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>What I'm saying is that the home-runs will move over to self-publishing, reducing the profitability of traditional publishing.

You just did it again: the "home runs" are not necessarily the most profitable authors. Those authors that need development very often turn out to be the most profitable in the end. They're also far more common than the "home runs," meaning that by losing the "home runs," the publishers are only losing a small fraction of profitable authors.

>you're hoping for Dan Brown sized successes in a market that is tending towards more, not less, diversity.

The growing diversity will impact the volume of mid-list authors far more than chart-toppers. I see no sign that the human propensity for mass trends is diminishing, and those mass trends (and the mega-influential opinion-shapers who drive them) are what carry the top-selling authors to the top and keep them there.

>The point is that as an author you can charge a third or less of the price and get the same money because there are less middlemen. Since buyers will buy more of your books if they're cheaper you'd be crazy to charge the same price when you move to self-publishing.

Any given author can charge less and make more by self-publishing. If all authors were equally good, you might have a point here. However, a great author who has to pay middle-men (because they helped him become great, amongst other reasons) will still be able to charge a high enough price to make orders of magnitude more than lesser authors who self-publish.
The 'make-generated-sources.sh' script does exactly what its name says. It creates source files. Take a closer look at DerivedSources.make: all of the (non-phony) targets (start of a line, before a colon) are .c and .h files. It never even invokes a compiler or linker, and doesn't even reference the vast majority of the code, so it certainly isn't a makefile for the entire thing.

Also, you can run 'make-generated-sources.sh' on pretty much any Linux or UNIX (probably including Cygwin).
There's absolutely no evidence that this has anything to do with Flash. In fact, even if it was via Flash, there would still have to be another vulnerability to escape the Chrome sandbox, which could very likely be exploited via other means.
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The cofounder myth is a correlation vs. causation trap.

The reason so many successful companies have multiple founders is that in the early days, when it was just ideas bouncing around, the cofounder dynamic made two people sit down together, feed off each other's energy, refine each other's ideas, and get the company going in the earliest stages.

If you've already gotten that far as a single founder, you don't need to find a cofounder. If you haven't gotten that far as a single founder, maybe a partner will help you get that far.
Haven't finished watching this yet, but the GIL has been improved as of 3.2. For instance, the example he gives where threading two copies of a CPU-bound function doubles execution time isn't as terrible given the recent rework of the GIL.

http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.2.html#multi-threading
So,I will have to create a live id to use skype ?
:-/
A total anecdote, and I know the research is ongoing, but as a person who had rather worse depression because of an underlying problem that has since been treated, I would have a to say a comparison between how I used to feel about events, versus how I feel about them now, is spot on like this article says. Before my treatment, my memory of the past at that time (err, looking now back at it) I very much over generalized problems or overly categorized events as "typical" for how such events always are. Today, as I write this, I don't seem to look back at any of it like that, at least, not as much.
Losing? 2010 EBITDA was $264 million, according to my cursory search.
Glasses-free 3D as per the Nintendo DS works well enough, I guess - small viewing angle and all that. When it comes to augmented reality, though, it's not really what you want.

A real innovation would be to bring glasses-only 3D to market - ditch the phone altogether. You could still project a phone-like interface onto the palm of your hand (or a piece of paper, or...), but I imagine eye-tracking interfaces would win over pretty quickly.

Come to think of it, why haven't eye-tracking interfaces made it on the phone already? I suppose dragging might be hard, but it'd beat a touch interface hands-down (hmm) for simple pointing and clicking.
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Oh wow a smart guy that can't actually see the point that was made by my statement. I posted the thread and it was removed/pushed down. It didn't stick around and leave the page as new posts came through.

Now you're not going to hurt my feelings by saying you didn't like the post. My only question was - why?
Since it's speculated that Neanderthals and early humans inter-bred, then it stands to reason the gap can be pretty far apart.

There are exceptions like those with dogs where one dog may be physically too small or too large to breed with another. I'm kind of irritated that some claim species cannot be created when a chihuahua and a Newfoundlander could not possibly inter-breed. If dogs like that were stumbled upon in the wild they would obviously be classified as entirely different species.
I don't think MS has the market clout to pull that anymore. Maybe if they want to turn it into corporate IP telephone to compete with Cisco, but if they shut Mac users out they're just asking for immediate irrelevance among the home/hipster/startup crowd which will quickly anoint a successor.
This finding on memory in relation to depression may help build a research base that will refine the "three good things exercise" advocated by researchers who participate in the "positive psychology" movement.

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.159...

I've found it easier to find YouTube videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOGAp9dw8Ac

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2eRqDreo78

than brief online articles about the three good things exercise, which I learned about in a book by Martin Seligman. The point of the three good things exercise, of course, is to provide an intervention for people so that they can alter how they form memories of life experiences, and thus prevent mood disorders.
I will bet a bottle of single malt that Apple will bring FaceTime to the PC.

I agree that FaceTime sells Apple hardware, but I think the hardware they want to sell is the iOS product line. Weigh how many Mac sales the will lose if people can get FaceTime on a PC against how many iPhone and iPad sales they will make to people who can now chat with Grandma on her PC?

Ubiquity on the desktop and exclusivity on the mobile device are wins for FaceTime just as they are wins for iTunes.
Not 100% sure, but I think the moneymaker and core competency for skype is not video chat.

I have a skype account, I pay for a personalized USA number that people can call with their phones and reach me around the world, I also pay for the ability to dial any number around the world. All of my work contacts also have skype accounts which we use to communicate. It would take quite a bit to get me to move off of Skype.
I didn't say that. It's the presumption that they are immigrants based on the fact that they are Asian that is somewhat rude.

I think it is the wording of the question that is likely to bother people. It makes the questioner sound as if he is not aware there are native Canadians who are Asian. And that is a likely reason for why they responded in the manner they did.
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"All three main engineers at Quora" is an extremely inaccurate statement.
Yes I am and don't call me Surely?

(sorry, punctuation nazi + Airplane reference temptation overwhelming)
He has two numbers, and each statement refers to the other.

http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N14/admissions.html
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A lot of people I know don't wear a watch, so yes, I believe that watches are becoming more of a niche thing.

As for the optimality of the solution: of course wristwatches aren't perfect. Let's just not sound silly twenty years from now when everyone is wearing brain implants (or a nuclear-powered fax machine necklace).
BTW, robots.txt disables access to versions of pages already archived on the Wayback Machine. I encountered this when looking for old technotes on developer.apple.com.
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Yes it was a large sacrifice on my part.
My experience as well. I apologise for the blatant blog self-promotion, but I tried to say this exact thing a few years back:

http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2009-05-0...
See, I do see something wrong with trading in slaves; but not because it's contrary to free markets.

Re your selective fitting of crisis to monetary theory, I'm not going to comment; there are too many factors at work to be reductive about it.
I wish such an interface were available for every language out there. They are spread out in many packages, but a client/server model is awesome; it will work irrespective of the editor. Also it's easily maintainable as the dependencies are not tied to the editor.
It's a beautifully written defense of connoisseurship. I can't help but admire the force of the writing and the depth of knowledge conveyed by Anna Wintour's double. It's the best line of the movie.

But, getting past all that eloquence, and back to the point -- doesn't it seem like too much intelligence wasted on too little substance? I think the person in the lumpy blue sweater can say, I actually do not care about your convoluted story. I put this on because I have to wear something rather than nothing, but its history has no interest for me.

This is not a philistine rejection of all design. Just a certain frivolous part that takes itself too seriously.
There is an OpenChronos firmware extension which contains a sleep phase detector. Apparently (I haven't checked it) it works in connection with a PC running a clock program.

https://github.com/poelzi/OpenChronos
In the recent year or two I've been reading dozens of books about urban planning, suburbia, traditional neighbourhoods, modern neighbourhoods, traffic planning, pedestrian planning, cityscape and from there I'm slowly moving now especially to the roots of modernism and its various derivatives in architecture and city planning.

There are lots of books about the former, with a huge number of various angles. Dom Nozzi has a couple of books with critical analysis on traffic planning and suburbia; well, he's not against all that per se, he just carefully points out the planning patterns that do not work for humane living. Then everybody probably knows Kunstler who has been a vocal author on the subject for years; I can recommend his TedTalk[1] to sum up many of his books. On the contrary, a delightful book about the appeal and history of the British suburbia by Paul Barker is the book 'The Freedoms of Suburbia', to be enjoyed slowly over the cup of hot tea.

[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/james_howard_kunstler_dissects_subu...
Yeah but come on, CD Baby is a warehousing and fulfillment company with a niche market that basically gets paid by starry-eyed musicians to let CDs gather dust and paid again to encode their music and send it to iTunes. Some small fraction of the bands actually sold enough to restock inventory. That's not a recipe for high margin success.
Ah very good! I was trying to think of a short example that wasn't contrived with this very behaviour.
As far as network effect, I would pay a bundle for Twilio if I was in an M&A position.
I concur, and would like to nominate you for a medal.
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Is it better for shareholders to reinvest dividends from mature firms into growing firms, or for mature firms to continue investing in their own stalled growth?
Even better, for an "achievement badge".
If if Google does find a serious security flaw, how can they be sure it's the same one?
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A lot of old Alan Watts recordings are still played on KPFK and perhaps other Pacifica stations. There was a time when the West coast avant garde consisted of both artists and nerds, less so now.
Why would tampering with such a device be illegal? Or blocking their signal? It's your car and until proven otherwise, you have no reason to bear with other people or the government installing such surveillance equipment.

If you're a convict then you might be released earlier but with some electronic surveillance, but even that is with your own consent.
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Off topic, but that was the one with Stephen Colbert singing Friday, correct?
When I started carrying a notebook around, I noticed that I seemed to have more ideas. In actuality, I think that I had ideas pretty regularly without the notebook, but I foolishly tell myself, "ah, that's good, I'll have to remember that." Ten minutes later, I've forgotten the idea. An hour later, I've forgotten that I've forgotten an idea...
What do you mean by this? As opposed to Google and Apple?
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the value of information is determined by the visitor

That may be so in a sense, unless the visitor has no means of making the call -- or does so poorly. I promise you that every robots.txt ignoring bot makes terrible judgments in that regard. (I'm not trying to overstate anything here; those that abide it make, on average, slightly less terrible judgments.)

But it's not just the visitor who gets to make judgment calls. The value of serving those pages is something the host can decide. Belligerent drunks who abuse the staff aren't allowed in the coffee shop, and if they do it often enough they're not allowed back in when they sober up either.
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> "Hey everyone, I'm really good at iOS development." <-- How is this at all harmful to anyone, and how is it bullshit, or making the world worse?

Someone might think that you are REALLY good and pass on someone who is much better at iOS than you, in fact so much better that he learned some humility along the way.

People better at something rank their skills lower than they actually are while people mediocre at something rate their skills very high.

So when you say "I'm awesome." then either you are mediocre or you really have mad skillz but you are being dishonest to yourself while saying that because you are so good that you think your skills are much lower.

Engineers who can actually evaluate the skill of someone claiming that know that from experience so they don't like people who boast and avoid boasting themselves.

Unfortunately this leaves technologicaly clueless people around them without any indication of competent, experienced engineer skills so those people, if in charge prefer and mediocre people who proudly pronounce "I am awesome".
Think J Allard's meeting at Skype in January has anything to do with this?
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No. My observation was that (as a general tendency, a lot of exceptions, of course, exist) self-criticism in the African-American community is usually met with attacks ranging from "you are hitting below the belt, these are poor, choice-less people" to the more crude ones along the lines of Uncle Tom-ism and being an Oreo (compare with OP's "Twinkie").

I haven't read Ellison much but am familiar with Baldwin and the vicious attacks leveled at him from the black community (coincidence: I was reading about his years in Turkey just yesterday : http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=...). Remember how Cosby was vilified for his (somewhat simplistic) remarks about low-income black families in 2004? Many other examples can be given, I think.

I totally agree with your points, esp. "defining yourself in the negative", which I observed the case to be with many African-Americans I've met in college (at work such topics are rarely discussed). Unfortunately, as far as I can see, negative stereotypes are continuously being glorified and perpetuated within the community.
When I was watching Waiting for Superman I was blown away by Geoffrey Canada's no-nonsense approach, I think more of that needed.

You, of course, have firsthand experience. It would be great if you can elaborate on some of these points.
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Not all of them were fake. Some of them were spam traps which never appeared anywhere else. Some of those spam traps were also coded so you could track down when they were served to connect the spiders to the spewers.

At least, that's the way I used to roll.
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Yeah. Javascript is quite powerful in certain respects, and I mostly prefer its syntax, but Perl is powerful, and the Perl-dedicated are capable of cranking out seemingly miraculous marvels of text processing in the amount of time that a good Javascript programmer would spend just scratching their head at the problem. (I say this without even the merest ounce of language zealotry left in me.)
I wonder whether a service like this is actually better off without 'big music's approval'?

It all comes down to whether you see a cloud music service to be a purchase orientated service or a playback/consumption service.

If the latter, then at a conceptual level what does it have to do with the record labels. I don't need to get Warner's permission to play Dr Dre back on WinAmp.
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At least from the FB standpoint, "kill RSS" is quite an exaggeration. The code correcting the oversight that removed the links for RSS feeds in latest redesign of Page profiles should be going out tomorrow (5/10/11). Note that the feeds themselves (e.g. https://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?id=9445547199&fo...) were unaffected.

/me added back the Page RSS feeds during a hackathon last year
Exactly, especially if the PC Facetime is crippled so that it can only chat to iOS devices.
I seem to remember there being a thread on HN about spam bot scraping for email addresses, and some of them are sophisticated enough that they can even determine if an element has been hidden through rules applied via an external CSS file.
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I wonder who leaked this?

Was it someone from Skype (or their VCs) trying to start a bidding war?

Or someone from Microsoft trying to kill the deal (or get Google to overpay)?
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Well a lot of mechanisms in Linux work by dropping files in a certain path (SysV init scripts, udev files, plugins). So leaving files around could have a little impact, such as runaway error messages, or a slight slowdown at bootup.

Then again, it's still much less than in Windows. And it's more transparent, resolving the problem is generally a matter of removing the file, instead of going into the registry jungle "trying random stuff from the internet until it works".
To the best of my knowledge, VUPEN does not disclose vulnerabilities to the vendor affected unless the vendor is under contract with them and pays them. I have seen them post a public claim of a previously unknown vulnerability in one of my employer's products, and as far as I know they have never reported the details.
That's not unique to Japan, criminal organizations have been able to gain differing levels of legitimacy and tolerance in just about every society, from the current Russian government to the American mafia in Nevada to too many examples of corruption around the world to list. And no, it is not commendable.
I find it interesting that a lot of prominent and respected programmers (jwz, Linus, Dan Bernstein, Theo De Raadt) write in this negative and caustic way, and not only is it considered socially acceptable but these rants get linked to and give the writer even wider street cred.

I think this is a detriment to our community, and I say this as a reformed (or at least reforming) flamer who used to take after that style. Actually I think one of the most positive things about participating in the HN community is that toxic commenting is not rewarded nearly to the extent that it is on other forums. It's taught me to be more civil.

I've interacted with enough top programmers who are always nice to know that flaming isn't a prerequisite to getting your point across. Besides many excellent HN commenters, I think of John Resig, Shawn Hargreaves, Sanjay Ghemawat. I strive to be more like them, and less like the people who are known for their flames.
Yap yap yap.. my favorite of the lot. Better then meditation. The word "psychedelic experience" might be stretching it but you do get minor visual & auditory hallucinations that are basically your conscious mind observing your subconscious.. stuff monks train for years to achieve in standard meditation while in a tank - bam! Here's a 2 part blog post I wrote on Isolation Tanks ~ http://blog.ernestsemerda.com/2009/09/03/floatation-isolatio...
Some parameter are useful, but they are not part of the standard.

e.g. Crawl-Delay, prevent DDOS from YAHOO! Slurp
http://www.quora.com/about/team

Kevin Der, Tracy Chou, Albert Sheu, and Shreyes Seshasai are all listed directly below the Co-founders on the aforementioned page. How is that an inaccurate statement? Because I said three instead of four?
Code only speaks for itself to other coders. If all you seek is to mix with other programmers or work on a small self-contained project that is purely code based, then that is fine (I say this in a non-derogatory manner).

But most things in life are not self-contained - you have to mix and interact with people who are not subject matter experts - and with no communication skills, or a belief that 'people should recognise good code when they see it', you'll never go as far as you could if you had accepted that self-promotion is a necessary part of interacting with others.
Will be interesting to see what happens to the Skype API. It's used by a lot of 3rd party plugins and is quite comprehensive. Hopefully they will not kill it.
There is a very strong network effect with Skype for PC to PC calls. But I doubt MS is going to get full value. They have had little success with freemium business models and I don't see why this would be different.
I'm not familiar with the industry, but is 50/50 split considered good?
It should be noted that there is some difference between history and scripture. Though, history doesn't know everything either.