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Yeah, after finding out about it, I did submit the paperwork. I'm presently waiting for everything to get approved (they said the lead time was about a year).
I know I'm getting to be a broken record, but two different attempts at an SSH server, neither of which work? Every other thing on this list is a reimplementation of something in Python's standard library or Twisted.

I mean, yes, that's a lot of code to write, and I'm impressed, but this just feels like yet more reinvention of the wheel.
You're conflating the Dutch Government and VASCO/Diginotar.
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That is something we have in common then. the original spelling of my family's name is "Lannerdahl" but it was "corrected" to "Landerdahl" (these "corrections" were also very common to immigrants' names.)

Btw, what do you mean by over-zealous (sorry, I'm not familiar with Scotish history).
I don't see any way not to extrapolate it that way, since the concept of "real man" is inseparable from an attack on men who don't conform to the author's perceived requirements of "manliness", as somehow not being "real" men, or defectively masculine. I.e. not just old-fashioned language, but old-fashioned ideas better left buried.
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Huge discussion of this from over three weeks ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2872780

Discussion there is closed, but the discussion was extensive.
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I share the authors' concerns however I'm not so sure that investment managers can be relied upon to make the investment decisions they have described. Like the large bank executives, investment managers earn large sums of money and, I believe, are likely to identify with bank execs in that regard. People who earn huge amounts of money tend to rationalize their compensation. They believe they are worth it. In fact, Taleb makes this point in one of his books when describing successful traders. In fact, most of the people in a position alter the state of affairs in compensation disparity are the 'winners' in terms of power and/or money and would seem unlikely to want to change things. The remarkable thing is that America has lasted so long without the huge income gulf that exists in other countries. Not sure what the answer is, but I don't think it's from within the 'winners'.
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You are wrong. You can read a few posts without preconceptions to see why. I'm not going to pollute the thread with this tangent any more.

edit: http://artofmanliness.com/faq/

"1. What makes you experts on manliness?

We’ve never said we’re experts. In fact, the idea that there’s such a thing as an “expert in manliness” is sort of silly. We’re just two people who are passionate about helping men become better men. We want to provide an alternative men’s magazine for men who are tired of the crap that’s put out for men by most media outlets. We see our role as researchers and writers who try to dig up the best information out there and make that info available to readers. I’m learning right along with everyone else."

http://artofmanliness.com/2010/05/16/what-is-manliness/
Yeah, I tend to agree. I personally find that 90%+ of the movie content on Netflix is not worth watching (the TV show selection, however, is great).

If Netflix continues growing, I could see a scenario much like the iTunes Music Store vis-a-vis the record labels, where a dominant distributor can essentially dictate terms to content providers.
And I disagree with your disagreement. The different phrasing captures an important security aspect of running software, it is not merely a semantic game. You're trying to present VMs as an easy answer to security, and I'm trying to show you why that's not a valid way of approaching the question. Trying to game the definitions won't undo my points here.

"From what I can tell, process virtual machines can provide a very good sandbox that allows you to safely run arbitrary code, modulo whatever permissions you explicitly give it."

Take your choice of virtual machine, and poke it into the search box on http://osvdb.org/ . Don't forget the things you might not consider VMs, like the Javascript engines in the browsers. I know that's less "citation" than "metacitation", but in the spirit of teaching one to fish I think it's more useful. Or just google it, plus the word "vulnerability". As an acceptable technique for quickly and easily securing low-security-requirement applications, sure. As an easy answer for everything, no, their history does not suggest that's the answer. I'm not aware of any VM that hasn't had a history of at least some bad vulnerabilities, and what confidence can you have that there aren't others lying in wait for any given VM?

(Interestingly, OSVDB doesn't have anything for Google nativeclient, but Google search does.)
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This weekend, I've been looking at what I'll need to jump into Arduino. I'm looking for list of things above and beyond the bare minimum. I would like to have a kit that will put me in a good position to explore Arduino's possibilities and will be able to keep me busy for a little bit.

I've found this that is along the lines of what I'm looking for: http://www.ladyada.net/learn/arduino/

Any thoughts?
5 generations isn't all that far back. Depending on your age, it puts you mid to late 19th century, and there's a fair number of Americans that can say with reasonable certainty that they have no immigrant ancestors since that time.

Much less residents of older countries, which can probably go back a whole lot further than that.
My great-grandparents were born in Italy, my father is of Scotch-Irish decent, my mother's father is British - and I'm 100% American :)
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Someone lended me a tablet for a week. I didn't install a single application.... everything I needed was on the browser (Twitter / Facebook / Mail / Searching on Google)
Sherlock is a great series. I torrented the first 3 episodes when they came out in 2010, and they were an absolute treat. I love the format that they chose - going for quality over quantity, and creating a true movie-length story by making them 90 minutes each.

Unfortunately, season 2 won't be coming out until 2012, though I'm not sure why.
Really? I thought September Labor Day was a day created to erase the memory of the Haymarket Massacre by discouraging workers from commemorating it on Real Labor Day, which in the US was instead called Americanization Day, Loyalty Day, and then Law Day, specifically in order to marginalize the people struggling for laborers' rights.
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14 generations. Mayflower.
Actually, while I hear you on the Facebook app, I find the new Twitter web app (the new one) very very good.
"I think it's far too easy to blame their low marketshare on their miniscule marketing budget. Mozilla faced similar problems. Mozilla failed when they had a crap product in SeaMonkey (née Mozilla Suite) and succeded when they had a compelling product in Firefox."

This is an important point, but I'm not sure that it's clear exactly why Firefox was so "compelling".

I remember when Firefox first came out, it was billed as a "faster Mozilla". I gave it a try, because I'd found that the original Mozilla browser was bloated and slow, and I was hoping Firefox might live up to the hype. But, no. Firefox was just as slow and bloated as Mozilla. In fact, from an end-user's perspective, they seemed pretty identical, except for the name. Yet people jumped all over Firefox like it was the Second Coming.

Now, I understand that Firefox does have one great advantage over Opera, which is that it's open source, while Opera is closed source. But the original Mozilla browser was also open source, and it didn't get a fraction of the interest Firefox got. Another advantage was that Firefox had extensions, but (if I recall correctly) the original Mozilla browser had them too.

So, can Firefox's success over the original Mozilla browser be chalked up completely to the name change? Would Opera have been more successful had they simply rebranded it with a sexier name, or claimed that the "new" browser they'd released was a "faster Opera"?
Given that it is fairly easy to identify those "dominant forces" you should check whether there were any significant amounts of immigration to those places before they achieved top-dog status.

By my estimate I can see only one country that has had mass immigration and then which achieved dominant world power status fairly soon afterwards: the United States. Are these connected, probably, are they connected because the immigrants were made up of a tribe of wandering genetic entrepreneurs moving onto their next conquest, I suspect not.
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> I believe the original poster's comment, "physician, heal thyself" is a reference to a person (in this case, the author), and not to a position.

That would therefore be an incorrect assumption:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physician,_heal_thyself

"The moral of the proverb is counsel to attend to one's own defects rather than criticizing defects in others, ..."

Or, in other words, before criticizing movie color defects, attend to his own web color defects.

> I am personally a web designer, and I have no basis or knowledge to comment on color grading in films.

Granted. But, would you say that your experience in web design and color selection would allow you sufficient knowledge to identify an absolutely awful movie color scheme? I would posit yes. The converse would also be true. Someone with movie color grading expertise should have sufficient knowledge of colors to at least make a reasonably passing effort at reasonable web color selection. I.e., the underlying basics apply and carry through in both arenas, even if the particular technical specifics differ.
The Arduino Starter Kit has everything you need: http://littlebirdelectronics.com/products/starter-kit-for-ar...
The part being left out is this: we've had only one setup for computer users since (what?) the 1960s and it would be incredibly surprising if that was the way everyone wanted to use computers all of the time. Should we really be surprised that the basic setup of monitor + keyboard isn't the only or preferred way to use a computer?

After all, it was just a way to combine some existing technologies to improve on the paper-based user interface. It's not like it came down to us punched on golden cards as the perfect way.
Anything in a modern operating system other than the kernel can be considered to be running in a virtual machine; when people refer to running a program on their computer, they're not usually talking about kernel modules.

Apple's security is not perfect, of course, but these are supposed to be immutable laws: we can't fix problems caused by them because they are fundamental to how computers work. It is possible in theory to build a completely secure kernel.
Was no one doing a netflix clone in Latin America all this time?
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Well, it's possible to play youtube videos in an html5 player, but I wasn't able to induce it to use anything but the flash player.
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Sorry, I have not seen the previous submission and discussion of the article as I'm not so often on this site. So we can probably close discussion here as well.
Reposting this for horseshoes; it seems to have been mysteriously censored.

Getting familiar with GNU screen and within vim, liberal use of :tabnew foo got me to prefer a terminal emulator for working and notes over eclipse / gedit / nautilus. (gt and gT move to different tabs and :tabm N moves the current tab to tab N btw). If from within vim you :mksession bar.vim, vim saves all your open tabs so you can :wqall and open the tabs again from the shell with vim -S bar.vim

Like seemingly everyone, I organize projects into project/doc, project/src, project/data, project/bin etc. For example, I have a start.vim each in project/doc and project/src.

Then I put lines in ~/.screenrc

chdir /home/horseshoes/workin/myproject/doc
screen -t myproject_doc vim -S start.vim
chdir /home/horseshoes/workin/myproject/src
screen -t myproject_src vim -S start.vim
screen -t bash bash

When I start screen it automatically opens one window containing a vim sesh with all my most-looked-at documentation tabs (so I can refer to wth I was thinking and organize my mental pushdown stack a little), one window containing a sesh for the source files I currently work on, and a third window holds a shell so I can look for and alter other files or start sqlite3 or make or w/e.

The point is it fires up work for me so I just have to open a terminal and type screen and it's instantly ready compared to opening eclipse or visual studio and then navigating to the relevant related notes and documents, or cluttering up the place with a billion (or even 2 or 3) terminal emulators, since screen multiplexes them. I also like to have screen windows open with cmus (music) and a python interpreter (my calculator and preferred random 'what to make for dinner' decision maker).

I also prefer the command-line environment for programming and also most general use because of the kool tools it's full of you are no doubt very acquainted with (ls, locate, grep, less, ps, pipes et al).

(End of mysteriously censored post.)

I have no idea why this might have been censored. Maybe it's the obnoxious use of "w/e" as an abbreviation for "whatever"?
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Yes, I am beginning to think my ability and drive to self-teach in my free time, coupled with the fact I do have an extensive work history in other careers, removes much of the benefit of attending college.

How has your MS impacted your ability to find work? I'm deducing it hasn't had a positive impact, and the work experience displaced by your education has had a negative impact.
"While Opera is arguably ahead of the curve in many areas I've always felt they lack the polish everyone else brings. Be it Safari's glossy SpeedDial or Chromes fancy tear-away tabs Opera has a great idea and then consistently falls short of the mark."

Do most users actually comparison shop browsers? Do they try out Opera, Chrome, and Safari and then decide they'd prefer one over the other because of some eye candy the others lack?

I'm sure some power users do, but I would bet that the average user just uses whatever's already installed at work, or whatever browser sounds like what they've heard other people talk about.

They don't have the time or interest to comparison shop (and probably wouldn't even know what to look for, or even that other browsers exist).
Telefonica released internet plans up to 30Mbps in Peru just two weeks ago. But it comes with mandatory HD cable. If you want just internet, the fastest plan they'll give you is a 4Mbps connection (or a 5Mbps "business" plan).
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"over-zealous"

The minister would have been some university educated outsider who presumably thought he knew better than the locals how to spell their names. After all if you see ten families called "Slater" and one called "Sclater" you might think that the last lost simply made a spelling mistake - and what the church said was law (effectively).
Here's an example of a good conf call video by the StackVM guys: http://pkrumins.posterous.com/private/obrvzuHsbn
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Search here: http://www.ancestry.com/ancestry.com/dynamic/immigration

(I have no connection, financial or otherwise, to Ancestry.com)
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A lot of interesting ideas there, but I think one of the main thrusts of the article is poorly substantiated.

The author discusses an "interference term" as being a characteristic of quantum mechanics (which is not exactly right, but nevermind), and then proceeds to describe this so-called "Hilbert-space search" as a natural consequence of that. But actually, the "Hilbert-space search" is just a search algorithm with a bit of semantic fuzzing. There's nothing "quantum mechanical" about it...

A bit of a shame that an otherwise enjoyable and interesting article was spoiled by a poor central argument, but there is nothing in there that directly links quantum mechanics to psychology, other than "ooh, it's weird and unintuitive".
Both the Cell and the Xenon are around 7 years old now and the POWER4-based PowerPC 970, their direct ancestor, is over 9 years old. They're not ancient in the sense of a Z80 being ancient but since the PPC970's inception IBM has itself iterated the Power architecture 3 more times (the current generation is POWER7), not to mention the strides that AMD and Intel have both made in processor architectures since that time.
That is by far the clearest implementation of the Y-combinator I've ever seen. And I'm not even a JavaScript programmer.
This is true. The new Twitter web app is probably one of the best web apps I've ever seen. I still prefer the native version, though.
I wouldn't say that - the size of the discussion last time shows that it's an interesting topic that people think is important. The re-submission here lets people see that previous discussion, and then perhaps add something new here if they feel they have something to add.
Pending Success, consider opening this up to anyone with the Blue Pass. I'm sure there's plenty of people who would be interested in this work model, should be easy enough for you to take a small percentage of each accepted bid.
Laws #1 and #2 for all intents and purposes mean the same. If an unauthorized person is allowed to modify anything on your computer, you could be in trouble.
Regarding posture, I use my tablet mostly like other people hold their book or magazine. At least it can't be less healthy than what those oldfashioned people are doing (in reasonable lighting).
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The point is that a lot of times you don't need to type a lot. For just surfing the web, a tablet is great.
This differs slightly from volunteering to call up all your friends. This is more akin to authorizing Al Gore's robo callers to use your phone number so your friends pick up the phone when they see caller ID.
While not 100%, a strong portion of my heritage is Native American (Iroquois). I cannot answer your poll accurately, you insensitive clod.
Thanks to whoever changed the title.
Ask HN: what is a good iPhone text app?
As AT&T started charging more for text. I need to find an alternate. I want ease-of-use more than bells and whistles.

Thanks in advance. :)
I realize this article is a bit of link bait, and it's certainly not the clearest article in the world, but I do agree with part of your point; Startups need to think bigger. There are so many smart people and so much money being invested in ideas that are simply devoid of any ambition whatsoever.

But you also have to realize that big ideas can incrementally grow out of small ones. These are early stage concepts, and they are still iterating to what their business will grow into. So to knock them for that kind of misses the point of YC.
I wonder how exactly are they going to be charging this in Venezuela... given that Venezuelans only have an allowed budget of 400$ a year to use for Internet purchases if they don't allow for payment in local currency (Bolivares) is going to be hard to get some traction.
Or play Guitar Hero rather than... a guitar.
I also agree. First time I came across their product it wasn't via HN and at first I just assumed they were one of the old-timers who were trying to be quirky with "cool" icons. Otherwise, good job on the product!
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"Is there some way to just turn off github pull requests? They're all jokes." - https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/7#issuecomment-200563...
I think that's the point. Nodejs is a new technology and people are re-inventing all the Twisted (and other technologies like it) wheels so that you can use them from nodejs.
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holding the bigger 10" tablets with one hand becomes tiring. If you lay it flat on a surface then you become hunched over. If you prop it up then typing anything becomes a pain, and having a smaller laptop becomes preferable at this point.
What do you mean by 'old-timers'?
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silly person thinks his opinion means something.

Language is C+. It's not C/C++.

You cannot analyse it.

ASCII 31 is a hard space. All code gets run-through a space-to-tab convertor. Use hard spaces in strings. Smaller code size speeds everything up, including uploads and downloads.

I started hating typechecking when they made "const". Even before that, I found myself fighting the compiler when I used VAX-like doubly-linked-lists.

How shall I explain this.... Suppose I buy canned goods from the store and put them in my cupboard. I can alphabetize them and find more and more ways to arrange them, et nauseam. Silly fools get enamored with organizing and don't write code.

I can do global function-name find-and-replaces with my grep. C++ function names are ambiguous.
It makes the article very misleading. Yes, CS looks great next to garbage output--but there are about a dozen ways to accomplish these tasks in JS and most are almost as concise as the CS examples.

Honestly, if that type of output is why people think Javascript is "hard" or "convoluted," then maybe CS is right for them. As with any tool, a proper knowledge of its use is required and anyone who would write code like that clearly doesn't really know their tool.
Browser testing sites that have been around since the early days of it becoming important.
In that case you should be also asking why people emigrated. I emigrated from the UK to the US and although I now consider myself an aspiring entrepreneur I emigrated entirely for personal reasons.
I guess it is this: http://www.youtube.com/wariolandshakeit2008
It's not necessarily a trivial amount of money -- ralph found over $1000 of bugs.

Of course, that's pretty low compared to the amount of time he probably spent looking for them.

EDIT: I was replying to a comment pointing out that to professional developers the bounties rather trivial in value. I don't know why it was deleted, as it seemed a reasonable point to make...
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I have to agree with other comments here. The tablet form factor is not "winning" per say, just showing that technology has progressed to a point where alternate form factors are now viable for different situations. Tablets are selling like hotcakes because the market hasn't reached saturation point yet. For the most part typical keyboard/mouse style pcs have already filled the market so they are just selling at a standard new user /replacement rate. Tablets are a new form factor so that market is not yet saturated. I have 2 tablets now and I only use them for content consumption when I want to be away from the keyboard. I still find them frustrating to use though for content creation (edit: ...involving any serious degree of typing). This was typed on a touchpad but this is about the limit of what I would ever want to write on a tablet. I won't touch on the numerous ergonomic problems as others here have done that, but they are many.

Different form factors, different uses.
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