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BCPL = the programming language that became C.

GP2X = open-source handheld gaming platform from a few years back.

EDSAC = one of the first programmable computers ever made, upon which the very first video game was programmed: XOX, a game of naughts and crosses. (This fact was referred to culturally in the movie "Wargames"..)

Having an EDSAC in my pocket was definitely a Nerd moment, and you are forgiven. It is extremely Nerdy.

Now: Want to Play a Game (of XOX)? ;)
That certainly makes sense. But hopefully, since he is in some sense a public figure, we rely on him to make sure the good done is in excess of any damage caused, since he would be censured if that were not the cases. For example, if he had got students to break into museums and make actual changes to historical documents with bleach and ink, he'd make the cons more believable but the harm would be too great.

I don't think he did cross that line though. Some solutions if he did: what if he escrowed (and set a time to release) the pranks in case they aren't caught? What about donating to wikipedia, since it's their green they are mainly playing rugby on?
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Thanks. Would be great if anyone else has anything to add. Have been looking into this for a while and this has been very useful.
I bet if GM made more sociable* cars, they would pay a lot MORE to advertise on FB. I'm not saying they should be making sociable cars: I'm just saying GM doesn't necessarily have much overlap with a social experience like facebook. (Neither do loads of other necessary products, like toiletry items, apartments and houses, insurance, etc etc etc.)

Lots of products (and services, experiences like Disneyland or baseball tickets, a local bar, etc) are still very social by their very nature, and a much better match for facebook advertising.

Note: I say this as someone who doesn't know anything.

* http://www.thefreedictionary.com/sociable, definition 2
"Fragmentation allows users to take their pick from thousands of devices."

This person doesn't understand WTF fragmentation is.
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you would need to spend 6 months programming
before you could look at RangeCheck

Except that's sunken cost for education that's paid only once. You also need 12 years to go through high-school and another 3 years to get a BS.

RangeCheck is as trivial as counting your fingers. Counting reliably is learned in the first year of primary school, does that mean that counting isn't trivial because it took a year to learn?
This is a failure of Google to implement a forward-thinking license.
Yes, I can relate to that but I think the quaint imagery of a village green does not nearly capture the insiduousness of this. He enourages his students to do their best to make the hoax work. Deleting the lies later, while laudable, does not undo the real (intended?) damage to the reputation of the internet.

I really struggle to think of positive educational outcomes from teaching students to pull off successful disinformation exploits.
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> let's just say laywercat suggests that I don't put it in writing.

LaYWercats are actually werecats (->lycanthropy) who also happen to be laymen. They give terrible legal advice which is unfortunate as they are often confused with lawyercats.
Hijacked? Been around a long time to start trolling now.
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> Since moving inside Europe is really simple, I'd urge anybody curious to take a shot and stay here for a while.

Not everywhere in the EU, I moved to Denmark almost two years ago, and I am completely sure that the Danish system was designed to keep people out of their border. Simple tasks like open a bank account are a troublesome for even EU citizens
Disappointing post. I was expecting a graph of the dozens (or more) versions of "Android" running around on devices that are being sold today.

I'm tired of seeing "Android" cited as a single OS in all kinds of statistics, when in fact it's a pile of proprietarily hacked OSes with a common heritage.
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Looks good. I always thought the Square dongle looked a bit flimsy. This looks much more professional.

On the other hand, what the fuck is with that name? iZettle? What's a zettle when it's at home?
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The contrarian opinion is refreshing but the fact is that Microsoft does not own any of the platforms that emerged in the past 10 years, maybe with the exception of game consoles, which is a rather fleeting business.
>I've also heard a lot of start-up people hang out in Sankt Oberholz (http://www.sanktoberholz.de/?lang=en), but I have no personal experience on that one.

Coming from Tallinn to see Berlinale in February, I had a misfortune of not having a desk in my hotel room during my stay there. Thankfully, St. Oberholz was just around the corner. I spent most most of the days working there and met many great people from artists and art curators to programmers and entrepreneurs, and it seemed that about third of visitors came from Denmark/Sweden/Iceland and the US/Canada. As much I could gather, Oberholz was the place were tech people could work when they didn't have a office space for themselves or wanted some rest from their primary offices. The place is overcrowded most of the time so you don't have a luxury for your own private table, and more often than not, you'll have to ask for a place at someones table. They also provided almost decent wifi, which really isn't really the norm for the majority of places in Berlin.

On the broader perspective, Berlin is a great city with a good vibe attached to it, and I have been thinking of moving there for a while now.
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Speaking of Reddit, People on HN often jab them when they discipline others for violating community norms, as in "This isn't Reddit. Please keep on topic."

Not once have I seen the Reddit jab helpful. I've only seen it superfluous and petty. I like people saying "Please keep on topic," but why jab another community? I don't even use Reddit.

I say this hoping it helps people simply remind others of this community's norms without needlessly jabbing others.
How many in [the group under discussion] are contractors vs employees?

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If youre going to use a Japanese keyboard, why not go all the way and use Kanji in your code also? Instead of (courtesy of Wikipedia)...

def create_set_and_get(initial_value=0) # Note the default value of 0
closure_value = initial_value
return Proc.new {|x| closure_value = x}, Proc.new { closure_value }
end

...we could write (excuse my Chinese)...

做 创_去_和_来(先_值=0)
闭_值 = 先_值
回 程.新 {|x| 闭_值 = x}, 程.新 { 闭_值 }
终

Oh look: all the "words" are a single character each! Why not get rid of all those silly grammar symbols in between them (just like in Chinese and Japanese writing)...

做创去和来(先值=0)
闭值=先值
回程新{|x|闭值=x},程新{闭值}
终

Now there's tons of whitespace on the righthand side, so why not make it all a single line, with spaces instead of newlines...

做创去和来(先值=0) 闭值=先值 回程新{|x|闭值=x},程新{闭值} 终

A lot terser! Makes all the talk about semicolons and underscores sound a little silly to some people, doesn't it?
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> Simple tasks like open a bank account are a troublesome for even EU citizens

Could you give some details of that?
Yes, you could do it that way. Personally I'd restrict the error code to always be an int, which makes for a terser syntax as you don't need the second template parameter.

You could also extend it to support multiple non-error return values, like Python does. But this introduces problems with expressing the contract between caller and called (e.g. [1]) and I think the best way to address this might be to extend the language syntax.

I think one of the most interesting design choices in Go is that it intentionally omits conventional exceptions. It does have defer/panic/recover [2] though.

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The automatic dereferencing in "pointerToStruct.foo" might have to loop until it arrives at a struct. I think such a loop would be unique in C, but I don't feel it'd make C any higher level.

Similar in concept: &function and function are the same. If you have a fixed-size array: ary, &ary and ary[0] are the same when passing them into a function.

Then there are all the other numeric conversions, where "unsigned" is a common trap, and truthiness.

Even if most conversions are trivial, I wouldn't call C a very explicit language. Compared to what?
see this previous discussion for keyboard/programming stats: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2973776

Especially the methodology I used then to compare Finnish/Swedish and US layouts seems similar to his.
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I assume it's supposed to sound like "settle"
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We should start a movement to persuade everyone to learn logical fallacies. Then we'll get some other guy begging everyone to stop following the fad and not learn logical fallacies. After that, we'll get a third guy writing a response saying the other guy is wrong. Finally, we'll get a lot of people illogically applying logical fallacies, and we'll get them then!

Seriously, understanding of logical fallacies seems to be in very short supply around HN. If I didn't know any better I would think I'm over at Reddit.
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It's not a jab. It's just different community norms. HN wouldn't be HN if people were allowed to open up 10-level nested comedy threads. If I want to read those - and sometimes I do - I know I can go to Reddit.
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Well what's wrong with people having a passing interest in it learning it?

His example seems to be more him having a bone to pick with Mayor Bloomberg. Maybe, having a mayor that extols the virtue of learning something will help improve student absenteeism. Who knows?
> The Control key is in a far more comfortable position below the Tab key, where caps lock would be on a traditional keyboard

Well, there's tradition and there's tradition... Traditional Unix systems usually had ctrl there, and the old Symbolics/"MIT space cadet" keyboard actually had what I believe is the equivalent of backspace ("rub out") in that location. The modern location of caps lock seems to be a PCism.

Edit: Forgot to mention, notably even the Apple II and III had ctrl there, I don't think Apple switched to the "modern" layout until the Mac:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/suburbia_org_uk/4820757193/

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/Apple_III_Keyboar...
As someone that doesn't like facebook, I find this a very useful feature.

I rarely ever check facebook, don't have it on my phone, don't get their e-mails, etc, but haven't deleted it just yet because maybe there are some people from my past that I don't communicate with that I might like to some day.

People who are on facebook all the time don't understand that not everyone who has an account will always see their messages, and even though I've repeatedly told family members to e-mail me, they still try to send me messages.

This feature would help people to realize that I'm not actually reading facebook messages on a regular basis.

People that want to contact me, know how to contact me. Family members.. well they're not always the brightest bunch.
To open bank account in Germany you must be a resident or have a work/student visa. The Czech Republic will let anyone open a bank account however, but double check. Just some things I learnt last time I was in Europe on a tourist visa.
Bittorrent is not a very effective protocol for streaming video. It's unlikely that it works in video tags and even if it did, it would not provide a very good user experience. Maybe in ideal conditions.

Bittorrent does not download files sequentially from the beginning to the end, but it grabs a piece here, a piece there. This way it can achieve greater availability and faster transfers for everyone.
First article says "terrorists covet it". That's pretty lame of it.
The last sane comment was made 589 days ago. The account was probably hijacked.
Wow. English really is a broken language. Thanks for the fix. I'll leave my comment as-is for posterity.
I think the closest to your idea would be upscaling.
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One thing that may not be too familiar to the Americans, but this looks a lot sturdier (read:larger) because it isn't a swiper like Square. It is a chip reader, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_and_PIN
England had a literacy rate of 62% around 1800, so no, it was not reasonable for some people not to learn to read 200 years ago.

The American Revolution was spread through pamphlets passed out at the local tavern. Newspapers played a major role in educating the people about the Revolution and passing around the text of the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and Constitution, so no, it was not reasonable for some people not to learn to read 200 years ago.

By the way, if Gutenberg's Printing Revolution made the written word so cheap that pamphlets could be handed out to as many people as possible, I don't think there would have been many who could not afford books 200 years ago. If there were many who didn't use the reading skill much, then there wouldn't have been all the hoopla over the Stamp Act the British imposed on the American colonies. You sorta need to know how to read to make any use of stamps 200 years ago.

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Display advertising has actually overtaken search advertising in revenue, and it is continuing to grow at a faster rate. This is why Google bought Doubleclick.

The US online ad market today is $32B. Growing at 8-12% per year (some estimate 25%) this year.

What is happening is old display advertising dollars are moving online, and it is happening a lot quicker than anybody thought it would. Online will overtake print this year (print will continue to shrink 8-10% p.a). TV is worth about $60B per year. Local ad spending is being hurt the most and is also the largest, bringing in around $140-160B per year.

So the trends are old advertising money moving into online. Online making up 20% of all ad spending last year to forecast ~35% next year. Print and local shrinking, and within online advertising display advertising is now larger and growing quicker than search advertising.

Knowing these trends, adapt this back to working out the companies that stand to gain. Facebook currently has the most time spent online for any website. It will be the largest display advertising inventory pool. People are no longer reading magazines, or newspapers or flicking through the Yellow Pages but rather they are spending a lot more time on the web. Spending a lot more time on the web for most average people, at the moment, means spending time on Facebook.

Being bullish on Facebook, i'd much rather that they be in the position of dominating user time and having a shitty ad product, than having a great ad product and losing user time.

Search advertising may be a lot more efficient and profitable, but display advertising is still king. It is a lot easier to create display advertising inventory than it is for search. Google moving into display advertising is all you need to know.

Facebook can fix the ad product and experiment with it over time, finding a way to best adapt those offline dollars to online display advertising. Building a site with a bilion users and a pretty good moat is a lot more difficult.
They also started looking at content above the fold and also monitor request time vs page loaded time for a while.
I think it's great that Google is starting to monitor the user experience. It will keep people from building Javascript bloated sites that don't respond well.

I hope this isn't becoming a trend, but lately I see a lot of responsive sites that don't respond to user input. Maybe a little force from Google will stop this trend.
> bureaucracy is ten years behind Finland. You still need to visit an office to get anything done instead of doing things over the browser

I found this to be the case when moving to Finland; the amount of bureaucracy needed to get started as a foreigner, even one from the EU, is insane (from a British perspective).

- register with tax office

- register with KELA (you'd think registering as a taxpayer would be sufficent; but no)

- register with the Maistratti (um...)

- register with police station (hey, I've just given my address details to the tax office, KELA, and Maistratti, but let's waste another half a day in a police station in middle of nowhere, Espoo).

But whatever, glad to be doing my part to support the National Bureaucrat Jobs Program.
So these students failed. A new batch will be back next year, and they'll not slip up this way - they could well be creating wikipedia aliases already in preparation for taking the course later, for example, or using other collaborative sources.

The key thing is that reddit hasn't just saved us. It hasn't just demonstrated you cannot put out bias and falsehood on the Internet. Its just whacked a mole because the students were, well, students.
Releasing two days earlier or later doesn't imply loss/gain of market share. Practically nobody buys mobile phones on a horizon of days.

Thus, if we do suppose that Android was accelerated two days, the benefit wasn't $6 million - it was having that money in hand a little earlier. The interest on $3 million for a day at 7% pa is $575/day - or $1725 total. Or less money than it costs Oracle's counsel to sneeze.
I was applying for a marketing position and I got a response 100% of the times.

I am not suggesting this is the best way to go for a development position. But the principle is the same - you have to stand out.
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The problem with this name is that there are several possibilities for pronouncing it... a German "z" ([ay-tse-tl])? An regular English "z" ([ay-ze-tl])? An "s" ([ay-se-tl])?

I hope they change it.
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You might be right that lying in research is not legally fraud. It just breaks the academic contract and so people do get stripped of tenure for it alone, not for making money out of it, and rightly so. If you think that this kind of lying is cost-less, you will hardly find anyone who had ever been to a university agreeing with you.

This guy is not teaching defence against the dark arts. He is teaching the dark arts.

I do not object to the publication of anything at all, except of deliberately fabricated lies. Anywhere, with whatever artificially constructed post-justification.

And yes, it is easy. That is exactly why I am concerned and it should not be encouraged.
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There are also a number of other hacker-spaces and the Chaos Computer Club. There is one hacker space devoted entirely to the intersection between Textiles and Electronics. Just a warning, Berlin is not the valley. It is it's own unique and awesome thing. A huge proportion of the hacking community couldn't care less about start ups. But it is a large community, and I can't speak for everyone.
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Wasn't there a post on FB using some kind of hidden sound file, which bypasses the "don't show images" protection?

Edit: Yes, here we go: http://pandodaily.com/2012/03/06/facebook-knows-when-you-ope...
You just have to think that with all that personal information and large active audience spending a lot of time on Facebook that someone can print money.

Surely they can create purchasing intent simply by working out what users want to buy next based on yet profiles. What about growing existing elements like events (meetup.com) and chat (Skype, hangouts).

Feels by economies of size and scale Facebook has to create value.
The new Goog search interface being one of them, especially on low end computers (netbooks etc).

The results of Goog monitoring page load and render times can be seen in Goog's Webmaster Tools and is measured by user's browsers. They started doing that some years ago and I am pretty sure by now it is part of the ranking.

And at the same time they made their own site slower and bloaded. :-/