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In any thread that reaches this length, issues arise that somewhat depart from the original subject. I appreciate your effort to re-focus the conversation on its point of origin, but after so many comments have been written "the discussion at hand" inevitably drifts.
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As long as the system doesn't make extravagant claims there shouldn't be a problem. A message on each page of the scanner like "This is only a precautionary measure that checks for known exploits; there can still be malicious code in any third-party code. Only use themes or plugins from sources you know to be safe." should not give a false sense of security, but can still help things.

Anti-virus and anti-spam applications can never be 100% effective either, but we use those because they're useful on occasions where they do work. Should we give those up altogether because, since the virus writers merely have to look up circumvention techniques, it's a waste of programmer time?
You never asked a single question during any of your college courses? Really.
That was uncalled for I think. It's not even remotely humoristic and if it was not meant as humor then this comment is probably a new low for HN.

The bit where he writes in this letter about wanting to raise her with his children to me clearly indicates the man is out of his mind, far more than his crazy plan of resurrecting her does (and as if murdering your wife isn't indication enough in that direction). I don't see any evidence that Reiser wants to kill his wife again but I do think that when he has served his sentence and is released that he probably should be placed in a hospital of sorts.

Of course his plan doesn't stand a snowballs chance in hell of working in the first place, clearly he has lost whatever marbles he still had.

Involving the kids in his minds view of this scheme is particularly painful, I think they'll need all the healing they can get without this sort of weirdness, they've been scarred for life already.
Because this man has a unique and wonderful array of talents.
I can just see the Onion article now...
You're right of course, but again, the scanner would not go after sophisticated or complex attacks, but naive attacks implemented by posers.

It's just a matter of time before everything we currently consider "secure" is cracked; I reckon that eventually they'll have computers that can bruteforce 2048-bit encryption keys (and I've seen all of the theoretical calculations about the computing power needed to do that, so we don't need to repeat that here) in a day or less. That doesn't mean we shouldn't make the best of what we have at our disposal, whether that's encryption or detection techniques to catch at least some bad guys.
That was pretty much the point of my comment. Non-classified companies get that status because of their corporate structure. The hypothetical company that I referenced would be structured such that being classified would be impossible.
And they do so, in the form of Wordpress.com. If what you want is a blog about your dog, you can have it for free with Wordpress software that you never have to manage the code for or pay for. I have a number of friends who use it and they couldn't be happier. In fact, there are plenty of other SaaS vendors out there who are equally happy to provide you with a place to write about your dog.

On the other hand, if you're running your own web application, you're responsible for it, just the same way you're responsible for your computer. As I said, I don't blame Microsoft if I download random software and that software does malicious things. Similarly, I don't blame Wordpress or Automattic if I download a random theme and it contains malicious code.
Here's a nice, short article which has evidence for the existence of a spriritual dimension: http://christianthinktank.com/eyesopen.html
Huh? Wordpress is just fine (well, fine enough..), it's the themes from shady 3rd party websites that are the issue being talked about here.
Right, I tried to make it clear that our current system is broken... the for-profit corporation approach absolutely can work with transparency.
Guess what programming language grew most in popularity in 2010?
No need to guess because so many colleges and businesses are doing online learning successfully today -- it looks a lot like the Web.

Online learning isn't waiting for some technological innovation -- it's a matter of connecting people who want to learn with other people who can help them get to where they want to go.
> The evidence against him was circumstantial.

The evidence was actually pretty good. Yes, there was no body which makes it circumstantial but the total body of evidence was such that it would have been very surprising if he had walked. Car seats don't go 'missing' just like that, cars don't suddenly get flooded and large bloodstains do not suddenly appear, and definitely not all around the moment when a person suddenly disappears.

Most explanations of these circumstances would stretch credulity considerably.
Its all tongue-in-cheek ... get it now?
Everybody relax.
Tell HN: Don't waste your time watching this like I did. It's a two-minute video with a sexy headline and no insight.

Can anyone recommend a few useful post-acquisition interviews? Thanks.
This is where I think the server distributions get a little bit ridiculous. It is really silly that everyone on Red Hat is still stuck on 2.4. I understand that keeping a certain set of software at the same version for a while can be useful for system administrators, but really it's time 2.4 bid us adieu.

I'd really like to see a somewhat tighter release cycle from Red Hat, or for people to stop caring about supporting Red Hat after a while. The whole ecosystem shouldn't be trapped because Red Hat's customers, many of whom still have FORTRAN and COBOL programs performing important business functions, don't like to upgrade.
Jersey shore season 3 episode 5  4 3
jersey shore season 3 episode 5 4 3 That takes unwavering pride-swallowing skills, especially when they realize that the name of the bag implies that there are enough dudes out there who wear suits — most likely sans shirt — to the gym to necessitate a bag designed specifically for this particular type of moron.
Jersey shore season 3,episode 5
Over at blekko, we leave in a few large but marginal sites like eHow, and let users kill them with their personal spam slashtags. For smaller spam websites, we can frequently use Adsense IDs to kill them in groups.
Fair enough, but it does seem to me that if it's entirely humerous, it's also entirely not worth writing, yet alone reading.
What is it?
An initiative to know the creators of the website.
A TXT file that contains the information about the different people who have contributed to the web building.

Robots.txt specifies a set of URLs that automated crawlers are not supposed to access. I'm not sure how this is "like robots.txt, but for humans".
Start the relationship authentically:

1) Beyond the capital infusion, is this investor capable of helping you in India or in the US within your specific domain? If not - ask yourself why you think he wants to invest so enthusiastically and reach out to a few other well known angels and see what their reaction is.

2) Be clear and honest about your expectations when it comes to the relationship. State what you expect and is fair. At worst you disagree and figure it out or have a falling out. Even that is a lesson because you WILL disagree on topics down the line, you might as well figure out true colors before you get hitched.
Well the blog post is much worse, but the $46,000 number is worthless if it's just the average of jobs with "apple" in the description, It really shouldn't be included for any reason in the New Yorker post.
What would make an interview "useful" in your opinion?
Why does http://humanstxt.org/H-team.php exist, surely they should just link straight to http://humanstxt.org/humans.txt!

Anyway, pointless initiative. Can't help but think that this feels like a project you create in the hope of getting attention from people saying writing blogs about them trying to start something new, not in the hope of it actually taking off. I mean, robots.txt makes sense because robots know to look for it. It obviously makes 100x more sense to have a hyperlink to an "about us" or "who's behind this site?" page with a URL of their choice, if it's designed for people to read. Oh, and many, many sites already do that.
Please don't use that to filter real email addresses. The author admitted he doesn't distinguish between addresses which are actually invalid and those he merely doesn't think are advisable to use, and it's not clear whether he even read the RFC 2822 grammar. At a glance, there's only one regex on the page that makes any effort to handle the valid address "Your Name"@example.com.
The problem with the 10x productivity thesis is that it measures things quantitatively.

In shops I've been at, I've been able to do things other workers couldn't, like create a recursive descent parser.

That situation, though, could make have ten different ramifications given ten different business situation. I could be 1000x times as productive since the other guy could do nothing or I could be equally as productive when there was something just as important the other guy could do. So the productivity tendency depends very finely on the business and the situation. Obviously, entrepreneurs would want to turn the things they can do that other can't into a business advantage but that depends on still other skills and circumstances.

Anyway, measuring productivity itself might be the thing that only one person a hundred can do, so even if there was a crazy disparity, who says it would come out in compensation.
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I just tested it out, and it much MUCH more easily fixes the problem that Terminal has with having the escape sequences be correctly mapped to the right action.

example: ^+left-arrow is easy to configure correctly!
I like the idea of giving the developers/designers/copywrites/whatever some credit, however, I doubt this is the way it should be done. Most web designers/developers/agencies already place a link in the website's footer so it's not that hard to know who was involved.
I have a real business idea and product. I have a huge network to market this to. I have 4 accounts on Twitter with over 1million people reach with a high level of influence. This is a catchy product so I can have a massive amount of people download it initially to start a huge trickle effect.

If everyone tells someone, its easier to sell a boat load of copies if you start out telling a million people instead of doing your own blogging/promo or having a decent size site post a press release about it.
That's interesting, because I also work as an artist/writer/programmer freelancer.

Though, I am not a mathematican.
Substance. Whatever that may involve, but it won't fit into a 2min video.
How many people does it take to put up a website promoting a txt-file addition to webroot? 5, apparently. Next up they'll take millions in VC, integrate with Facebook and write blog posts on it all. </sarcasm>

Somehow a balance should be kept between technology involved and ego show-off:

Static webpage: barely qualifies for even any credit.

Contains sign-up form: a minimal "About" page.

Asks for personal info: names and credible external links.

Charges you money: add photos of yourselves and references.

Etcetera.
Coincidentally, I just submitted a story to HN from another mathematician, artist and maker, which you might enjoy: http://vihart.com/blog/mobius-story/

It's an absolutely extraordinary video (watch closely!), and anyone who can create stuff like this will be able to do whatever they want. More background in this New York Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/18/science/18prof.html?_r=3
They just used the name because it sounds catchy/linkbaity.
I dont understand the negativity towards this product.

Qwiki service built into my xbox 360, internet connected TV and other internet/tv set top boxes would be a better search experience then what currently is found on Google TV and overall search on my TV doesnt exist yet. Also, qwiki in my car would be useful too!

Would i use qwiki over google on my laptop, desktop, smartphone or tablet ... no, but on things mentioned above i definitely would.
He is Matt Welsh, that's far more prestigious than anything else; harvard, google, etc.

He taught a generation of Linux users, then went on to invent what is essentially the bedrock architecture for decomposing complex event-drive systems.
I think this is an attempt to create a soopersekrit easter egg standard so that the guys who write a site can pat each other on the back without the customer needing to know about it.
I would second that, Vi Hart's work is wonderful. Though her father's work is also awesome: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/12/introducing_math_mo...
"The Innocence Project states that there have been 266 post conviction DNA exonerations in the US."

But were they really innocent?

DNA evidence can be misused in the courts:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727743.300-how-dna-e...
Fair enough.

But in their defense, neither of them were expecting to do this interview. Hermione was there (i/o ventures in SF) filming some other interviews, and Scott just happened to be in the building at the same time.
As per "Lazing loading", if I view the source code of the link. I see all javascript files are loaded right at the beginning of the page, which is not a good practice. js loading is blocking
I'll save you some time. This guy made a company that helps businesses with advertisements. Since Google sells ads he makes them a lot of money and they took notice and bought his company. In the future he plans to start more companies.

That's literally about all the information you'll get from the two minute video.
Do you whitelist the Javascript libraries? Who certifies them? Is having a base64 decode function available from the library a problem?

Do you scan the CSS for url() references outside of the domain?
Thanks for that link, it wasn't the most pleasant piece I've read in the last month but certainly one of the more interesting ones.

Especially the bits about the fact that it's not a disease per se but more of a natural variation and the fact that it occurs as much as 1% of the time are quite something to absorb.

The first implies that there is no cure, the second that you probably know at least a few of them, even if they're of the 'subclinical' (according to the article) variety.

I think I've worked for one.
>Mathematician, Artist, Maker,

Humanitarian, Philanthropist, Senatorial candidate, Backpacker, Engineer, Physicist, Rocketeer, Musketeer

Everybody is fucking amazing and

>looking for a job...

wants something
There is something like this for advertising the contact information for a site. It's called info.txt.

http://www.aota.net/forums/archive/index.php/t-18373.html

It looks like this (erroneously named robots.txt by this site owner): http://www.melodilerim.com/robots.txt
eh... the blonde was cute
3.6 doen't support transitions at all, correct. 4 supports transitions, including on ::before and ::after.
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I've been using this for a little while now. If you've checked the "Prompt for test-release updates" box in the advanced settings preferences you'll get to enjoy split panes. Press command-shift-d to open a new horizontal pane. It's really convenient and very well done.
I don't know. I've never been asked what my grades were in any professional situation. Ever. Not in engineering, not in business (post MBA), and certainly not as an entrepreneur. And I didn't have the luxury of going to a school where there was an excuse for my lackluster GPA. I think they're selling two things:

1. prestige
2. community
This interview lacks substance, but you can still learn from it if you read between the lines. A few takeaways:

-Google is investing continuously in the display ad marketplace
-A sure way to get acquired is to build relationships with businesses that want to give your potential acquirer money (see also Groupon)
-Unique technology(like their predictive algorithms) may be more important to an acquirer than market share
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Eventually you just come to the conclusion that you will never be paid adequately unless you start your own company. After all, why would a company hire you if you aren't a good investment.
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Literature term papers on Edgar Allan Poe are very common assignments which professors will assign. Writing a literature term paper on any person requires students to know which elements they should incorporate into the term paper. This article will help in this instance.
I'll admit I don't "get" internet TV beyond watching video on-demand. I have no first-hand experience with an internet connected TV, but the input devices must be just awful. I can barely stand searching for YouTube videos on my AppleTV.

As far as accessibility goes, the Wikipedia mobile web layout is awesome. It's a very slimmed down page where you can expand any section within the page, and functions very well on every mobile device I've ever tried.

And that brings up another point... when I want to read up on something, I'm coming in looking for a specific angle. One or two of those sections contain exactly what I'm looking for. No matter how great the computer voice is at reading the content, it's never going to automatically know what sections I'm most interested in.

So in summary: this is clumsy to navigate on devices most people don't care about (internet TVs?), slow and awkward on laptops, slower and more awkward on a mobile device, demands full attention to listen carefully for the piece of info you actually care about, and takes longer to actually deliver that info vs. skimming text on your own.

That's my opinion, anyway.
This is a fantastic read!
The third way and the need for imagination
I even have my own Laser cutter!

Me too. I was under the impression that a lot of geeks have such things. I've got a lathe, a mill and a box and pan brake as well. I'm working on my own RepRap.

I honestly don't know. Is this as common as I think or something actually worth bragging about?

I'd be curious to know how many other HN'ers have such things and just think its normal.
Oh, and this too:

http://www.quora.com/What-books-should-entrepreneurs-read
I found some of the offending code when I downloaded a free theme the other night.

It took me around 5 minutes to:

1) open footer.php
2) echo base64_decode('code')
3) take out all of the links and paste the rest of the code in the footer.

Problem solved.
Posting a link here would be a good start.
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Does part of the FCC conditions allow Bittorrent permanently? [0]

Startups could reduce distribution costs a lot this way.

[0] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Comcast#Netwo...
I can not follow what logic keeps you from blaming Microsoft for the security lapses in the Microsoft operating system. Of course they have cleaned up their act in recent years, but they had a solid 25 year run (both DOS and Windows) where they were absolutely notorious for poor security. They faced sharp criticism for the many flaws in their OS, and for the low priority that they gave to implementing something better. Do you want me to google some of the many articles on this theme? Here is one from a few thousand results that I could pick from:

http://sec-soapbox.blogspot.com/2007/03/why-is-windows-insec...

My criticism of the WordPress team follows the same logic as the criticism of Microsoft. Since Microsoft came up with an OS that had a lot of security flaws, it was reasonable for people to criticize Microsoft for those flaws. And since the WordPress team is producing software that also has flaws, it is reasonable to criticize the WordPress team for the flaws in the software they produce.
I like this, but I think that any site that implements it will have the same result Netscape did: http://www.jwz.org/doc/about.html
The usual practice is to buy an ex-IC (intelligence community) onto your company's board or an executive position purely for his connections.
Lots of investment banks used NeXT. First Chicago, Bank of America (earlier Nationsbanc, even earlier Chicago Research & Trade), Swiss Bank Corp, UBS, Merrill Lynch. Etc. Plus smaller shops like Soros.
There's also this[1] which is a great introduction to Swarm Intelligence and it's relationship to Evolutionary Computing, Genetic Programming, Genetic Algorithms, etc.

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-Morgan-Kaufmann-Evolution...

And anybody who's really into this stuff should probably poke around at:

http://www.swarm.org/index.php/Main_Page

and

http://santafe.edu/

as well.
Which countries match the GDP of Australia's states?
That we have police and courts at all assumes that people harm others without sufficient cause. Any argument that we need no external incentives for everyone involved in the justice system to do the right thing is an argument that we don't need the justice system in the first place.
I wish there were more people like Mister Rogers.

You can't help but feel better about the world after listening to this video.
You are my personal savior and Jesus Christ.

The pointed artistic personification of what I've been trying to tell this community.

Nothing but <3
New question & answer site for free stuff using OSQA
I'm an android fanboy, and I'm still having a hard time understanding the need for a tablet form factor without something similar to the now canceled windows courier interface....
Where were you people in the original bloody thread about qwiki? I got torn to friggin' shreds for expressing the same

>quite literally useless...less efficient...

notion!
I would encourage Maxwell to check out Chuck Hoberman for inspiration.. even get in touch with him.

Hoberman studied Sculpture at Cooper Union, and Engineering in Columbia.

He is the inventor of the Hoberman Sphere (an expanding geometrical structure) which he leveraged into a very successful line of toys.

NASA later commissioned him to adapt it to future Mars missions. And I think his work was shown once at the MOMA.

http://www.hoberman.com/

Edit: Turns out that a close friend knows Hoberman. I think your work is great and I'll be happy to attempt an introduction if you're interested. pitaru.com has my email at the bottom.
Ah, a tighter definition of "competitive with". That's fair. I've been around long enough that a VM image for $20/month is still a bit mindblowing when I think about it too much. :)
Oh, are we trying to make it easier for spambots to harvest our email addresses now?
Here is the 10x difference in pay:

"One recent Googler, we’ve confirmed, was recently offered a counter offer he couldn’t refuse (except he did). He was offered a 15% raise on his $150,000 mid level developer salary, quadruple the stock benefits and…wait for it…a $500,000 cash bonus to stay for a year. He took the Facebook offer anyway.

Sources close to Google tell us that about 80% of people stay when they’re offered a counter to a Facebook offer. But some still leave. Part of that may be that Facebook is quietly telling people, never in writing, that there’s no reason their stock won’t hit $100 billion in total valuation over the next couple of years. No guarantees, yadda yadda, but hey if you get 1/10 of 1%, that’s $100 million in stock. Now it’s a party."

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/01/google-making-extraordinary...

Actually, that is a lot more than a 10x difference. That is close to a 100x difference in pay, comparing that extraordinary programmer to what some random programmer working for Wells Fargo makes.
Nah. If they were paid more, they'd work even less.
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