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/nothing/ is completely secure.

I think off-site (and inaccessible) backups are the first thing you should think when you think about 'security' - after that, it's a relative thing.

the basics (after backups) are

1. disable anything you don't need (firewalls are part of this... at the very least, the default RHEL firewall closes off almost everything. that way, if you have some poorly configured service running that you don't need, it's less of a big deal 'cause it's not accessible from the Internet.

2. use reasonable passwords. My opinion is that if you can remember it, it's not a good password, but I'm pretty paranoid. at the very least avoid dictionary words (including 'leet' dictionary words) include mixed case and punctuation. If you can use keys instead of passwords, that's even better. Personally, I always disable remote root login with a password. use a key if you must remotely login with root, but most of the time logging in as you and using sudo or su is sufficient.

3. stay on the security or announce mailing list for every bit of software you have exposed to the internet, and upgrade when there are holes.

3. is where your distro comes in. if all the software you use is provided by your distro, and you check the security mailing list every day, you are ahead of most people.

With those three basics, well, you aren't 100% covered, but you have a good start.
One of the first things you need to do is goto the Keyboard section of System Preferences and enable Full Keyboard Access for all controls. Makes OSX more keyboard friendly.
Taking the Mystery out of Scaling a Company
I concur. Not known for being super cheap I'd imagine though.
Oh wow, thanks. It's definitely not as good as the Instapaper iPhone app, but I've been tweaking it over time and it's slowly getting better and better :-).
It was Patlabor 2, a heavy duty labor that could drive over the top of cars to access a bomb threat parked on the bridge ahead.

Great movie, by the way.
Check-in on Foursquare w/o taking your phone out of the pocket
I guess it is a stretch, but I love this type of thinking. For one, if they could make it work then it would be a fantastic use of space, which is your primary concern for public transport in heavily urbanised areas.

It is important to be realistic, but I also think that this type of thinking is notably absent from U.S. society. The thing that defines Chinese innovation for me is that it is based almost exclusively on urgent necessity, which is always a great environment for progressive ideas.
There's nothing to be terrified of. Just live your life and do your best. If you're going to live your entire life with fear about retirement or debt, then by the time you reach retirement age you'll have lived most of your life in fear. Which is worse? Working during retirement age or living the vast majority of your life in fear? If things get really really bad you can always put a hole in your head or jump off a bridge. So don't worry about it. Just work hard, enjoy your life, and be happy if you want to be.
Also, if you love the book, it might pay to avoid reading anything about Orson Scott Card, particularly any recent interviews.

I've let what he stands for as an individual colour my enjoyment of his novels, which is a pity as they're some of my favourite in the genre.
There isn't really a reason why someone picking up haskell should have to understand language like this when they encounter it.
Tax free municipal bonds.
The Regulator Franchise
What about dividend paying stocks? Good companies are usually very reluctant to cut dividends even in bad times and with stock prices suppressed, this should lead to higher dividend yields. Probably not a total solution but should be looked at.
From looking at this, it looks like it's something more like 2 years (24 months), and as long as 3 years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian
Although I have not personally had the experience of scaling a company, it seems like well thought out advice from someone who has. The problems presented are the kind I wish I was experiencing!
Umm, the federal govt already runs a couple of massive health care systems. They don't do what single payer advocates promise, so why do you think that obamacare will?

What are you talking about? Members of VA, Medicare and Medicaid love their programs. You'd be hard pressed to find someone willing to give up their Medicare or VA benefits.

Medicare would do what a single payer advocates, if only we didn't include sweetheart deals. For example, Medicare Advantage, signed into law by Bush, and lobbied heavily for by the Insurance industry, did nothing but funnel money into private companies for the same benefits Medicare was already offering.

These programs would do what they're suppose to, if they weren't manipulated by corporate lobbyists or gutted by party partisans. So it's not surprising that when a program is legislated into the ground, those most responsible for those changes are the first ones to advocate the program's end. Interesting how that works.

Unfortunately, I'm not a member of the armed forces, don't qualify for Medicare, and not impoverished enough for Medicaid. If it wasn't for the recently passed health reform legislation my only option would be to crawl in some corner and die.

Thankfully my President helped to change that, and for the first time in over a year I'll finally be able to see my Neurologist and get that MRI I desperately need.
I have a feeling you've never traveled to other countries. How sad.
In theory, shouldn't all stocks be dividend paying? If your stock doesn't pay dividends, what makes it any different from baseball cards as an investment?
I think Haruki Murakami (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruki_murakami) is one of the most interesting and weird contemporary novelists alive today. On a similar Japanese tip, also check out anything by Kobo Abe, particularly The Woman in the Dunes and The Box Man.

If you're into sci-fi, as inevitably a lot of hackers are, Jeff Noon's Vurt and Pollen are both brilliant.
logicomix - a graphical novel about bertrand russell, logic and the history of computation.

diary of a very bad year: interviews with an anonymous hedge fund manager/the big short: inside the doomsday machine - two books about the financial crisis.
"the higher bandwidth of video provides more information than text, which results in better informed hiring decisions"

Not sure about this. Generally, I'm uncomfortable with all the room for discrimination that something like video brings into play -- even if it isn't intentional.

See the case of orchestra auditions where female players did tremendously better when judged from behind a screen, gender being removed from the equation. Even if people feel unbiased about a lot of roles, they might still have them play out... ???

That, and I just think so many video things like this end up gimmicky. I can see it well applied, and also easily misused.
maybe it safer strategy not to think of retirement at all and try to find what really motivates/fulfills you. If you get good at it whatever it is, there will always be a way to make money with it.
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That doesn't really apply because the article assumes you are using the domain name.
mind sharing your experience with the language?
* Go to http://www.thinkingforaliving.org/topics/shelf, close your eyes, move your pointer around at random , buy the book the pointer rests on, scroll down; repeat five times. You can't go wrong.

* Points of View - A Tribute to Alan Kay -- the second hardcover edition just came out, and it's downloadable as PDF at http://vpri.org/pov/.
This is pretty perfect, but I wish the text was all either 2 or 3 lines, or synced with the 'click for another' link so I didn't have to chase it with my mouse to get more options.

Also, the text could have had a bit better contrast given the typography choices.

Otherwise great.
It might be that you are ranking lower because you no longer have to keyword "london" in your domain name and the age of you new domain is probably younger.
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In Python, the side effects were considered so nasty that they finally added ternary operators in 2.6. The syntax goes like:

x = 'foo' if foo else bar

which is at least more readable than the C/PHP/Ruby equivalent.
I think the motivation for this comes from people's personal experience with disk thrashing. On a desktop, getting to 100% memory usage is a big deal, because it means you're already using a lot of swap.

They just haven't relearned their habits for systems without a platter.
Some of the customer reviews on amazon for Robert Jordan's later books are hilarious:

"Those who can appreciate great setup will really love this book. Personally, I thought the setup in books 8 and 9 were good ... but this was absolutely stupendous. Fans of total plot inertia will be in heaven."

"Some other notable developments:

The quality of tea has really taken a nosedive since the early books in the series, and it's starting to negatively impact the morale of our heroes"

http://www.amazon.com/Crossroads-Twilight-Wheel-Time-Book/dp...
Hard as in 'difficult' or hard like a diamond? (Are they the same in German like English?)

'Lamp' means 'light source', a vaguely positive but not highly relevant association.

Being a homophone for 'heart' in English creates a vaguely positive association as well.
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Redeye VC: Founders and Heat Seeking Missiles
I guess the original poster had some performance requirements that the standard lazy IO approaches weren't satisfying. I think he may well have gotten a few good answers there, but I really wish he would have tested them out and reported back about which (if any) worked for him!

maybe I'll test them out and do a little blog post on the subject
But c'mon, name a classic heist/caper movie that doesn't up the emotional stakes in some manner not inherent to the job itself (eg. Love interest, betrayal, apocalypse, even just the time honoured 'one last job' etc). I didn't say it would necessarily be dull and empty overall but the plot itself would. There's no way the audience would care enough about the impossibility of the job or the crackness of the team, because it's all just thrust upon them wih no prior context. Now, of courae, it could still be a great film minus the Cobb psychodrama, but there'd be something else there in its place.
Even though I understand that the UFC wants to protect their revenues I'm disappointed by their actions. I don't watch UFC streams but I do watch soccer streams when my favorite teams in The Netherlands. I do this because I live in the United States and watching an illegal stream is the only way possible for me to watch those games. If this is the beginning of the end for illegal sports streams than a lot of people living abroad are going to be hurt by it.
Maybe after it gets funded? I will surely post on HN
Linux 2.6.35 Includes Speedy Google Code, Less Bloat
I get a lot of work done when reddit goes down. Happened today with the read-only mode -- who wants to do that?
Dividends fell by about 30% in the recession:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=SPY&a=00&b=29&c=...

But yeah, I do think that would be the generally best bet with $5 million. I would most of it in a dividend paying ETF or mutual fund, like DVY or Vanguard Utilties. These funs will pay 4% in dividends, plus, the dividend payout will generally rise at nearly the same rate as income inflation. That's a much, much better deal than CD's which pay 2% a year with no inflation increase.
+1 for A Game of Thrones.

As a side note HBO picked up the rights to AGOT and is currently filming the series which should be airing sometime in 2011.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/

Martin is an incredible writer and the books have lots of depth. His characters are amazing. I've read them a couple times and continue to find them fantastic.

Martin chooses each detail that he writes about with intent, while not always apparent on your first reading, he has an artful way of layering plot points or connecting characters with subtle details.
You have a misbehaving app. My N1 goes for weeks with no problems, and that's been the case with stock 2.1, CM5, and the Froyo-based CM6. Find the bad app and nuke it, rather than perpetually treating the symptoms.
And you as an owner don't need to do anything...just hire a good manager...and it'll more or less run on autopilot(from your perspective)

This is probably true for many fast-food franchises but not McDonald's. Franchise owners a called "Owner/Operators" they are expected to work in their restaurants. McDonald's does not sell franchises to "Owner/Investors".

As an Owner/Operator you will go through "Hamburger University" in Oak Brook and learn how to make every product the restaurant sells. You will learn how to project sales, schedule employees and order product. You will learn how to manage labor and food cost, and how to manage your management team. You will spend some time working ordinary crew jobs and shift manager jobs at a restaurant.

Then, once you get your restaurant, you will have to be an active "chief executive" of the management team. You will have to recruit and hire trustworthy store managers... they are the ones who will be running your restaurant day to day and if they are not good at it you will not make any money or worse they will be stealing from you.

It is definitely NOT a passive investment.
In theory yes, that's essentially the dividend discount model of stock value.
Yes, we should complain to the AAAA.

The tried and true American Association for Acronym Abuse can help there.
New York Times Offers IPad App Platform to Other Publishers
Lol. I'd upload my passport but that's silly. Europe is not exactly cheap.
I'm surprised Ustream capitulated so easily. In the UK release of IP addresses would have required a court order afaik.
Android is enjoying the same pent up demand for a modern SmartPhone that the iPhone enjoyed for a couple of years. If you use Sprint, T-Mobile or Verizon and want a phone with a good third party app library and a modern web browser you don't really have any choices. It's Android or nothing. I suspect things will continue to be volatile. WM7, BBOS6, new HP/Palm hardware, MeeGo, etc is going to shake things up. Eventually the iPhone will be on other carriers in the US. In 2 or 3 years things could look completely different.
Complementary reading from the late Erik Naggum: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1041751
Possibly the start of an arms race between fraudsters and data miners?
"THEY'RE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS: Nuh-uh!"

Yes, I apologize for summarizing your point a little over-hard. But... it's over-summarized only a little.

Look, just replace "Nation" with "Special Interest Group" and the whole thing reads just fine. I normally hate this semantic trick, but in this case it works because it's what you're really saying.
What the HTTP is CouchApp
I had this same issue (can't believe someone beat me to posting about it), just move the button you click to the top or something so it doesn't move anywhere.
Windows Live, Bing, Xbox, Servers, Cloud Services...

It's easy to bash on them, but they make quality products in a diverse range of markets. Sure they fail and fail big, but who the hell doesn't? If you have made anything successful, you've probably failed 100s of times. It comes with the territory.
"It would require a rather huge change in federal law in order to make this work on the state level."

Yes. I did say "significant return of power to the states", after all.

"All in all, it may be worth considering that, accounting for modern high-speed transportation and intercommunication and trade, strong states may be an antiquated idea."

It is also worth considering the opposite, that in an era of increased administrative efficiency, increased economic efficiency, and increased communication efficiency, that the need for one strong overarching State is diminishing. Everything else is decentralizing as a result of the very forces we cite; why is the State such a special exception?
> This has been a message from Chem lab dork, carry on, carry on...

Off topic - I remember chucking Nalgene bottles in some labs. What did you think about when Nalgene went from $1 bottles people threw away to brightly colored $15 consumer products?
Benford's Law (a neat fraud detection technique) applied to Wikileaks data
Any large distributed system barely runs on the specific hardware/OS it was designed for and required constant monitoring and maintenance. Even OS upgrade (i.e. in theory it should stay compatible and "just work") in the large datacenter takes weeks of testing and fixing. Migrating from mainframe to linux is very very very expensive. On top of that to achieve same reliability there will be a need to re-architect some software pieces.

BTW, Google needs with MapReduce are fundamentally different - it favors scalability and thoughput over correcteness vs banks that need distributed transaction consistency most of all.
"economies of scale"

What economies of scale kick in at a hundred million that you don't have at ten million?

Economies of scale have diminishing returns and those diminishing returns kick in long before the size of an American state, let alone at the national scale. The very real costs of having no competition will utterly dominate your economies of scale anyhow. And by dominate, I mean, utterly dominate.
It gave me a PDF.
This was satire, no?? This is so far from true...
I was kind of disappointed in this article. He starts off with "It's easy to write a loop which looks infinite but in fact completes quite quickly..." which makes it sound like he's going to write a loop that looks finite but in fact spins forever (maybe because of some trick like the integer overflow he uses at the beginning). That would have been interesting.

This is just trying to write a short program that'll run for a long time. Meh.
I agree, but just like a bubble crash, when one major party loses confidence and sells his stake, all the other parties panic and sells as well.
Unless we shift to a HIGHLY regressive tax system, I don't see how we can simplify the tax system more than incrementally.
I ride the bus to work most days. A lot of the drivers like to gun the engine when they can and stop quickly. This is annoying in a low-slung bus and would be scary in one with a high center of gravity. Much of the route has old, beautiful trees along it--not much change for them.
If we really wanted to save money, we'd reform the tax system, not provide band-aids like this program.

Exactly! As a taxpayer I want the tax code to be simplified so that I don't need to use a computer or pay someone to prepare my return.
sure, I went through most of it earlier.
So it turns out that the spy exchange was happening a month before these guys got arrested. I think it was just basic information sharing, or as the operational security expert inferred a way of both parties exchanging tests on Operational Security. We got ten of which 3 were in high spaces? They got four who knows how.
"automatically call the police if cars get too close to the edge"

When fractions of a second matter, the police are only minutes away...? Not sure what calling the police will do.
Europe includes such countries as Iceland, Ukraine and Romania
She was kind of looney (if you take what she writes at face value) but she does have some interesting ideas, which can changes your outlook on your life.

But no you don't shock me by not having read it - I specifically said that most people would have read it, which means that it may not make as good a suggestion as, something that is less well known.
I promise, it's easier than starting a company, and it's a drastically lower time commitment.

This, unfortunately, will depend on where you live. Urban cores plagued with massive municipal debt (like where I live) tend to see their local representation rendered quite ineffective by corruption and cronyism.

In my city, it's actually considered easier to run for office in the state legislature than to navigate the local political scene, since latter has decayed into rampant trading of favors. Unfortunately, the time commitment for the state legislature makes it such that few people can muster the time and resources to campaign and then serve office.
Definitely an important usability tip.

I found this works though: in FF/OSX once you've clicked the link, it stays highlighted and you can use the Enter key to click it again. Hopefully your Enter key stays in one place!
How much bandwidth FaceTime burns over 3G
How to Find any Serial Key/Crack for Any Software?
The same way we solve all of life's problems: Giant spinning blades!

Or, y-know, fines. And a bored cop sitting on the top of the giant bus with a crane.
Given that you guys are into TDD, I'm assuming you're running Cobol on Cogs?

http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTM

(sorry, couldn't help myself)
XBOX, .NET, Bing, Facebook (1.3% ownership + exclusive ad partnership). Enough said.
Come back and tell me about dumping all your money into tax-free municipal bonds in two years.
Fantastic idea and challenging path to build it - kudos!
There are only 20 of them.

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I was hoping they were generated like the postmodernism generator.
A tax system with progressive rates does not need to be complicated. The complexity comes from insane number of special taxes and exceptions built into the system in an attempt to manipulate people's behavior or as political favors to certain groups.
Not to be obtuse, or maybe miss the joke, but how can you sometimes have a little less than 1 person working on one of the most important parts of your runtime?

Sounds like a bug more than a feature to me. :)
Benford's Law is really simple and neat. Worth reading about in isolation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law