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Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Gmail, etc. whether they charge users a fee or not, all present themselves as basic infrastructure services, with an implied expectation that if you register a name with them, that's as good as having a phone number, and it will not be taken away from you unless the service is discontinued.

Legally speaking, Twitter is probably okay here, but if Facebook or Google did the same thing, I would expect they could be legally liable. Google's TOS for example states:

>We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, including appropriate encryption and physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data.

It's reasonable to assume that people are using Gmail as a verification email for other services, so they could actually be breaching their own TOS by giving someone's username to someone else, since when you've used a Gmail account for even three months, it becomes personal information that should be protected.

Ethically speaking, all services should be doing due diligence when reassigning usernames. This isn't IRC, all of these services are marketing themselves as identity gateways, and reassigning identities without cause borders on outright fraud. In this case of course, they're actually acting as they normally do, trying to make sure that online identities match legal identities, so it's more understandable, and probably protects them from allegations that they're facilitating fraud. But your authoritarian system is ethically dubious, and furthermore unlikely to hold up in a court of law.
There are definitely limitations, but I've been using my desktop a lot less since getting a CR-48 - much more than I've ever used a conventional laptop.
If the email addresses infringes any law (trademark or otherwise), that require Google to take some action on it, I'd understand (and agree!)
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Taxpayers aren't prisoners, so there is some maximum rate you can get out of people before they start leaving. I doubt it's the case, but there is a non-zero chance that paying all their obligations are actually impossible.

It's interesting enforcing contracts when my local government can sign a contract that we'll pay pensions for the next 40 years in exchange for a service now (say education), but I can move away after consuming it (or simply never become productive and pay taxes).
Medicaid kills? "Causality is the first casualty."
I like this project. It fits nicely with my own views of a good parallel/concurrent language. As I said in another comment, I am playing around with languuge design/implementation too.

Could you perhaps give some notes on how you implemented the linear type system? I am browsing through the source code, but finding it tough understanding whats going on. Anything at all (brief overview?) would be useful and appreciated.
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Godwin's Law, HackerNews edition: as a non-tech policy discussion grows longer, the probability of a comment thread devolving into an argument between competing ideas of libertarian vs. interventionist market theologies approaches 1.
It's hard to be ESI-unfriendly. armstrong.esi is for letting developers take baby steps toward Varnish without having to complicate their server setup.
Maybe saying passed the building stage was the wrong use of words.

What I meant to ask was at a certain point in a single founder startup would it be more beneficial to start hiring people rather than looking for a co-founder?

Or should a co-founder be brought on no matter where the company is at, but at a lower equity stake then if they were there from the beginning?
Assuming that's true, I wonder if they'll let people opt-in before they launch, or if they'll pull another Buzz and just assume everyone with a GMail account wants in on their new social website.
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I think they were referring to the annual drills institutionalized in Japan. From the drills conducted annually, people knew how to react to disasters, whereas people who don't experience drills (in, say SEA) ignored the warnings or didn't know how to react since they had no reference.
Of course there's something special about the sample Levitt chose: it's all real estate agents.

If the statistical results are sound then we can infer some characteristics about the population. But in this case, the sample came from a population of real estate agents. There is a fixed effect found across the whole sample: they're in the housing business, not the headhunting business. No recruiters in that population, so we can't infer anything about recruiters in general.

Sorry to argue semantics, but this is a basic sampling concept that people forget about.
There is no such thing as meaningful encryption without authentication; it's like a car with an engine but no steering wheel. Encryption without authentication is, at best, a trivial form of obfuscation (it's trivial because everybody knows how to reverse it).

Certificates aren't an elaborate money-making scheme. They're the tie breaking vote between Bank of America and the man-in-the-middle proxy pretending to be Bank of America.

Key agreement without some form of tie-breaker (be it key continuity, web-of-trust, or anchor keys, which is what SSL certificates use) is a fundamental problem familiar to anyone who has ever built any working cryptosystem. Among competent engineers, this isn't a debate. If you think anchor keys aren't the right solution to SSL, the onus is on you to suggest a viable alternative. "Nothing" is not a viable alternative; key agreement doesn't work with "nothing".
Sure. (1) They've never seen a shanty town, and (2) they make the same argument about banking regulations.

Building codes are, in fact, the market response to earlier problems with lots of houses burning and falling down. The fact that later generations who grew up with houses not burning or falling down don't have the insight to know this is not evidence that they're right.

And they always make the argument that it would be good for the poor, and it's always bullshit. The poor don't benefit from dying periodically because some jerk made a quicker buck than he otherwise would have.
What platform does Java run on that C# doesn't? Perhaps you meant to say that DirectX isn't multi-platform?
> PC gaming is dying the slow death of piracy and activation

No. No it is not, will everyone please stop spreading this unfounded misinformation.

The PC market is in rude health and growing. Last year total PC gaming revenues were estimated at over $16 billion, growing 20% year-on-year[1]. Growing the market 20% in one year is generally not described as 'dying [a] slow death'.

Lots of developers and publishers are seeing increased opportunity in the market, such as EA (Electronic Arts, the 2nd biggest games publisher) which has suggested the PC may soon become it's primary platform[2].

I think it's safe to say we should hold off on the obituaries for now.

[1] http://www.joystiq.com/2011/03/02/pc-gaming-sector-enjoyed-s...
[2] http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/33394/Interview_Frank_Gib...
For anyone who wants to fiddle with development and doesn't know any form of C, a company called Revolution Media makes a scripting tool called LiveCode. It is pretty easy to use but I'm not sure how advanced your apps can get.
This is an idiotic article.

XCode is available for $4.99 on the Mac App Store (so you can get updates automatically) or for FREE if you care to download it and install it yourself. And it is INCLUDED FOR FREE on Mac OS X installation disks and EVERY Mac sold. DUH.

Apple has made it INCREDIBLY EASY for Developers to create apps for OS X. All you have to do is witness the more than 442377 apps that have been approved for iOS (which has OS X as its base OS) and the thousands upon thousands of developers who have signed up for OS X. The Mac App Store makes it also incredibly easy to sell your apps to PAYING CUSTOMERS for OS X on Mac.

Complaining about how much disk space XCode takes up is also a moot point given how cheap 2 GB hard drives are these days (e.g. $79 for a Hitachi 2 GB hard drive on Amazon).

OS X IS FOR DEVELOPERS that actually want to ship and sell product. Period.
I'd actually feel more comfortable calling these guys on the phone or having a sitdown business lunch with one of them after watching this video. Too many business folks take themselves too seriously.

And Chris looks like he's shaved as close as he can. Didn't come off to me as a five o'clock shadow at all.
CNN has a video of the tsunami: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2011/03/11/vo.japan.t...
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Use a VPN (openvpn), and attach sshd to your VPN subnet instead of using 0.0.0.0 or your publicly routable IP. This is also great for any other services you might want to administer remotely. It's normal to bind your database/cache to 127.0.0.1, but you can also bind to an IP in your VPN subnet, which makes it a little easier than tunneling through SSH to access your database.
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Main reason i think Linkedin doesn't have other exact clones.
1) Lengthy account creation process - What is the motivation, again?
2) They got first and got the Industry respected people(Bill Gates...)
*3) There in no stickability - you don't share stuff, you don't update status..it's just there(now they have integrated some twitter like non-sense)

As for competition anyone who can create a profile page will do, FB, Twitter, I am sure there are very many.
give it some time! the project just started... barrapunto.com is another interesting example of this trend (it mimics slashdot.org)
I interested to know, how much is OPEX per month to keep afloat a consumer web service, like delicious?
WTF - That article states 6,000,000 SIX MILLION deaths?

Can this be accurate? It reiterated what I heard on the news regarding passenger trains missing due to the Tsunami - but 6MM???

EDIT: Looks like wiki-trolling...

From CNN:

The official death toll stood at 137, with 539 injured and 351 missing, according to Kyodo, citing police, but that death toll seemed almost certain to rise -- from 200 to 300 bodies have been found in the coastal city of Sendai alone, Kyodo reported. It said the death toll is likely to surpass 1,000.
If you look at the comments at the bottom of the link, Nivi from Angel List made a page for midwest startups. I'm sure they could have some sort of page for midwest investors as well.
If the comment was purely on the technical merits of the API for programming then I don't think this is a factor.

But presumably it is at least part of the reason id have stuck with OpenGL and not switched to the 'better' API
Is it really that hard to come up with some tags? Also, delicious auto-suggests tags for many pages, and the suggests are very accurate.

I have a trunk.ly account now, which auto-imports my delicious bookmarks and indexes the page content so I get a personal search engine of all my bookmarked pages.
En verdad buena idea, no lo había pensado de esa forma pero es cierto, considero que tengo un buen nivel de ingles, y visito hacker news muy seguido pero a la hora de participar no es lo mismo hacerlo en ingles que en tu propio lenguaje, esperemos que crezca tu proyecto por lo pronto me suscribiré!
Saludos!
I'm definitely hoping we can work this in too. We'd love to get this in once we figure out where it'll fit.
Technology can not replace the joy of learning, or the joy of enjoying another culture. I learned Italian. It has nothing to do with my work, but I really enjoy an entirely different culture, and have many Italian friends.

Why not learn another language?
Compositing isn't just about wobbly windows and other effects - it helps with day-to-day use of the desktop by always painting every part of the window so you don't end up with tearing/repainting artifacts as you drag stuff around the window.
very interesting article. It's good to look at the brain from a scientific, hardware/software perspective. I think it's also important for us to observe our thought process to improve, as some call become more aware.
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What a weird industry.
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Only $900? I bet she could have gotten more than that if she'd tried...
This was posted before:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1872536

I flamed a lot. NETWORK TRANSPARENCY IS IMPORTANT. The effort put into Wayland would be much better put into getting NX standardized as the next generation of X protocol, and developing additional X extensions.

David Täht has some good perspective on X11 network transparency:

http://the-edge.blogspot.com/2007/10/x11-is-dead-long-live-x...
You'll also need simplejson (which in my opinion should come with the default python install): http://pypi.python.org/pypi/simplejson/

And feedparser: http://code.google.com/p/feedparser/downloads/list

I absolutely love little nerdy things like this; it's what got me into computers to begin with. The script right now will read you your RSS feeds, and any stock symbols that you want to follow.

It should be really straightforward to extend it, though (since it's really a simple script)
So all the people voting for this title on Reddit and Hacker News aren't making any statement on strict government regulation, they merely find it interesting that the Japanese have learned from their history?
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Building codes were on the books in Haiti too. There is a lot more to this question, including the presence of honest government, the ability of an economy to afford the code, and a healthy insurance market.

Insurance companies often require higher standards than building code demands.

Also, politically, the reason some societies have strict building codes is because there is a group-- insurance companies-- that have an economic incentive to push for stronger codes.
Yes, the taxpayers can leave. But on the other side are the people providing the service with whom the government has made these contracts.

Some people took these positions based on the deferred compensation. If that goes away, there will need to be upfront compensation. If neither of those happen you won't find many qualified people willing to take those jobs. Both sides will get screwed.
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Based on what the new @girlgeeks holder (Mia Chapman) has said [1], it looks like she talked to Twitter only as a first step, and never expected them to just hand it over with no notice to the previous name holder (Morna Simpson). Also sounds as if Mia's trying to resolve things with Morna mano-a-mano (so to speak) now.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2313593
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This is unbelievably dangerous and should not be in the hands of people who think of it as a toy.
I can't tell what rhetorical position you're trying to take, but I suspect, from my knowledge of building practices and codes in Richmond, Indiana from the 19th century to today, that the answer is that no, the government did not regulate building before it became all too clear that building needed to be regulated. All our old houses here are built like Sherman tanks - but that's because the ones that weren't built like Sherman tanks are long decayed and gone, and in some cases burned to the ground with loss of all on board. Electrification took a lot of people by surprise. I have some pretty horrible wiring in the attic myself (not live, though).
They are just pointing out, that if this had happened somewhere else it would been much more devastating and that Japan was good prepared for this. So I don't really know why you're complaining about the article.
Well, that's kind of the underlying point of the article and the discussion around it.
exactly: legal != moral
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Bad missteps at Yahoo!. Apparently they have a new faster e-mail. Yahoo email in Flash/Javascript + visual ads really ruined my experience with Yahoo.
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Couldn't agree more, uved.
> They're the tie breaking vote between Bank of America and the man-in-the-middle proxy pretending to be Bank of America.

I'm not suggesting a new encryption standard for online banking, I want better default security for otherwise unprotected web traffic.

> There is no such thing as meaningful encryption without authentication; it's like a car with an engine but no steering wheel. Encryption without authentication is, at best, a trivial form of obfuscation (it's trivial because everybody knows how to reverse it).

In the context of my comment I was referring to the top-down cert authority structure (sorry if that wasn't clear), I didn't mean to imply that a webserver shouldn't have any certificate at all. I guess it comes down to disagreeing with you about self-signed certificates. I believe they would have been a good idea as a default mechanism for connecting to web servers and I still think they're way more secure than having nothing at all.

I believe that giving people exactly two choices, between cryptographic perfection and making transfers completely public, is wrong. And asserting that self-signed certificates are worse than no protection at all seems misguided to me. But in the end, you're the competent engineer and I'm just some guy posting inane comments on a message board over an unsecured link. And in any case, it's not like we'll change the way browser-based encryption works in the foreseeable future, so I kinda regret starting this whole discussion.

> If you think anchor keys aren't the right solution to SSL, the onus is on you to suggest a viable alternative. "Nothing" is not a viable alternative;

I'm sorry to say this but I suspect you are, maybe inadvertently, attacking a straw man here...
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Thank you for pointing that out, I appreciate it.
You ever think about working for a weapons research outfit? :D
There are anti-C++ bias in HN. More people here are working on the Web related projects where C++ is not popular.
I saw a writeup of a journal article just a few months ago about how there is a lot of randomness in how academic grants are distributed. They basically created several different panels of the people who write the grants and gave them each the same proposals to review, and there was an enormous variance between the proposals each panel funded. I think this was for NSF grants, but I'm not sure. Anyway I can't for the life of me find either the writeup or the journal article.

Similarly, I heard a story on NPR about a research study that found the best predictor of how much 8th graders would earn as adults wasn't race, gender, IQ, grades, or anything else like that, but rather was how much they thought they would earn as adults. Can't for the life of me find that one either.

In fact there is an entire field of research that's disappeared. I know for a fact that there is a field that's basically scientists researching scientists/science, but I can't find more than a couple of the papers in this field or even the appropriate wikipedia articles.
I would think that Mr. Crowley is hoping that, eventually, other credit card companies will want to do the same thing; allowing them to generate income. American Express is in need of an advantage over Visa and other major credit card providers, while Foursquare needs someone with the capitol and resources to begin a new venture.

Good Idea Foursquare! Would it be smart for American Express to build an exclusivity clause with Foursquare for this service?
A friend wanted to buy and setup a smartphone (ie, iPhone4) as a failover internet for their house using tethering.

I recommended the iPad2 3G since you can create a hotspot (myWi) and not pay the monthly until/unless you need the service.

If your house has signal, it can be a nice backup.
I wouldn't call this a "complete guide" ... seems more like pre-reqs.
As the article mentions, Greplin (YCW10) is hiring across the board (front end, back end, ops, dev-ops, designers, etc). https://www.greplin.com/jobs
Prison ID, that's a nice touch.
I'm surprised there is no corresponding "Where the boys at?" or does that defeat the purpose? It would be easy enough to create the same site for girls to find boys. that can also be a problem at times...
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Where did you find the homework? I've downloaded all of the classes, and slides, but I wondered if I could find the assignments someplace. Of course, I'm assuming that you didn't actually take the course at Stanford...
With Mono bringing C# to iOS, all 3 major phone platforms are covered. How far does Java get you - 1/3?

I routinely run my C#-written utilities on Solaris, of all things.
I doubt these bots can handle the redirect request. Its js and I don't see why someone would code to support it. Maybe someone better informed than me can say whether curl or wget respect redirect by default.
> I'm not sure of the news aspect of this. Japan has a long history of damaging earthquakes and tsunamis, and they're famous for their preparations for the same.

Yet they still "needed" the Great Hanshin Earthquake 16 years ago to fix numerous issues, especially in disaster planning, prevention and response, and in infrastructure management.
Agreed, I was just trying to jocularly comment on the Things That Don't Exactly Belong On Hacker News aspect of it by pointing out that those conversations always end up in the same place.
Yes.

Well - actually, no. Mere hundreds are kind of abnormally low.
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The only problem with this is that you have to delete the autocomplete before you can press tab or else it doesn't work. But excellent work, I love Greplin and I can't wait to see how it grows and evolves.
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Perhaps I'm misreading you, but you seem to be fishing for a specific answer. Is that the case? If so, why?
Who owns whitehouse.com? Should that entity now have a right to "White House" as a trademark and, in the case of this discussion, @whitehouse on Twitter, on the basis of owning that domain?
I have no idea why other people are voting the way they are; this is impossible to answer. Honestly I could not care less why other people are up-voting it.

I find this story interesting both on an engineering level and as something news-worthy to explain how Japan may have been able to avoid a far greater tragedy.
Do you think FB will let you run with this? How do you handle underage users? I think you'll have a lot of hurdles to overcome.
Not really. If you value Xcode 4 so little that $5 to get it six months early (before spending $150 to get it with Lion) is "sucky" for you, it doesn't sound like you wanted it in the first place.
Do you actually have an app currently on the app store? I've run into none of those problems. In fact, any time I have an issue with anything, they are very accomodating. Especially, expedient considering how many questions they get daily from developers. If it's as you say, what reason would there be to ever develop on their platform? It simply would make sense!
"I can't see many of these selling <i>to tech-savvy people like me</i>" -- there. I fixed that for you.

Chrome OS isn't trying to tackle an existing market any more than Nintendo's Wii was trying to target the hardcore gamer. There are far more people interested in doing LESS with their computer as it's less daunting and intimidating that way. Combine that with the severely lessened threat of viruses and a near one-click full system restore feature that, due to cloud storage, poses absolutely no threat to any data less and you have a #winning level of simplicity that no Windows-based netbook can offer.