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present government of India is always interested in shooting the messenger. They are paranoid to the core.

Now thats from the largest "Democracy" of the world

Pranab Mukherjee
want to curb power of election commission

P Chidambaram
infringe upon states power on Law & order

Kapil Sibal
control the social networking sites. access the emails and chats
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Interesting ! Anybody from MS to tell us a bit more about that ?
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Spectacle is nice, but it is no Window Manager. You still have to manage the windows yourself, which is a pain.

Say you have a browser and two terminals to the left, that's easily done with Spectacle or Divvy. But open a third terminal and now you have to manually rearrange three windows. With TylerWM, the tiling is done automatically.
So, if as this article says the previous blogs were nothing more than a smear campaign against Tesla, basically accusing them of being a propaganda campaign. Doesn't this seem amazingly like counter-spin?

The article says that the facts will shine through and prove them wrong, but it's amazingly absent of facts. "The design of the car will prevent that, trust me".

If you read between the lines though, he does admit that a full drain of the battery will destroy it.
People still use Quora? Weird.
AFAIK, Ghostery doesn't prevent the tracking scripts from running, it just checks for known bugs
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It is a youporn link as it was their service under their domain name and brand. Doesn't matter who ran that. Just few days (week?) ago there was similar leak from some India's Microsoft page. If I remember correctly everyone agreed that Microsoft is the one to blame. I agree that clarification is necessary but acting like youporn had nothing to do with that is not.
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I'm confused, how does an NDA protect you? An NDA usually says that they won't disclose your secrets to a 3rd party. But they wouldn't have to, they just have to use your secrets internally to compete with you.

"... we are not looking to sell..."

In this case, you are in a good position to play it the way you want to play it. Honestly, if it's a competitor, don't give them competitive information without having a good feeling that this is for real.
I don't want to presume that I'm smarter than Craigslist's engineers, but why is this so hard? Schema changes should be captured in migrations, which are programs, and could be coordinated to run in parallel on thousands of machines in a moment with a shell script over SSH.
It would be good if it doesn't require login.
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My thoughts on the Freemium Business Model
I see that people comment about the challenges that come with the freemium business model but also that it clearly works for some.

I wonder if those that are reluctant to use the freemium business model are those that their service is not based around storage space so much.

Maybe certain types of services have difficulty in reducing features that become the free plan and maybe this is where the problem can lie for some startups.

Not that freemium couldn't work for them but that more thought needs to go into the freemium model for a particular service.
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This comment doesn't clearly refute claims made by the original blog post. The statement "they probably aren't actually bricks, but cars in need of servicing" sounds inconclusive.

All I am saying is if people are going to refute the original blog post as "nonsense" and will "confront it with facts", then do so convincingly and without contradiction.
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It is against the rules (and against common etiquette) to DOS the machine in CTF events. I don't see how fork bombing the machine helped him solve any challenges so I can't see how someone could approve to that.
I agree about the importance of managing the deal yourself. That said, there's definitely a way to get a sense for what the counterparty will pay without asking for an upfront price.

He needs to know how the acquiring company is thinking about the acquisition. Are they buying the technology? Purchasing a revenue stream? Buying a marketing channel? A combination of the above? If this is primarily a technology acquisition the price can be discussed independent of sensitive business data. If it is a revenue play you can talk about multiples. And if it is a marketing play you can talk about they value users. The idea is to build consensus around an informal model for how to value the business without going into detail. It requires sharing some data, but not necessarily opening the books.

I also think its reasonable to have a non-refundable deposit in exchange for going through the due diligence procedure. I wouldn't consider ballpark figures sensitive for my own business, but wouldn't agree to go through due diligence without being sure it wasn't a fishing expedition.
Does this article point to a failure in capitalism?
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It's one part (or series of parts) that cost $40,000. 53kWh batteries aren't exactly common.
Your goal is to read the contents of /home/level02/.password.

Not sure how exhausting resources will advance you toward that goal.
The only purpose I can see for this is another advertising channel.
49% of UK get less than average broadband speed.
> "So, the CAP Theorem says that you can only have one of C, A, and P. Which are you sacrificing?

Which is wrong. You can only have two of the three at the same time: CA, CP or AP.

If they get something as fundamental as this wrong, you have to wonder about the rest of the project.
Person A plays a game of chess and loses. Then he wont try again, because "I'm not good at it".

Person B plays a game of chess and loses. Then he loses again. And again. Then he wins. (Then he finds a stronger opponent and starts again.)

Person A didn't gain anything, while person B found a new hobby that he enjoys spending his time with. Of course, this example only works if both were interested in chess and A really gave up, rather than just figuring out that chess isn't his thing.
A random recent viral example: http://amzn.com/B003MV33JY

Video game soundtracks tend to be hit hard by this too -- roughly half the soundtracks I want are download only, and about 2/3 of the ones available on CD are Japan only (and frequently out of print).
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it has no business model.
Probably. The assumption was that the battery pack was destroyed and needed to be fully replaced, a new pack costing an estimated $40k. The original article didn't say how much it actually cost the 5 owners to repair their cars.
Exactly. Apple is responsible for it's supply line. Youporn is responsible for whatever third parties they utilize to bring a service to market.
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Good talk minus the bashing of GCC and Stallman. It's a free product you don't need to use it and you're not entitled to anything as the license clearly states. The speaker pretends to be against open source politics but doesn't state his bias since both Apple and Google have corporate interests to undermine GPL compiler tools.

On the other hand, I really like the competition. It's very healthy to have options.
I agree with this posting. Facebook has done a terrible job of protecting users with the Facebook login to the point where it's completely untrusted.

When I come across an iPhone app that asks for a Facebook login, my first thought is "Which one of my fake Facebook accounts should I use to log in with?" There is no way I want some app to upload my friends list, etc, on first use without me knowing exactly what is going on, a la Path. Both Apple and Facebook are guilty of this and they need to fix this quick.
they better check if it's not something offensive in chinese.
I wasn't aware that blog posts had to be justified.
You're both right, I think. The OP describes what I view as the reality for most people. But then I read your comment, and agree: that is pretty sad.

Funny thing is, that seems to be an artifact of my parent's generation, the halcyon days of years past when America was a manufacturing powerhouse that we seem to want to get back to. Work sucks, so put in your time, then get out and start enjoying life. At 60 (if you're lucky) or 65 years old. But who wants to be touring around the world when you're old?

Find something you love to do, and you'll be able to do it successfully until you drop dead. It's not all about wealth.
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The original blog isn't exactly sussed out either. We have an anonymous source giving vague anecdotes about 5 cars whose owners haven't been contacted to verify details.
"We also released an iPhone version of the WorldWideWeb Application. Unfortunately, we were turned down by Apple for acceptance into the iTunes store."
The comment is interesting. He? argues that any 2 manifold with no edges would be likely to end up as a Klein bottle. The question is then why a 2 manifold. Well, the thing we're asking about is a 2d picture, right? Maybe that has something to do with it. Let's suppose we tried the same trick using 3x3x3 pixel representations of STL models — might that turn out to be form a simple edge less 3 manifold embedded in 27 dimensional space? (perhaps for simplicity we could use 2x2x2 cubes and look at 8 dimensional space... In essence we're talking about a population of 2d data arbitrarily but consistently mapped into higher dimensional space and we discover it maps to a 2 manifold.
Yeah, I saw the name and [google.com] (missing the [groups.] part) and the first comment quoting the revolution... I was bracing myself.
There is also ShiftIt <https://github.com/fikovnik/ShiftIt>, although I haven't tried it yet.

The functionality of TylerWM seems quite simple. I wonder wether there is any Open Source clone of it.
Marco Arment (marco.org) has written a nice wrapper for it.

https://gist.github.com/1053158
Newton: can't describe physics effectively, invents calculus.

Berners-Lee: can't collaborate effectively with physicists, invents the web.
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The one I made does not.

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I'm in full agreement that the Tesla owners should step forward and give their side of the story.

I can empathize with why they wouldn't though, as this seems like a (ahem) charged and highly public issue.
Doing data migrations up front in a NoSQL system means you've changed the fields around in your document types, then you're done. Now 95% of your documents are wrong, missing those changes. Maybe you have linkages between different types of document (akin to a foreign key) - now a lot of those might be pointing to nothing.

In this model, it's the application's job to anticipate and work around these inconsistencies. Assertions that check for data integrity, if you have them, have to be modified to work around this. For a lot of the web applications we talk about these days, who cares - it's people's lists of friends and TODO notes. It's simple data and some dangling records aren't going to hurt anyone.

In the SQL world, we instead write migration scripts that migrate the structure and data all at once. This is a little more work up front, but as long as you stuck to a mostly normalized form and use great tools (which we now have) this is not a big deal ("MONTHS" to migrate across slaves sounds like they had some very wrong decisions made earlier on). The application can move straight to supporting the new structure and entirely forget that the old one existed. In this world, we can also have really complex relationships between fields, like when we're storing accounting or medical data linked to temporal records of changes. The application can consume this structure without worrying about consistency.
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Ask HN: Should I ask for user demographics on the registration form of our app?
I am in the process of designing the registration page for our application. And I am in the middle of the dilemma on whether we should ask for user demographics.<p>From my experience as a consumer of cloud application, most apps do not ask for such demographics. And this is a trend emerged in the past few year. I can understand the "Why": more fields -> increased abandonment of the form and thus fewer customers.<p>But if you do not ask, how could you possibly get such information. Information that can help you ad-target specific demographics or build a new feature/product for a user group (eg lawyers) that seem to have adopted your app.<p>What is your view? Do you have any break-through solutions?
Cool idea. I know that Visa and Amex, at least, have the one-time use numbers. I don't know, though, if they will notify you if someone tries to use it and it is declined.
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ShiftIt is no WM. See my previous answer: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3624771
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I might have misread the article, but does it talk about MVP's? To me it sounds more like Minimum Viable Developers which do the "why don't u just uze ..." whack-a-mole?

It's not about "embracing the cloud" what ever that means, but about being ignorant.
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Said it last night and it looks like others agree.
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I am sorry, the last part was of course meant to say "that's why the pay was so absolutely terrible while the chance of being injured or killed on the job was ten-folds more likely than the most dangerous, "regular" job in the States."
Hang on, at what point did anyone claim they were 'easy' to brick? The argument is not about how easy they are to brick, it's about the fact that the entire car is rendered useless if bricked unless you're willing to pay $40k to get your vehicle back on the road again.

If the cars were easy to brick there would be a significantly larger number of documented cases than what currently exist.
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Have a look at StackOverflow or pretty much any "social" site, like Facebook or LinkedIn. The registration process is as short as possible. Then, after they are registered and signed in, prompt them to flesh out their profile with more information. Remember that you need to entice them by doing so. SO gives out badges to users who filled out all fields. LI keeps a percentage score of "profile completed". Those things nudge users to want to fill out their profile.
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I agree. Don't screw this up by taking the wrong approach.

Remember the HN article about the one guy who tried to negotiate his sneaker deals by himself and overplayed his hand and lost out twice.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3466887

The company offering to buy you can't make an offer or even a ballpark offer because they have no idea what your company is actually worth. It might be a mess of Visual Basic code behind the scenes, or it could take 10 people to keep the server running, etc. Also, you could be faking your revenues, so they can't put any offers down before they know you're for real.

I would suggest contacting a lawyer who is familiar with this and getting a good understanding of what your risks are by disclosing this information, but you also don't want to scare off the buyer.
And I'd be opposed to that. The federal government is so bloated, they probably have enough vehicles for the next ten years if they were to stop doing all the things not authorized by the Constitution.

Efficiency is not the only consideration when buying a vehicle. I, personally, don't want a vehicle that sacrifices safety for efficiency.

The government shouldn't be using pork or other inducements to bias the market towards one consideration. Consumers knows their own needs.

If government wants to promote efficient, it should start by being less wasteful itself. Right now its the worst example in human history.
"Here's the primary fact that the blogger in question doesn't understand: the Tesla battery pack is not a battery."

Gee, where might he have gotten that idea? Tesla's website and documentation, perhaps? "Custom microprocessor-controlled lithium-ion battery with 6,831 individual cells."

Not 8K, huh; talk about getting your technical facts wrong.

"Another error on the part of the blogger is the claim that if the cars discharge fully, the battery packs will be damaged. This is blatantly false. The battery management system of the Tesla Roadster keeps the battery from being discharged to a damagingly low state of charge under normal driving conditions. It's true that a full discharge to zero percent state of charge can potentially be damaging to a battery. However the battery management system of the Roadster won't allow the car to reach that low level of charge."

Just asserted it was blatantly false and admitted it was true that full discharge damages the battery in the same paragraph, hoo boy.

"But there's an antidote for this type of misinformation: confronting it with facts."

Looks more like he meant to say that the antidote for these facts is misinformation, yow.
Reads and writes for a given key always go to a single node. As you add more machines with the same workload, you are handling fewer keys per machine. The flip side is, if the number of keys per machine stays constant, more machines directly translates into the ability to handle more keys.

HyperDex scales linearly as you can see in our scalability graph.
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As someone who "bricked" his Jetta in college by forgetting to replace the oil, I can also point out that the replacement engine cost around $6k, a (hefty) fraction of the car's then value, but nowhere close to its total original retail price.
If clang takes off, GCC will take a lot more bashing, simply because meaningless flame-wars are the nastiest.

If there's a clear winner, you run with it. If the tools are really different, (i.e. Python vs. C), you pick the right tool for the job. If the tools do essentially the same thing in slightly different ways, with slight advantages and disadvantages in some areas (i.e. KDE / Gnome; vi / emacs; Linux / BSD) then you resort to ad hominem attacks.
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There will always be a risk that you are going to disclose information that they could potentially use against you but people tend to overrate this risk. The biggest risk comes from continued distraction in a deal process affecting the focus of your team on execution.

I don't think your deposit idea is realistic but I might be wrong. Here is what I would do: Ask them for a hypothetical bid and their valuation model (factor assumptions) behind it. This way you could model their bid on your real data without having to disclose it and see whether you would be happy with the price.

If they are not prepared to give anything away without more information there is a high chance that their behaviour is predatory and you should pass.
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I've manually edited install.rdf to make it compatible with recent versions of Firefox. I've been running GS for 3 months now, no issues.
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Because it's hard to add it to the mature infrastructure that was not designed to support it from the beginning. Clang was built from ground up to support good diagnostics.
Blog posts no, Hacker News entries yes.
This site gives more details:

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/piechart_2010_US_total

"Entitlements" probably just means SS and medicare.
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MySQL had some historic issues with schema changes -- adding a column to a table with a few million records could take hours. While it does have a lot of work to do -- it is restructuring every page of the database -- in competitive products such a change takes a minute fraction of the time (limited only by IO performance).
I love math jokes. :-)
I love slate but it does take some configuring...

https://github.com/jigish/slate
The phone numbers were not mentioned in the Sophos post. You are correct that the DOB was (I had missed that). It seemed to me that the phone number being present was pretty significant.
Quote from the article:

Note that disabling Web History in your Google account will not prevent Google from gathering and storing this information and using it for internal purposes. It also does not change the fact that any information gathered and stored by Google could be sought by law enforcement.

With Web History enabled, Google will keep these records indefinitely; with it disabled, they will be partially anonymized after 18 months, and certain kinds of uses, including sending you customized search results, will be prevented.
Do you have any links to articles regarding being able to easily crack a single round hash?

I'm wondering what sort of time frame you'd be looking at for a single round password, i.e; md5(salt.cleartext)
Technically you can have at most two of the three of the same time. It's well possible for some stores to provide only one or no property at all!
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wow, the quicktime plugin installation routine in chrome is pretty horrible, then it hung for about 10 seconds. arg!

to detail:

visit website, get yellow bar for missing plugin
install plugin
reload tab
browser hung for a bit
told plugin was out of date, clicked update
got sent to apple site to download new version
downloaded binary, uac checks etc
update went ahead, then asked to close all my quicktime applications, of which chrome is now one, nope, clicked cancel.
advised that installation would continue but a reboot would be required
gave up, clicked cancel
informed installation was complete.

that was rather unpleasant.
Exactly. The above article is answering a question that the first article didn't ask. The first article never said it was "easy", it said it was "possible". It was the possibility of bricking your car that is completely unexpected, as well as the $40k price tag if you do.

And the point of the article was that as you increase the number of users from 2500 to 25000, the number of bricked cars will increase substantially and will lead to bad headline risk for Tesla.
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I didn't downvote, but nathnb's comment isn't adding anything to the discussion. It's a personal aside about some confusion he is having; his last question especially emphasizes that aspect.

But I see that several other comments at that level were also downvoted.
I like how I get down voted for pointing out an obvious problem with HTML5. Regardless of what world you want to live in, the world we live in is ruled by content owners.