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Didn't Proust see only the first two volumes into print, leaving the rest for his literary executors? There are stretches late in the volumes (mostly about the late Albertine) that I have to think he would have pruned way back. But yes, there are splendid passages.

From my experience in neighborhood book club, I have found that almost anything, modernist, literature, or not, is susceptible to "half readers".
That's well said. I would imagine that pirating media is highly correlated with purchasing it.
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Not for me, I only back up my original content on Arq (video and pictures, mostly).
I wouldn't call the concept itself too far-fetched. As a learning or teaching exercise, though, building virtual machines, languages, JIT compilers and the like is very interesting. I'm assuming that "Sol" is a play on "Lua", because both virtual machines seem similar.
Do you attend meetups just to grow your network, or is growing your network a side product of your enjoyment of going to meetups?

I think for people who aren't naturally social butterflies, networking should be thought of as one of, but not necessarily the best or most efficient of, the ways to force the job search process. For people who just like to socialize with people in their field, networking might be strictly the best way to find work.
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This book is really worth getting if you can find it somewhere for a fair price. It's almost worth it for the appendix alone where Marian Rejewski himself describes how they broke the original Enigma code.

http://www.amazon.com/Enigma-German-Machine-Foreign-intellig...
And then spend the next year frantically trying to recover your ratio...
For the last few months, iPhone users have enjoyed an unusual environment in which advertisers have been largely unable to track and target them in any meaningful way.

This is completely false. It hasn't changed at all in any meaningful way.
I'm shocked, shocked, to learn that this level of discrimination exists in Iran.
Personally, not that put out that some crap* body shop in Iran doesn't want to hire me. Really, I'll manage.

* feel justified in guessing they are crap based on job description and age restriction.
This is just a pendulum that swings back and forth, with 'serverless' as a new buzzword.

Everything was on the server (mainframe) with dumb terminals, where the mainframe was essentially the cloud, then we went to fat-terminals with the pc-era. The web came along and everything went back to the server, then smartphones and tablets, and we went back to apps with data stored on the server. Now we're going back again.

Where is this all going?
Dang. Soon 40.

I guess I won't be able to take an entry-level programming job in Iran. No point in bucket-listing that anymore...
Considering Kathy's history, I think she probably has a bit more experience with harassment than either you or Laura. Given that, isn't it a bit strange that you're dismissing her opinion out of hand?

> To put it into an extreme example

Please don't.
Actually, this could be the template for something extremely popular. It could be called WW_S, the _ would be anyone in the family (or anyone in the world).

For a family where the father has gone away on an extended business trip, WW_S would scour the Internet and local files for anything the father said. Then, when the children want to get Dad's wisdom, they can by typing in or asking a question - even if he's not physically available.

What about a famous author or celeb? WW_S would spider up everything he or she has said and through a prediction algorithm formulate answers to questions, much like WWPGD.

Heck, you could even do it with characters like Sparky the Bear or Santa Claus. Basically, white label it.

I'm in a rush and typing this out on my phone, but hopefully you've got the gist.
> I'm guessing those stars at 1000AU can't be much brighter than our full moon is

They may well be fainter. According to Wikipedia, the Sun is about 400,000 times as bright as the full moon, on average:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent_magnitude

So if the Sun were 1,000 AU away from us instead of 1 AU, it would be a million times fainter (1,000 squared), or less bright than the full moon.
Yes.

#2 is especially known for its technical institute (IST, where I study), which competes with another one in #8 for the title of the country's best engineering school (the one in Porto has been winning past years' programming competitions).

#6 is known in the country for its CS degree.
In general, it doesn't. It just looks like they've established a process where CI takes place on the shared master.

Builds/testing can happen on any branch, any repo. I'd like to have some local testing take place (for syntax at a minimum) before anyone submits changes to a shared branch.
Umm... if you are over 40 in Iran than you are either the Shah or a foreign diplomat
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
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Correlation is not causation. But this _is_ hard data about the habits of file-sharers vs. the average music listener, and it seems to directly contradict the RIAA's claims. And how would you otherwise attack this? Is there any other methodology you think would be suitable for proving or disproving RIAA's claim that file-sharers alone are a net negative for the recording industry?
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Serious (non-snarky) question: are projects like this no longer standard fare for undergraduate CS majors? This example is rather comprehensive and well-documented, but is almost spot on what all 50-75 of us had to do for a Junior-level class at Georgia Tech back in 2003 or so.
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People do question evolution and the Big Bang. They do it by developing alternate models that take into account all the evidence we already have available to us, and see if their alternate model has sufficient explanatory power.

If you're not doing this, you're not questioning the prevailing models. Making a public statement from a position of secular authority is not questioning evolution and Big Bang; it's a demonstration of your own ignorance and nothing more.
It's not a ridiculous comment.

P> Good thing (for Apple) most of their customers have had too much koolaid to care.

We're going to have to agree to disagree on that. One bit of snarky bullshit ruins the whole comment.
Which programming language do you use that isn't based on English?
I built this for a personal project where I needed an internal caching system, and maybe someone else needs it. I published it on npm, so it's pretty straightforward to install.

I also think to use it for some features we're building at Mashape.
He compares it to SVN, but makes a classic error.
In SVN branches and commits are just as cheap as in git (albeit marginally slower to create usually). It's the merges that are expensive.

It's there that git wins, with it's better understanding of how content moves around, and the ability of the merge tool to see the history and identify the common ancestor.
A site giving a whizzy CSS example with no demo?
It's a little different; in our solar system, the Sun is one of the foci of the ellipse, whereas in a binary system that focus would instead be the center of gravity between the two stars.
Uh.... requiring authentication and using an industry standard communications language is hardly what i'd call "not wanting your data to leave their network".
I doubt it's anything more than a highly regimented social structure.

You see a form of it in the US when you see a job ad for a web developer where the company desires an MSCS in the candidate.
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I'm more interested in the fact that the bank consciously hitched this new prize to the brand's coattails.
I vote plaid!
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Durable companies are one thing.

There's also the art form of catching some wave and building a company designed to be flipped in a few years' time. After that, the company (now division) in question invariably crashes and burns and the founders blame the whole fiasco on the acquirer. Happens...
Without this, advertising wouldn't be possible?

Maybe it would be less successful, maybe less prevalent, maybe less useful, but I'm pretty sure advertising would still be possible in a world with no device-specific IDs made accessible to the advertisers.
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How come every FlightFox post here feels like spam? :-(
The truth is that personally, if I could pay say 20$/month and consume any media I want and download what I want I would. But the fact is the music is too god damn expensive, and purchasing a song is too hard. A song - 5megabytes mp3 file - is much easier to download from literally anywhere on the web.

Now you don't even need a program to do it, just use a website like mp3skull.com and you can get any song instantly.

It's a mixture of price and ease of acquisition.
I recall other parts of the Mid-East have something like a three or four tiered system. Arab ruling class on top, Westerners below that, Indians and third-world migrants below that and Palestinians and indigenous Arabs maybe below that.

Iran seems like it would be different since I couldn't imagine they have many Westerners at this point.

The whole thing sounds miserable. I know Saudi Arabia or Dubai have enough money to pick and choose who they want but, again, Iran? Anyone know the story?
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As well as the fact that once enough of your classmates have Dropbox, its collaboration features and shared folders will really shine. Once you've worked on a group project without having to email files back and forth, you never want to go back.
http://paul.graham.arelikefacebook.com/
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If you encrypt it, either you use a different key for each user's data, which means you're storing per-user session data on the server so you may as well store the cc number there, or you're not storing per-user keys on the server which (and I'm not a crypto expert here) probably opens you up to known plaintext attacks if an attacker gains access to many users cookies.

Are there any actual crypto experts reading who'd comment on the dangers of encrypting multiple credit card numbers with the same key? Keep in mind for a single bank the first 4 digits of a credit card will all be one of two choices (their Visa or Mastercard prefix) and for a single branch I think the first 6 digits will be the same for every customers Visa card, which only leaves 9 digits (and the checksum).

Surely a naive approach like:

$encrypted_cookie_text = any_encryption_function($sixteen-digit-cc-number,$global_key);

could be brute forced pretty readily, with a knowledgeable guess at the first 6 digits and an understanding of the checksum algorithm, you're only left with one billion possible numbers. (In fact, I wonder if rainbow tables already exist for this for various values of any_encryption_function()?
Should be pretty straightforward. If it's not, shoot me an email and tell me where I messed up ;D

getFile is now replaced by the more explicit calls: pick and store.

If you're using the widget, data-fp-extension is now available.
> there is no reason each letter could not also be stored as a hash after being salted with some personal information.

There's no technical reason, but you may as well just store it as plain text.

Even assuming everyone used all the available Unicode symbols (~110,000 according to Wikipedia) an eight character password would only require calculating 880,000 hashes in order to brute force every character.

Assuming a more realistic A-Za-z0-9, an eight character password is an absolutely pathetic 496 hashes. A 1,024 character password (good luck remembering that) is still a paltry 63,488.

For comparison, hashed as a whole that same A-Za-z0-9 at eight characters is 218,340,105,584,896 (62^8).

Hashing the characters individually changes adding more characters from exponentially increasing the work involved to linearly. It's good as useless.
Interesting the aversion to paid marketing. I would definitely be hiring someone that had at least solid Adwords experience and maybe other networks and pushing into that area in a big way, given the funding raised.
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It's a w3schools bait post.
You gotta be a little careful, but I make sure to download everything during the freeleech events and to seed forever.
Are github pages down for you?
All my github pages are down, and all other ones I can think of too (e.g.):
http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap

Wonder what is causing this?
See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4657540
Accurate. Also, the free plan is very generous at the moment as we want to reward our earliest users. A small tier might make a lot of sense later on.
So the news is that Apple hopes for Siri to duplicate A9's level of success in the marketplace?
RSS.app, rejected from the Mac AppStore. So I'm giving it out for free.
Weird, they're all working for me.
I'll see your one chart, and raise you 10: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4657540
Can you open the exact dates/flights/hotels to the public if we wanted to book one for a fee?
Probably doesn't hurt that Google has an office in his home town, either.
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If you look at this from another angle, it's not so bad. Would anyone be angry if there were three pacifists on the Defence committee? A certain portion of the American population opposes science, and as harmful as that is to the country, a democratic system means they get their say.

EDIT: For the record, I wish these people had never been elected, and think the American government should increase science funding significantly. It's not my call, though.
Thanks, they just started working again for me too.

I have no idea what happened. For about 15 minutes I was getting github 404s for all github pages.
Has anyone here used flight fox? Did you get results that made it worth it?

To me it is interesting to see whether the NP hard routing and the incomplete data of online flight search tools create a big enough gap for it to be economical to pay someone to do it,
How disappointing! About a month in review. Rejected (2.8): https://developer.apple.com/appstore/mac/resources/approval/.... Appealed. Rejected again. 'Too simple'. 'Add more features'.

Bah! Just a simple tool to get RSS-feeds back into OSX, as if it was a native feature. Nothing more, nothing less. Adding anything would detract from its use...
A team at McGill made a "game" to find patterns in I think protein-folding or genome data, to leverage humans to identify patterns that their algorithms could not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylo_(video_game)
It also mentions on their site that those who complete their program will be "completely prepared for your first entry-level developer position". Note: entry-level.
OK, thanks you are right. Interesting how they cite the 14th's change in the concept of US citizenship to be primary over state citizenship as strengthening this presumed right of federal conscription.
Thanks. The support of the community is really encouraging and keeps us going. Always be shipping. :D
> the market would be very different (No free/freemium apps

Most freemium apps seem to rely on in-app purchases, not ads. (Leaving aside the ones that combine the two by having you pay for not having ads, but many apps manage to come up with something more creative than that.)

And quite a few free apps exist that don't have ads.
http://google.pluses.arelikefacebook.com/
> We are not allowed to use it to create profiles, or to improve our ad targeting algorithm. We are absolutely not allowed to divulge the information to third parties.

Sorry I'm pretty ignorant on how this kind of thing works, but when you say 'not allowed', what's actually stopping you? I mean, how is Apple or anyone else going to know if you do or do not use these IDs?
To be perfectly honest, there are a few companies that exist because the build and sell something fairly remarkable as a product or a service, but there are literally millions of companies that survive off of the inefficiencies in existing markets. Many/most businesses operate off of a form of arbitrage, not unique product creation.

For example, look at retail, it exists on the arbitrage opportunity of buying things in bulk and transporting them to local markets to sell them. However, if transportation costs were cheaper or people did a better job of planning ahead, most retail need not exist.

Even online retail has the same problem, at a certain level Amazon woudln't need to exist if manufacturers could sell and deliver direct to you.

My point is that most businesses don't need to exist, but there is opportunity in both short and long term arbitrage that isn't durable or sustainable, but many times can be quite profitable.
It’s not just Silicon Valley. We found that Indians start more companies than any other immigrant group in California (26%), Massachusetts (28%), Texas (17%), Florida (17%), New York (27%), and New Jersey (57%). This is amazing, especially since Indians only represent between 0.7% and 3.4% of the populations of these states.

-- Interesting data, for those curious on the subject
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Sounds like an interesting company but from the tone of the job ad it really feels like the current marketing mix is based on dogma. I'm not saying inbound marketing isn't great but outbound marketing should really have a seat at the table as well if you are looking to accelerate growth.
From my personal experience no they aren't, although I would have loved to have gone somewhere where they were.
Background: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2012/10/04/chairs-are...

Apparently, this website takes the requested subdomain and uses it to search Bing Images, showing the first result, except for "chairs" which is from the FB video.

e.g.: http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=hobbits

edit: Some queries, like "elf" show the default chairs.
Really depends on your school. I went to a little podunk college (graduated in '02) with a tiny CS department and we did not do anything nearly this complex. You went to a top 10 CS school and did stuff like this. I don't have any real data but I imagine the situation is probably the same these days.
The first Bombe was built by the Poles and its design later given to the Brits. It was called the "Bomba Kryptologiczna", i.e. the "Cryptological Bomb" because of the amount of noise it made. Turing didn't invent the Bombe, his contribution was the improvements he made to vastly speed the process up.
Site is down at the moment. Maybe this is a demonstration of the "Crash and burn under load, even though it worked so well when nobody else was using it" database pattern? I run into that pattern way too often, i.e. more than zero times.
> an electronic locking company with a groovy kickstarter video (here at lockify, we've reimagined locking things!) and a shiny web 2.0 front end.

I'm surprised no one's brought Lockitron [1] into this discussion.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4602679
I observed this with http://mozilla.github.com/ for at least quarter of an hour. At least one other thing was broken, too: the pagination controls at the top and bottom of issue pages were rendering as escaped HTML. That was still broken for a few minutes after pages returned.
This is kind of ridiculous but posted it to see if anyone had torn it apart already. Maybe it simply doesn't deserve mention...
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"Working Hours: Sat - Wed 8:30 - 17:00, Thu 8:30 - 12:00" - I had to count twice to confirm that they're scheduled 6 days a week. Is that common outside the EU and North America?
I think his intention was making the comparison to people with jailbroken iPhones that have pirated apps on them, which is pretty much the largest reason on a very short list of reasons why non-enthusiasts would jailbreak.

Microsoft didn't ban people for having modded consoles, but having a modded console was necessary for this. The jailbroken iPhone with pirated apps seems perfectly analogous, and I think people would be far less friendly to these same tactics by Apple (or Verizon?) in that scenario.
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A huge irony in all this is that Santander pulled out of a deal to buy a large number of branch offices from a rival bank because apparently the computer systems of this rival bank weren't up to scratch and merging would have been an issue.

This bank probably didn't believe in storing sensitive information in publically accessible places clearly

/sarcasm
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You'd think Apple of all companies would appreciate minimalism.
I was quite surprised at the result. http://penises.arelikefacebook.com/
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And of course the most famous participant of the battle, Wojtek the Brown bear:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojtek_(soldier_bear)

I actually found a beer named after the bear the other day - I didn't get a chance to drink any though!
On the bright side, Apple can now sue anyone else who tries to include this feature in their phone.
Hey robryan, using humans vs doing-it-yourself isn't just a case of incomplete data or algorithm inefficiency. Rather, it's about the service a real human can provide. The same reason many people still use travel agents for complex flights.

The most obvious example is using frequent flyer miles. It's one thing to find an award flight on your favorite airline, but much more difficult to search all available partner awards.

Once we get into FF territory, there are also mileage runs and segment runs. In most of these cases you have to spend many hours yourself, which is why we built flightfox.

In short, Flightfox works best for more complex requests. We've seen amazing results with short flights, but it's not the focus and isn't a given.
be nice to have the option.
Arguing that language of any sort (including the mathematical sort) is not malleable depending on the context of its use is completely futile. This is a perfect example of the more common usage and the more correct usage of a "mathematical symbol with a well-known meaning" being totally at odds with one another.

When confronted with someone using different definitions for their language usage than those you are using you can either argue with them about what the correct usage is or allow that language is not absolute and cooperate to calibrate your terms so that you can understand one another. It seems that btilly has decided to do the latter in this specific case, which is laudable.
A question I've always had about posts like this in general: What would happen if Mayer actually did this? Would she not bet met with derision for apparently guiding the company with advice gleaned from a blog post? Do "Company X should do Y" articles actually hurt their own chances of being fulfilled?