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The death of the daily newspaper doesn't have to mean the death of the printed newspaper. I quit the subscription to all my daily newspapers a while back, not because I thought they where bad, but because I simply didn't have time to read them every day and all that I really got out of it was huge piles of paper I had to carry to the recycling bin every week. I do however still subscribe to several weekly and monthly magazines and regularly buy the weekend edition of my favourite newspapers since on the weekend I have time to read. For day to day news I use the newspaper web sites, but when I have time to read long well researched articles I want to do it on paper and sitting in my favourite chair.

So that is the direction I think the newspapers should be taking. Stop trying to put out a paper every day, settle for one to three times a week. Keep your website updated with day to day happenings and time sensitive news and use your print media to write longer, more researched articles.
I've seen Louis C.K. live 3 times. HIGHLY recommended. He's just got it down. He could read a phone book and have the audience rolling in the aisles at this point.

He regularly updates his website & blog with show dates: http://louisck.net/
Isn't this just a parent-targeted rip-off of Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_Bad_Is_Good_for_You
This is the gist of his argument and it's not at all supported:

"But no. 37s is a brand. They sell basecamp and books. Their sales go down when less people prescribe to the "getting real" ideology. And out the window goes intellectual honesty."

Rewrite the article so this is the premise and the rest the supporting arguments. Otherwise it's just a premise sandwiched between irrelevant anecdotes.
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That's why I cut off everybody with less than 10 comments.

You need a sample of some size in order to make a statistically meaningful statement.
People've been saying that for going on 2 decades. There has yet to be an educational game that is truly compelling or a regular game that has significant educational value.

Actually, I guess there is Typing of the Dead...
I was in London a few month ago and had to pay something like £4 to take the tube 3 stops. So either prices have dropped, I got screwed or your numbers are off.
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Weight lifting 3x a week for a little over an hour each time. Going to the gym can be daunting if you have never done it and/or don't have a buddy. "I don't know how to use the equipment", etc. I read Starting Strength and afterwards felt confident enough to get in there and try it out.

Strong Lifts follows the same philosophy as SS, but has modified the workout some. The stronglifts site does cover nutrition (calorie/protein intake) to some extent, which SS does not.

I would do some research on your own first before starting a routine. There is a lot of controversy as well as misinformation about the topic.

http://stronglifts.com/stronglifts-5x5-beginner-strength-tra...
http://www.amazon.com/Starting-Strength-2nd-Mark-Rippetoe/dp...
That was my first thought, too.

('course he probably was 16 years old when he was obese or something)
It is on Columbus day.
They're dead. They might as well rename the site to 'unfundable', anybody that puts their money in the hands of a bunch of trustees that present themselves as hysterical infighting hissies has only themselves to blame.

Pay out, shut down. Those are the two things left in the history of 'fundable'.
Tokyo & Singapore both have excellent public transport networks (at least until around 11:30pm)
Talking about the "collection" part of the game and how addictive it is, Mattel has some augmented reality cards up it's sleeves:

http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/10/02/avatar-augmented-realit...

I personally would love to see more than just a simple animation. Think strategic missions, a decision engine etc.

On the other hand, this might also take away a lot of imagination and storytelling aspect of these toys. All you needed for D&D was a good Dungeon Master and a couple of dices. :)
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I've never used them, but http://www.pad2pad.com/ always seemed like an interesting website. Download their application, design the board, and place an order.
You got screwed. The cash single fare is about double the incremental fare using an 'oyster' card.
Great thread, almost like a mini detective story but involving code!
Where I'm working at the moment we use Zabbix to monitor system availability and collect performance and trend data for 184 servers [that generate 8701 monitored items of data].
The Zabbix folk do all their development on Ubuntu and it's their preferred platform; but it works just as well on Redhat, CentOS, etc and has client agents for a wide variety of platforms.
you think John let the site go back up?
>> Drink as much water as you can: helps flush the body, a hydrated body is a happy body

> I heard of this too, but I wonder: isn't there such thing as drinking too much?

yep: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication
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The distress and chaos caused by bank failures has been a feature of the economy for centuries. The ongoing turmoil in the financial world, however, has seen a depressing surge in bank collapses around the globe (it's a a weekly occurrence in the States).
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What I think isn't really relevant, that's just speculation and I hate to speculate.

Maybe they kissed and made up, maybe they want to sell the site to some sucker that might think it has value after all this, I haven't a clue.

Mail him and ask ?
As a developer I think I'm quick to shoot down ideas faster than most. Usually, we enjoy pragmatic thinking and GTD attitude towards problems. I didn't really think about ideas (not problem ideas, ideas ideas) until a met an artist on a train. We were talking and she asked me what I thought about a project she had envisioned. Naturally, I pointed out all the technical and financial pitfalls of her idea. This seemed to shut her down.

My wife, instead, asked me what it would take to do it and, quite naturally, I was able to list all the equipment and technical skills needed for such a project. It wasn't until I finished that I realized that the project was reasonable and doable.

It's very easy to dismiss ideas, even good ones. Dumb ideas can be as good as brilliant ones if executed right
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I wasn't commenting on Bill Clinton's human rights record.

I simply mentioned him to show that this book is endorsed by the establishment as being reliable, which I thought was important because alternet is a leftist site with a specific political bias.
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yes I'm guessing this is the cause. I used to slump a lot and was around 6 2" when measured. I spent a few months working on my posture and now I am 5 4" / 6 5"
not harmful but a lot of people have a ver yvery slight lactose intolerance that means you can "feel" better if you stop drinking milk. If I drink really milky tea or coffee I usually feel pretty queasy for the rest of the day (for example)
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Do you really think a whole generation of newsfolks that've grown up completely immersed in the frenetically paced digital world /won't/ figure out a way to carve a profitable niche from it all?

There already is such a model. If you look at Reuters for example, you can read the news delayed by 20 minutes at reuters.com for free, or you can pay and have it delivered in real-time to your Reuters terminal.

And now a story: Reuters in London had a big Jumbotron screen outside their headquarters. A crowd gathered there to hear whether London had gotten the 2012 Olympics. The people in the surrounding buildings were all traders and got the news and spread it to the crowd long before the Jumbotron updated. That was rather embarassing and a quick hack was done to allow marketing folks to override the delay if necessary...
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- Is there a too-minimal viable product? -> yes there must be a "stone" in your "stone soup."

- Hunches are still important because A/B testing won't elicit the customer's base problem.

- Look for high frequency correlating probable causes of high-value, low-frequency sales and optimize for them.

- A few words on handing control to a CEO.
the page has simply moved, that's why the dupe detector didn't catch it:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=736578
What about no Windows CE? You wouldn't be able to use many ATMs
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The most important one is the last one: anything custom-made is far more expensive than something that's mass produced. Would you go into a tailor and expect them to make you a suit at the same price as you'd pay for a pre-made suit in a store?
Yeah, I went the other route and bought a Mac mini, also for iPhone development. The Apple user conversion plan works great:

iPod -> iPhone -> Mac mini or Macbook
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It's effectively group chat. I believe 37 signals themselves use it. Scales well to most situations, where you have groups of under 20 people working on any one project at a time.
I have been following stronglifts for about 6 months (sticking to simple free weight exercises and short reps).

My friend, who has been working out for much longer, has been doing the usual mix of machines and an overly creative mix of free weight exercises (the type personal trainers love to show off).

Being about the same body type, I've progressed much faster then he has. I've also found it easier to stick with it because I have a well researched workout plan that is dead simple.

There's a starting strength dvd set that's much more accessible then the book which I highly recommend when you starting lifting the heavier weights where proper form is really important. I learned the hard way after having lower back and shoulder pain, which is gone now that I know how to lift properly and started doing dynamic stretches.
> If you set your Drupal installation up to faciliate it (using symlinks) minor updates take ~5 minutes.

If it works. I've seen several cases where such a minor update broke the system in non-obvious ways.

> It's the major version updates where APIs change that are tough and it's no different for any other project with an ecosystem as large as Drupal's.

That's a real problem and I think it is seriously limiting.

Over the years I've upgraded quite a few pieces of software with at least as large an ecosystem (Apache, linux, python, PHP to name a few) and I've never had things break as spectacularly as with drupal. There really is no excuse for this, it is causing a lot of grief and a very negative experience for drupal users.

Instead of chasing the features I really think drupal should start to take backwards compatibility and API design a lot more serious than they've done to date.

There seems to be some movement in that direction, but they haven't made it the central point of their offering yet.

Until they do I'll be advising people against using drupal, because effectively I'd be telling them that within two years they can throw their site away.

To make an architectural analogy, the foundation you build on should be at least as long lived as your house. Otherwise you have a very serious problem.
While I think Jason Fried's post on the Mint exit was atypically ignorant, quite frankly — I don't think they wrote it believing that it would make everybody dislike the idea of a $170M exit. I think he was just expressing his opinion, like the rest of us. As ignorant as it was, it was still just an opinion, it wasn't scheming. There weren't ulterior motives.
I am looking for ways to do this kind of prototyping in small volumes 2, 3 or 5 cm3 and I might need to use flexibel PCB how much harder would this be?
The majority of the drupal sites out there are stuck on 5.x and can't upgrade because of the lack of a simple upgrade path.

Upgrading should not be an order of magnitude more work than installing and building the site in the first place.
Seoul and Hong Kong are pretty damned impressive to a USAian, too.
Yep, you got screwed. Next time pay the £3 for an Oyster card, and save a TON of money. Whether you pay trip-by-trip or a travelcard for a day/week/etc, Oyster is WAY less expensive.
I don't think it was ignorant at all. He used the wrong foundation (and admitted so in the first line of his post) to make a very valid point.

In case you mised it:

Somebody someday has to have the balls to stand up to the status quo and sit it out all the way to the end instead of cashing out at some point.

The problem with that is that:

- cashing out is very very lucrative

- you yourself will become part of the status quo if you
don't sell out at some point

- vcs really are looking at the 'exit', it's just that
they prefer a 'late successful' exit over an 'early'
exit (because once you are a winner you might as well
win big, the chances of scoring a winner being as low
as they are).

- sticking it out for the long run isn't 'sexy'

So there are a lot of factors driving the CEOs of young and successful companies to sell out to a larger fish at some point.

Only very few companies are immune to that, I think right now Google and Microsoft are the few companies that are not going to be sold in the foreseeable future, they're here to stay. And Microsoft is as much a part of the establishment as you can be at this stage. Maybe facebook too, but I think they might just be hooking for a tremendous exit at some point.

Almost everybody else is up for grabs if the price is right.

We need many more googles, companies that are in it for the long haul.

And barring that, if you do cash out do it like Elon Musk did, and plow your newfound fortune in to something absolutely amazing instead of lounging around and throwing parties and buying baseball teams, and writing long blog posts about how everybody is doing everything wrong.
I dunno if you can make the argument that, in the Seattle area, most of your neighbors won't be involved in tech. Microsoft, Amazon, Nintendo, multiple Google centers--hell, Ed Fries lives across the street from some of my old friends back there.

There's many reasons to choose Seattle, but non-tech neighbor probability isn't a good one.
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Jason Fried may be prone to harsh and honest writing but this isn't even in the same category. Honestly, take another look at 'The next generation bends over'[1]. Here's a quote:

> A big payday for sure, and if that was their two-year goal then they nailed it, but I can’t believe that was the point behind Mint. It had too much potential.

Ok, interesting. What does David have to say about that?

Actually, I wont post any quote from this article here because it's point is diluted by rambling, poor grammer and unnecessary profanity. Now, I'm usually the last person you'll see up in arms about swearing, afterall they're just fucking words. But it turns out words are best used to help get your point across not just for filling space (a lot of space, in this case).

Jason's article was short, succint, made a point and was pretty clear about where he was coming from. You might not agree with it, and I might not agree with it... that's fine. But we can read it and discuss, there's no reason to fly off the handle and swear at the guy.

Seriously, why so offended? Jason didn't say that Mint's sale was forced by the VC's, he was merely using his guess that it was to make a point about the current generation of startups... Namely the trend of aiming directly for the sellout instead of 'greatness'.

His post wasn't even about Mint, the news and his opinion of it just prompted it.

On the other hand this article is just plain vulgar, rude and doesn't add anything useful to the conversation.

[1] http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1927-the-next-generation-bends-over
I don't know - I remember trying to go by there about a year ago and it was dead. I suspected then that it was due to Amazon. Bookpool used to be the cheapest but sometime around 2005 Amazon became even cheaper.
our system is anti-Hebbian

From what I can tell from the description, thats not quite right. Its Hebbian between groups but anti-Hebbian within a group. Am I reading this correctly?
Actually, there are such stupid arguments in biology, namely nature versus nurture. Of course, most biologists are over that now, but the public certainly isn't.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/0808.3996
Out of interest, do you take any steps to ensure your viewpoint isn't biased by the comments before reading a linked piece?
Why is it worthwhile if the microsoft one is good? I've never had any problems with microsoft keyboards or mouses myself, and he clearly says that he thinks they're "very nice".
I think that if you post a blog and someone comments on it 'elsewhere' that their comments are fair game for citing, with attribution (which is how I would do it).
The article is light on details, but I suspect that his model is predicting the cortical minicolumns. Minicolumns are small, comprising around 100 neurons, but are mostly self-contained, self-regulating units, and are very consistent across all mammals.
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I've noticed it's pretty much been the standard the past week or so. 5 minute 'apt-get' tutorials have been ranging between 10-20 as well.
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what did you get for hardware protection? Do you have your own data center?
Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
Does anyone know whether there already exist some publicly available libraries / classifiers, which can be used to determine the sentiment (positive, negative, neutral) of a text passed to them? The task is not exactly simple, but it would be a great tool for all kind of web services.
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Here is an interesting interview on the topic: http://social.textanalyticsnews.com/news/%E2%80%9C-challenge...

And this is a presentation on the topic:
http://www.cs.uic.edu/~liub/FBS/liub-sentiment-analysis.ppt
At a high level the thing that bugs me about this entire thread of conversation is that in my mind, there are really only a few areas of things worth working on:

1. Alleviating human suffering.

2. Scientific exploration and discovery.

3. Building tools or technology that enhances others' abilities to do 1. or 2.

Notice that "bug tracking system", "personal finance management", and "company collaboration software" are not on the list. (And no, I don't want to hear about a stretched analogy about how they actually are alleviating human suffering. Please.) Also notice "social networking" is mysteriously absent as well. (Edit: To be fair, Twitter has had a few days where I really think it is making a positive difference in the world. Crapplications on Facebook, not so much.)

The only excuse to not be working on one of these things is if you are working towards building some capital in order to do so. Flipping a startup is a great way to do this.

At the end of the day, all these neat software tools people are building are not all that important in the grand scheme of things. What they are good for though, is enabling visionaries to start to address real problems by removing financial constraints. I am hoping that Aaron will now turn into another Elon Musk now that he has got a big chunk of $140M to work with. While he is solving real problems 37Signals and everyone else who has a lower bar for what it means to be a real contributor to society will be running their "Italian restaurants" for the next 20 years.
Either that or do a clean-room re-implementation.
I was referring to ssh.
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Meh, I thought this would be about toys like Lego. The ultimate dumb toy that makes smart. I mean dumb in a sense that the normal lego stones(?) are simple things but with imagination you can build anything with them.
If you check around, you may be able to find some urban farmers. I live in the middle of a city, and get more eggs than I can handle free from a friend who has a small flock of chickens 2mi away. For fruits and vegetables, I still mostly buy at a small immigrant-owned market, but when lychee season rolls around I have another friend who grows those.

Since I'm posting on this thread, I'll go ahead and share two other health secrets: Practice Система and massage. Causing pain, and removing it. Human touch is important!
Luckily, most of the posts on Hacker News that I find interesting don't lend themselves to biases (i.e. the non political or evangelical posts).

With the more political or evanglical posts, though, I think the human mind is wired to defend its initial opinion for a certain amount of time no matter what it reads ;-)
But he isn't lucky in the sense that some people can metabolize carbohydrates much better and can consume more than others.
"Compare to artificial movement.(cars) Wasn't autonomous motion once a unique feature a living things? Why would you create a thing that moves if you don't also make it alive? All autonomous motion exists so that the organism can support its LIFE."

Compare artificial movement with real movement ... could not be much better if we have artificial movement better than real movement ? A car with artificial movement is nothing close to a car that have a human on control. That´s because the human is alive and can make a much better approach to the real world than a dead machine.

"Why create motion in a dead being? you can get close, like clockwork automatons, but you can't REALLY get there."

Sure ... and i think it´s a good thing to do, but it should not be called artificial intelligence, because intelligence is much more than just data and inference. When i talk about artificial intelligence, i´m talking about intelligence and not dumbness (or artificial close intelligence). If we have to create intelligence, let´s make it right, not close ...

"Likewise, there are ethical and practical issues with creating people to move things to support your life."

Only GOD can create people. What we can do is create machines, intelligent machines, just this, nothing more, don´t make mistakes, please.

By the way thanks for your awesome comments and sorry by my poor english.