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My money is on Parc (A Xerox Company) http://www.parc.com/services/industry-contributions.html (3Com, Adobe, Nortel...)
Exactly correct. And Google has unilaterally disarmed and it ain't turning out so well for them.

Wait, in the news today: "Google Looks to InterDigital to Strengthen Patent Portfolio". So like everybody else they are buying even more ammo for the gun they keep in the nightstand drawer.
My guess is that atleast some of those people will be involved in building out a sales and marketing team and going after larger corporate customers.

While their current product is mature, they have a long way to go in adoption (though it may not seem that way on HN)
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IMO, the absurd part is, how do you bring a 93 year old dead person back to life? How long until we get this technology? Who's to say that there will be a consistent flow of money to keep this person frozen until that time? (it's not cheap)

I think that eventually we'll probably figure this stuff out, but that now is far too early to start freezing people.
"He's a bit naive if he thinks he's going to cure cancer by quitting his job and reading some undergraduate math textbooks."

This is a rather obnoxious strawman.
Can someone please explain why the post name was changed? If it was to 'protect' AirBnB I find that in poor taste - this is a legitimate problem that occurred with the service, though it is likely not a specific problem. if the OP (foxit) requested or made this change, let us know.
Maybe you just like cities and prefer the available amenities to additional space?
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Yeah! While you still can! Because if we extrapolate from floppy drives, 2025 might be the year you no longer can buy optical drives. That’s, like, so soon!

Already now all the many users of floppies can pick from only a dozen or so floppy drives on Amazon. Abhorrent! And the money they have to pay for it! Way more than $10†! Truly horrific.

All kidding aside, you will be able to buy cheap external optical drives for a long, long, long time. There is no need at all to worry. The optical drive merely becomes an external add-on for those who truly need it. I also like to buy old music that hasn’t made it to “the cloud” and probably never will. I will keep an external optical drive in the closet for that purpose.

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† http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000M3GODW/
Wow great info. I can now see why designer stick to the macro.
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(Why the new account to reply to me?)

'Freedom' is one of those 'motherhood and apple pie' terms that gets thrown about, but with very little rigour behind its use. Freedom to what, exactly? The alleged virtuous benefits for freedom of the current healthcare situation (as you brought up that one in particular) are somewhat illusory to my mind when the current limited offering is costing the taxpayer more - financial freedom would be enhanced, not diminished, by a more comprehensive offering, while providing improved service. There's no realistic proposal to limit one's choice to pay for alternative treatment if one prefers, but the current system is, frankly, provably a waste of money.
Cable/satellite providers pay the networks for the right to carry their channels. They could find this revenue stream thinning out if the cable/satellite companies can prove that less people are watching via cable/satellite (and they probably can since, by and large, the cable companies also provide Internet service).

You are right though, instead of being worried about the old revenue streams, they should find a way to maximize their profit from cord cutters, and maybe this is what they came up with...
At first glance, this seems strange. Fox is a broadcast network (ad supported) that one doesn't need to subscribe to in order to receive.

However, broadcast channels do make money through re-transmission rights that they sell to cable and satellite carriers. It might seem silly that your cable company is paying Fox for programming you can already get over the air, but the cable company also knows that their service won't be as attractive to you if the don't also carry your local channels without the need for an antenna. By confirming that you subscribe to Comcast, DISH Network, or something else, they know that they're receiving more revenue than just ads from you - they're also getting the re-transmission fees from your paid service.

There can also be the perception that if you're paying for TV, you're likely to watch it sometimes even if you use the internet TV for some of your TV watching. I'm guessing Hulu isn't getting advertisers to shell out as much money as traditional TV is right now. So, if you subscribe to cable or satellite, they might not be making a lot on what you're watching on Hulu, but at least they know you're more likely to be watching programming that they do get better money off of.

I'm definitely not defending the move and I don't subscribe to pay-TV myself, but I can understand why they'd make the move. Subscribers to pay-TV bring them revenues directly through the re-transmission fees and indirectly through a greater likelihood of watching non-internet programming with more ad slots that pay higher. If "cutting the cord" becomes the norm, it could mean lower margins and greater competition in programming for Fox and others. That's good for consumers, but I can see why Fox would try to stop that.
read/write permissions for shared files/folders

Yeah, there's is a lot more that Dropbox can do with sharing, and it really expands the usage past the "backup my stuff in the cloud" core, without necessarily entering feature-itis territory.

The real issue that concerns people is that 65 is a small company, 400 is a medium company, and not every tech outfit has successfully managed that kind of transition. It's the kind of size where technical management starts mattering as much as technical ability - and good technical management is notoriously hard to hire for.

I do wish Dropbox all the best though, I love their service.
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Hm, thanks for the good perspective; I have some significant leverage, as the founders don't want to do the work any more and that's one of the reasons they enlisted my help. As one with integrity, I feel it appropriate to hand-off what I've developed gracefully, and so documentation has been a big part of what I've done. I'll definitely look at the leverage side though, thanks for the thoughts!
You've bought into your mind's rationalization. Death is scary, so society and your own mind builds all sorts of weird rationalizations to make it less so.

I don't know how old you are, but your current life expectancy is likely much greater than the number of years you've already lived. So the difference between of life without cryonics and life with it is "I will probably live a long time" and "I will probably live a very long time."

There is still death in a world with cryonics. Traumatic accidents will still put people beyond recovery, the same with some diseases. Many people will be frozen but never reanimated.

In the first world in 2011, death occurs but is rare. Cryonics will increase the rarity but that's all.
Need, of course not. That being said, internal drives make ripping significantly more convenient and, hence, more common (which still means incentives for ulterior motives). Defaults matter a lot and having to opt into an optical drive will make a significant difference in practice no matter how cheap and easy opting in is.

Also, if Apple is really done with the optical drive, the day will come when they won't sell the peripheral either. There will almost certainly be third-party options, of course, but Apple would have added yet another inconvenience. And so on.

Throughout this process, Apple can reasonably claim to be acting in the interests of the consumer, but the ulterior motives are still there. That means there is a credible reason to doubt Apple's claims.
but that now is far too early to start freezing people.

Why, do you think there's something to lose?

Our best shot at preserving the pattern of information that makes your identity as a person, or just rotting/reduced to ashes.
Is client-side encryption anywhere on those lists?
I don't think the issue here is (just) optical drive vs no optical drive. Its the implications that are pointed to in the article, i.e. Apple controlling the hardware, software and content on the device.

Of course, Apple will not do this completely overnight, but it does seem like we're moving in that direction one step at a time. I think Apple/Steve's long term vision has always been for the PC to be like all other electronic devices; you buy it configured, and for fixes/upgrades you always go through the manufacturer or manufacturer-approved process. It is a complete opposite to something like a Lenovo ThinkPad where a lot of the stuff is user replaceable and serviceable (hence making it a little more future proof and much cheaper for upgrades).

As a MBP user, I am happy with where Apple is right now but I'm not sure I'm completely happy with where they're headed (and Apple doesn't care about customers like me who are probably < 5% anyway). Even if we look at Apple's website (for e.g. about battery), the terminology changes from 'User replaceable battery' to 'Battery that you should not replace yourself' etc. Apple could very well make the next major iteration of Mac OS similar to iOS (i.e. Apple is the only App store, no side-loading). Minor upgrades (RAM, HDD) could cost a lot and could only be done by Apple.

Something to think about before investing a lot in Apple products and becoming tangled in the ecosystem.
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More seriously: What is your website for? What do you want to accomplish? Who do you want going to your website?

You can use this to test your ideas, and see if they're available: http://domai.nr/
Yes, I do agree that there will be some edge cases with moral and legal issues. For everyone else with something on their minds, most of the time you just need to talk it out with another human being. It's the emotional side of their problems that they need help with. They shouldn't really be looking for advice here.

Kind of like AirBnB (for example) needing to have both parties be trustworthy, this will also require an element of trust. In the sense of confidentiality and compassion.

Just because the problems aren't immediately solvable doesn't mean we should avoid it though. We should instead try different things. Maybe on different sites or throughout the evolution of this one. But ultimately test to see what keeps the abusers away and also avoids the social/legal/moral issues.
"But the truth is that this story only got the spotlight here because it had AirBnB in the submission title, but the events it describes are not really specific to AirBnB. It could have happened through many other rental services."

That doesn't make the original title in any way inaccurate. Is this like saying, oh my Google apps account was compromised and all my business data was leaked - but really its unfair to post a story "My Google account was hacked", it could have happened to any online service.

A poor excuse for deflecting what is obviously a problem with their service. Is YC simply going to moderate posts about their own startups at will? Especially when everything is, fact for fact, true?
amazon.com and university courses; what did you think? That there was an inside, easy track that you could find by asking HN?
My guess is they're moving towards the high end corporate market, which is where the really big bucks are. And to break into that market you need a sales and support team on an entirely different scale than what you need for the consumer market.
What's "calendaring theory" ?
When the alternative is eternal death, I'm sure he'd love to have the dispute.
I've done 23andMe. I would never rely on its results for disease prediction. A lot of their results read like a fortune cookie anyway. But it was interesting to genetically verify my Ashkenazi Jewish heritage with a maternal haplotype that is traceable to a group from the middle east around the beginnings of Judeo-Christianity. This was awesome, considering I could only trace my roots back about four generations prior to 23andMe.
Even more boring when you don't have a TV in the house qw :)
It feels hard to get into Bioinformatics without a PHD. I would love to tackle problems in genetics, medicine, and etc. But I'm not going to commit 7 years of my life to breaking into a highly regulated sector before I get to "Hello World!".

Is there a hacker scene in Bioinformatics?
Perhaps it was just the Math department. I shouldn't have said "the sciences", since the Math department was the only place I had any experience with-but sexism was definitely prevalent there. It's worth noting that it was more common at higher levels...didn't seem to exist much at intro courses, but it was significant at gradudate level courses.
There is no such thing as living forever. We may be able to extend our lives to thousands of years, but it will not be forever. Notice that even species that have lived for millions of years die off. Eventually something will kill you, either an accident, a malfunction on whatever is keeping you healthy, or another person with a hammer. Thrust me, death will always be with us.

As a side note, people cite overpopulation as one of the problems of people not dying. I don't think this will ever be a problem. We will naturally adjust. If you are going to live for hundreds or even thousands of years would you really have kids when you are only 25-30 years old? I imagine people will wait until they've reached 30 or 50% of their life span simply because there is just no rush.
An accurate count is a documented non-feature of Google.
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Chrome does not support <marquee />? Interesting.
Citations go 20 years before that: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Citations:automagical#English
Ask HN: help with "local" SEO
I'm running a "fun discovery" startup and starting to figure out how to win out on some smaller SEO terms. In the good ol' days it seemed simpler just to get backlinks, build good web pages and you'll rank.

With Google bringing in your location (aka city/zip code).. the search for "things to do" becomes "things to do in San Francisco" or does it? How does google factor in their location element in their searches?

I'd love some advice or resources I should read.
That's only users crawled, which is the amount of users that have made at least 1 comment or 1 post -- as there are no user list pages here.
I don't think most fans of cryonics think that they'll just be unfrozen and brought back in the same body. With advanced enough technology, the brain patterns can be scanned and either emulated in a virtual world, or they can be reproduced in a new body that won't age in the same way that our bodies do (because the diseases of aging happen in an evolutionary blind spot, after we reproduced).
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I would really like to use this from my Android Java application. Is this possible, and what would be the best way to accomplish this?
A decent number of the non-self-published ones seem to come from Course Technology PTR, which is moderately respectable. They do have something of a reputation for not being too rigorous or selective, but until now I hadn't thought of them as having a bad reputation, just a bit of a shamelessly commercial one. They rush out large numbers of textbooks on recent technologies, of mixed quality, but some are good. Apparently their reviewing could use some improvement, though.
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In other words, keep 250 of those 400 employees idle!
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I'm curious why that image is "misleading." Is that not a photo of an early pre-release Android prototype?
Unfortunately the P&T office has gone stark raving mad. And nobody will step up to overturn these because that costs money, and who will fight for something they can't own either?
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I found that part annoying as well, he goes on with one of his main points:

"What I'm concerned about is that the average scientific layman reader -- the person who assumes they are just as up-to-date on scientific matters as possible -- has no freaking idea where the real science leaves off and where the bullshit begins."

Which I completely agree with. There is the scientific method which strives to discover truth though rigor and their is the use of 'science' in rhetoric which attempts to lend truthiness to speculation or wishful thinking.

The blog post would have benefited greatly from taking this version of it, pulling out all of the actual things the author wanted to say, and then laying those out in a more cohesive fashion.

For those interested in the abuse of numbers in rhetoric I can reccomend the book 'Proofiness' [1] which talks about ways people abuse mathematics as a rhetorical tool. Science is one of those things that also helps lay people feel better about believing in something.

I agree with the original author's disappointment as to how it is being abused. But I also note that the author gets confused between how journalists report science vs what the science actually said. It is always a good idea to track down the original paper or study and read it to see what the journalist left out or simply missed.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/dp/0670022160/
What’s inconvenient about ordering an external drive from Amazon? It’s cheaper than Apple’s drive, anyway, and you can do it right now. There won’t be third party options – because said third party options are already here and cheap and available everywhere.

There is no need for stupid conspiracy theories. Optical media is done. It makes sense to longer include it by default. And if you really believe that there will be less ripped movies around because Apple ditches the optical drive, well then I can’t really help you. Pirating will always be easy, what Apple does doesn’t matter.
Yes, that would be the problem I described in my last paragraph, but that has no bearing on the facts of this case. Just because they could be counter sued (though I'm not completely convinced it's that east), doesn't mean the original law suit has no merit. Large companies routinely ignore the intellectual property rights of others (in part due to so many of them being bogus), but that doesn't make it okay. HTC is completely within it's right to demand compensation for technology they own, if their claim is legitimate. There is nothing in this article that suggests their claim is absurd or unjustified. Maybe the patent is on some amazing piece of compression technology that took years to develop. People are just jumping to the conclusion that it's yet another "toast" or "pop-up text" patent.
I'm not saying that CDs will ever be inaccessible to the motivated technologist. But the media will continue to degrade and disappear at an even faster rate with optical drives no longer commonplace.

And while I'm sure that Apple buyers were among the first demographic to ditch physical media, this development is certainly another nail in the coffin of the brick-and-mortar data archives that are record stores.
It's unfortunate when most are so mesmerized by great but incomplete magic that the magic creators are unwilling to conjure something even more magical to include safety like client-side encryption.

Reworded for the downvotes:
Don't punish users because most may not even be aware of the lack of security in Dropbox by not using client-side encryption. If it's too difficult to explain, then it's time to go back and address your implementation of the product. Security through simple ignorance of a known deficiency is just disappointing. Maybe it only affects 1 out of 10 users who trust the safety of their stored password lists or similar documents, but businesses hopefully are more demanding.

And just a note...I do like Dropbox and use it everyday(for non-sensitive files).
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Not much to say. It was part of operation sundevil. I was never arrested or indicted and eventually got all my equipment back.

I'm not sure if it is SOP, or the Secret Service thought they were dealing with violent criminals. But they knocked down the front door with one of those rams you see on TV , ran room to room "securing" everything. Once they realized they were dealing with a scared 13 year old they seemed more embarassed than anything.

In addition to the local cops, and the Secret Service, there was a postal inspector involved, that guy was kind of a dick, he kept sneering and telling me stuff like "you are going down buddy", even at that young age I figured he didn't get out of the office much. The Secret Service spent post of their time bullshitting and telling me stories of various trips abroad with the president. Some of the nerds bagging up all my equipment would sometimes come in and peer at me, asking me minor questions like "Why do you have so many batteries" until they were reminded that I was a minor and they did not have parental permission to ask me questions.

I waited for years for the other shoe to drop, and be indicted, but I never was.

I still have all the equipment, still tagged, and even have some disks they put in the drives labeled "SS transport disk"
> Context is key. It's about positioning people in an ornamental, demeaning way and calling it "good fun" and "humor."
> That is what makes it sexist, because is reduced to, literally, a pair of tits and under the greater context of "Google is Sexy."

So it's sexist against the woman but not the guys who are literally reduced to shirts that bear the Google logo?

That's my objection with the claim that this is sexist. If we claim that the woman is reduced to being a pair of breasts, then we must also claim that the men are reduced to being nothing but a couple of shirts. It's only through a biased interpretation that we can come to the conclusion that the woman is an object while the men are not. The mere fact that she's sexy should not mean she is an object.

It's only through our own biases that we can call this photo demeaning to women. Is it demeaning to men when Anthony Weiner's underwear photos are shown, or when David Beckham is photographed shirtless? Is it demeaning to men when women take pictures with attractive men or famous male athletes? If not, why the double standard? (Isn't unequal treatment the very definition of sexism?) And if so, then does "demeaning" have any meaning at all, besides reflecting a discomfort with human sexuality in general?

> Nobody is arguing that just posting a pic of an attractive woman is sexist.

It seems that the set of contexts in which Tom could post a picture of a woman showing cleavage without being called sexist is pretty small. Somehow I suspect that if his post had instead included a picture of a guy in a thong, no one would have called it sexist.

> I noticed you didn't answer my question, though: What message do you think this sends to potential CS coeds?

I don't think this sends a message to potential female CS students. The fact that one guy posted a picture shouldn't mean much, and I think a relatively small percentage of women would actually find this offensive. (How many women have posted cleavage shots of themselves to Facebook?) I also think that it's bizarre that anyone would hold Tom Anderson up as some sort of ambassador for the software industry.

By the way, coed means coeducational and refers to males and females educated together. It isn't a term for female students.
I wonder why people waste their time and money on defending themselves in court, why don't they hire Tony Soprano to fix their problem instead? It would be a pretty appropriate response.
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