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Apart from Singh's incredibly famous one, I also quite enjoyed _Colossus: The secrets of Bletchley Park_[1] for technical history.

The autobiography of Leo Marks: _Between Silk & Cyanide_[2] was a good (although I suspect quite heavily dramatised & exaggerated) read about the more human elements and flaws of pen & paper crypto used by the allied resistance groups.

[1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Colossus-secrets-Bletchley-code-brea...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Between-Silk-Cyanide-Codemakers-1941-1...
So this is pretty much extra-judiciary punishment, then ?
Yeah, but workstation and desktop are not exactly the same. Back when SUNW went public (1986), that distinction may not have been as defined. It makes sense to run Unix on a workstation (workstation defined as a high performance machine meant for a specific productivity use case). It doesn't make sense to run it on a desktop (desktop defined as a general purpose PC your family would use at home).
Dell ran its entire business on the Objective-C version of WebObjects (4.5) for quite some time, until about 2000, if I recall correctly. I'm not quite sure what you mean by "large-scale enterprise", but I'd hope Dell at its heyday would qualify.
What do you have debconf set at? When dash is installed dpkg asks if it should install the link. If you want to change it:

dpkg-reconfigure -p low dash
If the economy keeps going down, we could be. Bad economic times have a tendency to put extremists in power. Do you think it's a coincidence that Hitler rose to power during the great depression?
I've never heard the low hundred thousand words figure before. I've only ever seen the million words figure. I agree NaNoWriMo can be useful, so can frequent blogging about whatever's on your mind.
I'm trying this out because I don't want to shell out $50 for the 1Password OSX app and then $15 for their iOS app.

I also see an advantage of not needing to constantly type in a master password, which can be seen by anyone standing around me.
http://web.appstorm.net/, where I work as editor, is always glad to review new web app startups. Send us a personalized email through our contact form, and we'll usually get back in touch. I'm always excited to cover brand-new apps, as are most mid-range blogs that aren't as hugely known.
I'm of the opinion that the "100,000 words of crap" you mention applies to just about every single skill. Not a huge believer in "natural talent", I'd wager that practice and getting that crap out of one's system is the only way to get good at anything.
The fact that you don't have to use it means that it's beyond criticism? What point are you trying to make? You don't have to use PHP either.
I don't know if I will get flak for this but I really wish they made a Mac version.. :'(
Yup (well, Bavaria, which technically does count). But while I do hope that the Pirates emerge as a new center for social liberalism, which was pretty much dismantled in the early '80s when the FDP turned towards a new wind, I'm a bit worried whether that's achievable. I would love to be wrong, but I can't see a coherent picture emerging from that much grassroots democracy.
My plan at least for weekend trips is to figure out a practical way to rent a car. Should still be cheaper than owning one all the time.

I'm shopping for cars right now. After 4 years of owning one, I've conceded that that has not turned out to be the case. At least, not entirely - I've found it isn't apples-to-oranges.

When I last owned a car, I bought it new. It was a fairly nice car, so of course I was paying for comprehensive insurance. I also thought nothing of driving it everywhere, making frequent weekend trips, driving out to the state park to go mountain biking after work, etc. etc. I dumped a lot of money on it, but much of that money was on what I have now come to view as unnecessary luxury.

Having not owned a car for 4 years, I had gotten into the habit of walking or taking the bus/train or riding my bike anywhere. I did have a membership to a car sharing company, so I could rent a car by the hour whenever I needed one, but I had gotten into the habit of only using it once every other month or so. Trips out of the city, Chicago, could generally be made by rail (the commuter rail system is extensive, and it's an Amtrak hub).

Then I moved to a different city, and a lot changed. The city's transit system is quite good, but the inter-city transit isn't so good. Renting cars began to happen much more frequently; we're doing it about once a month now. It also became more expensive - this state does not require rental companies to include the mandatory minimum coverage with rentals, and both non-owners' insurance policies and the daily rate insurance offered by the rental companies are priced exorbitantly.

So the new calculus is, owning a car can be quite a bit less expensive, under certain conditions: The 'new' car is actually quite old, and has some dings and dents, so it didn't cost much in the first place. And since it's not beautiful anyway, there's not much call for paying for comprehensive insurance. And we're walking, biking, and taking the bus in all the situations where we would previously have walked, biked, or taken the bus - this car is not for commuting, it's not for driving out to the mall, it's not for burning gas (and money) just because I don't want to get rained on. It's for visiting folks in other cities, and perhaps also for trips to Costco. Under this new calculus, the break-even point should be only about 2 years out, assuming no major repairs.
Getting Homebrew Working in Mountain Lion Dev Prev 2/Xcode 4.4 Dev Prev 2
I'm still rather pleased with my iPad 1, and use it as my on-the-go computer for trips about once a month. And that's for real work: writing and editing articles, managing a team, and doing app support and random email. And yup, an iPad 1.
I don't doubt that that is the case for you. I am saying when dash was installed dpkg asks if it should install the link and you said to install the link. If you want to change it or see the question again:

dpkg-reconfigure -p low dash
That's why I included the example of the wheat and the pig - there is no time component there. It shows that there can be various levels of wealth even at the same point in time, and that wealth is not zero sum, i.e. it's not necessarily true that for person A to get more wealthy, person B has to become less wealthy. They can both become more (or less) wealthy).

How do you conclude that a good with unlimited supply (which is I suppose what you mean by 'no limit to scarcity') would lead to bubbles or economic breakdown? It just means that in theory in a system with perfect substitutes for these goods, the cost would gravitate towards production cost.

The whole point is that prosperity isn't measured relatively. (well you could, but it doesn't make much sense in most cases). Prosperity is quality of life. Would my life be better if my neighbor doesn't have money to take his daughter to a doctor but I do? Only if I was a sociopath, which the majority of us aren't. When the tide rises, all boats go up. And yes there is evidence that in the margin, our feeling of well-being increases when we are higher on the social ladder, but that's a separate issue; "prosperity" and "feeling of well-being" are related but not the same.
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Not even remotely comparable. The site you mention is essentially a link aggregator.
Actually, Garage Band isn't half bad for recording and light-editing audio.
Yep, here it is: https://github.com/swank-js/swank-js

It works really, really well. In fact, it's using exactly the same protocol and Emacs libraries that ClojureScript uses (SLIME). It's really neat to see SLIME still being used today for such cool and practical things.
One could argue that violence by more organized societies is worse. I mean, there's no way a loosely organized band of hunter-gatherers could come up with an Atomic Bomb. Nor could they fight a World War.
2 Magicians and 7 iPads
Comically, I personally prefer typing on an iPad in the car over typing on a laptop. The on-screen keyboard definitely works for me.
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All that technical horror is precisely why it's such a needed and profitable product. That's your barrier to entry.

The only happy ending I see here is if the founders learn to delegate, or work hard on finding the right people to sell this to. Not to a hacker -- to a businessman who would be genuinely happy to run a growing business, and not horrified by the technical kludges.

I always chuckle a little to myself when I see clearly talented programmers shying away from this kind of problem in favor of allegedly more interesting problems. I used to feel the same way. But it's mostly chasing an illusion. The real work of programming is always about dealing with the messiness of the real world.

If you find a problem that doesn't have any real-world nastiness, you can be sure it's either (1) irrelevant, or (2) already solved for free by countless other smart programmers, because it's fun.
I just tried it out. Works quite well! I think this is pretty damn cool.

Feature requests:

- The ability to add sites to the db using the extension (unless I missed this). Typing on the iphone's a pain vs typing on my laptop.

- A way to quickly copy the credential data from the iOS app so it can be used in other iOS apps.

- A password auto-generator.

- Dropbox support. That way this could sync up and work across platforms, and wouldn't require me to trust you with my precious data. (I'm already trusting dropbox, for better or worse, but at least there I can ensure it's encrypted)
The Seven Deadly Sins of Solr (2011)
Perhaps function should be allowed in both long and short form. I might be willing to use fn for an anonymous function but much less likely in regular situations.
To be fair, sometimes there is exploitation involved.

(http://www.irinnews.org/Report/94721/AFRICA-High-cost-of-chi...)

(http://www.irinnews.org/Report/94939/ZIMBABWE-Child-labour-o...)

(http://www.irinnews.org/Report/94822/KENYA-Gold-mining-beats...)
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> For many writers, 1666 words a day, every day, is a bit too much to expect.

Well, with NaNoWriMo you have a whole month. So some days you may in fact have 0 words, and other days you'll have 4000. But in general, the more you do this, the easier it is. Are weekly 2000 word essays from college students who don't really care about English or Sociology or whatever class the essays are for too much to expect? Maybe. I know that after a few months of blogging 1000+ word blogs on a relatively frequent basis, those school essays are trivial.

> Second, the requirement that the project start from zero is also a deterrent—it encourages a “starter” attitude when what’s needed is a “finisher”.

The idea is that at the end of the month you evaluate what you have and decide if it's worth finishing and revising. Your work is not supposed to be "perfectly good". This is the same philosophy over at the Ludum Dare 48 hour game programming competition ( http://ludumdare.com/compo/about-ludum-dare/ ) where you start from scratch and see what you can do. Many people have taken their finished entries and continued to work on them, eventually selling them for real money. Most people don't, they abandon the project, and that's fine. They learned something along the way that will help them be a better game developer the next time around or in a context where they have more time.
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Thank you so much - I'll ask her to look into it.
You're confusing 'wealth' and 'status'.

Wealth is what you have, in absolute terms. Status is a relative ranking.
Great advice. thank you.
haternews. I couldn't agree more.
Funny thing is that neo-liberalism actually used to have a different meaning in Germany. That meaning also had a synonym called Ordoliberalism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordoliberalism), that didn't change so much in meaning.

Anyway, the Pirateparty also has a substantial social democratic background, so calling their stance social liberalism is probably more sensible. (Using the European meaning of liberalism.)
This is interesting; just last night I was looking for some obj-c web app frameworks. I spend most of my day working on iOS stuff and I thought why not play around with implementing some web services with obj-c?

While I tip the hat to the gsw folks, I always thought WebObjects was a horrible dev environment. It always seemed overly complicated and compared to where the web is now, to me it doesn't make any sense to use.

The closest thing I've found to 'usable' for making a dynamic site or api is frothkit: http://code.google.com/p/frothkit/
But, it needs Cocotron to work and I don't know if it works with the Lion Xcode.

Anyway, I think obj-c is totally legit for webapps that require speed. Maybe that magic framework will break through. However, I definitely do not think GSW is it, sorry.
What Science and Philosophy Can Teach Us About the Holy Grail of Existence
As stated above, I use my iPad 1 for my full on-the-go computing needs. Granted, I'm a writer and editor, but still, that means I'm writing plain text or HTML posts, managing a team, responding to support emails in Mail or Desk.com's web app (and 50+ a day), all from an iPad.

And while this doesn't quite count as producing, a couple weeks ago I pulled up sheet music in Safari, put my iPad on a piano's book stand, and started playing a song that a friend had mentioned only minutes before. You'd never do this with a traditional computer, but today it doesn't even seem that odd or amazing. Sure, it was "consumption": I was reading sheet music from the iPad. But if that's not intellectually stimulating and productive, I'm not quite sure what is.
I didn't realize this technique had a name. I usually start with a name or a piece of dialogue, and grow the story like a crystal, eg:

"Things come and go, but Ampere's Law will always be current."
Surely they should not be able to decide upon that question until after a trial.
McAfee Releases Open Source Security Plug-in for MySQL
"Megaupload has been destroyed..."

I don't think it's destroyed at all. It is hurt, and hurt bad, but I think they could make a come back if he can get it back online after this disaster is over.
MSFT Botnet Takedown - 70 Binaries Analyzed
Oh please, for all intents and purposes, the gist of the GP is 'oh it's the Economist, they're a bunch of shills, so they're wrong'. I'm not going to argue nonsensical things like what exactly is an ad hominem, it's crystal clear that the GP intended to dismiss the message of the article by saying that because it's from the Economist, it's automatically wrong; i.e., that it's wrong because of who said it and their ideological background, rather than the substance of what was said. If that's not an ad hominem, I don't know what is.
Ironically the picture shows a mini-SIM card.

The actual cards haven't been finalized, but this compares sizes: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/03/21/apple-nano-sim/
What is the Kindle Doing to the Science Fiction Genre?
Im so disappointed....

That this community has such a harsh opinion against MSoft.

Case and point, they do something that will save consumers and businesses alike millions of dollars, yet they only receive 10 points on HN.

While an opinion article punishing MSoft here: "I Won The Windows Phone Challenge, But Lost 'Just Because'" (skattertech.com) received well over 360 points for MSoft and more than 60 comments.

Its disappointing how much negativity has been casted on MSoft, when they are tried exceedingly hard to change both their image and their practices from the old days.

And of course, ill probably be voted down for this.
Is this Windows Phone App statistics Real?
My thoughts exactly. Be smart with your hires.
I never used megaupload so I apologize if I'm way off, but I'm really confused: After this "bust" it seems the received wisdom is that MegaUpload was not some shady illegal file sharing site; whereas beforehand (if memory serves), it was common knowledge that that was exactly what it was. Some friends who engage in such sharing tell me they "don't use bittorrent anymore, DD [direct download] is easier."

Have I gone crazy? Do most BT tracker sites that feature "illegal" content not advertise direct download sites as an alternative way to download stuff illegally?

I'm really confused because I thought that "DD sites are a competitor to BT for downloading stuff illegally" was common knowledge, now we're shocked-SHOCKED that such unseemly allegations would be leveled at such respectable Netizens as Megaupload. I am not commenting on whether copyright is broken, merely "was this not a popular site to d/l illegal stuff?"
Why Javascript Sucks
She makes a point of saying in point three that she's taking a critical look at what she intends to write, and makes sure there's good content in the scene, or she scraps/reworks the scene.

Admittedly that doesn't say anything about the quality of her prose, but one perspective is that the sooner you're done your first draft, the more time you have for editing.
YouTube has now and has had far more infringing content than Megaupload ever did. But Megaupload isn't owned by a corporation with Al Gore and other rich politically connected Americans as senior advisors and/or on the board of directors.
There's more than one way to win. They could declare that they "settled for undisclosed terms", declare victory, and walk away.
It has never been anybody's view, to my knowledge, that cold fusion was a hoax. There is a prevalent view that the scientists were wrong, but I was not aware of anybody that seriously proposed that they deliberately tried to fool people. It was not a hoax.

It may have been an example of bad science, not by Pons and Fleischmann, but by the community at large. That these men were ridiculed for the audacity of publishing something that may have turned out to be wrong, does nothing but damage to human progress.
Just to remind you of a comment from PG when you posted part one of this nearly a month ago-

s/the/a

You wrote A Hacker News mobile app.
There are quite a few others.

While it looks nice and all, There is nothing any more or less official for this mobile web app versus any of the others that are already out there.
Apparently, Microsoft has apologized, and offered the guy a laptop+phone

http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/26/2903250/microsoft-smoked-b...
All You Need to Know About Cloud Computing : What is Cloud Computing?
> How come the suicide rate in Africa is much lower (close to zero) than in Europe?

It isn't. Africa is a large continent. Some areas have higher suicide rates. Other areas have lower suicide rate. I've already posted a supporting link. I'm not sure where you get the idea that the rate of suicide in Africa is near zero.
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There is skepticism, and then there is refusing to look into one's opponent's arguments' content. I'm all for skepticism, and I advocate double checking the data and figures of even one's closest allies, but that's not what the GP was doing - it was an outright dismissal of anything the article concluded, solely because if its author.
I don't understand how human-powered flight got in there. It's not a hoax, it's just not done that way: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-powered_aircraft
Introduction to Algorithms (CLRS)
This book may have the most misleading title of any programming book ever published. It's widely used at many universities, usually in graduate level algorithms courses. As a result, any programmer who has taken an algorithms course at university probably owns a copy of CLRS. However, unless you have at least a Masters degree in Computer Science (and in Algorithms specifically), I doubt you've read more than a few selected chapters from Introduction to Algorithms.

Really? Because I still have mine from undergrad, and when I was using it to prep for a Google on-site, I was surprised that I had forgotten how far into it we had gone (there are dog ears back to chapter 36). Of course, that class was over ten years ago, and I (unfortunately) don't get to use it much these days, being that I mostly deal with RF and E&M.
Yes. The "nothin' to do with me, guv, it's the algorithm's fault" attitude is disingenuous and unhelpful.
I would answer that rhetorical question with no, HR departments have not have heard of social engineering attacks in computer security. Almost any company asking for a password will have a brain-dead HR department in charge of that policy; it's not like your fellow future programmers thought that one up.
This post has only 2 comments (both from you) and you already managed to start a flamewar. Please don't.
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Users Are Already Using iPads In The Office. Why IT Doesn’t Have A Clue
The de Broglie wavelength of a baseball is something like 20 orders of magnitude smaller than a proton. If you imagine this to be something that might be probed in the next few centuries, I'd be interested to hear more.
Vim Slime: A vim plugin to give you some slime. (Emacs)
I guess it is a link aggregator. But they've got 25000+ links to real jobs, with not an agency or recruiter in sight. What's wrong with it being a link aggregator? I'm no expert, but I've not seen any other UK site that advertises so many non-recruiter jobs.
How a little girl could lose her voice in a patent battle
I wouldn't just stick to conventional startup blogs. Blogs like ours also report on cool web apps etc - redferret.net
The question isn't whether it was popular to use them to host infringing material -- I think everyone agrees that it was. The question is whether they acted as they were legally required when it came to takedown requests.

That's what determines if they are liable for other people putting infringing content on their servers.
You tell me. I work for an insurance company that bet the farm on Forté's 4GL technology (then bought by SUN and renamed Unified Development Server, and then killed).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forte_4GL

so I'm stuck maintaining a few hundred applications which are hacks and workarounds on top of the obsolete enterprise software.

The pay is very good for my country but I'm looking for my way out.
First of all, it looks nice, so congrats, I'm sure it consumed many working hours.

But why didn't you go native ?
Your controls are pretty much the OSX ones, why did you concentrate so much in the iOS CSS look-a-like interface ?

Also, you could go hybrid, mixing native controls with a webkit view for the data.

Nevertheless, good work.
This is good advice for someone that wants to learn to program. If that is your goal, then JavaScript and then Python is a good path. However if your goal is to learn CS along the way, then you should start with C on something like the Arduino and then move to a LISP. One is great for hardware based theory and the other is great for pure CS theory. So it really depends on your ambitions, if you want to program to find a job ASAP then the above advice is spot on, however if you want to program to truly understand programming and CS then C and Lisp are fundemental.
Jason Evans's benchmarks (http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/scalable-..., 3/4 of the way down the page) don't look good for Hoard, but they may be a little biased.
I read it when I was about a 1 on a 1-10 scale, and it probably helped bring me up to a two - which is a worthwhile ROI on a book.
@showpill.com we are looking to become the America's Got Talent of the web. What i notice with alot of hip hop artist most of them stay independent as long as possible which will give you a little more negotiating room when a label comes for you. An artist will always consider the big studios first they can provide the most resources to them.