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VPN is used for telecommuting. Without VPN, the company would have to expose a lot of intranet services to the internet for us to be able to work from home, and to be on call at night would entail staying at the office all night.

The fact that the first (only) use for VPN you can think of is to hide criminal activity says a lot about you, really.
No need to. Block, remove and move on is the common way. It works.

I don't see much difference in people trying to use Wikipedia to post spam, or people trying to use HN to post spam. Both is spam, both should get deleted, both should ban the users from posting more, and both do so. Having a large banner ontop of spam posts here that says "company X is trying to spam HN, get them!!!" would not actually improve my HN experience.
> After all the VC money flushed out, the bootstrapper is still standing. :)

Generally, the bootstrapper focuses on building a sustainable business early on (whereas the VC-funded startups try until the wellspring dries up)
Old computers don't die, their users do. If you look, you will discover that all the old machines of the 80's are indeed still alive and well, and actually .. getting new software written for them. Yes, kids, its a fact: the c64 is a thriving platform. The Oric-1/Atmos? Also! /r/retrobattlestations much, I do!?

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I just want to see the contracts and the code. If we are going to be fair, we need the facts. If the contractor was told to paint the wall blue, and they painted it blue but everyone thought red was better color then it's inexcusable to blame the contractor.

With politics the way it is right now in DC, I don't trust anything but the facts, I'm sure you do too. Show me the code and contracts, I'm tired of pundits telling me what I should think. Who knows, maybe it's built to spec or maybe the contractors are at fault. Without facts, who knows?
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On page 43, Kahan gives a four rule of thumbs. According to rule 3 (declare temporary/local variables all with the widest ﬁnite precision that is not too slow nor too narrow), I think Kahan would actually agree with you.

Maybe you confused Kahans rant with C semantics?
the article used the cringeworthy misspelling homogenious
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Hmm that article seems to nitpick about the supporting data provided by Lustig (as well as some rather "rhetorical" devices) and does nothing to attack the information presented about how fructose is metabolised which, to me, was the most damning component of the talk.

The fundamental message is that the chronic effects of fructose are similar to the chronic effects of alcohol because they're metabolised almost identically in the liver.

Aragon's only argument against the biochemistry presented is that it's "all about dose and context" ... well if you chronically consume alcohol then you get pretty fucked up in the liver right? So if you're chronically consuming fructose in the same way you'll get fucked up, too.

Really, the article doesn't refute any of the core claims, it only says that we can eat some fructose just the same as we can eat some alcohol, big deal. That doesn't mean I'm going to start feeding my kids lollies, fizzy drinks, fruit juice and donuts now, does it?
Tracking the Silk Road – Lessons for darknet services
The person I replied to implied that all turbofan engines have gearboxes, that gearing was necessary to have the fan rotate at a slower speed than the "main engine". In reality, the vast majority of the turbofan engines currently used in commercial aviation do not have gearboxes. The engines referred to in the wikipedia article you cite are still in development or just entering production.
Errm.. cough .. The American BBS Revolution.

MiniTel 'failed' because at the time, in the American market, it was competing with, well .. seriously better technology. If you even thought about some service like miniTel, in the US, and then went looking .. you got straight to the BBS section of CompuMag, &etc. The French had miniTel, hosted services, whereas in BBS-land, if you had a modem, you could serve. And .. serve you did.

However, in true -retro spect, MiniTel was brilliant. A Walled Garden, if not the first.
Dear Gregory, this is really brilliant! Very well done!
The point is $2bn is a significant amount of money. There's a LOT that can get done transaction-wise with that kind of money. It's the start of a mini-economy of its own... but only mini in comparison to current economies.
No, I know this because I know a) casinos use statistics and b) casinos actually exist.

Look at the desperate efforts you're having to make to try and justify a cost-benefit analysis. You're questioning the validity of tried and tested statistical methods! Why? Shouldn't a CBA be easier to justify if it's so clearly a good idea that should be applied to everything as you stated earlier?
Somebody show this guy a parser combinator library.
+ On Silk Road (translation from Russian original) https://www.facebook.com/notes/daniel-a-nagy/on-silk-road-tr...
Because most paid coding work is not public, and many excellent commercial programmers prefer to do other things in their off time.

Honestly, this is a weirdly naive question. Gung-ho startup culture does not represent the industry as a whole, and you don't need to eat, breathe, and sweat code every waking moment of your life to be a great coder.
Your emotions are coloring your ability to seriously consider how the 99% of urban dwellers who couldn't care less about being able to fly RC aircraft would feel about them being ubiquitous. I don't need to anticipate a bike hitting me from behind on the sidewalk because they are illegal there, and in the street, I look around (horizontally!) like every other pedestrian. I think that you also fail to understand how things like space, privacy, quietness, accountability, and yes, aesthetics are shared resources in a city that have to be carefully balanced among ALL people, not just an emotional or sarcastic 1%. To manage those concerns take resources, like police, city council members, and licensing.

Perhaps you would volunteer to test and license every operator and RC aircraft in the NYC for noise, safety, and flight-worthiness? And to respond to all of the reckless endangerment complaints that will happen anyway? No? Then I guess it will eventually cost me money. And no, I don't think every future reckless operator of an RC aircraft will be dumb enough to record his face on takeoff. It would seem that being able to control them from thousands of feet away, operator unseen, makes it a little harder to police than, say, a hit and run motorist, and the police already have plenty of problems catching them. But perhaps you are ready to volunteer your time and money to solve that problem as well.

Many people choose to live in the suburbs and rural areas (many more than in places with the density of Manhattan, for sure). There are already many different opportunities for kids there that don't exist in the city (why, my kid would like to ride his pony and his ATV on the streets, and go skeet shooting! why can't he?) I shed no tears for the sad future children of Manhattan who will be utterly deprived of the opportunity to fly their RC drones down avenues with hundreds of pedestrians. There are literally millions of square miles in the rest of this country where you can do that at a fraction of the risk. And if their parent really cares, they can drive ten miles into Jersey or upstate and do it in a large open park, the way any responsible person already does today.
Take that soda and replace the fructose with sucrose. You still get people drinking a gallon of it.

> It's very difficult to consume even 1000 extra calories from proper food, like potatoes.

This is just not true. People find it easy to overeat. They add a little bit of butter here, some mayo there, have a drizzle of salad dressing, a nice snack. It all adds up.
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Open source is a development model that encourages sharing and redistribution of source code. It is not a term that can be applied to the making public of government secrets, which has nothing to do with the encouragement of information sharing.

When Wikileaks gets their hands on government secrets and puts it on a website, they haven't made those secrets 'open source'. That word doesn't even make sense in that context.

Even if I get my hands on the source code of Windows and put it in a GitHub repository, I still haven't made Windows open source.
There was a thriving hardware market for the miniTel machines (something different about the Walled Gardens of Now, I suppose) and I recall there being some seriously nice designs. Ultimately the Minitel was a dumb terminal, but like so many of the technologies at the time, what this meant was usually just a matter of flicking a few bits.

Remember also that the 8-bit revolution was going on in the computer world at the time. A lot of savvy French got 8-bit machines they could program, or load up "MINITEL.ROM", if they wanted. One of the reasons that the Oric-1 hardware even managed to live an extra few years before completing the 8-bit apocalypse, was because the French market for nice computers that could also access MiniTel was thriving.
It would be very lovely if all web developers at newspapers (with an online presence of course) would read this!
Am I the only one here who finds this approach somehow similar to Plan 9?
So, allegedly eating fruit causes "heart disease and diabetes, cancer and dementia"?

No thanks, allow me to disbelieve.
.. but... JSON isn't regular. And neither is HTML :(
I'm not worried about NSA here: they can track my packets even if I use secure VPN software. I'm worried about the coffee-shop-WiFi variety of attacks.

You're right that PPTP is fine for your purpose.
There are ads that are extremely rude and unnecessary.

* Popup ads are ignored by virtually all internet veterans.

* Ads blocking the page (forbes.com for example) on redirect is extremely rude and useless because people like me will x it no matter what.

Google and FB ads seem to be fine. They put them in the right spot and they are not so annoying. They are not so obvious however. The textual and color just make these ads part of the page's text rather than an ad.
Ask HN: Has anyone practised lean startup methodology in India?
I read many articles where entreprenuers sell their product before building it. I am from india and I find its very difficult to follow this approach. The first question is they ask us is to show the product. Has anyone faced like these in India or any other developing country ? I feel that I am missing something. pls advice.
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Did you look at the regex? Perl regexes are also not regular; they're basically grammars.
This is a great "anecdote" (I don't have a better word...). It's easy to imagine someone finding cheap goods, setting himself up with fulfillment by amazon, and setting a price, and then Amazon deciding his price is wrong, buying his stuff, and relisting it (after all, it's already catalogued in their warehouse) themselves.

I don't think anyone thinks such behavior would be morally alarming... but that's certainly a common perspective when it comes to high-frequency stock trading. What makes the difference?
Could you elaborate? I don't see how prediction markets could help decide what code to use.
I'm exactly like that! Agree 100% with your comment.

However I find the current Soylent version a little disgusting, not very convenient, and quite expensive.

If/when they have a dry pill that costs $2 per day I'll be completely sold (hope a pill is possible? maybe not?)
https://www.gandi.net/ might not be the cheapest, but is without doubt the most trustworthy and ethical
Finally Mailbird support IMAP can't wait for the multi account. Awesome work!!
I read webpages about like this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/2fc9sexvijmwdgn/Banner-Blindness.g...

Because content is text that is readable.

It's not the color. It's not the F-shape. It's that it looks like content because I can read it with little effort. To find anything else on that page I would have to consciously look at the "menu" and "wtf" areas. Images are rarely useful, so I frequently gloss over them too, I don't expect them to tell me anything useful or even to be related to what I'm reading. They're pretty things to look at if I want to look at pretty things that are just a waste of time (they're fun! they're not content.).

Maybe that is why Google ads work so well?
I guess it's telling that I was surprised by this because I always thought Priceonomics was a blog so interesting as to get YC funding.
> a service for which people are willing to pay

... people are willing to pay for terrible things, especially if they're provided by autonomous businesses. And people will do anything for money including working for an autonomous business doing terrible things. And who's to say that an autonomous business providing a nice service, such as electricity, won't keep trade secrets and also needs no human workers (thus robots could be doing, in secret, some terrible deed hated by humans to provide a resulting service liked by humans... and that secret business plan might have been concocted by an algorithm with no human intervention).
I might be off on this one, but regular expressions are and can be defined by regular grammar. No?
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or this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/827557/how-do-you-validat...
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If you liked the original concept of priceonomics, you might like this: http://www.pricemachine.com/

(Disclosure: I work for the company behind this website)
I don't think so. The marketing dollars behind .com are huge and arguably a greater threat to domain names are apps and app stores.
But that's the point.

Using the alcoholic analogy people are saying "alcoholism is caused by grain! Grain does X and that's really bad!" when really, while grain might be bad, it's the alcohol that's the real problem.

Fructose might be bad, but the real problem is the huge amount of over eating that people do. And people still get obese even in countries that do not use HFCS.
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Detrus is talking about proper food.
You're talking about butter and mayo.

A huge part of the problem is that people equate these things just as you have. Mayo in particular is an abomination. What we have come to accept as "food" is tragic[1].

[1]http://www.livestrong.com/slideshow/1007800-11-banned-food-i...
If you use the strict term, yes. If you're looking at what Perl calls Regexp, then no. Perls regular expressions are a superset that can parse (at least some) context free languages.
Not really. Unlike a water treatment plant, tunnel, power station, etc. that provides benefit to many residents, flying RC aircraft only provides benefits to the users and come with a host of externalities for everybody else. You might as well say "nimby" about guns or drugs.
> - and that's a really bad thing, people die etc.

I'm all for saving people, lets call it charity though and not investment.

> It's either savings or new wealth, it can't be both.

True, I meant currency, its new currency taken from the savings of everybody else

> I'm not sure you'd be of that opinion in a depression.

Hypothetically if we used a global hard money system, like bitcoin, and the government was so sure that spending now would boost the economy in the future. I see no problem in them taking a loan and building some highways.

They would have to pay it back though...
I'll play devil's advocate here and assume for a moment that all of the code was, in fact, uploaded to GitHub/BitBucket/etc today. How would open source improve it?

Remember that successful open source projects do not operate by simply throwing code over the metaphorical wall. Meaning, you're not just asking for the code, you're asking to be a part of a community that needs management. Bug reports, pull requests, contributor agreements - these cost time and manpower/money to curate, which neither CGI nor the Federal government are going to supply overnight. Ultimately, given the rapid deadlines they're supposedly facing, I'd argue that, at this point, they're distractions to the actual development team.
Love that show. What happened to us being able to do funny TV?
The seller fees are separate from the fulfillment fees and are typically another ~15% of price + shipping.
This is about the Surface, not Windows.
I consistently have more battery life with Windows than Linux.
Oh dear, I do not agree. I think you're cargo-cult'ing me out for dinner.

The lines in the application-binary blob sand are clearly arbitrarily drawn. One mans OS is another mans Application. Filesystem? You don't need it.
Leaked documents show TSA has no expectations of airplane hijackings.
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So far (3 hours) there seem to be too many posts basically saying, "What good will it do to see the source?" But all I see is fudging of a very black-and-white issue:

- The code is (probably) garbage

- The code doesn't just need to be 'released' - it needs to be exposed

- Then there will be some hard questions: "Why is it garbage?"

- Embarrassment...

- ...leading to a change in the system that allowed this to happen
I would love to hear from an ex-Knight tech. Wouldn't be surprised if they wrote something along the lines of: "Management just wanted this thing in ASAP!", or perhaps "Tests weren't part of the kpi's". I may sound biased against non-techs, but I have seen this time and time again. Testing is a barrier to quick deployment, and "How much money are we losing while doing all that stoopid testing?".
It feels like Reddit but with an emphasis to users and a better interface (with elements of Pinterest, Rockmelt, Scoopit).

Nice interface and it's feature rich for a launch. However I felt a bit overwhelmed with the amount of features that I couldn't actually see the deep core benefit. For example, collecting snaps to snapzines. Or upvoting links. Or browsing serious articles vs gifs. Or the gamification. Or the tribes...
The Deck solves the "banner blindness" by a nice way of showing ads (think Daring Fireball). "Only a single small ad will be shown for each page viewed." http://decknetwork.net/
> This should be fixed the old-fashioned way

Tar and feathers?
Sounds like what the market needs is a provider that is truly offshore: foreign principals, headquarters, operations.
They didn't just collect wi-fi names, they also collected other forms of data, some of which could be considered private. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/09/googles-wifi-wireta...
It's already a bigger economy than some small countries. That's a pretty decent size in my book. Add to that the fact that it's increasing in size exponentially at the moment and it's looking like it's going to be a pretty serious currency.
That explains how the deprecated "Power Peg" model was activated, but why was that model so flawed?
The first 9 results (homepage, Finance, Trends, AdWords, Offers, News, etc.) seem to be ranked by popularity.
another awsome tool to test
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This thing only supports message passing, parallel threads with shared state are not allowed.

This severely limits the usefulness of this thing. (Meaning: if you want truly parallel/multicore applications you're still forced to write some sort of multithreaded shared-state abstraction server in C++, which will be accessed by ZeroVM processes.)
Yahoo! did try to fight. If they can attempt I'm sure Google could put an even bigger fight. Not to mention they have money for lobbying in Congress.
very ugly presentation....
Yes, it does impinge on freedom of speech locally. No politician is going to move to abolish it (for now), but enforcement is next to non-existent.
"read" yes, but "use" implies you also read the menu, that area is not totally blind
To whomever is thinking "but JSON is not regular!", note that that regex is not a regular expression (Perl has a very liberal definition of regexes).

Perl regexes can be recursive: the operator $^R means "match here the whole regex itself", making the matching algorithm a full recursive descent parser. I suspect that parsing speed wouldn't be too bad because JSON is LL(1), so the parser shouldn't backtrack.

I don't think that the author is suggesting to use this in any useful code, he's just showing a cool hack. It kind of resonates well with the Perl aesthetics of short, "clever" code with as little as possible dependencies (and a fascination for regexes).
> Nowadays, we consume several times more fructose than we did 100 years ago.

Nowadays people consume very many more calories than we did 100 years ago, and people in countries where HFCS isn't used still get fat.

When someone says they stopped eating HFCS it's not stopping the fructose that helps them lose weight, it's stopping drinking all those extra empty calories that helps them lose weight.
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You previously asserted a counterfactual: "If statistics didn't work, casinos wouldn't work."

This is not the same claim as "a) casinos use statistics and b) casinos actually exist." If you want invalid post-hoc justifications of that nature, then here you go: profitable corporations use cost/benefit analysis to determine which projects to run, and they remain profitable.

But the fact of the matter is that you can't prove that statistics works. How would you do it? Compare a sample of casinos that use statistics to a sample who don't? Then run a statistical test to measure the difference, thereby engaging in circular reasoning?

Like it or not, this is a fundamental problem of epistemiology. Even if you want to compare two epistemiologies empirically, you still need to accept an underlying meta-epistemiology to have a method of comparison.
Any guess on correlation between location of applicant and proximity of application time to deadline? Is the 8pm PST deadline keeping the European applicants up late?
it is not the same with providing an SDK. Well, if android was documented better, we would not need source code this much but most of the time, it requires checking the actual implementation to understand the whole picture. Probably it is the difference between being "just fine" to creating great things.
Excellent news that H.265 has competition, but at the same time I am feeling a bit pessimistic. Consider Theora for example: Even if there is open source VHDL available for Theora, it was only implemented in Nios II and LEON processors and according to Wikipedia "there are currently no Theora decoder chips in production". Even a license free codec wasn't enough to attract interest from manufacturers.

Youtube delivers huge part of the "relevant" video material in Internet. And Google has their own video codec. Would they include Mozilla's codec into their browser (and smartphones) instead and start encoding videos in their own service with Mozilla's codec? Quite unlikely. At least the article doesn't mention anything about DRM, so would it be enough for Netflix?
Have a question regarding competitive analyses before creating a startup. Since this seems to be an issue of doing competitive analyses about your market, how do you and other startups go about doing research about competitors?
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Microsoft is just NOT having a good go of things…
Because they are totally not exposed to lobbying.
It's not mentioned because the planes are so different that there is little point in comparing them? A350 is 3x larger, has 2x the range, and is 4x the price. Seems to me that the use cases they've been designed for have to be completely different, and one can in no way be substituted with the other.