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Interestingly, they're diverging greatly from the existing managed OSes by using separate address spaces

Doesn't that more or less defeat the purpose?
"The submission could also be counted as an automatic upvote"

It does already. If submit a url that is already there, it gives it an automatic upvote.
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Only class 1 certificates are free.

This is a great service as it allows me to setup secure IMAP, SMTP, Jabber, etc. without having to pay a third party money for this extra security, and without having to bother my users with installing my self-signed root certificate (StartSSL’s certificate is known to OS X and browsers except IE and Opera).

I don’t see how free class 1 certificates help scammers, phishers, and similar.
I tried the del command. lol
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Tact is also a word. It means being sensitive to the situation.

Tack is the direction you are going.
Tried "ls", used to Cygwin.
I'm kind of surprised by all the nay saying. Yeah, I get the one big pitfall of this but it seems like one of the better solutions to a class of inherently hairy problems.
In general evolution theory inspires me, but I have to admit it ruined dancing for me. After all, it seems like the perfect way to demonstrate physical and mental fitness (mental fitness with the coordination skills). Realizing that completely took the joy out of it for me.
The people dissing this have obviously never dreamed of automating a 16-bit Visual Basic 3 Windows app (that's Win16, not Win32) so it can be run from a webapp front-end and gradually obsolesced.

Autohotkey works, but matching by screenshots with computer vision would cut the amount of work required in half.

Bravo!
Note that the algorithm is weighted against time as well. If I upvote something that was posted a month ago, it is practically useless.
O'Reilly drops ebook DRM, sees 104% increase in sales
Jason Calacanis Punches Comscore In The Face. Comscore Punches Back.
I wonder if I can teach it how to leet at Team Fortress.
Today as in over a year ago

I've been using for a year too, works pretty good.
How often do you have to read and re-type an error message to Google, because the text cannot be copy and pasted? This technology could OCR the screen text and Google it for you automatically.

The demo video is proof of concept; make sure you read the paper.

http://sikuli.csail.mit.edu/documentation.shtml
TechCrunch just posted a story with the responses from Fred Wilson and Comcsore's CMO Linda Abraham. Check it out here:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/24/comscore-calcanis-wilso...
I know very few PhDs how got into grad school by having good grades and sending out applications. Most professors have a certain amount of autonomy i choosing who they want as PhD students. My girlfriend for example never applied for anything. She did some work with a professor who then asked her if she'd ever considered doing a PhD, my girlfriend said it sounded interesting the professor filed in some papers and that was basically that. I know a lot of other people as well who basically got in on some variation on that theme. So if you find a professor you want to work with and that professor wants you as a PhD student then things often work themselves out.
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Thanks - that's a great list!
Typo fixed = license removal ?
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Yes because it is as close to an ID as you get on the net so far.

Sure, they can get another one but it's a hassle. Anyone can just pull a new user name out of their butt and let Firefox handle the memorization of it.
I tried launching a web browser then browsing to the app and launching 3.1 again within itself, then again, then again ;)
Awesome. Exact same thing I did.
> "Information wants to be free" has a kernel of truth in it; "free" is the most natural state for information. It can be copied easy, quickly, and cheaply.

The argument basically says "what is, ought to be, too!" But there's no logical relation between 'is' and 'ought' and this has been known for over 250 years. [1]

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is-ought_problem
I don't take any sides yet, as I don't know much about analytics business, but the first part of Linda's reply is confusing. She talks about how they measure people vs cookies, but:

1) when you're comparing websites, does it make any difference if an analytics system measures "people" (which is impossible to do precisely) vs "cookies" or unique IPs?
In my opinion, the latter is better for comparison, because it's more precise.

2) she didn't address the following point:

"The only problem was that Comscore's numbers were different than the SiteMeter traffic that Gawker and Weblogs Inc. were publishing at the time."

What is the reason for the difference between SiteMeter stats (unique IPs and cookies) and "people" as measured by Comscore?
Hello former fellow countryman. :)

We can do most corrections online now. The only major thing to complain about with the paperwork now is the taxation card describing how much of your wages should go directly to the government. Essentially, you tell the government how much you earn, then you get a card back with employment tax details which you have to give your employer. Since my employer knows how much I'm paid and the government knows how much I should be taxed, I'm basically just a paperwork delivery boy. They could just work it out among themselves in my opinion.
That's only worthwhile if you also reset the time decay. upvoting something old has virtually no impact on its chance of moving to the front page
It's actually more of a traveling salaryman problem :-)
It seems to, in my mind at least. But who knows, perhaps it'll have some big benefits. Again, the more experimentation, the better off we'll all be.
Partly also explained here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ash51/shhh_share_...
I'm not getting very good numbers on my
machine (much higher gc times than the article suggests). Perhaps it's because I'm on a mac, but it's a pretty new MacBook and safari seems to perform much better on a number of them.
It's even better now that the supreme court ruled that they can start spending as much as they want on political advertising. :-(
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The other Harmans didn't have their name stolen - they were simply too late.

If somebody not using a particular vanity URL is not a big deal, then why does Harman Inc need the URL anyway? Why don't they just go for /harmanInc or something like that?

I am also not saying that it is that much of a big deal - not like they are supposed to odder millions. But to just offer worthless junk is offensive.

Also I think "he needs it more than you, so it should belong to him" is not a good basis for conducting business.
Don't talk shit about Jason. He can SEO any site into 5 million uniques. Any site.
In chrome, http://thegleebox.com will make your life easier, with its support for bookmarklets, it's a better choice than quixapp, I think.
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Come 2010, the battle of the App Stores is just beginning..
What's wrong with investing for 8 years into the future?
To name a few: Engle, Granger, Merton, Markowitz, Miller, Sharpe. Shortly, they're used frequently in the area of risk management.

With some good faith you can also take into account the assymetric informations study, so Akerlof, Spence, Stiglitz, Vickrey; also, if you're big enough to move the prices by your orders, the game theory applies: Selten, Nash, Harsanyi.

As for the Black-Scholes, from what I understand, the biggest insight is that the volatility of the stock is basically the risk.

The problems with the non-constant volatility, led to studying different (ARCH, GARCH) models and work appreciated by a Nobel in 2003.
But this is just for things like W2s and 1099s. When the party providing you income (employer, bank, etc.) sends one to the IRS they also send a copy to you. Only idiots try to cheat the IRS by lying about what these forms say. This isn't to say it doesn't work some of them time (I forgot to report the redemption of a bond once and never heard about it, but I'm poor.) But I have a hard time believing this makes up a significant fraction of the total revenue lost to tax fraud. If people get away with it that's probably because the IRS have bigger fish to fry among all the money changing hands that isn't reported on such forms.

Anyway, this is not how law and order is supposed to work in a civilized society. You don't bait morons into breaking the law by fooling them into thinking they won't get caught. For every potential cheat who looks at this info and says "Aha! They don't know about the dividends from my Acme shares! Cha-ching!" there are probably more who will be dissuaded from cheating because they'll realize that, oh yeah, my bank sent a copy to the IRS as well. Or better yet, people will be prevented from _accidentally_ omitting income and having to go through an audit, which is a net win. (I sure as hell would have reported that bond.)
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quantcast are the only ones who have a directly measured system afaik.

After quantcast I usually trust alexa the most.

Comscore and compete numbers are just random stupidity.
The first video provider to offer HTML5 video happened nearly a year ago and was dailymotion, who happen to have a euro focus, hence greater Firefox (+ Opera) adoption in their userbase. So that's a data point to Mozilla in the video provider mindshare column. Wikipedia's worth a mention too.
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Sometimes I wonder if my MacBook is even capable of employing both cores...
I've got to it by visiting the main site and using Tamper Data to set the host in the HTTP headers to '_why.usesthis.com' - not idea but works!
"Motorola itself is expected to launch between 20-30 Android based phones globally this year."

So Apple's competitors still don't get it :-(
It’s unfortunate that you were picked on as a child. It must have been difficult to you. But you’re an adult now. If you want to debate, please do so with facts, not just blind fury.

That last line of reply was worth reading the whole article for.
I skipped the intro and read the guy's words directly, and enjoyed the article very much.

I think the insights he has about his world also have relevance to the typical HNer's world, e.g. the importance of getting rapid feedback from the audience and adjusting accordingly, the importance of a good name, the transience of a market. It was interesting to see these themes in a different context.
Where did you see its not known by IE ?

That is a deal killer..
I'm jealous of these people. I hope to be that fearless some day.
Windows 98 had antialiased fonts.
Are you testing your attr_* methods?
I did the same, and got the same [non]response.
It's worth pointing out that Sweden has been doing the "simplified tax return" with all information prefilled for, IIRC, about 20 years. Internet filing is newer, but the basic method is really old.

It's really quite unfathomable to me how behind the U.S. is on these things (that and banking comes to mind). But maybe it's just the entrenched interests that are doing their damnedest to stop this from happening. It seems that here's one example when you can't argue that corporations are "adding value"; they have been making money due to the primitive IRS system and now they think they're entitled to it.
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SSL is a messed up protocol, relying on trust in central authorities. SSH did it right: it only ensures that the server you connect with today is the same one you connected with yesterday, and it does not aim to do anything more.

An SSL certificate "verified by King George" does not mean that you can trust the vendor with your money or your data. I have to decide to trust the vendor that much, and nobody else can do it for me. All I want the crypto to do is verify that I am now talking with the same vendor I talked with yesterday.

I don't mind using a certified signed by someone not crowned as a king, for example https://secure.loom.cc. Or I could use this one https://loom.cc/ "verified by Equifax" which means nothing special to me.

I don't care that someone else decreed that "this is the One True loom.cc site." All I care is that the site I initially decided to trust is the same site I'm connecting with now.
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Does the analogy work though? The fear in the rallying cry is that if musicians can't eat, they will stop making music, which means you can't have music anymore.

But if accountants can't eat, it's because there is less need for accounting, which is good for everybody except accountants.
At the end of the day, the real problem with using ComScore #'s when developing a media plan is unlike with all other forms of mass media (TV/Radio/Print), in Online the advertiser has direct feedback from the audience of their advertisements - hence you don't really need to use a 3rd party measurement service to help you determine if your campaign was on target/"worked".

A much better way to buy media online is sprinkle money around, see what performs best, allocate more money there, measure, test, repeat.

ComScore was designed to meet the need of old world media buyers working in online - those who can't wrap their heads around allocating media $ based on actual placement performance, rather than a 3rd party measurement company's estimate of what the audience might look like. There are A LOT of these people out there - hence ComScore has done OK for themselves. Unfortunately I agree that over the long term, their importance in the world of media buying will dwindle, and they will become more of a competitive research tool used by middle management and tech bloggers to re-enforce their viewpoints.
I'd like to promote my python library for Cassandra:

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That means the MO just so happens to have roughly 1/50th of the US population.
I don't follow. You mean that right now employment for which you don't get a W-2 (like what, working without employment authorization?) might get declared anyway because you don't know if the IRS knows about it? What kind of work can you do legally without getting a W-2?
It's just offering the junk that puts me off. Maybe even asking nicely, it would be conceivable to give it away for free. But to pay with junk is demeaning.
You can still see people's body shapes in a silhouette.
Downloading the W-2 never worked for me (and I worked for the University of California, so not a small employer). I suspect the number of people that can download their W-2 is small. Same for the 1099 forms, not a very high success rate.
You can use Google's DNS servers or OpenDNS and it'll resolve.
When I watching myself on video, I notice these things:

1) bad posture;

2) improper positions of head, hands, hips, foots, etc.;

4) small steps or movements without power;

3) incorrect movements or steps.

So +1 on good posture, which is result of proper emotion. I even created special trainer for that. :-)

PS.
4 years in ballroom sport dancing (10 dances).
Before this, I knew nothing about Comscore. That one line has really turned me off. If they want to win people over, insults are not the way to do it.
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A recent paper uses it to model the UK Motorway network - http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.3967

Any references to the work on using slime to mimic the UK rail network that you mentioned? The best I could find was the following from http://www.springerlink.com/content/7tw4745823645128/

"In practical terms such a process may also be witnessed in the evolution of real infrastructure networks, such as British railways following the Beeching reviews in the early '60s [8,9]. In these reviews, the flux along various routes was measured and routes with too low a level of traffic, mainly branch lines, were targeted for closure. At the same time, major routes were strengthened to cope with the expected source-sink relationships for both passenger and freight traffic. Interestingly, the reports focussed on efficient rather than any explicit consideration of resilience, which may explain the sensitivity of the current UK rail network to disruption."

Where:
[8] British Railways Board: The development of the major railway trunk routes (1965)
[9] British Transport Commission: The reshaping of british railways - part 1: report (1963)
I wrote a completely useless 3D effect using DOM manipulation some time ago (http://portfoli.no), and have been using it since to do my own personal benchmark of various browsers. Being horribly unoptimized, and probably riddled with flaws, it seems a fair middle ground for most JavaScripts out there.

FF3.6 is (obviously) by far outperformed by Chrome, but it seems to me that even 3.5x did a better job of running it. In either case, the 3.5->3.6 difference seems marginal for this one.
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Thanks for the upvote! ;)

I think we have a misunderstanding here. First thing to clarify, I think, is whether the owner of the "avtr" name gave it up willingly. If he didn't, the discussion it closed: it was at best bullyish. But what I understood from the article is that it was mutual:

> ... but I wanted to explore opportunities to work with you to acquire the name. In the past, we have offered product in exchange for social domain names. One case in mind was for the new movie Avatar , we were able to give promotional items to the owner of twitter.com/avtr for Coke Zero.

I read this as a transaction. Now, the GP is still very very upset. Personally, I think it simply isn't GP's business what the avtr owner did with his domain. It's very much like Richard Stallman berating you rudely in public for buying commercial software. His ideals, just like GP's, should not dictate what one does with his property, time and money. If the GP thinks offering "useless plastic crap" was an offence, he's free to reject such an offer whenever it's made to him. But I do not understand why we should all align to his standards and refuse transactions we may find profitable or charitable or just the right thing to do. Not to mention that a promotional item can easily be anything from a t-shirt to a bike or a car.

Now again, if I misunderstood something I apologize. But I find the GP to be the one trying to push things here, not the big corporation.
Programs like Notepad can be started that way too, but there's no PATH set. So you have to "cd windows" first.
I wanted to try it on mobile safari, but I can't trigger onMouseOver to start it.
Although Internet Explorer 5 can be installed on 3.11.
The gaming format of a wisecracking band of heavily armed soldiers blasting their way through a foreign country while spewing curses and black humor is a trope that never gets old. Fast-forward to 2010, and Battlefield Bad Company has a very respectable rank on Amazon.com:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_3_14?url=search-alias...
I'll be interested in Firefox again when they get process-per-page going. After becoming so spoiled by this in Chrome, I just can't go back...yet...
Damn, I missed yours it was so subtle.
On my HTC Hero there's about a second delay between each re-render upon mouseover. Without a keyboard I cant trigger the rotation, so it's difficult to say for sure.

I'm amazed it even renders, though. Kudos to the old Android browser for that!
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Agreed the demo object is silly, but they are problems that are hard to solve without GUI automation. For example, this tool could be great for scrapping flash-based websites, which are notoriously painful to automate. And the integration with python means that you can easily mix and match with conditional statements, calls to OCR libraries, etc...
Yeah, never understand why companies go this way, when responding to social media. I assume it's an act of impulse by one of their employees, I would be amazed if it was actually discussed and cleared by their PR department. But it sure doesn't look professional at all, and I do expect professionalism from a company like Comscore.
somewhat off topic but...

this is a horrible fallacy:

> "I wrote some code, re-implementing life quick-and-dirty, in - yes, yuck - PHP. It's the tool of choice because it is very close in syntax to C and I've programmed lots of code in it so I can whip out something small like this in a couple of hours."

someone knows some dumb language and thinks he'll be more PRODUCTIVE in another similar dumb language. familiarity gains very little compared to the gains possible with a smart language, but which i mean one that makes the code readable, less buggy and less horrendous.

as humans we're terrible at figuring out short and long term costs, as well as comparing non-linear curves....
Which, unless I'm somehow confused here, brings me back to my original point. If someone calls you a Nazi, they are calling you something horrible. But if someone calls you a homosexual, even if they do it in an insulting manner, they aren't saying anything horrible about you at all. They are just showing their own ignorance and bigotry through their choice of words.

So that's why I objected to indirect comparison of calling someone a Nazi vs. calling someone a homosexual.
And here I was wondering why random people started following me on twitter.

Thanks for the reference!
These types of shops are pretty common in the bicycling world.
It seems they are now supported by IE judging from this page http://www.startssl.com/?app=40 which show icons of all the major browsers incl. IE but excl. Opera, and this page http://www.startssl.com/?app=22 which has the following text redacted (overstrike): Startcom’s certificate isn’t trusted by the Microsoft Internet Explorer.

So I think that it is now supported by IE, question is, which version of IE and/or Windows. I can’t find any details about this on the StartSSL’s pages (there used to be a FAQ entry iirc with browsers supported which included version and OS).
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Tom and Ray Magliozzi (from NPR's Car Talk in the US) did that in the early 1970s with a place called "Hacker's Haven." As I recall, they found it wasn't profitable. Most people needed help in fixing their car, and it was better to be a garage than to be a DIY repair shop.
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You are in non-scoring discovery mode.
What do you want to zap? [p or ?]
You may wish for an object.
For what do you wish? slime mold
q - a slime mold.
What do you want to eat? [b-jq or ?]

My, that was a yummy slime mold!
Does it have a .bmp viewer?
You can just remove all CA certs from your browser and then it works somewhat like SSH.
Your site is actually slower in Chrome than FF3.6 for me. Mouse over is about 10 times (!) slower and scrolling is about 2-3 times slower.