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No, but if you can control travel to and from the resource, then you can park your forces there, and say, shut off the population's air supply. Better yet, threaten to do so, unless they all get onboard a shuttle.

Sure, but the important part is perfect visibility. You and your opponent know exactly where each other are at all times. If you blockade, you will be a sitting duck for surface to ship weapons. You have to maintain a high velocity to avoid this. The alternative then is to intercept their transports, and even if you do that, you still have to refuel somewhere. (It seems like it might be better sending unmanned missiles to 'intercept' the transports anyway). And the refueling platform or space ship or missile platform will probably be a sitting duck at some point.

Maybe someone can weaponize psychological disorders or sociological pathologies this way? It's harder to make a group work well together than it is to make a group that is dysfunctional. Maybe this is already happening?

I think this is quite likely, you could even engineer people who are simply annoying and send them to cause trouble within in a small mining colony. For example, a person who chews loudly, has bad breath and terrible BO would put a huge strain on a group if you had to share sparse quarters and limited oxygen.

Throw in a sociopath with a strong will to power and you've at least got an 8 part miniseries.
I was specifically referring to the use of the word "lightweight". I have no strong feelings either way about the course, expensive or not..
By this logic, it is impossible to evaluate any open source project, because all that ends up being evaluated is the reviewer's personal failure to implement whatever qualities they were looking for.
Funny, I seem to run into people everywhere saying you can't trust Wikipedia. Where are all these people who take it as Gospel?
> It is usually used to describe a riskless transaction.

In the academic sense, yes. In reality, no.
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it can be used for emulating nodejs' fs module.
There are several things I've never had a good understanding of regarding the stack. How big is the stack? Is it a fixed size dictated by the architecture of the processor? I know I've written recursions that overflow it. Other than gut feel and catching an exception after the fact, how do programmers know when their program might overflow it?
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After verifying with my twitter account, here's what I am seeing on twitter

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Excuse me? Update my profile? Post tweets FOR ME? Noooo way, thanks
So s3 is like memcached now but slower.

The ability to do suffix based deletion would be nice since I lacked the foresight to prefix my thumbnails with their dimension. Although I could wipe all my thumbnails and rebuild them on the fly...
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I meant something like a combo of AI with orders beamed every now and then.
Probably downvoted because 1) Priceonomics of course has never had any intention of actually buying and selling used items and 2) there are actually many examples of good businesses buying and selling used items (and, in fact, office furniture is one of them).
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Personally, I find the $2,000 Macbook and $800 chair offensive. I just know well enough to keep my opinions on what people ought to spend their money on to myself (most of the time).
"The problem was fixed by turning the unit off and then on again."

Good to see IT support was immediately on deck with a fix.
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> will always store passwords with bcrypt, sanitize user input and not store any purely private data in plaintext, I'm not going to make a decision about password security that might mean losing customers.

This seems incredibly short-sighted, highly unethical, and a breach of the perceived (or possibly legal, IANAL) fiduciary responsibility of an e-commerce site. You are knowingly and willingly risking your customers' sensitive data and, by extension, their financial well-being in order to benefit in the short term.

Edit: In response to the above edit, my whole point is simply that if you are trusting your credit card details to a site, then you should be confident in the security of that site. I meant that it appears from all evidence I've seen that a good heuristic is to say that no creation rules implies an insecure site overall. This won't be true for all sites of course, since it's abductive reasoning, but I think in practice it's useful.

Another important point I made is that there is no point in saying "I use bcrypt" as a defense here. If you let users choose any password without any checks, they will choose passwords that are short, common, and consequently easy to crack, even if hashed and salted via bcrypt. It may take 1000x longer than if they were encrypted with just a salted MD5, but we're still talking about effectively instantaneous cracking in either case.

I'm not sure why everyone thinks I'm overreacting here. If your users cannot see/access their cc info because it's stored securely via some other service then I suppose that is a lot better, since an attacker cannot actually gain access to the credit card data. Still, it just seems wrong to me to be so insecure about user information simply because they don't understand/care about the potential consequences right now.
I'm not sure if Priceonomics' vision is a viable business but it is relatively easy to see how it can offer information that is better and more valuable/useful than the very raw data currently found on Ebay and Craigslist.
I used to buy a brand called "Bioforte" because ConsumerLab tested it and said it was the best value. However, lately I just pick it up from Costco.

It's impossible to tell any difference in day to day life really -- but I certainly haven't noticed any negative effects.
Why don't Americans just admit we're stealing Iran's economy for the "jews".
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Reed Hastings' inclusion in the list is surprising, but the exclusion of Aptheker is shocking. That man didn't just destroy shareholder value, he jeopardized HP's consumer business.
Other leaders who probably deserved a spot in the list are Ariana Huffington and Carol Bartz.
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"suggested it may be down to a high-energy atmospheric particle striking one of the integrated circuits within the unit."

Radiation shielding aside, how in God's name would you design a system to survive those kinds of errors? If some circuit deep down in the core logic of the black box just suddenly spiked a random voltage, it would be really hard to predict (and correct) the damage. Hell, that voltage spike might even kill the actual error-handling code!

Redundancy seems to be the best way to go (with three being the optimal number), but I guess there's still always a chance of things going wrong. I'm glad everyone survived
Oops, somehow I accidentally cut off one line. I actually was going to ask if you were planning to open source the backend code, since you open sourced the frontend. Maybe that doesn't make sense because then someone else could start a competing registrar without the dev costs.

I guess my main concern is that I get a bunch of credits (instead of tacking on many years of renewals), and then poof they disappear one day. If I had used them to buy extra years, then those would stay even if the registrar goes awol (as I've heard in the horror stories).

Could you theoretically "make it up in volume" for $8/credit? It looks like it costs wholesale $7.34 + $0.18 = $7.52 for one year of .com, I guess you would need at least a million domains (1% of the .com market share) to about break even with salaries, rent, and fixed registrar fees.

Thanks for the quick answers.
This is almost as much an indictment on the competition as it is GoDaddy. The fact is, marketing and branding can still sell a lot of product (even if the marketing is goofy and the product is sub-par). It's still not even clear to me which other vendors we should be considering. Namecheap, I guess.
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So what is that variable cost?
Who cares. The genius part about Hacker News is that it is democratic (mostly). If it is a good thread/discussion then the people want to keep it even if it is off topic.

My two cents anyway...
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Mars is not somewhere to live, it's somewhere to explore.
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The "switch to something else to fix a bug" strategy is clearly unsustainable. What do you do when you find a bug in chrome then? Switch back to firefox? Switch to opera first before you switch back to firefox? Just change browsers every month in the hope that they all have different bugs?

(chrome has plenty of bugs: the latest update on linux has a tendency to hang and use 100% cpu in some glib functions)

On the other hand to do changes to large code bases on short notice is a big asset to your programming skills. See it as a challenge. It's well something you could put up on your resume.

Often the main challenge is just to find the code, and if
you can't do that can you deal with any other non toy
code bases? Once you found it a lot problems are easy.

nn -- (who has one patch in Firefox)
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Perhaps argument was the wrong word.

As a personal note, disagree about what you think we learn more from. I find differences far more interesting. If the universe was all the same it would be immensely boring. It's the differences that make us question everything else that has been the same before.

Metaphysics and all, and quite useless practically. But it's fun to discuss :)
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When I was at IBM, they gave us ~$200 to spend on office things (Buy on Demand, I think they called it). I ordered a $160 17" LCD to replace the 70 lb CRT that felt like it was giving me a sun tan. My manager called me into her office and explained that she was canceling my order, because if _I_ got that monitor, then everyone else would want one.

There was also the time my officemate decided to order supplies for the three of us. She was questioned for requisitioning 3 pens. Because she could only use one at a time.
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This is actually what I was thinking too. The fundraising pitch they're currently running says something like "We have 6000 servers and only 95 paid staff". I'm not sure 95 paid positions + servers cost 20 million a year, but then again, Wikipedia does deserve to be well-funded and not have to worry about making budget year-to-year. I'd like to see a more open transparent accounting of the funds right there on the fundraising page.
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I'm not a Rubyist, but the price tag isn't really the offensive part. 2,800 is fine for 12 2 hour classes. If you include grading and one on one help, it is a potential bargain.

Here is the offensive part (to me, anyway):

Students who successfully complete the six-week program will be certified by General Assembly in Ruby on Rails. Certification is a way for General Assembly to let our partner organizations, start-ups, and others know that a student successfully completed the course.

I know that slippery slope arguments are logical fallacies, but how long before this type of thing becomes the equivalent of a Microsoft certification and is a check-box that HR departments look for when hiring Rails developers?

Now I've got to spend nearly 3k dollars every couple of years to maintain my 'Rails certification', which I don't really need because I learned Rails on my own in a weekend and the point of Rails is that it makes things easy (reasonable defaults and all of that). If you need a certification to learn Rails, something has gone seriously wrong!

If the community legitimizes efforts like this (by not laughing at them and running them out of town on a rail)... There is a possibility that they will give some clout to certification organizations, which could lead to above (fairly unlikely, but plausible) slippery slope situation where you need certs to program Rails.
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Joke's on you, it's actually solved as not provable in ZFC.
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

This piece of it means that many articles will be viewed by one person as "on topic" and by another "off topic". It's pretty subjective. This same issue used to come up constantly on a homeschooling list I once belonged to. The issue boiled down to the fact that some people interpreted "on topic" very broadly and other people did not. I was on that list for some years and the issue was never settled and remained an on-going bone of contention. Given that HN has a far larger membership, I don't imagine it will ever be settled here either.

I saw no problem with the "I think your fat" piece. It was interesting and there was good discussion about morality in practical day-to-day terms, even in terms of business people trying to be honest without shooting themselves in the foot. But I was always one of those people on the homeschooling list who interpreted "on topic" more broadly there as well.
There's no excuse for the rampant illiteracy of the marketing (?!) guy's emails.
How is standard, restricted user password security in any way related to site security (assuming the site is consciously making the tradeoff)?
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Are you sure about that? Last I knew, interceptors hardly ever succeeded against guided missiles unless the missiles actually had locater beacons on them. Defenses that work are to create decoy targets (against simple guidance systems like heat-seeking) or to spoof a cancel order on the control channel. Neither seems likely to hold against a really capable attacker.
can't get the Macbook for free, can't get the $800-level chair for free, etc. CAN learn those skills for free. Again, assuming you have the basics down, natural talent, willpower, focus, etc.
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It might just be that people are so easily offended because they're not used to being offended.
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Somehow your point got lost when you use GWT as an example.

Alright, it's time to explain the whole situation one more time (sigh).

GWT is a platform people. It has tons of goodies from doing the CSS sprites without having to write a home-grown CSS sprites merge scripts up until optimizing JS code.

Any developers that don't know their stack is limited to write high quality code, regardless you use GWT or pure JS (don't give me crap that front-end developers worth their salt without pulling the "yeah, only the best ones").

I used to code in GWT and we all need to know DOM API, we all need to know CSS. But we don't need to know the various "Object Pattern" in JS. We don't need to re-invent the module system in JS (we use Java package).

The difference is that we can write testable code via unit-tests that we can run automatically using JUnit, integrated to our build systems, without having to jump through hoops and prepare a full-blown infrastructure like those that required by Selenium or WebDriver.
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Don't you think you're overstating it? Assuming privileged accounts require a secure password, what is the risk here except for an individual with a poor password's information? This person is responsible for their own weak password. Putting a weak password warning is about as much responsibility as a site owner has here. Security policies are always a trade-off between securing information and usability. People seem to forget that around here.
That's an exercise with a huge multitude of variables, but at the core, a website that cares more about selling widgets / booking accounts to the point of reducing its depth of defense with user passwords leaves a very sour taste in my mouth.
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I've noticed that the last character of EPP values tend to be minor punctuation ([,.] etc.), which is ignored whenever I double-click to copy & paste.

I took the CSV exported from GoDaddy, striped it down to multiple lines of

domain, EPP
domain, EPP
domain, EPP
..

and pasted that in.

That failed.

When I removed the space between the comma and the first character of the EPP key, it worked (so far for the few I retried).

My guess is that the space confused the form parsing code. Or maybe it was just a glitch.

In any event, I've been now moving domains successfully, and in the morning I'll be re-trying the bulk of the remaining names.

BTW, in my initial retry attempt I noticed that some domains were being flagged as not transferable, something I didn't catch when i attempted to moe 30 names at once.

One name was "questionable", two others were too close to the expiration date. I got in touch with Namecheap support and they arranged to get these names transfered as well.

And once all the ducks were in a row I've been getting pretty quick turnaround times from both namecheap and GoDaddy.

So, so far so good.
It is likely that many of those developers paid $0 for a degree, and yet still can write good software and solve hairy technical problems. Skills, intelligence, talent, study, patience and much trial-and-error needed to work in this field, but not, strictly speaking, a degree of any kind.
Judging by all the bitcoin-exchange-related spam I received after the MtGox database was stolen, my guess is that even if they don't bother to, their competitors will happily notify their customers via email for them.
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"I think there is a big difference between being sorry and being sorry you got caught. I have a real problem with bullies. I spent my childhood moving from school to school and I got made fun of everyplace I landed. I feel like Paul is a bully and maybe that’s why I have no sympathy here. Someday every bully meets and even bigger bully and maybe that’s me in this case. It’s the same thing that happened with Jack Thompson. It might not always make the most business sense and it is a policy that has caused us some legal problems, but I really don’t give a shit about that. When these assholes threaten me or Penny Arcade I just laugh. I will personally burn everything I’ve made to the fucking ground if I think I can catch them in the flames."

I think in context the quoted line is more about how Gabe feels about bullies.
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I see it's every Tuesday night. I will have to plan on this ...
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What we need is more direct and visual support from the big internet players. Imagine if Google restricted all the YouTube videos for one day and simply stated "YouTube's future if SOPA passes". Or if Wikipedia blocked all their content for a day to make a stand.

Although very unlikely to actually happen, these actions would get the attention of the entire public and demonstrate the seriousness of the issue.
At this point I'm convinced that it's going to require new regulations to make this happen. The information is not required to be kept open and available on a large scale. There are no repercussions for having an out of date floorplan with the building commission. Neither owners nor brokers have any incentive to put this information online during vacancy because it creates unnecessary work in a market where an opening sells itself. And when that vacancy is filled they have no incentive because they have better things to do.

If you could somehow incentivise tenants, owners, or brokers to update this information when they move in or just before they move out then you could solve this. But I don't think that's going to happen without deep pockets lobbying an addon bill in washington.
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