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Overall this is probably the strangest attack I've ever seen.

Usually when someone is hacked a group will come out, take responsibility and then explain why they did it. In this case a group claiming to be Anonymous came out, took responsibility but then never really explained what Stratfor had done to deserve the attack. Then you had other people claiming to be anonymous claim they weren't responsible for the attack.

I'm not one to indulge in Conspiracy theories. Since this hack could also be seen as discrediting both Anonymous (by making them look like a group who randomly attacks people).

So if Stratfor is an honest broker of information this could be seen as a hack designed to discredit two sources of information which would be in the best interest of anyone who has information they wouldn't want shared.

Or not. Again I'm normally not one to believe in conspiracies.
Being passive aggressive is something smart people have to learn -- we can't go up against the bully, but we can make him fall into a trap the next day.

And you shouldn't allow confrontational people on your team anyways -- they can't be in a group (but would properly be awesome on their own).
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Web Urbanist just covered a dangerous and common Chinese demolition method. The article mentions an apartment building that was demolished the same year it was built (2011) due to poor planning.
http://weburbanist.com/2012/01/08/high-anxiety-rooftop-excav...
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Hmm, reading the source it looks like he is using His sds string library, which has Len, size and a asciiz char* member. When last I checked he does pass the char* around (because it is null terminated) but he also sometimes will do pointer math to get back to the sds
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1) Whoops. As my wife can tell you I'm often completely oblivious of my rudeness. Do you think I should delete the post? It was an honest question.

2) Yep your right. I blame my multi-tasking (programming while reading hacker news).

Your suggestion is extremely appreciated. The design is somewhat pinterest inspired which seems to attract people like my mom but infuriates programmers.
Sounds like haXe is what you are looking for:
http://haxe.org/
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I don't think Google & Facebook need to go dark to achieve this. Going dark is not something either company would do - the cost is enormous and it would draw real ire from politicians. But Google simply changing it's logo for a day would be enough to magnify the publicity around this issue. That doesn't impact their users or their bottom line, but it gets the job done.
Not endemic to PHP, of course, as it seems MSFT took the same approach with a recent ASP.NET security update. The workaround described in their KB (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2661403) is to add a similar configuration override and they've set the limit arbitrarily at 1000 form keys. Which vendors did not dodge the hash algorithm problem and what's the updated algorithm you're referencing? Who's doing this right?
> we kept on getting asked about getting onto the "app store" by small business owners who were going digital and building Wordpress sites.

Ugh, that makes my stomach turn, but I know it's true. And I don't fault you for capitalizing on it, but man is it irritating.
Taxes are public and known up front. If you don't pay them you don't risk physical harm.

Also you generally pay taxes on income and salaries, you don't have to pay just to be there.
I'm not too sure they'd like it. In this post: http://chrome.blogspot.com/2011/03/talking-to-your-computer-..., the big G clearly states their speech recognition is beta. I've also seen on Stack Overflow responses from Google employees insisting the API shouldn't be used for commercial applications.

Best recommendation is to use Nuance's HTTP Api
http://dragonmobile.nuancemobiledeveloper.com/public/index.p...

It's not free, but it's at least it's guaranteed for commercial use.

I don't work for Nuance, but my startup uses their products now - and the accuracy and speed are great. The documentation is pretty horrible, so feel free to reach out w/any questions on the program/usage/etc.
I'm coming to believe that the single most important problem in the field of computers is how to get managers to read (and understand) DeMarco and Lister's book.
Point taken. We have experimented with fields such as "offender's name" and "offender's department" on the mobile app. We have been pondering the privacy aspect as well, so as to keep the posts genuine and noble-minded.
(Warning: This post contains lots of generalizations, because every US state has different laws. Look up your state's regulations regarding sales tax if you want to be sure.)

In this context, "wholesale" has nothing to do with the quantities and everything to do with the intended usage. If you're intending to make a product or perform a service which would require you to charge sales tax to YOUR customer, then you can usually avoid paying sales tax to your suppliers, because otherwise the state would be collecting from both you when you buy components and your customer when you sell the finished product. That would get sorted out when you file your sales tax return, but it's easier to only have one link in the chain actually pay the tax in the first place and avoid the situation entirely.

Basically, the idea is that unless the buyer or item being sold is specifically covered under an exemption, sales tax should be applied precisely once on its journey from raw material to the hands of its first actual owner, preferably as late as possible so as to capture the product when it's at maximum taxable value. This is in contrast to a VAT, where the tax is applied at every step in the process proportional to how much "value" was added at that step.
I hope he's not eating ramen! Staying healthy is important. Good luck!
Call the company via phone. Most Germans speak English, so that should work.

You might want to take a look at
http://gpl-violations.org/
the guy who runs it is also a German.
A Facebook page to organize engaging Sen Al Franken about PIPA / SOPA.
Hopefully it's more solidly constructed than the Shanghai bridge that was made out of trash: http://www.weirdasianews.com/2010/02/05/shanghai-wonderbridg...
If you are unfamiliar with the Camorra I recommend this film: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0929425/

Or, read Roberto Saviano's book.
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It is indeed strange why so many such services insist on putting their script tags in HEAD
Yeah, I thought it was understood that Kinkade-style material is in poor taste.
FLV is a holdover from a less civilized time.

The new regime requests the following in at least 3 different bandwidths (mobile, standard, HD) each:

* MP4 (h.264 Main Profile w/AAC audio)
* OGG (Theora with Vorbis or MP3 audio)
* WEBM (WebM with Vorbis audio)

This is from memory, so I could be mistaken about the specific codecs used for those last two, but those three file types combined with a player (or JS library) that detects bandwidth capabilities should let you play a video back on virtually any modern device (ie. most phones, tablets and browsers), and fall back to Flash using MP4 for browsers without HTML5 video element support.

I've used VideoJS and JWPlayer in the past (and recently!) with great success. There is no need for an FLV version of the video unless you expect your users to be using Flash before version 9 (or was it 8?).
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Maybe just a black rectangle in place of the name, with an appropriate link?
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Obligatory disclaimer: Ask a lawyer; legal advice obtained on the Internet is worth what you paid for it.

That said, from what I can recall from (random internet sources | a "Business Law 101" class years ago | etc), I think that:

1. You can mention other companies by name in advertising, without their permission as long as you make true statement. Example: Ford can run an ad saying "Our new 2012 Foobar gets 23% better gas mileage than the 2012 Chevy Blizzle."

2. Using the other company's logo for commercial purposes - without permission - is almost certainly not allowed. I'm thinking that will get you sued for trademark violation pretty quick.

Of course it may be possible to get permission from $big_vendor to use their logo, but you would have to get in contact with them and negotiate some arrangement. If your product is complementary to theirs, they might give you permission to use it for free, since you both benefit. Or they might want money, or they might say "no" altogether. It really just depends.

Anyway, my advice is to talk to an attorney before going down this rabbit hole.
"""For me, having reliable builds is FAR more important than the editor holding my hand with respect to Java syntax."""

I don't understand what "reliable builds" means in this context. I never had "unreliable builds" from Eclipse.

Also, what you call "holding your hand" actually is automating tedious manual labor re Java syntax, and continuous AST based syntax checking.

That --and build automation, is exactly what people want from an IDE. If you don't care for those, yeah, use anything else.

I find anything without actual AST-based syntax checking/autocomplete/navigation/refactoring as a dumb text editor, Emacs included.

Now, Eclipse has tons of problems, but that it got right.

It's sad that there is not a modern, GUI based, editor, with pluggable language support for multi-language use, using full AST power (regex highliting and ctags is so last century) while also being lean and mean...
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That article specifically says "Believe it or not, in China at least, demolition via rooftop excavator is the safer, cleaner, and above all cheaper option."

But yeah, that looks crazy.
There's also something Fred Brooks observed in The Mythical Man Month - at some point, the marginal productivity of adding an additional programmer to a team is outweighed by the marginal increase in communications overhead and complexity.

In cases like that you can improve productivity by actually cutting the team's size and pairing less important features.
So if they go dark for SOPA, why not NDAA? that one was even worse. No point in internet access when you are dead.

Or what about a military action against Iran -- surely millions death from radiation poising would be bad, even if they aren't US citizens?

Or what about the Iraq war? Reddit was around then.
One note though - both screen and tmux introduce some delay making the text appear a tad slower (I'm using it over SSH strictly, no idea about 'native console'), does anyone know the solution?
A full blackout of every opposing site wouldn't be necessary to make a very strong statement. Google, for instance, could do a full black out of YouTube but put a full frame, 'click here to continue to your results' ad on their search pages.
Thank you. Pretty much any time you see the term "Mafia", you know you're dealing with amateur pseudo-journalism.

I came here to point out that Sicilian organized crime is probably not the "bank" here. Sicilian crime syndicates are generally not as powerful as the Campania/Napoli groups these days.

The Sicilian tradition of protection rackets is actually based on an (arguably) noble history of maintaining the integrity of blood family against a constant stream of outside conquerors. I'm not defending organized crime in any way shape or form, but lumping the protection rackets together with drug traffickers and other gangs is just kind of wrong on some level.
It's fine to say that obesity is a problem, but it's hypocritical to berate Burger King for contributing to obesity when you eat there three nights a week. It's even worse when you excuse it, saying that your circumstances are special somehow.

The reporter, similarly, is looking for fuel to blame the banks for their evil practices, when she herself is contributing to the flow of evil information.
TL;DR ... If a normal person isn't able to properly classify something (good / bad), then a computer algorithm definitely cannot.

My opinion - pushing for such a legislation would make it a criminal act to err on the side of false negatives. Which means false positives will be very common.

This point even a monkey could understand. If it refuses, then it is wishing for bananas or something.
I'm curious - which effort are you referring to?
Modafinil seems to be the standard treatment. http://www.guideline.gov/content.aspx?id=12111 It's only available in patended form now, and so is very expensive. Some insurance plans might cover it. A generic, cheaper version should be available in May 2012. http://investors.cephalon.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=81709&p=ir...
Very true. I think I'm disappointed because we (HN) lack a good marketable answer to your last question there.

I would not forward this thread to a photographer if asked "what do hackers recommend I do to mitigate my work being ripped off?" not for lack of ideas but simply because it's just not what they want to hear when things like SOPA/PIPA are floating around. "Innovate or die" is harder to swallow when there are folks saying "We'll protect you".

Photographers and other content creators alike find things like SOPA/PIPA enticing because it feels like someone is looking out for their interests.
It would be a good idea to run a big black banner on Google instead of going completely dark. Or one interstitial ad that interrupts search for 10 seconds only once a day.
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Sell a premium version of the app, premium model of limited addresses unless you upgrade, targetted advertising. But most of all: we'd like to get acquired by a service that can monetize a geolocation social networking site.
In an open office if it wasn't part of the company culture, few bosses will accept it. The political ramifications of having your employees sleeping when the VP walks by are too great (and, often, the manager won't even have the option to explain why it's good). I fully understand the benefits of napping, but I would demand employees to "get a room", for their sake and mine.
GOOD CALL. This is why I should not post on HN while waiting for my tests to run.
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I think the "STOP SOPA" banners on Twitter are pretty effective and if Google added one of those it would be a strong statement - http://www.blackoutsopa.org
Thankfully there's the good old "javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true'; document.designMode='on'; void 0" trick.
Of course you got robbed, you left your doors unlocked!
I don't think going dark completely is good, for that very reason. That wouldn't stop Google from making a very prominent display of their argument against SOPA/PIPA -- placing the message on the homepage, featuring it on SERPs, etc.

I think if Google just put the message at somewhere on the homepage, it would have a profound effect, given how bare the Google homepage is. That, of course, wouldn't get the message across to the many people who use built-in search in browsers and other such methods of accessing SERPs.
Using focus group testing in the way you're describing is like the French revolutionary who says "There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them."

Google is notoriously one of the most (if not the most) data-driven companies in the history of the world. That doesn't mean they never make bad decisions, but I'm sure they've taken user behavior into account.

The duplication you mention isn't a bug. Just because I've seen something before, doesn't mean I never want to see it again, especially if it's relevant. Searches are often re-searches for information you've seen before. The most important thing is relevance, and your social interactions are relevant.

I think what many here are missing is that the exposure of social in search results is only the first-order effect. But the social signals themselves probably affect your personal relevancy algorithm, too. I imagine that's a valuable addition, and it will only get better with more social data.
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Um, no. You might as well say that scarcity of energy is the only thing between us and free ponies for everyone.

Even if energy were free, there'd still be the question of paying for the facilities to purify the water. The kinds of places where clean water is scarce now tend not to have much money, or much clout, with which to get such facilities built. More likely you'd get wealthy people wasting vaster quantities of clean water, while the poor remained without clean water despite the theoretically easy availability of the required water purification equipment.
Fortunately Adblock should remove them.

It is funny, but I actually use it to block things that technically isn't ads almost as much as I block ads -- stackoverflows 'notification' bar, bitbuckets 'you have not validated your email', G+ stupid 'interesting stories that you properly care more about than your friends', etc.
Privacy of the person who reports? Not at all. Your details won't be released without your approval.
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Around here, we just call them "thingies".
You don't want to close the lid when you have an ssh session running or IRC? That is non-sensical.
>Have we become a society of emasculated pansies that fears little pocket knives?

I have a suspicion that we haven't, but the government keeps saying we have, and we all just assume they're talking about everyone else.
Not sure if its better to go with having the brand name there or not. I think its cooler with just cloudy, but runs the risk of no one knowing who its from....
It only matters because it makes you sound like you don't know what you're talking about. There is really no such thing as the "Mafia". It's a lot like calling every extremist Islamist group a branch of "Al Qaeda" – i.e., lumping a lot of categorically different groups into an imaginary hierarchy created by law enforcement and the media as a convenient scapegoat.
He has figured out a way to get paid. He takes incredible pictures people want to use for their company and sells it to them. He has also mentioned that people who give stuff away for free or "credit" are just burned again later on because other companies don't want to pay, they want to "credit"

As someone who considers himself an amateur photographer, there is no way I could just "reproduce" that for free to someone.

First consider the amount of money his lens costs, how much his filter costs, because those things are not "common" parts of an amateur photographer's kit.

Then consider the amount of time he put into his craft, the countless hours he spend reading up on photography: lighting, white balance, ISO, apeture, etc. Then going outside to do nature shoots or going inside for some modeling on a white screen. All of that is blood, sweat and tears he expended to be good at what he is doing.

Do you think a junior programmer is the same as a senior programmer? There are obviously times where some program or code is so simple that either programmer could get the job done (and even then a lesser programmer might miss some minute detail), but if it were true for all programming jobs then obviously the people in the industry would be screwed because no one would pay a salary for more than just a junior programmer. Replace what you've said about photography with programming and do you still believe it to be true?

If you really feel that you should get your photos free from an amateur photographer that is your choice, but you're not going to get the same picture that that guy took and he's happy to not sell you that picture for free. Just getting the perfect lighting for a photograph is tough and I doubt an amateur could just set that up and take it for you at that quality.
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This interview with Simon Peyton-Jones seems very relevant, the points made are so similar to what Michael Gove says here that it makes one wonder :)

relevant part starts at 19:19
http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/YOW-2011-Simon-Peyton...
No no don't delete it. It was a valid question. I'm not an authority on these matters but that's just my opinion.

And yeah, like the other person who relied to you, I initially though Snaphop was some kind of marketing agency and Evocatus was a little too much all at once. Although with the right intro header it could work. Pinterest has this very prominently on the first page "Pinterest is an online pinboard. Organize and share things you love". That's all I need to know to start off with. Your intro header didn't jump out at me like that. Maybe it's the colours or it could also be the actual copy.
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Because they are the people most likely to buy additional products from you?

I mean, you are a fan of Nikon, perhaps you want a nice new lens to go with that?

A fan of B&J? You should come in a little bit more often.
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The demand doesn't exist because those people can't pay to live in a brand new sky scraper. From what I have seen those units are in the 10's to 100's of thousands of dollars. Way outside the budget of a rural Chinese person.
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Perhaps someone would be interested in writing some embeddable javascript for the smaller guys that, say, puts a black banner and info links across the top of site? [Me, well, I'm Canadian, and feel like it'd come across as more of a stunt]
Same stuff with programming.
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Don't stress on missing your opportunity. Your 'How Hacker News crashed my site' post will get just as much traffic
This is such an important point: there is no difference between "too big to fail" and "an offer you can't refuse". It's protection racketeering in a five thousand dollar suit.

"Nice economy you have here. It would be a shame if anything happened to it."
And the same result would likely have occurred had he said the same thing on a street corner, or in a pamphlet he handed out at a bus station.

The problem here isn't Facebook, it's the government that he lives under. But Facebook did give him a much larger audience than he might otherwise have had.
> * When dealing with strings in your favorite programming language, always know whether it's an array of Unicode code-points, or of bytes in UTF-8, or some third messed-up thing.

What is an 'array of Unicode code-points'. I actually reread the article thinking that my unicode chops were getting rusty if I didn't know what that meant, but after rereading it, I still don't know what you mean.

[I wrote a half a dozen 'do you mean _____' suggestions, but I think I'll just let you explain. :) ]
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In case there was any confusion here, I meant "Get a job, hippie" in the lightest and most facetious way possible to interpret the phrase.

It was not meant to be insulting.
A breach of psychological encapsulation can do more harm to your career than a breach of logical encapsulation.

Once a client or manager loses trust your code, it may not be possible to regain their trust by doing high quality work from then on.