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Sounds likely Java was the attack vector, it quite often is.

From a professional perspective; Chrome is probably on a par with Firefox (which has had some really nasty exploits recall), possibly better. Not that it matters.

You were infected due to "driving dangerously", which is what will happen. I'm going to throw this out there but you would have had similar issues on any other browser.

(you will often get an "AV hit" on reputable sites where ads try to set a tracking cookie - there is nothing inherently dangerous about that, just annoyance and the fact they are trying to track you :) I'm going to guess that is what you are seeing)
Most varieties of Quechua wouldn't spell it 'quipu' any more; that's the influence of Spanish orthography, where 'qu' meant 'k' and 'hu' meant 'w'. Most modern orthographies would spell it 'khipu', which might be easier to remember.

And for your future endeavors: twine, thrum, strand, and lisle are, as far as I know, unused.
I found myself reading Charlie's article and thinking that 400Mt of energy to get something the size of a family car up to 10% of light wasn't that bad.

Of course, any real propulsion mechanism is going to require a lot more energy than that but that actually sounds reasonably achievable - at least if we allow Orion style ships.
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I fondly remember the early dev builds where a tab crash randomly took other tabs with it... and none would reload w/o a browser restart. :)
"In fact, nearly all of the energy expended by modern rockets goes into lifting the rocket fuel itself, and only a small amount into the payload. An unfortunate consequence of this is that you need a lot more than four times as much fuel"

Yes this is where theory != practice, and why in fact, it's incredibly difficult and expensive to get somewhere like Mars.
Speculators continually enter and abandon the market. Without adding information to the system, they just add volatility without driving the price in any direction.

The price is thus the sum of people that know or believe something, weighted by the resources the have to bear.

I'm not sure I understand why you need or want the price to be "democratic"? What problem are you trying to solve here?
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Not by trying to turn a Java cash register into a business. There's nothing particularly wrong with writing a Twitter clone as an exercise (although I could think of more interesting exercises), but trying to turn it into a business - with everything that entails - is such a large distraction from coding that you'd better skip it (if your goal is to be a good programmer; I'm certainly not a sufficiently good businessman to judge whether it's effective training for that, although I would go to work for someone else and observe.)
Shear pointlessness has not been preventing thr USG from doing much of anything in the past decade or so.

Or did you miss the past few years of security theatre and unwinnable wars?
- The article does not add anything new. Using Wikipedia for word sense disambiguation has been a hot topic for some years. [1]

- The article title implies that this is somehow a spectacular finding. Doing word sense disambiguation for one word is not that interesting, and there is no comparison with existing methods to show that this is actually a high score. I suspect that it is not that spectacular, since 'Apple' is relatively easy to disambiguate using a few context words.

[1] E.g. see:

- Using Wikipedia for Automatic Word Sense Disambiguation, R. Mihalcea, 2007, for a discussion of using Wikipedia to train a word sense disambiguator.

- Integrating multiple knowledge sources to disambiguate word sense: An exemplar-based approach, H.T. Ng and H.B. Lee, 1996, provide a good overview of types of features that can be used in disambiguation. They use features that go beyond simple 'bag of word' and 'bag of n-gram' features, e.g. by using syntactical patterns.

There is a whole lot more research of course, but just to show two examples that describe far more sophisticated approaches.
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It does not matter if you are doing a job for the client or you are dealing with your client, communication is essential. Talk to your client often, letting them know the status of the project.
I'm surprised by the anti-world bank sentiment here.
You should read 'The Bottom Billion', which was written by the director of the Development Research Group at the World bank (2003-2008)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bottom_Billion
That would just annoy me more, I use autocomplete wherever and whenever -- any site that doesn't let me autocomplete something that should be autocomplete-able always gets on my nerves.
The allocation of price impact has to do with the information behind the trade. Call that your "vote".

You can ignore HFT or whatever. It just adds volatility and not information to the market. If you want, imagine you are only looking at EOD prices or even EOM.

I still don't understand how an iterated auction based on a limit-order book is anything BUT simple.
You already have a bunch of valuable comments to wade through. One tip though - do not think of large companies as one monolithic organization. If you look around, you will spot those smaller 'startup'y teams inside big orgs where you'll learn a ton and have a lot of fun in the process.

Also, write down what you want to achieve in your first job. Financial stability? Engineering skills? Proficiency in a particular platform, framework? Ability to work in a team?
Narrowing down what you really hope to get out of this job will really help you focus on finding the right workplace.

And finally, never say never. Both of them (large companies and startups) have their ups and downs. You'll learn _something_ from both.
Yes, I like that too. But how about all those Firefox add-ons?
Thank you for this, very helpful explanation.
I already did. The trades were reported to the exhange (as all trades are) in order to contribute to price discovery, and the direction of the trade contributed to the pricing pressure (either above or below).

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Small company. Personally, I'm working in a 10 man boutique buy-side firm having just graduated in September. I'm getting real responsibility i.e. responsibility for clients, working across several roles not just one like you'd get if you join a larger firms graduate scheme. By getting involved in all these aspects you get more operational experience as well in terms of the 'nuts and bolts' plus smaller firms tend to be headed up by very experienced individuals so you'll pick up their habits directly instead of only maybe meeting them once or twice if you were at a comparably larger firm.
History in the awesome bar is pretty sweet. There's a bunch of sites that I've been too lazy to bookmark just because I can type one or two letters into the bar and go right to it (and no they're not porn, just normal webpages).
It really depends on the company(ies). There's a lot to be said for working at a big established outfit: clear paths to career progression, decent and reliable pay, the kudos of working for a firm people have likely heard of, mostly free weekends and evenings. The downsides are office politics, bad managers (inevitable), the constant feeling that things could be done better/more efficiently, being a small largely unknown cog in a big machine. And yes after a few years people do tend to get disillusioned and hacked off - often prompting a move to the country or a start-up or something different.

Saying that I wouldn't knock the experience. Seeing how big businesses operate is probably an important education for every wannabe entrepreneur. And if you learn to play the corporate game you can do very well - and put away a few dollars for when you make the jump to something a bit more risky.

Startups will generally involve less pay, longer hours and a more unstable / insecure career outlook. So if you decide to go this route, choose your firm with great care. But saying that, in a smaller firm you'll be closer to teh day-to-day administration of the business which also would be great experience re starting your own outfit.
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I don't think DVCS would have helped in any way. It's not the repository server itself that was compromised, AFAIK, but "only" the web interface. This allows password recovery and thus allows people to e.g. make malicious commits from a trusted account, but that would be no less true if there were a DVCS under it all.
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I love the UI for signing up for an account (the bank check-like interface). That's a nice touch.
Are you actually trying to argue with me, or just taking a potshot at the USG? If the latter, please use someone else's comment as a platform and not mine. If the former . . .

Sheer pointlessness is meant to encompass several reasons I believe the USG is an unlikely culprit.

First, there's the risk of significant consequences if the USG's involvement comes to public light. There's another election in two years, so even the PR damage could cost them. Then there's the matter of this kind of action being illegal. Maybe no prosecution would occur, but maybe it would.

Second, unlike your security theater example, there is literally zero chance of this doing any good for anyone. Every person who is even the least bit interested could obtain the documents with only minor effort considering how widely they have been distributed. Major news organizations have already collated them for the masses.

On the other hand, "security theater" and "unwinnable wars" are only pointless in a debatable sense. There are obviously a large number of people who believe that airport security measures are having some positive effect. Similarly, by some metrics (not mine), the war in Iraq has been successful and the war in Afghanistan is heading in that direction too. I don't doubt in hindsight that they will prove to be mistakes, but that is not the same as their having a absolutely known "pointlessness" value now. So I think that objection of yours is incorrect as well.

Also, you've only pointed out two pointless things the USG has done in the past decade. That's not the same as proving that the USG is equally inclined to do pointless things as pointful ones. In fact, it may be that the USG discards pointless courses of action at a much higher rate than pointful ones, but that certain pointless actions have been enacted nonetheless. In this case, it would still be predictive of the US not being involved that the Wikileaks DOS is pointless.

Finally, I'm not aware that it is the USG's standard infosec policy to maintain batteries of compromised civilian computers with which to perform cyber warfare. Perhaps it is, but that would be quite a discovery in and of itself.

So, there are a lot of problems with your line of reasoning. I could be wrong, but I think the odds are something like 80-20 that I am right and this is not the USG's doing.
The reason I returned to Firefox from Chrome was the privacy stuff, such as everything you type in the address bar is sent back, and they probably each site you visit (to protect you from fishing, etc.).

Has any of this improved, or do you just put up with it?
The only one I really miss on Chrome is Firebug.
If they used Freenet I can imagine the mainstream media going straight for the fact that Freenet is full of child porn. I don't think they need any more of that kind of publicity.
Construction loans are usually done as a line of credit which is extended in tranches based on progress. Banks have people who are experienced in construction (and hence are able to judge risk based on cost estimates).

I have a feeling that he would be offered similar terms if he was purchasing a building outright. I know of somebody who recently applied for a mortgage on a ~$2M property, and the only bank that offered the loan to him also requested a 50% deposit.
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Maybe apart from stemming), it's not hard to implement this in ~100 lines without NLTK.:

- In naive Bayes classification, model parameters can usually be estimated using relative frequencies in the training data.

- WordPunctTokenizer is a very simple tokenizer that makes anything matching \w+ and [^\w\s]+ a separate token.

- Extracting Bigrams from a list of tokens is trivial.

Of course, using NLTK will be very helpful in many situations, but this is hardly a testament to NLTK.
Thats what Dubai and Abu Dhabi did.

Waited for the slave labour to arrive
As With Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time", TAOCP is often bought, always lauded, seldom read.

Shame because the few bits I have read are actually very good indeed.
Only somebody who does not know what public domain means would get uppity about this.
Good thing plesk added that additional comment. Because their error message is so much more informative than the default IE provides to help the user in case of uninformative error messages.

Yes. That's really well done.
Statistics for the whole of Russia in October 2010:

IE - 32.0%; Firefox - 26.3; Chrome - 7.3%; Safari - 0.8%; Opera - 23.9%; Opera Mini - 8.5%.

This is from liveinternet.ru, the most popular site tracker (visitor counter) in Russia. http://www.liveinternet.ru/stat/ru/browsers.html?period=mont...
With many tabs, they shrink so small they lose the text and favicon. Eventually they stop shrinking and new tabs are not displayed, and clicking the new tab button just activates the tab under it.
Ask HN: What are some new growing industries?
What are some new growing industries with low start-up costs?

I've been reading 'How To Get Rich' and it brought up something I hadn't thought of before: "As a general rule of thumb, then growing industries with relatively low start-up costs offer more opportunities for those who want to get rich than declining industries, or those that require huge start-up investment."

EDIT: How does one go about finding out what the growing industries/sectors are, and knowing which source to trust?
hello.

I'm the author of headjs. Have to say here that the release date of this tool was supposed to happen much later. yesterday I came back to github on my regular visit and noticed that it had 100 followers! It was OUT. I don't know how.

anyway. I now stopped all my other work and start focusing on headjs. the bugs will be fixed.

BTW: the loader part of the tool can be used as standalone. Here it is:

https://github.com/headjs/headjs/blob/master/src/head.loader...

About the tone: maybe yea. maybe not. that's how I feel right now.
Sadly? The things that come out of the EU are at least as stupid as local laws, especially wrt technology.
I'm not saying i disapprove, but just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should.
After having switched to Chrome I miss three things from FF: FireBug, TreeView tabs and the awesomebar. The awesomebar searches through my browsing history in a way that feels way superior to Chrome. I can see that Chrome tries to do the same but it doesn't work nearly as well. In Firefox, I feel that if I can remember something from a page I have visited, I can find it. In Chrome, I have to re-google it.
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Oh, well that's another issue - voting irregularities due to errors or corruption are a big problem in some areas.

But I'm more talking about... here in the UK just before the general elections all of the main commentators and polls were predicting a lot of huge wins for our third party, the liberals. As it turned out, they had a terrible election - and are only "kingmakers" because the public was divided over the lead two parties.

The outcome of the election was radically different to what was predicted - because it was only a vocal minority that was making their voice heard before the election. The vast majority of people are either apathetic or prefer to raise their voice via the ballot.

Which is why it is always dangerous to quote "public opinion" :)
Chrome, itself, bundles and releases updated, Flash builds. The latest vulnerability-fix release of Flash was released to Chrome users before even Adobe made it public for download, for other [browser] flavors.
HN is not a political forum. If you want to vent your political opinions I suggest you go to reddit.

Posts don't get upvoted because of their moral validty but because of their relevance to the kind of things that get's discussed here.

You are an atheist I see (me too) and yet you seem to use the word evil as if it's some objective standard?

Now what's up with that!
Pentadactyl 1.0 [beta 1] was released last month. The change log is at http://www.mozdev.org/pipermail/vimperator/2010-September/00...

The reason for the switch is outlined in the FAQ ( http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/pentadactyl/faq ). tl;dr the official maintainer of the project had not contributed for years yet was still soliciting donations for users and was unwilling to relinquish control, so the core developers decided to fork.
I'm tempted to believe there might be a bright future for data startups[1].

[1] http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/10/strata-week-building-data-s...
Some people have already mentioned the benefits of a startup, but if you want to start your own company there are a couple of reasons why experience in a larger company might also help you do that (aside from just starting a company). YMMV of course.

1) That big company might be your startup's competition. Knowing how they work might give you insight into how to beat them and others like them.

2) That big company might buy your startup or be a customer (if you're doing something B2B) Getting insight into how decisions get made in larger organizations will help you sell to the right people.

You might think the supposed "insights" from these are obvious, but they might not be to someone who hasn't been in a big company for a long enough period of time. I'm still in school and I'll admit that I'm pretty clueless about these myself.
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I agree it's somewhat of a stretch, but not completely irrelevant. I don't mean on an individual level, but more the overall political climate. For instance George W. Bush might not have been re-elected if it wasn't for the wars. I think it pretty safe to say that the "war on terrorism" has effected America in more ways than the obvious ones, but it is of course very hard to say how or how much.
"Balancing portfolios is basically a universally recommended practice."

The 'balancing' is against a stock market index which will seriously over-represent a particular geography, industry sector, business size, asset class etc. Why choose that index? Because the stock market tells us to?

"If you manage your own portfolio,"

I was considering how to make a 'passive' index fund even more passive.

"won't you have a similar "churn rate" to the index fund?"

An index fund would have a higher churn rate and therefore higher costs than my theoretical fund, but I do not know how much money an index fund spends on index-following sell-buy transactions.
And that's what remains of my morning lost :) Absolutely awesome site, a very well done to the creators!
It may not be the best choice of words, but capitalization plays no role in his tests as everything is transformed to lower case on line 30: http://pastebin.com/4B1xHHht
I'll probably give away karma by saying so, but where is the interest in this article? I'm not saying that groupon is not an interesting model, but this article is basically a press release, stuffed with some utterly baseless claims like "how we will all probably be shopping in the future, i.e. socially"

Based on what? This is fluff. I work in retail technology, e-commerce, etc. and there are many interesting changes happening. But this kind of meaningless puff piece is just noise.

edit: also annoyed by the summary including "features a daily deal on the best stuff to do, see, eat, and buy in more than 150 cities around the world". Yeah. Where "around the world" means "around North America".
This is my experience also, especially with indie games. The crazy dark corners of C++ tend to come out more often in larger teams than at indie-game studios.

One approach to finding out more details is to pick a specific engine and see how it uses C++. For example, take Unity3D, and figure out what parts of C++ you'd need to know to use and understand its API (by reading the docs, looking at example games, trying out a small project, etc.).
I stuck with Firefox because of the large amount of useful extensions. I have noticed that Chrome is a lot faster though. I'm gonna stick with Firefox until I see how Firefox 4 plays out. If Firefox 4 isn't significantly faster, I'll be switching over to Chrome.
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Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1950293

That was flagged and killed, and rightly so. Dreadful list.
Voting up a submission saves it as well.

(I believe the equivalence between "upvote" and "save" is intentional, to encourage people to only upvote things they actually find interesting enough to want to save.)
a call for action on behalf of the world bank is political. that is the problem for the site, the original poster, and the up-voters to consider along with the dissenters. besides, all social organization is political, that is what politics is.

and on [good and] evil:

a. our social condition reasonably constructs a concept of evil worthy of consideration, it also helps our society work, hopefully to benefit the individual

b. on the macro-scale our biological imperative most likely assists in that construction, but that does not imply the construction is always successful in the macro or micro scale (think dinosaurs). besides, what do i care about macro, micro has plenty to consider for me, i'll leave the very long-term to the gene pool to worry about

c. and we create our own truth, you have yours and i have mine. i like mine, but it's constantly adjusting as i attempt to learn

so tell me again where the problem is?

(and no, in response to your comment below, it's you who said that about politics, i just responded with the basic problem in what you're saying)

p.s. i can't respond to posts anymore, i guess i'm a troll, awesome system this. block ur ears from the bad man everyone!

p.p.s. score for the reddit suggestion! psuedo-victorian genteel ideal that it is (the suggestion that is)

and regarding point #3, i'm responding to your questions Thom, responding, you asked how the word evil can be used, i explained why i think it is a valid term for an atheist to use in context. #1 is the answer to the question about why it applies to this discussion.

these are not ideas i came up with, they are the basic problems of philosophy. obviously you don't have agree and neither can i expect that i control the market on truth. that's what intellectual honesty is. i gave you a rough outline of the framework i'm basing opinions and these includes points you can use to refute me...because i can use those point to refute me too.

i am choosing to focus on the social benefits for our time, and i make no claim that this is not a self-serving act, anyone who does is probably lying, though it would be wonderful to be proven wrong. i'm just looking for better society than what we live in now. better for others means better for you and me. it doesn't matter how many cars i have if i sm living in fear of the next attack from our enemies. or the next financial upset. or the rise of china and what it means for my children and grandchildren (well, i've only got the children right now)

on the social scale we are propagating something usefully described as evil in the context of our time in our society and affecting us. and i believe it is an extended condition largely because of our faulty debate mechanisms, susceptibility to propaganda, hypersensitivity to inconvenience...blah blah blah