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Jesus fscking Christ. What these kids need is a little support, not some idiot tearing them down because they suddenly find themselves in exactly the right place at exactly the right time with exactly the right idea

Bullshit - what they need is tearing into now (just like this; politely) so they realise that they can't wing it on the good vibe. They gotta produce something good off this money; otherwise it's a potential disaster!

Call it a reality check.
I can read it. It's Arabic.

The title translates as watching a game live between two teams. Flagged :)
You might want to take a look at sbt http://code.google.com/p/simple-build-tool/, which is a build tool targeted at scala that can also build java code.

Cf. http://zegoggl.es/2009/12/building-android-apps-in-scala-wit...
http://blog.recursivity.com/post/470846055/simple-build-tool...
Looking up does not add to TWC's bottom line. So there's no incentive to put effort into automating. It would be wasting shareholder money. It probably makes more sense to do it manually and bill the $45 to the legal case.
While the advice is good in and of itself, it boils down to this:

* Put yourself in the other person's position, and think about how they'll feel.

So often people are entirely wrapped up in their own world that they don't step outside their own heads to think about the other person's situation.

Be considerate, consider the other person. Be understanding and helpful. It's unfortunate that doing so is so rare, but the upside is that if you're one of the few, you'll be amazed what you get back.
My issue is this; Diaspora is two things;

- firstly it is a very complex sounding solution (which is great in a way - I love technically interesting ideas/research)

- secondly it's not a direct solution to the problem.

The issue, as I see it, is that Facebook have a stranglehold over the social net. The solution isn't about hosting our own content (that is clearly impractical for the majority of social users). The solution is about splitting the infrastructure between multiple providers - but in a way that allows a fully integrated experience for users.

That way the "industry" will be self regulating (because if a company looks bad people can migrate quickly away from it).
I was surprised to read in the story they get ip requests from law enforcement for suicide threats.
UK Chancellor targets IT projects in £6 billion cuts
The Future is Now – Interview With a 12 Year Old iPhone Dev
Will Evans is an iPhone app developer from Atherstone, UK. He likes to play guitar, Xbox, hang out with friends, play football (soccer for those of us in North America), and play around on the computer. Earlier this week, I touched base with Will to ask him some questions about being an iPhone developer. Did I mention that Will is twelve years old? Here are the results of our little Q & A session.
> Jason's third point is, I feel, the strongest. People aren't contributing to Diaspora because of Diaspora, they're contributing as an act against Facebook.

For a hypothetical open project it might be good to distinguish between "contributing" (code/docs/whatever) and "donating" (money).
Having tried to wrap your head around function programming puts you leaps and bounds above most programmers.
How masturbation became known as a sin...
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Nice - I can imagine a workflow where you keep two vertical panes open, the left one with the main file you're working with, the right one with a whole bunch of auxiliary files; then you can use these mappings to easily jump between the right-hand files, while keeping them all visibly accessible. Gonna try this!
I did something similar a long time back for generating mxml (the markup used for building Flex apps).
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The Open platform fallacy
Translation: "People who can speak Chinese are not necessarily Chinese people."
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Yes huge difference. It still amazes me that some geeks have trouble identifying that they are not their own target market.
So many people seem to be reinventing the wheel. Is there perhaps an open source solution?
fair, but let them finish the finance properly. This is not a reality check, it a move to stop the finance from a potential competing tool
> Can someone please invent a game where people like this can play obsessively, and yet the results are useful?

In terms of making productive output? Maybe not. But there's plenty of games that'll give you a deeper appreciation of how to think and will help you develop your character. Civilization IV will teach you a lot about how the path of technology generally went, historical buildings and achievements, and is good for thinking about constraints and balancing. Darklands (a DOS game from 1992, can be downloaded for free and run on te emulator Dosbox) is a very hard, very enjoyable game that gives a pretty good idea of the superstitions and beliefs of medieval Germany. It's really, really hard too, you're likely to killed a lot and have to learn how to play.

I thought Planescape: Torment was incredibly well written, as well written as most books, and makes you think on some interesting philosophical questions. Very original sort of game.

I play Conquer Club online a little bit, which is a Risk clone. Lots of math and strategy. Also you get some knowledge of geography playing on the different maps.

I try to make my consumption a little productive when possible - reading books, watching movies, and playing games that teach me things in addition to being enjoyable. So I'm not sure if you could make a game that caused people to produce explicitly, but there are a fair few that you'll teach you things of more or less value.
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> What sort of company would do that, you ask? Why, the company which already has all the info Facebook doesn't know about you, and would love to get access to the info Facebook does. You know, that search engine with the colorful logo.

And that's fine. But because they'll commit to integrating into the open standard that Diaspora defines, at any given time, you can take your friends and leave.

If GMail (apps) starts messing with the privacy of my e-mail, or wants me to pay more than I want to, or changes the layout to something I don't find pleasing, instead of joining a group complaining, I can leave them in a heartbeat. The people I exchange emails with won't notice a bit. The promise of Diaspora is giving me that option for social networks.

There will be a GMail, there will be an Exchange server and there will be a buggy open-source self-hosted PHP-app (and many many more) in the Diaspora universe.
That's just the uscis fee. The employer is allowed to make you pay some portion of the legal fees.
The same reason lawyers can charge $75 a fax.
yap, they clearly didn't get any support, feedback or momentum.
No. Because I follow like 350+ people, I dont have time to read through every tweet. Also sometimes that tweet spam is relevant, you may notice someone is at some location close by via 4sq and meet up with that person, maybe I care if my close friends had eggs this morning for breakfast(maybe not, but you get the idea).
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No announcement yet, but the ISOs have been uploaded.
This I believe to be true.
you could also use twitter lists.
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You are not going to catch all the good information that is out there with your follow list. So searching fills in the gaps(if your interested in a subject area or something). Twitter lists help too. (ie/ gather up all the people who are known to talk about x subject and put them in a list)
Here's a twist - write them all down, but have a common prefix, suffix or replacement that you use. So every password on the paper is followed by "pi43?".
I use an algorithm to have different high security passwords for different websites and still be able to remember them following rules I adopt for every website. I mix my username, the website url, a known token and some punctuation.

Example: let's say that I need a password for hacker news.

- Let's say that I like dolphins, so my chosen token will be Dol

- I decide to take the second letter from each word in my username: exa (D e usE x M a china)

- I decide to take the third letter from each word in the domain name: wom

- I then choose some punctuation to mix in the password: #&%

Now I'm ready to assemble my password: Dol#exa&wom%

If I have an account on www.yahoo.com with ginger.roger as username, the password would be Dol#io&whm%

It's long enough (but I can making it longer, if I want), uses capital letters and special characters (you can also throw in some numbers, this was just an example) and if someone looks into a database the password is not distinguishable from a random one.
> they've shown they've had the chops to try and the initiative to think out of the box.

Really? Are there any serious geeks that haven't hashed out a basic architecture (napkin-level) for a distributed Facebook-replacement over a beer or some coffee? I know I have, twice. The difference between me and them? A pretty website, a video and (probably the kicker) patronage by the NYT.

I agree that it shouldn't reflect negatively on them, quite the opposite, but are we back to 1998, where a good idea, "out of the box" and CS-grad in the same sentence is a qualification?
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Yes, there are games that genuinely benefit the player. I'd like to see more of them, too. They take a lot of work, and it's hard to make them have very wide appeal, so the benefit to society is genuine, but small.

The idea I'd like to see gain traction is for someone, or several someones, to write a game that may only get a small audience, but to get a truly hardcore audience, and to have the results of the game-play to be the benefit.

To quote Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear: How hard can it be?
From what I heared here and there, one of their plans is try to "embed" Facebook, allowing people to view Facebook info or switch to "private" P2P mode when the other one has diaspora that. So it's not either/or.

Concerning hosting, yeah there's google etc, but as they seem to have discussed with Elben Moglen, they will possibly also consider his ideas about self-hosting on small pluggable computers. And yeah, you probably already hava one: your DSL box. Some providers could play a a cool move on this one.

edit: I don't know if they will have the time, but with encrypted replicated data and external data stores, many things are possible. E.g. you could host the most sensible personnal info and links on your box backed up somewhere and have your photos at Flickr.
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re: BBC-type:

I can see China, Cuba, and Burma doing that. Are you sure you'd want to read what their 'journalists' would write?
> this surprised me a bit as well

Surprised isn't the word. That freaked me out totally. I was I hadn't read this article.
Diaspora may or may not succeed. The whole "node" concept turns me off, personally...

I'm more interested in the idea that is could compete with Facebook at all. Facebook has become too big for a small startup to just step up and replace it.

The reason I say this is that startups tend to follow the founders' vision, then get iterated based on customer feedback.

But "replacing Facebook" isn't a solidified enough vision to act upon. The project team would need to first find out what "Facebook" means to the average user. Because, like it or not, the readers of HN are NOT the average FB user. There would need to be some dedicated research done to determine what feature set would even appeal to the masses.

Once that is done, then we can talk solutions and build a team to make it happen.

But trying to point at any extant project and say it is the replacement project... I just don't buy it.
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我是华人可是不是中国人。

你好。
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Clickbank (www.clickbank.com) which is used by most internet/affiliate marketers is a great solution if you don't mind that they'll manage all your billing/affiliate transactions. They have a secure shopping cart, they automatically pay affiliates and the setup is just 50$ or something. But they do take about 10% of each transaction.

But you can't review your affiliates or in anyway edit their payment process.

On the other hand they have over 10.000 affiliates in all niches.

It all depends on what your priorities are - do you want an army of affiliates or would you just like to offer the program to a few selected ones.

(I'm in no way affiliated with Clickbank, we're also looking for payment processing for our web app)
我看你先加強你的英文再回來比較好吧. 本網站的內容比較不好學. 也許你可以找個網頁可以跟學習中文的外國朋友做個交換,像lingq.com. 在優庫也可看很多美國電影,電視節目. 多聽多看,這樣子會進步得比較快. 只是要找內容比較簡單一點的,太難的話就沒意思了.
One brilliant comment from the article - that he loves bribes now that he is established, and the pay-wall locks out upstart competitors.
I use this way too, and I also do a musical version. I can associate a melody with random letters it becomes easier for me to memorize.
Im exactly where you are at except I am also moving away from PHP to Python (the lang makes SO much sense) :)
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For me is the opposite, Art is the group of the most elaborated things we do for sex.

Evolutionary psichology 101.
This could potentially be a good thing.

The budgets we currently see when the public sector is involved are borderline vulgar.

Most of these projects could be made for 1/10th of what they are currently being made for.

By being forced to cut spending perhaps the governmental institutions will start to listen to more lean oriented approaches.

Unlikely, but possible.
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How much does a US-based VPN service cost? What would be a reasonable price?

If any China-based hackers are interested, I'd consider setting one up for a price on the short side of fair.
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Will they also start taking the tube without complaining that they're not riding in a rolls Royce?
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I was shocked when I first learned that German companies, as late as 10 years ago or so, could deduct from taxes the foreign bribes they paid.
How about: "You hear the one about the people who thought they could maintain a first world standard of living while replacing cheap means of energy production with happy thoughts and butterfly power"?
This is so unscalable, it's a non-starter. This guy got a job because he had already proven himself by making an app, and a combination of persistence, boldness and luck. The work for free part removed a friction-point in the hiring process, but I think it's a safe guess that it wasn't the primary factor in securing him the job.

The method should be, "if you're closed to be hired somewhere, but feel there's some friction for the company to make the decision, offering a free trial might work."

And of course there's the back of the medal: offering to work for free sends very strong signals of desperation and placing a low premium on your own abilities.

Offering to work for free does not significantly reduce overhead. Introducing a new hire to the project, code, repository, bug-tracker and reviewing his work IS overhead. Saying "Hi, meet Nick, he flew in on his own dime to do your jobs for free" to the team is a morale-killer. Killing morale IS overhead.
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It's pretty easy to tell them apart - if you see any overtaking, it's Nascar.
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They do that in Italy too, and it's pretty much a complete waste of my money.
GoDaddy out of control - Sites hacked again
Sure, that's one way to look at it. But the more people you follow (seriously, who in their right mind would follow 50,000 people!), even noise gets noisier.

I think a quick and neat workaround would be to assign "importance" levels to folks you follow. For e.g. @billgates might be a '1' whereas @amanda9875 might be a '5' - so while you get every tweet @billgates sends out, you might only get every fifth message @amanda9875 tweets.
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It's actual a point of maturity that the language is rich enough to perform the function of the language it was originally coded with.

I remember in the early 2000's when MS were first making .net, being self-hosted was actually a huge deal and celebrated by the dev team.
I am definitely moving away from GoDaddy. I had some small sites on their shared servers that just got hacked again..

If you are not following, this is the 3rd mass hack at godaddy in just a few weeks:

http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/2010/05/13/hosting-with...
http://blog.sucuri.net/2010/05/found-code-used-to-inject-mal...
This is a great article - Further discussion on the same on HN

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=127736

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1319034 [Posted 12 days ago]
Is LLVM going to be a good thing for every language? I see more and more moving towards it.
If it's not in English, I just flag it. If the poster wanted to tell us something they would at least write a comment here (or even better, write a blog post in English that links to the foreign language article).
Part of the problem is the ridiculous procurement processes that the government departments make you go through. The cost of sale is therefore amazingly large, which leads to large project costs for the few companies that are willing to put up with this process, while erecting a barrier of entry for smaller and cheaper organisations.
Probably. It was reported in The Times that Cameron has slashed the size of the PM's entourage, e.g. no motorcycle outriders for his motorcade. He says if he gets stuck in a traffic jam he'll just wait like anyone else. Whereas I remember when Tony Blair wanted to go for a drive, entire roads were shut. Nothing like going for a sandwich at lunch and finding all of Ludgate Circus cordoned off and I just wanted to get to Pret on the other side of the road!
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It's a weird and emotive thing. One thing that is very risky in UK politics is cutting NHS spending. It is the amount you spend that the unsophisticated electorate judges you on, not the results. So New Labour spent GBP 20Bn on IT systems that don't work and no-one wanted anyway and were lauded for it. The Tories could slash that in an instant, but then they'll have to deal with accusations of "cutting the health budget".
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Another perspective, the Zero Rupee note:

http://boingboing.net/2010/02/05/zero-rupee-note-that.html

http://blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/paying-zero-public-s...

tldr: just calling out a bribe-taker in the right way can change their behavior.
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pet peeve: civilization games have almost nothing to do with even the standard historical interpretation of how technology developed and affected society.
If everyone is a "victim of circumstance" as you put it, there would be no social mobility at all.

But there is, so you are wrong.
Apple's iPhone replaces BlackBerry for Bankers
This pays too much homage to Ant in my opinion.

If you were to strip out the XML from Ant what is left is a poorly designed language which has little expressive power. Short of the surface structure of Ant is nothing like Lisp.

The Ant community couldn't even agree what sort of language it was. A hack pretending not be a hack.
5 low-risk, high-reward experiments for IT
These attacks are being done by the same group. In the last few weeks, they used:

http :// www.indesignstudioinfo. com
http :// zettapetta. com
http :// holasionweb. com
http :// www. losotrana. com

All of them registered by the same person (and hosted at the same IP). I had my share of problems with GoDaddy, but let's not forget that they are victims as well.
I do this, but I leave it on a sticky note behind a piece of furniture, or in a file folder related to the account. But I don't put the actual password on; rather, my passwords consist of a "leetspeak" word, and the sticky note has a fairly simple hint one to two degrees out-- but if you even guessed the answer, you would still have to figure out the numbers in combination.

For example, if I used 5p0ng3b0b, I would write "who lives in a pineapple under the sea?" or "Patrick"
My advice: Clone Cloud27 [1] and get an initial version for people to play with.

Then fill out the more distributy bits later.

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[1] http://cloud27.com/ its BSD licensed (IIRC) so should be good to clone/fork immediately

source: http://www.djangosites.org/s/cloud27-com/
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I strongly disagree with the idea of keeping passwords in your wallet. Do I really need my PayPal password in my wallet? No. If I'm doing something that requires a password I'm probably at home or the office and I should have a relatively safe place to keep passwords at either location.
The world is not as black and white as this article suggests.

"We do not know how to write secure software."

100% secure? No, perhaps not. But we know a few things that could be done much better than they are today.

For one thing, you can't leak information that you don't have. Companies today tend to default to grabbing more information for their databases and keeping it around indefinitely. We need much stronger data protection laws than most countries have today to counteract this.

For another thing, "pushing the envelope and releasing features as quickly as possible to outpace your competitors" is not an excuse for not running a decent software development process. Seriously, Google was collecting that data for three years and no-one had looked at any of it and thought something was wrong? The cost of phishing and identity theft even in purely economic terms are already significant, and those costs are rising and don't take into account the more important human suffering aspect. A statutory fine of, say, $10,000 per individual per negligent breach should focus the attention a little more on getting basic testing right and doing something about problems before they happen, and a little less on trying to infringe everyone's privacy faster than any competitor can.

As I have noted before, such a level of fines would be an unacceptable risk for many businesses and they would probably have to stop collecting and retaining personal information at all. I have no problem with this, as long as the negligence criterion is applied sensibly. Most companies don't need to store a lot of data about us, and those for whom it is an important part of their business model can learn to take reasonable steps to prevent abuse.
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Whether she champions for bribing or it seeme to be that her observations of the form "bribes can make things in the economy move smoother, and might actually contribute to growth" dangerous to me.

One should not forget that bribes contribute to black money (nobody declares it and hence no tax on it). So if a business invests "X" amount in money which is legitimate and if they invest "Y" amount as bribes they would never show the amount spent on bribes in their books. But they have to make a profit on the total amount invested (X+Y) and one way they might go about is by shortchanging the customers (either low quality or poor service). The argument that in an open market a competitor can offer a better price/service ratio wouldn't fly since any entity entering the business would have to spend some amount as bribe money. So all in all in my opinion the customer ends up paying more (or getting less for what he paid for). Given this I wonder how bribes can positively contribute to overall growth.