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I thought as much. But being the perfectionist that he is, Aamir Khan(Rancho), the lead actor has ensured that nothing seems fake or too unreal, for example the scene where he carries out the delivery of a new-born with help from a surgeon over webcam is quite well shot. When he's told that a vacuum pump will be required to get the baby out safely, he uses a vacuum cleaner, controls it's pressure by mounting a pressure gauge in between and uses his photographer friend's equipment cleaning nozzle as the tip of the pump. I thought it was a brilliant hack. The lead character is as close to a hacker as it can get, and best of all he's not called a hacker even once in the film, it is not a poor stereotype you see in hollywood films. My guess is that the director just made the character to suit his film but by mere accident he's managed to get a very good portrayal of a hacker.

After I watched the movie, I could relate so much to Rancho, except for he always complained about the education system, but still stuck on and also topped his class whereas I chose to drop out. Engineering colleges in India are very much like a rat race. My neighbour took an year off after high school just to prepare for cracking the IIT entrance exam. He didn't manage, and is now on the verge of completing his engineering degree from an above average college. I just met him yesterday almost after 2 yrs. and he told me that while he's managed to get this far, he has no clue of what he wants to do with his life, he said he always did what all his peers were doing, what his seniors said he should be doing, without having interest in any of it. And now he's stuck. He doesn't whether to get a job or do an MBA. Now I see him preparing for entrance exams for B-schools just the way he did for IIT's 5 years back. He's finished one rat race and about to get into another one!

OTOH, I enrolled in distance learning program after I dropped out of engineering and spend most of my time self learning and experimenting. I know what I wanna do with my life and am not confused.

But there is a social stigma at play here, my parents never know what to tell friends and family about what their son is doing, whereas my friend is a "well-educated, hard-working engineer" in the eyes of everybody who has done his parents proud.
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That was fascinating, thank you.
Spot on. You have portrayed the real picture of attitude towards work in India. The above mentioned reasons also account for the scarcity of entrepreneurship and innovation in the country.

Thanks again. Your comment makes up for the lousy wired article.
Actually, in this experiment, you could say the acid does a breadth-first search through the maze. When it finds the entrance, the oil droplet starts moving through the path that the acid found. So the droplet is merely a distractor; the acid is doing all the NP work.
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I guess I think that it is not a social issue for me, and it's up to others to make their own interpretations.

I think there are a lot of disadvantages that could drag you down: you're losing your hair, you're short, you're ugly, your parents put you through a rotten childhood, and so on. But you can always find examples of people who have those same disadvantages and are thriving anyway.

I knew this girl once who thought she was ugly. She mentioned that it goes beyond mere social conditioning, that even newborn babies react more favorably to pretty people. So I said: who would a newborn react more favorably to, a pretty stranger or her own homely mother?

If I am facing some type of disadvantage, I am always going to be looking for a way to stack the deck in my favor to get around it.
Actually, mistakes with pointers can lead to remote code execution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_overflows).
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It's pretty disappointing how these types of stories get parroted around the web, without any valuable research added.

As an EC2 user, I'd like to see less words and more measurements. Amazon has dozens of datacenters, probably each containing dozens or hundreds of independent sub-nodes, but we don't have any data regarding who is affected. In fact, Cloudkick hasn't given us any information regarding how they sampled their data.

I know that my EC2 instance isn't experiencing latency problems, so is it possible that a small number of nodes have developed problems, and that is skewing the average?

Anyone with some useful information, please share!
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Search Baidu for "Tiananmen square massacre" - guess how many results?
Here's my attempt to define hacker from a talk/preso I gave a couple months ago to an artist crowd:
"Currently, "hacker" is used in two main ways, one pejorative and one complimentary. The pejorative, main-stream definition can be summed up as: a computer criminal. The complimentary definition is harder to define, but something like this: basically, a hacker is a curious person that repurposes stuff, often in a playful or clever or creative way; stretching some-thing’s capabilities in a new direction it wasn’t designed for."

video:
http://www.gumbolabs.org/2009/11/11/simon-dorfmans-pecha-kuc...

slides:
http://www.gumbolabs.org/2009/10/30/slides-from-my-gumbo-lab...
It sounds like something someone would say in person in polite company, though not in front of a person - since the article was about the subject, not by it, this would be reasonable.
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I don't remember details, it happened already some time ago.

It was actually quite sophisticated malware - heavily obfuscated, assembling itself from pieces spread all around the world, jumping through several hoops of compromised servers.

When I finally managed to reverse engineer to JS code that carried the infection, it was full of functions I didn't even know existed. Not usual JS, more like API hooks to the underlying platform, with special prefixed names. These names indicated it was about plugins.

BTW it was multiplatform, attacking not just Firefox, there was a browser detection and browser specific code paths for several popular browser. I remember there was also something trying to use Silverlight.

Oh, and it was multipurpose. Besides trying to infect your PC with a malware, it was also earning money. Some parts of JS were loading ads in invisible frames, presumably to be part of some distributed click farm.
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Works for the link, thanks.
I grew up in Brazil 20 years ago, when the economy was pretty bleak (at one point my allowance was worth half as much after a week or so due to hyperinflation). I'd move Jobs to #2 (money buys water and food) and replace Civil Order by the more general Security.

If anything, non-wealthy people in a place like Brazil (roughly 95% of the population) probably resent any attempt at building code enforcement by their government as merely another pretense to receive bribes. As much as we complain about politics in the US, rest assured that politicians and thus governments in the less human-capital dependent parts of the world are orders of magnitude worst.
Do you have personal experience writing a 100k+ LOC application in two or more of the languages C, Java and Lisp?
Doesn't work on V8, at least not on the version I am using. Which JS engine is 1.8.1 complaint?
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In South Africa these short code collection methods are insanely expensive. Roughly 50% of the transaction cost goes to the network.

I've seen now that the united states has monthly rentals on the shortcode? And they don't take a collection fee? Am I correct?
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That's not a 'random crash.' The compiler ran out of memory trying to compile your file. Stack space is not infinite, a typical Java VM comes with some default which can also be reconfigured. After running out of memory, the compiler told you what the error condition was and exited.
Well, there are other workarounds for this besides using ssl. I wonder why I don't see them being used. For example one could encrypt the form with javascript using a public key and submit that. There seem to be enough javascript crpyto libs out there. Of course this would have the minus of requiring javascript on the client side, but at least you don't need to buy a valid https certificate.
+1

I agree; it's grossly wide and so thin as to be almost illegibly sparkly when it's black-on-white. I don't even want to imagine what this face would look like knocked-out on black.

There's also a good comment on the source page about distinguishing zeros and ohs, especially when coding.
Tech-wise, I don't remember any devices with a 3.5" capacitive touchscreen + multitouch before the iPhone came out. That was imo the most important hardware feature of the iPhone, given that the "accepted" mode of interaction with similar devices was a stylus on a resistive screen.

Similarly, there aren't any shipping devices with a 7-10" capacitive touchscreen. Whether or not any of the various tablets with one announced at CES beats Apple's to market, the kinks in said displays weren't ironed out before this year.
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By the way I-III sucked, so we don't have the reconsider anything.
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So we shouldn't use python, perl, or php either? The last time I checked, all of these languages are at least 30x slower than C.
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well i guess the cdn costs is trough the roof when the core functionality of your site is photo sharing.
But surprisingly it doesn't ban you from searching on this, unlike searching for "google.blogspot.com": http://www.baidu.com/s?wd=google.blogspot.com

Edit:

I realise this has been pointed out before, but I find it curious that "google.blogspot.com" gets you banned, but "Tiananmen square massacre" doesn't.
Dominoes!

I know what my next pet-project will be.
There are a few pre-CES shipping devices with 12" capacitive multi-touch screens. The HP TouchSmart TX2 for example. These are more traditional tablet/notebook PCs, but with Win7 they do allow for "iPhone-like" gestures. The TouchSmart in particular is a mix between awesome and frustrating -- the screen is great and the multi-touch is fabulous, but it's too heavy, its battery life is awful, and mine just died for no apparent reason.
Wait a second... you cannot "sniff" other peoples connections on the same wireless unless you also use some kind of ARP poisoning... something like ettercap will do the trick. Did I misunderstand what you are trying to say?
I think you should be taking in to account the IP address you're searching from as well as the language that you are searching in.

My guess is that searching from within China and in Chinese would yield different results. Maybe someone on the other side of the great firewall could run a test ? On second thoughts, maybe better not...
The Doomsday Clock covers climate change now?

I thought the point of the PR device was to demonstrate that we're (at first literally, then figuratively) minutes away from annihilation of the human race if people get itchy trigger fingers.

The worst case scenarios for climate change are closer to "We're going to be seriously inconvenienced as a species in a couple of decades if we don't do something."

Am I allowed to call these folks unscientific alarmists? Please?
Why not extend the stack at runtime?

LispWorks:

CL-USER 101 > (defun foo (n) (unless (zerop n) (cons n (foo (1- n)))))
FOO

CL-USER 102 > (foo 1000)

Stack overflow (stack size 15998).
1 (continue) Extend stack by 50%.
2 Extend stack by 300%.
3 (abort) Return to level 0.
4 Return to top loop level 0.

Type :b for backtrace or :c <option number> to proceed.
Type :bug-form "<subject>" for a bug report template or :? for other options.

CL-USER 103 : 1 >

Now use restart 1 or 2.
I was kind of surprised by that myself. I figure that maybe since the threat of nuclear annihilation seems to be on the back burner they needed a new bogeyman.

You have to imagine they'd get less press if they had to move it from say 1 PM to 1:01 PM or something like that.
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In part the key word here is "explicitly." I have a PhD in Combinatorics and Graph Theory, and I have lectured in Calculus, Group Theory, Functional Analysis and Topology. In my daily work for the past 18 years I have explicitly used that background exactly once.

But the ongoing influence, the style of thought, the ability to visualise and the ability to abstract away from the details - these things I use all the time, every day. They have been enhanced and honed by all that math.

I use my math background implicitly all the time, and I don't know how I'd do what I do without it.

And this is perhaps the most important point about studying math. Often the greatest take-away is the abstract problem solving capability, not the material itself. I've never had to analyse the genus of a manifold in real life, but I have thought about objects moving in an 11 dimensional space with holes, because while everyone else was stuch in the detail, I was seeing things differently. It turned out that the combination of styles was critical to solving the problem.
Did anyone else first interpret this headline to mean it moved to 11:59 and anxiously click to see which world event was more alarming than the Cold War that somehow wasn't at the top of HN?
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Somalia is a rather compelling, and modern, example of a sovereign nation damaged beyond recovery by war. Rebuilding might occur on such a scale if the country had recently sustained such economic capacity sometime in the past. Haiti sadly has not, and its gov't even before the earthquake would not have been capable of stewarding any such renaissance.
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I personaly consider tesla's invention have shaped/influenced our lives more than Edisons or any other scientists for that matter.

I never knew much about Tesla through out my formal education in india and discovered about such a great scentist from the Move "Prestige". not the right way to know about a great scientist, but better than not knowing.
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Anyone know how recent this is?

His original post on this topic from 2006 is at http://www.the-eleven.com/~tjlegg/index.php?/archives/1940-G...
Not sure about language, but one thing is true -
the way you pronounce words of your own language is a good reflection of your education, status, origin, and who you are.
A Chinese friend of mine had a similar experience. After getting her undergrad & masters engineering degree at MIT, she lands her first job as a writer. The job pays less than what she earned as a graduate student at MIT, but I've never seen her happier. Her parents were both born & raised in the same memorization culture back in China. Let's just say knives went flying when she broke news to her parents about her writing job...
Actually the things he pointed out where,
A) London is really expensive city to live, by European standards.
B) Europeans do make different lifestyle decisions.

B1) Its more energy efficient to dry things by hanging them to dry instead of having a drier, so it saves nature.
B2) Thinking about having lots of cable channels is just a waste of money. When people spend their free time on Internet. Or in sport activities.
B3) I consider west European buildings as crappy as what I've seen in TV from America. [I'm Scandinavian we have perfect buildings, small but well insulated.] There are some basic things about saving the world by not spending too much energy on cooling in the summer or heating in the winter. And no size isn't everything. In some places LAND is so expensive and building code requirements are such that you just cannot build American style mac mansions here,
and if you would build them the quality requirements would make it multimillion dollar building.
B4) the minimal support that government gives for people who are jobless and already dropped out of unemployment is enough for people to eat meat everyday.
B5) Lunch issue is two fold. In america do you pay 15USD per hour for mcDonalds worker? If not its probably the reason why professionals don't buy as much service here its just that some of the things that are really low wage in usa are not that that low wage here, due to labor unions and government regulations.
I have brought in lunch at work just to save TIME, not save money. Damn stairs and slow elevator...

Now the other way around.
I hope you enjoy your 15USD per month 3.6Mb/s ,max average 3GB per day mobile phone Internet ;)
Yup, that was my exact reaction, even more disturbing after having read a couple of newspapers this morning and wondering quite what had changed so rapidly ;)

A bit of a personal coincidence for me as well, don't know why but for some reason I've been reading up on nuclear events, scenarios and near-misses. It would have almost been fitting, end of the world aside ;)
I doubt that the IP address I'm searching from has much to do with it, as it they won't show any more results to me (who isn't in China), presumably they won't show any more results to someone who is in China.

Although I agree the language of the search term might have an effect. If anyone can try this in Chinese I'd be interested in the result.
There's plenty of parents of kids with autism who accept the science and e.g. get their younger kids vaccinated so it can't be as obvious a link as you'd suggest.
I'm on the investor side of the table in that I have money and would be happy to invest in a worthy start-up. I'm young and fairly inexperienced, but I don't mind being pitched, and I would be happy to share my email address with interested parties.

I think nothing could be more valuable than making funding more accessible to companies that could one day change the world; especially if it could be done well. Maybe we should get to work on this idea...partner. :)
> presumably they won't show any more results to someone who is in China.

But they might show different results or even less of them.
Does receive security attention externally mean targeted by an entire industry of malware writers, trained and funded by many lucrative years of previous insecurity and ubiquity?
The report reveals that there were no actual temperatures left in the computer database when NASA/NCDC proclaimed 2005 as “THE WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD.”

This sentence leaves me disinclined to continue reading the article. Is this going to be like Fox showing a program about the moon landing conspiracies, following it up a week later with a program debunking the conspiracies?
Search for "Falun Gong" and baidu will ignore all your future request for a period! horrible!
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It strikes me that for a condition that is diagnosed in 1 out of 120 children, a population of 300 children is a bit sparse. Is that blasphemy?

In fact, you don't need large samples to get significant results. If there is a strong effect, even a very small sample will show it. If the effect is small, you will need a larger sample.

300 is, in fact, a pretty large sample. I haven't read the full study, but if its a simple random sample, the an effect would have to be quite weak indeed to not show up (in all probability).
Yes, but now I'm really confused ;)
The whole clock is kind of ridiculous. There's no metric to it at all. It's just the opinion of a bunch of guys. Their whole reasoning is "a more hopeful state of world affairs"

The fact that a Doomsday clock that was designed to warn against the problem of nuclear weapons is being moved back mere months after Iran decided to defy the UN and start building another uranium enrichment plant should tell you how much of a crock this is.
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1. Launch gleebox, search for link. once link is selected type :i or :i.parentNode (or maybe a shorthand for that :i^1 or :i^2 which could mean :i.parentNode.parentNode)
once you inspect an element del should be starighforward.
And del commands for particular page can also be persisted and run for subsequent visits.And have separate options for persisting del commands and running them on subsequent page visit.

Feel free to ignore these suggestions if you think it will affect usability and bring more complexity.
Agreed.

Contrasted with the > 1,000,000 results on google.com

And curiously, google.cn gives ~42,000 results - and they still say they are censoring (据当地法律法规和政策，部分搜索结果未予显示。 = According to local laws, regulations and policies, some search results are not shown.)
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I don't think http://www.howtousetwitterformarketingandpr.com/ is his site.
I don't agree with your assessment here. While there wasn't an existing product with the exact same specs as the iPhone in existence there were products that could do everything an iPhone does (Windows Mobile Phones) and there were multi-touch screens out there. What made Apple successful is combining those elements in a way that was attractive to average users.

In that same sense there are Tablet PCs and so called "Slate PCs" out there. What will make Apple successful is creating a package that can appeal to the average user.
the iphone version requires you to rotate the phone instead :-)
Their motto is more on the line of "turn a profit, whatever it takes".
"Microsoft" and "principled" on the same paragraph. That must be a first.