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I'm not sure what these two things have to do with each other. Elon Musk's goals with SpaceX are entirely different than Facebook's goals with Instagram. No business purpose of Facebook's would have been served by building orbital vehicles. Facebook hasn't even gone public yet; the money we're talking about isn't yet Zuckerberg's to spend randomly.
Ask HN: How to connect to a remote desktop securely while in China?
I am going to be traveling through China on business next month and I have heard lots of stories about how they will monitor the internet usage of business travelers and steal emails and other data from their computers.

To combat this, I am thinking about going to China with a clean computer and then connecting to a remote desktop from which I could log in to email and do all of my browsing.

My question is, would the Chinese government still be able monitor all of the data that I send to that remote desktop? Would they be able to intercept the IP and username/password for the remote desktop? How would I set up encryption so that they couldn't see what I was doing?

If anyone knows of any other good resources for protecting privacy while in China, please post them here.
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No, it's not about mindset or command-line unix culture. It's about interface design. The command line interface.

All of the established unix commands do a particular conceptual thing well. "sort" always sorts. Its options affect how it sorts.

But git ... "git checkout" can switch the working branch. "git checkout" can rollback code ... depending on the specified options.
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Games is pretty much it for me too. I run Linux at home in a VM (because I'm more comfortable in Linux now than Windows) on Windows so I can get native performance in games. Steam for Linux is definitely a good thing.
Which is why I'm a bit saddened to see another wrapper start up. Does OP even know about them, or does he think he's the first person to have the idea of creating a git porcelain?

And then there's always that 1 time you need to do something that git can do, but your porcelain can't. Then you have no choice but to learn git the 'right' way.

Personally, I think I understand git too well for picking up a porcelain to be useful to me, which also makes me a bit sad.
O'Reilly has a certificate course. It is pretty good. I am almost done with the first section.

Wesley Chun has some videos out as well. Look on Amazon for those.
I agree it is a strange term.

I do think however the article is well written and quite insightful based of course on Peter Thiel's ideas.

Inovation always wins, those that focus on just competing will lose. A country has to foster inovation. the countries that innovate in education could be the big winners.

To be fare to the US, some of there big colleges do that, but it does seem at the grass roots of the system it needs change and that applies to a lot of countries.
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How do you show your superiority to people whose prejudices or misunderstandings make them unable to recognize it?

By drawing a handful of very simple diagrams.

"This is what a database that you may know looks like". "And this is how our database looks in comparison".

And by elaborating with a HTML <table>: "Our Database" vs "Their databases".

It's not rocket science, really.
It would be sweet for trusted computing if developers were able to submit source directly to an app store for the app store to compile, sign, and make available along with the binaries.
Definitely not just you. I loved DPaint, then later DPaint III. I would make cyclic animations using the symmetry tool and flood filling each section with the next cycling color.

DPaint III is where my animation skills took off. All animations where of a ball that launched off ski slopes onto trampolines, through conveyer belts, and other Rube Goldberg type contraptions.

I still have my A1000 in a closet. I should dust that thing off and see if it still works...
How on earth do they keep such low turnover when these people have to work with the wordpress codebase?

Black Magic? Holding their families hostage?

Seriously though: I'm very interested in how they manage this company and the distributed employees as they are obviously doing a lot of things right.
In the project's README it says "g add isn't necessary for staging since g commit will automatically add objects. In fact, g does not expose the concept of staging through its interface", which if followed through with will ensure that this project never gains traction.

The staging areas, though foreign to newcomers, is one of the most liked features of git (I should look up the git survey results, but I'm lazy). In fact, it is core to many excellent features of git, not least of all the ability to interactively select which parts of your work you want to commit, even down to different hunks in the same file. Ignoring this powerful concept makes git a less powerful beast, and hobbles it unnecessarily. To say that the concept of staging is complex is fine, but surely throwing it out is the wrong answer.
For me personally, mv doesn't actually bother me.

But yes, for this discussion, a higher level version would probably split it into two commands: rename and move. And these would only do those particular functions. With that there is no implementation leakage. For the few times that you'd want to move and rename, you'd need to use both commands.
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This still isn't going to mean many more games for Linux. Presumably Valve will port the Source engine games, but that's just a tiny percentage of what they sell on Steam. The vast majority of the titles are third party, and even though Steam will give them a Linux distribution channel, it doesn't do much to convince them to create Linux games.
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Google people are always making it happen!!!
I think that the impetus behind switching is that people want to know if one service will be better than another. While using both is a good way to figure that out, at some point people are going to want to have their stuff in one place. The redundancy is nice I'm sure but most of us just don't need it. I'm only a little tempted to test out Google Drive at the moment because they don't offer me much that Dropbox doesn't.
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Biodigital's 3D Human Simulator...could be many practical applications for this
Zuckerberg has majority ownership of Facebook shares; he has defacto control of whatever capital Facebook has available to it, whether it's "his" money or not. Was there not discusion that he didn't confer with Facebook's board before completing the Instagram purchase?
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Interesting feedback - thanks!

I started off with that idea because I personally rarely use this feature. I pretty much always commit all my changes. And so I only change things that I want to commit.

I'm sure I picked up this habit from my svn days. I'll look around for those survey results.
Well, why not take advantage of the guy? He's taking plenty of advantage of you, after all.

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This thread is mostly an uninformed fever swamp. The Obama Administration is not being a friend to the Internet here; the opposite is in fact largely true.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3891094
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That's something we haven't tested, but my gut tells me contrasting Vector Victors (like better in both dimensions) is 'worth' more than similar Vector Victors.

The really significant change would be that agreeing in one dimension (yes A is better quality than B, but we disagree on which is more rewatchable) still contributes to your correlation with someone. We're not doing that at the moment, because it felt like pairwise partial agreement would weaken the signal - I wanted _real_ agreement (in both dimensions) to stand out.

While there might be a way to capture that with a linear function, I've favoured solutions that reflect that our ratings are two-dimensional.
For sure, it's nice to have both available: high level and low level. Like Ubunutu's user-add and add-user. (Of course, those are horribly named.)
Binutils are a set of utilities used by *nix systems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binutils
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You're kidding yourself if you think privacy is a top-of-mind issue for the Administration. They're pushing back on CISPA --- as they have been since last year, and even longer if you understand the idea CISPA is trying to express --- because their agenda is to enact government controls on the security of "critical information systems".

CISPA is the GOP's "let the industry regulate itself" response to the Obama Administration's concern about Chinese state sponsored hacking. The privacy issue here is a fig leaf; CISPA is entirely voluntary (unlike previous "cybersecurity" bills supported by the administration), and private industry already has the legal tools to feed private information to the government under the ECPA.
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We seek to fix the abstraction aspect by focusing on the difficult of collaboration. It's working really well for us. We'll be launching our beta test soon.
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I'd actually really like it if it was a repo. Add "http://steampowered.com/fedora/username/securitytoken or /debian/ (etc.) to your list of repos, then apt-get install steam. The username/security token stuff is provided so that you get a dynamically generated repo, which includes access to the games you've bought. You could then install games via apt/yum (and I'm going to go ahead and assume they're all statically linked and include all needed binaries, because traditionally, closed-source games on Linux have forced users into dependency hell).

Steam then becomes a marketplace and apt/yum frontend :).

(Of course, I doubt very much that this is realistic; it'd just be awesome)
What about 'i' and 'a'? So that's six (or seven including 'fas')
I admit it - I don't know about any other higher level command line wrappers. I've only found hub http://defunkt.io/hub/ which isn't exactly what I'm thinking of.

Ah hah - I've found just one, although it looks pretty good http://www.git-legit.org/
Looks like this documentary was made before the public release of the product.

It is interesting to note that the computer was actually sold for more than twice the target price (of $3000) ... (which sounds like a lot even in todays inflated dollar value)

I wonder if there is any historical reference about why/how it slipped from what was already highlighted as a stake in the ground, much much early in the planning/design ... !
You can only build so many businesses within a given period of time; and when the business leaders have more money than is required to do so is when they donate to charity.

Donations like the one outlined in this article give me faith in humanity. It's nice to see us looking out for one another.

As for me, I strive to build business(es) so I can do the same, whether the most effective way to raise the standard of living for everyone is donating, building, or most likely both.
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No: majority shareholders of corporations continue to owe fiduciary duty to the minority. This is obviously tangential to the real point, though. Google paid more than 12 SpaceX's for Motorola. Would docking with the ISS help with the Android patent problem?
I've been using ShopLocket during the beta, and it's a solid product. I know the founders and it's exciting to watch the concept evolve into a well executed product that will serve a large niche well.

Also, it's nice to see the Toronto startup scene get picked up in SV tech blogs. Congrats to @katherinehague and @hyfen on the launch!
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Because the changes mentioned in the memo cite the specific parts of the bill to which they would apply. For example:

In addition, H.R. 3523 would inappropriately shield
companies from any suits where a company's actions are
based on cyber threat information identified, obtained, or
shared under this bill, regardless of whether that action
otherwise violated Federal criminal law or results in
damage or loss of life. This broad liability protection
not only removes a strong incentive to improving
cybersecurity, it also potentially undermines our Nation's
economic, national security, and public safety interests.

I don't need to know everything about the bill to know that liability protection that broad is a Bad Thing, and that attempts to strip it out are both substantial and positive.
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Just look at the manual for authohotkey, for an example of how to teach to nonprogrammers.
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Amazing feeling for a non programmer.
Was there a falling out between Samuel Cervantes and the MakerBot team? It seems like they are now in direct competition.
Only looked cool because room was filled with smoke. But, it did look cool!
I think it is primarily a legal concern. Legally, caching public content is not always an acceptable (or at least clear-cut) practice. I concur in thinking that's a little silly, but enough people disagree for it to be an issue that Google has to take into account.

There have been similar complaints about attempts to aggregate the contents of Hacker News posts, for example.
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I think the weightings I describe above would give you that.

Say we start at 0 and user A likes the next move in both directions (+4) and user B only likes it more in one direction and the same in the other (+2) then you're still going to get a positive correlation, just a slightly lower one than if both users liked it in both directions.

R([0, 4, 4], [0, 4, 4]) = 1.0

R([0, 4, 4], [0, 2, 4]) = 0.852

R([0, 4, 4], [0, -4, -4]) = -0.9
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The United States government has spent and will continue to spend untold millions understanding these threats and studying the situation and techniques. In addition they are targeted by both more numerous and more advanced attacks than any group in the private sector by far.

Without a doubt no organization in the world knows as much about cybersecurity as the United States government, and up until now all of that knowledge has been held from the private sector behind many layers of classification. Don't you feel that it could be beneficial for the public to have a path for the two groups to work together?
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Fitting data in whatever form it has taken at point X in a program into the form that API Y expects is often more like meat ungrinding.
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haha.. nice!
This is a subtle comment, with the key statement being "The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible."

I'm not so sure socialism is the answer there, but it's definitely a goal to have for the long term.
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"Saying that regulation is necessary might be too strong"?

Some regulation is always necessary. How would you expect contracts to work without contract law (i.e. regulations governing how contracts are to be interpreted, enforced, disputes about them are to be resolved, etc.)?

It is very clear to me that our current system manages to be better than no regulation at all (even though it is arguably worse than the ideal quantity and quality of regulation). To my knowledge, the only places with no regulation are places like Somalia, where the guy who has the largest number of the fiercest relatives and friends with guns gets to decide what the people around them should do.
This line of argument the last week or so has made no sense to me.

Whether you agree with him or not, Zuckerberg's motivation for Facebook buying Instagram was related to the business of Facebook. Elon didn't make PayPal or Tesla start a rocket division, he set up a completely separate venture with its own goals.
Also, if you avoid the normalisation step you could easily factor in the degree at which user A liked the quality vs. user B, instead of just a 'more' or 'less' question.

If you factor your vector weights by the scale of your quality rating (0 - 10?) then if user A liked the quality film X vs. film Y +6 more points than user B's +1, this would give you a more accurate correlation.

Anyway, food for thought. A very fun problem to be working on!
I am definitively going to start look up on it!
I also encourage the Toronto Startup Scene. I like to see diverse cities creating Startups!
But aren't you ignoring a potential reason why it has no "basis in fact"? The reason why we can't find examples of "genius being wasted in poverty" is simple: how can we identify someone as a "genius" until they've actually produced something notable? How can someone with little to no resources produce something notable? It's possible, but the odds are skewed a lot.

The statement was very necessary. If we operate on the assumption that a person's ability is largely defined by their upbringing (and from what we understand so far in the social sciences, this is a pretty fair assumption to make!), it's essential to point out that poverty prevents people from achieving their full potential, and the number of people it affects is in the billions.

Just because it can't be accurately measured doesn't automatically make the point invalid: if you're trying to argue that the population of (over a billion!) people without ready access to food or clean water doesn't contain the same number of potential geniuses as our population, then you have the burden of proof because every bit of understanding we have about nature vs. nurture indicates that improving a person's upbringing allows them to accomplish more.

In other words, he doesn't have to prove with hard statistics that poverty prevents genius from emerging, because our existing knowledge of human behavior and development clearly demonstrates this without having to answer: "exactly how many geniuses were lost?"
SpaceX is part of the first wave in its field, Instagram is at least second wave of democratizing media.
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My issue was more about how many paragraphs the writer wrote to explain what you just did in a sentence (or two).

Kudos.
I'm currently in the Beta too but haven't come up with something to sell yet. What are you selling using Shoplocket?
The "US Government" isn't a coherent whole when it comes to information security, so I find your comment hard to respond to. However:

"Without a doubt no organization in the world knows as much about cybersecurity as the United States government"... I've been a practitioner in this field since the early '90s; I know not one other practitioner who shares that opinion.
Wow, that's a truly unfortunate problem your friend is faced with, especially since we're likely still in the dawn of the general proliferation of LEDs.

I too notice the odd strobing effect of LEDs when they're in motion or I am: Christmas tree lights, Macbook Pro sleep indicator, some brake and headlights. I imagine having that be a cause of pain must be fairly similar to hyper-sensitivity to scented products/VOCs; one has to go out of of one's way to avoid commonly occuring things in the typical environment.

I've noticed the "Ford Fusion effect" whenever I've looked for it.[1] Got to do something to pass time in traffic!

[1] This link is for the sport version, but it has the same (hideous) sheetmetal as the base model. http://i.autoblog.com/2009/02/16/in-the-autoblog-garage-2010...
LOL.. and I trust them for some of my investments .. DRAT
"It’s the under-appreciated intellectual capital of the programming world, in that its ideas (eventually) trickle down into the rest of the industry, but it’s still a ghetto".

That kind of smug, holier-than-thou, condescending attitude is the VERY reason why FP is a "ghetto".

If this were the 16th century, you'd be a Spanish soldier spreading the holy word of God and "enlightening" the savages, wouldn't you?
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Just to reiterate what bz said for emphasis: it wasn't a matter of Firebug "playing ball". The choice to build afresh was made based on the direction that they wanted to go at the time and our own assessment of how we could get something reliable into the product.

Also, Firefox 13 (which enters beta this week) has a bunch of nice improvements including remembering whether the HTML and Style panels are open.

http://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/03/firefox-aurora-13-developer...

We're iterating at a decent pace on these tools, so keep watching. The JavaScript debugger is coming to Aurora soon and it's shaping up quite nicely. The work behind that is going to be a big win for both the new debugger UI in Firefox and ultimately for Firebug as well.
Years ago, I worked briefly for The Southern Company, which is the largest publicly held electric utility in the U.S (Georgia Power, Alabama Power, and a bunch of other ones).

While there was certainly a lot of expertise in electric generation and transmission there, it rapidly became apparent to me that their true core competency was maintaining and exploiting their legal monopoly.

It wasn't a pretty sight.
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1. Laws against murder.

2. Laws against theft.

3. Contract law.

4. Traffic laws (right of way, behavior at stop signs and traffic lights, etc.).

None of the above are perfect; all of the above have been used abusively at times; all of the above are needed to some degree for the smooth functioning of society. There are some debates in the area of traffic regulations about whether some situations would be safer with a little less regulation. There's also been some regulatory capture of contract law by lawyers, but because contract law is relatively symmetric, it's less of a problem there.
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Call it Git-y-app.
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Under what law would an email provider be exposed to liability should they opt to share information about email accounts, or even the contents of email messages, in the course of responding to a network security incident?

Hint: the Federal law that attempts to establish that email stored at a provider is even "private" to begin with carves out a broad exception for exactly this kind of sharing, with no limitations on how that information is stored or relayed.