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With C99 and C11 though, C is becoming larger and less minimal. I'm not sure that argument still applies.
Forbes is just outdoing themselves with the headline bait lately.
Occam's razor says that we should give more credence to the simpler theory, not the more commonsensical one, and I assure you that statistical mechanics is elegant in its simplicity. I hope you don't also go around telling biologists that its absurd that we're descended from Apes, or astronomers that its absurd that the Earth goes around the sun? How about atomic thoery (which Boltzman was an important proponent of)? Unlike the Bible Botzman was working from quantitative theories backed up by scientific experiments. You might say that being a famous scientist is almost the same as being someone who has said things that were regarded as utterly absurd, but which were true.
Hah, was going to write the same comment ("No.")
Sounds like a chronar eclipse.
Is it ever acceptable to make a Java Applet part of an enterprise wide rollout?
Why? Selective education is used in order to focus limited resources on certain people. That isn't really problem online, unless you want to be an ass and restrict people's abillity to improve themselves for no reason.

That's why it's so scary for universities and elites. One of the moral validations for restricting the life chances of certain groups of people has been removed. Others will pop up I'm sure.
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FireYogi, How is this possible? share your thoughts?
Also, from the article:

As long as students who take edX are blocked from the branding and professional networks
that their parents pay so dearly to obtain, such top schools have nothing to fear from giving
away what the teachers are getting paid modestly to deliver.

University teaches a lot more than the course material.
Not necessarily. Companies with high enough growth rates just need a line of sight to break-even to be able to go public. Now, whether you should invest in such companies is another topic entirely.
There's also a media "stamp of approval" effect going on: get cited as an authority once on X by a major publication (CNN, NYT, etc) and you go in everyone's Rolodex for it.

There is at least one reporter at a well-respected news organization who thinks that "Patrick appeared in the NYT and said 'Japan'" makes me an excellent source for coverage of Japanese politics. (Who is the prime minister right now?)
I am compelled to pick the following nits:

"Stuff that is made by hand is hard to make, and even more hard to make well, and tends to be less sturdy than things made by machines."

The last portion of this statement is inaccurate. Hand tools (for example) benefit in terms of usability, durability and quality when hand-made. This is why top end cutlery, wood carving chisels, etc. are typically forged by hand. This also typically applies to furniture.

"How often do you think two plumbers argue over the right way to plumb a bathroom? Almost never!"

Also inaccurate. Clearly the author has never worked in the trades.

"Finally, can you think of any job where people are making really complex things by hand, and which requires a ton of experience and training to be good at, yet everyone and their uncle has an opinion on how long a project should take to get done?"

Pick any form of construction known to man. Budget overruns, issues with building plans, and problems with materials crop up constantly, even with modern building materials and best practices.
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Loved the silence when Mr Reddit discussed his ethical reasons for not investing. It seemed lost on the panel.
I find this to be one of the silliest quotes in the article:

"Forget what you think you know about the benignly geeky computer programmer who lives for the thrill of finding a single misplaced semicolon in thousands of lines of code."

For as long as I've been programming, the art has been about more than syntax. Although, while teaching new programmers, I find one of the biggest barriers learning to program is getting stuck on syntax, and trying to memorize every little syntactical detail. Better to focus on how to create an algorithm.

Perhaps that's why the writer of this article went into journalism rather than programming.
Glad somebody did that. At some point this was a goal for Backbone.localStorage, but I ended up working with other technologies and not being willing to make time for this.

Good work!
This isn't reddit, I think he's being honest here and mentioning it only because it's interesting additional information.
Without knowing the pricing up front, I am not going to sign up for it.
lol. Mine was told to me by a chemist. Did a physicist tell you the APS version? Looking at the APS calendar, they also have no upcoming meetings in Vegas.
Not actual project by author but rather him testing various project others made (which is great)

Anyone up for blogging about his expirience with RubyMotion ?
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Good idea, though general consensus seems to be to put the SSD in the optical bay, and keep the HDD in the main bay, which (at least in Apple laptops) is the only one that supports the sudden-acceleration drop sensor.
edX does more to nudge out no-name schools than prestigious universities - and if anything will likely be a strong revenue generator for top universities going forward.

A few scenarios:

* Would you pay tuition to be taught by [well-meaning] no-name professor Dave at no-name Community U?

* Would you be willing to pay a nominal fee to receive a certificate for edX achievement?

* Would you be more willing to pay for a certificate from Harvard/MIT, or UVA?

The online education trend will act as a channel for the most prestigious schools to capitalize on their brand without diluting their stature. And we'll see them making hand-over-fist money by outcompeting community colleges and other online programs that don't have the weighty reputations.
It's so ridiculous that people always want QA testers to be programmers. My fiance is a fantastic QA tester but has no interest in programming. She interviewed at Twitter, which at the time did not have a single manual QA tester keeping an eye on their products, and they just asked her a bunch of questions about coding. They should have sat her down and asked her to find bugs. No programmer I know has the patience to do what she does manually. She works with a team that makes extensive use of automated testing. But things still slip through, and it's worth it to have a human being looking for issues. Doing everything with manual QA is obviously stupid. But I think the pendulum has swung too far in the other direction as well. Having no manual QA whatsoever seems like a big waste of time for teams that are large enough to afford it.
Be clear on what? your opinion? I think they are very related, as they are both trying to control digital communication, one is in the name of security, the other in the name of piracy. I believe in the end CISPA can be (ab)used to provide the government the same tools as SOPA/PIPA.

At this point we are talking about personal opinions, which no one can really be right, but I am not alone[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Intelligence_Sharing_and_...
The only mistake you've made is submitting this as a comment instead of a blog post as it is clear that you can play these types of arguments out piece by piece on blog posts that will make it to the HN front page.
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It looks good but I rarely visit hackers news' front web-page. I end up getting RSS.
Two nearly-universal truths about users that suggest solutions: they're both rare, and usually wrong. :)

It's more likely that users will state the problem -- such as, "I want to be able to run WoW and BitTorrent at the same time." From there, the software developers would determine the solution (optimization for latency vs. throughput).
Isn't most of the "prestige" of a nobel prize winner normally directed at the university at which they were conducting research (assuming it is an academic heavy field) at the time?
I'm actually surprised it's only ~40% slower (in my Chrome anyway). Considering how much less code it is to maintain, that's totally worth it IMO. I'm sure there are a thousand other functions you'd want to optimize in a real app before this.
More or less, yes. The thing is only being built because Labour managed to make it barely any cheaper to cancel the contracts than to actually build a second, unused & unusable one.
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The article mentions that the customer always thinks it should be done faster or cheaper. I often have the opposite experience. The customer who is completely clueless and has no idea how long things take. I've had customers ask for a link to something and ask if that would be really hard to do. I think it would be really easy for a disreputable programmer to take advantage (and I'm sure many do) of these people.
On the value of collaboration across linux distributions
We've been using a solution/workaround for ages because it was obvious MS was never going to play ball.

Just install ICC (the Intel compiler). It hooks into Visual Studio, is a better compiler for both C and C++ than MSVC, works really well, produces really fast binaries, and does all its magic in the backend. Nothing changes for you, the developer.

It's both free for non-commercial development and paid for commercial dev, which makes perfect sense to me.
"... can solve those same social problems while writing FP code? If we want to avoid object oriented hierarchies and graphs that are interconnected and complected, can we still address the social and nontechnical problems you think OO solves?..."

I believe that's where functional OO languages like OCAML and F# come in. Do your OOAD, then construct the code functionally. Once you realize you're not going to refactor, start grouping into classes. Your OOAD helps drive your data structures out. Actual code and functionality drive your class structure.

But what I'm finding is that both FP and OOP code evolves into a DSL; FP more directly and OOP in a more roundabout manner. If that observation holds up, then what we're really talking about with organizing code is creating layers of DSLs, not tiers of functionality. If that's the case (and it's a big "if") then something like a code budget and insistence on DSLs as a desired end-state might be the best way to balance both scalability (in terms of team size and effort) and complexity.
The reason to attend MIT or Harvard (as an undergraduate) is not to take MIT or Harvard classes. It is to hang out with MIT or Harvard students, have discussions after class with MIT or Harvard undergraduates, grad students, and professors, be challenged by having those people as peers. It is to have an entire network of well connected people all over the globe in the highest reaches of every organization on Earth for free upon graduation. Lastly, (and perhaps least), it is to have a piece of paper that certifies that you are smart and work hard.

Fundamentally, the elite schools are in no danger from these online education initiatives. It is the state schools, community colleges, and for profit schools that are in danger. If a school can't figure out a value add beyond simple education (which the elite schools have had for centuries), that school is in trouble.
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That's an interesting way to look at it, although at that point using the words "startup" and "entrepreneur" are more marketing than anything else.

I think what people object to about this "no idea" idea is the feeling that this is just more control being shifted from founders to the same small group of rich and powerful tech kingmakers.

I don't know how valid that objection is, I guess we'll have to see, but it's likely a good thing for the community to discuss (although I doubt that discussion will happen here all that much).
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This is taken directly from a Metafilter post[1]. In short, it seems the "social security is broke" trope isn't an accurate depiction of reality. The post is lengthier than this snippet, includes plenty of citations, and is worth reading in its entirety.

"Someone just told me that living outside the US for 5 years could disqualify me for Social Security benefits - I told them that I never expected to get them anyway.

It's been said upthread, but this pervasive attitude shows that the rich and their propagandamiesters are winning.

Straight talk on Social Security[2]:

'Here’s what Social Security is not:

- going broke;

- a Ponzi scheme;

- expected to stop paying out benefits in your lifetime;

- bankrupting our nation or future generations.'"

[1] http://www.metafilter.com/115423/My-FaithBased-Retirement#43...

[2] http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/...
Microsoft to C99 developers: don't let the door hit you on your way out. All 10 of you on the Windows platform.
I actually think the conventional wisdom is that ideas are valuable. After all, how often have you told someone an idea and had them tell you to patent it, with the understood implication that you'll somehow be made wealthy just from the idea.

I don't think any of your points really hold water. Even a world in which ideas are worth equally as much as execution would make no sense. I can't fly to work in a picture of a flying car; the execution for new vehicles hasn't gotten any cheaper or there would be more novelty car companies. I can't network with my friends using Diaspora. If execution were so easy, there should be ten decentralized Facebook clones with proper privacy guarantees by now, and there aren't. Spend four hours walking around, wherever you are, and you can find a dozen or more people convinced they have brilliant web ideas they just don't know how to execute. Everyone who can't program is an "idea man." Separating terrible ideas from the rest isn't hard, but without time travel it's impossible to distinguish decent ideas from extraordinary ones.

The Valley is becoming more and more insular and self-referencing. From outside, where I am, it looks to me like a mirror of the setup for the housing bubble, where the value of everything today is zero and the value of everything tomorrow is infinite, so nobody is doing anything today except trading the possibility of doing more and better things tomorrow. An idea or a founder might be worth a lot in this environment right now, but I don't think this situation is sustainable.
True, but he owned the company. That's a pretty huge difference
Well, yes, but like the OP has stated, Amazon is a huge company, doing everything from delivering deodorant to PAAS. My questions are 1) is Amazon Prime profitable and 2) is the Kindle profitable. If they are, then great. If not, what's the justification for keeping them around?
I would add this to the suggested reading list:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAppSec/Secure_Coding_Guidelines
I think a lot of the comments here show that there is a large number of people that are pissed off because they work for a company and feel devalued.

I can identify with this statement and Apple trying to reiterate their core values to new staff. Sure you may not hit the mark 100% of the time, but surely they would have trouble retaining staff if they are lying.

I also think that this whole "Profit Margin" bashing needs to stop. Yes they make large margins, no they don't profit share with most of their staff. It's the way almost every business works.
If you disagree then I encourage you to start your own company and give it a shot rather then shouting abuse from the sidelines.
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Yeah. I think lots of people find HN design perfect the way it is and its hard to move on. Its like another Craiglist, I guess.

Btw: my post gets lots of upvotes -- perhaps someone could design some of the features I mentioned...
>1. He often made more money from the ad-supported free versions of his games rather than the paid versions.

Besides being just one account, that might as well be because, well, his paid versions didn't sell that well at all?
While I agree with most of your points (though it's also possible to imagine ways around them), it seems a bit much to say that the classes themselves are not a very large part of the value these institutions offer.
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We are pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Email for .NET 1.7.0. This month’s release provides support for the creation of TNEF message files, setting Appointment’s time zone information from an instance of System.TimeZoneInfo and detects Outlook message type using the MapiMessage class. An important enhancement has been made so that the MHTML renderer includes the embedded images as well as the email header in the output. We have also fixed some issues regarding embedded images, encoding, attachments for EML to MSG conversion. The main new and enhanced features added in this release are listed below

•	Appointment.SetTimeZone() now accepts an instance of TimeZoneInfo
•	Supported creation of TNEF message
•	Added a property in MapiMessage class to detect the Outlook message type
•	Enhanced the component to retain the Sender Address formaat if it is not in Smtp format
•	MHT format can now include Email headers as well as Embedded images
•	Updated links in Offline Documentation
•	Embedded images appear as regular attachments when processed by Aspose.Email is now fixed is this release.
•	Saving mail message as .msg file corrupts original attachment file name is fixed
•	Appointment request when received, adds an hour to start and end times is fixed
•	Setting the Appointment Time Zone to "America/New_York" adds an hour to time is now fixed
It looks like Hipster Ipsum:

http://hipsteripsum.me/
In the worst possible scenario, edX may nibble at the edges of the Harvard Extension school enrollment.
Have you read the amended CISPA bill that the House passed? Could you point to something in it that leads you to believe that it provides any of the tools of SOPA? I know these discussions get contentious, but, respectfully, I don't see any mechanisms in CISPA that would enable the government to "control" anything. The bill literally does nothing but provide a mechanism for potentially private information to be shared; it is explicitly opt-in, meaning Reddit can't be forced to share anything under the terms of CISPA. There is no sneaky clause in it anywhere that would enable the government to, say, shut off an Internet connection, or turn off a DNS name.

I bring this up because there has been a lot of very terrible reporting on CISPA alleging all of these things; from what I can see, that reporting squares up with no version of CISPA that has ever been submitted.

If your primary source of information about CISPA is, say, Cory Doctorow, then of course I can understand why you think it might negatively impact Facebook to support CISPA. But Doctorow appears to be flatly wrong about CISPA.

Finally, that Wikipedia section is a hodgepodge (tracking opinions on evolving current events is not something Wikipedia excels at). It would be easy to get the wrong idea from that list, because many of those sources are discussing multiple different bills and weren't written or intended as coherent oppositions to CISPA.
Yeah. Curious why PYTHON_BIN is required. I'd rather just have it use whatever python points to by default.
This is a great new tool! Thank you very much, HN was one of the ugliest sites I visit daily :)

I guess it's true though, Content IS King.
Brains, per se, don't require any sort of environment. If your head was somehow teleported into interstellar space it would take tens of milliseconds for the nerve impulses indicating that everything was not all right to be acquired and processed, and your consciousness would probably last for seconds beyond that.

The horror of the Boltzman Brain idea is that the vast majority of the conscious beings that will ever exist will be created in environments that cannot support them, and will promptly go insane and/or die.
Since this is my specialty, I figured I'd put my 2cents in on hacker news, and repost it on stack overflow later. So to begin some tools that you should use for testing your code:

Burp tool suite (Pen Testing)
BackTrack Linux Distro (has all kinds of tools, wont go into them, but download and it can be used to really cause havoc on your apps)

These tools allow you point programs towards your application and see if they are vulnerable to any kind of attacks, including XSS and SQL Injection (among a lot of others)

Engineers should also read the OWASP site, which has the OWASP top ten. It also has other tips and tricks about how to secure against different attacks. If you ever have a security question, this site has a lot of secure examples for different code.

As the top comment on stack overflow says, never trust your users. That means never allow your users to do things that you don't want them to. If you allow them to deviate from the structure of your program in any sense, someone will find a way to abuse the privilege. This is the key to good security.

Some Tips I'll give you:
1 ) Validate all input
2 ) Control Access to everything
3 ) Use secure application keys to ensure that people can spoof requests from different browsers
4 ) Use Multi Factor Authentication whenever its possible
5 ) Never ever pass any values from the server that should leave to the client. Even if it is hashed, I can break it using tools. Valuable data = Server side Public Data = Client safe

If you have any other questions, feel free to post them and I'll try my best to answer them or find you an answer.
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>I have to say, having stared in to the abyss of large Haskell code bases, they're not necessarily easier to read than a large Java code base.

Actually a Haskell oneliner can be more challenging that a large Java code base.
I agree. And it seems a bit hypocritical to be coming from a company that expects higher prices for their products because of the work they have put into it. Why should the employees not expect the same for their time?
I'll take the bait (not implying that you are trying to troll).

The difference now is CISPA gets the government involved. Up until now, yes, FB has had a relaxed attitude toward user data when it comes to the law. However, I and many others, believe the government and via proxy the MPAA and RIAAs of the world will now have access to this data and it will be misused and abused all in the name of CISPA and with authority.
And "librarian" covers a whole lot of ground. Here is the UConn list of job families:
http://www.hr.uconn.edu/employment_services/ucpea_salary.htm...

A person you or I would call a librarian can be classed anywhere from UCP V to UCP X, which covers a salary range of $40k to $110k.
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This is terrible news. I got to work with Chuck Moore in grad school. I was a PhD student when he was a senior member of our research group. At the time he'd already led the design of IBM's Power4, the first multicore processor.

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/mercurynews/obituary.aspx?n...
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Clever! Didn't realize you could reuse the element.
made me chuckle, thanks.
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