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This is no doubt part of it, but beer drunkards tend to be quite the opposite.

I think it's a combination of malnutrition, chronic dehydration and impact on metabolism.
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Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1640117

Having said that - no comments there.
It's the WebTrust audit for Certification Authorities: http://www.webtrust.org/certauth_fin.htm (warning: PDF)
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Thanks very much for that, appreciate it.

Three questions.

1. Any thoughts on www.htmldog.com? Came up in some searches, seems to have not been updated in a while though. edit: or http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/html-css-beginners-gui...

2. Thoughts on whether to use the html tutorial, or the html5 tutorial?

3. Thoughts on the w3schools vs www.diveintohtml5.org (is the latter suitable for someone without prior html knowledge)?
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Complying with the audit is costly - both in direct costs to the auditors, and in implementing the infrastructure and policies and procedures to pass the audit.
That depends on my starting weight. If I weigh 120lbs then I'll take the muscle. If I weigh 220lbs then I'll take the weight loss.
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If you exclude professionals, nobody buys "full-frame" sensors. Excluding professionals, people don't even know what that means. Nobody brags about sensor size, everybody brags he has "more MP" than before.

Also almost nobody wants to make photos only in the direct sunlight. Normal conditions are conditions with less than optimal light.

So excluding "full-frame," more MP is actually worse, and people buy simply by believing "bigger number better."

Edit: Let me stress once again: I'm not discussing a scenario of a "professional with a slave to carry all his equipment and another guy to set and hold the lights" but a "normal person" carrying not-too-expensive camera or even his phone and expecting "more MP better pictures."
The answer - it depends. Depends on the nature of the service, your demographics, your marketing and sales pitch and other factors. I understand you are hoping for a discussion here, but you aren't likely to get anything useful out of it even if it happens. Generic questions lead to generic answers.

Read around instead. There is a ton and a half of information on the subject including lots of personal and very specific accounts. Search HN to find them. Then see which applies to your case and go from there.
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In 1999, Netscape started charging something like $100,000/year + $5000 per root cert, before there were any audit requirements. I think the idea was to weed out those who couldn't afford to run a CA worthy of browser inclusion.

I'm no longer in the SSL industry but I'm not aware of Mozilla charging. Perhaps it was dropped when Mozilla spun out of Netscape and the WebTrust audit came on the scene.
I think he meant to say that PC is superficially similar, but different from the computers of previous era: terminals connected to mainframes.
Only 5 of 135 employees aced Defcon social engineering test by not blabbing
We can't understand an organisms behavior in a hostile petri dish. Nothing lives on Mars, introducing an organism will produce results vastly different than anything we know on earth.

The only way we can control test this reliably is by building the worlds largest vacuated building, recreating the martian atmosphere below ~100ft (which may not be reliable as bacterial spores have been found well up in rain clouds), recreating the regolith to a compositional level, but also to a radiation level to account for all the free radical oxygens in it, then you have to recreate the light levels and daily cycles including UV and ionizing radiation. Then we'll have a reliable way to understand how the organisms will change the environment and how the environment may change the organisms.

We may be able to understand how the organisms will change the environment in the short term, but it's the long term that we're blind of and will remain blind of until we try. Introducing these organisms will change the environment, which will land new pressures on the organisms (IE evolutionary pressures) that could change the organisms meaning they'll deviate from our expected behaviors and our model for environment change will become increasingly inaccurate.

We can get a good bet through genome modelling (similar to what they did with the geobacter that can 'eat' iron, uranium, plutonium, etc), but in a high radiation environment we can only bet money on the radiotrophic fungus' and radioresistant bacterias to not mutate in ways we can't predict.

Perhaps the idea shouldn't be to recreate our environment, but to create a truly Martian one by giving it basic protobacteria and time.
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Language interpreters are great for experimenting with new or buggy pieces of code - just experiment at the prompt and copy what works into a file for posterity. I've started looking through the parsing code for PicoC, and its all nice and readable. But I'm surprised this was used in an actual system, embedded or not. C is an absolutely miserable language whose saving graces are executable size and speed. It lacks reasonable features to use for scripting, like code-as-data in Bash or the dynamism of Python and Ruby. There are even embedded scripting languages like LUA. What does C offer as a scripting language, except perhaps familiarity?
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One thing that was sad was to see how ugly the forking situation got: http://www.landley.net/code/tinycc/

When I was using tcc a lot I used the tinycc fork as it had fixed bugs I was encountering. It's a shame that things didn't work out amicably.
Didn't I see a Doctor Who episode just like this? The Doctor must defeat the head of the space program, who turns out to be the Marquis de Sade doing a Doctor Strangelove-flavored Werner Von Braun impression?

One of the most memorable scenes is the one where the Doctor and his companion sit down to dinner with the villain and debate literature. Suspicions are aroused when the villain laments the unhappy ending of Apollo 13. "Why couldn't it have been more like The Perfect Storm?"

In the end the guy is stalked and killed by the spectral ghost of Laika the dog.
That's clever. Sends a great signal to the right audience. May I ask if that's a common thing or if he came up with it?
As you suggested, it offers the possibility to switch from interpreted to compiled code at no extra effort.
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Have you read Greg Egan's Diaspora? The "direction" of migration described there is quite interesting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_%28novel%29
I see limited use for a digital toaster, there are some perks you /could/ see like having personalized settings which somehow just know which person is using them ( RFID? ) and sets the appropriate toast setting for that person.

Possibly detection on what it is toasting ( ie: hash-browns, muffin-splits ) and "smarter" toasting ( ie: using an optical sensor to measure surface browning, and using a laser thermometer to measure core temperature ( which is required for hash browns because they're often still cold in the middle :( ) ), but these are all purely practical features and I'd want the toaster still 100% practical with no knowledge of these features.

But I'm guessing these sorts of features are not the ones they implement, and probably add silly things like an LCD screen with a countdown timer, and a blingy screensaver, and a robotic toast loader ( ok, on the other side I can see how that would be useful, I do get annoyed every time the toaster is a little too eager and throws my toast in the air and into the sink ..... ) , and they probably add useless features like bread-decorating toasting with high powered lasers or something equally stupid.
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A little disappointed--I thought this was going to be a top-level explanation of how SSL works to protect data, but instead it was a step-by-step "how to buy a SSL cert for your server" that honestly wasn't even that clear or concise.
It seems you don't understand what I'm talking about.

Having a long time is only useful if mutations can produce good "patches". If you can't prove that they can, then all the time in the world won't do you any good.

It's like you're saying:

A & B & C & D, therefor Z

I'm pointing out that A is false. You're objecting by pointing out that B is true. I'm saying "who cares"?

When one of your basic premises doesn't hold, it doesn't matter if all the other ones hold.
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Doesn't multitasking on OS4 enable ring through for Skype?
What the whole HFCS scaremongering has done for me is raise my awareness of what is actually in the foods I'm eating. I can agree that people probably see health benefits cutting out HFCS because it probably cuts out other highly processed ingredients. Just the other day I was looking at bread ingredients and all the ones without HFCS (which weren't very many) also had the best ingredients all around.
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I'm looking to partner up with a podcaster, maybe someone who is recording solo and could use a co-host.

Others on HN might be looking for the same, so go ahead and state whether you're a podcaster (and what the podcast is) or if you're looking to co-host (and what topics you'd be comfortable talking about).
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Obviously it depends on what you're offering, but for a generic model i'd suggest a monthly freemium model - Max traction on launch with regular passive income in the future.
>The first question is do users prefer to pay a one off fee
>(even though that fee could be quite large) or do they
>prefer to pay a set of smaller monthly fees?

Some prefer one off fee. Some prefer paying in installments. You should offer both if you can.

Monthly payments is better for long term cash flow management of your startup. But it comes with some admin hassle.

Single large payments are better for the short term growth of your startup. And it has no admin hassle.

So why not offer both?

3 month trial is a long time. Only offer such long duration trials if you know your service is very sticky but has a long learning curve. If the learning curve is short, don't offer more than 1 month trial. If your service is not sticky, don't offer a free trial at all. A demo will do.
Of course they do. NASA doesn't actually do anything but make plans any more - so the more elaborate and wasteful their plan-making is, the more money they can try to claim from congress.
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Composing presentations, preparing invoices, sketching, Monkey Island, writing.

The retina display makes a huge difference for reading, so I tend to use the iPhone for feeds and things, but for anything creative the iPad is the clear winner.
A good, short, memorable domain definitely gives a startup a greater advantage in marketing & branding.

Kumo -> Bing, TheFacebook -> Facebook, GetDropbox -> Dropbox

I do agree that find a good domain name for a project/startup is hard especially you dont have lots of cash in hand (to acquire registered domains) but I don't agree with you that other shorter/sweeter/nicer domains didn't exist anymore in the wild. This might be true for 4-char, one syllable name but not all. I think it's fine if your domain is not directly related to the service/content of your project as long as it's reasonable/logical (e.g. if your project is about news don't use a domain like tropicaljuice.com)

You can always go for 5-7 chars, 2 syllables name. You can use tools like Dotomator or Domainr to find a good, fresh name for your project.

BTW, if you are willing to tell HN your "next big thing", we are more than happy to help you brainstorm a good name.

Good luck with the name!
I really don't 'get' this anti-infographic movement - What's the difference between text-based content and graphical content? Gaming sites like Digg etc is always going to happen regardless of the format.
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BTW, the topics I'm comfortable chatting about include entrepreneurship, SEO, copywriting, marketing strategy, independent publishing and health and fitness (I include personal productivity, lifehacks and accelerated learning in the health and fitness category).
It would be better if you just write the test, so the candidate in order to apply should fork, write a Candidate class and pull a request.

BTW the position is in Cape Town?
Thanks for this. Yeah I have been doing a lot of reading around and have found there to be no magic formula - you are right there a lot of factors that will influence my decision.

I would show the site to get a proper discussion going but it is still a few weeks away from being ready. The site is a bookmarking site and follows the pinboard model but I have over the past few months submitted some bookmarking discussion questions to try and find what people want from a bookmarking site and what currently is missing.

I appreciate that a lot of people will not pay for bookmarking but Pinboard seem to have captured a market and I believe there is still more customers to gain providing you can get the site, and the pricing model, right.
That's great thanks. You are right - I prefer to pay a one off fee but I know of people who are happy to pay small monthly sums and so I think it is logical to offer both.
You don't have presbyopia, do you?

I'll grant that the iPhone 4 is a lovely piece of kit, but if you have 45-year-old (or older) eyeballs, you will probably need the bigger screen. Our eyes become somewhat less flexible with age, and our lenses lose the capability to focus well on small, nearby objects: the result is reading glasses (and a lot of grumbling). I can still read ebooks on the iPhone ... for about 10 minutes; then I begin to get a headache. Movies are right out, as are games. The iPad is a lot more old-fart eyeball-friendly.
As soon as IE supports everything Skywriter uses, we'll be happy to support it... Right now, that means Canvas, Web Workers and CSS3 Flexible Box Model. The latter two are not yet supported by IE9, I believe.
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I go to the store every day; it's only a half-mile walk, and a nice way to switch from "working at home" to "evening at home."
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http://www.sylviaengdahl.com/space/survival.htm

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OK, firstly a nitpick - feature creep is not the same thing as cruft as Stephenson describes it. Cruft is specifically about the code, and how under the hood everything gets very messy. Feature creep (to continue the car metaphor) is more like having a very busy dashboard.

Secondly, the reason that iTunes has become this kind of catchall application is because Windows users do not like installing new software on their computers. Just about everyone has iTunes installed, so when Apple wants to add new functionality to the computer part of it's vertically integrated stack, it is easier to get users to adopt the software by inserting it into an already existing program than it is to get users to install a new program. In turn, it is easier for users as well - instead of having a myriad of different applications to manage on their computer, they only have one. This of course doesn't apply to Mac users, where Apple can push updates to as many apps as they want in a synchronised manner.

Thirdly, as anyone that uses Apple products knows, it is often possible to simplify a product so that the 90% use case is very simple, but at the expense of making the 10% use more difficult/impossible. No, I don't have to worry about how iTunes stores my files, the app does it for me, but if I'm a power user and I want to install my music library on a separate hard drive, or set it up to be shared between multiple computers, all of a sudden it's not so easy to use any more. That said, iTunes is easy to critique on this score - why all of those different views of your media, for starters. Or at least, I can understand your book collection looking different from the TV show colleaction, which looks different to the film collection, which in turn looks different to the music collection, but why allow the user to choose which view they want for which media type - this is a most un-Apple like way to do thigngs, and they really should think about cleaning out some of this extraneous stuff, to once again simplify the interface.
Yes that sounds the way to go - see above for the type of site I am offering. You are right - freemium seems the buzz at the moment. I was even thinking of a novel payment model like Radiohead (the music band) have done in England whereby they have said the customer can pay what they like for the album. I thought of doing something similar for my site - pay what you want for an account, it's risky but it is quite niche and could gain me some attention.
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> Apple Mac's aren't a success considering their market share.

Some companies prefer market share. Some companies prefer profit.

Your definition of success is your personal opinion, which you admit is irrelevant.

"While Apple only commands 7 percent of overall revenues in the PC market, its products account for 35 percent of the operating profits. None of the other manufacturers—which includes such giants as Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Lenovo—comes even close to matching Apple’s five-to-one ratio between revenue and profit share."

http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-revenue-vs-o...
So it sounds like Quantum cryptography is only useful for data being transmitted between two points, and would not apply to data at rest? Or is this a false distinction?
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not necessarily, but would be nice.
I believe it does, but not enough to worry about if your domain name isn't perfect. Releasing a product and acquiring customers (or vice versa) is more important.

At the same time, I recommend putting some thought into your domain name. You might make a list of keywords related to your product, based on your market and research to determine what potential customers are searching for (Google provides tools for this). Then work on short variations. Phrases seem to be popular now (past years saw "online," "web," "net," "central," "hub," "app," Swahili words, etc.).

I'm surprised to find that short, memorable domain names are still available--you just have to be a bit more creative to find them.

You might find the following blog(s) helpful (IIRC some older posts there were particularly good):

http://www.igorinternational.com/blog/
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I had a chance to sample the Octomore while visiting Bruichladdich this year. Holy crap that stuff is like drinking liquid fire. Does not have the smooth finish like Lagavulin 16, but it was sure fun to try.
Definitely take the 5lbs of fat as 10lbs of muscle. I work in construction, I'm already muscular and always have been, however I'm struggling with weight I gained when I was forced to be unemployed during my Canadian immigration (they wouldn't give me a work visa despite job shortages in the construction sector and my employer meeting all the criteria to hire from outside Canada and they weren't obligated to give a reason why). I've lost a lot, and I've turned even more of it into muscle.

I'd take the 10lbs of muscle, because most people wouldn't believe how much better it makes you feel doing regular things. I'm seriously like a pack-mule coming out of a supermarket. I don't struggle like I used to, which means I don't get tired like I used to.

Sure it would be great to be lean, but my body type would never allow it, it would be unhealthy.
Re. AI - I don't know - never needed to use them and pypi search is not very good for such expression :/ I suspect there is something though. Just as lisp was the king of NLP one day - right now I'd bet on NLTK any day. People learned to write parsers / tree processing and it's almost as trivial in Python as it is in lisps.

Re. MSVCpp - Not only I got a free version from university (and another one from another university), there's a starter edition (not sure about the name - express?) which is free.

Without context, it's hard to say why are they willing to pay. Maybe it's because they liked the environment? Maybe it's because their codebase is so big they can't switch anymore? Maybe because free alternatives suck at some level? Maybe the company pays and noone asks why? There are so many potential reasons, we'd need to analyse some stories of why are people doing this.
Back when a food company was coming out with cake mixes, it discovered that cooks felt bad about just adding water & stirring. They redid the recipe so that it was necessary to add an egg, and everyone was happier.
Not community, but there is http://cert.startcom.org/ .

You can also do your own (OpenSSL has everything you need).

And for a community one, you'd still need a verification mechanism and a protection mechanism for the roots; both of which could be hard to do in a volatile environment. http://www.cacert.org/ Seems to be that, don't think they are included in any browsers by default though (it's not in mine at least).
The point I was making along the lines of, just because a heavy drinker might be quite slender, it doesn't imply that they're healthy. They've lost their muscle mass along with their fat.

PS I am a Marathon runner and I'd take the muscle... And have you seen the quads on a serious cyclist?
I just disagree with this. I think complexity is laziness on the part of the designer, the marketing team and the management team that probably demands their products appear complex.

For instance, the washing machine that needs two buttons but has 20. Two buttons on a washing machine, if designed well, is a great marketing opportunity. BUT you would have to design it with a way to SHOW the user all of the things that the machine is actually doing, like how the prius shows you what it's doing. Give it a sleek, standout design, and you've got a high-end, high-dollar washing machine.

Thing is, that means someone has to step outside the box and do something different than their competitors. Slapping lots of 'features' on a machine is cheap and gives the sales guys lots of fodder for B.S., no extra training required.

Look at Apple's products, look at the Toyota Prius. Complex machines that simplify the tasks they do. And they're selling very well.

Ultimately, design and marketing have to make simple mean more, not less, to middle America. And someday, probably soon, when every washing machine has 20 knobs and I need to push 10 buttons to toast a piece of bread, simplicity will be the new selling point.
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