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The non-techy users never made good use of the freedoms of the PC-era, so to them their environment was just as restricted as the Kindle or iPad environment.

Yes and no. They didn't create software, but they created content. Just look at Facebook & other social network sites. It's full of user generated content. Likewise people generated content to print out with word processors, and they generated content as emails to send to people. They also generated photographic content. However pretty much all of this is now done in web browsers, so in a way, you can generate all this content with iPad/Kindle.
Yes, but how do you gain the respect of people who follow you? It's by doing something that piques their interest and inspires them. You don't wake up one day and have people searching you out to hear what you have to say because you are a "leader." It's because you have done something that has inspired them, and I think that's more what this is about.
Is this the start of the tablet wars?
You don't get meanings, you get possible translations of the word. But If I don't know what any of those words mean, that's not useful. So now I have to find a language appropriate dictionary and look each and every word up one at a time.
I was explaining exactly this phenomenon to a friend, couple of days back. I see this trend inherently tied in with the increasing availability of self-learning resources by virtue of internet and initiatives like OCW, p2pu and others. This makes it possible to break out of the academic mold in which the undergrad/grad degrees put you. This also makes it possible/easier to keep the skills up to date in your chosen field.

I don't know how industrial revolution felt like to those who lived through it, but I am seeing more and more people around me jumping the ship everyday.
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Doesn't quite change anything and may actually make it worse since it would have rendered ay claim by an Apple employee that they were police or somehow acting in an official capacity more believeable.
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The reason in my mind leadership is so valued is that there are problems worth solving that are too big for any one person to solve- anything from building companies to conquering vast swathes of land (which was considered a good thing a long time ago) - so being able to lead people in a cohesive fashion to solve these problems is a de facto requirement of leadership!

Having said that certain cases of "Thought leadership" which is one kind of leadership probably agrees with her blog.For example all leading scientists who make fundamental contributions to our understanding don't really need people following them but they do set the direction of future research so people do indirectly follow their leadsership
The Ghostery plugin can handle all this stuff easily.
Yes you should, if you cannot afford it then at least learn to file for a cooperation online, spend the $60-$100 and file via one of the online services. It is best to get a lawyer or an accountant to do it but with a little research you can do it yourself. After that do everything under the corporation and you should be fine.
I believe they call this kind of summary "burying the lede".

Better summary: The communications chief left Groupon just before a "leaked" "internal" memo came out of the company during the SEC quiet period. The implication is that he may have lost an argument with his boss re: the odds of going to jail if that memo was published, and decided to flee the scene of the crime before it went down.

[Note I have no idea if these allegations have any merit. I'm just the paraphraser here. Though I'm not a cautious one: the original article tiptoes quite gently around the word crime, but AFAIK that's what it means to violate an SEC rule.]
I came across this project yesterday. It's obviously very early days for this particular project but I submitted it to HN because I thought client/server data synchronisation might be an interesting topic for discussion.
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Look at http://love2d.org/.
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A simple solution to this would be to not use facebook icons for your first click image. So maybe a simple 'social share' icon that brings up all the sharing options and at the same time loads the traditional facebook like button.
Not sure how great it works because I only sought it out after reading this, but here's Facebook Disconnect for Chrome. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ejpepffjfmamnambag...
On one hand, you can do nothing and potentially get sued and go broke.
On the other, you can spend thousands on a lawyer and (maybe) reduce the impact of a lawsuit.

So it depends on your budget, risk appetite and appreciation of the legal system in your country.

A few points to keep in mind:

* You'll rarely get sued (in this context) if you don't have money
* Your friends can act as a proxy to their lawyers on retainer
* You don't need a lawyer to understand the legal landscape
* A lawyer's interests aren't always aligned with yours
* A lawyer can make your problems worse
* A lawyer can also save your arse
* A lawyer can help you sleep

Personally, from what you've said, spending money on a lawyer at this stage is a gross waste. Why not conduct your own research and talk with friends (at larger companies) who may be able to get your questions answered by their lawyers on retainer.

Even if you hire a lawyer, unless they have direct experience in this area, they'll just do their research on your dime. You can do it yourself. Maybe it will take longer and be less thorough, but you don't even have a business yet. Chances are (in general terms, not specific to you), you'll never actually launch.

I worked in private equity for numerous years and our businesses (min. profit ~$3m/year) rarely spent defensively on lawyers.
Knockout is coming along very nicely, but, why the title?
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Don't always believe that bit about sell the benefits, not the features. It depends on your target market. Robert Bly, author of The Copywriter's Handbook et al., has written several good pieces on marketing to technical people. In one, he described how he fell flat "selling the benefits" in marketing high performance cars. It's an audience that craves features and doesn't give a rat's ass about glib benefit-speak. I don't have a link for that one, but here's a great piece about marketing to engineers:

http://www.bly.com/Pages/documents/STIKFS.html
https://market.android.com/details?id=org.ab.x48&feature...
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The problem I have with this story and with the health care debate in general is I think political agenda is blocking people from rationally looking at the problem.

In the United States it is already illegal for a hospital to deny someone medical care. Whether they can pay or not they have to be given care. The problem here is the same isn't true of medication and dental work.

An insanely stupid flaw but an insanely easy one to fix.

By fixing that one flaw everyone in this article would have lived. The problem is the American public is fixated on Universal Health Care. Democrats want it, Republicans want to block it and no one is looking at other solutions to the problem.

That's really a problem because the debates take time. It is very likely ObamaCare is going to be defunded (the odds of the Republicans taking the Senate in 2012 are very good statistically). Once that happens we're going to be right back where we started AGAIN.

But there are plenty of solutions that would (or at least should) appease both sides that could be implemented almost instantly.

My personal opinion has always been that Health Care should be dealt with through low to no interest borrowing. The government was willing to subsidize 30 year loans to people with no credit if it meant buying a house so why shouldn't the same be true for medical care. That way this 24 year old can get anything he needs for under $10 a month (and we can offer deferred payment to those in bad circumstances like unemployment).

That solution could literally be implemented tomorrow. Just tell banks "the government will back these loans in the same way we used to back Student Loans when they were done through private banks". Then BOOM! Problem solved in the interim and and we can continue to debate Universal Health Care for years safely knowing no one will die while the debate was going on.
Not really. The ability to position and direct the light in that double articulated angle poise lamp is vastly superior to that in a cheapo lamp for a few dollars from a general furniture store.

I certainly wouldn't pay $400 for it but it is the superior product functionally.

The calculator is functionally inferior. You're buying it, if you do, for nostalgia or visual amenity (blurgh looks terrible IMO) and not for its function or ergonomics.
You can say the same kind of things about the HP and a slide rule and be correct about both.
That's how the public service works, but only because they can't just demote non-performing managers and replace someone possibly more competent.

Workers shouldn't be afraid that their project will get nixed, just because the project is run by a guy upper management wants to demote.
4-100 times the price?
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For context:

"In twenty years everything has become Linux. I have a music system that is entirely Linux-based. I have a video streaming and TV watching system that is entirely Linux-based. I wouldn't be surprised if every flat screen television I have is also Linux-based. The laptop and the desktop my wife uses to do her online banking and email is Linux. My phone is Linux, and my son's tablet PC is Linux..."

So his family uses Linux and they've apparently won. That's like Steve Ballmer saying his kid use Zune so they won the MP3 wars.

With that said Linux has become the most popular Unix variant by a large margin -- but who hasn't noticed? It's been years in the making, well telegraphed, with thousands of articles written about it.
Only last week I downloaded the IE9 VM's mentioned here, but got the never ending BSOD-reboot loop when trying to use them in VirtualBox. This is going to make my day when I get back in the office next week!
The article being discussed concerns Groupon, not Google :)
This sort of feels like it's butchering physics to try to make some philosophical claims.
As someone who has interviewed candidates from physical universities with IT degrees I can say the same is probably true of them. I see candidates all the time who can recite the OSI Model by heart but can't figure out a Windows XP system isn't connecting to the network because it doesn't have an IP Address.
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Apple has not brought us anywhere in particular : people have always been that passive. The iPad's popularity is because of the lack of a keyboard for these 95% of the population. For folks like you and me, it is despite the lack of a keyboard.
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This reminds me of LinkExchange (Tony Hsieh's previous startup). Is it any different from that ?
Some misconceptions need to be cleared.

| 4. You live in the past. About 80 milliseconds in the past

This may hold true for sensory perceptions, thoughts etc but not for consciousness. When there are no thoughts, there is absolutely no gap in consciousness. When you live "consciously" there is no time-lag.

| 6. Consciousness depends on manipulating time. Many cognitive abilities are important for consciousness, and we don’t yet have a complete picture.

Who is this "we". Consciousness does not depend on anything, unless you've incorrectly defined it. Everything else depends on it.

| Consciousness wouldn’t be possible without the ability to imagine other times

Utter tosh. Who has cooked this up ? We've been through this for at least 2-3 millenia. Those who meditate, and there are lots on HN, understand that consciousness is independent.

"Everyone experiences time differently" -- if we talk of perception of time, then yes. A moment of boredom or pain can feel longer than an hour of pleasure but we all know that.

| 5. Your memory isn’t as good as you think.
We all know this don't we.

| In that very real sense, all animal species experience “the same amount of time.”

We really don't know that do we. Just speculation.
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"According to Dangerfield, the officers "did not go inside the house," but stood outside while the Apple employees scoured Calderón's home, car, and computer files"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_impersonation
The dead-ban system makes the life of the moderators much easier by starving trolls who would otherwise create a new account as soon as they got banned. At HN's scale, it is necessary.

This case is unfortunate, though, but I guess that's why the showdead option exists.

I don't know if a negative karma turns on an irreversible ban flag, or if going back to positive will alleviate the ban. If not, I'll write a mail to pg.
"Time is an illusion. Lunch time doubly so."

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Between the sweet successes and the fearsome failures, how many of us are stuck in startup limbo? Nowhere near success, not really dead yet, still some chips left to play? I'd say a few. This post is also for those people.
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tl:dr he and Mason didn't see eye to eye. Msson flew by the seat of his pants and did things like send out company memos in what is meant to be the SEC quiet period, against Williams's advice.

Honestly, at this point, I'm just wondering how long it'll be before Groupon ends up the subject of Congressional hearings and more ridiculous legislation as the whole thing blows up.
Nobody seems to ask why should I trust DigiNotar or Verisign or whatever? I do not know them myself to trust them in the first place.
So why should I trust them through Mozilla? Or Google? I don't know enough to trust them either...
The whole pyramid trust scheme is broken.
OSX has a MacOS user interface bolted on top of NeXTStep, and underneath it all there is a BSD/Mach hybrid kernel.
It's interesting how they're shutting down the Flash API for Google Maps. Really shows you what the trend is with Flash.
It may have been a folly but what a magnificent folly? Still use mine, would kill to get my hands on an updated model.
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I'm glad this came up to make me think about it more; I'd already gotten in the habit of logging out of FB except when actively viewing the feed, for precisely this reason---I didn't want FB tracking me across browsing other sites. (The FB-hosted comment systems were actually the proximate worry, as well as the Like button.)

But that was my half-thought-through answer. Of course they're perfectly able to track me even without being logged in.[0] So the real answer is I need to be sure I'm not loading cross-site img and iframes... My Omniweb install I'd already configured to do that, but setting up proper privacy countermeasures on my Firefox install just jumped way up the priority list.

[0] http://panopticlick.eff.org/
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It will be interesting to see where Google lands on the spectrum of "don't discontinue anything" and "all eggs in a few baskets". IBM did well in the former, Apple the latter.

Google almost seems to be taking the role of VC. Make many bets. Some pay off. For those that don't, Google can at least keep some of the engineers.
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I'm betting that the journalist that wrote that post garbled the message and that the PIN is an alternative to using the bar code. Some of us still don't have smart phones.
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The author of this piece is also the author of an industry bible for copywriters, The Copywriter's Handbook: http://www.amazon.com/Copywriters-Handbook-Third-Step-Step/d...

My wife is teaching herself copywriting and liked this book, although a lot of the copywriting books are getting dated in light of the Internet - lots of references to fax machines, print writing, etc and little on SEO/writing for the web ("The web might be a fad, we'll know after 1995 if it'll be big..." type of copy). Would not be surprised to see references to typewriters or carrier pigeons in some of the dustier tomes.

Anyone know any good Internet/SEO oriented copywriting books for beginners?

Edit: Not to say the old classics aren't worth reading, there's principles of communication that have been the same for thousands of years. Just skip the parts on optimizing your telegrams...
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I believe his point is that Linux has deeply pervaded practically everything except end-user PCs, and that we should recognize that this is really a big success even if it's not the holy grail of the "Linux desktop".

Not quite like Steve Ballmer saying Windows won because his kid uses a Zune. Linux will be in almost every advanced home appliance and/or consumer electronic you buy, whether you know it or not; Windows is on a very small handful of embedded devices manufactured by Microsoft (with the exception of Windows mobile OSes and of course, PCs).
Ask HN: What do you use to test Frontend code?
At our startup, we are trying to sort out the best way to handle testing against our supported Browser matrix. We want something that is repeatable and automated. We've looked into QUnit and Selenium but have this nagging feeling that we are doing it wrong.

Our application is primarily one page and uses a lot of jQuery to both animate things on screen and to work with the backend via AJAX.

Any hard won tips out there?
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He's one of the guys who was around when linux was still someones graduate studies project.

He sees Linux as the underdog.

For the underdog, merely becoming part of the mass market plurality is a Victory.

For a billion dollar company like Microsoft getting a new product pushed out by major manufacturers is simply par for course.
> ...which looks like the offspring between an ATM machine and a safety deposit box.

The author evidently has never seen a modern transit station locker system. (Admittedly less common now that lockers have been removed from airports.) At Union Station in Chicago there is a wall of lockers that looks almost exactly like this; all your interactions with choosing and locking and unlocking a locker are done with the computer kiosk in the middle (which, in that case, has a credit card reader). Amazon is surely not using custom hardware for this (or at least, not from-scratch custom), just reprogramming what's out there.
How about also making it function as a wireless 1 terrabyte network disk server?
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If he wants to make a comment discussing giving away your rights, he should damn well be prepared to discuss it's legality.
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Perhaps I could take this "make things" post seriously if the things made and shouted out (cough Flickr) could go the distance and remain viable. Did Flickr have a good run? Sure. But it seems to me there's a problem inherent in cashing out your company and moving on to the next thing. The Internet is littered with the corpses of once-great companies.
Apparently the actual police involved were well aware of what little legal right they had to be in the building. The "permission" they got would not hold up in court and they knew it.
Sometime in the future ebooks will inevitably abandon the codex paradigm completely. For example, most e-readers today still present text in the form of pages that require turning. This is a familiar model for book readers, but is a bit awkward when reading linear text. One ends up flipping back and forth between two pages (electronic or paper) when a complex sentence or paragraph spans the page boundary.

A more natural model might be that of single continuous page (a la scroll), maybe with controls to slide the text up a bit as you read. Of course this model is available on the web and on platforms like Adobe, but the hardware readers (Kindle, Nook) still use the page paradigm.
I (probably like a lot of you) work at a small startup. Anyone have a cost efficient setup that you can recommend that is series A cost friendly? :)

I'd like to give standing up a try - is there a cheap solution that is beyond "3 boxes on the table"?
How is it butchering physics?
http://gondor.io just came out of beta.
You're still banned. Time to drop a line to pg.
Before we spend too much time attacking Facebook over this, let's try and think of possible reasons why this might be not an "evil" move. No need to go out of our way to conclude "omg they're evil stealing our privacy".

Firstly, what if they just don't want to confuse users? I see people confused all the time of when you need to click and when you need to double-click, every time I see someone using the computer — I'm sure I do this myself, too. What does allowing someone to introduce uncertainty as to what's required here do, especially when their click-through buttons look just like Facebook's normal ones on other sites? I'd say it'd just confuse people. I don't have an issue with Facebook doing that, I'd actually rather have them enforce, this, so you know what is going on when you see a standard Like button.

(As a few other comments have noted, just replacing the button with a custom-styled one would solve this issue. It'd also solve user confusion, since it no longer appears to be Facebook requiring a double click.)

So, maybe they're not just after destroying privacy, after all? Maybe?

(I don't work for Facebook, or even know anyone who does. I just like to try and see both sides of something like this.)
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Considering we don't have great definition of consciousness, it's a bit of a stretch for you to say that "Consciousness does not depend on anything..., everything else depends on it".

In fact, your broad statement isn't true. Consciousness does depend on having a physical brain in a certain state of development, and depends upon a "normal" chemical environment surrounding that physical brain (ie, no anesthetics). There are autonomic functions in the brain that absolutely don't depend on consciousness.
But I think you would be surprised by the amount of consumer electronic devices that run linux. My Toshiba TV runs linux, and it doesn't have a DVR or anything like that. None of those fancy widgets and internet connectivity. Just a plain up TV running linux.
Really interesting link.
Thanks.