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Moot's Testimony In Sarah Palin Email Hacking Trial
Oh wow, that's been around for a while, hasn't it?
Dang, I was mislead by the wired article at how new this sort of software was.
Still, it is pretty neat at how low cast 3d scanning is, and how easy it would be to hook this up to a 3d printer of some sort.
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One expert finds the flaw, calls it "unfixable" twice, and another seems to agree. This is good enough for social news -- which while not always reliable is often ahead of the mainstream press.
Women like unavailable men, so the iphone is where it's at.
I think that's what http://rapportive.com/ is trying to do.
Chris (Moot) Poole's testimony in the Sarah Palin hacking case
Hi, author here. With Ubuntu 10.04? The proposed solutions don't work in my version (I have the earlier with hard drive). I have also seen several other cases of LH works RH doesn't.

It wasn't meant to be a Linux thing. It happens with every operating system. But with Linux, you have so much freedom you can get trapped by it trying to solve it all.
Force-refreshing my (non-Apps) inbox shows nothing. You’d think they would mention a rollout strategy in the announcement.
I definitely love this quote!
Anything goes when it comes to FOs, because ...
> The next time you meet some person who is utterly captivated by some undertaking that completely mystifies you, give him the benefit of the doubt.

Why not try to understand him? Everyone (and I truly mean this) would be much happier if we threw out our ridiculous preconceptions and actually tried to understand people.

There have been a few times where I've been in the perfect frame of mind where I'm 100% focused on a person and on my interaction with that person, with absolutely no distractions. It's almost crazy how easy it is to understand someone's way of thinking. Even complete strangers can't help but be intrigued by someone who seems completely consumed by them, even if only for a moment.

So don't file it away to try to figure out on your own later; that makes no sense. Talk to him right now, really listen, and share a part of the human experience that you previously had no knowledge of.
Indeed. And desktop Linux is not bad... It is really a big piece of software. But it gets on my nerves when something does not work
Woah woah woah. I'm sorry but best, more money correlating to more sex is baseless. I have a hunch that the statistics probably go in the exact opposite direction. Without taking into account birth control, it's well known that birth rates and number of children tend to be much higher for lower income people than higher.
well he had actually posted an updated version yesterday, so if he had to update it he would put up a not. Regarding the legal question, i don't think it reflect poorly any way on HP Labs. Its not like he is making cranky claims like no one landed on moon etc. etc.
Maybe because people like you run around butthurt and drag your bullshit into unrelated areas on HN? You'll also note that while Zed stands up for himself, I don't see him posting links to his site on HN.

Protip: grow up and stay the hell out of zed related threads if you don't like them.
The following sentence, "Interchangable lens cameras (like digital SLRs) make you look more attractive than your basic point and shoot cameras" implies causation.
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Don't limit free plans by threads. It's much better to limit them by, for example, not allowing customization, showing a big "powered by you" button, adding a footnote (powered by) in each email, stuff like that. Make me pay 9.99$/m if I want to look "professional" and not using a free service. Make me pay $29,99 for unlimited support accounts or something.
It also seems a bit misleading -- I have an Android phone, but I would use my Canon SLR to have a picture of me taken and posted to a site like this.
I think the word you are looking for is curated.
Didn't work for me. However the Almighty Google found this which appears to be the same thing: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/cyojx/its_easie...
Or even better, don't have free plans, have free trials. 30 day free trial, then 9.99$/m The non-payers will leave after 30 days, which is fine.
It is not true that changes in inequality stem from globalization.

Changes in inequality stem from political decisions about the allocation of income increases.
Hm.. thanks. I think I'll try that.
The really good SEO strategies are not blasted across blogs and such.

And yes, the more people that know a particular SEO strategy make it less effective, or in certain cases, your site can be "google slapped".

I recommend using a small PPC budget to determine your actual keywords that convert for you, then optimize for the search engines based on those results.

It can take several months to gain momentum through SEO, so you should pay a few dollars to determine where best to put your keyword efforts.
I think we need to define "prioritization".

Is it prioritized to stop a DoS attack? How about to make SIP travel faster through the network than web traffic? What about things like DOCSIS, allowing quick bursts of fast speeds for your cable modem, so small downloads happen faster than sustained downloads?

Who determines what the priorities should be?

All of this angst is a result of lack of competition, which is the actual problem. It has almost nothing to do with prioritization of traffic. The fear, as best as I can tell, is that Comcast will one day so "No more Skype." and millions of people without another ISP choice will be stuck with it.
Going by the analysis in the post, and in the parent comment, the 20mm would probably be positively correlated with attractiveness because it's easier to get a shallower depth of field with it.

However, you're certainly correct that conventional photographic wisdom is that people look better on longer lenses, for just the reason you cite -- wider angles can distort faces unpleasantly. It would have been interesting to see an analysis of lens length & perceived attractiveness from this dataset.
It almost seems like it would be better to just register the user names for the different sites you want to aggregate rather than use an exploitable signature.
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We're currently using entp's tenderapp, and I'm not particularly impressed so I'll definitely be giving you a try.

Some of the problems we've had with tenderapp:

* Customer's emails getting flagged as spam even though spam checking was supposed to be disabled
* Customer's email just 'vanishing' (I've been unable to verify this one, on account of there being no traces of the emails whatsoever)
* Attachments not working
* Attachments taking forever to be acceessible when they are working

I think a per support staff user charge is a good idea - it's simple and straightforward.
Birth rates have been decoupled from sexual activity since the 1960s at the very least. And are completely irrelevant to that fraction of the sex-having populace that are homosexual.

There is some evidence that higher-status individuals of both genders have more sex; and money is a fairly strong proxy for status in our society.
I really have no idea why you are saying "there is absolutely no reason to roll your own password hashing scheme" Its a plugin that automates salting and hashing and then an acessor to compare against that. Are we actually calling something that reduces the work of a developer and many lines of code down to one a "scheme" now?

I also wondered if there was an characteristic to sha256 that would make repeating it pointless. I did see it mentioned someplace however, thats why I asked.

Oh and he is pointing out I shouldn't be doing this, and this somehow comes off as arrogant, especially considering a few of the other plugins default to SHA1

"That you don't know any of this --- and I say this respectfully --- tells me that maybe you should be using someone else's password hashing library instead of reinventing your own"
Higher birth rates doesn't imply more sex, it implies poor use of contraceptives, which you basically stated.
"Personally I'm delighted by the increasing use of behavioral targeting technology: I'm finding that behavioral targeting is greatly raising the revenue I get from my worst performing sites."

Can you please elaborate on that?
I wouldn't be too surprised. I spent one summer working in a warehouse. Suffice to say the cars (and their respective rims, sound systems, etc) were not within reasonable spending habits for my fellow $8/hr workers. And their families :(

But the point stands: signaling wealth is what counts.
What a shock. Authoritarian glibertarians love them some authoritarian assholes. It of course helps that reason is white and male so they're rarely on the shit end of the nightclub.
You have to be too close to the face in order to throw out the background with a 20mm 1.9. It's going to make the nose look weird and accentuate a double chin, if you have one. (I have the same camera and lens)
Its one of the things that is the "auto" in "auto_hash".
"So, by popular request, we're happy to announce that an overhauled version of Gmail Contacts will be rolling out today."
It still would be nice to have an open api on hacker news. At least so that i don't have to rely on delicious to see what i upvoted.
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As a photographer you obviously know that better equipment takes better pictures, but without the data, assuming that better pictures result in more dates is a blind assumption. Just look at another of their posts which found that "myspace-style" self-shots worked better: http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-4-big-myths-of-profile...
There are a few gems in there. "What does 'newfag' mean?" and "Rick Astley is a singer, is that correct?"
Big budgets mean big ticket sales. They also mean action. Thus, killing.
I'm sure this is far from the first time something simple got messed up because of a mistake with data entry.

Implying that Congress "didn't even bother to name it" seems a bit unnecessary.
> example: something where you can send a text and/or photo to a doctor or RN for $1 and have them give some quick advice.

I'm guessing this is something U.S. doctors won't touch due to liability issues. It could be a way for developing-world doctors to get some rich-world business, though. It'd be even easier if their country's regulators supported it: the biggest issue currently is that if I pay $5 to a doctor in [country] to look at a photo, how do I know this is even a doctor? If their equivalent of the AMA ran a certified portal it'd be easier to trust.
As an American, my observation is that the FCC always sells out to the highest bidder or the loudest complainer.

That's why all of our cell providers have a different band allocated to them, and why AT&T got the best GSM band while T-Mo gets worst.

It's also why we can't show boobies or say 'vulgar' words on over-the-air television.

Removing vulgarity creates the illusion that public interests are being protected. In my opinion, auctioning off radio frequencies and selectively enforcing regulations shows a more accurate picture.

In this particular case, I don't think the public cares much about net neutrality, while the corporations are clear in what they want. I see no reason why the FCC wouldn't side with the corporations instead of the indecisive (and not yet inconvenienced) public.
As martijn points out in the comments, no conclusions can be drawn without data about the pool of all movies.

If it makes you feel better about the world, actual murders per capita is not significantly higher now than it was in the 1960's; I guess we've all figured out that life lessons don't come from blockbuster movies --- just fun explosions.
I think the main reason I've liked it is I don't have to configure anything - just post anywhere and have it work. I'm interested now to see just how many people would try exploiting it even if they new the real user viewed every post personally before 'approving' it.
What is there to conclude, other than that people are more tolerant of killing being portrayed in films? After 1980, there's an inverse correlation between the frequency of murder or violent crime in the US and depiction of killing in film - the former goes down while the latter continues to increase.
(http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm)
Erasure of social media presences?
The browser in that screenshot looks like a sexier version of Chrome, and there are a bunch of plugins on the right.

What release of Chrome is that, and what plugins are those?
I know that this has been patented, but the patent may have expired by now. We were looking to do this in 2001, and gave up due to the patent.
Software is meeting creators cost-benefit considerations. If and when full-desk displays with dozens of GPUs become as cheap as a normal workstation, then the software will emerge to transfer things seamlessly between different workstations. Until then, paper is much cheaper. Even when free, software is not cheap, especially in time needed to assimilate it into your workflow.
If you ever give a salary range they will only look at the low end. So if you think 50 is fair do not say 40-60. Your offer will be for 40.
A nice improvement to the current system would be to continue unemployment benefits for three months after someone starts a new job. As it is, the termination of benefits [edit: upon taking a new job] is a disincentive to take new job, unless it is an awesome job.

While serving to reduce the likelihood of a sharp crash, the extending of unemployment benefits is also slowing a recovery by reducing the incentive for people to do work or start a business, even if it doesn't pay well.

Edit: for clarity
You could say the same about most government contractors. I suspect that there are a lot of kickbacks involved, because none of the projects I was ever involved in at government contracting firms ever went well -- ALL of them had a lot more people than necessary, and underutilized the best talent they had.

The one thing that they had in common with the commercial companies I worked for is that instead of jettisoning the least competent so that the rest of us could do our jobs, they promoted those folks and put them in charge.
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how much prior work experience do you have? did you work primarily as a tester?
Ah ha, so is English not your first language? If so, that may be part of why this didn't work for me.

I don't think that when we say "Ninja" or "Rockstar" we are even remotely referring to their actual definitions or what they really are in the real world.

A "Ninja", where I'm from, is considered swift, quiet, stealth, accurate and focused.

A "Rockstar" is just bigger than life, someone others can only aspire to be but few will ever be.
To be fair, naming a bill is a lot of work, maybe over half of what goes into the whole package.
We should get rid of at least pennies and nickels (both of which cost more to make than they are worth.) The last time the US phased out a denomination -- the half-cent piece in 1857 -- it had more purchasing power than a dime does today.

Besides, if we got rid of the penny and nickel, the size of the dime would finally actually make sense.
Actually, come to think about it, SLRs aren't that cheap either...
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If you don't mind, expand a bit more on your targeting technique i.e. how you look for a niche, set it up, then aggressively monetize it.....
> It's got to the point where I'm trying to figure out how to make new friends at an age where it doesn't happen by accident.

Clubs (not the music type), Meetup.com, user groups.
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I thought this idea had been around forever? I've seen it implemented with turntables before, which adds a nice touch.

Edit:
It's been done with legos: http://philohome.com/scan3d/scan3d.htm

Also, check out the MilkScanner, very cool! http://gizmodo.com/266169/lego-milk-scanner
I don't understand why this was submitted. This isn't very interesting at all.
In my experience, that combination works. :)
Having just moved from the iPhone experience of 3 years to an android experience. YES, YES, and YES! The android is the true fully featured phone. With the iPhone, I felt the need to tether because surfing the web is so clunky. Now, even though I have the power to tether, I don't. Because its so much easier and fun on my Milestone!

The annoyances that plague this guy, well, doesn't really affect me, apart from the distinct radio groups that doesn't integrate together well, yeah, with SipDroid, that does become an annoyance when I'm moving and using VoIP. Other than that... Wow. Android. I am now a 100% fuck-you Apple anti-fanboy. Just saying.
> All of this angst is a result of lack of competition, which is the
> actual problem. It has almost nothing to do with prioritization of traffic

This is true, but there doesn't seem to be a solution to this issue in sight, so we should probably treat the symptoms in the meantime.
It's worth a read for a good laugh.

Having this and "Is Any Job Better Than No Job?" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1591616 on the front page is beautifully ironic.
Not really much of a story here. The bill was amended and renamed several times and at one point it briefly had a placeholder title. Plenty of reasons to be made at Congress, but I don't see how this is one of them.

It passed the house as "Aviation Safety and Investment Act of 2010." You can read the text here: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1586/text
i wouldn't touch a startup idea like this myself unless i had more knowledge of the law behind it. it was mostly an example. you have to have a decently valuable skill to start with, basically, in order to translate it into shorter/faster $1 chunks.
For some reason it garnered a bunch of angry comments on slashdot. I couldn't figure it out either.
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I was just looking for how to do this.

I've got two finger scroll working on a few year old sony and, as far as I can recall, switching it on required clicking a radio button in the "Mouse" preferences.

In my new Samsung netbook that option is greyed out, only allowing touchpad side-scroll. Yet this works.

The samsung/linux enthusiast site where I got the PPA for all the other idiosyncratic bits seemed to suggest that this was somehow faked, rather than true two finger scrolling and that it wouldn't be worth the bother. Seems okay so far.
Just because it benefits them doesn't mean it's going to hurt me. Google + Verizon employ over a quarter million people (not even counting other shareholders and customers). Any internet policy that benefits them will probably benefit me.
> "Wifi Tethering. I don’t need to tether often, but when I do, I do. I rooted my phone quickly, just so I could use one of the many apps in the Marketplace to tether my laptop via Wifi. Worked flawlessly, no extra charge."

That's tantamount to saying "I jail-broke my iPhone quickly, so I could use one of the many apps on Cydia to tether my laptop via WiFi" ... except you don't need an app for that because tethering is built into iOS. You need a different network provisioning file in the States, and elsewhere in the world tethering is enabled by default.

I liked the form factor of the HTC Aria but found his following points to be deal breakers, so am back to iPhone for now:

- every couple of days, you do need to reboot the phone

- no cellular data while you are in a call

- no cloud push in Android 2.1

- separate email apps for Gmail and everything else

- IMAP email is very weak; really weak

- the OS (and therefore the apps) are really clunky at switching between voice/data/wifi

I was also put off by the extremely popular apps carrying name brand logos that disclaimed association with the brand while asking permission to make charge calls from my number.
> Portland is not a good example of American urban planning gone awry. As it's probably one of the most sensible cities in the US.

Mostly, but there's really 2 Portlands. Downtown & the eastside are dense, mostly flat, walkable and with excellent public transit. The west side is hilly, mostly suburban, and generally neither walking nor transit friendly.
Fair enough, but we've complacently accepted "internet" as a service, like electricity or water. I think this is a bad model. We need to figure out why we don't have more providers, then we need to lower the barriers to entry, so that we can foster competition.
I guess you need to learn some kind of luck at this stage :)
This is exactly the sort of inefficiency of the market that the article discusses. Location is key. In Chicago, we are trying very hard to find good programmers, and we can afford to pay them very well. But there just aren't a whole lot of programmers in Chicago that we can find, so we have unfilled open positions.

In the mean time, you are stuck at a job where your skills are wasted and where you don't get much money.

Very inefficient market.
No. No. Yes, if I wanted to but why would I ?
I'll pick one nit in this: rewrite fiascos aren't necessarily a testament to the timeless talent and genius of the original programmers.

Rather, they are a testament to the difficulties of replacing running software and the problems of managing any software project.

The original software was written in an older age for older hardware, it thus must have much simpler functionality. Because the ability to build larger systems may not have existed back then, and the ability of the hardware to cope with anything beyond the basic functionality was perhaps minimal at best. Given those requirements the devs banged out a simple system which then sat in constant use for ages (the best form of testing) and was patched up over time.

Now along comes a big, well funded project to replace the aging old system. Of course mountains of new requirements get piled onto it (because computers are so much faster and our programming tools are so much more capable). And then the project goes over budget and over schedule, the death march eventually produces a barely functional replacement and of course it's full of bugs because they cut corners rushing to get the thing shipped and nobody seemed to appreciate the enormity of the testing and defect removal needs for a new more complex system to match the robustness of a system that has had literally decades of real-world testing to facilitate defect removal.

But note that this sort of trend applies regardless of the talent of the original developers. Even if it took 5 years for that original system, simple as it is, to become robust it'll still look like a work of genius compared to attempted re-writes that fall victim to all the problems listed above.
How long have you been waiting to write that?
" Every couple of days, you do need to reboot the phone. "

Love how this was tossed out there as an afterthought. Huge, obnoxious deal-breaker. I love losing state every 2 days! /sarcasm
Right, but the job is not in-line with a similar job in the US. Working for Emirates involves immigrating to another country.
Surely, for Hacker News, a more suitable headline would be "Study shows iPhone users more likely to suffer from viruses than Android users".
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If you're working on minimum wage...yes. That is a fairly significant proportion of their income. 40 x 7.75=$310 (before taxes)=$1240...so $50 is about 4% of their total monthly income, not a small amount to squander.
The corporation does whatever the board of directors want it to do, within the bounds of the law and what the other shareholders will let them get away with before firing them. Money is a big deal, but as Google's actions in China have shown, money is not their only motivation. I'm not saying they're altruistic or anything, but I don't think they're scheming in public a way to screw over the internet for money.
Privately-owned, but publicly traded.
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