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> in a well vaccinated population, that you are endangering your child's life by having them vaccinated for some diseases.

I wonder what those risks are like compared to, say, driving your child around town on a somewhat regular basis.
And thanks for the books. Ill check all of them out. What do you think of the "for dummies" books? I ve seen a lot for HTML CSS and Javascript
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Unless you're on a Dvorak keyboard, in which case they are right next to each other.
To your point, i think the analogy holds when thinking about specific verticals. In fitness for example, sell bowflex or PBX90 where the gold is great fitness.

The analogy breaks down however when you see that in the B2C internet space, the issue is that you have to create the gold through your service; it's not known what everyone wants, you have to create it.....and thus the opportunity.
People get less children when less of their kids die, slowing down population growth.
Thanks! I'm also an avid 0Boxer user, now I'm longing for a zero inbox even more.
Wait...doesn't this say his SON resigned? Kind of a misleading title.
Wrong Mubarak --- the article refers to Gamal Mubarak, the dictator's son, and not Hosni Mubarak, the dictator himself who (as I write) remains in office.

Gamal is resigning a political party post, which means that the family succession plans are off. That's a step in the right direction, but it certainly won't be enough to meet the protestors' demands.
I agree, I've been thinking about it more and more about two hands.
How would I go about following through though?
I'm new to SF and having a hard time finding a really bright tehcnical co-founder for a start-up site.
The name, at least, is brilliant!

An English nursery rhyme inspired the name: "Polly puts the kettle on, Sukey takes it off again."

(As for people debating the pronounciation, there's obviously no debate, because nursery rhymes are oral texts. If it's a nursery rhyme then everyone who knows it knows how to pronounce it. But even apart from that, x-ukey isn't an ambiguous form in English. Say you disliked a movie so much that it made you want to vomit. Would you describe it as "pucky"?)
It is federal student aid
As education does not come cheap in many countries, these students are provided with aid by many government institutions. This aid helps students to get over the financial problems they will encounter when studying. One such aid is the federal student aid.
FutureAdvisor aggregates all your fund data into one place
I have nothing insightful to say about this topic but I'll comment anyway and ask: Is there a way to bookmark threads without commenting?
It's like fake UI programming. I mean there are a lot of companies that use it. But I hated it. I use eclipse as my IDE (interactive development environment). But initially I used Notepad++. I also used Netbeans but prefer eclipse now.

After starting with Dreamweaver, I went on to use Blueprints, which is nice but confused me. These days I hand craft everything since it is the best possible worlds for me by making the UI easier and more straight forward. Especially when you start using javascript, jQuery, Ajax, etc.

This becomes a bigger issue when you get into what are you really creating: a website or a web app. With web app, avoid Dreamweaver since Dreamweaver is more oriented for static content.

If doing a website, there are plenty of other choices: drupal, wordpress, joomla.

Personally I would rather use a php framework even then such as cakephp, codeignitier or non-php: Django or RoR since they are robust and have lots of plugins to make most features needed easy to implement.

remember this is only my opinion.
GNU/Hurd in 2010
It will happen.. but it hasn't yet.
How to Jailbreak your iPhone 4.2.1 with GreenPois0n
Yeah, sorry but you have to build it from source, for now. There is no point in making a release now as there are a few bugs that need correcting before that.

But thanks for the feedback, I've added a README file now with proper dependency information and set up instructions. The build scripts are certainly quite shacky, I must admit; it was originally integrated into Google's internal build system but now that all of that has been stripped out (including the documentation), it looks kinda non-functioning.

I could certainly use some help in making that build and run smoothly in the outer Java world, since I'm not a Java programmer originally and my experience setting up Ant, Maven and the like is very very limited.

P.S.: It may be Google-branded but we're still just a small team. The other guys are taking care of the within-Google integration part so I should be working on the open source integration except I'm not very knowledgeable in the Java ecosystem, nor have I ever released any open source project with that level of visibility, so please be patient.
Exactly; in fact that's how all the studio shots I had before worked. That does not mean that you have the copyright, though, the photographer/studio can still use the photo in ways they see fit and sell it.
No, sugar doesn't make kids hyperactive (American Medical Assoc. 1995)
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You can call me a paranoid, tin foil hat wearing purveyor of bulldada if you like, but unless this is open source it could just be an efficient way for undercover police of the kind recently highlighted amongst environmental campaigners to obtain the IP addresses or mobile phone numbers of anyone involved in public protests.
Oh, you're right! I had missed that. It sounds very Douglas Adams to me.
The rejection of science, in favor of an ideological agenda, is literally destroying our economy, and may well destroy our society.

One of the key enablers of this is that people like you-- who soundly reject science-- believe they have "facts and science" on their side.

The idea that "things...are not up for debate" is the most profoundly anti-science (and anti-intellectual) thing that can be said. I have yet to meet a pro-vaccination person who was willing to talk about the actual science.

Please, also realize when you say "mandatory" you are saying that you endorse the use of violence on people who-- for whatever reasons-- choose to make a different choice about the healthcare of their children.

It is one thing to incarcerate, or kill if they resist, someone who has committed a crime like murder or rape. It is quite another for you to endorse the use of violence for the "Crime" of not being politically correct.

Your ideology posits that whatever you deem to be "good for society" gives you the justification of using violence to enforce. First I'd like to point out that there hasn't been a tyrant known to the face of the earth who didn't use such rationalizations. But secondly, it is worth noting that implicit in this claim is the presumption that everyone is your slave, and everyone's life is to be lived according to your (or your creed's) edicts.

That is the opposite of liberty, and contrary to the entire history of common law, and specifically the US constitution which recognizes people as having inalienable rights. One of these rights recognized in the declaration of independence is the pursuit of "life". Quite literally, that means the right and power to make their own health care choices, based on their best understanding of the state of knowledge at the time.

In my experience, those who are wary of vaccines are pretty well aware of the state of the science on the issue, while those are pro-vaccines are generally after an ideological agenda of mandatory vaccination, and only invoke the word "science" to put forth the idea that their opposition rejects it.

Well, I see thru your claim. You reject science, the scientific method and the entirety of intellectualism. You are being dogmatic.

Edit: Everyone who votes me down without responding to my issues, proves my claim. I made an argument here that substantially contributes to the discussion. You vote me down and you vote to make HN a popularity contest where posts are ranked by adherence to The Party Line, rather than contributing to discussion.

By doing so you just prove that the claim about being influenced by "facts and science" is false and the reality is political ideology over all.
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Inconsistencies have been fixed! Thanks for pointing it out - you were 100% correct.

I'm still working on the error handling - you're right, there should be a better way to do it than what I have now.
Maybe they use Arc, e.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/nosuchfile
All sound very complicated apart from the first two. I'd use the first two, but only if they were free. As soon as the app launched, I'd get rid of them too.
Even after following all the recommendations in this article, I can still block people from accessing your server using a single $10 VPS running Slowloris with fewer than 2,000 open connections. This also ignores the fact that you won't have changed the default ulimit/sysctl/limits.conf settings to allow more than 1024 open file descriptors/sockets per process anyways. Connections hanging in TIME_WAIT status will kill you. :)

The real solution: if you insist on using a poorly-architected webserver like Apache (ignoring the event-based MPM which no one uses), put a well-architected webserver like nginx in front of it.

Apache on port 81, nginx on port 80, nginx reverse proxies all traffic to yourblog.com to apache. See: http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpProxyModule#proxy_pass
Startup Quote: Jean-David Chamboredon, CEO, ISAI
You nailed it. I always wondered how come somebody like Dell never wised up to the trackpoint and middle button. I'm wondering whether they have some sort of exclusive patent on design.
MocoSpace looking to buy MySpace
To build a startup is a marathon. To run fast is good. To adopt the right slow pace is often required.

- Jean-David Chamboredon

http://startupquote.com/post/3125395856
The Newsonomics of apps and HTML5
Can you provide an example of a situation where nginx is not "faster" than Apache? nginx beats Apache on concurrent connections, reverse proxying throughput, cpu usage, memory usage (no additional thread/process stacks as connection count increases), etc.
Nokia likely to sack several executives
I wish people on Hacker News would be (much) nicer about peoples startups.
Why are people so fascinated with pi? I know, I know, long history, interesting twists and turns (you've just got to read Petr Beckman's A History of Pi), but I mean most people don't know that history. Why not e (there are cool phrases to memorize that, too)? Or, why not the value of the fine structure constant, that holds the mystery of the universe.

My theory is that pi is the first interesting mathematical number that people often encounter in grade school (even before sqrt(2)), so it holds a special place in their fascination.
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Exactly the opposite. The content should be fetch as-needed. Background fetching would get all the content whether or not it's ever read. If all the apps I've grown tired of are still fetching data in the background, that IS more battery life. Or if I only read one section of the Daily when it's downloaded it all. Having background fetching available would just let the Daily off the hook for designing the app the way it should!

Other news apps have solved the problem. Safari can retrieve the entire internet without background fetching. Surely the Daily's problem is easier than Safari's.
Has anyone actually tried this, or something similar? A hosted node.js combined with a hosted CouchDB? Does it work well? Is it actually easy to program? Does it perform well?
"The strong belief of parents may be due to expectancy and common association."
Sales & Marketing
The problem here is simple: The people buying pick-axes are much smaller than the people buying gold. If there are 1000 people buying gold, there are 100 people mining for gold, and 10 people selling pickaxes. So the pick-axe market is quickly going to be dominated by someone who executes well and can offer the best pick-axes at prices less than what anyone else can compete with.

It's like frameworks - only a few rise to prominence, and that's because they are constantly developed, well marketed, etc. There is little space for a lot of choice in the tools market. The winners take all.

In the consumer market, however, even if you don't make a blow-out hit, your chance of getting by are much bigger. Even if you find a little gold, you can always sell it off and survive. But if you're selling pick-axes and they are lower quality and more expensive than the axes of the other established players, you'll not sell anything and die quickly.

In both cases it just comes down to who is smarter and faster and can better manage their finances to expand wisely. Both the pick-axe business and the gold business need proper intelligence and good business sense, and those who can bring both will be successful in either business.

Another consideration is this: It's easy to find gold. It's not easy to sell pick-axes. For pick-axes you need a supply chain, a cheap source, a marketing strategy. Gold panning requires a pan and some luck. The people who go for the Gold rush are normal people hoping to get lucky. They lack the skills to actually produce and sell jeans. Even if they tried, most of them would not be able to sell pick-axes.

So you can't really advice them to go sell pick-axes, as that is a more skilled business than panning for Gold.
Monopoly search is bad because it is easier to game. People have gotten so good at manipulating Google rankings, that there is room for competition. Merely being small has some inherent advantages. Being bigger and more popular can be inherently bad.
80/20 doesn't really apply here. The whole point of search is to handle the obscure stuff.
2010's biggest security SNAFUs
... which thwarts kettling.
You're wrong. I do not self-identify as right wing. I dislike most of the right wing. I said some stuff is left wing b/c left wing ppl so often believe it.
I'm wondering why it doesn't point anywhere? Couldn't they point it to bing.com for the time being before they do something else (url shortener ? )
What is the most effective thing you did to improve your programming skills?
Ah okay, thanks for that.

All the best with the product!
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0Boxer actually looks entertaining. Are there any security considerations to worry about?
The idea is that people temporarily disperse and regroup elsewhere.

Often, things like 'free speech zones' keep the protest away from the actual venue of the thing being protested. In Pittsburgh for the G20, for example, we weren't able to get within two miles of the actual summit happening. Yeah, people saw the news, which was a bunch of images of people breaking stuff, but they didn't see that people started breaking stuff because the police started throwing tear gas. And using the LRAD.

Unfortunately, the geography here really sucks for this kind of thing, but in a more gridlike city, the main body of people could have dispersed and filtered through police lines.
Google Exec Who Went Missing In Egypt Now A Spokesman For Opposition Group
That's not entirely true. A children's portrait service will transfer copyright (they explicitly state this) and provide the original digital file for an extra fee.

Btw, I consider this whole practice extortion.
The fact that the photo studio owns the copyright doesn't mean that they can use the photo is ways they see fit and/or sell it. Copyright is a sword, not a shield: With copyright they can prevent the use of the image as they see fit.

The right to use an image or likeness of a person as they see fit is conveyed by the model waiver. When you sit for a private, personal portrait session that you pay for, the waiver you sign shouldn't assign all rights to your likeness to the studio.

On the other hand, if you are paid to model something, the waiver you sign probably does give the photog all rights to those images in perpetuity.

But even then there are limitations. Most jurisdictions won't allow an implied endorsement unless the picture was specifically taken for that purpose. For example, if a young model sits for a stock picture which depicts him sitting in an Aeron chair and he later becomes a famous programmer, Aeron cannot buy that picture from the photographer and run an ad saying "Bill Gates loves Aeron Chairs!"
Fast Dial for Firefox has been forked. Page isn't public yet.
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Social Commerce And The New Rules For Local Businesses
On a related note, National Geographic has been doing a similar thing for the past couple years:

http://exploration.nationalgeographic.com/

Just this past summer they went to Mongolia and used data from that little game to find tons of tombs and even an ancient city!
The point is, we do not know. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2183182
That's just crazy right-wing nutjob talk! Science and Facts prove you are wrong! Citation please!
I found personal utility the most effective way to close sales.

For example, I used sell networking sw. The network guy would first be asked to technically approved and then recommend the sw. Usually the decision maker went with the network guy recommendations.

Our product was twice as expensive as the next guy's and had too many features that no one used or cared about. Plus our UI was nonexistent, the documentation was a nightmare and installation was a made military bootcamp preferable.

However, I always asked the person to test our product with others. Then asked what their life would be like if a scenario happened. They realized they would yelled at and they would feel the wrath of their superiors.

However they usually countered that the company would save money, they would need to train the users less, etc. This is all true.

However would this positive aspects balance when the network sw failed. Would the management still remember that that it was easier to train users and the UI was easy to use and the company saved money or would their life just be hell.
D'oh. I avoided clicking the link because I didn't want the Daily Star in my browser history. I had a feeling this would happen... haha
"as long as all the other parents get their children vaccinated, your child can take a pass on some vaccines and come out ahead from a mortality perspective."

This is true, of course, but who decides which kids should get the benefit of reduced risk? If it's not ok for everyone to skip out on vaccines, it should be ok for noone (unless we can figure out ahead of time which kids are vulnerable).
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I was indeed commenting not only to what Raganwald said explicitly but also on what I took to be the full meaning. This turned out to be worthwhile b/c many other commenters believed the position I first thought Raganwald held -- I knew it wasn't a rare straw man no one believes.

I think it's pretty harmless to guess what people mean and reply to issues they didn't directly raise as long as you try to keep things pretty impersonal and focus on issues that are worth discussing in their own right. I don't think it's avoidable to make some guesses about what other people mean b/c writing is never 100% clear (plus lots of people are in the habit of being unclear so if you don't add substantial interpretation for them they blame you for being difficult).

I don't particularly object to Raganwald misunderstanding me at first. We got on the sort of the same page in only a couple comments. Honestly I consider that fast/good. It's the 3 people who assumed or wanted me to be joking b/c they disagreed with me that I have a problem with... The guy posting intentional ad hominems against me. The guy posting that he's lowering his opinion of HN b/c I got upvoted. All the people who take or make stuff personal and don't focus on the issues and post nasty stuff without argument and don't correct their misunderstandings even after clarifications...
Tell French Entrepreneurs: An American Incubator in Paris
Hello fellow French entrepreneurs (and I know there are a lot on HN): the Founder Institute, the only American incubator operating in France, is recruiting its next batch of founders. Early deadline is this weekend (Sunday midnight). Check it out.
Clickable link: http://founderinstitute.com/apply/paris
Typically, you're eligible to use that title after receiving the degree. I know a number of non-practicing people who have degrees and sometimes (rarely, really) use the Dr. It's still a term of respect for completing a demanding program.

Of course, with Wakefield it's difficult to still muster such respect.
Most excellent writeup! The whole set of posts (when they are ready of course) should be the manifesto of momentum surfers. For me, the moneyshot was:

"One-click checkout. This was as easy as painless for the customer as it could be. There were no dropdowns for size selections, no “Buy This” buttons, and no shopping carts. Just click on the desired size, enter Paypal info, done."

A lot of people get this critical part of the sales process so wrong.
Ask HN: A newsfeed API?
Anyone know of an API for managing a newsfeed stream like Facebook's? Something where I can feed in a basic social graph of followers, submit events, and get back a individual news feeds when I want?
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I think there is a continuum, from fully supported proprietary executable to tar dump of abandoned code.

When I pick an open source library to use, the continued active development, documentation, and support community around it are my main criteria. Much the same is true of commercial software.

I have little interest in downloading some random source code off the internet. Maybe that's not what's for sale on these sites but that's what it sounds like from first glance.

If you're selling commercial components, why not set up your own website and sell it there?
I don't have any data to back up my theory (so by all means take it as an uninformed opinion), but I think that was probably more true in the past.

I'm pretty sure that nowadays, counter to what might seem logical, there is a direct correlation between poverty and family size (ie: the poorer the culture, the more children they tend to have). I know I've read articles about India where this seems to be true, at least.
Bing search results showing up in Google
Usually in the bay area I hear this as "selling shovels to the miners". Here in LA a distinction is less often made because the tech scene is much less focused on hot web properties and there is a very large number of media companies that either do service-oriented things or produce tools.

the most important consideration should be working on a product you love

This makes for great blog content, but I fundamentally disagree with this. What's equally important is love just plain doing business. Do you think people with successful urinal cake distribution or timesheet tracking ERP companies love their product? The world is filled with unlovable, unglamorous businesses. The love of doing business (which is the politically correct way of saying making money) is equally as viable a path to success than loving your actual product.
If you vote it up, won't it show up on your "saved threads"?
Interesting. I'll try Hurd under Xen, soon.
Since you seem to subscribe for the concept of "noble savage", I should mention that much of the "primitive" tribes indeed do wage wars upon neighbours. That they are not commiting acts of large scale genocide has more to do with their technical insophistication than with any inherent set of cultural values.
Some photographers with more enlightened business models will do a shoot and then give you an agreed-upon subset of the images (2 or 3) with copyright transfer.

If you want the others at some point, you can pay an additional fee.

This way, the photographer still has the potential for later additional profit, and you have the copyright for the photos you like best. Everyone wins.