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London Olympics 2012: Indian spends over Rs 135 crore for training players
After a couple of seconds in the iPad, in this case just after the annoying do I want to download the app had popped up after i started reading, techcrunch articles just go fuzzy and unreadable. The comments don't. I am guessing it is a webfonts issue. Maybe it is to force you to use the app. I havent been able to read a techcrunch article in months though.
Hi! This headline is wrong, and out of context. I made the post more clear in that regard.
Also, our server broke down under the requests, so please be patient :-)

Cheers, Mirko.
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Bilingual education is a classic example of an experiment that was begun with the best of humanitarian intentions but has turned out to be terribly wrongheaded. To understand this experiment
Source article from which DK and other sources extemporized:
http://arstechnica.com/business/2011/10/exclusive-computer-v...
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"Alan and I were left with “the Wards”—always we referred to them as “the Wards.” We were the wards and they were our guardians but no matter—this was to be the centre of our existence for many years and our home from home. I believe it was here, perhaps in the first four or five years at the Wards, perhaps even in the first two, that Alan became destined for a homosexual. Has anyone mentioned it until now?"

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/06/23/alan-turing...

I was previously unaware that this was such a common phenomena.
My understanding is that U.S. cyberwarfare ended up in the NYT because of leaks and good journalism, not because Obama was touting it.
yes and we were C2 cert in 2001. I was in charge of compliance.

The PCs were locked in metal cabinets, cables shielded, all hardware ports disabled, no physical connection anywhere to the internet, vpn+checkpoint to other sites which were also C2, software was all source vetted and escrowed before being allowed on the network, crypto everywhere. Factory floor was shielded as well to prevent RF escaping, datacentre was three gated inside the facility and there were lockdown pads and access control both biometric and smartcard on every door.

The software eng was the same except even heavier locked down with GPO and LSP.

We could have put an apple II in there and it'd be C2.
Every php job can be turned into a rails/django/whatever job, you just need to sell it.
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I use a master password for all the services I like to login to in to remotely (google, facebook, dropbox, etc), for the rest of the services I use 1Password. It's not the most secure, but it's the practical imo. If I happen to get hacked, I only have to change the passwords for the few services I login to remotely.
So how will my code editor look on Retina? All blurry?
Ask HN: I need to get some icons designed. How and how much?
I am currently working on a website for a project and I need to get a handful of icons designed. I have looked for free icons on sites such as iconfinder.com and similar, however as some of the icons are quite specific, I am considering getting them designed by a professional designer.

I have never done this before and have a budget of no more than £1000, with a preference to get them designed for much less if possible.

Having never paid for icons previously, or any other design work, I am unsure of how to proceed. Is my budget feasible or will I only get poor quality icons for this amount? How long does the process take? I highly admire the work of companies like IconFactory (www.iconfactory.com) however judging by their client list - they'll presumably be outside of my budget for even a single icon :-)

I have also considered sites like 99designs - anyone got any experience with using that?

Anyway, do any of you have experience with getting icons designed, know any designers or are you a in fact a designer who designs icons? Feel free to show me stuff you've done if you are.
That's actually the same story linked in the first sentence of the post. It's from last October and it ran in Wired first.

There was a lot of healthy skepticism on HN when it was first posted http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3085004
To get better idea - I had my webserver hacked solely for a purpose to get on VPN and hack my desktop and laptop one night and all wallet files copied.

Person(s), who did it 1) were definitely very good at it, since they got root permissions on all machines (all 3 running different versions of Ubuntu) and 2) believe in it to the point where they think withdrawing it at this point in time not required - coins still did not move after hack event.

For me it sounds like very professional people interested in it and they believe bitcoin will be stable enough to keep coins where they are right now for a long time.
I have enough computers around me to not need a smartphone. The single feature I need from smartphone is tethering.
I am dreaming of cheap 5 button nokia phone (like my current phone) that would provide tethering so that I can use my cheap wifi android tablet anywhere. My 5 button nokia phone looks prehistoric, but it works perfectly and has fantastic autonomy.
Congressional Staffer Says SOPA Protests 'Poisoned The Well'
I only get that when I zoom in any way. It is weird and obnoxious and makes me hit the "reader" button so I can have the text at a decent size.
Can you imagine what is going to happen when every police force in the USA starts blowing their budget on domestic drones next year?
>Now, I'm a child of my time, so I think homosexuality is OK, and I think
paedophilia is a crime.

Except paedophilia isn't a crime, child abuse (and rape) is. Assering a sexual
preference (which paedophilia boils down to) is criminal is steering into
thoughtcrime teritory. You can think it's wrong all you want, but that doesn't
make it a crime.

It is, therefore, equally as abhorrent and repulsive to use these methods
against paedophiles as it was using them against homosexuals in the 50s. It
is, indeed, abhorrent and repulsive to ever use them on a human being,
regardless of the reason.

But how will people fifty years hence look onto our debates about whether to
allow people to marry? How will they look onto our treatment of socially not
accepted sexual deviants. Social ousting, sex offenders list, incarceration,
the eroding of free speech in the name of reducing just the chances of
sexually "deviant" activity?

They will be equally as disgusted at this nonsense as we are right now at
the heinous things perpetrated in the 50s. In fact, I am disgusted at it right
now.
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Windows is only insecure because they've set it up like that to aid consumers.

Indeed. For where would your average windows consumer be, without a useful selection of botnets, keyloggers and trojans, installed silently for their browsing convenience?

That said, I know you can reasonably lock down the older versions of windows NT, and really lock down many DOS variants, but I would say that the main reason for this is because they have been thoroughly studied and patched, rather than through careful design in the first place.
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Alan Turing’s Brother: He Should Be Alive Today
It's really hard to not blame the creators when SO MANY things in PHP are fucked up. I would wager a good bit of cash that this isn't the only "wtf-moment" this guy's dealing with in terms of his day-to-day PHP adventures, and it was simply the straw that broke the camels back. Couple that with an innate misunderstanding of how open source works and a bit of idiocy, and you got the motivation for this bug report.
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In an election year, when the Obama administration has a track record of zero tolerance of leaks and whistleblowers?
I'm hoping that we see a 13" Air edition with the Retina Display sometime soon. That I will pull the trigger on.
Hi, author of Happy here. A Todo or Blog app as a basic example is a great idea! I'm planning on adding more example apps to the source distribution and will make sure they'll be part of that.

I'm also the author of Schnitzelpress, a Ruby-based blog engine built with Sinatra (and optimized for hosting on Heroku and similar cloud providers), and I will be porting it from Sinatra to Happy some time soon.
I cannot deploy on App Store a .ipa file built with Trigger.io
It looks like stream has face detection?
People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/31/linux_kernel_securit...

Oh wait, you might say, that wasn't a hack, well what's the difference says I? Stuxnet got in through a USB key...
This symbol is not ominous; the glider doesn't die. It moves through four states, arriving at this steady state:

XX
X X
X

I'm surprised that the author wrote such a lengthy article without making sure that the premise is true. I think he misread the engraving and transposed the stray dot to the left, like so:

X X
X
XXX

That symbol does die.
Well, if they didn't bother to check what language/technology you were using and they didn't give you any requirements, you did the right thing.

Any competent manager should lay technology requirements/guidelines before starting any projects and maybe even keep an eye on the codebase if he/she has any coding skills... You happened to work for incompetent people, and you just taught them a lesson about their own incompetence. Thumbs up!
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"Some of the people who raise the biggest fuss about PHP are also people who never dealt with it (except through Wordpress)."

Well that's the biggest piece of bullshit I've ever seen spewing out of someone's keyboard here on HN. I've been developing in PHP pretty much since it came out. At least, since it was stable/useful enough for people other than Rasmus to use. I've been using it for so long that I absolutely hate it. The inconsistencies, the "bolted-on" OOP, the amount of time I'm just sitting there scratching my head wondering where the fuck my data went to, and not even being able to test the thing since there's no good testing libraries built for PHP. It's all a confusing mess that I refuse to even be paid for at this point.
Look at the media coverage of Palladium, Trusted Computing etc.... it was brutally against it. When the iPad hit, the media was mostly about fawning over it and pushing the openness concerns under the rug for the most part.
Thanks for giving it a go, and I'm really glad that you like it!

However, whenever someone says that Happy is a nice framework "for tiny webapps", I like to chime in and add that the goal for Happy is to be as simple (and thus fit for tiny apps) as Sinatra, but also a great fit for large applications as it allows for a kind of modular development style that may feel a whole lot more natural to some people than what Rails is doing (and Padrino is sadly trying to mimick): controllers actually describing behavior - no matter how simple or complex - and not URLs or individual resources.

I'm very much looking forward to finding out how much this resonates with other Rubyists. Upwards and onwards :)
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Hate Mail and the New Religious Wars in Tech
I can feel for the guy chasing around trying to find his car, but, I believe the larger point of the story was to demonstrate some ominous "big brother" capability. On that point, it's hard to blame the police for being more efficient in collecting unpaid tickets and I didn't read about any drone.
"Technically the glider becomes a known static shape. But for this active and useful little craft with its wiggly diagonal propagation and useful character, it is as good as death." Though it is fairly easy to miss, it is stated in the article. The author is using "death" to mean that the shapes stop changing, not that the dots disappear- which is not the same meaning you and I thought of at first.
"Homosexuality is not a mental illness. We have finally learned this, ..."

This is an opinion, not a fact. We have changed our minds, not learned anything.
You may want to sell that LNKD stock you're holding. It's all downhill from here.

The kids (college kids and those who just graduated) are adding me on BranchOut, not LinkedIn. I'm the one who usually has to issue the connection request on LinkedIn, because nobody is fucking using it except people looking for a job and recruiters. It's mostly recruiters. But recruiters are gonna go where they perceive the people to be, so once the facade has fallen LinkedIn is FUCKED. That stock price is gonna start tanking once companies like BranchOut (built into the existing Facebook platform we all know and love) start gaining more ground.

Running your company with the intent of destroying all competition is like running your country with the intent of destroying all people who don't look like you.
No worky on iPad.
That is the issue I am having. Eclipse-based IDEs are not ready for Retina. The text is legible, the IDE is usable, but its noticeably blurry. I've logged a ticket with Aptana Studio and Eclipse, but they have no solution to this issue, just workarounds which don't really work.

If you are using Vim or a simple text editor, however, there is no issue with the appearance of the text.

Xcode works just fine, too.
Oh man, I'm an ass. I read the first page on my phone and did not see the following pages. My previous comment has zero merit.
Thank you for doing so!

Overwhelmingly, it is my experience that researchers in computational disciplines publish papers with half-finished code "available on request" -- and requests are often ignored. It's refreshing to hear someone say, "Yes, the code needs work, but it should be available."
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This is great, it's been a minute since i've read any IAMA's and I just devoured about ten of them this morning...
Sharing the images is great, but they are of little use without segmentation. The macroconnectome describes connections between regions. How are people supposed to collaborate if everybody comes up with a different way of overlaying atlas regions on each brain slice?

The Nature article is a bit too optimistic. Just because we can establish semi-quantitative connectivity levels between cortical regions with varying degrees of accuracy (many things can go wrong when injecting the tracer) it doesn't mean that a complete map of cell level connectivity is just around the corner. Hell, we disregard electrical synapses completely right now...
> The title of the paper?

We've actually got researchers on Hacker News?
A lot of people are surprised to learn of Turing's treatment.

If you're at all interested in this, you might think about reading biographies and other material on Turing and other computer scientists. Or the history of computer science. Or the history of science.
Obviously you need to adjust for the difference in salaries. If they still aren't equal, that is not a very well run company. I realize it is naive to epect every salary to be exactly fair, but if the engineers are contributing signifficantly more per salary dollar, they are getting screwed.
Neat. The presentation would be vastly improved without the text-align: justify; though.
The Rise of the Super Fakes
Flame, Stuxnet?...
I would be interested in reading a blog post which details your experiences and business decisions behind all of the frameworks you have mentioned.

I often find myself wanting to start new projects in $new_platform but have no idea how to really compare them before I get started, save for looking at their documentation or advertised features.
That's signature style of a lot of great, obsessive reviewers. Connecting to what a particular product ultimately "means" to you is something that differentiates reviews from spec-sheets.

This reminds me of Jeremy Clarkson on Porsche Boxster - "The only reason you would buy one of these is because you can't afford﻿ a 911... so what you're doing as you're driving around is advertising the fact that your life hasn't worked out quite as well as you had been hoping"
It doesn't matter how you design the monetary system, what matters is that it's centralized -- a mandated system backed by SWAT teams. Create that, and you've just created a system that will inevitably result in sweeping financial destruction throughout the economy.

I don't follow. Can you elucidate how the first sentence leads to the second?
Thoughts on new Startup: Soundsupp.ly
Hey guys,

This is my first post here, after reading for the past year!

My brother and I just launched our new start up called Soundsupply and we'd love to hear any thoughts on it.

Our goal was to give music fans a way to discover new bands through ownership. Nothing against streaming sites (we love 'em) but we think there's still people out there that want to own over stream and feel like they're directly supporting bands a bit more.

We do curated bundles of digital music, sold for short periods of time. 10 albums. 10 days. 15 bucks.

Music is DRM-free and comes in both MP3 320 and FLAC formats.

If you want to check it out, the current "Drop" has about 5 days left. We'd love any thoughts on the flow of the site or any potential things we need to add to make it a better experience for the next Drop.

http://www.soundsupp.ly

Thanks so much!
Tim
It's not the responsibility of incumbents to competitors. But it is part of their responsibility to their users.

That's especially true for Craigslist. A couple years back Craig and the Craigslist CEO were in front of an audience of Wall Street investors. They were asked, "How do you plan to maximize revenue?" Their answer: "We don't." Which is basically like asking the pope if those little crackers taste any good.

Craigslist is a mission-driven company. I think they've made a mistake, and that they'll realize it shortly. Perhaps by doing exactly what you suggest.
The maker of the car does receive a return. Its the price paid for minus all the costs of being in the car business.

A return is not guaranteed, of course. But if there were no return possible, no one would go into the car business.

You say for student there is no asset that can be sold. Not true, at least when the student chooses his education wisely. He can now sell his time for more money. Education is a "factor of production" of his work, which he then can sell.

When I first spoke about investment, I did not mean the narrow meaning you've understood. I was talking about why people are poor and I discussed consuming resources versus using them to produce more resources.

Investing in one's own capabilities or making your own garden are investments that don't involve giving money to someone else and waiting for a return. Successful businesses and successful people make such investments.
Which of Copeland's claims do you dispute? I assume those statements about what he said at varous times a d about his chemical experiments are true. From there, I find Copeland's conclusion perfectly reasonable:

"The thing is to tell the truth in so far as we know it, and not to speculate."

"In a way we have in modern times been recreating the narrative of Turing's life, and we have recreated him as an unhappy young man who committed suicide. But the evidence is not there."*

"The exact circumstances of Turing's death will probably always be unclear," Prof Copeland concludes."
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>Stuff like that defies parody.

You mean the mentioning-his-actual-feelings part? Should he have lied to seem more "deep" and "above all that"? Or is mere fashion and consumerism absent from the general public at large, so that a journalist admitting to it would be hilarious?

Not to mention that that is just a tongue-in-cheek single phrase from a multi-thousand words review.
I think it depends on the government. If the taxes or regulatory fees on legal prostitution are too high, it can create a black market similar to that of tobacco or pharmaceutical drugs.
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I do this too, albeit mostly as a precursor to erasing the EPROM and recycling it for something else.
... in India. Nether bags are for a new home delivery service in India.
Not sure about the health care system, but the non-socialist portion of the US education system is the best in the world, and only the socialist portion of it is terrible. I find those to be reasonable grounds to dislike socialism.
By maximizing the number of people who find ads relevant to them.

It's easy to miss relevant stuff on Craigslist. I used PadMapper to find my current place. I was the only person that week who put in an offer; had I missed his ad his place would have stayed unoccupied another week at least.

That provides value to the landlord, of course, but since Craigslist charges landlords for access, increased value to landlords means increased revenue potential for Craigslist, which is certainly of value to them.
TBH I actually run a 100% not locked down default install of Windows 7 with Microsoft security essentials, IE9 and outlook.

I've never once had a virus, worm or trojan.

It's perfectly secure. The main issue is that most of the fuckwits out there click OK without reading or understanding every time. How's MS supposed to deal with idiots?

I'm actually sitting here with a ThinkGeek PEBKAC T-shirt on appropriately.
d3.js (http://d3js.org/) is pretty awesome and seems to be quickly becoming the standard
Craiglist is breaking a service that's valuable for their users. That certainly is shitty. It may be legal, and it may be what an MBA wold tell them to do, but it is undeniably shitty.
I'm shipping a Qt-based embedded product with >$1MM USD in revenue. If you work for a particular large restaurant chain on planet Earth you may have encountered it. Does that make me a geek, or someone concerned about Qt's roadmap for other reasons?
>The single feature I need from smartphone is tethering. I am dreaming of cheap 5 button nokia phone (like my current phone) that would provide tethering

OK, but the reason tethering is hard is that carriers want to charge extra for it, not because of any decision of Nokia (or any other phone manufacturer)
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semi-related ... some of my colleagues wrote a research paper about 4chan (but I don't think they posted it ON 4chan!):

http://projects.csail.mit.edu/chanthropology/4chan.pdf
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Wait, what? If anybody should appreciate breaking the rules in order to create something useful, it's hackers.
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While you "begged to differ", your answer is full of caveats and little assurances...
Depends on how useful you are. Many scrapers are just putting out BS search engine bait. PadMapper created a great interface on top of CL's data, which created huge value for CL users.
Minor problem: Zero based indexing, combined with not showing current page in navigation, is confusing. At main page I saw links to page 1, 2. Thought that 1 was current page, 2 was next page.