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Hmm, "You must build off of words you've played yourself (the dark tiles on the board) after your first turn."

So if I put my first word cleverly in one of the denser places of the board, I am basically screwed (well, only until I start a new game)? Just disappointing after I searched the board for quite a while to place my second word, only to get that message. Also, I have no idea where to find my first word (I know it will appear darker, but I have no idea where in the 2D space.

SpiderOak encrypts your files before upload, and they don't have the keys. ( https://spideroak.com/whyspideroak )

Thats why at the end of the post they say that even if they decided to deduplicate in the future, they would have no way of retroactively doing it.

I generally agree, but this arrangement makes it a little different. Working closely with facebook like this, you're kind of on the inside. They're not going to block someone they are partnering with, and with an advanced look at the beta features, you're not going to be hit with broken apps with the api changes.

As far as reimplementing goes, I think they'd just buy you first. They've already invested time and resources to help you develop your app/site, so it will be natural for them just to aquire you.

It's perfect for YC (extra high chance for the startups to be bought by FB) and good for FB (people doing cool, interesting social things they can incorporate). I am still not a fan, but I guess I'm not a huge fan of Facebook anyways.

It's an interesting behavior though, not just Chrome, but everyone. Certain numbers have meanings (1.0 being the most famous), just like extra tags like "alpha" and "beta".

They're a signal to IT folk to measure progress, and at least the perceived value of an upgrade (1.0 to 1.1 is a small change compared to 1.0 to 2.0). There's also expectations of compatibility. Files made with 1.0 should work with 1.1, but 2.0 might have breaking features that need to be looked into deeper.

Of course this varies with every single piece of software. You're right that for Chrome, it doesn't matter nearly as much, because updates are automatic. I just find it very interesting to see some software shoot up quick (maybe a 1.0 after 6 months), and then other software takes a lot longer (vlc taking years and years to hit 1.0).

Since we had a thread this morning talking about sceptics on HN ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1629583 ), I have to say that I'm not a big fan of this idea.

As it turns out, multiple people in the same location can already talk to each other. In fact, that's how it usually happens.

One of the problems I see with this is critical mass, will you get enough users on it to be useful? Note that most other location related services (say yelp, foursquare) don't require a critical mass of people to be at the same spot at the same time.

Conferences would certainly have enough people that some might wander in to your track's channel, but would it be used enough day to day for people to naturally open it up when they have an extra minute?

I went through that book in a Philosophy of Science class, and I too recommend it. I also recommend the class, if you get a chance.

I think it is important for all scientists to understand the history of science and even spend some time thinking about the cultural/societal problems that hamper scientific progress currently.

"Emergency Maintenance" seems to be a pretty broad get out of jail free card to me. I trust the Zencoder guys aren't going to try and weasel out of their commitments (and this SLA is probably better than most), but if you're having downtime for almost any reason, wont you be doing "Emergency Maintenance" to bring the site back up?

This is used extensively in the SF bay area.

Here on a startup site, how many of us have purchased domains to start a company? A lot of people here bootstrap their own businesses, which often can't make any money before they own a domain and put their site up. In that case, 1000 dollars is a lot.

But why does a domain need to host a webpage? I get that we mostly want snazzy domains for webapps these days, but if I grab a domain, point it towards a server that only serves SSH externally, what's wrong with that (Actually, I am considering doing just that for a domain I have been eying).

Defining 'substantial' is difficult, especially if we start pulling lawyers out to sue for the lost of virtual 'real estate.'

The key thing for me is something that I know well, so I can tune it out. I still enjoy the music, but once I'm working hard it just becomes white noise.

Knowing Apple, they will just say "HD" and keep the tech specs off the main product page. Only us techies will complain.

Not that it's a bad thing. Apple has convinced consumers that they will provide a quality product (and they will), so they don't need to stoop to number wars.

I'm actually surprised by the Facebook references in the article/picture. Would you (hn'ers) actually use facebook in the hiring process?

A special note for non-EVE-ers, the stuff in the cargo hold has a chance to either survive or be destroyed.

The players that destroyed the ship (and associated cargo) weren't trying to destroy the cargo, just got unlucky.

I still read slashdot. I think the problem with it is that stories are sometimes slow to hit the front page. It's not uncommon to have day old news as the top entry on slashdot.

I'm really not sure what facebook integration has to do with anything, I doubt that slashdot users left because of that.

This caught my eye in the source: setTimeout('location.reload(true)',1200000);

The simplest way is to disable javascript.

I bet it is emapis. org, see:

http://www.urlvoid.com/scan/emapis.org

As the unescaped javascript shows, it's a random chance for different sites, so it might be somewhat hard to reproduce. So far I haven't been able to pull a mootools.js from those sites to see it.

Edit: the js I'm getting back is just (function(){var error = 404;})();

Also, with regards to your site, here is the google safebrowse: http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=jasonlbap...

It shows that you also had stuff going to smartenergymodel[.]com, which is also listed on that unmaskparasites link that everyone is passing around.

Even if they do encrypt it, they will have to be able to decrypt them server side to send you your month old posts. That means the owners are technically capable of also reading all of your posts.

I think it's a good idea, much better than those Yelp stickers I see stores putting up.

I have some concerns regarding Yelp's ToS. The solution they mention is to contact them. Better to be forward and honest rather than go behind their back.

Also, IANAL, but they might have to go after you for Trademark infringement for having Yelp in your name (and possibly their logo on your site). I believe it is a "pursue it or lose it" thing.

Below are the ToS parts i think apply to you (in varying degrees).

  6. Restrictions of Use

  You agree that you will not, and will not assist or enable others to:

  c. use the Site for promotional or commercial purposes, except as expressly allowed in writing by Yelp;

  k. modify, adapt, appropriate, reproduce, distribute, translate, create derivative works or adaptations of, publicly display, sell, trade, or in any way exploit the Site or Site Content (other than Your Content), except as expressly authorized by Yelp;

  o. use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other automated device, process or means to access, retrieve, scrape, or index the Site or any Site Content;

  q. reformat or frame any portion of the Site;

edit: formatting, grammar

Apparently, an uncensored gossip site for college campuses.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Juicy_Campus

Though I was in college throughout most of the existence of Juicy Campus, I never heard of it, though it's possible my school wasn't in their list, or it just didn't gain traction there.

Yes NASA, really.

http://money.cnn.com/2010/03/30/autos/NHTSA_NASA_Toyota/inde...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which has been criticized for lacking sufficient technological expertise, has recruited nine experts from NASA to help the agency understand how issues such as electromagnetic interference may have contributed to Toyota's acceleration issues.

Separately, the National Academy of Sciences will conduct a study of unintended acceleration and electronic vehicle controls across the entire automotive industry.

I'm not a big fan of the traffic light wifi idea. For starters, I think people trying to time the lights just right trying to hit a changing light at 35mph are crazy and are just asking to be hit by someone trying to beat a red.

Moreover, in places where the lights are influenced by the cars around, I think it's usually pretty easy to tell if a light is going to change soon.

But, I do think we will start seeing a lot more tech in the automotive future. I think it's the newest prius that has an auto-sensing cruise control, to adjust the speed to the car in front of you. I've been wanting that for years. Also, I think it's the first step in integrating autonomous drivers on the road.

I've also heard about work on a "train" like vehicle that other cars could attach to and be dragged along. Idea is that it'd be more efficient, plus the drivers would get to relax on their commute.

Like you mentioned about communicating where potholes are, I think all cars should be alerted to emergency personnel on the side of the road well before they reach them. I think maybe some radar detectors do something like this, maybe as a side effect. Something built into GPS would be awesome though.

As I read it, it's not paint, it's actually mixed into the concrete.

As far as whether it is effective or not... well, it's probably more effective than not doing anything (additional costs and construction techniques need to be considered). Overall, I think absorbing pollution near the vehicles that produce it is a good idea. The raw amount of paved area in the world makes it an attractive target for any 'green' development (I've heard of projects trying to put solar panels into roads).

Now it's http://www.cpedia.com/

As msg points out, the patent was _submitted_ in 2006. That's the date that matters for determining "who was first?".

Also, you don't have to actually create the product to receive the patent for it. The idea is that the patent protects your right to build said product, without worrying about a faster competitor beating you to the punch.

I'm not saying I agree with how the patent system works, but how I understand it, Amazon's patent isn't affected by any product released after they submitted the patent request.

I was playing with Clojure this last weekend, and so far have enjoyed it. I ran through a dozen or so project euler problems, but am now looking for something that takes longer than 10 lines of code to complete.

HN, what other projects do you do to familiarize yourself with a new language?

The exciting thing for me is to choosing a flux[1]-like filter at night, to be easier on my eyes.

[1] http://www.stereopsis.com/flux/

I thought there weren't going to be anymore HOPE conferences.

I'm pretty impressed with the effort Opera has been making lately. It certainly makes the browser war more interesting.

Also, the linux upgrade is awesome. I was beginning to worry about their linux support (considering 10.50 hadn't been released yet).

puzzle[24] is O (capital o) not 0 (zero).