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You know, I'm tempted to flag this on purely selfish grounds. I want this article to disappear into the dust-bin of history and never be seen again.

Why?

Because I'm one of those weirdos that finds (most) consumer web apps to be inane and boring to the nth degree; and who is already all about building an enterprise startup, and for (mostly) the exact reasons cited by this article. And I don't want everybody and their brother jumping on the bandwagon! :-)

Ok, ok, I'm being a little bit fascetious. I don't care that much about competition, and (God|Allah|Satan|Zeus|Zoroaster|Dionysus|FSM|$DEITY_OF_CHOICE)knows, I have enough anyway though... Jive Software, Yammer, Clearvale, Microsoft, IBM, Cisco and others all offer products that are - if not direct competitors - at least a viable substitute. Fortunately some of them offer complementary products that support the overall ecosystem I'm working on. A few more startups probably aren't a big deal.

Suffice it to say, I think this article hits on some very good points. Yes, selling to the enterprise has it's own set of challenges, but it definitely has it's advantages as well. The key point probably being "businesses spend money."
Not available for Firefox 6.0

I do believe Firefox's frenetic update schedule just bit me in the ass.

EDIT There's a standalone version: http://pencil.evolus.vn/en-US/Downloads/Application.aspx

EDIT2 This add-on ("temporary branch") works with Firefox 4-6:
http://code.google.com/p/pencil-ff4/
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Falsifiability is critical, as is the provisional nature of inductive reasoning. So I can't simplify as far as you would.

But you could probably simplify from this article, no doubt. I think the trick would be to do so in a way that kept the "gotchas" mentioned in the notes.
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Moreover, it's not really an "experimental" result; it's an argument that this theory is inconsistent with certain known facts. The known facts were previously derived from experiment, true, but the way the headline is written makes it sound like someone devised an experiment specifically to test gravity-as-emergence, and the results are now in, which is not what happened.
as a product manager, I use 2 tools for wireframes and flow design

Flairbuilder and OmniGraffle
http://flairbuilder.com/
http://http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnigraffle/

The Flairbuilder developer is quite active and responsive about updates. I switched here from Balsamic because Flairbuilder allows for somewhat dynamic & functional mockups.

http://twitter.com/#!/flairbuilder
"Oh, I have this great idea that I would love to implement. Nah, if I don't get a copying monopoly on that for years to come, I will not think about it anymore. I want to create once, collect forever! Otherwise I won't do it. Dub de doo. What is on TV tonight?"

Do you believe that, really?
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E-mail overload? Chaos-inbox... Then I have a few questions for you.
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side note: good looking mockups are dangerous because many managers and stakeholders don't know the difference between mockup and real application. They think you're done.
Reminds me of the scene from Blade Runner where Deckard checks a snake scale.
"Here’s how Apple products are created: a team of designers decide exactly what a product should do and how it should look and feel, their work is ruthlessly edited by Steve until he approves, and then the entire rest of the company is given the task of moving mountains to make that dream real."

Unsurprisingly, this is exactly how Pixar works. But Pixar was essentially run by Ed Catmull, who is much more like Tim Cook than Steve Jobs. Yes, Steve was CEO, but he wasn't the tastemaker at Pixar. As long as the CEO trusts someone else to drive the taste and works hard to preserve that culture, Apple will continue to be successful.
The flaw in your argument is the failure to consider the possibility that many more works would be available without copyright.
This post of yours is too reddit-ish. I don't care what your issue is but don't spam the site with this nonsense.
The new paper purports to deal with those criticisms. To my limited understanding it appears to be an argument against how the Hamiltonian is currently formulated in Verlinde's theory than a proof against entropic gravity.
That falls squarely under "problems we'd love to have".
thanks for mention them, i'm going to try both of them :D
We don't know that the assistant janitor at Apple doesn't have the killer taste required to run the company, but without any particular evidence of it, it's probably best to assume he/she does not.

But we don't really know who was, is, and will be running the show at Apple, or how those matters of taste are truly decided. All we know is that this is the time they chose to officially announce Jobs' succession and that Cook is the person who they felt investors would have the most confidence in as CEO. The ultimate power is with the BoD, and probably with Jobs for the rest of his life.
This is blogspam. Link to the source: http://www.miller-mccune.com/culture-society/handwriting-is-...
Does the press have an ethical duty to out powerful gays in tech?
IIRC, the standalone needed admin privileges. Maybe there's a no-install version.
great persons can be sockpuppets, but I think said qualification is quite unreasonable.
There are enormous benefits for any architecture that puts the memory adjacent to the processing units on the same chip. You eliminate the latency of registers to L1 memory to L2 memory to main memory giving enormous speed improvements. For example, consider a simulation where many cells are hidden from a point of view (graphics) or are slowly changing. An on chip network of simple processors and memory could quickly identify the cells that were probably going to change in this iteration. An attached array of more powerful processors could do the heavy duty processing but using fewer of them.

Some people I know got a 100x improvement in image processing by using a chip with a network of simple 18bit floating point processors to eliminate hidden elements in an image. The reduced set of cells could be processed in real time.

There is room for lots of interesting products on a budget smaller IBM's, although it is hard to do hardware with the budget of a YC startup.
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Zerothly: If you tell us your previous username(s) we could try to explain what's happened in more detail.

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Firstly, you don't have an absolute right to post or comment here. You are here by the grace of the people who run the site. If you have a problem with that then it's simply bad luck.

Secondly, there have recently been several items posted claiming that HN is a huge conspiracy. Well, if it is then good luck getting it noticed here.

OTOH, if it isn't a huge conspiracy then you're simply wrong, the submissions are inappropriate, and you'll get flagged.

Getting flagged is a great way to get banned. But being banned isn't about getting a huge message saying

"YOU'VE BEEN BANNED!"

The usual reason for getting banned is being a spammer. (Not saying you are, just pointing out where the statistics tell us) Telling them they're banned is just stupid. Silently dropping everything they submit is much more sensible. Even better is leaving it visible to just them.

So my guess is you've been behaving in a way that other users and the system think makes you look like a spammer, and you've basically been banned.

From your tone it doesn't sound like you've really made an attempt to understand the site, its users, its owners, or the culture. If you want to play, play nice, just like thousands of other people do. if you don't want to play nice, you'll be banned.

And if you do want to play, complaining all over the place won't help. A simple email to PG will most likely sort things out.

ADDED In EDIT: This item is also likely to get flagged into oblivion because it's not what the users of the site want to see or read. The only reason I haven't flagged it is because you so clearly just don't understand, and I thought I'd try to help, FWIW.
And some forms that are effortless to write by hand are very thought intensive to write on a keyboard. I am mostly thinking about mathematics.
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$130 is a lot of money, but investing in your health is probably the best investment you can make. Some people spend $130 just on coffee every month.
A reason that is theoretical must be backed by experiments. You cannot have one without the other without entering the religious realm. And you cannot have a completely mathematical explanation of reality because your axioms must have experimental backing.

As I understand it, emergent means the behaviour of a collection of entities that comes about due to their interactions in a way that is not predictable from a full theory of its constituents.

The opposite of an emergent theory would be a reductionist theory.
"Don't Copy that Floppy" wasn't an utter failure due to everyone taking a moral high ground that they thought copyright was unethical. It was because it was extremely easy to pirate software with little or no risk of consequences.
I was skeptical when I saw this, but I figured what the heck and gave it a try. Fixed two completely dead 18V DeWalt drill batteries - they now hold a charge for about 45 minutes of use (new they gave just under an hour).

Explanation (via http://ysuusy.com/easybatteryfix.html):

"Over time the crystals within a NiCd cell begin to combine and get larger. This causes them to loose capacitance and also break through the inner seals of the cell. Surging the NiCd cell using a higher voltage causes the crystals within the NiCd cell to shatter and become smaller. These smaller crystals have a greater surface area and therefore contain a greater capacitance for energy."
Wild claim needs some proof.

Works were created for looooooong time before any sort copyrights existed. The problem is having too many works, too many shitty works that only exist cause there's an artificial profit motive to create them. Have a look at major music and movies and books. I'd rather have 1 good movie a year than 100's of shit we get now.

Things will always get created. Probably not with any mass-market appeal or Block Buster level of attendance. Sounds awesome. I'm totally behind it.

"Information Economy" is artificial construct US is trying to push cause we no longer can compete in the Reality Economy. We will probably succeed in pushing it. But, it's just setting us up for even more epic collapse later.
One of the great things about software development is that -- theoretically -- you can do a large amount of work up-front, then receive somewhat passive income by selling that creation.

It seems to me that removing that interesting feature of software moves developers closer to what I generally hear described as serfdom, "wage slave", etc.

Pretending to "sell" shrinkwrapped information is stupid nonsense.

Care to elaborate?
Blogspam and flamebait. I generally have to chuckle whenever anyone calls for the "death" of whatever (e.g. handwriting, shaking hands, installed operating systems, programming languages). If said item is so supposedly offensive or heinous, but managed to help us be productive in some fashion for a reasonable amount of time, declaring it needs to go reeks of insecurity.
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Jason Davies's version using D3:

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Yoga isn't a religion. It is basically just a group stretching class. Some people put various "new age" elements into it, but I don't see how it could be considered a religion. I could be wrong though. I've never been to place where people considered it to be much more than a fitness class. Maybe I've been to the wrong places.
>> Some portion of the population will always end doing harm to other parts. Does this mean we accept it and allow it to flourish?

Fuck no and you get it! The only problem is you haven't realized the portion of the population doing harm to the other parts is the copyright lobby. Destroying our Public Domain, forcing us to pay for our culture, putting our rights into the hands of a few, hindering innovation and creativity, etc.
PyPy's faster than V8 and all of the maintained reactors in Twisted are faster than libev/libevent. Also, no, I block JS by default, and HN is written in Arc (a Lisp), not Node.
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What is there in those videos besides some Anna-glorification ?
And to talk about supporters, yes, there are a large number of people that think like me, it is just that they are not firing from shoulders of an good intentioned old man.

You can see the Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/Indians4Republic

Or Pragati: http://pragati.nationalinterest.in/
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Large organization can provide you with resource (developers, capital, etc.), so if you can still do what you like to do, I'd take it. On the other hand, if it's just a "job", no amount of money could justify giving up the little idea that will take over the world one day. That's my personal take. Good luck!
Forgive my ignorance but isn't the hash algorithm publicly known? Isn't "reverse engineered the SecurID token" basically have the same meaning as breaking RSA algorithm?
ejabberd is free and open software, licensed under the GPL and freely available without charge. I'm not sure where you get "charg[ing] insane amounts of money" from.
Christ no! Do they have an obligation to out heterosexuals who engage in adult consensual kinky sex? Same answer. I think even Republican politicians deserve a little privacy. :-)

How about outing corruption, influence pedaling, and questionable campaign contributions?

EDIT: I finally read the article. The whole thing is a perversion of ethics. The idea that a journalist should out someone who is gay to celebrate gayness is wrong. If the person wants it known, let him do it himself. I suppose an exception is a gay bashing politician/activist who is in the closet, but that is just exposing hypocrisy. Same would be true of an anti-drug evangelist who is a secret drug dealer.
That was a pointless article. The author fails to understand that words are used with different meanings in English and law.

For example, if you came home from work and found that your house had been cleaned out by thieves, you might say "I've been robbed!". If you did so in the presence of the author, would he correct you, pointing out that you were in fact burglarized, not robbed? Probably not--in normal conversational English people will use robbed more expansively than it is used in the law.

In common usage, people use "theft" and related terms like "stole" to mean the exercise of a right that should belong to someone else, with everything interpreted expansively.

For instance, we might speak of someone "stealing" another person's girlfriend. Obviously, he did not legally steal her, but there are social norms concerning what is acceptable behavior in relationships and toward people in relationships, and so if someone violates those norms in order to effect a retargeting of the girls affections, we'll say she was stolen.

Even farther afield, we have things like actors who steal the show, players who steal the game, and so on.

Getting back to copyright infringement, copyright law is purposefully modeled on the law of physical property, in order to artificially give intellectual goods legal status similar to that of physical goods, so that the same kind of markets that work for physical goods can be used for intellectual goods.

It essentially creates a homomorphism from the world of intellectual goods to the world of physical goods. Under that homomorphism, the operation of "copyright infringement" in the world of intellectual goods maps to the operation of "theft" or "stealing" in the world of physical goods.
What is code, or application, but information. It's all just bits. Yet I can go to the store and buy photoshop and it comes in a shrinkwrapped box. And I'm okay with that, they but a lot of effort into making that tool, and I don't have the time/skill to make it myself so I will pay them for the time I saved by buying it instead of writing it myself or trying to work in mspaint.
If you find that your accounts are routinely being "censored" then you probably need to take a look in the mirror and ask "How am I failing to conform to the expected standards of behavior in this community?" My guess is that you've violated a fundamental aspect of what is considered expected behavior here. In which case, if you're not interested in conforming, the best thing is that you do leave. There are plenty of other forums with different standards and norms... chances are one of those will serve as a suitable home for you. Try Slashdot or Reddit, perchance?
Here is a critic of Lokpal Bill as proposed by Anna Hazare http://pragati.nationalinterest.in/2011/08/jan-lok-pal-is-bo...
Ask HN: Review my startup, Bet On Baseball
Hey Hackers. We recently launched a prototype of our first mobile game at www.betonbaseballapp.com and we'd love to get your feedback. In particular, we'd love to hear your thoughts on the design, game play, and anything else that you think would be helpful.

The gist of the game is that you make small social bets and trash talk against other players as you watch a live baseball game. Eventually, we'll make this into native apps, but for now you can access if from any webkit-based browser.

We're only doing Giants and A's games right now, so the next available times to play the game are:
8/27 at 2:00pst (A's vs the Redsox, but will probably be rain delayed)
8/27 at 6:00pst (Astros vs Giants)

Thanks in advance for your help.
Just to be nit-picky here, but how would being a Janitor help Tim Cook at Apple?

My point is the usefulness of "personal experience in every role" is a bit, ah, debatable?

Obviously the Janitor example for Apple is a bit extreme, but where do you draw the line?

I hazard to say your statement is only applicable for small companies. Perhaps one where every role has a strategic or tactical impact?

Going on from that perhaps a better statement would be:

"It helps to have personal experience in every role of strategic or tactical value in the company before you become a CEO. I don't think it's necessarily a requirement, but it sure helps."

That said, I'm not sure that quite cuts it either...
I believe that the best way to maximize the societal value of software is for it to be FOSS, actually, and release what I can accordingly.

Finding ways to make money off of that is another matter. There are many things one can do: charge for support/customization, find patrons/sponsors who benefit from your work to fund it, etc.

I don't believe that copyright laws are a good way to fund innovation. And I believe there are a lot of alternate business models that remain unexplored.

Every law has a cost to enforce it. Many worry that the costs (both monetary costs and reduced freedoms) are ever-increasing while the benefit is static, and mostly going to middle-men. After all, I don't believe that the RIAA shares the proceeds of the infringement lawsuits with the artists (feel free to correct me if you can prove that belief wrong).

Rather than trying to make this law work, I think we should look to successful businessman/artists for the way forward. Web comic authors in particular have done rather well for themselves, in spite of giving pretty much everything away for free. For example, if you want the website of one particularly business-savvy author (who has a lot of good advice for anyone trying this), look no further than here: http://www.schlockmercenary.com/

He's done very clever crowd-sourcing (he gets fans to help him ship books), has partnered with fans who make cool merchandise to sell it (rather than shutting them down over trademarks), and does a lot of other things to make his products more compelling than the piracy option. Howard was a business manager before starting that webcomic and I've learned more by watching what he does than I've found in most articles.
I did not fail to consider that. Please try reading in context.

edit: there is no reply link visible to me for the comment below this one, so replying here:

The context is that my comment is a reply to another comment. It should be read in the context of that comment. The author of that comment already argued that without copyright, more would be available. I'm pointing out a factor he failed to consider. I'm not making an independent argument, and so do not need to restate things he already covered.
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> There doesn't seem to be a big difference in price between $710,000 and $745,000 houses

There is a hidden difference. That extra $35,000 may mean the difference between getting financing and not getting it. (I have a friend with good credit who was almost rejected for an 800k house even though he put half down.) I don't feel that most people have an extra $35,000 lying around that isn't used as a buffer.
For those interested, I've done lots of lessfs testing published on my professional blog a while ago :

* first post:
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* detailed setup and benchmark results:
http://blogs.intellique.com/tech/2011/01/03#dedupe-config

After more than 9 months running lessfs, I recommend it.
There's a lot of big questions that come out of this. I'm thinking about how available such technological gains would be to the general public. As our current economic system stands now (U.S.) this would probably only apply to the wealthy. Think Dick Cheney, who seemingly will outlive all of us.
Bup is also a pretty cool git based ddup backup utility:

https://github.com/apenwarr/bup#readme
The reason I explain it like I do is that "observation" and "theory" are the core elements; everything else (all the notes and gotchas) are constraints, requirements, or clarifications of those two elements.

For example, falsifiability is a constraint on what qualifies as an allowable scientific theory. Recognizing that theories are probabilistic leads to the understanding that they remain provisional (with probability never quite reaching 1). Testing a hypothesis means making observations of a particular sort and comparing them to specific predictions from the hypothesis. Making data and algorithms public is a way to ensure observations can be passed from person to person with a minimum of bias creeping in. And on and on and on...
You (sadly) have to read this crap to believe it, it's just incredible.

- Unless they report Tim Cook's gay they're saying he's straight

- What can be written about his sexuality when he doesn't tell them, 'nothing' obviously isn't an option because of the previous point

- Therefore they ask is Cook is being unethical by not telling them about his sex life
Are there comments of yours in this discussion that I'm not seeing? Please explain the context that I seem to be missing.
Meh. Everything you don't understand looks easy.
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They understand all that just fine. They're disagreeing with that usage and just listed a bunch of reasons why it doesn't make sense.