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There is more to be concerned about with Scientology than simply competition.
Ask HN: Please help review this site: tippleBox.com
I built this site, tippleBox (www.tippleBox.com) and I'd love to get some feedback from the community on the site design, usability, etc.

Thanks
I'm using Capistrano to deploy python code and works fine.

Can fabric get the lastest release from a git repo?
Sure: Microsoft with Windows Live and Bing.

Microsoft knows who my friends are (Messenger/profile), what I'm saying to them (Messenger), where I'm going (Bing Maps), what I'm writing (Office Live), and what I'm looking for (Bing). Granted Office Live is a beta and there is no Microsoft-branded online feed reader. But a lot of the checklist is covered.

If you start checking off every box, you'll find that Yahoo has a fairly similar total suite of properties, too. Google just has the most mind share.
I've always loved the Segway, but never bought one because it's difficult to find a lot of places where I can use it. Bikes face a similar problem, which is why people in the US mostly use it for exercise.

The Segway would be a great device for the handicapped, except it requires standing up and decent balance to use.

I've always enjoyed watching kids skate along the sidewalks and malls with those shoes with wheels in the back. When they need to climb stairs or walk carefully through a crowded area, they can; when they have some room to zoom, they tip a heel back and they're gliding along. Segway needs to do something like that.
Every report I have found says that, if an exploit does exist, it is in an old version of OpenSSH. I have no idea why you would update to anything but a recent version. If you suggest that your distribution doesn't have an update to a recent enough version; then rumored OpenSSH exploits are the least of your security concerns.

Your post also suggests that Damien Miller and the OpenSSH development team would not disclose the exploit. Are you aware that one of the goals of the OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects is Full Disclosure? What evidence do you have to suggest that they would go against their own goals?

http://www.openbsd.org/security.html
Why Music Moves Us
Ubuntu is already pretty fast on a Dell mini 910n & a Dell mini 10v. I believe they have a goal of 8-second boot times on netbooks in 2010. And they usually achieve their goals.

I believe Google will pull this off, because it entails repackaging and refining software that's already well on its way.

I wouldn't believe Microsoft will pull this off, for 2 reasons: (1) they don't want to threaten their Windows cash cow. (2) business partners (Intel) don't want netbooks to become an acceptable replacement for full-fledged laptops.

None of the reasons is technical.
Here in Santa Monica it's the same way.

It would be easy to get around on a Segway, but nobody does it.

They're too expensive. People think (I say unfairly) that they look dopey. And there isn't a group of people that feel it's made for them.
"Surgeons don't get surgeon's block, so you shouldn't think it's ok for you to get writer's block." -- Cory Doctorow to his writing class.
I always set the customer up with their own account, that they are responsible for paying for. I might lose $10/month, but I save at least that much in my time worrying about collecting, plus it reduces my responsibilities.
Mosso (Rackspace Cloud now) has a nifty little feature that lets you setup clients on your account and set the rate they are billed at etc. Mosso worries about getting the money, you just sit back and profit. They even have a support service you can pay for (I think its $5/mo/domain), and throw all of your customers at. They will relay the information to you, and answer any questions about downtime that has to do with Rackspace etc, all while acting like they work for you.
Hey, every OS has support forums (and Ubuntu's are above average), but "I can just email the kernel developer" is not a rational way to deal with set up and support issues.

Support isn't the real issue anyway. You can always buy support (it's not like the support you get with Windows is anything special anyway).

Ubuntu (and Linux generally) is great as a server. I gave up on Ubuntu on the desktop. It was very hard to set up and configure. Sleep/resume was flaky on my Thinkpad. On my desktop it took several days of trying different drivers and hacking xorg.conf to get my second monitor to work properly, and my cheapo webcam is flat-out not supported by any driver I could find (and I really looked).

Yeah, these are mostly driver issues that aren't really Linux's "fault" -- but who cares. In Windows everything just worked out of the box.

I think Google will have the same problems. People aren't going to be happy if they buy a Google PC and nothing happens when they plug in their ancient, oddball plotter printer.
I think I'll just read wikipedia. Zing!
How a Minnesota programmer figured out that a NYT photo was altered
Next up: virtual graffiti. Your text is uploaded with GPS/orientation coordinates and made public -- so the next person to walk by (with their augmented-reality view on) sees your tagging.
Wonder what the default will be in Google Chrome OS...
Ask HN: Can complex emotions be represented as combination of simple emotions?
One of the revolution in CS was of boolean algebra. Laws of thought were never so explicitly formulated then.

Now say for example at HN we upvote a link or downvote a link, our complex emotions are reduced to simple Yes or No kind of choice.

For example one may vote a response Up only because he agrees with it.
Or he might vote it up because he think it adds value to the discussion (but not necessarily agree with it)
The PvP area is not designated as a place to use a flaw in the game design to insta-kill people.
Pushing the Limits of Windows: Processes and Threads
Justin.tv is looking for a few good programmers
How can you hope to change democracy with only 1 member out of 435?

Aren't US Representatives supposed to represent their district, not the country as a whole? Why would voters in a district vote to reduce their representation?

This sounds a bit like Jury Team, which fought the recent European elections in the UK and came 14th, gaining no seats.
From google's blog post I'm under the impression that while based on a linux kernel it will have very little actual code from linux. It sounds like they are writing their own version of X with a minimalistic window manager.

I very much like the look of the chrome browser so I'm looking forward to checking this out. Specially since I'm one of those that doesn't do much on his home machine besides web based stuff.
I thought it was common knowledge that microsoft is announcing the RTM sign-off on Monday 7-13-2009. This has been known for a while.

WZor.net has more information but they should be choosing which candidate build is the RTM shortly, and then an officially announcement will come Monday.
What if it's unique information?

- Person wondering if you really think i want to say "concerned american citizen" on every post
I always liked "Theses on Groucho Marxism" better:
http://www.collectivereinventions.org/Archives/pages/theses_...
"Nobody should have to do a job that can lead to blindness."

I agree. Yet in our society, where efficiency must often be balanced against safety, risk cannot be fully eliminated.

Council workers would surely be safer if the roads they repaired were closed for the duration, but we cannot stomach the roads being fully closed. Furniture movers would certainly suffer less chance of back injury if there were four men lifting that dresser instead of two, yet no-one would hire them if their prices doubled. And the aluminium smelter might well be able to significantly reduce its injury rate by investing billions in a new process, but the product would no longer be viable and the factory would close, simply moving the risk to a less caring jurisdiction.

One can continue like this all day. There's always a compromise, and most developed countries have settled upon a sweet spot. Workplace injury declines with advancing technology, and we should certainly do our best to minimise it, but while society values economic competitiveness over absolute personal safety, you can never eliminate risk, and maybe not even then.
I've you're serious about writing a poker bot, you should check out the forums at http://pokerai.org. I recently started developing a bot and found several useful nuggets of information on the site. Be warned though, everything feels like a hack when writing a poker bot (specifically determining the state of the game from a screenshot ... kind of a pseudo-OCR).

And finally, no, I haven't made any significant income from my bot (as it current only plays preflop on 6-max tables ... I manually takeover after the flop).
pretty cool idea

although you need to make a way so that only the constituents get to vote. Senators/Reps are there to represent their state/district, not the overall U.S. population

And since the thing will be online, you don't know whether foreigners are screwing the polls
I'm still confused why they would use a 'tooth' oppose to something else...
Excellent questions. Yes, 1 member out of 435 is a drop in the bucket - the goal would not be to control the congress, but to give people a reason to care about the issues, and a reason to engage in discussion and debate that encompasses all sides of an issue, rather than gravitating to radical punditry and entrusting the entire decision-making process to politicians.

A friend derisively described this idea as "American Idol for democracy", and that rings somewhat true, but is it a bad thing? Wouldn't it be a good thing if the average American knew as much about the current goings-on in congress as they already know about the current goings-on in American Idol?
There are classes of problems that can't be solved at the system level, like deploying to more than one system type or across multiple machines at the same time.
You'd be surprised how many jobs can lead to injuries, including blindness.

I met a piano tuner with only one eye one day. He was tuning a grand piano, overstressed the string, it broke and the little loop at the end of it was shot off straight into his eye...

I'll bet you he never thought that piano tuning can lead to blindness either.
I'd think that they would work fine for this; they should absorb the kinetic energy of the impact and keep the molten aluminum out of your eyes, even if they do then melt quickly thereafter.
It's a good idea: You're competing against "traditional" congressmen by providing an enhanced service. You may force other representatives to offer more transparency to compete against votesimple: Even if votesimple loses a race, that would still lead to a win-win situation.
You're being silly: under your scenario the 'minimal force necessary' would be about what's necessary to prevent drivers from being distracted by random glimpses of penis:

- general knowledge that "hey, there's a law against indecent exposure; waving penis at passing drivers is indecent exposure"

- general knowledge that penis-flashers who get caught will suffer unpleasant consequences

...it's certainly not "cut off all the penii preemptively", and not even "surgically install unremovable loincloths"; in other words if red hair was really that unbelievably distracting the worst-case scenario minimal force for redheads would be that they cover up while in certain parts of the public.

So aside from the strawman choice of examples, you're also depending on utilitarianism to argue against it, which is pretty lame:

- don't be a utilitarian! it leads to bad outcomes!
The failure of the DOJ to enforce anti-trust laws during the era of 'private enterprise can do no wrong' held the internet back 10 years.
The assertion that eating less meat reduces heart disease is absurd in the face of the fact that heart disease has declined all around the world while meat consumption has gone up.
I'm using it as my default search engine and has done so since the official launch. It was pretty much just a "lets try this thing out" kinda experiment. So far I have seen no reason to switch back to google.

Short summary: My opinion on bing

* For regular searches, it does the job
* For image searches it is infinite better than google
* For video searches there is no way I'm going back to google
unlees they catch up

So just like you need a compelling reason to switch away from google, I need a compelling reason to switch back.
will only run cloud apps. if your cloud apps aren't as smart and offlineable as google's, too bad for you.
Good point. Members of congress are supposed to represent their voting district; unfortunately, this has fallen by the wayside, and now each member of congress represents a party, an army of campaign contributors and lobbyists, a set of political ambitions, and occasionally the people of the district as well.

I covet a congressperson who never acts based on future political ambitions or campaign contributions; it seems like this is a backhanded way to accomplish that goal.
You could still use X with just window manager optimized for fullscreen like in Ubuntu Remix.
I think you should get behind Lessig's change-congress.org project too.
I hear that among some goths, a snapshot through a human-tooth-mounted lens is the most desired MySpace Angle of all.
I think it's one hell of an experiment, but in all honesty I don't wish you luck. When it comes to many things having to do with politics - and the clusterfuck that is California in the wake of their ballot initiative system is the prime example - people are dumb.

For lack of a better word, legislating is hard work. It's complex, it involves a lot of details about things that most people have no idea about, and it often involves putting the good of he few about the good of the individual. Congresspeople have an entire staff devoted to leaning about bills and telling their bosses how to vote - do we as individuals have enough time and knowledge to make a meaningful contribution?

You might also consider that if you're trying to represent the views of "everyday Americans," they're not (in general) the kind of people who will spend a few hours honestly and impartially considering the pros and cons of a bill in Congress and then coming to a reasoned decision. The vast majority of the people you'd get participating would be either political geeks who would talk forever, or drop-in participants who are only there because the NRA/NARAL listed you in a partisan mail shot.

I also wonder how you would deal with the speed of Congress - while most things are scheduled, it's rare to have much lead-time when dealing with floor amendments or things coming out of Committee. You'd also - especially in the House - need a solid educational component to explain what's being voted on (why is a vote on a Rule important and what does it impact, etc.).

I think the system is somewhat broken, but I don't think this is the way to fix it. Direct democracy works in very few places - Switzerland is the closest to the ideal you're presenting, I think - and those have very long participatory democratic traditions, and a high level of civic involvement. For the most part, it ends up with places having a huge number of specific budgetary requirements that are good in individuality, but when taken together hamstring the place from working (and make it issue IOUs).

Lastly, the minute you start dealing with any money, talk to a lawyer who does FEC stuff. Campaign finance is complex, and you (being pretty much anyone who doesn't specialize in it) almost certainly don't understand it well enough.

Like I said, I don't wish your idea luck, but I hope it doesn't fail for simple regulatory reasons.
The lay crowd doesn't have time/experience/inclination to understand the minutia, that's why they defer to the specialist.

Therefore it is always the responsibility of the specialist to communicate necessary information in a way that's generally understandable. Since their definition of 'basic understanding' will never match yours, you should be prepared to explain each necessary component from the ground up until they can understand the issue at hand.

And the lay are perfectly justified in asking questions/making suggestions even if they don't have the first clue what the implications of their suggestions are.

Because suggestions should be treated purely on merit, not source. If the receptionist asks "Raid 0?" your answer should be as tactful, careful and considered as if the smartest geek you know had said it.

Much of the rest of your comment deals more with 'playing well with others', rather than communication itself.

Lay people dictating technical solutions despite warnings from their specialists isn't miscommunication; it's someone being a shortsighted, micromanaging dick.
I think I might not have been clear enough in my point. The people at OpenSSH are good, that was not in question. The point I was making is that the "anti-sec movement" are miles away from trustworthy. Without a confirmation from the actual devs that the current (5.x) versions are OK from the "exploit" I will not be upgrading from the most recent version that is on my distro.

Taking a random "hacker" without proof at face value on the internet is not my cup of tea.

As randallsquared pointed out here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=692344 it is entirely possible that the latest version has the problem and this is all a social engineering hack to get everyone to upgrade to a compromised version without any data whatsoever.
DEKA solved those problems, but not in the way you'd expect. Actually the Segway was a spinoff of technology developed for the original device: the iBOT. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBOT
I've seen several civilian Segways on the streets of Amsterdam in the past few months.
As an Agnostic, I disagree. Atheism makes strong clames about "God(s)" without any evedence.
Swedish Army Personality Test
If you're distributing software to end users a packaging system is probably the way to go, but if you're looking to deploy code from development environments to staging and production servers then something like Fabric or Capistrano is the way to go.
I'm certainly aiming for a bit of comedic value, but my serious point is that if you have no real principles except the malleable 'highest social utility,' then a crafty politician or bureaucrat can basically justify anything.
See also: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marc_Andreessen

"Netscape will soon reduce Windows to a poorly debugged set of device drivers"

That was the time when Java was the new thing; when the "network computer" (running a Java VM+ Netscape browser) was going to replace the Windows PC any day now. Oh well...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Computer
> Nobody should have to do a job that can lead to blindness.

I occasionally see code that makes me wish I had turned blind.
Other (open source) projects by Russ people might find interesting:

* Plan 9 from User Space - http://plan9.us

* vx32/9vx - http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~baford/vm/

* libtask - http://swtch.com/libtask/

(Plus quite a few bits of Plan 9 itself, obviously.)

Edit: forgot this really cool storage system: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/misc/foundation/
I know of people who have hired statisticians for regression type analysis from sites such as scriptlance.com or guru.com. If statistics and probability is your area, send me an email and I can pass your info along.
Exactly! Transparency is key. Our current legislative system is a convoluted mess that violates all sorts of principles of good design. For instance: The often-repeated of packing a bill with unrelated provisions to pick up additional support is positively ridiculous, and leads to inefficient government by design. I believe this would improve if citizens had a better opportunity and incentive to know and care what's going on in congress.
From a strictly design point of you I'll give you my initial thoughts (mind you these are quick things from the top of my head after a quick glance at the site)...

1. Logo looks rought around the edges, probably a transparency issue with PS or whatever image editor you used, might want to correct that because it looks weird and unprofessional
2. Seems like a lot of whitespace in the main body of page, you could just truncate things into a smaller area rather then spread everything out that much and have all that open space that looks weird
3. Not sure about the choice of font or the typography in general
4. Too much use of gray, especially since it's the choice of font color, borders, and in the sidebar as well. Try mixing in another color and see what looks nice

Again these are just some quick things I noticed from a largely design point of view
that's what it is sounding like. lame
just for the record: in case you are not in the US, most of the described features in this article do NOT work, you have to switch to "US" in the country locator (top-right corner) -- at least i had to, probably i am too stupid to "get it right" any other way... (probably some non-US residents could tell me whether i am nuts or not)
Next thing you know the creators of Bing are going to release their own operating system!
looks like a great idea - I just submitted excycle
OK, I've listened to both sides. I can understand the need at BBC for support for most of their legacy users up to a point (schools with old computers and stuff like that). What I fail to understand is why start a framework from scratch? Couldn't you guys at BBC contribute legacy support to some of the frameworks (be it jquery or some other) or fork it and do what you need? Isn't that a more rational use of resources?
Hasn't Adobe already preempted the issue with Photoshop Express (https://www.photoshop.com/express/landing.html)?
Not that bad. You probably don't have a mortgage, wife or children yet. You can usually still stay with your parents. You have enough freedom and enthousiasm to do a start-up. You can probably still secure an internship including a visa. If all else fails, you can even do a PhD.
As an aside, Michael Kaplan blogs quite often about his IBot. Sounds like a pretty spectacular device and it's sad to hear they aren't making them any longer.
http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/tags/iBOT/default.aspx
Mono outpaces Java in Linux desktop development
Mono, a framework based on Microsoft technology, has become more popular for Linux desktop applications than Java, but recent changes could strengthen Java's hand, experts say.
Frankly having a congressperson who represented the US population, would be a step up from one who represents their campaign contributors/lobbyists/etc...

(yes, I'm aware that the demographic of people who are online will skew the results, and that actually I probably DON'T want individual citizens voting on every issue (I don't trust folks to be well informed or intelligent) but this would be a good step forward, imho)
Creative idea. But a more compelling and hence considerably harder solution is to have a viable 3rd party.
Anyone care to take a stab at explaining why Perlis is so revered? The few things I've read by him, including most of these "epigrams", just seem lame. I must be missing something.
Mr. Schmidt, step down from that board
This is an excellent point: Simple majority rule is dangerous, and California is a perfect example. That's why we're not aiming to take over congress; Votesimple is designed to be a minority third party that happens to represent the interests of the American people directly.

If congress was 60% Votesimple, 20% Democratic, and 20% Republican, that would be bad. But what if congress was 2% Votesimple, 49% Democratic, and 49% Republican?
"Americans can read, analyze, discuss, and vote on each bill that comes before congress." What about the cases where the full text of the bill is not made public until like 2 hours before the vote?
If I had to guess, this is largely a scaling issue which Google has dealt with admirably. I doubt bing has anywhere near the capacity (yet) to do the level of indexing as well as google.

If it catches on I'd expect the visits to increase.