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This is why young generations should learn about compiler design and that language != implementation.

Sure the language semantics may outlaw certain types of optimizations (e.g. aliasing), but in the end nothing forbids having compilers, interpreters or JIT implementations for a given language.

The current generation tends to think strong typing, dynamic, or a GC enabled language, requires a VM.

This is what I think it is positive about Go's designer decision of using a native compiler as canonical implementation, as it shows these youngsters there are other ways to implement languages.
Ostensibly they use computers to automatically execute their strategies and hence their own human emotions do not factor into their trades.
Good to see the Austrian School weirdos at the Ludwig von Mises Institute have given up real-world economics and now just play video games. Hopefully in the virtual world their incredible track record of dead-wrong predictions will cause less harm.
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Wow.... i can't imagine what if something like this will happen to Google or Facebook. If it happened to Yahoo, why not to them?
They're still out there, just less of them.

It should be the opposite; more people trying to push the envelope, less people trying to copy apps because of monetary reasons.

Great work is hard work.

It's a shame the easy way is the default for so many, but the beauty of technology (and biology, in this case) is that we can help thousands with one tool.
This is kind of a dick move to use IMHO. Clearly they are not giving you the space to store arbitrary stuff. It's a neat hack and props to the author but if enough people use this it will not only cause Yahoo! to have to build countermeasures but will also set an ugly precedent for Yahoo! product managers to consider before doing nice things like they did today.
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Google Wallet looks like a big improvement over their old system.

I'm not trying to be a dick: How?
Jump ship, guys! SMTP is next!
The world needs yahoo. It's great for competition and a place for startups to exit, rather than companies like pinterest acquiring sites to shut them down.
Interesting idea. Good luck. Seems like a nice element to add to a campaign and a lot of work off the backs of Kickstarter users.
I don't disagree -- I think of markets as generally anti-inductive, so over-thinking things is a definite risk. And some quants have the habit of developing models so complex that when conditions change, they can't figure out how to adjust them.

I'm just saying that Buffett's quote sounds like the abstract from some scientific paper. I'm surprised he didn't include a p-value.
Isn't Google Reader being discontinued?
Yahoo! Japan is an entity separate from Yahoo!. It is a joint venture between Yahoo! and SoftBank (a Japanese telecom).

And to put this in context, IT in Japan is about a decade behind the West.
I believe in the curve: as fur as there is no car in the road, I curve my trajectory to walk less (and stay a little longer in the road). The curve should have something like: given "St" the securityTime, at any time t, v(t) * St is located on the other side of the road. With v(t) the vector velocity witch is not constant (the angus changes, not the speed).
Khan Academy uses it for their entire site.
I was under the impression that Yahoo Japan and Yahoo are distinct entities. Do the two services actually share common infrastructure?
I remember something similar popping up within days of gmail offering 1GB free :) Good times.
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Wasn't this a standard math quiz puzzle in a high school? Except it was phrased in terms of a horseback rider needing to cross a river.
Hopefully the newer generation of companies (GREE, DeNA, Line, etc) will change the way things are, acting as a catalyst.
This sort of thing happens pretty regularly though nothing of this scale. While I was at Yahoo! we dealt with 3M compromised accounts.

I feel for all the engineers involved in resolving this issue. We had a team of 3 or 4 working on the resolution for a few weeks.

It's normally the result of a successful phishing attack. The affected users probably have no idea their accounts were compromised.
Claiming that this affects "10% of all Yahoo accounts" or that the breach in June 2012 is related is disingenuous---Yahoo and Yahoo Japan connected in brandname only ("Yahoo" accounts are not valid "Yahoo Japan" accounts, and vice versa).
I bought a Samsung something-or-other Duos so that I could have a business number and my private number route to the same phone. It takes two SIM cards.
Thanks for the link, I'll give it a look over :-)
It's happened to both. Normally this doesn't get out and is the result of a phishing scam.
I'm not joking at all. I had a consulting customer once that had a problem; I asked him a couple of things on the phone that he insisted he'd checked, and he pleaded that I come to Chicago in person and take a look, when I lived in Southern Indiana at the time. I said I'd bill him a day (which was generous; the whole thing cost me 13 hours).

Turns out that yes, one of the (trivial) things I had asked him about, that he'd said he'd checked, hadn't been checked. He was up and running in half an hour.

Then he didn't want to pay for a whole day because it had been so easy. But he did, in the end, pay for a whole day.
It depends a lot on the person, and maybe quite a bit on how they've invested/been raised those first 14 years. No need to extrapolate from one anecdote.
Well, yeah. But you should have seen the numbers they were promising us in 1999...
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To be fair, this kind of performance would probably be seen over any sample of the brokerage house clients.

Even professional mutual fund managers systematically underperform the market.
When will we man up and ask Apple how come iOS doesn't do smart updates (Download only diff's) like Android Does?

Apple doesn't care because its not a significant cost for them (May be not worth their development cycle?), Carriers don't care because more data = more $$.

Consumers pay and shut up because its uncool to standup against AAPL?
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I actually thought app diffs were a feature of iOS 6… I'm surprised we haven't seen them.
out of curiosity, how do you go about "resolving" such a situation?
Q: How do you tell a vim user from an emacs user?

A: You don't, they tell you.
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Up-voted because I have interest and experience in AI, but the stuff about the brain is just nonsense. What does it even mean for the brain to have types (or not to have types, for that matter)?

> The brain is a (sophisticated) computer! It’s a big processor.

If you're a behaviorist, sure. But many (many) people don't see it this way. I'm not just talking about philosophers here, but also doctors, biologists, and chemists. How do you even define computer in such a context? I would suggest some reading of John Searle (see Mind: A Brief Introduction) to clarify some ideas here. Sure, we tend to hear stuff like "the brain is a parallel computer!" all the time, but these statements don't really mean much and are often sensationalized.

The analogy breaks down even worse from there. Comparing the JS event subsystem with fired electrical impulses in the brain? I mean, come on.
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Wow, your offering looks rather promising. A reasonable price for unlimited storage, and importing all photos from other services.
I use to run a product team at a company that was acquired. Interestingly enough, all the candidates with Yahoo PM background that I interviewed I didn't like.
I think hiring PM can be rather easy and I used these steps to find a great candidates:

0 - make the candidate feel comfortable and at ease. Start with topics you might have in common. Hobbies, teams, movies, etc. some of the best candidates might be the most nervous people at interviews.

1 - eliminate slick talkers. Don't fall for articulate BSers and constantly be on guard if you maybe falling for one. Judge their substance not their delivery.

2 - undrestand how they think. Ask questions or carry the conversation in a way that they have to solve a simple problem.

3 - the most important one. Do a simple product meeting with them. If you follow item 0, you should kow what they are into. Ask them to build a simple app or site for their specific hobbies or interests. This gives you a chance to see how good of a fit they are and how they think and solve problem as a PM.

Lastly, experience was never as important to me as passion, raw intellect, curiosity and instinct.
Why do you think they don't care? You can't blame individuals for a culture that completely eschews skepticism and critical thinking skills in children. I'll bet you that every time an educational program is proposed for nutrition in grade schools (at the local, state, or national levels), the junk food lobby steps in and uses its money to quash education. Our educational system is shaped by moneyed interests, just like everything else in government. Our children are taught what doesn't hurt the industries with the paid lobbyists or the status quo in general
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You can get the old interface by appending /?details=1 at the end of the photostream url. e.g. - http://www.flickr.com/photos/tathagatac/?details=1
Neato, thanks!

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%90%9B%E5%AD%90%E6%8A%A5%E4...

"A nobleman bides his time for the perfect moment for revenge."

I swear I didn't make up the oedipalia! A chinese native mentioned it in passing years ago and the phrase stuck.
If they thought the founder would just get in the way otherwise, and they had grander plans for an established user/code-base?
iOS 6 is doing binary diffs when you update an app. I have rather large app in the store and when I pushed a minor update, download took only a few seconds. This would have been impossible if it downloaded the whole thing, my internet connection is not that fast.
Physicist Steve Hsu on Feynman's alleged 125 IQ score:

"Feynman was universally regarded as one of the fastest thinking and most creative theorists in his generation. Yet it has been reported-including by Feynman himself-that he only obtained a score of 125 on a school IQ test. I suspect that this test emphasized verbal, as opposed to mathematical, ability. Feynman received the highest score in the country by a large margin on the notoriously difficult Putnam mathematics competition exam, although he joined the MIT team on short notice and did not prepare for the test. He also reportedly had the highest scores on record on the math/physics graduate admission exams at Princeton. It seems quite possible to me that Feynman's cognitive abilities might have been a bit lopsided-his vocabulary and verbal ability were well above average, but perhaps not as great as his mathematical abilities. I recall looking at excerpts from a notebook Feynman kept while an undergraduate. While the notes covered very advanced topics for an undergraduate-including general relativity and the Dirac equation-it also contained a number of misspellings and grammatical errors. I doubt Feynman cared very much about such things."

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/finding-the-next-einstei...
I'm also interested in how they introduce quality entropy into the glass. It's well-researched algorithmically, but are material researches up to it? Even subtle patterns could lead to within brute-force distance.
Same issue with 3.5mm jacks :(
Except that they do. I've a number of large (~1GB) games I've seen update in only a few seconds

Here's some docs https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#qa/qa1779/_index.ht...
Wait, what? I don't post a lot on HN, what do you get at the 500 point level..?
There are definitely a lot of opportunities for innovation in Japan. This excellent post by a co-founder of MakeLeaps, an invoicing startup founded by gaijin, covers some of the difficulties (and opportunities): http://www.makeleaps.jp/blog/en/2012/05/everything-ive-learn...
Let's just say that everyone is a JavaScript expert these days. :)
At Yahoo! there's a dedicated security team that handled identifying the exact cause and worked with us to resolve it.

To identify compromised accounts we looked for profile photos matching a certain md5. The attackers were using the accounts for viagra links and updated compromised account profile photos with one of about 50 photos.

Once we identified the accounts they were "quarantined". But the attackers got smart and started shifting a pixel so that the md5 wouldn't match our set of known bad photos.

There were other patterns we identified to isolate the compromised accounts but it was ongoing which meant as we cleaned up accounts the attackers adapted.

For the 3M accounts a bit was flipped in their account. The membership team which handles logins handled the first step of the compromised user signing in. They redirected the user to a specific page that took them through a password reset flow. It wasn't the standard password reset flow. After all, we couldn't know if it was the attacker or the user logging in.

This was all a while back but it was more or less something along those lines. It was not fun.
The starting left side panel that shows all the supported command is quite useful for someone that is learning. However, it's either blocked by the demo screen at the start. Or it would be cleared every time a tutorial is chosen, and it doesn't show up at all when ?NODEMO is added. I think you might want to move that to the right, or move the starting tutorial/demo screen to not block that panel.
I was wondering just how long it would take for this to pop up...
i'm starting a process to deploy on aws, and i just finished creating my salt stack conf for a vagrant VM ( as a warm up). After reading the post i was in the process of ditching that for a simpler AMI-based deployment.

Could you elaborate on why salt stack is better than custom AMIs ? also if you have any link explaining how to deploy to ec2 using saltstack, that would be awesome.
David Karp may or may not be in for a surprise. He may realize, after all this time and all this work, that no amount of money will make up for a lost childhood.
Awesome! Are you going to rebuild Atlas? Is this going to work with Cappuccino?
Doesn't this already exist? Multiple times?

Oh well, obvious 'exploit'. Wondering how Y! will react. They must've forseen this, right?
You'd probably need a VPS to do that. What you could do is have it pull files based off a database on the server, stick them in a cache, then convert them to what they really are (I assume the utility in the OP just adds a PNG header, so the VPS could just strip that) and then stream it.

Maybe you could hack it together with owncloud or something? I'm sorta tempted to try doing something like this but I don't want to screw flickr over.
This is a gross generalization.

Sure, plenty of companies are behind. But quite a few are too in the US... http://www.pcworld.com/article/249951/if_it_aint_broke_dont_...

I'm also not sure that "new" means more secure in this kind of context either. LinkedIn ain't exactly ancient and had a similar breach last year.
any link on the advantage of using saltstack for aws instead of AMIs ?
At this moment not really because the whole market is rallying, for example look at the S&P 500:

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=%5EGSPC+Interactive#symbo...;
That ruins the service for the rest of us. The phrase "this is why we can't have anything nice" applies perfectly to this post and comment.
I wasn't aware of jump point, I will look it up thanks.
You should remember that the Feynman algorithm is a joke told by one of his colleagues (Murray Gell-Mann) to mock Feynman's story-telling. It has never been intended as a real algorithm that should be applied by anybody.

Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1520075
Probably poorly.

Question though, how large of a file can you hide with steganography in a 300mb picture?

Would that be big enough to hide an MP3?

On a side note, can you upload files to Flickr that have data appended after the end of the image data? Like people were doing on 4chan until moot removed that capability.
Using Google checkout reduced my conversion rates but I still stuck to them cause they Paid on time and are very much less troublesome than paypal (especially for high volume merchants)

I'm definitely switching to stripe when it comes to the UK.
Yeah, on the one hand this sort of thing seems like a fun project, but on the other hand it's incredibly exploitive.
Maybe this could explain :
http://jesuschristsiliconvalley.tumblr.com/post/50931471868/...
I hope they really screw the EC this time. There is no way to rationally explain the waste, silliness and bad governance this organism inflicts on us communitarians. Well done!
It had never occurred to me that "User IDs" were all that confidential. At the very least, the MTA pool will usually let you know (Just checked, Yahoo's MTA does), so, if you are patient, and don't trigger its anti-DOS mechanisms (usually by using a botnet to slowly, ever so slowly query them) - you can brute force quite a few account names.
Recruiters are not technical and never will be. "I think I'll quit programming and start recruiting" -- No one, ever.

I guess I'm the exception to the rule then. I studied software development in a prestigious university and worked as a developer for a few years and left because I simply didn't enjoy it and wasn't making as much money as I hoped. Admittedly I wasn't the greatest developer in the world but I was at the very least average. I left development to work in sales and eventually and (unintentionally) fell into recruitment. I currently work as an inhouse recruiter for a large development company and make significantly more money than what I could have expected had I stayed in development.

for a fairly-poorly compensated job.

Base salaries in agency recruitment are poor but if you do nothing more than hit your targets then you'll comfortably clear £60k a year in the UK whilst still in your early twenties. There are plenty of recruiters who would struggle to print 'hello world' in any language that still clear six figures a year.

Your advice about protecting your cell phone number is absolutely spot on though.
> is that it's a developer's market.

Interesting. I've found 2013 much tougher than 2012 - or 2011. All the agencies round here are recruiting good developers, but the rates for freelancers have gone down.

I both subcontract and work direct for clients, and work has been distinctly quiet since February. Mind you, the last 2 years have been amazing, which was when all the local agencies were laying off staff (or folding). Not sure what I'm doing differently to make me go in the opposite direction!
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Not sure what the situation is in the US but I have yet to meet a single successful recruiter in the UK that works less than a 60 hour week. Recruiter hours on this side of the world are quite notorious.
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They'll probably just ban the API key people use for it.
Somehow, I don't like the wording.

Mine says:

... is an awesome Rubyist (one of the top 19% most active Ruby users) who would rather be commenting on issues instead of pushing code.

I do a lot of bug/PR triage for padrino when I find the time. Also, I have the habit of documenting each and every odd behaviour I find in tickets.

Its an important task, yet the tone frames it as as if I was some kind of Statler and Waldorf kind of person.

Other then that, its actually very accurate :). Except one thing: it seems to tread organizations as users, so most people are "good friends" with their companies/OS projects.
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Indeed, his childhood sounds fucking paradisical compared to being forced to sit quietly in a room full of people you didn't choose to associate with while some adult who has a great deal of arbitrary power over you teaches the median student in their class.
Being a woman in tech. Or, being in tech.
Bear in mind that inflation of the money supply is not the only possible cause for price bubbles. I used to think so too (because hey, I used to read mises.org religiously). But it's not, as they say, that simple.

Here's are some good pieces on bubbles generally, and how money supply by itself can't explain real-world phenomena:

http://skepticlawyer.com.au/2013/05/15/bubble-trouble-not-an...

http://skepticlawyer.com.au/2013/04/19/bubble-trouble-about-...
but then you can't yank and paste between buffers since you will be using seperate vims.

you can try dwm.vim (https://github.com/spolu/dwm.vim) if you have spare keybindings.

if you are still not convinced and want to use screen, i recommend tmux since you can split both horizontal and vertical.
That's were we can see some or most entrepreneurs are not like real artists. (Not saying they should be...)

Take the same choice, but apply it to a musician: I am Universal, I propose to give you a lot of money but I buy your past and future music, and I buy your band name. I'll tell you a lot of nice things: you will be my prefered musician, I'll promote your work everywhere, you'll do concerts, and all that.

But in fact I'll just promote another musician instead, and I bought you only to let more room for this other one.

Don't laugh, that's what happens in the music industry. I have been a sound engineer in a previous life, and saw it with my eyes.

Then, if you are a real musician, you would be nauseated and will regret taking the money, because what you really care about is making music and having people listening to your work.

It is not a dissimilar as one could think. If a software is considered by its maker as a work of love, art and craftmanship, then the said maker should consider it twice before selling it to a big company: it is likely, very likely indeed, that this piece of work will just be diluted, butchered, or simply forgotten in a dark corner, without you being able to do anything about it.

The money is power, it is the power of those who have the most of it, and I think it is very naive to think big corporations can be easily fooled into some transaction that is not in their own interest.

I do not say that Tumblr or whatnot should be understood as works that should be protected against the big fish, but other projects are: If Google bought Firefox, if Linus sold Linux or git to MicroSoft, if Ubuntu became a subdivision of Amazon, then I think there would more at stakes than only money, not matter how high the pile.
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can you please quote the 'first point in this post'?
Completely agree, another example is the UI layered on top of a photo. UI and content should not be mixed, especially if that content is the key asset on the page and of the service.
Ah, thanks, I didn't know that. That does sound better.
Just wait until AWS East goes down. Not if, just when. But Heroku is in AWS East, too. I am so happy to have gotten out of AWS.
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No, it's typical for your ego.
What's in for people who don't have diabetes or obesity? I don't but I read some tumblr.

Futuremore, if you could just develop a pill that makes you fix your weight instantaneously and forever, that would be great; but data gathering will only help people willing to help themself. And most of the world doesn't have such big problems with obesity anyway, while they still like cat pictures.
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