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I'm strongly looking into transferring to the Koln International School of Design (http://kisd.de/home.html?lang=en) which is in Cologne, Germany. (I'm currently a sophomore at a US non-design school.) It's a unique program that basically covers every field of design; the major is called "Integrated Design." You essentially choose your own curriculum.

It really comes down to what sort of design you're interested in. US schools tend to be focused on 2 subjects, with not much else: industrial design and communication/web/graphic design. Different schools are better at different things, but to highlight a couple:

Carnegie Mellon: strong in communication design, interaction design, Human-Computer interaction, and generally anything computer science related.

Cincinnati: not so great of a school in general, but the design department is top 5 in the country, mostly because the program requires 4+ co ops (internships.) Supposedly they're pretty good at traditional product/industrial stuff.

I decided to pass on design school a few years ago, mostly because I didn't want to be pidgeonholed into either of those subjects.

I'm pretty familiar with design schools, so I'd be glad to answer any specific questions. Also try http://boards.core77.com
Are these guys on HN, and if so, who are they?
Right now it says "Latest designs: COMING SOON". Put up a template or something!

Also, charge $30.

If the sample designs are actually somewhat good, $30 is worth the gamble, maybe $40-50. I'd probably pay $30. But I'd need to see at least 2-3 references/samples/templates.
Ridiculous. USG agencies already have their hands full of dealing with this stuff, not adding more to it.
WikiLeaks cables: US 'lobbied Russia on behalf of Visa and MasterCard'
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Just ordered design and looking forward for the outcome in 2 days :)
If we were to make decision as voters, don't you think we should have some reliable idea about what the government is doing?

What if the current administration is doing evil something behind the back of the electorate? How would we know about it?

You see, secrecy is a catch-22 proposition. If you're trying to do actual real work of tracking down terrorists, you don't want the whole world to know(at least until years later). But if you're doing something EVIL behind our back, the world have the right to know.

The cablegate? Hardly any reason to get angry over. It make the government looks good. But politicians are overreacting.
Wow. Seeing something man-made soar above the earth like that is something else. Being a civilian enterprise like SpaceX just makes it all the cooler.
Hope you all like this. Measuring our campaigns has made a HUGE difference to the number of customers we're getting.
Dont really know what this prooves. We all know Apple is not packing the ultra highest end hardware into their products. Which is actually a good thing, because what they use has proven to be good and works for the usecase, see new Macbook Air.

I hoped for some comparision of the Usability and stuff like that for the latest versions of those OSes, but i just got a bunch of meaningless benchmarks.
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Wow- congrats. Great bunch of founders who totally deserve this. I think this is the biggest YC exit, no?
I'm fairly naive about the specifics of a DDOS, but it's such an obvious vector of attack that I'm surprised it's a major vulnerability.

Could anyone explain what it would take to minimise vulnerability to such attacks? I would have expected the standard load on SecureCode to be pretty high anyway, so I'm surprised that an attack brought it down. I welcome anyone to fix my reasoning :)
Esc key closes an article, right and left arrow keys flip pages.
It's Mastercard's choice whom they do business with

No it's not.
IBM, to some degree. They launched Global Services long before it was fashionable. Louis Gerstner explains in Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? that there was tremendous doubt in the 1990's that consulting was the way to go, but he realized early on that the world "didn't need another hard drive maker" and decided that IBM could provide value best by acting as the integrator of smaller companies' components.
Qwandry: Less time hunting down files, more time hacking
Great idea, good marketing. Hope this does well for you.
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It worked! Dragon separated from 2nd stage....
Europe? Goldsmiths (http://www.gold.ac.uk/design/)

The surrounding culture is London, and as Dr Johnson said, "when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life”.
You can also hit escape, but I agree, the back button not working is annoying.
I agree, logos for $15 would be a steal!
Except for ssl the header is encrypted. so you can't use Host header on ssl proxy. This is where HTTP CONNECT comes in. Connect is a second header that tells proxy on how to proxy, and then the rest of connection is raw (to preserve secure actual request header).
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Hello Fellow HNers,

I'm currently a front-end developer and designer for a new start-up in Australia called Zombal. We just launched our beta version after several months of hard work. It's basically an outsourcing site geared towards scientific work and research. It enables those without the necessary resources to find someone across the globe that does have them.

From our website:
Zombal is as a web-based service for putting people with needs in scientific, technical, and industrial research and information activities in touch with people who may be able to assist them. Members of the system will submit tasks or questions (otherwise known as zombs) that other members can bid on if they have the required expertise.

Any kind of feedback will be greatly appreciated. :)

To get a beta invite go to: http://zombal.com/get-invite

Thanks!
Leaves me wondering if Heroku is to Engine Yard as Mint was to Wesabe. Good people, poor strategic decisions.
The thing is, the more he begins to charge then the less and less he'll be able to say "first design is final, if you don't like it then buy a second one." At this point in time, anyone buying from him is just throwing away $15 since he has no examples of previous work.
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Clickable: http://zombal.com/
In Brazil a $ goes a bit further than in the US.
Java, Javascript, C++

I know this selection seems passe but here's my rationale: First, learn a lingua franca that (almost) everybody knows and has huge libraries. That would be Java. Java is the English of computer languages, I think.

Javascript not only has immense presence (the default selection?) in most web development, and is gaining prominance in developing on mobile devices, e.g. bypassing the whole Objective-C & Cocoa stuff for iPhone and iPad. I don't know it much, but it also seems like an interesting language.

The third choice is not that clear, depends on whether you want to have an all-powerful language (C++) or one that excels in concurrency (e.g. Erlang) or want to expand your horizons (Scheme or Haskell, perhaps), etc. etc. I use C++ daily and if I had to do again I would still select it, but I may be biased because I am doing image and video analysis work.

As for natural languages: If you are interested in linguistics, I think you've got to learn Ancient Greek, to see a lot of the complexity and mechanisms that has been lost in other IE languages (you can, of course learn Lithuanian or Hittite for even a better grasp, but sources to those are harder to find and the reading material would not be as exciting, I think :-). It was an eye opener for me. As a second choice, I would go with Chinese, for the mind-expanding aspect (did you know that Chinese speakers can roughly classify the meaning of a word even if they don't its meaning, using radicals?) Also, you prospects for a job get multiplied 10x.
It absolutely doesn't, because if you look at it as a touch screen app for a tablet then the highest portion of users will hold the tablet steady with their left hand while gesturing with their right hand. If you put the nav on the left you make people reach across the screen (covering it with their arm).
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Despite what gets repeated in the echo chamber that surrounds hackernews that money isn't the main motivator for entrepreneurs and hackers, it is in fact all about the money.

Of course, day-to-day it has to be about much more than money otherwise it would be impossible to stay motivated. But the end goal is almost always about making a boatload of cash.
Seems as though a lot of the PCI-DSS compliance is based on your merchant level http://www.rbsworldpay.com/pcidss/ not sure if that helps? Also PayPal Website payments pro https://merchant.paypal.com/cgi-bin/marketingweb?cmd=_render... and NoChex http://www.nochex.com/ may be worth looking into?
But if he spends more time on the early projects (say, 10 hours each to showcase his best work), eventually he will have to cut down the time per project or increase the price to make it profitable. In that case, he would Need complete rebranding, which would be tough, since people would know him as the cheap design guy. If he were just after the portfolio, he should design 10 designs on spec and put them on a site that pitches high end design from the start.
Reading this announcement is like being able to see the first drop of water that starts off the Amazon river. Something so 'normal' to start with and yet ends up awe-inspiring by the end.
Google? I do not recall them being "acquired".
> Ocaml is a nice replacement for ANSI C, not for Java.

That's pretty much how I use it. Ocaml is a great systems language.
From the linked El Reg article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/07/mcnealy_sun_and_open...

> Sun should, McNealy told us, have sold and supported Solaris on its own x86 hardware. Instead, Sun took the fatal decision of outsourcing that role: it placed its trust in OEMs such as Dell to sell and support Sun's Unix on their Intel boxes. Problem was, these were the very same OEMs who, it emerged during the US Department of Justice's (DoJ) antitrust prosecution of Microsoft, had had their arms twisted into offering only Windows with Internet Explorer on PCs or risk losing access to Windows on their machines.
It depends whether I'm considering what would best for my career, or what I would personally prefer to work with. For the former C/Java/Javascript, for the latter C/Python/Scala.
Meh, it'll never catch on.
The term 'hacking' is giving them way too much credit.
Thanks! These are great apps esp. their workflow parts, but for me they don't work unfortunately. Aperture's somewhat better but it also doesn't have a GUI for finding images by keywords unless you create a smart album or something like that for each of your keywords, and even that is not what I want...
endlessvoid94
The original Cern web server forked for every web request.

So even if they upgraded the original Motorola 68030 or 68040 running at 25Mhz to something much newer, it would still be dead in the water with any sizeable amount of traffic.
...as in "dentist" or "male prostitute"?
If a bunch of script kiddies (albeit in considerable number) can take down MasterCard, then it's pretty much MasterCard's fault alone. It's not like they didn't have the money or opportunity.
Since people seem to dislike my comment, I will explain my point. "A home run" means "ultimate success", you can not expect to do any better than that. Since pg has openly stated that he is looking for the next Google/Facebook type company, 212 million is not "a home run". Its still pretty good!
Any advice on what a hacker needs to know about getting busted by the swedes?
A better way to show Mastercard that you don't like what they're doing would be to cancel your Mastercard and/or stop accepting MC payments.
I hope this guy thought ahead and registered designfor30bucks.com and designfor60bucks.com.
I'll give it a year, tops - until the next "latest buzz" comes along.
I see two main reasons:

- Freedom to move on to the next project. I bet most entrepreneurs are more interested in creating than maintaining.

- Money/security. The trend toward payouts when raising major rounds is helping with this issue, but still the resources available change significantly with a big payout, plus you can diversify your income stream to hedge against contingencies.
What a fluff piece. First, it is only one wannabe. Second, it is a niche website that can't expand beyond things that have an abbrievation BU. I understand Facebook started at Harvard, but this article is a stretch to connect the two.
Ubuntu to shift from Python 2.6 to 2.7
Instead of penalising the customer($5) for not listing their design, offer it as a discount for listing their site. So, base cost $20, but with listing only $15!
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Nice to see this announcement... Makes me remember what I was doing back in those days - and makes me wonder what other HN'ers were doing back then.

I was 12, playing on BBS' and attempting to teach myself Turbo Pascal so I could possibly write IGM's for Legend of the Red Dragon...
No wireless. Less space than an iPod. Lame.
And yet, that damn fax machine is still just as alive and kicking today as it was in 1991.
Making Rosa Parks get out of her seat was lame but not technically illegal. Her refusal was completely illegal and plenty of folks argued it was damaging.

I don't see why civil disobedience should cease to be civil disobedience just because it's on a computer.
Java, Ruby, Javascript
Just about every Intro to AI course ever teaches heuristic search. GA are a type of heuristic search.
I guess it goes to show that Mastercard should think about what is best for their customers as opposed to what is best for the government. The reality is that, nowadays, if you make an unpopular decision with a large part of internet users you may get DDOS'ed.
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Agreed, though it's still nice to find the odd command or two that slipped through the cracks. I didn't know about these:

$ git log --grep="Something in the message"

$ git log -S "TODO: Check for admin status"
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There's really no way around a DDOS, except to pay for enough servers to swallow all the fake requests and real requests. That's probably far too expensive to do - at least for now. Maybe the cloud can bring a solution to this, with the idea of spinning up new VMs as needed.

Basically, if your site is open to the public then it's open to bots. And there are far more bots than people. So if someone directs their bots to your site, you'll go down.

End of story.
Ocaml is simple, expressive and fast. While it suffers in terms of libaries and community support it makes a good systems language and is fantastic for expressing complex algorithms and data structures.

If that doesn't interest you, try some of these:

http://anil.recoil.org/papers/2010-hotcloud-lamp.pdf

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.64....

http://perso.eleves.bretagne.ens-cachan.fr/~dagand/opis/opis...

http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S016764230600071...

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.156...
I was an...infant.
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If anyone wants to take it for a spin: http://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Software/NEXTSTEP/App...

Note: NEXTSTEP required. Runs pretty well in VMWare.

EDIT:
If you're running a VM you'll want the "33fat" (fat binary) one.

Also here is the Obj-C source code: http://www.w3.org/History/1991-WWW-NeXT/Implementation/
http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll

Although I think the choices are exclusive (no "choose three"). Also, I believe you need a minimum karma.
Goodwill and growth potential.
Okay, it's not really too much of a big a deal, but the way I read it, it was "TFA" as in "read the fucking article". I thought "come on, dude, it was a valid question": Julian, in his article, doesn't actually mention the source, just some vague reference to an unnamed blogger. Given the seriousness of the kidnap threats, I wanted to find out if it was a credible claim. E.g., I wanted to see the original source and find out (a) who said it (b) what was actually said and (c) ascertain how credible a threat it was.

So when I read "TFA", I thought "come on, dude, that's a bit patronizing, it's a valid question, fair shake of the sauce bottle, mate". I think a few other people thought the same way, too.

Personally I believe that there are no stupid questions (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1853740) and we shouldn't diss questions stupid or otherwise.
The program that is being used is a multi-threaded .NET app that opens a lot of connections and then allows them to timeout.

Easiest form of DoS to carry out and easiest to defend.

Prevention:

a) Upstream forwarding proxy that will block all requests from an IP that hammers the server

b) Low timeouts (5-10 seconds)

c) Intelligent upstream router than can drop the routes

d) They are hitting mastercard.com, which should be distributed on a CDN

e) Separate the public website from the application, don't even but them in the same IP address block

At Techcrunch we survived a 4chan DoS attempt. Surprised Mastercard didn't (I think the scale of this attack is larger, but still)
The idea is that the government should be using due process instead of applying unofficial pressure, and better behavior for the businesses would be to insist on that.
Haskell, Erlang, Ocaml
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Is the Better Business Bureau a protection racket?
The launch went great and the Dragon capsule is in orbit. It will be doing 2 to 3 orbits and with the de-orbit burn in about 2 hours from now. Very cool!

A link to the press kit:

http://www.spacex.com/downloads/cots1-20101206.pdf

Elon is saying cargo to the ISS in a year.
The latest Phrack also had this article, 'How to make it in Prison'

http://phrack.com/issues.html?issue=67&id=5#article
I assume you mean "learn" as in "master", not just merely pick up the syntax to bang out the next big web app(tm) quickly, as it's fairly easy to pick up Python/Ruby/PHP/Javascript/whatever if you already program in a mainstream language.

Programming languages:

Haskell - Lots of interesting language features that you don't see elsewhere

Assembler - Already know some C, but would like to be working knowledge of the inner workings of computers (especially things like cache misses etc)

R - Need to brush up on statistical analysis skills

Natural language: Already learned English... I guess I'd take Japanese or Korean next? It'd be mostly for entertainment.
I missed the abort section of the first launch window. Did anybody find out why they had to initially abort?

The actual launch was flawless, however. Only 9 minutes to orbit - incredible that it was done on such a small budget compared to your average government mission.
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Doh. Wrong link.

Can a mod please change it to:

http://spencerfry.com/whats-a-non-programmer-to-do-advanced
And this is way doing research for living means having the best job in the world. Most likely you are not going to be rich by any mean, but once in a while what you do will change the world.
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Don't start your analysis with "who they are", but with "what they do". What they do is pretty simple -- they disseminate information. This is commonly known as "publishing". They do not: commit violent acts, call for others to commit violent acts, give money to those doing violent acts.
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It's not that tough. Does this site say who he is? Or what he's doing? He could drop this next week and nobody'd know the difference.

You're assuming that he's going to keep this domain and brand to build a later business. This doesn't have to be forever.
SVA in New York is the best in my mind. It's not just the area, the professors are top-notch, James Victore, Neil Raphan, others. Most of the professors do "research" by maintaining employment at the top design agencies.

The Portfolio School in Atlanta is great if you're a bit more experienced and interested in reaching a new level.
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Hypertext?? A bunch of special characters around text? Nah. Its too simple.
What more could you ask for?

The exact source.

There's a world of difference between Julian's assertion of "a US blogger" versus a link to the original source (which jacquesm supplied). Perhaps we're living in the wikipedia generation, but it's quite concerning that people on Hacker News automatically consider assertions to be as credible as original sources!

I mean, seriously, Julian makes a statement about how his son has received kidnapping threats, and people just swallow it without questioning? I'm not saying that I think Julian is lying (and having seen jacquesm's link, it seems like he wasn't), but I think it's incredibly important for anyone wishing to critically analyse current affairs to view all claims, on all sides of the debate, with a skeptical mind.
Seriously? Blame the victim?
Python, Haskell, and actually master C
> ... working knowledge of the inner workings of computers ...

I'm a big fan of 'The Elements of Computing Systems' - takes you from NAND gates to pong.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Elements-Computing-Systems-Building-...
Is this one of the drawbacks of Chrome's insanely quick release schedule? We've seen the benefits, it's not surprising that there are some drawbacks.

I fail to believe that such a fundamental bug would have been in a major Firefox release, although stranger things have happened.
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I read an interesting editorial a few months back -- can't remember where -- that basically made the counter-intuitive point that we are not headed towards totalitarianism. Far from it. We are headed towards mob rule.

The writer used the various strikes and protests in Europe as an example. His point was that as the nation-states became less relevant, people would begin to more closely associate in virtual groups than geographic ones.

I _also_ read the recent leaks about China, which leads me to believe that the Chinese think they can keep a lid on the internet.

This could be the beginning of a long, drawn-out period of chaos and overreaction by all sides. Sure would suck to have to choose between that and totalitarianism (even if, in the end, totalitarianism wouldn't work) Perhaps this is some author's overactive imagination though. I sure hope so.
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The game Hacker, which was inspired by the 1990 raid, was a pretty fun card game, and its rulebook still has one of the nicest phrases in any game ("turn like a crazed weasel").
Is a certain amount of real harm that could credibly take place a requirement? Or could, say, Saw IV be terrorism if it had a political message?

For contrast, the DoD's definition of terrorism:

The calculated use of unlawful violence or threat of unlawful violence to inculcate fear; intended to coerce or to intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of goals that are generally political, religious, or ideological.
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I guess it depends what kind of investors they've taken on, and how eager they are for a big money exit.