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Treehouse Donates $3 Million Worth of Tech Education to 2,500 College Students
I disagree. They did find superconductivity in graphite grains at room temperature, and it is freakin' amazing. Next, someone will figure out why it happens, and figure out a way to make it happen more, happen in different stuff, or whatever. There's obviously a big leap between "we found superconductivity at room-temperature" and "we found a practical room-temperature superconductor", but it's also obviously a good step along the path.
I enjoy Apple products a lot. The details of this new connector look great and I'm glad to be rid of the dock connector.

However I think the $30 price tag is out of line. They only charge $10 for the magsafe 2 adapter* which is more inline with my irrational sense of 'what is resonable' on pricing. In other words I don't resent $10 for an adapter, but do resent $30.

*I recognize that there may be more components for the dock adapter vs. magsafe 2.
Admittedly I know nothing of "business level productivity suites," but why would you think that WP8 holds the most promise? Judging by WP7, which I've been using for 2 months now, I would imagine WP8 hold no promise. I'd also imagine that apps like Glassboard hold the most promise.
Wheel-well stowaway is just about the worst thing you can do, ever. The wheel-wells are unpressurized, unheated, and designed to snugly fit the wheels in there (airplane designers don't waste space!). If you're not crushed to death upon retraction then you're almost certainly going to freeze to death or die of hypoxia. Just don't do it.
Microsoft Intercepts 'Nitol' Botnet and 70,000 Malicious Domains
You don't, it just displays the image.
Google something like: Microsoft makes more from Android than windows phone 7

(It has been a repeated news story the last year.)
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Internet, being the most widely reaching medium along with the ease of publishing, becomes quite attractive to anyone who hasn't got the means ( money/influence ) to get content published on more traditional mediums like Newspaper, Magazines and TV.

Hence you will find all kinds of material on the Internet including all kinds of hate speeches against all the religions, ideologies, personalities etc. Google being an indexer of Web would naturally present such material if you go looking for it. It's not Google's fault nor should it be its worry. After all, you can't really blame or shoot the messenger.

In a way, Internet has had more of a leveling effect on the kind of content and information that is available to common people in the world ( at least for those who have some kind of access to it ).

If for any bizarre reason, Internet starts to become more censor prone, it would loose its magical value. It is the most important invention of our times. It's somehow better if we don't have control over it. Just sit back and try to recollect the amazing pace with which it has changed and how beautifully it has sustained itself. It has a evolution path of its own.

The logic inside my head says that it was correct when Google removed the video from Libya/Egypt. But there is something in my heart that says that we would loose the innocence of Internet we go down this path too often.

Remember how reckless, carefree and full of possibilities we were when we were children. Then we came of age and learnt to how behave and think and do things like Adults. On the way, we somehow became ... well, just boring.

Remember, Internet is still a child. Hope we don't force it into becoming just another boring adult.
Why should owning infrastructure be anything other than low margin?
have you tried any of these:

http://www.wufoo.com

http://www.jotform.com
Cross product is a good example:
(v1.yzx * v2.zxy) - (v1.zxy * v2.yzx)
That seems like a pretty vague explanation.
I'm a (mostly) self taught developer but I have taken some software related courses (assembly, C, data structures), so I have some semblance of a foundation. Still, I constantly feel 'behind' in my foundational knowledge compared to my peers because I majored in something other than CS/SWE.

That's why the rise of edtech startups have been of interest to me: online courses like Algorithms: Design and Analysis from Coursera have been a godsend, at least when I have the time and energy to do it. It's not easy playing catchup with a full-time job, but there's even less time (and money) for me to go back and get a degree in CS.
This is very effective. After a while this is basically as writing html.

An added benefit is that it's very easy to attach events or other javascript properties to any object in the hierarchy.
An unjust law is no law, so he didn't break.
Yeah, I've played with a Bus Pirate on the bench. I just feel more comfortable throwing the Saleae around than the exposed Pirate PCB. Saleae's customer service is also completely awesome.
no we don't, when I started programming in high school in my late i had a copy of the dragon book that a RE friend told me about.

ops question would be better addressed if it addressed it's audience correctly:

"Self-Taught Web-Developers: Are You Missing Your Foundation" - and again the answer would be no. Since it's essentially a form of text processing we're talking about. Entirely different audience/target/whatever.

There's also many many many algorithms books around these days. The average web developer doesn't read them, and why would he?

Long story short:

Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no'".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headlines
How is that video hate speech? I only saw the trailer but it struck me as a really poorly done comedy. If that video is hate speech then I can think of a large number of movies and documentaries released in the past decade that must also be hate speech (which is silly).
Wrong, the timeline C -> C++ -> Java -> Go is more or less what the industry went through (well, assuming it's getting to Go now and it'll catch on).

It correctly ignores the work on "countless other languages", because they didn't have any if at all traction to the trade, and don't matter much as far as 90% of programmers are concerned, and the few languages outside those that do (Perl, PHP, Ruby, C#, JS, Python, VB) are quite similar to the above.
Uh, if you know when to use rb-trees, hash tables or arrays, you are using big-O.
"Corruption is probably the largest roadblock to growth, as evidenced by China's relatively slow rise to power"

China's slow rise to power from 1949 to 1979 wasn't because of corruption, but incompetence and policies, practices & ideology that was incompatible with economic growth, positive reform & capitalism. The anti-capitalist purges in the early 1950s lead to a wave of Shanghaiese & others moving to Hong Kong, to help boost its economy. There were some positive reforms in China to help boost economic growth and living standards, but those are overshadowed by the massively incompetent programs that destroyed the economy and country for thirty years, this after decades of war and civil war.

If anything, the level of corruption has massive increased since the reform period began in 1979. Though that may be the type of corruption has changed, from food, job, marriage, life, location & housing to money as the prime difference in the types of corruption being most prevalent.
Spot on. Some of the unused blocks owned by the MoD are actually provided to a few top secret things. It wouldn't surprise me if this is the case for this as well.
I think the fundamental problem is the carriers' vertically integrated business model -- Verizon and AT&T want to sell you the phone, the phone service, the data service, the TV service, etc. etc.. From the consumers' point of view we need the actual pipes to be infrastructure then we buy devices that use the pipes, and pay for services that send us stuff over the pipes. But how to get there? Massive government intervention of some kind is probably the only option. Left to the market we'll simply get the biggest most monolithic monopolies that the government allows to form.
What the EU did with the standardisation of connectors was a good thing for consumers. I'm not really sure why someone would side with Apple in this respect, other than if you own shares in the business, work for them, for a supplier etc.
bootstrap is a starting point and not the finish line.
What stops a self taught developer from also 'self teaching' the fundamentals?

Books and lectures (from OCW etc) have been available for years now. These days you can go one step further by taking online courses with assignments, exams etc from Coursera. All you need is motivation, and self taught devs often have that in spades.

The real problem is that in most enterprise swshops/codebases, knowing (say) algorithmic complexity is not very valued in terms of reward structure (though it should be - I've fixed my share of O(k^n) horrors) and lots of people choose to go through life writing simple apps and stitching APIs together (which is perfectly ok as a career choice if that's what floats your boat).

(Due Disclosure: I worked as an enterprise dev for a decade before I shifted fields. I work on fairly large machine learning systems these days and let me assure you that knowing algorithmic complexity analysis - and other things like statistics and linear algebra - is a basic required skill in this world. Fwiw I am entirely self taught. My degree is in Industrial Engineering)
"some students said that they will sue the university if any serious punishment is meted out" [1]

These are our future business and political leaders ensuring unabated corruption continues for generations to come.

It's world-views like these students' which explains why articles like this Onion spoof are sadly funny: http://www.theonion.com/articles/wealthy-teen-nearly-experie...

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/01/education/students-of-harv...
That's primarily because it also supports sinultaneous USB OTG for some reason (likely Samsung's bizarre checkbox marketing team...) The GS2 supported MHL over the regular connector.

I hope companies start developing MHL compatible docks now that many high end Android devices are shipping with it. A good ecosystem of devices would prevent "improvements" like Samsung's from taking root. (obviously, Apple adopting it would have been enough to finally make one unified accessory ecosystem, but Apple can't charge exorbitant licensing fees for "Made for MHL" logos...)
> This is an attention-grabbing headline, at best.

Absolutely incorrect.

Superconductivity occurs because two electrons pair off. This transforms fermion behavior into boson behavior: Fermions obey the exclusion principle; bosons do not. As bosons, they fall into approximately the same low energy state, which allows them to flow without resistance.

The question is how on earth the electron coupling is occuring: At room temp, normally vibrations would overwhelm all of the known mechanisms of superconductivity.
The gp probably does not feel inclined to shout that, but why? Is it because they've lived a life where they condition themselves to self-censor to some degree? Do we just blurt out everything we think when we meet people?

"Hello Bob. My word you're fat! And really rather ugly!"

No. We live our lives self censoring to some extent. We don't want to go out of our way to insult someone. There are some exception. We don't mind insulting people for humour. We really don't care about insulting people when politics is involved.

There are real reasons why religions need to be challenged. Some bits of religion do very great harm to many people.

Doesn't that mean we need to be careful with the offence we cause? Not to avoid any offence, but to make sure it serves some purpose? Causing offence to achieve a goal is probably acceptable. Otherwise you're just yelling "HELLO CUNTS!!!".

And to suggest that Youtube is censoring something is -in my opinion- vaguely ridiculous. They're choosing not to distribute a video. They're an international business and they suppress many videos every day. There are very many other online video services which could carry this film. I can't display nipples on Youtube. I can't display HoboFights on Youtube. Why should this video be any different?
Or, simplify your pages. The current direction of web development and design -- having hundreds or even thousands (yes, thousands) of assets in a single page is often counter productive, and borderline stupid.
https://bitbucket.org/dpwiz/hedn

My stab at haskell parser/encoder and type converter. Would be glad for a friendly hug^W code review and packaging suggestions.
You have never had speech protections of any kind in any private forum. This is nothing new.
Of course it is, but the paper doesn't over state the claim. Basically they have detected magnetic effects which are consistent with superconductivity. It is a tantalizing hint, no more, that there may be a carbon structure which is superconductive at room temperature.

This isn't a particularly surprising find as the folks who are working with graphene have been documenting its conductive properties for a while. It was that work which has inspired people to look further to find out more.

So this might be better titled 'the investigation of conductivity in carbon structures continues, with hints of room temperature superconductivity' but it wouldn't get nearly the attention :-).

I remember how mind numbingly boring materials science was to me in school and now all this cool stuff is going on, so the whole carbon revolution thing is pretty amazing.
Cool keyboard. I need to have a number in my username
I think he means people who can ship code.
Would you say the same thing if they hadn't moved the Overton Window[0] by getting very large judgments against Jamie Thomas-Rasset and Joel Tenenbaum? Keep in mind that those songs would normally cost $2.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Overton_window...
The Curiosity rover finally found life on Mars
Monk eats mad berries, found naked and rambling
Here's How The Internet Felt About Apple's iPhone 5 Launch
"...These fixed ratios/resolutions are one of the main reasons for Apple’s strong app ecosystem."

Oh right. Silly me thought is was the SDK, the link with iTunes, paid Apps, the link with Credit Cards, the high quality designs and what not.
Yep and nothing will be done by ISPs until they are all completely gone (and maybe not even then, scarcity is good for business).
If we're headed down the 'slippery slope' of taking the microphone away from people like Sam Bassil (or whatever his real name is), then please allow me to grab some sunscreen and an inner-tube, because I'm coming along for the ride.

There's a lot of fallacious thinking going on here. There's probably some sophisticated name for this type of fallacy, but I don't know what it is. Just because the attackers were wrong for killing innocent people, doesn't make this hate video "right". False dichotomy, maybe?

Freedom of speech is about serving truth. It is an expression of the idea is that no one should be silenced for speaking about the truth. If someone is saying something demonstratively false, and that speech is endangering the public, then they should be silenced. This is the same reason you can't expect first amendment protection if you walk in to a theater shouting "FIRE".

So, to get this straight, speech is not protected by our first amendment ideology when it:

* Is demonstrably untrue

* Endangers the public

It's pretty easy to see that both of these conditions are met with regard to this video.
This seems to have been rumbling on for some time now - at least for the past five years or so.

My OS supports IPv6, my home router supports IPv6, but at no point have any of the home ISPs I've used (three in the past five years - BT Internet, Be and Origin Broadband) made any mention of any sort of IPv6 support.

I'm not au fait with the workings of such huge operations, so is there any reason for ISP adoption of IPv6 to be so sluggish? It's not like it's been an overnight thing. I'm aware it's unlikely to be a simple case of flipping a switch, or installing a new software package - but we do appear to be approaching an IP crunch.

Are there any consumer ISPs that do offer customers a block of IPv6 addresses for use, rather than (or as well as) a single IPv4 address?
An extremely rare word pair found in multiple documents? That is bog standard latent semantic analysis.
But actually preventing someone slipping into the undercarriage depends on checks and procedures that are not always present, Shanks warns.

"In a lot of places around the world, the control of movement and airside control areas is not the same as what we have here."

"It's much easier in some locations to access the airside areas than it is in the UK. The only way it could be prevented is if the rest of the world tightened their procedures."

I would think the obvious solution would be to slap a big old multilingual warning sign on the wheel wells, clearly stating "flying in wheel wells WILL result in death by asphyxiation, hypothermia, and severe physical trauma".
It depends on what you want to do. They're about "equal" in general terms. But you haven't provided more details so I cannot answer.
Ubuntu is not the only option. Look into tons of other great distros including the excellent Lubuntu.

And I personally feel Windows 7 is a golden OS. Have to agree with you about Windows 8.
Yeah, and for server-side I think ngen is the way to go - then you're really just looking for a way to shorten startup time, and that's perfect.

But for something like mobile devices or video games, being able to do a real AOT compilation becomes a lot more interesting. You've only got one or two target platforms to worry about, which mitigates the concern about dealing with different build configurations. And you're dealing with an area that's more constrained in both space and speed, so there's more to be gained from some of the more tenacious optimizations that a C++-type compiler might do.
> Will developers have to maintain multiple versions of each app, just like on Android? Apple has been very quiet on this matter.

What? I've been an Android developer for years and never had to do this. I'm pretty sure it will be the same way on iOS as it is on Android - provide another layout (a different xib in this case) for the larger and smaller screens. Done.
Privately I think most people have this but don't want to admit it because they think someone would call them out on it. From what I see/experience it seems like the world mostly runs on people trying to impress other people because that's the only validation for our own skills we get.
The video has not caused the death of a single person.

Muslims have (I could say religious extremists, but the killers are mulims) caused the death 6 or 7 by now, plus insane property damage.

And Google should not be required to remove or keep the video online. It is their service, which means it is their property.

But removing it means that the next time somebody else can claim that 'you did it with this movie' which could result in bad PR.
send in Ellen Ripley!
Bootsnipp creator here...
Oh my loving God, this is amazing to end up on Hacker news on the second day of the creation being online... Thanks to you guys it's so popular now.

I will be working hard on making this a community instead of one author site, I do have a CMS that I build for this and it shouldn't be too hard to make this a community, it's just that I have to squeeze that in a full time and part time job, I made Bootsnipp thanks to being sick and absent from work for 2 days...

I appreciate your comments, please promote the site further and I will work hard on making it more personal to each of you.
>+ transportation to the next Apple Store or reseller
+ time to deal with all of this
+ if you do not get an instant repair, getting a replacement device (and another round of transportation)

Tons of stuff we do everyday, from groceries to checking our teeth, involve transportation and time to "deal with them".

It's not like this is an argument in favor of cases at all.
The article doesn't mention the updates to iOS 6, in dev hands for months, that allow for flexible layouts. I'd be surprised if any major 3rd party apps (Facebook Netflix Kindle Dropbox Spotify) weren't ready at launch. We'll see for games.

But, really, iOS has survived far bigger transitions.

I owned the first retina iPhone (4) at launch and apps were upgraded so quickly that I can barely remember using non-retina apps on it.

Many early iPad adopters ran at least some upscaled iPhone apps on it for months while developers caught up to a vastly different medium - a hideous compromise compared to letterboxing. Was that even a speedbump on the iPad's rise to blockbuster status?

So this strikes me as completely academic.
Germans get 'hot dating fun' rather than iPhone
RIPE starts allocating their last /8 of IPv4 addresses
Treatment With Fungi Makes a Modern Violin Sound Like a Stradivarius
Love the look and the speed of this.

The title to slug fails on non English text .. http://minikomi.authpad.com/

Also doubled up, or blank, slugs might be better handled more gracefully.

The view count is subtle but already gave me a grin !
Your argument that I am being "closed-minded" because I believe in the value of free speech is amusing. Valuing broad free speech rights is a characteristic of an open mind.

I never said that I didn't "accept the possibility that they're right". I just don't believe that an organization should be in charge of deciding what is "hateful" and what isn't. I happen to believe that free expression is critical to our moral and scientific growth as a species.
Microsoft finds new computers in China preinstalled with malware
I was expecting something a little more convincing. That's a complete red herring; you never have the choice not to hear something once you've heard it. Does it help if I don't insult you unless you make eye contact with me? After all, if you didn't want to hear what I think about you, you didn't have to catch my eye.
I'm sure if you thought a bit about the problem, you could easily figure out a few ways that you could modify the URL and still sneak it past the the ban. That's what I would have done.
Europe hits old Internet address limits
So when you read about countries like Venezuela installing proxies in front of Twitter before an upcoming election [1], is there a potential to use this technique to tunnel information into areas that normally would suppress it?

[1] http://orvtech.com/en/general/gobierno-venezolano-elecciones...
I think one of the points of the OP's article is that in Go you don't have to code like you've done here, where a single return value means one of two things (in your example: value in the map, or special reserved value that indicates the key wasn't found in the map). Go is cleaner, even if it's just a small improvement.
There's a lot of companies in the Class A club that don't necessarily need their whole allocations, but for reasons of legacy it might be difficult to displace them.

When Apple and MIT got their allocations it probably seemed pretty reasonable at the time. "How many organizations like that would be interested in the internet? A dozen? That sounds about right."

There was a time where anyone with a .net domain name would be able to apply for and probably get a /16 allocation with hardly any questions asked.
I really don't consider this a compromise; everyone else is pointlessly making screens larger in both directions that can't be used comfortably with one hand. The marketers just want to have that 4"+ screen on the feature list. Making the screen taller but keeping the same width was the best way of increasing the size but still keeping it usable.
Amateur radio also has an unused IPv4 /8 block as well. That $500 mil could go quite a ways towards building a few amsats.
That's essentially a funny way of describing a term paper.
I think Bootstrap is wonderful to allow you to start hacking away on an app and have it look halfway decent through that process. But I agree that once it moves on to a beta stage more focus should be placed on a unique / better design.