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Very eloquent and insightful post by yosefk. Maybe I shouldn't admit this(as a founder of Adapteva) but I actually learned something very important from his post.:-)

Here's another sharp post by Greg Pfister that also talks about the importance of timing of accelerators.

http://perilsofparallel.blogspot.com/2009/07/why-accelerator...

Here are my BIG unknowns for the next 5 years:
-What road-bumps will there be down to 10nm?
-Will the industry rally around OpenCL or will there be
10 different frameworks?
-How successful will Intel/ARM be in building up fences to keep accelerator companies out of their back yards.
I still use my HSBC bank account from time to time, so I stand by what I said. In fact, I just checked this for you.

Logging in to HSBC's web UI requires me to "Generate and enter the six digit security code", using my hardware token, which I never have when I need it.
There is a similar google chrome addon https://github.com/punchagan/github-cue
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That sounds like the same workflow as the HSBC app. I like it a lot and use it all the time to check my balance but it does not show many transactions, maybe ten only?
HSBC refuses to allow me to login. I am unable to use their online banking. HSBC have been unable to fix this for me, despite months of trying. I gave up two years ago. I might try again.
The gravitational acceleration is equal to G * M/r^2 where G is the gravitational constant (G = 6.67 * 10^(-11) N * m^2/kg^2) M is the mass of Earth (M = 5.97 * 10^24 kg) and r is the radius of the Earth (average radius = 6.37 * 10^6 m).

At the place where he jumped out the gravitational acceleration would roughly be:

g = G * M/((6.37 * 10^6 m) + (39000 m))^2 ~= 9.69 m/s^2

This is not far from the normally used 9.8 m/s^2 and this would of course get larger as he gets closer to the ground.
This year's Nobel Prize in econ goes to matching algorithms
You can already quickly unsubscribe from undesired newsletters in gmail by clicking on the small arrow near the sender/receiver contact details and clicking on the "Unsubscribe from this sender" link. It seems like most (all?) of the times it sends back an empty email with "UNSUBSCRIBE" as its subject, which most newsletter mailing system correctly interpret as an unsubscription request. The approach described in the article is somewhat orthogonal to this, in that it scans the email for the unsubscribe link, so it's still not useless, I guess they complement each other.
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balloonInst.inflate({'header1', 'header2'});

That's not valid js. The array example (`[]`) is fine on its own.
Key-making machines are already widespread and much cheaper than 3D printers.
This a thousand times over!

Though I do support their right to express such anti-free speech material, it's some weird kinda strange loop they've got going there...
"Does anyone imagine what a foreign power invading the US would mean to the US people, and under some BS pretext at that?"

There's a movie about that coming -- "Red Dawn" ;)
The rumor is, the offending side was initially Chinese but later (due to some large-scale busyness concerns) was photoshopped into... North Koreans.
The catastrophic global warming crowd seems to have no problem at all predicting a grim future based on temperature increases over a short period of time.

I tend to agree with you that planetary climate trends are not visible within the span of available global temperature data. But that argument works against the catastrophic global warming theory also.

Here is one discussion of the models vs. reality:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/06/15/james-hansens-climate-...
I just keep the HSBC dongle on my keyring. Initially I was doing this so that it would break and I could order another one in disgust at how fragile it proved to be, and repeat until they got the idea.

I have been utterly thwarted in this plan. The damn thing refuses to stop working.
This isn't something to count on yet when it comes to ranking well. That article says "don't expect to hide something behind JS".

The good news is that individual post pages using the OP's blog engine have content in the HTML and appear to rank just fine. The value of a well-ranking homepage on a personal blog is probably overrated as individual posts tend to attract links instead.
Santander ALSO stores your passwords in plaintext, or at least has access to them in that form.

My password used to include special characters, until a transfer to their new web interface year ago. After they did it,I could not log into my account - it kept telling me that my password was incorrect. So I rang them up,and a lady on the phone asked,if I had any special characters in my password. I said yes - and then she told me to try logging in without them,as the new system does not accept them and they were automatically stripped during the transition to new interface.

At first I was like - ok, at least now I can log into my account. But then it hit me - how the holy fuck could they remove special characters from my password???? The only way they could do that is if they had access to its plaintext, which is completely unacceptable.

I complained to Santander about it,only to receive a letter stating that they appreciate my concerns but their system is safe.

I've got all the correspondence with them if anybody wants to see.
And in those life and death situations that emergency workers are involved in... would you accept the loss of a life because the emergency worker couldn't get hold of the password in time to save someone?

As I said... it's good enough.
Ask HN - Where do you look for jobs?
Here are my sources:

* HN Monthly Hiring threads

* GitHub

* Reddit

* 37Signals Job Board

Any other sources?
Indeed - the most confusing for me are those that have a 'no reply' but then contain email addresses in the body of the email - yahoo do that for their groups.

There was a good article on no-replies on HN a while back, but I can't seem to find it.
I'm curious about responsible disclosure.

WhiteHat finds a security vulnerability. They tell the company. But, with banks, it's pretty hard to find the right person to tell. What steps should WhiteHat take to satisfy responsible disclosure? Just a printed letter to banks registered address is enough? (Banks, and everyone really, should have a "please use this address for responsible disclosure" - that would reassure me as a customer that they are taking security seriously).

But then, in England, we have a potential further step with the regulatory bodies. There's the ICO (information commissioner's office) who are overworked and will do nothing about this. And then there are the card companies who will, I'd have thought, be keen to protect their customers from fraud. Would responsible disclosure include a step to involve these third parties, if only to provide some clue pressure to the insecure site?
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The catch: don't go for native scrolling if you want iOS issue fixed. Try emulated scrolling what iScroll did before iOS5 came out. When inertia scrolling kicks in (the moment your release your touch and page continue its momentum scroll), any offset, scrollTop information is not updated. You are out of luck trying to fit any positioning calculation based on outdated offset/position. At the moment, there is no solution for this until Apple fix it.
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LinkedIn is quite good too.
Which brings up the question of what all these academic machine learningists (especially the theorists) are up to? Why aren't they winning kaggle? Why aren't Andrew Ng's own grad students collecting the prizes? Some self-reflection needs to go on.
Nice job!

I had a similar idea with https://github.com/JamesChevalier/Launch-Soon but Syte is a much better execution.

Thanks for this.
Now, all this is pretty bad but manageable. Shitty customer service, a shitty system, and no attempt to make amends for failing to provide a decent standard of service. But we're set up, right? Not quite. HSBC is the only bank I know that actively prevents you from using your funds by periodically just declining your card.

We're a web business. Every month we pay a bunch of money to our web hosts (the brilliant EngineYard), Google Apps, AWS, etc. WE DO THIS EVERY MONTH. THE SAME AMOUNT OF MONEY. And every month an Indian dude calls me in the middle of my lunch, asks me to confirm a load of security questions, and then asks me to confirm the same transactions that I confirmed with him the month before that, and the month before that and EVERY MONTH SINCE OUR JOURNEY OF PAIN WITH HSBC STARTED.

Meanwhile EngineYard are sending us polite emails saying "Please pay us, your card was declined." The upshot is that we have a bad relationship with our hosts. I'd imagine that HSBC's website is hosted internally, because I know for sure that if it was hosted externally it would GET TURNED OFF ONCE PER MONTH BECAUSE YOUR FRAUD PREVENTION TEAM STOPPED PAYMENT FOR IT.

Three months ago I called HSBC and pointed out that this happens every month. "Ah yes Mr. Spencer, I can see that in your account. I can confirm that we will not phone you again about these transactions." Bull. Shit. Two months ago when they called back I brought it up again, in a slightly more irate manner. "Ah yes Mr. Spencer you need to speak to my colleague about that, hang on." I spoke to his colleague and explained it all AGAIN.

Then they called back a few weeks ago. I explained it all again. Everything was fine, again; no fraud or unusual activity (SO WHY DID YOU CALL?). The card is fine and working, the EngineYard payment will go through, I'm told. I explain to the guy that if I ever have a phone call like this again where I have to explain, for the millionth time, why my business uses American hosting providers, I will change banks and never look back. "No, no Mr. Spencer, I'm trying to help you. You just need to speak to my colleague..."

No, I don't. I've spoken to everyone. Nobody I have ever dealt with at HSBC has any respect for my time. I've repeated myself dozens of times with HSBC to no avail, at every step of the process, to different staff members who can't pass a message along to save me from having to explain it again.

I tell the Indian guy that I'll leave him to resolve it. If he can't then that's fine, we'll switch banks.

He calls back to say it's all resolved. A week later, an email from EngineYard. Card declined.

Cheerio, HSBC.
After 10 hours:

708 responses, 269 "Yes" (38.6%), 433 "No" (62.2%), 33 "Other"

I'm surprises SurveyMonkey doesn't show the results. Won't be using them again. Thanks everyone for participating in this informal poll.
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Oh, I'm not saying you are wrong, it may be a difference of accounts/account type.
I believe NatWest and Halifax must do the same as they both ask you to "input characters x, y and z from your password" which I don't see how they could do without needing plain text storage. Of course I await being told how I am wrong with this!
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Sure, they probably shouldn't be creating man pages. But they could be great at copy editing and polishing existing man pages.

Or they could be expert translators.

So it's a shame that man pages are not as good as they could be.

There are other forms of documentation, but it'd be nice if man pages were the best the could possibly be.
Their online banking is fairly primitive, but it does the job. One thing which I find particularly funny is that if you want to have a standing order which continues indefinitely, you have to put a value of 999 in the "number of payments" field. I would have thought having a tickbox which says "Continue payments indefinitely" would be better from a user perspective.
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http://careers.stackoverflow.com/ has been a really good source for me
Actually - I've never understood your sentiments, or at least the need to say, "I don't support these people". I actually feel like I do support the people in your listed cases - dark humor has a welcome place in our society - if only to make light of the inevitability of our own impending death.

If you make a good joke of a recent killing - I'll admit that I'll probably get a laugh out of it. I'm not ashamed at all of this. I'm betting a lot of the HN community feels the same way. Will they admit that? That - I'm not sure of.
Doesn't the google spam thing affect the global standing of the sender? If that's the case it's probably the good internet citizen thing to unsubscribe without marking as spam if it isn't spam, otherwise it's negatively affecting the deliverability of someone legitimate.
Could you elaborate? What makes the Co-operative Bank the best choice from an ethical standpoint?
I could see this acquisition going through.
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The company certainly should be responsible. The alternative (which I'd say would be good for us seasoned software professionals, bad for the companies, and not very good for the indie software profession) is Computer Software Creators get their own professional, gov't-approved certifications, a large pay increase to go with the risk increase, and a legal requirement for these businesses to only hire certified Computer Software Creators.

Ain't capitalism grand?
Would it matter if it's 30 kilometer or 3? If anything goes wrong you're dead. I found it surprisingly easy to jump out of a plane at 3000 meters (3 km) after just a 5 minute training on the ground. The feeling of falling is super! The chute deploying? Not so much! (If you're ever planning this do not wear jeans).
Good job, but the data could use a little more refinement.

I'm in Portugal, and for instance The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is shown as being available for 3,99€. The movie page then lists the movie as being available for rent at $3.99 (SD) or $4.99 (HD).

When I open the iTunes store though, the movie is only available for purchase at 13,99€.

I take it that your movie page gets the data from the US store, but from a user experience point of view it should get the data from the user's country.
> You don't have to be hyperactive, even though your mind might be - in that case I suppose it's just ADD, right?

Not really. That's a common misunderstanding, but it's taking the name a little too literally. ADHD is actually the diagnosis (314), but one of the forms can be 'ADHD without hyperactivity'. However, 'hyperactivity' doesn't actually imply what most people thing it does, just from hearing the name, which is why the entire term is a bit of a misnomer.

> as someone who has extreme trouble concentrating, I can definitely relate.

ADHD is very, very different from simply 'having difficulty concentrating'. You can potentially have moderate or even severe ADHD without noticing any difficulties concentrating.

> In my case it seems to work, but then again - I was never diagnosed with anything.

I'd be really careful about generalizing your case to people with ADHD, then. To use a blunt comparison, it'd be as if someone claimed that watching funny movies made them feel happier and therefore it is a 'cure' for depression (a psychological condition much more complicated than mere 'unhappiness').
If your master data source is JSON, then you can store your raw data as JSON and be able to do ad-hoc queries against it.

At the same time, you can break your JSON into relational tables so you can also operate on it in traditional ways.
I've talked to him on #plan9chan, and I was quite fond of the conviction with which he held his various viewpoints.

More recently I've been following his Go related posts. The word of his passing came as quite a shock, he will be missed by many.
On the subject of "slightly" shady, let's not forget Barclay's enabling (via a questionable naming rights deal) of neighborhood-killing, taxpayer-fleecing eminent domain abuse, either:

http://atlanticyardsreport.blogspot.com/2012/06/t-shirt-im-s...
Considering how many Kindles Amazon sells at break even or at cost to them, this would indeed be a good business for them even if they kept all of TI's output to themselves. SoC has got to be an insignificant part of the cost with margins etc.
"The chute deploying? Not so much! (If you're ever planning this do not wear jeans)."
Why not?
Offline - local meetups and user groups
No, because it reads like a self-help book written like an amateur.
equally, a set of metalworking files and key blanks/brass stock are much cheaper than key-making machines.
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Maybe they are spending their time conducting research instead of entering contests? I'm not trying to be snarky, but do you know that they're even entering the contests?
I think it's a bit of both. EA is aggressively trying to lure people over to Origin, they figured, a free game for a survey would be an enticing offer, but after they realized something was wrong they had a choice of letting it slide or cracking down. If they cracked down on the people exploiting the code they would have done the opposite of converting people to Origin. However, now that a bunch of people have multiple games in Origin, they are invested and will likely buy more games in the future.
>I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'"
--Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation

I never though I would see the day when the West gave its freedom away just to please a religious group.
Once blasphemous speech is outlawed, every religious group will have a new tool to use against any criticism.

There are a lot of Christians in America, and for the most part they don't complain against negative speech against their religious ideas. Imagine if they could prosecute every time the name of Jesus or Christ was used as a curse word.

We need free speech.
Nice. It's like a shareable version of Firefox's Responsive Design View!
Let's look at it from the other angle: Why/when would you not use a no-reply@example.com? When you want to receive communications from a customer? What about other examples?
Yes, it will be interesting. HBase has a larger community and user base, which will surely help in its adoption. Accumulo & HBase have very similar architectures and purposes, so much that the NSA caught a little heat from the Senate (http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/07/nsa-accumulo-go...). If you absolutely need cell level security than you might want to go with Accumulo, otherwise, use HBase.
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Your second sentence is true: Private censorship isn't the same as public censorship; you have no fundamental right to free speech in a context owned by someone else (private website, physical business, physical home, etc.).

But your first sentence needs adjustment: Free speech is something a government takes away from its citizens. It's a fundamental right held by everyone in the world. There are governments that fail to protect it, and of course many that actively violate it.
That's depressing.

Especially the part about how you can just bust open the zipper on a locked bag anyways.
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I also find LinkedIn very helpful.
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Have a well connected and up to date linkedin profile, abd accept the random friend requests from recruiters.

go to offline networking events.

get to know your local group for whatever you program in. Seattle-python-interest-group has periodic job emails, and more importantly if I asked them for help I would probably get a couple responses.
sorry- my intention was to further clarify your point.
Came here to say the same thing.

This is the kit they had in the capsule:

* Nine high-definition cameras

* Three 4K (4,000 x 2,000-pixel) digital cinematography cameras

* Three high-resolution digital still cameras

* Three small high-definition video cameras: one on each thigh and one on Felix's chest pack

( From http://www.redbullstratos.com/technology/cameras-communicati... )
It's a pretty bad design in general, I was flicking between this and my email client and clicking on the 'background' of the page takes you to the front page.
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Does anyone know the specification of what makes the difference between a person free falling and a person in a vehicle free falling?

I know this seems specific, but lets say for example the space suit is completely ridged, and made out of metal, would he still qualify?

I'm basically trying to figure out exactly what the point of gear is that moves it from skydive to vehicular fall.
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Same name, but different banks. I don't think Santander (the Spanish bank) changed all systems of Santander UK (formerly known as Abbey) so your experience with a Santander ATM in Barcelona is probably irrelevant.

EDIT: typo
Also, if you are interested in actual master keys, Matt Blaze's paper on the subject is a classic: http://www.crypto.com/masterkey.html

"n a recent research paper, we describe weaknesses in most master-keyed lock systems, such as those used by offices, schools, and businesses as well as by some residential facilities (particularly apartment complexes, dormitories, and condominiums). These weaknesses allow anyone with access to the key to a single lock to create easily the "master" key that opens every lock in the entire system. Creating such a key requires little skill, leaves behind no evidence, and does not entail engaging in recognizably suspicious behavior. The only materials required are a metal file and a small number of blank keys, which for many locks are readily available."
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I don't look for jobs that have been posted — my feeling is that jobs that make it to Reddit / GitHub / Craigslist / Monthly Hiring Threads, are all jobs that have been picked over by people working at (or close with) the company.

I make a list of the type of company I want to work with (I want to be paid $X, they should use this technology, I want to solve this problem or work on this project) and then I backtrace it and figure out which companies match those criteria.

Then, I contact those companies. I set up meetings when I can. My goal is to learn:

* What sort of projects they work on
* What challenges they're facing (geez, our biggest client needs _IDEA Z_)
* What skills they look for in new hires / freelancers
* Other companies in the area / tech / market

When appropriate, I tell them about my background and skills and ask who I should be in contact with to learn when new opportunities open up.

Then, I do two things

If they mentioned a huuuuge problem / pain point they're facing, I send them a follow-up email talking about the problem they mentioned, what I can contribute to solving it, and suggesting a time for another meeting.

I follow up with any other companies / people they mentioned and set up a quick coffee meeting.

Periodically, I'll check in with my contact. Nothing spammy, just an update about something relevant to their industry / problem.

Rather than fight over the same jobs that everyone else sees on 37Signals / Reddit / GitHub / HN hiring / Craigslist / LinkedIn / Etc, I want to be at the top of mind with the companies I want to work with.

Every job I've had — salary or consulting - has come from someone inside of the company calling me up, telling me about a position they have, and asking me if I want to interview. This bypasses the slog through submitting a resume and fighting against 20+ other candidates for a position. This gets me the positions I want working on the problems I want to solve.