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I'm pretty sure the US public would require retaliation in the event of, say, a prolonged regional blackout, a breached dam, a meltdown at a nuclear facility or any other number of real world insanity caused by a cyber attack.

"for no reason" I'm sure there are reasons. LulzSec does it for the "lulz". China has their own reasons, whatever they are they are and we can sit and discuss them but there needs to be red lines. Figuring those reasons out does not mean we should not have a well known military posture in certain eventualities.
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for a list of available courses see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2656156
This actually happened to me:

I once heard of Airbnb on HN.

<fast-forward a few weeks>

I once spent half a day looking for that site with a terrible name that let you rent good apts for short periods of time.

So, from my experience, Airbnb has a terrible name. I also had no idea that bnb in Airbnb actually stood for something... Looks like you just saved me half a day sometime in the future, thanks.
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No, MAD doesn't help in this case. The other side always has plausible deniability. Did an attack really come from China or was it perpetrated by crackers in a third country routing traffic through pwned Chinese PCs? How can you ever be sure? If the US government makes a false accusation even once and is proven wrong then they lose all credibility going forward.
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Or you could take it in the spirit in which it is intended, instead of making it about your personal ideologies.

In plainer terms: you could choose not to be an asshole and take a kind word for what it is.
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And Color costs the same amount as Facebook.
This could really save lives. I bike to work everyday and cars usually don't recognize bikes as something that belongs on the road.
Hey, don't feel bad, I said that with the tongue in the cheek (sorry if it wasn't clear). I actually enjoyed the Clojure posts a lot and read most of them (as well as most of your contributions). Did you stop the Clojure-related submissions, or did people stop upvoting them?

In the chart, HN is rising at an accelerating rate, but Clojure has been stagnant or even slightly decreasing for about a year now.
Actually, they didn't even know about SXSW.
Its relevant because the question is not whether you should pay money but whether color can make money on you.

If you are not paying for the product you are the product.
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I find it presumptuous.
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I made no mention comparing the quality of search results because that's a whole other topic.

I'm saying the App Store has categories, "Staff Picks", "iPad App of the Week" etc and it helps in discovery, just like Yahoo did back in the day.

Google would have to tread carefully here or they would step on advertisers' toes or invite anti-competitive scrutiny due to their dominance in search.
Which "other planets" do you have in mind that are within easy reach of Earth?
OK, thanks, my mistake. Not coupled. But still, there is a strong presumption that your app will use a database and wants a database.yml.

The few times I've wanted to just start a Rails app with simple Erb, with models representing data concepts (but not necessarily SQL anything), and evolve out to using a database (if and when needed), have been frustrating.

It's something that has been easy to do in some other frameworks so I tend to see Rails as almost DB-required, if not in fact coupled.
Wedding photos are still admired after the fact. There still isn't a use case for "hmm, I wonder what images people are taking within a 100' radius of me!".
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It matters to Apple if you want to run unapproved software on an iPad, or heaven forbid install Linux on it.

Doesn't it make more sense that Apple is trying to build a large and consumer friendly platform (approved apps) and that it would be an unjustifiable expense to support installing alternative OSes (Linux)?

Why is there always the assumption of nefarious motivations when it's more simply explained? They are only trying to make money, after all.
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Surprised to see my little project on HN.

All feedback welcome.
There is a use case for, "I wonder what images were taken within 100' of me!"

If the app is on, and tracking photos that were taken, then can resolve it after the fact (and get those photos), I think a lot of people would be interested.
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(Preface: I'm not a lawyer)

Basically, you've got it.

Recent legal precedent in the USA makes it easier for someone receiving a demand letter like this to go straight to court, rather than waiting to be sued themselves. The biggest advantage is that by doing this, they get much more latitude in picking the location of the trial, which can be beneficial both in saving travel expense and in terms of jurisdiction. The Times is asking the court to find that they don't infringe, but is also asking the court to invalidate Lodsys' patents, which would also stop them from suing anyone else.

You can generally only file suit in a location where both parties have a demonstrated business presence. The Times publishes nationwide, so they presumably picked Illinois for the reason you mention.

The East Texas federal courts are believed to have a bias in favor of patent-holders in IP cases, and are known for processing cases quickly. So, it's popular for patent trolls and others to file suit there to get an advantage.
Maybe what Schmidt said about Google's intentions was true, but another reason they haven't done it is because it's not possible right now, or at least not in a fully-automated way across most images on the web. The state-of-the-art on the easier "verification" problem ("are these two images of the same person?") are shown here:
http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/lfw/results.html

The best results are under 90% accuracy, which sounds pretty good, until you realize that random chance is 50%, and for recognition ("who is this person?"), you're essentially exponentiating that 90% by the number of different people you want to recognize.
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You are, of course, right.

Still, odds are that when someone says HTML5 they are also refering to CSS3. Words aren't neat and just because they have been defined that way doesn't mean they stay defined that way. To fight that at this point is just plain ridiculous.
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I've always wondered what the US would do if China started flying sigint surveillance planes along the edge of US territorial airspace. Or if Americans discovered that the Chinese had interception equipment in critical telecom switching stations throughout the world that allowed them to divert America's commercial and governmental communications to Chinese supercomputers for decryption.

There are a lot of things that America does to other countries that would be taken as acts of war if they were done to America.
Every old nation has territories which would be hard to claim if not for historical reasons. To take my own country as an example, the justification for France to own Guyane, Guadeloupe, reunion island, etc... is slim at best (France just happened to be a former colonial power).

As for your points 1 and 2, do you think people don't attribute those to the US as well ? Point 1 in particular falls into what is called unilateralism - a pervasive notion in the political discourse of the US since their inception. My point is not to fall into superficial anti americanism: it i simply in the best interest of the US to act this way, and most countries pushing for multilaterilsm are countries without the power to act differently anymore. But moral, fairness has absolutely nothing to do with it.
It really sounds like Groupon is no magic bullet. You still have to run your business. Everything you did in response to the Groupon experience (higher traffic looking for a loss leading offer) is what any solid business would (should) do in response to a loss leading promotion.
I have a few Fire v210's (dual 1Ghz UltraSparc 3, NUMA architecture with RAM attached to processor), and they run great. Quad gig ethernet ports on them, and a very nice LOM coprocessor. Decently cheap too.

I also ran NetBSD on a 25Mhz 68040 Quadra 700 back in the early 2000's. That was a less than stellar experience.
While talking to your lawyer, I'd ask about the practicality of this advice: http://www.groklaw.net/comment.php?mode=display&sid=2011...
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Well... no. I'd say satire is strawman expressed as art.
Thanks everyone for the interest, I have narrowed it down to two and emailed you both.

Chances are I'll be doing this again in a month or two so lookout for that if you still need a hand.

Cheers,
Jason
Wouldn't that be in Facebook's territory? i.e., "Hey Facebook, I took these pictures at Bob's wedding. Based on the geotag, can you show me other pictures from nearby at the same time?"

It seems convoluted (not to mention a gigantic drag on your battery life) to do so on each and every device in real-time.
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I assume he means that a large number of officials were individually targeted, requiring large numbers of hackers working in tandem.
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Am I the only one finding it awkward that some wants to live in the same building to network? LOL. Larry Page's house has a room. ;). Why don't you just meet them at events and socially normal places?
I do.

The Bible has changed more lives than any other book, movie, or song you can name.
A while back my gmail account was hacked by someone with a chinese IP. It made me wonder.

What if they goal of all this is to build a giant database of identities and known passwords. Say the chinese govt has 50 million online identities each associated with an email address, and known passwords for each.

If they do decide to launch a massive cyber attack, it doesn't matter what security we have in place; they could just log in.

They wouldn't need to find backdoors, they could log in as customers to every major bank and start moving things around. It wouldn't matter if the banks caught it, the only way to stop it would be to shut down all transaction--which would cause the panic the attackers are looking for.

They could do this with any public website, and with enough computing power and bandwidth, do it fast enough to really cause a problem.

Just imagine if they had 0.1% of all public logins and passwords.
I'm talking about bugs in the Rails framework. I think very few people would like to be having to maintain an outdated framework. And for the ones that actually do decide to maintain a framework that they did not develop themselves it will cost them a lot of money.
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With all due respect, I don't know what you are talking about. Programs in 1.4 run fine in 1.5. Every time there is a new version of Java I install it in my machine and just continue working as usual. I would be really upset if I had to spend time trying to make everything work again with every new version. They deprecate methods and functionality but they do not remove it. Java is not that much older than Ruby/Rails and it is pretty stable. Ruby/Rails may be great but I really don't want to go through the pain of having to port my code to the next version. I rather spend my time on adding new features.

Even Android, which is many times younger, never does this. Everything is always backwards compatible. Android developers would be up in arms if they just decided to break all apps in a new version of Android. Granted, it could still happen because nobody is perfect. Although it has never happened in any of my apps and I don't know if it has ever happened at all except for the early Beta period. When something is no longer supported they deprecate the functionality but do not remove it.
"I expect these restrictions will be coming to Macs over the next few years."

Considering the influx of open-source hackers and ex-windows users that migrated to Mac after the switch to Intel, this is just... nuts.

Or maybe just FUD.
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I have similar pictures in albums from my childhood.

Same look of mad scientist engineering delight, damn lucky to be born in America where instead of machining artillery ammo I'm building forts, water balloon launchers, and other weapons of low destruction.
Further supporting my point. In 1999 you needed millions in the bank just to get the product ready for prime time, and competition was thin. In 2011 you got everybody and their 19-year-old college dropout brother pursuing a lean startup using free open source tools on bargain-basement hosting that can support tens of thousands of users for less than a 1-bedroom rent.

Raising 41m for a mobile app pre-launch is just too many eggs in one basket IMHO. Obviously this has tainted everyone's views of Color, and maybe they actually need the money and have a solid strategy, and I won't lie and say I'm not a little envious of their fundraising power, but mustering all the objectivity I can, I just can't get behind the strategy. Putting that kind of money in the bank on day 1 just drains the hustle right out of the team.
I still have my NeXTStation Turbo Color. Damn thing still runs, too. I run it a bit in the winter for amusement, and to help heat my apartment; I'm pretty sure it's more efficient at doing than than my electric wall heaters.

Having this machine in 1996 on a 7Mbps DSL line made me feel like God. So, so far ahead of its time.
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IMAP is an unencrypted protocol (as well as SMTP and POP3) in the same regard that HTTP is not HTTP + SSL. All three mail protocols can be wrapped nicely inside SSL/TLS, but it is only point to point encryption.

If I connect to my SMTP server over TLS and send you a message to your server, I cannot guarantee that your SMTP server is listening on the secure ports, let alone serving IMAP or POP3 over SSL to your client, which can be intercepted. Never mind the fact that 45%+ of all mail servers are storing these messages in plain text in /var/mail/
I wrestle with such things. I am not religious -- I actually have a fair amount of baggage about religion but I try not to be an asshole about it (and, no, I am not suggesting you are being one -- I just know how contemptuous I can be). I have known way too many religious folks who seemed to be doing their darnedest to give religion a bad name, but I don't think it is fair or nice to then assume that all religious folks are of that ilk. I prefer it when someone is trying to respect my boundaries and not cram their beliefs down my throat, so I think I would be inclined to view the question as an attempt to respect my boundaries, yet would not be entirely comfortable with it either because "agreeing" to have them pray for me makes me partly responsible for their action when I don't really believe in it.

I currently live in The Bible Belt and I find that saying "bless you" or something similar when turning down favors is the best way to get rid of someone. IE I try to speak their language, even though when I use the word "god" in regards to my own beliefs, I am just using it as short-hand for "whatever intelligence there is behind the workings of the universe". That happens to be a mouthful and problematic in most social settings, so I often settle for "god" as a means to facilitate communication. In most cases, they aren't going to talk to me enough to ever have any real idea of what I believe so I don't see any reason to get all hung up about it. Still, I continue to wrestle with how to respect someone's beliefs and their good intentions towards me when there is often a vast gulf between our beliefs.

I don't have a good answer, just similar discomfort.
I'm saying stub's don't validate and resolvers can disregard queries before setting the DO bit and making a recursive query.
It seems that there is a lot of left over ammo all over the place or are they creating their own ammo? At what point of do the Qaddafi forces run out of cash to keep funding this war.

Also, love all the Toyotas.
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Does anyone else see this as an excuse to limit Net Neutrality by various world governments? I hope these actions which are carried out for the sheer 'lulz' don't lead to more concerns with the freedom of our wonderful worldwide web.

That, is the opposite of 'teh lulz.' :|
This fictional talk reminds me of Joey Spolsky's article on "architecture astronauts", people trying to solve a non-existant problem for pure geek pleasure.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html

I admit it must be one of the coolest app to work on these days: it has geotagging, social graphs, it's mobile, but it's hard to see a real use, yes.
The Toyota Hilux - one amazing pickup truck. It still makes me laugh a bit to see all of the various uses people find for that vehicle and all of the ridiculous situations[1] it finds itself in. Hell, it even has a war named after it.[2]

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Hilux#Reputation
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_War
It annoys me a bit that people talk about scaling problems as being brand new then. A lot of the first generation of dotcoms had them too (Amazon, eBay, Yahoo, etc).

In general they were solved similarly - build custom middleware and go as distributed as possible.

Now I realize that's a simplistic answer to a very complicated problem but really guys, this isn't unprecedented and the hardware is a lot more capable and cheaper than the 1997 equivalents.
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Related: http://www.newsweek.com/2010/10/14/why-rebel-groups-love-the...

Although that article is in reference Afganistan mainly, it's interesting to see how prevelent the Toyota trucks are for the rebels here as well.
I have fond memories of Digg, at least. Loved the user activism around the HD-DVD key days. That's kind of the last thing I remember was really awesome about that site.

I'd be really curious to see a good analysis or even set of anecdotes about why it went downhill. Seems like basically they ignored their userbase.
Hmm, is the NSA a division of the Navy?
What else could he possibly do? He is the kevin rose of tech blogging. A one trick pony.

He is the non-technical co-founder nobody wants or needs.
My point was, you could retaliate by cracking their system open. Which would really irritate them.
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To find out where an attack originated, it is probably better to ask who it benefits.
More likely, he's thinking of this:
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I've found Andrew Ng's notes to be very comprehensive and very relevant to the topics discussed in his online lectures : http://academicearth.org/courses/machine-learning (the notes are linked to on the individual videos)
totally stole your idea and found a way to do it in 46 characters :P

f=filter
q(h:t)= q(f(<=h)t)++h:q(f(>h)t)
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A more literal translation (using lambdas instead of a native for loop):

using System;
using System.Diagnostics;

namespace testspeed
{
public static class Extensions {
public delegate void Action();
public static void Times (this int numTimes, Action action)
{
for (var i = 0; i < numTimes; i++) {
action ();
}
}
}
class MainClass
{
public static void Main (string[] args)
{
var sw = Stopwatch.StartNew();
var x = 0;
1000000.Times (() => x += 1);

Console.WriteLine ("{0} in {1} ms", x, sw.ElapsedMilliseconds);

Console.ReadKey ();
}
}
}

and it outputs 4 ms. Mono in debug mode on a 3.2 GHz Intel Core i3. For comparison, the parent's ruby code runs in 80ms with Ruby 1.9.2. Big difference, but not quite as bad. I don't know why though?
It's not that people saying dumb things are rational in any way, but more about people feeling the need to say something, anything to make it better and it kind of is an uncontrollable urge.

Think about this, even as a theist you feel the need to ask yourself, why did your mother/brother/child had to die while others are still living, an irrational question by all means, that begets dumb answers; but it's part of a healthy mourning process and does help you get over it (IMHO).

I also don't think it's about religious people versus the others, as people say dumb things regardless of their beliefs.

I think this is a time in which it pays off to be religious. For instance, I do fall into agnosticism and question my religion quite frequently, but I just can't be an atheist simply because I cannot accept that the people I love (including my child for whom I'm capable to give my life if needed) will one day go into non-existence, sometimes painfully. That's an idea I just can't live with.
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I think most Rails developers I know are also full-time designers, JavaScripters, database admins (SQL and NoSQL), server admins, IT people, project managers, forum posters, Stack Overflow answerers, social media gurus, SEO/SEM experts, and salespeople.

It just sort of comes with the territory that being a good Rails developer means being a polymath.
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The article is misleading, which is utterly unsurprising if you're already familiar with the previous work of Lewis Page at El Reg.

He has a penchant for pumping stories that downplay climate change, Fukushima meltdown, etc. If you want stories that play favourably for legacy energy industry, he's your man at The Register.
What useful `cybersecurity' legislation could you possibly pass? The only thing I can think of is "do not connect x, y, and z systems to the internet," but that still leaves plenty of ground.
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I'm not so sure about that, for me it was mostly just moving gems from environment.rb to a Gemfile and updating gems/plugins. After that, I fixed deprecation warnings and moved everything to AREL/scopes at a fairly leisurely pace.