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Even if they can modify the server to 302 to an HTTPS URL, that still wouldn't prevent MITM. An attacker could still intercept the HTTP request and forward on to the HTTPS URL.

It would have some value because it would prevent passive sniffers, but it wouldn't be a complete fix. The fix needs to be on the client side.
Coitus interruptus has a failure rate of 15%-28% per year, 4% when used perfectly. In comparison, condoms have a failure rate of 10%-16% (2% when used perfectly).

You were perhaps aiming for a sound-bite, but saying "It works in very few cases" is inaccurate.
I see it like this, if you are using paid vacation days for this, then you are in a way on your current employers payroll, I think it is a bit dishonest to the current employer who pays you to rest/recover from a years worth of work. If you take unpaid leave then it would be more reasonable, but then the fee for the work done during the leave should be generous.

As it is with my current employer, it would be very hard to just take 5 days or even 3 days of for something like this, paid or not. If it was with a couple of months notice then I would think it wouldn't be a problem, but with shorter notice than that it would be hard.
There's a wonderful Linux distribution called Arch Linux - http://www.archlinux.org/

The best thing about it is its "rolling release" release cycle - constantly updating - every day. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ArchLinux:About#Release...

Part of my daily boot-up of my laptop is to run `pacman -Syu`, which updates anything that updated in the world. It's so easy! Only tiny changes. Never a big new release. Just constant little updates. Feels like nothing. You don't procrastinate because there's nothing to it.

There's gotta be a good metaphor for the real world, there.
How complicated is virtio (http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Virtio)? It's designed for guests that know they're virtualised.
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That would be even better. One could make a Linux device driver to directly access Canvas, WebGL, or even the DOM. It seems that in my post I used "X" as a generic name for "Linux graphics" which is pretty short-sighted.
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I believe the future user interfaces are going to be minimalistic and non-patronizing (like Hacker News).

The interface shown in this article (and similar) have a very high learning curve and are counter productive (generally).
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The first few months are hard, it gets a lot easier afterwards.

Right now I'm only enjoying the better parts of being a dad - as our mother-in-law is staying with us and helping my wife a lot with taking care of it. Besides routine chores around the house and taking my kid for long walks in the park (which I greatly enjoy), I don't have much to worry about and can concentrate on my work.

Besides the extra responsibilities, you know what else a child gives you? Strength and the motivation to carry on. Nothing motivates you better when you're at your lowest.
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To support your point, can you link to some information about the new tech? I'd be interested in a layman's comparison to the old tech.
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Mmm, but my point is: if you run VMware instead of Hyper-V and run Windows on it, it's still revenue for MS.
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I haven't checked git blame, but I suspect most of the FFmpeg features ascribed to him were actually written by Michael Niedermayer.

Of course he did write it, but it's quite different now or even in 2004 than it was at the beginning.
Bluntly, it's this:

Patents are designed to encourage and accelerate creativity and innovation, today they do exactly the opposite. They should go away.
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When it's not consensual, it's a different crime and a wholly different matter in my view.
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this can be a good tool to for students to learn basic linux commands

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Why are you specifically measuring accidents?

Why not look at the whole picture -- and factor in the day-to-day damage as well?

It seem coal's day-to-day damage surpasses even the nuclear disaster scenario.
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We all learn differently but have you considered looking at actual Rails system as a source of inspiration and guidance? I generally find this the best way to learn.

There's the RailsCasts site which is open source:

https://github.com/ryanb/railscasts

And, shameless plug, I'm kinda proud of the code quality for the Mogade server (myself feeling i just did the transition you are seeking to make):

https://github.com/mogade/mogade-server
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I am no expert, but I think a nuclear bomb exploding converts radioactive isotopes to other less massive/energetic radioactive isotopes, but the resulting material is (often) still radioactive. So I am not sure how efficiency factors in there.
I knew him only for TinyCC, but looking at everything he accomplished I can see him as a pure coding genius.
> put monitoring software on the pc and get the passwords from the child

This.

Can't think of more elegant way to teach a kid about privacy, basics of cryptography, some hacking etc. :)
Actually, being just 20 lyrs away, sub-warp speed would be sufficient for us to get there. Well, not us, but our grand children anyway.
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Is it really the same reactor design?

Are they doing anything in light of the Fukushima disaster?
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It's important how it can be used.

If it can be used against people watching movies, it would be, sooner or later. So the question is: can it be used that way?
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What makes me weary is the idea of kipple in my brain. If the Singularity comes, would uploading my consciousness be the equivalent of saving an old, cluttered hard drive? Won't a fresh install always be superior?
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(X = E ́cole Polytechnique)

X stresses a curriculum of breadth, rather than depth. Although the university
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We still have system similar to this. Too bad many students don't like it :( I often read and hear cries "we ain't gonna need this". Not going to need brains? And yes, critical thinking involves the knowledge of some trivia.
The killer here is "the cost of licensing such performances is greater than $5,000".

How it works: They claim the cost of licensing the song you've streamed is 5,001$, and you're jailed. And it's not obvious that they can't name an arbitrary sum as cost of licensing.

I don't know how much it applies to USA, but otherwise this scheme has already been used thru the world.
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If it doesn't work for you on Chrome 12, this is probably the reason: "it does not work with Chrome 12 beta. As far as I know, it is a bug in the browser"

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AFAIK even the most efficient bombs only convert a very small (sub 1) percentage of the fissible material to energy. And (in the case of the over 500 airblasts) "aerosolize" all of the rest 100% and spread it throughout the troposphere, ensuring that the whole world gets its share.

While it's true that reactors contain far more radioactive material, they don't typically "aerosolize" much of it - Tchernobyl was pretty much a worst case scenario in that regard, and Fukushima thankfully was not.
Apple claims that Mac OS X is "the world's most advanced operating system". But it's these details that I consider advanced and clever. Apple's marketing statements went from funny to offensive and unsupported.
For Python there exists such a thing, Skulpt ( http://www.skulpt.org/ ). It emulates the Python VM in client-side JS.

This is somewhat more direct than using Python in Linux on a JS-based emu.
Among these "tiny changes" there are also plenty of Big Things. Kernel updates and python3 migration to name two. Not to mention the sometimes conflicting packages as a result of staying on the bleeding edge.

Don't get me wrong, I've used Arch Linux as my primary distro for the last two years and I like their model a lot, but it's more than "nothing to it".

EDIT: Sorry about the somewhat gloomy reply. I agree with your comment in spirit and think the model is, despite its inevitable problems, a great one.
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Actually I thought about doing the same via LLVM and Emscripten. This seems like he emulates x86. Which is probably less hackish but also slower.
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Ask HN: Scalable way of logging page request data from a PHP application?
A web application I am developing (in PHP) requires the ability to log each page request.

Just like a normal access_log, it will store details like url requested, source ip address, date/time but I also need it to store the User ID of the logged in user (which is stored in a php session variable).

This data will then be queried to create site-wide or per user analytics reports as required at a later date - things such as total number of visits/unique visits, page views in a certain time period, geo-locating the ip addresses and looking at locations, most active times of day, most active members etc.

The obvious thing to do would be to have a mysql insert statement on each page but if the application is receiving thousands of req/sec, this is going to be a hugh bottleneck on the database so I am looking at alternative, scalable ways of doing this without big infrastructure requirements.

A few of the ideas i've had are:

1) Work on a way for Nginx (it's hosted on Nginx with PHP-FPM) to be able to log the user_id from the session/application in the normal web server access_log, which can be parsed and loaded into a database periodically (nightly). This feels like a bit of a hack and will need doing on each web server as the system scales out.

2) Log each page request into Redis which has high write speeds - the problem with this is the lack of ability to query the date at a later date.

3) Log each page request into either Memcache/Redis acting as a cache (or a message queue) and from there it would be regularly extracted, inserted into MySQL and removed.

4) Would something like MongoDB which has more query capability be suitable?

I'm interested in how HN readers would approach this and if anyone has any experience of a similar application (or has come across anything online).

I'm also interested on thoughts on how the data could be suitably structured to be stored in memcache/redis.

Thanks
I saw a server configuration inspector on here a while ago, what was it called?
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not sure what your point is, my point is that in a bitcoin economy you would have choice

for a large purchase either the merchant or the customer may insist on an expensive escrow service that deals with disputes robustly

for small purchases this might not be so important

I saw a comment on HN recently asking why startups never challenge the VISA/MasterCard hegemony, with a response saying it is simply to expensive to enter the market with a low ROI

widespread bitcoin use would lower the barriers for this kind thing, unless you like monopolies and cartels, I can't see how anybody would argue this is a bad thing (regardless of whether you think bitcoin is good, will suceed, whaterver)
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You're probably right about that but the fact remains: Zuckerberg did them wrong, we don't know what would have happenend and someone in a similar position made billions with their idea and strategy. How they hypthetically would have executed if they had hired someone trusthworthy should hardly matter in a court.
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I think the Ruby equivalent to that would be HotRuby. http://hotruby.yukoba.jp/
Can you say a few words on the performance of the mono runtime on iOS (relative to native ObjC apps)?

Do you call out to native Objective-c code for compute intensive tasks? Do you find the mono garbage collector limiting in performance?

I assume you're using C#, right?
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It's clear that their goal is to force Apple to acquire their patent portfolio. Clever trolls.
What happens if all the iOS developers gang up and file a class action suit to have the patents reconsidered?
I've talked to a few people who have encountered them and they confirm this.
Welcome to science today. To their credit, at least when we find out the model was missing some key information they will update it and update their theories.
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> On the other hand OS’s are getting smarter and RAM cheaper, so perhaps it’s better to not overcomplicate the code and let the OS handle the problem.

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It will take a year to reconsider. Apple needs to act quickly and aggressively on this to show the public and media that they stand behind the developers. They can't let the App Store become a feared, shady, legal-gibberish ecosystem.
I'm not sure #3 is really a benefit.
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Very true. I find it disturbing that they haven't already issued a statement about this - I would have thought they'd scramble to get out a statement saying that they're aware of the situation and are considering options.
Unfortunately, this doesn't work if there's any possibility that the engineer has seen the patent (not terribly likely in itself) or been influenced by it indirectly (much more likely: maybe she's talked to a friend who read a web page on the subject, written by someone who had a friend at the company that produced the patent).

Once something is patented, the idea is out there for others to hear about (not just because they can read the patent; the original inventors can now talk about it, too). And ideas that get out into the wild tend to spread.

On the other hand, after all these years of having patents on obvious things granted, it might be no bad thing to try throwing out some genuinely inventive patents instead for a change :-).

(My own preference: either do away with software patents completely, or substantially shorten their term. [EDITED to add: the latter probably only makes sense if you can greatly reduce the latency between initial filing and granting. Which would be a good thing anyway, for all patents.])
Sales have fallen off a cliff since the internet got popular. You can throw up charts, etc., but they are clearly affected. The actual argument here should be: should they be affected. I think they should. If horse ranchers would have had the power the entertainment industry has they might have forced us to keep using horses to get around. We've obviously benefited by letting their market die.
Either that or they don't realize that Apple, Google and Amazon (Microsoft too?) all know that their own App Stores are at risk. I wonder if this troll can take any two of those legal mountains falling on him.
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Define 'superior' in this context.

Also, how do you have a 'fresh install' of what's in your brain and yet maintain the experiences that make you who you are? You are kipple.
I think you built a very nice business, but 'Lean Startup' as the term everyone is using reflects some guidelines and principles a project should follow - like customer development, learning cycle etc. Lean does not mean 'cheap' or 'without money' - it means lean as an athlete running fast to the finish line.