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I'm not criticizing the work that @tenderlove did on journey, I'm just curious why he replaced josh peek's router. The reader on journey's homepage says the reasons are too complex, which piqued my curiosity. @tenderlove is doing a hell of a job on rails (and ruby itself) and I'm glad he's helping out
How Raven, the Open-Source Surgical Robot, Could Change Medicine
I will add PLM/PDM software to that. What many people do not know is that most core CAD product companies have a PLM product as well that can contribute upto half of all company sales. I used to work for one and know this for a fact.
I elaborate a bit on this point in my comment below about Scratch. My claim is that this 'pretty lisp' is still stuck in the flat-text mindset, doing something pretty much identical to indenting. Whereas what we really want are graphical (in the sense of network) editors.
This all seems like a pricing problem. If you don't have enough product to meet demand, you charge more.

I guess in the end it is worth it though. The amount of hype that surrounds selling out is great.
I'm not as convinced by his arguments as everyone else seems. He starts out with a huge -- and admittedly hugely impressive -- appeal to authority. The tilting at windmills argument -- you can't fix all security holes, prison inmates can macgyver deadly weapons out of iPod cables (not to mention laptop batteries), you'd have to tie up people naked to make it safe -- is well taken, but nothing new.

His argument for random screening was more original (to me, at least): Certain terrorist organisations shy away from risk. Make the risk of failure high enough, and they won't strike. He proposes that 10% risk of failure is the sweet spot (based on his own experience with Al Qaeda) and says that thoroughly searching a random selection of 10% of the passengers will result in 10% failure.

Two things don't add up there, in my eyes. First of all, you just told us that there is no security anyway: the iPod cable thing, naked tied up people. What if a terrorist was among the 10% "unlucky" ones, and he had simply been clever enough to think of a solution not covered by your screening process? Granted, the more thorough searches will be harder to "beat", but allegedly even very ordinary items can be used to do bad stuff. And while the fact of the search will be unpredictable, the process of the search will probably be just as predictable as before: with 10% of all passengers being searched, the procedures can't hope to remain secret. So I guess you have to rely on being extremely thorough; with the thoroughness of a search probably coinciding with the amount of inconvenience caused by it.

Secondly, he does rely on the failure probability of 10% being enough to stop an attack. That might be what it takes to stop some organisations now, but other organisations might not be as risk averse, others might change their mind in the future (particularly if such a strategy is adopted). Obviously operations other than random screening will increase the failure probability beyond 10% anyway, but that is beside the point; as is the fact that he only addresses screening while also reporting that many threats originate from persons that are never screened because they are not passengers.

Apart from the random screening argument, he addresses the impropriety of backscatter scanners. There is nothing new there at all. Apparently this is a huge issue to a large percentage of the population. Apparently, having a person of the same sex look at your naked picture would be an improvement. I don't really get it, personally. Maybe I'm a hippie.

All that said, I guess his random search procecure would be a net improvement to most passengers, with his argument standing and falling depending on whether or not you buy into the risk-aversity argument. And of course if you assume that neither procedure gets you any notable amount of security, as could be argued from his first point, the procedure with the least amount of convenience -- his -- wins.
This is anti-obama / pro-republican propaganda. (Your first clue is the mention of 'Obamacare' as a reason for not working in the US, the second is 'high corporate taxes' meme).
I enjoyed it a lot. Sure it's not a AAA title - but it's good, mindless fun. Especially given its extremely appealing price point. (And, yes, I haven't finished it.)
If I remember right, last time I got samples from TI they shipped from them and not from digikey. Its been a little bit.

Location might play in to it some, I live about 15 min away from their headquarters.
I have seen the AIT machines. However, depending on where you are in the country, the machines are used differently.

In Sea-tac for example, they try to pick out people more likely to be at risk and put them through the scanners. This would be correct except that they should be putting such people through metal detectors too. Defence in depth....

In LAX, I have seen separate lines for standard metal detectors vs AIT machines. This is just stupid and justifies so many jokes about LAZ security....

In Nashville TN, I haven't been there, but I understand from TSA employees that everyone goes through the bodyscanners.

I don't think it is just a question of public acceptance. Really you have different courts looking at how the 4th Amendment applies to metal detectors in airports, and although they all agree that metal detector requirements are Constitutional, they arrive at this for different reasons.

The 9th and 3rd circuits have adopted a balancing test (the most important case there in the third circuit was authored by none other than Samuel Alito btw), and this does not necessarily allow the TSA to get from the idea that metal detectors are per se Constitutional to the idea that bodyscanners are.

The 11th and 5th Circuits however, have adopted a view that when you travel you consent to be searched as a condition to that travel, and unlike other consensual searches, consent cannot be withdrawn. This is a very broad ruling and it makes it hard to argue that anything the TSA might do in the course of a search infringes the 4th Amendment rights of the traveller. In other words, in these circuits, airports are 4th Amendment-free zones.

So this varies quite a bit by region and even by airport culture. That doesn't make the use of the scanners any better on the whole, or change the fact that they should be reserved for individuals where there is a reasonable suspicion and that they should be used in tandem with metal detectors.
This technique is already used in the wild, Android devices have been doing this forever, Windows Phone 7 as well, although I'm not sure on the iPhone, I recall someone describing the effect even in their browser. The 'problem' is this is opt-in behaviour, so only a few apps use it, while it should be a default behaviour for any kind of formatted text.
Why I do Unsmart Things
Your comment makes a lot of sense, much more than many comments above you.

I can only add that managers at BigCo want to cover their ass first and only then do the job. And how you gonna cover your ass when you 'try before you buy'?
تحميل فيلم انا بضيع يا وديع
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تحميل فيلم انا بضيع يا وديع
http://t7melsoft.com/ar/29-02-2012/233.html
مشاهدة فيلم انا بضيع يا وديع
شاهد فيلم انا بضيع يا وديع
I worked on a language once (now dead) which even had a syntactically valid form for parse errors, which allowed a structured editor to record a valid AST at all times. The "parse error" expression just raised a "parse error" exception at runtime, so you could even execute ill-formed expressions.

It turns out to be fantastically empowering.
At least among the Emacs-using Common Lisp users I've known (and discussed the topic with), Paredit is considered a clear win. Same in my experience. What do you use? If there's something better, I'd be happy to use it.

(When I last observed someone editing Common Lisp code without turning on Paredit, it was rather depressing, how much time he spent closing parens and re-indenting everything. But maybe you use something else which avoids this problem?)

Reader macros (in the worst-case scenario you describe) are a very rare use-case, and therefore probably not worth optimizing an IDE for. Perhaps for you they're common, but I'm virtually certain that most Common Lisp users have never written even one. If macros are already uncommon to write, reader macros have a far higher bar of justification.
> Why isn't DDG the default search provider?

An excellent question. Does DDG have the infrastructure to handle that many searches? It didn't last I checked...

> Why aren't third party cookies disabled by default

Because it breaks things entirely unrelated to ads. For example, with third-party cookies disabled I can't buy tickets to http://www.puppetshowplace.org/ online for my kids.

> and the Do Not Track header enabled by default

Because then it would be completely useless. See http://blog.mozilla.com/privacy/2011/11/09/dnt-cannot-be-def...

I do agree that there needs to be a distinction between "showing ads" and "tracking users", of course. Those are not the same thing.
Are there many options for running ClojureScript scripts on a system outside of Node.js?
This is a great house. It's spacious, it's airy, it's well laid out. It would be a great house to have a party in.

However, it's in Maine.

And that means that since the insulation is almost nonexistent and the windows are huge, the heating bills are going to be horrendous. When you come in from the foot of snow (which is not uncommon in Maine) you will be trekking slushy dirt all over the suddenly frigid main room.

Maine houses have mudrooms, covered porches, or other systems like airlocks to prevent too much heat from escaping while you bring in your groceries and take off your boots.
The problem with most companies that do this is simply that they want ultra-qualified leads. Truthfully, it's tough to determine whether a sign up is going to be worth $10 or $10K/mo. The other problem is, depending on the product, the sales cycle can be long. It's not that any B2B company wants to spam you, but it's that they want to remind you of their existence as much as possible so that when you start thinking about your options, they are first on your list.

Here's the logic re: Alex's points:

1. Requiring a sales call helps qualify real leads.

2. Lack of trialing the software is in part due to wanting to have a conversation with you.

3. Hiding your pricing is simply the way to have a conversation and to qualify leads. It makes price discrimination also possible. Think about selling a startup vs. IBM.

4. Whitepapers are just old school. It's useful for when lower-tier decision makers need to present something.

5. Newsletters are simply a way to be in the conversation with your company prior to when you buy--constantly.

6. Larger organizations sub-divide their resources into people who can do X or Y. Where X sometimes primes the customer for Y. It's not done to the customer's benefit, but rather to the organizations.

7. Old school.

8. Well, the truth is, cold calling can work even though it has a fairly low conversion rate. You have to start somewhere.

I am not saying we do any of this at Mixpanel necessarily, but it's the simple logic of enterprise.
Thanks. I'm surprised by that, are there more details about the seizure? What it through Verisign or the registrar?
Preparing well for your interview and applying directly is much more efficient. I'm sure most entrepreneurs want to salvage they're failing startups and are eager to quit for the next venture as soon as the opportunity presents itself.
The Rackspace UK cloud would be twice more expensive than AWS EU for our web app
> Practically everyone who’s paying for software is doing so through an app store

And how well's that working for them?

• All of the revenue for the thousands of vendors in the Apple App Store together for 2011: $3.6 billion

• Oracle's revenue alone for 2011: $36 billion

Notice that decimal point there? There's a reason it's in a different place. I don't like the enterprise sales process – being on either side of it, and I have to be on both at times. But the reason I'll do it is because our customers demand it and folks at that level, when a deal closes, pay enough to make it worth it.

It's the same on payment methods, actually. We got dragged, grudgingly, by our enterprise customers to allow paying by purchase order / ACH because that's how their purchasing departments expect to do things. It's not like we were going to tell them, "no".
"the opposite is also true" - Derek Sivers

Test.

It'd probably be best to serve a company to be able to test whether or not it serves you best to force customers into a hand held sales process or let everything remain DIY.

I've created a ton of self serve from the get go.

For example: In one thing, we have so many tire kickers startup their site and do their thing, but then we find out, that they completely screw up how to even get started. It might be we just haven't figured out how to design it better. But we've been designing it and iterating on it for years. It's simply something that's a bit hard to understand until someone explains it in words. And since people tend to hate reading and skip the manual, without knowing what's going on, they screw up, and think the product doesn't work. So the solution to that might just be "lets force them into a process so we can make sure they have the best startup experience possible, and we'll be more successful with more sales". That could very well be an outcome. But you never know unless you split test that sales/conversion process.
North Korea Agrees to Curb Nuclear Work; U.S. Offers Aid
Dojos tend to be autonomous but we've been working with pygame in Dublin (and HTML5 and basically anything)

It's also only once a week, and plenty of the kids will simply power on when they leave. It's amazing how many come back with working games and their own code after only a few weeks.
A Nation Divided: Can We Agree On Anything?
Because neither has proven that it can work yet.

I can think of multiple counter-examples as well. People who are trying to run multiple organizations and doing rather poorly (as judged by results). I wouldn't want to single them out publicly though. Besides, it's rather difficult to judge the cause and effect for things like this.
We can handle the traffic.
I'm indifferent to the partisan arguing. However, I've spent most of my life as a self employed business owner. So let's talk about the real high taxes meme that nobody ever wants to talk about.

My federal + SECA + state combined tax rate hits 37% at $50,000 per year in income. I have few deductions.

I'd like to see you justify me paying nearly 40% in taxes out of my income starting at $50k per year. And that doesn't count the zillion other taxes I pay throughout the course of existing. That's the thanks I get for trying to start a business and create value in the American economy. I get absolutely drilled by taxation.
World Bank Africa Q&A
Brief interview with World Bank Director of Economic Policy and Poverty Reduction Programs for Africa
Well, they must be getting ready to Diablo 3 then.
One thing that you can't do right now is send original quality videos. This could be useful for uploading large videos, but it seems KickSend still tries (like every other app out there) to compress the video which takes FOREVER and kills your battery if you have a 10 minute long video.
If you are paying list price for those then you are doing it wrong
Sorry for not adding anything of intellect, but I couldn't agree more.
Ask HN: How much traction do you need to get going?
Most people you talk to will agree that you need traction or a bit of assurance before you start building a new product and fully commit yourself.

My question for HN is how much traction do you need before you really commit and do you have criteria? Also how much success have you had after said traction?
Five top TEDx entrepreneurship talks - video
Rummage - Pinterest for eBay lovers.
CLR Clojure doesn't have Java interop either. Neither does clojurescript. I don't think its a requirement for a Clojure implementation.

Atoms, refs and agents seem like an integral part of the Clojure language however.
I laughed when the CNN headline was "Food for Nukes."
What is your server-side language of choice? What kind of apps are you trying to build? I find node.js to be a breath of fresh air when trying to build real-time webapps. I think once you get over the initial unfamiliarity phase you may change your mind, at least, I did.
Travel Startups: Why the Obsession with Flights?
DHS Is Searching Your Facebook and Twitter for These Words
Pinterest: Learn more and get a free invite.
Off topic, but did you wait 8 years upgrading from ME to Vista?
For a single license, you usually by many licenses for a CAD product so you can get above the $75k price.
There is no consistency across border crossing sites. I spent most of my life living on the Ontario/NY border and I can say for sure that I've never had a problem at the border crossing at the Thousand Islands Bridge. Everybody there, from both sides, are nice and polite. The Niagara Falls crossing is a decidedly worse experience.
Ask HN: How would you force scarcity on a distributed DNS alternative?
I've been thinking a lot lately about the things that are broken with our current domain name system, and if there's any way we can build something that's truly decentralized.

The big thing I can't wrap my head around is how to build in some sort of scarcity without central control - how do we keep the botnets and domain squatters at bay?

A proof-of-work system similar to Bitcoin's is an interesting option, but it's weighted heavily towards the rich - is there anything better?
Having taken a small spin of the app, I'm inclined to agree. A few things I noticed:

- Locational services permission required. They inform you that it's not to track your location, but to track the location of the photos you send so that information can be included.

- Unable to preview photos I'm queueing up for sending. When you're selecting photos to send, you're shown the grid view for whatever photo collection you have, and tap on ones you wish to send - but there's no obvious option to view the photo in a full view for the purpose of making sure I'm sending the right one.

Like you say there are already a wealth of photo sharing options that don't create another layer of abstraction, at least in my limited usage and experience. IMO the ability to share multiple photos doesn't warrant a separate app but a service that photo sharing applications should provide given the demand.
I have started to use CloudFlare on all my sites. It took my sluggish Drupal personal site from a 4.5 second load time down to a paltry 1.6 - 2 second load time.

It's also free - and besides making your site faster, also blocks a lot of the spam you would normally see.
it doesn't manifest itself until you put it in a loop and try to draw every 16 ms.
No, if you look at the byzantine gTLD application process and the history of .xxx it would be hard for anyone to get .torrent.
Oh nice. How far is it and did you stop because of this? Should I rather be looking into contributing to your project?
Yes. It's running quite smoothly for me. Very enjoyable, simple little flight game.

I'm a bit disappointed by how little content there is. Including the paid library, it appears you can get the Hawaiian islands and five aircraft. As an FSX owner with FS2003 experience (teaching children via http://www.museumofflight.org/education/aviation-learning-ce... ) I'd like to see a drastically expanded library of locations and aircraft.
You might be interested in the debates between Stallman and Sandewall. It's in _Interactive Programming Environments_; Stallman took the side of text editing, and Sandewall took the side of structure editing. The book is maybe a good gift for Lisp history nuts, and it's only $3 used on amazon.com.
Where your analogy breaks down is that at a fancy restaurant, the restaurant is well within its rights to kick someone out for being disruptive--and your analogy did in fact imply that. Furthermore, if the restaurant won't do something about a disruptive customer, you really don't have much choice about the situation, unless you are willing to walk away from a significant amount of money, for which you had every reasonable expectation that you would be provided with an enjoyable and peaceful meal.

On the Internet, things are completely different. You can easily go read something else if you don't like what you are reading, and bad speech is best fought with more speech.

What I find to be most offensive are people who think that they have a right not to be offended.
Stop Disabling SELinux!
Nobody is forcing you to use the things you don't like about windows. Which you haven't bothered to list... A tablet can be a pure metro experience and a pretty cool one at that.
Yeah. I don't have premier service. (When it says "call for quote" I leave) I'm guessing you work for wolfram?

Is there a demo available somewhere?
Ask HN: Is there online software to search for flights with stopovers?
While I wait for a Canadian visa, I play with flights online, looking at prices. I found that occasionally there's this weird multi-stop flight that shows up from Auckland, New Zealand to Nadi, Fiji, to Christmas Island, Kiribati, to Honolulu, USA, to Vancouver, Canada!

Now, these only have stopovers of like 1-3 hours, so it's for a refuel or to drop off passengers. Certainly not enough time to get off.

However, if it were possible, I'd like to change the flight to include stopovers of a day to a week - I'm not fussed - I'm flexible, but I'd love to spend even a day in some of these places.

Most online booking sites don't seem to include stopover functionality, however. Kayak allows you to display only flights with a certain length stopover, but this is in the realm of hours, merely to let you configure it not to strand you in Manila or LAX for too long.

Is there a startup or tool to search online flights to configure stopovers of days in length?
FWIW, I've seen one of Blizzard's hosting cages. It's more like "held together with hundred dollar bills and big fat DC power cables"
I dunno... I have a $320 car payment and buy maybe $20 of gas a week, so I spend a lot more on my car than I spend on flights...

Now I guess if I could somehow spend that $4850 on flights that would get me maybe ten coast-to-coast round trips, which would add up to many more miles than I drive.
Still haven't used nodeJS, but was wondering if its possible to emulate something like Twisted's inlineCallback decorator/generator pattern. http://krondo.com/?p=2441

Working with Twisted tedious at times, but that pattern/construct significantly streamlined things significantly for me.
The experience does not change. Either you type windows buttong and start typing the name of the app (just like in wondows 7) Now if only you could pin a desktop app like word to the start screen, then I don't see the difference in experience.
I still enjoy reading Danny Hillis's story of Feynman's days working at Thinking Machines, whenever I happen to run across it.

http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine...
From an email sent to customers re: their last price increase:

Price assurance guarantee.

We now understand that it’s impossible to grow your business if you can’t be sure how much Chargify will cost you. Going forward with our new plans, you won’t have to worry anymore because all plans will come with a 100% grandfathering guarantee for 12 months from the time of a price change. This means that any plan you’re on will be priced the same for you for 12 months from the implementation of a price increase. Conversely, if there is a decrease in the price of a plan, you can take advantage of it anytime.
Ireland Signs Controversial 'Irish SOPA' Into Law
As an American, I found Australian security professionals just that: professionals. What a bliss to work and interact with. The average Aussie street cop has better manners than an American maître d'. I really love this country: far superior culture.