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Not only is it controversial but it's probably wrong. Bill Gates hardly comes up in conversation anymore and Microsoft's relevance is way less than a company of its revenues, product usage and stature should be. I couldn't even name a single thing the Gates Foundation is doing, much less has accomplished. No one will remember desktop computers in 50 years when computing will be all around us (moved ever so far forward by Apple products). Your last sentence is drastically understating the impact Jobs had on multiple massive industries.
You should probably look at what they launched today. They have VM instance images that are what you're describing.

Though they're probably still ephemeral, but then again, so are EC2's...
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But in that case the password has only been compromised on that one website, as opposed to every other website where it's being used (likely a non-zero number of them given the average user's password habits). I'm no security expert but I think client-side password hashing with the domain name as the salt seems like a pretty good idea, especially for sites without HTTPS logins (but it also helps in the case of a database leak even for sites with HTTPS logins). Of course, for non-HTTPS logins a network attacker could modify the HTML form code to remove the client-side hashing without the user's knowledge, but it's still at least as secure as the alternative, modulo 'false sense of security' type arguments.

Edit: never mind the last parenthetical; it pretty much wouldn't help in a database leak at all (just adds one extra hashing step to the cracking process), sorry. Still helps for non-HTTPS logins though.

Edit 2: ... though maybe if the client-side hash were something strong like bcrypt, it would help in the case of database leaks on HTTPS sites that refuse to use strong hashing on the server side for performance reasons. Sorry for the rambly disorganized post.
The NSA is the largest such organization, surely there are others. But just to correct: the GCHQ beat DH by three years and RSA by four, not decades.
I've put a lot of time into making a home network with both Vista and XP. It's near impossible. I'm not dumb, Windows is dumb.
While this may be true according to some conceptions of God (personified and material God seems to be a fairly common belief, especially among laymen) most philosophical descriptions of God tend towards a "First Mover"-theory. That is, God created the universe, and the universe played out according to his creation.

This definition of God is certainly compatible with all scientific advances because, by definition, this God is beyond the measure of science.

I happen to find this belief rather boring and derivative of Plato (a natural world and a supernatural world, each separate and uncrossable except that the natural world is really just a poor reflection of the ideal and perfect supernatural world? Where have I heard that before?), but it's certainly not incompatible with science.
Twitter is well served to defend their trademark against dilution, perhaps, but I'm not sure that the law requires they protect it against bad design.
no this is not a typo.

jetpants parallelizes many steps of this process allowing for greater throughput than what could be normally achieved by traditional tools.
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Well now what changed? They made it very clear in both the post and on HN that if they didn't get $480,000 they would close it down (very arrogantly I might add):

"The price is $480,000, cash. No special deals, no partial payments now the rest later, no equity in your company, etc. $480,000 cash and it’s yours."

... "If you’re interested at $480,000, please email me direct at"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3941230

"Sortfolio isn't right for us anymore. Our attention is elsewhere. If we can sell it for a fair price (we consider $480,000 fair), then we'll sell it. If not, we'll close it down and move on."

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3172-sortfolio-going-once-goi...

The flippa auction says $250,000 is the minimum bid.

They weren't even willing to offer a commission to a broker. They wanted $480,000 nothing less.
Well, all the attention around Jobs was pretty much fanboyism, and it was more of a fad that arose from the iPhone/iPad. In 50 years, there will be another fad with another face on it for fanboys to obsess over, while at the same time, Gates' philanthropic contributions will be remembered as the model billionaire.
I really don't think that the failure of accurate intelligence to drive policy in the past suggests we should give up on trying to have policies driven by facts.
I was thinking about this a bit recently. Now, as a disclaimer, I am not particularly well-versed in philosophy or anything, so chances are I'm either categorically mistaken or echoing a well-known idea.

My thought was this: something that is fundamentally unknowable is also fundamentally irrelevant. Particularly, something only matters if it has some effect. This leads to two cases: it either has an effect, and is therefore measurable, or it does not have an effect and therefore does not matter.

Now, this only applies to problems that are fundamentally undecidable--if it's just practical limitations (say technological shortcomings) then they could have an effect that we just can't reasonably trace.

But the idea of living in a perfect simulation that behaves just like the universe? From our perspective, that is not different from the just living in the universe at all. Now, if we could measure a difference, it could be important, but lets take the premise that we can't: now thinking about the universe as is or as a simulation of the universe as is is equivalent. So in either case the simpler model--no simulation--is, in essence, correct.

The same applies to a religious straw man--the god who does not affect the world at all. If the god just makes the world behave exactly the way it behaves, it may as well be taken out of the picture, mathematically cancelled (in a sense).

Anyhow, just a thought.
Well, I did know one or two people but they're in college right now.
It's easily conceivable that Apple products will have a significantly larger positive impact on education and healthcare than anything the Gates Foundation does.

And I think it is pathetic to insinuate that Apple products are not a "meaningful contribution to society".
Probably not Ritchie, either.
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I think logic is more a proxy or a heuristic. It helps you make conjectures about the world even if you don't necessarily have direct evidence.

But if your observations contradict your logic? Something must be wrong. It could easily be the observations, but the more you have, the less likely it is. I think, at the very limit, deduction would have to give way to induction.
News from a few days ago made it sounds like MS left their cert wide open to using it to sign code and make it look like it came from Microsoft.

Now this news comes out that they used a pretty powerful crypto attack to essentially create their own trusted root to be able to sign their code to make it look like it came from Microsoft.

Why would you need both vectors? It seemed (yesterday) that the Microsoft bug alone was enough to trick Windows Update into installing your code.
if everything works (i.e. DHCP), then there isn't a problem. but if something does not work, there is a problem. then the OS should make it possible to solve the problem. this is were vista (home basic) fails.

if vista would have worked, it would have been awesome (maybe). but as it didn't it was (and is) horrible and stupid - as it prevents easy solutions.
No wonder. I would not pay (or advise anyone to pay) half a mil for a business with # of customers in the low hundreds, some of whom have anecdotally confessed to very low efficacy/value from it in previous HN threads.

Intuitively, 37signals was in a very rare position in the market to immediately funnel traffic to this service and it still did not take off into thousands of paying customers and $1M+ of annual revenue.

I don't believe the ask price is fair as much as it is high enough to maintain the 37signals brand and image. A couple hundred K lower, and it is too little for them to bother. I think it might have had takers in the $70k - $120k (basically salvage price) range.
You might already be aware of this but in Outlook you can drag an email to tasks on the left (or to calendar) and it will include the email thread in the body. Doesn't update though with new emails from the thread.
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I said it makes no difference.
I don't believe I would have to suppress theory that Sun revolves around Earth because I never had such theory because when I became curious why this bright dot on the sky appears on different places it was explained to me what revolves around what and how it is possible.

I think I might have more trouble with the question "does the sun move across the sky" because when I look up I don't see any movement.

It's not about the intuitiveness of a belief. It's about whether the right or wrong theory got to the child first. You internalize first good enough theory you hear not the one that's most intuitive or the one that explains all the data best.
I'm pretty sure that these guidelines are exactly about protecting against dilution. I think the logic is as follows--the actual Twitter logo (and, consequently, trademark) is not just a bird, it's that specific bird, in that orientation and that color. Allowing anybody to do anything with it would dilute it. And so they must protect against this.

For what it's worth, I've certainly seen documents like this from other companies. Based on these observations (rather than the actual law :/), I think that what they're doing is part of protecting it from dilution.
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Here is the definition. Many of the ideas on the parent thread fall into the "you can not prove a vague theory wrong".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYPapE-3FRw

I have no idea what you mean by "an arbitrary probability of 95%+"
I think it's important to remember that "Do What You Love" may not lead to financial success. It will only lead to you doing more of what you love, which may or may not ever pay well.

(I'm a stay-at-home dad, and I love it. But it doesn't generate a lot of cash.)
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I don't really associate Bill Gates with "a computer in every home" and in fact it was Steve Jobs and Apple's vision well before Microsoft. And in 50 years I think we are going to be much more aware of "a computer in every pocket" and probably computers everywhere. The whole desktop thing will be quite quaint.
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I'd argue, the platform that is easiest depends on your skill set/background. Azure is going to be significantly easier and more productive for someone with a .NET background, for instance over any of the others mentioned.
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My favorite: "Don't: Copy our look and feel, as this could create user confusion."

Ummmmm... https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap
It took me about five minutes to figure out what was the point of this website. I'm on a 13in Macbook Pro and didn't realize you could scroll down to see the buttons. Does it bother anyone else when people design websites for tall screens that most people on laptops just don't have?
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The state that xip.io is in right now could, theoretically, result in DNS failures 50% of the time on any device.
response from the OP:

"Thanks, yes, but when the platform itself fails it seems that doesn’t always work. Hence my suggestion they temporarily change the default error message."
Works fine here in the iPad (both in Safari and another browser).
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Should integrate with the face.com API and you might find some funny corolations between ratings and certain characteristics detected by the API.
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Java and flash each have current install bases of 1,000,000,000+ devices and are adding devices at a rate that far outstrips mobile safari. Neither are shiny, cool technologies, but they're not "legacy technologies" yet.
I checked on http://leakedin.org/. It checks to see if your password was a) leaked and b) cracked. Cracked hashes were denoted by five 0s in front of the hash or something I believe in the hashes that were released within the last few days if I recall correctly.
If DHCP doesn't work then either there is a problem with your router/DSL/cable modem or you have a virus.

None of those things are the fault of the OS, since you didn't describe the issue or the resolution I can only assume you are a troll or have no business providing tech support.
In terms of curious cosmologies, a certain formulation of the concave hollow earth theory is fun.

From:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Earth#Concave_hollow_Ear...

In one chapter of his book On the Wild Side (1992), Martin Gardner discusses the hollow Earth model articulated by Abdelkader. According to Gardner, this hypothesis posits that light rays travel in circular paths, and slow as they approach the center of the spherical star-filled cavern. No energy can reach the center of the cavern, which corresponds to no point a finite distance away from Earth in the widely accepted scientific cosmology. A drill, Gardner says, would lengthen as it traveled away from the cavern and eventually pass through the "point at infinity" corresponding to the center of the Earth in the widely accepted scientific cosmology. Supposedly no experiment can distinguish between the two cosmologies.
Ask HN: could someone please help me regain access to my HN account?
Foolishly, I tried out HN's "email yourself a new password" link just to see how it was implemented and what the email would look like, even though I hadn't really forgotten my password. It's been two days now, and I haven't received an email with my new password, even after trying again. Has this functionality worked for anyone else? Is there someone I can contact to allow me to use my account again?

I have a feeling that this could be due to me not entering an email address for my account, though I really thought I did. My account name is delan, if that's helpful.

Although I'm not sure if it's the right place to ask, I've just sent an email to info@ycombinator.com as well.
TD Bank is the same, maximum is eight characters and no special characters for the password.

I spoke to them and got a flustered "Well would you like me to mention that to our IT department?"

It's only been like that for 15 years maybe they should look into it!
Having live-tweeted the entirety of BackboneConf, I would like to object to a premise of your comment and the original post.

Live-tweeting well is hard. It is not simply tuning out, or not focusing on the presentation. It's actually exactly the opposite. You have to listen intently and synthesize what a speaker is saying into succinct statements. Having done this 8 hrs a day for two days, I can tell you that it's about as mentally taxing a task as one can engage in (and i'm not saying that because i have a stake in whether live tweeting succeeds or not. I'm saying it because i wanted to find out how difficult it was to live-tweet an event, and I thought BackboneConf was a worthwhile event to disseminate to a wider audience).
Yeah, some customers are really not going to be happy, ever. Ever. They will leech you for all you're worth.

But then there are Bobs.
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What resolution? It seems fine on my 11 inch Air @ 1366x768.
I generally agree. I don't find evolution troublesome, for example, because the idea that "my cousin is an ape" is OK by me.

The counterexample to this tidy situation is quantum mechanics. Its implications are confusing even to experts. We have so much experience with macro-level phenomena that runs counter to what QM says. It's hard to imagine a world where this mismatch could be averted at an early age.
For real. I stopped reading the article once the author used "Begging the question" incorrectly. Not sure how I'm supposed to take any journalism seriously if the reporter can't even use simple English phrases correctly.
Is it me, or is this a very similar site to Mark Zuckerberg's Facemash? I sense a lack of originality here, at least.

Is there any particular reason why it automatically opens on a female-female comparison? This will simply skew the numbers of ratings per gender.

Also, when first loading the site, the leaderboard for the females first registered +885 for the 'hottest' female, and then upon a reload approximately two seconds later, registered +1,384 for the same female. Also, a few moments ago I noticed it has dropped back to +885. It doesn't seem plausible this particular girl gained that many points in less than ten seconds, even if you are gaining 500 ratings a second as you claim.

Is the best way to spend our time really dwelling on aesthetic differences between people? The moral implications for this site are huge, and you are contributing to the intense pressure many feel to reach a specific aesthetic ideal. Is this really the best way we can spend our time? Surely you can think of better sites to create than this?
I am not sure it will help, but have you tried the whole pretending to login without a password method of getting a forgotten password email sent to you?

Good luck, sorry if this isn't of use.
No now you're justifying 'the fold' and it tyranny over webdesign :(
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Ask HN: A porn-like site stole my [firstnamelastname].com domain. What to do?
I accidentally let my personal domain name, myfirstnamemylastname.com expire, and a Japanese porn-ish site immediately scooped it up. That was over a year ago, and they still seem to own it.

It doesn't make sense for them to have it, since I have an obscure Eastern-European name, and it's just that with a .com on the end.

This looks bad when potential employers, clients, and friends Google/search me. Instead I bought myfirstnamemylastname.ca (I'm Canadian) and myfirstnamemylastname.info, but the .com is still porny.

I want my domain back, but I don't want to launch/pay for huge legal proceedings. I certainly don't want to pay the Japanese company a ransom.

What's the simplest thing I should do?

This has been a thorn in my side for far too long, and I'll really appreciate your suggestions. Thanks in advance guys!
The really interesting content is the explanation of what goes into creating the election models. Basically, polls (with all their problems) and some very basic economic stats. Can HN denizens whip up a better model using public data?
As does the MacOS client available in the App Store.
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1280x800... i didnt have safari maximized but it was a pretty big window already. Even after maximizing it the follow button was still below the fold, when clearly this entire website was designed to be viewed in one window.
How do you keep a nefarious script kiddie from filling up your logs with bogus data? My thoughts were this:

1. Set the window.onerror to immediately push errors to an array
2. Load a small unique script that will create a basic sendError function to post the onerror arguments to an endpoint with a unique csrf set.
3. Loop through the arguments that are queued up and send them to the endpoint.
4. Replace the window.onerror with the sendError function.

Your endpoint can be an API that will log the data to either something like Graylog2 or whatever your favorite logging system is. Not 100% bullet proof but better then nothing.
>I can only assume you are a troll or have no business providing tech support.

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This was the highlight for me:

"Perhaps the most useful way to figure out what you really want to do is to observe what you actually choose to do."

In other words, what do you do in your free time?
His article might be a bit off but it is actually true that the University of Cambridge leaked document is off-base and even their official paper continues to clame there is a backdoor but in a way that negates itself:

"Ultimately, an attacker can extract the intellectual property (IP) from the device as well as make a number of changes to the firmware such as inserting new Trojans into its configuration."

Using a flaw in the system to "insert" a new trojan is not the same as an existing one. This and many other reasons that one sees when looking at both papers, the vendor response and then their response to the vendor make it pretty obvious that they stick to the backdoor claim to maintain face (perhaps for the original grant or clients).

but the best gem of the new paper is claiming that a crypto flaw that requires physical access to exploit = Denial of Service, considering you took out the chip or that you have physical access already.
Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross, which provides disaster relief, first aid training, and large amount of the blood that saves people's lives in the US.

I suspect that she is less well known than many historical figures with no humanitarian impact. PT Barnum, Harry Houdini, or Bonnie and Clyde spring to mind.

Gates humanitarian work is commendable. One could make an argument that he is a more important figure in the history of the business of computing than Steve Jobs.

But I doubt that merit or rational argument will determine who will be remembered in 50 years.

Steve Jobs is a compelling character. His life is a colorful, primal and enthralling story. He said interesting things, in an interesting way. He will be remembered long after the guy who spent a lot of money to eliminate a disease that people will not be dying from.

Fair? No. Likely? Yes.
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Good to know. I had no idea what it was, but it looked more legit than the OP. Wikipedia seemed to back up the idea that it was a proper source, so I linked it.
I run a simple djbdns setup locally with a caching resolver that passes specific domains to my dns server proper and the rest up the chain. Took about seven minutes to configure properly. This seems overly complex.
Er...hm, here I was thinking it was going to be a lunatic and yet it seems corroborating information is coming in from various sources.

Very interesting, going to have to follow this. I am surprised no news agencies have jumped on it since "nuclear" is a headline grabbing word at the moment.

EDIT: Just to point out that I am talking about the cover-up aspect rather than the seriousness (or not) of the actual incident, if any.
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