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At this point you have to make an effort to download a browser that doesn't block popups by default. Even IE has been doing it since version 7.
I agree partially. So long as the word means 'that thing VCs won't invest in,' it's demeaning.

But lifestyle business is inherently demeaning. It implies a goal of cutting back on stress, hard work, long hours etc. A retirement business. A B&B.

Since most of those it is applied to (in this context) do not have these goals, it is insulting. Like calling a punk rocker adorable.

The thing is that it's not what VC's won't invest in that needs a name, it's what they do invest in that needs one. For one thing, an exit plan is something the majority of businesses do not have when they start.
Everyone here is using imprecise terms including you.

And just because a person eats a little amount doesn't mean much, in my
experience it more depends on what it is you eat. You can eat about as many
buckets of broccoli and chicken as you want and stay fit compared to one who
nothing but chocolate in smaller amounts or whatever (choose some unhealthy
food).

And also I'm sick and tired of people who rely on genetics as their problems.
Go into the household of an obese family and there on their dinner table you will
find tons on unhealthy foods and snacks. In each new generation of this family
they grow up accustomed to eating in this manner and are obese more because of
that than anything else.

And when you're young you're both active and have a metabolism that's
burning calories like crazy--that's what's keeping you fit. Not genetics.

Also as for obese people who eat little--I knew such people, or at least I
thought so. Then during each meal with one such person I noticed how little
they ate. Then once during late at night I went upstairs to the kitchen to see the
light on--I looked around the corner--there was this such person eating nothing
but ice cream and pie; and a lot of it. Just because you don't see it doesn't
mean it isn't happening. In the same way people can hide their drug and alcohol
addictions so too can obese people hide their food addiction.
See this thread so that the same tired arguments don't get repeated again:

http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=692448

In addition to any technical argument, Theora is basically a renamed On2 VP3 (very little was modified from the original specification); if one goes by the fact that VP3 was originally meant to compete with MPEG-2 back in the mid-1990s, it is "obsolete" in a temporal sense.

On2 has since superseded VP3 with VP6 and now VP7 (and soon, supposedly, VP8), so in that sense it is "obsolete" as well.
Actually, the theory explains both: it is well-documented that starving the body induces inherent fat-retention mechanisms, in reaction to perceived famine conditions, which results in fat buildup in some parts of the body (usually the torso, the primary fat deposit region), while emaciation in other parts (usually the limbs, due to muscle loss). Once the famine conditions end, the body craves excess food in an effort to repair the damage caused during the "famine."
It does not explain the 1950s treatment, but then again, in the 1950s, they did lots of crazy stuff which wouldn't make sense today, like electroshock and lobotomies.
That makes sense; the odds of bumping at the same place, at the same time, and with similar enough motion vectors should be small enough to give uniqueness.

That said, every phone I've ever owned in Japan has a little IR port, and you can send your contact info across very easily, even between different carriers.
Counterpoint: if Google succeeds and grabs significant market share and BestBuy starts selling netbooks with ChromeOS bundled to your your non-techie friend, relative, etc what happens then? They have no choice.
> (2) Why do tech startups have less need for a law school, or lawyers for that matter, than other kinds of startups?

Being neither a lawyer nor a founder I am speaking based on assumption and conversations with certain business people, so take this with a grain of salt. As I understand it, most tech and especially software startups can grow to a substantial size with no need (or limited) need for a lawyer. They might come in handy for things like working with angel investors and initial incorporation, but as I understand it if the founders are bold and willing to read the fine print themselves, lawyers are not actually needed as long as you can avoid getting sued.

Certainly many other fields can get away with no (or limited) legal involvement to start with, but some businesses absolutely require a lawyer's services on a regular basis. Most government contracts, especially ones that involve any kind of personal information have such specific and detailed requirements mandated by federal law that regular legal counsel is required. Similarly, I understand that the biomedical field is so filled with patents that are aggressively enforced (not just in the defensive portfolio sense that many tech companies build) that lawyers are essential.

Also, any company involved in gambling in Nevada is carefully overseen and will have lawyers on retainer with the larger ones holding them in house.
It sure sound like a good project. Google gears lets you put all your javascript etc offline when net is not available. Even otherwise, all OS like components and downloadable programs of today can be converted to XPI's/Browser extensions.

Just move the tab bar at the botton, Bookmarks button in place of "Start Menu" and you have nearly got yourself a complete desktop. New windows with multiple tabs can act like multiple desktop features of Gnome/KDE.

If nothing else, it would be an interesting experiment, I frankly do not see any reason it can't be done by someone who knows enough of linux startup scripts, and desktop environments.
Ask YC: Know a good startup lawyer near Cambridge?
I recently got offered a position at a startup, based out of Cambridge, MA. Can anyone recommend a decent lawyer who can look over my vesting agreement and other paperwork?

A ballpark of how much this sort of service costs would be appreciated too.

Thanks
Point by point:

- He said Linux doesn't run right on the desktop.

- And Chrome copied every innovation of Firefox. And Firefox copied every innovation of Opera. Etc.

- And together they add up to less of the web's users than IE6, sadly.

- You don't know that.

- I'm done feeding the troll.
>They won't make them available for free download!

Yea they do check out the public library system.

Also if you like scifi check out Baen free library. There are also a few articles on the results of them giving away many of their books for free.
Loma Linda is the only blue zone in the USA, and it is dominated by adventists who are predominately vegetarian. The ones that are not are restricted on what types of meat they can eat (by the religion -- the list is in leviticus).

from the source:

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The people inhabiting Blue Zones share common lifestyle characteristics that contribute to their longevity. Among the lifestyle characteristics shared among the Okinawa, Sardinia, and Loma Linda Blue Zones are the following:[4]

Family - Family is put ahead of other concerns.

No Smoking - Centenarians do not typically smoke.

Plant-Based Diet - The majority of food consumed is derived from plants.

Constant Moderate Physical Activity - Moderate physical activity is an inseparable part of life.

Social Engagement - People of all ages are socially active and integrated into their communities.

Legumes - Legumes are commonly consumed.
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Great thoughtful comments. I have had a similar experience with business cards. I didn't always have them when I wanted them (hated carrying them everywhere when I wasn't working) and the ones I got piled up uselessly on my desk (neither my admin or card scanner could reliably add contacts to Outlook without typos). Bump may not be for everyone right now, but we will keep trying to change that by adding features that business cards can't compete with and porting to other platforms.
If he failed to look at the books in 20 years, or even once notice the shoddy numbers, that would be very strong evidence of negligence. Delegating an essential job doesn't take away the responsibility for supervising performance to make sure the job was done right.
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This test is cinematic, but badly implemented: couldn't understand the instructions clearly (accent, echo, background noise - even on 2nd pass through the game, I didn't understand the voice), the flow of interaction was awkward, didn't understand what the hell was going on.

One thought occurred to me: maybe gamers used to dark video game environments do better here (I don't play video games).

Usually I'm o.k. in testing environments (not a total loser). Here I didn't get anything right, or at least that was my impression. I didn't agree with the evaluation, the points pressed seemed contrived and artificial. I don't understand this test at all.
More background http://www.cepro.com/article/baumeister_goes_out_of_business...

His average contract was about 100K, he lost control of his cash flow in the worst recession in at least three decades, perhaps six. He must have done a lot of things correctly to run a well respected business for 20 years, I don't understand the strongly negative tone of the article.

His conclusion "He is no longer a business owner, but I suspect he is doing what he should be doing" implies that someone who ran a business for 20 years with 40 employees wasn't cut out for business.
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The music industry can stand on "principle" (that's what they call their sclerotic conception of their own self-interest) all they want. It couldn't be clearer that reality is speaking otherwise. They seem to me like an angry guy standing on a rock, shaking his fist at the tide rising around him. Pretty soon they'll be washed away. It reminds me of what Martin Amis said to Salman Rushdie after the fatwa: "It could have happened to a nicer guy."

The spectacle of the music industry portraying itself as "good" and music fans as "evil" is a great comic irony of our time.
Could be, but sadly no. Chalk this up to a fatal reliance on Firefox spellchecker and laziness.
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Most courts resolve small cases like this within a year or two, including appeals. Indeed, a case that lasts more than 2 years is considered anomalous unless a huge corporation or very wealthy clients are involved.
It would take about 1 week to 10 days once appeals have resolved for the funds to work their way through the system. Every state has a deadline for paying off judgments. The only reason payment of a judgment would be delayed is if the defendant declared bankruptcy.
Surprisingly (maybe not really) there are plenty of people who share this sentiment. This is who I thought of when I heard about Opera Unite. I figured it could appeal to some people because that space (non-cloud) is not really getting much attention/excitement any more.
Somehow I think the twitter generation will overstep the business card by miles.

The last time I was at a conference(in Bangalore), which is miles away from the hustle bustle of Silicon valley, insted of exchanging business cards people were just exchanging twitter ids.

I think this is cool to show to your friends, etc. But when it comes to exchanging business contact, twitter has an upper hand.
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You vastly overate the value of promotion.
At some point, the owner would much rather have actual money in the pocket than "awareness", whatever that means.

After all, who cares if you get 100000000 views on YouTube if you never make a dime from it?

It's just like Hulu and the TV studios: they don't care if they lose out on the "promotion" of their product to the millions of viewers around the world by limiting viewership to the US, b/c they have no way to monetize foreign viewers.
Well, cable TV used to be "piracy" when it rebroadcast over-the-air stations. Then they got a compulsory license written into law (17 USC 111). Doesn't seem to have destroyed the networks.

And, once upon a time, record labels paid radio stations to get songs on the air. That was outlawed, but it does show that what's considered "normal" now wasn't always, and might not be in the future.
I knew there was a simple and concise syntax I was missing. Writing code after midnight is definitely a nono :)
Interesting post from a competitor (not something you see every day). I've been a ServInt customer for a couple years now and have been extremely happy with what I get and their level of service for $50/month.
Indeed. I still remember when buying a 3GB harddisk was a big deal and thought that you could never fill it. And now I need more than 300GB just for my laptop.

Now you can get a 1TB one for less than a $100.
There are plenty of PhDs in a uniform and they do just fine. I've worked with a few of them.
You forgot progressive lipodystrophy. Also, people still take insulin today and still gain weight from it. They're called 'diabetics.' And if a person has a huge fat store (and if fat is really just an 'energy battery') why should there be any damage from starvation in the presence of proper nutrients?

How does the thermodynamics theory explain weight homeostasis? The vast majority of people throughout history were able to maintain fairly constant weights throughout their lives. If it's just calories-in, calories-out, they would have to be regulating what they ate to within 10 calories a day to maintain their weight over a decade.

I'm sorry, but this is silly science. You can't explain obesity by simple thermodynamics any more than you can explain growth at puberty by simple thermodynamics. Energy conservation, although true, tells you very little about self-regulating systems w.r.t. the environment.
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traditional radio has been in business for decades, with a similar business model. they pay the record labels nothing.
People often get pissed when others are going faster than them, no matter the mode of transit.
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"Send it to ALL" -- when I was working for banks with (tens of) thousands of employees, I often received such carefully crafted exit emails from people/departments I had never heard of. And I considered all of them SPAM.
absolutely. it amazes me how many people there are (that i meet) who fall under the umbrella of fearing for themselves rather than proactively pursuing their passions and gaining invaluable experiences in the world. better to live at home and minimize risk so you dont die.

fuck that.
I think the time stamp is more important for matching devices. In fact, theoretically, with an accurate enough time stamp you wouldn't need a location to match the devices virtually all the time.

Another idea I had would be to tell the users to knock the devices together twice. That way, you would have another dimension for matching devices: the interval between the knocks should be the same, and that doesn't depend on the clocks being synchronized on the two devices.
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"What codec is used for .MOV files, then? As far as I know they can only be en/decoded by Quicktime."

.mov is a container format. It can potentially contain any of many different actual types of encoded media.
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After reading this, I just ordered a batch of business cards. Is that telling? :)
Don't look at it as a threat, look at it as an opportunity. What Google is doing with Chrome OS is making one application the entire point of OS. They are wrapping linux kerner around Chrome. This can be done for Firefox too, and for Konquerer/Opera etc.

We have always thought that Operating Systems have become very complex, we do not need all those /devs and /procs, we do not really care about sysctrls etc. We want to build fast desktop applications.

Javascript is becoming faster everyday. Leave that PyXPCOM is probably within the grasp in a year or two max, or even sooner.

GNU/Linux has traditionally lagged in GUI app development, there are so many half mature options to pick from, the only clear winner coming out to be Mono/CSharp, which is ironical at best.

Firefox is becoming more and more interesting with the advent of HTML5.

All this is leading to an eventuality that Firefox should be able to do most of desktop applications. There is no reason why Gnome Terminal, Pidgin, Transmission can not be written in Javascript/PyXPCOM.

This could rid us from the plethora of /etc files, from the command line.

What sites you visit once that future arrives, and what are going to be the cookie retention policies are going to be completely under your control.

Its not about privacy, they are rethinking how operating systems are done.
It's easier to use -- all the buttons visible at any given time are related in some way, so it's easier to find what you're looking for (or conversely, to tell if what you're looking for is not currently visible.

It's more amendable to touch-based interfaces. Bigger buttons = more area to click.
Yeah. Firefox needs (soft) realtime [1] plugins.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing
It's not so much what they do with them, although there is more ritual associated with giving and receiving them (and they look aghast at Americans who wing their own cards across a conference table).

Basically, they believe that a business card is an extension of the person and should be treated with a great deal of respect. This does result in subtle things like making sure to put their business card on a notebook or leather holder in front of you during meetings (so it doesn't directly touch the table).
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Might want to try Varnish ( http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/ ), which has seriously impressed me with both its performance and flexibility.

I'm really interested to see how TrafficServer stacks up compared to Varnish.
Good observation. I was listening to Chris Anderson's Free on the commute home, and an interesting case he mentions is how, back in the XIX century, radios created their own label, BMI, so they didn't have to pay royalties that would render their business model completely inviable.

I think that whoever succeeds in this area will do something very similar, working with indie artists from the very beginning, maybe even producing their albums.
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Thin clients are likely to be a viable market, so I expect multiple OS vendors to create them. Some will be open source; some will be closed source. If morally opposed to Google's closed source server side apps, one is free to go to other sites. Are you suggesting boycotting Google's open source project because they operate other apps that are closed source?
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Up until a year ago, Theora was total dogshit, dramatically worse than H.263 (RealVideo, Flash 7, etc.) -- Xiph had made basically no effort at all to improve the codec itself, they just made a lot of fuss about integrating it with their custom container format, and froze the format in 2004 (Not that it really mattered -- there have never been other implementations).

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MS didn't make the wrong processor choice to begin with; it was never stuck, so it didn't need to make that change.

Game consoles have been around as long as, if not longer than, personal computers. For the past 10 years straight, the top selling games have been...computer games, like WoW and the Sims (and Myst, before them).

Distributed source control is not the end all of programming. At best, it's a niche. Real companies use commercial source control systems.

Name one major game coming out next year that uses OpenGL. PS3 games don't count. Can't think of one, can you?

BTW, last month, Windows Vista shipped more copies than OSX sold in its entire decade-long run. So...Windows is not likely to become irrelevant soon.

As for fun...Clicking the pretty buttons to close windows may amuse folks of a simpler persuasion, but I find it more enjoyable to play actual games on my computer.
If google sees a need that isn't being met by the community, then it doesn't make sense to partner with an existing effort that already has its own people, mission, biases, and agenda. Ubuntu is very different from the Chrome OS.

It sounds like the author is angry at Google for competing with a product that he is emotionally invested in. While I can understand his emotional investment, I think it is foolish to get angry at companies for innovating and providing the world with new technologies.
It's actually a requirement forced upon them by businesses who like to be able to pick and choose patches that are relevant, rather than an amorphous blob.
It seems like a decent idea. I wonder how it will be integrated with RSS feeds though.

Also, I think the 20% cut is too high.

I wouldn't mind contributing to my favorite blogs this way.
MS would like to provide many tools and programs with Windows. The Justice Department and the European Union, however, are very much opposed to this.

That's why Europeans get to pay for Windows 7 without a browser or a media player in the year 2009.
There are only two reasons to do actual streaming of any content:

A) You're broadcasting a live event
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In all other cases, the "sort of fake streaming called HTTP Progressive Download" is massively superior.
"Hell, you'd have to be an Olympic or professional athlete to come even close to needing more than 5000 calories in a single day."

Here is the short article about Michael Phelps and his diet. Supposedly he eats 12K calories per day.
http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/blog/fourth_place_m...

An ultra-maraphon runner Dean Karnazes provided a sample diet for a day when he runs for the whole 24hrs in his book. I think it was about 26K calories.

These are the extremes, of course, but not impossible.
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