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Why doesn't MS Windows use magic numbers to establish file types, or does it now?
Off-topic: Wow, that author's friend really dramatically and thoroughly misunderstood 4'33".
>There is equal evidence for both god and the tooth fairy.

Not really. There is no evidence for the actual existence of the (or any) tooth fairy. It could be argued however, that there is evidence of a god or gods specifically because every universe that we know to exist other than our own has creators. The universes created in computer simulations, dreams, imagination etc all have specific creators who are the gods of those universes. Why would our universe be any different from these?
The point is that certain large prime numbers (of certain forms) are curated and published in a catalogue because they are notable (in and of themselves). The process you dismiss as trivial allowed Carmody to encode the illegal program as such a prime, and hence have it independently published in said catalogue, where it belongs entirely independently of whether it happens to turn into the illegal program when run through gunzip.
I talked to a small shop owner just the other day that had been hit by this. They said they spent the $300 on a new PC instead - but I'm pretty sure they lost a bunch of irreplaceable data (mailing lists, supplier details etc). Pretty heart breaking.
Poster does most certainly, but most Americans don't
Absolutely so, yes. Thanks. :)

8 - 23 MIPS ain't so bad, right?
It should be the US keyboard layout, because that's what the operating systems in the emulator use.
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It's probably an allusion to Amanda Ripley's experience with taking the PISA test herself, described at the start of the book. To wit:

"Several questions like this one asked for my opinion, followed by rows of blank lines for writing my answer; that was odd. Since when did a standardized test care about anyone's opinion?

"Other questions reminded me of problems I'd encountered as an adult--having to decipher the fine print of a health-care policy before choosing it, or comparing the fees of checking accounts offered by competing banks. It seemed more like a test of life skills than school skills.

"All the math formulas were provided, thank God, including the value of pi. But I noticed that I had to really think about my answers. When I tried to speed through a math section, I had to go back and erase several answers."

"PISA demanded fluency in problem solving and the ability to communicate; in other words, the basic skills I needed to do my job and take care of my family in a world choked with information and subject to sudden economic change. What did it mean for a country if most of its teenagers did not do well on this test? Not all of our kids had to be engineers and lawyers, but didn't all of them need to know how to think?

"I still didn't believe that PISA measured everything, but I was now convinced that it measured critical thinking."
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Aren't normal people thrown in jail for years for copyright theft these days, e.g. some kid with a few dozen pirated CDs?

BTW Datatables are fab and the developer deserves lots of credit.
It surprises me that there is not central update service that every program can use, and that every program instead have to use it's own always on update poller.
Bang on a bakery does not require skilled workers they might have a few mechanics to service the line and a couple of technicians to do H&S related tests the rest will be unskilled.

though actually probably not the best analogy Ferrari do limit the number of cars they make and to buy one of the new hot ones you often have to be an existing customer.
Carmack turned red. “If you ever ask me to patent anything,” he snapped, “I’ll quit.”

Wow, my admiration for Carmack just increased tenfold.
Last time i updated my MBA, It got crashed. I am not sure I want to update, just to check if my MBA requires an update.
in english/italian etc.. I can say that magenta and scarlet are both kinds of red, but there is nothing above the hungarian voros & piros, you can only say they are both colors.
eulerphi: FYI you're hellbanned
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As a Pole, I find it unbelivable. The system is incredibly strict, there is absolutely no place for free-thinking, I have never seen their archaic methods applied to real-world usage in a classroom, and all universities have very low funding,which means that most experiments are ran on ancient machines. There is no budget for buying tools or documentation.
My girlfriend was told in front of the class by the professor that she should not be studying engineering because it's not an industry for women. It would be completely unacceptable at a university in the UK or in the States. In Poland she went to see the head of the university and was told that "she probably misunderstood what the professor meant". Obviously every one knows that that these two people are good friends so it's impossible to do anything about the situation.

If the Polish education system taught me anything, it is that free thinking is a bad thing,and you are punished for it on every step of your education.
We also recommend backing up your data on a regular basis until you receive a replacement drive.

Why stop there? With tools and services like Time Machine, Carbon Copy Cloner and Crashplan, there's no excuse not to maintain a backup. As evidenced by this page, shit happens.
It's fun but terribly difficult to read and understand. I hope he provides the "traditional" version as well for the people who just want the information and not the whole shabang.
I think that it is better to think about it in terms of the 'colour of bits'. Bit colour can be thought of as an invisible property that follows a bit around whenever that bit is computed in a way that depends on another coloured bit.

Suppose n_1 is picked randomly (from a distribution that doesn't take into account any 'coloured' bits). Suppose n_2 is computed from illegally obtained data. Now suppose that numerically, n_1 == n_2. Mathematically, n_1 and n_2 are indistinguishable, but in the eyes of the law, n_1 is not coloured and therefore legal, while n_2 is illegal.

In practice, courts cannot see the colour of bits, so they have to infer the colour. If you claim that some data on your hard disk was randomly generated, but it is exactly the same as, say, a 100 GB copyrighted movie file. The probability of randomly generating such a small file (unless your distribution is stacked towards that file - which doesn't count as being uncoloured) is so small that it is not credible that you coincidentally generated it randomly, so the court will likely infer that the bits in that file are coloured.

Another more complex example: suppose I give you four bitstrings, A, B, C, and D. Let ^ represent bitwise XOR. Suppose that A is a representation of the complete public domain works of Arthur Conan Doyle, A^B is a public domain representation of War & Peace, B^C is a copyrighted novel (and the person distributing the strings doesn't have permission to distribute it). C^D is a public domain representation of the bible. Which bitstrings are illegal? To decide, a court will need to infer how you generated the strings. A is clearly not illegal because it matches a public domain work exactly. B is completely determined by A and the contents of War & Peace. To compute C, you would take a copyrighted work and xor it with B, so that makes C illegal to distribute without permission because it was derived from a copyrighted work. To compute D, you need C and the bible, and since C is coloured, D is also coloured.
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>I would say the same, it's quite a shock read such a statement.

You might find it interesting to read and comment on the actual article then. It dates the beginning of the recent reform of Poland's education system to 1997, just one year before you graduated, so it may be that a lot has changed since your time.
This reminds me of emotioneric.com!
Why do we need SSL certificates?
Isn't the idea of hellbanning that people don't realize they are? Kinda defeats the purpose if you notify them of it. If HN wanted people to know they've been silenced, they would be given an error message. So, don't tell people. It's also spamming the comment with offtopic remarks.
>> How do you differ from "If you don't censor your newspapers about the Archduke's death, we will invade?"

If you make a bad argument, admit it. Don't equate declaring a defence alliance with making threats of war, that is just stupid.

(To the downvoting idiot: There is another comment in my history you can find and downvote.)
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These machines were probably already crunching BitCoins for years but now that's not profitable ...
Hi s-macke. I've read the source code of your emulator before, good job.

I'm aware of the problem with big integers. I'll look into this more closely, thanks for your help.

Regarding workers: I need some restructuring to get this working. I'll also need to figure out the fastest way to exchange the canvas buffer between the worker and the browser.
For me there isn't. I've had physical experiences of God; the tooth fairy on the other hand is just a thing people tell their kids to make losing teeth more, er, palatable.

God explains creation. There are no competing hypotheses with support (that I can recall just now anyway). I don't mean, big-bang/big-crunch/branes or the like but prime-mover explanations. One might consider perpetual/infinite explanations but they don't avoid the necessary question of how such universes were made. [Subjectively I have as much evidence as I have that the world is real.]

Parents actions explains the tooth fairy, it's considered to be true [appeal to authority] except in a cohort that are known to have been lied to, is agreed on globally [appeal to majority] with a possible infinitesimal opposition. [The science bit:] There are no records of instances that contradict the Parent/Guardian theory and no support has been presented for alternate hypotheses.
Maybe because "some_el_2" is lower down in the DOM tree? I think at least the experiment should be run with reversed IDs.
Or maybe split a block by clicking (think scissor tool) or something..
In fact it's not really faster, if you run the test several times the results are similar.

It's the same thing if you compare the selectors $(this) and $((((this))));

I don't know why, but the problem must come from jsperf.
Thats why when I use this tool I always run it at least 5 times to be sure.
As someone who plans on purchasing the Nexus 5, I also find it extremely annoying that we don't have any solid information yet. Especially since these phones typically sell out extremely quick...
Not sure what previous action caused him to get hell banned but his comment was trying to contribute something to this thread. Think it would be nice to know if I was banned and still trying to contribute.
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Silly question probably, but why would the 256GB model (mine) be exempt?
Could be a completely different company and model of storage.
It's awesome resume for graphic/designer. Very very creative!
I wonder if TechCrunch articles could be automated. Have the TC editors ever bothered to ask, or are they too afraid of the interests of the contributors to explore the question?
Did you read the article? Shops say shelves are full of 5Cs all over the place.
Sir Trevor uses HTML contenteditable, which is a bit non-standard in IE<10, although to their credit, they had support before most browsers.
So orange wouldn't be counted as a colour in English? I'm not sure what value there is in measuring the amount of colour names in a language based purely on their etymology.
This is nice, LinkedIn are infuriating. My startup is in the email space and we have a very strong opinion against sending spam and providing genuine unsubscribes. Unsubscribing someone is easy, there's no excuse except that they don't want to. Keep adding them to spam as their ESP probably has a feedback loop and it could affect their sending reputation eventually.
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Decide whether to send one or two of your group of 8 hunters after each of the wolves?
This might sound crazy, but it'd be worth looking at Fiverr. You won't get world-class talent, but you can find competent motion graphics and video people on there, and decent voiceovers too.
Exactly my thought when reading this. From my experience as an Ops guy I can say that in my opinion all storage media is perishable.

And also that most friends know that they should back-up as when shit hits the platter the first thing they say is: "I know I should have backed up and my latest is from September last year, can you help me?"

At least with OSX, backups are made very easy for you via Time Machine and even better a Time Capsule.
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"Oddly, little attention was given to an obvious conclusion: if the galaxies are rushing apart, there would have been a time in the past when they were all crunched together. "

I still find this hard to swallow - whilst its obvious as a conclusion, it also feels like it has obvious flaws. Can we not get exactly the same effect from a large universe in which new space and matter is formed in the voids? and don't we need to understand the /actual/ creation of space and matter in totality (v.s. eg creation and annihilation of particles and other 'bits of universe) - its an enormous gap in our understanding and a vital feature of a truly comprehensive theory...
Why does it matter if you're an NBA fan.
Sure, that's the idea. The comment looks totally legit and relevant, though.

Looks like their last comment sucked, and it's easier for a mod to ban someone than to reply, “that comment sucked” and hope they get better. Mods are never perfect, they have a big job, and people can (successfully) appeal hellbans.
We have nearly reached our halfway mark.
Half way to success. We are nearly halfway to a successful campaign. Any gamers out there interested in making your own games without programming knowledge?
The resume is great and displays the proficiency that he has over design but .. Will a recruiter with CVs and Resumes flooding his inbox .. really have a time to look at this ?? I don't think Rob would apply to a company through a recruiter though :D

PS : Again .. I am looking at this from a Recruiter's perspective
It shouldn't matter because if you swap the execution order, the 'no return' can be faster too in that test.
please don't comment for another 10000 hours
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It's like the return of the flash intro page from the 1990s. But even worse.
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He comes out of that book very well. Hard but fair. Romero, on the other hand...
The drives that have been failing are the 64GB and 128GB Toshiba SSDs (TS064E and TS128E).
I don't understand the first flaw you found. You can encrypt single characters + salt.

You are correct that the MITM could wait until it's seen the whole block and pretend your partner hasn't started typing, but that results in big pauses with no typing after every question, which is detectable.
This was a slip up by Google and has now been taken down. Droid Life took a copy of the high-res photo for anyone interested:

http://www.droid-life.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/nexys-5...

And their article on the “leak”.

http://www.droid-life.com/2013/10/17/nexus-5-appears-on-goog...
Can you share your posters?
You can build that and still working on fox news?
Very Cool, tiny bit of feedback:

The transition out of the water is a bit jarring...
Can someone tell me how I can determine if my machine is affected if I don't have an OS X install?

I've only got Debian available.
For reference, that's about as fast as a Motorola 68030 @50MHz [1] which was used in the AppleIIx, and while that was no slouch when it was released, you wouldn't want to run a modern development environment on such a machine either ;)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_68030
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I left the house with a somewhat largish amount of children. I've still got a somewhat largish amount of children, so I can't have left any of them behind.
Connections don't have to be people you meet & interact with physically. Many of the people I work with I've either never met, or only meet every couple of years on an international flight to the other side of the world.

Try reaching out to people on HN, email them with a specific question about how they achieved something that you're interested in & that they've done. I've been trying some of that recently and had a ridiculously high response rate (100% so far.) It might not turn into a "connection", but you'll probably learn something in the meantime. Expect that maybe only 1 out of 100 people you contact will actually turn into a "connection".
Ukrainian astronomers: "Asteroid could collide with Earth in 2032"
These guys strapped an airsoft gun to a remote-controlled plane and went to war
from the article:

Nasa played down the possibility of impact, with Don Yeoman, manager of the administration’s Near-Earth Object Profram Office, saying: "The current probability of no impact in 2032 [is] about 99.998 per cent.

"This is a relatively new discovery. With more observations, I fully expect we will be able to significantly reduce, or rule out entirely, any impact probability for the foreseeable future."
Of the jobs with the highest risk of personal danger, the vast majority are male dominated. Some privilege!
Putting a bit about personal interests into a CV is pretty standard - you want to display that you have some personality.

The placement is a bit off though - it's in an early important placement, and arbitrarily dividing up sets of skills. His personality is also well shown by the style of the resume itself!

Also, is it just me that is irritated by the vertical style of the "skills" graphs at the start and then the horizontal style when underwater? Was confused what I was looking at for a moment there.
I can type -, +, = and _ from the alpha area of the keyboard, but none of the keys of the numpad works (not even the numbers)
I can see a banner about halfway down linking to DreamSpark. They still only have the RC, but apparently the final version will be available on the 31st.
Spacebar skips to next section, did it say that at the start?
So what happened? I'd guess buggy firmware, as that seems to be the achilles heel on SSDs, but that is purely uninformed guess.
this seems to only be true if you are using iCloud backup. it is easy to not back up to iCloud if you choose.
Orange wouldn't. By this logic, many oddities in color naming can be abstracted over languages, see for example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Color_Terms:_Their_Univer...
If everyone could just email their PR pieces to a common techcrunch email address, someone could write a bit of code to check any links and then bung the text and pictures into an article template on the homepage.
100% agree with you. 9/10 people don't read resumes but skim them and putting so many clicks between and the content will hurt.

But
1) This is solid show of skill
2) He should/can simulatenously maintain a simple version.
The idea was to have a legitimate reason to publish the code.

He found a representation of the code that was also the tenth largest prime found using ECPP meaning he could publish the finding and claim he wasn't publishing the code. However, anyone who wanted the code could easily find it by looking up the prime
is your third source accessible from anywhere that doesn't require an account? i'd like to read it.
Using hellbans when you should be using normal bans or even temporary bans is a horrible system.

Most people that are hellbanned on HN have not at all deserved it. Ignoring spambots, I've seen perhaps two users that got a hellban for consistently problematic posts rather than a single post annoying someone. And one of those has actual mental issues.
Best intelligence is still human intelligence
What do you not know about him after running through this "course" that would change your mind about his skills?
All the 256Gb drives were Samsung I believe.
I tracked down his email address and shot him off a long email. Hopefully he still remembers who I am :-)
i meant it quite literally. You know, in real life meetings, with body language, odors, hand waving and all that non verbal communication. If everybody knows what we're taliking about, then what's the point of writing it down? Yeah, right. Come back six month later and with half the team turned over, and see how useful thos old Jira tasks with no writte specifications will be useful...
Here in Brazil when the USA started its war movements, I do not met a single person that believed the "intelligence" agencies around the world, people here believed that it was all fake to steal more oil...

When they found no WMD on Iraq, people here was like: "A ha! I told you! US people are just evil liars that steal from people!"

In fact, I really, really, really do not understand how someone can believe that bullshit. Or your countries out there have incredibly stupid people on intelligence agencies, or your population is incredibly stupid and believe agencies that lie all the time. To us here the behaviour of US population supporting whatever crap CIA says is just baffling.
People understand that webapps are safe, because they have less permissions.
I felt the same way, but I used MoonScript for a simple hack project and it removed a lot of the Lua annoyances. (http://moonscript.org/)
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You get past most of these syntax nitpicks after a while.
I wrote plenty of Lua at my previous job, but every once in while would still forget about globals by default. I really would love to know why they went ahead with that design decision, when most languages take a far more conservative approach to variable scoping.