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If your goal was to reduce the risk of cancer, but you wanted to enjoy nicotine, that would probably be a reasonable thing to do.

I can only speak for myself, but I find smoking is much more enjoyable than chewing nicotine gum. There are probably lovely tasting brands of nicotine gum but I've tried about three or four and they have all shared a strange characteristic... it's like a feeling that they are chemically burning the inside of your mouth slightly, and for me the feeling intensifies the longer I chew the gum for. Of course when smoking there's lots of nasty effects too, but I'm just saying given the choice I'd take smoking.

Source: non smoker who has tried to give up lots of times
I know, but it's not nearly as bad as tobacco and smoking imho.
Hi Jonny,

I'm building this and very close to MVP (less that 7 days away). I will message you when it's done so you can try it out if you would like?
We had more people on our team than the four founders, and we had higher expenses being in separate apartments.

I like the way Stripe was built on a long vacation in Buenos Aires. If you're doing something that only requires internet to be built, your entire team could go on a several month vacation after demo day and it might result in a 50% lower burn rate depending on where you go, and probably 50% higher output.
Unfortunately I have to comment as anonymous.

My experience totally matches binxbolling. As a new contributor my entries were either blanked by trolls (and left for dead for weeks without end) or have been deleted by over-zealous editors whose only reference seems to be their own opinion and the spouting of endless WP this and WP that rules. I was appalled by the bullying and mob mentality I found in there.
Yup that's normal. They even explain why. That's normal for tech demos using bleeding edge APIs.
You can make several different types of cheeses from whey too (with other stuff). Boiling milk, cream and whey gives you Scandinavian style "brunost" (brown cheese), traditionally mainly made from goats milk, or you can make "prim" (soft spread; not usually considered a cheese) if you add more fluids. Both very sweet.
Thanks. I didn't really catch on to that until I looked at the github project.
I use spideroak as well, mainly because of it's flexibility (partner uses same account, only syncs the necessary folders) and the fact that it's cheap (at the time I signed up; especially considering many people can use the same account)

But man, is it slow! (OK, I realise it's encrypting locally, but even accounting for that it just "feels" clunky compared to the competition)

Also, I can't seem to view pictures using the online account file browser. It seems to suggest that thumbnails will be visible before downloading, but it never seems to work :(

Otherwise, it's really good! (I also have a skydrive, GDrive & a dropbox account that I use for quick sharing, save game backups, etc -- They've all got their strengths)
I bough Facebook accounts for 5$, they called me twice and now I ... (follow up)
The end of the story "How I bought 1 million accounts for 5$" and "A call from Facebook"
I'm on it too :) - ping me if and when you get started with this project.

My pet peeve has always been the crappiness of VimL, and the internal confusion between the scripting language and command mode. I've started designing a language (and have a toy implementation) whose goal is to be as powerful on the command-line as a shell language, but also super-easy to write large plugins in.
Yeah, probably. But CRLs were always unreliable (how much software do you think blocks the connection if the CRL/OCSP/... cannot be found? You need to twiddle a well-hidden switch in Firefox to make it check, and the results are not pretty - big CAs like Verisign time out all the time). Something like https://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/pubs/abstracts/ssl-client-... is far more likely to actually bite you.
Did you already have the clients before you decided to do this or have you been looking for work as you go along?
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There is still the need for destination system to fully validate the input to catch badly formed content which may cause unpredictable issues and (more importantly) to screen out injection attacks, which may not be a trivial task. Relative to validating markdown decorated content it is far from trivial.
In most fiber optic cable photons travel at about ~65% of c. The exact number depends on the refractive index of the fiber.

For electricity: Paraphrasing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_electricity

The 'Current' travels along a wire at anything between 97% and 60% of c (depending on insulation; more insulation == slower).

Individual electrons in copper wire travel much more slowly. The 'drift velocity' is roughly proportional to the voltage; for low voltage DC it is the order of millimeters per hour.

For AC voltage individual electrons don't have any net movement since they're oscillating back and forth with the alternating current.
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I would like someone to confirm that is Steve Job's Yacht and that he was involved in the design process.

That yacht seems the antithesis of a Jobsian yacht.

Ostentatious. Gaudy. A landlubber's office complex on water. Features and design that would make it difficult to handle on water.

Dysfunction follows form.
Off-topic but aside from Dribbble buckets, what other tools do you folks use for collecting interesting design patterns?
> Why not learn Haskell and contribute, instead of being nasty?

Catch-22, he can't contribute if he can't bootstrap a development environment :)
That doesn't really matter. Their task is to hook you up with freelance gigs and they do that just fine.
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Oh, we do, e.g. Plan 9, but that doesn't mean the better ways can overcome the popularity of the incumbent that's "good enough".
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It's not about defrauding anyone in this case: Margarine looks disgusting without added colour. Even if you prefer margarine or have made a fully informed choice you might still very well prefer to add colour to it before using it.

The reason for laws restricting colour additions to margarine was explicitly because it is sufficiently close to butter in taste, texture and usage that it created a substantial competitive pressure on butter sales because people would happily pick margarine over butter to save money. So much so that the separate coloring failed to stem the growing demand.
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Nice Hack Apoorva.
I still remember reading an article about the great hustle u made to get in YC.

I also plan to integrate Instacart in one of my features, and see how it can happen.
Applied to YC this batch.
What you think ?
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Paneer/soft cheese and curd though is very easy to make, and requires just the ability to let the milk settle.

You may not get to creating Emmenthal/Parmesan straight away, but there are many other viable steps prior to modern cheese.
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Pinterest is great for this. Pinboard and Flickr as well.
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You are not the only one who does this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQt-h753jHI
There would be no crime in possessing such a file, nor should there be. It would and should be criminal to use it to impersonate me, or to access my emails without permission.
Heh. I still miss my Amiga's (I got the A500+ first, then an real Frankensten's monster of an A2000 which had a bridgeboard + 286 accelerator + a 68020 accelerator for the main A2000 + a SCSI card with a Z80 on it - including the CPU's not in active use, plus the 6502 compatible CPU on the motherboard, that machine had 6 CPU's in it, of 4 distinct architectures....; then an Amiga 3000). The amazing thing is there's still an active Amiga community (over at amiga.org, amigaworld.net, eab.abime.net and a number of other places), and new semi-official PPC hardware as well as a number of new M68k compatible machines (mostly FPGA based)....

I spent last night hacking on FrexxEd (Amiga editor; one of the authors went on to write CURL) and ACE Basic...
I'm Canadian and I remember the English version getting more radio play than the German version. Learning now that the German version was more popular in the USA, I feel like a bit of a philistine. :)
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I tried this many moons ago and unless you have some sort of unique, valuable skill that new clients will put up with limited communications it will be really, really hard. I was able to gain clients in the city but after I left and the project finished I was left dry. Most of the nomads I've met already had a long standing, ongoing relation with their job (ie. the server admin that knows and ran the platform at one time, the webapp programmer that was in the office, built the stack, and now just updates it from time to time).

It was me working in some internet cafe somewhere in SE Asia versus the guy that can be down to their office for a face to face in 30 minutes. While there are successes on rentacoder and odesk these are the exception. Mostly you'll be competing against some guy with much lower overhead in a developing country.

After a while I realized that my objectives were orthogonal to the clients. I wanted to travel first and work second. They wanted the work done on demand and didn't care if you were 2 days away from your next port of call.

If you want to be a nomad, be a nomad first. That means taking whatever job you need to raise money. I've done app dev, translation, babysitting, bartending, ushering, and electronic repair. I've met ex-developers from the dotcom bubble who were now working as crew on a yacht.
Can true solitude be found in a wired world?
You don't need to do that kind of expensive research if your goal is just to make a nifty color changing lightbulb and you don't care so much how expensive it is to buy or operate.

The hard problem is making an LED bulb that competes with incandescent or CFL bulbs on both quality of light and total cost of ownership. So far I haven't seen Lifx come out and directly claim that they are trying to solve that problem (but please let me know if they have, I'm curious).
Microsoft links PCs to mobile computing
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A webfont containing ligature symbols.
Show HN: Quick hack to get a chatbox on Last.fm using websockets
I'd like to know more but I'm in an environment where I can't watch a video. (plus I hate video...)

Is it that hard to also write some old-fasioned text as well?
I've read an argument that the law has considered a five(?)-note sequence enough to identify one song as a derivative of another - and given reasonable estimates for the "space" of possible 3-minute tunes, and the number of (copyrighted) songs currently in existence, there's a significant chance that a "random" new song will be legally considered a derivative of some existing song.

Of course, here we come back to the "color" of bits; one is unlikely to be prosecuted for "copying" a song one has never heard. Though cases like My Sweet Lord are enough to give one pause.
Okay, let me propose an alternative procedure.

I set a series of random number generators going, and with each set of results, I apply randomly generated XOR to create a new sequence of numbers.

I perform this process over and over. Eventually, it produces (give or take a few bits) a copy of an MP3 file of a copyrighted work.

Now, once we've eliminated any procedure of creating B and C that includes A, would you still say one of B or C are derivative of A?

Should my random number generator be banned? Perhaps more importantly, do I acquire copyright to all the files it creates?

I could quite easily create every possible variation of an MP3 file of a given length. Does that mean any musician who, using a different procedure, produces one of these files is infringing on my copyright?
Cannot root, cannot resell - it's America just consume more and more and more !?

Make a pile of old tablets in your life that you cannot legally do anything with.

When are we going to revolt and insist we own what we buy without being criminals?
While this was certainly not a manic episode I did go through a period where I threw out or sold many of my possessions. I decided to leave all my electronic items at work. This included my laptop, netbook, computer monitor and various other gadget doohickeys from a lifetime of impulsive Thinkgeek shopping. Now I have a cluttered desk at the office and virtually nothing at home. But not having a computer at home has been incredibly liberating. Four weeks ago I lost my smartphone and seeing as how I don't have a computer at home I couldn't check my emails, my messages or log into Skype. All I had was an old iPod shuffle filled with Melanie Safka songs. Those few days without my phone and without any way to connect to the internet were the two greatest days of this year. I read comics from the comic book store, took a walk around the city and at night when the city noise gets too much, I put on my little earphones and listen to Melanie on my iPod.

I eventually got my phone back thanks to a honest taxi driver and on occasion, I've simply left it at work choosing instead to go home with only my trusty iPod.

I haven't done this in the past two weeks and think I'm about overdue. As for Hacker News as a distraction, I love this infinitely useful HN newsletter[1] by Kale (@duck). Avoid HN for the week and dedicate one day of the week to just reading through the stories posted in the newsletter. I've noticed I tend to pay more attention to the posts and there's less chance of me making impulsive comments.

[1] http://www.hackernewsletter.com/
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And Australian. "Asian" to me has always meant: China/Japan/Malaysia/Indonesia/Korea(s)/Thailand/Vietnam/Phillipines/PNG/Timor/Laos/Cambodia and maybe Burma.
On a related note I used to be the person who got to go see customers who had problems with our software that the support desk couldn't solve. This often meant one or two day trips to glamourous industrial estates on the edge of various cities all around the world.

About 3 visits in a row I went to look at problems (core dumps or errors) that the customer could reproduce at will, only for them to be unable to replicate the problem with me present on site.

I sat at one customer (in sunny Minneapolis) for 2 hours in the morning with the customer getting increasingly baffled as to why he couldn't get it to fail; it had been happily failing for him the previous evening when I was talking to him on the 'phone. We gave up and went for lunch (mmm, Khan's Mongolian Barbeque). A colleague of his called him midway through lunch to tell him that the software was failing again. Excellent I thought, we'll finally get to the bottom of it. Back to their office and ... no replication; it was working fine.

As a joke I said I should leave a clump of my hair taped to the side of the E450 it was running on. The customer took me up on that offer and, as far as I know (definitely for a few years at least), the software ran flawlessly at that customer.

It's the closest I've got to a "'more magic' switch" story of my own.
The problem zero userbase - it was supposed to be launched with an ASUS media-center PC with some other cool tech as the WAVI Xtion (WAVI is an existing product they make that does uncompressed 1080p streaming). Unfortunately, that just didn't happen, so there's still no competing consumer product.
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Hasn't this horse been beaten to death yet?
As lmm says, I don't have any issue with someone possessing that info. Security through obscurity is folly, and it is only as a result of incompetent security procedures that someone could cause harm with these pieces of information.
I must admit a marked lack of enthusiasm for projects like this. You already have a number of vim "clones" developed with various technologies (ysis in qt4 - dead, yi in haskell - though it has also an emacs mode, still actively developed, probably others I don't know about). They haven't managed to take off in a significant way, what is this one bringing to the table? The idea of taking on an editor with about 20 years of development behind it, even with the editor core already written, in a couple of months, is ludicrous.

And to top it all, it doesn't even work in a terminal.
I laughed so much at this (Old spice com. parody)
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If there's a local New Zealand version of this, sign me up! I'd love to meet fellow hackers away from our hacking tools.
He was just responding to your comment:

> The fact that you have an ability to run a program like office on a tablet class hardware

Well, current ARM platforms vastly outstrip the performance requirements of, say, OfficeXP so "tablet class hardware" means nothing.

So the question is why do you find it impressive that MS got Office working on SurfacePro? In fact, it would be surprising if they couldn't. Sure, if they were emulating x86 code on ARM then it would truly be impressive for it to perform as well as it does. But this should be a straightforward port.

In fact, here's Win95 running on an N900 (5 year old ARM hardware emulating an x86)
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=42195
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Likewise, I'm sure we all recall Jimi Hendrix singing, "Excuse me while I kiss this guy."
What happened to the iPad?
If you can have 3d then this arrangement of elements makes much more sense:

http://perfectperiodictable.com/novelty.html

http://perfectperiodictable.com/home031909.html

Btw. anyone know why in this ADOMAH periodic table the hydrogen and helium are bumped up to next section? It doesn't make any sense to me.

You can grow it further: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_periodic_table
Ah but that cursed SMS still exists on dumbphones. I'd like to see alternatives to the John's Phone[1] which just gives us the basic calling functionality, all we really need.

[1] http://johnsphones.org/
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They expected faster growth than what actually happened. It's possible that the CEO approved each individual hire and they still could have overhired.
In China I heard that many older Chinese people can't drink milk, but the younger generation (who've drank it all their lives) can. Apparently there were lots of parents who couldn't drink milk themselves who would go to the "milk shop" every week to stock up for their kids. (The place I lived had this little store that just sold packets of milkshake and cartons of UHT milk).
Right, but it's posts like this that are the culture that starts us on finding a way around our problems.
Analytical geometry ;)
Please do! When I explained your service to a friend, this was the only "except for that ...", the only tar-snag, if you will.
Indeed. You'd have to try pretty hard to not find another programming job in three months. Everyone is desperate to hire programmers.
You can have the best of both worlds. I started working (iOS consulting) and travelling two months ago and I save more of my earnings here than I did living in San Francisco. Today I signed a lease to rent a shared house in northern Thailand and my rent is $160/month for a place that would cost a small fortune at home.

I found that constantly being on the move is difficult to keep up for weeks at a time. So now I have a base from which to explore the surrounding countries.

There's a surprising number of expat tech workers in the city (Chiang Mai) but now I can sit in a cafe without overhearing social-local-mobile startup pitches.
I don't really understand why he used ligatures (or why he called these web font icons 'Ligature Symbols'). Surely if you are going to be substituting letters for icons, you may as well use easily accessible, memorable and slightly semantic keyboard characters (eg: B and I for bold and italic, S for save, X for cut).
> Another problem with running in a terminal is the lack of good integration with window-system cut/paste (e.g., where you can use editor commands to select text, copy it, and paste it in some other app, getting the actual text instead of just what's displayed on the terminal).

This works quite nicely in Vim (even when running in console) with X11. You can access both X11 clipboards from Vim if it was compiled with that option (if you use binaries, most likely it is).

The registers for X11 clipboard are "* and "+.
I used to think this way, but it's better to give it another perspective. IBM (or their research group) specializes in Hardware and they are making good progress. They can't do both in the same time.

Someone else has to do the Software hacking. But if there isn't someone doing it (or at least meeting your expectations), then it doesn't mean IBM should stop or change activity.

Any progress we make is a win for us and for the whole humanity.
What you said was gospel in 1990, but nowadays there is much dispute over the role of fat in a healthy diet.
He is saying that the problem is those components of the total system used to produce the infringing output that is not generic.

So in the case of a zipped file, the zipped file and not winzip would be the problem, because winzip is generic, and have general purpose uses, while the zipped file is a very large specific number that is translatable by a generic process into a specific protected work.

On the other extreme, the number "7" on the other hand, does not encode enough information to on its own contain the information about the infringing content. Even if you were to write a "decoder" that turns the number "7" into a movie, in this case the "decoder" is the problem, as the decoder embodies enough specific information about the content that in effect the number you feed in is little more than a key to unlock access to that content.
No, the purpose of tariffs is to make domestically-produced goods cheaper than imported goods, not to raise the price for the consumer.
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Yeah, but unless you use them like paneer (ie in curries) they taste bland and icky. But I'm a blue cheese or vintage hard cheese man myself.
Yet another Conway's Life in WebGL