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I think you're right, drug cartels will just become legal businesses rather than an illegal ones.
Plus, if you take articles from the newsletter and archive them on your site, that becomes a great long-term SEO advantage, giving people even more ways to find your site from search engines.
What is this, Consumerist? It took exactly one comment to start blaming the victim?

Sure, you should be careful where you click. And you should always read the fine print... and those click-through license agreements too. But that's not the point.

The real problem is with otherwise reputable companies who are happy to (literally) sell out their customers for a few dollars. And I'm amazed that this practice doesn't violate the merchant agreements with Visa and MC.
> I'm the CEO of Mark Logic Corporation, a company which develops and markets an XML server.

Reminds me of a local company that was developing something similar, an "XML acceleration appliance" or something like that. The most notable fact about that company was that every single employee had a different version of what their product was actually doing. It was really bizarre. They had substantial funding, they had a brand, they were marketing the product and even managed to sell it, but every time they tried to explain the technical side of things it came out trivial. Don't know if they are still in business, but I wouldn't be surprised if they are.
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This entertaining little conversation was probably helped along by my being influenced by one of the substances in the title.

It's cool.
This is a really great book, my randomized algorithms class last year reference it last year. The main way you want to use these techniques is to show that a simple algorithm fueled by some bit supply of randomness (at least at the first time step to initialize some protocol variable) will then at some point in time hit a ``good'' state with high probability, and then you want to show that this convergence happens very quickly. Off the top of my head, i can't think of any slick examples, but if you want to do clever algorithmic hacking, this is the sort of math to know!
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Mostly awful, though.

Nobody deserves that, even if you don't like them or don't agree with what they believe.
Ugh. How old are you?
Awesome article. I cut my teeth on 6502 assembly, cracking games for the Atari 800. We used some of the same techniques.
If you are worried about fact checking you could do ask two different people to enter the same data. If both people enter the same data then there is a higher chance that it is correct.
Yeah? And the one with the fake suicide note? That would be a funny joke if it was your little sister?
While I'm not fluent in spanish, the gist I get from the article is that it was vetoed and sent back to Congress in 2006; perhaps it has only been passed recently?
I'm hoping it's just because this is the weekend, and most of the real hackers have something better to do.
Where does he really get the data from ?
Perhaps, but they would no longer have an incentive to kill people as they were going about it. That's really what we'd like to end. If they had a public presence (which they'd need if they were going to compete in a world of legal weed),they wouldn't be able to commit violent crimes. Hell, they probably wouldn't be as bad as most businesses.
Ask HN: Three ways to make money from the web ?
i have gone through various paid surveys , and also various blogs . But none fetch me enough money as a part timer.Any more suggestions as to how i can improve my financial gains from net?
Shops is the next logical step if they want to tax this activity (and I am sure they do).
Yeah, damn those Aspergers fuckers, trying to assume you were being intelligent instead of a moron who thinks the site is Reddit! I hate people like that, always being nice and using their brains.....
You are absolutely right, in the first article it says the president vetoed the law the first time in 2006. Nevertheless the law was approved by congress in April of this year, so it appears like the NYTimes article is a few months late.
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Ask YC: Why can't my iPod headphones retract into the iPod?
Seriously. One on each side. Like a clothesline.
http://www.google.com/search?q=allinurl%3Acareers
On this article:

- http://www.tribunalatina.com/es/notices/mexico_despenaliza_l...

It says:

Según la nueva ley, los policías estatales y federales podrán poner trampas a los vendedores mediante la compra de narcóticos y lograr la detención de los responsables de su tráfico.

Which translates to (google translator is good!):

"Under the new law, federal and state police may set traps to sellers through the purchase of drugs and to arrest those responsible for trafficking."

So you are right, no "coffee shops" or anything like it.
Google already checks if sites belong to the same c-block, so the link value is significantly diminished.
Possibly because it wouldn't appeal to all the users who don't use the included iPod/iPhone headphones. I for one use a pair of Motorola S9-HD bluetooth stereo headphones with my iPhone.
The headphone jack may remain.
It should also go away if you delete your NY Times cookies.
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The mechanism to retract and store would still have to take up some amount of space. Not all wired headphones have the same type or length of cable. Many of them would just not work ideally, unless it were some open (as opposed to retracting into the device) system to just wind the cable around - and at that point, it is just marginally neater than wrapping the cable around the iPod in the first place.
3rd party retracting headphones exist in the market, no need to build that mechanical functionality into the device.

http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/sonys-three-new-models-of...
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That's a separate gadget, easily lost.
If the grandparent poster is correct, it's quite possible that YC's model has serious flaws. Considering these implications, wouldn't a reasoned counterargument be more appropriate than snark?
As silencio said, it would not appeal to users who don't use the included earbuds. And it would also annoy lots of users who do use the included earbuds. I for one would hate to have my iPod made bulkier simply to include a feature that a significant portion of the userbase wouldn't even use.
I would happily take an iPod that is 1/4" wider with retractable headphones that don't get lost or tangled. I've lost three corded headphones, and two of those tiny wireless ear buds. I'm good at losing things.
Does any animal besides humans commit suicide? (2001)
'''I happen to think mathematics would be

more advanced today if a little attention was
paid to standardizing its notation'''

... as well as the tools available to render those notations.

http://www.stixfonts.org/pub_geninfo.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STIX_Fonts_project
It's a feature I would use if I didn't keep losing my headphones. Also, the external headphone jack can stay.
Animals that Commit Suicide - http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F03EEDC10...

article from 1895 nytimes
Take that, Steve Yegge ;)

Context: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-ever-legali...
Most people would not. And Apple would definitely not make it wider to include that. If you haven't noticed, one of the reasons the iPod is successful is because Apple is extremely good at removing features that most people don't use in order to leave a much smoother user experience for everything that remains. Making the iPod 1/4th of an inch wider is a definite no-no.
"However the one thing no one outside Facebook can really know is why they passed on the acquisition."

I know exactly why they passed on the acquisition, and it was not because they thought it would be cheaper to hire someone.

It's strange to watch you keep insisting on this. You said something mistaken when there was no evidence, and now that evidence has emerged contradicting you, instead of changing your theory, you fight to find a way to make the facts conform to it. It's like watching a creationist respond to geology.
There exists a third-party gadget that sticks to the back of your iPod and provides a place for you to wind up your earbuds so they don't get lost. Unfortunately I don't remember what it's called, but I'm sure you can find it if you look at iPod accessory sites.
Everyone's welcome to having their own ideal device. Unfortunately for you, the people at Cupertino who design the iPod's don't agree with your sentiments as to what would make the device better and haven't made retractable headphones.

Might I suggest you invest in a nice pair of bluetooth headphones instead? It gives you the same lack of a wire-y mess that retractable headphones do, without restricting your range of motion and possibly yanking your headphones out of your ears.
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OK, who's gonna register iseverygrammaticalenglishsentencetendedbyananostartupdedicated toansweringthatonequestionyet.com?
Come on guys (and girls). 4Chan pranks on HN? Leave it for reddit.
Did you happen to see this?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=779693
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The Mediocre Returns of Extraordinary Technologies
Core Observation:

For all of its undeniable power, the printing press wasn’t the source of large fortunes for the engineers, investors, and businessmen involved in this industry. Profits were made, yes, sometimes significant ones, but nothing quite proportional to the influence of the technology. The bulk of the benefits came to the organizations that leveraged this technology for their own ends like modern states, which would have been logistically impossible without the printing press, or the myriad business that cannot be conceived without a superbly well-educated (for pre-modern standards) source of workers and consumers.

The same pattern can be seen in many other technical advances, specially those that impacted society the most. Contraceptives, telecommunications, refrigeration: they are often overlooked foundations of the contemporary world, each of them enormously disruptive, yet none of them, over the long term, a gold mine of extraordinary returns.
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I've already lost two of those little bluetooth headphones. How about a bluetooth headphone that snaps into my iPod? Then I'll always have a place to put it when I'm finished with it.
It's not just hackers; the US justice system has serious problems from top to bottom.
Anyone has an idea if there is any way to distinguish random from sequential IO?

In my experience sequential IO is never the problem. Instead, it seems to me that random seeks are really the only performance problem nowadays. In the most extreme case throughput is only ~100Bits/s instead of ~100MB/s. Unfortunately random seeks are hidden behind abstraction layers and thus quite invisible to programmers (until the system freezes). Maybe we just need to wait for SSDs to become cheap.
One problem I often run into is that the Django libraries expect the whole application to be run by something that uses manage.py, which sets particular os.environ settings. So if you make code dependent on a Django library, often it cannot be run any more by non Django code. The eventual result is that things like cron jobs and unit testing are second-class citizens.

Another problem is unicode. Current Django assumes you will deal with all strings as valid unicode, which is actually different from pre-1.0 Django. There is no way to store an arbitrary sequence of bytes without a unicode encoding. This makes perfect sense for a newspaper website, but is problematic for many other applications.

Another problem is imports in general. Django does a lot of work in __init__.py files which causes problems integrating it with other systems that do a lot of things at run time.
I didn't say anything about DRM. Why do you need to break DRM to hack a phone? To access and modify the copyrighted contents. i.e. "work protected under this title". This was covered to death in the last round of DMCA rulemaking.

The fact is that you don't have the right to infringe on Apple's copyright, but all existing jailbreak software does exactly that. If you were to hack your phone without infringing on Apple's copyright, they wouldn't have a legal leg to stand on, because as I said, hacking your phone is not illegal.
That's a separate gadget, easily lost.

How is a coiling headphone a "separate" gadget? scratch that, I think you're onto something. Give Apple a ring, they're always looking for bright ideas.
"their small size worked against them"

Thanks. That clears it up for me a bit. If in a hypothetical case there had been three developers, and a company hired all three of them without buying the company, things would have looked suspicious to more than a few people. With one person, it's easier to argue that it just made sense, given a particular scenario.

This, along with the fact that many startups have more to offer than just founder experience, also makes me think that this is unlikely to start a trend of hiring without acquiring.
They should legalize it all. Then Microsoft go in and drive the drug dealers out of business.
Why does this have to come built into the iPod? Whats wrong with a case that's retractable or has a dock? Why not have a pair of (sun)glasses with headphones built in or something along those lines?

There's a lot more generic ways to go about keeping wires untangled and from being a mess then having it built into the ipod. Plus by making it generic, it would work on a Zune or Zen or any other device out there. To avoid a "Why doesn't Microsoft do this too?" thread.
Thank for posting this book on HN, and for your permissive (CC) license in general. (Like many around here, I suspect it will only make your work more popular :D)

I noticed you just created your HN account. I think you'll like it here. Welcome, and I hope you stick around and take part in lots of threads in the future, would love to have your insights.
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So ultimately you want headphones built into the device, rather than simply just retracting headphones. In the end, you'd have to cut the cable or lose the device altogether to lose them. This is only a win-win for people who really love their iPod headphones and have never destroyed one somehow.

I think that idea is less appealing if not outright repulsive to the people who don't want to use the iPod headphones ever (like me, with my half dozen unopened sets of Apple headphones in a box somewhere). Apple has no incentive to do this either - I'm sure they make a tidy profit from selling replacement iPod headphones and 3rd party headphones in their stores.
A less obvious approach is to insist that the venture capitalists buy some of your common shares at the time of the investment. There are a lot of venture capitalists and not too many good companies. If your company is attractive, you can probably find a firm that will agree to put $10 million into the company and, say, $3 million into your pocket. Then if the enterprise stumbles and ends up being sold for, say, $9 million, you won't feel like a total idiot.

Is this still the case? Are VCs willing to do deals like this (especially early on, say in a Series A round)?
Ask HN: Independent Web Developer, Seeking to Establish Working Relationships
To give you guys a little background about me:

I'm an independent web developer, and I have a few clients, 2 of which are big and take up most of my time.

My work load ranges from simple landing page design projects, with basic ASP.net or PHP, to modifying existing ecommerce platforms to add new functionality or features, to creating an entire database driven site from the ground up.

My goal is to be able to handle more clients, especially big ones, and also to speed up the turn-around time of projects to my current clients.

Here are my questions to the community, and feel free to give further insight into areas that you think I should be concerned about, that may not be apparent that I am, based on my questions below:

1.) What and where is the best way to establish such relationships? I know about sites like getafreelancer, etc...but those seem to be one-time deals, with a bidding process, rather than a trusted, on-going working relationship with someone.

2.) Besides a portfolio of past work, what ways would you recommend to find out if a person interested in working with me really has what it takes to do the types of jobs, with the speed necessary?

3.) How do you deal with NDA issues, such as server passwords of my own clients, etc, that may be required to be passed on to do some of the work if there were to be some delegation?

4.) Would it be okay & decent to post my email address so that HN hackers/readers who are in related fields and are interested in such relationships to reply to me?
Wow.

One way I could imagine this technology being applied is in a glove that white people could take to Chinese restaurants for operating chopsticks.
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Persi relies on collaborators and students for computer stuff. (I talked with him about this after a lecture he gave at Caltech. The lecture was on perfect shuffles, and involved a live demonstration of the technique.)
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Take a look at blktrace on Linux. It logs all block I/O layer activity from when an I/O request is sent to the disk to when it's serviced. It also outputs which sectors on the disk were written to service the request. People have written a few tools to read these logs and show meaningful numbers/pretty graphs -- btt is the official one, and here's another one that I like: http://oss.oracle.com/~mason/seekwatcher/.

Among other things, you can distinguish random from sequential I/O using blktrace and its accompanying set of tools by looking at the distance between subsequent I/O requests sent to the disk.
My conclusion was actually that the points M and N must be the same point, which then implies that they also coincide with R.

The drawing can be "faked" by sketching the diameters to be a bit off-center, which results in M,N and R not being exactly the same point.

No ?
SSD's are cheap.
Another programmer that made some money and thinks he has debugged life. Yes, Mr. Graham, you're a programmer.
NORML has a rebuttal to this article on their blog:

http://blog.norml.org/2009/08/21/new-york-times-mexico-legal...
Second Krug's book. It's UI 101 and really well done. I used it as the textbook when I taught.
804k document can fit more times than 360 on a 32 GB card right?

32,000 megabytes...document is less than one megabyte...it can fit at least 32,000 times.

Did I miss something?
This is the problem with the US justice system - it's about vengeance rather than any utilitarian benefit.
Forget the chopsticks. They could just sit there while this thing stuffed food in their mouth and the next day, it could wipe their ass for them.

Ah, what an age to be alive.
Venture capital helps everything this administration wants to accomplish
Usability has been (pardon my French) a bitch. I thought I had a great UI eye when we first started.

Usability is really hard to get right. And, companies like Apple spend a lot of money on usability and design. So, don't feel bad that it's hard.

I'd suggest letting Mechanical Turkers find usability problems for you. When I launched my social news site (now defunct), I asked Turkers to use my site, and post a comment if anything was confusing or could be streamlined. They gave me a lot of great feedback for $0.10 a piece. Turkers are surprisingly well educated and tech savvy. I use the service every time I can.
The threat of vengeance can provide some utilitarian benefit.
1.41 says the number of shuffles is is from 8-205 shuffles while this paper: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/course/topics/winning_numbe... says it's 7 shuffles. Anybody have an explanation? Maybe its apples vs. oranges?
Like the 29 year-old marketing girl is a sexual deviant and nympho maniac, but still loves her husband of 9 years and their 7 year-old son. The CEO is a 44 year-old man child suffering a mid-life crisis and his wife got pregnant again because she was afraid he would divorce her for someone younger like his friends have done. Secretly he fears his wife will discover the reason he hired the marketing girl was because she reminded him of a younger version of her. And my 31 year-old coworker is a bigger geek than I ever could imagine and absolutely clueless all this and more is going on around him.

Did you actually secretly go through their computers and dig up all this very private information about them? Seriously?

Because if you did, then you're not quite normal yourself.

We live in a matrix, not the Wachowski ripoff matrix, but the one that hides the real world with fake smiles and shallow conversations

It's possible to have Real Friends, though, with whom you can have heartfelt conversations about anything.
Why think small? Why I can't get bluetooth cochlear implants, so I can pair my ears to the iPhone, making headphones superfluous?
A python console in the web. maybe this exist
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We understand exactly what GV is

Maybe you do, but can you guarantee that every potential GV user does? Of course not. This is what I mean by "some fraction of users". That fraction is unknown, but as GV creates a significantly different parallel method of accomplishing core phone functions, it is quite plausible that users with an imperfect understanding of how it works and why would suffer as described--for instance, a user who does not understand why his voicemails might show up in two different places. While it is true that it is ultimately the user's responsibility to understand the software he is using, this potentially impacts the core functionality of Apple's device, so it would be only natural for Apple to want to consider it carefully.

Apple's point is completely bullshit about confusing users because only users specifically seeking this functionality will have it.

Does not follow. Users who specifically seek to purchase (say) Microsoft Office are entirely capable of being confused, annoyed, or infuriated by it. The same can be said of most software, hardware, and machines in general. Have you ever seen someone try to push a pull door or pull a push door?
It should be possible but medical ethics probably prevents it if you're not deaf.
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You're taking over somebody's persona on the net and making them trash their own value system.

Well, the victims still have their own value systems, I wouldn't say this stunt trashed it for anyone. But..

That's not civil conversation. That's not even mocking people you think are stupid. It's a whole other level of nastiness altogether.

This I agree with completely. I feel sorry for religious people just as much as the next sensible guy, but what the 4chan people did is not funny, it's not commendable, it's just world-class douchebaggery.
The legacy Class As really aren't a significant issue either. By the time you subtract out all the effort that the clawback itself would involve (nontrivial reconfiguration of quite a few major corporate and government networks), it would probably be a wash or quite close to it versus just trying to work on IPv6 -- which finally seems to be getting some traction.

At best I've heard a few extra months added at current burn rate estimates. Hardly worth the knock-down, drag-out fight that it would involve.
That is a completely invalid analogy. People are citizens of a country by accident of birth. Religious people, especially in a free country like the USA, choose to be such.

To correct your example, it would be like eradicating communism by killing all the self-confessed communists you can find. Which actually sounds pretty effective, if brutal.