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There's a tool that does 3D presentations called Tao Presentations, just around the corner. See http://www.taodyne.com. It also does "real" 3D (i.e. stereoscopy or auto-stereoscopy on Philips or Alioscopy screens).

The description of slides looks close to what you are calling for:

slide "test",

* "First point"

* "Second point"

It doesn't output to Impress.js yet, but that sounds like an interesting opportunity.
the rule of thumb is quite simple: if you're in a project where your work is intended for a mixed enterprise environment, with parts of non-opensource code integrated with your work, then choose MIT or Apache license.

Otherwise, GPL works fine for most cases.

for example, an open-source library which is intended to be extended by enterprise-specific drivers, is better to be published under MIT than GPL
As someone who relies on advertising for my livelihood, and as someone who runs both ABP and Ghostery, I can awkwardly sympathize with both sides. Ultimately though, I still 100% believe that the end user should have ultimate say in what does and does not come across their computer. If they want to block something, that's their right. It's my burden to create the value, not the users.

So yes, ABP allowing ANY kind of advertisements kind of pisses me off. It's like creating a safety switch for a gun that allows certain kinds of bullets to be fired.
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There aren't that many outlets. Most of my discussions of the type you're describing have been with co-workers. This would make for a useful online community.
Drug trafficking and illegal immigration?
How far have you gone in developing these ideas?

If they are in the form of a simple web page, and you've got some sort of tracking in place, then feel free to post on here, I'm sure you'll get some valuable feedback.

Oh, and I've just dropped you a quick email if you want to chat over Skype or whatever!
You could stop by #startups on irc.freenode.net. Discussion is a lot less 'serious' than here though, at times.
why not publishing them in a personal blog and sending links in various social platforms, like HN or google+?

although with HN, lots of topics remain neglected, especially if they appear in non-US daytime
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My understanding is World War I. Apparently passports and visas were an innovation inspired by the militarism and nationalism that swept Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century.

However governments rarely divest themselves of power once acquired, and so although many, many more folk are internationalist these years, there exists this relict of national control.

/stills rant about how in the United States, the Social Security was promised never to be used as a universal identifier.
All right there is some risk but in general it is not perceived/judged to be a risk by the people making the decisions to protest.
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So - thanks to their special relationship with Apple -
Atari has successfully scrubbed the app store of their
perceived competition. It looks as though Apple complied
without so much as a rebuttal or independent evaluation.

"it looks like" it's not enough to claim there is a "special relationship". It pisses me off that everyone having legal trouble with a third party claims wrongdoing by Apple for spurious reasons.

Apple is taking action based on "the best of their knowledge". That is, they comply when someone files a claim, but they reinstate the game when someone else files a reasoned legal rebuttal. It's not up to them to take the case to court or seek independent evaluation.
That's one of the first hypothesis discussed in the article: our brains aren't getting smaller because we are getting dumber, but because the wiring is becoming more efficient.

I think the most interesting part of the article comes at the end, where the author points out that while brain volume has decreased since prehistoric times, it's recently been on the rise. That trend corresponds well with the availablity of protein in human history. Since farming began, protein has been a privilege of the rich. Only recently has it been widely available, and in such quantities. Hence, modern Americans are something like 3 inches taller than their ancestors 150 years ago.
Garbage-collected languages can still be fast on microcontrollers. When there isn't a lot of memory it only takes a few milliseconds to run a collection cycle. The problem would be when you need real-time and can't deal with the jitter.
Human trafficking is the new drugs. Apparently it's enormously more profitable to import sex workers and keep them in a kind of narcotic/whatever assisted slavery, because of the reuse of the person vs. the consuming nature of the drug.
They're just ideas floating around in my head. I want to make sure I'm not reinventing the weel.
We recently finished migrating a >6 year old project from perforce to git, splitting out a horrible bloated thirdparty/ directory full of binaries into its own git submodule to eventually be replaced by something sane(r) like Maven or Ivy. I hear subversion is Good Enough for large file dumps, and I'd rather use that through a git interface than its own. p4 and git-p4 are both pretty awful I think after using them. Of course the general response to source control of large files is "don't do that!"
The best blogging platform is the one you actually use.

Pick any of the free platform WP, posterous, tumblr, etc. Most of these tools are inter-portable. It really does not matter, the one thing that really matter is the blogging platform that you actually use.
I'm not sure the cloud is as difficult to access as you may think. Many cloud services have built-in law enforcement interfaces (LEI) to make searching the data self-service and easier for law enforcement as well as the cloud providers.

Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10446503-38.html
Major 7 chords are explicitly written as such. So in the case of a C chord with a major 7, it would be noted as Cmaj7.
You need to work out whether you want opinions from potential customers or from industry peers.

Arguably both are important when considering any startup idea.

I can't help you find the potential customers, but when it comes to peers it is important to have a strong network of industry friends, contacts and mentors. If you don't have that to bounce an idea of then you're going to come equally stuck later on down the road when you need to lean on a network for potential hires, business advice, etc.

A strong contact network you can rely on is a key part of success.
Except the Victorians largely embraced scientific advancement.

While it's great that this kind of legislation can be brought forward, debated and (hopefully) quashed surely there are more important things for legislators to do?
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We use instantssl (comodo) and are very happy, no issues [yet].
> Encryption/hashing are your last line of defense. (...) Not having them is not the issue

It pretty much shows they had no line of defense whatsoever. Password hashing is very easy. Even good, hard-to-crack, hashing is very easy.
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At the risk of sounding arrogant, I found the post very naive, specially considering the ignorance of skeuomorphism which is the basic theory behind this "phenomenon", and has been pretty much under the spotlight recently.

The wikipedia article is worth a submission by itself, thanks.
I don't know if there's a good alternative for Adblock Plus on Firefox, but for Chrome there's one called simply "Adblock", which has been there since the beginning on Chrome, before Adblock Plus, and I'm happy with it.
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Might look odd if none of the files on the decoy have been modified in the last 6 months - logging in to do this regularly and in a believably meaningful way seems like a burden. The good news is unless you're an international crime lord, it seems unlikely there will be anyone on hand in the court to make this kind of leap (not a lawyer so that guess could be way off though).
Like what Apple does?

Guess some of the Chinese iPhone copycats using Android are following this model to some extent.
Microsoft BitLocker in its most secure mode is the gold standard because it protects against more attack modes than other software. Unfortunately, Microsoft has only made it available with certain versions of Microsoft Windows.

Though MS says that BitLocker doesn't have back doors [1], I wonder how true this actually is...

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/si_team/archive/2006/03/02/542590.as...
I actually trust tarsnap more than setting up a host and having to maintain it:

http://www.tarsnap.com/
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"... outer space isn’t actually governed by the countries over which it floats."

At the moment it sounds as though no single country's legislation would be able to stop this, but perhaps countries could prevent users from connecting to it.

The other part is that the act of launching the satellites is likely outside of the law in most countries, at least without some form of permission.
I'll try this later, but looks like a life saver. I also find myself sometimes screening through a post's comments to see which ones are new. Thanks for sharing this :)
Full-disk encryption may just provide false sense of safety, as we store lots of data in the cloud, where even strong passwords do not guarantee that nobody will get access to the data.

You can store an encrypted file "in the cloud", though. A truecrypt volume with a keyfile should be essentially uncrackable. Of course, then you can only use the service as a dumb data storage.
Without getting into an argument that is very far off the topic: Especially those two things are only made into problems. The first is easily solved by partial legalization and the second is just protectionism.
Regardless, it's a very interesting article and the important thing is that this kind of thing receives good coverage (rather than who submitted it).

Perhaps it reveals some subtle "pecking order" or perhaps it simply reveals I submitted it at a bad time. :)
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Fixed :) cheers
Do you already have a serious customer base in the USA, or do you need to build a marketing function from scratch? Have you ever managed a senior marketing person before?
Looks very interesting, as services go. For this kind of thing, I'm strangely less inclined to trust a slick-looking, well-designed and heavily-marketed backup "solution"..

If I do fork out for a service, I would probably rather go with the kind of company that has as their tagline: "Online backups for the truly paranoid", like them.

Pricing's not a killer either.
"Now click the icons and get ready for a surprise!". I was not surprised. Although one annoying thing is that Facebook auto-auths some websites such as Rotten Tomatoes. (Afaik it has that also for Yelp)
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What is the use-case for the one-week battery? I plug my phone in every night when I go to bed and this has not seemed overly onerous.
I don't think that decorators are too complex to be used usually... In python it should be a known and understood pattern and therefore it should not scare at all.

(Moreover it should handle multiple args, and there are better and more popular implementation such as @memoize)

However my assumption in this specific case is that the project is not small and therefore that decorator and this "pattern" could be used somewhere else too.
If this is not the case I agree with you that it would just add too much complexity and it would hence be better to not have the decorator at all.
The get_cached_user_by_username and get_cached_user_by_id would just handle the cache hit/miss by themselves.

Still it would be much more readable, because the main point I would say is to separate a long or too nested method in more methods.

def get_cached_user_by_id(id):
user = cache.get_user_by_id(id)
if not user:
user = db.get_user_by_id(id)
cache.set_user(user)
return user

def get_cached_user_by_username(username):
user = cache.get_user_by_username(username)
if not user:
user = db.get_user_by_username(username)
cache.set_user(user)
return user

def get_cached_user(user_id = None, username = None):
user = None
if user_id:
user = get_cached_user_by_id(user_id)
else if username:
user = get_cached_user_by_username(username)

if not user:
raise ValueError('User not found')

return user

(Thanks for the .__name__ tip... I have not use python for a while)
And you can be happy if it's a judge and not some convincingly dark smiling guy with a mask.
Hackers/engineers have been doing this for a long time already. It's just that they've been doing it with the backing of large governments or organisations until now.

The two types of feasibility that become important when you lose that backing:

Cost: can it be done cheaply enough?

Legal: not so much when the satellite is up, but the act of getting it up, and the act of communicating with it from the ground.
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What about creating some polls and using Amazon Mechanical Turk to get opinions?
You can read something about this approach here:
http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2009/10/29/crowdsourcing-your-p...
Have you noticed crashes and general instability on OS X Lion + Filevault 2?

We've tried it on a Core2Duo Macbook Pro (early 2007) and MacBook (Mid 2010). We've seen lots of OS crashes (Macbook) and general performance issues when running XCode (Macbook Pro).

We're also running virtualization software on the Macs (Parallels and VMWare) - I'm not sure if they're interacting with Filevault 2 (shouldn't be).

Just wonder if anyone else has noticed this.
+1: Write an article about it.

I would like to see a picture if your CCD survives that ;-)
Next year's resolution: Getting out of holding / prison without compromising the passphrase to your fully encrypted disk.
Yes I've managed a senior marketing person before (I had a big startup which was successful and then flopped - but on European market). We don't have a customer base, we are going to talk to some non-competing companies which do have that base to cross-sell our product. But besides this we are on our own.
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if you start posting at G+, feel free to add me, will be glad to share thoughts.
do most people really have private information on their computer? I don't think I do ...
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He's clearly upset about the wasted effort on a cause he cares about, not losing access to a park.
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sorry, that doesn't work for me with Chrome 16 on OS X Lion. I still get a google indirect link.
> I like seeing racy pictures of girls as much as the next guy, but displays of women like this, especially right next to and in the same format as rental listings, encourages societal ideals that are at the root of most of the gender-related problems in our society

Well, it can very easily go both ways. Just in the last week I was asked by 2 different women (rather smart, otherwise) about "how much I earn". I honestly didn't know how to explain to them that at this early point in getting to know someone how much the person in front of you earns has no significance whatsoever.
It's strange that many programmers in this topic feel that multiple return points are bad. It is very clear how nesting makes code logic more complex, but why many return points are a problem at all? They don't require you to do extra work while reading or writing the code, actually it is exactly the reverse IMHO, every return point remove some possible future state.

Also many times early return is an exact translation of the way we think in our natural languages: "if that is this way don't continue at all", "if this precondition is meet return that value", and so forth.
Ok, another question:
You think it would be acceptable to have a car that can only drive 100 miles? Why would you want more?
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This is probably not answering your question but a possible solution is to switch to using OSX 100% of the time and then use Parallels/VMWare/VirtualBox to virtualize Windows and Ubuntu. It's much more practical than having to worry about partitions / boot volumes and general sharing problems. This way you can even encrypt your entire OS X volume and not use encryption on the VMs.
As some kind of thumb rule, less than lethal usually means that about 2% die and 5% don't get affected. You can make it more effective so that everybody is affected, but then the percentage of dead people rises. Or other way around. Usually police should use "less than lethal" weaponry only in situations where casualties are acceptable.
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Frankly, the PhD is not a path to a permanent job as a scientist unless your parents were scientists.

What it is is a program to get cheap labor that has the energy and low health insurance costs of youth. At some point you get thrown away and they get somebody new. The reason why P.I.'s are aging is that there are very few permanent jobs for scientists.

Perhaps these people in China are a bit more honest than the rest of us.
I don't use fb much, but I'm sometimes logged in while doing other things and it was a huge wtf moment for me to see how many websites were authorized even tough I've never done such a thing.
First hacker rule when crossing a border: Wipe your disks or do not bring disks at all. This also applies to companies who do have strong competitors who work with the authorities (e.g. if you travel to china / US).
I don't really understand why lectures have continued since the advent of affordable video technology. Every year the departments prepare unique lecture series and deliver them to new students, sometimes the same lecture twice a week because the numbers are so large, interacting very little with the audience, and expecting students to really engage with the new ideas they're exploring this term.

From the student's perspective having a video from some lecturer at Yale or wherever would be just as effective.

Lectures to small classes of say 10 are a different story, but on the scale of modern UK university courses it seems like one of the most inefficient systems imaginable.
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and a little advice, try to eat low glycemic indexed foods all the time, they will make you feel full all the time and they are generally quality food that everyone needs to have. Plus, you will not have to take in-between meals 'cause you won't be hungry ; )
It's nice that computers are now powerful enough that full disk encryption is almost performance-neutral. But realistically, if they want your data then they can get it.
Spear phishing works very well and if not, there's always indefinite detention.

Technology is only a small part of the solution to warrantless border searches.
I don't use any adblocker software and also make a living from (good quality) advertising, but yes I agree that users should have the right to chose.

However, two issues with your logic:

1.) Users have the right to install the ad-blocking plugins available, that doesn't mean the ABP devs have an obligation to provide it. They too have rights, one of which is to change ABP in any way they like, or to kill it off alltogether.

2.) With this change, ABP users STILL have the ability to block all adverts, so this ABP change hasn't actually prevented them from doing that if they wish.
Found the effect: the three links (location, etc) trigger scrolling. Not really comparable to the scrolling transitions in the OP, but it doesn't have the problem of mystery meat.
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This service is run by a long time hacker news user and security researcher cperciva. Read his stuff:

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They should remain in business, but add a fingerprint requirement. This would stop criminals from pretending to be law-abiding citizens. Documents and identities are easy to steal or forge, but in-person fingerprints that match those documents are much more difficult to forge.

Edit: This is why background checks without fingerprints are not very meaningful. The check may be on a clean identity, not the criminal.
My whole point was not the method they'll use to legislate such activities--it's that they will find a way. Don't to try slither around crappy legislation, focus on getting the proposers and supports of crappy legislation out of office.
Same with me, this was helpful, but more could be done. Even just a monthly reminder overview with a list of new services I've connected to would be very helpful.
In my home town they had some kind of occupy stuff going on lately. But the police used their superior Sun Tzu art of war strategy and picked their battle wisely. They didn't pick this one. The occupation faded away as winter came, no police resources wasted on nonviolent park-sitting.
I'm basing my entire business around this idea of hiring people remotely, and now have a new startup staff.com which is about hiring people from any location. LOTS of problems to be solved with remove hiring and remote working:

1. Are the team actually working each day (many people need the discipline of coming into the office)
2. Are they moonlighting with multiple companies at the same time
3. How do you get a sense that you are really part of one team, a feeling of connection
4. Communication issues related to working remotely
5. Hiring effectively without actually meeting in person
6. Maintaining a sense of team and having people feel like they are part of a team (even when not meeting in person). This is very important as part of maintaining a sense of loyalty and connection with team members.

My personal experience in managing over 50 staff members in 9 countries is that all of these problems CAN be solved, but it takes work. My ideal situation is to meet 4 times per year in person, but sometimes this is difficult when staff are really in completely different locations.
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One really doesn't have anything to do with the other but I wont belabour the point.

Relying on linguistic mapping of previously known relationships is a poor system for discovering unknown unknowns. talking to someone in that space is orders of magnitudes more efficient.
An issue here is that you're going to reset your cache after every lookup instead of only on cache miss.
Can you code? Try and build small prototypes. Many people think 'talk is cheap, ideas aren't worth much'.

Then post some progress to a blog and cross post to social media.
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I use it on a 2011 Air and Mini without problems, and I'm just about always in Parallels on both machines.
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The RIP Act in the UK allows for jail time for refusing to give a key.