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Hardcopy is 40c more than ebook? $9.99 for ebook, $10.39 for physical.

Digital pricing for books is really starting to get to me. It makes absolutely no sense why a digital version can cost nearly as much (and sometimes more) than a physical copy.
I think you were being sarcastic, but sometimes that is indeed an improvement.
I don't really have anything constructive to say. I just wanted to say that I think your UI is refreshingly pleasant to use for a domain registration site.
Nothing to do with RIM. It's marketing for paybuyer.com.
HAHAHAHA. Well, it actually gets worse. If you cancel the auto renewal, then go into Google and search for "ssl certificate" you'll get a wonderful ad (at the very top) that is for $12.99 (with the quote "why pay more"). You can then buy that cert and it gives you the exact same thing as the renewal (admittedly a bit more work, but is the convenience of auto-renewal really worth $37?).

Been doing this for the last 3 years: they are TRULY retarded for using such a scheme but hey! It catches some people, so I guess tactics like that got them the $2bn "investment" from the friends at Silver Lake.
I love nc, but portscanning? OS and app detection? Just use nmap. Encrypted connections? Use stunnel.
> It is government control and government regulation
> that is the perpetrator here.

I think that the implication is that "Big Content" is lobbying for the government control/regulation that they want, and getting it. That is why the finger is being pointed at "Big Content." 'Legislation for sale' is just a conduit of 'bad things,' the entity purchasing said bad legislation is that source.

> The ISPs rolled over because they are dependent
> on government permission to operate

It would seem more likely that they were afraid of the government enacting legislation that forced them to do something similar with 'copyright notices,' so they decided that self-regulation was better then government-regulation. (Notice that I didn't use the word censorship, which is out of place in this discussion)
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How about don't +-mention them? Just use their name and then attach a link to their Google+ profile instead? That won't count as a mention.
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You care if you are a college kid who helped develop a competitor to Google's AdWords and you want to pitch it to RIM and MS. At least I think that's what is going on here.
Noah is a bit edgier than most

At this point, if anyone ever described me as "edgy", I'd be aghast.
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Still not sure how this exactly works. This is for browsing the web on the wii, correct?
Or the "fuel from seawater" thing. Seawater contains 3.3 ppb of uranium, and it would be commercially feasible to extract it if the prices were higher. ... And you can use more advanced fission cycles, especially the thorium ones, to extend the energy you get out of fission fuels.

Indeed. There's about a factor of 100,000x right there -- 500x for increased uranium supply (5e9 tons in oceans, vs. 1e7 tons in "conventional" <$130 kg/ton reserves (IAEA est.)), and 200x for increased fuel efficiency.

But any continuous system for producing fusion power is theoretically capable of "running away" - it is a self-reinforcing process, after all - and producing an actual nuclear explosion.

Don't think this is true. Fusion plasmas need active confinement -- a hotter plasma is no longer confined, and will no longer fuse.

This is so incredibly misleading in many ways, without containing an actual false statement.

For example, the limited resource is not deuterium but tritium (a misdirection). The plan to create this is by fissioning lithium, which is actually a rather scarce element (comparable with uranium, ironically). To get more interesting sustainability you need to switch to something like D+D fusion, which is much harder to achieve.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium#Lithium
Hmm, it seems weird. We just use zerigo.net as our external DNS nameservers, and it has some relations with this current issue.

I should investigate the problem deeper.
Fair enough point, but they already have a logo... the word "node" followed by a little cloud then the letters JS. There's not really anything wrong with the old logo, but it's more the wording around the announcement of the new logo that irks me the most I guess... feels so "corporate".
150, the Dunbar's number[1]. That is indeed the natural number for any traditional communities (villages, tribes, etc).

I think an important distinction is between "real" contacts, and the people you like to read stuff from every now and then. Circles can help organizing those, and not just ensuring that information doesn't leak between your distinct friend groups.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbars_number
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Replace "bitch" with an ethnic slur. Do you still feel the same way?

"Bitch" can be a loaded word. Sometimes it's used as the female version of "asshole" or "dickhead." Sometimes it feels more hateful of women in general, like an ethnic slur. Because it's so sensitive to context like that, I think reasonable people should not use it with so little context in a professional presentation.
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> Also, it says that directly on the site itself.

But you have to admit, playing 'geek-detective' is more fun, right? I mean, who believes the stuff in an "About" page when you can run a whois and get the _Truth_ ^_^
"I had originally assumed that he meant facebook would lack the agility to make the necessary technical changes, so central to their system. But I was wrong--the real point was that they would not be willing to change direction so fundamentally. And given such a large, captivated audience you could hardly blame them."

Facebook has always been about sharing every post with every person. You're right, the only difference is that g+ puts the UI in your face. You're forced to put people in circles, and it's stupidly simple. Facebook hides the feature, and in a community filled with highly technical early adopters, someone needs to write multiple step instructions to explain it.
Why not use Scheme more?
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But the way I understand it is that Thorium-based fission is more costly to weaponize than uranium, or plutonium based fission.

Might be more technical, but it should be able to be operated without such a high technological level. So you could sell a system to a third world country without a great deal of concern over their nuclear capabilities.
I might go back to Firefox when it no longer consumes gigabytes of RAM after a few hours of operation. Until then, I'm with Chrome. I don't care about speed as much -- so long as it's reliable, and doesn't grind the rest of my machine to a halt, it's all good.
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So it's just a marketing campaign trying to appeal to protectionist instincts. Thanks
I think above all this is why be a dick to anyone. Gender should not matter, a community where being a dick to someone else (nameless or not) is acceptable makes for a bad community.
I don't really understand this but I'm not sure which questions to ask. What's the point? Is this just a smear campaign? Why is this getting upvotes?
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that's a keeper ;)
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> "If rover will eat I will feed him"

This slogan handily summarizes the history of the computer industry, software and hardware.
This is General Manager from CO.CC. (to Google) why you deindex .co.cc?
Received an invite. Many thanks. :)

EDIT: Removed email address after getting an invite.
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Why rule out a concrete multi-generational goal?

The project would be doomed to failure without intermediary objectives. Long term planning is difficult as it is and politics adds to the implausibility.
I also use Google Reader and want to be able to organize/expand the Star function. That is, I'd like to separate what I star (aka Save for Later) into different types of content.
So, an Ad company (Paybuyer - "a tiny startup with a major technology") makes a website campaigning people not to use AdSense?

> "Help defend RIM, your city, and universities by joining a rally outside RIM's Annual General Meeting"

I feel sorry for those who will actually go there, thinking that by this they will help RIM, and not that in fact they're helping Paybuyer.

EDIT: One more thing, instead of ignoring this kind of stuff, it gets submitted on HN. By doing this it get's spread. When someone is trolling and someone else replies to him, guess who wins. This shouldn't have been submitted at all.
Exactly. Disable auto-renew for all your GoDaddy products! Thankfully GoDaddy explains how to do this:

http://help.godaddy.com/article/1042
You mention 'at least two players' but from your explanation, you seem satisfied with ONLY two players. I disagree. I'd rather have multiple competitive players than merely two.
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Would it have been appropriate for the speaker to display an image of a man with his face covered with a circled labeled "asshole" before saying "this is my old boss"?

I'd be willing to wager that OP is simply an unhappy, angry person who enjoys playing the victim whenever possible. Nobody called her a bitch. Nobody called all women in tech bitches.

If someone is so sensitive that one slide in a presentation would keep them out of our industry, it's safe to say we're better off without them. I've worked with plenty of women in tech and they're no different to me than my male colleagues.
I am using it on my macbook pro. FF8 is faster compare to FF5 I was using. Schubert-it PDF plugin, Adblock, XMark, Flashgot works. Firebug, Google Dictionary, Download statusbar don't work... and there are some minor bugs with mouse hover effect.
Ah, yes, I've been up all night working on some other stuff, wanted to throw this up before I sleep. Guess my title was a bit misleading, but you are indeed correct.

It's a Javascript library that makes interacting with the Wii-remotes in the Opera browser that's on the Wii event-based instead of requiring devs to constantly poll it. It also just takes into account a lot of the odd differences; couldn't find a consistent, solid API for all of this, felt like there should really be one.
It's already happening. In the future we'll know thing like who out of our friends has bought this bad, who has bought this brand, who bought competitor brands, what do people think of this brand, and we'll have ways to communicate with them to find out more. Understanding sociability will become a core requirement for designing online. Almost all of us will need to become skilled in social web design. (Slide 33)

I don't want that. I don't want random sources or websites knowing who I am, who my friends are, and who bought their products and who didn't. I want to remain anonymous and protect my data. Of course, I won't be someone who visits these websites, I prefer markets and anonymity.
I'm using number garage for this. It is $9.99 a month, but I would love to find a cheaper alternative since I get just a call or two a month on the number.
http://www.numbergarage.com/
These aren't my pictures, but they were posted to Twitter, so I think they're fair game:

http://twitpic.com/5olpan

http://twitpic.com/5olpi2

http://twitpic.com/5olpn6

http://twitpic.com/5olpup
The website is laughable. The claims made all end in nonsequiturs. Paybuyer is highly speculative and vastly overestimating its ability to disrupt Google Adwords, even with their proposed backing from Waterloo and RIM.

Furthermore I don't pity RIM in the least. They made their bed. They chose to keep their products "business oriented" and got left behind when it came to innovation and, in the end, productivity. Why should I chastise Google for opening their platform and offering services for free? Google's model was clearly a better one at drawing customers in, which in turn fuels their advertising through use of mobile advertising in free apps.

The website claims Adwords funds Android and that's why it's evil, because it creates a "moat" around Google that makes it nigh impossible to compete with Google. I disagree. I believe Adwords and Android are symbiotic. They fuel each other, and if your company can't compete with Google then DON'T TRY TO COMPETE WITH GOOGLE. Choosing to do so is a huge risk, though it may net huge rewards. By taking them on you accept your fate, be it failure or success. Don't ask us to intervene on your behalf. I gain nothing by backing Paybuyer.

Also, Paybuyer is a horrible name for a company.
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Congratulations to Adler on the reopening.

I would very much like to experience this new dome. Unfortunately I live on the other side of the planet.

Anyway, job well done to the team behind this!
The more one can do to inspire people to invest more time and study in space travel and science, all the better!
$14 mln. seems like a small price to pay to achieve that goal.
I love my daily (electronic) journal, I can grep it. I love my kindle, it is (currently) holding 93 books. But I couldn't live without my 3 subject notebook and fountain pen. Maybe it is my age, but there is still something special about putting ink on paper vs. typing on a keyboard that helps me think.
As a fellow Waterloo resident, supporting local companies is cool. However, I see no evidence that Paybuyer is located in Waterloo, this page http://www.paybuyer.com/help/prove/ has a Arizona address, and the WHOIS http://whois.domaintools.com/paybuyer.org also gives the same Arizona address.
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'Scam' is a really strong word and denotes an illegal action.

Not at all. It implies deceit, but not necessarily illegality. Many scams are legal.
Chrome is very wasteful; only after many hours of operation in which you opened and closed dozens and dozens of tabs, it starts to be better than Firefox; as Firefox fragments memory and doesn't release it properly when closing a tab.

But for my usage patterns; with many tabs opened after a few hours of operation, Firefox consumes less RAM for me.

Also, don't confuse memory waist (coming from bloat and fragmentation) with memory used for improving the browsing experience, like caching. These browsers are doing a lot of caching and I personally don't like having 4 GB of memory and being left unused.
If someone threw a bottle of hot sauce at me during a high pressure situation, I wouldn't care at all about what they have to say to me. If she had approached him respectfully, without an unprovoked physical attack, he would have responded much differently.
You just called out the single most important hindrance to productivity: being afraid to note something down.

I too went through several Moleskines a few years ago because I didn't want to ruin them with crap pages. It sucked - whenever I did a page that looked "bad", I just moved to a new moleskine.

Sadly, notes are not supposed to be neat, much like your brain isn't. My biggest productivity improvement in recent years (apart from disabling any new email notifications) was the day I stopped being "afraid" to take notes on my notebooks. In the end, they always look awesome and valuable, regardless of how careful I was about making them look neat.
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The majority of people did not think he was an asshole. What we have here is one citizen attempting to censor another by influencing public opinion based upon her own beliefs and biases. And of course, white knights of the world will agree. That does not make a "majority", far from it, although it appears so since they are most vocal in support.
Insults can be descriptive. In fact, the most biting insults are accurate descriptions.
If the real-estate sites really make it impossible to cancel, why not call your credit card company and get them to issue a chargeback?
The faceless bitch slide? Maybe a little offensive and a touch douchey. But breaking a bottle of hot sauce on people and then writing this rant? Bitchy.

Get over yourself.
This is mostly because the visible portion of the Sun is not currently undergoing nuclear fusion. Fusion occurs only in the core, not in the outer layers. Also, you're ignoring feedback, which isn't intuitive to ignore -- the blackbody radiation produced by a kilo of 5000 K plasma is huge, enough to supply a person's daily energy and then some -- it just doesn't get emitted from the Sun, which is why that energy will last for another ten billion years. A layperson would probably (try to) count all of the thermal energy which is emitted by such a plasma whenever it's not totally surrounded by more of the same plasma. In that sense, the layperson would be correct -- a kilo of Sun-matter, after being removed from the Sun -- produces a massive amount of power.

The density of the Sun is approximately 2 * 10^-4 kg/m^3 in the photosphere ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun ). We're ignoring the core for now, because that's at more like 15000000 K, so. A kilo thus takes up 5 * 10^3 m^3, which is a sphere with radius ~12 m, having a surface area of ~1.4 * 10^3 m^2. The power radiated by a kilo of plasma from the Sun's photosphere is thus is j' = area * sigma * temperature^4, where sigma = 5.67 * 10^-8 is the Stefan-Boltzmann constant ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbody_radiation#Stefan.E2.8... ), so j' = 1.4 * 10^3 * 5.67 * 10^-8 * (5 * 10^3)^4 = 4.96 * 10^10 watts, or well over a person's daily caloric intake every second (In fact, this is approximately the energy consumption of a small country).
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I've confirmed this through multiple Facebook accounts as well.
i first asked for a while back, but i think we need it more and more: i would pay good money for a system that tracked people not as friends, but as arseholes. an application that correlates identities across sites and greys out their comments and the like. in "real life" i can pick my friends and drop the arseholes. online i have no idea who "Thom" (see comments on that article) might be, and no way of flagging that same user on, say stackoveflow, when they are asking for help. we need some way to make karma work better online.

http://www.acooke.org/cute/Automatemy0.html
Didn't read the article, design was too distracting (mouse wheeling with the mouse over the left side does NOT scroll the page). But check out that scrollbar!

::-webkit-scrollbar {
width: 10px;
}

::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
border-radius: 10px;
background: #ddd;
}
Thought it must be JS but it's webkit stuff. Can't decide if silly or nice, but I think it's pretty nice.
Except the feature is already there? and it was there at in 2009, at least. We are not saying the same thing. He was worried Google+ would be trounced by Facebook deploying a clone of circles, except the feature already existed. Facebook has circles but chose to bury the UI. Probably because 99% of people don't care. Like most people here didn't care enough to utilize Lists but somehow think Google Circles is the killer feature facebook doesn't have.
check your Q 3, seems like the answer shouldn't be a yes/no
I think that point of the sarcasm was that using MD5 is the obvious screw-up.
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On new friend confirmations it's in your face, i.e. friend confirmation dialog has a dropdown of lists.

Agree it's not obvious for existing friends.
I would imagine talking to lay-people in terms of road-blocks instead of hypothetical times would cause a net reduction in funding, and these kinds of articles are all about funding.
That would make sense, as the logo link at the bottom is 404 too.

http://nodejs.org/logos/
This is the single, bar none, thing that prevents me from using PyPy in my day-to-day programming. It's a huge oversight, in my opinion, and it greatly hinders its adoption.
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memory footprint or not, chrome is faster than firefox. both in terms of page loading, and raw operation. i might reconsider firefox when it doesn't take 4 times longer to boot up.
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I definitely agree on the trust issue. What do you think would instill more trust?
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Definitely. In Twilio, you assign each phone number a URL that handles inbound calls. Create the Twimlet forwarding URL and paste it into Twilio as the "Voice Request URL". Once you do that, your calls will be forwarded.

You can provision a throwaway number on a trial account if you want to test it for free.
A technique that I think works very well for startups is to find an api in the area of your startup and slice and dice the data into some nice infographpic. Serve it up to smaller blogs that love the free information. You're just giving them what they want and building an initial relationship, if they don't actually post your data it's fine, but they'll always be happy you sent it to them.

Then just do it again, slicing from a different angle and present it to the blogs again. Once you have data posted somewhere, it's time to move on to guest posts. Use the data that was posted to ask a different blog if for your next data slice you can exclusively present the data as a guest post. They'll love this, though you'll need to write the article first before they actually agree.

Rinse and repeat the system farther up the blog, local news, online news entity, radio, TV totem pole.
Or the language? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam_(programming_language)
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Your comment was more general than this specific instance, and I treated it as such. You can't make a general comment, and then try to seamlessly reduce the scope when you realize that you made too general of a comment.
After approving the self-signed cert, i just see a blank page. I'll check back later, this sounds interesting.

EDIT: I Haven't tried it yet, but it looks pretty awesome if it works as advertised.
If your biggest incentive you offer is to disrupt the business another product, you must not have a very good product.
This is completely unhelpful. All of those are changes for 3.2, not 3.2.1. 3.2.1 is a minor bugfix release.

Source control has a changelog for 3.2.1 specifically[1] but I didn't see it posted anywhere outside of Mercurial.

[1] http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/v3.2.1/Misc/NEWS
@VSerge, I think question #3 is meant to be interpreted as "Are you doing either of the following?".
Care to write up a Google+ version for the same result that is not "Multi-step"? The only reason people weren't doing this on facebook before is because they never cared to.
When I imagine myself calling some woman a bitch, my mind doesn't seem to contain the idea that all women are bitches. I can sort of sympathize with your having an overactive detector of bigoted speech, but I'm uncomfortable with your trying to shut me up based on the detector's output instead of what I actually meant.
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