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Unfold a paper clip and try to scratch window glass. You'll fail miserably.

It's quite probable that iPhone glass is easier to scratch than window glass. Glass is harder than just about everything except for diamond, so adulterated glass, like the Gorilla Glass in your iPhone isn't as hard.

Normal glass is very brittle. Gorilla Glass isn't.
One of the reasons I like my Canon home printer. It comes with see-through cartridges so you can tell that it really is empty.

On an older model I had it was easy to refill them myself using a DIY kit from Costco. These days I can buy 3rd party cartridges pretty cheaply and they work fine (and are probably worth it to avoid the mess of DIY refills).
I'm not a lawyer, but IIRC that act merely made it legal for states to prohibit abortion if they so desired. I'm pro-choice, but think that abortion, much like murder should be decided at the state level.
So, Citi provides a similar "Virtual Account Number" service which allows a cardholder to create a new cc# with a new expiration date and a specific balance, but the billing address cannot be customized which reduces the usefulness of the service.

As far as I know, it's also free.
Perhaps Ron Paul would do away with whatever mechanism allows the insurance companies to buy judges? (assuming what they are doing is legal).
The censorship of Ron Paul really is pretty incredible. The Daily Show clip was already mentioned in this thread - here's another example I noticed the other day in the Chicago Tribune:

I just pulled out three random stories:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/sns-rt-us-usa-io...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politicsnow/la-pn-iowa-ri...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/la-pn-romney-...

Notice how every candidate name mentioned in the article (for the first time) is also a hyperlink, except Ron Paul.
It's propaganda for a realpolitik point of view. They do not really take sides with anyone. My only gripe with them is that, all things being considered, and George Friedman's work having been read, they seem subtly promoting of their reasoning for American dominance, but that bent may just have to do with the way they do their best to explain why things are the way they are, rather than what things should be.

If anything, that is the reason to dislike them. Their analysis of the facts more or less ignores humanity. But to be fair to them, the world is an inhuman place to live in.
The newsletter debacle is 'damning' simply because the US corporate media has decreed it so.

The newsletters are definitely offensive, and are reasonable cause for disliking Paul as a candidate and perhaps even a person, but as others have pointed out, they are relatively mild as far as political skeletons in the closet go. If the media favored him, they could be easily downplayed as have been countless much more serious missteps and outright crimes by mainstream candidates in the past.

I was personally very disappointed when I found out about the newsletters and disgusted by the idea that Paul would even associate with people who would think manipulating racial tensions for political expediency is morally acceptable. But let's put it in perspective--in the last decades the lies and criminality of the US political class have led to the wrongful deaths of millions, illegal torture, vast illegal wiretapping programs, vast financial fraud and unprecedented transfers of wealth to the very richest people in the world, stripping of civil liberties that have been fundamental since the Magna Carta... need I go on?

How much airtime do we see devoted to examining establishment political figures' complicity in these and laundry lists of other history-making type crimes? I'm sorry, but the idea that Ron Paul's lapse in oversight on some barely-circulated newsletters 15 years ago somehow ranks as 'damning' on the scale of political transgressions is, quite frankly, utter horseshit. This is just continuation of the usual program--distract from the real issues and manipulate public opinion through manufactured divisiveness and tabloid journalism.
"In other words, we could all too easily become lost in the virtual worlds we make for ourselves, and lose interest in the stars. Or, more probably, we could squander our resources and experience profound and irreversible technological regression. Sometimes, I pessimistically hold with some combination of these two extremes."

I believe indifference to exploration and learning is the biggest threat. We've shown a remarkable ability to take useless things (buried dead organisms, uranium) and make them useful resources, so I'm not as concerned about that.
While they are scrambling to pick something from 20 years ago that he didn't even write, there are many cases in which he actually came out against racism. It's amazing how that seems to not even matter, but a couple of sentences from a newsletter he didn't write 20 years ago, do.

http://ronpaulracistimpossible.blogspot.com/2011/12/unabridg...
I use a silicone case so I don't drop it in the first place. It's pretty easy for a naked iPhone to slide off a table or slip out of your hand.
In my opinion, it can't come soon enough. If this service gets significant uptake, it should finally push Dropbox to lower their long-stagnant prices.
It's worth mentioning that there is a difference between "hardness" and "toughness" when dealing with glass and gems/minerals. Hardness is the material's resistance against scratching, while toughness is its resistance to breakage. The iPhone uses a synthetic sapphire I believe (much like in many eyeglasses made today) which has a hardness of 9 on the Mohs scale (Diamond is 10), so it is very resistant to scratches, since only materials with a hardness the same or above can scratch it; that doesn't correlate with it's resistance to breakage. Many very hard materials are also very brittle and will crack or shatter more easily than anticipated.
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From his book liberty defined:
http://libertydefined.org/issue/17

No one person has perfect knowledge as to man's emergence on this earth. Yet almost everyone has a strong religious, scientific, or emotional opinion he or she considers gospel. The creationists frown on the evolutionists, and the evolutionists dismiss the creationists as kooky and unscientific. Lost in this struggle are those who look objectively at the scientific evidence for evolution without feeling any need to reject the notion of an all-powerful, all-knowing Creator. My personal view is that recognizing the validity of the evolutionary process does not support atheism nor should it diminish one's view about God and the universe.
This is a debate about science and religion...and should not involve politicians at all.
I've read quite a bit of Pascal's history. There are three main explanations:

* Lack of a complete standard. The language was initially used in academy, so when it was adopted by industry, numerous mutually incompatible extensions were developed. The standard C library today may seem basic, but it was nice in comparison.

* Virtual machines. Now they're the cool thing. Then they were a shortcut to have a quick and dirty implementation for new hardware, instead of writting a compiler. Bad performance was associated with the language, not the implementation.

* Some implementations were of the "bondage and discipline" kind.

TurboPascal compiler in the eighties solved all three problems, adding an IDE and a $50 tag for good measure. But it was too late. Although very popular in Europe and for little shops in general, the big software firms in the USA had adopted C already.
What irks me is that this is how a lot of people I've met approach presidential candidates.

They gloss over important things like how Ron Paul is planning to implement $1 trillion in budget cuts, a reduction in the cabinet, etc and go straight for his personal beliefs which he doesn't allow to dictate his political career. He even voted against the ban on gay marriages.
Why not just dunk the spatula head and handle in a 5% bleach solution?

We do a fair bit of sausage and charcuterie stuff here; there's usually a bowl of bleach solution somewhere in my kitchen with something disinfecting in it.
I agree. I only posted to comment on the idea that somehow kids these days have gotten worse compared to older generations. The original post mis-attributes the kids getting bored to shorter attention spans, rather than lower quality films.

Take for example

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (1937): 84 minutes
Bambi (1942) runtime: 70 minutes
Toy Story 3 (2010): 103 minutes

The "kids these days" myth has existed since the dawn of language. People grow up and do not understand they have changed, not the children.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Disney_theatrical_featu...

http://www.disneymovieslist.com/disney-movies.asp
Translation: very few people's stash of word and excel documents will ever exceed 2GB.
How much cover does the "academic research" argument actually give? Any experience with that?
Let's put it this way. Without his supporters, the Republican party can't win the general election. So either the Republican party accepts them if they want to ever beat the Democrat party again, or they reject them, and they might end up forming a strong 3rd party later on, and help change the laws so they are more fair towards 3rd parties.
It's not at all a reductionist straw-man argument. The post I responded to argued that if more than one person flagged the post as offensive that the content should be removed. The argument assumed that there should/could be a vote on if something is offensive, and if more people found it offensive it should be removed.

That line of reasoning is flawed, especially since there's no way to vote that you're not offended (other than the original person posting). That's an absurd system, where only the offended can voice their opinion. Even if those not offended could vote, who would vote on everything they're not offended by. That's still silly. Any system that attempts to allow people to vote/flag offensive material is inherently flawed.

That leaves us (or really Google) with an arbitrary decision on what should be allowed and what should be banned. Asking me (or anyone else) to save the "well, what is offensive" argument is silly. That's the WHOLE point. It's an arbitrary decision, one we all might come to different conclusions on. That underlines my point, that it's an arbitrary decision, and one that's been made for no good reason, given a system where you don't have to follow MG on Google+. There's a natural option (and given your obvious attitude on Mr. Siegler, the one you'll likely take), just don't follow him or look at his Google+ page. There's no reason to remove the content, and Google should be called out for it. MG might have over-reacted, and might be worthy of being called out too. I'm only calling out the system of "voting" to determine what's offensive. That's just a silly system.
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If I remember correctly, the Treo had a plastic touch screen on top of the glass LCD. The worst of both worlds -- the brittleness of glass combined with the scratch weakness of plastic. Modern smartphones use Gorilla Glass or similar which is best of both worlds.
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Seems to be out of print on Amazon. Most sellers don't ship to foreign countries. Tough luck for people like me.
I always carry my iPhone 4 with my keys in the same pocket. Been doing so for about 14 months now, and I wear skinny jeans from time to time. The screen is still perfect.

That said, since the glass is more brittle than plastic, and I do drop a phone about once per year (which is obviously not a problem for a Nokia), I have decided to retain my insurance on it. The iPhone also doesn't take well to being soaked in water, and water is something that can happen to a phone in many ways. Situations like a surprise tropical storm, an idiot friend pushing you into a swimming pool, new trousers that pops everything out when you pull it up after going to the toilet, condensation that forms on the drink with ice you put down on a table next to the phone in a really humid climate, taking a cruise on the titanic, etc.
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I literally tried as hard as I could to scratch the screen of my iPhone 3G after I retired it. Keys, paper clip, knife... the screen is unscratchable. Are your wife's car keys made of diamond?

Heh, your guess is as good as mine ;) The keys from our old flat were a mix of both large old-style keys and some fancy super-secure-looking thing with a few potential nasty spikes on it. But still - I don't see how anything else scratched it when the was inside the bag :)
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Sonofa... I saw the notes and errata at the end, but in skimming through on my Kindle, looking for references, I must have missed it.

Thanks a ton.

The one book that was in there that I really wanted to get was Pridmore's "How to be Clever", but it isn't available on the Kindle. :'(
I made a similar transition myself and have one piece of advice for you.

Forget about all that "leadership" and "management" bullshit. Seriously. When you have direct reports your primary function is to serve them. I'm not kidding - I know it sounds all squishy and kumbaya-ish but if you think about what it means to serve somebody else you'll have a really good compass to guide you through your day.

Everybody seems to throw around bits of advice around what to do and even how to do it. The problem is every person is different and since people make up teams, every team is different. Plus, they change. Don't get lost in the what and the how until you understand the why. Everybody on your team has different needs and serving those people means understanding their needs. Some people need to be micro-managed and some people need to be given tons of space. Don't let their needs/situation effect your respect for them and always remember that people change.

Your to "why" will be different than anybody else's answer to that question and will give you immense insight into which "what" and "how" things you pick up from all that advice that is out there. It will also determine what kind of a leader/manager you are. This is important.

Identify what makes you and others around you happy and you will probably find yourself asking "what should I do?" a lot less often. Oh, and in case it's not clear, don't be so naive to think that "happy" is all fun and games and wine and roses and group hugs. And don't forget that you serve the "team" too - it's an entity with its own needs and challenges.
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I don't know if the glass is the same as the iPhone, but my iPad 2 has scratches on the screen from going in and out of a book bag (separate compartment, too) for a few trips before I got a case/cover. Metal might not scatch it easily, but then metal generally doesn't scratch glass easily anyway. A little sand or grit can certainly do the job, though.

That said, a case won't protect your phone screen anyway. You need a screen protector for that. I don't bother with either on my phone, but my wife does.
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That's why.
I looked at URL shortener limits some time ago and found these approximate limits by trial-and-error:

* TinyURL 65,536 characters and probably more, but requests timed out; there isn’t an explicit limit apparently

* Bit.ly 2000 characters.

* Is.Gd 2000 characters.

* Twurl.nl 255 characters.

This was 2.5 years ago, not sure how much of these have changed (other than bit.ly, which the linked article confirms is 2048, probably the same as when I tested it).

http://softwareas.com/the-url-shortener-as-a-cloud-database
I didn't downvote (I don't have enough points yet), but I can already see some problems with that article. For one, it's based on newsletters published 20 years ago which he's repeatedly told the media that he did not authorize to use his name. The only other thing that's trying to stick to Ron Paul in this article is completely based on hearsay. So no, it's not direct evidence.

EDIT: I seriously hope you're not trying to tell me that Ron Paul is a terrible person because one of his supporters favors the death penalty.
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> but if I lived in a hurricane-prone area I would probably investigate it and consider it a cost of living there [..] those who choose to live in the safer areas of the country are essentially subsidizing the risks I assume by living there

The problem with this logic is that there are extremely few (if any) locations in the United States that aren't affected by severe natural events (blizzards, heat waves, wildfires, tornadoes, hurricanes, droughts, flooding, earthquakes, etc). I live in one of the more moderate locations in the USA (western MA) and in the past 11 months we've had an earthquake, tornado, hurricane, an ice storm that left much of the region without power for about a week,and 80 inches of snow in February alone.

We all subsidize each other - maybe you had more moderate weather this year while we got whacked, but the situation could reverse itself next year.
Yes, that blog post by Jim is what led me to investigate and write about this.

The Stefan Savage paper you refer to wasn't so much about ignoring congestion signals as deliberately faking reception of data that hadn't actually been received. With things like duplicate acks or optimistic acking, you could cause the sender to open their window size to whatever you want.

http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~savage/papers/CCR99.pdf

Back in 1999, I was working on integrating these ideas into a router product. It would be software in your home gateway that would keep a cache of the last observed window size for each pair of hosts for a few seconds.

If you started another TCP connection to the same host within that short interval, the router would spoof both sides to increase the window size to the previous value / 2 and then let additive increase take over from there. This bypasses slow start but the current available bandwidth is likely to be very close to the estimate within that short range and hosts didn't cache window size, even when making multiple connections in a short period (e.g., HTTP 1.0)

I archived this paper and a bunch more here. Prepare to lose an afternoon if the history of TCP/IP interests you.

http://root.org/ip-development/
For example:

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2011/12/race-bait...

The new ad from Revolution PAC is pretty powerful. James Williams, a black man, talks about his efforts to get medical attention for his pregnant white wife at a Texas hospital in the 1970s. The crescendo comes when a young doctor named Ron Paul broke through the indifference of the staff to give them the help they needed. Their baby would be stillborn. And Paul paid their medical expenses. Then Williams extols the virtues of Paul — his honesty and willingness to take on the establishment.
Hint: Gauss. Sum of numbers 1 to 100.

Using Gauss's insight, Ruby can solve 10,000 times faster than a naive C solution.

I solved this a while back, while high on drugs my dentist gave me. Blog post is down, but code is here: http://refactormycode.com/codes/8-integer-puzzle
Also consider that we are a tech/legal startup, and the ability to cover in house some of the legal trickiness was a huge pro on the Srl side.
Here some other thoughts I forgot to link on the previous post: http://thinkamination.com/dove-incorporare/ [ITA]
Here's a topic on Quora too: http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-benefits-of-being-incorpor...

Also consider that incorporating outside means you have to demonstrate that it's not for a taxation advantage, which would not be legal.
The mainstream media works its magic by taking a mural 100 miles square and repeatedly hilighting the same 50 square inches. They do this in order to create the perception that fits their agenda, and ignoring the rest. It's an extremely effective technique. It's very easy to control what people think, not by lying to them, but controlling what they think about.
Puppetlabs has certainly stepped up their marketing; 6-8 months ago you could have flipped the words puppet and chef in your post and it would have been completely true.

I'd argue puppet is winning any time there are operations staff, chef is winning when pure developers are also doing operations. Either is fine and both are leaps and bounds ahead of the competition (which is generally "no configuration management" or "a hodge-podge of homegrown scripts").
Sounds like many of the biblical prophets to me. It's someone who took his cues from Jeremiah.

I never understood what was the big deal - it's just someone who takes seriously their religion. (And all of his accusations in that quote are factual. The crack epidemic was largely CIA-fueled as a way to funnel money to Central American rebels, and the rest is easy enough to verify.)
Good on Ron Paul! I've expressed this sentiment on here before, but it still bothers me that so much of what I read in opposition to SOPA is linked to actual piracy. Sure, I think that DRM is ridiculous and counter-productive, but piracy only serves to legitimize the claims of SOPA supporters, and undermine the claims of it's opponents that it would do no good. Please, if you oppose SOPA, stop using rhetoric from sites that appear to condone piracy.
I think that was his way of saying just pick one. Whichever one seems to you like the most popular, go with that. Because it doesn't really matter which you choose, what matters is that you start.
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tl;dr no one told him Amazon EC2 is not a VPS provider. Lots of people seem to assume it is. Instances are supposed to die, thats a feature not a bug.
> 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?

Then surely the New York Times and Washington Post are as well.
This isn't the case - the surface of Gorilla glass is under compression along its surface in such a way that it's incredibly scratch resistant in addition to being very flexible (see demos of people scratching car keys on it).

The primary weakness of Gorilla glass is that any actual incremental damage basically causes the glass to implode on itself and creates spiderwebs of cracks instead of a straight one reflecting where the structural integrity was breached. Think of how many times you've seen hairline cracks in windshields versus the disaster that someone's iPhone screen turns into if they happen to crack their screen.

The way Gorilla glass is manufactured it is by far the weakest around the edges (there's no compression depth-wise across the edge) and thus the iPhone 4 is somewhat more susceptible to damage than earlier models (due to the edge to edge glass on the front).
Incidentally, regarding the bottom of Nate's post: if you're at all interested in code analysis, you really should reach out to him about a role on his team. I know a little about what they're building, and it is possibly the coolest business idea any HN participant is working on.
Some people make products. Some people teach others how to run a company, how to make a product, how to make a profitable small business.

For the latter group of people, their words is the product.