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I use the Firefox AwesomeBar to navigate the web. Is there an equivalent for Chrome? Chrome always seems to find searches I don't care about ahead of bookmarks or history.
Example: NDAA
The first thing I naïvely thought is: currency codes are an ISO standard, and are always three characters long. Why would the relevant database field not have been created with that in mind?

Of course, maybe it was, and it certainly wouldn't fix the bug itself if the database simply truncated the inserted string to fit (like some do).
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"It has always confused me why he has concerned himself with this issue so much over the years." Because whether intentional or not, it helps increase his visibility, which is what all independent content creators work hard to get.
Considerable discussion from 800 days ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=848839

There are many other times that this has been discussed here on HN, but with no means of having cross-referenced them, they are a pain to find, and thus we repeat the same discussion with the same points again.

For those of you who are tired of hearing/reading me saying these sorts of things, this is absolutely the last time. I only wish I had the skill, background and time to implement some of the obvious solutions that would make HN a useful resource, as well as a source of new links, articles and discussions.
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There are LEGO advent calendars!? That is so cool. I'm definitely getting one next year.
No it's not. Look, MG didn't use a comparison of a Toyota to a Honda -- brands considered to be on equal footing. He likened the iPhone to a high end brand (Mercedes) and the Nexus to an economy brand (Honda).

This is not a comparison of equals, but a comparison of Luxury vs. Standard. That's no longer about preferences, that's about one being better.
Ah, but remember this castle? http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jX9QklC3G4E/TIRfrl9uVRI/AAAAAAAADK...

That was one really great toy.
Representative Polis just submitted for the hearing record the lyrics of the song "Internet is for porn". :)
Richard Stallman doesn't seem so crazy now, does he?
What's your point? Do you think Iran doesn't have spies?
Look, I am glad this is successful because he was smart about it and listened to the right advice.

But let's not pretend Louis C.K. is not a millionaire, because he is, and we're essentially giving him promotion for free.

I'm okay with that, just be aware of what we are doing.

He's not some poor independent artist that needs help to be discovered.
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Immediately after saying that he didn't understand the technology, Rep. Watt said "I don't believe that" (in regards to the internet being less safe if this bill is passed). It's frustrating to see people (like Watt) make decisions in a total darkness without being able to refute others/support their case.
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My local congressman, also a co-sponsor and co-author of the SOPA bill, held a public phone conference the other night. You could press 0 to enter a queue to ask a question, so I did, but after 2 hours I was tired of waiting and I had a term paper to write so I gave up. I kind of regret it now, because I wanted everyone to hear just how little he, a co-author, knew about the subject. He's not one for listening to his constituents. I had already written him a letter and tried to call his office and no reply for either.
I thought $32k sounded low.
I've listened to the hearings a little bit today and in particular I heard the amendment about not removing the ability to target IP addresses. Listening to him, it just made sense: one address can be the front of multiple websites, one website can have multiple IP addresses, addresses are moved around dynamically, etc. We all know that and his explanations were very clear.

So I was a bit confused when later on I was hearing a lot of "No"s. Had I missed the vote for that amendment and they were voting on something else? Nope. They were just denying common sense.

I'm not even sure how they would do it on a per domain basis. What about subdomains? One guy posts something on his Tumblr and all the Tumblr's go down? I'm sure they have no idea what that means and would just say "take down all the sites!"

On another note, though I don't mind the term generally, I was annoyed by them referring over and over to "nerds". "I'm not a nerd", "Bring in the nerds"… It's fine in some contexts but in the context of discussing a law, I think "technical experts", "people who have a clue" is more appropriate.
I really do not understand why he spends so much of the article talking about "class warfare" and the difference between "expensive" and "cheaper" things. The iPhone 4S and Galaxy Nexus ARE THE SAME PRICE.
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That's probably pretty well accounted for in Lego Group's design and marketing philosophy. They have a vested interest in getting bricks "locked up" in creations that are too cool to take apart. Once you've done that, how do you build something else? Buy more Lego sets, of course!
> So I was a bit confused when I was hearing a lot of "No"s later on.

A common political tactic is to automatically vote "no" for anything you don't understand or for which you have not received instructions from factional/party leadership. After all, it might a trojan horse that undermines your own goals.
In many cases, it is exactly their intention to write the patent in that obscure way, in order to have more wiggle room, and in most cases it's lawyers who write those patents, not engineers.
Lego, create things that sell. They give the public what they want. You just have a different idea of what the public want, than the public do.

You have to understand you're a minority.
Well, after a 10 year hiatus I checked out PVP again and it is still not funny. If the author can figure out how to make money out of that dreck then the syndicates should definitely give him a consulting contract.
Let's hope so, it seems only something that ridiculous is going to get anyone's attention.

I suppose the Elves leaving .com might do it too.
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As people who have been in certain kinds of accidents or been treated for certain kinds of medical conditions can tell you, having a certain set of body parts is not a requirement for being a member of either gender.

The overwhelming majority of people are born with a certain set of chromosomes, a set of parts between their legs, and an idea in their head that all agree with one another on what gender they are. It's a large enough majority that it's easy to think that these are the same thing, because for most people, they are.

But for trans people, these things disagree, and the gender that they think of themselves as in their heads wins. Since they are being treated by the world at large as something they don't consider themselves to be, they take steps to correct how the world views them by transitioning. Given money, access to treatment, and other constraints, this may include surgery, hormones, etc. But even in the absence of these things, they can still be trans people who know what their true gender is.
I've never seen the 'SHORTTAG NETENABL IMMEDNET' form before. I can't say I'm sorry it's gone in HTML5, it feels quite wrong.
Dell Mini netbooks are “no longer available,” would you like a 14 inch laptop?
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What is wrong with Nerf? I love the new stuff they put out. I would have loved a Nerf Sword when I was a kid!
It just made me wonder what the point of having these hearings was. I'll admit I'm not very familiar with the process.

But it looked like it was the time to present why such and such amendments should be added, and then vote on it. If they can't decide on the spot, why have the vote on the spot then?

That particular amendment was especially surprising to me because of how obvious it is (for us "nerds" that is), and because his explanation was pretty clear. But I know what you're saying, it's not how the game is played…
hm. I'm slowly trying to build a service that will compete with S3 from the bottom (I will be focusing on remote backups first, e.g. it will likely be lower performance than s3. It will also be dramatically cheaper.) Of course, I'm slow, and there's no way this will get out of testing until hard drive prices come back down to normal.

You sound like you might be a possible customer (perhaps for version 2, which will do static http hosting like s3 can.)

First, why are you using S3? because it's cheap at the low end? or because of the reputation? I'm assuming the former.

So billing is a hard question. Right now, storage/static http hosting is sold on two models:

1. the dreamhost model. One flat monthly fee for a large quota they assume you won't use. The problem here is that all the money is made off the light users, so there isn't a strong incentive to provide good service to heavy users.

2. the S3 model. Per-usage fees. The advantage is that the provider makes money off the heavy users, so there is a strong incentive for them to make it work well for the heavy users. The problem is that it gets expensive with more use; depending on your business model, this can be a problem; I mean, if your revenue is tied tightly to your usage, it's fine, but if your usage can go up without

The big problem with both, I think, is that it's not always clear what the best choice is. The S3 model results in super low prices for users that don't use much... but as you complain, those users usually don't want unexpected bills. It also results in super premium pricing for high end users.

The dreamhost model looks like a great idea for heavy users, as the cost per unit usage, if you use the whole quota (and only the whole quota) is usually really low, as the provider expects you to not use the whole quota. Of course, the providers then are setup for light users, as that's where they make their money.

Anyhow, I just wanted to get your thoughts; Why are you going with amazon s3 rather than someone that uses the dreamhost model?
Already too late, they're falling all over themselves to proclaim their ignorance and vote this into tragic existence.
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I'm all for opinionated content and debating on topics, but this essentially boils down to a nerdy slap fight over fucking cell phones. Class warfare, eh?
There are TV ads based on exactly that marketing approach.
Let me point you to the Pyramid of Refutation. http://i.imgur.com/QhGkT.jpg

Nice, that is going on the projector for the teenagers when we go back to teaching.
I could understand where this guy was coming from better if this article had a less condescending tone. Instead this just sounds like he's whining that MG and Gruber are Apple hipsters that think they're better than everyone who owns a non-Apple device. He then proceeds to evoke "class warfare" without about as much relevance to the actual subject matter as Fox News.
The Iranians are shooting themselves in the foot then by claiming that they jammed the navigation to bring the UAV down.

The US can then claim it was over protected airspace at the time and that the Iranian actions brought it into Iranian airspace.
SOPA is horrifying. No doubt about it. But it's funny how many people I meet who share this view, yet think Congress is perfectly capable of regulating just about everything else. Because Congress understands that stuff. Like economies. Those things are simple. </LibertarianThursdays>
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It's this statement that is incorrect: "In real terms, this means you need to grow your business by at least 3% in order to give me that return."

In almost any definition "growing a business" means increasing unit sales, or increasing revenues, or both.

Neither is necessary to provide acceptable returns to an investor - there are great investments around in businesses that have long since peaked in terms of unit volume and revenue. Much of the private equity world focuses on these kinds of investments.
I don't know their actual hacking mechanism, but a replay attack could be done such that valid but incorrect GPS data is sent to the drone. The gist of it is that one records signals coming from GPS satellites and retransmits them. It could be transmitted with enough power to drown out any signal from actual GPS satellites.

There should be a time component in the signal that wouldn't match the internal clock, but maybe enough satellites saying the same thing would trigger a self correction... or it would disregard all GPS data.
The OP was clearly describing the hive-mind of reddit, which does in fact follow American ideologies due to the overwhelming number of Americans who do use it.
Ask HN: Conjunctions in Headlines and Article Titles?
Why don't news organizations use "and" "but" and similar words in their titles? It makes it hard to read and I sometimes misinterpret the meaning when there's just a comma instead of a conjunction. Where did this originate, and does this annoy anyone else?
The problem is that there's not going to be a government attorney that will go to a judge and ask for the seizure of youtube.com.

This will only be enforced against sites that are small or controversial enough that it won't cause general outrage when they're disappeared from the web.

Yet the looming threat that someone could remove YouTube from the web will be enough to keep the next Google from buying/creating the next YouTube.
Thank God for government regulation. I'm so glad we have progressives like the Democrats and Republicans in office to curb the evils of industry.

Without regulation the Internet would be monopolized by big business and criminals will prey on your children.

Good thing the State is there to protect us. Don't forget to pay your taxes, and have a happy holidays!
Most political business is done behind closed doors; the speeches and votes are mostly performance art.

There's a great deal of exchange between politicians in different countries -- the International Parliamentary Union, various politically-aligned groups like the International Democratic Union and so on. Plus exchanges for young aspiring politicians. So practices and techniques tend to pop up all over the world. Maybe the "Default to No" came from Australia, or Britain, or the USA. I have no idea.
For this bill, but it would show them that need to be representing their constituents.
I'm sure they'll be really bummed if they had to give up their name and start from scratch. It's not an issue of numeric karma. It's brand value.
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Take ANOTHER look at modern lego kids... I think you will find that they CAN be re-purposed. Yes some of the big moulded pieces are single purpose, but a castle wall can turn into a tower wall can turn into a alien cliff face can ....

You get the picture... You may as well complain that a lego rubber tyre is single purpose... well duh.
What's the quota of Android victories that an author is required to cover?
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When Gruber says, "You either see it or you don't,"he means, "If this is important to you, you will notice and value it," not, "If you don't see this, you are an unsophisticated yokel who should stick to pay-phones." JT hears Gruber with a tone of dismissiveness that just isn't there.
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"He's not some poor independent artist that needs help to be discovered."

Nobody said he was....

"But let's not pretend Louis C.K. is not a millionaire, because he is, and we're essentially giving him promotion for free."

Why are you acting like this is a bad thing?
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Debian, Red Hat, and Slackware all date from ~summer 1994. There's really no age difference between the three.
I hear people say "evil corproation" a lot, but I'm not quite sure what they mean. Do they mean, "don't care about individual customers, because there is no economic value"? Do they mean, "break into people's houses at night and wreck up the place"? Do they mean, "release an open-source phone software stack"?

Just because people parrot the same line again and again doesn't mean it makes sense.
The second episode of Charlie Brooker's current Black Mirror series of scifi dramas contains elements of Network, but set in a future dystopia where people sort of live inside an ipad that's stuck running farmville. It's a lot better than I've just made it sound. In fact, it's incredible, and terrifying.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Black_Mirror_...

Also highly recommended.

To be honest the whole thing should be at the top of HN, but I doubt it would get upvoted. Maybe we need a summarising blog post...
It is useful, there are a lot of science projects going on as well as studying the astronauts themselves to learn more about how people can survive for long periods without gravity. Sure robotic missions are great for exploration but I'd imagine for a lot of experiments going on on the ISS having a human there to make changes would dramatically cut the cost of having to send up fully automated experiments.
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Wow. I hate SOPA. But I'm sorry, you are so wrong about some of your Constitutional reading. I'll ignore the remarks about economic disruption because of regulation because they seem to veer a bit too far from the topic at hand.

“Regulation of the internet, or communications of any kind, is not an enumerated power of the Federal Government. This means that when the federal government does this, it is doing it without authorization.”

What? In what universe could the Internet NOT be considered interstate commerce? Or international commerce? It is both! There is no argument whatsoever that you can make that says it is not Constitutional for Congress to pass laws about the Internet, especially piracy, which is the very essence of interstate and international commerce.

“Further, the Bill of Rights forbids congress from engaging in censorship. SOPA clearly authorizes censorship so they're also in violation of the Bill of Rights.”

Unfortunately, this isn't as straightforward as you make it seem. The Constitution doesn't just say you can't limit speech. There are years of jurisprudence and years of common law precedent that form the true vision of what the First Amendment means today. The fact that you can't falsely yell fire in a theater is a typical example. And there are even other parts of the Constitution—including the right to pass laws to protect “To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries”. All of these temper the First Amendment, as the First Amendment tempers them. You can't just ignore them because you disagree with a law.

Thus, while I think SOPA is a terrible, terrible law, and that its implementation would be catastrophic to the very progress that the Congress is claiming to promote, I don't know that it is unconstitutional, if they truly believe (as some may well do) that it will promote this progress. To ignore this gray area dilutes one's argument to the point of being inconsequential in a true debate about this horrible piece of legislation.

“I think that the only possible solution is a technological one. I think that the only way to to fight them is with technology and disobedience to the very idea that they have the right to restrain speech or control the internet.”

I agree that disobedience is a solution. Indeed, it is and has always been the ultimate and only solution when the government ignores and harms its people.

"Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure."

Thus the irony that groups have never successfully lived without one for any measurable period of time. Government is another word for hierarchy. We may be approaching a time when we can break free of hierarchy, but I do not think we are there yet.
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Gruber has spent his whole life writing articles with the tone of your second interpretation. Why did he suddenly change styles today?
“With New Toys, Lego Hopes To Build Girls Market.”

That, right there, is the problem. The people making the toys don't find value in making children happy or inspiring them to be creative/innovative; when all is said and done, girls are just another market.
Android devices are kicking ass and increasing marketshare percentage every month, whereas Apple is mostly stagnant or growing slowly as a percentage of smartphone sales.

Sure you can pull out some metric like "profit derived"(by which Windows Server totally rules the server space over Linux), but ultimately all the predictions by partisan pundits like "Let the iPhone get on Verizon and see Android stagnate completely" have been proven to be partisan BS.
I could just as easily make up a story about how males are intrinsically attracted to pink and red, the color of animal flesh from a recent hunt and how females are attracted to blue waters since in many pre-agrarian societies women had to carry water back to camp.

Without empirical studies with solid controls these are just stories. Evolutionary psychology theories are especially guilty of these kinds of story-making explanations that aren't held up to evidence.
Why doesn't Barbie have more realistic features?

The conclusion that my wife (both a programmer and a female) came to is that she has to have the crazy features to make the clothes look right at scale and still have working fasteners.

With Barbie, the clothes are the real toy and the doll is just an accessory.
The problem is simple: how do you define having understanding of something? :)
Just remember to add "in the United States" to the end of each dire prediction. Try it:

SOPA will cause rampant censorship of the internet... in the United States.

I am a US citizen, currently living in the US, and I hate this, but even so, it makes me feel better to remember that there's a big, big world outside our borders. If the US flies off the rails on this, I fully expect the rest of the world to shrug and move on. The internet and the Americans have been closely intertwined since the beginning but I don't expect it will always be that way. The America that created the internet is more or less gone now. Its time for the rest of the world to step up.
The reason why I generally dislike working at my big company (wonder if they'll see this!) simply boils down to a lack of challenge
To me this encapsulates the problem we're talking about. The fact that you're coasting and not challenged is exactly the problem. You sound smart and energetic, but the system has still got you down by failing to enable you to find challenges that would benefit the company. Fighting an entrenched bureaucratic culture is a lot harder than you might think (I've spent plenty of time recently doing this!).
Ask HN: Christmas ideas for Startups and Hackers
This could easily be re-titled, great products that every Startup or Hacker needs but seeing as how it's the 16th of December, and when my parents and friends ask me what I'd like for Christmas, and I give them the typical "I don't know" which infuriates them...I figured it would be an interesting and fun way to find out about new services, or products (feel free to plug your own) that could help entrepreneurs become more successful/productive, and more importantly since it is the holiday season, something they might not already have that would make a great and thoughtful gift.

It can be a cool new app that's great for logistics, or a service to help with subscribers, stickers for cheap marketing, a drawing tablet for design--whatever. So please share.