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Obviously. From what I know, ego is created by memories from a subjective experience. Death is nothing but destruction of memories. Some of the memories and experiences are selected and stored in global consciousness (like art/writing/design/etc). Same thing as death would probably happen if all your memory were to suddenly become unavailable within a context of staying awake as a physical body. We're all in linked system (your memories come from others, your ego is build from global consciousness + the context of your physical body) so "death" as in the end of phenomen of consciousness is possible but hardly achievable. Even if we kill every living being on earth, who's to say consciousness won't recreate again or it hasn't already. I'll come back to this at the end.

What's funny is memories are also re-created and retouched when we recall them. The whole thing is very complex and when people say they 'know for sure' something about life/death it irritates the hell out of me.

Individual death isn't bad or good. Death just is. It's more fluid and complex than bad or good. Not to mention "dead/alive" itself are fluid concepts. People choose to interpret death as good or bad because people are idiots.

If death was ultimately bad people wouldn't commit suicide all the time. If death was ultimately good people wouldn't apply so much effort to keep alive. People choose to think suicidals are by definition mentally ill also because people are idiots. If you're in a burning building, you most likely will jump out of the building committing suicide because the alternative (being burned alive) is much worse. Similar thing with a lot of suicides.

My point is: people are naive idiots and we still have no idea what exactly happens after death, and what exactly is 'after' or before. The idiocy of people when it comes to the subject of death figuratively speaking makes me want to kill myself.

The comforting thing is, within a context of individual consciousness you're pretty much fucking immortal. Whatever happens outside of the context of functioning consciousness should really be none of your concern. It is impossible to "feel dead". "When I'm alive death isn't here, when I'm dead I won't be there to witness it".
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Daisey is more eloquently and sensitively restating the same arguments that Stallman wrote, drawing much flamage, earlier today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3085417
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It's not in the interest of Intellectual Ventures in the slightest to force people to stop infringing -- if people stop infringing, they get nothing.

If you're interested in maximizing the amount of useful stuff produced by the economy, having patents sold off to Intellectual Ventures is far better than having them continue to be owned by companies which want to do nothing other than shut down their competition.
1. It's not false. 3G and 3GS having the same form factor proves/shows it.

2. Can you cite where Jobs said it was a generation number? I don't believe that to be true.
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Nice balanced response mashable ... join the conversation here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3083349
"Never let your schooling interfere with your education" - there is a big difference between educating yourself for the real world and educating yourself for a test; this difference, I think, can possibly give the Americans an advantage.

I do think that this American anti-intellectualism is a relatively new (and hopefully temporary) thing. I mean, if you can earn a good living working at a factory, you do what you are told, right? you don't go changing the system 'cause you think it's better. But really, I think this is largely a post-great-war thing, and hopefully it will fade.

Really, as far as I can tell, schooling, if anything, makes this problem worse. You ever hire someone out of college? Most of them seem to think they should do what you tell them to do, no more and no less. And they expect fairly explicit instructions.

The self-taught seem to be much more open to "hey, I need task X done. Go figure it out"
Torture is bad. Is out-sourced torture any worse than in-house torture? I don't think so.

I'm not getting into the issue of whether patents are good or bad; my question here is why do people consider out-sourced patent lawsuits to be so much worse than in-house patent lawsuits?
Why would they pick a version number that makes them look like they don't know what number comes after 4?
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Let me break it down further:

There was the original iPhone sans number. Then there was the second iPhone described by the standards it supported (“3G”) and a faster version of said iPhone with an added “S”.

Imagine an alternate timeline where there were two iPhones before the “3G” arrived. There would have been the following iPhones:

- iPhone

- iPhone 2

- iPhone 3G

- iPhone 3GS

Apple would have been justified in calling the next iPhone either iPhone 4 (if you consider the “3GS” not a distinct version but a minor release) or iPhone 5 (because it would have been the fifth distinct model of iPhone they would have been selling).

Apple didn’t have that same choice. They couldn’t consider the iPhone 3GS a minor release because then they would have to call the next one iPhone 3. That would obviously have confused customers.

You can’t follow the iPhone 3GS with the iPhone 3. They had to call it iPhone 4.

That’s the whole reason why the “3GS” is – following Apple’s numbering scheme – not considered a minor version.

If they want to continue this pattern of not confusing their customers they have to call the next iPhone (if the want to stick to numbers) iPhone 5. The iPhone 4S is then just a minor version, not terribly distinct from the iPhone 4. It’s the iPhone 4.1.

I think this makes perfect sense and is the only solution that doesn’t confuse customers – which should be the greatest goal of any naming scheme.
Just a couple of notes on K-12 public education spending, for additional context:
(1) The vast majority of the public funds go to teacher salaries and benefits. In most districts, as little as 5% of funds are available for new technology, pilot programs, or anything innovative. That said, small percentages can go a long way. New York City, for example, has an annual budget of ~$24 billion.
(2) Per student funding is a complex mix of federal, state, and local dollars. Federal dollars are designed to even the playing field, while local dollars exacerbate socioeconomic differences. The lack of transparency around these formulas is a significant barrier to disruption--many families don't have an accurate picture of how their school's resources compare to the resources of schools in the town nextdoor, which would be a first step toward starting to think about what your money should really be getting you.
Part of the reason the school choice movement has been so powerful is that it sheds light on per student funding. With the increasing number of blended/ hybrid learning options, I'm curious to see whether there's a push to give families even greater control over the per student dollars allocated to their children. If you can take your child's ~$10-13K and go to a charter school, why can't you decide to dedicate half the funds to online courses and half to live instruction?
We use Redmine (http://www.redmine.org) for documentation, project planning and bugs. You can track time (as an expense) but you'll need something else for your accounting. I'd also recommend the "Backlogs" plug-in (http://www.redminebacklogs.net/) if you're planning to run sprints. Tracking your time and stories is well worth the effort just to establish a realistic velocity.
I actually wasn't talking about the moral dimension at all, I was talking about unspoken rules of human interaction and how they affect one's suitability as a public spokesperson.

For what it's worth, I agree with you that it's just not something you should do.
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Did he post the same thoughts before the launch when there were strong rumors about an iPhone 5 with a bigger screen and tapered form factor? Anyone can post such a article now, I am not impressed. If Apple announced an iPhone 5 he would be singing a different tune now. The truth is that not even Gruber can know what Apple engineering can accomplish. Is it impossible that they are able to reduce the thickness of the 4G chip or make a higher density battery? Acting as if he always knew about what would come out makes him come across as dishonest for scoring brownie points. I am sure even he was hoping a little and was dissappointed when the new iPhone didn't look like this http://i.imgur.com/UC55l.jpg

I feel that Apple failed on controlling the hype for this event. This wouldn't have happened if Steve was in charge. Apple would've leaked some of the features to kill the expectations. And don't tell me Apple doesn't do leaks, the WSJ was informed by Apple before the iPad launch so that people were primed for the launch. The NYTimes article the day of the launch still talked about an iPhone 5.

On top of that, the Apple event just felt too long. One hour and forty minutes to announce iPods in new colors and the iPhone 4s? There was also too much of rehashing of things demoed during WWDC. All of this exacerbated by the lack of Jobs. I'll have second thoughts next time about following an Apple event live.
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Apparently the Debian kernel team agrees. I just noticed this while building a kernel package:

test -n "$k" || perl -pli~ -e 's/\$\{shlibs:Depends\}\,?//g' debian/control
Meh. Apple has at various times failed to control expectations (iPad, MacBook Air). It’s a failure, sure, but I wouldn’t read too much into it. In the grand scheme of things it doesn’t matter all that much.

(I think Gruber predicted an unchanged iPhone. At the very least he wasn’t crazy about the idea of a changed iPhone.)
I think you may be conflating anti-intellectualism and need for structure. The need for structure is probably newer, as people grow up in an increasingly structured society. On the other hand, I think there is an American strain of anti-intellectualism that goes much deeper, to our national myth of "taming the frontier". We don't need no diplomas out here on the frontier!
if you don't get an answer, that sounds like something you could brute force by gathering a list of YC startups and looking up the founders on LinkedIn.
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Ask HN: What distributed DB is best for a Q&A site?
I'm building a Q&A site. Would like to use a distributed DB for data store.

Requirements:

1) Elastic: add nodes and scale out automatically

2) HA: automatically & transparently provides replication & failover

3) Locality: I'd like to group all answers to the same question together and put them in the same shard. That way when retrieving answers to a question I won't need to query all nodes

4) Good single-node performance

5) Secondary index (?) - each answer has a score. I'd like to sort answers by their scores. Something like a secondary index in RDBMS

Most NoSQL I know are K/V stores that don't support (3). What would you recommend?
This is a more interesting list than the OP's. Thanks !
I like it. Very much like Luis von Ahn's "human computation" projects (reCAPTCHA, etc)
Email lists are pretty good. For example, set up product-discuss@company.com.
Nice! Beautiful well thought design, nicely balanced game, and such an intuitive way to understand kerning: let your visual intuition guide you.

One suggestion: a way to move multiple letters at the same time.
How is it different than on various sized Mac products?
93/100, which is surprising considering I was never very good at keming.
Thank you. This thread must have caught the attention of their support team. Looks like they finally got around to emailing me back!
The title conjures images of a person breaking a macbook as a symbol of breaking up with Apple now that Steve is gone.

I think seeing "b3ta.com" next to the link kept me from expecting anything nearly that serious.
Leaving grad school for startup?
I just started grad school in Physics a month ago, but I have recently considered quitting since I have gained an interest in the entrepreneur/startup world. So I am considering quitting the program to start a startup (or maybe join an existing one), probably related to software.

I have read a few of Paul Graham's essays, and I think starting a startup would suit me well because I am willing to take the risks involved in it and work the long hours as opposed to taking a low-stress, comfortable job working in a cubicle. The main problems at the moment are that I have poor programming skills (To give you an idea of my current skill level, the most recent concept I learned in C++ was Vectors a few months ago.) and that I have no friends that are interested in programming or in a startup. So finding a co-founder would be a problem. But I have been considering joining a club on campus with other grad students that are interested in forming a startup

I am thinking I may actually like the business aspect of running the startup as opposed to the hacking side, even though I'm rather introverted and wouldn't make a great salesman. I want to make the decisions and have the vision for the startup's future

But in the meantime since I'm not in a Physics research group yet, I would have to self-teach myself programming in my free time. How should I start getting better? Should I try working through O'Reilly's book? Look at someone's existing code and try to improve it? Come up with my own problem to solve?

Also, if I should just work at a startup first, before starting my own startup, what job can I possibly get? My programming skills aren't good enough for what they're looking for.

Or, to learn the necessary programming and startup details, would I be better off staying the school at the moment (to try to network with others interested in a startup) or quitting asap to get a programming job at a non-startup with the intention to leave to form a startup?

I also had some questions to see what you guys think of some of the things Paul Graham said. He once said "I would guess a smart person can learn to hack sufficiently well in 6 months to a year. The best way to do it would be to find some startup to hire you in an initially menial capacity.." Given my previous (but near minimal) experience with C++, would it still really only take 6 months?

PG also mentioned that those who try a startup, but fail, can EASILY get hired by another company. Do you guys think this is true?
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You do realize that you scanned the installer and not the msi package or the contents of it, thereby making your scan almost useless?
But how will they update Windows & DOD-specific software if they are not connected to the Internet … oh, right, okay, a server on the "air gapped" network that does still have USB.
This problem is extra annoying because for the first few months it happens it just unpredictably fails to recognize Home button presses sometimes.

But since merely buying an iPhone (and not taking the time to jailbreak it) already makes me a supplicant to the corporate interests that render their verdicts on what I may and may not do with it, I suppose that hey, if dirty wants his money, i'ma just give him his money...buying a new iPhone 4S will fix this (temporarily, one might surmise, since it's likely the very same home button assembly).
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I just built http://wethr.ca - it only took 3 hours and $5 for a domain name. It's extremely basic, but extremely useful to me as-is. That got me inspired, that I could build something so useful so quickly. So please share your smallest, but most useful project - even if it's super buggy and nowhere near finished yet.
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Not really. Go was designed with at least these 2 ideas in mind:

- Modern web servers
- Modern multi-core CPUs

None of which existed in 1981
I get the feeling without Steve Jobs, devices that allow Stevie Wonder (see the video in my other comment) or my mother to actually use all those things wouldn't be mainstream. He cared about everyone being able use the technology. It isn't the cases that make Apple products great, it is the carefully thought out uses that generate amazings designs.
I've seen this in person, too. Everyone in the room thought it was awesome and couldn't wait to get one for themselves or their kids to play with. I just ordered one!
NeXT is a confusing company to judge. They were slowly dying for years, then suddenly Apple came along and rescued them. Except it turned out that it was NeXT who rescued Apple. But all the subsequent stuff was done under the Apple name, so people just remember the NeXT that built extremely expensive computers, didn't sell very many of them, and nearly went bust before being bought out.
My head is exploding.

Is google analytics not good enough for the Google analytics team?

Is the google analytics team using other products to understand the competitive landscape?

Or is Mixpanel a fundamentally different product, and Google Analytics is using Mixpanel to gather additional information?
checked and verified, also went to a few random blogspot blogs and google blogs, none have mixpanel code, means it's analaytics.blogspot specific?
It's svg so you can just zoom in and out.
Maybe. I dono. I don't automatically equate diplomas to learning. I mean, sure, lots of people learn things at school... but lots of people get degrees without learning anything useful, too, and I'm not sure why, say, an art history degree should be respected any more than four years spent backpacking around the world.

Most of the people I see shouting about anti-intellectualism have degrees, sure, but most of them are degrees in art history or other fields that are not applicable to creating or fixing anything, so maybe I /am/ the American anti-intellectualism that they speak of, because I value knowledge based on what it can be used to achieve, rather than knowledge that indicates belonging in a certain class, and because I don't have a lot of respect for degrees. I mean, I have a lot of respect for people who learned useful things and got a degree along the way... but I don't see the degree as primary; I see the learning as primary. I see a degree in art history a little bit like buying a lexus; It shows that you are a person of leisure.
I might argue that Jobs is the first truly transformative figure to die in an age of transformative technology. He’s someone that will be talked about a thousand years from now. And the fact that he was transformative in technology just compounds the reactions to his death right now.

This. A thousands times this.

MG touches on many true points as to why most people feel so sad about Steve's passing.

However I feel like there's a deeper reason that hasn't been properly elucidated.

Or perhaps I'm just far too emotionally confused at the moment to understand why I feel the way I do.

Yes Steve died too soon.

Yes his products affected everyone they touched.

And yes it's scary to think of a future that won't have Steve's direct influence.

Ultimately the passing of this powerful man elicits an emotional response equal to the one he had on you. This varies for everyone, but it exists for many.

RIP Steve. :(
This is lovely. Could you randomize the order in which you present the words so that I don't have to go through the same word list every time I visit the website?

Also, could you add a few different levels of difficulty using more letters and tougher fonts?

Once again, this is nice.
Very cool. Looks like something quite doable using Android device + IOIO board + Arduino
And considering how kindly they looked on some of the mundane stuff revealed by wiki leaks debacle...I'd definitely assume this intentional.
Down the street from YC? Wow! I went there several times while in MV, had no idea it was right next to YC.
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These points are definitely not something to take lightly, definitely the truth and proven. Thanks for synopsis of the presentation.
Unfortunately, most cell phones charge from a USB port.
I would say the distinction is most important for considering what the competition will be. There are already plenty of people who consider higher education an investment, but also factor cost and risk for more significantly than the sort of entrepreneur you describe. Many middle-class people value quality but moderate their exposure to risk by choosing State and Community Colleges. They perhaps sacrifice some quality in return for "good enough" and a $20,000 loan instead of a $60,000 loan.

I suspect if you could beat state/community colleges on quality and at least match them on cost I think you could be successful. I just have no idea how a company actually beat them on quality.
I understand the sentiment for a getaway robot, however, I believe there are better alternatives for introducing people to robotics such as Mindstorms that you mentioned or Arduino. To clarify, by "better" I mean such that actually get you building and making things, rather than what to me at least boils down to playing with a toy.

It may be just the matter of personal preference, but to me this project is closer to the RoboSapien than it is to, say, making things with LEGOs or Arduino. It does not aim to teach anything about the mechanical aspect of robot building, connecting wires, soldering. Simplifying robotics for the sake of attracting everyone to it may be diminishing returns because at the point where a huge crowd is attracted not much of actual 'robotics' is left.

For those really interested in building robots, picking up a micro board and some parts online would be much more educational. Also, ability to program micros, connect wires and put parts together is something that robotics enthusiast should strive to learn, it's a big part of the hobby!

This being said, I still wish them best and hope they will succeed with their project. After all it is a cool ting to build! :)
I think you need to take the absolute value of the error, rather than the simple sum of negative and positive. I keep getting 100 when I'm slightly off in two directions.
Maybe they're trying to see what the difference in numbers is between the two products?
Time to fork the FSF
Well as long as we're giving anecdotes, nearly all of my friends who have iPhones are happy that the Apple Stores has that quality control.