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what is this obsession with teaching your kids how to program? I would not want my future kids do the same always worrying occupation that I do... probably the world as well as programming will be totally different then anyways. Just teach him/her some analytical thinking through 100 year old games and let the evolution play his part. There is no such thing as full control of your kid's destiny, just forget about it already...
Can we stop voting up the flappy bird stuff.
You should teach kids not to output PHP warnings in production.
For the same reasons those countries implement things like universal health care. The crux of the issue with the US however is that being powerful here can mean greater power elsewhere. For example, if I have 100% market share in Sweden, it doesn't necessarily give me the capital and muscle to become the biggest internet provider in all of Europe. Whereas if you become the superpower in the US, expansion (read -> growth) is much easier to obtain.
First off, great idea! The screenshots look friendly and I think it would be something I'd have used when I was a kid.

That said, you have some stability/UX issues. The loading delays are very long. I can easily see kids losing interest because it takes >2 minutes to load the Quick Play game. Then, once I was in the game, the graphics rendering was laggy and made my computer stutter / the screen flash. Shrinking the window made it run fast enough. I walked around a bit but as soon as I encountered the first duck the game went into loading mode again... and has been stuck there ever since.
You have a green heat map of

#submissions(time)

where time is 1-hour slots across 7 days. You also have a red heat map of

#successful_submissions(time)

where successful is > 100 points. I think what you want is a third map which is the ratio,

#successful_submissions / #submissions

which would be the empirical probability of a submission being successful, given the submission time. The raw counts don't tell you this.

(If you have a zero in the #submissions bin at some time, this will give 0/0, so you might want to put in a "Laplace correction" which is to add 1 count to each #submissions bin. There are other adjustments you can use, but this would be good enough for the purpose of the plot.)
I think there's something to be said for personal responsibility here. Games are known to have bright flashing lights. If you are epileptic, don't play games unless they are specifically designed to be epilepsy-safe (or have someone nearby to help).
There's plenty of room in the frequencies, even just using linear momentum encoding with directional transceivers. Add in MIMO/OAM and and suddenly there's even more bandwidth. the FCC / ownership of spectrum is a whole other chimera. Wireless today is like using a LED and a photodiode instead of a screen and a camera.
Do you run virtualization in your DC? If you do, is IPv6 only inside VM context or you also use it as a transport (i.e. switches see IPv6 packets)?
I'm probably equally rusty, but I believe ",8,1" loaded programs written in machine language, and ",8" was for BASIC programs (at least that's what I recall doing). So it looks like the port was written in BASIC.
It's a little ironic that the only way I can read a rant against Google through a caching service provided by Google
Visualization and "audibilization" of 15 Sorting Algorithms
I am amused by the idea that putting something outside of the USA (where US intelligence organizations aren't even in principle restricted from spying on it) will somehow protect it from US spying. Sure, there have been lots of stories recently about US domestic surveillance, but those have been news specifically because there are, in theory, restrictions on the agencies involved spying within the US, which create expectations and that domestic spying violates, whereas the official purpose of the NSA is spying on electronic communications outside of the US.
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why it need access to all websites instead of just *.twitter.com?
The problem is simply that the "differentiated experiences" end up being bad. Bad UX, bad integration in the platform, bad functionality, often gratuitiously duplicating existing features. If the manufacturer/carrier additions were actually good, people probably would be happy.

So the problem is boils down to Samsung/Nokia/... not realizing that they are not very good at building mobile phone software. That's probably also a hard sell internally.
Need to wait and see if this service will bloat the app.
Till now WhatsApp has worked wonderfully as a connection bus between friends and relatives.
Don't know if this decision was rammed down WhatsApp's throat by FB ??
> Imagine there are 10 people in a room, and 9 of them decide that murder is wrong and should be punished. Does that mean the remaining one has to accept that murder is wrong, because they have "collectively decided" that murder is wrong, or does he have the right to commit murder?

You're doing a pretty good job at sophistry, but since you happened to use the word "right", I'd point out that decisions don't affect rights.

Compare these two ideas:

1) No one wants to be killed, and therefore, we can
reasonably consider killing someone forbidden.
2) The nine of us want to eat shit, and therefore,
we can reasonably conclude that you must eat shit
too, regardless of whether you want to or not.

-Which one makes more sense? I think most moral questions boil down to whether something you're doing has a negative, unwelcome effect on other people. In those cases, it's reasonable to consider that whoever is affected has a say in what you're doing.

Consider for example:

1) Do you have the right to walk 10 meters forward?
2) Do you have the right to walk 10 meters forward,
even though there's someone right in front of you,
and you'd have to trample over him to move forward?

> Enforced collective agreement and societal norms are necessary for society to exists whether you like and agree to it or not.

What's the rationale for this claim?

Furthermore, is it moral for your average Sicilian neighbourhood mafia to extort people? -If not, why is it alright for governments to extort people? Does the end justify the means? -What if the Sicilian mafia wants to feed a few poor people with the money they extort from you? -Would that make their extortion alright?

What if the mafia say they need your money to maintain peace in the neighbourhood? You see, without the mafia's protection services, people would be killing each other left and right, and we just can't have that, can we? -Extorting you is necessary for the common good then, wouldn't you agree?
I think I want to cry. As Egon, he was an idol for me when I was a kid--some kind of amazing nerd superhero. I wanted to be that smart and cool. RIP.
Yep - not uncommon for spammers to create powerful link networks by buying up a bunch of quality domains, and then spamming links at what they want to rank for.

It normally takes Google a few weeks/months to catch this stuff, so for super competitive terms, it's easy to make it worthwhile by ranking for something like "fast payday loans." Then when the domain gets penalized, rinse/repeating.

Someone teased Matt Cutts with this a while back:

http://www.seroundtable.com/google-payday-loan-cutts-16940.h...
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I reckon Harold Ramis is one of those guys where it's okay to make jokes about his death because doing so is actually a better way of remembering him than being all sad and miserable.

So... I'm looking forward to Ghostbusters 3 even more now! One question, though: Are ghost actors eligible for Oscars nominations?
No ISP would agree settlement free peering with Netflix - it has always been the case that Netflix has to pay people. They chose to go with the cheapest provider, Cogent, and Cogent did not have the capacity to provide the services that Netflix required. So Netflix started looking elsewhere, and presumably the next cheapest deal they could get was by peering directly with Comcast.

Your understanding is absolutely correct - this is not a Net Neutrality issue, but a Peering Dispute, plain and simple.
I wouldn't read too much into that. I'll say a lot of things about Peter, but he's not exactly afraid to admit he's wrong.
Headshot.

Never saw a so true sentence about brazil.
Sorry, I don't speak Portuguese. Are you implying you do not understand the relation between internet connectivity and the price of renting a server?
Congratulations to you and the team Lennart. It looks awesome. Will try it out!
This is a fantastic set of visualisations that was posted on here before at some point - http://www.cs.usfca.edu/~galles/visualization/Algorithms.htm...
Really nice idea!
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I'm saddened that there's no kickass SID soundtrack for the game. That would have been a great way to show off the C64's technical advantages over the iPhone ;)
Reality isn't like movies or tv, fusion reactors can't turn into bombs. For one, there simply isn't enough fuel in the device at any given time. For another, maintaining the conditions that allow fusion reactions to happen doesn't happen easily. If the equipment goes offline or haywire the worst case scenario is that the reactor stops.

Fusion reactors are like balancing a pencil on its tip. If anything goes wrong it simply falls over. Fission reactors are different in two ways. One, it's possible for them to have a positive feedback in fission reaction rate due to lolss of coolant (this is called a "positive void coefficient"), but this can be changed in the design of the reactor and all modern reactors have a negative void coefficient. Two, fission byproducts are both extremely radiologically hazardous and continually producing heat from decay over long periods of time. This means that reactor fuel and used decomissioned fuel still needs to be actively cooled for a very long time, and if not then it can melt down which is very difficult to contain. These two problems are the genesis of the disasters at Chernobyl and Fukushima, respectively.

In contrast, the products of fusion reactor operations don't get hot and as mentioned the reaction will just stop running if anything goes pear shaped. These factors alone are major reasons why fusion power is so desirable. It wouldn't use of fossil fuels nor produce CO2 and would be unimaginably safer than fission power.
I was referring to my poker career. I can't remember the exact number but I think I had just lost around 25k in the month leading up to my wedding.
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No Kerberos auth via reverse Proxy.
Nobody uses it in our team because its the only app where they need to enter a password.

A shame since it should be very easy to implement similar to the REMOTE_USER env in other langs, maybe via X-Authenticated header or something for play.
>(For a humorous take on nation-state threat models, read the hilarious usenix article This World of Ours by James Mickens: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/thisworld...)

"Security research is the continual process of discovering your spaceship is a deathtrap" has to be one of the most apt descriptions of security research I've ever heard. What a great read!
Can we just please get a group of Congress critters that are looking out for the good of the country? This endless political wrangling to ensure re-election is killing our nation.

And bring our people back home. As a former Marine, I'm tired of seeing body bags when there's no looming threat to the physical security of our nation. Our children deserve better.
Skill is effortless
- Why exactly did you need 25k to build Kenya's first "blog network"?

Blogging is one of the lowest hanging fruit in any emerging internet industry. I wanted to take a big chunk of that opportunity, so I raised some money.

- Where did the money go? Can you
provide us with a break down?

It was mainly for expanding the team from a one man show to a full newsroom.
- What prevented you from doing this
without the 25k investment? You
could have used Wordpress and a
host like WPEngine, and I can't think of
a cost more than $25-100/month.

I did. I was running my first blog as a mildly profitable one man show, but I always wanted to expand the team, largely cause I thought it would lighten the load, but boy was I wrong about that!

- Are you paying writers, or is this all
freely written content? Or are you
just linking to other blogs in the market?

I pay everyone who works for us. The pay is towards the lower end of the market rate.
- Also, not a question, but except for the first link, the other two sites are down for maintenance

HN should have known better than to talk about 88 when I had my back turned! :)
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It doesn't. I need to upload the new version that has the proper permissions there. Good question.
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Don't forget the "Eternal September" effect.

During the late '90's, I was a sysadmin for a fairly major computer science department. One of my periodic tasks, and my test of Internet health, was to download and build gcc. When I started, getting gcc took a while. By 1999 and later, when the Internet had been discovered, downloading gcc took several hours and frequently several retries.
thats a borderline moronic article.

starts by saying incumbents deny access even to city cabling and explaining the duopoly on most cities and ends by saying that allowing netflix to pass the fee to comcast subscribers is good because people will move companies and a free market is the answer.

is this april 1st or something? also extra moronic points for not understanding the first thing about isp to isp agreements and peer pricing.
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More on the WhatsApp tech stack over at FastCo.Labs: http://www.fastcolabs.com/3026758/inside-erlang-the-rare-pro...
As most people don't have 500 dollars to pay the clinic up front, this would have been an ER visit for the majority of Americans.
If that annoys you, you should have seen the previous logo.

(It's still on the screenshots here: http://theold.graylog2.org/about)
I thought mobile web apps advocacy is pretty much dead at this point...

I mean, "the web" has completely failed in creating any impressive app in any category. Technologically it's inferior. It takes control and freedoms away from the user and is typically closed source and dependent on some server somewhere.

How can you honestly promote this?
There was a great example of this with QR codes, though amusingly I can't find the link at all at the moment...

For a while the first hit in Google's image search for QR Code was a code for a person's personal site which he'd put up as a test and by happenstance got picked up by a few places which a few other places picked it up from and so forth. All fine when you are explaining QR codes and are fine pushing people to some random but currently inoffensive site, but a number of places used it up as a placeholder in adversing campaigns then forgot to replace it with one representing the real URL before going to print.

The owner of the page knew what had happened as he had offers to rent or buy the URL, demands that he turn it over when he didn't want to, and even threats of being sued for "hacking our advertising". IIRC he never "sold the URL" instead leaving his personal page in place. He had the good grace not to add something offensive to the page, which I'm sure I would have done after receiving any such demand or threat. I would have least published a list of the fools that fell into the "trap" with a copy of relevant correspondence (sanitised to remove names and such).
I have worked at a number of startups and I hire my teammates on occasions.

You actually need to ask intelligent questions that show that you have done your research thoroughly about the company.

Avoid
-----
- asking trivial questions that are already answerable through a simple look on their website or on Google

Do
--
- ask about their competitors and how they differ from each other and where does the company come in the eco system

- ask about founder/manager background to evaluate the team's chance for success base on the experience of founders team

- look up info on google news about the company or the industry which the company is in. Think of questions to ask them by referencing the news

- do ask for product roadmap and strategy. Ask hypothetical questions like given situation X and Y, how would the company handle it and why, etc.

Hope this helps
> That's what a positive correlation means.

Not so, at least, not without an explanation backed up by evidence. You're missing something fundamental -- a positive correlation does not carry evidentiary weight until it's been explained. Science is not a collection of descriptions, it's a discipline that is sometimes able to uncover explanations -- where they exist.

Alongside the old saying "correlation doesn't prove causation" should be another similar cautionary note about uncovering evidence for the meaning of a correlation before describing it as meaningful.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/correlation-or-causatio...
Indeed, the idea that routing your connections through other countries will help you is beyond naive. Nearly every industrialized country, including EU member nations, is documented conducting surveillance on comparable scales, and most of them (including Portugal) work closely with the NSA. Schemes like this, especially when government-sponsored, need to be looked at a lot more skeptically. They aren't doing it for privacy-conscious reasons.

As Der Spiegel put it, the BND spies on everyone but Germans, shares that data with the other collaborating countries, and then gets data on Germans in return. (And the Germans didn't call France the "evil empire" of industrial espionage for no reason.)
I agree entirely with everything other than the lunch money comment. Having 1k was no better to me than having 0 - in either case, I wouldn't have enough to pay my bills - so I wasn't really risking anything significant. Really, I only stood to benefit by taking the risk. If I had enough time I would have rebuilt my bankroll slowly but I simply didn't have enough time.
I've been working with CBLite for iOS and it's pretty legit. One thing that I have not been able to find on Couchbase's website is a written commitment that CBLite will always be compatible for CouchDB. I know that the current sync gateway behaves similar to CouchDB and so there is an incentive for interoperability, but it would be cool to know you guys will always have CouchDB users' backs on the mobile front so that we can trust you and continue to rely on your code. Who knows, maybe that would entice me to move to Couchbase in the future!
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I completely agree with you. We focus on creating levels and computational thinking. But most importantly we want kids of all ages and of both genders to be wanting to become Computer Scientists.
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I made an JS+canvas version the other day http://codepen.io/onion2k/pen/ifroz …so I could do one that fits in a 'favicon'… http://ooer.com/flappicon/

(probably only works in Chrome)
Although you will read people saying don't draw that conclusion with links to evidence and a great case, historically f-ups like this in any finance/money related industry do not result in "everyone getting their money back". I hope you all do, but the odds are not in your favor.
What are cutouts?
Tapping undersea cable is very small scale operation compared to mass surveillance. You can't install massive server rooms into undersea submarines.
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Looks like you might be right...

,0 The program will be loaded to the start of BASIC memory (2049/$0801)

,1 The program will be loaded absolute, i.e. to its stored location defined by the first two bytes in the binary file. Needed for machine language programs.

http://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/LOAD
I would argue that there is a large difference between transporting and transforming. It is easy to transport/store hydrogen in a pressurized cistern.

It is also fairly easy to transform hydrogen just by burning it. Of course burning fossil fuels and releasing tons of CO2 is how we got into whole global warming business anyways, so we want a more efficient transformation technology.

But wait, it get's more complicated. Compare transportation and storage of hydrogen versus electricity. Vast difference, requires radically different technologies, so let's not call all energy 'same'.
According to those who interviewed the principal decision makers, your "naive" belief is roughly correct. For example, from Mark Danner's recent article (http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/mar/06/darknes...) --

"According to those attending National Security Council meetings in the days after September 11,

The primary impetus for invading Iraq…was to make an example
of [Saddam] Hussein, to create a demonstration model to guide
the behavior of anyone with the temerity to acquire destructive
weapons or, in any way, flout the authority of the United States."

In other words, single out one of the bullies, attack him, knock him out, and by so doing, scare the rest of the bullies. I'm not saying it was either a good idea or an effective idea, but such was was the strategic thinking (if we can call it that).
Teaching kids how to code does not mean that they will become programmers. Just like teaching them how to fish does not mean they will become fishermen. You are teaching them a skill that they can use (or not) in their adult life.
Better question how can Apple trust anything if they relied on a compromised version of OSX during development?

In a worse case exploitation of the vulnerability, backdoors could be sprinkled anywhere on any OSX machine including binaries on development machines or those used to administer servers. Short of bringing in a unicorn to snif out virgins, they can only assume that everything connected to the internet has been fucked.

For exploits embedded in the source code, rebuilding doesn't eliminate anything. If there are others - and why wouldn't a sophisticated attacker plant more than one, then the best option is a code audit and wishfully hoping that it found everything.

How fucked could Apple be? With SSL broken, why wouldn't an attacker do such a things to create a robust exploit?

Suppose Apple looked at the commit history for the problematic file and the change to the source code doesn't show up...compromising a machine that controls version control software would allow that. If I were running an NSA op or were a cyber-crimminal, that's the sort of thing I would do once I thought of it. Well actually I would hire some Fairfax County contractor to do it in the case of the NSA - someone like Snowden.
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thats assuming everyone bought us cable tech/hired us companies to deploy. im sure now it is not going to be the case. and probably anti tampering will finally be in the features, not just speed and price as before.
Delicious, runs great under cygwin.
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