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That's exactly how I feel. I mostly meant to point out how difficult (and costly) doing the right thing must be. Also, I don't mean to suggest most of the costs or benefits are financial. I believe they are mostly personal and career.
Thanks so much for this, it's definitely something I need to improve on.

My aim with the post was to be extremely detailed, in order to try and emphasise how many different aspects have become habitual. Clearly, the way I ended up being detailed was to use brand names. Now you mention it, it makes sense. I remember writing "bottle of water" and thinking it will have a better effect if I make it more specific, hence "Volvic". Now it makes a lot of sense that I could actually be more detailed in many other ways and still achieve the same effect.

This is great learning, and something I'll try and improve next time!
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Who is? (honest question). I don't get the target from the page.
edit: To explain, I think how they expect you to experience the website is: http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/ (from www.google.com/chromeos)

When I search Google for chromebox the first result is the link that was submitted. I concur: it is a terrible landing page for a product. Consider the first page results for things like macbook, ipad, or mac mini and you can see where the failure lies. They do, after all, have control of search results, don't they?
Also: Openstack Swift (S3-like object store)
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I've just spend some time checking, and you're right, I've never noticed it actually do that, seems quite inelegant for it to just flick instantly.
but NVidia, Samsung, TI, Qualcomm, and Apple can build custom ARM SoC.
I have applied to nReduce but my main question remains, "How are you going to execute this?"

If everyone is at the startup stage someone with more experience (more than one) needs to be available to help make connections. We need someone who can review each other's work and submit to different news site and media. This is a great idea but there needs to be a plan for execution.

A startup or a product without exposure is nothing. The benefit of being part of Ycombinator or other incubators is not the initial funding but the following guaranteed exposure (atleast one writeup by TC, mashable etc) and helping with connections.

We need similar kind of thing and I have got some ideas how we can collaborate on this
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Almost all Non-US banks have already learnt this lesson during the last years.

Try to get an account with a non-US bank or use a non-US financial service company if you're an US citizen / green card holder (or have been that until recently) - they will tell you "no thanks".

I've some time ago even seen Terms of Services on financial web sites that asked US citizens to leave because of the overstretched liabilities the US is one-sidedly trying to enforce outside their jurisdiction.
Thanks, I should have indeed just copy and pasted the terms. Here is 1.D

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Agreed. Especially since all that stuff that's in orbit around us (like the ISS and Dragon) is falling all the time. They just happen to be going at the right speed to just keep from actually coming down.
The last paragraph is pointed and snarky.
This is well documented in Apple's developer documentation and can be overridden with a custom loading image:

> When the system launches an app, it temporarily displays a static launch image on the screen. Your app provides this image, with the image contents usually containing a prerendered version of your app’s default user interface.

- App Launch (Default) Images: http://bit.ly/LMLbu0

It's been this way for close to 5 years now.
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Expected timetable as best as I can work it out:

* 13:00 UTC, 08:00 CT, update from NASA

* 14:15 UTC, 09:15 CT, Coverage restarts on NASA TV

* 14:51 UTC, 09:51 CT, De-orbit burn

* 15:09 UTC, 10:09 CT, Dragon's trunk is jettisoned

* 15:35 UTC, 10:35 CT, Drogue chutes deployment

* 15:36 UTC, 10:36 CT, Main chute deployment

* 15:44 UTC, 10:44 CT, Splashdown
What kind of copyright reform would you like to see? Is it to do with the years a person has copyright on something?

I think the best way to do it would be allowing someone to maintain copyright on their creation until they die (or in the case of multiple creators, they are all dead) after which it immediately enters public domain. There would also need to be provisions that record/movie companies etc. couldn't hold copyright, it would have to remain with the creator. Of course then there is the problem of defining the creator.
The first I heard of lucid dreaming was this introduction to it in Steve Pavlina's podcast. Highly recommended for anyone with a passing interest:

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/01/stevepavlinacom-pod...
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I wonder what proportion of the government IT spend went on licenses - I suspect the real crimes were the billions paid to consulting companies during the Labour years.

In fact, if I was really cynical (which I am when it comes to how HMG spends our money) I might wonder if the use of open-source software might be pushed by consulting companies as an opportunity to increase their share of spend, rather than decreasing actual project costs.
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I disagree completely with the analysis and with the conclusion. As I posted there:

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Sorry, you are completely wrong to object, since it actually is faster. You said it yourself: you notice the trick when an app is exceptionally slow, you can't interact when you're ready to. That means in every other case you get to 'begin using' immediately. Interaction isn't only pressing something. It's also processing and deciding what to do. If Adobe Photoshop spit out a fake blank screenshot instead of the splash screen, you could start to think of what tools to use and what to do with them. This is part of using the app.

I mean, by your argument the screen might as well be blank except when you're moving the mouse, clicking, or typing. Since seeing the interface when you're not using it actively isn't part of using the app.

But that's obviously wrong, and obviously a non-blank screen is part of 'using it.'

Recap.

Current photoshop

1) For x seconds: Loads... I get to read some credits instead of being able to look at the app's interface.

2) For another y seconds: I stare at the interface deciding what to do.

3) For another z seconds: I am taking my first action

4) after a small processing time (p) the action I first took is completed.

In the splash screen scenario, the time until my first action is completed is defined by x + y + z + p . But by putting up a fake image you can reduce the time to y + z + p, eliminating the extra time from x entirely! (or at least eliminating as much of it as is covered by y. Y is almost never exactly zero.)

It's that simple. Faking the first screenshot is ALWAYS faster, unless you're not a human but a computer script that takes an action 0 milliseconds after the interface is put up.

Every app should put up a screenshot while it loads!

Or even a bit more than a screenshot!

Clicking the "Firefox" icon should instantly (notepad.exe speed) bring up a fake window. Then you can slowly mosy your mouse over to the URL tab or the Google search tab, and slowly start typing where you want to go first. By the time you hit enter, hopefully firefox has really loaded.

It's just two little input tabs. Why not fake them for awhile?

The App screenshot trick is similar. I approve completely*.
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Very entertaining. Must happen alot :)

It's the 31st of the month. Before filing a
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Oh interesting. The desktop I was referring to has a 4 year old Celeron at 1.9Ghz, so possibly its older architecture makes it more different, but not sure.
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The accusations are that Megaupload was in conspiracy to commit piracy, knowingly working with mass pirates to make large and legally significant amounts of money for themselves, and the indictment presents IM logs and communications that allegedly prove it.

If a file host is like a gun shop, then Megaupload was allegedly like an arms dealer.
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How about: If I illegally photocopy a textbook at a printing shop, is the printing shop criminally culpable?
I'd like to see every penny of that money clawed back in windfall taxes.
I think parent is referring to: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Lucid_Dreaming/Induction_Techn...
The Chromebox apparently uses a verified boot, so no Linux unless you can replace the bios. It's a shame since a small footprint, low-power, turnkey Linux box would be just the thing for a number of applications, though the Chromebox lacks a way to add fast storage.
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Thanks, didn't read closely enough and it's too late to edit. :)
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Er, almost. Your app provides a "Default.png", which is shown at initial app launch. This often contains either a loading image or a prerendered screenshot of your app with a blank state. However, since iOS4 and "backgrounding" (which imho is a better example or using hacks to give the appearance of speed), Apple will also dynamically snap a screenshot of your app at the time you close it, so that re-opening it feels instantaneous and more like "switching" to an app.
You are literally the first person (not counting Microsoft press releases) that I have ever heard praise the ribbon UI. If you like it, great, but I'm pretty sure you're in the minority.
Looking back at some of the earlier HN conversations, when Megaupload was first shut down by the US, you can see those who made damning accusations and blind assumptions that Megaupload were guilty.

These people should be ashamed. They are part of the problem.

It's baffling they would be so opinionated and cocksure although they plainly didn't know the facts.

I'm curious why these HN readers told bald faced lies. What's in it for them? How many other discussions have they polluted with misinformation?
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US public spending on healthcare is larger per capita than many other western countries with universally inclusive healthcare systems that also have better health outcomes.

As a bonus, public spending on healthcare in the US is matched by massive private spending, being responsible for most bankruptcies and foreclosures and tying many people to wage labor who would rather be entrepreneurs.

We know that healthcare with better outcomes than current ones doesn't have to be expensive. That money has been wasted. There's no established cost for endless multifront war other than our own historical experience, so it's hard to know if money is being wasted there.

We do know that we would have been running surpluses through the recession and into the foreseeable future if our healthcare system had the same costs as other systems, and wasn't a pile of rent-seeking, kickbacks, monopoly and artificial scarcity, and rats.
But is it opt-in or opt-out? It is import to not introduce insecure defaults.
I believe this is the idea behind Ubuntu's HUD: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/939
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after having such dream, did you stay awake less/more refreshed? any difference in your (real) life?
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absolutely worth trying; had two lucid dreams I can remember, one of which was flying over the Swiss alps. It was as real as real life gets, it's quite weird and amazing. Unfortunately didn't succeed yet. r/luciddreaming is good to follow, as some already said.
So what makes it so much faster? Did they fix a major bug causing it to slow down?
Is a single-text-file-github-gist the best way to disseminate this piece of knowledge (originally by Peter Norvig, BTW)?

What about a comprehensive explanation as to why those numbers actually matter?

Meh.
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I can distinguish any dream from reality, but the problem is that when I'm asleep I don't ask myself "Am I asleep?", I just continue following the dream's story. If I ever ask myself that question, or notice something isn't right (which is difficult in dreams, because what would be bizarre in reality will easily be considered normal by your brain in the dream) I will become lucid.

The article talks about flying. I often will fly in my dreams even if I am not lucid. When I am lucid, I am always able to fly.

One interesting thing you can do when you find yourself lucid dreaming is conducting experiments. You just have to remember what experiments you decided to conduct when you were awake or think of some on the spot. I found if you close your eyes and imagine something, it will be part of the world when you open them.

I found it is easier to become lucid when you are waking up, although by the time you are lucid you won't have much time left to do anything in the dream.
I am neither a lawyer nor an American, but if the claims in the article are true, the law wasn't followed. The outrage is over nullification of the constitution.

> Ok I get it, the US is trying to apply their laws onto the world and that is a big issue but this seems like the wrong case to get outraged over.

And what is it that you can do once they do the same for a not-so-wrong case(wrong is your phrasing; I don't think this is the case wrong case to get outraged over). The motives to circumvent the law and go after mega doesn't look altruistic to me. Since for them, it was never about right or wrong, how does your perceptions of morality even matter? You aren't the one making the calls, and the one making the calls aren't doing it because they thought mega business is evil.

> Megaupload was built for the purpose of hosting/sharing copyrighted files. You know it and I know it.

I would be happier in a world where a site for copyright infringement stays in business, compared to a world where a couple of lobbyists can circumvent the law to get what they want.
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God is not within the realm of science, science is our best effort explanation of the physical universe as we see it. Nor is God within the realm of philosophy for God by definition is beyond comprehension.

God however may be within the realm of history, if at just the right time, God revealed himself in history. That is the Christian claim: Jesus died and rose from the dead in history.

"And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead." - Paul the Apostle (a persecutor of the first Christians before seeing the risen Lord for himself, a Roman citizen, highly educated, he was himself martyred for his testimony, after being tried by several of the Roman magistrates, likely including Nero)

To reject the claim of Christ a priori because of naturalistic views of the universe is inadequate.

Better to examine the historicity of the accounts of Christ. How soon after the events were they recorded? What was the cost to those who gave their accounts? Did it happen? If it happened, what does it mean?

Here are some good places to start:

Paul Barnett - http://www.amazon.com/New-Testament-History-Paul-Barnett/dp/... and see also http://www.amazon.com/New-Testament-Reliable-Paul-Barnett/dp...

FF Bruce - http://www.amazon.com/New-Testament-Documents-They-Reliable/...
> $1.6bn (£1bn; 1.3bn euro)

How much in bitcoins?
This https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromebox.html is equivalent to that: http://www.apple.com/macmini/specs.html

This http://www.apple.com/mac/ is equivalent to https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/

You have to click "Explore", then the "Devices" tab and then on the Chromebox image. Or you have specifically click "Chromebox" in the top-menu.

Using a deeplink and complaining it provides no general information about the whole ecosystem is imho a little bit silly.

Let's talk about the base url: https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/ that's bad. It should have its own domain.
How long until ur phone becomes a chromebox esque device that u can just plug into any screen or better yet wirelessly connect to any screen.
I had lucid dreams as a teenager too, and completely forgot about it. Then about a year ago it happened again - and I remembered how cool it was.

I find I can nearly always do it if I wake up in the middle of the night then just think about it as I fall back asleep. I guess my subconscious then keeps a look out for weird stuff... "That elephant wasn't there when I looked a minute ago. Wait, elephant?! I'm dreaming!" Then it's flying time.
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I believe that this originally comes from Norvig's "Teach Yourself to Program in Ten Years" article: http://norvig.com/21-days.html
Reddit… How can you read these flamewars without getting incredible agitated? rage

I like that hacker news is relatively free of that. Or at least I try to stay clear of every "Google is evil / no Apple is evil / have faith in Microsoft, they are still the evilest" threads.
thanks for the pointer.

I now to you IBM (but not the COBOL bit)
If Kim is able to successfully fight back, and get back money/servers/etc, do you think that he won't be able to put it back together again? It would set them apart from other services in that they tussled with the US DoJ (+ MPAA/RIAA) and won.
Good spotting. But I think Apple's desktop OS is already quite familiar to most people. Chromebox is offering quite a radically different experience that needs to be communicated.

I really would like to know 'what' a Chromebox does as opposed to 'how' it does it. Whereas with a Mac product I'm more interested in the 'how'.
Thanks for the links. The secondary link is really good resource. I've read a lot of Jacques stuff, and find it really useful or just relevant.

Thanks!
I'm convinced I could operate some kind of (very sensitive) input device while lucid dreaming. I can touch type well so I'm thinking of making "keyboard gloves" or something to communicate from the other side. Though I should have a look - I can probably already order them on Kickstarter.
"People keep working, in a freelance world, and more and more of today's world is freelance, because their work is good, and because they are easy to get along with, and because they deliver the work on time. And you don't even need all three. Two out of three is fine. People will tolerate how unpleasant you are if your work is good and you deliver it on time. They'll forgive the lateness of the work if it's good, and if they like you. And you don't have to be as good as the others if you're on time and it's always a pleasure to hear from you."

One of my favorite gems. I really appreciated how much of his talking about art, creation and freelancing was so incredibly applicable in this day and age of technological creation. What a great speech.
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Lock-free-Algorithms early-on gives good numbers on-machine.

I like this visualisation too: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=702713
I wouldn't spend time trying to "cause" a lucid dream, I have enough goals to chase that affect my awake life.

But I have these dreams sometimes, it's always just fun. My two favorite things are to fly, and to make portals.

Yeah, portals like in computer games. You only decide that you wanna go somewhere else, and you let the passive part of your brain select that place.

I got this whole idea by reading an article about how to detect you're in a dream. It suggested you find a mirror and try to step through it, and that somehow turned into my portals.

That's the best thing about lucid dreaming, you can do whatever you want.

Now I don't have these dreams to often. When I realize I'm dreaming I'm too awake to have a realistic dream, so it's something between a dream and a day-dream or whatever.