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It is not about making it yourself from scratch and doing research and experiments, I think it is about buying the parts from China and assembling.

Say IED builders in Afghanistan, probably do not have PhDs in physics and chemistry but they can build effective shaped charges to pierce thick tank armor.

So at some point you could just order parts from some place. Assemble, then upload the picture of face it needs to recognize, approximative coordinates and press the "take-off" button.
A line oriented xargs could have been built in from day one.

A pair of shell variables honored by commands that let you specify output wrappers or separators would have been nice too. Think "-Q" in gnu ls, but universally supported and user-controlled.
Ask HN: So I do want to be a programmer, where do I start?
I was dumb and didn't study CS in school, even though now I realize that I really like programming and everything that comes along with it. What's the best way to correct my mistake and get to a point where I can start coding for a living?

Is it books? MIT and Stanford online classes? Code School and Codecademy? Some combination of all of those?
I know, and mentioned the band in my post. But that’s not a pun, that’s just a reference. For it to be a good name, doesn’t depeche have to have something to do with Dropbox?
Amusing. Seems like these guys should be engaging a consultancy for help, not trying to start one.
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Specifically this[1] is the page that is used in this hacking operation.

[1] : https://manage.rackspacecloud.com/pages/Login.jsp
Kinda ironic too when people are arguing about the importance of learning programming because it teaches logic...
>So it seems to me at least one person has designed a system that allows this and keeps out spam without using a CAPTCHA.

That more to do with Hacker News being a low-value target than with its anti-spam prowess. If you really wanted to spam Hacker News, you could.
Exactly my point. Just because this time around, people who matter (i.e. people with money) lost money, the real smart folks totally don't get the recognition. But I'm sure that at facebook offices atleast they'll hopefully be recognized and get rewarded.
>She explained that an officer operating an armed drone from afar would simply not have the same understanding of a situation that an officer on location would have.

Remoteness is double edged. You might have less immediate insight (if it could not pick up audio signals, for example and only relied on video) or did not have coordination with confederates on the ground, on the other hand, if the situation were to break out, there is less immediate threat and the "officer" would also feel less immediate threat to cause defensive or offensive reaction or action.

In other words, remoteness might allow the "officer" to maintain a cooler head in the "midst" of a melee and respond less impulsively (or reactively).
Asking tough questions about how the company operates and demanding to see the raw data rather than "executive summaries" isn't micromanaging. Micromanaging is telling your employees how they should do every little detail of their jobs when they're perfectly capable of doing them without your interference.

A CEO who doesn't have a deep understanding of how his company works is probably not worth his hefty salary.
I don't think a comparison between amount of space usable/user (like in Evernote) and max words/day (your freemium?) is fair. If Evernote limited based on bandwidth/day or something like that or your model was total # of words a free account can use, then perhaps the comparison would be more fair. I think the problem with a max words/day is that the customer will limit their dependence to that maximum. You need the customer in a mindset where they'll only be concerned about the free plan's limits by the time they are dependent on the product.
>Pragmatically speaking, the new gGTLDs are likely to fail. So why not avoid that expensive bullet?

If the premise is true, then I agree with the conclusion.

But what will make the new set of gTLD's likely to fail?

And what does "fail" mean even?

If all you are going on is history, not sure we can conclude anything. Past performance is a poor indicator of future performance.

If it weren't the case, then I switch professions and become a stock broker, because it would be dead simple that even I could understand it ;).
All that will accomplish is to dumb people down even further. Automated activism, isn't activism. If you sign on without knowing specifically what you're fighting for in any given instance, all you've done is prostitute your voice.
I would definitely recommend TextMate and BBEdit. Or even Chocolat which is still in development.
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Is anyone here from Facebook?

I am facing a weird problem on my personal account. For some reason, I am not quite sure, I am getting warnings for posts, I have not mad. And then I am getting blocked. This has happened twice in the last 7 days. I was blocked from posting, First for one day, and now for 3 days.

I only guess this is linked to a page I used to own. However, I have passed that page to someone else, and it has been more than one year now. I am neither the admin nor any other links with the page. However, every time the current admin is posting something which does not follow the community guidelines, I get the warnings and get blocked.

I have tried writing in facebook help forum and sending emails to any email id I can get, but to no effect.

So, Can someone please help?

I am an entrepreneur and just launched my StartUp. Facebook is an important medium to collect feedback and connect with customers. I am not asking to remove the block. I am more concerned, if this keeps on happening, as it directly impacts my work and startup.

So guys, please help.

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And all abstractions are leaky. This is true outside of software too. The point doesn't seem to me to be an absolute. It's simply saying that delegation to subordinates must be augmented by "in the trenches" knowledge and research by senior executives. That doesn't sound wrong to me.

And yes: if you have performance issues with your Lisp code and you're not looking at the generated machine code (or more likely in the modern world, doing tracing to identify bottlenecks which are probably in the IPC or I/O layers), you're not programming well. Continuing to whack around in your REPL is doing just what the JP Morgan executives were -- ignoring the details of the real problem in the hope that the abstraction will be sufficient.
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Bottom of page 1 had a year-old story a couple days ago, too. Definitely interesting and unusual.
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Excellent. I will definitely use this. In fact, I'm commenting largely to bookmark this.
It looks to me like the root cause was reusing an SSH key on a secure system and a public system. If the SSH key was compromised, that would lead me to believe that the private key was on the public/insecure system. That is a big security no-no as well.
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Why programming?

The study of mechanics seems like it would have a much more profound impact on average people's lives. Often, it seems, I find myself hitting walls in the physical realm where someone with the right background would just build a simple machine to overcome the problem.

I would never discourage the pursuit of knowledge, I'm just not seeing why programming gets its very own pedestal. It seems no more important than many other subjects that are not commonly learned by people.
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It hasn't been demoed but if you put the device on its side it allows you to write on the table (or paper) with the same result.
This article isn't about micromanagement in any sense.

It's about management having the competency to perform and verify low level data analysis and come to agree or disagree with what they are being told.

I've worked with managers in the past who told their direct reports that they needed to do "selective analysis" (in other words, cook the books), because "people didn't want to hear bad news." Although this was egregiously disingenuous, I think the desire to put spin on bad news is innate.

It's up to management to smell if something's amiss, and to make sure that being honest and forthright is a requirement to maintain employment.
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I think he suspended his campaign. Suspending means that while for all intents and purposed but one, the campaign is ended. The exception is that it allows the candidate to raise money (usually to pay off campaign debt). Ending a campaign means you hold the bag, if you're in the red, as I understand it.

So, technically, yes, still a candidate.
Well, I'd love to be wrong about this and hope that you are right. What worries me is that key parts of the technology, like the processor, sensors and software might be available cheaply due to their civilian uses. Manufacturing ability could well be scarce, but these weapons could pass through illicit distribution networks which today distribute machine guns and rocket launchers. I didn't fully understand your postscript, but regarding visibilty, I admit I dont know much here - for instance, how small of drone would be realistically possible for a non-state producer. But I dont see a clear knockdown argument, given that drones are used effectively today. Again, I hope you are right and that there are more technical obstacles out there.
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Sure, but if you're running a custom kernel you'd need to run a custom non-PV kernel. And there's no remotely sane way for Amazon to figure out what customizations people have made to their kernels.
It's fine if you didn't study CS in school, so don't be bummed about it. If you're really passionate you can get really far on your own, so don't fret over the "dumb" decision, it'll do more harm than good.

Now, first things you have to learn are fundamental programming theories and methodologies. You'll also need to learn these in tandem with a language. There are a ton of programming languages out there - so many, in fact, that picking the one might seem like a daunting task.

I'm a Rubyist - it's pretty, it's fun, it's awesome on the web, and I think great for beginners. However, I think it might be best you learn programming with something like C/C++. Python is great for beginners too. If it were me, I'd learn with one of those languages. Which ever you pick, I'd recommend either Learn Ruby the Hard Way (http://ruby.learncodethehardway.org/) or Learn Python the Hard Way (http://learnpythonthehardway.org/), both by Zed Shaw. They're also extremely cheap at $2.99 for the PDF, or free if you want to read it online, and the Python version has a video course for $29.

After you're done with that, you can start making stuff. At this point, what you learn next depends on what kind of software you want to make. Research and figure out what you want. Remember you never stop learning programming, so I'd advise you to gradually pick more advanced books, preferably covering more theory than practice. Maybe branch off to different languages and paradigms.

If I had to give one key piece of advice, it's that you learn by doing. It will be daunting, and it will take time, but I promise you - you'll get better. Here's a good piece that will inspire you: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3179-you-only-get-one-chance-...
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(1) is only a selling point to people well outside the mainstream. Most people would consider this a huge negative.

(2) meanwhile I can buy things with one click using dollars.

(3) tax evasion, drug dealing and money laundering are not things that society generally wants to facilitate
Probably the server was restarted. Odd things tend to happen when things aren't cached as expected.
With bitcoin, the muggings like this incur a 50% or 100% loss, impacting those who extended trust to the wrong place.

With fiat, the muggings when using a payment card incur a 3% loss each time the currency is used, impacting every person on every transaction.
There's an issue with comparisons to plumbing and mechanics. The kinds of devices "ordinary users" interact with in those realms are physical, and it's possible to see how they work at a high level just by looking at them. (Yes, cars and such are getting more and more like moving computers, but the basics haven't changed.)

This is not at all the case with computers. They are magical black boxes if you're not familiar with how they work. Understanding even just the ideas of programs manipulating data is important, however abstracted the interface is. And what better way to teach that than with basic programming lessons, even just something like Karel++. Not to mention all of the related concepts of logic and problem solving.

More importantly, computers are black boxes made by people. I think a big part of “learning to code” is not just being technologically literate. It's a way to teach an understanding that these devices are doing what someone told them to, and that users have the power to make the computer do what they want. That nearly everything we interact with was designed and built by other people is an incredibly under appreciated fact. Learning how to use tools is empowering, and a fundamental part of being human.
Yeah.. i did a speed read(aka skimming or reading sample lines from each paragraph). Told myself i'll write an article If money/time doesn't make you happy, try awareness/presence in the moment...
Unfortunately that kind of article writing seems to make me unhappy..:-)
It's pretty common to deploy Python apps via a virtualenv. In most cases you will use something like a pip requirements.txt or fabfile for Fabric to define how to deploy your app and what are the dependencies. The file is tracked in version control along with the rest of your project.

If at some point you need to upgrade one of the libraries due to a security vulnerability, you would change the dependency in the requirements file and roll out a new version of your app to all your servers.

If you have multiple apps, then repeat the process for each app.

Generally it would be a bad idea to rely on a single installed version because often times the API can change between versions and different apps may target different versions of a library. It's preferable that each one has its own dependencies isolated in a virtualenv unless you have a really rigorous process for keeping all your apps updated to the latest library versions.
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right, I agree. I was using evernote moreso because 1) I was writing the post in evernote at the time so it was the first thing I thought of and 2) they have extremely low costs and require a decent amount of time to convince a user to convert to a paying user (they fully need to incorporate evernote into their workflow before converting).

My product (and this is in no way a comparison on product value to evernote) produces keyword analysis results nearly immediately, so the value can be realized a lot sooner and the user can incorporate my product into their workflow a lot sooner than something like evernote.

Also, as Evernote limits by total storage space in the free plan, it's comparable to what we used to do with total keywords for a free trial (before our freemium).
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I totally understand the fears behind fracking as well as nuclear power (I'm living in Japan and my family lives in upstate NY) but often the progressive approach to energy policy has been to jump from the pan into the fire. Absolutely the worst offender is the coal industry (and the so-called 'clean coal' movement is just not feasible) and it has to go to zero. If gas and nuclear have to grow to fill the vacuum, then so be it.

The anti-nuclear movement here in Japan is flawed in a similar way. It certainly would be nice not to have nuclear plants but they're replacing them with coal imports. They should be talking about regulating and replacing the nuclear operators, and put replacing the nuclear power itself on the long-term track.
This is nothing compared to the amounts of money involved in the botched Facebook IPO. If this incident proves that Bitcoin is in trouble, then by all mean extend this reasoning to NASDAQ, and other institutions with major incidents.
The market perception right now is "Facebook swindled us". It will affect Facebook stock price for quite some time.
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The thing about Heinlein is that everyone thinks that Lazarus Long (the protagonist of the book this is taken from) is just a mouthpiece for Heinlein himself. However, Heinlein is just really good at writing from a particular character's viewpoint.

If you notice whenever the pov is centered on Lazarus, he seems to be a superman who can do nearly anything.

But frequently when the viewpoint shifts to another character, Lazarus' flaws become much clearer, and he seems much more human.
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>> Placing the gold inside a steel and concrete Box where only one person can open it still isn't secure.

Nothing is really secure. But typically a gold vault is accompanied by a person with a gun who will shoot you if you try to take gold. There is no danger of physical harm in trying to steal Bitcoins. This is a fundamental difference.
This is what a market debasement looks like, ladies and gentlemen. If you can pay someone to keep Bitcoin performing poorly, you can mitigate the loss from your own failing currencies.

Perhaps I'm the only one that feels this way (I almost hope I am), but this news is making me want to put all of my money in bitcoin. it's a good time to get in on the action.
There aren't any except the one that you and your partners start. About the only thing developer-employees can do is organize into teams and try to improve the group's situation through collective bargaining (i.e. let us have part of the profits or we all leave). Even then, if they are still focused on value creation rather than wrapping up the company's revenue and clients under their own umbrella like salespeople do, they won't build much leverage. This is why it is so important for developers and other value creators to be founders so that the value they create flows back to them.
To expand a bit: mp3 decoding in JavaScript has been done, and it works pretty well, but not perfectly / not on all files. I've used it and stuff derived from it with quite satisfactory results in situations where I can control all of the inputs it will be used with. Adding basic support for mp3 decoding to this could be just a matter of integrating JSMad, if that's the way they felt like going about it, but adding really robust, efficient, gonna work all the time support would require a significant investment of additional effort.

I don't know what the state of the art is for mp3 encoding in JavaScript, if there is one.
You have two ways to value yourself - time and money. I worked in NYC and had a +3 hour rountrip commute. Moving to Boulder, my roundtrip is 10 minutes. I regained 3 hours per day. That's 750 hours per year or 31 days. IMO, nobody sits on their death bed wishing they worked more or made more money - they all wish for more time with their family and friends. Glad I realized that at 26.
Well, earth then has the power to dictate terms to the moon-colonists.

Such a situation is not favorable for the sort of thing the grandparent post had in mind.
> Real security people will tell you it's a disaster.

No, they won't. Bitcoin is built upon decades of battle-hardened industry-standard cryptography. The day someone cracks SHA you'll have a lot more to worry about than your Bitcoin wallet.

The only security problem with Bitcoin is people building insecure systems around it. Which of course has nothing to do with Bitcoin.
I'm in your shoes - I majored in Business, and I'm trying to break into software development after getting bored of IT at 30. Luckily my business degree had a couple VB classes, so I'm not starting with zero.

What I'm doing:

1. Codecademy will teach you the basic concepts of programming. Codecademy expands into HTML, Javascript, CSS, and other technologies that can be used to make websites and mobile apps. (You can stick a website inside a wrapper and call it an app.)

2. If you like Windows, get the Visual Studio 11 beta while it's free and start making a windows form in VB or C#. If you don't, either install Cygwin or a distro and learn about the tools for Linux. (sorry I'm not more help here)

3. Find projects to do - find a small problem at work that you can solve. I made a program that makes an email template , so filling out an internal form is just a couple clicks. Also check out coding challenges.

4. Look for software internships, open source projects, and other places where you can build your burgeoning skills while gaining experience in working with large projects.

I don't know if I'm going about this the right way either, and I've been thinking about making this same Ask HN post too.
Are you implying that you can't use Postgres for web-scale services?
It doesn't seem to be in the News Guidelines any longer, but the prevailing opinion on HN is that comments that simply say "I agree" or the like:

1) Add nothing to the conversation. Just upvote if you agree; also commenting to that effect adds nothing.

2) They clutter up the comments, so they are actually worse than not commenting at all.

I seem to recall a previous version of the style guidelines actively encouraging us to downvote such posts in order to train newer accounts to stop doing it. But I might not be remembering correctly.

In any case, I can pretty much guarantee that's why you were downvoted (and I didn't downvote you, personally).