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I doubt a simple number will be effective, because you lose the human element. The physical presence turns a waiting list into a social event. Maybe if you could somehow interact with the people already in line.
The regret is because your purchasing decision would have been different if you had more information. In the case of "tomorrow it's free", the information is temporal (tomorrow's price) instead of spatial (the other store has a better price).

The amount of regret changes with the time span, largely because of the utility you gain in the interim, but the key is the incomplete information - if you had perfect knowledge, would you still make the same decision?

If you knew in 1998 that 10 years later, your computer would be virtually worthless, would you still have bought it? Sure. In fact, you did know the value would approach zero over time, so there's little need for regret beyond nostalgia.
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Yeah, but it wasn't written in ASCII either :)
I imagine that's why he even mentioned him. Though I don't understand why he mentions Ellison and Bezos. This is like the King of France giving up his position so he can be the King of England. Gates? Ballmer? Padding the list I guess.
The streets here in Oslo is filled with patrolling soldiers now. Normally you only see a few policemen, and they are almost always unarmed.

The guy they have arrested for the massacre may face 21 years in prison.
Everyone so far has focused on the auditor, but I want to know why the OP thinks faking the requested data is an acceptable response. That disturbs me and nobody else commented on it!
It's a shame these type of apps are now against the app store TOS. I'd be interesting to hear your experience of what happened to yours.

I had to dig about on Installous to find one, what was yours called?
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So, a mini-forum on the page?
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I didn't say that they were. The fact that a single well chosen asteroid can represent ~5 times the annual global output of a given metal is a nice side effect which happens to make the whole thing financially viable. The goal is to bootstrap the industrialization of space as a prelude to the establishment of permanent colonies throughout the solar system.
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Script kiddies do not write software. They just use other people's software without understanding what it does.
DNSimple is a side project? I would never have guessed; it's such an awesome service. Keep up the good work!
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Very cool UI. May I ask what laptop you use for coding on the train? I spend ~2 hrs on the train everyday and have been trying to figure out what would be a good laptop to code on. I realize personal preferences play a role, but it seems like large laptop is a hassle to hold, and a small one is difficult to code on because of the smaller screen space.
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There's a hacking competition being held in Atlanta for college students (maybe High School) that sounds like a lot of fun. They need sponsors and to get the word out there to any students that would like to participate.

The second annual H3 Hacking Competition will be held Saturday, August 27th 2011 at the GTRI Conference Center. This year's event coordinators decided to open it up to all students - all you need is your Student ID! More details are coming soon! In the meantime, to get the most up to date information please join our mailing list.

Our mailing list is here: sympa@lists.gatech.edu

http://www.hungryhungryhackers.org/events.html#

They're looking for sponsors and any kind of novel contribution you have to make. This is a great initiative that teaches people with no experience in hacking what it is all about and gives those with experience the chance to show their stuff in a safe environment. There are several "flags" that can be compromised in the competition. The first one to capture them all wins. There are great prizes, of course, but the real prize is creating this community IMO.

This is an event that will be held annually and may bring as many as 100 students this year from all over the South Eastern United States to Atlanta. If you want to be a part of it in any capacity, please contact hungryhungryhackers@gtri.gatech.edu

What are your thoughts on this event? Is this good for aspiring developers looking for job placement? Would security firms be interested in this type of event?
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Yes, I wondered the same thing! Aside from the legal implications, the OP seems to have some questionable ethics as well.
Awful post. His example for why NOSQL is "difficult" to start with, is a company with a huge RDBMS trying to transition. Had they started with NOSQL, it would have been easy to architect around that from the beginning, rather than cramming it in later. He then goes on to argue that it's much easier to transition to NOSQL later, which is the exact opposite of his example.

NOSQL isn't one catchall group. There are different tools there for different jobs. His arguments rest on the assumption that NOSQL is hard(er). If it's not hard, and it solves a problem, then it's not premature optimization, it's just optimization.

There are certainly situations where using a NOSQL database to start with gives you a competitive advantage and makes things easier down the road. This same argument is made every time a new technology comes onto the scene. People who made a living using something else will argue that learning the new thing is too hard, and isn't worth the time. If he doesn't want to bother with learning about new tools, that's fine, but it's silly for him to argue that learning them is pointless or a waste of time.
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C'mon, all the Mitford sisters were fun people--one was a passing girlfriend of Hitler, one of Mussolini, one married the head of the brownshirts (fascist league) in Britain. Jessica married a Marxist professor at Berkeley (I believe it was). Actually, wasn't it Nancy who was generally less wild (and the most famous of the sisters)?

If you read Evelyn Waugh's Letters, there's a whole treasure trove of exchanges with the Mitford sisters.
> "can't be cracked"

Not sure about that. Certainly tough, but crackable.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/448963/has-recaptcha-been...

http://www.allspammedup.com/2011/01/google-recaptcha-cracked...
Would this work, or can it work with UK transactions in UK £ Sterling?

I absolutely love the idea and would like to integrate something like it into a project I'm working on.
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well Guy was chief evangelist at apple during the 90s, thats what he's actually famous for (originally). Now he's famous for self-promotion and tangientially his vc activities.
I'd like do do something similar for landscaping inspiration. Any advice?
For Ubuntu (and probably most of the other distros) theres a keyboard layout switcher. I'm sure there's something similar for windows and almost every browser. You can use those extensions to rapidly switch to qwerty layout when needed.
How is that different from hacking the ASIC of the network card?

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Which civilian version did you ride? The H2 and H3 are not actually based on the Humvee design.
In theory you should use the right tool for the job and there shouldn't even be a discussion.

However in reality not all DB's are created equally. It comes down to this: do you want to spend a known amount of time hammering in a screw, or do you want to spend an unknown amount of time optimizing your state of the art, but unproven screwdriver.

This is important for people starting a business. You don't start a business to test out new technology, that's what weekend projects are for. They need to be focusing on the product and not spending time 'just getting it to work'.

Mysql/MC aren't sexy, but it takes a trivial amount of time to set up and tune them.

There are lots of caveats to this; the entire argument can be nit-picked to death. But I think it holds for the generic webapp template that just needs data to persist and then be served back to users.
My understanding is that top law schools do something like that already - limiting themselves to pass/fail grading across the board. The 50th percentile at, e.g., Harvard Law, is almost certainly going to be a very capable attorney, and it does Harvard Law no good to create artificial distinctions between students solely for the benefit of the outside world.

If a student wants to show some sort of distinction, he has to find some out-of-band way to do that (research for a prof, publications, exceptional internships, etc).
Spam prevention is not a matter of security. It is completely orthogonal.
LiveCD's have been doing this for ages. This has nothing to do with Stuxnet.
People seem to forget the MS in RDMS.

It's true that anytime you write a function that maps some set to the set of logical values (true, false, null, maybe, ...) you're dealing with relational data. So while there is no clear cut border, at some point it becomes obvious that you would benefit from a Relational Data Management System. The danger is that your particular data set might out grow a particular management system.

When you switch to a "NoSql" solution all you're doing is deciding that you need a more purpose built managment system for your relational data.
I don't mean to sound cocky, but I don't get why people are still impressed by simple game demos in javascript. I've been working on a full Metroid-like game (some very old screenshots here http://ektomarch.com/games/) that'll have ~100 rooms, ~40 enemy designs, and a full plot for a year now and I've been doing it at a glacial pace, yet it's still nearing completion. How is it that seemingly nobody has made any real games in HTML5/javascript yet? We've had over a year of nothing but basic demos.
It happens on a number of fronts and it's not always quite as explicit as government making the decisions. Sometimes it's as simple as the government saying "we need a board to watch over and regulate this industry.. who is best to run the board? Oh! Those companies!"

Then you end up with a group of established companies working to define the requirements for new companies to join that field. Of course, they try to make it as difficult as possible.

State licensing boards do the same thing. While professional licensing makes sense for some safety reasons, why in the world would interior decorators need a license? That's the case in Florida.

And the licensing process itself can be ridiculous..

Not long after I turned 17, I got a job as a pharmacy technician at a local hospital, so I had to file for a license. There was no age minimum to be a tech but you had to be 18 to get a license. Regardless, I could start working as soon as my application was filed.

The review took 3-4 months and as soon as I was rejected, we filed an appeal which took another 3-4 months. By that time, I was a month or so from being 18, so we requested another appeal and by the time they got to it.. Voila.

And that was considered legitimate..
So now we have to deal with maimed soldiers coming home instead of killed ones? That's not the kind of kickass solution I expect from the most powerful military on the planet on the subject of "light vehicles getting blowed up by people putting bombs under the roads".

Require a senator to travel in one of those vehicles in the war zone and the "Put a huge hole in the top" idea wouldn't go over so well. It would be replaced by a pontificating senator analyzing why we are waging war like retards.
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Yeah, mostly stuff you wear. They're nice and comfy if you don't happen to be wearing body armor, your weapon, a pack, food for a day, camelback, etc.

Every time a door opens you see Marines and all the gear that was stuffed in there pour out. The hmmwv is spacious, but Marines typically wear at least their body weight in gear. Nothing is ever really comfortable except lying on your back or standing...
Because this guy shouldn't be allowed to have that information and unless he was going to use it for nefarious purposes, he wouldn't be using any of it at all.
Regardless of the circumstances surrounding the termination of this individuals account, he still brings to light some very valid concerns.

I'll quote terryb088 from reddit in saying, 'The whole "cloud computing" model that companies like Google are pushing requires that we place good faith in the companies that provide these services. In my opinion good faith runs both ways, and any suspension of services needs to have a channel for dispute and resolution.'

The bottom line is, with so much of our personal information and other material invested in Google and its services, the opportunity to appeal (much less be given a reason for) account termination should always be available. It speaks volumes of Google's attitude towards its users that there is not such an avenue already provided.
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well i think those soldiers would appreciate the opportunity to have a slightly better chance of surviving, even if they end up injured. i'd rather be hurt and living than dead.
Apart from contract work, there's currently only one. It's called Snippets (http://www.snippets.eu). It replaces the caps lock key with note taking functionality.
Although I wouldn't call it profitable, still trying to figure out how to get traction.
Please post the name of the company that the security auditor works for.
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The original[1] was made by the Minecraft guy. Like most of his projects, the levels are randomly generated. The levels themselves end, but there is no end to the actual game. It just keeps generating new levels.

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This is outrageous.

Deleting the whole account is really unjustifiable! If OP was abusing some service of Google, then ban him from this specific service, but why take his whole data?

If there is something to learn, it's to keep a local copy of anything you have, and never be 100% depending on an online service. But then this obliterates the benefits of investing entirely in so called cloud services with any company, including Google. Ownership of your data, doesn't seem to be one of those benefits.
So why is Parent concerned with keeping script kiddies out? If they don't write software, why would thy be writing software for the app store?
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You've been posting quite a bit about graph DBs lately

I have been a strong advocate for SQLAlchemy too (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2456994). It's just that I discovered the power of graph DBs a few months ago and have grown quite fond of them.
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You are making it sound it he CAN'T get girls. I m sure he can if he puts in the time. It is just not his priority right now. Time is limited. And he chose to devote his time to the game.
It's not sales as much as collaboration. Lots of us only have point solutions. Unless we have exits very soon, the most viable approach is to partner to offer more complete solutions.
He missed some important ones: study good code and practice writing it.
> I suspect the PC-ness of current Macs would be offensive to him and he being on board would be our only chance of seeing an elegant x86-based computer, ever.

In what ways do you find the iMac, Mac Mini, MacBook Air et al. to be inelegant or PC-like?
My only advice, to all programmers, is to print the following and stick it in a place where you can see it everyday:

“There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.” – Phil Karlton

The variant mentioning off-by-one errors may be pleasant, and useful for beginners, but is hardly a problem.

When we'll have solved the naming thing we'll be safe.

The rest is just buzz-words and useless noise.
You forget that init executes as root, and is therefore able to spawn root children.
Right now they are based on person's location but we can extract the location from content only if content has this information. In case of tweets, not all tweets contain this information.
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Whether or not there has been a TOS violation, basically locking away the guy's past emails and any other documents he may have saved previously using Google services seems like the dick move of the century.

It certainly makes me question the wisdom of keeping my email in Gmail and my photos in Picasa. And anything else in other parts of my google account.
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Doesn't work in Chrome on Windows either.
I think its partially that people are impressed by simple things when completed, more than complex things in the works. Looks like you have a cool game, but it will get the attention it deserves when its complete more than beforehand.
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Got it. For some reason I was expecting some sort of Mario AI or something. Thanks!
Yeah, you are right. But, you can use foursquare/gowalla checkins and pair it up with content. But, it might not be worth doing.
Of course, but why should I need to? Most "real" games let me remap the controls however I like. Is there a technical limitation of html5 that prevents that or is just that nobody bothers to implement it?
The site provides no useful information for people who are entering information of suspect reliability.

Your user is faced with nothing of value other than your assurance (in repeated caps) that things should remain anonymous.

Why not give a better picture of what on earth is going on, otherwise it's just a form to submit some numbers, and an email.
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Not only does the custom recovery in itself open up a hole, if you've made full-device backups with root tools, those backups will be sitting on your microSD card totally unprotected. Clockwork essentially dd's your NAND, and Titanium will leave a folder of conveniently named sqlite files ready for the taking.

Plus, "detecting" a rooted device is rather easy depending on how extreme your changes have gone. Seeing the AOSP lockscreen or a status bar that doesn't match the OEMs skin is a dead giveaway that the phone's been rooted. With that in mind, an attacker could simply pop open the battery cover, remove your SD card, replace it with a blank (so you don't notice the 'missing SD card' warning), and put everything back together in under a minute. By the time you notice something's up, the attacker will be long gone with your card full of plaintext backups.

PS: even if you don't keep backups on your device, merely having Clockwork installed makes the act of an attacker getting one (while bypassing your passcode) trivial. The attacker simply needs to power off your device (yank the battery), insert his SD card, reboot your device into Clockwork (on HTC phones, this is vol-down + Power), run a backup, remove his SD card and replace yours, and reboot again. This can be done in the space of 5 minutes, and you will never know unless you pay very close attention to your phone's uptime. And of course, how do you know your phone wasn't just having a bad day and rebooted of it's own free will?

Full device encryption is part of the Android platform as of 3.0; besides that some OEMs (I believe Motorola is one of them) have taken the liberty to implement it themselves. As well, Whisper[1] has produced a solution for the Nexus phones.

[1] http://www.whispersys.com/whispercore.html
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But in the context of academia, plagiarism is not a summary offense. Academics are rewarded primarily for the originality of their work, and plagiarism is an offense against major community norms. The appropriate response to an offense against major community norms is removal from the community.

I agree with all of that but these are undergraduates not academics. If you're not doing research you're not part of any academic community. Besides, they're business students, the proportion of people who don't give a dman about the hoops they have to get through to get the piece of paper to get the good job will be even higher than average.

tl;dr Non researchers are not part of any academic community, they are not bound by its moral code.
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I am an year old rails developer.Since I finished college an year ago,I have been working at a startup(Ruby on Rails Consultancy).Now I am thinking of a job change because of following reasons :

1)They pay me around 0.5x offered by other companies in the industry.

2)The technology side of company is weak.(Heck , I do not write tests and there is no one at company who does or can teach me.)

However ,the company says - "We will pay you better,and you are the one to bring in the standards and practices"
Should I stay at the company(and take the risk)? or look around for better Rails companies?

I am posting this here because,i think my feelings are much related to the (wrong ?) startup environment I am working in.The whole story happens in India btw.
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There is surprisingly little written about good API design. Maybe it's because the important things to say have already been said, but I have my doubts that that is the reason.
I concur. I've been working on http://fexl.com for some time, and when all is said and done, for my embedded scripting applications I prefer to use simple line- and token-oriented languages, where everything looks like this:

word word word
word word
word word word word
... etc.

The semantics of these embedded languages tend to be domain-specific, or in the cases where I need Turing-equivalence, revolve around the notion of a general "whiteboard" where the program can scribble key-value pairs, and do basic conditions and looping. I find that non-programmers can follow this sort of logic very easily.

Nice thing is, I can write these interpreters in any language, such as C or Perl or whatever, and "sandbox" their semantics in an airtight way for security.
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