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I never actually got out of grade school. I'm stuck in grade seven age 12 forever in many ways.

I'm working in it....
Decreasing child mortality rates and increasing healthcare availability is statistically shown to decreased birth rate (among other improvements), resulting in fixing the issue of overpopulation (over time).
Nice idea but the design looks like an poster for Trainspotting. Expecting to be emailed recipes for deep fried mars bars any time now.
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Dear god, another Malthusian.
Also on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNfGyIW7aHM :-)
Something that may help Apple digitize the world a little cheaper
Undoubtedly their rationalization is in the form of USD.
Ah yes, the inevitable "you hipocrites!" comment, from someone who has such a black and white view of the world, it's surprising they aren't constantly bleeding from being cut on all the sharp edges.

You know, maybe some of us have a more nuanced view of how things should be. Maybe we think that the people that actually create something (you know, the artists?) should at least get credit; maybe not rewarded indefinitely, but at least given a chance in the market, while not wanting to see their grandchildren leach off a government granted monopoly. Maybe we are in favor of artists who obviously get it (JoCo sells his music with no DRM, in any format you want, not to mention plenty of free samples) not being plagiarized by huge media conglomerates run by ruthless fatcats without an ounce of creativity, who are still stuck in the mindset of being the gatekeepers.

Or maybe we're all just spoiled hypocritical children like you've painted us. Yeah, that must be it.
TO start: I am not saying what they did is right, but I am saying you do not have a right to call it "Cowardice".

>The biggest problem with website-defacing movements is their cowardice (no one in Anonymous seems courageous enough to go to prison)

There is no right or wrong way to fight for freedom. IT is a fight a fight is a war. There are very few rules in war.
Many actual freedom fighters have died in places like Bhutan, Burma, etc. This does not make them superior fighters, this diminishes the power to the cause (because they perish and are hard to replace), prolongs the struggle.

I am sure you have seen more than most people and work hard and I am not saying you didn't do this or accusing you of anything because I do not know you enough, but your short essay needs to be more tactile in certain locations specially in this context.
You call upon Hacker News to grow up but must of your statements in your piece are childish:

>I know actual freedom fighters, that is publishers of opposition magazines and organizers of nonviolent protests, from Taiwan
>If you really want to learn about effective popular action to bring about more freedom, point your Web browser to the Albert Einstein Institute publications

>You and your first world problems have NO IDEA how to fight for freedom

>The biggest problem with website-defacing movements is their cowardice

WHY? Because staying in prison is not a tough guy thing. Doesn't make you smarter or an "Actual freedom fighter". It inhibits you to fight. I am focusing on the concept of a fight as you realize, a struggle, a battle...

You cannot know when it will manifest, when it will ignite and when it will finish. There are stages of undetermined amounts. Not to mention collateral damage. So if you think there is a "fight" here from the beginning, which, by your essay you seem to think so, please analyze what a fight is. A fight, battle or whatever you may label it, does not go through an essay out of some institute. It has strategical value and may come in handy at some point, but it is not a doctrine and going by it will actually put you at an disadvantage. So I suggest before calling people coward and claiming you know "Actual Freedom" fighters and starting your comment with a childish statement that literally translates to "you don't know what you are doing, I am the real deal", I suggest you read on Sun Tzu, The Prince, On guerrilla warfare. If you think there is a fight for freedom going on because what they do may serve a purpose that depends on the length, importance and tactical situation in the fight. Yes these are strategy books and maybe you will claim you are a peaceful activist and don't need these which is fine, but, make no mistake if there is a fight - there will only be one winner.
Porting the erlangvm to bmos is what I am currently working on - llvm optimisations or compiling erlang to native code will come later.

Cheers,

Darren
Although it is a good sign, it's not that cool. The operating overhead of a charity should be largely irrelevant to working out if it is a good charity.

For example, given charities X and Y both distributing anti-malaria pills (or something). X and Y are identical except X has operating overheads of 80%, and distributes 50 pills per dollar donated and Y has no operating overhead, but only manage 20 pills per dollar donated.

Clearly X is the better charity, since it moves more pills, even though only 20% of the donations it receives get through.

What I'm trying to say is: operating overhead is a poor metric for comparing charities, since the thing that matters is the final outcome given a certain donation amount.

(That said having a high overhead is probably a sign that a charity could improve, and so do more good per dollar.)
Fair enough. I'll give it a try.

And I think you should mention EasyMotion in the Readme, I'm probably not the only one around who uses that plugin and many people probably have the same question/
seriously, i am loving this app
Encryption without authentication is (mostly) useless, and authentication is application-specific, so mandating encryption would have little effect.
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RDF.rb 1.0 Release: very nice Ruby wrapper for semantic web technologies
Whether it stops at 8 or 9 billion doesn't really make an impact until 2150 at best. IF we had the resources to keep everything puffing till then. We don't. :)
Another built-in solution to the problem of mismatches when using the jump commands (f, t, F, T) is the use of ; and ,

Semicolon will repeat the last jump command, and comma will repeat it in the opposite direction.

I find this very useful not only for mismatches that I didn't see, but also for help with quickly formatting text. Along side . to repeat an action, it's incredibly fast to use ; to repeat your last jump (like to < for an html tag) and then use . to repeat the last command (like dst, to delete the surrounding html tag). This is a just one example, but it's a quick and easy pattern I use to do things like selectively stripping html tags within a string that has some inline html, or moving around quickly within arrays.
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You need to hire a designer for this. Cooking/recipes/food markets are really visually driven. You also need to define what a fork is right on the landing page. A fork for a cook is not the same as a fork for a programmer. What you should have is a good header area that has the application work flow explained in graphics.

Example:

Alice liked Juan's recide for thai rice.
She wanted to create her own version. Alice
forked Juan's recipe and modified it to fit
tastes.

In forkingrecipes, the act of forking is when
you give someone else's recipe your own touch.
Thus creating a new recipe for others to use and fork.

I know a good designer who can help you with this, by the way.
There is no God, remember?

Also, are you trying to be clever, offensive or something else entirely by contributing with silly one-liners?
I don't know about them, but I know someone from a different company who has it all figured out. Every time their company does something nasty, they just donate to the EFF.

Must be nice to have it wrapped up all tidy like.
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I'm thinking of a visual catalog. Where if I commit a crime and Facebook can be used as evidence, if one of my photos is my license, it guarantees that it's me. Maybe catalog isn't the right word, but some means for quickly matching a profile to an individual.
See @ http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/06/02/how-to-stop-your-...

Bullet list includes
Account Security:
Settings -> Accounts and Import -> Google Account Settings -> Change Password [pick a new secure password]
Settings -> Accounts and Import -> Google Account Settings -> Change Password Recovery Options [verify secret question, SMS and recovery e-mail address]

Potential Spam:
Settings -> General -> Signature [make sure nothing as been added]
Settings -> General -> Vacation Responder [make sure it's disabled and empty]

E-mail Theft
Settings -> Accounts and Import -> Send Mail As [make sure it is using your correct e-mail address]
Settings -> Filters [no filters that forward or delete e-mail]
Settings -> Forwarding and POP/IMAP -> Forwarding [disabled or correct address]
Settings -> Forwarding and POP/IMAP -> POP Download [disabled]
Settings -> Forwarding and POP/IMAP -> IMAP Access [disabled]

Additional Information
Keeping account secure: https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...
Protecting your account: https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...
More account security info: http://www.google.com/help/security/
If your account is compromised: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe...
Someone using your address: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe...
Google Employee comments: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=560d5...
This is all anecdotes unless someone's done a survey, but in my experience very few people use a native app for email anymore. I do so, but can't think of a single other person I know who does. Almost everyone's on Gmail, and a lot of people only do IM (Gchat, Facebook Chat) in the browser, too. And there was never a native desktop app for Facebook, but that didn't prevent it from getting a billion users. Likewise, where's the native app for YouTube? We all used to download videos and then watch them in native video players. Not anymore.

Maybe it's a matter of age — I suspect you might be a little older than me and the crowd I hang out with (mostly mid-20s). From my vantage point web apps have obviously already replaced many categories of native apps, and are on the way to replace more. It seems as if you are denying something that already happened.
Your last step doesn't follow. Scholarship students get great connections. Example: Sergey Brin.
I don't think optimization of the world is exactly science. Science is about the acquisition of knowledge. Understanding what causes Polio is science, how it spreads, etc. Changing the world in such a way as to get rid of Polio strikes me as something different, not sure what. For example studying global warming is science, but injecting particles into the stratosphere to cool things down would be a step further.
Hey Guys,

I'm the creator of Forking Recipes, I'll be happy to answer any questions you have and thanks for taking a look!
I totally agree, unfortunately I don't have money to pay one and finding someone to work with me for free hasn't been easy :(.
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Go to github and fix bugs on some OSS projects.
We are considering as a next step having signed messages so you know at least two messages came from the same person. We want to maintain anonymity to protect posters, but it'd be interesting to know that posts were at least coming from the same person. I'm not sure this is what you're talking about though, sounds like you're more meaning person to person private messaging right?
"Clearly show your name, picture, birthday"
"Cover up any personal information we don't need to verify your identity (ex: address, license number)"

Most Facebook users have already given their name, birthday and profile photo. For most users they wouldn't be giving anything else than those pieces of information on a ID card.

Now, that doesn't get into the secondary requests as the article states, but it certainly isn't "entrusting a copy of their ID to a third party."
Considering the power consumption, bandwidth, etc., 802.11 Ad-hoc networks might be a great choice for this concept. Plus there's already OLSR[1] for handling multi-hop packets. Unfortunately currently mobile devices are only equipped with one 802.11 adapter and it can be either ad-hoc mode or Wifi-client at one time.

[1] http://www.olsr.org/
Quoting http://www.badstartupidea.com/:

First, go and find out about Github. Figure out what it is they do, how they attract users, and how they make money. Github is already operating well in the Programming space, but perhaps the same basic ideas can be applied in the Cooking space. That's where you come in.

Edit: I think it's a great idea, it's just funny that that site mentioned this after only a couple refreshes.
Thanks for the feedback and the donations. We're hoping to implement all of the features you mentioned.

We're in the process of switching to Stripe, building a general fund that will auto-allocate donations to patients, and enabling recurring donations (with the option to personally allocate your credit to a patient, or have your credit auto-allocated). All in that order.

We're usually pretty hesitant to add new features to Watsi for fear of complicating things (we're big fans of simplicity). However, you hit the nail on the head with your suggestions, and all of them will be included in the coming iterations. Thanks again.
Harvard does not have a professional school of art history. Art History is leisure person's degree anyway, and has no relevance to personal economics. Space ship rides are expensive too, and similarly irrelevant to personal advancement.
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this really is a sorely needed feature.
vi/vim's lack of "seeking" was really one of the main reasons why i switched to emacs. emacs has a really nice seek, which is just ctrl+s and type whatever you are searching for w/o you needing to hit enter, and you are there. then ctrl+s again to the next match or ctrl+r for reverse.

anyhow, i don't use vim anymore but when i do, i'll give it a shot. i know i can't live without seeking, it's such an important part of your arsenal.
Will I ever use this: Almost definitely no.

Do I think its really cool?: Hell yes.
If social networks are so adamant, I will just create my website have all relatives and friends contact me via the said website. Or may be by email before social networks actually caught up.
It can't. That's the whole reason they're having this problem in the first place. They don't do anything in an official capacity to verify that you are who you say you are. They're relying here on Gov't agencies that require more proof with official documents before giving you another official document(ID card) to certify that you are who you say you are.

It can never be a valid ID, because they are never involved in the certification and registration process of your "official" existence.
Possibly with a comparison like "like a fork in a road or tree".
I assume that's where it started http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5119787
It's funny, this architecture he mentions of one-page-app clients on the frontend and microframework servers on the backend with Python is precisely the model I choose for a recent side project.

What I learned:
- Javascript requires a lot of architecture to be sustainable over even medium size apps (I stole N. Zaka's architecture)

- Writing functional tests for Javascript is difficult. (Writing unit tests is easy)

- Most web browsers are nearly there with everything you need for one-page-apps. IE8 is the only real problem, and I think my problems are soluble.

- Python's single threaded nature requires that you make explicit effort to add offline jobs (I added a priority queue using redis)

- Elasticsearch is actually quite complicated once your needs move out of the completely trivial

- Most of the documentation for Elasticsearch assumes a working knowledge of Lucene (which I don't have).

- Mongodb is really really easy to develop against

- Getting a single page app to be sensibly indexed by Google is not easy.

Here's the backend source:

- https://github.com/calpaterson/recall

And the frontend source:

https://github.com/calpaterson/web-recall

And the current deployed version is here:

https://recall.calpaterson.com/about/

I'd love to answer any questions, I'm not as keen on one-page-apps now as I was when I started.
I thought the original post was an application.
Yes! Great idea. We'll get on this.
I was talking a little bit about this in a comment down below, but android just added adhoc wifi networking (in v4.1 maybe?) so it's not too widespread. iOS has had it for a while, but the app is currently android only, which seems to be the most appropriate OS for the project anyway.

Either way it'd be great to support it for those power reasons you mention and for how much faster it would be to sync.
Malthusian thought always strikes me as a comfortable little tautology to live in. It seems like it could be a neat way to contextualize one's efforts to delay the onset of, and diminish the impact of inevitable catastrophe. But I only ever see it being used to shit on ideas that on first glance would appear to accelerate the inevitable. Which in and of itself is bit odd. It may be a bit cold to see it this way, but if you're already resigned to that theory, what do you give a damn when the catastrophes happen?
A fish stinks from the head down (Obama White House )
They could hand curate the stuff that goes into the vinepeek pool.
I find the "shift" from traditional "scripted" TV to more home made videos vert interesting. I must say that the appeal escapes me.

I don't watch a lot of TV, but personally when I do I do it because it's a way to either:
1. escape
2. become informed

I can't imagine turning this on while I have breakfast, or "for fun" on a bus commute. I see the appeal in sharing snippets of my live in video format with people that may care about the banal day-to-day things (I think this is why I like Path so much - those closest to me may actually be interested in where I went for lunch today), but I don't understand the "hours" of "brilliant entertainment" that some people seem to get out of this.

I think many people watch TV because they need to unplug from their "normal" existence. Or because they seek to see something interesting, funny, or learn something new. I watch The Daily Show because it's funny, I watch BBC because it informs me, I watch Bloomberg because I learn something new. I don't see these need being replaced by vine.

Maybe I don't get it.
Indeed. The world could use a lot more slack. I personally need a container full, but it's on back-order.
I know that motel. I have friends who live across the street. Those reviews are not snark. The place is an absolute hole, and the owner knows exactly what business he is in. Many locals in town would be pleased to see it shutdown.
That's really cool, actually.
Well actually the first world will rape all the resources, just as it's doing now and the population will sort itself out in the third world, much as it's doing now.
Because most cooks are not developers and don't have Github accounts, I guess.
Like FB or not (I don't), it provides a lot of value to a lot of people. While it might not promote the ideals some of us "hacker" types have, on the whole, it is not flat-out evil like, say, some of those toolbar companies or botnet groups.

Additionally, apart from writing in PHP, there must be tons of technical fun and deep problems to solve that makes FB fairly unique.

And also, I'm not really sure how unethical it'd be to work for them, even if you felt they were wrong. Unless you're bringing some rare 4-sigma value to FB, it's likely they'd just get someone else. Might as well be you, where you have a chance to influence things.
But you also see this whole thing as attention seeking.
Let's take the level of nonsense on the internet to a new level!
Oh, you reminded me to mention that ; and , integration is planned! I'll probably have to work something out with tpope's repeat plugin, or if it's simpler I'll just make a self-contained solution. I want seek to act just like a more selective f. The thing about repeating f is that if you are as little as 5 words away from your target you could be looking at 3-4 repeeats, and by then it wouldn't have been anywhere close the most efficient solution--plus it creates a habit of the read-eval-print loop, aka trial and error. Vim should allow you to always say what you want and get there. I find seek useful even in going to the beginning and end of close words, just use spacebar + char or char + spacebar.
Thank god there is another sane person like me. I too find it difficult to make sense or enjoy just 6 second snippets. Conveying a sweet short targeted message for a specific someone with just a 6 second video itself is so hard, let alone be able to generate a 6 second content that is of meaning/relevance to a much broader audience. Just a novelty that will fade off. I cant see any useful purpose for 6 second clips in a social wide audience context.
The "optimization" characterization was invented by "aramadia". You can't assume that premise if you want to make a valid argument against the characterization of Bill Gates's method as science.
This is the way it should be done.

I will say that social networks like Facebook have introduced some interesting dynamics and engagement that could have not existed otherwise such as Caine's Arcade.

I think we're all waiting for the social network we all want and pay the $10-$12/year for privacy, transparency and complete ownership over our data.
Taking their words at face value, what does someone's identity have to do with whether they've violated terms of service? How would it fix any issue? (On Instagram; according to the article Facebook wants your true name as part of their TOS.)
Actually, this would be a fairly solvable problem: only show Vines from users with 400+ or more followers and older than a year (you may have to refine this metric to also examine the validness of their followers' accounts). Presumably, people with Twitter followings to care about won't just flash their junk...though maybe once in while, you'll get an Anthony Weiner.

In fact, you could probably get a certain class of videos by only showing Vines in which the tweets are directed at people, to catch the folks who forgot that @-mentions != DM (ala Anthony Weiner)
I know Gates was a really good (strike that, he was really, really good) hacker and software engineer.

But I think he was an even better bussinessman. I am pretty sure he's applying more from the latter background than from the computer field.
You missed the opportunity to use the name GitCipes.
Thanks lazloth. I've already read all of those threads and taken those measures to protect my account in the future, almost all of which I was already doing before my account got hacked.

I only turned to HN because none of this helped me track down the cause of the breach in the first place. But I appreciate your help.
Users will not cover up their documents properly.

With business customers, even if we ask for ID to confirm larger contracts, they'll send everything. Full IDs, credit card scans, etc. Technical customers regularly just email root passwords to financially-valuable systems when they have the slightest problem.

Also, try this: run an ad on Craigslist offering $500 a day for whatever. Ask for personal info and photos. You'll be deluged with people ready to hand every detail over without second thought.
Funny that this just popped up on the homepage: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5120578
You should Tumblr that.
That is really funny! I actually made this in the past few weekends so it's a total coincidence.