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> And i'm not even a Feminist.

Careful with this: A number of people think that 'feminist' means 'in favor of gender equality', so if you distance yourself from any kind of feminism you're painted as being against gender equality. Also, in their minds no form of feminism is possibly counter to gender equality, even the feminists who think less of women who want to be housewives.
Why don't you try explaining what the right lessons are instead of telling people to "fuck off?"
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Someone else IS innovating. They're printing out of print books for a tidy fee. What's remarkable is that so many books are unavailable once they've run. That is publishers are incentived to destroy rather than keep books which don't immediately sell due to tax laws.

Research that and look around at other book stores. You'll find the one doing it.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/philjohnson/2012/05/10/the-man-w...
I'd think something like EEG or heart rate feedback would be better than sonar. Higher degree of difficulty, but much more evil.
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I suspect the first 10 minutes could give people a dis-insentive to watch many movies. Once you've paid and you're there, they've already got your money. I would scan lots of 10 minutes, and decide movies I wouldn't pay to watch.

Note, I don't go to movies because I normally leave disappointed.
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Netflix's problem is that there are no switching barriers to keep viewers loyal to Netflix.

Even they admit that their vaunted queue is worth much less in the streaming world than it was in the DVD by mail world.

Their strength would be the content deals they have, and their ability to obtain future content. But that right now is notoriously bad. Most of the current or best movies of any star or franchise are not available - the older movies are, or the less well known movies. And I can't get this season of Breaking Bad or any TV show.

As far as I am concerned, they only have two things going for them, the better player, with closed captions and reasonable browsing and availability on most platforms.

And their lack of buffering, that is, their infrastructure.

Unless they can obtain content, I think these two last strengths mark them for being bought out by someone that needs infrastructure knowledge and a good player and otherwise has ways of keeping customers loyal and preventing them from switching away.

The flaw in my analysis is that it predicts Amazon purchased Netflix in the past 12 months. Since Amazon has not purchased Netflix, I know I must be missing something.
> As the OP describes - we all remember our grandparents struggling to use computers with any degree of effectiveness at all

I've seen this argument a lot, and I hate it. my grandmother can use computers more effectively than many university undergrads (even computer science students). why? she's been using computers, in one form or another, for forty-five years.

I don't think age has much to do with this. age brings some lessening of cognitive capability but it doesn't make you automatically bad at things. were you good at things before you got older? good news, you will probably still be good at things.

> Are people using these things in ways I can't even imagine that gives them an edge over others in their everyday lives?

Probably! but they are probably also ways people in their age group can't even imagine either.
> And with Facebook I'm always unclear about who can see what (private, friends, Facebook users, everyone?)

it seems cruel to say this is your fault - Facebook's UI for determining this is terrible and basically only .05% of Facebooks users have an idea of where their messages go (probably).
"faces sixty years in prison and $2.25 million in fines."
This is a very interesting philosophy I would like to hear more about. I suspect it is different for coding? It seems like tracking down all of the connected logic bits would be difficult after writing deliriously.
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LLVM IR is pretty easy to work with, and also very heavily documented and standardized. you'll have few/no "surprises" and the process of writing IR transformations is pretty well understood. so if you want to transform code, you have a solid base to start from.
The machine is so expensive. The lease on it is more than our rent. It works for that store because of its location.
With respect, it's not clear to me that outside of the US, many people do find it racially offensive.

Sacha Dratwa is a 26-year-old immigrant from Belgium. (http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/117235/the...)

Does Dratwa understand what blackface is all about? Or as the website states it, Apparently, he’s also into some good ‘ol fashioned Jim Crow styled blackface as well.

Does it make sense to say that a 26 year old Israeli from Belgium is into Jim Crow styled blackface?
You don't choose the circumstances of your upbringing.
Great, sounds good, thanks!
I spent a month across the Yucatan in Mexico, Belize and around Costa Rica 5 weeks ago, I didn't experience anything like this at all, I sense an element of desperation, anger and blatant bullshit amongst this post.

Belize was a really warm welcoming country, I've travelled every continent and its up there in my top 5, so to read this is so contrary to my image of a wonderful country.
If you are arguing that IPRs matter more than money, read up on moral rights. Most USA-centric copyright discourse seems to act like the don't exist.
(My implementation, which includes my own implementation of Sieve and has a fully-transactional mail storage backend with full-text indexing, keyword flags, and attachment analysis, works fine with all of the clients I have tried it with, including Outlook, alpine, Mail.app, MobileMail, and Thunderbird... look, if you have specific issues to address or evidence from some mailing lists you should bring them up, but now you are just being needlessly insulting entirely based on "my friend said something".)
This doesn't help pay the bills, but I lived right down the street from you a couple years back and loved your bookstore.

Have you looked into textbooks? There's a lot of money in the textbook market right now (for a variety of reasons). Won't help your storefront business, but could help on the internet side. I work in the industry; feel free to email if you want to chat more about the textbook side of the industry :)
I had an argument with someone about this, and we ended up agreeing that not everything can be open sourced (figuratively speaking).

Although the complete outcome was more of a stalemate, the above was implied from our discussions.
Perhaps part of the age gap is that you actually care to think about where the messages go while a younger audience just assumes it is handled the way it should be, or cares little about controlling it.
Thanks we did textbooks awhile back when we had a warehouse, but dropped them. The industry seemed to be changing too rapidly to understand. Tx for the help offer, all appreciated.
I have both Amazon Video (through Prime) and Netflix.

I use Netflix infinitely more because of my Apple TV; the streaming-to-TV ease of use is the simplest I've found, and cheap (since my and my housemates all split the already-small Netflix bill.)

If Amazon had a stronger solution to this use case, I'd be much more inclined to use it. But even if the content is great (and it is -- Amazon Video has a lot of stuff Netflix doesn't), the actual player and delivery leaves something to be desired.
I forgot: Maps. Google Maps are great.
I think part of it is the new style of desktop/shell itself just hasn't yet had enough time to mature.
> The question is this: is this doing well on HN because HN is full of progressive-minded feminists upvoting a neat DIY project on its merits, or is it doing well on HN because it serves as fodder for the nerd-girl fantasies of a primarily male readership?

Yes. (With the caveat that "is full of" == "has more than 3")
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So we're sexist and objectifying women by upvoting the article?
Have you considered running it as a co-op? I think odds are low one person (or entity) would want to buy it outright, but you might be able to get 100 people to buy a stake of it. Just a thought!

Similarly, maybe it could have a future as a not-for-profit entity?
Well, you could look at the comments at the start of sup's client implementation at http://www.gitorious.org/~einars/sup/utf-sandbox/blobs/95e1f... to start with. You could also look at http://www.courier-mta.org/fud/ as geofft mentioned earlier.

I'm wracking my brains trying to think of a good reason why a protocol would allow the server to send arbitrary command responses to the client at any time. Or why you'd introduce UIDs but then make them revocable...what possible reason could there be for that?

Also, I can understand building a mail protocol that uses UIDs. I can understand building a mail protocol that uses message sequence numbers. I cannot understand building a protocol that uses both and in fact requires both because some protocol operations use UIDs and some use MSNs. Actually, I lied. I cannot fathom why anyone would make a protocol that uses MSNs (they change whenever any client deletes anything! whee!) unless they were mentally trapped in a world where the only message stores were MBOX.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not excusing his moral choices, although I do think his education in that area was obviously lacking. But the guy was unemployed for two years and well; boredom plus opportunity for mischief equals trouble.

Would he have been able to do something useful with his life if he'd learned better coping skills early on?

I can't imagine the sad self-loathing low point you'd have to be at where reading strangers personal email for fun seems like a good way to spend your nights and days. But, I can see the forces at work on this guy and it does make me sad to see someone ruin his life like that.
Have you considered branching out into related areas, like games? I'm talking European-style and other board games and similar... things where physical location still matters.
I think you a word. Since stevoski has not answered: from his SO profile he is 40.

I started travelling a lot 5 or 6 years ago and have been to ~21 countries so far, and I don't travel every year. You could do 90 countries in say, six backpacking trips, each one to three months long. Doable in 3 years if you can keep it up. (that's barely getting to know each country, but still)

It is a small world: http://matadornetwork.com/bnt/seriously-slow-6-travelers-who...
My friends stopped this game when we realized that in a relatively even matchup, the first player will win about 85 percent of the time. Going second is just so much of a huge disadvantage. The first player can surround 2 or more spaces easily leaving player 2 always playing catchup and defense. I'd like to see a future version that fixes this. Also, sometimes a game can get stuck in the endgame with both players playing chicken, not selecting any of the last few letters. Both situations are less than awesome game dynamics that need to be addressed.
There have been a number of stories on this and ABC news did a pretty good 20/20 segment on it as well. The math works sort of like this, one investigator's salary is $S, and one investigator can handle one transaction 'stream' in real time. We'll call $D the number of transactions a doctor is approving, and 'N' the number of doctors making transactions.

Hospitals tend toward either 'having fraud' or 'not having fraud' so the one investigator ($S) covering a hospital can decrease the at risk transactions by Nh*$D where 'n' is the number of Doctors at the hospital.

To investigate a private practice you have a small number of doctors "Ns" and busting them recovers a much smaller 'transactions per investigator' value. So an investigator looking into one doctor doesn't have an impact on the other doctors that have private practice in the same building.

As the cost of investigation is part of the budget (as are the payouts) you can afford to give more of the budget payout to Hospitals because your your per doctor investigator cost is lower. (zero sum game here).
I think a huge part of it is that unity is burning trash and the people behind it either don't have any idea what they're doing, or are suffering from the sunk cost fallacy.

Unfortunately after the amazon adware fiasco, I'm starting to lean on the former.
Alright dude, now check that again and buy me a beer ;)
I'd be open to either. A big problem is that I live in NYC now, and haven't been able to be involved in the day-to-day events like I once was. I'm looking for someone--or a group--to step into that place.
Nice work. This would be a great demo in a computer science class.
Surely there are lots of ways your book store could continue to innovate. You may need to move beyond being just a book store to something more social & digital but maybe that's what it will take. People are using book shops in a different kind of way now. It used to be that the local book store was quicker, while with online sales you had to wait a few days but it was cheaper. Now you can have any book in front of you, including a free sample chapter 24/7.

I still love to support my local independent book shop but I'm reading more than ever now but the last 5 books I read weren't even in printed format. It's time to compete in a different way.
What we need is a Kickstarter for this stuff, or some sort of prize or bounty system. I don't even know how long I've been reading about individuals online trying to design Random Vibrators (changing speeds in an un-learnable pattern to prevent acclimation, obviously not as simple as sending random numbers to the motor) and various individuals claiming to have homebrewed the even more legendary Intelligent Vibrator (with some sort of sensor that can detect when you get close to an orgasm and stop)... and yet neither of these are ever showing up for sale online. Ever. What's wrong with this market?
That's interesting. We've thought of many things, but not that. I'll pass it along.
>Netflix's problem is that there are no switching barriers to keep viewers loyal to Netflix.

That's also their biggest strength. Apple's got all their vendor lock in, amazon is trying to build vendor lock in with the kindle fire line, google is trying to build a vendor lock in with google play. If you buy into that ecosystem, it's a good way to keep you. But if you don't want to buy into any specific manufacturer, netflix is great. I can't watch iTunes movies on my android phone, and i can't watch google play movies on my iPad and i can't watch either on my roku, but i can watch netflix on all of them.
But this thread is full of firsthand accounts from (presumably) law-abiding HN users who have had to jump through the same hoops.
> "In the attractive cities housing is very expensive"

I've never found high cost-of-living cities to be particularly more attractive than average cost-of-living cities.

I definitely wouldn't consider Oakland (40% higher than US average COL) an attractive city. Certainly not more attractive than Orlando (2% lower than US average COL).

But of course, what city we consider "attractive" is also a choice. If one considers Manhattan to be the most attractive because of some particular attribute, then choosing to live in the most attractive space is going to be costly and perhaps out of reach with a single middle class income. But a single middle class income is plenty to live in a comfortable house in a decent neighborhood in Denver, Kansas City, or Dallas, and many people find those places quite attractive.
Wow. I just said give him good food, not 9 rounds of painful chemo. I also said I have no idea what his illness is, but I for one sincerely hope my loved ones don't simply resign themselves to accepting my "comfortable death," writing me off like a bad debt. Karma points shmarma points.
When it comes to physical stores, the general rule is "location location location", and just based on having lived near Cambridge for a decade and spent most of my time there Inman Sq just feels like a suboptimal location for a bookstore.

This is assuming of course that a problem is getting more traffic. I don't know if that's an issue, or if the problem is the "conversion rate". It would be interesting to find out what's working and what isn't, but don't know if you're inclined to share further. Myself I'm not in a position to take over, but I sure can provide free advice :>

I've always dreamed of hybrid book store/coffee shops. Perhaps ones that sell subscription access, becoming for-pay lending libraries with a book inventory that adjusts to patron demands. That way you have recurring revenue off each customer, and you can hope people sign up for it like they do for gym memberships and then don't show :)
I like that idea of the lending library. I wonder if it would work... I guess there's only one way to find out: try.
Yes, things can be lost in translation across cultures. However, given the context is war, the head of social media should expect their personal Facebook account to come under scrutiny. The target audience of the IDF's social media strategy is an English speaking Western audience, who most definitely find blackface offensive.
The problem is for avid tv-series watcher (I admit I am one) netflix is a very bad solution. The obvious problem is that they do not have the fresh stuff. I wouldn't mind some delay, but when it's a season worth of delay, it stops being useful. This, however, is not the worst part - I also watch some old ones. But even there - netflix has way less than full collection, some seasons are missing, some episodes are missing from otherwise complete season, etc. And there's no way for me to track which episodes I already watched, make a list of my favorites to re-watch, or do any other useful things with them. The should at least do something like next-episode.net, but they could probably do even better. But they don't seem to be focusing there, unfortunately...
I'm in NYC now too, but I'd like to email you when I get home. Can I find your address somewhere?
I wish Netflix would transition fast to an HBO model where they produce their own content. I could see them establishing a kickstarter like content crowd-funding option (opt-in) for say 15 $ / month extra where users would vote on shows, finance them & bring them to life.
just imagine what/if scenarios would have played out when "Arrested development" was canceled if we had such an option back then.

My point is, if kickstarter can start raising sums as high a 4 Mil $ for project eternity & 6 Mil $ for Star Citizen, the days when AAA movies could be crowd-funded is not far from us.
I'm looking forward to the day when big studios & their greedy shortsightedness get disrupted. The penultimate frontier of disintermediation. fingers crossed
Hipsters do need an awfully specific habitat to thrive. Streets can't be too clean, air can't either, just enough poverty, but not too much actual poverty, a certain background level of tee-hee crime like smoking, lots of viable Starbucks (for income), lots of non-viable non-Starbucks (for "real" coffee), vegan sandwich shops, obsolete forms of commerce selling obsolete goods (like brick-and-mortar record- and book-stores), reasonable public transport, no actual manufacturing for a hundred miles, urban density, good place to walk around, the geography can't be boring, maybe an art gallery to complain about...
Is it possible that because it's so expensive, you could make it yourself for a much better return on investment?

Is it so expensive that you could burn out three cheap laser printers a month for a fraction of the cost? What if it was one moderately expensive printer every two months?

What if you had a Raspberry Pi managing your print queue across multiple networked printers and you bind them with a surplus GBC machine? You could keep a supply of "nice" pre-printed covers available to wrap around books when they're ready.

One nice thing about this is that you could start small, and scale fairly easily. Use human labour (that's already running the shop) to fill in the gaps in automation.

It might be worth looking at Don Lancaster's web site (tinaja.com) for some thoughts on how to do this stuff before any pre-packaged solutions existed (look for "print-on-demand" resources).

I like bookstores a lot. I hope you'll be able to find a way to make it work for you!
That Courier FUD article does not list a single specific complaint with the specification (well, other than the version number ;P): it just goes over a bunch of personal arguments back/forth and then concludes that it is the fault of the specification that interoperability was poor because interoperability seems poor.

As for the UID issue, there are some backends that simply cannot support maintaining a UID as that was not a concept that existed in legacy mail stores. However, it is only an implementation "of inferior quality" that does not maintain them: it's in the category of "SHOULD".

"""UIDNOTSTICKY is an admission by the server that either the server or the mail store is of inferior quality that can not comply with the design requirements of IMAP UIDs. Not announcing UIDNOTSTICKY, but changing the UIDVALIDITY on a mailbox is an admission by the server that either it or the mail store has an defect that caused it to fail to comply with the design requirements of IMAP UIDs.""" -- http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/imap-protocol/200...

The protocol thereby provides a means by which you can tell if you have an inferior server; but yes: it technically allows a server to be inferior because at the time the protocol was released there were no existing mail storage systems that did not have this inferiority. If you still insist on using an inferior server, the result will be weird and will be, well, inferior ;P, but at least it will work.

And yes: I've seen that specific block of source code before, because people paste it around all the time as it is fun to complain about things with foul language and insult the things that people do; that doesn't make it an accurate description of the state of affairs, nor certainly does it indicate anything about the design constraints of the protocol.

As for why the server is allowed to send arbitrary command responses at any time, most people consider that a feature for the same reason they considered IDLE a feature: the original IMAP protocol was highly asynchronous, and simply streamed protocol state to the client whenever things were updated so that the local client would have a live-updated display.

The result is that the protocol, to a very real extent, doesn't even have "command responses": they are kind of a specification concept; instead, it simply has state update messages, and some commands are guaranteed to flush caches and force state updates (which then have timing constraints in when they can be sent, which as a client are mostly irrelevant and for a server are trivially implemented if you do so conservatively).
I wouldn't be commenting on this.