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The Promise of Computer-Based Instruction
Nokia Lock Code : Security Master Code Calculator for Nokia Mobile Phones
nice, i've been using Flowchart.com which offers real time collaboration too!
Google's Punchd wants to replace loyalty cards with an app
LinkedIn competitor BranchOut, a Facebook app hits 25 Million users
> off_t is signed and doesn't make sense

Wrong, it's used to seek in both directions in calls where direction is signed by... a sign!

http://www.unix.com/man-page/POSIX/3posix/lseek/
The Promise of Computer-Based Instruction

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3862903

Imagine a responsive system that negotiates the route between your present-state knowledge and skills and your (or your school’s or your job’s…) learning goals. Such a system requires a profile of your current knowledge and skills, a map of the declarative and procedural knowledge and skills that fulfill the learning goals, and a logic engine to reconcile the two.
No. If the discrete exchange makes it possible to withdraw an offer in between ticks, then the HFT guys would do that every tick - so you actually wouldn't get a price (or you'd get a very wide spread), and it would basically fail to be an exchange. So let's assume any order you have on the book stays there until the next tick's auction. In that case the HFTers are going to give a much higher spread, because if new information comes in at 3.2s and the stock is suddenly worth more than it was at 3s, but they can't withdraw their sell order until 4s, then obviously they lose money. So occasionally you'd get a better price on the discrete exchange (when the market moves further than the spread in the space of one tick) - but the HFTers would be terrified of this situation, and make their spreads wide enough that they think it's impossible. So 99% of the time, you'd get a worse price.
Review of iOS 5 Essentials
With iOS 5, Apple introduced over 200 new features. http://en.sdjournal.org/iphone-apps-apple-store-or-homemade-412/
Toronto's dingleberry mayor releases $2 graffiti-reporting app
Thanks, this is a pretty cool resource. I haven't come across this before...
>"Specifically, we think that JavaScript has been injected into your site by a third party and may be used to redirect users to malicious sites"

Funny, there was just a discussion here yesterday asking "Why would anybody use NoScript?"
No. Never lie - first of all, this is a compromise on your personal integrity that is now compromised. This is a very high cost, even for a little compromise such as getting a j ob you know you can learn to do.

Second, once you you have lied to get a job because you know you could do something skill relatd within a few weeks time, what else will you lie about? To yourself, to your co-workers or your boss?

I think very few people start out lying at a large scale. They start small and build on each success and the more compromises they make the easier it is to compromise just a little bit more next time.
The Most Annoying Android Apps
Zuckerberg Kept Instagram Negotiations Secret From Facebook...
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ASN.1 is a ludicrously complicated format for what it does.

Its designers added all sorts of ways to save a few bits here and there by creating optional special cases to be handled in the encoders and decoders.

This makes complicated code with lots of edge cases for bugs to hide in, Cisco SNMP implementations were notoriously savaged by this. Ironically, it also requires lots of branches which slow down modern processors more than just reading the bits.

Fortunately most uses of ASN.1 have died. SNMP and SSL are still using it. It's not 1984 anymore, let it die.
Really is an Open Web still plausible? In the beginning the web was 'Open' however, as companies become involved in for-profit ventures...isn't the closing of the web almost akin to natural evolution?

Part of the problem is it's border-less-nature but I can't help but feel that the only reason the internet is appearing to no longer be 'Open' is simply because we are finally coming into a point where companies aren't still in the adoption phase (ie. 90's). Instead the evolution is leading the web into a series of closed walls...but is that necessarily 'incorrect & unwanted'?

I suppose the real issue however has to do with the way the internet connects, and property / patent rights, than so much it becoming clusters of kingdoms. Clusters would be fine, as long as the 'core' of how the internet is engineered stays open source.
How to build a startup is a solved problem
haha, nice comment from Jeff Barr in that article

We’re excited to see that you are excited about our excitement over our exciting series of releases.
If we change to another adjective, the only logical post title would be “Amazon is no longer excited.” And that wouldn’t be too exciting now, would it?
Let's all get back to work and get shit done. No more worrying about other people's schedules or what they're doing. We're spending to much time worrying about other folks and their personal business.

Let's all just agree to "get shit done". If you're working with someone who doesn't "get shit done" fire them, have your boss fire them... get rid of them. However, let's not use their time in the office as that metric.

New mantra for our "culture": Get Shit Done or GTFO.

Everything else distracts from productivity.
How Google manages employee eating habits
Currently, we did not work a lot on reducing the size of the generated JavaScript code nor the memory usage.
There are definitely huge potential gains in that space, and we planned to focus on this once we have the Node.js backend: Benefits will be doubled.
Study suggests teamwork boosts intelligence
Doing so would possibly violate consumer laws in the US as well. To nullify a warranty, you have to be able to prove that whatever modification the user made could be directly tied back to the failure. Very unlikely HP would be able to prove that installing Ubuntu caused a hardware failure.

Then again, ExtremeTech isn't known for well-though-out journalism. The "turmoil" in HP has never been around their server division, in fact HP's previous claim was that they could drop the PC division to focus on servers. Proliant buyers would not be concerned about the future of HP's infrastructure department.
Nokia making £1bn loss, can't see any light at the end of tunnel
This is largely theoretical but still.

Smart programming languages have bignum integers and seamless promotion between fixnum and bignum versions.
Thus they avoid the issue completely, no stupid casts (especially casts which change both signedness and size), no overflows, no nothing, just an integer length.

It's a perfect world and everyone should try to achieve it.

C is not such programming language, with the closest approximation being uintmax_t.

size_t is of course enough in practice.
Could this be used maliciously to, say, gain access or control of an affected system, or to subvert certificate checking? Or is crashing the process that's using OpenSSL the worst it could do?
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I guess this data can only for personal use but not public. Am I right?
Well, no; there's two problems now. The first one is that your browser will handle click events on invisible and near-invisible layers. The second one is that your browser will allow click events to flow through opaque and near-opaque layers.
It's good to see this coming. However I don't understand the price structure some vendors are offering. Take Zend Server(below is the link) as an example, why should they charge a lot more on high-memory/high-cpu instance? Is it because the incurred traffic or usage is much higher? How does this compare to setup your own server but buy server license from them.

https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B0078UB5X6/ref=gtw_msl...
Others have raised the issue of client side rendering causing issues with search engines. By putting it so prominently on the website, it does make it seem as though it is the intended use.

Watching the screencast, you can see how a static .html file is generated.

I find it odd that he talks about client side rendering so much on the site and then presents a screencast that doesn't really portray Punch as rendering things in that way. I would like to see a demo video showing how Punch can offer me interesting ways to use client side rendering to make my site better.

Rather confusing, but interesting nonetheless.
Really? Because this issue is marked wontfix: http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-4763

I've noticed that to the extent JetBrains communicates at all, it has a highly irritating habit of marking issues wontfix and making content-free statements (sometimes passive aggressive at that) until they get publicly called on it, and suddenly it's a completely different attitude.
Logging Client Side Javascript Errors
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I like mixergy.com, pud.com (just found that today!), steveblank.com, sahillavingia.com, jasonlbaptiste.com, thinkvitamin.com, zachholman.com, sirupsen.com - and many more (I just scrolled through my twitter feed :))
Metric Driven Development Fueled by StatsD and Graphite
[slowly]

off_t is wrong for maintaining length because off_t is signed and lengths are fundamentally unsigned.

Signed offset is OK for seeking.
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One advantage of the image-based model of the AWS marketplace is that you can support nearly any type of product and multiple operating systems, so you can adapt existing products rather than have to write your app specifically for AppEngine
Great, now I can't unhear the announcement in Droopey's voice.
Unscientific data point:Two weeks after playing this game,my chess rating improved by 70 points.I had tanked for close to six months
It's a really nice way to represent your Facebook Timeline. The key would be on "how to arrange the pins" - based on time OR based on popularity factors like comments,likes etc.
The Agile Software Development Manifesto
could somebody explain why Amazon has the US only issue, while apple appstore goes worldwide almost from day one?
I've been using it since the early days (by that I mean IBM PC/DOS). The paragraph you quote does not represent anything I have ever experienced with any version of the product.
Europe agrees to send airline passenger details to US
I'd also add the often-overlooked Management and Leadership skills as-well. So many people have everything else, but don't have these valuable abilities and that is why 90% of people will find themselves in lead position rather than a director position.

...Not that their is anything wrong with a lead position it has it's time and place; but when it's time to move up to a director-esque position; you really need to show you can handle the responsibility of others.
Can someone please explain to me the advantage of NOT having a single window display in an application such as this? I'm being serious here by the way ...

I remember when I tried GIMP many years ago. I had many little windows scattered across my desktop, and as soon as I misclicked on my background I'd suddenly lose focus of the app and all the sub-windows (toolbar, layers, etc) would disappear.

I either had to run my mouse back to the image's window or alt-tab back to the app to regain focus.

I found this incredibly terrible as a UI approach, but found no resources explaining why this is a good thing.
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I'm glad the original quote is also in the article:

"I believe Android was very important for Google. I wouldn't say it was critical"

The title makes it sound as if Page wouldn't consider Android that important.
$4,829-per-hour supercomputer built on Amazon cloud to fuel cancer research
Good point. We will add that
It's already there https://github.com/buchin/ci-bootstrap
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Carsabi points the way forward for buying a used car online
Oh, right. I read some comments below and figured that it takes JSON and dynamically renders the template client-side, which seems very unnecessary. Why not just generate HTML? Does Jekyll work that way too?
I'm not sure if discoverability is as important as it used to be for RSS. Nowadays you can simply input the URL of the site into your RSS reader and it'll find the feed.

When it comes to Facebook and Twitter, my guess is that RSS doesn't accomplish what those services are made for. As they have evolved, the reverse chronological posting has become less important.

Plus, if you were Twitter, how would you want people to consume those tweets? Would you rather get them immediately or several minutes later in a format that has no context in the world of Twitter?

With that being said, I think RSS still plays a role in consolidating and consuming news in a central location. But it should be up to the site designers/developers to offer an easy way to "subscribe" to that site (via email or RSS).
Google Apps Marketplace is for Google Apps -- customizable versions of various Google products. Nothing to do with App Engine.
In the case of Firefox, their user study indicated that very few people used it (https://heatmap.mozillalabs.com/)
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It'd be nice if this article was generic enough it could be applied to almost anyone.
Yeah, that and SEC Rule 612 (no subpenny prices, as the article mentions) both make bucketing sensible. Have a (1s,$0.01) granularity and HFT pretty much goes away, the National Best Bid/Offer makes sense again, and flash crashes only happen once a decade. If regulators actually cared about about market stability, they'd be pushing for something like that...

The London Metals Exchange - being an outlier as always - has gone for a different approach: they throttle traffic to 40 actions/client/second and smooth it out over as many seconds as necessary - so a 10,000 quote burst will be smeared over 4 minutes... good luck trying to manipulate the market with that, HFT boys.
TL;DR if you want to build a billion dollar business, build a social network.

Disappointingly thin article. 'Social' is not some magical key to the big bucks. There are no magical keys, and those who preach them are false prophets.

Why are Gaia online, 4chan and reddit not billion dollar business? 'Social' is just but one in a myriad of competitive advantages a business can build up.
I've known Handel-C and Mitrion-C. I've used both. IMO, the former is not-so-bad, and the latter is just academic poppycock.
I suppose. But it's not my one shot. It's the company owner's. I would much rather tell my grandkids about what it takes to be a successful business owner and show them that it is possible to make it on your own.

I've been a part of a few multi-million dollar companies. My code made it possible. But, if I wasn't there, someone else would have made it happen.
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It is not a scornful sentiment, it is the same appreciation that you are referring to. Just like computing 2+2 is not the same as theoretical mathematics and creativity in mathematics, finding a game that is not computer reducible is an aspect of beauty in the game that is not present in chess because it is reducible. edit: seems that go programs are quite advanced and may overtake human players as well, though the methods are a bit different from chess
Yes, hence the word 'but' between those two statements
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Intel reportedly expects shipments of 20-30M ultrabooks in 2012
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CSS4? Where was I? and When??
Upvoted.

"Real time. You keep using that phrase. I do not think it means what you think it means."
It's useful to be able to put your tools on one monitor, and maximize the image on the other.
I'm back from Spotify to buying mp3s from amazon.de and then upload them to Google Music.

Spotify was great for a while. But not only are there huge gaps in the library. The worst thing is when suddenly a few songs in your favorite playlist are greyed out, and when you click on them it says "not available in you country anymore".

Spotify is 10 EUR/month. If I buy a new album each month, then that's still a lot of music. And I can keep it forever.
Nice work.. I didn't expect it to be so responsive. Almost feels like using a desktop application.
I don't understand the appeal of the multi-windows. I use GIMP at home and I often have multiple images open and find the tool windows disappear on me. It's frustrating. What's overrated about the single window interface and what draws you to multi window mode?
I guess it could be. If the browser vendors implemented such a feature.
Funny, I think this mentality applies to entrepreneurs as well. On one hand, you have to give the aura you're doing good. On the other, you have to be vicious and be a grey hat if you wish to thrive.
They say they'll ship 100,000 units in the next 10 or so weeks.

How are they refusing to meet demand?
and, hopefully, finally... a last bit of clarification : approximately 1/3 of these infamous and now deleted "300 comments" to "Marone's" KS were actually made by David "Lefty" Schlesinger aka 'stonemirror', and are substantially identical to those you read in this comment thread. "Marone" and Schlesinger have an allegedly intimate relationship that also involves heavy financial support of "Marone" by Schlesinger, who is quite wealthy ie he is her 'sugar daddy.'
I think it's safe to say RSS cooked into browsers had its chance and was thoroughly rejected. (And I say that as someone who loves RSS.)

What more could browser makers have done to encourage RSS? Technophiles love it, but the mass market rejected it.

For all intents and purposes, Twitter is a simpler, more intuitive form of RSS for the layperson.

As long as tools like Google Reader exist for those of us who do use RSS, I'm not worried. And if Google kills Reader, it will probably usher in a new renaissance of feed readers that are currently non-existent because of Google's ads-funded largesse.

RSS is now too important to too many people to just die.
A lot of us get those emails from amazon.com, like the one this morning, "Introducing AWS Marketplace -- Find and Buy Software that Runs on the AWS Cloud". This is great, but I have a friend who likes reading about these but doesn't want to launch servers. Is there some way people can subscribe to the Amazon AWS mailing list without creating an AWS account?
To get an idea of which packages may be affected (try different functions for more results):

https://github.com/search?q=d2i_X509_bio&type=Code

http://www.koders.com/default.aspx?s=d2i_X509_bio

Examples of impacted software include Android, Apache HTTPd (mod_ssl)[1] and Ruby. To reiterate what you've already stated elsewhere in this discussion, software shouldn't have a need to call these functions to validate certificates provided by remote clients. Users of email clients making heavy use of S/MIME and administrators managing PKI (signing, revoking, etc) may need to apply caution.

[1] See line 99 at https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/trunk/modules/ssl/... where Apache tries to load a PEM formatted certificate. If this fails, Apache tries loading the file as a DER+Base64 formatted certificate or as a last resort, just DER (both which use the vulnerable d2i_X509_bio function). Given that the PEM format is the standard that most Apache administrators are using and injection of vulnerable certificates and keys usually requires root permissions, Apache/mod_ssl users can probably treat this vulnerability as a non-issue.
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Lots of new Coursera classes throughout 2012 posted
Looks great. I´d love to have that REPL as a buffer in vim. "Search, search".
I love Ambrose Bierce :)

PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.

PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.
GIMP's multi-window interface is excellent when you have multiple monitors. Couple that with a good window manager and it's a lot better (IMO) than a single window with tools and other dialogs inside.
Double click on the edge (or any cell) to edit the text. In this case, just remove it.
Boards for high-end FPGAs like that are not cheap to make yourself either (needs like 6 layers or more, because they have SO MANY densely packed pins + you need one or two layers to feed its gratuitous hunger for power), so you'll probably end up having to buy some ready-to-use solution that probably quadruples that price...
Similar to ichilton, Ubuntu has better package maintenance and it's easier to find something on The Google if things break.
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Should you make lines longer than 80 chars?
Try to check SystemC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SystemC).
I'd say that he is seeing the physical representation of a border, the border itself being, of necessity, infinitely thin, and therefore very difficult to observe even when fairly close.
The first python in your path would run the script.
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#8 is covered in other comments: relying on hover;

#9: Annoying position-fixed advertisement that obscures part of your "article".

But your pedagogical technique is sound: illustrate bad web design by designing your website badly, so we can see what not to do.
Circuit lab (https://www.circuitlab.com/) is pretty good too.
I really like the ongoing Crypto course - it will be interesting to see how they implement classes in disciplines like healthcare or history.
But obviously they are making good use of their recently raised $16m [1]
[1]http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3857184
Since people can lie, Enforcing the "can you work here" problem at the border is not the correct way to handle this situation. It should be enforced at the moment of employment.
The Founder of the Web Wants to Protect You From the Web
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I run Facebook Disconnect and it makes the web much nicer, this demo is non-functional with it.
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This isn't working for me in Safari. It does work in Chrome, however, and it looks good!
If it was a culture you would not get paid to do it, just like no one gets paid to be Italian.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Shore_(TV_series)
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Google docs does have drawing tools. Insert > Drawing...
> now 90% of the work is done

Which presumably leaves the other 90% to finish.
Or on the flip-side, you just can't trust Aunt flow to interpret that diagram correctly.
Hey do you guys plan on sharing how you did this? I'm particulary interested in those tweaks you mentioned about to make the stream work. I have some ideas for my news feed but could get off the ground.
Yes. That's precisely why I chose it as my example. One of the major themes in my post was statements to the effect of "you need functional programming languages to do X" often being mistaken, so that detail makes Hadoop a rather poignant case.
> how much code is there in the world?

How much of that code really ought to have been written in the first place?

We could have a better-functioning civilization if most people who start to suffer delusions of programming were simply given Welfare.
The average user doesn't care if their phone is "open" or not.

Having a walled garden is beneficial to 99% of the users.

"open" mobile devices (even though they really aren't that open) benefits some developers and users.