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Undoubtedly, there exists some engineer who believes that they are as good or better writer than anyone.

I was just viewing at Max Raabe's take on "Oops, I did it again" on YouTube and realized that the song follows to T all of these writer's advice to, "Keep it short and to the point." In just a few repeated sentences, she manages to dramatize a relatable scene of romantic misunderstanding, while characterizing both a femme fatale and earnest friend-turned lover. It's really minimal. (Richard Thompson's "2000 years of popular music" spiel includes his awesome cover of the same song.)
that is just not true
It's easy to be a profitable day trader when the market is melting up. Even the most incompetent traders would have been making money in the late nineties. The problem occurs once the market stops going up. At that point even the best day traders are at a disadvantage, being on the bottom of the food chain for information and transaction cost/speed.
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You're right. A better answer (types of planes, types of routes, lions, tigers, bears, oh my!)

http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/607944
This is pretty smart. I was thinking about cannibalizing an old Wacom and making a case for the iPad to sit in for drawing - your solution sounds more elegant.
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> Plastic in a landfill is plastic in a landfill. Forever.

Glass in a landfill is glass in a landfill, forever, too. The benefits of recycling requires the actual recycling part. PET, from which soda bottles are made, is recyclable, much lighter than glass, and much easier to re-shape. The used bottles are basically shredded, melted and re-cast.

Except for the experience of drinking an ice-cold Coke from a glass-bottle, PET bottles are pretty much universally a better choice.
I think that video games can be said to make the world better in some sense. My life is a little bit richer because of them - just like it is because of films and books and music. Maybe not in a philantropic sense of the word but I don't get the feeling that you are saying that he should be attacking AIDS or world hunger? And even if you are, the sun is going to explode one day, wiping out all legacy anyway.

I am not saying that you shouldn't try and do good, but I think that the kind of statement you are making provokes these questions.
If you launch something like QuipTxt, make it obvious to
people that their images are public

Google Picasa stores images as public URLs without any such warning. Because with random URL's, you effectively have passworded each image. Even more secure than if they were all locked into a nice MySQL database, because then they would all be behind only a single password.

I think you don't have to freak out users with too much information. The images are effectively password controlled.

The problem here is that the passwords were too short (and sent in plain text via SMS).
Solaris 10 used to be "free as in beer".

My biggest fear is that some Oracle exec seems this a a way to meet his revenue target at the expense of making Solaris irrelevant and risking the same for OpenSolaris.
You should continue to use what is most comfortable for you. The fact that you are already using a DVCS (Distributed Version Control System) already puts you at an advantage to those not using it (e.g. Subversion users).

Just relax, and focus on writing your code now.
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Working relationships are about compromise. Without compromise all you're left with is parasitism. Take this morsel of wisdom from a happily married man.
I use HackerNews, a site for finding new content, and discussing things.
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Listen to rm-rf. Way back when (2003-2004), I was involved in Walmart's supply chain managament software. I recall a few million rows to be optimized every day (before noon, so the hundreds of trucks plying the road can move things around efficiently).
People don't change. Everybody is a pervert or a sadist or something. Everybody does something weird when they think nobody is looking. The population is growing, and so there is certainly more going on at any one time, but I doubt the portion is really growing.
So what happens to QuipTxt now?
My guess: they are about to ship ZFS deduplication in released version of Solaris (right now dedupe is only in OpenSolaris), and realize that they can bump up their numbers, at least temporarily, by trying to charge for it.
If you're running an open product, Github by itself has huge advantages I'm beginning to realize. It's a known ecosystem that lowers barriers for everyone.
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if you only need to guess something address to see it, it is public
Interestingly this flaw was reported in 2009 on Digg.
http://digg.com/security/Quip_TXT_for_iPhone_FAIL_WIN_NSFW
I am not sure if QuitTxt tried fixing it that time.
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What I found really interesting about this story is how it sounds very much like a case study in a failed agile adoption.
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but breeders might find it useful in that sense

I think you underestimate how breeders work. They have a huge network in place and in most countries there are national organizations aimed at "dogs finding love". :) You know, pedigree and all that jazz. There may be a market for this, but to cater to it you'd have to be much less cute and more professional.

And while on the topic of actually getting offspring from this "love", it might not be such a good idea to have any random Joe off the street get the idea to have "ooooh puppies!" and then down the line realize that having eight of them at eight weeks old is ... actually quite the job (and at this point things get nasty).

Add to that that some dogs just should not breed due to various weaknesses, excessive inbreeding in the past yada yada.

That was a tangent, but to respond to poster: dogs/owners running around having a playmate for a few hours, great. :)
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Did your idea just get documented on xkcd? ;) http://xkcd.com/720/
Yes, but passwords are typically used as a form of authentication (i.e. something you know) - to prove the identity of the user.

Once a user has authenticated themselves then it is a separate problem to decide what they are authorized to see.

Even really complex keys in links are still a big problem as they are far too easy to pass around - I've seen multiple problems on commercial systems and products where documents didn't require authentication before access and "security" relied on having an obscure key value directly represented in a link.
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1) ... of which a significant portion is underage. I wouldn't be comfortable hosting such a service.

2) It's not clear to me this portion of the population is growing, but it does bother me that those people don't get the disdain they deserve (according to me).

That said, I think the company in question should be held liable for these kind of breaches. It's your responsibility as an online service to protect the privacy of your users. Even if the service is free you're still obligated to properly secure the service, and if you don't have the expertise to secure it yourself hire somebody to do it for you or don't run the service!

I don't expect most of you here to agree with me, in fact, I expect most of you to vehemently disagree. And web services? Reddit: didn't hash passwords, database got stolen. HN? Still doesn't hash passwords, as far as I know. 37signals? Same. The list goes on.

Yes, it sucks that people take advantage of lousy security, but in the end I think it's the web service that's been grossly negligent, and I think that we shouldn't accept this kind of malpractice.
I think this is a great idea and Gross National Happiness should immediately become a major part of the Democrat's platform in the USA. Of course, then the Republicans are likely to counter with Gross National Morality.

Pretty soon, we can regulate and mandate Gross National Happiness, Gross National Morality, Gross National Love, Gross National Sharing, Gross National Caring, Gross National Thinking, Gross National Playing, Gross National Working, and we can mandate that people do what they can to improve those. We are entering into a brave new world, with prosperity for all! Democratize happiness! Democratize morality! Democratize work, and play, and love! Happiness, and love, and morality - democratized!

How come no one has tried this previously? It's such an obviously good idea, I can't see where anything could possibly wrong with it... How could anyone not think that democratizing people's lives won't produce the best possible society?
Less than six months ago, some internal (non-confidential, non-critical, but, none the less, internal) documents of a client of mine showed up on Google. The reason? They were public files in a folder on the webserver, and someone turned on Indexes in Apache. It is the exact same problem.

Not even the shadow of a cloud (pun intended) was involved.
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The issue isn't that people enjoy weird things, it's that people do things that hurt others, and don't feel guilty about it.
Ask HN: closed million+ monthly forum coz of spammers, now what?
I just closed (after 10 years) http://poorbuthappy.com/, a popular forum with million+ pageviews/month, because of some serious hating & personal threats going on (long story!). HN: now what? The archives are still available. I suppose Google juice will slowly go down and traffic will lessen over time? What else could I do with it? (Do not want to reopen it).
I disagree.

A password is not a magic spell. It's a set of letters and numbers that, if guessed correctly, will give me access to something you wanted kept private.

An obfuscated URL is a set of letters and numbers that, if guessed correctly, will give me access to something you wanted kept private.

Because one uses a MySQL database, and the other uses a file system, is irrelevant. They are functionally identical when directory listing is disabled, as it can be for Amazon S3.
The thing that has always impressed me about Solaris is its well-roundedness. Not the user-environment, which compares badly to typical linux and BSD setups (svrV vs BSD kludge; standard install lacks lots of useful tools; dev tools and libraries less likely to have support). Rather, the mechanisms that bind it to the hardware, and allow you to do types of control and monitoring that aren't feasible with linux/freebsd stuff. Solaris has had that close-to-the-hardware advantage.
Basically, what the hell am I going to do? I'm in the position of being so generalist that I've botched my ability to signal well. I have no job lined up, don't feel I'm developed technically enough to do/join a startup, and have no real prospects at graduate school (economics major). Can't do sales-type stuff either - too introverted.

It kind of boils down to wondering if I'll make it. PG wrote about startups, "They're started by the poor and the timid; they begin in marginal space and spare time; they're started by people who are supposed to be doing something else; and though businesses, their founders often know nothing about business," but damn it's still annoying to feel I can primarily describe myself in those terms.
The average Google Docs link has more entropy than the average username/password combination. So unless you want to argue that everything online is public to some extent, I don't think your claim makes much sense.
All this and much more is available in Vedic Mathematics (and a lot is freely available on the internet).
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"He starts off poorly, losing about $500. But a timely bet on a company called Rackspace Hosting (“I don’t know what they do,” he says), as well as quick investments in Applied Materials, Eagle Bulk Shipping and a few others, have turned things around."

"Asked about the Today Trader method of buying and selling, both men seem momentarily stumped, as if they never saw the question coming. Then they talk about the search for “set-ups,” which seems to translate roughly as “golden opportunities,” but they struggle to put a finger on what set-ups are, or how to spot them."

There's not a lot of detail about their trading strategies, but it sounds like they're just pushing buttons.
Not really inclined to play it safe. Why can't she accommodate you, though? Still, I'd probably try for the girl.
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The trick applies to two-digit multiplication xy * xz while y + z = 10. And we can simply calculate like this:

34 * 36 = 3*4 * 100 + 4*6 = 1224
57 * 53 = 5*6 * 100 + 7*3 = 3021

For multiplications like yx * zx as long as y + z = 10, we need to add x * 100, like this:

24 * 84 = 2*8 * 100 + 400 + 4*4 = 2016
46 * 66 = 4*6 * 100 + 600 + 6*6 = 3036
I would add some benefit to signing up for your newsletter.
By signing up what do I get?
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The users aren't the idiots here, they had no reason to assume their private pictures would be shared (and even if you put a disclaimer on there, you can't expect people to read that). Besides, the admins of the service must have been fully aware people were sharing sensitive pictures, and they did nothing about it! And it wasn't a public URL, it was a URL secured by a lousy hash. Virtually indistinguishable from a URL generated by Google Docs.

I think your statement (where you call the users idiots) represents everything that's wrong with the current security-lax web services crowd.
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I just had google index my ajax directory. I have a directory where I keep ajax files. The only link to them is through my javascript ajax calls.

I was pretty surprised that Google goes through your javascript, harvesting your ajax links.
The actual square root of 73 is 8.544.

No it isn't.

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Focus past the caps-impairment and tone, there's a meat further down. Choice quotes for me:

> in the old days, reads used to outnumber writes to the database 100 to 1. these days, it’s more like 7 to 1.

> ... in the last 14 days we’ve painfully had to scale from 44,000 daily uniques to 104,000 daily uniques.
Sure. When you leave passwords floating around in plain text, bad things will happen too. It's too easy to forget that an obfuscated URL needs to be treated as a password.
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When I'm working on an API design from scratch I like to mock-up a program using the API even before I get to code. It can be as simple as a handwritten example.

I find it a good way to get a "feel" for how the main parts of the API will work and it enables communication with other interested parties.

(And I must be doing something right 'cos the API I designed for the libgmail Python binding was described by one columnist as a "work of art"[1]. :) )

[1] http://jonudell.net/udell/2006-02-07-gathering-and-exchangin...
If purpose of the page is to get people to sign up, change the design to push that: explain, with pictures and text, what people will get/see if they sign up, and have a big, obvious, unintimidating, sign up form.
A lot of gaming companies think that by making a console pirate proof (which the PS3 has been so far) saves them money in the long run.

Surely it's a big boost to game sales when people have no other option than to buy.
There is no such thing as viral marketing
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"Omit <del>Needless</del> Words"

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From the comment thread on Reddit it seems like the only thing they did, was to ban the ip address. Clever :)

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/bjezp/massive_privacy_...
I'll take it! :) I don't know why you would shut something down that has a decent rank. When you run a forum, you have to moderate.

Spammers can be reduced by requiring a captcha and/or a question they have to answer (What is 3 + 4?). If they get through, you have to delete them. The absolute best way to handle this is to manually approve each user that signs up and/or ban users with email addresses from certain domains. (Like ones that end in .ru, sorry Russia). You will learn very fast, just by looking at the email address which ones are valid users. I've been doing it for years and only had a few spammers get through.

With regards to users causing problems, it's your forum. Make everyone aware of your policies and then delete anyone who repeatedly breaks them. Yeah, they'll just sign up again, but they'll get tired of that and just go away at some point. You could always ban their IP too. You have to be careful since you can affect other users that way, but it can work well enough.

Why don't you want to reopen it? What else could you expect to do with it? I'm not sure what you are really asking.
I've got to say, thinking back on my own K-12 education, almost the entirety of which I had access to a computer at home, I don't think I did a whole lot of homework on it, and I definitely played a lot of computer games. Additionally, if the teachers weren't giving out assignments that required the use of the computer, which seems unlikely if not everyone has access to a computer, then the computer won't be used for homework. Obviously, that wasn't the goal of the program, and I"d be interested in hearing more about the "increase in computer proficiency and perhaps some improvement in a cognitive test."

Personally, I know that access to computers and computer science classes in high school probably had a much larger impact on my interest and aptitude in computer science.

Perhaps the program would be more effective by bringing computers into school at an earlier age (combined with useful curriculum). I remember playing Oregon Trail in computer class in elementary school (early nineties) and thinking back, I really wish the instructor had shown us (me) a command prompt and some Fortran or BASIC.
I had a forum which was literally 90% spammers (I didn't even realize it - I had built the site, never actually launched it - then a few years visited to find hundreds of thousands of posts, which seemed to all be bots.) the traffic was insane though. That said I figured I could just sell the domain on sedo.com. So I listed it, and even though it didn't get any bids, it did make money through their landing page program.
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> the entire race is becoming more and more homogenized

Not necessarily. Improved communications do increase the mixing rate of different cultures but they also allow subcultures to form more easily. Just walking down the street this weekend in London and observing the range of different fashions displayed - urban casual, gothic, cyber-industrial, 'traditional' english (guy in a straw boater and summer jacket). Even 50 years ago such diversion from the norm would have been viewed as downright peculiar and is now taken for granted.
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I don't think I was suggesting that he should require his users to sign a waiver of liability or anything like that. All I said was that something involving food should take this type of thing a bit more seriously than something that doesn't involve food. I'd imagine that the cookbooks themselves contain some type of disclaimer of this sort to help protect the authors and publishers. His site is basically a publisher where some of the authors are probably anonymous.

And I don't know where your second paragraph came from. Why does considering these things mean I'm unable to sleep at night? At some point, you made the decision to include a terms of service for your site. All I did was try to point out a couple things he should consider for his TOS that wouldn't be relevant for most sites.
There is nothing wrong with niche and small when you're dealing with an affluent populations such as recreational dog breeders. There are people that may pay hundreds of dollars per year for a high-quality service.
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Overqualified? Yes, but Happy to Have a Job
Locks on houses aren't infallible either, but establish intent: "you should not be here". Very short hashes don't do that quite so much.
To be fair, sending naked photos of yourself over the phone to your partner is hardly "pervert or sadist or something", maybe a bit kinky but that's it.
The future belongs to the young and nimble
Do not confuse Reddit and 4chan.
"Employers are seizing the opportunity to stock up on discounted talent, despite the obvious risks that the new hires will become dissatisfied and leave."

The article provides examples of how growing businesses (e.g., start-ups founded by the hackers who post here) can get highly skilled employees at bargain salaries as they scale up, making their companies grow well and making the newly hired job-seekers happy.
A thought experiment for the large minds here: how long a string _would_ be sufficient? I wonder if any string is long enough if you don't also implement some sort of access control lockdown to prevent people poking your system endlessly, but what do you think?
I think it's more like "people like treating other people outside their reach as objects without regards to consequences and when there are bad consequences they feel a bit guilty about it but it's too late anyway."
Ask HN:  Ensured Success vs. Extreme Success
Which path has gotten you to where you are today? Is it the path you should have taken?

1) The predictable, typical, and accepted path that ensures a level of mild success. Little chance of extreme failure or remarkable success. Low risk

2) The unknown, anomalous, and unpredictable path that ensures anywhere from extreme failure to unbelievable success. High risk

I guess this is the essence of risk taking. What are your opinions and experiences?
I just saw your reply now. The urls are different. This one is a list on a meta.stackexchange itself. The other one is on an independent website. Their actual lists differ.

I couldn't tell which was better, so I posted both to let HN decide.
another approach might be to treat numbers as letters, squaring them is then represented algebraically as (a+b) ^ 2 == a^2 + b^2 + 2ab which can then be easily combined:

79^2 = 49, 126, 81 => 6241
a == 7, a^2 == 49

b == 9, b^2 == 81

2ab == 279 = 126

combination == (a^2+2ab+b^2)

from 81 take 1

add '8' to 2ab == 134, take 4

add '13' to 49 == 62

answer == 6241
That doesn't make it "largely" a propaganda organization.

This is important, since a large amount of what's being discussed here hinges on what the CIA "is", or at least can be seen to be.
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I wonder. It would be interesting to see the undergraduate degrees of all the Salon staff. I
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