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One of my WP sites got hacked by this viagra hack a while ago.

The database and the akismet plugins were modified and I was able to fix it, but nowhere I was able to find how I got hacked in the first place.

This article explains very well how to fix it, but not how are these sites getting hacked. Anyone? Anyone?
Try "battery left widget". Good one.
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That's awesome. It's amazing how well-connected the hacker news crowd is, I always thought some kind of referral system at HN would be of great value.
Good analysis. I would amend: templates usually improve code efficiency, because the compiler can see through abstractions and generate (larger but) much faster code.
Scrabble is a favorite in our house.
I'm planning on moving to SF(probably Mission) to work on my startup in about a month or so. It would be great to connect with others doing something similar, send me an email ilya -at- unviral.com .
Agreed. Its like my yellow framing hammer; useful for one job, but I have other hammers. (said this before)
I thought there was some issue early on with using the iPad on some wifi routers... ah, yeah, there is some reason to think that memory was accurate http://www.google.com/#q=ipad+wifi+problems . Or was that issue pretty rare and overblown?
That's because people don't know why they feel things. The feeling comes first (e.g., being attracted to someone) and then we make up a satisfying rational explanation for it.
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There is absolutely nothing elegant about the interaction of googles products IMHO. What is elegant is the stuff that goes on behind the scences.

But the actual interaction part could be improved quite a lot.
Sounds neat, please share!
Nonsense. What happened to abstraction?

To suggest this as recommended knowledge to all programmers is actually making me angry.

My education is in Computer and Electrical Engineering, while I mostly work with high level languages building software for the web. I've traveled up and down the abstraction ladder out of curiosity -- that explains the dual in EE. I've enjoyed it all, but there is zero reason for a programmer to know almost anything from that page. You can make phenomenal software without ever knowing what a transistor looks like on paper; and that's the whole point of progress.

If anything, we should encourage higher level thinking and discovery of more expressive languages and tools.
Are twitter, reddit, or youtube making any money off this at all?
I find those posts particularly interesting because they are not the typical criticisms levelled at high level languages; for the most part those posts read as a detailed list of design mistakes in Java: no unsigned types, no 'struct'-style types, reliance on boxing for generic containers, no way to 'reinterpret' blocks of memory C-style, etc. When people complain about using java to write software you often hear these individual design decisions come up.

it's also interesting to note that there are usable HLLs that suffer from few of the problems noted in those posts: both D and C# (though the latter required a second version to get some of it right) provide a garbage collected, object oriented environment like Java, but also provide a lot of the primitives needed for the kind of optimization discussed: pointers, structures, unboxed types, reinterpretation, and unsigned values.

I think this suggests that the problem is less 'hig level' languages and more 'immature' ones: C is a very mature language, descended from other mature languages, while Java was one of the first mainstream languages to make many of its decisions and as a result even now some of the larger mistakes have yet to be corrected (lack of function types and checked exceptions being two examples). Younger languages like D get to benefit from those lessons in the same way that C/C++ benefited from the mistakes of their predecessors.
why is it faux? they're both valid words.

for example, thou/thee/thine/thy are the singular informal english pronouns. although it is usually the case that informal pronouns get translated into formal when going from another language into english because they've fallen out of use, this is still a technically correct translation.
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The interesting thing is that if taller and more well-to-do men are more attractive to their mates, would it stand to reason that the average OkCupid user might actually trend lower than the national average, thus making the exaggerations more pronounced?

Or would it be that the taller and more well-to-do are more confident in their abilities to date and thus trend above average?
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I'm glad it exists because I'm sure other people find it humorous :]
Good point. A Mach3 triple cut is really a gash that can take a small chunk out of your face. A small slice from the safety razor stops being an issue in minutes.
They are created by Tim and Eric of Awesome Show fame on adult swim. They also created this commercial which is distilled genius: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p0QtJMKt1s
There was a time, before AJAX, when Norton Antivirus thought it was a great idea to protect users by rewriting javascript on the pages according to god knows what rules. I was working on a website which used a pretty complex javascript client, and had users which were... on the low end of the computer-saviness scale.

The only advice that worked for these users was "disable Norton AV completely". Good times. :-)
I can swap the batteries in under the amount of time it would take me to fill a tank of gas (around 8 minutes avg)?
The funny thing is, I don't actually see this sort of behavior from Apple fans. There isn't that underlying insecurity that causes kids who can't afford multiple consoles to get into fanboy wars. We're generally happy enough with our choices that we don't feel the need to constantly attack people who chose differently. We often do explain why we think Apple products are better, but that's largely because we can't believe how competitors keep getting it wrong, not because we're trying to calm inner anxieties about having made the wrong choice. (It still amazes me how bad the interface design on MP3 players were years after the iPod took over the market.)

The problem is that there are now tons of anti-Apple trolls hanging out on the Internet, a lot of whom are Android users who apparently feel the need to attack iPhone users with every spare moment. (Naturally, we defend ourselves.) What guts me is seeing this juvenile behavior on Hacker freaking News. This is by far one of the best online communities I've ever seen, but the anti-Apple trolling has definitely taken it down a notch.
Yesterday shaving made it to the front page at YC, today after-shave follows up with its own front page appearance ...

Cool coincidence !?
Well, part of the faster-than-DRAM is because the cache is limited in size. Addressing 512 MB (and keeping it close enough to the CPU) would require a lot more address lines/multiplexing and CPU die real estate [1] that it would be prohibitively expensive and not as fast.

It'll still be faster than DRAM so you still have a point.

[1] In this die-shot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Barcelona_die.jpg) of AMD's Barcelona (4 core) all the regular grid like pattern is the cache (total is about 4MB + 512KB or so.) That takes about half the chip's real estate.
To me, the mentality that CS should require (near) EE dual-citizenship reeks of "we had to learn it, so you have to too". I highly doubt that knowing how to construct a logic gate from silicon will help me program one iota better.

Heck, even including what the logic gates are and how to combine them to make RAM, for instance, is valueless. So my CPU is mostly NAND... this changes things for me how? If you're going into digital electronics, then by all means... but CS != digital electronics.
Super Capacitor based technology shows some promise. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_double-layer_capacitor
no kidding on the clearness of the article, I thought Zuckerberg was the wallet and thought what a demented contract.
I'm reminded of the new-old adage: "you can't polish a turd".

However 'in touch' Old Spice might be with the online generation (as someone wrote elsewhere in this thread), the product still smells like what someone's grandpa would wear.

How does this relate to startups? No matter how great your marketing might be, you gotta always be able to proposition the product right. Old Spice can't pivot and iterate their product because then it would no longer be Old Spice. Let's be thankful we can pivot with internet startups to find continued market fit.
I'm sure they are seeing increased sales, when it comes to body wash people usually just follow the commercials.

Before they'd just ignore old spice, and would head straight for the Axe stuff...but with the new commercials they now also consider old spice.
>> " Once you spend a weekend on both places, you basically have seen it all."

Is that a bad thing, if it has most of what you need?

>> "if you have a family it is a good place. If you are single guy, you'd want to steer clear of them."

Definitely agree. I'm a family guy though. Perhaps I'm just getting old ;)
Because that has become the canonical English translation?

Really, it was properly translated long ago why change it?
The key would be proving negligence. Just because a catheter infection occurs, doesn't mean the doctor/nurse/hospital is negligent.
Ask HN: How do I estimate app hosting costs?
I am bidding on an application and I don't really know how to estimate the hosting costs assuming the application receives a large number of users. I think a high estimation of users is about 100,000/mo, maybe up to 1,000,000 page views per month. This is an optimistic estimate, but I have to expect the worst/best case, I will not have to chance to ask for more money if the hosting costs are above my estimates. Advertising to supplement income is out of the question.

Does anyone care to share their experience with applications this size?

A little about the app: It is written in php and reads from a mysql server and does basic data formatting. There is no ORM or framework, so db interaction is as fast as php/mysql will allow. I predict that page views will be spread out over a large number of URIs, so lets assume no caching.

One more thing, the app is simple enough to port to app engine or Heroku, would this be a lot cheaper than Joyent (my current provider)?

Thanks for the input!
sure they can iterate...old spice with lemon, old spice Everest myst(green color), old spice gulf oil slick black(black colored) etc

or they can come out with a sub brand, youth spice

etc etc
> Nobody predicted this. The pioneers of political economy expected eventual stagnation. Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and Robert Malthus

Not true. There were stronger optimists than the people discussed, such as William Godwin. He did not think progress had diminishing returns. And he wrote a book refuting Malthus's pessimistic views on overpopulation!

(BTW, interesting story, Godwin thought Malthus' pessimism was sufficiently dumb that it didn't need a reply -- people would see it was false without help. He only replied later after Malthus started to gain substantial influence. By then, it turns out, he was too late.)
I'd be VERY surprised if they're not selling a ton more old spice now. My wife is planning to buy me some just because she loves the ads.
I use Aqua Reef Old Spice deodorant (not antiperspirant), and I've had several people ask me what cologne I was wearing -- when I wasn't wearing any.
That's a false dilemma.

Higher level thinking, more expressive languages and tools don't preclude you from looking at low levels of your abstractions.

Edit: Looks like we were talking past each other. I was talking about the complete article (the non-EE bits are about VM, cache, NUMA awareness, memory management for multi-threaded programs etc.) The tail end of the OP's link, links to the rest of the parts.
I've lived here for 10 years and in that time I've been to art openings, film festivals, all kinds of theater, museums, countless concerts etc and S.F. doesn't fare too badly considering it's really not a very big city at all. However, it's just not in the same league as a city like London, NYC, Berlin, Paris, or (IMO) even LA.

There are upsides to living in a smaller and less hectic city too, but you can't have it all.
1) How is this different than http://www.postmarkapp.com or http://www.sendgrid.com?

2) What will the pricing be? No way am I signing up for a free beta and then have to deal with a crazy high price where I will have to re-do part of my app to switch away. This is still on HN: http://jamie.ideasasylum.com/2010/07/kissmetrics-bizarre-pri...
My grandfather used to often say, "there are no strangers in this life, only friends you haven't met." When he passed away, I was truly amazed at how many people he had met and befriended. It served as a wake-up call to me--for my generation the difference between "friending" someone and "befriending" someone is so great, and I am afraid I don't focus nearly as much on the latter.

As an aside on the article, Chuck Klosterman has a very humorous analysis of the "I'm not here to make friend's" meme in 'Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs' (http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Drugs-Cocoa-Puffs-Manifesto/dp/074...)
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My wife keeps saying she's gonna buy me some, or that I should buy some, just because of the ads.
Very cool app. I just spent all last week writing something just like this in Django for a game my friends made up. (I'm not a competitor, it was just for fun). We have organized tournaments a few times a year and are looking to grow our sport in the next year. I like your site since it scratches an itch I had so here is some totally unsolicited feedback: 1) I would suggest you allow people to add custom sports, 2) change fixtures to "Events" or "Matches," being from the US I had no idea what a "fixture" is, 3) please create a way to delete my account, 4) please create a way to delete my organization since now my own sports site is going to be competing with this custom public site once it gets crawled, 5) create a way to make the "public" site hidden until it is ready, or even has teams, data to display, and 6) create a way to do automatic team picking from a pool of players like a "draft". Great start, if you have any additional questions, hit me up at the email in my profile.

Just out of curiosity, do you plan on on having an ad supported freemium model or will this be solely subscription based?
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I've thought of this before as well. PHP's changing syntax for different functions is particularly annoying. Self-documenting is an added bonus.
Jesus, are you serious? You really think we want to scam our readers? Dude seriously sort your shit out and learn to trust a little, have a little faith.

And no, we didn't review the javascript bar that was placed at the top of all our pages but as soon as we saw what it looked like, we removed it.

And what illegitimate ad networks?? We use Google Adwords and Federated Media!

Don't go making accusations like that until you've got your facts straight.

And seriously, where did you get such distrust and anger? Ridiculous.
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Yes but I have never seen an Xbox fanboy go onto Sony forums and start trashing the PS3. Yet this is a regular occurrence on Apple forums.
They can't be "put into care" against their will unless they are a proven danger to themselves or others, and many crazy homeless people are too adapted to the streets to successfully be put into care.
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I usually found a lot of highly moderated comments opposing the "Slashdot groupthink", particularly ones that criticized the "Slashdot groupthink" by name. But there were a lot of shared cultural assumptions there as well.
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It depends on the goal of the translation. If the goal is accuracy, the difference between thou and you could be very important. (Disclaimer: IANA Ancient Greek translator.)
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Admittedly, I remember being surprised both when Apple opened up ratings/reviews for its own products on store.apple.com, and also when their apps on the App Store followed all of the same rules as 3rd party apps. Both instances seemed atypical for a company that loathes imperfection, or the appearance thereof.
...so if I ever set up a profile on OKCupid, I should list myself as four inches taller than my actual height, since everyone who reads my profile will assume I have overestimated my height by two inches.
Yes, Google supposedly indexes some Flash content, but the potential complexity of a Flash movie is limitless, so they can't possibly index all of it.
The iPhone 4's biggest problem is not its antenna
Twitter is (in a way) because Old Spice has coordinated this with a promoted trending topic and a promoted tweet.

YouTube is (in a way) as well since Old Spice is probably paying for their channel.

Reddit, maybe, if Old Spice became a Gold Member.
It isn't a matter of intelligence but rather of culture. Most of what occurs in a hospital is seen as an exercise in problem solving. Applying rote knowledge and experience to a patient's current situation and making decisions about his or her care. Most of the culture highly values memorization as well. It is seen as a demonstration of proficiency. There is some legitimacy to this, as demonstrating the ability to memorize a procedure that is not time-critical often indicates an ability to memorize those that are. Consider an arresting patient who desperately needs venus access for life-saving medication. Consulting a checklist in such a situation means seconds lost, and seconds often make huge differences in survivability.

It just isn't as simple as looking at other industries and seeing success, then applying it to another industry expecting similar outcomes. The people, procedures, environments, and attitudes are all vastly different.
my comment was polite, fact-based and intended to help save other HN readers time, yet voted into negatives. you come back with something rude and voted up. the Internet sucks sometimes.
oh wow, these are good videos. I think I just wasted half an hour watching 40 of these things.
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What, no Bruce Campbell? Doh.
The problem is that it is doctors everywhere in the chain. Doctors ignore the best practices, so they arent going to enforce the same on nurses. Doctors review doctors so the same problems again. Hospitals dont want the costs of gowns, etc. For insurance companies, the cost of the deaths is probably less than the cost of the additional materials.Medical procedures are unregulated as opposed to equipment and drugs. Nobody has a charter for best practices. It's not even in the group think.
Is this Wieden + Kennedy work?
Is reddit experiencing the consequences of losing their founders?
If the reddit team is resorting to donations, this seems to indicate no one is successfully arguing for their worth inside Conde Nast. The remaining employees are now responsible for operations but lack the ability to fight for resources. If things continue on this path I can't imagine things lasting long before everyone wants to move on to other opportunities.
I never said they did. In fact, I explicitly mentioned that I've explored other levels of abstraction.

What I am saying is that low level thinking such as depicted in the article has little to no value to the programmer.
yep I've been getting sick of it lately. I'm on to better things.
The local music scene in SF is not good. There are few good places to see national acts but no local bands. The best you're going to get locally is DJ acts but even those guys seem to have moved to LA.

Can anyone name 5 bands from SF? 3? 1?

In contrast, when I grew up in Minneapolis there was a huge local music scene and one of the main things people did was go see local bands. There were dozens of bars with 3+ acts playing all weekend, and often during the week.
With lotteries there is a strong selection bias.

Rational people usually don't indulge in lotteries.

Among lottery winners there will be disproportionally more people who are going to be really bad with money management.
That seems like a loaded question ;-) It helps tremendously for me, but everyone is different.
I tried Old Spice Odor Blocker because I loved this commercial so much: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tI4CbCniBI

I actually loved the product and will be using it for the forseeable future. My wife loves it even more than I do :)
The OP is right, the title is trashy linkbait. "Ideas having sex"? Come on. What's next, "Startups that orgasmed"?
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What part of the country? (Did the locale have rent control?) In any of the cases, were you an overseas immigrant without a rental history?

Sacramento and the East Bay. No rent control. I was only an overseas immigrant without a rental history the first time.

What sort of references did they ask for, and did they verify income in any way?

I think the most recent one did call my boss to verify my income.

Are you sure they didn't run a credit report anyway (even if there was no history of borrowing on it)?

They always run credit reports, even though I tell them "It'll come back blank". The last one did express some surprise that I still had a blank credit report after three years in the US, but nobody ever thought I was a bad risk.

That was in the East Bay, not in the city itself. Still, I have plenty of friends who have got straight off flights from overseas and rented apartments in San Francisco proper with no dramas. As long as you have a steady job and an adequate income I don't think they care about a blank credit report, just as long as you don't have a bad credit report.
Presumably this is like tilting a pinball game, and people are willing to exaggerate just enough not to have people call it out the moment they see you.
But one does not need to know the behavior of atoms (if we even do) in order to whittle wood. There's a tipping point for everyone.
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Maybe it's a big hub for startups in the apiary sector.
I agree totally. But if this "tablet" is actually just a "reader," isn't it more appropriate to compare it to devices such as the Kindle, which don't have a touch-screen at all?

The question becomes, would you rather have a laggy touch-screen or no touch screen at all? I think preferences could go either way.
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Anecdotal evidence:

My band's website is the highest ranked page for the search term "red blue yellow".

No meta headers, no keywords, no <strong>, no <h1>... nothing, not even <html> or <body> tags. In fact, the only HTML is a <pre> tag containing ASCII art and a link to our Facebook page. I mean this quite literally, view the source.

However, it has been linked to from other sites quite frequently in recent weeks.

It would seem that Google doesn't penalize invalid HTML, or even pages that have only the most basic HTML.
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Well...that was one way to get that stuff...but at the time...no...I had access to the stuff that eventually trickled down and reached Pirate Bay...long before they got there.

Oh...and this was also a few years before and...leading up to the launch of TPB.

Why would having axs to TPB be 'stressful' as indicated in my original post?
Or "enter" or "OK" or "clear" or the credit button or some unlabeled button with a post-it next to it saying "credit"... and all on machines made by the same company.

It's insanity.