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Not everyone on 4chan is a sociopath. Even on /b/, not everyone is a sociopath.
After reading this and another insightful comment of yours today, I couldn't resist checking out http://bitovod.com/hn/best-of?username=jdietrich&limit=7... :)
"Rode and his colleagues gathered cysts from layers that formed in 1985, 1996, and 2007. ... They had females mate with males from their own time, as well as from the other years. For example, females from 1996 could mate with males from 2007 and 1985."
There is something sounding very wrong about that: the work of a sysadmin that is of value for a big site should never reach the point to be so stressful that you have to wake up on alerts too many times.

It may happen 4 or 5 days every year maybe, if it is worse than that then there is something wrong. It is not impossible that jedberg is actually leaving because that kind of condition is not good in the long time. But here the problem is, a better employer would fix the root cause instead of letting good people go.

I'm saying that as I think this happens in many places actually, and is a huge mistake. A lot of work and traffic should never turn into a nightmare for a few guys.
I tend to think that value is measured in failure.

I know that I tried to teach this to my kids. That failure isn't a judgement its a result. Learn and re-attempt. If you fail several times then succeed it feels (to me at least) much better having succeeded than just succeeding right off the bat.

The place where this gets dicey is the test scenario where you have only 'one chance'. When its possible to do test runs that you can fail at and practice it seems to help.
That's the point of satire and caricature--taking the small realities that we see of this mentality every day and exploding into a parody of itself.

No, I've never seen people exactly like this--but I have seen tons of the people who motivated the video.
i actually got a little teary-eyed about this. i know i'll "see him around" as much as anyone can in communities like these but it really is sad.
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One more request.

Could you add margin-bottom: 8px; or similar to #comments-wrapper p? Would help with the readability. :)
How could you even buy Ubuntu? Ubuntu is a community, not just a product. You can buy the trademark, but we saw how that worked for Oracle with Hudson.

And besides, I really doubt Shuttleworth will sell it; according to him, it's not exactly just a business, it's his contribution to humanity.
5k would get him the installer. Anyone could install the program, it doesn't need a server or anything.

He isn't getting the source code, just the executable. I also don't want to have to deal with licensing since that could complicate everything.

I really don't think it will save them much money, just aggravation. That's why I am having trouble pricing it. It is difficult to put a price on aggravation...
And then convince Blizzard to port a native version of starcraft 2 to Linux...
Thanks for this tip, I put in the contract that I will provide one year of bugfixes/support for the program.
I'm sure the poster meant Canonical the parent company of Ubuntu.
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The issue, though, is defining «has the golden ratio implemented somehow» in a way that it wouldn't be more likely than not that the golden ratio would be considered «implemented» more often than not if the hypothesis were false anyways.
>What will these things run? Twitter apps, tip calculators, weather widgets, and Angry Birds Rio [...]

Why focus on apps? What they will run is a web browser. Being able to connect to the HTML/Web platform is more important than the OS.

Of course a single hardware device does not solve all of the issues in education. While a browser is not educational software in itself, any internet connected device with a browser has great potential to do the things you list. If nothing else, they can connect to Wikipedia in 100 languages.
Hmm, you're right... apparently Youtube decided to turn off the html5 preview for my account. Re-enabled it and it looks fine.

Boggles my mind why it's not enabled as a fallback for browsers without flash.
> This is basically like having no law at all, only instead of a central ruler we distribute it out to thousands of various prosecutors (and their associated political parties.)

Isn't that the central basis for the Prison-Industrial-Judicial Complex?

ie, law enforcement, judges, lawmakers, and all the companies and servicers who profit from increased incarceration rates?
There are a whole host of thoughts provoked by this post, but the most prevalent is that an acquisition of Canonical would do precisely zip to further Google's strategy of moving everything into the cloud.

The author seems to think that Microsoft is some sort of threat to Google. The last time I checked, Microsoft was only a threat to Microsoft. Both Apple AND Google have made it abundantly clear that their futures lie in the cloud. Google has no use for "fat" client software - their vision establishes the cloud as a file system and the web as a shell.

While I agree that Ubuntu could certainly benefit from a large cash infusion from a benefactor like Google, it provides very little value for Google's long-term strategy.
Facebook creating a new mobile app platform? I doubt they are capable of producing of high enough quality software to serve as a platform - their iPhone app is the buggiest app I have ever used on the iPhone (constant crashes, stuck interface elements, mismatch between pictures and their thumbnails), and their web site is likely the buggiest web site (duplicate items in news feed, missing items, the message counter is never correct). Basically, on Facebook nothing ever works right. I don't see a lot of people rushing to discard their iOS apps in favor of that.
Reminds me of Hypertalk and Metatalk. I personally don't like such verbose syntax, but many do. It's usually used in marketing languages to non-developer professionals, however, in the end, I feel it becomes way more verbose and complicated than if you used the conventional concise approach.

I used to joke that when using one of these scripting languages you would have to start your statements with "please" and end with "thank you".
Absolutely! We have an API that allows you to POST files to fax.
Well, there are only so many positions that corps paying for government officials can give away. If there were terms limits and a high churn rate, eventually the market would be saturated. They can't hired all the Senators that voted for their bills.
What you described generally isn't considered defensive use of a patent.
For whatever it's worth, this is the Boston Opera House, a venue usually used for Broadway tours, not an actual opera company. Boston Lyric Opera (arguably the largest opera company in Boston) does have similar accessibility though.
Unfortunately I don't think this is something that other people would really need. I failed to mention that this is a program that I offer for free currently, so I don't really have plans to sell this to anyone else.

I am working on the maximum amount idea... Assuming it takes me a while to test it, it should only take about a week of my evenings to get the changes he wants completed and tested to my liking.
Bingo.
The MAFIAA wants to criminalize any sharing of content unless they stamp it with their blessing.

This law basically kills youtube and ad-supported blogging.

I'm surprised Google isn't all up in arms over this, two potential sources of revenue are greatly impacted by this legislation.
Private company shares are usually illiquid, or have their liquidity controlled by the company.
I've been following design and construction of the Clock for years now and it's great to see such progress being made. I can't find them now but there have been a number of very interesting articles through the years looking at finding 10Kyear-capable materials for the clock, the process of finding/creating things to put into the chambers the clock will live in, etc. It's been a great process to watch and I look forward to getting to go see the clock when it's complete.
If (!!) our ratio preferences are arbitrary, it still seems like general population's preference would coalesce to some ratio.

For example, being right or left handed doesn't seem to have any particular advantage, as long as your handedness is the same as everyone else. It seems like humans have arbitrarily "chosen" right-handedness. :)
Hey, I really want to be on your side in this argument, but that number of positions is certainly greater than 535, right? More of those than there are elected federal positions.
It also produces 0 content, merely comments.

It's an aggregator.

We've all got used to the aggregators like google making all the money by convincing everyone content should be free. It was the greatest and long-term wise worst achievement of the dot com boom.
Great! I don't want a Muslim majority in my new country.
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When I read this my concern was that journalists like to see things in a narrative of battle and conflict. Even non-war journalists want to be war journalists, so they write about war, even when there is no war. Personally I don't see enough evidence to support Siegler's certainty of an all out attack on Apple by Facebook. He's even more likely to see it this way I guess because of his open bias in favor of all things Apple. (I say, as an Apple fanboy myself.)

On the other hand, some company executives like to see things in a violent narrative too. They're all about crushing the competition and storming the market. So maybe Facebook's leadership sees their relationship with Apple the same way Siegler does. Hard to know.
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Normally I'd agree. Spotify for $1B? Jesus.

But, assuming you believe Square can pull off what they're trying to pull off... a billion-dollar valuation is not hard to justify. I mean, these guys could be bigger than PayPal, all things executed correctly that is.
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To be completely honest, it doesn't matter what their response is (and the site isn't loading, anyways). If Microsoft refuses to implement WebGL, the technology will have been effectively hamstringed.

Edit: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sclient=psy&...
There is no new financial crisis yet from the Japan earthquake.

But the problem with your assumption is that the real economic damage occurs just immediately after a disaster.

The reality is that the actual economic affects of the Japan earthquake will only begin to really show in the next five years. With what is happening at Fukushima now, and the associated supply chain disruptions that are already filtering down the creek, there should be serious cause for concern.

I personally made a long term bet in the Japanese market shortly after the quake, but you can "bet" that it won't pay off for a long time.
Maybe Rhapsody has this, but Spotify has all my FB friends on the right hand side and we drag and drop music to each other all day and browse each other playlists. It's like Ping done right.

It also has an API.

Also IIRC Rhapsody is a Real product, so it may not actually work properly.
Well, I guess they can't all be Robert Fisk.

I get the impression that it's rather a lot like rock stardom, a lot of wanabees, with a few receiving all the pay/accolades.
History has shown that people do the wrong things for the wrong reasons. This is why we have food safety, fire codes, building codes, worker safety, privacy & disability laws.

Most regulatory laws come from chronic & rampant abuse. The fantasy land of free market ideology assumes that all important information is knowable & understandable in an instant, when that is rarely if ever the case. It also overestimates the power of a boycott or that a company will even understand that they're being boycotted or why.

What if all the disabled people in a town took their business away from Cafe A that didn't have disabled access & go to Cafe B. Given that Cafe A is extremely popular with non-disabled people, they eventually get enough money to expand. They buyout Cafe B, remodel w/o the disabled access & now there are no cafes that are disabled accessible. Has the market failed or has the market basically said "you don't matter disabled people, suck it".
Always blame the victim.
I kinda doubt it, in the end google can always do what they did with wikipedia and add a fudge factor (quality news site? +100 google points!).
I worked for a content site that ultimately failed. We tried to do high quality content. Even paying writers a decent wage. Ultimately it devolved into what you read here, chasing PVs with provocative and borderline false headlines. Quality takes a back seat as soon as you realize you're bleeding money. It was really sad to see and became a soul-crushing environment. Very very tough business.
Let's try "Webkit has 3D CSS transforms". Which, jeez!

See also (from the comments on the blog post): http://esquevin.com/starwars.html
Actually I found that the animation showed a clear example demonstrating that pi is wrong. I don't know about you, but when I looked at it I immediately recognized the blue arrow and the centre of the wheel. That's a radius. There's no easy way to determine that a diameter was in the picture. As it rolls over the circumference, it's the radius line we follow. Therefore, I agree that pi is truly the wrong constant to show here. And it is wrong in a greater sense than what is presented at tauday. It's actually downright confusing or even misleading to highlight a radius and a circumference, and then talk about pi.
Opportunistic is a bit harsh. I think it's more to force Netflix to make this a priority. Sure they're "working on it", but I doubt it's a huge priority since it affects, percentage wise, a small portion of their audience.

I bought my mother a third-party device for her television so she could stream Netflix last Christmas only to find out that Closed Captioning wasn't supported. It was pretty depressing - she couldn't use it at all because she is hearing impaired.

There's a reason why there are laws in place for compliance - often times good business strategy and "accessibility for all" don't align.
Closed captioning often requires more than that, e.g. for transcribing important non-speech events.
Nevertheless, progress in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition might help a lot, with subsequent editing.

Actually, I think I'd like to work on that :). Ah, so little time..
They're paypal for meatspace, which is a bigger market than paypal for cyberspace.

They're literally almost the exact same thing. Instead of dealing with merchant accounts, and credit card numbers yourself, you offload it to a third party.

In cyberspace this was paypal, in meatspace it will be square.
You know, I've gone back before and clarified a post after it got down-voted, but your significant edit strikes me as odd.

Why couldn't you let your original post stand as you posted it?
The last line got me a giggle
What are those structures on 111 gigapixel photo of Sevilla?
Hi,

There's a great picture of Sevilla (111 gigapixel http://www.sevilla111.com/default_en.htm) containing an interesting structure (http://imageshack.us/g/822/sevilla2e.jpg/). It seems like some kind of wind breakwater but for wind. I haven't seen anything like this before and I'd like to ask you about any info on this subject.

Thanks in advance,
szeldon
Distributed DNS is something that's being tried with namecoinds, not really taking off I think.
Artists Komar and Melamid demonstrated the how artistic preferences vary around the world with a 1995 project called "Most Wanted and Least Wanted Paintings".

Komar and Melamid's paintings "reflect the artists' interpretation of a professional market research survey about aesthetic preferences and taste in painting. Intending to discover what a true "people's art" would look like, the artists ... expanded their market research to more than a dozen countries around the globe and in turn, created Most Wanted and Least Wanted paintings for each country."

Curiously, Holland's most and least wanted preferences are nearly the reverse of the other countries!

* Survey results:
http://awp.diaart.org/km/

* The resulting paintings:
http://awp.diaart.org/km/painting.html
Just investigated! It's very limited. You can really only do one-line responses. I want to respond with an e-mail with pricing info, a media kit attached etc etc.

Still looking.
Did you see Card Case? No hardware, apart from your mobile phone required: http://squareup.com/cardcase
Well, empirically speaking, we're dumping an absurd amount of CO2 into the atmosphere, there's a pretty clear model that suggests it warms the planet, and the planet is in fact warming. You don't need to religiously care about change or warming perse in order to notice that said warming will be very inconvenient for coastal areas, where most major cities and population reside. If that's the case.. who cares if idiots agree with you? They're useful. Trust me, disbelieving in global warming lines you up with all kinds of useful idiots.
I expect much of the exposure is in the form of credit default swaps (CDS). A CDS is an instrument by which the insurer assumes the risk associated with some reference instrument in exchange for a cut of the revenue associated with that instrument. In the case of a 2-year Greek bond (currently yielding 20%), Alice and Bob might draw up an agreement that says that Alice can have 15% throughout the term of the bond as long as she pays Bob the defaulted amount in the case of default.

These instruments are, by themselves, not particularly dangerous. What is dangerous is that there is generally no regulatory requirement for the people who are selling these contracts to actually have any money, which means that the people who are buying these contracts might be greatly understating their exposure. If there are large numbers of outstanding unbacked CDS, the situation is similar to what occurred with AIG in 2008. Because CDS are not exchange traded, we don't have a reasonable way of knowing how much risk is out there.
author here: the cool part is that it's theoretically possible now. i have no idea whether it'll take off.

what do you think, are there gonna be sufficient incentives in the future to decentralize certain services?
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Not precisely. Firefox and Chrome have enough marketshare that games with WebGL can just detect IE, then throw up a message "your browser does not support WebGL, click here to download a browser that does.".
Good thread on BitCoin-style distributed DNS: http://forum.bitcoin.org/?topic=1790.0
I agree. If it was "ready to ship" it would be shipping.
"Rational people" would weight the costs and benefits of finding out which companies have discriminatory policies and might decide that they just don't care enough for spending their time on it.
Any (machine) code can call private APIs, so it's simply a matter of getting/hacking Nitro to generate the correct machine code to do it. I think that's what they would worry about. Remember Jailbreakme.com? It was PDF (and kernel, so no sandbox could have helped) I believe, but a real problem to consider if you can get custom code running.
I believe everyone has taken my comment the wrong way. When I say Freedom isn't free I absolutely do not mean we have to give up our rights to remain free. I mean we have to fight for our right to remain free!
They can open the rear doors remotely, and often do while handling money or writing something.
Wasn't this obvious? Wasn't this what everyone was saying when others were discussing the size of the economy and the size of transactions it could handle and threats from the government...

It's the first time people can actually truly freely trade without fear of monitoring or tracking. Of course that's its value.
All complex ecosystems have parasites

Come on, give her some credit: at least she linked to an amusing video.
The goal should be to have frequent, small failures that you have enough time to learn from, rather than a few catastrophic failures which end your startup and saddle you with baggage afterwards.

Failure is a part of success, but only when taken in the right quantities.
Clickable link to structure's photo: http://imageshack.us/g/822/sevilla2e.jpg/
This was already submitted earlier today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2667330
Huh? What was the author smoking when he wrote this as I want some!
If you think that education happens at school you're sorrily mistaken. My 4 year old is reading Grade 1 books and doing multiplication, my 7 year old equally advanced for her age, and my 7 year old nephew is learning algebra.

Why? Because at every opportunity I facilitate their learning. When they ask a question, I help them to find the answer themselves as much as possible. They learn geography, geology and biology when we go on road trips, when they ask why they look like me and their mom, they learn about DNA. Sure, they don't understand DNA fully but they have a concept of it upon which they can build and ask further questions.

Cheap tablets with connectivity allow us to create a much better system for education, one guided by experimentation and refinement. Imagine having learners watch videos and then when they have a question they get individual attention. You can have project style learning where learners choose projects to work on and then learn the skills and knowledge necessary to complete such a project.

Tablets allow us to move education into the field where anyone can learn the things they need to know to complete the project. This is a GIANT leap forward in education.
That certainly explains some cases, but it definitely doesn't account for all cases. I still distinctly remember a video someone made that was just reading a joke list that is widely spread across the internet. The delivery didn't add anything to the list. There was no reason to be a video whatsoever. A number of howto-type videos are the same way (while some really do benefit from a video, many more don't). I've even seen a few videos with no audio and the only content was text on a black background.

My various problems with online video mean there's a lot of content from which I'm essentially cut off unless I want to put forth a special effort, and such effort is usually (though not always) not worth it.
You're right. It's unheard of for companies to react to consumer outrage. Apple's never done that. They certainly didn't back pedal on their ToS for AppStore apps, they certainly didn't react to negative feedback from the irremovable tracking, they certainly didn't react to publishers and users outraged about 30% that was being, uh rightfully taken from them.

It was never a conspiracy theory. It was never people hating Apple. It was people worried that Apple would use their mite to try to crush web apps in order to lock people into their native platform.

It's really not that unreasonable to be concerned about that (see every other thing I listed and notice how they're ALL related to locking in users and developers to the iOS platform.
Square has proved they can build something people want, but they haven't proved it profitable.
And that was, if I recall correctly, the original intent of that message when it was said, far back in the day.