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This is a perfect reason to have sub-communities. There's nothing inherently wrong with stating your situation, and some people will love this. Others will be grumpy and feel the title is being manipulative. If this had a specific sub-HN (category) to post it into then people could simply unsubscribe to it if they didn't like it. It would be a place for different groups to gather around and feel apart of, welcome to, and then if a post is mis-categorized then it can be properly categorized to avoid all of the negative and non-constructive commentary. Glad you followed up on here. Your reasoning I imagine is what many people figured was happening.
You're correct in that it wouldn't help the deficit, but it sure would reduce the cost of airplane tickets (the TSA is funded through a $5 per segment "September 11 Security Fee" added to each ticket.)
I'm 29, and I care, though this particular topic is not important to me - and I think this is a good reason for categories to exist.
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Microsoft's RDP has always vastly outperformed VNC. I'll have to check this out and see if Linux finally has a good remote desktop tool.
That's rad man. Haters gonna hate. Keep shippin'
Your math is still way off unless you assume 100% churn rate. Assuming a reasonable churn rate in the 2nd month you will have some fraction 22 existing customers paying $4400/mo (not really sure how $4400 breaks even with $4800).
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"Getting red of the Fed is crazy?"

Yes, it's bananas crazy. Fiat money won everywhere because it outcompeted the gold standard just like mixed economies won everywhere because they outcompeted libertarianism. The story is the same for every single frontier town in the us, brazil and every other country -- more government or ghost town.

"And a lot of those aren't policies, you know. "

Those are all policy positions. Playing semantic games isn't going to change that.

""You still haven't told me what policies I wrote about above are objectionable to you""

Because the question was which Ron Paul policies are crazy. I answered that, don't move the goalposts.

"After you do that, I'll continue this conversation, but not before."

You seem to have mistaken my replies as leverage that you can take this subthread hostage for your tangent. I don't care if you continue. The fact that I don't like the Patriot Act and many other things the government does doesn't mean I'm ready to throw out the many good things it does which outweigh this by many orders of magnitude. I'm certainly not ready to chuck the mixed economy so we can go back to feudalism.

On top of being a clueless pie in the sky Randian, Ron Paul is a social issue troglodyte whose own newsletters and repeated ties to white supremacist groups should disqualify him from consideration for anything ever by any rational American.
Alrighty, here's a bit on development/inspiration.

It started a couple weeks ago with me working on some internal projects. Talking with my bosses (I intern at a company called DIY), we figured the best solution would be to use GraphicsMagick. However, looking at the libraries available, they were a bit weak for what we wanted. So, I got to work. After some toying around with concepts, I decided on the task-based system. It kept things clean, but still allowed for extensibility. My bosses really helped me out to keep it clean and make sure my code was optimal. Fast forward to now, and there's wizardry!

If you (or anyone!) has any questions, feel free to ask them.
Steve Jobs said in his launch keynote in 2007 that they'd patented the heck out of things. Things this article suggests were innovating.

So if they've innovated along the way and patented lots of it.... then this post is self-nullifying bullshit?
Wonderfully written.
yes, because it doesn't have a unique design. It signals a lack of time spent and attention to detail. Not that I don't like the idea.
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Ignore the obligatory haters. These kinds of posts are inspiring for younger HN readers and a collective kick up the arse for those of us burning a few more candles.
it's again me, i meant "and i dont give a f about anybody's age"

if he would be 10 years old or 90 it WOULD be relevant. In 15 I was makin good money selling porn online, but this is the thing nobody gives a f about xD
This book is great. Enjoyable anecdotes, and I also like his take on the subject: Every chapter, first Cialdini explains a particular phenomenon as a sort of "exploit" or flaw in the human mind, and then discusses how to protect yourself against it. Instead of framing it as ways how to sucker people.

The book also has an interesting statistic (IIRC in the chapter about cutting in line for a photo-copier) of people that were first interviewed whether they thought they'd fall for (an abstract explanation of) the trick, who were then (unknowingly, as a set up psych experiment) exposed to a real-life situation playing that exact trick.

The percentage of people that were confident they wouldn't fall for it, but then in a real-life situation did, was surprisingly high. I don't remember how high exactly (maybe someone who's also read it can fill me in here?), but it was enough to seriously question my own confidence (in not being affected by certain human flaws), and make an effort in being extra conscious about that even when I rationalize myself to be immune (which seemed to be a common theme in defence tactics).

Not so much even to avoid being suckered or allowing people to cut in line, but especially after the chapter on Kitty Genovese type tragedies (aka "the bystander effect"). That chapter btw has a bunch of more specific defence tactics such as singling out people and talking to them directly instead of to a group (even if you feel you're not qualified or whatever to be the hero, you can always say "You, sir, in the blue jacket, you seem strong enough, please jump in the water and save that person!", which may feel cowardly but if it helps breaking the "bystander spell" and someone's life being saved, what the fuck does it matter?)
On behalf of all the idiots that decided to rain on your parade, I would like to apologize. All of you should be ashamed. How dare you insult this young person whose only wish is to share his work with us?

In terms of the module, can't really comment much on your code. It looks clean and well written. I'll try and run it during my free time to get a good feel for it. Well done. Now go back and build something bigger.

PS. Shoot me an email (in profile). You might enjoy hanging out with the Nuuton team.
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Its the same price as a Chromebook, although it does have more ports, ethernet, serial and jtag useful, but pretty similar hardware spec I would guess.

I can't see any power consumption figures which is annoying.
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Windows' monopoly relies upon state-granted monopoly powers (patent/copyright). http://archive.mises.org/17366/apple-vs-microsoft-which-bene...
I was coming here to post something along those lines. After having spent several weeks in Egypt, I came to realize that the guys who run the kiosks in American malls, who I used to consider pushy, are probably the amateurs who couldn't cut it back home.

We came across a Fair Trade shop in Luxor two weeks into our trip, where not only were there were price tags, but the shopkeeper just hung in the back until we approached them. It was such a relief, as I'd gotten sick of bargaining for absolutely. Everything.
i'm not! the rapha stuff is pretty high tech, merino/synthetic blend - i just wear shorts over the bottom half, partly because i feel somewhat exposed in just lycra, partly because it's kind of drafty without. another benefit is more pockets for longer rides. i'm not sure what the shorts are made from, but they're not straight cotton anyway - they don't seem to absorb sweat.
all good and valid points. As I said this is just my opinion, but I think having a unique design is important for distinguishing yourself from the crowd and does help boost the user base, it doesn't have to be beautifull, and of course it depends on the context and your goals. Maybe in this case, it doesn't matter at all if the design is the same as many other sites. Also though, unprofessional was maybe the wrong word, I guess more apt would be "project looking" or something related because I'm so accustomed to seeing github projects that use bootstrap to have a project page in no time.
Thanks for your stand, Rob. If anyone doubts that Novus knew about this project, consider that it was hosted on the official company github account and was sitting there under an open source license for almost a year. Take a look for yourself in the job ad posted on HN in September: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4463689 It's even referred to as "open-source" in the ad. I'm guessing that when Bob asked if he could build an open source library to use with company projects, his boss told him "sure, knock yourself out". But now his boss's boss, or maybe the CEO, sees how nice it looks and wants to put the genie back in the bottle.

Luckily, "un" open sourcing projects under Apache, BSD, MIT, GPL, etc. is not so easy.
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I dont think its about blame. It is about how people experience the ecosystem as a whole. The average windows computer may consist of hardware and software from tens of different vendors, but for the end user something eiher works or it does not.
Contacting the potential users directly is always a great way to get the word out. Find out who your users are, and then cater to their issues.
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Why this instead of gm?

https://github.com/aheckmann/gm
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His age is totally relevant. I wish that at 15 I could have known just to code, he actually published code!

It's great that we see youth influenced and impacted by HN.
This thread is an early lesson in how age often makes people focus too much on little things and miss what's important.
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>Until that point, the linguist had been trying in vain to decipher the text

Well no, the linguist tried in vain to do frequency analysis by hand on ~88 symbols for ~100 pages for a couple months before saying "bugger this for a game of soldiers" and went on with her life.

"She tried a few times to catalog the symbols, in hopes of figuring out how often each one appeared. This kind of frequency analysis is one of the most basic techniques for deciphering a coded alphabet. But after 40 or 50 symbols, she’d lose track. After a few months, Schaefer put the cipher on a shelf."
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> There was no need to patent and sue when the iPhone came out in 2007...

I think the point is that they have innovated and patented along the way, but now seem to have stopped innovating and have become sharks that patent generalized ideas, thus suffocating the industry.

Real industry leaders move quick and create a new product as legendary as the original iPhone, rather than pose on their laurels and scream "you can't do that!! We did it first!"
At the risk of being downvoted for suggesting PHP, I'm still going to suggest it. You're not going to be cool for learning it but now that PHP has namespaces, a built in server, composer, great frameworks and CMS like symfony2 and flow3, and ecommerce platforms like magento and OXID, there's really no limit to what you can do on the server with it. Also, it doesn't hurt your marketability that the vast majority of all webdev jobs require you know it.
The entire PC compatible movement would have been crushed by IBM mercenaries going garage-to-garage in a free market fantasy land. Bill Gates, coming from a wealthy family, would be the only one who could afford his own mercenaries.
That's great. Surround yourself with as many good mentors as you can and take full advantage of their experience. I've probably learned more over the years from great bosses than I did in school.

Congrats on publishing the module. :)
You accused me of strawmanning and strawmanned my comment in a single post. Congratulations.
Not only that, but Microsoft's Z3 supports ocaml and is still the first google hit for "z3 ocaml" in my search bubble: http://www.google.com/search?q=z3+ocaml

This project should change its name as soon as possible.
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Thanks for all the downvotes, guys!

I'm not talking about "responsible disclosure" and I'm not sure why people assumed I do.

If I see that a person has their fly open, I'd go and discretely alert them of that. Similarly, if someone has a note saying "I am stupid" taped to their back (which I think is a good analogy to what the spam on github is), I would do the same.

I wouldn't go shouting "hey, github has an 'I am stupid' sign taped on their back" in town square, which is what posting it on HN amounts to.
You are long on insults and short on specifics.

I guarantee you, as long as quality concerns remain a major motivating factor for Apple buyers, Apple will develop competitors who attempt to deliver it as well. They will never match Apple, but eventually will deliver good enough quality for the buying market.

And it isn't new ideas that they need. It is new value propositions that people will want to buy. And no, they aren't going to believe you if you show up claiming to be able to generate them. So your inability to suddenly rise to the top of Apple is not evidence against what I said.
This is a good editorial on the subject: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-23/why-businesses-can-...
> I challenge you to give me one very specific example of how something is not going to work in a libertarian world and I'm going right here right now to prove you how it actually would work

What do you mean by "libertarian world"? Libertarianism is a spectrum, so it's hard to give examples without knowing what specific kind of libertarian world we are discussing.

For instance, there are some libertarians who say there should be NO government. Everything should be handled by markets and private property rights. To those libertarians, my example would be dealing with crime. For instance, suppose you come home and find that a crime has been committed against you--perhaps something of yours has been stolen, or a family member has been killed.

You call a police company (one of many competing private police companies) and hire them to investigate the crime. As part of their investigation, they determine that they would like to talk to me, and that they believe important evidence is in my house.

When they knock on my door and ask to search my house, I'm going to tell them to go away (and I'm going to back that request with force--both my own guns, and the guns of the private police force I have hired to keep trespassers off my land).

Oops. With no government, who issues search warrants and provides the force to execute them?

I've seen various attempts to resolve this problem, but none that would actually work, where by "work" I mean achieve the outcome that they are intended to achieve.
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I used this one few times and though it's good it doesn't offer the full API to the underlying libraries.

So, I appreciate any new NPM and if it's just for the sake of competition pushing the boundaries of the entire Node ecosystem.
Went in there with the aim of exploring the trees question, and hypothesized there might be relationships between that and obvious demographic questions. The "crankiness" bit was much more driven by exploratory analysis.

We take a fairly pragmatic approach to the multiple comparisons problem you're highlighting. If p-values are < 0.00001 we don't really worry unless we're doing a crazy amount of analyses. And when we do get p-values that are borderline (like .01) and we're doing multiple comparisons we'll mention that there may or may not be something actually happening there (as we did in our post about Baltimore parking tickets: http://blog.statwing.com/baltimore-parking-tickets-revisited...).

For what it's worth, I think ceph_'s comment and link below (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116165781554501615.html) about the relationship between trees and gentrification is the best available guess as to what's ultimately driving these attitudes. But yeah, it's probably a combination of a lot of things, many of which aren't actually about trees per se.
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At least they didn't go public and tank subsequently, and their downfall looks like it is happening before any IPO would be a risk.

Big consumer IPOs which tank hurt investor confidence across the market, and particularly in the tech IPO sector in the future.
Yea... I willingly and purposefully gave up a Victorox knife to a TSA agent, giving her my address even, because she promised to mail it to me, as it had sentimental value to me. I carried it in my pocket every day, and just threw it in without thinking. Needless to say, never saw or heard of it again. (I at least imagine that some family member of hers is enjoying it as a consolation to myself.) I would have been better off just trying to sneak it through; worst case scenario would have had the same results.
Considering their P/E is so low, AAPL is likely undervalued and so their stock is likely to gain in the coming year. A major reason for this current drop is that funds and institutional investors are trying to lock up profits before year end and before any potential rise in capital gains taxes.
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You seem to have missed "See how silly that is?"
"The stock has been artificially inflated for too long and this was bound to happen some time."

Actually, Apple's P/E ratio has been fairly modest for a long time, especially compared to other tech companies that don't rake in as much cash. Microsoft's P/E is nearly 15, compared to Apple's 12.
Seems inconsistent to bring up nanotech, etc., yet keep climate hell as a fixed background. Of course attempted fixes will run into issues, small or catastrophic, but they're bound to exist.
Seeking validation isn't a bad thing, and it's not unique to young people. Older people are more subtle about it.
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Ask HN: What are your web analytics missing?
If you're using out of the box solutions (Google Analytics, KISSMetrics, Mixpanel, etc), what do you wish they did that they don't currently?

If you've built a custom solution, what did you feel the out of the box solutions were missing?
Rothbard is clearly a libertarian economist and I never said that all "libertarian" economists must be Austrians. You might want to not talk about things being unscientific when you fail to back up your assertions.

It has been fashionable since the success of the natural sciences in the 1800's to attempt to apply the methods of the natural sciences to the social sciences. Concepts like "equilibrium" are applied incorrectly because a person goes on to striving for the next thing right after achieving the first and markets are in a constant flux.

On why mathematical economics is a failure, see here: http://mises.org/daily/3540
And an equal amount of people who are outraged that anyone is discussing that it's relevant.
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Already at 15 you've done more than (I would wager) most of the people on this site -- you've shipped open source.

Congratulations, and ignore the haters. Remember that it doesn't matter what you think or say, it matters what you do. Creating software is more important than talking about it.
As tferris said, gm is a bit restrictive. I wanted something a lot more open and extensible.
Tablet - with mobile data or tether to phone?
For those who have tablets... do you guys have one with mobile data or just tether to your phone? I'm looking to get the Nexus 7 and don't see the point in spending $50 for the option to have mobile data and then another $20+ a month for data plan (I don't have shared data plan - I have unlimited Verizon 4G plan).

It's seems there are apps available to tether and as long as I'm not using the phone and tablet simultaneously, speed wouldn't be impacted?

Curious as to which is the better option to choose. Also, I know my unlimited data plan won't last forever, so perhaps getting the one with mobile data could be useful (so that if/when I go on a shared plan I can have my Nexus 7 join the party? Although, I suppose I could STILL just tether... no?)

What do you guys think?
Combine this board with a 256GB SSD and WiFi, and you have a prototype for a puck sized PC. Add some apps, to allow you to use a laptop or a netbook as an input device, and there might be a compelling product developed on here.
You're still thinking of the regionals as upstarts against the prior two parties. Think of them as specializations with loose affiliations with existing parties: not threats but allies. The 'Republican' brand is so marginalized in some places (including large parts of California) that pragmatic national fundraisers have already given up on it.

(I also think you're overestimating the economies of scale in party fundraising: look how much now happens outside the parties themselves -- independent expenditures -- and directly by specific candidates. It's only at the margins in winnable races that national party funds come in, and even that now has to be weighed against the negatives the national brand can bring. The new pools of money -- from both mass crowdsourcing and wealthy crusaders -- care more about winning than 20th-century party labels... and in the national legislatures independents/other-parties can and will caucus with other groups for the purpose of parliamentary procedures.)
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Firewire is awesome for the attacker, unfortunately few servers have it, especially not externally exposed ports. Also, smart OSes use some of the newer Intel features (VT-d) to lock down DMA while the OS is running, which usually protects from rogue firewire, and can theoretically help against rogue PCIe, although usually badly implemented in chipset and OS.

Another option is a reboot onto a custom OS which is designed specifically to preserve memory (you get a safe few seconds of holdover). LiveKd is pretty cool (sysinternals)

There are PCIe cards which do processor/network and let you explore main memory -- WindowsSCOPE CaptureGUARD for PCIe or ExpressCard. Probably enough time to pop the case open and throw one in before memory degrades.

Countermeasures are numerous -- everything from doing memory encryption inside the CPU die (putting code in the cache, like TRESOR) and doing hypervisor tricks ("TresorVisor") (http://www1.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/tresor) to using Hardware Security Modules (like the SafeNet or Thales nCipher) to just keeping your servers physically secured from intruders who might memory-analyze them (although a software bootloader and remote-reboot could still be applied).

Forensics as a field seems to be a lot more interested in attacking mobile phones (which is one of the things I'm talking about at RSA 2013), but desktops and servers are still interesting targets.
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Well done, @remixz!
I do believe that it's closest siblings are Chromebook and Nexus 10. Graphics benchmarks are slightly under the Nexus 10 but that could be due to a number of things. [1]

For me the main interest are the schematics and fudging a quad core when it arrives. As well as having all the peripherals available for development choices.

[1]http://www.glbenchmark.com/phonedetails.jsp?benchmark=glpro2...