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Ugh, you shouldn't try writing an apology after not sleeping for days. Sleep on it first, always sleep on it. Talking about prosecution and explaining this with a framing that it was all a fluke caused by the only person who was silly enough to IM you with a confession... add one more person who will never be a customer of yours with an apology like that. Now I know you're irresponsible.

Seriously don't write official blog posts for your company while you're experiencing "I was just in the field for days trying to fix this stuff" emotions.

Calm down, then try and be graceful about the fact that you were hacked by a few clueless kids. (Clueful kids don't let you know who they are.) Then try and figure out how to protect yourself against people with a clue.
They backported the Python 2.7 unittest module to Python 2.4 and included it in Django? It is getting enterprisey. Maybe with Django 2.0 they will ship their own Python version?
I wonder if Google gets a cake too...
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3-4 beers in, that's when I actually get creative and make interesting stuff.

Programming ability UP, debugging ability waaay down though :-|

I spit out 3 pages of amazing jquery that turns a <div /> into an organism, but I was totally axed by a rogue semicolon somewhere in the middle.
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Am I right in that Bitcoin isn't backed by computational complexity; but, instead the continued ability for machines on the network to communicate with one-another?
Only if you're extremely confident adequate testing is in place – in any form, be it unit, smoke, user or whatever – to catch any potential regressions. Using version control does you no good if you don't catch the regression and roll back before customers are affected.
Sooooo.. why keep it a secret until the patch? And why not disclose the targets? If the attacker already has the bogus certs then the damage is done.. or is it?
Maybe Carmen Sandiego is driving.

Perhaps with Waldo as navigator?
there is a cool thing called ruby koans on github which teaches you ruby: https://github.com/edgecase/ruby_koans
I gather from this that Sprint shares towers with Verizon and AT&T, in some cases? I presume the backhaul costs he's complaining about would be on shared towers rather than Sprint-owned towers?
If you can implement a bitcoin clone without the computational load, it will be a revolution. But this is the best we've found so far: it secures the network, records the transactions and does the initial distribution of coins.
Bitcoin needs a problem (any problem) that is computationally difficult to solve in order to be able to offer certain security guarantees. This arbitrary problem was chosen by its designer:

For a given target T, find X such as SHA256(SHA256(X)) < T

It is correct that in and of itself this computation is useless. But exactly like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash it is vital for it to be difficult to solve. In fact the whole network adjusts T dynamically to keep up with the fantastic exponential hash rate growth of the network these last 13 months: http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=49
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Yes. Note that solving the problems is useful to the whole network: it records transactions and secures the network.
Like someone mentioned, I don't want to increase my competition, so I'm not going to get into the details, but I'll say that I started doing consulting after work in 2007 to bootstrap my own project. I had absolutely no business background.

In 2008 I spent $7000 that I had made off consulting and 8 months of my free time to build my first project. It was a miserable failure. I've made about $80 off of it, so I'm still down about $6920... 3 years later.

In 2009 I built my second attempt. This time I spent about $1000 building it and it took me about 4 months to build it. I've made about $150 off that one, so I still lost money, but much less than the first time.

In 2010 I made my third attempt. This one I built at no cost, and 2 weeks of my free time. To date this one has made over $20,000.

I'm now in the 5th year since I first started on this journey and for the first time, I wrote myself a profit check last month.

Hang in there. You'll figure it out if you keep trying.
In IE9 h/w acceleration and Direct Write are controlled by the document's rendering mode. Hacker News renders in quirks modes and thus uses GDI. Try forcing the document to render in IE9 mode (open the F12 developer tools, hit Alt-9) and the text will look much closer to Firefox 4's. The page layout will also break a bit.
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And that could be increased indefinitely if the need arises.
it's funny. it has an element of truth to it one can recognize if you live long enough. HN is mostly male and the software development profession is overwhelmingly male. no harm, no foul. plus I'm sure there are jokes women can make about men which are also based around a core of truth. no worries. :)
If you consider blogging to be a side project, I do make a small amount as passive income. It definitely doesn't compare with web apps or services in terms of coolness, but money is money, right?
FYI Aza is Aza Raskin, formerly the Creative Lead for Firefox. He has a background (and DNA; his father is human-computer interface expert Jef Raskin) in user interface design.
You seem to be implying that since PHPFog should have defending against this, that what the teenagers did is perfectly acceptable.
There is that, but it's a mix. Convore was built mostly in the three months of YC, and they launched early too.
My first recommendation as your pro-bono interim CTO: edit the meta description tag on http://cinecandy.com so it doesn't say "Capture email addresses with this coming soon template. Suitable for companies in a beta or pre-launch phase or anyone wanting to build an email list around an upcoming site or product/service," because that's what's showing up in the first result at http://www.google.com/search?q=cinecandy
Don't use them. Makefiles are fine. So far i haven't seen the need for configure magic. On the other hand, i do not work on software, which needs to compile on archaic AIX systems.

For a Win/OS X/Linux portable build, a Makefile should suffice. Example: https://github.com/MatzeB/cparser/blob/master/Makefile
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> They backported the Python 2.7 unittest module to Python 2.4

No, unittest2 is a project by unittest's own maintainer (Michael Foord): http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/unittest2.shtml

> and included it in Django?

A good thing, short of depending on unittest2 itself (I don't believe Django "accepts" to depend on third-party projects as it's supposed to be self-contained).

unittest2 is a really big improvement over the old unittest, there are new (and better) assertions, improved comparisons (which diff containers on mismatches for instance, and the equality assertions are pluggable), improved fixtures (class and module-level setup and teardown), improved cleanups (separate from teardowns), autodiscovery has finally been included and is pluggable (you can override it for your modules), etc...

Because Django 1.2 has its own layer on top of unittest (to do basic setup and fixtures loading for the developer and integrate with management commands for instance), using unittest2 with it is a pain.

I, for one, am very happy with this development.

> It is getting enterprisey.

Because they bundle a preexisting library instead of developing yet-another-unit-testing-library?
All of them. Yuri Milner style. Diversifying your investments in YC's portfolio would be better than an index fund, I guess.
This is a paraphrase of the advice that Martin Fowler gave in the book 'Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code'. Kind of a shame no one mentioned that, but then it's been ten years.
Though I agree it's quite unpythonic, there's precedent for this practice in the history of Django. Simplejson has been bundled with Django for a long time (at least as far back as 1.0).

Just like with unittest2, it would check for Python 2.6+, and use its json library if available, then check if simplejson is already available on the pythonpath, and if that failed, only then use the bundled version.

The justification for this is that Django has a policy of not requiring external libraries, and that the new conveniences offered by unittest2 are too awesome to ignore.
Not directly, the word itself is derived from Czech. Biorobot in particular is a sci-fi cliche, which, with official stressing on TV that robots are also involved in clean-up, made the joke.
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How about a Hacker News clone, powered with bitcoins?

With witcoin, you earn money every time someone votes or replies to your post.

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My understanding is that this is all caused by an unsecured failover server. Hopefully, we get a bit more details of how this came to be and learn what they intend to do with future server deployments.
Ireland, where I grew up, has public education but also a pretty free school choice system. I think it's better than the US approach, but it's not a magic bullet.

Retail competition works well because there isn't a huge cost involved with trying out or switching to a competing supplier. Switching schools is a big disruption for everyone involved, and a market that can't clear in the normal economic way, same as healthcare/insurance. So while I'm supportive of your idea, it's only part of a broader approach to reform.
No wonder Firefox is planning to move to a shorter release cycle!
IMO, in this sort of business it is important to define the right MVP.
I still think it's funny how they brand the cake with their own IE logo. It's like sending a picture of yourself as a birthday card.
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Any advice on what changed through time? More focused attempts, better grasp of the demand, or just more productive programming?
Does the FF team reciprocate?
> The various bits generated from and added by the autotools shouldn't be committed. autoreconf -i works really well these days. That's INSTALL Makefile.in aclocal.m4 compile config.guess config.h.in config.sub configure depcomp install-sh ltmain.sh missing mkinstalldirs.

This is a matter of opinion. When you have dependencies which rely on specialist tools, it is a good idea (and accepted practice, though this obviously could be argued), to commit your generated files too. This means that the files don't change depending on the version of autoconf/bison/etc that's installed on a user's machine.

As I recall, years ago some folks wrote up all these "version control best practices" for some conference, and this was one of the "rules". But it's common sense too - autotools is deep enough magic that most people won't know to run bootstrap.sh, or autoreconf -i, or whatever.

(Ironically, google code doesn't agree with this, and won't let you trim generated code like this from the diffs they send. See http://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=197).)
But is the cake standards compliant?
Search hard enough, and his phone number/address is available if you're really like to.

However, I won't post them here. That would be irresponsible disclosure. ;)
Running 3.latest forever, I keep 4 months and it's as snappy as anything for what I use it for. I can get to the top 5 of my visited sites ordered by number of visits for each letter of the alphabet in one or two characters. While the history sidebar is exceedingly slow in doing searches, the address bar MRU is what they have nailed.
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I have left my previous startup because of a reddit post, and some other complications. I have higher hopes for this project (not startup yet :) )
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As long as you are the only person usually working on the affected parts, sure. Just go ahead.

But if multiple people are working with this component or are calling it (in case you want to fix a broken interface), I think some discussion with your fellow team members would be in order as they will have to adapt to whatever you produce.

I agree on the general sentiment of not telling the boss though: It's hard to make non-programmers understand the burden that is ugly code. They think in features and whether something is "visible for the customer" (if it isn't, then it might as well not exist).

Such an attitude can lead you to having to make a decision when implementing a feature: "Oh - this code here is really shitty. I could now a) clean this up and cleanly add the feature or b) just hack the feature in somehow, maybe breaking encapsulation a bit more"

Bosses and people concerned about their free time think b), I tend to think a).

The problem with b) is that you get to your goal much more quickly (which the feature-oriented people like as it makes you seem more productive), but you are incurring dept. Now the bad code just got worse until at one point, something really breaks badly and then you WILL have to pay the price for cleaning up. This might very well be at a time where you are pressed by some deadline which means a lot of after-hours work for you.

Then again, in a team, the might or might not be you that has to clean up (you certainly hope it isn't you).

So doing it the quick route isn't just irresponsible to the project, it's also irresponsible to your team mates because they might be the unlucky ones the bad code breaks over.

So if possible, try to take those extra hours to do it the clean way. The product as a whole will get better and your team mates will not be pissed if they have to clean up your mess.
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In addition to money, it's also likely a focused audience that could be diverted into other potential monetisation vectors you come up with. Ideas are the easy part, getting traffic to them is the hard part.
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I think an important lesson here is that none of those people are in official death toll of the incident. They died long enough after the incident to not be considered radiaton-induced deaths by WHO standard. Yet the fact that only one of the crew lived to their 50s certainly poses some statistical significance, one that authorities are inclined to overlook.

Think about it next time you read that Chernobyl had only 40 victims and that's it.
Yeah, I was really pleased to see that they've taken that concept and turned it in to a real, tested, documented feature.
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Just installed it on my netbook with Ubuntu Netbook Remix 10.04.

Motherfucking beautiful, guys, it feels like Christmas morning. Great work, keep it up. (And I'm so stoked the Vimperator plugin works on launch, kudos to that team too!).

Just working out the best way to install it side-by-side with 3.6 on my workstation, which I'll need to keep a while for web dev testing.
I was able to get great connection speeds in San Diego with Time Warner for a little less than $60 a month - if you upgrade to their turbo package just make sure that they give you a compatible router; I spent five months paying for the better service without being able to access it because they didn't upgrade the hardware.
"the problem is this, nuclear power is being put up to a far higher standard than any other power source because of irrational fears"

That's probably correct. The question is, why? Perhaps it's because it is so much more difficult to understand. When a dam breaks or when parts of an oil refinery explode, the result may be catastrophic but at least we can understand what is happening, on an intuitive level. When something goes wrong with a nuclear reactor, it is so far removed from anything in our everyday world that it's difficult to understand on that same intuitive level. If something is on fire then we can see and hear it and we can use our experiences of other things being on fire to understand it. If something is radioactive then neither of the above apply.

So perhaps there is something about nuclear that makes it uniquely frightening (even if those fears are irrational). Unless everyone studies nuclear physics, those fears aren't likely to go away any time soon.
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I've been programming for a long time, so I don't think it had anything to do with productive programming. In fact, each attempt was less work than the previous.

The thing that I didn't understand is that being successful in business has very little to do with having an original idea. You're much better off just looking at how other people are making money and becoming their competitor or improving upon what they are doing. 99% of successful businesses work this way. This may seem obvious to a lot of people, but I kept spinning my wheels trying to invent something instead of doing market research and building something that I know people need or want.
For the knee-jerk downmodders, I'd like to repeat that I'm on the fence here: Wait for the chapter to be finished before claiming win or loss.
_It appeals a lot to technogeeks who happens to also be libertarians, people who worries about economic policies of governments, and so on._

I fit that description and agree that private currencies such as Bitcoin would be awesome, but aren't there laws in place to secure the government's monopoly on money? ( http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul619.html )

Does Bitcoin circumvent these laws by being completely virtual?
It's probably for the "only crappier". Makes you sound like an annoying Digg refugee. Read the guidelines at the bottom of HN, it covers both tone/language and complaining about getting downvoted.
Mostly when we do this, it's because there's a really useful/helpful stdlib module that wasn't standard for one of the older Python versions we support. We check first to see if you have the stdlib version (or in some cases a third-party distribution of it), then fall back to our bundled copy.

In many cases we've had direct help from the maintainers of the stdlib modules in doing this, so saying that "we" backported it isn't particularly accurate.

(the big exception to all this was PyDispatcher, which we originally included verbatim, then essentially ended up forking to suit our needs, to the point where I don't think it's really the same library anymore)

We also do some similar but smaller-scale things to smooth issues in older Pythons or to enhance standard language features (for example, we monkeypatch Python 2.4's copy module, and ship our own implementation of parts of os.path to handle Unicode properly). Poke around in django/utils for the sordid history of all the stuff we've worked around in this manner.
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I didn't even make it through the headline before being concerned... particularly the part saying "Why it Will Never Happen Again".

I mean, yes, by all means implement measures to avoid this sort of thing from happening in the future but "It Will Never Happen Again" is a very, very bold statement on security. The kind I associate with people who still don't really "get it".
Okay that makes sense, thanks for the clarification.
Sorry, bad terminology: release of large quantities of radioactive materials. The pro-nuclear side were talking about how safe the plant was and how there had been no release of radioactive materials - and then there was such material released.
I wish more companies would do something like this. Honestly, IE9 and all the surrounding tech media is really leaving an awesome impression on me. Gestures like this prove that the IE team wants to take part in a modern internet world much more than any standard compliance chart ever could.

On a side note, I found Office 2010/2011, IE9 and Windows 7 a joy to use. And this is in stark contrast to Office 2003/2008, IE8 or Vista. Some things seem to be changing in Redmond!
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Autoconf generates makefiles and such which make assertions about the current state of the machine it ran on. Running a build using those those generated files out on a different machine (or the same machine in the future!) would seem to be defying reality. I think you have to accept that your build isn't deterministic unless you ensure your build has no dependencies except on tool binaries you check in right along with the code.
Congratulations to all the team,
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Other?
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Come on now. Surely resuming a partial download is a solved problem in this day and age?
I really don't know how good the "offensive to large groups of people" standard is. If there were a Qur'an app, might not a large group of (racist, xenophobic) people find the idea of a book dictated by an angel to be offensive? Fortunately, Apple is a corporation and need not concern itself with being as exactingly fair as the federal government.
Firefox 4 has a clear lead over all the other browsers in HTML5 support and javascript performance. It is the best release on the market for HTML5 gaming.
Apple's touchpads, although I'm still getting used to its Magic Trackpad. Probably there are other good notebook touch pads somewhere, but I have found none so far.
"Considering the way they drove Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox into near oblivion with devious practices, this seems a lot like sending a valentine’s day card to your rape victim, every year." - from the comments on the original article.

But seriously, it's a nice gesture from Microsoft, it goes to show that there are many different people working there and that we can't judge them as a whole.
Hey thanks! I'll fix that. Honestly I haven't done any work on the app or site since last summer. I had some pretty good adoption at first, but usage really fell off because, well, it wasn't providing enough value. Then I had a baby and my time suddenly became a lot more scarce/valuable.
Maybe I'm in a particularly bad mood, but this was a lot cuter the first time. I hate IE so much that maybe I've become sensitive to everything they do (at least I admit that might be the case).

It feel condescending to me, especially in light of the many public embarrassment that FF has caused IE (cheating benchmarks for example) and given that if anyone deserves to get something for actually shipping it's the IE team.

To me this is like the owner of a used car company sending a cake to the president of Toyota for being the #1 car manufacturer.
More to the point, apple would never have approved the sceptics annotated bible.
Any technology that makes awful natural disasters worse, is not a technology I want to have around.

Also, a technology that makes it impossible for humans to be close to it in event of failure, is a bad idea.