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Interesting.

This doesn't mean there's nothing to tasting wine, though.

If the test had been to identify a really bad bottle, versus a good one, I'm sure they all would've got it. If you give someone two reds, both of decent quality, sure, a blind difference would be hard to detect.

But, give someone a corked bottle and an uncorked bottle, I'm sure they'll figure it out. (This does not refer to screw on tops vs corks, but cork contaminated wine)

Most of the people referred to as "philistines" by the author probably do not know what a corked bottle is.

I'll tell you, it tastes horrible. And once someone has helped you taste what "corked" is, you'll remember forever.
This is probably something everyone in Seattle tech is wondering themselves too ...
Why would you test wifi speed using afp or cifs? Don't both those protocols dictate a fsync on each block, meaning they are very dependent on rtt which is much longer via radio? If you're testing radio bandwidth you really want to use a protocol without restraints like that, such as rtsp or http. While window size will undoubtedly help here, I wouldn't be surprised to find that windows 8 isn't flushing as often or performs async fsyncs.
I'm not sure if your referring to New Zealand or not, but the harm was happening in NZ up until quite recently - and arguably still is. I live on land that was once part of a local tribes area, I have dug in the garden and found old shell fish quite deep down in what was once a waste pit. My father has found old adze heads in a relatives garden. I believe that I am benefitting from living where I do, and am more than happy for my taxes to go to those who are descended from those who's land was swindled/stolen from them. The long term effect on a people who's land, lives and social systems have been damaged by colonization is often (always?) bad - and if a small change to me can result in a positive change for them, I don't see the problem.
> Every TV show, magazine or newspaper you liked, watched or read is the result of advertising.

No it isn't. Aside from that which I pay for through Netflix (no ads), I pretty much only watch and listen to the various BBC outlets (no ads, and I pay my license fee). I pay for Spotify and Audible and I buy CDs. I like paying money for things because I also hate advertising.
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So strike my last sentence. EV certs are still more onerous for site operators in terms of price and process than "normal" certs. They don't offer a credible increase in security or decrease in liability for anyone. Those facts suffice to explain the paucity of their mass-market adoption.
well windows is not designed to run on a mac...
Was thinking the same thing. These islands are perfect for settings of horror movies or video games. They are all a bit eerie and beautiful at the same time.
Lots of these islands would be perfect settings for summer camps that somehow become the next zombie infestation.

Then there are islands like Dean Kamen's island (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Dumpling_Island) on the other hand that are kinda like Tony Stark's island. So expensive to have services on an island and get stuff to and fro. Kamen has solved the independent power grid problem there.
I'd suggest you spend some time in Melbourne, Australia.
I'm sure you're aware of Penlight, which does a very nice job of providing a "batteries included" library similar to Python's for Lua.
I have no idea what the right answer, if there is one, would be for you, but here's the question that helped for me: Rather than thinking about what opportunities either might give you, looking 10-20 years ahead which option do you think you might most regret chosing?
If you ever do any exploring of old/abandoned buildings like this, you better use a respirator. Asbestos + neglect + vandalism is a nasty combo.
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If you crowd out the tech and the startups with politics, you'll be left without much of anything.
I find it interesting that SV is normally in favor of capitalism and free markets, yet some seem tolerant of the government forcing content owners to license their content at a fixed price.

There is often more inovation in a space when the market participates are left to decide on their own what to do.
No. Here's a billionaire's ambitious and "plausible" plan on transfering his brain into a model and using a holographic body rather than a physical one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01hbkh4hXEk
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That gets you ~90% of users right there. Make it cheap to port apps to Windows Phone or Blackberry and I'm sure they will.
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Two things:

1. Snowden is capable of lying.
2. The media is capable of misrepresenting his quotes.

I simply don't believe them or (him if applicable)
I'm definitely not a wine "connoisseur" by any means, and don't think cost has much of anything to do with the quality of the wine. I've had some amazing cheap wine, and awful expensive wine. However, to me this article misses the point. The more interesting question to me would be: Can these judges continually figure out if a wine is "bad" or "good". Give them the same two wines over and over again, one being "bad" (Franzia) and another being "good" (Some agreed upon California cab or similar) and see what shakes out. I'd be very surprised if any of the judges couldn't figure out which was worse than the other.
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> This is the equivalent of suing the American Bankers Association for a lack of a banking license.

Not really; the most obvious difference is that a C&D isn't equivalent to a suit.
I think the post is right - we need to be rethinking some of the abstractions in data center networking so we can deploy apps with specific network topologies and performance guarantees, and still be logically isolated from each other. This is especially important for bandwidth and latency sensitive apps like scientific computing that really care about what's happening at the "Top of the Rack" switches. I'm not sure that VLANs alone cut it.
That's a strength of preferential voting, but you make it sound like a negative somehow. It means you can vote for who you like, and your hand is not forced by 'but they'll never get in', as seen with the Lib Dems in the UK.
Trademark? Why would that be a problem? Sure, any complex system has some bad cases, but we don't see thousands of innovative companies shaken down and destroyed for the corrupt benefit of trademark litigators.

Likewise there are problems with copyright, but -- unless you're really an infringer -- not on one thousandth the scale of patents. And boat hull registratons, trade secrets, plant breeders' rights, design patents, and trade dress are similar. It's only utility patents that are rotten and systematically corrupted.
What he did was definitely espionage whether it was opportunistic or not.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism, though.
In the theoretical world where ethics is as it is on the bar exam: Maybe? Hard to say, you'd probably need a bit more facts. i'm sure with enough data from speeches he has given, yes.

However, In the real world, where manufacturing evidence against people gets you nothing, or repeatedly encouraging clients to lie under oath, and helping them, gets you suspended for 9 months (http://overlawyered.com/2013/05/n-y-p-i-lawyers-are-suspende...), no, it would not make any difference.

(I agree, btw, that maryland would have disbarred those guys. I'm licensed there, and it's one of the few states that takes ethical obligations seriously)
This is great! Now to backup my old photos, I'll tar them and encrypt them and email them to myself. I can always try FOI request and get them back!
From the end of the article:

Based on our and Shimpi's tests, it seems entirely likely that Apple will be able to fix the issue in software, and I would be surprised to see OS X 10.8.5 or OS X 10.9 ship with the same issues.
Ask HN: Does anyone have new info about the ever contentious startup fail rate?
Of course, this is a moving target, but I'm wondering if anyone has heard of any new research on startup fail rates.

Contemporary information is definitely preferred, and debate is welcome :)

As far as my efforts, this is the most recent information I've seen cited:

"The statistics are disheartening no matter how an entrepreneur defines failure. If failure means liquidating all assets, with investors losing most or all the money they put into the company, then the failure rate for start-ups is 30 to 40 percent, according to Shikhar Ghosh, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School who has held top executive positions at some eight technology-based start-ups. If failure refers to failing to see the projected return on investment, then the failure rate is 70 to 80 percent. And if failure is defined as declaring a projection and then falling short of meeting it, then the failure rate is a whopping 90 to 95 percent." -
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The returns to your chosen profession will have some relationship with how many other people want to offer that service. Some people break their backs picking up smelly trash on hot summer days, don't have high school diplomas, but manage to get by. Some people bust their ass learning arcane branches of engineering or medicine and can do pretty well.

You chose to spend a life making music. I love music so much I'd almost do that for gas money and staying on people's couches. Almost. I know a lot of guys who would and do.

So I'm sorry you're not rich. But not that sorry.
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It's understandable why DanBC was confused. You wrote:

The Axis, for example, always erred on the side of not hurting any civilians.

I have no idea where you got that idea. Hitler used collective punishment against civilian populations to deter resistance. Stuff like 'for every German soldier that dies, we kill 100 civilians'. The German's also bombed civilian centers like London and Belgrade.
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Construction gave ~55M; they have low margins but vast revenue, probably more than the tech industry.
Nothing and I never claimed that it does? I disagree with the whole "information wants to be free" rhetoric in regards to music in this specific context.

Yes an MP3 is literally and pedantically information, however it also has an additional worth to me that I find rewarding to pay for. I believe people who enjoy music but use this argument to acquire it for free are deluding themselves.
To do p2p without C++, you have to implement ICE or the equivalent. Sounds like a fun thing to do, especially but it's going to take a lot of work. Then once you're done with that, you'll need to implement reliable delivery with congestion control on top, which also would be a lot of fun but a fair amount of work to do properly. Finally, you'll want to add encryption in there; luckily, Go has good crypto libraries, but getting crypto right is still really hard and it's easy to mess up and have an insecure system. At the very least, you could use libjingle as your guide.

By the way, what do you mean by "not to use C++"? Do you mean write it in it, or do you mean use libraries written in it? I can understand the former, but the latter seems a bit extreme. Go makes it pretty easy to link to C libraries. Why not use libjingle from Go? That sounds fun and a lot less work.
Because it indexes from 1 and doesn't use braces? (semi-sarcastic)
I think their point was that that's not the musicians fault. If you want to make a business distributing a product you need to find a way to pay for that product and then sell it at a higher price. You don't start the business and then try to force a pay cut on the producer just so you can make a profit easier. Pandora should focus on getting consumers to pay more (higher subscriptions, more effective advertising which they can charge more for etc.).

Edit:

It's obvious that the music industry has business model problems but in this case it's Pandora that has the business model problem. The industry doesn't need to lower it's prices - Pandora needs to figure out a way to pay them as they need the music more than the music industry needs them.
So? Is Scheme compatible with Common Lisp?

Clojure can run on any platform the JVM can (so basically anywhere except iOS). Clojurescript can run anywhere Javascript does (so everywhere). It's a practical, immediately useful language, that's seen significant uptake and activity.

I like Common Lisp, but it's much easier to build useful apps in Clojure.
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bandcamp is where that freemium model lives.
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The motivations of 'any random spy' are quite varied. From a personality profiling point of view, Manning & Snowden stand apart from espionage cases where people sold or released classified information. They are much more similar to 'Deepthroat' then they are Robert Hannsen or Aldrich Ames, in my mind. I believe both 'leakers' and 'spies' are disillusioned in the intelligence apparatus they are working in, but 'leakers' seem to be motivated by a belief that exposing particular cleared information will make a difference in that system, or benefit the public good. They leak as a way to make right with their conscience (or for the attention with that as a rationalization). People like Hannsen or Ames sold or traded secrets with enemy nations more as points of pride; they wanted to prove to themselves they could do it, and their ego's were stroked each time they did.

I studied global security & intelligence in college, and had a personality profiling class focusing on cases of american espionage. My two cents is coming pretty heavily from that.
That's right. "Flatness" isn't a goal. The goal is to wash out compromises and compensatory strategies forced by the state of display technology, by whatever design direction improvements may lead to. Skeumorphism isn't inherently tacky. There is plenty of design outside of computer UI design that uses it artistically and tastefully. But it is on the outs for a good reason now.

Transparency is a similar issue. A few years ago I was working on a UI framework for VoIP devices. The target display technology could not adequately support transparency even though the designers made a strong case for it for a small display on other grounds. The outcome wasn't "transparency bad." It was "transparency can't be done right on our devices."
This is a neat little reference but I can't waste the opportunity.

I've seen people say they've never seen complaints about fonts being too big? Well here I am, complaining that the fonts are so big this page is hard for me to read without zooming out.
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I'm working on porting a node/websockets game I wrote to python using the twisted websockets branch. (not integrated in core yet but fully functional so far)

Instead of using socketio I rewrote the client side code in pure js. It was not difficult at all, and nearly all browsers support websockets now anyway.

Anyway - if you've written a twisted server before then writing a websocket backend is trivial, and the frontend is not much more difficult. I might do a full writeup when the project is complete.
"working at an already-massively-successful company means you will learn much less, and probably work with less impressive people."

Not true. I learned more in my first month at a "big company" than in the two years I spent in the startup world. I started out working for startups, and while it was fun at first, it was a big mistake. My development skills ended up stunted and patchy from churning out MVP after MVP. I never learned how to maintain or scale an application, since most of the time I was just pounding code as fast as I could, hoping to score more funding. Since most of my coworkers were also young and inexperienced, I learned little of value and picked up a lot of bad habits. Maybe I just wasn't enough of a "smart young person" to pick ideal companies, but really, who is?

That's just my personal experience, but my point is that startups don't necessarily equal prime education. If you really want to learn and grow, find a team of disciplined people who understand and enjoy their work. Maybe it's a startup, maybe it's MSFT -- the size of a company doesn't necessarily dictate its viability as a learning experience.
While I suppose I admire the effort, attempting to logic or reason with the New York Post is kind of a waste of time. They sell newspapers but putting sensationalist headlines with a ridiculous right leaning bias on their cover every day.

I'm not sure their are too many people living in New York who'd consider the Post an accurate source of 'news.' I do find reading their headline pretty entertaining most days though.
That is true. I was recreating there two days ago, and New York's public interactive art festival, Figment NYC is held there.
"Today I buy every damn song I listen to, thousands of dollars worth"

Why do you do this? You know that most of the money for an album doesn't go to the artist? Do you buy the physical CD or do you buy the song on iTunes?

The vast vast majority of people do not have thousands of dollars to spend on music.
There is nothing unbiased about having a judicial philosophy. "Bias" means you unfairly favor one party in a particular case over the other. Lack of bias does not require that you approach each case as a tabula rasa.

For example, I imagine lots of people on this website would be happy if a judge took an expansive view of the 4th amendment and asserted that was important for courts to strengthen 4th amendment protections. And that would be totally okay.
The line has always been, "You can't stop a determined hacker with any single solution."

The NSA may be a group of determined hackers.

One technology isn't going to suddenly cure the whole problem. It takes a solid security policy set at and followed by the top levels of a company, and constant vigilance to respond to threats. You're not going to stop anyone from getting in, but you can stop them from getting anything of value, and you can kick them out quickly and quietly.
It's almost as if we have more people with more leisure time who can provide more entertainment instantly to larger audiences with trivial costs.

Or maybe like we have the internet competing for our entertainment attention, and it is just damn good sauce.
Thanks for sharing.

While I'm not a game developer, I have been trying to get our team members to focus not just on building the product/app but also on thinking about developing a user acquisition process for each app. This may sometimes involve PR and talking to the media and app review sites, but my experience (which matches your thoughts) media exposure doesn't always result in an actual boost of registrations/downloads/revenue. So it's not just a goal of "get more customers" but making it more specific, e.g. "get more people to share my game/app" or "increase exposure to a specific target interest group", etc.

Thanks again for sharing. Best of luck with your future projects!
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I watched this story unfold. I was more excited about the possibility of Standford building a satellite campus. They dropped out of the bidding war with other NYC schools as they believed that they were never going to be able to have a fair shake at submitting a winning bid (due to the clout that NYC schools have in NYC).

Here is one story about it:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/17/education/stanford-exits-c...
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> likely to be with "non-U.S. persons."

This seems highly suspect; either they have to snoop on you to see if it's okay to snoop on you, and/or do some probabilistic mumbo-jumbo to guess at whether you're a foreigner.

> The third party doctrine: by handing information over to Google, etc, you're purposefully exposing the information

Doesn't basic encryption (HTTPS) imply an expectation of privacy? Also, assuming the tech companies aren't BSing us, it certainly seems like the data is being consumed against their will as well, so it's not necessarily a matter of Google selling search histories.

While I believe that NSA activities already violate the letter and spirit of the 4th Amendment, I absolutely support the idea that we should pass new legislation to protect our privacy rights in the Information Age from both state and corporate power, removing all ambiguity.

> why should the standard for what constitutes a search have any relation to copying under the copyright laws

There seems to be an interesting Catch-22 here: how can I claim ownership over my data without disclosing it? I could declare every email I send to be a copyrighted work, thus making it illegal to store without permission, yet doing so inherently divulges the information.

> Constitutionally there is nothing wrong with them storing the data of non-U.S. persons

There isn't, but there should be. The deeper moral issues notwithstanding, we're well on track to destroy our leadership in the global internet industry right now.
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I would strongly agree with both.
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Ha! This picture [1] of Hashima Island instantly reminded me of the James Bond film Skyfall. Apparently it served as an inspiration.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%E8%BB%8D%E8%89%A6%E5%B3%B...
OK, I tend to make resentful comments about kids with trust funds or who still live at home, but honestly, they would be fools to not tap into the resources available to them.
You're correct that lots of interest groups say lots of things, but I happen to agree with the ACLU's position, which is why I specifically brought it up.

I agree that the FISC opinion in question will be very enlightening.

Also, I agree that a "Roe v. Wade"-esque supreme court decision would provide a nice degree of finality to the issue, provided they agree with my position :P (kidding!). We were so close earlier this year to having some of these programs declared unconstitutional (5-4 decision) [1], maybe this time around we will be a little more fortunate. Or maybe I'm just naively optimistic.

Also, Rayiner, from the based on the well-educated substance of your posts and your profile I have to ask, are you a lawyer?

[1] http://www.aclu.org/national-security/supreme-court-dismisse...
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I hoped to find a tool that helps me creating "new words" for a potential start-up by putting up words relating to the business.

We all know how hard it is to find an available domain, but it's equally hard to come up with something short, but memorable too.

You see, not all of us look for stuff that they won't ever use.
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