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I don't believe that the comparison to YouTube is fair. YT allows far higher resolution video("HD"), and even the default player window is 640x360. Of course YT player could be upscaling all videos from 480x270, but that would be a bit silly. I think more research is needed before drawing conclusions.
I'm sure there are plenty of examples of people who made things happen by pushing past what the rest of us consider hard limits. If anyone has any links to articles they think nail this concept on the head, I'd appreciate a share, and would gladly create additional posts celebrating their brilliant works and willpower. The more diverse the better (Tesla did some far out stuff, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawkins, I plan on adding this concept with more examples over time).
...and special Emacs keyboard shortcuts that make bookwriting a little bit like playing an organ.

A bit of trivia: Knuth has actually studied the organ--in fact, he has a pipe organ at his home:

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/organ.html
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A little bit of meta-commentary.

I find it amusing that people are downmodding this post that contains correct information. There is no editorializing here; just information about how the syntax-highligting works, and my experience with working on a major mode for a very complicated language (using said tools).

If you must downmod, downmod the parent which contains untrue FUD.
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What else does Google Voice have that Vonage doesn't?

In addition to the rule-based filtering that you mentioned, surprisingly decent (and searchable) automatic voicemail transcription and the ability to send/receive SMS to/from the Google Voice number. And, with the exception of outbound calling, it's all free.
The question is what the trade off is: how many people got unhappy, went insane or died because they tried to push the limits?
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One immediate thought I had about the e-mail problem is how online-dating sites deal with it.

Now, I realize online collaboration is completely different user motivation. Online dating preys upon a somewhat already-desperate userbase.

But it's also genius how they deal with the e-mail problem. For example, with Ok Cupid, they include a giant one-click "Login" link with e-mail updates. There's no password re-entry. With other sites, they send you just enough information about a connection that makes you want to sign back in again, but not enough information to let you contact that other person directly via e-mail.
I agree. Moreover, I think it would have been useful to measure variables indicating emotional state as the affirmation is uttered. If you feel crippled when you utter "I'm a lovable person", chances are your subconscious is saying "no you're not". It is also known that jumping from "Nobody loves me" to "I'm lovable" isn't possible for the most. You need to take small steps, each of which needs to be coupled with a better feeling.
Excellent article, as expected for an Eliezer Yudkowsky article.

One place where it leaves me hungry... what can we do about this very real problem? I understand that no single person can fix this all by themselves, but is there some kind of action that we can take, when the circumstances arise, that will help resolve this problem rather than help perpetuate it?

Edit: Additional note... this is one of the many reasons I like the Swiss system. We vote on issues separately from voting on people. This has its disadvantages, but at least it's direct democracy.
This is just marketing.

I doubt anyone is actually pissed off, they are just whipping up drama to make sure everyone knows how mystical the CrunchPad will be.

It really does sound like a cool device, look forward to seeing details on the production version.
Party Politics and Partisanship are evil. Less interested in what is good for the country and more interested in what will get them elected to POWER!
I'm starting to think that America is by the Cartels, for the Cartels.
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I just received an old used book in the morning mail, Dijkstra's A Discipline of Programming. I've bought other classics. Some are available online, a.o. here:

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Couple of basic factual errors:

Google Chrome is shipping Theora/Vorbis. They ship it as well as H.264 in Chrome, but without H.264 in Chromium (as they can't licence the patents).

Opera has had Theora/Vorbis supporting builds for a while. It seems very likely they will go with Theora when they launch full support.

Note also that Xiph Qicktime codecs allow Safari to use Theora as well. These codecs should just intsall from the net when you encounter such a file, but while we wait for Apple to get around to that they could easily be piggy backed onto one of the many pieces you need to install to get all video working well on Mac OS X (Perian, VLC, mplayer, or even Mozilla Firefox)

It may only be mediocre or "good enough", but it is "free". If you don't understand the importance of that to the web then congratulations on your lack of "ideology".

Or maybe letting some random corporations place a tax a vital part of our technical infrastructure in return for marginal technical benefits is an ideology, just not a very good one?
At one point, I started making a list of all the decisions politicians could make and change about the way governments were run. I came up with over 100 items, very quickly. The Democrats and Republicans both didn't address and were in implicit agreement on some 95 of those 100 things, despite the fact that some of them are really ugly. For instance, the exclusive rights to the television broadcast spectrum are sold without auction for $100,000 per year to NBC, CBS, and ABC, and estimates have placed the worth of those rights over a billion dollars per year.

This made me sad.
This is good -- Eliezer? How come it took so long for this to get on the board? Great article.

I thought this at first was a politics article, but for me, at least, it's a much more practical one. Let me explain.

Working with large corporations, I've found that this is not restricted to sports or politics. It happens between divisions, between business groups -- even between cliques of programmers on the same team. Politics is the ultimate generalization of the problem, but it's a much more practical and immediate matter.

I guess that's why I've never understood the fear of talking about politics on HN. Heck -- you guys do it all the time. Every time there's an Apple vs. Microsoft thread, or a Twitter vs. Blogging thread, or a functional programming vs. imperative programming thread -- this is the same thing. It's amazing people can't see it. You identify with a product, a brand, a group of people, and then suddenly it's us versus them. We have our experts, our slogans, our information sources. They have theirs. We can argue for years and never do more than talking past each other, because we've never generalized the type of discussion we are having and worked at the meta level.

Where I think politics is more interesting is that positions change month by month. That means that political party X may support something this month and be against it the next month. In effect, it's a critical thinking test -- can you identify your own bias? Because if you were arguing for something last month and are arguing against the same thing this month, you might be identifying more with a group that ideas. It's much easier to spot this when the positions keep changing, which makes a discussion of politics useful for detecting personal bias.

BTW, it's also a quick test for thinking about other things too. If you're meeting with a new person and they seem stuck on some political party thing, you can bet they're going to be group-identifying with a lot of other things as well. Different people have different levels of the need-to-identify. We all know the worst ones: the people with bumper stickers all over their car, various flag pins or whatever on their clothes, a rabid sports fan and a sticking-to-a-political-party-no-matter-what attitude.

Solutions to the two-party swindle? Term limits (to prevent camping out in office) Expiration limits for laws (to prevent get-what-you-can-now-attitude). Some sort of push for a multi-party system.

Oddly enough, in the US at least the thought was that it would end up being a dynamic system with small groups taking various positions and coalitions changing over time. Instead that's not how it worked out.

Solutions to the group-identification problem? Simple. Learn to talk about tough topics with each other.
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It's not just party politics though. It's the predilection of people to form up into groups and to identify with those groups even at the expense of logic and reason. Party politics is just what you get when you do it at a national level. It happens all the time all around you.
That's pretty much true for any country outside the US. Even in England, you apply to a programme in a college and not to a college.
Historically speaking, the corruption and degradation of the system build up until the empire collapses on itself or is defeated in a war and has a foreign power rebuild their government. This has been written about a bunch, the earliest known piece I've read notes of was by Ibn Khaldun. Some of his work is outdated, being 800 years old, but there's some pretty incredibly insightful things in it. Worth a skim:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muqaddimah
I thought they were going towards embedded with that.

Browser as OS, like the Crunchpad.

I mean that's why I was looking at it.
As I heard this explained once, this leads to students studying biology who wanted to study computer science but could not because they did not score highly enough. I don't know if that is a flawed system because even in America - you don't always do what your major prepared you for. Still, is "Undecided" a uniquely American college aspect?
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You must be referring to the MIR series of textbooks. Demidovich's Calculus was another classic.
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What I want to know is where they're keeping the Stargate these days if it's not in Cheyenne Mountain any more...
I think this is just unnatural. Seriously. I mean, working hard and studying hard is really great, but there must be a balance. Having rest once a fortnight and having 9-hours exams is clearly off-balance. There's a limited amount of information the nervous system can take in in a given amount of time. Studying twice as much doesn't mean learning twice as much - having spent five years in higher education I can tell that having rest and being calm helps waaay much more than, say for instance, studying on Sundays.

As for the Chinese society, I'm not sure if that helps them either. Sure they might raise professionals with a large lexical knowledge (assuming that they don't forget everything the moment they put the pens down at the end of the exam) but it seems to me that these millions of kids will grow up becoming real stresspots with all the divorce stuff and heart attack in their late forties. Is this really how Chinese people imagine their next generation of working population?
It's also the most popular NIX out there, outnumbering everything else by an order of magnitude (or two). That means that virtually all recent UNIX software has been either been tested on the Mac, or written on one. That's nice.

Sorry to rain on your parade but both of these statements are wrong.
something PG was grasping at when he spoke of keeping your identity small. we make ego boundary errors and this in turn leads to these larger errors.
Ah, a thought-provoking comment.

> Solutions to the group-identification problem? Simple. Learn to talk about tough topics with each other.

A fine idea. It gets tricky, however, because there is a difference between an individual learning and a group learning.

Say you and I learn to have a reasonable discussion. That's great, as long as we are alone in a room together. But put us in a crowd with an open mic, and even if 99% of the crowd are mostly reasonable people, the remaining 1% can still wreck the discussion. Especially because there is maybe another 5% that can easily get their emotions aroused by the loony 1%. That, I think, is why there is a fear of political discussion on HN.

Then, of course, there is the question of what to do about it. HN has made a start; it's clearly one of the calmer places to have a public discussion on the net. However, I rather doubt that opening up HN to political discussion would work well. Sad ....
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It's amazing people can't see it.

Even when you see it, you still have to pay close attention not to fall into the trap. If you are arguing against a certain position, people tend to regard you as holding the opposite position and brandish you as 'on of them'. When you identify somewhat more with 'them', it is easy to forget you were holding middle ground and let yourself be pushed into that corner, causing you to actually take up a more extremist position than you were defending in the first place. Even after discovering the power this effect, it took me years to be constantly aware of it and resist it.
A few notes:

The reviewed device has a 7" 800x480 LCD screen, and lists for USD 190 at http://www.eletroworld.cn/

Besides the originally shipped Linux (Ubuntu derived, it seems), there's an image of Mer for it here: http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer/Releases/0.14

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The basic speed of light limitation means that accessing distant nodes is going to have high latency even if there is reasonable bandwidth. Ignoring that is a bad idea from an efficiency standpoint. And, unlike PC programming the cost of the machine makes people far more focused on optimizing their code for the architecture than abstracting the architecture to help the developer out.
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Pure speculation, and this and the previous LA Times article have the underlying "it's safer in a Boeing" bias.

Oddly, the other LA Times article was complaining (inaccurately) that the computerized controls in the Airbus would limit the pilot's ability to use the controls. This article complains that the controls don't limit the pilot's ability to mess things up.

What's needed is the truth, not this speculation. Perhaps the vertical stabilizer did rip off. If it did we need to know why.
And yet, people still write stuff using C#.
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I didn't do anything special to have telnet working on my Vista install. Maybe this is an edition thing?
The problem is worse than that: I've become convinced that everybody does this to one degree or another. In other words, we're all in the trap. It's not like you have the ability to somehow "snap yourself out of it" or something. When cornered, most of us just rationalize. [Insert long discussion on the limits of predicate logic when applied to anything involving human language here]

There are those in denial, sure. But based on my observations of myself and hundreds of others and dozens of groups (and a bit of reading about sales and social dynamics) it's just part of human nature. This is why good teams are so much stronger than the sum of their parts: since each person has a different cognitive blind spot, team members can look out for each other.
Call me a believer in technology. I think this is a technical problem and not an insurmountable one.

I also think it's the most important social problem facing technologists today: how to dynamically and vigorously mix ideas on the internet without chaos.
s/kids/users/.

This is basically telling users that they have to alter their existing behavior to work around flaws in your implementation. You end up with users who are grumpy and/or uncompliant.

"Be responsible" is easy to throw out there when the users happen to be children, but it won't magically make them stop acting like kids.
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Given how utterly cool plan9 is, I have some difficulty understanding how they so completely failed to find a userbase. I sometimes have wishful thinking that maybe google or someone like that is secretly running on plan 9 and that in time it will permeate out. But I think not. Anyway - not too important - the OS layer is becoming irrelevant (and yet when my parents asked what on earth I could want for my 30th I asked for a book on ncurses :) ).
Umm, well we have just graduated, ask us back in 6 months.
This is just someone who has opted to keep their profile out of search listings.

If you aren't friends with them, or your friend isn't a friend of theirs, it just redirects you back to the homepage.
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And the objective doesn't have to be "mega-successful" anyway. Makin-a-decent-livin' would be enough to most geeks who yearn for independence I think.
Maybe make a crawler that finds those.
Yes but the professor is not the only provider of the required computer.
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The old 14 year limit was a good balance, specially if updated to only cover commercial distribution.
There's one essential difference between him and professors, noted subtly in the "it's part of their job, remember?" - he doesn't receive a teaching salary. Whether receiving public money should automatically mean that your writings should be freely available for all of the public is another discussion - the point is you can't really conclude he's a hypocrite.

The other point that's being made is that textbooks mostly consist of old knowledge, established long ago by other scholars. Godin sees a difference between selling new ideas and recycling old ideas. I'm not sure I completely agree with this train of thought - sometimes translating complicated academical concepts to make them accessible for students is quite an effort in its own right, and thus worth money - but I don't completely disagree either.
It seems to do what it advertises well, but it's still not very useful in real life: it doesn't warn when you use poorly supported styles, e.g. background-image isn't supported in Outlook 2007.
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Perhaps choosing affirmations that are believable in terms of the specific person's self image would show mood increases. e.g.

I'm not all bad and if I could find love once, there's a real chance I can find it again.
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Even though it's on the ACM site, I downloaded the paper with no problem.
It seems a bit like sarcasm; the more positive its literally meaning, the more cutting the "intended" meaning.
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