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If you're saying that people sometimes buy stuff for reasons other than truly appreciating it, sure, I'm not going to disagree. But that's not just true about art; it's an endemic problem with humans buying things.

Indeed, I worry less about it with art than most other things. Most art I've seen is produced by people who are sincere about it. Their art may be bad, or at least not my thing, but they're not going to spend a month making something without meaning to them.

I think most of the real scams in the art world are at the very high end. E.g., I think Damien Hirst is a marketing genius and a weak artist. Chihuly too. But if you're going to drop $10k-$10m on a piece of art, I'm just going to have to trust that you know what you're doing.
Is this a serious piece of writing or just trolling?

> 2003-2008 = back when euro was worth real money.

1 euro was worth between 1.1 and 1.5$. Now, it is worth 1.25$...

> Rather than spend its resources on building an OS that depended on novel interfaces and sensors,

Like the first (and best) GPS phones?

> that allowed for outside development

Like symbian and the nokia owned qt creator.

> If Nokia had gone with Android[...] Windows Phone, on the other hand [...]

Aren't you forgetting the numerous other hands that are symbian and its successors: tizen, meego and meltemi?

> Elop [...] clear-eyed

Humm. Choosing to ditch their own system to use another one may have been a bold and smart move, but still developping 2 or 3 different systems while trying to integrate an external new (and unproven) one seems to me like increasing the problem rather than solving it.
Cargo-cultism. Apple was doing both those things back in 1998 when they were going broke, and they could have just as easily gone broke doing 'em.

There are many ways to run a successful company. Some of 'em involve in-house engineering and a focus on quality, while others involve outsourcing all your engineering and focusing on cheap crap (see also: Wal-Mart, nearly as profitable as Apple).
There's no art but the artist.
That's a really interesting idea. Does anyone know how much money you could make with HFT if you were able to communicate through the earth instead of around it?

If the profit potential is high enough, maybe this is a good way to fund research?
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http://kx.com/faq.php seems pretty clear that kdb is multi-threaded.
"Does kdb+ support multiple cores and/or multi-threading?
Yes, both are built right in to the system and this makes kdb+ extraordinarily fast when compared with traditional applications, as it can make full use of all available cores. "

This ties with my own experience using it.
The "playpen" or "sandbox" itself doesn't have to be "wildly" successful, but the entrepreneur must have the wherewithal to launch a company with a sufficiently large team to execute all those ideas. This entails either a successful exit for a prior business or pre-existing resources. It is possible to do so without such resources, but that would mean a much smaller vision and more limited sandbox.

It is interesting that for the entrepreneur the business becomes play. Meanwhile, for the employees, it is often still work. I wonder how this affects the work-life balance. Since it is the entrepreneur's passion and vision, he or she may very well not desire the same balance the team needs.
ClickOnce[1] does this.

Some other apps have their own mechanisms to do the same, e.g. Google Chrome.

I don't think it's a good idea though, as it makes those apps more susceptible to being modified by malware.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClickOnce
If you count Socialcam and Exec as pivots of some sort, that makes it at least 4.
This is a re-launch of a web app I made a few years ago. I'm operating on the freemium model: pay a small one-time fee for access to premium features such as trade position size and price/volume indicators. Feedback needed, thanks!
"Google has a way of getting IP from User_Agent."

Perhaps they've finally developed something along the lines of panopticlick (https://panopticlick.eff.org/) for tracking purposes.
This was the main thing I got from this article. When I walk into a store, try something (expensive) on and leave with a picture it doesn't mean I'm buying that thing online. It means I'm going to another store down the block - expensive clothing in particular has to be perfect, not just very good.

Really expensive goods of any kind need to be the best I can get. I'm never walking into one store, and buying anything that costs more than a couple of hundred dollars. I'm shopping around. And this happened long before the Internet.
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I've been under the impression that it's required by law that banks send statements, because I've been presented with the option to receive electronic statements but never with the option to not receive statements at all. I searched and found a U. S. government site where it says that statements are required for accounts that have EFTs (which seem to include debit cards). So my bank is obligated to send me statements. http://www.helpwithmybank.gov/get-answers/bank-accounts/gene...

I get an email each month, that I don't think I can opt out of, that says "New (name of bank) eStatements Available" and links me to the bank's website, where I can view and download it.

You're probably right that they aren't legally obligated to provide transaction data in a machine-readable format.
See the 'gr|en' thing at the side? It probably also has a Greek version.
The article specifically mentioned that they were resisting subpoenas from pornographers. I don't know if the author was intentionally implying that Comcast is ok with other content owners making requests, or if currently the only people making these mass subpoenas happen to be pornographers.
But those offline sales are falling because they're being replaced by online ones. Why should they care?
The solution could be 'showrooming' locations paid for by online vendors that are only accessible to their customers.

It's still a win/win since they won't need to hold stock and multiple vendors can share the same locations. So it will still be a lot cheaper than the current way of doing things.

But you have a valid 'wondering' :p I wonder the same.
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It's much harder to comparison shop but it's also a much harder effort for the OEM to manage their SEO. Same product with thousands of different codes would make quality online reviews worthless I reckon. It would also mess up user/fan forums.

I was in the market recently for a high-end camera and it would've been really bad for the OEM to have different codes for it in different countries let alone different stores because it meant it would've been too hard to do research.

The cost to the OEM would be too high to bear to appease the mom & pop store at the other end, at the end of the day they don't care who retails their unit as long as they ship more at the wholesale rate.
I think I get it. Using a unique salt, they'd have to completely rebuild their entire rainbow table for each password (given a unique salt for each). Is that right? Even then, it seems like they might want to use a smaller dictionary, but rebuilding for each username would still be doable. Just slower.

I totally get the slow algorithm part. Seems to me that's the trick.

Our IT department is dead set against using password managers. I've been trying to learn why, given companies like lastpass use excessive salting/hashing and slow algorithms. Unfortunately, at this point, I fear my limited knowledge may actually surpass theirs. All I hear is grumbling about all my eggs being in one basket.
To address your points:

1. The big pharma guys have instant access to journals. When I say we had to wait a couple hours, it was because I was looking for a paper from "The Russian Journal of Chemistry" from 1912. We had a vendor who could track down anything. For any of the big journals, we had the same access as academia.

2. We agree on this point. If a lab experiment is used in a later project, it HAS to work or else the future work can't occur. However, lots of projects have "arms", where the experiment is an interesting observation that is never pursued. These are often "one-off" experiments that are published, but never repeated in the same lab.

3. I am by no means painting academics with a broad brush here. I think most academic research is done on the up-and-up and the results are valid, if not hard to replicate (this is research!). I think one issue is the one pointed out in the parent comment. You run 5 reactions, two fail and the three that work produce yields of 50%, 70% and 80%. What gets published? 80%. The devil is in the details. In big pharma, you are trying to make a drug and the science better work or else you can't bring it to market. Much higher standards for reproducibility.

4. I guess my thought here is based on the fact that big pharma typically hires from academic labs. All those post-docs and senior scientists with years of experience? That's who big pharma hires. So overall, I would imagine that the level of experience in big pharma is greater than the average you would see in academia (which makes sense since academia is training for working in places like big pharma).

Once again, I always shy away from descriptions that put all "big pharma" or "academic" researchers into one pile. There are brilliant people on both sides and crappy people on both sides.
reading halfway through this very long article this guy basically tells us that two musicians commited suicide because of people not buying their music.

with all due respect, but until you prove such statements, this is bullshit.
Ok. Then that's the kind of art you like. I think where people go wrong is confusing "art I like and art I don't" with "art and not art".

I also like masterworks, but I'm just as interested in the human process that produces the art.
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As the title says! XD
The chart images are broken for me. Also, when I click buy/sell, nothing seems to happen. But when I refresh the page, I seem to have made money!

Seems like a fun an addicting idea though.
Perhaps you could explain the context? In most magazines articles are meant to be taken at face value, so if Vice is up to something else it would be pretty easy for people not to know that.
> I think that classical art is enjoyed by those without an artistic background because there's at least an appreciation for the time and mastery invested into each piece.

Really? I'm a non-artist and I find all that old stuff (pre Turner I guess) extremely boring. How many frikking paintings of the Virgin Mary and Jesus do I have to endure. They all look the same to me, same even with the Dutch masters fruit and skulls. (Wow, how interesting, a pear. Not.)

OTOH, maybe if I had some education I would appreciate the historical significance (see, she's raising her left pinky? That was a snub to the patron)
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It's a bit of a bizarre claim to begin with given that there are a number of manufacturers pitching Windows Phone devices to very limited success.

So instead of being a possible also-ran me-too in a large, successful market, they're an also-ran me-too in a small, uncertain market. I'm not buying the logic.

If they used the Android bit to explain a wholesale adoption of Meego or Tizen or something then sure. But going to WP...that just doesn't make sense.
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The problem is that as soon as Amazon starts gaining brick and mortar infrastructure in more states they'll have to start charging sales tax in those states and they'll lose some of their price advantage.
Reading this, it seems to imply that key exchange in TLS is an insecure process. This is not the case. Several (secure) key exchange mechanisms may be used, such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_exch...
Sun also did this and ran themselves into the ground.
It's also wrong on the opposite front: ZFS cannot change geometries on the fly. I am a fairly big fan of ZFS, but the ability to mix disk sizes and change numbers of disks in a RAIDZ set is not why--it effectively cannot do either.
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I'm not carrying water for the original poster.

"There is no universal truth"? Are you sure? Because if that's true then there is no standard to judge whether one model is "higher-fidelity" and in fact there is nothing for science to do at all. Do you really believe that?

Do you really need to give up the idea that anything is actually true in order to dispute this blog post?

I don't understand how you figure that there is a choice between distrusting science and knowledge and silencing dissent. You seem to think that science and knowledge are just some form of political orthodoxy.
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Ok, heroku never got my credit card info (I created this account years ago, maybe it's required today, I don't know) - seems there is no "Current Usage" section in "My Account" on an unverified billing account. That is, I don't dispute you can see other invoices with your probably complete account - just I couldn't reproduce it on mine.
Sounds like one of those "idea guys" who thinks everything they think of is brilliant, but doesn't have the talent, discipline, and skill it takes to create anything. People like that get on my nerves. Learn a skill other than sales.
"One reason the brain is so power efficient is that neural spikes charge only a small fraction of a neuron as they travel. By contrast, conventional chips keep each and every transmission line at a certain voltage all the time."

On thr contrary, the brain maintains a constant voltage on neurons, and spends a lot of power to maintain that voltage in the face of leakage current. It is just a much lower voltage. (50 mV rather than 1000 mV.)
By "my data" I'm referring to the information which my brain processed/generated. I watched it, I rated it. That Netflix obtained a copy of that information incidental to our interaction does not obligate them to give me access to their copy, any more than I am obligated to Netflix to provide them with a list of what I've watched should their servers "forget".
#1 is not true. Algorithms like bcrypt rely on being so expensive to compute that brute-forcing is prohibitively expensive. bcrypt does use salt. If it did not then it would indeed be vulnerable to rainbow table attacks.
+1 Everyone agrees with you that dedicated boxes rented from companies like Hetzner are a much better deal for what resource you get for your money.

However managing servers is a form of technical debt. A lot of private corporate and public web apps are written, deployed, and not changed much assuming that they do what people need. "Set and forget" PaaS reduces technical debt.

That said, I have been thinking myself of getting one large memory Hetzner box to replace machine learning and other background stuff that I might otherwise do with Elastic MapReduce. Scale vertically rather than horizontally.
The issue is you cannot get a standard form factor MBP with retina display.
"Carreon also hints that Inman might be responsible for someone setting up a fake Twitter account in his name which had some "offensive statements." His evidence that Inman was responsible? At the same time that the fake account tweeted some stuff, Inman posted a tweet mocking Carreon in somewhat offensive terms. That tweet did not link to or reference the fake account, but according to Carreon: "I don't know if that's coincidence. Why was he on twitter at the same time the impersonator was? I don't know.""

Ohhh man, that's gold.
I've found for the average non-tech user the only app they seem to really care about is the one that their friends are currently gushing about.

as an example (yes I read the anecdote article :) ) I spent the weekend with extended family who were going on and on about how great Instagram was and how they couldn't understand why anybody would even think about a phone that didn't have it. I'm sure when I see them again in 6 weeks or so, the argument will be the same, with only the specific app that changes.

While MS will have whatever "the" app is at a current moment from time to time, due to it's marketshare, iOS will almost always have it.
Art is undeniably faddish, and there is definitely a political element; I wouldn't want to deny that.

However, that's sort of like going to a natural history museum and expecting to see the whole ursine evolutionary history and ecology explained next to every bear. There will be a little plaque with the basics, but the typical viewer knows a lot of the basics and is a repeat visitor, so they are expected to learn these things over time.

These days I'm perfectly happy to bring up Wikipedia when at a museum.
so that's what IBM has been working on! did IBM sleep through the last few years? back in 1990 this would have been amazingly cool. today, it just shows how disconnected they are from modern computing.
The truth is that retail, conceived as "the business of distributing items to shopping centres where consumers will converge and buy them", is on its way out. The business will become "providing customized/tailored services related to products" (e.g. Apple's "geniuses") or indeed showrooming (where producers pay retailers to exhibit their products and optionally collect orders).

This has been coming since the 90s, but I bet it will still take a long time to move on. What is unclear is how much this will impact employment: there's a good chance that new models will not require the same (massive) amount of labour currently employed in retail.
No, not if 1 in 10000 people suffers that reaction, while there are equally negative consequences for 2 or more of those 1000 people if they don't get the vaccine and there is no known way to detect who will have the bad reaction.

And the ratio is much worse for actual vaccinations. You don't want to see what not vaccinating kids against polio results in...
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Viewsonic had a 19" display (with 18" viewable) that did 2048x1536. I think that was the smallest size that the 2048x1536 CRT's came in.
> value aesthetics more than art. (...) something that looks nice

"Aestethics" doesn't really require anything to look good.

Personally, I think LMFAO[1] and Robyn[2] looks absolutely terrible. But that tickles some part of my brain, and I enjoy the aestethics of it, in all it's uglyness.

[1] http://www.starsentertainment.com/media/articles/images/l/m/...

[2] http://plusmen.blogspot.se/2011/06/rye-rye-never-will-be-min...
He's certainly not an idea guy, he's the founder of cd baby if you know what it is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD_Baby
Here is what I think would be a great way to "fix" this problem:

1) Amazon, Newegg, etc come out and say "we love local businesses" - because honestly, who doesn't have their favorite local shops, knowledgable people who know you is great. They admit they have been hurting local businesses, and that they have an unfair advantage because of this show-rooming behaviour by consumers.

2) They roll out a "showroom affiliate" program. Businesses can sell the products, but they also can have a QR code or similar, with a "or get it on amazon!". This provides a commission to the store, recognizing that they played a part in the sale.

3) the show-rooming is not as harmful to the stores, the online retailer doesn't lose sales, and everyone can settle to a new balance.

This also gets the online retailers good press and warm glowies.
Regardless of your opinion on Netflix's decision, announcing any negative news on a Friday afternoon (though I'm not surprised they did so) is bad form.
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I'll look into it after work today and let you know.
That was not my intention. I just wanted to spread the dark knowledge - there is more stuff in the unencrypted TLS handshake than most people know.
Sponsorship does not imply intellectual dishonesty. Intellectual dishonesty is a matter of how the argument is made. Sponsorship is a heuristic you could use to quickly filter papers but used as a counter-argument, it is simply ad hominem.

You are describing a method for judging arguments without thinking critically about the arguments themselves or examining their basis in evidence and that is not any kind of science. One does not find any measure of objectivity by averaging between opinions, only by holding arguments to the yardstick of rationality and evidence.
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I'm curious as to why you think a company discouraging a third-party from building a business around them isn't a good signal of the survivability of the company. Are you implying that Netflix needs these third-parties in some way?

I would imagine that the vast majority of Netflix's customers not only do not use this third-party app ecosystem, but that they have no idea it exists.
Well, he did create CD Baby which was (and still is) a fairly successful company. And my understanding is that he wrote a fair amount of code there.
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""I'm 20 years old, the CEO/cofounder of SomeTwitterBootstrapWidgetOnRailsInHerokuIBangedOutOverAWeekend.com" ... "let me share with you the wisdom of my vast accumulated life's experience and insight, from my struggles in an elite private US high school"

Your comment really made me laugh and I thought how I wish my wife knew about HN so I could share it with her.

"these "amazing insights" are chosen tongue-in-cheek, just to have an excuse to blog something"

Maybe some are. But I think the social proof exists where someone sees that items like this are well received on HN and they go to lemm-mimick the same behavior to feel special.
Well, what's the value in the free, small web apps? Ultimately some money, and maybe even a small company's worth of money, but not enough to affect the bottom line of a company the size of what dotCloud is aiming for.

Being able to get little apps up and running quickly for free (just like on Heroku) is a great marketing tool, and a feeder for bigger accounts. Any app that's serious will quickly outpace the sandbox (horizontal/vertical scaling, failover, loadbalancing, etc.) And there's little point in trying to extract value from apps that aren't generating enough value themselves.

Seems like a very smart move to me.
You're both correct. I just added 150 pages that I found interesting to get started.
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> "That fact that [Inman] wants to react by advocating net war against me and accusing my mom of bestiality makes him lower than the low"

Reading the offending piece on theoatmeal.com it appears the mother mentioned is that of FunnyJunk owner rather than Carreon.

The leading text before the claimed offence:

>"You want ME to pay YOU $20,000 for hosting MY unlicensed comics on YOUR shitty website for the past 3 years?"

Considering the cheque was to be made payable to FunnyJunk (as requested in the letter), and as Carreon does not own the "shitty website" it unlikely the image depicts his mother at all but that of FunnyJunk's owner(s).

You could argue that the whole blog post is addressed to FunnyJunk, not Carreon.