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>When a teenager smashes in a storefront window, do we say they should've had bars over it?

Depends what's behind the storefront windows.

On the other hand I can certainly agree that we stop with the technology analogies before a car analogy is let loose and someone gets hurt.
In the "enterprise" environment, at least the ones I've worked in, this is definitely not the case. But it certainly should be!
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So safer, but not failsafe past 72 hours.

An incremental improvement, not a quantum leap.
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The major problem with your analogy is that storefront windows don't have hundred or thousands of bricks thrown at them everyday. Web hosts are basically under constant attack. Would you suggest that the CIA, NSA, etc. not worry too much about their computer security? If not, then I don't see why you would imply a web host shouldn't be expected to secure their servers as much as possible either.

If a storefront was under constant attack, then yes, they should have bars over it. In fact, in my hometown, there was a streak of vandalisms where kids were throwing bricks through windows. After getting hit 3 times, one store replaced their huge glass windows with smaller plexiglass ones.
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Downvotes because of phrasing? Here.

So called 'white hat hackers' tend to be fraudulent script kiddies who couldn't hack their way out of a gibs0n.

They often attend classes like this http://www.infosecinstitute.com/blog/ethical_hacking_compute... and read a book or two like this http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=hacking+exposed&.... Some times they'll even have a sweet certification like this https://www.eccouncil.org/certification/certified_ethical_ha....

And at the end of the day all they're doing is getting the down low on your system with nmap and then going all turbo with metasploit. And if they are feeling up to a challenge they might even rip someone's exploit from milw0rm.

99% of them are frauds and the other 1% are sellouts.
0.1 to 0.25% is normal. I'm an advisor to several startups and have equity in this range in the form of options. I advise a few startups without having an equity stake and don't mind that I don't have a stake. I find that most startups that do offer equity are doing it to make it official and so they can tell the investors they're courting rather than because they want to motivate their advisor. Often advisors are brought on board for the social proof rather than out of any strategic need.
You should probably mention why someone would choose this library over another compression library. I think good advice would be to use Snappy to compress data that is meant to be kept in memory, as Bigtable does with the underlying SSTables. If you are reading from disk, a slower algorithm with a better compression ratio is probably a better choice because the cost of the disk seek will dominate the cost of the compression algorithm.
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"... In order to read more like this you have to read the other 9 that are like that of the complaint ..."

Or choose a better source?
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Thanks for rephrasing. It really does make a difference. I actually got some value out of this comment, whereas from your previous comment I got none.
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I think you're missing the point of the analogy. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Victim_blaming&...
Absolutely. The effect rapidly turns to disaster after a certain BAC, though. My personal Ballmer's Peak is more like an inverse sigmoid curve.
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Glad it's been rejected. Google is wanting to circumvent US copyright law by creating law through the civil courts. The civil courts are not the appropriate venue to change copyright law.

In addition, the idea of seizure of out of print or allegedly orphaned works, which has been promoted as a cause in conjunction with articles about this case, disturbs me. Someone can start selling my out of print publications just because I choose not to publish them for any reason? Well then, why shouldn't I also be able to stroll on into Google then and take home any orphan computers they have that they aren't currently using. Or head into my neighbor's garage and collect the orphan tools there that he has forgotten about.

If someone wants to publish an in-copyright work, they need the explicit permission of the copyright holder. The issue of "can't be found" is not relevant because they are not even trying. Instead they set up a clearing house that collects money and which the author then has to take-or-leave regarding royalties, with no negotiation possible, and if they don't fill out all the right paperwork they get nothing. Why should I be forced to submit to a bureaucracy of some organization I don't like and don't want anything to do with because some judge has decreed them my agent for working with Google Book sales? Glad the judge said no to that nonsense.
Providing a poor quality application doesn't necessarily tell you anything about the audience a proper port would have, it can be significantly damaging to your brand, and is a waste of press attention.
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Agreed,

There is always going to be risk involved with nuclear power. Your trying to contain something that will kill you if it has the chance.

During a nuclear emergency they should release laughing babies and kittens. Only one of the two might try to kill you. The only problem is you can't tell which one. Upside: Laughing Babies and Kittens!!!

I could only theorize you could use some sort of backup turbine built into the containment vessel. Then again if your not sure what kind of damage is done having something that is self powering might not be a good idea if it's out of control.
It really does need to become a meme, working that truck into otherwise original web designs. Like that scream you hear on every movie soundtrack.
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Right. The number may be longer for Gen IV as opposed to Gen 3.

Rejecting 36 MW of heat for weeks at a time without some intervention is a very difficult, if not impossible engineering problem.
There is always conflict between UX designers and Product managers. Always find out your roles and responsibilities as a UX designer when taking a job. They might actually just want you to be a tactical design resource.
Sounds like a great idea.

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Security has nothing to do with feelings. Given the amount of should-haves in their explanation this should be a welcome wake-up call to them, a free audit. Other than playing the victim card, they handled it quite well.

Nothing better to sharpen your skills and higher your standards than a _good crisis_
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It's not nuclear power that scares me, it's the seemingly inevitability of incompetence of human beings. I am a very big advocate of nuclear power, and the Japanese are a very pre-prepared culture, yet this got way out of hand.

Yes it was a huge and unprecedented earthquake, but in my opinion, there were so many totally unnecessary failures, even under these extreme circumstances, that I'm a lot more leery of nuclear power than I was before. Or, to be more precise: I'm not leery of nuclear power itself, but of humans ability to form societies advanced enough to harness this power properly.
For whatever it's worth to you, most of the pre-DES-era encryption techniques betray themselves to basic statistical analysis. It's hard to hide that you're using puzzle book crypto, even if it produces what appears at first glance to be binary gibberish.

Like I said, there is a security-by-obscurity game to be played with this stuff: tamper with a known algorithm (even if you don't trust it, it's not like you can tell the difference between AES and TEA just by looking at ciphertexts).
I agree, this seems to be based on the feeling some of us have that code has to be "done right", forgetting that the code isn't there for its own sake (at least in a job setting). The bottom line is really what matters in the end, and your boss is closer to that than you are.

On the other hand, coding efficiently in the long term will likely sometimes be good for the bottom line, and you are closer to your code's efficiency than your boss. So one should make sure to understand why the boss wants to make a certain call.
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I've been working on a plugin using the new sidebar extensions api, and I'm pretty sure this update broke the api :( Planning to file a ticket in the chromium bug tracker soon.
Even the egg section doesn't quite achieve one of the simplest hacks: Crack an egg and plop it in. Stir with chopsticks while it together with the noodles and broth cook another minute or so.

I like to add a bit of hot sauce after that.

Not fancy, nor a well-rounded diet on its own. But a very good, convenient, and quick fix. And the protein (and some nutrients) will keep you going longer than the carbohydrates and salt alone.
This makes me feel like someone who ran across a few lanes of a freeway survived, then proclaimed, All freeways are safe. I didn't get hit!.
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A few observations:

1) GiftRocket http://www.giftrocket.com/
Why would I use this? Why not just give cash? I can see how some people might think of giving cash as tacky or thoughtless. Is GiftRocket supposed to overcome that? I get the feeling that there's something I've overlooked here. Feel free to set me straight.

2) GrubWithUs http://www.grubwith.us/
This is fascinating. They're not just trying to start a company, they're trying to create a whole social movement. If this takes off, it'll be a completely new way to socialise.

3) Like.fm http://like.fm/
Really wasn't sure what to make of this. The concept seems very similar to last.fm. Chatted with Chris Chen using Live Help on the site's home page. He seems convinced that the only two things that they have in common is that both sites record what you listen to. He pointed out that Like.fm allows you to follow people, and will soon have a recommendations system that will "blow whatever you get from last.fm out of the water." He's got my attention.
I've been really happy with Chrome after using Firefox for a long time. I couldn't bear one more Adobe Flash Plugin crash. Has any Chrome user here switched over to Firefox 4 and been pleased with it?
>I fail to see you address the point that these kids caused harm to a business

Very well. These kids caused harm to a business. So what's that change? The business screwed up, badly. The agent of destruction is quite irrelevant. Had it been a power failure, backup failure, permissions failure, data leak, or data corruption would PHPFog deserve any less blame? This need to shift some responsibility to a bunch of kids is nauseating.

>I'm just much more impressed with the way that PHPFog is handling their business after the fact than these kids are.

This is another example of the weird HN mentality when it comes to companies "apologizing" (Like WakeMate blaming their Chinese manufacturer for flunky power supplies). Are you actually impressed that a corporation has better PR than a bunch of children? Does that even make sense to you? I'd be impressed if they had managed to actually apologize while accepting all the blame without trying to pawn off the responsibility for their mistakes on some kids.
Everyone can code when buzzed/drunk. I guess the point is "can you code well?" Drunk folks can drive, except they tend to run into/kill people pretty often.
The corrollary of this is that it almost always takes longer to explain to a Project Manager why something isn't done yet/can't be done/shouldn't be done that way (etc) than it would do just to finish it or do it another way or do it properly (as the case may be).
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Let's not forget that the victim here is PHPFog's (potential) customers and not PHPFog itself.
This list (allthingsd list) isn't complete. I'm not sure if there is a reason why some are missing, so I won't spill any names.
I was REALLY hopeful for FF to make a comeback with 4. I had been a convert in the 2.X days and watched as it got bloated and slower throughout 3. Switched to Chrome in version 9 and never looked back. Then IE9 came out and was so much faster than before so I had hope for FF.

Well, that hope has been quickly dashed. How? By mozilla's own demo page, the web'o'wonder. On my three year old machine it says my video drivers don't support WebGL and won't play nice with many things. What it does play nice with was not very wonderful. The "Letterheads" were choppy with a framerate probably approaching 8 or 9 fps. The 360 video refused to load. Same with Remixing Reality. IE9 wouldn't work with those and neither would Safari.

Then I tried them in Chrome. Huh. Go figure. They all worked marvelously. Yup... this new web era could be a Web o' Wonders... but it looks like it won't be featuring FF4 or IE9.

Now, can anyone tell me why FF4 has issues with WebGL but Chrome 11.0696 doesn't? And it's not just a webkit thing because Safari 5.04 isn't liking them either.
Then again, refactoring without permission could be a really bad idea. You need to ask yourself a few questions before you proceed.

Do you have thorough unit tests for the code that you are trying to refactor? If not, be aware that there is no way to know for sure that your refactoring won't break the functionality of the code.

Suppose it breaks the code. Have you thought about the operational impact to clients and the financial costs?

Let's say the costs are low. How big and political is your organization? What kind of trouble will you find yourself in? As the hysteria rises, will you be fed to the dogs over this?

How bureaucratic is your company and how many people do you need to interact with to fix a functionality breakage? The more people you will need to interact with, the more damage you will do to yourself and your reputation. Others will resent working in panic mode to clean up after you (now widely known as the "rogue" programmer).
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I haven't used it, but due to some of the comments in this thread, some people should check out PeepCode.com
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This chart is on wikipedia:
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But that's sidetracking, instead of ridiculous citation wars, what I was really asking for was some examples of:

'Renewables can be vastly improved, several advances have already been made just not fully capitalized on'
It's nice that they're so good-natured about it. That gallery of photos, and the commentary, is hilarious.

And how did the Transmit icon get on a German... adult store?
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Theres another HN article with a more complete list, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2356941
I hate to be pedantic, didn't it at least kill a couple workers?
So, shouldn't the first thing you learn as a hacker include how to mask your physical location so as not to have the FBI knocking on your door?
I can agree with you that PHP Fog's customers were affected and are thus victims. I don't understand how PHP Fog isn't a victim here though.
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1Password (and most other password managers, I believe) are happy to generate strong passwords for you. I generally actually have no idea what my password is at most sites, as I let 1Password deal with that.

Here are a few samples. I've asked it for 16 character random passwords with 2 digits and 2 symbols, repetition allowed and ambiguous characters allowed:

xQO3<hCnp^uKh7mP
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zXS;DY3)U3OzAebT

It also lets you ask for pronounceable passwords, although you generally then nead longer passwords for good strength. Here are some examples:

cac-kon-eg-voil-eng-es-
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I'll use that kind if I'm using 1Password just for storage, not automatic entry (for example, the login password for a game client). You can also ask for digits instead of dashes in the pronounceable passwords, like this:

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mitalwebshefrufegbiheagdihet
Thanks for reminding me about Feynman's comments on the first shuttle disaster. For those curious, here's a nice summary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Commission_Report#Role_o...

It reminds me how very few of those involved in building things really, truly respect scientific rigour and make a serious attempt to actually know their shit. I know because I see it first hand, all the time, including in projects contracted by NASA. There's a ridiculous amount of cross-checking and testing that prevents it from being a serious problem most of the time, but as we can see it can cause oversights that can rear their ugly heads unexpectedly.

And this is why it's troubling to see people pushing so hard for nuclear with the battle-cry "we've figured it all out". We have to keep having it figured it out as long as the reactor as around, until they are fully decommissioned (which takes many years after they stop being productive). And there have to always be a handful of people who know their shit, always paying attention, and who can somehow resist the bullshit.

In 1998 one of the nuclear plants near Toronto, Ontario was taken out of service. During the Fukushima troubles, it sprang a coolant leak into Lake Ontario. Insignificant radiation, they say, and I'm inclined to believe them, but still... I have to worry about a nuclear plant 30km from me that was taken offline 13 years ago?
>Yes; there are few better alternatives. But we are going to have to be very careful about how we build them.

I don't know about that....even just careful would have sufficed in this case (using an intelligent definition of careful). Placing your backup generators at low elevation seems like an amazingly bad design choice. I mean really, how much does it cost to build a very tall tower to house your backup generators? In projects this capital intensive, it is a rounding error.

>What we should be thinking about is what the risk is in future; not what it has been in the past. If I told you I had an energy source that had a known 0.01% of ending the world, each year, but a clean 50 year track record, would you allow me to continue with it? Of course not!

Total hyperbole (ending the world)....but your general assertion is absolutely correct. Nuclear power is statistically by far the safest form of energy, but there is a very large inherent risk, that while not terribly hard to manage, must absolutley be managed properly, without exception. And I'd say in this case, was not handled properly, at all.

I am sadly disappointed in the nuclear industry in general, and also the Japanese...I expect more from them than I expect from other countries. I may be wrong about one or more things though in this assessment, but that's how I think about it at this point in time.
"what ASCAP has already negotiated with songwriters, composers, lyricists and music publishers"

There is a huge difference. ASCAP represents ASCAP members, who choose to join the organization. ASCAP then becomes a legal agent regarding collecting royalties for the musician. Many musicians join BMI instead. But crucially, many do not join either organization. Neither organization is a publisher, they are a music licensing organization that works for its members.

For this to be comparable, ASCAP would become the representative of musicians whether they want that or not, and would be able to publish musician's works without permission. That is certainly not what ASCAP does now.
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Tried switching back this morning. I wanted to like it, I really did. But compared to Chrome, Firefox still feels heavy, cluttered, and it doesn't quite mesh with how I feel a browser should work.

I realise that these are amorphous and inarticulate reasons for choosing one browser over another, but it's all I've got.
From the perspective of security protection, intrusions are an act of nature. You should be no more surprised at an especially strong wave than you are at an exceptionally immature child.
I thought by reading and responding to the discussion here on Hacker News that my karma would go up, not down. :(

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In your system could corporations own copyrights? In that case how long would the copyright last? What about works by many authors? (Mostly agree with you, but the devil is in the details.)
Yes. Running OS X, Firefox is more responsive when opening and switching to new tabs. Maybe the act of creating a new process for each tab slows Chrome down? For example, if I open a new tab in Chrome while I have many already open and then attempt to scroll, the scrolling will lag by a second. I almost never have any lag with Firefox except when first starting the program. Even with an SSD Firefox is more responsive.
In a few thousand or a few million years, Ontario might well have a coastline! Not that he'll have to worry about tsunamis then.
Time to move on?
I don't think we're using the same definition of "act of nature":

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

"Act of God is a legal term for events outside of human control, such as sudden floods or other natural disasters, for which no one can be held responsible"

Do you think nobody can be held responsible for this breach?
Yes. I use it to make calls and control music without taking my gloves off on a cold day.
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Just google "geothermal" and "earthquakes"
This is from February 17th of this year. Not sure what's so notable about it now.
Is that satire?
Does Chrome 11 support h.264 <video>?
What you have appears to be the latest version (similar to what I have). Weird that I didn’t see that warning though. Which OS are you on? (I am on a mac)
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