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> cultural genocide

Providing supplemental educational resources to children is not cultural genocide. That is all that is being done in this particular case. I am not claiming that cultural genocide is not real, nor that it is not a problem.

I sought to make this clear in my original response to you; it seems I have failed to communicate effectively.
Would you care to elaborate on the "serious regressions" you perceive to have happened?
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So, it's basically Linux's LVM.
We definitely need this, all the ones out there aren't that great. MongoVue is okay but not free :P
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Have a link for this product? Interested.
I was neutral on this guy until I read the wired story, and then I became a fan.

He is a self made man (way more so than romney!), he suffers from persistent discrimination (overweight) and he has cycled thru the hero's journey.

I have heard a lot of these "major success stories", but they are people who have been put in ideal situations and then they made the best of it. That is just emotionally dead for me. Kim's story is more interesting because it is relevant to ME. I can imagine myself in the same spot, and it overlaps with my own personal history (timewise) a bit too.

Ultimately, I believe there is minimal legal differences between youtube in the early days (which was made successful via RAMPANT piracy), and megaupload.

Screw the government.
Having programmed Haskell for the last seven years (and C++ for zero) I have a fairly decent handle on what HM is all about. If all you had said is that the foundations of C++ are too far gone, there wouldn't be anything to discuss. But the foundations of C++ being what they are, there's no point being offended when unfixable things go unfixed. I love HM, but you can't just throw it in any old language simply because it's cool. The language's semantics need to allow for it, and they just don't with C++.
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Not boot volume though.
http://helvetictoc.com/

Unnecessary? Yes. Worth it anyways? Yes.
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I especially like the DMCA callout on the Hosting Partner's page:

Unfortunately we can't work with hosting companies based in the United States. Safe harbour for service providers via the Digital Millenium Copyright Act has been undermined by the Department of Justice with its novel criminal prosecution of Megaupload. It is not safe for cloud storage sites or any business allowing user generated content to be hosted on servers in the United States or on domains like .com / .net. The US government is frequently seizing domains without offering service providers a hearing or due process.
I was wondeirng this too. I have no idea if the OLPC project overall is a good use of funds compared to alternatives (I suspect not, but have zero evidence and no relevent background to state this with authority), but the idea of a literate population witha common language seems like a great idea for a lot of reasons, starting with a literate population that can communicate with their neighbors instead of keeping them as an enemy because they can't communiate to find any common ground.

I've never understood the big deal when a language gradually dies out - insisting on keeping it around is insisting on keeping a group of people stuck in an older culture that doesn't work if they want to interact with others in the modern world.
That's an interesting 5 letters reply.

Does that means you have something to show which might stand the comparison?

The guy did it, has a strong brand recognition and people who publicly expressed their sadness that megaupload was gone and their eagerness to give him their business again.

Now he is out there to get some.

I say good luck to him.
So you are providing a service like Odesk. There certainly is a huge need for this right now. Just come out and say it. Put a blurb on the site, something like:

"Hackerlist allows you to hire a skilled worker without the need to interview them one by one. Join, define a task, price it, and get results from great engineers. Hackerlist works with a pool of some of the best technical talent to deliver what you need. No resources wasted on poor results. Streamline your work process by taking care of finding the niche talent you need to get things done"
I don't know about cheaper, but certainly more available. You can just buy these memory lcd displays commercially. I think it probably takes a lot more work to procure actual e-ink displays. I believe the jump drives you're talking about do use e-ink, since they are completely unpowered when disconnected and don't contain batteries.
This is a particular area of interest for me, as well. I've experimented with an Android app designed to help my toddler learn to count (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cdarrow.co...), and it really seems to work. In fact, I think the app can give him better feedback than I can because it doesn't get bored.

I really do think a lot of things can be taught through games and unsupervised computer experiences. It's an area I'd like to explore further.
Heh, I misread "Easy Privacy" as "Easy Piracy".
Dude, how did you build up your programming skills enough to launch an app at 20-22 yrs old? It says on wikipedia you graduated with a degree in Physics and Philosophy. I'm guessing hacking was a hobby built up from your early teens?
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> Well Objective C is a separate language entirely.

Not quite; Objective-C is a superset of C. You can write pure C and compile it as Objective-C all day long.

This is an important point because people think their C knowledge doesn't translate to Objective-C, mainly because people say things like "it's entirely different". At its core, it really isn't -- the superset syntax becomes straight C underneath.
I'm assuming he's already had the other sites remove their content, and he's just trying to get the cache cleared. I'm assuming that he followed Google's procedure to have the cache cleared, but made a mistake, and that's why they didn't do it.

Rather than continue to struggle with a faceless corporation he just gave up and went to law.
I'd miss my money too, were I in his shoes. Wouldn't you?
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> it is considered good practice to add types as documentation to top-level constructs

But with type inference your tools can do that for you (e.g. C-u C-c C-t in haskell-mode).
Thanks for the feedback Zephyr, we'll update the site shortly
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a) Generate a 500 nt DNA sequence using every base at least once without introducing folds of length greater than 1 nt and without single nucleotide repeats longer than 5 nt (impressive)

b) Generate a sequence of DNA that is as long as possible without introducing reverse complementary or repeated regions of length 9 nt. Hint: maximum length is 131,080 nt (very impressive)
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I know many who make this much in profit....and Mixergy features many of them.
Curious to understand why the two biggest projects are no longer maintained. Usually usage drives people to continue development, so can we assume nobody used their products? Filled out the survey.
Cool idea, but the UI needs to come up a bit to match the 'world class' connotation being delineated.
For their... two listings I see in Port. Granted, the do have quite a few more in Jamaica, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. But the latter two weren't hit nearly as badly.
Exactly, I would say the biggest problem with oDesk is that it takes so long just to start hacking. The process should ideally be:

1) Claim a project you like
2) Clone the repo, start hacking
3) Get paid

instead of

1) Apply to a project
2) Wait for a response
3) Schedule a skype interview
4) Skype
5) Start hacking, email a zip file (I've honestly been asked to do this)
6) Get paid
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A Tesla employee actually answered the Quora question on 10/30/12, Tuesday. Might be useful information for other aspiring entrepreneurs on HN.
Instead of the "promising results" maybe we can focus on the actual results of the randomized control trial that focused on educational outcomes of OLPC?

That RCT conducted in 320 schools in Peru found:

1. The program dramatically increased access to computers

2. No evidence that the program increased learning in math or language

3. Some benefits on cognitive skills

Source: http://blogs.iadb.org/desarrolloefectivo_en/2012/03/06/and-t....
It'd be REALLY cool if someone could turn this into a screensaver, where it progressively pans and zooms in/out. Then when you're mind is just about to be blown at full-zoom-in, it should rotate like a boss and slap a new perspective of life into your life.
He's soliciting for investors. Isn't that illegal? (Not that he would care)
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> From the article, they already have some sort of process in place to handle that. Out of curiosity, anyone know where that is?

(http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...)
You are skipping over his history of fraud, embezzlement, theft, etc.
While I don't know the exact answer to Justin's particular case, I'll say it's not uncommon for someone to be already proficient in hacking at age 20. Zuckerberg was a potential psych major when he launched Facebook, I believe at age 19 or 20.

I would guess a lot of hackers on HN started young and already have several years of experience by the time they hit college. And by that point they might not even need to choose to study CS, instead rounding out themselves by studying other interests.
Also redirects to http://kim.com/mega/
Sorry about that. I'm new to this and it looked like my first posting did not get through so I posted again. My bad.
You've hit the nail on the head.

The central value proposition here for employers is delivering talent that you can put faith in.

This definitely offers an interesting solution for those on the other end of the equation as well. As a contractor, a service like this would enable me to work like I was employed by a company without the corporate bullshit. Ideally I would get paid for the tasks I complete with little upfront time investment and know how much I'll get for it. Maybe if this project is really ambitious they could even do only part of the task and someone could do the rest, paying the developers appropriately by percentage.
abstract http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012A%26A...537A.107S with link to paper (i think; still downloading paper).

update: the paper is fairly large and doesn't have pretty pictures (it has lots of technical plots, but i imagine it's not what most people think of as a fun read). also, this image is more a "public view" of the data; the paper is for the underlying survey.
The hole in the wall project and this are certainly interesting. I can't help wonder what would happen if such tablets happened to be dropped in kids' hands in an urban literate area. Would they end up stuck playing angry birds and loitering on facebook?
He's a career criminal.

He hacked for profit. He traded in stolen phone cards and turned in his compatriots for reduced sentence. He ran a "premium" phone number scam. He ran a pump and dump scheme to defraud investors. He evaded prosecution by jumping jurisdiction. He tried (and failed) to run a fake hedge fund. He sold pirated software. He committed insider trading.

He's not a self-made man. He's a career criminal and a con man.

I find it shocking that so many people are eager to lionize this sociopathic asshole.

Screw Kim Dotcom.
I totally agree. I just like when good business is aligned with doing "the right thing", and companies think long-term enough to see that.
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Probably a good idea, but I can't help but think what other weakness that system might turn out to have in the next disaster. I don't know if it's just me, but I was definitely very surprised by the degree of flooding - I would have expected debris, structural damage and power outages, but even as a former New Yorker, I was surprised it all happened.
Why not go full-hilarity and not touch the save files? The DB API simply performs clicks, keydowns, and mouse movements on the game client, so you see the character moving on the screen. I guess you would have to initially read the save file though, to know what you start with. Would be hilariously slow.
Justin didn't really know how to program much when we started Kiko, but he's smart and he learned quick. He was probably the easiest person to teach programming I've ever worked with.
good teachers are worth their weight in unobtainium. poor teachers can be a huge negative to student learning.
Also, see my sibling response to Pyrodogg - it was kind of a joint response to both :)
The one issue that cannot be ignored is that a higher resolution display will consume significantly more power and cause the GPU to consume more power and generate more heat. The relationship is roughly linear to pixel count, in other words 2x more pixels is equal to 2x more power and heat. From 1366 x 768 to 2560 x 1600 it's roughly 4x more power/heat.
It would be very interesting if he decides to use bitcoin or something similar for this.
In the USA it probably would be... he's in New Zealand.
Text-heavy banners get high click-throughs.

That is very interesting. Can the OP to back this up with some data?
So it's rude and inconsiderate that he's asking for your contact info (or for fake contact info) before he gives you all his material for free? That seems more than fair. He doesn't owe you anything.
non facebook version - http://imgur.com/mhvFW,N1MHl,UeLZL,Zgpv9,K1JBn,ViqYm,HbQp5
It's a great gimmick that shows endless possibilities for your service.

Great idea and execution, and actually a startup I like.
Indeed, it is. As long as you operate from Ireland that is.

The French tax authorities apparently have proofs that the whole business is done in France by employees of Google France but billed in Irland. So, technically, if I understand correctly, Google France is accused of paying Google Irland for prestations that don't exist since they haven't been done by Google Irland and that's illegal.

Summing undeclared revenues and penalties and considering the size of Google, I'm not overtly surprised it reaches one billion. I guess Google is going to contest the validity of the tax authorities proofs and it's going to languish in courts for some time until they eventually decide to settle on a lower figure.

Considering that this whole tax dodging is clearly gaming the system, I'm certainly not gonna shed a tear for them anyway. If you do business in a country, it seems only fair to pay its taxes.
"update: Heroku is down [...] the demo in now on dotCloud."

:)
Really really impressive! Django development on windows is a PITA (compared to linux/mac), and all other (free) IDEs that I've taken a look at haven't really given me too much. I'll definitely give this a go for a test application to see what it does for me.
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That was years ago when he was a teenager. Many people went thru an "illegal period", his was just... more successful than most.

As for sociopathic, so what? Didn't you know that most CEOs are sociopaths? I find that argument... not compelling.

Like it or not, sociopathy appears to be an integral/essential part of human organizations.
Had a play with it; few oddities, but this is pretty cool.

The use of the $ function is totally not portable though, which is a bit of a pity.

Doesn't compile on a mac either; bunch of warning about pointer size that are being treated as errors by -Werror

Still, nice work~!
I don't know about the internals of the chess engine you are talking about but it would be interesting to read about it.

Basically most engines are minimax (or proof-number search) and alpha-beta pruning based.
I guess that in the game you describe the algorithms are the same but it choses the worst scores instead of the best ones.
It's commonly called "suicide chess" and when two suicide-chess AI confronts, there are always strange results.
He did quite a lot of shady and downright illegal things, too. He's definitely a self made man, though...

Change the government.
What I found particularly notable was that they specified meditating on compassion.

I read an article a decade or so ago that challenged people to think "bless you" at everyone they encountered. Just walking down the street, at work, whatever.

Visualizing all those people sneezing did make me feel happier.
Yeah, it would have to be somewhat automatic and widespread, sort of like credit card warranty/travel/etc. insurance.

It might make sense for b2b apps instead of consumer. b2b apps still aren't usually sophisticated enough to do source code escrow (and what does that really mean for SaaS apps), but a business would still be hurt if someone like Salesforce disappeared (or even a smaller product like a CRM gmail extension or whatever, if your workflow is built around it.)

Also, developers are customers of sites with APIs, so some kind of promise that an API will remain available, non-throttled, etc. would be good incentive to adopt it.
I am interested to see how this goes. I am also rooting for the new myspace project. If you have not seen that check it out: ( https://new.myspace.com/ ).

What looks interesting is the ability for the artists to interact with the fans like they would on FB/Twitter on the same medium they could sell their music (I don't think there will be selling of music on the Mega project though).

Right now we have FB/Twitter where it is very easy to keep in touch with the artists and build a relationship and maybe find new ones but no real way to sell things that well. Then their is iTunes where you can buy music but no real community aspect.

I think bringing them together will be interesting. I could see something like a Kickstarter aspect working as well. Fans doing something like we want to see Kanye and Bieber do a song together. People could then show support etc and help chose what gets made.

Ultimately though it has to really help new/unknown artists get started. It's great that Louis CK can sell his stuff online by passing the record companies but that is unrealistic for most people. I system that provides a great community with a great "discovery" aspect could really help this. Fans could be like "I want a song made about blah blah" and some random artist could deliver. Maybe if you are doing a show somewhere you also film it and throw it up on the site for people to watch. Random thoughts. But I hope these provide some exciting opportunities for artists!
I use the Gmail app and it is fantastic. Best mail app I've ever used on any device or computer.

I dupe all my email from my Google Apps accounts to a local server, so it's not a big deal for me.
and how he started making even "bigger" air than RIAA and MPAA.
Did you find it shocking when the Prime Minister of a nation apologized directly for the ridiculous abuse of power and error in execution?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/national/news/video.cfm?c_id=15030...
What? Soliciting looking for an investor is illegal?? (Serious question). I know it's not 100% admirable, but i dont see anything wrong with it. Curious what the law is.
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Does anybody have any advice as to which job sites work best specifically for finding front-end/UI devs? dice.com? stackoverflow.com? Thanks! Ping me if you have any other ideas.

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I'm glad that this worked out for you. But my personal "story" wouldn't really fit either extreme. Whether it's a tiny eeepc or a 1920x1200 screen, it's all basically terminal multiplexer to me (or, well, Emacs frame organizers if I'm in that phase again). Not even arranged that differently. I'm not one of those guys with Wall Street multi-monitor-monstrosity setups‡, I too do fiddle with window managers.

For a while I even switched regularly between a 23 Inch Sony monitor and my 17" MacBook, both with the same resolution. The MBP even had the better CPU/RAM compared with the Office PC I abused for admin/dev purposes.

I still noticed that I prefered my desktop setup by a large margin. Mostly because those same pixels spread out over a larger area, encompassing a larger FOV for me (without me crouching like Rodin's thinker). Also, a much better keyboard. I can't really understand all the hype about Apple's scissor action chiclet keyboards. Last decent one they made was the Extended II.
And all this in a package that costs much, much less. For my purposes, all those hyper-engineered ultrabooks (and their Mac inspiration) are overkill. Lots of really clever solutions and manufacturing advantages that I simply solve by putting all that in a large enough box. I simply don't gain a lot from all that cleverness.

‡) Well, apart from when I have to do lot with a browser, either for development or reference. A ridiculous number of sites break when the browser window is too narrow, and switching back and forth between only two applications is a bit of a waste of time. I remember this not being a problem when I was using half my 1600x1200 CRT back in the days…
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What sane organization would sign up to be a "hosting partner" in this situation? Let's see, most of his last venture's major unpaid creditors are hosting providers, previous hosters spent months after the indictments unable to use their servers and without an ability to bill. Not to mention that he apparently wants quotes with no capex component and requires full built and managed systems including space, power, cooling, data, management and operations on a fixed fee bid before the service launches for what will be impossible to accurately predict growth.

Oh, and by the way, he's willing to let you take part of your payment in ad inventory.

lol.
Seeing a lot of css/javascript screw ups on Chrome. Popups and hover effects look pretty 'janky'. Anybody else seeing that?
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Hmm. First thing I did was hit Examples then start messing around with Demo and I understood immediately what was happening.

They should probably emphasize this approach IMO
derp. you're right, sometimes you'd think english wasn't my first language.