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The exchange you had sounds very much like someone whose entire job is to sit around all day looking at rather trivial things like whether or not a profile is using a "real" or "common" name, and then going through a semi-scripted series of responses, of which 90% of their exchanges with individuals will be 90% the same.

I did some inbound "Tier-1" tech support, and some inbound and outbound call center work when I was a teen in the middle of nowhere, and similar situations would happen due to the sheer mind-numbing repetitiveness of the job and large amounts of really silly "results matter! get a trinket! smile!" managers who emphasized (due to the nature of the entire thing) quantity over just about anything else.

I wouldn't be too surprised if that's the case. It's ... one of the most disappointing things I can think of if it is.
Ask HN: DuckDuckGo is challenging Google. What can challenge Facebook?
Recently, DuckDuckGo is blowing up: http://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html

It is really challenging the monopoly of the giants like Google & Bing by not tracking you.

What can challenge social networks like Facebook & Twitter?
A simpler solution would be to just round every transaction to the nearest 5 cent, which is the scheme that most countries that drop the penny follow.
This says Toy Story had a budget of 30 million dollars.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_Story
Companies used to use IQ tests, and hence claim not be racist, and then be racist.

Companies still look at education, employment history, and ask questions that are trying to evaluate intellectual skills, interests, and abilities. Most of these will correlate with race pretty strongly, too. The entry-level job market is almost exclusively about checking for "good schooling and education".

What's particularly bad about IQ as compared to other measures of employability? Is it just that it's measuring skills that are non-job-specific, or is it actually more racially biased than other evaluation criteria?

I would naively think that IQ tests would be at least somewhat less sensitive to educational status than, for instance, looking directly at someone's educational background. In that case, would you similarly argue that looking at the "schooling" section of a person's resume is a way to claim not to be racist, and then be racist?
The only real routes I can see are:

1) Scan passport & send that to Google
2) Change your name to the Hebrew variety and set the transliterated name as your primary yet alternate name

There are huge privacy implications for the first route, however, and @aestetix has a good point in that post about deletion policies and such.

At least they aren't going to kill your Gmail account.
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Impactful changes will often significant because of their nth order, not just their direct effects.

For example, Google Adwords has completely changed how customers are acquired for a lot of industries. This changes how companies are structured, which companies succeed and how they are built. That's a big change.

Lets stretch the mechanic example. If people got better, cheaper, easier mechanics this could make them hold on to cars for longer. This could in turn change the way cars are built and change the structure of this giant industry.
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Phones really shouldn't need carrier approval either, that's what standards like GSM and LTE are for, right?
I don't think it is the operators that are standing by.

Folk in white coats with reassuring expressions maybe.
While putting forceps into my scrotum also gives me the willies I am more than willing to get the procedure done.

I think this is more a secondary defense. For me personally it wouldn't replace condoms (1, I have never had issues with them, and 2, STD's can still be transmitted) unless in a committed relationship, but also to make sure that if something goes wrong with the female birth control, that there is a second stop-gap measure.

I as a 23 year old love the idea. If it is affordable and easy to get done I wouldn't have an issue going to get it done. And from the sound of it, it will not cause pressure to build up much like getting them cut would...

There are liars the world over. I don't think that is necessarily a trait that is just for men. I've know quite a few guys in high school that had unprotected sex because their girlfriend was on the pill end up with a baby because that is the way she thought she could keep him forever.
This is delirious. The OP should have just read pg's essay on how to apply to Y Combinator. He clearly explains there (and here again) why the X for Y representation helps in getting a foothold.

Also, what does OP expect founders to do? Declare their complete vision beforehand to impress the audience. The purpose of a vision is not to get popular with the tech press, but to guide the founders.
If you were to try to change your name on Facebook, they warn that it takes 24 hours and is done only after a review (probably automated though). Facebook has always had a policy of using real names - it just so happens that if you aren't always using it the system doesn't trip review (but active users are often faced with the dreaded "friending too many people" warning, or similar).
It also messes up 2 factor authentication as well. I've raised this on the google developers, android developers plus groups but I guess if you aint a googler, then it's like p*ssing into the wind....
Please don't editorialize in the titles. Also, there's a lot of material there, what are you referring to, exactly?

From the guidelines:

"You can make up a new title if you want, but if you put gratuitous editorial spin on it, the editors may rewrite it."
Hire an architect.

All of these problems would have been conveyed to the business owner, avoided altogether, or could have been mitigated some other way.

It's a shame, because usually a competent building owner/manager will usually inform a new tenant that they should or demand the use an architect (especially when poking holes in roofs).
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I would assume this -
"I have made two basic arguments about post-9/11 airport security. One, we are not doing the right things. And two, the things we are doing are wrong."
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I'm curious how they're able to identify what parts of images are house numbers. To me, that seems like it would be a harder problem than determining what numbers are present. But I have really little knowledge in this domain so I might be completely wrong.
Does he also hand him a grainy greyscale picture of it too?
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> I would say that reputation numbers don't necessarily measure engagement per se in S.O. very well.
I've found that if I answer a general JavaScript question, even if its an absurdly simple one, I garner more reputation in a few minutes than if I I give a detailed answer to 2-3 in depth canvas questions.

Here's why: SO points are not based on complexity or thoroughness, but based on value - value that is perceived by the community. A quick answer to an simple Javascript question may seem rudimentary to an experienced programmer, but if it has hundreds of points, the community has determined that the answer is helpful in a big way. Chances are there are many, many people that have experienced the same problem, which makes an answer to that problem - no matter how simple - incredibly valuable to the community as a whole.

Edit: This is probably obvious for SO users, but it's worth mentioning for anybody that is confused or wondering why the point system works the way it does.
I am 23 years old, I'd consider myself rational about most things, but this scares me absolutely shitless. I know that's dumb, but if someone like me is made extremely nervous about screwing with my method of reproducing, then that can indicate what other people are feeling.

Secondly, I see orgasm as a highly pressurised, highly tuned, intense thing. It feels like I'm straining every part of my balls to the limit when I'm doing this - if I had medical procedures down there, anything that could psychologically make me feel they were frail, that would utterly ruin it.
How is commenting on the facts "victory for the proposer, Bruce Schneier, looks certain. The vast majority of voters have agreed with him" in anyway editorializing?
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It sounds great. My partner's family has a history of cancer so she doesn't want to go on any kind chemical birth control. Nor is she keen on something like the coil.

I have always wondered why there are so few contraceptive options for men. I know a lot of guys who have had the kids they want and contraception is a hassle. Something like this for couples which is inject once and forget for a decade sounds ideal.
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So the TSA guy is trying at every turn to say there has been some value and success in the current procedures, whereas Schneier says there have been none.

But both agree on a picture of airport security going forward that is much more pre-911.

So its the TSA guy trying to CYA and not be held accountable for the cost carried so far, but conceding it has to end.
I'd agree that Schneier has made the best arguments and conclusively won the debate. But that's still no reason for editorializing - the comments are the best place for that.
There's a lot more to it than that. Part of it is that Facebook does have a "real names" policy, but they don't actually define what a "real name" is, and they also don't enforce it nearly as recklessly as Google does.

Also, it's important to separate the notion of a "real name" from a legal (wallet) name. A legal name shows up on government issued ID, and is called "legal" because it falls within the law of that government.

A "real" name, to me, is a label that can refer to an individual, animal, place, or thing within a given context. For example, I consider "aestetix" just as real as any other name, and there are some people who have known me for over a decade, solely by "aestetix." To them, it's quite a real name.

But consider people who use different names for political reasons, social reasons, safety reasons, etc. Mark Twain, Voltaire, Richard Bachman (aka Stephen King), and so on all had very legitimate reasons for using a non legal name. Imagine you're trying to post updates on Facebook about awful things your oppressive country is doing to you (think Iran or Syria). Or imagine that you have a stalker who is trying to hunt you down. The list goes on.

I think it's pretty obvious that none of the major websites have thought this stuff out very well.
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Miguel de Icaza had a cameo in Antitrust. The computers are all running Gnome on Linux. A few decisions are made by characters that wouldn't be made by an actual engineer for the sake of dramatic tension, but overall, it is highly realistic as far as Hollywood goes.
personally, seeing as how it was already released in japan on september 13, it is not all that interesting to know when exactly it was released in other markets. in the grand scheme of things, there is only one "release date".
From my own experience for the same reason why architects work with construction engineers. If your business person is actually the pointy haired manager type, well then you're screwed.

But that's not all a busíness founder does. For me, these guys are providing the market, the process knowledge and the knowledge about the needs of certain markets, espacially when the markets are not merely apps for Android and iOS. When your product is aiming at non-tech market, let's say health care, as a programmer you better have a co-founder who knows his trade since in these occasions programmers usually are only the guys crunching through poorly specified code.

Equal footing is the way to go. respect the skills of each other, and at least as important understand the language and the needs of one another. Being able to do X or Y doesn't necessarily make you a better person or founder, you know?
There's also the moderator stating that Schneier won. The derrier handoff is not obvious at a glance. I think a more neutral title would be better; this is an important debate, not cheering for your favorite sports team.
I tried to participate and help someone quite while back, but it wouldn't let me, so I said sod this and moved on. It usually comes up in Google results though, which is handy.
but that was the very point of comparing Python and Haskell.

FWIW the Haskell crowd were super-defensive and claimed that Haskell is super-readable (by them).

Now in that article I talk about 'curly bracket' languages in general, meaning those that use symbols (words) to denote blocks rather than indent. And I don't like reading them because of that.
It works like that in Denmark as well; credit/debit transactions are charged to the full 0.01 kr precision (an absurdly small amount, about 1/10 of a eurocent), but cash transactions are rounded to the nearest 0.5 kr.
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Yes, because the cost of buying the digital projectors was offset by an agreement with the studios to pay the same amount for "digital" prints as they currently do for film prints, with the extra cost going towards the cost of the digital projectors themselves.

At some point in the future, when everything is all digital and the projectors have been paid for, I do expect the costs of digital prints to go down, but probably not to actual cost, since (a) the precedent was established, and (b) filmmakers are constantly pressuring for better equipment.

For example, The Hobbit is being shot at 48 fps. Not all digital projectors in use in theaters today can play back 3D material at that frame rate. The ability of the theaters to upgrade their projectors is made possible, in part, because the digital "prints" cost well above their actual cost.

A very good question though, and the answer frustrates pretty much all low budget filmmakers. :)
Given that aliases are legal and not in and of themselves considered fraudulent in most of the world, the requirement to use a 'real name' for online services seems to have no real legal basis anyway.
No startup could tackle those tasks, not on YC's scale. Any one of those is so capital intensive or research intensive you'd have to either get rich at a boring pay-people-over-the-Internet startup or be a huge corporation with research labs like Bell Labs or Xerox PARC.

A few hundred dollars for a few million Americans is a billion dollars of economic impact per year.
Being a Google+ user, I'm not really familiar with it, but how about Quora?

And mainstream users don't really see the problem with giants or tracking, they see how Google's search results page is getting more and more complicated with features they don't need. The original reason to use Google instead of, for example, Yahoo!, was twofold: the website looked very clean and the results were good. Now DDG's results are nearly matching Google, and they provide a much better interface plus a few features (mostly for developers, like MDN integration). What happens? People switch.

If Facebook works good for users, I guess they'll stick.
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Better yet, has there been any good hacker movies, ever?

My personal favorite is "Sneakers": http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/
Ask HN: I made a small ORM for Android that does the job, comments?
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Yeah, for whatever reason most (all?) states have decided to specifically require that advertised gasoline prices include all taxes and fees, but haven't done the same for other products. Though there are some moves afoot to require it for mobile telephone contracts as well.
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I'd say that would be a major purpose re-definition for Quora, as it's not primarily a social network.
Maybe Google is just crowd sourcing an algorithm for this problem! Then they will move onto another of the image recognition problems they have, and they get the spammers to make the data improving algorithms...
So the FSF award is a tea towel? Grreeaattt...

It is nice that Matz was acknowledged for his work but I feel that the FSF is increasingly out of touch. Instead of campaigning against closed source applications I think they would be far more effective providing support and direction to open source projects.

The difference between open source and closed source commercial software is often polish and general direction. Helping take open source projects to the next level and showcasing them would be far more effective than bemoaning Windows and DRM.

Take MS Office. Libre Office can do pretty much everything everything MS Office can do and it doesn't cost anything to install. The FSF should be asking questions about why Libre Office hasn't made a bigger dent in the Office suite market and then help solve any issues which are slowing uptake.
Two interesting things to point out:

First, Angry Birds has used Erin Catto's Box2d physics library. I don't know about Angry Birds Space, but I assume they still use the same physics engine. However, they might have modified the lib to facilitate non-uniform gravity. As far as I know, they haven't contributed the changes back. Not that they're obliged to (by the license) but it would still be polite after making millions using that library. Or at least give credit to Mr. Catto.

Second is the "frictional force" mentioned in this article. As a hobby I do physics simulation code, I've done several gravity simulations. In order to get a stable simulation you need a very nice numerical integration method (I've used one called Runge-Kutta-Nyström, but there are others that work, maybe better). Game physics engines typically have a different kind of numerical integrator that is supposed to give stable results when lots of objects are stacked and colliding. I think that the source of the frictional force in AB:S is, in fact, the numerical error introduced by the integration method.

Different numerical integration methods have different error characteristics, e.g. the RKN method I've used "leaks" energy over time, so orbits decay over time. But I've gotten simulations to run for hundreds of orbits before a change in the trajectory becomes noticeable.
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Unlike most of you Hacker News readers may think, Apple devices are not common out there (yes, I know, there are iPhones - yet they're too expensive and most of their applications are NOT being coded in Obj-C), so Obj-C didn't catch on yet.
I'd guess that the headline is because the submitter found the link via the BoingBoing article[1] - Cory uses the same phrase in his headline.

[1] http://boingboing.net/2012/03/29/bruce-schneier-hands-former...
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Fun tangent for the curious:

Odd is a not-unheard-of name in Norway http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odd_%28name%29

This can make introductions and hand-shaking with visiting English speakers amusing:

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How exactly is this different from the Xoom (and the Nexus phones)? The implicit frame for this news is "Google copying Apple due to failure" but I don't seem to find any information beyond that.
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Legal basis? Surely its purely a data-mining basis?

We'll all be skeptical when Google try and tell us anything else.
The wikipedia article seems to suggest that Diplomas & Degrees fall under this as well: "The facts of this case demonstrate the inadequacy of broad and general testing devices, as well as the infirmity of using diplomas or degrees as fixed measures of capability". Do American companies not ask for Degrees in job descriptions?
"…and most of their applications are NOT being coded in Obj-C…"

Got any sources to back that up? I've often looked for numbers for ObjC vs PhoneGap vs Titanium vs etc comparisons but I've never managed to come up with anything conclusive.
> Reset Router.

The shitty crap $20 routers I've seen where plugging it out and in again makes them work again for about 40 seconds make me wish there was a button on them that'd give everyone in the company that pretends to have made them an electric shock.

Dear everyone - you know not to buy anything that's sold through spam emails by now. How about not buying a router that, when you plug it in, makes a faint fizzing sound, costs less than what you think it should and isn't a good brand? No, Belkin is a level of shit yet to be reached by the crap factories of Turdtown. If I had a dollar for every F5D7230 that I wanted to fold in half... just don't trust the reviews. Don't get that Netgear, their firmware is utter crap. Oh, you want bridging mode? You'll need to buy the v8, we've enabled it in the firmware for that. The v7 won't cut it, oh no. WGR614 was the name for that abortion of a craptardation. Just don't buy that crap. If, for a fucking router, they need to do ten revisions of the hardware WGR614v1 to WGR614v10, to get their supplies they need and their shit together, don't buy. Cisco, Linksys, Billion, TP-LINK, Fritz. That's not a whitelist though. Even they have produced utterly worthless things that manage to give LEDs their 5 Volts and whatnot milli-Ampere and give you a nice UI to manage a Wi-Fi connection that just doesn't work.

You want a router for grown-ups? Get the WRT54GL. Ten year and then some track record. Put your own damn firmware on it. How do you know it's for adults? The Amazon page says WARNING CHOKING HAZARD -- Small parts. Not for children under 3 yrs. That warning ain't on D-Link.

The time I have wasted on these pieces of crap you wouldn't believe. Thank you Hacker News, for giving me a place to vent.
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Hmm that could be parsed as you wanting a fake name to embark on fraud and phishing with ;)