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This essay was the driving reason I created and ran failcamp(.org).

It's true: the most valuable lesson is not what you learn directly from your mistakes, but by realizing what you are capable of overcoming.

After my catastrophic financial failure I, too, am confident in my abilities and no longer worry.
It is truly the last refuge of scoundrels to downvote my reply without providing any justification.
But then you'd have all these tech articles and blog/forum posts bitching about how Mac OS X sucks because it doesn't support hardware X ... just like you have with Linux.

It's a known fact that people don't look at the hardware compatibility list before buying a X86 machine, not even the more technically inclined ones (I know I don't ... and I'm running Linux ... although I should know better ... somehow I hope that whatever problem I have, it would get solved shortly).

And there's always the issue of having partnerships with the hardware companies to write those drivers for them, because they cannot do it on their own (lack of specifications, resources available). Microsoft couldn't pull it for Vista ... the drivers demanded from hardware manufactures were lately delivered and improperly tested.
>the portions of the genome that don't actually code for genes are full of interesting stuff.

Thats true, but if you estimate that 2% of the genome is genes, perhaps a further 1% is regulatory elements and catalytic RNA. That still leaves a heck of a lot of 'junk'.
I wasn't referring to all of the other issues with 19th century America, just its role in world politics.

There are a few problems with your scenario.

First, experience has shown us time and again that governments must be ratified by active, regular, popular participation. There must be a mechanism in place to switch parties or plans. There's simply too many countries which do not fit that role currently. And a gang of dictatorships is just that: a gang. It's not a functioning government. You have to have representation. Elected leaders.

Second, one of the roles of government is to be the sole entity that enjoys the legitimate use of force. I can't see any scenario where governments are going to forgo their monopoly on force. In other words, as a treaty organization, which the UN is, it's wonderful. Countries decide how much they want to help and how to interpret treaties. As a world government, it would suck.

I'm sure we need to move towards better treaties, no doubt. But world government is a long way away due to foundational problems with both the U.N. and existing member states. You have to remember, the U.N. was supposed to keep us out of WWIII, not become a world government. It's done its job so far, but I'm not optimistic for the future. As Korea shown, countries will do what they please UN or no. At the end of the day, deciding to flout the UN or not is a PR decision.

I hope that one day we'll have a world-wide representative government. But, alas, hope is not a strategy! (wink)
Those are fair points, and I agree that YouTube removed the music labels' content. Personally, while I sympathize with the songwriters complaining about YouTube's removal of their content -- after all, they have a gun to their heads: if they force YouTube to remove the material, then that material just gets fileshared, so they lose either way --, I think they're in the wrong on that count. Either way, this really wouldn't be a problem if people didn't download music illegally. That's the fundamental problem. It's what gives YouTube the ability to say, "no, we won't pay that price." -- the implicit corollary being, "and if we don't pay you, nobody will, because no sovereign, ISP, or consumer is willing to respect your property rights". I think that's what the songwriters find galling.
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Exactly what I was thinking! Why in the world are they spending tax payers money on 2 seemingly do-good-ers when there's a plethora of really important stuff out there to fix ?

BTW, I'm not in the US, am in the UK at the moment, and even here, the same bloody nonsense happens. Government spend scarce resource on really minor matters
It's not Digg's responsibility to increase your PageRank.
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At the centre of this redesign is the need to save money.

Facebook doesn't need to run on the same hardware (NetApp) as banks and telcos. In this type of application, scaling up is done cheapest with custom software on commodity hardware.
I'm not sure how they compare, but I know I've seen StuffBak labels in stores for years - essentially the same concept.
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Ask HN: Who is the Laughing Man IRL?
Who is the Laughing Man (LM) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughing_Man_(Ghost_in_the_Shell)] in real-life?

Those of you familiar with Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (SAC) know who I'm talking about, otherwise checkout wikipedia's entry on the topic for a quick debriefing of who/what LM is.

IMHO, our technology isn't nearly advanced enough to fit SAC depiction of what LM is capable of in real-life; however technological progress is almost irrelevant, LM can better be characterized in today's context, by the manner of how he exploits some technology.

In short, each and everyone of his exploits almost seemed staged in a theatrical fashion where the players [characters] and the game [story] they're playing is already set. His exploits almost behave as some sort of real-time authoritative meta-interpretation of the events at hand, which in turn discloses facts and information that would have not normally been unveiled for the audience.

In a sense, he is hacking people's perception through an unconventional dissemination of information. I can't think or know of a single hacker who fits this description, mostly because LM is such a mythical figure; however, I can think of a handful of litery figures that do.
I went to a public school for CS and i am now looking to go get my PHD wondering if i really missed something by going to a "not so good" school. Do people really learn more? most of my education in programming came from my mandatory Coop assignments.

The theory was good in school and obviously i enjoyed that aspect however i wonder if i would have been more challenged at a better school and if that would make any difference?
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Interesting. I occasionally watch music videos on YouTube, and I try to watch the official one whenever possible, because all else being equal, I'd like to see people get paid. I think there's a ton of money to be made off of the monetization of the goodwill fans have towards a band. If a musician says, "here, look at the Coke polar bears dance for a while while you download my music, this helps me get paid," I think he'll make a lot of money. Not as much as he's getting for CDs, but hey, something is better than nothing. And if the labels keep things going as they are, nothing is what they're going to get. The iTunes store isn't really the solution: much of the time, people want to pay for music @ .22p a listen, not $1.00 a download.
I can understand disk I/O limits, but I'm not buying the metadata argument on a read-mostly workload.

More detail about WAFL (netapp's filesystem) features and design in this preso: http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~ohadrode/slides/WAFL.pdf

Great for corporate documents. Overkill for photo storage.
You're going completely overboard in your response to a reply that, IMHO, is exceedingly vague and could be interpreted in several very different ways. I also think it's weird that it was upvoted 5 times (but people tend to upvote things they think support their opinion), but at the same time, I consider your response completely unwarranted and would downvote it, would I have the power to do so.
Software engineering is about tradeoffs. I'll take that a step further: everything is about tradeoffs. You can always optimise for one use case to the exclusion of the others.

Are you saying that fortran isn't faster than scala/jvm based languages? That APL isn't better for matrice's? That lisp macros aren't more powerful? Or that php isn't simpler than scala?

Being good at all three may be possible, but being optimal at all three is probably impossible.
It is not about increasing the target blog PageRank, but rather on preserving the correct URLs. By loading the target content on an IFRAME and distributing their own URL, the target content will appear in search engines as belonging to Digg AND the target site.
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Here is a response from Google : http://chrome.blogspot.com/2009/04/google-chromes-universal-...
IMHO, going to a well-known school and knowing a lot of people who didn't, I'd say the main difference (ignoring academia since I don't know much about it) is how companies perceive you. Our job fairs are insane, even given the economy. All the major CS companies come out and recruit in full force. Given a huge pool of people equally qualified to do your job, the name does help you stand out. And when a company has to cut back on recruiting efforts, they're going to cut the lesser-known schools and leave the big kahunas.
This gentleman is seriously sick!
I've already posted before this year is looking like Hollywood's biggest year on record.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=472584

&

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=501317

Looks like that filesharing stuff is really killing the Film industry........... (I wonder if that is enough dots to indicate sarcasm)
I went to UT at Arlington for my undergrad and am working on my Masters at UT at Dallas. I have a friend who went through the real UT and got his masters from CMU we have compared notes over the years. I know in most of his classes they flat out covered more, and for the most part it seemed to be in more depth as well. Though not much more and the difference could easily be made up by someone with an actual desire to learn and not just pass the class.
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Or simpler: 'Mac, Linux or Windows?'
Does ion3 handle standard .desktop shortcuts? A lot of the smaller WMs (with the exception of XFCE) want to re-implement launchers for every app.
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$111.7M is way too small of a difference to kill this deal. Clearly, the issue is in the other terms. It seems likely that Sun wanted IBM to make a firm commitment right now and IBM wanted to reserve the right to back out for a while. Or, Sun has some kind of poison pill (besides its employees' hatred of IBM) that they weren't willing to drop. Or, maybe IBM wanted to be shielded from some liablities like support contracts for products they'd want to drop immediately. There's all kinds of reasons for which the deal could have fallen through, but $111.7M in price is not one.
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You're right, but at the same time you are not directly addressing the question: Societies where marriages are based of 'love' have a very high divorce rate. Divorce in America or Europe is not easy, it's a long and expensive process. But there is still a 50% or so divorce rate.

What the question really boils down to is this: Are people happier in general in societies with predominantly arranged marriages or in societies with love marriages. It would be great if we had this dataset directly, but without the data, we can say that about 1/2 of every marriage in non-arranged cultures end up so unhappy that they break up. We do not have corresponding data for societies with arranged marriages if what you say is taken into account.

But in general, if so many of these non-arranged marriages are dissolving, it seems to show to me that simply letting the young people choose without any vetting process is not leading to good results. A 50% failure rate is not acceptable.

Your argumentation bypasses the fundamental issue.
As FeedBurner Flails and Fails, Feedblitz Fights
Ask HN: which OS (win, OSX, linux) works best on 64-bit edition?
I use R with large datasets, and it places a lot of constraints on memory. Having a 64-bit OS is a must. I also connect remotely from home to my office computer, where I have lots of memory. I've used ubuntu 8.04 64-bit, but I'm considering moving to some other thing if that means less problems. I'm testing windows server 2008 64-bit, because RDP is just faster than X over the network. But if the dev tools (python, ruby, R, java will be the most likely languages) are second class, it may not be worth changing.

What is your experience? What sites do you recommend for unbiased commentary on the current state of 64-bit OSs?

Thanks
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Heh. Nice catch.

The word "and" instead of "including" is more appropriate.
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My initial response was: "what a shitty reward". I'm not sure people will want to take found items someplace in exchange for a couple of labels they'll probably not use.
Have you used any of the Win32 API(s)? Windows Forms is about the first generation that isn't too painful to use. VB6 before it was manageable too, but all the abstractions are leaky and you have to delve into the raw C API sooner or later. MFC was a complete train wreck.
Preserving the correct URLs is a lost cause - tinyurl and services of that ilk make it all but impossible.

With regards to content appearing in search engines as belonging to both, have you bothered to check or are you making assumptions? Seems to me (from a test on some of the latest Digg stories) that the original author is ranked for his/her post, but Digg is not within the first 5 or so pages. Furthermore, even when appending "digg" to the search term, only the link to the story summary is shown and not the toolbar-clad page.
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I call shenanegins and this talk of a staging site is bullshit
Yar. Studied there for nigh on 7 years, but I'm now in Edinburgh 'cos they gave me a loan to get my business started (and are better for AI than Cambridge anyway).
> The iTunes store isn't really the solution: much of the time, people want to pay for music @ .22p a listen, not $1.00 a download.

I totally agree, that's why I mentioned Spotify as well as iTunes. Although Spotify works off a flat-rate model, it could equally work on a per-play micropayment model.
I agree completely, and this is the case I've been making for years. If OSX opened up to any hardware configuration, it would be a slow moving animal similar to M$. As it stands, I don't think Steve's vision is complete yet — not enough to open it to the world.
Of course... how dare they demand control over their content?
Seems to me their prices are really wishful thinking:

$1.50/m for up to 10 subscribers

$14/m for up to 1000

$110/m for up to 10,000!

If they made their prices per year rather than per month, it might be acceptable, but as it is I think they're an order of magnitude off, and they should really make it much cheaper for under, say, 1,000 subscribers, because no one sensible will pay that kind of money for a feedburner-alike with less than 1,000 subscribers...

But, still, good to see some competition for Feedburner at last!
The article didn't point out any arguments or facts to back up the theory that "you don't build a city like this", except for the opinion that "you just don't".
Too much emotions, too little reason.
The city may in fact be in decline but for the whole other reasons: decline in tourism and financial markets. These are the factors that influence it badly, not the way it was built. And if the city keeps declining it's because tourism, technology and finance dived too deep and weren't able to keep the city afloat, not because "it was built badly".
I could understand such wording in an emotional blog post, not in anything even resembling serious journalims.
I like how Steve Ballmer criticizes the Apple brand for automatically adding $500 to the price of a computer. Does he have anything negative to say about Windows adding hundreds of dollars to the price of every computer, even for those that have no intention of ever booting Windows? Oh, of course not. It's OK when he does it, but it's evil when Apple does it.

I get it.
"Reminds me of the attitude of U.S. carmakers in the ’70s and ’80s, as more Americans switched to Japanese imports."

Except that Japanese imports had better quality AND cheaper prices than their American counterparts. With Apple products the former is arguable and the latter is not true. Analogy broken.
>> I remember similar analyses before both Iraq wars.

As do I. And don't forget the classic "brutal Afghan winter", endlessly discussed in the mainstream media, that was going to prevent the US from seizing Kabul et al. Except, you know, when the US and its Afghan allies took it in less than three weeks.
For our own blog, which tends to be more tech-heavy, I'm open to writing on some topics that people have specific interest in in the recommendations world, so if there's stuff you're curious about I'm all ears. This article was naturally geared more towards the audience of the place publishing it.
FWIW, Apple also pushes out hundreds of megabytes of updates I don't even need. At least the apt-based Linux distributions only try to update packages you have.
Developers (in consultancies) usually charge by the hour too, but thankfully we don't tend to get screwed over that often.

My GF works in advertising/design, and things are pretty much the same there; work on pitches for free, then get paid to do the actual work if you win the pitch (pitches happen more often than architectural competitions, and involve less work and less competition, and as such are less risky to do, but the basic principle of working for nothing to get a job is still there.)

In any case, lawyers, architects and prostitutes are definitely not the only professionals with clients :-)
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A bit sorry I voted this up - it doesn't add anything new to the discussion, but it feels like making an official vote against URL shorteners. Which is of course nonsense, this is only news.yc...
Perhaps a prank on Zecco not by Zecco.
Another thing that just came to mind: if updates at random times bother you, I am sure you can configure the updater program to only check for updates once a week or something like that.
For sure, but they still seem to be fearful. Television is a big part of Hollywood and its been cratering.
Stop being so coy Confusion -- if there are 'several' 'very different' interpretations to mine, then I'd like to hear them. As far as I can tell, the meaning of his statement was quite clear: musicians are a bunch of whingers who have nothing 'vital' to offer, so fuck them.

And that poster is hardly alone in his tone -- look at any thread that even tangentially touches on the music scene. Yes, my language was (is) strong, but get this: I live in London, and I'm quite active in the music scene here (you can check out my band at http://www.myspace.com/thesignalsuk, and my solo music at http://www.myspace.com/martinpercossi), and I know quite a few musicians that would have found funding by a label ten or so years ago (check out http://www.myspace.com/oliexplode, for instance), but sadly, there's not enough money to fund people who don't pander to commercial tastes.

These are not guys earning fat paychecks from your IBMs or Googles etc. They're pulling pints, struggling on 7 quid or so an hour. And I find it truly insulting the lack of compassion with which well-earning hackers here regard musicians. The constant railing about us having some sense of entitlement (when all we're asking for is our property rights to be respected, for god's sake), about us having making easy money (again -- it's Larry and Sergei who have a private 747; name me a record exec or artist that has one!) -- it really angers me to read this. So sorry if I'm the only one with necessary perspective to call a spade a spade. I feel strongly about this, and I stand by my comment, as I'm sure any number of my musician friends would. If that upsets your delicate sensibilities, well then so be it: we're talking about peoples' livelihoods here, people who really are passionate about music and want nothing more than to share it with the public in a way that's fair and mutually beneficial.
Ubiquitized within twitter.

You probably meant it that way but many people seem to forget over the hype how small twitter still is. Only 0.4% of internet-users have an account there and much less are actively using it.

Consequently short URLs being ubiquitous within twitter doesn't mean much in itself.
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Wow, I can't believe Consumorist just pulls stories when they're wrong. It's called "(Updated)", even TechCrunch knows that.

This particular instance obviously isn't that big a deal, but things like this make me worried for our paperless futures.
No downtime or capacity problems at Google:

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Isn't it also a matter of ego? There probably are not many competitions for designing small family houses, but they don't add much to an architect's fame, so instead they compete for the big, prestigious projects.

I don't think there are different economic rules for architects than for the rest of the world.
Oh, let's not have rumors on HN.

From the guidelines:
> anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
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I can't vouch for feedblitz's reliability but their aesthetic is light years behind feedburner which is a real turn off for me.
Reading the title my biggest concern was low efficiency but 80% actually seems quite good.

There is still the issue of how much energy you need to expend supplying CO2 but as you'll be producing relatively pure CO2 when you burn the methane I doubt it would be that big an issue.

On the plus side it sounds as though the bacteria hasn't been optimised so to me it seems likely that greater efficiencies could be achieved.
Keep in mind those prices are for email subscribers: "An active subscriber is one to whom FeedBlitz is attempting to email on your behalf." IMO, that is a pretty fair price for email subscriptions because it is pretty expensive to implement anti-anti-spam techniques.

"If you don't use FeedBlitz to send email then the fee is just $1.49 per month, our minimum."

$18/year sounds reasonable for Atom/RSS.

Frankly, the copywriting of the website needs some serious work. The pricing is really unclear; even though I quoted from the website, those quotes are on separate pages and I'm not even sure I am understanding them correctly after multiple re-readings.
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