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Yes! I have to thank my parents for buying me a Timex 2068 back in 1985.

As well as giving me pocket money for Crash Magazine, Micro Hobby, Micromania, Computer Shopper, Dr. Dobbs, C++ Report and The C User's Journal (latter The C/C++ User's Journal).

Additionally I also got quite a few programming books as birthday and Christmas gits.

I own them much, as on those days there was no Internet and only very kids living in the Lisbon could afford BBS connections.

So buying such magazines and books was the only way to build up knowledge, pairing with getting to know other people with similar interests.
Knowing how long it takes to learn something doesn't require technical skills.

Someone in the corridors of power might ask her what the scheme costs, what the staffing requirements are or why employers can't teach those skills on the job if it takes just a day.
No, but I can link you to the WSJ's coverage (if you use a Google referer).

https://www.google.com/search?q=wsj+sniper+attack&oq=wsj+sni...
So right, but you have to use "something" as example, I don't mind which one you prefer as long as it comes with a "how this affect my life" explanation.
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We've worked very hard on this for months. Now its ready!

Bottlr is the most complete Vine viewer online. Here you can login, like, revine, comment, follow and search for users and tags. You can also explore the depth of vine by go to popular to find videos that are trending. Give it a spin and tell me what you think!

The technology used:
Laravel framework (PHP)
Redis cache
Digital Ocean for servers
MariaDB

And error-logging via New Relic.
Excuse me, I maintained a serious responce in this thread, against some immature kid defending a "satire" submission that wouldn't even have made even reddit. And which, besides dragging 37 Signals in the mud, with FUD and unsubstanciated claims, he also wents on to call people names.

You somehow think this is acceptable, but find my contributions "garbage"? Last time I checked, my "garbage" contribution was the top thread in this post, whereas the "satire" shouldn't even be posted in the first place.
We (linkrisk.com) are big fans of Brightbox, really pleased to see them grow and compete with some of the larger players in the market.
I wouldn't expect the minister of health to have a level of knowledge of medicine comparable to that of a practicing medical professional. However, I would expect them to have a level of knowledge that goes significantly beyond what is taught to school-children.
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PyCharm also has plugin support, because it's a shared framework (much like Eclipse).

I'm running PyCharm (3.1 pro) and I currently have plugins for .sh, .pl, .md, and more. Some plugins require download (iirc, I had to go through a wizard to get the plugin for markdown)

It's low risk trying PyCharm. The community edition is fairly full-featured, and is free.
Actually the vast majority of script kiddies and "cyber criminals" use VPNs. The problem is that they have a habit of accidentally connecting to servers without always turning on their VPNs. They lack professional discipline, not toolsets.
I'm confused, is this ready to be used or not? I was excited to play around with it so I signed up, only to be hit with a 'still in development' notification.

Typically, MVP implies a product that's ready to be use. This appears to be more of a landing page teaser.

Regardless, looks like a cool service, and congrats on your progress thus far!
The author had me until he talked about giving up beer. :-)

Seriously, though, I think getting rid of the distractions on the fringe of our lives is important. For me it was getting rid of the TV. That doesn't always link to killing procrastination (I'm on here, aren't I?) but it does create a lot more time for being in the flow.
wkhtmltopng part of: http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/
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This is why I am disappointed that SILC[1] never got off the ground in the mainstream. It could have been an elegant successor to IRC.

1. http://silcnet.org
Outstanding user experience throughout the account setup, I will continue playing with this as it's quite enjoyable so far. Thanks for sharing.

#edit it's kind of sad (and telling) to see the complexity and cleverness in the higher ranked solutions.

#edit2 rampant regex solutions, nested returns, oh my.
We have plenty of existing nuclear plants that can provide cleaner energy than we get from fossil fuels. Per unit of energy consumed, even the existing nuclear plants are much safer than fossil fuels even when you count the harm from Chernobyl and Fukushima.

Uranium/plutonium LWR fission has a pretty critical fuel shortage.

These numbers are way too pessimistic; they are produced by the same sort of calculations that said we would run out of oil by the turn of the millennium, because they didn't take into account the continuing discovery of new reserves. They also don't take into account breeders; if there are concerns about weapons-grade material being created, you guard the plant (the material doesn't need to be transported, it just stays at the reactor until it's used).

With nuclear fission there's an additional consideration as well: the cost of the fuel is only a percent or so of the total cost per kW-hr, whereas for fossil fuels it's something like 1/3 to 1/2 of the total cost per kW-hr. So it doesn't take a lot of increase in the price of oil to make fossil fuel electricity much more expensive; but even a large increase in the price of uranium doesn't increase the price of nuclear-generated electricity very much. And there's a lot of uranium that could be extracted at, say, 10 times the current unit cost; by some estimates we can extract uranium from seawater at that cost, which increases the time horizon to thousands of years if not more.

I see energy needs coming to a head Real Soon Now -- rather less than 25 years, at any rate.

Same comment as above: I think this is way too pessimistic.

none of these technologies, nor wind, solar, geothermal, hydro, or tidal power give you liquid fuels

Two comments here: first, improved battery technology; second, algae fuel.

that's how a lot of people live: combing through trash heaps and swimming in shit

We already have the technology to fix this; the reasons so many people don't (yet) benefit from that are political, not technical.

I don't see gradients (flows or stocks) we can tap with the ease and usefulness we have for the past 250 years.

Again, way too pessimistic. It's not that I don't see obstacles, but once again, the main ones I see are political, not technical.
"Running a scheme like this involves lots of skills, none of them technical."

While I agree that this statement is correct, I would suggest that one skill that is required is the ability to use Google. She really should spend a few hours learning something, anything, about the subject matter she is expected to represent in the corridors of power. She obviously has failed to do that.
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Hi, thanks for your feedback, appreciate it, you are right, I fell in the classical trap of feature selling. I was aiming for a video to showcase the app, but it would have been a lot of work just to validate a simple idea: is this useful, do people need this?
alpha house is amazing!!!

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The internet says there is about $1 trillion in outstanding student loans. If you assume that they are repaid fairly quickly, that means something like $2 trillion of payments.

That's enormous, but only in the ballpark of $15,000 per working person in the U.S. Spread it over a decade and it's still not a payment I would wish on anybody for no reason, but entirely manageable (and presumably only a portion of the payment represents an actual economic drag, some people get quite some benefit from schooling).
"It seems very likely that they're getting the same government treatment as Quakenet" is not a conclusion that can be drawn from this blog post or the leak. My understanding based on what I read is that "Anon IRC" is on its own network and QuakeNet has nothing to do with anything except apparently relishing any opportunity to publish a political op-ed. IRC servers (and their users) have been DDOSed from the dawn of time by anyone and everyone.

To put it another way - when a body is found in the woods, you don't instantly jump to the conclusion that it must have been government drones because the government is using drones to kill people in Yemen.
Eric Lippert's answer is great. It isn't the distribution of answers, it's the predictability. In most cases it's ok if the distribution looks random, but in some it turns out not to be ok.
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Meanwhile they censor anyone running Tor internal relays on the same IP by g-line banning them.
IRC is also used as command and control for a lot of malware.

Bot-net owners can be disrupted if they can't access the channels their compromised machines are connecting to.
Nice design! I think its good that Vine have more alternatives on web apps.
I don't know why people feel like it needs to be an all or nothing proposition.

I realized this applies to me on day to day things that cause me to procrastinate a lot. For instance, today I had a doctor's appointment that I wanted to reschedule because it was snowing and I got in late last night. I realized that I just needed to push through it and get it done, because it would cause me more pain in the long term if I didn't. Plus, it honestly wasn't that big of a deal -- I woke up a bit earlier and took a cab. Now I don't have to think about it anymore.

It'd be nice if I could do this on a regular basis. I chatted up a good looking girl while I was waiting on the appointment too, rather than sitting there uncomfortable and wishing I had the courage to say something. I just pushed through it, and it was fine.

Just casual every-day things, that's all. That's what I'm going to aim for.
Clearly, there is something supernatural afoot: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/02/05
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You can actually opt out of IT now ?? Was compulsory when i was doing my GCSEs 10years ago. Wow, seems like a step backwards for the education system in my opinion
Small world - nice!
> just existing costs the world "100 externality". If living to the fullest costs "110 externality"...

110, OK, here your point makes some sense. But what about when living to the fullest costs "850+ externality"? (e.g. compare mean oil consumption per capita US vs China).

If we're going to use this argument, at least let's be honest about it: we are not at 110, and our motility is not the problem.
I thinks it's a little more than that. They are requesting answers to questions framed using language from criminal law with the expectation that the response can be used against them.
Thank you, it was never my intention to trick anyone into beleving it was a fully functioning service. Thats why I put the [MVP] tag in the title. There is of coures different views on what a MVP is. Sorry again if you feel tricked. You can email me at frej@firesub.com and I will remove your mail address so you don't get a email when this is ready to be tested if you want.

That being said, thanks for your encuragement, it helps! =)
Very interesting historical anecdotes.

The following shows his move to management:
No, I don’t. I still help design algorithms and basic approaches, and sometimes I look at code. But since I worked on the IBM PC BASIC and the Model 100, I haven’t had a chance to actually create a program myself.

The following shows pre-agile thinking on development:
I like to think the whole program through at a design level before I sit down and write any of the code. And once I write the code, I like to go back and rewrite it entirely one time.The most important part of writing a program is designing the data structures. The second most important part is breaking the various code pieces down. Until you really get in there and write it out, you don’t have the keenest sense of what the common subroutines should be.
The really great programs I’ve written have all been ones that I have thought about for a huge amount of time before I ever wrote them. I wrote a BASIC interpreter for a minicomputer in high school. I made massive mistakes in that program, and then I got to look at some other BASIC interpreters. So by the time I sat down to do Microsoft BASIC in 1975, it wasn’t a question of whether I could write the program, but rather a question of whether I could squeeze it into 4K and make it super fast. I was on edge the whole time thinking, “Will this thing be fast enough? Will somebody come along and do it faster?”

It was a very different time!
Suppose you've got an enemy who can slip sight-unseen through airport security, pass through fences and walls as if they don't exist, infiltrate homes and offices by way of schoolchildren, target its victims on transit and in theaters, and kill between 2 and 30% of the population.

That's the scenario for a widespread pandemic disease outbreak on the scale of the Spanish Flu. H5N1 mortality rate reported by WHO is 60% (though this could be a result of only seeing more virulent cases -- it might be as low as 30% -- which is to say, vastly higher than any global pandemic of the past century: http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/overestimating_avian...).

Which raises the question: what is civilization's bus number? How many people in critical positions could be taken, whether by terrorists (homegrown or otherwise) or disease, without having strongly negative effects?

No need to limit your speculation to human agents.
they didn't resolve their trading lag. their volume dropped to the point where it's not as frequently a problem
The Debian accident was related to the openssl PRNG, not the kernel's.
"We urge the British government to initiate an immediate and thorough public investigation..."

And now, for another caricature of British victim speak:

"Pardon me, Mr. Assailant, would you be a good chap and ask your right hand to stop beating me thus about the face? It's rather painful and I fear it might ruin my good humor."
I really appreciate the answer.
There's still some value.

I'd love to be able to connect to a QuakeNet IRC server which is SSL/TLS protected to help guard against anyone sniffing on the local network, or along the route to the specific IRC server.

Yes, there are problems to solve. Clients need to validate the servers certificate properly. Users need to understand that whatever they send may still be logged by the network, other users on the channel, etc.

Saying that IRC doesn't need SSL is like saying that other IM applications such as Skype don't need it either. Anything which helps prevent eavesdropping should be done.
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There's a lot of "we don't know anything, so we're going to make this sound as ominous as possible". For example:

> Reportedly firing bullets like those used by AK-47s -- an assault weapon favored by terrorists [...]

That could mean anything from "we've found 7.62x39 casings with extractor marks in the AK's distinctive pattern", which they probably haven't since they don't mention anyone having found where the "snipers" fired from, to "we've found some .308 Winchester slugs that could've come from any of a thousand different models of lawfully obtainable hunting rifle."

Seems a bit over-egging the pudding, to me. I'm not in favor of people wantonly shooting up defenseless power substations, of course, but there's a certain overheated tendency about the coverage I'm seeing that leaves me unfavorably impressed.
You make a fair point and my generalization was certainly too sweeping.

One of the things that I tell my students is that sometimes, if they stick around long enough, things will make sense.

That being said, I'm still at a loss on how to help the students who aren't making mental models that (to me) seem relatively fundamental. I try to use visuals and videos when applicable and when possible, but I would use other approaches if I could think of something that would be helpful.

Finally, I think/speculate there is a continuum of skill with mental model building. When I was a postdoc, I worked with people who had deep mental models of statistical mechanics that I just didn't have. So...I know what it feels like, but I don't know how to fix it.
Well, they just made Dimitri Glazkov famous.
Counterparty (XCP), first trust-free decentralized asset exchange, is now live
Here are some links to get started:<p>Block explorer: http://blockscan.com/<p>Official site (under construction) https://counterparty.co/<p>Installation instructions: http://counterpartyd-build.readthedocs.org/en/latest/<p>Github: https://github.com/PhantomPhreak/counterpartyd
I've had to do this when training research monkeys in a former life, particularly when there is only one or two parameters being varied. They would learn the 'patterns' far too quickly. After seven heads in a row, they'd stop paying attention and always choose heads for some time afterwards.

The solution we settled on was block randomization. But that's probably not what you'd want for a human game as they could potentially figure out the end of each block (and what value remains). But it worked wonderfully for us.
Here are some links to get started:

Block explorer: http://blockscan.com/

Official site (under construction) https://counterparty.co/

Installation instructions: http://counterpartyd-build.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Github: https://github.com/PhantomPhreak/counterpartyd

Discussion thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=395761.0
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I think I mentioned something similar on /. ...

IMO all kids at school should be taught an ugly, difficult language like x86 assembly. Hardly any of them will understand it to a significant degree, but they will appreciate how difficult working with computers is. They will be more impressed with say, grep, or the original DOOM game.

Some of those kids will grow up to be somebody's boss, that potentially annoying, ignorant boss that expects you to juggle knives while tap-dancing in clogs.
You aren't looking at the whole picture.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/we-could-be-...

>It takes 100 times more water (up to 2,500 gallons) to produce a pound of grain-fed beef than it does to produce a pound of wheat. We’re also running out of land: somewhere around 45 percent of the world’s land is either directly or indirectly involved in livestock production

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-greenhouse-ham...

>the meat [in our diets] cause more greenhouse gases carbon dioxide (CO2), methane, nitrous oxide, and the like to spew into the atmosphere than either transportation or industry.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/weekinreview/27bittman.htm...

>Global demand for meat has multiplied in recent years, encouraged by growing affluence and nourished by the proliferation of huge, confined animal feeding operations. These assembly-line meat factories consume enormous amounts of energy, pollute water supplies, generate significant greenhouse gases and require ever-increasing amounts of corn, soy and other grains, a dependency that has led to the destruction of vast swaths of the world’s tropical rain forests.

>Just this week, the president of Brazil announced emergency measures to halt the burning and cutting of the country’s rain forests for crop and grazing land. In the last five months alone, the government says, 1,250 square miles were lost.
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Has Google moved into the gaming industry at all? I've always thought the lack of Google gaming assets was surprising given the popularity of Android games.
Robot book publishing is really interesting. I think it peaked sometime around 2010-2011 when a lot of "robot books" were available on Amazon. Read more:

http://www.chrisrand.com/blog/2010/02/odd-tale-alphascript-p...
Within the limits of where a human can survive outdoors cooling will look like a very linear process. Higher temperatures do make ground sinking that much more attractive.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_heat_pump)
Elsewhere in this thread, blibble linked to a (nearly five-year-old) blog post on quakenet.org entitled "Trust is not transitive: or why IRC over SSL is pointless" [0].

The article presents arguments that I've heard over and over again in the months since the Snowden leaks began. The argument essentially boils down to "we can't achieve 100% security even with SSL, so SSL is useless" and is completely wrong. It also misses the point.

The argument in the blog post is that, paraphrasing, since Carol can be MITM'd without her knowledge, everything is compromised.

It shouldn't be necessary to utter the phrase "defense in depth" here on HN as I would hope that everyone here is familiar with it. As I commented just six days ago:

> I have locks on my doors but that doesn't mean I don't have a pistol next to my bed.

Let me say that I'm not familiar with QuakeNet. (For the last several years I've only hung out on Freenode and two private IRC networks -- and I use SSL when connecting to each of them.) Freenode, however, has "NickServ" and the two private networks I use have similar functionality.

At the very least, SSL protects my credentials from being "sniffed" when I authenticate to NickServ. Anyone else on IRC can verify that the user with the nickname "jlgaddis" is authenticated and is really me. Since sensitive information is sometimes discussed, that authentication as well as the encryption is critical. Without SSL, it would be much easier to sniff my credentials, authenticate to NickServ using them, and impersonate me on the networks, possibly gaining access to sensitive information that would otherwise not be possible.

IRC over SSL is not pointless. If QuakeNet can't understand that and implement basic security precautions, I don't think they have much room to complain about being attacked.

[0]: https://www.quakenet.org/articles/99-trust-is-not-transitive...
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Depends where you are. Sadly, he cannot opt out of R.E which seems like a massive step backwards to me.

His school also allows you to opt out entirely from foreign languages, which he has done, which is a good move IMHO.

I hated having to do French or German 20 years ago...
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No offense intended, just enjoyed the relationship between your nick and your jumping on a new task. I don't actually mean to discourage!
To my understanding to take down an IRC server doesn't even need to be a DDOS (Distrubuted Denial of Service) AKA multiple of computers and connections. One good DoS (Denial of Service) AKA one computer one connection, is all it takes to take it down.
Generally AMEX is known for better customer service, but YMMV. AMEX is often seen as a good choice for people looking to build credit because they're often willing to give out a 3x credit limit increase (without a hard credit pull) first 90 days after getting a card, and then every 6 months after that (up to a point and assuming you're using the account and in good standing).
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I went to the barrier reef in 2001, and already saw damage there. I thought, "This is a hobby for part of my lifetime, but probably not for any meaningful part of my kids"

If we can get our act together, life in the ocean will respond. I'm just not sure we can do that.
technically, yes - but it can still be used. either is fine.
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