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That's why I prefer Hands Off! I agree that neither is fool proof but HO allows me to control disk access as well as network access.

If I've just downloaded a new app, I'll have it ask for permissions for every disk access it needs. After a few runs I'll start giving it permanent access to the dirs I'm OK with it using. No app gets to write to /Applications.

It's a little painful to deal with the pop-ups but I like to know what my apps are up to :-)
Heated argument? Just walk into another room and suddenly everything will go back into perspective. Happens all the time.
As a programming achievement, I think you mean ViaWeb, and the Arc or HN.
My other inbox contained mostly spam, and 1 very important message from a friend.
Previous submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3260250
What are you talking about? "porn stars" in this context refers to (at least somewhat somewhat) widely known performers in sex movies. There were no mainstream movies back then, 'movie actor' wasn't a profession yet, and there was no way to become famous by doing outrageous sexual activities and exhibiting them to a broad audience. In fact in most of the world one would be thrown in jail for showing in public what is nowadays shown on prime time tv.

So, once again, it's ridiculous to suggest that porn actors are less important than scientists only supported by the argument that nobody remembers porn actors from that time. There weren't any!

(note that I'm not saying that one is more important than the other, I guess it depends on the definition of 'important', I don't know nor care - frankly I find the question quite trite and boring. My point is merely that the argument is ridiculous.)
Hackers are not defined by a degree, skill or field. Hackers are defined by a thirst for knowledge and a motivation to improve or manipulate the world around them.
Are you claiming that the people who built Windows were not productive?
why isn't it?

Because in the vast majority of cases the US government does not provide heath care it provides heath insurance. The only large scale government healthcare in the US is the VA which costs a lot less than the rest of the US healthcare system because they pay for the doctors directly and cut out a lot of middle men that drive up costs everywhere else in the US system. They also have more leverage when it comes to malpractice and doctor pay etc.

Now, your rhetorical idea that prices can drop 10% the first year and 10% the second would probably not be far off the mark. (Just compare VA costs with the average hospital etc.) But, in the end it's only going to save around 40% because until we see some real automation there is only so much costs you can cut before quality is impacted.
I think this is kind of a good thing for M$ since it really seemed like they were having a hard time "getting it" for a while there.

Windows Phone 7 seems cool, and there are rumours about Apple using Azure and AWS for iCloud, and now stuff like this. New hobbyist and start-up interest is exactly what M$ needs, so I'm glad they're doing things like this. Hopefully they have the infrastructure and support to match.
Do you like rock n roll? If no, I wouldn't bother. If yes, there is an unbelievable world of music to explore, and you're in luck, because you can easily get most of it on the internet instead of spending countless hours combing through dingy record stores as we used to have to do.

As far as alternative rock music (the stuff that never got played on commercial radio) goes, there are basically two schools: the kick-ass school (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDNzQ3CXspU) and the melodic school (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=844bENvq0e0). If you like either of those, there's a universe out there. I've always loved both. And that's not to mention the parallel/intersecting universe of black music with its tremendous riches. The five peak years or so of late 60s soul, when blues and gospel merged, are particularly great. Their emotional resonance is unmatched by anything anywhere. A mid-period example is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5fqWugnIhk (1967) and a late one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPUGC4zFMjc (1971 or so). Again, there's a whole universe of this. Several, rather.

The 60s and 70s were a musical supernova. Especially the 60s, though the 70s stuff often sounds better. It seems you can spend the rest of your life finding amazing stuff from that era. A guy I knew named Greg Shaw who was one of the great champions of punk and garage rock had over a million records. He went all over buying them for pennies at yard sales because people thought they were junk. Later he released selections of his favorites on low-budget compilation albums. Every generation rediscovers this music. Stuff like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoBB0e-dVhc and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZXkzao9KvA.

As far as rock music goes, the best material today is no different from the best of decades ago. It's the exact same patterns being reworked. Take e.g. the Black Keys- that's all they do. That's no criticism; it's the same thing the "originals" were doing. It's a little weird that 45 years mean so little culturally - i.e. that the music of 45 years ago and today are (technology aside) about the same. The process hasn't been linear. It's more like a state change occurred in the post-war years and we've been living in that reality ever since.
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If you're in the Seattle area check out this amazing artwork. Hear and feel what it's like to be in the deep sea near an active volcano. Unbelievable.
I think that's an approach that--on the outset--anyone can agree with. But the problem is that any decent professional of a field capable of doing that are also not the ones willing to sit in the patent office merely reviewing applications.

It's the same principle as PG mentioned in his essay that first rate technical people do not hire themselves out to do due diligence work for VC's, and as a result the "experts" VC's do send over are generally a joke. What's to prevent the same from happening in the patent review office?
If it was made that way by design, for that specific use, how can it be "very bad"?
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If we agree the original article was meritless, downvote both that article and this, instead of upvoting them both.
Louis C.K. Doesn’t Get Torrents, But Gets Distribution
It's pretty close to that now. I have an RSS feed hooked up to µTorrent that automatically downloads new items I add to my RSS feed (in this case it's TV shows from a private tracker website) or newly available ones from my existing list of favorites. The downloaded files get stored to a folder on my Drobo which I could hypothetically have Plex scan and add to my media library. Instead, because I'm anal about my media sorting, I manually move them to folders by movie/show/season/artist/etc that Plex scans. But that's overkill. Plex then makes my media available on my big TV through my Mini, my bedroom TV through my jailbroke AppleTV and on my mobile devices through the Plex iOS apps.

If the market ever allows for a consumer-level product to achieve this (my solution is very geeky) and it works well, it will be successful.
There is actually a demo:
http://www.excelmashup.com/ExampleApp

However it is not exactly easy to find (I almost gave up and posted the same as you did) and it would nice to have more than one example.
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> Olympus Mons actually has a low slope (about 5 degrees)

By size I meant length, not angle (and completely forgot to talk about angle on the way). Sorry 'bout that.

'though at 10G planet, 200 miles at 5˚ should be plenty fun to walk.
Indeed. But I am curious what would happen if a lot more people did this. Would such an appeal lose effectiveness?
And Chris Dodd quietly retire to become President of the MPAA
1 point for each haha! thanks
Ask HN: Who is looking for a Co-Founder? ( Dec'11 )
After having been to about 20 hacker meetups and other such events, I just wonder what the best online founder dating sites are.
My Android game Rise of the Aliens is kicking some Alien butts
I'm really surprised by their pricing:

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/

Drag each of those sliders even one notch off the ground and you're looking at $600+/month. Our two fully licensed Windows boxes, taking up half a cage at a datacenter cost less than that, all in.

Coming from a backround of using Amazon's cloud stuff, I'm used to it being relatively cheap, or at least not insane. I can't imagine a real-world use case for a service like Azure if that's what it costs just to get off the ground.
> (someone said it was a 1.2 GB file)

I confirm that it is a ~1.2GB file (the file is precisely 1,199,666,893 bytes)
You could pay them at their true value; high-end 6 figures would compensate the dulness and they would work for a healthy cause - the patent office could rise the patent review fees to cover up the costs, which would also have the benefit of eliminating the trivial patent applications that can't pull the weight of the review fees.

I doubt this will raise final consumer prices since for new inventions the price is more often than not what the market tolerates - I think companies will be forced to drop trivial applications as a response to the fee increase.

The other change I would make would be to limit the patent validity to 10 - 15 years max, so after the rich people pay for the research, the invention becomes available to the masses close to the actual production cost.
We are in California. Over the years of our business we have gone from Blue Cross/Anthem to now being with Kaiser- at one point we had a carve out plan where we had both. However, it always makes sense to go through a Broker who knows all the ins and outs each Insurer and its plan. The broker commission is paid by the Insurer not you directly. I believe the broker receives more when you add more employees to the plan - so they are invested in your growth. For our Company, the Company pays the first $200 of the plans monthly premium, the rest comes out of the employee paycheck, pre-tax. For employees 20-29, the premium plans range from $150-400. For 30-39 and Employee+Spouse or Family they go up to $300-1000. The employee can pick any plan that is offered (HSA, HMO, PPO, hybrids).
No, that's how a dictatorship works, not a parliamentary democracy. The prime minister/head of state may set policy, but it's still subject to an up/down vote in the parliament. In all cases I can think of, a prime minister can't unilaterally make such drastic changes without (parliamentary) referendum.

The U.S.'s federated system just makes it more explicit what's going on.
Yeah, it was a pretty huge pain in the ass. I hammered the CEO of the ISP and he gave me some boiler plate response. Honestly, I'm running a startup and the music blog is a fun side project so I didn't pursue it. I sent word to some of the other bloggers that I know have high traffic like I did and that I know share downloadable content. I wanted to know if I was behaving differently than they were, and I wasn't. They were all pretty nervous about the whole thing.

Music blogger in general are huge proponents of driving money to artists; either by putting them on the map or literally driving sales. If you're lucky enough to collect attention on the aggregators you can be pretty sure that your posts will get traffic, so finding a young band with little exposure is hugely gratifying.

Then the record label gorilla lawyers get in the way. Really sad state of affairs.
I wonder if you can achieve the same effect by changing the room decor. We know that in Rat and Mouse hippocampus this resets some of the machinery for encoding space.

The walking through a doorway back to the orginal room is not as neat a control since you must pass through a different room (a reset) before coming back.
In CA, pre-Obama, an Insurer cannot deny an employee based on a pre-existing condition. I believe, The Health Care Act made that standard across the U.S. Some people with pre-existing conditions in CA used to form husband-wife companies to employ themselves and get Insurance.
Roy Walford "proved" that calorie restriction with nutrient supplementation does nothing for ALS. So I'd want to look at the details.
For a hobby developer or small business where time is precious, using built-in HTTP libraries is far easier and faster than implementing this: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Network...

Sorry, but you're not going to convince me that rolling your own implementation of Apple's APNS is better than an HTTP-based APNS would have been.
what I really like about stackoverflow is that it is very well designed to be a permanent, constantly accreting repository of useful information. I've even managed to answer one of my own questions by posting it, and then noticing a useful fact in an answer to one of the "related questions" in the sidebar (and this was after a lot of unsuccessful googling first).
The monthly contribution amount is determined by company policy. It can be a $ amount or %. It just needs to be stated in policy and applied consistently to all employees.
This looks like an interesting bug. I wonder if there are more bugs like this from the website view such as analytic tools giving you false or misleading information? Or, even monitoring or performance tools?
I tend to think that socialized medicine is a great cost hedge

Of course, for this to work, there has to be a lot, possibly the majority, of super-payers who pay more into the health care system via their taxes than they receive back.

So, Scandi style health care can in a way be seen as a government-enforced mandatory health insurance, except that unemployed people get it for (almost) free.

Then again, a huge socialized health care system might have better economies of scale (or they might be worse). Also, let's not forget that people can go to medical school for free in Scandinavia, which is bound to have some kind of effect.
Read somewhere that you should be doing the work you find funny/rewarding/explorative instead of the boring work.
Irrespective of the Hunch/Ebay acquisition, it's nice to see Chris blogging so much again.
The idea seems good, but I think many people would prefer a demo (or more explanation) about how it actually works, preferably without the user needing to supply his/her email.

On the technical side, the scrolling text seems to overlap to the next line on some zoom-settings (I'm using Firefox 8 if it matters).
I find this kind of embodied cognition fascinating. Feng shui, anyone?

What are some good reading tips in this area?
Definitely. The only reason I bought it was to support DRM free content, not because I was actually particularly interested in it. If this was standard practice I would not just be buying for the novelty.
That said, I definitely think it is possible to build a scalable system that works, it just needs some innovation.
While I think you probably have a point that drug trials costs are difficult to recoup without patents, I also have the impression pharma patents introduce a whole bunch of other distortions - to the point that patents in that field probably do more harm than good.

I'm sure w can find a better way to handle the cost and risks of trials.

As an aside: it seems history seems to agree that having no patent protection seems to work better for the pharmaceutical industry, see for instance, here:

http://righttocreate.blogspot.com/2005/12/why-drug-companies...
This seems to be a transition stage for fine motor skill robots with advanced object recognition capabilities. A few more iterations will surely make the human counterparts obsolete, as demonstrated by the rapid automation of manufacturing giants such as FOXCONN.
This explains why I don't receive event invitations anymore- my Other folder is full of them.

Unfortunately, a check also revealed a (now former) client asking for some urgent advice. Wrong forum for him to do that, but an awkward position to put me in.
Louis C.K. is great and I agree with you, but nobody tops Larry David on Curb for uncomfortable situations.
Discovery of the Higgs Boson rumoured to be at 3.5 sigma.
agree with sibling comment - what exactly happens when i sign up? so i get a link to send people, what does the user see? how do they pay? etc. these are the first questions i have and should be answered on the landing page, maybe with a video demo.

Another bit of feedback - imo remove the end bit of this sentence, in your FAQ re. pricing: "Simple. It's 5% + $0.30 for each transaction. We're working hard to get this lower.". You have just put the idea in my head that 5% + 0.3 is too much. now i have doubts. maybe now i should shop around? or roll my own? or wait for prices to go down? no need to sow this seed. 5% + 0.3, and you are covering transaction costs? total bargain
As somebody (Jon Bentley? Gerald Weinberg?) says he was corrected, this was in fact very much not the way the Wright brothers worked. They had no degrees but they were very careful engineers.
I used 'CSS: The Missing Manual' to learn how to build CSS based layouts several years back. It obviously doesn't cover CSS3 (unless it has been updated). Reading it from cover to cover was enough for me to get started, and then going back to it occasionally (and google) as a reference.

It's sitting in a stack of books that I need to dispose of so if you're interested then I'll send it your way.

Edit: Although the book doesn't cover CSS3, the book teaches you what you will learn anyways (as CSS3 builds on existing concepts (as well as adding some new ones)); so you don't have to worry about learning outdated 'dis-information' (I think!).
The Gel Dilemma
You can't actually know that.
Damn, I would've bought it if not for requiring PayPal. I don't have an account or want one.
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Great feedback (from all of you)! I'll add more information and a demo link to the home page this weekend. And I agree with that too, removing now.
The most exciting part is that once a few large companies like FOXCONN make a commitment to robotic manufacturing, we may be able to see the exponential decreases in robot costs we have been waiting for as they want cheaper sensors and actuators in larger quantities. Robotics have been (and are) incredibly expensive, but but we are reaching a point where the price will begin to plummet.
Your observation is a good and material one. Not everyone will be as observant. As such, it's up to publishers to be as transparent as possible to distinguish reportage from opinion, paid content from more traditional editorial, contributions from staffers "vs" non-staffers, and what represents the voice of the publication "vs" individual contributors (regardless if they're staff or otherwise). IMO, the industry has work to do here - and Forbes is doing a good job of it so far.

(I work at Forbes; my opinions are my own.)
Are you familiar with the home concert movement with musicians? Its essentially what you're proposing, but in a different industry. You may want to do some research to see if they've run into any problems, just so you know what to look out for.

I personally don't know too much about it, except that every party in the home concert ecosystem absolutely _loves_ it. The hosts throw an awesome party for their friends at a reasonable cost, and the musicians get paid while entertaining a grateful audience with what they love to do. I don't see how this would be any different -- good luck!
For students there's DreamSpark: https://www.dreamspark.com/
This is not an example of 'evil' facebook, but poor user experience. Facebook clearly does a poor job of explaning the user hat the inbox actually contains
You don't need an account, you can just use PayPal as a CC processor.
Emscripten is not a viable alternative. The Javascript it generates is too slow for performance intensive things, which is the whole point of NaCl. Flash is too unstable.
I'm not talking about "picking up the basics". I doubt that level of knowledge will get you a job offer from Google.

I'm extremely skeptical about your claim. Just reading through the chapters will take the better part of a day. Working through the exercises and thinking about what each of these algorithms will take much longer.
An "I.T. service interruption virus"? This combination of cluelessness about and total dependence upon computers is starting to be a serious problem.
Sure. If the questions are stuff like define O(n) notation, you can. I suspect any company worth working for will ask you a bit more than that, though.
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Too bad the LinkedIn API only lets you see one level deep into your network.
While it often seems to surprise Americans, there's nothing about a universal postal service - or even universal postal service - that requires granting anyone a monopoly. Many countries have allowed competition in the postal market and/or privatized their postal service. The results have mostly been very positive. Really, it's a bit like suggesting that the only way we can be sure every American can purchase food is to grant a Federal Food Service a monopoly on all retail food sales. It just isn't so.

Basically, there are three ways you can provide universal service:

1) Split the country up into regions, and reverse auction contracts to provide service; contracts require mail interchange with other contractors. Not common in the postal sector, but widely used elsewhere.

2) Designate one entity as the universal service provider. Could be state owned (as in NZ) or floated on the stock exchange (as in Germany). Since providing universal service is expensive, the government provides a subsidy to cover the cost. Accounts are reviewed periodically to ensure the subsidy is in-line with costs, and that value is being obtained for the money.

3) Designate one entity as the universal service provider. Don't directly subsidize them, but instead grant them monopolies on random services which you fondly hope will provide revenue streams broadly similar to what universal service actually costs.

Method 3 has a few disadvantages:. It's unfair, it's expensive, it's opaque, and it doesn't actually work. For example, at some point, the monopoly revenue will be too high. With nothing else to do with the cash, it'll get spent on lavish infrastructure, marble floors, and gold-plated pensions. Later, changing market conditions means the monopoly revenue falls, and the postal service goes bankrupt. Insanity.
I'm just finishing the last book of the The Baroque Cycle, and it's pretty good. I recommend making it through.