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> Successful proprietary software -- the ones you use, the ones you love, the ones you have heard of -- are the exception. Projects like this are the rule.

FTFY. In other words, most software suck and fail, open source or not, welcome to reality.

Also, here is a full working clone of stackoverflow http://code.google.com/p/cnprog/ hosted here http://www.cnprog.com/
Nowadays teens conduct entire relationships via SMS.
I find StackOverflow very boring as well .. but I don't need to use it much. I've only visited the few times in interest because I always like to find nice technological discussions, but .. so far .. its been pretty "meh".

There haven't been any mind-blowing awesome gems of answers in there that have caught my eye - mostly pretty mundane things, content-wise, and as a programmer looking for an interesting community, I don't really get that vibe from it much at all.

To me it just seems like a place for kids to go and get their homework done for them by lonely strung out alpha dogs looking to place some authority in the world.

For me, sites like this will never replace the good ol' USENET groups and subsidiary mailing lists. Once again (as is the case with Twitter), a web site springs up to try to capture an audience from the pool of people who are just not competent enough with E-mail to manage it properly and exploit the results ..
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Chinese already written it using Django. It's available here:
http://code.google.com/p/cnprog/
Weak but pretentious cartoon as most of XKCD's work. I unsubscribed from his subreddit long ago. How do I remove him from HN?
I think it takes a pretty dedicated and thorough kidnapper to look at edit history to figure out who they've got. If it's someone significant, there is almost no way that all of the information on the internet will be cleaned before a kidnapper knows who they're holding.
The e-ink displays are lovely. Still, dual-mode screens like the OLPC are bound to pop up more often in laptops and mobile devices. Then again, it hasn't kept Japanese phone users from reading on their phones.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1050138/lg-to-show-...
If a journalist is in-place, then exposing an ambush would both endanger them and ensure that all journalists in similar situations would not be trusted by those they are embedded with.

Exposing something from the comfort of your living room is different.

The choice between limited reporting in an environment of external censorship, and a choosing not to report at all in protest, is distinct and has different tradeoffs; but generally speaking, engagement has historically been the approach that gives better results in the long term.
Are you talking about their publication of the NSA's wiretapping program? Or about European cooperation to track terrorist funds that was in violation of EU privacy law? Or maybe their publication of excerpts from the Pentagon Papers in the 1970s?

Just because a presidential administration or governmental agency says publication of information will "endanger national security," it does not necessarily mean it will cause Americans to die - it might just embarrass the organization.
You're speaking of a whole other kettle of fish. You had high volume servers providing mail service for barely trusted users. This post is about one mail server providing service for, presumably, one guy. It's entirely possible to reliably send mail to Yahoo if you control the server. In fact, it's not even that hard. I've explained how in another post.

We have a few hundred (mostly small) hosting providers running our software which includes a mail processing stack, and quite frequently they ask about stuff like this (and yes, Yahoo comes up more than GMail, but about the same as Hotmail). And, there is very often anger involved, just as in this case. But, the fact is...if you follow RFCs strictly (Zed has written his own newfangled mail server in Python; I suspect he's made some mistakes, as the mail RFCs are notoriously difficult to get right, though the MTA isn't necessarily dealing with all of the messiness of the protocols), have DNS that resolves in both directions, and have accurate SPF records, delivering to Yahoo will work reliably and fast.

We've occasionally gotten comments that DKIM is necessary to deliver to Yahoo, but whenever I hear it, I'm surprised to hear that a major provider has finally started actually blocking on DKIM. So, I go check. I always find that no, DKIM is still not required to deliver to Yahoo. It probably helps, though.

I'm not saying Yahoo doesn't have an itchy trigger finger on the blacklisting process. Maybe they do. They certainly aren't as good as Google at non-obtrusively, but effectively, blocking spam, but very few providers are.
They're sort of inverses of each other; a better way to put it is "verificationism" vs. "falsificationism".

The key difference is that a verification model seeks to establish that a theory is true, while a falsification model seeks to establish that it is not. Verification models cannot achieve their goal. Falsification models can.

This means throwing out the idea that you will ever have a theory "proven" to be "true", but thanks to the problem of induction you weren't (in the general scientific-method sense) ever going to get that anyway. Instead, you have theories which have been proven false (since falsification gives you counterexamples to universally-quantified conjectures, which allow the valid deductive conclusion of falsity of those conjectures), and theories which have not yet been proven false.

Importantly, you never say that the latter group of theories are "true", "likely to be true", etc.; you only and always say either that they've not yet been shown false or, more commonly, that they have thus far survived attempts at falsification.

To a lot of people it does seem like meaningless semantics, but for people interested in the demarcation problem (which is anything but unimportant these days) it's quite significant because it offers a viable framework for a solution.
I think this is a great idea. My questions as a potential user would be:

(1) How much visual customization will be supported?

(2) I won't have to make people use OpenID, will I?

(3) Does the Fog Creek/Atwood team plan more verticals that I might inadvertently find myself competing against?
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The 'flag' link.
No! We clearly need television! And newspapers! And teletypes! And carrier pigeons! And Paul Revere!

Twitter went down (which never happens!), so obviously, the Internet simply can't handle the demands of delivering the news.

OK, I'm calmer now that I've got that out.
Should have been a blog post.
The Idiocracy phenomena is quite interesting and there is a lot of merit to both sides of the debate. The issue deserves a lot better treatment than the drivel in this cartoon. The proof by assertion of the guy in the hat is ironically an example of the very thing he complains about.

If you want actual evidence check out this blog post: http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2009/06/tfr-by-class-and-nation.php The differences in fertility rates by class in the developing world are absolutely stunning. I'm increasingly thinking that these fertility rate differentials drive the never ending growth of third world slums.
Portland Trail Blazers head coach Nate McMillan was having a hrd time reaching the many very young players on his roster (NBA's 2nd youngest) on a regular basis until an experiment with trying to text his players got back almost instantaneous responses. Now he texts first when he wants to reach one of his players quickly.
In reality, though, your parents could always come and pick it up. If they weren't allowed to, it would be theft. I just imagine that after the first offense they don't bother calling your parents, and just expect your shame to prevail over asking them to bail it out.
Not newsworthy?!?!

It's a great article, revealing heretofore unreported aspects of Wikipedia governance. (Wikipedia is the top hit for so many topics that its importance is up there with Google, the NY Times, and network TV news.) And, the events are in relation to a vivid, emotional, recent story with relevance to journalism, terrorism, and foreign policy in the middle east.

This could have gone much earlier in the paper than p. B4, and deserves some independent reporting by another outlet not directly involved.
Most journalists in Afghanistan/Iraq and well, the HQ of most major western news will have known that Rohde was kidnapped. As pointed out by the article, it's easier to call the editors of the major papers and ask them to hold any stories. In turn, they'll pass the message thru to the ranks of journos who are out in the field and might happen to write that story.

It's also interesting how this story was kept quiet for over seven months- however Prince Harry's deployment to Afghanistan didn't last four months before he had to be pulled.

So it's a different case on the ground than it is here in the safety of our homes and offices- and I am certain that people share lots on the ground - that's how they keep safe.
They should have provided a mean characters-per-message stat alongside that (or just skipped messages/hour and went straight for characters/hour). Typing 160 characters in each of those 29 messages (77chrs/minute) is a lot different than a standard "hi", "how r u", "gud u?", ":D"
See, this is all irrelevant. The initial condition that I stated in my first post was, that if you don't want Apple's conditions, don't get an iPhone. Someone took that to mean, "if you are happy with Apple's constraints, then don't buy an iPhone". I did not say that.

I think you'll agree that if you wake up in the morning and say to yourself, "I think I want to write Free software for a mobile telephone", your next statement will not be, "and now I'm going to go buy an iPhone." Right?

Your occasional tactic of debating with somebody by ignoring everything they're saying and assuming they're ignoramuses is pointless and irritating. Stop.
I'm assuming that by "making public statements", you mean "showing off." (Not that that's a bad thing; it's also known as "signaling." [1]) The people teens are concerned about showing off to are always in physical proximity to them; they don't need an out-of-band channel for this. Adults are much more physically disconnected from the people they seek to impress. This encourages things like Twitter.

[1] http://www.overcomingbias.com/category/signaling
I never thought I'd see a link about Falkirk on HN. I live just up the road from the Wheel :) It's pretty incredible to watch - there aren't many places where you can watch such a large piece of machinery in routine operation.
just curious, do you intend to make the application a independent product or an addon feature ?
Exactly. By the way this example shows how people with good intentions on both sides of the conflict can fall into the frustrating state of edit wars. Add there the http://www.geocities.com/bigcslewisfan/ mechanis of corrupting those in power and it gets pretty messy (as the wikipedia review site can attest).
Am I wrong or are people convinced the parent must be right, given he's got 50 upmods? I was kind of hesitant to criticise it with that many upmods, but really, am I that obtuse if I don't see his point?

pmjordan pointed out that my assertion that the per user loading/rendering time is completely independent of the scale is overstating the case, as he illustrated with a CDN and custom software. However, in my response to him, I think I made a good case that that argument doesn't hold for stripping closing tags?
I'm not sure whether you are in agreement with the article or just commenting on the issue of government research. The article seems to say that a lot of grants are rejected because the projects aren't safe bets. In a way, they're rejected because they can't guarantee real-world results. So, according to your comment, isn't the system working?
You said:

But it's sad that people will buy hardware that conspires against them to make their life difficult.

ubernostrum said:

I can't honestly say that my iPhone has made my life difficult.

You said:

You aren't trying to write free software for it.

So you ignored his point, namely that the iPhone's software hasn't at all conspired against him, and went on nonetheless, with a little hint of snark. I hate snark even when it's justified, though you very often post snark in places where snark is useful and accurate. Every time you get into one of these arguments, however, it's a nuisance. You had a valid starting point re: Jailbreaking, but when ubernostrum gave a valid response, you snarked for no reason other than snarking; when I asked you to stop, you snarked at me.

I get your point - that you meant to say something other than what you said - but it would help your case if you ever took the time to explain yourself with a less-than-pompous attitude. I know I'm not the only one who gets pissed off at you for occasionally being a dick, particularly when this community works well because so few people are.
Yes, I just found it slightly ridiculous. I think comparisons to 1984 are grossly overused, but especially when the point of books like 1984 is the exploration of complete oppression of society through government control - not that obtuse bureaucracy is kind of frustrating.
yep, and do it via twitter: match making announcements via twitter.
I admit that your post was too long to read. However, I did notice the parts about the lack of logos on the iPhone. I located an iPhone and took this picture, comparing it to my HTC phone:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/really_jrockway/3671367456/size...

You'll notice that the HTC phone contains exactly one logo, a tiny HTC logo. The iPhone has the Apple, a note about where it was designed, a note about where it was assembled, and then a picture of some government agency's logo, a picture of a trash can with an X over it, another government logo, some random numbers, and an exclamation point surrounded by a circle. This doesn't matter, but it does mean your argument is incorrect.

I'll also point out that both phones have a number of buttons around on the side. The iPhone has the large, long connector port on the bottom and three buttons on the side. That is more than the "one button" that you mention.
What is going on here is a process called "Greylisting" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greylisting).

The idea is that spammers don't use real mail queues and thus, if you send a temporary error, genuine clients will requeue the message, whereas spammers will just drop it.

Over time, this assertion has become false and now it's just annoying.
We may be reading too much into this: http://www.google.com/trends?q=base+10%2Cdirac%2Ccheerios...
It's certainly possible that the user may have had very good intentions by wanting to spread the word and increase publicity about a reporter being kidnapped by terrorists.

Keeping it quiet was, really, in the best interests of the Times, not the reporter.

The anonymous contributer could have just as easily thought he was being suppressed by one of the kidnapping party.
I would prefer the iPhone did passwords all-clear, at least as an option.

The small repositionable screen makes shoulder-surfing more difficult, more obvious, and easier to shield manually. And if someone has video trained on the screen/keyboard, no masking is enough to help.
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It may not be all that likely, but I wonder what would happen if Amazon and Apple collaborate instead of dance-fight?

If Apple is working on an ebook reader it'd be the simplest way for them to take a slice of the pie - just show the reader to Amazon and say "That's a nice ebook business you've got there, it'd be a shame if something were to happen to it."

It depends on how much pie they'd like I guess.
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Trim half of your experience from your CV. No one wants to hire a know-it-all. If you don't have much experience, then go to several recruiters - they are all about finding bodies and they're not too fussy. If you're a chick, then change the name on your CV to one that can be interpreted as either male or female, eg. "Chris" or "Kim". If you have 2 months of savings then party like it's 1999 because it could be worse.
Additional info can also be found here:
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There is also the blog that features everything that is happening there:

http://nuit-blanche.blogspot.com/search/label/CS

Cheers,

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If you have the budget of a small nation or the defence department you could probably do this. Remember the specially coded DVD players that were created for the Oscars screeners? Well that is the sort of territory you are heading into.

The big problem is that to copy the data you have to read it, and to read the data you have to read it! There is no way for the USB stick to tell if the process that is reading the data is showing it to the user or writing it to the hard disk. Ignore the USB stick, it is not the issue, the issue is the data. You encrypt your data and you need to write an application to display the data to the user, anything else that reads the file will just see gibberish. Your application, which knows how to decode the data, will be the only way to view the data.

Of course this can be hacked, what can be made by man can be broken by man, but you have just upped the entrance fee. Then comes the trade off, is your data valuable enough to cover the expense and inconvenience to the user of the custom software and is it too expensive for the thief to hack the application?

Of course the application could be copied so you now need to lock the application to the hardware so that the data becomes useless without it. As a USB stick is just a computer on a chip you could build some custom hardware that is required by the application (such as the decryption built into silicon) so that the application cannot be run without the USB stick.

And that is the best you are going to get.

Did I mention that this could get expensive :)
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Stress and depression are also strongly correlated with religion, but less so with God or prayer. There's a drop in the searches for religion around christmas...

http://www.google.com/trends?q=religion,+stress,+depression&...

Notice also the spike in stress and depression searches around Romney's speech on religion, we'll come to that later on.

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It's even more interesting if you look at it region per region.

* US: http://www.google.com/trends?q=stress,+depression,+religion,...

* UK: http://www.google.com/trends?q=stress,+depression,+religion,...

* Australia: http://www.google.com/trends?q=stress,+depression,+religion,...

There are different patterns in all three regions, but the correlation holds.
I took shoulder as a neutral term, to be sure the variations were not related to some global trend in search volume.

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Surpisingly, though, the Romney speech spike is bigger in worldwide queries than in US specific ones.

At the world scale, the spike is also very correlated with feet, flower and shoulder...

It's not the case in the US... And the Romney spike is much smaller when compared to the average frequency of each term.

* World: http://www.google.com/trends?q=religion,+feet,+flower,+shoul...

* US: http://www.google.com/trends?q=religion,+feet,+flower,+shoul...

Do you have any idea of what happened worldwide in November 2007? Is it a Google bug? Or was there an overall spike in search queries at that point?
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"Even Google was unable to handle the load."

I was under the impression that Google's problem was due to an automated attack response, not due to bandwidth issues.

Also, the article cited:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10273325-93.html has been updated to say that only CNN "appeared sluggish." It may be true that the news on the Internet was crippled, but there's basically no hard evidence suggesting it from the source he cited.
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People want to be able to floor it to merge into traffic - its a safety feature.
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I suspect it's not about the government or the press -- it's about the specifics. If NYT had written the Wikipedia folks and said, "Don't add this information, it compromises our security." they'd have been laughed at. If they say, "There's this specific guy, and this specific information, and we think there's a good chance if you say this it'll do this bad thing to him." it's another story. I think the government would probably be able to make a similar appeal. "Bob might get killed." is a lot more actionable than "National security might be compromised."
I wonder if they considered showing this person (or at least people on that ISP or region) custom content?

Forking the entry so that they could carry on editing in ignorance would, I imagine, be a rather large challenge, but just hard wiring a divertion to some sort of explanation might have been feasible.
Can you link the RSS item to the HN page rather than the submitted story? (e.g. see reddit)

By linking to the story and not the HN post, when following the link one has lost access (like a dangling pointer) to the comments. Currently I must mouse-click the "comments" link in the RSS item instead of using my RSS reader's ability to follow the link, which is a PITA.
Yes, but : http://www.google.com/trends?q=base+10,dirac,+wrist+band&...

This is a US specific plot, but the world wide one is similar. There are plausible explainations for a correlation between the type of breakfast and the school cycle.

The spike at the end of 2007 appears for any queries when you look at the world-wide data.
Funny you should say that. He spoke at my graduation (York, 2006), and being a graduation speech it was unfortunately relatively insight-free.
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This one's been around for years. Does it actually postdate your other two examples?