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I'm not assessing anyone's character. Just observing a guy take repeated potshots at AngelList/entrepreneurs and wonder why he's getting pitched crap. The blog speaks for itself. If you're his friend maybe you should stage an intervention and take away his keyboard for a week.
It was made in 1996: http://replay.waybackmachine.org/19961225213604/http://playg...
??? My macbook pro has distinct left- and right-click regions on the touch pad. It was still hard to do though without a mouse.

The easiest way I found was to just move the cursor where you want the ball to go, then right click. Repeat.
Ask HN: What's the best way to do COMET in PHP?
What technologies would you use to create a COMET application, that scales well, in PHP?
TSA to retest airport body scanners for radiation
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Good tip! The problem-solution framework is a classic obviously but I will give you all the credit because I wasn't really thinking about it in this context! Thanks.
I'm actually overjoyed to be living in a world where companies like Rackspace and Amazon are possible, it still blows my mind that I can rent a hundred machine cluster for $10 an hour.

I wrote up the article at the end of a long and frustrating day, and looking back on it, the tone's all wrong. I still stand by the content, but it needs way more context and the equivalent of smileys surrounding it.
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Missing the point. Apple doesn't and can't control web apps that are outside the App Store. They can control what goes into the App Store. Preventing web apps from performing on par with native apps will discourage development outside their controlled app store. I'm not saying that Apple is doing this, just that the conspiracy theory does make sense and even has prior art (see Microsoft and IE6)
not reality - since they changed sides of the bed from the start to the end of the commercial - totally unrealistic.
Ask HN: What does the possible meltdown mean for people living in Tokyo?
I know a lot of cats on HN are pretty educated on a whole range of topics. I live in Tokyo, and have come to realize I know next to nothing about how this could play out. Throwing it out there for anyone that has the education to answer and has been following the latest reports.

Also a shoutout to http://twitter.com/timeouttokyo/ for doing an amazing job keeping everyone in the know as stories develop.
Problems for a second nuclear reactor in Japan
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Re: Google's remote "kill switch" saving the day against DroidDream.

All the kill switch did was remove the horse after the soldiers had already jumped out. But Google got super lucky and was able to also fool these particular soldiers to commit suicide.

On Android phones /system is read only. To make changes there you have to get root--then you can remount /system read-write and make modifications there. DroidDream did that and installed a root shell in /system/bin/profile. To remove the infection, Google used DroidDream's own root shell.

Now imagine DroidDream's /system/bin/profile didn't just accept any old command directed at it by just anybody (perhaps simply using public key cryptography). Could Google have removed from a non-rooted phone?
Donate blood, donate money.

Narita isn't even running flights and transportation out to that area is untenable at best, foolhardy at worst.
I always find it interesting when people say "music is just like math!" and then proceed simply to assign numbers to a scale like that. The relationship between C-D-E-F on a scale is nowhere close to 1-2-3-4. The stuff always ends up sounding like this, which is OK but it still bugs me.
I like this trend. As a developer, I always try to spend all time on tech stuff, not on overhead of management of big company. Of course, I don't want to work OVER TIME.
Even then, people's estimates of danger are crazy. A nuclear accident is far less likely to kill you than any number of other things that are outside your control. A drunk driver running into you, for example, or a natural gas explosion.
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Right, and does Apple allow alternate web browsers? Last I knew they disapproved anything that competed with an iPhone built-in app, like Google Voice, which duplicated phone functionality.
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I support your statement.

Read up on the author too. He was voted bigot of the year last year and has a cred. I am not sure why this even got attention in this place.
I do agree with this quote from the article: "it is in the interest of the conference and contest organizers, and the participating researchers, to get publicity for their findings - and journalists, who do not necessarily have a holistic view of the day-to-day browser security research, embrace such high-profile developments with disproportionate enthusiasm."

I always hate reading reports from Pwn2Own every year - "browser y was exploited in less than x seconds!!11!" As the article points out, not only is this very misleading (you might say downright false), this kind of sensationalist journalism trickles down and misinforms the general public about the state of browser security.
I don't know what's going on in that powerplant but this article is alarmist. One of the reasons you know is the only expert they could find to support their claims is a blogger (http://theenergycollective.com/peterbradford/53418/fmr-nrc-c... ) who worked for the US nuclear regulatory commission in the 80s and who's on record as being against nuclear power.

Also they quote Yukio Edano as saying it's "highly possible" there was a meltdown. What he actually said was in response to a question asking if a meltdown could occur. His response was...

"it's highly possible.Because it’s inside the reactor, we cannot directly check it but we are taking measures on the assumption of the possible partial meltdown"

To me his actual response doesn't match how the post used it
Can't be security. From what I understood Web apps work in the browser but when bookmarked as home-screen icons, they don't use the new js engine (even though it's still running in Safari)

Benign explanation: some bug in safari

Tin foil hat explanation: Apple doesn't want web apps to be as good as native apps. This explanation kind of falls apart when you ask why they would bother boosting the js engine at all.
It creates a powerful incentive not to disclose vulnerabilities within a large window of time preceding CanSecWest (disclose now: $0; disclose in March: $15,000), and it creates false perceptions about the relative security of browsers and about security in general.

The argument against Pwn2Own is pretty straightforward.

Incidentally, switching from IE for security is tricky. There are some (v. popular) browsers you could switch from IE to that (the C.W. says) would make you more secure; others, less. The IE family has a lot of problems, but "owned by people who don't give a shit about security" isn't one of them.
Which is "this country"? I'm confused. Also, why are you certain this will end "very badly"?
I don't imagine Topolsky will stray far from his existing career. He has a very visible position that people tend not to relinquish lightly. How many other bloggers are able to command guest slots on late night talk shows?
There are so many exploits developed every year. How can it matter very much if I disclose mine? Someone else will, I'm sure. They're all running the same JS fuzzer farms, after all. Who cares if Latvian organized crime gangs find it first? Someone good will find it eventually. Or at least reverse it out of the rootkits.

The problem isn't simply that the procedure is different. It's that the procedure is clearly, obviously, demonstrably sub-optimal. The Chrome bug-bounty, which Zalewski is surely involved with, runs year-round. The incentive is, you find something, you file it with them ASAP before someone else does. The same is not the case with CanSec's Pwn2Own, where, for no reason other than marketing for ZDI and CanSec, disclosure happens at one precise time during the year.
Because it isn't certain that it is going to end badly. And because it is axiomatic that if it does there will be major repercussions on the power industry.

If it ends well, it might have positive repercussions-- "even in the worst case, these are still safe" will probably be the line.
They essentially sell the vulnerability at CanSec. In other words, if you find a vulnerability in November, and it's a good one, you might as well not tell anybody about it and take your shot at winning $15,000 and a press hit.

Speaking as a practitioner: we do not want for vehicles for media coverage. CanSec does not improve public understanding of vulnerability research. If anything, as Zalewski points out, it degrades it.
I don't get what the problem is.
The article is aimed at programmers without design skills. If you can teach them to create great designs instead of just half-way decent ones, write something up!
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I would prefer not to see HN real estate wasted on redundant answers that were already available in the linked articles. Answering questions that didn't need to be asked encourages laziness and hurts signal/noise.
I'm from Brooklyn and based my comment on that. Could be that you Manhattan natives are different, quite honestly I haven't met too many people that were born and raised in Manhattan.
Japan's fears of nuclear mayhem recede as nuclear reactor starts to cool
I think it's not particular to Britain but to Europe in general (Austrian resident of 6 years currently in Atlanta, Georgia).

Americans are just incredibly friendly compared to Europeans (at least on aggregates).
In america the physical proximity and touching thing man-to-man is usually a power move. Alpha-dog moves into your personal space and puts a hand on your shoulder to emphasize who's boss. Or sometimes it's just done to throw the other guy off kilter. Be careful with this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNKNAK60AXk&t=1m10s
It is very difficult to measure the quality of each manager on these eight effective habits in an objective manner.
What is the opinion of this group, about, google people rank algorithm(ratings from good performers carry higher weight and vice versa) to rate employees within the company.
One of the startling factual claims in the article is that there were times in the United States, and are now places in the world, where lawyers make little better compensation than schoolteachers. Really? I recall reading in the 1990s in a book about education policy in the United States that schoolteachers are more numerous than doctors, lawyers, scientists, and engineers COMBINED. If there are that many more schoolteachers than doctors and lawyers, it would be surprising for the schoolteachers to be as well paid. Kristof makes the interesting point that one way to get teachers more pay, which does seem to be borne out by international comparisons, is to allow good teachers who can handle that to teach larger classes. When my wife grew up in Taiwan, the typical elementary school class size was sixty pupils--an especially small class might be only fifty.
People get uncomfortable with nudity for reasons other than arousal, eg., feeling unsanitary, a sense of privacy with respect to physical features and grooming, etc.
Yeah, those registration fees and redirects are back breaking expenses.
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English is almost certainly not this official's native language. Miscommunication of technical matters/terms is common in these situations.
That's really very typical of every UK city. It's a product of the late night binge drinking culture here, people don't act like this when sober and in day to day situations.
Correct. Although the attacks at pwn2own are full exploits, not just vulnerabilities. For example, the attack against IE8 was three vulnerabilities. And each one in isolation I suspect was at least "Important", but it is possible that each in isolation may not have been "Critical". But by seeing them chained together in an actual exploit you (a) see that these vulnerabilities need to be fixed and (b) may find a new exploit technique that may not have been known by the vendors if a white hat hadn't gone through the effort to actually "weaponize".

And this is one of the big differences between white and black hats, which I'm sure you're aware of. White hats often find and patch vulnerabilities, but rarely develop full exploits. Black hats are all about full exploits. While intricately related, aren't equivalent.
It's funny, the internet was not really common until quite a bit after highschool for me. But I honestly don't really remember what people did for many common tasks before the internet. It's like that entire part of my memory was wiped clean by simple, quick and convenient access to global communication and LOLcats.
Twitter Blog: Support for Japan
Personally, I think Lisp is a fantastic language to write a scanner in; you can express async state machines in it naturally, and most Lisps have very good foreign interfaces, which would allow you to just call into libpcap. Lisp is also good for DSLs --- look how Seibel did the little expression language for binary formats in his Lisp book; that's exactly the problem statement that drove me to make my own dumb language in '97 to express packet formats.

Virtually any language will work for this (which is why you should avoid C). About the only thing I'd steer you clear of is a JVM language. The JVM is ordinarily a win, but here, where you want the path-of-least-resistance to getting pcap into your program, it's a bit of a pain. So scratch Scala from the list. Other than that, have fun.

But use Lisp. It's a great first Lisp project.
Note to self, when designing a future language, don't use impermanent and perishable domain names for namespaces.
If you don't know enough to have something of an idea what you don't know, then you don't know anything worth knowing.
this was a comment written by US scientist on CNN website, not scientific article.

I'm all for SI, but units of measurements do not matter as long as you know what you're talking about.
"(Enviros don't want to waste a crisis for their anti-science agenda)"

Let's reevaluate this in a few days. It's not looking good at this point. My experience is the opposite of yours, and it's to be highly skeptical of official statements right after a disaster.
Sorry, I kinda rushed that comment. Yeah, Rackspace is cheaper on the smaller scale / low end.
There is no browser vendor right now that isn't taking memory corruption vulnerabilities seriously. It isn't '99 anymore. We're not battling it out in the papers about "theoretical" vulnerabilities. When people report "possible code execution" without exploits, Microsoft sticks "possible code execution" in the MSRC alert.

Somebody out there who has had a bad experience with MSFT is going to shellack me for saying that, but "getting vendors to take bugs seriously" is a really, really flimsy argument for a program that bribes researchers to bottle up their findings.
It's a pleasure to see my writing on Hacker News. I freelanced for 5 years and highly recommend it to anyone trying to break into any industry. It gave me the freedom to learn though working then any one job would have. I would go back in a heart beat, except currently working with a great team at a finance company. I've got some great projects ahead of me that I want to do before I'd consider moving on. I'm also learning more then I've ever had to before and it's exhilarating.

This post was written mainly for my brother and a few friends who are currently freelancing (web designers, graphics designers, and computer technicians) here in New York City.
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I think the suggestion is that this represents a pretty 'worst case' scenario-- an old reactor of obsolete design that is dramatically less safe than many modern designs (at least as I understand it)and one of the worst earthquakes on record. If the "no fallout" situation does occur, it seems like a pretty powerful argument on the "pro-nuclear power" side of the debate.

And no, I don't suspect the anti nuclear crowd will buy it at all.
IIRC, the jailbreakme.com exploit relied on a flaw in libtiff.
> Japanese reactors do not use feet or retarded Fahrenheit scale.

If they are designed by an American company (in this case GE) in the 1960s, maybe they do...
Only because I can't upvote more than once, have to say I bust out laughing at this one.
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the worry is when the container is compromised
0426: Japanese government spokesman Yukio Edano says radioactive meltdowns may have occurred in two reactors at the plant - AFP. via BBC
Thanks for the feedback guys.

@apedley - Demo video on the way, being that we're still in stealth mode, cannot release too much details. But I assure you that it'll be completely different from any existing dating services.

@media - That's a good tip, I'll do that. Although it'll have to be when we get closer to launching Beta.
One of the first programs I ever wrote did basically this--took an expansion of pi and made midi files out of it. It took a scale parameter, so you could give it a minor or major key (or any of the modes). I found it interesting to listen to because my ear naturally looked for patterns, and occasionally found one only to have it ruined by the next bar.
I can add that once we get the server back to a reasonable speed.
> there is less belief in magic here than in the States.

Not quite so sure about that. Japan has spent trillions on idiotic keynesian construction stimulus for over 15 years. Only one round of that has Americans up in arms.
wow, what a flamebait article...
Good concept, except the webpage loads very slowly for me.
It's not a bad idea as far as conventions go. It makes it fairly easy for nearly anybody to distribute interoperable software without having to either register with Sun/Oracle for some sort of key or to deal with the possibility of collisions. I think it's a pretty smart decision to piggyback atop an already extant naming system. Further, it's just a convention - there's nothing in the language design that requires that packages use your own domain names or even domain names at all.

There are plenty of legitimate gripes to have with Java, but I'm not sure that their namespacing decision is one of them.
This is a loss for AOL. There are a few reviews which you really look out for, and Topolsky's was always one of them.
It's disturbing even at a subconscious level. I left two windows open, creating a cross breeze, and a brief gust at 2am days after the quake caused my window blinds to rattle. I awoke from a deep, deep sleep with all the hair standing up on my body and the proverbial "colon turned to water" feeling of stark terror.

There is very little fear like it.
I was very surprised when I read up on Three Mile Island to find that the failure didn't actually result in any loss of life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident

It seems that if Fukushima stays the third worst disaster we'll be in pretty good shape; Nobody was even killed at Three Mile Island. For some perspective, the San Bruno gas pipeline explosion killed eight people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_San_Bruno_pipeline_explosi...
[Reporting on] Pwn2own [stories] considered [inaccurate].

Terrible headline and approach to the subject, imo.
Ask HN: Good places to live/work in SoMA?
I'm looking to relocate with my startup team to SoMA from Boston starting this May/June.

I've been looking on Yelp, Craigslist, Rent.com, etc. to find some good and affordable places to house a team of 4.

I would like to be as close to the SoMA district as possible. For HN'ers who are in SF, any suggestions?
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The reporting isn't his only complaint. He's saying, bug bounties are better than contests. He's clearly right. "Imo".
I think it may be some time before Japan is fully back up and running, so their energy usage may be lower for a while.
Japón necesita de ti, tu donativo irá a Doctores sin fronteras.
I never understand why people get overly emotional about teacher salaries but not other public positions like fire, police, military, etc. While I empathize (my mother and 2 sisters are teachers), they do only work 9 months out of the year, and less than 40 hours per week. And teachers insist on remaining unionized, basically ensuring bad (non-criminal) teachers can't be fired once they get tenured after 2-3 years in most states. And the degree needed isn't difficult or technical to earn compared to laywers, doctors, engineers, etc. So I think their salaries at their current levels are justified.
Apple now taking Red Cross donations through iTunes for Japan relief fund
They're hardly new hardcore gamers, as anyone who's played Gin on Pogo.com in the last ten years knows.

In fact, they were 40 then; now they're 50!
I agree that speculation isn't the sole cause of the price increase in oil since there are other buyers besides speculators and the post's long quote from Matt Taibbi’s Griftopia acknowledges this. The quote gives facts to show the increase in speculative demand for oil was more or less equal to the increase in China's demand. If China makes up a substantial amount of the change in demand that drives up the price of oil then speculation does as well.

I agree with you about the effect of inflation and the post only covers 15 foods and oil in detail so an argument that speculation is the sole cause of price increases would be false. An argument that speculation is a driver in the prices of all commodities would be an extrapolation that requires more evidence. However, breakthroughs in drilling for natural gas gives a reason for natural gas to be an exception, not for all commodities to be devoid of speculation's influence.
We could pay teachers more if they removed Tenure and Teachers that don't preform. In what other industry does it pay you for not preforming. I am tired of thinking you need to throw more money at the problem. You need to remove the biggest problem. Those that don't preform. If you remove the teachers that don't preform, not only would you have more money, but have better preforming students. I am tired of this overall. Its not a money thing. Its a Union thing. Wisconsin is right to remove the gross weight behind union negotiations.
White and East Asian countries can afford building codes. Indonesians and Africans cannot. That's the missing point here.

In the context of 2nd/3rd world nations the point about strict codes being unfordable is reasonable.
n00b question here, but I installed it with npm and I'm trying to run the chat sample, but node says it can't find ../lib/nowServerLib.js

I'm still trying to figure out node so pardon my ignorance, but am I supposed to run this from a specific location? anyway, the project looks pretty cool, looking forward to playing with it.
Sometimes I'm ashamed for my countrymen (Japan earthquake/Pearl Harbor morons)
Teachers do not work less than 40 hours per week. A ton of time is spent on grading, prep, helping slow students, school meetings, complying with NCLB requirements, etc.