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Interesting article. I think why censorship irks us hackers so much is because deep down inside we know that there is no technical reason why censorship should even be possible in the first place. The real challenge is not bypassing internet censorship through technical means (Tor, VPNs, ...) but making a censorship-free internet the default for every user, no matter where they are. A question to smarter HN readers than me: what does it take to make censorship technically impossible?
It's not the governments place to tell you how to invest your money in the same way they don't tell you how to spend your money. It is an unfortunate artifact of bad legislation that the government feels the need to protect its citizens from foolhardy investments.
I don't think this is true. The initial certification is ~$28k and the auditors just watch you demonstrate the list of criteria. Sure, there are interoperability requirements (and other requirements such as drug interactions) that may take some time to implement, but all of these requirements are simply features that many of your competitors have anyway.
Ok, but there are plenty of other ways that stupid people find to lose their money, so why not let them? It's not as if they have to invest the full 25K. You could put that money on a horse, invest it in Worldcom and Enron shares, and all kinds of other equally stupid ideas.
Sound like how Ryanair (a Europe airline) work. They are one of the largest airlines in the world. They charge €20 per checked in bag. And since you can't check in online with a bag, you need to pay €20 to use a check in desk. When a flight is advertised for €15, all these extra charges all add up.

Of course most people think it's just Ryanair being mean and will complain about how they "were stung for extra charges". However, despite people's complaints, they are by far the lowest prices, and people fly with them.

I think Ryanair based a lot of their idea on southwest airlines in the USA.
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My daughter had "Lover of the Day" installed, which named her uncle as her Lover of the Day, which was simultaneously hilarious and really, really creepy. I had her uninstall the app about 5 minutes after I saw what happened.
Unrelated.. but I really love the look of the site.
Could you be more specific? The two are not without similarities in how they are metabolized, so if we're to understand what you mean by "conflating" you should mention the way in which they should not be combined/confused. Since HFCS is a solution of fructose and glucose, there is overlap.

(edited to correct brain fart mentioned below)
So 99% of the VCs in the world are totally screwed.
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Some people think that Flash will die in face of HTML5 if they repeat it many times. The reality though is that Flash has many features over HTML5, is much faster than most implementations and unlike HTML5 which isn't even fully supported by all browsers available, Flash is right here right now and works with all major browsers released the past decade.

As i said many times at similar threads, i don't like Flash and sometimes i wish Sun didn't killed Java off the web with its UX ignorance (Java is much faster and capable than Flash but even today the experience is awful). But there isn't a better tool for the job and if someone wants to provide a Flash alternative, this alternative must provide everything that Flash provides including the Flash designer AND good /practical/ reasons for existing Flash users to move and learn whatever new platform.
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Perhaps you should debug your Robert-Morris-inspired software-based integrity emulator.
I've done my best to understand the data, but with my limited understanding of natural science, I trust the man with the M.D. and a focus in metabolism more than the one with an MS in nutrition.
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Transferring bags between identical planes will decrease risk but it won't eliminate it. Unless the same people are transferring (and hence the same bags) then the number and size of bags is going to change.

Presumably people are transferring to the new plane from many different flights, flights have varying numbers of people, people have varying numbers of bags, and bags vary in size.

For example, a few flights into Miami may be only 1/4 full of people but they are 1/2 full of bags because the Miami flyers tend to carry large gear such as golf clubs and scuba gear. If you transfer those people onto a flight to the Bahamas, along with a few folks from other flights, then you might run into a problem.
The parallel appears to be a gross misunderstanding of what sovereignty is and what powers are afforded to sovereign entities. It is naive to assume that governments operate under the same guidelines as corporations and individuals. They do not - they make laws, they break laws, they do and know things that require no explanation to the 'general public' - indeed revealing some of these facts (aliens are invading in 2012, etc.) will escalate panic and confusion and detract from getting to the solution sooner.
streethoarding.com now has quite a few people posting lolcats, JS redirects, JS alerts and random words.
just another late pwn2own post, pretty bland.
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As an aside, on this site, we don't view self-promotion as a bad thing, as long as it's not somehow obnoxious. If you've worked hard and built something cool, you should be proud of it.
lesson learned? don't put important private info on social networks.
The sad thing is that while we all know this (especially if you've spent any time writing Facebook apps), it's our parents generation and our kids that apparently do not.
I'm saying that hoping to encourage us all to do a little user-education whenever possible. This link doesn't do much good on HN. Share it with your non-techie friends.

(Side note: I wonder if you could create a Facebook app with the sole purpose of creeping out people with the amount of information they provide?)
One of the comments in the article says "If I can mortgage my house and bet it on black at a roulette wheel in Vegas, I can surely invest in a friends startup, regardless of how wealthy I am."

There's a lot of ways to just blow money, but so many restrictions on investing it.
I'm in Switzerland most of my time & even though it's a lovely country, it's a bit sleepy startup-wise.
Thinking out loud here without being well-versed in the details.

If the US moves towards a state-by-state regulatory framework, wouldn't that set up competition between the states to attract investors? To rephrase this, wouldn't it set up a market allowing entrepreneurs and investors to shop around? If California wants to keep Silicon Valley, they're going to have to compete with other nascent and potential tech hubs, and those competitors will be doing their best to attract investors.

Let me be clear; I do not like this scenario, but it could be an outcome that makes this item in the bill not as bad as it could have been.
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It took me a while to "get" the not gates (the prism ones on the right of figure 4).

If that's what you're stuck on, note that the bottom half of the right two diagrams can be seen "from underneath looking into the open trapezoid" (left of the two rightmost) or "from above looking at outsides of (truncated-pyramid-like) trapezoid" (right of two rightmost). Keep staring...
I'm in it for the money. I'm introvert, and hate interacting with peoples I can't stand on a day to day basis. Will it make me happier? not sure, but it probably doesn't make me unhappy and I can do whatever I want.
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The science of nutrition and biochemistry in general is anything but primitive. Unfortunately though, there is probably no single field that has a greater amount of psuedo-scientific nonsense published about it in the mainstream media (not to mention crackpot blogs, books etc). Anyone can publish a book or a blog and pretend to have expertise on the topic. For example, I remember seeing one that was proudly emblazoned with the author's name appended with "PhD". It was complete fluff. Turns out her PhD was in English literature.

Like all sensationalist issues, the fructose thing is more nuanced than the fruitcakes on either side would have you believe. But where's the fun in that?

I've been considering starting some sort of site for publishing the real truth on this stuff, but I'm not sure how interesting it would be to other people. The truth just isn't link-baity and sensationalist enough, y'know?
Damn, missed by such a small margin. I'll be in Tokyo between 20th of April until 4th of May. I'm interested in meeting anyone into startups, reply / find my email in my profile.
"We freely admit to doing (which is potentially) illegal stuff, and the government needs to stop trying to figure out what we're up to by intimidating our volunteers and instead sue us" - Why does this not make sense?
He also says that:

"High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is nearly identical to sucrose in structure and function."

But we had this article recently on HN that shows the exact opposite:

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/91/22K07/
Yeah, the lead developer for Ogre3d, sinbad is from Guernsey, UK.
One more thing for Obama to fix.
I've got some very mixed feelings about this.

On one hand, the more open the society is the better it is for everybody. Wikileaks performs an impressive and valuable service by allowing a place for information to get published.

On the other hand, even in a perfect world, hell if everything should be out in the open for everyone. There are lots of examples, going back as far in history as you'd like, of state secrets serving a necessary and important role. Even averting war.

So my question to the wikileaks folks is this: where's the line? Would you publish anything, and the more secret the better? Or is there some kind of rule you use? Would you publish nuclear launch codes? The identities of spies in countries that would execute them for it?

There is way, way, way too much secrecy in the world, especially among U.S. Agencies. They classify anything they want, and the biggest reason is political CYA. Having said that, I can't give carte blanche to Wikileaks either. Before I support them, I need to know what standards they have.

Even more serious, this isn't bean bag, guys. A country pays a few billion to keep something secret and you blow the whistle? You might want to make sure your life insurance is up to date.

So is wikileaks there for the leaks? Or there for the public? I don't think the two goals are the same thing.
The airport charges the airlines for handling bags, only a couple of $ but the cash strapped airlines want to get that back from you and by the time they have collected the money and processed the fee it ends up costing them $10-15 so they charge you $20-25 - this makes their little MBAs heart's sing
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What they don't realize (presumably never having flown cattle class) and Southwestern do - is this means everyone carries a roll-on bag and spends 20minutes trying to fit it into the overhead and another 20mins trying to get it out - so the airlines has saved a $1 handling fee but has a plane tied up for an extra 30-40minutes at the gate, costing $50K/hour!

What actually happens on most airlines is they end up gate checking your bags anyway. This means they need more ramp staff to handle them and have an even longer delay as everybody climbs over each other on the jetbridge trying to find their identical roll on.
Isn't antibiotic resistant TB a major problem in Russia?
Keeping separate passwords for everything is simply not practical - nobody can remember that much. So they write them down. And because they need to look up passwords constantly, they keep the list easily accessible, i.e. easily compromised.

IMO a viable alternative is to have a few separate passwords based on how sensitive they are. Personally, I use three:
- One for regular websites where I wouldn't mind losing the account (game forums, throwaway registrations, etc.)
- One for stuff that would be seriously annoying to lose or where money is spent (my personal site, various shops, etc.)
- One for everything where money is kept or which could be used to compromise other sites (banking, paypal, ebay, google mail)
There is no HFCS "molecule"- high fructose corn syrup is a solution containing a certain percentage of fructose and glucose molecules, which are not attached to each other.

You may be confusing it with sucrose (table sugar) which does consist of a fructose and glucose molecule with a glycosidic linkage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fructose_corn_syrup
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Having a consistent load factor reduces risk.

One risk is not being able to transfer luggage from one flight to the next, and if this happens then the airline loses money by having to fix the problem.

One of the biggest costs for an airline is fuel. By reducing uncertainty in load, this makes planning less risky and the company can make better decisions.

This reduces the cost of checked luggage, which they can then turn into a competitive advantage. Customers can check in their baggage without additional costs. Checked bagged is more efficient to load, hence the planes can be loaded and unloaded more efficiently, so more flights can be made.
Anybody in Chicago? I only see a few on here - there's gotta be more! :-)
I make it a point not to install any facebook apps. I don't need them, or want the extra functionality that they provide, and I don't want my info being shared with an outside app. I use facebook so my family members know what's going on with myself and my wife and kids, and to keep in touch with old friends.
I was under the impression that in Prisoners' Dilemma, the punishment for the "sucker" was supposed to be more extreme than the punishment if both prisoners rat on each other.
"Studies conducted in other labs previously concluded that rats didn’t grasp how to succeed in the Prisoner’s Dilemma. The authors of the PLoS study noted that when experimenters observed low cooperation rates, the animals had been food deprived. Fully satiated rats, on the other hand, freely cooperated and easily solved the Prisoner’s Dilemma. These results show that the primordial drive for food in a hungry animal simply clouds judgement."

The same goes for employees by either (1) feeding them or (2) making sure they eat.

Either way, I consistently noticed a significant increase in cooperation for tasks at hand when either (1) I fully paid for food--like pizza--to share with the team, or (2) informed everyone I was ordering food and to tell me what they want and collected money.

The only difference in behavior observed between the two examples above is when I performed #1, there was always an increase in the number of "what else can I do" or "do you need anything" and more frequent inquiries about the nature of progress which would then lead to the "what else..." and "do you need..."
This piece was heavy on opinion, but light on research. Contrary to the claims of the author, the business environment did change between 2006 and when Google decided to leave. Brin's recent interview covered that exact topic.

Furthermore, this piece missed the point that while Google did block banned content, it's approach to doing so was very different from that of Baidu. Google included notices that results were removed and links briefly explaining why.

>The rest of the article devolves into an even more ridiculous assertion: that Google is somehow innately better at innovating than domestic companies, and thus, the internet market will stagnate as domestic companies sit around copying each other’s old technologies rather than moving forward. Google does have a history of innovation, of course, but are Chinese companies really fundamentally incapable of this? I reject that notion as stupid — and probably also a bit racist — but I suppose we’ll see for sure in the long run.

That idea would be stupid, but it's a strawman. The NYT piece didn't make any claims or speculation whatsoever on "inherent" or "fundamental" abilities. What the author may have been getting at was how strongly economic growth is related to openness, particularly in regards to technology. At the end of the industrial revolution, China and India represented about 40% of the global economy, far more than today. Many non-racist people would argue that the reason Japan and the west did so well last century was the freedom and incentive to innovate. See this speech by former Mexico Coordinator General of Economic Policy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KdOPY1Iqiw#t=18m40s

Since I regularly read Chinese language media myself, I don't have a strong interest in sites by foreigners about Chinese current events. However, there is one site that has always impressed me-- Danwei.org.
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Almost, easyjet and then Ryanair copied the single type, low prices and short routes idea of SouthWestern.

What they forgot to copy was the honest price, no fees policy and the extremely helpful and friendly staff of SWA and the Canadian equivalent Westjet.

What Ryan did was take the SWA idea of being profitable and added the fee structure scams of every major airline and the customer management skills of a Soviet era railway.
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Uh oh... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash
I'm okay with waiting, but I'm just wondering why a site that's about leaking things is holding a carrot in front of us.

I have a strange feeling that the video is not as juicy as we're lead to believe, and it's just a publicity stunt, which is why I'm posing the question to HN.
How did you manage to go to high school with him if he attended an online high school?
The article says "He graduated from Stanford University Online High School at age 11, and soon after enrolled full-time at UConn." Did you go to the online high school also? If so, what is that like?
Yes, I agree Facebook Apps are often not your friends, but because they sell the data they mine off of you to spammers and the like.

This example is awful. That teacher is unprofessional, imho, if she was even friending her students. At all schools I have been to- It is against the rules for teachers to contact students for reasons other than school work related issues. No playing Xbox live with my awesome Art Teacher =/. But if I were that teacher, I would accept full responsibility for (1) Joining a Social Network and not knowing what I was getting into, and (2) Becoming friends with the people I teach and the consequences that follow
Contemporary Vietnamese fine art displayed in New York 
A painting exhibition opened at a showroom of the Judith Hughes Day Contemporary Vietnamese Fine Art in New York on March 24.

The exhibition, which was part of activities to mark Asian Week in the US, was co-organised by the Boston Properties, the Midtown Arts Common and the Judith Hughes Day Contemporary Vietnamese Fine Art.

On display were unique paintings created by famous Vietnamese artists, featuring beautiful landscape, historical scenes, and depictions of the religious, cultural and spiritual life of the Vietnamese people.

Judith Hughes Day, a member of the exhibition’s organising board, said she has visited Vietnam many times and invited Vietnamese artists to introduce their works in the US. Her showroom aims to display works created by Vietnamese artists in both Vietnam and the US.

The exhibition will last until April 30.
would you be happier if he said something like $20k or $10k?
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> stifling media reports about wikileaks, snatching them and imprisoning them on fluff charges

it is well known that in the US mainstream media imposes self censorship on such issues
you stole 2 hours of my life with this site. So much fun.

After discovering that there's no XSS protection what so ever, the fun really started. I'm still sorry about that location.href='http://microsoft.com, but using a browser with JS disabled, we managed to find out how the script posts the message and were able to fix it that way.

Of course, then the "funny" people began crashing browsers using various methods.

That's when my coworker and I came up with the idea of fixing the hole by patching window.updateMessage, so everyone who was on the site when we were doing that was protected against further attempts at crashing browsers.

Now if we could have XSS protection built-in, this could really be so much fun. The "discussions" going on before the exploiting started all around were really funny.
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it's coders.es (he posted it above as well)
I didn't even realize SXSW was a music festival for a long time, because all anybody (in the startup/tech world) talked about was going there to launch their iPhone app.
@JunkDNA If I fly an airline that charges for luggage, I analyze the fees vs. shipping with UPS, FedEx, etc. and will actually use FedEx or UPS to ship my luggage to my destination.

You can look at UPS and FedEx map zones to how long it will take for your "package" to arrive from your departure zone to your destination zone.

I have sent luggage in a box earlier than my departure to my destination using the lowest cost shipping and have 99% of the time had it arrive the day I was to arrive--the other 1% it comes a day early and in that one case I called the hotel to inform them and they accepted and held the package for me.
Because I attended an online high school. ;)

In case you are wondering, though, yes I've met him in person. Many of us would meet up during school breaks at a central location, like Chicago.
I mean VCs should invest in a higher number of startups, even if it's done by allowing less money per startup. At the very least they should have a simpler application process, with a clear decision time frame. These improvements would be hugely beneficial to startups, and would take just a bit of effort on the part of VCs/investors.
Umm, this article quotes the numbers on accredited investors from the Business Week article (http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/mar2010/sb20100...) as fact, when it was clear they were poorly thought out speculation. How do people this stupid actually become VCs?

Original discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1213658
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I use a lot of Perl 5.8 at the LoC because it's the only dynamic language that comes installed by default on Solaris 10. That, and because it is the primary language of a proprietary product that we have to use. I'd love to use Perl 5.10, but then I'd have to install it on all of the machines on which my code is expected to run. If I had that kind of control, I'd skip Perl and go straight to Python or Ruby. (Actually, that was a lie, I'd use Common Lisp if I could.) As it is, I've standardized on Perl 5.8.
Maybe you didn't read the linked article - it points out that applications installed by other people can access a lot of your data directly without your permission, because you shared it with those people and they installed the app. I personally didn't realize how much information it supported sharing automatically, so I just went to FB and found the control panel and turned most of that off.
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