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Not the same thing. That is the author trading retweets for a book. Sell Simply actually turns Tweets into transactions. You can pay, buy, sell or donate with them.
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That's something disgusting about Vim - mapping to other keys instead of commands.
In Emacs its much nicer IMO:

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"He said he tried, but that they moved him into solitary and they started abusing him in jail. (abuse is my word, I don't remember the specifics)"

Solitary itself could reasonably be described as abuse.
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Why wouldn't it be simple to add "Rent for 24hrs" button? They already have my CC info so it wouldn't be a hassle to me at all. And, this can turn into something bigger for independent film makers to step outside of studios. They can just create movies and release directly to Netflix (ie: similar to what's happening at Amazon).
Facebook has far more intrusive ads than myspace did.. I'm pretty sure facebook also makes a lot more from ad revenue, so I'm not sure of your point...

"The prevalence of adblock suggests otherwise."

What is it... less than 1% use adblock? hmm

FWIW I've been earning a living from online advertising for 10 years. I've run community websites that run adverts, and fielded feedback from users.
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This is exactly half of my idea previously posted on HN.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2900514
I think the "ability" to do this is cool... but I can't imagine that I'd ever feel the need to actually do this.

Novelty, sure, but practical? Not in my mind.
Tangent: I am literally unable to understand why possession of digital child pornography images is, in and of itself, a crime. I'm surprised that this is regarded as a radical position. A digitised image is an arrangement of bits on a platter or a wire. It doesn't hurt anyone.

Laws that criminalise consumption of child pornography on the theory that it aids and abets its production by routing material financial support to the source date back to a time when almost all child pornography was obtained in consideration of payment, usually by mail order. That time is long past. Free porn abounds on the Internet, and anyone stupid enough to pay for illegal porn probably deserves to get arrested. There is several orders of magnitude--literally--more child porn today than could have possibly been imagined in the wildest dreams of postal inspectors in the 1980s.

As for the idea that there is a case for criminalisation of child pornography possession or transmission based on some statistical link between child pornography and actual child molestation, that directly contravenes millenia of legal thought. In other words, it should not matter at all whether there is any scientific basis for the allegation of such a correlation or not; it's beside the point. It doesn't matter if 99% of child molesters have child pornography. That shouldn't affect the underlying principle. And the underlying principle is this:

You can't punish someone for something they could--conceivably, in some hypothetical set of circumstances--do, but have not actually done.

I really find the idea that possessing a file is a crime, let alone a rather non-trivial one, to be literally unintelligible. It is one of the most incomprehensible things about contemporary life to me. I don't understand how it's possible given the intellectual pedigree of Western jurisprudence.
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Could you be more specific? Under the 5th ammendment, you can refuse to talk to the police. If a judge orders you to reveal it, or be held in contempt of court, is that not a "Testimony"? And thus, wouldn't giving your passphrase literally be expressing a confession to a crime (presuming it was in the form of a confession)?
I hate this sort of comment. It's naive.

Loads of Reddit/HN posts are adverts. We all click on adverts all the time, all over the internet. We just don't necessarily realize they're adverts.

Yes, shock horror, adblock only blocks the most obvious advertising.
Not sure, but there are cases of jailtime.

> "Drage was convicted of failing to disclose an encryption key in September." [1]

Though it says that he "failed" to disclose a password when asked. Not clear if he was unwilling or unable, and if such a distinction even matters. (It's unclear if the use of the term "refusal" was an actual action, or a journalistic spin. It might come down to needing to be very careful about word choice in such situations; "I would like to speak with my lawyer first" seems like the most appropriate answer).

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-11479831
"Iteration — steady incremental improvements, prototype after prototype, design after design, year after year, release after release — that process is ingrained in Apple’s (and I think Pixar’s) culture."

This process is ingrained in every software company. There's nothing special or new about Apple (or Jobs) here.
Note that current politicians made similar attempts to ban encryption. The current Vice President did, for example:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10024163-38.html
A middle road is working from home on your own startup/bootstrapped company, or even just freelance work. You might forgo income and career advancement, but you may just reap the rewards of more success with your children.
"I say serial number is second because in a criminal investigation phorensics can also get a "fingerprint" of the printer by tracking imperfections in the way it's printed."

I know they used to be able to do that with typewriters, but can they do it with printers as well? I would suspect the imperfections of being too chaotic, or at least easy enough to change by changing the cartridge.
You're missing the point of the article. Gruber isn't saying Jobs had some kind of secret, indecipherable superpower. He's complaining that the book doesn't explain what it is Steve Jobs actually did at Apple since Jobs wasn't an engineer or a designer.

John Siracusa at Arstechnica also harshly criticized the biography on the most recent episode of the Hypercritical podcast. Much of the book's historical information is lifted from previously published books, and there are factual errors. Important questions are glossed over or outright unanswered.
Yeah, like most everything about Google+, it's pretty ill-thought out, but a patch for these obvious oversights has been "promised" in the near future. I'm sure that Google will add multiple admins to +pages, but this is another large complaint in a long list of errors that Google has made with this product. Sadly, Google+ is here to stay, and users of other Google products (gmail, youtube, everything...) can expect G+ to be shoved further and further down their throats.
> As far as I've heard, almost nobody clicks on ads.

You need to talk to people outside your circle of friends then.

> The population as a whole is becoming more savvy about the internet.

Is this why googles ad revenue is growing at such an astounding rate?
I am not a lawyer either, but generally you can be compelled to reveal a password.

It is generally seen as analogous to the combination to a safe or a key to a door. Compelling revelation of the password is not generally seen as a violation of the Fifth ammendment.

While a ruling from a lower court, there is a good discussion of this at IN RE JURY SUBPOENA TO SEBASTIEN BOUCHER, Dist. Court, D. Vermont 2009 (which is available on Google Scholar)
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True, but in America the the 'before' photo is especially problematic. Though it clearly isn't pornographic, a topless (presumably) under-aged girl is potentially job-hazardous.

For example, I'm a public high-school teacher; I'm quite glad I waiting until I was home from work to check out the link. Having that image in my work browser cache is a risk I'd prefer not to take.
Pure anecdote, but I and my sister (2 of 2) were born almost exactly two years apart, and I know that before she was born, there was an absurd amount of attention paid to me for the first couple of years (judging by the sheer balance of photography.) I was also read to constantly, and learned to read fairly well before kindergarten.

By the time my sister was a couple of years old, it was me that was constantly reading to her. The age distance there allowed me to be able to teach her things as well as my parents, and I'm sure that the act of reading for her and showing her things helped me to strengthen my grip on those things myself.

As adults, we're both 99 percentile types now, according to IQ and standardized tests and such. I'm not sure had the dynamic been different, we would have turned out the same way.
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Full marks for lateral thinking, but I don't think that works.

It's the use-mention distinction. Uttering a set of words is not the same thing as asserting that they're true. If you say "My password is 'I killed and ate a young girl in Tucson'" then that does not count as a confession, and could not be taken as one by any court (thankfully, because I just typed out that sentence myself...). Therefore, uttering that sentence does not count as testifying against yourself.
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I'm not sure if this story is even news worthy but here is my take. Personally, I never really understood why most people flocked to the app store rather than using the already existing www mobile sites? Gmail is a good example -- why would I download the app when I can just go to the mobile site? This is especially true if you're running a pay wall and have to fork over 30% ;) The app needs to be updated constantly but the mobile site doesn't. Am I missing something? I guess you miss out on people searching for your app on the app store.
Disagree. HN, reddit, and techie internet crowd are usually very anti-advertising.

If you look at the real population though, they love advertising. Kids watch advertising on TV to find out what toys they want to buy. Teenagers look at adverts to see what fashion to wear. etc etc.

I really do think it's a case of not looking outside the bubble. HN and the techie crowd are pretty anti-consumerism, anti-mainstream, anti-advertising. But the general population isn't.
linux on the desktop isnt really a good example because most people don't care about changing the default OS and gamers make up a large %age of people who build their own computers. linux never really stood a chance.
Civ 5 switched from Python to Lua, btw.
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What do the HN users who are years into their career today think is a good company to intern for (or not)?

Big Companies because you see how large teams work? Start ups you get important work? Do it for the name? For the pay? For the field of expertise?

What factors and what institutions would you prefer or recommend to a college student looking for an internship?
I seem to have attributed a different cause to this correlation than most other HN'ers in the comments. Is it possible that the isolation of the older child plays more of a role in the higher test scores than the 2-3 years of undivided parental attention? The older child would grow up without an always available "playmate", and this seems like it could lead to more reading and eventually higher test scores. This same effect could also apply to lone children.

Note: I'm not saying this isolation is a completely good thing (child may not have as good of an opportunity to develop strong social skills).
Um, the evidence is pretty strongly against you. Especially at moderate stages of adoption.

There's typically a greenfields period in which many competing firms emerge, followed by a rapid consolidation usually driven by economies of scale, which is a fancy way of saying that the market is too small for more than one or a handful (monopoly/oligopoly) number of firms to compete.

This is often driven by network effects covering physical infrastructure (delivery or transmission networks), sales networks, interconnects, research, patent portfolio scaling, etc.

Examples of technology sectors dominated by single / few firms include telecommunications, power and gas utilities, mainframe hardware/software/services, personal computing operating system + productivity suites, Internet backplane, Internet last mile, cellular service, microprocessors (Intel, AMD, ARM), photocopying (through the 1990s at least), consumer electronics manufacture (Foxconn) and pharmaceuticals, just off the top of my head.

You could add related sectors such as Big Box retail (Walmart, Target), retail pharmacy (CVS, Walgreens, Rite-Aid), online retail (Amazon), online auctions (eBay), online classifieds (Craigslist), for largely similar reasons.
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There are other fun ways for your SWAT-team evidence seizure grunts to grab machines without powering them off, such as http://www.wiebetech.com/products/HotPlug.php -- a big UPS with connectors specially designed for vampire-tapping a live PSU lead.
Further, the definition of "child porn" now includes cartoon images, statements written by adults of a textual nature, and stories or other creations- by adults- depicting children.

Not to mention, many pictures our parents took of us as infants might count, as that is bad enough.

"Child Porn" has been stretched to include things that do not involve any actual children in any way, shape or form.

As for your last statement, contradictions cannot exist. I think that the presumed rationality of the "justice system" is in error.
Version data, like source code.

$ chd version mydb
$ chd revert -d <txn_id> mydb

Neither replication nor backups protect from accidentally deleting data. And restoring from binary logs requires downtime.

http://chronicdb.com/blogs/undelete_from_whoops
Not that it's a showstopper, but Photoshop has built in currency detection based on the EURion constellation, a pattern printed on a lot of currency worldwide to help prevent counterfeiting. Kind of cool.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation

Edit:
Of course I learn after posting, apparently EURion is not what Photoshop looks for, but rather a digital watermark. The detection is given to Adobe as a binary from a security firm.
This Senator simply doesn't understand that the Internet exists because of those technical concerns, not despite them.

Internet > American intellectual property
This looks similar to what Tipjoy (ex-YC) tried a couple years ago, before they deadpooled: http://techcrunch.com/2009/04/08/micro-blogging-meets-micro-...

In line with the post that @avichal wrote the other day (http://avichal.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/build-something-peop...): why now?
5 sons in a row? You should publish a book on how to father sons! That looks like a non-random result.

I agree with you in that the controlling factor is really just how much parental time is spent with the children. Closer spacing of children is likely to stretch parental time, but this is something a determined parent can easily overcome, even if just by being aware of it and correcting for it.

I would like to see a study which correlates future intelligence for things like time spent in childcare vs full time parenting. My personal belief is that a childcare effect would massively outweigh any child-spacing effect, particularly in boys, which in my experience seem to suffer from excessive childcare time under the age of 4 more than girls. I don't know if this is lack of male childcare workers or a biological difference in boys.
You should consider having a backup replica with slaveDelay set to an hour or so. If you ever fat finger something in the future you won't necessarily have to go all the way to your backups.
I agree, esp one with financial background.
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As long as there's older-style currency in circulation, a forger only has replicate those bills and not the new hotness... currency only tends to last a few years in active circulation (at most) but I'd assume that many people will still accept a bill from a style printed 10 or 20 years ago.
Boucher ended up having to unlock the hard drive, because he had previously unlocked the drive for border agents. Had he refused, the court likely would have held that he could not be compelled to produce the password or the hard drive contents

So it sounds like the actual legal question here, of whether the government can compel you to hand over your password in the general case, has never actually been tested?
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Does a computer magazine look ugly because of the adverts for Apple in it? Does a car magazine look ugly because of adverts for cars in it?

Personally, I find advertising useful, and pleasant. I'm certainly not alone.

You're entitled to your opinion, but I believe it's an 'outlier' opinion.
A broad interpretation of the 5th would mean you don't have to assist the authorities in any way in convicting yourself of crime.
As is trying to legislate it away, which is what the authorities' reaction usually is.
> The fate of MySpace suggests otherwise. The existence of radio stations exuberantly announcing "commercial free this hour!" suggests otherwise. The prevalence of adblock suggests otherwise.

MySpace failed because a better competitor came along. It had a history of predators, spammers, and viruses, and was hard to use well. (Did you see the pages people made?). Ads were one cause among many, and it's doubtful how much they contributed. For comparison, Facebook has ads, but people aren't flocking in droves to G+, and I haven't heard the lack of ads cited as the reason for any of those that are.

Radio stations certainly have ads, and those that claim "x songs without commercials!" usually put self-advertisements in instead, which they count separately. It's still advertising, just a different sort. Overall the whole process is pretty duplicitous (imho).

AdBlock has minimal market share [1], so the prevalence of AdBlock isn't an argument in your favour.

You may be correct that people hate ads, but the evidence you've given does not support your conclusion.

[1] first hit guesstimates 2%: http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-percentage-of-Internet-user...
Oh. i was just doing it wrong. doh!
Sadly, that decade was two years ago. It's been well known how broken SCADA systems are, and shouted from the rooftops, but no one cares. We have been on borrowed time now for ages. It finally happened.
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Yes, it was. Silly me, I figured that if Google was piling features on to Android devices, that they would be important. If it's just an alternative to slide to unlock, then it really is a pointless stupid gimmick. I guess I gave them too much credit.

You know what the antithesis of good mobile development is? Piling on gimmicky features just because. IMO, Face Unlock is indicative of everything that is still wrong with the direction of Android, which is such a shame because overall Android 4.0 is indicative that they are trying to shake that image by focusing more on the core experience.
Look at their budget. They spend shedloads. On things they don't need.

If wikipedia wanted to survive, it'd trim back it's massive spending.
Really interesting stuff.

The naming of the types is slightly confusing. If I understand correctly, a "feed" is kind of like an unordered set (if you ignore the IDs) or a hash (using the ID as a key), while a "sorted feed" is like an array?
Shame (for the agency) the courts already decided on this. Hope this stands. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Boucher
Since crack babies don't exist, but black people have been have been the majority of people incarcerated for crack related offenses (though they are not the majority of crack users), I'm assuming that you're just awkwardly trying to specify black people?

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Twenty years? How the Government Breaks the Law (http://www.amazon.com/How-Government-Breaks-Jethro-Lieberman...) was published in 1974. And twenty years before that the "third degree" was still in common use by police.
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IANAL, so I'm unqualified to say, but the way I read the ruling was that they decided that you can't be compelled to hand over your password, but because Boucher had already unlocked the drive for law enforcement once, doing so again would not further incriminate him. So, they forced him to unlock the hard drive without disclosing the password.

As I understand it, if he had initially refused to unlock the drive, then he couldn't have been compelled to unlock it again, under grounds that it could be self-incrimination.
tl;dr versions - Gruber thinks the title 'Tweaker' has less social value than 'Inventor' so he takes offense at Gladwell's argument which identifies Steve Jobs a 'tweaker'.

Unlike Gruber's commentary, Gladwell's argument is both rational and self consistent. From the tone of this piece by Gruber it is clear he is strugging with the dissonance between the clarity of Gladwell's argument and a perception that the term 'tweaker' is somehow pejorative and thus demeaning of someone he idolizes.
What I don't understand is: why don't the recruiters that do carefully screen people just wipe out those that don't? Are there enough companies that are too clueless to hire a good one that the bad ones still get enough results to keep doing it?
I'm presuming that they are true, and that they are a revelation of an actual crime that you committed. Thus, by revealing the passphrase, you are revealing evidence about yourself, and effectively testifying against yourself.

I believe you'd have to be under oath as well.

Further, I believe that this strategy would be employed as an argument to not ever giving up the passphrase. You would tell the judge, or whomever, that the phrase is a literal confession of a crime, and thus, by doing so, invoke 5th amendment protection.

(You may be right, and my idea may not work. I just want to make sure you're not assuming that the confession is for a false crime, when I meant it to be for a real one (though my examples of course, are false.) Which is why I didn't use a murder as an example...)
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Could be a square card-case competitor. Image a café that has tweeted the menu. You go in, reply to what you want, you get it. Could be huge on mobile payments.
He is not any of those people, his closest historical analog is Henry Ford. They were brilliant businessmen who had a critical insight early in their careers (people want usable electronics vs production line economics).

They were able to find success across multiple products through superior business skills and by sticking to their insight.

Finally, they each lived in a time where a new technology was coming to the masses, and they the business leaders bringing this to them. Due to their methods, the masses really appreciated them for what they did.
> There is some vague background knowledge you can also learn just be making a game fun against a backdrop that kids can pull in via osmosis.

I think this concept is heavily underexplored and I'd be happy to see more of this kind of games.

I also wonder if anyone tried to embed some learning into gameplay in a more goal-oriented way. I personally had some ideas about what would be an arcade/logical platform game with physics oriented gameplay. The game might ask you to e.g. solve an equation to succeed or reach the goal faster (like, find a right angle for cannon to fire at, so that it knocks down a bonus thing you need, opens a door, etc.). Maybe not force you to do it, just hint towards it while allowing for a more direct solutions - creating an environment in which using maths can help player achieve better in-game results. Real game results, not silly 'multiply this-and-that to get 1000 points'. Game first, education second. I wonder if anyone ever tried that.