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Personally, I find these aliases a bit too terse.

Aliases are important for enhanced productivity, but shell aliases are too much. I find these git aliases much more comfortable:

alias.st=status
alias.co=checkout
alias.com=checkout master
alias.cam=commit -a -m
alias.cm=commit -m
alias.br=branch

push, pull, merge, rebase and the rest are infrequently used, so I don't alias them at all. Using shell aliases (as opposed to git aliases) is unjustified IMO, as is the horrible

alias g='git'

which gives me the creeps.
Indian Nation Congress Party website database hacked
Host Information

Server = Apache/2.0.63 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.63 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_bwlimited/1.4
Version = 4.1.22-standard
Powered by = PHP/4.4.9
Attack Type = SQL Union Injection
Current User = aiccorg_usr@localhost
Current Database = aiccorg_db
Supports Union = yes
Union Columns = 3

Url| http://www.congress.org.in/new/renunciation-details.php?id=2

Vuln: http://www.congress.org.in/new/renunciation-details.php?id=2+and+1=0+ Union Select 1 ,2,+do furthur ur self :P
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A good example of "Defective by design".

Software should be engineered to facilitate better and easier debugging of issues instead of making it even harder. Administrating a computer is already hard enough without programs purposefully hiding what they are doing.

Especially dubious heuristics like timing can cause a headache... a new hardware platform or OS with subtly different timing will cause the program to fail in mysterious ways.

Oh and some developers seem to think reverse engineering protection is a substitute for server-side security. Don't even get me started about that... no, you can never trust your client.
What did the Atlantic offer you. Just a platform to republish and reach a wider audience?
In my book their value "1) Good interface: safe to use - hard to misuse" is the same as their non-value "3) Grand design for the future".
If rsync is obscure, then I'm a dumpster wizard. That's a wizard that lives in an overturned dumpster.
Since the infringing content is moving directly to their servers and then being offered for download it seems an even clearer example than limewire. In the end though it comes down to "substantial non-infringing use" -> something services like rapidshare or usenet hosts seem to be able to show (or at least IP lawyers think they would be able to) but typical bittorrent trackers or other p2p nets haven't seemed to be able to.

Other types of legal software - I was given the option of using bittorrent when I downloaded humble indie bundle games, blizzard uses BT for world of warcraft patches, some large scientific datasets, large password dictionaries / rainbow tables and a produced for BT TV series are a few of the examples I've seen. But of course it's hard to consider much of this 'substantial' as compared to the traffic volume of pirated content.

There are other examples of services like this though, so who knows.
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Just as a shot in the dark, I imagine there's probably a mountain of legal paperwork to do business overseas that they just didn't want to deal with.
I don't think the difference in conversion efficiency between carbs and fat is relevant in a "normal" diet. The main difference is in how they are metabolized, and the effect they produce in the body.

I can only recommend everybody to stop loading huge amounts of carbs, specially sugar. Go for simple unprocessed foods, like fruits, vegetables, meat, fish, and so on.

The paleo lifestyle works just fine for me. I know it is hard to convince other people to do it. Even when they see me eat like I do, and they have seen the change in other people that adopted that practice, most people simply resist the idea. Check out http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=mummy-say...
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Chromium 13.0.768.0 (85572). Sounds like it may be a issue with this build
A whole lot of 'Digg' references here.

The reddit code is open source; it would be perfect for this project idea.
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If you like this, you'll like that:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2567227
If you like this, you'll like that:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2567222
htop, tmux/screen, xargs, vim/emacs, rsync, rtorrent, ack are far common to everyone I know (direct and indirectly) that uses the command line.
The parent post may be a bit generalizing, but how exactly is "the safety of your system also depends on the user's actions" a confusing caveat? Because that is the point being suppressed/omitted in the present case.
How good is that design?
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Yeah. That is really smooth and fast on the iPhone 3G. It's a great job.

This is what overflow-scrollable areas on webpages should have been in iOS Safari. At the moment you have to mash two fingers into the screen and slowly drag it around; real clunky.

Fingers crossed (badum-tish) for an update next month.
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I've always pictured a steep learning curve as this - http://imgur.com/8Wfih. One doesn't learn much at first until the "aha" moment. So I think the metaphor is still correct.
Phishing site found on Sony’s servers. Yes, it’s been hacked AGAIN
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Our only requirements are that the .com be available (or seemingly available) for $10K or less

How do you propose that someone making a suggestion verify this?
You are correct to be confused about what "emergency".

That's the point, the Patriot Act specifically invented one so they could increase domestic spying by several orders of magnitude and zap away rights - all without warrants. It's the only way they could have such crazy anti-constitutional powers.

Since people can still shop at the mall while we are at war, people don't realize we are in a declared state of emergency.

People often forget that PATRIOT is an acronym and implies a declared emergency (against "terrorism"). It doesn't actually mean you are only a "patriot" if you support the bill but was designed to feel that way.
If secondlife wasnt centralized, this might be a valid argument.
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I knew most of them but not all. However as he targets OSX users, I suspect many of the programs are unknown to them.
Earlier this year, 50 Cent more or less did this with H&H stock and made a good amount of money off of it(I'm not sure if he actually sold it, but the value of the stock went down a fair amount two days after the initial rally). The article below also references that teenager you mentioned:

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/41041141/ns/today-entertainmen...

The actor Jesse Eisenberg also quipped the same line from the article, "But is what 50 Cent did really that different from what happens all day long on CNBC when professional money managers take to the airwaves to praise the stocks of companies they already own?" If this sort of thing is illegal* then Cramer should've been charged with a crime on the first airing of "Mad Money".

*yes, I realize there's more to the legalities of insider trading than just talking about it on air :)
On the speed front, I'm talking specifically about MSE (that I don't notice it's affect) - I've had bad experiences with Norton grinding my PC down, horrible invasive product that one! Can't comment on Mac v PC speed impact.

I agree with you on the App Store front, think it will help to reduce viruses/malware (I think Windows 8 app store will be a huge win too), but it's unlikely that an app store will be the sole place to get software for some time to come. So until it's impossible to manually install software off the internet, I think we're going to need anti-malware/virus software.
Neither should be demonized.
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Nice little Eliza implementation in Haskell [github]
I recommend wherever the pay is high
How about Tuborg? It's everywhere here.

Also, plenty of pubs have decent beers these days in Israel.
I recently discovered nl and felt sad about the amount of time I had wasted figuring out how to add line numbers to files.
Metaphor (if it is really a metaphor) is OK for me.
I always understood it this way: time on X, stuff to learn (not some performance) on Y. Somewhere on that Y is the threshold point and by passing it you cross from "still learning" to "doing actual work" area.

I admit, time on X may look ambiguous but I kind of look at it as "some reasonable time interval".

That way something complex will require to learn more going from 0 to threshold point and hence steeper curve (line) than simpler stuff.
While improving the web application experience is commendable, there is still simply no replacement for the native components. Broadly speaking, investment in mobile webapps largely seems to be about improving the entrenched web developer's experience, rather than the actual user's experience.

Insofar as Apple continues to invest in UI R&D, a clone of their UI's look and feel will always lack fidelity to the original, sit in the uncanny valley when approached by users, and require ongoing maintenance to track upstream changes as best as possible.

Additionally, fluid scrolling on iOS devices is resource intensive and requires a very careful attention to performance details; I've yet to see HTML5 UIs scroll as smoothly as a tuned native UI.
RailsConf 2011: David Heinemeier Hansson
A worse problem with JM was the so called actors.
The original meaning of a steep learning curve was exactly as he says. It's been changed in popular use from "easy" to "hard".

(Rummage rummage rummage...):

"Early uses of the metaphor focused on the pattern's positive aspect, namely the potential for quick progress in learning ... Over time, however, the metaphor has become more commonly used to focus on the pattern's negative aspect, namely the difficulty of learning once one gets beyond the basics of a subject."

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

"One natural interpretation of such a curve, which was the predominant early usage (according to Wikipedia) and still exists in some technical circles, is that the thing being learnt is easy — a great amount of learning happens in a small amount of time. This is the opposite of the popular usage."

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/6209/steep-learni...

"The phrase everyone gets wrong. Outside experimental psychology, where the term originated, I have never seen a correct usage. Learning curves show performance (e.g., percent correct) as a function of amount of training (e.g., number of trials). A steep learning curve means the organization, person, or animal quickly went from low to high performance — in other words, learning was fast."

http://blog.sethroberts.net/2008/08/18/steep-learning-curve/

alt.english.usage:

"The learning curve for bridge is not steep - on the contrary. But I have seen other examples of this confusing of "steep curve" with something that is hard to learn. The association is probably that it is hard to get uphill, but the true meaning is that with a steep learning curve a given effort will take you high up the curve and thus corresponds to something that is easy."

https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/alt.usage.engl...

Definition:

"a graphic representation of progress in learning measured against the time required to achieve mastery."

...

'The phrase "steep learning curve" is sometimes used incorrectly to mean "hard to learn" whereas of course it implies rapid learning.'

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/learning+curve
So many of these articles do not distinguish between simple and complex carbs and lump them all together. There is a difference between 20g of carbs from a piece of fruit vs 20g carbs from, say, pasta.
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Your foot note makes an incredibly interesting mistake: What a teenager like Lebed does is not insider trading, because he doesn't work for the company or otherwise have access to inside information. He knows as much as you or I do. Insider Trading is well-understood and easy to define: trading on secret information that is not available to the market.

Talking up a stock you own when you don't have inside information... Anybody can do this and everybody does this. How can I talk about Apple and Google taking over Microsoft's business and it's just fanboyism, but if I buy and sell stock while writing the exact same words, it's illegal? Ridiculous, especially in the age of the Internet. Pump-and-dump used to require a boiler room, now it requires a phone with a data plan.
First service doing this is http://put.io . This seems to be a direct clone of put.io
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I've found the fat hypothesis - 'fat makes you fat' - to be false, or at least not to apply to me. I am not exactly anti-carb - I eat potatoes, and a little rice - but I have been eating a diet that I guess you could call 'Paleo 2.0' for the last 7 months or so. The basic goal is to minimize my intake of grains, fructose, and legumes, and maximize that of saturated fats. I also happen to be vegetarian, so for me this means a diet of mostly dairy and vegetables (and limited fruit). I eat a lot of full fat Greek yogurt (Fage brand, typically), butter, cheese, eggs, very dark chocolate (85+%), potatoes, etc. I eat until I'm full and I never count calories. I probably cheat 1-2 times a week on average, usually by eating something rice- or corn-based (Chipotle, corn chips, an Indian meal with rice, etc.).

I didn't do this to lose weight - I wasn't exactly a big guy - but there were some surprisingly quick effects. After about 5-6 months I'd dropped from around 155 lbs to 135 (+/-2), and I've been stable there for a couple months. My waist went from 33" to 30" and my body fat went from around 21% to 12%. Had a checkup a few weeks ago and, other than very low vitamin D, the doc said I was pretty much in perfect health.

http://archevore.com is probably a good resource, if you want to know more about the diet itself.
Well, my guess would be: Because "evangelists" on both sides use words like "worse" to reduce complex issues to sound bites.
Ah, I see. They disappear once you log in. My fault for signing up before I checked the terms.
I really like pipe viewer (pv). I wish it as more common in base installs of Linux.

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/unix-utilities-pipe-viewer/
Ask HN: accountant recommendation in (north) London?
As a self-employed, I've been doing my taxes on my own for the past year; however, recently contracting seems to be booming, so it would really make a difference to make this tax-efficient. Particular painpoints are evaluating whether on the basis of getting paid via dividends from a shell corp would be most tax-efficient if routed through an LTD to me, or via self-employment; for this, I need an accountant who's 1, generalist enough to know these trade-offs; and 2, will not try to auto-upsell me through incorporation costs for better commission.

So, here I turn to the nice community of HN: how would you find an honest accountant, preferably located in North London?

Personal recommendations are also welcome.
I'm interested to know what people here on HN would do. My sense is that HNers tend to have an unswerving loyalty to the truth, and decide that the truth is right, and everything else takes second place. When all is said and done, finding a way to communicate the truth is the most important thing.

Or is it? Are there times when "Lies to children" is the right approach?
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God I remember when everywhere (even in school) was hooked on the "you are killing your kids with butter, eat margarine" line.

Of course, then they banned it most sensible places because of the hydrogenated/trans fats. Shocking that something made by chemical process by companies with large sums of money will be heavily advertised and pushed to people over, say, something that can't be patented by any one body.

Similarly, carb laden foods are cheap to produce and will last even if stored badly, you just have to try going out to dinner to an "average place" and try not to eat something where the dish is not mostly potato, noodles, rice, or flour based (pasta, bread, pizza base) to see why industry wouldn't think it was great if carbs came with health warnings.

Having said that, It strikes me from experiences in the past that everyone reacts differently to the mix of carbs and fats in their diet, but everyone seems to react to good amounts of protein, so while I'm not sure either should be demonised, clean sources of protein should be made more important.
I would have been quite excited if Stanley Kubrick had directed it.

One of the few directors that could take a masterpiece of a book, and make an even better film from it.
What Spanish protesters want is ...
Haven't read the entire article yet, but(this is off topic), highlighting any word on the website shows a "Learn More" tooltip which automatically loads more info for the highlighted text. Awesome.
Pytyp - Extending Python Types for Declarative Code
My pet alias:

cm='git commit -m "#-checkpoint-" --edit'

I commit all the time that way; "cm -a", x, ZZ
The Rise Of JSON
Of course. If it wasn't for wheat, potato, rice, and other grains and tubercles, most of humanity would starve. Simple carbs are cheap.
Steepness doesn't have to refer to a graph of time versus skill, and at any rate the metaphor certainly predates machine learning curves. As others have pointed out, it's meant to evoke the difficulty of climbing a steep hill versus one that's flatter. This person is mixing concepts and etymologies amidst an insufferable air of superiority.
Actually it looks like more a chunk:

"By underpricing the stock, Morgan and BOFA gave their best institutional clients a gift of at least $175 million"

http://www.businessinsider.com/linked-in-ipo-2011-5-b
By definition a "virus" does not have this "attack vector". A virus spreads with no conscious user intervention. This is a "trojan" -- something the user inflicts on themselves, and neither the Mac nor Windows have any real protection against trojans.

Mac OS X 10.6 has virus detection built into the OS. Only a couple of viruses are detected because, oddly enough, that's all that have been found. Again, "viruses" not "trojans".

Most "anti-virus" software is worse than malware on its own -- it slows down the computer it's used on. Microsoft Windows, out of the box, will shut down your computer without asking you, quitting out of applications on the way. This, again, is exactly the kind of thing malware does.
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How many elections have to come and go before it's clear that not enough people care? I'm not sure a sober analysis of the data can be painted with such a dismissive brush.

The constitution-free zones, the airport security-theatre, the electronic surveillance-state -- no matter how many times abuses and power-creep hit the news, no-one much cares. I'm pretty much convinced now that even the limited outcry about the TSA's porno-scanners was just a media-creation to fill space in the annual travel stories around the holidays. Because they're still there. But no-one's talking about it anymore.

And, honestly, we shouldn't be surprised. The Drunk-Driving laws provided plenty of data going back decades. People just don't seem to think too much about having their rights trampled in the name of 'safety'.
Windows 7 IOPS for VDI: Deep Dive
Ask HN: best design schools in the us?
I can't seem to find but just a handful and most are expensive. Anyone with experience with this?
I use shell history all the time, but I don't personally find it useful to use for really common operations. I agree with the OP that commands that you execute 10's or 100's of times a day should be made as short as possible and they'll be part of muscle memory.

You can't rely on muscle memory for history commands as you always need to pause and verify that history found what you were expecting it to find. If your history looked like this (real shell history for me):

git push
ssh ec2-75-101-198-99.compute-1.amazonaws.com

the ^R would find the ssh command first, so you can't trust that "^Rpu" will always find the command so muscle memory can't set in and will slow you down
Making of LinkedIn : Reid Hoffman, Founder of LinkedIn
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Joining an ambitious and brand new project at a large company can offer the best of both worlds. E.g. first generation Xbox, Kindle, Instant Video, etc.
You could add the EasyPrivacy list ( http://easylist.adblockplus.org/en/ ) to your adblock subscription.
Great post! It introduced me to a few tools I wasn't aware of previously. The main OS on my laptop is Ubuntu so this is very appreciated.
Not nearly as often as I type actual code or need to think about something. Plus in normal usage it's "g<up arrow>" since I have shell history searching.
As he posted on the FOM mailing list earlier this month, the 'final' version of Friedman's book on boolean relation theory is now up on his website. [1] It clocks in at around 900 pages. Not for the faint of heart.

[1] http://www.cs.nyu.edu/pipermail/fom/2011-May/015383.html
I use an accountant in Cambridge. Virtually all our work is done via email with the occasional visit in person. I have found him to be efficient, clear, competent, and understanding.

Reply here if you want me to email his details to you.
Leaky abstractions are the new memory leaks
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Blindly chasing dollar signs can lead to very bad career decisions.
There's a difference between PSN and some server in Thailand.

Let's stop with the hyperbole.
Another important book vs film distinction: digital films/tv shows will increase in quality, so the files will get larger over time. However ebook files are not getting longer, since books (similar to movies) are not getting longer to read/watch. Bandwidth gets cheaper as the years go on.