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https://github.com/jrgifford/isitaudsyet

Feel free to complain about my horrible code. :)
So on one end you plug in the HDMI, and the other end you need a female->male cable to power the USB? Just asking for clarification.
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Using mechanical turk would be against both Amazon's ToS and Dropbox's (having the turk's sign up to a service or provide personal details / email)
But fashion changes quickly, and that can work in favor of openness. Investors don't invest huge amounts of money for something that will only be in fashion for a short period of time. So the solution is to build on open platforms rather than an entirely new proprietary stack.

There are other factors, too. I'm just saying that it's not entirely one-sided.
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I have quite a few home movies of family members that take up quite a bit of space.

And my personal music collection is in the 100s of gigabytes (all legally purchased and ripped from CD).
Its definitely very appealing. If he could sync with Dropbox or iCloud, that would really benefit people on the move.

My take on "this-was-done-didn't-work" is that those systems were built on flash, and extremely clunky and slow. One of them was even running Windows virtual machines, and throwing screen grabs down to its clients. There is always room for a good useful product (which has had a not so glamorous past).
s/simulation/any real code/. It's still not a square root, which is a total straw man. If it were that simple, there'd be no code to write in the first place.
Who works with a prod database in an interactive interpreter? My eyes are literally wide in shock.
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Good point! I just wanted to make sure that the OP knew that he was too sweeping in his generalizations.
Your version looks like a java/C# style to me. It's not really necessary to create a class for this.
I think you have to consider that not all submissions are equal. Some stories are likely to shoot to the top of the front page regardless of their competition. For those, you would want the post to peak when there are the most readers, which requires posting during competitive slots. But for more run-of-the-mill submissions, posting during a time of less competition is probably a bonus.
Okay. I'll try and explain why you're being downvoted.

Every time someone wealthy donates a whole lot of money to a philanthropic cause, people like you pop up in the comment section. "Oh it doesn't matter, it's only X% of his net worth, that's the same as me only donating Y". Seriously, you followed this template almost to the letter.

First, charity isn't a competition over who can sacrifice the most. At the end of the day, that $500,000 helps Wikipedia five thousand times more than your $100. More, probably, because his donation raises the profile and will convince others to donate. Second, people aren't "expected" to give anything, regardless of how much money they have.

I think the thing that annoys me the most is how obvious it is you came in here with preconceived anti-rich notions and then did mental gymnastics to convince yourself that you're "a better person" than this incredibly generous man. If you want to spread that kind of negativity around, go back to Slashdot.

I'm sure someone can articulate this better than I can, but seriously. These sorts of posts just piss me off.
B&N sure is acting like the Nook is their last great hope.

My local store is renovating about 1/4 of their floor space to be occupied by Nook products. When you walk in to the store, your are greeted by a salesperson who asks if you are buying a Nook.
Only if you can clearly point out the section of the bill that would allow this to happen. Otherwise, FUD claims will kill all credibility and we'll have a Sarah Palin "Death Panels" situation.
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No. As an officer of a public company, he sells his shares on timetable as required by insider trading regulation.

You can cash out your entire net worth within a month to year max. Sergey, practically, can never realise his entire net worth, or anything close to it.
Do to lactational amenorrhea, mothers who breast feed their kids until age 2 (as the World Health Organization recommends) are much less likely to get pregnant again quickly enough to have kids spaced less than two years apart.

Considering that breast feeding (at all) is correlated with an 8 point IQ increase on average, the above could completely explain the study's findings.
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Using Python and other runtimes is often kind of slow - it's not a huge deal but if you have a lot of this stuff in your config, then vim might start up only like 8 times faster than Eclipse.

The other thing is that the Vim API you use in these other languages is pretty much Vimscript anyway.

For me, Vimscript is basically a normal imperative language in the general neighborhood of perl and shell... I agree it is more awkward to write than Python, particularly with escaping. But it's a decent DSL for configuring text editors, and Python isn't as much.
Am I the only one who,

1. Doesn't have a Facebook account.

2. Runs NoScript to whitelist scripting and site trust.

3. Runs Cookie Whitelist to whitelist cookies.

4. Runs BetterPrivacy to wipe Flash/LSO cookies.

5. Runs Adblock Plus to prevent viewing ads wherever possible.

?

That said, at least some like Heise.de, have put in place solutions that do not add to the underlying problem.
Yeah, I'd be interested in well-edited individual books, by someone knowledgeable in the subject who took care with both the physical presentation, and ideally some editing of the content, at least to make the articles flow coherently and not have too much redundancy between chapters (and make sure total crap sections didn't slip in).

In some ways that's the whole point of it being open-content, that you can reuse/repackage it in various ways, but there hasn't been a lot of creative third-party reuse yet.
This is a great article. Here I thought the author was going to criticize Silicon Valley and I was already to bounce on it because...Duty Calls: http://xkcd.com/386/

Then he turns around and actually defends SV pretty well.

One thing that I will point out (sorry it's my Duty http://xkcd.com/386/) is that the pace of technological change may be increasing at a rate where it's difficult if not impossible for traditional educational/training institutions to keep up. My bet is that this change in the relationship between technology change and skills change is a big driver of unemployment.

This doesn't undermine the main point, but I think it's something to keep in mind for two reasons:

1) It makes one more sympathetic to the plight of the unemployed. Sympathy for the unemployed is something I have trouble with at times.
2) It makes one aware of entrepreneurial opportunities in the education/training/career development markets.
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Manufacturers seem to like Windows Phone 7 too, but those phones aren't selling very well.
If it's purely about generating the whole site every time you make a change, then try using the `--limit-posts` option on jekyll.

If you set it to 1, it just re-generates the most recent post, which is usually what you're working on anyways.

If that doesn't work, the Octopress has a `rake isolate` command that stashes everything but the post you ask for in a separate directory. `rake integrate` puts you back to normal.
That probably doesn't matter that much. I don't see why he can't just donate his GOOG shares instead of cash.
Could be, but I bet the amount of people who breastfeed their kids for 2 years is dwarfed by the amount of people who don't, but due to chance have kids 2+ years apart.
Not sure if I'm smart enough to figure out how to make teams work virtually for 1,000's of thousands of students at a time. (Can't figure out how to grade progress on this scale.)

I'm leaning to have the class teach individual entrepreneurs the basics of how to build a startup using the business model canvas, customer development and agile engineering.

Think of it as a step-by-step guide to building a startup. An advanced version of the Four Steps to the Epiphany updated for web/mobile/cloud, etc.

Thoughts?
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I'm pretty certain you're describing an effect of the display rather than the GPU.
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It is great to see that tumblr is actually doing something! Putting up some ad in the NYT/WSJ is not enough.

Google could have done something similar, e.g. blacking out every first search result or something like that. In this ongoing attack on freedom and the internet in its current form it is time to flex some muscles.
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You're right in that there has been a boon in articles about its health. However, this article was specifically addressing the article which cited HitWise data. I thought it was diversionary.
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Second, people aren't "expected" to give anything, regardless of how much money they have.

That's actually something philosophers of ethics (not to mention theologians and regular people) disagree on considerably; there is a pretty big range of positions on charity as a choice and/or obligation that are widely held and defended. The "never an ethical obligation" view is one, but probably isn't the majority one, though it's more popular now than it was in previous eras. But an HN thread about Sergey Brin probably isn't a good place to settle that debate...
I do this from time to time. But I also type "BEGIN" before anything else.
Could be, but b/c gestation takes 9 months breast feeding would only have to take place for 13 months for lactational amenorrhea to result in the 2 year spacing.

Based on a quick google search of breastfeeding rates, in the US 25% of women who breast feed do so until 12 months, which may be enough to create the difference noted in the study.
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Basically he paid to stop seeing Jimmy's dessicated, mildly derpish face page after page after page...
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Actually if I'm reading his post correctly, his $2 million net worth is imaginary, and is based on an estimate of how much money it would take in order to passively generate the $60K per annum-ish which he currently works for. Kindof an odd way of putting things.
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I personally would love to see Wikipedia sell ads. Nothing crazy, just one subtle and tasteful text ad per page, sold by auction. (The ads would be much smaller and more relevant than "a personal appeal from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales".)

The revenue could allow Wikipedia to take on ambitious projects to further its mission statement, similar to the Mozilla Foundation or NPR.

Unlike most publishers, Wikipedia doesn't need to worry about maintaining a firewall between sales and editorial -- so I think it's a natural fit.
An increase in the number of stories submitted already makes it harder for an individual story to get on the front page, since it rolls off the New page faster.

I think I know why you didn't like the story-upvote count, since sometimes there might not be any good stories available to upvote. But keep in mind that if story upvotes are the new "time", then "time" slows down for the existing front-page stories as much as it does for the new submissions.
Post-Enron, the government suddenly felt it was really important to have all options be priced by third parties, even tiny three-person private companies, so it’s now a legal requirement that if the Board wants safe harbor from lawsuits, it must get a 409(a) valuation done every 12 months. These usually cost around $8000 and are done by the most unimaginably braindead accountants you can possibly imagine. Their job is to tell you a high price (say, 1/4 of Preferred) and your job, amusingly, is to explain to them why your company is Really On The Brink Of Absolute Annihilation so as to coax them into a 1/6 or so valuation, which then the Board will accept. This process is time and money you cannot afford, but the government mandates it. (source: page 12 under "Pricing")

At the core of this issue was (and still is) how "deferred compensation" can be exploited by executives as golden parachutes. When execs can spread out their compensation over time, the tax treatment of the compensation can be minimized for the execs and maximized for the companies. Before 409a, the reverse was true. Whenever corporate profits are earned they're either re-invested or distributed -- only two ways to handle the money.

Before 409a, golden-parachute-type arrangements taxed execs when amounts were actually (or "constructively") received as income. This tax treatment made it favorable for employers to give deferred compensation as incentive -- lots of it. Makes sense: amass huge liability for work that was never actually done on profits that have not yet been earned. If you're an executive of General Motors, or on the board of any large company, this pre-Enron way was good for the manager getting deferred compensation, but bad for the company. Any future profits go to the executives FIRST (whether or not those execs are even at the company still!), and the short-term performance of the company and manager is what they want to focus on.

There has always been a huge battle between corporate profits and executive compensation. One of the best professors I had in grad school had done his doctoral on golden parachutes, and this is a pretty interesting area. Complicated, but interesting.

Unfortunately, we don't have any laws creating incentives for corps to give profits to the common shareholders (in this case, employees receiving vanilla stock options), just the laws that encourage companies and their (current and former) executives to engage in tug-of-war over the distribution of future profits. When this happens, very little of the value tends to trickle down to Joe Shareholder .
By "frame of reference", I know you meant "inertial frame of reference", but of course the Earth moving around the sun and the solar system moving in the galaxy are not inertial. My weight is a bit stronger during the day than during the night because of the centrifugal force, isn't it?

I'm sure that the effects are tiny for the LHC, but are they accounted for at all?
I had butterflies in my stomach just by reading your post. Congrats on having the backup in place!
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This is a digression, but you are completely misunderstanding my point. I can't "cash out" my "$2M" because I don't have it. I have a job that provides the income I'd get from about $2M in conservatively invested assets. That is much less liquid than Brin's shares (he can borrow against them, for example, where I've already tapped that avenue with my mortgage).
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Could be good reasons. Perhaps Apple's webGL implementation actually could be used for exploits, and until it's secure they won't allow it for general use. Notice the one place Apple does allow WebGL is iAds, which are reviewed & controlled by Apple.
2) Tachyonic neutrinos (not likely)

Another possibility that occurred to me (which is probably way off, and has likely already been trivially disproven by some simple experiment that I'm not thinking of at the moment) is that the "speed of light" that we tend to measure is actually a bit lower than the geometrical "c" that appears in equations (I'm not sure what the state-of-the-art is on measuring that geometrical quantity directly), because for some reason photons are slowed as they move through the vacuum (similar to how we can very easily slow photons by making them move through glass, except this would have to be via interactions with the vacuum or some other form of matter). It could be that the vacuum itself has an index of refraction for photons not quite equal to 1 due to some unknown interaction.

Neutrinos interact with almost nothing, so it's conceivable that they even if they have a small amount of mass and travel slower than geometrical "c", they could still end up going faster than photons because they slip through background interactions with ease.

Again, this is wild speculation, "c" is used all over the place, and if we had the wrong value for it, that would require a lot of coincidences, that this sort of vacuum index-of-refraction effect also had the side effect of making other measurements involving the speed of light (energy measurements, for instance - I would tend to think a discrepancy would be way more obvious here, involving, as they do, factors of c^2) come out looking correct, and that seems unlikely to me.

Then again, so much of what we directly measure is grounded in e/m interactions, so there's a chance (vanishingly small, as it is) that a fifth decimal place discrepancy in photon-in-vacuum-c vs. geometrical-c could escape notice because of the relative difficulty of directly measuring geometrical-c, especially if whatever vacuum effects that slow photon travel had other side effects that dunged up our energy measurements, too.
Maybe he should be using his time to fix RAGE instead...
This makes total sense. After all the personal appeal is an ad. Much better to have non-intrusive ads that people might even find useful in some cases.
I'd be just as turned off by a job posting for a "ninja" as I would be by a blog post addressing a "hipster." Why favor one buzzword over another?
That answers the uncertainty in the blogger's disclaimer: "* Disclaimer: I can’t be sure this isn’t against the MTurk posting terms. In fact, it might be."
>Charity isn't a competition

Ask a Christian that. A rich man giving a lot doesn't mean anything if it isn't a sacrifice. Just like doing good things for the humanly recognition isn't the way to give. So says Matthew).

Just sayin'.
Why wouldn't they need to worry about advertisers having control over content? A big client would still have a lot of leverage.
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Cloudo (see beta.cloudo.com) has been providing a huge WebOS environment for a years. A very advanced API, dozens of apps including e-mail, rss reader, games... And a very well designed robust API based on XSLT.

But it's also quite inactive for 2 years. Nobody is interested at running current desktop on cloud. Because current desktop environments suck. They're broken.
I created a similar open source javascript/ajax/xhtml only browser-based desktop, with an OS X like GUI. It was fun, but a waste of time, and it never caught on. There isn't much of a use case for extendable OS like browser desktops imho.

http://demo.sierra-os.org
u: demo p: sierraos (takes a few secs to load)
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vimrc affects startup time, but like any program it isn't the lines but the work done which will make it slow or fast. How slowly does your computer read a 1000-line text file? vim is fast, setting some parameters in vimrc doesn't change that. Avoiding configuration that will make your life easier out of fears about performance is premature optimization.

If you have a ton of autocmds for frequent events, things can slow down. I also find that things can get slow when LOTS of calls are made to a language other than Vimscript.

But fundamentally, run Eclipse and Netbeans and gedit and emacs - vim should compare favorably even with a ton of config.

If you want to actually profile your startup time, try this on a recent version of vim:
vim --startuptime=vim.log
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It looks like the abstract basically says that the older child does better with a larger spacing (more dedicated time with parents, possibly), while the younger is basically unaffected. That makes sense to me.
> I've been criticizing Gruber more often than not, but I found this one to be a to the point, fairly balanced piece - especially around the visionary vs. tweaker vs. inventor part.

I as well. And I like Gladwell, I just think he and Isaacson have seriously misrepresented Steve Jobs and what he did in his life & at Apple.
Yep. Ironically, the quality of the Macbook Pro's screen is what's causing the problem. The Pro's IPS screen has much better color reproduction and view angle consistency than the cheaper TN screens you see everywhere. However, a disadvantage of IPS LCDs for games is a relatively slower color switching speed. Hence, the blurriness during motion.
Cellphones and TVs prove that it's "winner takes all", because they all use standards that have won and now have it all. For example, despite the fact that Blu-ray players are made by different manufactures, the Blu-ray technology is still the take all winner in the HD format wars.

Also, throwing the PC industry out as an anomaly is a mistake because iOS and the PC both particular kinds of technology - they are platforms. In this type of "winner takes all" scenario it isn't the standard that takes it all, but the platform providers. The only hope for iOS is the web as the platform.

Aside, I think that Windows Mobile has an even more compelling business model than Android, because Microsoft has more of a financial incentive to improve their proprietary platform than Google does.
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Why do you think those are mutually exclusive? "the number of real parameters needed to specify a quantum state is exponential in the number of systems" is just a rewording of "the quantum state function is an exponentially complicated object." But when you combine that statement with the main point of the paper, namely, that this exponentially complicated object is physically real, it is not unreasonable to infer that this physically real exponentially complicated object comprises multiple copies of classical reality.

In fact, there are logically only three possibilities:

1. The quantum wave function comprises zero classical realities, i.e. what we call classical reality is not real but some kind of illusion. This is actually a scientifically tenable point of view. See http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9605002, particularly section VI.

2. The quantum wave function comprises one classical reality, i.e. Copenhagen. This is not any more a scientifically tenable point of view.

3. The quantum wave function comprises multiple classical realities, i.e. many-worlds is (are?) physically real.

Personally, I subscribe to option 1.
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I wonder how this stacks up against Find My iPhone (which every new iPhone user is now prompted to turn on when they set up their phone).

It seems like it would have the significant disadvantage that uninstalling the app turns off location updates.

Maybe there are some advantages I don't know about?
"We had a backup from earlier in the week"

week? That seems kind of off. I'd suggest setting up backups more often than that, especially for production data.

Sorry to hear about that. I destroyed a drive once a long time ago (~1994) as well. Happens to the best of us.
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