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> So you're advising against what appears to be a more practical and secure methodology on the basis that it's worse when you share your password?

Iff you share your password then yes, you should use a scheme more suitable for that. And yes we shouldn't be sharing passwords, and if we do we should be changing them, but in the real world where most people don't do that I don't think we should encourage passwords which their friends will remember easily - because that is a very common attack vector.
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I don't see how it's controversial to say that the "free flow of information can sometimes be a problem"?

Obviously this freedom can cause problems for some at times; but this is a price we pay for a free and open society.
"As a user I'm pretty much pissed off when my multicore machine is hitting 100% on 3 of its cores when browsing some blog"

You should try NoScript and/or RequestPolicy for that.
My company posted 3 job listings 3 weeks ago -- you can look at my posting history to see the jobs I posted here on HN. So far we've gotten about 120 responses in total. The majority were for the Software Engineer and VP/Engineering positions; very few responses for the Operations Engineer job. Most of the software and ops candidates were so-so, though the VP candidates were quite a bit higher caliber.

Most of our candidates came from Craigslist; we advertised in 3 cities and got quite a few candidates from all 3 cities. We also got a few good candidates from the monthly HN thread. We posted to a few inexpensive job boards like Startuply and Startups Hiring but we didn't get many responses. We haven't tried any of the more expensive job boards like GitHub and Stack Overflow because the ROI isn't very clear. Those sites are pretty expensive, especially with 3 positions open. I'd love to hear more from others about whether those are actually worth the money.
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Use of rubber bullets was authorised after the police finally got their act together. I don't think it was a worthy desire to avoid escalation that prevented their use earlier on .. more lack of organisation.

The main question is, how will our government discover whether a citizen is communicating about a forbidden subject? I suppose all communication will need to be explicitly monitored. This is another step closer towards distopia.
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I also get a 403 trying to load what you've linked, but dosbox_13.nmf loads fine and so do the games.

It determines the filename based on the major version number in the useragent - it would probably work fine if your browser reported chrome 13.something.
I'm sure you have extensive research to support this conclusion - can you share it with us? Sometimes the most obvious opinions and beliefs turn out to be wrong, and it's useful to see the actual research.

Thanks.
Totally awesome.

Though I kinda wonder, why Simon the Sorcerer, that used to run on a 386, now takes 100% of a processor core of a Core 2 Duo.
Lady justice's scales are balanced by cash.

That's why the legal system is wrong.
I have a poor understanding of the toolchain, as my next question may make clear.

What obstacles would there be to running Borland C++ in this, and developing from here?
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It's strange because this is not getting reported at all in the UK (and by the UK on mean on the BBC).
Personally, I find working in an open office environment terribly distracting. It feels like a constant meeting and people always feel now is a good time for a question or a chat.
Actually it's https://plus.google.com/games
so my morning went like

1) skim tech crunch article
2) figure it will take a while for anything interesting to come out
3) come back to HN, this is next story

this will not be a productive morning
Some HFTers execute thousands of trades a day which are cancelled within a few ms -- they are just pinging the market to see how liquidity is at certain price levels, or looking for an opportunity to get out in front of a large quantity trade. This would prevent or impair such traders.
I remember some research quoted by Christopher Alexander (of design patterns fame.) although I cannot find the reference at the moment. I believe it was in the justification section for the "half-open wall" pattern.

The gist of it was that people tend to prefer spaces that are about half closed (I'm quoting from memory, I'm aware this quantification is imprecise) - i.e. somewhere between a lone desk in the middle of a huge room (0% closed) and a cubicle (almost 100% closed). Something striking the balance between the feeling of being shielded (nobody likes open space behind their backs) and being cramped (nobody likes a view-blocking wall in front of their nose.)
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How do you guarantee the answer? What hold do you have over the ladies that makes them answer?

If someone is only going to pay me a dollar for something, I'm not likely to do it were it not something I'd do for free anyway.

This is the point of the "pay enough or don't pay at all" statement. Both quality and quantity tend to go down if you go from pure volunteers to paying below market rate.

To earn US Federal minimum wage, answerers would have to spend, on average, 8 minutes on each question. This is not just the reading and writing of the question and answer, but also any time spent getting ready to work.

Obviously, you're the one who has real-world experience of this, and I'm just an armchair pundit who has read a few articles; so you know more than me. I'm just curious about how you have managed to go against the current received wisdom.
Seems like it might be doable with a bit of hacking of the magical detexify: http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html
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For further reading, here is a survey of different professors and practitioners in the field, and their take on questions related to the market impact of HFT. It's a very thorough discussion: http://www.conatum.com/presscites/HFTMMI.pdf
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what i cant understand in my workplace is that the admin dept has this very nice comfy chairs and yet the IT dept has this very old non-ergonomic chair that you would buy a backrest for it.
For those things that aren't likely to be independently invented and can be kept secret, secrecy IS the norm.

It also isn't like engineers or scientists would read patents to see which things have been invented. From knowledge implying higher damages to pure lack of readability, there are many reasons.
Yes.

I don't know if it was due to a weird environment variable or something, but when I installed RVM it got itself into an infinite loop sometimes when I did `cd`.

I reported a bug, but the author couldn't reproduce or fix it. So now I recommend anyone who asks me not to use rvm, because it's utterly ridiculous.
Once "criminals" have a bright future and a job, they probably won't be criminals any more. I think that's a good thing for everyone involved.

I say "criminals" not to imply that what these people do isn't criminal (it is), but because dividing the world into criminals and good law abiding citizens is a false dichotomy. Normal people sometimes do criminal things and criminals sometimes to things that are good.

Additionally, by applying only the label "criminal" to certain people, you're ignoring that these are human beings with lives and dreams and ideas and problems and families, who have reasons for the things they do. They may be good reasons, they might not be, but to disregard them altogether is a mistake.

At the same time, you're implying that crime is a problem that either cannot be solved or can be solved by jailtime and harsh sentencing. Neither of these implications are true.
I tried to generate all possible permutations of 4 of the 2000 most popular words in the English language.

My computer failed miserable after about 2000000 permutations and considering there is 10^13, i wont be making a rainbow table for this new type of password.
it would be funny if this wasn't this sad..
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You have to realize that not only are performances of nacl probably going to improve with time, but more importantly this is not a port of the game in nacl, this is a port of the game, running in the dosbox emulator running in nacl (Dosbox emulate a whole old computer, which then load the game). Redoing such a game from scartcg in Nacl and getting rid of the emulator layer would have much better performances.
I dont think RIM has failed to notice it. In fact in countries like India RIM has launched phones that cost lowest in the smartphone segment just $200.
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I think your description of them says a lot about your arguments nature.

I mean of course the parent are to blame, but since they too belong to what you describe as underclass they simply do not have the mental surplus.

If you have kids you will know how hard it can be to control their whereabouts.

And as far as I can se, no one is claiming it's an excuse. It's an explanation. You can then as you do choose to disregard it or you could perhaps try and look at the root cause and accept that social status and income do have an effect.
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Because nobody ever rioted before facebook.
Maybe they should focus on enforcing the laws they have, not forming special committees to write more. I have to believe it is against the terms of service of all these apps to conspire to commit crimes or participate in criminal activity using Twitter, Facebook, BBM, etc. Would they propose shutting down telephones, text messaging, and all other forms of communication (snail mail, singing clown telegrams, monkey butlers) which have been used for good and evil since their existence?
I haven't looked at it yet, but perhaps they rethrow exceptions. This will mess up line numbers in stack traces but otherwise should behave similarly to original code.
Another reason is explained on the website:

"Currently NaClBox is using far more CPU than it should. This is because the current version of SDL for Native Client has a bug that will crash the browser when you navigate away from it. To avoid that, I had to revert back to an older version of the SDL port that has high CPU utilization."
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I was thinking flying cars and stuff. I didn't know the future was going to be this awesome.
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Here's some data I found for various occupations, stored in a helpful spreadsheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aqdcj6KBtxj6dFpvc0hoQTdleDFBcWxFWUwzTVdidGc&hl=en_US&ndplr=1#gid=0

Observation: a programmer's salary is often competitive with the salary of someone who works in finance when you take hours worked into account.

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Taken out of context (as you did) it isn't controversial.

But in the context of the article linked to it implies that it is a problem that the government needs to do something about by restricting the said free flow of information.
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Also discussed at great length over here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2873604

This is a good example of the same story, not cross-connected, getting split discussions.
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Weird. I was there too, and I didn't manage to bump into you, David or Ricky at all. But then again, there were boat loads of people there.
i dont want a laptop because it means i have to take it home. nope. i would happily accept a nice workstation.
OK lets look at the facts here. Blackberry phones have become widely used by the urban poor because they are free on cheap tarrifs. BBM is essentially free text messaging and so also widely used by the urban poor. Its should come as no surprise that the riots were co-ordinated by BBM. Its just text messaging, quick and easy. I find it hard to believe that the rioters running round London was browsing facebook and twitter.

The comparison should not be made with social networking sites (which the term social media is synonymous with), just because BBM uses the internet, rather the comparison should be made with text messaging. I like how the term 'social media' has been used here. What is social media? Anything that is used for communication? So are we talking about controlling text messaging, phone calls, email? Because to organise this amount of organised theft and vandalism these avenues of communication are more likely to be the methods of choice.
While I agree that sacrificing salary for stock is a very risky strategy your comment is overboard and inconsistent.

1. If employees got granted stock they'd have to pay tax on the entire amount which they can't afford. It's not that expensive to buy though since early on, the options are usually granted at a fraction of the actual price though which means they're often 10x cheaper than the going rate. Nobody "owns" their stock until they exercise their options but if they feel it's not worth more than their original option price then the company's flatlining and it's pretty academic anyway.

2. Nobody in the company knows what their percentage will be at the time of exercise. That's regardless of whether they hold options or stock and is part of the territory. Everyone's stake gets diluted when new money comes in just as everyone's value is inflated as the valuation increases. If you propose anti-dilution clauses for employees then someone else will need to double down on dilution and I'm not sure who you propose that should be.

So
a) "ownership" comes down to whether someone exercises their options - their call but they have the legal right.
b) If you don't like % equity descriptions (which will almost always go down), translate into $ descriptions instead. "If we exit today you'll get this many $, if we exit at 5x you'll get this many $ and if we have to do a downround you could be diluted to this many $. Such change is not unreasonable it's just the nature of it.
You could transpose the word in some way. So maybe move each letter two keys to the right - 'p' becomes ']', 'a' is 'd' and so on. They you end up with ']di]dl' instead of 'paypal', which is a bit more obscure. It might not work so well if the rest of your passphrase is made up of dictionary words.

I'm a bit paranoid though - most compromises aren't targeted and if a hacker gets a list of 20,000 hashes to crack they aren't going to inspect them individually.
>People wanted new trainers and TVs

That's a resource distribution issue intimately related to the economy. If that isn't politics, nothing is. Almost all riots are related to resource distribution issues, especially when an impoverished underclass engages in looting.

Are you really claiming these riots aren't linked to the massive cuts to public services that happened during the last year?
At one time it was very hard to reverse engineer chemicals and hardware.

Nowadays, finding out the composition of chemicals and drugs is routine, even if it's not simple. Reverse-engineering widgets isn't much of a problem. Disassembling computer programs is trivial.

If this is your reason to keep patents, it's not a very good one.
Mono with support for NaCL sounds interesting. Does that mean though the browser will have to download Mono every time it encounters a web app that's written in e.g. C#? Or will it only have to download the C# bytecode?

On a slight tangent, I've always wondered why Java (or other JVM languages) couldn't make a comeback on the client side. Instead of having Applets that run sort of isolated from the browser, you could just expose the DOM.
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The article mentions:

$ git fetch
$ git checkout master
$ git merge origin/master

On the third (last) line of code above, is there a more short-hand way to say "merge the remote tracked branch related to this current branch"?
Sounds like Ming-Jen Wang patented Ted Nelson's ZigZag structure (http://xanadu.com/zigzag/) which is prior art (fully described at least by 1999-see http://himalia.it.jyu.fi/ffdoc/fenfire/history/Milestones.ge...) and quite possibly patented by Ted Nelson as well (http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/233#comment-1715). And I'm only familiar with ZigZag because of my interest in Ted Nelson's work, otherwise, it doesn't seem to have gone anywhere.
I don't think that's a good idea in general. It might work for your particular use case, but if you're doing work on a branch you regularly update from a remote, then you will also need to test every time you do a pull. you might introduce new bugs because the code you rebased does not necessarily make sense on top of the new base, and you have no easy way to reset to the old base either. Merges can be undone easily but rebases are much trickier.

I think the best approach is to code on a separate branch while keeping the base unchanged and do the rebase (or merge) when the code is complete. That way, you at least have a branch of code that you know is working, and when you merge, you immediately know that any issues are caused by something that changed between the old and the new base. And you still can do mid-development rebases if there is a need for them.
I hope this trend will stop this instant. Why should we develop a Chrome App which only runs in Chrome (cross platform though) ? With existing technologies you can target way more people with all kind of browsers. (Ok there are browsers which are hard to optimize for)

I feel like we are going back from all these benefits the browserS gave us.
Just yesterday some commentator on Sky said it's the television to blame in the first place, for spreading a message that looting gets away without punishment. Internet and mobile communication came into play only after that.
You don't _have_ to use NaCl just because it is available. If you find performance like an order of magnitude away from where you need it to be, NaCl could be one technology to consider. Demanding games come to mind, harvesting spare computing power is another possibility, I'm personally interested in high performance programmable audio (think Max/MSP/Jitter within the browser), etc.
There were also some examples of good parenting - one chap handed himself in to police because his mother recognised him on television and forced him to give himself up.
Awesome! I love hearing about people actually getting places as a result of using it (and doing a lot of legwork, obviously). That "x people found places using this" is something I don't get to see in Google analytics. Thanks for letting me know.
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I don't know how small the image set is but it kept getting the same image again and again. Maybe one in five was a dupe.

The only person I recognised was Kernel Sanders ;)
In the long term, it would be preferable to fix the browser.
What if you had a cubicle layout, but each of the walls could be slid up or down. So it converts between open plan and concentration cubicle mode? Having the walls up implies you are deep in concentration so people shouldn't disturb you.

Though perhaps would just leave their walls up constantly
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You write too well to be part of the underclass. The underclass is uneducated, mentally ill, has limited access to social services.

The real underclass doesn't come to Hacker News; the real underclass typs lik dis- u no- txt speak
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Unless you're planning on keeping them there forever, that's not a solution, just a postponement.
The same impoverished underclass with access to Blackberry's and smartphones with data packages who can't afford to put new shoes on their feet?

Are you really claiming this?
> Heck, people often pay more per click on AdWords than it costs to print and ship a book.

Wow. Such a great way to spend money, and I think it would get them some great ROI.

(They are launching their new SCM veracity.)
Interesting to learn. In Mercurial (which is what I use primarily) pull does not merge unless you ask it to. Is there a list anywhere of gotchas in git for people coming from other DVCS? (i.e. things like commands with the same name that do subtly different things, such as this)
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Looks like the dosbox is loaded depending on which version of chrome you're running, and there's only 12 and 13 up, so 14/15 tries to get a file that doesn't exist.

Bit of silly coding, given the ABI is fixed from 13 onwards.
Earlier submission of a similar nature, with some discussion and counter-points:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2844587
"Firing back" with a newsfeed of your friends gaming activity?

Thats a bit underwhelming... firing back would be to bring Crysis into the browser or something like that.
Absolutely! I wouldn't call myself as "unwary", but I would totally click a file with .jpg extension! (the article says 'Unwary people treat this file as a picture'). EXE is especially dangerous because you can make "SEXe.jpg". Who wouldn't click that?

But I guess from now on I look at the chars to the left of the dot as well..
Not that I agree with the knee-jerk reaction put forward by Cameron, but actually, protesters will protest. There's a big difference between rioting and protesting, and it's important to make that clear.
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The problem is that the people who decide how to layout offices, don't do the kind of "stateful" work that requires long periods of concentration, and don't understand those that do. Their work is broken up into much more discrete chunks. PG talks about this in his essay http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
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How do you know this? I sure hope you aren't unquestioningly swallowing what the state run media tells you.

Have you talked to any rioters? Have you entered their homes and seen how they lived? Maybe if you got to know them you would think up some reasons why they would be angry and feel like burning and robbing.

Maybe those reasons would be something like recent austerity measures further condemning them and their children to a life of abject poverty in one of the richest places in the world.

Maybe those reasons would be lack of access to decent education, medicine, mental health services.

A democracy that is widely seen as unrepresentative and broken where social mobility has been declining for 40 years.

How about an utter lack of job prospects while a consumer culture bombards them with media that tells them they are worthless for being trapped in a cycle of poverty.

At a certain point your underclass realizes that their only hope of ever getting nice shoes (and by extension, respect from society) is by taking those shoes.

Cmon London, you are smarter than this. Are you TRYING to bring back Marxism? Or does the English upper class not fear the guillotine?