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I think a wonderful example of the phenomenon of people expressing skepticism that goes against their tribe is the recent Carrier IQ senstation.

There is, as far as I know, no clear evidence of what exactly is being recorded, and what exactly is being sent. Several people on HN yesterday pointed this out, and then pointed out that it's possible what's being recorded and sent are benign stats that most of us agree to in other places, such as with a web browser. This skepticism was not met well by our tribe.
I recall reading the same article. Maybe in the New Yorker?

I'm a big fan of "physicalizing" things that need to get done. I put little notes to myself all over the house and in my car.
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I wholeheartedly agree with Hanauer: Without entrepreneurs and investors, you can’t have a dynamic and growing capitalist economy. But without consumers, you can’t have entrepreneurs and investors. And the more we have happy customers with lots of disposable income, the better our businesses will do.

As Henry Ford put it, "there is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible." A smart man, he wanted all his employees to be able to afford a brand new Ford automobile.
This is a paper proposing a privacy-enhanced version of a Twitter-like service. They also built a working browser extension and server prototype.
There is also the problem of having the documentation being "split" whenever there is more then one way to do something (say declarative vs programatic widgets) or there has been a major API upgrade (say AMD modules or the ObjectStores) so you also need to learn to convert from one to the other.
Ask HN: Free office space. Premature scaling? Too good to be true?
Before I tell you the details of this free office space offer, I think it's I portent to let you know my current situation. I'm coming up on being in business for close to a year. In that year business has exploded (relatively speaking, of course).

I'm in the web design/development business (the amount of unqualified freelancers and "businesses out there doing this makes me embarrassed to admit that I'm in that industry here on HN but for the sake of discussion let's assume I'm great at what I do). The first client was free, number 2 was a $400 job and now it's not uncommon to ask for $4,000. That's 10 times the income. As it stands I work from home so my only overhead is my phone line, Internet connection, and any equipment and software I may need from time to time plus web hosting.

There's a guy in town offering "free rent for good ideas". I called and he's looking for viable businesses to take the space for free. The idea is that since this economy is so crappy he's willing to help people out by giving them the space free for as many months as he believes they need to turn enough profit to pay rent. After the free period, the rent would incrementally increase until it reaches a maximum of $1500/month.

After speaking with me he thinks I may be right to take the space but I'm wary. I can do fine without an office and don't think I absolutely need it but at the same time I feel that having a public store front increases credibility, visibility, professionalism, and that there's the possibility that having the office would boost my profits to a point where I can actually afford it when it's time to pay rent.

Is this magical thinking? Has anyone heard of others offering something similar? Do you think it makes sense to take the offer?

The guy also mentioned that we can partition the office in half and share it with a computer repair shop or cell phone retail store.
Spoiler: because the image displays some x86 code (its RC4 with a fixed key), the image file itself contains the ciphertext (in a PNG iTXt block).
that's a fair point, but also tangential.

i think research shows that people are not motivated by money. people also don't eat money. but money is the best way to buy food -- and also the best way to buy people's time and skills.

picking where you work has a lot of dimensions, such as work-life balance, location, what impact the company is having, and on and on... a startup wants to attract people who are compatible with the things they value. that's what "being a good fit" means -- that's your point. however, i still don't see the need to do that by offering beer. it seems much better to be clear about the things you as a company care about and expect/ask the same from people you hire.
> Wireshark anyone?

You're anyone, why don't you do it?
Unfortunately I don't think this will ever happen, since from what I know, most of the nvidia binary driver is basically a firmware to run the 'dumb' multi-core gpu hardware. Giving this away would provide valuable knowledge to their competition.
HTML validation is overrated. Lots of HTML5 features, like data attributes and the shorter doctype, where there all along and just happend to be standardized now.
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"That sounds pretty cool. I'm not really looking for new projects right now because I want to spend my time on the ones I've got going already, but if you want, I can send you a list of programming resources* you might find useful."

If they respond with "But don't you like my idea?" or "You mean you don't want to help me?" respond with something like "I haven't done enough research to know if the idea is good or not, and it's really hard to predict how the market is going to go, especially in technology. I think it'd be awesome if you built this thing... I just can't offer much more than moral support, high-fives, and maybe a little bit of advice. If you really want someone to build this, try hiring a freelancer on ODesk... I just can't make the time right now."

Don't worry about whether the idea sucks; very few ideas survive through the full development of the product, and very few of these people will follow-through.

If they keep pushing, end the conversation with "Look, you're my friend, but I'd much rather we stay friends than become business partners." or "Look: I'm choosing to spend my time on my projects. This doesn't mean I don't like you, or that I dislike the idea; it just means that I'm not the guy to build it for you. I'll gladly point you to resources, or show you where to go to hire a programmer, but this is your project, and you should be the one to build it."

*Obviously, you'd have to compile a list like this, but that should be relatively easy to do.
I've thinned mine very markedly. Seems to help. Deletion would be a next step.
It used to, but starting from version 2 it utilized software rendering.
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My question is why would your dad's company purchase an ISP without any specific strategic plan in place!?
This is so cool! There's a ton of photographers out there who think the web is made of Flash and nothing else. At least their websites look that way. Small business Photography sites are notorious for overly long Flash intros, gratuitous effects, and generally just bad accessibility and SEO due to the overuse of Flash.

I love this idea. It's modern, looks great, it's easy, and the sites aren't a mess of Flash. I mean, don't get me wrong, Flash has its place and I can understand why so many photographers gravitate toward it but a lot of times I see user experience go by the wayside as they focus on making everything flash, fade, pop, fly, etc.

I do web development for a living and I always cringe when I see services like this because I feel like they're the competition. People see cheap beautiful and easy templates for $12/month and then a custom website for a minimum of $1300 and they're very likely to choose the former. But I like this anyway and actually thought of creating a similar system as an extra service to capture the segment of my market that wants it. Awesome.
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I stand by what I wrote. My main issue is with the Shermer, Penn, and Teller examples. The author uses those to attempt to prove a different point than the rest of the article discusses, and it is a bad point. There's a difference between saying "Someone is probably a 'good' skeptic if they have said something that the mainstream disagrees with" and saying "Someone is probably a 'bad' skeptic (charlatan?) if they have said something the mainstream agrees with that I disagree with." Even if that label is only personal (as you quote, he's not trying to make everyone apply the same labels to those people) it is a bad way to apply it.

However, I also find the whole idea of a "skeptic test" a bit disquieting. Paraphrasing what you quoted above: "Don't give someone credit for being a smart, rational skeptic until they have defended some non-mainstream belief, until they have stuck their neck out to say something a little less usual." That's a bit aggressive for my taste.
But to reiterate masklin's point, in C/etc, if your braces get screwed up for ANY reason there is not enough information left to reconstruct them. So what's the difference between meaningful braces and meaningful indentation?

To that you replied that the output of the Tab key depends on context, and implied that in your editor(s), sometimes the result of the Tab is invisible, and/or cannot be reversed by hitting Delete (or Backspace). And snprbob86 pointed out that in his/her editor (and mine), this isn't a problem. Tab never does anything invisible, and it's always reversible with Backspace. So what's the problem?

And although I assume you noticed this too, just to be clear and err on the side of explicitness, it seems to me that that there're two things going on here. One half is arguing about whether or not there's a fundamental problem with significant indentation that is not present in languages without significant indentation, and the other is an attempt to solve non-fundamental problems that others might have (e.g. complicated state in tabs, possibly due to using a poor editor).
Why?

Every time I read news like this I go back and actually measure rendering times for the pages I frequent together with overall memory consumption.

Every time Firefox comes out on top, but yet somebody everybody thinks it is faster and consumes less memory.

(And I am still using Firefox 3.6.*, and Chromium 14)

Maybe I'm different in my browsing habits, but I find that hard to believe.
very cool. very nice looking, too.

biggest question in my mind: how does it integrate with my iphone? i don't mean for consuming, i mean for creating sites. i primarily take photos on my phone and they usually just live there because i never take the time to download them somewhere. it'd be cool if this had an app that made creating galleries and adding to galleries from my iphone super easy.

i do realize that the demographic you're trying to serve is not really the people who take photos with iphones, but overall point stands: it is an unnecessary step to take photos from cameras and put them in a computer before uploading them.
I think they have more important business to take care of than squabbling with Congressmen all day.
I've also done this, it's not too hard. There are plenty of online services that let you setup an LLC in Delaware, LLCs have good benefits for non-residents.

You can then setup a business bank account as a non-residents using your LLC EIN, but I had to visit the US in person to do this.
Most are not in startups I guess. For me it is the duty of your boss/company to give you enough interesting work that you don't even think about checking HN.
Usually when I hear a bad idea, I'll ask someone if he or she has done any market validation or talked to any potential customers. If the person says they have not done so, I usually suggest that the person go talk to different people right away. That is my gentle way of telling someone an idea idea isn't too good, as he or she will usually find out after talking to the target market that the original idea wasn't a solution to any problem. That being said, the first time I ever cold-emailed a programmer and Skyped with him asking for feedback on my idea, he told me it was awful and guided me through the process of determining if an idea has "legs". What I learned from him has proved to be invaluable.
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Idea: Idiot Filter
I think an "idiot filter" for search results would save me a lot of time. Particularly when I'm digging through forums for information, I tend to skip over entries with poor grammar and spelling. Occasionally someone just speaks poor English, but more often this is an indicator that the submitter is unintelligent (or drunk) and their response will not be useful to me.

A simple idiot filter might just work as a layer above Google and snip out results with a high percentage of grammatical and spelling errors. A more refined one (probably a browser plugin) would act on content within pages and hide or dim unintelligible blocks. If the focus was on forums, I don't think it would be too hard to come up with an algorithm for guessing what encompasses a single user's submission by analyzing the structure of the page.

What do you guys think? Anyone want to work on it with me?
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Beautiful stuff. Good product for an underserved demographic – professional photographers who need portfolios and not only don't want to deal with code, but also need stylish templates.
What city are you in? That seems a bit high. The guy does seem a bit eager. I've found an outside office to be worth it, but just barely. It can be a huge time sink.
>>Your bias is as clear and well documented as mine

You've claimed repeatedly to be serious and only argue facts -- so now you not only lied but admitted to be a liar (in addition to your usual personal attacks; chromatic just noted that you're trolling, which you didn't try to contradict).

But the real problem for HN isn't bad trolls like you, it is fools like me that feed them. Bye.
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I'd like to think of myself as an astute mathematician and would enjoy the opportunity to aid any start-ups with problems that could be solved through math.

I'm willing to hear some pitches and get to work on some interesting problems.

Whether it's from a simple database algo, or something more advanced that correlates one Facebook user to another.

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I completely agree it is an unnecessary step to take photos from cameras and put them on the computer before uploading. In the future I think we will explore ways to cut that step out, but for now, to your other point most of our audience is using digital SLRs that have no way to connect with a computer besides a clunky cable.

We did take some extra care to make sure the sites work out of the box for consuming on iPhones and other touch devices in the meantime.
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I know some highly intelligent people who are dyslexic. How would you tackle that?
believe me: i deeply understand what's happening here; when i did del.icio.us there were hundreds of copies. because they did not understand the core decisions, they generally went down the wrong path.

improving upon is cool. copying is lame.
Thanks for the kind words Bill!

I am not sure if we will ever be competition for custom sites. If people have the requirements or the money to make their own site, I think they will always go that route.
I did here: http://blog.chpwn.com/post/13572216737
i didn't say that, did i?

copying is lame behavior, is all. next up, path will change the behavior as they learn, and the other guy is lost. good job.

i have seen this before - see my other comment.
Ask HN: Barcodes, are they all stored in a central location?
Are barcodes/UPC codes that are placed on food items and grocery store products centrally managed by the store they are purchased from or are they all unique identifiers to a specific product carried by a specific store and maintained by a third party?
That doesn't mean you can't have both options.
Bill Gates can make more change for good before breakfast than congress can in an entire session. Locking him up in there with those cretins would be a crime against humanity.
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Love the Shackleton reference ;P More intriguing of an ad for sure. Too bad its not in my wheelhouse.
The reasons for not open-sourcing the drivers don't make sense to me. Sure, the community might not have the knowledge necessary to improve your drivers, but then no harm done. Drivers might be taken in directions you don't want them to go? These companies release new chips multiple times per year. With them come new drivers. Who cares what directions the old drivers take?

And furthermore, chip companies might just get free driver debugging. That makes their chips look better. It makes them look better. More sales.

Is there any possibility that the real reason for the lack of open-source drivers, is that in many cases "different" graphics chips are essentially the same, and what you're really paying for with the more expensive ones, is a driver that enables high-end functionality? Open-sourcing would wreck that.
So if that is the way the world works, what of note have they accomplished, aside from drawing the ire of the US government and getting a leader martyred, their finances blockaded, and a barrage of at-best ambivalent media attention?

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

Mar. 19-21, 2010 - 48% favor, 49% oppose, 3% unsure

April 2010: "Collateral Murder" released, showing footage of a U.S. helicopter killing unarmed civilians. Youtube sensation. Lots of media coverage.

May 21–23, 2010 - 42% favor, 56% oppose, 2% unsure

(June 2010: Obama announces a faster withdrawal schedule from Afghanistan than previously planned.)

July 2010: "Afghan War Diary" released, containing evidence of widespread ineptitude and corruption. Lots of media coverage.

Aug. 6-10, 2010 - 37% favor, 62% oppose, 1% unsure

I'm not saying that Wikileaks is responsible for that whole swing, but it sure as hell is responsible for some of it. How many dollars saved will that translate to? How many lives saved? We can quibble about whether the answer is "a lot" or just "a few" but it's more than it would have been if these leaks were not discussed in many major newspapers and on every cable news station.
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Net application's stats are not realistic at all, they are very US-centric. So if you compare them with statcounter stats for the US, you'll notice they are pretty similar http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-US-monthly-201011-201111

IE: 50%
Firefox: 20%
Chrome: 17%

Another good source are wikipedia stats which are pretty global too and closer to statcounter than netmarket, here are the stats for October 2011:

http://stats.wikimedia.org/archive/squid_reports/2011-10/Squ...
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