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“He stole the moment, he stole the idea, and he stole the execution” --Cameron Winklevoss

Stealing the execution, that's rich.
I've thought about a similar idea, except in mine, you send a "locked" payment via email to the recipient, and give him a pin-code to unlock the payment. This allows for exchange of money in person (say, you're buying a used car from someone, and want to see and drive it before handing over the money, and don't want to carry the cash - neither party trusts each other to wire the money ahead of time or after).

The recipient can easily verify and claim the transfer using phone, SMS or online.
Thanks for the feedback Eitally!

It does a fulltext search so the "I'm feeling lucky" is only while typing. In case everything fails an autosubmit will be done on the regular search engine of wikipedia. Can you give me an example of a frustrating situation which is not a problem when using the old fashioned search?
Practice writing code on a whiteboard.

Learn your algorithms.

Learn "O()" notations.

As well as the above they seem to look for a good GPA, good school, and a record of having achieved things.
The same thing goes for Finland. When we adopted the Euro, it was legislated that cash purchases are rounded to the nearest five cents.

Finnish one and two cent coins are minted in small batches which go straight to collectors. You never see them in circulation.
We shouldn't be so presumptuous as to define the meaningfulness of any experience of any person in any time period outside ourselves, period.

It is possible that Newton might have been happier if he had experienced a romantic relationship, but it is just as likely he would have been unaffected, or worse off even.
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I am the writer of http://albaniatourism.info, I am Albanian too. I was made aware today by a friend about the comments here, I don`t know the exact reason of the "c" cedilla, but I would believe it is related to the usage of the same letter in Turkish language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_alphabet , representing the same sound "ch". The bases for the Albanian alphabet of today were set in 1865 -1866 (when we were still under Turkish occupation), till then Albanian was written either with latin, greek, slavic or turkish letters. The main guideline for the alphabet was to have one letter per each sound. I have a reference for the history of the alphabet but it is in Albanian: http://books.google.com/books?id=9_gXTda0HS8C&pg=PA191&#...
America's politicians, willingly or not, often seem like they’re actors in scripts created by cable producers.

But that's what they are to most people. Literally.

Most people's only perception of politicians is one as disobedient actors in the production of a television show, a truth that's been with us since Kennedy. Politics is, and always will be, a part of infotainment, because news story economics work by the same principles as all other stories on TV.

But think twice before you think the of the reflexive "the internet will change everything". No - a lot has changed, but the vast majority of people will still want and watch the kick-in-the-nuts-humor over NPR, Democracy Now, or The American Conservative, just as they've been doing for decades.
Just out of curiosity what Python web framework YouTube uses?
Yeah, that's one reason I think selling content directly for money has a troubled future--- there are too many people who gain indirect benefits from giving away high-quality content for free. Add to that the people who do it just because they like to have people read their stuff, and there's a large free-content market competing with any attempt to charge.
I've been designing and developing systems for over twenty years and in the last few months I've been using "NoSQL" databases a fair bit (CouchDB on the server and implementing my own lightweight one within JavaScript on the iPhone/iPad/...) and it's made me admit to a guilty secret: I hate SQL. In fact, I've always hated SQL - I just never admitted it to anyone.

Very few applications I've ever designed ever seemed like a good fit when mapped to a relational data model - they always looked ugly to me and the resulting contortions required to map to and from in-memory objects pretty much always made me wish there was a better way (ORMs seemed to help initially but always became problematic in the long term).

The most common reaction from colleagues when I mention document oriented databases is "they will become a mess over time". Sorry, every large commercial application that I have seen that uses SQL databases is already a mess. Look at your average production ERP data model - they are usually things of Lovecraftian nightmares.

If he is amazed that Facebook can run with MySQL "40,000" ways, then I'm equally amazed that SAP can run at all! However, both seem to work fairly happily - just because you don't personally like a technology doesn't mean that others can't be perfectly happy with it.
and the e-mail password is recoverable by guessing the answer to a weak security question, so in a sense a weak security question answer is the master password.
The case is similar in Spain; our universities are barely in the global top 200. The system used is: accept too many students in university to weed out those who can't memorise all the irrelevant material we teach them.

Spain ends up with people who regurgitate facts, but can't think.
I wrote this http://use.perl.org/~Adrian/journal/33295 a few years back on how to not write job adverts. I still mostly agree with it :-)
That is actually very close to how paypal worked in its original form.

Google for Money Beamer.
What makes you think they're non-evil now? Because they say so?
The mosquito is the vector of transmission, so the couple mosquito-parasite makes it an enemy as a whole.
Just curious: what do you mean by 'wheel-reinventing' and 'libraries are a dealbreaker'?

Smalltalk contains a comprehensive set of classes, and Seaside has 'out-of-the-box' support for Scriptaculous and JQuery, and has numerous examples of web app components...

As for the 'isolation' within a Smalltalk VM: isn't a virtualised environment actually beneficial for scalability?
In Belgium we have (mixed) student societies, mostly set up by study choice (e.g. the 'Maths & Physics Society'), and some unpleasant ones around politics. New students get a hazing, after which they all wear lab coats with drawings on them and adopt new names. Activities center mostly around drinking and singing songs ('cantusses') in Latin ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaudeamus_igitur ), or so it seems to me anyway. My memory of these events is really rather hazy.
Why do people remember passwords? We've had browsers that can remember them for you, password1, etc. for years now. I make up a new password for every single site I have to log into and let the browser remember it.
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Getting through that article was quite difficult, numerous typos. What happened to 'editors'? Basically Stonebraker, who should generally be read, is saying don't count ACID out just yet.
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Mainly because most people log into these sites from more than one computer.

It's imperative for me to recall all of my passwords as I need them both at work and at home. Currently I am rotating between three different passwords but this is an area I am becoming increasingly paranoid over.
Already discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1685560
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> Berkeley DB is an embedded database with no network story, let alone distributed story

True, true and not really. It can be easily distributed - replication works great with them. Yes, it's not good for everything, but it's great for example for simple web api servers. Skip the connections if you don't really need it and write/read k-vs at a ridiculous speed locally.

> ASN.1 is hideously complex

Yeah... I guess this is more of a personal preference, but I never found it that bad. Write a wrapper that can (de)serialise your native objects once and you don't have the problem anymore.
cool, thanks a lot for the update. Quite interesting.

Regarding the website overall, it's nicely done, keep up the good work.

Cheers
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Single page view: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/13/michael_stonebraker_...
Slightly off-topic, but I wonder what is their versioning strategy. 1.344714172147360500 is pretty bizarre. Does anyone know how / why it's used?
If you have a good bank, they should be limiting it to y wrong tries every x minutes, and have good fraud detection mechanisms in place. So the viability of brute forcing bank passwords should be rather low. So the risk looks rather minimal compared to the large scale exploitation that is possible with the other method.
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So aside from the slightly graphics-heavy website, I'm kinda impressed by the offer (and I live in San Francisco).

What it has me thinking is that we should really do this for San Francisco - and not just 'come couch surf' but a consorted effort perhaps around a one day conference or bar-camp style event to showcase and talent match.

The idea would be to attract the developer living in the rest of America (ie not CA, NY or WA/Seattle) who is intrigued about moving here to join a startup. You see folks asking about moving in "Ask HN" threads all the time, so why not organize a specific event?

The economy in SF is fairly hit because of the financial sector and economic downturn - but tech companies of all sizes, from startup to BigCo, are hiring developers and related people to the extent that we can't find enough people. This is a GREAT time to move to San Francisco if you are a dev.

What do others think about running such an event? BarCampOutOfTowner, perhaps?
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Sadly, this is the reality of OSS, layer groups were first proposed (and accepted as a "good idea") as early as 2002, but actually are supposed to come out in Gimp 2.8, which I think is coming out in 2011?

Meanwhile, one can run the external plugins such as this: http://registry.gimp.org/node/16563

For a programmer, GIMP is fine for an occasional photo editing job. Just wish, it could do a better job of importing Photoshop files. I know it is more of PS fault not GIMP's, but still.
This book is an awesome introduction to OS X programming for rubists. There is one additional thing I'd like to see (in this book or in another) and that is a good demonstration of hotcocoa, which hopefully will reinvigorate the interest in and the development of it.
I doubt there was a business model that stated that. It's the very common problem of to munch money and far to much hype. Half of their time is spent living up to the hype - 2+ engines switches! - and the other half spending their cash on frivolous resources. It's Daikatana all over again.

But I'm still going to play it.
Seconded. NYC women > SF women any day of the week. There is an absolute dominance in the ratio of available women to men. Scientific statistical data gathering aside, I can personally attest to the fact that there are entirely too many women to go around. I also know quite a few smart, beautiful women who are afflicted by this lopsided ratio and are looking for functional guys.
Does this mean the writing on the wall and that Nokia will eventually move to Aandroid? What does it mean for Meego? I was really looking forward to see whether it could take on iOs and Android.

Of course Blackberry and Windows phone 7 I am already writing off.
The graphics game me pleasant flashbacks of long and gory Cannon Fodder (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannon_fodder) sessions. Good work! -"War Has Never Been So Much Fun".
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wow thats awesome Duke Nukem is a game I loved and if there are a lot like me even after being a poster boy for software development failure if it is halfway decent it will sell very well. There is just a nostaligia factor and the Duke is just such a memorable character

I just hope it is like Starcraft 2, after 12 years it is just brilliant.

....and I'm all out of gum... :)
I like your comment. You probably are not German, but if, you would like the texts of Reinhard Kahl (http://reinhardkahl.de/). His texts are basically about the question 'What kind of school works', and actually 'What do we mean by "school works"'. Among others he tried hard to demystifiying the success of the finnish school system in the first PISA test, argueing against just copying blindly some aspects that _seemed_ important (e.g. like you, he pointed out that 'education' was socially highly respected in Finnland, unlike in most other european countries). He constantly writes about (german) schools that achieve very good results in tests like PISA, highlighting what they do differently. It is quite interesting that he often finds methods or techniques in these schools that fit really well a lot of findings in neuroscience and psychology (without the teachers at these school knowing anything about these findings!). So what are some things he advocates: (i) no longer teach in a fixed classroom setting, instead, every student should learn by himself, according to weekly/monthly/yearly plans that are setup together with his teacher(s) [main reason for this: every human is special, our brains do not develop at the same speed at the same time] (ii) do not kill the researcher in the children, instead foster playfulness in live and study and show that effort is something deeply satisfying (iii) Authentic teachers, authentic parents, authentic grown-ups (iv) Bring the 'real' live/world into the school (vi) open the school up to the 'real' live, schools should be centers in our society, (vii) at school you don't teach subjects, you teach human beings (viii) there is no school to rule them all and many more aspects. I like his stuff so much because he shows and describes places that really work, and also manages to write about philosophical aspects of these questions (he often connects to writings from Hannah Arendt about eduction).

PS: I'm aware that I can't give justice to the stuff Kahl writes, what I have written is quite incomplete. But one has to read it on its own. I'm also aware that some of this stuff is only relevant for german schools, yet I think the broader questions is relevant for all countries.

PPS: Refrain from calling me a hippy, a dreamer, a communist or any other stereotype _you_ think is negative. I went through the normal (german) school and university system and it gradually became clear to me, that things as they were and are working are not as good as we want to think, actually, things are rather bad. I'm looking for new ways and possible solutions, trying to find the right questions.
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Would they? I occasionally commute to Tyson's Corner, VA, an affluent neighborhood. It's easy to see that it's more affluent by the name brands on the retail stores, but the first time I really noticed it was when I was in Wendy's, and their dollar menu (typically, $0.99,) was priced at $1.15.

I thought that Wendy's had just raised their prices until I drove out of the area and noticed that the dollar menu was still in effect elsewhere.
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Moving to Android would still be a bad strategy in my opinion. But a Windows Phone doesn't seem out of the question now that S.Elop is CEO.
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Ouch, it looks like defragging your SSDs became worthwhile again!
Well, there's not much to say, really: I finished college, joined a dull-ish corporate job (that nonetheless taught me more than I wanted about politics, including the fact that I suck at it), and then joined a startup.

This is the kind of startup that doesn't figure all that much on HN, since it's in a rather specialized niche of a specialized industry to begin with. I'm not a founder, but one of the early employees.
1. Longer than the founders originally thought, but in the ones that do break even or become profitable, not so long that they go under. Seriously though, it varies so wildly depending on factors that its' difficult to say, but if the fundamentals of the business are good then you're going to be alright.

2. Not necessarily. Sometimes they just haven't found their right way of monetisation. Facebook, Twitter, Youtube are all examples of large scale long term loss-leaders.

3. It varies from investor to investor, but generally if the company fundamentals aren't there, if the cost of recovery is greater than the cost of writing it off and if it looks like there's no way out, that would be the main alarm bells that I can think of.
Nothing like something like this to come along every now and then and completely destroy my hubris.
On our fig tree, the figs ripen without falling off. But, it's a race to get to them before the local fauna: they seem to be a real delicacy for birds and wasps. Later in the season, half-eaten figs (ripe, brown and wrinkled) fill the topmost branches, attended by crowds of wasps.

When I pick them, I go in a T-shirt and shorts. Yes, the leaves are sticky - but not irritating in the slightest. It's usually a warm humid day anyway, so a cold shower is very refreshing.

And as for the figs: infinitely more delicious than anything from grocery stores. Messy to eat? Less messy than an apple.

I think we must be referring to different types of trees...
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> So there's this very important idea in
> Economics called "Opportunity Cost" ...
> Any time you are doing something you could
> be doing something else ...

Yup - I could be writing code, or reading a book, or watching a documentary, or spending time with my wife.

I'm not going to watch the rest of the rant.

And the time it's taken me to write this costs me something, but I hope it contributes to HN by suggesting that you do something useful too, instead of watching this.
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Agree with patio11, it's a pretty strong assumption to think non technical users will use some sort of markup language. Why make the markup language visible to users? I think that you should hide it behind a user friendly WYSIWYG interface, like google docs (bold, italic, lists, etc.).

You can then use git or git-like processes behind the scenes and reprocess the result not to show markup to the user. I think that markup for non tech users is a bad experience and diffs with markup in them are even worse.
I agree, why not link to the source? It's in the article.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alejomalia/sets/721576249213036...
You compared 20 years of SQL use with a few months of NoSQL use.

Do you think that NoSQL will become more of a mess than traditional databases over a long period of time, so much so that it becomes unusable, or do you think the app relying on good data will keep the data clean?
I generally agree with the sum and totality of what you're saying, and frankly, I personally think that Zuckerberg is a scumbag.

Still, the majority of the stories I've read that really reinforce that feeling, I have to concede were done when he was in college.

College is an interesting place, where interesting things happen -- but it isn't known for fostering the most mature adults; I know that I was a dramatically different person that age than I am now.

I've grown to the point where I can make the harder choice, just because I know it's the right one. I've grown to the point where I can give someone a promise, and not have to worry about whether or not I'll follow through. I've grown to the point where I can preserve my integrity in spite of a lucrative, but unsavory way to earn money.

I definitely did not possess these attributes when I was younger. So as much as I'd like to hate Zuckerberg on principle, I also know that it's the wrong thing to do, and I can see where he might have made the same sort of mistakes I might have, if given the right circumstances.
The only function of economic forecasting
is to make astrology look respectable.

-- J K Galbraith:
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What the HELL was the principle thinking?! I detest people, especially those in authority, whose first instinct is to hide or withhold information.
I'm new here so I don't know how to send a PM, but what do you do for your current job? I'm your age so I'd like to do something that gives me valuable skills.
Hello everybody,

I was lurking around HN since a couple of years now without submitting a lot. Finally, I decided to take the leap today and to ask you for a review of our multi-player card game "Kings & Servants" (aka Assholes, Presidents & Assholes etc).
More on the game-rules on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asshole_%28card_game%29

I'd really appreciate if you could have a look at both the website and the game and provide us with your feedback :-) ?

What do you think? What could be improved in terms of graphics, game play, social interactions, "virality"?

We are eager to hear what you think and I ll stay around to try to answer your questions!

Thanks a lot in advance!
Given the posts above this, I can't help but wonder how close that time threshold is to four months.

It makes sense though, I mean, if I link to the mozilla.org home page due to a new software release, that shouldn't preclude the next guy from being able to link there when they make their next release, right?
<preamble> I initially posted this as a comment on a duplicate submission, not realising it was a duplicate. So I've moved it here to the original. For some reason someone down-voted it there - no idea why - so I hereby give them the chance to down-vote it again, but ask for a reason.

</preamble>

Usually submitting XKCD is frowned on, but I'm pleased to see this one submitted. This attack vector is so seldom recognised as a real potential problem. It neatly explains the problem of password re-use.

As an aside, it's known that One-Time-Pad is provably secure. What's less well known is that during WW2 OTP systems were occasionally broken, because in the real world they ended up being Two-Time-Pads. People re-used a pad because they didn't get a new pad in time, etc. This was going to be one of my greybeard stories, but I'm still getting closer to the information source.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1333934

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=996250

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=994358

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1001262

I really have to find time to go back and organise them properly.
Instead of collecting the passwords, have the submission button show a page about sane password practices. (Something similar to http://ismycreditcardstolen.com/)
You do you feel "isolated" any more than you are in Java, Erlang, or any other VM language? Smalltalk has FFI. There are a lot of advantages for the "edit the exe while it's running" approach of the Smalltalk image.