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My experience with conference-style events, even virtual ones, is that they provide a sort of forcing function whereby you put time on your calendar and go and watch the thing. Saving a bookmark to watch some interesting looking video, webcast, or whatever at some future point "when I have time"? Doesn't happen very often.

So the problem with having videos that can be watched any time as opposed to going to class at a set time sounds like it could be a good idea. But I'm guessing it wouldn't work that well--except, as you suggest, with very motivated students.
Also related: http://ediscope.labs.yahoo.net/
Tech books depreciate quickly. I'd guess a 5-10 year old Ruby or javascript book would not have a lot of resale value.
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Ask HN: Twitter app to easily to create Retweet for Discount campaigns?
I quite like the Retweet for Discount feature at socialfeet.com ... Do you know another app/site that does similar stuffs?

I know there are quite a few apps in Facebook that does similar stuffs.. But not in Twitter...

ps: I could be wrong of course.
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I like this excerpt. It gives such a simplistic insight into two brilliant minds:

It's like when I walk into a room and I want to talk about a product that hasn't been invented yet. I can see the product as if it's sitting there right in the center of the table. It's like what I've got to do is materialize it and bring it to life--harvest it
To be fair, that was over 140 characters into the comment.
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If only it didn't launch in half an hour.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2349290
> He clearly used Android first.

That's a reasonable assumption. Android has been on the market for quite some time now.

> Gmail support is through exchange at m.google.com, not IMAP

That's terrible. Why not just using the browser? Even with the iPhone mail client, which is quite decent, I prefer using Gmail through mobile Safari.

And the Android Gmail client is very good, despite the fact mine (at least) lacks priority inbox.
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What's the goal of this site? I'm not sure I'd want to ask someone a question that they may have already read the answer to. When I interview someone, I want to know what they actually know or can figure out with hints, not whether they have Googled for the right list of questions.

Edit: oh, even worse, it tags them by the company that asks the question. Great. I'm sure those companies will appreciate having to come up with brand new questions for each candidate. And candidates will really be better off getting in based on memorized answers, then finding themselves unable to solve the actual problems in the job. (sarcasm)
I have made a series of easily verifiable statements. Please point out where the FUD is in my message.
The dickbar thing has been going around for a while. Here's a similar hack from two weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2294441
Yeah, I think there's a spectrum of emacs use, between text editor and IDE (or OS). For a while, I just used it as a handy text editor, and I wouldn't say emacs was an IDE for me then. Now I:

- installed autocomplete (with drop-down lists and tooltips)
- org-mode is the first daily planner to impact my life
- run lint by hitting a button, linked to sourcecode lines
- use REPLs
- integrate different features naturally (like hyperlinks between my
day-planner and sourcecode or a webpage; or hitting a button to
clear/reset a bash terminal and restart the program in it)

Haven't gotten around to using emacs for email though... When I do, things like org-mode will become even more powerful.
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Yes they did, they were in the same batch as AppJet as well.
Well I agree. The classic is still valid : http://www.amazon.com/Think-Common-Sense-Approach-Usability/...

Everything from there has been sort of copies. I find it more interesting to dig into the human brain and related books. Ie. cognitive psychology and how our brain perceives things. The difference between cultures etc. That's where you really learn the WHY and HOW.
Wow! The most interesting thing I found in this was the "chords" idea of concurrent programming. Check it out. I've never seen anything like it -- has this been thought about?
Good work. As author of Ace (the source code editor) I'm always happy to see it being used. Do you guys have Cappuccino bindings for Ace you might consider sharing?
The only thing I was still using Lynx for is for downloading graphics drivers on Linux. Alas, since NVIDIA did their last site update, that doesn't seem to work anymore :(

I think that if your site has a clear-cut function, you should at least try to provide that functionality even for bare-html browsers. Doesn't matter if it looks ugly, the focus is this case is on functionality not looks.
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If I had to choose a single simple measure, it would be the median level of quality of life.

The HDI tries to evaluate that, check it out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_inequality...

Total accumulated success is easily shown to be a false measure with a thought experiment. Consider two thousand-person communities, one full of middle-class professionals, and one with a single multi-billionaire and the rest are all downbeaten impoverished workers. You'd have to be pretty crazy to suggest that the one with widespread crushing poverty is a better society.
It depends on the type of technical interview. If it's the sort of drivel that HR throws at coders then the less in the world the better. There are circumstances where this would be beneficial however. For my Google internship interview I searched for examples of the questions they'd ask both to put myself at ease and also to practice.

I didn't go searching for questions so I could recite the answer during the interview, but instead to instead give myself a mental warmup. It's akin to sports people stretching before they run a race.

Whether the questions themselves are indicative of strong future performance is another question entirely, but at the very least I do enjoy the majority of Google's interview questions. Analytical and algorithmic puzzles are entertaining and I think it's those sorts of people that Google are filtering for.
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I deeply know C and C++. In my resume I'd rather remove my name than writing that I know C/C++.
Pretty cool, we made a top tweet: https://twitter.com/#!/hakimel/status/49800596823351297
You use the same model as SSH: give a big warning with klaxons "Warning, this site's SSL certificate has changed, it is possible that you are being actively attacked" and then force the user to dig into an text file and manually remove the offending memorized entry (no prompt for saying "Ignore and carry on"). The hope being that an inexperienced user would find someone more competent to help them out.

There are loads of ways this could go wrong (the phishing website earnestly telling the user that they "changed" their SSL key and that you need to follow these simple steps to "fix" your browser; the initial contact being the bogus website; the huge loss of traffic if your SSL key legitimately changes and you're not prepared; you need to deal with revocation).
Not necessarily; that says more about Ruby and Javascript than anything. I have plenty of tech books from ten or twenty years ago that are still valuable resources. Actual computer science books have a much longer shelf life than "$Tech_of_the_moment In Action".
Yes, Heroku was the first. I tried it out. It was fun, but I think they realised that though it was a novel idea, it was not the _Big Idea_, and they replaced it with what they now have. That's pretty inspiring when you consider how much work they threw away and how that decision has been rewarded.
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Sure, happy to share anything you find useful and thank you for the awesome work on Ace! Please send us an email here http://groups.google.com/group/akshell and we'll take it from there.
That is very true. I speak 4 languages all of which I have learned by moving to other countries and interacting with people.

When I was 9 and we moved to France I had almost 0 understanding of French. I went to a "school for foreigner" and in two months switched to a classic French primary school. Literally, I learned enough French to fluently communicate with my classmates in two months.

In contrast I was trying to learn German for four years by taking lessons. Without much success. After those 4 years I was able to speak enough of it, but I didn't feel comfortable with the language. What's worse, I was not forced to speak German with anyone (as I was with French). Two years later I barely remember anything.

You need to be forced to do it. Practicing alone will not help much; you need to use the language in order to know it. If you really want to learn Japanese, which I think is quite hard, move there for a few months and get involved with the community. Maybe get a job, join as many groups as you possibly can. Speak, write in Japan (maybe start a blog in Japanese once you know the basics). And go there alone, this way you are not tempted to speak English or Spanish.
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The key about self-signed certificates is that while they don't give specific identity assurances, they do give identity assurances across multiple transactions with the website. That is, the website I talked to yesterday is the same one I'm talking to today.

If I had to implement "automatic" HTTPS, I would probably ask browsers to automatically accept self-signed certificates on the first transaction. Thus, with no user-interaction in the good case, an attacker must manage to MiTM the user on the very first time they access a site, and this is considerably harder to do and less likely to result in interesting information. So I do believe encryption without MiTM protection is a security increase. But there are usability trade-offs and obvious costs for rolling something out like this, and I don't think this particular proposal makes the cut, unfortunately.
Search + Facebook = The real Google Killer
When does a big wide 'Search for what you are looking for' appear on facebook?

So, lets take this real case:

I attended GDC 2011 (San Fran) and was obviously not able to attend all the panels and discussions.

Now, sitting on my table, I typed 'GDC 2011 Updates and notes' on the Search bars on Google and Facebook respectively.

Google is anonymous, factual and is based in click by click discovery - I will keep clicking on links till I find what I was looking for.

Now see what the same search shows up on Facebook. (I think by far the ugliest piece I have even seen on a Facebook page so far):

WHAT CAN AND WILL HAPPEN:

When Facebook integrates 'SEARCH' that spiders ALL WALL POSTS across all its 600+ mn users and then shows it to me in organized manner:

First, the posts of my friends - so these are posts that are organized by way of the subject

Next, posts of friends of my friends - so that I can read them and also make these Friends of Friends my friends

Lastly, posts of other people on Facebook relating to the search query I had.

Now, think of the Google result again...

A) the anonymity of whose links am I visiting will be killed.. I would rather read a post of someone i know that any random person (even if its Techcrunch)

B) the posts will be via REAL persons whom I can identify and hence follow up with ( I mean real humans write what we find on Google right...but I cant connect with these people other than 'commenting' below their write ups...)

C) I can make real friends with people who have similar interests in topics that I am involved in.

D) Advertising near and around that page will be more effective than Google CPC!!

E) Here comes the killer - SEO would essentially be redundant, coz who would post JUNK on their own walls (and the facebook search algorithm would obviously check how many friends do people have to rank the search results)...so all those crappy sites stuffed with SEO garbage would be a thing of the past!

Considering this, dont you think SEARCH will make Facebook the REAL GOOGLE KILLER!?
>Even if you're completely awesome and use SSL everything (like, say, Gmail), eventually that e-mail you sent is going to find its way from Google's servers to its final destination. That, with almost no exception, is plaintext.
Gmail sends mail out using TLS where available (though I agree with your point).
guaranteach is a video based teaching site, that matches videos to each student preferred style of learning.
Here's a nice demo:
http://www.guaranteach.com/community/exploring
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I think the reason people are focusing on the nuclear threat is that it is still in the future, whereas the tsunami is done and is no longer threatening. Sure, the carnage left in its wake is still there, but you don't need to fear it.
They don't all become worthless after 3 years or so, though the ones that don't tend to be the ones you aren't going to want to sell.

Some categories of programming books whose utility and/or interest needn't drop much years after they were written: Algorithms books (Knuth, Cormen/Leiserson/Rivest/Stein). Books on fundamentals and high-level principles (SICP, Code Complete, Pragmatic Programmer, Design Patterns). Books whose tool-specific content relates to tools that aren't changing much (Paradigms of AI Programming, Thinking Forth) or at least that have a large enough stable-enough core (Effective C++).

(Note: "hasn't lost much value" isn't quite the same thing as "has a great deal of value". Some of those books are better than others.)
If you are accessing a HTTPS site with a certificate that was not ultimately signed by a private key matching one of the public keys your browser has been told to trust, and you are using a public network (free wireless somewhere, for instance) how can you tell that the certificate your browser receives came from the destination server (your self signed cert) or a transparent proxy somewhere between you and it? A certificate signed by a non-trusted key will look the same to the browser whether it was signed by the site owner or a third party, so it would not be able to tell that a transparent proxy is decrypting the content from the server and re-encrypting it to send to you (potentially inspecting and logging the content on the way through that process).

The way around this is for there to be fee SSL signing CAs that have their root trust certificate commonly installed. It is getting to the point now startssl's root key used for their free certificates is trusted by most browsers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StartCom), so you can probably use those for your needs. I don't think any other of the free providers (like cacert.org) have this level of acceptance yet.

The difference between using a free cert from startssl or similar and using a self-signed certificate is that startssl will only issue a certificate to someone who has somehow verified they are in control of the name being certified (i.e. their contact details are in the whois records or such - I'm not sure what validation method they use as I've not used their service yet myself but they must do something adequate enough to get their root cert trusted by the big name browsers/OSs), whereas I can self-sign a certificate for any domain name, as could you, as could that nefarious transparent proxy.

TL;DR: For personal use on your own machines, use a self signed cert and install your CA cert as trusted on your machines. For more general access (i.e. a public facing service) you'll have to try startssl or pay your dues (otherwise even "encryption only" does not work because of the proxy problem).
60% of your sales by number, or by revenue? (60:40 * 0.99:1.53 is pretty much 1:1. But maybe the fraction of that money that you actually get is difference in the two cases.)
That's the only one I could imagine encountering, and if I've not saved the original, serves me right AFAIC.

But then, if I save the second with a higher-than-otherwise-optimal setting, then I can reduce the compounding of effects. It's cost me filesize to limit loss to the imperceptible, but it's still possible.
Been using Wingwares python IDE. Not bad.
Android is licensed as open source but it's developed behind closed doors - just like any other closed source software. So, I think Glyn's description is fairly accurate, no?
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Yes, I agree that this is a big part of the problem. I think that even passively engaged in a lecture during class imparts some information (perhaps by osmosis) and it's the forcing aspect of the traditional classroom lecture that is better than a video.

Overall I think the problem comes from a lack of a desire to learn. I'm not a motivator and so I think my students suffer from my inability to be a rah, rah type instructor. I don't know what can be done about it though.
Were one of those "hacker news book websites" able to keep me abreast on releases?
> It has been estimated that 17 million were exposed to significant radiation after Chernobyl and nearly 2,000 people have since developed thyroid cancer having consumed contaminated food and milk as children.

Citation needed for this one, other than one coming from an industry-lobbyist like IAEA.
My videos tend to be under 20 minutes long. I try to keep them focused and to the point. No fluff. I agree that generally, shorter is better.

Motivating them to watch is a problem for me. I'm philosophically opposed to giving points for something a well trained monkey could do. I can't bring myself to give points merely for pressing play on a video. I'm slowly coming around though.
Thank you so much for making this. I'm learning to program, and an intern at a place where I can't use my computer, can't install anything on their windows machines, and have a lot of free time. You just made my life a LOT better.
It's far from terrible. The reason WP7 is on my primary phone is because the email, contact, and calendar integration is fantastic.

I use Gmail (Personal) and Exchange (Work), and find Android is really annoying. I have to use two different mail applications with two very different UIs, and my muscle memory always has me tapping in the wrong place for the current application which results in deleted messages and wasted time.
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Wales isn't a country!? I would have thought of all people, someone with a handle like "anghyflawn" might be a bit more compassionate to the plight of the cymry...
I don't understand what you're doing. When you get an individual cert, are you adding another trusted authority to verify that cert? If you're just trusting the individual cert, you're exposed to MITM.
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Sounds like you need to get a better internship =]

Mind you, if it pays well and you have enough spare time to pursue your own interests then it might not be such a bad thing overall!
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Do you think a PG altar startup would be accepted to YC?
Also, Paul and Jessica dolls.
I'm not sure that many British people would use that phrasing either (a search for "Google have employees" returns 21 results including several duplicates involving a phrase which is correct in American English too. A search for "Google has employees" returns >15000 results)

Metonymic pluralisation in British English isn't "blanket" but done with the specific intent of implying the importance of collective input. Google the corporate entity has many employees but Google's engineering team have won the search engine wars. Microsoft is still a corporate behemoth but they are often accused of being ineffective at interdepartmental communication these days.
Virgin Mobile USA (owned by Sprint) has similar plans. Unlimited texts + 300mins/month for $25 prepaid. 1200mins for $40.
Oh, it's unpaid. But I have to do it for school credit to graduate :(

I'm a political science major.
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Note that this has been coming for a while -- the "announcement" cited is from Harper's blog, as is the bit about "anti-modular and anti-parallel". The quote cited is Harper's opinion, and was not necessarily the opinion of everyone involved in the curriculum changes (though Harper himself was very instrumental in said changes).

Harper is well known among his former students for being a brilliant guy who makes many interesting arguments... and who then takes those arguments so far to the extreme that it's laughably silly.
I'm always using Textmate but I envy those who were able to suffer through the pain of the vim learning curve.
Maybe we should start paying you for building Akshell apps for our clients? That way you can do what you enjoy and get paid for it, while getting your CV points as well ;)
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In this situation, wouldn't Chrome OS be a better fit? You could have simpler computers, and therefore cheaper hardware, by moving features to the cloud.
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Best thing about WP7 (for me) are the tools that they provide to developers. Visual Studio (Phone) compared to Eclipse for Android is so much better. The IDE itself and also debugging. Using eclipse after is like doing a brain surgery through arse.
I use and develop for Android, but once I tried WP7 tools I got very jealous.
I know, and I agree (I was a little sarcastic). Still, I wonder why they didn't translate "Daiichi".
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http://www.paywithatweet.com/ may be what you're looking for
I believe capitalization should follow the path of relationship automation: onBreakup(): sendFlowers(x);

You could partner with a local flower/chocolate shop and have it taken care of. Another idea is to pay for sms delivery of breakup, sort of a premium advantage.
It would cost more to proxy a billion connections a day than to read them off the wire. But it would not cost so much more as to change the feasibility of the attack. At Internet scale, you may be talking about doubling the cost.

Meanwhile, the proxy attack is the gold standard on the actual Internet we all use. Sniffers are obsolete.
Wales is not a sovereign state, which is what "country" means in this context.
Yea- I'd want auto-complete usually!
I think you misunderstand me :). I don't think .cym is a bad idea at all, but I can understand those who might think it is not. Wales is not a country in the way that Russia, Tuvalu, Kenya or even Jersey are (and even in the latter sense there are fringe cases such as Western Sahara, Kosovo and South Ossetia). If Catalonia and Wales are OK, is Sápmi? What about culturally distinct minorities with no political recognition such as the Roma? It's just too messy.
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