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I was told basically that spam is a staple food, good luck getting meat and milk on a consistent/reliable basis as it sometimes isn't very available, things get flown in from far away so a lot of it is frozen not fresh, and what is available is quite pricey.

Uh. There are a lot of reasons why someone may not want to live in Hawaii, but availability of milk/meat/produce or the cost should not be one of them. I don't know why someone told you that, but Hawaii has to support a shockingly large tourist economy of people from places that don't eat seafood. Or spam.

In fact, I rarely, if ever, ate seafood or spam when I lived in Hawaii.

While it is more expensive than on the mainland, frankly it isn't that much different than the prices at your average Whole Foods. And as most fruit/vegetables grow year-round on Hawaii, they are not only fresher, but frankly taste better.
Libertarians don't need to build fake islands (and all the safe waters in which to do so long-term are already claimed). No, there is Vanuatu, the libertarian dream state.

Forget the usual cry of 'Somalia!' for libertarians. Vanuatu gives them what they want - miniscule government with few services offered, small police which doubles as the military. There is no income tax unless you own rental property. Defense is sorted as it's not strategically located against other countries. It's a tropical paradise and the people rate as the happiest in the world.

If libertarians really were going to spend resources on an island, why not save themselves some dosh and go to Vanuatu? I mean, apart from libertarians pretty much all having income reliant on high-tech skills that won't get much demand in an agrarian society.

There are places for libertarians to go in this world to experience what they claim they want, that aren't war-torn Somalia. They won't do it, because deep down they really want the goodies that come along with a society with complex government. If libertarians won't move to one of these countries, there's no way this fake island is anything but a pipe dream.
Bottom line is who cares? It doesn't have to be a help desk revolution if switching customers like it better and if they don't then it will probably flame out and die.
This is exactly correct. It is usual in other areas such as constitutional law for organizations and groups to devote themselves to either legal xor moral obligations. The US's ACLU seldom condemns the reprehensible acts of some of its clients, for instance. Rather they limit themselves to furthering the rule of law in general. But the BSD communities tend to be small and take on both roles, for if they didn't there would be nobody else to do it. I do not think major players in major BSD licensed projects are confusing these issues, but onlookers and others often times do.

The position seems clear: 1) You can use BSD licensed software as per the generous license, and 2) FOSS developers should facilitate sharing code, including sharing reciprocally with other FOSS developers. No violation of item 2 will interfere with item 1.

By far the largest part of the past kerfuffle between OpenBSD and Linux developers had to do with violating the BSD license. This isn't easy to do, as there's not a whole lot to violate. I believe the violations were simple mistakes, due to ignorance/unfamiliarity. They were rectified after a time.
there are some third party tools for Windows to automate the process of installing newer version.

But we can't expect an end-user to use such things.

I find Chromium an uncomplete product. :(
Also, it is not developed by the open-community.
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One option is to make equity based on achievements. So both of you can create a list things that need to be done by a specific time and then split it between you two. This should make it very clear to the non full time partner that he isnt getting much done. If he is able to achieve the milestones then its probably a good thing to have him on board even if he's part time.

A startup is all about getting shit done. Dont worry about hte time he;s spending at the job.
" good luck getting meat and milk on a consistent/reliable basis "

Maybe in 1950. Or on Niʻihau. But on the bigger islands it is no problem. There is a giant Safeway in the Manoa neighborhood of Oahu that is just as good as the one on Townsend in SF and there are many Foodland grocery stores. I lived there as a broke postdoc and had no trouble.
[sigh] This is somewhat typically "engineer". Because the two products are built upon similar base technologies, they are the "same thing", and any differences are nothing more than "marketing".

Siri doesn't "understand" language, it is, to the best of my knowledge based on a probabilistic solution. That's really where the similarities end.

The innovation here isn't the NLP part, or the probabilistic context determination part. It's the part that ties it into actual concrete actions - it books appointments for me, manages my wakeup times, smartly geofences reminders, etc etc, without me having to touch any UI.

It is in some ways a good reflection of Apple's product philosophy - take existing individual bits and link them into a compelling end-to-end solution. Music store? Link to your music library management. Then link it to the playback device itself. Voice recognition? Link it to contextual "understanding". Then link it to actually perform device actions. Each piece is somewhat unremarkable on its own, but string it together right and customers respond.

Sure, you can use Siri to do much of the same things Google Voice Search does - directions, showtimes, text search, etc, but that's not really the part that people are clamoring about.

There's a certain segment of our community that seem to be able to stare into every single Apple product, every single record-breaking profit quarter, every single raving review, and then be able to say with a perfect deadpan: "it's all just marketing". I suspect this demographic has a high intersection with the "it's just a big iPod" iPad crowd.
You make a good point. What I meant was that, yes, Ted's a dick. He says enough interesting things in the midst of his dickishness for me to justify continuing to read what he writes.
I saw a very similar idea a while back here, and bookmarked it.

http://playground.mobily.pl/jquery/mobily-blocks/demo.html

It's a short breath away from what Path have done.

I love the aesthetics of both, I have to say. Great work.
Ah, proofreading never catches those because you know what you meant to write. You pretty much just have to wait for someone to point it out. It was funny, though!
Some great copywriting. Makes you wonder if the author does marketing/copywriting for a living. If not, it's pretty impressive as it naturally hits upon some of the key copywriting-to-sell concepts:

1) Enter into a dialogue with the seller

2) Benefits and emotions sell, not features

3) The 'AIDA' formula, etc.
Even if they did it will simply be a short lived bump unless the product and service is measurably better. If it is then in the long run it shouldn't matter either way.

However, I do think their criticisms of Zendesk and their paid blogger's method of product 'evangelism' are fair and they have every right to take their shot and fire back a bit. It's all good, the better product development team will most likely win either way.
>Phenotypically, I can easily identify a black person vs. an asian person, with nearly 100% accuracy.

This is a rather hyperbolic statement. You concede edge cases, but the fluidity of phenotype means that it
fails to map cleanly onto neatly delineated categories. We can look at the
recent book describing the history of 'passing' reviewed here [1] for one of
many examples.

>I haven't read much on the subject, but the idea that races can't be separated
based on genetics is either false, or due to the fact that we don't have enough
sensitivity in the measurement.

Again, I'd caution against letting your intuition be your guide on this topic. A
cursory examination of the literature (i.e., 15 minutes on Google Scholar [2])
might lead you to the conclusion that: (1) genotype != phenotype, and (2) while
we can reliably sort humans by ancestry using genetic information, there is
variation within these clusters because the proportion of any individuals
ancestry that arises from different populations also varies.

I think that the upshot is that the science is less useful when applied to
a nebulous term like race, which involves a host of cultural, political and
historical factors. The way we Americans define race in debates like these is a legacy
of our binary 'one-drop rule' concepts of identity, and it isn't at all clear
that appeals to science couched in sweeping generalizations have any connection
to the biology.

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/books/review/Arsenault-t.h...

[2]: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=genomics+race
OpenBSD has always had a policy against binary drivers.

The reason it's "hard to get binary drivers" is because hardware manufacturers have no incentive to release documentation for their hardware, because they know they can get away with a binary driver for Linux. Then they call themselves "Linux friendly" and people like you get the wool pulled over your eyes (until you encounter a bug, or work on the kernel, or want to use FreeBSD, or suddenly find that your hardware isn't supported on Linux 2.6.xyz, etc, etc)

Even if they were to write Free Software drivers themselves, it's likely they wouldn't make it into Linux anyway because of quality issues (most driver code is shit). Community-developed drivers are frequently better quality.

Arguing that Free Software drivers would be "too much code" in Linux is just idiotic. Let's just stop writing Free Software altogether because it's "too much code."
Oh, right, I wasn't avoiding the red ones. It was still too fast, though, hopefully it's better now. I'll test in a bit, thanks!
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Totally off topic, but I was really surprised that the intern salaries at Fog Creek in 2006 were $750/week, whereas today good interns get about $1500/week + housing in the Bay Area. Have salaries actually doubled in five years?
smoyer - When I said that, I was referring to this
http://blog.freshdesk.com/the-freshdesk-story-how-a-simple-c...
HN Discussion is here - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2340732
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Reminds me of Woot.com, and I mean that in a good way. Some of the best writing on the internet.
This is some sort of PR stunt marketing ploy?

Either way I'm not really impressed (I'd guess most consumers aren't impressed) by pointless personal bickering. Marketing based on negative sentiment is not effective.
> ... but the only place [the yeast] had ever been seen was in the rectal swabs of geese

Gahhh. This means that someone was taking rectal swabs of geese prior to . . . well, anything. Just in case.

It's a wide, weird world, with many wonders. Good lord, what a curious species we are.
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You're beating a dead horse alright, but it's the wrong one.

Garbage collection has never had anything to do with poor UI performances, and everything to do with making poor code stutter. When the GC starts hitting your framerate, it means you are creating far too many objects and far too frequently. Before ICS, android implemented the incremental GC that runs more often but for "negligible" sub-1ms lengths.

If you absolutely need 60fps, make sure the GC never gets to do any work and start monitoring your own memory through buffers, just like you would in any other language.
Actually, this should increase the number of trials and customers for Freshdesk.

It's like playing chess. Zendesk made a bad move and Freshdesk used that move to respond brilliantly.
I would say that from 2006 and earlier, designers sought to go "pure CSS" primarily because of the possibility of javascript being disabled on the client. Especially for search engine crawlers at the time, this would be a bad thing.

Things have changed and more and more people run with javascript enabled, and more and more website stakeholders are willing to put up with things being broken for users who don't have it enabled. I know that's a contentious statement, but it's true. If Google Analytics and ads aren't being pushed down to you because javascript is disabled, most site owners are willing to put up with the experience being broken for you too. I'll sidestep the debate of graceful degradation.

Now however, there are performance reasons for going "pure CSS". A lot of CSS transforms and animations are hardware accelerated and/or just animate more fluidly than they would if they were animated via javascript. Javascript is single threaded, and when a webpage is doing a ton of varied activities, it's hard to ensure fluid animation when the only tools at your disposal for drawing frames are pretty crude methods like setTimeout.
yeah, I use nightly as my default browser. It is faster than the Fx8, but not as the Chrome - even without add-ons.

I agree that add-ons are slowing down Firefox. I expect Jetpacks to overcome this problem, but it seems that add-on devs are not much happy with jetpacks/addon sdk.

>> Also, Chrome does definitely auto-update

I am talking about Chromium here
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The only reason we are discussing these idio^unreasonably irrational people is because the OP story briefly touches a minor marketing aspect of a UNIX OS. Apart from that there is zilch technological substance in the post.

If we were to discuss every stupidity we encounter every day, we'd soon run out of bits.
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You know you are doing something right when people hate you.. Seems like a odd thing for them to get into a pissing contest with these guys. First of all, you're acknowledging their existence and what can you do to prevent them from doing what they're doing?
Are these numbers daytime population densities or nighttime? Because there's a huge difference.
Ask HN: what kind of projects could someone build in advertising/SEO space?
- I was reading the thread : Ask HN: How many of you built a profitable startup while having a day job?(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3303776) and thought to work on some project that can make me learn and earn(possibly) over some time.
- I am not looking for exact projects but the ideas from community as to what kind of projects one can build in areas of advertising, SEO that can also help reaping monetary benefits if project turns out to be good.
- Any reference/books/blogs are very much appreciated

P.S - I am very new to the area of SEO/advertising
To me the fact that the trick can be used to discriminate against women was just a part of the background, not an essential part of the article.

I saw it as a tactic that can be used against anyone; there's nothing sex-specific about it.
I disagree a bit, I think that the home desktop is in real danger of being largely replaced by mobile pad/tablet computers, which do everything most home users need and are easily used in the comfort of a recliner in the living room. They may not do everything as well as a desktop, but when the time comes and people are looking at another $1,000 or more for a new PC a number of them will look at their iPad and say "that's good enough."

The business desktop will be around for a long time, I agree, as its interfaces are much more practical for all-day use.
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The problem is that all the ARM-system chipsets are shipping binary-only drivers for Android and OMAP devices, even though Linux is used almost exclusively on those devices.

That's the business case.

nVidia may not care about Linux because it's a tiny portion of their market, but chip manufacturers (like PowerVR, for example) would have had to release Free Software drivers if Linux hadn't set the binary precedent. This would also be true for a lot of other hardware now. But unless there's a radical change in policy, it's too late.

What's the point of having a Free Software OS if you can't run it on your hardware because the closed-source drivers won't work?
It has a much higher resolution than iPhone 3GS. In fact, it has six times more pixels.
Have you followed the google images search link?

Also the pitchfork is an attribute of the devils in hell. It is not an attribute of daemons.
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That link is worth the giggle. Thanks :)

America makes all other rich nation's provincials look like Einsteins!
This whole thing is really juvenile. The Zendesk guys look a lot worse here, but by making such a big deal out of it and turning it into an obvious PR stunt the Freshdesk folks aren't doing themselves any favors either. I understand it's difficult and highly offensive when a competitor blatantly bashes you but don't overreact and bring yourself down to their level.
My second hand information about food in Hawaii may well be inaccurate and/or out of date. That wouldn't surprise me at all. It does, however, fit with my first-hand experiences in Port Aransas, which is also on an island and a largely tourist economy. Iirc: town of about 3000 and population can swell to 60k on weekends -- which is the only reason such a small town even has a grocery store when (as I understand it) you typically need about 10k to 15k local population to support a grocery store.

However, my main point was to suggest that food variety/restaurant variety and related "culture" may be limited (or only had at enormous expense -- and Hawaii isn't cheap) on a seastead anyway, regardless of size. I am curious if you think that point holds water.

Thanks.
Mikkel Svane, CEO of Zendesk called Freshdesk “A Freaking-RIP-OFF"
You should consider that not everyone agrees with your opinion. That doesn't make them stupid.
The link above is to a version being specified, not yet deployed. (v3).

Its fair to say that v2 is deployed and was well documented and that google was very responsive to technical inquiries about it. The firefox and chrome implementations are v2.

But open specification is important. Google and Mozilla have been working together to bring this into the IETF.
Nah, this is like playing chess on the wrong board. It's a waste of time and no one gets anything worthwhile accomplished.
you know the only bad thing about Enron?

A top accounting firm got destroyed for nothing..
I'd argue that her monotone, 20 questions-style responses were counterproductive. You can see her boss having to fish for information, when all she had to do was:

B: So I was looking at the pages from this weekend and it looks like we had something bad on Saturday. What happened?

W: There were too many queries failing in the Netherlands. I got a bunch of pages in the middle of the night and finally tracked the problem down to a bug in the new authentication daemon.

B: So is it working now?

W: It's working under a kludge. I wrote a restart script for it, but we need to get a patch to fix it for real.

B: When did this start?

W: Sometime before my shift.

B: Who was on call then?

W: S. He rebooted the machines and the problem went away, but it came back again during my shift so I put in the auto restart as a stopgap measure until we could get a real fix.

Her treatment of S is harsh because she doesn't couch what she says at all to protect him, like you normally do in order to promote office harmony.

It's obvious that she's frustrated from her previous dealings with certain people, and their alleged sexism (which, unfortunately, is not demonstrated in her recounting). Unfortunately, her response is to attack a hornet with a sledgehammer (with corresponding collateral damage) and then blame the result on sexism.
You can't sell CDs. Obviously you cannot sell tickets to your performance. You can collect donations.

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I will look into the book linked above.

> Natural disaster is of course and issue, but I don't know if the probability of natural disaster would be any higher on a seastead versus on land.

It's not the probability of a natural disaster happening that is a problem, it's the impact. One of the main reasons for a seastead from what I've heard of seasteaders is to avoid paying taxes they don't believe in. But it costs money to rebuild these things and/or to have another nation-state evacuate them. My impression, admittedly not based on in-depth research, is that seasteaders are after all the benefits that nation-state can offer without paying the taxes for it. But I'll be happy to be proven wrong because I think the idea is really cool.
The airplay rollout has not been executed well.

Overall, it is successful of course. It's a killer feature and highly popular among consumers.

I believe it has been mismanaged for the following reasons.

First, rollout has been incredibly slow and there is still a major dearth of airplay enabled devices. This is not due to limitations of technology. Airplay comes from a company called BridgeCo, not Apple. BridgeCo did not do a good job of building OEM relations and following through to see Airplay implementations. This is not BidgeCo's fault, entirely. The BridgeCo team was a small (>6) executive staff in the states with an engineering team in India. While I do not know the full extent of Apple's imposed limitations, I know they were a factor. Still, BridgeCo had an opportunity to build a robust ecosystem- instead they were focused on selling SDK's for >$20k and not the front end UX. I do not think they were a Silicon Valley company culturally.

Apple has not taken a lead on pushing the technology as a standard at all. For the first year after Airplay's rollout, the only A/V receivers with airplay capabilities were super high-end Denons with a pricepoint near $1k. Not consumer. For the record, I haven't checked recently, this could still be the case. The market for 3rd party all-in-one speakers, the obvious destination for airplay technology, also developed very slowly.

Fortunately, apple sells a $99 airplay antenna called the Apple TV which can plug into just about any home theater system. Within the last few months though, Apple has been pushing updates to ATV's which has completely destroyed the airpay experience by locking down the format. I can no longer play downloaded video media on my non-jailbroken apple tv. Apple wants me to purchase streaming media from the Apple TV market- I don't care. I want to play the downloaded media on my laptop on my HDTV. Crazy, I know. Apple says no.

And this, of course, is the biggest fail of the Airplay rollout. Airplay is not just audio- it's video. This feature has zero presence on 3rd party devices- possibly positioning for an Apple HDTV launch. Still, BridgeCo (now SMSC) should have pushed the tech on HDTV OEMs.

While interesting, and slightly sad, none of this matters since ultimately airplay is the standard and I will continue to watch its development and buy airplay devices since there are no alternatives due to there being no other company developing next-gen core computing user experiences.
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SSL rules remain the same, and SPDY runs over SSL.

My opinion - get a real signed cert. A basic free one from startssl.com is available.

The PKI has problems to be sure and needs to evolve. But simple forms of eavesdropping and MITM attacks need to stop. Its great that SPDY is SSL based.
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