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The author hasn't included a link to the "copy factory" website. I'm curious about what that link is, because I have noticed that Chrome will show favicons despite no favicon.ico being equipped on a site. I have seen this mainly has happened on local apps where I know for certain I am not serving one yet one shows up. I would like to check the "copy factory" site to see if they aren't defining one either, and if the author is simply seeing an artifact from his browser.
The should/shouldn't argument is really about Free Riding basic research. For most companies this problem means deferring basic rEsearch to govt. Both directly (funding research) and indirectly (IP protection and care policy) governments free ride each others research. The US isn't perfect but generally we are the the horse and not the rider.
Anyone who buys a used laptop should immediately dban it and set it up clean from bare metal. But it's not realistic to expect that everyone knows this, and it requires the OS install media which is often not included with used machines.
Still, on average, back-to-front is faster.
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Also advisable if you steal a laptop.
So, dumb question, but how do people do power cords safely? I would love to do this at our office.
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I apologize if this seems like I'm attacking a strawman, that's not my intent. (If I did hit the strawman, please tell me how I've misunderstood...)

The problem with this sort of ideology is it ignores deterrence as a force for stability. If the only acceptable response to an application of force is an equal, opposite force, then why shouldn't I steal someone's car for a week rather than rent a car? If the only punishment is that I am forced to pay for the "rental", then I'm afraid the logical thing to do is to steal a car from the nearest parking lot rather than go through the rigmarole of taking the shuttle to the rental car parking lot.

You could counter-argue that the equal-opposite force would take that into account, but then, how do you calculate that? Does it cost exactly the same as a rental of an equivalent car would have? (In which case, no deterrence). Is there an additional charge for the theft? The calculation of opposite force starts to take on characteristics of our current civil legal system: calculation of the cost of a wrongdoing.
Interesting logic. Of course people's resumes don't reflect the entirety of the candidate, so it is likely that basing decisions to move further based on race will eventually cause you to pass up the better candidate. Sounds like a fault to me.
Clearly not that well, perhaps it's not their native language.

Polite, motherfucker, can you be it?
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But which looks like a cleaner, simpler experience. App.net to me. Maybe it's just me.

The profiles are noisy, it costs a considerable amount to use it without ads. It's pretty generic looking as well.
Given that the site you are linking to is apparently being developed by one of your employees, don't you think it would be appropriate to mention that or put some sort of disclaimer on your comment?

Also it appears you created your account 3 days ago, specifically to make comments of support for that particular website:
http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=bdunn
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Doesn’t even need color coding, just call it “Group A” etc, as they do now.
link to "copy factory": http://shanzhaioff.com/
> It's a gamble.

Even gambles have odds. And, to me at least, it does matter if we get something valuable out of our tax dollars.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not some slobbering hard-line libertarian who believes that any experiment with a negative result is wasted money. On the other hand, if the odds are that a positive or negative result is nowhere likely to benefit the public in a concrete manner (either directly or via its successor events and discoveries), then I do question whether it's wise to spend money on it.
Don't take the fun out of this! But that was a nice write up about Go and I enjoyed the analogy
And, thus, http://shanzhaioff.com/favicon.ico
What software / design patterns do people use to make these infographics?
My bet is that facing insolvency and the lukewarm reaction to their IPO filings they've reigned in ad spend and are relying on their existing customers to bring in revenue, rather than buying fresh eyeballs.

If that works in the short term, it could make their growth numbers look terrible but make them closer to breaking even (if not outright profitable), possibly delaying the need to bring in fresh capital or at least making their business look like it's worth something, if not $20B.

Continuing to buy boatloads of traffic probably isn't sustainable and while it's possible they could stop buying ads altogether and have a few profitable quarters riding the wave of customers they bought over the last few years, that's not sustainable either.
Is there a Chinese copy of HN?
The delays I experienced is usually due to one or two passengers trying to get their last cigarettes before boarding.

Furthermore, there is no point getting too geeky about complicated boarding sequence if passengers are going to get unhappy over it.

Better to do a Steve Jobs and keep things simple.
I always board last. I'm going to be spending too many hours on the plane anyway, why would I want to spend yet another hour sitting motionless on the tarmac when I could be out where there's power and wifi and restrooms? So I book an aisle seat and ignore the zone calls and get in line near the very end.

Then I make up for being in some way possibly antisocial by helping someone with their luggage or something.

(As noted, I don't pay too much attention to it, but I do think they often board the tailies before the center on at least some airlines.)
what's BOM? Bill of Materials. Got it. BoM. Just before reading your comment I had bought a 32 gb for $270. Guess that's not a bad deal. Hopefully I can at least skype on it.
Bill of Materials.
But their new strategy was described as a focus on enterprise software. Why invest further in a consumer device OS? Do they want to focus more on enterprise adoption? Maybe fill the space that Blackberry used to own? Or did everyone leave and they need to backfill to keep up appearances until they sell off the unit?
He never said it's wrong b/c it's a scary thought. He just said that it was a scary thought. Explaining why is beyond the scope of this article.
I wonder if all these companies are really negatively impacting creativity and inventiveness?
> I bet they are going to look at location as well, via IP addresses.

Why would they do it that way rather than self reporting?
That is ridiculous, ROI is relevant if you're talking about applied research where you have a short-term goal and can make the calculation.

But the LHC is basic research, you can't do ROI calculations on that. Instead, you dump as much money as you can into it, and then you know that decades down the line, you'll be very happy that you did it.
I will own up to being in one of the groups listed on the whiteboard.

I am pretty sure we were described as "VOIP OFFENSIVE LINEMAN". Or at least I hope that is what was written behind to describe us.

Me and a co-founder were rather large and were actual offensive lineman. The third co-founder was a running back.

We weren't selected (rightfully so). Maybe we should have bulked up the running back before the interview. :)
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At the median United States income of $40,000/year, a single billion dollars is 25,000 person-years of work dedicated solely to that billion dollars. Multiply as appropriate. Nine billion-ish in this case, according to Wikipedia.

Asking what we (the human race) got for nine billion dollars (225,000 person-years of work, at a generous 50 years in the workforce the life work of 4,500 people) deserves more than glib generalities about how wonderful science is or vaguely handwaved "benefits" far outweighing the much-harder-to-handwave "costs".

I'm not saying these questions can't be answered. I'm saying the glittering, glib generalities being offered here ring very hollow against that level of real cost, and you need to brush your arguments up.

(Also, feel free to apply this to any other billion dollars you care to name. I think we take our spending of billions and trillions way too casually, personally. We can and in some sense must spend it (dollars can be hoarded but much of what they represent, like man-hours, can not), but more thought put into it would be nice.)
What's the consensus in protecting yourself from getting copied in China? Launch there first?
> we can't know "what they [got] out of it"

Of course not. Only when this is ancient history will we truly know the results of the experiment in a practical sense. But we can hazard guesses, and if we are informed (which I am not) those guesses have some chance of being right. Anyway, your consequent doesn't follow: an inability to know the concrete answer to any given question does not make the question dishonest.

> which, I think, is rather prima facia a very important question to answer

Important for what purpose? Human happiness? Some concrete goal of technology or economics? The abstract advancement of knowledge? Some mix of all of these things?

I agree that it would be nice to know where mass comes from, but that fact absent any useful application (or a probability of a useful application) is of limited value to me.

> that will most likely prove to be invaluable in and of itself

It is hard for me to believe that the data itself will be something anyone would be willing to pay money for. Do you mean invaluable in some other sense?
Additional deterrent force is required, else people would always steal, and they'd be no worse off if they were caught than if they'd bought it in the first place.

However, that retaliation is usually left to the courts in a society governed by laws. For example if someone steals from you, you can't just show up to their house and punch them.
I think the principle includes a certain degree of deterrence as well as inconvenience to the victim. Calculating exactly the right punishment is, of course difficult. That's what courts are for.
If the original title includes the name of the site, please take it out, because the site name will be displayed after the link anyway.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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haha this is one of the reasons I stick to iOS apps!!
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It's called netflix :P

And spotify might enter the movie business itself.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/28/spotify-lands-major-studio-...
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If the airlines cared about this problem, they could eliminate much of it by dropping the checked baggage surcharges. Enormous bags that barely fit or whose owners can't lift them was IIRC not as much a problem 12 years ago, when checked luggage was free.
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Dark matter has not been observed, hence the name. We know something is there, but we don't know what is is and we have not seen it.
While not encrypted, Iodine (http://code.kryo.se/iodine/) does a similar thing by putting data payload in DNS requests/responses.
I think it's always reasonable to access data that's on your computer unless you have authorized a third party to use it with the understanding that you will respect their privacy, and to authorize a third-party to access that data on your behalf. It may not be reasonable to make that data public, depending on the content of the data and the probability that its owner is the actual thief.
Read this analysis of Groupon's business, and I think after you do (and factoring in the company's CEO 2 years ago was a MUSIC STUDENT):
http://www.privco.com/private-company/groupon-inc
...and I think you'll see the answer to your question is: duh.
I agree that it would be nice to know where mass comes from, but that fact absent any useful application (or a probability of a useful application) is of limited value to me.

I guess if you don't see potential applications of understanding where mass comes from, we're at a bit of an impasse here. It is difficult (if not impossible) to make predictions about what the discovery will bring, but the mere possibility that this research could or might lead to the ability to manipulate mass seems rather valuable to me, in many concrete ways.

[UPDATE:

I guess if you want to see this as a gamble, you need to take into account the very good track record of abstract scientific discovery leading to enormous benefits. Given that understanding electricity, magnetism, relativity, and countless other scientific discoveries have brought incalculable value to the human race, I guess I don't understand why one wouldn't believe that science was worth the gamble.]
They must have known about these massive problems in the business... why didn't they sell to Google and let them have the nasty surprise?
There are a number of replies telling you that a better understanding of physics is what we get out of this. I completely agree, but that argument won't convince everybody.

I don't have numbers at hand, but a large amount of the data the detectors spew out is un-necessary, and needs to be sorted quickly (think real-time or very nearly), so that the back end computing resources can actually keep up with storing it. There is a huge grid infrastructure (data transfer and compute resources) dedicated to the LHC. The problems the scientists and engineers had to solve to get the LHC running will come up in some shape down the road, and we'll benefit from this.

We can list off a whole lot of advances that were made for pure science that are ridiculously useful for us today (spectroscopy, lasers, atomic clocks, nuclear reactors, even particle accelerators, off the top of my head). We may also wish to keep in mind that solving the infrastructure problems scientists face also gives society great payoffs.
> and then you know that decades down the line, you'll be very happy that you did it.

How do you know that? Has all blue sky research in history resulted in massive benefits decades down the line?
Thanks for the link. The first thing I notice is that while the icons visually are similar, they are of two different sizes.

Indeed, the favicon.ico from the "ripoff" site is 32x32 vs the "original" which is 16x16. Further, the larger image shows more detail in the gradients and edges than does the smaller. When I resize the larger to 16x16 pixels, it looks similar but still features slightly different colors than the "original".

Finally, when I resize the "original" 16x16 up to 32x32, it lacks the pixel clarity of the "ripoff". It seems obvious that the "ripoff" icon wasn't made from the "original" as is being claimed.
No mention of how they measured this, except this:

"That's according to new Hitwise data based on Web-based traffic, but excluding mobile and app-specific traffic."

Groupon has lots of mobile apps: http://www.groupon.com/mobile
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Has anyone else noticed a decline in the quality of offers over the past six months? I've literally went from subscribing to several livingsocial/groupon products to gradually opting out after one too many crappy massage-related offers. In general I see fewer food-related offers.
Original report summary with links to more details: http://bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.nr0.htm

The non-management homicide figures seems to be slightly higher at 11%.
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Check the $90M number from 1999, should probably be $90B. However, I agree with the point that the student loan burden is a problem and possibly a significant contributor to lagging economic growth.

It's my hope that there's real student loan reform in the next few years and that new graduates will be able to focus on projects they want to develop as opposed to just being able to get by and make loan & rent payments. Hopefully health care reform will create more entrepreneurs by creating cheaper options for entrepreneurs, maybe loosening the burden of loan repayment will create even more?
I think Southwest definitely has the best system for this (numbered pillars to line up at), although it doesn't really apply to seating arrangements since SW is random seating.

Although that seems like a bonus as the random seating was the second best method.
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Out of sheer curiosity, are there any companies that actually do this (abstracted cold-calling) and take a commission on converted leads?
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The webapp seem to be built using Twitter Bootstrap and Heroku. I would have thought Chinese programmers who resort to copying would be using older technology.
> . . . we're at a bit of an impasse here.

Only because I don't know the science behind it. I asked the question to be informed. Everyone is so busy trying to show that I am wrong to ask the question that no one has taken time to answer it.

What potential applications are there of knowing where mass comes from in the level of detail we are speaking about here (i.e. the proof of the SM or the suggestion of one of the Higgless theories)? Of course, you could give me science fiction, but I'm hoping for applications that are likely.

RE: your update, excellent, and I agree, although people were able to make predictions about technologies arising from much of the abstract research of the past long before it became practical. I am asking for such predictions, if they exist, or confirmation that no such predictions currently exist. I have not been able to find any in all my searchings, but perhaps I am looking in the wrong places.
Yes, yes, good question.

People who make the decisions to spend money on this scale - US$ 9 billion! - must be well qualified to make such decisions, and do so after careful consideration of various alternatives.

I think it was the right decision. Of course opportunity cost must be considered - you could have had, instead: 1 new Nimitz class aircraft carrier (without the air wing), OR 4 new B-2 bombers OR 1 extra week of Bush tax cuts....
If you could know the odds or expected payoff in advance, then it wouldn't be cutting-edge science anymore. It would be engineering.

You can't make valid predictions about the expected benefit of any single experiment before running it for the first time. All we have to go on is the history of major scientific undertakings, and the technologies they have eventually lead to.

That history primarily shows two things: sustained serious scientific research correlates with technological advances and breakthroughs, and governments are usually the only ones willing and able to throw large amounts of cash at a project for a long time before the results start coming in or making money.
1. There is no magical flag that allows all mail sent by anyone at Microsoft to hit your Hotmail inbox: that could easily be abused, and for many users it would defy their expectations. I've sent your post along to the people responsible for spam filtering in Hotmail, though, to take a look at.

2. It looks like you were using Chrome to try to open a document in the OneNote client? For better or worse, you have to have a plugin to do that today; there's no browser-native way for a website to launch a program on your PC.

The plugin we have gets installed with Office 2010 and works on IE and Firefox. It does not currently work in Chrome, which is probably why you saw the issue.

That's not to say that the metapoint is lost on all of the folks who work on these features, and we try very hard to make flows work with no edge cases. Even for a company like Microsoft shipping often requires tough compromises, though, and unfortunately you hit some of the rough edges in our experience we haven't yet been able to address.

(Disclaimer: If it wasn't clear already, I work on some things related to this flow.)
Very nice, I was planning to implement a similar thing with for 'anonymous' ip-based human readable usernames to identify users without forcing them to create profiles.

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Woot knows exactly what they're doing. They lose money on every bag of crap, the fact that the site goes down adds to the fun. They could rent more servers for the day (or hour) that the BOC is available for sale, but why lose even more money? They're selling out of them in seconds, and they're driving insane amounts of traffic to their site for the entire day as people hit refresh on a leakfrog looking for the BOC. That said, they have taken steps to make it a little more randomized, but only because people figured out how to game the system, and most people getting BOCs were running scripts to do it.
Given only what you've written above, I'd recommend the Software Engineering general survey. All of the things you've listed under that are useful and needed, and you should at least get some familiarity with all of them as a budding entrepreneur.

For web apps specifically, see if there's a course using Ruby on Rails. Other languages and frameworks exist, but both Ruby as a language and Rails as a framework are great and will be a very nice place to start and will take you a long way. And much of what you learn will transfer to other langs/frameworks to some degree. Stuff like MVC and other concepts will stick with you.
Its gravitational effects have been observed, that is how we know it is there. Nobody has seen it, but little in the sky is actually accessible via visible wavelengths.
Yeah, there are no clones on there! Ever since they required that applications not be clones of each other, there's only ever been one fart app!

Heaven, thy name is App Store. Thou art a pantheon of deduplication.
Thanks for linking to the new Asset Pipeline guide. Richard Hulse, Mohammed El-Abid and me put a lot of work into that to try to help people understand how it works.

It's just a fantastic feeling to see something that I've worked on be helpful to so many people. Thank you.
I made this in an hour or so when learning the web.py basics. It's running on mod_wsgi.

Very simple but it's something I find relatively useful (it forces Google not to ever discard any of the search terms, which comes in handy when searching for error messages, log fragments, etc.), so I thought I'd share it here in case someone else does too.

More background on the motivation for this here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2931994
Don't feel too bad, you spent a mere 2.5 hours, and as a result a website that took probably 10 times that effort popped up. You lose the personal gain from the project, but the valued created as a result of 150 minutes of work is very efficient!
> If you could know the odds or expected payoff in advance, then it wouldn't be cutting-edge science anymore.

Not so. For example, it was hypothesized long before the first human-initiated fission event that the energy from fission would possibly be useful for creating a bomb. The research and physics that went into actually developing the thing was still cutting edge even though predictions had been made about its long term practical applications.
Something is a bit fishy with that favicon. The version used by the 'rippers' doesn't use transparency, whereas Tian's favicon does have one.

That favicon source (there are probably others):
http://www.veryicon.com/icons/system/free-business/copy-4.ht...