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> the importance of giving security researchers freedom

If we are not careful about this, soon it will be required to register oneself as a security researcher.

No. Everybody has the right to study whatever they own.
I don't really care for Zed's style either, but his Debian rant was a real eye-opener. Not only was it full of the same old vitriol, but it also contained things that were just plain not true, which crosses a line in my book. I wonder if he does that, on purpose or not, in his other writings?
Can you name a few? They may ship some without Flash player preinstalled, but that's very different from not supporting Flash in the way iDevices don't.
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What the fuck? How is p2p streaming even patentable? Good thing nobody patented server-client streaming. We badly need patent law reform.
Having read this paper (and being reasonably knowledgeable on the subject), I'm convinced this paper is wrong, or at least very underexplained.

The algorithm uses an algorithm similar to the well-known '3-consistency', which has been shown to solve quite a lot of classes of problems, in particular some that are solved very poorly by the normal learning-based systems used in most SAT solvers.

The paper aims to strengthen 3-consistency slightly, using permutations. However, while that is a reasonable strategy, it is entirely unclear to me, and unclear in the paper, while that gives poly-time solving time.
Slime has LIST-CALLERS:

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My sense is that there are hard 3-coloring problems in graphs that don't look "random". Certainly the ones I generate have a small number of vertices with very high degree, and the others are more reasonable. This is why I say that there are potentially things happening with different random models. But you are certainly right on all counts.

However, where you say this:

.... it's been given "physicist proofs". There's enough
evidence that it's unreasonable to not consider it true.

There had been a lot of evidence around for quite some time that primality was harder than P (assuming P!=NP), and yet it turns out to be in P, even without PvsNP being settled. I'm suspicious. I still believe that hard instances can be found, and that "most" of them will look as you describe, random-ish with the right parameters, but I'm wary about claiming that most things that look like that will, in turn, be "hard."

But I suspect we're in agreement, possibly "violent agreement."

ADDED In EDIT: Forgot to say, thanks for the reference.
For some reason the first thing that comes into my head is, "we have always been at war with Eastasia."

Bizarre Orwellian statements aside, this is a terrible move unless you're sitting in a development bubble. I can totally get behind HTML being constantly developed. Of course it is. But you need to take snapshots to act as reference points for the rest of us. Some of us kind of want to support users who might not be on the latest and greatest platform.

Do browsers have version numbers? Yes. HTML should too.

(Ideally, browsers should also report what version of HTML they support on their About page. That'd be rad. But I don't think we're going to see it any time soon.)
In all fairness, the PS3 is a very good gaming console.

It was also interesting as a number-crunching machine a couple years back. These days, I think even a modest x86 with a cheap GPU can run rings around it for the same kind of money and much less work.
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One of the reasons may be, that men always help women with their computers. They don't need to clean it off spyware, reinstall windows or anything, because their IT friend will do it for them. So they don't need to explore how anything works, it's just a stupid black box for them. Why would they go and study Computer Science? They probably don't know what it is about.

I got into computers thanks to my little brother - I didn't want to admit that he knows something better than me. So I tried to fix it myself. Somehow, while searching for sites about how to fix this and that, I found some discussions on how Windows sux. Found Linux. Found out about programming...
Linkous estimates that the incident cost the company a total of $250,000 to $300,000, which includes Sabera's fee, the cost of flying Ed to the West Coast on short notice, the cost of litigation against Ed, the costs associated with hiring a temporary network administrator and a new CIO, and the cost of making all of its software licenses legitimate.

I'm missing the company hiring a new CIO as being relevant to the costs of discovering their sysadmin was a criminal who read too much BOFH?
No, you're right it doesn't. But when you sign in with the same identity around the place, that identity is then stored in lots of different places so my perception of being "tracked" has certainly increased with the advent of OAuth.
I just added text-shadow:none to my user stylesheet alongside that wretched font 'smoothing'.

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-webkit-font-smoothing: inherit!important;
text-shadow: none!important;
}
No, it's harder.

Most US banks are still operating in the 1960s. Everything needs to happen in person in a branch, or possibly for the more forward thinking ones, by mail. No email, no phone. Period. (Yes, you can call them on the phone, but you can't actually do anything.)

That means that you will have a severely painful experience opening a business account from overseas. I know this because I've done it, and it involved forwarding mail through a proxy in the US. As in, all mail from the bank went to a US address, where it was forwarded to me. Then I sent it either directly to the bank or back to my proxy in the US.

It hurt.

Every step of the way, they'll lose track of what they were doing and get small things wrong, which means you'll need to restart the process several times.

The only advice I can give is to avoid Chase at all costs. They used an entire month of my life before demonstrating that they were simply incapable of opening a bank account remotely. Key were a lot better, though still pretty painful.
If only Microsoft would be as helpful with jailbreaking the Xbox 360...

Last time I checked, gaming consoles and phones had completely different business models. MS profits for every WP7 phone sold (all three of them) even if the phone manufacturer takes a loss. Sony takes a loss with every PS3 sold and recoups that from every unit of every game sold for it.
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Required reading: http://www.tinaja.com/glib/casagpat.pdf

More on this page: http://www.tinaja.com/patnt01.asp Yes, the web page colour scheme is /terrible/, but it may save you a great deal of time, trouble and perhaps your sanity.

This resource might also be helpful: http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Software_patents_wiki:_home_page

tl;dr: Small scale patenting is a mug's game.
This is great. I might just use this. Thanks.
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I just want to mention that if you're looking for a good place to start studying emulation code, the Oricutron emulator (for Oric-1/Atmos machines) is very, very well written and quite easy to understand.

http://code.google.com/p/oriculator/

As a codebase, its very approachable and I think a bit of study of this code will help anyone trying to understand emulation.
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I recently started using RefControl to get around the nytimes.com block which comes up if the referer isn't google.

For privacy reasons, I set it so it forges the referrer to be the root of the destination site if the domain is different too. So when I go to google.com and click on http://www.example.com/foo, the referer it sends is http://www.example.com/ instead of http://www.google.com/searchterm.

I haven't found any sites which this breaks yet...
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Which is not the case with facebook.
(not that I'm disagreeing with you)
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When I go into a shop and buy a newspaper, the shop owner doesn't know how I came to the decision of going to that shop.

They would like to know this information, and could probably do better business if they did know it. But it would be a breach of my privacy for them to know this information without even asking me for it.

I don't see why websites should continue to be treated differently, just because historically they have been...
Exactly. Not to mention the fact that facebook is near monopoly status. If you were to add every single car manufacturer together, surely you'd get a much high valuation.

If the social network space were as diverse (in terms of relative player weight, not total number of players), we wouldn't be having this discussion.

Facebook's valuation reflects the value of the social-networking market perhaps more than its value as a single business?
I hope he builds cryptography and maybe better privacy features in the protocol from the ground up this time. If wikileaks proved anything it's that we need a more distributed web, that's probably one of the only things that could guarantee any form of net neutrality.
I actually prefer JIRA. I find tracker to be exceptionally difficult to use when trying to organize a large number of tasks and bugs. Turns out I have a lot of problems with my code :).
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I want to sell a small energy supplement, but I don't know where to get the packaging done. I preferable want a small paper type package. Like the individual kool-aid packages. Any ideas?
Why am I required to pay for both text *and* data. Is it a scam?
No, there actually are problems in "NP-intermediate" class (if P!=NP) although they are artificial. :) And, of course you are right, for many other problems researchers suspect they might be in NPI. See http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/79/problems-betw...
The main problem wasn't the fact that rules were not stated correctly or that people didn't read them (at least when i started it, it was clear that you just had 6 minutes to generate the output after downloading the input file, make sense imho), it was the shoddy implementation of the site and lack of care on things like test output (missing lines, typos...).
I did it on a sunday afternoon, not having anything better to do, but just the fact that when uploading the results the top list didn't get updated... was chrome fault? was my output for those dead-easy problems wrong? Cmon, this issues should have been caught during the testing phase of this webapp.
Next time, i suggest to just open a contest on topcoder...
Whether you place your trust in a multibillion dollar company, a one man shop, or just use an anonymizing proxy, the issues are the same.

The billboard is just noise and you are technically sophisticated enough to know better.
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I have an opposite opinion: I don't think it's even logically possible NOT to mess with the results.

Let's say there here's a table index and there's some query asking for things the index doesn't contain. How do you calculate "relevancy" out of no-answers?

Or let's put it another way: people are asking, the machines are answering. Do you really think a machine is able to answer any type of questions a human person can ask? What would a machine answer to "Who's the most beautiful of them all?" "Snow White" or "the evil Queen"?!

Although it doesn't seem, people don't usually want to know existing answers that are already indexed somewhere; they want to know "How will the weather be tomorrow?". Google will answer to that question by looking up words, ranks, links and so on and it'll provide you the most "relevant answer". For Google, not for you. You are left with taking this answer for granted, although it comes out of Google's bellies exclusively. More than that, the answer tends to become "correct" although it cannot bear this value.

A search engine that's not already containing the answer (truth-bearer) will only offer opinions (non-truth-bearer); these "opinions" are never true or false, so they cannot be part of any reliable judgement. Google says these answers are to be trusted because they're relevant, not because they're true. But this relevance is not dependent on me, the one asking the question, but on Google's bellies! And you have any doubt that a search engine is designed to be 100% human intervention free??
(here is a more detailed article on this issue: http://utestme.com/post/2745142659/the-search-of-doom )
As a comparatively impartial bystander, I think that remarks like yours don't really add much of value to Hacker News. At the risk of being auto-hoist petard-wise, I also find it astonishing that any American can take umbrage at a person from one country telling people in another country what to do. That feels a lot like a pot calling a kettle black.

I think all such comments should be left outside of HN, and people should concentrate on following the guidelines of the site owner and provider. Add value where you can, be civil and constructive. Don't simply complain, but offer information where possible, and corrections where necessary.

In short, play nice.
Priority date 2007, I'd be surprised if there wasn't any prior art by that date. I know I was working on a P2P streaming system in 2006, for example.
Pithy but Google won the day because its search quality beat the holy hell out yahoo, altavista, et al.
We probably want to remove any excuse for not switching to https. Perceived performance penalties, inconsequential or not, might hold back many sites.
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It would be interesting to see a comparison of how common and soon-to-be-common browsers [FF3/3.5/4, IE6/7/8/9, Chrom(e|ium), common mobile browsers, ...] deal with HTTPS content by default and in response to relevant headers. No persistence, short-term persistence (not re-requesting objects currently in use elsewhere in the current document and/or other open windows/frames), up-to-session-long persistence (RAM cache), or long-tern persistence (disk cache).

I suspect there will be quite a range of behaviours, especially if you consider IE6 (which unfortunately I have to, as do many others) so a bit more consideration is needed before jumping to change expectations of static content access speeds.

Another bit of my research to add to the list of things that'll get looked into when I have some free time (i.e. when hell freezes over)...
> they are legally bound to maximize shareholder value

Can you point to a single instance where a company was forced to commit some act that its managers reasonably thought was morally wrong because of the "law" that companies must maximize shareholder value? Personally I think this trope has no basis in fact and cannot explain why Google or any other company is compelled to do things that are wrong.

There are many possible reasons why they would do something you disagree with: maybe they don't think it's wrong. Maybe they actively want to do something bad. Maybe you are not correct in your beliefs about what they are doing. But I think the reason you gave why they need to violate people's privacy is a cop out.

There are also a number of counter-examples where corporations fail to maximize shareholder profits by donating to charity, taking principled environmental stances, etc. I don't know how you or anyone could come to the conclusion that the U.S. legal system rigidly enforces absolute profit maximization.

> Oh, and by the way, the government can have access to all that data without a search warrant.

Don't know where you are getting this from.
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It's a problem for me when the fnids in every reply <form> cause them to expire several times a day when the server crashes.

Edit: also when the server redirects me back to the wrong origin, I was sent to http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pg instead of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2120756 after posting this reply initially.
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Is anyone else struggling to understand theorem 2 on pages 15-16?

It sounds like what they are saying is equivalent to the following:
If S1 intersect S2 has a solution, and S1 intersect S3 has a solution, then the system S1 intersect S2 intersect S3 has a solution.

But this is evidently false. Consider the case where the CTS included each of the following rows, and were empty everywhere else (after re-ordering the columns so the same-name columns were in the same final column):

(1) 000
(2) 001
(3) 0 00

In this case, (1) and (2) are consistent, and (1) and (3) are consistent, but (2) and (3) are inconsistent.

I suspect the problem they set up the induction for might not perfectly align with the theorem, but it needs more careful examination.
I love this list. Makes you realize how crazy the current FaceBook valuation.
What we call atmosphere in Mars would pass for a very good vacuum in a classroom. Life could develop on a Mars sized body, but then the star would have to be far less active than our sun (so that the planet could retain a reasonable atmosphere)
My response TBH, would be that there is no point spending months tweaking the engine of a ford to try and get it to perform like a porche. Just get a porche in the first place.

I don't value "being able to write it in my favorite language" at all. From what I've read, pg does. To the extent that the product suffers.

There would be absolutely no point me trying to improve mzScheme when you can do exactly the same job in other languages/platforms, and the user doesn't care/know the difference. HN could be rewritten in a weekend, in PHP/python/whatever and we wouldn't be sitting here waiting for pages to load.

(I run Mibbit, which handles a few thousand HTTP requests a second, on VPS level hardware. In Java).
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Hi everyone!

I'm working on http://soonhere.com. The idea is to provide the simplest possible way for a startup or a web developer to get a temporary "coming soon" page.

I'd really appreciate any thoughts you might have. In particular:

* Is there anything that's not obvious about how the site works? Anything needs explaining, perhaps in some kind of contextual help?

* I'll be introducing a PRO plus plan soon, with more features and higher limits; are there any features in particular you suggest adding?

And the mother of all questions:

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I thought Network Neutrality was about restricting what businesses could do? In any other nation I would absolutely say the government should just own the internet. In the US I'm a bit more cautious but I agree that companies can't be given free reign.
I totally agree. The last months more and more pages are trying to have a "unique" look by messing with the fonts. The Readability tool is almost worn out here because of that.
The Netflix of europe? I'm european and I've never heard of LoveFilm before...
I tried running the code on Pigeon Hole Problems, but it crashed. :(
I doubt the Chronicle is still paying for that, it just means no paying replacement has been found so it hasn't been covered / removed. That could mean it's REALLY expensive to advertise there, though it's more likely it's just not a prime advertising site.

Still, what's a full page ad in Wired set you back? Solid PR play by DDG.
LoveFilm is very big in the UK, and would say the NetFlix of Europe is an apt description.

I think this deal has to be good for both parties here, and would be surprised if they rebranded LoveFilm. It's a good name.