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Do you mean by this?

But what made this episode unique was that the government policy did not expand the supply of money through fractional reserve banking which is the modern tool. Actually, it was quite the opposite. As kings throughout Europe debased their currencies, through clipping, sweating or by decree, the Dutch provided a sound money policy, which called for money to be backed one hundred per cent by specie. This policy, combined with the occasional seizure of bullion and coin from Spanish ships on the high seas, served to attract coin and bullion from throughout the world.

I do not know of any more of this monetary policy implemented. Perhaps you could illustrate some examples from history.
Sorry to be off-topic but is this an audio or video link or something? I can't work out how to open it...
Why the down-modding? His comment isn't even relevant.

> Not only is this chick completely irresponsible, but this "trip" is a joke.

The 'chick' that spent her last bit of money on plane ticket was someone that the two creators of that site met on a plane trip, not someone who is embarking on this journey. If you're referring to the two creators of that site, then how is this 'experiment' (though I use the term loosely) irresponsible?

> He's going to be living in an airport for a month, all for what? No one cares about people who live in airports, nor do they care about the fascinating lives of airplane passengers.

The popularity of the movie 'The Terminal' (and somewhat similarly 'Catch Me If You Can' -- strangely enough also starring Tom Hanks) indicates otherwise.

> social networking media web 2.0 garbage

What does this site have to do with social networking? They are planning on doing something, then blogging about it, and possibly being popular enough to earn some advertising revenue. The cherry on top would be endorsement money from JetBlue. I fail to see how that is 'social networking' anymore than the rest of the web.

That comment added nothing to the discussion, other than a poorly formed 'get off my lawn' opinion. If all it takes to gain popularity on HN is copping a curmudgeonly attitude, then we're starting to go downhill in my opinion.
I think the reason this is on here is because the idea came up in a previous HN post, and people are curious to see what happens.
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I was obviously exaggerating...

But yes, I agree that this could turn out to be an interesting book, so long as they gathered some interesting experiences or stories. Seems like the sort of thing you publish after the fact, since the odds of meeting your content-related goals seem slim.
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>not everyone wants to have their commit logs full "testing sample code 2" etc

That's why you squash the commits when you are done with the profiling. Squashing the commits makes it seem like just one commit (and one commit message) in the log.

This way your log is clean, but you get the advantage of frequent saves.

If you dont want to do this, you could probably hook up something with FUSE
That's because Microsoft is good at anything that they throw resources at. Unfortunately, we haven't thrown enough resources at determining what to throw resources at.
Why did you take that course there at College Park?
And the umpires wear spiffier duds.
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It is gzip-compressed postscript. The following commands could come in handy:

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I sense that 50% of the posters to this thread are missing context.

Please read: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=759577

Before suggesting that the article is not appropriate for HN. The Idea of traveling to all these cities was first discussed on HN.

And to all the naysayers - These guys are going to do something more interesting than I've ever done. I don't know what adventures and enterprises and entrepreneurial ventures you've rolled out over the last few years - but they must be impressive if 30dayflight doesn't appear to be HN fare to you...
For those who don't know, Marc also did the Digital Michelangelo Project.

http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/mich/ http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/classes/cmps290b/Fall05/readings/dmi...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=759577
I like how you think beyond the usual social network web stuff. I also like how you identify problems in existing markets, sexy or not - way to go, imho.
Well, good enough at least. ;-) Honestly the AV was a good move. Give stuff like that away for free for long enough and the public perception of Microsoft and security may change.
For sure. I can't workout first thing because I'm too hungry, but if you can, then a lot of people do it. Since your post-workout meal is also your first meal of the day, you'll want to male it more than a smoothie. There is a lot of info that comes with the program, so you can read that.
Thanks moe, I love twitter and music as much as the next guy, but I think there are hundreds of other cool uses for technology. Especially things like the CNC paper cutters that you can get at Hobby shops for $250. One of the founders of MakerBot has a cool line that went "Steve Wozniak couldn't have predicted 4Chan in his wildest dreams when he was building the original Apple" I think we are at a similar stage with these devices. Will be interesting to watch, even more interesting to build!
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Breaking down my 300-character comment about something that shouldn't even be on HN? I'm bored, but I'll keep it tweetably succinct.

Alaska managed large sums of money, but could not manage her own. Irresponsible.

You're right, movies are often good indicators of how interesting real life is.

Social networking was just a hyperbolic adjective in my (critical) remarks about modern marketing.

So that this comment isn't entirely useless, here are my two points for you:

1. This shouldn't be on HN because this is neither interesting nor hacker-related.
2. Reading comprehension.
Aquamacs Emacs (http://aquamacs.org) also lets you use a proportional font, and hey, it's emacs. It is, indeed, sometimes very nice, particularly when writing prose (Markdown or HTML or whatever), and particularly in version 2.0's new fullscreen mode.
Put your mercurial/git repo in your dropbox! Remote backups + versioning.

What I've never understood is why version control systems cannot just detect if a file has been deleted automatically and remove it from the repo automatically. And link back up to it if it reappears?
Input from users? Our forums - lots of time talking with our people in the forums. I wrote a little post about how we collect feedback here: http://codemonkey.ravelry.com/2008/06/29/beta-testing-and-be...
I don't use Apple products either but I know that they sell tracks AAC encoded. And that's exactly why I see MP3 declining: before iTunes, there was no serious competitor for it.[1] But now the biggest online retailer of music uses an alternative. MP3's "market share" may only have gone down by a few percent. But thanks to iTunes, AAC songs can now be played almost anywhere. Since most people couldn't care less about the format of theit digital music collection, as long as they can play it, MP3 has lost a lot of its relevance. It will probably survive as a household term for digital music, irrespective of the actual encoder, though.

[1] Yes, I do know Ogg Vorbis. It is even my lossy format of choice. But it's never been a threat to MP3.
Hi alain,

thanks for your help. I will look to find better phrases, to replace these.

@your PS: Yes and No. I thought maybe for a week about adding this question here. In the end I decided to do it, because:

- it is about what I hack
- As reviewing code sharpens your coding skills, so might reviewing foreigners English texts to sharpen your mother tounge skills. Thus, it might be to value for you.
- For sure, it helps me.
- It is the way of the student (and all hackers should be students their whole life). Maybe I can never give back to you, what you help me here. But I help foreigners here in Germany since 3 years to translate texts and understand my language. Viewing it from this point, I don't feel too selfish, asking here for your help.

I hope, this reasoning makes sense.
Er so I have to download a utility to gunzip it, and then download another one to convert it to a PDF? That's pretty annoying.

EDIT: I'm just saying, if you're linking something to HN where hundreds of people will click on it, isn't it more efficient and courteous to convert and re-host it in a format that most people can read?
Are we looking at the same data? Looks like a pretty flat line to me.
I think this is a really clever, innovative, and interesting idea. The experience will probably be fascinating - if they really interview as many people as they can, they'll most likely see patterns emerge, and I suspect some of the patterns won't necessarily be something you'd expect. They're also bound to hear some crazy outlier stories.

They have a tremendous value proposition. They'll be able to tell JetBlue things about their customers that no focus groups and marketing research can tell them, at a small fraction of the cost. I'm genuinely surprised this idea got such a bad reception here - reminds me of some of the TechCrunch comments. If anything, it's a little like "around the world in 80 days", which is cool for its own sake.
I'm a bit weary of seeing HN used as a platform for dcurtis' sophomoric attention antics. This should have been a side-channel communication with JetBlue; why would the CEO want to meet with dcurtis about this, and why would he be impressed with an impersonal open letter?

Most importantly, why do I care? As a pitch, the story isn't captivating or well written, and 30 days in airports sounds both depressing and boring -- I'd be surprised if you're capable of carrying out non-monosyllabic conversations after the first 5 days.

"Have a beer with a Fortune 500 CEO" is a pretty pitiful goal. Does he not even care which one?
I suppose, maybe, for code this might work if one uses tab-stops to align braces, identifiers, etc. Lisp wins again I suppose! Heh.
Just a personal gripe, flash plugin runs subpar in Linux, which I developed flex in for a few months.
Great idea, but by day 3 I fear both the travelers and their online audience will be weary of the concept, and move on to shinier new tweets. It'll be slightly interesting again at the finish line and summary stage (days 30-31).
> Alaska managed large sums of money, but could not manage her own. Irresponsible.

I don't see anything on that site mentioning that the woman in the story is Alaska Miller. Seems more like an example of the type of 'interesting people' they want to meet during this adventure.

> You're right, movies are often good indicators of how interesting real life is.

Fact is often stranger than fiction.

> 1. This shouldn't be on HN because this is neither interesting nor hacker-related.

The marketing angle seems related to startups. At least more so than conspiracy theories about Russian ship and missiles to Iran.
I like your ideas. The back of the napkin math is a little excessive sometimes: I can do the math that if your averaging the same amount per user and your users increase by 10x, then your revenue does as well. I don't need to see what 100x would mean, or 500x.

The excessive use of the handle YCW10 loses credibility in my book and adds an air of pretentiousness.
Only the true faithful are allowed to read it.
A better link (English, and not the EULA): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6416
I've been very happy with eMusic's service, but after reading this I checked my spam folder, and sure enough, a large amount of spam was sent to the unique email address I created for eMusic.

It seems their music distribution is on the up-and-up. Such underhanded tactics to add to the bottom line make me wonder whether their legitimate business model really is sustainable.
It was the author of the article that was doing it.
Are you trying to imply that the vapid exuberance of "social media consultants" is not reward enough? Shame on you, sir.
Unlimited works great, as long as you are okay with the provider prohibiting anything that might actually use a lot of bandwidth.
How would you build a legal basis for asserting that you have a right to force Apple to accept, approve and distribute your software against their desires?
I find it annoying with plurals - my business is called Shirlaws, and 'Shirlaw' is a not-uncommon surname, meaning searches and especially Google Alerts are often filled with some guy coming third in a yacht race not information pertaining to my business.

That Google searches ignore punctuation also irritates me. My wife's name is Harmony - also a fairly common word - so searches for her throw up masses of "...live in harmony. Aldridge also thought ..." which are irrelevant.

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Learning rules and remembering them is difficult.

If I prefer to keep quiet, it might be better simply to socialise less. Then I'll have more to say on the occasions when I do socialise.

I don't know why it's important to succeed socially. Wouldn't that mean turning into a celebrity? Their lives suck from what I can tell.
joez,

re: back of envelope math, I concur, but I showed it to some people who were fairly bright and they commented that the rev potential wasn't called out, when it actually was more modestly. People tend to flip though these quickly so its spelled out a bit pedantically.

re: name - just wanted something generic that also referenced the goal. Happy to change it if pg or anyone else has a problem. No pretensions intended.
And to all the naysayers - These guys are going to do something more interesting than I've ever done. I don't know what adventures and enterprises and entrepreneurial ventures you've rolled out over the last few years - but they must be impressive if 30dayflight doesn't appear to be HN fare to you...

Spending a lot of time on airplanes is very tiring, but it's not what I'd call an adventure, an entrepreneurial venture, or an enterprise.

This just sounds like a silly stunt.
http://www.Syllabee.com looks pretty cool btw.
Looks pretty cool, though they should probably make the controller look less like a gun.
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i like your style. very curious to know if this pans out for you.

i'm looking for a co-founder, too. my current project may not overlap with your interests, but i recently showed off a neat diy CNC mill at Maker Faire. maybe the networking and idea exchange would be useful for both of us. i will shoot you some email.
You're right, I incorrectly referred to Alaska as the person they met (probably because the site switches from first person to third person so quickly, but also because of MY lack of comprehension on the second read-through). The conclusion remains the same, though--some people seem to view her story as fascinating despite its bone-headedness.

Also, in re-reading my comment, apologies if that first sentence came off brash...
At least it didn't autocorrect to F#, then I'd be suspicious :-).
Krugman won the Nobel prize for his work in international trade theory, and I don't think his ideas were incompatible with Austrian thought. I align with Austrians most of the time and I don't remember having any objections to his trade theory when I studied it a while ago. Nonetheless, I do think Krugman has been venturing a little far from his expertise lately.
Can someone help to compile a good security policy and guideline for web apps?

I guess every web app should have a page dedicated to security similar to privacy policy and terms of service.

What are the essential information should go there? Special email dedicated to report security issues? PGP key to encrypt emails? and What else?
Do you really have to go that far to find interesting people?

Actually: Who wants to meet up for Pho tonight at, say 10pm, on El Camino?
Good point, that hadn't occurred to me.
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"It is a time for many kids to get out on their own and learn to be independent."

College is completely unnecessary to do that. Going out and living on your own does that just fine! And if it's the time to make connections & socialize & party, then not going to college, living in your own place and doing a ton of social things will achieve that way better than college, for a significantly cheaper price. Hell, it will cause more people to do that, since they would be less likely forced to stay at their parents place in order to afford college.

Also I found it difficult to socialize and make friends in college vs. high school. People are focused on their classes, math & comp sci. people are not the most social types, and unless your in the dorms, it's difficult to make friends.
I read through the code, but I don't really know Ruby that well, so I'm not 100% sure of what the exploit was.

Looking at the patch, it appears that their "check for UTF-8" function wasn't perfect. Is this correct? If so, how is this exploitable?
Please elucidate.
Great ideas. I'm particularly impressed with the term "web 3d". The PR will just roll in -- especially in "today's economy" -- press will love to discuss Americans who actually (1) make things and (2) sell those things.

I've had a very nebulous idea that's been percolating in my mind: software designed for small machine shops to organize their work. It never occurred to me to organize hobby folk. awesome.
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My impression was that it was a developing story: they only told it to the point that events had progressed to. It mentioned her getting laid off, so this seems likely.
On the other hand, over the years people have hated them and filed antitrust claims against them for including free stuff in their releases. Norton used to make a file manager before the Windows one was any good...now their AV product faces a built in competitor.
There's an interesting tangent towards the end -

"Web application security is still an immature field, and many of the layers are sufficiently poorly designed that issues like this will pop up for a good long while. Just like buffer overflows have been a weak spot for C security as long as the Internet has been around, escaping issues will continue to be a weak spot for web security for as long as we're afflicted with this particular architecture."

It seems like a field not only in its infancy but also oddly unglamorous and under-reported. There's no repository (that I know of, at least) of vulnerability reports of major web apps, for instance, yet it's easy to look up an exhaustive history of Flash vulnerabilities down to the seventeenth decimal sub-version. And yet the various XSS/CSRF/etc vulnerabilities are easily as dangerous and as exploitable. Twitter's dreams of a billion users and a new internet were not exposed by a buffer overflow, after all.
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It won't.

In all likelyhood it will not, so you might as well start behaving responsibly and planning your old age.

If - and this is a very very big if - it will happen then you will have worried for nothing about your old age, but the odds are so far against that it is probably very smart to behave as though it won't happen.

Even if you secretly believe it will.

Think about it this way: if the continuation of Moores law over 3 decades did not bring us strong AI then the problem is not in the hardware but in the software.

We have a long long long way to go in software before we will be able to approach intelligence at the level of a dog, let alone something smarter than a smart human.

The singularity, uploading and associated subjects are starting to generate the same feelings in me as over-unity energy production using zero point energy or magnetism.
Unfortunately, as a market, the iPhone app store is fairly unique.
I'm so bored of the YAIDC syndrome (yet another iPhone developer complaining) here on HN...
As I understand it, Rails' string escaping would treat an invalid byte sequence (eg, 0xFF, 0x1C) as a single multi-byte code point, and thus not filter it, even though 0x1C (which is '<') should have been escaped.

The browser, however, would correctly treat 0xFF as an invalid initial byte, and then interpret the next character point, 0x1C ('<') independently.

So, you could pass arbitrary characters through Rails' string escape functions by prepending an initial invalid byte sequence, and thus cause the browser to interpret arbitrary JS/HTML.
Having done some actual studying in the social sciences, I agree with "isn't a science." There's a lot of smart people working to make those quasi-sciences into actual sciences, but they repeatedly run up against the basic obstacle that you can't ethically do scientific experiments on humans, except in rare circumstances.

That does not mean that the social sciences are unimportant. In fact the amount of money (which you alluded to) means they are actually perceived as important. Once upon a time physics wasn't a science either.
I am going to pull this out because I feel it might not get seen otherwise:

http://www.slideshare.net/YCW10/cutbots-presentation-1946585

Read this presentation. It is, far and away, the best pitch I have ever seen.

I have sold to, approximately, these customers for the last 3 years. Once a little blog none of you have ever heard of got the notion "Hey, gals, lets have a scrapbooking competition with a bingo theme, hey, this guy does bingo" and that one mention sold a week's worth of software.

Passionate customers. Willing to spend money. On IP. With zero cost of reproduction. On a recurring basis. With the added benefit that the hardware integration poses a competitive moat, and increases customer lock-in, not that you'll need it because they are a fiercely loyal tribe if you treat them right.

If I had $25k burning a hole in my pocket, I would be contacting you to discuss angel terms as we speak.
Nice!

And here's a little story for you. After reading this, I thought I'd try it out. How far am I from my screen? Hold out thumb, switch eyes. It moved about an inch. So I'm 10 inches from my screen? I'm holding my arm straight out, and it doesn't touch the screen. My arm is certainly longer than 10 inches. What's wrong? Ah, this rule gives the distance of the object from my thumb, not from my eye. Sometimes the two are significantly different.
I did not submit this article. And I am a part of this community as much as you are. People have voted this up, so there seems to be some interest here. The last thing I want is to be responsible for lowering the quality of content on HN.
Yeah I see a lot of reporters going gaga over Web 3.D because of the physical production aspect and the way it fits in with the whole numbering scheme. I see as many readers of this site rolling their eyes though.
You want to read a mathematical proof about computability, and you need somebody else to gunzip it for you first? LOL!
http://users.socis.ca/~wcarss/ph.pdf

a bit more usable (article in pdf format)