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If you haven't figured it out already, this is a terrible, terrible idea. I tried a variant of this for about two years in college and it caused way more problems than it solved (actually, I don't think it solved any problems).

Despite what you may think about the righteousness of the Truth, people get offended. People get offended at even the slightest of things. Even if they're completely obvious.

We have social filters because they help people get along. The people around us don't want to know our real thoughts and opinions because they are often hurtful or awkward. It shouldn't matter, in the normal course of interaction, what I think about you, your clothes, how you talk, or what I think about anything. By filtering out some of my thoughts & opinions, I avoid pouring sand into the gears of interpersonal relationships.
IMHO, there's a pretty ludicrous amount of hype about NoSQL and various JS-related technologies on HN.
I went with name.com.
We just moved our DNS from Network Solutions to Route 53 this month, and I can verify that there are indeed resolvers that'll ignore TTLs. Ours were 3-6 hours, but it took some sites about 24 hours to pick up our new SOA.

Which would have been fine - the A records were the same - but no, NetSol instantly starts serving a blank "Business Profile" landing page A-record. Thanks, people who used to run the Internet.

I know one such caching server was ns1.dns.rcn.net. (But only from inside RCN; querying it from Comcast gave different results. Same IP address, so I'm assuming it's anycast.) whatsmydns.net reported others as "Bell South" and "Cox" (I can't recall the locations, I think one was in Georgia).
I've had good luck with nearlyfreespeech.net for a while now (pre go-daddy exodus).

The only reason I had a domain @go daddy is that nfs doesn't do the .me tld. That domain is being moved to namecheap.
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Most people haven't served in the military, but have you ever played a war game? Deciding where to move the weapons platforms and which objects are targets for what is the very essence of fighting a successful battle.
Not quite: maybe I just want to put all my stuff in a truck, give it to a guy, and get a check. I don't want to worry about shipping and accepting payment from a hundred different people and keeping my listing up to date and figuring out pricing and not getting scammed.
In response to this item on the front page: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3397619

I'm going to leave this page up for a week and then I'll publish the results under a CC license next week.
Hover[1] says they'll handle xfers for you; not sure how far that help extends (we xfer'd ours manually without a hitch) but they've generally been very pleasant so far.

[1] https://www.hover.com/
I've always wondered why Wikipedia doesn't include affiliate links to Amazon on all their book and movie articles.

I think their current logic is that affiliate links force them to choose which online store they want to support, which is something they appear loath to do.

Look at the page they send you too when you do try to buy a book in an article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0802130984 . It's so large and completist that it has two tables of contents, and it's so obsessively non-preferential that it does a good job of hiding the one amazon.com link that most people are probably looking for.

Personally, I've bought 100s of books and DVDs after reading their Wikipedia articles, and I'd be happy to let the WikiMedia Foundation get my affiliate dollars.
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Read the entire section... the point is about what Wittman did with a single tank and no orders from his superiors. Yes, he had radio on that tank.
What about square?
Ask HN: I jailbroke my iPod Touch. Now what?
I read an article on HN about a jailbreak coming out for iOS 5, so I decided to give jailbreaking a shot. I jailbroke my 4th generation iPod touch. I have looked around Cydia a bit, but have not downloaded anything yet. I am not very knowledgable when it comes to jailbreaking, but I am sure there are some HN users who are. Please share your opinion on the best things you have gotten from Cydia, so I can make the most of my jailbroken iPod Touch.
While perhaps not an advance, the algorithms implemented are state-of-the-art (GNFS, Pollard's p-1 test, Williams' p+1 test, cyclotomic polynomial test). But whatever the running times, it is an astounding artifact.
This was a hilarious comment and I also enjoy this thread in general.
I really like Google+ also, but without all my Facebook friends (I deactivated Facebook after they overwrote my privacy settings) it's not nearly as useful or fun.

I'm trying a new technique - rather than saying "Hey, join Google+! It's really cool!" to people; I'm saying "Ah, yes, Facebook... I used to be one of _those_ people."
Just a few observations.

I signed up. A small notification was displayed in the middle of the page, which scrolled off the bottom of the browser viewport. Scrolling down didn't help because the notification window had a fixed position. I had to hide my bookmark toolbar to increase the size of the viewport.

You seem to use these notifications in several places. I expected that hitting the escape button would also close them, as well as clicking the "X" in the top right.

When searching for a domain, it doesn't let me use full stops. I'm sure you did this on purpose, but it doesn't feel natural/right. It's unexpected behaviour.

I'm sure if I transferred in a domain, I'd get access to a DNS management interface that I currently can't see. I'd want to see this before transferring in though. Maybe each account should come an example fake domain. "example.com" ?

I'd also want to be able to configure up my DNS on your servers before I start the transfer... Or at least have it automatically enabled once the transfer has completed.

I visited the email confirmation URL twice, and received two separate "Your email address has been confirmed" emails.

Hitting the "delete" button in the search input field should work. "backspace" works, but "delete" doesn't. If you're not going to let me enter certain characters in that field, like full stops, you should also prevent me from pasting them in.

I've just emailed you through your website about an XSS flaw
I agree, though I think Google should do more to promote this use case by offering rich text editing and draft saving to the posting UI.
Argument?

I said it reminded me of something and described it.

Anyway, try looking for similarities. Anyone can find differences between things, but what do we learn from that? We already know no two things are perfectly identical.

I find we learn more from similarities in things we expect to be different.
Thanks I just flagged it too. I'm not sure what that means, I hope it means this is a BS article and let's get back to the stuff that puts food on our tables.

Your comment was very articulate thanks.
I would love to have an uncle whom I could talk about cryptography with. You were very lucky!
This was just a hack of a random e-commerce site. They (like thousands of similar small businesses) sell equipment to police and weekend warriors.

The title is a bit misleading, the site had a "Secured by GoDaddy" logo on it, because the site had purchased its SSL certificate from GoDaddy and they throw the security logo thing in for free.

EDIT: My bad. They also paid the $4.99/month for the "Hacker Safe" logo.
Maybe the new Facebook timeline is to blame? :)
I wrote mogade.com which is a free leaderboard/achievement system (much like scoreloop and all them) primarily focused on windows phone developers. At some point, someone at MS generated a list of the 50 most used 3rd party libraries in all WP-app submissions and mogade was somewhere in there (30s or 40s iirc).

For nothing more than a side project, I'd call it pretty successful...but the little insight it's given me into the WP world is that the platform really isn't doing well.
Exactly right. A startup's project is their bread and butter making them all the more inspired to do the best they can. Where as a Google can just write it off if it doesn't work out; they also probably won't have their best people working on a fringe/experimental project.
I'm excessively honest. It's a tough row to hoe. I've worked hard at learning to live this way without just going around being an asshole all the time. Pulling that combo off is even tougher. One key: Honesty and full disclosure are not the same thing. I am entitled to my own opinion. Other people are not entitled to my opinion (ie I do not have to tell them what it is just because I have one). Learning when to keep my big fat fucking mouth shut is a good thing. "A closed mouth gathers no feet."

In short: Honesty and indiscretion are not synonyms.
If there are spammers targeting G+, they must be doing a crappy job, because it hasn't even registered on my radar as a fairly active regular user.
I signed up for DNSMadeEasy a few months ago so I could move away from my Registrar's slow & complicated DNS servers. I'm glad I did, the price is pretty good (I have 20 domains listed), their user interface is easy to use, and the template & zone transfer options are very useful for doing your migration.

Highly recommended.
I used to be at Amazon, I hear you on all the frustration, and it's amazing how much more productive I am now when many of these pain points are removed.

I seriously have no idea where Amazon finds their office chairs. Nobody's asking for Aerons, but the chairs Amazon puts in their offices are worse than my chair at home I got at IKEA. It's like someone went out there and spent effort finding the worst, least comfortable, least adjustable chairs they could manage.

Where I'm working now there's a firm belief that if you need gear to do your job, just buy it and expense it. I've never been challenged on any tech expenditure, including a 30" Cinema display, something that would be the height of luxury (and entirely unheard of) at Amazon.

For those not familiar with Amazon, they do provide whiteboard markers - you can fetch them from the copy room at any time, along with all manners of office supplies. For some reason though, nobody ever orders enough whiteboard markers, and pretty much whenever someone restocks the copy room the markers are gone in a matter of hours. It's a frustrating part of Amazon life to raid nearby conference rooms so you can actually have your meeting, or when someone else wants to jump in on the whiteboard you have to hunt around to find another color. This really is a pain point that shouldn't exist. It's a fucking whiteboard marker for crying out loud. Facilities also insists on stocking those rainbow-palette packs of whiteboard markers, which means every pack of markers you run across will be full of the colors nobody uses (yellow?!) and the black/blue/red will always be gone.

It's not really that frustrating while you're there, but in hindsight I'm not sure how I put up with that. It's such an unnecessary waste of engineering time.

> "Things I've yet to buy but need to:"

They just need to give devs new desktops. Before I left my dev desktop had a 140GB drive, with 4GB RAM, and a Celeron CPU. A full build of my code base took 15 minutes when on any modern $700 desktop it'd be a small fraction of it. I'm pretty sure Amazon has lost enough money on my engineer-twiddling-thumbs-while-code-compiles lost time to buy a room full of top-end desktops. It's the most puzzling, absurd frugality strategy ever.

I've worked at a number of code shops before, and Amazon is the only place (and the largest company, puzzlingly) where the hardware was actively, and massively holding back my productivity as an engineer.
The same total energy would be transferred, but it would be spread out over a larger area. If the area is sufficiently large, then all you've done is raise the temperature of Germany by one degree for a while.

(Still, there are plenty of configurations that make good kinetic-kill weapons with a manageable amount of re-entry heat. Think large rods with good amounts of mass and small cross-sections. This is an engineering problem, not a show-stopper.)
I have a Chase Visa card with a Southwest Airlines tie-in for a fictional person (they offered an extra 5k airline miles at signup if I got an additional card for a "family member"). No SSN was requested.
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Radical honesty is considered abuse, especially when your observations are 100% empirically true and spot-on and everyone can see it including the person targeted.

They wrote about this problem 3000 years ago. "Correct a fool and he will hate you, correct a wise man and he will love you".
The prime numbers group on yahoo is quite good. You might be able to entice someone to explore what your uncle has done.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/primenumbers

The group contains experts in this field that manage to do a commendable job of responding to questions at many levels.

It's a shame that your uncle didn't have a chance to connect with them.

Good luck.
I also read Lying and I thought it was really, really vapid. I would have liked Harris to go into more social techniques that allowed him to be honest without offending. Instead of that, which would have been very useful, Harris simply parroted the old "lying doesn't solve problems..." Honestly, Lying seems like something he pumped out in a short weekend because he hadn't released anything in a while. Very disappointed.
>> Also running nearly everything as root.

Not really. It seems everything runs from a virtual environment under the Ubuntu user which is not root btw.
namecheap, but .name and .ws can't goto namecheap. Decided to not renew those anyway. Only thing left is a ssl cert for a client. Will wait that one til expire.
I have not told a lie in roughly ten years -- although something bugs me about that statement, rankles me deeply, so I suspect I may have said something wrong at some point. I do, however, keep a lot of things to myself. I can speak truthfully without injecting lies, and I keep silent when it is obvious the truth (as I see it) is unhelpful or causes trouble. I will occasionally dodge a question, too, in order to keep conversation flow moving; it is another form of keeping silent, although some will consider that that is a kind of lie (probably because they feel entitled to an answer). I am also apt to answer the question that somebody really meant to ask rather than the easy surface question ("Do you have spare change?" == "Do you have spare change that you are willing to give me?" ==> "No.").

How does that affect my relationship with my wife? We both have been able to be very honest with each other, and we have a relationship built strongly on trust and honesty. I hope I never break that because it would be a betrayal. It is really about the tone used to express the thought if the thought is important enough to express in the first place.

I despise the whole concept of "white lies". I despise people who dare to manipulate me, to condescendingly see after my own good or feelings by bald-face lying to me about something. Be honest or say nothing, but do not dare tell me excuses that are obvious lies, "socially acceptable". According to whom? Where do you draw the line between "white" and "black" lies? I do find it insulting, and I often do not mind calling people out on it; sure, things get uncomfortable, but they are the ones spouting deceit.

Perhaps it boils down to the notion that what somebody expresses is a measure of their integrity and honor. Somewhere I read a quote along the lines of... You can judge a man by two things: what he wants and what he is willing to do to get it.
In that case surely you should be at home recuperating, rather than spreading germs to your coworkers?
It doesn't follow in every case, but here the calculations are things like missile ranges, acceleration values, maximum speed, etc. These all seem to be rather simple Newtonian calculations.

Basically the problem dilutes down to: plot an intercept course, fire weapons, rinse, repeat.
There is a year or two of work on top of the documentation I have included. Also, I think it is likely that there are some incremental improvements to the existing algorithms that my uncle put in place without necessarily documenting. Whilst these might not be theoretically interesting, their combined effect could be significant. There may also be some new maths in there too, as he was undoubtedly a brilliant mathematician.
It can get this bad, yes.
I would love to join Google+ but they still haven't fixed the pseudonym issues. Twitter it is, I guess.
What does G+ spam look like?
I learned html in middle school (2000-2001?) and have always been semi-comfortable with it. CSS too, which I also brushed up on for BadNYCapartments.com.

And I definitely need basic HTML skills for my day job for html emails, things like that.

But this was a whole different ballgame!
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I'm sure this is an individual experience, but I consider the fact that many of my Facebook "friends" aren't on Google+ to be a feature, not a bug. ;)
As someone else pointed out, the attorney costs are likely more than the judgement.

On the flip side, it's death by a thousand cuts. Even just 500 customers causing a stink with little court cases all over the place are a reporter's wet dream. It's an army of self-made David's taking on Goliath. Throw in that - in many cases - they may have a local David and there will be a swarm of "local man fights monster mega corp" stories all over.

And as a few of the cases get settled, it becomes ammunition for the next cases. And that works both ways.
Wouldn't the $25/hour still be taxable? (I understand that nobody pays taxes on small cash amounts, but if we're considering its viability as a business it seems unfair to compare one option with tax evasion and one without.)
I wonder if I should stream Netflix on my Blackberry while taking Tylenol?
I'm trying to decide if you really enjoyed it, or are deceiving me (us) to get upvoted. I am ashamed of myself for thinking another human being is being deceitful, when in fact he may actually be being completely honest.

I am now worrying that telling complete truths is taking too much time, self-reflection and thinking to be good as a day-to-day activity.
The way I read it went like this...

1. Customer makes a $50 purchase.
2. Merchant gets over his head with new business, makes some mistakes.
3. Customer flips out on second email to merchant, tries to create problems for him with Visa.
4. Customer proceeds into a "principle" (aka ego) driven exchange with merchant that goes nowhere, turns into some kind of a pissing contest.
Maybe, but I had a bad hair cut for 3 years, and I wish someone had had the balls to tell me.
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This FAQ is linked in the comments of the OP, but I thought it bears rereading. It's not just conflict of interest, it's also privacy, and the fact that the community just plain doesn't want advertising. In fact, Spanish Wikipedia already forked once, out of concerns that Wikipedia would become too commercial.

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/FAQ/en#Why_doesn.27t_Wik...

It's true that other projects manage to combine collaboration with some traditional revenue sources such as advertising. But, rightly or wrongly, this is the community's choice, and it seems to be how the general public feels about the site too. There's something about a mission to promote knowledge that people want to keep mentally, physically apart from commerce. A friend of mine (non-techie, non-wikipedian) describes Wikipedia as a "sacred space".

Finally, and this is my own take on it, I think there's something valuable about having the reader community take ownership in something, rather than just be eyeballs to be packaged.

Disclaimer, I work for the WMF, although not on fundraising.
For a freelancer, not being able to find customers is a scarlet-fever-grade problem, and oDesk is an aspirin-grade solution.

I'm not going to berate anyone for using oDesk, especially if they've found an oDesk groove that works for them. But I'd strongly encourage freelancers --- especially prospective freelancers --- to put lots and lots of effort into figuring out how they're going to do customer acquisition outside of sites like oDesk.

Whatever you may think about how convenient oDesk is, you are at the nadir of your professional competitive positioning on sites like that, and will probably (and avoidably) get your worst possible bill rate as a result.

I'd generally like HN'ers to be better at freelancing (it's the best way to start a new company, and it's the direction the industry is moving long-term), and so I'm prickly about things like oDesk which make it harder, not easier, to be a going freelance concern.
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The point is that the information about the book might not be completely objective when money is involved. It's that tiny bit of bias that might get injected in the article, by someone who is affiliated, be it Amazon employee or someone from Wikimedia. When this might not be a real issue, no one can be sure, and the trust in absolute objectivity is lost.
To be honest, most of the time I didn't have a clue what he was talking about, and I was by far the most mathematical of the family! He wasn't a great teacher, but he was certainly an inspiration. And apart from all this, he was a great uncle, and great company.
Even if you don't use OpenDNS, it's a great URL to keep bookmarked if you are a site owner. Instantly propagate DNS changes to a few percent of the internet with no worries.
There are 2 obstacles that prevent real cuts in the budget:

1) Most politicians don't want to cut from the groups that support them, so they will vote against any bill that cuts that budget. Nobody wants to cut their own sacred cow. Ron Paul is the only one from the candidates who has said he wants real cuts of about $1 trillion from the budget in year 1, and a balanced budget within 3 years.

2) The people may understand that cuts are needed, but just like in that poll where the confidence rate in Congress itself is 9% and for their own Representative it's about 50%, they also think that they should cut from other programs, and not from programs affecting them.

So basically, even though the debt is running rampant, most politicians and people think the cuts are someone else's problem.
Thanks for the suggestion, I will explore this.
Sure, but even today, raw material resources tend not to be the sort of things criminals target directly. You rarely get thieves trying to steal lumber, or iron ore, for example, because they have a low price-to-weight ratio.
Ask HN: Can You Recommend Local SF/Bay Area Accountant
I tried searching for threads on HN and on Quora but most of HN is really old and Quora doesn't really have much...

Can anyone recommend who they use for personal and/or startup accountant? Please indicate which or if they do both. Thanks
I don't know what the answer is for wikipedia. But I do know that I use dictionary.com less frequently because of the ads.

An extreme example of how far this goes was the Apple iPad ad that ran on yahoo.com a week or so ago. It WAS the upper fold of the front page. Fixed in place at 974px by 500px just below the search bar and logo. Bam. Here I am. Buy me now. No doubt paid some bills but made me think "this organization has a price."

My impression is wikipedia values the way users interact with its content and would rather not introduce distractions.
Notice how they have 2 godaddy badges. The one of the right is the SSL one, as you're describing. The one on the left however, actually reads: "Hacker Proof... Scanned by...".
Which is actually even more misleading. How about, "Staffers pirate content in US House."