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> 4. Writing on paper aids with memory retention.

This, definitely. Nothing helps retain information better than writing it down.
i must agree about the content. it could be more balanced.

two more articles about the event:

http://www.businessinsider.com/eg8-france

http://www.novaspivack.com/technology/the-e-g8-forum-unveile...

but i share the concerns of mr. spivack in the 2nd link.
At first sight the conference seems a perfectly valid event about the internet at this moment. But Sarkozy is not a person who takes privacy very seriously.
I think the biggest problem with task apps are that they are overly complex given their sole purpose is such a simple action. I decided to tackle this problem myself, and here's what I ended up with: http://letspocket.com - not perfect by any means, but I use it every day and love it.
"I make sofware, it's one of the few art forms that really pays off nowadays"

This is my usual line when somebody ask me what I do for a living.

Still, I can see in many people's eyes (especially girls) a spark of prejudice: ( IT Guy = pragmatic, heartless, frustrated, framed boring nerd )
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I don't know. I see it comes with it's own server and database bundled and I don't really like it. I'd like to choose which server I'm going to deploy and which db I'm going to use myself. Also, the language just looks kind of crowded.
Peter Pronovost’s checklists better intensive care (long)
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We would like you to phrase it by abandoning the idea that "me-too" comments are somehow suddenly appropriate.
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> 51% of the population

32% vote for candidate/party A, 33% vote for B, 35% vote for C.

65% are not represented. First past the post needs to go. :(
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While I agree with most of what you say, I'm not so sure "large majorities in favour of free communication over the internet"

Do you have any data to back this up?

My guess is that if you frame it the right way, most people would vote for censoring the Internet
For many years I' been struggling to introduce more rigorous use of checklists at work, but everyone always balked at them, saying that it was too trivial, too time-consuming, and too brain-dead. I meticulously cataloged the errors made and the time taken to resolve them and finally presented a report, and this article.

Finally, checklists are starting to become routine, and people wonder why they never used them before. The mindless drudgery of having to remember minor and minute details has been lifted, and they can concentrate on what's different and difficult about each situation.

My uncle is an aerobatics pilot, and he says that the incredibly low rate of incidents in aviation is due to the ubiquitous use of checklists.

What could you use one for?
Whoa, I've never heard of that before. In my experience, there are company holidays and vacation days and "sick days". All are at the discretion of the employer as to what are observed and given, but I've never heard of them overlapping (ie, if your company observes ten holidays and you have ten vacation days, you get 20 days off that year).

It seems like something you should be able to take up with your employer, because you requested vacation and they're counting holidays (something different) against them. That sees like a bit of a rip off.

Of course, I know that even two weeks of vacation is considered a lot in this country and my mom works in a job where she doesn't get _any_ paid vacation, so . . .
Freak accidents like just getting hit by a car while minding your own business are uncommon. Most accidents that happen are basically "accidents waiting to happen". If you are hit by a car and seriously injured (as in quadraplegic), your medical insurance in the US will still fall far short of covering the costs. With or without insurance, you are far better off doing everything in your power to avoid ending up in such a situation: Don't drink and drive, don't get in the car with an unsafe driver, and so on.

If you are concerned about getting cancer, you can get a very affordable cancer policy for a lot less money than major medical coverage costs. As with the above situation, the expenses involved if you get cancer are likely to far exceed what insurance covers. And cancer is influenced by lifestyle. Most Americans aren't terribly healthy. For example, obesity is rampant in the US. So I would be interested in a citation for your assertion that "millions" of people with "healthy lifestyles" get cancer.

Thanks.
A constitution won't mean shit if the electorate continues to happily elect people who will ignore it. And if 51% of the people want to oppress the other 49% a constitution will not hold them back for long.

Don't pretend we have society of laws rather than of men, or that such a thing is even possible.
Thanks. Too late for me to edit though.
Perhaps I was understating my case ;)
So many undefined acronyms. So little context. So many numbers thrown out for no apparent reason.

He's clearly upset with something and thinks he has an important point to make. But he makes no attempt to explain what he's upset about or make that point in a way that anybody but him can parse.

I'm going to cast my vote for the most poorly written HN submission yet this year.
Unfortunately it lacks images, which is critical in this case :-/
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> I've never heard of Windows being compromised via the serial port!

As a point of order: serial port exploits exist for other OSes (Linux, Juniper, Cisco, APC...) and also for windows virtual com ports so whilst probably not trivial it's not entirely infeasible either.
When I was just starting out, I lived on one side of town and my work was on the other side of town. My home town has extremely well-regarded public transit. Still, it took about 2.5hrs to get to work. Another 2.5 to get back. That turned a 9 hour day into a 14 hour day. And if a bus or train was just a little early, it could screw things up even further.

We have this idea that Americans don't use public transit, because they're infatuated with their cars. To a degree, we are. However, we also hate the work commute. The reason more don't use public transit is that it is not feasible for the average person to spend so much time sitting on a bus or train and making two or three transfers every day twice a day . . . on top of work. Especially if they have a family.

The idea of tighter communities where people work near their home is fantastic. Too bad we've already built our cities and roads and housing tracts, though. It's a thought for another bustling economy that is just starting to build out their infrastructure in the 21st century instead of the 19th and 20th century to do, though. We've already built our mess.
Well, in my experience, copying & pasting from one language to another one never quite worked - and quite sometimes made it to thedailywtf.com material.
A related patent: sun-lit screens:
http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/03/25/apple-patent-watch-sun-...
The line between who is and is not government gets a little bit blurry when the politicians end up owing so many favors in getting elected and there are whole industries who hire lobbyists to influence them.

Certainly, the government has all the power, but the people who help get them elected have a lot of the influence.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/300/group_selection_update/ for a version of the view E. O. Wilson is proclaiming.

My guess is that E. O. Wilson is probably right about ants, David Sloan Wilson is probably not right about group selection being like Daniel Dennett's universal acid, and Steven J. Gould was probably wrong in most of what he promoted.
I don't think people so much "choose to live in pricy areas" as that's where the jobs are. As a result, that's where the people are. As a result, that's where the most expensive living is. You can find a cheaper place to live, but it's likely cheaper, because there's less of a job market there.
I'm trying to figure out why people think real-time data is important. Data needs to be actionable, and I'm not sure real-time page view data is that.

What conclusions can be made from that dashboard, except "we have N visitors right now"? And what actions can you take from that data to increase the number of page views?
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I'm not sure what the author of the article is trying to prove... that trademark law can be (and is being) abused? At least he had the integrity to quote the EMI lawyer throwing examples back of Bloomberg engaging in similarly questionable legal action.

As several people have already pointed out, there is Windows, there is Time. Oddly no-one has yet mentioned Face and Book.
We handle schema changes very nicely. Our db tool can detect automatically whether a binary and a schema match each other. Most common changes (e.g. field renamings, singletons transformed to lists, etc.) can be handled automatically.

Of course, complete refactorings of subsets of the database may require non-trivial transformation. Opa can't do everything automatically, but it will still check whether the database you obtain at the end of the transformation matches the requirements of your new binary.
I implemented a secure logging system once, where we really wanted to be sure we have the logs and that they cannot be erased via an online attack.

What we did was use a serial port, but with no protocol (just plain ascii) and with the return wire physically cut. There was hardware flow control (RTS and CTS were there), but you could only send data one way. The logging machine at the other end wasn't connected to any other network.

You want security, you have to deal with physical security.
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The point isn't to be usable, maintainable, or even useful. The only point to this language is for code golf problems, and for that it appears to be pretty effective. Check the examples.
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I find your comment quite interesting because I'm so familiar with financial terms/ acronyms, and read earnings reports all the time. On the other hand, here on HN I am _constantly_ looking up terms (new to developing). Seekingalpha is a financially-focused site, so one should expect a fair amount of jargon. If you scroll down to the comments, you will not see anybody stating the author is talking nonsense.

I think you might find it more interesting if you look up the terms with which you are not familiar like GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) or EPS (Earnings Per Share), He's pretty much quoting the SEC filings from CRM (Salesforce's ticker symbol) themselves.
I actually found this quite well reasoned and the acronyms are pretty common in any financial analysis. Must read for anyone investing in the market to see how companies cheat!

tl;dr

If Salesforce(ticker: CRM) is paying execs in stock, it should count as an expense and they have a loss this year. CRM is cheating by showing earnings based on non-standard accounting (leaving out stock compensation) when it suits them, while touting earnings based on standard accounting when it doesn't!

GAAP - Generally Accepted Accounting Principles - stock compensation should be accounted as expense.

non-GAAP - our own set of accounting principles, which we stick to every year. Allows us to 'leave out' stock compensation, increasing the earnings per share (EPS) while leaving out the dilution that takes place!

Also note, they give stock based compensation of $117MM this year & expect to give out DOUBLE next year - $238MM! So on a non-GAAP basis next year if they double their earnings, on a GAAP basis they will still be only breakeven!
"The printing press allowed the people to read. The Internet will allow them to write." Benjamin Bayart, acting president of French Data Network (non-profit French ISP).

There was a time where a reading populace was the bane of the powerful. Now we are beginning to have a writing populace. This means the doom of current power structures, should they let it happen. The fact they try hard not to doesn't surprise me at all. (Though I am ashamed of my government right now.)
For me it's to do with spatial organisation. If I'm working on something I normally have a large sheet of paper with all my tiny notes, and I know once I've written something down where it is - so I know that I scribbled down the background color over here, and the dimensions for that div over there...

The lack of any rigidity or standard form for input is also liberating. I can scribble down copy, lists, diagrams, flow charts, all with a single intuitive interface. Name an app that can claim that!
I don't think of Dropbox as anything more than a sync service, and I don't have enough data stored on there to worry about going to a pro plan.

For backup I use backblaze, and I have about 100GB backed up across 2 computers (so $10/month) which I'm ok with. That's mainly pictures, music, documents, etc. I don't backup anything that's easily replaceable.
If you'd invested in an index fund, you'd have made $42,000.

And also likely have moved several times at an average cost of around $2000 per move, seen rent increases above what his current mortgage is and so on. The odds are poor that all other things would have remained equal. I owned a house at one time. I benefited by about $2000/year over the time I owned it. When I refinanced, I got my escrow back and had no mortgage payment for a month. Then my payments after that were lower. No landlord in the world is going to drop by your apartment and leave you with a nice hefty check, say "Don't bother to pay me rent this month and, oh, next month your rent is going down. Cheerio!"
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Most calendar and todo apps display time in complicated ways requiring the user to click through useless dialogs and screens.

If you want an intuitive task app that doesn't require you to register and feels like simple paper try: http://fourtimesdaily.com

it saves your tasks just on your computer (LocalStorage)
They were fairly different demographics- for the second one I did post a link to it from a small site I made that shared the demographic a tiny bit (ragecaptions.com), and that seeded it with like 100 visitors a day, but that was it. Also, I obviously told my friends about it, but I have just a modest social network. For the curious, the first site was mylifeisaverage.com, the second was mylifeisbro.com. I never connected the two in any way (other than obviously playing off of the "My Life Is..." meme that had begun, but anyone could do that. See my life is twilight, etc.)

And fear not, I have no more 'mylifeis...' sites in production. I think a third one would just be sad.
This is how the submission should have started. :) Thanks, it now makes for a lot easier reading.
Giganews' Diamond plan is the most expensive internet service I pay for. I've thought about switching, but the VPN service they include is very handy for when I need to access sites that are only available from American IP addresses or if I'm connecting from an untrusted network.
I also recall hearing at some point in time that a lot of financial institutions forced certain people to take time off,as a means to detect embezzling. I'm not sure if that's true or not.

Not only is that practiced, it's the law.
Of course, that depends entirely on the company/industry. I don't even know that "most" American workplaces start you out with any vacation. In professional fields, they mostly do, I'm sure. My mom has worked at the same place for around twenty years and she has zero vacation. The only way I would be able to get her to come for a visit where I am is if I subsidized the time (ie, paid the money she would otherwise be missing out on, on top of the expense of the travel) -- because either way, she still has bills to pay.

I find that I take a lot of what I have in my daily business life for granted and am often surprised when I'm struck by the reality of how few benefits positions in other places in this country give people.
If you're running on cloud, one thing is to understand the need of real-time server bandwidth increases/decreases.

On the marketing & customer development side, it might help you participate in discussions regarding your site happening elsewhere.
Oh, nothing's infeasible, but the decision was made (not by me, tho' I agreed with it) to use an OS that didn't even offer a shell on COM1 at all. We could have used MacOS 7.5 equally well. The serial handling was raw; the worst thing that could happen (we believed) was that the process could be crashed by an attacker, at which point the port would just go dead and need a human to restart it, but there was no way to get sufficient control to do anything with the ISDN line (and even if there were, there was more security on the other side).
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I don't necessarily think that lack of vacation makes you more productive (though I am still not convinced that taking ten days away from the office somehow makes you more productive for the other 255). I do, however, think that most employers will notice when you're gone. Especially for long periods of time. They may not necessarily notice that you're the guy who never is out of the office, but sometimes it's better not to be noticed at all than to be noticed as the guy who always triggers "OUT OF THE OFFICE UNTIL" autoreplies.
>Paying a troll

Considering that Apple has already licensed the patent before being sued, why do you call them a patent troll. How as Apple to know that they were going to go after other developers?

It could have, for all you know, been a legitimate patent licensing issue - unless you think anyone claiming infringement on any software patent is a patent troll - which is a stance I don't really disagree with, but that's a separate argument, I guess.
Sure, but then the data is actionable: the bandwidth goes up, you increase the number of instances in your cloud. Or calls the bank for more money.
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>Much of what is done with the second stack is simply reordering bits of data or duplicating bits of data.

Actually, stack machine with one stack isn't Turing-complete. You need two stacks for this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_machine_equivalents#Two-...
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Thanks for the translation.

The thing that pushed my buttons about that article is that he could have included a single sentence at the beginning that brought his readers up to speed on what he was talking about. You've done an excellent job of doing just that.

On the other hand, finding the context and definitions you gave would take maybe 10 minutes of Googling and tracking down other articles about the company in hopes of finding out what they're doing wrong. That's a lot to invest before I even get a chance to read the first sentence of this article.

It's like you're sitting in your office sipping your morning coffee, when a disgruntled employee bursts in and launches off on a tirade starting with the words "And another thing..."

Clearly he's been thinking a lot about this, possibly discussing it with other people, but he hasn't with me, his boss (or his reader in the case of the article). The correct response in these situations is along the lines of "Whoa, hang on a second. Let's take a step back and start at the beginning. Now, what is on your mind?"

Keep that in mind when writing, and you'll write better. Even if you think your target audience is fully up to speed, spend a few words to make sure.
Task apps impose unnecessary structure and interface on the tasks themselves, even to the point of classifying them as tasks. The moment something calls itself a "Task App" it's lost against TextEdit, which is useful for tasks/ideas/lists. So a good task app would not be a dedicated task app, but rather a free-form plain-text interface and these already exist.
I knew there was a reason I hated that word - it always sounded phony.
He's a new user. Simple as that.

This may help your rigid understanding: http://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories
Apart from those "psycho-tactile" arguments, the biggest problems of those GTD apps is their ridiculous overhead. Projects, sub-projects, sub-sub-projects, tags, folders, due dates, scheduling, etc. I'm sure many find those things useful, otherwise there wouldn't be such a market for these apps, but I inevitably get lost in all the organizing.

The only GTD app I've ever found useful is TaskPaper [1], and that's because it pretty much "just" a piece of paper, taking just enough advantage of the possiblities of software to make it truly powerful.

[1] http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/taskpaper
I managed to download it. Where could I mirror it? If I give out my dropbox public link, will I get lynched?
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hey grellas - I hope you don't mind tangential questions from a trainee. Whilst (clearly) none of us can do more than speculate as to the terms of the licence, I was wondering whether you thought it possible (in light of industry practice) that Apple licensed the patents for anything less than the full remaining term of the patent? Even if so, is the licence likely to be revocable by IV or Lodsys? And what happens to patent licences when the patent they cover is invalidated, further down the line - is it typical to see clawback provisions allowing the licensee to recover money already paid?
Agreed. The truth is that us nerds won't like governments taking over the 'Net, but they're far more representative of its user base than we are.

We're pretty dependent on the results of this 'civilizing' process in most every other aspect of life, why's it so surprising when it's applied here?
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Yeah, I have to agree. I don't use taskapps much, but I often use my text editor for writing down tasks.
That makes a good case for some of the existing mirrors to provide 'diffserv'-like facilities. A small daemon could do that server-side, and the client may just need a hash of the prior package's binary file.

Then it downloads the diff and the new file hash :-)
It's not that his apps are innovative, but it's not up to you to decide if they are spam or not.

Why don't you show us your apps as well ? I bet I'll find something to criticize
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FTFY.