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A useful reminder. Universal already did this by removing from YouTube Kim Dotcom's above-board rap video promoting MegaUpload. At first they made a false claim of plagiarism[1], but it turns out they feel the tools they built for copyright takedowns can be used for arbitrary censorship[2].

[1] http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111209/14234917026/univer...

[2] https://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-video-reinstated-univers...
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Making the claim it's better in Old English is just a transparent way of bragging you know Old English. And it's subjective how best to enjoy something. It's like telling someone they need an ice cube in their scotch.
That was brilliant. You answered so quickly you'd almost think you were following some rule or something..
Wizard... is about to die

The interesting point: the couponing market is saturated, so Groupon must grow into new markets or find new products for its existing systems and software.

I wouldn't bet on this kind of metamorphosis. A slow death spiral is more likely as Groupon runs out of room to maneuver.
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Ask HN: What makes you switch from desktop to web application?
Recently I have seen very complex "wedding excel", large spreadsheet file with many sheets dedicated to tracking tasks and information related to wedding preparation. As usual, excel file was shared via email and versioned manually ... :)

There was no special feature which required desktop version - it would be piece of cake to accomplish same task using web alternative (for example Google Docs). And a lot faster.

My question is: what makes you switch from desktop to web application?

Compared to desktop most web apps provide less features, but do not require installation, provide new features like "use everywhere", cloud storage and sometimes Ehterpad-like synchronization. However with services like DropBox cloud storage is not that big advantage any more.

So what was the killer feature which recently convinced you to abandon desktop <insert your favourite application here> and start using web app?
If I've followed your argument correctly, then the same is also true of the rational numbers, but these are countable (i.e. the same 'size' as the integers).

Oh fiddlesticks, the post was deleted before I'd even finished my reply! :(
Until now.

For values of "now" equal to "around this time a year ago".

The EeePad Transformer was the real game-changer in the Android tablet market. Solid hardware, recent versions of Android, great price.

It's worth noting that the Nexus 7 is made by Asus and is effectively a smaller Transformer Prime without the keyboard.

Guess Google didn't want to mess around when choosing hardware partners and went straight for the top quality.
Where did he say there was any more value in a 5 letter domain than a 6 letter one? I would say their is none by the way.
Time for fingerprint entry to become popular - at least until cloning specific body parts becomes a home-kit..
The app helps you create beautiful wedding invites. A lot of people create FB events or send emails for this scenario which I dont think is befitting for an occasion like a wedding.

As far as FB login is concerned, you will notice I ask no permissions(not even email) when you login and grant permissions through Facebook. This means that the app really can't do anything.
Where do you get the crazy idea that you can't write functional programs? Or that SICP didn't have you write programs? SICP didn't start off with "theory"--it started off with PROGRAMMING. The programming that you did at first, however, just so happened to be recursion-heavy functional programming. The class then taught you how to build your own mutable object system out of the functional primitives, using closures and messages.

I clearly got a far better introduction to PROGRAMMING than you did. E.g., I learned how to add an OO subsystem to a functional programming language in my very first programming class.

SICP was a lab class. It nearly killed me with all the programming I had to do. It was billed as a 15-hour-a-week class, but 40 hours a week was more like it. I lived in the computer lab during that class. The intense programming assignments began on the first day, and continued all the way through to the end.

Is there any other way that you would like to continue to advertise your unsubstantiated bias and ignorance on the issue?
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One point I never see discussed in these things is that you need to take a bit of care with digit-based representations because 0.1111... = 1.000..., 0.0111.... = 0.1000... - an argument could be made that perhaps while you know the number you're constructing via diagonalization doesn't appear in the list of numbers you created, but it may be a different representation of a number that does appear in the list.

The simplest way I know to work around that is by excluding numbers ending in infinite strings of 0s or 1s from the list. Anyone know a nicer way?
Every keyboard I've tried works cleanly. Maybe you have weird keyboards that suck too much power: the RPi USB ports can't supply a lot of juice.

Maybe you got a defective unit. Hopefully you can get it going or get a replacement.

Good luck!
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I find it kinda sad that you have "I will not assume that I know better" and then your first reply is a point-by-point rebuttal of a paid expert's opinion. :)
Good point.

However, I think even Mr Murdoch's personal wealth could not sustain the losses of digital news outlets should Google comply and stop indexing them. By any means, they just have to put a little piece of text in their robots file to do just that - so this is yet more talk in favor of strong copyrights, and no action to renew anything.
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Like I said in my response to pndmnm, in my view if someone "[would] think that the cardinals also formed a set with an (infinite) cardinality of its own" then they haven't really grasped the theorem yet. It's built into it that if we're always allowed to form the powerset of a set then regardless of how large a cardinal you can find, you can always take its powerset and obtain a larger cardinal.
The sad thing is, unlike you, I wasn't spared the reading of this stupid article.
In my computer, it's even faster to open a new tab and go to Google Docs and open the file, than search it in my hard disk and open it on Office.
Most of the codes I've redeemed are for things that come bundled with something I've already purchased.

I doubt typing in an annoying code is going to make a meaningful difference in the redemption percentage of purchased point or Live cards. The biggest factor there is losing track of them.
While I agree, I was commenting more about the HN community than I was their competency.
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Worth reading? "Is Groupon about to die? Yes! See: here's a video of Andy Mason doing yoga in his underwear."
I missed this story the first time around. Link to source?
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Yeah, it would be awesome to see prompts like:

> Duplicate this line

or

> Move the cursor to the beginning of this line|
You could probably build a convincing fake-finger to fool the scanner.
I never liked Cantor's argument here. I'm sure I'm missing something, but the 'grid' that you set up has infinity rows but 2^infinity columns. The diagonal that you make just cuts off the top-right corner of the grid, and that missing element is one of the remaining rows.

The diagonalization argument just seems like handwaving.
Cloning of a specific body part has been a billion dollar industry for some time now...
I actually found it easier to duplicate higher security keys than the usual household SC1 and KW1 ones. [0]

What makes a lock difficult to print and difficult to pick can be very different.

[0] http://eclecti.cc/hardware/physical-keygen-now-for-disc-deta...
> do you really want to walk away after the effort you've put in to this point?

Can you afford not to? The company you're dealing with has now proven to be unwilling to stick to the points you spent all that time negotiating. They're counting on you conceding the $10 because it's easy.

Unless you show that you're willing to walk away and start all over from scratch (preferably with someone else), they'll push as hard as they think they can get away with.
What really tends to upset people is this:

* Between any two irrationals there is (at least one) rational

* Between any two rationals there is (at least one) irrational

* There are more irrationals than there are rationals.
In OSX, are all dialogue boxes able to be accessed by the keyboard?
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Do you understand why I said a developer who wrote their own block cipher core and plugged it into Keyczar would be more secure than a developer who used AES directly?

If you don't understand, why do you "stand behind your point"? Why don't you instead try asking questions?

Similarly: you wrote none of that stuff about "whitelisting" (whatever it is you mean by that) in your "pledge". You just told developers, "use parameterized queries so you don't have to escape them". And now, when it's pointed out that that's not great advice, you find a way to argue with it?
Meh. It's not that big of a deal. You can still see the content and the content is done logically so there aren't any crazy layout issues in plaintext.

Also, this seems to be happening because of his breakpoint at width <= 1024px I believe. Confirmed this on both Chrome dev and Firefox Aurora.
Mythbusters was able to defeat several fingerprint identification systems quite easily.

At first their attempts were pretty elaborate. They lifted a fingerprint from a glass a person had held and then used an acidic solution to etch that pattern onto a mold. This mold then opened all of the high-end thumbprint readers they had.

However, if I remember correctly, they then went low-tech and simply used a photocopy of the thumbprint which also opened several devices.
There aren't 2^oo columns - the number of columns is the same as the number of rows. And the argument can be made a lot less handwavey, it can be made very precise in set theoretic terms.

Do you want references?
Depending on the situation, I might be ok with fingerprint access (such as high secure areas and such). The problem is for normal everyday use, I wouldn't be able to tell where the data is going. Either the manufacturers themselves or governments or hackers could be storing the data about who enters which door and when which would be another attack on my personal privacy that I don't want to give up.
Right, but there was some resistance to "copyright" wasn't there? I mean, Thomas Jefferson was quite against it, on free speech grounds, and only agreed because of the "limited term" thing. Thankfully, Disney and other Immoral MegaCorps have found a way around the "limited term", and the US Supreme Court managed to find a way to agree with that hack, so we've now got "intellectual property" overriding free speech. How long can this go on?
Interesting but you aren't really answering his tablet specific question. Looking at the screenshots of this app it appears to just been blown up on the iPad. That's the very thing that people criticize Android apps for doing.
Uh, nothing? I'm very happy with my desktop apps which keep on working when the umbilical cord to the Central Brain of Mankind is severed, thankyouverymuch. As you have noted, Dropbox keeps my files nicely synced even through spotty connections - but the files don't disappear when the link inevitably drops (yeah, yeah, 99.99999% uptime, complete 4G coverage, yada yada yada; pull the other one).

Quite the opposite - using various web interfaces for e-mail drove me back to Thunderbird: hey look, it can search messages without any network connection at all (le gasp!).

Of course, I'm all for using appropriate tools: e-mailing a collaborative work around is very much like trying to use a hammer as a screwdriver. But for single-user tasks, web apps are definitely worse, IMNSHO.

Disclaimer: I'm not a representative sample, nor do I play one on Youtube.
There are always the Unitarians.
Attempting to figure out the country of origin for every lawsuit, law, and court case referenced on this site is ridiculous. It's difficult to parse it all even if it's clearly denoted, and it rarely is. Please, please add the country of origin to headlines like this.
What always struck me about Groupon is nothing to do about vendor complaints. If that was going to kill them it would have manifested as failing demand. It's a kind of no one goes there, too crowded argument.

The problem was/is almost the opposite, competition. I never saw, understood Groupons sustainable competitive advantage, especially in new markets/cities. They're obviously competent, but they are so easy to copy. $10k site, $100k ad campaign, 3 salespeople and you have a Groupon clone ready to compete in any city. We have a Groupon clone in the building I work in.

Anyway (getting to the actual content of this article), GRPN‎ & FB seem to have something in common, at least to the extent that this article is correct. By IPO time all the value was already taken off the table.
No reasons why not. Go ahead, knock yourself out.
After declining to take a license, the BlackBerry maker modified its software to include the patented systems, Mformation said in its complaint.

Seems to not agree with what you think happened:

Find company doing whatever-it-is; get in touch with them and say "We think you're using our IP; how about licensing it from us?"; talk to them; either license or sue.
Another issue for Emacs, C-n in Chrome opens up a new window.
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The usual way this is done is by selecting a canonical representation for the reals in the list. It's pretty much the same thing as you said, but I don't think you're putting it in the right terms.

The list you're diagonalising (in Cantor's diagonal argument that the reals are uncountable) is a list of real numbers. Each of those reals has a canonical representation, and the reals in the list are ordered according to an order defined on those representations. The argument then demonstrates a method of constructing from those representations a representation of a new real which, by definition, cannot be one of the reals in that list.

Put in those terms it feels a lot less arbitrary than simply excluding certain strings.
I feel I must ask: do you try this on every website you come across, or do you check the source on every website you come across? Either way: thanks :D
Old news, this has already been done at http://har2009.org/ read more here -> http://blackbag.nl/?tag=har2009
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I apologize if I'm missing some blatant sarcasm, but could you elaborate? All of the points in the article (which I'm hoping you read) seem valid.

Groupon has never felt like a good deal at even half it's current share price. To me, it seems like a company who got lucky through a serendipitous combination of our "bubble 2.0" frenzy, great marketing, and cherry-picked success stories.

I really want to understand what I'm missing. Why is Groupon this titan of deal sites? Is is their color scheme? Is the technology behind their site so amazing that other companies can't conceive of them? Are Facebook and Google too stupid to come up with a decent competing product? Is it brand recognition? Is it because they have Derrick on their unsubscribe page? Please help me understand.
Awesome! Been subconsciously looking for something like this for ages..
IMO the charm is that it looks like a condom machine in a toilet.
No, it's annoying when HN submission titles don't clearly state what jurisdiction articles about law apply to. I would personally have the same objection regardless of the article's nationality.
Article the Flowing Data post came from:
http://griffsgraphs.com/2012/07/03/graphing-every-idea-in-hi...
Done. And it was Universal not Viacom, sorry about that.
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I think this becomes much more intuitive once one understands that the cardinality of any nondegenerate closed interval is the same as the cardinality of the continuum.
We use ES at Wildbit. I love this tool, and I'm really glad for you guys.

6 months ago when we started using it, we'd have easily hired you guys to help us out with our use cases/jvm optimization.
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Not sure about OSX, but in Windows you can. This is a huge miss in Linux I find (all distributions I've tried so far), you need the mouse to get anything done without resorting to a terminal.
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Hi all,

I have a website currently running on a shared hosting and it starts getting traffic and with the iphone app connected for push notification the server starts to be slow, for info it's running wordpress with a bunch of plugins that are hitting heavily the data base and I already use a plugin for caching. In terms of visit it's about 100k unique visitor a month and 800 iphone app user after 2 days in the app store.

So since I plan other web related project I was looking into a private server http://www.online.net/serveur-dedie/comparatif-serveur-dedie-start-dell.xhtml probably the one for 40 bucks a month since it supports VT and I want to use openvz and here are my concerns.

For security purposes I was thinking of doing the following:
- 1 container/website each container using their own apache/sql/php stack so in case one gets compromised it's contained.
where each container has it's own ip accessible from outside (using the failover ip's provided).
And basic iptable rules (ssh allowed only from a given IP ...)

But for there, how do you manage patches and security updates? Are you all simply using a crontab with apt-get update (or emerge update world depending on the distro you use) ?
I ask this because long time ago this update mechanism broke my distro.

Anyway I'd like to know what are your security practice for such environment.

Thanks a lot !
My main point is that the author should be proud of his posts and proofread them, especially when choosing to share them this way.

As far as self-posts... I'll defer to the community's choice to upvote whether or not it helps/hurts the community. Personally, I think it adds noise to the signal that is the front page.
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Irrelevant and pedantic point here, but I would suggest it's more like telling someone they need to not have an ice cube in their scotch, very few scotch snobs would argue pro-ice :)
Can you be a bit more specific, please.

The poster claimed that Mr. Assange is something like a russian spy tool. The link you provided is to a pretty generic "channel" on a website pretty much discrediet by most posters in this thread.

There should be something more tangible, and credible, for such an accusation.

I'd appreciate something more specific. Thanks.
Actually, it comes down to font handling (I'm the guy with the site). Webfonts, CSS3 positioning, and HTML5 semantic are not supported in browsers older than 2009. So you can read the stuff but it doesn't necessarily look as good.
The seed could be generated using the default random function of your platform without specifying the seed (the default seed is likely based on some timestamp component).

You would then take the value the default random function gives you and feed it into the overloaded constructor which allows you to specify the seed.

That way you could still record the seed's value which was used to generate your terrain.
Yes, but you have to enable it. It's not on by default.

System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts

And change the radio at the bottom to "All controls" under Full Keyboard Access.
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> the judicial system itself is based on Roman law rather than Common Law or the Napoleonic Continental System

Says on Wikipedia[0] that it's a hybrid of Roman and English law. Why did they even use Roman law at all? The Roman Empire had been gone for several centuries, and England was in control after the 1707 Acts of Union, so it's surprising they didn't reform the system to follow English procedures.

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_law
Ah, I gotcha. Yeah, the question as posed is straightforward, though there's some fun stuff (fixed points of ordinal exponentiation, inaccessibles, etc) floating around in the same neighborhood.
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There are plenty of examples of reinventing (or at least reimagining) something with great results. Apple has a great track record with the iPod (not the first MP3 player, iPhone (not the first smartphone with apps), and the iPad (not the first tablet PC). Google was also not the first search engine, and Facebook was not the first social network. If you can do it better or more profitable or even just different, do it.
Not sure where I sit on the issue, but I wanted to add this:

By putting the functions in the class definition, they become locked into that class. Other data structures could potentially make use of the function, but now they don't own it. I would say the alternative is a namespace, which you don't instantiate.

Armstrong's grief is the idea that the functionality for classes can then only come from direct lineage. As I understand it, though, the OO-heavy languages (Java, C#, probably others) lean much more heavily on interfaces now to mix in behavior, which gets away from that specific problem.

[EDIT] I forgot that interfaces don't give implementation, so the mixing is pretty limited.

Not sure what I think of the state issue, though. Too green on the functional stuff to say how else it should work. I would point out, though, that programs hide state from each other; couldn't objects just be the same thing on a smaller scale? (That is, an opaque interface with a few access points.) It really comes down to how well it's made in both cases.
Ok, I'll bite. Why would it be more secure?

Would the following block cipher be more secure than AES?

function encrypt(block, key) {
return block XOR key;
}
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I fail to see the use for this. Why exactly would you want to know what pronounceable 5-char domains there are? It's like two minutes work to script this yourself.

Edit: Also neat how there is text and a copyright notice at the bottom which you'll never be able to read because the page automatically loads more domains. It's barely readable when holding down the end button...
Nice work using arbor.js. I've been trying to get a grasp myself on how to use it. What do you think about the ease of using the framework?
You're right, I feel like it can be useful in so many contexts. And I'm sure there is one application that will hit it out of the park. I just can't put my finger on it, though.
“How many companies can boast of a 1:25,000,000 employee to user-base ratio?”
What about making clusters correspond to waves of enemies in a game?

This would be an awesome text-based adventure game, yeah?
No. While I am from the US, it's difficult to tell exactly where in the entire world this court case applies to. If it was clearly stated that this was in the UK in the article, I wouldn't have that much of an issue.

Unfortunately, the only way to actually figure out that this was in the UK(as opposed to any of the other Commonwealth states that use similar court systems) was to go to the subsequent articles linked in TFA.