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Thanks.

Fortunately, in collaboration liberalism and technological advance avoid some of the pitfalls you talk about.

I agree that liberalism isn't practiced widely enough or honestly enough, but this isn't a fault with liberalism.

The cultural diversity argument is weak. From a pragmatic viewpoint, if this diversity was imperative to survival then it would itself survive the influence of other culture. Secondly, culture can and is incorporated (albeit selectively although this may be a good thing) into rapidly developing cultures. If cultural homogeneity means we lose cannibalism, ritual and religious mutilation and millions of children dying to smoke inhalation each year then I can live with that. I think the good and distinct components of undeveloped cultures will be embraced by developed cultures and cherished by the developing cultures themselves.
Basic principle: imagine a screw and a T-square.

The inner-elbow of the T-square represents a receptacle on the modified shoe.
The screw represents the retractable post that protrudes from the stage.

Slide the screw into the very corner of the T-square's elbow, so that the head is above the square. viola! The square (and thereby the shoe and thereby the performer) are now fastened to the stage.

As an added bonus, in the linked anti-gravity lean video above, you can actually see MJ slide his feet backward at the end of the stunt to disengage his shoe from the stage.
At one point the CNN page had only a photograph of a person covered in dust and the words "God Help Us." I believe that they had a significant downtown office presence like many other news organizations, so their site crashes could have been more related to that than traffic overload.
> Perhaps that's what you're seeing?

Indeed yes, I'm talking about what temperament they use not what key they are in. Check the articles I posted if you're interested.

EDIT: could be this..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_musical_system
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How is discourse a device? How does one reify subjugation? What on earth does it mean to flatter an epistemology.

As someone who knows the meanings of all of those words, I'm completely confused by the mixed metaphors. Meaningless twaddle is about right. Also, I believe the notion of cultural imperialism goes back to Marx, who was fairly clear about what he meant by it.
And just about every product company. Newegg is not far off. Left column to modify your selection, right column to list products.
It is unfortunate for NYT and LAT but the new newspapers are HN, reddit, digg, slashdot, etc.

Globalized, localized and thematic.

The only advantage old newspapers have is access to news sources of relevance, like politics, world news, etc.

But five minutes after news break lose, everybody has access to it. Regardless of the source.
Um... you do say the fast food chain that you're using in this example is an "also ran" who's name you can remember, right? I'm not sure you should be advising people to adopt their strategy.
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On a random off-shoot: is there something analogue (e.g. an abacus) that can be used for logic games or calculations that would fit in a pocket (and require no electricity)?
I would doubt this. Popping isn't my speciality (i'm more a breaking geek). There were probably people more dedicated to specifically that dance style that would have outshone him at the time.

Dance that is exposed in the mainstream is a very thin slice of what is actually out there. Nor is it usually the "best".

I will confess that his moonwalk is pretty damn good though.
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i agree with this. sit down and figure out what you need to do in the next few months to succeed. if that means changing focus or direction, make it happen. if the path you're on now isn't going to work, you'll have to change or fail.
I was wondering if there is a specific barcode for IPv6 so we can tag the world and scan it with our mobile phones, wherever we are.

Yes, there are many barcodes that can be used for that purpose, but I mean, can we hackers design a simple and specific barcode for IPv6? Circled, squared, linear? Bitcode, hexcode?

Emphasis: simple and specific.

Should we open an HN contest?

Reward: world recognition for a thousand years.
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I've thought about a system like this... but the problem is, you can never get entirely base-10 because the Earth isn't so kind to us. It inconveniently revolves ~365 times for every time it circles the sun, so if you went entirely base-10 your 'days' wouldn't line up with actual daylight.

If you can't go entirely base-10, and only go halfway like the French... then it doesn't really buy you any convenience.
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Thank you so much, fburnaby!
The extreme example would be Mozart and Gauss. I don't think either one could have become one another, even though both of them possessed one-in-billion IQs.
Thanks, bavcyc! I'm also looking a bit at Steve Jobs (presentation skills) and Obama (diction, tone and speed). Good stuff!
Seems a little depressing that because of Nintendo's policy regarding open source software that kids won't get to play those Freddy the Fish and other games unless someone actually goes through the effort of re-porting the engine.
Ok, I'll go first:

http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/695/bip6.jpg
lol, I did read---skim it but I guess I just mentally correlated that picture with the old Ti-8X calculators that people (and me) use to program on. My bad, it's Friday. :)
We could entirely ditch the notion that things have to line up and just go to stardates (or, well, something like that that actually makes sense).
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Over-sensationalist title. Unexciting (and somewhat wrong) article. Not all websites need or should deploy to EC2 and the like.
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Actually, I didn't read all that far because I was wondering why they would popup a facebook bar on the bottom.

Any reason for that? Do they get paid for it?
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Michael Jackson's Death: From Sadness to Anger
People who think going to the cloud will automatically solve all your scaling issues are severely misguided. It takes a lot of work to have a system where newly provisioned servers are even used in your server infrastructure. Do you think Perez Hilton setup his own dynamic load balancing and web serving strategy?
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I know links about Michael Jackson might not belong here, but nice representation of data is always interesting ...
I try not to think this way about the world, I'm sure it's not healthy. In fact, I think it's turned me into a jerk. But the more I see of banks, other companies, and politics, the less I trust anyone.
Prices for storage could be cheaper. CAD files sprawl pretty quickly compared to your average collaborative project.
Oh, I was referring to the "Trending Topics" and search box on Twitter itself. They were removed and I suspect that would reduce overall Twitter activity (b/c it's more difficult for people to see what other people are saying).
The logic might be OK, but the smugness and implied superiority isn't.
Don't bother with this waste of time. You're welcome.
>I really wish the (domain) included subdomain.

Put in a feature request with pg.
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> but pretty soon the lawyers found that Nintendo explicitely prohibits use of open source software together with their Wii SDK, and as such it was a big fault from Atari side.

Why?
Also note that over the last few weeks T-Mobile has been rolling out the Android Cupcake upgrade, which adds video recording and instant YouTube uploading to all the G1 phones already out there.
The prices directly reflect the difficulty of arbitrage by country.
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That's a good point; many (though far from all) abused children turn into abusers later. Still, I decided a long time ago in the absence of first-hand information to withhold judgment about Michael Jackson. It could be that the terrible stuff that was reported about him was true, in which case it was probably the tip of the iceberg. But don't underestimate our society's capacity to demonize a weird person, especially when you throw in an inhumane media and extreme celebrity. It's easy for the popular conclusion to be wrong in such cases, adding one injustice to another.
The look is pretty good. I find that the handmade-aesthetic-webpage is hard to get right.
I think reading through Steve Blank's "four steps to the epiphany" or reading up about the customer development process might help you figure out how to turn those mild positives into real sales.
Interesting, I had no idea that Sumerians counted with there hands in this way. I've always counted like this because my parents and almost every Indian I know does as well.
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There is unfortunately a large gap between "mildly positive" feedback and getting paid. This is not a judgment on the quality of your offering or your ideas but a suggestion as to how far you still have to travel. Paradoxically, negative feedback can be more useful since it gives you an idea of what needs to be changed.

I would find part time or consulting work that allows you to continue to pursue your startup and focus on what businesses are actually willing to pay for. I would also see if you can find someone else to join you as a partner/co-founder.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_albums_wor...
Yes, after five minutes. But HN, reddit, digg & slashdot do not break any exclusive stories themselves. They just post links to existing ones.

Wikinews-model is the one which might replace original reporting currently done by news organizations.
I think it requires an encryption key to sign code (so you can actually run it).

This is prohibited by several open source licenses, notably the GPL v3. Nintendo lawyers probably just got a bit squeamish and decided it wasn't worth the trouble to decide which open source licenses were alright.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization
For the book titles example, I'd find this much clearer:

book_titles=books.map &:name
Great idea. The following is also of interest: http://www.worldinternetcenter.com/Pubs/Pubs2004/feb05/IPv6v...
That will be a sad day when news isn't gathered and research anymore but just put up by some blogger who heard it on twitter and got his post on Digg.
I wasn't claiming it gets high. I just think it's funny that Amazon got away with selling it.
The reaction can be "explosively positive", the kind of gushing reviews everyone dreams for, and you still won't close sales fast enough if you are that close to bankruptcy. I don't know if quitting is the right answer but you are going to need more cash than what you have. B2B moves slowly at times like these.
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Useless article!
Purely a scaling issue.
It's a similar story to the days when sites would get D-DOSed by Slashdotters!
There isn't an ifinite amount of bandwidth out there, so this will ALWAYS happen occasionally - even in the Holy Cloud!
I'd love to use Woobius (I think) if the price were lower. I work at an engineering firm with around 100 projects averaging 1 GB each. We can do some archiving, but the time it takes to be careful about that sort of thing across even a small organization is nontrivial. At their current prices, this would cost us $1500/month, which is at least twice as much as we'd pay.

It does appear to fill a need I feel acutely on a daily basis.
Awesome. There are so many lies being exposed in this article.

For one, One advertiser told me how he paid $200 to an Indian operation for 2,000 Facebook accounts. That means FaceBook's account numbers must be highly inflated. Their growth is inflated.

For two: In our original post we quoted one advertiser who at least wanted to see the traffic from the spam bots Why would someone want to see traffic from a bot? That means even the advertisers are participating in some sort of lie. The bots will never purchase anything, they only increase traffic numbers, which are then used to lie to someone else. It's a lie pyramid.

It seems simple to alleviate some of the frauded advertisers' concerns by simply following the redirect to the ultimate destination. Any online advertising is so gameable that the value of these ads is vastly overstated.

This kind of fraud will get more sophisticated on both sides of the equation. The advertisers will have to monitor more carefully. The fraudsters will hide themselves better. Robots to do the fraud are extremely cheap.

ROI on ads will continue to decline. Fraud will continue to increase. All these rules are designed by people, so people can get around them. I'm reminded of the confessions of the poker bot maker from a few days ago.
The decline and fall of Lexmark
He's with the wrong banks! My one lets me set up a monthly debit to pay off my credit card... sure it doesnt automatically remind me and cancel it if the current account is short of funds but it's halfway to what he wanted...
As DannoHung points out, this is a crappy outcome because it means that the software simply won't be used, rather than being used in a GPL-compliant fashion. Folks who write Open Source software generally want that software to be used. This could have been a great opportunity for a whole new batch of people to come in contact with a great example of the power of Open Source software. Instead, it turned into a failed product and a situation with no good outcome, because of the prohibition of Open Source in Nintendo games (I was unaware of this prohibition; it makes me like Nintendo a lot less).

This is just a failed opportunity for all parties concerned, and that's sad. I completely understand where the author is coming from. "Winning" in this case is meaningless because the winnings are not what the developers actually wanted. It's like you went into a restaurant and ordered apple pie and they brought you liver, and by way of apology, they gave it to you for free. Sure, you got the liver for free, but it sure aint apple pie.
It's interesting that the web 2.0 crowd have created their own system of buzzword compliance, all the while rejecting the enterprise development version of the same thing. Unfortunately there's a pattern here. We'll surely get past the Age of Unnecessary Superlatives, but it will probably just be replaced with something equally as inane.
Seth Godin has a book ("The Dip") about knowing when to quit and I should have read it much earlier, during my PhD.

Essentially, the absolute worst outcome is to stick with it and give up towards the end (which is what I did). Then you've got all the downsides of wasted time/investment and no upside. Quitting early isn't the worst possible outcome because at least you've saved yourself money & time.

My takeaway was that the earlier you commit to quitting or sticking, the better. Either commit to quitting now or decide to stick with it for the very long haul; even if that means going back into full-time employment, raising investment money, hiring staff, incrementally switching focus until the thing sells.
Also, the name "Woobius" is definitely not conducive to boss approval. To me, "Woobius" says not "secure, reliable CAD vault," but something closer to "fuzzy owl."
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Cloud computing actually is dying and the hype from the author of that blog is one of the reasons. It's a bunch of smoke and mirrors.

Why would TMZ or any other site want to pay for all the resources to satisfy acute demand when it produces no value for the content producers or the advertisers who support them. Those clicks have no value except to the consumers. Websites aren't charities. They have to make money somehow.

You're better off letting your site crash under that kind of load.
"Determine never to be idle."

That really was fantastic. Amazing illustrations.
Can anyone find the specifics in the legislation that is causing this. I can't find anything. They really should put all legislation in progress up on github or something.
Why not just get a job and continue building your startup on the side, if the response is mildly positive, then figure out what other problems you could solve to make it overwhelmingly positive. The sales cycle is much longer for B2B products and if you don't have a ton of competition, then getting a job and building this on the side is an option worth pursuing. There's definitely an opportunity there, you just need to make sure you refine your product to hit it.
Great piece. Two other interesting facts:

Jefferson had the largest private library in America and its books eventually reformed the Library of Congress after the capital was burned by the British in 1812.

Both Jefferson and John Adams died on July 4th, 1826-- the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
wow, even now that I know it was the shoes that's still incredibly impressive. That would take a lot of strength to get down that low.
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Exactly. The difficulties create the price differences. And the price differences fuel the trade.
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A few scraps of paper and a pencil! There are countless books of logic puzzles around, or you could just brush up on your maths and prove a simple lemma or two, if that's your cup of tea.
How much headroom do the 'cloud' providers allow?

Presumably any sudden, broad, increase in demand for servers is going to cause problems if there are no physical machines to support the instances - however many times you scribble the word 'Cloud' on your design in crayon.
"Unexpedly Twitter had major scaling issusing dealing with the sudden influx"

I don't know whether I should point out the awful spelling, or poke fun at the idea that Twitter failing is ever "Unxpeded".
One would hope that scalable architecture is one of the main selling points of cloud computing.
How do the docs suck?

They're pretty complete, and they come with animated graphs/examples for every single easing function. Where do you find better docs than that?

http://scripty2.com/doc/scripty2%20fx/s2/fx/transitions.html...
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They do give you private IP's so that your "slices" can talk to each other - this traffic doesn't count against your bandwidth quota.

http://www.slicehost.com/questions/#private-ips
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For me the end of Lexmark was their abuse of the DMCA.

http://www.eff.org/cases/lexmark-v-static-control-case-archi...

After hearing about that, when people ask me to recommend printers, I'd tell them about Lexmark and their business practices. Do you really want to buy a printer from a company that tries to abuse copyright law to shut out third party ink suppliers?
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So how long does it take to power up amazon instances in the case of a news item like this? Or do you have to have them standing by already allocated? If so, isn't it cheaper to build you own?
Vista is a good operating system. Much better than XP. Windows 7 is better than both.

This article is just another in a long line of "I heard Vista sucks (but never tried it) and 7 is good (but never tried it)" articles.

It's a cliché argument with a predictable conclusion. There's not a single interesting, unique, or insightful thought in this article.
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Does anybody else find it scary that this article seems to indicate we think we can "reverse global warming, solve the world’s energy crisis, and pave the way for breakthrough antibiotics and vaccines… all in one fell swoop."?

Sure, that potential is there, but let's be honest, the greater danger is that we screw things up royally.
Don't forget Ext.js: "I hope using this will not make me have to think about UI design. Oooh, shiny late-nineties buttons!" ... :P
Old-world journalist link bait?
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Flush with cash while at the same time stopping infringers?
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It seems like Facebook should really be able to suss out the automated accounts based on a pretty broad analysis of usage data. If there are accounts floating around out there which have only 3 seconds of activity per 24-hour period, with no friends, no wall posts, and no applications added, in which they do nothing but click on each ad 6 times, that's pretty suspicious. I feel like it would be pretty tough to fake the usage profile of a regular Facebook user.
Why would you prefer to keep Earth's revolution around the Sun as the base unit, instead of Earth's revolution around its axis? I would argue that the latter is more relevant for ordinary people. (Consider that Imperial Russia was using the fixed-365-day Julian calendar up to 1918, and they didn't seem to be acutely concerned that calendar months were drifting increasingly out of sync with actual seasons.)

I'd suggest adopting a 1000-day year instead. To make the transition easier, the word "year" could be deprecated entirely, and the unit of time would simply be called "kiloday" or "k-day". This proposal would significantly improve everyone's life by eliminating brainless smalltalk about whether it's particularly hot or cold this June compared to last year.
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I personally have doubts about the ability of a crowd to create content (in general) of the quality that one dedicated person can. Look at the creative output of a committee for a broad example.

I would be shocked if "the journalist" ceased to exist as a source of journalism.