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I've always been surprised that GPL-licensed Dropbox-clone iFolder hasn't gotten more attention: http://ifolder.com/ Sponsored by Novell, last release within the past year, seems fairly robust. I've looked at it but never set it up since I'm comfortable just encrypting my Dropbox content. And Dropbox is so convenient and increasingly integrated with other applications (I use it with Epistle, for example). But I'm curious if anyone has tried iFolder out...
Thanks for the reply.

I've noticed there are three aspects in building a successful content/aggregation sites.

1. Provide value to businesses by giving exposure to their products. This is the best way to make money from the service. The aspect I like about these sites is you don't need to rely on traditional advertising.

2. Provide a motivation for users to contribute content (mainly ego and recognition). This is hard because you need lots of users for this to work. Good examples are lookbook.nu, wikipedia etc.

3. Provide a good one player experience - even if you don't have an account, it's still worth visiting. I visit sites like fffffound, designspiration, or dribbble every day - even though I don't have an account or know anyone else using the site.
News and journalism are the same information content. Curation is distinct from production and the world will be fine without the NYT. Thanks for the downvote, pal.

Empty complaints and no intellectual contribution.
It's not about being cold hearted - it's a fact of life. We die. And before we die we cost a lot of money - for unfixable problems.

We also have health problems when we are young. All things being equal, we are also more likely to take advantage of healthcare "done" at a young age than at an older age - if only because of the longer lifespan.

I can't see any logic behind medicare - money should be spend on young adult so that they can become productive again, not on old retired people.

If we had technology to make death avoidable or just far away enough than say being 80 became being young, it would be wise to spend healthcare money on 80 years old.

At the present time it is not.

If you feel like emigrating from a country where this became government policy, I would feel like immigrating to that country, if only because of the better economic prospects removing part of the healthcare "tax" would bring - and hopefully the other good policies that might come from such a country.

And BTW I'm not at all against spending money for healthcare of 80 years old people (and I hope I'll be 80 years old someday!) as long as it is their money. Not tax money, not my money ? Then it's not my problem either.

You know the saying - it is far too easy to spend other people money.
For the record (and while I know it's beside the point you were making), the "adding fiberglass to cigarettes" claim is pure bullshit.

See the Snopes article on the subject: http://www.snopes.com/business/alliance/menthol.asp
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You don't think that difference could have a lot to do with the caffiene content of the Coca-Cola?
There is a certain threshold where helpfulness and creepiness cross, specifically when it will be so helpful that creepiness will need to be ignored. At that point it becomes dangerous to rely on it (see: drones and their exploding popularity in civilian applications).
Thinking about this, the reverse might also work. Automate the process of granting patents such that patents are granted solely based on algorithms and prior art automated search. That way every one can get every patent immediately.

The work of the patent office then would be to validate the patents when there is a conflict, as a pre-requisite for a lawsuit. The office would have less work to do relatively I would think and hopefully would have more time to review the patents when they come to their desks that way.
Forcing better public input would be one strategy, I would suggest that public input should simply be ignored. Traffic flow patterns and safety are a science. It isn't a question of taste, there is an empirical 'best' way to design infrastructure. Public input belongs on things like public art projects, and what type of flowers to plant in the community gardens. How fast traffic should flow is not something that should be decided by anybody's uninformed opinion, regardless of whether or not they stand to gain.
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I've noticed that most of the popular aggregators concentrate on fast content. But what I would really like is slow content.

Instead of browsing hundreds of products, I'd like to see 10 products and get the back story. Why was it made, what's the story behind the product, how was it made etc.

The best description for what I would like is an IMDb/Wikipedia for brands, products, and artists.
> I don't understand why vigilante justice is perceived as necessary against those who exchange child pornography.

What else do we have when it comes against Tor? Nothing, pretty much.

> It feels as if it's the activity of a bunch of keyboard jockeys who want to feel like "heros", but who don't want the more dangerous opponent of say, organized crime or corrupt governments.

It's far harder to actually expose corruption within a government in a way it would produce any kind of results. I'd argue that in many cases even if you would know that something is corrupt, it's very hard to make it lead to consequences. Look at corrupt countries and how much people can do about it.
I found a good example on seniors healthcare, while reading overcomingbias today. It hasn't been discussed that much in the thread. Maybe that's because of the political link of the issue? Then it's not a bad thing.

Yet healthcare is the total opposite of anti-community !
I'm curious, where are you getting 30,000 years from?

From what I know, any kind of significant flour processing arose together with the agricultural revolution, which produces large quantities of wheat for the first time. The agricultural revolution started around 12,000 years ago (but then still had to spread), and Wikipedia mentions:

"It was discovered around 6000 BC that wheat seeds could be crushed between simple millstones to make flour."

In widespread evolutionary terms, we've only been generally been eating flour for a few thousand years.

Homo sapiens has been around for 200k years, but that is just the tip of the iceberg of the much longer evolutionary process that led to us. We and our ancestors have been eating meats, fats, fruits and vegetables for millions of years.

So our high-carbohydrate flour-eating diet is certainly a sudden and recent disruption of our diet, and it is reasonable to expect that there's no way that, in just 100-200 human generations, the gene makeup of homo sapiens could so quickly adapt in a healthy way to such a drastically different diet.
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So it's just an app that keeps track of where you've been?
Dependency is the big one relevant to the OP. Withdrawal can impact energy, mood, cognitive function, and cause bad headaches, among other things, I'm sure. Caffeine use can also compromise sleep, raise blood pressure, and increase anxiety. Caffeine intoxication is an acute state and has a range of effects as well, but that's not really what you're asking about.

The wikipedia article actually has a good summary of some of these issues as well as others.

You'll notice that the higher dosages given in that article as being risk factors for things are within the range of 'several liters of iced tea.'
>There is a major misconception that all carbs are bad.

Define "bad".

Lots of these posts seem to come around to the same few topics so if you've read this before, safely move one.

But, IMO, carbs are about your fitness goals. The way carbs interact with your body dictate that they should be considered in conjunction with your fitness goals. I don't consider carbs "bad", but I do consider them completely misunderstood.

When I'm trying to lose weight, say for a meet or a show or perhaps for getting ready for my preseason, I limit carbs and use my own modified carb-cycling routine.

When I'm trying to get much stronger and gain weight, I use another version of my own modified carb-cycling routine.

Carbs are the key. Of course carbs aren't bad (so I agree with the overall statement), but they can be extremely detrimental for someone looking to lose weight or a sendentar person looking to just maintain.

I've written about this extensively in my fitness books. Each book recommends a certain general food philosophy based on the goals of the book generally geared around carbs: type to consume, when to consume and how much. I firmly believe that if more people understood the interaction with carbs and the hormones in their body they would have the capability of leading healthier lives.
The startup I worked at would've closed up shop.

Most HN-ers work on web startups where $100k is a lot of capital and time to market is everything. I don't think they have a good grasp on the mechanics of industries where you can burn through $100k in a few weeks and where a usable product might take 3-5 years or more to make it to market.
you should check out mytracks from google https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...

might be more appropriate for what you're looking for
Definitely not -- a Coke stimulates for maybe an hour, then leaves you with less energy for around an hour. Like everything else with lots of processed sugar.

Whereas caffeine stimulates for several hours, and I never feel less energy afterwards with caffeine.

The effect is definitely the sugar.
Aspartame is perfectly safe physically. It does affect how you perceive taste of course. Your brain links the sweetness of the aspartame with the caffeine high. But remember caffeine alone is addictive anyway so I don't think this is anything to worry about.
I wasn't even saying there isn't a park with swings hung from trees. As a guy with a young kid, I see a lot of parks. In two entirely different states. Saying "walk down the street and you'll see one" is false in both states. I've never seen a single one.

Pedantic. Perhaps. But it was my only point.
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No browser AFAIK has the ability to patch a running process (it's very hard to do in general, but there are some ways to do it to a linux kernel for example). So you must restart to actually run the downloaded updates. Which means until you restart, you are running an unpatched browser which might have known exploits.
"Would the innovation have happened if Apple hadn't driven it? Not any time soon."

I am fascinated by this statement. What evidence do you have to support it?
It has been extensively studied (it's been around for 36 years), and there's no reason to believe anything will happen to you whatsoever. Keep in mind that you only eat one six hundredth as much as you would sugar.

Conversely, imagine if sugar were a newly discovered sweetening compound, seeking FDA approval. They wouldn't get past one safety trial before "serious concerns about long term effects" knocked it out of the running.

Analyzing the relative risks of sugar and sucralose, there is just no case to be made for sugar being the safer bet.
While we're posting Amazon links,

http://www.amazon.com/Art-Computer-Programming-Combinatorial...

has a fascinating 200+ page section on Boolean and bitwise tricks and techniques (Knuth: "A trick is a clever idea that can be used once, while a technique is a trick that can be used at least twice.").
From your link, that was the number that the study authors estimated needed treatment. However only about 11% actually got treatment, and the #1 cause of not getting treatment is that they did not think they needed it.

There undoubtably was a lot of denial involved. But without knowing more about the biases of the authors, there is a real possibility that they are being overly quick to assume that people need treatment when someone else may conclude that they do not.
>I agree

A quick Google search will tell you that there are non-trivial problems all over the world in major cities at major landmarks with Apple maps.

It's nice that you agree with the parent poster that Apple Maps are fantastic, but let me say that I don't think so. There are far too many obvious and MAJOR cockups (eg. Hong Kong is misplaced - it's not even on the island, Tokyo's main railway is missing, etc.) ... but you think that's Fantastic??

I will point you to Garmin and TomTom as two examples of maps that FAR exceed Apple's "fantastic" offering.

In 6 months time, the landscape will (hopefully) be different ... but to call this offering fantastic is ignorant.
It seems we could solve this by adding some conditions around lifetime and protections offered by a patent. if you are a small company you are afforded maximum protections on your patent. If you're large scale company that has delivered products based on features you've patented, your patent stops being valid after 3 or 4 years. If you aren't actively trying to develop or sell a product based on a patented feature, the lifetime of the patent also is significantly reduced.
The theme meme and meme themes should also be stopped.
I'm not sure what you're responding to. What is par for the course when using a centralized app store?

I simply stated that if you must go through a third party to get your apps to the consumer, then that platform (or at least that part of it) is "closed". You responded with the value proposition, but I'll be glad to address that below.

I understand the value of Microsoft's offering and I'm simply not interested on principle...and I'm speaking as a hard-core Windows user. I love Windows, I think it's far better than the alternatives, but the reason I like it is because I get the right mix of quality and flexibility (read: freedom).

I'll be damned if Microsoft is going to force me into using only their store to buy and sell Metro apps. The only way I'll ever use Metro or develop for it is if Microsoft opens up the channel for alternative stores and side-loading. Barring that, I may use it begrudgingly if someone jail-breaks it and develops a store like Cydia.

Honestly, I'm sure the Windows Store is going to be great and all, but that's not my concern. I will not participate in a captive market.
What an insulting question. Of course I asked them - I'm not going to fire off that statement without checking with them.
The most beautiful, well designed, programming language I have ever encountered in my 20 years of research is the equational programming language Q:

http://www.musikwissenschaft.uni-mainz.de/~ag/q/qdoc.pdf
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There are only 500 F500's because the F500 is the top 500 companies. It feels weird to have to point out that there is in fact a 501th company. You probably haven't heard of #500, but #499 --- second from the bottom of the list --- is KeyCorp, one of the country's largest regional bank chains.
I probably should have said "phyiscally" rather than "physiologically".

Heroin withdrawal can kill.

Sugar withdrawal will not.
Thank you. Not being trustworthy for not using drugs is a completely new one to me, I've seen companies that test their employees for drugs (a practice that I abhore, and as an employer never engaged in) but this takes it to a whole new level.
All this boring travel you disdain encompasses 95% of tourism spending. It may be boring to you, but it's hard for me to get mad at a product that targets a market that huge.
This is very cool. I've wanted something like this for a while.
Dude....carb-cycling! Seriously, this is the way to go. This one variant of the carb-cycling I used to cut down for various reason (mentioned earlier in the post).

What I do: 6.5 days of VLC (Very Low Carb) of just protein+fat+green veggies (my typical meal is eggs, bacon and broccoli), less than 30g. On the 7th day, I go carb nuts at night, 2-3 hrs before bed. I don't limit carbs in this to low-GI, either, I eat what I want. I just make sure to get quality protein and keep it low fat as well.

As an added bonus, on the 7th day, just before I go carb nuts, I hit the gym and really, really blast whatever body part I want to see grow. The carbs I consume later are going to spike my insulin so if I make sure my body is primed to actually use the insulin spike, I can actually grow a bit of muscle. BONUS!
You didn't get that from the title? You must be new here ;)
HFCS and sugar are almost identical - both are about half fructose and half glucose. I don't think one is significantly worse than the other.
I don't know you, and I'm pretty sure that you don't know me if you want to suggest that I've been living my life in black and white. Oh, and Colombia is indeed a beautiful country, I spent quite a bit of time there. I couldn't comment on 'fat spliffs' or 'Merlot' but I think that it is quite possible to enjoy life without those. I don't judge people that use this stuff, they govern their bodies as they see fit, I govern mine as I see fit.

Some people need drugs to loosen up, I can assure you I'm plenty loose without that.

> I'm really more concerned that you have accepted a bland, timid, dumbed-down, boring, government-dictated life

I appreciate your concern, but I promise you that that is not the case.
I have never taken narcotics. I have no interest in alcohol or tobacco. These days, the thought of sex is revolting. Peer pressure means little to me: I avoid people as much as possible, which helps. If I didn't, I might have to listen to self-serving, fatuous nonsense about how I ought to have an open mind about taking drugs or drinking, or at least take the trouble to examine every controlled substance on a case-by-case basis, despite a lack of interest and time. My justification for not doing so: I am rational, according to a cost-benefit analysis I haven't done. (Which is to say, I don't need a reason.)

That said, I've tried to reduce my sugar intake--no sugar in coffee, etc, but this has been difficult.
Is this specific to iOS5 and later? I long ago was very interested in something like this, but at the time (iOS3...) my understanding was that Apple didn't allow apps running in the background collecting data.
>Alcohol and tetrahydrocannabinol barely qualify as mind-altering.

Wait, what? What's your definition of mind altering?!
This is a little. It off topic and I could be really wrong but why don't you try a low calorie diet in general for 2 weeks followed by a healthy, balanced diet inc. both your proteins and complex carbs rather than doing the Atkins diet?

I've read in a few places that restricting your diet to 600 calories a day for 2 weeks has shown a reversal in type 2 diabetes. If you believe you're pre-diabetic, perhaps this may help? If it works for full blown diabetics, could it also work for a pre-diabetic?

There are tonnes of pages in Google on this but the jist is that this study was done at the Uni of Newxastle and it's funnily enough called the 'Newcastle diet'. Here's a link with more info: http://www.diabetes.co.uk/diet/newcastle-study-600-calorie-d...
Simple, recognize that pharaceuticals are a highly special case and develop a custom set of protections/incentives. There is already a mountain of custom regulation for that industry.

It's absurd to think that the same age-of-steam monopoly grant system that currently sorta benefits the pharmaceutical industry should also apply to software, websites, business methods, and exercising one's cat.

It's completely retarded. In the literal sense, i.e., holding progress back. End the retardedness now!
Agreed with you on the outsourcing, but I think you underestimate the "death by a thousand paper cuts" problem. Sure, any one of these things is not necessarily material or at least very big, but there's no limiting principle to California's style of government, they just keep piling up and up.

And it'll be material for companies that are right now at the margin, where this pulls them under the break even point, or the point at which the salary the eeeeevil business owner can pay himself is just not worth it.
> Part of the reason why people want others to use the same drug is to feel less guilty about their using.

I think that about sums it up.
The voice search is not called Now (it is just 'Google Voice Search') but since Google Now and Google Voice Search were released at the same time they are commonly confused.
I'm kind of surprised to see this one on HN, it definitely wasn't the intention, there is no link to hacking here as far as I can see.

That said, now that it is there it is a great source of feedback, for all those that have made constructive suggestions in this thread and in the comments on the blog post, thank you very much, and I will certainly take some of those suggestions to heart and implement them.
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You've got it right, Voice Search and Google Now are separate entities living in the same Google search app. IIRC the keynote introduced it as something like "The New Google search = New UI + Voice Search + Google Now", so no contradiction there.

People just happen to like calling the entire app "Google Now" since thats the part they remember, so it became tradition. Much like how some people call the iPod Touch the "iTouch".
I don't see (har har) an invisible hand guiding commercial pharmaceutical development. I see an oligopoly of pharmaceutical corporations acting out of unenlightened self interest. From my layman's perspective, it seems that curing diseases is largely done by government- and university-funded research, while treating symptoms for profit is the domain of corporate R&D.
I ruled out caffeine addiction already, it's the sugar.
it's artificial to give women legos to play with when they are children? I wouldn't say using Ada as an example really fits your argument considering she was taught mathematics at an early age, which is certainly more direct than playing with legos.
Java or C++. Both have great IDEs (Visual Studio, Eclipse, Netbeans) that come with a debugger and make tools, so that you can focus on learning the language before learning what a linker and a compiler is.
The debugger is also a must for learning properly by trial and error.

Don't bother with anything else.
This is amazing, I'm worried about the possible security flaws, but I don't think that could be much of a problem.

I'll take a look tomorrow and see how it works.
I've always wondered if / what is stopping someone from eves dropping or duping the initial handshakes before the communications are encrypted. If you get the cipher and understand the schema used you should be able to decode the otherwise secure traffic.
Tim Choate (Zathras) also died (just read that a few minutes ago on Ars).
Most plants evolved mechanisms to stop their seeds and sprouts being eaten and digested. Legumes can be toxic to eat raw, contain aflatoxins and cause digestive issues - but they don't contribute much to your diet besides a bit of protein.
I was once told by a traffic engineer that a more effective way to slow traffic through neighborhoods (traffic calming) is narrower lanes, such as via wide bike lanes or a median strip. I have personally observed this to be true in a subdivision I drive through (narrow lanes) vs my own (wide street with speed humps).
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I think the real value of these hacks is to understand how and they work rather than the possible efficiency gains they may give. Sure, sometimes you just have to get the gains, but these days, on modern platforms this is hardly ever the case.

But man, if you think you know how to deal with the binary and bitwise operations, please take some time to go through all of the hacks and examine how they work. It's quite possible you learn something new and interesting, which may have surprising applications elsewhere.