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He actually called Bill Hewlett [1], one of the founders of Hewlett and Packard [2].

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=g...
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Reddington_Hewlett
Listen to wisdom of Citizen Cope's "Lifeline"

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/citizencope/lifeline.html
I'd go one step further and say that the calories are actually one of the most superficial aspects of standing instead of sitting (which really shows how much American perception of health and wellness have gone wrong). I'd say the most important aspects are the impact on organs, muscles, bones, tendons, and joints. Not to mention improved circulation, etc.
"All attempts to write about history is pushing someone's agenda."

On the other hand, if anyone is looking to read history written from a dispassionate, objective point of view, I heartily recommend "100 Decisive Battles from Ancient Times to the Present".

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/315/books/100%20Decisive%20Battles%2...
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As the author says, building a real Bitcoin economy would take time. But I don't think an isolationist attitude would help; it seems like it would take longer.
My iPad is My Co-Pilot
Moments like these define companies. Communications with clients and the recovery plan (do we offer a mea culpa package? et cetera) will be the company's turning point.
>in the distant future we will all understand the field to be about abstractly defining processes i.e. a series of repeatable steps to accomplish a task.

That's how CS started. Long before we had anything recognizable as computers, we had the likes of Turing providing formal mathematical formulations of abstractions that would be realized later.
Excellent! This is the best answer to the question: "Who reads the EULA?"
And slower than the JVM
Check out: http://www.nycresistor.com/ This is the space where the http://www.makerbot.com/ was started.
> A 29% bump with a 1% margin of error is not inconclusive; it's virtually the very definition of a conclusive result.

Well, no, it's a set of numbers with percentage signs after them. Perhaps the documentation for Optimizely specifies how their error margins etc. are derived, but nothing in the linked article does as far as I can see. Without knowing that underlying reasoning, all those pretty graphs and percentages are just a load of gobbledegook, apart from the original data points and the percentage increase figures derived directly from dividing them.
You're right. Bill, not Bob. Thank you for the correction :)
Poll: the bitcoin poll
How are you relating to bitcoin, if at all?

Please select all that apply.
I have already, do now, or plan to mine it
I own some
I don't own any
I want more in my life
I want less or none at all in my life
I have or am considering writing an app around it
Cryptocurrencies may be good, but bitcoin is not
Accept it, but too much hype
With zero salary, I would say you need to get more equity. A working prototype is pretty amorphous, is it version 0.01? Like others have said, the accelerator is theoretically where a lot of the work will be done, so he is asking for quite a bit out of you. I would ask for 20%, and see what his response is.
Those favouring reunification are a minority, but a growing one since the paramilitary disarmament in 2005: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_and_politics_of_Nort...
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Agreed.

I'd like to expand more on (2), timing is incredibly important for technology-based ideas. An idea that is ahead of its time or too late could fail just for that reason.

Let's recount the numerous attempts at tablet computing since the Newton in the early 90s to the iPad just a couple of years ago. Timing and the state of technology in time is important.

Sometimes a new technology comes around and threatens to disrupt everything, like Bitcoin. If you have an amazing idea that capitalizes on this momentum, now is the time to execute—not 10 years from now when the Bitcoin economy has been banned and destroyed or matured and stabilized (one can dream). This is the same way that mobile applications were an incredible opportunity in the iPhone age of Smart Phones, but much less so today.

Ask yourself: What is the ideal time window for your idea? Though some ideas are always good, given the right uncompetitive conditions.
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wow, remember when keynote addresses contained technical information? When's the last time you heard Jobsy mention NFS at a conference?
In the "Man Who Fell to the Earth", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Fell_to_Earth_(film... the lead character is an extra terrestrial posing as a man, made a lot of money by being a technologist selling amazing "inventions" from his planet, and has a luxury apartment which turns out to be a spaceship, which is meant to cart water back to his planet, which has run out due to its use in power generation. Maybe Jobs is planning bring natural gas back to his planet?
Mental illnesses are communicable.

Think about establishing emotional boundaries with your parents, just as you would set up physical ones if they had a bacterial disease.
Did you notice any impact on your clarity of thought?
an image of the phrase God does not exist..
I agree with much of what you wrote (and gave you an upvote) but when you got to this part - The best thing for the Central Artery would have been just like the Embarcadero Freeway; tear it down and replace it with nothing. - I have to disagree emphatically.

Removing the Central Artery and replacing it with nothing only makes sense if the purpose of the new Artery was to move local traffic. It isn't, the primary purpose of I-93 is moving traffic from NY to CT to RI, through Boston up into NH and ME. Part of the traffic tie-ups on the old Artery were caused by locals using the highway as s shortcut to get from the North End to the South End, so in a sense the Big Dig did do as you suggest in that they removed a bunch of on/off ramps that make it difficult for local users to use, and replaced them with lower capacity surface roads (as well as green space + walkways). The Big Dig also included a bunch of transit improvements (some of which are why the MBTA is in a big hole right now, but that's another post).

As for making traffic worse, 10 years after the opening, traveling from Woburn to Braintree is now a 20 minute trip during peak hour where it used to be 90 minutes in off-hours. Of course transit should be factored into roadway expansion, and in the case of the Big Dig, it was.
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This is not anywhere near anonymous. All transactions go through "InvisiBuy", and you're trusting "InvisiBuy" to not keep records or even willingly give information to the Government. BitCoin may have it's flaws, but it's better than this.
I'd love to see Stallman and Andrea Dworkin on stage together.
The "XOR linked list" comes to mind.
Except when you transfer money into paypal, they make you wait 5 days but I see the bank clear the money in 24-48 hours
This really only applies if you completely ignore the nature of the internet and everything that a digital currency implies and treat bitcoin just like any other paper currency. It is totally feasible to run bitcoin pricing with dynamically updating btc prices based on an underlying fiat value in any merchant situation.

Most of the markets right now where actual trade takes place rather than speculation are simply taking this exact approach, whatever the exchange rate is for the currency at the time of the trade, the value will be decided based upon an underlying stable value. That's totally not possible with a traditional currency where you print price stickers and put them in shopping aisles, but it's par for the course for btc right now and probably will remain so until a stable value for the currency can be worked out, but this is no big deal.
This may be fairly well justified. When reading about successful entrepreneurs, I always try to figure out what the genesis of their idea is. Typically they seem to have industry domain knowledge before they start a company and not the other way around.

It might be that learning about a new industry is the best path to riches, but my guess would be that you're best off doing focused research on that industry for a while first (ideas: get a job in it, do consulting for it, go to industry conferences, read books, read industry forums and blogs).
It's entirely sensationalistic. What's the difference between "Apple could decide which iCloud music you can't have" and "Apple could decide which iTunes songs you can't redownload"? Or "Google could decide which emails in gmail you can't have anymore"?

The only realistic danger with iCloud is the same as with any other cloud service: the company accidentally loses your data. Even in that case there's not much danger. You use iTunes match, you download copies of the matches to your local computer, you back them up.
Holographic light switches? Seriously..?
The interface isn't completely here yet to support "standing computing." We need "air mice" rather like Minority Report (which Kinect gives, almost), and a new method of character input. I've considered adapting an 8-key braille keyboard to a glove (or something) using bluetooth for mobility's sake (and will probably build as much sometime this summer), but that isn't perfect either.

I definitely agree that your brain works different while standing (or pacing). Most of the really difficult or complex stuff I solve while up on my feet, and then go back to edge-of-my-seat coding mode to get it out of my head.
Along the same lines, mental health professionals usually draw a hard line between thoughts & feelings. Specifically, thought X cause feeling Y. Part of solving feeling Y is to correct thought X (which could be a "twisted thought" [1], I've been guilty of all of them), and it's amazing how you can change your feeling if you change your thought. I've been a solo entrepreneur and it's been very difficult to handle my own emotions, and these are hacks I've found to work.

I would also highly recommend seeing a counselor/therapist (there are sliding-scale prices), they are of tremendous value, but if you're broke like I am, I highly recommend The Feeling Good Handbook by David D. Burns [2]. I can't say enough good things about it; it has helped me tremendously when I've felt stuck and helpless.

If you're very hard on yourself, very goal-oriented and driven, and you're beating yourself up - well, I'm like that too and I've learned from reading that book that it is a vicious cycle that you need to break. There's a whole chapter to procrastination (I know you didn't say procrastination), but it applies to the general feeling of being "stuck" and therefore being really stuck, and it talks about the root causes that you can change. When I read the book, it was a dead on diagnosis for me and I thought the author wrote the book for me!

I sincerely wish you all the best.

[1] http://www.ptsd.org.uk/twisted_thinking.htm

[2] http://t.co/2FvSKFr
You're talking about avoiding temporary variables (see the refactoring book), which is an independent feature. Just talking about method length will only illuminate so much.
Do people think it's likely that Apple would implement such a system?

That would take a certain amount of coordination with the RIAA and engineering effort on Apple's part to... screw over their paying customers. I don't think it's likely. Nor does Apple have any need to keep the original data on file. They make a match, that's it, job's done.
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In the "Man Who Fell to the Earth", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Fell_to_Earth_(film.... the lead character is an extra terrestrial posing as a man, made a lot of money by being a technologist selling amazing "inventions" from his planet, and has a luxury apartment which turns out to be a spaceship, which is meant to cart water back to his planet, which has run out due to its use in power generation. Maybe Jobs is planning bring natural gas back to his planet?
There's a recent South Park episode parodying the length and absurdity of Apple's EULA's and terms of agreement. The whole episode is great and does a pretty good job of goofing on Apple fanboyism.
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You don't need to add the impurites, they're already there. Metals have fairly distinct patterns of impurities depending on where they were mined from and it's basically impossible to entirely remove them. If you expose a sample of metal to a large flux of neutrons (usually in a reactor) then the nuclei of the various elements in the metal will absorb neutrons and then decay. The products of these decays can then be analyzed to work out the composition of the metal even if an impurity is very small. This type of analysis has been common for a very long time now. An example of a current use is determining the country of origin for controlled metals like plutonium and uranium.

There are ways to get around this kind of approach (by adding impurities, not removing them) but I felt like mentioning it because it makes a lot more sense in this context than isotope fingerprinting.
Does he take requests, I'd like to hear him do the "Think Different" ad again.
I know you mean well, but I have to disagree with your approach. Telling him to "stop" and "drop the attitude" is like telling an drug addict to "stop being such an addict".

It does not work.

It is a form of a "should statement" (a cognitive distortion) http://daphne.palomar.edu/jtagg/should.htm

In my comment above I listed a book to combat this.
As someone who strongly values my First Amendment rights, an image of this statue would certainly cause me emotional distress.
NSA Declassifies Report on 'Extraterrestrial Communications'
I do that by using RDFa as the "templating language". This way the same templating information is usable on both client and server, and also external tools like search engines can benefit from it
We use grasshopper but have scaled to the point where this (and many other things about grasshopper) aren't acceptable. What are some other good options? Thoughts on ringcentral?
The upside of starting from rock bottom is there is only one way to go. UP!
Haha-- clearly this is an example of the ineffectiveness of videos. Khan's preconceived ideas have prevented him from learning what was presented!

On a more serious note, however, as a science educator, I appreciate the Khan Academy's work to make these very clear educational resources available to all. They definitely can be useful in many ways. Now if only my district would un-block YouTube...

However, I have to agree with many points Frank and others bring up. I have taught for 5 years--my first 4, I worked relentlessly to provide thorough and clear explanations for all the science concepts I taught. And I was baffled when I graded my final exams and found that my students learned little to nothing from 9 months of clear explanations and practice. Last summer, I learned about Modeling Physics (http://modeling.asu.edu/) and implemented it in my physics and chemistry classes this year. Now, my students have rocked their final exams and shown huge improvements from pre- to post-test on standardized instruments. This is simply my experience, but there really is significant physics education research which points to the same conclusions.

Educators are not trying to belittle or denigrate anyone. However, we have to protest when so many resources and media attention are being given to a method of instruction that has been shown to be rather ineffective, particularly in science, when incredible alternatives are available but are, unfortunately, largely being ignored and unfunded.
Fix number 4 first.

All the rest of the things will follow naturally when you find someone to bounce ideas off, challenge you mentally and help you feel good about yourself.
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Many years ago I got a "COM is Love" T-shirt [0] from Don Box at a Microsoft PDC. Maybe he'll start passing out Scheme shirts next.

0: http://blogs.msdn.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/communit...
Not the first time people were p'oed: http://www.bnet.com/blog/smb/how-i-infuriated-customers-by-a...
always reminds me of the most rated comment his book got on amazon...
Perhaps poor choice of phrase. It is my feeling that moving complexity out of methods and possibly having it in the interrelationships between methods results in a net gain in understandability. Perhaps asymmetric would have been a better word?
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Bitcoin is widespread enough that it could be worth serious money in the future. Will I use it? Unlikely. Will I ignore it? ...
What does this have to do with the parent post? He didn't imply a conspiracy. There's no conspiracy -- except that government officials don't like things that challenge their sources of power, which is what these two senators think Bitcoin is ("people can trade DRUGS in bitcoin, we don't like that and there's no one to phone up to ask who to arrest!").

The parent post isn't really right either -- Bitcoin will never replace a traditional fiat currency. You can't pay your taxes in it, so it has no intrinsic value at all, when the bubble ends, no one will accept it as payment for goods and services except to the extent that it is exchangable for USD.
Coming into a Khan Academy video expecting visual effects (or any effects for that manner) that make a video "impressive" is missing the point. For many, the lectures of a teacher are lost time. Some students (myself included) have struggled to pay attention, struggled to grasp the material, and struggled to relate. What I wouldn't give for some of the years back that I let lectures pass me by without any understanding whatsoever. Being able to go home after class and watch (and re-watch) Khan Academy videos has been instrumental in my learning.

That isn't to say (and I don't think Sal would say this either) that Khan Academy is the end-all of the new online education. Far from it. But it gives students a new opportunity for easy-to-access lectures, and it gives teachers a new paradigm on the "classroom experience". Check out Sal's TED talk for more on that (http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_rein...).

As an MBA student, I was a tutor and mentor for local middle-school students, and for some there was the sense that school and education had passed them by. They either weren't interested in learning, or their teachers had given up on them, or their family life wasn't currently conducive to learning. Knowing all the details to Conic Sections, understanding discount rates, or the French Revolution isn't what is crucial for them. Having a learning experience they can control and interact with is what is most important. Khan's videos are by definition eternally patient, and will even wait for you to look something up in Google or on Wikipedia before continuing. There is no shame involved here - only learning. To criticize Sal Khan is a real shame. For a society of scholars to do it is absolutely wrong in my eyes. Good for you Sal, and good luck!
Thanks, this is a lot better than the truecrypt system I had set up. Although I have a sqlite database that seems not to work with this... that will be staying in the truecrypt file system.
Here is Stallman's proposal, in his own words:

http://stallman.org/articles/internet-sharing-license.en.htm...

Australia, Canada, the US and the UK spend lots of public money on books, paintings, plays, concerts and broadcasts. Stallman wants to abstract over media, and pay according to law instead of ministerial taste. That makes sense to me.

Remember that copying is only an issue if you publish. You can charge whatever you want for the privilege of seeing your unpublished work. If you'd lose money by publishing it, don't.
This assumes that the any benefits of standing arise from energy-burning. However, they could arise from control issues: having to make continual small adjustments to muscle tensions in the legs effects the way that attention is distributed in the nervous system.
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I haven't tested it on Windows yet. The GUI is done with GTKBuilder, it relies on an image viewer and a scanning program native to Linux, but those commands can be changed. Not sure how much of this would work.
http://www.amazon.com/review/RUGSCP3XBNBUV/ref=cm_cr_dp_perm...
Did they seriously just try to ban trolling? Is this a jab at 4chan?
I guess the first one that comes to mind would be Twilio.
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The pictures give some context and realization into how the most powerful system around us is in fact - Nature.
Or you can do the human thing. Grab the water, move it next to the food, and enjoy them together. While you're at it, you can even pay someone to take the donkey to market and trade him for a case of scotch. That's multitasking!
Yep, it's exactly like that: ban something with perfectly legitimate uses under the pretext of something criminal.
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Yes, this will stand up in court (extreme sarcasm).
Ask HN: Video chat within Rails app: To Flash or not?
Is there an alternative to Flash for embedding video chat capabilities into a Rails app? We need a system that would be appropriate for a single teacher to have a lesson with a single student. It'll need to be tied to the users' login. For example, student A schedules a lesson with teacher X. Student A logs into the site and can start the video session with the teacher at an appointed time. It would likely be easy to just embed a Flash app-- but I am looking for a better solution that might eventually be mobile friendly. Any suggestions?
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In the second clip, David Lee calls a cap on a convertible note a "valuation." This is so wrong it makes my brain hurt. You only value a company when you buy equity. You don't value the company when you buy debt. As an entrepreneur, I think caps are the worst innovation that investors have cooked up in a long time and I also think they are completely counter productive. The only entrepreneurs who agree to caps are those who think they are valuations. Do you really want to invest money with the dumb people who don't understand that they're getting screwed on the transaction?
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Having the words you write be dispassionate and objective doesn't mean you lack an agenda. Everything written ever picks a small set of facts to consider from an effectively infinite set of facts.

The choice of which facts to include, moreover, represents a fairly strong bias; it says that this set of facts is more interesting or important or whatever than most other sets, and enough so that you should ignore all the other sets for the moment and just look at this set.

Which, in the case of this particular book, presumably, along with the countless choices about which facts to include about each battle, also includes at least a) the choice of which 100 battles, and b) the choice that battles of any kind are important enough to talk about for a whole book.

So even if the author tries to stay away from expressing an agenda on the usual axes, I doubt he successfully avoids having one altogether.
Really great presentation. This has actually helped with my understanding of RoR.
Where can we get your slides?
The value of someone doing something different, from a different perspective, is huge. They don't have to be right or successful to have a lasting impact on society.

It doesn't matter the scale, challenging the establishment is difficult and uncommon.