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> Lieutenant Hornblower - C.S. Forrester. Shogun taught me that reading historical fiction made regular history much more interesting, which made me seek out more historical fiction. This is a series of 12 books covering the career of a British navel man during the Napoleonic Wars. Gene Roddenberry based the character of Jean Luc Picard on its protagonist. My recommendation won't be as strong as these gentlemen though: "I find Hornblower admirable." -Winston Churchill, and "I recommend Forester to everyone literate I know," -Ernest Hemingway

If you liked this, check out Patrick O'Brian's "Master and Commmander" series - it's the cream of the crop for this sort of historical fiction (or any sort, really).
Cognitive dissonance? I think those who claim that IP's aren't identity would still claim that with regards to Warner Brothers. It's just delightful schadenfreude that claiming that it is identity would now implicate Warner Brothers. You can still believe the first while thinking the second is humorous without any doublethink.

In case this doesn't reflect my views re:piracy/copyright; I think that it's ethically wrong but the greater crime is disproportionate lawsuits, inappropriate DMCA takedowns, and lobbying for laws that remove freedom of speech from the internet.
Does it help to realize that the amount of money spent on abortion is basically a rounding error?
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"good design" is subjective. being a good designer is being able to draw specific emotions from viewers in my opinion
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isn't it obvious? such posts should carry a screenshot of downornot.com page for the concerned site?
All too often I have been amazed by RMS's foresight, I would say ignore him at ones peril, but by all means temper his advice.
Mezzanine 1.3 and Cartridge 0.7 (Django CMS and Ecommerce platforms) released
Linux Distros intoduced in 2012
From what I understand you can't join an RT tablet to AD and manage it as a device. This would be a problem in most big businesses.
A gmail account is tied to your identity, an absolute pain to sign up for, and requires your mobile number.
JavaScript had a bad reputation far before Node.js was introduced. It was blatantly inferior to begin with, and it hasn't really improved since, but for whatever reason people don't recognize the inferiority like they used to.

While its prototype-based nature may have some theoretical benefits, in practice it has obviously been disastrous. I suspect that it is the cause of more terrible code than JavaScript's numerous other serious problems.

In order to make something truly usable out of JavaScript, you essentially have to discard all of its core features and syntax. At that point, one should ask why there's even any point in bothering. If JavaScript basically needs to be twisted into something resembling C++, Java, C#, Ruby or Python to be truly useful, then why not just go with those languages instead?
Previous discussion, based on the original post from the maintainer (which this article doesn't really add anything to): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4956899
You can even donate a domain or have your own "private" mailinator domain by simply pointing the MX record for a domain or subdomain you control to their server.
Funny! Just today I gave my girlfriend a monoprice tablet after seeing the review by this guy. I'm writing this message with it– it's awesome! Better than any of the Wacoms live used either at school or work, and with a pretty hackable (though already more than acceptable) case. (Running Mountain Lion on a MacBook Pro.) There was a time when Wacom was the only dog in town, seems that won't be the case for much longer.
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Ask HN: Host Gator Hijacked my domain name. What should I do?
This is for a friend who just posted this on fb

"Need Your advise on something :
I have had a blog about linux since 2007, today after 6 years I transfered my domain name (shevin.info) to Hostgator, when I noticed they charged my credit card 5 times, I emailed and they said they are sorry and refund me soon, but soon I got an email from their billing depratment they said my domain got deleted and blocked because I am from Iran and acording to US law they are not allowed to do bussines with me, the sad part is , they do NOT let me to transfer my domain back to godaddy.com
they have chagned my domain name ownership from ME to Hostgator,
I am pretty sure what they do to me is illegal, since I am In USA LEGALY and not in IRAN and they should NOT deny service to me because of my birthplace...so Hostgator hijacked my domain name...I need everyone's advise, is there any media or place I can go and ask to kick their ass ? what should I do ? I knew apple did it and they had to appolgize ( they had denied to sell an iranian an ipad after medias talked about it they appologized that iranian) which media would help me ?"
brin's "existence" was definitely up there.
What, exactly, can you sue a free service that is proposing some new TOS for?
Yeah, the developer is going to want to fix that quick smart. At a complete guess they are two strings being generated in quick succession from the same seed, and they both happen to be very close. End result is that I can guess your email.
"singularity sky" is not necessarily my favourite stross book, but it's the one that impressed me the most. one of the best treatments of FTL in a relativistic universe I've seen (as in "fine, have FTL, but you can't ignore the fact that it violates causality".)
Link returns 404 :(
and have challenging/interesting projects
UC Logic tablets have been around for a long, long time. We bought a pair for $24.99 each (DigiPro brand) from ThinkGeek around 2006, they had great accuracy. One of them still works today.
This application is being written on the WinRT platform which is a wrapper around win32 for writing windows 8 applications using HTML and Javascript. it's not really a browser application, it just happens to use html and javascript as it's UI layer hence it doesn't use things like localstorage or web sql etc.
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This was a fantastic insight. Thanks for writing.
I'm not sure that it makes sense to compare RMS to (say) suicide bombers. Not all "fanaticism" is equivalent.
I would be interested to know why that is a blocker for you. For media consumption, at least as I normally practice it, that sounds like a detail I'd only notice by reading the code rather than perceiving it in the audio.
It's not like the problem with the copyright lawsuits is finding enough offending IP addresses.
They don't require mobile numbers, and setting up a throwaway gmail takes about a minute, not tied to your identity at all. You don't even have to click and activation link, if you pass the CAPTCHA.

That being said, they certainly have IP logs, so make sure to enable Tor.
This seems vague. Who is this guy and what does he make?
Heads up - iOS only.
Yahoo! Mail has such a feature, which I use and love. They do call it "disposable addresses", because you dump them when they start bringing spam.
When you learn, the myelin between the relevant neurons increases. The Talent Code discusses this at length, and argues that skill in something is a function of myelin strength.
I've always wondered why a site that blocks mailinator sites wouldn't just do an MX lookup on any domain you put in and check for mailinator redirects.
Re The Master, can you please elaborate on "shallow and empty script"? My wife felt similarly ~"it's a huckster and a lost child searching, duh." I felt there was more. Re "two great performances," I presume you refer to Pheonix and Hoffman -- agreed, and add Amy Adams. It was shot beautifully. Jonny Greenwood's score was enough on its own to see it a second time.
How to measure the cost of an A/B test?
At my past few companies, there has been heavy investment into live A/B tests on the customer population. However, for bigger companies that have more exposure, I have a worry that we may not be able to have the proper ways to measure the real cost of an A/B test that may 1) Have negative PR or branding effects 2) Conflict with the objectives of other features.<p>Sure we can measure customer drop off or engagement, but given the number of tests and projects at any given time, there are too many confounding factors to isolate those measures to a particular test. I'd love to hear from Hackernews suggestions! Thanks!
"Seriously doing business is all about knowing few key business logics. If you know, those logics there is no way your business can fail. And I have pretty much learned them by heart and I am pretty confident, I can take any business to heights."

Pray tell. I would be interested in hearing what the few things you need to know to make infallible businesses.
you should probably get a lawyer to write a letter, unfortunately. Publicity won't hurt, but a legal letter is probably what will make them notice.
Well he sells wordpress themes.... oh and does business training.
Probably because it's harder than /@mailinator.com$/i. And the determined will always succeed anyway, so why go to great lengths?
if the transit God's deem you worthy you might have a chance at getting there in 30 minutes. :) enjoy your stay!
Can a lot of money make people keep a bad job? How badly can you treat your employees if you pay them bucket-loads?
I have a website that gives freebies (=$$$) to new signups, so allowing throwaway accounts makes people do things like sign up for 100 accounts.

Not giving freebies is of course an option, but then there is goodwill lost on that end instead.

It sucks both ways. At least I don't spam my users, but they of course only trust that assertion so far and I certainly don't blame them - there seems to have been a significant rise in email marketing in the last 6+ months - probably some annoying YC startup or two making it much too easy for sites I signed up for at some point but really don't want to hear from send me email... Tsk, tsk ;)
They may have avoided screenshots because the software isn't quite a looker.
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This is just an educated guess, but I am fairly certain that this wouldn't hold up in a US court if they were to sue over it. Banning something as broad as a link to a website would probably run into serious first amendment issues. Further, they probably would never sue over it, because once they test in in court and lose, then the clause is demonstrably invalid. If it's never tested, they can still use it in C&D notices to try to intimidate people.
if I am not wrong, Khan Academy is built upon Google App Engine.
The OP called him a fanatic not a suicide bomber. Just because some fanatics make themselves into bombs doesn't mean it's the definition.
I'm pretty sure that you can be a fanatic without being a suicide bomber, and that he didn't imply "RMS is like a suicide bomber".

I am prepared to acknowledge that he might well be right in his positions on freedom, but he comes across as a lunatic in most of his talks. I have a problem with this; if what he's saying is important, could we not advance a more charismatic, tactful and effective ambassador?
So the article does not give ANY information on what the author built and/or what specific things he learned. No idea how this is on the front page.
Seriously, anyone who claims mobile phones are the work of the devil, and should not be trusted, but will then use someone else's whenever its convenient, is a hypocrite not a visionary.
>The war on terror is a giant hoax, more people are killed every year choking on peanut butter.

The fact that the Islamists don't kill millions every year doesn't make it a "giant hoax". The fact that they haven't killed more isn't due to a lack of motivation, only to a lack of means. And they've been reaching for the means.
Sorry if it annoys anyone to bring in politics on this beautiful article here on Christmas, but here's what I have to say:

Bookmark this article. Then, next time you are talking to some dittohead who is in favor of No Child Left Behind-style education, you can send them the link and say, "where does this fit in with your standardized testing horseshit?"
I'm finding that the secret url is very very close to the actual email addresses in most cases. It's fairly trivial to guess inbox addresses based on email addresses. Is this ideal?
When to ignore perfectly good advice
Has anyone out there created a utility that will download and delete any gmail messages older than 6 months, storing them only in an encrypted local store?
This article is full of grammatical and spelling errors, and reads as blogspam.
Yeah, I even looked around on the blog and found nothing.. Marketing 101: link to your product.
They've been around, but I don't know of anyone who took them seriously back then (as a designer). My memory was that the driver was really spotty (the current one seems to work pretty well) and the pens broke very quickly. At the time the Wacoms were built like tanks, and so on the surface at least it seemed like a no-brainer for professional work. I never tried a Yiynova so I can't say for that but the second hand reviews I got weren't so great either until now, with the UC Logic components. Anyway, I'm glad that more people are discovering them now, especially myself! ;)
Key business logic #1: get people interested by saying that the awesome stuff is coming next.
Looks like he sells WordPress themes: http://www.inkthemes.com/
You should append the PositiveSSL CA 2 intermediate certificate to your certificate file. That comodo cert isn't in a few browsers'/systems' certificate stores yet.

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=receiveee.com

Your nginx configuration ssl ciphersuite list includes single DES, too, when it shouldn't.
http://www.efytimes.com/e1/fullnews.asp?edid=97274
You seriously expect us to believe this? Your comment, at least in my mind, just adds to my opinion of how truly evil companies such as yours are. Have you no shame whatsoever?
Kudos. I had fun with your site, made an account and intend to return for more races. I hope this leads to something for you.
Didn't get aorund reading it till this year, but I highly recommend _The Windup Girl_ by Paolo Bacigalupi. _Pump 6 and Other Stories_ by him is also quite good. Finally got around to reading the Takahashi Kovec's novels, _Altered Carbon_ by Richard K Morgan and it's sequels.
Perhaps they're just something akin to a umbrella corporation. That leaves their different divisions room to pursue different goals.
Apparently he sold wordpress themes for that amount.
http://www.inkthemes.com/
This alligator seems a little closer to the boat, why don't we take care of it first? HTTP Authentication

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1353
This is the most informed post here so far. A couple of important points to add.

The problem is 2703(f). It allows a government entity to request a snapshot of a user's account "pending the issuance of a court order or other process", meaning that 180 days later, the government can just issue a subpoena - they get their foot in the door and then come back later with the lowered bar, and only need a subpoena. Same effect as not having warrant protection.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2703

It's important to point out that the 90-day notification can be renewed indefinitely, pursuant to 2703(f)(2), which is probably a breach of what the 4th Amendment intended.
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This will only be addressed because this case has publicity. Have you considered that you may have been drinking some kool-aid?
Is he talking about Indian Rupees? I had never heard of a Lakh as a unit of currency before (wikipedia says its 100,000 units, still not super clear http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakh)

What is his business? What did he learn from the affiliate who was selling for him?
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I'm not sure why so many think Javascript is bad. In my opinion, the new version of ECMAScript is heading in the wrong direction by adding classes and more Java/C++ features. C++ has so much cruft I can't possibly remember all that stuff (the standard is hundreds of pages if I recall correctly). Javascript has the benefit of being a very powerful, light-weight language.

CoffeeScript removes the quirks of Javascripts and emphasizes the functional aspects. My Coffeescript code is easily more expressive than the C++ code to do something equivalent (as long as it's not low-level system stuff or HPC critical). First-class functions, maps, folds -- yes please! And even though Javascript objects aren't technically maps, everyone uses them for that (and V8 optimizes them for that) and the syntax is amazingly brief.

I think Javascript for a desktop API is a good idea. As to Microsoft's implementation of such a desktop API, I can't comment since I haven't used it.

EDIT: Just read through the Windows Javascript API. Holy crap, they screwed that up badly! So much potential...
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Would be cool if the paper airplanes could be customized -- there's lots of ways to fold them, after all!
+1 for a nice library that makes it look like the HTML5 API and that uses promises for both cases. I may even end up writing it myself.
There's no reason why they can't, but there are many reasons why they won't.
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Let me steal packets of coffee from the breakroom and I will follow you to the gates of Hell and back.
Or Amish.
Not entirely sure, but it is possible that V8 is dynamically linked, and thus you would only get the 10MB hit once. Any experts around to confirm or deny that?
10 people; 4 people on the actual sysadmin/operations side, 6 people who managed the higher application layer for the distributed filesystem, job management, etc.

If you're just talking the spinning disk and servers, probably ~$5-6MM/year. If you include the StorageTek tape archives, add in another $5MM-10MM.

Netflix operating income for FY2011 was $376 million.
pull request for the Chicago Manual of Style?
So the FSF's (read: Stallman's) opinion is that not only should a distro ship with only 100% free software, that users should be actively prevented/discouraged from installing "non-free" software onto their computers?

This is why most people think he's a fucking crackpot.
Relevant: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/open-minded-conservat...

Supposedly based on an actual study - I'll let you vet the sources ;)
Google already does not fulfill subpoenas for email seizures in many cases due to the decision in Warshak - their contention is that they cannot be sure if the user resides or uses their email under the jurisdiction of the Sixth Circuit.

It's puzzling to think about why Warshak wasn't appealed to the Supreme Court (SC), where a decision would have federal instead of regional consequences. The Justice Department most likely felt such a move could easily end in the SC siding with the Sixth, ending the free lunch on electronic communications seizures that law enforcement currently enjoys.
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Yeah, I actually wrote some similar functions for java when I first started experimenting with ruby on the side. I agree it's a big improvement on for loops but there's still a lot of line noise; the anonymous class(as you mention) and having to passing the collection into a static method which is never great. Importing Collections2 statically does make it a bit more pleasant though.
Reasonable people make progress but we always need fanatics. Fanatics keep the reasonable people in check and on track.
RMS is great at reminding the reasonable people of the importance of freedom in their software.
Go to linuxconf and notice all the reasonable people slowly transitioning away from Linux and toward MacOS.
Someone who will continually remind you that your current convenience has a future cost is useful.
Sorry, my initial comment was about RMS and 'freedom in computing'. The article(s) are more about his ability to lead a team, and in that they may indeed be valid (and at first glance do seem to be). As to the cellular phones, sure they have been empowering to almost everyone in the world (and I esp. think of 3rd world countries), but I think we have yet to see the end game. Hypocrite, maybe, practical yes.
...or getting you on the same list of subversives he is on.
Drivers were fine, little to none jitter, good pressure sensitivity. The windows software for calibration was ugly but completely functional, you could set the sensitive area (great for widescreen), define hotspots etc. You could even set it to a "mouse mode" (relative movement) and play FPS games with it :)

Wacoms over here used to cost up to 20x as much (>$500). This made the DigiPro ones the no-brainers. At the time tablets were not common at all due to high prices. They still sell the exact same model for bargain prices, but intuos/bamboo have fallen to the $100-200 range.
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It's my first of his novels, I'll check out the others. I can see the point on length, I wonder how much of that is a function of translation and of the desire to create the sensation of having lived that year. I just finished, so it'll take me some time to gain a better perspective on it.
Marxism is also arguably a philosophy about humans should interact, and like libertarianism -- in the sense that you're using it -- it's a philosophy which seems to be rather at odds with what we've actually seen in human society throughout all of recorded history.

The problem is that even if all the stakeholders agree to a given sociopolitical system that agreement lasts for only one generation. The second and future generations consist of people who didn't explicitly sign up for your system, and there are only three options for them. If they have both somewhere to go to and the resources to get there, they can leave, but neither of those are necessarily under your group's control and thus that may not be a viable option. They can stay and submit to The Way You Do Things, which they may not fully agree with no matter how perfect you think that way happens to be. Or they can stay and try to change The Way You Do Things, which is not likely to be successful if The Way You Do Things works well enough for most people.

So the second option is by far the most likely -- and it's not an option those people ever explicitly agreed to. This is the situation most libertarians (and Marxists) face today, but this is not a situation that gets fixed by discarding the concept of the state. Either being born into a society that has rules you didn't explicitly agree to and that only gives you a "take it or leave it," non-negotiable implicit contract for citizenship is coercive, or it isn't.
Very interesting to hear about Windows Phone navigation. How does Nokia Drive compare to Google Maps?
Having one account = one person = one device is clearly lucrative for Apple.
There are protobuf bindings for many languages, though I hear node.js was a bit of a pain. Check the clients page and see if the language you need is there; I can help you build one if not.

For pulling from other tools, I usually write a little daemon to poll and relay the data. See riemann-tools for a collection of existing tools to do just that; and you can require it as a library to write your own in just a few lines of ruby.

Forwarding between servers is built in; it's easy to aggregate events in hierachies for large-scale analysis.
It's probably worthwhile to differentiate between local network access and remote network access, and also differentiating between spinning disks and SSD.

Local gigabit network ping time is 200 μs and an SSD typically reads a 4K block in 25 μs. I imagine that converts to 200,000 time units and 25,000 time units, respectively.
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Django Unchained - Cloud Atlas - Looper - Argo - Easily the best movies I saw this year, they were all really, really awesome.
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... And Google has been for years. $50 a year per user seems reasonable and surely covers expenses