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The EU's ability to intervene into local politics is not as direct as you think. Every EU law needs to be signed by individual countries before it's valid in there. Only after the law is signed and the countries break it, can they be held accountable by the EU. So if the EU was to act, it would have to pass a law (which will go in effect in a few years), then get France to sign it, and later sue them.
I don't think anyone would want to buy my account for $78. That's a pair of headphones or a big harddisk or nine months of Dropbox.
I pretty much agree with MartinCron that it is easy to chain together the tools you need for your particular situation, although I run LINQPad scripts instead of powershell or ruby or xml so I get c# intellisense goodness everywhere (great for Ms.Web.Adminstration and SMO).

I do wonder if some kind of multi-tenant app that holds application versions in assemblies and can roll up or down between them at will is the future though.
That's true if you're writing the software from scratch.

If I had to run, say, Wordpress or SMF for a French client, I'd probably do as perlgeek suggests, and just hook the password create/change function to also store a public-key-encrypted version just for law enforcement / compliance purposes, and let the 3rd party software continue to authenticate as normal.
Anyone have experience writing or know the source of the software (firmware) that does this? If not just for the hax, it would make an epic April fools joke.
Would be interesting to hear how YC's application filtering process compares.

Given how detailed Start-Up Chile's application form is I'm surprised more were not deemed to be incomplete. I understand that YC often send applicants questions if the team / idea look strong but a detail is missing / unclear from the form.
still waiting too :(
Look at the old fractint programming. Like the name implies they used ints [0] for their computation, and this could give you basically infinite zooming, and fast calculation even on a 386. (There's also a linux version called xfractint or so.)

[0] ints and lots of cleverness.
That was my thought as well. I doubt the simply want to be able to log onto your forum or mail account since they can get everything they want via a simple warrant. However imagine you find a USB drive with an encrypted file on it. Now all you have to do is get all the suspects passwords from all the sites he has accounts on and try those passwords with some variants and chances are one will decrypt the file.
A couple of years ago, some USB sticks with a similar "flaw" made it onto the European market. The capacity difference wasn't quite as drastic as this example, which almost makes matters worse: you have to fill it with e.g. 1GB of data and read it back before you notice anything.

My friend said they're still trying to figure out how did the Chinese do that. Because the drive reports "correct" file sizes and disk-capacity. And the "overwriting" doe not touch the other files present on the drive.

I suspect they treat the first N megabytes correctly to preserve file system data structures. For anything above that (the remaining "capacity"), they just let it loop by cutting off the top bits of the offset.
Which countries are most in favour of the free market?
What really annoying is that, they are closing an account because it may create invalid clicks. with that all previous income goes too. so, i didn't violate their terms but i might

Or, you may have had what they consider invalid clicks in the past. You don't know, and they don't have to tell you.

as you've said i'm sure they have it in their terms that they would not pay me. but, shouldn't businesses be ethical at least on the money side?

Is it really unethical for them to follow rules they told you about in advance? You knew, or should have known, that at any point they could shut you down, and keep the unpaid money you "earned".

Why they don't say "here is your money, we don't want to work with you anymore". Isn't what they do is a plain robbery?

It sure doesn't look like robbery to me. Look on the bright side-- at least they are not trying to get you to pay them back money they may feel they improperly paid you for invalid clicks in the past.
In any sane system, the CO2 emitter would be taxed --- the electricity generation company. This would be the same as the cloud provider if they generated their own electricity and that caused CO2 emissions.

Do you have any specific CO2 tax regime in mind? EU? US?

If you mean who is responsible in a moral sense, all three are responsible to some degree, as are the consuming company's customers.
Between this and the story about France outlawing hashed passwords, I was starting to wonder if April Fools was hitting HN a week late.

Sadly, it seems like they really are making dumb laws in France.
Indeed. Unfortunately, that didn't stop them from calling them generics. This choice also pretty much blew the chance of properly integrating true generics into the type system later for backwards compatibility reasons. Well, there's always Scala I suppose.
As I understand it, there are people setting up proxying services and whatnot specifically so that they don't have this data and therefore are unable to comply.
Until you put it on eBay/market, you'll never know :) but I think $78 is pretty viable if you put yourself in pants of somebody that has to test/launch something
Remember all of patio11's comments around SEO as well. People will search on the problem they want to solve:

"How can I manage my political campaign?"
"How can I promote my music?"
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Somewhere interesting..
Only if you put the 500 non-Montessori children in a separate school, with the same level of funding as the Montessori school. From the little that I know about these studies, at least some of the differences could be explained by the mixing of the 'control group' into an environment that is less ambitious or focused as the Montessori group.

(I walk pass 2 schools on my way to work each day - one Montessori, one not, sometimes around the time where children are dropped off by their parents. Even not knowing anything about the relative merits of the systems, I can easily tell which school I'd want to send my daughter to in a few years time; at the risk of sounding elitist, it's like standing next to the exit of an opera performance vs a soccer stadium).
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Presumably you're excluding higher courts such as the ECHR? Not that I think the vastly expanded role the ECHR currently fulfils is a good thing (it handles orders of magnitude more cases than it ought).
it's a misunderstanding, they meant 'haché'
Mono is available under the MIT license, which permits proprietary forks. Their versions for game consoles are also proprietary, and have been so for years.
When I'm using Flashblock the flash at the bottom of your site is huge: http://nationbuilder.com/start

When I accept the flashanimation it works, but you may want to look into it sometime.

And btw: the "start your trial button" looks (in my opinion) more like web 1.0 than 2.0, with all those gradients and strong colors.

Keep it up, looks good!
Desert island language, as in "like trying to build a hut, and manage your hunting and gathering with the Swiss Army knife that happened to be in your pocket"?

I agree that for Torvalds work it is the only sane choice. But I'm not writing kernels.
Here's some interesting observations, this will work on any document that is in designMode or any element that has contenteditable attribute.

Firefox doesn't have the clipboardData interface like IE, Chrome and Safari have so it must be built into Firefox. From a quick look it seems like it doesn't expose the stream data to JavaScript which is unfortunate, I would love for this to be available.
Rails has already experimented with an idea almost as horrible (RJS). Luckily they have collectively come to their senses and now favoring writing js on the client.
In Java int and char are primitive types. They don't provide methods so:

int i = 4;
i.toString(); //Exception - int isn't a class, so i isn't an object, so you can't call its methods.

Integer j = 4;
j.toString(); //Returns "4" as a string, because Integer is a class.

Java would 'encourage' the latter practice at times because its useful to be able to call methods off of characters and integers and such, but there is a difference.
I'll be more specific about failures of security and vigilance: "separate secured system" aren't always as seperate and secured as they should be. Assume that all computers can connect to the internet these days unless specifically configured otherwise, and data gets copied, and copies get left lying around. e.g. the classic "left the laptop on a train" http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/exclusive-new-... / "cd got lost in the mail" problem.
Sites should have different hash or crypto methods. E.g. adding some random text infront of the pw before encrypting.
I don't know why your answer was downvoted, you are spot on.
Not just Armenia: In addition, areas of Georgia and Azerbaijan were also taken offline.

Much more detail in The Guardian article:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/06/georgian-woman-c...
Agreed, Black Swan and all.

I have two friends who have experience with Montessori, and like you, I'll put together funds to get my future kids in there some day.

One of my friends is an Aikidoka. He had started hanging out with some folks who turned out to operate a Montessori school. They liked him enough that they invited him to teach there -- more to expose the kids to different ideas. My friend tells me that there is a selection process involved for the kids, and not all kids can get in. They'd put them in the environment and see how they acted. My friend and those operators are pitching Aikido to the national board as a form of conflict resolution. Which, if you know anything about Aikido, is remarkable.

The other friend is the only old man I know who says things like, "I can't wait to see what will happen", and "Using predictive modeling is like driving by looking at the rear view mirror." Most old people I know are quietly staring at death looming in the future. This guy put his son through Montessori. His grandson is now in Montessori, though the daughter-in-law objected at first.

From the comments from these two, from the smattering of articles I've read about them, the key behavioral patterning related to startup is the development of gumption. That is, instead of using external reward-punishment and coloring-inside-the-approved-lines, these kids go out and do what they want, using their own internal sense of right and wrong. It's something I've been hacking my own mind with much of my adult life -- through things like playing Go. Does this guarantee these a Montessori grad to be wildly successful at building out a startup? No. But it will save a lot of misery from twisting yourself, cringing from Authority or staying trapped in a losing situation (a la Gervais Principle).

That is way better than recruiting Tiger Moms and Dragon Ladies.
Sure, there's a site that does that. It's called YouTube.

Just go to http://www.youtube.com/charts, and choose the time period you are interested in (today, this week, this month, all time).
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I'm sorry but this reaction is just stupid and based on wild speculation. I'll bet you $100 right now that France will not prosecute anyone for using hashed password.

What people should be concerned about is the impact this will have on online anonymity, which this law is actually a direct threat to.
I like the euphemism 'while foraging for copper wire'. Maybe we should use that phrase for torrents 'piracy?!? - no, don't be silly - I was just foraging for movies'.
Some laptops have room for two batteries. My old FSC Celsius H did.
the important thing is that you don't lay down to fools

Is this really a good idea when the fools are the government?

Refusing to comply with actual laws makes it quite likely that you'll be sued or arrested, which isn't a great idea for either a business or a personal project.
There are obviously times when civil disobedience is called for, but I don't think this is one of them.
So selling IKEA on the idea of indoor navigation with smartphones might not be so promising after all.
This is awesome but it does seem a touch depressing we've taken 15 years to incompletely replicate VRML. In the bleeding edge of one browser engine.
In 2005 a friend brought me a USB thumbdrive he had just bought for a few hundred RMB. It had apparently 10GB on it.

He couldn't figure out why his files were not opening after saving them to the drive. The entire space on the drive was about 100MB but as with this article reported 10GB.

As always, China is great at faking stuff....I loved the line from Kung fu panda, I've only seen paintings of that painting....
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by working at 11PM at night ;)
Well, he/she kind of got you there, Justin :)
These guys won the Auckland Startup Weekend down here in NZ at the start of the week, it's been entertaining viewing since.
Keep client side code exactly that: client side. If you're trying to do a separation like this, you clearly have no clue the hell you're going to get yourself into.

I'd suggest going back and reviewing the concepts of "graceful degradation"; for large scale web applications where this doesn't really apply, you'll quickly find yourself wanting the code streamlined and in one place.
How much is this silly thing going to hurt hosting companies in France? Think about it, I'd rather hash passwords and host my site in Belgium than host locally. The government is hurting its own country!
Maybe you just need to think different
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I like it, people linking to slashdot that everybody can click twice to read the real article. It's here btw: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12983734

Yes, that should be the one linked in the topic.
"I was just giving an example of the "kind of person" the typically teacher is there"

I was afraid to say something to this effect, but now that you've started it I might as well share this little anecdote ;)

Around the corner of my office is a small school for highly gifted children. They work together with a 'regular' Montessori school here and they follow the same approach - let children find their own interests, stimulate those etc. (disclaimer: I don't know much about Montessori, it's just what I understood from how it works).

Either way, back in 2008 most of a certain social class in Western Europe was infatuated with Obama, how he was going to change world etc. With 'a certain social class' I'm stereotyping, I know - it's relevant for the point; I'm talking about the Prius-driving, Fair Trade shopping salon socialist with cushy government jobs with near-100% job certainty who've never in their lives run a business or done any work that is not in one way or another funded by tax payers. (I'm including university teachers and professors here, they're overrepresented in my neighborhood).

Anyway, around US election time, this school for highly gifted children I mentioned hung out some drawing of the children on their window. One of them said (I'm paraphrasing here, I don't remember the exact wording) 'Obama will clean up the mess that Bush left behind him'. This in a hand writing and on a drawing that showed that the child could not have been much older than 6 or 7.

This is my impression of many of these schools - highly opinionated teachers and parents who live in a upper-middle class cocoon who preach the word of 'free exploration of ideas' and 'self-actualization' but only when it leads to the same type of thinking they themselves adhere to.

I guess it's logical - I'd be abhorred too if my daughter grows up to be a socialist or communist. Everybody wants their children to be at least somewhat like them. Still, indoctrinating children at that age with political propaganda - it gives me a bad feeling.
I'm not disputing you, they can do what ever they wish. but my account never closed.

i've had only 2 issues. one was a single user content on the site which i removed within minutes. the other was number of ads on the page was 2 instead of 1.
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Directly from the law, «Les données mentionnées aux 3° et 4° ne doivent être conservées que dans la mesure où les personnes les collectent habituellement.»

The password (as well as full name, postal address, pseudonym, phone number) only needs to be kept if it is collected. So you must keep the password (and be able to give it upon request) only in the case you already store it.
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That's right! Don't give in the illusion of creating a just legal system of government! Be an outlaw!
From /. comments:

> I suspect the OP did not verify the exact wording. The law requires retention of (among other things) "mot de passe ou données permettant de le vérifier ou de le modifie" (password or data to verify it or change it) so it seems that it would be enough to store the password hash and/or do a password reset when demanded by the law enforcement guys.
OS X, iOS, and WP7 pick reasonable defaults that most people are happy with. The same is not so true for GNOME.

For example: http://static.arstechnica.com/gnome3/apps.png Fonts are only anti-aliased, not sub-pixel rendered. The app names are extremely small and have terrible kerning.
This law basically says that if you do e-commerce, you better not have your service hosted in France. If you're not hosted in France, you might as well not pay any taxes in the country. Nice playing french government, genius move.
I've used Gmail for 7 years and never noticed or desired a Refresh button nor link. I've always just clicked the logo or Inbox in the left menu.
Nope. This is more clever, and written tongue in cheek.
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How's that Socrates championed these ideas on success? I'm curious. I never studied Socrates in detail and the closest I've come are hodgepodge collection of folklore. Do you have any quotes or references?
This sounds like a perfect opportunity to sell services, just like Amazon did with AWS.
No he's absolutely not, there's a massive difference between having someone's password that's been reused on X number of sites and having a hashed version of a password that's only valid on one site.

Also if you wanted to make it secure you could restrict hash passwords to work only from certain IP addresses so you either have to be using a company internal machine or say the IP addresses from a police station.
I would love to hear some discussions on this. For example, I wonder how much it matters how tech-savvy users are? I'm currently looking at a mixed model at http://pagekite.net/, pay-as-you-go for bandwidth usage OR tiered monthly subscriptions for heavier users and businesses.

I had kind of assumed that the average joe would prefer pay-as-you-go and companies would go for a subscription - your comment suggests I may have it backwards... :-P
You have absolutely no chance of suing them because "future earnings" lost.

You might be able to sue them for pending money if they're keeping the money, if they've returned the money to the advertisers then you probably don't have much chance.

Them classifying you as high risk might due to a large number of factors, such as your user base (are your users young children who accidentally click on your ads frequently), the nature of your app, your ad placements, etc.

Are you tracking ad clickthrough on your own side? - in which case you may be able to see if there's any patterns that could have led them to ban you.

Your best bet at this stage is to review your apps, reduce any obvious risk factors and switch to another ad network.
I know very well about the use of static within compilation unit, but I was referring to "public API" (more exactly: API between components of your application).

This is especially excruciating once you need to use various libraries outside your control.
They'll probably reinstall that cable, now, with one small addition: an off switch, and a soldier on post nearby.
"Hello, Sergey, headquarters here. there's another insurrection. Throw the off switch."
Sergey throws off switch
"Okay, done." no signal "Hello? Hello?"
Neat but it seems the pixel plotting could be optimized but I guess I should keep my mouth shut until I've tried to draw that big with my http://plea.se/me/leif/canvas_leif.html
Wouldn't that just mean that parents would add some imaginative play with their own kids?

What do you think about this? http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100311190247AA...
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When the price of a high karma account becomes attractive to the owner. So, probably never.
I think the most compelling aspect of the Khan Academy is Sal Khan's ability to explain stuff. Diluting that with other instructors could weaken the main selling point of KA.
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Yes, that's how we pitch it: "We're making an Outlook competitor for Gmail".

But gmail.com is a much bigger competitor for us than Outlook, since that's what most people use. Our main target are people using gmail.com.
Wonderfully nostalgic, kinda like old web pages from the mid-1990s.
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I'm assuming the island has power and modern computers.
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If the government has no power to hurt you, then it seems like an excellent plan.

Once you get to be big enough, you get to bully the government. So get big fast.
They were one of the first companies to offer some seriously useful web services, but they never found a way to market them. Business-to-business might not be one of Yahoo's core competencies.
I definitely regard server side JavaScript as a strong advantage - doing client development in JavaScript, database development in CouchDB is feels wrong to be doing the server application component in something else.
I was just disappointed that the ratios don't appear to be 1:4:9
>No he's absolutely not

He was referring to my rebuttal, which was initially downvoted for some reason.
Firefox (4.0) renders this much faster than Safari (5.0.4), Chrome (10.0.648.204) and Opera (11.01) on my MBP (Santa Rosa 2007) with OSX (10.6.7). Could someone else test this too? If reproducible, what could be the reason? Is this simply a Spidermonkey win?
Also, last time I checked only some parts of what mono implements are covered by the Microsoft Community Promise (i.e. promise not to sue you over it.) If there's anything new on this front, please share.
It's really comical how the tone changes between news segments about national legislation and EU legislation. That's at least my experience in Germany.

Not that this additional way of making laws isn't a double edged sword. A common European market is in my view a great idea and it is very clear that laws are necessary to implement such a market, treaties alone won't do. But there is always the danger that the EU tries to do too much or that battles against bad legislation have to be fought again and again.
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