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Vidalia is a GUI for tor, letting you start it, stop it, change identity, monitor your connections, etc. Torbutton toggles if firefox goes via tor or not and monitors to make sure it still does and nothing has changed and changes some settings to make attempt to prevent accidental leaks. Current broswer bundles is usually pretty much a browser with torbutton, vidalia and tor. Tor itself will no doubt still be able to proxy other things (such as pidgin or other non-web traffic). I'm not sure what exactly forking the browser would entail, but I'm pretty sure it's mostly meant to provide a full separate (and neutral looking to the server) browser rather then have people flip back and forth which has always been a bad idea since it's very easy to accidentally have it give you away. If the bundle itself includes Tor or not is hard to say. If chrome + tor (started with vidalia rather then command line, if you wish) is secure is debatable, perhaps or perhaps not - it's never been a project they've really focused on. Third party or roll-your-own setups are as secure as you make them.

[EDIT] You're welcome. Chrome via proxy in incognito on a separate install is probably pretty safe. Might even be safer - I'm not really qualified to answer either way. The bundles are only as safe as the writers as well, so.. dunno.
Ask HN: food replicator possible?
I want to know when we think a food replicator would be possible that can grow organic food products from stemcells.

Are there the equivalent of stemcells from plants as well as from tissue based organisms that would allow for the growth of plant matter based foods in addition to meat/protein.

I was thinkijg that a similar device would be required for travel to other Planets such as mars.

All ethics and squemishness aside, is a stemcell based food replication unit possible, and if so, how far off are we.

(typed on phone, forgive typos)
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This was the first startup I ever "signed up" for back in 2004 (before I even knew what a startup was).

Amazing to see how much it grew in those 7 years.

Congrats to everyone involved!!!!
I seriously doubt it. Perhaps 50-100Mbit/sec which is obtainable using the cable/telco infrastructure already in place. I don't see any killer apps on the horizon that will actually require a gigabit of bandwidth into the home. Even today you can get pretty good HD video over most residential broadband connections. Even if we double or triple the resolution/bit rate the math still doesn't work out. Other than people lusting over a bigger number what's going to justify anyone spending tens of billions of dollars to make this happen in the next 10 years?
The cost isn't the same if /128s select for high-maintenance customers.
Right. The hardest part was admitting the design was flawed and getting help to make something better. The technical issues, aside from some memory management bugs early on, could be solved in an evening.
If it's just a matter of changing the variables, someone please let me know and I'll be glad to make it. From what I understand though, it isn't as straightforward a process of preparation as tea is.
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It is indeed worth considering that China's semi-insolvent banking system might involve a larger cost than China's foreign reserves. But the question is whether the two are comparable.

It's not like China could go to the US and demand we ship banking system or our excess housing stock to them.

Also, it may be a significant to note that increased its foreign while it fell into trade deficit. If that keeps up, the nation will essentially spending money to stay cheap while it spends other money on the many dubious projects from high-speed rail to excess office buildings.

Foreign currency surpluses are different state debt. Japan has the world's second large dollar reserve - and the world's largest state deficit as a ratio of GDP.

http://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/01/world/japan-s-road-to-deep...

China's public private fusion system is a bit different from Japan of course. But claims for the strength of China are monumentally overstated as far as I can tell.
Intel has a 22nm process coming online this year. I doubt the A4 or A5 are ported to this, but an A6 could be designed for the Intel 22nm process.

Apple could probably run the A5 @ 1.25GHz in intel's 34nm process (were it to port same.)

So, more features, less expensive parts, less power consumption per GHz. I see Intel as a definite possibility, especially if Apple can exclude other competitive ARM SoCs from Intel's process.

Intel: "You can't have ARM, but would you like an Atom, sir?"

Intel/Micron also have 20nm flash now. Densities are about to scale in mobile storage as well.
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I'm suggesting that's a better place to learn about git not to mention being created by one of the Github guys.
Absolutely agree here. I've ran into some issues occasionally with IntelliJ when reading an Eclipse tutorial and translating Eclipse concepts into IntelliJ concepts (especially around libraries and unit testing), but otherwise, I find IntelliJ much better and would have preferred I had started there.
This is the problem with metaphors. They get misunderstood and misapplied.

I didn't mean a general direction, I meant a specific one. Like a telephone is different from a cellphone. Landlines have only so much potential. You may attribute cellphones to implementation, but someone had to figure it out.

How many millions of man hours would make AirBnB worth more than Groupon? Not the best example, but I'm sure you get it. Ideas have limits, but so does implementation.
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Companies "always" inflate their damage reports... but in this instance, the number cited came directly from their upstream billing. Can you square that circle for me?
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The jpgs coming out of your camera are far from raw. The camera makes as many choices as a retro camera filter does, if not more. It chooses color balance, color space, contrast/response curves. It reduces noise, sharpens, and can even adjust the final exposure. There's no one way to display a RAW file on an 8 bit per channel monitor. Furthermore, the "accuracy" of your image is going to depend on the situation and whether or not you override the metering. For example, a snowy scene will almost always be metered into a dull grey, unless the camera is told to overexpose a bit.
A fine summary except...

.. what does a rice farmer in Northern China do when the government gives him 1000 crisp dollar bills ("or their electronic equivalent")?
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A valid criticism, but a little harsh and unnecessary only because Instagram is not forced on anyone who does not want to use it. Sure, it's gimmicky and trivial, as is most social media. Photography as an art form is not threatened by fashionable little gadget applications like Instagram. I don't use Instagram, and wouldn't bother signing up to yet another social network. I also wouldn't apply ready-made filters to my photos using Photoshop or other tools. But if people without much photography skills enjoy doing this, then it's barely worth the criticism.
Another possible work-around is Amazon's App store. That's where I purchased EasyTeather Pro. Are the carriers/Google going to force all App stores to bend to their whims?
"and the burden of cataloguing and sorting them increases exponentially."

No, it increases linearly. As for the rest of the tone:

I've taken something like 45,000 photos since I started on digital in 2003. This is probably around ten times as many photos as my parents have ever taken. However, my photos are all imported into Lightroom, dated, and most are at tagged with at least basic information. I may be two years behind on disseminating my photos, but they're ready when free time and desire coincide.

By comparison, my mother had to pay to have photos processed. She would then flip each over and write notes by hand, lest context be forgotten. After a few years, she might take a few out and mount them in an album.

Personal photography is just plain better than ever before. It's easier and cheaper to take, document, and shore photos than ever in the past. This does not detract from the value of our photos or memories. Romanticizing the more primitive, less available photography of the past is no better than pursuing the superficial duplication of its style.
It's my understanding that various groups have tried to buy them and caker refuses
Thanks for the quick reply.

Did you look into the schemata of other tracking tools for inspiration, or was this an ab initio analysis?
There is still some sort of Ricardian equivalence that will play out through inflation and exchange rates and employment. Being able to print money, doesn't stop major problems when bad loans are made. Bad housing loans were made in the US, and it ended up increasing the US debt significantly, even though the US governement can print money. China faces the same issue, and it will reduce the reserves significantly.
Yes, judge's should not judge the zeitgeist. I'm confused as to what you mean by "your administration." I'm assuming you assumed I voted for Obama, which I did not (I also didn't vote for the previous administration as I was not old enough). I would, and believe I could successfully, argue that the interpretation of the law is greatly affected by popular societal conceptions, however. I don't think news needs to become free-gratis for such lawsuits to be thrown out of courts. I'd like to see a system where those without material gain cannot be punished for failing to cite (that doesn't mean I think they shouldn't have to, so much as they shouldn't get in trouble for not doing it, which I understand is effectively saying they don't have to).
We hope to be able to have stubhub send us all their unsold inventory at game time for us to put up for upgrade. money made off the seat sale is split between the reseller (such as stubhub), the venue and us. We also would like to allow season ticket holders a chance to conveniently submit their seats to the venue for a nominal fee with one click on 'not attending' for each game they can't make if they want to make some extra money on the side. Initially though we are constraining the available seats for upgrade to only the venue's unsold inventory. once we get traction with upgrades from that seat inventory we can consider expanding our offering to resellers (we have already talked to some who want to dump their unsold inventory to us and take a cut of whatever is made) and season ticket holder and individual fans.

that's a hell of a discount, nice! Then again its the Blue Jays.. we just spoke with the Rockets today and they related that the average ticket price per game for their season ticket holders is about 20-30% lower then if you just bought a one time regular game tickets.

thanks for the input.

-abel
Show HN: Loyalti (loyalty rewards program for mobile phones)
Well, you could also let people choose between the two options:
1. Live forever + not allowed to have kids
2. Have kids and you are not allowed the wonder drug

Of course, since I have already had kids I would want there to be an amnesty :-)
Came here to post a similar story. 26 miles from the white house here, but in a lower density area. My home internet comes from a T1 that runs about $500/mo to provide 1.5Mbit. My other options are ISDN (128kbit) or sprint EVDO at about -100db, providing ~200-500kbit but with many, many dropouts. 5 years ago there were the same options. 10 years ago it was T1 or ISDN. 15 years ago the same.

Nobody wants to serve below a certain density with anything.

Comcast was asked by the county to provide a customer pays dig fees estimate. They wanted 2.2M up front. Verizon actually wants to stop maintaining the copper plant in the next few years. It's very possible that this would leave us without enough clean pairs in the neighborhood to use leased lines. They indicate that we're scheduled for FIOS somewhere around 2020.
If he's not a Mormon anymore, I'd call it a net win.

The real question is: is he happier now?
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Curating a large photo library is easy. Just don't worry about it until you actually want to worry about it. I take a few hundred photos every month, rarely delete any of them. Every once in a while I'll group the photos together by the year and month they were taken and stick them in a folder.

At the end of the year my wife and I use Shutterfly to create a nice bound book w/ our favorite pics from the year. We'll occasionally create smaller books for trips or other special occasions.

No stress. No lost photos, no lost history. My parents photos have big gaps... a few pictures here and there to capture an event they thought was photo worthy. My kids will be able to sift through hundreds of photos, looking over details about their child hood, their first house, the old couch, dad when he had hair, the dogs, all of it. I don't see a downside.
We've been working on Loyalti for a few months now, and are now actively looking for franchises and stores to partner up with. We'd love to hear feedback on our product and any advice on signing on potential franchises.
I think we should give Linode the benefit of the doubt on this for now.

Depending on how their instances are isolated from each other, it may be difficult to handle prefix delegation all the way down through the individual hosts into the guests.

Even Google had some hacks when they first started bringing up IPv6 support. For example, GMail would display class E addresses instead of the v6 addresses when you viewed last account activity. It was a temporary hack to shoe-horn v6 addresses into their management system.
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Well, with the ORMs the objects generate the relational stuff. I enjoy modeling my entities on paper as an ERD (from the entity relationship perspective) and then writing the object code.

However, I have found it is sometimes necessary to denormalize my schema and store entities based on how they are presented, not necessarily the idealistic OO ORM'ed way.

At the end of the day, the user doesn't care if your code is abstracted properly (who's definition?) or enough. It just needs to work speedily and correctly and be easily maintainable.

I think alot of people know SQL, but may not understand how to model entities correctly, and if they can't model the entities correctly, what ever they denormalize is still coming from a 'less-good' model.
I didn't mean for my post to come off as rude, but it seems strange to just assume that because one thing is canceled, a completely different tool with a different name would be canceled, and to be fair, 10 seconds with Google gives a better summary of Vidalia than I could do, but I'm flattered you reviewed my comments.

Additionally, while we're here, you should really reconsider how you're using Chrome. If Chrome is like Firefox, it does NOT tunnel it's DNS requests by default. Firefox, for example, (at least with 3.6) won't resolve .onion links unless you select the option to tunnel DNS requests. It means that you're likely leaking DNS requests to potential watchers.

Others like javascript and Flash can be equally insidious. If you're using Tor, it would behoove you to use the Tor Browser, or at least the Bundle as it has very sensible default settings for protecting yourself.
> I have taken it in the middle of the day, in the sun. I have taken it at night, in a dark room. I have taken it at a party (despite people saying its not a party drug).

I was kinda hoping you were going to run with that and turn that into a "green eggs and ham" tribute poem.
The article shows the SO team doing all of these things. It's about the opportunity costs of which semi-slow queries you tackle in which order. As new features are added, performance shifts around in different areas of the site.
Just follow the HE tunnel setup instructions like you would for any non-linode host or border router.
I think what you're seeing here is not that we're dismissing all problems but that we look at some problems (say, distributed systems) and think "Man, our lives would be so much easier if we were purer." Of course there are trade offs, but when these new circumstances come up, it does nicely vindicate the extremists. :-)
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With all due respect, you're evaluating these designers as someone without a good deal of design knowledge (my assumption). The designers you like are creating things for you that apply to your personal taste but may not be "good design", instill trust in your company, increase conversions etc.
He should go back to farming. He now knows he can spend the 1000 bills, or gold coin, or whatever at a later date when he so chooses. When the time is right, the $1000 dollars can be used to pay his daughters college tuition, or buy a tractor. It doesn't matter, the only important thing is "when the time is right." It is an economic mess when ordinary people can't time shift their spending. This is why good governments guarantee deposits, and keep inflation low.
One of the things I want out of pure programs is reproducibility. If a pure fragment of code doesn't give the same result over multiple executions, that's not very reproducible. Maybe that's OK, but it does make my ears twitch.
Why the downvotes? CGN is a barely support draft at the IETF currently. Dual-stack with 6to4/4to6 is the standard based migration mechanism most organizations will be using.
Spain became ridiculously wealthy after its conquest of the Aztecs and Incas at the beginning of the 16th century but by the end of the century it was bankrupt. I am not saying that China would be as foolish as the Spaniards in squandering their wealth but I am saying there is precedence for it and it does seem like retaining wealth is far more difficult then creating it. Japan would be another case in point. It will be very interesting to see what China's strategy is. It does look like they are reaching the end of the road on their current path especially with America's financial markets being what they are.
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The monitoring processes makes sure that each instance can talk to every other instance (firewalls, etc.). That definitely doesn't belong in a distributed database protocol.
Hey, maybe we should be giving this guy constructive criticism instead of shivering.
To the downvoters, I meant that as a good thing.
"Why not within our lifetimes"

As things stand right now:

1. Funding for science is appallingly low
2. Many of the best minds go into banking, management consulting and law

Making this happen within our lifetimes needs prompt ACTION.
My take:

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2011/05/merits-of-the-gun...

"Even discussion of the platonic ideal of immortality is, I think, useful provocation against the backdrop of advancing biotechnology that will be able to extend the human lifespan significantly in decades to come. Those advances won't happen by themselves: people need to work on them, support them, and demand them. An economy of longevity-enhancing biotechnology must arise, and for that there needs to be - at a minimum - a whole lot more people talking and thinking about the prospects."

Whatever sins are committed in the post are absolved by merit of generating a Hacker News discussion in which people are once again reminded that the biotechnology train is coming - and the opportunities it presents are immense.
Do you think people in the legal system will necessary make the case decisions you desire if they become more familiar with your preferred subset of industry knowledge? That's the nub of the issue here. The thread is a complaint about a judicial decision. The one thing judges become practiced in doing is evaluating which parties to a case are b___s____ing and which parties are being straight with the court and law-abiding in their actions outside court. A trial judge's judgment can be reversed by an appellate court if the appellate court determines that the trial judge misapplied the law to the case. But it is a rare circumstance when an appellate court reverses any finding of fact by a trial judge, because trial judges see the witnesses, review all the evidence submitted by all parties to the case, and hear motions from all parties about evidence should be admitted.

In general, I think that most young people who attend law school are more knowledgeable about the law after attending than before. (I cannot say the same with confidence about young people who attend colleges of education with respect to teaching.) But as someone with a legal background, some of the statements I see here about why the Australian judge's decision was an outrage are not convincing to me. Are you willing to consider the possibility that if all readers of HN became much more knowledgeable about the law, they might perhaps disagree with the dollar amount of the judgment, but support the finding of liability in the case?
The blog entry mentions this, but perhaps without enough detail. Your `.setAttr()` exactly matches the same as the `.attr()` method's new behavior when it's passed a Boolean argument to set. The other two would be great suggestions for 1.7!
Personally, when it comes to denormalisation, my preference is that it be done in a semi-structured way such as dimensional modelling.

And that's exactly what I was talking about: a key purpose for DM is to make the database more accessible for fast bulk queries at the cost of duplicate data.

Whereas normalisation drives out duplication in order to maximise transactional performance and space efficiency.

In your case, you start with the OLTP/normalised model, then devolve to what is actually a kind of OLAP/denormalised model.

Write-oriented vs read-oriented.

Maybe the missing link for relational databases in a web world is actually some kind of real-time ETL?
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