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I think as time goes along, the hardware/software combo will become more natural.

I can see it now where start up founders with successful exits from todays start ups who grew up assembling machines and writing software will want to build something that could improve the lives of many people outside of open gaming consoles (which is still pretty cool).
If I am depressed and jump in front of a train, or if I think that's a safe and normal thing to lie on the tracks, or if somebody pushes me, or if I trip, the result is the same: Splat.

There's little point in saying "Splats are primarily psychological" if accidents and mistaken facts seem to be at play often enough. Or if people splat other ways (e.g. in car crashes, tightrope accidents). The result is the same. Splatty splat splat. The outcome only tells you so much.

I can tell you one thing: Totally overhauling my "motivation, goals, and emotions" did absolutely diddlysquat in making me better because while I started off with a combination of routine infection and "psychological" stress (which, of course, is a kind of misnomer because you can measure it with blood tests)... it did permanent damage to my mechanicals. Splat.

Also, a lot of doctors think FM/ME/CFS are the same thing. And a lot think adrenal fatigue/hypothyroid and CFS are the same thing. Maybe they are separate but cause each other.

Genetics certainly play a part; hypothyroid is incredibly heritable, for example. It causes lots of the same symptoms and may be a symptom/cause (or both) itself.

But nobody claims that hypothyroidism is psychological, not even slightly, much less primarily.

But the cause for an individual almost doesn't matter. You have to cut stress no matter whether it was a primary cause for you or not.
A link to something isn't possession of something. Any URL might become worthless anyway once the real offending source material is removed.
No worries at all. I haven't had to go through chemo, so I'm sorry you had to go through that! That must have been terrible. We've all had our problems, and nobody was saying "Mine is worse!" -- I know you weren't, and I certainly wasn't, and hopefully it didn't sound like I was.

Like I said… I blame the lack of words!
Not sure what your specific issues might be, but, yes, in general terms you are correct. If the information is on the internet it can be hard to find. This is where experience working at a shop with older school folks can be invaluable.
true...if you talk to telecom hardware guys who have been around long enough, they will tell you most of the innovation that supports a whole lot of PBX/BPO/call center infrastructure happened thanks to the initial market created by those phone sex lines.
I have to say that your link about medicine is short of laughble.

Even if there was some bad "allopathy" back in the day, there is more bad eclictics and homeopathy right now. And to practice medicine you have to understand scientific method, especially falsifability.

And I also have to say that the "free market" idea isn't falsifable. "Let it to free market" rarely works.
There's a presumption that all hardware consumers are simply looking for a cheaper thing that does what they already have. Cheaper isn't always better when it comes to products that aren't meant for "everyone," even b2c product markets can easily be stratified.

I wouldn't say "complement hardware with software," (although in many cases, it is a good idea - but let's be honest software, like hardware, can be copied and sold at a lower margin) - but instead "complement your hardware with a thorough understanding of where you want to be in your market." You may find that there's less money trying to capture and keep customers who want the cheapest product than to find a good spot somewhere in the middle or top-end of a market.

I see a lot of poor thinking in some products, where cost is nearly the primary focus - where the hardware product is something to be thrown away when the next model comes out, because it is stripped to its barest essentials. That's a difficult position to hold - it's much better to think about where your product will need to be in a few years, and make sure that it can grow (add-ons, upgrades, etc.) without needing to be replaced. Not much different than software in that sense.

I'm not sure how one starts a hardware company these days without being a software developer (there's usually more firmware work than electronics...) - but I see it happen all of the time, people don't really care how good the firmware/software is, as long as it works, it would seem.
This is fairly tangental but I love my Zune HD. Still use it every day and I wish I could buy more for backups.
Hardware is nearly always complemented with software, since pretty well all "hardware" projects include a significant software component by default.

For example, I design and build radio systems in my day job. You'd think an 800MHz 100W radio transceiver would be "hardware". In actual fact, even that sort of system is largely driven by software. Most of the signal processing is done on a DSP. The "hardware" is essentially a DAC/ADC, a mixer, a gain element and a filter, and even then the control is handled by a computer. For VHF frequencies and below, even the mixer is disappearing.

These days, nearly every electronic device fits the following model:

Transducer > sampling > SOFTWARE > reconstruction > transducer.
I stopped reading here:

> "It provides access to jobs purely based on merit and results and really, in some ways, neutralizes some of the gender discrimination that exists around the world."

The fact is that Elance does not neutralize anything, except their reputation by stating such BS. If I would be sexist, I could simply reject women on Elance the same way I could do in person.
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The experience gained from working in the industry is definitely useful. I'm looking forward to a time when it is as easy to learn hardware design as it is to learn how to program.
Why not ask yourself "Is this idea stupid enough it might become successful?"

A lot of things we now take for granted started out as terribly stupid ideas. What use was a radio when there was only one radio station in town that operated a few hours a day? Why would I want an automobile that uses expensive gasoline and requires a mechanic when a horse is nearly free? Who, other than a Fortune 500 CEO, would want a phone in their car?

Yes, there's a lot of vapid ideas out there that are worthless, maybe too stupid to amount to anything, but a few crack through and are just the right kind of stupid they catch on in the hugest possible way.

It's like how a movie can be so bad it's good. Sometimes an idea is so stupid it's brilliant.
The author is looking for a container format capable of storing multiple image layers, and one that is capable of storing both vector and raster images.

So you could possibly argue that XML (a la SVG) is the right format to represent the vector files within that container, but it wouldn't be appropriate for the container file itself since binary data really bloats XML.
Theoretically civil lawsuits, or the threat of such.
I've spent the past 3 weeks interviewing with various accelerators across North America and I think my favourite quotes from the entire experience were:

"so you guys are like real engineers" [in reference to us making hardware]

and

"Oh, so you're not just another mobile app"

I love reading about hardware startups - I'm really excited about the next generation of things to come!
Hope. Change. Flushed.
Without anyone actively looking at it, addressee spam probably won't matter. If you could send from a chosen address you might have a point though as it would show up in people's wallets.
Odd... I remember reading links on HN that Google did tell users about requests. Perhaps I'm mistaken.
Kind of like how somewhere, within the digits of pi, there's all sorts of criminal data. http://everything2.com/title/Converting+Pi+to+binary%253A+Do...
They were, indirectly, drawing attention the non-import of that particular byte sequence - it literally does not matter, and the whole thing was to illustrate that a) you can't censor tiny speech effectively and b) DRM is doomed and the keys will always be reverse-engineered.

Saying something meaningful enough to get someone jailed for possessing a drive with the string on it (the criteria for this to be actually harmful to bitcoin) is nearly impossible in 20 bytes in most parts of the developed world.

The article is sensationalist bullshit.
I find the single-authentication quite refreshing. Interesting idea.
Found it.
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However, this year Google stated in an official policy:

>We notify users about legal demands when appropriate, unless prohibited by law or court order.
Accessed on April 24, 2013.

The nebulous language of “when appropriate” is not the firm commitment that should be the gold standard for transparency around handing data to the government. While we’re disappointed by Google’s decision to make its policy language so open-ended, we hope the strong commitments made by other major Internet companies will inspire Google to adopt a clearer public stance in the years to come.
This brings up some interesting questions. One could also XOR some illegal data with the text of the US Constitution, then claim that the Constitution "contains" that data, you just need to XOR it with this particular key.

Obviously that's absurd, but where do you draw the line? You need specialized software and the 32 byte transaction ID in order to extract the data.

What other permanent public records could be manipulated like this?
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Entirely unnecessary. Transaction fees address the crapflooding issue, and the fact that you can embed only a very small amount of arbitrary data in each transaction means that you're unlikely to be able to harm someone else by forcing them to "possess" your various short byte sequences (which will, on disk, of course be interspersed with the rest of the transaction data).

This is to say nothing about the fact that everyone else running bitcoin will also possess these bytes in their blockchains, making the possession of them rather unextraordinary.

This whole article is just the latest in "Bitcoin doomed to fail, and here's why!" bullshit that's been going on for what feels like a decade but is really only 3 years or so.
Nothing beyond the standard advice for SQLite performance. I found that keeping the data in individual per-image database files worked a lot better than trying to create one big database for the whole stack. With that done, I expect the big performance win to come with parallelization of the image transformation tasks.
Landlords and grocery stores won't care about your once-employer's social media password policy.

You might be able to ask for friends for help, but people are going to ask themselves if it's worth putting their loved ones through hell to keep their password to themselves.

I feel like the "Don't work there!" argument is ignoring the fact that we needed unions to get to where we are with employment practices.
When I first read the title, I thought they litteraly LOST their database contents.
Florida Teen Charged With Felony After Science Experiment Goes Bad
> I would think the solution to this problem

I see no problem here. Perhaps you could describe it?
Could you elaborate on what specific benefits using Matroska would have? One downside I can think of is that there are no programming environments (that I can think of) that ship a Matroska parser, whereas sqlite readers/writers are found in many standard libraries.
Don't Sanders & King almost always vote with the democrats? I would like to see real independents that vote sometimes with one party sometimes with the other and sometimes against both. That would be a true independent.
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A link to insert boogeyman here which is also on the hard disks of a few hundred thousand other people, downloaded automatically, and stored in a file with a dozen other gigs of bitcoin transaction data.

Sounds like an airtight case.
I'll bite. Why not sell a service to a mining pool? Many services are free anyway. I'd fork over an hour of GPU per day to see fewer the ads.
...did you just imply that anti virus programs are shady?
> it certainly isn't contributing to the culture in a meaningful way

I can refute that directly. My wife uses Pinterest to learn about recipes, craft projects for her and our kids, cleaning tips. Sharing this information with your community is the definition of culture.

Social media is a huge value to a transplant family living in a far off city from their family all so the husband can work in his chosen field.
Is volunteer tourism a bad thing?
TIFF, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_Image_File_Format has been around since 1993. It supports layers. It supports compression. It supports paged(!) images. It has well-defined supported image encoding formats. It's already supported by all the image editing software you've ever used (from this millennia).

We have a Standard Layered Image Format. HURRAY. NEXT PROBLEM, PLEASE.
That's the principle behind the OFF P2P system: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owner_free_filing_system

US legal system is based on intent so it's kind of pointless.
He also said that it was an accident and not meant to be pushed to all the users.
mumble mumble invisible hand mumble
In addition to the points that you made, there's the issue of source control as well. XIBs have always been a pain with source control, but if one insisted it was workable. I just haven't seen a way to make storyboards work with more than dev and not end up with someone going bald from pulling their hair out.
Maybe I'm doing things wrong and I haven't seen anybody mention this, but ...

... all of my code is on remote machines. Either in a VM or on a server, far, far away.

Is there a way to use SFTP to open files for editing?
Doesn't seem to work in Safari under OS X. Chrome loads okay.
Sadly, the WSJ has just another soundboard for Rupert Murdoch's FUD. Doing whatever they can do to make a story more polarizing.
The passwords _were_ salted and hashed (the article and e-mail screenshot both mention this).

It's no s/b/...crypt but they don't seem to have been 'kept around'.
Something similar is achievable in scheme, just takes a little work http://repl.it/InA (click run session) :)
Gnome 3 is far from dead compared to Zune HD (officially killed) or Google Wave (ditto). (Not sure about WebOS, I remember reading it was sold off.)

The primary reason you don't see it around is that Ubuntu has such a large market share of the desktop Linux and chose Unity as the default. And few people bother (or know about the possibility for that matter) to change from the default even though it's trivial (apt-get install ubuntu-gnome-desktop). But remember that Gnome 2 used to be the default and quite popular (i.e. everyone had it because everyone had Ubuntu).

Now of course, I'm biased - I got pissed off with Unity, tried bunch of various desktop environments and settled on Gnome 3 and I really like it. The dynamic creation & removal of desktops feels strange at first but is so convenient after a while that I miss it everywhere else.
Very true. But under the new regime, I was able to also work on my own personal projects the rest of the time. A big win for me.
I believe s/he meant emergent in the sense that it rises from the interactions of multiple smaller components, rather than "by design".
Minus transaction fees, yes.
I read it too fast. You're right it is right there... thanks
I have nothing to add to the discussion at large, so...

I find the phrase, "I could care less" charming. I'm not sure if it was originally intended as simple sarcasm (or more likely a misspoken phrase) but to me in its form it has a gentle subtlety. A slightly tongue-in-cheek, "typically when discussing the amount I care about a topic, it falls within an average range. However on this particular topic, I care for it so little that I must be explicit that it would actually be possible for me to care less. For a more meaningful topic, such a statement wouldn't be necessary."
I think a big issue with social network ideas is just that there's so much chance involved.

Maybe 1 in 100 that have a solid idea and strong execution are going to achieve the critical mass they need for success. It really just comes down to achieving trendiness, which though it can be engineered to some extent and depends to some extent on quality and uniqueness, is still fraught with chance and ultimately depends whether a product happens to appeal to the particular whims of enough people with above average influence simultaneously enough to create momentum and buzz. A few missing links in that chain can sink the ship, while catching the right eye in the right way can ensure global adoption.

So having a negative attitude toward them all is safe in the sense that you'll almost always be right, and you'll be constantly reinforced in your beliefs. But since startup investment is a game of long shots, like most +EV gambling games, an investor shouldn't be focused on the absolute probability of success but on the chance of success * the potential value.
Aaand having posted this, he reads the first comment on the page which states the opposite... in contradiction to the posted screenshot of the supposed e-mail.

o_O
Arrogant? Yes, if you thought you could figure out that they would succeed or not based on one conversation.

The point of this entry is really: as an entrepreneur, push forward independent of what people who are not you target customer say/think.
Grow. - A game my mate made in 48 hours for Ludum Dare
Sure, OSF costs money, but VC-funded startups are under pressure to monetize their customer bases, whereas grant-funded projects just need to make something useful enough to justify continued investment. There's the obvious risk is that a VC-funded company will make its money off of selling your private information. (I don't think this is very likely, but I trust Brian Nosek a lot more than I trust most startups.) The bigger issue is that VC-funded companies need to keep a tight leash on their product, whereas grant-funded projects are free to grow in a distributed fashion. While ordinary people are happy to live within the limits of their software, scientists like to explore new frontiers, and it sucks when our software can't take us there. This is why I firmly believe that software (and preferably hardware) that scientists use to do science needs to be open source.

I'm not sure I'd call grant income that gets reinvested in infrastructure and educational expenditures "profit." Not only do private corporations buy shiny buildings, but they also have a legal obligation to make as much money for their shareholders as they possibly can. MIT doesn't.
The two major parties are propped up by the mathematics of voting, and funds. I believe mindshare is a symptom of those two things.

http://www.rangevoting.org
(EDIT: Disregard the following, see ordinary's reply) Not that I disagree about the WSJ, but it seems that the lobbyist part of the headline was added by the submitter.
Hacker News does everything correctly to _functionally_ indicate that the area is scrollable. It does absolutely nothing to _visually_ indicate this. And the CSS spec does not require that the browser visually display scrollbars.

So no, Hacker News is in the wrong here. They're relying on the assumption that the user is using a browser that renders scrollbars, and providing a sub-par experience for any browser that does not. This is somewhat analogous to a site that only renders correctly in IE.
What's wrong with raising concerns about the big-picture societal effects of the technology that we're creating? Many things can provide value but also come with a high price. This doesn't make them immune from criticism.
How about just strip PSD of all its crud, Adobe specifies it openly and gives it to the commons. I have a dream..
'Time Crystals' Could Upend Physicists' Theory of Time
Thank heaven for people like you.
I've been describing it as a "writer's workshop for coders".
You know we've all seen helper.php files that are so monolithic

Yes. This has nothing to do with flat functions vs. classes. I've seen 'helper' classes get shitted up just as much as function files.

My point is that it doesn't matter. Many projects don't require heavy portability, and in either case, bootstrapping a namespaced shim next to your autoloader isn't a problem.

I'm not arguing that if you have a very extensive functions library, you should separate it out. I totally agree that you should. But saying 'NEVER MAKE A FUNCTIONS FILE NEVER EVER EVER ON PAIN OF DEATH' is silly.
Explosions are very bad for business not only is your valuable plant destroyed but you can't make fertilizer until you build a new one. Existing and potential employees would demand higher wages and/or increased safety measures after an accident. Neither the free free nor a regulatory body can reliably prevent all accidents. Probably has more to do with how the interested parties value life and property.
I hadn't heard of that site, thanks! Back in 2006 or so, I was a heavy user of Addall.com for comparing prices across various book sellers. I would point people there and mention that it must be "Amazon's worst nightmare." Fast forward a few years and Amazon used books ate their lunch. Addall.com gave up so completely, their site often returns two hits for the same item, the short and long ISBN. There can't be much profit for Amazon to sell used books, but I suppose it is important to keep even the used book buyers "down on the farm."
yep thats what i meant. i'm sorry he/she got so upset whith my analogy somehow. sheesh!
P.J. O'Rourke said it. Nothing else explains regulatory capture so succinctly.
It's US hosted, but it's certainly used by people in many countries, what does it even mean to say it is a US site? The network makes geography meaningless. PG could host it in Sunnyvale or Singapore and none of us would notice or care. Ok some would notice, this is hn after all.
I received and posted the email, and many others on twitter have also received it.

Also, not sure we should take blog comments for the gospel before all the facts are out.
A thousand times this. Why does the OS not make the app permissions more granular than a bit flag? Every app and its dog nowadays require all these really invasive data permissions, and all the choice we're given is either "yes to all" or GTFO. Google went to great efforts to design the concept of contact circles (something that could easily have prevented the OP's problem), why is Android still stuck in the dark ages of data sharing?
This article sort of glosses over the exact user data lost in the data breach: names, email and physical addresses. For users some, phone numbers, date of birth and occupational info.

That is a lot of personal data to lose given Reputation.com's supposed to be opening a data privacy vault this year.[1] The founder gave interview to Fox March 1st describing Reputation.com's move into vendor relationship management.[2]

Advocates for personal data vaults / VRM business model[3][4] like Reputation.com and Personal.com stress that personal data is mishandled today, especially by data brokers. Thus it must be particularly frustrating for Reputation.com to be directly involved in a data breach.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/09/business/company-envisions...

[2] http://www.reputation.com/reputationwatch/multimedia/michael...

[3] https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Main_Page

[4] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/13/technology/start-ups-aim-t...