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Ron Paul message resonates with people because he is talking about something none of the other candidates are talking about: returning freedoms and sanity to America. It would be hard to rollback all the damage done by the likes of Obama and his predecessors but I think it can be achieved gradually and with some culture changes in America. This is a great country and I hope to see its freedoms preserved and reinstated otherwise we will head down the road to god knows what and never come back. Freedom begets greatness and innovation.

The media needs to stop its blackout of Paul and the smear campaign and cover the issues he is highlighting which are of the utmost importance.
Fascinating that the printer and the toner communicate with light. Isn't the technology to do that way more complicated than a simple metal contact? Is it because a laser printer manufacturer already has optical sensors and the like lying around?

Also, he's lucky the printer decided to go with it, he could have easily gotten a "No toner detected" message.
How do you trivially decide what's an encrypted file, and what's simply a highly compressed gzip archive?
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This is a pointless argument about how much credit iPhone deserves for what Android / WebOS / Windows Phone did later. People give varying degrees of credit for different reasons and that's fine.

What's not really cool is MG Siegler criticizing Android's open-ness by means of some weird roundabout mockery of a non-event. He's so extremely smug in his post criticizing Android about something that iOS is orders of magnitude worse at any way you slice it. If you like iOS you should be glad there is viable competition to keep Apple honest because competition is good for everyone. Without competition to Apple the future is a world where you do what Apple says you can do, and you pay out the ass for it. I love Apple stuff, but even I'm not fool enough to believe they have my best interests at heart now and forever more.
That's definitely not official. Might well be a rival. Come on man, use your brain. RP has been reelected over and over.
For extroverts maybe? I could totally identify with that part of the post and the _why quote. Impostor syndrome is another example of better-tuned filters getting in the way.
You just said that Ron Paul is not against abortion, but that he is opposed to it.
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I'm pretty sure that's exactly what a vote for Paul means these days.
He would favor limiting the actions of the federal government to the "enumerated powers" listed in the constitution:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enumerated_powers
On what basis do you say he's against gay rights? He has the most progressive opinion on marriage of any candidate. Which is to say abolish marriage licenses entirely. It's only very recently (in the history of marriage) that marriage became an issue to the state anyway.
"sanity" being "what you agree with".

That's why we should flag political articles and leave them to other sites.
Hopefully China has a great decade and doesn't falter. Their rise has been truly impressive. The Economist is predicting they will pass the US economy in 2018. Having another country as big as the US pushing boundaries in science, engineering, etc will accelerate progress.

What's really missing is for China to have a few dozen universities doing research at the most advanced levels.
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There is a conspiracy against Paul. I'm not American and I've followed Paul since 2008. The media definitely conspires against him.

Jon Stewart even called them out on it. Google it.
If it's not out for the job then why is he applying for it?
Perhaps he is essentially a "protest vote" but there appears to be at least some chance that he could actually get elected?
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Seems to me he's suggesting that the federal government do essentially nothing, except perhaps maintain enough of a military

As I read his position, his philosophy is that of a pretty strict Constitutionalist. That is, the federal powers are limited to what's listed explicitly in the Constitution. Most of those powers can be found enumerated in Article I Section 8 [1]

- - - - Quote

The Congress shall have power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common defence[note 1] and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

To establish a uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;

To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;

To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current coin of the United States;

To establish Post Offices and post Roads;

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;

To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;

To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations;

To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;

To provide and maintain a Navy;

To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;

To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;—And

To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

- - - - End Quote

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_One_of_the_United_State...
I read this as follows:

"I should force people, at the threat of violence, to give me 24 days of paid vacation."

That's pretty much what you are saying. I agree with you: the free market doesn't provide everything but that is what charity is for. Government is not charity. What kind of charity is it when they will send you to jail or bankrupt you for not tithing on time or enough?
> I was kinda looking forward to see the "water surface" in 3d with lighting and reflection

http://madebyevan.com/webgl-water/ might be more interesting then.
I was pleased that the author, Seth Mydans described January 1, 2000 as "what was called the new millennium."
Yes, but so would any pastebin website. You could say the advantage is that the content is not available to the server (since its transferred in the URL itself), but then it is when you actually read it, so it's not any more private.
> Smalltalk is a small language (think C), so you can learn the whole language set in a few days.

Hm, not sure about that. The language itself (as in: syntax) is indeed minimal. It is much smaller than C, not even having ifs and whiles but this only means you have to learn the relevant part of the runtime to start using Smalltalk.

Fun fact: if in Smalltalk is a pair of virtual methods on the Boolean objects. True implements ifTrue as "always execute the argument" and False as "ignore the argument" and it's the other way for ifFalse.

I agree with the rest of your comment - it is definitely worth trying.
"HTML" or "web app" are equally convenient labels without the pretense.
Sounds like they're going to charge for premium features but not for storage:

"Everyone is stuck on the “more GBs as 100% of the value” model. We want to change that. It should be about personalized features you want."
Besides the deserved congratulations, there's a question I'd like to ask you. I noticed that the Cibando website is Copyright "Cibando Ltd.", but in the TOS the service is from "Mobatar S.r.l."

Does this mean that you have both a UK ltd company and an Italian S.r.L.? If that's so, why? Have you already explored what it means from a fiscal point of view having both?

I ask because right now I'm very undecided if I should incorporate in the UK with a ltd company for the paid service I'll launch very soon on pro.hashtagify.me - not to dodge Italian taxes (I live in Rome too), but because a S.r.L. costs too much and sounds much worse for an international audience - and I only found very confusing information on the Internet, so it would be very interesting to learn about your experience :)
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So they had three tools to choose among. One was broken, one was wildly unsuitable, and one was unpopular. They chose the second for (apparently) purely cultural reasons. I think it's not so surprising that they ran into problems.

Don't discard unsexy solutions out of hand; choose the right tool for the job.
Translation: we are now backpedaling with egg all over our faces, and will get to drafting a new lobbyist-driven assault on the open Internet in secret. This time we'll try to help market it better.
More specifically, Ron Paul doesn't believe that ANY abortion legislation should be passed at the federal level, whether or not it is for or against abortion, and believes that right should be held by the states.
If by "new" you mean "the thing that's been going on for thousands of years."
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I think it means that there's a small set of concepts (and accompanying syntax) that open up the whole environment to you.

Compare it to what you need to know about Java or C++ to understand all of a codebase in that language.
He has a personal opinion, but this does not drive the policy he advocates. Likewise, he may not want people to drink alcohol on Sundays, but he would not outlaw such behavior.
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Calling this "Dropbox" is misleading without automatic uploading when files change. Bummed.
"That’s Javascript and CSS moving things around. Well written, nicely implemented and totally unrelated to HTML5. And totally possible on HTML4."
How can this guy be a CEO of web company?
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> in which case why have a federal government at all?

To coordinate action between the states. For example, interstate highways and national defense. The Constitution pretty much spells it out.
TC broke it first.
Er, cough, Spotify...?
Stratfor is a geopolitical analysis company which helps shape a world-view for decision-makers in the existing power structure. What don't you understand about their infrastructure being a completely valid target?

The question of identities and motives of the actors is certainly interesting, but there are a bunch of plausible theories:

* WikiLeaks sympathetic individuals who subscribe to the Assange theory of conspiracy (see: http://estaticos.elmundo.es/documentos/2010/12/01/conspiraci...). If you grok this, it's a textbook play in the 'throttling weighted conspiracies' game, ain't it?

* Agent provocatuers, as you already mention. That you'd pre-announce a hack like this days before releasing credit card numbers makes absolutely no sense from a Project Mayhem, anarchist perspective, does it? You're giving everyone enough time to cancel cards and minimize mayhem but still maximize reporting of the reckless, misguided behavior of hackers. It only seems to benefit the establishment over the longer-term with a public release like this. If you really care about undermining the system you'd quietly analyze the data and build up an under-the-radar picture of the establishement network to act on, no?

* morons. They got lucky with a target, and care less about gifting SOPA supporters in Washington a delightful Christmas present.

I'm not clever enough to have a view either way, but getting irate based on superficial internet evidence as to the identities and motives of players is not conducive to good health in 2011.
I had to face the decision too, for Iubenda, and ended up with an Srl. I went for the most hassle-free choice, since incorporating abroad can be time consuming and hide additional costs (loss of focus included).
About the Srl, I wrote this article a while ago which can clarify some of the expenses: http://thinkamination.com/migliorare-srl-italiana/ [ITA]
It's very common now for European startups to have a UK LTD as well for later exit purposes.
If that sort of insurance is hard to get in a given area, or prohibitively expensive for say, Kansans to get tornado insurance, then that is an issue that the Kansas state government should take up with the insurance company.

The point isn't that people who are poor get fucked, but that the federal government shouldn't be the ones bailing them out, especially because under Paul's regime, the federal government would be much much smaller, and wouldn't be able to afford to.

Instead of paying federal taxes to the federal government, for which states could then petition to get some of it back, states would levy the taxes they saw necessary to operate and maintain their own infrastructure without help from the federal government.

This means that moneys spent on infrastructure would be spent more efficiently, as the overhead on managing the money would be significantly lessened.
-- just guessing here --

my guess would be, that the window is used to determine the filling level inside the toner by shining light / laser through it. he says there are windows on both sides.

if the cartridge is emtpy light goes through, if not it's stopped. so closing the windows would work.

replacing the cartridge could trigger a check wether it's full or not. if the printer thinks it is a full cartridge, the page count is reset and it'll print again.
HTML5 has become a brand (with a cool superhero logo and everything). If you've ever tried to build a brand before, you know that this is a much more valuable thing than whether the name agrees with the scope of the spec.

In other words, let's not look a gift horse in the mouth, hmm?
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I don't understand why davidw has been downvoted. Ron Paul maybe a principled politician, but his views/past actions on the issues of racism, homosexuality and science and technology policy don't stand up to scrutiny. While some of his policies may be laudable, he also has plenty of stuff that can be categorized as insane.

I don't want to start a political flamewar on HN, so all I'm trying to say is that there are valid reasons to believe what davidw believes and he shouldn't at least be downvoted for it.
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I am passionate about the subject because, I used to be really bad at interviewing people. I took a lot of reflection on what I was doing wrong and to be honest some ego issues on my own part, when I was younger. When I started evaluation what I was doing wrong and what other people where doing right I started to see a common trends among those that are effective at hiring and a common trend among those that where complaining about talent. Once I started doing what the effective hiring managers where doing, I began to be able to spot true talent. I don't think I have misidentified talent since that realization, nor have I had a false positive.

I thank you for the encouragement, and I have thought about putting together an article on the subject. I think the information is valuable and could be of use to a lot of people. I will see if I can free up some time to put one together.
All you need to do to figure out the hash for a password is take the MD5 hash of it. My guess is the commenter you replied to just took some common passwords and some no-brainers and did a quick little "find all" for each hash.

Here's a tool you can use to generate MD5 hashes for given passwords: http://www.iwebtool.com/md5?string=stratfor

Going from the hashes to the passwords requires brute forcing, dictionary attacks, that sort of thing.
promoted anti-abortion legislation at Federal level

Ron Paul: States Rights, unless its something I'm against.

Just like any politician I guess.
we need a new type of politician. one who isn't obsessed with power

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> with multi billions revenue and nearly a bln users, yeah, I'd say it turned out pretty well for them.

If you want to attribute the lions share of success of Facebook to PHP, rather than the social effect and being in the right time in the right place, or other work put into it, that's fine with me. But I'll still disagree.

> they "threw away the rest" is not an argument against PHP.

If replacing the backend (compiler, libs, etc) because it's so buggy and does not scale at all, is not an argument, than nothing will be ... and I'm going to stop here and let this die.
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Current conventional wisdom is that after Iowa, Paul will leave the "top tier" of the Republican race. He has always been ignored by traditional media and this is the highest hes ever risen, so there is a possibility he may find the staying power.

To get to the meat of your question: why Paul now. Paul has always been a solid choice for people dissatisfied with the traditional Republican party. Many of his libertarian views speak to often ignored American ideals, and he is willing to tell it how he sees it, not the political-speak whitewash heard from everyone else. His supporters even include voters who don't normally support the GOP (hes the Republican with the most significant youth following and I've met many people who would vote Democrat-or-Ron-Paul). Hes showing strong now because the electorate has started to feel (like Paul supporters do) that the rest of the GOP field right now is in pretty bad shape.

There has been a sense of inevitability to Romney picking up the nomination, hes been near the top of all the polls since he entered the race, but it seems voters don't want to be stuck with him. They've been scrambling around and sending a long line of candidates to the front of the polls, and inevitably once they get the spotlight they make an ass of themselves. Then the voters send someone else to the top of the polls. Right now is Paul's turn there (at least in Iowa). It remains to be seen if he can stay there and defeat Romney, or if once voters get to know him better his numbers will start falling.

edit: Or is Iowa special? It is to Iowans, and any pundits who want to act like Iowa will be a bellweather of the country. Really, they just go first. The next races will be in different states, and after more time, and more news cycles so Iowa is not necessarily indicative of anything but the current opinions in Iowa.
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I have to say it's jarring to hear Ron Paul referring to "6000 years of human history" as though that is the totality of human history. While I still support him fully because everything he has to say wrt government and foreign policy is sound and principled, it's really difficult for me to reconcile this one thing.
From the article: "Eric Ries greatest venture may be the Lean Startup movement itself."

The top ranked review of his book on Amazon seems fairly dubious about the value of the book:

http://www.amazon.com/review/R3287ICLQ9STI3/ref=cm_cr_dp_cmt...

I have a weakness for business books and am tempted to buy it anyway, but I'm still not convinced; I'm trying to cut back on books that don't actually leave me with anything.
If you have your DIY solution, maybe you can add GAMIN [0] to the mix. There are quite straightforward python bindings.

[0] http://people.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/overview.html
So what? Even then, there will be no concurrency issues in a single threaded application.
What are the extra features they provide about dropbox than google?
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(Disclaimer: I'm not from US).

That's why we should flag political articles and leave them to other sites.

Except that at other sites, politics equals name callings and rhetoric. I understand that that is the primary reason you want politics to stay out of HN.

But if all scientists, techies and reasonable people stay out of politics and common people are distracted by media, how can we expect things to change? If readers of HN cannot discuss political beliefs in a rational manner, I wonder who can.

No wonder legislation like SOPA has reached to the doorsteps of congress in US.
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The NYT has an article with how to buy all the kitchen utensils you need for under $200: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/dining/09mini.html?pagewan... (including a ladle)
Well, with 364 days that means there's 1.25 days pushed into the buffer every year. That means that the buffer would be full (mathematically) every 5.6 years hence the "every five or six years." In order to keep general season alignment, I figure they vary between the two. This decimal doesn't go away until after 28 years - so I assume some combination of fives and sixes that add up to 28. Lets say three sixes and two fives. (18+10). So in order to make any pattern they might do something like 6 5 6 5 6 6 5 6 5 6. And now, looking at the leap years, I think my theory is confirmed: 2015-2020 (5)
2020-2026 (6)
2026-2032 (6)
2032-2037 (5)
2037-2043 (6)
2043-2048 (5)
2048-2054 (6)
2054-2060 (6)
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I didn't make any comments about Ron Paul; I just pointed out the use of "sane" to mean "things I agree with", which is indicative of a debate that's not headed anywhere good.
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I don't understand how you can equate keeping politics off of this site to not being involved in politics.
The Higbee memory book is fun. I used it to help my kid memorize some things before kindergarten (spell a complicated last name, sing daddy's phone number, where I live, etc).

I am planning to refresh my data structures and algorithms background with an eye on using some of the techniques in this book to memorize them.
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I do not have many things to say about it, besides... how precise that is.

I agree to the strongest.
The economist has a great write-up of Ron Paul: http://www.economist.com/node/21542199/
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