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Hi all,

Ryan's roommate here, longtime HN lurker.

It would have been nice if FB locked down his profile a little sooner, for sure. I imagine we're going to be dealing with this shit for a while to come now.

If you wouldn't mind, can you help us get the hashtag #ApologizeToRyan off the ground? Maybe social media can be used to restore his good name, too.
ban also knifes then. Today in China someone killed 22 children with a knife.
I'm more reluctant to trash Kurzweil, but this image hiring policy is taking on the look of some sort of bizarre Victorian menagerie where they keep old famous computer scientists in wrought iron cages for Googlers' amusement. It's like the Henry Ford museum, but they're collecting people. That's more than a little weird.
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If these social networks wished to discourage such behavior, they could create a "most popular comment" feature that pinned something you said publicly and in the last few months in your public profile, then quietly tweak their algorithms to prefer public lynch-mob dickishness or other bad behavior to this spot.
Guns are designed for one purpose, to kill other human beings. Cars, while also dangerous, do have more utility.
Rather, genius is the subset of crazy recognized by society as useful. The moment of recognition is the point at which it becomes venerated instead of derided.
Just 15 comments after 15 hours (before this one), and 60 points for the topic. Most of the comments are neutral to negative.
So where is the market forming for Google+? It must be strong in some niches - but what are they?
Maybe that's an example of bad email wording or something gone wrong?

"Insert this into the header of your websites" and someone took it too literally?
any version for ubuntu/other debian derivatives?
I realize that you are trying to be facetious here, but I don't know of any cars that are specifically designed to cause harm to people.

And if there was one, how many do you want in your neighborhood?
I agree with you, clogging up Amazon's stuff with 800,000 titles is a sad effect.

It suggests that crooks in the 21st century don't rob banks, rather they rob a million people of 50 cents because none of them feels ripped off enough to prosecute and even if they did they are only out 50 cents.
most important bit from that link:
"37 gets used a lot because it somehow feels random"
A man stabbed 22 children. Nobody died. They are in hospital. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/man-stabs-22-child...

I wish the man in Connecticut stabbed the kids instead of using an assault weapon to blast them away.
re: TDD -- tcltest ([package require tcltest], man n tcltest) is downright brilliant. Brilliant. It's worth noting that Tcl is the core of the GCC testsuite (dejagnu) as well http://www.gnu.org/software/dejagnu/
Two mice but surely not two cursors?
Gun or not, the criminally-insane will always find ways to kill. You can make about 100 different types of bombs using household chemicals, all with far more lethal and discreet potential than a gun. Maybe we should start burning all cleaning agents.

Take a hard look at history, namely Prohibition. What happens when you restrict access to a resource in demand? People find new, illegal, and potentially more dangerous ways to sell it.

Let's disperse with the idealism that regulating/destroying guns will somehow create world peace. It will create new opportunities for criminal-entrepreneurs. Black markets. Increased crime. More guns in the hands of criminals, and less in the hands of honest people (I don't particularly care about how many "honest" people have guns, but I do care about the consequences of over-regulation).
Does this differ from Goinstant (http://www.goinstant.com/ )? It was aquired by Salesforce in July 2012 for $70MM.
> Regardless, clearly Ryan Lanza does not have a case since law enforcement officials did originally identify him, wrongly, as the suspect.

They did? The article made it sound like they used the name Ryan Lanza, but that they didn't identify which Ryan Lanza.
Well, no, because he was actually neither the shooter nor the brother of the shooter, so he is unlikely to be found a limited public figure. Plus, pegging him as such without doing even the most basic research seems like negligence to me (any reasonably prudent person would have taken 15 fucking seconds to look harder at his profile)

Otherwise, your assessment would be correct.
People with mental health issues usuaaly won't have the techincal know how/ skills to build a bomb using toilet cleaners. I come from India, where there are groups that make low tech bombs. Not individuals. Often times they injure themselves than kill a lot of people. The ones that kill 100's often require well regulated chemicals.
Teamviewer supports Linux but I'm interested to see if this does the sharing the screen and pointing thing better.
I've used history.replaceState API add a position indicator on long infinite scroll pages into the page hash so you get

http://somesite/foo#scroll=20121104120000

It has some rough edges, multiple jerky transitions on uncached load, for some reason replaceState is an expensive operation on Chrome, but it was a better experience than the alternative for that page (pagination or forgetful autoscroll)
Manager to programmers: "Hey that weird free software guy thinks we put "backdoors" in our software, whatever that means. Maybe he's right and our competitor do this already!! ...Quick, code a backdoor into our system too, we don't want to fall behind!"
Great now all the technical press just hangs out at hn looking for stories. The circle is complete.
We have different definitions of "difficult" I suspect.

The Thorium fuel cycle produces U232, that stuff kills at a distance, through walls. What that means is that there are a number of scenarios, one of which Fukishima just went through, where the core gets uncovered and rather than leaking Cesium it shoots gamma rays everywhere killing anything trying to get near it. That is not the case with the U238 fuel cycle.

Not saying it can't be dealt with, just saying its different, and by being different it is dangerous in different ways.
Mental health does not always negate mental power. Sociopaths and Psychopaths (a very similar classification) have perfectly normal brain function, only (to some degree) violence does not bother them -- some even enjoy it. Not all socio/psychopaths are killers though, in fact some are very good people (it has been theorized that a few US Presidents were sociopaths). Often times sociopaths can be very intelligent people, especially with regards to social hacking (they can be very charming on the outside, and very manipulative). (Source: my parents are psychiatrists who deal with the criminally insane, among many other types of mental cases).
pmarca: I think you're onto something here.

A large micro-investment portfolio.

Anything in this portfolio is sort of a tip of the hat from a16z, a micro-endorsement that messages: "we've got our eyes on this company."
IE and Chrome scroll by a little less than a full screen so you get some overlap, as long as you keep your fixed footer very small, like one or half a line of content text, you should still be OK.
Really like the concept and the product feels great. I'm curious as to why voice chat was not included though. Is that planned in an upcoming release, because it seems like a pretty big setback. You may not be fighting over a single cursor anymore, but you're still fighting for control, and it's hard to coordinate that without talking to one another. I don't want to have to use up additional resources by entering a Skype chat either.
I wouldn't call "meetings" particularly social. If anything, they're the opposite, a bunch of people bored out of their minds, listing to powerpoint presentations or BS upper management speak.

The more social part of a programmer's day is probably when he's having lunch with the team.
It's not "spam" if people double opt in, want to receive it, read it, and send nice testimonials about how much they enjoy receiving it. At least, no more "spam" than stuff you order on Amazon is "junk mail."
Tempted to say they found an obelisk in orbit :-) but more seriously NASA says a lot of stuff around budget time, and in times of imminent fiscal cliffs where they don't see a lot of other targets standing on the field.
I have been looking for a good taste life coach and a cleverness tutor as well. Are you available?
He's a "connector", a large company need people like him. Even if he was a sub-par engineer, and I bet he's not, he would still be a valuable hire, especially if they want to rebrand themselves as an "AI company".
Solo founder does not imply solo company. You can hire people -- they'll be employees, not co-founders.
When I read this I remembered when few years ago DHH(also from 37signals) was talking that there is no place for the "The Idea Guy" in today's companies.

Similarly, that is what I think about software/web designers not been able to implement their own designs, due to the lack of knowledge about programming. You don't need to be an expert to implement them. All you need is a basic knowledge of the platform for which you are building the design.

I realize that acquiring this knowledge may be difficult, and it may take some time. The same goes for programmers who don't know how to design the interface of their products. They don't need to become experts but they can teach themselves the basics. I was in such situation with time and experiments my designs improved, but I am not an expert.

To sum up, "Dancing Without A Partner", you don't need a partner for this dance, you just need to learn a little hip hope and turn on the music, everything else its just an excuse for laziness.
Try talking to more investors or bootstrapping.
There's a bit in James P Hogan's novel Code Of The Lifemaker about a charlatan mentalist, asking a crowd to pick a number under certain circumstances. Because of the way he structured it most people picked 37. See here for excerpt- http://jm.home.xs4all.nl/37/cotl.html

I got excited when I read that book the first time since I'd decided at about age 15 or so that 37 was "the most random number" and used it everywhere I could as some sort of odd prank.
>Wait what? Who in the world is using a computer today that isn't constantly interacting with people on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, uh.. Hacker News, even..

For a lot of people this kind of "interacting with people" is not really the same as face to face interaction.

You type something into an text input box in Facebook and you get a reply back. Some interaction.

Regular people do that when they are BORED and constrained at home and want to be social, not when they JUST want to be social.

The success of such services is that due to overworking, living far away from friends etc, people a) have to use them, and b) are bored most of the time. They mostly replace TV, not social interaction.
For a nice gpg-encrypted password store, see "pass": http://zx2c4.com/projects/password-store/

Many programs that require passwords (e.g., mutt, offlineimap, msmtp) let you specify a command to retrieve the password, which is really easy using pass.
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I am constantly surprised by that. http://dozeo.com has screen export (we don't do screen sharing) support for Linux and its been the easiest implementation of all three. It is not official, as in "not our main business", but we do have CI for it and it should work in the future.
Two cursors. However, only one application can be active at any one time, so two people can't type at the same time.
Although a defense, Fair Use would certainly allow news organizations to publish those images without concern.
Purely SEO. Articles being identified by number is much cleaner programming-wise, but search engines like it when URLs have text in them to index against. It's also good for readability of URLs in general, really.
That's a terrifying thought, that centrally-run social networks are actually in a position to perform this kind of conditioning. What could Facebook do, if it tried to socially engineer the entire world?
>That's meaningless. "never getting the chance to talk to anybody"? I'm talking to you, and everyone else who reads this web page, right now.

No, you're not. Your writing a message to an online "message forum", to people who could care less about who you are, don't know how you look, don't know or care what you do or how you feel, and only want to hear very specific things from you (e.g. not straying off topic of this thread).

>Look at all the people who are in real world physical social situations and still spend most of their time staring at their smartphone and the stream of social updates from Twitter, from Facebook, from Email...

You miss that they do it _in addition_ to actually being social. Doing just the "social updates in Twitter, FB etc" thing, would be no substitute.
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Absolutely. GoInstant is for the web only, and is meant for tech support rather than collaboration.
I don't personally think this is a great way to learn programming at all. Sure you might eventual play around with a little Javascript and some PHP but it's at such a surface and it's a long slog. Figuring out how to signup for an FTP account is actually much simpler than learn fundamental programming concepts and languages. I mean I guess it depends on what your goals are but it's just a such strange way to me, I'd have a hard time calling this programming, to just be honest about it.
This is super slick. Just played around with it with a friend and there's almost no lag. My CPU spun up quite a bit but nevertheless color me impressed. I'm curious how this is implemented though?
I recommend reading old school text files than this method though. :)
Yep, and before that there was JIMO, the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter, which was to be powered by a nuclear fission reactor (not an RTG). It lost funding in 2005.

ESA continues work on JUICE, the Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer.

No doubt there are more I'm forgetting.

JIMO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Icy_Moons_Orbiter

JUICE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Icy_Moon_Explorer
Photostream is wifi only, with dropbox you Can upload over cellular.
So you think this is relevant... why?
awesome!!! been wanting something like this ;)
> Of course but it's nothing more than bureaucratic red tape.

And you can't see it as the fault of the red tape itself.
I may have come across as insistent on clearly stating ways around the natural proofs barrier because this is Hacker News, where folks are liable to jump to conclusions, and not, say, http://cstheory.stackexchange.com. Given the large number of attempts against P vs. NP, frequently by folks who are not active in complexity theory, it's often better to try to understand these ideas on theory sites.

You make an reasonable point, vis-a-vis Chow; rather than being regarded as an absolute barrier for lines of reasoning involving circuit complexity, the requirement of being a sufficiently complex proof may provide a jumping-off point for uncovering a working method.
I feel like the Web is evolving too fast right now for this kind of things to happen. It's already ridiculously hard to keep up with all the innovation, so there is no time to stop and reflect and build a browser from scratch with a clean and modular design. Maybe it will happen once something different than the Web takes off.

To add to your specifications: a "programer's web browser" should communicate with the user in a way which assumes that the user is knowledgeable. It should not use ridiculous metaphors like "this site could harm the computer! back to safety" or noob-oriented advice like "check the address for typing errors", but tell me things like "this URL is registered as a phishing site in such and such blacklist", "access to this site would violate an STS policy", "no DNS record for this domain, here is the result of the lookup", "no reply from IP A.B.C.D, here is a traceroute", etc.

My current choice of a keyboard-oriented browser is Firefox with the pentadactyl extension. It's not perfect, but better than anything else I've tried (including uzbl, which doesn't seem mature or well-documented enough).
> "But it's not quite that bad. Both Hiroshima and Nagasaki seem alright now."

This is literally the most callous justification for nuking someone I have ever seen.

"It's not that bad guys. It's habitable now, 70 years later! If you didn't know better you would swear 80,000 didn't get instantly incinerated in nuclear fire, with over 125,000 more who died in slow agony over a few weeks of burns and radiation poisoning!"

I know Stalin said that a million deaths is just a statistic - but you weren't supposed to take Stalin to heart. Just sayin'.
It looks like Maciej Cegłowski is trying to undercut Y Combinator! PG himself made the apology of this strategy in one of his essays. But Maciej should be careful because there is still room to undercut him.
Why you gotta look at it in those terms? Relative advantages and disadvantages can exist without couching it in the terms of pro-x anti-y. Seriously, would anyone actually give a damn about this if cellphones were not uniquely tied to the exchange sync protocol? Is it not true that the cellphone I choose to own is at a disadvantage in this particular circumstance?
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I don't mean to pick on you (and I certainly didn't downvote you), but you seem like a posterboy for just how easy it is to take inventions and innovation for granted after the fact.

I find it instructive to occassionally go to Youtube and load up commericals for Windows 95, 3.1, the first Mac, etc., or even to dust off and boot up an old computer I haven't touched for decades. Not to get too pretentious, but it's a bit like Proust writing about memories of his childhood coming flooding back to him just from the smell of a cake he ate as a child.

When you really make a concerted effort to remember just how primitive previous generations of computing were, I think it puts Kurzweil's predictions and accomplishments in a much more impressive context.

This was the state of the art PC back when Ray was forming his first companies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAhp_LzvSWk

I posted some other thoughts about Ray's track record awhile back:

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I read his predictions for 2009 only a couple of years before they were supposed to come about (which he wrote in the late 90s), and many seemed kind of far fetched - and then all of a sudden the iPhone, iPad, Google self-driving car, Siri, Google Glass, and Watson come out, and he's pretty much batting a thousand.

Some of those predictions were a year or two late, in 2010 or 2011, but do a couple of years really matter in the grand scheme of things?

Predicting that self-driving cars would occur in ten years in the late 90s is pretty extraordinary, especially if you go to youtube and load up a commercial for Windows 98 and get a flashback of how primitive the tech environment actually was back then.

Kurzweil seems to always get technological capabilities right. Where he sometimes falls flat is in technological adoption - how actual consumers are willing to interact with technology, especially where bureaucracies are involved- see his predictions on the adoption of elearning in the classroom, or using speech recognition as an interface in an office environment.

Even if a few of his more outlandish predictions like immortality are a few decades - or even generations - off, I think the road map of technological progress he outlines seems pretty inevitable, yet still awe inspiring.
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Applied! :)

Wrote a poem about it on the Collaborative Poetry app that I just launched. http://poe3.com/38
Can you please share with us some resources (if you may have) on how these companies are valued? What metrics, parameters are taken into account while evaluating a company's worth?

Thanks!
pair programming with this has the potential to be awesome
You have to be pretty naive to think it's not affecting my small world, OR to believe that Apple is only litigating against those who "copy them feature by feature". You probably didn't even read my full message. Now any company I prefer can't make phones without fearing about how to save themselves from a useless litigation of rounded rectangles.
And in my small world, I might have wanted to open that coffee shop whose logo is just a plain old red apple fruit made by nature, with a child's head in that. But it seems I can't do that now.
I'd guess that voice chat is a completely different expertise than this.
They often break "page down" as well.
so can i just pay to keep this feature?
I remember the PowWow McAfee founded that did collaborative web browsing.…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowWow_(chat_program)
This is the reason I wrote
http://suhastech.com/mail

I use an Android phone and I get an email notification via text messages.

Works well in India, not so much in USA (due to the 140 char limit in Twilio, message concatenation is not allowed)
This is wrong for a variety of reasons.

First, you should never accept angel investment from non-accredited investors (i.e., individuals with a net worth of at least one million cents).

Second, the real value of the investors is their network. In this case, Maciej Cegłowski's network is a collection of links featured in an indexed, polished, simple-to-use product. Why accept money from him when his network is already available for free?

Third, seeking outside investment prior to building a prototype has been heralded as a path to madness. You should at least have some sort of Bootstrap-based splash page on a .io domain before you accept his sizable investment.
It has been more than 2 hours and I can still see it live. Strange that such a large website could overlook this for so long.
Additional resource would go to their homebrew implementation as well.

Not worth developing for an MVP, in my opinion.
Unfortunate that such laudable motivations ended up in so much ridiculous spam... Perhaps a separate category on Amazon or hosting the content on another site would be better for everyone?

Agreed, when I'm searching for books on the outlook for wooden toilet seats in China, I really want to be able to filter down to the legitimate guides only.
I am graduating next semester.
Keep in mind, Fandango and E! are both properties of Comcast. That they would share code isn't so surprising.
I pay by letting them dig through my email, calendar and GDocs and resell data advertisers. I have little doubt those impressions of ads hanging in front of my face in GMail all day long earn them 5 bucks a month.

And they don't exactly refrain from mining my personal data once I pay for their service with cash. So, it is little short of outrageous.
What exactly is going on there?

http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://www.nbcudigitaladops...
I agree with his argument that 37+publicity will be enough.

But the selection process is the most important thing in this bet, and should not be simplified, he should spend as much time as HN people spend to select their batches.
How is this outrageous? Why should they spend money to support a rival's platform? iOS' integration/sync services are terrible, even with their own iCloud. I've been nothing short of blown away by the streamlined integration with Google accounts on my new Android phone.
I very much doubt they make 5 bucks a month per user. Maybe 5c.
That JavaScript looks related to serving or tracking ads. The code makes reference to DART (part of DoubleClick) and Ad Ops, and it's on the same part of the page as all of their other analytics tools (Google Analytics, SiteCatalyst, etc). Comcast is probably not in direct control of the code, and may be in the position that they can't get rid of it without adversely impacting their ad revenue stream.