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The 3-way division of the world into "super-continents" and the constant war keeping the populace in a perpetual state of starvation and poverty, with the entire world in disrepair is so incredibly reminiscent of Orwell's 1984 it's scary.

If you haven't read 1984, it's a startlingly bleak view of a potential future (from a historical perspective, but still applicable today, I think) particularly through technology and a loss of privacy. It's the origin of terms like "big brother" and "doublethink" -- worth a read.

One of the most interesting excerpts from this piece IMO: "I wanted to stay a democracy, but the Senate would always over-rule me when I wanted to declare war... ...Anyway, I was forced to do away with democracy roughly a thousand years ago because it was endangering my empire."

Although I don't necessarily think it will be because of war, I can see a potential future where people/persons decide democracy is a less effective system because it's holding back the decision making process -- democratic process being (more or less) committee-based decision making, which proxies votes through individuals based on what is essentially a popularity contest. That's particularly true here in Australia at the moment (amidst a minority government with a lot of political sniping on both sides and seemingly very little real progress) despite the fact that we have a comparatively strong economy, low inflation, low unemployment and generally nothing really significant (again, comparatively) to complain about.
Someone using a micro RDS might want to be aware of the pitfalls once they go into production on a larger instance?
Wow, these are super-expensive. $40/month per additional phone? If anything, that would make me LESS likely to want to add extra lines to our account.

Also, why is there a monthly charge for data-only devices? Doesn't make any sense to me when you also have to pay for a shared pool of data.

All the prepaid carriers that are now supporting iPhones seem like a much better deal. I think one had unlimited data + unlimited text + 300 minutes for $35/month. Another had the same but 500 minutes for $50/month.

My family has been on AT&T for over a decade but if their pricing for shared data is anywhere comparable, I can seriously see moving all of our lines to prepaid carriers.

Edit: Also, I'm sure they've run the numbers and there's a reason they're charging for tablets and laptops, but I have to think there's a big opportunity missed there. I have no reason to buy a 3G-enabled iPad or laptop right now, since I'd have to pay a monthly toll for the privilege. But if they had made it free to add laptops/tablets to your plan, I almost certainly would buy, for example, a 3G iPad. And then, I'm sure, my data usage would increase enough to merit jumping to a higher pricing tier. (Probably even jump multiple tiers if my family also buys 3G-enabled devices.)
That's an awfully baroque government backdoor --- a misconfigured X.509 attribute on a certificate that turns out to be signed with a hash for which controlled collisions turn out to be feasible.
I remember trying this when I was younger (with the Cheat menu). The primary issue is that while it is quicker, it is difficult to figure out the details of what is happening in the game when there is no pause at the beginning of your turn. Since the AI "personalities" of the different computer players cause some of them to be more aggressive than others, all of the games I tried to simulate in this way ended up with one military aggressive AI player dominating enough of the world that they did not need nuclear weapons.

There was a significant amount of variance among AI personalities and winning strategies in the various versions of Civilization I played, so I suspect that your success would vary depending on which version you were using. For example, if you were using CivNet, the multiplayer version of the original game, the anemic AI in that game might very well lock into some sort of peaceful stalemate, but the contentious resource model in Civilization III would probably produce different results.
Are you missing the fact that if these are flying over your city they are paid for by your taxes

Oh, no... in fact, that's a large portion of the problem.

Also, if you think that a trip to a hackerspace qualifies you to build a UAV

No, I expect it would take a ton of studying, research, experimentation, consulting with people with experience in that field, etc. But, ya know, on an Internet message board, it's sometimes necessary to omit some detail in the name of expediency. Kinda like how in a movie you never see the main characters stopping to go to the bathroom, or eat a meal (unless it's part of the plot), search for their car keys or wallet, or a myriad of other mundane details.

work on your angsty teenage temper tantrum

LOL, now that's funny.

If you really want to take criminal action to stop this, you should... no, I'm not going to tell you, lest you're dumb enough to try.

Thanks for the unjustified personal attack, that's so in-keeping with the spirit of HN...
A value of all software advances is in reducing complexity.
A value of any advance in software industry whether a new programming language or library comes down to reducing complexity.
Neither Stuxnet nor Flame target hackers or even the general population. They were targeting specific institutions. Attacking is easy once you know who or what to attack.

Each individual hacker and each individual citizen is a much smaller target. Sure, as soon as you're identified, you're toast: they break in and install malware on your computer -- if you're lucky. But there's a lot of hackers and even more normal people, all of which can be made individually harder to identify through smart software.
Consider adding some of what you just said to your site's 'about' page? It provides really good context. It also will make the audience more forgiving :)

The basic premise of your site - 50 problems in 50 days, is interesting. But the navigation is not suitable. When I first load the site on my screen (1366 x 768) it shows the map with problems 29 and 30 centered. The first 20 or so problems are completely cut off. So it starts off confusing.

Make the grid view the default instead of the map view. Its more user-friendly.

The Narrative button is mislabeled. Call it quotes?

Your site's heading is "Solve 50 problems in 50 days". Reading that I expected to find 50 problems and 50 solutions. As I explored, it became clear that you offer some solutions, but in other cases you share insights about problems (using sweater to hold hot bowls). Which is fine. Its valid to examine the way we look at problems and solutions. But its not the same as you designing a bowl that can be held with bare hands when hot. So maybe get rid of the "solve" part?
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"Good developer understands that it shouldn’t take more time to write self-explanatory and well-documented code."

In the long run or the short run?
Is it possible to simply ignore completely pointless attacks by lawyers? It boggles my mind that it should be possible to essentially mount a DoS against any person by unleashing lawyers on them. That is, why can other people force me to spend time and braincycles on their insanity?
The source code to Windows doesn't matter. In 2012, even teenagers find vulnerabilities in Windows by reading the assembly code in IDA Pro. It's one of the most comprehensively reverse-engineered pieces of code on the planet.
Came here to mention this exact issue. (And related, e.g. cmd+clicking.)

Mislav wrote a great post on how to do this robustly: http://mislav.uniqpath.com/2011/03/click-hijack/

Hope that helps!
First of all: This is a stupid question.

Second:

The solution is simple, copy a tarball of the source to CD and throw it inside the casing of the missile. Add rocket fuel to compensate for the added weight.

EDIT:

Third:

That was an intentionally stupid answer.
Some of it. The last update did quite a bit ( see http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4589 ), but they still have a ways to go to replace the previous version.
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I launched the Pest Management Roundtable (http://pestroundtable.com) in February. After several months of good ol' fashioned hustling (mostly email marketing + telephone interviews and sales), I'm up to nearly $500 in monthly recurring revenue. It's not quite "ramen profitable" yet, but I've been picking up customers quickly the last 2 weeks, so at this rate I'll get it there within the month. A recent milestone was that last week I interviewed the owner of the 10th largest pest control company in the US (Joe Clark, of Clark Pest Control in California). He joined the Roundtable immediately following the interview.
I'm trying to determine whether the "75% less glare" claim means this is usable outside. Anyone seen feedback on this?
https://github.com/boto/boto/issues/811
Lots of people. Relatively few pieces of software. Pit against an avalanche of money and access to the best talent in the world. The incentive structure doesn't work, at all.

Don't build circumvention tools. If you're lucky, they'll just turn out to be useless.
They're still selling the iPhone 3GS.

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iph...
Hyperbole is just a tool, like anything else. If you can't look beyond the technique and see the underlying point, that's as much a failing of your insight as my writing. Nobody else here seems to have gotten hung up on that aspect, FWIW.
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I really wish people would stop talking about MySpace like it was some great thing that was going to be as big as Google or Amazon, and that the implosion took everyone by surprise. It wasn't.
The drones the original article talks about aren't missles, they aren't even predators or global hawks. They are the target practice drones the navy shoots with their own missiles for air to air combat exercises.
I think that your post was horribly unclear. What are The Oatmeal's purported extreme views? And what are FunnyJunk's views here other than "We want your money"?
what other hoops do you think i should jump through in order to find out more about their product?
The smart move now will be to wait 2-3 months before buying the Retina Display machine. I'm convinced that by the launch of Mountain Lion the OS will let you use the full resolution of the machine for UI, also it will give some time to other apps to upgrade their UI in order to support the new resolution.

While the upgrade to Mountain Lion will be free, I have a funny feeling that Adobe will charge (or at least will try) you some extra money for an updated version of Photoshop for Retina Display MacBook Pro :).

Any self respecting company or individual developer will probably provide a free upgrade for the UI of their applications soon in order to support the new resolution.
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It's a joke reference to Monty Python's "Life of Brian".
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Wouldn't creative professionals, at least those working in design and video, be pleased with the Retina display? Where else are they going to find a display of this caliber to work with?
There are situations where a resource is blocked, but transparently. For example, the pirate bay is blocked in some countries. However, it's done publicly, and that the site exists isn't denied. The ISPs that effect the blocking could use this status code to inform people who try to visit it that the site does exist, but they can't access it because the government says so. This could, in theory, divert activity towards the ISP (which has nothing to gain from implementing such blocks) to the government. That is, instead of spamming the ISP's helpdesk, they could petition their representatives.

Of course, in some situations the block is supposed to be also denying the existence of the site, and in such cases this status code wouldn't apply. That's mentioned in the RFC (section 4.1).
The iOS 6 announcement is killing me
Fifteen years down the road there's nothing I regret more than the time spent fiddling with what would soon become obsolete technology for very little performance gain, if any. Nothing is perfect: you make a choice based on what's really important for you and commit to it, warts and all.

P.S. for the record, these are 30$ fake chinese extended-cell batteries I'm talking about ;) In the extremely rare cases where I need more than 5-6 hours autonomy, I carry a spare. If you have enough, why should you bother that there's something else out there that performs better?
Looks up whois info:

Registrant Name:Gupta

Registrant Street1:C block Vikaspuri

Registrant Phone:+091.1111111111

It looks... scammy.
Proteins are very "sticky". Even proteins with weakly predicted interactions exhibit significant effects upon one another when all-atom simulations are performed - this is actually a major stumbling block in getting cellular simulation right.

The most complicated piece of multithreaded software yet devised by humans does not compare in complexity to the transcription, translation, and interaction events occurring in a typical human cell. The "DNA as software" metaphor is just that, a metaphor - it is an exceedingly poor model. Cellular systems are so quantitatively enormous and convoluted (yet not chaotic!) that we have to compare them to the most complicated designs our species has recently engineered just to begin to get our heads around the problem.

I haven't kept up with the state of the art in the past two years, but I remember an experiment running a ~10k node cluster for several weeks being able to successfully simulate only the cytoplasm of a cell - and 1/1000th of its overall volume at that. And the proteins were all modeled as spheres. I'm sure the art has advanced, but that is orders of magnitude away.
It may look bad, but at least it's expensive.
And iOS 6 dropped the third generation iPod Touch. Even iOS 4 is noticably laggy on mine.
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And specifically the referenced slashdot discussion and comment: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2906113&cid=4027...
Indeed, very amusing and to the point.
At this point, I wish Intel had a non-Xeon multi-socket capable chip. The Xeon is serving two masters (enterprise server and pro workstation) and does a really poor job of it.

Its a shame Apple will not release a non-Xeon Mac Pro.
I don't know which screenshots you look at but there sure is blur when not dealing with apps that aware of the retina display, such as chrome (left) vs. safari (right): http://images.anandtech.com/doci/5998/Screen%20Shot%202012-0...

In other words, it depends but it most certainly will have its share of issues, question is for how long.
I've been using his product religiously since they've been available. Unfortunately that's the crux of his products: they're often not available. Ubiquiti does a fantastic job of engineering and marketing (online), however when a new product hits their page - it's often months upon months before distributors get product. That being said - it's some of the best wireless gear for the money. Their new 1Gb+ (AirFiber) link hardware is pretty awesome, and in general I won't buy consumer grade wireless junk (i.e. Linksys, D-Link, etc) anymore since I can outfit clients or family with hardware like UniFi very cost effectively.

xxiao - not sure of what you mean by "mesh" but AirOS (and pre-AirOS) has supported WDS for quite some time.
There's a spectrum of behaviors I could recommend here with more information on, say, where the startup is located (because your parents totally aren't insane if the answer is Tokyo) or what stage it is at. For a Valley startup, I think a suit might quite possibly say something about your culture fit that will not be judged in a positive manner, and might suggest anything in the middle of the Venn diagram a) makes you look good and b) could be warn in front of a friend's parents without giving offense in spite of having no prior knowledge of their views on appropriate attire.

If you're totally starved for ideas, for guys, khaki pants and a solid shirt, both ironed. I'm even less qualified for giving sartorial advice to ladies than I am to men, so I'll defer to someone else on that.

n.b. I fairly often do meetings with startup folks, including potential clients, in either that or my usual jeans + T-shirt with a track jacket on top uniform, and can't remember feeling conspicuously underdressed recently. (Edited to add: Ahh, forgot a conspicuous exception that proves the rule, but I can't disclose it without violating an NDA. Suffice it to say that if the industry a startup is in would make a blind ferret say "Dude, you should dress up for that" then you should probably dress up for that. Still got the engagement but went shopping before I started showing up on site.)
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The idea that made this click for me 10 years or so ago was that distributed systems express concurrent processes but can't reasonably use locks; model your threads/processes/whatever as if they were nodes in a distributed system, and use distributed system techniques to ensure things converge.
Theft is theft is theft.
But using a scaled resolution "may affect performance" (understandably, of course, because each refresh now has to draw an enormous desktop and downscale it)
It's been public knowledge for something like a decade.
It's very odd hearing a friend present a programme on radio. He seems simultaneously natural and stilted.

Very odd.

Good programme, pulling together lots of historical perspectives, as well as some details I didn't know before.
Ask HN: anyone know when Apple Java will support the Retina Display?
Like a lot of people I'm sure, I've ordered a MBP with the retina display for programming. Apparently applications have to explicitly add support for it - does anyone know when that support might be being added to Java for Swing applications? I spend a lot of my laptop time in IntelliJ, it would be a pain if there were no support there.
Anandtech says that the resolutions are actually calculated at double the resolution and then scaled down, so if you pick 1920x1200, the GPU actually calculates 3840x2400 and then scales it down to 2880x1800.

The results apparently are fairly good compared to past attempts at non-native resolutions.

Update: Here is the article, http://www.anandtech.com/show/5996/how-the-retina-display-ma...
jEdit has had this feature for a long time. It's one thing I miss, having moved to Vim.
This is great, and terrible at the same time.

Terrible because it fits right in with Google's new M.O. of paying lip service to freedom of information, while helping governments censor, and citizens self-censor. If you notice how they rolled out their new red highlighting of Chinese characters that might cause "network problems", the strategy was completely built around not using the word "censorship" or mentioning exactly why there might be network problems if a user typed in certain search words. This can only be read as trying to help the Chinese government "save face". And now they want to tailor new HTTP codes just for that purpose?

But it's also great. Because I run a website which isn't available in a number of countries, and right now I just redirect to an error page. Because one of those countries is the United States, I have constant problems with search engines (especially Bing) de-listing the site worldwide. It seems to depend on which country they crawled from, and usually it's the US. If I could return a status code that was respected as meaning "try crawling this from another country", then I wouldn't be penalized by search engines for following the law.

Ultimately, it's not really Google's fault that some things are banned in some places, and nowhere is it written that it's their job to fight bad laws in crooked dictatorships. In the end, isn't a status code better than a sudden broken connection with no explanation? At least it clarifies to the user what's really going on, and from there they can take the steps necessary to get around it, or protest it and try to change their government's policies (or not).
This is sort of hilarious, but I'm pretty sure that firing a missile at someone doesn't count as giving them code. Its not your intent that they're able to use the missile for their own purposes, for example.
It is likely that such assassinations are against both International Law (Geneva Conventions) and US law. Carter, Ford and Reagan all prohibited them through executive orders. Even if you think that knocking off some Hamas leaders is a good idea, you will experience scope creep - last year a (sort of) influential policy advisor suggested using drones against Julian Assange.

Honestly, "we" (the West) are best armed, best funded, most free peoples ever to walk the earth. If we cannot put aside assassination and torture, then the human race has no hope.

Here for an interesting review of legality of such assassinations:

http://www.kentlaw.edu/perritt/courses/seminar/jerry-bekkerm...

Assange / assassination
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Flanagan_%28political_scien...

edit: for clarity, before I become flamed as a woolly left winger, I think that there are many people in the world, that if they were hit by lightning today, the world would be much better off. but

a) I think the world is nett worse off if democracies 'arrange' that lightning, because it demeans the important point of a democracy - being a beacon of hope for the future generations.

b) the choice of targets, is not discussed in a democratic manner, and almost certainly would not be my choice. (Now thats a referendum I would love to see:-)

c) my guess is that, like crime, taking out the people committing the crime right now, magically someone else steps into their place. Sometimes someone who yesterday was not committing those crimes.

Hmm, still pretty left wing there...
I didn't update our company's information with the domain registrar.

You can take a look at the "About Us" and the "Contact Us" page. We mention about our company's name and the physical address of the headquarters.

Our company's details can be verified easily at the MCA (ministry of company affairs) website.
I know someone whose 2-factor phone authentication was hacked...
Discussion from a month ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3953469
Make sure to check out pi calculus for a different model of concurrency without locks:
http://mainisusuallyafunction.blogspot.com/2011/09/lambda-to...
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It's also completely unusable on mobile. I tried to visit it from my Android ICS device while having the morning coffee and gave up very quickly.
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