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Apology accepted.

<quote>If you can't juggle this, then failing out is more honorable than degenerating to fit the system<quote>

Science isn't what you think, or I think. Rather, it is what the community thinks to be true at any given point in time. If the community as a whole judges by quantity instead of quality, that's what most scientists will conform to. It is important to understand why this is the case. I believe the primary reason is that quality is extremely hard to judge. Most conference program committees will tell you this. You can easily spot the diamonds and the turds. How do you sort out amongst the rest?

I also disagree with your overall attitude in which you consider academics dealing with their reality to be a "pointless existence". However, you are certainly entitled to your opinion as I am entitled to disagree with it :)
I don't understand the point of these mockups unless they have an actual prototype. It's easy to hand-wave about how great a product will be that can't be built. The borderless glass is probably a non-starter because of chipping. And why would you make an aluminum/carbon fiber composite? Aluminum and carbon fiber both serve the same purpose in a composite structure. You'd use something like a metal-matrix aluminum composite instead, set in resin.
High temperatures are true of glass work in general. I'm not 100% about the gorilla glass process, but I did not think it high pressure one.

And high pressure is not a deal breaker -- it's just the best way to make some things right now. But even after you've forced carbon and aluminum together, you have a variety of other issues then to deal with: large potential for galvanic corrosion and huge difference in coefficient of thermal expansion are two of the primary ones. The fact that they have horrible wetting behavior is another one, and is the reason they have to do squeeze casting in the first place, but likely also negatively affects the quality of the interface formed between the carbon and the aluminum (thus leading to poor properties even after you've spent all the effort of making it)
Yeah it's definitely "replace the thumb drive"
"In order to capture and redistribute that cash, the rest of the population needs to produce products that appeal to the firms who have the cash - but there's relatively little of value that an individual or small business owner can supply to a giant company like Apple."

If Apple has $40B in cash and no productive way to invest it at an above market return, the only sensible course of action is to distribute it all as a dividend.
"Q: Do you worry that you extrapolate too much from too little?
"A: No. It's better to err on the side of over-extrapolation ..."

That's all you need to know about his writing. Over-extrapolator of "trends" from some isolated fragments of information about fields he knows nothing about.

Read his book as entertainment... sure. Somewhat like how you'd guffaw at an acerbic observation by a standup comedian without trying to read too much into the scientific validity of said observations. Or how you'd treat the claims of "4 out of 5 dentists recommend our floss" type claims. That's about the right level of credibility for his output.
> I got my job without a degree by being willing to work for pay I was qualified for while doing a job that I wasn't qualified for, but that I was able to 'figure out' well enough.

This is precisely what I'm hoping to do now.
That's awfully well laid out for a defacement page.
Exactly I rarely resort to the global replace comment but:

s/successful/venture funded/g
Looks good, I'm impressed it handles the rfc822 regex fairly well too :)

http://regex101.com/r/fZ6cD5
The MPAA approaches usenet providers about this quietly in the last year or so. Usenet providers have since voluntarily implemented automatic takedown systems, and the MPAA or other rightsholders have implemented automated takedown submission systems.

As a result, binary usenet is more or less devoid of easily searchable content nowadays. It was only a matter of time.
Domain isn't important anymore: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=nissan
There is going to be a head on collision between current government regulations and this rise of social sharing. Airbnb vs the entrenched hotel industry. Uber vs the taxi commissions.

I, for one, welcome it. It's time the market voiced their opinion over how much value these groups provide.

For example, take internet. Right now everyone can get cable/dsl but in many contracts it is against their terms to share it. I understand why because a lot of their #s are based around utilization. But I still feel in some way taken advantage of.
Let me give you one simple example: you can find magnesium oxide at those stores, which is the worst form of magnesium on the market. For similar amount of money though you can buy magnesium glycinate, orotate, malate, taurate, and other chelated forms of magnesium that absorb better, have additional benefits, and save you the digestive system discomfort. Of course, the best prices and convenience (autoship) is available online, of course, plus, most stores offer additional 5-20% discounts. I can add a lot more examples of the various forms of vitamin E, B vitamins, vitamin D, vitamin K, folate/folic acid, vitamin A, etc. The formulation of the mass market brands are not only worse in terms of absorption, but are often harmful like folic acid and vitamin A. Even basic supplements like calcium not taken with vitamin K and D3 and dangerous, but anyway. There was a recent study that omega-3 EFAs increase prostate cancer risks, which was so poorly conducted that it's not even funny! There are many people with hidden agendas in "science" and especially when it comes to nutrition, it's not hard to engineer a study that will give you the desired outcome. It's been done many times in the past, Big Pharma is on a war against supplements, so, take all these with a grain (or chunk) of salt!
The table on the "about" page explains the commonality.

http://legalizecorn.com/2013-07-19-about.html
Did you really get HNed just from a link in your comment, or was the outage coincidental?
I have been taking it. So far I've found it pretty good (I took linear algebra many years ago in college and didn't remember most of it), even though I don't really like the amount of reinventing-the-wheel (e.g. writing your own vector class) involved.
Basically anything is possible with the scraping service (provided the target pages don't render themselves via javascript).

It will grab the DOM and you can parse through it and return a nice little JSON object.
It's really difficult for me to look at something like this as someone with even the barest of comprehensions as to how complicated some of this would be to even do, much less well enough that it would make sense to put in a consumer product this year.

Oh, you're going to make the screen out of graphene? My mockups are exactly the same as yours, but instead of aluminum my case is made of diamond. I've solved the chipping problem!

To be clear, I think that these are really attractive visual mockups with some interesting concepts, but I have seen literally every one of them before elsewhere.
Does this conduct heat pretty well? I have a couple applications for high surface area high heat conducting materials.
Would this make a good super capacitor?
Not sure where i'm going either! I'm just trying figure out whether I would publish the story if I was editor of The Sunday Times.

Clearly there are cases where exposing someone's secret is the wrong course of action (eg. someone being gay).

Clearly there are cases where exposing someone's secret is the right course of action (eg. a corrupt politician)

What I'm interested in is the middle ground - where exposing a secret does not harm the 'owner' of the secret, but also does not really benefit the general public. In such cases shouldn't we respect the wishes of the person who is keeping the secret?
From the comments, a link to Rajiv's technical writeup:

http://eranki.tumblr.com/post/27076431887/scaling-lessons-le...

which covers some of the points in the TC article.
"Now, for reasons I can’t explain, people just love GUIDs in database designs."

Yeah - they seem kind of silly and meaningless, so instead you use sequential integers. After all, they work nicely with object-relational frameworks like ActiveRecord, they are sequential, and they are more "human readable". And then one day you have a subset of data that you need to migrate from one environment. And when you try, you end up with some clashing records created in the target environment. No big deal, you will just increment all of your sequential integers so that there are no clashes. Oh wait, there are foreign keys - need to update those as well. Which reminds me, what is going to happen when ids in the target system catch up the the ones imported. OK we can change the sequence to cause it to start adding records after the one imported. Hey, this is really kind of complicated. There must be an easier way...

Hmmm... about those GUIDs? They completely eliminate an entire class of problems that occur when migrating data across environments (a very common scenario in some quarters).

If this type of scenario never will arise for you, then GUIDs may not make sense for your application. Hopefully this does explain why some "people just love" them.
The sharing economy is also known as the collaborative consumption based economy, a directory of websites I found a while a go: http://www.collaborativeconsumption.com/directory/.
Move over NSA, here comes the Obamacare Big Brother database
I'm a tubes.io customer (and a happy customer too) and my main use for it is both the alternating IP, and that it allows me to scale up scraping operations without having to deal with too much on my backend.

The alternating IP is actually a bit of a big deal, it's kind of a pain to run your own proxies and have to manage the proxy switching yourself (so painful that I would pay 10 bucks/month for someone else to do it for me)
Hasn't the sharing economy already reached the tipping point?

The ideas in the piece clearly aren't new for most of us on HackerNews, but I would contend they're not really new for many in the general public either.

There have been many mainstream news stories about the sharing economy. And even battles in big cities (SF, NY) over regulation. I would've guessed that this was already on many people's radar.
We don't have a dedicated server set up (We got one yesterday but its been having technical issues). Had to disable some features that were requiring too much. I honestly wasn't expecting this much traffic this quickly. I guessed wrong :P
Some comments:

In Australia the immunisation schedule includes (at the age of 2,4 and 6 months) 8 vaccines, one of which includes 13 valencies (13v pneumococcal pneumoniae). This is effectively 20 vaccines at the same time due to the 13 bacterial components included in pneumovax.

You are right in that not only is it standard of care (ie, not dangerous) but it is less traumatic to have them all at once (8 vaccines is 5 needles and a syrup for rotavirus, the addition of which decreased paediatric hospital admissions in Australia by 100,000 pa).
Above all else, it is actually more effective to deliver multiple vaccines at once. More antigens seem to generate a stronger immune response, not in 'severity', as in, possibility of severe reaction, but in seroconversion and decreased need for additional later vaccines.
Thanks for the comments. I actually have read a lot of the RFCs.

A Space DSL to replace all this stuff won't materialize out of thin air, someone will have to take the time to think it through and iterate a couple times. But I've been in the lucky position over the past while to see Space in action, and at this point I'm pretty confident that it will disrupt many areas, including DNS.

I haven't done a good job of making my case. Talk is cheap, more Space code is coming.

But my point in general is that all of these formats can be described as premature optimization. Or perhaps, no longer necessary optimization.

The example you provided clearly illustrates that. Dollar signs, at signs, periods, parentheses and abbreviations galore. In my mind, the current state of things is ugly code. I can make sense of that. But someone off the street can't make sense of that. In my mind, that is a problem. That is a huge problem. The common reaction is to "teach people DNS". I'm off the opinion, "No, these formats suck! No need for all that complexity. The world has changed. Let's start looking ahead."

To use a word mentioned earlier, I believe code should be trivial, as trivial as reading a road sign. I believe the Internet is due for a big refactor. I believe the unreadability of these formats is causing us a ton in lost innovation. Why should only l33t hackers be able to understand the full stack? There's no reason in my estimation, other than that the stack is permeated by ugly, unnecessary complexity. So many things people do nowadays over the Internet are done on top of 10 levels of abstraction when they could be done at 2 or 3.

I think there is a real opportunity here for someone to improve upon DNS.
OH NO! Tom Freedman just invented the Sharing Economy. Be hold for 1000 pages plus book and endless pontifications on virtues of "What I call the Sharing Economy" on the Charlie Rose and other shows.
I like the idea of downloads.
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CSS Zen Garden was so useful when I started. It was the first time I saw that you could separate markup and style. I impressed my boss by telling him that we could just build one functional site and have different skins and we could save money.
Elegant, minimalist, nice logo, nice typography. If I get owned, I want it to be by these guys.
Buy potassium gluconate. It's nasty, but better than overloading yourself with carbs from bananas. I'm not sure if you're aware, but bananas are radioactive (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose) and, BTW, brazil nuts are more, but as a nice benefit, bananas increase your serotonin levels. :)
Yep. Came here to recommend ag. It's just fantastic.
dbpokorny, your comment is [dead], might want to email the admins about that.
Yup, I stopped taking it long ago, although, high serotonin is nice.
I had used, in 1984, a CP/M version that had FAT, so I assumed it went to the origins of CP/M. It doesn't, and credit for the original design does go to Microsoft in 1977. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAT_file_system#Historical_evol...

The point still stands though: any patent protection for the original implementation would have expired before 1997, which is more than 15 years ago. And it shouldn't have received (in fact, didn't receive) patent protection.
Sharing Houses is just time shares taken to the logical internet extreme.

What are some other sharing ideas that are out there?

I think women's fashion could benefit from something like this, sharing shoes - dresses, gowns etc. Think of all the money that is spent on weddings, proms, etc.

For the typical man, power tools and machinery. The one guy in town with the Bridgeport will make out like a bandit.

Neighbours let each other borrow sugar or borrow an egg. - There's definitely a location aspect involved in all of this. Vacations are different because you're specifically going to some place far away. Maybe otherwise, you shouldn't focus on a single type of item, and simply connect the nearby community with a focus on sharing any and everything.
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You should have started with the NCHAR(2000) example. Choosing INT over BIGINT is really something that, as you calculated yourself, wouldn't change the fate of a project. Especially not in our 64 bit world ;)

The point you make about timestamps is very clear to everybody. Do you have more examples which people don't think about?
(replying to myself because it is too late to edit)

I was mistaken above; FAT is actually a Microsoft design, although it predates MS DOS - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAT_file_system#Historical_evol...

The point still stands though: any patent protection for the original implementation would have expired before 1997, which is more than 15 years ago. And it shouldn't have received (in fact, didn't receive) patent protection.
Some really are and that's why supplements should be taken carefully and along with frequent labs, but I doubt increasing cancer rates is due to supplements as not that many people take them regularly... yet!
iOS 7 solves this to some degree by letting you swipe from the edge in place of tapping the navigation buttons in the titlebar.
Going back to school does not automatically make you "look bad" at all. It shows your commitment to education and to finish what you started. There has to be some other reason you are not being called back. Maybe it's a bad resume, or your targeting is not good, heck, as we have seen in previous posts last week here, it may be that your name is "Kim"! (Look it up), or its your location or skill set presentation.

I find it hard to believe you cannot find a rewarding job in software these days! Assuming you are good, it has to be your presentation (in whichever format, paper, voice or email).
The point of imagination is that it is not limited by constraints. How can you envision the future if you are limited by the constraints of today?

Steve Jobs is quoted in the 80's as saying that they aspire to make a computer that is essentially today's macbook or ipad.[1] It most certainly was impossible at the time.

I sure like mine though.

You know what you get when you limit yourself to the constraints of right now? The IBM PC Jr.

[1] "Apple's strategy is really simple. What we want to do is we want to put an incredibly great computer in a book that you can carry around with you and learn how to use in 20 minutes. That's what we want to do and we want to do it this decade." http://lifelibertytech.com/2012/10/02/the-lost-steve-jobs-sp...
Toffler should get some credit for "prosumer," years and years ago.
Friedman only writes things that are obviously true, or that most people would agree with.
You set your forum avatar to a remote site that actually serves up a meta redirect.

That's... interesting. Like a php-generated image containing a redirect header, or a referrer check set up in .htaccess? I didn't know images were hackable like that, beyond just sending an alternative image for nonexistent referrers?

If anyone needed a good argument against blindly hotlinking to other sites' content I guess this would be it.
Sure, it would be hard, there's some projects that might be able to help out however, e.g. https://github.com/pa7/nude.js. It's not an easy problem to solve but it's possible. You could also start the service with 2-5 of 1123581321's example or just 2-4 and wait to see what your customers request.
I had top comment on pg's most recent essay; I got an extra 1,500 visitors to a subreddit I mentioned in the comment.

And my comment only rose to the top when the essay was quite far down the frontpage.

The link in this post was top or near top at the time this essay was #1, so I imagine they got quite a few visitors quite fast.
There might be something to that. See "Violence In The Media Prevents Violent Crime" at http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/06/22/social-psychology-is-a-...
Stop making websites and start reading about web app security, the OWASP top 10 is a good place to start.
Yes, aren't the forums run by a user named "Ubuntugeek" or something of the sort?
This is brilliant, thank you. I've been looking for a way to introduce Angular to the team and your site will really help.
Yes, nice summary, although, vitamin D should be taken as early in the day as possible, i.e. as far as possible from your bedding time as it disrupts melatonin release: http://www.bulletproofexec.com/bulletproof-your-sleep-with-v...
The home screen icons were the highlight for me. The hardware mockup is full of hyperbole, but the icon set seems very humble in contrast. It is much closer to Apple's established branding than the real (beta) iOS 7. This is the kind of icon set that could be introduced without making all existing icons seem out of place.

And it looks gorgeous on a black iPhone (mockup) because it's not as light.
South Korea's aviation industry has made some preventable mistakes in the cockpit and they have made changes to their pilot recruitment, training, and procedures in an attempt to address this. The recent crash at SFO naturally raises the question of relevance to previous crashes and whether or not these changes were sufficient.

Gladwell goes out of his way to refute any racist interpretation here. ("Cultural explanations are sometimes wielded with the same blunt force as genetic explanations—and that is a huge mistake.")
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You'd be surprised. About half the people I talk to under 25 haven't heard of Airbnb yet.

This usually comes up when I tell them what Ycombinator is.

"Have you heard of Dropbox? Airbnb? Reddit?"

Usually one of those three works, but a surprising amount of people don't know what either of the first two are. I even talk to a lot of people who don't know what Reddit is.

They're all obviously mainstream, just not as mainstream as, say, staying in a hotel.
It's already at three versions of many images if you're still supporting the iPhone 3G in addition to the Retina 3.5 and 4 inch screens.

Where possible I've moved my artwork flow from using PNGs for everything to translating PSD files into stretchable image slices and custom UIViews crafted in IB/Objective C via Core Image & Core Graphics. It's more time consuming at first but pays off in the end.
Actually, I rather eat crickets than Red Lobster. That place scares me...
I put my car in park at 70 mph... and have a Big Data dev question
No. The forums are run by a community team of admins. The underlying infrastructure is managed by Canonical IS.
Sometimes I think "black" are more racists than others. Even title of this project is racist, and we are talking about differences... I'm not american and I cant be objective, it's just my "outside" opinion.
Why "black girls" only? Poor black girls somehow better than poor white girls? Why not just "Girls code" (if it's really just about genders)? Isn't it racism?
Dude, maybe people do not want to provide that info to anyone.
How long until apple's lawyers shut this down for using their trademarks all over the place without permission?
Here's an idea. Make a phone with a case that is strong enough to withstand the drops that inevitably happen! Putting so much effort into cool looking things that have to be covered by dorky cases is an illustration of the irrational at the heart of tech fetishes.
> The point of imagination is that it is not limited by constraints.

But there's no real imagination here either. It's just a thinner, lighter iPhone, made thinner and lighter using materials that don't exist. Genius!

As an aside, this is how Jony Ive works: http://www.objectifiedfilm.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/01....
Sounds like you have your work cut out for you.
96GB drive? Seems fishy to me.
Or just use wireless charging and sync.
I met your co-founder last week at International Startup festival(we were both finalists for the grand prize) you guys are awesome! Keep up the good work!
But why have the keys to the entire kingdom when all you need is a single key to a single room?

The daemon I wrote is very small, so there isn't much code to audit. The client that calls the daemon doesn't need to be root at all. The daemon can also make a lot of different checks (right UID, right GID, right executable image, etc.) before passing the privileged port back to the client.

Edit: fixing the last sentence.
.travel as a top level domain? Nice! How did you go about getting this may I ask?
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