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Yeah, even recaptcha is broken. A new board I helped set up at my company got some spam before even being publicly announced!

On my blog I generate two random sequences of characters and tell the user to join them together without a space. This seems to have worked really well. (Though in the past I've also had static strings like "join 'bow' and 'ser' together" or "join 'doc' and 'tor' together".) I used to have the addition challenge like the GP but it was broken. My comment form was slammed with hits, so I rate-limited attempts, but a few still got through (since it's actually not a big set of responses to go through and you can defeat rate limits). That's when I implemented my string scheme and changed the comment form submission url (which only lives in Javascript now), haven't had a spammer get through yet.

On another forum I used to moderate (I think it was an Invision Powerboards one) I fixed it with a second field asking something like "What makes things fall down? gravity or noodles?" And if they entered gravity it would let them register. It lasted a few years, then a few randomly got in but by that time the forum had died.
Curious how Google bans some 'dirty' words
You activated the triggering mechanism. Its delay is inconsequential, whether it is 10ms or 10 minutes, since you are the proximate cause of the capture.

These primates composed and snapped the photos themselves, unaided, on their own initiative. The providence of the camera doesn't make the camera's owner the copyright holder, any more than using a rented camera makes the rental company owner of the resulting images. Composition and shot timing are the two primary creative acts in photography — the monkeys did both.
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Also you want to make sure the ratio between different language speakers is well balanced. I can see the reason behind a lot a Brazilians and Hispanics wanting to learn English, it's the most important language after all. But are there as many English speakers (mostly Americans) who want to learn Spanish and Portuguese? What are the motivations for them to pick up a second language?
you mean an ipad??
For smartphones, sure. For desktops this is not going to happen for a long time if ever. When will AutoCAD, UGS-NX, MAYA, Photoshop, Quark Express, MatLAB, Mathematica (other than wolfram alpha), and even more specialized medical/industrial/scientific software be available for android? Will there even be decent gaming under java? (angry birds does not count)
This has to be the most badass new hire announcement I've ever seen.
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Very cool, congrats guys!

Rosetta Stone does something like this already - in addition to learning the language you can engage in peer-to-peer or peer-to-teacher live instruction through the software. It matches you based on language level, etc. The cool part about the peer-to-peer interaction is that it's with someone equally dedicated to learning the language, since they also bought the software and engaged in a bunch of lessons. Of course, Rosetta charges for this service.

What does Verbling offer that Rosetta doesn't - is it easier/faster/cheaper/etc?
I'm a Git user too, so no flaming: I just feel it's best to get source code from the original source in case the mirror isn't up to date for whatever reason.
It is interesting how Facebook's 'Friend Suggestions' quickly made your list spiral out of control.

They are just suggestions. You are in no way obligated to add any single one of them.

I find myself wondering why some people think it does mean that. The author is by no means the only one I have seen this happen to. Some of my own facebook 'friends' behave similarly. I never understood this behaviour.
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Having sub-tasks would be cool that auto-percentaged the completion of a milestone.

IE: "Wireframes" as a milestone/road, should have stops per wireframe.

Otherwise its way too abstract to use to manage a granular project.
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omg if you refresh they just get harder and harder. calculus? trig?
Love the idea of github for recipes. I think it'd be great to share and build recipes with others. Actually, the github/social version idea could work for a lot of stuff in theory (e.g. music, design, etc).
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I've got a pickup lines site (http://worldsbestpickuplines.info) which would be easy to adapt or clone to the "Pickup Stories" idea - I think I'll do it. Thanks for the idea!
Sure some people don't ever connect it, but is it a large percentage? I imagine most people (1) have some digital music on their computers, (2) want to listen to it from their iPhones, (3) use iTunes to copy it over.

Of course someone might (a) not listen to music on their iPhone, or (b) buy music from iTunes directly from the iPhone, or (c) copy music to the iPhone using something other than iTunes; but I imagine none of these things are very common.

I have absolutely no data, I'm just guessing and would love to hear from anyone that does have data about this.
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I totally lack context, here, but when I saw that quote, my first thought was, "With the tastes you showed in creating PHP, it's no wonder you hate programming."
Answer "right / left" question is not automatic. I always have to think. I imagine pointing from my shoulder through my arm in the direction I'm thinking. (Perhaps every one does this.) I just know there's a small mental pause.

Interesting, I have that problem as well, also with compass directions (I often have to visualize a map to be sure I know whether I want to go "east" or "west" on a road. Also mentioned elsewhere on this page I transpose numbers a lot. I have no trouble reading though, and was a fairly avid reader when I was younger (don't have time for pure reading for pleasure much these days).
One of the problems with open source software is that it can be very difficult to capture some of the value that people get from it, and cycle it back to the creators/workers of some project. Except, of course, for code contributions, but you can't pay the rent with those.
I felt the same way when I tried it out. This is exceptionally cool. My first instinct was to tell my friends about it. Only problem is this has to have a lot of users in order for it to be useful on random sites. Other than that though, this is killer.
Except that it violates the specification right? I guess we're agreeing to disagree on the definition of proprietary. I can buy all of Apple's funky connectors through various suppliers, and maybe even fab them myself, but to me they're still proprietary. Sorry to be pedantic!
I'd like to see evidence that this happens enough to matter. Any time you use a Bloom filter you recognize that doing great in most cases is much better than doing OK in every case.
Holy Crap. What's wrong with EA?

Our studio (Treyarch) was acquired for around 5-15mln (not sure the right number), close number for Infinity Ward and other studios (there is report on the net about public numbers).

But $750mln? Isn't the Pandemic acquisition pandemic enough? Who the fuck drives EA?
the problem this seems to be solving is that everyone decides to "discuss implementation performance later", i.e. never.
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Great post. I sent the link to my manager.
Hmm, hate to knock the steam out of my own post, but it seems Lerdorf was only at WePay for one year and left in April:

http://www.linkedin.com/in/rlerdorf
Those things aren't constitutionally, legally or inherently democracies, but it's nevertheless possible for them to be administrated in a more, or less, democratic manner.
You're not familiar with Mike Pall I take it?
Open source projects written in C. That is like shooting fish in a barrel made out of fish, on a floor made out of fish, with a gun made out of fish, with big fish for bullets.

You might try Redis, MongoDb, the Linux kernel, One of the BSD's kernels, Python, mongrel 2....
So here's my understanding of the situation: when a DHCP server runs out of leases to assign, it will kill the oldest (in terms of use) lease. If the device that held the lease is not on, for relevant values of "on", at the time, it will not be notified about this.

The usual (perhaps standard, I'm not sure) process has the device confirming its DHCP lease when coming back on, and in this situation the device would be notified that it can't have the old lease as it's been repurposed, and the server will provide another lease (perhaps after killing some yet another lease).

If this is an Apple device and it behaves in the manner described, after coming back "on" it will not consult DHCP, but rather it will reuse the lease it held previously. If the server has given that lease to another device, the Apple device will butt in, causing an IP conflict. Perversely, the Apple device will shortly discover this, actually do a DHCP request, and switch over with no indication to the user, leaving the other device to wonder why it had an IP conflict and how to handle it.

Is this incorrect in any way?
This implementation will always work for the Apple device that's connecting.
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that's more the exception than the rule. i think it's a good sign that luna put performance first.
Slightly off topic, but I tried tweeting this post and Bit.Ly reported it as a phishing site, you guys might want to look into that. Another person had the same problem. Here's the shrunk URLs:

http://bit.ly/pvv11g
http://bit.ly/okHtiC
Signed up as well - and looking forward to the invite.

This looks like a very interesting project!
I want to kiss the feet of scumbags like Pascazi, because vile plans like this one are exactly the sort of antagonist the world is going to have to experience before it comes to a sane relationship with the concept of intellectual property.
How is this not unethical?
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No, because your contract most likely says that your employer owns everything you create at work.
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Xbox 0 * 360

Xbox 1 * 360

Xbox 2 * 360

...etc
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Yep, most people have no idea how much money is in this space right now. Real money. Coming from users.

It's enormous.
By contrast, per capita income explains 46% of variation in average IQ among countries, ...

Correlation is not causation. If race, nutrition, and parasite load (e.g., malaria) are causative factors of IQ (they are!), we would expect per capita income to be highly correlated with IQ. And indeed nutrition and parasites explain why equatorial Africa cranks out hideous poverty and average IQs in the 50s.

The Taiwan average is almost two s.d.s above the international average, which would be like an average IQ of 130, ...

Many Asians place a high priority on math practice, which readily increases ability. Islands of high math accomplishment have been created in the U.S. ghettos when a gifted teacher gives the students a culture transplant.

If you’ve ever traveled, it’s obvious that Qatar isn’t actually half populated with mentally retarded people ...

Mental retardation is actually defined by deficient global neurological abilities: physical coordination, verbal fluency, procedural memory, emotional perception, emotional control, and so forth. In other words, what are called skills of daily living. These talents are partially independent of general intelligence. It is perfectly possible for someone to be friendly, well spoken, and a great cook without having much abstract reasoning ability.

... while the Qatar average is almost two s.d.s below, which would be like an average IQ of just over 70, “borderline mentally retarded”.

Those thresholds were designed for tracking white children into special education classes for developmental disabilities. In a homogenous group, IQ is highly correlated with mental retardation, because global brain damage necessarily reduces IQ. However the thresholds are much less meaningful across races. A white kid with an IQ of 70 will probably need special help to learn to tie their shoes, and will lack the curiosity to care. A black kid with an IQ of 70 is nearly normal except for abstract reasoning ability, and has trainable worker written all over them.

The Bell Curve has been amply debunked already, ...

[citation needed]

Preferably a citation that lets hard data do the talking, looks at all the data, and understands the difference between correlation and causation.
+1 for cargo cults: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult. Its a great idea to keep in mind for a creator/designer/programmer. People/users/everyone all too often intuit through imitation.
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What exactly would you be consulting on, when by your own admission you don't seem to have much background in anything in particular?
Well, I have a couple of thoughts:

While the FB chat layout has its many benefits such as non-techy users will be (most likely) used to it, the small chat area really isn't enough for big sites such as HN or Reddit where there can be many many users online at once.

It would be nice if it could plug into fb chat, google+, AIM/AOL, etc. however, I'm not quite sure how viable of an option that is.

It also seems that anyone can make a chat (I could be wrong), but that seems like a silly add-on for a site with as many users as HN because it will only take one troll to bother everyone.

P.S.

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I agree with you, but this won't be the event that does that. This situation is going to have to happen to something that "mainstream" people actually care about.

I'm not making a value judgement about bitcoin here one way or the other, just saying that people involved in bitcoins are generally already aware of these IP issues so this specific event is unlikely to spread the message much.
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Sega and Atari disappeared because they were unwilling to deliver what people wanted.

There was no market for Nintendo, Sega and Atari delivering family friendly games, especially when Sony came in and started delivering family and adult games. It became even harder when Microsoft came in and joined the domination of the market.

This has little relevance to phones. It would have been relevant if Android had refused to include SMS in its phones, but essentially Microsoft/Apple/RIM/Android phones are all the same with a few shiny and rather useless differences.

The key relevance in the smartphone market is if Apple is going to be able to sustain its phone and app store as phones and tablets become powerful enough to run flash natively. No ones going to pay for angry birds when it's free on New Grounds or Kongregate or any of the dozen massive Flash game sites that will jump all over a phone/tablet capable of running actual games.

IMO the only relevance your analogy has is to apple, because they truly don't grasp what people want. People don't waste hours a day playing flash games on Kongregate or Facebook because they have to pay $1 or more for the privilege of downloading it.

When I'm paying $30 for a data plan, I don't plan on paying more for a game, just as when I'm paying $80 for my cable connection, I don't expect to pay more for the privilege of actually watching a TV show. Our world runs on advertising, there's advertising on everything, everywhere. I can't walk out my door, turn on the TV or go on the computer without seeing a dozen adverts inside 5 minutes. I mean a billion people have watched Lady Gaga through Youtube and have seen an advert before and a popup advert during the video. Sorry, but Apple needs to get to the reality that people expect things to be advertising supported.
Almost as though history is repeating itself verbatim.
Depending on your ISP, you may have access to espn3.com. Most major sports leagues also offer online streaming packages for something like $100 for a whole season. They don't get you 100% coverage (due to local blackouts, games on TNT or other networks, etc.) but they get you pretty close.
I tried several options, and finally settled on the Amiga Forever bundle, which includes software for transferring things which actually worked. It's been years, now, and I don't remember all the details...I just remember hacking together a cable, buying a USB-to-RS232 adapter on ebay, being frustrated for a week or so trying various bits and pieces from source, and then buying Amiga Forever, and things just magically came together and started working.

It wasn't as easy as I'd hoped it would be, and it wasn't as easy as it would have been had I done it when I first moved to PC. Since transfer utilities and hardware were commonplace back then.
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The statistic is that 10% of the internet's users have had an asset touch one of their servers at some point in the last month.
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"It seems that the power of a corporation to create a brand and call it whatever they want is uncontroversial, and nobody seems bothered by the name Android which makes no mention of the Linux kernel whatsoever, but RMS' thoroughly rational and sensible idea that the right name for the desktop OS should correctly label its major components has been very controversial"

It's controversial because it is NOT rational and NOT sensible. If it were sensible and rational, then there would be a plethora of other operating systems named after their major components. In fact, people have almost never named operating systems after their major components. If anything, it is usually the other way around--the major components get named after the operating system.

The whole point of a name is so you don't have to identify something by listing its components.
Kinda sounds like you have a sense that you are owed part of their business? I'm not sure they will see why.

Imagine you spent 3 years developing your code, building your business to 100K uniques, pulled togething a team of 3 developers. Then a guy turns up and says "I had that same idea 12 months ago, I'd like a job and a I think I deserve a slice of the company too.".

What would you say to him?
You're right. That's left over from it's original publication as a hardcover with Springer Verlag. It's not necessary anymore. I'll take it off.
Yes, it would be nice if you could move it to the side. With widescreen monitors the horizontal space is often more than 50% unused (and it is on HN on my screen). So you can use the entire right half of the screen for chat and you wouldn't use precious vertical space.
Ask HN: How many displays do you work with?
On your main computer - the one you use most of the time - how many displays do you have? When designing tools for the HN community (like the chat just being discussed), could you just assume everyone on HN has at least two displays?
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That's what inspired it, see the Preface.
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'Scammed' is not the right word. Ever heard the aphorism "never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence"? Manager types (and unfortunately probably quite a few programmers) have no idea what CAPTCHAs do, and I would bet money that somewhere, somebody has vetoed a server CAPTCHA in favor of a client CAPTCHA because it sounded easier or something. I'm not saying that's what happened here, but don't say it was obviously malice when you just don't know.
Thanks for the kind words, I found this site after trying to figure out why there were a bunch of hits all of a sudden.
I think it depends on how you read the "secret" part of the headline. If he means "here's a secret: use enums for state machines in Java", then it's no secret at all. If he meant "here's a secret for how to better implement state machines in Java", then yes, I would call it a secret.

As you might guess, I read it the first way :)
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When you design solution, you have to decide if you're protecting against targeted or not targeted attack. It's not all just "spam".

If your concern are only dumb, fully-automated bots not targeting your site specifically (which is true for the bottom 99.5% of the web) then you don't need CAPTCHA.

2 and 3 are great for non-targeted attack. 1 is a very weak protection against targeted attack and it's likely an overkill unnecessarily burdening users.
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NASA taking Android smart phones into space.
This is nice. But a couple of thoughts:

1. Use will die down over time as people won't want to browse with it running constantly. Perhaps you could create Chrome/Firefox addons with acceptable privacy policies which just popup a notification or display something in your status bar if you access a page with users that are chatting? Just to remind you that the functionality exists...

2. I just saw someody create a room with the same name as another room. They couldn't see the room I had created...

3. A little slow currently perhaps due to the number of users. Maybe that's just my machine.

4. Was surprised to see that everybody dropped trying to sound clever as soon as chat is realtime. Is a reputation system needed always?

5. Some way of bringing conversations back which you've closed...
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Factoring in possible bonuses EA could pay as much as 1.3 billion. http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/12/confirmed-ea-buys-popcap-ga...
And how does real time spinning and panning work with your suggestion?

You need the transformations to make the buildings spin in your browser window. Didn't you see the demo?
Actually, yes, that did the trick for me; thanks! (Though I still think it's a feature that everyone would appreciate, so if it could go into news.yc, that would be even better.)
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Although if the post is Limited, you just get a 404. Which isn't super friendly.
For Reddit, a person can evaluate the quality of an article very quick and simple democracy pushes it to the top. Also, once I have read the article, I usually don't care to ever see it again. With recipes, it takes longer to evaluate, so the credibility of the person recommending it has more weight. Also, when I find a recipe I like, I want to keep it for life. "Browse Emeril's recipes" sounds like a site I want to see. (This may be exactly what you were saying, not sure)
Thanks for taking the time to give me feedback - really appreciate it! These are all great points that I will try to utilize.
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News like this annoys me. Pandora has the feature and I can't have it. I see the announcement and go to check out the feature and can't opt in. Tomorrow when I get back to work I'm going to completely forget about it and three weeks from now when they release it to my account I'll never know.
Is this fair use?