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> the theory of requiring business registration verification or name verification is most likely well intentioned.

But what good will that do?

Surely having a verifiable online ID might be useful in collaborating with other people that might need some assurance you're a real person that's accountable for his behavior.

But for domains, the only requirement should be as it is now ... that you must give accurate contact information. And asking for an address is too much for me anyway ... since if you're not careful about protecting it, you can become a target for maniacs (I'm still pretty pissed off about what happened to Kathy Sierra, which had the best blog I've ever read).

Either way, you won't get rid of spammers, fraudsters or jerkiness.
AOL (seed), CrowdSpring, and (less directly) Amazon (Mech Turk) has this business model.
Might just have a button that you have to press, which after trying to use my iphone while laying on a couch might be nice.
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When we're out of beta we will be offering several plans, probably limiting the max clients. There will always be a free plan though :)
Very good point. Another perspective that shapes China is its long term view of things. If you take a hard, LONG look at China's history, it's shaped by the peasant class. The dynastic cycles have been the result of peasant uprisings, so while everyone in the West likes to focus on the developing cities, hot technologies, etc, it's really how well the peasant class does that will shape China.
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Remember in Civ 2 when you'd build two cities right next to each other?
Assuming math encompasses Godel's theorem, then computer science can only be a subset of math at best, since a computer can not prove Godel's theorem.
To me, that just sounds like what the Internet does by its nature.
This is a repost of Jason's post from his blog.
Here's the HN discussion on that post. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1175416
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I regret saying that he's "as good as dead". My excuse is that I was sleep-deprived and frustrated for personal reasons when I wrote that.

That said, let's imagine another scenario. In a late night, your mother is being raped right before my eyes. It is my moral obligation to report this, isn't it? Of course, I can choose to exercise my free right and not report this incident, because, it's my life, and I can do whatever I want with it... but if I have the capability to do so, I think I should rather satisfy my moral obligation. But maybe that's just me. And maybe you'd see better if you pulled your head out of Ayn Rand's arse.

Perelman has the capacity and capability to give fascinating gifts of knowledge to this world, and I hope that we all come to respect his wishes (to honor him in a way that it doesn't offend him), so that the newfound knowledge is used for good to better mankind.
Our central location won't hurt either. I will get behind this initiative but only if it include a provision to add running blue lights up the corners of the pyramid like some gamer's modded chassis.
Luke Redpath has also published an interesting post: Pushing events to your iPhone using WebSockets and Pusher
http://lukeredpath.co.uk/blog/pushing-events-to-your-iphone-...
For Anu, as a serial entrepreneur, there must have been some failures. Ask lots of questions about those and how they might have been avoided. What lessons were learned? How is trial and error used to make better startups in the future? What things are important to remember and forget? What are some of the less intuitive things to think about? What are some motivations.

Ask Fred about Zynga and why he was quiet about it so long. Why does he think what they were doing is acceptable? Ask him why he doesn't push Zynga to give the ill gotten gains back.

Ask the VCs how to techies can manage expectations and package their startups in a way that can help them better understand them. What motivates them to invest in a particular startup. Do they actually read emails? What's the best way to contact them? What is an introverted techie to do? Can a techie focus on the tech stuff and still succeed in a VC backed startup? How?

For Ed of course, what kinds of prejudices did he face in a world dominated by twenty somethings? How did he balance risk inherent in older life with risk in a startup? What is different at that age than a 20 something entrepreneur? Do people respect his opinions more or was he considered washed up? Why did he wait so long? How has the environment changed over the past couple of decades?
jhancock, you might be right on this, but the problem I see is that your thinking is still within the Party line. Party says that censorship must be done, so everyone should obey the Party. But what I think Brin understood is, that it is just not correct to obey Chinese communist party... that it is wrong to do that. So they just stopped to do that after realizing that it is wrong.
More particularly, from the submitted article, "There is no measurable physiological benefit from placebo interventions for any objective outcome. There is a measured benefit for some subjective outcomes (mostly pain, nausea, asthma, and phobias), but the wide variation in effect size suggests this is due to trial design (and therefore bias) rather than a real effect." In my words, it might be expected that one would see a placebo effect if the clinical records are based on patient self-reports of, e.g., pain or nasal congestion, but a placebo effect would be quite astounding if they were statistically significant over multiple double-blind trials in detection of a chemical in a blood test.
i have a second source who validates that they're ok, just busy looking for bandwidth in a politically neutral state/jurisdiction. If anyone knows anyone who has that, pls let me know & i'll pass it on....
Also, Socket.IO fallbacks to flash and other non-socket methods (htmlfile, xhr polling, xhr multipart, more to come), while conserving a WebSocket-like API. And you can implement any protocol you want on top of it (such as STOMP, Bayeux, XMPP).
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I was doing my taxes the other day and clicked a button to import some information. It automatically upgraded me from the free version of the tax software (which doesn't have that specific functionality) to the paid version -- no confirmation, no "are you sure?", no undo function.

Had I not been planning on upgrading to the paid version anyway, I'd have been really, really upset.

Compare this to, say, Amazon. In order to purchase something, I add it to my cart, and then go through a checkout process, which clearly details what I'm buying and lets me remove stuff from my cart. It's pretty dang hard to accidentally buy something on Amazon.

Having an "enable" checkbox or a post-click "are you sure you want to [clear description of what you clicked]?" confirmation are great ways to help users avoid accidentally deleting something they wanted to send, or sending something they wanted to save, or buying something they wanted to remove from their cart.
Court order?

Your argument might make sense if it was law enforcement making the request. But do you really think companies should ignore court orders?
Sorry. Bit more traffic than our corner of the Internet is used to getting. Working on it.
Are you not a native English speaker? I'm a native English speaker, and the meaning of everything was immediately obvious to me. In fact, I've heard similar constructs used in English before.
Ok, but Schmidt's decision about China was a miscalculation, let's admit it. It brought a lot of problems for Google, and didn't bring them that much money. They weren't that much profitable there, despite quite a large market share.
Great article. I have to admit though, I'm a huge fan of SQL Server :) I would love to see more in depth comparisons.
I'm not very moved by this action either; this type of "moral stand" usually just serves to make the doer feel righteous rather than actually helping anyone. But, as an American, I really can't understand why you would say

"For the most part, I feel more safe and free in Shanghai than the U.S."

By "safe", are you just talking about physical security from crime? If so, I don't know why crime rate is very pertinent to the discussion. (...or did you mean safe from the government?)

And how could you feel more free? I'm no expert, but I've never heard anyone say that people are more free in China, civil-rights-wise.

"For the most part, Chinese people I meet from all walks of life and age groups feel more free than they did 10 years ago."

I don't think many people would disagree that China is more free now than 10 years ago. But that doesn't mean it is sufficiently free (or as free as the US).
Looking good! One question: As I was checking out the "theater booking" demo, I opened two windows, and in one window I checked out 2 seats. It required an actual refresh on the other window to show the updated seating chart; however, on the other app I tried (to-do list), that was not necessary.

Was this done on purpose?
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Windows software, the key benefit of Windows, won't be compatible with a Windows on ARM, without a x86 simulator (slow) or a re-compiler of executables (tricky).
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A 64-bit instruction set is about more than just the size of a pointer. A 64-bit CPU has 64-bit general-purpose registers, and it has versions of arithmetic and logic instructions operating on these. Because 32 bits is enough for most purposes, instructions must also have a variant operating only on the lower half of the registers, the upper half being either ignored or sign-extended from the lower as appropriate. This makes the CPU core a fair bit more complicated, meaning larger silicon footprint are higher power consumption. I agree a 64-bit ARM is unlikely in the immediate future.

Extending the physical address space beyond 4GB is possible without any changes to the instruction set. See x86 PAE for an example. In short, the MMU translates a 32-bit virtual address into a wider physical address. This allows running multiple processes with a total memory requirement of more than 4GB. As the vast majority of applications never need more than 4GB of virtual space anyway this isn't much of a restriction in practice. I reckon this kind of thing is something we might see in an ARM core relatively soon, at least if they keep growing in the netbook market.
Agreed. Thank you for the feedback. :-)
Still a huge start.
Can you tell us more about your startup? How does it work? I've always thought it would be interesting to move the word of mouth job knowledge to a software tool. I know all the jobs we have open at my company and my friends know their open jobs. Why not share these openly either anonymously or via your friend network. Show who's moving where and what they're doing now in some easy to digest format.
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Jobs HN: We are available seems like a great idea.
I'm getting more and more annoyed by these kind of articles. Why are people talking about NoSQL and relational databases as if they're solving the same problems? There is no "NoSQL" mindset to fight against, and there is no "RDBMS" mindset to fight against: the only mindset to fight against, is a mindset that says a silver bullet exists.
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Yes. I think you hit the key point here. The article presumes that "Brooklyn Density" is "living together comfortably".

I respectfully disagree with that presumption.
Still working through the article, but does anyone else think the layout is really, really bad? I know it's all the rage these days to lay things out blogozine style, but this seems worse than most.

When outlining a 3 step process, do you really need a gigantic image of the numbers "1, 2, 3" half the height of my screen?

The illustrations don't really complement the text, and interrupt text flow. The font choice is also questionable for screen readability...
But why would you _need_ to get from one side of New Brooklyn to the other any more frequently than you need to get from one side of the US to the other today?
#1 should become something that he can add unique value to, based on experience, expertise, or skills.

If you reverse the order it would be: solve a real customer problem, that they are willing to pay for, where you add unique to the solution.
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You can get a good (simplified) overview of XMonad at this site (http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/blog/2007/05/01#xmonad_part...). They show how to deal with lots a very side-effect happy domain, and still have a nice and clean design.
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Yes.

You can apply for specific jobs with specific teams. That does not mean you'll wind up in that job if hired. However you have a lot of say in where you eventually get placed.

I personally interviewed for a software developer position, but eventually wound up being hired as a site reliability engineer. (An SRE is sort of a cross between a sysadmin and software developer.) Pretty big shift, but not one I was unhappy about.
Well, both the USA and China are foreign countries to me and this is an (albeit US dominated) international forum so I'm not swayed by your 'at home' argument.

However I am more concerned with what is happening with the US than China even given the mismatch in scale and extent of the Chinese condition. The US has a far wider impact on the world as a whole than China.

This doesn't really change my argument: from an objective standpoint China is a much nastier place than the USA for freedoms and human rights.
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Glad you think it's cool, we are pretty excited.

Authentication and access control are features which are very important, and we are working on a couple of options for doing it. Something similar to what you have described is the current favourite, though the hashing probably won't be passed through at channel level.

We decided to get the Pusher launched into beta with stuff like this left out so that we could get a gauge for people's general enthusiasm for such a service.

We'll be busy in the next couple of weeks reacting to feedback, so it is great to have these kind of comments :)
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I don't think a free operating system in the mainstream is going to make it any harder for Apple to keep their premium market. Yes, it allows manufacturers to cut their prices even lower, but, just like in the PC market, Apple isn't competing at the volume end.

It won't be hard for other manufacturers to enter the tablet space. Competing with the iPad's integration, build quality, and usability, though, will be.
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What will end up happening to the 'real bad guys'
http://xkcd.com/538/
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I had a similar idea a few weeks ago: I wondered if, given enough blog posts/tweets by a given person, could you create a close approximation of a their personality as an AI.
Sounds like a bit of a bug.

There may be minor glitches in the demo apps. They haven't been where we've been focussing the majority of our energy :)
There are freedoms and freedoms, and it really depends on your needs.

I'm a neighbor of Bulgaria, and I remember what it was like behind the curtain, although I was only 8 when it fell.

The problem with totalitarianism is the inherent corruption it begets. This is from our experience and from history in general ... I don't think I ever heard of a totalitarian government that wasn't corrupt on all layers.

The biggest force that works against corruption is mass-media, that with all its imperfections it mostly works as a method of informing citizens. Take that away, and you'll end up with even more corruption.

My mother used to bring me bananas in a shoe-box, hiding it from her comrades because the economic rebirth of my country required sacrifices such as limiting the import of foreign goods and exporting most of our internal products (so food was in limited supply). To buy a kilo of meat you had to wake up in the morning and stay in line for a few hours. Electricity was also cut off for a few hours a day.

All of this while the leaders enjoyed such a luxury that would make the Playboy mansion fade in comparison, while mass-media hailed economic growth ... and this was the picture projected to the outside world too.

So yeah ... I'm a skeptic of China's quality of life. Either way, if you don't have the freedom to point out the government's mistakes it will degenerate into something far worse sooner or later.
I have said it before and I will say it again.

What apple sell is not the device. They make money on the device but that is not what they really sell you.

What they sell is easy access to content and the experiences you can have with it.

Apple will never be the most sold product in the world and they don't and shouldn't care. They are and will continue to be on of the most profitable companies and that they both do and should care about.

No one cares about the tech specs. They care about the price.

Those who can afford it will buy one but most people wont be able to afford the iPad let alone willing to spend that kind of money on it but they will all dream of it.

And that is why Steve Jobs have nothing to worry about. Completely different market segments.
Food is just like TV or cigarettes. It alleviates boredom. It gives us a good feeling to eat. We eat foods that are too dense with calories. Steak. Chicken.

I'm not ready to try it myself, but I assume that it would be damn hard to get obese on a diet of steak and chicken.

I made some changes to my diet recently though, not because of the need to lose weight, but rather trying to optimise it for health.

I eliminated sugar from my diet, all grains, most of the starch. I try to get 60-70% of my calories from fats, mostly animal fats, 20-30% from proteins, rest from carbs - fresh fruit and vegetables. I eat 3 times a day strict, no snacks. I do not overeat, but I just eat till I'm not hungry. A lot of steak and chicken by the way. :)

So far in the first 3 months I lost 6kg without even trying - went from 82kg to 76kg at 178cm height - and 6cm from the waistline.
Or it could be another Linux on the desktop situation which is an interesting parallel since it enjoys the same set of advantages/disadvantages against the competition.
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How does Apple locate users where they are for iTunes Store
Is this done purely via banking information on the iTunes account?

And/or does Apple use IP look up to locate you?

What happens when a users is outside of the 44 countries designated in the iTunes store.
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In the spirit of making things easier, it would be great if you could also post how open you are to qualified applicants from other countries and what help you can provide, if any, with visas/citizenship.

This might seem like a fringe request, but I am sure there a quite a few awesome, available developers willing to actually relocate to a neighboring country (Canada/USA & vice versa, is pretty frequent AFAIK) to tackle an interesting opportunity.

I, for one, wouldn't mind relocating to the US (from Canada) if I liked the opportunity/challenge/team. I have no problem finding job openings for which I am qualified and interested in, but applying usually ends up being a waste of time for both parties when it is not clear whether or not it is possible.

Seriously, if you are open to it, don't keep it a secret! Help us find you! :)
I do not have the vocabulary to explain how much I agree with you. Haven't we gotten to the point where people understand what "use the tool that fits your need" means?
The comment:

> But sure, I guess there's someone out there who's never seen a PDF resume.

Seems to imply that he feels that his experience is the same for 99% of the rest of the world, and that tbrownaw's evidence is in the minority. The problem is that both of them only have anecdotal evidence, so neither can claim to have 'the big picture,' though tptacek seems to infer that he does ("But sure, I guess there's someone out there" implies that this 'someone' is all alone/the only person).
I have a feeling that "I made up a random database as big as Digg's, and look, I'm getting 1000x the speed!!!" would kind of tend to imply that you're not accurately replicating their problem.
Could it be possible that GoDaddy was under court order to say that they have not had any requests? My recollection is fuzzy, I think there was a hub-bub a while back about librarians being ordered to lie about Patriot Act requests.
Your criticism of this article is off the mark (though it may apply to other articles). The entire point of this article is that he is trying to replicate the exact same problem that Digg was reporting using a different RDBMS and discussing what that means.

Maybe his numbers are off and his technique is wrong, but this article isn't making a one-sized-fits-all mistake.
I agree with you! And on that note I would like to see more articles that describe problems that NoSQL stuff is good at. This is probably the main reason why there is so much confusion. Everybody is talking about how great cassandra/mongodb/couchdb/... is, but nobody tells you where and how to actually use it.
You're wrong. Apple does care and does want to sell the most products in the world. If it didn't, it wouldn't challenge technology that another company develops that's similar to their own; they'd let it go because they build the better product anyway.
>I don't understand this article.... cp file /dev/stdout > file

Clearly, since this is point 1 in TFA. file is truncated before it is read, leaving you with a 0-length file.
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