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During development of Doom 3, id Software fell into a bit of a patent conflict with Creative. Relevant snippet from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_3:

"A week before the game's release, it became known that an agreement to include EAX audio technology in Doom 3 reached by id Software and Creative Labs was heavily influenced by a software patent owned by the latter company. The patent dealt with a technique for rendering shadows called Carmack's Reverse, which was developed independently by both John Carmack and programmers at Creative Labs. id Software would have placed themselves under legal liability for using the technique in the finished game, so to defuse the issue, id Software agreed to license Creative Labs sound technologies in exchange for indemnification against lawsuits."

I remember something about Carmack coming up with a workaround that paid a performance penalty so others licensing their engine could bypass the Creative mess.

Creative has also taken quite a bit of heat over the years for sitting on Aureal's IP and stifling innovation in sound technology, but I don't have specific examples to cite.
Really? Let's call this "cracked," not "hacked" – we're only furthering the misunderstanding by using the incorrect term here, too.
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Could be a widespread WP security hole..
If anything I would expect two crowds to form, the larger of which being an "anti-snob" crowd that says, "If it wasn't on a developer's personal blog, it isn't worth reading!"
we ? "Tech Crunch" : "The crackers"
Go to macrumors.com on Wed, they usually do exactly that.
A Booq Vyper is $50, so this isn't too crazy considering each one is different.
Looks like it's switching around depending on what backend their load balancer throws you to. It's jumping around for me, which suggests they don't have any session affinity. Interesting, but I guess it's not required for their kind of app.
http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-cache-phase1.php?plugin=shell whooops?
How about hackers everywhere give up on reclaiming this term. It's not going to happen. That way I don't have to see this post on every single story about malicious intrusion that comes up on social news sites.
Maybe because they want to seem better than they really are.
I think he was referring to the 'crude touch up', not the image itself. I'm guessing mynameishere means the genital area is slightly blurred.
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Are they still running your code? I'd curious to know more of the history of Viaweb between 1999 and now. Is the architecture still the same (CLisp backed by files)?

I'm curious from a "how good is Lisp long term" angle.
site, for their kind of site.
The difference is that this site is called "Hacker News."
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Does someone want to sell a cliff notes version of that?
Unfortunately, "Explaining Benford's Law", which is the actual title of the article, is a complete misnomer, as the article doesn't actually explain the first thing about Benford's law. It just restates Benford's law and gives examples. There is no explanation or derivation at all.
I sure hope this isn't the case, but everyone saying 'outage would caused more damage Wed. morning' might get their wish.
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The fix in most cases is having a shared session-store (memchached usually) that the front-end instances share. It's not that painful to retrofit it if you know the software.
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That really sucks.

But this isn't on my real blog, it's on my Posterous. I separate them on purpose.

Also, this being on Hacker News really irritates me. I don't think it should be here.
"Too big of an image!" just bugs me stylistically. Maybe: "The dimensions input are too large!"
Cleaning up history to be readable, clean and represent the actual net change to the project instead of every dumb error I made is gold.

A properly managed history is a huge difference when it comes to dealing with code submissions. I tend to not take lists of changesets that include a bunch of "oops" because they take me a long time to figure out what the user actually did.

In some cases, I have really long lists with really small net changes but a whole lot of experimentation in the middle. I can't take those. They rewrite the entire history of giant chunks of the code to put this guy's name on them because he changed something and then changed it back and then committed half a change and then committed the second half, etc...

You say, "but this is fine, it's how he worked!" Then you have to track down a bug and see that it occurred in the middle of this "experimentation phase." That's when you realize that you don't care at all about the method of discovery, but really wish you could just hear what the discovery was in one changeset that is as small and clean and well-thought-out as possible.
These days, that's a distinction without a difference. All websites that couldn't usefully be delivered as PDFs are applications by definition.
I just implemented a 3-layered payment processing system with infinite logging, and a double-ledger accounting system. Perfect. However, during testing, my colleague found that typing a negative number and clicking "Add Funds" deducted money from the user's balance and put a fund-transfer ticket out (unauthorized withdrawal!) And when the balance reached zero, no visible feedback or error was giving, but still the electronic fund transfer was initiated (free money!!)

That taught me to process my financial side-effects with explicit, visible, calls; the generic dispatch, and abusing behind the scene meta-object features will make you broke.
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It looks like a great service but at that pricing it almost exactly doubles my hosting cost. I can get "good enough" with cacti, nagios and pingdom. I can see expensive plans for enterprises moving to the cloud, but for small founders and ISV's an extra $100 could buy five more Linode instances.
This isn't slashdot; I don't think we make the distinction here. Crackers can still be hackers.
That looks really fake.

I think that for this new product, if it is as important as they say, they will come up with a radically new look -- especially now since so many competitors are copying the iphone and macbook pro looks to confusion. Perhaps they will abandon the monotone theme and have some candy colors again.

I mean it would be pretty disappointing if they just made a bigger iPod Touch and called it "Revolutionary".
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Wow, that's a really exciting idea. How does one deal with the latency, though? I would see that as being the biggest technical issue standing in the way of a really seamless experience. For the labor arbitrage application especially, if there was a sort of VR setup, I imagine that the lag would get sickening pretty quickly.
nostalgic for any google fan.
"What on earth are you talking about? The issue as it pertains to the spec was decided over six months ago. Here is the post by the editor of the spec saying so: http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-Jun.... Neither h.264 or Theora are part of the HTML5 spec. The spec is open. Nobody is trying to force a proprietary format into the spec. For that matter, I don't recall anybody ever trying to get h.264 made part of the spec. <video> was format-agnostic from the start, just like <img>. Honestly, I have no idea where you got the idea that anybody was trying to add proprietary extensions to the spec--even Mozilla hasn't claimed that--you really don't seem to be familiar with the subject at all.

You also completely missed the point with Dirac. The point is that they are actively blocking their users from using it along with every other format except Theora. Nobody gives a shit about whether Mozilla implements it--they just want to be able to use whatever formats they like without having Mozilla play the role of Daddy--a role that nobody asked them to play and which does not follow naturally from their previously espoused values."

If you would stop twisting what I say, that would really help conversation.
Where did I say h.264 is part of any spec?
How is it difficult to understand the difference between flash and codecs for <video>?

You may not give a shit about what Mozilla role is but "Mozilla believes the Internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all." And they intend to keep it that way.

"You're doing that thing again where you pretend that everything Mozilla does is automatically the right thing just because they claim it helps freedom. I am saying that that this mistaken, and have cited a very specific thing that they have done and many specific reasons why I think so."

So far, you have only talked about how stupid it is because it's not their role (despite it's written in big on their website), people would use flash (which is not to be confused with html) or users cannot view h.264 content (how surprising).
So what is your universal solution? How could you ensure any software (or even browsers derivating from Firefox) will be able to freely access all content on Internet? Just using whatever backend available isn't enough in USA.

"All you have done here is repeat your first comment, which was bullshit fanaticism that has more to do with scaring people than it does reality."

Of course it's easier to call other names than providing actual facts and logical reasoning.
Again, as it is written in big on Mozilla's website: "Mozilla believes the Internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all."
So unsurprisingly, they push back patent encumbered format because there is no good way to guarantee "the Internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all" with patent encumbered formats.
If you have a solution for that, don't hesitate to share it, it would be very welcome by everyone.
That may explain why public school teachers do poorly at teaching math. Maybe also science. But it doesn't explain why they are also bad at teaching every other subject, including English, music, and physical education.

It's also hard to believe that the modern age, an age where being a "geek" carries an enormously reduced stigma than at any time in the past 4 decades (if not longer) is somehow paradoxically significantly more anti-intellectual than any other time in that range.

In short, I find your arguments unconvincing as the explanation for the primary reasons why modern education in America is exceptionally poor compared to recent history. However, the idea that teacher quality has degraded significantly due to decreasing teaching standards and accountability seems to fit all of the observed evidence better.
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Jekyll outputing a static HTML blog, with Disqus for comments. I have a rule of no dynamic content on my webserver.

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(Yes, my blog is currently hosted at wordpress.com, but I'm evaluating Jekyll as part of the next round of server migrations. I started with wordpress.com years ago when I didn't want to run WP on my own server, but wanted the ease of a blog.)
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You generally don't wipe out the main page before serving malicious content.
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"Currently I am at Google"

Heh, you don't say?
It may not be a matter a law but of policy (legal or not), as I said.

Some interesting links:
http://www.google.com/search?q=teacher+fired+for+being+gay

http://www.abanet.org/irr/hr/yared.html

Kind of old:
http://www.aclu.org/lgbt-rights_hiv-aids/gay-teacher-wrongfu...

So, to answer your question: it can get pretty backwards.
I am impressed at how little source code is there.

Is that all that's needed to implement the full text search?

And it's fast?
I guess this isn't that shocking because we all know what tablet computers look like. Do we really need to leak early photos? Oh, it looks like a tablet computer. How surprising!
FSJ has a nice video: http://www.fakesteve.net/2010/01/ikea-on-apple-tablet-is-thi...
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Either they've been hacked again, or they're really onto it now. The page is now blank with the text: "We'll be back soon."
I don't see any evidence that the gender of the teacher matters at all - based on the details the article provides, the study seems equally consistent with the hypothesis that girls learn math worse than boys in the face of bad teachers, for whatever reason. Or (less PC, of course) that girls are naturally less capable at (or interested in) math, but respond better to good teachers than boys do. Or any of dozens of variations on that theme.

I'm not sure what the researchers were really hoping to accomplish here, honestly. Without looking at male teachers as well, both good and bad, there's absolutely no way to tell whether any of this "effect" (if you can even call it that, given the miniscule sample size and admittedly "small but statistically significant" (i.e. quite possibly bullshit) effect) is at all related to the gender of the teacher.

This is exactly the type of study that makes me weep at the mere existence of some of these soft sciences - even if it was right, all it tells us is that we need better teachers, as if we didn't already know that. What an utter waste of time and money...
So the look of the device is more important than the functionality when deciding whether or not something is 'Revolutionary?' Apple may well design something new, but it's not like they have to make it so utterly and completely different from the iPhone, iPod or MacBook-line for it to be revolutionary.
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I whipped up a Ruby/Sinatra version of this.

http://github.com/xxx/fakeimage
Did Apache behind TechCrunch always add "X-Pad=avoid browser bug" header ?

Apparently few Apache 1.x installations use to send this header as part of some fix for few versions Netscape.

Edit:
TC seems to acknowledge the hack now. Also, the header X-Pad is missing now.

"Earlier tonight techcrunch.com was compromised by a security exploit.

We're working to identify the exploit and will bring the site back online shortly."
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"... a lot of people like ephemeral news. TC posts aren't essays that'll make good book material, but in terms of a cutting insight or an exclusive scoop that matters to a lot of people right now, TC is pretty good. ..."

I'm not really disagreeing but I'm wary of posts from TC & a few others because the posts tend towards sensation, scoops and controversy before fact.
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I'm only using on a pretty small scale – around 500-600 blog posts. It takes about 10 seconds to build the index from scratch (including tokenising and stemming everything), and queries are effectively instantaneous.
And you can always include jQuery with the overlay plugin to enhance the mouse over experience. Meanwhile, you can try to render 640x480 text in custom fonts via canvas... etc.

I believe that dummyimage thing is dead simple.
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Eh. I think if Apple released something with roughly these specs:

- circa 9" screen
- razor thin with a super clean design
- reasonable battery life (~2hrs at least)
- a multi-touch screen and the UI tweaks to maximize that potential
- a workable on screen pseudo-keyboard
- built in wifi/3G and just about nothing else
(no optical drive, no vga out, maybe not even a usb port)
- decent performance specs for the netbook range
(e.g. atom/core2 cpu, 1gb ram or more, high-performance SSD)

Given that, even if it's not a "radically new look", I think they'd make a killing (technical term: a metric pants-load of filthy lucre). Sure, it may not revolutionize the world, and it may be more of an iterative design improvement than anything else, but it would be enormously desirable to an amazingly large segment of the market. And it's hard to complain about that (if you're the seller), regardless of whether it's yet another thin, shiny, white computing device.

Also, even though something like what I described above (which is pretty similar to what a lot of other people expect from Apple, no doubt) may not be revolutionary but it would still represent trailblazing on Apple's part. Currently the netbook market is synonymous with discount computing. If you want a small form factor, low power system you'll end up sacrificing a lot of quality and a lot of performance almost regardless of how much money you are willing to spend. So if you want a small form factor system with fabulous battery life and you want a rockin' high-performance SSD you are forced to make an after market modification. The high-end in the notebook space skews very sharply toward larger systems and toward desktop replacement or gaming laptops. If Apple releases a premium quality netbook size tablet (which seems likely) they would essentially be creating a new premium netbook market. Which is hardly a bad thing for consumers whose needs are currently not being met by the market.
There's also Common Lisp: First Contact:
http://homepage.mac.com/svc/CommonLispFirstContact/index.htm...

A very nice 15-page PDF hands-on introduction, in a nice layout optimized for screen-reading on our fancy widescreen displays ;-)
You're the guy that wrote decorators! Wouldn't mind checking out your 'I love graphs' lightening talk, there's a lot happening in that space and the lightening talks are often the best content/time value of the whole conference.

Must have missed the beer BoF last year, though managed to imbibe a fair bit anyway (The Map Room in Chicago was great). Will check it out this year & see you there.
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I got a plain black leather cover for my 13" Macbook Pro, mostly to protect it, but also because I wanted to cover over the glowing logo that announces my excellent taste in computer hardware.

Consequently, I've several times had people who were driven to distraction attempting to guess what sort of laptop I'm typing on.

It's a curious fact of life that hiding the logo and the style cues makes the laptop more iconic and if possible more desirable.

If you're curious here's the one I got http://www.macally.com/EN/Product/ArticleShow.asp?ArticleID=...
I think that ship has sailed, unfortunately. You might as well try to reclaim the word "gay" for happy/cheery.
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Click the "Next Section" link at the bottom to get way more explanation/derivation than you could ever want.
Yes, I'm aware of that. However, it's not for any of the relevant parties in this story (TC, HN, Apple), and the Apple event is a fixed number of hours away, regardless of what time zone you're in, and that number of hours is sufficient that the event is not "tomorrow". Or I'm up way too late and not thinking clearly :)
you can trigger it with http://dummyimage.com/9000x9500 as well
Wasn't me: http://www.jgc.org/blog/2009/07/techcrunch-skating-on-thin-i...

Will be interesting to hear the details. TC has done a lot to secure their site, but they were using WordPress.
About time they shifted to Drupal. WP seems to be going down on security pretty bad.
That's not a bad rule. I've actually been considering using sphinx http://sphinx.pocoo.org/ for my blog reboot. Mostly because I'd like to offer visitors a choice of formats, read bits and pieces on the web or grab the whole thing as a PDF or reasonably priced e-book.
I think that many of the Ask YC or Tell HN posts tend to get more votes more easily

Yes but do you wonder why that is?

From my own experience I know if I only have a minute or two, I hit on "New", scan down for Ask/Tell HN and then if they are decent posts, immediately upvote them. So sure, Ask/Tells get more votes from me because they are more likely to have unique content as opposed to the Nth million Apple Tablet rumour.

Moreover, even though I couldn't be further away from startup circles, it is clear that HN is clearly a startup community, and Ask/Tells are the posts that are most likely to tap that vein - so I upvote them in line with what I think are the community values. I mean, if I don't upvote a "Review my site" plea, what am I here for?

I'm not sure why exactly the ranking penalty for that is so large. It's all very well to say "well post it on your own blog", but the style of discourse over a blog posting is considerably different for what I see in Ask/Tells; the comments on the latter are generally more supportive as they are seen as a plea for help and less as an attempt at self-promotion - precisely because they are more transient. Moreover, an Ask/Tell in a way is a debate on neutral ground, whereas comments on somebody's personal blog post don't quite have the same dynamic.
Why not Ruby/Rails? Django/Python? you don't hear these sites being compromised so easily?
the logo looks like amazon's.
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The word 'evil' does not appear at the target article, in either the headline or text -- so why prepend it to the submission headline? The article and author are more credible without the gratuitous editorial spin.
Flash wont die out anytime soon.

You wont find any platform that is so well equipped for rich experiences as the Flash Platform. HTML5 is no where near that.

A lot of developers hate flash, but the rest of the world loves it.
from my experience, wordpress itself is quit solid, most vulnerability are from third party plugins.