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How many mother's sons getting raped are you prepared to sacrifice to that end?

Don't be under any illusions. What you advocate justifies the continued perpetration of horrors on people who were once children.
I was dead set on getting one of these, but 2 things stopped me:

1. Steve mentioned this is the future of the Macbook. Which lead me to think...

2. Can you imagine what they have in store for the next iteration of the Macbook Pro? Especially the 13 inch?

So, I have decided to hang on to my 13 inch Macbook Pro and wait for the next iteration of the Pro's. I really wish the Air had an ethernet for when at the office and I really enjoyed the backlit keyboard. Otherwise, it seems nearly perfect.
From the guy who makes SMBC to the guy who keeps hacking SMBC
Thanks, I looked it up and it's very relevant to the discussion so I'll link it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich

"The Controlled Substances Act does not recognize the medical use of marijuana."

"The government also contended that consuming one's locally grown marijuana for medical purposes affects the interstate market of marijuana, and hence that the federal government may regulate and prohibit such consumption. This argument stems from the landmark New Deal case Wickard v. Filburn, which held that the government may regulate personal cultivation and consumption of crops, due to the effect of that consumption on interstate commerce, however minute it may be."
"This security-hole is for people surfing unencrypted networks."

I wish that was correct; however, according to http://www.airtightnetworks.com/WPA2-Hole196 even WPA2 is vulnerable. It states:
"AirTight Networks uncovered a weakness in the WPA2 protocol, which was documented but buried on the last line on page 196 of the 1232-page IEEE 802.11 Standard (Revision, 2007). Thus, the moniker "Hole196". [...] Exploiting the vulnerability, an insider (authorized user) can sniff and decrypt data from other authorized users as well as scan their Wi-Fi devices for vulnerabilities, install malware and possibly compromise those devices.
In short, this vulnerability means that inter-user data privacy among authorized users is inherently absent over the air in a WPA2-secured network."

The only prerequisite is for the attacker to be same WPA secured wireless network as the victim. There are ways to accomplish that even for private WiFi.

WEP has been cracked a long time ago. So, no actual security over WiFi alone. Need to use SSL, VPN, etc. for everything.
You could probably get a half-decent local-US-based small web firm to do something quite slick-looking for $2k, (throwing a basic CMS and 12 months' hosting into the bargain). Getting £2k from an unfussy client for a site that can be put together in a day is a sweet spot for many people.

As it is, it kind of reminds me of a slightly cruder version of the sites I was building in my early teens for £4 per hour back at the beginning of the last decade. I'm amazed they turned down all the extra cash...
Contribute to OSS is good for your CV as a way to separate you from the loads of CS graduates who are not passionate about programming. There are people who have CS degrees who can't programme. If you have contributed to OSS then you are probably not one of them.
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Or perhaps you could take to writing a few of these a day? A website such as the one demonstrated in the article isn't much of a task for anyone with a modicum of experience.
How is allocating limited healthcare resources to the young rather than the old a market failure? Did supply not meet demand?

There are real examples of market failure, e.g. the current failure of housing markets to clear (I.e. prices not reachingg equilibrium). Could you explain how your examples are market failure?
Everyone on a Mac has said that.
Just another reason to stay home and watch movies. Other reasons - almost free thanks to Netflix, cheap snacks/drinks, super clean seat, no travel, no distracting kids, and best of all... can watch them whenever we want.
Huh? The Tea Party is a good example of how to unify people behind ideas - exactly what I was talking about. And I never said I didn't vote. What I find stupid is the idea that you have some kind of obligation to vote just to voice your opinion. In particular, voting for 3rd party candidates that are not well known enough to possibly win is stupid. There may be exceptions if a respectable showing is part of a strategy.
Like the Sao Paulo-Paris A330 that crashed in the ocean mid flight? Was on autopilot, wasn't it ?
It looks like what I'd expect the website of a small mom&pop car repair to look like. If they had a pretty layout with a beautiful Ajax appointment-scheduler and an automatic twitterbot for questions and what have you, I'd suspect they a) write hefty bills to afford all that web design or b) are member of a chain.
A year at a "top" nursery school in New York City, can cost more than my entire university education (McGill University).
Pretty scary thought right?
The obvious alternative is not to have several different cars, but to live closer to where you work, shop and play.

Another alternative more obvious than keeping a garage full of differently-sized vehicles is to improve the fuel-per-passenger-mile ratio by banding together with other travellers who are going the same way. This is how buses and trains work.
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It's actually roughly 85% of Americans have used weed by age 55.[1] The reason the numbers don't normally reflect that is because the age of first use varies widely, so asking what percentage of people currently alive have smoked weed yields a very different answer than asking what percentage of normal people smoke weed during some point of their lives.

http://www.erowid.org/psychoactives/statistics/statistics_ar...
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Ask HN: Why is it so important to have a cofounder?
I'm relatively new to this, but I keep seeing people say that you need a cofounder and that almost no startups are successful with only a single founder.

Why is this so? I can see why it might be so for funded startups (since investors might take you more seriously if you have a cofounder), but does it also apply to bootstrapped startups? Should I really be worried if I'm planning on bootstrapping a startup with no cofounder?
It would be greatly appreciated if you could provide some input for my question

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4084741/rails-document-co...
The HTC Hero and Samsung Moment (both Sprint) are EOL as of July 2010. No 2.2 or future upgrades for those devices. I expect this to continue with future phones. I've had a Sprint store employee basically tell me that they expect you to get a new phone every two years because things change so rapidly. But I just got my phone in May. So two months later, no new upgrades.
I don't really like this idea all that much. I consider it spam when a new account posts anything just to attempt to get some quick and easy eyeballs on their project/startup and they have never contributed to HN before that. It feels like they are trying to game our system and I think your offer would only help them do that. What's wrong with earning your way to a RMS post? It would weed out the people who wouldn't stick around for the long run anyway.
By the time new members get organized enough to start pushing for reforms, they're not far away from becoming senior members. They can't leave the union because the union doesn't want the airline to hire non-union workers.

It isn't as bad as the UAW, though, where the majority of the voters aren't even workers any more but rather retirees.
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Anything by Terry Pratchett. There are a lot of books, and you might want to check this:

http://www.lspace.org/books/reading-order-guides/the-discwor...

I personally loved "Guards! Guards!" and would recommend it.

Also enjoyed "The player of Games" by Iain M Banks.

Consider also "Snow Crash"
I bought a 13" Macbook Air on the weekend for basically the same purpose. I do the majority my development on remote servers, so when I decided to replace my aging Macbook Pro it didn't seem very important to have a powerful machine.

I've had great experiences in the past with AppleCare. Combined with the unservicability of this machine, I didn't hesitate to get the 3-year AppleCare coverage. That makes me feel a bit better about the fact that I can't easily take it apart and repair it myself.
That's the thing about the minimalist approach - Apple cuts features like ethernet, usb, firewire ports, etc, and it may upset 1% of their customer base (the hardware geeks) but most people will never notice it and adjust accordingly.
Yeah, and e-ink has a poor refresh rate for something like scrolling around a page. Fine for page-flipping, but not for scrolling.
They used DreamWeaver.

If typing, highlighting and selecting options to modify the text from a menu is considered "programming" then many grandmothers are also programmers when they write emails and change text fonts/colors.
I tend to think in a similar way, but I also recognise that since something better is always around the corner I might never buy anything!
Physical violence?

Kidnapping?

Arson?
"The Diamond Age" or anything else by Neal Stephenson.
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For most people, anything to do with computers beyond making a Word document is "programming".
Yeah, that fragmentation will definitely be the downfall of Android, just like the multiple Windows versions and thousands of hardware configurations for Windows machines killed the Windows software market. And don't forget websites! Such a shame the web died because web developers had to test against multiple browsers and browser versions.

... In other words, fragmentation is probably the silliest arguments that fanboys can come up with at this point. God forbid developers have to test against multiple configurations like damn near every other software market in existence. There is no free lunch, and added testing time is just the small price you have to pay for a non-walled garden approach.
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I had my 13" Macbook Air pegged at 100% CPU usage for a couple hours yesterday. It gets a bit warm, and the single fan spins up noticeably (eventually), but I wouldn't call it hot. I think it'd be comfortable on my lap still.
You're claiming to be directly and immediately descended from a monkey?

Can you come and meet some creationists I know? I can't wait to knock the smug looks off their faces.
I think it is a good idea because how else an individual with no budget get his startup started :) I think this is part of bootstrapping, lending a hand and giving a fair chance,imho
because they aren't hackers, but reporters, and drama = more clicks for them.
This has been discussed many time before:

http://searchyc.com/submissions/single+founder?sort=by_date

http://searchyc.com/submissions/solo+founder?sort=by_date

More important is a longer list of why startups fail:

http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html
Invoicera: a Freelancer Best Friend
As freelance designers or just freelancers something we have to keep in mind is to use to facilitate our work in areas in which we generally are not good.Recently I was contacted by the Invoicera folks to test their service, since I am a freelance designer.
"Yes, there's DRM on Kindle books, and yes, it's annoying."

Like all these things, I suppose it depends on how you use it. I buy books on the Amazon store, I read them on my Kindle. I don't find the DRM annoying, or even visible.

It's pretty much the same as the old iTunes DRM. Yes, it was there, but if you bought on the iTunes store and played on your iPod, you didn't even notice it. The fact that download are now DRM-free is not even noticeable, except that you get better quality and pay 30% more.
Here's a mirror in case Mike takes the post down or modifies it: http://ompldr.org/vNjEzOA/tc-jasongate.mht

I tried to take a screenshot using extensions in both Chrome and Firefox, but got various issues with parts of the page being missing or the extension giving me an error, so I made an MHT archive using Opera. Perhaps someone with better luck with the screenshot extensions can use the UnMHT extension to open the file in Firefox, take a screenshot, and post it.
> Trying to keep two computers in sync is a pain in the ass whether there are wires or not.

True, but you need to do it anyway regardless of this particular instance. I want my phone and my ipod and my gmail account and my GPS device to have the same address book without requiring supervision.
> The Windows effect

Perhaps better phrased as "The UI effect"?

edit: Btw, noticed the same thing on a Powerbook that I owned a couple of years back. Wasn't doing all that much with it, aside from browsing the internet, but I had to nuke 'n pave it every six months because things slowed down to a crawl.
I'd highly recommend Little Brother by Cory Doctorow. I read it last weekend and simply couldn't put it down. It's along the lines of 1984 but less extreme and thus more believable. The (free) ebook can be found at http://www.craphound.com/littlebrother/download/. The author offers the ebook for free and asks that you donate a copy (explained on the site) instead of emailing him and offering to pay him directly for it (or anything of the sort).
Why should I have to spend Googling for how to write a H264 decoder when I can just drag one, written by people who know it really well, onto my surface?

I know that a lot of people like to argue that these people "don't understand what they're doing". Most Ruby developers don't understand much below a single level of abstraction presented by the language either.
Maybe the web designer of http://www.nissenbaums.com/ would be interested in the re-use of their images.
But they're the first version of a new design.
Jobs HN: Looking for an iPad app designer
We're looking for someone who has designed apps for the iPad. Contract work, need a redesign of an existing app.

Contact us at info@littleheroes.com if you're interested. You can be located anywhere in the world.
It is not at all clear how existing CA DUI law --- which is very specific about measuring the influence of alcohol, but completely vague about the influence about drugs --- would have meshed with Prop 19, which spoke only of avoiding conflict with statues against "impairment".

Your question regarding whether the measure needed to explicitly lay out each and every &c &c? Yes. That is what they needed to do. This is a point Steve Yegge made, persuasively, last year (in "Have you ever legalized marijuana?"). The details killed this proposal.
Much like the Borg, emacs is not integrated into applications - applications are assimilated into emacs. :-)

(An 80% emacs user myself.)
NASA takes cloud computing to Mars
You're forgetting that in those cases, beaming down was a result not of lack of video, but because of interference, or the classic "You have to see this for yourself" bit. More importantly, it made for a better show that way.

Interstellar video was common enough, but I'd question the importance of having video conferencing on top of their voice only communicators. I'd go further, but then I'd be showing how much time I've wasted thinking about this.

DS9>*, btw.
It doesn't matter if it's not new information or if the companies knew about it or not. It's something that should be done to avoid screwing people over. Users don't always know about this stuff. Before publishing a tool that makes it so easy to exploit users info it's a common practice to inform the companies related ahead of time in case they are motivated to fix this (such as github did) and perhaps the users so they can have heard about it before everyone has it and they are still logging in like this.
I did something similar the summer I also got my first on-the-books job. My mom had met a local business owner at a party and she's recommend my "skills" as a "web designer," I put together a slick looking splash page with the company logo and a stock photo of camera lenses. He hired me and I set to work building an embarrassingly bad site in (oh god I'm sorry.) Dreamweaver. He didn't really have content or any clue about what he wanted the website to do and being an idiot 16 year old, I couldn't help him. I was making ten dollars an hour in cash in 2004, which was great when my other job was paying me 7.50 to push shopping carts. I built him a new computer with parts from newegg that managed to get screwed up inside of 6 months. "I agree you _do_ need a lot of RAM if you're using photoshop!" I had a lot of fun spending the guy's money on hardware but he got very little out of the deal. A quick Google reveals he still doesn't have a website but has a presence on a number of local-listing type sites. Likely doesn't really need one.

It was a valuable lesson in figuring out that you should make sure everyone knows what to expect going into a job and has clear ideas what they hope to get out of it.
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"IE 9 has some support for CSS 3, but it lags behind other browsers"

Which isn't really relevant to whether it is better at supporting HTML5. Totally different specs.
I do math for a living. Needing to now whether a small integer is divisible by 7 rarely comes up. And when it dos we tend to let dumb machines handle the easy stuff, leaving humans free to think.
It came down to the fact that conservatives by their nature like order, hierarchy and organization and liberals tend not to.

Brian Eno made exactly the same observation in his published diary. Liberal tendencies might prove adaptive in the longer term though, if they keep the left ahead of the right WRT social and demographic change.
The eBooks I've read on the Kindle seem very very low rent conversions - tables of contents aren't usually linked, links to additional notes at the back of the book are missing (as in the superscript isn't there, let alone linked).
This is quite US-centric.
Thanks, that gives me a lot to digest. And thanks for showing me searchyc.com...as a newbie, that's new to me.
I was absolutely amazed by the simplicity and functionality of listandplay and already found some great artists that I had never heard of before. Even artists which I had seen live on festivals but didn't remember. I have bought multiple cd's form artists found via listandplay and feel it is the ultimate tool for "smaller" musicians to be found. I feel that as long as you host in the netherlands and pay your share to Buma (although I hate them) you can leave your service running, if other countries make objections you can always shut down service to that country. Similarly if artists make objections to them being found through this service (musicians can be crazy sometimes) you can block them from the service so that metallica is no longer found through listandplay. It may also be wise to try to only retrieve music that is posted through official youtube-channels since in that case the videos are already publicly available and you are doing the artists a favor since they can expand their fanbase. Hope to see this service back soon, it is incredible and I miss it. It may be wise to contact somebody with knowledge of international music laws, since I clearly know nothing about it. Also be prepared for others copying the formula.
Seriously? You use divisibility tests to make estimations? I hope nothing much is riding on those estimates...
May I suggest reading "Fortune at The Bottom of the Pyramid" by C.K. Prahlad "

This is an excellent guide for innovation for India and much of developing world. Companies like EKO etc. have taken these lessons and are building upon those ideas.
I usually let the following quote -

"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." -- Eleanor Roosevelt

- guide me before I upvote stories, even if the topic is not of particular interest to me. I would rather voyeur as great minds discusses ideas here.
The article talks about "reach, engagement, and monetization" as essential properties.

What's interesting in Zynga's case, I think, is how it conflates reach and engagement. The techniques it uses for engagement and the techniques for reach are very similar - social connection
I learned Python on the fly specifically for research. I used Django to build out an enterprise reporting/analytics system to support a customer experience (survey) program for the cost of time (huzzah open source). We had bids on this project upwards of 80k. We generate ~100k surveys / month and are able to get targeted, meaningful, automated insights directly to front-line management. Python FTW.
Five Easy Steps to Investor Reverse Due Diligence
This article makes some fairly convincing arguments that Python is a more flexible tool than Matlab or Perl, but I can't help but come away with the sense that the author hasn't tried many other languages.

There are an awful lot of languages that provide iterators, a powerful set of data structures, extensive libraries and facilities for structuring and maintaining large codebases. .Net languages (maybe F# would be good for this?), Java or most of the emerging languages for the JVM stack, Ruby (which is generally considered to be "different but equivalent" to Python), and so forth.
Phile makes it easy to create special interest groups on the web
Free enterprise is a clever system, because it reduces all the value that goes into a product or service to one figure, cost. Instead of understanding a business's environmental policy, its supply chain, its manufacturing technology, and so on, I just have to look at the price. It's an ingenious system which saves me a lot of time.

But, one major barrier holding back a more successful libertarian experiment is the poor definition of profit that we currently use. We don't capture environmental or social costs very well at all, among others. There is a way to do so (after all, we all value potato chips and college educations differently, but we were able to put a price on those), but I haven't spent enough time looking for other attempts to solve the problem or working on my own to know exactly what it is.

We just haven't pushed hard enough to find a better way, yet. It makes sense, given that many libertarian ideas are only a couple hundred years old.
I looked at the table of contents, and saw many of the familiar aphorisms, such as "find a co founder", "fail fast", and so on.

Is there anything new here for people who regularly read HN?
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Maybe I missed something here, but...when did Gary Kasparov suddenly become qualified to comment on technological and computing progress? No mention of the internet, for instance, which kind of tends to undermine the ability to take his comments seriously. For that matter, what makes the Apple II so revolutionary compared to it's predecessors and successors? No mention of that.
Holder sent "a message to all those swing voters that, even if this makes sense to me, maybe it isn't okay with the Democrats running the country," said a California Democratic strategist.

Any voting Californian democrats care to comment on this?
Does it make me a total nerd that I clicked on this link expecting to find code libraries, and not books?
And Arrington really isn't a hacker. He's a lawyer.
To be specific; Angry Birds on a non-Galaxy Samsung phone has problems rendering the ground, so every level looks like a snow level.

Alsa support on Samsung devices is also buggy, resulting in problems with various apps, especially sip clients.
The documentation really should mention that.
In my limited experience, I feel like it's pretty common--many technology/business-related people say they see a little bit of a younger version of themselves in me.
I want to like this, but it's too unrealistic. Traveling at near-light-speeds looks very different from that. It's missing at least massive redshift and distorted visuals.