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You might try the lede:

The apocalyptic visions of destruction brought by the Japanese earthquake and subsequent tsunami have been largely replaced in the media this week by reports of the struggle to control radiation from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant.

Japan hasn't lost any area. Unlike Chernobyl's reactors, which were still fissioning at the time of the disaster, Japan's were not stuffed full of burning graphite.
> If Catalonia has its own TLD, why not California or Maine?

Politics.
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This is pretty good timing given we (Akshell) submitted to YC last night. Bad timing in the sense that I've only had two hours of sleep.
Thanks for the explanation. After taking a look at the certificates that come with Windows, I can see that there are dozens of trusted root certificates, issued by some organizations that I've never heard of. Can I really trust those "root ca"? especially that I noticed some differences between the two PCs that I've checked!
Well I'm shocked. It's not often that I (as a Sprint user) get a cool new ability before people on other networks.
The support of wingnuts like Kucinich and Paul guarantees that an issue will be ignored by 99.8% of the country.
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because DNSSEC isn't required.

As an example, if i mitm your dhcp request, i insert myself in as your dns server and gateway and i just say that DNSSEC isn't enabled for this domain. You have to trust me, and I can give you a MITM'd page.

Similarly dnssec uses a very similar model. You need somebody to sign that your record is valid which is roughly the same as somebody signing your certificate as valid. They are both a chain of trust, they just differ slightly in implementation.

I do agree with you that using dnssec makes more sense then our current system.
He didn't raise a stink about Twitter trying to monetize, he raised a stink about them making a well-designed app ugly and less relevant to its users.
Don't mind me, I'm just going out to smash a few looms.

http://www.cottontown.org/page.cfm?language=eng&pageID=5...
This is pretty much why I switched my career from Java development to Ruby and Rails.

Java is a fine language and I still enjoy programming in it. The problem is that a large portion of the professional community is very obsessed with these huge frameworks, libraries, and convoluted design patterns. I often faced a lot of opposition trying to simplify our Java platform at my previous job. In the end we were able to completely replace jboss with a simple tomcat instance, which is vastly simpler and much quicker/easier to develop with.
It is not a Stack Exchange site. The closest SE site on this topic would be the programming puzzles site at http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/
> This conversion does not sound so trivial to me generally. At times converting from a dynamic language to a statically typed language requires either a change of code architecture or a massive refactoring operation.

I didn't claim that it was necessarily trivial. However, I'm happy to claim that it is very rarely required. What is it that they say about premature optimization?

That said, I think that you're overstating the amount of work. As our python friends keep demonstrating, the amount of code that is actually performance-critical is usually fairly small and can be handled by special means once you get things relatively stable.

And, when it is required, it may be an indication of massive success. If you wrote the first version, said massive success may make the conversion someone else's problem. :-)

> Not corrects, just detects. I have at times faced issues when code runs for half-an-hour and then crashes just because a the given object could not be converted to the needed new type at run-time. My reaction: "Sigh! I wish the compiler told me earlier during compile-time!"

No optimization produces speedups in every situation.

As to that particular problem, I develop in dynamic languages so I "never" have that problem after a significant amount of run-time.

To me, it's important to remember that dynamically and statically typed languages give you different rope with which to hang yourself, so it's best to program with that in mind.

To put it another way, it is generally agreed that it's a bad idea to write fortran in other languages even though it is possible. Why would you think that it would be a good idea to write static in a dynamic language or the reverse?
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I think this project would be far more useful as a computer-science-version of Project Euler (http://projecteuler.net/). People could then compete on full, working implementations of common interview questions in a variety of languages, that must execute on e.g. Codepad (http://codepad.org/), rather than posting what seem to be really wishy-washy, hand-wavy answers to puerile questions.

Then, perhaps with strong moderation, only questions that demand some compromises should be accepted. e.g. implement a container that can be traversed both forwards and backwards. What are the complexities of your container? How could you improve X, and what would the cost be? etc.
Slick design, however, I don't understand the buttons. Why is 'eval' a joystick and commit a box?

Also, whenever I hit Preview I get a 500.
Yes, that's a valid request, and we'll work on it. For now - if you want, you can revoke access by going to Facebook Privacy settings --> Apps & Websites ---> there you can revoke access.
awesome work, but FWIW, the first thing I get in the git console for help is two lines of "undefined", and an internal server error for "lol" in the eval screen, using chrome on ubuntu. But you are probably being overloaded ATM so I'll just wait and try again later :)
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We're changing that joystick to a VCR like play button.

The commit one being a box hints at a shell or terminal, since we couldn't find an official Git icon. Could maybe put the GitHub Octocat there - what do you think?
Here in Nairobi, we've had 3g on safaricom for a long time.
I think it was less about speed and more about trying to replace peoples' editor / workflow. People are very particular about the tools they use and putting the editor and deployment in the browser doesn't do much in terms of productivity (and probably more counterproductive than anything else)

Screenshot: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/2/7/write-rails-apps-in-y...
Yes, we're being hammered pretty hard. Thanks for pointing this out, will look into it right away.
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Sometimes we really bang our heads against the wall to find some new revolutionary idea. But what we seem to miss is that proper execution of an already existing idea is pure gold!

Take for instance mp3 players from a decade ago, they had little capacity, were a pain to update and didn't have great software to manage them. So apple, "revolutionized" the industry by executing better.

So with that in mind, I invite you to read the complaints on this MINT.com customer service thread http://satisfaction.mint.com/mint/topics/known_issue_bank_of_america_account_update_issues?from_gsfn=true seems like an opportunity or reinforcement of the work some of you may already be doing.
The philosopher regurgitates a tired old argument that convexity always leads to bias in probabilistic assessment; and that this bias is always in the same direction. This is why you can bet on long-shots all day long at the races and make lots of money (what are on Earth are you waiting for?).

It is just possible, of course, that Taleb has confused "mean" acute fatality risk with the probability of at least one fatality.

http://quantapology.blogspot.com/2011/03/nassim-taleb-has-me...
I normally contact someone who is on a completely different internet connection to myself. I asked a friend of mine who lives the other side of the world to tell me what he saw the cert in question as, and it did not match the cert I was being given, so I rejected it.
Just the word "factory" sends chills down my spine.

I think it may have even influenced my decision to use Machinist instead of factory_girl as my fixture replacement in Rails.
Not sure what the complete answer is, but part of it is that spoken Arabic varies quite between Arab countries. Do you try to match the pronunciation within that country or the way it would be pronounced in standard Arabic?
I had similar thoughts when I talked to people from Israel. My understanding is now that they can more or less define freely how they are mapping their official hebrew name to latin characters (passport contains both versions).

Similar problem imo and that in spite of being the country "in charge of hebrew".
Damn! Can't type ω with option-03C9 even with the unicode hex input turned on in macosx! Hope CΩ satisfies them :)
Thanks for pointing out the 500 error occurring for new apps. Existing apps are unaffected and we are looking into it.
Hey sorry to hear that you could not find any connection paths.

1. Can you tell me if the direct connection you were looking for, was it a facebook or linkedin connection? This is really surprising that you could not find a direct connection.. we'll definitely look into it.

2. Re. text in the search bar -we'll make it more clear. Right now, we just have 'name' search, and advanced search like 'company' search is on the cards in the near future.

3. Re. Logout link - we'll look into that as well.

4. Cross connections - actually, cross connection paths are already there, unfortunately we could not find one for you.. hope to get there soon!

Do give it a try after a while, and tell us if your experience is any diff. from now! And thanks for checking it out.
I'm surprised no one has suggested a vim or emacs plugin that does this yet. Anyone?

I don't think this would be too difficult to write in vim, which has built-in auto-complete functions.
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I actually consider physical books to have negative resale value. I recently moved to Japan so I wanted to get rid of all my heavy belongings. I listed all my books on an auction site and on bookmooch. All in all I ended up spending hours thinking about those books, mailing them, meeting people who came to pick them up etc. and all for some insignificant sum compared to the time spent. It would have been cheaper to throw them in the trash, but being a physical thing potentially useful for someone, I didn't have the heart to do that.
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Octocat gets my vote.
I know YC looks at the founder(s) & little about their idea. I am sure they never consider their color anyway.
I recently got spam from a degree mill, with a (literal) truckload of spelling and other mistakes (no more sure if it's in English or German).

Spam, usually goes the way of the dodo, but this piece was so hillarious I actually forwarded it to a number of spam hating friends.

When you pretend to provide "any degree" in "no time" "anywhere" you should at least get the spelling in your spam right.
It may not be obvious from media reports, but Daiichi's 1, 2, and 3 reactors were in full operation when hit by the earthquake, and all three successfully executed emergency shutdowns within a matter of seconds. This was the single most important thing to happen, since It reduced the heat generation virtually immediately, without which it it is highly likely that at least one would have lost containment prior to emergency measures of the last few days working. The lack of graphite may have made that survivable for Japan, but the plant itself would have been virtually impossible to recover, and continuing failures would have been very, very bad for neighboring communities. (They'll probably all get to go back a few weeks after the plant is secured.)

Some minutes after the earthquake, the tsunami physically hit Daiichi and Daini. (You haven't heard of Daini in about a week because we've reestablished control there.) It wiped out their diesel generators and external power lines, because both had tolerances in the five to six meter range for tsunamis and the actual wVe was nine to ten.

Things, incredibly, still didn't go to pot immediately. They worked on battery backup for a few hours, but couldn't get an emergency plan in operation in time without power. That's when things started to get bad, principally with overheating from waste heat causing radioactive steam/hydrogen explosions, which were the first cause of radioactivity spikes and have complicated all the disaster response since. (Though, perversely, the fact that Daiichi 3 had a steam/hydrogen explosion blow the roof off made the spent fuel pool accessible to water delivered without entering the building, without which getting a hose inside would have been a one-way trip.)
I've been to the shantytowns outside of Accra, Ghana with full HSPA. It's spotty, yes, but so is it in Stockholm. As the article says, when Africa moves it moves fast.
Verizon has claimed that their disclosure of customer's private data is protected by the first amendment.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2007/05/verizon-says...

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Michael Seibel CEO of Justin.tv comes to mind.
Glassdoor has already been revealing companies' interview questions for years - I'm not sure why you're getting worked up now.
In print, Arabic uses MSA (Modern Standard Arabic) [1]. Much like Latin (now), it's simply a written language. Spoken there are many dialects. There is however a vast difference between the dialects and MSA. I read one description that said French is to Latin what Colloquial Jordanian Arabic is to MSA. Not knowing Arabic at all I can't speak to the truth of that claim.

As one could guess, illiteracy is a bigger problem in Arabic countries because of this.

Now as for transcription of Arabic characters to English, it is difficult [2], partly because the concepts don't necessarily translate and also because pronunciations vary between Arabic dialects.

Also, the fact that Arabic is spoken in many countries means there is no central authority, much like English.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Standard_Arabic

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Arabic
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One important note: most Americans are honest and some will go well out of their way to do the right thing. I think there's actually more of the latter (people going well out of their way to help others) in the U.S. than in many other countries. If you lose something in the U.S. and there's a way for a person who finds it to return it to you, your odds are well above 50% of getting it back. Possibly 90%. This number is pretty constant across racial and geographic lines. Oddly enough, measured honestly rates tend to be slightly lower at the socioeconomic top and bottom than in the middle. At the bottom, it's because of economic desperation. At the top, it's because people are so used to a sense of winning and entitlement that they enjoy "beating the system". I'd argue that, at all levels, class-based resentments are the reason for lower levels of honesty among Americans.

Japan has something much closer to a "middle-class society" or classlessness than we do. They have rich and poor, but not in the way we do, and economic status doesn't persist over generations as in the U.S. For example, the earthquake victims are in for a very difficult few years-- more difficult than most people in the industrialized world ever experience-- but they're not going to fall to the bottom of society because of this. In the U.S., they easily could. I know PhDs in the U.S. who end up in $7/hour retail jobs after developing health problems, losing their jobs, their insurance, and their savings.

The biggest difference in the U.S. is that we have a large, angry underclass that (justly) considers itself failed by society and hates it. We also have a tiny but invincible upper class that gets away with literal robbery and tends to set the moral pace in our society: kids in academic cheating scandals generally say they're just preparing for the real world, and they're more accurate than we'd like to admit. "Most people cheat" is false, but "most of society's biggest winners are cheaters" is true.

I think the contempt for society and ethical behavior that you see in a visible few Americans is based in social class, not anything else. Every society has poor people, but our underclass comprises 20-40 percent of the population. It has a mix of people who've fallen into it recently (from the disintegrated bottom of the middle class) and who are angry, and it has families that have been in it for tens of generations and have been nurturing grudges forever. Also, not all looters and ruffians are in this underclass, because there are a lot of opportunistic middle-class people who adopt "thug" culture for kicks. In the U.S., we enable cultural illnesses (mean-spirited conservatism, religious bigotry, lower-class "thug" culture) that other societies have the sense of marginalize.
Brilliant maneuver by these two companies. As if I needed another reason to wish more carriers carried the iPhone.

I look forward to Google Voice being something people understand as a feature of their service plan rather than some mystery google product that makes calling me more confusing than before.
For me the only appeal is connecting in line with my work and interests rather than my circle of friends and friends of friends on Facebook. If the kind of people I follow (use that losely I guess because I only look at it occasionally miss a heap of Tweets) moved to a platform which allowed longer form conversation and better image/video/link support I would have no problem moving on.

As it stands the threaded, no character limit format on hacker news is far better for getting insights on topics I care about than Twitter.
Good Question. It would be interesting to hear about the experiences minority programmers have had in the startup scene (in our out of YC).
> If I call a local number by only using its seven-digit number, WP7 never, ever figured out to map it to the relevant contact. My old Motorola RAZR phones did that.

What part of the country still allows 7 digit dialing?
I don't care about the topic, but I had to read the article to find out how to parse the headline.

Which, for the curious, is: To succeed in Africa, Google needs Android.
Stupid question but what colorscheme is used for the editor? It's so easy on eyes.
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As a black person why do you think this is?
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No one country to 'officially' manage it is likely a big factor, as is the fact that Arabic has a sort of diglossia between Modern Standard Arabic and the "dialects" spoken in each country. For names in particular, they are sometimes transcribed in a more phonetic way, trying to capture how people actually pronounce them in, say, Libya or Morocco or Egypt; and other times are transcribed in a more structural/etymological way based on the spelling, following one of the schemes for transcribing the Arabic alphabet into English, which are usually based on Modern Standard Arabic.

Greek has a version of the same variation, despite not having modern-day diglossia and being mostly associated with one country, because of the ancient/modern relationship. For example, the large peninsula in southern Greece, Χαλκιδική, is spelled: Halkidiki, Halkithiki, Halkidhiki, Chalcidice, Chalcidiki, Khalkidhiki, Chalkidike, etc. Some of the transliterations attempt to capture how it's pronounced in modern Greek (Halkidiki is close, but Khalkidhiki captures some of the nuance better if you know what the 'kh' and 'dh' sounds are supposed to be), others try to transcribe the Greek alphabet using one of the standard schemes for either ancient or modern Greek (Chalcidice is the classic transliteration), and others do some mixture.

People tend to have strong opinions as well; classicists and etymologists don't like the obscuring of spelling that the phonetic transcriptions produce, but Greeks wince at people pronouncing Halkidiki as if it started with the English word "chalk" and ended with "dice". I imagine many Arabs similarly favor the more phonetic spellings for their names.
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Black people only make up 13% of the population. [1] Most people forget this fact when judging race in a population.

1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Stat...
I don't see it. And the FREE TRIAL button implies there's some sort of subscription fee. Uhh, hardly a "competitor."
Alright, but shouldn't the solution be to allow the user to use either Google's keyboard or the built-in(by using textarea)?

The built-in one has a dictionary and some autocompletion, which could be good or annoying... :)
That section was updated not long after it was published, which must be about a year ago now with:

"Update: spatial intra prediction apparently dates back to Nokia’s MVC H.26L proposal, from around ~2000. It’s possible that Google believes that this is sufficient prior art to invalidate existing patents — which is not at all unreasonable!"

Which is a bit less worrying than your quote of "patent time-bomb waiting to happen." from two sentences above.

Also, on the number of patents which you number as "hundreds", MPEG-LA only has 164 non-expired patents in the US, about 120 of which can be dismissed out of hand as they apply to techniques or technology that WebM simply doesn't use (e.g. CABAC) which leaves only 44 US patents for Google to dodge, work-around, invalidate or come to an agreement with the owners of.
> With proper sub-typing the implementation of the current execution path should be easier to read

I'm not sure how the existence of virtual functions makes the execution path easier to read...
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Was just thinking about this, it would be great if they did do targeted advertising and did it through an API, so 3rd party clients could choose to include ads and both Twitter and the 3rd party takes a cut, or allow them to continue without advertising but ban other advertising meaning that they can only monetise by selling the app or including Twitter ads.
The biggest problem is that the lectures are slooowww. It's almost impossible not to let your mind wander and start thinking about other stuff. The problem with going fast as a teacher is that not every student grasps things at the same speed, and different students grasp different things at different speeds. This is where videos shine; the teacher can go fast because the student can rewind if he missed something.
I went to look at his "Working at the Ubuntu Command-Line Prompt", I was interested but there's no information whatsoever (not even table of contents) about this book in his web site or in the Amazon page.
Thanks for writing this up, it's interesting to see how this came to fruition.

I also can't believe all the shit in the TC comments. People really have nothing better to do with their time than rain on someone else parade, I guess.