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I don't think we can agree. I'm neither a pediatrician nor a viral pathologist, so I can't lend an opinion to whether spacing out vaccines is good or bad. Unless you're a medical expert, your opinion probably doesn't hold too much value either.
Undoubtedly this is true, but it's also undoubtedly impractical. Check this out, it's even worse than you think: I'm not someone who really hungers for authority. I don't seek it out. Some people do, and I'd guess from my interactions with them that they have even more of this unfortunate trait than I do.

Even without that, I doubt there are enough qualified people in the world who are completely lacking in vindictiveness to fill the positions of authority that have formed as a result of the grand accumulation of human interaction. So, bearing that in mind, it's typically best to be polite to people who can hurt you.
You are one of a fairly small number of people worldwide who can be considered to be experts in computer security, yet you keep admitting here that this guy's approach is theoretically valid, and you just have a problem with it practically.

I really don't understand that.

How is that not like my saying, "Well, sure, theoretically I should be hashing the passwords in my database, but practically speaking we can't expect that it's going to matter anyway."?
As far as I can discern, it almost exactly duplicates YouTube's search except it loads results on the same page and is a little faster (but not instant).
Then don't use php... It's possible to grab user location via javascript, the client just needs a compatible browser. I'd say judging by the people who would stumble upon your project more than half would have a browser capable of grabbing location via javascript.
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So many kinds of awesome.
This is engineering: Army Jeep torn apart and reassembled in 4 minutes
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I am in the camp that thinks JavaScript and related technologies are going to, one way or another, take over a large aspect of web development. But things always work out differently than people think it will. I don't think Node.js and MongoDB will be the sole winners. There is room for many conflicting projects and technologies to succeed in the future.
"Then-director of the Centers for Disease Control Julie Gerberding (who is now President of Merck Vaccines)..."

Ah. An expert source...?
Just Enough Essential Parts = JEEP

I would love to know more about their design mantra.
Throughout the United States, you have an almost unlimited right to be free from searches by law enforcement absent probable cause that can be demonstrated in court.

Except:

* This doesn't apply at the border.

* Regardless of whether the police have a right to search you, anything you do to obstruct a police search can be used as the basis of an orthogonal criminal charge.

Similarly, throughout the United States, you have an almost unrestricted right not to answer questions from law enforcement.

I ask:

* Accepting that the outcome of not cooperating cannot be denial of reentry, to what extent does this principle apply at the border? The right to be free of unreasonable search is at the core of the bill of rights, and the word "reasonable" seems to mean "all bets are off at the border".

* Regardless of whether police have a right to question you, things you do to obstruct them may be the basis of orthogonal criminal charges. For instance, Terry stops, Hiibel, &c.

Generally, as an avid civil liberties enthusiast with zero legal qualifications, my perception is that your rights are at their practical zenith in a courtroom, and at their nadir in a confrontation with on-duty law enforcement.
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"Union Square Ventures managing partner Fred Wilson posted in favor of an XX Combinator, an early stage investment firm for female-run startups."

That implies that women are less capable than men and need their own system in order to do well. I think this is a horrible attitude to take.

That female entrepreneurs don't want to talk about being female doesn't surprise me. It has nothing to do with their business and shouldn't be an issue. The media is treating them like freaks and they are right to refuse to respond to that kind of attention.
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Ask HN : Chrome 6 and 7 getComputedStyle(el,prop) is lying, did anyone notice?
If you try to ask a property like color : getComputedStyle(element,"color") through javascript, for a know HTML element of your page the browser will lie and never tell you the real displayed color.
In reading through the blog, there's an article on the technical challenges of resizing the 135 million + images as you reorganized the site.

Perhaps this is a dumb question, but if you've already got a resize script that resizes images into 6 different sizes when the seller uploads it.

What was the reason you didn't just re-point that script at the filesystem instead of an uploaded file object? It may have taken slightly longer to process, but my hunch is that it may have compensated for man-hours you spent in building something new. What was the limiting factor there?
From the medical perspective, legal opinions have absolutely no bearing on the question of what does or does not cause any particular malady. These are empirical questions that must be answered scientifically, not socially.

I've always found it to be silly that one of the defenses of vaccines is that the courts had never awarded a payout such as the one in this article. That proved (or disproved) nothing scientifically then, and it proves nothing now.
An East Asian in Paraguay (perhaps Korean, I'm not sure) was very successful, really very rich. Part of the economic elite, so being Asian did not stop him from doing well in business. Being Asian did not prevent his children from getting an education at the country's best school, either.

But he couldn't belong to the country club because the de facto and de juro policy is that Asians (among others, I guess) can't join. Really, it's in the rules.

So, what I'm getting it is, jobs and education aside, is there still stuff you couldn't do? I doubt it's written into rules like it is in Paraguay, but are there places you can't go, invitations you won't get, and people you can't date?
In the city I am in Brazil, I've seen companies that offer from R$2,500 to R$4,500 per month gross (plus the legally required one month's bonus per year), plus other random forms of compensation.

Factoring in taxes and union dues (mandatory one day's wage per month go to the union) at USD 1.00=BRL 1.75 it comes out to US$14,000 to US$29,000 net. Some fudging is involved because the exchange rates fluctuate, and I'm not sure exactly about taxes (max marginal tax rate is 27%, plus random other "social" taxes plus union dues)

Wages may be higher in bigger cities such as Sao Paulo, but the rent is also higher.

Rent in the city I am in may come out to, I dunno, US$500/month rent in a reasonably nearby nice area. I've seen ads for rooms for US$285 taped to streetlights.

Overall its not bad, especially since companies will often pay a lunch per diem that is enough to stuff your face at a pay by the pound buffet and are legally required to pay for your bus fare to get to work.

This is for nice jobs where everything is done by the book. There are some pretty lousy jobs where nobody follows the rules and the pay is awful but I suspect that they are rare for computer programmers as opposed to say construction workers or janitors.

As a lifestyle it compares favorably in some ways to paying 50% of gross in taxes on a US$100,000 1099 contract job in New York City that involves commuting over an hour from some s---hole in New Jersey. Been there, done both.
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To suggest Google Instant, scroll down to the bottom, and under "I have another idea", select: Interface and settings > Gmail interface > Search options. I've just suggested "Google Instant mail search".

(I assume you can just suggest under Other, but I think Search options makes the most sense.)
Wouldn't that be the neighbor's fault, having not vaccinated their child? If child X not being vaccinated and getting sick as a result is "not a huge deal", then it should apply that if child Y not being vaccinated and getting sick as a result is also "not a huge deal".
As someone who used precisely this word to describe him, I'll say that it's his attitude and his worldview that any cooperation with law enforcement is fodder for a vast conspiracy to incarcerate him that motivated me. It is not an abrogation of your civil liberaties to answer a question.

That said, I also recognize the value of what he did, and I'm glad there are douchebags like him out there, exactly like Colbert's "Douchebag of Liberty" segment about the guy who flips off patrol cops as a matter of policy. Thank you, douchebags of liberty.
Chrome is following Mozilla's change on this point, which was designed to solve the longstanding CSS history leakage problem, where a page could use computed styles to slurp your browsing history: http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2010/03/31/plugging-the-css...

Is it lying for all elements, though? It should only really be lying about the "visited" styling of links or sub-elements of links (it'll return the computed style as if they were unvisited).
US CBP is always a pain in the ass. I never have as much trouble entering any foreign country as I do reentering my own. Ludicrous, really.
Good stuff! but for some reason the results are not the same as google image search.Any idea why is this happening?
re: "None of your business" - Appeal to authority. The author is a Lawyer and states that is an acceptable response. If you indicated you had legal training, and that "...because I'm not required to " would not put you in legal jeopardy, I'd take you at your word.

In general, saying less is probably the safest approach if you are concerned about legal jeopardy. Not answering gives the individual interrogating you less leverage. You do have a right to silence once the basics (Your identity) are out of the way. Ironically, that is how the entire episode ended - eventually a supervisor showed up and said precisely that "He has a right to remain silent. Just inspect his luggage and let him go."
Got it, thanks. I finally got around to learning JSONP.

JQuery's $.ajax API handles it automatically for you too (if you use the 'jsonp' or 'script' dataType options), which is very nice.
Most vaccines are given several months after birth in order to allow the immune system to develop first. (Neonates have impaired adaptive immune systems. Although people are now experimenting with the concept of giving vaccinations at birth, this is still largely done only in the research context.) Thus, our youngest rely to a certain degree on herd immunity, which is the phenomenon being described by the parent post.

In other words, it is a huge deal.
Ask HN: Domain Hosting that 1) is cheap and 2) offers a full-featured API
I have been working on lots of little side projects lately, and I've written some pretty elaborate scripts to get up-and-running as quickly as possible.

The one, obnoxious part I still have to do manually, though, is when I'm ready to launch on a unique domain I need to go a domain host, buy a domain, then manually change each of the A Records, CNames, MX Records, etc. to point to my servers, etc.

I was wondering if anyone knows of a domain host out there that lets you buy a domain and configure it entirely through an API?

Thanks so much in advance!
Here's one experiment: http://eis-blog.ucsc.edu/2009/11/cfml-the-context-free-music...
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I owned the land outright. During my previous time with a NASA subcontractor in Silicon Valley, I realized that rent was a key problem and if I didn't own the land, the entire idea would collapse.

Then I bought materials in cash and built a little cabin, which meant it was also paid for. I was entirely debt-free, which I regarded as essential (and still do).

I started a little garden and had lots of free time to think. The rest, as they say, is history. :)
Just because a woman is successful doesn't mean she inherently knows what is 'different' about her/her life that made it possible.
(I upvoted you).

You are making an allusion to the perennial controversy over "theoretical" vs. "practical" vulnerabilities in my field. That's an interesting point, but unfortunately not a valid one.

In security, "theoretical" vs. "practical" is a fig leaf used (mostly) by vendors to avoid facing up to their responsibilities after having shipped flawed products. Calling something "theoretical" shields people from culpability, mostly in public relations, but clearly isn't actually an assessment of the real-world impact of most vulnerabilities. It's spin.

But the fact that the words "theoretical" and "practical" can be used as spin doesn't mean the concepts of "theory" and "practice" are inherently spin; the reality is quite the opposite. Outside of computer security, we'd be well advised to use those words more; our adhesion to the notion that all theoretical threats are practical is probably a major component of the "security theater" trend that has us all getting electronically strip searched in airports.
Interesting ideas. You just reminded me of a post Bruce Eckel wrote on what programming might be like in the mid future; he touches on some similar ideas. I recommend you give that a read to see what you think as I found it quite thought-provoking.

http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=284730)
What is the "douche faction's" obsession with the pay of CBP officers? Is that somehow relevant to the discussion? He only dealt with the front-line officer for about two minutes anyway--in the back room he asked for a more-highly-paid superior and got one. So I'm assuming that makes you happier?

BTW, do you have a citation for "mandated by Congress," or are you relying on the statement of the $12/hour officer for that?
I just recently came back from Japan. It was my first time leaving the country. Going into Japan was great, very straightforward, polite, and fast. I actually had a question; they ask "Where are you staying?" on the form, but I didn't know. I was meeting my girlfriend in-country, and she had made all of our reservations, and I forgot to ask her for a copy. The woman smiled and said "No problem, just write Tokyo" and that was it.

Coming back into America was terrible. I did answer these questions, and the officer tried to imply that I had tripped up, and was getting in trouble. (I live in PA, but my ticket was back to LAX only.) Then, while walking through to the 'collect your baggage' part, another officer stopped me, told me to get in a different line, since I'd collected no checked baggage. I told him I didn't have any, his eyes narrowed, and he started asking me more questions. I was like "Dude, I'm a guy. I have this huge backpack. I was only gone a week. Why would I need a suitcase?" and after a few more questions finally let me go.

I don't fly unless I absolutely have to. It's just not worth the hassle.
Not for all elements, but even if they say that is not going to create issues, i am already noticing styling troubles here and there on the web. This is not a good practice. The CSS history leakage problem is not so serious. Much worse are timing attack based on your cached images to check your history. And they do exist.
More over it seems that somebody already got a trick around Mozilla's fix http://privacylog.blogspot.com/2010/08/mozillas-css-visited-...
Does anybody think there is a way to exploit even this ? If so, Mozilla's team should be informed.
I've got a story for you, though it is not mine: I went to Japan to study abroad in 2002, and was told this on the first anniversary of the attacks by the professor who was in charge of the program (and who had been the same on 9/11).

The first plane struck the World Trade Center in the late evening, Japan time. The American embassy contacted the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs approximately one hour later, asking for all possible assistance in securing Americans. (There are somewhere on the order of 100,000 Americans in Japan at any given time.)

Prior to word arriving from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the Ministry of Justice to the various local bodies in Japan which handle civil defense, someone in the Kyoto Prefectural Police heard about the attacks on television and immediately ordered a full mobilization. Cops were called back in in the dead of night, and went down a list of every hotel in Kyoto asking whether they currently or habitually had American guests. Simultaneously, someone woke the Foreigner Registration clerks at Kyoto's several ward offices and pulled the addresses of every registered American in the city. Including some four dozen students of my study abroad program.

My professor was awakened at the first ray of dawn by a police lieutenant, who explained that there had been an attack on America the previous night. He explained that putting a watcher on every American in the city had strained their resources, and apologized that they had only time to scrape together two dozen police in full tactical gear to discourage the, quote, dishonorable no-account bastards from trying to continue the fight at a small American school half a world away.

I have had many, many occasions to grind my teeth due to interactions with Japanese cops, but I always tell myself that, in the balance, we still owe them one.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1681186
This video is germain to this conversation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc

It is unfortunate that the power-balance has become so one-sided that we actively worry about speaking to the police in case they decide to make your life difficult.
That's the whole problem: iAds is, to a large extent, a capitulation to the fact that in 20 years no one has figured out how to make money in online digital goods with anything other than an advertising model.

Apple has gotten the closest—I'm amazed that they haven't gotten more good press about 99c TV show rentals, as it's essentially a la carte ad-free cable, which is supposed to have been the holy Grail of video content for the last two decades—and the fact that iAds and AdMob have become so popular so quickly is a sad indicator of how difficult it is to make money by actually making something, even on iOS.
Google Instant will most likely never come to GMail search. The speed at which GMail queries are returned simply aren't fast enough for real-time search, and it's unlikely Google has a monetary incentive to improve the speed to this level. Remember, GMail search is a feature; Google Search is a business.

There are a few reasons GMail search is slow:

* GMail searches must search a genuinely real-time index of your e-mails. An e-mail must be searchable the instant it's created. Web search has an inherent latency which allows Google to do offline processing to improve search speed.

* It follows that, GMail must be an exact match, while Web search is an approximation.

* Popular queries can't be cached and returned quickly.

Source: http://www.quora.com/Why-does-Gmail-take-longer-to-search-my...
Regarding decompiling Flash-to-iPhone apps, CS5's iPhone app packaging feature produces binary executables[1], not embedded SWFs - so they should not be vulnerable to decompiling.

1: From Adobe's FAQ at http://bit.ly/cxpzFe

"Is the Flash Player runtime bundled along with the application?

No. iPhone applications built with Flash Platform tools are compiled into standard, native iPhone executable packages and there is no runtime interpreter that could be used to run Flash byte-code within the application."
TO coder how many searches are for music videos or artist names; majority?
Isn't there overwhelming logic that bombarding a child's immune system with 10 or so strains of disease at one time is not ideal?
The situation is very analogous to undergraduate with advanced placement (AP) courses.

Any university is going to require you to get credit for, e.g., some introductory computer science sequence (CS1, CS2) to get a bachelors in CS. However, universities vary a great deal in whether they (a) require a particular AP score, (b) require you to take a local test to prove your knowledge, or (c) whether you can just talk to someone and convince them you know the material.

The difference at the PhD level is that in many cases, incoming students have the equivalent of ten undergraduate and graduate courses in the sub-area, rather than one or two. This means that students at less curriculum-oriented universities can largely avoid taking classes, even though classes are "required." People are mostly fine with this because the thesis is usually a much higher bar than core curriculum competency anyway.
I actually have. We announced the site here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1454934 as well.

The novel idea of quippd is to allow users to add/correct links/headlines/content in an effort to cut down the gaming -- no story is just about a single provider of content (optimally).

Check out our coverage of the burning of qur'ans story for instance -- many articles being referenced, not a single source.

http://quippd.com/show/2994/reply/4389/Florida_Church_plans_...
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Yeah, I see what you're getting at. For my part, while I'm interested in computer security, I'm more interested in legal (or "real-life", or "social", or what-have-you) security. So, I'd be more inclined to say that when there's a theoretical legal attack, it should be handled as though it were a practical one.

I recently had a close friend go through the court system on multiple felony charges. That particular introduction to the legal system was eye-opening.
Thanks for the link. This was interesting: "Eventually the idea that we have to 'store something to disk' will go away; the difference between memory and disk will be seen as an arbitrary artifact of the past".
Why are they assuming that the census data is accurate? I don't see how it would be any harder to falsify. It's relatively easy to check for individuals who don't show up in any other government data or are known to be dead, but if the government thinks they're alive, why would a household not include the dead person?

Then again, I don't know how Japan's census actually works.
Apparently, yes.

http://blog.mathgladiator.com/2010/09/announcing-nodeocaml.h...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1681827 (posted 1 hour after your comment)
>Democracy, and 1 vote per person is just a flawed system. Thankfully there is a fair bit of dictatorship on HN which keeps things fairly sane.

I agree, and this is where reddit, for instance fails.

Once quippd gains a userbase that is interested in trolling and posting bad comments, we plan to implement a slashdot style moderation system (still the best moderation system out there, imo).
There is nothing that I was not able to do in pubic life because of who I am, or specifically what my last name is (last names are give away your caste and geographical location).

In fact the question baffles me because I get the impression people from the west still think that there are public places in India that stop people from certain castes from entering or participating. Wow!

Country club is a private institution, they can make up whatever rules they want. I don't see a problem with that.