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I found the exact same thing, especially since they (finally) implemented the Access Point "tethering", it drains more battery but is incredibly convenient and simple to setup.

Once upon a time, I used the very first iPhone proxy application (NetShare), it was significantly more fiddly than native support. And of course you couldn't use the phone while it proxied, that's not an issue with native support.
A good laugh.
"We will have to find some sort of tax system that makes it possible for those who can't participate in the elite to also live their lives"

Rather than a tax system that gives them pretty much no incentive to get a job (if you were essentially paid to do whatever you wanted to do, would you want to get a job?), it would probably be better to have government enforced jobs (IE: you want money from the government, you need to work for them until you find a regular job. Otherwise, you get nothing).
I think that purpose designed hardware at the $25 price point is a radically different proposition than a second hand netbook for 4 times the price (because you sure can't get a new Intel netbook for that price).

It does hold a magical property over all the platforms you've mentioned: price. At $25 it's close to disposable, whereas I'm going to look after a $90 BeagleBoard.
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Let the users recruit their babysitters into the service, then select from among them when arranging dates.
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Facebook and Google have improved the daily lives of billions of people. Tesla Motors' electric car? Very impressive and a lot of promise, but so far all it's done is increase the self-satisfaction of ~1000 people.

The same could be told about computer in the 1950's, I am talking about the famous misquote : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Watson#Famous_misquot...

there was a world market for maybe five computers

If fossil fuels aren't going drive cars in the future its going to be something else. Fuel cells or Electricity.

If IBM had thought or if any body else would have thought how difficult it was to create computing power to derive any meaningful value. We wouldn't be having computers today.
We are talking about live servers. Monitoring should detect server going down, raising suspicion of a physical attack.

The evil maid attack would be useful against the system admin's workstation. Securing NOCs is beyond the scope of this discussion, but it is not difficult.
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Economics != economic activity (at least in the context you are using it).

TheCowboy is right: Economics is still at its heart the study of the problem of scarcity.
Good interview with Zach - I didn't realize that he lived in Maine.

I have mostly switched my Lisp development from Common Lisp to Clojure because that is what a customer wanted and now I am hooked on Clojure, but when do I use Common Lisp Zach's Quicklisp package management and installation system is very nice to use - I wish he had written it many years ago. In case you haven't tried Quicklisp yet: http://www.quicklisp.org/
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The point of the contest, from Google's perspective, is to discover vulnerabilities so that they can patch them. Allowing teams to find vulnerabilities in code Google doesn't control does not serve that purpose.
Valid argument, but we have a clear example that it is wrong.

Humans.

A lot of what we do is driven by internal value calculations and pleasure centers, so why aren't we all simply taking drugs and avoiding all this messy "doing things" business?

Point is, if humans figured out a way of avoiding purely pressing the right buttons to enjoy themselves and actually being useful, so too will smart robots.
>of continuing to manufacture and sell

I'm not sure that's true longterm, as much as "getting rid of old inventory"
The problem is that an outdated, unsandboxed version of Flash is installed on almost every desktop system. So, if we stopped including Flash, the vast majority of our users would be more vulnerable than they already are. That's why we're shipping a current version with a sandbox that's at least as good as IE low integrity mode, and we're also wrapping up work on a version of Flash that uses the full Chrome sandbox.
There are a lot of examples... Basically things that have a clear cost and no clear benefit (or the benefit is so far down the line and so risky that it's basically a lottery ticket).

Sacrificing all your social life for your business... rarely pays off. If you're not mentally and socially healthy, you probably won't be building a successful business.

Sacrificing your career for a startup... if the startup fails, you should still be coming out of it with a stronger CV (if that's still relevant) than you went in. However you measure it, the startup should give you more than the "I did a startup" experience even if it fails.

Saying "I don't have the time to learn X because I'm too busy doing things" is usually a good sign that you're in a self-sacrificing mindset.

Taking a significant loan/mortgage to cofound your first business, with the idea that "I'll make it back later" - that's a self-sacrifice mindset, and likely to decrease your "score".

Pulling all nighters when working for someone else, without some very clear immediate tangible (and sufficiently valuable) benefit - typical symptom of self-sacrifice. Success-minded people will save their energy for the right kind of situation that has clear benefits to themselves as well as to their employer. Those who constantly burn themselves out may well achieve success - once they learn to stop doing that.

Concrete examples from my life:

- Staying involved full-time in a venture that I didn't believe in anymore because I felt I'd be letting my cofounder down. I don't think that did him any favours either. I should have left earlier.

- Going to work even though I was on strong doses of Solpadeine+Ibuprofene just to keep my 39-degree fever down (I had a tonsil infection), because "the project needed me" - and the same for working on that project on weekends. No positive difference made to my life 5 years later (but probably some health aftereffects waiting for me a few decades down the line).

- Taking on costs I didn't need to in order to "be nice" - generally that's rarely ever appreciated or even noticed. "Les bons comptes font les bons amis", as they say in French (good accounts make good friends).
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I can key morse code at 40wpm with two muscles. With one hand I can chord at 120wpm. On a stenowriter I can transcribe about as quickly as most people can read - 250wpm.

I've invested an extraordinary amount of effort into improving the speed at which I can interface with a computer; I think the practical limit is about 300 baud, half-duplex.

Of course, we're trying to establish an interface with a bafflingly complex lump of grey meat, but are we really daunted by the idea of outpacing a V.21 modem?
Should really be titled 'Building an HTML5 game using Impact'.

I didn't see any multiplayer, Node, or Socket.io specific discussion in the videos.
No, if 10 predictions each have a 10% chance of a false positive, you will always have on average 1 false positive. Whether you test them on the same data or not doesn't matter (unless 10 predictions test the same thing, of course.)

What you need is a control sample that you know should be negative, so you can actually measure the false positive rate. (But with a sufficiently large base sample, you can look for correlations in small subsamples and use the whole sample as a control.)
It's not a disease which causes children to die of diarrhea, it's inadequate sanitation. That's right: exposure to human waste.
> Many people think it makes sense to sacrifice everything for some elusive success that's waiting a few years down the line when their startup makes it big.

Yep, it's a sucker's bet. You only get one shot at life, and you should be living it, not dreaming of the day when you can. And big things promised in the future have a funny way of not actually arriving.
Just as an opposing data point, I have two small kids and would have no qualms about that at all.
No, they die because they are ignorant of sanitation and therefore don't have any. Have you read anything on the subject, or are you just assuming?

Secondly, there is certainly money to be made in solving the problem, if you're not a truly lazy thinker who bases his conclusions off what he hears in TV news soundbites:

http://www.gizmag.com/go/4418/

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/15/clean-water-...

http://www.waterforpeople.org/programs/how-we-work/initiativ...

http://www.unwater.org/downloads/Sanitationisabusiness.pdf

http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/family/green-inventors-solar-sa...

Lastly, I'm sure that TOMS and Warby Parker would be interested to hear that there's no money in helping poor people gain access to shoes or glasses, as well.
why aren't we all simply taking drugs and avoiding all this messy "doing things" business

Some of us are, but that is also self-limiting. If too many of us did it we'd start dying out.
BTW, if you work on OS X, and you want to get a good "IDE like" Common Lisp environment setup quickly, just install Clozure Common Lisp from Apple's AppStore (free), install Quicklisp, and set an alias like:

alias ClozureCL='/Applications/Clozure\ CL.app/Contents/MacOS/dx86cl64 &'

so you can quickly start the IDE in any directory.
I'm curious. How does that work? You transform the film action into 3D and can then manipulate the animation?

The video on AngelList looks like just a rendering demo, and I can't find any other references.
The funny thing about successful people is they are treated with great respect, while the college drop-out, street musician or starving artist doesn't get taken seriously -- until -- they become successful. And all of a sudden they can charge a nice sum for a day of talking or doing the same things they for years while mostly ignored. People love to hand out accolades, money, responsibility and respect to the same people they ignored for a long time -- after they are successful.
Why does it seem odd?
totally agree. If we the hackers/devs are getting confused, I can't imagine the confusion the common android phone user is having.
The fact the author can think of one particular way to design an AI that would result it in falling over and dying once it figures out how to modify itself does not imply that all possible intelligences would behave similarly. Somehow, humans are able to "want to be happy" while still refusing to take heroin or pain killers, and we have no reason yet to believe that AI is fundamentally unable to grasp this distinction between "stuff I care about" and "the different stuff I would care about if I changed my own design".
We are driven by multiple different value system. e.g. I am extremely curious to know if god's existence can or can not be proved scientifically. I can go to great length to know it, I do not give a damn about money. On the other hand, there are people who do not give damn about god and can go to great length for money. So Humanity can not go towards single goal. Some of them could go for shortcut and are going.
Electric aviation and space launch. See our web-site, http://electrictakeoff.com, for details. We are looking for collaborators, co-founders, volunteers, etc.

I agree with PG that ambitious startups are better. However, I think engineers should focus on sectors where the customers are dissatisfied. Aviation seems like a good candidate. Most people dislike oil dependence also.

Tactically, we are aiming to fly advertising banners as a short-term path to revenue. The next market would be air freight with prices lower than diesel trucking. Passengers would come last after the technology is proven.
Obviously it's anecdotal, but a large portion of my friend circle have met their partners online, and there's been a strong word of mouth component there. For instance, I met my girlfriend on OkCupid, which she was only on because a few of her friends had just found boyfriends/girlfriends on the site and she figured she'd give it a shot.
And if you do keep notes in Anki, please publish and share[0] them so that others can use them to study from.

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I did on my older MacbookPro5,1. It didn't even seem like I dislodged much dust, but it made a huge difference. Now the fans don't go above 3-4000 rpm even with the cpu pegged, which is quiet. Before it would consistently spin the fan at max speed even with modest cpu use. This old beast is far quieter under load than the new MacBook Air 13" I had for a week and returned.
It feels a little strange now knowing that when I'm browsing fokelore.org that I'm accessing a server in his basement.
Not exactly. For big outages like this, both Google and Amazon provide bigger refunds.

When Amazon's elastic block store was down, they credited back 10 days of service.

http://aws.amazon.com/message/65648/

And Google offers a 99.95% SLA for App Engine which refunds 10%, 25% or 50% of the total monthly bill if uptime falls below 99.95%, 99.00% or 95.00% respectively.

http://code.google.com/appengine/sla.html
Well yes. That was exactly my point. Nobody should have to do that. On the tail end just because it's unnecessary tedium. On the fat end because it's hard to do.
One other aspect that is probably lurking below the surface and many of you may know but aren't focused on is that many people become a little bit successful and stop taking the risks of new endeavors. With the idea that the greatest successes are typically built on smaller successes, we also must be aware when we've found a success that placates our desires for even greater endeavors. Be happy with the things you've done(that great job, the nice house, etc) but don't stop using your current success as a building block for the next just because your current success is comfortable.
It seems the my numbers are rebounding and slowly creeping back to normal.

Especially since my app has a large user base outside of the US, I'd assume the sudden switch to PLAY was even more confusing for them.
And if everyone took a shower at the same time?

This is just scare mongering.

Also, the famous slogan was "The network is the computer", not "The internet is the computer". That was Sun Microsystem's tagline or slogan. Given that "The Internet" really isn't a single technology (except maybe with respect to TCP/IP, but even that's changing as IPv6 makes its way in) or even a single network, why are we fear mongering about this right now? Between Anonymous turning off The Internet, and China's Water Army disrupting USA in-flight refueling ops, one has to wonder if a coordinated PR campaign isn't taking place.
I know a couple who uses Groupon in this way. They get to try a new restaurant or experience, and they feel like they got a deal too!
Human civilization is currently limited to planet Earth with a few minor exceptions, so it makes sense to consider it one big system.

Actually it makes sense to consider all life as one big system. It was created by the planet itself, so, who knows we might even have to ascribe motivations to the planet. It's as if the planet (kind of like Lem's Solaris) has been brewing organisms for millions of years in order to do something with them . We might not be able to conceive these purposes with our antrhropomorphic thinking.

So, the human race is now coming to the point where it can modify and advance itself by tinkering with its own circuits. What we don't know is 1) what the planet plans to do with us and b) what are its movitivation and reward signals. It's not explained in the article how the AI knows what are the reward signals of its creator or why it would ever want to change them.
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I'm not sure humans are a counterexample. Drugs don't generally relieve the need to work to buy food, and most serious drug addicts don't look as though they enjoying themselves.
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Fuck landing pages that ask me for my email without giving me any info about what the app actually is.
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I have said for a while that no incentives is better than wrong incentives for a while now.
It might not have to do with "figuring it out", in the case of humans it's natural selection: individuals who choose to stimulate their reward centers only had much lower probability of reproducing. (like mice who stimulate their nucleus accumbens till they starve to death)
I love the way the examples are shown on this website. Very clear and compelling way to demonstrate the issues that come with colourblindness.

A simple heuristic I use is to think about a display in black and white. There should be a way to clearly distinguish or establish contrast between two items (ie. pattern fills in charts)
Ask HN: Who is interested in exclusive app deals
Hi,

My name is Alin and for a couple of weeks now I'm working on a litle project - AppsFolder [http://appsfolder.myshopify.com] a simple way to find new web and desktop apps!

I've already had 1 exclusive offer - that sold only 1 deal - and now I've managed to roll out the second offer!

My problem is that I don't have so much trafic so people can see what I'm offering - and I just wanted to ask you:
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Thank you so much for your time!
The same arguments were raised the last time something like this happened.

And while it is true that a farmer can go to work in a factory there is very, very little overlap between these two professions (could a factory worker go tend a farm and survive? Unlikely) -- just as there is little overlap between cleaning toilets and being a cashier in a shop.

Oh and cashiers are not going to be replaced by the same AI that can clean a bathroom, do the dishes and wipe the floor.
Oh dear, how embarrassing. I really should have done more research on pink ponies before making a comment. Lesson learned!
How overpriced is education in America?

I went to UBC (British Columbia, Canada) and the tuition cost as of today is $400+ per course. If a student enrols to 12 courses/year that comes down to $4800/year or $19.2k/4-years. Less than $5k/year is probably not too bad for a mid-tier University (e.g.: not MIT level).

Of course "not to bad" is because I compared it with our 2 weeks Caribbean escapade last year where we spent probably between $4k to $5k in total for 2 people. Or a ticket price, round-trip, flying to Indonesia that cost around $1.5k+/person during "shoulder season".

As a side note: Microsoft offers interns about $5k/month for 3-months (or 4-months, depending on your program). If interns can live frugally in Seattle/Redmond (corporate housing with roommate), they probably can afford to pay 1-2 years worth of education from one internship period.
Solving first world problems gets you first world ROI. Y-Combinator is an investment firm. I'm not judging, I don't have a dog in the fight. But I'm pretty sure that's why you don't see stuff like stopping brown outs in rural sub-Saharan Africa on this list. There's no first-world money in it.
The overlooked point here is, We do not have any control over how we build next generation. We have a little control by teaching them. The example author gave assumes each generation having lots of control over the next generation, and hence figured out what bugs them and solved it. I do not think we know what bugs us. For some people other people having different religions bugs them, so they kill them and be happy. For some people unknown unified theory bugs them, they will not be happy till it found. So It is not possible to find universal solution to different problem. But It could happen that people with similar problem join a group and find a shortcut way of being happy, without the problem being solved.
"...at that time the economy of the United States will be going down and the next boat people will be Americans leaving America looking for work abroad."

Jacques Attali in his 1990 book "Millennium: Winners and Losers in the Coming World Order"

Still quite relevant, though I'd alter the quote to say "virtual boat people" since jobs are turning out ot be anywhere where you have an internet connection.
People need attention and affection. That's probably one of the basic human needs to survive (long-term not short-term).

That's not to say that people are crazy for attention...
Here's another tip: I'm African, and I don't understand what you are talking about here. Maybe the next entertainment innovation should force global scale...
Your app icon looks like Pinterest's, but otherwise it looks great, will be trying it out in a jiffy.
I like it. Intelligence more defer at Hope, Anger and Desire than at Innovativeness.
I think that for voting to work well it has to be completely anonymous. So you can vote the way you want and nobody can prove you voted for the wrong guy.

Otherwise your Friendly Neighborhood Thug can drop by the day before the election and kindly ask everybody to vote B. He'll come back the day after the election to check the receipts and punish those who didn't vote the right way.
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We're building a site that relies heavily on user-generated content. Pinterest has a great example of how to write terms in a legally-correct but overly-draconian-sounding way (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3677393). I want to do better.

What are some great UGC sites with friendly, understandable, hey-the-lawyers-made-us-say-this-but-YOU-own-your-content terms?
For a second I figured it was going to be called SwingWithUs, a VC-backed site where wife-swapping becomes fashionable.
I assure you that's not limited to the college drop out, street musician and starving artist.

I don't think most people are taken seriously until they're successful. You're typically going to be valued based on how other people value you. It's why networks become so powerful (such as YC or Ron Conway). That's sometimes an effective system regarding efficiency of time (faster due diligence); and sometimes it's bogus when the reputation is wrong (either direction). Sometimes it accelerates innovation by getting the right people the right resources; sometimes it holds back innovation by ignoring potential buried under a non-existent reputation. The difference between being in one camp versus the other is often how hard (and intelligently) you work to get noticed. On the up side, once you're in, you're usually golden, the work to get noticed pays off.
> The problem is that an outdated, unsandboxed version of Flash is installed on almost every desktop system.

Don't use it.

> So, if we stopped including Flash, the vast majority of our users would be more vulnerable than they already are.

Prompt to use a specific Flash when the user requests it.
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