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I'm not confident that the laws around drugs are sensible, but I was more focussed on thinking about the laws around prostitution.

> their clients tend to be socially isolated men
> desperate for human contact.

I hadn't considered this case.

Thanks for link. This development towards 'escorts' is intriguing, and changes the dynamic somewhat. I can imagine that growing, a flow-on from a decline in tightly-knit families and neighbourhoods and more mobile labour.
I wonder how they're doing this by just changing the DNS servers?
Do they return their own IPs and run a man-in-the-middle kind of thing?

UPDATE:
Just signed up. They do actually seem to redirect the traffic from domains like hulu.com/pandora.com/... to IPs that run a squid proxy. My guess would be that they just redirect the queries for the geo-localization to their squid servers and allow you to pass those that way
I didn't think much of it until I watched the YouTube demo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slizmp8qIyw) where the creator records a loop, then builds on top of it to form a song, switching to different virtual instruments for each part. If he manages to create something that looks as effortless as portrayed, it'll go a long way towards getting not just nerds but normal people to start using all their electronics together.
But you also get to slap that company's name on your resume. Never having been in a hiring position, I'm curious as to which sounds better:

"I worked on OpenOffice.org providing support for a specific file extension"

"I worked for Microsoft as an intern. I built support for a file extension in Office 11, though it was not used in the final product."

While the first statement has the value of "Let me show you what I wrote", I don't think the second statement is anything to scoff at.
Calling the output of a C++ compiler a black box and saying it's not a good idea to use C++ for that reason, and implying that C is better because you mostly know what the assembly output will be, boils down to an argument against abstraction.

There is a limit to what a hacker can keep in his head at once. You may believe your limit is high, but it does exist. If you eschew abstraction, there is a class of programs you cannot write because you can't keep the complexity managed. This is why it irks me when I see arguments against abstraction - they are short sighted.

Now, there are some perfectly good concrete examples of things C++ compilers do which may not be a good idea in kernel code. For instance, C++ exceptions can cause trouble when the stack alternates between C++ and C frames.
Don't agree with you there. Rolling Stone seems to be the only credible news agency left that does actual in depth investigative journalism.
I don't think this really solves the problem either.

The problem is that popularity is not indicative of quality.

Your proposal is just another way of staging a popularity contest for comments.

Only instead of having "direct democracy" ("rule of the mob"), you propose a "representative democracy" ("rule of the elites").

While there's something to be said for the "representative democracy" approach (namely, that at least the elites are familiar with the community's norms and mores, unlike some random newbie) they are just as susceptible to making poor decisions as the mob is.

In other words, just because some guy is popular does not mean he makes good decisions.
Ah, I wondered why The Atlantic had taken a bit of a hit the last few years, they are still pretty great but back then they were amazing.
to me presence of in-fighting is a manifestation that whatever executive is responsible for both parties and the issue at hands is just not able or avoiding doing his/her job - taking decisions. Usually it is a combination of the inability and being afraid to take the decision and responsibility for it. "Fish starts to rot from the head" as they say in my old country.
Lots and lots of plastic surgery. He really looks like that now, they did the movie in reverse!
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Big thing about google voice is the redirection, and some of us want a local number in our country to be called at.
You think that's bad? Try a third world country, like Brazil. Not only the services are not available, but the hardware itself costs 4x more.

I loved the initiative, but it could be much better if it weren't tied to just Canada.
It's funny that this is coming up now - just this week, there was a pre-print on arxiv.org that explored the possibility of a planet being heated (possibly enough to become habitable) by dark matter annihilation in its core: http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.5086
Ostensibly it's a versatile spy drone, but kind of makes you wonder when you see the guys in hazmat suits.

Edit: It makes sense if the drone uses hydrazine or other toxic propellants though.
Few suggestions -

1. On top of comments section have one which is for recent comment. I think lot of people feel that once the post is around for 30 mins (for a fairly popular post), even if they have something good to say, it will just not reach audience.

2. Remove karma points completely, just hide them some place where no one will see them. Use them silently in the background to optimize things, but dont bring them at the center. Generally new comers to site want to rise to top (of whatever) because that way they will be taken seriously. This incentive drives people to just write anything

3. No karma for submissions. People submit any article and get 10-15 upvotes but lot of articles do not add any thing to HN.

4. I think there is already some threshold on upvotes, perhaps increase it? Only so many upvotes/downvotes/submissions in a day or even in an hour.
I'm amazed to know that openframeworks gets used in movies.

A good movie is a lot about level of detail, at least if you have a good knowledge of technology similar to whats being used in the movie.

You can nearly spot a good movie just by seeing how much they have paid attention to detail, based mostly on who they target as their main audience.

This is obviously one of the things the Tron: Legacy creators did right :-)
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Usually comments like yours are the result of relying on precise setTimeout()/setInterval(). Firefox has a very coarse-grained setTimeout/setInterval (it's capped at 10ms) compared to WebKit. Mozilla can't change this easily as it breaks the web and hurts power management.

I just took a cursory glance at blockbattle.net's source and it may well be the problem. Thankfully, FF4 has a solution: mozRequestAnimationFrame(). This explanation [1] should be required reading for everyone doing games and animations in JS.

[1]: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/archives/2010/08/mozreque...
Starting up can be remarkably hard. As training for that process, I'd look at your current work situation as a test. There isn't an easy way to move up and the work is dull, but if you're looking to lead a new company or join a foundling company, you'll want to hone your skills at owning issues and solving them (did your entire ops team just quit? yes they did. Is your site crashing under load and you're the only one who is going to fix it? yes it is, and yes you are).

My advice: look at your current work situation and find a way to make it more interesting and work your situation to move up. It'll probably be hard, but learning to focus on overcoming problems rather than focusing on the obstacle is fundamental to being people successful when you're managing yourself. This is especially true for startups.
So by implication the rest of the commenters who haven't so flagged their own comments are not commenting in good faith?

Why not just make 1 the ceiling karma for all comments across the board? Or, in other words, why not get rid of karma all together?

I guess I'm still confused by how your proposal will solve anything.

It seems pretty clear that those people who really are commenting in good faith and aren't doing so to accumulate karma won't be swayed by whatever karma they may get (positive or negative).

So what does explicitly limiting the karma those good-faith commenters get achieve?
The problem with a comparison of idiomatic solutions is that they rely in different degrees on what's in their libraries. IIRC the shootout tries to avoid this by comparing similar solutions using the same algorithm that are actually implemented with the interpreter/compiler in question. IMHO that's the more sensible way to do this.
For others wondering, there's a thread about it at stack overflow
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/351733/can-you-write-obje...

There's a link in here to a book PDF that attempts to teach OO techniques in C. http://www.cs.rit.edu/~ats/books/ooc.pdf
> Phone != Laptop

Wait a year or two and phones will be as powerful as today's laptop.
Could you guys go for .03/minute? I could get .03/minute on my cell phone to call around a dozen countries in thailand (http://www.truemove.com/en/Inter-SIM-postpay.rails) and you can get 1500 for $30/month (0.03) minutes to call people anywhere in the US with t-mobile.
Could you specify the names of the apps for iPhone?
HN already has hand-picked moderators (mostly YC alums, IIRC) with the power to kill bad stories and users. This seems to have worked well for stories, but I guess it hasn't scaled to comments.
Indeed. I wish it were possible to make the fonts OSX uses bigger, especially the menu bar.
This just happened, so I don't have an update yet.
Typing in a domain name and clicking "search" on instantdomainsearch.com immediately takes you to the GoDaddy website which shows the domain name you typed in and quotes a price for it.

GoDaddy is allegedly one of the biggest domain frontrunners, so I don't see much value in instantdomainsearch.com. imo the domainsherpa.com suggestions on domain search are far superior.
No, thorium is the lowest, not the highest. It decays too slowly to be a large source of heat.

Potassium-40 (1.2 billion years) is the highest.
That specific module is what the post was all about. They had to patch up the kernel heavily to get it to compile at all, and surprise surprise, the kernel changed in the meantime and their patches would not work on the later versions. Thus the entire discussion.
Dude, you're using synchronous XHR. You're blocking the entire UI on the network request (which happened to be slow when you tested it in Firefox, which is why you blamed Firefox). Switch to async mode!
The worst attempted musicians I have ever met were the ones who tried to figure out some way to substitute learning any instrument with a computer. It never turns out well.
It was also pretty nice to see all those KDE 3 desktops in the film, especially since it were the historically correct versions for the timeframe of the story.
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With 4 children already, he should avoid joining a 'foundling' company.
Are you saying they should be able to go off into the wilderness, decide to run on Heroku or something and come back with an app? Companies invest huge sums of money on infrastructure and the expertise to manage it. Google has too big an infrastructure to let each project roll it's own.

Let's say google reengineered to provide something like ec2,each team can run it's own images. does each group hire security experts? Does each group have to solve scaling problems google already faced?

I think maybe it could work like this.Google proper hires domain experts, security, engineering etc. Provides each mini startup with a budget, mini startups can spend the cash on the Google proper experts, or go outside for areas where Google is lacking. Mini startup pays hosting fees to run on Google's EC2 like infrastructure, or use whatever Google has in place now.
How does PCC compare to the Plan 9 C compiler? The Plan 9 C compiler is BSD licensed; has a straightforward implementation; emits code for x86, x86-64, and ARM; and is a core component of Google's Go toolchain.
I think the main problem is that there are too many comments: The number of comments has increased, but the number of comments that a person can reasonably read, reply to, or vote on has stayed the same. Thus, comments receive less moderation, and less of it from long-time HN users.

Part of the problem is the increase in the number of users. And there's not much you can do about that other than to actively drive users away from the site. (Difficult captcha? Erlang Fridays? Comic Sans?)

The other part of the problem is that the karma system rewards commenting. It isn't considered appropriate to downvote a comment unless it is overtly offensive or incorrect, so mediocre commenters don't receive signals when they are contributing almost nothing to the conversation. In fact, a mediocre commenter will comment more, because more comments mean more chances for random karma. And others see the mediocre comments and reciprocate. There is no way to reward someone for not commenting, even when it improves the site.

A number of the solutions already mentioned would help decrease the number of comments. One additional one: Make more of the site's behavior conditional on a high karma/post ratio rather than a high karma.
Because of his youthful stupidity and greed, Diveroli thought what he played the system. If we look at the situation from outside : government got cheap ammo, and there was only one problem - it was illegal, so somebody needed to be scape goated. They needed to bury Diveroli. I liked how FBI raided their offices just on the mere basis of factually wrong whistleblow about Chinese AKs - one gets to wonder how that was enough for a raid and who really blown the whistle. The entrapment was a nice professional icing on the cake. The house always wins :)
Alright, I'm doing an experiment - I've run the following shell commands:

function randomWord() { head -n $(numrandom /1..$(wc -l /usr/share/dict/words)/) /usr/share/dict/words | tail -n1; }
echo $(randomWord)$(randomWord).com

This has given me an obscure two-word domain name, which I searched in GoDaddy - all subdomains GoDaddy sells weren't registered.

I've repeated this to give a total of twelve domains. The final two of these domains are saucepansgrooming.com and rivaledpopping.com. The other ten domains are written on a folded over piece of paper, and aside from me, the only place they have been disclosed is in a GoDaddy search (which was sent unencrypted over the Internet - so technically someone could have sniffed it). I haven't even attempted a domain name resolution on any of the 12 names.

I plan to come back in a few hours and repeat the search to see whether the names are still available.
Find a generic voip provider with incoming numbers, priority call forwarding, voicemail saved as mp3 files and emailed to you? All you'd be missing is the texting and voicemail transcription, but your not missing much from that.
> If the State gets our of control, a roll-back function could be implemented

But who decides when it gets out of control?
I find myself occasionally searching for the videos on YouTube so I can hear the soundtrack (I somehow haven't thought to buy it yet), particularly End of Line. I'm always annoyed when I end up with one of the trailer versions with all the talking, in addition to the music.
The article says to not check if the domain you are interesting in resolves, because ISPs sell the data on resolution failures. I have two questions about that.

1. That seems to assume that one is using their ISPs DNS service. What if I'm querying the top level .com servers directly? Is that safe?

2. Even if you are using your ISPs DNS servers, if they are getting that data from their logs and selling it I'd expect there would be a fair delay before the data got to some third party that would act on it. That should make it safe if your intent is to buy the domain soon, shouldn't it?
The article says that thorium releases 3.27×10^-12 Watts of heat per kg of mantle, while potassium releases 1.08×10^-12 Watts.

Isn't that more, or do I just fail at basic math?
Two Books of the Same name, the Service Mark wins
Two books of the same name came onto the market within a month of one another. http://erikahayesjames.com/book/ and http://www.executivehealthwealth.com/leading.html. As I understand it author of the second book (by Gabriella Cora, MD) has a service mark and is forcing the first to rename. Comments?
So your point is that his "Rythm for beginners" article is not advanced enough?
"but my skill set it a bit past my career level because I throw myself into my job" What does this mean? It's your job to advance your own career.

Start looking for a new job right now. Give yourself a time limit and get yourself in another situation and a fresh start. Then fix you financial situation somehow and your credit. I hear kids are expensive...but be smart and try to pay off debts and save money.

It took me four years and two more jobs after leaving a situation similar to yours to get it together enough to give my own business a try. But I have a feeling if you can handle four kids you can handle a startup too. So make a plan, surround yourself with mentors and supportive people, find a partner and go for it.
Ask HN: bn.com open SS numbers or just bad design
Take a look at BNs pubit.com.

There is nothing on the sign-up page indicating a secure submit.

Bad code or just bad design.

Thoughts?
Talk about hacking the system. It's amazing that everything was legitimate except for the fact that they were reselling Chinese ammunition.
Are you concerned about viruses/trojans on your Mac?
Do you use any sort of antivirus/trojan/malware detector? Or are you pretty confident that your Mac is secure.
Not sure why you got downvotes for this. This is exactly my take, too. The regulatory hurdles for online producers are significant and Canada is a small market relative to the United States.

As my previous comment indicated I know the hurt of learning about a product and finding out it's unavailable here. However, I understand the economics at work and feel that–while they're frustrating–they're totally understandable.
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Perhaps after a certain number of comments in a thread, it would no longer cost karma to make additional comments? For the first one to three comments, it requires a 2 karma down payment, following which you're free to have open dialogue.
Doh! You caught me; I just skipped to the Linus part of the story.
nodesocket.com is going to revolutionize this whole space..amazing what you guys are doing!
"Typing in a domain name and clicking "search" on instantdomainsearch.com immediately takes you to the GoDaddy"

That is not exactly correct. Doing a search returns data from instantdomainsearch.com itself. Only once it is returned do you have the option to go to a registrar like godaddy, among others (or just take that name to a registrar of your liking), to actually register the domain.

I have used instantdomainsearch.com many, many times myself to great success.
What do you mean by "querying the top level .com servers directly"? How are you doing that?

Yes, any ISP would likely have a substantial delay in collecting, filtering and selling this type of data, which is why I think DNFR is most likely happening at registrars. I'm just presenting the facts that there are "middlemen" in the process that people should know about. Thanks for helping me clarify.
Ubuntu 10.10 Chromium 12.0.723.0 is broken. Exactly like the screenshot somebody posted.
I'm not sure if there is still a good enough reason to jailbreak except to get those eye candy homescreens and notifications, which I'm not really fond of. These probably would drain the battery anyway. Multitasking for the official firmaware (since 4.2?), though limited is fine for me. One of my wishlist I suppose is to get that mirroring HDMI adapter work for my iphone 4.
I bought the soundtrack, and enjoy it. Many tracks are prefect for working to, if you like listening to backgroundy type music while coding or whatever.
Perhaps only the 'instant' part of the search -- covering only exact matches ending in .com/.net/.org -- is private, and GoDaddy is used for a more general search?
I like your standard but I think the real criticism being made is not that it's arbitrary but that it's arbitrary in different ways for different languages. This starts to look like intentional dishonesty. Another standard closer to the status quo would be "anything portable". Why does one language require portability and not another? What is that actual problem with the example given? There doesn't appear to be one.
I think it would be interesting to have to say why you up or down voted something, along with the vote. Make the reasons public, so people can see how the system is being used, and then publish guidelines based on the aggregate results that give people an indication of the best way to use the system.

It would probably not be ideal to publicly publish names along with reasons, since this might encourage flame wars about why people voted in certain ways. However, perhaps there could be more private means of dealing with people who consistently misuse/abuse the system.
There is a big difference between the outright comedy sections and the supercar reviews though. Much like the parent, I enjoy the show generally but the Tesla piece left a bad taste in the mouth. They intentionally misrepresented what happened - as well as the actual facts about the car - to leverage the stereotype of electric cars being crap/short-ranged. The biggest selling point after not requiring fuel is precisely that it is not like other electric cars. Here, their use of comedy crossed into outright dishonesty - an audience who don't know the facts will definitely be left with the impression of 3 day trips and 50 minute lifespan.

They will probably win the court case, as they were careful not to say anything literally untrue. Yes, if you ram it as hard as possible around a race track for an hour, you will probably need a charge. Yes, if you choose to make a very long journey and only recharge via the slowest means it will take you a while. But that would be idiotic, wouldn't it? Few people - even those who buy sports cars - make those kind of uses. We know it's not for long-distance journeys, but we also know the statistics about the distribution of journey lengths.

Do the Top Gear team mention every fuse that blows? Do they honestly not see it as a huge step forward? I think there is a difference between being cheeky about a Ferrari and Tesla. Top Gear have given positive reviews to previously unfashionable brands in the past, despite the comedy.
Can you explain that differently? I've read your comment a few times and haven't been able to grasp it.

My comment, based on a possibly faulty interpretation of your comment:

I don't feel entitled to get US media as a Canadian. It's just extremely prevalent. Our country watches CSI at the same time yours does, and American Idol, and pretty much everything else. So we get used to feeling like members of the US media market. Sure we have our Rick Mercer Report, et al, but the dominant media is American.

I certainly didn't mean to complain. I understand that negotiating distributions rights for a country a tenth the size isn't high on the priority list of US distributors. What I was trying to say is that it catches us of guard (though less and less frequently) to find that for online services we are often excluded when for so much of our daily media lives we are full-fledged, practicing Americans.