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You need a good antivirus program to clean up computers if discovered malware becomes widespread.(Like Stuxnet, Flashback Trojan). Since Windows Security Essentials/Defender Windows 8 I don't really think about other anti virus vendors however it is very important that all of them remain active. One antivirus company would be a dream for malware creators. Personally I think severe global penalties for creating malware/'social engineering' or a chip+software breakthrough is needed to change the current situation. Antivirus software has actually become pretty good at cleaning known attacks which is really all you can ask for at this point in the game considering how advanced malware has become.
Compared to what? I'm very curious to find out alternatives that are cheaper than Amazon.
What is needed, is a fast track evaluation of technology claims. The speed can be achieved by streamlining the process of finding the field expert, providing archives and secretarial services during the evaluation, and coaching the expert about the process. The task can be taken up by an industry foundation, which can also drive down the cost.

Any expert with some experience in dealing with patents can figure out if a patent in his/her area has any merit. But doing it in court is a different matter, and takes time.

The problem is, the court has to do this evaluation by appointing established experts, who don't have much time anyway, so even the search for experts take time. And the experts have to evaluate the claims with respect to historical state of the art at the time of patent application.

We are lucky that the internet now remembers most of the past, so we can go back to comments in HN, and say, "see, people were already talking about that in public at the time of this patent". But, for older patents, the experts have to dig through conferences, magazines, emails, journals, etc. as reference, and evidence that something was known. Without such diligent work, plainly declaring that an idea is trivial, will not be something an expert will be willing to do in court.

All this can be sped up and the costs can be reduced if an organization took the task. I) Hire a group of neutral distinguished academics in several key fields, who will find and appoint technology experts. II) Put together the tools and archives the experts will need in their evaluation. III) Coach the experts about the process, and provide secretarial services during the process.
I hired a TaskRabbit to pick up a large amount of IKEA and deliver it to my house. The TaskRabbit proceeded to show up an hour late with the furniture...because she dropped the furniture on her foot, breaking multiple bones.

Once I heard this, I realized "Shoot, I contracted her. Am I legally liable for her injuries?" (Fortunately for me, she shrugged it off, and seemed to be covered under some insurance of her own.) And if she had not delivered the furniture due to her broken foot, would TaskRabbit make me look like the bad guy for asking for my money back? (Fortunately again for me, she made the delivery, amazingly.)

While things turned out OK in the end, suddenly the whole service felt much riskier, for both the employee and the consumer - and I felt irritated at TaskRabbit for subjecting me to that risk without some sort of a safety net in place. (Heck, I would have paid extra for one, some sort of "TaskRabbit Insurance.")

I have to say, as much as I dislike the idea of tight regulations on workers, and can see directly how much cheaper my services are removing those regulations...I think next time I'll pay the premium for a more legitimate furniture move, at least, until the law catches up to services like TaskRabbit.
Great post, it is great to see startups being open about how they architect their systems and overcome issues with scaling.

This sort of information helps people building the next group of startups save both time and money.

Keep up the great work!
How to clean up oil spills using magnets
Write mobile apps in Python and generate native source codes for iOS and Android
This could be the Free Patent Foundation, similar to FSF, but for everybody.
Wouldn't it be cool if a mattress came in 8 pieces so you can easily move it and flip it, and rearrange or even replace saggy sections?

I'm sure the need for the entire thing to respond to your body the way it does probably prevents such a thing, but that sure would make it easier to own one.
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ATI tried providing documentation in response to the community's pleas. If memory serves, the community responded by demanding example code, friendly API's, and so forth. The classic "moving goalposts", if you will.
Really sad to see the whitehouse's kneejerk response is:

- can we ban it?

- can we arrest the man who made it?
Wasn't it asshole/maniac?
> hundreds of coworkers you've interacted with, the stories you've swapped about dealing with projects and bosses and clients and customers, your romantic relationships

Yes. Those are some of the experiences I'm talking about. Take a safe job, don't date, don't interact much: you'll have a lot less raw material to turn into wisdom.

> But wisdom beyond one's years?

I have seen it. It's easiest to spot in people who've experienced early struggle or tragedy. It's not true for all of them (or even many of them), but they definitely have the raw material.
The Curse of the Text Editor
It's Not Hacking If You Let Them In
Well, then please accept my apologies and thank you for taking the time to explain. As I said originally, I think that it's wonderful that you're encouraging young people, and especially women who are under-represented, to get involved in the tech industry. That is truely a goal worthy of your 2.5 years of hard work.
5 years Tokyo here. That is one of the most concise posts on the topic ive yet read, well done.

I see the problem as the time scales of events. If reactors blew up once ever 3-5 years everyone would be watching and monitoring, lobbying, training, drilling, ranting etc.. but they dont.

Humans just are not designed to train and prepare for 1 event in 20 years. Maybe if Buddhist monks were in charge of the reactors we might have some hope... but they are not.
I think most of us work at least partly during the day, and if you're at home. Sit near a window, works like sunscreen to keep keep your skin safe but still allows UV light below 350 nanometers which is all that's needed to produce vitamin D.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D#Production_in_the_ski...

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/604882.html
Good catch on the spaces! I might split it into 2 arrays [Math] [100, 101, 140, 141..etc] and check each part or write a helper function to remove spaces on submitting!!

Regarding Universities: Only targeting my school, University of Maryland for the moment so I can test it out before expanding (Like what I did with www.GetCampusMaps.com!). I'll be looking to use HTML5 Geolocation data to suggest a school, or otherwise distinguish the schools apart. Faced a very similar problem with Campus Maps.

I will definitely try to collect all of that information as best I can - I don't know how yet!

Looking to expand to multiple universities as soon as I vet it out at UMD :D

ISBN lookup coming soon! Like, really soon. Tonight soon.

Great catch with Title Lookup, will do!

Author Lookup - Absolutely. Still designing the database etc, so these are great things to keep in mind.

I will be using Amazon, Chegg, and possibly others like Ebay(half.com) for suggested upper and lower boundaries. I will put in a sell-to-me option or buy-from-me option which will be some delta away from the optimal price anchor for that book. Say Amazon has the highest buy-back price at $45 - I'd list that, and tell them they can drop it off on campus for $40 (market arbitrage, and I doooo like generating profit...). Not sure how to scale this upon graduation, having affiliate students on campus ready to come to you to pick up the books? If they have to go to the mailbox, they may as well mail it to Amazon, so I have to offer better.

There should only be one MATH141 showing up now! I am currently designing what it does when clicked. Rather than load all of the data user-end every time I want to do this dynamically from the database. At the moment it's mainly a client-side demo, I am designing the database right now. Was seriously not kidding about updating it nonstop for the next 2 days, the competition started about 8 hours ago and this is what I have so far from scratch :D. The goal was to inspire other Hackers from seeing me do it from scratch into going out and BUILDING!

Thank you so much for your time. It means the world to me. If I can ever answer iPhone questions / you need a favor, feel free to get in touch via www.vikbhandari.com, it'll always have my latest contact info. You can also see the types of things I can help you out with there :)
Or sue to maintain control of it. You know, either way.
I just watched the talk, and Troll Busters's comment is misplaced. Curtis didn't say exactly how much he spent defeating this troll, but it wasn't any $2M and probably not even $50k. He said he just asked for screenshots showing the alleged infringement, and the troll failed to provide any. When the troll pressed for settlement nonetheless, Curtis offered him zero, and the troll accepted. When the settlement agreement arrived, he crossed out the NDA provision, signed it, and sent it back. It was returned signed (to the surprise of Curtis's attorney). Curtis evidently did consult with his attorney a little, so it must have cost him something, but it didn't sound like it was very much.

In short this doesn't seem to have been a very determined or well-funded troll.

Troll Busters may have a point here, but it's clear that he/she/it is also trying to drum up business.
Here's my "bold" (aka safe) prediction: IPv4 will still be the dominant network addressing system in use in 2025.
>I think Hadoop really wants every compute node to be on the same LAN.

Fucking a-right it does. You should see the labyrinthine depths people descend to in order to scale Hadoop. Sub-clusters of sub-clusters, rack-local clusters, Zookeeper nodes all over the place.

It's like fuckin' 'Nam all over again man.
If you're using a /8 for LAN addresses you are doing the entire internet a disservice.
Is there any open source Bank?
Most banks sucks. Legacy systems, lots of security holes, zero innovation and lousy support.

It would be awesome if someone would start a bank running 100% open source software. Think about the ease of merging banks running exactly the same systems, so such a bank would only win in the long-run from competition copying and using their system.

And then there is the lack of APIs. They don't have any. SWIFT MT-messages don't count, they are as user-friendly as punch cards.

SWIFT ought to be replaced too by the way. If the open source bank system spread among many banks, they could begin to do their communication between each other via the new system, and only rely on SWIFT for communication with older banks who haven't migrated yet.

So if someone has €5,000,000.00 with no idea on what to do with it, please consider starting this kind of bank, it would rock! And please start in the Europe, preferably in Sweden, and I guarantee you will have at least one customer from start.
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While I agree with the sentiment, I don't think your argument is fair. He got wealthy via Microsoft. He did get wealthier as a patent troll.
Oh, do tell of your brave reaction when you were sued, and how it never bothered you to risk losing it all during the months or years until resolution. Also tell us about how easy and worry-free having kids was for you.

Wait, let me guess: you've never actually been sued. And don't have kids.
There are no perfect languages. They aren't a bag of individual features, but platforms these days. Taken as a broad platform, the python ecosystem is up there with the best, warts and all. Why, because others have even more.

No offense, but your youth is showing--it appears you haven't used it long enough to fully understand it (gotchas), have unrealistic expectations of purity, and aren't very aware of the preceding. Yet you still have strong opinions... like most of us experience will beat you down, give it time.

I wrote a few of these stinkers a decade ago and would laugh at them now.
wow antisemitism, glad you brought that up, you've unmasked yourself jew.
Developers, we need to push harder
I made a mistake, did not mean to include 'localhost' in there.
Don't forget that the Tohoku earthquake killed almost 20,000 people. The worst estimates for Fukushima predict it will cause 1,000 deaths. Median estimates predict a couple hundred deaths.

Even though management was criminally bad, Fukushima still killed fewer people than the equivalent number of coal plants run for the same time. Fukushima ran for 40 years, so that's 25 deaths per year worst-case. According to the CATF[1], around 13,000 Americans die each year from fossil fuel power plant emissions. There are around 600 coal plants in the US, so that's just over 20 deaths per plant per year. What's worse is you need more than one coal plant to make up for a nuclear plant. Googling around tells me coal averages 300MW/plant and Fukushima had 4.7GW of capacity. You'd need 15 coal plants to make up for Fukushima. That's 300 deaths per year.

So when the 5th largest earthquake ever recorded strikes, and causes a nuclear power plant to explode twice, and the cleanup is criminally mismanaged, it's still safer than burning fossil fuels.

1. http://www.catf.us/fossil/problems/power_plants/existing/
Despite the hate that this comment is sure to ensue:
Why not node.js?
How Buzz Aldrin's communion on the moon was hushed up
How Bloomberg does interviews
> He made his video specifically to cause maximum insult to a culture.

Like Team America, but no cities burned over that one. I'd like to see a continuous stream of such insulting videos, so those offended finally concede to change the channel.
Affiliate programs and injecting ads into people's news feeds are two complete different and largely unrelated ways of monetizing. If pinterest goes the route of sponsored pins (or whatever they might be called) instead of affiliate commissions on product links, they'd be out of their minds and hopefully be laughed out of existence. This sponsored crap is the best way I've yet seen to piss off your users (and in twitter's case, alienate third-party developers, although that's because they've made some poor choices).

Ads work on google because there's intent to buy (or at least learn about a product category) Samsung buying ads against the iphone5 trending topic on twitter is supposed to make me want their latest and greatest? Good luck with that.

Pinterest just needs to tag links with affiliate codes whenever possible. I'd bet amazon alone could make them serious money with zero detriment to the user experience.
I was a Java guy too just prior to going into web development and coincidentally I too encountered the same problem as you did.

I tried Django and quite a few Java frameworks but ultimately settled on using node.js because I found it to be the lowest point of entry by far.
> This guy is like the valley's version of Kim Kardashian where Digg was his sex tape.

This is epitaph material, right here.
I don't know why I ever read anything by this man anymore, it just infuriates me. I honestly don't know if anything he can do could ever offset the carnage wrought by Intellectual Ventures.

>If 20 of us were to try to solve energy problems—with carbon capture and storage, or perhaps some other crazy idea—maybe one or two of us would actually succeed. If nobody tries, we'll all certainly fail.

I love the hubris, if him or say 20 of his wealthy friends don't solve the problem, I mean who could? Because history shows all advancement is done only by extremely wealthy folks.

>Unfortunately, no such technology can completely replace fossil fuels, which provide base-load power all day and night, regardless of whether the wind is blowing or the sun is shining. There is no carbon-free base-load power source except nuclear energy.

I admit to knowing nothing of this area, but is energy storage just useless? I always hear the 'what about off-cycle demand' used as a cudgel against things like wind/solar/hydro/etc.. power. Is it really impossible / terribly inefficient to store energy for later use? If so is there no chance of advancement there and thus the only hope is something like nuclear? Honest question.

>There are few technologies more daunting to inventors (and investors) than nuclear power.

I agree investors are more likely to say fund, cat-sharing-social-coupon-web 3.0 venture over say 'long lead new power breakthrough', but something tells me with the sheer buckets of money that would accompany such a discovery that some people are definitely working on it. Whether those people are VC/billionaires or government, something tells me if Myhrvold died tomorrow (please god) that all research in alternative energy wouldn't grind to a halt never to be pursued again.

>Like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, I was once a little boy who played with model rockets and aspired to learn nuclear physics.

And then go on to troll the world? One of these folks is not like the others.
Except that POSIX like all standards, has a tendency to have different quirks across implementations.
Slightly OT: calling it "western medicine" is playing into hands of the quacks and woo-meisters who attempt to spin modern medicine as somehow being inferior to various "complementary" and "alternative" therapies.
Flame was signed by a trusted signer (Microsoft in this case) due to a bug that allowed code to be signed with a Microsoft key that was meant for something else.

People would like to make behavioral stuff, but it's quite difficult. Sandboxing sounds great, but it requires more processing power to run a VM, and the biggest complaint most people have about AV software right now is that it slows down the computer, so running in a VM with a behavioral model...yeah good luck. It looks great on paper, but has no been put into good use yet.

If you like to be secure, run 2 boxen, one that has no service except a logger, log everything from your main box, only log into the logger box from console when you want to look through the logs to see if something has gone awry.

FD: I work for a security company, and no, none of our products works like that. Most (all?) customers have a higher priority on useability of their network and computers than on security.
The plant was built to withstand quakes. They handle quakes perfectly fine all the time (in Japan and other areas like California). It's the tsunami that caused problems.
This is what many kids that only know Linux don't get.

UNIX != Linux, and it is sometimes a real pain to use.

I had to visit customers with HP-UX installations that were a time travel to the 70's.
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Note that fonts don't work well on every resolution and font size so you should instead experiment a bit with font size too. A single unit of difference can turn a ugly font into a pleasant one.
Scott's Tots
I have not used an antivirus in years, I use a firewall which allows me to control behavior of every process with allow/deny rule creation. It's blocked java exploits and trojans on my system that were not yet in antivirus databases. Antivirus is cool for a monthly just in case checkup and for scanning suspect files before executing.
But you'll never replace diamonds with manufactured diamonds. The whole point of them is they are expensive.

Expensive, scalable (huge diamonds for celebrities, small ones for poor people, and everything in between), durable, small enough to slip in your pocket (to surprise them), and backed by a monopoly supplier.

You could try it with another rare gem (rubies, emeralds, opals) but you won't have a monopoly supply, so you can't compete with the advertising dollars of the diamond miners.

You could try to switch the marriage tradition to something completely different (look at China, where are house and car are generally a pre-requisite for marriage), and hope that the practicality of the tradition wins over big advertising dollars. The problem is, celebs don't care about a new car the same way a newly married couple do.

Or you could try to encourage an "experience" gift. Paris could set itself up as the city to propose in, and smaller cities could also compete.

It's just hard to think of everything with all the advantages of diamonds. The disadvantage is their lack of practicality, and their slightly unethical origins, but nothing seems to have displaced them so far.
Yeah, Win7 runs acceptably on my daughter's circa 2008 Asus EEE netbook with 1 Ghz proc. Don't know how much RAM it has though.
When did violent mobs become terrorists?
Go has panic/recover if you have to propagate an error through multiple layers.
GoDaddy: We're sorry
So the news is that we don't get fglrx support for Hondo? That doesn't sound nearly as dramatic as "being Windows-only product" etc. Frankly I couldn't care less for fglrx support. If there is demand then it will be reverse engineered, like tons of other hardware has been.
GoDaddy's Personal Apology to Users
Your argument would be more compelling had not the Muslim world also went crazy over a certain cartoon. Unless you're suggesting the Dutch are also the Great Satan.

And no offense, the US government makes quite literally, thousands of requests to private companies every year and always have. It isn't more threatening because it is the White House instead of the FBI or State Department. Clearly Google had no problem ignoring it.
It's not really a hack. ... A hack would be taking the input of a TV tuner card, ...

No True Scotsman: Hacker Edition?
I feel like I have to say thank you. Execution and all....
The quake was far stronger than expected. It was still not very close to the reactor.

Reactors cannot withstand such earthquakes. After the earthquake most of Japan's reactors are shutdown. After such an earthquake you need to inspect them, for example to find problems in pipes, pumps, and various other installations.

What Fukushima showed was that a loss of power over a long period of time made problems. The power lines bringing outside electricity were destroyed. Roads were damaged. Other generators were not available.

It's not clear that a similar situation could not happen caused by an extremely strong earthquake much nearer to a power plant.
Could the fact that Apple pretty much force you to enter your credit card number in their system play a role ?

You used to be able to create an account without it, but not it seems impossible (or if it is, you have to do some devious thing 99% of the population could not figure out, even after solid googling).