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It's been said, but it bears repeating: NEVER talk to police without a lawyer present. Ever. The fact is that the the people interviewing know you law better than you do and know how to gain information they can use against you without you being aware of what's happening. There are people who contend that "if you're innocent you have nothing to hide" but frankly, the risk is too high of having something I said misconstrued. I'd rather look guilty and be free, than know I'm innocent and be in jail.
Awareness is materialistic because it affects the physical world. How does it affect the physical world? You thought about it, those thoughts were translated into nervous system impulses which caused you to press keys on your computer, which was translated to electrical impulses, etc.

So far, we've found exactly zero processes which we can observe (i.e., which affect the physical world) that can't be explained by physics.

Yes, there are some processes which we can observe which we can't YET explain very well. But when I am ignorant about a phenomenon, that is a fact about my state of mind, not about the phenomenon.

It seems likely that consciousness / awareness is just another physical phenomenon that we haven't explained yet. Here are some other examples of "mysterious phenomena" which it took a while to explain: fire, why the sun rises and sets, the discrepancy of Mercury's orbit (explained by relativity), discrete energy levels (explained by quantum physics).

Now, what makes you think physics will never explain consciousness?

I think I answered your first and third. To answer your second question, both the theory of relativity and quantum physics dissolve time (it's just a variable), as I understand them.
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Really I don't know anything about investors, company logistics, economics, marketing. I'm just a developer that created a useful product (I hope).

Can Y Combinator help me with this?
I didn't interpret it like that. I think that while they may fiddle for balance (for example as the fuel burns off, and the weight comes down, or as the tyres wear etc), I'm not sure they change it for each corner. He mentioned there was a setting for "high speed" corners so I think it's a case of getting the optimum setup for a lap, and then running with that for a while.

While there are a lot of switches, it's noticable that the ones they'd want to use a lot, like the KERS, are very close to the fingers in their normal position, whereas the ones which are more "setup" or "fiddle" are closer to the centre of the wheel. I don't think they go through a corner with one hand on the wheel and the other adjusting something in the middle of the steering wheel.

Still I suppose when the xBox "F1 Controller" of "tomorrow" comes out, we'll all find out. (Alas without the G-Forces...)
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I got a relatively hard foam mattress after I realized that I needed better support for my back (I won't get into how I found that out).

As far as I can tell, it's the best mattress that I've ever slept on. It's hard enough so that it doesn't bend inwards when I put my weight on it, and that keeps my spine straight when I sleep sideways. I tried "memory foam" at the store, but it didn't really seem like it work for that purpose.

The foam mattress has to be hard enough so it supports you without "caving in" too much, yet sufficiently soft so that it doesn't hurt you. The ideal hardness (for me) falls somewhere in the spectrum between a Japanese tatami mat (too hard) and a big sponge (too soft).
I think this is a false dichotomy. In reality, your life is not either an open book or a closed one, and you can choose how much personal information of what type you share with whom. The problems usually start, IMHO, when others are allowed to make that choice for you.

This can be direct, as with all the modern tracking technologies and personal information that businesses try to collect about you even if they don't really need it, but it can also be more subtle, for example where social networking sites can build up a profile on you based on information implied by your relationships, or where information from sources you might expect to be independent is aggregated and available for data mining by a single entity. It also cuts both ways, if you wanted to share certain things but for some reason were prevented from doing so, leaving others with incomplete or out-of-date information even though you were willing to share that kind of data with them.

I think the more serious problem here is that this is a Pandora's box problem. Once your life is out in the open, there is no way to put it back, but the consequences are not always immediately obvious.

Perhaps as a society we should grow up and learn not to evaluate people based on isolated data or out-of-context incidents that we find out about their past, but as any politician, insurance company or judge can tell you, that's not going to happen any time soon. It's probably a generational shift if it's even possible at all.

In the meantime, an entire generation are growing up sharing their lives on Facebook and Twitter and being physically tracked via their mobile devices and travel smartcards and logging every purchase/refund they ever made with credit/debit/loyalty cards. It's only a matter of time before "bad candidates" don't even get their CVs read because the employer's automated background checks picked up a black flag, "bad customers" (who expect the product/service they paid for and complain if they don't get it) see their consumer rights eroded by the power of the database, "bad clients" can't get useful or even legally required insurance because their profile fits a high risk group, and so on. These trends are already well established, but as Pastor Niemöller explained, first they came for the communists and I was not a communist...

An amusing anecdote to close with: just a few hours ago, I read a comment by someone who works at Facebook, observing that most people there also maintain a separate LinkedIn profile because they want to keep their personal and professional lives separate. Apparently Zuckerberg hires a lot of people who, in his judgement, have a "lack of integrity".
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I don't think that's how it works. The driver is setting three different aspects of the car, which come into play at different stages of a corner. He sets all three of them well before a corner, and then focuses on braking, shifting, steering and throttling. Most onboard footage I watched seems to confirm this.
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I weighed the advice/secrecy tradeoff myself, and I figured I needed the advice more than I could benefit from secrecy. Never sharing your ideas just seems idiotic if you're a novice and you need input.
A really nice infographic. I like the design, especially the Facebook logo progressbar (near the bottom, "70% of Facebook users...").
Ask NH: Looking for work without having your employer know?
I'm ready to start looking for a different job, but I'm afraid of what could happen if my current employer found out. I'm in a slightly precarious position as I'm overseas on a work visa and they hold some (although not a huge) leverage over me should they terminate me.

I feel that I have enough of a community presence that if I could be more public about my intentions I'd have at least a few interesting offers (not that I'm a super star or anything 99.9% of you would never have heard of me). Any advice?
It depends a lot on your sleep position. A lot of the more complicated foam/latex mattresses have different zones, so e.g. your protruding shoulder and hip bones can sink in deeper in the softer material at that position. Now, if you're not sleeping on your side, you might not need material with a huge difference in softness. Never mind your general body shape or weight (mattresses come in different degrees of hardness).

If you're a side sleeper, healthy and fit, don't toss about too much, buy a reasonably expensive foam mattress. In the tests I've seen, the mid-range/expensive IKEA mattresses usually get C to B- marks. Which is a lot better than the average... (And at least where I live they have a great return policy, so it's easy to get something and sleep on it for a month)

If it's not too expensive for your health plan, consulting a doctor might be a good idea. They usually know their stuff a lot better than your usual mattress salespeople.

Which reminds me: Do a bit of research before buying the more exotic systems. As with anything related to health (and especially back pain), this field is ripe with quacks and snakeoil.
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Even if it is - and reading the article, it's Dave Winer, who I doubt would think of himself as a marketer - then that doesn't make it wrong!

Marketing is a legit discipline with a bunch of charlatanry around it. So is programming. So is basically every field of human endeavour.
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In instances where you may have many processes reading the same files in some sort of access pattern and you know they need to be in disk cache you can use fadvise[1]. It'll let you tell the kernel that I am going to need that file, why don't you go ahead and get it in the disk cache.

For many applications this is not the right way to go, but for completely predictable access patterns on a machine that is devoted to it, it can save the day.

[1] http://linux.die.net/man/2/fadvise
"just a few hours ago, I read a comment by someone who works at Facebook, observing that most people there also maintain a separate LinkedIn profile because they want to keep their personal and professional lives separate."

Given how easy is to track down someones' Facebook profile given his LinkedIn profile (and the other way around), I see no sense in this reasoning.

Different "profiles", accounts, blogs, etc. form a kind of graph - they are usually connected one to another (often the connection is by google'ing up something) and it's really hard to keep them disjoint without special effort. It's easy to find someone's Facebook account from LinkedIn name, then google up his blog via e-mail address he shared on Facebook, then google up something else via the nick-name found on that blog, etc. The question always is, if someone cares to do that.
We can do everything we want, just not in 5 years. It took thousands of years to get from living in caves to having a steam machine, and a fraction of that to where we are now. The next 30 years are going to be awesome - it's a great time to be alive. (I think this several times a day, look at how awesome our lives are (well those of us reading this, obviously not yet everybody on earth))
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From the PDF:

"Soon they decided to try the bucket drop, a technique Dad had developed to deliver and retrieve items from missionaries who had no airstrip. He circled his plane overhead in tight circles while a long cord with the goods attached was reeled out behind the plane. Air friction on the basket at the end of the line would make the cord cut to the inside of the circle flown by the airplane, while the weight of the basket caused the cord to fall. When enough line was extended behind the plane, the end of the line would actually hang motionless in the air. Letting out more line at that point would make the line drop straight down where it could be made to hover just above the ground."

I have never before heard of this technique. Sounds like it would take a lot of experience to make it work. Very cool.
> most of the video to the home is cached on the edge of the network rather than going through the backbone.

I'd like to know more about what this means exactly. Do they have complete copies of their streaming library all over the place so that everyone is downloading from a relatively local source?
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Perhaps you didn't read all of it?

Anyway, the person mentioned in this subthread did reply in a comment on the original post. (http://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=196#comment-721)
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I love the user interface design work that goes into the F1 wheels - and they're all completely custom by each team, for each driver. Great website as well.
Thanks, yeah will do this :)
This freedom exists in pretty much all 3rd world countries. I mean, you can buy all kinds of movies and software from computer shops. There are even companies (with a public address) that compiles these CDs/DVDs of pirated software.
People usually tend to construct a perfect image of a person they admire. For example, this is the case for many famous actors and actresses. Some of them play heroes and almost perfect people in movies. But these movie-good-guys in many cases turn out to be ass-holes-in-real-life.

Or consider some beautiful fashion models looking at you from covers of big magazines. People tend to transfer their beauty (which is only due to good make-up in many cases) to their personality. They construct an image of a perfect women usually forgetting the what they see is just a picture in a magazine.

When we meet people we admire in everyday life we can be badly disappointed by reality... unfortunately.
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Actually, if you're on HIV suppressants, the virus levels in your blood is so low that it's almost impossible to infect other people through sex, even if you have unprotected sex.

The risk isn't 0%, but it's less risky to have unprotected sex with someone infected, but on suppressants, than to have unprotected sex with someone who doesn't know if he or she is infected.
Exactly - sometimes I'm happy for sites to know who am I, what toothpaste I like, etc, or for them to try to sell me stuff I might like.
However, what I don't want is a tracking beacon, where one provider (Facebook spring to mind) track all my activity on the web, and provide slices of that to other sites.
Teams try not to show anything they don't absolutely have to, whether they have secrets there or not. It's just how they roll.

Mercedes, however, do have something called a "magic paddle". So they do have an actual reason for keeping the back of the steering wheel away from prying eyes.
Ultimately the question is one of freedom vs enforced rules.

If you have a system of anonymity or pseudonymity, it's always possible to identify yourself by a real identity if you want to. Whether this takes the form of 4chan's "photo with a shoe on your head" or Reddit's "Post about this to your twitter account", reliably associating a pseudonym to a meatspace person is easy. So you can get the advantages of the 'transparent' system in a pseudonymous system if you want them, but you're never forced to.

The only way to properly run a transparent system is to force everyone to identify themselves. Then you can't get any of the benefits of anonymity.

The only people pushing for 'transparent systems' are people who have some material gain from them - advertisers, information miners, law enforcement etc. I think they have enough power as it is.

So I'm in favour of anonymity by default, keeping the choice to be transparent in the hands of the individual.
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There's often value to segregating different content/"lives"/etc. even if you aren't keeping one hidden or secret from the other. A lot of people with whom I have some sort of professional connection aren't necessarily very interested in my hobbies etc. I see it more about making at least a modest effort not to feed every one of my connections, who I know in a wide variety of different contexts, the same information stream.
Little mattress rant (i have a suggestion if you want to skip to the bottom)...

In Canada, no two different chain sells the same mattress. So Sleep Country might sell the Sealy xNight 3487 while MattressMart sells the Sealy Cloud 4.3. The specs are always slightly different. It makes comparison shopping impossible, it is clearly intentional, and I can't believe its legal.

In Hong Kong, within department stores, each brand is sold by its own sales staff. So when you get to the mattress floor, there's a billion sales people (which isn't unusual in HK) and they each have 3 or so mattress for you to try out...they don't know/wont' tell you anything about any other mattress. They aren't interested in helping you find the best mattress in the huge choice, they are interested in selling you one of their mattress.

Someone needs to break the Mattress Cartel and its diabolic ways!

As for suggestions, my last mattress was an all-latex mattress. It was more expensive, but I loved it. Unlike those foam mattress which are (a) hot and (b) feel like ur sinking, these feel a lot more like a normal mattress with a couple key points. The most important being that they are [supposedly] more dust-mite resistant and they last much longer..so in 4 years you don't start to feel a spring (because their is no springs!) and the thing still has its original shape, more or less.

edit:

Also worth pointing out that you can negotiate the hell out of this...especially if you go to a national chain. Their markup has got to be over 50%...The mattress I speak of was priced at something like $3800CAD and I think we got it down to $1650 with some extra covers or pillows or something....and I still felt like there was room to go.
seriously not trying to be a downer, but doesn't this smack of starting a company just to start a company? they all took $0 in salary in 2008, I wonder if they are making live-able wages now in 2011. They took on their first employee and maybe had to again cut their salaries to afford it?
YC worries me that it convinces everyone to start a company rather than go to school, work for another company as an employee or follow a different dream. We're being sold someone else's dream of "starting a company is the best thing in the world to do".
The talent pool is being severely diluted just like too many expansion teams in a sports league. The end result? Less success for everyone.
I admire their persistence, but I wonder if Octopart is in a market where they can build a company that can hire and pay the employees or maybe even generate a larger lump of cash. I may not get the new model yet, but I still think that revenue generation is the goal of a company.
However, it's just roughly 3 years into their lifespan, so maybe they will eventually build a nice business. I definitely wish them luck if this is truly their dream.

Or maybe it's just the experience of building a company that is the reward. I don't know.
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I think is less surprising than the fact that Jupiter, and in fact all 4 big planets in our solar system, are actually just gas bubbles, and not actually not the rocky balls us ordinary people imagine as planets. That's right: they have no surface.

These planets are just too small to be stars.
linux doesn't have kqueue. But kqueue is only an API, you could emulate it with io_submit() and io_getevents().

A bigger obstacle is that not all file systems support asynchronous I/O, the io_*() syscalls won't help you there.
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Because since it's hidden they don't want to disclose that information to other teams. I recall DLR(McLaren's driver) being asked about it after explaining their steering wheel's controls. Anyway, IIRC the interviewer "guessed" that it was another way of activating the DRS, so in practice it's not really so secret, but F1 its like this...
What has this got to do with Farmville? You rent a piece of land for the season, and get help planting crops. This is like a computer game... how?

This is novel and intereseting...how?
>213.8.. israelis isp's!! dont try those ranges!!

I really wonder why Israel got this special status.
Ha - the turbo boost button is Z, not B (but you have to pick up a mushroom first).

Michael Schumacher was the king of the 'extra controls' on the steering wheel when back at Ferrari, supposedly changing many of the parameters controlling car setup while going round a corner. (Insert 'had them before everyone else' hipster joke here). I'm sure this must have influenced this setup.

However, think of the other side of the coin. Consider the UI design problem of too much information in an emergency for safety critical systems, particularly in the context of this article: http://en.espnf1.com/williams/motorsport/story/39747.html
At first I thought "not another one," but Dave has really done some great work. Simple, lightweight, and beautiful. Not to mention he provides a great set of media queries to aid with responsive designs and a handful of basic elements (forms, buttons, and a tab system). Definitely going to employ this for "quickie" projects or documentation pages.
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That's the basic idea but single celled organisms can and do directly swap DNA segments at any point in their life cycle. Unfortunately, multicellular can only meaningfully swap DNA when they are at the single cell stage. So sex is simply the maximum DNA exchange possible while multicellular life is at the single cell stage.

The disadvantage to sex is you need vary similar organisms so your N^2 ancestors becomes (species population size) * number of generations. Where direct DNA exchange can cross DNA from far less compatible organisms (~total life population size)
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Thats what people used to say about the Bicycle.
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the founders of grouptalent would be prescient to advance sociometer usage - i'm going to blog about this in the next few days, but basically, you can determine electronically when groupthink conditions arise, typically within 30 seconds.
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I like this idea. At least this way copy and paste would finally be a hard mobile platform requirement, to be able to support Twitter/OAuth.

No - I'm not serious. The idea is horrible..
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Has anyone related my post to that one ? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2458556
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