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Updated. Doesn't looks like a huge issue, although obviously needs to be fixed;

"It seems that the 'victim' had opened an account using an email address of mine, with extra characters thrown in, which Gmail ignores and accepts as the same email address, so it was gmail which uncorrupted the email address and sent the emails to me, not Paypal. I had previously reported an account set-up with fraudulent email address to Paypal many times in the past, but only yesterday noticed that the email address was different to mine, in a way which on any other email system in the world would be a different email address."

From http://namesake.com/conversation/mattlangley/i-just-accident...
Update: "It seems that the 'victim' had opened an account using an email address of mine, with extra characters thrown in, which Gmail ignores and accepts as the same email address, so it was gmail which uncorrupted the email address and sent the emails to me, not Paypal. I had previously reported an account set-up with fraudulent email address to Paypal many times in the past, but only yesterday noticed that the email address was different to mine, in a way which on any other email system in the world would be a different email address."
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Appears this is a non-issue. For those who have been following. Matt Langley (the person who "discovered" the issue) has been posting updates here:

http://namesake.com/conversation/mattlangley/i-just-accident...

Relevant post:

"It seems that the 'victim' had opened an account using an email address of mine, with extra characters thrown in, which Gmail ignores and accepts as the same email address, so it was gmail which uncorrupted the email address and sent the emails to me, not Paypal. I had previously reported an account set-up with fraudulent email address to Paypal many times in the past, but only yesterday noticed that the email address was different to mine, in a way which on any other email system in the world would be a different email address.

Cheeky bugger. I'm gonna have to ask them to close it down or at least change the email address.

but I guess I owe you all an apology" - Matt Langley

edit: someone else posted this too.

so, some commentary. This should have been verified before posting, as it has caused some trouble for people who delinked their account etc. That said, I understand the rapid news cycle of blogging, though with something this potentially serious, I would think it would need to be verified.

Side note, first time I'd seen Namesake and it's kinda cool. Wish I could search.
It's certainly a thorny issue though. If you're going to run any sort of welfare state, it's pretty hard to argue for totally open borders; it simply leads to financial ruin, as much of Europe has found out over the last 30 years (which is why European countries have swiftly and brutally tightened immigration policies). If you're giving away a lot of free stuff, you're forced to guess at which immigrants are going to be productive and contribute to your society and which are just there for the freebies.

I've always found this cognitive dissonance interesting (particularly and recently evident in France): those who feel it's morally wrong not to support the poorest of their societies have no problem refusing to do the same for those who were born on the other side of an arbitrary stripe on a map.
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Entity Person contains collection of entity ContactInfo. In DB we have tables PERSON, CONTACT_INFO and foreign key from CONTACT_INFO to PERSON. What the difference in relations in code (between entities) and in DB between tables? In this example.
Thanks for the pointer: that was a leftover from the 0.x templates.
Now that's another interesting thing you could do with OpenStreetMap.....
...but, why would you want to?
"Don't use IDs in selectors".

What?

I need my CSS fast, Ferrari fast.

I don't need toddlers to be able to have a mental model of all my style rules.
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I'm having this problem now, could we connect offline? Your thinking could bring me some clarity.
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Can this even be possible?
I have done this. I have given him specific actionables to try.

I am now at a loss to communicate how to be more productive. I have tried by example, by direct recipe. I have a feeling that either he doesn't get it or he isn't smart enough.
They've seen rapid betterment in the last 60 years going from an average (inflation adjusted) yearly wage of $364/year in 1950 to $7226/year today.

How does that translate to 'little to no hope for betterment'? It's still not great, but it seems the govt are doing as much as they can (and better than anyone else) to improve things.
This is nuts. Awesome though. Can't believe he broke the story on Namesake first!
The installation with Ubuntu Natty was as painless as it could be. Grub2 with EFI support worked right away. What distribution/kernel combination are you using?

I had a few strange kernel oopses with 2.6.39 kernels, that seemed to be SATA related. That's why I downgraded back to 2.6.38.

Could you let me know whether your wireless replacement worked or not? Right now the bad wireless connectivity is the biggest issue I'm having.
This is Zee from The Next Web. Just woken up to this and have personally spoken to Matt Langley the person in question who - after some convincing - explained the entire process to me.

It is indeed not a massive security vulnerability but a much smaller one. We're updating our piece as we speak and can only apologise that we published before being absolutely sure of the level of the treat.
Actually this is about one of the first things you learn in in a probability theory course, and the probability that bogosort completes in finite time is 1.

Now of course, there's infinitely many conceivable scenarios where bogosort never completes, but it doesn't matter. The theoretical foundation (Lebesgue measure theory) to make this mathematically rigid is a bit complex. An example to illustrate:

Assume you have're looking at a 2-dimensional space (over the real numbers) and you want to measure the area of subsets of it. E.g. the area of a square defined as:

{ (x,y) \in \R | 0 <= x <= 1 and 0 <= y <=1 }

Now the area of that is 1. Then carve out the y-axis like this:

{ (x,y) \in \R | 0 < x <= 1 and 0 <= y <=1 }

It's obviously a smaller set than the square above, but the set that's missing doesn't have any area (it's a line with no width). So it's sane to assume that the area of the new subset is still 1.

[btw: Lebesgue measure theory throws in a few more simple assumption and then derives a very nice theory for computing areas, and in extension integration of functions.]

Now probabilities are the same: Instead of points in the plane you have different runs of bogosort and the measure of the "area" for all events is defined to be 1. But you still can carve out complete "lines" (i.e. sets with even infinte many different runs of bogosort) that don't have any influence on the value of your total "area", i.e. probability.

To conclude, your in /pratice/ actually holds up in theory, too ;-)

Edit: Lebesgue measure is actually only the application onto real spaces, the fundamental thing that also applies to probabilities is just called measure theory. Mixed that up a bit.
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I'm with you too. But who's the gatekeeper?
There is some truth to that - a lot of the older millionaires got there though connections, or outdated business practices. But that doesn't mean they are all bad, or that the new generations don't have issues.

And I think you are underestimating the damage the loss of capital will do. China is choked for finance (since only connected companies get credit), so losing private capital will really hurt.

And an outright ban is unlikely to work, they will find ways to move their wealth out.
Such regulations will make the government fair game even for more ethical hackers.*

* I do not condone this course of events, just a prediction.
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VMOD is to Varnish as loadable module is to a kernel. The new Varnish provides a programmable interface that enables expanding the VCL (Varnish Configuration Language).

VCL is the only fault I can find with Varnish. Is a new language really necessary here? Why not extend via lua or scheme?
> After all, one can't always tell with certainty which immigrants are the "good" immigrants and which are the "bad" ones, in advance.

You can. Those with advanced degrees should be viewed as "desirable" immigrants.
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I don't know why we're so picky about our employees, either. After all, one can't always tell with certainty which ones are the 'good' employees and which are the 'bad' ones in advance.

Look, there's a world of difference between someone coming to America to do sub-minimum-wage farm labor and someone coming to America to start a company. Enlightened policies raise our average skill level, not lower it.
No, that minimum is exactly what will fail in this case.
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I heartily agree, but would still place this article firmly in the "politics" category - it's not just about startup visas or things like that.

For exhibit A, we have some guy commenting already "If you're going to run any sort of welfare state, it's pretty hard to argue for totally open borders; it simply leads to financial ruin, as much of Europe has found out over the last 30 years", which is of course complete bunk, as "much of Europe" is most certainly not "financially ruined".
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Just read about this. So far I have tried very hard to blame the process and not the person but in a small startup - I don't understand how to not put blame on the person.

Edit: I don't want to bitch or make this sound like a rant. Whenever I have tried to point out weaknesses and areas of improvement, they seem to cause cognitive dissonance.
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You're quoting this, but you still don't get it? :/
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Yep, we see this a lot in London, lots of Russians move here as soon as they can afford it. French too.
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Using Erlang in real-world projects?
I'm playing with Erlang right now and I really enjoy it, but being it so different than usual imperative and OOP that are now widely accepted anywhere I fear it may be difficult to adopt it in some context (even when it's the perfect tool for the context).
I'd like to hear your opinion about that.

Are you using Erlang for any significant project at work?
What kind of system are you building?
Was it difficult to persuade your boss/company to allow you to use that?
Did you have any difficulty because of the choice you made (e.g. staffing skilled people, needing more time to build the skills your team needs)?
It's a key strategic decision around the concept of 'Positioning' - do you want to be positioned in the marketplace around your Product (Sprite, Fanta etc) or your Company (McDonalds). Neither is better or worse, but it is a decision to consider.

Remarkably, my grandmother calls McDonalds "Big Mac" ("as in, Jacob used to work at Big Mac"), which is proof you can have a plan and make a decision but you can't completely control how your customers view you.
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Thanks for all the comments. And I'm glad to have this naming exercise behind me. I'm writing another post about the process and will give you details on tools I used.
That could become a loaded policy, one which encourages universities to crank out graduates with those degrees, not necessarily with the expected understanding. [1]

I'm not saying its a bad idea, but it draws a somewhat arbitrary line in the sand, one which would eliminate some of the "desirable" immigrants - entrepreneurs that have dropped out and gone on to build amazing companies.

[1] A good example can be found here: http://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-brazil-education and the associated discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2483976
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The average/mean only represents something if it's distributed about the mean.

One of the major issues in China right now is that that's not the case - the creation of a minted upper class is skewing the data and hiding the distribution - which is that there is a sea of poor, below the poverty line, with little to no hope for improvement, and an increasingly wealthy upper and middle class.

Keep in mind that the gap between the lower and middle class in China is much wider than the equivalent gap in the US. In reality people in the "middle class", in relative terms, would be far into the upper classes in the US.
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now and I really it, ...

This sentence no verb.

Well, obviously it does, but I thought it was funny. You might want to edit your first sentence while you have time.

And I don't, and haven't used Erlang, although I'd like to and am trying to create the opportunity.
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life is short, do you want to spend most of it dealing with people or things?

Common misconception about introversion vs extraversion: that it always manifests in interactions with other people. The reality is that they define how you deal with the outer world. For instance, riding a roller coaster is an extraverted activity, even if you go alone. Staying home and reading a book is an introverted activity even if you invite someone else to read with you.

When you say you like "things", that's still an extraverted attitude. Things still exist in the outer world. The real question is "Do you prefer the outer world or your inner world?" This is the question that helped me realize that I'm an (unfocused, non-goal-oriented) extravert.
Oh it does. And it always happens when you least expect it. I had my main source of income disappear overnight twice.

Once was when 5 chargebacks came in on one day early in a month from a set of 5 credit card payments made by a single scammer; that put my account over some chargeback percentage level allowed by my merchant account provider and they terminated me on the spot after years of service. I had to ask dozens of customers with monthly subscriptions to sign up again with another payment provider, not all of them did.

The second time Google decided it would no longer allow AdWords ads for an entire category of (perfectly legal, non-scammy) services and suspended all ads in that category, including mine. Overnight my largest source of customers is gone and is never coming back. There's still Bing/Yahoo! but nobody quite matches the reach of Google for online advertising.

At this point I plan backups for the loss of every possible business relationship just to keep myself sane... while praying I never have to switch to the backups because there's obviously a reason they're the backup and not the primary.
Correction: It's not "reader", but "writer" (rendering)

There are other libs out there:
WPS: PostScript for the Web http://logand.com/sw/wps/index.html
jspdf http://code.google.com/p/jspdf/
My Chinese online friend has similar sentiments. Her main concerns are rampant corruption and lack of religious freedom.
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What's your end goal? Are you trying to build this up to be a business in itself? Or just trying to make a name for yourself?

I think one key to building an audience in blogging is regular content. Last post appears to be Jun 10th. That's a really long stretch. More content also helps with bringing in traffic via search engines.

Of course, posting compelling content. Stuff that is shared with others.

And this may be my personal bias but I am having a really hard time with the theme. I find it very hard to read. The headings seem to be the same style as the story titles. The text is rather hard to focus on, etc. I honestly can't get through an article.
So this is the gist...There is a small vulnerability because Gmail allows you to include dots in your email address, it essentially allows anyone to create multiple Paypal accounts with the same email address because Paypal recognises the inclusion of a dot as a separate email address entirely. It's seems like a flaw but not a massive security vulnerability.

Also Paypal also doesn't appear to verify email addresses on registration so anyone can create multiple accounts for the same person without any need to click a confirmation link in a verification email. Again, a flaw but not a massive security vulnerability as far as we can tell.
It's probably only a matter of time until someone writes a Lua-to-VCL translator/compiler.
Crocodoc looks great! Just out of curiosity: do you have a set of fonts ready to deliver to the client in order to make the font-face approach work? What do you do if the PDF if using some obscure font type? Are you using Poppler for server side processing?
What? The article makes the exact opposite case, did you even read it?
Amazing. I'm having a flash back to 1987 when I was taking a computing science 150 course at Coquitlam College - predominately Asian students (Hong Kong) at the time and a significant part of the class already had the exam. They, somehow, had determined that our instructor also taught at BCIT, and, had managed to acquire the exam he used their.

Lo and behold, when the exam was presented, I realized that I'd already seen it, and went to the instructor to let him know.

I'd never really thought that this was a cultural thing, but, in hindsight, it was astonishingly well organized...
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Actually it can be worse than the reference you provided - some universities are in fact businesses selling degrees with no regard to quality OR quantity whatsoever (rote learning? you'd wish).

Basically it's like going to the market - see a license you like, then buy it.

That's what happens when the system is broken - you put stupid discriminatory rules in place, then prepare to get played.
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I'm helping some non-technical people start their startup and the question is a common one,"How do I prevent my technical lead from stealing my idea and creating their own version?" I've struggled with a good answer. Is there any standard contract for this kind of thing?
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I like Erlang... by the way Elixir 0.3 has been released.

What I don't like is that the erlang community criticizes Node.js it's like they feel threatened.
This was my first thought (FF4 on Win7) - looks really bad.
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It is a "reader" from the context of the user -- it is software the user uses to read a PDF. In this context a "writer" would be software you use to author a new PDF file. I think it is safe to say this is the more widely accepted terminology on this sort of thing considering Adobe's own PDF viewer is of course called "Adobe Reader".
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I am pretty well informed on both the UN & ICJ and while I can say I agree with what their goals are I think the means and implementation are completely incorrect. I think that not intervention and human relief/asylum/evacuation are the ways to deal with international problems.

I prefer a loosely integrated system where it's hard for anyone group to gain control. This requires decentralization & a lack of strong international organizations.

I'd like to note, that I'm interested in stability & corruption - worst case scenarios, etc. If you have anything you recommend that addresses those issues I'd like to read it. And lastly, I'd like to quote milton friedman: "One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results."
Thank you for pointing it out!

I started working on Dinosaur Island (http://www.facebook.com/careers/puzzles.php?puzzle_id=19) just to build that opportunity, actually.
It is kind of a "toy" example, though, so I was interested in hearing from people working on "real" applications.
It's not true and it's not a 'vulnerability'.

When you sign up for a gmail address, all dot variations of the email address belong to you. So if you have andzdroid@gmail.com, then emails to andz.droid@gmail.com will also go to you, and a.n.d.z.d.r.o.i.d@gmail.com will also go to you.

What happened to the OP is that somebody signed up using a variation of his email. Obviously, if I signed up at paypal with YOUR email address, you'd start receiving MY paypal emails.

There is no vulnerability. Only stupid people signing up with other peoples' emails.
Owing to the lack of options, this is only useful for linting CSS written by the authors or anyone who happens to agree with their opinions on what constitutes good CSS.

Crockford may be an opinionated cantankerous old goat, but at least he gives you options to dial down some of the crazy he's baked into JSLint.

* He's also awesome, but anyone who's worked at Yahoo! or glanced at the JSLint Issues list or Pull Request queue can attest that he has strong opinions.
And I recommend SCSS (http://sass-lang.com/ instead. It solves many problems you can come across when dealing with CSS and in much more elegant way.

E.g. rules reuse in SCSS can be done with @extend: http://sass-lang.com/docs/yardoc/file.SASS_REFERENCE.html#ex... That way instead of adding classes to your HTML you just group selectors in your CSS appropriately.

Seriously, if you do CSS and did not try SCSS do it now.
When you sign up for a gmail address, all dot variations of the email address belong to you. So if you have andzdroid@gmail.com, then emails to andz.droid@gmail.com will also go to you, and a.n.d.z.d.r.o.i.d@gmail.com will also go to you.

What happened to the OP is that somebody signed up using a variation of his email. Obviously, if I signed up at paypal with YOUR email address, you'd start receiving MY paypal emails.

There is no vulnerability. Only stupid people signing up with other peoples' emails.
Why isn't it a good idea?