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exactly why I want a name for it, to reduce heisenbug potential.

It certainly necessitates careful application, but does have it's uses in reducing copypasta.
Not sure what it was called, but some early RAM technology had this exact behaviour. Whenever you read one bit from memory, it got toggled so you had to immediately write it back again, which toggled it back to the correct value.
Maybe you're right. I've heard that education in Europe is pretty cheap. This could be one of the major factors for having "good enough" salaries.

Also, in the US, you need insurance for everything, unlike Europe with public healthcare (I'm not sure how many countries have free health though). So, that could be one of the hidden costs as well.
* Lack of talent, the majority of students have steered clear of tech disciplines in university after the dot-com bust, the effect of this is being felt now as engineering talent is needed.

Very much so in QLD from experience. I'm studying [software] engineering at the University of Queensland and they give seemingly all their attention towards mining and civil majors.
Nothing is broken. The compiler would be within its rights to do the same thing to an int (or more realisticly a char or similar type that's shorter than the registers its stored in).
No need to network. All those network nodes were already added to the Google's index by Larry's assistant-crawlers.
Would be cool as a browser plugin, so that when a message goes over the character limit, a button to post via Prolificc appears, all within the natural flow of using the Twitter website. You could even extend this concept by creating a Prolificc API to allow third party developers to integrate into popular twitter clients.

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I tried to reply a few times last night but was having problems.

You're absolutely right about timbthumb. I was referring to bike in isolation, which of course it never will be. Having said that, the same applies to phpmyadmin and other apps that you might have. Indeed, timbthumb is a common way of breaking into weak wordpress themes and plugins.

Just to be clear I wasn't suggesting using a random folder name. I've never been one for security by obscurity, but by keeping anything you don't want near the Internet restricted from the great unwashed (and by following an appropriate application security strategy) then you have a better chance than just putting this under /bike and open to the world.
There was a startup I did some work for a few years back.

The CEO attempted to remove himself from the washing up rota in the kitchen when a new employee came on board.

At this point I knew the company was doomed :-)
Well, there goes that theory :-)
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In the developed world it seems quite hard to explain the landmark concept -- people know and use maps, addresses are available everywhere, online maps are ubiquitous etc. Whereas people from developing countries seem to get the idea much more easily.

This blog post explains why we are focusing on that simple concept.
On the Mac I use ImageAlpha to reduce the colours to 256 (it has a preview window so you can see if it's OK), then when saving the file I choose the option to send it to ImageOptim.

On Linux you can get the same by using pngquant, then using trimage. AFAIK there's no GUI frontend for pngquant so I guess how many colours would be ok and check before running trimage.

The reason why I use 2 tools is that ImageAlpha/pngquant is lossy and ImageOptim/trimage is lossless.
I'm curious - what was the difference in salaries?
Just a slight correction: Black Mirror was produced for Channel 4 (as opposed to the BBC).
Your phone doesn't have the latest OS because your device manufacturer isn't giving it to you.

"You didn't buy it from Google, so it's your own fault" is probably not a great marketing tactic for the platform.

Android is, in several ways, dependent on the goodwill and word-of-mouth promotion of people who care about things like getting their device's OS upgraded within a couple years of when the new OS is released. Losing that goodwill (which is surprisingly difficult when we consider all the different ways Google's basically said "fuck you" to the people who promoted Android for them) would probably be a major blow for the platform.
My friend told me that he could remember faces well, but that more often than not it contributed to awkwardness when he could remember the other person's name, but the other person couldn't remember his.

I have been told that, in a sales context, this actually helps. It fires off some sort of feeling that you need to make up for the social faux pas.

(I am truly awful at remembering faces and names - so have never had the opportunity to find out myself :-)
It will be the size of the car seats on the market.

In the US people have bigger cars (in general). Parents seem to want to maximise the size of the seat. As a result, it's my hypothesis that small sized car seats do not sell well.

The flow-on from this is that it probably would be very difficult to purchase two car seats that would fit comfortably into a small vehicle, like a VW Polo or similar.

In addition, there are other factors that drive the choice of a larger car, including space for the various other things that babies come with, like prams. And most people prefer larger than smaller when choosing a vehicle. People in Europe choose smaller cars for a variety of reasons, including parking, fuel costs and road size.
I'm reminded of the scene with the rat from the abyss for obvious reasons. But I'm also massively impressed. I saw a post yesterday about this decade being the most productive decade. We may not have flying cars (and yesterday was the future date Doc Brown set to arrive in Back to the Future) but it's things like this that make me think, "Wow, we really are living in the future".
Most people in the US today are also obese.
Problem is the exit is never guaranteed. Many people end up doing work they hate for many years, never reaching that mythical massive payout.
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In quantum mechanics a wave function is said to "collapse" when observed so maybe a collapsing value?
> If I throw up a proof of concept website in a weekend as a test, it takes off, and I work on it full-time just to make sure it's not exploding/falling over as it scales, and I don't go back and make everything 100% accessible to 100% of my users, am I really discriminating against the disabled?

Yes. At the point where your site stopped being a proof-of-concept and became a public offering, that's when an inaccessible website starts discriminating against disabled people.

Simply put, a service offered publicly needs to be accessible to the public. That public includes people with disabilities.
My economics lecturer did a memorable talk on OPEC back in the day.

His thesis was that groups such as OPEC are ultimately self defeating. I think it was related to game theory.

Basically : OPEC members are made up of states with varying levels of oil reserves. Those with small reserves want to restrict supply to drive the price up, so they can maximise the amount they get for their reserves before they are exhausted.

Those with much larger fields (ie, Saudis) do not want to drive the price up too much, because this encourages other extraction methods (ie, Oil Sands, Deepwater Extraction) as well as encouraging uptake of alternative energy sources (ie Electric Car development, natural gas, biofuels).

As each OPEC member has differing goals and differing timeframes, eventually OPEC will become a toothless tiger that individual nations openly disobey.

I must say in the 10 years since that time, while his eventuality hasn't come about (OPEC is still together) much of it has come true. It certainly isn't the feared group it was 30 years ago.
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Really? This post made it a little bit more unlikely for me that I'll take a job under Bezos.

"Yeah, my managers suck. I should fix that. But you know, they're extracting enough value out of you for me so that I'm OK with them sucking. I don't really care about lowly workers"

It's a valid stance, but I'd rather work under a CEO who actually cares that the managers perform well, too.
Can somebody else from Europe confirm, that by their law Google Glasses are illegal? Here, in Latvia, we have a law, which forbids selling, buying or using (even transfering) certain objects, which are listed as "goods and services of strategic importance". And Google Glasses fall under one list item.

Most notably, the part which, I believe, applies to Google Glasses is as follows (bad translation, done by me):

Wired or wireless video and television cameras (with exception of mobile phones and computer cameras), which are masked as other objects, or their dimensions are smaller than 40 x 40 x 40 mm, or their diameter is smaller than 25 mm, or they are fitted with a pinhole lens.

List of devices: http://www.likumi.lv/doc.php?id=163892&from=off
I'm not sure. Such a ruling like this one would give Mr. Dotcom "do not touch this guy" status (if he wins, expect him coming back from ashes and starting this or another online business, whether on the edge of legality, or not, still making big bucks), that means next time a prosecutor will try to go after him whether due to RIAA/political pressures or not, they will be highly discouraged by the outcome of this case.

Such a ruling would also encourage others to do things on the edge of the law because others got away with it. So no, by any means they wanted to put Mr. Dotcom behind bars and keep him there while thousands of his hard drives rot and fall apart.
Gasland is propaganda from one person (or groups) point of view. They definitely had an angle to push, and push it they did.

Not saying there aren't truths in the movie, but I've read enough on the background to know it was a movie with an agenda. The famous flammable tapwater, for example, is a naturally occuring phenomonen in many places.

Much more needs to be done on the studying of injecting the ground to see how this affects groundwater and ground stability. But fracking is not new - it's been around for a long time.
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Yes, in some ways make sense, if you add all of the code

Also, embedded software doesn't / can't make use of existing libraries because of code size (but this is changing)

And of course you can't really compare PHP+JS+what else in Facebook with C+Java+Assembly of car embedded systems

But yeah, hardware companies don't know how to make software
I appreciate that you can't go far into technical details in an HN comment, but after a statement like that, you could at least give a pointer to those "good reasons". They might not be as obvious to everyone as you assume.
Ask any artist to explain how color works, and they’ll launch into a treatise about how the Three Primary Colors

Nope.

If you ask an artist or designer about how colour works when you'll usually get is a deep sigh, followed by "it's complicated", followed by a looooooooooong explanation of some of the options presented here and a good few more besides.

(Fascinating bit of trivia: There is some moderatly persuasive evidence that some folk have more varient cone cells and can see more colours than people with "normal" vision. See http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/news/health/some-women-m... and http://www.klab.caltech.edu/cns186/papers/Jameson01.pdf).

It's usually developers who have the broken models of colour perception because, unsurprisingly, they're not trained in it :-) Artists and designers deal with multiple colour models all of the time - just go look at how many of the preferences in things like Photoshop are about managing colour... and that's just in the digital editing space.
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I was going to say "that's pretty much how Facebook started out, as a website to rate female college students". Then I realised I got that from The Social Network, which is a film, and probably not entirely accurate.

Certainly believable though.
I mean "In* quantum mechanics* a wave function* is said to "collapse" when observed, so maybe a collapsing value?"
Maybe iPads are expensive, but the Nexus 7 is reasonably priced for the specs and features.
I came here to say the same thing.

'Beautiful' has been diluted in the same way 'disrupt' has. It's becoming a real joke, and I can no longer take posts seriously that claim to be 'beautiful' on here.
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I think writing a novel genome on a computer, injecting it into a cell and 'rebooting' the cell as an organism like no other and descended from no other before it is significant.
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> the net effect of doubling US reserves would have been to move the Hubbert Peak Oil date forward by five or ten years, maximum.

> I'm not saying "don't be efficient", I am saying "don't bank on that changing the game". We're going to have to learn how to get by on vastly less energy than the typical first world resident has become accustomed to.

But that's exactly what this article is about, that that thinking is erroneous. The oil supply situation in the US now vs 5 years ago is dramatically different.
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Thanks for posting on hn. Please tell me, do you think the general reaction will be that it could fry your brain?
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This sounds about right; and 'collapsing' has the added benefit of sounding inherently dangerous-handle-with-care.
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Are you deriving and coming up with these methods of solving ODE for fun, or is there special about your techniques compared to known existing methods?
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On the other hand, there are products that have a lot of inertia built into them based on the success of their ecosystems. For example, regardless of whether you believe tile based interfaces in Windows 8 / Windows Phone are interesting / useful, they are different. Apple simply can't go there (quickly) without having to move the entire ecosystem of apps along with it. It's effectively a once in a generation change, much like the OS9 to OSX transition.
Its actually not too rare for these to be declared illegal. The problem is that most judiciary offer no protection in this case. Fruit of the forbidden tree is not a world wide principle.
To add to that, I'd recommend the documentary "9to5: Days in Porn" [1] to see how a (mainstream) shooting really is like (amongst other things).

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This is true for integers and pointers. The bool type (introduced in C99) though, is only required by C as to have the value 0 or 1. If you assign 55 to a bool, there are rules that implicitly convert that to a 1. If an implementation chooses to make bool only store 0 and 1, and you somehow manages to squeeze another value into that bool, it's perfectly fine for this to be undefined behavior.
Pay for your fair share isn't about robbing the rich to feed the poor. Higher tax rates for high income earners and boom industries (mining) etc, is all about generating tax revenue to _reinvest_ into the same system that gave you the opportunity to be successful! What are those benefits? Low tax rates for low income earners, family financial assistance, the free primary/secondary education that you received as a child, the heavily discounted tertiary education and free Medicare (at least in Australia). This stuff doesn't pay for itself.

Realise that just because you had some level success, it doesn't mean it was all because of you and that it's not fair to pay your dues - it is fair. Economic and social welfare policies that were enacted more than 20 years gave you the environment to thrive. Now its your time to give back to that system so we can give others in the future their chance too.
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Facebook's new massive email list is another thing to segment and sell off to advertisers, and another way to make money from its users.

I can also see partnerships with anti-spam and anti-virus companies. Maybe users will need to subscribe to these in order to maintain a sane inbox (and FB will get a slice of that revenue, natch).
"You couldn't even begin to localize templates like this without rewriting them"

How come? If your base HTML templates are say python or ruby templates they could be localized fine. And if the JSON content your parsing with Walrus comes from the same backend and is also localized where's the issue?

It's mustache with some view logic sugar which makes a lot of sense as far as i'm concerned and would allow your HTML templates to be mostly 'logic free'.
Think about the alternatives you're comparing:

[Frictionless]: cookie + record in the database + random userid

[ForcedAccountCreation]: cookie + record in the database + arbitrary username + meaningless passwordhash

I can't think off hand of any advantage the things in that second list give you that you can't get from the things in the first one.
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Ask HN: Are there any places that name & shame sites with shitty security?
If there isn't one yet, shall we make it?

After getting frustrated that my bank won't let me have a password with symbols in it (seriously??), I sent them a message.
The boilerplate reply I got doesn't fill me with confidence, so I'm wondering:

Is there a way to report offending sites like this?

A) Report a site/company that has shitty security practises. (They're storing passwords in plaintext, limiting strong passwords, are open to some attack)

B) Bubble up the worst offenders, show the list to the world.

C) Provide them with directions to literature so they can take steps to improve their situation if they care.
(And allow some discourse, so they can respond to the public about their problems and what is being done about them)
Its typicaly considered the worst of all side effects of a programming language. Ive heard it referred to only as a side effect. But there is the issue of representation in quantum physics which is real, observation does change the state.

Good question but programming languages avoid this, you would have to coin your own.
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From the feature list of Yeoman it looks like Brunch has way more stuff going for it. Brunch hasn't bought into a framework and allows you to configure your assembly workflow. It's fine being opinionated when you're giving up freedom to choose but gaining speed of development. I just don't see what harm it is for frontend assemblers to allow you to pick and choose between template/CSS compilers. Throw in the framework and you could see some automation not possible if picking one css and template language.

EDIT: Just saw the package manager :) That's something!
You built a great team of a whopping four persons over two years using serendipity, congrats.

As you're starting to maybe realize, this approach doesn't scale.

You think you're special, that your employee requirements are way higher than any other startup's, because you're just that amazing and world changing. Mathematically, you're probably not, and every startup out there thinks the exact same.

Ultimately, you're going to have to suck it up and just hire people who can do the job. Those emotional stories about how Koding came together are great— you want to "date" (what a silly word, but let's reuse it) your founders. But wanting to build a full team like that is just delusional. There's only one "best engineer I've ever met" in the world.

Some reading for you:

http://careercarrot.wordpress.com/2012/06/26/looking-for-roc...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem
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