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Lots of people seem to gain fame by following this maxim: If you say anything that can be construed as dickish, lots of people will talk about you.

Exhibit A: Simon Cowell
Exhibit B: Donald Trump
Exhibit C: RMS
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It's not that they aren't relevant. I think it's the frequency of mention of said languages that is the problem to the above poster.
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The Kobo touch seems pretty hackable -- it's very easy to root the device; the firmware upgrades are just tarballs that overwrite files in the main partition and it has a backup partition if you screw it up. There's some documentation on mmapping the e-ink display and using ioctl to update portions of the display.

I'm looking to get one of these for my wife for Christmas (Neither the Nook or the kindle are really available in Canada) but I'm not allowed to mess around with her devices. However I think having an e-ink Linux machine might be an interesting device to play with.
At least in my view of the term, creating intelligent code isn't "hacking". It's just being a good programmer. Hacking would be doing something that hasn't been done before on a wide scale with the intention of creating a result that varies from what an average user would expect. The jailbreakers hacked sideloaded applications onto their iPhone. The average user followed their directions and achieved expected, predictable results.

Ruby _can_ be used hacking. "How to recreate Path in Ruby" does not a "hack" make.
I'm really conflicted on Notch, Minecraft in general, and therefore this announcement.

Let's get the good out of the way first, Minecraft is an awesome game, and Notch (and his team) deserves every bit of kudos they've gotten for it. I bought the game back in alpha, and I've gotten more than my money's worth.

The bad? Lingering (big) problems that aren't being dealt with. SMP is still a mess when it comes to performance. There are a ton of bugs in what is supposed to be a final 1.0 release (Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXO6tYkjYMc)

I don't have to be a full time developer or a company owner to make a judgement call on whether that is a bad thing or not. Minecraft seems to be suffering from the same kind of featuritis that plagued Second Life for so long.

Mojang. Please. Fix old, no new.
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The underlying story I sense in this essay is a smart and motivated teacher slowly being corrupted by the unfixable system around him.

> I’m dealing with generalizations that don’t apply to each individual student. But class requires some level of generalization...

Yup, there's your problem right there. School is a one-size-fits-none system.

Of course you're going to get rambling pointless essays if you force kids to write when they have no interest in writing. Of course you'll get something slightly more coherent if you give very precise directions about things like thesis statements. All they have to go on is your directions -- they have no internal motivation at all.

Maybe this whole painful process gives them a tiny bit of useful practice assembling ideas. But the side effects are often terrible: a permanent distaste for reading, writing, and challenging thinking.
I think what Google wants to do is fully integrate product listings with their search results -- which, they already do in some limited capacity. The best way to do a really good job of it is to have the sale of those items integrated entirely in to Google's "platform." All the other pieces, such as Google Checkout, are already in place and mature.

If Google ships, they know an item was sold and who bought it. They know everything. Their listings can be on a CPA basis rather than CPC for the advertisers (merchants.) The cost for shipping probably could be absorbed by the merchant in much the same way that merchants pay for advertising in the first place.

In the short term, it probably doesn't make much sense. In the long term, Google is probably more interested in cutting out the retail middle man then they are competing with Amazon.
I use Google+ fairly extensively for mid-sized "blogs" of a few paragraphs at a time (usually anywhere from 2-4). I do maintain an actual blog, but lately I've started to copy paste any blog entry I make into Google+.

There are many advantages to using Google+:
- Most notably, the audience is just much bigger, and the engagement is much greater because there is nearly zero friction to posting. I've been blogging for few years and G+ing (is that even a word) only since it came out, but I have ~40 subscribers to my RSS and ~1400 followers on G+. Audience is a big deal. People don't really use RSS. I get much more interaction on G+ than on my blog, and I like it.

- you and your (presumably good) content are much more discoverable, which allows you to grow your network and find more interesting people. It can also act as a nice easily discoverable portfolio. How often will a random person stumble by your blog? vs. How often will someone land on your G+ page? This will only become more and more likely as Google integrates G+ with Every thing.

- maintaining a blog has some weird connotations that I can't quite put a finger on. People sometimes ask me if I have a blog, and I always feel a little awkward inside saying yes. These connotations are somehow absent when I tell people I'm on G+. Maybe it's just the term and the way I hear it used, I really don't know.

I don't understand your concerns about who _really_ stores the data, or the like. Thank god I don't have to go through all that trouble just to be in charge of some text boxes on the internet. And so what if Google can use my posts to learn more about me and give me more targetted ads? I just see that as a win on my side once again-- I don't want to see mortgage ads on my banners or something.
This article doesn't give enough credit to: https://github.com/plamoni/SiriProxy (without which the Arduino + Siri build wouldn't be possible).

Cheers,

Marcus (the guy in the article).
This article ignores a very central tenet of becoming rich:

Luck.

Most people didn't get in the position they were because they were geniuses. Few individuals fill that role. They get there because they were lucky. Bill Gates certainly wasn't the best programmer of his day and he most definitely wasn't the most adept businessman and he wasn't the most brilliant thief.

He was lucky.

He turned out a product that everyone wanted at exactly the right time. Now, as businesses have evolved alongside technology there certainly is slightly less luck (I would personally contend only slightly). But the founders of Netflix probably weren't the first people to think about mailing rental DVDs to customers, they just had the money and the capital to make it happen when the market was just enough ready to accept their existence. They developed expertise in that particular business, mailing DVDs to customers, and killed an entire other industry (for all intents and purposes) in the process.

How the author relates this to their streaming model (what was motivated the change) is baffling to me. Her entire premise seems to try and imply that the wealthy are somehow more intelligent and that, pardon the frankness, is fucking idiotic.

Netflix didn't become a giant through streaming content. They parlayed DVD money into a streaming business because the whole industry was making a very obvious shift in that direction. I mean hell, if they were half the geniuses that the author makes them out to be they wouldn't have selected Silverlight as the backbone of their service.

All I saw was a group of lucky people in one industry try to jump into another industry that appeared deceptively similar, and just because Hastings is their CEO doesn't make me think he's intelligent. If anything he's demonstrated that he doesn't fully understand the economics of splitting media.

The Quickster Announcement came off to me as a very stubborn businessman, tricked into thinking himself intelligent and a captain of industry by his fabulous luck, making a rash decision to vindicate a strong opinion he had behind closed doors.

The only thing I can take from this article is that money does a very good job of making the rich think that they're intelligent.
I assume that when you say consultant you meant contractor. Consultants generally get paid without work being done. eg. patio11
Wifi is such a huge pain in the ass. Eliminating wifi will remove a significant headache--going with just Ethernet is a far easier proposition, as long as you don't go with on-board USB ethernet.

Plus, for the stated goals, I don't think wifi is essential.
Got a specific example? I can't think of any that I avoid. I'm primarily in Java, CoffeeScript/JS these days. Maybe it is different for other languages?

Certainly, there are language features that I don't use, because I don't need them in what I do, but that is different than purposely avoiding something.
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(tl;dw for the video: it's about the dramatically improved detection of breast cancer particularly in dense breast tissue (where mammographies often fail to visibly differentiate tumors) by injecting a radiotracer and using small gamma detectors that can fit closely around the breast.)

There's also breast thermography.

http://www.iact-org.org/patients/breastthermography/what-is-...

And another technique I couldn't find a description of but I read about a while ago, where the breast temperature is altered first. Since tumors have greater blood supply, it makes breast thermography (or something like it... I forget the exact detection method) even more accurate in detecting cancer, since a tumor with greater blood supply will return to normal temperature faster than the surrounding tissue.
Wow. As much as I appreciate you coming forward and telling a good story about social engineering, this is really a total asshole move. I hope you look back on this experience with with no small amount of shame.
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Network security would be one aspect of hacking (actually the aspect I am employed in). Breaking out of the confines of an API would be another, or just doing something because you want to see if it can be done, not because you're following a tutorial on GitHub. Actually, someone on reddit put it best related to their plans for a Darknet project: "don't expect help from Hacker News, if it doesn't have a business plan they won't be interested." Hackers don't care about business plans. The site used to be called "Startup News", in the days when the original redditors were pining for the days of the original reddit base. Based on the content still present, Startup News is still quite fitting.

In short, simply re-creating something in a new-wave language is what I'm kind of complaining about. That's not "hacking", that's just good programming.
It's been sometime since I looked at it, but you can see http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=7531773 that as of 2003, it was closed source

The FAQ states they decided to make the code proprietary "for security reasons and for science reasons as well".
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I beg to differ, but I'm sorry if you haven't had the same luck.
I think it's a bit ironic given the nature of the talk that the link on the video page to seomoz.org has rel="nofollow" while comments down below don't have. No link juice for those who provide content(talk) and all the link juice for commenters.
I believe it's targetted at the textbook market.
They also announced that the first boards are not $35, but will be sold at auction to the highest bidder.

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Yes, I gathered it is a pain in the ass, but I was hoping for a bit of insight as to WHY exactly.

Care to elaborate?
Zencoder looks good. I'm curious on how their billing process works, or how billing works for PaaS. Does customer prepay to buy credit or do they invoice a customer monthly?
Facebook has pretty much moved everything from Cassandra to HBase at this point.
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There's probably more bravado but I tend not to notice it, in the sense that the brain tunes out noise. However, I find that different from the active downvoting of (what in real-life would be considered) the niceties of conversation.

E.g. I don't think I've ever been downvoted on slashdot but if I did it would be for spam or hate, not a "thanks."
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If only more people knew this they would stop finding patterns where they probably don't exist.

We should scream it to the rooftops.

Skill + Luck = Success

Skill is probably necessary, but not sufficient for success.

All success is due to the confluence of differing variables:

capital/relations/knowledge/attitude/technology/society/education/opportunism/alliances/utility etc. etc.

over a long period of time.

Humans like to explain things away through single factor theorems.

Either "the rich are rich because they are intelligent", or "they are lucky". False dichotomy alert!

To become rich it is usually a combination of the two, with luck playing the bigger role in leveraging skill to the highest levels of success in noisy areas ( business vs. athletics ).

Wealth like stock market prices and other one bit measures of systems of ASTROUNDING complexity rarely tell you what it was that lead to it being the way it is.

It's like sound analysis.

The addition of various agents which produce a point in space over time, to which you do not know which percentage is violin ( skill ), and which percentage is the cymbal ( luck ).
Counting your eggs way before they're hatched. If you become a successful company you can deal with it then. Start doing what you wanna do with it, if any success appears on the horizon then think about all this.
This is how I've always understood it a well. Additionally, often the nature of the given exception shows what great lengths one must go to in order to break the rule.

Example: "I never run into traffic on my way home. Except for that one time when the bridge collapsed."
> be willing to break any rule of grammar or style

If you can break it and be understood, it's style, not grammar. Grammar is why you don't say "Cat mouse mouse run run."; style is why you might cringe when someone else says "Whom is it?"
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An interesting note: Mike Schmoker's book Focus addresses most of the points raised both in Seliger's and pg's essays; indeed, he comes to many of the same conclusions that Seliger does, recommending heavy doses of close readings of texts as a "jumping off" point for learning how to write. It also mirrors a lot of pg's thoughts in that it stresses the incorporation of argumentative writing as well.

I'd highly recommend Schmoker for anyone who's interested in these issues, whatever your opinion of these articles:

http://www.ascd.org/Publications/Authors/Mike-Schmoker.aspx?...

I use most of Schmoker's methods even in my music classes, where students are consistently asked to write about the music they are learning, as well as to learn how to take a position about that music (e.g., "the woodwinds are not properly used in this piece because...") in addition to the more "dry, academic" writing (research papers on the Baroque era, etc). I've had a lot of success by simply following Schmoker's recommendations, which are almost universally applicable across the humanities.
Why did you mention 1949?
Right. There are plenty of cases where you ONLY have the distance (or similarity) between two points and don't actually have an n-dimensional point in space.
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512 MB of RAM is pretty low these days when it comes to browsing. Even without Google+, I heard that you can usually have only 3 tabs open at one time, or otherwise they would reload. Full websites use a lot of RAM these days. A site like Google+ can use a lot more than average.
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The same can be said about Facebook, so what makes Google+ unique in that regard?
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Sure, but nobody said you were going to populate all 100. The point is sometimes simply to have "enough" boards on hand for testing that you don't need to do another run.
Alex brought up a great point, which he may have thought was a throw away line:

"Let’s leave the pithy comments for disposable social networking services like Google+, Facebook and Twitter."

This is exactly how I see and use G+. I use it to scan multiple stories and bylines, looking for interesting content and stories. I'm not looking for long winded blog entries. Those just slow me down.

I feel the people who are using G+ do so the same way they do with Twitter and other social media platforms. They can consume large quantities of content quickly - which does not mix with long, detailed blog entries. The two are simply incompatible in my view.
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The US has often turned to dictatorships for its "friends indeed", though this doesn't always pay out particularly well.

While there's a limit to the amount of pain a democracy will shoulder, there's also a pretty strong tenacity to its true friendships. Such as, say, the "special relationship" much heralded between the United States and Britain. Once we got over some initial sore feelings, by the late 19th century, economic and cultural ties had pretty solidly cemented the two countries together.

By comparison, the USA' s dictatorial allies have been steadfast ... for roughly the duration of the dictatorship, if that. And the fall of same can leave a very long period of mistrust and poor relations: Iran, and much of Latin America are testament to this.

Public schools are indeed a fairly mediocre source, but fortunately we're not limited to the knowledge spooned out in them. I found university to be rather interesting in this regard, and have made some study of related matters since.

So: I'd take odds with Mr. Churchill's assessment.
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You're going to take my super functional iPhone touch screen, put it behind a bulky plastic casing, and only allow me to interact with my iPhone through 4 or 5 random buttons while I play music on shuffle or from premade playlists?

Talk about "Single Function."
If you aren't willing to use the product, you shouldn't be applying there in the first place. Seriously, throwing terms like "discrimination" around for this is just... sad.
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I agree. While the lack of apps is an issue the tablet itself is fantastic. This is coming from someone who never used a Blackberry.
Maybe it would make more sense to do this as a (large, I guess) case for the iPod shuffle? With the smaller device, it might even be able to provide a much-extended battry, if nothing else.
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It looks like two options: you have read only first sentence of my comment or I am not clear enough. I have tried to do two things:

1) I have encouraged question's author to do that anyway even if there will be no profit because that has indirect positive effect;

2) I have tried to point out that such question is wrong to ask and there is very simple reason for that. It will attract only people who have succeeded in doing that: they will write what they did, maybe how they did that and maybe will try to identify reasons why they succeeded (not necessary correctly).

For every successful startup there are 10 unsuccessful (unprofitable) and if stating the reality is complaining then well OK - all who downvoted me has right to live in their rosy dream illusion world where they get rich just by reading HN.
With EC2, why do you need so much idle capacity? Just spin up more instances when demand picks up.

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They execute absolutely everything you put in Javascript; it looks exactly as it looks in Chrome. And it looks like it takes the snapshot after all the initial processing is done.

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But they also index and take a snapshot of the no-javascript version:
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I tend to disagree with the post.

Yes you can use Disqus for commenting, but it happened more than once to me when I commented and totally forgot about it because I dont have that nice notification coming from the google or facebook bar. Sure you can have email notifications, but thats just not a nice way do handle it.

In a way, blogging a lot of times is not much more than just a comment/post itself and seeing what happens on google plus, discussion is vital. I don't think the system of blog-linking etc is really scalable.

In a way, Google Plus (and to a certain extend Facebook, Posterous, and Tumblr) present a more coherent solution with content hosting, commenting platform, notification system, following etc. in one place. And we know how people love convenience and a good user and consistent experience.
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It cracks me up all these hysterical posts about how top Google execs aren't eating their own dogfood by using Google+ for blogging, etc. If I were Larry or Sergey I think I might seriously consider attempting to salvage the last remaining shred of my personal privacy by not making my inner thoughts world readable.
> This is the part where they are going to need a bunch of money to ramp up

What makes you say that? I've not seen anything about them needing money. From the FAQ:

Are you accepting pre-orders?

No. We are adequately funded, and don’t want to take your money until we have finished hardware.
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Also, sorting by reviews is broken (in the sense of being useful). A product with a single rating of 5 stars should not be ranked above a product with 1000 five-star ratings and 1 four-star rating. It's a really easy problem to solve too...
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