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$950 million towards capturing a resource rich asteroid and bringing it into some kind of useful orbit near Earth. This would break down into 5 major areas, in no particular order.

- Identifying candidate targets. We need to find the right mixture of mass, composition, orbit, and location. This likely has both observational and unmanned probe components.

- Intercept system. We need a system capable of intercepting the asteroid and placing a propulsion system on or near the surface.

- Return propulsion. The requirement is low power and long running. This might be an ion engine like VASIMIR or even more exotic tech like a solar sail or a gravity tractor.

- Return approach. We need a safe way to put this in a location where the resources can actually be utilized without terrorizing the world.

- Rockets. A big chunk of this money would go into simply paying to get things into orbit, and once in orbit, on its way out into the solar system.

My general sense is that a lot of the bits and pieces of this technology are already in place, but there are still significant gaps and a tremendous amount of integration work.

$40 million towards making sure this effort survives. I don't necessarily expect it to be complete any time soon, maybe even until after I'm dead. This might take the form of an endowment of some kind, lobbying, or seeking further investment. I doubt this would be enough money, but I think it's in the ballpark, especially if SpaceX, or something like, it really takes off.

$10 million for personal expenses so I don't have to worry about anything else.
Actually Android phones cannot use two way authentication so after you enable it in google account you will have to create an application specific password: that means that your android phone will login to google account using your usual username and a "per application" password randomly generated by google. That is the one that is stored in the sql db.

All google has to do is to make sure that you cannot login using that same password from two concurrent sessions.
So if your phone is stolen: you revoke the android-specific password; if your db is phished or acquired, google will revoke the android-specific password once the attackers tries to use it.
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I guess it depends how you get the money, but if possible I wouldn't tell people about it. And that works for less money too, I'm not a millionaire but I do have more investments and savings than anyone who knows me would assume.
A pedantic interviewer won't tell you if mix your terminology incorrectly. The more experience you have, the more pedantic you tend to get because computers are pedantic. They do exactly what you tell them to, not what you meant it to do. ;)
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Sounds like my experience applying to companies who list every NoSQL option under the roof in the job description and yet looking at what they do, I can't figure out why they'd need all that.
My most profitable side project is actually my newest - http://bugmuncher.com - it's been live about a week and I'm already quite profitable. Admittedly it's a very low overhead project (costs around $30 / month to run), but so far it's looking good.

I think the reason it's doing better than anything else I've launched is because its my first one that isn't entirely ad supported. My advice to anyone looking to launch a side project is try to go for something people will pay a monthly fee for as opposed ad revenue.
Started following him on twitter recently (http://twitter.com/#!/ID_AA_Carmack).

Definitely not coasting.
I know this happens every time there is a tragedy, yet I still cannot fathom what kind of evil mind uses events like this to further a cybercrime agenda...
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> I think by coming up with "cheating-proof" assignments you'd be ignoring the real issue, which is that students think it's ok to cheat.

I think these are related, though. Cheating tends to be lowest when students feel they're doing valuable, real work, and that also tends to be the hardest to cheat on; whereas it tends to be highest when students feel they're doing regurgitation or pointless busywork, and that also tends to be the easiest to cheat on.

It's not a perfect correlation, but I think it's one factor. I certainly noticed in my own undergraduate education that cheating was highest in courses that were more boring and cookie-cutter, and lower when the professor was particularly motivating, and had creative, interesting assignments. As a prof now, I don't have enough semesters under my belt for good data, but my impression so far is that how I teach the course and frame the assignments can make a huge difference in how likely cheating is.

Put differently, I don't think most people have completely fixed ethics; there are some proportion of people who would never cheat, and others who will cheat whenever possible, but a large portion in the middle whose ethics are strongly influenced by the situation. As in many situations (not only in university), people are more likely to feel it's okay to do "unethical" things if they feel that the situation is bullshit, and less likely if they feel motivated/responsible/engaged with something.
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In your experience, have you ever seen or heard of a business or web site with more than 10K concurrent users who thought it was a good idea to place all those users on just one server?
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I have never tried this service, so please don't take this as an endorsement, but someone in another thread mentioned he/she is selling javascript on a service called CodeCanyon.

(citation - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2795952)
The email client checks for new mail in the background, though. How is it supposed to do that if the user is currently "logged out" (assuming you mean the pin for unlocking the screen)?
There isn't a single model, but an eventually consistency is the most common: http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2008/12/eventually_consi...
I just wanna say: This is an awesome site! Love the idea, design and execution. It's also open on GitHub, couldn't ask for more. Great Job...
> I'm looking for a ThemeForest equivalent for programmers.

You got me thinking right there. I can't find any service for such things! I could use a site like that, certainly a fellow HN'er can think of something.

You can implement LibertyReserve, Paypal, AlertPay without much trouble.
I've integrated Paypal very recently to deliver virtual goods such as games or apps in both mobile and desktop.
It definitely works. Depends on your skills and your tolerance in dealing with SDK's.

Granted, you're up for some fierce competition, but if the content is good, people will come.

You could win an increasingly interesting income if you do some targeted advertising on Facebook.
For instance, when I want to get people in the US to visit a website, I target English speaking people in South America, where PPC rates are as low as 1 cent and competition is not that tough.
Clicks on your ad will eventually lead to sharing, leading to eyeballs residing in the United States.

This kind of indirect marketing can surely work! I'm from South America, so this method is much more sensitive to my wallet due to the unfavorable ARS to USD conversion and a constant inflation.
I can get more people from the US by paying 20 cents for 20 clicks than targeting the US directly by paying much more, specially in the iPhone market.

Hope any of this helps, good night!
Sure. I was saying that the important point is that the _ratings agencies_ call it a default. Your and my (and the OP's) definition isn't important. If they think it's a default then for a percentage of the world (who need ratings agencies' support), it's binary-on.

Another agency, the ISDA, says it's _not_ a default for the purposes of a CDS trigger. That, for another percentage of the population, is binary-off.
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You can do queries and reference other documents many NoSQL databases; look at the documentation for GAE's datastore: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/datastore/queries...

Or for MongoDB: http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Advanced+Queries
Because a million dollars isn't cool. :D

Also, your site looks really cool. I'll give it a spin. :)
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Just use an e-mail client:

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78799
Actually, I'd say the thought experiment worked perfectly in sussing out the gp poster's values. For many people money is the end, not the means.
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The first twitter engineer is Florian Weber, at least he's always called that here in Berlin and Techcrunch is referring to him as that. I always thought it was an interesting story, that's also why I shared this article.

Here's a longer article about the guy: http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/05/09/exclusive-the-story-of-t...

Yes there is a European version of Techcrunch, even a French one if I'm not mistaken. But they are normally not as interesting in my opinion. However, and that's why I cared to share, they are starting to write more about the Berlin scene. I find it rather fascinating to watch how the startup scene is starting to take off here with SoundCloud, Wooga and ResearchGate being the first stars (If you want to learn something about professional copycats google Samwer Brothers, they've done some 25 exits from Berlin, but I don't think they deserve to be mentioned more than that).

So for me the two million in funding (among them Ashton Kutcher) are sensational news but let me shed some more light on the actual product. As their landing page says already (http://amenhq.com/) it's revolving around opinions and ratings but in a highly semantic and mobile way.

I don't think it has anything to do with color, I think of this team rather highly.

However there's another Berlin startup that does what color does but imo is something I would actually USE: http://eyeem.com. It's an interesting mix in between color and instagram.

@rhizome I hope your question in particular could be answered, although he is in fact also an important part of the techrunch story I linked to in the first place.

EDIT: Ah I've just seen that @rhizome might be referring to the actual article on techcrunch, that left a lot of details out? Were you referred to that article (http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/21/ashton-kutcher-and-madonnas...) instead of this one: http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/07/22/ashton-kutcher-and-madon... ?
I started working at what was supposed to be a contract job to fix some computers for a guys business (at the time it was literally just a place that made copies) back in 2007.

I was still in college but me stopping in and telling the guy how much some of these customers having boxes of paper copied could benefit by having them scanned and organized led to me having my own company and employees as a sophomore in College which did just that.

I eventually built a host of sharepoint plugins which sold for a nice exit while I was still in school. I still havent finished school yet, but man did I have some fun with the money lol
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Don't you have to log in to use it? So this would be something you use before you're blocked.
To borrow a few concepts from Built To Last.

Jobs is a time teller. He can look up at the heavens, see the positioning of the stars in the industry and tell you exactly what the time is and for what. It's extremely rare for such time tellers to exist, and it's doubtful anyone exactly like Jobs will ever come along.

However, for any great company to stand the test of time it needs to answer the question who tells the time after the time-teller is gone? That's why a company built to last is like a clock. It is a part of the ethos and the system for it to tell the time, and that's the bit that makes all of the difference.

So, if he has spent the last decade making a clock, then Apple will survive him and the loss of Tim Cook, Ive, Schiller and almost anyone you think is crucial to Apple's success, because the ability to predict and act on those predictions would have been built into the structure of Apple itself.

I hope that made sense.
With the proliferation of Internet and Cell phones people can make informed decisions and directly vote on Bills/Laws in Congress.
I definitely support the "email each party separately first", although usually the request for an intro comes during a conversation with one of the parties.

I also would dislike getting emails as long as the example from the article, but might want a tiny bit more info than your example. Maybe 2 sentences per person, focusing on how you know/why you vouch for credentials, and the ask.

Putting relevant searchable keywords in the subject line is key, too.
I love building products and knowing people use them and appreciate their usefulness, but the real reason that drives me is a fear of being poor.
Man started writing ~5000 years back. http://goo.gl/12i7v
Islam is a matured religion because it is written after Judaism/Christianity/Hinduism
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I'm rather impressed that US states can, apparently, really make the case that protecting particular businesses against competing businesses is a "state function". What the hell? Shouldn't the exact opposite be a state function?

Is this common in the US? (governments openly and clearly admitting to favouring A over B, because people high up like A better) It sounds like the direct opposite of a free market to me, and isn't that what the US is supposed to be all about?

I mean, here in the Netherlands, we'd call that corruption and a scandal would ensue (which doesn't mean it doesn't happen; it just means that governments wouldn't admit such practices so openly).

Note: I don't mean to judge; I just genuinely wonder how these things are viewed by common Americans.
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Definitely seems less like a auditor (I believe asking for some of that is flat out illegal) and more like a hacker posing as a auditor, trying to get passwords/creditcard #'s.
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Looks like others noticed too:

http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=11328
Very neat idea. How do you generate the preview image?
"As an employee, being a developer is largely a crap job in which you get little respect and virtually no power"

Incidentally this is also why having a developer-centric culture is important in a technology company.

I use the term 'technology company' broadly as one that is attempting to leverage technology to make a profit.

Big media companies seem unable to do things involving even simple technology well, even with big budgets, existing audiences, and partnerships. eg the New York Times' $40 million dollar 'paywall'.

I suspect this is because their management simply view tech as a commodity defined by its feature set, as opposed to a skilled craft like journalism where quality matters.
no connection no real reference to anything. this is nothing more than self-adulation of someone who thinks he knows the truth about a certain topic. how foolish and shortsighted!
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Would be a great presentation to run this and have a laptop catch fire on stage.
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So why don't you just get a job? Much safer.
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That's a good link. The n-body and spectral-norm benchmarks were fastest in Fortran. The fannkuch benchmark was fastest in Ada. The Mandlebrot benchmark was fastest in ATS.

In each case, the language has pointers, however they were not used in the core part of the benchmark. i.e. they didn't get their speed advantage from pointers.

Haskell was the fastest for the thread-ring benchmark, it doesn't have pointers.

If Java had pointers as it does in the sun.misc.Unsafe utility class some code would be faster, but I don't believe this explains why Java is not the fastest in each benchmark. ;)

Object orientated programming is used in a significant portion of all programs, it would be interesting how C/C++ performs in such benchmarks. ;)
"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

150 people don't read the guidelines?
Bang on. Most likely social engineering. If this were actually an employee, they should be fired/told to fuck off.
This.

And I think took much is made of the "waking up and Steve is totally gone" scenario despite health issues. More likely (and hopefully for his health) it will be Steve voluntarily giving up more and more control as the successor is tried out. We may be seeing some of that now, although I would say wait for a major product launch without him.

That is how Gates did it when Ballmer took over Gates was still heavily involved doing what he had always done.
Perhaps the auditor is smarter than everyone thinks and is expecting the sysadmin to come to him empty handed and with an explanation as to why the requirements aren't reasonable.
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Reminded me how I was writing keyloggers for diskless PCs, which stored username and password compressed into several bytes available on non-volatile CMOS chip
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> Extremists and fundamentalists are all the same,
> regardless of what they're worshiping

Wouldn't this make it less likely to be Islamic extremists vs fundamentalists from <insert religion>?

> given that Islamic extremists would be the
> most obvious conclusion

Because Muslims are more prone to being crazy and/or extreme than Christians (or people of <insert religion>)? Because Islamic extremists are the only people that use guerrilla tactics and explosive devices to get their point across?
Well, there was a point in that analogy. In the past, I was catching cheaters who put no effort in the assignment.

This time, I had a zero-tolerance policy. No matter if you plagiarized the whole assignment or a paragraph, no matter if you copied the spreadsheet, or if you just had the solution as a backup to ensure correctness, it was the same penalty: A -30 for an assignment that had a +30 maximum points and report to the Dean's office and the honor council.
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Thanks! It's currently a third party screenshot service, but as I've had a lot of interest and good feedback, I'm now looking into setting up my own in-house screenshot system.
Apparently neither do you:

> Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is
> inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or
> offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag"
> link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If
> you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.
I have a short domain (xk7.net), doesn't cause any problems over the phone (occasionally people comment on the fact that I have my own domain/mail) and doesn't sound immature.

Although I was once told 'sorry, you must use a Hotmail, Yahoo! or Gmail address'...
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I fail to see how the points:

> Man started writing ~5000 years back

and

> Islam is a matured religion because it is
> written after Judaism/Christianity/Hinduism

relate to the post your are replying to other than the keywords 'Islam' and 'religion.'
Companies officially declare earnings once a quarter.
Isn't day trading purely insider/speculative?
He's already done that, and got the reply that every other company did it. The auditor is not just trying to get him to do the right thing.
The poster has already tried that, which is when the "auditor" replied with the "10 years experience" rant. If this actually is his tactic, then he should be fired simply on the principle that his modus operandi will cost the company clients, as it seems to be in this case. If he just has his head up his ass, then he needs to be fired for gross incompetence and the company may need to notify anyone that he's previously certified that they need to be recertified or at least notify them that there's a potential problem.

The "social engineering" idea is definitely worth considering, and the poster definitely needs to run this up the flag pole to his senior management. Preferably, this email would also have the words "contact our legal counsel" prominently displayed.
I guess the algorithm can be. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-invariant_feature_transfo..., SIFT is already patented.
It's already happening. There is this example, and I recall one of the recent Christchurch earthquakes had someone complaining about similar spamming of a hashtag related to the quake on Twitter.
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A social engineer wouldn't try for this much data. One SSH key or password would be enough. I'm going with the fucking-retarded-auditor theory.
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A program that looks out for any wireless networks it can detect. Mostly used to find an open access point, debugging wireless lans or just to map them.
See eg. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardriving for more.
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