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Based on that analysis, javascript "scrambling" is the preferable method: It is 100%(1) effective and has no usability implications.

1: The analysis runs 1.5 years until July 2008 -- one must assume that crawlers has become more sophisticated. I.e. building the DOM, executing any javascript and then searching all visible text isn't that difficult, and less so now than in 2007.
Yes, the article seems to be about printed material. For computer screen display the site itself fails miserably.

"Use typefaces that were designed for books." implies that all the article is not meant for computer screen display.
What approaches?
Ask HN: Are single-letter domain names valuable?
I have never visited a single-letter domain named website, yet they're all gone. What's up?
All aspects of reality coincide with the way the physical world works.

I think observable is the keyword here... we happened to be able to observe enough that we can conclude that E = mc^2

As for your second point... I don't think I agree. The fact of the matter is that as humans, we are essentially unable to reason about how beings with a different set of senses would think. With respect to cosmology, we basically react to how light moves around and that forms the basis of our science (our other senses don't really come into the picture). Its very difficult to think about an intelligence based on some other source of information and impossible to know what sort of data would be present (since we don't have access to the information).
They properly didn't know whom Arrington is. Most people don't care.
And/or the idea of regional conflicts? :)

Actually, paraschopra probably means the opposite, that is, these ideas are taken too far... or at least, thats my read.
Your visitors that can't spell their own email address is likely to screw your obfuscated address up as well. I've seen email in my outbound queue to whatever@domain.dot.tld and variations. I wouldn't be surprised if someone never realizes that AT is @ (in non-English speaking locales, @=at is not at all obvious. In the Nordic languages it's known as (elephant's) trunk-A. ) and gives up before the mail leaving the client.

reCaptcha Mailhide (http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/) is a good solution to this.

It hides your e-mail behind a CAPTCHA, but once it's solved it's an actual, well-formed address, that can be copied or clicked. Also, it's very clear if you've solved the CAPTCHA - it's no always clear if solved the "riddle" of an obfuscation correctly.
This a pretty serious deal for all the mortgage leadgen guys. These ads are directly in competition with them and the top-of-page placement means that they pretty much have to participate in this or they'll simply lose traffic as users are siphoned off through this product.

Google's most certainly pissing off some of their very large advertisers here.
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Unless you are really desperate for people to contact you, forcing them to "decode" the email address might be a nice velvet rope that keeps out those who aren't worthy of your time.

Obviously this might not work if you have a customer support email.
Well, maybe that's a good thing those guys reject you knowing you don't have a dergee? Maybe that's a way the universe tells you can do better without them?
It depends. I don't think a web interface will cut it. Professors will still need office hours or a chat interface. If this was actually the case, don't you think students could just as easily sit at home and read the book instead of going to class? At some point, the lack of teacher-student interaction is going to cause the quality of education to suffer. I imagine this would be unacceptable to universities that take their reputations seriously.
I've been very impressed with Firefox on the Mac, as I find Safari terribly buggy and unresponsive. It should really use the Camifox (Camino) theme as default though.
VLC will capture the stream and convert it to h.264 at the same time.
will you allow your telephone provider to control whom you can call?

Not now I won't, because that would be changing the service I'm getting to something I didn't sign up for.

If I got an offer tomorrow for a "limited" phone service I would turn it down, but I wouldn't consider it immoral or bad or something that shouldn't exist.
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wiki = friend

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_doma...

They're reserved by ICANN
And probably won't. Look at this loud minority of people who text while driving, think the EM field will give them cancer, are opposed to nuclear energy...
I suggest the government to allow people get scammed, _do_nothing_ about it. Abolish laws against fraud; people will be more careful, knowing there's no saving net at the end.
more useful and unique (?) would be the ability to receive snail mails and truly interface with the snail world. requires a lot more (like a mechanical turkish army in different postal jurisdictions) but worth a lot more.
I've found it's easy to find relatively small projects (1 good engineer, 1-2 months), but more difficult to find larger projects.

I generally advise potential clients not to expect too much from the App Store (~$30K-$40K revenue for a "good" game that's featured by Apple for a short time), unless they get lucky.

Our company is based in Vietnam and self-published a relatively successful iPhone game recently. Using it as our foot-in-the-door, we've been seeing ~$80/hour for smaller projects requiring 1-2 very talented engineers, and ~$40/hour for larger projects requiring more engineers.
Could you share the reasons you decided not to use HN software?
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I got admission in Florida institute of technology for masters in computer science, having hard time to decide. Is FIT decent university for computer science? My interest is on machine learning.
* The network is the computer.

I want processes that migrate with me. When I login at work, I should be able to grab my webbrowser from home and continue it executing on my work machine. Or perhaps on my cellphone (although the UI probably would be horrible). When I reboot my laptop, processes get migrated onto another machine I have permissions for (my desktop?), and come back when the reboot completes.

* Distributed Storage.

I have a string of PC's I have own and/or have (legitimate!) access to, but I have problems storing data. Eg my desktop at home has gigs of local storage, but my home directory is mounted off the file server which is running out of space. Why can't I easily merge those two file stores?

* Augmented Reality.

* Mesh based Free Space Optics.

To be able to set up a wireless AP that has line of sight to another AP, that then sets up a mesh using FSO. FSO is near interference free.

* FPGA's for accelerating computation and reducing power consumption.

* Location/Situational awareness in cellphones.

Guessing better if it should be a loud ringtone based on ambient noise? Guessing who I'm going to call given that I always call this person at this time at this location?

* Better internet file distribution.

Knowing/Guessing something about network topology and doing something smart about it w.r.t choosing who to download from. (TCP_INFO to get TCP's estimated RTT for a link? Measuring how long it takes an IP address to download from you/to you and remembering that for your current network, and biasing which peer/server you use in future based on this). Using Source Specific Multicast when available to get network multiplier effects.

* End to End Encryption of communications.

* Natural Language Parsing

We know that computers have problems with ambiguous sentences, but a search engine where you give it a natural language query, and it parses it, and then asks for which parsing is correct, or asks you to resubmit your query in a less ambiguous way. People seem quite happy to iteratively query a search engine to get an answer they want, having a NLP guess the wrong meaning is easily rectified with a more specific query. Wolfram Alpha tries this. It however doesn't seem to provide you any obvious way to improve your query, variations on a theme tend to result in the same parse.
obfuscating is useless:

http://www.google.com/search?q=at+gmail+dot+com

Collect enough patterns and you can harvest tons of email addresses like used to be.
As long as you are only sending charectors on the paper, you might be right, but you can send physical items in a letter - unlike in an email.

And the set of people I want to send mail to intersected with the set of people who have the faintest idea what public/private keys are is the empty set. So that won't fly.

In addition, the fact that I am willing to pay a dollar to send a message is a statement that you might want to take five seconds to look at the letter, whereas most emails aren't worth taking a look at.
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I would donate it to the open source community. I mean asking this question here suggest that you got nothing better to do with it, right?
There's a difference between what can be done, and what will be done. The point in the article is that simple obfuscation actually works.
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My spam avoidance scheme is to own my own domain, and then have *@mydomain.com go to my inbox, so i can create disposable addresses for any use at any time.

For instance, I always sign up with [servicename].account@mydomain.com and only ever give out my personal e-mail to people i meet in person.

The great thing is that if a [servicename].account address starts getting spam, i know which service sold my address and i can just blackhole that address.

That way, i never have to obfuscate my address, since i'll always just create a new one for the specific need. It's probably not for everyone though...
Could you elaborate about the 'business revelations'? I'm really intrigued.
Sounds like you want any Palm or Windows CE device made in the last decade. I am not kidding, you described 90% of what I do on the 2003 PDA I picked up for $15. (The remaining 10% is gmail, skype, and an NES emulator.) Did I mention it is easy to program for? I've got every language from Scheme to J on board.

Welcome to the past, your dreams may be found at any yard sale.
a few (mostly obscure extensions) can be purchased in the aftermarket - for example L.fo is currently being auctioned http://www.sedo.com/auction/auction_detail.php?language=e... - also see http://www.namepros.com/domains-for-sale-fixed-price/616074-...
Ask HN: Best software for schematics/diagrams?
I'd like something that can produce pretty diagrams out of the box for software, business processes, etc for showing to clients. Anything free would be a bonus too. Any advice?
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omnigraffle comes to my mind, you can use pencil maybe, try balsamiq and the like....
mindmaps is another thats very generic in nature and has got gr8 utility.
It was written by this guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ak5Lr3qkW0

An illustrative image of who he is: http://onemansblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/chris-lang...
Especially obfuscations like "bob at gmail dot com". If I were a spambot I would just read until the first space and append "@gmail.com" and "@hotmail.com" and 5-6 other mail providers. This would break through 90% of people doing that, and they're high value targets too - they feel secure with their clever obfuscation and chances are their other anti-spam tools (and reflexes) are weaker.
I wouldn't want to say there's no correlation without controlling for, well, a lot.

This looked at breast and colon cancer, which could be drowned out by noise from other cancers if this doesn't apply to them, for one. Other sources of cancer like diet, smoking, and being constantly irradiated would vary on a national level.

Also, the post seems focused on cancer becoming metastatic, which wouldn't be the same as cancer incidence, and looking at cancer deaths isn't helpful either because of variations in treatment, etc.
I believe that by entering the PIN, you're agreeing to the contract. It seems like total "shit, double shit, and bullshit" to me, but it doesn't seem totally outside the boundaries of the law. Might be wrong, though, as IANAL.
I know much of HN is younger folk. If you find yourself without "traditional" employment, I'd suggest busying yourself creating lasting value for yourself rather than just doing passive search for a job.

The typical send-letters-and-wait-by-the-phone game is for suckers. For one, it doesn't really let you differentiate from the other 20% of your age group who don't have jobs. (Your resume theoretically lets you, but no one really cares what is written on it.) For another, everything that doesn't result in at least an interview is just wasted time. If you spend 6 months writing and then get a job interview, you've now got an interview and six months you will never get back which did not add to your personal capital at all.

Instead, built something you can keep. If you're a techy, write software. (Heck, build an entire business. You've got more than enough time.) If you're not a techy, you have my sympathies, but at least get yourself a blog going and start writing like it is going out of style. Set yourself up as the expert on your little patch of whatever and own the daylights out of it. Then, use it to network. Even if you can't get a job directly related to your niche, you can use the blog as an example of writing skill, communication skill, ability to carry tasks to completion, etc etc.

[Edited to add: It kills me that a sizable fraction of the best writing I've done in my life was a) on subjects I didn't really care about and b) will never be seen by anyone again, because I graduated from college many years before I heard of Dropbox. Most intellectually engaged students produce vast, vast quantities of great writing on subjects of perhaps less-than-great importance because they're told to... and then stop writing after college. Don't be most people -- most people's competitive situation sucks, because they have to compete with most people.]
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Interesting to see that this is now starting to happen in the US too. In the German speaking parts of Europe the age group of ~20 to ~30-year-olds is now often referred to as "Generation Praktikum" ("generation internship"). There seems to be an endless demand for programmers though.
> ... visitors that can't spell their own email address
> ... likely to screw your obfuscated address up as well
> ... it's no always clear if solved the "riddle" of an
> obfuscation correctly.

They are likely to screw it up, but at least they get the feedback of a bounced email. There is a recovery mode, and it's their problem.

With an incorrectly spelled return address on a form there is no recovery mode at all, and they get no feedback that it hasn't worked.
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A thousand hours is just above 10 days (assuming you run on a single CPU), so I guess most of us have a spare computer lying about which means that it should be able to handle this data.

As for the 1,000,000 hours? A genetic algorithm that runs through all the publically available data on deals made by the government looking for anything out of the ordinary to flesh out corruption.
Steele said Java brought the world half-way to Lisp. I do not think Lisp means what he thinks it means.

If someone like Steele disagrees with you on the meaning of something like Lisp, then you are probably wrong.
Other people using his work is pure bullshit in my eyes. If you want to have a picture of a skull made of diamonds, make a picture of a skull made of diamonds, or pay someone else too. Don't rip off someone else's work.

I doubt Hirst would get so much criticism from defending his work if he were less successful, and his work was being ripped by someone more successful.
The bay bridge was started in 1933, and construction ended in 1936. Metal fatigue and many other aspects of material science were unknown at that time. If the eyebar was original, or built to original specs, it's entirely possible that the failure mode it exhibited wasn't even predictable given 1930s knowledge of materials under stress.

So I'm not in too much of a rush to find someone to blame :)
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I didn't see mention of what the degrees these young people's degrees are in. Are these degrees in areas with little to no demand, "I'm majoring in Latin American Art history", or are these people getting degrees in highly in demand areas? My software shop is hiring developers and recent grads all the time - we hired 5 people in the last 2 months.
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For some people finding fault is easier than seeing the point.
What are these people thinking?

Some of them put language there like "please read these terms and conditions carefully before using this web site...".

How detached from reality can you become? If they find themselves in a lawsuit and want to argue that the other party should have read the T&C. Wouldn't any court throw out that argument immediately because there is now way to expect a normal person to read some terms and conditions linked in a footer of a webpage before reading/using it?
The kind of person who does Art History in the first place is the kind of person whose family has the money to support them to essentially pursue their hobby full-time for 4 years. So the internship thing is not actually a big deal in the grand scheme of things - their families can afford to continue supporting them, until they can find a lifestyle job.

People do science and engineering for the love of it, sure, but these kinds of people don't forget that someday they'll need to support themselves. It's not only the skills but the down-to-earth attitude that makes these people such prized commodities in the job market.
?... Automatic array-bounds checking doesn't require functional programming.

Besides, functional programming is not The One True Paradigm To Rule Them All either. Dataflow, for example, is an example of another superb paradigm.
The typical send-letters-and-wait-by-the-phone game is for suckers

True story: my first industry job I got by literally walking in the door of an ISP with no appointment and no CV and just asking if they needed a Unix guy. Wait there, they said. Met the hiring manager that afternoon (my "interview" was a in-depth discussion about the kind of workloads SMP was good for, conducted sitting on a DEC Alpha box), started working for him the next day.

This was at the start of the summer, at the time I still fully intended to be a Mechanical Engineer after graduation. Kinda got a bit sidetracked and here I am still in the industry 13 years later...
I don't know what I'd do with 10^3 hours, but with 10^6 hours I'd calculate 5 trillion digits of Pi -- until now this sort of computation has always been done on supercomputers, but there's no reason why it shouldn't be possible to do it on EC2.
Intelligence, truthfulness, purposeness and politeness in advertising.

I'm continually amazed at the sheer stupidity of it all.
Yes. Though he heavily modified Graham's methods.
One of the reasons why Android is slow could be its heavy reliance on Java. You can spend months tweaking and optimizing the VM, but you're still not getting close to C (and Objective-C) speeds.

I wonder what will happen if you put Symbian (which runs on most low-end smartphones from Nokia) on a high-end device like the Droid.
I don't actually have free hours on EC2 or ~$100,000 for 1,000,000 hours. With EC2 lots of computational tasks become accessible to the average person, and I posted here on HN to get an interesting conversation going.
Personally I think this is more a case study in how not to do PR. We have a company (well city) announce they are moving to a competitors product. Do you
1)Give them a call and try and see if the relationship can be salvaged?
2)Failing that allow them to go ahead with the migration, but let them know should they decide compelling featutre you offer is important, you'd be more than willing to help them migrate back to your offering in the future
OR
Write a press release, suggesting that your customer is making a bad decision?

To me, it seems that criticizing a past customer based on there choice to use another service provider is simple bone-headed. I mean you can say these things internally, but to publish a press release?
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ICANN fortunately does not control all of the top-level domains.
I would just do it instead of talking about it.
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Excellent Article. Thought I am very skeptical about its relevance to SWE, the report however is worth a read.
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My last internship I was miserable in. Because I was working for free I had to take a second "real" job to make ends meet. In the end it worked out. I busted my ass, networked and after a few months, found a real job.

The dearth of unemployed college students means it's a race to the bottom. If companies could pay less than minimum wage they would. So the next down is to relist the job as an unpaid internship.
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The kind of person who does Art History in the first place is the kind of person whose family has the money to support them to essentially pursue their hobby full-time for 4 years.

Not necessarily, I know several people who studied liberal arts and did so by getting student loans and scholarships.
This is a great article. For the first time I was exposed to what I'm going to face if I write a serious project in D. It's a shame that the current condition of D is of an environment that appears to be not ready for prime time.
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No problems at all. Occasionally you found a knackered one, but it looked like wear and tear rather than vandalism. It's a superb idea.