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Actually, not all of these are legal everywhere.

In the UK, price discrimination by gender (e.g. by nightclubs) is illegal: see http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/advice-and-guidance/your-...
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That's true, I do recall skimming through the very early parts of SICP.

I'm jealous of Emma, I bet that would be a really strong base for building programming skills.
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Going one level below the discussion about the correct definition of selfishness vs. selflessness (the answer here might help us understand what the definition should be):

What do you use as the standard for what "good" is? I.e., if you were to say that "healthy food is good," the question I'm asking is, "good for what?" Put another way, when you evaluate something as good or bad (or neutral) in a specific context, by what means do you decide which of these categories to place the thing in?
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So in this case an SSL cert is just like a cookie. Why not just use two factor (SMS or an app) when there is no cookie?
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Interesting things to ask, to be sure. But why all the cuts? I mean, I'm sure they had to edit out the usual number of "ummm" and "ahhhh", and "wait, wait!" phrases. But the director had at least 3 cameras on him, from different angles, and kept cutting between a tight closeup, and three-quarters profiles from both left and right.

Why? Is this sort of thing done just to prove you're not filming it on your Droid, that you've got the resources to have 3 cameraa, 3 photographers, and you can edit it all together? Because I'm not too sure that the editing added much to this one.
Rule from personal software projects: If you tell other people of your first release, you won't have a first release, ever. The only thing that works is "hey, i wrote this and it works, have a try!" -- you'll be hatching your creation until that and you might actually get to release it.

Note that the first release need not be big and complete, just something that works. But the game changes after that, so the above rule loses its context. Running a public project is a different scenario from the initial phase of development.
I dare suggesting that this is a larger problem and trying to close individual questions is not a scalable approach.
People are very familiar with text messages. Its very easy to explain.
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Also http://www.pinspire.com/ (http://pinterest.com/)
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Does it mean that all 4-letter-.com domain names are taken?
Very nice! Off to spend some money!
From the OP's text:

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I can't say I noticed any strange activity coming from your account. In fact, I think it was pretty quiet for the past few days
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I would suggest to charge what you need to cover expenses. Nothing worse than a freemium service that has to close or everyone starts to hate because they took away the free.

I think you have to ask these groups how they would rather pay. For the groups that have a lot of requests, you'll have to cover expenses with other groups. Are you confident you can do that, or is $10 a fair price for each request? The more you use, the more you pay.

Instead of "nickel & dime" you could always roll into a package. Bronze package gets you 4 service requests, Silver gets you 7, etc...
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Is this information on the web site? I, too, wish I heard about this sprint earlier in the week (before I made weekend plans).
"You are"? It's just a browser "identification". It's widely known to be approximate, random and unreliable. It's common to try different agents because the web is full of bad pages which try to use it for something inappropriate. That's why user agent switching is a feature in all these browsers in the first place. It's like disabling CSS.

Is it fraud to use a battery charger or electrical plug with an adapter? After all, the particular plug is a way of "identification", even when easily circumvented. How about using aftermarket parts for your car or camera. They are implying by their similarly spaced and shaped connections that they are genuine parts after all... What about console cartridge identification chips?

These are somewhat interesting questions, if the HN crowd could have other opinions between "fraud" and "not fraud".
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I'd suggest using Opera with Turbo proxy instead — it'll compress all textual content and re-encodes images as WebP. That's likely to give you bigger savings than just a UA switch.

And if you can't trust Norwegian folk with your data, then you can roll your own "Turbo" with Ziproxy or at least SOCKS proxy over gzipped connection.
Sadly, until someone comes out with a gui that supports git flow, I am going to continue using the command line.
I'd really like to see a wireless version of this. Plug it in, let it take as long as it likes to crack a weak WEP key, then send you an email. On the down side, you might not be able to access as much via a wireless network. On the up side, the "air freshener" disguise is much more believable without the network cable. You could have a wifi+cel version, but a dual-wifi version would probably broaden the range of hardware/software you could use and would also be a bit more useful.
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Am I right to be suspicious of this service if the best name it could find for their own domain was zegup?
Embarrassing for the danish police... yes. But ultimately this type of censorship does not really represent a slippery slope towards 1984.

The rationale is to protect child pornography victims from being further victimised by having their photos spread. It is hard to have a strong moral point against that.

I think all of the scandinavian countries have this type of system now: a way for ISPs for voluntarily configure their DNS servers to direct requests for domains known by the police to host child pornography towards some police-hosted web site. I think it started in Sweden, close to a decade ago.

Any use of this system to censor anything that is not CP would very likely be met by harsh criticism. The fact that the censorship of every particular web page is very public ensures that.

All in all, I think this is a sensible, measured approach.

(On the other hand.. I don't think this thing will stop that much CP. The more widespread the approach gets, the more people will work around it.)
I run iodine[1] on my server. Maybe it's illegal, maybe it's a grey area - I don't care.

Here in Israel free wifi access is the norm, but in DE? They charge an arm and a leg. Switzerland (if we're talking about Swisscom anyway)? They are _insane_. The hotels already rip you off with prices like there's no tomorrow and charge for internet on top.

I fire up iodine on my client. If it works: Great. The network was obviously created by morons (it could easily be prevented). Morons won't be able to track me down the short while I'm on their network, on a trip, with a mac address like 'deadbeef' or somesuch nonsense.

If it doesn't work? I don't go online and leave to have a couple beers..

1: http://code.kryo.se/iodine/
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Thanks for the downvote and not understanding the concept.

Many console games outsell their PC games, PC and Console games can both reach the same graphical qualities. A lot of poeple play PC games with a controller because it's so much easier than with a mouse and keyboard (except for sim games, strategy games, and first person shooters). In many cases the only difference between console gaming and PC gaming is the setting. Console gaming takes place in a living room with a big screen tv and nice comfy chairs with room for others, PC gaming takes place in your home office or personal room and it's not as relaxing or natural feeling nor is there room for others. So by streaming a PC into the living room instead of buying more hardware to maintain and take care and hook up and make room for. Just stream your $1,000 PC to the living room.
This sounds like the story of a non technical founder. In my experience they are the ones most susceptible to faffing around with branding nonsense in a desperate attempt to contribute something meaningful to the startup
I'm not involved in any hero worship at all. I'm saying that it's downright ridiculous to accuse Dave Winer of making a popularity play.
I have a friend in the special forces who has changed as a person completely since his first deployment.

The last time we hung out, we went to a casual bar for a drink. He brought his pistol everywhere he went now out of paranoia. He spoke in jealousy of the British mercenaries who were allowed to kill anyone without permission. "I wish we could do that," he said. I was honestly baffled.

It truly is amazing how much war can change someone. He lives and loves to kill now. He says there is no better rush in the world.
Believe what you want, but your belief is directly contradicted by evidence.

Also note that your example is of something very different, as it is not personal goals of the person being put in charge of the tasks, but tasks put in place to carry out a duty to someone else.

With personal goals, publicly committing to them will rarely lead to a strong negative reaction if you fail.
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Yep, all 4 letter domains were registered back in 2007 (http://www.dotsauce.com/2007/11/02/four-letter-domains-all-r...).

Of course domains expire or are sold between owners so getting a 4 letter domain is still possible.
"I was testing our company's iPad website last week, and forgot to switch it back to the native user agent."
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A few years back I built Domain Pigeon, a similar tool, that generated web 2.0-style domain names and made them available to visitors. One of my big lessons learned from that experience was that web 2.0 style domain names are NOT good domain names. More often than not people can't remember them and when they can, they misspell it and if they can spell it, it's only because someone had to spell it out when telling it to them.

I recently launched a follow up to Domain Pigeon called Lean Domain Search which I think handles the problem a lot better [1]. Rather than generating random words, it pairs your search phrase with 1,500+ other keywords and instantly shows you which are available. In this way, every domain it generates is a combination of two or more actual words which makes it much easier to remember and explain to people.

By all means explore and see what your options are, but try to pick a name that will be easy for people to remember and easy to spell.

[1] http://www.leandomainsearch.com
A restaurant offers a 25% discount to seniors (65+), but you're only 60. You copy your friend's AARP card, changing the name, and present the cloned card to receive the discount. Is this fraud?
To me charging for internet (in hotels/resturatns) in 2012 is the same as charging for using the shower or lights.

You are being charged for the lights and the shower when you pay the bill. Or was that you're point and I missed it?

It will come, give it some time. Hotels (imho) charge one for the internet because it's a separate utility, the onsite staff are not capable of fixing it [1] when it breaks. Which happens a lot. So they outsource it.

When 'internet' is as common a utility as water and light, and as reliable, it will be in the bill, you'll never see it.
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"Persson's more optimistic, believing that piracy can, in the long run, be beneficial to smaller game developers"

yeah, it will get you more exposure and more people will be using your game, but less people will be actually paying for it. If your goal is to get the most people using your game, embrace piracy. If you actually want to make a living, it's a different story.

As more and more people know that you are fine with piracy, less people will actually pay for your app/game and it will then become even more difficult to release something else that costs money.

"But a single person spreading the word about your game is a benefit if you ask me, so any amount of piracy could help."

I don't really know how this will help. Anyone that I know that pirates software and "spreads the word", just wants to give it to me for free.

"But a single person spreading the word about your game is a benefit if you ask me, so any amount of piracy could help."

It's a sad world, but "hoping" people will stay honest isn't the answer. You need to make sure they are honest if want to continue making a living.
When I feel particularly nerdy, I try to go the DNS2TCP[0] or iodine[1] route. DNS is pretty much always open in those networks.

[0] http://hsc.fr/ressources/outils/dns2tcp/index.html.en
[1] http://code.kryo.se/iodine/
What advice would you have for a student just entering college interested in working in development for tech startups? What should they prioritize out of just academics?

It's often said that it's more about the team then the idea. From your experience with YCombinator, what are the signs of an effective team member. Moreover, what can you do to prepare yourself to be an effective member of a startup team?
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Judo, Muay Thai, boxing, various types of wrestling, and many other arts train and compete against resisting, sometimes strongly resisting, opponents.
No SSL? That's a terrible way to run a network. SSL is very important when using open WiFi.
Anonymous web weapon backfires with hidden banking Trojan
So basically you hire the best bull shitter?
I hate to bring it up yet again as this is being said quite often in context of google/facebook/twitter shenanigans, but until you pay for it you are not a customer but a product. I am sure that corporate clients such as advertisers enjoy a nice level of support from Twitter.
wow, so you can't trust Anonymous. Am I really that surprised?
Yup, there's surely a ton of ways to compress that. Occlusion culling would be one, since you'd never see the insides of objects. For another, modulo atmospheric effects like fog and smoke, there'd be a lot of empty space between objects that even run-length encoding could compact quite a bit. I'm sure that even with lossless compression you could get it down to the petabyte range.
The major religions of the world (Christianity, Islam, Hinduism) have been responsible for mass murders among other crimes in the past

Actually secularist governments in WW2 where responsible for more deaths than any other human atrocity the second largest atrocity was the An Lushan Rebellion and it was a secular land war as well, should we outlaw governments? But that is really besides the point, the point is people use religion et. al. as a scape goat for mans inhumanity to man. Human nature is complex and men have used all kinds of excuses to drive men to kill one another. If anything religion proves this, I mean all of the books pretty much universally say be a nice person, yet "men" are some how able to convince others that they say kill at the whims of your religious leader. Religion does not by any means have a monopoly on driving men to war. Look at the Army commercials they are geared towards appealing to the new secular godless man. They just replace god with Nobility, Honor and country. Men will kill each other over football, to see it as anything other than human nature is to mask the real issue, and prolongs finding the solution.

I just didn't agree with your argument that Anonymous is targetting a bunch of people who're harmlessly minding their own business.

So you argue that they should be held accountable for the sins of their fathers, because some religious person somewhere along the way killed a witch, then every religious person today is guilty. If that is the case should we not be held accountable for the sins of our fathers, any genocide committed by our fathers should it not also be our fault as well. I personally know many religious people and churches that have never persecuted another person and I personally think that yes they are harmlessly minding there own business. Unless we want to hold them accountable for history in which case we should be willing to take the same critical look at all groups we are linked to through history. I for one am German by ethnicity but I really don't want the sins of my history put on my shoulders, especially given the fact that I don't even live in Germany nor have I ever stepped foot there.

Further another often overlooked statistic is that religious organizations contribute to philanthropic causes 10 to 1 over secular organizations. We like to model the secularist billionaire like Ted Turner as the new model of giving but the reality of it is, the churches are still doing the lions share of the work. But just as we should not hold them accountable for the past of others we should not give all religious organizations credit for that giving and betterment of humanity. Each group is different, each church is different and each person is different and they should be judged by their deeds and not generalized with blanket statements about religion. Because religion can be both good or bad because it is an organization of men. And men are both good and bad.
A support forum being compromised is much different than using the company's internal tools to root systems. I'm guessing they use a 3rd party support forum (eg vBulletin). Maybe a vulnerability in it lead to the breach?
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Way to ruin it with realism! Ultimately Steambox will still use MS Windows and therefor DirectX, so it's not like it's a huge jump from an XBox 360 anyways, right?
No anti-virus is the best anti-virus. It's a flawed concept, a waste of money and essentially a virus itself. Just say no to anti-virus.
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Did anybody else find the idea of two doctors speaking with headsets via iRobot guiding their robots out into the hall for a private chat slightly silly? Both doctors are already chatting via the Internet, why not just have Skype like chat with each other directly without having to guide the robot into the hall and communicate through the robots. This is one reason why I don't see this as practical.
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Apple purchasing nintendo would be interesting. I don't think Apple has anything to offer in terms of gaming, but they know how to manufacture great hardware (and for less than competitors), and they know how to market and distribute content.
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When was the last time you saw a console that allows mods to be created?
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Those "leaks" have been nothing more then people discovering the Linux server files, and assuming that means a client exists as well.
You should be focusing on the quality of the domain and not the length. This point is clearly illustrated when you use this service, as almost every domain generated is awful. While it is true that a domain can be too long, you will certainly find better domain names by looking around 8-14 characters instead of 4-7.
In days of yore they had a mechanism so that if an employer ever let it come to that, there would be financial repercussions.

I believe they called it "time and a half."
Everyone is going to be their customer. I imagine this being a standard feature of all TVs in the future. Apple TV is a great idea, but I don't think it will evolve to be a huge market for game developers to target. Steam Box could possibly be 'the' platform on everyone's living room. That's what I read from the article: open platform for hw/sw, standardized specs, standard controller, great content delivery network and easy payment options.. Sounds like success.
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Most desktop browser default to 96 PPI (which is also the default in Windows), which results to 1px being 1 pixel. 0.75 pt/px * 1/72 in/pt * 96 pixels/in = 1 pixel/px.
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Judging by the nature of the TODOs left in both my open- and closed source code, I'm not convinced that this is entirely good advice.

Usually the reason for me to leave a TODO is when something really minor doesn't work right and making it work would more often than not be a huge undertaking or at least require quite a bit of thought.

If the thing that didn't work right was important, I'd add a bug to the tracker in order not to forget it. If it was easily fixable, I'd fix it then and there.

This leaves these TODOs to be tasks I would not want a newcomer to the code base to tackle, because the first solution they would come up with is likely incorrect, so all the amount they'd put into fixing it might end up in vain.

That said: maybe others use TODOs differently. This really is judging from my own experience.
Probably.

It's interesting to think when a hack becomes a fraud or stealing.
Verizon and the other carriers/telcos/broadband providers are desperate to avoid becoming dumb pipes or a simple commodity. They lose pricing power, brand power, control, and profit. In that sense, it's easy to understand why they are doing this.

Unfortunately, by Verizon (and lots of other players with their own interests) inserting themselves into all of these deals and processes and platforms, it creates an absurd burden on consumers who just want to watch the damn movie/transfer media files between devices/get a phone or computer that's not preloaded with crap.

It's no wonder that consumers gravitate toward companies that minimize these pain points (Apple, Spotify) or continue to download pirated media content.
- Just press the Win key on the keyboard.
- Move to upper left, in list of apps right click and select close.
They even copied the font for the logo. Yuck.
According to Carmack, it's on rails to reduce file size (texture LOD):http://toucharcade.com/2010/11/19/john-carmack-on-rage/
I agree. A quick glance at the top 5,000 domains in terms of traffic more than demonstrates the sheer dominance of the .com brand for domains. It's beyond overwhelming.

There are very few relevant .me or .io (etc) domains. That will continue to be the case for years to come.

It's not Twitter.me or TwitPic.me or yfrog.me, it's not Tumblr.me, it's not Pinterest.me, it's not Groupon.me, it's not homeaway.me, it's not yelp.me. All the major success stories online will continue to be branded primarily through .com - and those that start out as .me or .io will move to .com as they can afford to purchase the prime domain.
Look at screenshots of both, the iphone version looks great for a portable game but there are differences in the level of detail.

Most iphone/android fps games look like PC games did ~2003
read the product website
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