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I wish more people would read Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Just as we could not predict in 1968 what the world would look like in 2009 - similarly we can't predict what the world will look like in 2050 today.

I've heard some crazy predictions... world will end in 2012 (when the Mayan calendar ends)... USA will break down into 2-5 different countries and there will be a civil war there... the arctic cap will melt submerging all the major port cities: NY Tokyo Mumbai...

Not gonna happen!
HSBC will do dual currency accounts - they have US offices as well. Go and see them. Infact their dual currency is better than NAB (it can be say Euro and US) - you can even move between currencies and make money on any exchange changes as well as plain interest.
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Divorces per marriage may be approximately 50% (not sure).

This does not imply that (people who got divorced) / (people who got married) is 50%, and this is what the study measured.

Simple example: 3 guys have a happy first marriage. 1 guy has 3 failed marriages. Divorces/marriages = 3/6 = 50%. People who got divorced/people who got married =1/4= 25%.
They didn't label everything. According to their research paper (http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...) they covered the "natural sciences, social sciences, as well as the humanities." From the companion article (http://www.lanl.gov/news/index.php/fuseaction/home.story/sto...) "it's a graphic depiction of the virtual trails scientists leave behind when they retrieve information from online services."
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What Distinquishes "A Players" from "A+ Players"?
http://www.hsbc.com.au/1/2/hsbcpremier/assistance/overseas
yeh fair point. But, still, it would make me nervous to use it.
http://www.hsbc.com.au/1/2/personal/savings/foreign

I haven't looked at NAB in awhile but you used to need 100K for multi currency. The limits to get started are less with HSBC i think (again that could have changed)
Why would a pirate blow themselves up? It makes no sense.
Would you have predicted in 1975 that by 1995 there'd be no Soviet Union? Big changes and breakups do happen; they're inevitable over long enough. I'll agree, though, that prediction (especially of technology-affected things, which is more and more of the world) is getting considerably harder, and that that trend, at least, will continue absent some other radical change like an asteroid strike or a US police state.
In the belief that past experiences are indicative future events ...

Epic mega-fail.
If they're able to sniff/steal your cookie they can easily capture any other request headers. This wouldn't be the case for brute forcing cookie values, but hopefully your cookie is secure enough to make that a non-issue.

AOL, and a few others, unfortunately still break the "IP for session security" thing:(
a lot of browsers have the same user agent string as well. The only two ways, that i know of, to uniquely identify a particular individual is through a cookie or a query string parameter on every click.
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I'm not so sure the VideoEgg's frame is 'evil' like DiggBar's frame. It looks to me as if the ad is inserted into the current DOM at runtime and thus the URL for every page using the technology isn't a VideoEgg URL (could you imagine if an ad company told their customers that, from now on, their pages would be served-up with the ad company's URL?). If it doesn't take over the URL and is just nodes dynamically inserted into the DOM at runtime, then no harm done, right?
Anecdote: The mother of a friend still used it (until recently when I updated her browser manually). She just did not want to fiddle with her computer and did not care.

Does Windows normally offer to upgrade IE automatically?
Good debugging stories read like a murder mystery...excellent post!
Where's the follow-through, the conversation where you say, "I'm mad at you for being vindictive when I shared my life goals. It seems we can both benefit by what I shared, but you're just being petty." How did that go? Or the conversation with his boss?

One moment of insipid 'bravery' is not 'radical honesty'.
Also the demo options don't work right.
Starting little businesses to write microblogging and photo sharing websites does not matter in the scope of human history. Comparing web startups to the industrial revolution?! You gotta be kidding me, I don't care how much ajax or standards compliance or user generated content your social grocery networking website has, you're deluding yourself.
Because they're in the news now and Time has a pessimistic opinion of its readers' attention spans.
BC is my alumamater, good thing they didn't have this policy when I was there
"Stunt" was a poor choice of words. I simply meant that there is a lot of marketing value in creating an "iPhone App" vs a normal web app, even if the functionality is the same. If you created a web app version, nobody would be interested in it (since SliceHost has their own), even if the web app had the same functionality.

Do you know why the iPhone web browser doesn't (can't?) save your username/password when you use the SliceManager mobile web app? Is a problem with the SliceManager or with the iPhone browser or both? Password saving is a pretty basic feature.
Oh, jeez, maybe it's just me but that seems like technology for technology's sake. A spinner can be compressed to, what, 1k or so? I guess they should have drawn the Google logo with canvas, too.
Open source and internet help to spread software source. But the mindset of how a piece of software solve users' problems are still limited the location that the software is created.

It will be more like a culture barrier. For a culture that has no sense of custom satisfaction, the user interface for e-commerce will never be as good as Apple or Amazon. We as technologists sometime forget a lot of our assumptions are based on our environment.
I worked in a building with huge picture windows looking out onto a beach, for a year. I can confirm subjective productivity and relaxation benefits compared to sitting in a windowless room.
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I didn't see anything in here that was stricking or insightful. Pretty run of the mill introspection will lead you to the conclusions in the article.
Ah, I was making a couple of assumptions:

any DSL which generates markup must be more concise than the markup itself

Otherwise, there will have been no point in creating the DSL. This assumption is probably fair. An example of this would be Seaside's HTML generation DSL.

a more concise language will be better in the long run

This assumption is flawed and doesn't take the designers' tools into account. A DSL would need its own tools before it became a valuable long-term investment.
> As the cofounder and first president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Attali won fame for calling the U.S. financial collapse as early as 2006...

But somehow he managed to not predict Europe's own financial troubles. Yes, quite the soothsaying there...
The problem with prediction on this scale is that it's becomes a function of chaotic effects. i.e., Some small unpredictable thing like an invention or some trait of a president can have very profound effects over time akin to the butterfly effect.

Even solid statistics will fail horribly over a longer time period.
I disagree with the "Impressive" adjective. It is more like cluttered workspaces where sunlight never hit there.

For me, uncluttered workspace is really awesome and it enables me for uncluttered thinking.

I just like mine most than ever... I have a huge clean space in my desk, where my 26'' LCD screen and ergonomic keyboard and mouse are resting at the background, and I bring them forward only when it be absolutely needed (to plug my laptop and get computer work done).

Usually, I enjoy to have a lot of clean place to make my paperwork and thats why I keep everything else (2 laptops, and a lot of gadgets) inside bureau drawers unless I need them for something particular.
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Even when using a program that randomly clicks on the flash it still sounds good:
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I think the most effective form of Netflix's security is that the service is so useful it offers no incentive to break it. Why would I want to go through the hassle of cracking their DRM and downloading the movie to my local machine when they allow me to stream it any time I want, as many times as I want?
There is arctic cap meltdown and if the world stay as it is now, we might face its' catastrophic consequences.

Thats why in his latest movie "Examined Life", Slavoj Zizek points out that humanity should cut his roots from nature and doesnt intervene its inner workings.
Happens to me about once a year programming in Rails, nothing this intense, but still a 3-4 hour debugging session. If Rails were warning-safe it might eliminate a large class of these.
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This is one more reason that flash is bad. Adobe makes truly terrible software. Sure, it makes pretty images and stuff, but it's horribly written and architected.
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I'm of two minds about this. On the one hand it's nice to see people so invested in something that they care this much.

On the other hand, sometimes I think that fans are the biggest impediment to good storytelling.

Who cares if it's on Earth? Being non-canonical isn't a crime -- it's about telling a good story.

(<fan> Besides, I'm pretty sure the new movie involves time travel, so that's not even the "real" Enterprise. </fan>)
I'd prefer working in the first place workspace to most of the others, but I agree that the gadgetry is not particularly impressive.

Come to think of it, that's probably why I prefer it.
It is a sensational headline. They are just mockups and things could change drastically.

That said, it may be a good idea. I'm sold on tabs now and has never been a fan of sidebars, so I'm not very enthusiastic about it. Also what will happen to all those firefox extensions with sidebar functionality ?
That is the theory. Does it actually work on the iPhone/iPod touch when there is no connection?
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In the past couple of weeks I’ve started to see evidence that Twitter might be entering its Trough of Disillusionment. The evidence you ask?
Lately, I've been using Pandoc (http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/) which is a better markdown than markdown (uses a parser rather than regexes). It also knows how to convert between lots of different markups it can read LaTeX, HTML, reStructuredText and markdown. It can write that and many more. I use it to convert LaTeX into S5 presentations and HTML; very nice for giving talks.
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It's a new way to structure and query data -- essentially a new type of database, a variation of a graph database -- and the result is that anyone can use it and model their data without realizing that's what they're doing. I wish I could describe it in a sentence or two, but the upshot is that while Google is great at finding text in web pages, a business or a schedule of events doesn't want to be a web page -- it wants to be found. So by allowing people to structure their own information, you get a different type of web experience: show all babysitters near me who charge less than $6/hour, or send a message to all co-workers who play squash. Things like that.
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To me the article reads like an extension of current popular news stories.. which don't all reflect reality.
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The irony struck me as well. Jobs didn't want to do native apps for many of the reasons we've already seen (management complains, quality control issues). He wanted web apps.

People moaned.

Then a web app is called 'sidestepping' the app store?!

I think the iPhone does need an app store, at the end of the day, but this headline was just to rich.
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He was probably compiling stuff in Xcode, which could in fact make one of his cores overheat.
I've done Remote and the Pond. I like the Pond a lot better.
Source link has some more details: http://www.fiercetelecom.com/story/death-and-life-nortel/200...
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For as long as I can remember, I have had a keen interest in understanding more about what I don't understand. Observing is my number one passion. Since I don't understand quite a lot, I can be easily entertained and captivated. I understand that a lot of people on News.YC want to talk about intellectual topics - I fancy myself a snob because I feel like I can listen/talk about anything (as long as the other person is interested in what they are talking about)

By "deep one-on-one", I mean conversations where I am basically allowing someone to play the role of 'expert'. Not necessarily deep philosophical topics. But something the individual is keenly interested and/or passionate about. It doesn't have to be a person I know well - I've had these fulfilling mini-conversations with people on a train (and it tends to be strangers/acquaintances because I keep a moat around myself).

For example, yesterday at our office galley I got into a 5-minute conversation about soccer (with someone who plays for fun on weekends). I learned that one of the best ways to become a better soccer dribbler (foot skills) is to practice kicking a ball in the surf on the beach (because you have the water resistance to deal with). He also said that the reason why Americans aren't good at soccer (football) among other reasons is - Americans have perfect playing fields, while Brazilians, they grow up kicking stuff in the dirt, sand so the groomed soccer field is easy compared to the rough + tumble environment they learned on. I love learning about the 'hacks' (to become better faster).
I'm in Belgium, and have USD 'currency compartments' on bank accounts with several banks. They're free, and I have set them up so all USD payments automatically go into the USD compartment. I can then use the USD to pay foreign contractors without incurrent the exchange cost (and risk). The compartment isn't a separate account from my normal EUR accounts, it's some extra numbers added at the end.
I realize this may not apply to your situation since you're an antipode, but it gives you an idea what's possible...
I wouldn't agree with this completely. In the university I attended, I told the IT staff about security issues with their wifi network. I even gave demonstrations to the other computer science students (via the cs club) on breaking into/decrypting said type of wireless networks. The IT staff was friendly and helpful and updated their security mechanisms. The problems happen at times like this when people with no clue and don't know what is being said get involved. After all, big words I don't understand are scary to me when lawyers talk too.
This is fascinating. Do you think that twitter could possibly have a second adoption phase? Possibly once they get their scalability in check?
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Well, leaving out "of" is hardly a mega-fail.

But maybe you meant that the meaning of the snippet, that experience and evidence can guide us in what to expect for the future, is somehow profoundly wrong?
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Plus, you'll have a brief flash of content before the comment markup is appended to their respective parent nodes - especially if you wait for the dom to be loaded... And searching through the entire dom tree, finding each content, and then parsing each content for delimeters etc? Seems like overkill....
Curious how both name and logo are similar to http://natural-ui.com
Ask HN: Effective arguments to convince someone to get on Twitter?
I use Twitter every day (I'm "swombat" on there too, btw). I even know some people in real life who are also on Twitter. One of them, I even convinced to get on Twitter directly (i.e. I talked him into it, and he's still using it now).

Twitter is really hard to explain, because the reasons I use it are not the reasons that you use it. Perhaps because of this, there's also a whole variety of possible arguments for why someone should get on Twitter, and so far I haven't figured out any clear, universal argument.<p>My question is, what are the best arguments that you've used and which worked and successfully convinced a Twitter-free friend who didn't "get it" to join the tweeting ranks (for more than a handful of tweets)?

The only argument I've managed to make work, so far, was "Try it honestly for 2 weeks, making an effort to follow some people and post some tweets once or twice a day, and then decide". But it's pretty hard to convince people of that, so so far, I've only convinced one person to do it.

Thanks. Looking forwards to reading other people's arguments...
I wish there were more on hardware hacking around here.

Maybe one of you can share alternate sources for hardware.
20% of the internet still does it every day with IE6...
I love these articles.

Ten years ago, the same dreck would claim 2010 would see us away on extended vacation while WebVan and Pets.com delivered goodies to our internet-automated homes. Of course, everything would be paid for by effortless automated day-trading, with the Dow at 50,000 and markets headed higher due to Western nations celebrating some multi-decade milestone for time without conflict.

If someone claims to have the future figured out, it's pretty safe to assume you can ignore 'em.
Or you can use the AWS Console - https://console.aws.amazon.com/

Which seems a bit easier, even to a command-line junkie like me.
> I haven't figured out any clear, universal argument.

Because 99% of humanity really doesn't need to be on twitter?

The only reasons I can see are to follow 'trends' and spam people interested in your product(s), or follow celebrities.
The web would be another beast all together if it wasn't for ads. Look at all the Newspapers that are crumbling but still publishing online. The CS monitor recently stopped printing but for a weekender though it updates its website every day. Sites need ads for revenue and I don't think VideoEgg's bar is too intrusive. In fact I wouldn't mind a bar like that on a tv if it meant shows didn't have to pause for a break every ten minutes. I could see it running on the bottom of online videos too instead of having an ad run at the start.
i use twitter primarily to universally sync up stuff, like my gmail status to my facebook status, and the like.

beyond that, i follow people who i have an interest in, and have successfully used twitter to interact with people who i'd probably not have been able to interact with otherwise.

its also nice for infomaniacs who love the real-time news and trends and details.

having said that, twitter is definitely overblown/overused/overcovered/whatever.
Well, it all depends on what you want them to use it for.

I have zero interest in knowing when my friends are eating a sandwich, and sadly, that's the only types of updates 90% of them make. I wish I could convince them to get off Twitter.

Other than that, the best way to show them the utility of Twitter, I would think, would be to show them people who use it well. Don't show them a stream of "eating sandwich", "that was a good sandwich", "going to the bathroom brb", "okay poop is coming out now" updates.
There's no way to do this from the console at present. It can be done from the command line or via the APIs.
As a pretty direct example of usefulness of Twitter, I posted a tweet this morning about what sort of luggage people might recommend if I was looking at doing a fair bit of travelling in the next few years. I got some great answers/links that provided some useful starting points to continue researching the topic.

To me, that had direct value. It saved me a lot of time, and pointed me to useful, relevant information that I was looking for.
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In the Ingenuity Gap by Thomas Homer-Dixon, he covers the prognostications of futurists and discovers that they are wildy wrong something like 91% of the time.
I'd use this statement: "If you want to do micro-blogging, try twitter. If you don't know what micro-blogging is, check twitter"
Just curious, why are you trying to evangelize Twitter?

I think your approach of "try it and see if you like it" is the best overall.

I've been on/using Twitter for a while now (year or 2, have lost track). It does have value, but I find myself using it less, not more. Part of the problem is that it seems the more people you follow the less valuable it becomes, due to basic S/N ratios.
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I get friends to use it by basically showing them my twitter and how you can update/chat with people. And then I show them Ping.fm so they can update their Facebook and Twitter at the same time.

I've only converted a few so far, but the ones that have moved over really like it and have gotten into it. The others don't really care so I'm not going to force it on them.
Exactly. You can't have one without the other. Twitter, Facebook, etc. are eventually going to realize this.
I can post questions like that and out of 10 such tweets I will get maybe 2 or 3 replies (total!) from my 78 followers.

Twitter has no huge value for me any more and I use it less and less. I plan to remove 90% of the people i follow becuase they add nothing useful & clutter up the stream.

I imagine most of your friends will experience the same problem (and can see it from the outset).

Maybe I am just using it wrong but I have failed ot have any meaningful conversations on Twitter. For questions/ideas like you mention I find Facebook much more responsive (as I have personal connection to everyone there).
that, and, if you wanted to download free movies, you don't need to hack netflix to do it.
Just curious, why are you trying to evangelize Twitter?

It has obvious value to me, and the more people use it, the more that value increases. The increase is even greater when those new twitterers are people that I know, since they likely end up in my twitter network.
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>> But though the record labels have certainly captured congress...

And not just Congress:

http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/76701/

>> their lawsuits tend to destroy startups before government regulation does.

In the broad sense, this is government regulation as well, but with the laws being written to transfer the regulatory function from the Executive branch to the Judicial branch.