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I have relatives in the US since my mother is from Rhode Island and I find myself always putting off a visit because frankly the last time I was there the border patrol made my girlfriend cry. We were separated because we weren't yet married and she was quite aggressively questioned because she didn't know the exact trip details. I refuse to brief my loved ones for possible interrogation before a vacation.
No doubt USA remains way better than many other countries. But that isn't what people are complaining about. It is the paranoia taking away a way of life that everyone seemed to like, even people (like me) who live outside the US.

The first time I visited the US (this was after 9/11), I was surprised to see the extent of security checks at airports. In my mind, I had notions of people getting into airplanes like they get into a buses or trains. Now there were lots of armed security, queues, list of things not to do. And I had no clue why elderly women were getting frisked.

I stood wondering what would have happened if they just did away with these checks. If the money and time saved could be put into health care, it would have saved way more lives than would be lost in terrorist attacks. And people could have generally had a better time.
Wow, this is an open invitation for trolling. Just imagine imposing someone who is going to fly to the US on Twitter.
It is actually pretty funny that they have a saved search for "Destroy America". Better watch what I say for the superbowl, don't want to talk about killing the patriots or anything...
The US used to be the greatest country on earth, now it has just become a joke.

Oh and just to make sure I never go there again: "Let's Destroy America !"

But maybe Homeland does not monitor Hacker News...
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By doing all this raiding of ptp stuff, you actually harm everybody involved, RIAA doesn't make more money, the freedom index of america shifts down from the 20's to the 40's, net neutrality dies as everyone puts a "This website, button, service, etc is not available to you".

The internet is trying to be transmogrified into fox news, where you can "tune in" to any government authorized channels. If we don't kick and scream to stop this, we'll wake up and the internet will be "one-way", like TV was in the 1960's.
I decided not to visit America this year with my gf because of some recent horror stories from my friends. Instead we'll visit South Korea for a month.
Yeah, that's sort of what I thought. This "On the flip side, Kim Dotcom will lose the ability to use the data to defend himself after pleading not guilty to piracy," seems very strange to me. Obviously, if the data were to be deleted, it would be because the FBI stopped Megaupload from paying for those data-center services. Thus, we would get a situation where the feds are at least indirectly responsible for destroying evidence, and then argue "well, prove that the data which has just been conveniently destroyed wasn't pirated!" That makes no sense at all, only makes for a stronger defense, so I don't think that's what they're going to try (which is why they had better preserve the damn data).

Perhaps even more importantly, if this data gets destroyed and they can't find further evidence to use against the Megaupload bosses, this would mean a federal bureau effectively destroyed a company without having any evidence of them having committed a crime. That would be a very bad thing, and would set a very, very bad precedent.
Actually - I dont think they save it at all. They kickstart a new VM with the root password and forget about it permanently.
That used to be the case in the UK, but I notice more and more how I'm the only one actually using that form in conversation these days, at least in my little corner of Northern England. Indigenous people have clearly moved on to DMY, i.e. "the 30th of January".
Try Emacs with evil mode for Vim emulation. It doesn't get better than this. It is almost like having a lisp-based Vim.
I wouldn't consider this a US only problem. Anyone from UK/Ireland will remember this case: http://news.techeye.net/internet/stephen-fry-prepared-for-ja...
I wasn't asked me to defend anything. Let's not forget that back in 2004 many alternatives that are fairly robust today were not as functional as PHP was.
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This is very good news. We desperately need an open source alternative to the closed platforms which play along the DRM censorship technology.

My dream Pad would support "dual view" modes in the sense that it could be used as a Pad and as a classic PC as well. Which means: Put the Pad on a table, connect a keyboard and mouse and use it as a classic PC for Software development and Office.

The first mode would require the touch GUI (KDE Active Plasma) while the second mode would be best supported by the classic KDE desktop. Wouldn't that be nice to have?
If the author could switch that easily to SublimeText, he wasn't properly using Vim.
Not trying to be pedantic but the literal meaning of introvert is someone who looks inside for approval or decision making.(Etymology "Intro"-in vert-"look").

You can be a very social person and have tons of friends etc etc but at the end of the day if you are not too affected by other's opinions about you then you are an introvert.Introverts are totally okay with being alone for extended periods of time as they very much enjoy the conversation they are having with themselves.But they can also go out and talk to people confidently if they so desire.(Yes there is probably some correlation between introversion and social anxiety especially in young people).

On the other hand, extroverts who are looking outward for approval and decisions get depressed when they are lonely.This is not necessarily a bad thing.Personally I would have saved so much time if I had bounced my crazy ideas of someone else before going and implementing them.

When it comes to leadership, both can be good leaders.A brilliant example of a very introverted leader is Steve Jobs and an excellent example of an extroverted leader is President Barack Obama.
When you're doing something even remotely technically interesting shared hosting isn't an option. However, if you need something for, you know, the restaurant down the street, your nephew's school blog, a small shop that justs wants a Google Map and a contact form i don't think shared hosting is such a bad option.

It's really cheap ($20 for a VPS might be low for you, but it isn't for your nephew), doesn't matter that much when it's down, usually easy to set up, etc.
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I work for a US company in Europe and I'm seriously concerned about my security if and when the time comes for me to visit the company HQ. I'm a completely harmless person, but sometimes I look like a bearded pirate (arr!), my passport photo looks like I'm a recently escaped convict, I've ordered flight simulators and aviation maps with my credit card from the US and my police file mentions a short wrestling match with a police officer and some other encounters with the law. I've been involved in organizing underground music events and I've probably been photographed by security officials in political protests I've attended.

If people get locked down and refused entry based on a few tweets, I'm worried that my background check will get me a special four S treatment from airport security officials.

I would not consider going to the US for a vacation. Thankfully there are five other continents to visit.
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Isn't Microsoft's schizophrenic relationship with FOSS old news? The same company that claims "Linux is a cancer" also employs K.Y. Srinivasan, a topic linux kernel contributor [1], and Simon Peyton Jones of Haskell fame.

Microsoft's competitors Apple and Google have dealt with OSS much more gracefully. While I don't approve of this approach, these companies 'embraced' open source with projects like Darwin and Android OS, and then twisted the efforts in proprietary directions. I don't know if this strategy was ever really available to Microsoft, however.

[1] http://lwn.net/Articles/451243/
Anyone (like myself) thinking of looking at joining a gym, this article is a great lesson into what (not) to do.

http://www.mensjournal.com/everything-you-know-about-fitness...

HN Discussion here - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2287213
Unfortunately it seems like its become the "it" thing to close down web services. I don't understand why people don't opt to sell the sites instead? It might not make you rich, but hopefully you'll find the right buyer that will keep it alive for all of your current visitors. Website buying and selling has become very easy over the years. List it yourself on a marketplace or if that seems like a daunting task there are numerous website brokers who would be glad to find the right buyer for you.
Baby steps, my friend. Microsoft is a big company, and getting everyone and every project to buy in is a complex and political process. They're not going to switch to open source overnight. The very fact that they're working and contributing even a little is a good step.

It's too early to tell where this will go, but I'm willing to hear them out with cautious optimism.
I'm not sure what he's talking about wrt density of startups in NYC versus SF/SV. San Francisco is positively bursting with startups.
I meant bad for the entire Tilera processor. I haven't found any SPEC results for a Tilera processor, but we've been experimenting with a TilePro64 in out research lab for a while: http://soft.vub.ac.be/~smarr/2010/11/roarvm-the-manycore-squ...
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> 4., The death of Blackberry is on the wall, making the iPhone the natural successor - for the above points.

I can't speak for the pharmaceutical industry in America, but from what I've noticed in the financial industry in the UK a lot of people are ditching their Blackberry's and are moving to either Android or, surprisingly, WP7. One of the large financial services companies I've worked with is switching all of its employees to WP7 this year, and I wouldn't be surprised if this is where Microsoft find their area.
Great tip. I have something similar, I have a kettlebell right next to my desk (standup, so don't even have to get up to get it) and a set of rings hanging from the ceiling. My office looks a bit weird, but it gives me a great break.
So I guess "I want to kill the President of the United States of America" is still illegal, isn't it? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEQOvyGbBtY
It wasn't a joke. It was commonly used terminology to describe going somewhere to "party". They could have written that they were going to "rock America". This wouldn't have meant that they were going to start an earthquake.
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Fast fuzzy search across your entire project is called grep. Why do we keep rediscovering tools that have existed for such a long time?

Edit: I suppose people keep rediscovering these tools because even if they use vim, they often times insist on running it as a stand-alone GUI application, rather than in a terminal emulatir where the built-in task switching/multitasking makes it very easy to run complex shell commands, move files around, use your VCS and switch back to your editor. Another benefit is that now you can have the exact same work environment over ssh as locally.
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I know it's a bit out of subject but I had to do this a couple time, and now, I simply use google app. It gets the job done, have a nice spam filter and more importantly, users are already used with google services. I'm not saying configuring the server with postfix is bad, far from that, but it might be worthwhile to look at google app as it may speed up things for you and your users.
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Just received confirmation that RIM's main manufacturing plant is in Waterloo. They also have a plant in Dallas, Hungary and Mexico. A person in RIM management has told me the costs on RIM devices are typically higher because they stay away from unfair labor practices.

BTW: Ethics is my point. The fair treatment of ALL human beings should and must trump all other matters.
I have to say that most of the time I've travelled into the US things have been perfectly fine. However, one time I got questioned about why I had travelled to Turkey so often and got questioned a lot about why I liked Turkey as a holiday destination - which afterwards seems a bit surreal but at the time was quite alarming.
I don't go to the gym with someone, but there is a big group of people there when I go, and we all know each other. I particularly like that we all have different jobs and come from different backgrounds. Like you mentioned, we all push each other, but more important to me is I get some time talking with non-engineers everyday.
Another asset is a 'playbook'.

Let's say you've build a successful app for a particular bank or cafe. Now you can offer the similar app for any cafe or bank. Having a validated, proven playbook of solutions in highly customized market is a great asset.
... and on a -somewhat- related note: Does anyone here recommend 'premium' e-mail hosting, such as Rackspace E-mail? (http://www.rackspace.com/apps/email_hosting/rackspace_email/). What are the benefits of such services? I am trying to understand the benefits of these premium e-mail services to a postfix on a self-managed VPS.
Did AT&T actually tried to enforce this copyright? Because what I see is auto-generated header that is put to every shell script present on the system. Entertaining nonetheless.
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I saw that movie "Friends with benefits", which made the East-West divide out to be a big deal. Is it, though?
I use Google Apps for personal email, but I was thinking of building in secure and monitored messaging to an idea I'm developing. In order to do that, I need to setup my own SMTP server.
Interesting, how would your perception change if the email included a notice saying something to the effect of, "here is you password... rest assured, we have not stored it on our system. Please memorize it and delete this email for maximum security"? Of course, you really need to protect your email as much as possible. If someone gains access to your email, they can pretty much ruin your day anyways. All they would have to do is click the "forgot password" link, wait for the email to come in to your inbox, and go from there.
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The obvious one is that it saves you the hassle of running postfix on a self-managed VPS.

And you do get rather more than just postfix - there's webmail, IMAP, etc, all managed for you.
broken link?

CoW B+ tree would sound almost as interesting as fractal trees, otherwise
You know you've been truly affected by a text editor when you drop back to writing comments in web forms and feel like you're walking in quicksand...
The obvious benefit is they manage it for you.
We started a project a few months ago to provide a similar simple monitoring/uptime service.

http://erlywarn.com/
What will that new architecture look like? ... Since I can't seem to reply to your comment...so an 8 bit processor :-) It would be interesting to pair this with the new 100 core chips.
Install the same in a couple of minutes with http://www.iredmail.org/
If you look at all the value that Facebook (and many other companies) have derived from working with PHP, it's definitely a "because of PHP's strengths" and "in spite of PHP's problems".

No technology is perfect, but imperfect technology that lets you Get Stuff Done(tm) goes a long way.
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Quick question.

The EC2 pricing page says that Elastic block store is $0.10 per GB-month of provisioned storage. But I'm wondering what happens if I only use it for a few days? How would I be billed for that?

As I understand it, every instance I launch will have an EBS to hold the OS, etc? So I'm wondering how much it will cost for each instance I launch? It seems expensive it they round up to am month of storage charges for just an hour's usage.
I want to insert a custom app into the email pipeline. Is there any other way?
Well, that's always nice to hear. Mind telling me more? :)
James -- subpage 404s but I can read it on your home page.
I live in the US. Someone put me on a list of people who retweet wikileaks tweets and I'm concerned. Our policy towards visitors and immigrants has been increasingly hostile. Citizens get it a little better, but increasingly bad too.

Minor quibble with your last sentence:

> I would not consider going to the US for a vacation. Thankfully there are five other continents to visit.

Mexico, Canada, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, El Salvador, Honduras all share North America with the United States. And Antarctica is a continent too (7 total, not 6).
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Care to elaborate on that? I'm fairly entry-level when it comes to vim and I'd be interested to hear some good examples of what it can do over something like sublime.
Sure there are benefits with having your own email system versus a hosted solution (ie. you have the data on your server(s)), but it comes with maintenance headaches too.

We recently switched over to Atmail (http://atmail.com/) after years of running Cyrus+Postfix (with various anti-spam tools). Atmail is kinda the best of two worlds -- you have control over your data, but the software is easy to maintain. Under the hood, Atmail is using standard Unix/Linux components (dovecot, exim, spamassasin etc), but makes it easy to maintain.

For a few other companies I'm involved with, I've deployed Google Apps, just because it's dead simple and gives you no headache.
It's a valid concern if that's how you develop, but in my experience my tests catch any issues before I get anywhere near the browser console.
I was referring to this exchange from the article:

Q: "4. What do you think of PHP as a language from your perspective, regarding that Facebook was initially written in PHP then transformed to C++ using HipHop for PHP. What are the pros and cons of using C++ over PHP at Facebook?"

A: "I was afraid you were going to ask that :o"

Sounds like being asked to defend your decision to use PHP to me, unless I'm reading it wrong.
I don't want all of it though. You shouldn't be running a web server on your email server for instance.
Sure it's possible if you host it yourself. Where do you want to insert it?
I just recently setup an email auto-responder with a custom email server (in Java) and I will say it was a goddamn PITA.
I did use the cited article and also this one is good: http://rimuhosting.com/support/settingupemail.jsp?mta=postfi...

Some things that are rather important:

1. Name your email server with "mail" some where in the name. Seriously don't call your email server crapbox.snaphop.com :)

2. Although you can send email as a relay on many different ports (2525, 8025, 587 (ssl)) you can really only receive on port 25.

3. You better have a PTR / reverse dns setup.

4. It takes at least a couple of hours before email servers will acknowledge you.

5. You can get away with out a SPF for a little bit but you really need if your going to blast a crap load of emails. Use this to test: http://www.kitterman.com/spf/validate.html
Even if this story is accurate, which is unlikely, the righteous indignation of the comments here is even more pathetic. The U.S is like China and Russia, please. That is an insult to people actually living in oppression. Maybe do something productive instead.
Yes your are surely right. But what about GNU guys' bint/true implementations copyright message? :)
I've always run my own email for several reasons:

1. I can choose my domain (although nowadays that's not a problem - it was when I first started).

2. I can tweak spam and anti-virus filtering.

3. I can view the logs if I think something is wrong.

4. I can be as (in)tolerant of other mail servers as I want (I've noticed that Google is a bit lax in the rules it enforces with regards to rejecting mail).

5. I don't trust Google or other providers not to mine my email, or to back it up.

6. It's a useful learning experience.
It's stupid things like this that have kept me from travelling to the US for work or conferences since 2003. I've actively avoided them. Unfortunately, we'll probably have to attend a wedding in NY next year but I'm not looking forward to the experience
After the "insert copyright headers in all files" edict is given, it isn't unusual to find empty files that are copyrighted. Config files placeholders in particular end up copyrighting the zero length file.
I'm not sure if this is the point you were making, but I'm really skeptical of the value of learning Latin as a route to learning modern Latin languages. It seems to me that if you want to learn, for example, Spanish, then you are considerably better off learning Spanish straight away and not Latin then Spanish.

And if you're getting carried away and want to learn a second or a third one, then Spanish will give you most of the value of Latin in terms of transferable knowledge.
our lecturer at MIT mentioned this as a side comment, 12 years ago.. sounds like media hype here
not broken, it's a demo as article's title says.

There're links on the bottom of page that leads to source code: https://github.com/indutny/node-bplus
Does anyone know what the quote mentioned from Family Guy is?
First, grep requires specify intermediate characters. For instance, to match SublimeText, you need the regular expression 'S.*B', while in Sublime you could just type 'SB'. (Neither is better, they just serve different purposes.)

Second, grep is not comparable, it's a different tool. For instance, if you would want to open the openCorpus function in the file MainWindow.cpp, in Sublime you'd just type "MWcp@opC", and you are there. While typing the pane and window dynamically update, allowing you to narrow down the 'search space' quickly.

Grep is for searching for text strings in files in the shell or shell scripts. Sublime's Goto Anything is for searching files and symbols in a text editor.

Edit: I like and use both vim and ST2, but neither grep, ctags, nor Peepopen provide the smooth experience of 'Goto Anything'. Of course, conversely vim also has many things to like over ST2 (such as modeful editing that is definitely better than ST2's Vintage).
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Great, but how are you planning on paying the rest of the production, which after all makes up the majority of that $200 million.
This is because of the nature of freedom. Freedom is to constraints as silence is to sound. Constraints are the things that positively exist, freedom only exists as the negative space.

This is also why the concept of free will is so problematic: how free does will have to be to be called free will? Does it have to be free from the laws of physics? Does it have to be free from coercion?

I think there are more concepts where we have it the wrong way around like this.
Actually, right after the Civil War, I've read that things were pretty different - I know there were a lot of blacks who moved into Indiana and were accepted quite warmly by the people here, up into the 1880's and the Klan really got underway.

By 1930, of course, the KKK had a significant political presence in Indiana, and at this point, white rural Hoosiers hate blacks with the best of them, but I was surprised to learn that that attitude came well after the end of the Civil War.
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