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Interestingly, the red cross logo is actually a trademark of Johnson & Johnson [1], not the Red Cross. It's also easily confused with the Swiss flag, and Swatch Watches (though granted they have inverted colours). Unless there is some context you wouldn't necessarily know which brand that was referring to. If you remove the colour (as is proposed on the page), it's just a plus sign and not recognisable at all.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1559971/Johnson-an...
I don't think this is true at all. In Florida, notaries are appointed by the Governor, an elected official. Nevertheless, notarizations are "records" within the meaning of the FFC clause. In Louisiana, notaries keep books of their notarizations. More importantly, the incapacity of a notary will not invalidate the notarization. The fact is, notarization is a historical artifact and is essentially meaningless. Keep in mind that tax returns do not need to be notarized and you can still be prosecuted for perjury if you lie. Need a quick notarization with no notary around? Look at 28 USC 1746: type the language given there on your document, sign and you are good to go for everything except real estate transaction.
Opera should turn the tables and add "webkit" to their user agent string.

Don't just back down Google because they have clout.
I'm wondering if portal is the right term to use. Seems like it's bound to be misinterpreted by some irresponsible reporter.
The credit bureau services used by banks are not intended to verify your identity for notary purposes; they are used to verify your identify for credit purposes. The databases provided by the credit bureaus are so unbelievably error-filled that they frequently fail to perform even this basic task (and if you read the fine print when you agree to allow this type of check, you will see that they acknowledge that their service cannot be relied upon to prove identity).

Moreover, this system of "verification" merely proves that the person being examined knows publicly purchasable facts about the alleged identity they claim. (All of the data used by these systems comes from public records, all of which can be accessed for free or for a fee.)
Let's not forget 28 USC 1746 which substitutes for notarization in almost every case except real estate transactions.
That's interesting. The Australian branch of Ticketmaster uses queuing and delays to handle load and still often crashes when "big" events go on sale (annual festivals, Radiohead)
I'll go with the whole thing was a well orchestrated multi party facade to pump money into cancer research.
>Homosexuality is a socially beneficial bahaviour is as much as, people exist that are gay

"People exist that are alcoholic"
"People exist that are pedophiles"
"People exist that are depressed"
"People exist that are kleptomaniacs"
"People exist that are obese"
It seems every group desperately searches for a biological genesis of their ills these days, so that they can divert culpability.

Just because certain people exist doesn't mean the behaviors that would flow from their "natural" inclinations are socially beneficial.

>No. The correct comparison is 'existing with a particular skin colour' and 'existing with a certain sexual orientation'. One does not take more of a conscious effort than the other.

In the context of whether the government should promote gay coupling, one takes far more effort. People are unchangeably and constantly a certain race and discrimination on racial basis occurs regardless of that person's actions. If we accept the narrative that a person is unchangeably and constantly gay from birth to death (which I don't), just as a person is unchangeably and constantly ethnic from birth to death, the gay person still has the option to NOT engage in homosexual action. A black person does not have the option to not engage in blackness.

Publicly homosexual couples seeking marriage first must become a couple, then make their coupling public, and then ask the government to give them special privileges. You assert that this takes an identical level of effort as being black or white?
Very interesting, but one big flaw is that the app look like a video, with the Play button on it. I clicked on it and was waiting for the video to play and then I realized that I was supposed to interact with it with my mouse. I would consider changing the icon, or having a bubble that pops up and tells you that you can interact with it like an app.
If you read the FAQ, they did mention an escrow system.
Are they making money off Android?

From what I've read on some blogs they never give numbers showing their profit or loss from Android, and looking at the situation from the outside I'd think it's more likely they're losing money on it at the moment.
Experian's KBA is not adequate to prove identity for legal purposes in any state, or for federal purposes. My banks won't even use it to verify identity for credit purposes.

What incompetent lawyer told you that you could use it for the basis of your service? Moreover, what incompetent lawyer told you that you could offer such a state-specific thing as notarization services nationwide?
The "trust us, just create good quality content, and we'll recognize it" line is true. If you write genuinely good content (ie: others think it is good, not just you) then you will do better. Yes, they are using these tricks now, but eventually the cream will rise to the top. Just keep plugging away at great content and you will eventually build traffic. Don't play their game. Google will eventually start swinging the ban hammer and you don't want to be in their sights when they do.
It's not contrarian when a full half of the top-level commenters say they don't care for it.

And really this seems to me pretty much par for the course for design work here on HN. Every single time someone posts an attempt at some design work that they have taken very seriously, it quickly degrades into a contest to see whom can say "meh" the most dramatically.
Logical fallacies are all that are going on here - all of the evidence that has been presented is highly circumstantial. Just because something is possible doesn't mean it happened.
"the second most powerful office in the country". We are talking about the vice presidency here, correct?
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One would figure that the Agda compiler could figure out the type of not based on its simple definition, but nope. An algorithm that could figure it out would absolutely fall flat on a dependent type.

Not totally correct – it's totally possible to infer (some) types in a dependently typed system. For example, in Coq:

Coq < Definition not x := match x with true => false | false => true end.
Coq < Check not.
not
: bool -> bool

The trick is simply knowing when to stop – that's what turns an undecidable algorithm into a decidable, sound, but incomplete algorithm.
What is the legal punishment for filing frivolous lawsuit? For every case backed down like Carreon, there must be a lot more people caved to legal backmails.
They are a database company :)
"... the new focus on X, for the moment, suggests how much faith we’re putting — for our careers and our overall future — in the Y world. ..."

Replace X with engineering or book binding and Y with steam powered or printing and it looks similar to other eras of technological growth.
From the FAQ:
Because Bitcoin transactions are widely anonymous there is a need for trustbuilding measures like our escrow system. Thereby Bitcoins are only transfered to the vendor if you have set the order as received or have given a positive rating. Thereby potential fraudsters have no chance of success.

More details: http://www.bitmit.net/en/info/13/bitmit-bitcoin-treuhand-die...
Until you run into another small annoyance on your mac (or system of choice)

I switched to linux because when something annoys me, it is much more likely I will be able to fix it.
"... A country can lose $100 billion-worth of pastureland, gain $100 billion-worth of skills and be no worse off than before. The framework turns economic policymaking into an “asset-management problem”, says Sir Partha. ..."

Only in economics can you get away with statements like this.
I think items like this are probably not useful or worthwhile as targets for upmodding on HN. We're basically just clicking up-arrow because we like the outcome and see the post here.

We will all hear about this, unless we live under a rock. And for those of us under a rock, it's probably for a good reason.

News items like this and a lack of community discipline to disregard them are how I remember reddit beginning its slide in quality.

The comments this story will attract on HN will not likely add anything to the discussion that's been going on across the Interwebs.
Even though I am a bitcoiner, I do not understand the curiosty of the HN readership in what is basically an ebay clone for bitcoin.
Perhaps people who rely on a longstanding online reputation could provide a service as verifiable online keystores for many different organisations via their own public key, so providing a distributed and multiply redundant public key resource that would be incredibly difficult to hack all in one go to fake a specific key.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy#Wheeling_speech
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There seems to be an article like this every month or so that makes it appear that the Android OS is full of security holes and its trivial to trick/phish users. But is there any actual reported widespread case? For how big the Android user base is, why is there nothing at the scale of the Windows viruses of yesteryear.
What are the implications of this popularity for us non-Ivey league current Computer Science majors?
TLS only protects a single link; from your client, to your server. It doesn't prevent you from disclosure on that server, on any relaying servers in between, or between their server and their client (remember, they may be reading email on wifi in a coffee shop).

S/MIME email is another end-to-end encryption scheme, like PGP, but it isn't as popular among a technical crowd as PGP is.
Thanks for the reply.

However, is the only way to determine "good" content thru the number of links that the site has? Or does Google somehow have other algorithms? My site focuses on a subject that really doesn't have a well-developed community at all, so the chances of people linking to my site are very, very slim.

So basically, I'm creating what I believe is good, original content, vs my peers that have no content but lots of links to their site via gaming methods. And their gaming methods are really working, at least on Google, so I'm wondering, can I can really gain any ground against them?
You politely ask people not to get pedantic then the majority of the discussion becomes pedantry. Instead of replying one by one I'll lump a lot of responses here.

1. The millimeters on my defensive gun were very off. I don't know about guns. Just imagine a typical handgun.

2. The handgun analogy is not about how much damage one causes over the other nor is it about the severity of the consequences. The point is that we can all relate to the average homeowner buying a handgun for protection and most people can understand that and trust that your neighbor isn't buying it to commit crimes. But when your neighbor buys an assault rifle and claims its for self defense you start to wonder because we all know, on average, most of the time, it's common sense, stop being fucking pedantic, that assault rifles are not for self defense and when someone claims that it should set off alarm bells just like when someone says "I only used MegaUpload to share Excel spreadsheets with my coworkers and so did everyone else I know or have ever heard of" you've got to wonder if that person is living in a bubble or just straight up delusional.
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I dare say more so on the west coast. I haven't yet had an avocado on the east coast that's anywhere near what I get from my neighbor's orchard.
I was really impressed by this. As nhashem said, "I wanted this company to exist".

The "Mankind's most advanced phone" image was what really did it for me. Here is an extremely talented person who really has vision, with a subtlety to match.

What I wish for the most, is that more people will show their vision in this way. We need to re-imagine like this all the time, otherwise ideas and vision become stale.

And when vision becomes stale, the future becomes mediocre.
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Sadly it means the customer is always right. So if the customer says "nope I didn't get it", then they get their money and the product. Similar to how paypal works really.
I just launched Autobahn, a plugin for banning stories on Hacker News as well as instant profiles with twitter photos. Took me three weeks because I focused on graphics, UI, etc. How long did it take you?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4197062

So happy we weren't working on the same thing. :)
The majority of the AWS team lives and works here in downtown Seattle, so all of the times are in PDT.
How much - in actual dollars - do you think it costs them to support Opera, the most standards-compliant browser of them all?
If you do it enough, you can get disbarred: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vexatious_litigation
I've been using Netvibes for almost 6 years now and I'm very happy with it.
Part of my response to xenophanes' comment is a visceral response to treating a 'robust market' as a target goal, rather than a journey to an outcome.

The cost of ticket 1001 to a 1000-ticket show is infinity, regardless of whether you have scalpers or not. Increasing the price of the last 100 tickets does not mean you have increased ticket supply, all it means is you have taken 100 tickets from earlier, creating an artificial scarcity, and sold them later. Those hundred buyers that 'don't lose' down the track do so at the expense of a hundred buyers that lost earlier.

xenophanes is making funny with numbers because he's comparing the price of ticket 1001 in the non-scalper system with the price of ticket 901 in the scalper system.
Interesting, I have the exact experience as you.

My wife trained as a doctor in China, the effort to get the qualifications recognised over here is nothing short of crazy.

Don't get me started on the Australian Computer Society. It took them 6 months to recognise my own qualifications.
Like this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(activist)
Cool chrome extension, dude! You might want to reconsider the music on your "save time on hacker news" video. It feels... like a sad foreign film about a mime. It's entirely possible that you meant it to be a parody of an obvious cultural reference that I'm missing, but I'm not sure this is the feeling you want associated with your project.
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Everything in Amazon is a replaceable cog, especially the workers.
Humanity has the ability to destroy all life on this planet many times over. As intelligent as we all think we are it is a sad note to realize that we are still in the caveman mental state of wanting the bigger stick. Will we ever turn the corner? Haven't we seen and caused enough death already?

The problem isn't export controls. The problem is that we need to finally break away from the animals we think we evolved away from.
pushing out a (possibly) non optional update that dumbs down a phone that a user owns.
there's something wrong with that.
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I couldn't tell if it was serious or not, I got the feeling that it was a joke. It was far too dramatic.
I love this idea. I wish this could be expanded to any video on the web. That would be great!
The retroactive part of the deal was a clear ominous alarm and you acted accordingly. I find great joy in knowing that you showed a pristine level of ethic behaviour in your security research. Well done.
Just hold the money when the evidence is not clear?
Thanks Duiker, I'm just coding up something hide the Kickfolio bar on Folio and App pages as requested, (unless you're logged in). Thanks for the idea!
So I order the most expensive item and pretend I never received it.
It did not seem like they were prepared very well, since they couldn't even get the paperwork right for the arrest. That does not look like something well planned at all.
Why should you care why people got interested in computer science? As long as they're capable of doing it (and if they graduate from a place like Stanford, they probably will be) why should you care about their motivation?

I personally think anything that makes more people interested in technology is "a good thing".
I would say that the only difference that you have to overcome is the tight-knit community of alums. As a CS/OR major from a Top 4 school, I haven't ever gotten an internship offer simply because I was at the school I'm at. Stanford especially is good at fostering connections in the startup community for their students, but Princeton has NY and Harvard has Boston.
Just curious: how would the burner community react to being forced to present ID "at the door"?
Totally. Please tell me this is satire. If not, like the single comment at the end of the post, I just threw up a lot.
I swear, I read that title as "sieze nations' wealth" :-)
Note: it's this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=c...) not this one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jl7AW5gXIo&feature=relmf...). For me, the second video popped up first, so I was quite confused by your comment.

Also, excellent job on the extension, vlad!
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It's not malicious to build a game or a music app. What I'm saying is that before you hand out tools to do that, you have to at least think about what else those tools can do. Microsoft has been repeatedly burned by this, cf Raymond Chen http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2005/06/07/42629... , and it's a very, very basic principle of platform/API design.

I argue that Apple's focus on the user experience, especially in the areas of responsiveness, battery life, and consistency with the general Apple design aesthetic, cause Apple to make choices here that you disagree with, but which aren't necessarily bad decisions.

"You can build music, and video, and game web applications on those devices without these limitations, and it is not a problem."

Actually it is a problem: Android malware exists, and I say that it proves my point: if you hand out capabilities without thinking through the consequences, it will come back and bite you.

The uses that you intend for tools are never the only possible uses of those tools.
Thanks, I will have a look at popcorn.
I was tinkering with jPlayer for a bit but it was a hog on the mobile client devices.
Nice! Don't have an iPad, otherwise this would be a no-brainer.
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I love they used Arrested Development for their fictional user narrative.
That was my feeling as well, but I'm not sure why HackNY would be posting self-parody on their blog.
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With a Heisenberg Compensator! No. Like with any bottlenecked resource, you first measure how much you are using per "transaction", whatever that may be. Then you see whether you can use what you have more efficiently. Maybe you don't need it at all. Or maybe you can cut corners by using /dev/urandom or something.

But suppose you are generating tons of SSL certificates. You can't --or shouldn't-- cut corners. For example, see

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/nadiah/new-research-there...

So... what do you do? The problem, like almost any bottleneck problem, isn't that you don't have "enough" of the resource, it's that the resource is out of balance with the other resources like CPU or RAM. When you think about it that way a lot of possibilities open up, like installing special cards or dongles that generate entropy, or by buying lots of lower-powered devices that have more entropy relative to their CPU throughput.
Charles Carreon and his wife are almost as bad as Westboro Baptist's Fred Phelps and his cronies. Just doing it because they're too stubborn, ignorant or righteous to see the fallacy of their ways.

People like these only fuel my misanthropy.
Awesome. Yeah there are exceptions. For example if you reach the top of HN and there is lots of feedback u will get featured on some tech blog somewhere.
EDIT: I've now removed the slow version of the screencast.

Thanks. My girlfriend picked the slow music but then said the same thing so I made a fast, supercharged version. However, she advised me to go with the slow one anyway because she liked seeing my face. So I decided to choose one randomly!

Short, fast, upbeat version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jl7AW5gXIo

Slow & dramatic version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8X80_038lU (no longer on the web site, though)
And yet my first take-away from the article is that this seems to be another example of profits being more important than anything or anyone else.

To me, it seems to be similar to decisions like the profits from the installation and operation of a dam in certain localities is more important than the heritage/sustainability/subsistence of the local indigenous population that had been living in the now flooded valleys for many (in some cases thousands?) of years.

Or getting some return on stockpiles of chemicals that are illegal in one country by selling them to a country where they are not yet illegal. The reason they were made illegal usually being damage to ecosystems/humans/animals/whatever not as important than the almighty unit of currency.

I kind of knew I was going to be depressed by reading Jerry Mander's The Capitalism Papers... Gotta pay more attention to my instincts. Sigh.
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What I particularly like about this is that it fits with changes Microsoft have already been making (a move to minimalism and a focus on the content and clean lines, with extraneous UI elements normally off-screen and need to be swiped in). So, rather than the spec proposal coming across as an arrogant "About face and do it my way", it comes across as a thoughtful and sympathetic proposal based around their business.
Thank you! It was over three weeks of work (mostly UI/visual/product design, narrowing down features to launch with, testing, etc.) and I was freaking out because it had no upvotes on the new page. :)
I get your sentiment, I find it depends entirely on the context. I don't think about it from a standpoint of focusing resources on a consolidated number of projects, but rather moving on to either expansions of those existing efforts or entirely new ones unto themselves.

A lot of that certainly depends on how they manage those things going forward. Ideally, these types of steps aren't surprises that come from some unknown management decision from on high, but a natural course of progression in project lifecycles.

I prefer the notion of sun-setting services if there is nothing left to learn from their creation/existence.