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From the discussion here, I conclude this quote is widely accepted among those who provide quality discourse: "I try to comment when I have useful, unique, original, or non-standard things to say." This represents a desire to deliver a certain promised value. When you post on a forum, (or send an email, for that matter) you are making an implicit claim: is worth the audience's time to read your post.

For users like me, there is friction in posting because I have to convince myself that I've satisfied the implicit claim. For others, I assume, this friction is absent. So add it artificially: somehow make the claim explicit.

Maybe require posters to select from a list of categories (e.g. Useful Information, Insightful, Civil Disagreement, ...), explicitly claiming their post meets that criteria. Or, less restrictive: a required checkbox that simply reminds you of the claim you're making with your post.
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> Though I don't enjoy the current sad state of affairs with regards to the security and validation of CAs, there's something to be said for the old adage that no security is better than false security, and trusting all self-signed certificates would definitely be false security, since eavesdroppers could just do a man-in-the-middle with their own self-signed certificate.

Currently, self-signed HTTPS is trusted less than unecrypted HTTP. We don't get a massive warning if visiting Facebook over HTTP, despite the MITM risk and the fact that data is being sent in clear to boot.
"Shelved" is not enough - they'll just find a backdoor for it.

I don't think they expected such opposition, unlike other laws like the Patriot Act that mostly went unnoticed.

But they are just regrouping. It ain't over.
nothing but encrypting everything client-side using auditable code is bulletproof

That sounds like Colin Percival's (cperciva) startup: http://www.tarsnap.com/
So.. person A annoyed person B. Person B made a blog post about it and tied it into how the HN community is declining as a whole. Person A makes a few comments in the thread, and makes own blog post about the initial blog post.

I thought high school was over.
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I don't know how she is running her show, but I note that there is a place for 'revenue' companies. These are companies that pay a dividend on their stock quarterly.

This 'old school' concept is based on a the notion that the enterprise in question generates X revenue, and then Y gross margin on that revenue, and divides up the net margin as dividends on a per share basis. That has been a very common way for investors to participate in the success of the company they are invested in.

The economic impact is that the share price then moves based on the return compared to other securities in the market (like t-bills, junk bonds, Etc.)
It's not that simple. It doesn't just apply to stack allocated objects; resource ownership (in the sense of being responsible for "closing" the resource when you are yourself "closed") may and often does logically form a tree throughout the heap, and doesn't easily flatten to stack allocated objects without going further into allocating objects inline in other objects.

And when you introduce that, you have a problem of dealing with the difference between references to these inline objects: possibly on the stack or the heap, free-standing or embedded. If a reference escapes and outlives the lifetime of the object, you've created a potential dangling pointer, whereas in the normal Java or C# implementation you have at worst a semantic problem of having leaked a reference to a "closed" or disposed object. The GC won't collect it, but any operations on it will and should fail.

If you try and deal with this in the C++ way, you'll end up with far more confusion over objects passed around by reference, and objects passed around by value. Instead of the mechanism of passing being encoded by the type, it would be part of the control flow, and it would be easy to get into situations where you're working with a reference to a copy that was passed by value, and think you have a reference to the original; this is already a problem in C# to the degree that it is not recommended to create mutable value types.

TL;DR: what you suggest would create far more problems than it solves.
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The search input box is long and it's not clear if you can but when the input box is long I suspect that I can type multiple words. I'd love to be able to write "fox or news" or "fox news or paper"
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I'd introduce some more checks and balances if you can. Even Google got burned by a rogue engineer snooping on people, a lengthy interview isn't enough.
> I am trying to do away with material things and spend less money.

Point being, these two things are orthogonal to one another.
Lets just hope that whatever tool they use to write stories for this site actually includes a spell check. Or maybe they will do grammar checks on their articles finally.

I cannot recall a TC article I have read that didn't have any errors.
> By that token we should teach everyone how bad genocide is by executing a random member of their family.

Uh, no. That's not the same token at all.
This post and comments has made me reconsider the word "trust" entirely.

"Trust" is an emotion-laden, rhetorical word used by a someone who wants you to do something. "Just trust us."

Trust is not fragile, trust is an illusion.

Replace the verb "trust" with the word "assume" or "take a calculated risk" and you're closer to reality.

Instead of "trust us," how about, "Look at our record. Note that we have had not a single incident of data disclosure in 6 years. Decide for yourself if it is likely that we'll have one now, with your data."

Instead of "trust us," how about, "Think about our business: imagine the consequences if we were found to have looked at our customers' data, and see if that disincentive allays your concerns sufficiently."

Instead of "trust us," how about, "Here are the ways we are protecting your data. Consider whether they meet your requirements or not."

I'm voting "trust" off the island.
Hey Beau, thanks for the feedback. I've always admired your work with Instant Domain Search and appreciate you taking the time to give me feedback on this.

When you say "there are no margins in the domain industry", I assume you're talking about registrars and how domain names don't make them money, hosting and other services do, yes? LDS is not a registrar; revenue is purely through the affiliate links. Assuming people use them, the margin on this should be decent. It's no Heroku or Weebly, but that's not necessarily the goal either.

There's definitely room for speed improvements; I'll be work on that over the next few weeks.

I'm not sure I want to partner with any of the aftermarkets just yet, but that's not a bad idea long term. And I definitely want to add thesaurus results.

Again, appreciate the feedback.
I've been wondering about this, but I don't have a good answer. What about (1) Laws that get money out of politics, like campaign finance and the work being done by organizations like United re:public and Rootstrikers (originally founded by Lawrence Lessig under the name Fix Congress First.) Make it harder to support SOPA-like laws in the future. or (2) Repeal the most recent copyright extension act.
"Like-gating" is a behavior that I find pathetic; it dilutes what little value there might have been to tracking "likes" to begin with.

If you actually care how valuable your brand is, you won't give anyone a damned thing for "liking" you and you won't make it a condition of doing anything else. What good is a disingenuous opinion about your brand? You should only want a "like" if someone gave it to you without being asked.
Leahy (PIPA sponsor) has announced that his chief of staff, Ed Pagano, is leaving to become Obama's liaison with the Senate. If you carefully read Leahy's press release and Obama's Response to We the People Petitions, the only thing that either has backed off on is the DNS language. And is packet sniffing any better than DNS censoring for freedom on the Internet? I don't know.

Not saying that the vote will happen on Jan 24, but also not putting any money on its not happening. Both Pagano and Obama are basketball players, so keep your eyes on the ball.
"Headline: guy owns 15 things
... read article, guy owns more than 15 things."

Haha exactly how I felt when I read it. This is a good blog post of gear for this kinda travel or lifestyle http://tynan.com/2010gear.

The 14 things I own and the cost of each item.
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Real minimalists take less than their fair share, not more.

Are you defining "fair share" as "median"? or as "takes less than what he produces, as defined by how much value others think he provides in terms of how much money they give him for his work"?

Much as you may dislike capitalism, and whatever flaws it has, it's the best system we have for identifying the value of some product or service: a thing is worth what someone else is willing to give for it. Expanding thereon, note that that thing (product or service) is probably worth _more_ because one can usually turn around and acquire/generate even more wealth with it.

OP writes a blog post. He acquires enough income somehow from it to pay for a seat on a cross-country flight. What he pays for that seat in turn nets not just enough to cover costs, but to turn a profit on that flight. That profit in turn allows employees & shareholders to buy [insert warm fuzzy life-enhancing goods/services here]. During said flight, he writes another post which will net an income enough to cover the next such cycle. Upshot? he buys a red-eye flight instead of paying for a bed (divided by however many nights he would own, but perhaps not use, said bed), "minimalizing" that bit of his life, and the world is better for it.

You may think it's "not fair" somehow, but you're not willing to put up the value-representing money to trump it. What's your "footprint"? and how might that be criticized? (say, by the "strip mining" of forest land for carrot farms.)
I think you're describing moveon.org.

EDIT: I was unclear. "create an organization that can get everyone mobilized quickly in the future." From the wiki page of moveon.org: "They started by passing around a petition asking Congress to 'censure President Clinton and move on', as opposed to impeaching him." It was a single-issue online activism group that grew into an organization known for quickly mobilizing lots of people for political causes. I should have been more specific! :)
Even better would be an editorial flow. Unless you want mistakes, writers should not be allowed to post on the site directly.
Great idea -- will do.
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I'm tired of these acronyms, it got confusing today. Are politicians just trying to smuggle it through under a different name at this point? I can't think of a name from recent events with more negative connotations than SOPA, which seems to be why it was abandoned. Are these anti-SOPA messages worth the cost of downtime at this point?
That strikes me as optimistic.

The most likely move is to slip this authority into a defense/anti-terror bill. It'd be a fairly straightforward exercise in legalese to create wording that grants the government the right to blacklist domains/addresses under the auspices of fighting terrorism.

And while the wording will suggest terrorism, it will be sub-defined to cover illegal enterprises in the aggregate and that, as they say, is the ballgame.

And when that version of the law gets attacked, the defense is the same straightforward jingoism and propaganda that has successfully fended off attacks on the recent, more-egregious intrusions into our liberty.

If people can't see past some flag-waving to get fired up about the executive having the explicit authority to bug your internet connection, search your car, attach a GPS tracker or even unilaterally declare you no longer deserving of your constitutional rights and bundle you off to secret prison, they're not going to see past it to get fired up about what the government might do to their websites.
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The results are much poorer on Domain Tools, and other TLDs are generally worth less than .com's. Since your tool is called LEAN domain search. I would assume its for .com's which is mostly what 90% of the community looks for when looking for a domain. Otherwise they wouldn't turn to a tool like yours for help in finding a domain. Thus the whole comment that he made is mostly irrelevant. I think your tool does an extremely good job of displaying a lot of good names at a very fast pace. I wouldn't clutter down and slow the results with other TLDs.

Great work.
That's not necessarily an open and shut case. People have their reasons for being unable to upgrade software; while the developer can certainly start by pointing out the new version, it is sometimes reasonable to resolve the issue by releasing a patch of an older version.
The individuals may end up with six/seven figure cushy jobs, but the party may still suffer long-term consequences.

When you're in politics, money is only good for one thing: buying votes. However, if a force stronger than free t-shirts and pens makes itself noticed, like mass-media reminding people how they got screwed, then interesting things can happen.

I think the main issue here with these people is that the Internet is not controlled so tightly as traditional media. And we are just starting to see the social effects.
From http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3076-i-heard-you-like-numbers:

And a Basecamp user uploaded the 100,000,000th file (It was a picture of a cat!)

In the comments, they clarify that it was called cat.jpg, and that's how they knew it was a picture of a cat.
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The results are not perfect.

I added a "doublecheck" link on the registration dialog box that allows you to confirm before following through to the registrar.
Counterpoint: users who don't know/care about RSS will no longer be confused when clicking a prominent icon. RSS has awful UX.

RSS usage is small and the usability is bad, don't expect this trend to change. If you still use RSS, use a browser that integrates it or a plug-in to do the same. Even better than an icon on the site.
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Same here, when I searched for "rpg".
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Thanks, agreed on all points. Appreciate it.
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I won't miss reading the "$500 for 14 days of work" emails in my inbox, that's for sure.
There's not a single mention of PIPA/SOPA on that site.
You're correct. And we will question it, rightfully so.

The days of these people being "independent" media and bloggers are over. They may have been at one point, but these are cash generating vehicles, designed to promote product. And, really, I don't blame them.

But let's be realistic. She started what appears to be a blog. Why is there a laundry list of the who's-who of SV investing in it?
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I don't know the python libraries off the top of my head, but the Python implementation of R (RPy) is decent and R is heavily used in most circles to have great literature written for it.
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I'm confused, explain?
I think the original post is good feedback for you.

Your angle might be that you can save time and be happier by owning fewer things? That's good advice. As an innovator, you've offered advice that can help other innovators with our first-world problems finding happiness.

There's some anger in the response, yes. But you are being made an example of. There's still a life of privilege in the way you're living, that probably you'd be happy to acknowledge. There's also some things that might not care about that others do - like carbon footprint, modern consumerism, money inequities, vegetarianism, etc. Or maybe you do care about those things too.
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Based on a few tests, I think he's just doing DNS queries and assuming any NXDOMAIN response means a domain is unregistered, which is not always the case. Sure, users figure out the domain isn't available once they try to register it, but by then you've already dashed their hopes.

It's fine to use DNS queries as part of the checking process, but if you get a NXDOMAIN, you need to follow that up with some kind of check against a WHOIS server or root zone file (which is slower and harder to work with).
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Silent failure doesn't carry information about how the thing failed: did the file not exist, was it not accessible because of security, was there a failure on the underlying device or file system?

How is the user supposed to figure out what went wrong with the program if the program can't even convey to the user what went wrong?

Complex problems have lots of simple wrong answers.

(Your "solution" also suggests nothing about how "in.close()" is going to get called if "...dostuff..." itself throws an exception.)
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/ seems fairly transparent, but is out of date (no entry for SOPA).
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I made almost exactly the same thing a few months ago: http://www.transfury.com/

The server is written in node.js and it uses socket.io to do the transfers. I think it only works in Chrome because I didn't bother getting the drag-and-drop working with anything else. Actually, it seems to be broken in the current dev channel of Chrome. I announced it back in September:

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This is part of why I bought an HP Touchpad when it wasn't on the fire sale, and a Palm Pre+ before that. The Palm folks (even at HP now) not only don't care that you're hacking their device, they actually actively encourage it. They've gone out of their way to provide an "oh shit" button for when you've completely frazzled the bootloader and nothing else works. The Touchpad runs webOS, Android, and Ubuntu, and HP/Palm doesn't give a shit.

Now that their OS is open source, too, I'd love to see the rise of HP/Palm in the hacker community. They're not just accepting of hackers, they actively encourage it in all aspects.
Why would I be talking about desktop browsers on a post about a mobile framework?

Firefox I know at the moment is a very minor browser on mobile, but it has the potential to grow its install base. Opera is massive outside the US (StatCounter suggests it’s leading worldwide [1]) and doesn’t use WebKit either. And Microsoft doesn’t embed WebKit as a default browser on Windows Phone 7.

It’s fine to make the choice that you only want to support WebKit but you’re cutting out potential users and that should be highlighted, not hidden away in the source code comments.

[1] http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_browser-ww-monthly-201012-...
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For extremely contrived definitions of "1998's Google" yes. But if all it took was a pile of servers and hard-drives for 1998's Google to succeed then a lot more other companies would have done so as well. It takes more than that to build a company.
Can't they just do a "fake" blackout -- every user's first visit of the day gets blacked out, but with a link to re-enable Wikipedia?

I mean, get awareness out, but then still let us read the articles (even with white-on-black text, maybe?)
Maybe a "report abuse" link next to each comment (with its attendant functionality) would be useful.
Interesting! It's funny how we both chose the same arbitrary chunk size :)
If they try and fail, they'll have no one to blame but themselves; if they don't try then they can keep shifting the blame. I suspect that Shuttleworth is aware of Kay's wisdom about building your own hardware, but the market is probably not there.
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This is a case of his fast, DNS-based checking method not providing accurate results. You can see the difference by running nslookup and whois on the domain. Nslookup just uses DNS, whereas whois goes to the registrar/internic.

$ nslookup codejet.com

Server:	1.1.1.227
Address:	1.1.1.227#53

server can't find codejet.com: NXDOMAIN

$ whois codejet.com

Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.

Domain Name: CODEJET.COM
Registrar: GODADDY.COM, LLC
Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com
Name Server: No nameserver
Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Status: clientRenewProhibited
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Status: clientUpdateProhibited
Updated Date: 20-may-2011
Creation Date: 01-jun-2000
Expiration Date: 01-jun-2012

>>> Last update of whois database: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:34:42 UTC <<<
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Because economies of scale mean that commodity hardware is vastly less expensive and more available than special-purpose hardware.

The number of people who set out to run specifically Linux on a tablet is vanishingly small. I say this as one of them.
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