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In some regions of Germany, the noun "Simpel" means idiot (it still means "simple" as an adjective). Also note that the spelling is slightly different, but the pronunciation is pretty much the same. Just in case these guys ever want to reach around the globe...
I stand corrected. There's no proof any source has been killed, but the Taliban has repeatedly vowed to hunt down and "punish" the sources not redacted in the Wikileaks docs. Many links on that on the Web.
I would suggest something like Twilio where you host your own xml at a specified url that twilio calls when it receives a call/sms for you. Similarly grove api consumers can specify a url that can be called by grove when a message is received in a channel and api consumers can respond ina predefined json.
even if you were correct, in what way does the version number affect you?

and no, "i like to complain on the internet" is not a valid way in which it affects you.
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There are plenty of light distributions - TinyCore; LFS; Arch; Gentoo; and so on.

"Interactive installs" are not great for users. You end up with dependency hell; or users aren't clueful about the difference between a KDE and Gnome environment. Sane defaults, and allowing people to uninstal stuff, are better for most users.

There are other distributions which claim to be small, and which are cut down versions of Ubuntu (usually) but which are actually quite large. See, for example eeebuntu (now called auroraos) which installed a bunch of OpenOffice language stuff, but not OO itself.
This is true, but the downside is capped: a bonus can't go below zero. Thus traders may become insensitive to the amount of money they lose and thus increase risk.
It’s pretty simple, governments have a long and shameful history of abusing the authorities we the people give them, at ever scale from individual bad apples up to wrong decisions at the very top. The only think that has ever worked or appeared to work is to have checks and balances, such as requiring warrants.

However, the issue with these devices as I understand it is that the government’s position is, “We don’t need a check and balance, because we’re collecting information that doesn’t invade privacy.”

And my position is, if the information can be used to harm a citizen, then collecting and storing it should be subject to the check and balance of judicial oversight.

Capturing data on the off-chance that it might turn up something or be useful some day can be used harmfully, and therefore I want oversight before it is collected.
If, as the author clearly states, its okay to use the word "fuck" in presentations then what's his problem with using it for dramatic effect in the lead? Where's a better opportunity?

The word "Fuck" is a dramatic word - it inherently conveys passion, I'd argue that Zach's use was the most appropriate use of the term (if you're going to use it at all).

I'd find this post more compelling if he just said "using profanity is the easy way out" instead of consistently trying to say "some profanity is okay, just not this usage".
Nice work, Leah! Love the fact that it's just IRC at heart.

Is there any way to integrate a file-uploading facility (drag'n'drop in the web client, ideally, like Campfire) to the IRC concept, or is that an impedance mismatch?
Harel, I'd be very interested in seeing some of the projects you've done using this technique. Are there any that are publicly accessible?
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That's uselessly snarky. I agree with DasIch; call it what it is: a partial implementation of Python3. I read the page in the link and thought someone created a full implementation.
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Works fine now! Thanks.
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I think he's referring to "eloquent swearing" - meaning that Ramsey doesn't just drop an F-bomb, he does it with style :). I've heard some great ones from him - once he described a burnt omelet (I think that's what it was) as "something that dropped out of my dog's fing a*hole". You can't help but laugh at that visual.
No, the model doesn't work. If the RIAA gets their huge multiple from one person they aren't going to consider downloads later in the sequence as covered. They would gladly go after a torrent swarm and charge each member based on the total number of copies.

If they only went after the initial seeder, I could understand. But that's completely counterfactual.
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Who are you, Grandalf?

What have you done?

How sure are we this is not a side project for you too?

Care to put a picture up?

The very least would be for people to know who they are dealing with.
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"To those of you who are concerned please don’t be alarmed; we have every intention of returning to school and graduating"

I will bet you 10-1 that you will not return to school. Whether you are successful or not.
Upon rereading his comment, it still does not appear to me as though he is attempting to prove anything. He is merely displaying a healthy suspicion of something which, unlike Russell's Teapot, is fairly plausible.

Furthermore, his point is logically sound: In a world where governments are permitted to keep secrets, they are effectively able to keep secret what they are keeping secret, by simple induction.
Cute, but I don't buy the business.

For starters, how are any of the "152 average guests" apart of the target market? Last time I checked, the only people who buy wedding dresses are...the 2 people getting married, and their immediate family.

That brings their inflated metric of 448.2 million potential customers down to...2-5 million, globally. Sorry, but when you pull out ridiculous statements like "8% of the Earth's population is in our target market!", you look inexperienced.

You might as well say "Our target market is 6-7 billion, because everyone wants to get married."
I don't like swearing in presentations when the presenter is attempting to appear cooler then the audience they are addressing. These presentations tend to also be full of goofy pictures and lots of hyperbole and really turn me off.

On the other hand, when I'm sitting through a very technical talk and the engineer giving the presentation warns the audience about "wading through a lot of shit to get this feature working" I tend to take them seriously on that point.
They're not the first - we did this with http://www.bigv.io/ did a few months back.
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I would add that the target shouldn't be liable for disabling, losing, or accidentally breaking said device if it is detected. I think basically they have to view it as giving it to me if they stick it on my property. I want the right to take it apart and figure out how it works.
McKinsey and Bain are incorporated partnerships, and BCG is still an actual partnership. Goldman Sachs, JPM, etc, are public companies, but their investment banking and trading divisions operate very differently from a typical public company. GS, for example, pays out 50% of revenues as compensation, with MDs and PMDs (partner managing director) sharing from a huge profit pool. Internally they function very much like partnerships.

As for the chances of making partner, it depends heavily on the firm and the year. Skadden is something of an outlier[1]. The other big NYC firms bring aboard about ~100-120 associates per year, and promote between 5-15 depending on the economy. The last few years it's been around 5 and during the boom it was around 15. At medium-sized firms outside NYC, the %-age is more like 20-35%, though profits-per-partner at those firms are more like $300-500k/year, versus $2m+ at Skadden.

[1] Though your numbers seem grossly exaggerated. Worldwide Skadden brought aboard ~200 this year, which was a big crop. The two years before that were ~100 put together. And over the last few years, the partners promoted counts have been: 2007 (29), 2008 (25), 2009 (8), 2010 (6), 2011 (8).
Gordon Ramsey? The angry chef that has been timed as swearing on average every 20 seconds in some of his shows?
I think the word "F-bomb" says a lot. To many, including I guess the OP, "fuck" is a "bomb", a word that rouses them from their slumber and causes them to say "OMG, did he just say 'fuck'". And while you still have this attitude, it's always going to be effective.

This "swearing isn't cool" attitude annoys me. It isn't cool, I agree. It's just neutral; for emphasis, like "very" or "awesome".

Get off your high horse. I'll say fuck if I please.
It's a title slide, there isn't really space for actual clever word play. You can use some other single word for emphasis, you can make "important" even bigger, or I guess use some exclamation points, but those are kind of invisible. Or you can do with out any emphasis and just go with a affectless title slide. Whatever you go with, using 'fucking' only looks like a grammatical trick (or more of a trick than using 'extremely' say) if you do still cringe at the word or are still a little opposed to it.
I second it. It should be on the home page.
I can see the reasons for that, but the HipChat application lets you drag and drop files to share them with everyone in a room, auto-loads images... that alone is worth the client app to me.
What you'll find is that often the talk and publicity is the dog and pony show needed to drive business. That's not to say it isn't valuable; it is. The problem is that ultimately the dog and pony show has to accomplish it's objective: get funding. That's the not so easy part.
I imagine this is the kind of question that HN sees a lot. I don't spend tons of time here, but considering the responses so far, I think my input is will be not be redundant. I am a domainer with ~$500,000 in purchases under my belt, which means I am experienced but not one of the "big guys."

First of all, there is no single best way to get a domain that you want. There are techniques that tend to work better in some situations than others, but it's good to think of these as tools in your toolbelt rather than the ultimate domain-buying dogma. Unfortunately, confirmation bias can skew less experienced hackers toward confusing the story of how they got their domain with real advice.

Like any negotiation, the first place to start is by assessing all info about both parties. Can you answer the following?

- Does the seller have true WHOIS visible or is the WHOIS obfuscated by a privacy service?
a. If visible, what can you figure out about the seller?

- Do the domain's nameservers point to anything that could help you identify the owner?

- Is the domain name a generic dictionary word .com or .net? That is, is your gut feeling that it's worth >$10,000?

- Is the domain listed for sale at any major venues (sedo, godaddy, afternic, snapnames, ect)?

- Do you have alternatives or do you absolutely need to have this domain?

- What is your timeline to acquire either this domain or one of your alternatives?

If you feel comfortable emailing me the domain, I can give you a report of the WHOIS history from http://whois.domaintools.com/ along with my personal opinion.

Lastly, I would specifically recommend you ignore advice from tuscon and johnmurch. Absolutely no domainer takes estibot seriously and feigning legal threats will not help your situation at all.
Reading through the 13 pages program reveals what the Chinese government is focusing on.
Somehow I find this interesting as we see the leaderless 99% protests around the world and the Chinese government promising to do the same on a regulatory level.
I am truly excited with the idea, but can people outside the US apply?
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I was hoping to coax you into giving linux another try in the future on a machine that is more amenable to running linux.
I thought their numbers seem inflated too. I wonder if this signals 'they are thinking big' which results in investors thinking 10x instead of the no-invest 2x number.
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Don't get too excited just yet - actually putting a sensor on everything would cost a huge amount of money and anything besides a passive RFID tag or barcode would need a battery. Consumers would need to pay an extra few dollars for everything and would need to replace batteries on everything they own every year or so. These protocols don't really do anything - the research community has bounced stuff like this around for a while. Someone actually needs to build better hardware before the Internet of Things vision actually comes true.
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> Paraphrasing, he said that until electric cars can recharge as fast as a gasoline car (i.e.: 5 minutes to pump fuel into a car) the electric car is always going to lag behind fossil fuel vehicles.

This could actually be a selling point for electric cars. Once standard battery specifications are agreed upon, there's no reason the engineering couldn't get good enough to swap batteries in under a minute.
Select input with search?
About 2 months ago there was an popular post someone made input select with search and other neat tricks with other inputs that improve UX.
Unfortunately I can't find the post anymore. It was something similar to this: http://www.cbolson.com/sandbox/mootools/multipleSelectFilter/ but was based on jQuery and had all sort of examples with different inputs.

Does anyone have a link to it?
I'd probably start with a configurable bot with a few predefined plugins (RSS feeds, version control / bug tracker integration, etc) and a configuration UI (similar to Github's Services hooks)

Eventually you could add a way to define custom plugins that are properly sandboxed.
I agree. The real problem he's describing is the bonuses reward short term success regardless of the long term risks. Bank shareholders who are long term investors should demand bonuses that incent long term success, rather than short term.
At work we have a web application purchased about 18 months ago that officially don't support Firefox above 3.6. There were rendering differences between 3.6 and 4 that were serious enough to enforce that restriction for certain users. Apparently, it has begun working as expected again in FF7 (might have worked in FF6, not sure).

The application also uses jQuery 1.2.6 (released May '08) - I guess I'll be the one to QA the migration to the present day.

Hence I am not yet a believer in "latest version is the greatest version", in all cases. In principle, yes, but there are exceptions that makes version numbers necessary.
Can I who told you that? I'm German and I have never heard that "Simpel" as the German noun is associated with idiot or idiotic thinks.

Simpel just means simple. Maybe it is not seen like the simpleness which American people try to express with the word but either it just means simple.

I love to have more simpleness in Germany. Please do consider to expand to Germany or Europe!
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Nice work.

Glad to see somebody implementing a solution to pretty up QR codes.

Only potential issue is the contrast between the foreground and background needs to be enough to properly scan.
It's absolutely a side project for the founding team at this point. That's the secret sauce that lets us recruit from the best players in the industry to help advise the class.

With so much great opportunity out there, the most valuable thing we (creators) have is our time, and weekends belong to us. So let's do something amazing with that time that has tremendous upside.

More detail about the team is coming.
How unfortunate.

I've been working on an open source version of what you're purporting to provide as a service.
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Really? Interesting. Can you point me at the source?

Perhaps I'm being downvoted because people think I'm going to stop exercising judgement. I meant merely that I was going to be less lazy.
I've read through a lot of that it still doesn't make sense to me that someone would be uncomfortable with the unwashed masses getting access to previously unattainable goods.

We both agree that certain goods produce a signaling effect. Where I am curious is do the wealthy not like it when the masses get access to good because:

A) They don't deserve them.
B) We have to find new signaling goods.
C) They drive the price of goods higher or lower depending on the supply/demand curve thus manipulating the market for THEIR goods.
I've never quite understood this argument. Basically, and correct me if I'm wrong, you're saying that using a larger vocabulary is a good thing (and I agree), and yet you're suggesting banning words will somehow help you achieve a "larger" vocabulary.
I remember seeing an article suggesting that the incentives related to publication (specifically in medicine) set us up for conditions where a majority of published results are wrong, and we have no way of knowing it:

Effectively requiring a positive result for publication means two phenomena can be the subject of multiple studies, with the one fluke that finds correlation being the one that gets published. At that point, we only get corrected if someone actually attempts to replicate the result, but replication effort may well be seen as a waste of resources.
this failure happened after his initial success, not before
The problem is that there's no difference between failing to make a profit and losing $5B in shady mortgage derivatives.
Thanks!! I'd love to add some file uploading and/or hosting capability. I think it would be easy enough on the website side of things but I'm not sure yet what it would mean for existing IRC clients.
Fedora prides itself on being Free software. That includes their repositories. Fedora has no interest in "non free" repositories.

This is useful if you only want FOSS software. It's not so great if you want to play DVD or MP3 - you need to use a 3rd party repository and install extra stuff.

Fedora is sponsored and supported by Red Hat. That gives them a bit of stability that other distributions may not have.
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My main worry about battery-swapping is that batteries die after a while. At some point, you're going to show up to the battery-swap station expecting a battery that goes 100 miles, and get a battery that only goes 50 miles. That won't be a problem most of the time, but for a few edge-cases, you can strand someone.
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There's also a degree of selection bias to account for here. Any ideas on how to get around that?
Still doesn't work going end to start.

src starts at 50, ends at 100
dst starts at 25, ends at 75.

First we copy 100 to 75, then 99 to 74, etc ... now we get to copy from 75 to 50, but we've overwritten it already!
I'm not sure how this model incorporates the demand for better batteries.

Blue Rhino works because propane is a commodity and no-one is really shopping for larger quantities of propane, or the ability to put the same amount of propane into smaller vessels. But batteries for electric cars are still undergoing massive innovation; not only in capacity, but in charge/discharge rates (for more-efficient capturing via regenerative braking and more-efficient transfer to the motors).

If Better Place is charging a flat-rate by the mile, what incentive do they have to offer better batteries? Their profit motive would seem to skew heavily toward freezing the characteristics of the launch-packs and running with that as long as possible; allowing improvements to feed their profit margin up until the moment of customer revolt (should that happen).

Allowing people to pay more to 'upgrade' to larger capacities or 'performance' packs would add to the inventory they need to keep on hand at their swap stations and complicate the process.

I guess my concern is that this plan reads as a bold bet that contemporary 100-mile pack performance is good enough.

And truly this isn't a question of servicing most people's daily commute, which I believe is under 30 miles for most everyone most everywhere. But when calculating the hassle involved in taking such a car on weekend trips or vacations, I don't know if 100-miles is going to cut it. Particularly as battery estimates tend to be fair-weather estimates, and the longer trips tend to be highway trips at speeds sub-optimal for efficiency.

Will people put up with stopping every sixty or seventy minutes for a 'swap'?

I know it seems silly to think about the annoyances of trips taken maybe a dozen times a year. But consumers are not always rational. In the end, 100 miles and recharging every hour may not wind up attracting more customers than the existing 40 to 50-mile range electrics.
This used to be a computer's model of a human being: http://librairie.immateriel.fr/fr/read_book/9780596518394/ch...

The iPad is really, really awesome. But. All that's really changed is that they've added an extra finger. (sure there are three- and four-finger gestures but those just boil down to a different kind of single-finger gesture)

Sadly, we're probably going to have to wait for the advent of supersubstances that can dynamically reconfigure their physical characteristics before we get beyond the finger-and-eye, which I doubt will happen in my lifetime (tears).
Mark Zuckerberg's! He's just always building the product, ignoring the noise around him.
Excellent Post. More of that please.

I think some sort of HUD in glasses will be the future. Doesnt take up much space (presumably) and allows for rich gesture interaction (like whats already possible with Kinect)
'Fuck the fucking fucker's fucked'?

Shove that up your blog.
"Fuck" is a crutch.

Personally, I use it fairly often since I talk like a sailor, but I wouldn't use it in a professional presentation because there's better ways to communicate ideas, to evoke emotion, and to engage the audience. You might not know what those ideas are, but to be a better speaker, you need to find out.

A couple years ago, I was studying sketch comedy writing at Second City (essentially the center of comedy, and where SNL, Daily Show, etc recruit from). As part of our last class, we had to put on a sketch show, and our teacher/director told us that we were allowed to use "fuck" once in our show, and this was a sketch comedy show ... the reason being, we had to find the one place where it be most effective and use it there. Every other place where we wanted to use, we had to find a better way to communicate our ideas.

And you know, we were better for it.

Using it in the title defeats the entire purpose of the word since everybody is already paying attention to you. "Fuck" is a draw word ... You need to find a better way to make them laugh and interested.
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"Simple" in English can have that connotation - a simpleton is someone who is simple, after all.
Thank you. That was what I was looking for.
1Password 3.8.7 seems to be compatible with Firefox 8 though. They're getting a lot better at keeping up with Firefox version lately (ever since they introduced Aurora and "maybe" Nightly support)
I finally got it to build, after rebuilding most of Haskell.

It crashes on just about everything. Even a simple "for" loop defeats it. So one has to replace all of those with while blocks.

Every single one of the Python benchmarks I have previously written fails with a not implemented error.

On the one trivial example I timed which worked it was about 1000 times slower than Python.