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Very cool - my friends and I are fairweather online gamers, we really prefer to play with each other via co-op or maybe once in a while we run TF2 or L4D2 on a whim. An on-demand service would be great.

Feature request (not sure if it's there): would love to be able to start a server, and send out email invites to friends with clickable join links that would connect them to the server.

Related: if you need help with designing, sending, and managing emails (especially for that last feature), I'd be happy to help. I'm the Product Manager for PostageApp (http://www.postageapp.com) and we're all about email. Let me know if I can help!
This seems like a really cool idea, but I just can't for the life of me get the kind of cool graphs that I typically can from Google Trends. Not sure if I'm doing it wrong, but most of the stuff I'm getting seems pretty random.
It’s a simplification of copyright law (which is bloody complicated) that is, in general, true. (As you yourself said, you can rip a CD. It’s perfectly legal. Uploading said ripped CD to a server and publishing the link is not. Fair use is part of the copyright law. The only reason you can rip a CD is because of copyright law – just what I said.)
There's a few things that i think you're reacting to (i think, because i've had similar feelings, but i could totally be wrong).

The first is that Verdana is really nicely hinted, which means that, unlike most other fonts out there, Verdana has the advantage of always technically looking sharp.

The second is that Verdana is mostly monolinear, like Courier or Andale or any of traditional monospaces, there's only the slightest bit of stroke variation (most of it optical), so you get style but you don't get the distraction (onscreen) of stroke modulation

The third is that most proportional fonts have a comparatively larger pitch, so you get more characters in each line, which is also what you start seeing in 'next gen monospaces' that seem to make better use of their allotted horizontal space (and seem less wonky in general).

The last, and arguably most important, is that almost all proportional fonts (verdana included) have got style. It's hard to emphasize enough that most of the arguments for Consolas or Inconsolata or Liberation or ____ are largely due to the fact that those fonts have an overt aesthetic agenda, which is sometimes not apparent in first-gen monospaces (although, to be fair, they and their brethren are stylized, it's just that we've grow numb to it)

I'm personally a monospace sorta person (i like fedra mono)--there are some really nice (alas, non-free) monos out there to choose between that are more fun to use than the more stoic traditional monospaces. Part of why proportional fonts are appealing is that we rarely need monospace fonts anymore: their use is largely vestigial (and aesthetic-driven) and also that many programming languages (python et al) often have highly literate code that benefits from typefaces designed with legibility in mind.

So i'm just sayin, i respect where you're coming from, but don't dismiss monos out of hand. There are nice ones which are coincidentally monospace, but aren't as frumpy or harsh as the monospace fonts that are typically advertised as 'best programming fonts.'
When an iPhone 3GS or newer iOS device wipes itself, it clears the key out of a protected memory area that's not accessible to iTunes, so that re-loading the bit-for-bit copy won't work.
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I don't know about others who downvoted the comment, but I know I didn't do so because I disagree, but because I believe that it's deliberately flawed and inflammatory. See my reply to the downvoted comment to find my explanation of why I believe that.
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So if I take someone's photograph and use ImageMagick to convert it to black and white, by your rationale it would not be covered by the copyright on the original photo? Like someone said, it is a derivative work.

The copyright act says:

A “derivative work” is a work based upon one or more pre-existing works, such as a translation, musical arrangement, dramatization, fictionalization, motion picture version, sound recording, art reproduction, abridgment, condensation, or any other form in which a work may be recast, transformed, or adapted. A work consisting of editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations, or other modifications which, as a whole, represent an original work of authorship, is a “derivative work”.
Suppose the square can be dissected into n pieces. Then any symmetry of the square induces a permutation of those n pieces. Hence, the symmetry group of the square (D_8) must be embeddable as a subgroup of S_n. Hence there is no dissection into three pieces, since |D_8| = 8, which does not divide |S_3| = 6.

I suspect this line of argument can be taken further, but wanted to post it before someone else did :-)

Edit: no, that doesn't work, because we already have a dissection into two pieces, and |S_2| = 2. Dammit. Not all of the symmetries of the square must map pieces to pieces.
I'm not sure I follow your statement. How would you recommend that I encrypt a piece of data to store into a database? It needs to be reversible (encryption, not a hash), but does not need to be reversible on the production system (the field just needs to be decrypted before analysis, on different machines at a later time).
I remember that interaction. It seems like a feature that will work really well 95% of the time and give confusing errors the other 5% of the time -- a good trade-off for techies, but would result in many confused users if it were a core OS feature ("I just thought I'd see what it did...").
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A project I'm working on needs a customizable group-buying solution. Anyone had any experience with the any packaged group-on clone software?
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I live in central Missouri and know lots of people who have been affected the by recent severe storms and tornadoes in the surrounding area.

One observation I have made it that none of the major weather applications or services report locations of Tornado touchdowns. I feel like this is critically important to make important middle-term (not short, not long) safety decisions.

Is anyone aware of a service which tracks tornado signatures on radar or compiles real time updates regarding them (ie, twitter/facebook)?
My recommendation is to go on LinkedIn and search for people you might be connected to who are working at a large advertising agency. Most of the large agencies pick a few non-profits to work with pro-bono in a consultative role. If you have a grant to provide the media budget, hopefully you can solicit some manpower from someone with a connection to your cause. If you want to, send me a DM on Twitter (see my profile) about your organization, and I'll see if I it makes sense to put it in the hands of someone in my org.
Still unemployed! But we are talking edge cases here.
The expression "violates copyright" is confusing here. None of these ten things violate copyright if "somebody" has your permission to do them.

Also, some permissions are implied. For example, I can copyright some code and post it on my web site. The very act of reading the code in a browser creates a copy of the code in your computer's memory, but permission to create that copy is implied by my posting it on the web. However, that implied permission doesn't extend to you reposting the same code on your web site.
Have you played an MMORPG? I've done both (200 hours in a month of MMO, 200 hours in a month of TV), and I think the time spent on the MMORPG was far more of a waste.
Appreciate your feedback. I've worked along side him for 5 years in our previous jobs. We've also done a few other projects together, although nothing on this scale. He has also been involved in this project since its inception. That said, we've got a lot of work in front of us...but using our past working history as an indicator, we're certainly on the right track.
IANAL, but here's my understanding of it:

1. Yes.

2. Yes.

3. Yes. No longer the same when all the original code is gone (see BSD Unix). Note, though, that BSD is descried as a rewrite, not a refactor. There may be a line short of that, but I doubt it.

4. No. To be completely safe, though, it should be Chinese-walled.

5. I don't think so, so long as they do not distribute B'. Copyright law contains a statutory right to make modifications to enable it to run. Note that this is often done - VM hosts rewrite code for virtualization, the JVM does JIT compilation, and as an extreme example the Transmeta Crusoe processor rewrote x86 machine code into its instruction set on the fly.

6 and 7 - how is the reverse engineering done? If it is a translation of A', it is probably copyright infringement, but this situation is somewhat confusing to me.

8. I hope not! Further, on modern OSes, the non-modifiable executable memory pages should be shared between processes, so there's only actually one copy in memory but it's mapped into both processes. It might violate a EULA or other licensing terms, but that doesn't make it copyright infringement. Copyright itself isn't very clear on this kind of ephemeral copying so far as I know.

9. This one is getting shadier, but I don't think it's copyright infringment. It might violate a EULA, but not all EULA violations are copyright infringement (depending on a variety of factors).

10. I don't entirely understand this one. If the process is designed to be forked and distributed in this fashion, then absent other license terms I'd have to say probably not.
Looking at the fonts he did select, it's clear why Terminus gets no mention: it's significantly different aesthetically, with squarer edges and more straight lines, etc., from his preferred fonts.
Try contacting the people behind that blog and other blogs related to the subject.
Uber runs a livery cab service. At the disadvantage of not being able to pick up street hails, they do not require a medallion, and operate under different terms than a taxi.
Same thing that happened to Baltimore/Southeast PA in Feb 2010. Two 24"+ snow storms within 3 days. It makes for a gloomy winter.
"Getting drunk at a party and posting pictures on Facebook should not be grounds for you getting rejected at an interview."

I agree with the OP - If you don't want to be discriminated against, keep it off the internet, or it can be used against you.

The only exceptions that I can think of would be those aspects that are considered "protected" - I'm in the rather liberal (but at-will-employment) California, so that includes (at last count, they've probably added more, "age (if over 35), ancestry, color, race, sex (gender), religion, national origin, marital status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, or sexual orientation." - Everything else is fair game. And certainly, drunk pictures of you on facebook would fall within the realm that an employer might reasonably discriminate against you.

If you don't want it used against you, don't place it on the internet, despite the level of protection/encryption/privacy policy you think you have protecting you. The elcomsofts of the world are likely to make your private information less so more quickly than you would think.
I have tab and column alignment OCD. I can't even read other people's code without getting a terrible itch to realign things. I think a proportional font would either drive me crazy or, on the other hand, might be kind of good for me.
Switched around for a long time, then realized that the coolest thing about Kod was the default font, so I stole it for vim:

The M+ Fonts: hugely recommended - http://mplus-fonts.sourceforge.jp/
All depends on the complexity of your project. We tried using open source BI but it just didn't accomplish what we needed. QlikView, on the other hand, has been a great solution. My only concern with QlikTech is that they're a bit arrogant and don't know how to price or write license agreements that support scalability.
But kids from low income families are more likely to suffer from student loans.
You could use public key encryption in a cryptosystem to store rows in a database. The "correct" way to do that would be to use /dev/random to generate a 128 bit AES key, encrypt the data with AES, and encrypt the AES key with RSA. That gets you "reversible on one server but not another".

But you're looking for something beyond that; you want "semi-reversible and deterministic". Determinism is not typically regarded as a feature in cryptosystems. Secure RSA schemes go out of their way to avoid it (read Wikipedia's OAEP article as a starting point).

Generally I think it's a very bad idea to get involved in custom cryptosystems just to store passwords.
or work on a project. Those look like perfectly valid employment from a resume perspective.

I have a hard time believing that a 'project' would look anything like employment, and I think your ruse would fall apart under interview scrutiny.

Mind you, the best thing you can do when you're cut is to start a business. B.S. is better than a blank stare, but not by much.
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FWIW, I've been "out of work" for ~2.5 years, traveled SE Asia, lived in Japan for six months, and bicycled from Canada to Mexico. When a Google recruiter talked to me, he seemed really impressed, and not put off in the least.
Down to earth encouragement from one who knows!
Thank you. The paper makes a point clear that the article doesn't - they didn't ask kids if they ate the popcorn during the study, they asked if they had ever eaten that particular popcorn, which is a huge difference.
they aren't dispatching taxis

here's the relevant passage: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22117/tcp_and_taxicab_distinguished....

(source: http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/NR/rdonlyres/D5E763FD-5706-4F7D-9F95-... )

(limousines which are passenger carriers regulated by CPUC aren't licensed to be hailed from the curb, but can perform prearranged transportation)
I use Mensch too, but let's not credit Apple too much considering Menlo in turn was a fairly minor tweak of the Bitstream Vera Sans Mono.
To do so would be almost as annoying as people claiming Apple created Webkit out of the blue rather than starting from an open source project, or that they created their kernel out of the blue, or their OS tools, or windowing operating systems in general were created by them, or the personal computer or the smart phone or the tablet. Apple is very good at polishing things, at integration, supply chains and marketing; extremely good, and they even have a very good record on fonts - but don't listen to Jobs' story on this or you will think we would still be using the command line for everything - however they get orders of magnitude too much credit when it comes to innovation.
Huh. Thanks for pointing that out. I'd never actually used it but IIRC they always advertise that you can send money to any email address.
Hey something on HN I can actually help with haha. Now I won't build entire campaigns for you, but if you have specific questions, send me a pm or email and i'll try to help. I've been working in SEM for almost two years now since college, so I feel like I have a pretty good handle on it.
I don't necessarily disagree with your statement that getting the best BI tool is more important than the cheapest.

I think far more important is for a good BI developer or someone in-house with deep domain knowledge and "power," for lack of a better term, who can clearly articulate what valuable questions are going to be answered by the implementation and tools and also drive the effort.

Of course, if your BI effort is aimed directly at customers and customer data analysis, maybe that is a good enough vision.

My experience is more on the resource management side of data warehousing, stuff like figuring out how to attach revenue/cost numbers to web applications and allow drill down across multiple dimensions.
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I think what could be interesting is to write a site/app that would allow people to order taxis with ease (using GPS, etc), but instead sell it to cab companies as a way of getting business, so essentially anyone can be as accessible as Uber. A bit like what E-Resistible did here in the UK.
The main reason I was thinking of is that it's very difficult to do public-key encryption correctly. The normal advice is to just use GPG (or a similarly battle-tested library). The way these work makes ciphertext comparison meaningless. That's a good thing for almost all applications, but not for this one. The alternative is to use code that has not been so thoroughly battle-tested.

Your application is a much more straightforward application of PKI. You don't need to compare ciphertext, so you could just use GPG. (Please consult someone more expert than me, though. I am not responsible if there's a security problem, etc, etc).

As a secondary reason, public-key encryption is "fast by design", while password hashing techniques are hopefully not. This makes brute-force attacks easier. This actually applies more strongly to SSN's (only a billion possible combinations? Simple!). This can be worked around by adding a properly secured password hash of sufficient length to the plaintext, essentially adding the additional computation of the password hash.
I've been slowly shifting from Proggy to Consolas; it was easier once I embraced larger font sizes (I have 20/20 vision, and I'd like to keep that!). At that point, Consolas became a balm for the eyes.
I would also like to see that developers were required to state why each permission is needed and present this to the user at install time.
I find it really disingenuous to paint someone as intelligent and quirky as Thiel with the "bah, republican" brush. In terms of where he's putting his money, bear in mind that he's a multi-billionaire; donating a quarter million for him is not a substantial capital commitment.

I wouldn't even call Thiel's goals fundamentally political; he's trying to shape society and throws money at things that he believes will bend it more to his liking. I don't think he gives two shits about the survival of either of the dominant American political parties.
Anyone know why they can't get licensed in every city?

Or is something preventing them form doing that, because licensing is inherently a way to protect old cartels from new cheaper/better upstarts?
>my first post to Hacker News

You mean you were downvoted because you said "I agree!" and had to start with a karma of -19?

Doesn't sound fun!
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I used the MV/8000 and its successors (up to the MV/20000) and predecessors (back to the Eclipse S/330?) back when. I still remember some of the CLI and a bit of Eclipse assembler.
Some of them have already finished college, one specifically was already in a phd program. From a fair testing perspective, it already fails. I'm not sure it had fair tests in mind, if testing is a goal.
This is pretty cool. It's similar to what I do at Correlated (http://www.correlated.org) -- I compare the results of each daily poll with all the previous daily polls, and find the strongest correlation. Granted, Correlated is decidedly less serious.
Economic sanctions against people who don't want their life to be work? The logic actually makes some twisted sense - "Oh, you don't want to work all the time? Well you're not getting any work at all then." Personally, I'd give preference to whoever does a better job because how a person got to that stage is none of my business. Either way, that attitude is borderline discrimination.
Thank you for the link and your insight, too.
I wasn't intending for it to be a ruse. Rather if someone had enough money to float for a year and chose to dedicate their time to an open source project, that would be some great experience.
http://webecologyproject.org

Started off as just a random project by 8 people, turned into some consulting, open source software releases, published papers, citations, several talks at conferences, press coverage (NYT, MSNBC, Forbes, etc). Now we've reverted it back to a side project. Yet most of us keep it on our resumes and it seems (and I think is) fairly legit.
It probably is. That's what make the non-random ones noteworthy.
Well then, I'll be adding Sony Ericsson to the list of companies I won't support. I'll send them an email to let them know they lost a potential future customer. I vote with my dollars, and I have a very long memory for grudges.
On one hand I don't feel bad for Uber because they knew exactly what they were getting into but the idealist part of me also wants to cheer them on. I'm absolutely tired of asshole cab drivers, dirty cabs, and no-shows multiple times per week. Thus loving Uber.
Or just take the time to beef up your Github contributions. I'd rather see someone with great contributions to the FOSS community than continuous employment at random places.
A better analogy would be opening a document that had partial bits missing, filling in the partial bits the best you can, and saving it.
The equivalent of TECO was "speed", no? I actually used it in an elaborate CLI macro ("cockamamie" may be juster than "elaborate" here) because I had no better way to do what I needed.
I had not realized how a font could be so much easier on ones eyes until I started using Consolas for everything. I seriously feel more productive now which I did not expect.
seems like a great example of the line between "naughtiness" and "evil" being discussed yesterday in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2580458 ... if a law gets in the way of your innovative business plan, should you just ignore it?
Does it mean anything for the Ipad 2 Jailbreak ? I'm confused...
It seems the encryption keys are in the chip in these Ipads, so I wonder if this article means that they could get the keys from the hardware ? If so, how is it related to an OS in particular ?
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I bought The C++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrup which had program code written in a proportional font. It is absolutely a nightmare to read. When using a proportional font, I have "jitter" issues as the cursor scrolls down and keeps switching places on the screen. I have to navigate vertically then make the horizontal adjustments.
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I tried Consolas on a Mac but it wasn't aligning right. :(
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Maybe not, but there are books and magazines regularly purchased about snakes (and just about anything else you can imagine). The trick, if you could get it to work at all, would be to get good content and build the social web around that.
Is the word "piracy" considered troll-bait now? I thought that was the kindest available euphemism for "taking a not-free thing for free".
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I've worked in the space industry, and sadly, like in any tech industry, it is actually likely an incredibly intelligent kid would know more about the math and science of space technology than the vast majority of those in the industry. Sure, they wouldn't know the project-specific details, but those would be easy to get caught up on (for someone of that caliber). This is why the private space ventures are doing so well: they concentrate the real experts and cut away the bureaucracy. Also, keep in mind the space industry hasn't necessarily attracted the majority of the best and brightest for a while now; think of computers, biotech, and finance.

That said, lack of power in aforementioned bureaucracy could be a major issue.