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Well actually, we are talking about JavaScript, 5 separate .js files actually.

The challenge comes back to the fact that "Secure" in an HTTPS context is an absolute; either everything is loaded over HTTPS and you get a shiny padlock or it's not and you get a red cross (depending on the browser, of course). The browser itself obviously cannot discern what the developer feels should be loaded over a secure channel and what should not nor is there anything in the HTML/HTTP spec to support this (other than HSTS to force HTTPS).

The simple reason not to serve up HTTP content on an HTTPS page is that rightly or wrongly, the browser will tell your users that your site can't be trusted. I understand your point, but that's the implementation you'll find in the browsers of today.

Facebook is definitely a high value target, just ask a Tunisian who was using it early last year: http://www.thetechherald.com/articles/Tunisian-government-ha...

Not having HTTPS everywhere by default (although at least it's now a configurable option) is extremely serious for a site like Facebook. The fallout from governments monitoring political dissidents is just one example, the potential harvesting of personal information (including connections) is another that's closer to home. Remember Firesheep? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firesheep

Why doesn't Facebook force it everywhere? Perception of processing overhead (although debunked by Google), integration impact with non-HTTPS content (impact on ads has long been claimed as a barrier), re-engineering of one of the world's largest sites, etc. But it's heading in the right direction, Twitter, Facebook and Hotmail, for example have all made positive steps forward, I'm sure we'll see a much greater prevalence of HTTPS as time progresses.
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Support is already being added in Firefox. Skype posted a position a while back about a WebRTC hire. I'm not sure why people act like it's some fringe thing. It's already not.
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The value I got from my abstract algebra course is the ability to identify things that are identical, or at least similar. A big part of abstract 1 is just manipulating symbols to appear in a form that's usable with a provided theorem.
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I see where you're coming from, but I worry about the standard of evidence being thrown around. Is anyone who says something that aligns with a corporate interest a "shill"? It seems to be easy to allege and impossible to disprove.
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Yeah, well, I'm constantly hooked up to an EEG headset that is programmed to recognize, within .03 nanoseconds from onset, the specific electrical wave pattern my brain triggers when I've got even the smallest desire to browse HN, flipping my desk upside down to expose the orange and overlocked 8.2ghz, 32gb DDRAM HN supercomputer loaded with nothing more than the latest webkit nightly set to open with 15 tabs each containing one of the top 15 stories at HN at that time. I've also got a CPAP machine hacked to fit a Camelbak tube through the mask so that when I do forget to continue living, I'm always covered. News moves fast here, and you've got to keep up.
If the designs were so obvious, why did every phone prior to the iPhone look like crap, and almost every phone since its release looks like a clone or at the least a close sibling?
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Once again I say "don't bet the farm on the generosity of someone else." People frequently cry when these services pull support, "steal" ideas (I use steal loosely), or block access...

Would you build your kids playhouse on your neighbors yard just because he doesn't say no?
If someone could translate that into English, that'd be great. I know a lot about quantum physics, and a lot about computer science, but I still didn't really understand what that was about. Although I did get excited.
Surely there is a gradation at some point along which a word like "shill" becomes applicable. I don't know where that line is. Is anyone who says something that aligns with a corporate interest plus takes a million dollars from said interest a "shill"?

I like a good muckraking as much as the next guy but in the end, judging individual actors as "shills" or whatever obscures the important issues, which are systemic. It may even be that tarring a few people as shills and frauds is a big mistake insofar as the rest of us then take that as a license to let ourselves off the hook.

In my opinion academia, medicine, and journalism (to pick three pretty important institutions) are all corrupt in this systemic way, a way that has little to do with individual choice (apart from a few ethically gifted souls whom we can all admire but mostly won't imitate) and much to do with human nature. And this is a big, big deal because it deeply affects what those institutions are producing. Think of all the work done on how big pharma gets doctors to push their product into people who don't need it, or about how journalists are mollified by "access" (friendly personal contact) with powerful people they're covering.

The really great thing about what researchers like Ariely are doing is that it could lead to an objective basis for preventing the conditions for corruption from arising in the first place. Can you imagine what a difference that would make to society?
Because they would not make a tenth of the money they do if they did that, obviously.

Most sales or acquisitions originated online are based on rational decisions, not on the appeal of annoying ads.

The day advertisers start to use a verifiable CPA system, 80% of online advertising cease to exist and 95% of today's start-ups see their cash vaporize.
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Click the result, then click back to the search results.

You can also manage sites manually from the settings. flower in the top right -> search settings -> block unwanted sites
It is easy to call the Radio lab guys "messy" but it is a lot harder to tell compelling science stories that fit the medium and the audience. If you can name a better general-audience radio show about science, I will eat my tote bag.
This is my new parser. You change stuff in textarea and click submit to view changes. Sorry if it's not 100% there and the way I present it is simple, just was excited to share somewhere. I will use it to replace bbcode/markup/textile on future sites. I can easily add dsl-like forms, like table and list in the above example, to the parser for generating things like graphs or exploiting html5 features with less typing.
Btw, why does not the ex.fm plugin show?
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Only 1 graph? Is Chrome broken for me? I thought we were going to get more visual representations like the Twitter "follow" graph with 33 billion edges!
Have you tried looking up their paper? I normally can't glean very much from popular press releases about mathematics either.
I love the irony of being fired for making up shit about Dylan, a noted "borrower" of other people's ideas himself!
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Thanks - Ill take the constructive criticism on my tone.

However, I will point out that with respect to your comment on FB's complicit actions due to the daunting nature of the problem, this does not take into account their other actions of a 24K ransom on the domain.

Everyone can argue in any direction they want - but neither me nor anyone else is really going to know until we get further down this path...
In Display advertising this is common. The fact that tools like Adxpose exist points that this is a common problem for advertisers. Very often the impressions are sold anyway.

Heck, C3Metrics has even come out with a new product - Viewable Impressions solely to address this issue.

Is this a problem? Yes and no. I think ad spaces should always be sold. But I think there should be a price difference between impression loaded and impression viewed.
It's just as easy to invest in several fake profiles that act just like real users. Pay people to work from home maintaining fake accounts for you, posting stuff that seems real, interacting with your other fake accounts and celebrity/business pages, etc. Then, run bots with these accounts, click around on a subset of good links randomly, and throw in a reasonable ratio of ad clicks per account, then move on to the next shill account.

This definitely takes non-trivial effort, but it's also definitely doable if you have a serious interest in perpetrating click fraud. While Facebook hypothetically could fight this form of click fraud, it'd likely be difficult and the method would be fragile/easily circumvented. Like most things, PPC advertising can only function in a world primarily populated with positive actors.
The link isn't working, although I'd like to see what this is about.
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Hi patio11,
Thanks for the comment. Really makes sense. Collecting email is not the only hard part. Once you have sufficient number of people who want a specific product, the next hard part is to do the deal with the companies to push them to sell you the same product at a lower price. I believe if I have sufficient number of customers I can do the negotiation with the company to bring down the price to a certain level. But that is now in assumption phase.
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Wow, the case is really weak. And I don't even like Malcolm Gladwell.

In 2007, Gladwell took up the financial industry’s cause. He argued that Enron’s investors were to blame for their losses, rather than accounting fraud, which he dismissed. His "analysis" was debunked and mocked by U.C. Berkeley Economics Professor Brad DeLong.

That same year, 2007, Gladwell hailed ex-Goldman Sachs CEO Hank Paulson’s move to head the Treasury Department, praising him for being among those “self-selected toward public service. . . ” Gladwell did not mention that Paulson saved himself roughly $100 million in taxes by moving straight from Goldman Sachs to Treasury.

He's a contrarian. Maybe wrong, maybe even stupid. But that is different than corruption.
Doesn't seem like it :)
It was solved, and he (Fermat) was likely wrong, given the resulting proof.

(5 + 3) % 8 = 0 is not the same as 5 + 3 = 0

I'm not looking for mystery, I'm wondering why people think it exists, and are faking its existence by being imprecise.
> Rather than make this a simplistic question of "Should we challenge our kids or not?", we should be asking the question "What should we challenge our kids with?". And it's not clear to me that every liberal arts major needs a good algebra foundation.

It doesn't have to be algebra specifically, though algebra is probably the most immediately applicable and simplest set of mathematical concepts to teach. It's a more general sense, that those who are comfortable with mathematical concepts are better at constructing abstract ideas that are rigorous and consistent, which is generally a positive virtue in liberal arts. For instance, this is what distinguishes the logic-driven analytic school of philosophy from the hand wavy and largely meaningless wasteland of continental philosophy whence postmodernism was born.

Liberal arts is indeed challenging--if you do it right. Not doing it right is the problem though, and it arises from from letting bullshitters pass themselves off as people making an honest attempt. This goes all the way from the top down in some fields, but less so in others.
And there are some that actually know what they're talking about in terms if intelligence agencies but choose not to indulge in idle conspiracy hypothesizing. The real operations aren't something that the people with actual knowledge would ever discuss. Those that do claim conspiracies are often ill informed or just have read too many spy novels.
The paper is in the sidebar: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/1207.0550

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We prove a strong limitation on the ability of entangled provers to collude in a multiplayer game. Our main result is the first nontrivial lower bound on the class MIP* of languages having multi-prover interactive proofs with entangled provers; namely MIP* contains NEXP, the class of languages decidable in non-deterministic exponential time. While Babai, Fortnow, and Lund (Computational Complexity 1991) proved the celebrated equality MIP = NEXP in the absence of entanglement, ever since the introduction of the class MIP* it was open whether shared entanglement between the provers could weaken or strengthen the computational power of multi-prover interactive proofs. Our result shows that it does not weaken their computational power: MIP* contains MIP.
At the heart of our result is a proof that Babai, Fortnow, and Lund's multilinearity test is sound even in the presence of entanglement between the provers, and our analysis of this test could be of independent interest. As a byproduct we show that the correlations produced by any entangled strategy which succeeds in the multilinearity test with high probability can always be closely approximated using shared randomness alone, and are thus restricted to being quasi-classical.
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(I have no idea what that means.)
Sounded like bull-shit to me, but it is MIT.

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Thanks Jabo,
Looks like a great launching platform for landing page. Will have to dig deeper to find out more about it.
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A good watch on the building of NeXT.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHsHKzYOV2E&feature=related

If you know nothing about Next, or, if you just want a flash back, this is a great vid with some open forum with Jobs and his Engineers, and some insight on how next was started.

Please feel free to post any comments to the vid on here that you like.
Like nobody has more than one twitter account.

Does seem a rather low number, but I feel its more accurate than anything facebook have bounced of us. Still a impressive number, even with dupe/poop reduction factors.
It's becoming a really big problem, every day I come across accounts that have bought followers

I am followed by users that match the pattern you're describing, but I assure you I have never bought them. It's not coincidence that the accounts are of attractive young women- they want reciprocal follows. I am almost always followed shortly after tweeting, so I would venture to guess that they are plugged into the Twitter API's "sample" feed, and sometimes I am unlucky enough to be included in that sample.
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Seriousy? BB got it from HN 2 days ago.
I'm not an SEO expert, but I believe the way it works is persons/entities/companies bid on keywords through Google Adwords. If they win the bid, their site will pop up first or closer to the top.

I always thought Codecademy.com and Codeacademy.org were the same company or at the very least sister companies; somehow related.
Isn't this a case study in the question a VC would ask; "What would stop [BigCo|CompetitorX|Facebook|Google] etc from doing [your service]...
I've been thinking about this, and I believe there is a distinction since on the bus I am paying for the conveyance, not the content, so at no point do I ever consciously look at the advertising. For a magazine, I am consciously reading the content and they are putting advertising where my attention is directed. It doesn't help that the advertisements in a magazine pad it out so it looks like it has more content than it would otherwise.

I think that is more like a bus that detours to certain shops instead of taking shorter routes. You'd be paying for the conveyance and they would be abusing that by taking your time to gain themselves more money.
Really? The Apple ad.. blogs.. are front page material?
Preaching to the choir guys.
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"A 2009 study by the Environmental Law Institute[5] assessed the size and structure of U.S. energy subsidies over the 2002–2008 period. The study estimated that subsidies to fossil-fuel based sources amounted to approximately $72 billion over this period and subsidies to renewable fuel sources totaled $29 billion." They give a breakdown of why some aren't true subsidies here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_subsidies

Counting per megawatt avoids looking at the subsidies that have been amassing to fossil fuels over decades, and completely avoids the issue of externalities.

Deepwater Horizon is but the most recent example of a catastrophic spill. We never hear of a wind spill. In any case, the big externality is being allowed to dump so much CO2 in our shared atmosphere.

As has happened in other countries, the subsidies have gone down over time. With increased growth we get faster drops in price (that experience curve, again). Compare this to the regulatory capture from oil and gas that has led to ever higher subsidies.
"We got an immense spike in unique IPs. Typically we get a bit over 150k/day. Today we got 220k."

I wouldn't exactly call that immense but more importantly it an increase like that certainly doesn't seem to be a reason for a site like this to go down (I didn't see it was down I'm going by the headline).
Didn't he "borrow" the whole twitter idea and apply it to stocks specifically?
Thanks Joel for your suggestion. I was debating between unbounce.com and using mediatemple (I have a plan with them). But after reading about premise 2.0, I think it is worth to look for. Can you please describe the difference between unbounce and premise 2.0?
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"My guess is that wind will be surpassed by other more beneficial technologies."

Care to say which ones you have in mind? Are any ready for large-scale deployment so we can avoid climate chaos?
I wonder how the big VPN service providers are going to react to this, as far as I know ipredator (http://ipredator.se/) uses only MSCAP-2.

Also, why is this news not on the top of "hacker-news", it really puts the usefulness of HN into question if news like these are buried somewhere :-(
Windows RT is no better or worse for touch than Windows 8, they are identical interface-wise. The only differences are that you can't install new desktop software on Windows RT (but you can use the preinstalled desktop software) and it comes with (desktop) Office bundled/preinstalled.
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Now some people are bothered because a guy who sells a bunch of books, made up quotes. Well, in academy this is the rule, most citations are just skimmed and put in papers just because they sound arcane/profound. If people are buying, shame on editors, who not revised well.
Even worse, why on earth the source is more important than content? Status seeking is what people do when trying to signal intelligence. Maintaining a track of published book/posts like most writers/popscience/ do is not easy. If you are already on the staff, is more efficient to manage to become permanent, then trying to be "moral". And all this time, only now someone accused him. I doubt very seriusly he'll become unemployed for this.
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"I was travelling today and didn't have proper access to the server, or I would have been on it sooner."

The obvious question is isn't there anyone else who minds this tremendously popular site and is on duty if you are traveling?
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A 50% increase in unique IPs isn't necessarily something which could cause downtime, but it certainly could be related -- which is the word Paul used.

For example: HN relies heavily on caching page data. If 70,000 robots suddenly started loading random items, it could easily cause both the jump in unique IPs and the downtime.
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I have lost faith in hackernews, after this stupid post.
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Sounds a fair bit like the code base I work on. We have in the neighborhood of 5 million lines of (mostly C++) video game middleware that my department works on, all of which must be backwards compatible, all of which can't be significantly overhauled easily. It also builds on 15 different target platforms with 2-5 configuration variations per platform.

Similarly, we use Perforce. Similarly we have a CI system that builds our code on a farm of VMs, though ours does fairly extensive unit testing on every build. We also have a significant number of version permutations we test on a fairly regular basis as well.

We regularly, automatically, run Valgrind and it's on my to-do list to hook up the Microsoft static analyzer and investigate code coverage tools.

One saving grace is that the code base is very modular and has decently quick iteration times in general. Sometimes the legacy and the degree of cross-platform support can be frustrating but for the most part the infrastructure works so well now that it's no big deal.
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Isn't this common sense? Or anyone who's had a freshmen intro to business class? Barriers to entry?
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