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Is that correct? Let's say Bill was born here on Earth on August 26, 2011, "at the same time" astronomers first detected this supernova. On Earth, we observe Bill's birth and the beginning of the supernova to be simultaneous events. However, isn't it true that an observer at the supernova (presuming he could survive) wouldn't agree that Bill's birth and the supernova were simultaneous, would he?
This looks good but I am divided. On the one hand, being a sw person and a solder virgin, I was recently flummoxed when I saw that the USB shield I ordered needed to be, gasp, soldered (and it's really tiny connections, too)!

On the other hand, one can argue that a large part of learning is the getting flummoxed and learning to conquer it, so packaging everything up may kill the hands on aspect .
If humans can get a kick from exploring the randomly generated terrain of a Minecraft map, I'm sure we can get a kick from driving robots around the south pole :)
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And I can just see how the industry would unfold now:

Developer 1: "Oh no, we have to shut down our
mining operations in the Antartic because of the
price change on DroidEngine!"

Developer 2: "Yeah, we're running 2x30 sized
exploration teams leased from ADS (Amazon Drone Services).
Wayyy cheaper!"
It's their intent to not give a clear picture. The only way they'll do so is in a court of law.

The whole saga is pretty sickening from all ends. The cops should've never let Apple employees search his home and the cops should've identified these people searching his home as not being cops. This guy has at least some relation to the theft because they tracked it back to his house. If he didn't take it then he most likely knows who did.
It'd've been advantageous to see this go on a purely open service like Gitorious instead. They often provide similar features as GitHub and could definitely use the exposure of Linus's account.

I use and enjoy GitHub, so this definitely isn't a personal gripe, I'd just like to see the competition in that space heat up a bit, and there'd be bonus points if we could simultaneously promote a completely open platform.
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About 'diveclog': https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/PVZDD2N3...
He would because he knows how fast information travels.
Do you find low vision users to prefer text-to-speech instead of very-large-high-contrast-text? I would be uncomfortable walking around with my phone reading aloud to me and everyone else in earshot.
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The problem with Github being completely open source is that no one would pay for the service part of it, which is the only way it can exist.
> On Earth, we observe Bill's birth and the beginning of the supernova to be simultaneous events.

No, that is incorrect. We observe that the light from the supernova reached us now, yes. But we are well aware that it actually happened long ago.

Both us and the distant observer agree about the order and relative timing of the events.

It's only when we are not in the same frame of reference that we would disagree, and that is not the case here.
Yeah, I think that's what bugged me (I looked for some photos, though admittedly I may not have seen all of them). I realize this wasn't a free-speech protest per-se, but a civil-disobedience one with an environmentalist goal. But even with purposeful civil disobedience, you have to commit some actual crime to get arrested, and it boggles my mind that this can be a crime in the US. They were just sitting peacefully on the sidewalk, not even obstructing pedestrian traffic!

I guess I have a higher bar for what kind of disturbance is required to arrest someone in a free country--- violence, definitely; blocking traffic, ok; but sitting on a sidewalk with a sign, well, no.
It would be really cool if he puts his fun side project scripts up. I would enjoy seeing what he hacks on the side.
This theory is basically that gravity is similar to other forces in that it's not solely attractive, but things of opposite "gravitational charge" (i.e. particles and antiparticles) repel.

If that holds, then an ambient gravitational field in an area would presumably be strengthened by virtual particle pairs aligning their gravitational dipole with that of the ambient field, quite neatly explaining the anomalous observations that brought about the dark matter theory in the first place.

There are more recent observations that this new theory doesn't yet explain, but it doesn't seem an insurmountable challenge.

Additionally, this theory makes one very testable hypothesis - that antimatter is oppositely-charged, gravitationally, to normal matter. If that's not the case, we should be able to determine that fairly soon (a few years, perhaps).
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Handily, the functionality to make them disappear is available in many browser extensions, like Disconnect (http://disconnect.me/).
Very nice. A few suggestions in case you intend to develop this further:

- The "Y" button for hiding/showing the list is maybe a bit too subtle. I only found it by randomly mashing everything on the screen on the theory that surely the functionality had to be somewhere. I think the problem is that it doesn't look at all like an active UI element.

- Going directly to comments doesn't seem to be possible. I guess you can just tap the list item and then show comments really quickly, but I would have expected tapping the comment count to do that.

- Would be nice to see which stories / comment pages I've already viewed.

- Would be even more awesome to see in the main list how many new comments were added since I last viewed the comment page of a story.
- Is it really not possible to view more than the top 50 items?
And Australia (AFACT vs iiNET)

And New Zealand (new Copyright Bill)

And probably many other countries.
> Two observers in different frames of reference can't even agree on the order of events

Please keep in mind that we and the supernova are more or less in the same frame of reference. So all the ambiguity of simultaneity does not apply here.
and there are people with many thousands of karma points who cause a lot more strife with a lot less useful content than Pooter

Unfortunately, there will always be an "in" crowd and there will always be people like Pooter. I wish we could find a way to encourage people to be genuinely respectful of all members of a community. Often, the people in the "in" crowd become some of your worst members over time as it becomes impossible for anyone to have a reasonable disagreement with them and it becomes a huge issue about ego and so on. I've been a prominent person on a forum or email list and hated it. Prominence makes it very difficult to have meaningful conversations with people. People tend to divide up between those who want to adore you and hang on your every word and those who want to kick the living shit out of you simply because it's you, often pissing all over you about some point that their comment history indicates they actually basically agree with. Most human communication is very much about things like pecking order and other social considerations, more than about meaningful ideas and so on. Hacker News is better about that (about making it about ideas and content, not social status crap) than most places and it is one of the reasons I participate here while having dropped out of so many other forums/email lists. But there is still plenty of that here.

I wish I had some brilliant suggestion to further improve it. I don't at the moment. But I very much appreciate you taking the time to post this.
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Someone might as well say it: The universe itself is an illusion too.
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I don't understand your point. Surely people do pay for hosted storage, even when the code is available?
"What, your life-dreams aren’t worth $10k to you?"

Well... the problem is often that money is just part of it. Just because you spend some time and $10k (or some mixture) doesn't guarantee success. But... staying put in a job for those same months will very likely guarantee that $10k. And most people need that money because they're living, if not check to check, then dangerously close.

Additionally, it's typically not just that $10k. When that's spent, and the idea hasn't taken off, what should you do? The logical/safe thing and go back to the w2 world and keep working? Or do you dig in a "refuse to give up!" like so many self-help books/cds would tell you to do, and what so many tech/successporn blogs talk about.

"Look at all those 'founders' who are wildly successful!" you can say to yourself. "They didn't give up! When things went bad, they did a pivot!" And so you'll pivot, and spend more money, etc.

For some people, the journey is the reward, and that's fine for them. Personally, for me, having a long runway and low expenses would be important before trying to focus on any one idea (and that's what I'm working towards). So... in my case, and perhaps for many others, the "micro-actions" are (or should be) getting your finances in such a state that you can fund your own idea rather than pining away for investment money.

The "more criticism you receive means you should push on because it's a good idea" is... frankly, bizarre. There's probably a lot of counter examples to scenarios I'm thinking of, but often times people really do criticize something because it truly is bad. Not everyone is a negative dream stealer full of "stinkin' thinkin'".

As you said, you need to apply some 'common sense', but that's what's truly uncommon. People closest to their idea often are too emotionally invested in their baby, and to tell them "criticism == you have a good idea" would cause many people to spend a lot more of their time and money in pursuit of a bad idea. People also need to learn to separate criticism of the core idea/concept from criticism of the execution of that idea, to the extent that's possible.

Anyway, lots of reactions to that piece - thanks for posting it :)
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The application of this research on sports performance don't seem to have been explored much as far as I've found.

Which seems surprising to me seeing that Dr. Baumeister is a professor at Florida State. You'd think at least the ability of offensive linemen to stay completely still would have the football program interested in this research.
As long as Apple keeps selling old FCP to those who need it before getting the new Final Cut up to speed feature-wise, I don't see the problem. If you stick with the same old, ugly codebase forever you end up with kludgeware like Photoshop... or Windows. The mistake here was ever taking old FCP off the market in the first place until they got the new one fixed. I mean they are selling it for $300, so that's almost an admittance on Apple's part that the feature set sucks.
You're correct, I rolled my own parser. The iHackernews API is nice, but I found it pretty unreliable in my testing. I've also noticed most other Android apps report API errors frequently. I'm planning on open-sourcing the library I wrote for this, but I need to clean it up first. Honestly, it's not the best code I've written.

I don't really have a good feel for the CPU load of the parsing (I was mostly concerned with how much time it would take). In my testing it seemed fine. Probably more concerning is the memory usage, as I see the GC kick in whenever I refresh the feed.
So now the US comes back and says "you have a majority government. Try again."
unless they could stop you from skipping them.

But with ubiquitous PVRs on the horizon (which will compete on their merits) the ability for the unwashed masses to skip ads automatically is pretty much upon us.

I think that the problem for television broadcasters is that they realise if everyone gets used to downloading shows to watch on demand, they'll become increasingly irrelevant. So, instead of cannibalising their existing businesses to reinvent themselves, most of them will kick and scream to try to delay the inevitable.

It's mostly amusing, apart from the fact that all the kicking and screaming ends up in pain for us because part of it involves bribing congress critters to protect the incumbents failing business models.
I thought about it again, and given the number of dental-related deaths and emergency room visits versus potential $100 extractions, it actually probably wouldn't make financial sense for hospitals to offer the extractions preventatively. Oh well.
NSA uses Java. Great to know. Apparently the professionals at the NSA are not swayed by fashion.
Why wouldn't we see this effect on earth, and have taken it into account when determining the strength of earth's own gravity?

Would we see this effect with electric fields as well?

Could differently oriented electric and gravitational fields compete to orient a given dipole?
> $15/year? is it an OpenVZ (advanced chroot jail) VPS?

As far as I can tell (from the kernel name), it is OpenVZ. I only discovered that last night, coincidentally.

It is tiny, only 256MB, bursting to 512MB, of RAM. But at that price it is fine for my needs; I even get my own static IP address (the full cost of the VPS is cheaper than just adding a static IP address on my shared site!).

I was reading up on OpenVZ vs Xen or KVM last night, and I take on board your comments above. The virtual server market seems to be transitioning right now, with pricing yet to settle down within a common range like they were a few years ago.
At one point I worked with a MS SQL Server cluster and it required a special driver. This driver would do things like automatically switch ports/hosts depending on which box was the hot and which was the spare. I'm pretty sure we couldn't use the ODBC one because that was only driver that we could get (Java on AIX) and it didn't work well with the cluster.
Hmm, the market is notoriously flaky. Try rebooting your device. Also verify your credit card info. For some reason that helps, even if you're not buying anything. If you're still have problems, let me know and i'll throw the apk up on a server somewhere.
I have been thinking alot on this approach the last few months. I would like a "smartphone" that had a custom interface for my low vision problems. I think it would be very useful to have an iPhone sized device (all touch screen, no keyboard) with a custom UI for my needs. It doesn't need an app for everything. Just competing in the "feature phone" space would be very useful to me. Large fonts, high contrast, a dashboard that only shows info that has changed, not "a widget for everything all the time". This is on my short list of projects to investigate. Contact me if you have some input. thanks
The README file is great:
https://github.com/torvalds/diveclog/blob/master/README

TL/DR: I've never used GTK before, I know my code sucks, but my little divelog program is better than anything else I could find, and if someone wants to fix my code they are welcome to do so.
Not yet. For an offline mode to work, i'll also need to download and store the actual pages. That could take a some time, so I have a few other features to add first.
When I read all these procrastination thoughts in HN,
I sometimes feel that we should run a "Why do I put it off ?" thread once in HN where everyone answer for themselves and not for others.
Yeah, given the feedback I'm getting I think I'll step up implementing a phone version.
We all know Dark Matter is illusion just waiting someone to come with a theory to prove that.
I like how he doesn't even entertain the notion that his success might come in spite of his "bad negotiation," not aided by it. Though I don't know very much about Altucher's past endeavors, in the absence of other information, the cases he brings up look like simple luck combined with abundant but far-from-fully-utilized talent...
Makes sense. Google is really pushing for the cloud.
I have observed that on occasion here in the US too.
I'm not sure it would save them money. Packaging all the various stuff (in various shapes!) uniformly greatly streamlines the shipping process. It makes the stuff easier to store (in warehouses and during shipping) and handle. Bar-codes/RFID's can also be placed conveniently to speed-up handling.
Hey Thanks!

- My thinking was that since in portait, clicking on any post will hide the list and make it pretty obvious how to get it back, I didn't need to add a button for it. But I think you're probably right.

- Yep, thats on my list.

- Also on my list.

- Good suggestion. I'll look into adding this.
Can you explain what exactly is closed with github that is open with gitorious? (I confess lack of familiarity with both)
To some extent this is happening already with in tv show product placements, maybe that is just the future of things.
Thanks! There are quite a few readers available on the iPad. I've only tried a few, but they seemed fine.
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Awesome NSA...

So NoSQL approach makes all those skiddies SQLi attacks moot.

Still 200k lines of code = ~2000 bugs...

So, opening it to the public will expose (some) of those, and fixes will be created.
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Now, when are you going to show off that really kool advanced A.I. you guys are sitting on!
Microsoft, which seems to do decently, is said to make most stuff accessible. Of course, their commitment to doing stuff right (right = no bugs, no compatibility issues, secure, tested, fully I18N and accessible), even at the cost of a bit of agility (and a lot of developer time) is part of what made them successful.

OK MS does screw up, but much less than pretty much everyone else they have competed with. Google, Sun, post-Jobs's-return Apple, and Canonical are also good at doing stuff right.
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As I read this, I'm thinking this is somewhat happening in another sector, the Pro-gaming scene. In South Korea, gaming teams are starting to live together (10-15 people in a same house/apartment). In their team house, they will practice all day to improve their gaming skills through hard work day and night. I can't think of a reason this can't happen with hackers & entrepreneurs.
You can "buy" an episode of the Simpsons (SD) on amazon.com for $1.99, so that's probably a reasonable price.
The labeling likely refers to Mandatory Access Control (MAC) where objects (data, cells) are assigned classification labels (e.g. Top Secret, Confidential) and subjects (users, processes) can only access objects that match the subject's assigned classification level.
I don't believe the VM is aware of LINQ at all. As far as optimization, there's no guarantee to pureness with CLR code, so the compiler/JIT cannot do very much. (That is, a query composed of multiple parts cannot be turned into a nice simple loop.) The generated code creates enumerable objects, and possibly closure objects which are called via delegates.

On the topic of multiplatform, Mono has been working very well for many people. http://www.mono-project.com/
Or you can watch it on broadcast TV in HD for 'free'.
Excuses are for when you know you've done something wrong and wish to be forgiven. I dont think they've done anything wrong, and more importantly, I doubt many at google think they've done anything wrong. Google desktop is ancient and designed for a very different time; I can't imagine which of its features I would use these days.
it seems to me that someone who knew what they were stealing would have an incentive to have the trail point to anyone other than themselves.
Didn't the NSA actually make DES stronger?
But, if you spend much time on YouTube, it is surprising the range of people who have become content producers. To give just one example, my wife is fascinated by all the people doing makeup tutorials. These are people who might have explained things to a few friends, maybe, and now they have audiences of hundreds or thousands. Most of them are made with webcams on their laptops, and there is no reason they couldn't do the same thing on iPads or iPod Touches.
What's wrong with [gear icon] -> "Search settings", select "Do not use Google Instant"? I accidentally kept Google Instant off for months by selecting that option.
Gitorious's web front-end is entirely open source (but a huge pain to setup) but Github's web front-end is proprietary (although they open source many of their backend libraries).
I assume diveclog is for scuba diving?
Are you going to deny any contrary evidence as being a shill for the people you're accusing? Down that path lies madness and conspiracies, Zed.
No, you can generate a new address for each transaction.
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>[...] and now, I see ads for casinos on about a third of the webpages I visit.

You should be able to remove that from your ad targeting here: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/ It lists all the categories Google thinks you're interested in and allows you to add or remove categories.
Most likely, because Twitter is a microblog, and 140 character posts is it's thing.

I'm sure it had some historical technical limitation to 140 ASCII or maybe 70 utf-8 chars (or something else logical), but they probably had to accomodate people who wanted to use non-English characters in a post and not get a lecture on unicode encoding; and some slightly offensive "so ... people like you only get 70 chars" message.
You're taking it from the point of view as someone who posts on Hacker News that knows a lot about tech. At some point, not too soon after the theft took place, that prototype was in that house. Since Apple hasn't been able to track it since, the logical conclusion is that whoever stole it became aware that it can be tracked and turned the phone off.

The story that you're creating only exists in movies. Only someone as devious as Keyser Söze would do that.
I disagree. The only reason the bill didn't pass is because the Conservatives had a minority government. Every time the bill was introduced, the government was forced into an election. That meant the bill died. It's been re-introduced over and over again in various forms. The Conservatives now have a majority government for up to 5 years. They can introduce any bill they want and force it through. Copyright is not big enough of a topic for enough people to get worked up over at elections for it to matter.

I wish our politicians were that conniving. They're not. The Harper government really does want to appease the U.S. government.
I hope you don't take offense to this but I laughed when I saw you're an attorney, because that is so poetic.
Sure, except that storage is a commodity which you need to get pretty large scale to turn a decent profit, code is fairly light on on space. Github is able to charge a very large premium on it because of the unique service that they supply.
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Hi nirvana, really enjoyed this comment thread, though a few days late on this post (got here via Hacker Newsletter, incidentally).

Just wanted to suggest/request you write your own newsletter which I would definitely sign up for and hopefully engage with. I have always enjoyed your comments and would love to hear more of your thoughts and experience. If you do decide to do that, please ping me at username at gmail.com.
Why github Linus?

"[...] it was just the first one that came up when I googled for "git hosting". I've not tried any of the hosting places before, so it was a random choice."

(I don't know how to link a comment in google+, it's in https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/PVZDD2N3... )
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Now I wish even more that I were back at school in Providence, the Brown observatory is open to the public. This would be a good humbling beginning to the school year.