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That article is dumb in its examples, lets consider something more realistic.

Every developer from this point onward adds a licensing clause for holywood execs - if that product is showcased during the movie a certain amount is owed to the developer at this point. Start putting it in every single app they will start making mistakes.

The other day I saw Open Office 2.0 in Girl with Dragon Tattoo - Libre office could easily add this clause.
How is Stanford not a for-profit institution? I'm not trying to be argumentative, I think I must just be missing some distinction.
I've building my own site for the last 5 months now and I've been knee deep in usability like this. It always comes down to what is the easiest path you can possibly give to your users.

I'd do away with the whole extra click of making someone 'accept' or 'decline' the invite. Just have the two buttons in the dialog, on the first screen. Don't make me read, then click, then read again, then click. There is no logical reason for that extra step at all.

The button on the right should be the 'continue' or 'ok' button and the one on the left should be the 'cancel' button. Don't use text for 'cancel' or 'decline', just make them buttons. The buttons should be right aligned at the bottom of the text. This is how the user expects things to be based on UX experience of their operating system, don't confuse users by changing it up.

I just spent 5 minutes in Balsamiq mocking something up for you [1]. I'm not super happy with the decline button, I might play around with it in different areas (or ideally get rid of it all together). The point being that there is no need for the 'accept' step, since they aren't accepting anything, they are signing in or creating an account.

By the way, for my site, we got ride of the whole create an account process entirely. We just have sign in. User clicks sign in and they have the option of using their FB account (with the bare minimal permissions) or using a BrowserID account (which only requires an email and password).

Keep it as simple as possible.

[1] https://img.skitch.com/20120130-dh9hf6mtt8wwemtgcjy7rq16t2.j...

Good luck.
Thank you. It beats writing a dry "Introducing Gemfury" blog post.
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Today's minor political instability is the result of bad policies blowing up in our faces, not differences in people's potential.

When a society regularly creates incentives that lead to bubbles that eventually collapse and leaves wrecked lives in its wake, people are bound to get upset.

But in a society that does not punish savers and reward foolishness, prudent people with even modest means and a bit of luck can build a nice nest egg for retirement and a rainy day.

Our politicians believe consumption is the key to prosperity and the more you subsidize consumption, the more likely it is that you will be re-elected.

But it is actually production and productivity that lead to wealth and stability, not consumption. And certainly not bubbles where hundreds of billions of dollars are wasted building things for which there is ultimately no market.

A device that truly makes people more productive (without longterm side effects, of course) would actually benefit us, not hurt us. And banning such a device would simply give the advantage to other countries to exploit.
It would be pretty awesome for FB to have a "Selective Memory" feature... where you can apply filters to the timeline such as "pictures minus those with [ex-girlfriend] tagged in them" "pictures where place does not equal [bar/club]"

etc...
I work at a movie theater. We have four pairs of front doors, all of which open outwards. One pair has handles; these are the doors which should be used to enter the building. We sell tickets outside, and tear tickets at the door; if both these doors are open, people come in three or four at a time and we can't get to them and take their tickets. So, one of these two doors is always locked, and the entrance door which is not locked has a sign on it that says "Please use this door."

A nontrivial number of people will come up, read the sign, and promptly try to open the OTHER door, see that it's locked, and then walk away to try and find the "other door" - generally trying to push open the out doors. As it turns out, they all read the sign as saying "Please use other door".

(Occasionally they'll try to claim that the sign is wrong. There's a certain schadenfreude in the looks on their faces when I convince them to reread it more carefully.)

So, we removed the handle for the door that's always locked, and took down the "Please use this door" sign. Now people just walk along the out doors, pushing on them to try and find the one that'll open.
If you don't want an employee to leave, don't use an "at-will" employment agreement.
these guys make one:
http://soterixmedical.com/tdcs.php

but... "CAUTION: Investigational Device.
Federal (or United States) law limits device to investigational use."

edit: also check out this video for how to do it:
http://www.jove.com/video/2744/electrode-positioning-and-mon...
Weird - it worked fine for my gmail account.
Those sorts of comments tend to appear with another claim: persistent benefits. Which is something which the short-term solutions rarely offer. In that way, they're perfectly on-topic, and calling into question the use of the short-term solutions at all, especially when long-term benefits have not been shown (consistently, at all, take your pick).
>Libre office could easily add this clause.

That clause is incompatible with the LGPL, and Libre Office doesn't do copyright assignment, so there are many copyright holders, all of whom would have to agree to the licensing change. Not so easy.
Well, I'm curious, can you quantify the lift from this vs, say, a healthy but sedentary person going on a regular exercise program, eating salmon and vegetables every day, taking piano lessons, and conventional ways of boosting alertness and memory?

And phosphenes.. oh my.
Cool idea, they made it to my bookmarks. Ideas like this are the future of education. I was thinking the same thing when I read the original article posted about teaching. My first thought was why not a video chat with a class instead of one person. My second thought was I wonder if anyone is doing this, you answered my second question. Thank You.
Thanks for the support. Judging by other comments, the pitchforks are never fully put away on literal-net :)
Last.fm seems to work without work arounds.
It's in reference to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_another_Perl_hacker
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This article comes to the wrong conclusion. Removing the dialog wasn't what stopped the confusion — changing the text on the buttons did.

Your users will read — but only enough to feel they have an understanding of a situation before they take action.
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Though sometimes it can seem that way. :)
So if I understand well, they stumbled upon a method for brain boosting that seems very promising and yet, could be very affordable and also very easily made at home or from a DIY kit. They emphasize how good it would be for humanity, how very bad side-effects their limited studies have shown, etc. Enough to make anyone wonder why this isn't on the market yet.

Only now, they're questioning the ethics of letting people know about it, and they do that... by talking about it?

I believe it would now be more dangerous and irresponsible to keep things secret, the cat's out of the bag. People who read such an article with the details provided, only have enough information to have an approximate understanding of how this thing works, but it won't stop them from experimenting. Already, I see instructions being posted on this very thread.
I don't think FTP must die so much as RSYNC MUST LIVE.

(Seriously, people forget how awesome rsync is. And it tunnels/compresses nicely over SSH)
Are any Android tablet manufacturers selling enough to make a profit on the tablets?
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Thats a great idea. I'm going to do that for my lock screen.
Yeah one of the founders is a legendary hacker: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rop_Gonggrijp
There is something pretty cool that one can do with the FTP protocol: FXP transfers to perform an inter-server file transfer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_eXchange_Protocol
Thanks for your help with beta testing the service. Glad you're not letting this little bit of fun affect your opinion.
well, it's a slippery dialog. I think most people don't really care that much about pro athletes taking EPO, but the crackdowns started when it filtered down to widespread use in high school athletes of HGH and designer steroids. At one point the argument that spending $1,000s of dollars to test one athlete at the Olympic games was a waste of money.

But, well, when i read this, I must say, i have people close to me who would have access to this technology and understand the risks, and I thought, hmm.
Well I'd kind of like to know how they extended ZooKeeper to do that.
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Methylphenidate and amphetamine is not the same thing, and I have not experienced anything like what you've said.

I really don't think burn-out is as common as people say, high-doses are more like in the 100+mgs, and that's not in anything that is considered therapeutic and extended release.
When we talk about normal activities like studying and working, i think so. The ability to concentrate and motivating yourself is something you have to develop yourself. Ritalin is not the wonderdrug you take and become a perfect student.

If there is something like that, the perfect drug without side effects, i don't think you can prevent people from taking it. Even for caffeine you develop a tolerance very fast.
Huh? You mean the same Flash that can't display a list of paths to local user files to the user for "security reasons" so the user can do batch uploads? I agree with the sibling comment, browser-based file upload sucks.
That's old fuddy duddy thinking. I'm 56 and I see plenty of people my age that thought like this and they have little to do now other than play golf an wait for dementia to kick in.

I did things differently, started an ISP business in 1994, worked in a Silicon Valley startup for a year, did some consulting in Australia and went to live in Europe. My life was much more interesting than those people who stuck to the daily grind, I reinvented myself (i.e. kept on learning new things every year) a few times, and according to the latest research, I don't need to worry about dementia for a long time. I might not have a nest egg but I have skills in sofware development, systems admin and dba areas that my few of my peers have, and no younger person has. I intend to keep on working and creating new technology until the end of my days, which if my grandparent's lives are an indication, will be well into my 90's.
Did you include "+token" in your address?
>Lispers like to pick on Java. It makes sense, because Common Lisp has everything that Java lacks.

But Java has a lot of things Common Lisp lacks, too. A GUI package. Network programming. Cryptography. Yes, you get modules for all those things. But having them in the core language means you know they're always available no matter where your code is running.

I like Lisp, even with its painful syntax and poorly named internals (Seriously. "cdr"? "endp"? Was there a Great Keystroke Shortage in the '60s?). But it doesn't have the ecosystem for actually producing a product to anywhere near the extent Java does. There's a reason Java is used so much more widely than Lisp.

In terms of syntax, I like what Rich Hickey did with Clojure. You still have all the Lisp functionality but it's a lot easier to read.
Is this the worst defense of vaporware ever?
I'd imagine people who work in design or graphics? Sending a spec to a client might look different on their machine due to inferior hardware....
The response to this has been literally overwhelming, but I'm really excited to talk with everyone who has signed up.

If you're still interested, there are several slots on Tuesday and Friday.
Absolutely. If the exam is trying to assess how you would do in an environment where you are free to look things up (like the real world most of the time), then that makes good sense. The point generalises to this:

Exams are an attempt to measure something about you. Cheating is an attempt to make the result of the exam better than the reality of the thing the exam is trying to measure. Morally this puts it in the same class as lying and other deception.

So whether carrying information into the exam is cheating or not, depends on the exam. If it's trying to measure what you can remember, it's cheating. Otherwise, it may not be.

If this technology helps you to actually learn, then you aren't just increasing the result of the exam, you're actually increasing the thing the exam is trying to measure.
My problem with the Timeline is that I refuse to give Facebook any more information than they already have on my life. I can't stand when people talk about how they went back in time on their Timeline, grooming it with important life events and baby photos. Just another vector to sell us more stuff, I guess.
Would love to see this go one step further. I can't get people to read details back to me or they want to read every single word very slowly from the top of the page. I want to use this to send them an email with a clickable link, they click, and I get an email back with all of these details -- nothing lost in translation. Network information would be great, too.
Thanks for your response - I appreciate the insight.

... a glimpse of how (at least some) business deals ... are done in the raw, what the other side might bluff about and in what ways, etc. Things you don't easily find elsewhere as candidly.

I've read several of those and never learned anything. I've never played in the stakes he talks about, but I've had sufficiently similar experiences, so I guess I'm just the wrong audience.

As for the stories about his childhood, affairs etc, those are not "to profit from" in the way you want, but are fun in a more "literary(-ish)" way.

Each to his own - I find them less than entertaining, amusing, engaging, or interesting.

... the point of Euclid (in the story above) was that it is beneath someone to want to always profit from what he studies.

I disagree. I believe the point is that the profit is not always in the immediate use of the learning, nor in the direct application, and if you can't see that then you might as well go do something you're better suited to. Studying geometry has the potential to make you better, to give you skills. I did a Ph.D. in Pure Math, and I certainly didn't do it for the direct profit. I did it to make me better, and because it was interesting. I learned, I grew, I gained skills. There was value.

I find James' stories uninteresting, and I don't feel that they're making me better in any way at all. I don't demand that what I read is instantly actionable, or immediately applicable, but I like to feel that I'm learning something, and that somehow it's making me better.

And I don't. As they say - "À chacun son goût" - each to his own taste. I'm pleased you get something out of them - I just wanted to point out that there are people who feel differently. He is not "my taste."
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"build a holodeck"

This is what I'll be applying to YC with this time around. Actually most of the technology to create a prototype holodeck already exists. Between kinect, VR galsses, and cheap hi-def cameras it can all be done in a rudamentary way that can be improved on as the underlying technologies improve.
The reason for the one-on-one format is that I want to get a feel for where different people are in their learning. Already, I've heard from total newbies, people with programming experience wanting to move into iOS, and people who have tried doing iOS development and found difficulty.

I totally agree that if you could vet your audience (which might be as simple as slapping a price tag on it and posting a syllabus), you could take a more homogeneous approach. I'll certainly be looking in this in the future.

For the moment, I guess I've created a wildly "unscalable" experience in order to give everyone personalized attention wherever they may be.
Seriously. I've been doing Java for years and it had been so long since I wrote public static void main etc. that I had to look it up. If you're writing mostly classes to be run straight-up from the command line, you're doing it wrong.
FTP is as obsolete as telnet and has no place being alive today.

SSH and SCP provide a much more secure alternative. SFTP is a hack that suffers from all the same problems.
Taylor series are very handy in DSP for finding good approximations to computationally expensive functions.
I've found that the best way to freelance is via word of mouth. However, if you don't have a portfolio, what are your credentials? How do you plan to convince people you're worth hiring? You might want to work on a side project, it goes a long way towards showing people that you can actually build nice things.

Also, the startup I'm currently working on does something directly relevant, so you might be interested in updates: http://www.instahero.com/
The difference is negligible when both machines are fast enough to encrypt/decrypt at wire speed, otherwise FTP is faster.
I was just going to ask the same thing.
Not sure if they added this now, but there is a send e-mail form at the top of the page that just does this.

Also, looks like its all the standard info that can be detected in general. More specific things like n/w info might be harder to get.
It really depends on where you live. If you live in an urban area with a decent population there will be people you can meet face to face.

If you live in a rural area it's going to be a lot harder to meet people in person. In that case focus on finding online leads or consider moving.
Well, the Google privacy policies have been consolidated, which means less piecewise freedom for people who use one or two Google products. I, for example, use Mail and (barely) use Search. I don't need to agree to things about Google+!

And jailbreaking Apple devices, while possible and, in some cases, easy, has never been encouraged by or even considered by Apple. In order to jailbreak, you have to find exploits in the software. This is opposed to free software, where you are able to do anything you want with the phone's software from the start--no exploits, no jailbreaking, just freedom.
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The overhead of encryption is marginal and the advantage of being able to compress the stream is considerable.

scp and rsync, which is a fantastic companion, allows on-the-fly compression of content to get truly impossible speeds over the wire.
I bounced off because it wanted me to log in with my Google account. Too bad.
As one of the comments points out, this is very specifically related to miles given as "interest" or "account-opening bonus" on a bank account. For years any non-cash payment in those circumstances has been required to be valued as cash and reported on a 1099, to avoid savings accounts or CDs that dodge taxation of dividends by paying them in various alternative forms, e.g. a savings account that pays interest in Amazon gift cards instead of cash, or a $200 account-opening bonus that's given as a free iPod instead of in cash.

Miles received for buying plane tickets, or as reward miles on credit-card spending, aren't considered taxable or reported. It's both cases, the form (miles or cash) doesn't matter, but what they're given for does: rebates aren't considered taxable, whether given in loyalty points or in 1% cash-back or some other form, but interest on a bank account is.
After reading the book, I thought much the same as you did and felt quite underwhelmed as a result.

However, that said, after reading that post today, it turns out I did learn something from that book/the "Jobs" way and that is to focus on the top performers. Sure, some left but it would seem the right ones stayed given where Apple is today. Whilst Steve may not have always been able to explain exactly what he wanted, he certainly knew what he wanted. Those that stuck with him obviously learnt to deal with that better than the others.

So if anything, that article has helped me 'get' something from a book that I was otherwise disappointed with, and for that I am grateful. Fingers crossed I find myself in a role one day where I can combine multiple management approaches, including some of the ones used by Steve Jobs, to maybe achieve an even greater result.
> Reading DNA in vitro

I think the most promising method is DNA nanopore tech (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanopore_sequencing). It doesn't require labeling, amplification, and, I suppose, could be done in vitro. Maybe that's what the article is referring to?

I'm not 100% sure on this, but it also may be much more accurate than current methods since it doens't suffer from many of the biases present in current next-gen sequencers.

I'm working on my PhD in computational biophysics and this is truly an exciting time to be doing cutting edge bio-stuff like this. Sometimes I think people will look back on the 2010's and say this was like Silicon Valley in the 70s and 80s... the beginning of something big.
Hmm. It's not clear from your post, but if you are in the midwest, that could be part of the problem. Every company in the SF/bay area seems to in a hiring frenzy right now.

You're the same age as me... and being without a job is a scary prospect, but I think it's important to stay positive. I was unemployed for a year once (by choice at first) but it took a few months to get a job once I started looking, and I specifically wanted to get into a different area (games) from where I had been (e-commerce) so I knew it would be harder. I ended up working with a team of young guys right out of school and was able to work well with them. I made an effort to embrace new stuff rather than go in with the attitude of "you should do things my way because I'm the experienced guy", and I got the job and made a positive impact.

I think my experience helped a lot, especially in building up some agile processes and keeping everyone focussed on the tasks at hand. There are a lot of roles that a developer can fill besides just development. Try to play up those skills? Every place I work, I end up in a "team lead" kind of situation just because I'm interested in processes and process improvement and can speak to both managers and other developers about various software development practices and figure out what will work at this place vs some other place.

I really suck at "programming interviews" but I am getting a lot of recruiter interest right now (I'm in the bay area). I feel like there are LOTS of companies hiring right now. I also have a feeling that I probably wouldn't get past whatever screening is done at most of those companies, so I never bother to follow up. I have failed plenty of interviews at Google and Amazon and some smaller hot startups and usually end up working at places nobody has heard of, but that's okay. :) I'm pretty happy where I am now.

I'm not sure if this helped at all. :/
Fair point. I just kind of assumed that any collision would require quite a lot of flipped bits, because usually just one flipped bit is enough to cause an "avalanche" of changes in the hash sum.

Would it be possible to find a collision where only one bit is flipped in the input?
Facebook's Timeline is a bad choice mainly because it's impossible to find anything.