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Also, thanks for your work on mysql driver, which I happen to use for PavoMe.
Wait - you're saying that a district could legalize prositution and claim to screen for STDs without centralized regulation and oversight? Caveat emptor indeed...
Interesting - but probably not designed to scale to millions of users like Google Instant.
A thought about "having more friends". People like people who are like them. Since most people drink, you are more likely to have friends if you do.
This is a pretty weak complaint.

What it comes down to is the observation that certain very large US companies (Google, Facebook) believe "no boobs" and "no drugs" policies are best for their bottom line. They've made the guess that fewer people will leave over "not being able to show boobs" than will leave over "getting spammed by boobs". So they enforce the policy they think will make them rich.

If you think they've made a mistake, go get rich by making a website with a different policy, and quit whining about how prudish Americans are ruining the internet.
here's an example (video) where the results are not so obviously "gimmicky" and definitely enhance the viewing experience:

http://vimeo.com/12828140
Yeah -- his book Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor is pretty good: http://www.amazon.com/Off-Books-Underground-Economy-Urban/dp... . He's a very interesting guy, and I'm not surprised that he's decided to look at prostitution more carefully because it's pretty hard to argue that high-end prostitutes are being exploited or whatever. When I say high-end, think Belle de Jour: http://belledejour-uk.blogspot.com/ , who is compulsively readable and hilarious.
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What a brilliant article. I never heard of The Exile and hardly knew of Taibbi's drug-infused past.
That's not the Hacker News way.
When do you need other people money?
This looks like the first half of a blog post... it's just a list of a few drivers you can use in Node to connect to MongoDB. Am I missing something?
Really painful for eyes too.
Man, this would be absolutely perfect for me... in about three years. I'm in college (Dutch) and have been doing web development for about five years. Currently applying to do a three-month Bachelor-project at Osaka university. Also recently started studying Japanese.

So yeah, look for me in your inbox around 2013. :)
You've done a good job answering the question asked of me -- thank you.

To add a little more, in places where security really matters, like DoD manufacturing areas, there is literally physical security segregating everything from the people to the network to the hardware to the data from the unclassified parts. Knowing you could go to jail for a very long time if you do something stupid or illegal is a strong motivator. For those not so motivated, most places not only segregate the network but also the data: tapes or backup data are kept onsite in a secure area, computers used for interacting with the data never leave the secure area and have been modified not to have USB headers or removable hard drives, cables and gear are physically protected from tampering, etc.

None of this is to say that all risk is eliminated, but since most systems are compromised by casual hackers using simple tools, adding the security you can is usually a sensible thing to do.
you don't need a degree to make web apps/desktop apps/mobile apps. if you ever get bored with that and want to do something else you might regret quitting.
From the comments: When I click on Internet, I want the Google page to appear.
This story made me think about the social fabric of America, and what it means. Think about it: how many of you don't know the names of the people who live near to you? How little do we interact with those in our immediate proximity?

Great sociology questions about big city life addressed in Doormen, btw:
http://www.amazon.com/Doormen-Fieldwork-Encounters-Discoveri...
While I agree with most of Jeff's sentiments - I do have to diverge on marking how fast software moves by something as arbitrary as a version number. Something such as versioning is completely ad-hoc and should not mark the advancement/maturity of a software product. How long did VLC take to get to version 1.0? That does not mean their development/release cycle is any slower than Chrome's. Perhaps I am being a bit drastic here, but it appears to me that judging software iteration speed by a version number is almost as lame as marking a programmer's efficiency by the number of lines of code he writes in a business day.
I bet it's mainly because of Google's super-aggressive pushing of Chrome on all its properties.
Rarely does one shutdown a laptop anymore. Usually people just close the lid and the computer is put to sleep. In sleep state the contents of RAM is preserved AFAIK and should give the attacker more time to think their plan through.
Is crowd-funding the answer for entrepreneurs?
Zynga is feted as A Next Big Thing, and it spends and lives like the high flying start up it is -- I hear stories about Zynga taking its employees out in shifts over the course of a week to super expensive dinners, bringing in all kinds of other goodies, etc etc etc. (n.b., Google still _does_ bring in inflatable bouncy castles on occasions...)

But then I read articles like the ones in SF Weekly that have been doing a number on the company, and I saw, where is the real innovation? The business model has been successful thus far but I am hesitant to speculate about the future of the company because I haven't seen a consistent process for generating new material.

Then again, maybe that's no so hard, or maybe not even so important. Looking at big (non-'social') game developers, they are quite able to mechanize their processes for financial success...
Someone planted a "Here be insane muslims" flag in Saudi Arabia. I don't have permissions to remove it myself, so could you please?
Yeah, I'd never really thought about quitting before that point, it was a spur of the moment thing. Once you make the decision though, going back on it starts to feel a bit scary, 'I can give up any time I like, just not today...'. So I stuck with it.
He should just buy that country club.
If you have a scholarship or your parents will pay for you to go to a good school, then you should definitely go. College isn't just about classes and coursework, which are only a small part of it. It's about spending 4 years shooting the shit with smart people, and finding out what your interests are. You can't say that you won't learn anything from a CS major, given that you haven't taken any courses yet.

College won't teach you how to write better code-- you'll have to learn a lot on your own-- but it will give you a lot of the theory and ideas that are necessary if you want to rise beyond a certain point (and hard, though not impossible, to pick up outside of school).

The only major downside of college is the absurdly high cost of tuition, not the time spent. If you're intellectually curious, it's four years well-spent, even in spite of the negatives.
The rules are different when you use full-disk encryption. You shut your machine down. PGP WDE actually prevents "sleep" from working, but regardless, you still need to be vigilant.
Wait - you're saying that a man should be able to pick up a random street-walker and be right to expect that congress has made sure she's properly tested for STDs? /sarcasm

Such schemes would likely come as "labels" that the district or individual sex workers buy into, provided that they comply with the regulations set up by the label. Some labels might gain a reputation for being stricter and cleaner then others, other might be cheaper and "good enough".
Lang-8.com. I started correcting peoples' English and posting my own entries in Japanese. People added me as a friend and I after I mentioned I had Skype, someone asked to be my language partner over Skype.

Since then I've seen a few that I'm certain would do the same, if I asked. It was a lot easier to find a partner than I expected. Also, there are many more Japanese people learning English on Lang-8 than English speakers learning Japanese. It means you get a LOT of attention when you post, especially if you've been correcting others.
no, I said its up to each district what they do. If they wish to avail themselves of some certifying authority they can certainly do that.

And yes its buyer beware. As it always is when you decide to have sex.

When things people want are illegal, they are LESS safe. There is no visibility, no legal liability, very little incentive to build and protect a brand name.

Alcohol was a lot less safe during prohibition. And the crime was very dangerous as well. Legalization is much safer and its rare that people die from the manufacturing and distribution of alcohol today.
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Nice try but I think this is a bandwagon you should only jump on if you're willing to put a lot of time into a streamlined UX.
Um, what about those gambling companies which operated quite legally from Europe, yet whose executives were basically kidnapped by US authorities and tried for violating US law.

Apparently US laws governs the whole world, but everyone else's laws are only local?
Which leads into apple's extreme aversion to background apps....
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Yeah, that's what I'd realize at the end of the year after yearbooks were exchanged back and forth and from reading the notes left in mine I realized how many other's lives I'd touched in a good way.

Not "popular" conventionally; respected, yes, feared, somewhat. Most all of this having to do with my own personal demons.
I think you're not seeing the mechanics of tyranny of the majority. US companies can reach scale because of the wealth of the market and its relative cultural and linguistic homogeneity. Non-US companies find it very hard to compete against those economies of scale. Meanwhile, US companies inherit the mores of their native culture, the obsessions of their elites, and not to mention the practical implication of laws for content hosted in and served to the US.
Even if there were as many women as men who were homeless or broke and conversely fantastically wealthy you're still going to have women trading sex for money. If there's a demand for something, someone, somewhere will figure out a way to monetize it.
If you are asking this question, chances are you're not going to learn 3x much being on your own because you just demonstrate that inability.

People always pick Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and a handful (yes, a handful) others who made it big without finishing college as example to support their own excuse to skip college. This is a gross overgeneralization and not the complete story.

Do you currently have a better opportunity in front of your face than college? Cause Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg went to college and quit when that kind of opportunity (a huge one) appeared in front of them. They never ask online forums for life directions (they might ask their parents, something that seems not happening in your life).

It looks like you're a typical badass teenager who has problem with authority, discipline, and focus rather than a badass developer. We'll see if you can be successful without changing that mindset. I know a few of my friends who were like you in the past but had to succumb somehow. You don't live in your own world, there are other people around you.

So no, you're not going to learn 3x much since you don't even know what to learn and where to start? And no, you won't build much more credibility than "some graduate from Carnegie Mellon" because of your character. Chances are you're going to be a very awful leader and you might build something that might be popular in short term but won't sustain in the long term.

You are aspiring, I give you that. But badass? yeah, badass in a bad term, not in some sort of hacker-y awesome term. Please do yourself a favor and don't waste your precious potential. Go to college.

Now, here's the meat: go to college and take either Business, Economics, Commerce, or Accounting major. Technical skill itself won't do any good. If you can't work under anybody else, that means you have to lead. Take Leadership, Communication, Psychology courses.

And do the world a favor before you screw other people in the future in any shape or form or opportunity: find a good mentor cause you need some guidance.
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bits and pieces from the tubes: http://iflipbits.com/post/1101983568/macruby-soon-on-ios

MacRuby seems more and more a first class citizen of the iWorld.
I think it's due to your branding/feature page. The way it's presented, it's easy to think it's only work with Google Docs.
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Sometimes they can't tell you the actual reason. Maybe they are suddenly having cash-flow problems and are actually thinking about laying people off.
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centralized decision making is less effective anyway. Human intelligence is distributed for a reason. No central authority has even half the facts you do about your own situation and a tiny fraction of the self interest at stake that you do.
Give me studies, not arguments. Using tools - and "good software" are just tools - that free us from having to use intelligence for a task allows us to direct that intelligence to other tasks.

Yes, I'm not as good at arithmetic as a technical person from 50 or even 30 years ago. But I'm freed from having to do all of that myself so I can focus energy to what I actually care about.
Based on the syntax of your post, I would suggest at least a couple night courses in professional writing. You never know when you might need to write your own copy.
yeah, I went on the Internet today and found it completely ruined. It was fine when I tucked it in last night.
Great article. Now it's time to go out at the local bar to have a few beers with my friends :)
Um, I don't quite understand. Is that supposed to be a rebuttal? I don't really care if people trade sex for money. I think if a woman freely chooses that route, so what? If a woman makes a conscious decision that she would rather take cash in hand from many men instead of a roof over her head and food on the table from one man, so what? As I said, I think that focus really misses the mark.
That was a wonderful article. Thank you for sharing.
"basically kidnapped"???

More like "foolishly placed themselves in the jurisdiction of a country who's laws they were breaking". They had two choices if they wanted to avoid this: don't accept money from US citizens residing in the US or keep themselves out the reach of US law by staying outside of the US.

And do you really think the US has no legitimate interests in what non-citizens do with US citizens in other countries?
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I have an encrypted image, personally.
Another example to look at:

http://www.appsafari.com/games/10766/kingpin-game/

Kingpin, ... is a new addition to the foursquare client family. ... Users can accumulate points, collect badges to store in vaults, and become mayor (boss in Kingpin) of places they regularly frequent. .... Kingpin has all the nifty features of foursquare, but it raises the stakes by allowing users to attack local bosses.
Apple run loops are more flexible and adaptable than this

http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/frameworks/base.gi...

via http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3321587/anatomy-of-an-and...

but since Looper is OSS it should be improved. Here's an idea, make it customizable like NextStep/Apple's architecture. Be able to change run loops on the fly when scrolling, select on different input sources, etc. Could be as simple as that...

Or if you want the long answer, it could be NextStep's key design choices which have paid off over the past decade.... Might as well learn from them. Will really flexible run loops solve single OGL context issues? Probably not. But they might just make things less jerky...
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Ask HN: GoGrid or other server image providers?
I need to create a server image and configure it with special software. Then I need to replicate this pre-configured server horizontally for lots of data access on an intermittent basis.

I've looked briefly at GoGrid and it seems they offer this type of service. My questions:

Does anyone have experience with GoGrid that they can share?

Are their other companies offering similar services that you might suggest or recommend?

Are their other alternatives that may be better or more appropriate to occasionally high volume use but most of the time very limited use?
I would say go -- you can always drop out if you decide it's not for you.
you should adjust it so searching for "lisp" does not end up with a chunk of code w/ multiple li tags in it as being more relevant than articles that actually have the word "lisp" in them. I noticed this with a few other phrases too such as "vegan" - there are multiple "vega" chip comments that take precedence over the fully matched word.
it sows distribution of Kashmir according to UN Line of Control. Thats unbiased of Google.
That's a good vid, one that I've watched several times, but each time I'm left with the following dilemma.

Should my takeaway be:
"Geez, we live in a computer based society, and everyone is so insanely clueless".

or should it be:
"Cool, people are getting along just fine with their daily tools, not needing to know the 'details' of them".

Which one is it?
I went, and recently finished ('09). I'm dissatisfied with my job for the same reasons you would be, but at the same time, the extracurriculars surrounding the college experience were overall positive. If you don't "go to college," at least go to a college town and meet the women and drink with the men. There's a certain value to being able to discuss the experience later.
don't worry, chinese prudishness will make this seem like the era of boobs.
Every generation is wrong about that, of course.

Actually, they're right -- it's just that in the grand scheme of things, how much easier we have it today than the last generation, is insignificant compared to how hard life is in general. We do have it better, but it doesn't make us dumber because the world still needs smart people to keep it going.
The original URL + Readability work fine for me.
But it doesn't have to be a non-US company that can rise to compete. In the article they cited Myspace as willing to host photos that FB wasn't.

But it's all about the bottom line--these companies weigh the cost of lawyers along with lost revenue from the section of users they chance to alienate with either strategy. If anything, it's the tyranny of the majority of Americans who would rather not see boobs, versus the tyranny of individual companies whose founders or employees might inherit certain mores (though that of course could sometimes be the case too). I think that's what the article is getting at.
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Something that remedies your lack of self discipline is a perfectly fine feature, isn’t it?
Any high school senior who self-describes as a "pretty badass dev and designer" desperately needs more education.

And what if he is a pretty badass dev and designer?
- a key-value stored modeled caching system that can run functions during set/get, have expiry, counters, counters that wait for N as a buffer before running transactions, and machine learning - all as primitives. the tail-recursive processes acting as mini-servers holding state and the best thing is that you have a mini-automatic scaling if you combine this well with expiring of processes. increase load when there's a need. they die when there's no more need/lesser traffic.

- a distributer crawler that works with python. from a typical rdbms approach that brought down creating inverted index's from more than an hour to few seconds. the euroka moment was when we stopped porting/writing for another language, sequentially, for-loop style approach to a more - processes and message passing. big 'why didnt i do this moment' a few years ago!

- a website , dashboard for the ad/content network using yaws on the LYME stack

- and btw - all that rumour about unicode is just bs. actually it was a blessing for us that content aka strings are just integers which when converted to binaries not only takes less space, pattern matches like a dream but all of a sudden your sytem can handle any language because to it - it's all just integers, english or swahili. that was a huge bonus even when getting investors, new untapped market opp's.

- an ad network, ( content network i guess without saying)

- a fire-and-froget thumbnail/screenshot system with queues & talking to imagemagick . i love writing and fire-and-forget tools, and with erlang, its so darn easy to write proceses's that have a life of their own. sure at some point you need to compromise on erlang's unique ability to handle RAM vs giving that up to research on how to handle large mnesia tables ( mnesia = inbuild db that has a limit on size of tables) . but it's worth the tradeoff.

case in point - our idea of scaling was...'reducing nodes' ie increasing efficiency

-2008 a million hovers in the year, 4 nodes

-2009 a million hovers every month, 3 nodes

-2010 a million hovers every week, 2 nodes
i could bring it down to 1 node for doing the tasks as well, on just one 1 8gb RAM node.

the idea of reducing your costs, means that much lesser to profitability. ( we're now profitable, pretty much on auto-pilot on the backend, the 3-4 member team concentrating on increasing toplines,sales now )

in addition...
- a wrapper to iui for nitrogen framework for building iphone webapps easily
- wrappers to tokyocabinet ive contributed to called medici
- remember writing wrappers to other things like rrd, aws utils, etc

all of the above have been used at hover.in, more at http://slideshare.net/bosky101

there's nothing i can think of that i wont/cant do in erlang anymore.

~B
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From the top response:

Google Chrome is a web browser, kind of like your tool to let you connect to the internet. There are a lot of different web browsers you can use to connect to the internet

You're doing it wrong :(.
wrong. The United Nations is even more centralized, so it will do a better job. At least until the United Federation of Planets is formed. :-)

jk. You're right about labels or brands. It works for every other product.
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Anyone know what is being taught regarding technolgy and the Internet in the us elementary and high school systems? Is Internet 101 a mandatory class that teaches these basics and some HTML? I sure hope so!

Will these type of clueless users always exist?
Unless/until society finds a way for men and women to have financial parity of some sort

Men and women don't have financial pairty? I see this claim all the time, but it only seems to be backed up by gross misuse of statistics. Care to provide evidence?

(edit: clarified)
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