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The "Skeptics" began as a movement combating pseudo-science. Unfortunately, many skeptics confuse the negative ability to refute clearly irrational belief systems with the positive ability to offer prescription about how people should live life or order society. Our "Skeptics" generally aren't scientists and even science can't describe the best way to organize society. Unlikely debunking UFOs, organizing society doesn't have easy villains and clear proofs.

One problem is that many people with provably false belief systems still live lives that they find satisfying and even make crucial contributions to science itself. One can clearly demonstrate the irrationality of their belief systems. One cannot clearly prove that they would do better in life if they adopted different belief systems - this isn't saying that they wouldn't but rather that this is a much more complex and nuanced question to address, something that skeptics have failed to consider.
The artist has done other sculptures that have been solved, and the first 3 parts have been solved. So I doubt it is gibberish.

If you are interested you might check out Elonka's website:
http://elonka.com/kryptos/

She's given talks all over the country on Kryptos.
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I am currently working professionally with Unity3d. Unity has taken care of a lot of the annoying legwork wrt animations, asset workflow, physics, state synchronization, c# (mono) extensibility, and more. Unfortunately, the primary language is a custom variant of ECMAScript. Another contender in this space is Torque3d, which offers the ability for you to have your own plugin and native code run on people's machines, but the licensing is not as straightforward as with Unity.
The only place I hear private sites mentioned are on the internet. I don't hear a lot of people talking about them in real life.

But I see what you are saying. Private sites just let the admins control the quality of the torrents and site, not keep people from finding out that the site exists.

If you are looking at music sites, the minimum quality allowed is usually 192kps. So none of the $.99 songs on itunes would be allowed on. Also, since the sites are invite only, most sites force you to seed to keep your account. Checking reviews of private trackers, I see that a seeder/leecher ratio of 40:1 is common. So speed is not an issue.

And the sites make it easy to discover new music. The sites are filled with people who actually care that a song is lossless, or want to take the time to actually rip an album from vinyl instead of cd. These type of people don't usually limit themselves to bands on Top-40 lists.
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Given the recent sweltering Bay Area weather, I wouldn't really mind sleeping outside.
We have awesome internet connection. 35Mbps.
Do you guys hold social events?

Edit 1: (I want to meet people actually working on startups rather than those that just talk about them in various business conventions.)

Edit 2: Maybe something like the YC dinners, except people bring their own food / contribute some dish / or pay.

Edit 3: I'm more interested in meeting the people at HH than renting the room.
Seems like this is how they're trying to reduce the bandwidth that YouTube is using.
Yeah one hand I'd doubt anyone would really care if Tom wasn't on their friends list.

But News Corp could definitely use it. Tom is the public face of Myspace,and Myspace news ends up on Tom's account. It would be a very easy way for the new CEO to communicate with the users. All they would need to do is change the name of the account to the new CEO's.
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And you can legally be there, unlike the beach!
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few thoughts:

2: possibly, i haven't thought much about that. maybe if this is successful, we can use part of the money to fund a party of sorts.

3: i'm sure they're just as interested in meeting visitors too. you should definitely book sometime.
Sure, but that's only a poor substitute. I can't just press shift + pg [up,down] or drag scrollbar in the terminal emulator or use mouse wheel.
Seconded. That apache process is chewing cpu, is it spinning in an inf loop internally to userspace? No, strace shows it repeatedly doing backend conn/op/disconnect - aha!

Another trick in this vein is/was to use 'pstack' to pull a C backtrace from a looping process. If you do that every second for 10 secs, you'll probably find where the process is looping. As a bonus, it also acts as a poor-man's-retroactive profiler (process X intermittently takes 30s to handle it's job instead of 2s - watch for one and when it happens, strobe the process with pstack to see what it's up to). Can be used in production, no need to deploy profiling build and run for ever to catch problem, etc.

(And a variant of this trick for interpreted languages is to hook an unused signal (SIGUSR2?) in your language to say "dump me a perl/python/etc backtrace to the log file". Assuming the loop is in your app code this will give you a language-level backtrace if you strobe the process with the signal)

NB1: pstack doesn't do anything which scripted gdb couldn't do, it's just more convenient

NB2: pstack is unavailable on 64-bit arches?

NB3: pstack needs some symbols to work with in the binary, which probably won't be the case with your system apache+mod_xxx
Well, yes - I have seen Unity 3D and as it exist already a little longer it certainly has already a few nice examples. But what I'm interested is more - why should O3D be outdated? Is there anything in their way of technology that would prevent doing 3D graphics as seen in Unity?

Also they seem to aim at rather different targets. O3D is about creating an open webstandard. Unity3D is a proprietary 3D engine that can run as plugin on some platforms (windows+mac). O3D has to be at a low level to succeed - basically offering a way for web-programmers to access the 3D capabilities of graphic cards with tools which they know (javascript). Unity 3D is an excellent engine with a real nice price, but it doesn't look like a tool for web programmers but like a tool for desktop programmers which want to have their desktop applications also running in a browser.
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I had no idea such an industry existed. I thought fonts were either handed down by God, or invented by Martha Stewart in her spare time.

Does anyone really give a crap about this?
Done! I agree, so the site is now http://instantcommentbox.com
dudes, get real. I can read the web just fine. Who cares about this? There isn't even enough resolution on my screen to tell the difference between a good font and a great one.

This reminds me of when drummers got all weepy because of drum machines. When your scene is done, it's time to gracefully exit the stage.
Thanks for these suggestions. The design still isn't perfect, but I did get rid of the floats. I'm still thinking about what to do about the lost url problem. There should be a way to see all the drop boxes you created, but I also don't want users to have to create an account. Hmm.
Because for many folks, myself included, the opinion of a genius such as Norvig is solid enough to be treated as scientific fact.
actually, I may try to throw a party for programmers instead :-)
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It was only a matter of time :)
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Well, that depends on the size of the contract. There's no natural law that says that governments have to buy everything in vast chunks. And they don't, at least not over here.

Everything that takes place in the vast scale is prone to corruption, regardless if the buyers and sellers are private or public.
Thanks! That encouragement means a lot. Some of my other designs (http://mushpot.net/) weren't so well-received by HN..

It was just dumb luck (plus aesthetic help from my wife) that the box graphic came out as well as it did. I made it in OmniGraffle (mac drawing program), and I just kept playing around with the splines until I liked the shape. I'm just a programmer, so I tend to go with the simplest, bare-bones designs I can get away with.
Check your laws (fire codes, too).

Former neighbors of mine got in trouble for having friends stay in tents in their backyard for a while.

Granted, they were meth-heads, but what they got in a lot of trouble for was the tents not the noise/drugs. If you're running a "business" based on tents in your backyard, you could attract the wrong kind of attention, too.
> Languages that are easier to throw together a reasonable parser for (Lisps, Smalltalk, Lua, or even C)

Heck, even Java.

People (rightfully) complain a lot about how verbose some parts of java are (like how instead of anonymous functions or functions that can be passed as a parameter you have anonymous classes), but ignore the fact that the designers intentionally made that sacrifice to maintain consistency.
Each dropbox url has a random code appended to the end, so spammers can't step step through all the drop boxes in order and pass in garbage. But otherwise nothing keeps spammers out. I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.
I tried to make the image buttons as simple as possible..they're just text surrounded by a drop shadow. I'm surprised to hear objections. Could you describe what you don't like about them in more detail?
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.. but it'll still be the same file. With checksums and binary diffs, not a big problem. There's even a business opportunity there!
Maybe http://ilovetypography.com/ ?
we don't tell people about our meth operations, that's a pretty underground business.
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Congratulations! What a dream outcome....
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I was more interested in a way to write data into Google Analytics, something like what MixPanel does ( http://mixpanel.com )
I would have started by reducing the bit depth of blue, rather than pixel width.
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I met with a higher up from Oracle a few weeks back - to be clear, he didn't know anything about the Sun deal at the time. One of the things we talked about was Google unveiling a new server. He looked at me and said "Why would they do that? The server world is not a good source of profit".

I agreed with him too. :/
Good management is a necessity for home working but when is it not a necessity? Poor management in an office is acceptable? Of course not.

I've worked in a team of developers (15 coders/designers/artists) one of whom was always off site and most people worked a week or two off site every year and there were no problems. I myself regularly worked at home and I was the lead programmer. IM/IRC and Webcams bring everyone together. The team members feel empowered, less stressed and they appreciate what the company and other team members are enabling them to do. In my experience it adds positively to all the team dynamics that matter to reach targets and achieve goals.

Culture is important, I agree and certainly a different culture is nurtured with off site employees. It is not destructive though.

Working from home has way more benefits to a company, staff, staff families, environment, family pets, local community, city life (as in less commuters and less traffic) then it has downsides for a business.
Wanted: CEO, with the first name of 'Tom', or willingness to change first name to 'Tom'.
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now I finally understand all the fuss about twitter! ;)
Given the size of its team, DTrace would never have succeeded as a
library with bindings to even one dynamic language like Python because
the support burden of doing that is enormous. Developing, maintaining
and testing dynamic language bindings on multiple platforms has got to
be one of the suckiest programming tasks in the industry. Just ask
anyone who has ever had to support a PyQT or PyWx application on
multiple platforms. There's a good reason why Python's only stable
cross-platform gui is the one whose underlying gui library has been
dead for a decade.

Maintaining cross-platform bindings to a popular dynamic language like
Python, Ruby or Perl is like fighting a war on three fronts. You have
to expose the basic features of the library in a useful way while the
os vendors are breaking things in their zeal to support new features
and and hardware while at the same time the dynamic language
developers languages are "improving" their languages in significant
semantic ways.

In contrast the DTrace developers and porters only need to worry about
kernel internals - the D language is trivial to maintain and nobody
who matters in that community wants it to be anything other than what
it is: a tool for admins to find out who or what to blame when
something isn't working as it should. The people who love DTrace the
most and are willing to part with their cash for it aren't programmers
or hackers, they're DBAs and storage guys who get wet dreams about
stability, uptime and security who don't tolerate willy-nilly changes
to things that work for them and worrying that D will evolve too quickly
is like worrying about the something like gdb command set will get out
of control.
Is Git more than a version control system? Reimplementing CouchDB with Git+Bash...
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I hope nobody minds this butchery, but I really wanted to finally learn some more about Git and refresh my Bash skills.

It's true that the road to hell is paved with good intentions :-)
Why? I don't think I learned anything from that article. Trying to decode an artists random encoding seems like a huge waste of time to me.
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From over here in Europe, these Obama-pleading articles do come across as unamerican - we always thought that if the Yanks wanted to change things, they just did it.
This article is more reminiscent of a pleading courtier at a thuggish Medici court.
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Mark

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wow. What an overreaction from Mark Pilgrim[1]. While sound & fury may grab eyeballs, he is ignoring solutions already in front of his face[2].

The Solution

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I worked with fonts and licensing all the time in a previous job, generating automated artwork. The big thing missing in Open Source [his 'usable'] fonts is kerning and hinting.

There is nothing stopping someone setting up a Kern-or-Not? website where web people vote on which kerning values look best, and incorporating that data set into an OSS font foundry[3].

I already did some of this myself to kern HTML using spans with negative margins. To get excellent results you only need a few key characters [in English]. I used Web fonts, but made up the kerning offsets by trial and error. There is nothing stopping other people doing the same [see 2].

'T', 'W' are the big offenders. You can get excellent results concentrating on these and all the vowels.

T e , T o , T y , T i , T e, W * etc. This is not exhaustive.

-------------------------

[1] I came across his emails all the time when I was working on the OSS Greasemonkey in the early days of its development. He threatened the lead dev with 'forking the project and working on it until the day I die' if the project did not take a direction he wanted. I believe it was another of one of the fequent LGPL/GPL arguments that whirlwind in many OSS projects. The mailing list greasemonkey-[user|dev] doesn't seem to include such old emails [c 2005], so no link, sorry.

[2] Mark seems to prefer that other people fix the problems under his guidance.

[3] May I suggest Public Domain for the dataset to avoid horrendous license choice debates?
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Ask HN: Dividing up a company amongst startup team.
A couple of friends of mine and myself have started a company. We would like your thoughts on how to structure the partnership now so we don't have problems later on. Ideas? Thoughts? Advice? Thanks.
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DeCSS didn't help prevent casual piracy. It helped prevent people from legally watching DVDs they had bought on linux because they wouldn't license it, and it was illegal to reverse engineer it.

So what did all those tech savvy people who were being actively snubbed by the movie industry do? They bittorrented pre-ripped movie files instead of buying DVDs that were somewhere between awkward and impossible to use. Another classic foot-shooting move from the movie industry.
The first half of your second paragraph is a bald appeal to authority. Your third paragraph is a coy refusal to support the argument in the second half of the second paragraph. (I could mention the emotionally charged language in words such as "immoral", "provincial", "outdated", and "activism" but I'm not sure if it's more ad hominem or well-poisoning. Besides that, you missed a fine chance to spit on the word "marketing" with all of your exaggerated rhetoric.)

The third paragraph is ... well, I don't even know what "true syntactic abstraction" means in this case, nor why it's so important to you.

All you've said is that you don't like Perl. Good for you, I suppose, but I expect better from HN comments. Inspecific, unsupported advocacy is, at best, a distraction.
An important part of Goolge Scholar is that it lets you find (almost) any article published. If they removed all the pay-protected only articles it would be a lot less useful.

Note how they even show articles not available online at all, then at least you know they exist and can track them down at a library.
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Yeah I know, Shift+PG[up, down] not being usable is kinda a bummer but as a bonus you can use / to search the scrollback buffer plus all the vi movement keys are available.
Quite interesting. On a related theme, a lot of people have begun using vcs' (especially git, but also some times svn) as the data-storage backend for their applications, where they would have used a rdbms a few years ago. Eg. [Jekyll](http://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/tree/master) etc.
It was the E-Ink screen that was holding them up. It still is in a way - its the most expensive component.
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Captchas were designed to distinguish bots from humans. But that's no longer the problem[1].

You've just got to assume even a "bot" is human now. Casinos don't spot many cheaters at the door, but rather spot them in the act by monitoring their behavior.

[1] Though still an issue, I don't think removing them totally would do much good, you still dont want people cause semi-malicious damage of your site for even non-profit reasons, such as the Time 100 poll which has been gamed by 4Chan (not that Time introducing a captcha has stopped them though, just slowed them down — however I highly doubt they'd have started it if the captcha was in place from day one)
Git is really nifty. What I like about it is that, when you get down to it, it's amazingly fast. There are many reported cases of people holding their home directories as Git repos on a day-to-day basis.

It's just amazing what a good VCS can let you do.
Actually, screw traveling -- if we could just drill a few hundred meters easily and cheaply, we could solve all our energy problems.

Temperatures roughly increase about 1 degree C for every hundred meters you go down. The difference could power a Stirling Engine (some of which are powered on differences of as little as .5 degrees C). It seems to me you could use a captive bolt pistol to get down just a few hundred meters, carrying a plastic tube which would have two chambers. The engine would pump the water and generate additional electricity. What do you guys think?
Let's play with a little bit of symbolic logic. Near the end of the article the founders talk say, if your life falls apart then you can't count that as success. Well, you need a little bit of revenue for your life to not fall apart. We can distill that down to:

If no revenue, then no success

The contrapositive of which is:

If success, then revenue

Then given our previous theorem:

If (Users and Hard Work) then Success.

Causality is commutative, so we can just substitute our earlier result:

If (Users and Hard Work) then Revenue.

Thus we get Revenue in to that equation. This ought to work, at least in theory :)
I'd like to see an RSS feed at some point, would be great.
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Try searching through the archives (either on google using site:news.ycombinator.com or on searchyc.com), the question of structuring equity between founders has been asked and discussed many, many times before. Main advice from people with experience seems to be to use a sensible vesting scheme.
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Actually, no. The real issue is using compiler's front-end from the IDE itself.
While it's true that C++ is hugely complex IDE writers shouldn't try to replace compilers (ie. trying as hard as they might they'll never get around C++ templates and their touring-completeness).
MS got this right. gcc and every IDE that relies on it (like Xcode) is crippled in this regard.
Ask HN: Short list of the best hacker/entrepreneur/startup-related meetups to attend in NYC?
I'll be moving to NYC from Honolulu relatively soon, and I'm very interested to attend some good meetups or periodic events for hackers, entrepreneurs, and people running startups — that is, the kind of people who read HN. Of course I can and have Googled this, but it's hard to sort out the wheat from the chaff. Any suggestions for "the" meetups to attend to start networking? Thanks!
Ask HN: How successful have donations been with your site?
I was wondering about placing a tip or donation box on my site. I'd rather not as I'm a minimalist, but still, it may be worth it. How successful have you been in using one, and what system do you use?
I'll second that, especially since you mentioned you already work with java. If you like SQL you might want to look at the recent clojure implementation of datalog:

http://code.google.com/p/clojure-contrib/wiki/DatalogOvervie...
PinkTweet?

Why didn't they just use the obvious name "Twatter"?
I just stayed at the Hacker House last weekend. Awesome place. Can't really vouch for the tents though ;)