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jQuery & JavaScript Articles For The Community. Upcycle your old PC fans into mini wind generators. Security warnings for suspected state-sponsored attacks. Posted by Eric Grosse, VP Security Engineering We are constantly on the lookout for malicious activity on our systems, in particular attempts by third parties to log into users’ accounts unauthorized.

Security warnings for suspected state-sponsored attacks

When we have specific intelligence—either directly from users or from our own monitoring efforts—we show clear warning signs and put in place extra roadblocks to thwart these bad actors. Today, we’re taking that a step further for a subset of our users, who we believe may be the target of state-sponsored attacks. You can see what this new warning looks like here: If you see this warning it does not necessarily mean that your account has been hijacked.

You might ask how we know this activity is state-sponsored. We believe it is our duty to be proactive in notifying users about attacks or potential attacks so that they can take action to protect their information. State Driven Design (SDD) Object-Oriented Design has been a powerful problem solving paradigm for many years now and it still continues to be a force, but as practiced traditionally it has also been limited in many ways.

State Driven Design (SDD)

Any Architecture attempting to distribute objects across multiple nodes and processes while still trying to maintain object semantics soon encounters a scalability nightmare. The reasons for these limitations are a lack of constraints on object design around encapsulation and composition. Traditional Domain Driven Design builds on the principles of Object-Oriented Design and inherits some of these same limitations. Traditional Object-Oriented Design principles work best when confined to the boundary of the local application context. Objects like String, Number, Lists, Maps, Trees and Graphics are represented well as fully encapsulated objects for consumption within a local application context.

[Constraint] Separate Caller-Visible State. How to win Rock-paper-scissors every time. I admit it.

How to win Rock-paper-scissors every time

When I first heard there are actual tournaments for Rock-paper-scissors, sanctioned by the World Rock Paper Scissors Society, I laughed. I mean seriously, $50k to the winner of a game that requires no skill whatsoever? Absurd. Boy was I wrong. Rik Ansikter. How the Stock Market and Economy Really Work - Kel Kelly. "A growing economy consists of prices falling, not rising.

How the Stock Market and Economy Really Work - Kel Kelly

" The stock market does not work the way most people think. A commonly held belief — on Main Street as well as on Wall Street — is that a stock-market boom is the reflection of a progressing economy: as the economy improves, companies make more money, and their stock value rises in accordance with the increase in their intrinsic value. A major assumption underlying this belief is that consumer confidence and consequent consumer spending are drivers of economic growth. A stock-market bust, on the other hand, is held to result from a drop in consumer and business confidence and spending — due to inflation, rising oil prices, high interest rates, etc., or for no reason at all — that leads to declining business profits and rising unemployment. The Fundamental Source of All Rising Prices For perspective, let's put stock prices aside for a moment and make sure first to understand how aggregate consumer prices rise.

Forced Investing. 157 of the Most Useful Websites on the Internet. SistematikRisk.Com. Creative Advertising and Arts Archive. Emergent Chaos. Burada süper bir slogan vardı, sildim. Development in progress...: Hibernate Gotchas! I've been using Hibernate for some time now and when I don't work on a hibernate project for a while I find myself doing the same mistakes I did the previous times So here is a sort of watch list for my self hopefully will be useful to someone else as well.

Development in progress...: Hibernate Gotchas!

You should always implement these methods in general but for your entities you should pay a bit more attention.The first thing you think when I say equals is probably to use the Id to distinguish between instance. Well, that's gonna cause you a lot of troubles. You need to keep in mind that you are working with db entities and not normal POJOs. When Hibernate is fetching objects is your using collections and hence equals and hashCode to know if an object you are looking for is in the session.

This is a good reference if you want to understand a bit further what's happening. This is something you really need to know. Why is that? Hibernate.show_sql=true If you want to see it nicely formatted add hibernate.format_sql=true. 10 Puzzle Websites to Sharpen Your Programming Skills. Solving programming puzzles is a fun way to develop your logical and problem solving abilities.

10 Puzzle Websites to Sharpen Your Programming Skills

Also, when you’re familiarizing yourself with a new programming language, solving puzzles for that language can help speed up the learning process. Here are the top 10 popular programming puzzle sites that will help test your thinking and improve your programming, problem solving, and logical thinking skills. 1. Programming Praxis Programming Praxis is a blog that includes a range of interesting problems with solutions usually available in several different programming languages. 2. CodeKata is a blog of programming puzzles written by Dave Thomas, who’s most famous for the groundbreaking book, Pragmatic Programmer. 3.