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The part about the string made me smile a bit, because I guess there aren't too many climbers on Quora. As any salty old trad climber knows, it only takes a couple of wraps around an object before the rope (or string in this case) becomes fixed to the object.

So unless you're lucky, the process would actually look like: take string, make space between thumb and index finger, wrap some number of ... oh, darn, it didn't come out even at all ... rats, can't move my fingers ... OK, start over, let's make the fingers a little farther apart ... wait, rats, didn't get 11 even wraps that time either ...

(I experimented with this before posting my comment, just in case.)

Or you could, y'know, take the string, measure the circumference, divide by 11. Or, you could throw away the string, take the diameter of pizza -- which is written in black marker on a tin or cardboard round and displayed on the wall at every pizza joint I've ever been to, I think -- and multiply by 3 and divide by 11 and space your cuts about that far apart.

There's a lot of good stuff out there on the benefits of "thinking like a child" -- learning to clear your mind of the preconceptions and opinions and expectations that we tend to develop as we get older. I don't think this post was a step in that direction, though.
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The numbers puzzle was easy to spot if you've ever played Petals around the Rose.

Here's a classic article about that game, dating back to 1977, describing Bill Gates trying to figure it out:
http://www.borrett.id.au/computing/petals-bg.htm
I have seen a few that won't work unless I disable adblock but haven't stumbled on any that ask but still work with it. I doubt many would disable it if they don't have to. Do you have an example?
The latter. The delay (if there is one) isn't too long.
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Even a bug that affects just 0.1% of a 1 million big bot net would still leave a 1000 unhappy users with broken setups that might consider themselves to have been better off with the bot net.
> I also enjoyed it recently when the top result for "define an english person" was the wikipedia article "cunt." That one smacked of deliberate organisation.

The funny thing about some of these is that they become victims of their own success - the bomb doesn't work now because all the results are for blogs, reddit, etc talking about the bomb.

> Anyway, aren't the search autocomplete suggestions based on the distribution of n-grams in google's index, as much as in the search terms?

My wife would know for sure, but I believe it is more based on search volume. When you type "hacker news" you get:

hacker news search

hacker news mobile

hacker news api

Pretty clear that it's getting those from search volume, not n-grams.
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What happens if they just release this app under a European company. Problem solved right (like all other software patents)?
Seems to be a lot more interest in doing hardware than previous batches?
Yeah, I hear what you're saying. Some people will say they feel burned out when they're tired after a long day at work, some people won't say they're burned out 'til they have a nervous breakdown.
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"Microsoft’s new HTTP Speed+Mobility lacks a catchy name..."

'Microsoft S&M' has a degree of familiarity to it.

It's nice to note, as pilif does in this thread, that this is about building on not competing with other alternatives.
The solution is very clever. However, it is incomplete. In addition to the equally divided markings around the circumference, you also need to know the midpoint of the circle. Without the midpoint, the cuts may still yield unequal slices. Fortunately, using the author's same technique, you can easily produce the midpoint by making marks at the opposite ends of a single loop. Those two additional markings provide a guide for you to make cuts into the midpoint of the pizza.
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Pardon my ignorance, but what would prevent ad-serving websites from totally "inlining" the ads inside their own website html/css/js/? They could even render ads as fonts and vectors graphics, how would an ad-blocker tell that apart from the content part of the web page?
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I wonder whether we need a different presumption of executive responsibility in these cases. Plausible deniability seems way too weak a defense to permit, since it allows executives to set up a culture and incentives to encourage wrongdoing and yet walk away from the consequences if they weren't directly informed of the specific actions taken.

In a away it's analogous to the 'it wasn't me, it was the algorithm' defense - 'it wasn't me, it was my employees'.

This doesn't mean that executives should necessarily be held personally liable for the damages caused by their companies, but if they persistently can't keep their organizations operating within the law, perhaps a period of open public administration at the company's expense might be a good remedy.

[note: there might be some serious drawbacks to this proposal - it's just a conjecture since corporate wrongdoing is a serious problem that doesn't seem to have good solutions yet]
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Such app is already shown in the Quora thread: http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-easiest-way-to-cut-a-pizza-...
It is very important to consider why the code turned into such a mess to begin with. Chances are same issues will happen again with the new codebase. If code generally turns worse over time, then the problem is not the actual code.

Developers are quick to think "some idiot must have written that" just because code is convoluted and ugly. But it might as well be smart competent developers working in firefighter mode, developers being shifted around from project to project with not enough time to get acquainted with the codebase, and so on. If these are the reasons a rewrite will not help.
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I'm curious now. What if my neighbours house was on fire? That fire threatens the whole neighbourhood. Surely I can protect my property by attempting to put out the fire. Do firefighters have indeminty for attempting to put out fires? What about volunteer firefighters?

Obviously I consider a house on fire to be analagous to an infected computer, but I do have some protection putting out a fire right? Nobody would sue me for fire damage (as long as I'm reasonable etc).
iCracked is about hardware.

I think there's also some bad choices by the author, both of which are apps.

PlanGrid has been vastly over-hyped by the author, it's an iPad blueprint viewer. Big deal, tiny market. The construction industry already shares files electronically, sounds like the author bought into some PR bullshit. Kyte I also question being included too, a subscription model for a simple family filter for your phone? They'll be undercut in no time.
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I would appreciate a better HTTPS rather than a better but still unsafe HTTP. I hope they integrate security into HTTP 2.0.
I apologize in advance for the tone, but as a Russian I have a question - are you racist?

Since Sergey Brin and Mila Yovovich are "russians", do you imply that Google and Hollywood are part of this botnet?

The most famous hacker is Kevin Mitnick [american] and most recent hackers charged/arrested by FBI are also american citizens.

Why don't you change "russians" to "americans"? Or may be "new_zealanders" [Kim dot com]? Or may be "brits" [UK kid, extradicted recently to US on copyright violation charges].

If you would change to "americans", I just wonder whether some people will feel offended and how many?
Hmm.. This and the "no idea" stream opening for more people to be able to apply makes me wonder if YC is indicating a lack of applications this time around.
I must admit to being a bit of a layperson when it comes to the dark arts of finance, so I may well be completely wrong.

I was mostly going off my recollections of my high school economics teacher saying something to the effect of "tax on a transaction reduces the market size - for example, tobacco & alcohol duties serve to reduce usage of both products".

Would that not apply for some reason when the product in question is stock trades?
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Hi

I am looking for any open source project that gives users a good range of options to make their own analysis of structured data (sales, fiancials, etc.). Sort of like excel, but web based and able to connect to databases to pull data. Mostly I am thinking of giving users the tools to make web based plots, tables, pivot tables, with data from multiple sources (OLAP, external data, submitted data from foreign entities, etc.).

If there is not, I was thinking to start building it. I also was wondering if there is some market potential in this concept.
"Question deleted" item would help for that, and would also be more transparent for users than silent deletion (at the cost of a few more pages to show all items, becouse some items are deleted).
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In a perfect world, every search would result in a page with a single item: exactly the thing you were looking for.

But I'm looking for a list of similar items in order to compare them. Many -- if not most -- times I perform a search I have but a vague idea of what I want. I throw something at the engine, take a look at the results, then decide whether to restate my search or not. A list is a perfectly good answer to many questions.

And this business about pagination? I'm sorry Jeff, but infinite scroll must die. It's a god-awful user interface mess. If you like this sort of thing, why have pages at all? The web should be just a seamless, flowing experience without any context-switching.

I almost feel like we are purposelly being baited by Atwood. (Bloggers? Purposely stirring up trouble for pageviews? Say it ain't so) It kills the entire concept of a page. It destroys the user's ability to know how much of something they are seeing, and makes linking a disaster.

Make it go away.
And yet I've worked several places with some decidedly non-trivial code where we quite happily did do this. None of us were wasting half a day getting up to speed because of things like:

* More of us being familiar with more of the code - so less to get confused about

* Lots of small functional commits, so the changes tend to be small

* We were bright enough to go have a conversation with everybody if we see changes that are going to affect lots of people

* We had an excellent test suite that prevented regressions, and was a good tool for getting up to speed with changes that had been made

Quite frankly - the idea of planning a business around only two people really groking bits of the code base is a bit frightening to me.
Looks like the OP is doing a hack - he is trying to achieve his goal [of destroying parts of the botnet] by hacking legal system, since he can not do this on his own...

Resourceful!
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I'd say that in my experience, the Roma don't beg and steal particularly worse than any other marginalised or impoverished group. There may be a culture of theft among some of the poorer groups, but that is hardly unique, a culture of theft is extremely common in a lot of widely varied communities around the world, from energy companies to impoverished slums.
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Brasília is also a "designed" city, and the woodcut maps are awesome: http://bit.ly/Hi9m09, http://bit.ly/HcBdSB and http://bit.ly/GXK5Lv.
or just loop the string over 1 finger 11 times?
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I was under the impression there was? Regarding quality and quantity of protein, impact on hormone levels and allergy risk. I'm pretty sure I even read something on dementia linked to tofu, but I couldn't be sure.

Perhaps you could be the one doing the enlightening?
I'm probably an idiot, but how do you divide the string in 11 equal pieces without measuring the length and dividing by 11?
Who should he tell?

If any of the victims are in the UK he could try the Police Central e-crime Unit. (It's all 'cyber', a word which feels strangely quaint.)

(http://www.met.police.uk/pceu/)

Or he could try Microsofts digital crime unit.

(http://www.microsoft.com/government/ww/safety-defense/initia...)

Any other contact addresses?
I have just finished http://perfecthealthdiet.com/ which is probably the most comprehensively research backed book (that's also easy to read) on nutrition I've read. (I include the excellent Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes in that comparison). The PHD book lists soy as a toxin..

Based on everything that I've read, I have formed the opinion (which has changed somewhat over time) that it's better to eat naturally occurring foods, that saturated fat isn't harmful and that manufactured foods should be avoided.

Now I could well be subject to confirmation bias: most things I read on nutrition nowadays tend to lean towards the paleo point of view. However, I'm confident enough in the balance of evidence that I'm now switching over the the type of diet outlined in PHD (not that I was that far away before).

And yes I am implying that there's a health angle in contrasting eating meat with eating not meat. By definition they're different things so there must be implications in that... I certainly come down on the meat side, but I'd be interested to learn of evidence to the contrary too.
There are a couple use cases:
1) applications where the OS is a commodity - abstraction layer to IO (disk, network). MS solution is their PAAS (which is expensive).
2) existing libraries/services that aren't available on Win32 where it is hard to justify another server license just for .NET - this factors in to where I work; some code can't be .NET as there is already a Linux server in the setup. We've ended up with 80% dotnet and 20% python
3) most companies loathe mixing server OSs; some shops have fallen into the MS camp and others the FOSS camp
4) The proof that they aren't going to cannibalize existing OS/SQL License sales is in your comment
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Microsoft has worked with standards bodies for CIFS, Kerberos and LDAP, the whole pile of web standards (and their .docx thing, but this one is a joke). It doesn't mean you can interoperate with them, because they have introduced involved bugs and matching workarounds, then enshrined them for decades by never breaking compatibility. SPDY can avoid this because it already has diverse implementations in the wild, but if Microsoft acquires credibility for mobile extensions to SPDY, they'll push a half-broken implementation to carriers and gain a competitive advantage on smartphones.
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He's provided some tools and instructions but he seems to have been fairly careful not to provide everything you'd need - there would still need to be a not inconsiderable application of skill and effort from someone.

Essentially he's not loading the gun, putting it in someone's hand and pointing it just waiting for them to squeeze the trigger. My reading is it's closer to him saying where you might find someone you want to shoot and pointing out the gun store.
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"A slightly broken analogy would be breaking into a house to remove a hornets nest. Even if you do it carefully and not do any damage and what you do is beneficial for the community as a whole, it's contrary to the law."

On the other hand, you can't give a choking person the heimlich maneuver, or perform CPR on someone, without physical contact that could be construed as assault (or battery? not sure) in any other context.
Well, either way it makes no difference. Thin clients were around decades ago. The browser is a pig.
With a house on fire you're taking reasonable action to protect life.

In general, when you do something you then take responsibility for the consequences of that action. Thus, if there was a tiny fire and you flooded the house with water and foam and caused considerable water damage you may find the home owner suing for damage caused. You could counter by saying you prevented much more damage, but they'd say that a competent fire-fighter would have done that and avoided all the water damage.

The analogy fails (as they always do) because there are specific criminal laws around computer misuse / unauthorised use. Running software on someone's machine without their permission is unlawful.

You may have mitigation if you can claim that the harm from the botnet was more severe than the harm caused by the clean-up-hacking.

It is frustrating. I used to say "Don't fight abuse with abuse", but it's pretty hard to keep that attitude in the face of so much malware and spam.
doesn't make a lot of sense...
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"So, iPhone, due to iPhone 4S and a favorable environment created due to the untimely death of Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs, gained tremendous popularity by the end of 2011 but remained marginally shy against Android."

Would it be inappropriate to flag this article? It reads like black hat SEO copy from someone who speaks english as a 2nd or 3rd language. Keyword density suggests iphone 4s / android.
I solved the second one in a couple minutes in my head with value substitutions. Unless you were to do with with a pen and paper, it'd be pretty difficult to pick up on the closed loops.

Generating the following list took less than 30 secs when I looked it over, so obviously the example of it taking a long time to solve is a bit contrived. What threw me off a bit at first was that the number 4 was not used at all. I spent a little time trying to figure out why that was excluded before moving on.

0 = 1
1 = 0
2 = 0
3 = 0
5 = 0
6 = 1
7 = 0
8 = 2
9 = 1
"Starting August 1, these features will be licensed for commercial use, and there is no charge for the first $50K in application revenues. The use of premium features within Adobe AIR, including for mobile applications for iOS and Android, will be royalty free."

This is absolutely appalling. I'm actually kind of shocked, although I really shouldn't be at this point.

Wow. What utter fools. Hey adobe shareholders, fire your BoD and sack your incompetent CEO in your next round of layoffs.

Edit: Sorry for the vitriol, but this kind of gouging is just inexcusable. Especially considering what you're really getting for the money. Udk is already going to run 25% off gross revenue, toss in another 30% for facebook's cut and you're down 55%. Now adobe wants 9% of your remaining revenue? For what, exactly? Opening a few measly APIs to allow the player to actually access the engine that's really doing the heavy lifting? The udk royalty makes sense, it's getting you access to a world class set of dev tools and a fantastic engine. What the fuck is adobe's 9% actually for? The privilege of running your code in a mediocre vm that doesn't even have proper gamepad apis? Fuck.
Most people use ad networks and ad networks generally don't provide a way to get the ads on the server side. That would also be more complicated than sticking an iframe/script tag on the page for the publisher.

If you don't want to use a network, you have to sell the ads direct yourself - which isn't easy.
Indeed. The word criminals would be more accurate and less pejorative.
As far as i know (with my limited knowledge, of course) HTML5 is not going to be able to compete with flash in game development anytime soon. Although BrowserQuest was really fascinating. For guys like me, who are beginners, do you think it is a good time to invest in learning flash/flex/actionscript for mobile game development or is there something better?
Even more simple.. cut in 12 pieces, throw away one and rearrange the pieces.
You mean something like circleup.com? Do keep in mind that the ink on the JOBS act (which regulates small investments) is barely dry, I think it passes just yesterday!
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Yes and no - I'll often note what Autocomplete prompts when I'm doing a search. Negative autocompletes may impact my perception of something when doing a related search (say, "Romanian holidays" and at "Romanian" autocomplete throws up some of the negative terms in the OP).

So it lessens the spread of those negative terms. As you point out, of course, it doesn't change the (far more important) source issue of people believing those stereotypes before going into Google.
Are you sure this is the case? From the Adobe article it seems that after a certain date they will disable hardware rendering for flash games that use both domainMemory and stage3D.

In that case it appears to be that you would only need to sign the swf in case you use/need both of these features. If you do use them both without the signed license it will display a watermark on the debug player and disable hardware (switch to software) rendering on the normal player (an only after a certain date).
yep I couldn't solve that in the first 5 mins and gave up :)

strange how our pattern recognition gets worse with age ... I wonder if prior knowledge actually messes with the pattern recognition functions in the brain somehow ...
Yeah, I've made my living pretty much exclusively on Flash since 2008. Life got significantly easier once I moved away from Adobe's tools to Haxe, and started using as little of their APIs as possible.

I regret my ranty tone of my original post, but I stand by my criticisms of the platform. Flash had solidly won the chicken and egg race for web plugins 10 years ago. Success since then has not been based on technical merit, they've just been coasting.

Only when WebGL was already implemented in a sizeable proportion of browsers did they even bother to put 3D in the platform! Name me another instance where a company has been out innovated by a standards board and maybe I'll retract my point.
I'm in the "higher education" category, yet that puzzle only took me about 2-3min of looking at it... I got briefly red-herringed by digit sums / digital roots looking promising, so spent most of the time thinking about those, but, once I'd found counter-examples, it didn't take long to crack.

That said, the "pre-school children" bit was a big hint as to how to approach it.

The use of '=' instead of, say, '→' made the math pedant in me twitch, though ;)