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I disagree. The entire first point is merely a taxonomic complaint. Yeah, taxonomies are hard to "get right" in the global sense. That's why we don't employ globally correct architecture-astronaut taxonomies for everything, there aren't very many accurate useful ones.

Instead life is made up of piles and piles of little taxonomies used for specific purposes. I'm happy with that as both a mental model and a practical one.

I agree that the notion of a single social graph is an incoherent one, but Maciej's point is largely a quibbly one. There are graphs of human interactions that can be mapped out. These interaction graphs are not static. Data sets which purport to represent reality require updating, as they are not the canonical source.

But so what? That's true for maps of physical locations too, or article quality on wikipedia. Facebook shows, if nothing else, that it's possible to not just track but mediate (and still track) these interaction spaces for users as an end to itself (even if they are the product not the customers).

Does it matter that Facebrick isn't a perfectly synced representation of reality? Well, does it matter that Wikipedia isn't a totally accurate encyclopedia? You'd be right to ask for what cause, and to what end.

And that's the whole point. We dig up or create the little taxonomies that bridge the gaps that we're looking to cross.
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Fascinating tidbit on meditation, but I disagree that posting about oneself on Facebook makes one more bland and boring. If, for example, one is bland and boring to start with, then yes, posting about yourself to Facebook won't really help. However (EDIT) -- if your life is boring, you can post about something else. I've known some individuals who lead the most pathetic lives you can imagine yet they had a decent-size following on Facebook because they regularly posted about politics (which I guess they used as a medium through which to vent about how pathetic their lives were...).

I do see some truth however to your comparison with that idea from meditation. For example, even if you are leading an interesting life, there are many ways to post about it that will make your life appear less interesting than it really is.
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I always said to my peers that I find myself uneasy when touching a smartphone, and that the feeling would disappear when they come up with a texture that feels like a pretty lady's skin :)

I definitely agree with the article. Pictures under glass do feel weird.
I feel extraordinarily safe. I don't believe I need a single extra unit of safety, so I'm not willing to make police officers jobs any easier. Why should I be, the only potential consequences are negative.
Can someone explain to me why this is such great news? Is $19/month especially cheap for American carriers or are they offering some kind of special feature?
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Yes. His latest tweet:

>There was a section on Waving Hands In The Air interfaces, but I cut it. (Tho I liked the phrase "nut-punch to your proprioceptive senses".)
I really don't know how much of this I believe. Maybe for sushi. But pro chefs in fine dining kitchens with zero tolerance for variation in an onion brunoise do not as a general rule use $400 custom knives. Some surely do, but they're not a job requirement.

My butcher uses a "crappy" mass produced stamped knife.

To a large extent I think these are fetish objects. Don't get me wrong: they are freaking cool and I want one.
Do you believe this?
TSA agents may not be sworn LEOs but they are not contractors or subcontractors. I do agree that they exist entirely to make us feel safer.
It's no "zero friction". Zero friction would be realtime access to feeds from OnStar, or license plate imaging at every street corner.
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Their phones use WiFi where available and, as I understand it, offer unlimited calls, texts and data - which is apparently a good deal for $19/month.
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No, AppSumo isn't based on group buying.
It's several things but to your question on average people pay upwards of 50 dollars for phone service this is significantly cheaper.
No, the police cannot open your trunk without a warrant. They can't even search your trunk, under most circumstances, when they arrest you.
The article says that swearing is the easy way out, and that intelligent, talented people can do better. I'd go further and say that swearing nothing more than cheap fucking theatrics, and gimmicks.
Related from HN a few years ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=564568 (not a dupe, but extra awesome stuff on the same topic)
Always 'peel' away the tab to its own window before taking a screenshot. And, uncheck "Show bookmarks bar" ;)
Granted, services are not required. But if you're going to charge for a hosted IRC server (and you require nickserv to join a channel) you might as well clean them up and make them slightly user-friendly/functional.

Rewriting an irc daemon from scratch is a bad idea. The multitude of existing irc daemons and their hybrids are proof that the technology's complex enough to take years to stabilize, much less secure. If it does actually succeed they'll run into the growing pains of scaling that (assuming they add standard irc cluster topology) will bring on netsplits and other potential issues. If I were a hacker i'd look at a from-scratch not-quite-complete alpha-release IRC daemon as a fun toy to mess with. And if I owned a company I wouldn't want to risk my private communications on such shaky ground.

I'm not saying it isn't a cool idea... it just needs a few years to cook before i'd put my money or business into it (or at least a reputable, secure codebase)
It's extraordinarily cheap, especially for an "unlimited" plan. For comparison: Republic Wireless uses Sprint's network, and Sprint's "unlimited" plan costs $99/month. (In theory, Republic gets away with this by using wifi rather than the cell network whenever possible. We'll see if it works.)
I signed up for Simple née BankSimple nearly a year ago—I have an email dated November 30, 2010 that says I'm in their queue.

I literally can't wait to open my Simple account, especially as 2011 is winding down.

Being an early adopter and someone who became disillusioned with our financial institutions, especially the banks, signing up for Simple was a no-brainer for me.

I cringe every time I have to deal with old-school, traditional banks; every month I hope it'll be the last one I have to deal with these archaic and broken institutions.

As far as I'm concerned, I can't open my Simple account soon enough. I don't have any connection to the company or any of its employees. However, I do recognize when there's a better solution to an existing pain-point.

I know I'm not alone in experiencing how broken banking has become—I have a $35 overdraft because I bought a $1.99 app that overdrew my account. Yeah, I'm looking at you Bank of America.

I have my fingers crossed that I'll be in the first big wave of customers as Simple continues expanding its customer base since I signed up long before the Johnny-come-lately's showed up.
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The Second Amendment protects your right to keep and bear arms. You should get the numbers right before you throw words like "brainwashing" around in a conversation.

You're thinking of the Fourth Amendment, which says you're to be free from unreasonable search and seizure. And your problem in this argument is the word "reasonable", which the Supreme Court interprets as "conducted in such a way as to balance the state's legitimate interests with the individuals", meaning, "you are not free from all searches just because you're not a suspect".
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That's a stretch, if you look at the history of sub prime lending Clinton was out of office long before it took off. Most people would argue that subprime was a fairly healthy part of the overall loan / risk landscape until 2000. So, I think you need to look for slightly more recent causes. If you want to look for mis regulation the fed's stimulus to deal with .bust was a significant contributing factor.

http://dallasfed.org/research/eclett/2007/el0711.html
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He never really sat back and waited for anything to come to him -- he was the very definition of "proactive". And what's amazing is that he did a great deal of that after he made his millions...
If you're not driving your vehicle (for instance, if its a museum piece) the police have no business putting a transponder on it.

On the other hand, if you drive your Illinois car around on the freeway in Nebraska with expired Illinois plates, you will be pulled over, and the reason I know that is guess.

Help me understand why a transponder violated the sanctity of your car, but the valid state license plate, issued by the state and required on every vehicle, so as to allow the police to identify your car from a distance despite any individual interest in privacy doesn't. You can't even see the transponders.
My company, Collaborative Drug Discovery (https://www.collaborativedrug.com) has been developing and offering a secure collaborative data sharing environment for drug discovery data (chemistry and SAR data). There are other tools in the space as well though labs and companies are slow to change. The sector is very secretive and closed so it takes time for habits to change.

Some factors have been promoting more collaboration and data sharing:

* The increasing cost of research

* Specialization and the emergence of micro-biotech (5 people biotech startups)

* Foundations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that push for more collaboration amongst recipients of their grants (disclaimer: Collaborative Drug Discovery has received grants from the Gates foundation as well)
I'm not defending McCarthyism, but the two just simply aren't comparable.

It's like comparing the Japanese American Interment Camps to Auschwitz.

Talk to the countless East Germans who were imprisoned b/c of a tip from one of the thousands of Stasi informants. See if their stories in any way compare to the people who were swept up in the red scare.
That research is interesting but this was the sort of research I was thinking about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkBh71zZKrM

The plan seems to be to make more RGBZ CMOS chips (cameras with range sensors built in). Once the R&D is more available we will start seeing more than just Kinects and engineering improvements (like the Megapixel race to get more and more in smaller form factors).
And hopefully find a better solution, more importantly.
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Its not "unlimited" cellular, there is a fair use policy, this article indicates: "Republic's fair-use limits are 550 minutes, 150 text messages, and 300MB when on a cellular connection" - http://www.mobileburn.com/17420/news/republic-wireless-launc...
Actually, lots of phones use vibration to give tactile feedback. Mine does it badly, but I'm pretty sure others do a better job of it.
The price floor is about $39/mo.

You can go cheaper if you never use your phone with some of the prepaid setups, but at that point you're talking a handful of calls a month, no data, and a couple SMS.
On the other hand, a lot of people here love claiming that an argument is "no true Scotsman." ;)
Agreed, this sort of thing belongs over on Reddit's politics echo chamber. At least I can unsubscribe from that.
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Should we always bail them out, even after they begin to predicate their practices on the fact that we will hand them more stolen money when they screw up?
Is there any insight anyone else can offer? My partner and I would appreciate any kind of feedback, good or bad.
Not to thread hijack but i made instantise.com forever ago and it got on HN, it also has an HN instant.
They might not have a strong motive to improve - but if consumers are saving 30% pa, that will be enough to provide happiness for a while.

Competition is the thing that's supposed to encourage improvement - if Better Place can actually make it work, competitors will presumably get funded. It's not just actual competitors, but also potential competitors. A danger then is an oligopoly (where competitors work in concert; a virtual monopoly. Adam Smith has a saying that men of the same trade seldom meet without a scheme to defraud the public being hatched).

But they do have some motivation: more efficient batteries would use less electricity (cost) but give the same kilometers (revenue); fewer changeovers would increase consumer usage (more revenue), and make it attractive to the next segment of the population (more users) - and, perhaps especially, make it viable for larger cities/countries where a greater range is needed to attract even a sliver of early-adopters.

NOTE: Battery tech does improve, but really slowly. It's the least of their problems. funfact: electric vehicles were actually in use about 100 years ago, and edison (for one) was involved in improving battery tech.
How sure are you about the way the TSA staffs checkpoints?
Nobody is proposing that the FBI GPS tag bikes, dude.
I think Regulation Q is a vary good idea. 'Checking' accounts that pay significant amounts of interest have long been the source of instability in the banking sector. And with FDIC inshurance covering the depositor's risks there is a significant moral hazard for banks to do ever more shady things. Just think about it for a second as a depositor your covered by FDIC and some bank is offering you 6% ROI why do any sort of due diligence just take it and let the tax payer bail you out if anything bad happens. And now your a competitor, you know that it's risky to compete but your also losing all your customers so you might as well take stupid risks vs just plain going out of business.
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How is driving a car not a productive task? There can be cases when people "want" to drive out of their preferences and passion. Can we actually classify some random and not-so-appealing work to us as non productive?
I'm not particularly interested in this for my phone. I'm not sure why -- I think I'm still more comfortable with the idea of having an "unlimited" resource for talking.

This, however, would be a stellar model for iPad use. If I had a tier-2 tablet offering, I'd be tripping all over myself to get it in front of these guys, especially with the Sprint network underneath it having credible 4G in big cities.
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That's the best idead I believe I've ever heard. Is there any open source computer vision software that's designed to read license plates?
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oh well in that case there still is no need to just send 100k and hope it works, you could use websockets to push it to the service, pipe it directly into ffmpg and when you get back a frame have websocket tell browser to stop sending data.

you can do the same thing with 2 ajax requests too. one doing the upload and the other that opens a connection at the same time and waits for a success response. onreadystate 3 of the second request, abort() the upload request.
T-Mobile now calls that service 'Wi-Fi Calling', and provides it on certain Android phones via software by Kineto Wireless.
However, unlike the original UMA solution that T-Mobile BlackBerrys had, the Android software does not support handoffs between Wi-Fi and cellular, and it will drop your call.
Considering they haven't even finished launching yet, and their business is cell phones, I hardly begrudge them a website that can't handle huge traffic spikes.
See, that I don’t understand at all. To me “fk” and “fuck” are equivalent. If you want to use a word you should stand by it – it’s also typographically much nicer. “Fk” is a lazy cop-out. It doesn’t soften the blow, it only looks ugly.
They have some charge stations installed in Melbourne already http://www.betterplace.com.au/drivers/charge-spot-locations....
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Just US? I don't see any info on international mail.
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"... will respond to You promptly, but You will be charged a support fee of $10.00." ...

How long until someone writes a script for kicks and giggles to generate support request emails on behalf of thousands of RW customers costing them each $10 a pop.
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There's the new tactile overlay for touchscreen keyboards:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/740785012/touchfire-the-...
Seriously Patrick, it was awesome to have you here. You were voted as the most helpful speaker at 500 we've had so far in the batch. Thanks!
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One of the biggest flaws I have is not being able to think and argue on the spot. I suspect it has to do with how grown I've become to Internet forums, which gave me the freedom to go back and edit what I wrote.

Often times when I get into a heated debate, I get flustered from being in the moment. But then I'll usually think of a really good counter-argument like thirty minutes later. Is there any sort of training or maybe any books that I could look into to help me get over this?

I feel this is a very fundamental skill to have anywhere. Thanks!
If you mean their highway checkpoints, I'm not sure about that, but you said

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You didn't say there are some TSA contractors, you said they are all contractors and subcontractors.
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Ooh, look, an on-topic location to ask Patrick questions. ;)

So, about that whole "subdomain" thing, as mentioned in this article. The problem in SEO is that separate subdomains accrue separate Google scores, correct? So if I was to serve my whole site from a third-tier domain, like "www.example.com", that would be okay? Provided I were not foolish enough to also put stuff on "example.com" and "other.example.com" and expect links to that content to contribute to the reputation of "www.example.com"?

Basically I'm looking for confirmation that the classic old "www" prefix is okay, if used carefully. (Lots of people hate it for aesthetic reasons, and I used to agree with them, and then I had to dig into the rules for DNS CNAMEs, and the terrifying results have made me fall in love with "www" again. Unless you tell me it's bad, in which case I guess I'll just have to take to drink.)
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Facebook has a heck of a lot more info on relationships than an undirected graph with a single edge type. In the front end alone, they now have a directed "follows" relationship. In their backend, they're keeping track of how much you pay attention to people, comment on their posts, click their links, etcetera, and using it, among other things, to decide what shows up in your news feed and what is silently dropped. Someone posted a link here not too long ago describing how to get the weights Facebook ascribes to your social connections, based on the above sort of metric.
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The site (www.republicwireless.com) seems to be working again now, but now they are promising shipping in 30-60 days.
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