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could you be more specific? what exactly service did you talk about in the top comment?
" They stand there, 20 or 30 minutes waiting for the noisy bus to pick them up, then make 3 or 4 more stops, then drive the quarter of half mile to their schools where they're dumped off."

Can't help correlating "sheeple".
And juice. You forgot the juice. It's all about the juice.
They often don't have the rights to do that, actors contracts and the like often have clauses with regards to royalties from video sales and repeat showings, most of them don't have any structure to allow for online streaming (plus you have legal issues over music used, etc). The legal work involved would cost far more than the technical work required.
I would argue that a more qualified worker contributes more and hence deserves the job. Full stop. This is a nation of immigrants where, as often as not, immigrants are the ones creating the jobs in the first place. That's actually one reason the jobs are in America in the first place. You think a less qualified engineer who happens to have citizenship is more responsible for that economy than the qualified workers--native and migrant--who are actually working to create that wealth?

"We ourselves" are responsible for creating those jobs? Give me a fucking break. Many immigrants are working hard in this country, and many American citizens are sitting on their entitled asses begging for a piece of the pie. It's not a matter of nationality that decides how responsible you are for the wealth of the country.
It's a joke but like with many jokes the bigger the grain of truth the better. Another classic is "Having fun without alcohol is pretense." These are typically said when, for example, planning an evening out with friends or gathering at someone's place and the question of "Ok, shall we drink something, too, then?" comes up.

More often than not the collective conclusion is that of why not have a few beers since we're going to have some fun time anyway--probably motivated by the fear of not actually having fun without those beers. And then inevitably some of the participants stretch the meaning of "few" and you can witness something like this act by a Swedish guy who captures something of the essence of Finnish drunkenness: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAl9OyGYxOg

Note that we can't generalize from this. Many Finnish people are decent with regard to the consumption of alcohol and many citizens of numerous other countries often drink too much. But there is a certain difference between Finland and many nations. What is common in Finland—or first frowned upon but immediately dismissed as "I'll do it too"—is generally considered a very undesirable way to embarrass yourself in many other countries.
You team up with some friends, people you know and trust, and you share the administrative and financial effort

I have been burned by people I trusted much more often than by google.

You use a local, small Internet service company rather than one of the big entities.

How is that better? You're still bequeathing your data to a commercial third party.

I get the OP's point, and hope I never have to eat my own words, but the reasons to go through all the hassle of moving out of google et al aren't all that compelling imo.
The boomers do have the advantage of being a large political force, and have all their life, so have had the possibility to shape the political landscape around them as they have passed through the various phases of life. This assumption is of course based on them being a fairly homogeneous group of people, which may or may not be true.
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In Germany it's illegal to walk outside if you're to drunk.
This is so wrong it's hard to know where to begin. I work for a very successful local company in Switzerland - have written about it before here - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2053665

The problem with local + is not local, it's us - us geeks. We don't understand it. We expect it to play out like the rest of the Internet - grow community, B2C, performanced based etc and we're wrong. And we're not listening...

Some of the fundamentals of local + are;

- don't waste an SMEs time. You really want to tell, say, a hair dresser they should spend a morning a week managing their ad campaigns (or similar) instead of cutting hair?

- be on the ground with a sales force - 75% of SMEs aren't interested in the logic of why yours in the best idea ever; they'd rather talk to someone they like and hear a sales pitch they can relate to

- bring genuine value - i.e. help them generate leads - stop trying to screw money out of them - I'd argue Groupon are an offender here

To the idea there's no money to be made, I can only smile.

I could write loads more on this topic but already started that here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2053665

Ultimately SMEs are those that need the Internet's help the most and are also those we're failing the most and IMO we're the ones to blame.
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In the case of many local governments (like SF's) I think it has less to do with cultural engineering, and more with protecting a clique of well-connected businessmen. Same reason Louisiana monks can't sell caskets without a casket-making license...
London Olympics could 'crash the internet', Cabinet Office warns
I'd usually agree, but for one-time video watching, I don't see the harm. There is nothing that might break for legal customers in the future because there is no future, unlike with a purchased item.

I never watch series episodes twice, and I'd rather pay small money to see them once than to buy DRM-free video files. Statistically, I must be the minority because Apple stopped offering series rentals. :(
Tethering. cough.
You can do that with many non-thethering plans on some jailbroken devices to save money or get around no-tethering allowed companies. I'm not going to lie and say that more than 10% of that traffic accounts to youtube videos and torrented linux distributions...
"Note that other browsers also allow Shadow DOM styling, but to keep things a little simpler, it's just WebKit for now"

Thats such a cop-out.
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Yeah. I don't have a problem with it for one time viewing but still don't want to force flash. Maybe give the studio a option... But still don't care for flash myself.
As Silicon Valley salaries rise, they will eventually reach the point where more employers will decide to spend their personnel dollars elsewhere. Engineers in Austin or Ann Arbor or Cambridge (either one) can work out of local offices, or straight out of their homes, and produce more lines of useful code per dollar than their peers in Palo Alto, Mountain View, or Sunnyvale. Go ahead, call it "inshoring" and look down your nose at those cheaper programmers if you like. They'll still be taking your jobs, and you'll be left living in a very expensive place after the salary bubble collapses.

The only question is when. I think the process has already begun. Some might predict another year or two. Nobody sane would expect the ride to last longer than that before supply and demand reassert themselves over mere fashion.
I use Cyanogenmod but I usually install the Google application package with it. I can probably live without installing the Google application package if there is a reasonable alternative to Google Maps and Navigation. What do people recommend?
Cool, but doesn't work particularly well on iPhone.
Great point, I hadn't thought of that. Buttons are so finicky :(

On a related note, I wonder how screenreaders handle buttons? I'm guessing/hope they read the labels, but if they don't...
Kids must experience all kinds of feelings to learn to cope with them. If you always run whenever your kid cries, it will never learn to deal with things alone and it will cry far more often.

Also, I believe that your approach is the more convenient to the parent, because you don't have to deal with guilt about possibly leaving emotional scars to their kid. But in fact you're just spoiling it and do bad for its health. Sleeping the whole night, at least for 6 continues hours, is very important for kids from half to 2 yo for their proper/healthy development.

The night cry mentioned in the article is just a specific example, it doesn't make much sense to come to a conclusion based only on how you delt with this particular case.
The problem is that well-behaved doesn't equate to better children.

To quote the YC application form "Please tell us about the time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage."

Creativity, rule-bending and being outspoken are often hallmarks of innovators and entrepreneurs. But obviously patience and obedience are virtues as well. Culturally we have to make trade-offs deciding which of these we want to encourage in kids and which we don't.

It's silly to pretend there's just one way that's better across the board. TMTOWTDI.
> I think companies should do something really crazy. They should go and develop a new area [...]

If they do that and it succeeds at all, here is what will quickly happen.

1. The area will be full of smart well paid people, and will be a place where those people want to live. House prices and rents will go up.

2. Since it was aimed at engineers, and prices are (now) expensive, it will tend to be occupied largely by engineers and other highly-paid people. Which, society being what it presently is, will lead to the same sort of sex ratio as you see in Silicon Valley.

End result: just one more SV-like area. And that's if it works, which it probably won't. (It's very easy to say that "companies should" develop an area with sunny weather and a balanced gender ratio and neighbours who are good at other stuff and willing to share their knowledge -- but not so easy to do it.)
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Of course, StonyVision needed content to share and he wasted no time in getting it directly from source – The Scene. He’d gained access to this elite network

Who is writing these articles?! The "Scene" is simply a generic term for piracy groups that rip and upload content. And this guy isn't even doing that; he's merely copying files from FTP sites to torrent sites. Why glorify it so much?
Even if it only worked in webkit I'd still style native elements and let them fall back to their default look. Creating fake inputs using a bunch of nested divs gives me flashbacks of days when tables were used for layout.
A few observations, from someone whose business is making decisions about this stuff right now:

1. It's easy for a consumer to say DRM is evil or to claim that it doesn't work anyway. It's a lot harder to literally bank on those things by irrevocably giving away the content your start-up has spent much time and money building.

2. It's easy to assume that any protection will be cracked eventually, and for mass market content like Hollywood movies and pop music it probably will. But many smaller companies are both producing niche content for smaller audiences, making them rather less likely to be cracked, and aiming for rather more modest profits, meaning that if someone rips their stuff and puts it somewhere Google can find there is a real danger of catastrophic actual losses.

3. It's easy to say that HTML5 video is the future and Flash needs to die. Apple and Google would be more credible when making such claims if their own browsers weren't riddled with bugs and limitations in this area and if they gave straight answers about exactly which video formats they support.

4. Open Source software that doesn't support locked up content or formats will give an inferior user experience for the foreseeable future. Whether that loss is acceptable to the users and developers of such software is something only they can decide.

Just to be clear: I am not a fan of excessive copyright protections, certainly not a fan of DRM, generally in favour of openness, and sincerely hoping that we can find a viable model for our business that fits with those beliefs. I should also add that I'm not writing on behalf of anyone but myself in a personal capacity here.

But from a realistic point of view as a businessman, those arguing for unrestricted HTML5 video vs. DRM/Flash need a far stronger case than they typically make today before their arguments are going to be as convincing as they would like.
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Not from a "keeping up with the Joneses" basis.

On a "keeping up with the joneses" basis, we are exactly as rich now as we always were. In 1950, 1960, and today, there were 50% of people above the median. If your dad had more "keeping up with the joneses" buying power, it's only because someone else's dad had less.

Incidentally, when you compare people to their parents, you find that income went up vastly more than you think. It's only when you compare people today (Americans and immigrants) to the parents of Americans that incomes appear to have stagnated.

http://crazybear.posterous.com/did-immigrants-and-simpsons-p...
For me it works on most URLs not containing a path components but sometimes it chokes. Seems to return the latest successful query then?

I think it's a very useful idea. Maybe a bookmarklet is second best to a browser plugin (but this one can surely be improved):

javascript:(function(){var%20s=encodeURIComponent(window.location.href.match(/:\/\/(.[^/]+)/)[1]);open('http://colrgrabr.swissamigos.com/?url='+s+'#'+s);})();

(stripping the path for now, to make it work)
I just moved to London, and I was initially shocked at how early the pubs outside the office (Carnaby Street) start to fill up. Wed-Fri there are people drinking at 11am, and it starts to get downright crowded by 2-3pm. If the weather is nice it gets insane to the point of the street becoming impassable. Later on, say past midnight it looks like there's a palpable increase in the homeless population until you look closer and realize that a surprising number of non-homeless people are just passed out in the street. Okay, this is Soho, so it hardly represents the UK at large, but it's clear that the drinking culture is far more widespread.

I've also found myself drinking more, like having a pint or two several times a week. One reason is because there are so many good ales here, but also the weather and winter darkness makes it more appealing. It makes you feel warm and cozy somehow, where by contrast, drinking on a sunny beach makes you feel light-headed and exhausted.
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i contacted them after seeing that page a couple of times and got a reply saying they had been having some false positives; i've not seen it since. so if you only saw them in the last week or two, and not in the last few days, then it may be something that has been fixed.
I was absolutely sure they did filter, but I've just tested and apparently they don't. Well, that's unexpected. I might switch to self-hosting again then.
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> "why is Google the only company that does something like this?"

Not a company, but last summer the European Space Agency organised the Summer of Code in Space. The homepage (http://sophia.estec.esa.int/socis2011/) seems to be down, but the mailing-list (https://groups.google.com/group/esa-socis) is still up. One important difference with the GSoC is that it's limited to students of European schools.
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It's not really revisionism. He says himself he didn't really know what the implications of the whole "walled garden" thing is, when really, everyone did.

I'd believe that his actual motive was to port his contacts to some other network (kind of like how Facebook used to ask for your gmail password so they could spider your mailbox), but there was always a bit of outrage against walled gardens.
Inside a different one: http://www.silentuk.com/?p=3374#more-3374
Something similar happened to me too. It was a self confidence boost and learned how to be more careful and how to deal with problems without panic. Accidents will happen anyway sooner or later, it's better to have small accidents early and learn from them than make big irreversible mistakes later.
I had a bunch of old VHS tape that i threw away. Although I would have liked to keep them, the biggest annoyance was the fungus/mold that grows on them if you live anywhere with some humidity.

The point being: VHS tapes destroy themselves, its not necessarily always a choice to not convert them.
Yeah! Re- using write protected tags ...save money ... makes sense ...
Just because you mentioned (the totally unnecessary) beating, doesn't rent the rest of your comment false.

In case you get a "but beatig is wrong" reply.
"It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove." – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I haven't used Mail.app since an incident about 2 years ago where it deleted a bunch of my messages. I was moving them from one folder to another when the connection to the server dropped.

I don't know why this should happen with IMAP (it is possible to move messages from one folder to another atomically) but it did.
This is pure gold: dry humping a brand new buzzworthy social media platform to death.

I wonder what the survival rate is after being dry-humped by Scoble?
Try telling that to the suits higher up the ladder. I tried this numerous times (give the current devs a better environment instead of throwing more people at this late project) but they just won't believe it.

"haha they can't be working becuase they're listening to music through their heaphones"

I'd really appreciate any tips on this.
I quite agree that there are still plenty of great games being made, but there are very few games like the ones on the list. Hostile Waters and Battlezone were cracking first person RTSes. Sacrifice is pretty much the only other game like it, and that's old as the hills as well.

Torment, again, is a game that no-one makes anymore. The storytelling in something like Mass Effect 2 is excellent, but it's a Jerry Bruckheimer movie. The sheer out and out weirdness of some of the story-telling in Torment has yet to be surpassed.

Deus Ex and Thief/Thief 2 were vastly better than their sequels, and it seems unlikely anyone will ever make a game quite like Deus Ex again. Even with the best will in the world, a modern 8 hour game isn't going to have the same depth as a 20 hour RPG.
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I'd love to ssh to my server and use some modern MUA like Sup, but there are lot of places where you cannot ssh through local firewalls.

When you work parttime as a consultant or when you just meet with some potential customers/investors/cofounders/whomever you often need to use THEIR infrastructure. So what then? Do you imagine that you'd be unable to get an email from the people you're talking on the spot just because you need to tunnel somehow to your server? Bit weird..

One option is to always use own mobile connection, but still there are places where there's no carrier (like some server rooms), or you have to use customer's intranet at the same time you're relying on what's in your emails..
It's good to have research and evidence support what we already know. I can only say that the best remedy is playing white noise to your headphones and trying to fall into another reality of thw world of programming. White noise is the only thing that I can listen to for longer periods of times without growing sick or bored to it.
Well, they already root around... That's why they can serve contextual ads.

Right now it's "harmless"... But people get a lot more personal in email or google searches than they do on, say, facebook.

There's some gold to be mined in there.
Change jobs? :-(
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Why would you not bank on the fact that DRM doesn't work? Putting aside all questions of whether it's evil or not, isn't that a foregone conclusion and an answer to the question that is demonstrated writ large for anyone who cares to make the vaguest attempt at tracking down pirated content? What's the point of pretending it's other than it is?
Trading companies. They're writing software in house to control stock trading (or that of any other financial instrument that's on the market. The software is so directly responsible for profit margins that the companies are forced to be very competitive with their compensation.
I totally agree simurai examples is so much better. no arguments there.
It's not my case, but I've heard from some people that they got on Facebook because friends where organizing events there and not having an account meant not being included in these events. This might be a case where it's "ridiculous to even consider".

In the end it depends on the ways people use it. If it's the only channel for communication, then you have to be in it.
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>> Now he's on Google+, and yet this Facebook data still isn't exportable, and I've not seen any complaint from Scoble about not being able to move all his contacts data from Facebook to Google+.

Yes, but Scoble explains why he doesn't complain anymore - because the time when it was worth complaining is over, and other tech influencers at that time didn't join Scoble in his fight. Now, I agree with Scoble, that it is just too late - Facebook will simply not allow you to export your social graph, and that's it. You can just waste your time complaining, or delete your account, but that's all you can do.
Google hires a senior director at Apple for a top secret project (exclusive)
browser version? I tested on iOS5 and it did look worse.
would be cool to see a demo.
Would something comparable happen to New York or Chicago?
Can't you talk to the folks at ypur accelerator program? I'm pretty sure they'll be glad to give you some advice. Maybe they can introduce you to someone, as their network is probably a lot bigger than yours.

One thing slightly bothers me, though. 40% may sound like a good deal, but without your future developer you basically have nothing. An idea, but that's it.

Also I'd advise you to learn how to code. You said it's 'not your thing', but when it comes running a startup you really have to be able to do everything. I'm sure there are some coding chores that you can do while your tech cofounder cracks the advanced issues.

Good luck!
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I work at in an open-plan office and it does definitely suck. On the other hand it means that there is very little pressure to look better than the rest.
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I figured this would come up.

I've exaggerated a bit - I've had sips of more than 3 beers in my life. I've had tastes of lagers in the UK, a couple German beers, and a few others over time - a swig here and there, etc. 3 was basically full (or near full). There's just nothing appealing at all with any of the types (closest I could probably do would be a cider, which isn't really a beer though, right?).

This feels like a no true scotsman issue. "Well, if you'd had good beer, you'd feel differently!". :) I've had tastes of beer where people said "this is the best stuff here". It's still ... ugh. Can't deal with the taste.

If my life depended on it, I probably could do it, but thankfully I've never been in that situation :)
Are you speaking from experience? I've been in IT for 20 years and your advice sounds completely wrong to me. My current base salary is $171,000 and I get a bonus as well. I like to think I am a 9 or 10 level salary negotiator but maybe I'm wrong because your advice sounds like a someone who is making $80k per year and thinks they know everything about salary negotiation.
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