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What kind of quotes were you looking for ?

"Yes, we did that ?"

I hope the wsj is good enough for you:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124949598103308449.html

(google cache entry of the same link because of silly restrictions):
http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:KQdnCYpa9HgJ:online.wsj....
To clarify what I meant: Facebook is about communication with known people, and Twitter is about broadcasting. This difference is why celebrities, news orgs, political parties, bloggers, etc, use Twitter and not Facebook status updates.
Unfortunately the problem is that "unimportant" facts and skills are all over the place, and are not limited to subjects outside your interest. I'd bet you might even learn useless things in classes on subjects you are interested in. Combine that with the apathy for teaching and increased focus on testing well for federal funding (in the US), and it's all useless.

(On a less cynical day, I'd say that eventually taking all these "useless" classes in HS might come in handy some day, you never know. I realized what I had gotten out of it the moment I left. I had an art history and ceramics class that's prompted me to look for a pottery studio near my home to continue on because I love making cups. The scant amount of chemistry I've learned bored me in HS (and I thought it was useless...) but it gave me a foundation in college to take so many chem classes I'm considering a double major in chem and CS. My last HS phys ed teacher over the course of a year never let me give up no matter how badly I was doing - something I've never had happen at the gyms I've been to with all the trainers I've seen. His voice is the voice I hear internally encouraging me to keep on running/swimming/working out or to even get my ass out of my chair after sitting in it all day. All these little things I thought were stupid ended up making a fairly large impact on my life. I wonder if I'm the exception to the rule.

I might also note I actually ended up dropping out of HS after my sophomore year because I thought going to college early would help me more with my interest in "computers" since I still had to take some number of "irrelevant" classes but I could focus more on my interests. I don't regret that, and occasionally I wish I had left earlier on, but I can't deny that what little I did do in HS has impacted me.)
filmed our friend for his proposal to his girl friend and merged in a Hollywood movie. The interesting part is making him - who does not know any English - read English. He could not manage to read and look into the camera at the same time so I cut a hole in the paper and put the paper around the camera. :)
Behind my main machine thunderbird, outside Horde.

Interface 'dynamic' is quite amazing.
Why didn't they populate it with data from stackoverflow for css issues?
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I second this. People seem to come with a built-in affinity for probing just how amazing they are. Depending on your agenda, all you really have to do is help them explore that space.
Or Dodgeba..oh wait, no, never mind. (What was the point of that again?)
In related news, YouTube thinks that I speak Mandarin. With the traditional character set. I've tried to get this changed, but to no avail. I uploaded a video today, and I got an automatic email with this subject:

恭喜您上傳了第一部 YouTube 影片！

Babelfish tells me that it means "Congratulated you to upload the first YouTube movie!" which I suppose is straightforward enough, but I would have preferred to hear it in a language that doesn't baffle me quite as much.
Agreed, why do many americans think other countries all have the exact same issues?
just wondering about the parallels...

there was a time when people thought that left-handed people could be taught to use the "right" hand too...

not saying it can't be done, but... you can probably predict my thoughts.
I think even for an in-shape cyclist, having a van to carry your stuff would be nice. I've ridden with a loaded down bike before, and it's kind of depressing: your formerly light, agile Ferrari gets turned into something with the handling characteristics of a dump truck.
that got a vote out of jealousy
You said it. I use open source software because my time is valuable. I've spent much, much more time wrestling with Windows than I have with Linux.
That rings true with me. I've done some cool hacks here and there, but marrying an intelligent, beautiful woman, and having a wonderful daughter are pretty high up on the list for someone who wasn't always terribly well adapted, socially.

In terms of hacks, the thing I like the most is Hecl: http://www.hecl.org
What if I keep a thoroughly smashed memory stick in my drawer (just in case) and testify that:

1. My disk is encrypted with a key stored on the stick.

2. I smashed the stick a week ago (felt paranoid, whatever).

A sort of poor man's deniable encryption.
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Hacked the Google VPN client that was released a few years ago to work with non google pptp networks. Did that within a couple days of it being released. Not the most impressive but it was fun.
I can't wait for the first array that will sound like the mario tune when sorted. Kudos to the creater if a different algorithm will create another song
"you can afford to license"

And Open Source can't? Sure, Free (as in beer) OSS cannot, but there is such a thing as commercial OSS. I, personally, am toying with ideas of basing a startup around OSS (that is, a product business where the product is GPL's). Not sure how well it would work, but I think it could. It certainly works as a service business (support, consulting, etc), so even if a startup fails, the business does not have to be unprofitable.
You prove him right: by assuming underage people aren't sentient enough, ethics prevent us to check. Not necessarily bad, but definitely restrictive, and not good science™.
"India has a legal and thriving generic drug market that was built up initially via a ban on pharma patents in India (which, as an aside, shows again that a ban on patents can actually help create a thriving industry)."

Personally I would be looking for evidence of a thriving industry in novel therapeutics, rather than generics, before considering everything hunky dory after a ban.
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From the Stackoverflow blog http://blog.stackoverflow.com, this is an official sister site of Stackoverflow.

Will this mean that HTML/CSS questions will be migrated from Stackoverflow?
In the article it says: "XML essentially is a programming language..." Well, it's a markup language used for content presentation in a compact form (not so compact as in s-expressions, though), so it's not a programming language. XSLT is.
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"This is why I find comments disparaging those who complain about the App Store to be remarkably silly and short-sighted."

Quite a few of the disparaging comments are made solely to create publicity. The Ninjawords application was censored when it was first published, but that was due to a policy that has already been changed with the introduction of OS 3.0. A while ago a Commodore 64 emulator was rejected, along with a notice that the app would be approved after some minor changes. Of course, this wasn't mentioned when the developers wrote about it in their blog.
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I bought one. Turned out it looks better on my s.o., so it's hers now.
Note: this only applies to files with custom xml, not all doc files. So Microsoft could remove that capability and keep selling word.

BTW I have to say this injunction is stunningly stupid. Usually you make an injunction if there is harm that must be stopped now. But with this, it's just monetary damages - let it go to trial - what's the rush?

But with the 60 day stay, perhaps it's a "fake" injunction, intended to be canceled.
Maps are tricky. Currently, Google Maps seems to be showing town names in Sudtirol (the German-speaking bit of Italy that was part of Austria until after the 1st world war) exclusively in Italian, and the street names in both languages. Everything there is officially bilingual, and pretty much everything has to be in both languages.

Wait... even weirder, I switched to the terrain view, and it added the German town names (map view doesn't have them). Beautiful area, in any case:

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=46.919552,11.492043&#...
I too am not a huge fan of current implementation of OpenID. However, if you have a throwaway account on Yahoo or Google, it is trivially easy to signup on Stackoverflow.
Sounds like there would be a lot of companies with 99 patents that all agreed not to sue each other.

Might as well just kill off software patents all together and save everyone the trouble.
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"Nor would getting a job at 14 preclude a career in physics."
It does, provided there is an age limit to go to physics. Like, you need a PhD, which can't be attended to if you are past 30 or something. These limits are artificial, but they are, anyway.

There must be ways around the PhD, but I bet they are a lot harder.
Does GPL still matter?
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A couple HN'ers have expressed some interest <a href='http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=752262'>here</a> about meeting up this week in Berlin for a beer or coffee. Im trying to get the ball moving again to see if theres still interest.

Anyone else thinking about meeting up this week (12.8,13.8,14.8 or 15.8) around say Kreuzberg / Neukolln ?
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Good advice. But the author, a self-identified introvert, comes across as someone who's genuinely interested in other people. Some people, introvert or extrovert, are just not that interested in others. This isn't a bad thing - self-focused people accomplish much in the world. I see empathy as orthogonal to extraversion, and it's not something you can fake (unless you're a psychopath!).
I wonder if the upcoming Patent Reform bill has any chance of improving the situation. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10210824-38.html
Sure, that's what it would lead to eventually, but I'm quite sure that right now the 'big' companies are using patents the way they use (armies of) lawyers, simply to raise the bar to competition.

They can afford it, those who can't have very little choice but to give up.

Patents are weapons in the corporate arena, not something that has a net positive effect.

I'm sure that if it became apparent that there would be lots of companies with 99 patents that would agree not to sue each other we can make it more interesting by lowering the limit to 50 or by using that as proof that the patent systems main function is to be used in anti-competitive ways rather than to foster creativity.

It's a totally naive solution, but something really has to be done about this.

See elsewhere on the thread about how the EU patent system set up to stop counterfeit materials is now used to stop generic drugs in transit.

I've just about had enough of these tactics.

Big companies have a way of getting what they want, if we can make them want to get rid of the patent system then they'll use their lobbying power to make it happen.
"...OR HOWEVER U SPELL THE IDIOTS NAME"

Maybe Facebook Video is next; they already have the Youtubesque comments.
Just balance the budget first.
That, and who but their rivals would use it? It's highly tuned to their uses and well-maintained in-house, so there's no percentage to opening it.
Ask HN: What Data would you like to see integrated into a web analytics tool?
I am currently working out what kind of public data could be imported into an analytics tool to make it more informative. For example, I have noticed that the revenue of a site usually drops if it's really hot outside, so I figured offering weatherdata would be helpful as a possible explanation for drops in traffic and revenue. Do you have any other ideas or wishes for data you'd like to see beside your website-data?

Thanks for all answers.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=757504
You're right that it's tougher out here to generate the sort of hype that you get for free if you're in the Valley. For Twiddla, we actually left one of the founders behind just so he could do the Schmooze part.

But really, everything you mention is only relevant to a certain kind of of company. If you're not a Social-Media-Music-Sharing site that runs on the back of Twitter and needs to Get Big Fast, and you instead sell things to people who pay you money, then your list of things becomes much less important.

It's pretty good out here. You should come give it a try!
Google culture doesn't open-source things because it believes in software freedom for moral reasons. It open-sources them when that provides it a business advantage.
Generics are a way of showing that the price of something is not related to its actual cost.

Big Pharma uses their 'research costs money' argument to counter this, but they forget - conveniently - to mention that they spend a very large multiple of their expenses on research for the marketing department.

They abuse the patent system left, right and center in order to extend the income from so called 'blockbuster' drugs at the expense of doing something innovative for a smaller group of people.

Generics wouldn't stand a chance if it weren't for the price gouging going on.
My experience confirms your point. (If I understood your point correctly...)

I remember when I was a student, going to parties with my homies, some of them genetically blessed indeed. Even though these guys were very attractive, it was still hard to get girls to feel comfortable around them. I conjecture that went on inside these girls' minds was:

"yeah, these guys are quite handsome, but if the market is efficient, then they should have girlfriends or flings accompanying them, and since they are in a group of guys, there must be something wrong with them."

I adopted a different strategy. I started going to these parties accompanied by my best friend only, and a bunch of stunning eastern european exchange students I knew at the time. Oh boy, all of a sudden, it was so easy to get engaging conversations going with members of the opposite sex :-))) [insert evil smile here] I guess what the girls were thinking was:

- couple of guys and 5 gorgeous foreign girls

- the girls seem to be accompanying them on a voluntary basis, so there must be something interesting about those two guys

- if girls of that caliber hang out with them, then they're probably not assholes.

Enough of theories. It worked wonders. "Using" attractive out-of-my-league female friends as "social validation" to flirt girls who were more in my league at parties was one of the coolest things I ever did in my life. Call it a "social hack" if you will.
No, my argument is that your purist notion of private property doesn't match reality and isn't a good idea anyway.

You're right that no one would buy prime commercial real estate and do nothing with it. That's because prime commercial real estate is expensive. But the prime real estate of the web wasn't expensive. In fact, all of it sold for just a few bucks back in the 1990s.

Imagine that there was a time when the prime commercial real estate of today was cheap and squattable in perpetuity. Imagine that a handful of people back in the 1600s "claimed" the majority of land in the US simply by having seen it (or, even more aptly in this comparison, by having thought of it). Imagine that all this land is their "property", regardless of whether they live on it, work on it, improve it, or even care about it. Under such a system, the descendants of these handful of people would today be collecting rent from everyone in the country, whether on prime commercial real estate or otherwise. Rather than a nation of rugged individuals (think Homestead Act), it'd be a nation of landed gentry (think British aristocracy).

When it comes absentee landlords, the notion of "property" is rather flimsy. What right does an absentee landlord have to an abandoned property? The only thing that maintains an absentee landlord as the "owner" of a property is the government's willingness to use force against anyone who claims otherwise.
It is an interesting development in the Web 2.0 era. Now the tech companies are the source for brewing up social and political debates and controversies: (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/india/Google-shows-p...)

Recently Google Earth stepped up the coverage of darfur genocide. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/06/google-steps-up-its-dar...

Now with these two diagonally opposite cases, it is to be seen how an increasingly popular and influential tech giant treads the fine line between fact and diplomacy, setting examples for others in the process.
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This is what I was thinking of (I misspoke, it's a presentation, rather than a paper), but I recall seeing more than just an abstract somewhere. Perhaps I was reading commentary:

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3186

From what you've said, it sounds like your code (and perhaps team?) are better than average. You say yourself, you haven't had an actual crash since you can remember. If you were having crashes, then my money would be on them being caused by one of: null references (which generally just falls into the category of "not checking return values") and not accounting for edge cases. But you don't have crashes, so all of this is a little bit speculative, isn't it?
That's a really interesting idea!

In terms of weather data how do you collate all the information: because your users could be from all over the world with all sorts of weather variations.

The only general downside I see is that some of the factors will be very website specific. Stuff like local riots, for example, might be a reason for more international hits on your local news site (that's a poor example I know because you'd imagine the site owner would figure that - but you see what I mean)
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I would love to suggest a good business model, but I am afraid I will have to tell you that even twitter is not able to monetize its huge traffic.

Forget monetization for now. Try to get acquired by somebody who think they can make use of your traffic.
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Flight of the concHords is great stuff, check out 'jenny' and 'business time' too if you have a minute or ten... and 'the humans are dead'
If you don't see:

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and
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And smile and chuckle a bit, you need to stop what you are doing immediately, and go read/watch/learn the SICP stuff from MIT - if for no other reason then to learn some of history.
The article didn't explain: what exactly is the problem?

They say it's got something to do with how Word reads XML, so what's wrong there?

Any ideas?
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That's a very cool idea, but the video would be much more compelling if they showed the range of tones that come from the different insets.
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What do you mean "we've become"? Can you point to a time in human history where everyone thought they did not deserve a piece of someone else's stuff?
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Sure, we all know that, but the trick is what to write for an audience that may have close to no knowledge of how computers work.
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It appears from Wikipedia that the border is disputed. If so, it looks like the Indian position is that Google is taking sides, but Google might just have been attempting to stay neutral.
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Interesting link in one of the comments. OT but relevant to the business practices of Big Pharma:
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"It appears from Wikipedia that the border is disputed."

It is. Map makers are in a hard place. There are parts of Kashmir that are in Pakistan but Indian maps show them as part of India. Which never made sense to me. The indian government goes after anyone whose maps show it differently.
(fwiw I am Indian)
Not to mention drag-and-drop support, which is why I don't use a webmail client as my main vehicle for email (which allows some nice workflow together with Exposé)

I'm also used to the excellent inline PDF viewing, quicklook for attached foto's and documents and the data detectors for addresses and phone numbers.
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Correction, linked-in had 45 million sign ups, the title suggests they are all using the service but that is simply not true. The article qualifies it a bit.

Figures like this should be accompanied by either the crunch rate or the number of active users.

It's a nice milestone to reach for them but there is a lot of air in that statement.