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There are thousands of variations of C99 used by various 'hackers'. Many of which are obfuscated (base64, gzip, other more obscure encodings). Generally, searching for a combination of 'base64_decode', 'gzdecode', and 'eval' will find a great deal of them. Others may require more manual inspection. Just searching for 'eval' alone tends to find a lot.

There are a few tools floating about that try to use a more signature-based approach to searching, and clamav has some signatures for the shells, but they can be hit-and-miss, as the obfuscation often changes.
I'm interested in what those edge cases are, to say it works in 99% of the cases but provide no caveats makes me think that I might be surprised by something if I use it.
"Embrace, extend and extinguish"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
I agree that higher education administrative costs have gotten higher since the 90's, BUT (and that's a big but), as far as your $20 goes, there's a reason you've been rung through the ringer. The institution didn't do that to assert dominance over you. They did it to be in compliance with the law and audit requirements. No one wants to track down $20. They have to because of rules imposed on them from outside forces.

Institutions who receive public dollars are audited at least yearly to ensure compliance with state/provincial requirements, and somewhere around every 5 years on federal statute. These audits include ensuring checks and balances on money paid out to staff/students for any reason, including travel and conference costs (fun fact, many federal programs have travel costs that are based on staff pay, thereby limiting the amount of 'excess' spending the programs can do on travel. . . .because everyone knows we attend conferences in Michigan for fun. . . ).

Anyway, it may seem like a small deal to you that you lost the receipt for $20, and in the grand scheme of life, it is. BUT, in the direct application of audit completion and legislative compliance, that $20 is the first step to lawsuits, persecution and public shaming of the University when it turns out that every employee was allowed to slip $20 past the business office. Controls are controls on everyone, they are impartial and they apply across the board; the same rules apply to the lowly grad. ass. as they do to the provost and president.

Is it senseless to have that much work and that many hours spent on on $20? Yes.
Is it senseless to have that much work and that many hours spent to ensure that tax dollars are spent reasonably and within the bounds of the law?

No.

Source: I am part of those 'sickening' higher education administrative costs, and I have personal experience consulting for federal audit compliance at public colleges in the states.
Anybody can sue anybody for the stupidest and wrong-headed and unsuccessful reasons. Anybody can threaten anybody for any kind of stupid and incorrect reason.

Can they win court? Are they right? Are they being jerks? Are they bullies? Another set of questions entirely.
This seems like the beginnings of something <i>essential.</i>

The current system is hopelessly broken and corrupt. It's not serving most students, it's not serving most teachers, and it's not even serving most employers.

It mostly seems to be serving bean counters, bureaucrats, and property speculators, who are all making out like bandits.

A serious disruption is inevitable.
I'm assuming the context of the question is "People say they see it replacing C++ all the time".

People actively want a C++ replacement, and a lot of the features of Rust specifically target the pain points of C++. The pain points are painful enough, and the differences in Rust are soothing enough, that people are willing to invest in Rust as a future replacement.

People don't actively want a Ruby or Python replacement; they're good enough for now. There isn't much in Rust that a Ruby or Python programmer will look at and say "that problem has caused me issues for years". It doesn't offer enough over what they already have to invest in such a young language.

If Rust succeeds, I wouldn't be surprised to see it at least sitting alongside Ruby and Python, but by that point the ecosystem will have built up enough around it that you're not losing so much by switching.
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Not that close to Boston at all. Stoneham, just in the 95 loop. Rent went up to 1250 for a 1 bedroom.

I forgot that my price is higher because they allow dogs. Very few places do.
Not nearly as valid. Generally, people have to have a job in order to survive.
Debt is the key in the story. You cannot spend the money if you don't have it.
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Couldn't help but notice that book has a terrible review from the author John Seddon - although he has always been a vocal critic of management thinking such as lean.
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Rich jerks in China bribe public parking attendants for exclusive places to park their black Audis on the street. These apps at least distribute the bribes more evenly but nonetheless they are still scummy.
Good.

Monetising antisocial behaviour is not to be encouraged.
Exactly. All bets are matched and all fees are handled by the Counterparty protocol. The only thing that XBet.io does is broadcast the results of the games (and provide a nice UI for making bets on those future broadcasts).
As well as the example of "sparse arrays" shown in the README, there are some additional slight gotchas around `.bind()`, e.g. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

These fall outside of the common uses of these methods, and most people don't even know they exist.
I remember small sections of BASIC in my school math book in something like 6th grade. We had a Mac with HyperCard so it looked really primitive to me :)
"creates a predatory private market for public parking spaces that San Franciscans will not tolerate"

Right, because I've never driven around Nob Hill for an hour trying to find parking, only to have to give up and pay $25 for a garage. The response from the city makes more sense if you've never actually had to do street parking in the city. When I'm at my wit's end, driving around the same streets continuously, I'd gladly have paid $7 for a spot. Have the time you don't even find a spot, you find someone leaving and take the spot immediately.
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Well, duh !
They have an app that auctions the public parking space you are currently in - and you wait in it till the buyer arrives

How did anyone expect that would remain ethical or legal?

There are many ways technology could improve parking in SF but making private profits off public resources is not it.
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>Some V8 people here ? how can a JS re-implementation be faster than the native implementation of a function ?

They say some in their readme. Because the native versions have some extra baggage (sparse array checks, etc).

But to answer in general:

1) JS functions also get compiled to native code for often used code paths. That's what the JIT does after all.

2) A JS function might use a better algorithm compared to a native function.

3) Native is not some magic spell that is always speedier than non-native. Native code can also be slow if it carries too much baggage.
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airbnb for education? Please. Like current fleecing of adjuncts is not enough, now they are going to bid and get accreditation from some random start-up? Geez, this gig (share) economy is getting out of control.
I agree with Mr. Herrera, even as a libertarian. Apps like Uber and Airbnb are fundamentally different from this. You could make an argument that those apps should be regulated consistently with other business in the same market, but at the end of the day they are dealing with private property. This app takes property that is already paid for and maintained by all tax payers and holds it hostage (their metaphor is very apt). Paying for the spot gives you the right to park there - it does not give you the right to determine who comes in next, and especially not to make money off that decision.
Not to mention time saving. Can you imagine how long it took him to make that in CSS? I bet it's fun to practice doing this kind of stuff?
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To say the comparison is meaningless is a little unfair.

Generally yes, the results are not expected to be 100% equivalent as these routines do not produce the same results for some inputs.

But as the range of inputs for which the results are expected to be the same is defined, the comparison is meaningful within those bounds (which covers quite a lot of the cases those functions will be thrown at).
"They are motivational items for people who don't exercise every day, but want to"

More precisely, metric optimizers or those who like grind games.

My chronological experience with my fitbit was exactly the same as my experience with EVEonline and a couple other MMORPGs.

They work, and work well, and the exercise trackers are doing a good thing, but only for a small susceptible segment of the population.

I still carry the thing in my pocket and charge it and glance at the weekly emails, but when it breaks, I'm all done. Still going to walk after meals and go on weekend hikes, just like I've done for decades without keeping track.
I don't know what to think. Devilishly clever. Instant new market. But so detrimental if it catches on...

People who live paycheck-to-paycheck wouldn't be able to afford this. If it becomes very popular, those without disposable income may be unfairly abused by the system. Till now, finding a spot has been random lottery. Pay-for-privilege will leave struggling families out in the cold (perhaps literally).

Yet to punish a company so harshly before the phenomenon has proven to be a problem in practice seems draconian. The gap between theory and reality is large. Something that's harmful in theory can sometimes prove itself advantageous in unexpected ways.

And what if the company wasn't based in California? Would there be any recourse for California to exert regulatory pressure over a company based in another state? Pg's quote "if you outlaw the future, it will just happen elsewhere" seems relevant. Maybe it's a matter of time until this app catches on in other large cities. Nobody likes spending ~30 minutes searching for a parking spot.

But it's difficult to shake the feeling that the whole concept is, well, douchey. I dislike that word, but it seems quite applicable here. Sitting in a parking space for longer than you need it in order to personally profit is pretty much the definition of a dick move. Yet should that argument alone be sufficient reason to outlaw the entire market? I don't know.
It is obvious to most in the UK. There are very few schools attempting to teach creationism in the UK, this law is just to be on the safe side. see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7924441
I haven't personally noticed any articles about Larry Page being late to meetings. Have you? Do you think it's more likely that he is not late and never suffers jet lag, or that it's not reported when he is?
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What about people who can't pay $7? That's what public services need to think about.
It's easy to see this as a foolish reaction of "there is a market? But markets are unfair because money, so let's stop it!" by the city of San Fran. In fact, it would take remarkably little to make me believe San Fran was that foolish.

However, these apps also create incentives for people to not give up their spots until someone pays. It's an incomplete market, where someone sits on a shared resource until paid to move.

The reality is that SF should be auctioning off these spots on its own. Let the market decide what the price of parking is, and pay the supplier.
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Nothing "meaningless" about it.

It's not like they do apples and oranges.

They do slightly different varieties of apples -- ignore some BS edge cases that few ever use in the real world.

If I rewrite project X into X v2 and throw away 2-3 seldom used features in the process, it doesn't mean that comparing v1 and v2 is meaningless. You compare for what people actually use it for -- the main use cases. Not for everything nobody cares about.
Oh, BeOS! How full of promises you were, before your untimely demise...

Those error messages were real, and were part of BeOS.
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There's a gem of a quote in that article:
"If Einstein was born in South Africa, he would probably have studied accounting. I’m not sure that he – or South Africa and the world at large – would have benefited much from such an arrangement."

I agree with your sentiment. As a profession it does attract the brightest in this country and not necessarily for the better. I was merely trying to point out that the trust placed in CA's in South Africa is not entirely misplaced. Some would argue that the rigorous education a CA receives in South Africa is at least on par with that of an MBA though possibly more narrow before the more recent changes.

In my opinion, arguing that the standing of CA's in South Africa devalues other professions is very much the same as the age old argument of business in general drawing the brightest minds away from academic subjects. People motivated by money will often choose the route more likely to result in more money. At this point it very quickly devolves into an argument about the current form of capitalism in this country (and the world) and how it incentivises the wrong things - an argument I'm definitely not qualified to have. Thankfully not everyone is motivated by money and there are still people out there willing to do what they love or are good at.
I'd second this book. I've just finished it and am writing up a synopsis for my blog. It's been useful for improving my own writing and I intend to use the processes laid out to assess decisions made by others in future.
Maybe a phablet and a "mini", lower resolution device?

higherpurpose's point is very important, regarding which is your target market - it's VERY different to develop targeting the U.S. than, say, Latin America.

Edit: I see your company is focused on managing "street crews" for campaigns, I guess first world then :)

Apparently the best-sellers over there are:

- Samsung Galaxy S III (> 30 million sold)

- HTC One

- Motorola DROID

I second higherpurpose's recommendation of a Motorola Moto G (maybe instead of the DROID).

I'd choose a 320 x 480 pixel device like Galaxy Mini 2 for South America, and maybe a 240 x 320 device like Galaxy Pocket which is the default "free" phone over here.

Or, for the Indian market - I've heard they use a lot of local and Chinese brands over there, not necessarily lower specced but I've read about a lot of Mediatek-powered devices.
If SF can devise a system that notifies drivers of a free parking spot for less than it currently costs - go ahead and implement it.

But I have admit that I doubt there is a cheaper way. And city probably has more important problems to solve.
I have a Nest. Nest doesn't allow you to access your own data that they are no doubt collecting, and their app only shows your energy use for the last 10 days. This makes it absolutely useless for trying to figure out how to optimize your energy usage on a month-to-month or season-by-season basis.
So this is your first encounter with the pretty crazy association between education and sports in the US?
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Which bit about Qt were you hoping was part of the STL? I think the design goals of the STL was to make it portable, something Qt is not, despite being multi-platform. We mustn't forget that C++ is used on very low level devices.

If Qt is anything like wxWidgets, wxWidgets reuses the STL for its container types, basically providing a thin wrapper over the STL (or it can do with a build switch).

I myself find the STL very useful, so I am genuinely interested in which bits of the STL you wish were more Qt-like? Do you mean the GUI bits of it or something?
Seeking rent from public property is a a problem in itself.
You've already told me many many times that you don't like Microsoft. And if I didn't know, I could just look at your user profile where it is stated explicitly.

There's about zero content in your response.

Just scattershot contradiction using the pick apart technique in hopes of trolling an inflamed response.
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I read your parent comment with a large level of irony (i.e. not literally). Your parent is bitter that actually building a successful business - by the metrics you just cited, as your parent claims to be doing -- feels/reads/is lived like total failure compared to the feeling of reading a "faery tale" of running a business into the ground while getting incredible levels of support that were "unearned" (if I try to put myself in your parent commmenter's shoes) because the business wasn't actually profitable.

Your parent commenter is bitter about the fact that a total lack of viability - making money - gets support, while he has to bootstrap in the face of derision.

madaxe_again: I recommend you get off of HN if you are interested in building a real business. This is a community for building things that investors here would be interested in. If it's not a problem that a rich man with nothing to do all day but look at Internet metrics can see as something to solve, then building a business is not going to get any support from this specific community.

You should forget about investors. When has an investor ever backed anything that they couldn't have related to within 15 seconds of hearing a pitch for it? But investors don't represent the people of the world.

If you want investment, play with investors. They'll give you $200,000 to stop making money and make a messaging app. If you launch one before you talk with them they'll raise that to $600,000.

It is what it is. (Don't read my comment bitterly. I love this ecosystem.)
This very much depends on what you care about. If you are running a 100,000 machine datacenter, a 12% efficiency improvement may save you millions of dollars in computing and energy costs a year. That is certainly worth a doubling of specification effort.
looks cool in the first place!!
Javascript. The language where you can reimplement basic functions such as map, each, reduce (which by the way are still available for objects in 2014) and have them be faster than their native counterparts.

It might be that I don't particularly like the language. but it's kind of frightening that we're building the world on that stuff.
why is it not for this forum ?
Look what they did with a dead body! Ethical??
>"Meaningful Use" is tied to the regulations that also govern the glacially-developing interoperability standards, and is only achieved through certification.

"Meaningful Use" is largely agnostic to the underlying standards. It rewards (or punishes) outcomes but its aim is to increase electronic patient record usage.

>So even if the industry settled on a standard themselves, they can't be sure adopting it or the non-existent government decreed standards would meet certification even for meaningful use.

That's not really an issue. The standards are the way they are because there are no dominant players that can push through a standard unilaterally, and as I've said, the big players just don't care enough about standards outside of marketing, and they downright hate them if it means an easier time for a competitor to supplant them on-site. The interoperability mess is not due to MU in any 'meaningful' way. It was there before MU, it's there today, and it'll be there after MU.
C++ does feel like a new language. If you just buy Stroustrup's new book and read through the "tour of C++" towards the beginning, you'll find lots of new bits without having to read the entire book (although I am still going to try and do that).

For me, I am constrained by the compilers that are used by my employers (VC10) so I can't use half of the new features (although I could use them in Xcode and macro them out I suppose).
The problem with this business is not that it forces people to pay high prices for high value parking spaces, rather it's that it incentivizes people to camp out in high value spaces, and that the revenue accrues to the campers and not to the city. If this app is popular at all, it's probably an indication that the city isn't charging enough for parking.
AIUI, this is people paying for, and parking their car in a city-owned car parking space, and then giving up that space to someone who's willing to pay more money for it.

This is simply arbitrage, and it's legal when Wall St fatcats do it, it should be legal for everyone. If the city objects, they should charge the market-clearing price for parking. If that leads to a problem where only rich people can park, then California should build as much low-cost housing as it takes so that everyone can afford a house without paying an arm and a leg.
> One problem I have with "decoupled" architectures is that the only way you can sensibly interop with everything from RDBMS to flat JSON files is if you treat the RDBMS as a flat file.

The Repository pattern is what you're looking for.
> However, these apps also create incentives for people to not give up their spots until someone pays. It's an incomplete market, where someone sits on a shared resource until paid to move.

This analysis is totally on point and I'm shocked someone downvoted you.
Awesome one. Must try to create your stories.
Hey, I should do this with tables at popular restaurants during peak hours too. That's not being an asshole, it's letting the market decide!
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> and that the revenue accrues to the campers and not the city

Then the city should build their own version and get the money that it feels it is entitled to.
Not directly related, but here's Godwin (yes, that one) posting "Hitler tries to find an apartment in SF": https://twitter.com/sfmnemonic/status/480572531749826561 - it's pretty funny.
The difference between engineering and tinkering is discipline.

Not to say tinkering is bad, its perfectly fine when trying to create the latest viral app or when learning how to do something. When engineering something, discipline is required.

And nothing stops any institution seriously committed to engineering to adopting practices that restrict language use to a subset (mandatory code review, static analysis tools that highlight deviant code and disallow it to be pushed, etc).
I don't get what's so new. The entire Motorola line has front facing camera, doesn't it? Yep, the one phone of the line that fits this price has only 512MB of RAM, for 1GB you'll have to pay a bit more... But the pricing on the article is not official yet. Those things always increase a bit on release, and I doubt other companies will keep their pricing static until there.

Just because Samsung has bad market segmentation. it does not mean everybody else does.