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let's see what's happening in china. a huge team merely for content censoring is required if your website ever displays any user inputed text. that's why china's twitter copycat companies have to employ several hundreds people(while twitter has 2-digits employees), and quite often make their entire designing / marketing department join the censoring team temporarily.
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It is not oxidisation that is the issue. Humidity and temperature are the main issues. Film is metallic silver in gelatine, and lasts ok, but thousands of years is a very long time.
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I see your point but in a way it supports the OP's point. It's more fun to just build new stuff instead of maintaining old stuff. That's why most hackers don't care so much about the business and just want to make things.

It's a bit like how some artists feel about their work. I used to write plays in school and college, one of which got really popular. People would keep asking me to perform it again and again because they loved it. But it killed me to do the same thing over and over again. I just wanted to move on and make new plays.
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Its surprising there are so many tube's.
Have you tried Mixpanel? I've started using it, and it's based on 'events', not pageviews, and you can do a lot of filtering etc.
Google knows about my Twitter account because I gave them my homepage, which has semantic markup that exposes my FOAF data, linking to that account (and others). I was actually quite impressed by it...
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Interesting, but hacker news? Come on... if I wanted general news, then I'd go to Reddit.
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I fear you don't actually undestand several core concept of special relativity, among these past, present, causality and simultaneity. Of these, only the last one is relative to the reference frame. Temporal ordering of events is absolute for events that are causally related, if event A is in the past of event B, which is defined as event B being able to observe event A or any of its consequences, then event A happens before event B in every frame of reference. Only the time difference between A and B depends on the frame of reference (for an observer at rest relative to the microwave background, there are 21 million years between the supernova and our observation of it, but a neutrino emitted by the nova passes though the earth only moments after it was created in its own reference frame, as it travels almost at the speed of light relatie to the nova and the earth). Likewise, we say that B is in the future of A if B can observe A or any of its consequences.

Only in the case that neither A can observe B nor B can observe A, which we denote by saying that the events are in their relative present, the ordering becomes relative to the frame of refrence, but that case is irrelevant in the present discussion, as we can observe the nova and so have established the fact that it (or at least its beginning) is in our past. Note that its maximum, which is predicted to be observable around next friday, is in our present (we can not influence nor observe it yet), while our observation of it is in our future (we can still make plans for where to watch it), at least until next friday, when both of these events simultaneously move into our past.
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Poor Linus will probably be flooded with patches and pull requests for every commit he makes.

On the other hand, he might very well spark some interesting things just by committing small stubs of his ideas.
That looks like a really neat project, but asking $160 as a starting price for the kit is a bit too steep. Offer a cheaper alternative at less than $50 and lots more people will get involved, learn and fund your project. The current pricing structure just encourages people to buy stickers, not make stuff.

You can get started with Arduino for less than $40 and even get a good kit for less than $70, so why does this cost so much more?

I think the easier software interface should really be the focus of this. Why don't you make it work with any Arduino?
This is a civil rights issue, as evidenced by existing case law in Australia: in 2000, the Sydney Olympics organisers were fined $20,000 for discrimination on the basis that their website was not accessible to the visually impaired.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maguire_v_SOCOG_2000
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/HREOCA/2000/31.html
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/HREOCA/2000/49.html
Not UK, but relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maguire_v_SOCOG_2000
They're probably (almost definitely) both automated emails. The point is that they're a bit better than "Hi. Click this link. Buy some more stuff from us."
I worked through the Yudkowsky article yesterday, and had to picture/sketch venn diagrams to get my head round it. I find this far more intuitive - the way it translates back to the notation is really clearly presented.
Since i m not going to read it, can somebody please post a tl;dr here: http://tldrplz.com ?

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Looking at a beautiful albeit narrow slice of something can hurt you (even though it feels good) because you fail to see the larger picture (which may not be so pretty). It introduces a bias that may lead you to incorrect conclusions and bad decisions. Enjoy the craft, but be wary.
HN is mainly aimed towards insightful stories about "hacking" any system that is not tuned properly and still has room for improvement in order to be more close to our desires.

Entrepreneurship is the main way to hack society and its systems (I put most politicians in the "those that cannot do, teach" department). But the first step in fixing a system is to find out about its issues. From this perspective, this is very much an on-topic story on HN.

See also the meaning of "hacker" written by pg: http://www.paulgraham.com/gba.html .
"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That' probably the best advice possible. If your employee number 3 and they want to to take a payout etc get 'liquidation preference 'on any lost income * risk + interest or work for someone else. If your employee #10 and they still want a significant pay-cut work for someone else.

PS: The law is on your side, as an employee lost pay is paid out before any other creditor but you need to list actual salary in $ and not just shares. You also can have issues with taxes so be careful.
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Ask HN: Can I see the articles/submissions which I up-voted on HN in past? 
I have been reading HN since one year now and I regularly up-vote a submission which I think is good for discussion on HN. Back then I didn't use a bookmark tool to save all my favourite reads. Sometimes I want to re-read those articles/posts. So, is there anything I can do to get my up-voted articles in the form of list.
To give some idea of how long this is supposed to last, 8113 AD is 6102 years in the future. The oldest buildings on the planet are all a good bit less old than 6102 years - they typically start at a maximum of about 3500 BC.

I would suspect that the biggest danger facing such a time capsule is that it is broken into during some time of societal collapse - a sealed strong room is going to look very tempting. For that reason I would suspect that comparable projects in remote locations stand a much better chance of long-term survival:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_of_the_Long_Now
You may not realize it, but your little funny quip does actually rely on a deep mathematical equivalence: LINQ is basically syntax for monads, and unix shell programming can be seen as monadic, too: http://okmij.org/ftp/Computation/monadic-shell.html

So, in a way, yes, it is the same, but that is exactly the point.
I wouldn't work for a startup, unless the pay was higher than than market (since there is more risk involved). I would also treat it as a job (IE: no insane hours).

All too often, people toil away their life for someone else's idea and then get kicked to the curb (it's happened to me a couple times too). If I'm going to be wasting my free time working, it's going to be for the possibility of a big payout..which will only happen if I own the company.
My take:

KNOW your rights. Nothing stinks here. As one of the videos below states: If police is entitled to a search then they will just break in and do a search. If they ASK for consent, and even more, if they threaten, they KNOW that they are not entitled.

Keep the door shut and don't given up your rights.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDJrQBwJpqk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XtBvalUVKU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7RYH8Py6lY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_ckcdtQ95w
I agree with your first sentence, but I don't know how well it translates into practice.

My feeling is that using VPSs that are on a P2P network and that act as gateways to this network is an efficient architecture and the way to go.
Ah, I see. The reason I ran into this is that when switching from landscape to portrait the list doesn't auto-hide. And this will probably be a common operation when commenting on posts, since due to the stupid 16:9 aspect ratio of Honeycomb tablets landscape is the only comfortable way to read, and portrait is the only comfortable way to enter text.
Previously, people in India did not have access to washing powder [...] Now they have access to washing powder, which improves hygiene.

What an awful example.

Before washing powder, people used a bar of wash soap: cheaper, more convenient, purpose-designed and doesn't come in single-use packages encouraging you to use more than you need. (Wash soap also does a much better job than any powder I have tried when hand-washing, although YMMV.)

This sounds like a classic case of a large corporation's marketing department convincing people to buy a product that is more expensive and no better (and possibly worse) than what they currently have.

For the definitive example of this, see Nestle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9_boycott#The_baby_mi...
Correct. It's not the quality of the competing app, or it's closeness to my functionality. It's the consumer confusion, and the blatant piggy backing off of others success which leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I'm more surprised Apple doesn't deal with it.
It's not surprising to me at all. People seem to expect a large stake in a company where they are just an employee..and then get frustrated and upset when the owners take a buyout and they get canned.
Yes, it's the 'saved stories' link on your profile page.
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> How is this Google and not Jaws fault?

Not making it easy to disable is definitely google's fault.
1) Business owners will just take advantage of this (this thread is littered with comments that show exactly this). You will get less pay and make them rich.

I'm really sick of companies that think I will take a 30-50% pay cut for a foosball table and Nerf-gun fights on Fridays.

2) You can gain valuable experience by starting your own company. There are plenty of blogs, articles, and sites like HN that can help you along the way.
The article has some bad practices.

From a quick glance: no bcrypt (uses SHA-512), no HMAC (uses string concatenation), uses DB-specific deprecated `mysql_*` functions instead of PDO (or PEAR::DB etc).
Talking/caring more about the scene itself instead of the actual goal that should be building real innovation (and getting money as a side effect and not as primary goal).
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>> What is the probability that a boss will change his or her name

> That's obviously an example of something that will practically never happen

Women changing their name when they get married? A tiny assumption like that can make our software brittle. Now every model that caches the old name needs updating and you need to make sure there aren't any overlapping saves in any of those models that'll overwrite any items in your bulk update. If a single linked model has the wrong old-name cached, your data update process is buggy.
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Tiny amounts of antimatter were just discovered circling around Earth. The anti-grav effect on the antimatter particles is swamped by the effects of the Earth's gravity and magnetic field.
Haha, I can relate to that, for sure.

Keep reading, there's a part you'll definitely relate to, near the end of "The New Office". We had a guy who constantly oversold and overpromised, causing us endless pains...

Thanks for reading! Be sure to pass it along if you've enjoyed it.
"and in the process of understanding their code you're going to see how their solution is more elegant than the naive solution you might have tried if you tried to write it just now."

That I think is a great insight for me. I have been experiencing this thing without knowing.. and the rest also gives me a lot of help... may be we always keep learning and this feeling is good to keep up
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This is way more of a 'tugs at the heartstrings' type of thing than gratifying intellectual curiosity.

Did anyone not really understand that it's rough for people to lose their houses?
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The story begins in 1997 when the shocking news when retired Mossad secret agents Rachel Helen Mirren and Stephen Tom Wilkinson about their former colleague,
Needs virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper. These days, almost no one develops in Python without them.
Try that one with VoiceOver and your eyes closed. Then, consider that you know it exists.
Python 2.7, and a canonical install of Ruby (the native install has problems, or at least it used to).
That's the first thing I thought of as well - immunity to certain basic things might have evolved out by then.

I wonder whether bacteria or viruses could survive that long in those conditions?
Thank you so much for the comprehensive reply. You are right when you say that with 4-5 years of experience I know to some extent what good and bad code is. but sometimes I think a lot and write the best code that i can, and later after some time i realize; by looking at some one else's code or by myself knowing a new feature of the language i am using, that i could have done it in a much better way .. that is much more beautiful. My problem is that if my code doesnt look like poetry to me, clean readable understandable i feel the need to improve it.
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If you don't trust your browser, then you've already lost, since your browser ipso facto sees the unencrypted form of all your web traffic, both incoming and outgoing. Not only that, but it's running native code on your machine!
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Yoshihiko Noda, the Democratic Party of Japan, who was in power, today chose the Minister of Finance Yoshihiko Noda as the new prime minister for the Affairs of the Rising Sun. He replaces Naoto Kan, who had retreated last Friday, after the crisis is considered less than optimal response to leakage of nuclear reactors and recovery areas devastated by the tsunami last March.
"programming professionally (i.e. most of every day), then five years is around the point where you become self-aware and realize your code isn't as awesome as you thought"

yes i have programmed almost every day for the last 4-5 years. and it has been an year or so that i started feeling like this.. may be one reason is that that's exactly the time when i started looking a lot into well written open source code.. starting browsing open sources repo's and trying to understand how they have written code.. and when i understood I was like.. Aaahhhhh!!! that is awesome.. the best way to tackle this problem..
OK, well I'm certainly more convinced now by your idea, but I feel that there are too many unknowns to be able to say confidently that it would actually be a viable alternative.
All of Pooter's posts have five hyphens on the last line. So maybe this triggers the spam filter.
100% agreed. Deadlines made me write code that stinks really really bad
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Hey I need some help I have a new site up just read about us get the gist. Its pretty simple and funny and just got everything up today be the first to submit and post. And i am looking for help those interested hit me up at Jesse@skidmarksthespot.com
The Site is http://www.Skidmarksthespot.com
and those who dont want to read the about us ill post what it says :
This site is for fun and fun only. The idea is to post pictures of random (whether it be elegant or trashy) bathrooms you are using around the world and to comment on what makes it so unique. You have the option of “dare I poop there” in which you show us the most unbelievable place you have or are about to use the bathroom (EX: on top of a huge building).
In case anyone else is looking for “Designing Apps with Scroll Views”, it's actually from WWDC 2010: http://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2010/
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In a way github has contributed more to open source, because they host more open source repositories. They act as a catalyst for open source.
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With every next paradigm it seems the content creation gets easier, and the volume is higher. We had blogs, web 2.0 sites, social media sites, and each time the volume increased. I don't think it's sustainable for them to keep this up for decades.
Just made my donation to the members of truecrypt.org
As I wanted to download the latest version of TrueCrypt today, I've seen that they are actively asking for donations. I'm using Truecrypt for almost a decade now. I think it was about time ;-)
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+1

Yoon's account is well worth reading.
Remember that the VCs (Greylock) were the bigest losers in the whole fiasco.
Greylock had put 38 million into Greenspun's company and lost virtually every cent. Greenspun walked away with $7.6 million according to Eve Andersson.
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...and insisting they deserve tax-breaks (in the UK).
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I've now owned stock in five different companies throughout my career. The company I'm currently in is going through a buyout and it's the first time I'll ever see any money from any deal. I've been at this company since it's early days and watched it grow from an unknown company with barely enough money to pay it's employees, into a $16-18 million a year player in our industry.

At the end of the day my shares are worth about $100k, which if you average it out, brings my 5 years salary up to the industry average. When they first told me the value of my shares, I thought I was getting screwed, that they must have diluted the shares without telling us. Turns out that after all these years of hype, our shares ended up equaling 1x revenue instead of the 3x revenue they claimed would be the "bottom of the barrel" value in the event of a sale.

The work as always interesting, but the payout means having much less money then anticipated to start my own business.
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I find that active self-deception works for me frankly.

I concentrate on pretending that the thing i want to do is something I cannot not do. Whats one activity that i do every day that I can't avoid doing?

Going to the bathroom.

So whenever I try to talk myself out of doing that activity I ask myself, "Can you avoid taking a piss for an entire day?" the answer is no.

I found that for me the feeling of having to take a piss is the one thing that conveys both urgency and inevitability at the same time. and that any activity that i catalogue as "the same" as taking a piss by association also becomes urgent and inevitable.

anyway, this is how I got myself to run 4-5 km everyday for the last year and a half.
Here's an academic article on the pay for entrepreneurs backed by VCs:

http://www.stanford.edu/~rehall/HallWoodward6.pdf

High average returns driven by huge exits and most entrepreneurs earn 0.
"I do not understand why this story is getting any traction except the standard internet hatreds for police and corporations."

I am going to setup a company and then turn up demanding to search your home for my property. See the problem now? That's a scary incursion of your home by a corporation. Tell me you are happy with it especially since the guys you paid with your taxes stand outside waiting for me to complete searching your home.

Now assume that I plant an ounce of some green stuff under the mattress while I am at it. Now what?
You appear to tilting at windmills of your own making. What I find ridiculous. Is your claim of having had a window into the operational decisions of NSA back when they opted for Java.
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Perhaps some in China are not familiar with the wine bottle and how hard it is to put the cork back in.
In a funny way it seems like Astronomy is catching up to particle physics. Once you add automation there becomes far to many data points to do anything but compare a model with outside events and look for discrepancy's that suggest either all models are wrong or one model is more accurate than other related models.
GitHub doesn't support OpenID for registration or login (or if they do, it's hidden away somewhere).
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Thanks for the answers, they were helpful. Especially the Renormalization link looks exciting.
How Global Investors Make Money Out of Hunger.
+1 for YC London. :)
Thank you! And just so you know, this comment made my weekend.

The ADA requirements are pretty minimal -- it just has to "work." All the work we did to, for example, make the reader's navigation order sensible within the tree views for the solution explorer and class browser was because we wanted it to be good.

And because Sara Ford would just open another bug if we didn't fix it right, as mentioned in one other comment :-)
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Shopping search engine startup in London, UK (INTERN, REMOTE)

I'm building a shopping search engine, focused on helping people decide what to buy from hundreds of product options. This is not another cute mobisociofoto app. This is a business which solves a problem for a lot of people, and has a business model from day one.

I am rapidly building out the first version of the product as per my vision, but need help with various supporting tasks to speed up the development. The current stack is Ruby on Rails, MySQL, jQuery hosted on a VPS.

I need help with:

Setting up new Linux servers, including VPS and AWS
Getting data feeds from various UK retailers and affiliate networks
Scraping sites which do not have data feeds
Building systems for speeding up manual editing and correction of product data
Building backend admin tools
Documenting everything in a wiki

You'll get real responsibility and real power to do things the way you think is right. I'm a solo founder, so I expect you to learn, teach and document infrastructure stuff to help me focus on the core product.

I expect a good standard of work, so you're not expected to work for free. You'll get paid in cash, books and gadgets. And beer :-)

If I like working with you, I will offer you a job down the line.

My email is in my profile. Please get in touch for more details and tell me about yourself.