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You sir, are a fucktard. I have good reasons for trolling you.
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Yeah. Having the apps and "normal" accounts together made my life so much harder, especially because multiple sign-in isn't available on mobile devices.

I had to download another webbrowser to read my company email (google apps) because my main Safari is logged into my original gmail account (because that's where reader is logged into and it's what I will use once the eventual Google+ invite arrives).

If someone at Google is reading this: Please, please, please implement multiple sign-in for mobile browsers. As it stands now, the (excellent) webapps for calendar and mail are next to useless for me (and I'd guess a lot of other people)
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Nope, northbridge/southbridge will be the bottleneck. They currently run at half the speed of RAM, 400-700mhz. Cycle speed at least, throughput is good.
Eloquent looks like a nice resource. I'd also suggest diving in to jquery pretty quickly since that's what many spend a lot of time in.
Yes, I know how to write programs.  How do I *run* them?
Over here I set out the basic question:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2713391

It seems clear that I've asked the wrong question. Or at least, not asked the question I thought I asked. But certainly not asked the question I wanted to ask.

I know how to program. I have written JavaScript code by following the example syntax and adapting the given examples. Fine.

How do I run the bloody thing?

For Python, I do this:

* Open an editor.

* Write the code

* Save the code as code.py

* Exit the editor

* Type "Python code.py"

* Job done.

I can chmod +x the file and put it on my path and use it as an executable.

I'm looking for the equivalent(s) for JavaScript.

I think that's the question I intended to ask. This information seems sorely lacking in all the "tutorials" I've come across so far.
I missed that story about Tom, too... pretty interesting. What else is there about Tom that's intriguing, though? Or the rise of MySpace, for that matter?

I think a big reason for having a movie about Facebook was all the deception and litigation that came with it. As far as I can tell, there wasn't too much between Tom's bank hacking and MySpace coming on the scene.
Along these lines, it doesn't fit to equate unpaid internships to serfdom. Serfdom involves effectively permanent, near total servitude to a landowner for most aspects of life. You don't travel. You don't get educated. You don't have upside. You can't escape. You're screwed. An unpaid internship is not at all like this. Unpaid internships are not "essentially a form of serfdom".

No, but that's how serfdom started - through voluntary servitude.

The point isn't to equate 21st century Europe or US with pre-19th century Russia. The point is that serfdom is a form of voluntary servitude which people entered into out of desperation. Likewise, nobody works for free (outside of charitable work) unless they are desperate (or they are rich kids, and don't need to care). Companies exploit this through unpaid internships - assuming they can get away with it.

Saying "you're free to walk away" is not a moral argument; if the only way a young person can find work is through doing voluntary servitude then they are stuck in that position until they do so.

Minimum wage laws exist for a number of reasons. If people don't get enough from employers, who pays ? The welfare system, i.e. the rest of us. So employers can exploit the system to boost their profits. Second, how does it fail to protect people ? Since when did a living wage for a day's work become a controversial issue ?
I don't have a g+ acc yet, but I was curious if for example I have a couple of friends on G+, can other friends viewing my profile see all the friends I have?
Clickable: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2713391
If products can be free so can interns.

Look at it as a freemium model.
Visual Studio is common enough in the games industry to be considered a standard for C++ development, but you might also try Sun/Solaris Studio... assuming want an IDE, that is.
India ranks third in snooping through Google
I reckon China is blocking foreign social networking sites for economic reasons rather than anything else. They have a market that everyone else wants to tap into. So why let others in when they can "innovate" internally and provide a made-in-China alternative.
I think the main reason that Western Social Networks are blocked in China is, to give Chinese web companies time to grow a Chinese rip-off version of the Western site. Looking forward to "百度圆圈" (Baidu Yuanquan) or Sina加一 or similar.

In Google's case its probably also to get back at them for having said the truth too many times.
Do learn Node.js, Coffeescript and JQuery, but don't be dependant on them, they aren't anywhere near as common as say Django.
Chinese city draws ire with controversial cloud zone
Can you please elaborate on this? How does Sparks suck? It's gonna be great to know some more details so we can avoid bad design decisions and possible product failure.

Your comment would be appreciated.
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Obviously someone who has never bothered to look at Facebook's privacy controls. :-)
You're focusing way too much on the outcome here and not at all on the process. If you want Amazon to be taxed (which I'm fine with), it should be done federally or consistent with how every other company is treated. Amazon is being singled out here because they're so big. There are two possible paths here: (1) Amazon continues to be singled out and/or (2) Other companies also get dinged (wrongly) in this way.

Option (2) is really, really bad, especially for small businesses and startups. You don't want to all of a sudden have a successful brick and mortar spice business in New Hampshire and find out, holy cow, you're in arrears for lack of tax payments in California! That'd be a business-killer.

The process matters.
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peter dot row.

I'm at gmail dot com.

I know it's closed, but I'd like one in case they open again, thanks a million.
But ErnestMarples (the website, not the postmaster) says "the Government have released postcode data, and more besides, for free"...?

http://www.ernestmarples.com/
I know they've shut things down for now, but I'd love an invite for when they open back up. jason at blackantmedia dot com
RTM,

I don't know what to say. I'm just one of many strangers who knew of
your dad, and appreciated his work, but never had the pleasure of
actually meeting him. I'm sure there are a lot of strangers like me who
feel uncomfortable saying anything more than offering condolences but
also feel offering condolences is not enough. We wish there was more we
could do. I hope by stating this difficulty for strangers, you are
reminded of how amazingly lucky and blessed you are to have known him.
You will always remember your loss, but it equally important to also
remember your luck. I hope the warm thought of counting your blessings
will help you and your family through the troubled times.
The Stanley Lippman book is a good tutorial.

Further study of the topic is from the Scott Meyers books, which are very clear and well-written.

Certainly on Windows, Visual Studio is popular.

Back during my 10 year stint doing C++, I held the opinion that it took on the order of two years of programming C++ full time to master the language. If you are looking for the full language, it is not clear that two years is adequate.

Ok, so my advice about COBOL. If you get stuck writing a lot of RPG, then COBOL is a good rescue. Otherwise, it thought to cause brain damage, and is best to be avoided.
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Download a javascript engine that can be run from the command line like v8 or spidermonkey.

This should do you: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/introduction_to_the_javascr...

Edit: Spidermonkey and v8 are packaged up for pretty much any linux distro. Once installed the command to run spidermonkey is `js`, and `d8` for v8. Just add the name of the JS file you wish to run as the first argument.
On your profile, you can set it either so that they see people who you've added to a circle ('friended'), people who have added you, or both, or neither. The default setting is both.
Google hangout = multiple people with video + chat + you tube sharing! It's pretty awesome. Now only if they can get enough people on it ;)
If anyone else got one to spare, you can check my profile for my email too.

Thanks
DISCLAIMER: I'm not even a rookie at crypto; I'm just trying to make sense of what I'm reading, like you are.

From [1]:

> The cybercriminals replaced RC4 with their own encryption algorithm using XOR swaps and operations. The domain names to which connections are made and the bsh parameter from the cfg.ini file are used as encryption keys.

A bit later:

> The new protocol encryption algorithm for communications between the botnet control center and infected machines ensures that the botnet will run smoothly, while protecting infected computers from network traffic analysis, and blocking attempts of other cybercriminals to take control of the botnet.

So we have authentication of the C&C through encryption ("block other cybercriminals"), and obfuscation of the payload through encryption ("protect from network traffic analysis"). I suppose the bsh parameter is used for auth, and the domain name just to scramble the payload.

[1] http://www.securelist.com/en/analysis/204792180/TDL4_Top_Bot
I've found this: http://www.wooji-juice.com/blog/javascript-article.html

* Is it accurate?

* Is it "the best"?
"Since when did a living wage for a day's work become a controversial issue ?"

You're joking right? Have you seen any of the immigration reform/debate over the last 5 years in the US? One of the primary arguments is over the availability of labor so cheap that not even prisoners will take the jobs.
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Maybe I am too well-trained in this, but I think using 'Suppose' (or "assume") is a dead giveaway for a proof by contradiction.

The only semi-implicit ways to start a proof by contradiction I can think of are the phrases "if x is..." or (less implicit) "if x were...".
Totally true; I did an unpaid internship for a startup and didn't learn a thing(actually they where doing a verrrry bad software engineering job). The advantage was that I didn't really had to work much & I got grades for the internship @unif. But I wouldn't do it again.

I felt under valuated, I can make really complex s/w architectures, solve complex, challenging problems & I was doing work that I could've done as a 14 year old during the internship..
I wonder how they really achieve that considering that the x86 CPU in protected mode definitely makes the distinction (rings 0 and 3, respectively)?
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2713691

That's the question I thought I was asking, although the comments here are also useful, so I thought I'd keep them separate.
Aesthetic reasons aside, in production systems, performance is all that matters.
I agree with your post, but this:

...as meaningful as comparing a phillips screwdriver with a flathead. They're used for different purposes.

is perhaps not the best analogy. They are both for turning screws, and some people do, in fact, have strong opinions on which is better.

Unless you meant to say that a phillips is for turning screws and a flathead is for prying stuff open. :-D
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There should be no problem at all. You simply cant use Google+ with either of them, since Google Profiles are not available with Google Apps account. At least with those domains, which are migrated to the "new" infrastructure.

Google stated multiple times that Profile service should be available to Apps users in "few weeks", but they never kept that promise.

My main identity also is on Google Apps, so Google+ is not relevant at all. Even though that dissapoints me, I'm not going to bash my head against the wall.
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As this is Ireland I've got to assume there is also an element of trying to reduce the numbers who are technically unemployed and so make things look better. It sounds very familiar to the community employment schemes etc. from the '80s where people basically worked for their unemployment benefit so as to gain work experience / help the community. I can even remember being turned down at an interview for one of these way back when and feeling pretty bad.
In the end some people will gain something & some people will be exploited but it wont make much difference to the economy other than to help drive down wages.
Apparently not on my reasonably recent version of Ubuntu. I'll look at installing them. Thanks.
Lots of online video tutorials, various photoshop books, and the need to want to design something. Not to mention endless use of le best friend Google to look for stuff. It's the only way to go.
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Getting features implemented: 1) at all; and 2) correctly; can also be important.
Not letting people join is how facebook did it.
Actually, its the other way around. Don't even dare to mention stability or you get lynched in the West.

Ask people in Rhuanda/Burundi what happened when their dictator president got shot down. Or in Somalia. Or how the real situation in Iraq or Afghanistan is. Sometimes stability actually is paramount. It's even empirically measurable and relates to average household income. But I don't want to bore you with science on the topic. There are many books and papers on the topic. And its not just theory, I am living in developing and "unfree" countries for many years to see the practical part as well.

Stuff's not just "black and white" -- there is a lot more to it.

But that wasn't the topic of this debate anyways.
I realize that I can't use Google+ with those accounts right now, but I'm (perhaps delusionally) holding onto some hope that Google will get their act together when it comes to Apps accounts. Right now, apps users are treated as second class citizens, which is completely ridiculous (embrace your most enthusiastic customers!!!). Hopefully they'll fix that at some point.
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That's my point - why is it a controversial issue ? How did we go so low ?
He said the touchup work was 4 hours, so I'd imagine getting the original in, then printing afterwards, and the original consultation would probably be yeah, about a day's work. Not sure on what this sort of work carries as a charge, but a few hundred $ doesn't seem unreasonable if you really need the pic.
If you're not able to produce valuable output then there might be something wrong with your schooling. If you have studied already 3-4 years computer science than you can do something useful.
I see it exactly the other way around. Google+ has a very clear method of publishing to a subset of your contacts, unlike facebook.
And, according to that article, they only compared 4 different languages. I think that C could've performed better (C compilers usually give little faster code than C++ compilers do) and well-written and optimized Assembly could do well as well.
Not at all: acceptable performance of critical sections of code is.
I loved the literate programming style and the cleanliness of the FFI also.
Org-mode is even more useful than I had previously thought, the http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/intro.html Babel addition also has a wonderful introduction and looks like an extremely powerful way of presenting code and commentary.
Downloading the source from github and compiling is easy enough. Either way, good luck and have fun!
Google's CDN outage - thanks HN for the help
Thanks to everybody for help with last night's Google ajax APIs CDN fun.

As best as we can tell, Google took the CDN down for a few minutes several times during the day, and when it came back up, some of the URLs were broken.

First some jQuery stuff was broken off and on

then some other stuff (we had some friends report the YUI stuff went up and down throughout the day)

and then when it all finally came back up, they'd changed the URL to dojo 1.6.

Thanks to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2712533 for figuring out the change.

I've sent out some notices to the Dojo foundation to update their URLs as well since a bunch of their site is broken.

I just wanted to say, this is a great community! It was midnight EST when I posted the outage, and tons of HNers jumped on to offer immediate advice, and help for the way forward with tips and ideas for dealing with future CDN problems.

Awesome!
For some strange reason Google has yet again decided to leave Google Apps users, who are perhaps their most ardent fan base, out in the cold again.

- Wishing I Could Try Plus
Not until it supports mobile devices.
So far I like it. I feel that Facebook benefited from people's curiosity to add everybody they'd ever encountered over the course of their lives to see what they're up to today. Google+ will likely benefit from a better-curated collection of connections that are added in a more though-through manner. With Facebook it was neat to see what somebody I knew in middle-school is up to now, but really there's no reason for me to add them on new social networks going forward. And I think part of that curation of connections is what makes a social network increase in value.

Good job Google.
I was asking "Troll_Whisperer" about his hypothetical inverse event aimed at Men. I was not expecting a good answer because I was sure he had not thought through the idea in a meaningful way.
I've never been too bothered, as a user, when one product "borrows" a great feature from another, especially if they manage to deliver a better experience.

I've had high hopes for Diaspora. Gave them cash when they were on Kickstarter. Tried hosting my own Diaspora server. Waited for the devs and the community to do something with the $200,000 they raised.

Certainly a lot of hackers have done much more with much less.

In the year since Diaspora was announced, though, not much has happened.

Ask anyone in the general public if they've used Diaspora, and you're more likely to get a confused "what's Diaspora?"

At the end of the day, there's really only one measuring stick for a social service: users. We use social sites to communicate with our friends and followers. Facebook is deeply flawed, but people have stayed there because people were staying there.

G+ looks like the first real opportunity for people to leave Facebook without losing the connections they've become addicted to. If G+ is going to be the new default for sharing online, I really just want three things.

1. Let me control my data and my privacy.

2. Play nice with other sites, protocols, and standards.

3. Provide a great user experience, including "borrowing" from other places when it makes sense.
You are attempting to understand the impact of a minimum wage from from an intellectual perspective but the map is not the territory. Just as having low taxes and few public services intellectually makes more sense but in reality reduces the quality of life in society, so it is with having a minimum wage. Compare the US and counties like Sweden for evidence.

You assume that the minimum wage is there to protect incompetent people but the reality is that when you treat someone badly like that, day in and day out, it destroys their self-esteem. You sound like you have grown up in a high self-esteem environment and probably can't relate to the poor mentality. It is a trap, it is created by the environment people grow up in and changing is difficult. For evidence, try changing your mentality and see how easy you find it. Most people tend to stay in one place in terms of their mindset for their whole lives, whether they are rich or poor.

If you honestly think that being paid a wage so low that you don't have enough money to bring yourself out of poverty is better than being unemployed, I have trouble not calling you delusional. Why should anyone have to work two or three jobs just to (barely) survive? How is this better than welfare for those who can't and a wage which results in living above the poverty line for those who can? How can you not understand that this would greatly increase crime? Think about it, imagine it - you're unemployed and have an opportunity to work 16 hours a day and you'll still starve or you could start selling drugs or robbing people or swindling money, which would give you enough to live on.

Honestly, your whole attitude reeks of ignorance. Go spend some time with people who live in chronic poverty, try to understand what they're going through and you'll be able to get around this.
First thought: the Swedes are doing well! Why is 60% of GDP the target? What does this do?
Really good article, I agree with every point.

If I were to add to it I stress the importance of reading books by different authors and publishers, even if they're about the same subject. This helps you get a much wider, well-rounded view and it often improves the learning experience.
I just read your original post. Learning to use javascript on the command line isn't the best way to learn to use it for web development. I'd suggest moving on as soon as your comfortable to chrome developer tools or firebug and using the built in console to manipulate web pages.
This is great news. There was always going to be some kind of security incident with people rushing to get their BTC-based sites up, and after the hype bitcoin had generated it was inevitable there would be many who thought that the bubble had now popped.

If BTC can now show it is still viable after its recent troubles, it comes out looking much stronger because of them.
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> Does the USDA inspect your meat?

Not like they used to.

According to my grandfather (now 89 years old), who was a USDA inspector at a couple of meat processing plans from the end of WWII until he retired (in the late 1980s): There used to be an independent USDA inspector in virtually every processing plant. That inspector could shutdown the entire facility if he saw fit. Now most plants are self-regulating and only get pre-scheduled spot checks by the USDA.

He was pretty upset by the change in the system and the associated decline in the safety and quality of meats.
From the explanation :

The chart below shows OECD calculations of what it would take governments to reduce gross debt to 60% of GDP by 2026. This is around the level considered healthy and is also the ratio set by the widely ignored Maastricht agreement, which is meant to govern debt in the European Union. It is not pretty.
It's creeping in slowly here in Ireland. That's why I spoke up.
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