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Photographer wins $1.2 million from companies that took pictures off Twitter
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You are absolutely correct :) If you already have a certificate on your laptop, or SMS based authentication, then adding securid token will not change the security profile of the system. Yes, you might get extra security protection if you employ additional measures (e.g. store secureid token in the office safe at all times) but the attack vectors will still be the same.

There are different authentication factors: what you know (e.g. password), what you have (e.g. token), and who you are (e.g. iris scans). In general, adding multiple types of the same factor does not actually increase the security (e.g. having password + pin is no really better than just having a password). The actual multi-factor authentication should include different factors to protect against different attack vectors.
Not exactly. To be sure it isn't a double spend it needs to be part of the block chain at least six down from the most recent block generated. Each extra block on top of the block where your transaction exists is a confirmation. For smaller purchases, ie not $150 million worth it's near instantaneous.
This reminds me of http://4clojure.com with a simpler [nicer?] (but less featureful) UI.

I want to add a slightly off-topic remark, but 4clojure actually runs the tests in a sandbox on the server. This is compiling to ClojureScript, and I have to wonder if it's "good enough" or whether down the line some koans might run into problems being ClojureScript instead of the real Clojure on the JVM.
You should use the unemployment rate, since the US are several times larger than Germany. Apart from that, I think that German unemployment is compiled by some government office, who use the actual numbers of people who get unemployment benefits, while in the US telephone surveys used.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=germany+vs+united+state...
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Why, then, is the president limited to serving two terms? There's essentially squat keeping the president doing anything at all resembling what he said he would do during his second term. (Said by a non-American, who views this aspect of American constitutional law as distinctly anti-democratic.) I'm also completely ignoring the degree to which voters are paying attention, how much the debate is swayed by powerful people to meaningless issues while the politicians run amok of everything etc. etc.
Own the app that generated $2k a month in revenue 
Licenses to source code for sale!
There is a level of importance where "not being aware" or "not intentionally misleading" stops being acceptable. It simply doesn't matter if you lied intentionally or due to plain and simple incompetence.
True, but Dart almost fits as well. Verb: move or run somewhere suddenly or rapidly. Game: darts.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=183571.0

You can at least buy a Ford.
Next up - facial recognition. The article isn't even really about license plates, just about how they are being used.
I'm often surprised by what people will take umbrage at. It's one thing to decide that it's a seller's market, and that therefore you'll interview somewhere where they'll buy you lunch and offer you a six figure salary and generous share allocation after nothing more than a cozy chat. But it's quite another to become actively offended by the effrontery of a company demanding that you demonstrate the very skills they're hoping to hire you to apply on a daily basis!

What are people worried about? I have to say I can't help but assume the worst. Because what have they been doing for their career as a professional programmer, if when asked to actually write a program, they can't actually do it? Even with an example right in front of them?

Don't forget that in this particular example we have a supposed senior programmer! Somebody applying for this sort of job should, I feel, be able to actually program. Even if they've never seen the library before. In fact good candidates should be barely fazed by an unknown language! What is the "senior" bit for, if not this? At the very least, perhaps the candidate could admit that they seem to have found themselves interviewing for the wrong sort of role, and one that makes better use of their other skills would be more suitable? That might be a better tactic than storming off in a huff.

But I've never stormed out of an interview in a huff - so what do I know.
IRS left taxpayer data vulnerable to attack
Email is a safe place
When you know you have basic but not expert knowledge you can make an educated guess (or several), but in the absence of empirical evidence you acknowledge there could be other factors you haven't thought of.
Critics cry foul over Salesforce's $1 million hackathon prize
Http://prototypejungle.org/
And in Australia we were getting gigabit (rollout was happening), then a new government came to power and said we don't need it, and that copper is fine.

http://howfastisthenbn.com.au/
I've never seen id written as iD until these comments, so I'm not sure and it looks very odd seeing it that way. I used to write it as Id, though perhaps because I was confused on when to capitalize a name vs a company who writes their name in all lowercase
Ah, yes, but since I'm an American the idea of learning a foreign language was not impressed on me as I was growing up. Contrast this with some Europeans I run into on my travels and they speak 2, 3, & 4 languages.
Wonderful game - the music and artwork are really great! I'm looking forward to playing my way through the whole game. What game engine did your friend use to code it?
I concur.

I think it's safe to say the average app user actually uses a dozen of their apps on a weekly basis. In order for any app to break into a homescreen, it must add a lot of value/satisfaction to the user's life. Adding to what Nate was saying, a person wants to be a better writer or in better shape or more productive etc. There is already a problem of information overload, app overload is getting there too for many people. The only way to stand out in a crowded marketplace is to solve the problem in the simplest and most enjoyable way.

I like to ask myself: Is what I am making adding to quality of life? Making life simpler? Creating positive results?

You are on the right track, just keep it.
This is a huge, huge goddamn yawn.

These students are no more "special" than any other students at any other university.

Even more-so, the students that "made it" to UC really, really don't need yet another person telling them that.
When you find yourself doing things too often you should be doing in a relational db (i.e. lots of foreign key relations).
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I get your theory, but this sounds like all theory. Do you have any data?
Given that it's possible to memorize a certificate, it definitively cannot be a 'something you have' factor. Something you have is more than just data. A client cert is nothing more than a fancy long password.
> I can understand that a programmer who reaches a certain level wants to build his own language, but do they really think that the world is waiting for yet another programming language?

Lots of people build model trains. They aren't trying to compete with Amtrak.
Really interesting way to learn. I made it into vectors and then got completely stuck on subslice. Maybe a hint text or something or a way to skip it or get the answer if I have not got it after a few tries.

I might be typical but once I hit that screen and could not go further I closed it.

Still really good work!
Thanks! It was Cocos2D for graphics with Box2D for the physics engine. The hard part with Box2D (as with any physics engine, I assume) was tweaking the coarseness of the simulation to balance performance against visual quality.
This pivot is probably as a result of not sufficiently and consistently marketing the site. Why did they stop? They were white hot when they began, but as they toned down the promotion they were just forgotten. This is a horrible shame because there's still so much potential in this service, especially as they have a community of engaged users that could probably be encouraged to pay for additional stuff and features. It feels like they're so close to having a winner in what they already have going, not what they're planning to go to.

I loved them and have only known about them for about a year. Pip pip cheerio.
Careful that we do not conflate civil immunity and criminal immunity. I am not confident that the latter is absent, and IANAL, but everything I find on judicial immunity is about the former.
It's a cool site - my suggestion is to add some poll results in a sidebar, so users can see what the output is, not just how to input.
How difficult would it be to get the userland working on top of this? Is it even possible, given the hardware differences?
Actually the US had a rather strong worker movement, it just played out quite differently than in Europe. So in the US the unions did quite often manage to get a corporate pension plan, while the European ones did get a government pensions. Similar with health care and many work place regulations.
I myself am waiting for a new programming language. The right languages can definitely make the world easier. Denying that would be equal to declaring one of the existing languages is optimal/perfect.
i don't know the actual number. They might have a negative net income for a little while due to expense but according to this news, growth is going up. Plus, if you look at Facebook's Tools Engineering position it mentions Salesforce.com so I think the company has a pretty good outlook. Plus, coming, 100k for food and facility is not that much to them when they are giving up 1M.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/salesforce-coms-revenue-growth...
Not really. I would be very surprised if the majority of commuters were motorists.
Checkmate, one line.

Import OS.*; OS.Run();
The Theory of Peak Advertising and The Future of the Web
Thank you! I haven't found a dev yet, but it's coming along nicely. I'll be sharing plenty more soon... as well as another little app I'm working on :)
Much like basic wage, gigabit fiber is a universal human right.
I don't know of any place better than HN. I replied to your original post. If you're not having luck with HN, try:

A different time of day

A different title

Email people specifically asking for feedback, but make sure you give them something valuable too. Look at their sites/products/whatever and come up with a bunch of ideas they can try out. Then ask for feedback on your site.
It is much easier to enforce than money laundering with cash. It still takes investigation beyond staring at the block chain, quite obviously, but that isn't anything new. Consider some simple undercover work. If I send you coins to be mixed, we can track what happens to those coins. Now we know every address that participated in a mixer, and can tie the addresses to people when coins are spent (with, fully acknowledged, a certain amount of elbow grease).
This article doesn't mention the allegation that the judges didn't even look at some of the other applicants: http://salesforce1million.challengepost.com/forum_topics/264...
I guess that's what happens when you try to steal Tesla designs and found a competitor. Without the engineering, you ultimately fail
The best defense for Salesforce, in light of the circumstances, is to argue that if they had really intended to scam everyone, would they be this dumb about it?
Recording goat ownership in a Web-accessible medium would be absurd. Chrome routinely teleports goats in large numbers: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=31482
That's the case with anything in large amounts. I can say I have $147M in Microsoft stock, but that doesn't mean I can sell the stock suddenly in one minute without making the price tank.
With a little cleanup, this could have been the original government procurement checklist for Ada.
GitHub tracks your last visited repo and provide context notice.
A Canadian Government Fact Sheet http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/nwsrm/fctshts/2013/m11/fs131105-eng...
I'm not convinced that the president, congress, or the courts have the spy agencies under control. And I'm not convinced it matters much which representative of elite class gets elected. The important decisions are held in board rooms amongst people who are not democratically elected. They send the orders down to washington and, yes, there are conflicts between various elite groups, but it doesnt change much in the day to day life of an average American.
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I play chess, but not very often anymore. In my peak I drew an IM during a simul on ICC, but probably was only rated 1800-1900. I stopped studying it and took up the violin because I got tired of sitting by myself for hours. With music I can at least play with others, and my wife can enjoy it!
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This is a general problem for hackathons, the idea of limiting something like development is impossible.

Even if you don't code, you could plan the whole concept, user your super familiar framework and there is a huge difference to the "spirit" of just developing the concept on the spot.

I don't want to say I dislike hackathons in general, but not for huge prices. Just meeting interesting people and trying to build something together is the really valuable part.
Dean Kamen: DEKA and FIRST Robotics [0]

Ignoring the non medical DEKA products (Segway) I think DEKA and FIRST (particularly FIRST) should have much more PR. Maybe you could argue ambition, but I still feel like mentioning these two organizations.

0: http://www.usfirst.org/
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Here you go: http://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/ It's an ultimate source about chess programming. Also, Stockfish code is short (several KLOC) and well commented.
I don't believe that you would have to push them around at all in the way that the IBM guys are pushing around those atoms, I put that forward as something that is harder to do. You'd probably start with batch making a ton of very small doped samples and then testing if any have unusually low resistance.
True, but other than the recent years it was necessary and effective to put your money in a bank to counteract inflation.

Sorry about the fencepost error. (Perhaps I was originally intending to say "inflationary finance"?)
Because this is a common misconception about economics that drives me nut. On second thought, I'm definitely too trigger happy. Let me explain:

Inflation has never been a problem since Paul Volcker in 1982. In fact, the moniker Great Moderation should be more properly called Great Moderation of Inflation -- since not much was moderate apart from that, as exemplified by the crashes of 1987 and 2008, and the bubbles; but I digress.

We had about 10, 20 years of the lowest level of inflation in history across the board, maybe 2% per annum or so. Everyone nowadays is obsessed with Zimbabwe, or the ex-Soviet Unions, or the Diocletian Roman Empire, but those are red herrings, minor blips in a sea of (excessive) financial restraint. Inflation is not a problem today.

In fact, deflation is a problem today. Large part of the German restructuring, so lauded everywhere, was helped by inflation in Spain and Italy. (Granted, it wasn't much, maybe 4% per year, but even so.) Now the ECB refuses to return the favor: the ECB won't let inflation go above 2%, twisting the knife in Southern Europe's rib-cage and pissing everyone off. Meanwhile, the US, as most of the West and Japan, remains eyeballs deep in a liquidity trap: you could print the equivalent of the Michigan Lake in one dollar bills, and the Consumer Price Index wouldn't register a blip.

If your start-up were a big bank, you could tomorrow borrow money from the government at a real negative rate. You could borrow a billion dollars, store it in a bank account, pay in 10 years the principal and profit handsomely with the interest. For nothing. That's how low inflation is, today. The Fed is (used to be) desperately trying to increase it, as we speak, with not much effect.

In economic terms, a moderate (actually very low, in historical terms) 4% rate across the board would in fact benefit the system. If you can profit decently by storing money, nobody wants to get their lazy asses from the couch and invest. And the guys who have money don't want to spend it, either -- they're winning money, why spend? Thus a crisis. You have to whip their asses with the printing press, so that they don't get cozy.
the article is stuffed with salesforce.com backlinks, including a nice salesforce profile at the bottom.

any publicity is good publicity.
"people bought groupons specifically for things they wouldn't buy normally"

My daughter was seriously considering a two-for-the-price-of-one tethered parachuting deal. Her mom and I weren't terribly thrilled by the idea of her jumping out of an airplane even once!
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> click fraud was responsible for $53 million dollars of
wasted ad spending in the first two quarters of 2013 alone

> $37 billion dollar online advertising industry

> click fraud remains a severe and growing problem

$106 million out of $37 billion is 0.28%. Hardly "severe".
"It's the solicitor general's responsibility, as it is anyman's responsibility when testifying in court, to ensure his testimony is accurate. "

While true, i'm not sure what you expected him to do here. He asked and checked with his prosecutors. They told him they were doing something that they were in fact not doing.

I guess I wouldn't expect the guy to personally check all of the many prosecutions here. There has to be some level of trust allowed for. At that point, I would just expect him to correct it if he was wrong.

"I think it's appropriate to discuss what the ramifications should be, but it's naive to think Verrilli was not aware."

So this i just flat out disagree with.
You are basically calling him a liar who is covering his ass.

Talking with people who know him quite well, i'm basically told he would never do such a thing, and that he did in fact, do what the article says.
With all due respect to your opinion, i choose to believe them over you :)

If that makes me naive, so be it.

(FWIW: I certainly don't expect you to trust me on this, i'm just explaining why I hold the opinion I do)
I've really enjoyed turntable and had some great memories jamming with the original turntable at a few hackathons. For me the element of listening to music with people physically around me was the key.

The pivot is interesting and definitely an opportunity there.. but no doubt there is nothing like experiencing music live in person. At least to me the format of the new pivot is too similar to just a listening to a live album.

All the best guys and thanks for some awesome memories!
> It's pretty dumb to actually spend bitcoins if you could just hold onto them and sell a week or two later at twice the price

Similarly it's pretty dumb to hold on to dollars if you know you could double them in a week by buying bitcoin. The ideal solution is to spend bitcoin and immediately replenish them by exchanging USD to bitcoin. That way, you still have the same amount of bitcoin and simultaneously more bitcoins are going into the economy.

> The volatility is valuable for speculators, but could be ruinous if you were trying to run a business based on it.

Immediately converting to fiat removes the risk. The beauty is you get to decide what you want to do with them.
hackathons should go back to what they used to be: great events to try out new technology, and meet up with fellow engineers while having fun
looks like dynamic is not supported in Roslyn CTP
At some level, if you have enough defense lawyers, it becomes literally impossible to conduct a detailed investigation without forgetting to dot an i or cross a t somewhere.

I don't know whether they violated his rights or not, but it's pretty clear from the reporting (all of which I've read, since he makes $150K as my neighborhood cop) that he's guilty in the pure sense of "he did it." And they originally discovered him in some other context - not while illegally pursuing him. (While "they" continue to illegally tap your phone, and your emails, and mine.)
While i don't disagree that it matters, I also personally think it's a stretch to call this incompetence.
It's like saying the president should know every detail of what individual FBI agents do on a daily basis.

Essentially, I can't think of anyone who wouldn't have taken the same approach to preparing for argument that he did here.
De Bruijn indices
Yep, iD is definitely wrong.

(And for anyone who pronounces it "eye dee" instead of the correct "idd", you're doubly wrong!)
http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/584.pdf

Researchers can easily track such trivial ways of "attempted anonymization".

>>> We found out that there is a huge
number of tiny transactions which move only a small fraction of a single bit-
coin, but there are also hundreds of transactions which move more than 50,000
bitcoins. We analyzed all these large transactions by following in detail the way
these sums were accumulated and the way they were dispersed, and realized
that almost all these large transactions were descendants of a single transaction
which was carried out in November 2010. Finally, we noted that the subgraph
which contains these large transactions along with their neighborhood has many
strange looking structures which could be an attempt to conceal the existence
and relationship between these transactions, but such an attempt can be foiled
by following the money trail in a suciently persistent way

--------

ALL BTC transactions are FOREVER archived in the bitcoin ledger. Its how it works.
I don't expect that there ever will be a perfect or optimal programming language. There is also no perfect natural language.

I would rather say, that the language is just a vehicle and especially beginners identify themselves too much with their preferred language, while more advanced programmer think more in terms of concepts.

You can solve most of the problems with any of the existing languages.
Every language has its strengths and weaknesses, but I would say this pretty much balances out, the more different problems you try to solve with a language.
I know the developers of the healthcare app personally. They competed properly and within the rules, day and night, in preparation for the demo. They have the professionalism and the "wow" factor that you mentioned. Just because you may think it's too polished to be done in a few days by a few people, does not make it so.
For some proof of that there are ~350,000BTC unspent from ~feb 2011 presumably owned by the same person.

http://www.niksula.cs.hut.fi/~jvsalo/unspent_oct30.png
This is incredible, and I'm happy to have read it. The whole thing is worth closing out of a few BuzzFeed tabs for, but the ending lines are my favorite:

In order for you to navigate the increasing complexity of the 21st century you need a world-class education, and thankfully you have an opportunity to get one. I don’t just mean the education you get in class, but I mean the education you get in everything you do, every book you read, every conversation you have, every thought you think.

You need to optimize your life for learning.

You need to live and breath your education.

You need to be obsessed with your education.

Do not fall into the trap of thinking that because you are surrounded by so many dazzlingly smart fellow students that means you’re no good. Nothing could be further from the truth.

And do not fall into the trap of thinking that you focusing on your education is a selfish thing. It’s not a selfish thing. It’s the most noble thing you could do.

Society is investing in you so that you can help solve the many challenges we are going to face in the coming decades, from profound technological challenges to helping people with the age old search for human happiness and meaning.