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Missile launchers, dedicated traffic lanes for Olympic delegates, controlled traffic lights... it doesn't sound like a Bourne film... it is a Bourne film! You have to pay £10 to enter the park and £15 to climb the Orbit tower.

The Games will be sadly for corporates and VIPs. Any non athletes or local Londoners will suffer during this Olympic period. Londoners hope the world will enjoy the games.
> And in the first step - a classic dilemma - how do you know what you can't see when you are blindfolded.

Because there are so many sites blocked, and it comes with a fucking huge page saying something like "CONTENT LOCK CONTACT YOUR PROVIDER TO HAVE THIS TURNED OFF".

> Remember the police man in Denmark earlier this year that "by mistake" blocked the half internet to his country when fiddling with such "blacklists".

These are voluntary optional blacklists.
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I would not go with the approach of storing timezone and formatted date/time in two seperate char columns. You need to really seperate date/time information into two parts, the absolute time and it's presentation. Usually, you only store the absolute time in database and control timezone at session/user level. You always apply timezone when you present date/time information and always convert date/time to absolute time when you store it.
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from: http://www.quora.com/CrunchBase/Are-there-any-other-sites-li...

They also list Mashable's Blippr but that appears to be dead. Hope this helps!
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This article seems to be picking on date / time manipulation within PHP. I don't see a database in use.

The title should say something about PHP not handling date/time correctly. This is nothing new.

I'm not positive if MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or similar would perform the same date and time manipulation correctly. However, I know from personal experience that MySQL handles date/times more consistently than PHP.

I'm curious to see if someone with more knowledge than myself can chime in on the issue.
To be fair, library science is a field which many people dedicate a huge chunk of their lives to, often through some pretty rigorous undergraduate work. The professional accreditation is usually required for scholarly posts. 'Information science' is another thing entirely (though if that's your point, then, well... OK).
>> "The Slide that Made the Difference Between Getting Funding/Not Getting Funding"

Was their CAC model really the slide that made the difference? The basis of the model depends on finger in the air assumptions. It shows they considered how they will convert leads but how to they validate these assumptions?

>> "If you can convey to VCs that you have a repeatable business model, and understand the microeconomics of your business, then you are golden."

I suspect this implies the business should be able to make money?
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You keep saying this - and it's nonsense.

If you don't know about a site you don't care if it's blocked or not. If you do know about a site you'll find out if it's blocked as soon as you try to visit it.

Explain the difference between website discovery pre-block and post-block? How would someone before the block discover a website, and why wont that work after the block?
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In theory, I agree. In practice, college is a very useful signal. And it's not just the coursework from the college major. College demonstrates a variety of soft skills: time management, the ability to plan and meet deadlines, the ability to work on what's necessary when it's necessary, a willingness to suck it up and do some unglamorous but necessary drudge work, etc. I've worked with a variety of people that haven't gone to college and with few exceptions they were lacking in these areas.

Obviously all those skills can be learned elsewhere, but as a hiring manager, it's a major time investment to try and suss that out whereas having a college degree with good grades means more likely than not that the candidate possesses those skills.
>Unfortunately, "went to MIT" is both easily recognizable and easily verified.

Most people miss the point on why this is important. MIT doesn't teach its undergrads anything they couldn't learn at the local state school for a fraction of the price. But you have to be really smart to get in to MIT. That's what employers care about - not what you did when you were there, but that you got in.

The root of the problem is Griggs v Duke Power. This problem isn't going to go away until companies can give IQ tests again without the legal peril, because otherwise employers don't have much to go on besides where you went to school.
Actually understanding those numbers is kind of like product development: you would think it is table stakes, but a surprising number of startups completely fail at it, so FizzBuzz tests like "Can you ship anything?" and "Can you invest $1,000 and have at least $1,000 of revenue?" actually provide useful signal.

"Shipping a product; customers use it; at least one customer acquisition channel works in principle" is actually fairly fall along on the derisking/valuation/etc timeline.
Any idea what a $150,000 bandsaw can do to a man?

My brother's a lawyer. He just dropped about 20 times that amount on a penthouse in downtown Chicago.

He doesn't yet have a boat, although Lake Michigan beckons. Maybe when he buys his boat, he can christen it the Horrible Kludge!
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The UK has a scarily-advanced automatic number plate recognition system in place throughout many parts of the UK, particularly London and the south east. The police can, and do, track vehicles in real time using this system. This is particularly true in London, where this is used to enforce the congestion charge.

Although the collection of the congestion charge is automated, this system can be used to alert police to the location of a vehicle in real time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police-enforced_ANPR_in_the_UK
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It's fast, dynamic and easy to embed in a C/C++ game for scripting.

The language itself is very simple to learn too.
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I don't know what sort of marketing budget you have, but if/when it has a little leeway, try some more targeted advertising rather than AdWords. I'd love to tell you that I could provide it, but the audience I have are PC gamers and I don't honestly think you'd see great results with us, but there will be sites out there that will give you a worse CPC but a better CPA than Google can.
But there are ways to outsource the chores, right? What would be some of the chores that you could potentially outsource? I'd say this would count as a need.
Although it's freeware, mari0 was made with LÖVE and it is pretty solid. http://stabyourself.net/mari0/

It made HN a while ago, link to discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3665859
Kind of related, just recently I wrote a blog post on how to do fuzzy location aware matchmaking using redis and geohash. It exploits similar properties, namely that as you reduce the precision of the geohash, you get more collisions. You can find it here: http://www.generictestdomain.net/Redis/2012/05/07/location-a...
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The word "liberal" over the past century has experienced so much meaning drift in the US that it is basically antithetical to the original meaning. Places where it has experience less drift will thus have an opposing meaning to the US meaning.

This is not a criticism. Meanings change over time, it's what they do.

(Incidentally, this is why it's very silly to either attack or credit political parties in the US with things they did more than about 30 years ago, or perhaps even 20. The parties have shifted around a lot and traded a lot of issues. They're dynamic coalitions of convenience, not great, century-spanning statements of ideological purity.)
On the fourth hand, it has an audio synthesis core that samples at 4194304 Hertz that's way more accurate than what GBC emulators had 13 years ago.
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What about us Euro JavaScript junkies? Are we not entitled to a text version of the talk, maybe in the form of a HN comment. Are we not!?
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Stanford is a terrible single data point to use as a representation for "private schools". The amount of fundraising they do tends to approach a billion dollars per year (2009 was a bad year, they only got $640 million that year) and their endowment stands at almost $17 billion dollars.

Having a boatload of super-rich, super-giving alumni is great, and helps keep tuition costs from rising too quickly... but it is not the norm for private schools.
> Chrome is the only browser supporting native client (Mozilla outright rejected it)

Do you have any sources explaining Mozilla's decision on this? I'm curious as to why they would reject it...
Very cool. There were a lot of parallels to a handful of different things. I loved it but if you're looking for so,e feedback I'd suggest maybe a bit more focus on any one subject. If I didn't know better I'd guess this was inspired by Vanilla Sky. But back to focus, I saw references to Vanilla Sky, tiered subscription services, and copyright. While the message of each gets across fine they all don't seem to fit really well. It was kind of awkward.

If this is an after-death experience then it really wouldn't matter if you couldn't remember copyrighted works. But beyond that I don't think copyright holders would care if you remembered their works because you're no longer able to be a customer. Same with the ads. If the service works like it did in Vanilla Sky then advertising is also pointless. Dead people don't buy things again. They pay for the after death experience and that's it.

But otherwise it's cool and interesting. Maybe I'm reading into it too much. Maybe there was no message and it was just a fun joke. Or maybe it wasn't based on vanilla sky. I don't know, I feel bad offering that criticism but while I was watching it that's what popped in my head.
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Bias is fine so long as its clear as their editorial policy. Its when news tries to be 'fair' that we get problems.

I consider The Economist to be a perfect example of this. They are quite openly biased to supporting the virtues of free trade and free markets. No one thinks this is a bad thing and allows them to present that position quite freely. We all have biases and pretending that you can report on news impartially is silly and deceptive.
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Safari on Mac and Chrome on any OS can display PDF inside the browser without any external dependencies. Still, this link is a good alternative for users of other browsers.
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I think what outsiders don't realise (due to this hype) is that most of the CCTV isn't linked together. The majority of it is privately run by local businesses and households - it is used after a crime is committed to provide evidence of said crime.
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Think about why, if the attacker already has enough control over the page to put up a transparent iframe and bind a click event to it, why not just do the thing the attacker is trying to attack you with?

And the answer is, the browser will stop them. It treats stuff that sources from a click differently. If it didn't, there would be no "clickjacking", the attackers would simply redirect you to the desired URL. The very existence of the term is evidence. It doesn't escape the sandbox, it gets raised privs from the sandbox by design.
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That was an example. A bad one, I see. But it applies to any foundational library, not just the kernel. What's special-cased for the kernel in Debian et al is normal operating procedure for Nix.
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Similarly, at least in much of the US, teaching special needs teachers requires extra certification on top of a normal teacher's license. Without all kinds of extra classes on the various psychological and physical disorders that they deal with in their classrooms, the extra classes seem pretty justified.
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Interesting, and very positive review.

Maybe it's my Java background coming through, but I like the idea of Factory constructors.
Getting the word out on my product. Working on adding some killer features to take out some established players in that feature market.

Hopefully, it will go viral within the niche community.
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"In particular, the presence of \0 in your data will throw xargs for a loop (no pun intended). In this case, it is necessary to use the -0 option. This is particularly relevant if you are using the find command and supplying the -print0 option."

This glosses over the fact that those two things are intended to be used together. Delimiting filenames with a \0 is superior to delimiting them with spaces or newlines, as filenames cannot usually contain ASCII NUL; xargs and find can therefore be used to remove heterogeneous lists of files.

Additionally, the example given may better be worded as "find . -name '* junk* -exec rm '{}' \;" or even "find . -name '* junk* | xargs rm". (as given it strikes me as a useless use of grep and is additionally fragile if ls is aliased to "ls --color=always", spewing ANSI into

EDIT: Please excuse the additional spaces in the find command arguments, they are a formatting avoidance feature.
ls | grep junk | xargs rm # is dangerous due to The separator problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xargs#The_separator_problem.
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Publicly they have stated that it's because they think JS is fast enough.

I think that they have some private issues regarding a plugin controlled solely by their browser competitor who wants NaCl apps to be purchased through the Chrome Webstore.
Oh, it is certainly valid; it is just that for purposes of comparing relative space you should be looking at the shortest representation. "3.0000000" is also valid, and is the same 9 bytes as MessagePack, but there is no reason you'd use that to encode this specific number ;P.
It's tough not to immediately draw the many parallels to what we see happening in society right now and the scary part is that this is so easily conceivable as a realistic future. Well done!
There's also been an LLVM backend for AMD's GPUs for a while (though it doesn't support the newest Radeon HD 7000 series architecture): http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAyN...
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I still think that is far fetched, if Cameron & co actually did that, I think Labour could make their next campaign slogal "We will bring back the porn" and win by a landslide.
Thanks for doing that, by the way! I have fond memories of my college friends and I strategically updating our rows and those of our adversaries. It was much more fun than it had any right to be.
I recently had some ideas about how to use the concept of locality-sensitive hashes with thread/worker pools that share locking resources. Basically, it's useful when want things which are going to take write locks on the same resources to end up on the same thread, since otherwise you are just needlessly blocking up extra workers waiting for other workers to finish. Also, in the case of having multiple actors with independent task queues, you can send tasks using a particular resource to the same queue, so that they will be processed in the same order they were received.

There are probably better ways to do this in most cases, but I thought it an interesting idea.
I really don't understand what advantage they provide over regular static methods...
It has most of the positive traits of JavaScript with less of the negative traits.

A few examples:

Strings in Lua are interned, which makes it possible to efficiently use string keys in all sorts of places instead of numeric enumerations.

Lua's garbage collector has support for running incrementally with a configurable pause time, so you can run it in the background every frame to avoid those nasty GC pauses you still get in most modern browser games from stop-the-world collections.

Debugging is built into the language with a user-accessible API that lets you write your own debugger or diagnostic tool, in addition to using third-party ones, instead of having to rely on the vendor to provide one.

Lua uses a single container type for storing data, with an efficient representation (densely packed elements are stored in an actual array; sparsely packed elements and elements with non-integral keys are stored in a hashmap). As a result, operations on sequences/containers only ever have to think about one data type, and you still get the near-optimal performance you would in JS if you manually used Array/Object where most appropriate.
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> Perhaps it's just the US mentality of tremendous respect for civil liberties .. Please, let's not make this a discussion of how civil liberties aren't uniformly enforced in the US

Then don't write flamebait.
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I think they are there for reducing the need for dependency injection frameworks.
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The BIG difference is that Linus says something (or some action) was stupid. He doesn't say you are stupid.
He doesn't call people morons.

Besides which, he's just about always right. That helps.
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