skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How was the testing done? Every other pageview delivered over a 7 day period had the video?

If you tested by running one for 7 days and the other for 7 days, there are numerous other possible factors. Even the comparison of Friday versus Saturday traffic could have enough variation on a small sample to skew results. Internet congestion might have slowed the site down during one test, awareness might predispose people to be more likely to convert beyond trial or even the fact that the video version renders more quickly to the surfer proving that html design and page render time may have been the deciding factor. I didn't see any mention on the site how the trial was actually conducted, but, based on the other test results, I don't see enough isolation of variables to decidedly say the video was the sole factor.
Is this (esp the embedded video) the reference for your statement? http://websiteoptimizer.blogspot.com/2009/11/new-video-how-w...
Your claim appears to be false -- genital HSV can be transmitted whenever the virus is being shed, which can happen in the absence of symptoms.

Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex_virus) disagrees at the end of the first paragraph, above the ToC. I'm at a major research university, so I was able to check their citation and confirm that it does in fact 1) appear to be a seminar/survey from a legitimate scientific journal (Lancet) and 2) say that viral shedding in the absence of sores is possible, citing what appear to be first-hand studies. I'll reproduce the citations here:

60 Lang A, Nikolich-Zugich J. Development and migration of
protective CD8+ T cells into the nervous system following ocular
herpes simplex virus-1 infection. J Immunol 2005; 174: 2919–25.

62
Wald A, Zeh J, Selke S, Ashley RL, Corey L. Virologic
characteristics of subclinical and symptomatic genital herpes
infections. N Engl J Med 1995; 333: 770–75.

I was able to locate a (I think) public copy of the second study, by Wald et al.: http://depts.washington.edu/herpes/php_uploads/publications/...

The abstract of the paper reports that "Among women with genital HSV-2 infection, subclinical shedding occurred on a mean of 2 percent of the days." Subclinical shedding is defined in the body of the paper, specifically under the "Statistical Analysis" heading on the first page, as "the isolation of HSV from the cervix, vulva, or rectum in the absence of genital or perianal lesions noted by the subjects or the clinicians."

In summary, at least one study has proven that herpes shedding is possible without the presence of sores. I apologize for going to so much trouble to prove you wrong, but it's dangerous for people to be wrong about the possibility of transmission of STDs.
It depends entirely on where he puts his work - if he only puts his work on Flickr, then he's likely amateur. If he's submitting his work to sites where professionals troll for work, then he is by definition professional.

Which isn't to say professionals don't Flickr their pictures - they do, but the judgment that their work gets is different on the two sides of the fence.

In either case, someone looking to hire a photographer will not have to dig through pages upon pages of amateur work, and in a forum of professionals, unskilled amateur work becomes painfully apparent.
We noticed that too. We were even thinking we could end the video with something like this: http://www.realmofprosperity.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/...

Oh well, you can't get everything right.
And that matters more to them than whatever his true intentions might have been when he uttered that statement.

No it's much more than that. You forgot the wiretapping advocates and corporations like AT&T who will most likely use this quote to support their position.
The bottleneck in that situation would be finding the elements, not updating them. If there is any worry about performance, the change would be to cache that list of elements rather than searching again and again, regardless of the library used. (Unless your library was very clever, and could cache the results for you. I'm not sure what browser support there is for ondomupdated events, which you would need to watch for this to work in a general fashion.)
Dude, I would totally use a library today! But it was fun busting out a little spherical trigonometry for a Rails book. :-)
Go south of the equator. No Polar bears down here.
hah. yah. I've never produced a video like this and I'm sure it's harder to pull off so it makes the viewer feel like you are completely genuine. I wonder if there is a service that sells voice-overs? Getting the Apple commercial guy would be sweet.
Seems rather silly to say not to build a java application. Surely what matters is what the application does. If your idea will fail purely because of being implemented in Java then I think it must have some other rather serious issues with it. I can only think here he means some specific unstated context, but it sounds rather naive and ignorant as written.
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>>We couldn't leave a project like the highway system in the hands of a private corporation.

I have to completely disagree with you, I believe you take too much on faith. We don't know what would've happened, but it's very possible that a better alternative could exist.

1. How much richer would everyone be if they were able to keep there tax dollars.
2. Without subsidizing cars, perhaps trains would still be a viable option.
3. Traffic may not be as much of a problem; maximum speeds would not be so ridiculously low.
4. We might see less urban sprawl.
To you and all the great commenters on HN, thanks! We're really looking forward to seeing any games you create.
Isn't this a way to draw attention to the device/app -- a form of marketing in public?
I don't understand why only a megacorp would use DRM. Imagine yourselves in the shoes of a content owner: Congress has decided you have certain rights to control the distribution of your content, using DRM. Some company comes along and decides those rights are invalid and immoral. Would you want to do business with them, or with a competitor who allows you to exercise the full rights given to you by law?
I think they're a human tendency to conflate initial ability in a field with enjoyment of that field, but they are really two different things.

You're probably never going to get really good at doing something you hate, or at least you'll be miserable the whole time. But it's entirely possible to enjoy something you initially suck at, and sooner or later you'll likely eclipse those who have a bit of a knack for it but no passion.

Just remember that you have to actually enjoy working in the field, and not just the idea of being an expert in the field. As one famous bodybuilder put it, “Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but don’t nobody want to lift no heavy-ass weights.”
Did anybody find it interesting that RIM grew 5% (16 -> 21) while Apple 4% (13 -> 17 )even with all the news and the hype.
As far as I can tell it's pretty straight forward to unlock your iPhone to use it on T-Mobile.
They delete them, but not before the government makes a copy.
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I've always liked the concept behind divvyshot. However, I wonder how well it is faring considering that the juggernaut - Facebook photos - has become one of the de facto places for folks to upload photos.
> Privacy is a basic human need, a fundamental part of our psychology that is as deeply entrenched as all our other basic needs and emotions.

That is an assumption not an argument. Can you reference any studies or data to support your position?

The only place to find evidence I can think of would be to look at different cultures with differing level of privacy to see what inherent 'needs' there might be and what the results were in terms of people's mental well being. Totalitarian societies would not be a good example as they actually rely far more of secrecy than more open societies.

I would argue (without data I admit) that the desire for privacy is actually caused by the desire to avoid punishment, ridicule and/or social exclusion. If these could be avoided then I don't believe there would be much of a 'need' for privacy.
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Competition validates the market exists.
Riiight. I'm sure you went into that article with an open mind. Let me guess, you think the CRU leak didn't reveal much of interest?

Instead of ad hominem, how about you refute the main and specific points brought up. I'm pretty sure Paul Graham even has an essay on how to argue properly if you're not sure how it's done.

PS - And if you want an article that uses a less self-indulgent style, read Michael Crichton's referenced speech. You'll be hard pressed to call it a rambling mess. Somehow I'm guessing, though, that you're actually biased against the claim, not its purported "messiness".
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What you described is how Canada works. Most people seem to think we have a federal health care system - we do not.

Each province has its own health system, the only federal requirement is that they have peering agreements (so you can travel freely without fear of health care). I've seen cases where people who are hospitalized in more expensive parts of Canada are transferred back to their home province (paid by the health care system of course).

It works remarkably well - and from the few Brits I've seen comment on both, it's likely better than the NHS in Britain, which is the monolithic approach you fear. For one thing, health care management is handled at a much more local level, where individual voting districts actually matter, and coverage levels better suited to the local environmental, cultural, etc, requirements.
Search warrants have to be very specific regarding what they target. "Give us all the records for those who searched for 'murder' related queries" isn't specific enough for a warrant. "Give us the records of [some user] searching for [terms related to some specific technique of disposing of bodies] during March 2009" might be valid, but IANAL.

If you're ever brought to trial using evidence gained by a warrant which didn't list that evidence to some reasonable specificity, any decent lawyer will have that evidence removed from consideration.
What's the timeline for being able to target based on subreddit?
To save all the kiddies from embarrassment and rejection (which typically implies you'll just end up making more money at some tech company)[...]

I've never heard this one before. Usually the myth goes that people who go right into the workforce earn on average the same or slightly more than those who go into grad school. But what these myths don't take into account is how crucial timing is. I graduated from college in 2001 which just happened to be a terrible time to find a job. I was able to make ends meet for 2 years before finding a steady job, but I would have probably made out better going to grad school. Either way, I wouldn't have made any money.
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I wish this all held true for pre-patent work.
> Correction: You know nothing about poverty in the United States.

I guess America is special then.

> The discrete right/privilege distinction is a meaningless distraction from the more subjective issue of social justice.

The word “social justice” is a misnomer for a list of entitlements and an enforcement of equality of outcome.

> If the resources exist to give everyone healthcare, then everyone should have healthcare.

The only problem you face is that these “resources” belong to private individuals. So you only have to coerce these “resources” away from them and somehow force them to keep working and creating these resources.

One guy once said what you are trying to implement: “From each according to his ability and to each according to his need”. Was it Marx?

> spending trillions on "defense"; why not spend money to be defended against things like cancer, which are far more likely to kill most of us than any terrorist?

You are justifying one bad idea with another bad idea. This is a stupid line of reasoning. For a government with an incredibly large amount of debt, it is not a good idea to spend trillions on anything.

> > It looks like everyone wants free healthcare and no-one wants to pay for it.
> Ridiculous assertion. No one with half a brain considers that possible. Someone has to pay.

Yes. And the answer is always, “not us”. The argument is usually that “rich people” will pay for it.

> > It seems that the list of entitlements only gets longer and the list of responsibilities gets shorter.
> That's what happens as society improves.

Now, that is when society declines and decays.

> On the list of responsibilities shrinking: are you arguing that we should go back to an era when people spent a substantial fraction of their time making their own clothes, instead of buying cheap factory-made clothing at the store?

This has nothing to do with government entitlements or personal responsibilities and duties. Here are some example responsibilities and duties:

- Save for your retirement (don’t push this duty on the government).

- Save to send your children to school and hopefully university.

- Raise your children well.

- Volunteer to become an army reservist, police reservist or any other civic duty.

- Take care of your parents when they are old.
Etc…

Here are some entitlements:
- Free healthcare

- Free welfare payments

- Cash payments for each child born.

- Free education and university

- Gauranteed salary throughout your life (whether employed or not). Some countries call this a "basic income grant".
gracie:~# time dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdl bs=1024k count=10240
10240+0 records in
10240+0 records out
10737418240 bytes (11 GB) copied, 344.745 seconds, 31.1 MB/s

real 5m44.748s
user 0m0.025s
sys 0m10.152s

gracie:~# time dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdl bs=1024k count=10240
10240+0 records in
10240+0 records out
10737418240 bytes (11 GB) copied, 217.106 seconds, 49.5 MB/s

real 3m37.125s
user 0m0.023s
sys 0m10.268s

gracie:~# time dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdl bs=1024k count=10240
10240+0 records in
10240+0 records out
10737418240 bytes (11 GB) copied, 247.319 seconds, 43.4 MB/s

real 4m7.323s
user 0m0.036s
sys 0m9.794s

EDIT: I ran it a third time just to make sure the results held. I'd still take this with a grain of salt, in my experience EBS i/o results are pretty inconsistent.
Google (and the vast majority of their users) has a whole lot to lose by deleting search history while its competitors pursue personalized search. Librarians - nothing at all.
Ever heard of the abiogenic petroleum hypothesis?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenic_petroleum_origin
If they're going to any length to get business, even if it pisses off they're staunchest fans, they're acting like a megacorp.

I'm not arguing for them sacrificing their customer base. I'm arguing for us not letting companies like Apple and Google get away with looking like the good guys when they're just the profit-driven guys like everyone else. Google's "Don't Be Evil" motto makes me sick, just like the squeaky-clean reputation Steve Jobs once had.
Wooo Sam! Nice to see it's finally released!!
its a no brainer that the market exists. My question was geared more towards how will they compete against FB photos, which has grown like a weed.
You lose 3G though. T-Mobile uses different radio frequencies for 3G. iPhone + Mifi is really viable though.
google confuse me

how was this implemented before local storage? every current version of browsers supports it apart from chrome (and opera?)

saying that it is pretty awesome, web sockets have been a long time coming
"The van only takes 16 hours to charge (able to travel a 130 km distance) via the solar panels..."

This means that as long as you're moving an average 5mph or less and it stays sunny, you won't be losing your charge... or looking at it another way, a 12x improvement in efficiency*surface area is needed in order to travel 60mph and not lose charge.
To be entirely precise, there's no such thing as genital HSV. There's HSV1 and HSV2. If I remember correctly, HSV1 is usually what is referred to as "lip herpes", while HSV2 is usually called "genital herpes". However, one can have sores in other parts of the body.
I can share files with Bump also. Can you tell me what differentiates this?!
This is the best point: "they all say what they want to, whether or not they’re under an NDA"

I've got a friend at a particular large game studio, working on a particularly popular Xbox 360 title. He is extremely tight-lipped about his work projects. It certainly isn't because of his NDA because we have builds of the game in our test labs. My job enables me to walk in and see them anytime if I really wanted. He keeps his mouth shut and I don't go prying simply because it makes us feel good.

Surprises are often a competitive advantage, especially in gaming. He doesn't want to ruin the fun of the big reveal for himself, his co-workers, the fans, or anyone else. The NDA is a formality; if management ever has to remind them of it, everyone is saddened that someone is spoiling the competitive and customer-pleasing fun.
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I can't find how much Apple makes in all of this infographic. I had to do the calculation myself:

5.2 million * (351 subsidy + 20 profit) = 1.9292 billion
Actually, it's not the slightest bit hard:

> Consider the case of Phil Jones, the director of the CRU and the man at the heart of climategate. According to one of the documents hacked from his center, between 2000 and 2006 Mr. Jones was the recipient (or co-recipient) of some $19 million worth of research grants, a sixfold increase over what he'd been awarded in the 1990s.

Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870393940457456...

There is no rational way one can claim that dramatizing your findings doesn't increase your exposure and make you more likely to get grants, and there's no rational way to claim that scientists don't really, really want grants. There's also no reason to believe scientists/policy promoters aren't just as passionate about their goals as Exxon executives are about theirs.

And, no, scientists' chief goals are not the clear and unvarnished pursuit of truth. Scientists are people who want to be recognized for the amazing truths they've uncovered. If, after 30 years, you find that the evidence of your research does not support any significant insights into public policy, then a scientist, like any other person, will feel that their life has been wasted. Worse still is when the expectation has been set up, by 30 years of press and publicity, that their studies did matter and were of the most urgent importance. Losing that would be almost impossible to endure. And there's zero reason to believe scientists are able to endure this more than anyone else.

(It would be amazing if scientists had the ability to say "Hey, this path didn't lead anywhere, but I contributed to our understanding of the world by cutting off these possibilities". Sadly, scientists are human just like the rest of us. Science is the worst way to apprehend the world, except for all the others.)

Remember, no one is claiming that climate scientists are in a conspiracy to trick people into thinking there is global warming when they don't think there really is. That is a pure straw man by pro-AGW folks. What many people do feel is that numerous factors, including the natural vanity, zeal, and self-importance of the small community of climate scientists, are causing them to overstate their findings.
Not related to the above post, but can whoever keeps downvoting posts like the above please stop? Everyone in this thread has been civil and articulate - please don't downvote things because you disagree with it.
Another thing: don't cc everyone that could possibly want to know about your email's existence. That annoys me to no end.
Probably teenagers watching YouTube videos every day in school.
I agree it's problematic. But whenever you get fundamental about moral issues you face these problems. Causing pain is bad. making people happy is good. Freedom is good. Equality is good. Discrimination is bad.

You can try and justify any of these for other reasons. Discrimination creates civil unrest, it wastes some people's talents, it leads to civil conflict, etc. I think those are less satisfying. Discrimination bothers me regardless of its consequences.

I don't necessarily agree with Schneir I just think you have to admit some* arguments that things are inherent. We can reject this. Say that our inherently good/bad baskets are ful & that he'd better justify his need for privacy based on those inherently bad/good things.
First step: Know your competition.
http://blog.mapawatt.com/2009/10/07/list-of-energy-monitorin...

Count me in on your list of competitors with Gridspy:
http://www.gridspy.co.nz/

I'd be thinking in terms of years to pay back the system. Talking to clients will give you an idea where they lie on the scale of 1 to 10 years.
Brilliant. Along with being a classy holiday message, it's great social proof that startups are happy with them.
I don't buy it. I think it's an underhanded tactic. I think he meant to say it, but to say it in a way that was deniable.

The excuse that people should only worry about privacy if they have something to hide, is nothing new. I think Eric Schmidt is good at recognizing patterns, and therefore must have noticed that he said that while he was taking part in the interview. I know I couldn't let those words slip by if I said them.
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The guide that basically walked me through the entire application process was also written by a CMU professor. It's a much drier read, but, if you're applying to Ph.D. programs in computer science, it's gold.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~harchol/gradschooltalk.pdf
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Totally agree. "They" should be paying her a lot more because it's completely unfair to let the market set wages.
My thoughts exactly. This looks like a much more photogenic version of what used to happen when I would launch an imbalanced Estes rocket.
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In a work setting I think it's fine as long as there's some level of interest. Obviously it's a balancing act, but I like to keep my direct manager and peers working on the same component informed about test plans, etc.

One other issue with CCing everyone is that you always end up with someone throwing their two cents in about minor issues when they aren't even invested in the project.
I think that's overparanoid. People don't always see these pattern. What you are saying is pretty subtle. Remember when GW Bush sai "crusade?"
It's possible that my priorities are simply out of touch with those of the mainstream, but for me "half of the world can read the email of the other half of the world" is a bigger problem than "ebook readers aren't very good right now". The notion that we should stop caring about privacy because a couple of network protocols have design flaws is silly.
From an anonymous comment on the blog post:

> I heard of one similar to #9. It said something like "If I were adCMUted to CMU." I don't think that guy was adCMUted.