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Just wondering on how the community feels about Google AdWords? It seems like there is always hot and cold recommendations for it. Can you provide real world advice on how effective it's been for you when launching?
I read somewhere that sociologists are fascinated by 4chan.
(without stopping to check for leaks half way through)
I use pam_google_authenticator to login (via SSH) to my Linux server, and so can you.
"This means it produces many utterly vile posts - but all of them are true expressions of people as they are, not as they pretend to be."

I'm not sure that that really makes sense. I can be very charming or utterly vile. Are you implying that I'm only truly me when I'm vile (for example)? Aren't we all pretending all the time?
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If you have two-factor auth enabled, your Android phone stores a app-specific password -- even if extracted, it wouldn't be terribly useful (assuming you revoke it).
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Good collection of advice- very help.

I use Cybersource for payment processing on an e-commerce site. I've been really happy with their fraud screening service- automated rules, similar to the list in this post, flag certain orders for manual review. These automated rules have been able to catch orders that, otherwise, might have gone unnoticed and saved a lot of time in the process.
If you're logged into your Google account from your Android, it's roughly the same amount of control as an IMAP account would give.

They can wreck havoc, but they cannot change your password and steal your account.
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Aliases to cd into directories? You need to check out autojump style tools! Will change your life.

e.g. https://github.com/rupa/z

I very, very rarely type cd by hand anymore, mostly just use z and popd
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Some regions have data protection laws. This means in some places the standard security questions (like "What's your mother's maiden name?") are not enough to protect people's personal data. (Which is good).

However such laws also include access. You cannot use disproportionate means to require access. Biometrics would probably not be legal to protect things like photos etc.
I think gambling is one of those dirty sources, for some it'd be like if facebook created a porn section or a dating area. Neither in themselves damaging but still socially awkward

Alternativly maybe he just doesn't see gambling as a big industry.
They already are. They're not cheap though.
The simple fact is that before the iphone, many 'smart' phones were complicated horrible devices (badly designed from a hardware point of view) with very poor UI/UX. Then after the iphone they were all like the iphone in some way or another. If you ask any non-technical person out there they will say the same. The iphone set the benchmark. So I can understand why apple feels like folk are just ripping them off at times and riding on their coat tails.
From what I can see, that memo isn't anything that any company wouldn't produce internally when faced with such a strong competitor, and it doesn't imply that they wanted to outright copy the iPhone, but good luck convincing a judge of that...

Also, did their lawyer fuck up by mentioning the memo? I'm not well aware of how these things work.
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This looks like labelling something really mundane and normal as something special. Typcial academic code bs.

Well done for managing to so thoroughly over engineer something so trivial. There is no problem you can solve with this that isn't trivially solvable if you use sensible tools. :)
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"but all of them are true expressions of people as they are"

I don't think you can say that. Humans are fundamentally social creatures with behaviours that are also context driven. So to characterize the dialog on 4chan as free expression is simply inaccurate. This is just a facet of behaviour in the same way that people behave in mobs or in war-time - to cite some more extreme examples.

Think of 4chan as a healthy antidote to excessive political-correctness and other wanton busybodyness.
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Flamebait title -- the answer at the end of the article is "No." :-P
Not all posts there are vile or inane (but many are and I don't think you dispute that). I'm just saying you get to see the full gamut (like you say people have many aspects to them), rather than just the polite, self-censored (for good reason) conversation we get on HN (this isn't a complaint about HN, I'd hate it if it was any other way). So you do get the usual hate speech, but you also get inside stories because people feel free to say things there that would probably get shut down even on a reddit AMA.
I'm sure the guy regularly used Google too...
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I'm past my edit time limit, but I should add context to the assertion that we can't estimate the value of a year of college. There are some good methods for doing so, but none that stand out as the correct way. It's a classic hard problem in econometrics.
Being german i find this very blandly written. Most of the German economists know and say that Germany is only at the top right now because it has profited so much from the Euro, especially on the cost of other EU countries.

I find this very shortsighted to attribute Germany's financial and economic situation to some underlying culture of perfection and expectation.

As much as i'd love to attribute our current success to these things, i think we should rather look at the very fortunate fiscal situation the EU positioned us in.
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Me too. I think it is the same talk as he gave at the Open Source Developers Conference in Melbourne [1]. I must say, I never thought someone could explain a Perl library which runs programs in negative time (they finish before they start) using concepts from quantum physics, to a non-physicist like myself.

[1] http://blip.tv/open-source-developers-conference/temporally-...
The two big players here (Vasco and RSA) both do this in hardware and software. So there are soft devices that run on desktops, mobile, etc.
While I no longer visit 4chan regularly, I love its extensive influence on human society.

* lolcats

* rage comics

* anonymous

* a lot of the 1% movement

* getting random people in jail because they think animal cruelty is funny

* making Moot TIME's person of the year and getting him a TED talk -> http://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_m00t_poole_the_case_for...

While most of what goes on there hinges somewhere between vile and horrible. 4chan has a lot of good in it, plenty of times there can be surprisingly good and high quality debates.

And come on, it's where all the memes are born. That's profound. What other startup can claim to be such a big influence on western society?

PS: 4chan has also invented a clever sorting algorithm - http://dis.4chan.org/read/prog/1295544154

PPS: sometimes they even manage to count to 10. I think the record was 100.

edit: when I say meme, I mean "A meme ( /ˈmiːm/; meem)[1] is "an idea, behavior or style that spreads from person to person within a culture."[2] A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena." ... I don't mean, "funny picture".

A lot of responders misunderstood this, I think.
Already posted at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4349305 with 6 comments.
The site owner recently revealed he pushes 3500000 GB per month. My lowball estimate puts that at roughly $77,000 per month, just under a million dollars per year to keep the site running. There are no ads on /b/, which is the main board, representing I'd guess 95% of the entire site's traffic.

That, combined with the plausibility of the following, leads me to believe he receives massive government subsidies:

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Did not the same thing occur prior where most cellphones had terrible menu based systems? If you shake up an industry with a superior interface, and users get comfortable with it, there is no reasonable argument that continuing with an older standard would be a wise business decision.
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Could you provide some more information about "features that are typically forbidden in high performance environments".

Probably you want a parser expression grammar with a packrat parser if you really want speed anyway.

At the moment I am not smart enough to see how to implement combinators in C in an elegant way without GC of some form. But I'll think about it. Maybe something will occur to me.

Patches are welcome of course.
Do you have articles about this "benefiting from the Euro" thing? Being German myself, I still don't understand what they mean - and btw this seems mostly to be an accusation by the struggling European countries, not "most German economists"?

So how does it work - how do we profit from the Euro, on the cost of other EU countries?
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I agree that a more pragmatic approach is needed, which is why I started writing this series on FP.

What else would you like to see in such a book? http://forums.pragprog.com/posts/30455
Ah right, interesting use-case. I usually think of combinator parsing's advantages versus table-driven parsing (e.g. LALR) being primarily its expressiveness (and amenability to a functional-programming style), but it has a nice runtime-modifiable aspect as well.

I wonder how hard it'd be to build a runtime-modifiable table-driven parser, though. Assuming table compilation is fast enough, the most straightforward approach might be to just link in the grammar-compilation code so it's available at runtime, and rebuild the table each time a modification is made. I don't think you'd want to be doing complex incremental surgery on a table-driven parser, but you might not need to.
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It's not bad, but the "0x" is part of the conversion into an integer, not part of the parsed address. That is, the more-complicated-looking combinator converts the string "03-c0" to `Address 3 192`, while it looks like yours converts the string "0x03-0xc0" to to `Address "0x03" "0xc0"`. (I'm not totally sure about that; I'm still very new to Haskell. Thanks for the heads-up on attoparsec though.)
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And how was that money distributed to the shops who lost sales?
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I could put the answer in the title, but it would get edited back to OP's title.
Yesterday I submitted an interview with the co-founder of SAP, a leading figure in the technology sector[1], about the state of the software sector in Germany. He had lots of criticism and comparisons with the U.S., so if you find this article interesting consider reading that interview: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4344429

[1] I'm a former employee of SAP, so I'm biased :-)
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I agree, and it's the one I recommend for experienced programmers. It has a K&R-like succinctness and clarity.

That said, it is about programming in Haskell and not about programming with Haskell; hence this series of articles where I try to look at the wider picture and some pragmatic issues.
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I like your post so this is a real question, not a sarcastic remark: Can you elaborate about why you consider memes profound?
It seems like the lawyer may have fucked up, or it may be some brilliant Perry Mason-eque trap. But if the latter, why fight the memo's introduction into evidence in the first place? So I'd guess it was a mistake.

Anyway, the memo by itself doesn't damn Samsung, but in context with, oh, the radius of curvature of every corner of key products being changed to exactly match Apple's devices, the color and arrangement of icons, the color and choice of materials, and the design of packaging all matching -- it seems pretty damning.

Yesterday we had the internal memo revealing that most returns of the Galaxy Tab were literally caused by customers mistaking it for an iPad.

Burger King for a long time had a strategy of building new restaurants near newly built Macdonalds because it knew how much effort its rival put into researching locations. This seems kind of unethical, but apparently is perfectly legal competition. Samsung builds its restaurants near Macdonalds, copies the menu, erects a golden M over the entrance, and serves takeout in white bags.
4Chan is known for this: it has the best and the worst of the Internet.

After some time lurking, your brain acquires the skill of filtering threads that it thinks are worthless, without even polling your consciousness. As you develop this ability, you learn to appreciate the best in 4Chan, and it's really good.

I don't know anyone else from there but as far as I'm concerned, I am a normal person in everyday life and I never mention it. I just want to have a good time when I am bored, like many users there.

So it's important to try to filter the content. This site is rather unique for letting users do almost whatever they want without consequences. Some people abuse it but they won't waste it for me: the dogs bark and the caravan goes on.
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Germany is an export country. The Euro enables us (yes, German too) to sell our goods in the Euro-zone without having to worry about exchange rate fluctuations.
The (* >) operator [1] (the space in the middle is just to circumvent HN's rather dumb comment formatting) sequences its two arguments, ignoring the one on the left. So

string "0x" *> takeWhile1 hexadecimal

parses a literal string "0x", then one or more hexadecimal digits, and the result is just the hexadecimal digits.

[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/base/latest/doc/...
I think that happens in any industry where the rules of the game change. The competitors then have to adapt after the winning design/product if the consumers want it and they want to stay relevant. Some level of similarity should be permitted because of that, otherwise you would have either very little competition or none at all.
Oddly this doesn't talk a lot about the German model, despite that being the title. The education-tracking system is just about the only structural feature the article discusses. A big part of the German model is ordoliberalism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordoliberalism) and the "social market economy", a particular view on the relationship between the state and private sector. The German approach to labor-employer relations is another part of the model, oriented around consensus-building between sector-wide unions and sector-wide employers' federations.
The general idea is that Germany, since 2000 or so, did what is essentially an internal devaluation, by freezing salaries. This only works because Germany was the only big economy within the Eurozone to follow this policy. Note that GDP increase was not especially high in Germany compared to other countries with a similar size within the Euro (e.g. France did better in the 1999-2011 period: http://fatasmihov.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/internal-devaluatio...). This policy cannot possibly work if other countries follow it within the Euro zone.
True. But it's what you do when faced with this predicament that counts. Compare the approach of Samsung versus Microsoft.

Samsung pretty clearly took the iPhone and decided to make their own equivalent. It's an approach they've used (with great success) when competing with Sony. Unlucky for them Apple patented their work every step of the way.

Microsoft however went back to the drawing board, looked at how users were actually using the iPhone, went through their own product development process and built something unquestionably unique.
A good article about it in german is here: http://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/international/vorteile-d...

the tl;dr:

Germany is and was always a strong export oriented nation with our main-markets being in the direct vicinity. Before the Euro many of those neighbors hadn't had the economic lending power to build up their infrastructure and buy german goods.

With the introduction of the Euro these countries could suddenly lend money on the international markets with the support of the german rating, and spend that borrowed money to a large degree in Germany. (Greece is still buying German tanks...)

tl;dr of the tl;dr:

Germany is rich because other countries bought our stuff with money they could lend because of the trust the Euro had because of Germany.
Fantastic and informative comment, as usual. That said:

"a great way to avoid getting emails by someone whining about getting a refund for the $8 they spent on your ebook is to never ever ever ever ever do business with people at the $8 price point."

I have one of those "yes, if," or "no, but" reactions to this statement. If you're doing business at the $8 price point, you should be doing it in the volume business. The scale business. A gazillion tiny purchases at $8 apiece, wherein the userbase is large and fairly undemanding. If the userbase is demanding about anything in this space, you want it to be demanding about price alone, and you want your $8 to be an insanely competitive price.

You should NOT do business at $8 per transaction if your good or service involves a lot of transaction costs -- whether in post-sale servicing, a salesforce of any kind, high-touch / personal presales, high return rates, or, generally speaking, any sort of customization that can't be automated to scale. In very simplistic terms, low prices should not be paired with high costs -- be they high COGS in the traditional sense, or high intensity of time and effort. In the case of most ebooks, I would agree with you here: a low unit cost like $8 [1], positioned to a very demanding niche audience, is a recipe for nightmares.

[1] Temporarily leaving aside, for the sake of everyone's collective sanity, any tangential philosophical debate about whether $8 is a "low" price.
VISA did equally stupid things for the Sydney Olympics, e.g. convincing the taxi companies to only accept VISA for the duration. It's extremely annoying (I was a Mastercard user at the time) and surely anti-competitive.
I agree with your comment about YCombinator effect of making the startup's life easier than the rest. In the long run, whoever innovates faster and listen to customer's needs better will win the race, it might be one company or more than one company similar to how enterprise esignature market has been dominated by top 2-3 companies so far. Like SignNow, SignEasy App has been enabling mobile esignatures since July, 2010 and in fact, it was one of the first in bringing the novelty of esignatures using an iPhone/iPad and consistently ranked in top 50 business apps worldwide.

At the end, all of the new startups are all trying to make digital signature universally accessible to everyone and
trying to innovate better as compared to the status-quo.

Thanks,
Sunil

Disclaimer: I am the founder of SignEasy App.
Sure, you wouldn't want to continue with an older standard at that point, but I don't think that is the argument.

If I've seen one consistent thing from Apple product design, it's that they appear to iterate continuously on the hardware and software/UI/IX components until they feel they have reached the absolute best (and before a wrong-tangent thread starts, that doesn't mean it is THE best, just Apple's opinion of best, etc.)

Most likely in the course of designing the iPhone/iPad, Apple threw away countless hardware and software designs that would have frankly been great and significant game changers. So I would imagine their view is along the lines of "We know the iPhone isn't the only conceivable marketable smartphone layout."

I personally believe that Samsung, or some other smart company, could have come up with an iPhone competitor that would not be so closely compared to and confused with the iPhone. Especially when you consider that the iPhone was groundbreaking in the sense of not having a physical keyboard. That was certainly not perceived as the "perfect" solution at the time, and probably still isn't. There was room for innovative differentiation in how user input was handled (physical keyboard, Palm grafitti-style input, chording keyboard, something new).

Instead Samsung (and several other companies) immediately switched to the flat all-glass iPhone design with the same basic rows of squared icons.
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The friend was a GOOG employee, but not a member of the Chrome team. Indeed, I should file an official bug report... but the Matt Cutts bug reporting system is usually so much more responsive. ;-)
Because Germany is an export-oriented economy with a huge trade surplus, primarily trading with other EU countries.

If the Euro didn't exist, the natural course of events would be for countries at the receiving end (who are running a trade deficit) to devalue their currencies. That would cut into German exports. But with a unified currency, devaluation to counter trade or current account imbalances is impossible.
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