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This reminds me of Suzuki's idiom, "Leave No Trace," found in the book Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind.
It doesn't require any inside knowledge to manipulate the ranking system. There are some methods that you can't really architect against (like paid posts) from a software angle, so Google has rules and penalties in place to discourage sites from doing that in order to distort their page rank. In this case, one team seems to have accidentally run afoul of those rule and is being penalized appropriately because it makes sense in terms of the larger picture of protecting the quality of search results.
Here are two great steps for MS to put WP7 in the race:

1. treat it like a game console. Make all your 1st party companies (Rare, Halo company, etc) make killer games for it and put them on the market for FREE. make money thru microtransactions if they have to.

2. DOMINATE video editing and sharing ON THE DEVICE.

I think these two wedges will be enough to get the ball rolling to critical mass in 2013 if they manage to do it mid 2012.
Even though I have a Nexus S I still use my Zune HD for music because of the Zune Pass, I love the all you can eat model.
I agree that this is a good idea.
Both Ruby and JavaScript get my vote, in terms of mainstream web frameworks.

For Ruby you obviously have Rails, but there are also some other neat frameworks out there such as http://padrinorb.com

For JavaScript, the various frameworks are obviously built upon node.js, my favorite being http://railwayjs.com
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> Facebook isn't going to sell your personal info to advertisers.

No, they just have gaping personal data exposures [1] and loopholes [2] where the savvy data-miner could easily piece together a dossier on pretty much any FB user.

Left as an exercise for the reader: Is this intentional (ct: CIA) or merely incompetence?

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/10/facebook_user_creden...
[2] http://news.discovery.com/tech/facebook-flaw-private-photos-...
Okay, I know this is going to sound really stupid/silly, but /r/seduction (http://www.reddit.com/r/seduction) has some interesting ideas on becoming more confident and stuff. Yea it's primarily focused on the whole 'pickup game' or whatever, but I think a lot of the things they talk about could help getting over any anxiety. Like one thing being to talk to everyone you can, like if you were in line waiting to checkout, in an elevator with random people, etc, the theory being that the more you do this the less awkward and nervous you'll feel about the whole experience. I've been trying to do this more lately (my anxiety is pretty bad) and i'm already finding it a bit easier to just strike up a conversation with people.
Why did you just step in such an egregious folly of "your mom?" was that your intent?
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Windows Phone is failing because it arrived three years too late, and offers too little innovation over iOS or Android. This is not a matter of Microsoft "losing the mobile market"... they simply never had it.

They don't have the developer support (how often do you see your bank, or web sites, advertising their "Windows Mobile App"?) They don't have the users. Even if their product was materially better than the iPhone or Android, they still wouldn't be gaining traction.

You can't arrive three to four years late with a "me too" product at a "me too" price point, lacking the app ecosystem of your competitors, and honestly expect success.
Wouldn't fix all the "unknown or expired links"!
Sounds a lot like 94 Labs... if I'm right, I feel bad for you guys. I was at the "demo day" this fall. So terrible.
That only helps if you're playing your audio through the TV. But no serious home theater setup is like that…
I'm guessing a provider will become a pseudo-standard. Probably somebody like MITx.
Is there anything they could have done that would not have triggered the cynic in you? Don't punish -- Google is evil. Punish but leniently -- Google is applying its policies unevenly. Punish as they did -- it's all good press!
One other fact that backs up the author's point is that while Apple has a low percentage of the computer market as a whole, they have >90% marketshare for PCs over $1000. That gives them a lot of loyal, high-end, customers who also happen to be the early adopters for new technologies.

http://betanews.com/2009/07/22/apple-has-91-of-market-for-1-...
I really like the idea of using SSH keys: one less password to manage, and it avoids sharing a secret with your provider.

With hash-based signature schemes, you know that your secret has to be stored in cleartext, which is why you can't choose your own signing token on any clouds.

As a solution for technical users, SSH-keys seem like a great idea: they're battle-tested, avoid a shared secret, are no less convenient than using long system-generated tokens, and have a much richer ecosystem (e.g. ssh-agent, password protection, the possibility to store it on hardware devices etc)
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I was a long-time lurker as well for the same reason. I do find however, that participating in the community opens up new discussions and I can further my learning by connecting with other people. It's always a learning experience to have discussions with people who are more knowledgeable about a topic or have differing opinions than your own.
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What does Microsoft stand for? Can you answer it quickly? The only answer that comes fast enough is "money".

Really? Two words popped into my mind first: Software and Platforms.

Money is something that all companies strive for. But when you think about Microsoft and what they really push it is software and platforms.

In constrast Google makes me think ot the web and advertising. Apple makes me think of HW/SW synergy and design. Facebook makes me think social and sharing.

It seems like you just wanted to write an attack dog post.
It's also the second result for "browser" in the news section. This isn't wrong, it's just one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112508/quotes?qt0403070
Common Lisp has with-open-file for reading and writing files. It works pretty much the same way as everything else in this thread, so I won't post example code, but you can see some here:

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Python's context managers have that; define the two sides of the functionality in __enter__()/__exit__(), and voila.

C#'s IDIsposable has this, too.

So do other languages. It's really not that unusual a pattern.
Yes, taken since 2004 it seems.
Isn't the relevant "market" searches for whatever keyword group you are considering?

The marketshare of clicks is mainly divided among the 10 sites on the front page. I imagine the benefit, when shared among only 1-9 sites, could be significant. Also consider the benefit of moving from ranking 11 to 10 or from 2 to 1, for example.

Though I can't speak for the efficacy of this technique, this fairly old article suggests submitting competitors articles to directories to reduce their perceived (by search engines) quality: http://www.bluehatseo.com/open-questions-when-to-never-do-ar...
Seems that everybody is talking about files. :-)
Open, operate, close.
I think the author tries to bring us more, mathematically.
Like a matrix operation:
Move to origin, rotate, move back.
But this is a lot harder than just "resource guard", imo.
Any ideas?
Not a security expert here but it seem like akamai should also be required to use a root CA that does not use md5 for it's encryption. It am under the impression that md5 based encryption has been broken since 2008:
http://www.win.tue.nl/hashclash/rogue-ca/#sec71
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I'd go with "Apology accepted, Captain Needa."

Snark aside, I have to say that was my reaction - it's a more sincere apology than we usually get, and can be accepted as such.
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We've gone over this a few times, but let me point out a few things about copyleft compliance for android devices from Google's perspective:

We make it easy for companies to comply with the notice requirements (via build scripts that populate inside the about phone section of the OS) and we often advocate for what we consider to be our high level of compliance wrt code mirroring.

If you review the manufacturers of devices that actually make it into people's pockets, you'll find that they are fairly decent about compliance (notification and providing source on request) and a few are very good and doing more than the licenses actually require (posting mirrored code online at time of shipment, like we do).

Some are not as fast about code provision. In those cases, I suggest joining gpl-violations and starting there. Email me too and I'll pass word along if they are one of the manufacturers that we have a decent relationship with.

For most of the small run manufacturers, we have little or no relationship and gpl-violations might be a better place to start.

We aren't the world's linux cop and I know from experience it's the last thing people want Google to be.

There are some companies that don't care about doing compliance right, and they'll take what is in my opinion a long time to comply with the license, or work certain corners of the license (like sveasoft did many years ago) to wiggle out from under the code provision requirements of the gpl. It's actually quite difficult to see what could productively done about these bad actors.

I take umbrage from people who say crap like 'Google makes money off other peoples violation of the gpl' . It isn't true and It shows a lack of thoughtfulness on the part of MJG on this issue.

Finally; As one of the people who contacts developers and manufacturers using our software outside of the provisions of the apache, bsd, lgpl and gpl licenses, compliance is almost always about education and not about malice.
I hope this isn't too off-topic, but would you be willing to describe the iOS scene in Tokyo? I always love hearing about what programming habits and techniques are popular in different countries. Would you say the community there embraces a fast-release philosophy or are they more like the big name devs (Square Enix)? Are any frameworks popular? Is iOS development big? What would you say is the most popular language in Japan?

Thanks!
>Wouldn't an anarchistic collective imply that they all follow a specific political philosophy?

No, by no means. You confuse the organizational state of anarchy with the political philosophy of anarchism, which is basically the mistrust or disbelief into authority. Anonymous is the former, but its "members" are not necessarily the latter. There are all sorts of ideologies in Anonymous. If you want to name a single, shared point of belief in Anonymous, your best bet is probably "For the Lulz", and even that is debatable.

>All you need is one strong personality that articulates the general urges of the group into a specific action they can all agree with and poof, you have yourself a leader and goals which can be worked toward.

That's quite right (besides the "strong personality" bit, you really only need a person with a good idea and the ability to articulate it), but that still doesn't mean Anonymous has leaders. You completely fail to differentiate between the collective Anonymous and operations or projects which operate under the banner of Anonymous[1]. The relation between the two is one-sided - the latter affiliates with the former, not vice versa.

>but it's the same as how terrorist cells and abortion-clinic bombers work, though spread out over the internet and bombing websites instead.

Ho, are we falling back to guilt-by-association fallacies now? It is certainly true that operations affiliated with Anonymous have a tendency to operate very far inside the grey areas of legality and often even far beyond that. So are many grass-root or civil right movements. Declaring Anonymous as a whole equivalent to a terrorist cell because they break the law and use similar organizational methods as established enemy stereotypes is ignoring the aforementioned points. It's equally as low as declaring the Occupy movement as domestic terrorism because you disagree with them.

>So don't tell me Anonymous can or can't declare or deny support (which it has many times in the past).

No, it didn't. Persons, projects or operations affiliated with Anonymous did. Anonymous as a whole does not, nor will it ever have official support or opposition of anything, be it ideological positions, organizations or specific persons.

Besides, don't you tell me what Anonymous can or can't do - I've participated in or observed first hand a few projects and operations directly or indirectly affiliated with Anonymous myself over the last two years, and have been involved with the culture typically associated with them. I've seen live and in action what I am talking about. Do you?

[1] Which anything and everybody can, that's the whole point.
I initially interpreted that as "and other news aggregates like HN out there?" Oh, my silly brain...

But seriously, are there any other awesome news aggregates that I should be aware of?
+1 for the dating before getting married metaphor
This is getting silly. Google is now evil because they don't sue for GPL violations? Where is the threshold for this argument?

I had GPL code that appeared in another GPL-incompatible project. I didn't sue. Am I evil? Google's profit is not affected by Motorola's release of the kernel source for the DROID RAZR.
Please, please read http://killdream.github.com/blog/2011/10/understanding-javas...

Prototypical inheritance as of ES5 is really not that hard.
Here is the same example rewritten with prototypes: https://gist.github.com/1558929
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Anything that implements the AutoCloseable interface gets this behavior for free.
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Hmm. I don't agree with this conclusion. Take for instance a file class in C++ which opens the file descriptor in the constructor and closes it in the destructor. Now, for any instance of this class, it is impossible for the open fd to outlive the instance!. That is an as strong guarantee as I need! Now, if I leak the instance the fd will leak too, but that is more an issue of manual lifecycle management if you ask me.

This very significant property is what makes me love RAII. I don't count C#'s using-statement and/or rubys block statement as RAII since it relies on useage patterns. C++'s automatic destruction of graphs of objects also makes it outshine all other methodologies, and the guaranteed destruction is the key here.
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Objects aren't deallocated in garbage collected languages. The memory they had allocated just doesn't get copied to the new heap -- which is a big difference.
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Good Lord, my eyes! The website needs some serious work.
IE6 did not ship a JS debugger at all, actually. You needed Microsoft Script Debugger or Visual Studio.
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You can't arrive three to four years late with a "me too" product at a "me too" price point, lacking the app ecosystem of your competitors, and honestly expect success.

Funny, if you replace "three to four" with "two to three", that's almost exactly what people said about Android.
I live in the US and have worked with teams that had developers in India and Eastern Europe. The language barrier can be very tough. So much so that the "discount" just isn't worth it.
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I can definitely see the case for ∄. You could use !E, but at that point you might as well just type out \not\exists or use Unicode.
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This is a bit worrying. It's very easy to accidentally hit flag when using a mobile device; The links are all very small and close together, and there is no confirmation dialogue.
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>Would you not agree that vegetarian people are likely to be more conscious of their nutritian than the average person?

That's certainly true, and actually a necessity for vegetarianism to be healthy in the first place (just removing meat from your meals isn't going to magically be more healthy, it's actually the opposite). It's still pretty much impossible to supply a growing child with the needed nutrients on a purely vegetarian basis. While it's of course possible for children to grow up into healthy adults this way, it's still not without heavy risks to the child's physical development.
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pjs certainly deserves props for being creative with the function passing, and variable context. I haven't seen that exact usage before.

It seems every couple weeks javascript class library named X is released, avoiding issue Y, and implementing fuctionality Z.

Using `prototype` isn't terribly far off from the class systems people keep creating, so I can pretty much assume a single class library is going to reach deep adoption anytime soon.
Just try bragging about being a Linux kernel hacker at your next party and see how well that impresses people.

Hypothetical method: "I write code that powers cell phones, TVs, and web sites across the planet. Chances are good you have something I made in your pocket."
HN does no output buffering, causing rendering time to often be closer to 5 seconds than 100ms in Europe. This is trivial to fix, but I guess the SFO crowd don't feel the pain so it probably never will.

Edit: nope, that's not it. Using the fastest UK machine with clean net available to me, tcpdump never shows more than 1 unacked packet on the wire at any time, gzip is turned off, and keepalive is turned off. Gzipping the 24k home page drops it to 4.3k.

None of this really accounts for the crazy jitter we see in Europe while rendering the main table.
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3) Send the original coin back for grading to be certified with a new graded coin holder and serial number, to be sold for $3000.
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What I would like to see is this data with geographic distribution. I'm pretty sure it would be quite interesting to see the differences between the global regions.
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Generally speaking, unilateral provisions in contracts render the contract unenforceable by the party they benefit. The fundamental principal behind common law contracts is the "bargain principal". There must be some "consideration" paid by both parties before a contract is valid (I will give you this, in consideration for your giving me that). A clause in a contract that said, "we have the right to breach this contract at any time we choose" would render the contract void, because there is no "bargin" involved. Such types of promise (a promise to give something with nothing in return) are called "charity" and are not enforced by law. You can tell Jery Lewis, "I promise to give you $20 at your next telethon", but he can't sue you if you don't pay.

So... that means that the either:

1) The provision in the contract can't mean "we have the write to breach whenever we feel like it"

2) or, that the TOS are unenforceable.

The wording in the TOS is designed specifically to not mean "we can breach whenever we want", but instead to mean "if you sell counterfeit goods through our service we will destroy them and not refund your money".

The words "we ... reasonably believe the item you sold is counterfeit" were deliberately chosen for this purpose. The fact that paypal can use its sole discretion just tips the scales in their favor. If they have reasonable evidence that something is fake, then they can destroy it, even if they haven't done due diligence to prove it's a fake.

The question comes down to wether or not paypal had reason to believe the item was counterfeit.

Their are certain cases where only a customer complaint would be sufficient to establish a "reasonable believe".

For example, if Picasso bought a painting that was said to be a Picasso original, and he called paypal and said "I didn't paint this, it's a fake", they would definetly be within their rights if they distroyed it, even if further investigation could have revealed he was lying.

In this particular case... you could potentially argue that the customer's complaint was in no way sufficient for paypal to reach a "reasonable believe". This does make the whole thing wildly open to judicial interpretation, however.