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Next Big Language (Javascript 2?)
Branson is well known for taking along hitchhikers, even when he's waterskiing.
Opposite, I am very happy it premium only

I havent got my premium account yet, there hasnt been a particularly pressing reason to do so.

However if spotify is to survive they need to make money, and advertising it a pretty low margin for such a expensive service to run.

down the line, someone needs to pay for something, advertising alone doesnt make for a sustainable economy.
China and Korea are among the lowest consumers of sugar (7kg and 21kg per capita compared to about 70kg per capita in the US) in the world. What about other groups (e.g., Pima Indians) that eat very little fat and protein yet have the highest rates of obesity, diabetes, and coronary heart disease? What about groups that eat very little plant matter and mostly fat and protein yet have almost no cancer, obesity, diabetes, or coronary heart disease (Inuits)?

Read Good Calories, Bad Calories if you want to get the background on why the AHA recommends what it does and why they are probably wrong on the subject of dietary fat and protein.

I do agree that replacing grains and starchy vegetables with green, leafy vegetables is a good dietary strategy. It is a good way to get variety in your diet without activating insulin secretion. The amount of calories you eat is largely irrelevant with respect to fat storage. Your body will adjust your appetite and basal metabolism to maintain homeostasis.
3D printers are hugely expensive but I think things like manufacturing solar panels are cost efficient. Obviously a solar panel is an extremely simple circuit but hopefully more complicated machines can be printed in a similarly large scale process.
Besides, you can essentially buy your way around immigration laws anyhow, so we might as well be honest about it.

Can you really? How does that work?
The Economics of Airlines’ Mileage Addiction
> So I think this salary threshold needs to be very, very high.

Anytime you link a legal requirement to salary levels, you end up with geographic cost-of-living disparities. 100K in NYC/SF is no big deal, 100K in Clearwater, Florida is. A person who can easily get a greencard in NYC can't do so in Florida. This makes the law unfair to states with lower cost-of-living because employers cannot hire and keep skilled employees even when they are willing to pay very competitive rates.
"Yet you're arguing that people should hurry up and die so 'we' can move on and not stay 'mired in the past' and 'wasting time'. What do they matter? Where are we moving to that's so important?"

For instance, the decline in institutional racism against black people in America wouldn't have been nearly so successful if it wasn't for all the old segregationists dying off in recent decades. There are definitely real costs and benefits to social conservatism.
Building a phone system? Use Freeswitch
I feel in love with this project ever since I learned about it while looking for Asterisk alternatives.

If you are using Asterisk now, or are planning on building any kind of VoIP-related system, I recommend you try Freeswitch, it is a lot simpler to setup, configure and use in general, and has a great online community of users and developers.
The brain drain from developing countries was aggravating their problems. Now as the the US struggles itself those nations that need experts the most can keep them.
For SuperCollider there's a book which is not out yet (I have read a draft and found it excellent, especially for beginners) but it should be out soon.

You can try to send an email to one of the authors:
http://www.music.utah.edu/faculty/faculty_a-z/david_michael_...

He used to send a pdf of the draft version if you asked him, but since the printed book is due soon (by MIT press) I don't know if this is still true.

There's also 'The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music' by Miller Puckette (the author of Pure Data):

http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/techniques.htm

The examples are, obviously, in Pure Data. But it is an excellent book and all the concepts can be applied to any synthesis language/tool.

For Csound there's 'The Csound Book' by Richard Boulanger (MIT Press):

http://csounds.com/shop/csound-book

This is also excellent. Disclaimer: the author is a friend.
Or it HAS happened and WE are the goo! Seriously, there's more bacteria in the human body then human cells. And it's not like the world is short on self replicating nano-machines outside of our bodies. There's self replicating goo everywhere!
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"Firefox is a culture. We look at every stat, every figure, fervently. When the alphas and betas are announced, we run them in parallel along with our regular Firefox version to track bugs and discus"

I would love to see some actual data supporting his claim.
I also don't see anything concrete on why the the future of Firefox matters
Yeah, compared to Analytics, Quantcast, and server logs, they appear to be grossly under-reporting unique visitors to my site. What should be 60,000+ is listed as 8,000. They kind of follow the actual trending, but seem to exaggerate the highs and lows, within their already inaccurate measure.

I'm comparing theninhotline.net to ninwiki.com - the trends are right individually, but ninwiki.com should actually never be higher than theninhotline.net, according to actual measured statistics.
Of course apply have a bit of a history of denying apps from the app store which encroach on their territory (iTunes?).

Perhaps Spotify are just doing this to force Apple's hand, possibly reveal a bit of their strategy for iTunes subscription services?
The problem with complaining about being imposed on via Twitter is that you can't be imposed on unless you invite them to bother you. While spammers, scammers and a-holes run rampant on Twitter right now they're only effective if you open the door and let them in. If you don't, your only inconvenience is a lot of fake followers which should only be of benefit to people looking to stroke their own egos with large follower numbers anyway.
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There are numbers. They may be too correlational for your liking, but there is significant data. I think you have to be careful here. Saying the data are inconclusive, because controlled tests are difficult if not impossible, is one thing. But dismissing the data embraces the same fanaticism that you seem uncomfortable with. Science demands skeptics but deniers get thrown out of the tent. The difference might seem like a religious dispute but it really comes down to productive criticism versus unproductive needling.

The emotion probably comes from seeing something that seemed permanent, like permafrost and Arctic ice, melting away. Humans don't tend to like instability. And instability on a global scale is a relatively new phenomenon. Sunspots might be the next worry but what could we possibly do about that?

It's an interesting point on the cycle of religious movements (and it reminds me of deathbed confessions - what do you have to lose?). But what's an alternative explanation for rising temperatures? That's science. There's an existing and prevailing hypothesis that attempts to explain that data. You need another hypothesis that explains the data just as well. It could be that the Earth is simply repeating normal warming trends. The problem is, that's not a testable hypothesis. There is no experiment that could reject that hypothesis.

By contrast, if man is playing some role, then if we change our behaviors we should see a change in temperatures. If we see some reduction in global temperatures coincident with climate change interventions, that's another data point in favor of the hypothesis that man has some role to play. To me, that's another clear reason to pump research dollars into the problem. And sure, nuclear plants should be a part of the solution.

My point on not waiting is what can be gained by running interventions. Sure, it might be a wasted effort, but either way you gain knowledge you didn't have previously from simple observation. I really don't know what the alternative is. The planet appears to be changing. We're unsure of the cause - some more so than others. What's the problem with trying to figure out things through the scientific method? Wasted resources? Unnecessary hysteria? So what? Research and development is like insurance. You may not need it, but if you do, you'll be happy you put in the effort years ahead of time.
I like this one- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMchJfsIj7E&NR=1
Nice! How about adding a spoken version of the animal name, for pre-readers?
Indeed. I enabled javascript before attempting a post, and QUICKLY closed the tab because the message that popped up was pretty awful.
At least now you can remotely delete books! Or rather get them deleted.
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Thomas Dolby apparently made a living for some years composing cellphone ringtones, which I think also have to fit into a small amount of space and be synthesizable in real-time on a limited processor.
Hire top flight (expensive) immigration lawyers to handle your case, fly back to your country of origin on your private jet four times a year to turn the Visa Waiver program into a non-working visa of arbitrary length, structure your corporate/employment affairs such that while you sure look like you're working at a desk in America legally speaking you are employed in Zurich and merely on a business trip, etc etc. Or, heck, just look at investors' visas, which is literally "You have a lot of money? WELCOME TO AMERICA!"
National origin and citizenship, you're right. But when it comes to immigration status, I've always had the "are you eligible to work in the United States?" question asked of me for every job I've applied to.
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Right, but all intervention is not equal. The US in striving to stop the "reds" has helped some awful people and it's amazing there are no Chilean or Argentinian terrorist, god knows there are people from Latin America that could claim good cause.

And maybe this will fire back too, but at it's core it's decentralizing, anonymizing tech, used against government control. And I happen to think that's a good thing.
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They look really nice, good job!

Maybe it's my connection, but the cards are going by a little fast, it skips to the next card before the image has finished loading. You could add a speed option and/or a pause button.
Pay someone to marry you. A friend of mine did this. Tho' there's nothing sleazy about it, he's gay and married a lesbian. He, his boyfried, her and her girlfriend share a house in SF.
I don't think so. I can see more recent threads on 4chan, no problem. I think the thread has just expired.
Lending more credence to this line of thought: http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg19609.html
> make has been around long enough that there are several other tools that know how to work with it.

I'd prefer an improved from-scratch 2nd-generation tool instead of using one that simply wraps around a complicated 1st-gen one that I'd rather not touch.

Make has more warts than just the tab characters. Lots of obscurely-named variables, for starters.
Global warming is a hoax. The earth goes through natural warming and cooling periods. People need to know to combat the global warming profiteers.
Given that further work on the dataset has continued to produce rapidly diminishing returns, one would assume that prolonging the contest would be likely to result in the teams being closer, not further apart.
Saying a winner-takes-all contest is "zero sum" in any sense is utterly nonsensical, as it's clearly not zero sum since one group wins $1,000,000.

Also, "one guy" doesn't necessarily get all of it, as team co-operation is implicitly encouraged as it increases the chances of winning. Additionally, the game is strictly skill-based, so the more skilled you are the more likely you are to win, which may encourage you to work in the contest. And that's excluding all the additional externalities involved.
i'm having a little trouble finding out exactly what ATDC actually does, what services it provides, etc.. can anyone help me out here?

or are they still working that stuff out?
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This has nothing to do with work visas which is what his friend was unable to get. EEOC policy states you can't discriminate on race, country of origin, skin color, etc. But if you don't have the right to work the EEOC won't protect you from not getting hired, or fired for not having the proper documentation.
There are several GM scripts for this site:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/search?q=hacker+news&x=0&...
I left the US because I finally got fed up of the treatment of anyone foreign - I was working at a top US university on an international project, but every time I returned from a conference or field work I had to convince some not finished high school rent-a-cop at immigration that I was allowed back in.
I wasn't allowed on field work in the US because the research plane flying the experiment and equipment I designed had the door to the cockpit open - and as a foreigner I couldn't get airport security clearance to be on such a flight.

The bioscience people left the US long ago for countries where 4000year old mythology didn't dictate what you could work on, the physical scientists are going now.

Still if you get rid of all the immigrants the US will be a world leader in beaded blankets and feather headresses.
What is the rationale for making flash cards at all? (This is a serious question; I've never seen a need for flash cards, in my youth or in my children's youth.)
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I second this recommendation. Hsu makes great stuff with out all the flash that adds to the price.
> clearly not zero sum

Ok, so call it "fixed sum" or whatever else is technically correct - that's the point I'm trying to make. If one guy wins, another guy necessarily loses. That's not true in plenty of other things.

> the more skilled you are the more likely you are to win

Yes, but the second and third guys are quite skilled too, and win nothing (and yes, we are excluding the externalities since we're talking about the general case, not this specific one).
The iPhone excels at anywhere/anytime. But for a session of any appreciable length or complexity, the screen is a limitation.

Laptops are great for sessions of length and complexity, but the ergonomics require a traditional desk and the overhead required isn't justified for many tasks.

A tablet would land between them. Essentially, every place you're still using a legal pad (for meeting/conference notes), dead tree reference (for reading/reference consumption in a comfy chair) or fixed-function device (portable video player) because phones and laptops just aren't the right tool for the job.

If you don't find yourself doing any of that, maybe a tablet just doesn't make sense for you. But that's no different than conventional laptops not really working for me. (Clearly, there are plenty of people for whom they do work)

As for the ergonomics of a tablet - it's not going to be much larger than a kindle. You'd be able to comfortably one-hand it, like a book, legal pad or kindle.
Yeah, once they load once, they should be cached thereafter. I've seen this issue too though. A pause would certainly be good. I'll put that on the list--thanks!
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I'm glad to read that people have actually set up decent, wholesome businesses that fulfil the criteria of cash-flow muses. My reaction when reading the book and even now is just to think 'set up one of those dodgy affiliate sites, ebook sites or drop shipping resellers', none of these being something I ever want to do.

The idea of spending a month making something and then the rest of your time reaping in the profits with low overhead is a great one. Not only does it give you the freedom to work on a startup (or whatever) without worrying about rent, but I'd warrant it gives you a fair bit of credibility too - and a possible exit, even; cf. the recent post about Mingle^2 which took 66.5 hours to build and which got sold to a competitor.

Edit Actually, I kind of have a cash-flow muse of my own. I helped build up a gaming blog to the point where it pays significant money to writers, and am retained as a columnist there, contributing about 1 hour's worth of work every Saturday. Without going into too much of the gritty detail, if I doubled that to 8 hours of work a month, I'd about cover my rent. However, there's a catch; as my startup's become more exciting, I've had no time to play the game I blog about, and have stopped writing. I can imagine this working a wee bit better if I was writing a column a week for TechCrunch or something similarly in line with the 'day-job', though.
The Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) strives to be the world’s best technology business incubator. Our mission: to increase the technology business base in Georgia by helping entrepreneurs launch and build successful high-tech companies. For more than 25 years, ATDC has provided strategic business advice and connected member companies to people and resources they need to succeed.
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I think that for the Kindle to become something more than a high-end toy, Amazon is going to have to drop the price to about $99. Then they would sell millions.
See my comment above. Basically the ATDC is state funded and is here to help Georgia entrepreneurs be successful. We provide services, educational programs and other stuff to help startups.
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I believe they have special visas for investors, entrepreneurs, and the fabulously wealthy. In fact, most developed countries have this visa. A friend of mine, with a couple million $ in the bank, basically got the red carpet treatment when he applied for his visa. He had his lawyer do most of the dirty work but when it was time for the big meeting he told me how hassle-free it was. I reminded him he wasn't waiting in line with the chattel.

Even for immigration, money talks.
Heading out to DC17 this week myself. CTF and aCTF qualifiers are over, but people prepare for this stuff for months.
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=725859
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We've domesticated cows, pigs, sheep, goats, cats, horses, donkeys, chickens, and rabbits in, more or less, that time, creating substantial selective change. Even lab mice are pretty genetically different from wild mice, and that's within the last century or three, at most. So it wouldn't be that surprising if we had also domesticated ourselves.
It's a pretty old article. Asterisk has advanced to 1.6 with a more stable modules split, locking, etc. since the time this article was written. (It's still not very good though - IMHO)

If you really want to build a phone system, check if you need a PBX at all. There's a lot of OS software that handles telephony. There's opensips or yxa if you don't need PBX features, only proxy. From PBXes there are asterisk, freeswitch, yate (some people say that headers from grand central indicate google uses it) and some other less popular ones.

This article is mostly about - asterisk crashes, and fs doesn't ;) Don't go for the popular ones - check which features you need first and then decide.
My guess is that if Apple delivers, the CrunchPad winds up with a better chance at success.

Just as with the iPhone, Apple's going to be selling the concept as heavily as the product itself. If the CrunchPad materializes, it stands to pick up quite a bit of business that is convinced by Apple's larger argument, but put off by the price or some Apple-ish limitation/restriction.

(could be as simple as: Apple's tablet not supporting Flash either.)
i understand that. but that is a very generic answer. what specific services does the ATDC provide? for example, i see in the press release that it mentions coworking space and leasing office space. i don't see that mentioned anywhere else -- no information on where, how much, etc..

i'm curious about these things, i live a block off of technology square.
What are your startup must haves?
The only article by the scientist they mentionned that seems related to this is this one:
Wireless Non-Radiative Energy Transfer
[PDF] http://arxiv.org/ftp/physics/papers/0611/0611063.pdf
Otherwise is work seems to be more related to photonics and nano materials.
It was created in October, 2005.
The american dream?
Personally, I'd love to see these sorts of things set up locally. To say you'll disallow things or implement rules is just silly. Now, if you're on a localized network with no outside lines, all bets can be off and everyone can have a safe, fun time blowing each others machines to bits.
At the other hand, the law makers can say that this is how we intend to make all countries around the world to be as good as United States by giving their brains back. We are spreading Lord's wisdom and grace to everyone on earth by being altruistic.
A person who can easily get a greencard in NYC can't do so in Florida. This makes the law unfair to states with lower cost-of-living ...

chime - why would it be easier to get a GC in NY as opposed to FL? How then is FL at a disadvantage because of the salary rules?
Things kids are forced to do (flashcards) they will hate.

Things kids are allowed to do (watch National Geographic) they will enjoy.

Do you really want your kids to hate nature?
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Name a government that doesn't want a wealthy person among its taxpayers. Investor visas, etc.
I'm curious where you get your statistics on the detailed distribution of historical human lifespans. They have never been, you know, Gaussian. I think it's always been the case that several humans per thousand survive into their 80s.
Except the American economy is aimed at, and thrives on people of a certain "education, skill, and wealth". Those 100k indian and chinese engineers are going to buy German/Japanese cars, watch european films and eat foreign food and possibly even french wine. The 80k poor relatives are going to shop at McDs and Walmart, watch FOX, support the local politician with the largest belt buckle - and generally integrate perfectly into American society.
I was responding to the "schools don't teach the way students learn" quote. That implies this research has vast implications for school-age children, but there is no evidence to suggest this and really no reason at all to even casually believe it's true.
Your subjective experience of it can last quite some time after the physical event is over.
Yeah, I can see how you're spinning it to be a positive thing, but when you hear how these guys are getting frustrated, I don't think this is quite what they want to hear.
From the classic of 1982 ...
A few reasons. First and foremost, I want to offer my children the opportunity to learn as much as possible, up to their interest and abilities. Studies show kids learn best via repetition and pick up language faster the more you talk to them (surprise surprise). Flash cards address both those learning modes by both repeating words and giving you prompts to expound about them, i.e. "a beaver swims in the water." Quite simply, by using them I find I talk to my son more and in a more directed (learning appropriate) way.

Second, as a stay-at-home dad who also works on startups, I am searching for good (educationally-oriented) ways to entertain and occupy my son. I have a two-28"-monitor setup. I found I could put these up on one and still get some casual things done, e.g. reading email, on the other monitor.

Third, I really like big full screen images, and haven't seen any flash cards to date that use them effectively.
There are visas for this.

E-2 non-immigrant visa, for treaty investor visa, renewed every year.

EB-5 permanent resident visa, for investors who invest 1 million and create 10 jobs or invest 500k and create 5 jobs in economical hardship area (I guess such as Detroit?)

No special visa for penniless entrepreneurs though.