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Every blogger or website holder wanted to promote blog or website. For this purpose there are many social bookmarking sites where they post their news, articles, tutorials. But you also need different blog sites from where you wanted to post these news to attract different users and invite them to visit your blog or site. So here we have collected many sites where you can post your articles, tutorials, news. But don’t forget to obey their rules and regulations before submitting news, articles, tutorials etc.
Sometime back, there was a poll about how many users wanted to see points versus how many users don't. And I still remember that (much) more users wanted to see comment scores. Is there any plan to bring it back?
Intuitionistic mathematics for physics
Every time I make that trip on the A380, I'm Louis CK for the whole trip. I'm going as far as I can go without starting to come back again in one night and all I have to do is sit here and eat the snacks and watch my choice of movies on the tv in my seat. Bump future.
> a lot of people have spent a lot of hard work on the product.

I gotta tell you: this doesn't matter to me even a little bit.

Here's why.

We live in a world of results. Right now, you guys – I'm sorry this isn't positive – are making something that's frustrating, bad to use, unattractive and inescapable. The "view real, non-broken site" button often doesn't work. So somewhere, someone is fucking up my iPad and there's just nothing I can do about it.

You don't get to just come in and screw up the web for me without my having some strong feelings, dude, it's as simple as that. So if you want to shove a layer of non-useful junk into my way, you're going to need to acknowledge that there are user experience implications that require thorough thought.

If you ignore that you will incur the brand penalties associated with making people unhappy. And with a unanimous page of negative comments here, you're well on that road. This is a community that can't agree on anything, so I'd take this feedback very seriously.

If I make shit, I expect people to call me on it so I can make it better. How hard I've worked on it is irrelevant.
I don't understand why #AntiSec has such a massive following. What does hacking companies and government agencies do for the average person?

This is referring to the fact that @AnonymousIRC has over 100,000 followers now
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Thanks, I think that'll release a lot of the pressure that it sounds like you're getting from your other comments here. I think that trying new things is good, and I support that, but without an escape hatch some people are going to feel trapped.
When you maximise a window, it takes up the entire screen. In the case of multiple monitors, it takes up the entire screen of the current monitor it is currently displayed in. Multiple monitors are therefore a hardware method of window management without having to manually resize them.

In Windows 7 you can now dock windows to the left or right. This has worked really well for me on a single 24'' at 1900x1200 resolution. In the past this was not possible out of the box.
I used Skype-In for this.

I live in the UK, but only own a mobile nowadays. So I used a local Skype number for things like this.

Just never let that number expire. And now your Skype account needs a phonemenally complex password too.
Wow, lots of nostalgia with this one. I love the disproportionate hitbox of Links Sword and the sound of the Owl's 8-bit hoot.
Those issues are unrelated to this discussion. There are plenty of things that the government should change. The order doesn't really matter.
There is no need for hysteria; it depends on your use case. In the Unix shell, since every basic operation spawns a process, and performing such operations only takes a few milliseconds, startup time is extremely important. If it were written in Java, it would probably not be architected this way, but the startup time of C makes it acceptable to do so; it is an issue if commands written in languages like Perl and Python feel slower than the rest of the system.
That is, of course, left as an exercise for the reader ;)

(As long as the number of students with unmetered power partipating is small compared to the number of miners, it shouldn't significantly affect the analysis. It's the marginal cost faced by a new entrant that's of interest - a relatively small number of students mining simply adds a background base level of difficulty).
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Indeed. Though it really depends on the asset class. On liquid asset classes (equities, FX, etc.) there has been more and more focus on algorithmic market making and order execution. High frequency trading outfits and having extremely latency / price sensitive counter parties (i.e. the buy side hedge funds) has forced the sell side desks to evolve to a more tech driven trading model. In FX, banks like Deutsche and Barclays make loads of money off algorithmic market making and order execution. Way off topic .. apologies.
Lots of informative advice, I am very grateful to all of you. Thanks again. I think I will go with Python or Ruby after I check out the resources in the links that were posted. I plan to build my knowledge but as a person with a science background, I'm happiest when I'm solving a problem so I definitively see the merit in working on the project whist learning.

I don't think I have any further questions - I got loads more helpful advice than I thought I would ever get and again, I'm very grateful. The only couple things I feel are worth mentioning is that I am using a Mac and I have actually written a couple subroutine packages for HPC in FORTRAN but they are nothing too special as FORTRAN syntax is very simplistic.
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Not really. When the guy had regained control of the account he could have signed out all other sessions, requiring all sessions to do 2-factor auth again.

But if the person re-authenticating has a trojan on their computer (as may have been the case here) there is _nothing_ that can be done to prevent a third party from accessing their stuff.
that nobody is interested in any serious stuff being done remotely

From experience, I can say that this is simply not true. Obviously you have to get the right channels to find interesting assignments, and be able to build trust (have a good portfolio/CV) but a blanket statement like yours doesn't make sense.

BTW, even if it pays somewhat less than having a full-time corporate "career", some people just like a more adventurous life than just sitting in an office all day. Now, and not at some non-descript time in the future when "retiring". It might not be for you but don't pass value judgements.
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Writing PHP is 25% faster than Ruby
(strlen(PHP) = 3, Ruby.length = 4)
We have a native app that is similar in that it makes extensive use of css transforms to animate content on the iPad (Zite, btw. I believe it is smoother and less crashy than the OnSwipe pages I have seen).

The biggest issue we've come across is limiting the total screen area (in pixels) of elements having "-webkit-transform: translate3d(0,0,0);" (this is the declaration you use to force the browser to use 3d acceleration to animate this element). Once it goes beyond a certain size, there isn't enough memory on the iPad to handle it and you get jerky animation and crashes.

This will help:

http://mir.aculo.us/2011/02/08/visualizing-webkits-hardware-...
I really won't add too many links to all the comments here. But Given you mention physics and some RA experience, i will say Haskell may not be as hard as a few others think. (i.e. If my idea of what it takes to do complete physics and/or chemistry graduation). I think in the end, you may have to spend an hour or two for each of the links before taking a call on which you prefer.

- Eeks, that looks eerily like common sense :-)
There are number of paranoids in GS.
If you want to work in GS leave your conscience at the door.
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This is a bit late, but oh well.

It was a single contractor, working on a project tangential to our primary codebase (an add-on product). He had several other clients and projects at the time and was paid by the hour for the work.

Part of the issue was that he was operating as sole proprietor, which meant he had no legal entity for his work. The state wanted to see that he was operating as a business and the lack of any legal entity surrounding his business made that a bit difficult.

We managed to get it sorted.. took more of our time than I'd like tho.
By coding.

That may come across like a smart-ass answer, but it's not. I'm in the same boat, and I'm learning the same way. I've got a Mac dev environment, and Linux dev environment. I'm using a book by Stephen Kochan, and another by Dave Mark.

We're surrounded by a plethora of materials to help us learn.

Just do it! Pick one up and read, and write some code. Stumble through. You will make mistakes.

See emilepetrone and @housefed for a good example of this. He posts on here all the time. He's only been coding for a year, and has a functional website.
Absolutely agree that people should be called out. It's about how you call someone out, not whether you do or not.
Or made it in portable javascript and spent the last 30 mins porting it.
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Agree. Slashes typically mean a directory separator but they're really a character like any other. Having separate pages at /foo and /foo/ is completely legitimate.

Sometimes it seems like we're desperate for innovation. Someone remind me why are we tampering with how the urls are displayed. Is there some major benefit I'm missing out on and why is this type of thing "news"?
He also claims that the average current cost of attending 4 year public colleges in the US is $2000. This is complete nonsense.

I think the author is correct, but you're largely misquoting him.

The author actually said this:
"First, many colleges are not very expensive, once financial aid is taken into account. Average net tuition and fees at public four-year colleges this past year were only about $2,000 (though Congress may soon cut federal financial aid). "

And if you read the cited article it points out that over the five years from 2004 to 2009 (when the cited article was written), while the "sticker price" of college has gone up dramatically, the actual amount paid by students has actually declined (for tuition and fees):

"Yes. At public four-year colleges, the sticker price rose by 20 percent over the past five years (these are inflation-adjusted dollars, as are all historical comparisons I’m making), but the average net price fell $400 — from about $2,000 to $1,600. At private four-year colleges the sticker price rose by 15 percent, but the average net price fell 9 percent, or about $1,100.

It is important to note that these figures are just for tuition and fees. Students also have to live, eat, buy books, and cover other expenses while they are in school. "
What I see is a split in the market.

People who aren't provided financial services by their employer or investment company simply take their financial advice from free or traditional sources. Or they attempt to do stock planning themselves, which is only ideal if you are already knowledgeable about the market and can invest time each day to study it.

The service could bridge the 'knowledge gap', allowing those who want to plan themselves to do so without pitfalls. And since its a system of sensible defaults as their knowledge of the market increases they can tweak the parameters of the program to better suit their needs. In a black box program such as a neural network on the algorithmic side, or a financial planner on the human side, this is impossible.
It is the dominating cost for students with unmetered electricity, so it's probably not negligible. (Well, maybe it's only the second most important cost for them, after sleep loss due to fan noise in the dorm room, but that is difficult to put a monetary value on.)
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Square, ATMs, and the Pace of Transformation
I think people are emphasizing the peculiar relationship between investment/growth and staving off disaster. Oil is "unsustainable" it is not a Ponzi scheme (in the popular sense) because if people doubled the amount of oil they bought this year this would, in general, bring the endgame closer and not further.
I was 9 in 1995, I remember it fairly clearly.

- Few people had computers. It was not reasonable to meet someone and expect that they know how to operate, say, a word processor. All of my homework was done by hand, including essays and long-form writing. All research was done in libraries amongst musty shelves and microfilm viewers.

- Even amongst the few families with computers that I knew about, I was definitely the first to get a CD-ROM drive. Storing mass amounts of data on a disc was brand spanking new. The default storage media for data was 1.44MB 3.5" floppies.

- We had VCRs. Most people did at that point, but they were still expensive beasts, much more so than the $50 DVD players we can purchase today.

- Walkmen were still huge. Mixtapes were still huge.

- Cell phones? What a bigshot you are!

- Game consoles were very popular and not at all rare. It was the SNES vs. the Genesis at that point I think.

- The internet "existed" - but was not at all in a state that we are familiar with today. More people used closed networks like CompuServe and AOL than the open web as we use it today. Even then, it was not at all reasonable to expect someone to have an email address at all. People had sort of heard of this "internet" thing but most people still didn't even know what it really was.

- Answering machines had tapes.
"The basic purpose of hiding the common prefix, http://, is to make URLs more visible. This will also help users to easily identify the website they are dealing with. Although, the URL prefix for encrypted pages (https://) will be displayed as usual to avoid confusion."

How is showing the prefix in one case and not the other avoiding confusion?

If they want to get rid of it, they should get rid of it fully, like the others, and use a recognizable icon for the modes, but not show it and hid it depending on the case. That's the base of confusion, no?
Skype's Evil Ways, Continued
One possible way to test this: compare the outcomes of people with All But Degree to people with degrees.

If human capital is the important factor then being 6 credits short of a 140 credit degree shouldn't affect outcomes. If signalling matters, it should have a rather large effect.
Phoronix successfully git-bisects Linux power regressions for ~15% improvement
As the article says, that was just a hypothesis. There's no mention of tracking insulin levels, only blood sugar. And what's more, type diabetes is described in the article as resistance to insulin.

I can think of at least one further hypothesis, which is that cutting out indigestible sugars, per Lustig, frees up the liver from the task of metabolizing fructose/sucrose etc., to respond correctly to insulin, allowing blood sugar to be regulated.
Yeah, you're definitely right. Understand, though, that I view OnSwipe like malware, so I didn't expect anyone associated with it to either see what I had to say or care. Even at that, you've created something so frustrating to me that even being face-to-face would not have stayed my impassioned rage, here.
If early adopters were not rewarded then there wouldn't be any.
> This is actually a pretty serious problem.

.. with the modern understanding of deflation. Price is not a problem if the money supply is constant. Just think about it, it is *more goods chasing the same amount money". There will be no way we can have this conversation without that kind of deflation in computer industry.

Now, money supply contraction IS painful, but so is hangover. If you have an institution with the ability to inflate the money supply almost at will, don't act surprised if from to time a correction can be in order.
> Smart sysadmins "salt" the passwords, which requires cracking.

As has been mentioned previously on HN, smart sysadmins use bcrypt making the entire password cracking exercise nearly impossible.
I don't think it's annoying. I think it's actually enlightening: It shows you excactly how many applications have access to your Google account. And how much potential there is for a screw up.
My faith in some of the research underlying this article took a fatal hit when I read that the researchers discovered that whereas a dishwasher with no degree earned $19K, a college graduate earned $34K for the same menial task. It may just be me but that rings so untrue that it bears investigation. To me it is unfathomable why an employer would pay a dishwasher 15K a year more because he/she has a degree. I don't buy it.
Just a note about onswipe's Safari crashes: Excessive use of hardware accelerated CSS transformed elements (translate3d(0,0,0)) can use a lot of memory on iOS devices with a few known memory leaks in iOS WebKit (fixed in [REDACTED]). For production use of CSS transforms, developers have to carefully manage what is rendered with HW acceleration and balance that with UI glitches that can result.

I'm guessing that this is what's happening with OnSwipe browser crashes: reducing hardware accelerated elements would improve memory usage and reduce power consumption.
Truly amazing. Congrats!
What if realistic and sustainable property taxes had to be figured into the sale price of homes?

I would presume we'd see much cheaper home prices. But I doubt the real estate industry will allow this to occur.
see if your laptop is affected - add "pcie_aspm=force" to your boot parameters.
Ubuntu bug (updated) here - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/760131
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English and Japanese. I also studied Latin for quite a long time, which means I have a decent stepping stone for all of the Romance languages and can read many of them with a bit of thinking. I've also studied a bit of Mandarin. I also learned American Sign Language for a bit and am learning some Japanese Sign Language now as well.

I'd like to study Arabic and Welsh sometime.

I generally study languages based on how much I'd like to learn that language and how different it is from English. I have a lot of friends that study based on business (Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin being the big ones), but that doesn't really appeal to me.
> We think there's something new that can be done with the web on tablets. It's not for everyone.

Can you explain your reasoning on this? It seems like tablet manufactures are really trying to get the tablets to give the same browsing experience as a desktop, and this is working against that.
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I am in the process of doing exactly this.

If your ventures are web apps, my recommendation would be to learn Ruby on Rails. You will be able to build demo apps within a few months of 8-10 hours per week.

I started with RailsTutorial.org, which is a free book that will take you from installing Ruby to building a twitter clone. From there, get a few books, I recommend Agile development with rails and The Rails 3 Way, and continue to work on some smaller apps. There are also great screencasts you can find by searching for "railscasts."

If you are using windows computers, install Ubuntu Linux which is really easy with Wubi. I have found it makes things easier. If you have a mac, stick with it.

For text editor, I use Sublime Text 2, and if you're on mac, just go with Textmate.

Sign up for Github and learn about version control. Also, go through projects on Github and learn by reading other people's code.

After you have a semi-grasp of the basics, start building something substantial.

Search Stack Overflow when you have questions, and if you've been trying to figure something out for over six hours, ask a question on Stack Overflow.

For html and css questions, I generally just google any issues I have and fool around in firebug, which is a firefox extension that lets you edit html or css and see the changes on your screen.

Best of luck!
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Strange thing just happened when I fired this up. I was playing some other music, and it suddenly sounded like I was blowing out my speakers. I wasn't playing the music very loud, but the bass became extremely scratchy. As soon as I closed the tab, it cleared up. (Win 7 Chrome 12.0.742.100)
Have you contacted them about this? I'd really like to see what kind of arse-covering response you recieve.
Even if it were technologically and economically feasible to capture and mine Apophis, the prices you cited wouldn't last; those prices are made considering current supply and demand; if you flood the market with that much nickel or iron, prices will drop incredibly quickly and you'll soon be left with a bum investment.

It's like the proverbial "What if I found a solid gold pyramid under my house?" or whatever.
Flat land helps; see Davis, CA.

Now try that in wide swaths of San Francisco:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=22nd+st+and+rhode+island+&...
I don't think it takes anything into consideration.

Living in Sao Paulo --a place with much much much denser population than L.A. where I live now, I could walk everywhere (only had a weekend car) and my apartment was huge compared to the places I can afford here.

So, it's not the need to pack people. It's just not planned at all
I've used this technique since 2006 or so with IE6. The only concern I know of relates to using odd port numbers without a protocol in IE (but I don't think this is a concern if the protocol is relative). At the time, every other browser tested worked as well (not that that was much of a shock).

I don't have a copy of IE6 to test on at the moment, but what makes you think IE8 is required for relative protocols?
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Logo Design Process In A Glimpse
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Very useful. Another necessary addon is "who up/down voted". Often I'm noticing that people are down voting for their disagreements, instead for poor comments.
You see, the problem is that chrome has bugs. Try running it in Firefox 5 for windows. It's not my fault. period. See some comments in http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/i9s9h/legend_of_zeld... for other various chrome related issues.
Ask HN: Changes to BitTorrent protocol that will stop lawsuits?
Is it possible to tweak BitTorrent protocol that will make it much more "lawsuit proof" ? Things that come to mind:

- "Fake" streams or chunks. If small percentage of clients sends "fake" chunks (chunks they don't really have) then there will be always "benefit of doubt" in court whether or not that this specific IP client had copyrighted material or only pretended.

- Streaming via "proxies". Some clients on the network will only forward chunks without persisting them locally.

- "Broken parts" (variation on "proxy"). Seeding is never done from locations that have 100% of the file. Though I don't know how it will stand in court.