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It's too bad they don't post the MATLAB program used to generate these partitions. It is not known whether there exists a polynomial-time algorithm for finding orbits. I wonder what the largest grid size (n×m) is for which they've enumerated all possible partions.
It's funny that people still think there's easy money in mobile apps. The competition is getting tougher and the market more glutted every day.
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About your productivity levels, don't worry about it because in the end you'll end up being much more productive.

The one thing you must do is to embrace the Unix way of doing things. Learn the basic command-line tools and use them daily. Learn to use Emacs, because the same shortcuts are available in the shell.

This book is great btw: Unix Power Tools (http://amzn.to/Klexhf)

Another thing you have to realize is that Unix was built for polyglots. Many Windows developers usually stay within the walls of .NET, but on Unix that's a mistake. Learn Java, learn a good scripting language (I recommend Ruby because it is great for scripting, has a thriving community and can also run on top of the JVM), learn C along with the POSIX APIs.

Eclipse or IntelliJ IDEA are good substitutes for Visual Studio, however I work with Emacs, because in dynamic languages the APIs and workflow are optimized for non-IDE usage and an IDE just stays in my way. I still use an IDE for Java, but that's only because in Java I can't drop to a REPL.

Also, Linux is great for your desktop, but only if you have hardware that's compatible with it. So be careful when picking hardware and do some reading first, otherwise it will ruin your mood. OS X is also an option btw, but I wouldn't make long-term commitments to this platform because Apple is even worse than Microsoft in some regards.
Great to hear that you're cutting over to Riak. We highly recommend that your minimum cluster size is your N value (replication value) + 2. I your case that likely means 5 nodes for your starting cluster, not 3. There are many reasons. http://basho.com/blog/technical/2012/04/27/Why-Your-Riak-Clu...
So use a long password without them: password strength is what counts, not funny rules about special characters and minimum characters.
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"Free software is unsustainable"? Do you mean all FOSS? Could you expand on that opinion, I haven't seen a whole lot of data out in the web to support this claim.
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One key difference is that Riak will rebalance data across nodes as they are added or removed automatically, Cassandra will not. You have to manually adjust the partitioning of data, balancing it by hand.
In WSM it's possible to create models that call external function in DLLs. I've been using a modelica wrapper to the oscpack library (http://www.rossbencina.com/code/oscpack) that allows sending and receiving simple OSC messages. This makes it possible to communicate with music applications that implement OSC.
I've been using it to send input signals from an iPhone using TouchOsc.
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Apple certainly did not "purposely" or even knowing release an update that bricked jailbroken devices: te incident you are referring to was caused by a baseband upgrade that relied on some things that had been screwed up by the popular unlock at the time (not even the jailbreak). The unlock was fixed (and subsequent unlocks have not taken similar risks) and Apple seriously scrambled to release a second upgrade that fixed those devices.)

(And yes: "scrambled" is the right word for their reaction; in addition to them having large numbers of sad customers, it is actually /illegal/ in many major countries to pull the shenanigans you seem to believe Apple had a part in, and a class-action lawsuit was immediately put together by people who refused to believe it was just a mistake.)

As for your assertion that they kick companies that do things with Cydia around, that is absurd: major applications like uStream and Qik have either been cross-listed in both markets or launched on jailbroken devices first; Tapululous even has been on stage with Jobs, and they are the reason many users jailbroke on iPhoneOS 1.x.

Meanwhile, Apple actually did /not/ file opposition to the DCMA exemption this year: in fact, at the hearings (which I attended and even answered a question at), it was specifically brought up how none of the players with actual skin in te game (such as Apple or manufacturers of Android devices) care enough to participate this year.

Finally, Apple certainly won't help you with software issues (or even certain classes of hardware issues) of you are currently jailbroken, but they could easily blacklist your warranty, and yet they simply don't: I have never heard of someone being denied service by Apple unless they both refuse to restore their device (to see if jailbreaking caused the problem).

So, while I don't actually agree with the person you are responding to (that Apple actively allows the process), your post is sufficiently full of lies and FUD that you are not adding anything useful to the conversation by having responded. :(
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Google's revenue growth for the year prior to IPO (2003) was 234%. Facebook's was 88%. Sorry, but Google was a massively better business.
$10/meal for cereal and ramen? That feels like a stretch to me.
I've been using Linux since 1999, ran it full time for many years. However, my productivity is still diminished, primarily due to the lack of decent reversing tools. IDA 6 is ok on Linux, but that's about where it ends. Eventually I'll build my tools up again, but it's a long climb.
This is not the point.

Users are put at risk because Blizzard fails to adequately impose security. Tech savvy users can just use a stronger password, but the others are put at risk by what I can only call negligence.
I guess I could keep track of the user's IP address? How does HN do this?
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> They don't (or didn't, I haven't checked in the last few months) allow special characters, either. Seriously - what? (Then again, my bank does the same thing.)

This is not entirely correct. They do allow some types of punctuation, and have done for a very long while. I haven't tested characters like #, @, & (etc) though, but periods and the like have worked.
Billion dollars for cloning one instance of a feature of android. So much for the "apps sell, not features" theory
Standard bubble talk: "This is historically unprecedented! Everything is going to be different this time!"
I don't see why I should be required to license my IP to anyone, let alone companies that may compete with me. I also don't see how a product I design would need to support a format that is licensed by a competitor and is something I'd have to pay money for.

You want content for your iPod, you can purchase it from iTunes, which will be DRM'ed according to the music industry, or you can purchase your music on a CD and rip it to MP3 and transfer it to your iPod that way.

There is no rule that any company should be required to license their IP, nor is there a rule that a company should be required to purchase a license to someone else's IP.
Or Firefox. Or IE. Or Safari. Or Opera.
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> Then again, it would be pretty difficult to brute force a password in Battle.net, to be honest. I'm assuming they'd lock out the account after just a handful of tries.

Correct. ~5 failed attempts forces you to use your authenticator code, and if you don't have one, you need to use their reset form and a captcha.
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The game clients will lock an account out after ~20 or 30 attempts and I assume the website will do the same. No one is going to brute force an account.
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Discarding the primary point of this article (squatting at AOL), today is my last day of college (16-18 age bracket in the UK), and you can tell that every single lesson is the same as it was five years ago, bar electronics because it's a new exam board and the teacher is only just finding his feet.

Computing, we still use VB6 for coursework, Chemistry, everything is photocopied with ye olde dates on

Props to him for attempting to introduce variety into lesson plans, thankfully, today is the last day of copying out photocopy masters from a whiteboard onto paper
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MS got punished for bundling IE because they provided it for free and Netscape at the time cost money. They also bundled IE with an OS that was installed by 90% of the computer using population thereby effectively shutting out competitors.

Apple doesn't have 90% of the market. If the users are unhappy or developers are unhappy there are plenty of alternatives. Sure you can't develop for iOS anymore, but if Windows didn't have 90% market share Netscape might have been able to stay in business simply by selling to customers running Solaris and Mac OS and then MS wouldn't have been raked over the coals because of bundling their browser.
Those are just reasons Apple is more attractive to consumers than the competition is. Nobody said competing has to be easy, or even possible for everyone.

Free competition is not a guarantee that anyone will be able to outperform incumbents; it only means that if you do (as defined by consumers) you won't be held back by regulations/legal monopolies.
They also restrict it to <= 16 characters.... Yea, that's still decently secure, but there's nothing like a 50 character password that's pretty much impossible to break. I don't get why they put these restrictions on. Probably some brainless dev decided to make a SQL column 16-bytes wide.

EDIT: That doesn't even make sense, unless they're storing plain-text passwords.
Yea, until someone steals their hashes.
maybe try to find HNers nearby on here -

http://www.hackernewsers.com/
"The logical conclusion of this perspective is that the people who currently are paid to be reporters, editors, writers, photographers, etc. add little to no value to the world."

They do add value - the problem is they aren't getting the revenue generated by their work. It's being siphoned off by the cut/paste/add some commentary aggregators. "Old" news will continue to exist, but with smaller budgets and less resources to do "real" reporting.
> Although this is a really silly bug,

Personally, I don't believe it is a bug at all. They have obviously made the decision to not enforce case in an effort to reduce customer service load/player frustration.

Yes, it reduces the time needed to brute force your password if someone got hold of their user DB. But 1) we are still talking an excessively long time (their min. password length is 8) and 2) once they have that, you may have bigger problems.

Whilst this is only anecdotal (over several years of WoW/SC2), the majority of compromised Battle.net accounts are through keyloggers/malware and phishing scams. In those cases, you can have a 40 character password with all the case sensitivity you like and it won't matter at all.
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Facebook doesn't restrict length of password, though - at least not to the same extent.
Oh yeah - sorry mate. I was looking into doing one of these, but I've been so busy that I hadn't gotten to it yet.

Lets pick a date then.

Would say, Friday the 6th of July work? I'll see if I can organise the space.
The solution to global warming and pollution does not lie with persuading people to change, but making technological breakthroughs which allow us to carry on enjoying our lifestyles for a much lower cost to our enviroment.
Free software us unsustainable for a business. To make it work, you'd need money coming in. So your business would be selling support services not the software itself.

Free news might be sustainable if a similar model can be found. Donation-driven news articles perhaps? Or more specifically, how about donation-driven investigative reporting?

I think that might work but probably wouldn't make anybody rich.
I'm not convinced that's true, and would be interested to know your evidence. In particular, the commenter in question has no average karma, apparently not having made sufficiently recent previous contributions. Looking at the contributions made, they don't look to be the sort of thing that garners lots and lots of karma, but I only really glanced at them, so that impression could be wrong. But I doubt it.

It's impossible to tell without comment scores being displayed, but my feeling is that any ranking influence from average karma must be small, if any. I'd be interested in any concrete information, even if circumstantial.

If, however, I find that average karma does have an effect, I'm going to stop replying to individuals, stop providing information, stop correcting misapprehensions, and concentrate on only submitting populist items. That's clearly what PG would want, if that's how the ranking systems work.
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Virtually all the "screw the internet" bill founders turnaround and say something like this. I just goes to show that these guys are dummies or puppets for hollywood.

While hollywood pays, they throw try to screw up a lot of things as soon as the payment(s) stop, they turn around and admit crap like this - so tell me. What good does this guys admission of being stupid do to other bills like PIPA?
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It's hard to remember that when Apple started the RIM BlackBerry was the undisputed Ph.D. of the smartphone market compared to the relatively high-school smart challengers of Danger and Palm.

Palm had an app store first and it was amazing for its time. It's an interesting case study to deconstruct how they could botch such an amazing product so thoroughly. They even missed the tablet bandwagon completely.
I wonder how they do that. If they store the password hashed, wouldn't they have to normalize it two/three different ways and store a hash for each?
Indeed, case sensitivity is annoying.
Better off giving the user a warning for weak passwords.

I'm even inclined to consider chars within the sets 0o and 1lL i the same, but that's even more controversial :-)
Seems like the advertising industry is about collapse. This article is trying to redefine the job at hand and lower expectations.

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No one is clicking through anymore.
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Ask HN/PG: Is average karma considered in the ranking algorithm?
Average karma was dabbled with some time ago as a contributor to the ranking calculation. I seem to recall PG saying that the experiment had been discontinued, but I've recently seen someone suggest that it is still in use.

Can anyone provide any evidence?

Thanks.
I like how the web page switches to two-column layout if it has enough screen space.
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Or perhaps they aren't storing it hashed ...
All the models are replaced with ScalikeJDBC.
I'm not the type to cling to dying business models, but I actually would consider paying a little money to get in-depth quality analysis of current events or topics I find interesting, just like I'd be willing to spend money on a good book. It's not a necessity and I would treat it as a luxury, but I do believe there is a niche market demand for that kind of content. The current advertising based model of distribution seems like a race for the most eyeballs and consequently a race to the bottom.
try it anyway- extensions update automatically in the background. I've definitely had issues with buggy extensions breaking sites.
Another one: if you're writing a bunch of beautiful linkbait articles like Priceonomics make sure to host your blog at priceonomics.com/blog not blog.priceonomics.com so your primary domain (that has all the real content) benefits from the linkjuice. Google treats subdomains as essentially entirely different domains.
That's the argument it tantalizingly came close to making at the end, but it stopped dead in its tracks before reaching it.
As far as I know DDG uses mainly the BOSS API. When I tested the BOSS API for http://kligl.com I found that the reported result count was consistently lower for BOSS compared with the (still) free Bing API, even though the underlying data is the same. That's probably why it is not reported on DDG.
Both only give you the first 1000 results max so it makes no difference in practice.
Yeah and in the mean time he'll be paid 60 mil a year to ride Steve Jobs' coattails.
> They should buy Opera and open source it :)

No need to buy anything. Webkit is free.
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To the typical reader or viewer, credibility is equivalent to agreeing with ones own biases while claiming to be unbiased. Hence the state of journalism.
Things started to turn ugly once legislative bodies became more concerned by the letters of laws instead of the spirit of laws. The spirit is in most cases valid (e.g. you shall not kill), the wording on the other should be adopted in such a way that the spirit fits the situation (changed due to technological developments for example).
I am interested to know how are they storing case insensitive passwords if they were not plain text, they only way I could imagine is by converting them in a full lower/upper case before hashing is performed.
We are operating a company that is very removed from anything that one may commonsensically regard as copyrighted material: we do not stream videos, do not record videos, do not host videos, images or audio files.
Our users send only text messages, somewhat like Twitter. We have public user groups. The number of defective DMCA notices has been rapidly increasing in the last 12 months, to the point that we spent multiple hours and signed an engagement letter with a well known San Francisco IP attorney, who called 95% of these notices "bogus", since they do not identify any infringing material. I think Google actually acts on a lot of deficient notices, removing the entire domains from its search, not just the deep links to copyright infringing materials, but the entire domains.
OP: Furthermore, if using github, consider using hooks to build automatically after a commit. And have errors flash on your phone/email when something goes wrong during any step till deployment. Automate as much as possible.
Here's Buffett's actual letter - http://dataomaha.com/documents/warren-buffetts-letter-to-pub...
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I don't think anyone's nearly as concerned about case enforcement as they are about backend storage of passwords. I can assume some (plausibly safe) ways of storing/verifying passwords that are case insensitive, but I'm not naive enough to assume they do.
> That's one question ,but another one is:

That is a question I've never seen anybody ask in my whole life. There are precious few people who drive for the sake of driving, for the vast majority driving is utility to go from point A to point B.

Therefore, why optimize for the significantly less common (almost irrelevant, even) case of "I've got money burning my pocket, how far can I drive?"
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No, they only need to store a single hashed password. For authentication they can just try out the other 2 transformations above and see if any of them matches what's on file.
They have your un-hashed password when the form is submitted, they can try all three, hash them, and compare those to the saved hash.
Why do you need to compare in a case-insensitive manner? Just lowercase the password before hashing it, and the backend doesn't even have to care.
Why did you change from Sales to MBA, which isya very different things. Fiorina is a salesperson. Cook is not.
> I don't think anyone's nearly as concerned about case enforcement as they are about backend storage of passwords. I can assume ways of storing/verifying passwords that are case insensitive, but I'm not naive enough to assume they do.

Whilst I would hope they use a strong encryption scheme (with a variable work factor...), most of us know that even the biggest organisations in tech can fail miserably in this area.

But, I don't believe the majority of the forum posters see things the way we do. Many of them obviously correlate "case sensitivity" with "strong password", even though that's not exactly true.
They would only have to store a single hash - the proper password.

When you log in to Facebook, they hash the password you gave them and try that. If it fails, they modify the password you gave them, reversing the case on all letters (and possibly convert numbers to special characters, or vice versa - I don't know if they go that far), and hash that.

Remember that when you log in, the server is receiving your password in plain text. Facebook is just "massaging" that data a bit (possibly several times) to try to correct a user error, rather than just bailing at the first sign of trouble.
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Now this is just silly. Stock prices are a bet. Sometimes they are more of a sure bet, sometimes they are more of a risk. But the idea that anyone can know exactly what a stock should be priced at for a company in a very dynamic field like facebook is just silly. It's better to point out that facebook's current valuation seems quite high and the risk of investing in facebook right now also seems quite high. But beyond that there are no certainties. Facebook could end up with a trillion dollars a year in net revenue in 10 years, or it could go end up sold to a 3rd party company for a tiny fraction of it's current market cap. We don't know and nobody can know.
People read news to find out what's happening. That's mostly it. If they can find out what's happening without paying for it, they will, even if their source isn't written by a published Harvard graduate who has years of experience and writes like a god.
> It's because it's much writing and reasoning about comparing two ways to describe exactly the same thing, and comes to the conclusion that there is somehow a meaningful difference between them.

This difference has been empirically demonstrated: people have a much harder time comparing comparisons in MPG than in L/100: they over-estimate efficiency changes in high-MPG and underestimate efficiency changes in low-MPG (e.g. 10 to 11 MPG and 30 to 45 MPG are roughly the same efficiency improvement of 1 gal per 100 miles but most people will eyeball the second case as being a significantly better improvement than the first)

> No matter how you slice it, you have to do some third grade math to figure out the economic impact of fuel economy.

No, L/100 (or gal/MI) is linearly related to fuel economy, there's no math to perform (you can do it if you want precise figures, but it's optional).

> Big whoop. You can multiply by 10.

Yeah, who cares if bytes are 4, 6, 8 or 9 bits after all?
And he is taking Michael Dell's advice to give money back to the shareholders.
One has to imagine that the actual phrase "correct battery horse staple" is a fairly poor choice of password, at this point though...
What about ad-supported news, is that sustainable?
That being said, there is value to posts like the above. If we want to avoid becoming Reddit, we must self moderate and make an effort to stabilize our culture.
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