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Tagged does not need to respond to you, and there is not a single thing they can say or do that will make the situation better for you even if they did. You've contacted your bank, opened a dispute, and now the issue is between Bank of America and Tagged (unless BoA contacts you for additional info).

Having your money stolen sucks dude. Keep your cool and everything will work out for you. Most of all, just try to remember you are not a unique and special snowflake - this happens thousands of times a day and everyone except you involved has established procedures for dealing with it. Let the fraud investigation and resolution run its course.
I'd like to know if Mr. Woo had two-step authentication turned on for his Google account. (He mentions only that they, "gained access to my Google account.") It's the potential for this sort of damage, or much worse, that prompted me to turn it on and incur the slight nuisance of generating new keys every 30 days.

Good article on the far-reaching calamity resulting from a hacked email account: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/11/hacked/8...
It's not a really a "myth". Both have zero or a small amount of fraud liability (i.e., they give you back all of the money, or all but say $50 of the fraud). But! If you have fraudulent activity on a credit card, you're out that much credit until they remove the charges. If they do that much fraud on a debit card, you're out that much cash out of your checking/savings account until they credit your account back.

I'd much rather have one of my credit cards less usable for a day or two than have the account I use to pay a lot of bills from drained for a day or two
$700,000 each year for maintenance and support

Holy crap. IBM really knows how to negotiate support contracts...

For reference: The z9 maxes out at 512G RAM and 54 CPUs. In a slightly apples/oranges-comparison you could buy the equivalent in pizza-boxes every month using just the above support-fee. With spare change.
I don't know what it's like elsewhere, but here in Australia my Visa Debit card has exactly the same transaction protection system as a Visa Credit card.
As a rule, I only use credit cards. I have a debit card for the sole purpose of using ATMs.

In the case your card is lost or stolen, you aren't liable for any fraudulent purchases and the most important thing - you haven't actually lost any money; only the credit card company has.

I'd hate to have to jump through hoops and wait a month to get my money back. For a large percentage of the population, losing a couple grand quite literally means they can't eat or pay the rent that week/month.

Credit is great!
This is already a more interesting discusion. I cannot comment on Lisp, as I have too little experience with it. When you say python forces you to create interfaces, I am not sure I understand. For me, programming is mostly about creating interfaces (as the interface part of API), python or not. When I refactor some C code, static typing does not help me that much, as what's difficult in C is lifetime's object (e.g. ref counting in C extensions), things like that.

What is true is that it is easy to write code that is impossible to refactor, because it is full of globals, or "stringified API" (e.g. using a dict instead of objects when the set of keys is supposed to be fixed). But I am afraid people writing this kind of code would write bad code in any language, or are at least very inexperienced in the language.
Another new feature in Java 7 is the WatchService API[1], which allows one to watch a directory for file changes (implemented using native filesystem methods). Previously, this could only be done with polling[2] or custom native code called through JNI.

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Yeah, sorry about that... I totally missed the ' in "f = formula s'" and "f = record s'"!

In that case, I would probably turn the whole thing into a case on "unitpropagate s", and get rid of the outer where, but my advice is clearly best taken with a pinch of salt.
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I've been playing with CoffeeScript and Ruby lately, and was very weirded out by the lack of parentheses in method calls, til I started to see them as bash-like (but more sophisticated of course), where you just add the arguments. Ruby used to be called a "scripting" language after all.

Another characteristic of "scripting" languages is ease of file handling. Java is not a scripting language. Previously, if you wanted to copy from one stream to another, you had to write a loop (maybe you still do, and this "copy" is strictly for files?). Simple; but nice if they provided a cat() method. It's quite amazing how popular Java is (and how useful it must be in other areas), considering this kind of trivial shortcoming.
"What if our brain is actually a multi core machine that has millions of cores?"

The brain has billions of cores on parallel units, but they are unconscious.

"Would you still force it to use one core?"

No, you can't use only one at all, but you use "the one",the conscious brain(that could only do one thing at the same time) to coordinate them all, you should "force" the millions of cores to work in the same thing at the same time.

"I think humans were built to multitask, our environment is too complex to be single threaded, think driving: you need o pay attention to multiply things at the same time."

They were built to multi task over the same thing. If you go hunting but you are also thinking on your girlfriend while you remember the taste of the food you ate yesterday and try your nephew does not get hurt you won't be as efficient as someone that focus all their senses and thoughts over one single task.
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If you are following Crockford (JavaScript, the Good Parts), it is encouraged. However, some, like the current node.js maintainer think otherwise; see http://blog.izs.me/post/2353458699/an-open-letter-to-javascr...

Personally, I still follow Crockford's advice though.
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Maybe not for him but there's a lot they can do for themselves if they act fast - freeze the ill-gotten funds and make a profile of who they went to. Wouldn't direct contact with victims be faster and more rewarding for Tagged than waiting for business hours credit card industry processes?
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I think that it hard, but a man has to decide what is it that he wants.
1) Have you been using a shared computer?
2) Did you have a weak password?
3) Do you use same password (or a small pool of passwords) for most sites and service?

Answering yes to any of the above and you really should not be posting on HN
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I have two normal accounts. One of them gets my salary and pays all of my bills. The other one has a cash/debit card.

The one with the card has no overdraft and I only load what I expect to need onto it at once.
You create an anchor like you would, you write a proper onClick handler that does your favorite animation and then sets the window.location to the href or if you don't want to figure this out, you could just use something like jQuery UI button and you are happy.
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This is the first news story I have bookmarked, ever. Mainly because I got distracted and started reading Mashable.

Jokes aside, I thought I had a form of ADHD with how much distractions distracted me. It's quite comforting to know other people operate this way.

I have recently, as kind of a new years resolution, aimed to be more productive. I have found myself managing my project management list more efficiently and using my "priority" status on my tasks. When I get in, in the morning, I just work top down on my priority list.

My main issue was down to not knowing fully what my next task was so I would spend time finding the task that needs sorting. I have found that the extra 15 mins a day I spend updating my task list has saved hours per week.

This has also helped when you get to the end of projects and you get the small tasks that can take hours to sort when there is no clear defined list.

I'm a task completion junkie, I feel good when I mark a task 100% and the changes I have made so far this year have fuelled my addiction.
As a user of Sage (http://sagemath.org/) I can appreciate that. Nice to have what you need at your fingertips.
Aren't we all distraction junkies in some way or other?
Haven't we immersed ourselves in hedonism so deep, that we can't make out noise from signal?
Every little part of our lives, is given to so many instant gratifications.
We have become information gluttons and unfortunately we don't even seem to realize it.
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I agree it's possible to balance, I do so myself. I do however suspect that the benefits of startups you mention are more for employees of startups than the founders.
LOL, I checked this post while I was waiting for my programe to compile.
here is a good article about how players leverage stats to force the other team into low percentage shots and plays http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/magazine/15Battier-t.html?...
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... And then spend the same again on fabric to support that much I/O. Supercomputers/clusters for compute, mainframes for IOPS.
I don't know the theory behind this stuff, but here it goes:

Headphone jacks tend to have a capacitor in-line with the output terminals to get rid of any DC bias -- this can cause problems like battery drain, lots of noise when you plug headphones in, and damage to the driver coil of headphones -- not good!

I like to think of a capacitor like a shock absorber, with the length of the shock absorber being like the voltage it's currently storing. If you push on one end of a shock absorber, the larger the force (current), the larger the rate of change of voltage (length), so this analogy might be useful.

Imagine holding on to one end of the shock absorber while someone else tries to move it back an forth at a given frequency. If they try to move it back and forth slowly, the maximum force (current) is going to be low, and so the total energy will be low and you won't get shaken much -- the shock absorber will just change length (voltage).

If they try to move it back and forth quickly, the force (current) will be much higher, and so you can extract a lot more energy from it.

I believe it's the same reason portable devices have poor bass response.
Prefixed attributes bring features to developers while they are still experimental, which means we don't have to wait a decade before trying them out.
"I find the focus on dynamic typing a bit fascinating: you don't see people focus so much on it on a discussion about LISP. "

Interesting point.Thinking back on the Clojure discussions here over the last two years i don't recall many issues with readability/maintainability due to the lack of a static types system.
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Without the driver, Firewire DMA is not enabled, so yes, it does matter. It is mentioned in the article.

Lion even disables Firewire DMA when the screen is locked if you are running Filevault, or if you have an EFI password.
Software development seems to be something that's very different than what humans were "built" (evolved) for. During the millions of years over which our brains evolved, we had to be acutely aware of our environment so that we didn't get eaten while foraging for food. Driving might be similar to that: keeping your eye out for danger while your main goal is navigating your car to its destination. But that doesn't suggest to me a million-core machine -- it's more like a foreground process with a couple of lower-priority background processes. And adding just a few extra distractions to driving -- cell phones, texting, kids yelling in the back seat -- increases the probability of accidents, which suggests that our capacity for attention is quite limited.

However, software development calls for a very different kind of mental work, one we couldn't have evolved to be good at since our species only started doing it very recently: juggling multiple levels of abstractions in your head along with countless low-level details. That's so hard to do that trying to do it concurrently with other tasks severely degrades our ability to do it. Paul Graham wrote about this very eloquently in his essay "Holding a Program in One's Head" (http://paulgraham.com/head.html).
So that means I shouldn't be posting on HN because I use a shared computer.

Are you on drugs or some kind of prescribed medication ?

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For many card transactions the credit card company would issue chargeback in the case of fraud for the merchant, which will end up losing money and paying additional fees. So the losing party is frequently not the CC company but the seller.

Losing credit can be a problem too, especially if one has regular bills coming through credit card, which are not problem regularly, but if part of the credit is frozen by the fraudulent activity, this may become a mess. I'm not sure how all banks behave during a fraud dispute, but they very well may reduce credit by the disputed amount until the dispute is resolved, even without the owner having to pay anything.
No it could not copy directly until Java7. Sure there was a million helper class could do this. but not the main SDK.
There was a time when TWiT was funded exclusively by donations, making a point of not taking ads in order to stay independent. At some point I guess the temptation become too big.
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Then as long as the agreement you signed doesn't limit your options you know your choices... give them the idea or run with it yourself.

If you give it up you can always try to negotiate with them first, but be prepared for the possibility that they just walk you to the door or quietly start hunting for your replacement.

The only things stopping you from building a competing product are starting from scratch, risk of failure and giving up a steady paycheck.

But it sounds like you know all this, so what's the real question? Are you looking for encouragement? Discouragement?

If you love the work, like getting paid (and have someone else worry about where the $ are coming from), don't want to take on all the risk of a new startup by yourself then pitch the idea and carry on.

If you're feeling cheated because you joined the game too late (series D) to reap any significant financial benefit if an exit event takes place then you can try and negotiate with them, but the idea had better be solid and something they couldn't have just dreamt up and implemented without you. Make sure your valuation of the idea is in line with reality before you try to use it as a bargaining chip.
That figure is mostly the costs of running logistical chains in dangerous areas. It includes soldiers lost to attacks on convoys.

I doubt that less convoys will equal fewer attacks - it's just an accounting quirk that the casualties are apportioned to the fuel. The attacks might be less successful, as you won't be spreading the defence so thin, but you wouldn't get a linear reduction in costs.
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Yes it does matter, as the OS has to set up the DMA channels, etc.
Well, sort of. That's why I said apples/oranges. Thing is, for that kind of money even a nice FC/IB-fabric is in the budget - perhaps only every 2 months then.

Of course there are latency tradeoffs, no idea what the z9 was used for. But no matter how you spin it, $700k/yr is one hell of a TCO for a piece of hardware that is almost 10 years old.
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If that's how you feel, then there's no reason to post that here.
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When people can't handle their problems, they turn to their made up god, most of these people are cowards, because instead facing their own issues, they brainwash themselves to get the responsibility off their backs.

As for the moral side: let's not count how many people will killed in the name of religion, let's not start counting how many people are harassed in the name of religion. These people aren't even consistent with their own damn bible, even Jesus Christ had mercy for the non believers.

My advice is: never admit that you are non-believer to zealots.
I'll post whatever I want here, irregardless of what you think. Sheep.
I would add to this a way to keep on coding while compiling. Sometimes I read the code, which does give a coding break since I am taking input and not producing output. However, at the same time I might discover errors, figure out better ways of coding something, and learn or remember how to software I wrote works.
"The other extreme is standing over the ripped carcass of the machine case, triumphantly raising an unencrypted hard disk over your head, and blowing a kiss to the receptionist on your way out through the main lobby."

Added to the bucket list.
What do you mean? It's Javascript to pull in the person's name and ID, off of which we construct the URL to get to the "author search". Do you mean something else?
Another method occurred to me that might sort of work on the PC would be to finish a game, then delay the release for 1 year or so, during which time (due to Moore's law), everyone's gfx cards & processors have gotten faster and hence the average user's game playability would be improved.
I think what you're missing is: Stop watching the news and do something.

I'm not sure what the boring deal with the daughters and the bleating about the economy is. But why would any of us care.
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https://accounts.google.com/b/0/IssuedAuthSubTokens

That's the link to list the apps that have access to your account, but for the life of me, I can't work out how to get there from any of the other settings pages...

EDIT it's second from the bottom, in the "Accounts and Import" (3rd across) https://mail.google.com/mail/#settings/accounts

It's a little scary that the authorization is all-or-nothing. Many sites use OAuth just for sign-in (like Stackoverflow), so surely it makes sense to have different levels of access (I was under the impression that fine-grained access control was the whole point of token-based OAuth).
Is AWS really that great for startups (under $100/month hosting)? What about Linode et al? AFAIK, AWS is min $70/month to host a regular dynamic website, whereas Linode starts at $19/month. With intelligent caching (ESI, etc), that $19 can handle 500+ req/sec. Or say 20k+ req/sec for static files (i.e full-page cached sites). Sure there are limitations, but I'd imagine Linode/Slicehost/Rackspace (unmanaged) being better for statups who run regular dynamic websites (with little need for serious elasticity). These VPS providers have load balancing, great communities, good doco, month-to-month contracts, etc.

Admittedly, this isn't my field, so I'd love to hear from someone in-the-know about whether Linode is on par with AWS with regard to most startups (who don't need the extra services Amazon provide over VPS providers).
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Are there any really big multi programmer clojure code bases yet though ?
I don't mean to sound snarky, but this video is remarkably scarce on real content. There're exactly 2 complaints I gathered from the video.
1. Low wages (this could be relative)
2. Bad hours (sounds like most startups I know)

Heck, she even says she's "bored" and is free to leave. While bad, I don't think this deserves the adjective "worst".

PS - Just to be clear, I'm not saying Foxconn has excellent working conditions, just that this video gave me zero insight into them.
Thanks for this article and comments, I usually listen to Justin and Jason's TechZing but here there are some links very interesting (i.e. http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/, i've seen they put a transcript of every episode so it's useful for me, i use podcasts also to improve my english)

A suggestion for podcast authors: if you cant put a full transcript, at least try to have an abstract (with link,s people, societies etc..)
Regardless of what price you end up deciding on, please provide people with a way of leaving their email address with you.

I am interested in your video series and may buy them, but right now:

- I have no way of finding out when you're done, except for polling you, which ups the burden on me

- I am likely to forget about you

- I am likely to miss your announcement that you're opening up shop

A simple "leave your email here if you want to be kept up to date" form would be awesome !
> You may be interested to know that it takes energy to remove salt from water.

Yes, the osmotic pressure is similar to a head of about 240 meter. In practice it will be less in practice (110-120m), but still significant.

> There are proposals to mix freshwater from the mouth of streams with seawater and capture the energy released.

Not only proposals, but there is a prototype in production on Norway that opened in 2008.

http://www.statkraft.com/energy-sources/osmotic-power/

I think the problem for such power plants is to make the membranes efficient enough, and given that they have problem to remove all salt in this "battery", I guess that they have the same problem. For reverse osmosis I'm pretty sure it is more efficient with lower gradient, so these techniques could be combined.

Since osmotic power is better with larger salt gradients, a power plant that use the gradient between the ocean and the Dead Sea would be perfect. The Dead Sea sinks one meter per year because of excessive use of water for irrigation. There is probably not the right political climate in the area to achieve such things however.
EC2 is much cheaper than the kind of hosting deals that large enterprise signs, which are not flexible either. That is one of Amazon's really big markets.
Is it even that much of a nuisance? Last Pass and two factor auth are no brainers for me. I ALWAYS have my phone with me so two factor is a given and Last Pass has mobile apps and lets me have a unique password for every single site. I honestly have a hard time taking people seriously if they're too lazy to use something as simple as Last Pass, etc.
I bought one of NASA MSFC's old "mainframes" a few years ago, just for fun. It was huge and I didn't have three phase power so I was never able to turn it on, but it was cool to take it apart and examine all of the cards that they were using, and see all of the engineering and design of a million dollar computer. It was an SGI Challenge 10000XL "Rackmount" that was fully loaded, I paid $25 for it. It was utterly huge, it was the size of a refrigerator and the weight of a small car.
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Inheritance is not a design methodology, it’s a tool. As a tool it does not “view the world”, unless it’s meant in the sense that when you only have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail to you. When you only have inheritance in your toolbox, things are going to end badly indeed. But that does not mean that inheritance is a bad tool.