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how can they prove that you're holding out on them

They'll bring in a forensic investigator, who will explain to the judge/jury that TrueCrypt has a feature designed to be used by criminals to subvert the judicial process. Then, he will present the results of his investigation, which will show your drive to be consistent with you using that "plausible deniability" thing. Then, he will introduce external evidence that says you almost certainly have, I don't know, kiddie porn -- look, we can prove he downloaded it, here are the ISP logs, and here are the 47 intercepted posts which use the same nickname he used for his online banking, and here is the previous complaint against him for lascivious comments made to a young lady on Facebook.

That will probably be good enough to convict you of possession. Circumstantial, yes, but so are most convictions.
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This is great...thanks for the upload, Chirag!
I would personally not buy .net for the reasons mentioned in this thread already. Similarly, I would not have hyphens or any funny spellings in the address either. Just keep it simple, if your company is called Yahoo then yahoo.com should be where people can find about you.
I really agree with the points raised in the article, but as most of the other replies state, you are entering into a business relatioship with them , so yes they do have to review what you submit - fair enough.

What I've never understood is how they intend to scale the review process. With about 50,000 apps so far, and 40 reviewers (I believe that's how many there are) already, it must be a pretty intense task. How are they going to deal with this when they're getting ten or a hundred times as many submissions as they are now? In terms of business, they have to scale and grow the App Store continuously, so obviously they just employ more reviewers, but is this a viable and logical route?

Surely at some point they'll have to stop the review process.
and also http://www.thelocal.se/21666/20090825/
What's wrong with the suggestion? Well, here's one thing: The instant anyone in those countries discovers what you're doing, I expect one of two things will happen. Either (1) they will completely stop accepting your aid, in which case whatever good you were hoping it would do is right out of the window, or (2) you will suddenly find a whole lot more terrorists looking to do a lot of damage in rich countries.

More simply, you might just like to imagine how you'd feel if the roles were reversed. So, e.g., let's suppose that the Chinese government said: "All these Westerners are relying on our services to make lots of super-cheap goods. Why don't we put something in the plastic that makes them less fertile? It's for their own good." And let's suppose that you have been trying to have children for a few years and failing (or some close friend or relation has been) when you discover this. How do you feel?

A few other obvious things that I hope you missed: (1) Different people are fertile to different extents, and if you lower the average fertility you're most likely making lots of people completely infertile. (2) Your measures are going to affect the extra-specially poor disproportionately. To make a whole country's average fertility go down to replacement level, it may have to reduce the fertility of those people much more drastically. Down to zero, perhaps. (3) Having children is really, really important to a lot of people. You may think that's irrational; you may even be right; but that's how it is, and that's why you'd most likely get the effects I described above. (4) Having to make a choice between two horrible alternatives -- e.g., starving versus sterilization (see #2 for why it might really be pretty much exactly that choice) is, for many people, substantially worse than the better of those two alternatives. (See, e.g., "Sophie's Choice".)
I don't have a photo, but there was a version of the natural keyboard earlier on that didn't screw up the block of keys above the arrows. I had one of those, saw the new ones, and thought to myself: "They're embracing and extending the keyboard now, nothing is sacred."
Thanks for the advice. Does it cover all groups? I really don't have that much experience with interacting directly with angels yet (haven't needed to dive into that level of funding) , so I thought when we received a "You've been invited to pitch, just give us $1500!" e-mail, it was a good sign.
Somewhere, a pointy haired boss exclaims "Hey, there's a site that rates developers! Let's base our hiring decisions on that!"
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Yes. Your theory is correct. But the key link is prestige. The DGC entrants aren't really expecting make a profit.
Is Delphi still a good shot?
They already have this and, according to some insiders, it's part of the problem.

Basically the claim is that quantity of edits makes it more likely for you to "level up" within the Wikipedia community. This count includes reverts of perfectly good info as when you optimise for any variable, people find ways to play the system.

They also do simpler things like force you to sign up to create a new page, as opposed to edit an existing one.
No worries, water under the bridge.

And trust me, if they implemented this, you'd see me do a complete 540 on Facebook. That's right - I'd do a 360 spin plus another 180 just so I'm facing firmly in line with the Facebook supporters.

I love Google, but AdSense needs some real competition on the publisher front to get them to respect publishers ... something like this that was effective and had momentum enough to seize marketshare with web publishers would be the kick in the pocketbook Google needs to shape up and fly right.
where/what's the contest?
I've noticed that peak oil is always now+10 years:

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=peak+oil+10+year...

All you need to know about peak oil is "Are the reserves growing or shrinking over time?"

http://www.theoildrum.com/uploads/12/opec_reserve_growth.gif

http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/eneene/sources/petpet/images/refstrar...
It doesn't seem twisted at all to me. These operations are forced to exist in non-safe locations because of prohibition. I think the current laws are just as responsible for these explosions as they are for the hashish you find cut with shoe polish - when was the last time you bought a bottle of beer that was cut with a toxic substance?
You're making two assumptions here.

1. I never said it would be a secret. It would be a very publicly stated condition, told to every villager, as part of accepting the aid.

2. I never said that the drug would be so blunt an instrument. A drug that dropped any given person's fertility to zero would be completely unacceptable (as I said, actual culture-wide sterilization is as good as genocide, give or take a generation.) Lowering fertility, all by itself (and not as a side-effect of some other drug that people sue because of), isn't something we can even do right now—so if we're going to research it, we may as well figure out how to do it right. That means only affecting those people who have average-or-above fertility, and leaving those with below-average fertility right where they are (or maybe even bringing them up to the lowered average.)

See my reply to cwan, though: people can still have as many children as they want—it'll just take them longer, and they may give up before they get to the number they'd like (just as people give up today, only fewer children would be required before they'd decide to.)
But, why do they have more lifestyle disease? In Silicon Valley, I can go to my local farmers market, and I can afford to spend money on organic produce. When I didn't have a car, and lived on the edge of the ghetto in Chicago, it was really easy to get my calories at McDonald's down the street or get crap food at the 7-11 down the block instead of walking 12 blocks each way to the grocery store.

Scratch all that stuff that defines the where and the why, and just focus on the what. You eat produce: fruits and veggies. That alone is likely why you are much less likely to develop a lifestyle disease than those who chow down McD's. The fact that it is local farmers or organic produce is at best trivial, and likely is statistical noise comparatively.

I realize, searching around in the HN history, that this is a matter of identity for some people; I have no intention of starting another pro-con propaganda war regarding organic food in yet another thread. But can we at least concede that produce, regardless of its source and classification, is significantly better than a Big Mac and fries?

The last thing we need is for people to decide that, because they can't afford the high class choice in food -- which organics are -- they might as well not bother at all, because someone is going to heckle them for not caring about their health enough. Enough people, especially in neighborhoods like the ones we are discussing, can't decide that organic food is better for them than conventional food. The added cost may drive them into eating sufficiently little they start suffering from malnutrition. The McD's food might do that too, but if you're going to end up in poor health either way...
I know I'm probably naive - but what if I forget the password ? I'm traumatized by the whole jail thing that I forget the password. What then ?
No matter how annoyed I get, I will not stop developing for Apple's platforms or using Apple's products as long as they continue to produce the best stuff on the market.

And if all developers take this attitude, why would Apple listen to the very sort of complaints this post makes? At some point you have to stand up for yourself if you want to be heard.
The strange thing about this is that the StackOverflow team seems to think that people will use these reputation points for hiring decisions. They have little widgets you can embed into your site to display your reputation, and I've even heard them suggest that developers put it on their resumes.

I can't think of a better indicator of somebody not to hire than a guy with 10,000+ reputation on any community site. You can only get that sort of rep with a 4hr+/day commitment over a period of several months.

That time is pretty much guaranteed to happen at the office. I'd hate to have to take up the slack for one of those guys. Worse, I'd hate to have a room full of employees spending their days gaming StackOverflow on my dime.
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Exactly, because of those 3 points above the new employee also takes on significantly less risk in comparison to joining pre-Series A. It's very logical and I don't really get what the OP was trying to explain.
I guess what would really be necessary is for all operating systems to build in plausible deniability by default. Then there wouldn't be a "circumstance" for the circumstantial evidence to pertain to, since there would be no way to have a computer without the possibility of there being something permanently hidden inside it.
When you are logged in, you can't see first page. The one with registering etc

I didn't understood how it differs from twitter homepage. Oh I get it. You get to train it for long time for it to become useful.

How about idea for folder for users. Or tagging. Some will be friends, some will be corporate etc.

But sadly I won't use your site because I read twitter from iphone (and rarely)
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Two purposes, one wide and less important, and one narrow and highly important.

Wide/A: networks create communication creates understanding creates empathy, respect and love, hence why I want to work on Internet stuff.

Wide/B: faster, more disruptive change happens by empowering smaller (leaner/more agile) groups to effect that change. Utility computing should enable Joe Blogs to scale his world-changing idea from 1 person to thousands, hence why I want to work on cloud stuff.

Narrow: the world is a difficult place, and life is a struggle, and we're all in it together. The most we can do every day is to TRY and love each other as we love ourselves, especially your kids, your SO, your friends, etc.

This is damn hard and I fail every day.

Now, why is the wide less important than the narrow?

Because hundreds of other people are doing the wide stuff, and as one person, all I can do is provide a tiny push in the right direction.

Because technology is value-neutral. The above is how I see the potential for good, but the bad will be there too, maybe in the majority. But I have no control over that, like we have no control over spam.

The narrow stuff will stay with you for the rest of your life, and form, to a much deeper extent, who you really are as a person, and how much better the world will be when you leave it.
No one is forcing them to make meth. Maybe the people should run meth labs should consider graduating high school and getting a real job. I hear you don't have to worry about getting blown up if you have one of those.
How does Android allow it?
See also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=784465
See also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=784104
Yahoo! was initially a funny spelling before people got used to it. Same with the word Google (before 1999 I would have not known how to spell that).
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Why would anyone at your job care about the editor you're using? Sounds like unnecessary micromanagement to me. Why I can't understand why would you ever pick vi over VS, but if they had a problem with your choice of IDE then you were right to leave, sounds like an awful place to work at.
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It was very satirical, but written with the world weary experience of someone working professionally in the mind-numbingly 'head up your own ass' world of music promo production.
The point he's making is that so many promos being produced are such rubbish, that you might as well just put the interesting bit in at 52 seconds in, the rest of the clip is pretty meaningless.

If you read his other posts, he makes some really interesting points about how the same old ideas are re-hashed, over and over and over. The director's treatment post is funny and very true. Here's an example of a verbal treatment we got once - "Err.. yeah, we're like looking for a vibe, y'know?" That was it.

Some people out there even believe the bands actually make their promos - "like wow, have you seen the new (insert band), they make such amazing videos". Go figure.
You know there already is one, yes?

http://www.apple.com/itunes/remote/
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On the other hand, I find the CV much more informative than the cover letter due to it's fixed format; you have much less liberty when writing your CV so any ever so little deviation from a textbook CV can tell a lot of good or bad things about the candidate. I totally ignore cover letters, I'm not even bothered to read them.
way to go! "portal" is the name of the game! ;-)
I assume what is meant is that Tony Blair stood in the election, his party won and then later Gordon Brown was chosen to replace him by the party, not by the ordinary voter.
As far as I'm aware, there's no external difference between a normal Truecrypt volume and one with a hidden volume. If you could find further evidence (like download records) you could convict them using that evidence, but I doubt you'd be able to convict anyone if all you had was a hunch that they were using a hidden volume.
I guess I don't really get it. Earth, the planet, is finite in mass and not all of that mass exists in the form of crude oil or equivalent raw sources of petroleum. Therefore there will be a point at which no further oil can be obtained.

One is of course free to debate when that point will come, or when the inevitable decline toward that point begins, but the simple fact remains that a finite resource is, well, finite. And given the difficulty of predicting exactly when its finitude will catch up to us (i.e., the theme of this op-ed piece), it seems only prudent to have contingencies and alternatives in place well in advance.
I think you are being sarcastic, but to me, this is a great move. Yahoo clearly can't cut it in search, but they do know what is going on in the portal/news/email space. I don't know the terms of the deal, but assuming it was decent, they just bought a fairly large and growing demographic.
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Maktoob is not a portal, it's a conglomerate; the most real, brick and mortar Web startup you have ever seen. They have enviable and very deep ties with government, academia, NGOs, banks and everything you can imagine. They're humongous.

(they're not part of the deal, but Maktoob also owns Souq and Cashu; middle-eastern equivalent of Ebay and Paypal, imo)
Personally I rate domain hacks, especially perfect ones like last.fm. I think think the dominance of the .com should be challenged, partly because how many .coms are genuine businesses, i.e. do they make any cash, or do they just lose it hand over fist - shouldn't there be a .fail TLD ?

I know there's lot's of issues with hacks like this, but still think they're worth exploring and are a neat way of bypassing the speculative purchasing of .com names.

Try www.domaintyper.com for some neat domain name choices.
You'll also note that "peak food" and "peak landfill space" didn't turn out to be nearly as insurmountable as people thought they'd be.

(Anyone remember the total obsession with garbage we had for a few years in the late eighties early nineties? Like how we were going to cover the entire world with it if we didn't recycle everything? Turns out, um... global warming and peak oil!)

Personally, living in Japan, I'm more concerned with "peak people" than any of the above.
That the risk is systematically undervalued post-Series A; funding isn't magic. If you join the same company the day before a term sheet turns up, you do a lot better financially, and it's the same idea, team, market risk. If they're OK then the odds of getting funded are decent; if they're not, being funded won't save you...
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You could be right. The only way to be certain of removing legal liability would be to allow people to install software through other means than the app store. Having the an app store as a kind of 'premium/safe' zone makes good sense - making it compulsory is the problem.
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Right .... I would sooner believe any crazy wacko peak oil theorist than an energy consultant saying that oil will settle at $30 per gallon soon. Currently oil is $70 per gallon AND we are in a global recession AND the middle east is as peaceful as it will ever be in the foreseeable future.

The truth of the matter is peak oil will be very hard to predict because oil companies' reserve estimates are not very reliable, neither are the rates of future discoveries and future improvements of technology.

In any event, the rational choice for the USA, as another poster pointed out, is to find alternatives now. Peak oil may or may not happen soon but it will happen eventually so that it will be very irresponsible not to have an alternative ready.
He is using TOR for computer access, which is supposed to make it hard to determine point of entry(IP).
it seems only prudent to have contingencies and alternatives in place well in advance.

Meh, the market works. As the supply of oil at a given degree of extraction difficulty decreases, the price of oil increases, which brings additional oil at the next higher level of difficulty into the profitable-to-extract region. Repeat ad nauseum. Eventually, there will be disruptive innovation and we won't need oil anymore. Disruptive innovation is similarly triggered by the increasing price of oil: the lower the economically viable supply, the higher the price, the higher the price, the greater the return to R&D to replace it with substitutes.

All of this has happened before, and all of this has happened again. We used to use prodigious quantities of lamp oil, which was made from whale blubber. Kerosene happened. Then electricity happened to kerosene. We no longer have to worry about Peak Whale Oil.
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Freaking awesome, thanks for this mate. Once i finish the current book im reading (on the train commute to work) i will have more great reading with this 12.8meg file :P.

I have read alot of PG's essays but it wouldnt hurt to re-read some of it again .. could notice things i hadnt the first time through.
Can you elaborate on why you think the guy diss abritation and then propose abritation?

It seem like you didn't read the article carefully.
>I find this strange. I'm not going to completely discount the study, but I would like to counter - with capitalism itself.

True, but I'd argue that there are two (fuzzy) categories. Using pharmaceuticals as an example, the huge monetary awards are what pushes investors, etc.. but I'd wonder how much that drives the scientists. I'm not a scientist and don't have quick access to one to ask right now, but if this division does hold true, then it fits this article (albeit given the fact that they ignored people who's only goal is to make money, i.e. the investors).

>Aside from that, the only thing this shows is that people who enjoy the task in question will do a better job than those who do not

Not true. The study said that when people were given an external motivation, their enjoyment decreased. Thats a much more significant statement since it means that adding a monetary reward won't get you better results.

Obviously the above assumes the article is correct...
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Turns out we simply dump it to the oceans and create new continents where no one will see them.
We can only talk about tool's purpose or at least a purpose of something that has end. So by that, purpose of human life is death, and there is no greater purpose other than beauty, everlasting dance of matter and energy.

So live in the moment, that's all you ever get and don't worry about stuff you can't control.
c-corps are fine, but I think you have to solve your other issue first.

50/50 means a 50/50 commitment.

In the situation you sketch it's more like 90/10, after all it's free money to your adviser.

I highly doubt a VC would invest in a company that has 50% deadwood on board from day one.

See the 50/50 as an opening offer, now the negotiations begin. You're young, he can't do it without you but you have plenty of time and energy to go and do something else, obviously you've got talent.

remeber: everything comes to those who wait, negotiating under pressure is the worst you can do, you have to get in to the mindset that it can take as long as you want, best to not do any deal than to do a bad one.