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Is the war in Darfur still even going on?
Any chance for some of your time to give me some concrete examples to fix?
My gut-feeling is that a S&P rating is somehow "official" and therefore the company is more responsible for mistakes, but I'm not sure why. If I stand up a popular web site and give my own ratings on stocks, bonds, etc, would I get sued if my ratings prove poor? Where would that lead us?
I was going to get a Surface Pro until the reports of 4-5 hours battery life, instead I got a Samsung ATIV Atom tablet. I've had it for a couple of weeks now and I'm really liking Windows 8 in this form factor. I find myself switching to whatever form of input is best suited for the task I am performing, be it stylus, touch, mouse, virtual or physical keyboard.

I've had a few different Android tablets, going all the way back to the Gingerbread days and I currently have a tablet running Jelly Bean and I'm not looking back, the only thing I miss is my Unified Remote app.
Ask HN: I want to create a new bitcoin Exchange.
I know security and trust would all be EXTREMELY important factors, but if I could get past those hurdles...

Is there room for another bitcoin exchange?
Google signed one of their own and it looks like the got a pretty sweetheart deal on it: http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Google-Can-Ditch-Kansas-C...

Lamenting about how political telecom can get is somewhat naive. Of course it's political. It involves digging up public/private property under municipal permission. It invokes the same contentious debates that all infrastructure projects invoke: richer neighborhoods versus poor one, urban ones versus rural ones, "not in my backyard," etc. As long as telecom involves digging up public land or using public spectrum, it will be intensely political.
Hey, it's frustrating isn't it? I remember my first year with my first business. I remember feeling so alone, so unappreciated, and so completely overwhelmed by the stakes of the game.

I remember that they were the best years of my life.

10 years later, after reaching the success i craved, the validation, and the confidence of knowing I could do it again, I sold everything and started from scratch.

I haven't had an income for 2 years, I've never been in more debt, and I've heard 'no' from hundreds, 'get more customers' from thousands, and been ignored by millions.

Also, I've never felt more successful.

Entrepreneurship is hard, but that's why I love it. Everyone expects you to fail, the incumbents build walled gardens, customers want you to work for free, and your friends don't believe you're smart enough, focused enough, or have what it takes.

It's our job to stand alone against a crowd, and when the wave of dissent and disbelief has crashed over us, stand steadfast.

Our refusal to accept the status quo is an insult to those who have built a life around it, and while they never accept us as one of them, they eventually respect us for refusing to buckle, and join the herd.

You said you might take some flack for this article, but you shouldn't. You described the feelings we all have quite succinctly. I just hope I can remind you of the other feelings that might keep you focused, and forging ahead.

Best of luck.
Foer is failing upwards I see. Unless the tech golden boy is firing deadwood like Leon Weisswhatshisname and Paul Berman, etc. etc. etc., it's still the same old crap. I guess you're supposed to be excited by the fact that he's using his momentary large fortune to bring in "literary" ringers. I read the Kirn piece that was raved about in the link: apparently they're going to become an unintentional New Yorker parody("Barack Obama is a slender, middle aged man with a warm smile and close-cropped graying hair.....").
Along the same lines, see how you feel about browser security in general after reading: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/postxss/
AT&T got busted trying to test Project Lightspeed (now called U-Verse) in Geneva, Illinois. Geneva figured out that this super-DSL was really and end run around Geneva's CATV franchise agreements and shut it down. That's why they went for the statewide legislative overrides.

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/73666
Point of reference: I ordered mine and had it 3 days later.
Wouldn't also using a custom HTTP header instead of cookies for passing a session identifier prevent this attack? A script tag can not set headers, right?
Sorry but no. We are used to boxes surrounding actionable fields where we can type in content. Here your pseudo-fields is half editable, half not editable, which is weird. The "delimiting an active field" purpose of the visible box is broken.

Maybe if you are Amazon or Google, you can try to implement such a thing, if you have strong reasons to believe it will help users. But if you are not Amazon or Google, you should avoid surprising your users with some weirdness, and just stick to proven UX.
Raspberry Pi inside iPod
Introducing the Original PiPod!
It is a case mod on my Raspberry Pi, moving the connectors to make it fit inside an original first-generation iPod.
That's what you do when you're 23, unemployed, and have a Masters in electronic engineering.
Microsoft & Skype are hard at work on a competitor to WebRTC, and don't appear to have any plans to support this - they seem in favour of moving VoIP to the browser, but they're going to do it in a Microsoft-y way.

And of course, the Skype acquisition was purchasing marketshare, not technology.
I love this. How does it work?

> Salmonella helped beyoncé achieve a meteoric rise to fame and influence.

In 1750, Benjamin Franklin was observed by over fifteen residents of Philadelphia as he branded an unidentified man with an Illuminati insignia. He was overheard telling one of his associates, “my work will be done once beyoncé arrives to complete it.”
> Which of our business practices company policies are going to be discriminatory, detrimental, outdated, and headline worthy in 60 years?

If the next 60 years are anything like the last 60 years then holy crap the changes will be huge.

* outdated
Offices. There will still be buildings in 60 years but office parks and sprawl in general will be gone.

* detrimental
40+ hour work weeks, screens, sitting, just about any physical job today. I'd like to think with the increase of technology the number of actual hours people work will drop considerably

* discriminatory

- Requiring someone to physically appear or give any indication of race/gender/age during an interview. I could see this becoming the norm in 60 years where you interview people wearing suits like in a scanner darkly.

- General acceptance of the gradient between gay and straight.

* headline worthy

"US Presidential candidates Toshiko Abe, Jennifer Summers, Linda Powell Jr and Frank Lancaster to debate the digital constructs of Douglas Adams, Anthony Burgess, Jon Stewart and Mr Rogers. Moderated by George Carlin's head in jar." ... gotta have hope!
The analogy doesnt really hold up considering how much time/money have been invested in making realistic previews available on cameras, that is the entire point of an slr.

Being inside a browser does not equate to slow, and using photoshop as an example pretty much proves that point.
Also: http://slant.co/topics/best-resources-for-startups-to-learn-...

Thanks for writing all that, very helpful.
Sequestration Anxiety Axes Conference
A reasonable observation. I posted it here because it (IMHO) points to a systematic problem in the operation of markets - a flaw in our economic operating software, as it were.
Game over for Americans
That's what the lockers are for! =)
Your confusion comes from believing that making money is important and raising children, charity work and home management aren't important. If you believe they are equally important, then you will see that the conventions of the time were equally fair to men and women, or equally unfair if you like.
Its just that everything is cobbled up together. Too much stuff going on at the same time. Plus too many bright colors. Dunno, its just overwhelming for me. Maybe you can have a designer take a look at it and give you professional feedback?

Edit:

I guess my main issue is that the container holding the main content is too narrow. In SO you have about 70% of the page for the content. Here you have about 40%. Plus the font size is a bit small.

Also, the suggest edit VS comment thing is confusing.
Dear Jeff Bezos
Oh, how nice of you. Thank you.
>>detrimental 40+ hour work weeks, screens, sitting, just about any physical job today. I'd like to think with the increase of technology the number of actual hours people work will drop considerably

This hasn't been the case in the past 60 years. What makes you think it will be the case in the next 60?
Yes, the U.S. isn't a democracy because NYC gave cab companies a service monopoly in return for agreeing to serve poor people in the Bronx.
It looks like the theories were pre-generated, then on refresh, the front page just shows a random theory..... or at least that's what the author wants you to think... until it's too late. Numerous pop-songs from the 90s make reference to this.

In all seriousness, I'd love to see the source code.
I find it a fascinating exercise in radical empathy to try to imagine what the pope's mental world is like. Mind you, I think I pretty much fail utterly.

What I have read of the writings of the people that the Catholic church venerates, especially from pre-modern times, I find they strongly smack of sincerity when they talk about metaphysics (like resolving theodicy, or the "limbo of the infants", etc). They argue so passionately, and in such convolutions. And people have chosen to be burned at the stake, just to avoid saying "Yeah, you're right, I was wrong about God, I take it back." Those people, at least, must really believe, at a profound level.

Mind you, I find that they strongly smack of insincerity and self-service when they talk about worldly matters, like excommunicating kings for applying new taxes, or taking sides in WWII, or the whole condom thing, or dealing with accusations of pedophilia, or....

Such a surprising juxtaposition. Other churches seem to me to exhibit similar patterns, although few western religions have had a chance to build up such a legacy as the Catholic.
You're right: If I were to redo the list, I'd probably move backup to #1 just for pragmatism.

I had my first catastrophic hard drive failure in July, and I was glad I hadn't waited until August to start backing up.
Records indicate that Barack Obama's ancestors were present at Fukushima.

Obviously.
> Well your response implies the reason is stubbornness

I don't think so. I think he was trying to imply that there were objective reasons why labels are a good UI feature and that getting rid of them is unwise, even if it IS fashionable lately.

That is true of a lot of things in UI design. UI design is human enough that it IS affected by things such as fashions. But sometimes people forget that there are real, meaningful differences in usability, and often the "traditional" way of doing things is traditional for a good reason.

My own pet peeve in this regard? Menus. Microsoft office has made "ribbon" style interfaces quite popular instead of using menus. But menus had some important features: you could search through them exhaustively (at least the menus that aren't context-sensitive), and you can use the menus to incrementally learn the keyboard shortcuts for the features you use most often. Ribbons look nice, but they can't teach you to be faster.
I am not really getting this. How is this different from a random College newspaper?
7 Life Misconceptions Portrayed in the Super Bowl Ads
T-Mobile is pretty reasonable.

Unlimited data, with 2Gigs at 'high' speed for $40 / month, with 1000 minutes and unlimited texting.

Pretty decent deal. This is one of the 'Value' plans, with no subsidy.
Well, a lot of it is that Lisp uses parens for everything while most other languages use a variety of syntactic tools.

For example, declaring a bunch of variables in Lisp:

(let ((a 1)
(b 2)
(c 3))
(format t "They are ~D, ~D and ~D~%" a b c))

The same thing in C

int a = 1;
int b = 2;
int c = 3;
printf("They are %d, %d and %d\n", a, b, c);

Lisp used parens around the whole construct, as well as around the assignment list, around each individual assignment and to do the printing. C completely eschews some of these parens and uses = and ; to fill essentially the same role as the others. Only `printf()` keeps the parens. In short, C has lots of different syntactic symbols, while Lisp has relatively few.

To illustrate further, Clojure gets the "OMG parens" complaint a lot less than most Lisps because it consciously shies away from the traditional parens-everywhere look of Lisp. For example, the above code in Clojure:

(let [a 1
b 2
c 3]
(printf "They are %d, %d and %d\n" a b c))

Still more parens than C, but the difference is marked — the assignment block is clearly set apart by syntax, and the assignments are paired by juxtaposition rather than by grouping into lists. Parens are used relatively sparingly.

This isn't to say that this is really a problem, but the idea that parens in Lisp are equivalent to brackets in C isn't really right either. Parens in Lisp are used in place of nearly every bit of syntax in C, from braces to equals signs to semicolons.
No. The three ratings agencies are legally privileged - an S&P AAA rating on a security allows a bank to use it to satisfy regulatory requirements (capitalization, etc).
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I've read all your comments on the various threads and a central theme seems to be the following question: how does sexism fit into all of this, isn't this just harassment/stalking? It's a fair question. Recall that sexism is discrimination based on sex OR behavior that fosters stereotypical/hurtful attitudes and roles. The attacker did both here. He attempted to drown out the technical ability of the victim by, during her technical presentation, spamming pictures that quite literally turned her into an object. This is a manifestation of classic behavior where men value women for their appearance only and everything else is ignored. Had that attacker had his/her way, this would have been the reality; all the attention would have been on her appearance and no attention would have been paid towards her technical presentation. His/her goal could not be more clear. To tie the goal back to sexism: what the attacker wanted is both a distinguishing treatment based on her sex (the first definition) AND a behavior that encourages ignoring the technical ability of women in favor of focusing on their appearance (the second definition).

I hope this makes my use of the word sexism clear. I welcome further communication here in this thread or at my personal email, which can be found in my profile.
Digging up yards is something local politicians could care less about. That's why easements exist. They're dug up all the time for electricity, gas, telephone, street lights, etc.

The political tradeoff comes from the franchise agreement. Your citizens want cable tv, and Comcast only wants to wire up the higher-end neighborhoods because they'll buy more services. Is that how you want to be portrayed? So you tell Comcast to make the deal: wire up the whole town, even that neighborhood 3000 feet up the hill, and we'll guarantee that nobody else can interfere with your physical plant investment. Comcast sleeps soundly at night, and so do the politicians.
Ask HN: I Used My Credit Cards to Fund My Failed Startup and Now They're Suing
About four or five years ago I applied for several credit cards to augment my freelance income, so that I could drastically cut back on the hours I spent working for others and focus mostly on my project. We're not talking huge amounts here - three cards with around 5k each.

Anyway, fast forward a couple of years and the freelance market collapsed in my region and my startup failed.

I recently received notice that a process server is trying to track me down to serve me. I'm assuming the other debt collection companies will too at some point.

Is it too late to contact the debt collection companies and try to work something out? I can probably swing a 1k down payment and the rest over monthly payments for a year to a year and a half.

There's also the additional issue that I may have exaggerated my freelance income somewhat on the applications. I'm not sure how worried I should be about that at this point.
What to expect when you leave the corporate world
I won't be joining as a co-founder, and the role i'm gonna play in the company is more on the engineering / product side.

So i'm guessing somewhere around the 5% region would be fair?
>18-21 semester units

Yikes!
Oops: accidentally downvoted you when I wanted to upvote.
Cambridge rules have a number of places 'Out of Bounds', for "reasons of sanity and safety", which includes all lecture theatres. I think that's a good rule, since lectures don't get disrupted and you can pay attention, knowing you're safe.

http://www.srcf.ucam.org/assassins/rules.html
I (cofounder of Easel) really want to add this at some point. There are these transparent versions of many of the patterns here: http://halgatewood.com/150-transparent-subtle-patterns/ It's really neat to be able to apply the pattern then color it. Especially in the case of the argyle pattern.
Actually, that's just standard iOS behavior.

Disclaimer: ex-iPhone user now on Android
Franchise agreement == monopoly. Cable TV pays off their 'physical plant' investment in a couple of months, and spends the rest of their years raking it in.

Every small town in Iowa, the biggest house in town? The cable franchise operator.
Not to detract from your overall point, but, as an IBMer, I can assure you that - while my full-time employment contract says max 37.5 hours - the reality is that at least 40 hours are expected.
Rather than creating new methods for a class, YAML.load can be used to call one of a few specific methods ([]=, init_with, or yaml_initialize) for the specified class. This exploit found a class where string arguments to the []= method are inserted into an eval() block, thus becoming code.

A few more details here: http://blog.gemfury.com/post/42259456238/rubygems-vulnerabil...
Facebook may create a passive location-logging app
It does actually do this. Do you want the demo document's to zoom? If the document wont fit in the viewport on load, it will zoom. Also, if the document is really small, it will zoom in to fit on load.
"For me, Android doesn't work because I'm way too much focused on getting things done fast"

Says the guy checking email every 3 minutes who unlocks and jailbreaks his phone just to have a mobile hotspot.
Ideally, yes. It'd also be nice if we didn't have so much false-evenhandedness going on in the media to muddy the waters. Actual science reporting from actual scientists and not coal industry reps/lobbyists, but that's a lot to ask.
I wouldn't be surprised if this particular development was in part spurred on by Microsoft being able to say "look, none of the WebRTC clients interoperate, so we might as well create our own standard."
Retired and centralized are different terms. I think you'll find the supernodes are alive and well (just centralized in Redmond). The obvious implication is that it is very hard to monitor a decentralized infrastructure but trivial if the servers are local.

If that was your point, I apologize for being redundant.
I didn't know it was a genre. I only knew about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag:_The_Assassination_Game
No lockers in Chicago suburbs yet :(
> They're dug up all the time for electricity, gas, telephone, street lights, etc.

All of those things are done under municipal authority. You can grant Comcast an easement to wire up your house, but what about digging under public streets or across your neighbor's yard?

Also, I don't disagree with the second part, but a fair characterization includes the fact that those people up on that hill have twice the votes per capita as the people living downtown.
This is a pretty low-content rant based on the author picking up what appears to be a Nexus S (!) and complaining that it isn't as good as modern phones. We all know Android had teething problems, but none of his rants seem relevant to my Nexus 4. The interface is beautiful, I've yet to have an app crash, "Browser" has been Chrome for going on two years now... I'm really not sure what the author is hoping to achieve by incorrectly predicting the future of Android based on a 2 year old phone.
They are essentially a government agency with a profit motive. This worked out as well as any reasonable person would have anticipated. The strange thing is, the government still hasn't stripped them of their quasi-regulatory powers.
Beware of the Upcoming Changes to the Patent Law System
That's exactly why I get things done fast. Always connected. :)
RubyGems.org Vulnerability Explained
It's consistent in its inconsistency. If enough people believe it they say it then it must be real. But I don't believe it works like that (yes, that's just another belief). For those who would not take back that they were wrong about god there were also a few people that did not believe at a very profound level and that refused to take it back.

What would happen if a pope (no capital, and it's not a typo) would abdicate saying they no longer believed? Or if a pope would attempt to dismantle the church and spread their belongings amongst the poor?
I think that a _proper_ definition of "deregulation" is "completely removing regulation." Anything short of that is "partial deregulaiton."

I think that many people act as if and/or think that a proper definition of "deregulation" is "reducing regulation."

However, I see no point in arguing about definitions. I propose that we just use the terms "complete deregulation" and "partial deregulation" from here on out, so as to be non-ambiguous.

Given this, let me state my stance on partial deregulation. I thought about stating it earlier, but it seemed just barely too tangential.

I think partial deregulation is often much worse than regulation.

For example, regulation may take the form of "Cable company X has the exclusive right to lay coaxial cable in our city. In return, cable company X must allow our city to have our own special channel where we can post public announcements; and, it must lay wire to all areas of the city, regardless of income level; and, it must allow the city to set rates that subscribers can be charged."

Under partial deregulation, X may be allowed to set whatever rates it wants, but still have the exclusive right to lay coaxial cable. So, it can gouge customers.

In this case, partial deregulation didn't correct a situation in which the government was overstepping its bounds. It partially corrected it, and in doing so, made things worse.

I think this is overwhelmingly the kind of thing that happens with partial deregulation, and I think partial deregulation is overwhelmingly what happens these days when politicians talk about deregulation.

Sorry, I know you just wanted me to agree/disagree with your definition rather than adding a bunch of new intellectual content... but I figured the above would be helpful (and likely similar to what you were thinking).
http://www.verifiedfacts.org/directory

pick one, and it seems to have several articles on the same topic. like other have noted, the source for this would be an interesting read.
According to the medical examiner, in 1991 journalist Danny Casolaro killed himself too while investigating Inslaw. No one in his family believed it. So when someone with no authority asserts "he killed himself", there's no call to dignify such a foolish assertion with a response.
"There are two ways to be wrong about the Internet" says Evgany Morozov
And tone trolling over indirect, untargeted profanity distracts unnecessarily from any topic.