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All I ever did was bruteforce through the most disgusting and hacky ways imaginable. I converted strings to numbers, let loops run for gazillion times and broke everything. I just used the tasks to make me try the lowest basics of languages.
Every man is a prayer
Every man is a prayer is a rule for a robot to understand the meaning of religion.

I think that when a robot can understand the meaning of this phrase is a milestone to understand what is religion.

It doesn't offer any suggestion about the optimal path for any living creature, but it suggests that the research of a certain meaning is a global enterprise.

Perhaps that meaning is to be created in a distance future, that is there is no close state, no goal or perfect moment, but a certain rhythm creates the structure for this search.
>That operating system you are using violates 27 of my company's patents, but I'm not telling you which ones.

Company's problem, not mine.

>Reading that book outloud to your children violates the T&C

Just because you put it in a contract doesn't make it legally enforceable.

>You do calculate and pay local sales tax on anything you order from out of state?

As a matter of fact...
I just finished Game of Thrones, I couldn't put it down and had to go out and buy the A Clash of Kings as soon as I was done.
> I doubt people are stupid enough to conflate Bitcoin with 3rd party websites that use bitcoins.

Well, some of the most touted features of Bitcoin are that it's anonymous, untracable, and unfettered burdensome mandates like FDIC insurance and PCI-DSS compliance.

In this case, those features mean in all likelihood the thieves won't be traced or punished, the depositors' money won't be returned, and there was no independent auditing to catch crap security practices.

High profile thefts might make people think they don't need the features that Bitcoin is offering.
Doesn't seem to work out of the box.
As far as I understand, the generated "more" link will take you to the second page of the articles where no articles of the first page are going to appear even if there should be pushed back to the second page because some new articles were posted in the mean time.

Think of an always up-to-date list divided in two pages, clicking on the second page would take you to a list of links that you might already have seen on the first page. Here, the second page is kind of "frozen" in time, aka the session and only displays the rest of the links.

I might be wrong though.

What I don't know is why a "news.ycombinator.com/page/2" url design couldn't be handled with a client-side session and cookie and still offers the same feature.
I've been using a quite different approach at structuring my Node.js applications: http://bergie.iki.fi/nodext/

With NodeXT you build the application out of multiple modules (extensions), which you then "mount" into the URL structure you want to use.

Helps keeping code more decoupled and reusable.
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>It's just that the web of law reaches everywhere and it's almost impossible to not trip over it.

The contrarian view would be that most people don't care if they trip over it.
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Works like a dream.
is the location accurate? ive seen other apps like this but it was always not accurate. i believe it's because the link opens up a browser, which uses html5 geolocate that doesn't really use GPS but surrounding wifis?
I think it comes as standard on Windows 7, I'd be very surprised if it isn't in Windows 8.
The assertion that "elite" status is more meritocratic today than in the past (in America) is highly questionable. Go look at 100 year old university admissions tests. Note that they didn't care what "clubs" you were in.

Brooks goes on about diversity and the decline of WASP dominance as an obvious sign of the shift to meritocracy. This out of hand dismisses the possibility the WASPs just actually were/are elite. Why is this a fair assumption?

http://blog.jim.com/culture/not-the-cognitive-elite-3.html
The namespace for FOSS is getting crowded:
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Not a bad thing.
No, which is why I pointed out the misleading title. They are, however, increasingly popular technical skills that companies are paying good money to acquire.
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Because you can't shadow a variable?

Sure. But how about because actually learning JavaScript is better than coding with training wheels?
It's not perfect, but it's a hell of a lot better than how it works in plain JS.
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Yeah, I think we agree: Brooks claims the mechanism that gets them there is meritocratic, but because they do not have the concept of being an elite (the patronizing attitude), which they do not have because they "earned it", they are worse leaders. "The problem is that today’s meritocratic elites cannot admit to themselves that they are elites."
There has been a significant shift in the political slant of the Economist during the past 5 years. They continue to be the best coverage of meaningful global political and economic issues that I know of.
What a total BS blog post with no real data
Agreed. Every time I get the "unknown or expired link" error, I'm grateful that it didn't show me a slightly inaccurate (according to some metric/specification) list.

/sarcasm
CoffeeScript is not "coding with training wheels". To use CoffeeScript at all, you need to be strong in JavaScript first. I know JavaScript very well. I use CoffeeScript because I prefer getting work done to proving how manly I am.
Probably mostly game apps where the item being sold is purely virtual. It seems to me like the extra cost of validating receipts for that use case wouldn't be worth it.
I've noticed, the language that you can comfortably (i.e. without breaks) swear and be angry and abusive is the one you "think" in.
The location is pretty accurate. Instead of using getCurrentPosition, we actually use watchPosition + enableHighAccuracy to gather location for a few seconds before pushing it to our server.
Here is the NoFlo graph I used to migrate my blog from a JSON-LD dump into Jekyll:

https://gist.github.com/3105838
> technology at the foundation of the web is all pretty shitty for building real applications

What we need is for people to stop wasting their time on those semantically-impaired application silos and contribute more useful (progressively enhanced) content before the web of multipurpose hypertext completely disintegrates.
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You can't re-use a variable name inside a scope without clobbering the value of the variable outside of the scope. You can in Javascript via the `var` keyword.

The issue's been beaten to death, and the consensus among the pro-Coffeescript crowd is that it's acceptable, because you shouldn't be shadowing variables anyway, and the consensus amoung the anti-Coffeescript crowd is that it's terrible because it removes control from the developer.
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I hope Vim isn't becoming a false icon, a part of some sort of hipster / brogrammer paradigm for what to look for in or symbols that a person is a ninja/rockstar/neckbeard/ or whatever the hell else they are calling it today.

I realize startups are HOT again and this sort of thing is bound to happen. I just hope that this too shall pass.
So, this is just a "haters gonna hate" post, that a dude got his buddies to upvote in /new? :P

Way to contribute to elevating the state of discussion on the internet.
I would love to know by what metric 1950s & 60s elites were 'better'. Brook's seems to be ignoring the fact that elites in these times were more effective because they could ignore other interest groups. It's easy to get a highway built when you can override the largely poor or minority groups who live in these areas (i.e. Robert Moses). Also the widespread lack of transparency meant that the crimes of elites were far less apparent, and so popular conception is that they were a far more 'honorable' bunch. I don't deny that there is a lot wrong with the ruling class today, but that problem emerges from our institutions, and the concentration of power and lack of checks/balances, not because of some mythic, WASPy noblesse oblige that no longer exists.
Is it really that hard to imagine that this is an inside job? Come on... 4 or 5 big money-losing breaches? To the tune of what? A million dollars? And nobody is talking about cooperation between insiders and this "hacker" ?
A title like this is not acceptable. Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3379962
I keep thinking that it really is this simple. All the problems of recent years are problems of scale. In a world of thousands of banks landing to each other in a big market, you can simply measure the rates instead of trusting a handful to come up with LIBOR. In a world with thousands of banks, a handful would have gone under from bad exposure to real estate volatility and spooked the rest into being more conservative, instead we had to wait for Lehman to fail to realize how bad things were.

There's no social or economic value to the BofA & Chase-sized monsters that I can see. Just chop them up and put an incentive in place (extra tax beyond a certain revenue, say) that encourages them to spin off more banks.
Not much, actually, besides : which was unshifted. But we shouldn't overlook people who try to use Vi(m) on keyboards other than the US one. For instance, on the Italian layout, / and ? are both shifted, and on different keys, thus causing their relationship to be less intuitive, and further from the home row.
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Not me; my French self is also a total dick.
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I was just thinking about this yesterday when I read the Digg article.
I used to read Digg all the time, until it got to the point where the comments in each Digg submitted article stated how that article/news story was on reddit first. This is when I found out about reddit... haha
I admit, I'm not as tapped in as I was two years ago, but, do you ever read The Christian Science Monitor?
May not quite as high-brow as much of what i've seen listed, but:

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That's a programmer's excuse. Essentially you could have just written "It is a feature not a bug!"
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Here, i write sentences three or four times searching for a short clear statement. I can't say my writing is good, or even correctly punctuated, but it's far better than some of my direct to email incoherent rambling.

The biggest problem i'm noticing now is verb agreement. I'll rewrite parts of a sentence and fix all the things i break. If only there was a typechecker to warn me of those silly mistakes.
Also Dan Piponi's blog (http://blog.sigfpe.com/) is pretty good if you're Haskell hacker, but in that case you probably already heard about it.
Well, when you bring back a programming concept invented in the 70s, there can hardly be much new about it. But at least I'm being quite honest about this on the NoFlo website:

FBP itself is not a new idea: it comes from a term IBM used in the 70s to define the concepts of more manageable business workflows. NoFlo, however, refreshes these concepts and brings them to Node.js applications.

When I started with NoFlo there were open source implementations of FBP for Java and C#, but I wanted something a bit more dynamic.
And that happened, IMHO, because the people behind reddit didn't behave like jerks and the people behind Digg did.

One example of being jerks: http://blog.jgc.org/2006/07/sense-of-humor-failure-at-digg.h...

After that I was unbanned, but not after an employee of Digg defamed me in a blog post by making false claims: http://blog.jgc.org/2006/07/unbanned-from-digg.html

And here's an example of how reddit people weren't jerks when I inadvertently brought the site great slowness: http://blog.jgc.org/2010/09/tale-of-two-cultures.html
Essentially ...

"... bitcoin could replace PayPal and credit cards which would increase the transactional privacy of his many loyal customers as well as dramatically reduce the processing fees that his company has undoubtedly been forking over to PayPal and credit card processors."

and

" funds retained on the distributed bitcoin block chain cannot be seized in any jurisdiction. As the holder of the private key, you and only you control access and dispensation of the bitcoin value."

Bitcoin value has been on a tear these last two months:
http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg30zigHourlyztgSza...
Yes, he asks if we would say government is working better now than 60 years ago, and given (just for starters) the huge difference in opportunities available for women and minorities, I'm not seeing why I shouldn't say that.

The whole thing rests on a premise that, in some vague and mostly-unspecified way, "things used to be better," or at least "people used to think things were better." But this doesn't seem backed up by anything. And on the contrary, one of the more interesting things I learned in one of my history electives in college was that people have been cynical about their leaders for a long, long time, including at the very start of the US.

Personally, my hunch is that we simply have quicker/more effective means of disseminating information about corruption now.
Ironically Safari is the only app I can't make work. But by God, who uses Safari? :P
User gets an error that results from an implementation detail. There is no way to go back unless the previous page is still in your cache. There are no navigation links which allow you to go back to the normal site. The whole usage context is lost. There is no single-link place that gets you back to the position you were in (unless it was the second page). You can trigger it even without an action (let your mobile phone browser be evicted to free up memory, open it again - your page just became a white error page).

It's a bug. It could just as well say "500 internal error".

Author's name is not Knuth and he's still alive, so yes - it's a bug, not a feature.
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That's one of the stupidest things I've ever heard.
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I'm the OP. It could be possible that someone knew how to get into her account and had just done a self disable/enable. Far fetched though.
He manages to hit a lot of the terrible points that normally make his essays unbearable - comparing the 50s favorably to today, and an abject worship for a poorly defined patriarchal elite, but this part was spot on:

"Everybody thinks they are countercultural rebels, insurgents against the true establishment, which is always somewhere else. This attitude prevails in the Ivy League, in the corporate boardrooms and even at television studios where hosts from Harvard, Stanford and Brown rail against the establishment."

Or in the tech press, where multi-billion dollar companies are "disruptive".
awesome, I'm currently working on a website to build experiments around the writing process

I have quite a few idea and I like those kind of projects that permit to liberate the creativity (through constraints!)
This characterization seems to apply to very few of the SO badges, especially beyond the bronze level.
I would add a third, being scale, when Wall St. panics the US government steps in.
Blindfold chess is certainly effective for improving your spacial memory, but why leave it at that? I highly recommend anyone and everyone learn the memory palace technique (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci), which takes advantage of the fact that our spacial memory is vastly superior to our memory for facts, allowing anyone to develop the functional equivalent of a photographic memory. In Moonwalking with Einstein (a really fun and fast autobiographical tutorial on memory), the author Joshua Foer explains how to encode facts into images and then arrange them along spacial layouts to maximize the brain's potential. In convincing my mother to read the book, I had her memorize a 10-item shopping list in about five minutes when she was incredibly tired (which is when her memory and general thinking ability are at their absolute worst), and she still remembers all ten items, in order, to this day.
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My first attempt at a startup could use some beta testers - http://padseeker.com/accounts/new<p>Would love feedback from fellow hacker news members. Long story short padseeker is like weebly for real estate. It's mainly residential rental properties. It still needs work but I would love to hear from fellow developers what you think. Please make the feedback honest, and if necessary brutal.
Not that there aren't any keyloggers for Linux, I never found anything suspicious, nor have any of my other accounts been breached into. But yeah, if there is a keylogger, I bet it got installed from the Mt.Gox website itself ;)
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There are a few reasons logins are still needed for most apps:

- you want users to be able to use the service from multiple devices

- (relatedly) you want users to be able to get a new phone without loosing their account

- you want to collect an email address or other information about users before allowing them to use the service

edited for formatting
I don't think it is a bug. You are clicking a link to ask for the next batch of stories in line. However you have stayed on the present page so long that the line has advanced and many of those stories that would be on the second page are ow on the first or third pages. It tells you what you expected to see is out of date.
Fair point on the disastrous social engineering and urban redevelopment schemes of the 20th century. But, what about sending men to the moon or designing and building the sr-71 in a few years? Or for that matter conquering Japan and Germany in the space of a few years.

I argue these are all things our society today would simply not be able to do if placed in the same circumstances. We are less effective.
Ooh, the irony.
I haven't had the time to try it myself (still in the office). All I know is it's RoR.
> We need to stop trusting people - period. This is why, at least in the US, we have 3 branches of government, so that each one will check the other out of self-interest and balance possible abuse/corruption (not perfect - but pretty darn good!).

I think you have the right intuition, but you don't go far enough. The root problem in finance is that people have turned over to government the power to control money. There is too much trust in government officials and in the banks that fund them.

Government's ability to control money has resulted in fiat money that is constantly being devalued, encouraging people to make risky investments and to take on debt. This has been very profitable for government, which has ready access to low-cost funding. Fiat money has also been very profitable for banks, which through the "magic" of fractional-reserve banking, have been able to loan with interest money they can simply create.

The solution is to take away the power to control money from government. Let people decide what they will use as money and they will choose money that maintains its value. They will also invest in institutions that do not use fractional-reserves and other risky schemes and thus are not subject to bank-runs.

A US politician that is talking about real reform is Ron Paul. The bill that would allow currency competition is The Free Competition in Currency Act. It's about one page long. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr1098/text

Give people the freedom to choose their money, let them choose to invest it in the institutions of their choice, and problems like the Libor scandal will stop being so important. The people who committed fraud will be prosecuted. Damages will be paid. Reputations will be damaged. People will choose to bank elsewhere. No problem.

By trusting government to control money, fraud in the few institutions favored with a bank charter becomes a very important issue. It doesn't have to be.
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Ironic that this is sponsored by IE, and IE is the one browser holding back cutting-edge browser-based games.
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What's the distinction between controllers, helpers, and views?
The libor scandal was giving extra LOW interest rates to retail borrowers.
I always thought it was designed like that to slow down scrapers.
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Please; power users were controlling the content on the site long before they turned 3.0 on. It was a well known fact that a small minority of users controlled the vast majority of the front page content (mrbabyman, for instance).
I've never thought their agenda was subtle, or that they make any attempt to conceal it - The Economist is full of statements like "this magazine has long argued for" or "this would be a mistake" when referring to a policy or idea.

You might not agree with their viewpoint but they don't hide it.
Depends on your target. Bash is the LSB shell. If your scripts are only targeting Linux, then you should be able to safely assume bash is there. On Linux, by default, there isn't even a real Bourne shell anyway; it's a symlink to bash.

If you're writing cross-platform then yes, sh would be a better target, but a lot of environments are going to be Linux only.
The interesting point that I got from this article is that the old aristocracy had a sense of responsibility to society and acknowledged the fact that they were privileged. Now that we're in a society where people tend to not think of themselves as wealthy or privileged, how does this self-ignorant meritocratic elite know that they do have a responsibility?
The current system favors easily quantifiable performance metrics (GPA, SAT, ranking of degree-granting academic institution) and social networking. We end up with socially-adept individuals who look good on paper running the show. As we have seen in some stunning recent displays, individuals can rise within this system and succeed despite an off-kilter moral compass or a sense of purpose beyond their own personal gain. Hayes claims that elites are corrupted by meritocracy when they attempt to preserve their power. Brooks argues that the rise of morally bankrupt elites are a cultural byproduct, rather than a inherent issue with meritocracy itself.

It's a potentially interesting distinction, but Brooks doesn't justify it coherently or delve into the implications at all. He compares and contrasts yesterday's elites to today's, but these comparisons hold under either hypothesis. It would have been more interesting if he provided a coherent argument for his claim, or offered any prescriptions to treat the underlying problem (or even to quell the symptoms).
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This has been going on for at least a year, probably longer. It only works on apps that don't check the receipt with Apple's servers.

The fix for developers is to have your server check the receipt of the transaction with Apple. If Apple doesn't recognize the receipt, don't save the transaction.

Don't have the client do it, because client code can be easily hacked. Someone could intercept the app's communication with your server but it's not likely to be in a common format, so automated hacks won't work. They'd have to crack your app on a case-by-case basis.
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