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Indeed. But I've ranted elsewhere at my distress as someone who's been in Silicon Valley for more than a decade now, at the deteriorating state of industry media coverage and its descent in certain quarters towards soap opera status. Too many posts where the journalists make themselves the story, too much loss of objectivity.

People say "well Arrington did it", but I don't think he did. He was genuinely well connected from a long time in the valley. He was genuinely a trusted source. So his posts had insight and were very well written. Not right 100% of the time, in the opinions of many, I'm sure, but who is?

The gossipy nature is distressing. The Twitter squabbles between rival publications are often childish and unnecessary. But there are folks out there trying to build quality alternatives and I have no doubt that things will get better for industry coverage. That in itself may push TC back to quality - let's face it they still run great events and have a loud megaphone in the industry. Swapping that for TMZ-style pageview grasps sounds like an inferior business strategy for the long haul.
Also, even if it's safe for human use, there will be problems with diagnosing early enough and making sure vulnerable populations have access to the drug at a price they can afford. Still, I hope the drug proves out as safe and effective.
Video games should be looked more carefully for they have nice properties:

- as you mentioned, few controls needed
- instant interaction, no formation, documentation

I remember seeing people playing final fantasy and diving into deep listings with ease and efficiency.
I highly doubt that. Insurance companies don't represent a "precious resource" (aka celebrities), so it would be easy for somebody to come in underneath them.

Besides, insurance companies make money on the difference between rates and claims. If claims fall significantly, rates can, too, yet the insurance companies can still take home the same sized paycheck.
I'll be happy for her whichever which way she goes - as long as she gives it her best :)
What are your million dollar ideas that you are too lazy to implement?
I'd rather live in a world where grownups are allowed to make their own choices than in one where daddy decides what's best for everyone.
Sure, but now that person doesn't need a commercial drivers licence, or a licence at all.
That should be Facebook's tagline.
I agree. Holding my money for 180 days with no appeals process amounts to a tort, and should be considered unconscionable and unenforceable when it appears in a contract. They shouldn't even be allowed to ask for that, because once one player creates such a policy, the rest will follow.

Thought experiment: why not make it 5 years, instead of just 180 days? If a 5-year term were to become "standard industry practice," to paraphrase Dan, who could argue otherwise?

They simply should not be able to exercise that kind of arbitrary power, at least not without being subject to standard banking regulations that can be modified as needed to balance the interests of financial institutions and their customers.
"There's no standard way of getting across what a link is to another resource, or where that information should go."

That doesn't quite mesh with my understanding. Some media types support hyperlinks, like HTML, which describe how links should be included (anchors, forms and link elements).

For media types that don't support hyperlinks, such as images, video etc; you can use the HTTP header Link (http://www.w3.org/wiki/LinkHeader).

Both these methods support the relationship attribute allowing you to specify the relationship between resources thus documenting the way clients should interact with such linked hypermedia (e.g. the HTML media type specifies that Link elements with the rel attribute should perform a HTTP GET request to the indicated resource).

In the example you gave, you could use a rel attribute like "comment" and link to the comments. RESTful clients could then follow the hyperlinks to the comments, knowing how to interact with them and what to do:

<link rel="comment" href="/comments/2398293"/>
"become" ?

4 years ago, stupid comments were brutally discouraged. People with stupid things to say would be dogpiled by negative comments.

It is pop culture that thinks asking stupid questions is a virtue.

Most people are just too tactful to tell the truth.
"First, she told acquaintances she was engaged to NHL player Ryan Clowe..."

Seriously? WHY? That's one of the easiest facts to check.
AFAIK it's rather the other way round: the original Sun JDK contained some third party components that could not be released under the GPL. OpenJDK is the result of going through everything and making sure all those parts are replaced with clean-room reimplementations.

Note that starting with Java 7, OpenJDK is the reference implementation.
Very unfortunate. Obviously cheating is a very serious issue, but in this case I feel like something is systematically wrong with your class if half of your students are cheating.

Putting people in the position where cheating is such an alluring option is bad user experience. Evolve or die!
The good ol' DHTML days!
Old-SGI (Silicon Graphics, Inc.) went bankrupt. The assets were sold to Rackable. Which then renamed itself as "Silicon Graphics International", or new-SGI.

Despite sale of assets and similar names, they're separate companies.
Monetary success is an exception to begin with. Only 5% of the North American population earn more than $90,000 per year. Leaving me curious about your exception statement. Of the people in that top 5%, or even 1% if your data better supports it, what does the education distribution look like?
Same here, just stopped reading. Too elite of an article for me.
Given Oracles tardiness in fixing a remote security issue with there database product this year and they make alot of $ from that product then this is not a supprise.

Why woulc Oracle be so tardy in fixing security issues is the big question as it appears there approach recently is:

1) get told of a security issue.
2) ????
3) Release fix once issue is out in wild/publicly known

Given there history and how they got started and there connections thru large contracts then it is not impossible that they were asked to hold back and/or offered to hold back on a patch. Rememebr security issues are more than that these days, they are after all gradualy replaceing Nuclear weapons as they can be used and abused as the fallout is less unferstood and in that they are not the stand-off weapons which nukes are and given that they are opening up entirly new theartes of war.

Thing is until Oracle explains there delays in addressing recent security issues in there database and now java, then people will and rightly so speculate as to there motivations in acting in the way they have.

[EDIT ADD] some background on Oracles patch approach this year http://www.esecurityplanet.com/network-security/oracle-datab...
Everything now is an app, distributed inside walled gardens. Censorship! Yay!

In other news: just make stuff like this as a mobile site.
STLport, IIRC, always had them. If you picked a specific STL instead of using the c++stdlib bundled with your compiler, you could generally always have hash tables with iterator semantics. But <map> was usually the right choice; even apart from worst-case behavior, you'd always end up needing not just to look things up, but to traverse the collection.
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One use I found for sepia (coincidentally, earlier today) was that it allows you to use hue-rotate to tint a colour a particular way that might not be possible otherwise. Unless I was missing something?
Ah, where did I see the word 'knowledge domain' before? Here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/opinion/the-national-secur...
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Highest paying developer jobs (4 years exp, no contract & no management) 
I'd like to get some opinions on what the highest paying developer jobs are please. Here in the UK, there seems to be an average of £45,000 ($65,000) for Java and C++ jobs, with PHP faring about 25% lower, on average.<p>Also, please could we avoid the unique & specialist jobs which pay well into the six figure range as they are irrelevant to most developers.<p>To confirm: These are developer jobs, not management or contract projects where the rewards are much greater. This is pure "employed developer".
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You won't have much of a choice after 5 years, all new cars will be semi-autonomous. A few year after that, people will enjoy the benefits so much that, that there won't be much demand for driveable cars. It's the same story as the horse to car, letter to telegram, paper to radio, radio to tv, tv to flatscrren, flatscreen to 3dtv... Okay, maybe not the last one.
I remember as a kid viewing the IE Web Channel (or whatever they called it) demos. I was amazed that the cartoons weren't videos, but actually animated HTML elements!
Actually I thought his whole argument was down to "REST isn't a protocol the way HTTP is a protocol" -- look the "P" stands for "protocol" -- which (a) is true in some specific technical sense, and (b) isn't important.

I quote: "This style has no agreed protocol." and "The core missing pieces of any RESTful web service protocol are agreed standards on media type and link metadata." OK, so what?
> It is agreed by those who have seriously considered the subject...

This is a perfect example of an appeal to anonymous authority (or what Wikipedia calls weasel words). Simply saying that smart people agree on something is far from a constructive argument for that thing.
Yeah, they're C++11-only. I probably should have mentioned that in my comment, but I didn't because the parent comment was specifically about C++11.

I can completely understand why C++11 is not a usable solution for many people at this point.
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JSON-RPC is just as easy to understand as REST, without all the pedantry.

I hadn't heard of that, but it sounds exciting, partly because it's so self-explanatory.
I'm guessing MS or Netscape implemented these filters, and thanks to them it's eventually being standardised with their filters.
That 50% will not go completely away. The total cost of liability insurance will only drop insofar as driving gets safer. You may not be responsible for hitting that other car, but someone will have to pay.

Because of that, you likely wil have to pay a premium on top of the 'real' costs of such a car to the seller of the electronics, either as a lump sum, or as a per year and/or kilometer contribution.
Perhaps in the future a group of people will have the job of moving cars that have gone into failsafe mode, and no one else will have to drive.

Take the case of elevators, originally they had manual operators who needed to make sure that they leveled out on a given floor so people could safely get on and off. Today elevators function on their own with users simply requesting their desired location. Every now and then they do get stuck, which requires calling in a certified technician to move the elevator, help trapped passengers, diagnose and repair problems before returning the elevator to service.

A well designed control system will have a good fail safe, but having to wait two hours for the closest technician to arrive because a branch has fallen accross the road would be annoying.
I've been rear-ended 7 times in the past 5 years. I'll be glad when everyone else has self-driving cars.

(My GF says I drive too fast and stop too quickly. She's probably right, although 3 of those times I was moving at less than walking speed.)
"Why can't adults opt in to seeing adult apps?"

Because Apple made the iPhone and they own the iOS store and they decided they could make more money with it this way.

"There are literally hundreds of millions of non-iDevice smartphone users who don't live with these restrictions and who are not being harmed at all. "

This is called assuming your conclusion. There are certainly standards at Google Play and Amazon's Android app store, not every Android user can sideload apps and the idea that no one has been harmed by uncurated stores is strictly false in general and in specific cases like this basically unknowable.
Why not just take a year off instead of dropping out?
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How will he get on or off the land ever again? Are their natural 'rights of way'?

Edited: for clarity
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No, I agree. I had signed up to get the Mixpanel lifetime account. The next few months had stuff that didn't interest me, but were helpful enough that I would occasionally send them off to friends. Then it became online courses and get-rich-quick-but-not-so-quick-that-its-scammy types of things. I unsubscribed a little while ago.

One of the guys that does courses for AppSumo has a blog (http://www.nevblog.com/) and he often talks about churning out these courses. He's even got a course about building a course.
Can anyone actually get into this? It keeps dying when I try to 'get started'
Seriously. Yeah, I see people going out and actually making something, but something of value it is not. Praying for this social bubble to pop any day now.
http://paulgraham.com/avg.html

Especially check out the footnote, A Scheme Story:

http://www.trollope.org/scheme.html
I gave my niece a toy, which she reportedly loved, in which you build little hydraulic systems out of toy pipes.

http://www.fatbraintoys.com/search.cfm?q=%20bridge%20street%...

Meanwhile, there's little need for toy drywall compound. We have Play-Doh, better in many ways, or for the older and wiser there is papier-mâché or real modeling clay or, well, drywall compound. It's not that dangerous except to your furniture and carpets.

Have we talked to any actual five-year-olds while constructing this metaphor? The ones who are obsessed with Bob the Builder and Thomas the Tank Engine and Wallace and Gromit (tinkerers, ya know) and who own little toy plastic toolboxes and squeal at the sight of construction equipment? Is it only my friends' kids who are like this?
When horseless carriages first became legal, the legal requirement called for "a man with a red flag to walk in front of any self-propelled vehicle on a public road at no more than 4mph".

http://www.datchethistory.org.uk/Link%20Articles/Ellis/evely...

In the future, if manual override becomes undesirable or unneeded, it will probably be repealed. Actually, I'm surprised by this many steps forward so soon (I was a bit cynical of them ever being approved)
This would certainly make me drop my iPhone and go back to an Android device.
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Ask HN: Apple closed our entire app store
I am asking Hacker News for any help or advice they may have to offer. This is our situation:

Midnight on Monday we received a termination notice from Apple. The notice vaguely implied 'bad faith' as the reason to terminate our contract.

Tuesday morning all our apps were removed from the app store. We represent several small and large publishers, so almost 100 multimedia apps were pulled down.

Tuesday midday we call dev relations and get a stone-wall from Apple. Dev relations tells us that they will not give us a reason for the termination.

Tuesday afternoon our lawyers get involved. They try to use back channels to get more information, but are also stone-walled. They then inform us that they have a conflict of interest with Apple and cannot represent us as apple will not sign a conflict waiver.

Tuesday evening we contact a senior individual within Apple. He informs us that our account is clean in the app store records and there are no complaints against us and that Legal has requested the termination. Legal will not provide a response.

Our company employs almost 100 people and relies heavily on the iTunes App Store as a major source of income. We also work with Google, Blackberry, Nokia, Windows 7 and several other app stores and have never been treated in this way.

I'm in shock that Apple has unilaterally terminated our business relationship. Does anyone have any experience with this situation or any advice?
As others have said - yes, as long as you keep the iterator not the object itself. e.g. from T itself you cannot find where it was stored, so with std::list<something>, and then only from something you can't find where it is (you can have to look for it in the list).
Translated: "Damn kids, get off my lawn!"
Glad I'm not alone! AppSumo is actually where I bought Sparrow - an example of the quality stuff they used to have on there. I'd love to see them go back to their roots...
Most cars are not utilized 90% of the time[1] Google cars could effectively reduce the number of cars required for our transportation needs by a very large amount. I actually wrote a paper about this in 2007 when I was working on the DARPA Grand Challenge.

[1] http://www.autoblog.com/2012/06/23/parking-its-what-your-car...
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I see such a significant conflict between successfully starting a managing a company and dropping out of school, namely the fact that you constantly have to prove your worth intelligence, and capabilities to the people around you. Perhaps if you were like Mark Zuckerburg, clearly a top student at a top school with a product that had already gained traction, then you could drop out of school without creating significant reasons for people to doubt you. But wouldn't your academic knowledge of the field you're working in be of great use to your start up?
I'm with you 100%, which is why I offer an alternative payment method (Skrill moneybookers). It's working out well enough, and I know I'm at least doing something about it.

Moral of the story: if you're not already, offer an alternative and never rely wholly on PayPal.
You're not alone – I can't even get their "sign in" page to load.
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This assumes the cost of auto insurance is based on actuarial science, as opposed to whatever the industry lobby can get through state legislatures.
The number of sites you see with a given effect is at least partly a function of the difficulty of implementing the effect.

Also, for whatever reason, sepia is a canonical filter that apparently every set of image filters must include, so it would be silly to leave it out.
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Please, let's keep the responsibility for this where it belongs- on those who actually cheated.
Just... wow.

I love what Wolfram Alpha is doing with data-based search results. So innovative and a natural search space that Google is only dipping their toes into.
Thanks for pointing this out. I was about to implement some simple Image Processing (brightness, contrast, invert, etc) for x-ray images and I think the CSS image filters will give me everything I need. It's a research website and nearly everyone is using webkit browsers, so no problem there.
The concept that the protocol multiplexer uses is pretty sound and simple. I have and would continue to deploy in production, but as usual you have to know what is going on and what the implications are. You do pay a known penalty in complexity and startup time but you gain a world of obscurity. It's like every other tool; it has it's uses, but it's not suitable for all problems.

The fact that an implementation is possible in a few pages of C goes a long way, especially when the install base for that tool is small and you need to understand the details. If nothing else, the concept stands on it's own and might offer ideas in solving other problems.
It's incredible how high the punishments for cheating are. 1 year suspension for collaborating on a take home test?
And that's the other reason of not using C++ sometimes - you just don't know exactly what happens.
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7 times sounds atypical; perhaps by changing your driving behavior you could reduce your risk. You might try decelerating slowly, keeping 2-4 seconds of following distance, checking your rear-view while braking, and leaving extra space in front of your vehicle at a stop--moving forward as cars come in behind.
Yeah, the attack barely work without the lock, as you would have to rely on pure luck on getting the port delta small enough.

Because of the lock, the first request you make after you get the lock was likely garbage, and then you have 250ms to get as many requests as you can. Performance here was key, since you couldn't easily do simultaneous requests so you ere limited by the number of round trips you could do in that time.

Some people managed to do simultaneous requests, but you had to do more book keeping since the delta on the first responding webhook contained all the information (eg, for a failed first chunk on N requests, you would expect a difference of 2*N). You would also have to synchronize with the lock, which isn't easy.

Due to load on the servers, SSL negotiation was extremely slow, so using a Keep-Alive connection was required for decent performance.

My final Python implementation managed to eliminate about 4 candidate chunks/sec even under heavy load. I managed to finish #90.
Let's see them burn. Many would give their right arm to be given the opportunity they had.
Mix-ins are a style of object-oriented design, in the sense that inheritance, or composition, or generic functions are styles of object-oriented design. They all have the same purpose: logically related pieces of code are co-located and encapsulated, and independent pieces of behavior are decoupled. Ideally, the components of your system should have low interdependency, and be easy to combine.

The idea of Mix-ins is that an object may have several functional components, like say a printer, a logger, maybe some access controls for user privileges, in addition to the actual class bits. Under a mix-in system, you would write a printer mix-in, a logger mix-in, and an access-control mix-in, and then any of your classes can get that functionality just by including them. Adding this functionality is supposed to be literally as easy as adding a decorator in Python, but in order to do this, they usually need programmatic access to the guts of your class in order to insert themselves. That aspect, allowing mix-ins to make programmatic additions and modifications to a class, are what separates them from other styles of OOP like inheritance and composition (those other styles see this as breaking encapsulation, while mix-ins say the components are still functionally independent).

A traditional (inheritance-based) object system probably won't be able to write these services as independent components without meta-programming, and you usually see mix-in libraries written on top of meta-programming systems (a more limited form is also available via multiple-inheritance). They goal is that they provide one of the more common uses of meta-programming, but in a structured and standardized form, since raw meta-programming (and unrestricted multiple-inheritance) has a reputation for going bonkers pretty quickly. Adding it to a stricter language like C# requires extending the language with a tool, not just writing a library.
At least since the acquisition I've been saying that TC is (or had become) the TMZ of tech. There is nothing inherently valuable about their coverage, especially these days, and their position as vaunted tech journalists seems to me to be a case of a cultural Sunk-Cost Fallacy, Status Quo, or however you view the hope that past returns are an indicator of future performance.
REST's protocol is not HTTP. Quoting the very page you linked:

> REST was initially described in the context of HTTP, but it is not limited to that protocol.