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I doubt it's some spy thing.

Most likely someone wanted to set up a multicache where you had to decode something to get to the next cache but never bothered to finish it.
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The thing I find most interesting about this is the lengths some academics will go to get credit / citations for things as small as single sentences.

A somewhat interesting sentence, but not particularly original in the light of the "Dogs dogs dog dog dogs" example.
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US coder gets sent to the middle east for a bunch of money

Reminds me of Ken Follett's 'On Wings of Eagles' - definitely a recommendation if you're into thrillers! It's about a team of coders from EDS (now part of HP I think) who get sent to Iran to work for the government and are then refused to leave the country.
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Why the talk about politics in the comments here when this is nothing but a plain old phishing attack? Isn't this about phishing, not regulations, good governance, climate change or any such thing? This has nothing to do with whether in principle carbon credits are good or bad, does it? Sure, it might tell you something about the security of their online trading system (or about the stupidity of the workers who fell for the phishing), but nothing else. I don't get it. Please tell me.
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We have a few apps that aren't open source, and they have an entire operating system that hasn't shipped as open source yet. See how that works?

This guy is a joker.
Have you done the sums? Factoring in sales volume, your time (dev + support), marketing costs, growth curve, etc?

Numbers always beat guesses. See anything patio11 writes. :-)
A by-product of this idea is the size new market it opens up. Not only does it allow adults without bank accounts to get involved but now kids - previously without means of easy online payments - can start making payments (or should I say, pay with credit).

Actually settling the debt is kid friendly also with the option to use cash (either via a 7-11 or simply mailing the cash) or by "passing the duck", presumably to a parent.

Of course, whether this is a good thing or not is another debate.
How could giving everything away for free while hoping that people buy support contracts possibly be a bad strategy?
IMO, 200k doesn't set you up for life, so it's not worth your life. One year is quite a long time and things _will_ go wrong.
Using one document as a stick to beat the uninformed seems somewhat silly to me. The variation of the infection rate is large. Look for yourself in the document. According to USAID in some regions it amounts to 50%. I think this is the point the OP wanted to make. USAID do not agree fully with UNAIDS figures, especially in the north. (see f.i. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04... for some critique on statistical methods. Beware, it's from 2006).

Then again, the knowledge that there are people out there still dying on a large scale from this disease makes me feel informed ... but very silly when it comes to fights about the figures.
Agreed. The idea is great, but the user experience isn't.

For a product aimed at the confused and less-web-literate, the landing page is a bit of a nightmare. It's confusing, hard to read and has no clear call to action. The requirement to sign up before using the tool is a completely unnecessary barrier to entry. Let me use your tool to design my widget, then ask me for my e-mail address to receive the code. Posterous is an object lesson in the power of having a completely frictionless signup process.
I'm with you on this. The "haiku" is overplayed. Nature is needed.

And also, not to forget, the common form of response.
Johnny Cupcakes is a cool guy. We often get hung up on the technology here at HN, but this story makes it abundantly clear to me that business is about people, how you communicate with them and how they feel about you. Johnny Cupcakes isn't selling the utility of being less naked, he's selling membership of a tribe, he's selling the start of many conversations, he's selling mementoes of a cool experience with a cool guy. I think we have far more to learn from this than any number of case studies about AJAXifying a Social Platform with Ruby on Django.
If you pass a function as an argument to a function, you're still separating what from when: the function declaration shows what; the invocation of the function shows when. It doesn't matter whether it's

def foo(f):
f()

or

(define (foo f) (f))

That has nothing to do with annotating a function to show it binds to some URL and is invoked when an HTTP GET request is received with that URL. I don't like having to scroll through a source file to discover such bindings and I actually prefer them to be defined at a separate place. In that sense, the Python 2 solution isn't good either and suffers from the same problem I described earlier: people try to be so concise that they loose sight of other goals.
The article says that Symbian powers most of Nokia's phones, but that's not correct. AFAIK, Symbian is on about 20% of Nokia's offerings, with the rest running their closed dumbphone operating systems (Series 30/40).
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If you're using Varnish for caching then it's also possible to serve 'stale' cache entries whilst the upgrade is being done.

I have a few customers that use this when doing schema changes. Obviously, this relies on cached data being useful for your site, but for many applications a stale cache is massively preferable to an error message.

http://varnish-cache.org/wiki/VCLExampleGrace
>Riiight. So the NSA is helping Google for the good of the world?

Lets think of a hypothetical scenario.

Google and NSA decides to collaborate, but they keep this collaboration under the wraps and go through great lengths to make sure that no one finds out about this collaboration. Their reason for keeping it secret is to avoid reaction like yours. Yet the information of their collaboration becomes public.

Would your views about this collaboration be any different from what it is now?

My point being, its a no win situation. Any NSA collaboration in to _anything_ or with _anyone_ will be looked in to with extreme cynicism and perhaps, to a certain extend, rightly so.

It is under NSA's jurisdiction to investigate this matter since national cyber security is at stake and it is also in Google's interest to collaborate since they were one of the several victims.

NSA is not helping for the good of the world. NSA is helping for the benefit of USA cyber security (which is also a national security matter). Google is under no legal obligation to share proprietary code or information regarding user searches and e-mail accounts.
Branding wise, I was immediately reminded of DuckDuckGo. Will it hurt DuckDuckGo brand?
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They're helping Google so they can better learn about the capabilities of the Chinese hackers and how to secure vital US political/military/intelligence/financial systems from further attacks.
We're swaying off topic here, but, would animal.bark() or animal.fly() even compile under the Java compiler?

Unless the Animal type responds to fly and bark (unlikely in this scenario) that looks like a compile error to me.
What you say sounds reasonable on the face of it, but there's one piece missing. Do these manufacturers believe that Symbian can keep up with the pace of new hardware designs and software fashions or that it even survives?

Now, I'm anything but an expert on Symbian, but my general impression was that Symbian has been falling behind and Nokia has been suffering financially partly because of that.

If I was a Chinese handset manufacturer I would ask myself who I can trust more to stick to its platform and subsidise further development, Google or Nokia (or even Microsoft if they manage to pull off a comeback).

Nokia has started to make high-end Linux based phones as well. Why would they do that if they believe in Symbian? And why would Nokia, a handset manufacturer itself, subsidise an OS that other handset manufacturers are successfully using?

There are too many unanswered questions around Symbian I think.
The comments were mostly nonsense, but there was one gem that made me laugh:

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I have a little book of things I want to open-source before I die. Some of it is my own stuff that I can't release yet for competitive reasons, others is stuff I want to make money and buy the rights so I can give it away.

It's easy to think of a will and death as something far off and mostly about finances and money, especially for people our age. But who knows how many fast-inverse-square-roots are hidden in the bowels of legacy systems that will never see the light of day? That keeps me up at night.
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Seriously. If you solve this, you're rich :-)
I'd really like to see a Chi-square analysis on this by a smarter statistician than me. Power should be pretty low since you only have 16 bytes.

Alternatively, in a series of sixteen uniformly-distributed bytes, what's the probability that the birthday paradox doesn't occur? That is, the probability that no two bytes are identical?

I can say as someone who's played around with English-language markov chains for years that this definitely isn't displaying the characteristics of English text, even with transformations like rot13 or multiplication. So the next logical question is, "Is it uniform?"
When you say "micropayments", were you thinking $5 ~ $10 or $0.05? I see this as being able to provide low-value payments to a clientele that can't normally access them. It fixes the major problem they have: inability to credibly demonstrate willingness and ability to pay within the constraints of an online interaction. Banked people can do this fairly easily: punch in credit card details.

(Well, technically, it really fixes the merchant's problem with that user more than the user's problem -- which is one potential stumbling block in user adoption.)

This doesn't alleviate the problem with nickel/dime scale micropayments, which is that users hate them with a passion unmatched by a thousand burning suns. That was true back when Clay Shirkey mentioned it in 2000 and is true today. The mental transaction cost makes every single microtransaction a significant barrier to conversion.

This is one reason aside from credit card fees why people who do micropayments successfully tend to use a dual currency model where the micropayment currency (bought for cash money) is as easy to spend as the currency which you can earn from ingame actions. (i.e. one-click no auth no confirm purchases, like buying something from the vendor in WoW.)
It depends on the job.

I don't have any problem going to a non luxurious part of the world thats inhospitable. Not even for an extended period of time.

The only thing that would keep me from going are my 'opinions' about middle east foreign policy.

If its a good opportunity don't not go because you're scared.

If you got a good thing going where you're at, no sense in leaving either. Your call.
One document? It's from the U.N. There is no better document than this, and nobody will take more care of their statistics than this. That document can be trusted.

It's not a debate, there are 25 million people with Aids in Africa, not 400 million. The original comment was really the epitome of being uninformed.
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This one seems really unrelated to HN. If you want Italian news, this is a good site:

http://www.corriere.it/

They have an English section too:

http://www.corriere.it/english/
I'll apologise here - I misread the source I was using. The figure of 60% is not the amount of people in Africa with HIV. According to the source ,wikipedia (reputable, I know), "Africa is estimated to have more than 60% of the AIDS-infected population".

Thanks for pulling me up but regardless: its still sickens me that 25 million people have HIV.
There's a tent city/shantytown here in my home town which is in a perpetual cycle of being torn down and rebuilt. Every so often someone dies or is seriously injured, and the police clear everybody out and tear it down. Then people come back and start rebuilding it for a while. Then someone dies or is seriously injured, the police clear everybody out...
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You're charging $3 per stamp w/o a plan and at best $1 per stamp with the intro plan?! Wow! It's cool that you're able to attract customers at those margins.

I'm a bit confused as to why your API customers are given better rates (I assume this is why you have lower margins with them). Why not use the regular rates and give an API key to every customer who wants one?
I have indirect experience.

He should really consider going; it is probably a once in a lifetime experience and extremely sobering.
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The only culture he would be 'diving head-first into' is the US military culture; my guess is that his contact with the country would be somewhat limited, for obvious reasons. If you want to really experience a local culture, there are probably better countries for that, where you can concentrate on getting to know the people and culture and not worrying.
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Symbian phones are fairly capable (just look at what many of the high end nokias have been able to do for years); just generally not as "polished" as an iPhone/Android device.

> There are too many unanswered questions around Symbian I think.

Maybe we'll get some answers now that the source is out there. I think that part of the problem is that Nokia is just confused, and spread a bit thin, in terms of handling everything from 25 euro phones to the high end Linux ones.
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I'd rather have a strong brand filled with knowledgeable customers who truly enjoy and appreciate what I've created instead of making a quick buck - being just another fad.

Come on now, it hardly gets anymore faddish. It's just t-shirts, and people want them because cool people they know have them. The fact that there is some random theme to them makes it feel like you are "in the know" about something, even though nobody knows what the hell it means ("keep on trunkin'"). Once it hits mass market, the cool early adopters have moved on and it is all over.

It is still inspirational that a guy can succeed like this just by being himself and being an original, which is undoubtedly what got him his early customers. Who knew that people are so hungry for something real that they are ready to line up for four days just to buy a t-shirt? That is somehow depressing.

Awesome story.
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I disagree, did you even use Github much before the move? I have a bunch of private repos and the new arch/hosting is much faster than the EY version was. As far as stability goes, a new arch means new code, which means new bugs. Give them a break.
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Ironically your post has shown the true power the US has. Abnormal levels of patriotism. America has declined. Drastically. Look at what the middle class has today compared to years prior. Did you know there was a time that middle class in the US meant you had servants? Money has vacated the middle classes and flooded into the upper classes in the last 20 or so years.

I grew up in the US and I live in western Europe now. I don't see myself ever going back long term. I feel like my standard of living here is much better.
Its mainly the idea that one of the creator's says it's ready for "beta" usage, instead of "edgy", that drives crazes like this.
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Ok. I've lived in England all my life. Let's highlight a few facts:

* Planning laws in the UK exist largely to protect the countryside from being over-developed by often powerful building firms.

* Surrey (the county where this man built is castle), being directly south of London, is one of the most difficult and expensive areas to buy (or build) property.

* The English countryside is under threat, especially in the south-east of the country where urban growth is a constant threat to communities.

* Planning laws are well known and understood here. This man tried to circumvent them at every opportunity, for his own benefit, and got caught out. Big time.

You can argue that this is only one little castle, or that it shouldn't apply to individuals, or whatever, but the fact is that the laws exist and (generally) do a good job at making sure that the beautiful countryside doesn't turn into an over-developed shit-hole.

I understand the reasons these laws exist. There's no reason at all to call them out for being either over-bureaucratic, or an example of the over-arching state. They exist for a reason, basically the good of the wider community, and this guy tried to circumvent them for his own selfish (presumably financial) benefit.

I've absolutely no sympathy for him at all.
I would advise those reading too much into this article not do so. Using vectors for theory to do basic statistics is likely to confuse matters for you. Vectors, though important in statistics, are primarily used to describe spaces, be they 3d or otherwise. If you understand how this translates to statistics, then you probably don't need the ideas in the article. If you don't, then this article is plainly misleading.
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The 7-11 system is quite similar to the payment system for most things (specifically utilities) in Japan. I pay nearly all my debts (in cash) via a scan-able bill at a combini (convenience store).
At first it seems weird, but after awhile, you wonder how you lived without it.
This service could be very interesting, and profitable. It's gonna open the floodgates to many similar services.
Does this mean I could install a newer version of the OS on my S40 phone making it hackable?
PS. I dissagree ith what the article say's, on the lower end phones Symbian is still the leader.
Antirez does not seem at all arrogant to me. He's just looked around at the technologies he needs and found that there was something missing, then set about filling that gap.

We all do that in our own way (even if we can't do it in our day jobs). In my case I'm solving far more trivial problems than Antirez.

Redis is a very significant technology for me. The great thing about Antirez is that he has provided this extremely useful tool whilst maintaining a very modest online presence.

Maybe he's a prima donna at home :-)
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Technically, attendance at a voting place is compulsory - you don't have to vote, just get your name crossed off. This doesn't change anything about the outcome you describe though.

I have found that if you forget to vote in a local election and give the reason for not voting as "explosive diarrhoea" then you are excused.
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I agree @ title. Sadly it's just how the media works.

"Twitter bullying! New phenomenon! Be afraid."

"Guy dumps his wife on twitter!"

"Man finds his long lost son via a tweet"

"How a startup was born out of a single tweet"

"How terrorists are now using twitter to coordinate attacks"

I think the problem is that some people view twitter/internet/latest big thing to be mysterious/worrying/game changing. It rarely is. Also of course some people just see <hyped keyword> and assume it's amazing new news unprecedented.
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Hmmmff. even if I did wan't to do something the best I could manage would be to use and have my friends use encryption for all further gmail contact. Google already has a record of my mail for the last 6 years, even if I deleted it all.
It could be a 'live' multicache, too. There are some pretty long ones (many km) and they usually only tell you the starting point, the other coordinates need to be deduced, which would explain why it's on no map.
I prefer a version by an ex-Sun employee:

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Upvoted for the information, but your fantasy of "putting bullets into bad guys" while working for the U.S. army is pretty sickening. Outside of military, nationalist propaganda, you are most likely fighting someone who is defending his home country against invasion and occupation. The 'good guys, bad guys' thing is a little uneducated. Sorry for the interlude.
Not necessarily, you just need to pay the licensing fees for a commercial-use encoder.