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And none of these posts you're referencing are at all relevant to the issue at hand (unless you're taking the position that PHP is Pure Evil as a language, which is an entirely separate issue)! ;-)

The question at hand isn't whether it's easy or hard for someone to write secure code in PHP (my opinion: it's not easy, but it's certainly possible). The issue brought up in the article is that a lot of the top search results for "Free Wordpress Templates" lead you to templates containing obfuscated code, some of it malicious. That isn't a language issue: as many people have pointed out to you, it's a consequence of running untrusted code.

Now, you can certainly debate whether or not this is a Wordpress issue. On the one hand, the Wordpress team could choose to write their own custom templating language that doesn't include the ability to do things like eval base64 strings. But if they did go down that path, they would also be severely restricting what theme developers are capable of doing (and that wouldn't solve any issues with JavaScript or any number of other subtle issues that malicious authors could introduce).

My personal take is that this is a case befitting the quote "with great power comes great responsibility." That is, the people running Wordpress blogs need to be aware of the risks when they install plugins or themes. The Wordpress team has built tools into Wordpress that encourage people to download and update plugins and themes from Wordpress.org, which is seemingly more legitimate than these random sites (I'm not sure if there's a formal evaluation process for plugins/themes submitted there). Beyond that though, I don't think it's the fault of the Wordpress developers if people choose, whether out of ignorance or carelessness, to download and install random themes from the Internet. I mean, I don't blame Microsoft if I go searching for "free [software name]" and end up downloading a virus. ;-)
Hmmm, so I suspect in practice that you're not going to see this kind of difference usually - since he's probably testing on a binary he just built, SuperFetch (the built in OS prefetcher) hasn't had a chance to determine what pages are usually used by Firefox. Once you've used FF as your browser for awhile, SuperFetch will know better and won't do as badly.

That being said, this trick will probably beat SuperFetch, since they know up front that they'll be using big chunks of xul.dll. Don't do this in every app though, or else every app in the system is just chewing through IOs on pages they might not actually be using.
The culture will tell you to focus inward, and to wait for some great event to happen. You'll win the lottery, you'll be discovered on a TV show, or you'll meet the right person. The culture will tell you it's all chance and you have to put yourself first.

But, counter-intuitively, to be happy and successful you have to focus outward on something bigger than yourself, and completely forget about random good things happening or imagining what might happen if they do. Find something to pour yourself into and make yourself useful. Today. The more you focus on yourself and luck the more you are missing the entire point of living. Don't be a spectator in your own life.
If I was still living in Berkeley, I would go. Hope it was fun - Jupiter's pizza is phenomenal.
> (Notice that he did not say that he wanted to give her her adulthood which she missed because he killed her).

Maybe he wants to kill her again.
Dissatisfaction with the way things are is a good motivator for starting a business.

This can be external (Blockbuster's crazy fees = Netflix) or internal (dead end job = working nights/evenings on something compelling).

I think the author would argue that the problem with #3 is people who aren't passionate about becoming an entrepreneur, and could just end the sentence with ", so I want a better job where I make all the rules".
Reminder: if you're typing "sudo gem install ..." or the equivalent in your language of choice, you could be installing Wordpress.

OSS doesn't mean somebody else audited it for you.
Not at all... MIT OpenCourseWare was supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Open Yale was supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Google supported Colombia's Digital Knowledge Ventures program (along with VC partners who planned on selling the branding), and even AllLearn started with $12 million in funding (source unclear).

And those are just the larger projects mentioned in the article. With Fathom and AllLearn, the projects folded as soon as the funding ran out.
Humbug. This is just another Old Media guy who can't handle interaction with people unmediated by editors. He's peeved because his throne went away with the paper magazine.
Average Apple salary is only $46k
Another possible title: "How I used to know Mark Zuckerberg"
The very thought that a plane relies on that much code to fly let alone a car almost worries me. Working on code pretty much all day myself I'm envisioning all the things that can go wrong in that large of a codebase and shudder a little. I'm flying out tomorrow for a trip so I'm just going to pretend I didn't even read that line :-)
Was the visualisation done with a free library? Anyone know the name of it?
To summarize the summary:

The FCC was mainly concerned about whether the Hulus and Netflixes of the world would be locked out of NBC content.
So, if another major media conglomerate cuts a deal with one of these "online video distributors", NBC is required to do that as well, on comparable terms. They're also required to license to "TV Everywhere"-style services of other cable and satellite networks, again on comparable terms to other content providers. There are arbitration rules for the inevitable disputes over what's "comparable".

They're also required to respect net neutrality wrt video content, and to preserve standalone internet access.

Lastly, there's a really weird-looking condition saying that they should try to preserve local news reporting at NBC-owned local TV stations by finding and partnering with local non-profit reporting cooperatives "within twelve months of closing".

The above is a condensed and (over?)simplified version of what was already a condensed and simplified version of a longer legal document --- but it might at least help you decide whether you've got an interest in reading the whole megillah.
Possibly more interesting than the article itself are two links towards the bottom: http://hexayurt.com/ and http://www.tilings.org.uk/Hexayurt_Family.pdf. Have to say if I had the money though I'd hire him to tile my front entry way in Penrose tiles of teak and walnut--- yum!
Can you recommend some online resources that help with this practice?
"It is hard to think that a $2 billion company with 4,300-plus people couldn't compete with six people in blue jeans."

The best part is they couldn't. They ended up buying NeXT to use NeXTSTEP as the basis for OS X (and later, iOS).
No, it won't have a big effect on warm or OS-optimized startup time... but cold startup time, especially for new releases, is a big area of concern, so it's nice to see wins there!
This is rubbish on the part of Illinois State. Mere citizens are photographed an filmed all day. Not counting the bus itself, I counted 16 CCTV camera pods between getting off the bus and passing through the security at the entrance to my building. That's in 3.5 city blocks in downtown Denver.

Oh, but film a bust, and you're guilty of a felony. It's an open secret that US police abuse their power in petty and tyrannical ways, but the only proof of this sort of thing is made a felony.

"Land of the free" - HA!
If you like JofUR then you may also enjoy Rejecta Mathematica: http://math.rejecta.org/ (Note: it is in fact serious by the way.)
They might be counting branches in source control as completely separate code bases. There could easily be 100k lines with 100 branches, for experimental changes, different cars, production freezes etc.
I'm a big fan of Stefan Esser, but this has no relevance to the discussion at hand. You're just regurgitating a lot of anti-PHP rhetoric.
This headline is a touch misleading. That $46K number includes all the retail employees, not just technical staff.
I don't know about disgracing - they are just mentalities possibly not well suited to entrepreneurship.

The one about "if I had the money" really gets me - I used to say that, but now I have easy access to the money, but no idea what to do with it.

The neat thing is the internet has brought out a market where a single person can both create and sell a product or service globally all on their own, so if you get someone with enough technical, business, and drive, they can be a one-man show - something that was much harder previously.
Agreed. Another problem is that the experience is rather set in stone.

I thought this might be a cool way for my kids to learn about stuff. When I got into the beta, I noticed that not only can you not change the voice, but you also can't change the speed of reading. Pretty useless for younger kids, and I can't possibly imagine using it as an adult.

I submitted that feedback (several months ago now) and never heard back. Oh well.
That's my riff on the kennethreitz oh-my-zsh theme http://wynn.fm/9p
I did a summer internship at IBM, and the history behind the company is fascinating. One would think that a gigantic 100-year-old company would suffer from bureaucracy and eventually become antiquated and obsolete, but they remain agile enough to stay alive and even grow. Also, IBM Research is a patent machine - they patent a great number of innovations per year.
When I read the title I thought to myself.. "If you were really smart you'd 'make' a job for yourself"

But I see that's pretty much what you're trying to do by advertising like this on HN.

So, instead, I say.. "Good luck"
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Not a bad article. Didn't get around to sounding anything like the title until the very end though.

I liked the statistal myth-busting part the best.

It's tough to know how to best spend your mental energies: pursuing wealth for freedom's sake might be a false choice if there are indeed many public subsidies to be had. Technology should be a tide which raises all vessels.
What is it that you want to know exactly?
Skip the summary:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39jtNUGgmd4
A little research reveals that the title of the article is both preposterous and simply wrong.

The figure of $46k is extracted from the site Simply Hired. If you go to the source of this supposed stat (http://www.simplyhired.com/a/salary/search/q-apple), you will find that it is simply a search for jobs with "apple" in the title or description.

If you go to the URL of search results that are used to determine the $46k salary (http://www.simplyhired.com/a/jobs/list/q-apple) you find that of the first 50 listed jobs, only 4 are actually at Apple.

Of the Apple jobs, 3 are at the retail Apple stores.

Of the remaining jobs, while many are tech support or development on Apple platforms, most are completely unrelated to Apple. They are jobs at Apple Bank or in places like Apple Valley, CA, or at Apple Blossom Mall, etc.

My god, and to think that some these people have the nerve to call themselves journalists? If this is what passes for news these days, I weep for the future.
I have found that some of the most fulfilling content on HN is neither news nor created just recently. There have even been Wikipedia pages that I had never thought to look-up myself but happened to find very timely and informative.
Google fixes Android SMS bug (for Nexus devices)
That assumes there is no internal "don't want to fuck someone's life up without cause" incentive internal to the individuals (i.e. that assumes psychopathy on the part of everyone involved in the justice system).
I on the other hand find that self-proclaimedly "creative" people most of the time aren't.
Great quotes here! My favorite so far:

"I helped shepherd Apple from a garage to a billion-and-a-half-dollar company. I'm probably not the best person in the world to shepherd it to a five- or ten-billion-dollar company, which I think is probably its destiny."
I like that quote and I, too, wanted something that can record my chains of big red Xs.

And I'm building it at 6am on Sunday (right now), although it's a website, not an app.
That is a good one. I end up having the thought "damn, a solid implementation of this would really be worth something" when merely skimming half the research papers I come across.
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Well, he did do a good enough job of hiding the body. The evidence against him was circumstantial. Given what we know about his character, I have no trouble believing he believed he could explain it away. People have been found not guilty due to reasonable doubt on evidence stronger than in his case.
I did not get the voice in FF4.0b9/Mac, but did in Chrome.

In any event, impressive as both a compact bit of functionality and as commentary on Qwiki. Looking forward to more 'Banksy The Lucky Stiff' projects!
Not just an Illinois thing. Here's an article on similar cases in Massachusetts: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010...

(Note that it starts out with spurious arrests, but if you scroll down, it lists a couple of convictions for the crime of "illegal wiretapping", from folks who just recorded the police at work in public.)
Giles was a pretty funny speaker—worth seeing!
This is great news. It mystifies me that Apple has such a beautiful UI, but Terminal.app doesn't support 256 colors. It makes vim on a remote machine look like garbage and is inexcusable. I'm anxious to try this out.
+1

Really though to start exercising, but after a week or so it becomes energizing.
My qualm about all of this. It looks good on paper. But it all comes down to how the rules get enforced. The history of the telecoms suggests that they will agree to stuff up front, then find creative ways to drag their feet later. So we may not get what we've been promised.
One big thing totally didn't: the estrangement of respectable society from high technology shrank instead of growing.

Can you imagine going to a criminal gang for cutting edge medical treatment? Or a top-notch hacker living in a U-Store-it?

It looked plausible in the days of Woz building blue boxes while IBM and DEC demanded engineers wear suits. The gap looked unbridgeable.

But instead of open warfare, the most relevant of the suits toppled and the surviving elite welcomed Gates and Joy into their ranks. With some reluctance, perhaps, but it was enough. The system was a bit more flexible and robust than CP authors thought.
I don't think this guy qualifies as most people, seeing as how he's a mathematician who also created this: http://maxwelldemon.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/penrose-tile...
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At no point did I say that PHP sucks. At no point did I say that WordPress sucks. I have suggested that the WordPress team is responsible for security risks in WordPress, regardless of what layer the risk may originate from. Again, I would quote the advice that Sam Ruby gave to Matt Mullenweg:

"Yes, you can argue that they brought this upon themselves; but it is worth noting that at this point you are along for the ride. When I’m in similar circumstances, I tend to consider the karma implications of cursing the driver."

That is good, and necessary, advice for any software project.
Why can I see my comments, but no one else can?
Or...why are you censoring my comments? I thought you guys were anti-censorship.
Yeah, thats most likely due to the retail employees. I made $13 per hour at the Apple Store in Ala Moana, Hawaii and only worked part-time. Pocket change.
I suspect that the average salary for "journalists" is below $46k. That's either a cause or a symptom of what you're complaining about.
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Question about ITerm : Is there a way to name tabs with just keyboard shortcuts? I find it really helpful to name my tabs when I'm working concurrently on multiple projects but the need to move my cursor is frustrating.
You're completely right- and I really don't think we can overstate how embarrassing of an oversight this is for the New Yorker. I know journalists are not the biggest math fans out there but some basic understanding of statistics, data analysis and general rigor applied to vetting your web sources is a requirement for an article like this.
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So you know what's funny? For some reason the image failed to load when I first visited the page, and I was left wondering what the fuss is all about. Hence the parent comment.

But now that I actually see it, I think it's a good ad. Normal iPad users like my sister are painfully aware of their device's limitations, and this speaks to them, if a little cheekily.
It shouldn't be that hard to run a search on a rendered page automatically. Assuming someone is embedding a URL in what ultimately becomes plaintext, then it should be easy to look for suspicious links on the final rendering. There's still JS obfuscation, but that would at least exclude most PHP-based obfuscation.
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Google Code + SVN or GitHub + Git
command i
type new name
hit return
command w

thats the old version, not sure about this new version
I used iTerm a long time ago, but I hated it's font rendering. I imagine that 1.x series improved it at some point, but it's been off my radar so long I never bothered to check again. This, however, is fabulous. I love the ability to tweak the ANSI colors without having to resort to SIMBL hacks.
That doesn't mean it's totally pointless to look for blatant exploits. A lot of script kiddies are going to use naive and obvious methods that can be caught with simple automated scans. While this method may not catch 100% of occurrences, it can certainly help.
Actually that isn't even accurate the search only looks for the word apple, not even specific to AAPL. rmah's comment does a good job laying it out.
this is gonna sound silly, but is anyone else scared to visit cryptome? same with wikileaks.
Apple does not disclose compensation expense. The closest it comes to that is its "selling, general and administrative" expense figure. This is about $128,000 per employee but, to be clear, it includes more than just compensation and so is only a ceiling.

This article is wrong-headed in other ways too. The author attributes Apple's higher return on capital to the fact that it makes things. That has nothing to do with it. GM makes things and where did that get GM? Google doesn't make things but it has a very nice return on capital.
Now that I've actually seen the ad -- no, it didn't insult you any more than the Mac vs. PC ads "insult" the PC user. If you take knocks on Apple products as some sort of personal insult, you might want to step back and take a couple deep breaths.
As a syadmin, having been swallowed by AOL I know that this man speaks truth.
It's a lot easier to fire a contractor and replace them with a better contractor than it is to change an entire mode of thinking and operations within a branch of government.
That's completely untrue :P

You're assuming that there is some supreme Rendering Engine which maps code to a single canonical output. In reality, every browser renders things slightly differently and a malicious script would take advantage of that (while rendering things "normally" for the scanner). See also: cloaking (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cloaking&oldid...)
Pretty sure he'd find a job in the ECO industry, where they use recycled components and materials to produce housing and solve real world problems.

I could see that person thrive in that industry.

Sometimes it's about being in the right place at the right time...
Well, that depends on your point of view. My personal opinion is that such a system would give people a false sense of security (since we know it's impossible for such a system to detect all malicious content) and would cause "script kiddies" a few minutes of annoyance as they make the tiny tweaks necessary to evade the filter. It would also drain development effort away from the main Wordpress system.
Actually the New Yorker article has this sentence which is ignored by tuaw:

Another Web site, Salary List, quotes a substantially higher figure—$107,719—but that doesn’t appear to include people working at Apple’s more than three hundred retail stores.

And this disclaimer at the top:

One word of warning, though. What follows should be considered a process of me thinking out loud, and pointing out some things that strike me, rather than reaching any definitive conclusions.

And, oh yeah, it doesn't have a misleading link-bait headline either. There's actually nothing at all embarrassing about the New Yorker article. Tuaw just pulled a quote out of context and turned it into an inane blog post.
This question is asked at least once per two weeks here. You can look into search and find all the previous posts.
Yeah, or "Harvard Professor finds title of 'Guy who knows Mark Zuckerberg' more prestigious than title of 'Harvard Professor.'"
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…why is a resume on hacker news?
"with great power comes great responsibility" is an idea that applies to the WordPress development team too. "Great power" is not how I would describe some random blogger who wants to start a blog about their dog. "Great Power" might be more applicable to Automattic. Certainly, if they want to leverage WordPress commercially, they have large responsibilities.
Oh thanks, I didn't know about it!

The facebook layout is getting me more likes and comments, believe it or not.
Wow, great reading that as a little historical piece. I was about 7 when that article was written, so I'm pretty sure I missed it when it was first published. The thing that strikes me is that I have always thought of Jobs as a guy who exudes confidence. But in this interview he is pretty broken. He seems happy with himself, but you can sense he is quite battered.

I think it's interesting that people from Steve's generation had Hewlett and Packard as role models. I'd venture to guess many people from my generation would have Steve and/or Bill Gates. Given what has happened to HP over the years and the current state of Microsoft, I wonder if Apple can really maintain the spirit of Steve after he is gone.
Social Search is not the answer (and why Larry is replacing Schmidt)