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The design is pretty similar to how every other modern OS does it, I think - what would you change if you had the choice?

I mean, it's not as clean as things were, but we've come a long way since then in terms of features so obviously simplicity is going to suffer. Worth the trade off, in my opinion :)
You would be wise to make that bet!
I wonder what the costs to the economy would be if we had Canadian levels of regulation of the financial industry, or even greater (something like how utilities themselves are regulated).
Most of the "best" knives are in fact mass-produced. In fact, the knives this guy is talking about, made by "a couple of robots in Germany" aren't "cheap knives"; they're the super expensive heavy full-tang forged Wusthof and Henckel's knives that are themselves kitchen status symbols.

But even allowing for that: there are extremely good mass-produced stamped "cheap" knives. Cooks Illustrated's favorite knife is a stamped Victorinox you can get for like $35.

Let's not pretend that there is really a crisis of mass-produced crappy knives that requires a hand-crafted antidote. There is real value to what this guy does --- I'm drooling over the idea of having a 10" chef's knife done to spec --- but really the western world pretty much has the problem of "how to make a good cost-effective chef's knife" licked.
>Geeks love IRC, but it comes with a few hassles, mainly having to host it, that have led teams away from using it in favor of easier IM solutions.

The nature of IRC's channel-level organization¹ obviates the need to set up independent servers for a given team group.

What advantage does something like this offer me over just opening a new channel on freenode?

¹I.e., access lists (ops, voice) and modes like +psk (p[rivate], s[ecret], and k[eyed]).
This paper is from 2004, but I don't think I've seen it discussed here before. Any experiences or insights to share on this topic?
My first thoughts go to security concerns, but I didn't see any mention of them in the article. Does anyone have any links that deal with this?

This is really cool stuff, so my first instinct is to consider the possible caveats.
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Actually, while we're on the topic(ish), how does one do it back the other way? Ie, stream from audio input to a file (I was looking into it earlier today). Best I could find, you had to install some wrapper drivers or something.
Exactly I'm pretty sure what gvb's comment states would be enough to convince a judge to issue a warrant.
I will never understand how Farhad Manjoo became an authority on anything.

I was an early Google+ skeptic. Shortly after it launched, I likened its main feature—the ability to divide your friends into discrete groups, called Circles—to the process of creating a seating chart for your wedding. In theory, it was appealing to send “private” messages to certain groups, but in practice I thought most people would find it tedious to categorize their friendships.

In practice I find it very compelling and use it for the majority of my posts. And so do most people. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_plus_users_2-3_t...

Which is also why he's wrong about:

Traffic-analysis firms have consistently reported Google+’s traffic to be declining from its early peak.

And yet, I’ve been surprised by just how dreary the site has become.

I don't follow anyone interesting on Google+. Therefore, Google+ is boring.

Why am I so sure that Google+ can’t be saved? Because there’s no way to correct Google’s central failure. Back when companies were clamoring to create brand pages on the network—or users were looking to create profiles with pseudonyms, another phenomenon that Google shut down—the company ought to have acceded to its users’ wishes and accommodated them. If Google wasn’t ready for brand pages in the summer, it shouldn’t have launched Google+ until it was. And this advice goes more generally—by failing to offer people a reason to keep coming back to the site every day, Google+ made a bad first impression. And in the social-networking business, a bad first impression spells death.

This is barely an argument. Brand pages? Who cares about brand pages, really?[0] Brands do. Not people. I promise you not a single normal user went on the service and said, "What? I can't follow Dr. Pepper here? I'm gone!" Google gives me a really, really good reason to return every day. There's a little notification box every time I use gmail or search or maps or docs.

Online social networks are very, very young. To imagine that you can predict success or failure based on your narrow experience of the very few successful social networks that have existed is pure unadulterated bullshit.

[0]: I really hope Google does start focusing on regular users more instead of very peripheral concerns like brands.
You're going to want to add an NSFW to that link. I glanced at it while on my work computer and was not pleased to find male parts on the 3d model.
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Not as part of the Kindle Lending library available to Prime users, no.
Me too, but the procedure actually demands that you file a complaint with your own bank.
From July 19, 2000: "Catting weird things to /dev/audio"

http://everything2.com/user/mcc/writeups/catting+weird+thing...

The eleven-year-old MP3 link in this article is dead, of course. I probably still have the files on a hard drive somewhere, but they're exactly what you would expect: weird looping noise.
Sigh. It seems like every 2 weeks that same article is reprinted under that same headline only on a different outlet, with no apparent reason but to troll.

So it’s been a few month now and G+ hasn’t solved world hunger and Facebook still exists, then it must be binned! I have no proof but I would wager that these “articles” are printed at the urgency of interested parties who sent their PR pitches to the media akin to spear phishing attempts and someone is bound to publish some of it.
Actually, that's on an iPhone. Here's the article for OSX from the start of 2008 (two months before your link), where the cached message call comes out faster than the virtual calls, and the non-cached is ~ 4.5x slower instead of ~ 2x on the iPhone:

http://mikeash.com/pyblog/performance-comparisons-of-common-...
so it's like dropbox's "copy public link" feature but applied to directories and automatically generating file listings?

i signed up, but i'm kinda confused about the end goal... i can already get a public link for a file in my dropbox, so maybe your app is more like easy peasy web publishing from your dropbox?

i recently built a stupid simple blog engine that converts Markdown files from a directory tree (eg. yyyy/mm/dd/title.md) and makes a corresponding HTML tree ready for publishing on the web. i could've used an app that tracks files in my dropbox, automatically detects new ones, compiles to them HTML, thereby publishing a static site. not sure if that's the direction you're taking, though.
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Looks convenient! I'm on the iPad right now, so I'll have to wait to get home on Chrome to try it out. Thanks for the tip.
It sounds like you're responding to the headline and not the article. Taleb didn't say anything about bankers being paid too much (or "so much"). His argument was that bonuses encourage risk taking and that having bank compensation be less variable (i.e. base salary would go up, but not fluctuate) would lead to less risk taking.
That's a very naive perspective. The big money families, retirees etc. are precisely the people who won't let big organizations fail; it is those people that politicians are looking after when they spend taxpayers' money bailing them out, because those people are reliable sources of donations or votes.

So you have to take a step back, and look at political incentives. How are you going to convince these people to support putting their capital at risk?
I'm not entirely sure, but I think Mozilla will continue to support Fx 3.6 until they have a better solution for large companies. I'm not sure what that better solution would be, but I believe they're trying to solve the problem.
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That's the funniest piece of relatavistic morality I've read in a while. Nice.
That reminds me of a couple tricks I used to use in the old days. As an alarm clock I'd do:

$ sleep 28800; while :; do cat /etc/termcap; done >/dev/audio

I found that termcap had just the right mix of structure and randomness to make an annoying noise that was really hard to sleep through.

Another classic was:

$ ping -f hostname >/dev/audio

When you have zero packet loss, "ping -f" would generate an endless sequence of '.' and '\b' characters, resulting in a constant tone. When there is 100% loss you only get the '.' characters and the sound will stop. In between, you'll get a progressively noisier sound. Then just turn the speakers on your SPARCstation all the way up and crawl around the lab, flexing the 10base2 cabling until you find what segment is causing that irritating intermittent problem!
would you support private citizens using these devices to the same extent?

That's actually a pretty cool test to determine if a warrant would be required. I'm NOT OK with private citizens wiretapping phones, but I am OK with law enforcement wiretapping phones if and only if they have a court-issued warrant in order to do so.
Two points:

1) To work full time on something like Linux, it really requires an external employer. So it isn't surprising that this is the case. To get involved does not, and certainly for a long time independent developers were as important as corporations there.

2) Everyone economically owns the output. I don't mean the copyrights. I mean everyone has a right to put the software to use for whatever purposes they want, whether in manufacturing, say, server appliances, or just running a web site (or even on my wife's laptop).

If the big companies stopped contributing to Linux tomorrow, would Linux die? I doubt it. So I suppose it depends on what you mean by "dependent." Certainly Linux is not dependent on corporate coding the way, say, Windows is.....
As well as the other replies, another cost aspect is the ground network needed to track and communicate with the probes. I remember several years ago NASA was aiming to reduce the network, in line with all the rest of the cost-cutting going on in early 2000s.

I suspect that pressure has reduced, because we don't hear about it as much locally as we did then (we have one of the ground tracking stations here in Australia, and I lived in its territory).
Did you read the article? Taleb was arguing against bonuses as incentives to take risk, without corresponding downsides. He was not arguing against bankers being paid lots of money.
>You (99% percent of us) would not drop the F-bomb in the presence of a new boss, for example, unless you had very good reason to think it was ok.

A company I interned for had an employee who allegedly dropped an F-Bomb or two during his interview. His nickname was F-Bomb. No joke.

When someone chooses to swear for emphasis or for the shock value, he is not trying to win over the people who might be offended, or who might take it as a sign of disrespect. He is trying to win over the people who buy into his personality, in spite of the people who may be offended. The whole reason he's saying "fuck" is because it will offend some people.

F-Bomb probably didn't want to work for a boss who would be offended at someone saying "fuck". Who would?
Not sure about this one - I don't mind swearing if it's really rare and if someone wants to put something shocking on their slide because that's their style of bringing attention to some issues, then I'm completely fine with it. I know some people who happen to sometimes swear in emails, but knowing they'd do the same thing in person, it seems perfectly normal.

What really annoys me is "f^^k", "s^^t" and other "words" like that. If you don't normally swear, don't write it. If showing "fuck" on your slide makes you cringe, just skip it. It's neither natural nor needed. It's not censored - everyone knows exactly what it was supposed to say, but they also know you didn't actually want to write it.
If I have to deal with people using marketroid-style 'impact' when the correct word is 'affect', then others should just suck it up and not worry about 'fuck' being used as 'lack of verbiage'. 'Impact' in presentations needs to die (well, perhaps it can stay in physics or medicine presentations...)
I think it's actually an issue of perception. When I hear Jabber or XMPP, I think of one-to-one chat and when I hear IRC I definitely think of group chat. In general, IRC clients seem more tailored towards groups.

That said, there's definitely room for both protocols and I could see supporting XMPP as well at some point.
What evidence do you have that Obama administration will prosecute their campaign financiers in the 2nd term?

They had more (electoral) incentive to prosecute in the first term... They have no reason in their 2nd term.
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>> I HAVE a solution for the problem of bankers who take risks that threaten the general public: Eliminate bonuses.

I'm sorry but that's not the solution.

The solution is for the government to stop bailing out private institutions, regardless of whether they are deemed "too big to fail."

There are some incredibly elegant natural laws built into the fabric of the universe, one of which is expressed through economic systems in which corrupt, reckless institutions are eliminated because they go broke.

The only way corrupt, reckless institutions are allowed to persist are when they are propped up by taxpayer money.
What Taleb is saying is still true. If I have a 400k market salary and I give up 200k of it for the right to 1% of the profits I generate, then I still maximize the expected value of my compensation that year by maximizing the size of my bets. I could bet a billion dollars on a coin flip, get 9.8 million (after recouping foregone salary) on heads and lose 200k on tails. Moreover, there is a well established history of traders that lost large amounts of money finding gainful employment regardless. See Boaz Weinstein, for example.
Presumably you've seen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF1NUposXVQ

(Louis CK, NSFW, totally worth it though)
The problem that Taleb unfortunately doesn't address is that the bankers have captured the political system. For this reason his solution unlikely to transpire.
I agree completely. The important point in this article is this: there is nothing to do on Google+. I've tried very hard to use this service. The sad fact is that none of my friends use it. My feed is full of posts by Randall Munroe and The Next Web. It's basically a shitty twitter feed.
You can do that with the IRC client.
I can make an automatic heroku application. I even have a guy who works at Heroku that would help me do it.

I could charge instance-hours for a prefabbed EC2 instance image too.
No problem! I knew I wanted this, so figured maybe others would too!
Thanks for responding. I like the idea, and Square-like services will make card transactions easier in the future. But I really think you need to focus on this cash/large transaction problem. I've never thought about taking a check for "cash" to a bank, but I highly doubt it will work for a large sum of money, especially if it isn't your bank. My experience with cashing check at banks other than my own is they either refuse, or if the check is drawn on their bank they will do it for a fee.

Here is a list of reasons I have needed large amounts of cash:

* Last week a friend needed cash right away, I loaned it to them. That friend actually had the money in the bank, except that there are no local branches for my friend's bank. After this experience I think my friend will be getting a bank with nation-wide branches.

* I've never taken out a car loan, I've always paid with cash or a bank secured check (money order). Try buying a car with a personal check or debit card.

* Buying a MacBook on craigslist. Random people don't use Square.

* I use to modify/build cars. Buying used engines and parts costs a lot, cash or money order required.

* Neiman Marcus only takes AMAX. Visa debit cards are useless there. There isn't much you can buy at Neiman Marcus that is less than an ATM max.
No, because AppSumo works on a niche and Groupon is general.
Also, Groupon is hemorraging money, which AppSumo doesn't appear to be.

AppSumo for weddings is a perfect pitch.
Does it help newspapers improve their core business of serving the community and building credibility with readers? Or does it sacrifice decades of that work in the name of short-term monetization?

When a local newspaper becomes a service agency to the same businesses it covers, will it be able to report on them fairly? Do newspapers who use your service disclose that relationship when a story includes a reference to a business that is paying them to run their web site?
If so, would require hundreds of GB of UDP packets.

But you may not need to predict which one is the one that wraps the counter. It may be that all your packets could be the same.
I recently discovered this five-year old essay by Bret Victor who, coincidentally, has another article on the front page right now (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3212949). It discusses how to improve user interfaces by focusing less on interaction and more on information/graphic design.

It's long but worth your time. If nothing else, have a look at the proposed redesign of Amazon search results, and the hypothetical flight planning website that looks eerily similar to Hipmunk's eventual design.
Trying to use compensation to reduce the risk that a bank can fail is a fools errand. What we want to prevent is "too big", failure is healthy. My plan would reduce the amount of government intervention required during a failure (clawback), and it would also provide incentive to not be too big.
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>> That's a very naive perspective.

It's still the correct solution.

The correct solution is to let corrupt and reckless institutions fail.

Just because the deck is stacked against the actual implementation of the correct solution because of 'big money families' and so on doesn't nullify the correctness of the solution.
Well, you always have to manually select the file(s). At that point, the website could always upload it, so this is no worse than the status quo.
Suppose there is a bet that has an 80% chance of success (a payout of 100), but a 20% chance of catastrophic failure (a loss of 500, which results in a bail-out). On average, this bet loses 20; it should not be made at all.

But suppose you make a bonus of 20% of your gains, and no bonus for losses. Would you make this bet? Is opportunity cost a sufficient disincentive, or is that an elementary mistake, since the expected return seems to be 16?
In fact 100 years ago it was quite the opposite.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1907
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And if tens of thousands of people lose their jobs because the corporate credit markets freeze and otherwise-profitable companies can't fund their day-to-day operations, well, "externality" is just a fairy-tale idea thought up by ivory tower economists?

I'm sorry to be so glib, but if the answer isn't as simple as "end bonuses", it also isn't as simple as "just let the banks fail".
By all means lets make it harder for the FBI to get access to Internet traffic, or to telephone logs.

But generally, if the FBI believes it has a car it wants to follow, I'd like them to be able to do that as effectively, cheaply, and safely as possible.

I don't see that great a difference between my Internet traffic or phone logs and my daily whereabouts (i.e. my travel traffic and my physical location logs).

Good point about the debasing of saying 'yes' to things; it might end up like the permission system in Windows 7 where you get asked for permission for damn near everything to the point one starts clicking "OK" without thinking.

But having zero friction for trailing anyone, anytime, is also a problem.
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God forbid a model of a human being should actually resemble a human being...
I think one of the reasons that the author misses is that, as used by Zach Holman, 'fuck' levels the field between presenter and audience. "I'm not so important that I can't swear." It can be arrogant or overly formal to embrace how "gorgeous" your slides are, to emphasize how "gifted" you are at presenting. Instead, it emphasizes the fuckhead in all of us; the flaws, in order to say unequivocally "Yeah I'm an asshole sometimes, but here's what I think and I think it's worth hearing: I hope you do too."
sox isn't part of core Mac OS X, and the homebrew package appears to be broken at the moment.

I don't think there's a built-in method to play raw audio like this.
Not if it was such a large Ponzi scheme that it impacted the global economy.
The fundamental problem is that when a corporation has so much money they can throw tons of it at the upper management and executive, and not go out of business because they are undercut by a competitor that doesn't waste money like that, then something is wrong with capitalism at that point. That is the problem you try to fix, you don't just throw more regulation on the banks that will backfire like software patents.
Yep - I was very impressed to see the update installer ask if I want to keep add-ons installed by a third party, with the default option being no.
As I said in a recent post on exactly the same topic, if you think swearing is a sign of a poor vocabulary or linguistic skills, then you obviously haven't spent much time around linguists, speech pathologists, or english lit fans. These folk show just as much profanity, if not more, than the rest of the population.

As you show Fry says, 'loving language' and 'caring about what you say' has nothing to do with profanity.

I think it's particularly funny that the author spends an entire article deriding the use of 'fuck' and then intentionally uses it as a punchline. But hang on - even though you're going all 'meta' here - haven't you just spent a thousand words telling us that there are more professional ways to communicate, and you've just gone for your own self-defined cheap, lazy trick here? Whatever happened to leading by example?
That is akin to asking: "What is 'Apple'? A fruit company?"
Tell someone something obvious
Any way to request access to a folder to read all the local files in it?
Why?

I’m German and that seems bizarre to me. Swearing is definitely not used independently of context in German.
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I think "B" might be closest, though I don't know if I would have phrased it that way. If a certain good becomes accessible to more people, it no longer has the same signalling effect, so a replacement good must be found. I don't know if most wealthy people are terribly upset by this, though it might be upsetting to people who spent more than they could afford on a "signaling good" that subsequently became much cheaper.
I've been tearing through this one and I have a very basic question:

Because it's in the IP stack, would a software firewall offer any sort of defense here?
the cornerstone of modern evidence-based medicine is the randomised trial. trials can produce statistically significant results because there are many humans and they are all quite similar. unfortunately, software projects are both more diverse and less common. this is a critical difference: you simply cannot replicate evidence-based medicine in the field of software development.

section 5.2.2 addresses some of this, but is then pretty much ignored in the conclusion.