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For what it's worth, I have a relatively large music collection (100gb+) and used an 80gb iPod for two years before getting a 32gb iPhone. The difference in usability was /huge/, to the point where I didn't miss the 50gb of space. If I didn't have a smartphone and had the option of a 128gb iPod Touch, it would be a no-brainer for me.

Personally, I don't think anything would be lost by discontinuing the iPod Classic, as long as something with a sizeable capacity replaced it.
I did not mean you, literally. People who live in states with specific protections regarding side projects are obviously not going to have contracts which contradict the law.

But that's by far the minority of workers in the US. The only states, to my knowledge, which have specific laws regarding side projects are California, Delaware, Minnesota, Illinois, Kansas, North Carolina, and Washington.

Pretty much every (developer) employment contract I've seen has had a clause similar to this one in it: http://www.elinfonet.com/prov/65
The only option is to refuse to sign it(and get fired/walk out) the day you start working (since they don't give you the standard contract stuff until you start), ask for the contracts up front as part of the interview (probably a good idea) and refuse to accept if it's not changed, or sign it because you need a job.

I suppose you could also move to a state which has protections, but saying you should refuse to sign that kind of contract is rather disingenuous; the majority of people in the US do not have the luxury of simply refusing to sign a contract they find onerous.(either because they need a job, or because almost every company offers the same contract)

The best bet(assuming you live in one of the other 43 states) is to sign it, mention things you've done/are planning on doing, and get written agreements that your employer disclaims ownership over specific side projects started after employment.
I'm glad some people reading this thread have a better perspective. It's actually kind of shocking how many people talk about C as if no one uses it anymore. "In the old days..."
What is the kernel structure overhead (in bytes) per connection on FreeBSD?
My biggest problem isn't with paying the fine (for example, associated with speeding), it's with the other penalties that come with it. If it was just a fine, I would pay it and be done. I fight every ticket I've gotten because of the increase of the cost of insurance that is associated with it. I got a ticket for 75 in a 70 on the freeway, ticket was $137 (the judge upheld the ticket...), no points but I still got an increase of $30/mo on my insurance for the next 2 years. That's much more than the cost of the ticket.

As for the other point you make, in my state (Michigan), the courts ruled that jurisdictions need to provide a good case for having the speed limit lower than the standard. As soon as that ruling went into effect, most all the streets in town raised their limit to 45mph.
the short answer is: yes. any experience you get working at MOST startups will be phenomenal. the key is finding one who's founders are on the same page you are (work hours, personality, etc).

I posted on HN about 8 months ago, came out here to work, we got some funding, and now I'm taking a semester off class to work as the first employee. so, keep being proactive and ask the right questions - the rest will fall into place.
So in other words:

The image on the left is what the subject is being shown.

The image on the right is a composite from a set of other clips that match the brain activity observed when the subject is shown the clip on the left.
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OK, you hooked me with the title. But "FreeBSD + Erlang" was kind of a dissatisfying reason for how you achieved it. Would love to hear more details! How far we've come since http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html
They could have done it using C, Ruby, Python, or any other language. kqueue is what makes FreeBSD (and OSX) awesome at concurrency.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kqueue
More than sharing it is closer to broadcasting all my activities to my friends. But I think Facebook is onto something here. What if this broadcast in future can be curated and only interesting things get displayed automatically. What if it looks at what our friends are doing and gets recommendations? Excessive sharing is just the first steps towards this.
I've personally had this play out with a number of services. LastFM comes to mind.

I really enjoyed having a persistent record of what I listened to for my own use and for finding new music.

However, I stopped using the service because, honestly, I'm not exactly proud of every song that makes it to my most-played list. LastFM let's you remove a song from your profile if I remember correctly, but it was easier to not share at all than to remove specific types of sharing.

Facebook has this problem times 100. I try and tell everyone I know that isn't technical that Facebook knows every website they've been on that has a like button on it (and then I make a serious face and say evverry site) most people have no idea. The idea that Facebook has this kind of info and is going to start "autosharing" makes me uncomfortable.
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Seconded. Please just give us a plain old PDF that we can read in-browser or download, instead of making us screw around with all these weird friggin formats.
I'd be surprised if they spent the engineering dollars on writing the non-iOS code to do that and integrating wireless equipment into what I think is the lowest-selling model of iPod, a product whose sales are rapidly being replaced by iOS-based iPods and iPhones.
I would have suspected a study of Programming Languages would include Automata Theory. As an alternative, I can imagine a course focusing on Automata Theory using historic examples of programming languages as a measure of expressiveness would be a lot more useful.

But I don't work in academia.
I think as long as it remains profitable, they should keep it. The R&D costs are already well recouped so it's basically little more than a profit center. I understand Apple doesn't exactly need the money, but I think it would be a bad idea to kill off a licence to print money like the iPod.
> which says you must stop at yellow lights

That's not the law at all.
A state bill should be totally unnecessary. This is a constitutional right. If we accept this bill as the norm then its no longer a "right" and just a permission by the govt that can be rescinded at anytime.
Keep it around. Its a hook to get people to use the mac ecosystem. That's the product that started the resurrection of mac. I'm sure Apple will keep it around and keep on making minor changes to it overtime.
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It could be a step towards mind-reading. Brainwaves are very mysterious; being able to correlate images to brainwaves, even if in a "hackish" manner, could be an important first step to decoding brainwaves.
In that can how is HideMyAss.com useful? Wasn't the service able to guarantee the anonymity?
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So in essence, the researchers are intercepting network traffic from the visual cortex while a subject is given a certain stimulus, then matching that traffic signature with signatures of similar stimuli. Which is to say, they're doing some very interesting traffic analysis, but aren't actually decoding any of the information itself.
> It seems valid to me. There's no reason to ask them to somehow extract this visual data "unbiased", without bootstrapping off of video clips like that.

I agree that their approach seems valid. There is a reason to ask them to extract the visual data in an even more unbiased fashion, though: if we understand how the brain is wired, then it should be "trivial" to back out the image from the patterns of activation.

Of course, the previous sentence is making a couple assumptions that I don't think are anywhere close to valid. 1) "the brain" implies that there is a single, nearly completely conserved architecture that is remotely similar from one person to another; 2) I think you'd need to get the activity to much higher resolution than fMRI can give you; 3) the stimulus <--> response mapping is moderately close to bijective, so for a given input, there's only one set of activity, and vice versa. Still, this study is an interesting first step on what will, no doubt, be a very long journey to improve the technology.
But it would be influenced by you.
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You know...this might seem silly, but until I actually read the story did I remember that Meg Whitman was Ebay's CEO.

For some reason, I kept thinking that it was Carol Bartz that was now CEO of HP.

The ironic thing is, given what I have been seeing of HP's upper-level management problems recently, it didn't surprise me. I didn't even bat an eye-lid.

It's just after seeing the title on about 4 different links that I decided to click the NYTimes article and realized it was eBay's ex-CEO not Yahoo!'s.
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On the other hand, if you have the traffic analysis done well enough, the information decoding is unimportant. Given the brain's pretty strong region specific activity, what parts of the brain are acting up are a pretty good correlate of the data in the stimulus.

To borrow and extend an example from Ender's Game, if you know what the train schedules are, you can figure out troop movements; even if you don't necessarily know which particular unit is going to which place, you still have a pretty good idea of what the military is gearing up for.
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Your second point is moot. 280slides proved high quality desktop class applications are possible on the web ...

So ... where are they now? It was a nicer webapp, but no substitute for Keynote. Having worked with ObjJ/Cappaccino, I found it to be a frustrating attempt at working around the browser, rather than an actual solution.

Performance on the web hasn't _really_ been an issue in years. The real issue is bad developers set the bar for web applications very low.

That's poppycock. In terme of performance, you simply can't come close to what native apps are doing. We invest enormous effort in leveraging threading and extremely low cost implementations in native code, even dropping down to NEON/etc where appropriate.

There is room for higher level languages (arguably that's what ObjC is, plus ARC) but JS simply is not a replacement for what native app developers are doing. NaCL is.
Would you trust FB with that data? I certainly would not. Nor would I trust ancestry.com.
It will become like the Mac business. Routine updates with nothing to announce unless it's special; unibody fabrication or designs like the Air.

That is until they reset their business.

The iPod product will be rebranded and remain iOS device that does everything but have a phone. iPod rebranded with iPhone form and function, except no phone functionality.

A Mac line, iPad line and a handset line. Face it, calling is now a feature on a computer. It's not a phone with features.
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If they thought about this ahead of time, perhaps developing for both platforms is similar enough they could add the feature to both the iPhone/iTouch and the iPod Classic at the same time?
It could be a step towards seeing what someone is seeing. It's not really mind reading. It's not reading "thoughts", it's reading neural response to visual stimuli. It's cool, but it would just be easier to turn around and look at what the person is looking at, than to hijack the response.
freelance writing will be more relevant and a lucrative livelihood once there are platforms that have a built in network effect, and based on individuals interests..
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I figured he'd be well compensated, but wouldn't this mark the end of his career as a high level executive?
The ipod shuffle is awesome, I use it everyday because it's tiny and I don't care what happens to it. I almost never use my ipod touch or classic.
Oh, my bad. I didn't know. But this isn't official or in any way related to Hacker News, right?
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Well, yeah, they don't make computers and just sell consulting services now - seems pretty simple to me!
Setup an Adwords campaign say $0.25 CPC. Funnel the traffic to a page where you have Adsense ads paying $0.30 CPC. That's arbitrage for you. Not sure why you guys using gold and CDS as examples on HN.
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Way better than path. This allows a level of interaction and intimacy (if they offer good integration with lists, which conveniently got 10x better last week) that you can't achieve on path.
I have to agree with you; I couldn't care less about this feature.
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The text[1] of the bill seems to affirm the sentiment that it's a constitutional right; it serves to counteract a California Supreme Court ruling:

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The article is misleading. There is not deconstruction or decoding of brain waves happening, it's simply correlating stimuli with prior learned/trained images. If the model was trained on images of dogs and cats, the "reconstructed" images will be terms of dogs and cats, which is the basic limitation of the process.

Source: "In practice fitting the encoding model to each voxel is a straightforward regression problem. " (http://gallantlab.org/)
I still see a lot of nanos at the gym, but there are also a lot of people just using their iPhones / Droids. (And for actual street running, the nano is a bit better being smaller and lighter and not $600 to replace when you drop it.)
Whew, I thought this was about something else.
While it's great to see web guys confronting the very real failings of HTML/JS as an application platform, I think the cultural inertia is practically insurmountable.

Web developers will be the least receptive audience possible to the idea that web applications can't compete as-is with native platforms. Native development requires a whole new skillset -- one that is likely beyond that of many existing web developers, and it requires abandoning years of cognitive training. It requires admitting that you can't necessarily have both a great app and search engine indexible app.

Google may succeed with NaCL, but I don't see how anyone else will. Mozilla is steadfastly opposed to progress beyond HTML/JS, and Apple has no interest in undercutting their own platforms.
I'm not really impressed with the design, but nothing out of FB has ever impressed me in the slightest. Maybe I'm just predisposed to be biased on this.
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"The reconstruction was obtained using only each subject's brain activity and a library of 18 million seconds of random YouTube video that did not include the movies used as stimuli."

Not totally scifi awesome, but still pretty cool and I think it is a valid approach. Sounds like the bigger the library of clips mapped to brain activity, the more the technique converges to a desirable result.
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Technical details would be interesting. Until then, here's Urban Airship's post from last year on 500k connections on Linux:

http://urbanairship.com/blog/2010/09/29/linux-kernel-tuning-...
I have been an internet junkie for ages, but i beg to differ. While fb has made it a norm it seems about sharing information, i dont think it is as inherent in the human psyche to share everything than getting what you need.While it served its purpose of making the web more open and engaging, a more fundamental trait is the concept of need and selectivity, which is what makes each individual unique.And due to the traction FB has gained over the past half decade, i think the web overall has missed the point, addressing individuality in terms of what you do instead of who u are, and what you need.
How does kqueue compare to epoll on Linux? I've written C code using kqueue on OpenBSD and OS X, but have only used epoll via libev (and not at especially high load). I thought the big change came from trading level- for edge-triggered nonblocking IO, but maybe the kqueue implementation is superior for sockets somehow?

The main advantage Erlang has over C/Python/Ruby/etc. is that asynchronous IO is the default throughout all its libraries, and it has a novel technique for handling errors. Its asynchronous design is ultimately about fault tolerance, not raw speed. Also, it can automatically and intelligently handle a lot of asynchronous control flow that node.js makes you manage by hand (which is so 70s!).

You can make event-driven asynchronous systems pretty smoothly in languages with first class coroutines/continuations (like Lua and Scheme), but most libraries aren't written with that use case in mind. Erlang's pervasive immutability also makes actual parallelism easier.

With that many connections, another big issue is space usage -- keeping buffers, object overhead, etc. low per connection. Some languages fare far, far better than others here.
Apple would be nuts to get rid of the shuffle. Keeping the iTunes ecosystem strong is really important, as the kid with a shuffle today is best served by an iPhone in the future.
No she can't. Not with her "left" ebay after inability to integrate skype, and not with the current HP board.

Why HP is failing:
http://obamapacman.com/2011/09/why-hp-is-failing-better-comm...
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I remember a physics student ahead of me lamenting the fact that scientists had written their own software (ROOT & Geant). He said it was hard to use.
If it was an old-style group, it's gone from your profile, but you might be able to still see it here: http://www.facebook.com/?sk=2361831622. However, they are apparently now "scheduled to be archived" and converted into new-style groups: http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=18966
haha...a name change?:P
It's important to note that you can only get 0% on purchases. I did the same trick as submitter in my self-funding days: all expenses other than rent were deferred for a year. I paid them back once I raised funding (and had the company failed, could have covered it all with a few months salary at a paid job).

However, as the submitter mentioned, any cash advance, balance transfer, etc. typically incurs at least 3% interest and/or transfer fees which really hurts potential returns. I'd be amazed if you can find a way to buy any investment vehicle with a credit card, forcing you to use the 3+% cash advance.

When you further factor in the time it takes up cards and the low credit limits you'll likely get, this strategy probably won't be worth it.
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The better question might be if she can reinvent the company -- fixing somehow implies that you can revisit the past and make a few changes. And I'll grant you that I'm not a Meg fan, but as a valley icon I'm rooting for HP.
The IRS has pretty high convenience fees if you use a credit card (~2%). In the higher interest early 00's, this might be worth it; today, not so much.
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The instructions have you create your own application so unless you plan on stealing your own data you privacy will be fine.
Just to make sure, you do realize you are talking about an eight-year-old website and making predictions about how its users will behave in approximately thirty years, right?
I think it was voted down because it reads like marketing copy. (I didn't downvote it)
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Why did submitter take a cash advance? Typically, you can get 0% purchase APR. The correct course of action is to cash advance the minimal amount you need and pay for every purchase you make with your 0% cards. Would have saved this guy a few hundred dollars.
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Thanks for all the replies. My common rejoinder is that Libertarians, including A.T., support the political choices that create the current situation (untaxed gas externalities, police budgets funded by fines, highways for private cars over public transit, etc.), and while supporting rational policies in theory (high gas taxes etc.), when forced to choose, choose the small-screwed-up-government party that believes in subsidized SUVs killing people over the big-inefficient-government party that wants higher gas taxes and better train service. We live in this country, with this political landscape. Small yet incredibly efficient government is not a choice (though both the Clinton and Obama administrations have worked hard on effectiveness). Own the choice you are making instead of playing purity games, guys.
I think the idea didn't catch on because it has an obituary feel to it.

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