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Interestingly the method of mitigation, which is mounting user-accessible filesystems nosuid, has become less and less common over the years.

When dinosaurs still roamed the earth, it used to be that all unix installs used separate /, /var, /usr, (/export)/home, ... directories, the rationale being mostly to facilitate remote mounting of shared (/usr) programs or to isolate filesystem corruptions (/ being mostly read-only and containing essential binaries).

But its quite convenient to have each of them mounted with adequate, security and performance enhancing mount options (in Linux for example: /=noatime, /usr=nodev,noatime, /var,/tmp,/home=nodev,nosuid).

I used this scheme for quite a long time and only recently abandoned it here and there because popular Linux distributions, or e.g. OpenSolaris ZFS-root no longer offer it on their default install media. And of course it wastes a little space having to judge the maximum expected size when installing the machine.
Not you - jgershen. But I can email you as well if you like. I've been working on some eyetracking stuff and find it fun and interesting.
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Work: A firefox addon which shows you latest horse racing odds on any website (http://oddsanywhere.com)

Personal: Tweaking ads on my blogs, trying to become the next patio11 ;0)
There's different kinds of genius I think. You have "skill" genius where someone can play the piano, chess etc extremely well. You also have "creative" genius which is people like Einstein who makes creative new leaps. The first kind of genius seems to be genetical while the second can be learnt.

I can't claim to be any kind of genius myself but creative "breakthroughs" in my experience has mostly followed the same pattern: Immersion -> Gestation -> Creative Leap.

You start by immersing yourself into a problem, reading everything there's to read about the subject, getting all aspects of the problem down on paper, pondering it wherever you go etc. As you start this you will also start a subconcious gestation process where you're brain will start arranging itself to the problem space. This is why I think you see "obvious" solutions to problems after a certain period of time.

The "creative leap" or "aha!" moment can take different forms. I find they often pop into my head while doing something else like taking a walk or a bath and letting my mind drift. Exercise is also great to stimulate the brain. It can also come in the form on coming in contact with something in a different area and seeing how it relates to your problem.

I've found the more I know about a wide array of topics the easier it is to find creative solutions to stuff. Learning stuff like languages and playing instruments also creates new cross-connections in the brain. What you eat will also to some degree have an impact on your thought process so eat some nuts and fish :)

Some other good habit is to constantly re-examine and question "basic facts" and "certainties". Keep a text dump of your thoughts so you easier can arrange and go back to them. Play "pretend it's magic", "if it/you could anything, what would it do?". Assume there's a solution and speculate around it's properties instead of questioning whether one exists.

So immerse yourself, eat well, learn about lots of stuff, take long walks, exercise and don't be afraid to daydream :)
The lengthy discussion is over here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1802801

Having said that, I did upvote this because I think it's important, and the discussion has many useful and interesting points.
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Thanks for the Godwin invocation.
Either you have a v slow machine or you had some major configuration issues with Eclipse or other services running on that machine. Even on a 1.4GHz Core 2 machine on a large java project, source files open < 1 sec.
I know that each decision is a result of hard work by many people. While I don't find time for community initiatives, I appreciate that others (like yourself) do. Seriously.

My comment was more directed towards the process. Every plan is considered, reconsidered, viewed, and reviewed, many times by many people. And if a decision is actually reached, some group of concerned citizens will be formed to protest it.

My first example was Alma Plaza. My second example was the structure on the corner of High and University. I actually don't know the history behind the latter, other than that it has been an eyesore for years.

Perhaps a valid argument to my disheartened view would be that an area like Palo Alto is a finished painting -- every additional stroke requires careful consideration for the risk of making a wrong one. But I do wish that our city was able to innovate as quickly as the businesses that define this area. :)
Well, those kinds of claims are kind of par for the course for the Python community. I remember that it was commonly claimed that Python 1.5 had the "full power of the lambda calculus", when all it had was anonymous function definitions, and not true higher order functions.
I'm working on a site that will be useful to all of you, hopefully.
And the Apple Fud campaign begins to take hold...
Yes, seems like it will count as a late app. We submitted ours earlier today, and the messaging on http://news.ycombinator.com/apply now reads:

"The application deadline for this cycle has passed. You can still submit a late application, though the chances of getting funded are lower.

<link>apply late</link>"
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Currently, I am working on homework: representing a sudoku puzzle instance in a knowledge representation description language. Next I will study for a midterm in another class until I can't manage to stay awake any more or 6 AM arrives, whichever comes first.

At 6 AM, I will shower and go to work as a software developer where I'm transitioning to building a Windows application in .NET after working in web development (PHP, JS) in all of my previous professional experience.

After I get off work, I will meet with a professor before going to class and taking the midterm.

The worst part is trying to cheer up and encourage a friend in a similar situation, because I don't feel like I am helping. :(

In my spare time, I am solving the Google AI Challenge (http://www.ai-contest.com/) and working with someone on a side project which helps groups collaborate. If the side project goes well, then we will be co-founders in a new venture.
Good post; very interesting to read these!
I'm a mutual fund analyst by day, returned to programming a couple of months ago after a long time away to bang out an idea in Pylons. I've missed it! In hopes of getting out of my daily grind to put more time into it, I'm selling custom acrylic displays and cases, focusing on custom iPad display trees, because it's working! Will exit securities analysis next year- so unfulfilling and statistically pointless. Index your money.
Hopefully you're not representative of people normally judging resumes. When you're unemployed, finding a job is probably the most important thing you can do. Making something pleasing to the eye can only help your efforts, as long as all the information is there.

There are so many posts on HN about A/B testing. I'd A/B test my resume if it were possible.
I bet your target directory is not marked as derived
Here are a few pdf's of some articles in Wilmott Magazine touching on this issue, and Mandelbrot's work in general:

http://www.wilmott.com/detail.cfm?articleID=342

From the Emperor With No Clothes article:

And so why, we are obliged to ask, has one of the most important discoveries in the history of economics failed to inspire a concerted effort to develop a better theory? Perhaps it has to do with Mandelbrot himself and his position vis à vis the kingmakers of economics who reserve the right to bestow acknowledgment. Why has Mandelbrot not been recognized, say, with a Nobel Prize in economics? Because he is considered an “outsider”—trained as a mathematician and active in research that ranges well beyond economics alone? Or has he failed to play by establishment rules and violated some unwritten code of economist conduct?

Why, indeed, should Mandelbrot receive a Nobel prize in economics? The Nobel is the ne plus ultra of global recognition; it carries considerable political weight; it does not go unnoticed; the very fact of the award can stir things up. In Mandelbrot’s case, everyone would be made aware that classical economics – quite literally the emperor of our global economy – is without clothes. Younger economists and students around the world would be motivated to search for a better explanation of how economies work and why, and to propose alternative theories validated by actual data and subject to empirical scrutiny. Putting all of us, as real science always does, in the temporarily uncomfortable position of not knowing in order that we may know.
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So what im missing besides biased marketing bullshit?
Very, very poorly. A large percentage of images are labeled #ffffff, others are simply wrong. They've known for years; no improvements.
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They do already, but I could lengthen the reload time.
So get a Nexus One.

The fact that there are multiple suppliers give the user choice. They can include how locked down a phone is in their criteria for making that choice, and buy one direct if they wish to have a phone that's not locked down by a middleman.
>“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
This comes across as "I have a really cool idea, and all I need is a low-level technical wizard to implement it"

OK, at the end you say "... myself, who has very similar attributes to the ones described above, ..." but even so, it doesn't give a good impression.

I don't know if you'd call me highly technical, and I certainly don't have the time to chase anything new, especially with someone I don't know, doning something they haven't described, using technology unspecified, but what you've written doesn't inspire me to contact you at all.

Quite the opposite.

Since you claim to be similar to the person you speak, would your submission have attracted you? If you're highly motivated with ideas of your own, wouldn't you have read that and thought - "No, too busy"?
Purely anecdotal, but I won't hand over my credit card to anyone unless I'm actually sure I want their product.
It seems your original article is currently down for me, so excuse me if this is a repeated question.

Do you think it was a mistake to start at $1.99 based on your theory? Should the entire aim to be to go as cheap as possible to get into the top 10 in the first place? (Or is that unlikely unless there is some other form of catalyst, e.g. Apple feature and therefore you may as well have the price at $1.99 / $2.99 until that happens?).
There are three kinds of things that go in the basement, but only 1.5 of them need throwing away.

- The Junk. Stuff you have but can't bear to throw away; after leaving it in storage for a few years you are willing to part with it.

- The Memorabilia. Stuff that has memories attached to it- for example, a stuffed animal. Some of this stuff could be thrown away, some is not worth chucking.

- The Winter Clothing. Stuff you only need occasionally, but cannot do without. I think a lot of people discount or forget about this category when they talk about how little stuff you should have in your life. My mechanic's tools, rain gear and winter clothes are not being used more often than not, but when I have to have them I have to have them.
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I appreciate your sentiment and I, as most people, have mixed feelings about how China's developing.

As I referenced in my other comment, a great deal of China's ability to innovate in terms of real estate development comes at the cost of what we Westerner's would perceive as social rights. If Palo Alto decides that there are too many black or poor people hanging around a certain section of town, most of us would prefer (to put it, err, lightly) that the city not just kill them, boot them out of town, or snatch the property rights of the places they frequent and bulldoze them. But such behavior is precisely what permits the process to which you're referring.
Yeah, Vimperopera and Vopera, but both are abandoned. I have the source of the former and might one day get around to working on it, but that's pretty low priority as long as Vimperator and Firefox work so well.
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Was this your first submission or update to the old one?
Why not?

Buy a brand new hybrid and use it for more than 10 years, instead of buying a 10 years old used car and use it for two three years until its mechanical parts are so used that it fails constantly.

Of course the best for the environment is to buy a bike(you only need to manufacture 10 kilograms instead of +1000), or just walk, if you are going to buy a car anyway buying a Prius helps to develop electric cars, witch is better at least for cities environment(less diesel particles in the air, asthma, cancer and allergies).

It is way easier to control energy plant combustion particles than in individual cars, and on some places in the world you could use local wind solar , geothermal, biomass(wood, stubble) or nuclear energy along with gas or coal.
I'm strongly against patriotism actually but I see your point.
But Feynman's point is: "Maybe not." We already know a computer-in-the-world can compute the fine-structure constant, in much the same way it computes its own temperature and fan speed. (I don't know enough physics to be at all sure the previous statement is true or even meaningful.) If you wanted to gauge how powerful a computer-in-the-world could be, or how powerful a computer-the-world's-in could be, you'd want to know whether a Turing machine could output the fine-structure constant, too, just as though it were pi or e or the first zero of a Bessel function.
Like any successful PhD, his main drive is vanity :-)
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Pros/cons to consider in a few contexts:

* Custom domains - if you ever want to allow custom domains (ala Tumblr, Posterous, etc), it's probably easier to go w/ subdomains. The URL recognition will be much easier.

* Security - if you ever want to allow custom HTML/Javascript, I would say that custom domains are a must for security reasons. However, passing login credentials across multiple domains might be trickier than using a single domain.

* SEO - I'm not completely sure, but very curious to know. Can someone chime in on SEO tradeoffs of these two options?
give me a break. the vast majority of personal sites are on shared webhosts who don't give clean access to access_log files (etc.) moreover, it's a pain to parse files anyway.
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(disclaimer: I am Chinese; living in Beijing). Since this presentation made it to the front page of HN, I was curious to take a look. I rarely found similar presentations (by consulting/investment firms) having a clarifying effect on my thinking. They show an impressive array of facts and arguments, but often after reading it I fail to be able to summarize the main ideas in a couple of sentences (the way I often can, say, after reading a paul graham essay).

to begin with, why "grey swan"? no doubt, it's a reference to Taleb's book. but what exactly do they mean? that what's happening in China is not completely foreseeable, but more foreseeable than the blackest of black swans?

let's simplify things -- if we define growth as growth in wealth, and examine if the chinese are able to pull off creating something like 10% more wealth every year than we did last year. there are two variables to this: how many people are working this year than last, and how productive are they.

I don't have time to research on this, but I am guessing workforce size reduction if it happens is going to be more than offset by China simply copying mature technologies from the West and increase the productivity of its people, as it has been doing. the wild card is projects like centrally planned bridge to no where, which looks productive but doesn't actually create things people want, i.e. wealth. But China has always (i.e. last 60 years) been a centrally planned economy, assuming the leadership doesn't all of a sudden get a lot more stupid, and given that the portion of the economy that's centrally planned is shrinking every year, I think one can even make an argument of putting on a few basis points of growth simply from the gov't playing a smaller role in the economy than before. (now of course the big stimulus package might completely skew the balance for these couple of years, but it's temporary noise that probably wouldn't reverse the trend.)

and argument of how big a village needs to be before it can be called a town is irrelevant.
I think this change is mostly due admin time per machine. Even if you use LVM your admin time per machine is higher if you have lots of separate partitions.

btw you might want relatime rather than noatime.
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From Io example below I would say it's a little different. It's more like it has a runtime api to change/generate it's runtime. I think SmallTalk has something similar to this.

In Io, all code is data. Below is an example of changing a functions behaviour (from addition to subtraction):

Io> plus := block (a, b, a + b)
==> method(a, b,
a + b
)
Io> plus call (1, 2)
==> 3
Io> plus message next setName ("-")
==> -(b)
Io> plus
==> method(a, b,
a - b
)
Io> plus call (1, 2)
==> -1

ref: Io Has A Very Clean Mirror (WayBackMachine copy) - http://web.archive.org/web/20080212010904/http://hackety.org...
I moved to a new flat recently, and had an intermediary stay at my parents before that.

I, intentionally didnt take my desktop PC, my xbox or TV with me.

I also didnt take any of my suits, smart shoes and a whole host of books.

For the first few months, i didnt miss any of them, but i am starting to miss my TV, xbox and Desktop PC now.

Not particularly missing anything else, but then again, i didnt have that many things to start with.
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Ask HN: Fun side project - what should I name it?
What should I name a service that archives weekly screenshots of startup homepages?

I've always wanted to study the process of how startups that launch with simple products iterate towards success. I'm sure others share my curiosity.

This is what my app would do:
1. Maintain a list of promising startups.
2. Take weekly screenshots of homepages for these startups.
3. Allow people to browse a gallery of screenshots for each startup that my service tracks.

This service shouldn't be too hard to code up. I've coded up similar services in the past. Nonetheless, I hate starting projects without first naming them.

So, wise readers of Hacker News, what do you think I should name my web app?

Thanks in advance.
I think I understand now. Sorry, but I'll have to be blunt. I promise I don't mean to insult you, but I feel that clarity is more important that politeness here.

You recognize the existence of rather precise (though contradictory) definitions of OO. You probably have a preference for one of them. Yet, you have "chosen to believe" that there is a concept that most programmer agree to call "OO".

Of course, you are unable to put such a concept in writing (or you would have done so by now). Therefore, you dismiss actual definitions of OO as "implementations", saying that the "concept" is above that. The advantage of such a line of thinking is that you don't actually disagree with anyone. The problem is that you hardly say anything when you utter "OO".

I may be wrong. But if you want to convince me, you'll have to write a definition of this OO "concept" you're talking about. Or a sketch. Or at least tell me that it will take too much space and effort.
Just got "Foundation" from the library today (because someone stole my Red Mars book :( )
Likewise, if Linus cared about Linux being open, he would have supported switching the kernel to AGPLv3....

Likewise, if the FSF cared about glibc being open, they would have switched the library to AGPLv3....
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You don't know much about OS X, do you?
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If such a thing were to become reality, this honestly would be a credible explanation for it.
But is Apple worth $300 billion? One might argue that 10% of Apple is a fair price to pay (perhaps even a bargain), even if both were reasonably priced.
So Nexus One is not discontinued after all?
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odd, this one has the same exact URL:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=786740
I miss the info on how many eye balls the article got. If a submitted article gets only one upvote, is it because it didn't have readers or because people didn't find it worth the upvote ?
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http://www.google.com/phone/detail/nexus-one

"The Nexus One is available for sale in the US to registered developers" - and my guess is that that's not a particularly high barrier to entry.

Also, being in Italy, it gives me a "buy from vodaphone" link. Unlocked phones are much more common here in Europe, so apparently they're still selling them here: https://offerte.vodafone.it/nexus-one/
1. Working on two content management systems, currently trying to reduce the code to the minimum possible, whilst still making it friendly towards new(ish) developers.

2. Storyboarding a short stop-motion film for a client

3. Writing a book (will be somewhere around 80k when all's done)

4. Studying for a taekwondo grading

I like to keep busy...
The Fridge is Not Facebook. That's really all it is. A bunch of people distrust Facebook or don't know how to use the privacy settings on it, and those people can hang out in the Fridge.
Before Android the mobile world was a much sadder place. There was the undisputed king, the iPhone, controlled by an increasingly ego-maniacal tyrant. Then there were all the manufacturers and carriers flailing around uncoordinated unable to respond. Google came along and offered the world a free open platform that everyone could rally around to put up a fight against the encroaching monopoly. Google makes no money off of Android but they've put massive resources into it. Their only benefit, the freedom from Jobs' capriciousness, is also a benefit to everyone else.

I don't understand the Google hate, they gave the world a free OS, what is there to hate about that? Even the most ardent Apple fan should be thankful for the competition. Yes, it's true that the carriers suck, but they would suck a lot more if they were only pushing LG feature phones or whatever, instead they get to sell a powerful worthy system to the masses.
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How have I not heard about this?!

Quick aside, how are you for scaling? If I were to roll this out across our agency and pass it on to my circle, you'd probably see a fairly sizeable jump in usage...
Yes, EC2 uses Xen. I guess that my question might be better stated: Is it better to use Amazon's Xen or someone elses?
Check out the main project site here:
http://knockoutjs.com/
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