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That's an excellent and clear perspective.

I am also going to point out something else that the author of the article misses that you get.

When I was just out of college, I worked in a cafeteria for a year, serving food. Sometimes I washed dishes (300 people per meal to one dishwasher for dishes and one for pots and pans). One thing I found was that this was boring work, but there were ways I could make it fun. What was my limit in washing dishes? (with the mechanical help, about 450 people per meal before I had to ask for help).

Serving food? I'd identify all the foreign students and try to learn the food terms in as many languages as I could. Cutting turkey with a carving knife for sandwiches? I'd see if I could do as well as a deli slicer in thinness and consistency, as long as I could do it fast enough not to allow a line to form. Heck I even had Saudi students make up signs in Arabic to indicate pork and wine in dishes.

My bosses hated the fact that I played all these games. They also hated the fact that I would step in to help out the lunch cook when needed if it didn't mean totally abandoning my post. They said it wasn't my job and I was helping someone else be lazy. I said I was having fun and improving building skills at the same time. That said more about them than about me.

If there is one thing that has served me well in starting my business it's that approach. There is nothing so dull that it cannot be made a game out of, where I cannot challenge myself to do it better.

I would say though that it is important to have goals that don't always align with your dreams. Sometimes one has to make grunt-work interesting in seemingly meaningless ways, but those ways are never meaningless. For example (when I am living alone, which I sometimes do), I might challenge myself as to how little I can spend on food in a month while eating a healthy diet. Sometimes out of all this some degree of creativity is born, and that makes all the difference. Sometimes that creativity comes back to my business.

And so.....

Self-improvement is not something to be learned from a book. It comes from making actions into challenges, first a few, then many.... until it becomes a habit. When we exercise we get stronger. When we exercise our overall capacities we become greater.
Not something we're worrying about for the moment - the advice we got from people who had done it was "don't do it until you have a much larger team".
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I see the bug but I don't see the exploitation. You have to be in charge of the DNS zone, right? The best use I can think of here is having a subdomain that only shows up on a certain DNS server but you could do that by having your authoritative DNS server return different results to different IPs.
I love reading articles like this. They've done a great job at simplifying a bunch of complex information into a short, easy to read post. I know it's certainly peaked my interest in a couple different subjects I'll be searching for on Wikipedia later today.
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AWS has regions in Ireland, Singapore and Brazil at least.

AWS is still a US company, but they offer services from non-US DCs.
Both models have an advantage. The padding outside the width makes it easy to make a border that doesn't touch the box, while the padding inside the box makes... well... padding a box easier.

Personally, I find the padding inside the box more valuable so when I found the `* { box-sizing: border-box }` post I decided to use it, and it's also what I expected it to behave like when starting web design.
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Good observation... the only reason backrecord.com is still with godaddy is lack of time to make sure I have a process worked out to do it without any downtime. I actually transferred more than 20 domains because of SOPA and can assure you the others will be transferred at some point relatively soon. backrecord.net for instance is no longer with godaddy.
Singapore is one of the most expensive places in the world to live and do business. If you are Eduardo Saverin, maybe Singapore looks great. If you are looking to bootstrap, probably not the best location.
The person is disabled, so getting to the PC just to turn it off or hibernate it is quite a hassle. Also, it needs to be able to run Windows XP or greater in order to run her software. One option I'm considering is a Mac mini running Windows via Virtual Box or VMWare or Parallels, but that seems like overkill. Seems like there should be a small quiet reasonably-fast Windows box for under $500 from someone (she already has a nice monitor, and her special keyboard and mouse). Thanks again.
Yes, yes, and YES!

The CAs are allowed to sell CA=YES certs, but that doesn't mean that a browser (or any other tool using certificate chains) needs to follow them. On the other hand, the argument would be that if the CA could always just approve anything that this third party asked for... same effect and well within their power. So perhaps we DO want CA=YES just so we can tell when some CA is being unreasonably liberal.
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You don't start out this way with it being a habit. You start out by saying "I want to make this interesting. What game can I play while I do it?" Maybe it's seeing how fast you can take out the garbage. Maybe it's something just picked up for the sake of the challenge (the GP used running as an example).

The point though is that if you do this a few times, it will start to happen more and more and eventually you will make a habit out of it.
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What interests me now is the possibility that Growl could act as a bridge to the Notification Center for the many non-Mac App Store apps and miscellaneous system/hardware events.

I’m not as confident as Growl’s developer that this would technically work, with Apple’s approval—at least not as smoothly as I’d hope (would “Growl” show as the app name instead?)—but I’m curious to see what’s possible.
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Lets take a practical example.

Look at Uhaul 17' truck
http://www.uhaul.com/reservations/images/Equipment/Trucks/17.... What do you care most? Inside or outside dimension?
So the article doesn't actually provide the answer to the question, which is Rayleigh scattering [1]. Higher energy (shorter wavelength - blue) photons are more likely to be scattered (reflected in a random direction) by molecules in the air than lower energy ones (longer wavelength - red), so the further it travels through the atmosphere, the more blue is removed from direct sunlight. The blue component is scattered in all directions, which means the sun's disc appears yellow, and the rest of the sky appears blue.

The methane/orange sky theory is news to me, does anyone have any ideas what might cause this? Rayleigh scattering's high-energy bias is independent of the type of gas. Methane itself is colourless, so I suspect sunlight must be causing either ionisation or a chemical reaction which splits the molecule, with the reverse reaction emitting orange light? Or am I way off?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh_scattering
Title is misleading. How much of the rest of the story is exaggerated?
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Insurance in US and Canada are different than that of Indonesia.

In US/CA, certain type of insurances == loan. Insurance companies also try hard not to pay you either due to the number of scams or just trying to scam you.

In Indonesia, insurance is actually what insurance should be: someone will pay your liabilities, without too much hassle or questions.

Also, depending on your pocket money, in Indonesia, you can get the medium-to-best quality of health care. In US/CA, for whatever reason, I heard more horror stories when it comes to "visiting specialists" (be it long multi months queue, or left with debt)
Sorry to hear, but sometimes doing things right takes extra time. Thanks for your efforts.
I've found a great way reduce the amount of news and media that you consume is to travel.

Travel forces you to be offline most the time. You don't watch tv or see "news" much at all. After a while you don't even miss it and actually prefer life without it.

At least that;s what I've been doing for the last three years. Works pretty well.
Corollary:

If you don't enjoy something as is, see what you can do to introduce a side-game so that it is both enjoyable and a challenge.
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Isn't it possible to replace the standard fan with a quiet, aftermarket fan? It sure is a lot cheaper than buying a new PC just for the sake of noise reduction. These guys specialize in quiet fans: http://www.acousticpc.com/index_quiet_computer_fans.html

Some background: they do a lot of stuff for recording studios, where having a quiet computer is also very important.
So much letdown in title.
> It seems to me that requiring the paid version for upgrades and/or Lion compatibility and leaving existing versions unmolested would have been a more diplomatic approach.

They did handle the transition badly on PR grounds, but the way things actually were was very different: MAS's Growl application actually is mostly for configuration purposes, the new growl framework embeds the notification display in the apps themselves (see Mist) and you don't need growl at all to see notifications.

> I feel bad saying this, but I don't feel much sorrow over the fact that Notification Center will likely obsolete the product.

Notification Center is only for MAS applications, so non-MAS or cross (MAS and non-MAS) applications wanting to display notifications will still go through Growl.
Not just the Machine Learning class. All Coursera courses from Stanford faculty have been delayed again. Coursera Courses by faculty from other universities are running on time.
Ideally the point is doing something interesting and seeing your work change the lives of other people for the better.
The bee is incidental. The real "product" here is is the manufacturing technique.

It has enough technology, primarily built-in circuitry to turn electric current into motive force, to show that more complicated robotics are possible.
A quote from the article: "Logically, a box is measured from border to border. Take a physical box, any box. Put something in it that is distinctly smaller than the box. Ask anyone to measure the width of the box. He'll measure the distance between the sides of the box (the 'borders'). No one will think of measuring the content of the box."

I won't try to imagine the originator's reason for taking this view, but to me it undermines the reason for having a nonzero-width border between the inside of the box and the outside. I would have argued that the border of a CSS box is like the wall of a physical box, with an inside width and an outside width. Inside the border, we can adjust appearance with padding. Outside the border, we can adjust spacing between elements with margin. To a page designer, the "width" of the box should be the width of its interior.

Imagine a country that needs to establish the limits of its territory. There is a line on the maps between their territory and that of its neighbors. They decide to establish a border region, a finite-width "no man's land" (that only women can visit). Do they draw the "border" inside the established frontier, or outside it?

But these are all flawed arguments, and this is well-recognized in the container industry, who always specify a container's interior width, and an exterior width. To fill the box, one needs to know the interior width. To ship the box, one needs to know the exterior width. The difference is the wall thickness, and the corollary in CSS is the border width.

So the argument "Logically, a box is measured from border to border ..." is true, but would only be a useful description if the border had zero thickness.

But the argument that follows: "No one will think of measuring the content of the box", in which "content" is meant to contrast with "width", is obviously wrong -- to many, content size is exactly what measuring width means.

And as others have said here, it's far too late to be having this conversation. Standards must precede their application, not follow them.
What I learned so far is that Singaporean are well known to be "Kiasu".

I heard many stories from friends and parent friend's kids that working 10-12 hours a day is a norm and most business owners will squeeze the most out of them (them being mostly workers from abroad granted working visa).

Most business owners or locals know they got the upper hand.
Can guys in coffeeshops compete with celebrity entrepreneurs?
Personally I think that Growl will soon be a thing of the past. It is hard to beat a well integrated solution that Apple provides.
On a side note: I love the Macbook Air to death, but it's hardly the most silent set I've owned. There are quite a few complaints about the noise issues of the MBA, so be sure to check that out first.
What about the good old Swiss? Probably one of the strongest tech industries on the planet and (apart from banks doing biz in the good ol' US of A) rather uninterested in listening to other govt's.

Plus the skiing's great here :)
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In Germany exam periods are different. I actually like that change a lot! So maybe I can take part in that course this semester already!
Hi Will. Sure, you can use the standard invite form on the home page now, and we'll post a special HN sign-up form when we make the official announcement in the upcoming months.
Well at least we'll be able to track the moves of every politician that voted for this and show their paths on Google maps someday - until they vote exclusions for themselves.

Seriously, this is insanity.

One day soon they'll be able to track someone from birth to death, in realtime.
This wasn't possible in USA when they passed the Pro IP Act, just like they wanted to pass SOPA now. But people weren't aware of it, so it did pass. I'm afraid takedowns like these will continue until the Pro IP Act is repealed.

This is why it's so important citizens are aware of what goes on in Washington, and move to stop a bill if it's too dangerous. Because if it does pass, it will probably be a decade or more before people even start thinking about repealing a bad law. What's worse is by then, a few more bills will pass to enforce that one.
Maybe https://www.parse.com/ although that's more of an API-as-a-service.
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This is a fantastic resource. Thank you. A new quiet small fast PC is the preferred option (her current machine is a bit slow), but replacing the fan with a quiet fan is very much worth looking into. Thank you.
I was most impressed by his skill in controlling the vehicles. In one video he loads debris into a dump truck using a front loader with great fineness. I've rarely seen operators of 1:1 scale equipment work with such grace. You may not know it but it's very difficult to load a dump truck efficiently and safely.
Very often you don't have control over that. It might be managed by a different team of the organization or might be a poor product purchased by higher management. Or it could be a third party service. You have to code defensively.
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What makes SF so damn good is its ability to surprise and challenge us. Unfortunately, that's exactly what Hollywood has decided mainstream audiences are allergic to, so they recycle the same old tropes again and again. Anything new and interesting must be shoe-horned into the familiar shapes, or ignored.

For example, how many times have you seen this one: hero's buddy is brutally, callously murdered by generic bad-guy, he decides on revenge and possibly discovers some love-interest at the same time. He is nearly beaten, but by skill and courage wins through to triumph over the bad-guy, although not so conclusively as to preclude the making of a sequel.

That is basically the Hollywood plotline, with minor variations. It's present in anything from Avatar to Beverley Hills Cop. The really good Sci Fi makes a point of defying this cliché so it never gets to the screen. Given what happens to SF when it does make it (unrecognizable pulp) this is probably A Good Thing.
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There was an interesting talk at the wesolveforx conference dealing with imaging the mind's eye (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjbSEjOJL3U). These researchers are having their subjects watch hundreds of hours of youtube videos and recording their brain activity. They would then show them another brand new video while again observing their brain activity and pull up and juxtapose videos that the subject has seen previously and that activated the same parts of the brain as the new video. The similarity between the two video feeds is astounding. I wonder if a similar technique could be used for imaging dreams.
Out of pocket no more than $3000 for some of the best OB/GYN's and a standard labor. Maybe $1k more for a C section.

Also in the case of the kid born in the US, the insurance did pay what they said they would. We still ended up with around $10k in debt for a relatively uncomplicated pregnancy and childbirth.

Part of the problem though is that US health care is expensive. It's not just insurance. It's not just the idea that single payer would be cheaper (I am not sure it would necessarily be--- the devil is in the details), but rather it is the fact that everything is stacked against the consumer, against the doctor as an individual, and towards the direction of big companies (big pharma, insurance, textbook publishers, etc). The only thing a single payer system brings to the table (and most such systems are a world away from anything the US would consider even if such a plan was on the table---- for example, Canada has separate systems per province, and in Denmark everything is run by local governments) is some counterbalance by the collective consumers against such a model.

To give you an idea of how much more expensive it is in the US than in anywhere else, if medical care cost the same in the US as it did in Canada or the UK, what the government currently spends (on government employees, on the VA, on Medicare and Medicaid) would be enough to fully cover every American.

So why is it so expensive? Could it be monopoly/oligopoly interests? Conspiracies against market transparency on the part of medical service providers and insurers? Regulatory games? All of the above? I suggest it is, in fact, all of the above.
everyone who's used to it now, will eventually die

True, but there's a continuity of already-written code and learning, both from those alive now and from that already-written code, that keeps things that aren't sufficiently bothersome from getting changed.
There are good reasons to incorporate in US states like Delaware, it is not coincidence that so many (non-YC) tech companies are incorporated there. Note that you incorporate in US states, not in "the US", and states offer very different jurisdictions. Here is a quick explanation of why selection of corporate jurisdiction is important:

1) You want to select a jurisdiction that has clean, flexible, and stable set of corporate laws that have already been through judicial review. This provides a robust foundation for corporate structure with few legal unknowns or political risks.

2) Important for investors, the corporate laws must be fair to all parties involved. For example, a jurisdiction with corporate laws that allow a minority shareholder or employee to screw the majority shareholders or hold the company hostage is bad and greatly increases investor risk. There are many jurisdictions that are like this, even in the US. It is one of the reasons you never see tech companies incorporated in California, for example, even though Silicon Valley is there.

3) A jurisdiction that operates under English Common Law is convenient because it is the common basis of contract law used in business, particularly if it involves parties in multiple jurisdictions. Delaware is a nice example of such a jurisdiction with a long, sane, and mature judicial history.

Jurisdictions like Delaware are among the very best in the world for everyone involved if you are building an investor-backed business. Startups that are not incorporated there often have to reincorporate in a place like Delaware as a condition of investment. It is all about having a stable, scalable, and fair set of legal rules on which to build the company.

The average startup faces much more risk from being in a poor jurisdiction than whatever risk you perceive from being incorporated in the US. Investors know this and proper jurisdiction selection is an inexpensive way of reducing the total risk to startup success.
Unbelievable! Never thought that someone who points out to be a web designer could do this.
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Sorry, not "sites", "countries". Do other countries have safe harbour laws like USA?
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academicearth.org, youtube.com/edu, thenewboston.com (programming). All are video-based, though.
Ripe bananas are yellow, but painting a green banana yellow does not ripen it.

You're making a huge assumption here that the way someone's mind works is fixed and unalterable. I don't believe this. I think, and have some personal experience here, that you can change the way you think about things, the way you approach things, etc. And you can certainly develop the way successful people look at the world.

I actually think the banana metaphor is excellent: a certain technique may not work for person A, who thinks about the world in A way. But, that person can work to change their mind, to ripen, and eventually see the world close to the way that person B does.
As you pointed out, (of-course?) celebrity is an enormous edge in building start-up traction in a social product offering, just as it is in most if not all other domains that require building external support to achieve a goal. An edge is just an edge though; it neither guarantees success for celebrities nor failures for non-celebrities. As someone that's struggled for a long time with how to seed a social network this seems pretty obvious to me and I agree it's a solution to the chicken-and-egg problem of kicking off a social site that you and I can't really compete with. We would have to win on product in a space where celebrity-type reach is not a requirement to creating value for the initial user base (i.e., a smaller chicken-and-egg problem vs. a larger one).
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They showed a lot of them grouped together into a sheet towards the end of the video, so I assume the hexagon was just a prototype or made specifically for demonstration. Although if you're talking about margins between them on the sheet, I'm not sure.
When I'm lining up trucks to fit in the lot?

The outside dimension.
> Big Tobacco doesn't sell ecigs, yet anyhow

That makes you even more dangerous than if you sold regular cigarettes, because e-cigs have the potential to change the game - to change their entire industry. And big companies hate it when the industry has to radically change from a model that worked for decades.
>Adopting IE's approach here then might have told Microsoft "you can do whatever you want with IE and we'll adjust the standards to make it legal".

No, making an exception for this one case won't send that message. No one is telling them to change the standards for the rest of the quirks, many of which are arbitrary or just convention.
> How does it feel to be not earning that time ?

You are earning during this study time, you are earning through a long term investment in yourself.
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Not in years; supporting family and loving it!