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I choose, for the moment, to live here, in a little town I rather like, close to friends I rather like, attending a little church I rather like, etc.

For better or worse, choosing to live here (or really, anywhere) generally means you get to work nearby as a package deal. I'm working on making that more of an a la carte selection.

(Edit: Incidentally, I don't dislike my job. Parts of it are actually quite fun -- it has made me a much better engineer, I've learned quite a bit, and it has done wonders for my ability to read web application stack traces in Japanese.

Its just that, well, I have a finite number of years to live and hours in my waking day. They can have a few years and many hours. Or they can have many years and few hours. But I'm not willing to sell many years and many hours.)
I like the high level information. Unfortunately, that's all there is. I'd love to hear the actual presentation.
I think what he means is that you need geurilla, viral marketing that's driven by genuine interest from real people about the product.

As oppose to a slick ad copy written by (very expensive) professionals.

The gist of it is that if your product isn't cool enough to the target audience that they want to tell all their friends about it, then it's probably not good enough to make serious money.
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I don't think it struck the right chord with Congress.
If you don't mind sharing, whereabouts do you live? I'm guessing a commuting town near Tokyo?
The same link on their home page isn't working either.
The problem is that capabilities on this site in particular are partly based on your karma. Spending away your ability to downvote would be a problem, especially if you're a very prominent member of the community, and then even more especially if you served in a sort of vigilante "moderator"/"role model" role, keeping the community clean and pointed in the right direction by your actions. (I know this site can't really be influenced as heavily by its users as that sounds, but it could head that way if pg wished: giving users with a karma total of over 3000, say, automatic moderator powers makes quite a bit of sense to me.)

Sure, it can be a "noble sacrifice" and generate some sort of epic story retold throughout the community where user-Gandalf sacrifices their karma in the fight against troll-user-Balrog, and then others step in to "forge ahead without them," but just because a notion is romantic doesn't mean it's Utilitarian (in fact, they're almost opposite by definition.) Although boring, the community as a whole is likely better off if the others could restore Gandalf afterwards, as long as they thought his actions were justified. Since, in a database, there's no difference between taking something away and instantly finding reason to give it back, let me phrase it this way (thank Doctorow for this):

You don't spend whuffie; you just have it. However, if you do something stupid with it, it can be taken away.

I'm not sure if this has been tried on a social news site before, and it sounds stupid on face-value, but, what if, instead of each comment having an individual score that also affects its author's karma, the comment's score (and therefore its page placement) simply _is_ the author's karma? That is, a comment by a user with 3000 karma starts off with a score of 3000, and is placed on the page accordingly.

As such, you wouldn't really be voting on the comment itself anymore, but rather voting on the user by considering the comment as an action by that user. Taking all your points off of a user for one especially bad thing they did--considered on sites like this and reddit to be quite uncouth--wouldn't be a "sin" any longer, because _you're not rating their comments_ any more; you're just rating _them_. When you give someone one downvote, it applies across the "scores" of all their other posts, and likewise for upvotes.

I'd love to see this system tried out. I don't even have a special attachment to its success or failure; it simply sounds like a great experiment in virtual sociology. I might even be motivated to implement it myself if anyone else shows interest here in being part of the resulting community.
I think you've got it backwards. Since correlation is bidirectional then the reversal should NOT be meaningless.
united nations believes they already have been given the right to regulate the internet... since they are an 'international body' and an 'international forum' and the internet is 'borderless'. anyway, check out this for more info http://nodollar.info/z/un-tricks-their-sleeves ... The UN must be dissolved, and with more people waking up, the prospects are looking better every-day. - em
'Shanghai looked more like Manhattan on a Sunday'

He was obviously didn't know where to find the jackpot.

To experience the real culture of Shanghai you need to live life closer to the 'locals', not in some hotel in Pudong(east), all you'll find there is tall buildings. Hell I haven't even seen half of the places in those pictures.

If you took a moment to observe the locals that would be culture, the people in Shanghai are distinct to other parts of China, with traits such as quick wit and hard work, indeed they speak their own dialect. If he is trying to find old buildings as evidence of culture, Shanghai is not the best place, although there are quite a few around, including the famous tourist attraction Cheng Huang Miao:

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/1108224679049820088RZkVRy
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This is basically the future of content. DVDs are dead, TV is dying. The web, with its possibilities for targeted advertising has a lot more potential - the big media companies are afraid of it, but if they don't do it now, smaller and nimbler startups are going to take their place.
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I spent several months in china from last year to this year. I only stayed in Shanghai for a short while, because the city is built to impress, so it's easy to get blinded by the glamour.

But all the same, China is developing, and it's developing in a way that is dangerous to the west. I traveled to some villages where foreigners hardly ever go, and you see that the government is making a lot of money available to the people there to build. It's a form of ultra-capitalist socialism, where the government gives people money to develop, so that they themselves can develop.

But when I say it's dangerous to the west, what I mean is that it's developing, but the gap between the rich people and the poor people is still very clear, at least in the cities I was in. This means that a guy with a factory can afford to hire WAY more people, and has a lot more choice in his employees. There is no attempt to bring the workers then to the same level.

This means that building factories and industries is way cheaper than in the west, and they have a lot more staff for a lot less money. The living standard will not grow as fast, but the wealth in China will grow quickly.
that sure took me a long while to figure out, even after i had read the comment.

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I still don't understand why the Government couldn't just let them go bankrupt and then pick up the pension obligations for the retirees... much like they did with the airlines several years back.

In the long run it would have been cheaper to do it that way.
Video interview with Fred von Lohmann (author of the guide)

The Legal Campaign Against Software Developers and Users

http://footage.stealthisfilm.com/video/1?t=00:00:00,000&...
Yea IWF managed to censor an image! People got annoyed when they realized, and demanded it to be taken down. Yes the iternet will route around problems but if there isn't the need it won't.

If the IWF refused or this becomes more common then people will start taking action. Dialup, VPN's, SSH tunneling, Proxies and alternate DNS providers are all in one form or another a soloution to this style of problem, but until the problem becomes bad enought people won't react.

If you want proof that people will react go look up how to access Hulu from out side the US.
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That's because step 1 of the "skeptics" is to impugn the motives and credentials of those who believe in global warming. It's the same exact tactics used by creationists.

They can't argue scientifically, because the vast majority of climatologists, geologists, and scientists of other persuasions believe the Earth is warming and we're at fault. So they attack scientists in general, pointing out every time one has been wrong (global cooling is popular, though that was never a widely held theory) and the scientists are forced to defend their credentials.

That's why we hear that side of the argument so much. Not because scientists don't want to debate the data, but because their primary opposition (and one with serious political clout) isn't interested in data.

And also it's a good sound bite. Literally every major scientific body endorses man made global warming. You have to admit, that sounds pretty impressive and overwhelming. Doesn't make them right, but does make for easy to digest TV viewing.
What does the graph depict? What is the black and green lines mean?
Can someone explain what Ohio national is doing on the list? All I see is a sunset behind a mountain. Its pretty, granted, but it doesn't seem to be in the same league as the other ones (dang is that food writer one clever -- Lochness, too).
To be fair it should be noted that Samuel Bodman, the current Secretary of Energy, is probably not a fool even though he doesn't have a nobel prize. He does hold an Sc.D. in chemical engineering from MIT and was a prof there, though this may be negated a bit by a long career in finance.
I agree. Germany has the best scene. Someone should organize something in Berlin.
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#7 is because Firefox isn't a real Mac app, I expect; it's a cross-platform app that tries to copy the mac look and feel.
You're right.

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Just to save readers 10 seconds. All Hugh says is: "It's been an intense but fun couple of days." That's it.
I think your comment is right on the mark. The cycle you describe paints an unfortunately accurate picture of many of my high school and university years. I derived not just self esteem but much of my identity from having people perceive me as smart. I learned early on that people don't readily equate perky with intelligent so I dampened my enthusiasm for, well, effectively everything. Loneliness, too, played a role. Being "the smart one" shut me out of a lot of social situations which fed into my depression. But the exclusion also fueled my image of intelligence. I'm sure you can see how this situation has vicious cycle written all over it.

Thankfully I can write about this in the past tense. What changed? I moved to San Francisco for four months for an internship. I didn't know a single person in the city and used the opportunity to forge a new identity. Day after day, person after person, I would try a new Eric. I pretended, on various occasions, to be a cook, a banker, a mechanical engineer, a park ranger, any number of other professions. And, funny thing, I was happiest just being me. When I moved back to finish my degree I was happier than I had ever been. So it all came down to a change of scenery!
I like thesixtyone.com for indie (and indie electronic) or di.fm for dance music (though I haven't tuned into the latter for quite some time).
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That Buck guy is the most annoying thing I've ever seen. The fact that so many people watch his videos make me scared for America. Are these the same people that read Perez Hilton and National Enquirer?
An interesting approach to iterative design. I have always felt that considering application design from a game design perspective might yield interesting/valuable results. In this case, I think the advice to prototype many features and invest in the best is good advice. A sort of "discard features early and often".
Actually, from the article, the industry sounds impressive compared to TV/Music. No sign of whining or lobbying. They already heavily diversified. Jumped on ringtones or whatnot. Social networking sites. & all the rest.

Sure the end of copyright is hurting them. But they seem better off the say music studios. At least they're not acting like the world owes them a new business model.
How does a programming language teach at all?

Well, it doesn't alone however the concepts that are available in a programming language constrain your thought process. Java/Pascal is much more constraining than something like Oz/Scheme.
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Beating children is ok.. for me!

No, it doesn't always work.
Indeed. I think there are a lot of "ex-bankers" in the world, especially now. I am an ex-banker as well and was driven to the edge by my BlackBerry going off at 10:00 every Saturday night with more "urgent" work to do. How on earth could this be urgent? I eventually realized that to the bankers above me, it was urgent because they loved what they did. I sincerely think that many did. On the other hand, some had workaholism, which is a whole other [sad] issue. For me, it was unnecessary stress--I didn't feel that the tasks were so important that I needed to grab a cab to the office and update those powerpoint slides as fast as humanly possible.

I'm in agreement with several others on this page that finding your calling, although necessarily resulting in a sacrifice of many extracurriculars, is superior. But it's very difficult. In the meantime, living a balanced life with enjoyable time spent outside of work is critical. If you're killing yourself for something that means nothing to you, you're wasting significant chunks of your very limited stint on this planet.

Interestingly, I re-read the "Smart, and Gets Things Done" and "Done, and Gets Things Smart" articles today, and was thinking about how these map to some of these people that I work with. To my eyes, these sorts of people fit squarely in the category of those who have found their calling, and that calling is to crank out good software 24x7. They are so excited by cranking out good code that they are propelled to do it nonstop. Coding is an intellectual, creative process, and you can't just force it to happen with a high salary or stock options; it comes from an internal drive, a desire to get all that code that's trapped inside out into the world.

To me that is the mechanical result of finding your calling: you're so invested and interested in something that you can't find enough time in the day to work on it, to develop it, and to get it out to the world. When I think of people like this I see artists, writers, academics--people who work tirelessly to show their passions to the world, perhaps even trying to cast out the inner demons that torment them.

Interesting, semi-obvious, yet mandatory observation: I have not found this yet, considering that I'm posting on HN.
Being a mathematics major as well as CS, can offer a recommendation of a book for each of set theory and mathematical logic. Each were the basis for the course I took on the topic, and recieved pretty good reviews on Amazon:

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Herbert Enderton, A Mathematical Introduction to Logic. ISBN-13: 978-0122384523.

Hope this helps. :-)
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These logos are "clever" in the sense that most of them employ use of negative space, i.e. the white space around black letters and figures. It's actually the first thing they teach you in design school. Still these examples are pretty neat.
No, I don't think it is like that. I don't think the models give the wrong results, rather, they would model the climate with and without human influence and compare the results. They can see a deviation from the temperatures that would have to be expected without human influences.

As for falsification, obviously they don't have a second earth to experiment with. What they do is try to gather as much historical data as possible (for example by drilling into the ice of the poles), and test their models on that.

Or so I suppose - I am not a climatologist. Are you?

Of course models can be wrong, we are always just talking likelihoods... But what makes you so sure that they are wrong?
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Does slideshare offer a printable version that just extracts all the text into paragraph form?

While I was interested in the topic, about 30 slides in I got tired of clicking through the "presentation" and gave up. I'm getting tired of slides with huge text and no design. Makes me almost miss bullet point monotony!
Do you have a reference/data about this global overcapacity?

I also think all-electric cars can't win big anytime soon. On the other hand, the Chevrolet Volt concept seems really good to me. It would also provide incremdntal incentives for building charging infrastructure that would pave the way for purely electric vehicles - it can solve the chicken and egg problem there.
There is no sign of a bad economy. This looks like a correction to me, not like a crash.
I'm not seeing anything but the spoon in the food writer one... I tried crossing my eyes too. Help?
I can't imagine that would make anyone feel better. I enjoyed following his videos when I was first starting up, and his energy is certainly infectious. Since his layoffs I've had a bit of a more dour opinion of him, as it seemed opportunistic, and he does tend to jetset quite often.

That said, I hope he does well. I can't see the value in what he does, but then I'm not likely his target market (though I certainly tried Seesmic, and tried to like it). And I haven't a clue as to where the revenue stream was supposed to materialize (product placement? Brand communication channel?) But as an entrepreneur, I would hate to see him fail badly, as you put it - his family is here, he's put a lot of effort, etc.

Although I suppose you didn't explicitly state that you take pleasure in watching another who's risked quite a bit fail spectacularly, I thought I might just drop my two cents.
I do. I also devour, absorb, take in, chew on, consider, ponder...etc.
Inside is a spoon, but if you invert the background and foreground it looks like the head of a fountain pen. Very, very cool.
It really depends on the level of specialisation involved.

I would say $125 - $150/hr is a reasonable rate, but my consulting work could not be described as IT generalism. It also depends on your overhead, firm size, whether there are subcontractors involved, etc, etc.
I can't believe they found a lawyer either ignorant or optimistic enough to put this in.

I sure can. My only question is: Did he bite his pinky while adding the clause and pronounce it "meeeelion"?

Its strange to think that, as a lawyer, you can write a 'program' in legalese to run on 'the legal system' and collect your pay without ever having to run it. Your client finds out later (much) if it will run or not! Wish my code worked that way.
Love HN! I've been trying to accomplish "Cleaning up HTML" for some time now and Lxml seems to have the exact functionality I was looking for :)
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Ruse of solvency. Are they even asking for input?
How long before Google makes back their investment?
You don't think the people entering this competition can at the very least calculate the odds of winning?

Now if only it was possible to blacklist trolls...
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It's very difficult to start a company in Germany. You need X amount of capital and masses of paperwork, etc. Talinn in Estonia should probably be the European startup capital.
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Classic quote #2:

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Makes me think of that Einstein quote: "It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity"
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Absolutely fantastic! For a moment there, I though this article was actually a skit on A bit of Fry & Laurie.

This quote specifically: And even more satisfying than all of that is the fact that the idea of a huge state-sponsored piss-up is such an anathema to Americans that there's no way they can outdo us
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This is becoming more and more true. Being overweight is a social problem nowadays.