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This is a bit confusing, since a planet is defined as "a celestial body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its neighboring region of planetesimals.", the relevant part being "Orbiting a star or stellar remnant".
I wouldn't think it would be possible to have a freely floating planet.
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I'm not so worried about the malware apps that ask permission as much as the malware app that takes advantage of yet another Adobe Flash exploit. Well, I really shouldn't pick on just Flash, but you get the idea.
When I started saying it, I was thinking more in terms of technological control.

Although (extra-)legal developments in the U.S. are making the legal aspects in some ways more similar. Increasingly, "everything" is illegal (or, at least, verboten), depending upon the government's interest in pursuing/prosecuting/punishing a particular case -- or not.

(I know the two environments aren't at anything like parity, but the trends worry me.)
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On Linux, even if the Twitter app on your desktop launches a browser, it can still do a very effective job of sniffing your password simply by asking the desktop environment for the relevant events. It only works in the browser because everything is sandboxed, with a particular focus on sandboxed-by-domain. See http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2011/04/linux-securit... , for instance. There are ways to do that on all the desktop environments, I presume, with varying degrees of officialness and popping up administrator password dialogs.
The bullet point version extracted from the 4,474 words:

1. Seek Novelty

2. Challenge Yourself

3. Think Creatively

4. Do Things The Hard Way

5. Network
You can increase your measurable intelligence. This is only true to the degree that intelligence tests measure what they're supposed to.
Exactly. I'm not worried about downloading an email, most of the non-savvy users I know understand not to do that anymore, I'm worried about something like Flash being the vector of the virus.
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Anyone know if it is just Safari that allows infection? What about Chrome?
For bonus credit, the brain emulation must be written in JS and run in a browser.
'#4 Do Things The Hard Way'

I think this is so important for our young generation b/c everybody is trying to "hack" or "game" the system. The problem is that you don't actually internalize things by hacking your way through

So it depends on your goals. Let's take a computer science degree for example: if your goal is to do investment banking and having a CS/engineering degree from a top university really puts you apart from all those econ/business majors in the finance interviews (which it does), sure hack your way through CS/EE: you're not planning to go into that field anyways so copy-change homework and study past tests to hack the system and get a good GPA. But if you're doing CS to be a software engineer, you DON'T want to hack your way through, you'd want to "do things the hard way" and really learn the material.
I really enjoyed this article. I wish she had given specific tips on how to think more creatively. She mentioned what happens "when" you think creatively, but did not really go into the "how."
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That's what I thought when I first saw TermKit too.
If you come up with a few on your own, then you're thinking creatively!! =)
Perhaps in meeting point 4, we should skip your summary?
Oh. I've seen this episode! The government asks for broad powers in order to solve a specific problem and then just adds those powers to its bag of tricks to use whenever convenient to creatively prosecute "bad" people. (1)

Don't like bitcoin? Don't understand Manga but have a baaadd feeling about it? There's an app for that!

(1) Its either that or the professor builds it out of coconuts and they don't get off the island. Either is equally likely.
I think your definition of "hack" is confusing with respect to this forum. Hackers are people who understand the system so well that they can manipulate it to their advantage. Good hackers have done things the hard way and use those experiences to make things easy in the future.
Anyone interested in this might also be interested in the broader Flynn effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect

I've always believed that additional/new stimulations is largely responsible for our increased intelligence.
watch the video. learn something.
CitiCard, for one, offers unique 1-off numbers for online transactions just as you suggest. Last I checked AmEx Gold cards also granted this feature.
Apple has never let backwards compatibility constrain them. 10.6 is Intel-only, Rosetta is gone in 10.7. I won't be surprised at all if 10.8 heavily deprecates non-app-store apps and 10.9/11.0/iOS Desktop prevents them altogether.

As far as developers are concerned, they'll be welcome to purchase Mac Pros at their usual insane markup.

if they do, I'll finally switch to Linux

Ditto, and Apple won't care one bit about losing us.
> Example: if I jump from my app to the browser then hit home then later relaunch the app and I'm confused because I start in the browser.

As an Android developer and a long time Android phone user, I have to say that this can _never_ happen. Do you have a real example?
At this early stage in your career 'd say you should maximize exposure rather than try to optimize for some trait of the company (relaxed, colorful company, etc.), so I'd say go with the first one. Maybe your internship won't be as fun as teh otehr one but (i) it'll be a resume buster, (ii) you may want use them to jump over to another country later, and (iii) you'll meet more people.

Getting older, you'll find that you'll find yourself inadvertently switching from breadth first to depth first search for happiness/fulfillment in life, so better cast the net wide while you're young.
Sarcasm doesn't do well on hacker news, unfortunately.
Even after using python for many years, I still occasionally make this mistake. It is a tough "bug" to track down. Can anyone comment as to why deep-copy is not the norm?
I wonder if AusCERT will be held in Queensland ever again. If I was one of the organisers, I would be having a long hard think about that.
I could be incorrect, but if you require administrative rights to install anything (so your users can't), wouldn't this solve the problem (at least in this case?)

Understandably, this would require you to micro-manage all your users who want to have their own, specialized setups, but...
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What if you shuvvle all words on a site using bigrams?
The bug you link here (36142) is important because demonstrations there show that memory grows unbounded even without using no-store (one demonstration uses images from the local hard drive, from whence no cache control directives could possibly be obtained, and eats through ~1.3GB/min of RAM).
It is posts like these, where a majority of the audience will be super-educated and a small portion (me) not at all, that it would be great to have upvotes. I can only make an educated guess as to what the best advice is to learning code here.

A strong opinion could send me on my way for months doing the wrong thing.
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Apparently "by using DNS CNAME records to prepend the CurveCP elliptic curve cryptography public keys to the DNS names of the DNS servers." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNSCurve
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So they are basically asking Baidu to un-cencor US-based searches? this is somewhat reasonable.
Just like Google works in each country according to the local rules.

Of course, Baidu can argue that it is not the only search engine in the market, so censorship does not hold.
It is like suing the New Your Times to feature right-leaning articles too.
In the highly unlikely scenario where you actually allowed the system to allocate 30GB of swap space, this might not cause the system to become unresponsive since most of the memory in "use" would never be touched, as it comes from discarded but uncollected Ruby objects.
You can hack collage just like any other complex system. The #1 secret to a inflated GPA in collage is knowing which teachers take and which ones to avoid.

I knew one teacher who basically gave every student an A in his advanced math classes. "Ok so everyone has an A, but we have 2 weeks left and I have more material I would like to cover so please show up." Not only that but he actually knew how to teach so you where ready to use the material in the future.

Unfortunately I knew a history teacher who like to base essay questions off of obscure references in the ~3,000 pages of text you where apparently supposed to memorize for the test. In his words two A's in the same class was a sign he was going soft.
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Think of this as empowering people who will not use vi or emacs, but prefer Eclipse or Visual Studio, to have a visually appealing arsenal of tools which can be chained in a pipelined fashion.

What is wrong with that? Yahoo pipes for example provided pointy clickety interface to mashing up data. Lot of people used it to do useful work.

It really does not matter if a even single sysadmin who already uses the shell does not start using this. It just needs to have its OWN users that is all. If you just consider ALL Eclipse users + ALL Visual Studio users, that is a HUGE user base... Now the vi/emacs user may feel superior to the others...

but in reality anyone in this world can have their own reasons to create products and use various tools. All the best to the author of this tool for taking the pain to code this...

If it works out and gains users... awesome... else it shows we still find Old tools useful. We have not stopped using Fire or Wheels today though they very OLD technologies. Whether the shell is as important as fire or wheels OR transitionary like Hydrogen blimps or something in between only time will tell...
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Given that it looks like Twitter might not even allow new clients access, I reckon you're in for a bit more grim pleasure.
Dead, hopefully.
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Functional languages will blow your mind, and make you a better programmer in the end. Languages like Haskell, Erlang, Lisp, and Clojure are great for this sort of thing.

It's great that people think so highly of functional programming, but this always sounds like damning with faint praise. I mean, "It'll blow your mind and broaden your horizons" is a reason to drop acid, not learn a programming language. Learn these languages because they're useful. There are many more effective methods to reach some state of mind-altering enlightenment.
Nothing? Nobody discussing how this relates to HN vote counts display?
it's a good tool... working in a small industry, if I am in a position to hire or do business with someone, I can usually find someone I know who worked with them and do my own due diligence without depending on their hand-picked references.
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Not that the judge was going to look at them.
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This was on HN a couple days ago, it's a full Rails plugin, but I thought the design/output was really solid:

http://activeadmin.info/
Firefox also causes not insignificant pixmap memory growth in the Xorg process (xrestop was used to verify) when running this test: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=36142#c6...

Is there a Gecko bug for this issue yet, so I can add myself to the CC list?
Fair enough. In the last month I was part of an attempt to empanel a jury (in Texas) for a misdemeanor. We were told that the defendent was defending himself and that in Texas there was no right to an attorney in such cases (I think because the maximum punishment was a fine).
> I think jrockway is saying that because with Oauth, you shouldn't normal have a users password at all, if a user's password leaks from a given app then the app author won't have an excuse and thus would be banned from the app.

While I understand what he's saying, I don't think the risk assessment makes any sense. When is the last time you heard of a native application leaking passwords in a way that made them accessible to someone who didn't already have access to your desktop or mobile phone?

> On the other hand, I know nothing of Xauth. It too may allow you not to save passwords.

With xAuth, you exchange the user's username and password for a revokable authentication token. The application can then use that token for future requests, discarding the provided username/password.
Why not mmap?
You're either exceptional, or live somewhere where the cost of living is very low compared to America. Even in the scuzzy college dives here in Raleigh, NC, it would be a struggle to live on $10/day ($300/month); my share of a 4-way rent split on a reasonably-decent apartment is >$300/mo.

If you're living on $300/mo in America, or somewhere with a similar cost of living (it sounds like the OP is), realize that (statistically speaking) the majority of the author's audience doesn't share your financial situation.

If you're living somewhere with a considerably lower cost of living, adjust the price of "better than bargain-bin" nail clippers for your locale, then reconsider the point the author is making.

Also, don't use nail clippers if the example doesn't fit your situation. I use nail clippers every week or two, so it's a good example for me. For you? Buy the paper plates that don't get soggy, and aren't so flimsy that you need two hands to keep your food from spilling. Or invest in a nice set of real plates once that you can use forever, instead of buying paper plates every couple of weeks.

Generalize. Don't reject the OP's point just because one specific example doesn't fit your lifestyle.
Well you don't have to be stuck in traffic. Your Android or iPhone could tell you there is a major traffic jam up ahead or you might know that between x-y time, you'll hit the daily commute rush. That way you could just "take off" from your street where you know there is clear skys and low traffic.
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Not exactly the same thing, but this interested by this should check out the Whole Brain Emulation Roadmap by Nick Bostrom and Anders Sanberg. Very advanced and I didn't understand most of it, but it was still fascinating:

http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/3...
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The alternative is to display the Twitter URL that the user must go to to authorize the app. Then have them copy-paste the credentials back into the app. I.e.:

Go to this url to authorize app:
http://twitter.com/auth?token=blah

Please input credentials: [__________]
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Taking the sum is itself expensive, though (in terms of logical operations). I don't think that realization really buys you much of anything - in particular, the least significant bit of the sum is by definition the parity of the set, so calculating the rest of the sum will only increase the number of operations required.
If the "third party" is actually a malicious native application, they can just simulate the launch of Safari, and most users probably won't even notice.

In this threat model, OAuth is practically a security no-op and a huge usability negative.
So basically, they should improve their English and let the developers do the work.

Not that I'm saying that once one commits to a non-technical role that they abandon all hope of acquiring technical language skills, but what I am saying is that unless they're dedicated to learning and using that language 100% of the time, then they're never going to be a significant contributor to the product and it'll end up taking away from their contributions to the other 1000 things they're supposed to be doing.
This is a pretty solid hypothesis, but wouldn't the same be true of the exploited cached images? They are essentially the same thing: stale resources that won't be used again, and those regions need to be free'd up.
No offense, but I actually picked Ruby because everyone just seemed so damned excited all the time, gushing over the latest Rails release or coming up with weird names for gems, and when you're knee-deep in bug-infested legacy code or banging your head against the keyboard wondering why you're the only hacker in the world that doesn't get it, that's actually very important.
I think you are correct, I can't seem to find anyone that's actually simulated the complete nervous system and reproduce any behaviors.
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I'm no authority but I'm gonna have to disagree. Hackers as understood on this forum are people who find the shortest path to an intended outcome. This usually takes a novel way of looking at the system. But it by no means requires a complete understanding of it. Hacking requires a clever insight that allows you to quickly accomplish your goal. Total understanding is usually too time consuming for the hacker.
Heh, I just got an email that did a remarkable job of appearing exactly like a typical Apple Store email.

Be careful out there folks. You don't know what's on the other end of that link.
article title stunned me in an 'ah ha' sort of way -- sounds like a play/set of moves right up apple's alley
Not exactly related to this story, but...

A friend in China is taking the GMAT, and was confused about a question, and asked me to word it differently for her. When she typed out the "critical reasoning" example (Given A and B, deduce which of the following is true,) it was something to the effect of:

"The computer industry's estimate that it loses millions of dollars when users illegally copy programs without paying for them is greatly exaggerated. Most of the illegal copying is done by people with no serious interest in the programs. Thus, the loss to the industry is quite small, because__________"

The answer being "most people who illegally copy programs would not purchase them even if purchasing them were the only way to obtain them."

Kinda blew my mind that this was on a test. I mean, sure, it's true, but still.
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> I don't believe that hell exists now, but it would certainly be possible to create a technological hell if brain uploading and simulation is possible.

Bostom's simulation argument says we're almost certainly living in a computer simulation. This opens up the doors right now for posibilities like "hell." Life after death (with memories, etc) becomes possible...all kinds of things. Scary, really.
It is clear in the video you need a runway

He said it could take off from a football field and clear the stanchions. It evidently needs a 300 foot unpaved field and a bit of space around it without anything exceedingly tall. That's pretty good performance, and you can get by with a lot less than a proper runway, but it can't take off from a traffic jam.
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Yeah but that gets some getting used to. My dad sleeps like that :) ...
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Interesting. Mind if I e-mail you with some questions about schools adopting some of these techniques, and about gifted programs, and homeschooling? I'm hugely interested in all this and you seem to be very informed here.
> - No scripting language... except the whole thing is built on Node.js... :) [...] Basically, for scripting, I think the command line is a shitty place for it, and we should just switch to using a real language in its own little console when needed.

I could see this being done well-- it's not hard to beat bash for syntax and functionality-- but I could also see it being done poorly or considered an ancillary feature.

Shell scripting sucks, but it's the only language I know that lets me write tiny little scripts in not minutes but seconds, inline, without breaking out of the flow. Just like dynamic versus static languages, the quantitative difference in writing speed is enough to make a qualitative difference in the types of programs that can be written; and the difference between a non-scriptable shell and a scriptable one is like the difference between a GUI and a good CLI.

A large part of that scriptability is just grep and sed and friends, which TermKit apparently does support, but sometimes bash's loop structures are also required...

Just my two cents.
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