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Note that booting from BtrFS is pretty difficult, if at all possible, putting it on similar footing to ReFS/Protogon.
I disagree. There is more value in starting something than in finishing it. Starting a project may involve designing and testing a new algorithm. Finishing it may involve playing with CSS for hours. At that point, there is no educational value in finishing it; the time would be better spent on a new project.

Personally, I have a lot of 80-90% "finished" projects that are available for people to use. This is usually enough. If someone is really using them, I might be motivated to finish everything on my todo list. But otherwise, something else would interest me more than checking off some imaginary todo list.
My point was that at the extreme end of the power scale (governments, corporations), they can probably find you if you are paying for a server somewhere. But at the lower end of the scale (angry, violent ex-husbands) it's less likely that they will track you down through your server's ISP.

I felt that the idea that requiring identification for DNS registration was ok because 'you can just post anonymous comments on blogs somewhere' is dismissing perfectly valid use-cases for 'anonymous' DNS.
If you are at the idea stage, do you actually build every one of our ideas out? Is it possible to test ideas without having to build every one of them?
"When you can run any kind of startup you want, and live wherever in the world you want while you're doing it, why's it better to be in an office that lets you come and go ..."

Because most people are risk averse.

I'm asian, and most of my asian friends are highly risk averse. I think that the general tendency to favor medicine and engineering as careers are reflections of choosing stability than natural propensity.

To launch a startup, you need some sort of edge. But more importantly, you need to be risk tolerant. You need to be able to take the chance. Especially when you have the choice between relaxing at a job that pays upwards of 1M/year, to give up the lifestyle to pursue a startup really takes an adventurous spirit that runs counter to most animalistic tendencies.
SOPA shelved
Very interesting to see Darrell Issa (R - CA) as a sponsor on this bill, given how eloquently he's spoken out against SOPA in the Judiciary Committee. Here's the copy of the email I just sent his office: I'll try and contact his office by phone tomorrow.

Hello,

It's been with great pleasure that I've been able to watch Representa-
tive Issa speak out against SOPA in the Judiciary.

However, I'm concerned at seeing him offer "H.R.3699 -- Research Works
Act" as such an act is a major blow to scientific openness.

As you may well be aware, in many nations it's a requirement that re-
search receiving federal funds (i.e. research at taxpayer expense) be
made available for free to the public. The recent policy proposal by
the NIH would move the US towards a similarly open policy and would
help foster the openness of research that made this country such a
leader in science and technology for so long.

Unfortunately, companies like Elsevier have increasingly treated pub-
lishing as a private cash cow, banking (in part) on the burgeoning
costs of a university education to widen its coffers. The journals
published by Elsevier cost colleges and universities millions of
dollars each year and burden students with growing debt (and for
others, preclude the possibility of higher education at all).

I ask that Representative Issa revisit his stand on this issue.
Thank you.
Either I have multiple personality disorders on HN or we have far too much in common ..

I would have added a variation though, swap the first two.

1. read about a new language|framework
2. open terminal
Definitely ASM for GB/GBC. Not much C until GBA.
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> Woz believes that Android’s voice commands and built-in navigation system are a big advantage

Personally, this is why I've kept my Nexus S around. I think the #1 thing I use it for is navigation while I'm driving. With a car mount it's as good as a TomTom/Garmin/whatever.
I am pretty happy with the hexbright flashlight (I funded it, too) -- it's not like anyone doesn't have a flashlight. I'd like to have the most awesome flashlight possible, even if it takes a year. He's been posting monthly or more frequent updates, and making good progress.

I'd be happy to buy out your stake in the project.
"Each project is crafted solely by its creator, and it’s up to them to make the case that they can successfully bring their project to life. Part of every creator’s job is earning their backers’ trust, especially backers who don’t personally know them.

Creators are encouraged to share links to their personal website(s), as well as any websites that show work related to the project, or past projects.

The web is an excellent resource for learning about someone’s prior experience. If someone has no demonstrable prior history of doing something like their project or is unwilling to share information, backers should consider that when weighing a pledge. If something sounds too good to be true, it very well may be."

READ: caveat emptor.

I'm not saying this particular kickstarter project hasn't jerked you around. Nor am I saying you have no right to attempt to get your money back. What I am saying is if you look at kickstarter projects like purchases, you're going to be angry eventually.
You're right; I'm projecting my own hopes about what a pure-JS, all-in-browser peer-to-peer sharing stack could do, rather than considering just the specifics of this quick-and-dirty shared folder approach (which isn't even yet p2p, though that's clearly the hope).

Once the remaining browser pieces are in place (via either WebRTC or another shim), a content-centric DHT beyond just shared folders could be the next step. You could have "trackerless torrenting in a tab". Or even "Tor-in-a-tab".
I have to agree with you on the nav issue: even buying a cheaper Android phone just for the nav abilities is worth it in itself. I tried many of the 3rd party nav apps and find Google Navigation superior to any iPhone options and easily matches TomTom etc.
Objectively filtering code as accepted or discarded according to a high standard of quality is fairly easy when judging others' code. It's a lot more complicated when judging our own code :)

I'd argue we're naturally biased to hold our own creations on a higher pedestal, and hence more likely to keep them instead of discarding or rewriting them.
We're both right. He's making good progress for a flashlight that was at the state of development it turned out to be, its just that I didn't pledge to fund a flashlight at that state of development. If I'd known what I know now, I wouldn't have put up the money, or I would have only bought one or something like that.

Also, I had very specific intentions for this purchase.

Supporting an engineering project like this, as sort of a patron of it, is a cool idea.

The idea of trading stakes is also a good one. It would be really cool if we could support startups that way.

We all pledge some amount of money, the startup has milestones, as the milestones are achieved, more funding is required and another round is raised.

If you and I have a disagreement about which direction the startup is going, I could sell you my stake or vice versa. Or I could just hold onto my stake in case I'm wrong and not fund the next round, while you could double up the next round.

If the SEC would allow it, I think that would be a great idea. But we'd all know the risks, we'd all know the state of the project from idea, thru the milestones it had achieved, etc.
Maybe the silver lining is that a large scale uproar could incline more people to publish in open access journals in the first place (so-called "gold" open access). </wishful thinking>
iTerm2 on Mac OS X supports native vertical splits.
I don't quite understand what the "investors" are getting out of KickStarter. It doesn't seem like prouducts are that unique or cheap. The risk of a project failing or being delayed means I wouldn't buy anything I really needed from there.

It seems like all the benefits are on the producers side. They can start a project with little risk, ask for more money when they mess up their budgetting and still finish up making a tidy profit.
Patent law is becoming a serious issue in I.T.

Don't worry about low paying jobs initially, as long as it is in the right area.

The debt is already going to kill you, so don't sweat it anymore. It is irrelevant to the discussion. Just don't take on further debt.
Anybody else going from Palo Alto?

Right now, I'll be taking the Caltrain. If the are more people, perhaps we could get a carpool together.

If not, is there anybody else also planning on taking the Caltrain? Feel free to e-mail me (address within profile) if you would be interested in going together.
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Customers should not see walls or spam. Intentions are irrelevant if the outcome annoys people.

What part of the verb "Like" would make the customer think "oh please make me part of a conversation"? I would go as far as to say it is obvious they wouldn't expect that outcome.

If you put any roadblock at all between your customer and the acquisition of your product, you will lose some customers. And you will never know how many because they will silently think "to hell with that" and never return.

If you subsequently spam customers with updates, they will start regretting the purchase and make a mental note to never buy from you again. Once I bought a pair of sunglasses and began receiving spams once a week from the store (seriously, how often could I possibly be interested in sunglasses, especially since I just bought a pair?).

It may be a hard pill to swallow, but there is no reason for a customer to give a damn about a company on a regular basis unless it's a product that can be consumed really often (like maybe going to a restaurant every few weeks). If it's something that people may buy only every few years, they don't care about you and they don't want to hear from you.

Facebook pages and other sites already have ways to request updates, e.g. the "Get Updates via RSS" link. Unlike abuse of "Like", the updates link is clearly labeled and it does tell the user what will happen when it's clicked. It is also correctly off to the side where it's available for those who need it and not in the way for those who don't.
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I'm 30.

Though remember that most of these conversations happened when I was actually in college (a few even before then, while applying to schools), and I just have a really long memory.

(The conversation with the friend that sparked this musing was last night, but I've been friends with her since she was 14, and so our conversation topics include anything that was fair game back then, which is basically everything.)
SOPA? PIPA? No problem. Convert your site to a Tor hidden service [instructions]
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SOPA doesn't apply to foreign sites only, as NBCUniversal General Counsel claims
Yeah, all of the alternative investment market stuff is basically a hack to get around SEC regulations (and state blue sky securities laws, which are even more strict and insane; SEC compliance is a form of safe harbor against those. A friend of mine is a securities lawyer; this seems like the shittiest job in the world)

If you need a flashlight today, btw, my favorites are the Novatac, but for the money, the Fenix lights are the best. Generally CR123 based, non-rechargeable, and n. I have Surefire for very specific weapons light applications (e.g. $400 fore-end lights for pump action shotguns, which replace the front grip), and a couple Streamlights for less-specific tactical applications (forward t-grip plus light for an M4).
Care to explain why it wouldn't defeat most keyloggers? My knowledge of this is that when you look at the log created by the keylogger you just see a bunch of keystrokes but you have no way to tell if they were typed in the same field.

The two step identification doesn't work if you don't have internet on your phone right?
Also seen on Linux with Chromium.
The article's headline is misleading. FTA:

“If you’re willing to do the work to understand it a little bit, well I hate to say it, but there’s more available in some ways,” said Woz.
> they must have come up with some extremely clever way to avoid signal attenuation

Which itself would be fairly incredible, considering that Steve Jobs and Jony Ive wanted to make the iPhone out of metal, and for three years they couldn't do so because of the antenna issue, and finally after spending what must have been many millions of dollars and many engineering man-years they came up with a sophisticated solution that was pretty good but even so still had widely publicized issues when it first came on the market.
There's just far too much shit-slinging for me to even consider evaluating it.

I mean, cool, mention where your product does something a competitor doesn't. But repeatedly go for the jugular (with incorrect facts) and it really reflects poorly on you.
Kickstarter can say whatever they want in their FAQ. It doesn't change the law. It doesn't change the contracts they signed with Amazon. It doesn't change the contract Amazon signed with the credit card companies. It doesn't change the FTC regulations for sales. It doesn't change the fact that this product was advertised for sale, explicitly. Further, nothing in this indicates that it was a "donation" or on the "honor" system, nor absolves kickstarter of liability for being a party to fraud, either morally or legally.

I won't be doing any more business with kickstarter because they have shown themselves to not be a trustworthy entity. Not because this guy is late with his deliveries, but because they don't care. They're party to fraud that has gone on for more than a year in other cases, with no signs of delivery. And they don't care.

If you're happy using kickstarter to give money to projects without expecting any kind of a delivery, that's fine for you. Where you're wrong is in telling me I'm wrong, for being upset that a product that was explicitly SOLD to me, was not delivered.

You're telling me to change my perspective. This isn't an issue of perspective. You can give your money away however you like. I'm not telling you your wrong. I am telling you that the fact of the matter is, I was sold a product. I was not solicited for a donation.

Kickstarter is not an entity that is trustworthy with money.
> Sadly, this awesome example of evolution is one of the poster-children for creationist

Coincidentally, last night's TV had "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial" where they rebutted the creationist view quite successfully, at least to my non-expert eyes.

The gist of it was that you plainly see the components of the engine in a needle-like syringe found in other bacteria. It had the shaft, collars and other bits.
presently, is the use of crowdsourcing mostly driven by the US?
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The nav issue is a huge pain for me, coming to the iPhone from android. Waze is alright, but I live near a large amount of tolls, and it doesn't route around them like google's nav does - not to mention a large amount of small details and polish that is lacking as well. When google announced navigation way back when the original droid came out they did say it would be coming to other platforms (http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/10/28/google_says_it...) I wonder if apple has blocked it at all
If you like this series of posts, get yourself a copy of The Haskell School of Expression [0]. It covers various multi-media applications of Haskell, including reactive animations.

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Great post, not only did it present a good argument, but it also explained a bit about AMD which I had never heard of before.

Thanks
Note that NoScript (among other things) blocks the blackout bar. If you want to go directly to the anti-SOPA message, that's located here:

https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-...

And here's the part where they discuss the NPOV issue:

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In making this decision, Wikipedians will be criticized for seeming to abandon neutrality to take a political position. That’s a real, legitimate issue. We want people to trust Wikipedia, not worry that it is trying to propagandize them.

But although Wikipedia’s articles are neutral, its existence is not. As Wikimedia Foundation board member Kat Walsh wrote on one of our mailing lists recently,

We depend on a legal infrastructure that makes it possible for us to operate. And we depend on a legal infrastructure that also allows other sites to host user-contributed material, both information and expression. For the most part, Wikimedia projects are organizing and summarizing and collecting the world’s knowledge. We’re putting it in context, and showing people how to make to sense of it.

But that knowledge has to be published somewhere for anyone to find and use it. Where it can be censored without due process, it hurts the speaker, the public, and Wikimedia. Where you can only speak if you have sufficient resources to fight legal challenges, or, if your views are pre-approved by someone who does, the same narrow set of ideas already popular will continue to be all anyone has meaningful access to.
:-( "sudo rm -rf *" brings back really bad memories...
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Named streams were always problematic especially in a connected heterogeneous computing environment. I'm not sad to see them go.
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Sounds like it's trying to add structural subtyping via the back door.
Licensing, compliance with endless laws and regs, and quarterly and annual reports for several departments of government. It's especially discouraging when you speak with a particular branch of government and they have no official interpretation of their new laws, as a result you may or may not be in compliance, they're still deciding.
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I have lots of friends going into patent law.

But most of them have PhDs in the hard sciences and if you look at job listings they tend to want that.

Oh and don't worry about more debt, I don't think that's possible at this point :)
I don't use an iphone, but does Siri help bridge the voice command gap?
For me it's much less glamorous, and even less purposeful. I write code almost everyday, sometimes without even thinking about it. If I don't carry out some form of automation at least once every 2 days, I get physically ill [hyperbole alert!] I'm the guy that always installs strange editors & calculators on other people's computers.

Most of the time I don't have a particular need for a development environment, but I have a phobia about being stranded somewhere without my tools. My mobile phone has 3 programming languages, their manuals and other cheat-sheets. It also has as many advanced calculators, solvers & graphic visualization utilities.

To me it's a mix of arms race & addiction. I hack because I crave it. I feel inadequate if I don't know how something works.

Most of my work is snippets. I usually store it in a file with a long descriptive name, for later finding & greping. I have had a ~/hacks directory in all my machines for the last 12 years or so.
I've been using Fenix lights for years. We have several L1Ds among us. I love the multi-mode of them, flashing, including SOS, etc. Since these are rechargable we have enerloop batteries that we can recharge using the computers USB port. Hate the idea of trying to find unusual batteries in an obscure location.

Since we travel internationally all the time and since some of us are female, some form of self defense is needed.

The specfic purpose for which I bought the Hexbright was to be able to program a random flashing mode into the flashlight. This would work as a self defense device in dim or dark situations, simply be shining the flashlight into the eyes of an attacker.

It makes it hard for an attacker to see where you are across a room (while a solidly on light is easy to pinpoint) and induces a kind of blindness. (as I understand it, I've not experienced it.)

Its not the strength of pepper spray or a real weapon, but it has the unbeatable advantage of not being a problem with customs-- its just a flashlight.
I agree. I start a lot of projects. I will spend some time on just about every dumb idea I come up with, just to see what life the project takes on.

Usually, with some small effort, I confirm that most of the ideas are, in fact, dumb. I'll stop development right there. But every once in long a while, the idea still sounds like a good one and it still keeps calling me to continue working on it. Those are the ones I will take to "completion."

It is good to finish things sometimes, but if you find yourself lacking the motivation to finish a project, there is a good chance that it isn't worth finishing. At least in my experience, when you are on to something valuable, you'll naturally be drawn back to it.
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I agree.

> Android has leapt ahead of Apple

Apples to Oranges (pun not intended). Android is no longer a company and Apple is not a operating system.
Too much of anything makes you bored. You obviously don't find development as satisfying or fulfilling as you once did. So take a break from it. I've had this before with freelancing, I burnt out, left and found even more fulfilling things to do like work on my own projects and inventions.
I find it interesting that they decided to blackout globally and not just the U.S. Their rationale:

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Why is this a global action, rather than US-only? And why now, if some American legislators appear to be in tactical retreat on SOPA?

The reality is that we don’t think SOPA is going away, and PIPA is still quite active. Moreover, SOPA and PIPA are just indicators of a much broader problem. All around the world, we’re seeing the development of legislation seeking to regulate the Internet in other ways while hurting our online freedoms. Our concern extends beyond SOPA and PIPA: they are just part of the problem. We want the Internet to remain free and open, everywhere, for everyone.

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