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Um.... does that mean there's a first and second Dirk Gently radio series?

To the internets, Batman!

Although, frankly, while the original HHGTG radio series is perhaps my favorite version of the story, I have my doubts about how Dirk would turn out as a radio play. At best, it might end up being like the Jeeves and Wooster TV series, which was essentially flawless and yet still disappointing, because it got the characters and the plots right but didn't have Wodehouse's prose descriptions, which are where the majority of the value lives.

But it's well worth a try!
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For many years I've kept a book in my laptop bag so I always have something interesting to read. These days I'm usually carrying Founders at Work and another book.
The Many Eyes project that Irene led up before is a pretty neat data visualization experiment, analyzing large groups' activities on the web. It's worth a look.

http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/home
You are one of the luckiest humans on the face of the earth: You have Douglas Adams prose to look forward to.

And I agree: Nobody is going to replace Douglas Adams, nor are the characters or the plot the important part of Douglas Adams' writing. But that doesn't mean the characters and plot are entirely worthless as test vehicles for other people's prose styles. Just because it isn't Shakespeare doesn't mean that West Side Story is a bad thing.
They "ignored academia" because general purpose parallelism has been 5-10 years away since at least 1960.

Moreover, a single fast processor has significant advantages over lots of slow processors. Amdahl's law still applies, as do some rather nasty (academic) results about the costs of communication. (Bisection bandwidth anyone?)

FWIW, the "128 Z-80s on a bus" thing has been done.
So the HackerNews invite code for JamLegend is located in our DB. Our strategy has been the following:

A) Create one invite code, send that to a lot of people.
B) From the people who sign up, give each new account an invite code itself, so that person can sign up. You can assign a random string or set a class for 2nd degree invites.
C) Repeat step B, and adjust invites accordingly to the amount of growth.

A prerequisite for Step B is making sure that you have invitations built into the system, so that people it won't be ignored.
"if we would just own up to the reality of many situations and start providing proper incentives we could engineer away many problems."

Just?! Engineering incentives is the fundamental problem facing humanity. Capitalism is about not money, but aligning the motivations of large groups of people.

Can we improve on capitalism? For sure. But don't underestimate the problem you're taking on.
I love great design but in the case of "tools" if the design doesn't help the function and the productivity of the user - and there is something else out there cheaper that does (even though its "ugly") I have to go with productivity.
Still the best place to start.
"You must cause any work that you distribute or publish"

In being bought, did ML "distribute or publish"?

It certainly didn't publish. So, what's the argument for "distribute"?
Only anecdotal evidence provided, which greatly weakens your argument.
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My point is that they aren't likely to do a stand-alone DVD player ...
Good suggestions. I also saw on your website that you ask people to twitter @jamlegend or become a fan on facebook, that's a great hack for spreading the word/hype!
Wow, there is so much wisdom here, I don't know where to start. So I'll just say that I have encountered almost every one of these situations at one point or another, and Jason is almost dead on.

The most important one for me is probably #3 "Get Rid of Abstractions". I learned this one the hard way. Now I just work on the problem at hand and worry about how to extend it later. It's a lot easier to generalize a specific case than to write something generalized in the first place. Could have saved me years.
I knew a guy who was a graphic artist for a game company and they worked in a fantastically beautiful room, soft lighting, Star Wars movies playing in the background. Everything was made to inspire the artists to do better work. I wonder if Apple doesn't make the environment pretty do inspire programmers too.
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Read it again, more carefully. You'll see that it's correct as-is.
The examples in the comments and the example in the article have something in common: they almost completely depend on Google's AdWords to drive traffic.

What I derive from that is their service isn't good enough to get traffic on its own merits. And if that's the case, then perhaps they deserve a low landing score. (The metric used to determine how much they are charged for ad placement.)
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Unfortunately they seem to have forgotten that in the last couple of decades.

The problem is not with them, the problem is that the ones who remember don't get elected.
Danish ISPs Reject Anti-Piracy Proposals to deal with illicit file-sharers
Founders at Work (completely agree w PG on this), also The Undercover Economist, for economic indsigths. I found in this book a LOT of things to take home, business and entrepeneurial wise.
True on both counts.
Yeah, and given the huge share of the market that Google has with ads, I'm not surprised to see complaints. I mean, the way the internet reacts to "slights" in the type of manner that Google is accused is usually met with vitriol orders of magnitudes greater than necessary. The fact that stories about this seem rather subdued is interesting.

They just have so many customers that it's pretty much a given that there are a decent group of people pissed off about how things are handled.
I agree that education is vital to improve democracy, but I think you're making an unfair comparisson, comparing Denmark to the US. It'd be more relevant to compare the US to the European Union. How many Danish people hold the European Parlaiment accountable, or the Commission, or the Council, or the lobbyists in Brussels, or god knows what.

My suggestions is more subsidiarity. There isn't really a reason for the US President to handle healthcare or education when the states can do it (which most of them already do). Thus, if there's less to do for the president, the people would only have to hold him accountable on a smaller budget, on fewer issues. Something that's considerably easier than the gigantic thing they have to administrate right now.
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somebody a while ago recommended Titan, the bio of John Rockefeller, its good, very long and dry at parts, I stopped reading after he became the richest man in the world, but his journey from poor boy in small shack to richest man in the world is pretty neat.
I will tell you what I have learnt in one year of running http://www.muziboo.com

1. Start small but do those small things right. Think of how new people will come to your site. If you are a content site, the chances are SEO, so think of it from day one.

2. Listen to your users and build what they want. Sometimes bloggers and press don't exactly know the needs of your users (unless you are building feedburner)

Keep tracking everything and see what works and what does not and then base your future work on it. Try to spread faster than word of mouth :)
The simalarities don't end there. They are, as rumbas, useless working in hotels (ie, faceless corporations) as well.
Try "Blink" and "Predictably Irrational" if you haven't read them yet. Blink is a bit light on practical things you can do about it, but not too bad. PI is quite good.
I'm a huge fan of 37 signals' products and company philosophy. I bet this presentation is going to be the total opposite of most people speaking at the conference - I mean who else is going to get up there and talk about "Planning is vastly overrated" and "Underdoing."

Most presenters are going to focus on all of the amazing features their products offer...however, 37 signals is still more successful than 95% of those other companies.
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How will eliminating capital gains taxes help me as a small business owner. Lower corporate income tax rates would be intuitive, but lower capital gains taxes is kind of a head-scratcher.

Should I invest in stocks via my business?
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Not a great article. Very poor english ("Today we live in a world that exponentially innovating world." << first sentence? C'mon!), and the point is very poorly made and, on the whole, incorrect!

I think there's probably some interesting point hidden somewhere in this article, but I can't put my finger on it - it's certainly nowhere near the surface.
In a text editor.

People don't want websites, though. They want services, products, information. The creation of those is a debated topic.
Thanks, I'll have to thumb through PI next time I'm in a bookstore. Gladwell I find too glib.
Seems like they didn't channel the foreseeable hate properly.
Google demos Android Phone at Developer Day
MINIMUM VALID TEST

You start with the idea, find the assumptions in the idea (of why it's useful), you create a product that tests those assumptions, then adjust accordingly.

Plan, yes, but don't put way too many stupid features that don't matter. Your users as a whole are smarter than you and the market will tell you what to focus on. Create the minimum valid test.
I also have life insurance with AIG. How does it affect me?

I only have to cancel and buy it from another company. right?
This could be really good news for podcasters who are currently paying for transcription services.

Now if Google would just offer audio indexing as a web service, that would be rad.
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CrossOver Chromium is no real Chrome for Mac
Linux Users Are Closer to Building AIR Apps
The mystery of the incredible shrinking video sites. What gives?
Ask HN: why do you upmod?
In my daily reading, the front page of hacker news has become precious intellectual real estate. However, the window for a new article submission to reach critical velocity and land on the front page is very small, due to the large number of submissions.

It has made me curious - why does each person upmod a particular posting? In the community guidelines, relevancy is defined as "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity". Yet I am continually surprised at some of the articles that get the MOST upmods. Sometimes finances and politics. And, while the NY Times and TechCrunch are often interesting, are they truly the pinnacle for gratifying one's intellectual curiosity as the cumulative upmod votes might indicate?

Once I have understood the community here, I find myself trying to be disciplined.. silently asking myself 'did this topic make me curious?', 'was the content intellectually gratifying (after I read it)?' and finally 'do I want to see more articles like this on the precious front page of HN?'

So, I'm curious, what is that silent question that goes through your head before you click that little up arrow?
Warning: The Surgeon General has determined that political advertising can be hazardous to your health.

Why not just remove all political ads from mass media, just like cigarettes? Save a billion dollars. People will figure out who to vote for just like they figure out which brand to smoke.
Valve's Steam system is built around DRM. You can't even play a singleplayer Steam game without a connection to the Internet with Steam phoning home. And it's Windows-only.

What does this have to do with organizing the world's information, what does it have to do with "don't be evil", and what does a computer science outfit know about making stuff that's fun? I don't get it.
Roughly, yes. The simplest example to think of is a derivative in a stock of a financial entity that mostly holds derivatives.

In general the credit default swap (CDS) causes a lot of these problems. Basically, a CDS is buying insurance against a third party going bankrupt. So if company A buys some complex financial product from company B, but A is afraid B might go bankrupt, A might buy a CDS from company C. The terms of the CDS would be something like, company A pays C a constant slow stream of money (like insurance premiums), and if B goes bankrupt, C pays A a big chunk of money.

So in essence, the CDS is valuing the risk that B will go bankrupt. But B might be a financial company that is itself holding all sorts of other derivatives. So in essence the value of the CDS is a derivative of all the other stuff that B is holding.

So when all of A, B, and C in this example have tons of mortgage-backed debt, there's a domino effect where if either B or C goes bankrupt, it puts even more risk on A's hands.
Somewhat above the price Warren Buffet buys at.

And, what's value? A change in market price of stocks does not imply a change in the underlying compant. (For a very technical meaning of 'imply'.)
Personally I just upmod articles I want to reference in the future (they get stored in your saved section).
I get the point of the article, but I stubbed my toe on this quote within it:

"By 2023, a $1,000 computer will exceed the computation capability of the Human Brain."

How to quantify the 'computation capability' of the human brain? If we knew the transformations the brain makes to the information it receives, we would understand the brain, which we do not.
No, it is not.

Chile had a socialist president 40 years ago. He was overthrown by a military coup in Sep 11, 1973 (note the date)

Now days, Chile is one of South America's most stable and prosperous nations.
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Google to Acquire Valve?
It reminds me of Microsoft's change from Hotmail to Hotmail Live, which took 10 times longer to load and glitched constantly and I now have like 400 unread emails because I stopped using it. I now have a domain name in my own name so I literally tell people my email is (first name)@(full name).com and it works so much simpler.

However, the ironic thing is my email is hosted on the same server as my brothers, yet I haven't seen or emailed him in like 6 months.
A CDS doesn't necessarily have to be tied to debt, it's basically just a bet whether a third party will or will not go bankrupt. It is commonly used to hedge debt, but it doesn't have to be.

See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_default_swap
You know where the title came from?
The url in the pictures is cfunnel.com.
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Completely agree with you, tjic, war is never the answer. I was simply making a point in response to the previous post and this was the first example that popped in my mind.
Except Carl Zimmer is a well-known and well-respected science writer.

http://carlzimmer.com/bio.html

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

Keep HN news pure and away from troll comments.

P.s. Are you a sockpuppet? This is the second comment from you, in the five days since your account was created, with community-based concerns expressed in an anti-community sentiment.
All I know is I'm still fully addicted to Counter-Strike a full 8 years after I first played it so Steam is alright with me. I don't even remember paying the original fee (maybe $50 years ago), and I don't need to mess with discs or reinstalls. Just download Steam, login to my account and BAM! all my games are downloaded and ready for playing, no patching no mess. Genius.

Now if Valve wanted $50/year to maintain my access to CS:S (something I can see Google doing), I'd find a new game.
Why don't you just email him?
(non-)Anonymous is setting himself up for the federal pen.
First, ask yourself "What do I want from this web site?" Let your answer to this question drive your design. Before you even get into the html, brainstorm. Let your imagination go. Write your thoughts down, sketch it out. Then consider how to build it.

The first step for me is a wireframe. That's just a drawing of how the main blocks will be laid out. Read Michael Parkatti's post: http://www.socialbias.com/the-case-for-building-wireframes/. Michael makes a strong argument for wireframing and reading it helped me understand my own struggle with design.

Next, build the wireframe. You drew it, now build it. Write the html and css to mimic your picture.

The next stage is filling in those boxes. You can start with the hard stuff but I prefer to crank out the easy stuff first. My goal is not to make the site beautiful (yet), just pretty enough to help me see some context.

As for the hard stuff, it depends on what you're trying to build. Digg took lots of talented people a lot of time. Make sure if you have your sights set high that there isn't a known "clone" that you can borrow as a template. Otherwise get used to learning scripting languages and frameworks. Good luck!
I don't wish to make light of the situation but Paulson has moved the US Treasury from nowhere to the top of the M&A league table in just 1 year,
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Steam has some great games and I prefer not having to sling discs around, either. I just meant, how is this so obviously good for both parties.
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And take this post down? No need for others to make a mess of things.
Completely off topic but...

Hah, notice in one of the screenies the 'hacker' is playing Counter-Strike:Source, which ties in nicely with today's other big story (Google/Valve)
Agreed, overall I'm favorable to Google but I do not like this plan ONE bit. I mean if they're buying it to get at the code base, that's fine provided they leave Steam, the Games, and the Community alone. But if they go poking their fingers around in this stuff I'll be upset.
Story already has 3 karma points... maybe that's why?

Regardless, I did as asked and refrained from upvoting.
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Steam doesn't always need to check online to play single-player games, only occasionally. And for my part, not having to store CDs and keep track of CD keys is worth having to stay connected to the internet (oh noes!) and not being able to trade away my PC games.

And if Google did buy Valve, they obviously know enough about fun to purchase a developer/publisher who knows what they are doing. That said, I doubt this deal is going to happen as I think Valve is comfortable with the position they are in.
Was a highly dynamic and fast moving presentation. Was impressed with Jason's delivery. Definitely a rock star of Web 2.0 as the house was packed. He makes the ideas sound even better than they read on SvN and Getting Real.
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Why is this surprising? Nintendo actually makes something that people want.
why isn't this bigger news?
Your analysis is flawed, ST doesn't make money when you 'view' ads, but rather when you click them. The many layers of pages are probably meant to inflate the sites overall size/page count. If ST was interested in making the most money from ads they wouldn't force the user to keep clicking but would instead trick them into click ads that looked like 'categories'. I've seen much worse out there, example; business.com which is a Google partner, check out how many 'sponsored ads' appear above the 'real' results, it's waaaay worse than what ST does.

But agreed, ST is not a perfect example of Google's bad behavior.
ctunnel.com is a proxy. Not that it couldn't be a hoax, but that is not evidence of it being a hoax. Simple attempt to protect his/her identity.
Can the actual talk be found somewhere? There's not a whole lot of information in this blog post.
IMO the author has provided a nice metaphor, and explanation of, "subconscious thought". Can you to come up with a better metaphor that's also as concrete? It's tougher than it seems. And I'm not so sure the idea is as widely accepted as you presume. Having taught intro neuroscience to undergraduates, they are not generally aware of these findings.

I agree the title is lame - but then it was written by someone at MS.
In TFA, there is much focus on the quality of Steam as a content distribution platform, and it's relevancy to Googles own efforts in that venue.

It sounds more like Google want to use Steam technology in other products, and don't have any particular interest in Valves current business.

<dream class="pipe">Maybe they'll even opensource CS, since cash flow from that is probably pretty insignificant by now, and there's a lot of good-will to obtain.</dream>
The article stresses the value of Valve's content distribution system, not their content protection system or their content production system. Would you have been as incredulous if Google was proposing to buy, say, Akamai?
How does twitter make money, exactly? (I'm dead serious, I don't know)
I have been contemplating. I hate to cold-contact people. Don't hear many success stories coming from this method. I might give it a shot though. Any suggestions on how to go about it? I know he can be reached through blogmaverick.
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Sometimes what's not in Wikipedia is even more interesting than what it contains. Deletionpedia is a site that catalogs everything that gets deleted from Wikipedia

That sounds like something pg suggested.

http://www.google.com/search?q=%2223.+More+open+alternatives...

23. More open alternatives to Wikipedia. Deletionists rule Wikipedia. Ironically, they’re constrained by print-era thinking. What harm does it do if an online reference has a long tail of articles that are only interesting to a few people, so long as everyone can still find whatever they’re looking for? There is room to do to Wikipedia what Wikipedia did to Britannica.
check out how many 'sponsored ads' appear above the 'real' results, it's waaaay worse than what ST does.

Actually, ST does the same thing. Once you finally click through a dozen sub-categories, there is a nice block of ad-words right above the results positioned in the same place the sub-category lists were.

And I wasn't really making the argument that such a site design is effective. I was just pointing out that from the way the site is designed, it seems they are going for as many ad-views as possible by making as many redundant sub-category pages as possible.
I would think that most of the bloggers got it all wrong.

If Google have bought Valve, it would not be for the Android app store.

The most obvious reason why Google would buy Valve is that Microsoft is moving aggressively into in-game advertising and by buying Valve, Google just got themselves a massive platform to distribute their future in-game advertising solutions.
Excellent! Live clickable ads on the Wall in Half Life! Probably for ammo shops and medical retailers, I suspect.
how is this not plastered all over NPR?
Well I think he encourages people to email him, just google for mark cuban's email address. He gave an interview recently saying he likes it when people email him a small quick summary of what they are doing, why its big, what they need, and why cuban can help them

He reads all of his emails I think, he responded nicely to one of my friend's emails complaining about a post blocking the view from some mavs seats he bought.

Not saying you should expect anything, its a super super long shot, but its worth a shot, obviously he is interested in customer facing internet and might at least give you advice.
what does it have to do with "don't be evil"

What does Google have to do with "Don't be evil?"