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I don't understand the fascination with (merely) the number 11.

Wouldn't NY Times November 11, 1918 be more appropriate today?[1] Or maybe Philip Larkin's MCMXIV.[2]

[1] http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/world-war-i-ends

[2] http://net.lib.byu.edu/english/WWI/influence/MCMXIV.html
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For some reason it makes me happy to see that it's not a new phenomenon to make such a big deal about something so pointless and manmade.
Your comment summarizes where we are today, but maybe there's other solutions in the future?

Right now we have basically the two mentioned modes of contact with the artist: listening to their released music and seeing them perform live. Already big concerts have been adding revenue streams with things like VIP tickets or a chance to meet the artist, but what about more streams in the online domain? David Lynch is a bit of a pioneer in this space, from what I gather his website has a paid-subscription model where you get access to a ton of his work from finished pieces to random things he does through the day. If some of my favorite artists had networks like this I would consider subscribing.

If you really want to change the game, first change the vocabulary and context and the game will change itself.
The account probing might be unlawful, but I think the key analogy is a bit of a reach.
I suppose this is here only because it was mentioned in the comments on HN somewhere today. I'm finding it odd whenever I see such "targeted" content, like the articles on swearing. Or when I read a comment and suddenly there's a blog post in the front page talking about the same thing, but not mentioning the comment it self.

Some people put too much value in this karma thing I suppose.
The problem is not entirely patents, but, given companies just aren't capable of behaving in civilized ways, the law has to be changed.
Hmm, I've been doing web development for over 15 years now, and I was one of the first to jump on the CSS bandwagon ca. 2000. Most of the hand-wringing semantic purity came from front-end people doing small sites or blog templates, and the high watermark was around '03. There was a long period of stagnation and XHTML dying on the vine while the world continued using IE6 interminably.

To me this article is a very good rebuttal to a lot of the arguments that people were throwing around at that time. However these days things are different...

The emergence of WHATWG and the unification of the HTML5 standard and a recommitment by the W3C towards on-the-ground pragmatism have really changed the standards world. HTML5 to me is a breath of fresh air. When I read about the new elements I see that they are directly addressing real world issues, and I see that browsers seem to be picking them up pretty quickly. I don't see a lot of bloat or pointless ceremony like XHTML 2.0, and there is always an eye towards backwards compatibility.

Given these developments, I'd say the effort to understand and utilize HTML5 appropriately is a good investment even if there are no material benefits for a particular tag at this point in time. I don't see it as the huge time sink the author makes out, but rather as something I spend a couple hours a month doing as part of my regular job. It's not about obsessing over things, but just having an ambient awareness of what tags are there and how to use them so that my work is of higher quality and reaps whatever future rewards come down the pipe without extra effort.
So what you're asking for is not to use the emotionally cold language of marketing, and use the warmer language of traditional human interaction instead? Perhaps not a bad idea.
Interestingly enough, DARPA is running a similar challenge (their prize is a lot better): http://www.darpa.mil/shredder_splash.aspx#Splash
Today will be 11/11/11 again. Just like in 1911.
I was of the understanding that the sandboxed app needed permission to access certain files that weren't created by them, I'll read the documentation more thoroughly. Perhaps a better example are apps that scan you drive to tell you what your file system is full off (to free up space for example). This type of thing is extremely useful, and would seem to violate the sandbox idea?
Thanks for the thoughts.

I used the word "personal branding" mostly because it is the established term that covers what I'm talking about. But I agree with your point in that it sort of turns people into products.

I guess a larger point I should have made in the blog post and that I did in the talk is this:

Your name has a meaning to people, even if you choose to not think about it. Recognizing that what people think / feel when considering "you" is something I want to encourage. Shaping your reputation/brand/name into something positive and making it a useful tool for achieving your goals is, IMO, a worthwhile endeavor.
It also seems to me that the distance between the feet is rather large on the ellipticals I've seen, at least for a child's hip width. I assume this is due to the large flywheel or fan used for resistance. I think the one in the video had a pretty narrow gap between the feet, probably at least partly due to a simple, narrow flywheel, since his isn't for resistance training.

I immediately started thinking about how one could use 2x4's and plywood flywheels, along with some steel rods and clamps, to mock up an experimental elliptical machine for sizing. A more permanent version should be fairly easy to make with off-the-shelf components, and some welded steel stock.

Interesting problem!
Nobody except Apple sued another company claiming ownership of the GUI

That's disingenuous. Apple v. Microsoft stemmed from their existing licensing agreement. It also didn't claim "ownership of the GUI", but tried to assert copyright over the "look and feel" of the Macintosh UI specifically.
What I like about this issue is that it's something where the most "liberal", "employee-friendly" intuitive answer (nb: I'm a "driving to Toledo to canvass" Democrat) is not as simple as it sounds.

If you want to work at companies run like the US Postal Service, staffed with lifers, then you want to be in a heavily regulated workforce like France's.

If you want to work in a more dynamic environment, where there isn't a structural disincentive to ever change jobs (because once you clear 1 year, you're can more or less lock yourself in) --- and, for that matter, and environment where you yourself could start a company and easily hire people, you want to start a business in the US.

You can turn this discussion into a soap opera if you'd like, but Hacker News is ostensibly a discussion among people interested in, trying to found, or working at startups, and I think I can safely assert that at-will employment is a clean simple win for startup founders.
AFAIK Youtube has deals with the labels so that they get a cut of advertising revenue for any music video. Also for anyone that uploads cover versions etc.

I wouldn't be surprised if that income is quite substantial.
I thought it was clear that it was an exaggeration, perhaps it would be clearer if I had used quotes. A polite ”sorry man, I have things to do” will suffice.
If you know about how much memory you'll need and don't care about I/O cycles there are a lot of low-end VPS for only a few bucks (<$10/month). Low end box features a lot of them and specials. Of course there are also monthly posts about which providers went under, so keep a backup.
The first thing that struck me about this is how word-dense the page is compared to current newspapers.
If it makes you feel better, at least there isn't a front-page article about it in the NY times today like there was 100 years ago: http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/browser/1911/11/11/104881854...
I don't think it's anything about C per-se but more about how most people use C (etc).
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a chef is less likely to be as valuable as an engineer in an engineering company

based on what?

Why do you think engineers get paid more than secretaries, on average? There's your answer.
Yes: It IS easier said than done.

The one thing that I figured out and continue to figure out is that plans are a completely different beast when self-employed, compared to your school years or regular employment. The challenge to be not just responsible for turning meaningful interest into work, but also creating that meaning in the first place might not seem that significant, but it's an extremely tough thing. Saying that you plan on being much, much more efficient is all fine and well, but what if you don't actually now what to do with all that efficiency?

Also - not to be too patronizing on your personal choices, but you already have two counts of drug use in your plans plus traveling, clubs, etc.. That doesn't really sound like a plan for working, but one for not working (there is also much /distraction/ to be gained from slouching on somebodies couch in Miami for a month). That's fine and everything and it might help you keep your balance, but you really don't have much of a plan for the actual work part.
Obviously, you're not the target user of Ubuntu, so there's no point in complaining. Ubuntu is not meant for people who want to edit grub/menu.lst by hand. There are plenty of other distributions for that.
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I was at the Techstar's demo day. I felt the length of the pitch was perfect. Long enough to have some depth, succinct enough to keep the audience interested. 2 minute pitch at AngelPad sounds really short. It would be hard for design centric companies like smorepages.com to convey interest under 2 minutes.
To install all you need is opencv, scipy and python

in my experiecne the hardest part of machine vision (on a pC) is getting all the bits installed and playing nicely with each other
Someone could do it on his behalf, no?
Also, teenagers have an intense drive to move out and be on their own, and often to rebel. When thinking about how our ancestors created new villages and settled new territory, I believe that this probably played a role.
> They had a proven history of finding things early

I built this for Delicious too - forward-prediction of popularity. Yet another thing I wasn't allowed to ship...
> Canonical is genuinely trying to make linux the most user friendly

Either you, Canonical, or both are on drugs.

> There's no point in stagnating and sticking with gnome.

If the options are "stagnating" with Gnome, or going over 9000 steps backwards with Unity, I'm choosing to stagnate.

> If you really care, get involved.

Why? What's the incentive for me? Canonical has continuously proven to not care about it's current users.

> Write some code. Ubuntu is foss.

FFS, this is the same old tired propaganda of FOSS-apologists, aren't you ashamed of regurgitating it?

FOSS is doomed since it doesn't match the economic realities of producing high-quality end-user software.
What sorts of things does Steve say? It would be nice if I could pass a string for him to pronounce.
To my mind, the far more concerning part of this is that Apple isn't even ready for sandboxing. As Jalkut says, "the only things we know now that we didn’t know [at WWDC] is that there are some sandbox entitlements that exist in the shipping OS X Lion that we know are available to us."

Apple was going to require sandboxing at the beginning of November, even as the entitlements system that would power it isn't even ready to support it (which is, to my mind, the real reason that they pushed the deadline out by several months).

If I have a beef with Apple, it isn't that they're taking my control away, it's that they're demanding that I sandbox my app without implementing the controls to make it work outside of the most basic apps.
"off a cliff" isn't exactly a new place. Plenty of companies have been there, done that.
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Because their skills are in higher demand and the supply of them is lower.

But that does not mean that an engineer's contribution is inherently greater than that of a secretary based on nothing but their job title.
Most likely the phisher had a Hotmail-specific method to hit inbox, so their spam was more effective on Hotmail than other providers. The other possibility is that the phishing page emulated a Hotmail login, so only those with Hotmail accounts would believe it enough to enter their info.
Celebrate Spinal Tap's Nigel Tufnel Day - 11/11/11
I don't know about carrier tone, but each key on a touch-tone phone has two freqs: one for the row, one for the column.
This day goes to 11 !
Right. But what I meant by "I don't understand" was more along the lines of "So it's 11/11/11 again. Who cares? Oh, and by the way, every 11/11 is Veterans' Day..."
in the past 2 months i used extensively gnome2,3, unity, xfce, kde4.6 etc and i am so happy for such a small market share there are many choices. this is the power of open source.
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I think this is illustrative of a fundamental difference in philosophy between employment in the USA versus elsewhere, and one which favors economic growth and innovation over social stability.

Requiring cause to fire someone is business-hostile at best. Business can not improve efficiency, pivot, or generally adapt to changing markets if they are not free to hire and fire at will.

The one major point most "liberals" (in the American sense) miss regarding employment security is that employers are far less likely to take risks on hiring - whether in quantity, salary, or experience - when they can not fire at-will. This leads to less employment overall, not more.

The arguments are similar to other well intentioned, but seriously deleterious policies, such as rent control and Calfornia's "Prop 13."

That said, ethics and treating people well are very important. I find Zynga's actions unethical and think there is a good chance they should be held civilly liable.
There's a famous anecdote about human unshredding: when the Iranian revolutionary took over the US embassy in 1979, they captured the shredded remains of secret documents. They took those shredding to the carpet weavers Iran is so famous of, who manually rewoven the shreds into the original documents (See http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Documents_seized_from_the_U.S....)
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Kudos, you've managed to demonstrate Jason's final slide perfectly.
I am going to take a wild guess and say the sluggishness you are encountering is caused by the IO scheduler. It's the main cause of sluggishness on my desktop. In fact it's choking /right now/ as I type this due to a large file copy process in the background. BFQ, the other desktop scheduler for linux, is not included in the default kernel, and in my use has not fared any better.
it really does work with things like alarm clocks.
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(founder of design centric kout.me here)

It was definitely interesting.

The exercise of condensing our entire pitch down to 120 seconds was worthwhile. We could very quickly explain what we do, where we're going, and how we'redoing. Elevator pitches were a snap.

The best aspect of it was that it gave us more time to speak to investors afterwards. Most stayed in the room and we had an opportunity to have amazing conversations (and collect business cards) from those that might be a better fit...rather than broadcast to everybody.

That said, having never been through a 7m presentation, I can't compare against that directly. Just providing my own perspective.

When we first heard of the two minute rule, we were in disbelief. But at the end, somehow it miraculously worked.
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I did not say I would ever do this. I just really hate the polarization that happens on these forums over any issue, really. I am not arguing that it's right, fair, or nice. Just that there is more than one way to look at it.
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Doesn't sound like you've done a lot of computer vision, then...
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Your note about FDA approvals rings true. It can take a very very long time for things to progress to the stage where they're available for sale - particularly when it comes to the medical industry. I've been watching a company that's been able to dramatically speed up the detection of things like Tuberculosis (from 21 days to 4 days), E.Coli (from up to 24 hours down to 4 hours), MRSA (up to 24 hours down to 6 hours), etc. ... and they've made what I consider to be remarkable advancements. Yet they haven't yet received the FDA approval necessary to achieve wider adoption of their technology.

http://nanologix.com/test_results.html

http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/38404/

To get silicon valley, or other investors to see the opportunity to back these types of ventures the approval process needs to be streamlined and prioritized in a way that accelerates the time-to-market for technologies that stand to benefit society on the whole.
This is a very cool solution!

Unfortunately, it does not log the output of the command. For those that need to log absolutely everything, check out:

https://github.com/jpschewe/rootsh

rootsh is a wrapper shell for bash and logs everything.
This is easy to try, incidentally. Just hum a very low note, then gradually increase the pitch until you can see the CRT start to look weird.
Apple's claims of "look and feel" were absurd on their face as anyone comparing Windows 3 and MacOS can plainly see. Any an all existing licensing agreement were immaterial as the technology wasn't owned by Apple in the first place. That's what the courts found, those are the facts.
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Ask HN: New (or soon-to-be) entrepreneurs, what topics are you interested in?
I'm starting an interviews-and-articles site specifically aimed at new entrepreneurs. Think Mixergy, ThisWeekinStartups, or The Startup Foundry, but focusing exclusively on those new to entrepreneurship and business. It won't be all tech, either: I hope to interview everyone from coffeeshop owners to tech entrepreneurs.

Some topics I have in mind:

How did you get into entrepreneurship?

Do you remember any business projects from your childhood? Lemonade stands, web designs, gumball machines, etc.?

What convinced you to "take the leap" and go for it?

What do you wish you knew before starting a company?

How did you come up with the business idea?

Did you bootstrap or try to raise money?

If you raised money, how did you convince investors, despite your business inexperience?

PS:

If you are a new entrepreneur (or an experienced one willing to talk about your first endeavor), leave your e-mail or shoot me one at KeiferSki@gmail.com. I'm hoping to launch by January 1, so I'll be in touch within 30-50 days.
Ironically, vinyl is the one segment of the industry that well. It's been growing double-digits percentage wise every year for at least the last 6-7 years.

In 2010, vinyl sales were actually higher than in 1991, the last year the majors were distributing most releases on vinyl. 2011 looks like it could be up as much as 25% over 2010.

Why is this? Well, at least for me, it's a much better value proposition, despite being substationally more expensive. Full size art, much better sound quality, etc.
Who is the target audience?
The marketplace decides these things not esoteric arguments about polymorphic inheritance. What probably pisses the debater about "web programmers" is that they can make huge fortunes from these things where as most "systems programmers" do not. For the most part no one who writes cheques cares that someone decreased the cycle count a context switch. It's a poor value prop. The outlier in this axis is HFT where someone might care and the programmers fully understand and communicate the value they create.

Yes, someone can position faster context switches as something they care about and the person who does that will get cut a cheque, and that's basically what "web programmers" do. We market the incredibly difficult work of "systems programmers". The closer to the metal you are the further you are down the food chain.

Is Linux harder to program than early incantations of Facebook? Probably.
Is Zuck going to make more money from his PHP webapp than Linus from will from his C Kernel?
Probably.
Actually, a better use case is probably hot girls at bars who don't want to be hit on. They could have an app on their phone that tells this script to call them in 1,5 or 10 minutes.
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Very interesting stuff - thanks!
I also used to run a BBS. We had a small enough userbase (a couple hundred folks, with maybe 30-40 real diehards) and modem tones were unique enough above 14.4K that I could tell with reasonable certainty whom was calling in at any given time. I don't know if this would scale but it was pretty handy for freaking out anyone who happened to be hanging out in the computer room.

Also, at no point did I abuse my local console access powers to cause people to fly into heavily fortified sectors in Trade Wars. That would be mean.
I don't think we need to read too deeply into the selection of the date. This is little more than a slice of trivia, the equivalent of saying "On this day, 100 years ago...". The choice of back-dated front page doesn't have any profound consequence, other than as a passing curiosity. I don't think the NYT is trying to make a statement with it.
This game example... I think Racket would have been a much better starting environment than Common Lisp for the book Land of Lisp. You can download the IDE and get started within a few clicks.
Right, in many jurisdictions unauthorized access to a home is a much more serious offence than standard trespass.
My first thought was that not only they were inspired by that one but they're trying to parody it.
This is sad because Universal was the most beefy of them four.

It was something like 1:1:2:3 (e/w/s/u) weighted by catalog ("impressions").
Now it would be like 1:2:4
Universal controls the more than half of said impressions, speaking of western mainstream music.

(Luckily, they also seem to be the sanest of all four)
I'll wager there are fewer trained chefs than software engineers. And you can't outsource it to India. Google could've hired a decent fry cook instead of a chef and given him fewer options. They didn't, so clearly they believed he added value.
Labels provide one or more of the following to various degrees of capability:

- Management

- Tour support

- Publicity (photos, PR, etc)

- Radio promotion

- Video promotion

- Tour routing and agent of record

- Marketing

- Distribution and Sales

- Websites, fanclubs and direct-to-fan

- Merchandising (physical and e-commerce), including distribution/sales (Hot Topic, etc)

- Art

- Video production

- Online marketing and community management

- Partner relations

- Licensing management (sync, etc)

Not all labels do all of this, it is case to case. Even labels in the same parent corp (UMG, EMI, Sony or WMG) don't do all of these. Indies vary as well.