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The one posted here: https://raw.github.com/nex3/arc/042990a55d8c880a0a88476eb52b169e47f35d32/news.arc is from 2006, it'd be nice to see a newer version that includes some of the changes the site had made since then.
The neighboring farmer bs is just a smokescreen.

Says who? Why don't you do some research before calling something BS? Read this account: http://www.percyschmeiser.com/

Monsanto is trying to control nature. Bees don't care if they're picking up pollen from a "Monsanto Licensee" ! Why should the recipient of the pollen be held liable?
Well, this isn't exploitable if you use a randomized hash function like Ruby 1.9 does.

See http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2011-003.html for a listing of vulnerable languages (and yes, Python is on the list).
They are donating based on transfers and not coupon code used. BYEBYEGD does the same as SOPASUCKS
At least, there's still an opt out =/
Article seems very confident that farmers will be more able to afford bt brinjal more than they can currently afford pesticides. Where is the evidence this skeptic has presented that argues that Monsanto is interested in reducing its profit streams from Indian farming? Once granted a monopoly on bt brinjal, no corporation would voluntarily reduce its revenues rather than increase the price of bt brinjal. Farmer debt incurred from Monsanto-style agriculture is causing incredible rates of suicide across India, and Monsanto has a legal obligation to its shareholders to keep it that way.
The problem is that they use that phrase for virtually any argument against Android. Being about carriers being dick (the ask the phone vendor to cripple the software and the phone vendor obeys), about vendor not upgrading the OS on phones (because they want you to buy a new one), etc. All of this being unrelated to whether Android is open or not.
There are an effectively unlimited number of potential vulnerabilities in every possible way to accept payment over the Internet.

These are not covered as part of the PCI compliance requirements, as they're not compliance related - there's no way to effectively prove you have mitigated an "unknown unknown" (to quote Mr. Rumsfeld).

In Stripes instance, YOUR servers and systems never handle or see a CC number, and so they are outside of the scope of what PCI covers. Stripes software and servers, on the other hand, ARE covered by PCI, and it's THEIR job to be compliant, etc.
The true issue which is ignored is that diversity in crops must be maintained. Monsanto wouldn't want this to be a topic though because that would be contrary to their goals; Diversity means hundreads if not thousands of variations in neighbouring crops, not just one or a few. If society supports the smaller farmers, in case their crop is hit that year, then they can survive financially / pay bills. This is in fact the safest way to do it.
Still wonky. But -- it won't bother you if you don't use iOS.

If you've never used iOS, you're used to having touch response delayed or misinterpreted, or completely missed, or responding at a different scale of movement than your finger's movement. The Fire will do what you expect, which is, act like that too.

I let a colleague play with the Fire, which he had ordered but not yet received, while on a business trip. I gave him the Fire the first evening. He loved it. He was ecstatic. He'd never used an iPad, and his phone is Blackberry. He raved about it. He couldn't wait to get his.

Next evening I took the Fire away and gave him the iPad. He used the same apps: Kindle, Netflix, Hulu+, web browser. He thought it was great. "Sure, the screen's twice the size, and reading the web seems a little easier, but they're basically the same."

The third evening, I gave him back the Fire. Next day, he was not just despondent, but frustrated to the point of irritation: "This thing just doesn't do what you tell it to!" He no longer wanted the Fire, and decided to get an iPad instead.

Since launch I've maintained the Kindle Fire is fantastic for consuming commercial media within Amazon, Netflix, and Hulu, either if $200 is your budget cap or you've never used iOS.

I've owned several of the other tablets, and they just don't compare to the Kindle Fire for simplicity and ease of use. The Kindle really can be just picked up and used, and that's huge. It's very likely that someone who gets one won't miss what they don't know. They'll likely happily stick with future versions.

Sort of makes one wonder what's wrong with the other Android tablet makers.
I've been using Postmark for a while now, it's a no brainer to add to all of my projects - for Rails it takes literally a few seconds to integrate and that fact alone makes it worth using.
I agree. If you look at it on a CPM basis it is possible to get insane value out of social.

However, the main way I've seen people do this so far is with viral content. Producing something that can go viral is very difficult for some brands - their culture does not support the risky, balls out attitude that does well online.

(If you have examples of viral content that does not fit this pattern then please let me know)
But Android is not an open source project. Because Google does not open its development to external contributors, nor do they develop it in the open. They only do code drops. They don't take patches.
It also sounds reasonable that you can pay the local authorities in Zimbabwe to get the privilege to fulfill your own great white hunter dreams by shooting a problematic elephant.

I personally think how much of the video is spent justifying it is quite pathetic, and can also see how others might be offended by the great white hunter style.
He got Fireballed. He is often linked by DF too.
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I think the emphasis was supposed to be on before it launches. As in before it has seen a useful spectrum of usage upon which to base a review.
Will this be somehow comparable to the Y2K bug if we switch? a bunch of software broken?
> these are not normal circumstances

How ridiculous. You can use that to justify absolutely any action that you deem fit. Who's to decide what's acceptable in these "not normal circumstances"?
I was just discussing this with a friend over dinner last night. We agreed that managing more than 3 social networks just isn't worth the effort when it comes to marketing especially. No matter what niche network comes out you know everyone is already on either Facebook or Twitter so following the others is largely a waste of energy. It's one thing to keep up with the others casually but giving them equal attention as the majors is pretty fruitless these days. That's what we agreed on after working for years in social media for big companies.

My friend actually has a boss that insists she be posting for the company account on every little network around. That includes Meebo, FriendFeed, Plaxo, even MySpace and others. It's pretty nuts and it doesn't really help. Once you've hit Facebook and Twitter (and LinkedIn to a lesser extent) you already reached 90+% of your social networking audience.
You may also like Mark Twain's "On the Decay of the Art of Lying".

link: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2572
No idea why this was downvoted. Original post is asking for a service just like this. Thanks for sharing, Rich and welcome to HN!
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As has been explained many times in the past, Android's relative openness compared to iOS at the source code level does not translate to measurable benefits for the majority of users because of carrier/manufacturer lockdown.

Rooting is a security exploit, and I don't consider it relevant to whether the OS is practically open.
When I was moving all my GoDaddy domains to NameCheap earlier this year, I decided to go whole hog and take my Network Solutions domains there as well. I had about a dozen URLs with them, and at $35 a year, it would be worth the savings.

That's when I discovered that if you call Network Solutions in person, and tell them you're leaving for a cheaper registrar, they'll match the price. I kept my dozen or so domains there, and now have a locked-in price of $9/year with Network Solutions.

I still feel some loyalty to them from the early days when they were the only registrar. For some reason, I felt like they were more credible. I know they've actually got their own skeletons in the closet, but old habits die hard.
We are given 2 ears and 2 eyes to read and listen, but given only one mouth to express ourselves. So, nature herself optimized us for consumption ;-). Also, when we use the term reading it is usually meant for longer content. But, most of what people do with smartphones could at best be called juggling or glancing.

We don't stop creating because we are consuming more. It is other way round. We are consuming more because we are afraid of creating.
As a counterpoint, there is also a danger to writing without reading. Reading other people's work can stop you from needlessly reinventing what already exists. It informs your opinions and reminds you to consider things that you might have otherwise neglected to. It can also act as a reality check and prevent you from disappearing too far up your own bumhole (when you write about something, and then write about what you wrote, and iterate until your whole argument becomes a house of cards).

For balance, I recommend keeping a pen and a paper by you (or a text editor open) and occasionally pausing your reading to have a scribble whenever something strikes you as interesting.

Additionally, the thing that you absolutely must take the trouble to read are other people's comments on what you have written (exceptions allowed for people who get too many of these comments to make that practical).
Completely agree. I was involved with a startup in the 3D printing space, and the gap between what 3D printing is capable of and what people think it will be able to do is just enormous.

I think the more interesting stuff is voxel printing and some of the advanced machining technology that's being developed.
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On the other hand: http://www.merlinmann.com/better/

This is my favorite thing Merlin has ever done, and I think about it all the time. I identify strongly with the following three points.

* identify and destroy small-return bullshit;

* shut off anything that’s noisier than it is useful;

* make brutally fast decisions about what I don’t need to be doing;

I completely disagree that honing your filter (um, to mix metaphors) is a bad thing. At a time when we have tons of ideas thrown at us constantly every single day, it is the essential thing. Otherwise you're looking at every stupid god damned cat video thrown your way.
This could help

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h112-3261
I don't know about the other two, but the first one is a huge steaming pile of BS. First of all; Apple could have also charged less if they made such a limited device. And second, they do charge about as little for the iPad as they can, which is why no one has been able to make a tablet of similar specs with a compatible price all this time.
Fair question. After initially seeing Sansa represented this way, I began to ask myself "Why would they do this? What advantage does it serve?"

Using the common motive of "making the show appeal to a wider [American] audience," it seemed to me that they wanted her character to hit closer to home than a polished young lady would. Of course, my opinion is just a shallow one - a thought in passing.

Thinking on it now you are probably right to question me on my association of 'rude and spoiled' with 'American,' but that was just my gut reaction. FWIW, I'm an American with minimal knowledge of the demeanor teenage girls from other societies, Western or otherwise.
Just skip 13 and make it the 14th month.
I would say that the fact that the browser "inflicts" open-source upon organizations could be one of the best things that could happen for society. Companies for which this paradigm "doesn't fit the [company] culture" are going to have to make a choice: keep things secret server side and compromise on the UX or move things client side for the sake of a better UX and compromise on secrecy of source code.

Those companies that have secrecy as a cultural value are going to be at a clear disadvantage from a UX point of view. The web is getting faster. People in general are becoming less and less tolerant of load times and other delays. The success of native apps proves this. Choosing secrecy will hurt your company unless you truly have a sauce so special that people will be tolerant of latency to taste it.

Native apps are the last refuge of companies that want to maintain end-to-end secrecy throughout the entire stack. The fragmentation of smart phones suggests that web apps are the future because every apps with social features is less useful if only people with the same kind of device as you can use it. Companies will have no choice but to develop in a space that is open.

As a consolation to companies with secrecy as a cultural value, the locus of computation is increasingly blurred between the browser and the server. The source code of most advanced client-side javascript apps that I've seen so far look like swiss cheese in that they're all full of holes, where the holes are functionality that is handled server side and are often the most complex tasks that an app is performing for the user.
No, the drivers are generally not open. Wait, they're almost never open.

So, you can make a useable copy of Android that run in.. an emulator. Woot.

That's the major "Android is not open" gripe I have.

Besides, we might have "moved on" from the closed source Android 3.0, but that doesn't mean much. Android 5 could be closed for all we know. In fact, it could be forever closed, at any given time.

And now, Google has history were they actually have closed it. Which changes, well, everything. They won't be afraid to do it if they have an interest into doing it.
For particular DHT, namely Chord, a node has f successor list where it stores the replicas of data on each f successors. After failure of a node, the data is stored in its successor list. However, this introduces more overhead to the system, after breakdown find successors and replicate date, and stabilize function should check every successor-list to find inconsistent links. Some other DHTs use interval based division, divide the nodes into fixed intervals and all the nodes in one interval store the data in all other nodes in that interval.
It sure seems like they stopped being aggressive in courts for 10+ years.
This seems like a good read to ask a question I have: my app needs to be able to send mail as the user of the app. I would prefer not to get SMTP credentials from users. I know SMTP will allow an envelope to be written by somebody else, but it is also a flag for spam. Is there a way (links would be great) to not be flagged as spam? Do third party mailers support this?
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What a fantastic article. Thank you. I thought this quote really summed it up:

If you write A/B testing software: Don’t report significance levels until an experiment is over, and stop using significance levels to decide whether an experiment should stop or continue.
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Do you really think there were a bunch of villagers sitting in Africa, saying to themselves "our crops are being destroyed by this elephant, and we are so hungry—if only a rich American could fly halfway around the world to shoot an elephant for us?"
Thanks for your reply.

"Your image logo dude looks pixelated."
It seems that LaunchRock has automatically reduced the image quality :(

"Magic page"
yes, it's the LaunchRock page (I was referring to Eric Ries's term)

Well, I was expecting to get some advise for when doing a "1 member team" startup, learn the risks etc. Appreciate if someone can suggest similar startups that have done well.
You can take the published source code and compile a useable copy of OS X. In fact, for many years the OpenDarwin project did just that. What you could not do is run the Aqua GUI or many of the default applications that come with a Mac bought in the store.

But that's the point. Sure, you can compile and run "Android", but is it the same as the OS that runs on a phone I buy from Verizon? Android phones sell with proprietary software that is most definitely not open. Macintosh computers sell with proprietary software that is most definitely not open. But enough elements of both are open to the point that you can boot a device and accomplish real work.
Not really. The argument isn't that "x not in y" isn't useful, but that it duplicates "not (x in y)" by adding an operator spelled "not in".

I like "not in" and use it lots but I wondered the same thing the first time I saw it.
This explanation looks like it was lifted with little modification from The Little Schemer - a book that cannot be recommended enough.
FWIW, printf() is not async-signal-safe. It's bad form to call such routines from within a signal handler.

Here's a list of async-signal-safe functions (scroll down): http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/xsh...

I know I'm missing the point of the post, but it is a particular nit that I pick. You'd be surprised at how often this happens in production code, and how often it causes mysterious, hard-to-reproduce bugs.
I think there's always a fine line between the users and the company's interest.
That's because if the users have 0 interest, the company will not succeed.

So it's always about finding the right balance between "keeping enough user interest" while "maximizing company's interest".

That's what Google does. They do that well.

Many companies maximize the company interest too much and fail due to that.

Few companies maximize the user's interest (I wont dare saying too much, because I'm a user), and fail due to that (unfortunately).
If you think Hacker News sucks that bad, you're free to go read reddit and bitch about the users there. This comment is shitty and cynical and you should feel bad about it.
I agree with the general notion but don't think raising all teachers' salary will lead to better result. While Korean public school teachers are relatively well paid, top private 'Hakwon' teachers are paid several times more. Private education is a hot 'business' in S.Korea.

Sad part is that the goal of private education in S.Korea is to enter good universities, not to get good education. Sadder part is, after graduating, many can't find jobs and those that do usually don't work in the field they majored in because they picked their school by reputation and their majors by ease of entry.
The impact of this article rests with this sentence:

"Try 26.1% – more than five times what you probably thought the significance level was."

That is, if you peek after every observation and stop as soon as you reach 5% significance, there's actually a 26% chance the results are not significant. But that doesn't mean there's a 26% chance the other option is significantly better—just that there's a 26% chance neither is statistically better.

And for most startups, I think that's a fine compromise.

Sometimes I'll launch a new design and test just to make sure it's not terribly worse. If it reaches statistical significance (even if I "peek") then I'm cool with the new design and will make the switch.

And I'll continue to test and tweak the new design immediately after finishing the previous test. The time saved from my lazy statistics means we can move much more quickly.

If we had thousands of "conversions" a day, then it would make sense to be deliberate with our testing methods. But we don't, we have tens of conversions per day. And we can improve much faster using half-assed split-tests and intuition.
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I think not bothering with months at all would be
better than having a 13 month year.

The phases of the moon are 28 days long. So a 13 month calendar also lines up with the lunar cycle. The more you think about it, you wonder how they ever came to the conclusion to use 12 months instead of 13.
Once I became "multidisciplinary", I found I could no longer happily work at most large companies. With product management, marketing, engineering, and some modest design (very modest! ;) skills, and a desire to actually use them, small companies are the only places that don't want to pigeon-hole you.

So, if you want to be multidisciplinary in the day job, don't expect to do it at a large company.
Only Reddit would be goofy enough to target a congressman that regularly pulls in two-thirds of the popular vote in his district, outperformed his party's own presidential candidate by ~20%, and is already targeted by single-issue groups with a lot more prominence than SOPA. Most likely they fail, and if they succeed they won't get the credit.

If they had a clue they'd pick a) someone already pretty wobbly, b) someone who won't be automatically riding the coattails of dissatisfaction with the current president, and c) someone they can take credit for bumping if they actually manage to pull it off.
Why is this being downvoted? Are people assuming we can out-engineer nature forever? Single-breed farming makes for a brittle food chain.
I've never heard of OpenSRS. Can you elaborate on what it is, and the benefits?
Hold on there. Psystar was attempting to sell copyrighted software in violation of a EULA by breaking encryption, which is specifically prohibited by the DMCA. I'm not saying that I agree with that specific case, but I think a great many open source advocates would take issue with you comparing the actions of Psystar with the desire to have a fork-able OS (which, BTW, OS X is).

Had Psystar sold computers with OpenDarwin running X, Apple wouldn't have batted an eye (couldn't, even, since it's all BSD).
Read it again, they are.

Quote from the proposal: "For example, the adoption of Universal Time would give new flexibility to economic management in the vast East-West expanse of Russia: everyone would know exactly what time it is everywhere, at every moment. Opening and closing times of businesses could be specified for every class of business and activity. If thought desirable, banks and financial institutions throughout the country could be required to open and to close each day at the same hour by the world time. This would mean that bank employees in the far East of Russia would start work with the sun well up in the sky, while bank employees in the far west of Russia would be at their desks before the sun has risen. "

The article omits this in its summary.
Ron Paul is leading the US presidential race on Facebook
Ron Paul is currently adding 2,000 'Facebook likes' per day. No one in the presidential race is close to this number.
Barack Obama is adding only 28 fans per day.
They do take patches on the drops that they have open sourced - http://source.android.com/source/submit-patches.html
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I agree, is not consuming prevents creating, it's consuming too much takes time from creating. In that sense, developing a good filter for crap would allow you to consume faster leaving more time for creating.

A second issue is that it's assuming that if you develop an efficient filter for incoming crap, that filter will be applied to what you generate. And that if that filter threshold goes beyond the level of your own ability to create, all you do is crap and you stop creating. The input filter does not have to be the same as the output filter.
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