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People interested in this subject will probably like this forthcoming documentary: http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117941947.html?categoryId=2...
This doesn't sound plausible as a joke. If you were going to do such an obscure joke, why choose Myth? Why not say "Gotcha" or make up an obviously fake cracking group name.

Number 3 is at least plausible, but anyone who could do this would have to also know that he'd be caught if someone read the binary. Now, if someone wanted to play a real practical joke, it would be to patch the compiler binary so that the compiler automatically inserts this binary watermark in whatever is compiled.
I'm not from the UK, but I think this is silly. Consider their goal:

"The Computing A Level is not intended as a programming course but a course that covers the fundamentals of computing of which programming (and problem solving) form a key component."

I'd say that C is a key component of computer science; it is the closest thing to the hardware withholding assembly and machine code.

I think schools should teach C, Lisp, and Python. Paul Graham tells it well in his "The Roots of Lisp" essay (http://www.paulgraham.com/rootsoflisp.html), where he asserts that C and Lisp are the two clean programming constructs in which languages of the future will be based off (and this has held true in my opinion). Python falls in the middle of C and Lisp and thus is a useful comparison (and everyday-living) language.
I understand that the reason for AQA dropping C#, PHP and C from the AS Computing examination is one of demand

The institutions choosing the languages to teach to students are crazy if they think choosing Delphi, Python, or VB will provide them with better opportunities in the future than C, C# or PHP. And if practicality isn't concern #1, then why not pick a language that's really well-suited to a CS education, like LISP/Scheme?
They were all unusably bad. I wish there was a return policy for apps.

Not really a "policy", but, in iTunes, if you:

1. Go to Purchase History
2. Report a problem
3. Fill out the form with the for your refund request

You can probably get a refund. AFAIK, thats the process that people who i know that have gotten refunds before have had to do.
I bet if I googled hard enough I could find one of these articles for every state in the union.
In the South East and London, you're probably right. It's difficult to define, though, with the ways council tax can be divided up on a per-person basis.

In my county, I think my argument stands. Only 6% of the population is 25-35 and 40% is 60+. As a rather work poor area, nearly all of the expensive houses are owned by people who no longer work :-) This is life oop North!
In addition to C, some Lisp, and Python, I'd say that a strictly typed language would also be good. Some ML derivative would probably be good. At that point, you've at least touched the whole spectrum. (Well, outside of assembly, but as much as I love it, its usefulness is dropping every day...)
This system would only promote the common denominator. For example, divisive (but good) articles would get less voting attention because people would be afraid of voting the wrong way. No?
Well this is what I find bizarre. People are throwing money at them, when they haven't even shown that they have a good idea of what they're doing, while existing projects struggle along.
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Thanks, Sam.
I am thinking more like a site that can help you stay focused and also provide motivation (by hooking you up with real people who are learning/learned what you are learning right now).

So yes .. its like shelfari but more focused on learning than casual reading
As Jason suggests, you should try to find the answer to your questions in your own frustrations. Where there is frustration, there is a market (usually).

I went through the exercise myself and blogged the results:
http://aymeric.gaurat.net/index.php/2010/my-frustrations/

I would love to hear people's frustrations too.
This is just bizarre: "Teachers planning to use Java are warned that many universities are considering dropping it from their first year computer science programmes, "as has happened in the US"."

There certainly are some places where Java is on the outs, but this makes it sound like US universities have entirely moved away from Java, which is completely untrue.
I would love to hear more too. I'm not in the target market, but I think there's a large market for baby-related apps (and, equally good, apps for young kids). I had some thoughts about how a "baby milestone" app might work, but the lack of a camera on the iPad is a big obstacle.
Ah, another CS-heavy school :-)

This one also seems to require certificates and a university account. That's a shame, I'd like to try it. The browse/search seems nice.
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The Negative Income Tax seems like an interesting flat-tax proposal that could even satisfy those in favor of progressive taxation for political reasons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax
Dividends, sure. But also: AAPL at 83! Barely 17 months ago!
You didn't lose any data in that scenario. Every line of code you wrote still exists in those files. The problem is that you are in a conflicted state that must be manually resolved. Unfortunately, making updates atomic across a branch has disadvantages. For example, svn lets you update individual files or directories instead of the whole branch. If you want to avoid this pitfall in the future, run "svn merge --dry-run -r BASE:HEAD ." before a real update. (I wish svn update had a --dry-run flag. Just because git is bad doesn't mean svn is perfect.)

Also, your scenario is extremely unlikely. I've used svn for 5 years and I've encountered that problem once. It was for a binary file. Two versions of the same image. It's not very often that two developers create a new file with the same name at practically the same time. It's even less often that those files can be properly merged.

By your logic, "rm" is flawed because it doesn't ask for confirmation when you pass -f instead of -i. Well, yeah. Sorry.

$ git checkout blah

This command either switches to branch blah or it erases all uncommitted changes in a directory or file named blah. Without more information, you can't tell. I find that frustrating and annoying. Your analogy would be more accurate if rm somename was the equivalent of apt-get update, and rm othername was rm -fr othername. Oh, and somename is never tab-completed but othername is.
True, most of my courses are in Java although some teachers let us do our group projects in C++ if we wanted to.
This is one thing I like about the UK tax code. I pay a lower rate of National Insurance (similar to your Social Security) as a self-employed person. 8% vs 11% for employees.
I think you're understating their achievement — what's the point in having the largest share in a market if a niche player makes more money than you?
The two things I like best about emergency exit rows is that there is usually a couple extra inches of legroom and that there are no children around.
But his target was people from the ad industry, and they pay more attention to ads than you.
Yeah, that's probably fair - when you have an unusual mix of ages the correlation probably isnt there. Whereabouts Oop Nerth are you?
Not true at all. They do have other lines of business, but their databases business continues to grow. See http://seekingalpha.com/article/185179-sybase-inc-q4-2009-ea..., e.g.
I believe it's not that each institution offers 8 languages, but that the exam board offers support and syllabi for 8 languages that the schools can choose from. They're chopping the languages that the fewest schools are choosing to teach.
Seems like a very relevant debate. Indiegogo and Kickstarter seem to be paving the way for micro investing.
I think these other projects need to spend some time marketing themselves, come up with a catchy name, and find a blackboard to stand in front off.
The websites chosen to compare Facebook's privacy policy to are ridiculous. Facebook operates in more countries, has far more users, and has more products than any of those other websites. Of course the privacy policy will be longer. Honestly, it's pretty amazing they can keep the length at only 5x Twitter's when their product has orders of magnitude more features and services. The comparison to the constitution is silly for the reasons discussed in the other thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1342711

There is certainly room for improvement with the UI and organization of the controls, but that's not an easy task when so many granular controls are available. Honestly, all this Facebook privacy hysteria is getting a little out of control. There are legitimate issues, but there is also an absurdly high amount of band-wagonning and me-tooing from otherwise intelligent people.
Agreed re "get info in quick, get info out quick". That's been a driving principle behind my app, (http://www.folderboy.com/index.htm).

Re creating notes, folders, what I've done with FolderBoy is (1) made it easy to create a note or folder: type in a text-box and press <enter> (2) essentially dropped the distinction between notes and folders...any note you create can be turned into a folder by expanding it. E.g., if you make a note "book restaurant", then you can bust that open and put in the restaurant details.

I tried Evernote before deciding to create FolderBoy. What I didn't like was that I couldn't create folders and notes and drag and drop them around real-quick. Maybe they've fixed it, I haven't checked. Apparently they have good iPhone app, and OCR.

Yup, definitely using Dropbox API would be sweet. MVP at the moment :).
Desktop computers (and laptops) aren't advancing at the same rate that they used to. Also, OS X has matured tremendously since its reboot of the Mac OS. Maybe there's just not that much left on the queue.
If the unions didn't zealously represent mediocre members, there wouldn't be any point to having them. (There might have been decades ago when management quite literally hired private armies to beat down their employees. Taking a look at the private sector, we can see that non-unionized employees are largely not beaten down by private armies and also don't come to class falling down drunk. Unions have and will continue to zealously defend teachers who do that.)
Did you have a separate build machine, preferably that built automatically on every checkin, so there was a canonical "it's broken here, but not there" point?

(Not that this avoids this problem, it's just - in my experience - it makes it easier to pinpoint and fix.)
My alma mater just moved from C++ to Java in the last couple years. Not that I think it's a good decision, but yeah, that's hardly the case.
Since we don't know exactly how people would react to given incentive/risk profiles that would undoubtable differ story to story we can assume two scenarios:

- Stories that have perceived "deadlocks" would be considered volatile. They have a great chance of "breaking out" with large support, so they would be voted on early by supporters to reap the reward.

- Divisive stories/comments would scare away any voters and eventually only stories that were beneficial to the entire community would be voted on. So in this scenario, this system helps to define the community.

edit: Also, the problem that you describe isn't isolated to my system. In the current HN system, people don't comment on stories because they fear that their comment will be "divisive" and attract negative votes. My system encourages voting, which would reward someone for voting on a "-3" comment (that makes it back to 0 or 1) that is beneficial to the conversation.
I would be very interested in more details, if you can. What was the product? How did it work? What legislation?
Pascal/Delphi? Visual Basic 6? Those are still in the wild? As TEACHING languages? That is the definition of "please, think of the children".
The fact that you need to install either Cygwin or a 100MB collection of Msys files put us off it for our project. We stuck to Mercurial because we thought it would be easier for newbies to get involved, and it seems to be working.

Also, unlike Git, Mercurial is coded in Python.. Git is a mesh-mash of half a dozen different languages. I'm guessing long-term, Mercurial will be maintained better (but might be wrong).
I would much rather help my friends and family than they get ripped off, by the shoddy dealer down the road. I always end up having dinner when I come over to help anyway, and it usually involves downloading a printer driver, getting them on firefox, or something simple.

Of course these days, I just recommend they get a Mac.
More generally: Underperforming, unionized civil servants rarely get fired.
"Most centres offer Pascal/Delphi and Visual Basic as the language of choice for their students. This selection is based on the experience of the teacher in that centre and their own comfort with that language."

I would argue that any teacher not comfortable enough with C to teach it at the high school level should not be teaching computer science fundamentals.
Creative, but it could be done so much better. Improve the copy a bit and send them to a landing page which functions as a combination pitch and portfolio.

(Psst -- if you're on the job market, have one of those. And since most of you here can program, have a way to quickly spin up ones targeted to the interests of a particular decisionmaker. )
Well that's a jinx if I ever saw one. Nice going!
What's the source of "investors as an aggregate never beat the market"? I used to believe this, but as I've learned about options and futures, I don't buy it anymore. (If we weren't beating the market, what would be paying my salary at an investment bank?)

Even the simplest options strategies can give you a fair return on your money in a very short time, certainly better than a 5% APY savings account or a 10% annual return on your index funds. (And, you can use options as security on your stock positions, and you can use them to make money on your safe stock positions.)

Anyway, not buying it. You can beat the market.
Sounds like the advantages of open source. What they should have done is "accidentally" leaked the code several years ago and now they'd have tons of extras and addons to sell.
That's even better, because you've just leaped up the trust totem pole from "A nobody on the Internet" to "a warm introduction from a trusted associate."
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Carnegie Mellon Universities new undergrad curriculum has no mandatory Java courses. The students will be able to learn Java, but will not be forced to.

In case you were curious, the intro class will be python, and then later classes will be ML and a new language that is a typesafe C (currently in development at CMU). After that, they'll learn C.

Of course, CMU is just one school, but it definitely represents a departure (and the lack of any mandatory OO-focused languages (yeah yeah, Python HAS classes, but you don't HAVE to use them) is weird).
You need steam. You don't need internet access to run the game.
You're essentially treating each article as if it's an asset. Users are allowed to go long or short on the article, depending on their prediction about its final karma value.

Are people then allowed to exit their positions? Can I place a stop loss? Can I upvote this article, but when it gets 5 down votes decide that I should exit it and go short?

If I can't exit my position, then what is the incentive for me to ever be the first person to vote on an article?

I think it's intuitively obvious to everyone that an article with 20 up votes will not start getting down voted all of a sudden. If I were to guess, I'd say that after 5 or so up votes, you're 90% or more to see a higher close; after 20, it's probably more than 99%. However, at 0 votes, you're probably close to 50/50 (again, just guessing based on experience).

If you can't exit, then your risk of ruin is way too high to make initial voting worth it. If you can exit, then it becomes easy to game the system by switching sides quickly.

Also, what about the ability of people to submit really crappy articles on a dummy account and then down vote them on a main account in order to build karma?
You just had another chance the past few days.
I saw a feature in Consumer Reports recently about Facebook privacy issues.
Hmm, in a relative sense, you're doing it wrong. You should be comparing yourself to the compensation of an employee after adding the employer's portion of the social security and medicare taxes back in. This calculation represents the true cost of the employee's labor to the employer, who is indifferent between whether the money is paid to the employee or to the government. This is why it makes no sense to me to say "the employer's portion" because the employee really bears the burden.
Honestly, it's annoying that we all use single-version filesystems. It was a good idea back when computer storage consisted of a big rotating metal drum and a major government could only afford 1MB of storage.

Now that 1TB is like $70, we should just keep every filesystem state around. Maybe not forever, but so that "rm -rf *" is just a "gah, that's not what i wanted!" moment instead of a "the rest of my day is ruined" moment.

Premature optimization is the root of all data loss.
Interesting link. Ignoring 9/11, the last 10 years the safety has clearly gone up very much compared the previous 20 years. 23 crashes in the 80's, 15 in the 90's, and just 7 in the last decade (again, ignoring 9/11).

On the flipside, every crash except 1 in the last 10 years has been 100% fatal, whereas the previous 20 years there are quite a number of crashes with a lot of survivors.

I dunno, I just find that interesting. :P
exactly. the smaller the country, the better run it seems. I like Switzerland's model.

its impossible for someone to siphon off resources when the democracy consists of 10 people and almost certain to happen when there's 50 million.

Of course, the naysayers will tell you that complex societies are tough to manage and require more government, but that's bunk. It should require less government, as there is far less border per person to defend.
The Enemy Within - the Conficker worm and sophisticated hackers
ah, that's right. ads wouldn't show up in that. my bad.

but maybe there's a way to see what's run against a set of key words. any SEO people in da house?
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Presumably because "investors as an aggregate" is the market. The Efficient Market Hypothesis is pretty much a tautology, and is therefore completely useless.
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You shouldn't regret "giving into fear". These are the types of things that appear obvious in hindsight, but are nearly impossible to foresee with a high degree of confidence.
That was my dad's conclusion decades ago, funny enough. Before he joined the Marines towards the end of WWII he was a laborer and union member, and as far as he could tell the union offered virtually no benefit to young and talented workers. Mediocre workers who were loyal to the union long enough to gain seniority did well, but ability got you nowhere.

In the wartime Marine Corps he wasn't promoted quickly but he was still given the duties and responsibilities he was capable of as soon as he proved himself.

The private armies and so forth were mostly a 19th century phenomenon.
> It's their own fault for being idiots and not actually screening it in cinemas

Do you think they really just forgot to screen it?

Or could it instead just be that it's difficult to get broad distribution without a gigantic budget and/or sequel to a safe franchise? Somehow I imagine it was harder for them to get screenings than it was for Iron Man 2.
I did toy around with weighted entrance rewards, but it makes the model more complicated.

After thinking about reversals a bit more, it would make sense to allow users to "exit" their vote. Bringing the total vote count (positive or negative) closer to zero and allowing more unbiased voting to continue (as people exit their votes, the percentages fall back to 50/50).
This is fairly true, and for more on it, see Megan McArdle's typically interesting take on the theory and practice of unions: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/02/how-unio... .
I am definitely looking at Austin and Seattle, and partially-in-Nevada, as options to California.
This doesn't solve the "global graph" problem. It's basically just an open source Ning clone.
One obvious disadvantage: with Kickstarter, you're ploppping your business plan on the net at a very early stage. Makes it quite easy to poach.
I have heard of it, and I'm interested in it. I'd love to see an event in Atlanta.
The critical difference:

They got on Kickstarter and asked for money.

Therefore, they now have quite a bit of it.

Now, they will know the terror and thrill of having the entire Internet watching them and waiting for the collective ROI. This is a powerful motivator.

Any competitor against Facebook is going to need some money, good press, and a strong initial user base. These guys have those; unless they really biff the code, they're at the front of the pack now.
Hmm, I see now that someone's got one happening in Atlanta this coming Tuesday.

Thanks for the quick turnaround. ;)
Are people actually using it?

I quit my job betting on it.

You could actually build pretty decent services over GAE, while remaining within the free quota, if you can be efficient with resources. Billing rates are affordable too.

I am currently working on an ad-supported CRM (http://crm.ifreetools.com) and online application builder (http://creator.ifreetools.com) over Google App Engine. Both are multi-tenant apps and iFreeTools Creator is probably the only online app builder which enables building customizable apps online over Google App Engine.

The platform does have its restrictions, primarily to enable apps to scale well. If one can get comfortable with working within those restrictions, it gets easier.

Wordpress clone

You should try out Bloggart : http://github.com/Arachnid/bloggart

..and its accompanying posts, aiming to also introduce developers to the GAE platform : http://blog.notdot.net/2009/10/Writing-a-blog-system-on-App-...
The title is "Small business survival index", which Fortune 500 company do you know that is a small business?
Exactly. Market = Investors + Hedgers. Hedgers are willing to lose money in exchange for less risk. It's like car insurance, you know the expected value is negative but you buy it anyway.
Electronic Arts did a similar thing when creating the C&C First Decade collection DVD: Red Alert 2 was recompiled to modify CD checks (the game compares the CD label against a hardcoded one, on top of the usual CD checks), but its expansion pack, Yuri's Revenge, was hex-edited instead to the same effect. This was done to maintain compatibility with the community-made patch that hooks into the EXE at assembly level to add new functions and fix bugs. (I'm the current lead developer for said patch.)

See, EA is not all bad. :-)
Max Payne 2 just updated on Steam. I'll give you guys two guesses at what happened to the executable.
> If your are not making money on a movie it's your own fault - not bittorrent

Are you implying that theft is not wrong as long as you're still making a profit?
Take closures for example. We were told they weren't going into java 7. Then at that one presentation on fork/join we were suddenly told they were going in. There was never much explanation behind the bipolar decision making.

This is not transparency, it's the whims of a small cabal.
Cracking groups have as much of an incentive not to add viruses to executables than companies do. Their only worth is their fame and the status it procures them. Hurting it through delivering a botched product would erase years of work in building that reputation.
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