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How would SOPA give the U.S. govt. any more power over Facebook, Twitter, or Amazon? The DNS blocking is basically the same power as domain seizing, which the feds already have today. In other words if the U.S. govt wanted to try to take down Facebook, Twitter, or Amazon today, they could already do so by trying to seize their domains. There's no difference in the process or standard of proof. The only thing SOPA adds is DNS blocking since the feds do not have jurisdiction over domains registered outside the U.S.

It is great to stand up to bad legislation, but it is not great to be hyperbolic and inaccurate about the bill.
They need to ditch the atom processors. They should be embarrassed that their new hotness flagship product, Google+, is unusably slow on the Chromebooks. Even an individual post, which only contains the header bar and some text, is unusably slow.
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From http://www.nsc.liu.se/~nixon/sshprobes.html
"So, to more precisely describe what we have found: a small subset of the ssh logins from Chinese IPs to two of our systems are preceded by one or two connections from unrelated Chinese IP addresses, in which opaque binary data is thrown at sshd." "My hypothesis is that just over a year ago, a new function in the firewall went into limited beta test, where a sample of outgoing ssh connections from China is carefully selected for secondary screening.""For the selected ssh connections, the target system is probed from one or two IP addresses under the control of the Chinese government. These may be otherwise innocent addresses that are spoofed at the level of the great firewall, or they may be actual computers under remote control by the government - I have no way to tell.""In some cases, the legitimate ssh connections are unsuccessful; they appear to be interrupted. This may be a result of the firewall deciding the target system to be unsuitable and injecting RST packets into the TCP stream to kill it.

The last few weeks, the frequency of the probing has increased. This might mean the beta test period is nearing its end, and that this function is about to become more widely deployed."
This is very important and a great use of a filibuster. Help Senator Wyden to stop this bill!
That's true, but on the other hand the principle of operation for these specialized circuits was actually a traditional (though of course simplified) bunch of oscillators or noise generators, with simple filters, all controlled by simple envelopes. There may have been a ring modulator (for the bell?) somewhere too :)
If your ISP gives you a single address and requires you to pay for more equipment, and you 'hide' with NAT, you're violating your terms of service and contract with that ISP.

Are you really suggesting that NAT66 be developed and deployed in order to help you violate your contract? Should the IETF find some way to help you get out of paying your bill too, or maybe stealing somebodies WiFi?
Well. Here's my take.

There are a number of text analysis SaaS offerings such as OpenCalais, AlchemyAPI, Zemanta, and OpenAmplify. They've all got impressive science under the hood, but none of them are accurate enough to be useful.

I spend most of my time these days thinking about why that is and what to do about it.

For systems to do better, they'll need to incorporate world knowledge; they'll need to test different interpretations of a text and select the ones that "make sense". This is likely to be a form of statistical inference rather than Cyc style logic.

Based on some systems I've worked with, I'd estimate that a space optimized "background" knowledge base that can estimate satisfiability in the common sense domain is on the order of 10-100 GB. It will puff out to at least an order of magnitude beyond that in the process of creating it.

Few users will have the ability to create a KB of that type, and it would be a serious thing to download and install.

Hosting the services of that kind of system in a SaaS manner makes a lot of sense.
A lot of the answers are subective, that's b/c, as individuals, our tolerances vary so much. So regardless of what we say, you're still likely to experience burn out (if you haven't already). I know when I'm burned out when I have no motivation to sit in front of my computer. Unfortunately, the last time I felt that way I quit my high paying job and spent the next several months in a horrible place - mentally, physically, and emotionally. So at some point you'll realize your personal limits. With that said, my reason for posting isn't in regard to the before part, but rather the after - I've found that once you experience burn out, you're more susceptible to it in the future.

That's usually a bad thing; obviously you won't want to experience burn out again. However, sometimes it can have a positive yield in the long run. I've found that after my burn out experience, I've raised the bar in terms of the type of work I'm willing to do and how much crap I put up with. For example, I've always been passionate about home-run level customer service. As a consultant, that belief usually meant that I bent backwards anytime a client asked me to. I still have that belief today, but I tend to push back if they ask me to do things I won't be happy maintaining for the life of their product, or if it'll involve trying to hit an unrealistic time line, etc. So post burn out, I'm definitely more protective of my limits and happiness, I just wish I would've been this way sooner.
They messed up by not making any killer apps specifically for the Chromebook. Unfortunately choosing Atom means they can't really make any killer apps even if they wanted.
If the number is right, $80m is not a ton of money for people who have already had big exits and took $20m in VC to start this company.
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it's up to you, but i have been in a similar situation, and it damaged me more than i thought possible at the time. if you're like me, you're currently taking a grim pride in carrying this.

for what it's worth, if i could send a message back to my past self, i would tell him to stop. 10 years down the line the bad has outlasted the good.
A few random comments:

There's a video of the Soyuz explosion mentioned above at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyFF4cpMVag&noredirect=1 that shows the escape system saving the crew.

The use of solid rocket boosters for human space flight (as was planned for Ares I) is hugely controversial because they can't just be shut down in the event of a problem, as regular engines can, making survivability more difficult.

Personally, I think NASA is overly risk-adverse, to the point that nothing gets accomplished (see Constellation / Ares I). An interesting article on this is http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/space/news/4330356

On the topic of aircraft turbine failures, there's the interesting case of a DC-10 engine that disintegrated in flight due to a pilot experiment, killing a passenger. For details see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Airlines_Flight_27

Finally, if you're interested in SpaceX, NASA budgeting, and so forth, I recommend http://nasawatch.com
Good infographic, but it misses the actual deepest dive by a warm blooded animal at over 35,000 feet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathyscaphe_Trieste
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I'd like an easy peasy explanation of what a combinator is.
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That depends on your opinion of what a good place to live is. Some people like the city. Some especially like the culture NYC offers. Some of us, me included, would say that NYC is overrated, everyone there has this attitude that their shit doesn't stink because they live in "the greatest city since the dawn of civilization", it literally smells bad, it's over crowded, elitist, and so on. But some would take those same opinions and word them positively and just like it there.

NYC has its downsides just like every place on earth does. Paradise doesn't exist. We each have to find or make out own and I can respect that some people love New York even if I don't. The suburbs can be thought of as full of soccer moms, yuppies, the unhip or less intelligent, there's nothing to do, everything is far away, and on and on. Some like it. It's a good place to raise a family or at least there's a good argument for it.

It's all relative. Everything is relative. Very few things aren't.
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"The New York Times over the weekend posted this great map showing the location of more than 400 New York City start-ups ..."

At some point, we're going to re-visit the definition of "Start-Up". Google/Twitter/FB?
I honestly don't think this is feasible without regular expressions. There's very many minor details that make data mining work which have to be custom tailored to different solutions.
Nope. It's more of a "deployment of technology" breakthrough. Most of the individual technologies there have been around for a while.
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Everything you just listed wasn't for talent - it was for products... try again.
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I hadn't heard of it until today, so I'm glad it was reposted.
Two hours shopping and prep for a dinner of pinto beans and rice? The smallest bag of rice at the grocery store should suffice for a couple of meals for four, and while you're at it, why not throw in a second bag of beans. And if you are counting in the cooking time as continuous, why not also the overnight soaking of the beans? That should make Outback Steakhouse much more economical.
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That is a good point. I think I have seen that before too. Depending upon your website SEO, that may or may not help.
Thiel is right. In 100 years, people are still going to be talking about inventors like Ford and Edison. I doubt you'll find 22nd century schoolchildren reading about the little company that made shiny, walled-garden media players.
My dive-master friend has told me that the bends isn't an issue if you're holding your breath. The bends is a result of the air mixture that you're breathing with a SCUBA.

This is why freedivers can dive down to 100meters, and then come back up quickly without dieing.
Would anyone happen to know how much 'exit bonus' these MIT/Stanford CS Grads get once a company is sold?

40% of them will start their own companies once their non-competes expire.
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I was mainly thinking of the bass, which is simply a big fat sine wave with a lowpass, and then a short clicking noise at the start, which is basically just a sine as well.

You can replicate it well enough with just those two elements anyway.

The snare is just some white noise and a highpassed sinewave.

The bell definitely sounds like it has ring modulation. I seem to remember the cowbell being the hardest one to rip off. The toms were tricky as well.

On the other hand, my fake 808 had a dub siren built in, a tape delay, overdrive and it could do triplet beats. It was awesome. That whole lab class was most amusing.
> my understanding of what a majority of the people inside China actually want.

Do you really think that the majority of Chinese citizens use VPNs to bypass the firewall?
There's really almost no such thing as talent acquisition , IMHO:

1. No dev is worth $1m. Their skills may generate as much and more, but only in a specific context. Being great at catching a football is worth $50m in context of the NFL, $0 without it.

2. You can't really buy talent. At best, you can keep it, working at 1/2 of its ability, until fully vested and moves on. Alternately, eBay could create an environment as challenging and attractive as Hunch - but (a) by definition, it's almost impossible and (b) if you could pull it off, you could hire the similar talent for much less than $80m.
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I have one of the pilot Chromebooks they were sending out for free a year or so ago. It's not just Google+, it's nearly any of the cool things you'd want to do online. Watching any kind of video is unbearably laggy. Heavy sites like (new) Twitter or (as mentioned) Google+ are completely unusable due to scrolling/typing lag. I get the "release early" mantra but I use my Chromebook for light browsing only. It can't possibly replace a real notebook.
The link to MailChimp's "Voice and Tone" style guide was an interesting find. I wonder who their target audience for that site is? New hires? http://voiceandtone.com/

I could see many UGC sites needing something like this as a boilerplate starting point before creating content (or even customer service reps before engaging users). But even if this was simply a publicized internal document, I really like it.
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A combinator is a function that takes one or more arguments and produces a result without introducing anything new. In Ruby terms, we are talking about blocks, lambdas or methods that do not call anything except what has been passed in.

https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2008-11-...

Thanks for pointing out an important omission. Updated.
> These analog signals can be used as the source in other types of synthesis, including FM synthesis. FM synthesis tends to be done using digital signals because they are more stable, however.

Yes, some analog synths of lore (EMS gear IIRC) could actually create FM sounds, but the oscillators limited stability made it unusable for musical sounds.

AFAIK The latest generation of Yamaha FM synths (SY/TG77, SY99) could apparently use any oscillators including audio samples for FM.

Unfortunately FM synth always were notoriously hard to program, because of the lack of intuitiveness of the sound behaviour (as opposed to oscillators and filters), that finally led to their demise.

> Using high/low/band pass filters to filter your signal is called "subtractive synthesis" because you are subtracting frequencies from the original waveform.

You're right, that's the proper term. By the way the Synclavier was altogether an FM, substractive and addditive synth :)

Side note, I'm wondering why additive synthesis never really get any significant foothold (who used a PPG? a Kawai K5?).
I use Google+ at least 10 times each day on my Chromebook (series 5). It's a touch slow, but hardly unusable.

It's the flash slowdowns that bother me occasionally, but even there it's rarely unusable.
http://quickprefs.com/ is mentioned in the comments as a snappier alternative.
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Shouldnt the "Art" school have a website with some basic sense of aesthetics ?
Sounds like a great idea! I have my own collection of ideas and added your site to my collection of links to finished ideas here: http://www.ideaoverload.com/Find-ideas/Finished-ideas/Links-... (Made in Sweden as well :))

Happy idea hunting!
I meant to mention that -- Firefox uses ESC to exit fullscreen but Chrome uses Cmd+Shift+F. They need to standardize that.
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Why there are so many Vim books and only a few about Emacs ? The most recent Emacs book I've seen is from 2004.
Just want to throw it out there I'be been using a chromebook for the past three months and love it.
Too bad they didn't take video. For more images, be sure not to miss the link at the top of the page to the album: http://picasaweb.google.com/nitrobaphotos/NeXTCubeFireAtLLL
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It's how I generally read HN.

HNP is a popular if niche app.

Meanwhile, it doesn't make a whit of difference to the larger issue.
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I think in the long term, you are right. But according to the ArsTechnica summary at http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/11/why-meat-from-a-... that may be quite a long term.
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Ah yes, I'm on Chrome, and I figured that would be a pretty good way to get someone trapped in full screen.
That, and a very well designed user-interface are what make the iPhone exceptional. That's why many 'geeks' don't feel it's worth the praise, there are better phones out there in terms of technology, but hardly in terms of usability.
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Honestly I think the thing that'll do more for startups in NYC than any initiative or a tech university satellite campus is the presence of Google (disclaimer: I work for Google). It's already had an effect on startup locations and office vacancy rates [1].

I'm not sure what our exact numbers are here but you'd have to figure there are at least 1,000 engineers in this office. That's quite a pool of talent.

While the weather in particular is glorious in the Bay Area, NYC certainly does have its charms. In the Bay Area you're living in suburbia and commuting. There are of course significant startups in SF (particularly SoMA) so you can get the "city living" life if you happen to work for those but far more are located in Mountain View, Palo Alto, Los Altos, Cupertino, San Jose, etc.

Thing is, many people I know who live in SF still own cars. One big attraction of NYC is you simply don't need to own a car. Factor in a car and IMHO it's cheaper to live in Manhattan than SF (and many parts of the Bay Area).

What's more, I have a 7 minute walk to work.

That all being said, SV is in no danger of losing its place as the beating heart of tech. Even with an office this large (Google), the mothership in Mountain View still has an irresistible call and, in all honesty, for your career (at Google) you'd be better off there than anywhere else.

The other thing that will help (IMHO) is what a mess the finance industry is in and the fact that, generally speaking, it's a soul-destroying experience to work in finance (I speak from experience).

What New York could really benefit from is a homegrown huge ($5B+) success. Of course there's no real planning for that.

[1]: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020453140457705...
I think Thiel is frustrated that innovation in this country has shifted from science and technology to mobile phones and banner ads. The best and brightest are working in the wrong industry. Instead of researching alternative energy, space travel, health, etc, we're researching thinner smartphones with better battery life and more effective ways to sell ads.

Makes me wonder how far along we'd be, technologically, if YouTube and Facebook had never been invented... We're just too distracted now. Maybe Fermi's Paradox can be explained by alien civilisations becoming too busy posting cat videos on Twitter to invent inter-stellar travel.
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Ford and Edison. You see the irony there, right?
Think of all the app developers out there who are making a living off the iPhone. Think of all the web developers out there whose audience has now increased dramatically because of Facebook and iPhone getting more people to use the web. What Thiel is having a hard time with is the move to an information-centric economy. Outside of better renewable energy, we pretty much have all the bases covered for basic, comfortable human existence. It's all about the creation and dissemination of information, now.
I also have a Series 5. Perhaps our tolerance for lag is simply different. For me scrolling an individual post is completely laggy. I avoid using Google+ for this reason.
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Fog Creek posted a good primer here: http://blog.fogcreek.com/the-very-most-basic-things-your-com...

And one other useful source of advice is the is the blog of Geoffrey James at: http://www.inc.com/author/geoffrey-james

Best of luck!
Because the common stockholders don't have a seat at the table. Instead, when the company decides to sell, the execs fully dilute the common by granting themselves the remainder of the pool (with acceleration on change of control, of course).
Without looking under the hood I'd say there could be at least four reasons why they fail (based on what most of the NLP literature is lacking):

- did not remove contradicting information from the training sets (two very similar vectors having contradicting labels)

- did not try enough feature selection algorithms

- did not estimate ALL learner parameters using the training sets with internal CV

- did not include domain knowledge

The last one refers to Paul Houle comment. Just, beside using tools like OpenCyc, WordNet, UMLS, there many other ways to embed domain expertise in an automated classification process. Injecting semantically related features into a vector representation of a document is extremely difficult. Forward feature selection doesn't work well for sparse and noisy data.
Thiel would have run out of karma if he had made the same observation on HN.
You really think that people aren't researching health, alternative energy, and space travel?
Do they teach about what Ford did today?
What I meant was the goal of the company was to build technology and license that via an API, not become a destination site.
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Ads aren't an end to themselves. Back in the day they made possible free TV and well funded newspapers. Now they make it possible for even better informational services to be free
This is not true. DCS has been found in cases of free-divers who perform repeated deep dives. The primary gas that causes DCS is nitrogen, which exists in large quantities in the air you are breathing now. The reason you don't often see DCS in free divers is that it takes time for the high-pressure nitrogen to dissolve in the blood and enter tissue.
Why was this downvoted? Because people disagree with it?

I do too, but it does appear to represent a legitimate answer to the OP's question.
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This is pretty cool. Is it done naively and using one global lock, or is it be more intelligent? Can GCC identify what memory location require locking for a given transaction, and lock just those? What is the granularity?
Good thing HN has a max of 11 downvotes (I know first hand), but I get your point, fanboyism here is strong.
Here is an official Google video showcasing their data center security:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SCZzgfdTBo
Comments like this from Peter provoke people to respond. Plain and simple. Rather than criticizing why he "thinks" the iPhone hasn't broken any boundaries, maybe he should "go-out" and stimulate more than "just 500 employees" at once (aka his reference to Twitter).
Congrats on the launch. Unfortunately you've chosen to name your app the same thing Giles very similar app from 2009 is named.

I truly believe that the onus is on you to Google the name you want to use before you launch. Heck, just to make sure there isn't competition - much less something with the same name. That isn't good for either of you.

Perhaps you should strongly consider changing the name of your application.
&! user here. Try it as a Fluid app if you have a Mac, then size the window to fit the app so it takes up the space of a slightly larger IM window. I actually zoom it out using Fluid so it takes up a little less space. &! sends Growl notifications for tasks and directed chat through Fluid which I like as it lets me background the app and still use it.