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I think it can still cost a great deal to produce content , let's take video games as an example. GTA 4 cost approx $100 million to develop, even the much more modest "angry birds" cost around $100,000.
Even equipment for recording and editing music to a high standard doesn't come cheap and the amount I have seen professional video/photography people pay for cameras alone is staggering.

This is not the kind of money most people have lying around, it has to come from somewhere.

Distribution is cheaper for sure, but you still have to factor in costs for bandwidth so it's not quite free although you may get some mileage from using a P2P system for some of the distribution. You also (in the case of software at least) need some sort of support infrastructure in place for when people have problems with your product. This means contracting out to a call centre or at least hiring someone to answer the emails.

I would hazard that many content companies spend quite a lot of money and time marketing their products which includes finding ways to pimp them on social media. If anything you have to do more to stand out now that there is so much noise, this means either spending more money or hiring smarter people to do your marketing (who probably want to get paid).

There are projects like kickstarter which offer an alternative way to finance works, of course it's early days yet so we will have to see how that works out.

The problem with "pay what you want" is that this is probably going to be as close to zero as you feel comfortable going. Even if you wanted to objectively try and pay a fair price , this will be affected by what you see other people paying.

A case in point would be the ardour music production software which is one of the few free software projects to have a full time programmer working on it who was not an employee of some corporate entity. However when you look at the donations he has received I'm surprised he is able to feed himself, bear in mind that this is pro level software which is actively used by enthusiasts and some pros. I think it would be difficult to agree that he is paid
anything close to the value of what he produces.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication says that Chrome on XP supports SNI since Chrome 6.
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> Unfortunately, LSD carries such a heavy penalty that I no longer do this and usually just shut myself in a dark room for a day or two when I get migraines.

There is a cheap (prescription) drug called ergotamine that tickles brain receptors similar to those affected by LSD.
Marco has explained why he doesn't make an Android client. It has nothing to do with delicate sensibilities. It's pure economics.

His business model is based on selling a paid app, and based on his numbers, doing that on Android won't pay for its development.
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Awesome! This feels like, hey, an astronaut isn't an isolated individual living far away from us anymore. It feels more like he got a call from Rovio if he could do a video for advertising and said "Well why not? I put it in my Dropbox"
Remember that Apple has been at this since the beginning of the iTunes Music Store. They have a massive head start. You can always sell on a different market place.
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Upvote because I am also a romantic hippie.

Have you read Prometheus Rising, by any chance?
He said they'd shut up about Apple, and instead are making radical changes.

Perhaps the fact that they continue to publicly attack Google means that they don't think they need to respond with a strategy change.
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Hiding the source language makes identifying the origin of the malware difficult.

How so? Knowing that it was written using VC would hardly help identifying the origin.

That's not to say that you're wrong about the tool used, but I don't believe the goal was to cover their tracks, but some kind of optimization. Viruses often face space constraints.
I hope he'll be able to do something about the declining quality of posts and comments, although I wonder if there really is a solution for such a thing.
Is a hippie a kind of Animal? How can you go full hippie? They're f'ing soldiers! They were becoming apathetic and moralised when they had brief moments of realisation that they were all brainwashed by their drill sergeants.
I'm thinking of doing a mobile app for our security tool, and as far as I can tell, trying to come up with a working security model for the Android version is impossible. iOS is trivial, and if I cared, I could do a blackberry app (but don't).

So iOS > Android for people who actually pay for software, or for anything where you want to keep credentials or data secure against loss/theft of a phone. You could maybe get away with using Good or something on Android, but that makes developing an app a lot harder.
I think complaints about history editing have some validity - as a team leader, I definitely do not want the history of my project, warts and all, to be editable by junior members attempting to hide mistakes/flaws in the production flow. This leads to cacophony when time comes to figure out why things went wrong, if they do, somewhere in the past.
Last year I've realized (mostly from reading some pretty cool books) that I still had a lot of implicit assumptions about how the world goes.

Sounds cool. What books were those?
What if they suddenly find all of their reporters have been added to the federal no-fly list?
What single quality predicts a good doctor? Curiousity.
One can even get the impression that everybody is allying against Google these days. Their acqustion of Motrola was kind of a wake-up call, Google geared up for the IP wars going on. And since there are only three major players in that field, Apple, Microsoft and Google, it seems the first two try to single out the last one and change the game by eliminating competition.
The reputation of "Don't be Evil" Google cultivated is making things more complicated, Google simply can't ba as agressive as the former two. On the other, if combined with the proper PR, it make life difficult for others.
This is another bunch of straw-men.

I nowhere suggested going back to how things were before, and my proposal explicitly rejected the idea of allowing self-proclaimed doctors.
I could talk for hours about how my internal explorations (sometimes with drugs, often without) have dramatically accelerated my growth. I am very passionate about my change, but I don't really want to start a philosophical debate about the ethics of drug use.

I for one am very interested in hearing your story. Mind emailing me?
Exactly -- I was really critical of the xbox at the time, but now I have a PS3, Google TV, Apple TV, and XBox 360, and the one I use for gaming the most is the XBox. PS3 for bluray, and probably Apple TV (2012) for netflix and other streaming content (due to 1080pness; using the PS3 for that now). Microsoft is relentless and has deep pockets and more than adequate technical skill.

I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft manages to get an xbox-level win out of Windows Phone just by throwing absurd resources at it, along with great integration with their platform, as RIM self destructs.

Especially if Microsoft can use Nokia to pitch itself as the "European alternative" to Google or Apple, that plus enterprise is a pretty big protected niche.
You're correct - the current search only searches the titles. This is one of the most common complaints, and one that we would love to help reddit fix. One challenge is there are 5 to 10 times as many comments as there are threads. So a search index for that would be much larger, require more machines and RAM, and in the end it would be quite a bit more expensive for reddit to offer.
Your comment got me wondering if you could make whitespace significant in Lisp - perhaps via a reader macro....
And the advantage of things like SVN is _not_ having to understand advanced concepts in order to have your code sitting in a nice versioned repository.
Ah, a fellow fan of the 8 Circuit Model. Mind emailing me? :)
I tried something similar this past summer while traveling through Europe/Turkey and found that the hardest part freelancing (beyond the difference in time zones) was finding stable wifi in order to transfer client files. Even in a place like London I found myself in train station Starbucks uploading files.

I imagine if you stayed in a country for a while it'd be easier to get mobile broadband but hopping around a continent makes it pretty difficult since you can't (in my experience) get sim cards with data plans and use them in several countries.
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What can you tell me about Ibogaine? Mind telling me more? :)
A good friend had some traumatic experiences due to hallucinogen-induced psychosis. Experiences from LSD, mescaline, and the like prior to the episode were embraced with open arms and handled well. There seemed to be some switch that flipped, not due to any sort of internal fortitude but instead some purely biochemical reaction. He's been on antipsychotics since.

That said, he holds the substances in high regard for their ability to open the mind. Users should simply be aware that predisposition to psychosis can't be identified before the episode, something like 4 in 1000 will have such a reaction (http://www.maps.org/research/abrahart.html - see Cohen and Malleson research discussion)
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It might well be a macro language and not compiled. For example, HLA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Level_Assembly) has many of the features that are present here. It has its own library functions, objects/classes, and produces code that looks bit like it was compiled.
Eh? Are you saying that the random hate commentary at the bottom of online articles is required for something to be art? Your comment just doesn't make sense.
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And when your in it, its seeing without the safety barriers your subconscious has erected

This is very interesting. Can you tell me more?
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Tidbit #2, towards the end of a pregnancy, there is a MASSIVE rush of DMT in the mothers body. They don't really know why, but its suggested that its the "life" or consciousness flowing into the baby.

But yes, the biological machine is beyond fascinating! Mind boggling!
>Thank you I think?

It's a sorta-kinda complement, in a roundabout way. Were you just some random with a homepage, I would dismiss you as not being worth my attention. Knowing, however, the amount of work you'd put into keeping reddit up under some pretty unfavorable circumstances, you've been filed under "dudes with crazy skills and shitty homepages".

It's a small file with some interesting names in it.

Edit: At the moment, it's pretty much just you and Knuth.
Its only 3 days to go, lets see how many new teams will sign up.
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it's still been 3.5 years since the Android Market went live for the first time. It's certainly enough time for any decent company (not to mention Google) to handle these kinds of things.

Edit: google has Google Adsense, which can send payments to pretty much anywhere in the world
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Hey - put it into Google scholar search. Essentially, around 100 addicts take the substance while trying to get off of heroin, most of them never get a withdrawal symptom from Heroin, and are off it. Some go straight back to Heroin and a guy dies, I think.

They draw plenty of conclusions, you'll see if you do that Google search.
Slang is not compiled, and isn't very useful without SecDB behind it.
A thousand upvotes to you for this information.

If anybody else is looking, this can be done (without addons) under:

[Wrench] > Settings > "Under the Bonnet" Advanced Settings > "Privacy" Content Settings > Scroll down to "Plugins" and select "Click to Play". Manage exceptions as required.
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Although I think that LSD and other psychedelics have great potential for aiding therapy and introspection, I think there's a lot of evidence against the idea that it automatically 'wakes people up to the system'. It takes more than just the drug to do that.

I grew up in the UK, and witnessed the rave and drug scene from 1988 onwards. Millions of doses of LSD were consumed, and continue to be consumed. I don't see millions of people awakened to the system.
Yeah I know what it is. I was wondering if you had some personal experience? :)
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One of the guys who used to run NYC's hacker ISP is now involved in Ibogaine research at a university somewhere -- it seems like a pretty legitimate medical treatment for addiction.

maps.org is the source I trust the most for information on current drug research. They funded the PTSD MDMA study as well as other work.
The 200 it suggests is per person. With 30% overhead, that would be $320k/year for a full time job.
I miss SGI so much. Wish they'd return, like Apple.
Sounds like an interesting dude - mind giving me his email or something?

Also, how goes it with that thing you emailed me about like a month ago? :)
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He seemed a bit, uh, crazy. Missing out words from sentences, rambling etc.
Is this site intended for newbies?, I can give my opinion as one.
There's the MAPS MDMA study.

I'm also personally familiar with several (> 10) people who used MDMA to treat depression (other than PTSD), both independent of conventional psychotherapy and in a few cases in conjunction with it (by telling the doctor after independently dosing; since he's an MD he has a duty to care for the patient even if he's "on an illegal drug" at the time, but isn't at personal legal risk).

I would consider the long-term risks of 1-5 doses of MDMA over a year FAR lower than the side effects of prescribed antidepressants or other psychiatric medications on an ongoing or permanent basis. (I'm not a doctor, though. Just going based on observation of a not statistically significant number in both groups.)
Nothing wrong with being smart, confident and/or tough.

It's being arrogant and snarky that upsets people.

(I'm not aiming this comment at anyone btw!)
Is this the definite proof that Lisp in unreadable, no matter what?
Or it could have been carefully written for a specific target audience (of which HN readers are not a part). Mind control!
http://www.tcs.cam.ac.uk/story_type/site_trail_story/intervi... "Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem."

Gabe said it much more succint and he has the money to prove it.
Its obviously (to me) sarcastic.

He is probably getting downvoted by people who

1) don't see it as sarcastic
2) Think it detracts from the conversation and encourages behavior of a similar sort.
I've heard that shrooms are also very good for treating migraines.
Here's just one possibility. Say you want to do genetic testing for susceptibility to a particular trait, for example heart disease. The human genome is vast, and no human could pick out significant patterns relating to heart disease even with years of experience and specialist training.

However, this is precisely the task at which machine learning algorithms excel. You split your data into two sets: people who suffered heart disease by time X in their lives, and people who didn't. You then apply a machine learning technique (some kind of classifier - maybe a logistic regression, support vector machine or a decision tree) to the data set, and it picks out features (i.e. particular gene sequences) which are most strongly predictive of heart disease. If you've chosen the right technique, you can not only predict a binary yes/no response, but you can predict a probability between 0% and 100%.

Now you can do genetic testing on an individual who hasn't suffered heart disease yet - with a suitable portion of their genome, you feed it into your classifier and it spits out the probability of them developing heart disease by stage X in their life.

Of course, the inputs don't have to be genomes (and quite commonly aren't). You might consider someone's age, calorie intake, level of exercise, social class etc. all as valid inputs to this kind of algorithm.
It's particularly hard to obfuscate when anything produced by your compiler gets marked as a virus: http://community.norton.com/t5/Norton-Internet-Security-Nort...
Whilst I generally agree with you that these drugs alone don't magically "wake people up", wouldn't you agree that one of the primary functions of government is to ensure social stability?

It would therefore be strange for governments not to try to control substances that had the potential to upset this. No conspiracy is required, just pragmatism.
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And yet despite not being Steve Jobs, you're certain they haven't done enough to stay ahead.
Tips:

Languages for a particular paradigm:

/{LANGUAGE_NAME}/is___dbpedia2__paradigm___of/

Example: http://hypernotation.org/data__/dbpedia/Functional_programmi...

Example: http://hypernotation.org/data__/dbpedia/Imperative_programmi...

Example: http://hypernotation.org/data__/dbpedia/Object-oriented_prog...

Comment:

/{LANGUAGE_NAME}/rdfs__comment/{LANG}

Example: http://hypernotation.org/data__/dbpedia/Clojure/rdfs__commen...

Influenced by:

/{LANGUAGE_NAME}/dbont__influencedBy/

Example: http://hypernotation.org/data__/dbpedia/JavaScript/dbont__in...

Influenced:

/{LANGUAGE_NAME}/dbont__influenced/

Example: http://hypernotation.org/data__/dbpedia/Lisp_(programming_la...

Year:

/{LANGUAGE_NAME}/dbpedia2__year/

Example: http://hypernotation.org/data__/dbpedia/CoffeeScript/dbpedia...

Homepage:

/{LANGUAGE_NAME}/foaf__homepage/

Example: http://hypernotation.org/data__/dbpedia/Miranda_(programming...

Developer:

/{LANGUAGE_NAME}/dbont__designer/

Example: http://hypernotation.org/data__/dbpedia/Arc_(programming_lan...

Paradigm:
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Example: http://hypernotation.org/data__/dbpedia/Common_Lisp/dbpedia2...

File extension:
/{LANGUAGE_NAME}/dbpedia2__fileExt/

Example: http://hypernotation.org/data__/dbpedia/Python_(programming_...

Not every language has all the properties, in that case '404 Not Found' is returned.

More about the project: http://hypernotation.org
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They have historically had products with multiple iterations all sharing the same name, and when necessary they qualify them with '3rd generation', or 'mid 2011'. Examples being the iPod, and the iMac.

They are simply moving the iPad to their established naming scheme.
Cause sometimes you need your tasks to have, you know, logic and stuff ? Or am I the only one who want to do the equivalent of a "if" in a build script from times to times, and feel completely helpless with Make ?
Maybe one of you can answer my question, even if it's not directly linked to GazeHawk. If I found a start-up, am lucky and get some funding and it doesn't work out and the company tanks, what happens to you as a founder? Are you personally liable or any debts?
I'm asking because I guess US law is quite different from ours.
I don't know anything about Placebase (or the other map company Apple acquired at the same time).

But from a practical standpoint, the world is really really bog. "Generating map data" isn't exactly easy, you don't "generate it", you have to "collect it". This isn't like generating a spell checking dictionary, or a a user generated world for a video game. You have to use reality.

The half a million OSM users has been collecting this data for about 8 years now. Either with lots of GPSs or buy tracing satilite/aerial imagery from Yahoo and now Bing (not Google ☹).

To generate it yourself, you need to reproduce all of that above. Google's Street View is a way to reproduce it, since you'll have GPS traces of all the roads, and photos of what the road is like (for street names). OSM covers twice or more times what Google Street View does, so that won't even get you there.

The other option is to pay companies that have already done this, this is what Google Maps (et al.) mostly is, and is also what GPS/SatNav companies do. They get their data from either governmental sources if possible, or from tracing aerial imagery.

All those options are expensive. Why not just use that free OSM data?

This is why OSM was created. To provide a free source of map data to improve humanity.
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To me it seems just Kaspersky are advertising their product, nothing more.
Microsoft has been a huge friend to OSM. They have allowed the OSM community to trace stuff from their aerial (but not 'maps'). This is a great way to "armchair map", especially for lots of little roads in the country,.
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And remember that OSM is a global project, that works in many countries, with different interpretations of copyright law. You don't want it to be open in some countries, public domain in others etc etc
Interesting. What are your thoughts on how to make sure what you're getting is actually MDMA and not rat poison or something? Or is this concern just baseless media hysteria?
For the most part, you're not liable as long as you're properly incorporated and don't sign anything making you personally liable, unless you committed various crimes such as fraud along the way.

Corporate bank loans for early stage companies do typically require personal liability, but VCs and angels do not.
He actually turned this as an upside, saying during the show something like `I do a show about random things developers might also be interested in, not about developing` (I paraphrase heavily).
Perhaps they should rename the show.

For technical matters, the Hypecritical podcast is way way better.
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Besides the fun this is, setting up the recievers I mean, great hack with the self-calibrating radars, elegant and effetive, respect!
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