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I'm not sure I agree with that reasoning, not directly anyway. The timing is certainly right but there are two major problems with that theory:

1. The Soviet Union from WW2 to the fall in 1990 never had diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia. The Saudis were allied with the US certainly in the 1980s (possibly earlier?) and supported the resistance of Soviet occupation of Afghanistan; and

2. The cooling of relations between the US and the Arab world did have--and still has--a lot to do with the US support of totalitarian regimes, including the Saudis. The US enjoyed strong relations with the Shah of Iran and then with Saddam Hussein in a proxy war with the USSR.

Only 2% of the US population might be Jewish but Jewish political support is significant for a number of reasons:

1. It affects what are now key swing states, most notably Florida;

2. The general political activism and even affluence of that population segment; and

3. The cause of Israel aligns with that of religious (Christian) conservatives, largely because of the Holy Land.

Bear in mind that the dynamic has changed. Modern US administrations virtually can't criticize Israel. Compare this to Eisenhower telling Israel to get out of Sinai.

Attributing this to the Cold War, instability of regimes in the Middle East and Soviet tendencies (IMHO) varies from disingenuous to factually inaccurate.
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It's not even bad encryption, it's just a cipher. Release the executable, analyze the assembly, and it's completely broken.

This is their test for unbreakability:

> We will create a contest where hackers will subscribe to with an entrance fee of $250.00. The first one to hack the encryption will receive 1 Million Dollars.

> 1.We will host the event at BYU.

> 2.One person will be assigned to choose an article from the web to be encrypted.

> 3.We will encrypt article

> 4.Hackers will attempt to crack the code

> 5.300 Days of standing offer.

> 6.If code will not be cracked, IPO in September 2012

This is not how peer review works. I don't think I need to point out why.
Don't doubt the power of 2. Java is so friggin' entrenched that having a pretty nice half-type-inferencing functional language that's at least a little competent is a breath of fresh air. Sure I'd rather be using Haskell, but the available integration tools between Haskell and Java are not widely used and a bit immature or otherwise nasty.

Maybe, one day, when the JVM finally keels over and dies and we're freed from the yoke of bad enterprise decisions, we'll all be able to use functional languages that were designed largely without compromise.
Speaking as someone who tends to go on and on in early drafts, feeling like you need to split stuff into multiple articles is a good sign that you should edit things down.
I agree that picking the right tool for the job is important but I just wanted to list the reasons I prefer GAE. There is quite a lot of outrage (raising prices does that) without really considering what the real costs of the alternative platforms are.
"which are typically professional care givers"

There's nothing sensational about calling that bill ridiculous. Not everyone who is over 18 and watches children on occasion for money is a professional care giver. Most of my friends have a 20-something friend that will watch their kids for them on date-night. They prefer the 20-something friend to a much younger babysitter because of maturity and responsibility. This person has a day-job, but they don't mind watching their friends' kids from time to time.
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I'm calling it first: "This would never have happened under Jobs". If true, of course.
Personally speaking, I would love to see Google release an offical, downloadable ChromeOS images that could be used with VMWare or Virtualbox. Something like that could be a real boon for some users.
Yes, workbenches. Here's an example of what I think is a good option, with adjustable height: http://goo.gl/atffO
Hmm. Let's see. We're AirBnB. After 4 months of bootstrapping by selling Obama-O's, do we take $20K from YC? Of course! It's YC, and we can still bootstrap if we want. After a few more months, do we take $600K from Sequoia and another firm, and let rapacious VCs into our tent? Well, we're hungry because the Obama-O's ran out, so OK. The next year, do we let Ron Conway and Ashton Kutcher(!) and others give us $7.2M more? Tough decision--we can control everything and have a nice, small business like--what was that highly successful company? Carbonmade--and bring in $1M in revenues a year, 100% ours, or give up a third of the business for seven times that. What to do, what to do? We cave in to The Man and take the $7.2M. What, you seriously wouldn't want to hang with Ashton and Demi? Another year goes by and Mark Andreessen and Jeff Bezos want to join in with a crazy Russian and give us $112 million for another 10%. No way! This kind of offer insults our bootstrapping dignity. Besides, if we're highly successful like Carbonmade, we could make that much in 112 years on our own and keep 100% of it, after expenses. But we sell out anyway, at a billion-dollar valuation. We might each get a few hundred million with a successful IPO, but it's just not worth it compared to the satisfaction we could have if we owned 100% of a million-dollar company. Paul Graham must be ashamed of us. We drown our sorrows in an apartment in Saint-Tropez that we rented through AirBnB with Ashton and Demi. Bruce Willis stops by to say, "What's with the sad face, boys?" He's not as tall as we expected. We give him a glass of absinthe. The Mediterranean sun is not unpleasant.
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> It's the most popular smartphone OS

Would it be if they charged for it? Android has massive issues across development, the market, the user experience and poor vendor practices that are routinely ignored by the same people that jump on every mistake Apple makes.

Don't get me wrong, Android has a lot of promise but it's popular because it's on so many phones. That's not exactly a "winner" if it takes dozens of phone to compete against one phone. The same goes for tablets.

The more Android devices you make, the more iOS devices stand out among them.
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http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=hacker+news&...

Frustrating.
> Nonsense. Google makes 97% of their revenue from search advertising

No, Google makes 97% of their revenue from advertising, not just search advertising. 31% of the revenue comes from "Google Network web sites" (AdSense).

http://investor.google.com/earnings/2010/Q4_google_earnings....
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In a state like CA which manages to be on the brink of bankruptcy despite pulling in the largest amount of tax revenue in the US, I think the solution is cutting spending, not throwing more money down the drain.
What's going on with Apple and shady legal dealings recently? It appears they are faking evidence in European courts; that should be a criminal offense. It appears they are impersonating police officers - that IS a criminal offense.

Is the media I'm reading biased? Is this all actually happening? What turned Apple into a crime or near-crime committing business? This is all very weird.
I said they are half-assed products. Google is not commited to GAE, or anything for that matter. Perhaps they lead in indirect ways to advertising revenue. But that's no excuse for having no support at all for any of their products. The poor quality of GAE is a symptom of an ambivalent company that doesn't deserve your respect.
I guess the logical correct answer would be: Yes
;-)
Your friends ask you for money to watch your kids? Wow.
We were thinking of something between 30k and 60k.

Most of our prospective clients are either startups or developers who make from $300-$4000 monthly on their webapps. We don't think they're the right audience to provide the initial funds :)
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I don't want to be mean - but I hope you're not serious.
I can't believe Microsoft is giving away free Windows licenses as long as you use the vm image for IE.

Which is basically the only reason I do have an old Windows XP vm on my Mac.
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You know, bible.org has a wonderful online theology course. I often recommend it to people as a primer on how theologians function in an academic context. It's not hostile, it's not an argument or apologetic. Just televised classroom discussions. I think it's interesting and thought-provoking, especially if you think "academic theologian" is a contradiction in terms.

The lectures are a couple hours long, and they're best approached as a course. But they've cut them up into ~15 minute answers to topics. There's a list here:

http://bible.org/article/258-theology-questions-and-answers

You might be particularly interested in numbers 33, 34, and 35 (How do various Christian traditions view truth?).

Number 199, "What does it mean to have faith?" also answers one of your direct questions. The bit from 6:50 is where he starts getting into the actual answer to that.
The magic in ChromeOS is the hardware Google uses from the Chromebooks. There is an unofficial site with images for Chromium(?)OS but it doesn't look pretty.
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The main point these types of articles ignore is the huge wave of immigration from Soviet Union in the 90's. It was extremely skilled population with many phd's , professors that worked on pretty amazing stuff back in USSR.
Then to help these 1 million (20% of country's population) the government just helped everyone a bit with their ideas.

THAT'S ALL , the rest is history!

I remember my backwater desert town 50k population where they quickly build cheap office buildings and stuffed them with all these 1-2 person "startups" full of bearded Soviet Phd's. They called them "hothouses" (of ideas).
What happened to Israel can not be repeated again unless
US collapses and 1 million of Silicon Valley engineers(not that they have so much) will move back to India or China.
IE 7 and 8 are not available in the installer; I'm running Win7 x64 with IE 9.0 installed. Falling back to XP Mode for now.
Thanks for the kind words abbasmehdi! To move forward we need:

1) Money (to hire lawyers and to get access to the different banking systems).
2) Connections (to be heard within the big companies).

We think an incubator can provide both of those.

We have relevant experience in this specific business and we think we're pretty nice people so we hope that gets us noticed.

Thanks again for the input, we really appreciate it :)
> curl -s https://raw.github.com/xdissent/ievms/master/ievms.sh | bash

Bad trend in the open-source community. Please don't ask your users to install stuff this way. Not that you can't be trusted, it leads to people dropping their guard.
The update is hilarious:

'Update: An Apple spokesperson told The Loop that the company has "a limited quantity of Final Cut Studio still available through Apple telesales to customers who need them for ongoing projects."'

Don't Apple know how they can make more copies ... if they don't someone else will do it for them.
You can tell right off the guy isn't too bright because he allowed (what he thought were) police to search his home just by showing up, which is one of the most fundamental rights you have in this country.

Can you just imagine if warrantless home searches were as common as Terry Stops? Yikes.

BTW anyone who still thinks losing the phone was a publicity stunt really need to reconsider - when Apple hires and sends goons out like this, they aren't playing around.
Well the word sneaked gave me a sneaky feeling which in turn raised my hopes.
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I like that one too. Yudkowsky's article is way too long for the casual reader.
Anybody else feel like both of these stories (this one and the one from last year regarding the iphone 4) were planted? My BS meter is going off like crazy.
I put together ievms because IECollection and IETester don't accurately represent true standalone IE versions. Things like PNG transparency polyfills and Flash/JS communication will not work as expected with those tools. Plus you'll have to manage your own (licensed) Windows instance.
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Know how to recognize an Apple officer!

Is there a blue glow pulsing from the officer's eyes in time with your breathing?

When questioned about his identity, does the officer inflate and spin a beachball before answering?

Does the officer have rounded corners?

If the answer to any of these questions is yes, you might be speaking with a member of the Apple Police Force. Beware!
It's perhaps because founders give a shit.
Anthony Colon worked for the San Jose Police Department for 26 years and retired in 2010 to take a job with Apple doing security. So I wonder if he'll argue that he told Calderon something to the effect of "I'm (mumble)was with the police" and was simply misunderstood? I don't think it will work.

Also, although it doesn't excuse their behavior, Calderon was crazy for letting them search without a warrant.
This comes in real handy since I'm forced to leave GAE for their crazy new price.
I know you aren't the creator of those VMs but, any idea why they are so big?

What's weird is that there's a jump from 8.4 GB to 13 GB on Windows 7. What is on the IE9 vhd that isn't on the IE8 vhd?

Edit: Nevermind, from the official link the IE9 vm comes with additional tools.
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Ahh, nominative determinism!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
I've been working on a simple service that does a similar thing, but for phone calls.

http://www.remindlyo.com

You put who you want to call and when into the system and sometime during the day we call you and connect you to them. They see your caller id and everything. Right now all you can do is take it for a spin with the free trial, but soon I'll have the full product up and running.
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You can't get the VMs to pass WGA so they are only good for 30 days before they have to be reset; which pretty much makes them only good for testing / qa purposes.

This seems like a very reasonable decision on Microsoft's part: they make it easier / legal / quick to test on their platform and more people will support and develop on it.
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He's assuming that the designer has a fixed amount of time to work on the project, so less time spent faffing with pixel alignment means more time getting the design right in the first place. I suppose there is also the hidden assumption that if the designer spends more time on usability, then the design will be easier for the user to use. Though from the hostility in your message, I'd suspect that you might not believe that.

Finally, he was talking about designing for a small, fixed set of screen sizes vs designing for a range of screen sizes, so your final point about your monitor size does not apply.
This comes up every time an install script like that is used, and in a lot of cases, it's a warrantless criticism.

Projects like this are obviously targeted towards developers as they're hosted on github. If you really want to check out what the script is doing, just look at the file. Or better yet, clone the repo and use it/install however you want.
Adding the link to download the VMs directly from Microsoft:

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=11575
I understand your point and I'm open to suggestions on how to assuage any security concerns while maintaining convenience. I don't know if users are more likely to read and understand the source if it's provided only as a separate download, however. Perhaps just a big honkin warning in the README?
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Ask HN: Will my game benefit from being open source?
I've been coding for about two years. At this point I can more or less hack together the game I want, but the code won't be very efficient. It occurred to me that I could open source the game, forcing me to confront my own limitations.

Here's the part I have trouble with. Ideally I'd like to get compensation for my work, and if the game is in paid app form (Android), is open source a good idea at all? Is there a way for me to protect my app while still making the code available?

I could contribute to an already existing project, but I feel that at my current level I would just mess up their codebase.
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By reset do you mean they have to be redownloaded?
The fact that the victim doesn't appear to have talked to the police is a bad sign.
This is a great system. Depending on the type of emails you're sending, you could also use Gmail Labs' Canned Response feature to speed up the follow-ups.
Is it particularly worse than downloading and blindly running the code in separate steps? I don't think the majority of users have ever extensively audited the software they run, so it's not exactly a new trend. If you are capable of evaluating this script, you already know how to do it.
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qemu-img can convert the VirtualPC (VHD) image format.

For example, qemu-img convert -O qcow2 Win7_IE8.vhd Win7_IE8.qcow2
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Hm, for me it did not work well even on two monitors.

I'll give this one a try, hopefully they fixed it.
Poor quality? Did you not read the posts of all the devs saying they really like GAE, some of them so much that the pricing change isn't really even an issue?

You're not contributing to this conversation at all, you're just spewing opinionated venom with no support for your claims.
Maybe using a passphrase?

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Before we all jump over Apple, this could just be one guy going somewhat 'rogue', and forgetting he's a retired police officer, and not an Apple Investigator in the private sector. If what is written is true, this investigator likely has a lot of explaining to do.

The conspiracist in me thinks the SF police dept worked with him, but didn't want it on the record for some reason, and will just shuffle the investigation under the rug.
So if you go to Tools > Developer Tools the browser modes for IE 7 and 8 are not there?
I kind of view bash piping as the worlds easiest install package.

Unequivocally, it is dangerous to run random pieces of code from the internet, it just seems odd to me that if this same code was in a nice packaged install wizard nobody would say anything about it.
It's hard enough to keep one post afloat on Hacker News these days. One of the two would probably get buried in a hurry. I think the better (if somewhat less clean) solution is just to use your browser's text search to look for the category you want.
This would be infinitely more useful if it was backed by some actual data instead of those utterly useless search activity patterns. Why not combine a search like this with something like Wolfram Alpha?

What a waste...

edit: Seriously, wouldn't this be so much cooler if it gave us a new way to explore mathematical and scientific data?

If we could draw any curve and it would present us with matching constants, physical laws, mathematical proofs & theorems that have some correlation with the input data, chemical and biological data points, information from sociological studies, historical statistics...
No there isn't. Just "max idle instances". So you'll get a huge bill if you get slashdotted.
> Just how important is correct code to you and your ventures?

$1000 chairs don't have anything to do with the code. They might make developers %0.001 less likely to leave, but they're not going to do anything about code quality.
Is there any proof substantiating this guy's claim that a search even happened?
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Doesn't it seem like the guy who claims this happened could be lying? His story did change once the SFPD said it wasn't them.
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Per the docs: "A snapshot is automatically taken upon install, allowing rollback to the pristine virtual environment configuration."

You can just roll back to that snapshot at the end of your 30 days and everything will continue to be usable.
Ask HN: Would you read a blog that detailed the rise and fall of a startup?
http://lookingbackaretrospective.posterous.com/

Backstory: When the company I worked for years to help succeed suddenly and abruptly crumbled beneath me, I wrote a memoir of the event as a sort of catharsis. I was encouraged to publish it online by some former colleagues, and so we find ourselves here today.

I'm looking to get as much as honest feedback about it as I can, mainly to see if people find the story to be interesting, and if they enjoy the writing style or not.

All Questions, Comments, and Criticisms are welcomed and encouraged
Anyone use any of these products being shut down?

Is there an opportunity to replace any of these for a startup?
Why in the world would you voluntarily allow police or purported police to search your apartment?
The Stanford iPhone programming lectures are a solid place to start. As an entry book, Jeff LaMarche's book from apress is great as well: http://www.amazon.com/dp/143023024X/?tag=stackoverfl08-20
He gave the (former) police officer's name and phone number to the newspaper... so he got it somehow?
I always enjoy (from an intellectual perspective) seeing two translations of the same thing...

When I compare your rewrite to mine, I notice that I semi-unconsciously had Matz and Keiju writing some lines as full sentences with correct English capitalization, and others as fragments starting with lowercase letters. That's often how English chatlogs look, after all. I have a Skype chatlog in my other window, talking with my product manager, that has a similar feel - I don't capitalize when I'm continuing the thought from a previous chat message.

And of course, I missed a few things you didn't - I'm not as conversant with tech-related Japanese.

It's tricky to come up with an idiomatic way to show two people discussing in Japanese an English play on words. Not to mention the Japanese "how is that spelled?" question that doesn't make sense in written English.
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