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but at some time, the phone jammer also can protect us
The jammer in general can be divided into three kinds: the cell phone jammer and GPS jammer. The phone jammer main through emit the same frequency cause a interference effect, a small jammer can function about 10-20 meters, within this rang your phone will lose signal, but you have no way of knowing the jammer is the reason, because you phone just indicate that the poor reception strength. Some prankster like use jammer to trick someone, the jammer also cheap and easy to buy. As we know, the GPS jammer easy utilized by some criminal to aid their getaway.
This seems to confuse two different issues and in doing so leads to the wrong conclusion.

The author seems to conclude it's wrong to think race is responsible for so many 100m winners being black because the assumption is erroneous. But only through making and testing that erroneous assumption (as the author did) are we able to determine it has nothing to do with skin color and more to do with a specific geographical heritage. So I disagree with the author on that point.

He then tries to tie that to a study that shows "black names" on resumes are 50% less likely to get call backs from potential employers. But those employers who discriminate are making an assumption they've clearly not tested (that people are worse employees based on their skin color)

So the real issue here is people who don't test their conclusions and there's nothing wrong with drawing an initial conclusion as long as you test it against actual facts.
Probably a browser issue? This is what it looks like on my end: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10895160/Screenshots/vxfhd-be9gi1.pn...
> “It begs the question of whom Google built this service for? You or them,” Wilson wrote in a blog post. “And the answer to why you need to use your real name in the service is because they need you to.”

This was a really telling quote.
Pet care is a billion dollar industry.

Could we stop arbitrarily dismissing things that are important to hundreds of millions of people as "silly"?
Sorry. I find this kind of self-importance nauseating to say the least. Curing cancer or connecting the entire planet is the only way one can change the world? Really? If that's the case, then I guess 99.99% of our resources as a global community are misallocated, along with the hopes & dreams of thousands of entrepreneurs. Who says one can’t create valuable human experiences in games or some other form of social entertainment? Or with a nutritional product? Seems to me like Dixon is conflating Acai berry-esque products produced by scamsters with folks who (god forbid) aren’t trying to create the next Google. As if there are no shades of gray in between.

Yes, many entrepreneurs move on to bigger and better things. Which is great. We should encourage thinking as big as possible. But to sweep aside the smaller projects they & others created to get to that level (products/services that may not have “changed the world” in the traditional sense but still might’ve solved a burning problem) or to actively discourage folks from solving similar-scale problems is the height of pretentiousness.

I think solving big problems impacting humanity is fantastic. Actively discouraging people from innovating in spaces & making those folks feel like douchebags because they’re not the developer equivalent of Mother Teresa and aren't "changing the world?" That’s absurd. And it ought to stop. I've seen & heard it too many times from a litany of folks in the tech scene.
Huh? If the session is MitMed, the plaintext password can be revealed, since encryption is not one-way.
As a node user I don't see this as a bug. It's a bit pissy to submit it with this title. I think being inline with browsers and expected node behaviour is more important than with python/ruby/java/perl/the rfc, which is about the only argument Jordan came up with.

Jordan said in his last reply:
>I would recommend folks stop updating this issue since you'll likely just get stuck in a loop of providing data and having the data be discarded

This is far too quick to jump to accusing isaac of ignoring answers, reading the thread he and other submitters say they don't believe other languages doing it a certain way is reasons to change the behaviour. So Jordan accuses him of ignoring his argument?
Usually it depends on how complex and interdependent your site software has become. How many places do you have to find and fix where "http:" was hard coded? How many existing links and web APIs are going to break if you start returning redirects? How many third-party affiliates and SDK partners are going to be affected by your change? Are you going to discard everyone's existing sessions? How are you going to test all this stuff in advance?
While I agree that we can try to “change the world” in our own way, there is another side to these types of goals.

Steve Jobs also said “Things don’t have to change the world to be important”.

I wrote about this just last week "Why changing the world is overrated"

http://girishrao.wordpress.com/2011/08/18/why-changing-the-w...
"when I came home at night, I’d know that I had literally spent my day trying to cure cancer or prevent global warming"

Someone can have a very large influence on the world if they make enough money (by doing anything) and then spend that money to empower others to "cure cancer or prevent global warming".
I don't understand this question. Didn't sugar water (colas for example) change the world?
Which of course isn't a very good reason.
Any malware script served to users will also be served to monitors and compromise is just a matter of comparing hashes with originals.

Re any compromise, only detection of compromise to content/script served to client is necessary in this approach. In extreme case, public read-access to most of the server might even be plausible (although not advisable) IMO.
Awesome. I'd like to be notified. Got a mailing list?
For one thing you are the investor, so you don't have to invest in them if you don't believe in the same causes they do, or if you don't believe that corporations should be engaging in charity at all.

As for the question of "why is it more moral...?" I'm not sure what you are comparing to...
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You know, I really enjoy drinking sugar water. It's one of my enjoyments in life.
I used to feel that way, but when I began using separate framing software I was pleasantly surprised by the results. Having to start the design phase from scratch in a new program freed me from slavish adherence to the frames and allowed designs to progress further. Horses for courses though - I'm sure everyone has their own take.
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It even started off poorly.

Getting a 'why?' and an immediate close certainly would give me a poor first impression, as a developer sending a patch for something I thought was an actual bug.
Well, at least under his watch the company wasn't headed nowhere quite as fast as they seem to be now.
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I found Balsamiq completely unusable for large projects because of the lack of master pages. Maybe they've addressed this by now; that was ages ago.
Ahem, note that I wisely didn't single you out. ;-)
On dumping the PC Business: "A beautiful absurdity...like McDonald's getting out of the hamburger business."

Zing.
The statements he is making come from someone who has money and doesn't have to worry about paying for health care for example. So he can pontificate and apparently his words seem to have an effect on people less fortunate then he is.

Angelina Jolie travels to all sorts of places trying to cure all sorts of worldly ills. But you don't find average and even successful actors doing the same. They are happy perfecting their craft and hopefully not waiting restaurant tables.

By the way sometimes people who think the things Dixon is thinking are actually depressed. They can't enjoy what they have and realize that their success is due to luck.
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This type of result is attained with experience. My own experience (and many other people I know feel the same) regarding pressure and panic is that you need to have experience to be able to withstand pressure and panic, not better filtered information.

Even with only a few alarms, it's easy for inexperienced people to get panicked about something. But the claims of Sullenberger, the pilot who landed the plane in the Hudson river, are sobering.

http://www.businessinsider.com/capt-sullenberger-stop-cuttin...
You're right, but that's only part of the extended question. If most 100m runners are from a tiny part of the world, it would be interesting to do biological studies to see if the people living there have different genetics that let them become better runners. Your control in this type of study would be to put non-locals under the same lifestyle and training as how the winners live and see how they perform.
For me personally, I found the first two years of my computer science degree to be focused on the "how" of computer science. Getting the basics down so we could move on to the "why." Years three and four was where I truly came to appreciate computer science. Algorithms, discrete math and lots of applied theory are the cornerstones of what I use today, all of which came in the later years. With that said, if you can front load most of the later classes earlier, a minor could prove just as valuable.
Raspberry Pi: A $25 ultra-low-cost computer that can run Quake 3
I agree, Acer makes the Revo and Zotac has a few for example that between $200-300 get you up and running with nvidia ion for native gpu rendering of HD.

Xbmc doesn't really need to run on 360.
HP did 'pivot' in the early days, first into making electronic calculators and then into PC's.

Though this latest 'pivot' into a services company smells a lot like what IBM has done, abandon its hardware manufacturing and go into software services and consulting. Some part of me hates that radical a change, especially since how many of these massive software consulting companies are actually needed?
I cannot understand why the high C proportion is considered "good"; while it is (still) unusual to write kernels in languages other than C and there is a good reason for it, it does not necessarily mean that a kernel not in C is inferior to a kernel in C. How about BeOS and Haiku, for example?
It's a fine and thoughtful article, but I'm not sure that I see the logical fallacy.

Assuming that this success is driven by genes rather than environment, there is a rather obvious inference to make - black people are naturally better sprinters than white people.

But here's the thing. This inference is not merely false - it is logically flawed.

If we assume that sprinting performance is genetic (and realizing that there are lots of other factors), and we assume that the best 100m sprinters are consistently black (realizing that "black" may or may not be a clearly defined genetic category), is it really a fallacy to say that black people are better sprinters?

Logically, so long as the prevalence of winners is greater than the percentage of the population defined as black, I would think it has to follow. The winning sprinters are also strong, lean, and young. Would it be a fallacy to say that "strong, lean and young runners make better sprinters"?

The obvious fallacy is to conclude that all blacks are better sprinters. But it feels like the article goes far beyond this, and wants to redefine "better" as incompatible with "more likely to excel". And pointing out that Americans and Jamaicans tend to excel seems to run counter to the part where he asks us to assume that the success is driven by genes.

Hmm. His book "Bounce" sounds interesting, though. I've requested it from the library. And oddly, I found 4 year old version of essentially the same article (minus the reference to resumes, adding reference to "yellow" domination at table tennis, and advertising a different book) here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_co...
I'm glad you enjoy it. Because it's not doing your body any good.

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I could see it working well enough for banks. But banks are an unusual scenario. They (and maybe insurance companies) are the only businesses that have become accustomed to having so much loss due to fraud that they can handle it as aggregate risk and a cost of business.
Somewhere in between I guess?

That quote is from Steve Jobs, and while he certainly has changed certain parts of my lifestyle (I have the information of the world at my fingertips via my phone!--I don't use their other products), are you really saying that Steve Jobs has "changed the world"? I suppose it's a matter of semantics, but that seems like a stretch to me. He's certainly done more than sell sugar water and made absolutely amazing personal/professional accomplishments, but "change the world"?

And do I have to work in clean-tech or biotechnology to change the world, or can I build a vertically integrated hardware and media empire instead? Is the latter noble enough? I dunno, I'm pretty unimpressed by this article's sentiment and find the whole thing a bit facetious and condescending.
Style is actually a primary consideration in the design of the Thinkpad line. It's not enough to be reliable, it also has to look reliable.

People complaining about the design are often failing to correctly identify the intended user.
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It's a reasonable choice to make even if I would have gone the other way.

If you don't plan on supporting this library long term or if you think that the node ecosystem isn't going to be long lived then why cause pain now in order to be compliant with the RFC? Right now it can match the browser bug and not confuse web designers moving to doing server side code thanks to Node.

It is just a single colon, but in my experience this kind of debate comes up early in an ecosystems development and the decisions, especially ones that get a lot of attention, set the culture's direction pretty quick.

I don't think it's a good idea long term but it's not my library so it's not my call, and I can see the pragmatism behind the authors choice.
While all the above points are true, there is a big difference between picking up the phone to call someone in 1950 and posting an update on a social networking site in 2011.

I would submit that there are two factors that make the difference: 1) laws regulating the service in question and 2) ease of data aggregation / mining.

In both cases there are barriers to interception & analysis of communication that effectively provide or used to provide a certain level of expected privacy and anonymity. Of course no communication is 100% secure and of course anything can be intercepted, but how hard is that to do?

In 1950 if you wanted to get pictures of someone's house, learn the names of their known associates, find out what books they own, what magazines they read, what opinions they have, their work history, their goals, their aspirations, which of their relatives they are closest to, etc. etc. -- your work would have been cut out for you. It would involve physical trips to places like courthouses, time and effort in taking pictures, developing film, driving around, possibly snooping where you shouldn't, asking lots of people lots of questions, and so on.

Now all that is out there with a few mouse clicks and not only is that the case, it is rapidly becoming the social norm that it should be out there and if it isn't, as Mr. Schmidt says, then you must have something to hide.

The genie of cheap, accessible, centralized data storage and data mining is out of the bottle. At least with email there is some sort of legal precedent to treat communications as privileged. With social networks and the like, users give up their rights to the commercial entity that provides the service. And as others have pointed out, rolling your own services is not an attractive alternative.

Agreed, the network layer can be intercepted, but the network layer either has to be hacked into or somebody in law enforcement has to leave a data trail regarding the interception. At the service layer, it is becoming assumed that you give up all rights to your data, and this is something whose repercussions have yet to be fully felt.
Unlike bitcoins, law guarantees the uniqueness of the dollar as a currency in US. The government collects via tax, in USD, a significant percentage each year (15% - 35% ?) of the wealth created by US corporations and residents.
I've gone through a bunch - Illustrator to Balsamiq to Mockflow and now HotGloo. I like Mockflow and HotGloo (both online fee-based apps) because they offer:

(1) Master Pages (or at least Master Objects) to keep things DRY
(2) a way for clients to view, navigate, and comment directly on the frames
(3) a good balance: low-fi enough to avoid seeming like a design pass, but hi-fi enough that each object is distinct and recognizable
(4) a good selection of resizable, customizable widgets
(5) an environment separate from the design file. Unlike many, I actually prefer to start from scratch with the design - it frees me from conforming too tightly to the frames, and leaves open the possibility for further iteration. Also, it's handy when passing frames to a visual designer - they can use whatever design tool they like.
You're conflating CS with the overall startup/hacker scene.

I think hackers are being asked this question because of the pedestal many of them have put themselves on.
pg, whom I'm guessing most of us here respect quite a bit, compares today's hackers to the original Renaissance men. pg's comparison largely holds true in my book. But, it can only be healthy to take a step back and get some big picture perspective on your work--especially if you read "Hackers and Painters" thinking "that should be me".
Interesting, I guess they could, although personally I'd disable that feature immediately.
Agreed - nicely built app with an incredibly easy way for people to troll :(
In my home state of Victoria (Australia) we have gone from 1001 road fatalities in 1970 to just over 300 per year, with a doubling of the state's population to around 4-4.5 million.

I knew someone involved in a sizable study looking at what factors had the biggest effects over time. There were plenty of small factors around certain safety requirements/developments or traffic control, but there were only two big factors: mandatory seat belts and extremely graphic advertisments, aka the TAC ads.

The TAC ads basically showed you what accidents look like in real life, and what you look like after an accident. None of this soft touch crap - the state next door ran an anti-speeding campaign where they had people extending their little finger at speeding drivers (as in 'little dick syndrome'). Absolutely laughable and the folks who are the bulk of the problem - young men - ignore crap like that.

But when you see an advert that has someone's head going through a windshield in slo-mo, or a motorcycle rider coming off his bike crotch-first into an oncoming van, or a hospital scene with a bloke in traction, it helps dissolve the 'it won't happen to me' mindset. Not altogether, but it's no longer conveniently put out of mind.

I'm at work so I can't find some youtubes to demonstrate, but the ads are usually surprisingly 'real'. Needless to say, the ads are usually quite shocking to people exposed to them for the first time.
Ultimately I think there ought to be a fundamental debate about what "changing the world" even means in the context of the tech space. In other words, how big does a company have to get to "change the world"? How much reach? Can it be drawn to a hard number? A specific metric? Or is it this nebulous sort of thing that doesn't really mean anything?

I think we’d see a pretty wide range of opinions if we polled folks here as to which of the current crop of both established companies & startups they felt were companies that really, truly “changed the world" or were in the process of doing so.
EB Games (née Electronics Boutique), Software Etc, Funcoland, and international chains like Gamesworld were the competition, but they were all bought up by or merged with GameStop in the mid '90s through the '00s.

(edit: I'd also originally listed Babbage's in there with competition, but reading up reveals that GameStop was basically Babbage's, renaming themselves to GameStop at some point along the way as they were merging and consolidating.)

Other competition, now also deceased: Hollywood Video had GameCrazy for a while -- small gaming stores built into Hollywood Video rental stores -- which was actually a pretty spectacular game retail experience with great current and retro selections, but when video rental really started dying a few years back Hollywood closed them all down. I think Blockbuster had some game sales to try and compete as well, for a bit, but not to the degree of GameCrazy.

GameStop's only remaining competition is online with Amazon and digital distributors like Steam and OnLive, and in the (often superior to GameStop's) new game aisles of big box chains, probably most specifically* Best Buy and Toys R Us.

*(based on forums where people talk about buying games)
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What does it take to get some attention on HN? Do you have to be part of some secret cabal? I solved all the problems he talks about (and I worked with a crypto guy):

- Statically encrypt and publish content on HTTP server
- Transmit these via HTTP to an iframe component at client browser
- HTTP-iframe locally sends message to HTTPS-iframe via window.postMessage()
- HTTPS-iframe decrypts content (with pre-shared key) and renders it on page

I implemented a library to do this (3 years ago!). Anyone care to tell me just ONE vulnerability with this? Thanks!
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The problem is in the sample size. You can't draw any conclusions from testing a few dozen or hundred self-selected people out of 7 billion. The author does essentially say just that, just in many more words.
This series of articles[1] goes into some depth in explaining why certain countries (and ethnicities) dominate various sports - this includes an in-depth discussion of why Kenyans are so good at distance running. The author focuses on genetics, location, support, training, incentives, culture, etc. of various combinations of these sports and the countries that seem to dominate them.

It's not yet complete and is quite lengthy, but it's one of the most fascinating things I've read in some time. While the title seems to make the article focuses solely on Olympic Weightlifting, but the main focus is much more general, and is about uncovering recurring patterns between countries who dominate various sports.

[1] http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/training/why-the-us-sucks-a...
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And when China hacks your server, takes a little bit longer, and inserts a rule that only serves the malware JS to Chinese-allocated IPs, will your monitor systems be checking from mainland China, too?

Maybe they don't modify your app's code, but insert an iptables rule that achieves the same effect.

When a scheme relies on perfect intrusion detection you are not discussing security, you're discussing damage control.
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I'm a little confused about the various editions. Just a few weeks ago I bought the "Think Stats" ebook published by O'Reilly (same author). Is it all the same content?