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Realistically, burglars prefer to rob houses where people aren't.

My guess is that very few burglars sit around scanning all of the (52 x 52 x 52 x 52 x 52 x 52) possibilities of Longitude.me directories (assuming they just use case sensitive letters), and then when they find one where there's a person (near them) THEN drive to that location and rob them.

If they're that hard pressed to rob a real-live person they could just go door-to-door until they found someone.

I can't back this up with research, however.

Well, while I agree with the spirit of what your saying, 100%, I do disagree with his argument not making sense.

Everything you're suggesting would be illegal, because the person would be defacing public property. There's a clear line between repainting a city owned curb or a posting a sign on a city owned streetside.

It's not -exactly- the same as painting a curb on your own property, or putting a sign on your own lawn.

Again. I agree that these Malibu owners are being crappy, but there's a difference.

Do you think that's the expressed intended reaction or an unintended result?

My guess is it would be difficult to find any piece of document where it states something along the lines of "The goal of this program is to make this country more appealing for illegal immigrants, by offering them extensive welfare and preferential job and tuition situations, especially over those of our citizens."

I think what's more likely is that you are citing unfortunate byproducts of an imperfect solution to a complicated problem. Not a "typical reaction."

I'm not an expert on these things, though.

Given the number of people that missed it, I kinda think the government could flat out issue statements that "We are in fact watching everything you do" and just hide it in enough nuance that no one knows any better.

They likely already do this. Somewhere. In a drawer in a file cabinet in a closet with a sign that says beware the cheetah.

It'd be great if there were a number of "Huh? Doesn't everyone do this?" comments at 12am PST.

(east coasters were already in their second sleep by the time it was posted)

Seems like a lot of guess work. I fear I'd be doing something wrong just by trying to figure out whether or not the other person was gay.

So a straight guy can say to another straight guy "Hey man you have a nice ass?" without legal repercussions?

One more reason to try to work from home I guess.

> (2) To the greatest extent possible, avoid being alone with anyone, of either sex and of any age, who might conceivably bring a sexual-harassment charge against you

Wait. Don't ever be alone with anyone? Rough times.

Well, I think the idea is that the link Gawker released initially was the one that got passed around the most and posted on facebook page, twitter, etc. ( I know I posted it. )

As a result, I believe that would also be the URL that ranks highest in a Google search.

Regardless of what text gets added after the number so to an extent, for popular posts, whichever title Gawker releases first will be set in stone.

I'm not very familiar with regexes so I don't really understand why they would need one on the URL. It seems you can drop the string part of that "suffix" altogether.

I half wonder if PJ has just spent so much time seeing his movies as they are being made,that he's frustrated that audiences don't see them -that way-... maybe on set is normal for him, and in order to get the audience to see "normally"...

...48FPS would nail it right on the head.

Just a personal 48FPS testimonial here...

For some reason I found myself at an IATSE event. IATSE is a union for motion picture professionals. At the end, they projected a scene, once in 24fps, the second time in 48fps.

48fps looked "real" to my eyes, insomuch as it looked how I imagine it would've looked to have been in the room.

Unfortunately, that's not the look I like in films and movies. It truly looked like a soap opera.

There's a chance that 30 minutes into the Hobbit, peoples eyes will acclimate, and you'll forget, but I think those initial scenes are going to be a bit of a disappointment.

... is it? I figure this is one of those things that you can either take at face value -- or not.

The real question is did you find the rest of his information useless, if you did, then does it matter if he has an actual statistic here? If you didn't find it useful, would the citation make a difference at all?

I'm just saying it seems like a weird thing to focus on in the scope of this entire article. It probably wouldn't destroy the entire reading experience if you just mentally said "He probably meant 'Many'..." and kept reading to see what was important in the article.

One of my favorite things about this is its presentation. You've placed your app in something that people lust after (a macbookair) and then something 'cool' inside of that (x-men).

Probably more compelling than a screen shot of a spreadsheet or a table, I bet it triggered an "I WANT THIS" reflex that I wasn't consciously aware of.

What a classy response to a not so classy move. Patrick, you get my vote for class president.

Solution/Question:

Could the padmapper guy just make an application, which he sells for $10-$15, with the same functionality, except all the "scraping" happens from the user's computer or browser?

And if this violates the TOS, assuming I can sell a browser which only visits Craigslist -- then where is the line where a browser does too much "formatting" and becomes a TOS violation?

I think that's okay. He said Many, not Everyone. Right?

I would give serious consideration to taking an Improv Comedy class. If you can't, I'd like to share the concept of "Yes, and--"

Invariably something will go wrong during one of your presentations.

A slide will look funny. There will be a weird noise from outside. An audience member will say something strange.

The idea behind "Yes,and-ing" in improv is basically you treat every single thing as if it were planned and part of what you were doing, rather than negating it or ignoring it, which is dishonest and creates a disconnect.

I've given three presentations in my life (all this year) and each time something went wrong I ran with it and the audience responded very positively. My slide about "Internal Leaks" was missing the first two letters. Second time public speaking. Crap.

Instead of negating ("Oh this was supposed to say Internal"), I Yes-And'ed.

"Up next, a very important problem, Ternal Leaks." And I then verbally chopped off the first two letters of the next slides (verbally), my name, my company name, and closed with "Anks, I hope you enjoyed it."

(Yes, it's a little corny, but it breaks the wall between audience and speaker. I find, in life, if you make someone really laugh, even if it's just once, everything else works out.)

I don't remember much about Moby Dick.

a. "Call me Ishmael" = The First Three Words b. Queequeg's Coffin = The Last Bit. c. there was a chapter called Cetology. d. Ambergris is (I think) Whale Sperm, e. At some point in the novel, I'm PRETTY sure someone puts on a whale penis and runs around. They're huge, whale penii, like 6 feet, easy.

That's about it, and I'm sure Herman Melville (I guess I remember that too) would be a little irked, but...

...if I had an idea, tomorrow, to write a book about an old guy chasing after a whale, I'd stop myself.

My point is, that one of the -other- benefits of having a breadth of knowledge, is that it helps prevent unintentional derivativeness and mimicry.

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Also, this author also assumes that the only worthwhile knowledge is that which can be recalled consciously at will.

Personally, I find that knowledge is a lot like any artist's artistic vocabulary. You consume and consume and consume, and then at some point you start creating, and what you end up making is the conscious and unconscious combination of all of the things you've seen/heard/read before.

The guitarist doesn't realize it's his love of The Beatles and Dr. Dre that's creating that work, but it is.

Those are just two things off of the top of my head. And by that, I mean these are two ideas that are undoubtedly the distillation of ideas I've heard/read elsewhere. Like maybe "On Writing" by Stephen King.

(The Above Idea about the distillation of ideas is likely the distillation of a speech from a great movie, which I'm sure I can find...)

"You come into a bar, you read some obscure passage, and then pretend you, you..pawn it off as your own..as your own idea just to impress some girls..?" - Good Will Hunting (1997)

And by "girls" he means "Hacker News."

(Try not to make that substitution too liberally however, or you'll be sorely disappointed when you walk into the "Live Hacker News! Hacker News Hacker News!" bar.)

I wasn't under the impression that advertising (for a company like GM) was supposed to "work" in any easily measurable way. Especially not $10million of a budget which, though undefined, is clearly large if they are trying to cut $2 billion from it.

I think that to measure the efficacy of a GM ad based on the same measurable activity that you'd measure an ad for (say) a T shirt company is probably a bit misinformed. No one is checking to see if anyone clicked on GM and subsequently bought a Cadillac.

A lot of the comments on the original article seem similarly misguided. ("I NEVER CLICK ON THE ADS I HARDLY EVER NOTICE THEM.") The McDonalds logo on the back fence of a baseball field isn't to convince you to walk over to it and do something. It's so that later when you drive by McDonalds you "decide" to stop.

I wonder if the negative reaction to this is just a result of scale.

Most people I know do everything they can, both legally and questionably, in order to minimize their tax liability.

(And they actually live in the United States.)

> However, the positives far outweigh any negatives.

I'm solo-founding my own start-up right now, and I find that I agree with this statement as a general rule, but I find that it is advice that should be given based on personality type.

That said, I think there are ways to minimize the negatives by "out-sourcing" some of the co-founder responsibilities.

A. Motivation

I have a couple of friends who are just curious about the start-up process. They've been involved from day one, if only passively, and are just curious about what I'm building so it gives me someone to share my latest modification/addition with. That way I don't feel like I'm building in a vacuum.

B. Work Sharing

This is, for me, the hardest part of being a solo-founder -- the vague feeling that if I don't do something, it's never ever going to get done. It gets to be an amazing burden. Lately I've taken to using outsourcing sites (like, oDesk) and just assigning small relatively unimportant tasks. ("Design a confirmation email", "Turn this data into a chart using two or three libraries"). It's easy to say "Well I could just do that", but then spending $30-$50 to just not have to worry about it, gives you the feeling of stuff getting done with out you.

C. Idea Evaluation

You can still talk to your friends/peers about any given aspect of your idea, and its execution, and even if they haven't been involved in the ins and outs, it doesn't mean their input is useless. Sometimes, I would imagine, you get more honest feedback from someone who doesn't have a financial stake in what happens. It removes much of the emotional component of an argument and allows you to just talk about it intellectually/theoretically. I find that I'm actually more receptive to feedback when I don't feel any sense of obligation to hear that person out.

D. Accountability

Do what smokers do. Tell your three closest friends that "by this weekend, I'll have [x] working."

Anyway, just rambling. Of course if I had a co-founder they might tell me to stop commenting on HN and get back to work, so maybe I'm invalidating my point as I go.

I think it's a combination of a number of factors that make this appearance different from will.i.am.

a. As the person above me mentioned, Tupac is dead, but not only that, his death is considered (by some) to be fake, so his "appearance" scratches a very strange itch for some. Had his killer been in the audience, he might've started worrying about having to give a refund.

b. There was little to no fanfare surrounding the event, so when he "took the stage" it was shocking. Imagine how different this would've played out if, for months, we'd been hearing about the hologram performance of Tupac at Coachella? All of the press would've been "Not as lifelike as expected." "Overhyped." Etc.

c. "Cool Factor" -- Coachella is a fairly large event with tons of influencers/connectors & "cool kids", who all ran home and tweeted/blogged about it after it happened...as it happened.

d. 4 Technical Feats for the price of one -- Will.I.Am just taped a performance. The Tupac performance required.

-- a company to digitally recreate him -- an body actor to perform -- a company to then map his face onto the actor -- another voice actor to do the greeting.

This may be the first time that all of these factors lined up at once. You would've heard similar things if the Cirque Du Soleil Michael Jackson show had surprised everyone on the last song with a similar move.

My understanding is that the team at Digital Domain (pirates of the caribbean, Jeff Bridges in Tron) modeled the body, and then used mo-cap on an actor who did the "performance".