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If TED isn't successful, how then would success look like for a conference of this kind? I don't think any conference at all is by itself a serious engine of innovation, and the more academic ones are much worse than TED talks, in my experience during academic conferences everyone pretty much expects up front to not understand anything at all from 90% of the talks, at least a half of the people will actively do something else than listening to the speaker, playing with their laptops and stuff, and pretty much the core motivation for everyone is A) the points for getting published in the conference proceedings and B) the party in the evening where one can finally get drunk and have some fun. The only chance of really learning something is if you know some work a bit upfront, or you know the people involved, and then researching it afterwards, so at best you get a little spark and you have to put in a ton of work to make something out of it. If you aren't consistently interested in some small range of topics you get nothing at all from it.

In other words, it seems we don't really know how to make innovation happen at wish. It works better in the universities in the undergraduate studies, where over months people genuinely interested in same intellectual pursuits have a chance to meet and get to know each other thanks to the wide range of classes and activities and people involved. They also get to share a common background, so they can understand each others work and their potential relations, a lot of important scientific work happened in "schools" which started with some figure great either at science and/or at organizing science, and which spanned several generations. So it's a slow process, it happens over years and takes sustained dedication of a large group of people, how would someone expect to contribute to this significantly via a one day event? Conferences are mainly social events in my view, and there is nothing wrong with that.

And then there is the general question how much influence do so-called "intellectuals" have in the world, as compared to the Napoleons and Alexanders.
That didn't change during HS1 construction, so they would have included that in the analysis.
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I don't think "royally screwed" is the phrase you are looking for. There may not be comparably nice homes for cheaper in the area near your wife's work, but there are millions living on < 150k near you.
It was an analogy. Lighten up.
Everyone is different, and most medical studies are based on averages. If it works for you...

Some people can only concentrate for 4 hours a day. Others 12. There's a mean in there somewhere.

Some folks can eat a dozen cheeseburgers a day and not get fat. If (when!) I eat 2 a week my pants get tight. Different things for different people.
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"Social" isn't a fad, but channels dedicated to being "social" might be. This is pure conjecture, but I think a major component of Twitter's success was that participating did not require you to use an official Twitter client. Ubiquity spurred growth. It's an example of "social media," not a "channel for social."

Another major component of Facebook's decline was their lack of a mobile strategy. Again, pure conjecture, but as mobile use in teens increases, the mobile experience matters more -- the Facebook app was unusable for a long time, and that probably had an effect on growth and reputation.

In my opinion, the biggest risk for Facebook is the paradigm shift in how we share photos. A big component of their growth in 2009 - 2011 was their dominance in the photo sharing space. They're the number one photo sharing site in the world. Now photo sharing and picture taking are a mobile experience (e.g., Snapchat, Instragram), being the number one photo sharing site isn't as big of a deal. The purchase of Instagram was smart.
Google is amazing, you are now the second result for that search term :)
Have to mention that your blog is pretty awesome as well:
http://jvns.ca/blog/2013/10/23/day-15-how-gzip-works/
It is exempt up to 5.25 million for individuals and 10.5 million for couples. Is between 5 and 10 million not enough? For hitting the sperm lottery? Large amounts of generational wealth is a net negative in a democratic society as it further exacerbates the income gap.
I regularly travel between Amsterdam and Berlin, and I have had the same experience.

I avoid the bus because it sucks, I avoid flights because they actually feel longer and more exhausting, and because the door-to-door advantage is only two hours (out of 6 or 7 total). Whenever I can, I take the train.
Is it a war on access, or a defense of their contracts and profits?

I'm a big believer that all publicly funded research should be publicly available. But... If you sign away your research, don't be surprised when people want to keep it under wraps.
This is just overblown rhetoric. I don't have as much faith as you do that the IRS is as capable as the most elite financial planners and accountants in the country.

Also, why would the IRS lobby congress? Their job is to enforce the laws, not to dictate what the laws should be.
> Not long ago they united under the PRISM project to spy on their users. What a quick change of heart.

Yes, but then they did it for your safety, and because they care about you. Now they're doing it because...well, they're starting to lose money.
1. Decide who you don't like.

2. Create a massive, retroactive tax on something they did. Make sure it's big enough that they can't possibly pay it.

3. Why stop at retroactive taxes? Add in retroactive penalties and fees for late payment.

4. Confiscate whatever they have to pay the tax bill.

5. Charge them with tax avoidance for not paying those taxes, then throw them in jail.

It's pretty insane, but if you're going to allow laws to be changed retroactively then you're already into that territory.
Tab closed; didn't read.
http://tabcloseddidntread.com/post/70292809007/inbound-marke...
Thank you, but just FYI, Quora sucks and you should find a new place to work.

It's a shitty crowd sourced product that gives nothing back to the crowd. The deletion policy sucks. The inability to delete your own content (without deleting your account) sucks. The way Quora forces people to login to see content sucks. Forcing people to use real names sucks. The user interface, which at this point looks pretty dated, sucks. The product sucks. You can't get answers to questions which sucks. People with lots of followers get all the upvotes, which sucks. Emphasising the social login buttons at every turn and hiding the email login sucks. The community (never as impressive as people made it out to be because one time many years ago the former CEO of AOL answered something) sucks. The admonishment to be ready to dedicate your life (haha!) to Quora on the jobs page sucks big fucking time. By the way how's that working out for you? Worth it? Probably not. Getting a ton of VC money because Quora's founder had some friends at Facebook and then building a piece of shit? Also pretty sucky.

Can you tell I don't like Quora? My only interaction with Quora has been through its product. I haven't had a Quora account in over a year and I still foam at the mouth at the thought of this site. There's a reason I wanted to delete my account. It's a sinister and manipulative product that connives value (user contributions) out of people and returns walls for the favor. I had quite a bit of content on Quora. I think I got overcharged like $40 by some scammy website in the last year and I am already over that, but I never got scammed for money from Quora but I still cringe at the site in a way that's entirely unique and singular. Quora sucks.
> If anything those who inherit it should just have to file it as income and pay income / cap gains tax on it.

That's pretty much what the estate tax is.
There are two things that bother me about the Node.js driver. The first is that it doesn't have its own repository, you have to go to https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/tree/next/drivers/jav...
The second one is that it's written in CoffeeScript. That may have been a good idea at the beginning, but if you want to have more traction and more developers looking into the source code I think you should 'translate' it into raw JS.
Both the ACM and the IEEE allow authors to post the final version on their personal website, or the website of their institution.

Of course, the ACM and IEEE are professional organizations, not for-profit publishers. So they can actually move away from the pay-per-access model and still continue to exist. I don't see how for-profit publishers can.
German here. I have a Bahncard 100, which allows me unlimited train travel (plus unlimited local public transport in many cities) in Germany with most trains for one year. Fast or slow. I don't care. I usually pick the faster one.

http://www.bahn.de/i/view/DEU/en/prices/germany/bahncard.sht...

Deutsche Bahn also advertizes that they use renewable energy for my Bahncard travel and they will expand this over the coming decades to 100%.
There's certainly an increased risk of death from e.g. falling asleep at the wheel, but I'm not aware that sleep deprivation can kill you outright. People have gone without any sleep for extensive periods and recovered quite normally after a couple nights' sleep.
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> We're sorry but this site is not accessible
> from the UK ...

<sigh>
$2 million per day to really annoy a whole load of people...

Advertisers get ever more desperate to reach audiences but we've seen before that this arms race ends with ads so intrusive that people start to block them routinely. It might drive people away from FB, or it might make ad blocking more mainstream. It'll be interesting to watch.
> Current form factor is just right for communication device [1]. If you need bigger screen, chances are you do not want a phone - you want a tablet.

Who are you to decide that for others? When I pick up an iPhone, the screen is way too small. I have a 5.2" display on my phone, and so 4" seems comically small.

And I also have a Nexus 7, so I can assure you that there's a huge difference between a 5" phone and a 7" tablet. The latter cannot substitute for the former.

> Anecdotal experience: I know 12 people with phones that have large screens. 7 of them had screens cracked due to dropping the phone

And in my anecdotal experience, everyone I know with a broken screen has an iPhone. So this sort of conjecturing isn't very helpful.
Wait, yes it does! Mutation rates may be small over generations due to SELECTION. We're talking about nonsense DNA that does not have any purifying selection pressure, ie. it does not encode any useful or critical protein for the organism.
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Thanks for pointing out the Robert Full talk. He gave a talk at Pixar during production of "A Bug's Life" and it was fascinating. And, yes, these older TED talks were better.
CloudFlare unveils a secret 12-month-old $50M Series C
That's the problem I see, it's memory efficient, but lookups will cost thousands of cycles for modestly sized trees. A hash table on the other hand can do lookups in a couple hundred cycles (cold cache for both.)
EA Hackathon a lesson in reading the fine print
For all those thinking that you can't delete your facebook because you will lose connections: Delete it and watch how much you don't care.

Get their emails/phone numbers, call them once in awhile, grab a coffee.
It would seem the X Prizes made it easier for research and development teams to raise money. Having a tangible $x million prize at the end broadens the field of potential sponsors.
Option A - Give money to your children (as much of it as you can).

Option B - Give money to a government who spends $5 to be able to spend $1. Then waistes that $1 (on polices that you don't agree with).

Option C - Give money to people who hate you for having money (a.k.a "trickle it down", "guaranteed minimal income", "anyone off the street can be a CEO", "lets retroactivly tax the rich", etc).

I know what I would do.
What claim does the government have on the wealth those people created? Why is the discussion always about how much the rich deserve to keep based on their own creation of wealth?
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Thought you guys might find this useful. I whipped it up over the weekend as I couldn't find one that worked properly. I'm using it for a client project, and will make updates as I make progress.

-Ben
> They removed the show retroactively by mistake.

That's only slightly less frightening. A simple error can potentially wipe out all of my "purchases."

Just imagine that telephone conversation with customer support: "Yes, I have rebooted my machine. I need tier two suppo-- No, I don't need to update my software. Can I talk to-- No, it's not a connection problem. My ISP won't be able to help me."
How Businesses Can Get Into Their Customer Minds And Increase Sales
Did I miss something or is 2013 already over?

Also, didn't find any mention of NSA or Snowden. Sadly, I wasn't surprised.
OpenSUSE renders the fonts horrible, I don't know why is that.
No. Neither was the obfuscated swear word in the title. Nor the word 'screw'. Nor was the picture at the top of the article or the pink headings. Or the call to action below. Nor the chatty writing style. Very little of the article was necessary, but it is what it is.

You can draw the line anywhere, really, and the author chose to draw it there. If the author of every article self-censors and goes out of its way not to offend anyone at all then we're going to end up with a very boring world.

It's a good thing to have your sensibilities challenged.
I guess all I can really say to this is I hope you get burned alive for daring to express such an idea. Better throw your immediate family in there too, to be safe.

EDIT: I'm responding to this:

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I don't expect it to ever happen. Sometimes proposing an unreasonably extreme option will make other options (such as at least being proactive in closing the loopholes) seem tame.

I pay my taxes, but people who can afford the best financial planners and accountants get to avoid them, that just rubs me the wrong way. Some of the more dirty tricks such as funneling income through other countries have zero consequences though.
I thought Elsevier was already doing all it could to alienate the authors who freely donate their work to shore up the corporation’s obscene profits.

This is not a statement that I would expect to see in a well-balanced post containing sensible discussion about the pressing requirement for more open access.

The full details on author rights are publicly available on Elsevier's site at http://www.elsevier.com/journal-authors/author-rights-and-re... - and as far as I'm aware, their current round of legal threats doesn't contradict that.

Open access is REALLY, REALLY important to the future of science, but we won't get anywhere by misrepresenting the current state of affairs.
I agree. As long as big companies become so good at tracking and making money through surveillance themselves, it's just too irresistible for spy agencies not to try and get that data one way or another.

That's why companies need to at least use forward secrecy, keep data at rest encrypted, and also delete more ephemeral data a lot more quickly.

Google used to delete the data they have on their users every 6 months. I don't think they plan on ever deleting anything they have anymore now. That's the wrong way to go about it. Tracking data should not exist for more than a few months at most, and private communications should not be held for more than a year. Of course, it would be so much easier for the user, if everything was end-to-end encrypted, and then it wouldn't need to be deleted.
Sam Hyde's 2070 Paradigm Shift is also a great parody (delivered at an actual TEDx event) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yFhR1fKWG0
Thank you. This article also points out that the recipients still pay income tax. The original Bloomberg link isn't very informative or accurate.
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I think he meant "a few hours a day for a month".
This is my project I did last night. Any new ideas how to make this useful are welcome!
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I can assure you that meager transfer payments in the form of SS, Medicare, etc will do absolutely nothing to reduce the income gap. Do you really think that giving money to the government is going to magically make people wealthier?

While generational wealth of the magnitude we have today certainly isn't productive, it doesn't actually do anything to impede peoples' ability to earn more for themselves, and forcing the wealthy to fork over money when they die is basically purely symbolic, because even when taken cumulatively it has zero effect.
All those browns and pinks were way better reading when I was blasting "More Human Than Human" by White Zombie. Try it!
A simpler idea is to stop using your account but leave it active. Make it a glorified address book. Every now and then you can check in and accept friend requests if necessary. I know a few people who use it like this (not because they dislike Facebook but just because they spend very little time at a computer). It seems to work for them. They get the benefits without the constant ads and stream of info they don't care about. Of course if privacy is your concern this isn't a good suggestion but otherwise it's a happy medium.
Show HN: Forking the Design of Consumer Products
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We've been working on a new way to stop "Zombie shopping" by building a social-commerce platform where anyone can create a personalized product via "Remixing" copyrighted art & design.

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I would love you thoughts on how we can grow this idea and make our product better.

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What if you earned the money through a company using the Double Irish Dutch Sandwich tax shelter and didn't pay your fair share when you earned it? That is why wealth inequality is a problem. Our government is owned by the people that can afford to make donations, which are the same people that benefit from these tax games.
Yes - be yourself instead of being a card-swapping 5,000+ LinkedIn automaton. ok, makes sense.
I had similar sentiments when Arch made the move to systemd but I think I've come to like it. Things seem to be a lot more stable than with initscripts.
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I'll be honest about the things we probably can't do. Games, for one. Enterprise apps that need access to private APIs are another. I could probably go on, but you get the drift. We're on the same page as landing page creators and other lean startup tools.
At no point did I ever make any kind of argument about ignorance of the law. Do you see that in my post? Perhaps point it out, because you're reading something that isn't there.
Additionally, I haven't noticed a substantial difference in the marketing or publishing of TEDx videos on the web. While obviously anything can go viral, one can usually only distinguish between TEDx talks and TED talks by reading the fine print.
I believe it is a side-effect of the keyboard navigation. It appears to support the back button (due to the script listening for the arrow keys and disregarding the Alt-modifier) but only for those users who use the keyboard to navigate back-and-forth in history. If you observe carefully, the actual "back button" isn't activated (and hence useless).
You must have an extremely sedentary lifestyle. If I don't get at least 8 hours I don't have energy to do shit. I can't lift, walking to/from work sucks, doing anything sucks really. I'd only sleep less if I worked remotely + didn't have physical obligations.
This is especially important for those of us that work in tech. We’re all extremely attached to our phones. We can’t just sit on the bus anymore. People are faking calls to make themselves look busy and important when they’re waiting for their friends to show up. We go out for dinner with people and we’re more interested in email and text messages. While it’s important to be connected, it’s even more important to be present when you’re interacting with others.

Perhaps I don't have much of a set to base this on, but from what I've noticed the ones in tech (at least, the ones well versed in it, not just generic managers and help desk workers -- though their job title does not dictate their actual knowledge, of course)... they tend not to be smartphone junkies as much as the average consumer. Especially not for things like text messages and email.

I guess it depends on the person, though. The ambitious startup type might fit the above criteria quite well.
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Microsoft employee, pls leave.
AMAZING enthusiasm! :)
Agreed, andr, that the number of new good talks can continue to increase. This is an interesting story and relates to a variety of other organizations seeking to scale quickly, whether from necessity or ambition. Is there an ongoing discussion of it as it pertains to TED & TEDx anywhere?
I re-read this page before any networking event I go to.

http://www.westegg.com/unmaintained/carnegie/win-friends.htm...

It has worked wonders for me.
Cheers and good luck!
I like trains. Really! But maybe the proper question is not, "Why build high-speed rail?" but "Why travel at all?"

Especially the example given about those who live in Barcelona and commute to London by air. Probably not just because it's cheaper -- I'm sure the differences in weather had a minor influence too.

But you might have heard about this thing we have in Bonerland called the Internet. Al Gore invented it, so it has to be green. Maybe you Euro-peons should check it out.
The estate tax extends the standard tax rate on that degree of income to the money left behind when they die, it is not currently a higher rate. Do you suggest there should be no estate tax?
Try this: https://rawgithub.com/agl/critbit/master/critbit.pdf
The gp isn't using the same definition of 'rich enough'. You're inferring that rich enough comment to mean "rich enough to live comfortably on and afford the things I need/want".

Instead the gp is talking about a threshold of "rich enough" where you can roll your money into these GRATs and other investment vehicles. It requires a far greater level of wealth, because you're living on the returns from investments and financial objects entirely, and in order for those returns to be enough to live on, you need a much bigger chunk of money than 150k a year.
Yea I got this too. Happened in the middle of watching the stream.
I hope it happens
This is written by someone who refuses to try to get better at networking...and is completely mistified by what it actually is.

See: http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/blog/video-how-to-use-n...
Go to bed dude. No one is on your side here.
Reminds me of one of my favorite work conversations: "Hey Matt, you have any self deleting code?" "I used to."
> What would our languages look like if we made them shape polymorphic? If we moved in that direction it would be like baking the Composite Design Pattern deeply into language machinery. It could be very powerful.

In addition to APL and J, that would look a lot like SQL as well.
It's a misogynous analogy. If we call it out we can make the world a better place, where everyone is actually equal and break the horrible let's-pretend-we're-equal-while-holding-some-people-down status quo. Everyone's a winner. Except misogynists.
Option D - Sign the giving pledge and stop being concerned that your children can't live on less than 8 billion dollars.
Eddie Huang went on about his bad experience with TED on the Joe Rogan podcast earlier this year => http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FNenJN4484