skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not wrong, but gaining back the liberties that, on that day and over the years since, were so cheaply traded away by a cowed and ignorant populace for the idiotic bluster and security theater offered by the worst US president in living memory and his minders and masters... well, that is going to take more than "getting over it".

It would take a massive and concerted exertion of power, by an informed and engaged citizenry, and would probably be every bit as hard as (if not harder than) winning those freedoms was in the first place.

In other words, there's not much evidence to suggest that it will ever happen. Will America ever again see the levels of individual liberty and respect for the rule of law as the America I was born into a few decades ago? (Personally, I still hope, and still vote(!), but I also left the USA in 2004...)
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Yeah that's the other thing I forgot to mention that Java should steal from C#. In my own code I often just use public members but even with auto-generation in the IDE the getter/setter thing is gross.
I don't think we (and I use "we" because I believe it was not at attack only against the US, but one against some values our Western civilization is based upon) should ever forget it.

But I agree we should learn from it, pay attention to our own reactions and realize this is not a war on terror, but a war on intolerance.

Soft power is key here. It's sad I don't see it being employed enough. Plus, it's a lot cheaper than invading a country.
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These predictions are correct, for the values of popularity and world pg and HN deal with. Startups.

The thing not cleary stated (or possibly understood) is that "large organizations" far out strip startups in number of employees, amount of code written, advertising budgets. And Java is very popular in "large organizations".
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I can see this being partially helpful when verifying that in-game screenshots have not been tampered with (for example. for support, when you claim you had an item and it disappeared etc), but I don't know if there are that many copies of it duped across the image.
1) Students come from vocational schools that train students for skilled factory labour.

2) This isn't an iPhone assembly line.

3) NY Times shouldn't be publishing BS a week after it has been dismissed as BS http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/6/3297995/forced-to-work-on-t...

4) NY Times acknowledges that their source is BS by quoting another media outlet mentioning that it is a cable assembly line.

5) I can't comment on the electronics industry but such practices are very common in China as the vocational schools are actually ran by major manufacturers.
It's not uncommon for griefers or cheaters to anonymously brag about their exploits via screenshot. If the screenshot were watermarked, identifying their account and whatnot, then Blizzard could take action against them.
No, you should have been running CVS or RCS in '93, for which there have been Git migration tools like git-cvsimport for years now.
Ok, thanks. But when I start hearing conspiracy theories that the NSA (or anyone) has already developed one, I should basically look for an encryption algorithm that isn't based on prime factorization?
Ah, that makes sense (as does the answer given by sjs382). Thanks.
I haven't seen this particular issue, but I have had a whole bunch of strange, likely firmware-related issues on my Retina.

For instance, sometimes the screen just won't shut off when trying to put it to sleep - Closing the lid and the screen/logo stay lit up indefinitely. Chrome and the integrated graphics card really don't play well together - it's caused an OS reboot 10's of times in the past month. Mostly, waking the computer from sleep takes a fraction of a second but sometimes it takes ~20 seconds to show the screen.

I would guess that all of these are related to the integrated Intel graphics chip firmware/drivers being not quite baked.

BUT - in spite of all of that, this is without question the best laptop I've ever owned. It's also the first laptop where I haven't wanted or needed to use my iMac anymore. It really is finally a true "desktop replacement" that is totally portable. And I could never go back.
http://www.amazon.com/Apple-Macbook-Air-Superdrive-MC684ZM/d...
Heading off the inevitable "what about food?" comment.

Energy can be turned into food in a limited space very efficiently. Back of the envelope calculations show that a few hundred large nuclear power plants could feed the entire world. The only reason we don't do it this way is because it's cheaper to use the sun as a power source.
I posted this on HN hoping it would generate some meaningful/educated discussion on the topic. I'm really curious what the collective wisdom is here on SEO topics.
The suggested idea (regardless of whether or not it's plausible) is NDA leak tracking: finding the people in private betas that are leaking information when they shouldn't be.

If it turns out to be true, it's a pretty cool yet creepy application of steganography in the wild.
Every time I see a project like this I'm inspired to create a Kickstarter to bring cold fusion to the world.

Seriously guys, I'm an experienced software engineer with "a strong team in various backgrounds", this totally means I can pull off cold fusion, right?

My experience in the software services space certainly increases my credibility in the massive-power-generation-hardware space.

Sigh.

I think there should be a new de facto rule: at least half of your Kickstarter/Indiegogo/whatever page needs to be about you, your team, and why you think you can pull this off, and why we should regard you as anything other than ambitious, clueless, inexperienced, and tackling someone way above your level.
It is quite a bit to get from a landing page, but I think that's the point. If something can get 5000 people on a mailing list in 1 day then it shows that there's a strong interest in the idea, so it's worth investing time in developing it further.
A couple of hypotheses, off the top of my head.

1. NDAs - if someone's in a closed beta, and starts posting screenshots, they can quickly identify the culprit.

2. Hacks - if someone anonymously boasts about finding some exploit in the game, and shows screenshots, they can be tracked down.

3. Abuse prevention - if someone posts screenshots of themselves abusing another player, or breaking the TOS in some other way - but with names blurred out - it would still be possible to find out who it was.
Somewhat pedantic, I assumed the original commenter was talking about systems with a point, otherwise the entire thread of thought is more pointless than I originally thought.
That's like suggesting that if someone has a problem with something in society not being adequately funded by the government that they should contribute their life savings to it.
Curious question here: If you take the screenshot you get from WOW and open it up with photoshop/gimp/paint and save it now as PNG or different format, would it be possible to degrade the quality of the dots rendering it useless to be tracked?
Except that it's not playing via a plugin. It's HTML5 audio. I feel as though this, at least, could be known and indicated.
Sounds like it has information in it like account name and date. Could be useful for debugging.
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Say you try logging into your gmail. Couldn't they spoof the DNS and point you to a "proxy" that skims your credentials?
Like or dislike Java, it has changed and transformed enterprise software fundamentally and remains one of the top used languages in the world.

And I thought it would happen the way it did.

Python was already around back then in 1994, but nobody cared because Java had Duke and was being pushed as the new idiom for everything networked.

Hacker's radar is a valuable instinct, but when a reputable commercial entity acts as a wise custodian, behind a technology with technical merit, effort can easily trigger and accelerate grass root adoption.
I would have thought this would be much lower priority than a Google Maps native app for iOS, which also will be missing from iPhones when iOS 6 launches.
It's hard to love, I agree, but if you were designing something like Android from scratch now what language would you choose? I'm having a hard time thinking of reasonable alternatives. In the long run I'd like to see something like Go or Kotlin become options but really they're too left field right now.
Let's recall when Jobs was ousted - worked out real well for Apple, now did it not? He had to be dragged in later to turn the ship around. FB has made some mistakes no doubt, but do not underestimate the power of a visionary like a Jobs or a Zuckerberg. Investors should give him more patience.
I've been reading through all the comments, many of which complain about bias. That's only part of the problem. Often students applying to graduate school have a better idea of what they're looking for, but for undergraduates the metrics that they're weighing with other factors such as campus life are much murkier, and these rankings don't analyze the questions that deeply.

For example, Stanford and Rice University have the same student-to-faculty ratio, and their endowments are proportional, but Stanford has 2 graduate students for every undergraduate student, whereas Rice is one of the smallest Division 1 schools AND has fewer graduate students. So when Rice claims undergraduates interested in interacting closely with faculty in cutting-edge research will have ample opportunity to do so, one could argue they may be more likely to provide that to undergrads than even Stanford. Because I've compared experiences with Stanford folks, I don't think Stanford is behind Rice in that category, but the fact is, I'm comparing against one of the very top schools. So perhaps my argument holds for most universities that are ahead of Rice in the rankings, but a student is going to have to really dig to figure that out, and perhaps speak with students and faculty at each university to grasp the differences that matter to him or her. And that's only in the category of undergraduate participation in research--there are many other questions students face that these rankings can't properly answer.
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I'm a non-tech founder (second startup) and I've had a hard time finding a tech co-founder. So I worked with programmers who are partners on the project, ie they get paid much less than they would in a normal gig, but they get their price cut "risk" paid several times down the road if it works. And since it's always a big if, I think this is the most genuine form of risk and revenue sharing short of being real co-founders. (feel free to get in touch on sversille@flirtatiouslabs.com if you'd like to see a contract template for this kind of partnership)

This being said, programmers tend to be the tiniest bit too full of themselves. So, besides the idea, here's a few things I've done as a non-tech founder: fundraising, algorithm writing, iterative design (with playtesting from recruting testers to analyzing results quantitatively), marketing, debugging. Also, hey, I managed the project, which with 3 devs, 1 graphic designer, 1 sound designer, and 2 creative writers accross 3 timezones does require a bit of work. Here's the Facebook game we've done on 20k€ FYI, and for which we're approaching launch: apps.facebook.com/flirtati

It's obviously far from perfect, but my point here is that "suits" can have valid ideas and should not just be seen as wantrepreneurs, especially by developers who are good but might still for example need me to do a search during debugging and tell them why nvarchar should be used at some point instead of a simple varchar. End of rant.
Ok, so you're competing directly with Dev Bootcamp (http://devbootcamp.com) by underpricing them.

I'm reading the tuition section here: http://www.appacademy.io/description

It looks like the student pays you 12.5% of their first year's salary. Normally wouldn't the hiring company pay?

If I'm reading it right -- and I might not be -- how is that different than a student loan? Wouldn't that just be 12.5% off the top of their first year's salary? It's not like a potential employer would offer 12.5% more just because you're charging the student.

You've already run a few iOS classes, too. Can you talk about outcomes?
pg never said Java would be unpopular. He dismissed it much as he dismissed Cobol and Visual Basic. In 1990 Cobol was the most popular programming language in the world [1]. And in 2000 Visual Basic was the most popular programming language in the world [2].

The essay is about hacker's radar, not Java, anyway. Personally I loved his list of other technologies he has ignored.

[1] http://archive.adaic.com/docs/reports/lawlis/m.htm

[2] http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Visual+Basic+Programmers+Journ...
I really like the nav highlighting used on this (and http://phptherightway.com). Specifically, I like that it highlights the nav element(s) for whichever sections are in view, rather than highlighting only one nav element at a time. Very elegant.
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it includes the command lines for putty: pscp and psftp at least.
You're bad at entrepreneurship. Plain and simple.
I'm judging from the first-year course, which I was so unhappy with that I switched to mathematics; maybe it gets better later on. But what I saw was an operating systems course that was basically rote memorization, and two programming courses that taught very little; the ML course spent too long teaching the very basics, and students were handheld through the only actually contentful exercise. The java course was supposed to be more about real-world programming, but taught very old-style C-in-java that would be undesirable at any company I've worked at. It was all just very boring and useless; my supervisor tried to introduce some more interesting exercises (my supervision partner found it all equally trivial), but by the end of the first term he'd given up on finding us anything challenging. Conversely at least two of my friends passed all the exercises and the exams but quite clearly had no understanding of computer science or how to program.
By powerful do you mean that Java is not very expressive? Java can do pretty much anything that any other language can do.
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The [1] is a little bit too much, no? First, it's just one URL, secondly, it's right there. Or is this a convention when posting on HN?
The claim that ...we maintain a global food system perennially subject to ... exploitation from speculators... and the link they provide which doesn't support that does not enhance the credibility of this article.
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All speculation, guess work, no external sources, no reproducible results.

Paranoid stoners is my guess.
'in order to avoid any further watermarking, type: /console SET screenshotQuality "10" which will set the quality of your screenshots to the maximum and create screenshots that do not include the watermark.'

If this was nefarious, I doubt they would give you such an easy way to disable it. Though I am curious what the default value of screenshotQuality is.

In any case, steganography remains awesome, as ever:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
And its on the front page .. :-
Hey! Glad I randomly found this post.

My baby cousins (I have around 6-7, and the number is quickly growing) are all huge fans of YouTube. Their parents teach them to search for appropriate things (Thomas the Train and Cars are popular searches) but I am sure they would love a version specifically for kids.

I'm not sure if I should fill out your form, or if you'd like me to ask the parents and see what their answers would be.

I often forget about comments I make on HN, so hit me on twitter @jonlim or my email in my profile.

Cheers!
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I find the title inflammatory and ignorant; I would downvote this if I could.

While I applaud the tenacity in prospecting and divulging the methods at which Blizzard has employed to create such "tracking" "watermarks," I highly doubt this is to discourage or indict anyone. Quite frequently, screenshots are used during support requests.

As the author states, "we [...] verified that there is no pattern included in high quality screenshots." I find this highly suggestive that Blizzard was rather interested in an easier way to debug their program, and the mode slipped out in production.

There's a work around, please remove your tinfoil hats.
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Whether it is in the recital or the enacting terms is irrelevant, I quoted the recital because it is a little clearer.

The effect is the same - sites have interpreted the law to mean that a pop-up prompt is necessary. I think that the inconvenience of this outweighs the benefit. You might disagree, but don't try to make it sound as if everyone who disagrees with you is ignorant.
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They are private schools. They have a right to admit who they want for whatever reason they want. It sucks, but it is true.
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I like constructive criticism. Its okay from somebody without the credentials. It's even better from somebody with the credentials.

After reading your post my thought was who f$&^ does this guy think he is. After reading your web site - I can reduce it down to: IMO your post sounds like you employ the pivory dev. I am sure you do not. Without an "IMO" , "I suggest" , or something along the lines of that you just sound like know it all dick.

"should be" , "needs to" , "get rid of" , "its missing" - how do you know any of this? How do you know the dev didn't purposely make it this way? You don't. Not unless you are the dev.
PNG is a lossless format and will not cause the image data to change whatsoever upon saving. JPEG, on the other hand, is a lossy format, but until more is known, it's impossible to say whether or not this secret data (if that's what it really is) happens to be muddled by the lossyness of JPEG's algorithm.
Personally, I think Gow is awesome. The few times that I need power unix stuff, it's been just there, and it just works. That's the most important thing.

For me, it's worth the 'price' of admission, just to get a usable instance of 'gfind', and avoiding the cognitive dissonance of typing 'ls' and not getting useful info.

And it's not the PITA that is cygwin.
"Mostly, waking the computer from sleep takes a fraction of a second but sometimes it takes ~20 seconds to show the screen."

I've seen this as well, and it feels related to whether the computer is suspended to RAM (sleep) or suspended to disk (hibernate).
You make some valid points, but you try to push your thesis too far.

>the consumer space is the only possible bet

Below is a link to a discussion we had here 2 weeks ago about Ubuntu at Google. Although engineers at Google can choose a different one, Ubuntu is the desktop OS with the most support from Google's "IT department". In contrast, Windows is the only choice that requires some sort of approval from management.

Also, although it is a paying customer for Canonical's Ubuntu Advantage support program, Google is not even Canonical's largest business desktop customer.

As long as we do not have unrealistic aspirations of completely replacing Windows in the enterprise, why not try to expand on the presence desktop Linux already has there?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4452005
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The new quantity option for per-seat pricing is a welcome relief. I was soon thinking of setting up N number of plans (1 User, 2 User, etc.) and this eliminates that headache.
I never realised Imperial was so high up. Among some people, it's seen as where you go if you fail to get in to Oxbridge. (are we done dick-waving now?)
I'd argue that Java is quite dissimilar from C/C++. Of course, the paradigms are close, but then you'd have to include Basic, Pascal and a whole score of other languages.

What makes C different is low-levelness and Java has none of that.
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The objection [from the bug report] being that they don't want to introduce inconsistent behaviour depending on how the sound is being played (plugin vs HTML5 audio).
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I'm not very familiar with the product, but couldn't they just turn on the watermarking for the beta versions, versus all of production?
How could they fuck up something so simple?

From the looks of the shirt, it's almost as if they'd never even seen the original ads that they're imitating.
I was responding to this: "But honestly,if we reduced the population to around 1-2 billion, we could all afford to live like we do today, ... "

However, you bring up some good practical points of the consequences. A person's life ripples out and touches other people around him.

As I said, this is a hard problem, not one solvable simply through a die-off or a cap on reproduction. At the heart of the problem is that each of us are self-centered to the point of ignoring anything beyond ourselves. We're already zombies in a culture of mindless consumerism.

In First World countries, if you take away an individual's "job", "work", and "productivity", then that individual is lost. He does not know why he is here or what his purpose is. All he knows is that he needs to pay his rent and mortgage, watch TV, raise a family, and go shopping. People who do not fit that mold is either outcast or assimilated. Braaaaiinns. A few people might see beyond it thinking, let's do a startup! but end up mindless hitting the refresh button to see new comments on HN.

Heh, zombie apocalypse is already here, and we didn't even see it coming. Though we did make some great TV shows about it.
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I may have misunderstood something, but I believe it is simple to prove that R cannot equal c.

Because c is relatively prime to both a and b, there exists some prime p which b is divisible by and c is not. Because b is divisible by p, R=rad(a,b,c) is also divisible by p. Since R is divisible by p and c is not, R!=c.
Beat me to it...

Some links that confirm this

http://www.wowhead.com/help=screenshots-tips-tricks
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/3759356695