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Create Your Own iPhone Apps Without Coding Using Appmakr
A newly released tool Appmakr allows you to create iPhone apps without any limitations. It has a browser based environment which allows you to create apps without using any coding.
I am going to go get some with the filthiest tonight!
This is doing the opposite - comments drag a submission down. In this scheme it's upvoting without commenting that push an item up.
'Child of Eden' for Kinect trailer released
sudo apt-get install bpython
;)
After a bit of testing I am starting some more serious Nginx+Lua development.

The big advantage is that it is a pretty mature http stack that is tested in production at scale, unlike some of the newer frameworks (that you probably run behind nginx anyway). It still has some limitations like the proxy module only supports http 1.0 and some of the chunked encoding stuff is partial at this point, but it is generally sufficient.

Luajit is really fast and nice to use (the ffi interface can call C directly) and coroutines mean that blocking calls can just drop back to the event loop. You have to write anything blocking as an nginx module though, hence this collection of modules as a bundle.

Having a real programming language in the context of a web server is nice, you can either do small things like write complex auth that you might otherwise have a proxy for, or you can write full content handlers.

Agentzh is pretty helpful on the nginx list with issues too.
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F-Secure didn't find it either, and hasn't seen a peak in StarLogger detections:
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002132.html
Your translation is quite literal. I wonder whether we can find a more idiomatic one.
I submit that your neighbors wouldn't allow several companies to repeatedly dig up roads, driveways and lawns. Also, at some point you just can't add another set of lines in the ground.
Awesome, I'll use WePay in a heartbeat if you can provide similar functionality without the headache.
Again, as I replayed to another comment here:

They are confusing things here, they can add whatever search engine they like but it won't get the 'With Google' approval sticker unless it uses Google Apps and services.

They are confusing the none-fragmentation approval sticker with total prevention, which is quite frankly dishonest on the part of businessweek.
I would, and I do. Coding is much more fun than doing repetitive tasks, and once it's done you are just so much quicker in completing that particular task. This is true even for very simple tasks. For example I have to copy some files to a network share once a month or so. It does not take much time to do manually, but I had to open a file explorer, search the source folder, ctrl+a, ctrl+c, search the destination folder and ctrl+v.

Now it's just a doubleclick on a .cmd file on my desktop.
Why don't we just fork the standard? It's just a document.
Man tapped to replace Buffet resigns amid questionable stock purchases
A Quick Look at the Rust Programming Language
Yes, not technically modifying the OS itself. But PC OSs are extensible -- manufacturers often implement/bundle their own power management, wifi authentication mechanisms, disk monitors, etc, and of course apps.

Not to say that any of it is actually helpful, but then neither is the crap that Motorola, HTC, Sony-Ericsson, Samsung, and friends bolt onto Android.
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Here's the thing. Most of calculus's power comes from its use as a mechanical calculational system. Hence the name. Archimedes's proof of the surface area and volume of a sphere is far more insightful and explanatory than the standard calculational proof using integration that any unthinking freshman can crank through with ease. As a rule, calculation proceeds by reducing a big problem into a sequence of small, easily dispatched problems, but human understanding usually works the opposite way. So, it's not that calculus cannot be taught in a way that highlights human understanding, but the greatest strength of calculus is that it produces answers whether you understand what you are doing or not.
Assuming things are as they appear to be from the Samsung response (as, IMO, seems very likely), one of the things that strikes me here was that the "research" that a security "expert" conducted seems incredibly sloppy.

Did he actually look in the Windows/SL directory? Did he compare the contents to those that StarLogger actually installs (a trial version is available for download)? This seems like pretty basic stuff. Did he ask Microsoft what a Windows/SL directory might be?
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> I can't think of a recent new feature or product that was a big success, which is disappointing.

Google Chrome?
Ask HN: Anyway around WSJ.com's paywall?
All this talk about getting around NYT's paywall.

Does anyone have a solution for WSJs ? A bookmarklet maybe ?
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I like this article a lot.

How about a restaurant for three-somes full of tables for 3 and spring rolls that divide equally?

A clothing brand that only sells one color/type of jeans, one t-shirt and one button down. Instead of launching new collections every season, launch one new product. Like a belt. It would stand out.
If you don't get the fundamentals down, you can't handle the applications. Wax on, wax off - boring but effective. But you also need to spend time putting those fundamentals to work.

The real question is, why do you need assessment? To test that most kids are getting the fundamentals? Easy. Have a few core tests. To check that class time is also devoted to creative stuff, and not just drills? That's a management problem. You can't test whether or not kids have had (say) 50% of their time doing fun non-core work, but you can regulate that through other means.
primary sources is known to be one of the worst way to study any field, especially when you are not familiar with it, because you lack the context, and because they are rarely written for the profane. This is all the more true for maths: have you ever read a math books from the XIXth century ? This is almost impenetrable, if only because of the formulation
Why don't you just pay?
You'd be surprised.

For the least few years the place I'm currently working has used a remote development exercise as the first filter for applicants - send a simple programming task that should only take an hour or two and look at the results that come back.

50% of applications get rejected based on a quick skim of the code submitted - not for subtle reasons either, with the most common problem being solution complexity that is wildly disproportionate to the complexity of the problem (especially when the notes on the task explicitly warn against this).
I don't see what this has to do with the issue being discussed - that having made open-source contributions is an important factor in getting hired.

We're not talking about companies demanding that you do open-source work for them before getting hired. It's about the idea that having some code publicly available somewhere is a good way to improve your chance of being hired.
My cynical take is that sometimes these things are packaged together, knowing they will fail, just so one party can use it as a negative campaigning tool in the next election: "Party X voted against <insert topic>"
I was curious, so I Googled their website.

http://www.nesecc.com/

Not impressed.
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Strange: Microsoft Files Complaint against Google for Search Dominance in EU
You may be right. People were talking about a bubble for several years back in the late 90s before it finally burst in 2000, so there's no reason to assume this one will be any faster.

That's actually why I was looking at investing in Amazon AWS; I don't have enough money to invest in startups, but I was hoping that I could buy some stock in something that would grow as startups do; the old metaphor of buying the company that sells shovels to gold prospectors. That's why I was a bit disappointed that AWS is such a small part of Amazon's service, because it meant that I couldn't use them that way -- and because they're such a massively dominant player in the hosting market, there seemed to be little point in investing in (eg.) Rackspace instead.

Still, my investment track record is kind of spotty, so I may well be totally wrong with that strategy anyway.
Success; that is the theory. Prosperity supposes capacity. Win in the lottery, and you are an able man. The victor is venerated. Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great. Beyond the five or six great exceptions, which are the wonder of their age, contemporary admiration is nothing but shortsightedness. - Victor Hugo
I was able to find one through their website (http://www.joulies.com/videos)

Direct link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRpfYAaMRIE
If this is true, sadly the damage has already been done. How many people are going to think Samsung ships with a keylogger ?
Well some of the videos look interesting but I don't agree with the title, what is recreational math?

It would be great if Maths could be made more interesting and students make their own unique discoveries etc. However as a former maths teacher I can tell you that structure exists for a reason.

In a class of maybe 30 students for one hour, the teacher can afford to give at best only 2 mins average time to each student. Some students may work very well independently, but others would take advantage of the freedom to mess about.

Even if the students were focused how is a teacher with so little time per student supposed to pick up a random piece of work and then decide if the child is doing something of worth.

The Maths curriculum needs to be rethought for the information age, but the solutions need to be practical.
I feel like this unrest among device manufacturers and carriers is the main reason why an alternative Android stack (With Bing Search/Maps and Amazon AppStore, and possibly some input from Facebook) might be a success.

Google can effectively kill off this effort by making next versions of Android close-source but that would heavily tarnish their reputation. So I feel like it's very unlikely.

Google can effectively keep them half-a-version behind, though by giving an access to a next Android version to a limited group of "blessed" manufacturers but they still have to release at least the GPL-covered portions of source code when those new devices become available for consumers. This is usually some low-level stuff (changes to Linux kernel and maybe some device-integration code), so Amazon & co. don't have to maintain their own stack of device APIs which is a big win for them. On an application level, though, I doubt that as the platform matures being one version behind is a big issue, and Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook can provide effective substitutions for Google software and services and can bring up a compelling UI to attract consumers.
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Many companies built personal computers. Only one built the Mac. Jobs would have found someone else. Being able to make things is not as common a skill as knowing how to make things great.
The problem lies more in this sequence of events

1. Searching for something useful

2. Page takes a while to load

3. Better use this opportunity to check HackerNews (or whatever)

4. Waste 10 minutes

5. Oh yeah, that site already loaded.
In mathematics?

Primary sources are way above the level of most college mathematics students, much less high school or younger students. Almost anything written in the last 50 years requires very advanced mathematical ideas, while anything written before that uses outdated notation which is very difficult to understand. Moreover, the primary sources for common ideas are often spread out over huge periods of refinements - going from a small idea to a general notion over the course of years, perhaps involving dozens of papers by multiple authors. One notable exception to this: Euler's papers. These might be readable by some students, yet when I see them presented in college courses, they are often presented by a secondary source for clarification.

The other thing I don't agree with is your use of the word "interpret." I don't think that it is common to find a mathematician who believes that mathematics is open to interpretation.

Lastly, original research in mathematics is hard. It's not the interpretation of previous ideas (although it is occasionally relating concepts previously thought to be unrelated - some consider this the most important type of mathematical result, but it is much harder to do than you might think), but the formulation of new ideas. Even to know if an idea is new requires a great deal of mathematical training.

Perhaps I'm wrong about this, but I think that for young mathematics students your ideas are unfeasible. Remember that the original sources for a lot of basic mathematics are hundreds of years old. Even Euler's famous writings on geometry (the exception that I said might be workable) were largely a rewriting of previous ideas into a coherent whole - basically a textbook - and could not really be considered an original source.

Edit: my apologies, I misunderstood. I did not realize that we were talking about teaching history, in which case I defer to someone of greater experience.
People eventually see-through the fruity-ass brainwashing and discover that what they currently own is good enough and they don't need the latest magical fruity-ass product.
Show HN: a brain trick 
After reading this sentence you will realize that the the brain doesn’t recognize a second ‘the’. Now you read it to see if that's true.
Concurrent Programming Constructs and First-Class Logic Engines
Why are you trying to discredit everything I have done in the last ~5 years?
Is 'merit' necessarily unrelated to 'privilege'?

Much of our talent and ability is not something we are born with; a meritocracy based on innate ability would be a mess- it would practically boil down to ranking everyone based on their IQ. Instead, a meritocracy is typically going to be based on current ability, and isn't 'privilege' deeply entwined with your ability?

It's not pretty or P-C, but it's not exactly confusing to me that someone with more opportunities for schooling performs better in an environment labeled 'meritocratic'. It's not "Nature", it's "Nature AND Nurture".
Incidentally there is a textbook on calculus that Donald Knuth said he read in his first year at university, and after doing all the problems in it he moved from beginner to top of the class (and thereafter, renowned computing scientist). I think the author was named Thompson, but I haven't seen the book myself. Maybe some people here have?
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While I would agree that a basic programming course might be helpful as a required course for all schools, I don't understand why it should replace Calculus? There is room for both, and they have different goals and advantages/disadvantages. You say yourself that calculus is awesome for several reasons - why do you think we should replace it?

If it is only because a different course might be more practical, you have entered a slippery slope. College is not the same as trade school - we don't learn things because they are practical, but because there is an advantage simply to learning. I believe that all basic college courses should aim to promote critical thinking above all else, as the practicability of any given subject will vary widely between students.
It's a lot easier to translate than "Like", that's good if you are doing business around the globe and only a small part of your audience is in the USA
Typing is not the bottleneck: http://sebastianlab.com/post/140303165/typing-is-not-the-bot...
The magical fairy dust eventually loses its luster, and people discover their current fruity-ass product is good enough. The next magical unicorn is not that much more magical than the last one.
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Maybe it was "Calculus Made Easy", by Silvanus P. Thompson?
That's an old book that explains the basic idea of integration and differentiation, but doesn't try to be rigorous at all. http://www.scribd.com/doc/8533492/Calculus-Made-Easy-by-Silv...
This missile silo "home" popped up on Reddit a few years ago. not sure if it was ever sold, but certainly a unique approach of what to do with old facilities: http://www.silohome.com/
GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons shooting elephants
BDD and DDD are orthogonal.
When you say "real math" do you mean pure maths or applied maths?
To those who downvoted me for "+1" as "vacuous": understand now?
Ask HN: Interview process - 'Exam' for empirical scoring of candidates
As part of an interview process for a senior software development role, we are being asked to create a language-agnostic 'exam' that can be sat as part of the face-to-face interview.

The reason being that we will need to produce non-subjective empirical evidence as part of the justification of who is offered the role.

How would you structure/format it to give the most reasonable results possible?

What sort of questions would you ask?
Mr Hassan's research, which appears to grow in tenuousness with each passing hour, was the sole basis for countless technology news articles that cited this alleged security issue yesterday.

To go public with such questionable supporting evidence seems unfathomable from someone who is, ostensibly, qualified enough to know better.

I sincerely hope any forthcoming apology and subsequent abjuration is given an equal amount of publicity.
taobao.com use php on their front page, so I guess this is used for web services internally and/or used for new developments.

The blog of the main developer[1] is quite interesting, too.

I'm going to have a serious look at it. I've always liked lua (something between tcl and python, language-wise), and even if it doesn't make the cut as a front end solution (because of missing stuff or simply because I'm going with a pure javascript frontend), it would seem to be a good replacement for a non-blocking backend server like node.js.

[1]: http://agentzh.blogspot.com/
I try to automate as much as I can. I also use these little programs/scripts as opportunities to learn something new. Examples:

1. We had a support portal at work which I had to check regularly during the day. I wrote a small program that monitors the relevant page and pops up a taskbar notification when something new arrives. Used the opportunity to learn about taskbar notifications and a little WPF.

2. I sometimes get database backups from customers and have to restore them on my machine, which means opening SQL Management studio, clicking and right clicking a bunch of things. Then I need to add myself as user, change a couple of settings before I can use the database for anything. I wrote a small utility so I can right click on any .bak file in explorer, choose Restore database and update the relevant tables so the database is ready to use right away with the connection string on the clipboard. Also used it as an opportunity to learn about windows 7 taskbar progress bars.

Basically I like doing small projects, but I never finish them unless they really do something. So, automating stuff I do makes much more sense than learning by following a tutorial that builds something useless.
Exactly. Unless you have what "some time" is, how can you possibly justify something. It all boils down to ROI and risk (including mental sanity).
> If you don't get the fundamentals down,
> you can't handle the applications.

Absolutely, which is why I advocatedoing the algebra, doing the manipulation, and doing "the sums" until the act of doing them is almost reflex.

> The real question is, why do you need assessment?

I'm assuming you're serious. Society demands assessment. Government demands assessment. Employers demand assessment (and then ignore it and apply their own tests). Students themselves are conditioned to demand assessment - there are many instances of teachers or lecturers playing with the idea of not giving grades, and mostly the students hated it. (whether it worked better is another question)

FWIW - I advocate a radical shift in what's done, and am working subversively on a ten year plan to make changes. Just becuase I can identify some problems, don't assume I believe they are real, or insurmountable.
I automate a lot of excel and outlook related work
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> I'd sense a massive lawsuit if scientists caught major wind of a guaranteed vaccine and sat on it for the sake of evidence for 5 years and let X-many people get HIV.

This is wrong on so many levels.

First, until you conduct the trials have the evidence there is no guarantee that (a) the vaccine works and (b) that it isn't harmful itself. The idea of a guaranteed vaccine that hasn't been through trials is nonsense as trials are an integral part of such a guarantee.

Second, you can't sue someone for with holding such a drug unless you have some sort of basis in law to have that drug - basically a contract between you and the company. As the drug companies can't legally sell a drug that hasn't passed testing no such contracts exist. While I'm sure you'd like to exert some sort of moral right to the drug (and I'd kind of agree with you), a legal right which could form the basis of a law suit simply isn't there.

Third, why would a company sit on a vaccine for AIDS? Yes a majority of those at risk are in the third world and have no money but there is a market of hundreds of millions who could afford and would pay for a vaccine in the wealthy developed world. It simply makes no sense to suggest that they would do anything of the sort.
It's on their site:
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I perceived the second 'the'. Does this mean I have a non-human brain?
False dochotomy. Pure often leads to applied, applied often leads to pure. What is often regarded today as pure maths has its roots - perhaps long ago - in questions from real life.

Puzzles arise from the real world, and they arise from abstract structures. Regardless, they are puzzles to solve, and the techniques of pure math and applied math can be used.

Thing is - not all students like puzzles, not all students like curiosities, some students actively want stabilty and assurance.

Some people aren't cut out to be entrepreneurs.
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If you're looking for guidance/advice, physical location shouldn't matter much. Can't hurt to register, I'm sure more mentors will sign up in the days that follow.
I don't know why people would down vote you. Perhaps they haven't read Seymore Papert "Mindstorms"

Here is the thing. The computer can simulate more or less anything so when dealing with abstract concepts such as math, what better way is there than to combine math with experimentation.
From what I can see, history teaching seems to doing pretty well in the UK at the moment (I have a 12 year old son) - they do a lot of visits to pretty interesting places and do a lot of re-enacting of things (e.g. what it was like in a Victorian classroom).

Of course, this approach does rather depend on having a lot of reasonably interesting historical resources within easy reach.
Surely the ability to write great code is closely linked to the ability to earn an income in the top 1% of the world - which according to 'Global Rich List' (lord knows if it's accurate) is around $50,000.

In a field where merit is translatable to wealth, a large proportion of wealthy people in a subgroup points to more meritocracy, not less.
Agreed and now Samsung may be the ones who lauch the lawsuit. Though, how many people will hire NetSec consulting after blindly following the output of security scanning software? I mean, did he even look in the SL folder?