designed to VPN into an office and forward a couple of subnets over. In that case, you often don't want to use the remote DNS server, you just want to know the remote hostnames, because most of your DNS lookups have nothing to do with the remote server. Hence --auto-nets and --auto-hosts.

Nowadays it seems like sshuttle is mostly being used to counter things like Firesheep, which means you want to forward all your traffic to a remote server. In that case --dns - which forwards all your port 53 traffic over the VPN - is preferable.

We could actually do all the other UDP ports the same way we do --dns. We just don't, because I haven't needed it and nobody else has submitted a patch.
http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/ which includes my former advisor's dataset (UF sparse matrix collection) which includes a matrix or two from my research.
I think there's some valid criticism of the film "Gandhi" to be had. However, an essay that insists on being flippant and glib through the repetitious use of terms like "Sir Dickie" (to describe Sir David Attenborough, used on ten occasions in the essay) is probably not it.
At least as relating to WCDMA/UMTS, I don't think it's technically TCP over TCP.

TCP is encapsulated in PDCP for the wireless portion of the transmission, and the header's are compressed to hell (using RFC 2507).

On the CDMA and CDMA2000 side of the house (I have no idea about LTE), it's using a similar encapsulation, but our good friend PPP makes an appearance.

I'm pretty sure that the wireless data networks melting down is from a combination of too much density per tower (in cities) and insufficient upstream connectivity.
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I think this should have been re-imagining of the C64 as a first computer for a new generation of hackers.

I'm thinking of a high-level, empowering, introductory programming environment in the vein of Hackety Hack or Love2D (because lets be honest, kids want to make games), running on a Linux with an easy-to-use desktop environment (Ubuntu/Unity?).

The hardware would be netbook/mobile type stuff and internet oriented with SSD storage, Wifi, and HDMI for video output. No optical drive. Oh yeah, and a gamepad, the modern equivalent of the joystick.

I'm too young to have grown up with a C64 myself, but to me this would seem like a more worthy spritual successor.
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Welcome to Rapidly Breaking Down Analogy City, population: you and me.

How about I'm making copies of DVDs and burying them in the desert at random locations, and telling you the locations, and you're selling the coordinates at which I've buried my DVDs?
There's a fantastic hamburger place down the street from my house. They make a fixed number of patties every day and when they run out, they close for the day. The owners are constantly asked why they don't buy more patties or expand to more locations around town. They've repeatedly stated that they're doing just fine with where they are and have no desire to push things further. There's a certain beauty here that's hard to quantify.
A mirror rule applies to the monsters of history. Try to argue that Adolf H., Joseph S. or Mao Z. had some positive traits or did beneficial things.

Or even mention that, say, they liked raspberry jam on their bread for breakfast.

They were human beings, but they're better left comfortably demonized.
I'm saying that it's unclear that this guy had no hand in posting the actual streams, but having said that: you can be a contributory infringer without ever touching an actual copyrighted work.
If everyone took that point of view, then no new industries would ever get started. It may be much more risky, but sometimes if you can "invent the wheel" and execute extremely well, then you have the potential to make a lot of money even before any competitors enter the industry that you have created.
This is awesome for TI!

It is pretty crazy that Facebook is valued over 10 times this but if we didn't have facebook we wouldn't have likes, pokes or farmville...... If we didn't have Semiconductors we might not have Facebook. Strange world indeed! "Like" it though.
Well I dunno. Part C seems to only apply to works being "being prepared for production", which most folks wouldn't even have access to. Part B would be the easiest for your casual pirate to run afoul of, but if you're pirating $1000 worth of stuff within a year then... yeah, you're moving out of "occasional vice" territory and into the "just watching lots of stuff without paying for it" territory.
Nat semi has a known value and track record. Facebook doesn't have a known value/track record. Same with all these doctoms that give away things for free. The second they start charging they put a cap on their value. With facebook you're paying for future potential.

That's the reasoning, whether you agree with it or not.
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Yeah, Australia is actually where the friend of mine I mentioned is at. It's good to hear some of the times are improving, maybe the companies are finally catching on that the delays just drive people to download...

I think traditionally, the delays are due to contracts with local providers. So for example, a local Australian television station might negotiate for the rights to say, the tv show House, but they get a cheaper rate by waiting 6 months or more likely, Fox doesn't even give them the option of showing it sooner...
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I love etsy but this article brings up many good points. I wonder if etsy needs to look at related but new businesses in order to truly scale. Perhaps they need to look more at the physical side of their business, e.g. running custom manufacturing for their clients, supply chain mgmt for their more successful clients who have outgrown the etsy marketplace, etc.
On that topic, anyone have any suggestions for the easiest way to prepopulate a directory of local businesses in the U.S.?
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That's mainly because Canada never ratified some of the relevant WIPO treaties. So even though there's not a lot of illegal infringing in Canada, content makers don't have as much control as they would like, so it gets put at the top of the "Special 301" survey every year. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/05/canada-again...
How many of these allow me to create for-profit websites with them?
I stopped reading at this point:

> ...when Gandhi's wife lay dying of pneumonia and British doctors
> insisted that a shot of penicillin would save her, Gandhi refused to
> have this alien medicine injected in her body and simply let her die.

True as far as it goes, but a near-slanderous distortion of what actually happened:

To those who tried to bolster her sagging morale saying "You will get
better soon," Kasturba would respond, "No, my time is up." Shortly after
seven that evening, Devdas took Mohandas and the doctors aside. In what
he would later describe as "the sweetest of all wrangles I ever had with
my father," he pleaded fiercely that Ba be given the life saving
medicine, even though the doctors told him her condition was beyond
help. It was Mohandas, after learning that the penicillin had to be
administered by injection every four to six hours, who finally persuaded
his youngest son to give up the idea. "Why do you want to prolong your
mother's agonies after all the suffering she has been through?" Gandhi
asked. Then he said, "You can't cure her now, no matter what miracle
drug you may muster. But if you insist, I will not stand in your way.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasturba_Gandhi)

The OP's calumny is reminiscent of an earlier incident where Kasturba was ill, and doctors insisted that she needed to eat beef to get better. They asked his permission, and he said that he would not grant it, but that if she was in a position to indicate her wishes, she could choose for herself. http://www.gandhi-manibhavan.org/gandhicomesalive/chap01.htm

If there is something actually interesting and historically verifiable elsewhere in this apparent hit job of an essay, I'd be grateful for a pointer, though.

What is it with the recent campaign to slam Gandhi? (http://www.metafilter.com/101933/We-believe-as-much-in-the-p...)
People value having inspirational figures more than they value knowing random facts which just happen to be true.

"People", here, might have a point.
Debian? debian.org is a million times more modern, with RSS feeds, translations in around 30 languages, decent looking markup, etc.

I was just making an observation about the 90's style source code, and said nothing about slickness, or prettiness. This seems a bit of an oddity for a tech company, since one would have to search for hours to find anything similar in 2011.

Of course, writing an quality operating system and coding a simple website are nowhere near the same level of difficulty.
If we didn't have Semiconductors we might not have Facebook.

And if we didn't have sand we wouldn't have semiconductors, but I still ain't buying up the Gobi Desert.
Yelp has an API that returns business data in a given geographic area. You could probably get a list of zipcodes from wikipedia and then just loop through that.
Looks pretty awesome. How long is the wait for getting into the beta? I just applied for the first time.
Thanks for the reply. Where is their datacenter? Any idea of ballpark price for 1/3 cabinet, and price per megabit? How can we get in touch with you, to get us a quote and discounts? Gracias.
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