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I opened a new google account recently and when I tried youtube, I didn't even see the option to use my account name, my 'real name' from my email had already been chosen.
You may wish to have another read of some of your sources which clearly indicate that Tesla's can be bricked.

The argument is not about how easy they are to brick, it's about the fact that the entire car is rendered useless if bricked unless you're willing to pay $40k to get your vehicle back on the road again.

If the cars were easy to brick there would be a significantly larger number of documented cases than what currently exist.
Yes, considering my username is my real name, and I've submitted quite a few objectionable posts (like http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3432816 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3599396), I should be worried. But it's hard to keep quiet sometimes.
I'm surprised somewhat that nobody has come up with a commercial alternative to the GIMP.

Something that is low cost (compared with photoshop), it doesn't need all the functionality of photoshop. It just needs enough functionality for the people who say "I would switch to Linux but I want photoshop" , I imagine most of these people are not using all the photoshop features anyway.

Something like a port of PixelMator could potentially make a killing on the ubuntu app store.
> So I think VIM is not a good example of a good free Mac text editor.

You should qualify that with the demographics at your previous company. VIM (and Emacs) are perfectly good free editors for the Mac or any other platform.
I think it depends on the wavelength, doesn't it? I can see a pie in the oven, despite all of the infrared background radiation surrounding it.
Verizon allows you to opt out of this, which incidentally I have done. These instructions are for FiOS, but I am proof that they work for DSL as well. (I still gripe that they don't tell people about this...)

http://domnit.org/verizon/
OTOH, replacing an engine does usually cost a good 70% of the value of the car, with labor and all.
How's does it compare to Google Guice? Are there any benifits of using a lightweight DI Engine over Spring?
Wait. He first "hacks" the order form to make the "supply my own modem" checkbox available, and then complains that "Time Warner should have known, based on the options selected during my purchase, that I would supply my own modem and asked me personally to supply the MAC address and relevant information".

Can't have it both ways, man. Time Warner can be blamed for many things, but expecting them to seamlessly support an option they had disabled intentionally is a bit much. You're lucky they let you do it at all.
>The root of the security issue is using open wireless networks, and these are vulnerable to man in the middle exploit even when SSL is used.

Could someone please explain to me how this could happen ? By my understanding, that is exactly the type of attack that SSL was designed to protect against.
Interesting stuff, thanks for writing this up :)

Personally, I've moved entirely away from VPSs to dedicated servers instead, mostly because I don't have the need to rapidly fire up lots of servers on demand. I think this may be the year where I start investing in SSDs for dedicated hardware, it seems the cost vs. performance gain is now heavily in their favour.
Although I do like Vim, and MacVim, I agree, it just doesn't fit the Mac persona and I personally use TextMate.
On top of that, the USPS is pretty good.
Regarding bittorrent, I'm wondering if that's not just as much the fault of crappy NAT modems. Around here everyone gets a Zyxel, and bittorrent totally chokes it periodically. The hash table used for NAT grows, the CPU can't handle it, to the point you can't even log in to the modem, and new TCP sessions get dropped until the NAT clears out the old TCP connections. (With a proper network device, this shouldn't be an issue, but it's one I see all the time with the cheap modems we get from the ISPs)
The URL string suggested it was an A/B test, similar to what we use at AppSumo. The option was available when you went back to the options page, but disappeared after a script/some data loaded. For what it's worth, that particular insight was from "Bill."
A lot of the "gas" you wont be spending money on would be because the range is pretty small.

Next weekend I will be hopping into a car that has sat outside the house doing nothing for a month or so and drive it 1,000 km to the South West of France. I will stop briefly on the way to fill up with fuel (10 minutes?). It will be dark for quite a lot of the time and the car will have the headlights on. Oh - it might even rain so the wipers might be needed. The journey should take about 12 hours including the section where we cross the English channel.

A couple of weeks later I will do the reverse journey. No fuss at all. How many days would it take to do the same journey in an electric car?
> But all jokes aside, the reason we haven’t met any aliens yet could just be because they don’t care about us – maybe we’re not an advanced-enough civilization to interest them for a visit.

> Whatever the case may be, Shostak is on guard and ready for any signal should/when it comes in. In the meantime, we’ve got some work to do if we’d like to prove to our cosmic-brothers that were any smarter than the dinosaurs. Aside from a few stints on the moon, mankind has barely left the rock we arose from.

Why is the assumption that travel through space is the litmus test of intelligence? That's making a pretty broad assumption about an alien intelligence whose motivations, as they say in the previous paragraph, may well be literally inconceivable.

Maybe they'd be more impressed with us figuring out how to co-exist without warfare, or how to understand our own minds, or how to master our physical bodies so that disease isn't a problem, or some other criteria.
Swing vs Native isn't the issue. The issue becomes users using old versions of your software and having to support them when bugs pop up, even though it may be fixed in the newer versions. It is hard to get everybody up to the latest version (even if the upgrades are free). It can eat up a lot of time doing support.

Whereas, when you make your app a web app, the changes you make are instant (for better or worse) and you don't have to worry about supporting various versions.
3-D Printing, robotics swing manufacturing might from China back to the U.S.
TPB isn't the right place to look for mac piracy. All pirates usually need is a serial number. You get the application by downloading the demo version. (There are very regularly updated serial databases available.)
A way to build desktop/mobile apps using html/css/js?

Bring it on!
What is Flint Knapping? Making a 7 inch obsidian blade
The style of the article was showing screenshot examples of relevant sites. That may or may not be the most productive use of screen space, however the porn screenshot fits in with the other ones.

Just to be clear, I think the inclusion of screen shots is an excellent use of screen space.
How startups can launch a print service in the blink of an eye
Thinking Too Much About Chalk
I'm generally a fan of Andrew's work, but this one misses the mark.

I don't really have a problem with the aesthetics or the graphic design - he consistently shows creativity and design chops. In fact, a lot of his points are pretty good. However, the final product is a bit shallow and while pretty, has some half baked ideas that don't contribute to an overall great product design that's not usable. It solves some problems, but ultimately doesn't solve some of the more important problems with driving nav these days (and perhaps exacerbates them)

I think this demonsttrates why areas like human factors exist and are needed in the design process. We shouldn't neuter designers at the beginning, but refine and distill designs like these into something even better
>I don't think we should view it a negative light though.

You won't be saying that when your future girlfriend googles your name and sees all the My Little Pony videos you've been watching.
Is it just me or do these two apps not behave similarly at all? The jQuery app posts a status to a URL, the Backbone one does not. If the intention was only to show your typed status below once you click a button, why the Ajax call to begin with? Again, maybe I missed the point entirely.
Agreed however it's significantly more difficult to render a complete engine a write-off and most of the component parts can be individually replaced. Not so with Tesla.
It definitely does seam to go teal heavy from the 80's onward.
Disagree heavily - I worked for Amazon between 2009 and 2011. The benefits are easily the worst in the area, particularly when you compare it against MS's famously generous benefits.

And we're not talking about beanbags and foosball tables, we're talking real benefits like, say, health insurance.

I'm working for a 20-person startup now with better medical insurance than what I had at Amazon. Amazon really scrapes the bottom of the barrel when it comes to employee health (though I suppose stacking them up against even worse horrors like Wal-Mart would make them seem positively saintly).

Compared to Google, Microsoft, etc, Amazon's benefits are horrid, even when completely disregarding the "pointless" perks like foosball and cereal bars.

Side note: Did you know Twitter is catered by Bon Appetit, the same company that runs Amazon's (very expensive) on-site cafeteria? They serve the same level of food, for free, every single day. If you ask people, it's a benefit that actually really matters - it saves people oodles of money, is better quality than what most people can pull off by themselves at home, and people seem to genuinely put it up there as a major reason to stick around.
Something like this?

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/images/PasswordResetFlow.png

I agree that there's more going on, but this is beyond the original remit. The flowchart can be made seriously more complex by adding in the flow for the simple changing of a password, which needs similar attention to details.

Would you care to assist in producing such a chart? I have provide the DOT source for this image if you like.
What are the reasons for my comment being downvoted ?
Those ISPs will soon jack all your DNS traffic.

A lot of them already hijack port 80 and inject random junk in there which is why HTTPs is the way forward.
So it should be easy to find people to hire in a Country with such a world class higher education sector. Ignoring the financial implications; would you be adverse to teaching people CS on the job? It isn't inconceivable that the quality of the end result would be much higher.
If that were true, there would be other movies like Toy Story, but "open".
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If it's a violation then presumably it can be - after all isn't that all a license is, an agreement not to press violations in exchange for money?
I'm never logged in to YouTube.

I deleted my Google+ account when they started playing the Facebook game, turning an interesting service into a ~personal~ thing.

From what I can tell from my usage and discussions among friends, YouTube really is declining in use, thanks to the overzealous media industry, blocking videos left and right. If you want to listen to a bit of German music you're advised to use a proxy outside of Germany itself for a while, to avoid getting the dreaded 'This video is not available in your country' message.

In short: G+ fell short for me personally and in my 'circles'. YouTube could never interest me much in terms of keeping an account, as a consumer (for what? Comments?).

I'm glad that I don't rely on these services (anymore). I'll rather stay with a pseudonym, vimeo and duckduckgo.
You have missed the point. Read the article again.
Does this work with TCP? The only implementations I've seen are for UDP which is stateless and unaffected by route flap.
I think you're missing the point. The problem is that when you go to hire someone, you get swamped by thousands of applications from candidates who may or may not have any qualification.

So what happens is you apply filters to screen out people. One method is to filter out colleges, GPA, lack of work experience, underqualification, overqualification, or anything that isn't legally protected to get to a workable candidate pool. Another method is to only hire people you know, or people you know people you know. Still another is to build barriers (Civil Service exams, grammar tests, math test).

The problem is that if you are an unfortunate soul who doesn't get through the filter (ie. 2.9 GPA, state school, etc), doesn't operate in you social circle, or doesn't know about or cannot get through the barriers, you're screwed.
I think there is a quote of one of them saying that they were scared that if they dropped a screwdriver it would go right through the floor.
Yep, Permutation City - the human brain was scanned at super high resolution (was able to snapshot the current state of all cells). Then it was able to be run in a simulated world with simulated sensory inputs. And of course multiple copies could be run.

I am really just scratching the surface of what was covered, but it was a great book and I would recommend it for anyone interested in simulated life.
In theory yes, but BGP anycast routing is really bad in performance terms. BGP doesn't care about performance, only politics and cost, so you can get all sorts of weirdness.
CDNs are typically used for transferring large objects, for whom the anycast routing instability is a real concern. If a client's anycast endpoint changes in the middle of a connect, the client will receive an immediate RST from the new server.
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Agreed, Firesheep demonstrated the problems with sending cookies over HTTP... it's at least a start though.
I talked to a sales rep in one of their stores and they said the Roadster with the most mileage has 160K miles and the battery is still at 70% capacity. Not worthless but definitely less range.
The cult internally at Amazon, in response to constant attacks regarding the lack of corporate philanthropy, is actually a hostile attitude towards corporate philanthropy.

Internally, amongst the die-hard adherents, corporate philanthropy is seen as tyranny - pushing private agendas and priorities on the entire employee base who "pay into" such donations. The refrain that philanthropy runs counter to the obligation to maximize shareholder value, is also used often.

It's kind of a weird attitude, but while I was at Amazon I got swept in it too. In hindsight it's all very Stockholm-y.
But is Toy Story really the best of our culture? Just because it was expensive and hard doesn't necessarily mean it was te est (for the record, I have loved almost everything Pixar has done).

Asked another way: if the Pixars of the world were to disappear, would it be a net loss for our society? I'm not sure the answer to that is "yes".
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To be honest I haven't looked very deeply at the example. However, I recently started working on a backbone project and while it's definitely overkill for basic stuff, if your data visualizations and paths become more complex then it definitely helps you make sense of all the stuff going on.

Also, a custom solution is good and might possibly work better and be smaller/more-efficient/etc. However, the one benefit of frameworks that's often overlooked is the fact that other people might work on the same thing.

If I, as developer X work on a project and develop it in backbone then it's likely that developer Y (a backbone developer) can come in and continue working on it. However, if I were to write a custom solution it could take developer Y a while to get into it.

For example, I can picture how complex the Google Analytics dashboard code must be. If google invited me to work on it, I would have to learn whatever it is that they use to do stuff like that. If it used backbone, I would probably pick it up faster. Just an example.

But as code bases get larger, structure becomes really important. I think that's really where backbone comes in. Your points are of-course valid too, just wanted to share :)
Signup forms should never leak "email/username does not exist" but only "this combination of email/username and password is unknown".

Can you explain this to me? Is the only difference the error message used, or are you suggesting that apps should support multiple accounts with the same email/username but with different passwords? Or something else entirely? :)

Personally, I don't understand what difference a message makes; it'd be trivial for a user to test by signing up for an account themselves. And not having a unique login identifier would be a nightmare. Which makes me think I'm missing something obvious (damn this headcold, it makes me feel so much more stupid than usual!).
Two points:

- The downtime was 40 minutes (according to Pingdom), that isn't short for something as critical as DNS.

- It seems off to pimp yourself on a thread about a competitors downtime, especially when you had a significant one at pretty much the same time.
In the last step of the assistant (by looking at the screenshots - not really using my youtube account, so I can't say), they ask for possible reasons why not to use the real name and the reasons they list are pretty valid and cover about the extent of reasons why I would not want to use my real name.

As such this leaves me with hope that they at least understand that real-name-for-everything is not a good idea.

Speaking of nicknames though:

Being able to use a nickname as the main identification handle on twitter is one of the main reasons why I'm not using Google+. Finishing a talk or a discussion with a quick "hey - follow me on twitter: @pilif" is so much easier than "Please search me on Google+ under the name Philip Hofstetter".

The last name is very difficult to type and in addition there are still a ton of Philip Hofstetter's around for people to confuse me with.

By enforcing the unique nickname and allowing users to use them as handles (and in URLs), twitter makes it much easier for people to bridge the gap between the real and the virtual world to the point where I know many people by their twitter handle instead of their real names.

With Google+ I'd have to make people spell my long name ("how many t's again?") or to give them an absurdly long number as my ID - neither of which is at all appealing (or producing "conversions" - if you want to call acquiring followers that)
You're thinking of a login form.

If you were to try to register a new account with an email address already in the database, you should get some variation of "A user account with that email address already exists," verifying the existence of an account with that email.
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I'm sorry, but you are so grossly wrong in your statements that the only valid response is a bit of a fisking. Normally I'd prefer not to respond this way, but I've already engaged you, and I can't really let this much misinformation stand.

> Both have sandboxes (ActiveX since Windows 6.0, IE7), both have restricted APIs, both run native code.

ActiveX is a general purpose object API and has no sandbox at all. IE 7+ on Vista+ can instantiate ActiveX controls in a weak sandbox via low-integrity mode, but to imply it's comparable to the NaCl sandbox is just comically ignorant. NaCl validates the nexe's conformance and its subset of x86 instructions before it will run it (in that way being very similar to Java and .NET CLR). And NaCl runs entirely in an outer, system-level sandbox that denies all system and object access.

In contrast, IE's low integrity mode lets you read anything the user can, exposes massive chunks of the system as attack surface, and provides various writeable locations. On top of that, all non-trivial ActiveX controls in IE implement brokers which run fully outside the sandbox--something that's not even possible with NaCl.

> PNaCl is equivalent of silverlight which is cut down CLR.

Nope. And making that claim begins to underscore just how little you know about this.

> More performance - I doubt it. CLR+JVM is pretty much up there. The moment you add any virtualization, trap code or translation layer to native code via NaCl which you will require for security, there is going to be overhead which will knock it inline with a VM architecture. Startup time might be less - that is it.

Virtualization or trap layer? That's not even close to how NaCl works. It's really sad that you couldn't be bothered to read a one-page explanation of before you launched into this completely wrong-headed diatribe. Please, start here next time, so your trolling can at least be superficially informed: https://developers.google.com/native-client/overview

> Better security - that's a lie. Virtualization on any layer never gave anyone better security. It's throwing stones in glass houses. The only hard security boundary is at the MMU/page table. As NaCl grows, you will see it break.

Once again, premised on your total ignorance of the subject matter. Come back when you have at least a basic knowledge of the thing you're criticizing.

> No-one getting sued? I'm sure the EU will have something to say when no other vendor implements it and Google uses it to leverage market share, much like Microsoft did in the late 90's and early 00's.

I'm sure there was an attempt at making an argument in this last line, but mostly it just seems to be randomly scrambling for scary sounding words.
Or real names that looked like they might be fake (Violet Blue). Or that were foreign in a weird way (Hong Kong users). Or famous people they though might have been faking (William Shatner). Or...

Basically, the nym wars debacle demonstrated (if nothing else) that if you demand people's real names, know what you're asking for, and be prepared to support the multitude of naming conventions that exist worldwide.
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The entire principle behind estate taxes, which are only relevant to those with significant estates, is to prevent the massive accumulation of wealth by a tiny minority.

The United States, as conceived, was a departure from the European system comprised mostly of wealthy land owners and destitute peasants.

In a sense, the estate tax is an unfortunate necessity. Without it you would have Paris Hilton inheriting billions absolutely tax free, and likely accumulating even more wealth not by any particular skill, but through interest alone. That much money has a sort of gravitational pull at that point if not mis-managed.
HTTPie[1] is better than both. ;)

1. https://github.com/jkbr/httpie

(I am in no way affiliated with this project. I'm just a happy user.)
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Hur dur. This is what HN has become. DealWithIt.gif
As some one further down in this thread already noticed: The one reason that they didn't list is "I don't _want_ that, period".

The closest thing is "I _cannot_ use my real name". Which I'd probably click if I'd ever be in that situation. But that's not the same thing.
To be fair, if you piloted your $100M yacht into Monaco harbor you'd have to anchor your sad little boat way in the back. Think of the shame this brings!
I get the feeling that the moon landing fakers are starting to wind down. With all the independent photography and research being done that clearly shows evidence of the moon landing, the ambiguity in which these hoaxers peddled their books and movies has gotten smaller and smaller. 10 years ago I used to run into at least one person a month who would bring this up. Now (as the comment by ColinWright shows) people are now MORE surpised to hear people once thought the moon landing was a hoax than the moon was a hoax =)
I don't want to offend too, but it really does look more like a pirated software site, that.
Yeah, I'm not seeing TW's downside here. They're a monopoly, they don't have to care about tiny details like customer satisfaction or doing things correctly.
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