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Ohh yes and in 2100 we will have flying cars to replace our current ones.

The book is not dead, it never was, nor was it brushed to a side. The book has a niche on information. On a website you are able to find good articles on many things, but what characterises these articles is that due to their space they lack the depth and width that a book is able to provide.

I don;t know what kindle is like, but if it is to compared to e-books that you are able to read online I much prefer a hard copy which I may take to the park or lay in bed with. Its flexibility is its attraction for me and perhaps its niche.

And finally transform the solitary act of reading into something far more social I don't see how reading can ever be social unless you consider a bunch of guys sitting down and reading each on its own be a social activity, or of course unless someone is reading it aloud to the others.

Nice article though, but I did skip most of it :P
Cross referenced to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=555971
which points at the original, rather than just being a pointer and "nice one" comment.
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It still breaks netneutrality, right?
I submitted it because with this price tag it could be a serious competer to some start ups out there.
Interesting, what about the suggestion that the bigger the audience the better the content?
"5 users for 5 dollars for 5 days" is a misleading headline (it's for a year, but the offer is only available for 5 days).

But Atlassian are a very marketing-smart company, so maybe this is intentional, to generate discussion, and so make the message more sticky.
As this niche mailing list (people who seek publicity may be more likely to be interested in publicity-related products/services) shows, sometimes I think Internet marketing is just about targeted leads (not selling generic CPMs). Some of the more successful Internet marketers pre-qualify their "leads" in very interesting ways. Consider these two other examples:

1) Blog that is very successful at capturing holiday gadget shoppers (who have probably already made most of the decision to buy a certain type of gadget) with its to-the-model-number blog reviews that offer buy-it-here links (with its affiliate id).

Detailed revenue breakdown of a gadget blog ($61k in dec 2007)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=216960

2) Shoemoney - Provide a service - in this example, entertainment/a game that appeals to sports' fans egos and offer them a Netflix subscription (with his referral ID of course) as a reward

"So with this Cornhusker quiz, it’s a needed service because all these guys want to see where they are. It spreads virally, because they want to challenge their friends and see if they could do better than their friends. And the way to make money is, when they finish, if they score high enough, they’re presented with a free trial to Netflix."

http://blog.mixergy.com/shoemoney-ads/
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> Is it feasible for all the ISPs to be taken to court?

Yes. And it is much referable from the point of the ISP's, as that way they will avoid legal responsibility. If they start closing the connection to some servers because of illegal content on their own initiative, they increase the risk of being hold legally responsible for allowing access to the content of other servers.

At least one Danish ISP (tele2) has closed for access to Pirate Bay after could order.
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OK, and fine with my elderly FireFox.

Very good indeed.

Cross-reference with http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=555971
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I didn't even notice the "5 days" part until my boyfriend pointed it out. And even then it sounded odd, since it says they give you a year of full support.

A quick reading of the FAQ (which you should always do to avoid surprises :)) clears up all doubt.

BTW, thanks to the submitter. We use this at work and it's fantastic. I really wanted to be able to use it for my personal projects, too!
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It is not (directly) a question of money, but of legal responsibly. If they start actively censoring the content of the data that passes through their network, they risk losing the local equivalent of common carrier status, and become legally responsible for said data. That is obviously a nightmare scenario for the ISP (and a wet dream for the RIAA equivalents). But as long as the ISP's just follow court orders, they are reasonable safe.
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What took me off my armchair some years ago, when I had really become a couch potato, was weightlifting. By chance a gym opened 2 minutes from my flat, so I paid them a visit. First the guy there showed me how everything works: he did a few repetitions, then I did a few repetitions (of course, at the lowest setting) on every machine there. After 10 minutes I thanked him, sat on a couch, begged for a bottle of water and spent the next 20 minutes trying hard not to be sick.

In a few months I was in reasonable shape, but you could see a big difference in posture (and in not getting sick) from the second visit. Kept doing it for about 6 months, then on and off another 2 years. Then I started doing other stuff, mostly for fun. Last thing was indoor climbing - most fun I ever had doing sports. Also very good at unexpected things: I never expected my balance to improve so much.

My point is: weightlifting is the best thing to start with, for two reasons. Time wise it's by far the most efficient, both as time spent per week (twice is enough), and as time until getting into shape. Second, it's very useful for whatever you want to do in the future. Whatever the sport chances are basic strength and a bit of endurance are required.
If you do decide to go the freelance route, do what I did:

Get yourself a backup/recurring income project. I had a client who started a new "bad debt tracing" company. The final quote came to around $20k for the development of a pretty large management system (it would track all open cases, mail clients when the trace was successful, and figure out which employee is slacking off - among other things).

She said she cannot pay that money right now, so I made her a deal: I'll write the entire system and take 15% of each case handled via my management system. At the moment, that 15% generates enough money to cover my rent and utilities, so if I have a slow freelancing month, I won't get into trouble.

If you go this route I must warn you - people will try to take shortcuts. Don't trust anyone. My rule is - all code is protected by an encrypted key which contains an expiry date. I always send them a new key at the beginning of the month which gives them another month of use. They don't pay me = their system goes down. (And yes they tested me on this one, and yes they were down for 3 whole days. Now they pay on the 1st like clockwork).

Also, don't fall for the "15% partnership/shares in the company" crap, otherwise they start asking all sorts of favours (the printer isn't printing, you're the only one we know, please come fix). Structure the deal in such a way that they pay you a "rental" fee for your code, make sure you state that the code remains your property until they buy it out for the full price.

Overall this has worked very well for me. If they now call me and ask for a feature, I'm more than happy to code it - it is in my vested interest to make sure the employees get access to information as quickly as possible. The quicker they work, the more money I get. So no backwards and forwards with project spec v2.1233, I just code it and get it over and done with.

Of course this also comes with pitfalls - you could do this for a client and then their business never takes off. Try to find out as much as you can about the company (read their mission statement, ask them questions about their marketing plans, contingency plans, etc, etc). Two words: Due diligence!!

Hope this helps.
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Context is everything, in this case the context is Sterling's assertion that connections is for poor people. So the context is rich versus poor. "A big, secluded house" is correctly a metaphor, but a shallow one, namely for living the style of life of rich people. Something that really is a whole lot easier if you have a lot of money.

This makes your original question seem weird, you are basically asking "What prevents her from living like a rich person?". The answer to that one is obviously "Lack of money".
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IQ posts some comments about the implementation of Elevated in this thread on gamedev.net also:

http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=5...
> Credit cards are pretty rare in Austria, too. (I blame the banks in part; getting a CC here has been a nightmare for me and has taken over half a year!)

There's also a fee associated with having a credit card here, so unless you use it a lot, it's generally hardly worth your while.

Amazon either completely ignores the Dutch market or it doesn't get a foot in the door. amazon.nl redirects to amazon.co.uk. There is a Dutch competitor[1] that's pretty big here. Before iDEAL they just worked around the whole credit card mess by sending bills[2].

> Come to think of it, there must be a substantial market for painless pan-European payment processing. Hmm! Or has this been tried and failed many times before?

There has been a very small scare here that a system like that (in the context of the Single Euro Payments Area[3]) might supersede the local iDEAL system by an inferior system. I'm not aware of any previous attempts on pan-European payment systems. There have been some attempts on the Dutch national market before iDEAL, but most of them failed (presumably because if it doesn't have the support of all major banks, the market will end up fragmented).

[1] Bol.com

[2] The Dutch "acceptgiro", you just fill in your account number (if that hasn't been done already), sign it and send it to your bank. Surprisingly, there isn't an English Wikipedia page for it :-)

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area
On the article comments, there is a guy (Fractal Nature) that equals the mass of the proton to (sqrt 0.75) * pi / 2.7

Anyone knows where this formula comes from? I just thought that it is just too beautiful to have two of the constants of the universe related that way.
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Ask HN: What would you do if you knew the future?
This is a thought experiment. Let's assume somebody sent you back in time, to the year 1996. Knowing what you know now, you could start companies called Google, Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook etc. and do everything right from the beginning.

Would you succeed?

Also, would people like Larry, Sergey, or Mark Zuckerberg be virtually unknown in the tech world?

(Surely, there's much more you could do with your knowledge of the future but let's focus on starting companies for now.)
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Also also: the readme that comes with the download is missing the '.tech' section available here: http://pouet.net/nfo.php?which=52938
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The author seems to be confusing about the runtime of a programming language and the power to extend a language. I would attribute the extensibility of javascript for a jQuery like library.
The question is a very good one. However the answer is unconvincing to me. By this reasoning, should someone make a jquery compiler that blocks the access to the original javascript language, and perhaps fills in any resulting holes in fuctionality, then jQuery would be a language. But how much would have really changed? And also, should then someone implement this new JQuery within a javascript environment, we would be talking about an embedded language within another language. but isn't that what we have now? I think to the extent that a library brings in new syntactic styles, it becomes more and more similar to a language.

As an aside, this got me thinking about compilers that can compile multiple languages in the same source file.. a kind of linguistic pick-n-choose... has anything been done along those lines?
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Mostly I just walk places. I willingly walk over an hour into town to avoid catching a bus. If I'm late, I'll run part of the way.

I'm currently living on campus and have far less walking to do, but I play airsoft every few weeks. I also go to clubs and spend hours at a time dancing.

I have no idea if this really constitutes effective exercise, but I've never had health problems.
One hour brisk walk between 5AM to 6AM.
Anything I wanted to.

But first, I would get enough money to completely opt out of doing anything like starting companies, worrying about what anyone thinks, etc., and find a lot of land in the middle of nowhere, drop my own fiber link in at vast cost, and ignore the rest of the world as much as I could.
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I am doing around 2 hours per week total, and it has positively changed my life in many ways.

I bought a crosstrainer a few months back, and it is the very best $200 USD I have ever spent, I highly recommend it to everyone.

I do 20 minutes or so on it, at a decent pace, and as many pushups as I can handle, every other day . . . my body must react real well to exercise, because I now get looks from the ladies!

A well shaped geek I am, if you can all believe it :)

Seriously however, exercising has improved my life in a myriad of ways.
Yikes. Okay, it's interesting as a business model, but it's a bit scary as a view of how the media works. Talk about an echo chamber! Sounds like most of these journalist a practically deciding what they want to hear and then asking for people to tell it to them.

Hmm, actually it's not quite that bad. In an unscientific sample, there are a couple of blantant shill-requests:

"Reporter seeks people leaving/ready to leave NYC b/c high taxes"

"wanted to find bosses w/ employees afraid they're going to get laid off so they're sucking up"

But there are slightly more actual requests for real info:

"Needs experienced chiropractor's tips on how patients can ease pain before a visit"

" is facebook coming up more in therapy sessions with clients?"

"needs MDs to discuss physical symptoms of stress for women's mag"

" for Christian Sci. Monitor needs ppl with credit card balances to talk about how they pay it off"

Hmmm
Ask HN: Good introductory article on source control
I've recently joined a new project owned by a developer who has never used source control. I've suggested moving the project onto Subversion, but am starting to get the first signs of pushback.

I think we're still at the "what's in it for me" stage here, and I'm pretty sure that I'd blunder any attempt at direct advocacy, so I'd rather simply forward a URL that lays out the case for using version control and let this developer reach his own conclusions.

I've been looking around, but all the intro SVN docs I've found seem to give a brief single paragraph intro to SCC before diving into either how to set up a repository, or "why CVS sucks and SVN is awesome." Can anybody recommend anything good?

(I'll send across the Joel Test in due time, but I think we might need to do some softening up first...)
Well, Cassandra (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra) knew the future but no one believed her. It would probably be the same with VCs.
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more actual

The Facebook one is seeking a particular conclusion, too. (There is no story in reporting the wrong answer to that question.)
There are a lot of multi-language quines, but that's cheating, because it's multiple compilers passing over one source file.
BTW, you can write:

arr.each(function(el){...}); in Prototype as well,
and you can attach custom method to JS array accepting functor "on the fly", it will look unfamiliar to beginners, but it will be still JS.

There is a definition for what author tries to explain:

Embedded Domain Specific Language

Here is the def:

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EmbeddedDomainSpecificLanguage

Many powerful languages provide cool constructs for creating
embedded domain specific languages that look very different from the base language, just take a look at Ruby or LISP or C++.

You can also take a look at metaprogramming (writing programs that create other programs).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaprogramming
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http://healthlink.mcw.edu/article/1023994375.html

That was the first link from google. There are others more informative. Make a few searches if interested.
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Ask HN: How do people prefer to pay online in your country?
Based in part on this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=569607

In that thread we discussed two countries where credit cards are the exception rather than the norm. It seems safe to assume that there are more places where this is the case.

Part of this is also based on our experience when accepting payments. It seems a lot harder to convert a free member to a paying one as soon as you leave the USA. It seems to me that how we accept payments (PayPal, MoneyBookers) is at least in some part responsible for that.

What do people in your geographical area prefer to use for online payments? Is it the credit card, plain old SWIFT/BIC or IBAN, some national payment system?

Is there a payment processor like PayPal that's very popular in your area? (Especially if customers need an account.)
Link for your clicking convenience: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=569607
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Unfortunately Brazilians are not scared 12 year olds, and would probably not be so concerned with a pre-recorded warning that has little chance of actually effecting them (who's going to track down some random logger talking soccer with a buddy?)
I think a lot of success is down to circumstance, right moment, right time, right person and I doubt if you tried to make another Google you'd succeed in the same way.
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what would you rather have? red on blue? animations?
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When it gets integrated in the web browsers. If browser makers starts to ship their browsers with integrated jQuery/YourFavouriteJSLibrary stable releases would become a defacto language.
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4 times a week for certain, sometimes 5.

Run a 5k, then abs and 24 sets of lifting.

Can't stand treadmills, so usually run outdoors.

I usually get insanely focused and clear my head while working out, so it's equally as beneficial from a mental health standpoint as a physical health standpoint.
If you do triangulate them accurately and give them their location, they would just start using you as a locator service! Free GPS! Which would incite even more usage.

They'll need to learn to read a map and place latitude and longitude on it, but that's pretty easy.
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What a bunch of sensationalistic crap. Tons of companies exist solely for organizational (as in, keeping things neat and orderly) purposes, and as pass-through entities into other companies. There's nothing shady or tax-evasive about this; it's just something you do.

If this were a statistic about the 1000 largest companies in America, it'd be alarming; when we are talking about all entities that are formed as corporations, it is completely meaningless. Interesting how a harmless GAO statistic can be spun in such a manner.
Don't worry, I don't want to pry the steering wheel from your cold, dead hands. Brad Templeton (the writer of the essays I linked to) predicts that robocars should be able to co-exist with human drivers (though there would be some advantages if all cars had autonomous capability, such as increasing road capacity by reducing follow distance, and optimizing the design of parking garages).

My interest is primarily on reducing deaths. I'm fortunate enough that I've never lost a close friend in a car accident, but two friends of mine have been injured (one moderately, one seriously), a close friend of mine lost his best friend, and the 21-year-old receptionist at my previous employment was killed in a head-on collision. I expect most people have stories like these or worse.

The 93% figure comes from Wikipedia, and the citation is a report that doesn't define human error. Templeton thinks that robocars could eliminate almost all of the million car accident deaths per year. But even if it's only 50%, that would prevent so much avoidable loss.

Templeton:
"The creators will need to make an urban test track and fill it with swarms of the robots, and demonstrate that they can walk out into the swarm with no danger. Indeed, like a school of fish, it should be close to impossible to touch one even if you try. Likewise, skeptics should be able to get onto bicycles, motorcycles, cars and hummers and drive right through the schools of robots, unable to hit one if they try. After doing that for half an hour and getting tired, doubters will be ready to accept them on the roads."

If that can be achieved, robocars will drastically reduce deaths.
I think Zepolen is correct, so much comes down to timing. If you look at a lot of the "successes" that you would want to get there before they were reaching slightly beyond current tech/social environment. For example, Flickr/YouTube were predicated on the fact that storage costs were crashing and end user bandwidth was drastically increasing. You couldn't have created them much earlier.

Wikipedia was timed for the explosion of users on the internet allowing for massive crowd sourcing, again you couldn't have gotten there much earlier.

The best way to leverage knowledge like that would be to go back and become the world's most prescient VC. Also avoiding the bubble bursting and the current crash would be great.

I like the idea of going back and getting myself into a position to work on some of these projects though. being able to be there when they happened would be cool
you could start companies called Google, Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook etc. and do everything right from the beginning

No you couldn't, because you only see these companies from the outside. You might know the idea, but how many search engines, social networks, etc are/were there? Amateurs talk about strategy, professionals discuss logistics.

The one valuable piece of knowledge you'd have would be exactly when to jump from the NASDAQ ship.
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It's mesmerizing and enlightening. For instance, when the guy breathes fire, you can see him spitting fuel from his mouth, then igniting when it hits the flame.