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Like it or not, I think this is the future of human labor. As robots take over manufacturing (we're well on our way in the US) and other processes continue to be automated, we're left with the dilemma of finding productive work for displaced individuals. I've seen it suggested a few times on HN that the future of human labor is in creating one-of-a-kind, artful items that cannot be produced by machine. This is one example of that.

It's obviously not purely a function of utility. When I watch a professional artist at work, be it a musician or a painter or even a knife maker, it's an inspiring thing. I can't help but support them in whatever it is they're doing. For a brief moment, I remember that I could make literally anything of my life, and I'm inspired. It makes my work more meaningful, that I can use the fruits of my labor to support this other person's passion. The artifacts of that support, be it CDs, chalk drawings, or knives are memories of that inspiration. They are interesting stories.

The appeal for some will be the ability to signal to others that they are wealthy and powerful enough to convince another human to spend hours creating something for them. Perhaps you see this as a demonstration of "social superiority". When this transaction occurs in a voluntary, equal-information context, however, the result is purely virtuous capitalism. Bob can get fulfillment and riches by owning the machinery that mass-produces a good which makes the lives of the general population better. And then he can get additional good feelings by paying Alice 50x more than the cost of his goods for her to spend 20 hours of her time making that same good by hand. No one loses here. The world is 51 knives richer and society continues marching on.

It's easy to get tunnel vision and focus on things from our own world view. You've done amazing things with optimization and I appreciate everything you've given back to the community in the process. But the general goal of humanity is not to maximize efficiency. It is not an injustice when something is less efficient than it could be, in spite of everything our programming career has taught us. The truth is that there is no general goal. Kurt Vonnegut said it best when he said, ‎"We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different." I'll end this post with his thoughts:

[When Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope] Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And, see some great looking babes. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And, and ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is, is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And, we're not supposed to dance at all anymore.
thanks Michael!.

I'm actually working in that part of the site .. it will show "organizations and companies" who believe in us.

I will do something more attractive there.. thanks for the review :).
Is this the alleged fifth 0-day in Stuxnet that was allegedly suppressed?
>> what do you do to shift towards a reality with less corruption and power imbalance?

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Governments have absolute power. Businesses don't.

Governments have the ability to point their guns at the populace and say, "You have to pay for these failing businesses or some very bad things will happen."

Stop mixing government with business.
I too would like to see a comments link, because without it this is useless to me, which is a shame, as it's otherwise very nice.
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I'm trying to figure out his argument. He's implying that someone with good social skill would suck at designing a social network, but seemingly for more reasons than they just don't have the technical ability. Or maybe that's all he's saying.
It does (or should) go to fallback mode however Big Kernel Lock (BKL) was removed on kernels >= 2.6.37 and VMWare Tools won't install so your joy would have been short lived. I Googled around and tried a couple of patches but none of them gave me any joy. Apparently you can downrev your kernel and get it to work but that seems counter productive. So for the time being I am stuck with Fedora 14 (which is end of lifed in December).

The issue has existed for some time and was one of the reasons my trial of Fedora 15 was short lived (Gnome 3 and no Dropbox being the others) but I thought VMWare would have fixed it by now...
Hmm, not seeing it. Try resubmitting. It should take you to a page that thanks you for the submission.
NP. Doesn't have to be super attractive, just readable.
You just described the problem of copyright as a whole: it was never designed for the little guy - as the popular myth goes (guess who is spreading that). It was invented by and for publishers (aka the big business), not for authors. That was true in the 16th century when the first ancestor of modern copyright was instated in England, if didn't change with the Statue of Annette, and isn't any different today, either.
Awesome idea. There can be never enough interesting APIs around.
I once talked to a marketing guy who told me a tale about a campaign he did were he got a bunch of housewives to write handwritten letters to a few hundred core decision makers. Received extremely high response rates through this unusual approach. Just mentioning it as a random idea - would be fun if people could send out actually hand written cards through the service.
Result set is quite poor. Some results are missing completely, other results aren't even related to the search term.
There isn't any, really- I was surprised.
Took me a minute to figure out what you meant. Actually it's not.
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Great and snappy! I would really love the longer blog post...! Two questions if you have a minute: 1) Why suffix trees and not suffix arrays? 2) How are you implementing them? Did you do the tree building yourself or is there a good library that you recommend? Thanks.
same here it's not working for me either. Same effect browser/OS - Firefox 6.0 windows XP.
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Thanks, currently it doesn't link to any comment pages, but hopefully in the future I'll add it
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That would be so cool! I bet it would also be useful for educational software. You load up the chem program for the first time in months, and immediately smell your studying chem smell, lets say hazelnut coffee, and the memories start flowing back.
"Imagine the U.S. Census as conducted by direct marketers - that's the social graph."

That's the best quote in the whole post. I can't articulate it, but that resonated strongly with me.
The new file reading stuff in HTML5 is fantastic- I've written a little JS widget for my site that takes a local video file, reads the first 100KB of it, then sends that off to a remote video processor by cross-domain AJAX to get a thumbnail, which is then loaded onto the user's page.

It really is amazing what you can do. The only thing missing is being able to decode video metadata so that I know whether 100KB is too little or too much to send if I want to extract a single frame.
I agree that we need more vision to expand our capabilities.

But I would add that all of our senses are ripe for innovations in interaction. There are things we have yet to accomplish in terms of audio and sight, and even smell. Our fingers get in the way when we use a touch screen-- will there be a system powerful enough to track my eye position to the point where it can assist navigation?
I'm quite fond of the term "F-bomb". It's an appropriate descriptor much of the time. A bomb produces a "sudden and violent release of energy", typically intended to destroy a target or to draw attention. Similarly, the word "fuck" is often used to intensify a destructive or dismissive sentiment, or to draw attention or produce shock. The emotional content the word "fuck" carries is (sometimes) the conversational analog to an explosive payload.

It's useful for meta-discussions even among people who are comfortable using the term "fuck", because it conveys information about the intent and effects of usage. Likewise, the term "F-Pepper" (used in the article) conveys additional information that the scare-quoted "fuck" would not. If I say a guy lobbed a couple F-grenades into a political discussion I was having with a friend, you can infer some things about his intent. Part of effective swearing is knowing whether you're dropping a bomb or some pepper, and part of effective meta-discussion is being able to describe those differently.

That said, I do find that some people use the term "F-bomb" in ridiculous ways. Similarly for S-bomb, C-bomb, B-bomb, and some others. Calling everything a bomb even if it has no bomb-like effects really cheapens the word and worsens the meta-discussion.
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I think Maciej is brilliant and so is this piece, but I do wish he didn't so often play the "you're all dysfunctional nerds" card.

Also, there's an unstated assumption that in order to write software that is useful socially, one has to be very social. This sounds like the arguments people used to have in the mid-90s about whether a program could ever replace a librarian. Well, it didn't -- but it didn't need to.

I think it's clear that what we call social networks don't model our friendships well. That doesn't mean they aren't useful in some other way. Perhaps the great shift will come when we stop trying to make social networks be our Advanced Friendship Substitute, and instead make them do something more useful.
I've read many versions of this rant, written under many different authors' names over the last thirty or more years.

I'm waiting for the iteration of this rant - or even the actual UI some engineer's put together or some designer's rastubated - that shows that anyone involved has spent a single, solitary moment thinking about how a disabled person could use these interfaces. The next one will be the first one.

The more of the range of human ability an interface requires, the more human disability becomes a barrier to use it. What's so exciting about a future that shuts out people because they don't have the full range of action that some twit thought would be cool to make gratuitous use of?

No, contra Victor's ignorance, every human being does not in fact have hands or feet or normally-capable versions thereof.
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Yeah it'll grow as time goes on. Once week ago was when I was happy with my db structure and stopped dropping all the contents in it.
Well, are relationships finite-dimensional?
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Here is a standard implementation I found from some code at work.

/* memmove.c -- copy memory.
Copy LENGTH bytes from SOURCE to DEST. Does not null-terminate.
In the public domain.
By David MacKenzie <djm@gnu.ai.mit.edu>. */

#if HAVE_CONFIG_H
# include <config.h>
#endif

void *
memmove (dest, source, length)
char *dest;
const char *source;
unsigned length;
{
char *d0 = dest;
if (source < dest)
/* Moving from low mem to hi mem; start at end. */
for (source += length, dest += length; length; --length)
*--dest = *--source;
else if (source != dest)
{
/* Moving from hi mem to low mem; start at beginning. */
for (; length; --length)
*dest++ = *source++;
}
return (void *) d0;
}
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The best part is that the DoD is working hard to limit the outgoing bandwidth to just a certain subset of IP addresses in an attempt to limit their attack surface, so most of those IP addresses are never going to be externally accessible and may simple be used internally for internal only networks.
You need those things to drive on the city's property. If you want to drive your vehicle around on the freeway in Nebraska, you don't need Chicago stickers. If you want to disassemble your vehicle and eat it as part of a circus show, you don't need license plates.

So no.
I, too, am a Productive Member of Society which means two things: I gave back the terrible Macbook my employer provided and seamlessly and painlessly upgraded from Fedora 15 to Fedora 16 earlier today. Here was my experience:

1. Run preupgrade

2. Reboot

3. Load up xmonad without issue

4. Ask a couple low-level upgrade-related questions in #fedora; get answers in a couple seconds

5. Get back to work

I'm really failing to see what point you're trying to make with your comment, aside from noting that your old version of VMWare Fusion doesn't play very nicely with this Fedora release and that installing VMWare Tools on Linux is a pain in the ass (something I would never dispute, but then running the real thing absolves you of the need to run a VM).

I'm sorry about your experience, but as far as mine is concerned this is another swell Fedora release. Thanks, everybody!
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In vipassana meditation there is the idea that if you learn to recognize thoughts at the precise moment they arise, then eventually any given thought will basically lose its power and stop arising. Facebook seems to have the same property, but for personality. Every time you post about yourself, you become a little bit more bland and boring of a person.

The way I think of Facebook is rolodex + fax machine + succubus.
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Does anyone know of a browser plugin or anything that allows you to write files, too?
Working on that as well, it's the question mark after gates that is throwing it off.
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Israel is one of the ideal places to test out this system, because the country is so small: 100 miles will take you from Ashkelon, the southernmost major city on the Israeli coast, to Haifa, the northernmost. And very few Israelis expect to drive their cars, electric or otherwise, on day trips across Egypt or Lebanon.
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Unfortunately, gnome-shell doesn't work well in VMs due to the fact that it requires 3D acceleration. AFAIK, virtualbox is the only platform that supports 3D emulation but I can't speak to how well it works because I haven't tried it myself.

However, software rendering support has been recently added to rawhide (which will become Fedora 17 in about 6 months). If you're interested in seeing gnome-shell in a VM, you may want to give Fedora 17 a try when it is released.
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I think it's interesting that 7 out of 9 companies basically said they didn't get any questions that flustered them. I wonder if this indicates:

1. so much confidence that you don't get flustered.

2. so much prior preparation that you don't get flustered.

3. not wanting to seem imperfect in the interview story.

I wonder what the actual breakdown between 1, 2, and 3 is...

50%/50%/0%?

90%/5%/5%?

5%/90%/5%?

20%/20%/60%?

Something else? Or perhaps there are other possibilities that I missed?
well you can always use file system api.
http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/filesystem/
but its chrome only
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I used a suffix tree over a suffix array because I hadn't heard of suffix arrays, but after glancing at the wikipedia page for suffix arrays it seems those might have been a good choice too. I'll look more into it. I did all the tree building myself, and I'll explain that in my post. The post should be ready by tomorrow.
Like.fm founder here.

I guess the thing I did that might have most likely shown that I was committed to what I was doing was that I had dropped out of college for the site before applying to YC.
Yes, but those are very different contexts -- mine was the big corporation with tons of cash on hand, with in-house development projects that could facilitate activities generating 100's of millions of billions of dollars. Going the extra mile to ensure the organization has access to the best of several options has a definite payoff.
That will capture the microphone input; it won't capture the sound that the computer is playing, which is what I think the comment you are replying to wants.
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One nuance to this is that not all profanity is created equally. Essentially none of the people here that would drop the F-bomb in a presentation would utter the word "cunt" in any remotely professional environment. It connotes disrespect much more strongly and status perhaps very little, probably negatively.
Interesting. There's a similar research about a content centric based internet coming out of Xerox PARC.

http://gigaom.com/cloud/how-parc-wants-to-reinvent-the-inter...
As I understand it (which is to say, poorly), one of the more pressing reasons is this: the SEC requires companies with 500 or more shareholders, whether or not they are publicly traded, to publicly disclose financial information - exactly what financial information, I'm not sure, but the types of things that publicly traded companies are required to disclose. So, since they're going to have to deal with the regulatory/disclosure stuff either way, it often follows that they may as well take advantage of some of the benefits you listed (rewarding investors & early employees, add'l cash, etc) by going public.

While googling to double-check myself on this, I discovered that the SEC is considering raising the shareholder limit thanks to Facebook. And of course, I'm sure FB is weighing this stuff very carefully. Personally I'm really skeptical about the choices that might get made at Facebook out of concern for their obligations to shareholders as a public company. I used to say that the IPO would be the beginning of the end for them, but I'm not so sure anymore. Last I remember, though, they were already close to the limit of 500 and may be considering going public next year, so we might find out soon enough.
>I think this claim contains a pretty elementary mistake. No bonus is a disincentive, because base salaries can be relatively low; not receiving a bonus is a large opportunity cost. If I could get a 400k salary, but I instead opt for a 200k salary with a 400k expected bonus, then if I don't get my bonus I'm 200k behind where I could have been if I just took the salary

Say my bonus is, I dunno, 2% of profits.

I go put 100 billion dollars on a single hand of blackjack. If I win, I make 2 billion. If I lose, I'm out 400k. Easy choice. Do it!

The Black Swan is an interesting book. You might disagree with Taleb's claims, but he's not making elementary mistakes.
Have the memory issues been resolved? Under Windows 7, it isn't uncommon to find an idle Firefox browser with a few low-activity tabs using up more than 1.5GB of memory. It's gotten to a stage where I have to restart the browser every couple of days...reminds me of when I had to this with my Windows PC! I've recently moved over the Chrome and while I miss Firefox, the browser is far less of a memory hog.
I know who he is and where he's worked. But authority != always right

The vision held a lot more than just swiping on glass, there were spacially aware devices, proximity networking, augmented reality... But that's not vision worthy... because the ipad already exists!?

People are talking like, if you get a vision wrong (at the start) the whole journey is pointless. I'm saying, we can always change the things that don't work. If interacting with glass stops working out... we can ditch that for something better.

Just like the iPhone/iPad doesn't fold in the middle (like the knowledge navigator vision presented).
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The spec changes quiet often and if you do the javascript file stuff alot (my startup deals with local files with javascript so i use js for files alot) you will come across something that has been changed from what it is on html5rocks. It gets ugly very quickly. When i started it, the condition was alot worse, there was practically no one writing any tutorials. Your only option was to reverse engineer the spec draft. That wasn't pretty. Now the condition is much better (but i would still love to see more people write tutorials about this). This is very powerful stuff and not many people are writing about it, maybe because some parts of filesystem interaction spec are still not stable and used my many people.
I can foresee software being able to discern good paintings from bad based purely on supervised learning from examples, with today's technology.

Unless we manage strong AI, I expect this effort to get stuck in arguments over feature selection.
othermaciej likely read Megan McArdle's article at (http://www.theatlantic.com/business/print/2011/10/if-you-fav...). It's a good article.

Although RyanMcGreal didn't refer specifically to Glass-Steagall, it's a good bet that "re-regulating" (i.e. re-introducing measures from that law) might be a bad idea in several cases, Regulation Q being one of them.
As I said in my other response, there is a lot in that video that is visionary. Alan Kay's drawing had a keyboard in it... That's not visionary... he's just copying the typewriter - what a stupid vision!?

Augmented reality, Proximity networking, transparent computers, visual recognition, AI, interfacing with the kitchen... seriously we are saying "Not visionary" because there are glass interfaces with hands swiping on them...
Global knives are good, I've got some, but apparently they reduced the proportion of molybdenum in thier alloy a few years ago making the cutting edge more brittle and therefore requiring more frequent and intensive sharpening.
What's the difference between a startup and a small business?
What makes a startup a startup? Does it have to be technology-related? If I start a small business selling widgets or a service, are the same elements not involved: some capital injection (from savings or family loans), one/two owners acting as CEO, CFO, CIO, Sales, Marketing, HR, Ops, etc., juggling many things and struggling with the same questions?

I am truly curious - what constitutes a startup and how is this different from the thousands of non-tech businesses that are started every day?
Which I'm sure you will. Looks like a great idea and I look forward to the day you come to Canada.

By the way, the on-page anchors in your footer aren't working atm (#features, #vision, #sign-up, etc.).
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When you publish content on the internet and it has a relation to your online identity you are just saying: look how awesome I am.

I uploaded a bubble sort in prolog and a b-tree in Haskell ("I'm an enlightened far-reaching hipster hacker").

I quoted Allen Ginsberg on facebook. "Look at me I'm smart and read poetry".

MySpace collapsed and Facebook's clean UI won because most people don't have that much identity.
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new entry into the market, Stardog from Clark and Parsia, extremely fast and embeddable / scalable RDF database with OWL reasoning built in (they created the Pellet OWL reasoner)

I agree - 2011 going into 2012 is the rise of the semantic web
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