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I debated about including the quote from your content. It was not obviously offensive, unlike some others. It did assume that she was interested in losing weight, as you say above, which may or may not be true. Why do we give excuses, after all? Because we don't really want to do stuff :)

It's true that I'm happier now that I can usually just say I don't care or would rather do something else instead of making excuses. It's also true that a fat person saying they don't really care about losing weight is looked at like a two-headed guinea pig.
This only works when both sides are sufficiently advanced and willing to take part in the system. You would still need an army for when enemyCountryX decides that they can just pummel you because you're busy playing video games.
http://www.LetsLunch.com has a group where you can meet people 1-1 after/before the conference for more facetime!
Seems a little myopic. The issue I believe is that enough of us in our home have experienced enough false alarms that basically give us a 'boy who cried wolf' mentality when it comes down to it. Few of us will risk staying in a building when the alarm goes off, even if it is a drill, because false alarms in those systems seem seldom.

Thus, the ability to handle a false alarm gracefully is much better than having to disable the alarm in a permanent fashion for a temporary situation or struggle with containing a smoking meal until the irritation is over.

As far as analogies goes, If ambulance sirens were used by their operators to beat traffic for say...a sandwich and we all knew, it, we probably would ignore it much like China, for example, does. But because the belief is that the siren is turned on only for explicit emergencies, we pay attention to it.

Minefields is also a poor analogy. A more accurate one would be a mine detector. If a mine detector would give off a false alarm every time it came across a stick, people would fail to heed its warning in a real situation. They in effect would learn to ignore it and then that one time they did go in a minefield they'd be blown to bits.

Furthermore, The vast majority of ambulance sirens heard are for emergencies, and the vast majority of people who've ignored a minefield or it's detectors have probably died stepping on an ignored mine. I'm guessing the many smoke alarms going off have been for false positives, if they weren't, we wouldn't be having this discussion which it seems everyone hear has experienced or knows someone who has.
You don't even need to move to Silicon Valley to do that! You can "date no one" in Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina, while working on a startup, quite effectively.
Technology is the game changer, literally
Perhaps like a current advisory board. You gather a group of advisers, and compensate them with some equity.
Lets also not forget the people that rent. As a renter I cannot make changes to the house without approval from the landlord. I can, however, replace the smoke detector and leave the one that came with the house in a drawer until I move out.

The statement "A smoke alarm in or near the kitchen is incorrectly placed if it is producing frequent false alarms" may very well be true but it doesn't matter. People have and will continue to disable their smoke/CO detectors if they are annoying. The ability to simply wave at the detector to get it to shut off (Like after burning your toast) means that people will simply wave to shut off the alarm instead of disabling it.

Even with what I know about fire death statistics, best practices, and what not I have disabled fire detectors before for any/all of the following reasons:

* Low battery alarm

* Going off at just a whiff of smoke

* Randomly making noises even after replacing the battery

Now you can say that it was incredibly stupid of me to disable them, and it probably was, but that doesn't change the fact that people's first instinct is just to disable it.
I don't think that will work, because selling puts on Bitcoin is much too risky. Long puts and shorts are really the same thing (put has a delta and vega component). So while this is a most interesting space, I don't think this problem can be solved, at least not easily. But if the exchange system works better it's much easier to go out of BTC and into $,€,¥.
Except when it's things like "fraud".
I enjoy PHP like I enjoy going home to see my family for the holidays. It's fun for a bit, the nostalgia makes me feel warm and fuzzy, and the familiarity of everything is very comforting. You quickly realize though that the grass really is a lot greener on the other side. You remember why you moved out of your parent's place and went out on your own.

It's hilarious looking at how cryptic these one-liners are, particularly when I consider that with languages like Ruby and Python you can do a LOT with a tiny little line if code.

As a side-note, one of my favorites is summing an array in Ruby:

x = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
x.inject &:+
=> 15
Seeing what's available without reliable information on your actual costs (including subsidies) doesn't accomplish much.
Although Firebug has "fire" in the name, it is not an official Mozilla project. It's an independent group of developers (though naturally, many are Mozilla contributors). That independence is important, as competition always is! I can't speak for the developers who are working on it, Firebug will likely evolve to be a complementary set of tools to the built-in ones. Today provides valuable continuity for people who are used to using Firebug to build websites, and has a number of addons for Firebug itself that exists nowhere else on the web. Shutting it down would be a shame.
It's still considered the peak in the sciences.

The economics price is much newer ("Memorial", as you cite), although also very prestigious in its own field, and Peace is not really a science.
That's what I figured when I read the article, but his math is still off. If there's a 0.00006% chance of success, that's roughly 1 in 2 million. So your average expected payoff would be $1B/2M = $500. Divide by 3, and it's $166/founder, or $40/year.

His math is very suspect in the first place, because 1 in 2 million is roughly what you'd get if you divide the number of billion-dollar exits by the population of the U.S. That's an odd way to slice it; if you want something more representative of an individual person's odds, you're better off dividing the number of billion dollar exits by the number of companies started that believe they have a shot at a billion dollars (which might be in the tens to hundreds of thousands, but certainly not 2 million), and then you end up with figures roughly equivalent to his AEPs, but that ignores that many of those founders are college or grad students and the outcome is getting that job at Google after all.
This reminds me of Aporee Maps:

http://aporee.org/maps/

You can just listen to high quality sounds recorded by sound artists around the world.

It feels like you are in that place. I don't know if it's only me but I recall hours of me listening to this site.
I just got an ad that blocked the whole site.

Shit like this is the reason your site will almost never get bookmarked. I definitely have no desire to come back to it.
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So you're telling me there's a chance?
The "device" in question here is smartphones or iPods, apparently. I was hoping for penis pumps or something even more exotic: when I first read the headline, I read "(Absorbed device) users ...". That is, I thought that some medical thing where one actually absorbs the entire device was the problem.

My feeling of having a jet pack future stolen from me is even more profound: no absorbed devices for you, prole!
> as if [it] was intelligent.

Should be "as if it /were/ intelligent." Neglecting the subjunctive mood isn't some random thing, and it isn't simply wrong, it's wrong in the way most people are confused about English grammar and it needs to be corrected.

blah blah blah.
I just wish Amazon would not talk about 200m accounts worldwide and then offering payments only for US customers.
I immediately get an error page after logging and and trying to view plans. That could be load but it certainly feels like some kind of logical error to me.
Since we're dropping links here and there, here's the also free and open source Markdown editor I created. It's also minimalist, and unflavored: http://markdown.pioul.fr/

The source is on GitHub: https://github.com/pioul/MinimalistOnlineMarkdownEditor
I recently started using the dev tools in FF daily in place of Chrome. One thing I really wish they had (and maybe they do but I can't find it) is a way to format JavaScript code. So much JavaScript is minimized these days so reading it is about impossible. Chrome has a {} button you can click to format the code. This would be extremely useful in FF.
I'm surprised this is at the top of hacker news... Is there any innovation here? Seems like a "me too" product, or am I missing something?
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How's the view from the armchair? You comfortable over there?

Practicing in a room, without an audience, does NOT make you good at anything other than practicing in a room without an audience. The stage is completely different and it takes hundreds if not thousands of performances to master.

If musicians are expected to make money ONLY from touring, that is, traveling from town to town and getting up on a STAGE (not just going from town to town and setting up in rehearsal studios), they must already be really good at it. Do you not see the conundrum here?

When the music industry was functioning record labels would advance money for a tour in the hopes that the venture would result in more money made from record sales than it cost to keep the van full of gas and a roof over everyone's heads for 12 weeks.
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> There is a technical term for it.

It's typically called the "float". Applies any time you receive a payment but take a while to pass it on.
This has the potential of being a serious competitor to Paypal. Amazon is on a roll.
I'm all for anything that slowly usurps Paypal as the ubiquitous middleman for paying online.
Is this available internationally and/or with non $ US currencies?
Frequently on Reddit, and somewhat less frequently here, posters are told that a key way to market themselves when trying to get the type of job they want is to contribute to open source. This advice is usually tossed out nonchalantly in a list of other things the poster could do. It makes the act of contributing to a project seem like a trivial thing.

It is anything but in the context of DiBona's statement. Is this the best advice to be flinging around? Is that contributing to the problem? New blood in the open source world should be a good thing, but is there a balance to be struck between sending everyone charging out of the gates at whatever project tickles their fancy and maintaining the tight oligarchies that many projects seem to gravitate towards?
But someone else might not know and need the alarm to keep going off.
Have you heard about "thermorectal decryption"?
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I needed this feature 1.5 years ago. Thanks Heroku.
Also true! There's a small literature in philosophy that worries about paradoxes in this area. But regardless of how that turns out, it seems safe to say that you shouldn't avoid getting married because of divorce demography, and you further shouldn't think of your marriage's chance of success in purely demographic terms. You instead need to pay attention to features on the ground like how you handle disagreements, your sex life, etc.
More like "Citizen Revocation Program". Wouldn't want citizenship reduced and people earning and paying taxes to other countries.
Is the payout time really 4 months? I can't find it so far, still looking.
>If you're an aspiring pop singer, you need pop radio. And you won't get it without major label backing.

Adele's mega success is absolute proof that this is not true. Her label, XL, is a true independent and ushered her to multiplatinum status.
I'm guessing that you have never and will never have to deal with the consequences of your suggestions and your statements are nothing more than empty posturing, am I correct?
First Id like to say Im a huge fan of firefox and really like what mozilla does.

So I would love to be able to use the developer tools - but for me they're still not quite there (but getting close). Here's some things Id like to see, and then I think I could change over from chromes devtools completely, wonder what other devs think?

1. speed (becoming less of a problem)

2. edit html in elements inspector, also dynamically creating styles:
- What I like about chromes devtools is the fact that I can completly alter my html page via the elements panel (styles and html) very fast, also auto-expanding to the selected element and seeing its surroundings is nice.

3. network panel still not as good as chromes (imho) - mainly because I cant enlarge the detailed inspection of each listed http request.

4. too intrusive (popups for javascript editor) - make it more compact and use less space, also I like tabs (that are optionally detachable) instead of windows.

And thats it, these are the only reasons for me personally, why I dont use firefox as my development browser of choice.

But again Id like to say the work the mozilla devteam is putting into the devtools makes me think its just a matter of time until I can finally go back to mozilla :)
I guess I didn't even know that deep-linking from an add was not possible.

It's unfortunate, although sort of understandable, that Facebook is so strict on how its adds can call-to-action.
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Is this a hack? Yes. Hacks are replaced by standardized and better approaches (especially when better approaches are available now. "Fixing" this means removing it in code in place of a more logical approach. Where a triangle is really a triangle, not a rectangle with no dimension.

Part of web work is knowing immediately what you're dealing with. dimensionless rectangles that show up as triangles is a layer of complexity (hack) that disrupts flow.

Get it?
>Note that the article is not saying that intelligence is not heritable.

And heritable does not mean it is unchangeable.
Amazon is a big company with a lot of customers, so even if it's not that exciting as a product in and of itself, it has the possibility to be a big player. I actually use their payment system for LiberWriter, and since my customers have to sign up with them anyway, it's perfect. Also, they're pretty pleasant to deal with, by and large.
Does any existing publication do this? Because providing both shortened and full URLs like this sounds like a great (i.e., retrospectively obvious) way to achieve a balance between "UX" of the magazine and longevity.
ITER seems to be the best bet that can get financed currently...
Not to mention the finance chops required to make money, manage physical inventory (which most 'startups' don't really have to worry about), buy/hedge commodities and currencies, etc...

Most of the SV 'startups' I read about are just glorified websites, maybe with a mobile app as well. There are plenty of real, physical problems which can't simply be solved with a website. That's not to say there isn't opportunity for disruption and improvement, but your typical 'startup' is simply in the wrong domain.
that we live in a market economy that feeds into it
I've used an AdBlock alike proxy on an OpenWRT a few years ago which stopped a lot of ads in apps and XBox360, it worked surprisingly well until a power surge killed the box and I've never investigated hacking my new router.

Perhaps there's a market for such a plug-and-play product?
I'd rather not take that "chance."
You might be missing the point a little bit. You're correct, but end-to-end encryption is irrelevant if the operator changes the (e.g., Javascript) code in a webmail app and maybe even just for a single user.

The trust model has to include the device/OS/browser/etc that you're accessing the device on as well as all code and keys (including WOT servers, GPG keys, and the webmail code itself, or, if locally installed, all binary packages, updates, etc).

Which I think is the point is really that in the face of a government who can compel, e.g.,

* an OS vendor to install a backdoor in their software,
* a microprocessor vendor to critically weaken the Random Number Generator,
* the author and BDFL of a key operating system kernel to use said RNG,
* a distribution to include compromised or even unsigned packages,
* a mobile carrier who will allow random hardware on their network that can sniff, MITM, and inject evil data,
* a mobile phone manufacturer who will install CarrierIQ,
* (heavens!) a user/customer who visits an app store and installs an application with either a trojan attached or one that is directly a trojan,..

In other words, no amount of end-to-end crypto will save us if we're attacked at each end and in the middle by people who will stop at literally NOTHING (jail) just to get at the data. This is why Schneier wrote "The Government has betrayed the Internet."

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/05/governm...

Encryption is no panacea when you're dealing with someone who controls both ends and the middle. :( To put this on Lavabit is poor form, IMO. This is one end who stood up and fought and paid a huge price.
Ok, now how about enabling HTTPS for amazon.com?

Off topic, I know, but come on. It's the last major service I use that doesn't even support it.
Pretty cool idea. Added one for testing :)

How long does a free entry stay on the front page for?
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Correct. The value of statistics like these come in making generalizations, which require massive data sets to be applicable (hence generalization rather than specialization). It's akin to in baseball, an average of x% of pitches are hit for home runs. This will likely be fairly accurate over the course of the season across all players, but would not be a useful stat to look at in predicting what a pitcher would do at the plate (or an MVP level hitter for that matter).
I just saw this used on the wifi purchase page on my flight to San Francisco.
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All of your examples have to do with minor minutia of the day to day life of a musician, but you give no examples of how the actual landscape of music has changed. And I find it baffling if the point is that the focus and work required by an artist today is more different compared to one 10 years ago than it was for that artist compared to one 50 years ago. Television, music videos, global marketing, magazine specialization. These things didn't alter a musicians life more than the current decline in retail sales?

Please expand and explain, because Albums, 3 minute songs, radio play with commercial breaks and touring are all very very similar to 10 years ago from a consumer perspective despite the proliferation of other choices and the changing landscape.
In my opinion, it's not kickstarter itself that will experience the fatigue, but the 3D printing category itself. Very similar products are coming out in a very short amount of time. I expect a dozen new printers to come out on kickstarter before these are even shipped. What's that going to do to people's expectations?

We couldn't be higher on the hype cycle right now. I think many people will be disappointed with 1. the a huge difference in quality between printers, 2. you can usually only print one color, 3. it's typically not a simple process to print, 4. printing takes a long time, 5. learning how to use/maintain/calibrate the printer takes a really long time
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Very interesting note about the reclaiming. Yet another warning when transparently using a NUMA system.

NUMA can be a real pain. You can get a 40% hit on direct memory access, and far worse if you're modifying a cacheline in another processor. On one of our VoIP workloads, we noticed major (250%+) increase in performance and CPU stability after splitting a very thread-intensive process into multiple processes, each set with affinity to a particular core.

OSes try to help you, but it seems like they're primarily concerned with multiple processes, not huge processes like databases. Such processes should become NUMA aware and handle things themselves for best performance.

It might even make sense to ask if you can split the machine on NUMA boundaries and just act like they're separate systems. RAM's getting very cheap, and RAM/core is going up faster than CPU power is (it seems to me, anyways).

Also, is there a reason not to use large pages directly for the mmap'd sets if you know you're going to have them hot at all times? (I assume they read the entire file on start?)
We've uninstalled Firefox throughout our domain(s) due to the lack of standard support for the enterprise, and various issues with managing installs, updates, and freaking random crashes on their recent official releases.
Yep, the math makes no sense if you assume the two options are 0 or 1B. I guessed that he was using the actual outcomes of the entire spread- considering that he references the 67% chance of $0 shortly thereafter, it is clear he doesn't think the other 99.999.... percent result in $0.

Even if my excuses for him are correct, I think you all have made a valid point that this is not a really productive way to measure :) Nonetheless, the lesson "don't start a company to get rich" is, I think, a good thing to say.
(I am not a mathematician) but if you want an actual explanation of the Riemann sphere, I really like the one given in "Visual Complex Analysis" by Tristan Needham. It's really very cool. Google books may have it.

This site is amazing though. It just keeps going...
It's pretty significant when a top player does a 'me too' product. For one, amazon is providing more validation AND competition to the login and payment infrastructure area. I'm sure many entrepreneurial devs will find this interesting.
>I also don't see that much difference in asking "why don't more men do [some female-dominated profession]" vs. "why don't men fight for more men to do [some female-dominated profession]".

Really? The mere fact that someone would take these as different questions should suggest that they don't believe they would partake in campaigning as women do now, were they in the same position. Now, perhaps I'm wrong about myself-- people very often are-- but in this case I very much doubt it. Power, tech jobs, diamond rings. Women want none of these; they want the wanting. How to tell? That which they actually do want, they are far more goal-oriented about obtaining. Boyfriends, shoes/handbags, an appearance of not standing out, etc.
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1) They were creating a plasma from a sheet of boron and sending the protons at that. From the publication: "1 in 300–3,000 protons will be able to induce a p11B fusion reaction".

2) There seems to be a fair but not infinite amount: http://www.rsc.org/periodic-table/element/5/boron. One site listed $500 per 100g.

3) It doesn't seem that such a calculation is readily available. However, now that the physics has been demonstrated, one can start to entertain such questions. Also, we are continually improving the efficiency of our laser sources, so as those improve the energy cost for this setup decreases.

4) Also from the publication: "Although our results are speciﬁc to the p11B case, a similar approach could be used to study the reaction of other light isotopes."

Bonus: Actual publication link (I'm not sure if the link is paywalled): http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2013/131008/ncomms3506/full/nco...
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