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Blog post from 3 weeks ago, discussing topic that was already discussed here when it was actually news.

Does not provide any new insight or perspective on the issue. It's just a restatement of what others said (and does not cite them).

Submitted by a newly created account that appears to be the blog owner, and has only been used to submit blog entries.

My blog spammer sense is tingling.
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Can you elaborate on what Oliver Hunt did and what you added to it? Seems like he wrote the original and you converted to ASCII output?
While your advice is generally sound, I'm concerned about the implied exhortation to self-censorship of controversial, but legitimate, views that it carries with it. Really, 20 years from now, if they're doing those kinds of background checks, will the checker care more that the checkee trolled some RIP group, or espoused support for Wikileaks? Will they care more that the checkee called someone "a fucking retard" on the comments of a blog post, or that they wrote a post arguing in favor of fighting back against cops who attack citizens?

Ultimately, the obnoxious-but-innocuous comments are just noise; it's the political views that run counter to the mainstream that will raise the most flags, and which require the most freedom from censorship, self- or otherwise.
There's no evidence that there is any more. They only need the lubricant at the point of contact with the drill bit.
The option for other vendors to implement those features has not been removed from the table. Unlike something like ActiveX, these companies have a choice to implement, even if they dont want to.
It doesn't measure whether the tweet is positive v negative, which surely has a large impact.

I think the 'reach' figure is reaching as well, because I am guessing they just counted the number of followers the person who tweeted has, but of course, there is no way to know that every follower read that tweet.
Sure, if you've got the power for it, there's a lot to be said for a drill with no moving parts!
I would expect only 2/10 of these treatments to succeed.
Thanks for the feedback! Do you think just having a email login or a fb login would be enough?
The lesson here is to buy used phones outright for cheap and hasten the decline of carrier lock-in. That's what I got out of the article at least.

The difference in depreciation between iphones and androud seemed pretty small to me, and probably represents the overall inflated price of the half-eaten fruit logo. I see laptops on craigslist with similar specs: $2000 for Mac and ~$500 for Dell. Like Billy Beane, I buy cheap and undervalued.
That's an interesting idea. Kind of like a ghost account? Or what if you logged in with email only and then auto-followed the founder/popular members so you still get rich, person-centric advice?
There's newer firmware updates but they won't release them. Perhaps other carriers have newer updates for my phone but i'm on a contract.
haha yeah, i love this but i have to wonder what its practical application is.
My commute is mostly highway, at 65 Mph. The most common use case for my vehicle is thus very different from yours. Your vehicle would add extra time to my commute, and would not be useful for me in any situations where I am travelling long distance (120 km/h is the norm in Europe, that is about 75 Mph) I want to go faster, I don't want my trip to take even longer.
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I want this directed at those that have a net worth of at least $3 million. While that's by no means a definition of success, my question is geared towards achieving financial freedom.

Assuming many of you were once at a stage where you knew little about starting a business, striking deals, and leading a team, what, in your opinion, are the most influential books, quotes, stories, etc, that contributed greatly to your development into a person fit for success?

Swombat wrote a comment here a few weeks ago in which he said "successful companies come out of successful people", and from that point on I've been thinking about how one would become a successful person, or in other words, how one would prepare oneself to increase the chances of being in a position to lead a successful business. I thought it'd be of great value to me and others here if we heard from financially successful people of this community on what they credit as being the main reasons that helped them grow into being "successful people".

Books, anecdotes, a mentor's advice on everything from personal improvement to business mechanics are welcome.
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But the way to turn fuel into energy already exists, even if it is inefficient. OK, you could also burn my mouse, but it would probably be even less efficient...

I still think it makes a strong point for telecommuting.
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I can't answer this yet. I'd be curious to hear
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While voice command recognition is pretty good with a limited command set and a low-noise environment, a battlefield is not a low-noise environment.

OK, anyone could predict that. Let's take it a few steps further:

- military bases are not low-noise environments

- "come here" is a great command, but if there's no authentication, it's a hazard

- in the other direction, just how quiet is the gasoline engine on an AlphaDog? Loud enough to give away your position, relative to the trudge of a squad's worth of boots on the ground?
There was one or two like that in TNG, but those were very conspicuous in their intent to depict a day in the life of the crew.
I remember testing Tribler a few months ago, and I while I think the idea is brilliant, I didn't keep it for long for the reason you mention above. One of the reasons I switched to OS X in the first place is the high quality of the applications. I would love to try Tribler again if they create a native version for each platform, or at least a version which looks and behaves according to the standards of each platform.
Most likely lots of your friends have added him, so he shows up highly as he is popular (though for ironic reasons) member of a site you are a member of.
Nice work! I'm generally pretty immune to copy, but that would definitely get my attention.

Also, good job eliminating the extra page in between clicking the button and the contact page.

The only thing I'm not 100% sure about is the character on the contact page. It's a high quality illustration, but his expression might cause an upset/worried feeling when someone hits that page. Now that your copy is so good, I would consider removing him and just centering the copy & contact form.

Any plans to start a blog about your tests and subsequent product development? I know I'd be very interested in reading it, and I think a lot of other people here would as well.
I love it 100%. I just miss feeling like it was worthwhile work. Made me wistful for simpler times.

Apparently it pissed off hacker news for me to say so judging by the downvotes but I'm leaving it.

It's very cool stuff.
Sounds like you stopped midway through Season 1!
Never heard of anonymous image boards :?
So, corporations should pay CEOs bigger salaries, because it's the most effective way to boost human space travel?

This is the highest voted counter-argument?
If you can predict time taken to complete tasks, that would be awesome.
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So it costs 32 million dollars, is enormously complicated, has a noisy generator on the back, turns into a brick after 20 miles, and has half the carrying capacity of a camel.

Cool tech, but we've got a ways to go, people.
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Each checker will not do the digging themselves, rather, companies like Palantir will offer info products like "Individual Troll Quotient" or "Online Political Summary" which will be used in the same way credit profiles are for lending. This already exists above board with systems like Klout, and in the background a number of companies sell services like these to marketers.
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very small, but worth a visit.
How is HTML5 not up to scratch?

Genuinely curious. It's probably been over a year since I've needed to reach for a PC for a Flash site (then again, "apps" have filled many of those use-case gaps).
I purchased the following pack on graphicriver.net a few days ago:

http://graphicriver.net/item/business-man-mascot/119027?WT.a...

I'll think I'll have to run some A/B tests to see what effect the little guy and his different expressions have on visitors.
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This link is from 2001, and other references are even older. I see it more as pursing an idea and trying to force a fit than anything with historical likelihood.

http://www.fsteiger.com/Egyptian_kite_theory.html dismisses the idea, with reasonable sounding objections. http://www.philipcoppens.com/kite_obel.html has an essay with more details of work done to 2004; it's more optimistic but keeping some skepticism.

There's video of the effort at http://explore.wingsworldquest.org/?q=node/142
. The Egyptologist points out that there's no evidence of modern pulleys or kits during the time of the pyramids.

The head of the researchers on this project is dismissive of the view of Egyptologists, pointing out that she learned that Egyptians of ancient times were supposed to be drinking two glasses of beer for breakfast, for lunch, and for dinner; since she's impaired after that much drinking, the Egyptologists may wrong in their knowledge. Given what I've heard about beer drinking a few hundred years ago (when it seemed many people mostly drank beer and not water), I think it shows an unfounded dismissiveness.
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If you click (i love that clicking has an impact) for long enough you can make the whole image fill up with the same character (and the waves dont seem to settle down)

Very cool however!

http://i.imgur.com/7V2p0.png
From the point of view of the article, I think two of the major points aren't crap.

1) > 1. Education is important, but always second to financial literacy. People turn out poor because they’re not taught financial literacy.

The first one is apparent. I definitely agree that his books, especially the later titles are scammy. However they are not completely without any value. Kiyosaki is more like a motivational guru than a finance expert. I think the message that it's better to produce than to consume is pretty successfully conveyed.

3) >Pay yourself first. Even if the government comes knocking on your door, you deserve to be paid first. The best way to do this, in Kiyosaki’s opinion, is to hide under the umbrella of a corporation. The author fails to recognize the difference between business expenses and personal expenses.

I admit that this is bad advice, but for different reasons. It's something I wouldn't do myself, because it isn't ethical and not because it's not effective. Chances are if you're making below 500k, you can get away with this tactic. Even if the IRS does audit you, there are just so many ways to still make it out alive. (One of my friends used to work for a law firm specializing in taxes.)
Indeed. It has always amazed me that so many people treat their static content as something that needs to involve a database.

Look at how many blog entries come through here and have the entire site fall over from a few thousand people going to read them. Somewhere there's a poor slicehost instance performing "select * from blog_entry where key like '10_reasons_rails_is_awesome'" thousands of times in a row until something melts.

Worse, the proposed solution when this happens is to add caching.

No, the thing to do would be to add a .html file to your webserver. I defy anybody to find a modern web server that can't serve a static file a thousand times per second from the smallest VPS slice on the market.

It's a solved problem. But people keep unsolving it.
There is a good explanation of this on Wikipedia:

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle-ellipse_problem

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liskov_substitution_principle#A...
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Agree 100%! I made a grand total of $18,000 in stock from failed startups I joined over the years. And that was with 2% of the one company that earned anything in my pocket. OTOH I did a lot better joining growing post-IPO companies where my 0.1% was 0.1% of something, something already selected for success by earning the IPO achievement badge. Which is to say I'm a contrarian that believes if one were to go someplace like facebook right now and fit in, things would probably turn out reasonably well in the long-run.

After all, Google was minting millionaires a good two years past their IPO...
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It's a scientific mission, which is expressly protected by the treaty.
yeah i am judging by the down votes i didnt get that across right, either...oh well. Its cool, no doubt, i'd just love to see a cool use of this besides the few seconds of entertainment i got from it. I'm sure someone will come up with something.
You really need to specify whether that 50 miles per gallon is in US or UK gallons ...

US gallon is 3.78 Liters, UK gallon is 4.54 Liters.

US gallons: 50 MPG = 21.26 km/liter
UK gallons: 50 MPG = 17.70 km/liter

50 MPG (UK) is 41.6 MPG (US).

In my Hyundai Accent (Korean) I get 34 - 36 MPG (US) depending on how I drive it. It is not nearly as efficient as a Renault Twingo or my grandma's Toyota Aigo (awesome little car).
I have got the exact opposite lesson: a 1 year old iPhone has lost 25% of its value, and it loses another 25% of the original value the next year. So you lose the same amount with an older phone

In other words - imagine a rich person buying a new iPhone every year and selling the old one to his poor friend. Both of them eventually pay the same amount for the phone, but the poor friend got a used one.
Tor is nice, but how long will it take until textual analysis against a large corpus becomes available to everyone with an interest? We already have fairly advanced plagiarism detection mechanisms and Bayesian spam filters; similar ideas allow author-identification.

I would, in fact, be somewhat surprised if nobody has proposed deploying this kind of thing against, say, Anonymous.
The requirement for locking is only applicable to devices which are certified by Microsoft - i.e. only hardware bearing Microsoft's logo.

In other words, Windows branded hardware is no more locked down than one with an Apple on it...and it may be less so.

Last I read the certification requirements - devices had to boot to UEFI by default but could also offer a "legacy BIOS mode." And that mode was not specified in the certification.

See my comments here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3459104
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I've seen that happen. I've got no problem with it. In fact I think allowing it to happen is much more Free than the approach favored by the FSF.

The code that I release to the world is my own work product, and it is my choice to make it available to others. If someone else improves on it, that's great. Period. I feel no need to try to dictate to them what they can do with it. That's their work product, and their choice if they want to make it available to others.
Link to previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3458679
"I'll think I'll have to run some A/B tests to see what effect the little guy and his different expressions have on visitors."

Excellent idea. And that's exactly the type of activity that would make for a great blog post!
No thank you. My privacy is worth a bit more than $25
Other than "Knowledge Networks" having the data, is there any downside for those of us already using Google Web History?
I think it's great.

And I don't think all programming has to have an immediate practical application. In fact I wish more of us were doing stuff like this. Practically every 30-something hacker I know was doing graphics demos in the early 90s.

I guess people thought I was saying any 13 year old could do this or something.

* shrug
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My blog about it: http://cameronbriar.blogspot.com/2012/01/tagdog-for-ios.html
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Can we stop referring to these high altitude balloon payloads as going "into space"? At 91000 feet up, he is over 70 km from the official edge of space, and 130 km from lowest satellite orbits.

EDIT: The soon to be MIT student correctly refers to it as a "near space" flight, but the context was changed to increase the link bait factor.
I'll admit, the first thing I wanted to know what what this would look like in green monochrome. (ala jwz, http://www.jwz.org/)
One explanation: The rapid rate of change in Android phones vs Iphones?

Consider if a car company released 4 model updates per year instead of one.

Your Hyandai 2013 Quarter 1 would depreciate faster as the 3 newer models came out (granted that each new model would have more/better features - heated seats, leather, auto drive, whatever).

So as an iPhone buyer/owner, you know your phone will be state of the art for foreseeable future, where as with Android, you phone will be (perceived anyway) as antiquated, much more rapidly.
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Takeaction,

Your username was created 1/2 hour ago. You have one submission and one comment, so I can't but guess that you might be fairly new.

If so, you might be unaware that you will be fighting an uphill battle. The gist of posts and comments I've seen hare are that great ideas are not the hard part, that there are lots of great ideas around, and implementation is the hard part.

I have seen several "I have this great idea hook me up with a programmer" posts and one "I am a great programmer hook me up with an idea" post. That one was a sarcastic joke.
> They say 1.5 cubic meters of lubricants and antifreeze came to the surface. Where did the rest go?

The lake water, which is under pressure from the ice, forced 1.5 cubic meters out of the top of the hole. The rest of the four kilometer high column of lubricants and antifreeze is still in the hole.
Well, it may indeed be worse than a camel in nearly every respect. But if it's good enough to be widely used, it will also get widely tested, which may allow a next generation item which would be considerably better than a camel.
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Gotta say, I just spent 3-5 minutes playing with it. Very nice, very cool. Good job!
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Like the outlook; did you design the little guy or bought it?
Realistic response: a camel requires that someone is always with it, telling it where to go. This thing can just be told to go 5 miles in a direction without supervision and will maybe reliably get there. It can also go through stuff that's too toxic for a camel/human being.

Tin-foil-hat response: Can't strap guns to a camel and have it shoot things. The progression from unmanned tech used for non-combat purposes to combat seems likely. Predator drones used to be used for surveillance and did not have hellfire missiles strapped to them.
Totally agree, polyfractal, and this is exactly the point I was trying to prompt/cadge out of someone :)

I'd say the difference between "lost" and "seriously far behind" is comparable to a "broken heart" and a "not-so-broken heart".
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It's not Microsoft, but the device manufacturer that's being held to user's expectations.

When it's a device that's seamlessly integrated with the OS, like an iPad or a Nook, users don't demand the ability to change the OS. If they can, good, but, if the can't, that's not such a big deal. If, however, the device and its software are not seamlessly integrated, like most Android-based phones, demands to be able to change the software start to appear. It will be easy to see the devices all run a single OS made by someone else. In that case, demand to be able to install something else - since hardware and software were not designed to one another - is natural. What Microsoft is doing is trying to limit user choice because they see the threat of non-Microsoft OSs in the tablet market. How much will they pay manufacturers to ship Windows 8 with locked bootloaders?
Yep, big uphill battle. Theres a million of these posts and I don't see any effort to make you stand out. Saying you are "Biz dev + have a big idea" is really not going to cut it.
Firefox could have implemented ActiveX, of course. The spec wasn't a secret.
I understand that. Not saying we should use it. Only highlighting that for some domains a different type of energy density can be used.
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> Whether you like or dislike their particular choices, (...) they are accepting moral responsibility for what they decide not to censor.

Less charitable explanation: FB knows that basically nobody cares about nazis, especially after you've trotted out "free speech", while there is actually a measurable number of people who'd give up Facebook over breasts.
That(locking secure boot to be able to load specific software) is not what I meant(merely ability to turn off secure boot). I realize why secure boot is there, my concerns:
1. as a consumer I'm fully locked into business model of sw/hw providers. Think about all those android phones that are throw away now.
2. cannot do anything to device I physically own
3. hardware manufactures won't bother producing unlocked hardware(to cater those people who would like to run whatever they want on it)
Again, how do they "force" developers to fix their code? Asking nicely is one thing but forcing is another. You implied that the user has more control over the developer in a JS+HTML+CSS environment over Flash. Plus, if some commonly used commands are broken in Flash then it's broken in all of them which doesn't mean broken; it means unsupported, there's a difference.
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Tabbed content, accordions and lightbox creates a "wow" factor?

This is basically a list of common jquery plugins.
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Disagree with "A high resale value is the market telling you, 'this is a good car.'"

A high re-sale value is the market telling you this is a well-regarded car brand. The car itself could be the biggest lemon on the lot.
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What would Microsoft do if Google started demanding locked bootloaders from Android manufacturers?

What it says is that the manufacturer will have to make sure that, once you buy a Windows 8 ARM thingie, the only way to change the OS would be selling it on e-Bay and buying another. What would you say if your Dell desktop came with such a silly restriction?