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Unfortunately, it's a recurring story. e.g.

> you also have to be careful about dumb money that thinks it's smart.

All dumb money thinks it is smart; If it thinks it is dumb, it's usually smart-by-association by being attached to smart money.
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HOLY. SHIT.

I'd like to retract my Tim Ferris comments. While I think he's a little self-promotion-ey without having done much, he's a genuinely nice guy and a good marketer. And comparing him to Sebastian is not at all apt, I've just realized.

I hadn't actually watched your videos, Sebastian. You need help. Not like a life coach, but a real therapist, probably one who can prescribe medication. You genuinely have a screw loose or something. Did you seriously curse out your agent (for what felt like hours) because you had trouble coordinating a time to do a skype call?!?

And then you made a movie with your shirt off, ranting at the executives at S&S and at your agent about how you're going to destroy them all?

I know you think you're this crazy wildcard guy and you're hated by most and loved by a few, but you're wrong. You're a crazy wildcard guy, but you're about as unprofessional as I can imagine and you're never going to have a positive impact in the world unless you get the help you need.

I've met and worked with hundreds of true professionals over the years, and I don't know of any that would work with you after seeing a stunt like this. Apparently if someone you're working with fails to return an email fast enough, they'll be treated to a video of a shirtless pudgy guy telling them to fuck off on youtube. Not exactly confidence-inspiring.

Seek help.
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While I don't know the actual best resolution of satellite imagery but I do know that the U.S. requires commercial satellite imaging to resample to 0.5 meters.
jiggity, this is an awesome idea. i think i'm going to do this and put it in a pitch deck. =)
will never understand why people cut 99% of the internet off by offering only twitter/facebook signup...

i never implemented either of those, but couldn't be so much easier than openid to justify that number
CCDs were invented only in the late 1960s. These satellites were flown in the early 1960s.

According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge-coupled_device#History) the first spy satellite with CCDs was flown in 1976.
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Sounds good at first, but remember, the U.S. just spent around around $3e12 on wars in the Middle East, developing all kinds of technology along the way. Some of it has to be surveillance tech like this. Even a small fraction of this number would pay for a lot.
Donate them to a school if possible.
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Yeah, it requires OS support, but it's no different than most of the standard library. Opening files, writing to files, printing to the console, allocating memory, etc. all require OS support, too.

As to how it can be implemented, "man 2 open" on OSX shows O_EXLOCK and O_SHLOCK flags, and they're from BSD. Not sure if they're POSIX, but I'd bet Linux has something equivalent. And there's also the flock() function. My guess is the new "x" option to fopen can be implemented using O_EXLOCK and flock(), though I'm too tired to look up details on how it could be done.
I wouldn't be so sure, especially since 9/11/2001: http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articl...
Yes -- if you're comfortable with the command line and a scripting language, you can set up a script to handle your static blog. However, I suspect most people who want to blog don't have these skills or don't want to spend the time messing with the tech.
I'm sure they saved money in the short run by going with the cheapest option each time they tried to manage their documentation the last time around.
On the other hand -- at the time, they didn't know which parts would be valuable, and which parts would be wasted effort, so it probably was the right choice.
However, if a major incident were to happen around that plant, could the company tell the emergency responders what they would need to know?
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On the one hand, it's better to reduce clutter for the less common case of editing rather than reading. On the other hand, it's better to indicate availability of functionality without requiring hovering.

What do you think of a modal solution whereby individual editing interface elements are shown collectively only when the user indicates editing intent through a single, master control?
I'm not familiar with football betting but it seems to me that the initial example is not a very good analogy. In the case of shareholders, someone initially lent money to the company in exchange for shares (owning part of the company) from which the company benefits. On the other hand, betting on a football team's success doesn't increase its odds of winning, hence it wouldn't make sense for the team to comment or apologize on the outcome of the bet.
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It argues against using shareholder value as the metric for the purposes of incentivizing managers.
I'd like to add 2 other sites to this list with horrible mobile interfaces that frequently show up on HN.

extremetech.com and geek.com

Extreme Tech's mobile site is totally unusable. They have a very crummy interface, instituted with javascript, that overrides the simple scrolling ability built into the browser and overlay it with a system that tries pseudo-pagination. If they would simply get rid of their attempt at a clever interface and just display their actual site, there wouldn't be a problem. If any Extreme Tech developers are reading this, please fix your mobile site.

The 2nd culprit, geek.com, crashes Mobile Safari. I'm on an iPhone 4. Because of whatever you are loading on your mobile site, it freezes the browser for upwards of a minute. Half the time the browser crashes before its done loading. Please, fix that too.

I actively avoid reading any of those sites, since I read HN from my phone about as often from a regular browser.

Another more generic complaint are to the people who use position:fixed on their sites to create headers and side navigation. Guess what, on mobile devices these don't scale. What ends up happening is that I need to zoom in to read your text, but then 3/4 of the screen is covered with your nav menu. Please, stop doing that.

Test your sites on mobile browsers. Its easy. Take the one in your pocket out and try your site. I'm not even advocating extensive dedicated testing. Just try it out like a normal user does and make sure it works most of the time. These are things that are so horrendously, obviously bad that I don't know how they ever got through any reasonable kind of QA.

Edited for excessive usage of caps. Sorry.
There are already a number of services that offer on-demand rendering so I assume studios that take on jobs too large for their current farm are already using them. Where I work we often use spare workstations (rendering is a fraction of our workforce) on off hours to process large jobs but have been looking at EC2 options for a while. If there were a service that provided a ready to go solution on EC2 for 3dsmax/Vray, I'd have to take a close look at it.
It's not hard. Just write a blog engine that generates static html pages.
Coincidentally, I just read about this in "Animal Spirits" a recent book on behavioral economics and the market. It mentions Welch's view and analyzes a lot of similar situations.
Are you implying that 99% of the Internet has neither a facebook nor twitter account? I'm willing to bet that's false.

As for the second sentence, I have no idea what it means, but I'll also wager a large sum of money that there are many times more facebook OR twitter users than openid users.
Yep, it is easier to increase profit by cutting costs, so that is what people will do to hit their numbers.In the long term, it is akin to burning your clothes to stay warm.
Right, if you write something akin to Jekyll it will work fine.

However, I think most people would probably be trying to learn a framework like Rails or Django if they were writing a blogging engine to learn a new language/framework.
If someone hadn't set this up as a hosted system I would have done so tomorrow, but it turns out there's already a hosted markdown + Dropbox thing out there: http://calepin.co/
If a startup is meant to become a business that makes money, does it really have to be all-in poker?

Is there no way to make money as you go? Sooner or later it has to be figured out, no?
I don't mind connecting with Twitter. What I find absurd is requiring the right to tweet on my account at any time without my explicit permission.
Your reasoning exhibits another common fallacy. While the average probability of making $20m in 5 years may be low, that doesn't imply each individual's is. For the right sort of person the probability might be 2/3 or even higher. For most people it's epsilon. The reason the average is low is that it's the average of a lot of epsilons and a handful of higher numbers.

This is easier to understand if you consider e.g. the question of being over 7 feet tall. Maybe only 1 in 10000 (or whatever) people is over 7 feet tall. But that doesn't mean your probability of being over 7 feet tall is .01%. Your probability is either 0% or 100%.
It's pretty simple when it comes down to it - the copyright holders are the only people who can take action, and the fact that there is no "grace period" simply means that they are illegally distributing the binaries.
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It made me both LOL and think. We are doing a snazzy crazy UI in the admin panel. But the thing is, we don't want people to use it. That sounds strange, but we optimized our convention, and we do allow people to configure stuff by themselves, but we don't want to motivate them to do so. An input field is crying for you to put something there. A little edit button in the corner not so much. And the added bonus is that we can hide all those ugly forms until they are really needed.

Also, think about an experience that was the exact opposite of this post. You thought about something ('where is the delete button?') and you 'gambled' where that button will show up, or what touch move you should use - think how awesome the filling was when you were correct.
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I guess because when I was coming up, the sign of the clenched fist was being used primarily by Marxist revolutionaries and race nationalists. It was not a sign of civil liberties http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_liberties in the general sense, more a sign of unified struggle.

Adopting the "worker's revolution" symbolism also seems to downplay the strengths in many cases. Groups like Anonymous or the readership of HN are far from being mobs armed with farm implements, they're the techno-elite.

Personally, I think a better sign might be the extended middle finger. :-)
I suspect you don't actually know what everyone else on the site thinks.
That isn't the "delete contact" button. Did he even try it? The "delete contact" button is in the toolbar, which makes perfect sense. The trash can next to the name field simply clears the name field. So why not always show it? This is not just the "edit contact" screen, it's also the "view contact" screen, and cluttering it up with trash cans next to every field would absolutely detract from the scannability of the page when you're not editing. Why not have separate pages for viewing and editing? That's bad for usability too; it invites mode errors.
"Meanwhile real performance was declining. From 1933 to 1976, real compound annual return on the S&P 500 was 7.5 percent. Since 1976, Martin writes, the total real return on the S&P 500 was 6.5 percent (compound annual)."

Hmm...where have I seen those numbers before. Oh right! He's measuring his control period from the bottom of the great depression. Sounds legitimate to me!

This is so hacky it makes me laugh. You can argue that a focus on short-term shareholder value is bad for various reasons, but a focus on long-term shareholder value is incontrovertibly good for shareholders, long-term. In practice, it is also basically equivalent to the author's other view of focusing on "customers", whatever the hell that means. Or focusing on "real performance" metrics like profit, as though you can do one without doing the other.

If CEO pay is tied to long-term stock performance, the problem of gaming the short term earning expectations goes away. Full stop.

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position: fixed; is long as you use percents. Thing is position: fixed doesn't even work on iOS: https://gist.github.com/1196262
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Agree that "the government is obscenely out of touch with its constituency." Also agree that it makes sense to stop going to them for help, and the influencing the influencers is prudent. But there is another lever: get rid of the government system that would be so easily influenced by money over and above policy. Turn 'em out. Withdraw consent of the governed.
There is only one valid definition of a business purpose:
to create a customer.

No. The one valid definition of a business purpose is this: A business should do what the owners want it to do. Otherwise, the notion of ownership loses meaning.

If the owners want to create lots of customers, they do that. If they would rather have a smaller number of highly profitable customers, they do that. If they want to create a nice side business so that they can surf in the summer and snowboard in the winter, they do that.

Scottish philosopher David Hume drew an essential distinction between factual matters—is—and moral matters—ought. Asking "What should a business do?" looks like a Humean ought, but it's actually a Humean is. A business is a vehicle for achieving the ends of its owners. How then can we make sense of the maxim "a business should maximize shareholder value"? In certain kinds of businesses—especialy those owned by a large number of shareholders—the interests of the owners may generally conflict, but they can usually agree on one thing: maximize the value of the company. This describes virtually all publicly traded companies and many family businesses as well. It doesn't describe, e.g., my present business (the Ruby on Rails Tutorial), which I created as a 4-Hour Work Week–style product company to let me relax for a while, travel the world in style, and have the financial freedom to develop longer-range plans for world domination. Its purpose is definitely not to maximize shareholder value; I'm the only shareholder, so it does whatever I damn well tell it to do.

Let the owners worry about what a company ought to do. Unless you're an owner, it's none of your business.
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Most of these tips are really wrong:

* Why using an embedded board for firewall? I can see using an hw firewall, but only in very limited corner cases (i.e. when it does inspection in ASIC)

* what has ssh to do with apache?

* having 10 (wow! Look at me!) desktops and keeping one for 5 tail windows is the perfect recipe to NOT notice anomalies.

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Total rubbish IMHO.
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it's ironic that fail2ban will probably not ban anyone if you are running ssh on a non-standard port

it's also nice to be able to block an entire country like china. what if you have customers in china..?
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wow, this reminds me of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis, one third of the world's human population is infected. This parasite interferes with brain chemistry and alters both function and behavior.
And IIRC, snail flukes do a similar thing: When they are ready to move from their snail host, they migrate into its eye stalks, which turn bright colors. The infected snail loses its fear of open spaces and climbs onto a branch or leaf, where a passing bird spots what looks like juicy worms and pecks off the stalks.

The fluke is now in the bird's digestive system, and it starts manufacturing eggs. The eggs are embedded in the new host's guano, which falls to the ground.

A passing snail eats the guano and becomes infected with flukes, starting the cycle anew.

Update:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWB_COSUXMw

Some varieties use three or more hosts. Dawkins describes one parasite that infects snails, birds, and sheep in turn.
This wouldn't be so much a problem if "shareholder value" were taken to mean "the value one can get by holding a share" (i.e. profits) rather than "the value one can get by selling a share"...
This guy was on the CBC a few months ago and I was basically screaming at my radio.

One choice portion of the show was when the interviewer (who was lapping it up) asked what would be a good alternative to the stock market. He proposed bonds. He even went so far as to say that bonds would reduce the amount of volatility we see in the economy by reducing the impact of the "expectations market".

Yes. Replacing equity financing with debt sounds like a reasonable solution to reducing volatility.

What an absolute fraud.
extremetech.com uses onswipe.

Onswipe sucks.

You can read people lamenting onswipe here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2699610.

Onswipe benefits no one. It makes the content unreadable, and doesn't add any value for anyone except themselves.

I don't read sites that use onswipe, in part because I want to boycott them, but mainly because I simply cannot get the UI to work. I suggest you avoid them too.
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Cutting costs alone is not necessarily a bad thing. Cutting costs at the expense of the customer is though. And when I say expense I mean the customer gets a crappier service or product.

I just wanted to make it clear for people reading around here. I don't think they should regard strategies that involve cutting costs necessarily evil.
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> Do you know how many Brazilians have received a Nobel Prize? Zero.

Technically, one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Medawar

On superior education, Brazil wins slightly: http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/latin-ame.... USP is also 100 positions ahead of Chile's PUC on the 2011 world university rankings.
I've always thought that reveal-on-hover controls makes perfect sense when you present a list of similar things. In that case, showing one edit button, one delete button, and possibly a detail button is too much noise.

My basic rule is, if there's more than one or two of the same control, then it should be hidden.
Isn't this only valid in hindsight? Isn't your probability of anything 0% or 100% once it has happened or not happened? The problem here is that we have no idea in advance which bucket you'll end up in.

So yes, I suppose some founders have a very high probability and some have almost no probability. But that's not useful when you don't know which group you're in yet. So the average actually IS useful.

You have either 0% or 100% probability of being over 7 feet tall, but what about your unborn child? Genetics aside, if 1 out of 10000 kids are born over 7 ft and you have a gun to your head, how will you calculate your kids odds of being that tall?