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> Coming from a highly plausible programming world of data and operations on data, this came off as nonsense.

It is nonsense.

On IRC the other day, I said this:

19:19 < xentrac> I propose a new rule for discussions of object-oriented
programming
19:20 < xentrac> which is that anyone who brings up examples of Dog, Bike, Car,
Person, or other real-world objects, unless they are talking
about writing a clone of The Sims or something,

19:20 < xentrac> is immediately shot.
I miss using ~ to indicate usernames.
We do not have a nonfossil alternative that can make up the substantial power needs of the world other than nuclear power. --Glenn Sjoden

In other words, unless we litter the plains with windmills (a form of contamination IMO), we cannot get off of coal and NG.
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Confirming your observation.

I got the explanation: All the targeted sites (e.g., Mevio or Current.TV) now have filters in place. So you will not be able to see the actual landing pages. The landing page will be a blank page as the ad click will not work.

Btw for the record: It is mainly CPC fraud, sending (invisible) traffic to sites like Mevio and Current.TV which serve mainly CPM ads.
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I wonder if part of the problem is that objects and classes are additional concepts to understand, on top of statements, variables, functions, modules, data types, if, while, for, and so on. In a language like the ς-calculus, you wouldn't have to introduce objects and classes separately from those other things.
He makes a valid point about market share. We know why MS and other companies choose to restrict new products to more recent platforms, but with XP's ~40% installation base, like it or not, this might not have been the smartest business decision.
Fashion Start-up Looking for Technical Co-founder
Hello!
I am a Hacker News virgin, fashion enthusiast, and aspiring entrepreneur working to build an experience focused shopping website. The basic concept of the site is to bridge the gap that exists between shopping at your favorite stores with your friends in person and the status quo online shopping experience.

An avid shopper and life long connoisseur in cherishing experiences ranging from the perfect bite, to finding the cutest little street with the best boutiques, to crafting the perfect beach bumming itinerary up and down the coasts of Costa Rica, I realized that there is something missing in the online shopping experience, and thus have imagined a beautiful environment where you can immerse yourself in online shopping, shop with your friends, look at pretty things in a pretty way, and get lost in a world that you have created with all of your favorite stores and favorite people to shop with.

I am hoping that someone with programming skills that are better than mine* can also see this dire need and may be interested in being a co-founder.

*I'm not going to sugar coat it, my programming skills are non-existent. But, I did buy a book on python and am not opposed to learning just about anything.

- Alison
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Good catch!

I guess no one can submit that list of bit hacks ever again, unless the dupe-catcher is changed or someone figures out a way to access it from an alternate URL (the site says we're not free to mirror it, even if we're free to use the hacks).
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The thing you have to understand about the NoSQL crowd is there's no actual thinking here, just religious fervour.
Can you elaborate on what X is? Is it a literal? A variable? An expression? A function call? A declaration? A constant? A pointer? etc?

Asking the right question provides half of the solution already.
Exactly! People act differently from site-to-site and the more that you force one unified system, the more ancillary sites will begin to grow!
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Why not go ahead and help them? I'm sure they'd be happy to have the assistance. Fork mongo from github at https://github.com/mongodb/mongo . Happy hacking!
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This is a stunning article, which deserves a close reading if you are advertising online and paying per click. If you've wondered why some of the clicks you've paid for seem to come from very unlikely sources, you might have an answer.

In this scheme, a 'fraudulent' site buys traffic from a 'legitimate' one in the form of a popup or popunder. In some way they get a page opened that they have control over. This page includes a number of invisible iframes, each of which loads a URL for an innocent looking parked domain that belongs to an ad network. So far no one has been defrauded.

But instead of just loading and not displaying that ad-laden page parked page, the site redirects the user's browser to act as if it has clicked on one of those ads. The results of this click are never seen by the user, as it's in a hidden iframe, but the contents are delivered to the user's browser. From an IP and HTTP header analysis it looks a lot like a real user had clicked on the ad.

The owner of the parked domains then collects a few cents per click, or really, per redirect. And it's very hard for the ad network to realize that they've been had. As Panos points out, they might not even look too hard, since they're making more per fraudulent click than the scammer. And the advertiser would have to go pretty deep to figure out that the click was fake, since the content was actually delivered to a legitimate user, just not one who ever actually saw the ad.
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Generally, X != X if evaluating X has side effects, or relies on any non-constant global state that might change (for example, in a multi-threaded program or in the presence of volatile data in C)
Good ideas are dime a dozen. I don't doubt your idea. What I doubt is your readiness to run a startup. You have to be ready to sacrifice pretty much everything, and at times, your family too. So the question you have to ask yourself is, are you willing to give up your comfortable life to work hard like you never have before just to have a chance. There will be many unknowns and you have to learn most things as you go along, make many mistakes, and experience many disappointments.
If you make it through, it will be one of the most rewarding experience of your life.
It's been said many times before, running a startup is just compressing all the hard work you'd have to endure in your career into a few years. When you're ready to leave the safety net it's when you're ready for a startup life.
Good luck!
This is Anonymous we're talking about. Isn't "16 year old girl" a well-known colloquialism on 4chan, normally used to convey the stereotype of a middle-aged, balding geek still living in his parent's basement who likes to use fake online personas? Forbes got trolled in a monumental fashion.
X could be .999...
.9 repeating is a numerical number that technically does not equal itself, although I'm sure most compilers would round the number to 1; so I'm not sure if it's what your looking for. But as for a boolean, or an integer that would fit that solution, I cant think of any time that it could occur.

x = .999...
10x = 9.999...
10x-x = 9.999... - .999...
9x = 9
x = 1
.999... != 1
Yeah, I suppose there was a "Quora engineers vandalized a Quora-clone site (with an xss vulnerability)" discussion going on, and my attention immediately zeros in on the xss enabled vandalization as being "the important news", and the response I saw (and commented on) was all about the "Quora clone" accusation (which I don't find very interesting).

(see my other comment downthread for clarification)
Great article, it helped a lot!
While that's certainly possible (if they had the same density and no planet was more dense), it's more likely a copy and paste error.
He doesn't cite many examples/sources, but the PARC lab and spin-offs seem to be a huge exception: laser printer, mouse, windows, postscript, ethernet.

Granted, they're not fundamental science, but they were, at least, innovations.
My first thought was "do clones count as kin for the 'closest of kin' statements in that license?"

Last thing this guy needs is more reasons for his clones to kill him.
Sure it's plausible. The suggested _secure_ way of wiping a harddrive is to override it with random data (since a typical delete simply drops an entry from a table, making data retrieval trivial (in the current context)).

What I don't understand is that in a context of a court (and this group of competent professionals), password disclosure _should_ be considered self-incrimination (although there was at least one case in the UK where a judge came up with some loophole reasoning around that). Disclosure of multiple passwords ("we didn't like what we found, do you have any other passwords?") would certainly be obtained under great duress.
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I've hung out in the anonops irc quite a bit, and `k certainly comes across as female. I hadn't linked her to the Kayla > YOU spam before, but that was almost 3 years ago, now. If it is a constructed identity, then it's been carefully cultivated.

It is an awesome story, though. Regardless of whether it's true or not, it's effective at both rallying the neckbeards and shaming opponents. It's funny to see how much deference is paid to her on IRC, although I only started going there after news of the HBGary incident broke, so she already had quite a lot of cred.

`k may or may not be a 16 year old girl, but it's a hell of a troll if she isn't. I'm not aware of many anons who could pull something like that off for so long. There were a few back in the day who had managed to become trusted enough at anontalk to get promoted to wiseguys, but that took a couple months, not a couple years. For that reason, as well as her general demeanor, I'm inclined to believe her.
The spec just needed to be about an embedding of SQLite specifically.
A large part of the design of Truecrypt is that nobody CAN prove there's an alternate partition. Or, you can decrypt your secondary alternate partition under duress to reveal your real hidden one. Maybe put some token warez on it or something.

To make sure that you can't distinguish free space from encrypted noise, you have to write random noise everywhere as part of the filesystem creation process.

The one thing Truecrypt is vulnerable to is that you can note what parts changed -- say they raid your house twice and image it between when you used it. Then they'll know that free space isn't really free.
It's basically an interactive shader editor with some great presets. Let's you see the code and the resulting effect basically in realtime.
You need monads to do any IO, that's not an easy first lesson. And you are a great distance from hardware.
Save for one fact, there is no law which prohibits the owning of animals or planet, or indentured servitude of animals or plants. Thus what Monsanto does is enforceable while this would likely not be.
I find this "where you went to school" concept to be the most contentious aspect of YC selection.

It shouldn't be contentious because it doesn't matter. It's nothing like as important as the answer to the "most impressive thing you've built or achieved" question. When I'm reading through applications, the school a founder went to barely registers. I'm more interested in whether they've clearly explained what they're doing and whether they seem determined enough to pull it off.
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Person is shot.
> Add in the admission she deletes all her emails and wipes all her drives clean? Really? Does this person memorize every line of code she uses then?

I agree that the persona is bullshit and that 'she' is a probably a mid-to-late 20s male but...

Where does it say that she/he deletes wipes all her drives clean? It only says that (s)he wipes her web accounts. From reading the article, (s)he keeps her personal files/documents on a MicroSD card; quite a smart and disposable solution really.

Perhaps the personal files are encrypted also? It's interesting to imagine what other steps you could take to protect your privacy, it probably wouldn't be too difficult to do alternating sharding at the bits and bytes level over SSH with off-site storage (Half on MicroSD, half off-site), does any tool do something similar currently? You could even put a self-destruct timer on the offsite storage (if last_login > 5 days ago: format hard drive with 40-pass erase) or maybe a kill-switch containing sensitive informatoin (ala Wikileaks).
Also covered here:
http://mashable.com/2011/03/16/visa-personal-payments/

"...to send and receive funds to any eligible Visa credit, debit or prepaid account anywhere in the world."
In this particular case, better late than never. I'm also relatively certain that Visa will be in a strong position to dominate the space, if only because of their brand presence.

I'd much rather get online with my Visa Card (which is hooked up directly to my bank account, as it is for many other PNC customers and, I'm guessing, customers of other banks) to transfer money to my friend than I would write him a check. On the other hand, I don't have a Paypal account, and would be unlikely to want to screw with it.

I think there will be a lot of people who see this like I do.
no, that still does not make sense.

If there is a click on an adserver, where is it in this bunch of redirects?
I still get a chuckle out of it, too. Then again, how else do you end up in a debate class full of basketball players who are gonna win the NCAAA Championship later in the semester?
Couldn't they just attempt to fill the "outside" partition up? I mean, let's say you have a 1TB partition with a 100GB hidden volume inside. What happens if somebody tries to write more than 900GB into the outside partition?
An accident at a nuclear facility is rather dfferent than the effects of a nuclear weapon. The radiation exposure produced is much more gradual. It's not as instantly lethal as a bomb of course, but the effects of Chernobyl are still lingering.

Obviously they didn't have to encase Nagasaki or Hiroshima in a concrete sarcophagus. The bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were fairly small, and air burst vs. ground burst. The amount of radioactive material in the bombs is a tiny fraction of what was released at Chernobyl.

People are fond of saying you can't compare Chernobyl to other reactors, etc. but it's all we had until recently. I'm sure we'll have some better examples in the future, but for now, according to the IEAE: http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/features/chernobyl-15/cherno-...

"How does Chernobyl’s effect measure up to the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

The accident at Chernobyl was approximately 400 times more potent than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima"

I assume things would look different in Japan if we had dropped a couple hundred of those bombs vs. one.
It is the same for any trade. Be it design, programming and anything else. None of us were born with it.

Designers had to study design, read books and then practice this thousand times before we are any good. I am sure even if I read programming books and learn how to code that is just the first step. I will have to program for atleast 10,000 hours before I am really good.

Few people are able to reduce that 10,000 hours stretch to 1000 hours but that period of intense practice will and always remain.

If a designer feels a new person cannot learn to design they are wrong. If they feel they cannot be a good designer, they are right for the next 10,000 hours.
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Funny how fast things can get done if you scream loud enough.
"The first time I saw FSB packet descriptions I had a huge “ahhh!” moment so I hope someone out there gets the same benefit."

I think he means "aha!" moment, but it certainly could go either way.
And the underlying assumption is that designers give Photoshop files as their final output, right?
It's a question of scale. Modules become increasingly important for larger projects. It's a form of infrastructure, ridiculous for a birdhouse, essential for a city.
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When Amazon was just getting started they had a bell strung up to ring whenever they got a sale. You're in good company.

http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-billionaire-jeff-bezos...
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You can't find an undone open source project?

There are no undone open source projects!

They're all undone.

There are always features to add and bugs to fix. Except maybe for TeX.
PCI is a great, not-too-mathy primer. Let me also add that Drew Conway and Johnny Myles White are working on a ML-type cookbook. Should be available soon via O'Reilly (I think).
If you're burnt out on using Java for introductory courses, consider using Groovy. (http://groovy.codehaus.org/). It takes a lot of the pain and boilerplate code out of java, making it easier for students to focus on what they're actually doing and not writing "public static void main String args" all of the time.

Similar to your example, this is a valid groovy program:

println "Hello!"

But, unlike Python or Ruby, you're still in the Java world so migrating back to to pure Java is a lot easier. Though, the shrieks of pain you'll endure when you explain why they now have to write constructors or getters and setters might hurt. :-)
Some MIT students tried this with music CDs in a project called LAMP (the Library Access to Music Project) back in the early 2000s. Kids could use the internet to select and listen to CDs played automatically via jukeboxes over one of 16 dedicated cable channels, which was hooked up to the audio for their chosen CD.

As far as I know, it's still running over there on campus, perfectly legal (though a current student could tell us for sure - I haven't tried to use it since 2006.) So there's some precedent for this sort of scheme working without lawyers descending on it. Of course, suing students would have been far more uncouth than suing a for-profit organization.

http://lamp.mit.edu/lamp-qa.html
> Feels like a scripting language, but you get static typing and the performance of a compiled language.

Exactly. I'm a longtime enthusiastic Python programmer and reluctant C++ programmer, and for me Go is the first language that could realistically replace both Python and C++ for my programming.

For me the killer features of Go are:

- Go code is almost as compact as Python but--especially for numeric code--much, much faster.

- You never have to wait for the compiler! Everything I've written compiles and links in a fraction of a second.

- Easy CSP-style concurrency: goodbye races and deadlocks w/ threaded code.

Note too that, apart from the C runtime and low-level OS interfacing stuff, the entire Go standard library is written in Go itself. Contrast this w/ "scripting"/dynamic languages like Python or Ruby where much of the standard library has to be written in C for performance.

(FWIW I have published some open source Go code on Github at http://github.com/jbarham and the beginnings of an AWS library at http://code.google.com/p/goaws/.)
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Well David Carson wasn't really a designer (so maybe he didn't knew the rules) and most designer still hate his guts.

I like his style, but I'd say that he is more of an artist than a designer. Not that shere's something wrong with that.
I really like these. Thank you for sharing.
Person has a GunShotWound, which is a subclass of Wound. (cf. AbrasionWound, LacerationWound, etc.) Also note the new properties such as bulletType, entryPoint, and fragmentationPattern.
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Whoever it is, they are a genius of deception. Check this out: http://pastebin.com/tSiQevxe

Kayla first asks for root password using two passwords that she already has but might not necessarily be the root one. She also already knows that remote root isn't allowed. This way:

1) She'd get the root password e-mailed to her if it wasn't one of those two. "No, it's not those, it's '<password>'."

2) She sets up her point of entry.

Great stuff.
I find your sample harder to read. Reading the current line I easily get distracted by the next, either because it's too close or too bold.

Thing is it's mostly subjective, so YMMV.
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Sorry. It's Java. The GunShotWound has to come from a GunShotWoundFactory.
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Got it!

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Some behaviour that trips up new programmers in C:

"test" != "test"

Edit: To be specific, it results in undefined behaviour. The compiler may in fact allocate only a single block of memory for two literals if they are the same, which would allow this to evaluate to true.
Have seen it, but never used it. It looks decently active on the forums, despite the home page showing an award from 2007 (and looking older than that)... how's the community / code health? On something like a .NET-to-Ruby/Python scale? I'll keep it in mind for any future Java necessities.
I should note, this isn't my project, but my professor's (I've worked on other projects with him). He's blogged about the background of the project here:

http://indigenoustweets.blogspot.com/2011/03/welcomefailte.h...

and I've blogged independently about it on my site:

http://mschade.me/indigenous-tweets-true-worldwide-twitter-d...

I might be just a tad biased, but I really do think this is a great project. Twitter obviously wants to make discovery easier on their site (by suggesting users, making it easy to search for friends), but they fall short when it comes to helping members of language communities connect.
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> You are aware that everything is an object in Python, too, right?

Python is missing encapsulation and message passing. It's object model seems to be similar to something like PHP or JavaScript: objects are essentially hashes. In practice, that's not a huge deal, but they aren't quite the same.

This is not important for beginning programmers, but for programmers thinking about their toolset more information can only help.