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I agree completely. The top comment in this thread was about wireless connections making wired connections redundant. I want wired video output as I trust it more than wireless. VGA is an inelegant but working solution. Dongle is no problem.
So here's a pesky theory that pops into my mind every time I hear a story like this. I really hope everyone will say it's crazy, though, because the consequences are pretty dire.

Advertising is good at selling some products, but advertisers are spectacular at selling advertising. So we've had almost a century-long bubble in bullshit.

The best way you outsell other advertisers, masters of bullshit themselves, all spinning how effective their ad is, is by selling metrics alongside your advertising. Metrics are the anti-bullshit. Well, almost...

You want something that looks like "actual sales caused." You want to tell a guy, "pay me $10 per ad, and I will generate 10 sales, each giving you $2 profit you wouldn't have otherwise made. We'll split the winnings."

You want to claim metrics for sales caused, but you don't really want those exact numbers, you kind of want something that looks hard that you can spin. Something loosely correlated with "actual sales caused" where your art of bullshitting can get slightly better returns than the exact numbers would get. Play to your strengths, right?

So magazines come along with subscription numbers, and that's great sauce. Then television comes along with the Nielsen family and, ok, actually Nielsen starts way back with radio in the 1920s, but same idea. Radio/television advertising reaches the most people and every company starts to pay a premium.

Advertisers have the whole industry sliced, diced, catalogued and formulated. Superbowl is the premium end, free weeklies are the bottom of the barrel. Everybody has a place, but everyone's using the same game to guess at eyeballs, to guess at actual sales caused.

Suddenly, though, there's this new game on the internet. Not a lot of eyeballs at first, so it starts in free weekly category. Suddenly though, Google (and maybe some other companies) can tell you how many ads are actually getting action rather than just eyeballs.

It's a metric like we've never seen before, it's the killer metric. Sure, you could get this from surveys, or test markets, but this is like measuring everyone who sees the ad. It's pretty cool.

But remember, metrics this accurate are dangerous, it shows when advertising doesn't work too.

And a lot of advertising is spin, a lot of it isn't all that great, because advertisers are better at selling ads than they are at selling your product.

I hope someone tells me this is all nonsense, though, because if it's true, then Internet advertising is both absorbing the advertising industry then destroying it.

That'd be sad. I mean, sure, it's showing us which of our emperors are already naked. But it might mean the constant death of random content sites like this.
Gonna have to agree with you, I used desktop linux for years (even on one system76 laptop that had ubuntu pre-installed), and it felt like I was spending more time reporting bugs, working around bugs, and distro-hopping than actually using my computer. OSX has its issues but I've been a lot happier with it.
The issue is not whether the label "rape" should be applied. The issue is whether this line of reasoning is a valid argument for why something should be a crime:

"If you $X that's clearly $CRIME. If you $Y, some people wouldn't call that $CRIME (and the law wouldn't either). But I'd rather get $X then $Y. So why do we consider the latter not as bad?"
What this tells me is that if you're running a website that uses Google advertising as your primary source of revenue, you should probably sell up now and get out while the getting is good. Ad-based sites simply cannot survive anymore.
This is all true.

However, many posting here are interested in the weight-management effects of treadmill desks.

If you are doing heavy caloric restriction then you probably don't have a weight management issue. It's worth noting that the longevity-effects of caloric restriction seem to start occurring at very restrictive levels of consumption, and few have the self-control to stay at that level for decades (which seems to be what is needed).
You start by claiming my comment was incorrect, but I don't see a refutation that the Allies were unwilling to negotiate peace with Japan in your response. In fact, you seem to confirm it.

Maybe your confusion stems from something you said:

> Japan was not ready to accept any sort of unconditional surrender.

There is only one sort of unconditional surrender, that is why it's called unconditional. The Allies, the US in particular, were not interested in negotiating peace with Japan. They were not willing to settle for anything less than Japan's total submission to them, which is why they ignored Japan's overtures to negotiating peace in January 1945. Not, as you naively seem to be believe, because they were "concerned with not seeing another world war", but because the US realised it had the might to do so, and wanted to assert itself as a global military power. Negotiating with Japan would have implied that the US had doubts about their own capacity to wage war. You seem to be aware of this, as you point out in your other comment that was linked to earlier:

> Japan counted on the vast distance between San Fransisco and Tokyo to protect them from the horrors that they had unleashed on China, the Philippians and countless other peoples in the Southeastern Pacific. They were wrong.

They were indeed wrong, but the US had to prove it to them and to the rest of the world, which is what they did by firebombing Tokyo and nuking H. and N.
Ars Technica is basically an aggregator that dumbs things down almost to Associated Press level. Ars will give you a clue about what's newsworthy, but if you want technical details you have to track down their sources (which were probably on HN and Reddit the previous week).
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How effective are NDAs?
I've been asked to sign an NDA by a company who'd like to use my development services. They already gave me a run down of their entire company strategy post NDA. I'm curious how effective are NDAs anyway? I'm aware that they are only effective if the party chooses to pursue a case, but my intuition tells me that they're more of a preventative smoke screen than a viable document.

Thoughts?
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I'm currently looking for a new laptop, which will probably be a Mac, given I'm not familiar with using Linux nor have I liked using Windows lately. Looking at the pricing for this, I can't see much of a reason for why I'd get this over a Macbook Air or Macbook Pro w/ Retina.

Using Australian prices -

This - $1799
11" Air - $1249
13" Air - $1399
13" Retina - $1799 (I've seen $1599 in authorised reseller stores)
13" Pro - $1549

Is a retina display and losing a third of a pound worth paying $400-$550 for? Nope. Paying the same price for less ports (if you're getting a Macbook Pro, ports are likely important) and and less speed? Nope.

I think Apple must be hoping this new Macbook is going to eat into 13' Macbook Pro sales (just as the 13" Pro ate into the old Macbook sales), because I can't see it eating into Macbook Air sales.
The new macbook starts at $1299 as well. If you are going to compare them, then at least compare the same price points.
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Were the connectors really what was holding this back? I would be surprised if it were just that. About the modular phones, super cool idea, but very curious about its feasibility.
Depends on which small modular reactor. NuScale mentioned in the article is an Integral Pressurized Water Reactor[0]. A PWR is conventional, but I am not sure where your concern stems from since PWRs and BWRs are the most common reactors in the USA and are some of the most thoroughly studied, especially when it comes to passive safety system design and maintenance.

[0] http://www.nuscalepower.com/ourtechnology.aspx
I don't know if academics would be interested. All the good ones are looking to publish. Running the USPTO would hurt their careers.
Oh yeah, that's who we should trust. Experts like that, with such a sterling safety record. Because self-interested engineers should be the first we call with public health questions.
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And then the counter to my counter-example that I don't know is whether or not it still counts as at least 20% interest if at least 20% of the interest hasn't vested yet...
I assume that's driven by the consumption of content switching to mobile from desktop?
There's an awfully optimistic bit in REAMDE about an overweight fantasy author transforming into 'Skeletor' via a treadmill desk.
No; I'll stick with my automatics.
Yeah, we did everything through Clerky which is recommended in the Y Combinator lecture I mentioned ( http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/fairpay/fs17b_executi... ) - which unfortunately is the same lecture that states quite strongly that you should always be paying minimum wage...
re 2) You can add Resolution or Dimensions to the details view in Finder, but only in ~/Pictures and its subfolders... weird.

I don't think Finder's as bad as everyone says, but I do wish there was an address bar available at the top.
A plug in system is nice. I didn't say it was totally bad, I just think its interesting.
My brother! Seriously though, Directory Opus is a magnificent tool. Its interface could use a lot of work, but its extensibility isn't matched by anything in the Linux world. I know, I've looked and looked. I couldn't even find a decent open source project I could dive into with the goal of making it as flexible as DOpus. I emailed the DOpus guys and they definitely won't create a Linux port. And as I'm sure you already know, it doesn't play well with Wine. If I were creating a comparable application for Linux I'd make it extensible via Python rather than the custom scripting language they use, and I'd take a good long look at things like Sublime Text for UI cues (how to present a massively customizable and extensible system and maintain a very 'clean' interface). It would be a big project, but if I had the time I would gladly sink those hours into such a thing if only so I could use it at the end...
Intermittent Fasting and the 5:2 diets are good compromises. My concern with too much exercise is the tissue wear and the oxidative stress associated with aerobic exercise. There are studies that walking for 2 minutes every 20 minutes negates the negative effect of sitting. I personally tried 25 minute sitting work + walking for 5 minutes (which actually increases productivity when you stop staring at the screen without a break).
What makes you assume that? Just curious.
Threads and threads of comments and this one was most attractive. I'm over the fashion show and though I appreciate Apple pushing the industry by ignoring the standards I'm tired of collecting adapters. As far as software is concerned, I spend more time working around it than with it. I've been holding out, with envy, glancing at my coworkers deving on their new Surface Pro 3s, waiting for my chance at the MacBook/iPad Air combo.

But it's Apple. They are obviously doing plenty of things right and at this point they have terminal nerds arguing and soccer moms stocking up.
. = current directory

.. = parent directory
I don't think they are a tech company.
Finder > Preferences

or Option + ,

You can then drag + drop other folders into the side pane. Also worth learning the finder keyboard shortcuts.
Ditto, pretty much. Though I think it's not so much "fashion," with all of it's pure aesthetic implications, as I think it is an emphasis on visual polish, visceral satisfaction, vertical integration, and novelty - all at the expense of many things "power user" oriented. It's a path to expansion, buy-in, and pundit-fodder, and apparently a tremendous market cap. I've known for about 5 years that I have some variety of Linux in my future, it's just a matter of time. Though I will likely always have need for Adobe products professionally.

And as regards the Finder, well... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTFF

My perspective: Apple IIe -> Mac -> IIcx -> PowerMac -> XP - OS X.
This is part of a trend that's just starting.

I was the editor in chief at Dr. Dobb's, which many of you know closed down in December. As I explained in my farewell editorial [1], our ad sales were squeezed by a comparatively recent phenomenon in media, which is a very steep drop in vendors' willingness to buy Web ads--a lifeline for most web sites.

The reason is that vendors have (finally!) discovered that effectively nobody ever buys anything by clicking on a web ad.

For certain consumer sites, that's a survivable problem. For example, Budweiser's ads aren't intended to make a sale, but rather to remind people of the brand. However, for many tech companies (those that aren't tier 1), they don't have the funds to do brand-oriented ads. Their ads need to result in clicks and purchases. And that's just not happening on pure websites. (FB and Twitter are a wholly different category.)

Personally, I expect that more web sites in the tech sector that have depended in the past on advertising will either fail or drastically cut back on their offerings.

[1] http://www.drdobbs.com/240169421
Hence the extensive research which has already been carried out, which has backed up that conclusion.

Bit it is worth pointing out that it's hardly unlikely or improbable that insecticides damage a particular type of insect.
As someone who likes to have a second monitor when I can, where are my wireless display tech for monitors? It would be awesome if all I had to do was turn on my monitor and not have to deal with cables, but currently that is reality.

Seriously though, I'm looking forward to cable-less future when it come to monitors.
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I'm surprised it isn't. My ASUS Ultrabook came with a USB-Ethernet and MiniDP-DVI adapters in the box, despite coming with the usual 2xUSB3, MiniDP & Micro HDMI ports.

Though I guess it's not that surprising. Back in the day, my Gen4 iPod came with a power brick, a USB cable and a Firewire cable. Now you get a single USB cable.
Dude, it's even in the Finder's menu. Go > Go to Folder (⇧⌘G)
(I'm not a lawyer. None of the following is legal advice.)

1. YC is not gospel, and (by definition) none of their companies are bootstrapped. That means their experience and advice aren't necessarily targeted at people like you.

2. Clerky isn't a substitute for a real lawyer. You and your co-founders might have needs/preferences that aren't represented by a "fill-in-the-blank" document.

3. Clerky is YC-backed, so the recommendation to use Clerky should be taken with a grain of salt.

I can't stress this enough: talk to an experienced, real-life startup lawyer. There is no substitute. I know that seems old-fashioned or inefficient to our crowd, but I've learned the hard way on several occasions that you shouldn't do your own legal work. The cost of getting a professional to do it is so low that it's a no-brainer.

Related to the law you mentioned: it doesn't matter what the vesting schedule is. 20% is 20%. Furthermore, the law is similar to the internship law. Someone has to feel wronged and then report you to the govt or sue you in order for it to be a problem.

Basically the law is trying to protect early employees from being exploited. It's not really targeting founders. Of course, you should verify those statements with a lawyer, as I might be wrong.
I assumed the neonicotinoid concentrates in the pollen? Surely that it the mechanism by which a comparitively small amount applied to the seed can have a meaningful effect as an insecticide, are you suggesting it only had an effect on insects in the soil?
Euler is more like math problems that can be solved with programming than programming challenges. Very neat, but decreasingly useful for programming practice past the first 20ish.
Thinkpad - I have a T430S (runs about 350$ aftermarket now). Upgradable CPU, RAM, HDD (I run SSD+HDD.. and still have space for an M2 SSD).

Great build, keyboard that perhaps beats the macbook
Hayes had the patent.
I agree mostly. But when you're in the node ecosystem, often times you need to run JS as part of the build. For example, you might need to create some JSON data as part of the build.

I ended up writing my own build library (npm install crankshaft). Docs aren't up yet, but here's what build scripts look like - https://github.com/jeswin/hitchslap/blob/master/build.js (simple example) and https://github.com/jeswin/fora/blob/master/www-client/build-... (more complex, with dependent tasks)
Msysgit on Windows comes with a bash emulator (for running hooks) that could be used in a cross-platform build process.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Open_Source_Agreement

OSI says it's an open source license, but FSF says no. In your case, I'd say you're in the clear, since you're clearly making an “original creation” in NASA terms.

Does anyone know why NASA's open source code isn't in the public domain like it's supposed to be [0]?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_work_by_th...
ah I didn't even realize you were referring to the video.
Then who is the target audience? Casual Facebook users will probably install Flash the moment they unbox the machine.
"Scares" aside, is this really a good idea? Nuclear waste is an essentially unsolved problem of already epic proportions. Incidents too unlikely to ever happen have happened. Any nuclear material running around on trucks is in danger of being involved in catastrophic accidents or just stolen and used for dirty bombs or worse.

Some of these concerns may be alleviated by the reactor design....
I hope there will be a 14-inch version with the sd card reader and more USB ports. Will we see it this fall?
I wonder if the transition of readers to mobile can make life hard for content companies monetised through ads? In a typical content site on a large screen, you have loads of opportunities to incorporate advertising. On a mobile screen, you have far less space.
There's a lot of interesing stuff in this comment. But it seems to conflate lead-gen with advertising. There are lots of reasons to advertise that don't relate to the sales funnel.

The second issue is alot of internet advertising is bullshit, including the metrics. Now, some things are good--actual-purchase links are decent data, but again that's really lead-gen not advertising.

If your lead already wants to buy your product, its too late for advertsing and you're really more into a different game. Nobody looks at an ad in the superbowl and the runs out and buy something 12 minutes later. The fact your narrative doesn't apply to that case is more a sign that something is missing in it, not that superbowl ads are mis-priced per se.
Living extra long on a restricted caloric intake sounds like the definition of a lose/lose to me.
And yet, irradiated sea life was only seen after Fukushima...
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I've heard that one of the major hurdles to smaller scale deployments is security (easier to secure a larger facility than many small ones).
I think you are probably the most correct of all the posts here. Apple wants a system where you can't access the filesystem period, at least not by default. Seeing that there is a filesystem underneath the system is, to their eye, as appealing as those devices popular in the 90s with transparent shells that let you see the electronics. Their ideal future is basically the iPhone. They even said as much in their unveiling of the new Macbook. They said the phone/tablet will be your primary computing device and a laptop or desktop will just be an accessory (eventually literally, as mobile chips get more powerful and Intel continues to nerf desktop offerings).
> employee number 100 made $200M at Facebook

before taxes and assuming he never sold any of the stock until now
Off the top of my head, I can think of three currently-uninhabitable nuclear sites. I'm drawing a blank on uninhabitable dam sites. Keep in mind that there are many more dams than nuclear facilities in existence.
Form Over Function has been Apple's M.O. for a long, long time.
And yet proponents of nuclear energy run around claiming nobody died because of Fukushima.
How about "PasswordEntries" instead?
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In this link http://youtu.be/vvr9AMWEU-c you can hear an additional sound pattern at the end that is not explained in the article or the image, but I remember hearing it every time I connected via modem. Can someone explain what it is?
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I do read your responses :) But most of them (like the one before) doesn't expect my answers. It's just an opinion that contradicts with my article. I read it and I understood it. There are no questions asked, so no answer given.
Yeah, it's one more piece of the 'Reality Distortion field' puzzle.
I agree. I am not a stakeholder at google, but I have a pessimistic forecast of google's strategy going forward.
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Ok, technicalities aside, by unfair I didn't mean illegal or something violating Human Rights.
I don't think that's relevant - in a sense the ordering information is only required because using individual files has otherwise destroyed some information (by allowing reordering within the output data).

The same process would work with a single stream input to the decompressor, as long as the length of each block where an additional '5' must be output is available - the list of file sizes - so that's where the additional information is stashed.
I don't own Apple hardware because I can't afford it. I, however, love Apple products and like to see their events. Hard to imagine?
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What I see is companies/societies/lawmakers unwilling or unable to shut down perfectly fine reactors just because they are too old.

What I also see is democratic countries struggling to agree on safe sites to even store nuclear wast mid-term, much less long term. Better uses or treatments for nuclear waste may be possible, but are not even close to becoming practical.
The link has since been updated, it originally pointed to the live stream. I can see how this thread (and probably a few others) doesn't make very much sense now.
Doubling the RAM, replacing the disk, or buying new batteries are all much cheaper than acquiring a new laptop. Not everybody can treat a US$1299 device as disposable.

Besides, when I pay a premium price for a product I expect it to be useful for more than a couple of years.
That's a bit like saying, "My daily driver is a Mercedes Benz SL55 AMG, so I can't drive a Hyundai Elantra, not even for a block or two." Or like saying, "Oh, I normally wear Air Jordans, so I can't walk with flip-flops."

Moreover, if you're that useless without your dual monitors and a full-size keyboard, would a whiteboard-based interview be any better?
The retina screen is definitely better, but the Air can be upgraded to 8GB of RAM. The overall design of the new MacBook is revolutionary, but I can't believe they chose a CPU that is considerably less powerful and charge a premium price. If you can stand 1.5 lbs more, you can have a MacBook Pro for the same price which is considerably more powerful (also with a retina display).
I haven't used Windows in a while so maybe these are fixed but the two biggest annoyances for me were the lack of spring-loaded folders and the lack of Details view being able to show the size of directories. #1 on your list was also really annoying. I'm also a big fan of disclosure triangles which Windows doesn't do.