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The FDIC is funded by banks. The FDIC did not have to use taxpayer dollars during the financial crisis. In practice, the FDIC has not been involved in these socialized risks you speak of, though if it ran out of money, the government would back it up.

The FDIC also provides public benefits, like avoiding economy-crippling bank runs.

It's a good thing.
If you don't trust the bank, don't put your money there. Otherwise, put your money at the Bank of the United States, backed by and owned by the full faith of the US taxpayer.

I will not bail out private money making banks via the FDIC via my tax dollar.

If you put money into a private bank, then when it fails, you should lose that money.
I have, and do so regularly.
I'm hoping and wishing for something better than Facebook to come along so I can jump ship, because of things like this.
I like it.

I couldn't tell at the start and so I guessed based on which logos looked best composed, then I noticed the uniqueness particularly in r and t letter forms.

This actually gave me a new respect Helvetica.
Did you read the second part of it (and the article to which it links)? The implication is that Facebook is generating unintended likes for users out of thin air, so to speak. The screenshots provided clearly show what appear to be genuine "likes", not just a misleading juxtaposition. Moreover, it asserts that said users, once notified, were able to go manually "unlike" the content they claimed never to have liked in the first place.

I have no idea if this is actually happening, but if so it's quite a malicious practice on Facebook's part.
Stanford is hosting the Intro to Databases class [1] on class2go, while the previous run was hosted on Coursera.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4880112
Credit unions participate in the NCUA, which is decidedly not private.

http://www.ncua.gov/Pages/default.aspx
119 total. nice work
Thanks! However, I'm not seeing any speedup. On lein 2.0.0, there doesn't seem to be any difference between using and not using drip. (Everything I tried got me startup times around the 28s-31s).
[Max from the Team] Unfortunately, we don't have it up on a site. The reason here is that the MIDI keyboard is connected via USB, and thus would require us to establish a TCP connection to the server. The additional latency could definitely have a negative impact on responsiveness, which is a tradeoff that we didn't want to make at this time.

That being said, remote hosting of the site would be the next big feature, if we continue working on the application. ;-) [edit]
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Exactly; that's not a secondary source, it's a primary one. I don't think you'd want to cite it any more than you'd want to cite an interview with that resident.
yea it's a great use of RFID and i hope to see it commercial within the year
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This is nothing new. Any facebook user has likely seen tons of these on their feed and so it's only somewhat logical to assume that, for your friends, you might come up in a similar fashion.

In fact, isn't this completely related? http://mashable.com/2013/01/03/facebook-settlement-email/. I think what the OP is referring to is exactly what Facebook calls a "Sponsored Story".

I don't think that this is Facebook "impersonating me without my consent". Perhaps it is Facebook "using me to advertise products without my consent". Either way, if I like "Spotify" on Facebook and then some of their posts come up on my friends' feeds because "So and So likes Spotify" then I understand that it is a form of advertising and I'm not going to throw a fit over it.

It's wrong if Facebook says that I like something which I don't. However, that isn't what they're doing at all.
This may be an unnecessary warning, but unless you have a model release signed by Angelina Jolie to use her image to promote your site, you should probably find another photo to use.

I'm not a lawyer and laws vary by state, but in most states, to use someone's image commercially, you need a model release, which basically a contract stating that they have received appropriate compensation for use of their image. (Note, it is not necessary to have a model release for "news" uses.)

Failing to do so opens you up to being sued. Using a celebrity's image increases that likelihood because they have a legitimate claim that their image is worth something.
I am hoping to complete my MEd in December, and I want to complete an mvp of an os ed tool as my masters project. I wrote a bit about the tool I envision previously [1], and I recognize that the next step is writing a proper spec. That will be part of the masters work.

Nice to see another teacher on here!

[1] http://peak5390.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/why-do-programmers-...
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> I still think it is impossible because nobody can be an expert in everything

Expertise is not a prerequisite to good governance. Let's face it: no one knows everything about anything. You get by with what you do.

> it is something I personally don't want to do. I have other interests than politics.

I'm not proposing to take those things away from you.

I have other interests than eating food, but I still do that every day.
Except the gender ratios for interests are not all equal. For every gamer girl, there are multiple gamer guys hitting on her.
the problem is the bailout, just don't bail them out.
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> Another common fallacy is that you can weigh 300 pounds and yet attract a 110 lb waif.

For guys, being skinny isn't considered that attractive though. Better than being fat, but not as good as being buff.
I don't always hate on the patriarchy, but when I do it's because of crap like this.
Its only disgusting because the interface is so fluid
I mention it at the end of the article, unfortunately the latest linux kernel and latest patches from GRSecurity don't compile.
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Definitely check out the full list too because there ARE some great apps which didn't make it into the final 20.
I've added some comments to the ssh config to be more clear and provided some examples and a citation to the shared memory line.
The FDIC is bailed out by the taxpayer, so does the private banks. It's a nothing but socializing the risks, while privatizing the profits. It's immoral.

China does things right here, when it fails due to your corruption, you get executed, instead of bailed out.
You should just put it up with a javascript keyboard! I'd love to play around with it.
Congratulations I think it's awesome and would really be great for people who want to make mashups/mixes but don't want to spend a bunch of money on the equipment. Good luck to you and your team!
> This "crap" has been happening for thirty years, but no one in the tech community (except perhaps Aaron Swartz) didn't care when it has happening to poor, mostly minority folks.

You probably meant 'cared' not 'didn't care'.

I think lots of people care, but they are not capable of marshalling a significant amount of noise in the press. The press doesn't really do its job as the fourth estate when it comes to issues like these.

> Yes. For a very long time.

So have I, but I was stupid enough to get side-tracked somewhere along the line. I'm re-visiting that now, whatever it was that I did it resulted in me throwing my principles overboard thinking that I wasn't able to change things so I had better go with the flow. Worst mistake of my life, but not too late to fix.
Um... okay whatever you say captain. I'm sure a baller like you doesn't have to prove your player status to a random nobody on a nerd forum, so I appreciate your going out of the way to do it. Coupled with your previous complaints about how unfair social dynamics can be, you don't at all sound pathetic.
Wow...didn't even think about that. Looking to find a new image now. Thanks!
Congrats on the game!

...when I sold my first software at 11 I did not make a big fuzz about my age, though.
I suggest you do add this on cdnjs ;) https://github.com/cdnjs/cdnjs
I always find it fascinating how the prevailing christian attitudes about sex have spread so well to the entire population, even as that same population is less and less christian.

In this case, you are implying that mature adults sex lives should not include one night stands with people they have no emotional attachment to. Why?
It's pretty obvious, at least to me, that the person liked just the brand, and that the brand is just advertising a post below the like. I would think it would say "Johnny Wonny liked VICE's post" if the user liked the post.
I totally agree with you about that. It could be that when she was younger she had some pictures taken, signed a release and some agency/photog. owns the rights. This agen(t)/cy in turn could sell the image for a specific use and she can't do anything about it.

Now, if it's hers and she's got the (c) on it, then she could sue for all kinds of damages, if used without express consent.

I have no idea when this image was taken.
Okay, that is a definate then.

Leave.
Insane simple mobile photo sharing
I would say 'liking' a page is consent to have 'Friend likes this page' appear in your friends' news feeds. It doesn't state that they liked that particular post.

Annoying or not, I always thought it was reasonably clear that the post was coming from the page, not from the friend.
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These are worth looking at. The majority of these "Offer Screens" don't look anything like offers, and look everything like license agreements - you know, those walls of text that no-one reads and everyone clicks "Accept" on. There's a 2010 video of the install process here, jump to 3:06min on the NSIS video.

http://installmonetizer.com/AT_Help.php

5 of the 42 Offer Screens are duplicates / same company, so I only count 37 advertisers. That's assuming this is the entirety of the offers available.

At least one of the offers "allows you to find retailers... by inserting contextual links on websites you are browsing". Another says "In order to keep software free, you will be served advertising through in-text and pop-up ads in your browser, they are targeted and relevant."

I'd love to know why this was funded.
Ask HN: Which developer laptop should I buy?
Hey HN,

I am looking to buy a new laptop. My primary OS will be ubuntu. Which laptop would you guys recommend? My main criteria is that it should be light and work without any hiccups with ubuntu.

I've been looking around and it seems a lot of developers prefer Lenovo X220. The new carbon X1 looks good too. Does anyone have any experience with them?

Has anyone tried running Ubuntu (dual boot or otherwise) on a Macbook Air? Does it work without any issues?

Any of the new touchscreen laptops worth checking out?

My budget is around a 1000$ but I wouldn't mind spending some more if it means getting the best machine.

Thanks for your suggestions!
Well it's a shitty routine to have. Not being able to assume good faith is what's destroying trust in the services we use.
Why would there be age restrictions, other than the usual "can't collect user data under 13"?
Seems like an indirect link like this http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.w... works too
I imagine Canonical makes more revenue from supporting server installations than it gets from the desktop.
Controvsery is defined as: Disagreement, typically when prolonged, public, and heated

There's not really any controversy here. Y'all aren't even pretending this isn't insanely offensive. You just seem to feel okay about it.
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Congratulations on not only getting into programming, but having the tenacity to finish and ship an actual product. I also started programming at your age and I am glad I had such a head start. My advice would be keep learning all you can about professional software development and all the related fields (networking, system administration, database admin, etc), and prepare yourself for the future opportunities that will likely be coming your way.
"There is one other chance: Tufte is giving a lecture about his forthcoming book, Beautiful Evidence, tonight. The only problem is that it’s scheduled at the same time as my IHUM final. I try to calculate what grade I will get if I skip the final. I decide that if I zip through the test answering the easy questions and jog over to where Tufte is speaking, I should be able to get enough of both. So that’s exactly what I do."
True enough. I think someone should put out an app to keep track of and share info about guys who use apps which objectify women like that.
"Obviated by government protection" BECAUSE of their size. Thus the slogan "too BIG to fail".

When big banks make money by taking crazy risks, they earned every penny and how DARE we try to tax or regulate them. When they lose money by taking risks, we need to bail them out for the good of the free world and how DARE we ask to be paid back. Small banks do not have this attitude.
By now, everyone should know that anything you post or do, at all, on Facebook is probably going to become public at some point. That is how Facebook makes its money. If you value your privacy then simply don't use Facebook. I stopped about 2 years ago and quite frankly I haven't missed it for a moment.

If you do want to use Facebook then accept that your data is not your own, no matter what they say and quit complaining about it.
Good luck with the more detailed specification. I shall read it with interest. In the UK we tend to have many small outcomes per lesson, and a second document called a scheme of work tracks the large arc of a year's work.
Or the third panel of http://xkcd.com/207/
This is one reason why I try to stay away from getting multiple games that use linked accounts. For example, I haven't been on battle.net since Blizzard started linking all your registrations. I have a Steam account, but I use it as little as possible. (I originally intended to register a separate account for every Steam game I bought, but I couldn't find a way to make this happen that wasn't annoyingly inconvenient.)

The worst a provider should be able to do to you for a ToS transgression is kill your copy of the game where the transgression occurred, which will cost you tens of dollars to replace. Allowing them to kill all your games, which will cost you hundreds of dollars to replace, is something I won't stand for.
Focus more on the content not age, ethnics or whatever.
No problem. I made the comment for you guys, especially as you're starting to get press, but also for the community as a whole.

While IP issues are rarely clear cut here in HN, I think we can agree that, with current copyright laws, you'd be hard pressed to argue that you weren't violating the photographer's copyright as well as misusing Ms. Jolie's image. I understand that not everyone here agrees with the laws as they're currently written, but when you're starting a business, things like this are important to get right, regardless of how you feel about IP laws.
Your first argument rests on the idea that they will pass those economies of scale on to consumers, which I have never found to be the case. In my experience, smaller banks are consistently more competitive; they pay higher rates, charge lower rates, and have fewer fees.
How can anyone defend this behavior by Facebook? They purposely don't show the advertisement it to the person they are impersonating. And yes, they are impersonating me if they post something on my behalf merely because I liked something.
I agree this is not new and probably not illegal but definitely misleading since a lot of people don't notice the subtle different between liking the post and the page.
Just curious what people think of http://www.onlulu.com/
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Actually this is a natural consequence of a society strangled by church views on morality.

When can we give up the idea that sex, for no other reason than gratification, lust and desire is in any way bad?

When can we get over the idea that women don't want sex? That they shouldn't be allowed to want sex? That they should feel sorry for wanting to have sex?

If you accept that women should have the same rights as men, it should follow that they should be the one to choose when, how, where and whom to sleep with -- and how often.

But of course, if you don't, if you believe that women are somehow inferior to men in matters of judgement, then your comment makes perfect sense.

That is not an argument I can support, though.
Well, to be fair, iOS store launch apps all looked like the System Preferences app. It wasn't till apps went out of their way using design as a differentiator that it had beautiful unique apps.

Windows Phone barely gets any attention, so the apps that get written for the platform use all the stock UI widgets, making everything look boring and bland. Plus XAML has a pretty steep learning curve if you try to do anything outside of the simple templates Microsoft provides.
Yes, the OP is specifically referring to "Sponsored Stories" – the concern and alarm is raised because the user has no way of knowing what stories are being attached to their name, or even that its happening at all.

As for your later point, your assumption that all users know these posts are advertisement and that users understand their friend didn't really like a post about 2 Girls 1 Cup – is patently false based on OP's own personal experience. His mother saw a Sponsored Story by VICE about "Penis Waffles" that had his name attached to it. When she saw the post, it looked to her as if he had liked the story/post and urged him to take it down.
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The FDIC has never been bailed out, and as I pointed out, there are plenty of public benefits to that government guarantee. We would be less wealthy as a society without it.
/dev/shm is a better hiding place than /tmp or /var/tmp because if someone notices something weird on a server their instinct might to be power it off or reboot it. A power cycle will wipe /dev/shm since it is memory backed storage. Lots of places will remove the network, power off the machine, and disk image the affected server for later analysis.
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Sorry, I was unclear about what I meant by 'market to my friends.' What I intended to communicate was that I only like entities that I would trust to market to my friends responsibly.

I would never like a site like Vice because I know that they promote NSFW and lowbrow content for pageviews, and I don't want to be associated with that. On the other hand, I'm fine with liking bands that I know the spirit of, or small local businesses that I trust.
When I was in the 3rd grade some time ago, an amazing teacher decided to bring in his personal apple IIe and allow interested students to hack after school. He taught us "Logo", a simplified lisp variant that I remember being very intuitive. After we understood the basics, we began building robots with Lego/Logo, a Logo variant you could use with an external controller that operated motors an sensors embedded in lego bricks. It was a transcendent experience for me. What's more, as a kenyan immigrant living in midwestern suburbia in the early 90's, it was one of the first times I felt as though I had a meaningful place in the world. I never stopped programming and its why I'm an engineer today.

Logo Project: http://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/logo/programming.htm...

Lego Logo Project: http://www.ucls.uchicago.edu/students/projects/1994-95/Lego-...
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I've thought of that for a while: if someone doesn't see what's wrong, it's just like they're blind. Obviously, it doesn't make sense talking to them.
No, he is saying it cannot compete with DropBox/box.net/etc - those are very good products that focus on cloud storage/backups, not 'secure' sharing of files; and the only way for it to make money is through it's affiliate program, which is very likely to cause legal trouble.

Right now it is not competing with DropBox at all, since it doesn't offer client apps or effortless syncing.
Is life hard for you, a retarded guy?

What's so beautiful about this... "community" is that a nonconforming opinion is downvoted, while a direct rude offense is OK.
Wow the Virtual Perspective app is incredibly impressive for a 48 hour hack, especially considering it was done on mobile.
The Vim Meetup was rightfully shutdown. It was the first meetup, and that meeting was intended to promote a product. In the end, the meeting and it's intended purpose was against the ToS. Moreso, it amounted to using Meetup as a way to spam people about said product.
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One thing I sorely missed when working with FAST was an official and comprehensive test suite. A wide set of templates and encoded files to exercise all the nooks and crannies of the spec would have been very useful.

It looks like blink has far fewer special cases so the need for an official test suite might not be as great. Might be something worth considering anyway.
You and I may know that, as may the rest of the HN community, but it shouldn't stop us from trying to protect our friends and family who use Facebook unawares to these practices.

I know I don't want my mother thinking I liked a post about "2 Girls 1 Cup" – and my recourse shouldn't be to completely delete my Facebook account.
I think the worst part is they're claiming they're the "first" when really they're not (not even for browser-based systems).

There have been many encrypted cloud storage systems which worked according to this philosophy. Allmydata.com (now defunct) and Tahoe-LAFS come to mind:

https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs
Exactly. And I didn't even address the copyright issues with using this image.

As I mentioned in another comment, the laws on this one would be pretty clear cut, and regardless of how you feel about IP laws, it would be a huge mistake to so flagrantly misuse an image while starting a business.
While privacy issues are important, state compliance & reporting are actually the bigger challenge.

These types of systems typically track enrollments and attendance, which get reported to the state and determine the district's funding. The calculations here can be fairly wonky (i.e. some states require schools to calculate every student's attendance down to the minute) and an error could have massive consequences.

My suggestion for a project is rather than trying to replace the core database, use an API like Clever (https://getclever.com/developers/docs) to build something cool on top of the existing database. (Disclaimer - I'm a co-founder of Clever).
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Agreed. Including a coffee pot that emails you when the coffee is made and a toilet that live tweets your music habits.
"Mega offers a free service of 50 megabytes of storage "

How generous!
Honestly, that just blew me away.
I would suggest the new Retina MBPs, but apparently it is ["a sod to get working"](http://www.hackermusings.com/2012/08/booting-linux-on-a-reti...)

When I ran ubuntu on my (relatively old, 2009) MBP earlier this (edit: last) year it was an OK experience, but the multitouch gestures weren't on a par with OS X. Battery life was fine, hardware support other than multitouch was also fine, sleep on lid close was great, etc. no problems.

I'd recommend an Air from your description, nice and light, and Apple make the best hardware by far, especially if you do have the $1000 it costs.
I really appreciate your advice. Thank you so much.