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I think OP may be confused that a lot of CS shouldn't be programming language specific. I haven't touched a lot of the languages I learned in college, but knowing specific patterns, data structures, algorithms, control flow, etc and how they may be integrated into the language I am using, whether as a feature of the language or even part underlying VM helps immensely when making intelligent decisions structuring my program.
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My first thought was "Buy Apple stock!"

I finally downloaded and installed W8CP on a spare laptop. First thing I did was give it to my 13-year-old and told him to play with it. In fact, I had him install it from scratch.

Utter confusion pretty much describes the experience.

I thought that he was exaggerating so I sat down to play with it after dinner. Utter confusion was the result as well.

I thought of trying "F1" once I found my way to the desktop and --to my surprise-- the help system came up. Maybe it's due to it being the Consumer Preview version or it's simply late and I'm tired but the help system seems to be, well, lacking. Still, I got a few pointers to kind of start getting some of the ideas.

I'll try to spend more time with it and also try to be fair but I just can't see any way to use this right now. On a daily basis I bounce around various disciplines: from mechanical design with Solidworks to elecronic design with Altium Designer and FPGA design with Xilinx and Altera toolsets. I also bounce into web workflows with Dreamweaver and Photoshop and occasional stints into NetBeans. Let's not forget playing some Chess and the flight sim.

I can't yet see W8 offering any way to deal with this. In a sense, I don't want nor care for the new UI at all. If I was after a tablet it might be interesting, in the same way that my iPad is interesting. But I'd never imagine doing CAD work on my iPad. You'd need a keyboard, trackball, non-jailed storage, access to the file system, multiple monitors, etc.

My thinking at the moment is that if Walmart started selling PCs (not tablets) with W8 today, tomorrow people would flock to Apple stores and buy Macs. I just don't see it.
> ... Apple has the power to get people like Foxconn to live up to expectations, just by using their (Apple's) wallet.

This is a fascinating observation. Also in the news this week is what Apple plans to do with their massive profit margins-- surely one possibility is that they could ensure that the people who actually make Apple products are treated humanely.

> What is unfortunate, and hopefully going to change is that some corporations are not interested in human rights, but instead their bottom line - which is understandable, as they have shareholders etc...

This is likewise fascinating-- the implication that corporations imply not only legal, but moral absolution. If I own a slave to do my housekeeping, that is clearly immoral; if I am one of a hundred thousand shareholders of an organization which owns a hundred thousand slaves, somehow that becomes simply the nature of business and not something that I have accountability for. It sounds ludicrous to say, but it is plainly true of the way we have structured our economy.
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Seems like that would be giving ammunition to the adversary.
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> Shouldn't better search or discovery algorithms or UI, be a more elegant solution than just brute-forcing a paywall into it?

That's always the dream, but recommendation algorithms are hard. And can get much harder when you have a small number of positives, which is presumably what would happen if Apple removed the fee.
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> I didn't use his karma and profile to discredit his argument. I used his (perceived) exaggerated expectations of privacy -- which I garnered from both reading his comment and looking at his profile -- to discredit his argument.

You assumed the type of person ck2 was from their karma and profile page and then discredited their comment because of that assumption; specifically, you called them a "vocal minerdity". To be honest, your reply to ck2 was little more than verbose name-calling and offered nothing of substance to the discussion.

My apologies to the other HN readers for this derail.

edit: That came off kind of harsh. I'm sure you meant well by your comment, but I don't think an appropriate reply to ck2 was to point to their profile and call them paranoid.
This argument is often trotted out, but it doesn't hold water if you think about it. There may be some examples where the technology has been re-used, but what's their value in terms of useful research quantitatively, rather than hand-wavingly?

Even if it's as high as 20% that can be re-used, you could get 100% of that value by researching image-sharpening, disaster shelters, food storage, wireless comms and all the other things you mention, directly. So you still have to justify the remaining 80% in other ways, the side-effects already accounted-for.
Well, they say in the final paragraph: Check back with InfoQ over the next few weeks as we release presentations from the conference.

Guess next few weeks is our current best guess.
wow, all this zealous work to keep the hard-drive platter from spinning up. why not just opt for an SSD if it's that important for you? Even the minimum of 128 GB should be plenty - if you have large media like movies, a tiny external hard-drive should be fine, and you're in charge of when it's connected.

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As an aside, I think this is a really cool idea:
http://www.mcetech.com/optibay/
How often do you really use that optical drive? (As people who use the mb air or 'ultrabooks' prove: not so often. And you can get an external one for when you really need one. Finally the optical drive is the first to break anyway, much easier to replace when exsternal). So you could have 128 GB ssd and 1 TB of large files there. When you really want to just use the battery as little as possible, don't access those files (you can probably even unmount it), and done.
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BTW all this work to get to 10 hours kind of puts my following downvoted comment in perspective, doesn't it?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3697907
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This is spoken like someone that doesn't know computer science at all. So, knowing computer science means you understand the fundamentals of programming and abstraction for computational purposes and this person is saying "screw that. what you should really care about is what a 'while' loop looks like not just in your programming language of choice but only the latest version of your programming language of choice.' Very naive.
I deeply regret allowing greader on android to update to a version that (unknown to me) contained that "feature."
Interestingly Dell (the company) is facing its own identity crisis. I have a feeling Dell won't be following his own advice.
... I thought that was what your script solved. If not, then you have some serious copy issues.
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You could make exactly the same argument, with the "action" as keeping funding NASA. We need to establish that giving ANOTHER $18 billion is a good use of funds compared to leaving it in the taxpayers' pocket. Any economist will tell you that $18 billion in tax revenue actually costs the economy more than that (for example from deadweight losses).
Poppycock. If you learn the Pumping Lemma. You know the Pumping Lemma. It doesn't matter if you are using Ruby on Rails or PHP 7 or whatever. I dismiss this notion that College is just where you go to learn how to learn. Scientists don't say this crap. They don't say "Nevermind all of that calculus you learned in College young physicist; college was just for you to 'learn how to learn' whatever that means! now you can go off and try to learn Calculus so you can do your job!" It doesn't make sense. It completely dismisses the notion that there is qualitative content based learning going on in colleges. It seems so customary to have this view but it doesn't seem to be based in fact. For any computer scientist that was not purely an autodidact, they probably learned a great deal about computer science, yes actual content, that is still and will stay relevant to them throughout their career.
Very interesting concept, but I am worried that this encourages a copy/paste style of coding, rather than actually learning why you would do this or that.
I love the replayer and seeing someone type/create code. Really Awesome.
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The mach kernel is often described as 'anemic'. (Incidentally, a couple of friends who work on the kernel don't have good things to say about its codebase.)
I haven't heard this nor can find the narrative. Please cite.
Right, but my point was that nobody even bothers to serve this laptop market. If there are laptops with netbook processing power (in both sense of the words: power usage and processing power), an ssd, and a massive battery that will push that sucker close to 20 hours (on email, word processing, office tasks), then I don't know about it. I just think nobody even considers taht a priority. Instead, they focus on "a full day's charge" -- like a wind-up watch in the 19th century.
re crypto-experts: You are right on this, but we are going to stay away from implementing our own crypto libraries. Instead we will develop APIs for well supported libraries like PGP and package them for browser extensions. That is the proper way to do things.

re law requests: All code is and will be open source and executed on the client. Some of our sharing models could fail to man-in-the-middle attacks (they have other benefits though), but the most secure methods will be as strong as client side PGP.
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It didn't work well when the texture was dark and the text was black.
I never use fink, macports or homebrew to install on my Mac. It's pretty much download source, take a look at the README/INSTALL and go from there.

The main issue is that Mac is probably not the usual target system for these builds (in comparison to a mainstream Linux distro). And as such differences in the version of the compiler, the set of libraries, installed dev tools, etc. may lead to build issues. You might have to download a few more things or know to add or override compiler or link flags.

Even with the latest Ubuntu or Fedora distro, you still run into having to know that you might need to install dev files to get a build from source to work (recent example for me is pcre libs for nginx).
scrypt's memory access pattern isn't particularly pathological; it's random, sure, but it reads large blocks.

The key issue isn't the design of the RAM subsystem but instead the design of the RAM subsystem -- in particular, making sure the attacker can't "cheat" by using a smaller circuit than the defender.
I bet the value of metals on Earth already far exceeds this many times over. And what do you think would happen to the price of metals if you had this huge supply?
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In my opinion, the bigger head-scratcher with regards to git is why it's so hard to delete the local caches of remote tracking branches. Or why the submodule system is so inferior to the rest of git.
Make sure you set up your SPF record. It'll look something like:

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You can check your current one with:

host -t txt yourdomain.com

Yours will likely differ based on your needs, but you need the include: for SG there.

Send an email through SG to a Gmail address and check the full headers. Look for spf=pass and that they're attaching all the DKIM info.
I cried a little when I used recaptcha (Google hosted), but I'll yank that once I have time to drop in a different captcha system. There are a few other hosted items, but none are from advertisers and none will last very long if I get more devs helping out.
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thanks a lot, still a long way to go as there needs to be more and more upgrades and fixes. :)
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The mystery of Duqu Framework solved
Conclusions

The Duqu Framework consists of “C” code compiled with MSVC 2008 using the special options “/O1” and “/Ob1”

The code was most likely written with a custom extension to C, generally called “OO C”

The event-driven architecture was developed as a part of the Duqu Framework or its OO C extension

The C&C code could have been reused from an already existing software project and integrated into the Duqu trojan
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I don't. Then again, I write systems C, so I don't really need to keep up with technology much. If anything, I keep up by reading the emails intel sends me.

This is very domain-specific.
How often do you run into third-party websites that break without referer header?
For anyone wondering whether we are using any library for play/pause or not, no we are not. It's all custom code based off the code from http://cssdeck.com/t
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I contend that those are not traditional unices either. This is a very personal definition, but I think a useful one for most that are interested in the distinction.
Call it "4-square". Nobody will get confused then.
Python - first commit, 22 years ago

https://github.com/python-git/python/commit/463d099321a4572e...

(Current first page: https://github.com/python-git/python/commits/master?page=117... )

Perl - first commit, 24 years ago

Amazing title:
a "replacement" for awk and sed

https://github.com/mirrors/perl/commit/8d063cd8450e59ea1c611...

(Current first page: https://github.com/mirrors/perl/commits/ams/no-more-study?&#... )

Apparently the current Linux kernel repositories don't go back as far: http://kerneltrap.org/node/13996
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Ubuntu is a pretty weak unix.

How do you really go about this? Where did you get your compiler? Where did you get autotools? My point is that OSX doesn't contain the basic requirements for bootstrapping by default anymore.
Ubuntu is not a good example of a UNIX environment.

That said, really? It doesn't come with gcc anymore? I find this offensive.
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1 - a whole lot of OO and functional Lisp programs use your "very special" pattern of short lived allocations.

2 - You can rig the game so generational GC beats malloc/free.

3 - It's not a criticism, it's a general principle. One always pays for performance. If your performance requirements are low enough, you can even take out a loan on them, so to speak, by using a more expressive language.
"... walkthroughs... will be put up on the home page of TCP only if we think the walkthrough is good in terms of the design, layout, cross browser compatibility (IE not needed, but FF and Chrome are a must)."

I love that you are not requiring IE compatibility for walkthroughs.
Am suggesting that entertainers don't have to put forward the literal and a literal, factual truth is sometimes crucial. Sure "other truths" are very important also but they can't substitute for factual correctness.

Obviously, also, I mean actually journalists rather than those who play them on TV (Fox News etc).
Conclusions

The Duqu Framework consists of “C” code compiled with MSVC 2008 using the special options “/O1” and “/Ob1”

The code was most likely written with a custom extension to C, generally called “OO C”

The event-driven architecture was developed as a part of the Duqu Framework or its OO C extension

The C&C code could have been reused from an already existing software project and integrated into the Duqu trojan
Social news sites usually have a life-span measured in a couple of years. Usually, their death - slow or rapid - begins when they reach critical mass and start adding tons of new features, and they miss the point- which is social news (duh). Anybody remember Digg?

As an aside, technology wise it's probably actually worth discussing the same thing every six (or 3 or 1) months - the answer will be different every time.
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I can't remember the last time I hit View Source. I always check via the Chrome Developer Tools.

Interesting hack nevertheless.
Etherpad meets codecademy? Interesting.
Yeah, my main complaint about Go is the way its adherents go on like its type inference is some incredible new invention. I guess in makes sense when you're selling it to Java people, but it rubs me the wrong way.
Is something similar to collusion available for Chrome?
This is something that I see at many places these days. Scripting has become synonymous with Perl. And for anything else People are really going in for Java.

But Django and Rails seem to be the major reasons why people continue to use Python.

Having said that no company that is making billions in profits is going to bet their very survival on a framework written and maintained by volunteers. Frameworks come and go, Every 5 years there is something new.
I think pg, and all of the people flagging and voting on stories would dis-agree (that nobody runs this 'society').
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Once again Valve is showing the world how things should be done, is wildly successful, and nobody else seems to pay attention.

It shouldn't be such a huge issue to just meet your customer in the middle.
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This can also ease a lot of the criticism that Amazon is getting about slave-driving the (human) pickers in their warehouses lately.
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Article is from 2010.
I can certainly see your point, but the article seemed to me to be describing the manipulation done by a psychologist, not a con artist; that is, the interviewer is trying to simulate a natural conversational environment to allow the interviewee to speak freely, not trying to trick the interviewee into revealing something he or she wants to keep secret. (EDIT: As Gnolfo said better about 6 hours ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3726756)

I guess that my reaction is motivated by not understanding what the actual, unasked question is. It seems to me that the interviewer is asking pretty much what he or she wants to know. Would the question be more palatable if it came with more of a preface about how the response would be interpreted?

P.S. Rather than asking about favourite colours, one may ask about fish. http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/87/7950.html
I thought Bain Capital was the umbrella for all of their funds? Bain Capital Private Equity for the PE stuff and Bain Capital Ventures for the VC investments.
ivyirwin's comment is pretty spot on. His points about having to click the video twice and there not being enough contrast were something that jumped out at me too.

I think the second block (the one with the three features, button and video) needs to be emphasized. Instead of being overshadowed by the top nav and the content below, it should be the opposite. Make the font size for the features bigger and change the icons to something more relevant (I would not necessarily associate those icons to those ideas by themselves). And, as mentioned before, the video should play once the play button is clicked.

Another thing that caught my attention is the difference in font sizes and how they don't necessarily make sense. Your headlines are smaller than the nav text which doesn't make sense in theory. I'm guessing you want people to check out the links in the nav but as mentioned before, contrast will do the trick. Also, you use two sans-serifs and I don't see the purpose in doing that.

The "What can Kuhcoon do for you" section needs a lot more whitespace and that headline needs to be bigger and clearer. Also, you should make both of those clients section entirely click-able, I think.

Finally, I get the image and the "Transforming everyone into social media butterflies!" text but somehow that whole block seems out of place: it might be an issue with the shadow above and the fact that a lot of the colors on the page are very similar.
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need more tutorials, more authors and that's about all. What are the technologies behind?
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Exactly what I had in mind. Thanks for putting it in words.
haha, yeh
we should always have people commenting when the site goes down after HN/reddit effect (if no one has done it already) and then we can have an avg time goes down/host provider graph show up. :)
lovely quote. Is there a source for that?
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This is great. I'm just starting to learn this stuff and I've enjoyed the user experience so far. couple thoughts:

1. Would love to be able to type my code as the walk through is played so I compare my code and see if I can replicate.

2. It be nice if I can ask questions or make comments tied to specific lines in the code.