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My encryption is to keep everything on a hard drive that isn't connected to the internet. The insurance companies would no doubt like to see my timeline on my health category with a timeline on dates of every issue I have ever had with the hundreds of sub components of my body with everything from acne to heart trouble to ringing in ears to joint pain.

I have a category with everything I intend to do to the child if I have kids. I have a category with pictures of me every year from 3 days old to today. I do the same with my parents and grandparents (which is more spotty).

I have a category on all the friends I've ever had, what they liked, why they liked me, what I did to become aquainted, birthdays, their parents, all the information about them you would expect a close friend to have.

I've got all my tax returns back to 2005 (I started the wiki somewhere in 2007). My current net worth plotted on a chart, documented by what I did which caused certain plunges and rises in that graph.

A big category on girlfriends, kinds of women and what works with some. I can give you a cruise through every significant romantic event in my life from my first kiss back in college to sexual encounters. With photos of each girl. Each girl I dated given a full psycho analysis, funny how I searched out each edge of the (Smart, Sane, Pretty pick any two) triangle. I even dated a few (1 of 3) and (0 of 3). Big mistakes that haunt you.

I have a category of books I've read, and plotted those against my life timeline. What I've thought of them, how they changed me.

Anyone who got ahold of this wikipedia and had 20 hours to read it all would know as much about me as I know about me.

This wikipedia is what I want to see on dating websites, If I could include this on a dating website, and have all the girls do the same, it would make dating a lot easier. I imagine a post with dental records, tax returns, employment, income histories, aspirations, books read, history of diseases/conditions, family genetic lines, computers owned, friend structures, self psychoanalysis, and hundreds of other subjects which makes us unique from other humans.

A big worry is that the hard drive bricks iself or gets stolen, this wikipedia is worth tens of thousands of dollars to me. My backup strategy is to make a hard drive cloned image every 3 months with clonezilla, with the hd stored in a physically different location. so my wiki would even survive an fbi takedown where they steal all your stuff.

I've got all the programs I've ever written saved, so I can go back in time 4 years and see programs I wrote in C++, Visual Basic. It's like reviewing your essays from first grade, I can't bear to see them, my programming skill has gone up slowly but surly over time.
As someone who's been reviewing job applications lately, I would say that LinkedIn profiles are of value. It's an additional data point in looking at somebody's job history, even if it's oftentimes redundant. I don't write off recommendations either, provided they're from the right people.
I have not. Furthermore, everyone I've ever asked has said that they also just have an account because they feel like they might need it some day. None of them ever actually use it.

Clearly it's not the case that no one gets any value from LinkedIn, as evidenced by the other commenters and the fact that they still exist. Perhaps its use falls along age or professional lines? I and my friends/contacts fall on the younger side of things; is it more prevalent among an older crowd? Among non-programmers? Among programmers at larger companies?
I think that is pretty much the idea.
LinkedIn is like dating sites in that a small fraction of the candidates get a majority of the attention.
Congratts! Great idea and implementation! Clean, quick, nice!

One design tweak I would do... Have the descriptions of the lists collapsable so the reader can skim the list and only get the full scroll effect if they need.
I will freely admit: I would not have paid attention to an article defining the Sharpe Ratio without it having been framed as an HN karma problem. Nice trick.
while we're talking about karma can we please have points on comments back?
I do. But I run a small development shop where besides engineering I have to wear a business development hat a lot. I've made some long lasting professional relationships with partners met via linkedin groups and I've been able to get at little bit of insight into people I'm going to be meeting with who I frequently don't know.

I think its got more value for people in sales or business development then day to day engineers. But YMMV
I couldn't figure out what the link was at first, because in Safari, absolutely nothing happens. I had to bring up the page in Chrome to see what it was supposed to be doing (heat marks).
I think it's a cute idea, but honestly I don't see how it's going to fool anyone into thinking they've "won" anything.

An ad with a discount is called a coupon, and you can get piles of them from the paper on Sunday. Or from your junk mail. Or online. I don't think people will consider them to be valuable unless they're categorically better than what you find in the paper.
I thought it was pretty cool that Gene Roddenberry had a clause in his contract that allows anyone who makes a tricorder-like device to call it a tricorder.

Unlike George Lucas, who makes people license the word "droid".
WTH? I just tried out DebtEye, and without warning or confirmation, they scheduled me for a call with some sort of debt consultant, which happened despite me immediately replying to their email (sent from support@debteye.com) requesting both that they not try to contact me by phone, and that they delete my account. They have failed on both counts thus far. Badly done, I say! Badly done indeed.
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Thanks! I tried to make it as hacker-friendly as possible, hence the matching pseudo-code for both formulas.
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> It's an additional data point in looking at somebody's job history, even if it's oftentimes redundant.

Are you trawling through LinkedIn profiles for candidates? If you use LinkedIn to research current applicants, what information would you find on LinkedIn that is missing from a traditional resume?
From what I understand from my limited Star Trek-watching experience, PADDs are effectively free because of replicators.
You can argue that it's morally wrong, but it isn't stealing.
Jeez, I forgot jokes weren't allowed on HN.
I know several people, as well as myself, who are head-hunted reguarily on linked in, and have seen multiple job offers come across this table. All in all, it's not bad. But more importantly, if you've been a part of a big company and worked across teams, then keeping track of all those aquaintances is valuable - they might be your 'in' to finding a job again some day. In that regard, it is near priceless.. I don't want the other software devs on my facebook, but I do want to keep in touch.
The first productive applications that will utilize these speeds will be grid-based computing projects. Initial iterations of artificial intelligence will require large computing resources (GPGPU) in addition to high bandwidth, and low latency.

Projects like 'Test4Theory' that utilize Monte Carlo simulations will help us to accurately visualize and better predict the fundamental nature of our universe. The best contributors to these kind of projects will have high bandwidth fiber connections.

The first unproductive applications will be the next generation of first person games.
That's great! My concerns seems to have been unfounded then.

The jury is still out on the new privacy stuff though.
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Well according to my ISP I have 8Mbs down and 4Mbs up ... or at least that is what they bill me for and yes the latency on my connection is good. I'm not sure how accurate those numbers are.
It depends which server you choose. I haven't been able to reach even 100 Mbps. If in doubt, it's better to try just downloading something from fast servers.
@somecallmetim i sympathize with your frustration. What do you think the solution is? What other ways do you monetize your games?
I don't disagree with you, but drcube's point is a serious and valid one. It also smells like an opportunity for devs and/or ad networks to provide much better targeting. Ad-supported games for kids should be able to get kid-appropriate ads if the developer or the parent so choose. I haven't done enough ad-supported game development to know if that kind of thing is currently possible, but its something I would look into if a 5 year old were using my ipod regularly.
Like the article says, they're accepting the same fraction of applicants, but getting many more applicants now. YC has also staffed up. It's not just 'pg.
No more than keeping your encryption keys a secret is security through obscurity.

Even if you're transparent about your overall scheme, you need to keep some execution details hidden.
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I want to share my weekend project with you. It is a custom style for Google Reader.

The home page: http://testranking.com/google-plus-reeder.html

Direct link to style: http://userstyles.org/styles/51770/google-reeder

The dated UI is the main reason why I am reluctant to use the best free RSS reader (in my opinion). So I decided to bring the new Google styling to the Reader.

I was not satisfied with the result compared to the Reeder application (Mac only), so I reworked the style until it had some Reeder functionality.

I would be very thankful if you could have a look at the style and give me some feedback. Don't be afraid to call my baby ugly. I want to have the best usability for my most used web-app. I have been using this style for the past 2 weeks and it works for me, but if there are improvements (or bugs) please let me know.

To get to the Reeder layout use the keys "U" or "F" + "2"
I'm not a security professional of any kind and my advise is probably worthless, but as far as I know it's mostly based on compliance with certain security standards and regulations.

For example, the credit card industry has the PCI DSS[1], which lists a bunch of requirements that companies must obey by.

I believe your friend should contract a reputed security consultant company to check his stack and advise on possible flaws.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Card_Industry_Data_Secu...
Are you referring to this advert where a husband saw his wife's picture advertising a singles site - http://mashable.com/2009/07/17/facebook-dating-ads-2/

In this case, it was not Facebook who put that picture there, but an advertiser, who got and used that picture in a way that was against Facebook's Terms of Service, and Facebook then blocked that advertiser.
How is Gigabit FTTH different from ordinary FTTH ? Is it the fiber itself or the equipment on the endpoints ?
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Actually, Blizzard is reducing piracy by requiring you to connect to their servers to play the game and sending an army of lawyers after anyone who attempts to create their own servers. Most of the content in StarCraft II disappears the moment you aren't connected to BNet, and what was left over disappears 30 days later. Diablo 3 will not work at all unless you are connected to BNet, and WoW is an MMORPG. S2 has taken a similar approach: their game does nothing unless you can connect to their servers.

I'm not sure what Valve's approach has been. Does it also involves reducing the quality of the games offered by not including LAN play?
Yes, I remember this video too. I think it was part of the Information At Your Fingertips speech at Comdex in 1990.

http://www.proudlyserving.com/archives/2005/05/information_a...
Strange to me that people are talking about better ways to serve ads in games and apps instead of alternative revenue streams to ads. Ads suck no matter how you position them in your app.
I'm curious how you exclude the "money issue". Don't "rural" and "urban" districts correlate remarkably well with "poor" districts?
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how about just making it so people can share what they want with who they want, without difficulty? I don't want my software to preach to me about how to democratize my social whatsit, I just want to find a replacement for emailing pictures out to a list of people (notice how GMail wouldn't force me to email the pictures to everyone I know).
Once you start doing stuff on the business end of things it's really useful:

• You've got a conf call with 3 people from a company and you want to figure out what their roles there are and other useful bits (where they studied, where they've worked, and other tidbits that can warm up a conversation).

• You want to figure out the rough size of a company you're doing a sales call with.

• You're cold calling and you want to figure out who to cold call.

• You meet a half dozen people at a networking event and would rather have their LinkedIn info than their business card for future reference.

• You want an intro to somebody who you suspect is only a contact or two away, but don't know which contact or two.

• You want to background check a potential consultant / hire and want to figure out who to run those checks by.

Before I started a company I found it pretty useless too. (All of the jobs I'd gotten had always come via intros in my offline personal network, so I never saw its utility there.)
Hmm, I beg to differ. If I remember correctly, the Apple Newton MessagePad was the first commercially available tablet computer.

They may not have invented the tablet concept (just as so many other major inventions are conceptualized in fiction first), but as far as I know, credit for an invention is based on the first to actually make it. When I was a kid, I drew a space fighter. If someone makes a space fighter with a similar design, do I get credit for the invention?
Partition the keyspace among the systems up front... if that's a problem you've got. Makes sense though. Maybe the pain is worth the GUID solution if you're doing id generation across a highly distributed set of machines.. like end-user boxes or something. But in a SAAS deployment where you might have a handful of DB masters, letting them all assign out a portion of a 64 bit keyspace is plenty fine.
Well, the law is on her side, since her listing is owner-occupied and thus does not qualify as a vacation rental. Only vacation rentals need a business license.
LinkedIn is the surprise of the year for me-- I had pretty much written it off a couple years back, but it turns out that LinkedIn is incredibly helpful for connecting with my company's technology partners, potential hires, and business advisors.
When I first saw a demonstration like this in Javascript, I thought it was a pretty nice and "artsy" bit of code.

Then I came to the realization that it's not just artsy, but it's a way more innovative way to track visitors to your web pages "clicks" (I think that is the real purpose.)

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but the heat goes away due to the amount of clicks taking place somewhere else. The heavier the color (yellow - red) means the more clicks taking place on that location. The lighter, the less.

A description of a heatmap: http://www.squidoo.com/heat-map
Having an online presence is very important as an accompaniment to a CV. I always google job applicants that I receive. If I don't find anything, I am disappointed and tend to file those applicants with the ones where I find their fully open Facebook profile showing what that person did with a stripper at their mates stag party. LinkedIn provides a good fill for the void of wanting to fully lock down your Facebook profile.
I find this kind of thing funny, but misguided.

Karma in websites is not necessarily about accuratly reflecting some ground truth upvote probability, mean chance of liking a comment, expected future vote ratio of the commenter, etc. It's an incentive-design mechanism, in that a karma system is good if and only if it leads to the desired behavior when people use the website. When you ask yourself "how should I compare 5 upvotes and 5 downvotes versus 1 upvote versus 1 downvote versus no action at all", the answer is not weighting one of these situations higher/lower because it will better approximate one of the criteria above in expectation or something like this, but instead weighting these high/low depending on, for example, if you want to encourage activity, agreement, controversy, etc.

Ideally, you should have some other behavioral metric in mind (say, mean comment quality, top comment quality, bottom comment quality, engagement, etc) and try to tune the voting system to maximize this quality over time. (this tuning can either be done intuitively, as pg tries to do, or algorithmically, using something like the technique behind Gmail's priority inbox or bandit algorithms)

Do not "define away" a social problem with mathematics, use the mathematics to help you solve the actual social problem.
Shouldn't one defuse conflicts instead of diffusing them?
Is LinkedIn anything more than just craigslist for resumes? For whatever reason, the virtuous circle of recruiters and resumes settled on LinkedIn. You don't go to LinkedIn because it's good; you go there because everyone else goes there.
veetle.com does a really good job at this. I have a six year old media center box that doesn't run anything that well besides veetle and 1080p at that.
Yes, there is a huge benefit for someone like me who has worked in many different cities. It allows me to keep in touch with people I've worked with and see where they get new positions. The key here is that it's a tool: it's only as valuable as what you put into it.

It has essentially replaced the Rolodex people used to use years ago.

If you aren't open to recruiters reaching out to you, you can make that plain and clear in your summary... "I don't speak with recruiters" or "Not looking for a position."
I still use LinkedIn b/c well it's the market leader.

However I do have one thing to vent about: LinkedIn uses a phishing technique after you're logged in by showing you your email address and then a password field which makes it very easy for you to mindlessly input your email password (as they want) so they can spam all your contacts.

I've been saved from this mistake many times by having different LinkedIn and Gmail passwords, but this really shouldn't be acceptable...
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..sounds like security through obscurity to me.

That sounds like you are echoing something you heard once without understanding the reasoning behind it.

security through obscurity usually doesn't make sense WRT computer security because the attacks the computer systems are often subject to are sustained for long periods and can't be stopped (think of someone downloading your software to attack it).

In a military situation you do have the capability to retaliate and/or reinforce. This changes the situation because it makes time a critical factor. In that case, obscurity makes a lot of sense because it slows down the attacker. When you have the ability to change things yourself anything that slows down the attack is useful.

This applies to computer security too - if you can detect an attack, then anything that stops that attack from being successful for long enough that you can neutralize the attack vector is useful. This doesn't imply "security though obscurity", but it does imply that you have defence-in-depth, and you don't give out information about what those lower level defences are. Then if your outer layer is breached there is at least some chance the attacker will trigger some kind of alert while working out what the next layer of defence is. That isn't "security though obscurity", it is "security and obscurity".
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This is very similar to Susy for Sass / Compass.

The big benefit for me is not having to revisit the markup to change a class from grid_4 to grid_5 and such. You just leave the markup as is, and all the work to change the layout stays in the style sheets, as it should be.
In the coming 2-5 years most 3D games will be ray-tracing-based and streaming technology would not only be very suitable for it but very beneficial, allowing huge game worlds with unlimited detail. Highly detailed or scanned 3D objects take easily terabytes of storage and streaming everything from the servers is really the only viable option.
> We really need a killer app that pushes the limits of most Internet connections and you'll see more companies betting on (expensive) upgrades to deliver those speeds. I don't see much on the horizon.

If bitcoin gets very popular, running a node will require very fast download and upload speeds to get and rebroadcast the transactions.
So I followed Reddit discussion and found the supposedly original video from cctv7:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Wu1HlZbBk&feature=youtu...

To summarize the whole video:
The Americans have started cyber-warfare long time ago, with militarized cyber-war division. Other countries are also catching up. Our infrastructure is highly dependant on Internet but our ability to defend ourselves is not up-to-par. The government is doing x,y,z to catch up and hopefully able to defend ourselves in the future.

It's funny how this message sounds so familiar, even though I have not followed cctv channels for many many years... right, all you need to do is replace "America" with "China", you will find the American counter-part of Chinese propaganda channels.

Damn, where can I sign up for propaganda-free media?
GMail lets you setup mail forwarding of all incoming mails to a designated account and label them accordingly. It also lets you choose different email addresses to put in the From: header if you set this up. This way, you get all benefits of multiple accounts without all the hassle connected with signing in and out many times.

I have _many_ different email addresses, but they all (except of the one at work, for obvious reasons) forward the mail to main one, which labels them for me to know their origin.
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Me too, came here to just to say this.
That's true to a significant extent in the U.S. as well, though districts vary on their policies towards "advanced" or "gifted" classes. I think that on average, even with "advanced" courses, the brilliant students progress further mostly through outside-of-school pursuits, whether it's the internet, independent reading, going to museums, an intellectual hobby, or something else along those lines.
sometimes I hope prezi.com got an HTML5 version.
Anyone else have a problem with their T&C? Essentially, "you post it here, we get to do whatever we want with it":

> "By placing any information or other material on such publicly accessible locations on the Website (including but not limited to posting messages, uploading files, inputting data or engaging in any other form of communication), you automatically grant (or warrant that the owner of such content has expressly granted) to Zerply a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, irrevocable, unrestricted, worldwide license to use, copy, sublicense, reproduce, distribute, redistribute, modify, adapt, publish, edit, translate, transmit, create derivative works of, publish and/or broadcast, publicly perform or display any materials or other information (including without limitation, ideas contained therein for new or improved products or services) you submit to public areas of the Website (including but not limited to chat rooms, forums and bulletin boards) alone or as part of other works in any form, media, or technology whether by any means and in any media now known or hereafter developed and to sublicense such rights through multiple tiers of sublicenses."
Yes, it helps find jobs through connection you didn't know you have. Try http://workastic.com for an example of automating this process.