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>> I hear VS>=2010 uses the compiler infrastructure to generate the intellisense data, rather than doing it (as VS<=2008) by simple text processing, and it's made a huge difference in terms of reliability.

To be specific, what they did was take the EDG C++ front-end, and use it to drive all code intelligence features (code completion etc) - see http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2009/05/27/rebuilding.... That's why it can correctly handle all templates, macros etc.

Here's a nasty trick that I love to play on unsuspecting C++ IDEs:

template<int = sizeof(void*)> struct foo;

template<> struct foo<4> {
template<int> struct bar {};
};

template<> struct foo<8> {
enum { bar = 0 };
};

float baz;

int main() {
foo<>::bar < 123 > baz;
}

The nastiness here is that the line of code inside main() should be parsed differently depending on pointer size on the target architecture. If it uses foo<4>, then it is a declaration of a local variable named baz, of type foo<4>::bar<123>. If it uses foo<8>, then it's an expression involving two comparison operators: ((foo<>::bar < 123) > baz) - referencing the global float baz.

Now, if you try the above in VS (2010+), you'll see that it will parse this correctly and give you the proper type info for baz (and "Find References" etc), which will change if you switch project configuration from "Win32" to "x64" and back.
Latest update:

less than 1m ago Snowden is not on the plane, AFP reports
AFP are reporting that Austrian foreign ministry officials have confirmed Edward Snowden is not on the plane.

The report continues:

"President Morales will leave early Wednesday morning for La Paz," the Bolivian capital, ministry spokesman Alexander Schallenberg told AFP. Austria did not know why Morales's plane had landed there, he added.
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Large businesses do similarly dumb things with digital products and services. There's nothing I see here that's specific to government, except that there's a publicly published report detailing expenditures and problems, which you generally wouldn't see in business.

And, frankly, without reading the actual report (which the OP doesn't link to) it's hard to know if you're getting the whole story here. The Washington Examiner is a right wing publication, so it's not hard to see where they might selectively present details to paint this in a negative light. Not saying that they are distorting things, but absent a review of the original document, it's something to keep in mind.
It's not impossible to crash any car, the alternate reality here is that a brand new car with more safety features than a padded cell crashed by itself at 4:30am in the morning into a tree and exploded on impact. The point is these cars are built to try and avoid these kind of accidents at all cost, the plethora of safety features cars like these have makes it a lot more difficult than say an early 00's vehicle crashing into a tree to hurt anyone inside. Not impossible, but certainly reduces the odds a bit. This article here details the kinds of testing Mercedes put the car through: http://blogs.automotive.com/2013-mercedes-benz-c-class-and-m... - 200 high-speed in-house crashes sounds like a lot of testing for a car and apparently it faired well in all of them. You can see a video of the car being testing here as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvw_VLcUUwU&feature=youtu.be - while Hasting's didn't crash in a controlled environment, you see a picture painted of a car capable of withstanding a lot of impact.

I know it's common for cars to slice down the middle and kill their occupants, but exploding and incinerating Hastings inside to the point they have to identify him by his dental records at least warrants a closer look. I'm not saying foul play is to blame here, but some questions need to be answered. As is common in unexplained plane crashes, the debris should be tested for explosive residue just as a precaution.

Another interesting question is why was the engine found over 100 feet away from the car? When a car crashes isn't an engine pushed back into the cabin, not thrown forwards?
Maybe, maybe not. It depends what sort of agency relationship exists between the Foundation and its members, whether the members are considered beneficial owners and so on.

It's not obvious from the website what corporate structure the Bitcoin Foundation has, for example. If it's a nonprofit, it has yet to file a 990 tax form. I find it understandable the the CA regulator wants to know what sort of entity it is dealing with.
I was shocked too that ASP.NET MVC performs so poor in all these tests. C# is/can be a very fast language and both C# and ASP.NET support some awesome features that seriously increase the performance of the web app. The whole async/parallellization for example.
What's sad is that huge amounts of software are still not provably memory-safe, and this sometimes has disastrous consequences, particularly for security. I hope that Mozilla's work on Rust will significantly contribute to solving that problem.
Interesting hand-waving going on here. For some reason they're citing the California Commercial Code when they know full well than FinCEN Guidance FIN-2013-G001 (http://fincen.gov/statutes_regs/guidance/html/FIN-2013-G001....) takes precedence. Of course Bitcoin is a "payment instrument," that's the whole point, and the Department of the Treasury has already deemed that it is within the bounds of state regulators. Any semantic argument to the contrary is just ridiculous.

Also surprising that a reputable law firm wouldn't have known that as of July 1, 2013, the DFI no longer exists, and has been merged into the California Department of Business Oversight.

I'll be interested to see how the DBO responds, or if this comes up at the AB 786 hearing tomorrow.
Or that he was paranoid and thought he was being chased.
I'm against conceptual patents like these. I feel they are too abstract, monopolize a common functionality/method, and hurt competition. Way to go Todd Moore, even if they settled for $5, fight what you believe in!

A general abstract patent that I can think of in relation is one I researched recently that Comcast filed, patenting online video playlists[0].

[0] http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...
Although Tempting, Raising Too Much Money Is Not A Good Idea
Cars can catch fire in real life: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=54e_1333912420

See also: Ryan Dunn's 911, post-tree.

Hollywood may exaggerate the rate at which that happens, but not much more.
You underestimate engagement. I guess most of these users already has a Google + profile, but are not engaged.

By integrating both services (specially the old social features from reader) they could make Google + a much more active community, overnight.

Instead, they decided to send their users to other venues. This is just dumb.
I've heard about bugs in the throttle position channel from a few coworkers that worked for several different manufacturers. This was awhile ago though and most bugs have been sorted.

Creating a car crash through brake or steering manipulation sounds a bit far fetched. Throttle position on the other hand does not have any type of redundancy in most modern cars (no mechanical means of restoring control). If you have access to change TP, either by GPS coordinates or remote, you could cause a crash pretty easily by sticking the throttle body WFO. The driver always has options to stop the car, but in panic mode...who knows.

I am still withholding judgement and will watch the investigation with interest.
Also it is more fun to hear about them face to face and not read a generic message on facebook and they tend to have more things to say to you.
Evidence: the American Revolutionary War.

> We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.

- Benjamin Franklin
I get that the defense minister was saying the plane was re-routed because of Snowden... but the pilot seemed to indicate it was a fuel indication issue. Would he be in on the conspiracy? Is this transcript from a different flight perhaps?

I don't know what went on exactly but all that re-routing a plane with Snowden on it does for the U.S. is... nothing, really. It's not like they're going to stop them from going to Bolivia, and some kind of blackbag shenanigans while the plane refuels on the runway would lead to much more international outcry than I think either Obama or Kerry would want to accept.

Even if we assume some kind of Darth Obama type nonsense I just don't see where this would have any upside for the U.S., which makes it seem a little implausible... even Obama has to be smarter than that.

Edit: As far as the transcript the possibility would make sense if it was a charter flight and not a Bolivian aircrew. It would still be quite insane for the U.S. to ask for that or any of the countries to participate though.
Or he was surreptitiously exposed to a mind-altering substance that made him paranoid, thinking he was being chased!
If not on the plane, then exactly where ARE Butch and Sundance? I have to know!
we do not accept or remit or transmit money

But they do accept donations, and acknowledge as much (page 2). If you're going to tl;dr please do so accurately.
My Twitter feed has been lighting up with this. Not because the acquisition is all that interesting in and of itself, but because the app was developed by Chaotic Moon, and they're saying they never got paid. For example:

https://twitter.com/whurley/status/352201365910593536

Better start making popcorn.
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Hm, if I were to pirate your software, I'd much rather direct any support requests to you than deal with them myself. As long as I get the app store revenue, that's all that matters. Don't you think that's all they care about?
Secure coding practices
I couldn't find much information if it could be used like fitbit for step and sleep tracking.
Or maybe the tree was drunk and traveling too fast.
Is it known what story he was pursuing?
It's a conspiracy:
https://www.google.ca/flights/#search;f=SVO;d=2013-07-18;r=2...

;)
I never even heard of Michael Hasting's death before today, so I don't have an opinion yet, but I find it hilarious that someone who is implying that a conspiracy is at work here is telling everyone to "apply a little grain of common sense". Conspiracy theories are not common sense.
It's not their money, they're not accountable. They don't have to check with each voter in their region "Is spending this money okay? Can I go ahead with it?" - sure, it might slow down things a bit - but that's a good thing, and people would be more involved and more aware.
I think you are vastly under-estimating the learning cost. We're talking about teams of developers, not a hobby project. A few months * multiple programmers adds up to man-years really quick.

Go is much simpler. We deployed our first production (admittedly a fairly minor piece) Go service under a week after we made the decision to start using Go.

PS: State is only shared when you make it so. Go concepts like channels make it very easy to write, _and debug_ clear, decoupled non-trivial parallel code.
He is not stateless. He is a US citizen being pursued by US Law enforcement.

Stateless people do exist and they really have it hard.
Portugal is a mess recently with several cabinet members resigning, including a key figure overseeing the implementation of terms agreed to in its bailout by the EU. I can see Portugal being in a particularly compliant mood at the moment in order to build good will with those that may have to help bail it out again.

But France? What could possibly be the motive other than bending to pressure from the US?
that begs a question - how probable that FB has provided "inconspicuous" services to government recently such that the payment for the services would preferably be disassociated from the services and look like a stupid actions of a bunch of incompetent bureaucrats instead?
Actually, comparisons to Soviet or Nazi Germany work against their purpose. If the United States turns into a totalitarian state, it will look nothing like the instances of totalitarian regimes we have learned from textbooks. It will take a much more familiar and understandable form, not very different from how things look today.

In most totalitarian states, life goes on like it usually does. It's just the power distribution that changes. This should scare people a lot more than it does.
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Not to argue, but he could be considered de facto stateless. However, the term stateless even being a thing piqued my interest rather more than whether or not Snowden actually is. Thus, I Wikipediaed all about it.
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So a like is worth around 0.25$
The assumption is that Britain regarded it as illegal in the same way that the USA would regard it as illegal if, say, the state of Texas was to declare independence today. That said, it's apparently a hot area of debate among people who study law:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15345511
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/352194716680462336

Doesn't mean that France, Portugal and Spain actually thwarted any plans, but only showed their hand, and that they certainly would attempt to thwart any such plans if they could. I suppose wikileaks' tweet is just saying "shame on you for even trying..."
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I randomly viewed the JavaScript source of HN, and this is what I found. It's pretty elegant IMO and I like how they ping the server.
The NSA palantir types sure seem to think anything on any computer is free game - LOL! Email, phones, banks yah? Shouldn't things be just the opposite of how they are according to the founding fathers, the government types that hack us should be held to a FAR HIGHER standard than some arkansas boy like WEEV, yet they do worse, and get hookers in south america and lots of parties, while weev rots in jail for 4 years, something doesn't seem right to me about that situation.
Google, damnit. I mean, this isn't some obscure detail you're "curious" about. It's the founding event in US history.
Ohhh I get it. Very clever, Wikileaks!

Certain countries, I believe Switzerland is one, require for asylum some proof that your home country/maybe certain other countries can't protect you.

This was a show of proof. They knew somebody would take the bait.
+1 for truthiness
And there are now 100,000+ signatures, so this will make it across President Obama's desk.
I think this explains a lot about why corporate life (and this includes VC-istan) seems to lead to mediocrity in what is ultimately a trillion-dollar destruction of human capital.

When people start to associate work with endless subordination and minuscule reward, they're effectively conditioned for laziness (in the long term). They stop believing that anything is worth waiting more than 10 minutes for.
If this turns out to be true, I will never again travel to these countries and spend my tourist dollars there. Not saying this is true, but if it is, NO MORE FRENCH CHEESE :-)
Hopefully Morales' plane was just a diversion and there's another plane with Snowden on it on its way somewhere else...
When you seek asylum it is because you seek protection from your home country.
Apparently the Bolivian presidential aircraft is a Sabreliner [0], which has a much shorter range than a big commercial jet. It may be unable to cross the Atlantic without a fuel stop near the coast. If Spain, France, and Portugal all say "don't fly here", they may not intend to shoot the thing down, but they might very well refuse to allow the aircraft to refuel when it lands.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabreliner
I think this is the major thing that Google is lacking, an true application development platform that anyone can build an application, host it inside of Google, and use internal data sources.

App engine feels like it's close to that, but it doesn't confer any special properties onto applications developed on that platform. Why can't I register a widget inside of Gmail or Google Calendar? Why can't I integrate a workflow form or something else into apps without developing a standalone application that only integrates through an API?

I'm hoping this is where they're going with Dart, creating a language that can be compiled into Javascript and share the backend connection with official Google apps. SPDY and WebSocket will enable these types of applications, as they won't need independent connections for each API request channel.

I can see how Google is cautious about this type of solution, given that it opens a huge XSS footprint, but I think it's the future of the "cloud" applications. For these platforms to become substitutes to native platforms they need to support applications that integrate as deeply as the first-party offerings.
What's the most ridiculous game dev request you've ever received?
This reminds me of the IRS' $60k Star Trek themed YouTube campaign [0].

Does this frivolous spending of tax payer money get categorized under marketing expenses or operating losses? [sarcasm]

[0] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2297934/IRS-apologiz...
The fact that movies prefer to show a big dramatic explosion in a fictional context does not mean that cars can't catch fire in real life.

http://www.usfa.fema.gov/statistics/reports/vehicles.shtm
Just delete this comment, while you still can.
That said, other things being equal, it's better not to be hated.
As far as I can surmise, the reason that the Bolivian president complied was due to the fact that had he not, it would at the very least, be seen as an act of aggression, and could possibly be seen as much more.

Though they wouldn't threaten to shoot the plane down per se, you can bet they'd send up a few armed and loaded fighter jets to 'escort' the president's plane either out of their air space or to a safe landing zone where he could then explain himself to the proper authorities.
> The latest Fast and Furious movie employes magnetically attached exploit devices that lock the ABS system on a single wheel at speed, causing the car to immediately pull hard in that direction.

Are you seriously citing an action movie to support a point about how easy this would be?
the federal government is operating largely in secret

having lots of secret activities != operating largely in secret.
I've never heard that quote before, but I'm going to use it often from here on out.

Thank you for sharing that.

It made me think of a quote by Theodore Roosevelt.

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."

Success isn't always measured by accomplishing the goals you set out to do, but instead in the journey and experience. I think the USA needs this experience and only time will tell if this falls into the failure category.
You completely misread the point. We don't know the truth, if it was foul play or not. Probably not. BUT, it doesn't matter about the size of the jump, yet the fact that it's even a POSSIBILITY THAT WE HAVE TO CONSIDER ... is scary.

Plus, it's not as large of a leap as you think, it goes hand in hand. Everyone is familiar with journalists disappearing in countries like Turkey.
Is there any reason why it is so slow on plain text?
Ask HN: Are My Links Really That Boring/Spammy?
I submitted two links today, one of my app's launch, the other an article in GeekWire about the app. Neither lasted more than a few seconds on the front page.

Am I doing it wrong?

Edit: this one didn't even get on the front page.
No, I'm pointing out that even Hollywood thought of this. When Hollywood is using a technology, you can usually assume it's either fantasy or old hat. This doesn't look like fantasy.
as much as they're apparently hated, they do tend to work

Working at a marketing agency, I have plenty of data that shows that, no, they do not.
The subject of his email was "FBI Investigation, re: NSA". Don't know if the investigation is the same as his big story, however.
Another question is.. how does a well made car burst into flames so quickly.

There was a lot of discussion about various aspects of how cars behave when they crash, in a previous thread. But, speaking as a former firefighter, the tl/dr; is "cars do sometimes catch fire and burn when they crash". Hollywood style explosions don't normally happen, and car fires resulting from wrecks don't always happen, or even happen terribly often at all in my experience, but they are far from unheard of.
Haven't they heard of fiverr.com?
You could hash the code delivered by Google and throw up a big warning if it has changed.

I believe that Google does releases of the entire application at once so this method should detect when a roll-out has occured.
Which country do you think is most likely to have encouraged/compelled/suggested/persuaded/etc. these ones to act this way?
... says who?
Flight thought to have Snowden on it was diverted - what if it happened to you?
Is the Python language really a python?

The NoPSD movement is making a point against what 90% of what all designers use. PSD is just used a common reference point.
So I know almost nothing of the circumstances of the crash, but I think there is more to consider. For instance, how fast was he going? My 2006 accord is much safer than some car from the 1950's. But also, I get 260-hp out of a 3 liter engine, and its faster than a Mustang GT from the 90's. If you hit a tree going 90mph, there's little a bunch of airbags will do for you. People dying, things exploding, parts flying - how strange that is really depends on the circumstances of the crash I'd argue.
Oh God that be wonderful
Clearly some of Snowden's revelations are nothing to do with that.
Ryan Dunn was driving at 130mph when he hit that tree. Not a great example for your position...
larrys is correct; due diligence (as it applies in corporate M&A) occurs after a term sheet or letter of intent is sent and accepted, and is the process of verifying that everything the other party said was true.

Further, your question "How many companies have you sold?" is rude and irrelevant.
Renouncing your citizenship means you're no longer a citizen, no?
From the Stanford JS Crypto library's page:

> (Unfortunately, this is not as great as in desktop applications because it is not feasible to completely protect against code injection, malicious servers and side-channel attacks.)

The browser is not a secure environment and cannot be. You cannot guarantee security in the browser even if you control the server-side of the application, let alone when someone else does. In other words, Google can still read every bit of email you send/receive in cleartext.

The only way I see how one could make something like this work is by creating a browser plugin where the cleartext runs outside the context of the browser process (perhaps in Java?). If cleartext ever exists inside a JavaScript interface, it's game over.

I upvoted this post because we do need more discussion of security and especially usability of security. However, unfortunately, this provides no real security.
Why do they even call it 'internet' explorer? It really is just a 'web' explorer isn't it?
Generally a terminal. Depending on the gnarliness of the path, maybe a file browser. I'm a very textual person. I'm sure that has something to do with it.
How can you possibly assert that the car "crashed by itself" and not because the driver did any number of things to yank the steering wheel and throw the car out of control?
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