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Religion? Minding its own business? Anybody with the ability to read a history textbook or pick up a newspaper can see what religion's about. The major religions of the world (Christianity, Islam, Hinduism) have been responsible for mass murders among other crimes in the past. Even today people are killed/maimed in the name of religion in a lot of countries. Human progress is stifled in the name of religion. People can't exercise certain rights because the religious won't let them. The world would be a better place without religion.

(I know there are so many intelligent religious people who've contributed more to society and science than most of us probably will but in my opinion it's hard to ignore something that you've been brainwashed into believing as a child. I think these people would have been just as awesome if they were born in a world devoid of religion)

Edit: I don't approve of Anonymous' activities. I don't think defacing websites solves anything. I just didn't agree with your argument that Anonymous is targetting a bunch of people who're harmlessly minding their own business.
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Is this really news to anyone? I remember the announcement of the 1997 investment. The press statements and coverage at that time said that the investment was one aspect of an agreement to settle all IP-related claims between the two companies.

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-202143.html
At first glance I thought it was referring to a rival for the itunes marketplace for jailbroken ipads...

..but who would want to do that! Silly me!
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Any field that produces only one metric will find people optimizing on it. Eventually the metric loses it's value. This is true in teaching, programming, and most everything. Life's not so one dimensional.
I don't think its such a bad idea but you're effectively asking people to make an effort view ads. If you're after interactive ads then it might be more interesting to use something like Kinect to provide interactive advertising at shops. For eg as people walk past a store you can have 3d characters on the screen pointing at them and interacting in some fashion.
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Kinect-like sensors are going to improve very quickly (http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/29/2834088/samsung-camera-sen...), as are SLAM algorithms using Kinect-like data. High cost isn't necessarily a problem for this application, as one team of copters could map many facilities. Computing power can be mostly centralized at a base station that can be as beefy as you want. Certainly a commercial product is years rather than months away, but I think even this limited demo could already be useful for e.g. mapping the nuclear reactors at Fukushima.
Second only to: "Simple, you just revert to your most recent complete backup"
Theoretically speaking, in every conceivable world, would the users not trust the companies who steal their data. However, practically speaking, users trust the companies who "steal" their data so long as that data is not publicized/leaked. In fact, I would argue as much that most users know that there is information being collected of them that they are not aware of, and they have accepted it because they haven't seen huge negative consequences in their personal life or in the media that make them worried of the collection of their information.

In my opinion, it would have to take a data breach of the likes of katrina, tsunami 2004 and BP oil spill all within a few weeks for users to get hammered with the point that they should be more concerned about what is happening with their data.

Having said that, there will always be a small group who would be up in arms about the simple act of stealing whether a negative consequence follows or not. And kudos to them for they are doing a service to us all by keeping an eye on these companies.

The point that I am trying to get across is that the history of the web along with the time consuming nature of reading huge agreements has led to users entering into social contracts of trust with these companies. They could care less about how much you try to alert them. Companies can continue to take one action after another to alert the users of all that the things company will do and the user will merely see that has an obstacle to get to the app and therefore will simply accept/agree robotically and move on. Why?

Users behave in herd mentality, respond to only the most imminent of threats or fear of extremely dire potential consequences. If they see everyone else doing something they will do it too, even if that means you get them to agree to very stiff contracts. They will simply accept it as a way of life and move on.

When creating privacy policies, companies play this balancing act. What to constantly alert a user about, how many of them will actually care, we as a company know that all their data will be protected and not used criminally anyway?

Whatever path, facebook, twitter and others do with our data is irrelevant to most users so long as most of their trusted circles are doing it too. It just isn't a big issue for them as they maneuver around other pressing issues in their lives. Kudos to those few who have made it a big issue and have kept these companies at their toes. Their effort is worth commending and appreciating, and not mocking as has been done by others.
Ask HN: Getting Vitamin D from Mushrooms
Being a hacker and living in the Pacific Northwest, I don't get enough sun and am probably deficient in vitamin-d. I have read some articles that say mushrooms produce a healthy dose of vitamin-d when exposed to ultraviolet light. Is it just a matter of buying a blacklight and shining it on regular mushrooms that I get from the local grocery store for some period of time, before I cook them up?
I haven't seen mushrooms advertised as UV-enhanced or high-in-vitamin-d in any of the stores I normally shop at, so I'm considering the do-it-yourself strategy.
Not entirely sure, but I believe this represents someone willing to sell 1 BTC for $1,337,000,000,000.00, where all sell orders in the order book add up to 272981 BTC and USD$1,405,085,033,491
Even though the effect can be used terribly, I love these scrolling/animating websites. This one is by far the nicest one I've seen too.
I'd be more interested in "X is broken" posts. A few of those seem to pop up every day.
Amen to that. I couldn't have said it any better. I have been arguing the same thing - history of the web and these companies have been a pretty clean one.
I'm not sure if I've been sensitised to PR weasel-wording that these things tend to gather (and get blasted for in HN comments), but it's quite refreshing to see something as blunt as "We apologize for our failure to maintain an adequate level of security on our public Slicehost forum, and for any inconvenience this may cause you."

No "mistakes were made", or "We're sorry if you're unhappy about this issue" or any of the other Non-apology apologies[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-apology_apology#The_Perfec...
It is not okay in the legal sense. But it has been given a green light far too many times by tacit approval of the users who could care less so long as the info is not leaked.
I vaguely recall something from some sociology/linguistics/critical-reasoning thing I read once, but cannot recall the context or if there was a name given to it.

It was discussed as a subconscious (sometimes) way to shift blame away from the speaker as an attempt to not violate (or lessen the violation of) some social norm.

Almost seems like a cross between hedging and an assurance expression ("Everyone knows that..." or "Any seasoned developer would....").

Wish I could remember more. :/
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Meh. It happened before. Apple obviously doesn’t care at all.
Totally. We planned on having a case review section on our website but never got around to it.

The obvious choice of otter box came in first: http://www.amazon.com/OtterBox-APL2-IPAD1-20-C4ATT-Defender-...

Second best ipad case was the gumdrop:
http://www.amazon.com/Gumdrop-Cases-Drop-Red-Black-DS-IPAD2-...

The otterbox had a stand that people liked (even though it made a clunky cover) and the gumdrop one was great for full coverage (and much better made than the griffin competitors).

Our users weren't as big of a fan but speck:
http://www.amazon.com/Speck-Products-HandyShell-Case-SPK-A02...

made our personal favorite. Not as much protection but the stand / carabineer functionality is great!
I created a similar open source project that lets you host a blog powered by your Google+ profile: https://github.com/lylepratt/Plusify
Aren't you forgetting diffraction?
The idea was really meant to take on things like QR code which people really use know as the medium drive people attention from the real world to the digital. Is it really that much of a leap to say people would treat this product the same or is there not enough inncentive.
On occasion I've idly wondered about what would happen if you started enforcing a relatively strict '1 in, 1 out' policy.

There must be plenty of crap on the books that either is completely outdated, subsumed by other more recent statutes, or could be implemented as an amendment to another item.

Extreme refactoring! (also potentially life imprisonment if you fail a test-case)
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It's not that people feel entitled to paying extremely low prices. People will just go with the cheapest option. I don't go with cheaper options because I feel entitled. I go with cheaper options because I want to save money.

They once did create expensive gadgets no one could afford. Macs used to cost a lot more than PCs. Then Apple moved labor overseas, started pricing their products competitively, and now they have the highest market cap.
Note the use of "Slicehost" though. This is a Rackspace forum, installed, managed, and administered by Rackspace engineers.

If you read that release on any other website, you would have no clue whatsoever that this was a Rackspace forum.
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Thanks, and I agree with you. The photo space is over saturated. But my app isn't a photo app. My app will have an element of nostalgia to it. It will let people remember important events and moments in there lives. It will trigger one of the strongest human emotions. So I don't like to think of my app as a photo app, it provides a token, a window into someone's past. Do you see what I am saying? It will be a very tough app to make, and will only work if I do it right. But that is my goal, and hopefully I can achieve it.
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I have no choice: i block Tor exits by IP. Why? Scammers use Tor to pass country filtering...

One of our customer found out that his ip was in our fraud log because his exit was use by African/Eastern European scammers. He suddenly realised that Tor was not only a free speach vector but also a tool used to scammers. Also that in case of ip identification he would have to deal with the police...
He shut his exit down...
A little old now, so you might miss this. Anyway, here's my take: There's a difference between rational selfishness, which entails considering all the options and choosing the one that most benefits you (as you describe), and rash selfishness, which is simply acting for one's own immediate gain without thought for others. Both share the same motivation, that is, maximizing one's own gain.

Whereas the rash selfish person does this without regard for other people at all, the rationally selfish person does this with regard only for himself, but knowing that other people are key to his own gains and seeking to maximize same through others. Thus someone who wanted to be loved could well be rationally selfish in seeking out a mate and forging a good relationship with them.
I was taught it in the context of Haggai, a book that would have been known by both Jesus and the Pharisees:

2:8 - "The silver is mine and the gold is mine, saith the Lord.

Great answer to a trick question.
> So it's either adapt or get a real job.

I'd rather adapt.
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I wouldn't hesitate to put it on a CV. First, an entry would have to be really bad to be worse than a big unexplained gap. Second, startups go under all the time and everyone understands that this is more likely than not. If anything a potential employer would realize this has given you a useful bit of experience (but of course you should be ready to talk about what you learned). The only way it could be negative is if it was widely known that the product failed due to poor engineering (assuming you are an engineer), but this doesn't seem to be the case here.
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This is interesting. As someone who works in this space (building hospitals) we see a lot of trending movement to the iPad, though I question the longevity of PDFs.

We have a software suite for the construction industry, which has modules for inspection requests, punch-lists, occupancy planning (healthcare), room completion (healthcare), room readiness (healthcare) etc.

We also have a service around providing custom reports... however, we find that the need for dynamic data trumps the ability to simply view the latest plan digitally, i.e. we provide the ability to run a dynamic report on all inspections scheduled, performed, outstanding, etc... As well as the need to run a report that would "Show me all the rooms that have a Medication Dispensation Unit, on level two and assigned to unit Med Surge" - which outputs a colorized visio (or ZUI iPad floorplan).

The future is in granularity of reporting, rather than just blanket display, and I think this is a great step. Especially if you have many trades begining to use it. There is no reason the trades can't run multiple apps for specific purposes.

Although, I am not sure I agree with one number in the article; "For $1MM in construction, you can have as much as $3,500 in printing" -- I am only skeptical as I work on projects in the hundreds of millions (1.5B, 850MM, 800MM 100MM are the budgets for my (personally) active projects) I dont see them spending 3MM on printing for the 850MM project... but I might just not be privy to the numbers from every trade.

Here is an example of a dynamic room category report for an active project here in SF. We colorize the rooms based on type/use to familiarize the org with the spaces http://i.imgur.com/2DRah.jpg - We do a great deal more with the data and reports, this is just an example of many that the orgs use. Hospital transition planning is very complex, and costly. The vitals of the facility change a lot through the life of the project. The issue with educating THOUSANDS of people in prep for opening day such that they can SAFELY receive their first patient is critical.

Being able to very quickly synthesize and summarize vast amounts of information makes for a better, more successful project and a better, more educated and prepared staff.

Remember that while there are hundreds of people on a project team, there are thousands of people on the facility staff who are expected to move into the facility day-one and not cause fatal mistakes.

A project I am doing in Texas is 1.5MM square feet and dynamic, item-level granularity reporting is going to be key in the smooth success of the project.

I would love to see what PlanGrid can offer such large projects - and while I am a full proponent of the iPad in the field, in an industry where cost is king, I'd like to better understand how they convince construction companies of the ROI - esp. when tools and materials walk of the job all the time.

I think that Plangrid should talk to the designers (not just architects) as well; RTKL, Mazzetti, TEECOM, RLS, SMWM, SFM, etc...

If PlanGrid (love the name) wants to talk to me - my email is in my profile.
Before or after they went public? If before, that strikes me as the kind of thing the SEC would frown upon.
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Just make sure to find out these numbers, so you font go into a market where value is below cost.
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Sure, but I'm afraid it'll be disappointing: I just used pen and paper. It was a good pen, though. :-)
Some current research suggests that ADHD (including the non-hyperactive form) has a lot to do with working memory capacity. Variations on short-term memory games like Simon appear to improve symptoms when used in a regulated way.

There is a Dr administered set called Cogmed that has some good data backing it up. There are also products by Posit Science and Lumocity.
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As a Windows phone user myself, I will be happy if you can support IE. I am not asking you to make decisions based on IE support but if you can support IE with only little tweaks to your iPhone/Andoid codebase, I would recommend you to do that. If it works in desktop IE9 it will work in mobile IE9.
I think its an excellent idea. But,Codecademy tries to teach to people who have never programmed before. Yours makes more sense if the target is someone who already has experience in programming, and is introduced to a new technology.
Did you work with another developer named Jed? He was working on some search stuff for Beyond Oblivion I believe. He's actually my neighbor and we often talked about the stuff he was working on. I was shocked when I first heard the news. It sounded like you were working on some cool stuff and seemed really excited about where it was going. Seems like it came as as surprise to many.
They probably do have zero say if they don’t commit to buying ten million or so per quarter.

I don’t think you quite understand how big that difference is. Lenovo sells half as many laptops as Apple sells iPads per quarter. That’s not laptops with one screen size and resolution, that’s six million laptops with wildly varying screen sizes and resolutions.

Apple has one iPad with one model of screen†. They sell millions per quarter and consequently need millions of identical screens per quarter. They have billions of Dollars with which they can pay upfront. Apple can pay LG one billion Dollars per quarter (that’s about as much as ten million iPad screens cost) upfront and wouldn’t even notice it all that much. Lenovo has less revenue, a lot less profit, a lot less cash reserves than Apple.

Lenovo sells many different laptops with many different screen sizes and resolutions. Many people probably do want 16:10 or 16:9 screens. They could probably sell substantially less than one million laptops with a 4:3 screen to a few weird nerds – and they would probably need 4:3 screens in different sizes and resolutions. That is certainly harder than what Apple has to do.

Apple can because Apple is unique. Their position allows them to do stuff like that.

—

† After next Wednesday they might have two.
It's not a precedent. Illinois is the only state in the U.S. with a law this bad. http://www.pixiq.com/article/illinois-judge-latest-to-deem-w...
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I can't view the video, so I'm not sure if it's straight up transcription error, or just confusion, but:

the length of wire that is as long as light can travel in
one nanosecond. The length is a very portable 11.8 inches.
A microseconds worth of wire is a still portable, but a
much bulkier 984 feet.

<snip>

Understanding the profligate ways of programmers, she
suggests that every programmer wear a necklace of a
microseconds worth of wire

(Emph mine) I can see ~12" as a perfectly reasonable necklace length, but ~100 yards? Seems like a bit of a pain in the neck.

[Edit:] After a bit of playing around with Wolfram Alpha, it seems that a microsecond of AWG#40 copper would weigh only ~14 grams. But at 0.08mm, or around half the thickness of a hair, it's going to be a bit fragile.

Using a more reasonable #28 (0.3mm) wire comes in at 220g, which is definitely on the high side for a necklace.

And woe betide anyone using gold!
Ritalin taker here. The other day I was on vitamin R and noticed for a twentieth of a second that someone started a vacuum cleaner while I was focussing on something boring. Ten minutes later I was still going strong and notice that so is the vacuum cleaner.

It's strong stuff.
This article doesn't mention a very important and very relevant point (maybe they assume everyone is aware):

Valve are also the developer and publisher of some of the most popular video game titles around. This puts them in an exceptionally good position to build something like this because with the backing of some of their own titles (For example releasing Half Life 3 as a "Steam Box" exclusive) would immediately encourage sales. Portal, Portal 2, Left 4 Dead, Half life and Team Fortress 2 are all hugely popular Valve games and their platform "Steamworks" is again used by some huge names, Call of Duty, Football Manager, the list goes on. They have their platform directly integrated with a large amount of popular games and a lot of new releases go with Steam for their PC releases.

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Perhaps you have different ideas about what racism is? Originally it meant to consider certain races inferior.
One of my favorite quotes, from Lee Unkrich of Pixar: "We don’t ever finish a film, I could keep on making it better. We’re just forced to release it." http://m.wired.com/magazine/2010/05/process_pixar/all/1

Pixar is such an inspiring company when it comes to creativity, innovation, and values. If you've never seen the excellent documentary "The Pixar Story", I highly recommend it.
>Pixar’s teams are ultimately a collaboration of creative people and software engineers.

Grrr.
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