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Diplomacy is essentially the same in EVE as it is in real life. EVE has a huge metagame element, where various corporations (guilds) and alliances are always making deals and breaking them. I wasn't playing EVE when this happened, but Vile Rat was instrumental in getting allies for Goonswarm during their early years, which enabled them to take down one of the largest EVE superpowers. That has hugely influenced EVE's political landscape. He also served on the CSM, a real world committee of EVE players that works with CCP to improve the game as well as act as an intermediate between the players and CCP.
Are there any security experts that could confirm whether, given current estimates and knowledge, whether a collision attack by a botnet would likely succeed?
Give people an iPhone 4S, tell them it's an iPhone 5
They are estimating a $24k launch price, which I think is optimistic. That assumes they have secured a supply chain, and know all their costs well.

I'm pretty tapped in to all things motorized. They needed to aim a bit lower, here. An up-market product is not going to provide much of a revolution.
The answer depends on whether Samsung or HTC can get an injunction in place.
The fact that they're capitulating by even trying to recruit outside hackers is a significant milestone. Too many intelligent people are uninterested in being a cog in their machinery. Or they have at least observed how it treats it's own when they try to do the right thing ( Thomas Andrews Drake, Manning, Russell D. Tice, William Binney, Mark Klein, Daniel Ellsberg). Most hackers are too ethical to work for the government, and the ones that aren't can make more money elsewhere.
Can't wait! :)
Well, this allows scripting languages to access the Android runtime APIs, something I'm picturing would require the applications themselves to be scriptable. This would require some integrated hooks, like Apple's AppleEvents or Microsoft's COM.

Or just a standard class interface, if you're scripting in the main application development language, which is why this would be an easy fit for a JavaScript-based system.
From the movie "Good Will Hunting":
"Will: Why shouldn't I work for the N.S.A.? That's a tough one, but I'll take a shot. Say I'm working at the N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, 'cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels were hiding and fifteen hundred people that I never met and that I never had no problem with get killed. Now the politicians are sayin', "Send in the marines to secure the area" 'cause they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there, gettin' shot. Just like it wasn't them when their number was called, 'cause they were pullin' a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some kid from Southie takin' shrapnel in the ass. And he comes home to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, 'cause he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And of course the oil companies used the skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices. A cute little ancillary benefit for them but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. They're takin' their sweet time bringin' the oil back, and maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and fuckin' play slalom with the icebergs, and it ain't too long 'til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now my buddy's out of work and he can't afford to drive, so he's walking to the fuckin' job interviews, which sucks 'cause the schrapnel in his ass is givin' him chronic hemorroids. And meanwhile he's starvin' 'cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat the only blue plate special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what did I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. I figure, fuck it, while I'm at it, why not just shoot my buddy, take his job and give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected president."
Thanks! Filed my schedule scripts comment as an issue. Looking forward to see this develop. Hope I can contribute.
FWIW, that article has very little more information than you could find on bookshelves for the past 20 years.
http://www.amazon.com/Smart-Drugs-Nutrients-Intelligence-Neu...

Besides Piracetam having become only one in a class of nootropics, you can find the same information in that book.

There used to be a large subculture around nootropics on the Net, but most of the discussions were based on anectdotal evidence. It seems not much have changed since then.
Whole grains aren't good for you, no matter how many companies promote it on their packaging. Grains cause insulin resistance, damage your gut, sap energy, and provoke your immune system. Yet, they are still in the USDA food pyramid, which is why research like this is so needed.
But isn't the master mechanic from GM the competition to this idea? Consider the "disrupt" part of the event.
I think out of everyone you've really hit the nail here. It's about starting a movement, and taking the platform in a direction it's been needing to go to for a long time. The collaborative nature of open source should grow around this project as soon as the product arrives, and I really hope it does.
So Michele Obama's attempt to counter obesity with exercise for children and healthy fresh cooked food needs to be examined rigorously through the lens of a nutritional science initiative? We might discover that exercise makes you more fat or fresh vegetables contain an unknown chemical which makes kids fat? Again people don't want to cook simple healthy food and are more interested in the next four hour body guru telling them that they can eat lots of meat and no grains or some other crazy thing.
Well-optimized C is likely to always be faster than well-optimized JavaScript.

It is also possible that circuitlab is not well-optimized JavaScript.

I will say that it also depends on the problem domain. You can make a fast 3D game in JavaScript because WebGL does hardware acceleration of the graphics. You can also make a fast todo list in JavaScript because, well, it's a todo list :)
I have no problem at all with the dropping of GPL. Dropping GPL may stop any worries that jQuery at some point in the future will drop MIT in favor of GPL (though they still could do that since MIT is GPL compatible).

The license itself is what normalizes the copyrights, so a CLA is just additional bureaucracy. The contributors to jQuery have already all agreed to contribute their code under MIT, so why would they need to do it again?
Ooops, sorry. I didn't realize I was engaging with someone kinda high on the Internet Crackpot Scale.
Why not just target Windows 7 users? Postpone your migration to Windows 8 until you see if it is indeed popular.

Very likely Windows 8 will have slow uptake for traditional desktop/laptop users. An early indication will be the continuing availability of Windows 7 on retail PCs next year.
a) Your set of 99.5% apps are going to be different from those of other people. You need a lot more coverage than that to make a substantial percentage of people happy.

b) It's often not enough to just have an app for a specific task, it needs to also tie into a specific ecosystem. For example I don't need generic VoIP software on my phone, but I absolutely must have access to Skype. For somebody else it might be WebEX instead.

c) Even when there's no ecosystem lock-in like that, there are very difficult categories of apps for new platforms to get access to. Maps would be a prime example. It's absolutely core to the smartphone experience, and perhaps the second most important function of the device.

The existing mobile web experience for maps is rubbish compared to the native apps even for basic things. But it'll get worse once you get into things like off-line use or turn by turn navigation. So who is going to fix that? Unlikely to be Nokia or Google unless Firefox OS becomes wildly successful. Nobody else really has cost-effective access to good data.
Speaking as an intermediate programmer, I've found Go to be my language of choice for a lot of tasks that, in previous years, I would have relegated to C, bash scripts, or even PHP. It is a very versatile language, and one of the easiest to work with in terms of flexibility.
While not a 'porn' site, I did launch a dating site, http://www.silverfoxie.com/

I do have altruistic motives for the site though, which would be different for a porn site.

Generally intergenerational gay dating sites (like Silverfoxie) are filled with porn and smut as entertainment. When I was dating, it was very hard to filter the not very serious guys just looking at porn, from litigate guys looking for a good guy to date. I wanted to take the 'porn as entertainment' out of the 'find a good date' equation, Thus Silverfoxie was born. Not very business savvy to remove the entertainment from a business model but I feel the site will be more effective in function.
They want to make money. Nutritional science will tell them the next "healthy" food they can sell to the public. Maybe they can sleep better at night knowing it was scientifically vetted.
AFAIK you can do it right this minute, if you'd like. Here's a guide for dual-booting B2G and Android on SGS2 (though I have no idea how up-to-date it is):

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Boot_to_Gec...
There is nothing surprising in it. 3D rendering is done mostly by hardware (OpenGL), not JS. But try to code something more sophisticated computationally for CPU, not a one function long microbenchmark where the JIT can guess all the types because code is simple. Something like simulating a complex mechanical or electrical system or some discrete optimisation stuff. Then it quickly turns out carefully hand crafted JS even on Chrome is more than order of magnitude slower than naive Java code.
Companies still do project management, and the project manager is a single point of failure. The reason the failure rate is high is that scrum is relatively new and companies still think they can get away without having a scrum master, while they know from long experience that they need good project managers.
Thanks! I just removed the animation entirely. Might add a fade-in, but going to let it sit as-is for now.
>This isn't an article only for US citizens. If you can't care less that a major government is recruiting hackers for national defense (or offense) & paying for their school/training, then maybe you should think outside your borders a bit.

Well, I do care in the sense that I am disgusted by it.

I just wanted to point out that "oh, how honorable to work for them, it's our patriotic duty" response to a story like this doesn't work in the intertubes, where we're not even from the same country.
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"If you fear SHA-256 collisions but do not keep with you a loaded shotgun at all times, then you are getting your priorities wrong." http://stackoverflow.com/a/4681221
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It is very unclear with Javascript what a derived work is and what linking means, unlike C. You could argue that your whole website would become GPL if you linked with jquery under GPL terms, including the text, logos etc, even though most people do not want to put documentation under GPL (because of the attribution terms).
> No one talks about this stuff!

Yeah, right. Probably in some other internet. You can't find a site today where there they weren't discussed at least once.

Personally I won't take them without prescription from a doctor. Yes, downsides are pretty obscure and rare but the same are benefits. Based on reviews they are not some magic pills like in Limitless. Closer to placebo actually.
Your language is noticeably nastier than anything you're responding to, here and in another comment below.

Of course you can disagree with, or be upset by other comments, but dialing up the language significantly doesn't do anything useful.
The problems I see with services like auto mechanics, home services providers, etc. are three-fold:

1. The time it takes out of your day to fix the problem;
2. The knowledge disparity between the vendor and customer, exacerbated by the need to have the issue fixed quickly (no time to check veracity);
3. The fact that many of these services have business models that focus on upcharging after customer lock-in. For example, I've read that some quick lube shops are expected to get an additional 50% above the oil change cost out of each customer..

This service seems to help with the first issue, not so much the others. For example, if the mechanic comes over and diagnoses several, expensive problems and is now saying it will cost $X to fix, you either have to accept it and pay or send the person home, which wastes everyone's time. That recently happened to me with an electrician I found on a daily deals site. All I wanted was a pair of outlets installed, and he put together a work order for more than $1000 in "needed" repairs. I just asked him to leave. My house is still standing and my regular electrician disagreed about the necessity of those repairs.

It shouldn't be surprising that the best shops are always really busy and, frankly, I doubt they will have the time or interest in participating in something like this. (Not to be a downer, I love the idea...these are just the issues I see.)
I've coded something similar up in WebKit and considered landing it in Chrome, although I was more concerned with being able to use HTTP resources securely in HTTPS pages.

Firstly you need a way to incrementally verify a file: you don't want to have to download and buffer the whole file before figuring out whether it's good. Thankfully you can do this with Merkle trees: just make them `degenerate' (every left child is a leaf node).

If you make the browser cache content addressable (as the post suggests) then you need to do more than look at the caching header. Consider a site with Content Security Policy enabled: If an attacker found an XSS, they could inject <script href="http://correct.origin.com/foo.js digest="degen-hash:sha256:123abc...">. That would match the CSP origin restrictions without the server ever having to serve foo.js. (Thanks to abarth for pointing that out.)

So I believe content addressable caches would need a separate hash:// URL scheme for this. But I didn't attempt to make the cache content addressable in my code.

I don't know what to do about img srcsets[1]. There's no obviously good place to put the hashes in the HTML.

And lastly, and possibly fatally for the "secure HTTP resources in HTTPS pages" use case, many networks will now transcode images on the fly (and possibly other files too). So matching a known hash will result in broken pages for users on those networks.

[1] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...
Oh yeah, by this definition interpreted Python is also native like. Just do all your UI rendering by native libs and use scripting to glue it together. But this is not what most of programmers call native speed.
Everything I've read about Modafinil suggests that it's not addictive - for everything being Wikipedia along with some other sites which I don't recall off the top of my head (it was about six months ago when I did any research about it).

It's a lovely little thing though, very nice clean focused sensation coupled with a lack of tiredness.
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I think the problem lies in the interviewer in this case. This tool seems to be a substitute for being in an interview room and having a whiteboard to write code on in front of the interviewer, rather than an IDE with a "record-mode". As such, I think the interview question should be posed as if that were the case.

In regards to its effectiveness, I think if you take the above into consideration, this tool works very well as advertised. If I were being interviewed with it I suppose I'd just be thankful it has syntax highlighting.

Questions for this should be to discover a person's thinking and problem-solving style, not the correctness of syntax/libraries/etc. Things like writing idiomatic code, etc. are much more appropriate to test for.
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No, that's the first I heard of it; I looked it up. Thanks, I'll keep this mind if I work on C# again.
If I'm reading it correctly, I think the idea is, imagine your bank uses a hash-cache of an AJAX request containing your bank statements (stupid, yeah, but everyone is stupid sometimes).

A malicious website could then include a request to download a bogus URL from their site with a hash which matched that of the bank statement AJAX response. The browser would then return the cached bank statement, without ever noticing the URLs were bogus or didn't even point to a file with the desired hash. The malicious website could then upload the bank statements back to itself.

This seems like technically an attack path, but it relies on being able to guess a 256-bit hash in a relatively small number of guesses; if you can do that, you might as well just start guessing password hashes and log in to a target website directly.
indeed. I often have to close the browser to be able to open the HP market place app... it just keeps loading (and if i try to open preware with a browser with facebook in the background, it gets the same infinite wait, but at least it tells you that something is broken if you see a message for more than some seconds and suggests you reboot)
I deliberately avoided images in my proposition, because they are rarely shared across domains and are frequently targeted by dodgy proxies.
It's close. The tooling is really user-friendly, which is a big win.

Add some sort of decent generics and you're really close.

A top-class GUI toolkit would be good too.
Of course they will include the charger, but now the question is if they will include the micro-USB adapter as well.
This immediately reminded me of when Intel predicted 10GHz processors by 2011 back in 2000

http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/intel-predicts-10ghz-chip...

Increasingly lower energy computing is obviously happening, but there are lower bounds to how little power you need for a useful device, it would seem. Wireless networking will always require a reasonable amount of power to achieve any reasonable distance/reliability.
Everyone points at the low completion rate for MOOCs, but generally ignore several salient facts:

1) The students who don't finish incur no tuition costs, don't have to worry about student loan debt, take no hit on their transcripts (or any other sort of "permanent record") and likely don't even lose much of their time (while I haven't seen any hard numbers, I'd bet that most of the "dropouts" sign up, do one or two lessons, and then decide that the course isn't for them). So what if most of them don't finish? They haven't lost anything.

2) He claims that "90% don't benefit". He knows this how, exactly? You can benefit from a book or a course without finishing it.

3) Even with the low completion rate, the raw numbers mean that many more people have finished than have finished in a F2F course. I think I read that more students completed the first iteration of the MIT circuits course than have completed the similar face-to-face course in all the years that it has been offered.. That's impressive.
Do you have an example of where this has been a problem? Most open source projects lack a CLA and do not have problems with bureaucracy. For example the PostgreSQL and Linux projects lack any CLA and have never had any problems with this as far as I know.

Lacking a CLA means one less hurdle for new developers. The advantage of a CLA is that you can change license, but if you are MIT licensed you can already change to almost any license without requiring any approval from the community. CLA:s only make sense for very strict licenses.
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don't see why, they're using the youtube player and the same youtube search results.

However, why even do this if you can do exactly the same on the youtube website or inside google+

Doesn't really add any value that youtube already gives you.

Search for non music and the illusion dies.

Cool UI though.
>> If it's an alternative to Android that doesn't let Carriers "add value" then it's an alternative they won't use.

Ideally, they shouldn't "use" any phone, because they are not the user. We should buy whatever phone we please somewhere else, with financing if necessary, and then buy service from the carriers. The whole "subsidizing" thing is a scam unless you get cheaper service by bringing your own phone, or after your phone is paid off.

Getting some popular third-party phone vendors in the US and making phone subsidies a line item in your cell phone bill are the first steps toward carriers as dumb pipes and towards true choice in phones.
The world can only process the introduction of so many mobile operating systems at once? I get the impression it was seen as competition to Android, but failed because Palm was a two-bit player in comparison to the Google juggernaut. Maybe if it were being introduced today it would stand more of a chance.

edit: oh and as to the failing of the author to acknowledge WebOS speaks to the author's knowledge or honesty, take your pick.
So, you can basically think of eve as a giant sandbox full of stars and spaceships. There is one game world, out side of china, and the Company that runs the game, CCP, lets the player play however they want. As a result, the game encourages underhand and terrible behavior by everyone in it.

Think of the whole thing as a pirate movie. Essentially betrayal and back stabbing are encouraged, expected, and generally considered to be inevitable.

In this sort of environment, you need some one who can get other groups to play nice with you. It is a fantastically difficult problem. You have a large group of players who are actively seeking to make a profit on other players misfortunes.

Now, its 3 am on a Tuesday, and a few of my guys get drunk and decide its a good idea to go out and blow some stuff up. They get excited and "accidentally" kill a friendly ship or half a dozen. Someone has to be around to make sure that this doesn't rapidly escalate out of control, pirate bar fight style.

Add to this the fact that the "friendly" assets in question can take literally months to produce in game and are simply lost with no recourse. This is to say when you die my guys took all the stuff you had on you and you restart with nothing you had on you. Suddenly, I need to have a point of contact to ensure that 3 drunk guys don't cause a huge war with my friends between now and when I log in at 6pm tonight.

This can, as usual, include major loss of assets for everyone in my group. This translates rapidly into actual US dollar losses in some cases.

That is what your diplomats do. Make sure that when I log in after work. That the whole galaxy is NOT trying to kill me. It is fantastically hard to do. I am obviously glossing over a large chunk about in game minutiae here.
In Internet Explorer 9, the code editor is unusable because you can't change previously entered lines. When you try to move the cursor by up arrow key or mouse click, the cursor jumps back to the last line. Maybe it's a feature to exclude candidates who don't run a modern browser. :-)
Yes. :) I'm using it now, and it feels better to me than Java and C/C++. The language is cleaner and the toolchain is very smooth.

The new Go Revel framework (by HN user robfig) looks especially promising for web MVC apps: http://robfig.github.com/revel/