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I think one of your biggest mistakes was to only mention your ideas about how to reduce double parking, I mean cheating, right at the end of a very long essay with a linkbait title that was basically the equivalent of "Why I'll never write another parking ticket" in this analogy.

Don't get me wrong, I read the whole thing and I thought it was a great article. But while I don't believe for a second that you did it on purpose, if you had wanted to create a media firestorm focussing on the wrong issues you couldn't have found a much more effective way to go about it.

Personally, I would hate to see the essay form get replaced by something more like a newspaper story, with the conclusions at the start and the exposition after. But maybe that's going to become essential on controversial topics like this, I don't know. The lesson I'll be taking away is to ensure that the key point makes up the bulk of the writing, and if it doesn't then keep cutting other stuff until it does.

I imagine it's been rather an unpleasant ride, but thanks for giving us all the opportunity to learn something.
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After a football-related post on my personal blog got a surprising amount of search traffic, I threw up a quick Blogger blog with similar posts for a few football teams. The traffic rolled in. I threw on some more and eventually added baseball which was a much bigger source of traffic. Right now baseball season is earning me about $10 a week. I think I've spent less than 30 hours on it total. Not a great return on my time so far but it just keeps cranking away and Google keeps paying me. I've certainly spent more time on projects that have earned zero.
More on the backstory at http://macspeedzone.com/archive/art/con/be.shtml (via Daring Fireball)
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When you own a wonderful iPad and spend most of your time fiddling with it, doesn’t it feel strange to rush to your laptop just for handling your Twitter Account? But then the comfort of laptop can not be imagined anywhere else.
I don't really understand why you dislike how Facebook does this: you log in to Facebook as you, you create a Page. You are then an Administrator of the Page. You can add other people as Administrators of the Page if you wish. I guess I could see wanting to have an account for a corporate entity (so it can be a legal administrator and grant lessor access to individuals it employs), but certainly not for the brands themselves.

Also, you can always change the category your Page is in (I don't think this was the case a long time ago, but it is now: Facebook keeps improving), so you can try to measure the effect and optimize your choice of placement.
1st Carmack has shipped nothing of merit since DOOM. periodomissimo. I could give a crap about some esoteric C programmer utility, that stuff is boring and outdated. People who worship him are pathetic fanboy wannabees. He talks the walk, but he is no longer hungry and all he is good for is advanced BS.

2nd Dwarf Fortress is so deep and complex, I would guess that the hit rate of people who manage to survive the huge vertical cliff wall learning curve is around 1 percent, mere mortals quit.

It is a major undertaking just figuring out which version to download and which plug-ins/extras to install also. I have a personal goal to get a fortress going someday.

The problem with DF is you cannot see the forest for the trees. Its just detail heaped on detail, The span between an overview and the detail is so vast that no human effort to date has done it justice, such that only the most determined ever get as far as completing an install and establishing a fortress.

At the beginning one is faced with hundreds of detailed options to set, searching related documentation only turns up a hundred more options related to each choice. Such that trying to make sense of it just becomes an exercise in futility. Asking one question, only brings to for 100 more instead of an answer.

It is this mind numbing grognardism that appeals to a certain sector of gamers. People who relish detail and micromanagement. Trust me, setting up a starting fortress is no less daunting than any NASA prelaunch procedure.
I think a bigger problem is that there is still no competition to Apple in the market in terms of design and the drive.

Dell, Samsung and others could have learned something already but amazingly they keep manufacturing crappy hardware locked to crappy software, probably just a tiny bit better than before the MBP era, but overall their approach and philosophy hasn't changed.

Sony looks good compared to them, but unfortunately it's too expensive (you'd rather buy a Mac for that money, wouldn't you?) plus Sony has never been a company that designs stuff with users in mind. Their hardware can be solid looking but there is usually nothing new or exceptionally well executed for the user.

Now that's the saddest part of the story for me, rather than when and who will replace Steve Jobs.
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I wonder how this will affect maneuverability inside the vehicle. If Generation Kill is accurate at all, it seems like they get kinda cramp already.

But still, cool! Though I can't help but giggle at the device meant to drop the gunner... seems like a mechanism that someone will use for pranking.
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> That is how Gates did it when Ballmer took over

This is ... not obviously a recommendation.
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Yeah, I think Analytics does PDFs from memory and I cancelled all of those.

Can appreciate the frustration with HTML/CSS support - maybe if you kept your layout really simple and/or called it an Old School theme. Mostly I'd be looking for anything that quickly showed me if there was something wrong with a site (or right, e.g., major incoming link).

Wonder if you can throw in some marketing factoids like "Fourth straight month with an increase in traffic" or "Traffic growth continues; fourth straight month" - the sorts of things a marketing guy can repeat to the boss without any more time or research.
> where you gain flexibility and get the scaling for free.

Is it really for free? While I tend to agree with your point, one of the wrinkles here is that the older SQL systems have been beaten to death in production. We've had all sorts of 'little problems' with some of these newer systems. And this is not just about runtime issues, the 'hardened product' benefits reveal themselves in more secondary things like education, troubleshooting, monitoring, add-on products, and backup.
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2755716
For those of you worried about losing your life to another simulation game, I present:

How Dwarf Fortress cured me of my Dwarf Fortress addiction once and for all - even though I've never played it:

http://james.lab6.com/2010/05/25/withdrawal/
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My blog simply fills in a hidden value using javascript when you press the submit button, it has stopped 99% of all spam for me.

You're right, captchas aren't supposed to be difficult, they're just supposed to prevent automation.
What's wrong with a keyring? Or something like KDE's wallet.
On the bright side, users with terminal browsers, like Lynx, can enter the captcha text :)
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I think that's completely besides the point. Sony actually bothered to make a couple of plain-text letters look like a captcha image just for the sake of it. That's just a clear misunderstanding of what these things are for and why they are the way they are.

As to your point, Captchas have a completely legitimate use-case that you can sometimes see on Google and Amazon. If they start to have some doubts about whether you are a human being they will present you with a Captcha image to solve. Otherwise, you should be regarded innocent until proven guilty.
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Phishing attack uses RSA Token Vulnerability as Lure
Good example of how phishers use current events in their scams. Here, the phisher tries to panic recipients into clicking a link to download an update to "fix" their RSA Token with the likely result being that they'll download malware.
Thanks for the article. I do agree that these viral launch pages may only work if there's a special set of conditions met. I am actually right now writing a comprehensive article about it (I hope it will be at least). So, thanks for the opinion.
Are "taste graphs" here to stay?
This is a case of social engineering, not of a security auditor, but of the poster. The poster wants to know an easy way to collect public and private SSH keys and fake 6 months of inbound traffic. There is no auditor.

Maybe the poster is writing a book on cracking systems? Who knows. But it smells like a hoax.
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Can someone tell me why this is marker -1 points? This is a valid comment.
Works for me on 5.0.1 (latest) Mac.
I guess so. Despite having so many gadgets around pen and paper is something i cant give up at all.
Thanks for this post! This is the kind of content I wish HN had more of.
I haven't used your product so I may be saying nonsense, but why don't you also embed an image created from the PDF? HTML support may be crappy, but as far as I know most of them support images.
This won't work for programmers. Like MP3's, open source has trained almost all programmers to expect all code to be free, all the time, and come with free support.
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With every advancement in sophistication and especially with a pre-Boot, network accessible environment like EUFI's, we add an attack surface. UEFI has to be trusted and secure. I found a Black Hat article by Heasman (Google "Hacking the Extensible Firmware Interface") that does a nice job of explaining UEFI and what the "worry points" will be.
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Just another grognard game. Minecraft scratches the grognard itch something that most players lack, but a few, at least enough to put this game on the map, exist.

The games lack of direction and decent documentaion is a huge part of the appeal to grognards. They love tons of options and they love to guess what each one does and are more than happy to try out their hunches come what may.

A replica of the Star Trek Enterprise, how... geeky.
Personnally this so called game holds zero appeal to me and the sooner it slips into oblivion. Speaking of which. If you ever find this quasi 3d early 90s game in a bargin used bin, get it.
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I seem to recall a comment somewhere from a Sony employee about how they already have one, it's just that many websites are built by the individual product teams (often marketing).
Yeah, Hacker Monthly is awesome!
The fact that the _Paris_ meetup was conducted in English and not French means the question has already been settled.
I guess I'm missing something, but there is a setting in Google Analytics to send dashboard to an email address every week / month in PDF format. What's the difference here?
That's essentially why Cook will be the new CEO. No one will accept a "new Steve Jobs" in the Steve Jobs role, so trying to foist a new Steve Jobs onto the company -- and into the public eye -- would be an exercise in futility. People would rebel. People would doubt. People would question this person's every move. One slip-up or bad quarter, and people would be calling for his head; analysts would be publishing lengthy diatribes about how Apple had lost its way. Etc.

Apple has some amazing designers and engineers in the likes of Ive, Forstall, etc. It doesn't need to promote one of them to the top spot in order to extract the genius from them.

This is why Cook wins by default. He's a CEO Wall Street and employees will accept, and nobody's expecting him to have a Jobsian design aesthetic or artistic vision. But they're expecting his lieutenants to carry that torch while he keeps everyone and everything unified.
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I wonder if this is the result of divvying up the work and outsourcing to various groups? i.e. no individual group knows what is going on, they just have certain objectives they must do in order to get paid. Such as, "Create a web page with 5 random letters that a person needs to type in order to get to the next page..." Perhaps "CAPTCHA" wasn't even in the design description?
For some insight, there was also an attack vector through the apple corded keyboards:

http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/08/01/1658258/Apple-Keyboard...

It wouldn't quite melt your keyboard or anything that cool, but this has happened with apple products in the past.
I certainly think less of companies that require me to tweet about their product before I've used it, just so I can jump up higher in the queue.

On top of that, I've had it happen twice that I did what I was supposed to, and I did -not- get access.

So I've really, really soured on the whole thing. At this point, I only pay attention to people who have an actual product that I can actually use. Every else gets ignored.
I've also never liked those coming soon pages. They usually give no information, only a vague promise and signup box. Example of that is LaunchRock. My sense it doesn't work, if anyone has any statistics ... I'd guess that less than 2-3% subscribed share their link to get to the priority list.

My suggestion for new startups is to put an information-rich page with screenshots and explanations how that idea came to life, how it will change your life, etc - of course if your goal is to get people interested and to signup :)
Weird. That works now, but it didn't the first time.
Most successful people benefit more from "dumb luck" than they ever realize. But what makes most of them successful is their ability to take advantage of and benefit from random occurrences.
How do you build a community around a product?
I'm curious as to how communities form around certain things like Linux and Minecraft. Are there any specific ingredients?
In an email to us, Peter Detkin called the comparison to the mafia "ridiculous and offensive." Detkin wrote:

"We're a disruptive company that's providing a way for patent-holders to recognize value that wasn't available before we came on the scene, and we are making a big impact on the market. That obviously makes people uncomfortable. But no amount of name-calling changes the fact that ideas have value."

NO, ideas by themselves are meaningless. Take it from a guy who loves coming up with new ideas for products and businesses, but isn't so good at the execution part (that's me).

Ideas have value only when they are part of a shipping product. The more popular that product, the more valuable the idea behind it becomes. The sad truth is that right now there are a lot of patent holders who aren't even using most or all of their patents, and instead they just use them to make money off others or sue them.

If patents aren't completely abolished (by far the best outcome for the world and innovation), you should at least not be allowed to flaunt your patents unless they are already part of your shipping products. And even in that case, you should be allowed to license it for only a few short years, like 3-5 years - not decades.

And ideas should under no circumstance be patentable.
If there's a kind of person on the internet that I dislike more than trolls, it is people who see trolls in everyone.
CodeCanyon is also a sister site of ThemeForest, so if the OP is looking for something similar this would probably have the best fit.
There is a big difference between using CAPTCHA against bots / SPAM and using CAPTCHA to stop something like a brute force attack (see nice implementation by gmail, showing CAPTCHA after several incorrect password attempts. Nice compromise).
It's very cool, however I have yet to find an html5 game that will let me change the keybindings. Think of the people who don't use QWERTY!
Because in the future, you may want to sell that same paper to students after you've graduated.

In that case, you're not breaking any honor code although you're aiding others in being dishonorable to their own codes.
I was able to see two shuttle launches at KSC: a night launch and John Glenn's return to space. The comedic timing also works from the non-VIP viewing area there. Just as you're starting to furrow your brow and wonder if some acoustical law hasn't been violated, you hear/feel this rumbling that starts low and quickly builds to an extended crackling locomotive of noise. It's impossible not to get giddy about it.
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Absolutely. Any suggestions for places to find more content like this?

Not to leave HN, just to complement it ;)
This is an excellent example of cargo cult thinking. If we build the airports and control towers that look right, the cargo will flow!
I wish I could take that approach... I'm a beta launch addict.
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First post - hope people find it relevant :)
I agree. I'd totally do-over my coming soon page now. Lesson learned.
You can always use Javascript Deminifier For Firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/javascript-de...

For Chrome, there's the built-in de-obfuscator
http://www.sitepoint.com/whats-new-in-google-chrome-12/
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Sure, send me a link when you're finished. I'd love to hear more about this.
wow... that is really bad
https://github.com/robertkleffner/mariohtml5/

Nope, it's actually open source.
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>Also this was a great piece of journalism.

I started listening to the This American Life podcast after I heard a piece on the financial crisis. Their reporting of business matters is truly extraordinary. Their stories often have a narrative that I think it is possible to disagree with, but the sheer depth with which they tackle a subject is amazing, and incredibly informative.

Their non-business related shows are great, too, but very different. If you liked this piece, check out some of their archived shows. You'll learn a lot.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives
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At the risk of sounding naive, I think grades are overrated, to the point that they may indeed kill the spirit of learning. To make matters worse, the US system has way too many grades: quizzes, exams, assignments, extra-credit (!) assignments, finals, etc. That's a lot, particularly for a college system.

As a start, I would dare the top US universities to do away with grades and let prospective employers segregate the fine from the best without the beaten GPAs. I bet they would produce even better graduates. (The new requirement(s) for graduation would, of course, demand some creativity.)
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Indeed. Google Analytics allows you to create those reports. But apparently it's far too difficult for people who are not that tech-savvy.

As I said we currently have over 3000 users, so there seems to be some interest in such a solution :)
They just don't get the right people to do this kind of things, I used to work for Japanese company, for me it's seems like they don't consider skilled IT worker is important.
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A little overview:

Blow and spread living bubbles! Use your phone to leave photos, videos, messages and more inside living bubbles at any location. When other people find your bubbles you can chat with them and make new friends.

These bubbles have an Attitude! They can grow, shrink, divide, multiply and spread in real time.

Feedback? Thoughts?
Hey,

It looks way better then Geckoboard, would it be possible to have access to it so I can try it out ?

Little feedback: it would be nice to add a link to the "widget marketplace" so we can browse them to see if you support the services we need :)

Cheers!
Oh, they're pretty cramped. (As a Marine, I can tell you Generation Kill was pretty good.)

Actually, I would be more concerned about a tendency to rollover just by looking at it. When the armored ones first came out there were a bunch of accidents because they were so much heavier at the top that they tended to rollover more often.

We all had to take an off road class to drive them. :-)
What a brilliant piece of non-obvious design. Who would have thought that putting a huge hole through the middle of a vehicle would make it better at withstanding a bomb blast?
I am building a similar system to filter content based upon its popularity among a specific group of people (rest of the content is noise for this group). I have already developed an engine to make groups based upon their geological location. So, in essence the system would provide localized popular content.
Would love to see your implementation :-)
OK. Thanks for sharing?
The Internet is a great opportunity for everyone to form relationships and build bridges with one another. Every bridge has a troll.
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This is not a very useful statement, because there is no clear-cut border between relational and non relational data. You can map everything to a relational schema and to most nosql models.
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Write your thoughts, secrets, ideas and etc. and choose a date, when your diary will become public and everyone will be able to read it. It can be hundred or hundreds years from now or whatever you want.

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