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PR people should have good spelling and grammar precisely because people will judge intelligence and competence by spelling and grammar. That doesn't mean that judgment is correct, but since it exists, you have to deal with it.
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I recently had an appendectomy. It was 40k according to the hospital. My insurance negotiated 27k of that down to 3k(3k is my policy max for an appendectomy apparently) and then left me to pay for the other 13k. In the end, my insurance paid 3k and I paid 13k. The initial bill is written knowing that some people won't pay, some will get huge discounts, and others will get stiffed with the entire thing. The discount is far from guaranteed--even with insurance.

The problem is you have no idea what kind of terms that Hotels Club card gives you. I had no idea what my insurance deemed is the maximum reasonable charge for an appendectomy, how much the hospital would bill, etc. If I knew how much my hospital was going to bill I would have passed on certain procedures. For example, I would have saved $800 by not having a CT...which is actually acceptable care if you have enough clinical symptoms of appendicitis(and I did). I would have also refused an overnight stay and left immediately after the operation.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
-- Upton Sinclair
http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/23510.Upton_Sinclair
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You are right, I don't understand what I out there because I haven't look. Based on your response I have determined that it might be worth looking into, but I don't know which to choose.

But by broken into I mean hacked, as in 'due to $INSECURE_FEATURE $SOMEBODY copied the entire database and now have all your passwords'. If somebody breaks into my home and steals my computer, I can call the police (and activate the tracking beacon).
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Apple traditionally has an 'about' page where they attribute open-source projects, etc. Doesn't this version of iPhoto have the same? Or perhaps the iPad/iPhone version has no 'about' page? [edit: by 'page', I mean a dialog box or something comparable within the program]
Why would a TSA blogger need to be able to work effectively under pressure?
I think your first paragraph nails it: the posts fit the guidelines and were on the whole relatively interesting and a sufficient amount of people thought so for the posts to reach the front page.

Skimming their archives, they were't posting frequently towards the back end of 2011 but if they were pushing to finish Basecamp it's understandable.

In relation to the content of the articles, I think they were more attractive to the HN community - behind the scenes look at development; interesting technical articles on development.
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It is a single password/pass phrase. This makes it simple to manage.

You can easily create a simple paper and geographically-redundant system (e.g. using a one-time pad) that means you can keep the passphrase in the open, for example, in your wallet or purse.

Password managers are the only way to go and eventually all password/passphrase users realise this because they end-up emulating these systems anyway (e.g. using extemely poor entropy additions to their existing passwords for different applications).
It would be a short list - and you need the list of bad domains to do email filtering.
In my city it is way more detailed than gmaps. Even the smallest trails in the local park are in there, also cross-country ski runs in the mountains. I trust OSM will pretty much all my hiking plans.

The only thing that was missing in my city were a few house-numbers in some streets close to my apartment. So I went out and fixed it.
I think Comcast wants to reduce upstream congestion, not increase it.

Edit: I'm talking about upstream on the last mile.
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It depends on your financial situation in life. Instead of thinking "expensive" versus "cheap" -- because they're just words with no clear definition -- you need to think about the cost for what you are getting.

$125/year is just over $10/month. Nowadays in the US/UK/Canada, that's about 2 cups of coffee at Starbucks.

For that price, you are receiving 1TB of backup space for yourself.

Each person is $10/month, which is useful if you need to collaborate and not worry about setup.

Insurance on your home always varies, but usually runs about $50-100 per month. And that's just the price you pay for when things are going well.

For me, there's a cost to peace of mind and the ability for me to save time in my life to do things other than maintenance.

FWIW, I look at Dropbox as a monthly insurance premium to ensure that my files will always be around and I don't need to worry that my in-home RAID server must blow up at any time.
after they explicitly refuse to give credit

Well then they'd be in breech of copyright, OSM data is Creative Commons licenced (CC-BY-SA) (It's due to be relicenced soon). There are well understood, legal, avenues to explore when companies breech copyright. We don't need to resort to name calling.
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>But by broken into I mean hacked, as in 'due to $INSECURE_FEATURE $SOMEBODY copied the entire database and now have all your passwords'. If somebody breaks into my home and steals my computer, I can call the police (and activate the tracking beacon).

Like I said, it's all locally encrypted. I trust (at least LastPass's) model well enough that I'd be happy to let you have a copy of all the data LastPass has for me on their server.
I'd rather have a smaller page: relevant: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3666826
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Yes, you can be in breech of copyright with this.

OpenStreetMap data isn't public domain, it's copyright under a creative commons licence. There are clear rules you must obey to not be in breech of the licence.
This has been shown not to work: http://people.cs.umass.edu/~emery/pubs/TFS.pdf (section 5.1) I wonder how they think they're getting around the upstream replication bottleneck.
corporations are legal entites on their own in the UK aswell…
I think the common problem of silent truncation after 8 characters suggests they are using the (outdated) crypt(3) API. The man page says "By taking the lowest 7 bits of each of the first eight characters of the key, a 56-bit key is obtained."
Poll: For how many 37signals customers can you claim credit?
A recent post on 37signals's SvN blog claims that the business value of being on the front page of HN does virtually nothing for their bottom line (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3680018 ).

Left unsaid: how many HN visitors to 37signal properties are technology influencers who have referred 37signal products to others? This poll is an effort to guesstimate the answer to this question.

For how many 37signals customers can you claim credit?
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While I think it's quite messed up that a company as rich as Apple can't abide putting credits for people who have put some really good work in (I've even made small updates to OSM in my time) I do think that this is a very classy move by the OSM people, no ranting blog post or 'Apple stole our stuff', welcoming people presents a much better image of the project.
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"The world needs more weird people who know how things work and who love to figure it all out."

At your best you can become antibodies in the global cultural organism.
It also exposes your research plan to other scientists when your work is at a stage where it's the easiest to be scooped. I have a science project idea to be crowdfunded, but I'm still a bit skeptical...
Please use meaningful post titles. While surprises are sometimes fun, mystery links make for unnecessarily tedious browsing.
Upvoted, but I skimmed 5.1 and missed the "shown not to work" part. Can you be more specific?
Hi, Sam. This is Matt from petridish.

We are doing a first pass at vetting in the sense that we are looking for projects that we think the public will be excited about, run by researchers with good credentials / affiliations, and that don't include obvious "junk science."

Ultimately, though, our model puts the power to pick projects in the hands of the public!
I guess if you are angered easily you might not understand how OSM could react that way,

I wasn't responding to the whole of the OSM post, just the two excerpts that sdfjkl quoted. I saw his comment before reading the OSM post and it just didn't sound genuine to me. The amount of times I've heard "we look forward to..." in a grinfucking [1] compared to relatively light use elsewhere has made that phrase trigger my "be exceptionally wary of what comes next" alarm.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3551715
It's the right solution for anyone who actually cares about security. No amount of indignation (and no amount of concern for security in your own work) will prevent third parties that don't care about security from leaking your data wherever possible.
The e-mail heavily implies that the security breach was CouchDB's fault instead of those who were administering that Couch server.

Deliberate passing the buck or accidental bad choice of words?
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Hot, huge (7MM monthly uniques), growing fast, totally unique concept. For such a big site, we have a very small team; whoever we hire will have a huge impact on the direction of the product / company.

Wish we could include our name in this posting, but we've got reasons for being stealth about funding.

Send a link to something you've built in Rails to hugememe@gmail.com (and any other work you're especially proud of).

If we like what you send us, we'll tell you who we are and our whole situation, etc.
The Apple tiles are completely missing the street I live on ...
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Why the bootstrap hate? Do you really think this guy should hire a designer for his personal blog?

Even if he did want to do his blog in "craigslist style css"... Why do you care?
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"As far as I know there is no industry group for still-image photographers anything like the MPAA or RIAA."

The American Society of Media Photographers, Graphic Artists Guild, the Picture Archive Council of America, the North American Nature Photography Association, Professional Photographers of America. They do not have the deep pockets or political clout of MPAA or RIAA but they are large industry groups.

I think someone else mentioned a class action suite against Google for copyright infringement by photographers. The lawsuit started with scanning and displaying images from the Google Library Project but includes infringement claims for images.google.com, etc.

http://asmp.org/articles/asmp-qa-google-class-action.html
As the other commentor fairly points out, I am dismayed at the manufacturer's behaviour, but the Foundation, no worries, I'll let it slide. :P
Sure, it can work great if your needs are simple. But if you're posting data to forms which you need from a database, and you don't know what you might need from the DB until runtime, it can get a bit more complex.

Also worth noting that jsdom is quite slow, and has a strict HTML parser. If you want something faster that will cope with more web pages, look up cheerio.
There's a Bootstrap-ified version here: http://www.eyecon.ro/bootstrap-datepicker/
I agree, they will inevitably get posted. And people should be able to post whatever they like to their own sites, without being accused of manipulating other sites.
More than you might think given that it's a clone of the Windows date picker.
Given the behaviour of Steve Jobs over the years, that attitude is probably embedded in the culture.
For those using octopress, here is a way to customize your blog so that it will stand out more and address the five minute easy set up problem. This will add like, 2 minutes, tops, to the minimum set up time, but it will be fairly unique.
http://zacharymaril.com/blog/2012/02/24/please-please-octopr...
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If it means I won't get another hour-long recording of the inside of my purse, then it's brilliant. Making it slightly harder to trip that mode sounds like a good thing to me.
What you wrote is true. So is e.g. the statement that there is an infinite number of numbers. And they are almost equally relevant to the discussion here.

> You can argue the body scanner is an economical disaster, dispute it on the basis of privacy or bring up health concerns, but I like to stay objective. There is nothing wrong with this post, as a response to the demonstration in the video, beyond the silly language.

The post does not address the main criticism in the video, which is that the body scanner does not actually help with security.

> It was known publicly for a very long time, and it is reasonable to assume people who developed and approved the system were well aware of it.

That is true. And a reasonable conclusion, advocated by the video as well, is that the people who developed and approved the system don't actually care if it offers any security advantage.

The TSA's post only makes sense if you live in a world where the TSA's job is to grow, expand, gain more power, influence and budgets. And so does your analysis of it.
We are launching Microryza, which is still differentiated enough, but is pretty much the same thing.

http://www.microryza.com/

We got beat by 4 days. But, screw it, we're going to launch anyways because we feel we have a better product.

Though, of the 14 competitors in this space, these guys flew under the radar pretty damn well.
Why? If anything, I'd expect them to have plenty of upstream bandwidth, given that typical traffic patterns are primarily downstream.
There's disagree-ing, and then there's talking in circles. As you point out - if they're being voted up, then surely they have a place. I'm just tired of seeing the "is this relevant" discussion on every single one. I find it no different than having someone go "by a Windows PC" on every Apple post, and vice versa.

I agree hate is a strong word, and I used it only a short-hand description of what I meant. I'm not overly sure which other words would be more accurate.
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I would suggest they count on most people not using the full 1TB. Not really unusual.
I feel sorry for the person doing the rework.

8 legs to desolder, on a 6 layer board, where the pads are going to be small (because of pin density) and where the component shape means you can't just cut the thing off and take the pins out individually. The click-through legs of the socket make it harder to apply heat to the pads and wobble the component out (which you shouldn't do anyway, but people do.)

And then the new connectors need to be soldered back on.
I don't know the United Kingdom - the only Brits I've met have been guys who left to work elsewhere. And my world travels only took me to Asia. And that was while ago.

If you're familiar enough with the UK and the US, and health systems in both countries and can state with certainty that no one abuses the system: congratulations. You're way more cosmopolitan than I.

But I don't believe that abuse doesn't happen. It's just contrary to human nature.

Abuse of health care happens in the US. Maybe this thread is ridiculous, but there you are.
Good question. The Space Monkey software mitigates these issues in two ways: First, all data is carefully encrypted before it ever leaves the user's Space Monkey device for replication across the network. This is obviously a key concern for all of our potential customers, so a lot of time has been spent getting this part right.

Second, the system breaks each file into many small blocks with built-in parity and other such redundancy measures. These blocks are then spread across many devices to both increase redundancy of the network and distribute the bandwidth usage fairly across nodes. As a result, you wouldn't really ever store any identifiable data from any one other customer.

Therefore, if the government wanted to seize evidence, they would gain nothing useful by seizing any Space Monkey device other than the suspect's, which contains the local cache of the user's own data.
But do you really think whoever wrote the headline meant to emphasize the responsibility of the individuals? Isn't much more likely that they just used the plural verb after a company name out of habit?
Interestingly, the Germans were the first to implement social insurances because they were trying to keep workers from emigrating to the US:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck#Bismarck.27s_...
Instead of building the software yourself, why don't you license it from others and focus on operating the site?

See invested.in, who licenses their crowd funding platform out of LA (and on reasonable terms).

Disclaimer: it's my brother's company
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That's a real risk. But the longer I'm in science, the more I believe that "ideas are cheap, follow-through is everything." If I'm scooped, it's not because someone else had the same idea (probably lots of people had that same idea); it's because I didn't reduce it to practice first. If getting funding from Petridish helps you reduce your idea to practice first, maybe it's worth the risk of getting scooped.
ISPs pay for bandwidth leaving and entering their network. inter-network bandwidth is actually free for them, so it's very likely spacemonkey could prefer peering with other users on the same ISP.
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OSM is trying to give you directions, Apple is trying to show you the general area of where a photo was taken. I like that Apple is throwing away some of the information to make it look a little nicer. In a map app though, this would be stupid.
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They thrive on being talked about. This is just extra fuel to the fire.
What are the ways to negotiate the hospital bill down? What leverages the patient can apply after the service has been delivered?
I'm trying to quantify some of these secondary effects with a poll here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3680400
If only that were true.

Can you think of a case in history where continued government incompetence (or outright malice, depending on your point of view) that was demonstrated and gained a lot of valid criticism and public outrage, actually resulted in a change?
I had similar problems learning git. Then I stumbled across this site: http://gitref.org/ and it was like a light bulb clicked, and it just started to work. Not sure if it's because it was the best beginner reference I came across, or because I finally got enough information to push me over the edge.

The more advanced stuff just comes as you use git more, and because once you grep the easy stuff, being able to understand bits and pieces of the man pages allows you to gradually learn more.
That's not a bad idea at all! Software isn't what makes this work, necessarily. It's the networking and deep knowledge of the scientific process. My colleagues and I have the latter part already. These guys look like software/VC folk. I don't think they have that.

How much would your brother charge if we operated as a non-profit? Is it a hosted platform, or do we need to deploy ourselves?

Edit: I contacted the company via their form. Hopefully I can hear back from them.
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I think more of a serious gut check for anyone who's deliberately exposing a CouchDB server to the web because it contains all or mostly public data.
You may be correct, but I'm not positive. These maps are used to give you an idea of where a photo was taken, not to provide navigation to it, so detail isn't quite as important. The other consideration is this is one data point. Perhaps Apple did a thousand of these and felt OSM was better.

Or, maybe Apple is going to quickly flame out.
It's like a less tongue-in-cheek version of the despair.com poster: http://www.despair.com/fail24x30pri.html
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From the iPhoto 1.0 license agreement, dated 17 Feb 2012:

"Title and intellectual property rights in and to any content displayed by or accessed through the Apple Software belongs to the respective content owner. Such content may be protected by copyright or other intellectual property laws and treaties, and may be subject to terms of use of the third party providing such content. Except as otherwise provided in this License, this License does not grant you any rights to use such content nor does it guarantee that such content will continue to be available to you."

Don't know what this _really_ means, though...
Partly the advantage is that you have CSS selectors to examine your document (I don't know if Ruby/Mechanize does that - I'm just saying what is good about node+jquery), and you have a language that all web developers know about. So it's about minimising friction from doing front end web work to doing scraping work. At my company this gives us a financial advantage - we can hire basic jQuery web developers to work on our scrapers.
The Shoe Bomber took a flight from France, which is not under TSA jurisdiction [1]. It's important to note that the TSA only operates in US airports.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Reid_(shoe_bomber)#Bomb...
> "Thank you, now we can do anything we want to with it, including sell it,"

If this part (obviously this isn't the exact phrasing) was removed, then they wouldn't have the right to serve your content on their site. They couldn't use a screenshot containing your content in any advertising they did. They couldn't use your content alongside advertising. They couldn't do a lot of things they do now.

Allowing someone to upload something doesn't inherently give you any rights to use that content. If you remove the parts you are complaining about, then they can't do anything that they are doing.
> Wish to belong
This is a fairly hard thing for me to do, because every faction i have been part of or tried to be loyal, to have limits on what beliefs can be questioned and what are not open to be experimented with. There comes a point where i disagree and have trouble stopping myself from experimenting. So loneliness is not a problem for me. But i have a very limited/narrow interest in being important. To some extent the admiration of peers feels good, but not much.
So at this point, i find myself a little lost as to what do i want to move forward towards. Made worse, by i have trouble just enjoying when am not sure what am working towards.
UPDATE: Eeks,sorry if it's turned to a ramble.
Thundering herd problem with emails. Are there any email startups that can help out? isaacs email is on OP link.
Maybe they're hoping compression helps a bit? Having said that, I reckon most people won't fill up their drives...
This. Also, anyone that thinks they don't fall apart under pressure is strongly encouraged to look up choking in the psychology literature and/or talk to attractive members of the opposite gender :p
This is one of the most straightforward possible applications for cryptography in data storage- no worries about key negotiation or cipher negotiation or PKI infrastructures. And yes, they're encrypting your data before sending it anywhere- that's pretty explicitly mentioned everywhere the service is explained.

So, if you're asking whether you're legally liable for the content of data on your hard drive which you have no possibility of decrypting, um, the answer is "no".