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For those already convinced, the argument is indeed pointless. However, viewing newspapers / other monolithic media as being consensus-generating devices for elite opinion, these kinds of articles do shift the consensus forward, albeit slowly. When enough consensus one way or the other is achieved, the law is changed to reflect it.
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Loneliness is definitely a real issue.

The fact that this guy keeps a blog and Eckhart Tolle expects an audience shows the value they place on social contact.
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Paragraph based permalinks go the whole way back to Engelbart: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Numbers
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Why don't you enlighten us then.
Ha! Indeed!

I would absolutely consider doing that if I had time. I'm kinda all-in on my own startup at the moment and I'm doing my level best to not be distracted by contracting.

And oh how right you are about it not being especially fun! You make a good point about the sort of money that I should chase to do the job properly, too.

Thanks.
I noticed that too. Is google supposed to now decide if something is libelous or not?

Suppose the author claims it's not libelous - how is google supposed to decide which way to go?

At least with the DMCA the posting party gets to file a counter claim. Is there such a procedure here?

I'm in the US, so it doesn't affect me, but if I was there I would be OK with a law like: After notification google must contact the other party, if no response after 3 businesss days take it down. Otherwise leave it up and let a judge decide. Of course google now has to figure out how to contact random poeople.
That is a really intriguing problem. It looks like you never got a diagnosis for it, but weren't you worried when it first appeared that it might be a sign of something serious?
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It looks great, but obviously I haven't been able to play with it yet.

Out of interest, is it built on Cappuccino? That'd be very YC-meta!
Disclaimer: I work for Amazon, though I am not related to the Kindle team in any way.

This is nothing new - DRM already allows banning of digital material long before the Kindle came about. Back when iTunes was stilled DRMed Apple could easily have de-authorized all instances of a particular song and done the exact same thing. Having the file is a trivial detail - it's no good if you cannot access the decrypted material.

Personally I have faith. We have, in a few short years, progressed from the draconian DRM of iTunes to the non-DRM stores that both Apple and Amazon run today. We have also progressed from restrictive DRM measures on video games to the decidedly anti-DRM stance of major game publishers today.

We have proven that DRM can be defeated, so I wouldn't scream bloody murder just yet.
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The article is not making any point, for or against drugs. It merely chronicles and analyzes (or at least summarizes a book that does) American drug consumption habits.

Nothing more, really.
Note that there are quite some mistakes in the subtitles, many of them changed the meaning. For example "We mogen niet uit nonchalance fouten in een programma aanbrengen. Dat moeten we systematisch en met zorg doen." (12:00) is translated to "We should not introduce errors through sloppiness, but systematically keep them out." whereas it should be "We should not introduce errors through sloppiness, but do this [the introduction of errors] systematically and with care."
Stunning achievement, and I'm somewhat at a loss to figure out some of the nuances of what they've done, but the chharacters do look a little, well, gormless.

I'm sure it'll get tightened up, and that when they're actively in motion it's better.

Fantastic stuff, though.
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I wonder if this is a general truth, just hiding a bit.

Take, for example, some bad PHP-webprogrammer (or RoR, or whatever). They will wonder what the hell some 'webserver' is and why you need one and what's all that fuss about networks, ports, routing, security and such. (Please don't kill me, I just needed an example for ignorant people in software industries and this one was the first to come to my mind :). In other words, the abstraction of such a Web framework creates a certain ignorance and even missing knowledge about the underlying mechanisms.

And now consider this: A child gets food from the supermarket and does not know about the cow behind this. Looking at this from a bit further away, these two patterns look awefully similar, because here we have an abstraction AGAIN (the supermarket, similar to the web framework), which hides the actual infrastructure (cow, butcher, truck, ...). And again, there are people showing heavy ignorance and even missing knowledge about the underlying infrastructure.

Certainly, I do not know how to butcher a cow or drive a truck either, and I am unable to configure a webserver in a dark room with a blindfold and one hand tied behind my back, but I certainly know that these things happen behind the abstraction.

So, is this a certain indicator of ignorance, if one just uses abstractions and never ever looks behind the abstraction?
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Kind of tired of the argument.

Where in the article did it argue for or against drugs? It is more of a sociolgical reading, discussing patterns of drug use among Americans across generations, rather than an activist paper calling for legalization, or a populist one calling for stricter control. Anthropologists have studied and documented all manners of "unacceptable" human behaviour in primitive/savage societies, including cannibalism, incest, and pedophilia among others, but that doesn't mean they're passing judgment on their subject culture. I think we can extend a similar academic courtesy to the greatest and most savage of all societies :-)
Web Workers look ugly to me :(
Sad that they thought of this as a good idea. It's just a horrible hack that'll lead to horrible code.

Threads are usually misused. When you add threads and it speeds up your code, you're usually doing something terribly wrong (When #threads>#cores).
I was hoping for a more insightful answer than: because people like to get high.
I'm sure the NSA has. I wonder what their results were. I've heard rumors that the Truecrypt authors try pretty hard to prevent meaningful audits (no source for old versions, no discussion of the subject allowed on their site) but I've never considered using it.
Portugal has some pretty good results from their drug policy:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/03/14/portugal/

"Evaluating the policy strictly from an empirical perspective, decriminalization has been an unquestionable success, leading to improvements in virtually every relevant category and enabling Portugal to manage drug-related problems (and drug usage rates) far better than most Western nations that continue to treat adult drug consumption as a criminal offense."
It's kinda like the meaning of life though: "have kids" is a perfectly reasonable explaination for ones "purpose" in life. However it's so boring and straight forward that people continue to seek the "real answer".
I agree with most of what you say, and I certainly agree that most interfaces - this one included - can and should be more transparent than they are. It's a good objective for which we must strive. Expose reasons where they exist, give explanations as a part of the UI, this is all good.

However, and this is where I wish I were more eloquent, and more of a writer than doer, because I'm sure I'm not going to say this as well as I want ...

I can't help but feel that there are cases where the ideals of instant obviousness and total transparency actively prevent the potential for power use. Insisting that everything is self-documenting is, I feel, inherently self-limiting.

I feel sure that in some cases it's right to have a learning curve, and some effort required to be expended. Insisting that everything be instantly obvious to everyone who stumbles across it is, I think, creating the expectation that everything should be like that.

It's a gut reaction. To paraphrase an old, hackneyed and much criticised observation: Everything should be as obvious as possible, but no more.

Perhaps there's a place for the unobvious.
Check out Castro in the 50s: http://www.mv-pa.org/mvcentury/1950s.htm

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Erik Jorgensen, he looks like a guy to spend a beer with, chatting about the latest Soapbox dancing baby videos.

Had anyone even heard of this service?
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Please compare the history of the industrial revolution.
FYI Train2Game is a complete con, £5000 for a 'course' of second-hand (read: plagiarised) materials and freeware tools, as well as offering 'loans' to help finance the course itself. They are notorious for spamming false PR pretending to be contented customers. I have a friend that almost fell for it, to the point where a salesman came round his house to sign him up; scary stuff.

http://forums.digitaltrends.com/showthread.php?s=e0e28e34157...

Glad to hear the decision stayed on the side of common sense re: search snippets and censorship.
I think DRM for literature, news, or other reading material has far more serious implications than that for music, video, etc. The former is a tool to fight against opaque institutions, the latter is just entertainment.
Would the contest have been any easier had one made the (dubious) assumption that the "passphrase" encoded would likely be a valid sentence?

I've not tried any crypto work before but this has really grabbed my interest. It just occurred to me however, that discarding lines of inquiry leading down the "BuGS bugs bUgs BUGs BLAnK BlAnK....." route in favour of something that made more sense grammatically could be a good tactic to save time?.... or it could just increase the overhead in generating the next hash?...
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I asked a similar question some time ago - whether Javascript will become the long sought after unifying language of web development.
I was surprised that the other option seemed more appealing to people - writing interpreters/compiler in Javascript for other languages which can then run in the browser.

For example see Flapjax (http://www.flapjax-lang.org)
Yes, as they say:

""Some percentage of the jobs actually performing infrastructure services, monitoring, and datacenter operations in-house will shift to cloud service providers like Google, Amazon, and the telcos..."

But for start-up entrepreneurs, this can be the good news: that the creative work of assessing a consumer/business niche of need can move more quickly to the creative work of filling that niche need in better ways.

The cloud can really be the friend of our enterprising spirits.
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You don't have to take the word of Techcrunch. I've been reading it regularly for a while now and like its stories and links enough that it has reduced my reliance of several feeds:

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Not necessarily. E.g. arbitrage is really risk-free.
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The firehose is pretty revolutionary really. Being able to get every public feed in one feed is pretty easy compared to having to index the whole web like Google do with blogs and news.

I can see one of the reasons they shut it down is that bandwidth cost is going to be very high. I expect if they could charge for it they could open it up - but I expect many of the companies who would like it don't have business models or can't afford it.
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For the silverlight-impaired, Light-Bot is a similar game and works in Flash

http://armorgames.com/play/2205/light-bot

edit: Ah, I didn't notice there was a javascript version too. Oh well.
For anyone interested in this area, I would wholeheartedly recommend "Predictibly Irrational" by Dan Arily. It is full of anecdotes and interesting insignts on human (ir)rationality
From my personal point of view, while certainly creativity has nothing to do with intelligence, it does however -- as with anything -- come down to an essential fondness of the act itself; something which I believe is very much innate.

Anyone can be creative. It's not an exclusive trait, and you can learn to play upon it and master it to some degree. For most people though, the creative act doesn't do it for them as it does for the creative person. And you can't learn to love something.

I consider myself a somewhat creative person. When I play the guitar for instance, making melodies and compositions is perhaps more a compulsive need than anything else. (I hope this doesn't come off as self glorification; but it's not all a good behavior either.) I've also had ambitions with art projects and forced myself to work, and conclusively shown myself that results never get as good as when you act spontaneously out of the joy and pleasure of creating, whatever big and strong visions.
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Maybe less is sometimes more. Facebook serving 1B/month while Youtube serves 1.2B/day.

But, last I heard, Google is yet to make money off Youtube. Facebook may be finding that video can be an value-adding supplement to its business, not just a bandwidth-sucking enticement to the lowest-common-denominator of the masses. [ "not that there's anything wrong with the latter" - it just doesn't seem to make for a profit center, even for Google.]
Unless you found the exact sequence, the difference between hashes won't tell you how close you are.
Are you sure "computer software pricing isn't driven into the ground"?

Seems to me a lot of software aimed at standard PC's is free or ad supported. More so if you consider web apps or online Flash games.
Of course there's no evidence/data cited that it is yet a profitable profit center for Facebook.
Could you please give a little bit more info on how do you do this (and links to Ruby/JS compilers)?
looks like a ripoff of Light-bot game http://armorgames.com/play/2205/light-bot

funny that they copy a game and make it more boring then the original, in light bot you get to program robots in 2.5D and not arrows.

light-bot is better
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However, some of us entrepreneur-wannabees still rely on "hands-on technical work" while working nights to plan a start-up. This may call for extra resourcefulness for future start-uppers.
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Well Chrome is quite new and Safari uptake has increased with Mac marketshare, so having these two with some respectable share is a new, and I think positive, thing. People need to develop for "the web" not for a particular browser.
Yes, but not leads to the best discussions on HN - even the business-related ones.

But, I agree, it may be a nice supplement to my several-times-a-day visiting to HN.
It's all new to me, a friend who graduated with a psychology degree quite a few years back pointed me to cognitive dissonance after I discussed my other post (Can Awareness of our Biases Clear our vision). After we talked, I decided it was definitely worth sharing.

After all is said and done, it's simply a model for behavior no more and no less. Thanks for pointing out attribution theory I'll give it a cursory read. It's liberating not being an professional in the field of behaviorial psychology, I haven't over indulged in preferred theories or been biases towards "current thinking".
Though it can take a long time to get through, as it only uses spare capacity.
I see all types of applications (software, IT, startups!) for some basic familiarity with social/behavioral psychology.
reminds me of the system that Prof. Stephen Hawking uses. Also it seems there would be some benefit of acceleration at the word and phrase level by using a system like the awesome bar. You want to analyse the persons own output and prioritise phrases based on that. You could also have a top phrase list - "where's my drink" "i need the toilet", etc. could be highly optimised that way.
There are a few ideas that at least won't hurt, but the possibility exists that the working conditions of Chinese factory workers is not within your sphere of influence.

The obvious way to achieve minimum working conditions is legislation. Many believe this would be counter productive. I'm not certain.

In any case, refusing to purchase from them and 'buying local' instead denies those workers that job. Doing this does not improve their situation.
I'm happy for the founders (not sure about the VCs...couldn't have made much if $6.5M raised) but for the life of me don't understand why it's worth $20M. I was an early user of Xoopit (for Gmail) and uninstalled it after a week. Using search was faster and easier.

Edit: at least for Gmail, Labs can easily add Xoopit's functionality.
I've got a good one - but it takes real balls, and requires a bar (also chances are high of it going wrong - so probably best to build up to it for a few more weeks, I'll post it so you have it in mind anyway)

You should do this anyway - it is a huge confidence booster (if it works of course).

Pick a cute girl - she has to be on her own, preferrably standing (if you are "above" her when you do this it's a bit overbearing). As soon as you spot her (leaving it 10 mins will just look creepy :)) walk up to her and say "hi, hows it going" (her: "hi, err fine"), "what are you doing later?" (her, probably: "not much"), "Do you want to come home with me?".

Say it seriously (but not creepy serious) and lightly (dont laugh or smirk) as if you were asking about the weather. And then just wait (if she says "what?" just smile, it's crucial not to add anything else). Chances are she will say no (getting a slap is very unlikely). Whatever she says just carry on the conversation as if nothing ever happened ("cool, im justin. who are you?" offer hand to shake, "sweet - when did you get here?" etc etc.). She might just walk off. If that happens just ignore her - chances are she will come back.

To "win" the challenge you have to buy her a drink (if you got up the balls to ask her this wont be even an issue).(warning buying the drink will more than likely put her off a bit).

(and, yes, I've done this - it's great if your feeling like a confidence boost! It works as a boost because there is no way they can say yes - so even a no is a result. Just asking the question is worth a million :))
Hi gcv, I would try the Seaside one click experience on this page:

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A picture of the UI here (300K):

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To get a feel, you could look at:
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and
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Good luck, ...Stan

edit - It's on Pharo, which is essentially a version of Squeak completely cleaned up.

All free under MIT licence
Knuth would disagree.

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Because version 1 should be feature-complete and perfect like a Mozart composition.

And that's very hard to achieve and market/sell.

+ He doesn't take into account the technical advantages that make new features plausible (Live Preview in Office 2007 comes to mind).

His views are a bit extreme, but still we can learn from him. Although we are not programming for non-existent machines, I've found(the hard way) that thinking hard about a problem can save countless man-hours in development(of unnecessary features), debugging(an overly-complex implementation) and maintenance(of inflexible designs, that result from diving straight in problem-area you don't understand).

I enjoyed the video because I haven't seen him before, but it's far from the dense talks I'm used to.

May be I should read his Turing award lecture.
Some deep algorithms may require more comments about their inner workings.
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