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"Where does it say he watched 3DHFR twice?"

- author's reply in the 7th comment of the post (on the post's website).
Reading his backstory, I think it was because he quit his job to become an entrepreneur.

He just put the cart before the horse, that's all. Find a good company, find a good project, work on it. When you see a true market for something, then and only then should you go after it.

Don't just be an entrepreneur because you think it's what you want to do—it's not about you, it's about the market and the value you can provide to it.
Sorry, my mistake. I'd be more careful about defending someone's poor use of the word "bigot".
They actually say it's not for kids!
>Are you? Citing one situation where they pulled back doesn't account for all of the endless updates they made against people's wishes, most recently that whole thing where they don't give users a choice anymore at all.

What "users wishes"? Some people will always complain for anything.

It only matters when large volumes of users protest. Some guy in rural Montana not liking some Facebook policy doesn't mean FB will change it.

In this case the MAJORITY of the people are using Facebook as they did before, and have no problem with any changes.

Not the same case with Instagram, where the change has to do with the core (and basically only) feature of the service, uploading your photos.
There are certainly aspects of our market economy that are emergent. Trade is as old as humanity itself, but not all aspects of the economy are so old, nor as immutable.

The modern corporation, for example, is a relatively new invention. Depending on your definition, anywhere between a few centuries and a few decades old. Compared to the time scale on which human evolution has taken place, that's practically nothing. In those decades or centuries, we and our ancestors have chosen particular shapes for our economy. Not all of those choices are final.

Whether the choices that influenced this particular example can be changed, I don't know, nor do I feel qualified to hazard a guess. However, I stand by my original point: it makes no sense to refuse to consider how we might improve the system.
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> I'd argue that any supposed "urge to share" is weaker
> than the evident urge to control the products of one's
> own labor.

I think this is subject to the same fallacy of the parent post. Even if most people have a desire to obtain intellectual privileges over their labour, that doesn't mean it's good for society as a whole to give it to them.
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I wasn't defending it.
I watched some of King Kong on an HDTV that does the interpolated 48fps. It switched between 48 and 24 fps depending on scene when it could. The switching was quite irritating, going from very smooth motion to now-apparent jittery "normal" motion. Jolting indeed.
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IMHO fats is too generic.

Do you mean unsaturated, polyunsaturated or saturated fats?

Margarine or butter?

The answer is just as significant for any diet as the carbohydrates quantity.
I wrote an article a few months ago on how to run Jasmine (as well as rspec and cucumber) tests on Jenkins CI.

http://mikekusold.com/blog/Development/2012-06-05/deploying-...
The measures you can try with the buttons (40, 65 and 90) are to see how the text looks on the edges of these guidelines (which I've written as 50-80 characters).

It's not a scientific number by any means, rather a general "consensus" derived from all the typography literature and articles I've read. The measure is not as simple as it seems, though; Readers seem to prefer a shorter measure while reading speed is actually increased with a longer measure, like shown in this study:

http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/72/LineLeng...
One comment really caught my attention in there:

>> Man, this really blows. FB Purity helps me, a blind user, actually use Facebook more effectively than without it. sighs I do hope you continue to fight the power.
If you refer to fragmentation as manufacturers slowing down upgrades because they are "differentiating" their Android devices then I believe the web ecosystem already has some experience there dealing with different browsers :)

I believe an alternative mobile ecosystem not centrally controlled like iOS and Android, but rather with a standardised core and fragmentation / innovation on top is a very exciting model. It's working great for the web, why is mobile fundamentally any different? It beats having to program every application three times from scratch to reach a full market.
>The Italians allowed a film version of Ayn Rand's "We the Living" to be produced because they believed it was a biting criticism of Soviet Russia, before someone realized its philosophic disposition was anti-totalitarianism. Could be sort of the same thing...

And why would "the Italians" have a problem with either praise of Soviet Russia or anti-totalitarianism? They are a democracy, you know, and they have both millions of people pro and against Soviet Russia (the communist party was huge in Italy), and pro and against totalitarianism.

That said, knowing Ayn Rand, the film would be mostly pro-neoliberal totalitarianism of "special" individuals...
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While I do hope success for firefox OS a true Open source OS, I can't help but wonder what is the site using for hosting such a nice dynamic blog on github ?
Ask HN: Fitness, looking great, and performing your best
I'm getting ripped, healthy, and happy in 13 minutes a week (as seen here from my blog post): [http://mkeas.org/body-by-science]

There are plenty of things that are helping me do this, and I'm taking NO SUPPLEMENTS whatsoever.

- Bulletproof Diet [http://bulletproofexec.com]

- Cold Exposure - 10 min cold showers [http://muscleevo.net/cold-showers-weight-loss/#.UNHXQXPjl_I]

- Whole Body Vibration training

What are the most useful tips from your own habits/methods?
Upon re-reading your post I take back what I said. I was really taking issue with the user who originally called the OP a bigot. Sorry bout that.
You missed the point of the post. If sharing would be the default then the work in question would only be restricted as long as the commercial interest (not the "moral" one) was strong enough to warrant such a restriction. So whatever cultural importance a work would have is irrelevant, since it's the restriction that should be motivated and not the other way around.

I also think it's a strange argument since there aren't, in most countries, any distinction in copyright between works of cultural importance and other works.
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Filling the silence (reflections on Instagram TOS hysteria)
>Would you say the bloggers on huffington post talk chain-mails and heresy?

Huffington Post? That's the worst kind of BS blogging and bad journalism. If HP's your idea of "social media", then they are far worse than traditional media...
Possibly.

We've brought someone in 2.5 years after starting and given them a sizeable chunk of equity. Not sure whether we'd "call" him a co-founder or not....but it doesn't really matter. They do have a large % of ownership, which is really what matters more. We likely will never have the need for seed or VC money, nor pursue that path, which might make a difference with something like this?

Edit: Another consideration is whether you're paying this new person a fair-market salary.
Are these your proposals for research, or are they hypotheses that you claim the author was examining and that I somehow missed? If the former and you're looking for a critique, I would start by saying that I don't think hypothesis #1 is well posed. Do you mean any society, or the USA? And do you mean by any means at all, or only using legal, constitutional means?

In examining hypothesis #2, do we have available a sample of societies where guns were removed and nothing else changed, so we can perform a statistical analysis of the change in "death" rate following the sudden removal of guns? I think that's extremely unlikely, and therefore I don't see how we can reach reliable conclusions. Also, I'm confused about what you're proposing to look at: by "death", do you mean murder by gun? All murders? Suicides? Accidents, illness, etc.?

Of course we can be confident of tautologies: if all guns were made to disappear, including those in the hands of the government, there would not be any gun murders. But this does not seem very illuminating. Even in that case, how do we know that murders by other means, and other violent crimes, would not increase?

Your question is "whether there is a study that would be acceptable". I think the answer is clearly yes, and there are studies on this subject in the literature, of varying quality. My point was that the author seems not to know or care much one way or the other, and prefers to sling "hunches".

I'm not sure I understand anything that follows "acceptable", but I think you're wondering whether some people would be against a gun control measure even if it could be known that said measure would lead to a net decrease in murders. The answer to that (and I'm sorry if that's not what you were asking) is obviously "yes" in some cases. As an analogy, many people are harmed, even driven to suicide, by speech. This harm could possibly be reduced by enacting speech controls. But there are people who, even if they agree that a particular speech control measure would reduce harm caused by speech, would nevertheless be against it.
Yes, yet I don't see how they could have something in their ToS that says "you can't change the appearance of the website" since each user can see a website however he wants (Facebook does not describe the rendering of their site, only the markup of their site, it's up to the user..or it's own browser.. to interpret the markup in a rendering.. by cleverly omitting some divs & moving others somewhere else for instance!)
All is forgiven.
I use Centos on servers. I've always found the Redhat model to be easier to manage servers with. I use debian on embedded systems because it can more easily be made read-only and smaller. Debian is more "Linux-y". Redhat makes lots of changes to the kernel and filesystem layout that make tinkering with the low level system harder.
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Glad to see salaries are going up for new grads (at least for Stanford grads with ludicrous offers from Google and Facebook). Pushing salaries up across the industry can only be a good thing for pretty much everybody here.

Definitely a refreshing change from the GlassDoor surveys we keep seeing here telling people to hold on tight to that $70k salary you deserve from your 7-10 years of experience.

All that's missing now is the obligitory dismissive comment from that DC government contractor guy who thinks we're all really making $30k/year and lying about it (and says as much on every single discussion about salary that comes through this site).
clickable links:

I'm getting ripped, healthy, and happy in 13 minutes a week (as seen here from my blog post): [http://mkeas.org/body-by-science]

- Bulletproof Diet [http://bulletproofexec.com]

- Cold Exposure - 10 min cold showers [http://muscleevo.net/cold-showers-weight-loss/#.UNHXQXPjl_I]
I somehow assumed this was done with a webcam eyetracking software .. my bad.
It seems to me that most of the folks complaining about HFR are those with a relatively deep experience with films and filmmaking.

The 'unwashed masses' seems to be at least indifferent, and in many cases, positive about it.
If they object to paying for the service, they should stop using the service- not just stop paying for it.
> "And why would "the Italians" have a problem with either praise of Soviet Russia or anti-totalitarianism?"

The movie in question was made in 1942, during the reign of Mussolini and his facists.
> What's the point of making something of lasting value if
> someone else can just take it after 30 years?

Is that really what scholars of behavioural economy and human psychology would tell us motivates makers to make things?
Thanks for the rational reply.

For ref, I don't do nothing - I do a lot of charitable work which benefits people directly (children with neurological problems). No stock, no schemes (other than gift aid). I won't go into the amount in detail but per year for the last year it's been larger than zuck's donation aggregated per Facebook staff member

I'm entitled to judge a person by their own standards - in public, in front of people, which is how zuck wants us to live our social life.
Bought a Dell for just under $2K in 1999 (remember prices were much different then) with some serious gaming power for an off the shelf PC. 30 FPS was generally a minimum for this rig when playing games like Q3, UT and HL. If that's costly to you, the TNT2 and other cards were cheaper than my voodoo3 3000 AGP and still delivered good results.
Hacker, but a doer who can do and get stuff done
If you are looking for an architect level guy who takes ownership and a doer (hands on), look no further and contact me on 4082039960 or sid4it@gmail.com. I am very passionate about my work.

Experiences quite broad and depth Open source contributor (have github account and projects) Latest client web frameworks - backbone, bootstrap, kickstrap, knockout.js, ext.js etc., NoSQL - Mongodb Mysql, Oracle and list is endless Web crawlers in perl, python or Java or scrapy Python web framework Php (Lithium, code igniter flavors (pyrocms, fuelcms, etc.,) Java or .NET Beanstalk Queue/Tubes, RabbitMQ, MSMQ ....endless

Referential clients and quite visible profile on Linkedin.

I can offer 30-40 hours of my time per week. I am productive. Timings are flexible and rates are negotiable. Willing to consider pilot projects to check creds.

Thanks
Probably because he's referring to the 1942 version (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035130/), during which time Italy was not a democracy.
We still use EBS for database backups via ec2-consistent-snapshot. The slave DB that performs this is not production-facing.

We have 2 separate chef recipes for our DBs:

One is for a full-time slave. This recipe will set up the db to use the EBS volume.

The other is for a slave that will be promoted to a master. In this case, we do a little extra legwork to do a bit-by-bit copy of a recent EBS snapshot, onto the ephemeral disk.

Sounds like I have more blog posts to write!
Because when Ayn Rand was produced, Italy was not a democracy - it was under the fascist dictatorship of Mussolini.
I've run a few projects on AWS and agree with how much it simplifies your life, but like the OP the big sticking point is EBS. I wasn't aware that ELB relies on EBS. Good to know!

I've also looked into ephemeral storage, but ultimately I decided to just rent a dedicated machine from elsewhere. Building a B2B site, I'm not as worried about massively scaling on a dime. The project has still used transient EC2 instances for a few odd things, though. It's nice to have that option when you need it!
"It seems almost like a fix when the same positions are left open week after week but you've already been turned down (with and/or without an interview)."

I've heard that some companies even post fake job offerings because it makes them look good economically (look, we are growing and can't hire fast enough).

What about going to networking events and user groups and reaching out there?
It certainly sounds ridiculous on the face of it, but without knowing the level of this fraud it's difficult to actually judge.

If these are two of a tiny handful of instances where this has ever happened, and there's many thousands of people who have had replacements shipped to alternate addresses (e.g. work, or a holiday location) then the cost of implementing additional checks for this - even if that's just the man-hour cost of asking additional questions - could be far more than the size of the loss.

And that's ignoring any less tangible customer experience angles - there's several people in this thread alone who have said they are more likely to buy from Amazon again as a result of this kind of customer service. I had to chase a missing order up last week, and the simplicity of the interaction was amazing compared to the hours (or even days) of battling I've had with some other internet businesses when things have gone wrong, and that definitely has at least some impact on my future decisions to use the respective companies.
That I do.

People know how banks operate and they are regulated. The same is not true for Facebook, which makes negative policy decisions all the time.
Directors of that time were accustomed to choosing oversaturated colors to help viewers distinguish between different elements in black & white productions. This practice continued well into the 1960s. Look at a color set photograph of "I Love Lucy" for an example of this.

3-strip Technicolor, by its own nature, tends to oversaturate colors as well.

These two facts help explain the garish colors seen in The Wizard of Oz and other 3-strip Technicolor films of the era.

With that being said, I find The Wizard of Oz (and most other 3-strip Technicolor films) to be indescribably beautiful.
And in all fairness, I think that the tone of your response was a hundred times less inflammatory than the post I responded to (and sadly, far less inflammatory than the post of mine you are responding to).

In an ideal world, more HNers would temper their reactions to start crying 'bullshit' and put more effort into treating each other like human beings. If more did exactly as you'd done, HN would be a far better place than it currently is.

AVTizzle's post may or may not meet that definition, as he hasn't responded to clarify his position, but he also isn't speaking directly about a particular person in general, rather, he's speaking about his own mindset about a group of people, and he's been blasted for it.

Thanks for the extra data point -- I'm a little amazed that we interpret the reference post so differently, but I thank you for clarifying.

Regarding the harshness, I didn't mean to imply that I felt this was a very recent phenomenon. And in fact, the HN of many years ago had perhaps far more in the way of pissing matches, but they were more academic in tone. I think it's that precedent that encourages the head-butting we see now, but either because people have 'settled in', or the community standards have lowered, there are less people who can say "No, I think that you're wrong -- here's why," without resorting to pejoratives and insults. I realize how potentially futile change is, but the idealist in me hopes it isn't.
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>Don't just be an entrepreneur because you think it's what you want to do-it's not about you, it's about the market and the value you can provide to it.

This should be considered a powerful quote that everyone should live by.
Looking at the source[1] of the blog. It appears to be built with Jekyll[2].

[1]: https://github.com/comoyo/comoyo.github.com

[2]: http://jekyllrb.com/
William Shakespeare's plays were commercial endeavors.
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These comments are so pathetic it kills me. This man just donated half of a billion dollars to a good cause. There is absolutely no way around the fact that a donation of that size is an incredible act of generosity. If he did it to get a tax break or to impress his neighbor it wouldn't change a thing.
Very cool. Gonna help me step up meme game to the next level. Dig the plug and play engine.
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I've heard people mentioning they already have Qt applications in both App Store and Google Play, but I don't know any specifics. So I suppose the support is there with some tweaking already.

And of course Qt will be the main SDK for both Blackberry 10 and Jolla's Sailfish.
Nice to see something positive from the DPRK.
There is no "fallacy" in either post. Neither of us claimed that giving people what they desire would or would not be "good for society" under a definition of "good" that would exclude "giving people what they want" as a criteria for "good for society."
Is my developer's home-brew password security right or wrong, and why?
Good answer, for sure. The one thing that is dangerous is that it's hard to know, when you're going off and learning "esoteric" skills, if those will be winning horses or dead ends. A lot of people would rather max out on enterprise Java (which has a well-studied, if commoditized, market) than take a risk on a specialty that might be "hot" today but dead tomorrow.

The AI winter is one of the worst things to have happened to software, and the decline of funding and even respectability of basic research has set technology itself back 25 years, and there's a scary lesson in it, which is that interesting, cutting-edge work can suddenly enter a funding drought.
I'm pretty excited about this. I probably won't use it for the UI. My desktop apps are written in Qt, so it will be nice to be able to reuse a lot of back end code. I was using Qt's serialization (probably not the best idea in the first place) to store my data files and I had to redo all the serialization so my iPad version could create compatible data files.
dang, a lot of what he wrote resonate with me. the difference is, i've been meaning to ASK people here in HN for some advice regarding my project (i don't dare to call it startup yet), but been deferring it since i haven't translated my website in english.

if i might add, for the Programming part: don't develop your startup with cool tech/language/framework you just heard yesterday. it's fun, but you'll get sidetracked big time.
That sounds great - as long as the story you tell is compelling, and you do it in a way that captivates and surprises me.

I support art.

If it turns out that your depiction of Spiderguy sucked, I'm less likely to support you in the future.

If you want to share your toys, I think that makes you awesome. But if you don't want to share your toys, I don't think you should have to.
Sorry but right now, im in a "zen thing" of trying to unite my actions with my thougts, and think, and express my thinking process through the action itself..

After observing nature, i came with this uncommon conclusion, that wherever the gods my be, the creators of this whole scenario we live in, are in such a state of perfection, that they communicate with actions, with the own things they create..

If you look at a flower, or listen to a bird .. isnt a way of communication? a message by itself?

After look to ourselves, wherever we have acomplished or made... i felt i did so little yet.. what can i teach to others, does it apply to myself?

I think the fruit of a tree, tell everything about what the tree are.

thats why im more silent right now.. there some things i need to acomplish first.. that will tell more about how i think about things, even without a spoken or written word.

Theres too much noise in the world already, and all this misleading noise make people crash..

Will i produce more noise? i dont know yet.. but while i try to figure out whats real from whats ilusion , i can work on things that can act, and be used in the same way i think.

This is mind-action harmony.. this is me training myself while im in a journey..

its not just about what i have acomplished but also what i have becomed

we can exchange ideas any time you want! i prefer dialogues to monologues :)
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Those changes were made for security, to make social engineering attacks more difficult. You can still type JS into the address bar, you just can't copy and paste it.
> It’s like being on a film set in person: all of the magic is lost.

This is a common theme among HFR detractors: The fact that "It's too real" when viewing Middle Earth is a helluva left-handed insult.