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I'm left wondering whether such direct intervention of the legal system is the only way to contain the rampant bribery. For instance, what if employment contracts for officials make them agree to an "I will not accept bribes and I understand that I can be fired for doing so" clause, and also a "I hereby declare that have not accepted bribes in the past and understand that I can be fired if it was found to be otherwise".

I'm using loose language, but that kind of thing can tie bribes to contract laws and impact the employability anywhere of an official who accepts bribes. To further facilitate evidence collection, it can be made legal to secretly record (as audio/video) transactions solely intended to expose corrupt officials.
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Apple and oranges (even though they're mostly used for the same thing). pickle is a Turing complete language used to recreate python objects, while json is only used for serialization. pickle is slightly more powerful, but should also not be used to load untrusted data. See http://nadiana.com/python-pickle-insecure
Windows 7 (PC game development). I would probably be on Mac if I could.
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I just wanted to say thanks for a great new site! It has also been interesting to see its inception/creation via HN as you posted a few months ago to gather interest and initial content.
I am not a UNIX noob. I've been using FreeBSD on and off for 10 years, and have developed in C++ on Unix systems on my own for about the same amount of time (have done Perl also and some Ruby too) so that is not the issue. The issue is 1) no "hard" experience working on these systems and 2) how to make what experience I do have seem applicable to businesses that do use UNIX which by the way, seems very limited after becoming aware of all the jobs we get for the MS stack. Also, for some reason my employer specifically targets MS users so that makes it even more difficult in my current position.
i.e. 10 ways to make iOS 5 more like Android.
why is the com in the title of this post in capitals, when it links to lowercase .com and the site has no redirect to .COM in place.
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Doesn't count as a blog per se, but I'm publishing a book with 35+ interviews of younger startup founders. Think companies like AirBNB, foursquare, Reddit, Hipmunk, Grooveshark, Github, Weebly, etc. I think I spoke to mainly YC founders. If you liked Founders at Work, you'll like this one (although the two aren't affiliated). I'll post it on Hacker News when it's ready, hopefully sometime next weekend. I haven't talked to anyone about it yet, but mainly because I've been busy with it (much greater time commitment than I had anticipated).
I was talking about toes :^)
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I associate 'orthogonal' with CPU instruction sets: the ability to combine any instruction with any register (and adressing mode).
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> It would be impossible to get anything done business-wise ...

You'd be surprised how a background verification and other processing for a passport application can require four months without a bribe but less than a couple of weeks if the right hands are greased. I think corruption is a real problem if ordinary Joe cannot function without ending up bribing someone.
Sure.

I created http://sleepyti.me for a couple of reasons: first and foremost, I am not a morning person. I read with envy all of the HN posts about morning pages, getting up early with a cup of joe to be productive, etc. I am usually a groggy mess in the morning.

When I learned that you could time sleep cycles to reduce sleep intertia by waking up in between cycles, I immediately saw how it could help my life. Originally, I had written a shell script to help me personally (refre.sh to wake up refreshed), but it was difficult to distribute and my friends on a non-unix based OS couldn't use it at all.

I had recently been wanting to try my hand at developing web applications, and had decided to try jQuery. I am a security engineer and most of the code I write is for backend systems; basically, I'm not a design guy.

I learned jQuery and created sleepyti.me initially as a 'weekend project' (which, way back when, HN and reddit.com/r/web_design gave me feedback on) which I then expanded on until it was something I liked. I'm now in the final stages of developing an iPhone app (because of incessant demand via email) and soon Android, Windows Phone 7 and Blackberry versions.

The money comes in because of the traffic I've gotten. Someone (not me) submitted sleepyti.me to StumbleUpon very early in the site's lifecycle, and it has been quite popular there. I put a Facebook Like button on the page to try to drive the site socially/virally/"organically". This brought me between 10-15k hits a day -- a lot for a weekend project.

About two months after launch, someone (not me) submitted to Reddit's Today I Learned subreddit (regarding sleep inertia), which drove 250k+ hits in one day. After this event, my daily hits started averaging around 30k hits per day, which is where they are stable now.

Although obviously only a tiny amount of viewers click my banner ad, with an overall traffic amount this large there are bound to be people interested in whatever Adsense has spewing up. Additionally, I only show my banner ad after the calculation has occurred, so viewers don't have to suffer through ads. I've gotten emails from Google (automated of course) advising me to increase the banner count on the site, but I don't want to further bother viewers. If they're interested, they click; if not, no pressure.

My eventual goal would be to sell dedicated ad slots to an interested party (for example, a mattress chain that wants my visitors, or an alarm clock manufacturer, etc) or to sell the site at large to one of these entities. I'm not actively marketing it, however, and don't really even know how I'd go about it.

Not sure that you were looking for quite so in-depth of a reply, but I wanted to explain myself as I also saw another posting asking about the profit. Don't worry, I'm not a link spammer :)

Edit: As I seem unable to reply to the reply to this post, I will answer here. The 30k/day is from varied sources, as reddit traffic is generally short lived. I imagine that some of my 'dedicated audience' is from reddit, but a lot of it is users that found it shared on Facebook or located it via StumbleUpon.
No need to put words in my mouth. There are no magic bullets to monstrous profitability.

But website speed is one of those things (among many others!) that has a measurable impact on your business. This isn't just a nerdy pissing contest.
No love for BSDs?
"People usually give bribes when they've done something wrong, not when they are entitled to something."

Oh how wrong you are. In India, if you don't bribe, you won't get the service you need and are entitled to.

I can give examples, but HN's disks may overflow.

For example: to get a passport, you need a certificate of residency (or something like that, it's been a while) from the local police station. Unless you bribe the cops there, they'll never mail it in.

Basically, in India, every touchpoint of the government machinery has a bribe slot. If you ever need a service from the government, you need to pay up. It simply does not matter how deserving your case is. There are examples aplenty of old pensioners having to bribe the pension officers to collect their own pensions!

Corruption is a cruel system that abuses the most vulnerable and weak in society. The rich can use it to their advantage, and hence they don't care (one neighbor of ours became a multi-millionaire by bribing and selling sub-standard equipment to the Indian Railways ). The poor, on the other hand, get taken advantage of. I have seen, with my own eyes, mothers pawning their wedding jewelry to raise money for bribes so their sons could get a government job. It brought tears to my eyes, and this is why I hate that fucking system with a passion.
It does, but only because there is a significant amount of traffic -- about 30k hits per day. I answered the other question in a more in-depth fashion since he asked me to expand on the site/idea in general, so you can find more info there. Just didn't want you to think I was ignoring the question!
I switched off TechCrunch with the thenextweb.com feed as my main tech source and HN for the rest.
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Windows Seven w/ Ubuntu running in a VM. It would be 100% windows but faking all the server-side components got too tough.
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An iMac 27" is my main development hardware, but I use VMWare to run Debian where I do all my development. I've also got an i7 Debian Server running where I deploy to make sure stuff works on real hardware before it hits my host. I'm currently in the market for a "sofa programming" laptop. I'm thinking the 11" MacBook Air or the new Lenovo X220.
Thanks for addressing the issue. A lot of people are taking this as an opinion question: it's not.
Both. But I don't give much credence to internet anecdotes -- they are untrustworthy. Close-friend anecdotes who give lots of details are a big part of my impression.

It might be one of those false-positive effects.

e.g.

Few windows shops are Initech, but all Initechs run Windows, therefore to avoid Initech you could avoid Windows.

There are probably other heuristics with fewer false positives, but anyway I'm just saying.
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Seems like the writer technical ignorance forgot something important: a real html5 browser.

The iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows Phone browsers doesn't support designMode/contentEditable on their browsers. So, there is a limit in doing WYSIWYG interfaces like Google Docs.
2010 Mac Mini with an 8 GB RAM upgrade so I can just leave MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, and Redis running all the time without giving me problems when playing Starcraft II.

I have Windows 7 running in Parallels, but the only thing I ever use it for is testing in IE.
...and stop calling nuclear reactors "nukes". (Oh the people who do were conflating the terms WITH THE INTENTION of scaring the stupid?!)
Yeah, everybody looks at facebook from their own perspective, business people think it's boring because you can't customize it enought, similarly teens look at facebook as a place for teens to hookup, etc. I recently saw a post from a +- 14 year girl saying "I think people over 18 shouldn't be allowed in facebook, its gross". Hehe go figure.
Does anyone use any BSD distributions other than OS X? ;)
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"If it seems like I'm being a brat"

Don't worry, you are. Not even sure what you're attempting to address.

- Fellow young'n
Nice looking portfolio. Is it just you or do you have a team of devs?
This has happened to every social network that has come before and it will happen again.

Facebook like its predecessors Myspace, Friendster et al., is not the destination but rather the current milestone in the evolution of the Internet, the real Social Network.
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New2 look is nice compared to new 1.
30K from reddit? or varied sources? that's amazing and congratulations!
Linux kernel.
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Desktop --
2009 Mac Mini 2x2.26ghz/4GB/320GB running Ubuntu 10.04

Laptop --
HP Pavilion dv2700(something or other) AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 TL-60/4GB/60GB SSD(!) running Ubuntu 10.10
I too am interested in the X220, but man are all those ~13 inch laptops pricey.
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I believe that things can only be improved with honesty and transparency. I would rather work with someone who gave real feedback than give a mealy-mouthed reply.

The OP is very straightforward and - to me - non-insulting. It might be a bit of a bitter pill to swallow, but when one asks for feedback, one should be grateful when it is given...

my 2c.
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Home is a gaming desktop which dual boots Vista and Ubuntu. Commuting is a new Win7 netbook; Emacs and GHC work fine, so I haven't bothered saving the recovery image and settling on a GNU distro yet. Work is a decrepit XP box due to be replaced, apparently with a Mac, which I guess I'm okay with if OS X (unlike iOS) continues treating owners as human beings and tinkerers. Servers at work are openSUSE.
Gentoo running on a Dell Inspiron 1525 at home. At work I run Gentoo on a Dell Optiplex 980 ( I think I have that model right)
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Yes. I use FreeBSD on production and dev servers. I use OpenBSD for other uses unrelated as well. Darwin is based off of FBSD. NetBSD runs anywhere, and OpenBSD is one of the most security-concious operating systems.

Just because some people use Apple's shiny new fad doesn't mean everyone does.
A 10 year old operating system is a new fad?
Could you provide a link to the forum in case anyone else needs to figure it out?
(assuming that the forum was useful)
I haven't used VM software for ages. Do you get good enough performance on virtualized Ubuntu to do all your developing?
Great work, Mark! I see you're progressing well with the TextMate themes.
He is a brat, but touches a problem I've been trying to grapple with for some time now.

I'm almost done with college, but throughout, I've been surprised how little respect college students give their professors. At the same time, I can't really say the professors deserve it; they give off an air of complete cluelessness, because everything they talk about is 20 years out of date.

What bothers me is, have academics always been a generation behind, or is this just a result of the exponential acceleration of technology over the last 10 years? And is this acceleration sustainable? It feels like at some point something has to break and this ridiculous speed of progress needs to slow down.

Or do I just not appreciate the progress made 50 years ago, and professors have always been a generation behind?
I am a long time lurker on hn, and like mzl, dont care about karma at all.

reading the ~160 comments on the topic, however, sounds weird to me because being indian, karma is not just a number against your online profile, but a fact of life - a word that you hear from people several times during a normal day - and they've probably never even been online.

i get that its about measuring the overall place of a person in a community, and that "karma" is as good a tag as any to condense that concept into one word, but it just seems very weird when there's so much debate around it. true karma is not exactly the "double-entry book keeping of life", nor does it have a leaderboard (which, btw, i realized existed on hn only recently).

on hn, the linked content's mostly great and its always useful to check the comments before loading up the link itself. that should be enough, imo.

ps: yes, i feel the same way watching "my name is earl", although i do enjoy the show itself.
27" iMac, 15" PowerBook. Win 7 in a VM on each. Laptop is the mobile option when the desktop gets too cramped or need some air. Now & then I'll boot up an EC2 image (typically Ubuntu) and dev in the terminal if I'm in a pinch.
i have 4 machines. 3 runs ubuntu. 1 runs windows.
Home: Laptop with Slackware. A lot of the supposedly more user-friendly (okay, less user-hostile) distributions have a knack for leaving a mess of my machine without my telling them to. Or ignoring my configuration files. Or changing their init system every other release. Slackware gives me vi and bash and then stays out of my way, so I have no need to switch. The laptop has a bit of exotic hardware that plays poorly on the BSD flavours; otherwise, I would probably use one of them.

Work: The thing sitting under my desk runs XP. It has three purposes: Outlook, internal IM, and a NoMachine session hooked up to a VM with CentOS 5.
Heck, based on the data shown, the increase in isotopes may even be random. It would need to be sustained longer over time before we can even begin to pinpoint a source, welcome to a small part of the scientific process: you need more data before you can even find a coloration! then you need to control something before you can even find causation.
The Mises Daily (http://mises.org/daily/) is awesome. It is a welcome break to technical articles. It can get quite in depth though. The subject is interesting given the current economic climate, and this site has so much great content. Its not a light read, but well worth diving into.
I found it surprising that it took as much as an interview for him to learn that "company X" uses Windows.

I didn't catch anything in the post saying he didn't find that out until the interview.
Once you start building, you'll run into all sorts of hard things. You start doing research on one thing and all of a sudden it's not so hard anymore. It's all baby steps.
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I'm not opposed to this, however I didn't realized having your pronouns disagree in number with your nouns had become generally accepted.
Ask HN: how should one act differently in the face of a potential bubble?
Who knows if there is a bubble or not? We can only make guesses.

What we can do is prepare for the worst, and not be caught with our pants down.

So how should we behave and act differently in order to be decently prepared if we indeed are in a bubble that's getting ready to pop?
And most of it dates back to NeXTSTEP in 1989.
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I have never heard of MobileNotifier. Pretty Cool, but covering up a row of the icons will never fly with Apple. For my purposes the notifications work fine, except for when you are a phone call and you get an alert, you have to respond to it - to end the call.
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Bought a Mac off Craigslist a year and a half ago to do development for iPhone; it was a beat up MacBook Pro 15" from 2006 with slightly messed up screen (backlighting was uneven). However, it was a good deal compared to a new Mac ($600).

It turned out I ended up using the Mac much more than my Windows machine. Why? Because it would come back from sleep in < 15 seconds, whereas my Lenovo would sometimes take 5 min to come back from sleep. Also, Windows would sometimes reboot my machine in the middle of coding a project. It had apparently "warned me" with some difficult to see message, and then just started shutting down my machine with no significant prompt. It would then sometimes hang in the update process, forcing a hard reboot and then another 10 min wait for startup. This was Win 7, mind you.

I took a nice paying dev project back in October, with the intention of using it to buy myself a new machine. I ended up buying a new MacBook Pro 15" with the anti-gloss screen and on the higher end of the hardware specs. Am in love with the computer. One of my housemates asked if he could borrow my Windows machine for an Excel class this weekend; I handed it over without hesitation. Haven't turned it on in months.

I originally thought I would have to install Parallels or boot camp when I first got my new Mac, not wanting to have to parallel path with the a separate Windows machine. In truth, I haven't ever installed any of these options. With Mac Office 2011, 99% of what I need to do is available. In the rare case when it's not, I may boot up the Windows machine for a one-off look at an Excel spreadsheet or something like that.

If I were MSFT, I would be worried. Around campus, the Apple logos outnumber the Macs in a big way these days. Two years ago, this was not the case. I'm a business school student, and Windows has always had significant crossover on campus from the corporate world. Our official school laptop is the Lenovo I don't use anymore.

Windows was always kind of a pain, but the variety of software available for it gave it tremendous leverage. I was a Mac addict as a kid, all the way up to around Windows 95, when it just became impossible to continue supporting the platform; the ecosystem had wilted at that point to a shadow of its former self. I have basically been on Windows since then, until the recent switch back to Mac.

Windows continues to ride the legacy train all the way to the graveyard. You can't do as bad of a job as MSFT has done in terms of maintaining a core platform and expect to maintain market share. Everyone from the CEO down should have been fired for Vista. Win 7 is basically the maintenance release that Vista should have been. In the meantime, the Mac has exceeded it by leaps and bounds.
Still, that makes me write a bit of Python. Not going to do that for a simple symlink change or one-off task of similar complexity.
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"A medium's early adopters are really the most likely to have interesting things to say? How can the two possibly be correlated?"

Since you are asking for a possible explanation, and not a provable one:

People with lots of good things to say naturally seek out places where what they say is not drowned out by meaningless noise. This means that whenever a new publishing medium is established, they jump on it in order to say their good things before Zynga figures out how to use it to broadcast pleas for help milking virtual cows or whatever.
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Thanks for your honest advice.

You could have given the same feedback in a way that is much
less likely to come off badly by simply saying "I've really
a UNIX kind of guy and a Windows shop probably isn't the
best fit for me."

This makes a ton of sense. I admit that I saw a chance to soapbox, though I thought constructively, and leapt at it.
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This might even fix the opposite case, where the briber initiates the bribe, and the receiver of the bribe wasn't looking for a bribe.

The receiver has to decide, do I refuse knowing that the briber can freely inform the law I accepted his bribe without fear of retribution?
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Hackintosh: Intel 3.1 ghz core 2 duo with 8gb ram on a Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P.

Vanilla retail install of Snow Leopard, only thing I had to patch was the sound kext, and it (so far) has taken automatic updates all the way up to 10.6.6 (haven't tried 10.6.7 yet) seamlessly.

Love OS X, love getting to pick my own (cheap!) hardware even more. Though if I ever get rich, I want one of those Axiotron Modbooks so hard (Macbook pro taken apart and given a Wacom penabled touchscreen).
After seeing it, I was hoping the entire thing is rendered via HTML5 goodness, but alas, it is just images.