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My employer has had a number of TechCrunch articles written on his company and it's always hit and miss. I should note that this still occurs even when the entire article is about the company.

TechCrunch doesn't always drive the largest crowd and even when they do they're not the expected audience of your website so you're likely to have many more hit and runs than genuinely interested visitors.

I'd suggest try growing it organically by finding a way to reach your target market instead of aiming for a higher profile PR piece in a niche tech blog.
Yep, I ask myself what HGBary thought would happen after they would give a list of "anonymous key members" to the FBI.
> That must be fake. No sysadmin would possibly bite on such an exchange ("is our root password still ...?").

Then you don't know many "sysadmins". Generally the people working as admins are not the brightest.
> The Go designers knew what they were doing, so they chose UTF-8.

The authors of Go and authors of UTF-8 are more or less the same people, so the choice was no-brainer.
i thought the word 'issue' meant 'a problem'...
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oh..typo errors..It should have been "promote" instead of "prompt"..
A similar revolution in horsemanship made the later barbarian invasions possible and dealt the final blow to the Roman world.
Yet having the accelerometer made usable by software is actually nice. It was (and still can be, sometimes in HD themselves) often a hardwired feature. Also, there's quite a gap in sensibility between detecting a drop and registering subtle variations of the acceleration vector.
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yeah, they should start working for the government to build intelligent drones that could hunt down those muslin terrorists around the world!
What non-technical co-founder should do while the site is being developed?
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I haven't found anything much better than this: http://www.indiangeek.net/wp-content/uploads/Programmer%20co...

I expected to see something great coming from the Software Craftsmanship movement, but their idea of being a great programmer is basically using XP, and satisfying customer requirements, with no surprises. To me that is just being an average professional programmer.
And then get >200 points on HN
Honestly, this is a problem for a) The transit authority which implemented a broken system and b) the person who gets caught counterfeiting a card / riding for free.

It doesn't take much of a security expert to warn you that the system is insecure when you're implementing something which trusts the card (not a central database), and the protocol is proprietary and uses weak encryption (mifare is 48-bit or so?).

Implementing a system which trusts the card is just asking for trouble, certainly considering the amount of horepower your average commuters are carying around in their pockets nowadays.
I would love to have a cockroach eating table or a rat eating bed that can just search and gobble up these creatures and churn out some energy to light a few lamps. Or if we place such a device in the food storage warehouses, the rats there can provide energy to power an entire street :).
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I love that he mentioned IRC, but it would be much better, if he added the IRC-Network too (EFNet? Freenode?).
I'm not sure where you got your numbers, but based on it, there are 6.5 billion new status everyday. I don't think it's quite accurate.
This is a really useful discussion on the potential pitfall of using Amazon's cloud service to run your Oracle apps.
Been looking at this for a while now.. anyone gone through it who can review?
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Guido has a different opinion: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-July/080895...
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Right, if you ensure that only ASCII characters are used in UTF-8, which you can check using 0x80 & byte == 0x00, counting the number of characters is easy. But to check that this condition holds, you need to iterate over the whole string anyway.

I don't see how this gives any advantage to either of the encodings. Both for UTF-8 and UTF-16 you have to implement some decoding to reliably count the number of characters.
look what i found and now plan to use

http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/text/Norma...

update: for particular purposes consider using Collator class, it makes collation keys (byte arrays) out of strings applying locale, case sensitiveness and unicode decomposition. (at least so says the doc, http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/text/Colla... )
Thx -- that'll work.
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Then click on their logo.

Love the instant load.
So wats the name of your app...any screen shots of your Copycats app for comparision?
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There is an app for that: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=65241
The important fact lies in the last sentence; in all of my apps, I could so far safely and soundly ignore the fact that Surrogates are two characters long to establish character lengths. So by using UTF-16, all those apps are significantly faster than one that would have been based on UTF-8. And, to add to this, by the same nature, it is far easier to take char slices of a UTF-16 encoded byte array than of a UTF-8 one.
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No, the Python internals support surrogates so you can support characters outside the BMP. This makes it (basically) UTF-16.
I don't know.
I saw your site and I find it is not easy to use. The first page doesn't tell you what is a virtual bet about. It also gives you to calls to action that are equally important. I would only highlight one of them.

The How to Play page is boring to read. I would replace everything with a form that fills in a Twitter post for you (for which you don't need permissions from Twitter).
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Sounds interesting, but it hasn't launched yet.. Please post again when there's something to see
If you can guarantee there are no surrogate bytes, then you're working with UCS-2 rather than UTF-16.

If you can guarantee there are no bytes with the high bit set (a simple byte mask comparison which can be done 32 bits at a time for speed), then UTF-8 devolves to ASCII and you can calculate character-length without any division at all!

Counting the number of characters in a string is a misleading benchmark, because it's not a thing that people need to do terribly often - if you're rendering text to a display, "character count" is not enough, you need to know things like font metrics and which characters are combining, zero-width, or double-width. Concatenating strings is easy, and only cares about byte length, not character length. And if you really, really find character-length calculations on your hot-path, you can always just store length-prefixed strings instead of terminated strings.
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Incredible! Just Incredible.
Oh, and another thing is your argument only holds for ASCII - I hardly ever encounter pure ASCII data nowadays when I work with text. On the other hand, I never have encountered a Surrogate Character except in my test libraries, either. Next, if you are working with pure ASCII, who cares about UTF-8 or -16? Last, you still need to scan every byte in UTF-8 for that, but only every second "two-byte" in UTF-16, which is half.
I don't think that's an entirely fair representation of the content.

even so, how would you design an experiment to see if language facility affects numeracy facility? And perhaps the place to start is: how would you try to phrase a meaningful question?

I've followed your submissions and replies here on HN for some time, and would be interested in your take on these questions.
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The werkzeug implementation uses sha1 or md5 (which is bad, see http://chargen.matasano.com/chargen/2007/9/7/enough-with-the... for a good explanation). Stick to bcrypt.
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Nope, that's the correct behavior. Run len on the UTF encode and you'll get the expected result.
Sounds like Brainbench. In fact, Brainbench did exactly this for me when I got my job 5 years ago. The company paid them to test me on my programming and personal skills, I took the tests, and the company got the results. (The company then gave me a copy of the results.)

Before the BB test, the other guy they were interviewing practically had the job. His resume looked much better than mine. But after the test, they said it was exactly the opposite.

The company eventually stopped using BB, probably because it was too expensive to give to every candidate. (I'm guessing at the reason. I never knew the prices.)

I recently had a job interview that had a pre-test that consisted of a simple CRUD application you have to built from scratch, to spec, and a puzzle. The puzzle was simply explaining how you'd write code to solve a scenario which happened to be a modified Traveling Salesman puzzle. The changes were just to make it a lot easier.

The CRUD app just showed that you can follow spec and actually deliver working code. Also, you can write instructions on any deployment steps needed.

The puzzle showed a few things, too. You can understand complex issues. You can reason out a solution without code. You can explain that solution to others clearly.

All that was before the interview, making sure they only interviewed people who were up to snuff!

I actually got hired at another company before I went to that interview, but I was hoping they would use the interview to go over some of the code and puzzle and ask why things were done that way as a final check that you really wrote it, and that you can explain verbally as well. It's possible it would just be a normal interview, though.
Good analysis. I sure hope a unit test will be added to the Java code base to cover this boundary case.
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The article, at the end, claims that "ASCII was developed from telegraph codes by a committee." It turns out the story is much, much more complicated and interesting than that: http://www.wps.com/projects/codes/
It would be interesting to log this data, and try to figure out how many users are leaning back, in a car, etc. I wonder what kind of patterns you'd see.
"confused ... UCS-2 and ... UTF-16" - You are quite right, he is clear on the difference. It's presumably possible to apply the same trick to UTF-16 as was applied to UCS-2, to expand further, but this is ad-hoc and not built in.

"supports 16-bit char width" - I mean the compiler has CHAR_BIT == 16; this is independent of the character encoding of the source.
I once read in Russian LJ that the main block for productivity is an alienation of work. The more work is alienated, the little there is incentive to do it, the bigger is productivity drain.

Because Marx primarily thought about work efficiency, the ultimate society is communism. Communism is where no work gets alienated. Every work result is owned by producer (or creator), but he is willing to share it to the world as it is norm there, in communist utopia. So the productivity is as high as it could get.

For me, startup culture is about reducing that alienation.

I am not an expert, it's just a thought I want to share. ;)
>However, I’m worried. You know why? I’m worried because I know what Brits are like.

Susceptible to trivial reverse psychology apparently. Worked though :)
Quite on the contrary; I work in data mining and need to count characters on many different occasions. Probably for web development you don't need to care about that stuff, right (but read the second paragraph first!). So if character counting is not important in your app, you can naturally use whatever you want. If it is, however, UTF-16 is far more efficient, while not having to waste space with UTF-32 if you can be quite sure that the Supp. Range can be safely ignored or by adding a trivial safeguard.

And the "ASCII argument" is quite antiquated, almost all (scientific) char data I have contains non-ASCII characters, especially greek letters and such. Same goes even for web development or practically any user-oriented job where you need to accomodate for an international bunch of users. If you have pure ASCII data, lucky you, but why bother with UTF-anything then??
A little off topic, but if you're looking for iPad touch control of things like MIDI devices, hardware is already out there to do that. Projects like touchOSC are providing the graphical instances, as well as others like S1MIDITrigger. This is getting bigger and bigger, and I imagine that's the reason Jazz Mutant packed it in - the writing was on the wall that the iPad is storming this market.
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Firstly I said nothing of "complete overhaul", core changes are for example, the internet moving to IPv6, OSes moving from 32-bit to 64-bit.

Anything that is constantly updated with anything more than bug-fixes will become "a pile of unmaintainable crap", or just obsolete if the core isn't changed. Core changes normally happen before that point though. That is if business managers' incentives aren't all wrong. An example of that fairly recently was twitteriffic for iOS, they felt it was heading towards being a pile of crap so they had to stop and go back to the core.(even though it meant unhappy current customers)

Users not caring about it unless it immediately comes with new features or at least all the old features is exactly my point! And if what the user is paying for is updates they are absolutely not going to accept losing any features(and not going to be happy with not updating since that is the whole reason that they are paying in your method). If the user owns a version and sees that the next version doesn't have features they need they'll stick with the old version until the new version has those features. In your model they have already paid for that update.

"So a feature that might only add a small marginal cost but would make current users happy"
Prices aren't just based on costs, they are usually(in the IT sector) based on how much more they "make users happy", in some cases they are almost entirely based on that, clothes, shoes and apple products being the most obvious examples. Which to repeat in another way is the problem with core updates in your system, they are high "cost" but they only prevent the programme from going to shit so they don't "make current users happy"(just prevent future unhappiness).

That's not to say that your model doesn't work in some cases, anti-virus programmes need constant updates but very seldom core changes.(although oddly enough at least for norton it's much cheaper to buy the newer version in amazon or a shop and get continued subscription that way then to update a subscription) And you mentioned GPS apps the same applies to them, no core changes needed.
Angry Birds on iOS is absolutely not a case of it though, you don't pay for new levels, new levels are free and are an example of the opposite of what you're saying happening, you pay upfront and they have continued adding levels way beyond a point where it would have been reasonable for them to make an Angry Birds 2 and putting the new levels in that. It is a special case but it is the traditional model just with a new attitude (on iOS, on android it's the ad revenue model which is different again).
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The author of this piece is right, very few people seem to comprehend how well established our trade was at the time. The silk road was well established between Rome and China at the time that Genghis Khan started his rise, to the point that it was his desire to capture it to tax it.

They had two major technological innovations #1 was advanced horsemanship, #2 was the composite bow. They also had one major advancement in strategy derived from their nomadic traditions - they knew how to hunt and how to do it effectively. These modified their warfare tactics massively. For instance the Mongols heavily favoured the tactic of attacking a vast swathe of outlying villages and driving the populace toward the city they intended to siege. This meant that the food stocks lasted very little time. They also knew how to breach a castle by fooling the defender (they frequently attacked the gate and fled, only to strike again), and more importantly they understood that a hunted animal fights harder when it's trapped so they never encircled their enemy, they always surrounded them in a crescent shape (IIRC it was noted that the panic to escape often resulted in people being trampled to death) to allow the people to escape. Once broken the Mongols simply followed on horseback and picked their enemy off.

Khan has a shrewd warrior and anything he could use to help a siege he acquired. They had catapults and ballista, but it was the Mongols who figured out that the gunpowder of the Chinese combined with the metalurgy from the European bell makers (yes bronze church bells) could be used to make a cannon... so they built cannons. Genghis Khan established the worlds (first?) best postal service for the time, to the degree of efficiency that likely still put us to shame shortly before the invention of the car. This was literally the internet of their day, especially as Khan recruited every technologist his forces encountered.

This is why the barbarian invasions were so powerful against the Romans and the ancient world, because they were fighting a civilization that had exclusively predatory behaviour against city-states. One of their favourite tactics was to divert a river to flood the city. Then it was just a matter of time for the water to stagnate and infection and disease to go wild, even though it rarely got to that point.
Note that this is also a review of the patent system, as well as copyright:

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There are two types of markets. There are markets with demand and markets without demand. If you're entering in a market without demand with a stellar product or service, you need to educate the market to create that demand, and that can take years. When you enter a market with demand, all you have to do is build attention, improve your product, and make sales. Much much easier.
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Maybe I'm a bit out of the loop here, but from a purely technological standpoint, was anybody else's world just flipped upside down? Prior to this article/video, I had absolutely no idea that biomass could be converted into useful and readily available energy, nor has the thought ever crossed my mind in even the faintest of ways.

A life-like humanoid robot comes to mind, that flawlessly mimics human traits including breathing, speaking, and moving, and to top it all off, they don't have to roll back to their charging station at the end of the day, because they got all of the energy they needed for the next day while sitting next to you at the dinner table munching on some beef. Suddenly this all seems so very attainable.
Since you can change the font size, effectively changing the size of a page, I don't understand how this page number would work and be consistent for all the readers.
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This really depends on where in the world you are located. Posts of this kind always have a bunch of answers along the lines of the parent post. The thing is, that is largely an American phenomenon, as far as I can tell. At least in Denmark, where I am from, this type of "life-changing experience" usually happens in high school (granted, we're in high school from 16-17-ish till 19-20-ish,) with college being less influential with regards to your social life/experience.

For what it's worth, I dropped out in my final year of high school, to freelance, start my own company, and eventually landing a job at a nice startup. So, while I don't regret not finishing and going to college for a single second, I wouldn't trade the 2,5 years in high school for anything in the world. That was the best time ever. So far, anyways.
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Incredible that the clever google logo doesn't work on the google phone...
If you look at the targets for Anonymous in terms of political uprisings...

...you engender such a large selection bias that I remain as convinced as ever that you're simply projecting your own beliefs onto something considerably more nihilistic. Yes, if you throw out everything that doesn't fit the quotably Bakuninian pattern you expect by saying "oh, but that was different people" or "oh, that was just an overreaction", it all becomes so clear...but if you don't, you get a messy and impure reality in which Anonymous better resembles Brownian motion than a movement.
I think what happened here is a shooting in the foot event. WS has always tried to avoid that HFT and algo trading is not gambling. Or even vanilla or more complex derivatives.
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They will also probably do some security audit.

Believe me, there will be a lot of boxes that will need ticking, meetings, powerpoint shows, and sentences written in the passive voice.
Its a really cool idea, if / when you expand I hope that make finding places to visit easier by tagging or something else. I recommend image tagging.
I will try shortening up the how to play page..

Replacing everything with a form??
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Because they raise the signal:noise ratio to levels that I don't want to deal with.
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It seems to me that putting the death of an animal or insect on display, as entertainment, is also unethical. I don't like the idea of people cheering for the guillotine.
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Can you make it so we can submit silly/lousy ideas we've had or heard from others? Or maybe ideas that were rejected from YC? That would be a fun collection to look at.
Depending on the level of abstraction you're living at - and that depends on the overall goal, performance constraints, environmental integration, OS / machine heterogeneity etc. - it may or may not be a problem.

It's easy to dismiss if you have all the time in the world and a deep stack of abstractions.

If you're doing deep packet analysis on UTF-16 text in a router, things may be different.
Not really hard imho. At least as long as you are living in a major European city, but I would assume North America/some other places should be similar. Have you actually tried?