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Why Can't startup launch pages be fun?
Here's a startup page that i hit upon, looks starkly different and stands out from the rest. Not sure if it has something for me. But, I ended up giving my email anyways out of curiosity!!

Worth checking out!
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From the second paragraph:

"If these companies were to take this route, all of these sites would go completely dark save for a message of opposition to SOPA censorship and instructions on how to contact your local representative."
I'm generally of the opinion that racist jokes are not as far separated from actual racism as the joke teller would like themselves to believe.

Same goes for sexism, ageism, etc etc.

I used to crack jokes about black people back in college (of the same character that ugh linked to) - I didn't think it was racism, after all I didn't actually have anything against black people, right? Then I graduated, moved to another city, and made a lot of black friends that bucked the stereotypes so dramatically that now I find the same jokes at least mildly offensive.

Racism is a spectrum, it isn't as binary as "lynch 'em" vs. "I love them", there are many shades of gray, and many places where you're subtly contributing to it by believing in, and spreading extremely damaging stereotypes.
I've tried this version for Grails project. Integration for Groovy is less efficient than STS (based upon Eclipse). Currently, the best stays IntelliJ.
As a frequent WhatsApp user, I must say I find this more amusing than anything. I've never really understood what the status feature is for anyway.
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That doesn't make it not racist though, and doesn't neccesarily make people any happier to read it than if it wasn't a joke.
NetBeans is still around? If you don't want to use Eclipse, try IntelliJ.
How about removing the "real names" policy? :)
WhatsApp Status Changer - Change your friends status
It's not changing status anymore, did they already block the site's IP?
I was in the same boat as you. If you want a globally available service that IS developer friendly, reliable and simple, PayPal might actually be the correct answer after all. It is what we ended up with after a lot of research.

I don't know your reasons for not wanting to use PayPal, they might differ from my hesitations, but after spending a couple of days experimenting, reading docs and so forth, I found the technical side of it extraordinaraily flexible and easy to use.
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I believe paganel is referring exactly to the "sub-optimal decision" part, in the explanation (not the questions themselves).

And yes, this quiz seems a load of underspecified cargo-cult horsecrap. I surely hope the original research was of higher quality.
This may well be true.

But the point is that research has show that almost all people have this bias that makes them much more risk adverse when avoiding losses than when they don't already have the money.

We can speculate a lot on the reasons, but that speculation isn't tested yet.
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Is this a Fraud site? Not working for me.
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Depends. How closely linked are the concepts of simple encryption and plausible deniability encryption? If you start researching the topic a bit you will stumble upon both, but if, say, a friend installed it?
Politically incorrect humor does not equal racism.
Netbeans is less compelling now that we have IntelliJ CE but given a choice between Eclipse and Netbeans, I would choose Netbeans every time!

Eclipse has always seemed to me to be baroque and over complicated, for example why do I need to change to a specific perspective to perform a specific task?
What Uhrrr is saying is that prob(Person is an engineer | Named Jack and has Jack's description and initial 30/70 ratio) > prob(Person is an engineer | 30/70 ratio)=30%. I think the article goofed on that question too. I'd rather have seen an illustration of the conjunction bias, which is similar. Given Jack's description, what's more probable: Jack is a lawyer, or Jack is a lawyer who likes classical music. (The first one, but people overwhelmingly pick the second one.)
Depending on what you are building, NetBeans is a great option. Its support for J2ME is excellent, for instance. I also prefer it for JSP stuff. I have used it to quickly cobble together Swing apps too and the new interface builder seems interesting. Never really tried it with PHP or C, but it doesn't look too bad. For Python an Django work, I like Emacs.

Like Tim said, Eclipse is overly and needlessly complicated.

As for IntelliJ, never bothered to try. It seems to have a very passionate user base, but, from what I saw, I don't know why.
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As a frequent WhatsApp user I don't find this amusing at all. If this is how the engineers handle security issues, it might be time to convince my friends to switch to another messenger. It's not like there was no competition in that field.
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I could not change mine. If the leak is plugged would you be willing to explain where the hole is?
My own experience is that if you're really interested in getting into companies with recruitment processes like this, you might want to be uninterested when talking to the recruiter, talk down your level of interest, question whether the company has anything worthwhile to offer you, be open about your reservations about their recruitment process, and detail your issues with any interviews you do with them.

Generally whenever I've done this to recruiters their interest level goes up and they tend to be far more willing to listen to your concerns about the interview and go to bat for you. And recruiters tend to have a lot more ability than you might think in getting parts of the technical interviews largely ignored by hiring managers - including at Google.

Incidentally my impression from having talked to several Google recruiters is that a decent number of them are incredibly frustrated with the way the process work, and will work hard to get you past this hurdle if you want them to and provide them with enough ammunition (e.g. explain why the question was inappropriate for the position).
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That would be an even bigger attack on the Android ecosystem than making their own tablet. What that would say to other manufacturers is "If you build your own hard+software system on top of Android we will try to steal your users from you."

Google knew, or should have known, when they released Android the way they did that something like this might happen.
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3418601
Did anybody have any success with changing someone else's status with this? If so, please post.

I got the success message on site and restarted the app too on iPhone by killing it from the multitasking bar but my friend's status is still unchanged.

Makes me doubt it is a fraud site as BuddhaSource mentioned.
I'd like to see them develop public key encryption browser extensions and to integrate them into Google+, so people can post items that only the intended recipients can read.

Then I will be able to swear as much as I like, and upload all of the nude pictures I want, without Google even knowing.
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Yes, but it implies much more than just that; defiance for example. You don't want to egg them on, do you?
It has for r/askscience.
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Kik Messenger seems to have been doing very well recently.
> This isn't bayesian, this is just counting boxes on a permutation table.

It's the same thing. Bayes' theorem allows you to shortcut straight to the answer without having to draw out a full probability tree / permutation table. But the underlying math is the same - in each case you have a different probability of B given A, versus B given (not A).
Also, implementing ideas and testing them on real data can be a very good heuristic to drive theoretical thinking by:

- giving you empirical evidences on the practical limitations of a positive theoretical results that might have been otherwise overlooked.

- giving you new insights on which approaches (e.g. class of algorithm) are the most promising for a given class of problems.

- make explicit some assumptions you might have implicitly made in your theoretical work and check whether they can actually be satisfied in practice.
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Drafting laws for other countries should really not be on, this just really takes the piss.
What are good ways to learn how to study, though?
I believe paganel is referring exactly to the "sub-optimal decision" part, in the explanation (not the questions themselves).

Can you expand on that? The point of the article is that people will (statistically) get the questions wrong, or at least have biases in their responses.

For example, in the first question the grandparent poster may well have had good reasons to answer as they did, but that doesn't discount the fact that most people are vulnerable to the attribute substitution bias[1].

And yes, this quiz seems a load of underspecified cargo-cult horsecrap.

That's to be expected isn't it? They are trying to show five different statistical effects in five questions. To do it properly they would have to ask 10's of questions for each one, but I don't think that would work for a Vanity Fair sidebar article. Instead, they tried to find questions that would demonstrate the principles to most people.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribute_substitution
> However, there is one important piece of advice I wish I could give to my past self, when I started my PhD: _Actively_ collaborate with others.

This great advice is hard to underestimate.
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Looks like great fun. I'm always tempted to have a go at things like this myself when I see reports like this. One day...

One question. Did you choose the video cameras based on size or are did you assess the quality too? I've seen some pathetic 'HD' videos from cheap cameras before but things seem to have progressed a lot over the last couple of years.
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Some more information about this can be found here: http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/108010/SA-20111219-1.tx...
I use for it PHP and I really like it, especially with the Mercurial stuff built-in. I've heard Jetbrains PHP IDE is better but of all the others I've tried over the years, Netbeans is by far my favourite.
Learning how to admin a server is a simple enough task for a small-ish company.

We set up on Rackspace Cloud in a couple of hours, and we're running just fine. We're lucky in that our core market doesn't give us traffic spikes.

If and when we run into scaling problems, we'll have a learning experience but that's the same whether you're on App Engine, Amazon or just a cheap web-host running PHP/cPanel/MySQL for £20/year.
Ain't working for me either, but I've read report of people who were able to to that.

Too bad :)
I checked out SharedCount, and was wondering why the front-end uses PHP.
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>The signals below are undoubtedly examples of terrestrial radio frequency interference (RFI).

I'm confused.

Are these just terrestrial signals or is there an extraterrestrial component?
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It's funny that the societies that really seem hangup about those, are the very societies that perpetuated them in actual life. You know, Uncle Tom's cabin, Turing's treatment, etc.

Yes, territories that previously encouraged and allowed behaviour that they now find unacceptable are trying to stamp that attitudes and behaviour out.

Because it's a mans/womans right to change sex AND not be mocked about it, right?

Yes it is.
It seems "politically incorrect humor" has become the new code word for "racist jokes".
My view of the main con of universal healthcare systems is that it's harder to get care for chronic conditions that are unpleasant/painful but not ultimately dangerous. I think it's hard to dispute that the US offers substantially better care for these issues if you have the money.

The fact is, though, that I believe this is the case largely because of how doctors are allocated. Doctors are, of course, a limited resource - there's simply an insufficient number of people with the requisite intelligence, mindset and dedication necessary to do the job. In universal healthcare systems, doctors are allocated largely by need first, whereas in the US the system is biased substantially by ability to pay. Personally I find that dubiously moral, but I think perhaps it fits well with the US mindset - it's been my experience that the poor are judged quite harshly there, and not necessarily seen as deserving of good care.

(a quite sidenote here - I often see people essentially saying 'if they want healthcare they should be more successful'. I don't really understand this point of view, because since healthcare is largely a limited resource, as people earn more money the cost of healthcare will go up with their ability to pay. No matter how hard everyone tries, there will always be a bottom percentage who get poor care)

> Nobody likes monopolies, yet those same people are fine with the government running one. The same exact rules apply. A monopoly on health care means the government doesn't have to compete, innovate, or have any incentive to give us better care.

The same rules do not apply if you have a functioning government - in principle if a government produces poor results with respect to public services, you kick them out and vote in a replacement, something you can't do (without monopoly regulation) to a private company. This happened when the Tory government got junked in favour of Labour in the 90s. Labour, for all their (many) other faults, saved the NHS and helped turned it into the highly efficient system we have today. Is it perfect? No, but it's much better than most alternatives.

> They may not be looking to "rip off desperate people", but they sure don't know how to efficiently spend money (example: every single government-run system in the history of humanity)

I see this meme spread a lot, yet the UK's publicly-run system indisputably achieves better overall results for the amount of money put in than the US's private one.
The way I read it is this:

Do you want to be guaranteed you'll lose $900?

Or do you want a 10% chance you'll lose nothing at all, with a 90% chance you'll lose another $100?

So given a choice between being (nearly) totally wiped out, or having the chance of not being wiped out, people take the chance of keeping their cash.

Makes sense to me.
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Ask HN: Can you decrypt this evil thing?
The back story is, someone got a stolen FTP password to a client's account on a shared server and uploaded this. It's some kind of darkmailer, since I spent the next three days getting that server off blacklists. It doesn't look like the attacker got access outside the account. The account's been cleaned out, but I still don't know what else this might have done. I got one level of deobfuscation in -- that's the easy part -- but it looks like it takes an input string to decrypt what's inside that. There are two parts, one in PHP and the other in perl.

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The problem with tech interviews is that we tend to debug candidates rather than interview them, which leads to this confrontational, almost antagonistic pop-quiz process. An interview should be a conversation - sure you're trying to ascertain whether the candidate is smart and, most importantly, whether you could stand working with them but it should still be a two-way, human interaction.

If you genuinely think that their tech skills aren't good enough then I've found the best test is to give some simple exercise for them to do in their own time, which you can then talk through in the interview. In this way you can set a realistic exercise (as opposed to 'generate me Pascal's triangle') and dedicate more time in the interview to the interesting stuff - 'why did you do this this way?', 'what the complexity of this approach?', 'can we improve that?' etc. How the candidate answers those question are a much better signal of intelligence then how adept he is with a whiteboard.
Wow it seems there is no security at all:

> By providing any WhatsApp registered telephone number
and the text for the status update, it is possible to change a user's
status. This action does not require any prior authentication or
authorization

> (on registration) The vendor has implemented bruteforce
protection by locking a number after 10 tries. This step makes a
successful attack on a specific number unlikely but an attacker
bruteforcing X00 numbers can still guess X number(s) on average.

> As published in the past several times already the XMPP traffic from
WhatsApp is not encrypted.

And they are planning to charge money for it?

edit: perhaps even worse is their response to the security vulnerability seen in the timeline - they knew about the bug since 09-14
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This requires instrumenting the code manually. For me this is a dealbreaker, because of amount of work required, overhead added and the fact that it won't report parts I don't instrument, so if anything unexpected is taking time, I won't notice.

I'll stick to XDebug + kcachegrind.
The ticket questions is dumb. Has anyone heard a better version of it?

At least to me, the important factors are: Do I remember where I'm suppose to sit? Would It be immoral to attend even if I lost the physical stub?
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Distinguishing between risk-averse/neutral/preferring seems like begging the question to me. Couldn't there be an objective answer to which of three behaviors is the most rational in some situation?
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So the US uses it's influence to extort other nations in line with a fascist state.. Nothing to see here, move along.
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Still waiting for Venn Diagram Circles i.e. set theory transformations to do something like "show only to people in both my school circle and my friend circle".

Hell, just make a decent developer API already. The existing read-only one is embarrassing. Third parties will take care of the rest.
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In short, most users won't choose ICS just because it's easy to install.
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