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Yeah, good question.

There's a tradeoff between adding less domains but making them of a higher quality and adding more domains but risking that some are of poor quality. At first, I was religiously nixing the bad ones, but I realized it wasn't worth the effort. Not only is it time consuming, but surprisingly, someone may actually register it. You should see the list of registered domain names... there's a lot of garbage out there :)
On the plus side he doesn't drive to work.
You have some competition, how do you stand out? (like nameboy.com, domainit.com, domainnamesuggest.com, domainsbot.com )
I'm not so sure about internships. There are a lot of technical companies, and a lot of internships. If you go looking, you can find one (especially if you wait until sophomore year or so).
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Seems like the question should by "What bad habits led you to programming (instead of physics/math/astronomy/academic CS/the things you dreamed of doing)", but that could just be me!
'“Going forward, I’m fond of saying, our first four years we behaved like Apple,” he says. The XO, he says, is “designed beautifully, it’s in the Museum of Modern Art, it’s the best of breed. In the next four years, we’ve got to behave like Google and get to lots of people doing lots of things that are really for learning, for kids and for the developing world.”'

Uh, yeah. Because OLPC is just like Google in the way they...I mean, obviously, if you compare...

No, actually, I can't think of any way they're like Google whatsoever. Sorry.
After beating him in chess.
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BureauPoints seems like an odd name at first.
"War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning" is the best book on the psychological dimensions of war that I'm aware of.
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Proprietary hardware encryption schemes are assessed by third parties all the time. If you just aren't comfortable with anything but open source, that's fine. But you already rely on plenty of other security systems you can't audit.
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Also so good that it's currently down due to high traffic.
I agree with your second point, but there's plenty of games like that: Sim City, Any Tycoon game, the economy aspects of RTS (where the fun is obvious), Diner Dash etc.

As the Wii Fit has shown, games are a good way to trick people in to doing work...or exercise :).

Oh, and don't make people register.
Yes, I've read until the individual countries analysis.

It's good. Very, very good. It's not always right, of course, and if you refresh multiple times a day hn, reddit and techcrunch you'll know 90% of the text.

And except for a few odd acronyms, it's a light read, with colorful commentary (specially MS attempts to lure users to MSN and the whole cloud section).

I recommend. You may find lots of part that you disagree with, but damn it'll be hard to make your point against this report because it's very, very complete.

A++ Would read it again :)
The site's hosted on Amazon US, and seems fast enough from here..

Some advanced game features require paying, and advertisement shows up eventually. It's a standard model for these sorta games.
Who said anything about "giving up control over your computer"? Do you actually know anything about Trusted Computing, or this just propaganda? The TPM specs are public, the programming interface is public, and if you don't like how your software uses it, write different TPM software.

Your problem is with Microsoft, not with hardware security. If you don't like Microsoft, don't run Windows.
Organic growth models, like you suggest, exist.

But most of the time VCs want what 37signals calls a "Hollywood Launch". One day your site isn't live, just a beta to a few select friends/classmates, the next, everyone and their mother is checking out your live site. And you have a product to sell/revenue model.
> for some reason I have wondered about this (maybe for strategy game development...).

It's OK, you can be honest here. Your Kraut blood is imbuing you with an inexplicable and overwhelming drive to invade Poland. Reclaim your heritage!
I don't. And I really do believe that I should be able to audit any security solution I use.

I don't understand what you mean by "Proprietary hardware encryption schemes are assessed by third parties all the time". Sounds like corporate speak to me. First, any "proprietary encryption scheme" is rubbish, and second, I should be the one to assess it.

My point with the drive encryption solution was that you are told that your data is encrypted, but you have no way of checking it yourself. What if encryption is disabled in your drive? Can you tell?

The final output of any encryption solution needs to be independently accessible, so that you can verify if it resembles white noise (which it should, ideally).
Clearly I need a tame Bee (probably several) - I am effectively face blind - I do not seem to be able to store facial characteristics in a way that makes that store useful for recognising people - I use alternate information (some of it visual) to identify individuals - making meeting people I know in the "wrong" location problematic - but you learn to cover things up during the time it takes to identify someone you know well.
Can you explain more about how the TPM facilitates naive software and business model preservation? That's not my experience with it, but maybe you've had a different experience.
Solved problem? Sorry to harp on about this but I'll go all out and say it's an _unsolvable_ problem. If you store IP addresses, in any form whatsoever, and you have a process that can take an IP and consistently convert it to the form in your store for lookup - without which, of course, there is no point storing them at all - then because of the small possible set of IPv4 addresses, that system can be quickly and easily brute-forced and the records recovered in full.

The only way to store IP addresses such that they cannot be recovered with sufficient leverage (ie, govt) is to not store them at all. Even storing them in memory is not safe - just ask TorrentSpy.

The article is light on details but I have a strong suspicion that the ground-breaking "technological development" they are referring to is otherwise known as the "cookie".
> While I hate to put human beings out of work

That's understandable, but think that these people will probably find more fulfilling and productive jobs. As long as the layoffs are gradual, they will have time to retrain and find other jobs. Of course, if their skillsets are really obsolete and many are laid off at once, this can lead to structural unemployment. Eastern European countries went through that after the fall of communism. The transition was not pretty.

But smaller layoffs and career changes are just the cost of technical progress. Have a look at the Industrial revolution [1] and Luddites [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

Also, here's my first law : "Anything that can be automatized WILL be automatized, whatever the costs."
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seems cool. I've bookmarked it and made an account. Hope it isnt TOO addictive! :)
The "secure channel to the chipset over the network" is just a public key pair in a chip. You can use it however you want, or not use it at all. There's no system built in to the TPM that allows your chipset to go talk to Microsoft without your permission.

Obviously, if you give Microsoft permission to own your machine, it can go talk to Microsoft.com anytime it wants. But it already could without the TPM.
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Just to add a little elucidation to the sex-ed thing, the places that don't focus on abstinence as the only technique don't really explain the numbers. That's a 1% chance that after a year of regular sexual intercourse. Which makes the per-use numbers much, much smaller.

Furthermore, there was at least some issue in that many doctors were more conservative, and didn't really like talking about oral sex. (I heard this from a doctor who was complaining about this).
"This is not a surprise, as OLPC officials last spring announced plans to make a version of the laptop that runs Microsoft Windows rather than its original Linux-Sugar software stack."

This reminds me of when Palm started shipping Windows mobile in addition to Palm OS. That pretty much signaled the end of Palm as a significant player in the cell phone space, soon after eclipsed by Blackberry and iPhone, both of which have an emphasis on software. The reason that people are interested in Palm now is because they are doing interesting software again with the Pre.

Without Sugar, OLPC is just a netbook with a screen readable in bright light, clever networking, and low power requirements (and I wonder how running Windows will impact the power requirements and networking). It greatly reduces the way they can distinguish themselves from being just an underpowered netbook. I don't see this ending well for them.
I read that, and if it was nearby, I would definitely pay them a visit. Hope they'll make some materials available online.
it's a good, authoritative source for #s and data to back up a pitch. i wish i'd gotten my hands on them ages ago.
"and last week took an unpaid internship with a city police department, writing their emergency-response plan."

Sounds like work.
If you really want to know, you could always unplug the drive, plug it into another computer, and try your best to recover data--but other people are trying that; people like tptacek, and you could just rely on their assessments.
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If you're an Emacs user, I suggest the Org Mode package.
Socrates wasn't a scientist. We don't really know what he was, but presumably he was a political philosopher and metaphysician.
"Trying to build a library of 1 million digital books."

This one I don't get, relative to what's on the web already. You can probably find 1 million books that have been made freely available, converted to either PDF or HTML.

So does this mean 1 million different books? 1 million books specifically geared for kids in the developing world? Books that take special advantage of XO features? It's not clear from the article.
What's the point of a tie?

Ties and suits are quite literally costumes, costumes for theater.
It has destroyed a whole lot too; depending of what side of the fence you are you should be able to recognize this too. They rush to say something nasty about a startup but most of the time will say something nice about startups in their friend circle.
Ask HN: Looking for part-time PHP coders
I'll spare you the pitch and get down to the nitty-gritty:

Idea: Online surveys of companies (don't worry, there's a lot more to it than that).

Language: PHP/jQuery

Founders: One's been a business consultant for over 20 years with plenty of experience in the field, and one's (well, I'm) just graduating from Carnegie Mellon with plenty of real-world technology experience.

Situation: We've been outsourcing development overseas (too much/not enough hours in a day for me to code myself as much as I'd like to). I want to switch to US (or at least English speaking) developers for a number of reasons, not the least of which being that it would allow me to actually help with coding (overseas developers seem dead set on using their own environments and not sharing their repository).

Candidates: Anyone willing to work part-time, at least 8 hours a week on average, the more the better, with experience with webdev. We'd ideally like to start paying hourly as a trial run for a month and then switch to equity, but it's all negotiable. Must be willing to disagree and think for themselves. Robots/code monkeys suck.

How to apply: send something to bkrausz AT cmu DOT edu. Send whatever you feel like: a resume, a paragraph talking about how awesome you are, some links to projects, a request for more info, whatever floats your boat (please no naked pictures).

A great way to get involved in a startup without having to drop out of school.
So go ahead and audit them. The vendors will pay you to do it. Go thumb through a couple years of Black Hat talks for examples of people finding vulnerabilities in firmware, microcode, and closed-source cryptosystems in their spare time.

By "proprietary encryption scheme", I'm just referring to crytosystems for which you don't have the source code. You will have trouble finding any mainstream full-disk encryption vendor that isn't using something like AES, LRW-AES, or XTS-AES.

Nobody you care about is ever going to ship a product based on Super-Mega-40960-Bit-Matrix encryption. It's not 1994 anymore. There is absolutely no business case to be made for using nonstandard encryption: if you do it, you can't sell to the government, you can't sell it to any Fortune 500 company, and you get made fun of in magazine reviews.

I don't understand your "what if encryption is disabled in your drive" comment. What makes you think that's hard to check? Also, what makes you think that "secretly not encrypting an encrypted drive" would be a sane business decision for any vendor? They'd be open to spectacular liability. The first credit card processor that lost a secretly unencrypted disk drive would end up owning Seagate.
I really hope people vote for this comment.
Strictly speaking, HPV is a virus which causes cervical cancer (in almost every case), and to a lesser extent other cancers like mouth, anus and penis.

I believe (found a nature paper about) that a virus closely linked with diabetes is Coxsackie.

One of the issues with the common cold is that it mutates fairly quickly, IIRC and there are a lot of them. HPV does not (there is a vaccine for some strains).
I think this scenario is highly unlikely because society will not allow robots to make mistakes. A robot pilot might fly perfectly 99.999% of the time. 100 times better than human pilots but the first time a robot plane crashes, people will go nuts and adopt a "ban them all" mentality. With a human pilot, they just shrug and say "pilot error". People make mistakes. Robots aren't allowed to.
Thanks for the advice.

One thing I don't get is why people comment on hacker news and not at the actual blog post??? Sure it gives the link more points and push it to the top which will generate more traffic, but wouldn't it be more helpful if this comment was at the actual article so others reading it can benefit from it? Just a thought.
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I've always liked Jetty better than Tomcat. In my experience Jetty can scale better than Tomcat. The only real minus is the lack of docs compared to Tomcat.

The problem I find with Tomcat is that it's difficult / foolish to try to be both the reference implementation and yet also try for stuff like performance at the same time. Probably doesn't help with Tomcat teams change up every half version, along with throwing out huge portions of the code base (though someone can correct me on that)
There may be truth to that, but I don't think this is a very good example. Joey Hess has kept his ~ and /etc in CVS (and later, SVN) since 2000 or so. You don't need any particular feature of Git or even a DVCS to keep your system completely versioned.
If you look 0:21 in the video (scroll down), the robot at the top looks like it's stuck searching for a waypoint.
HPV is a cancer caused by the presence of a virus.

HPV (human papillomavirus) is a virus, not a cancer. Most people carry the virus but are asymptomatic. Of the approx 130 types of HPV, some can lead to cancer, most commonly of the cervix.
When people dress up every single day, it says to me that they care more about playing business and looking pretty than actually getting shit done.

I understand it for certain ceremonies, funerals, etc, but outside of that, it seems like an utter waste of time.
also: "Your car is now en route and does not require anymore attention for awhile"

should be "for a while"

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/awhile.html
> But to my surprise BPL people started buying exotic products and services with the money saved because of free rice.

Did this experience teach you that you really don't know much about human behavior and should stay away from activities where such knowledge is important?

Or, did you double down and keep at it, perhaps with "I'm a good person so what I want is good."?
I always thought our current problem is not really producing energy but rather transporting it? So if you have a reactor in New York City it'll be rather useless for the people in, say, Moscow. That's the reason nobody is doing this power the world by establishing solar power plants in the Sahara project. Could someone clear this up?
Haha, fixed, thanks.

BureauPoints was meant to evoke feelings of battling bureaucracy. I suspect that got lost somewhere along the way.
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And can be very expensive costumes.
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I wasn't planning to ask it too difficult a question as I really don't feel like waiting hours for a response... although given the circumstances I don't think it matters.

Its now 1:30am, I'm just about to head to bed and still have been unable to sign up for chacha (even though I've attempted to do so again with a different email address/username since I last updated my comment) I feel that I can quite comfortably say that I wont use them for my searching requirements anytime soon.
I don't think this is too uncommon in other fields. I know I was very surprised to learn that when my wife was out on a clinical to become a physical therapist she wasn't paid and had to pay (a reduced at least) amount of tuition as well.
I work from home and I find everything around me to be a constant distraction. I can't wait for the day when I can afford an office, wake up in the morning and actually go to work, as opposed to the 2ft commute, or better yet, not have to work at all :)
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I am sorry, I didn't know it was submitted. Looks like the duplicate detection didn't work.
Let's just hope it doesn't turn out like Manna, though

Wikipedia has an article section on the sociological and cultural aspects of Down syndrome. It basically describes life for humans in a world with advanced AI. Here is that section, altered with the phrase people with Down syndrome, and related words and phrases, replaced by the word humans: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_Syndrome#Sociological_and_...

Sociological and cultural aspects of Manna (advanced AI)

Advocates for humans point to various factors, such as additional educational support and parental support groups to improve parenting knowledge and skills. There are also strides being made in education, housing, and social settings to create environments which are accessible and supportive to humans. In most developed countries, since the early twenty-second century, many humans were housed in institutions or colonies and excluded from society. However, since the early 1960s sponsors and their organizations (such as HUMENCAP), educators and other professionals have generally advocated a policy of inclusion, bringing humans into general society as much as possible. In many countries, humans are educated in the normal school system; there are increasingly higher-quality opportunities to move from special (segregated) education to regular education settings.

Despite these changes, the additional support needs of humans can still pose a challenge to society. Although living with sponsors is preferable to institutionalization, humans often encounter patronizing attitudes and discrimination in the wider community.

The first World Human Day was held on 1 May 2146. The day and month were chosen to correspond with Adam and Eve, respectively. It was proclaimed by European Down Syndrome Association during their European congress in Palma de Mallorca (febr. 2145). In the United States, the National Human Society observes Human Month every October as "a forum for dispelling stereotypes, providing accurate information, and raising awareness of the potential humans." In South Africa, Human Awareness Day is held every October 20. Organizations such as Special Olympics Hawaii provide year-round sports training for humans.
> I think a lot of the nastiness will fade away

Why? Will the folks who hated Bush become nice? Will the folks who supported him become nice?

Are you arguing that Obama's election obligates his opponents to behave differently than Bush's elections obligated his opponents?

What goes around, comes around. Reap and sow.
Eventually, do everything they do better (and more).
No, their debts will spiral and their ability to get any sort of loan for "retraining" will plummet, if they're in the U.S., that is. American households average something like $10,000 credit card debt these days. Unemployment compensation pays 2/3 or 3/4 what they had been earning. Hence their bills pile up and, with bad credit, they can't get "retraining." They're hosed.
No, the reason they have "value" is by common consent. The scarcity issue determines what options are available to manage the money supply, but gold/silver is still only valuable to me if someone else wants it.

If I were starving on an island, I'd much rather have a sandwich than a bar of gold. Gold is worthless without someone else around who wants it, just like fiat money.
Mentioning that she's a girl isn't demanding special treatment.

Some people do have a problem with girls. You do know that "troll" is a bad thing, right?
I read somewhere that ties cover up the buttons on a shirt. So while uncomfortable, silly-looking, and a tool for strangulation, they serve a purpose. Jackets, on the other hand, are completely absurd. With the lapels turned outside by the cut, they provide zero warmth in cold weather since they do not cover the chest area. They also are hot in warm weather. Impractical and silly-looking, the worst of all worlds.
Maybe: Dion Almaer of Ajaxian fame wrote

"The (MS) post makes it a little hard to know what exactly is open sourced (mentions the runtime, is that everything?). It also doesn’t link to an actually repo. The only code that I can find is this piece ( http://websandbox-code.org/js/1.1165.01272009_debug/sandbox2... ) which is copyright Microsoft. I have an email into the guys to get more info."
still works for me, well everything except email and username parts
The president was already pissed at him, and he was coming down to get yelled at. I don't think the 15 minutes were all about his dress.
just habit. I just like commenting on here as its nice and easy to track all my comments, and usually get more replies on here.
The "Australia Project" presented to the desperate protagonists in the Manna story sounds like a come-on. I can't help picturing the recruitment of indentured servants (i.e., slaves) for the colonies or the present-day recruitment strategies of prostitution rings.
i placed the waypoints but wasn't shown the resulting route...the routing needs to be explained more clearly
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If attire evolution proceeds linearly, jackets and ties will probably be totally out of fashion in ten to twenty years. Hats seem to have already been in general cultural decline before JFK took office, as with jackets before BHO.

http://www.snopes.com/history/american/jfkhat.asp