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Great comment. I felt this acutely in the sale of Carsonified. I had no real control in the production, marketing or execution of the events after the sale. Thankfully the company that bought us did a good job and everything went fine.

You're absolutely right though - everyone who's selling a company should think very hard about what their involvement is going to be post-sale.
I've played Diablo 2 for longer than Windows XP has graced this planet. I've purchased and re-purchased it approximately 5 or 6 times, at varying prices. I'll probably continue to play it with my friends for the next couple years until a game finally topples it.

I'll probably give up Diablo 3 by year's end.

Putting aside any attempts to put a 'price' per hour of enjoyment, that is pathetic.

Blizzard should be embarrassed by Diablo 3, they've destroyed the franchise for me as I was worried they would.

I can't trust them to make another game like Diablo or Diablo 2 again. I have to assume that the disintegration of Blizzard North has ruined them.

The consequences here are more serious than my wasted $60. It's about the end of an entertainment dynasty.
If you look for more references and science debate, I suggest 'Good Calories Bad Calories' from Taubes. 'The Primal Blueprint' has some references but it is more focused on the practical matter. I can say that it worked very well for me and 2 other friends that tried it.
2-factor logins require, in addition to 'knowing' the password, to prove that you 'have' a token (e.g. mobile phone possession). It makes your account significantly harder to crack.
Mostly! I believe there's been some tampering noticed in various Middle Eastern countries (such as Iran and Syria) as well, and I suspect this warning is targeted at them too.
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A strictly less strict model implies ≤ security (someone might try to argue there are some paradoxical cases where it's >).
Not too much, but it makes people feel nice by having an app that they know is shared with one other person. All the features within it can be replicated by using a combination of other apps(Draw Something, SMS, some kind of social-shared to-do list, etc.) but Pair brings it together nicely. The last girl I dated and I used it, and it was silly fun.
You might want to update that link, as it lands you on page 3 of the article.
> Taubes also responded to Guyenet

Guyenet also responded to Taubes: http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2011/11/brief-response...
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High-fat paleo diets avoid starchy/carby foods like chips fyi.
How many people do you know who have left to "find themselves", and how many people do you know who have "found themselves"?

Everyone has an unhappiness inside them -- and they act it out in different ways. Some people strive for more zeroes at the end of their bank account. Some people search for love. Some people try to escape through drugs.

The commonality to all this is that you can't fix that unhappiness via something to be found or something to be avoided.
No way would I trust all my photos to iPhoto, or Flickr, or Picasa! What happens in 18 years when I want to make a slide-show of my daughters baby photos for her birthday party. Good luck with that...

I feel the only reasonable approach is to have the original jpegs layed out in a simple date-encoded directory tree, title/comment them with IPTC, add EXIF geotags and archive that. Backs up to S3 (even though if I got hit by a bus I doubt my family could figure out how to restore them).

Actually, SD cards are so cheap these days I don't even reuse them. So I have that backup, minus comments and geotags as well
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> It seems like these things would be great on an iPad or something like that, but what Linux users are really running Fedora or Debian on a touch device?

What you just described, sir, is a classic chicken/egg problem. Why would they design Gnome or Unity for multitouch users when there are none? But why would anyone use Gnome or Ubuntu on a multitouch device when the previous UIs were so mis-suited for that environment?
BTW despite what the article says this is not from firefox 13 - I've had it at least since 12, and probably even earlier.
Wouldn't that count as an attack vector?
Apple does this pretty well with Aperture. If you just want to use aperture simply, you don't have to know about filesystems. But if you know you want to have separate libraries, you can open and close other libraries on the filesystem.

I guess I'm saying I agree, but it's still possible to keep the filesystem as free from the UI as possible.
Font size is also far too large for readability.
I can't believe this isn't on the homepage. Such a great story of clash of 'the doers' on one side and poor management and no vision on the other side.
Selling for a good profit gives you the flexibility to do other things that you want to do, especially things that require capital, like starting a small team of devs and designers to work on another startup or creating a private space transport company.

So many artists around me would just love it if they could have even a marginal exit as to be artists all the time. However, most (as in, 99.9%) have to take a full-time job to make ends meet.

My point is not to say it's disingenuous to state that selling a company doesn't make a person happy. But I think one cannot underestimate how those finances helped to further happiness and even continued success.
You're not their target market.
This is exactly what it was like for me as well, and I suspect the vast majority of other entrepreneurs.

An acquisition takes away freedom, the thing we value the most.
Apart from this being very empowering to the individual user, it is also a wake up call to states who have any interest in participating in an international community that they cannot act without consequences, potentially making it an effective deterrent to this kind of behavior in the future.
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Your sarcasm is warranted, in my opinion. I trust this on my phone about as much as I .. well .. trust .. my Android-controlled .. Googleplex'ing .. info-companion reporting agent ..

Point is: yeah, your phone is spying on you. Of course "Microsoft Israel" wants you to automatically data-enter your daily activities into their massive connected network.
Chrome is faster, has great extensions, why would I use Firefox?.
You could well need help with paranoia this strong.

Mark Zuckerberg is not going through your friends, conversations and photos. Nor is anybody else other than you and your friends. In fact due to its design your emails would be far easier to 'read' than Facebook would be.
That's when the amateur photographs turn into professional Mac users.
If anyone wants to know the answer to that question, Richard Feynman explains it wonderfully: (He starts talking about trees at 2:00, but his explanation of fire is equally elegant!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1pIYI5JQLE

My first instinct was to say that a tree's mass comes from dead stars. Imagining how it got from those stars to the air that eventually becomes the tree would keep you busy for a while :D
An application managing it's own data is not Steve Jobs idea. Marketing genius/visionary types have been trying to save us from "the file system" for about a half a century. The file system is still here and there are still magic proprietary bins for putting your data into (saving you from having to think too hard ... about the file system).
It's not blogger itself, but blogs with certain new formatting templates. (Which don't seem to do much obvious for the reader, other than display those silly spinning gears if the browser isn't up to snuff or has some kind of NoScript plugin enabled.)
> The idea that "salt is bad" has just as shaky underpinnings as "lower blood pressure is good".

Wait, "lower blood pressure is good" has shaky underpinnings? Is there a debate on that? I don't think there's a debate that high blood pressure results in worse (death/disease) outcomes.
Interesting. Good link. Yet, that still means that 8 of them knew. Not like it was 1 out of 19.

There have also been plenty of other suicide bombers at much smaller targets. Generally I don't think they are that excited about blowing themselves up, more they are willing to do it to take care of their families financially when they don't see any other options.
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They changed the system so they can make money off the auction house later on. But so far they've delayed the "real-money" auction house indefinitely, because of worries that it may make the whole system even worse than it is now. Too bad they had to ruin the reward system, and for nothing.
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Ask HN: Any tips for a dude going on a first-ever programming interview?
Here's the scoop, Hacker News. I've been learning to program for the last few months, and a friend who has essentially been mentoring me in a few disciplines and the general principles of programming suggested to a company that was looking for (Python) programmers that they consider me. It would be my first job in the field, and I want to get it. Bad. My question: what tips would you have for a first-time interview for a programmer?
These guys are doing such awesome stuff.

I like eating meat, but would love to live in a world where Big Macs are made from vegetable protein and all meat is raised locally/humanely and fed a healthy diet.
Semantics. The strictness of a security model says little about the security of a security model, especially when comparing different security models. (And not all security is wrapped up in a security model either! I wouldn't trust an Android or iPhone conversation to remain private, fortunately there's PGP.)
I work for Google on Chromium (primarily networking stuff, like SPDY). You can see my comments on this matter here: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/spdy-dev/ipTmn5ty_n0/discu....

"Our plan is to continue what we've been doing: experimenting with new ideas in SPDY and recommending the good ones for standardization in IETF (http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mbelshe-httpbis-spdy-00). In the end, we only want one protocol, so we don't intend to keep a SPDY track alive longer than a successful standards process."

Out of curiosity, what changes from Speed + Mobility would you like to see in SPDY? We'd love to hear your recommendations on spdy-dev@googlegroups.com.
"..we’re using MS Paint while we would like to use Photoshop."

Ok i feel some of the authors pain on getting complex layouts right, managing lots of different density image resources, etc. But what in android dictates what graphic editing software you have to use? I'm happily using Photoshop for my resources.
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Paul Graham seems pretty happy doing Y Combinator, and what I've learned of him from the internet makes me think he's better off there than running the same company he started 'back in the day', both personally and in terms of what he's giving back to the world.
what if the site got hacked and exploited? do they store your data securely?
I just listened to 'Micro', Michael Crichton's last book (completed by another author after his death)
http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_1?asin=B00687OAI2&qid...

That book taught me a ton about the different physics that apply "in the micro world" that insects inhabit. The physics of falling and of water tension at that scale are so different than we are used to.
Probably a two picture deal.
very good point. I do think product comparison will be an important use of this technology, and I'm definitely planning on adding features that would allow this. For now, you could hold your current phone up to your screen and see exactly how it compares ;)
Hope you're accomodating for bit rot with your SD cards
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Another one that comes into mind is probably author or Flame and Stuxnet?
you are missing the point of the facebook privacy complaints. it's not that i have any expectation that what i do on fb is secret - it's there on a public website, after all, with multiple people reading and commenting. i do have the expectation that any given conversation i have is mostly noticeable by the people involved in that conversation. having facebook aggregate my activity across the site and make it trivially accessible using my username as the key (and even worse, actively pushing updates to that activity to my friends' streams) violates that expectation violently, and is the main reason i reduced my interaction with facebook to a brief trawl through my friendstream once every day or two.

here's an analogy. suppose i'm at a party, standing in a group of people and having a conversation. this is by no means a private conversation - it is taking place in the middle of a large, open room, and anyone is welcome to come by and participate. i'd still be pretty annoyed if i found out that someone had a hidden microphone broadcasting that conversation to the poolside, despite the fact that anyone sitting by the pool could in theory walk by and listen in any time they wanted to.
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Title is misleading. Articles seems to be picking on one particular standardized test. Does anyone want to invest in a startup that doesn't believe in collecting metrics let alone A/B testing? Why would anyone besides the teachers union advocate for no standardizing tests then? Sure testing sucks in a lot of places but that's not an argument against the idea of benchmarking.
you can rent a 32GB server for less than $100 - where?
How does it work with multiple screens? Yes I have a MacBook Pro 17", but that's not the monitor that I'm using.

Yes this credit card is the right size of this monitor, now I'll just drag it over onto this monitor to get a better look...
The point is I can now very easily build a Linux-based RAID stack that works with my Macs over Firewire:

Kernel-Firewire-Target:0:1->/home/disks/image00.dd & image01.dd &image02.dd &etc.

Build a big Linux box with much SSD and other slower disks, wire up a light Mac farm to it with Firewire, point each node to a relevant loop file on some path, and managed storage networks are a cinch.
I built and sold a company last year. It was relatively small, but being able to go from an idea to acquisition in less than a year was incredibly validating to me, and that definitely made me happy.

Also, having extra cash in the bank means I have to worry less about how I'm going to pay rent this month, giving me more time to think about and do things that do make me happy, like spending time with family and friends, and making things.

Money can't buy you happiness, but it definitely doesn't hurt.
is the opposite what he meant to write? It was always my assumption that he was correct; gentrification raises property values, so "home-owning locals" make money off of their real estate value going up, while renters will be potentially pushed out (or stay and pay more in rent). Am I missing something?
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> It's 2012 for god's sake, you can rent a 32GB server for less than $100.

Where, in the US, can I rent a 32GB server for less than $100?
I use Juice Defender (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.latedroid....) for those scenarios
This is the great thing about SharePoint. It adds a layer of abstraction that allows you to present different views of the files and you can slice and dice as much as you want. I can see a time in the next few years where the traditional file share on Windows Server will be completely replaced by a SharePoint interface.
It does sound like iOS, except for the fact that iOS has no fallbacks for pros to access the file system, modify the OS, or otherwise manage it like the portable computer it is.

Before someone mentions jailbreaking, I'd just like to say that jailbreaking is not a suitable solution. There should be an official supported way to obtain advanced access to your device.
>And that was the breakthrough, as an example, in iTunes. You don’t keep your music in the file system, that would be crazy

Actually I do and it works great. I hate iTunes.
This looks very promising. Like others have noted, even on the Play Store they are getting battered with negative reviews because of Facebook only authentication.

+1 for another authentication type.
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AUM -- a sensor that tracks how you use your computer. Beta, windows only.
Everyone should take an improv class, in secondary school and again in college.

Like the bard said, everyone's an actor; most people are just really bad ones. Knowing how your own facial expressions, gestures, voice and words really work is a crucial survival skill in human society, and one which you are very unlikely to pick up without a little training.
Indeed. Some processing is good, but a lot of it just makes the food too easy to eat. I would argue that even processing food at home, such as mashing potatoes can be a problem unless you are careful about the portion size - i.e. remember how many potatoes were used to make it.
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I am a B2B bootstrapper and would strongly recommend against seeking any capital at the very early stage; instead find your customers ( the people who will pay for your application) and work for one of them as a consultant / contractor. Learn your customers business problem that you are trying to solve and pitch them your product and go from there.
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(It's currently for a niche market in Nepal.)
Or even start including deliberately misleading information in your communications.
Yes, that was the one!

The two telescopes that I worked on that had no such problems were XTE (aka RXTE) and AXAF (aka Chandra). I only did a little bit of work for AXAF, but I worked on XTE for years. In addition to some other miscellaneous software, I wrote the code that let the scientists configure the parameters of the on-board data processing computers.

There were some serious issues with AXAF, though. The CCDs were damaged by some sort of unexpected particle radiation. Prior to this damage, the CCDs on AXAF were the most carefully calibrated CCDs ever manufactured. Or so I was led to believe. And the damage, although not fatal to the mission, did ruin the calibration. This was pretty discouraging to a colleague down the hall, since he had spent years making it so perfect.
Presumably if it's a serious attack by a non-state actor, Google's lawyers are on the job in the relevant state(s) getting police involved, for whatever that's worth.

In the state actor case, there's little or nothing they can do to make it stop happening, hence the special warning.

It's also a high-profile jab at the unnamed state actors, which is nice.
I struggled with this idea very much a month or so ago when HN had the post about the guys that claimed to have invented an electric/human powered flapping wing ultralight aircraft.http://techland.time.com/2012/03/21/man-flaps-android-powere...

Even before reading the paper I was 99% sure it was a hoax. Something about the video clinched it and I was sure. But many others (even here on Hacker News) were not sure. They (like me) found the idea fascinating and did not want to dismiss it out of hand. Many people weighed in on the extreme physics and engineering challenges that would have to be overcome to make it possible. But the video's defenders pointed out again and again that the nay-sayers should read and directly address the explanatory technical documents that the "pilots" had posted on their web site.

I didn't even look at the pilots' web site, and I expect most other skeptics didn't either. But should we have?

Because later the video makers admitted it was a hoax. So should we, who were so skeptical really have spent time reading that paper and picking it apart point for point? Or was it enough to let time prove us right?
What makes you think they are mutually exclusive ?

Because I doubt your grandparents are going to be having hundreds and hundreds of photo frames of your kids.
Salt is a very important part of a human's diet and was a major trade item for all of recorded history. Salt has been used as a preservative for meat for as long as I'm aware of. Animals often sit and lick natural salt deposits.

There is a common belief that meat and especially fat are bad for you and cause heart disease, which is the particular idea that Fat Head makes fun of. He reduces his carb and sugar intake and lowers his cholesterol and loses weight.

I quit drinking soda and reduced my sugar intake because it made me feel bad. I sometimes crave sugar after running a lot or when I'm tired and I will occasionally drink a soda, but I usually regret it. Same with candy etc.

I can only speak for myself, but the idea that my natural cravings and the reaction of my body are good indicators of what is healthy has been very successful for me. I currently believe that fat and meat, plus vegetables are very health and I crave all these things. My body is very sugar sensitive and so I avoid it because of how I feel. The guide that my evolutionary tastes are not trying to kill me seems to be a pretty good guide towards finding a healthy diet, and I believe it will serve me better than the National Health Services recommendations have. If you believe that there is good reason that evolution may be guiding you towards something unhealthy, you may be right, but my default answer is the it is correct unless there is a better explanation.
In the US this is done with National Security Letters and Court Orders, both of which usually include gag orders - so no.
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There should be an official supported way to obtain advanced access to your device.

This seems like an awfully arbitrary statement. Why should there be an official way to get access to the filesystem?
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Too bad they are legally prohibited from doing this when the state-sponsored attack is a PATRIOT NSL from the US government.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter

China reading your mail: Big red flag.

USA reading your mail: Business as usual.
I'll give a +1 on BrowserID, I think it should be used on as much new stuff as possible. I really love it.
They can stop downloading attachments. That's a 99% fix to the problem google is reporting.
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State-sponsored attackers have access to much better resources. I do wonder how they determine who gets these things; do they look for keywords in your email, or do they monitor where login attempts are happening, or do they look at phishing messages that arrive at your account?
If it's pushing PHP to ridiculous limits you seek then you want Facebook's HipHop compiler. But web stack design is really an art form, hard to summarize in an HN comment.
Try to take some samples with you, some screenshots.
Maybe my extended family don't live in the same time zone.

Maybe friends and family can't use a phone because they are too busy working two jobs.

Maybe I have so many friends and family it would be literally impossible to find time to keep in contact.

Facebook makes "keeping in touch" asynchronous. THAT is the reason for its success.
Hey HN, lets vote: Will Facebook reach $10bn annual earnings in 10 years?
$10bn annual earnings in 10 years should be about right to justify the current valuation I guess.
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DVDs safer?