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Sorry, I realise I am guilty of over generalising privately educated people. I think your point 2 contradicts point 1 but you are, of course, correct that you have to have the academic excellence to get in. No amount of teaching DJ'ing to gangstas at youth clubs in Tottenham is going to get you into Natural Sciences at Cambridge if you can't do the maths. The critical point here is the application and interview. Given two candidates with similar results they will pick the 'trumpet playing circus performer' over the 'quiet grey blazer wearer' because they are more likely to have a rounded personality which will allow them to thrive amongst all the other things that university life entails. A real world example of this: Two guys in my A-level physics class at school were given offers to study natural sciences at Cambridge. One who was quite shy and introverted without much social life but very hard working with a natural genius for maths and physics. He had a difficult interview and was made a very tough offer conditional on getting the highest possible grade in all his A-levels and two STEP papers. The other guy was more outgoing and I don't remember what his requirements were but they were more lenient. I remember us all discussing the injustice of it in school and the admissions coach said that in his experience they did this as a test to see if he was brilliant enough that they would take him despite the risk that he wouldn't integrate well. They both got in by the way.

I have to say though, I think the current lack of poorer kids from more ethnically diverse backgrounds is more a reflection on the terrible quality of the state education system in inner cities than it is on the universities themselves. When I was thinking about which A-levels I wanted to do (~20 years ago) it wasn't possible at any school in my borough to study the required combination of A-level subjects for a science or engineering degree at say Cambridge, Imperial or equivalent. I switched to the private system for the last 2 years of school because of this and my fellow pupils were light years ahead of me, it was a real struggle to catch up. Their GCSE maths exam (taken at age 15) was set by a different exam board than the state school I left. The first question in their exam was "Factorise the quadratic", the first question in mine had been "Whats the time?" followed by a picture of a digital clock at a railway station. I could hardly answer any of the questions in their GCSE maths exam, I'm sure they would have been able to answer all the questions in mine.
Because at its best Redis is an in-memory database. That means saving log information to it ( the exceptions are log information after all ) will take RAM. And at some point you will have to migrate to bigger VPS just because of that. You can manage that with the expiring keys, but some people prefer to keep their logs for long time.
It's very clear in NYC what to recycle and what not to recycle: http://www.nyc.gov/html/nycwasteless/html/recycling/recycle_...

In fact, a lot of building owners get a flyer they can post in a common area on the building that residents can see and read, although I'm not sure how owners get those flyers (probably by mail).
Yet another brainless move from the Congress party.
I hope Facebook, Google and Microsoft stand up and refuse to cooperate with the government.
Its nice to look at the source before you look at the actual application.
Maybe I will do that, because it will be more convenient for some people. But the Pro version will always be an option for people that don't want to pay monthly charges and are OK with managing their own instances :)

P.S And of course the Open Source version will do the job for most people
I created something to do this using VNC and Firefox a few years back. At the time, people suggesting using webkit to do a simulated render (which I suppose is what you did) but we required Adobe Flash. So, I created a rotator which could create up to 20 VNC screens on demand, start firefox, and create an image using vncsnapshot.
I mean, for example, if you want to receive feedback from your website visitors or customers you can put (on the contact page) your email and phone number which go to your voicemail.
But how could I trust that that's how the system actually works? How would I know that the system isn't BCC'ing all my passwords to the NSA and FBI?
And probably you are right. I can't use my internet banking of one Singapore bank right now. I am not there and cant receive an sms with one time password on my Singapore sim. It sucks!
An acquaintance had good experience with Bulgaria. It was a small outfit, just 5 people to match another 4 people working in US. American company was their only customer.
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Freedom of speech was the one advantage we had over other developing countries. I guess the Indian Gov was scared by the support the anti corruption movement got online.
Why not just go outside for a run around the block? You'd get an actual health benefit from your heart rate being elevated for at least 20 minutes.
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COM and LPT are files, though. And can be treated as such. As in COPY *.PS LPT1:

Devices such as screens were treated as files by their device drivers as well.
Since my father died, 43 years ago, many types of cancer were defeated. He wouldn't die today - he would undergo chemotherapy, radiotherapy or surgery, would go bald, but would live to see his grandchildren.
somewhat related:

When I was in high school many of my classmates told me the 'did not like word problems.' I now realize that kids who do not like word problems are kids who do not understand what they are being taught.

Ant that is most of the kids.
The problem with what you suggest (ignoring the vindictiveness), is that the people pushing for these asinine rules would benefit from the consequences of the loss of the internet while the masses would instead be harmed.

What I'd like to see is thorough background investigations of the people who are pushing for these stupid laws be made very very public, such that they are properly exposed as frauds and sycophants.
Lamar Smith, one of the sponsors of SOPA, told Google something similar. That it should be possible for Google to hire some high-school kids to keep piracy under control on their search engine.
If they don't like math, what makes you think they're "Gifted"?
This is a far more enthusiastic response than I expected to this service. Just to note I'm not (currently) planning on building this service although given the demand maybe I should be.

There are a few interesting points that have come out of this:

1. I anticipated this service appealing to someone who's afraid of computers, I did not expect such a bullish response from people who are very much in control of their machines

2. There is very good (real world) precedent for this in Lifelock who sell a somewhat shady service which packages up some free services the US government offers and then resells them as a package to consumers. The company is KP backed and has made a fortune from this.

3. People have mentioned this being a potential one-key-to-rule-them-all security vulnerability. While storing your passwords anywhere is a vulnerability, this particular one already exists in the form of "forgotten password". Most (but not all) accounts have a "forgotten password" facility which sends a login to your email. Access your email and you've accessed everything with a "forgotten password" facility

4. I believe that as @tylermenezes pointed out, one could avoid storing unencrypted passwords by using your deadbolt password as a two-way encryption key.

It would be interesting to hear the thoughts of security experts on such a solution.
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While that may be a fun read, it's hardly relevant for the average user (or even admin). If you're at that level, I suggest reading relevant the RFCs. :)
"The end result is a system that is more flexible, more responsive, and always keeps your chat contacts and unread count visible"

I have to disagree. The new design hides the unread count of labels you have that didn't make the cut to be always visible. I now have to hover over the label sections in gmail to keep tabs on my labels. Thus I really dislike this new design. What used to be accomplished at a glance now requires conscious mouse movement.

EDIT: As I discovered below in this thread, you can drag the divider and make it so all labels are on screen at once. So my comment is now irrelevant.
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As the comments on the blog show, this is not a convincing argument.
I though the final step was a little misleading. It made it seem as you have to enter your email address to get the download. I clicked download without entering my email address and I thought it was going to give me an error saying it need my email address. It worked, though.
You can’t ship your own frameworks when building for the App Store, so there are mostly just static libraries available for the iOS. And these can be a bit of a pain to set up right, I wrote two short articles about it:

http://zmotula.tumblr.com/post/10157814684

But you’re right – once the library developer packages his code as a static library with good project settings, there are few problems left.
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Micro SD card is built for storing the data and security purposes that are able to download, store, and play secure contents. It is such an awesome invention by SanDisk.
Of course it is. The dichotomy is between going in peace and doing absolutely everything possible, regardless of costs, to live a bit more.
Kepler has certainly made a lot of discoveries. It should be fairly clear to us now that planetary systems are pretty common and, by extension, sentience must (by sheer odds) be out there too.

But I have to wonder how many assumptions go into this so-called "habitable zone". Doesn't it greatly depend on the atmospheric composition? With a different atmosphere, couldn't Venus be habitable (actually it might be in our Sun's habitable zone)? If Mars were larger, couldn't it support the kind of atmosphere that would allow liquid water.

Particularly if such planets were geologically active.

Even if all this stacks up, at 600 light years away, like pretty much any other star system, this planet is across a gulf I'm not sure we'll ever cross, which is a somewhat depressing thought.
Setting aside how completely fictitious that 5% is, here are my problems:

1. Cryonics is the sci-fi version of Pascal's Wager. If cryonics is rational, than by the same reasoning so is Christianity.

2. Cryonics doesn't guarantee quality of life. If the brain is poorly preserved, you might be woken up in the far future with profound and irreparable dementia. And I mean "irreparable" not in relation to the limitations of medical science at a given future date, but in a purely information-theoretic sense. There might not be enough information left in your flash-frozen brain.

3. Cultures don't evolve because people change their minds, they evolve because people die and become outnumbered. If there's one thing the future doesn't need, it's us. And likewise, I think we would be shocked by the future.

4. Even if cryonics is theoretically feasible, I would need pretty good assurance that the cryonics company weren't charlatans. The news so far on that front isn't promising.
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Do you even know what the questions were? If not: how do you know you would have done better?
Great to hear of your husband's success, and good luck to you!
There's no browser support, and it's too much of a hassle to do manually.

I guess you could create a small app that authenticates via an API, which could then copy-paste a signed authentication token to the clipboard, or inserts it into the login page via a plugin.
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The hashes passwords are stored at the provider, no?

Everything he listed relates to security at the provider, which you'd expect as standard. SSL merely secures the connection across the Web to the provider, but not within their system.
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That is a nice post indeed, simple and to the point. I also enjoyed http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/creative-pie-charts-better-i... but that is a different genre of visualisation.
You may want to mention that you are in Amsterdam, otherwise all the HN readers from Europe will assume this is a US project and won't even bother to check it out.
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Thanks for the feedback - I thought it was clear this step was optional with a call to action of "Generate my Vanity Page!" down the bottom, and text along these lines:

> Would you like to hear about exciting new features from VanityPageMaker.com?

> Enter your E-Mail and click SIGN UP to be added to the Newsletter list.

I'll have a think about the best way to communicate this though. Cheers for taking the time to comment.
You can tell he's right because he uses the word "fuck" a lot.
Should you remove mentions of competitors on your website?
The idea of a 'habitable' planet is a cool one, but how relevant is it? Do we really expect that climate is going to be a concern by the time we are colonizing planets 600 light years away?

Now that I think about it, I guess it could be that they are looking for life on other planets and figure that alien life that is recognizable to us will likely be on planets in this zone. I looked at Kepler's mission and they don't really specify why they are looking:

"The Kepler Mission, NASA Discovery mission #10, is specifically designed to survey our region of the Milky Way galaxy to discover hundreds of Earth-size and smaller planets in or near the habitable zone→ and determine the fraction of the hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy that might have such planets."
Touching anywhere other than an icon when the menu is open (including swiping to scroll) causes the menu to close.
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I agree with this way of seeing knowledge. Knowledge of subject X shouldn't be represented as a binary field, since everything is fractal and you could spend infinitely long trying to understand it.
The installation and uninstallation scripts are idiotic, dangerous and clearly untested.
If you look at the diagram for the habitable zone in our own solar system you can see that Nasa would class both Mars and Venus as habitable planets. They already place pretty generous bounds around the habitable zone.

Given the very real possibility that there could have been (still is?) life on mars that makes a lot of sense. (Nasa just sent Curiosity on its way to Mars and one of its main goals is to look for signs of life.)

Still, the only life we currently know of is here on earth. There could be life on Europa, maybe even some other weird places in the solar system but it’s certainly sensible to start with what we know.
I've always felt it was for different reasons.

If Math is a language, then the first 10 years of instruction are essentially spelling tests. There is very little flexibility nor room for creative thought in those years of instruction. Most kids never get to a proof or other areas without a defined path from start to finish. That is like only studying English grammar and never taking a literature test. Sure it can be interesting, but it is hardly creative.

I see mathematics, especially the more abstract areas, as much more similar to the arts than to the sciences.
The upside is my chat roster is not pushed down really far. I know of the labs feature to put the roster on the right side but that ends up having annoying layout quirks (and, admittedly, irrational ugliness) which make that even less desirable.

And then of course the punch line is I don't chat much in Gmail these days anyway.
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Ask HN: Do you work in a startup? Are you happy or unhappy at work?
Unfortunately logic suggests that anywhere that requires a law telling you not to throw hazardous chemicals in the trash is the sort of place where the law will not be obeyed.

It's like "do not walk on the grass" signs
The method I talked about would work diffrent let me expand a little. I can imagen that jumping between two jits is problematic spezially if there is an interpreter throwen in. The method I talk about would use a simple method jit that generates assembly and the code to enable tracing. This compiler would not optimize anything only get rid of the interpreter overhead. Then the trace jit would jump in if it finds a worthy trace. There would be no switching between the two only from one to the other. In the LtU thread they talk about this too.

I don't read anywhere that the method-jit is better in optimizing, i only that the trace-jit dosn't find enought stuff to win. Once you have a good trace you can optimize it like crazy.

Mozilla seams to move in this direction, they have thrown out Tracemonky but in the longrun add one again and as far as I know the want to throw out spidermonky too. The diffrence would be that they would have more power in the method jit and less in the trace jit.

The reason I said that they would have reimplemented alot is that for the intepreter/simple-jit method and trace-jit to work well you need a nicly designed bytecode and I'm not sure they have one atm (I don't really know). There existing implmentation would have to be reworked to use a new bytecode.
People will operate businesses that own their own cabs or individuals their own personal vehicles. Just as we do now.

And the infrastructure we have now will continue to operate.

How will such an infrastructure be built and be operated. Its a mystery. But its already been done by private enterprise.

As to why only one slow lane could be used, I don't see why that would be. Perhaps you could explain. We have many lanes operating now and robotic vehicles would simply use the same lanes.

Perhaps PRT has these limitations. Robotic vehicles that operate like the vehicles that operate like the vehicles we already have wouldn't.

Of course, we do not yet have robotic vehicles that can be trusted to operate in rain or other extreme conditions and that can discern their environment well enough to be safe.

But once we, there's no reason to follow the PRT pattern. We'll simply follow the patterns we already have. Only with much more sharing (cabs) and much more efficiency.
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Proving theorem's is often taught very poorly. If you haven't already I highly recommend you read Lockhart's Lament:

http://www.maa.org/devlin/devlin_03_08.html
The title of the article assumes that gifted kids are supposed to like math. That's plain stupid.

Although a "gifted" child is perhaps more likely to enjoy math than children less likely to receive encouragement and praise for their work in math; there is nothing wrong when a bright child's interest is in history, art, writing or even sports.

To put it another way - as the WPT shows, smart kids often prefer Texas Hold'em to Chess. The idea that intelligent people should desire abstractions rather than concrete engagement with the world is as old as Plato's redirection of Socrates' project from the actual corruption of youth to tomes of political theory.

Likewise, the article is based on a theory that smart kids like math rather than acknowledging that the data show that many of them don't.
You made a logical mistake of confusing these two statements:

1. "Copyright made it possible for an artist to make a living without having a wealthy patron"
2. "Copyright WAS MEANT to make it possible for an artists to make a living without having a wealthy patron"

You seem to think that by disproving (2) you also disprove (1), which is false. (1) is true. (2) may well be false, it doesn't matter.

Your comments about a haircut being a service, not a product, have no bearing on my point that we are approaching a situation in which a hairdresser is rewarded by society for his work, but a songwriter is not. I'm sorry, but pointing out mistakes like this (and if you'd applied the principle of charity you would've seen that it is not quite a mistake) only distracts from the actual discussion.

I'm glad you agree we should find ways to reward the creation of art. I am open to possibilities other than copyright. But so far all I've seen is a lot of handwaving and no workable model.
Re:saddling their family with huge expenses, this is a fairly unique problem in 1st world healthcare situations, in that it mainly applies to people in the US. In most other developed nations healthcare and bankruptcy do not go hand in hand.
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Hi 9999 - get in touch if you want to go into more detail: http://zencoder.com/contact.

As a short answer, though, we're actually quite cheap for most customers. Major internet publishers use Zencoder for a few hundred dollars/month. Large-volume providers use us for less than the cost of a full-time engineer - and the alternative to Zencoder at large scale is a team, not a single engineer. Mission-critical encoding requires a lot of engineering and operations, even when starting from the excellent open-source libraries available.

Beyond that, we generally do things faster, more reliably, and at higher quality than "default" encoding systems, especially around the edges. That's what happens when you throw >10,000 hours of engineering at this problem. Again, get in touch if you want specifics.
Syslog works nicely over the network in a client-server configuration, and has done so for ages.
I guess I'm talking from a founder perspective. It's this 'design co-founder' focus that suddenly people are imaginating out of the sky.

What does design focus mean? Does it mean that it looks pretty or that it loads quickly? Because if it's just looks pretty then great, you have a co-founder for pretty looking stuff who doesn't know how to incorporate the company, do share options, hammer out some SQL, connect to an API, fire off some marketing emails, make the app scale well, call up some lawyers, write a privacy policy and evaluate seven different authentication mechanisms... I guess I don't get what a design cofounder is. What is he/she?

The most successful startup will have: AN EXPERT IN EVERYTHING.

So we've moved from focusing on tech founders to saying 'oh thank god we're finally focused on design'.

Bullshit! It's always been important, it always will be, this stinks of people connecting invisible threads to make an argument for a particular type of person which I would seriously question the validity of in a real boot strapping environment.

Tech startup founder: You code, you hack, you chat, you design, you build, you forget to sleep, you sleep too much, you get drunk, you build some more. Cherry picking individual skillsets out of that as a golden child or focus is just blog filling nonsense.
Well, one of the reasons to look is certainly to figure out what kinds of solar systems are typical. Are all solar systems like our solar system? What are the differences? How common are rocky planets? Its mission is to give us a more detailed picture of the solar systems out there.

It’s about knowledge, not whether or not that knowledge is actually useful.
And you think Excel and GoogleDocs are the best ways to collate data?
The students who went to Harvard most likely attended a prep school that taught them for the test.
SSL as a feature usually differentiate between sites that accept online payments (need to use SSL on their site payment form) and those that don't.
Those that accept online payments seem to be able to pay more for a service than sites that don't accept online payments.

tl;dr sites that need ssl usually can pay more for same service.