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I believe NYT will stay away from such articles.

What would happen is, they will call CIA first to verify the authenticity. Then CIA will threaten them and will claim this is 'classified' and if they don't immediately turn it over, heads will roll, hard drives will be shredded, offices will be closed for an indefinite time for investigation and so on. NYT will not touch this stuff with a ten foot pole.

From a more general perspective. Large news media outlets have very close and 'cosy' relationship with the government. They treasure that relationship as that gets them quick and timely access to government related news releases. That is just news that writes itself. Whatever spews out the Department Of State goes straight to the viewers/reader. All news media outlets need to do is add advertisement on top. Being cut off from that, means spending serious time and money on investigative journalism. Flying people around the world to dangerous areas, spending months on finding good leads and researching. NYT will just not take that risk.
That and total cluelessness about how disease works.
If we concentrated the population, we would not grow as fast. But that all depends on concentrating the population and then not allowing it to expand beyond some set borders, which doesn't seem like it'd go over well. Just look at the little countries running out of land, looking to their neighboor's turf as prospective expansion.

You'd need government or fences or armed forces preventing people from expanding- it is natural for people to expand.

Maybe I am incorrect in thinking so, but my idea was that while the birth rate may be lower, we'd (in the end) approach a higher net population density if we slowly sprawled from a single super-dense hub.
Sure, but the obvious question: where did they find a secret military video protected by encryption that is weak enough to be bruteforced?
Is that crime rate per capita?
I don't think anyone has a generic formula for success yet (other wise we would be busy working on it and everyone would be a success story). And in my experience other's people success formula is not going to help me much even if I copy it bit by bit, unless it tune it to my personality/environment/limitations/resources etc.

So I just read these articles (or watch interviews) in the hope of just getting new insights and not looking for a sure way to make millions.
Oil for sure indeed. It's not like you're getting it from your backyard now.

Pretty much the same goes for most of your food too.

Water is the only thing that would get tricky. But large chunks of the northern hemisphere have A LOT of water. Think Seatle, or for that matter, ALL of New England, especially northern New England.
If you give the nerd sex, computers lose their interest.

I believe there could be an XKCD graph in this for frequency of sex correlated against infrequency of genius.
Android supports bluetooth keyboards and mice. I've tried it with my Archos 5 device... it's quite usable for web browsing.
How The iPhone Target Market Can Expand 7x
I used to work with a couple of guys who got HAM licenses specifically to build one of these. I think their design involved remotely releasing the camera, rather than waiting for the balloon to burst, but the broad strokes are the same. Unfortunately, the project ended up being all talk, but it made for some fantastic geeking over lunch.
Ask HN: Anyone hiring not-software hackers? (nanotech, biotech, etc.)
There have been a few threads geared toward software developers (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1215633).

Anyone here know a nanotech/biotech/cleantech/semiconductor startup that's hiring?

I'm a materials engineering undergrad looking to break into one of those industries soon, and I'm sure there are others here who are passionate about startups, but don't necessarily want to code.

Thanks, folks!
Brin said they pulled out because of the combination of two things:

1) hackers breaking into dissidents' gmail

2) increasing hassles complying w/ govt demands (censorship and otherwise)

It's funny that you're contradicting him.
Anybody can polish a device that has intentionally-limited functionality.
Cool. So as long as I'm my own CA and I use self-signed certificated (distributed off-band) then I'm safe.
Brooklyn has obviously grown since it was created. The creep, as I understand it, is generally just as population-dense. That is the effect I am talking about.
It could be UCSB. It's on the beach and the College of Creative Studies is pretty kick ass.
Here's one, which this article touches upon: Being able to start a blog to vent any issues you find the government to be lacking in. If I started this here in Australia, I won't have government officials knocking at my door, let alone having the site blocked at a federal level.
It's true that the two programs want different kinds of videos, but I wouldn't read into this too much. Both claim that they care more about the founders than about the idea; the reason they ask so much about the idea is that they want you to show that you're capable of generating and fleshing out a good idea.

I imagine that watching hundreds of short videos per cycle is very exhausting, and over time both groups became especially frustrated with a particular category of video. For YC, this category was "overproduced demo hype videos." For TechStars, it was "three guys muttering into the camera." That they decided to disallow those categories is, I think, just a historical happenstance.
That is hacking.
IIRC there was a graph along those lines in Cryptonomicon. While there may be some truth to that, I'm pretty sure the optimal frequency is not zero.
Interesting. I guess the way you wind up facing death changes things? I ride motorcycles, and every now and then there are moments you are sure you're going to die (though you may not be thinking 'die' in your head). You can taste the fear as it bubbles in the pit of your stomach. I haven't known anything more frightful in my life, except for possibly the time I was fully paralyzed (lungs included) for a half-minute and thought I broke my neck.

I'm not sure how you experienced your car crashes, but from your reaction I'm guessing they were the out-of-nowhere kind where you don't see it coming?

P.S. I am not a reckless rider. When you are a new rider, your instinct can flip out on you even when you are really ok, and even when you are a seasoned rider other cars and nature can conspire against you.
Holy cow, you're right, the one a year ago was pretty bad.
This problem is older than I realized. The threads before a year ago were not so bad though. (The 2007 one is just one banned troll.)
What immediately comes to mind when I read this is the original Half-Life, and how it has a complete narrative, told mostly through the environment. There's no pre-mission briefing or cut-scenes, and very little dialogue. You simply experience the word, and that world makes sense. It barely even tells a story; it's more like you see the story that the world came from.

Portal, despite having more words and more dialogue, still comes from a very similar vein of narrative. The dialogue doesn't tell you the story, it gets you acquainted with the (complex) character of Glados. The story is still told by experiencing the environment, and realizing the world that environment is a part of. The bulk of the story is implied between the lines.

Yahtzee recently railed against the whole audio-log gimmick[1] you often see nowadays as ways of advancing the narrative. I think it overlaps a lot with this essay. I don't mind a story being told explicitly, but (some?) games don't need such explicit methods to tell their stories. As an aside, I feel that Bioshock, despite having audio logs, is a true successor to Half Life in using the environment to tell a story and set a scene, because its environment is so detailed and an integral part of the story its telling. 90% of the audio logs could be removed and the story would stand on its own. Nonetheless, the audio logs added to the game by providing characters that could not easily fit into the game environment during gameplay, and those characters helped characterize the world the game was set in.

I don't feel that words are inherently wrong in a video game. However, I do think that relying on overly verbose methods of storytelling isn't taking the fullest advantage of video games' unique qualities as a medium. It's like a design smell: it's not inherently wrong and there are good reasons for doing so on occassion, it just means you should step back and take a critical eye of whether you really need it or if you're better off not doing including that content, or doing it in another way.

[1] http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/extra-...
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Upon recommendation from users on HN, I replaced my Chrome default search engine with Duck Duck Go. I haven't looked back since. Results are excellent, the zero-click data is amazing, and the semantic analysis ("Java can mean different things. Which one? (Some meanings grouped into sections Animals, Computer science, Consumables, Entertainment, Geography, Plants, and Transportation.)") is incredible.

When I searched for my own name, immediately my official site, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and blog (among tens of other profiles) appeared. http://duckduckgo.com/?q=mark+bao&v=

This is the kind of chatter that should be going on when we're talking about a "Google killer"—Duck Duck Go is more of a decision engine than Bing claims to be. Amazing work, Gabriel!
Actually that is the most effective kind of hacking -- past an air gap between people not between a person and a machine connected by a wire.

The most serious breaches of security are the ones done by insiders, agents and whistle-blowers, not by hacking a network or crypto protocol.
Doesn't the Mississippi flood in spectacular fashion once in a while? In a contest between the Great River and the World's Largest Datacenter, there is little question of the victor.
You'd have a pretty low opinion of digg engineers to think they'd optimize that poorly. Which the article author does.

It's actually pretty depressing to see content like this from an alleged Database expert. I've never been able to get 1:1 results between "lab" tests and actual deployments, and I've gone to much greater lengths than the author to simulate workloads.
Investors Trust Blogs More Than They Trust Their Brokers
From what I've read on the subject, no. It's interesting that boys perform vastly better in single sex schools, while there is little difference in female performance between joint and single sex schools.

I've wondered if this trait in males is the historical cause of the Knight-in-Shining-Armour legends. If a man sees a woman in trouble, is he really more likely to save her?

There's already a strong correlation between near-death experiences and mistaken love (apparently extreme fear and lust have the same biological pathway, which is too Freudian for me to touch at 9pm), so Sir Knight saving the lady would almost undoubtedly get some action in the bed, which fulfils the reproduction criteria (pre-condom era) for gene spreading.
Where are the planes of the 21st century?
The search for "cuil" is awesome.

http://duckduckgo.com/?v=c&q=cuil
An intriguing idea. As someone pointed out, it wouldn't really be "open source", since it includes a restriction on reuse that all the major definitions of free software and open source (the FSF's, Debian's, OSI's) would considered impermissible. But it could be called something else. It's sort of the flip-side of the "non-commercial use only" licenses: commercial-use only, with a definition of what minimum level constitutes sufficiently commercial use.

One practical problem is that it seems it'd only work within relatively stable, narrowly defined markets. The specified minimum price may make no sense if someone takes the code and uses it to make an app in a different market, or on a different platform.
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I find the "infinite" scrolling kind of annoying. It's jumpy when it loads and it gives you no reference of where you are in the results (versus which page you're on with Google, for example).
Lucky in what way? These guys executed their tails off for a decade to get to this point.
Agreed, very funny.

http://duckduckgo.com/?v=c&q=hamburger

That said, the cuil results look pretty good as well.

http://www.cuil.com/search?q=hamburger

The timeline is a nice idea, tho it does seem a little bit lacking in detail.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truetype#Hinting_language
I shoot film (as an amateur) by choice (sold my DSLR last year), but I still scan all of it, so every now and again it still gets tempting to give it the PS treatment..
Iraq's bonds are now rated "nearly on par" with California's
I'd definitely appreciate an option for a more traditional theme like Google's or Bing's. It would make it a lot easier to get used to.
Peering Through the Clouds at the Future of IT
I've seen 'Hey, this is important!' before: on a gmail account that had its password compromised. I seem to recall that it was 'you might be compromised, you should verify your secondary address for account recovery' You might want to check your Gmail usage log at the bottom of the window, check your secondary address, and change your password.
China, the Internet and Google: what I planned to say
I'm curious...how long did you spend making the first rev? Also, about how much have you had to invest in the infrastructure for web-scale searching? Are you crawling in the cloud?
Please don't be intimidated! You can help a little or a lot.

Check out http://www.mozilla.org/contribute/ . You can write code (websites, Firefox, and more), find bugs, offer support, localize, etc.

Hop on irc.mozilla.org and join a channel that you're interested in if you want to talk to someone.
No.

I'm not inside of the decision loop, but this is because of a perception that Google's SOC administrators didn't want to work with Ruby Central over the last two years.

I do not think that this perception is correct, but Ruby Central was not provided a mentorship spot last year and chose not to apply for a mentorship spot this year.

This is a Ruby Central initiative.
For your first question, I can only extrapolate from my own experience. Having, thankfully, never been in an avalanche or with a group that triggered one, take that for what it's worth. That said, the groups I've been out of bounds with have guys outnumbering girls at a ratio well over 10:1, so simple odds are against the guys. The few times there have been women with us, they've tended to be a bit more level-headed and safety-conscious. (As always, the plural of anecdote is not data.)

Your second question doesn't really make sense. First, there's no "protecting" someone from an avalanche. In a slide, you're looking at kilotons of frozen water moving towards you at a speed limited only by gravity and the slope of the mountain face it's falling down. If you're lucky, you're "only" buried in something whose density upon settling approaches that of concrete, and not carried into the trees at speeds that will pulp you on impact.

Moreover, when you're riding out of bounds, you take your runs one at a time, precisely because of the avalanche risk. If there is a slide, the rest of the group will come looking for you once it has subsided. The odds of finding one person buried in an avalanche are bad enough; looking for more than one at a time pretty well guarantees someone's not coming home that day -- or ever again.
> And suddenly everyone on the team is explaining, no, he didn't mean in THAT way, the presentation wasn't REALLY about her -- well, if you hadn't marginalized her before, now you definitely have.

I'm assuming what you're saying is if you instead say 'ok, we won't do that' she won't assume (based on the lack of protest) that it was in fact objectifying her?

And how is it saying the presentation wasn't objectifying you marginalizing? 'You aren't important enough to objectify'? Psychology... it confuses me. I never understand how people don't want to be objectified yet seem to be offended if you don't want to objectify them. It's like, 'I want you to want to, but I don't want you to actually do it'...
I would bet that SO has several orders of magnitude less traffic than Digg.
Very true. And yet we still have so many feature rich yet experience poor devices, programs, and services out there. It's almost as if most people don't get the idea of quality over quantity...
On setting expectations for events outside your control
It was beyond a doubt to my mum and almost all women everywhere that cracking your knuckles led to arthritis, it was beyond a doubt. Except it doesn't, there's not even a hint of a link between the two.

Just because something seems obvious, doesn't mean its right or that the science behind it won't lead to something more interesting.
If you're in the Los Angeles/Pasadena/SGV area, my company (Green Dot) has about 11 I.T. openings right now:

http://tbe.taleo.net/NA7/ats/careers/searchResults.jsp;jsess...
Should be "less garbage and fewer cuils."
From the article: "[GoDaddy] also believes the rules will have a 'chilling effect' on new domain name registrations." In other words, 'Chinese citizens in China won't be registering domains nearly as often as they used to, which means we can't make money offering services in China.'

GoDaddy is pulling out because it won't be profitable to run their business in China anymore. The fact that they can make humanitarian claims for free press is just a bonus.
Calling it stealing when you walk into the bank and ask for permission to store your money there and use their services denotes a little something too.
Authentication is hard. It's not a new problem at all. You can go to a great deal of trouble performing secure key distribution, but if you don't have a way of knowing you're doing it with who you think you're doing it with, you're basically screwed.

PGP is nice in that it bundles key distribution together with authentication, so you can at least be sure that the person you spoke to first is the same person you're speaking to now, assuming nobody's taken a $5 wrench to their knees. Unfortunately, PGP and all other factoring based key distribution methods are only secure for a limited time. People often say things like, "Secure for 1000 years assuming..." What they don't tell you is those assumptions (e.g. crackers only use classical computers with Moore's law scaling resources and currently known algorithms") are ridiculous. In general, advances in algorithms alone accelerate things greatly. Messages you send in PGP today will probably be trivial to crack within a decade, and that's not even accounting for quantum computing! Note: If you are interesting enough, this translates to messages you send today will be logged, archived, and cracked within 10 years. This is fine for credit card transactions. Not so fine for government secrets. (If you ever hear of a government employee transmitting state secrets using PGP, you are well justified to freak out.)

Quantum Cryptography promises to at least get rid of that problem, since the impossibility of cloning quantum information means that keys cannot be archived and cracked at a later time. However, authentication with a party you have not physically met remains a bit of a pickle.
I think this is brilliant. It's not about text, it's about immediacy. video games are feedback loop between the player and this is a reminder to focus on that.
Yes, these things are important to both men and women. But the female engineers I know make it a higher priority in their job searches because they've been burned this way before, in work and in school -- specifically because they are women. I don't know any male engineers who feel that they've been in situations, in the context of engineering, where they were systematically dismissed because they were men.

I mean, you hardly need a locker room atmosphere to turn women away. Plenty of little things can contribute. Maybe you have a guy who constantly fawns over one particular coworker. Maybe the team has grown to expect that the women will bring the bagels on Friday mornings. Maybe the labels "emotional" or "too sensitive" stick a little too easily. Maybe t-shirts at work events only tend to show up in men's M-XL. Maybe another group tends to explain things to the new female engineer in very small words, implicitly not acknowledging her as a peer. Whatever.

Here's the thing: you need to be sure that the women in your workplace are comfortable telling you these things. As a man, it can be hard to realize that there are problems when the work environment is 90% men. Why? Because you're not on the receiving end of all the bullshit, most of the stereotypes and cultural norms work in your favor, and most of the people you know are the same way. Very few men are thinking, "man, I wish I could make women feel unvalued." Most of the toxic behavior happens out of apathy or ignorance.

But, even then, most little problems, in isolation, are just that: little problems in search of solutions. Unfortunately, when women do speak up, what they often hear is, "I don't see the problem. That's never happened to me. I think you're overreacting." That response is, I would venture, why having another woman on the team is reassuring: because she probably would see the problem, it probably has happened to her. That response is why women in engineering want to know they'll have someone (male or female) willing to back them up, or at least to listen: because they're used to having to go it alone.
ditto for google :)
To go meta on this meta, I think the requirement to downvote is still something like 200 to 250 karma. With a couple good submissions or comments, you could have that in a matter of days.

The community has grown, and these restrictions aren't "indexed to inflation" so to speak, so the bar is lower all the time. Also, while I personally agree that downvotes should only be used for trollish things (or really just done away with in favor of flagging), that has never been universally agreed upon (and I have seen this topic come up a lot).
I had this same idea awhile ago. Steve probably wants to jab the Google folks in the eye, and all the time there's this great search engine out there with a silly name....
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I know the odds are against the guys. What I mean is, assuming there are 9 guys and 1 girl, does the girl die 10% of the time? More? Less? The simple statement that 'there are more deaths when a girl is present' could be because the girls are the ones getting killed by the avalanche. Not saying that's the case, just pointing out your statement seemed to assume it's NOT the case.

You're right, my mistake.

Gotcha.
Where I went to school that was "duck duck goose".
You can be the hottest startup on the block with 100,000 active early adopters, but I'd trade every one of those users for Normals in all cases.

If its a one-for-one trade, that's a bad deal.
> Alternately you can just clutch onto NoSQL and bleat about how it changes all of the rules anyways, which is the route quite a few have decided to pursue.

Bath water and baby gone without a second thought.

Not to mention that later the author says:

> SSDs change everything.

To which I say: "Or you can clutch onto SSDs and bleat about how they change all of the rules anyway, which is the route this author has decided to pursue."