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itsnotvalidon Planet - Python realtime framework, the framework behind battlefields battlelog

It's based on PyCharm from the "Licenses" page.

ref:http://www.planetframework.com/documentation/1.10/Licenses/

itsnotvalidon Planet - Python realtime framework, the framework behind battlefields battlelog

Well one of the author of Flask was the author of that blog post Armin Ronacher, right?

The third option is, just pay the team to finish up for you, which is what EA did, I guess.

itsnotvalidon WordPress To Jekyll And Back Again

Then the time required for a complete generation is just the same.

The author obviously don't want to compile the site as it takes too long for him, so compiling a wordpress blog would not yield any time benefits.

itsnotvalidon My ICT teacher can’t mark my homework

I think the problem lays down on the face that failing grades are given to work that are beyond the skills of the marker, is just plain wrong.

If you know that they are not cheating (plagiarism or finding someone else to do) and the end result is so good, a failing grade is simply unacceptable.

Luckily my ICT teacher didn't mark by reading code.

itsnotvalidon This 28-Year-Old Is Making Sure Credit Cards Won't Exist In The Next Few Years

Or it's not USD that is chargeback, but the nature of digital transaction for the current state. If you go to a store and buy a can of soda with bills and coins, you don't really get a chargeback without handing back the goods.

It just illustrate that online transactions should be chargeback-able to protect consumers from fraud. Bitcoin just doesn't cut it.

itsnotvalidon This 28-Year-Old Is Making Sure Credit Cards Won't Exist In The Next Few Years

I think the ease of using them for accounting is one of the major reason. If you have no way of ensuring the transaction is done, it would be pretty hard on automation of accounting.

Like so, this service provides an API for that matter. At least most banks are reluctant to provide APIs for accessing the statement, not talking about instant statement already.

itsnotvalidon This 28-Year-Old Is Making Sure Credit Cards Won't Exist In The Next Few Years

If somehow I can check exactly who send me the money it would be great, however times are, banks don't always show you who is sending you money in the statements (at least happen to me with my non-EU non-US bank). If one uses such service, the statement would have clear indication of who makes the transaction and would be much more traceable.

itsnotvalidon Saving a Life is Easy, But I Didn't

Thanks for providing the info. I think, if one really want to donate, one should read those first.

I also wonder why the databases aren't as international as it should be, so a match is against the world than just a region.

itsnotvalidon Saving a Life is Easy, But I Didn't

You have to pay for mail forwarding and in case for a address that old it probably didn't really something worthwhile. But we have email addresses now.

itsnotvalidon Saving a Life is Easy, But I Didn't

They do collect email address now, but the author registered in 1995 and there were handful of people having an email address back then.

itsnotvalidon 10x XSS on apple.com

It however would be odd for GET requests to contain anti-CSRF token. In such case, users cannot pass any links that have any parameters and the session-specific token to others. This seems completely defeat the purpose of GET requests.

itsnotvalidon 10x XSS on apple.com

I think you completely missed my point. I am simply pointing out prompt()is provided by Apple just like alert() provided by JS itself.

Before coming to a conclusion that you can point to and say someone is wrong, please understand that not everyone here is a master of English.

itsnotvalidon Show HN: RichestOnTheWeb - my submission to Hacka2thon

The "RichestOnTheWeb" would then always be the hosting one as they always get the sum of all bids.

Of course who actually cares to bid?

itsnotvalidon It's not just Flash for Mobile, Flex is dead too

" In fact, many of the engineers and product managers who worked on Flex SDK will be moving to work on our HTML efforts."

Hell yes.

itsnotvalidon Bootbox.js - alert, confirm and dialogs for Twitter's bootstrap framework

That makes using Bootstrap easier. If that actually also wrap JQueryUI, it would be a killer.

itsnotvalidon Nodejs+Fabric as fast as multi-threaded C++

It is something that JavaScript can never solve: Objects are objects, there has to be some constructs to make them work so it would never be as fast as C code.

The other blog post that appeared on HN this week sums it out [1].

For those who didn't read that post, basically, if you want the performance of C, you have to make those data as static and inflexible, i.e. use types and avoid indirection. Looking at the KL used in benchmark, you may find that it resembles C code. It's exactly what they did to make it fast: types and free from indirection.

[1]: http://blog.mrale.ph/post/12396216081/the-trap-of-the-perfor...

[2]: https://github.com/fabric-engine/Benchmarks/blob/master/Serv...

itsnotvalidon Creating Languages in Racket: Sometimes you just have to make a better mousetrap

Arc is currently living within Racket/MrScheme.

itsnotvalidon 10x XSS on apple.com

Actually the dialogs are JavaScript provided by Apple, e.g. that prompt() on first screenshot.

itsnotvalidon Politically Incorrect: Spec Work

Worse still, if you increase your price, they would not come back, which make the first discount even less useful.

itsnotvalidon Politically Incorrect: Spec Work

For Kaggle there is always money given out. In the design world, the could be cases that simply money are not given out.

For machine learning, you have some quantitative metrics for performance measurement, whereas there is no measurement of such in creative areas.

itsnotvalidon Swearing

There have been many referencing to using those words.

E.g. http://zachholman.com/posts/shit-work/

And yesterday a rant on usage of swearing words in talks is given in many places including [1] & [2] on hacker news.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3212694

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3194287

itsnotvalidon How Dark Sky Works (Weather prediction using computer vision)

Since I know it would be impossible for a small team to develop such thing for every different observatory on the world, you may try federating with them one way to another to have them feed the data in the API.

However from my heart if such use is organized I feel ethically bad if the end result is not free of charge or expandable to other platforms.

itsnotvalidon How Dark Sky Works (Weather prediction using computer vision)

I like the idea except it is U.S. only.

Okay back away from trolling, I thought these kind of modeling was something to be done on server side, but you app seems to be doing it on the client side. What's more, there are many more interested in these (including weather stations) things but I am guessing there is no way you guys are giving away the algorithm to make the prediction.

itsnotvalidon Half of China's millionaires want to leave country

Not just the millionaires but many people want to too.

itsnotvalidon Dandelion Labs

An initial round for the class is typically between $250K and $500K, so between $2500 and $5000 per company.

So there would be 100 teams in a class (a team can be single person). Calculating from validation, say a classmate is giving up 10% (ceiling value suggested by YC) for $5000, that is 50000 in valuation. I wonder what pg would think on this.

itsnotvalidon Salesforce debuts Do.com, a smart social productivity app for small teams

I think "cool.com" is only comparable to "com.com" which now always redirect back to cnet.com so to speak.

itsnotvalidon Nimbus.io: Open-source alternative to Amazon S3

Please note that, if you are not going to use 100GB for a project (for example, storing your own stuff) you are better off grouping them as it is $6 per 100GB (not $0.06 per GB) for stored data. Transfer out is $0.06/GB though. So if you have 101GB (I think the GB is is GigaByte right?) it should cost you $12 a month.

But if you are just wandering with personal backups they have plans $10 a month for 100GB+ (with affiliation program to earn up to 50GBs of data, but that part are given to free users as well) so that is pretty close to $6 for 100GB, and $4 for 40GB of transfer-out. Since they claim they are using very similar or just the same system for their service in SpiderOak, you can bet they are just the same thing.

Or just go with free account and grab 2GB + whatever I get from affiliation.

On the other hand, since they are saying it's a trade-off of low-latency for price. If their data about s3 is correct, that it should be slower than s3 in the way that s3 has 3 drives to read from versus 3 drives but parity shared so effectively just one fast enough.

itsnotvalidon ArchLinux, Not Just For The Elite

I remembered my first time trying gentoo took some 12 hours to compile KDE... Well that was really long time ago.

itsnotvalidon Azul launches pauseless gc jvm for unmodified linux

If so, then we need to wait until somebody got a copy of it and then distribute it. Since GPLv2 should have clauses prohibiting the any parties from baring redistribution given the same license is used.

But just one thing... according to Wikipedia [1] it is actually based upon Hotspot, but they also entered an undisclosed agreement. In such aspect, Azul may have licensed Hotspot not through GPLv2 but through different terms with Oracle. If that is true, they may be able to keep part of their code out of GPLv2.

Also they had some open source stuff released under GPLv2 at another website [2].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Azul_Systems&o...

[2]: http://www.managedruntime.org

itsnotvalidon Salesforce debuts Do.com, a smart social productivity app for small teams

They have the cash for acquiring such a domain name for sure. Last time facebook paid 8.5M for fb.com (also two-letter .com domain names)