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This could happen to any developer. All it takes is a dumb installation package to screw up your permissions, or something similarly trivial.

Also, it's not a matter of development, but security and system administration. They are often performed not only by different people, but sometimes even by different sub-organizations in different physical locations. It's not a good excuse, but we shouldn't be so quick to judge developers author knowing what exactly happened.
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This should not be downvoted and in fact probably needs to be a top-level comment to counter the kind of misinformation the grandparent of this post is basing his complaint on.
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Here's Scott Adams' site:
http://www.msadams.com/

You can download Windows versions of all the SAGA adventures there (apart from the Marvel ones, I think), and he has links to web-playable versions.
If you buy coffee, it's hot enough to hurt you

No, that's not true - it depends on where you buy it from and what their policy on coffee temperature is.

And I don't know if you bought coffee from McDonalds, but at some point they used to serve coffee in containers made out of a thick layer of cellulose (from what I could see) which wasn't leaking any heat; giving you absolutely no clue whatsoever to how hot or cold the coffee was just by holding it. Think about that for a second - when you're holding a glass with hot tea or coffee, you can feel it in your hand. But what if that glass was cold as if holding iced tea?

Yes, I got burned too, but not as badly as to suffer 3rd degree burns and I still buy coffee from McD. But I imagine I would get pretty pissed too above a certain threshold.
It seems to me that the flagging was due to the title of the old article. I can't see the title since it's dead, but it appears that the old title implied that the supreme court said those things. This title does not imply that, so there's no need to flag this one.
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> The Wave Disk Generator uses 60 percent of its fuel for propulsion; standard car engines use just 15 percent. As a result, the generator is 3.5 times more fuel efficient than typical combustion engines.

I'm skeptical.

Thermodynamic limits apply. While piston engines aren't near the limits, I'm pretty sure that they're around 50% of the limit and would be very surprised if this engine is over 80% of carnot.

So, the only way this engine can be 2x as efficient is if it runs at a significantly higher temperature (which moves the limit).

And, the only way that it can run without a transmission is if it has a very wide operating range. That's hard to do with combustion. And, unless the engine is both reversible and has torque at zero RPM, they'll need both a clutch and a reverse gear.

If they use it to run a generator, they need to account for the electric motor, said generator, and maybe batteries. See diesel-electric locomotives. The prius combines the electric motor and the generator, but needs a transmission.
"So difficult to open that ....between her legs"

Where is the logic there? Something is difficult to open so the immediate response is to put it between your legs? And it's a hot beverage? Sorry...that's idiotic. Zero dollars. Stop wasting the court's time. It doesn't matter what McD did or did not do. You are primarily responsible for your own well being. Nobody tricked her into thinking the coffee was iced tea. Nobody told her that she must use her thighs (?!) to open it.
There was a Haml-like language called GHRML a while back, but it seems to have disappeared. There is something like it called SHPAML: http://shpaml.webfactional.com/

Though I think Ruby has better markup libraries in general. For example, they have Nokogiri, which is an absolute joy to use for XML parsing. And implementations of Markdown and Textile with actual parsers, whereas Python Markdown and Python Textile are straight regex-using ports of the Perl/PHP versions. It's kinda sad really.
There's a whole programming language, testing & documentation framework, and IDE. http://inform7.com/
While PageRank might not be all that important to your site, it is important how your site is perceived by others. PR used to be _the_ way to measure the value of a site and that kinda stuck.

> I’ve seen folks spend thousands of dollars per month on links or advertising on a site simply because ‘the site has a great PageRank’.

Me too, so if you are a site that thrives on advertising or link revenue, PageRank remains very important.

Avvo.com said that when their PageRank rises, so do the number of business development calls. Even when PR and business dev calls are not correlated, the perception is still very real.

For larger sites having a higher PageRank also means deeper crawls, longer crawls and faster recrawls (I've heard it influence rich snippets and sitelinks too.). Not something to measure like it is the holy grail of marketing, but it is something to keep an eye out for, even if it just to check if you are not ranked 0 (which could mean a serious problem).

I wouldn't put my money where my mouth is, if PageRank doesn't matter, I still prefer links from higher PageRank domains. PageRank might be dead, it is not buried yet.
i foresee an article 'what we lost in the transition from keyboards to audio-visual interfaces'.
I have edited my answer for this. You need to make sure your web resume is accessible from all of your online profiles that employers might stumble upon. LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, GitHub, whatever you think employers will check about you, make sure that the first thing they see if the url to your web resume.
So Im perplexed about how the gaming XP machine fits in here. I can understand that maybe that machine was used to log into the gmail account once and the auto login would have let the "hacker" in once. How then, if the user changed the password and security questions, etc did this person access the account 2 more times???
You're right, this was a format complaint only.

When a sentence had an identifiable "other" verb-- for example "Then substituting gives x = y/2"-- everything was fine.

The reviewer actually made some incredible suggestions for restructuring the paper to bring out the important points. I'd hate for people to come away from my original comment thinking the reviewer is anything other than a very bright person who was pushing me to make the paper as clear as possible.
Seems like a drop-in-the-ocean type of solution.
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It is not an exercise worth ignoring: I had also once thought that pi should be replaced.

Slightly different motivation, though, as it seemed to me that pi/2 was really more interesting, and anyway it is really much easier to write multiplication than fractions when you run into a discrepancy. Here the roots of the sine are at even multiples and the roots of the cosine are at odd multiples, and e^(i pi/2) = i is more interesting than the previous incarnations of the Euler formula.

The thing is that the important parts of these formulae are the way they are derived and the structure they represent, not their appearance on a sheet of paper. If you can understand what relates the zeta function at even numbers to the ratio of a circle's radius and circumference, it really does not matter if you choose to represent this relation with a drawing of an elephant.
Here's some attorney practice materials (a whitepaper) on the California's Unfair Competition Law: http://www.stroock.com/SiteFiles/Pub168.pdf (PDF). In the first paragraph it is described, quoting a CA Supreme Court Justice, as "a standardless, limitless, attorney fees machine" that, because of its "broad and sweeping provisions," "will continue to be alleged in almost every consumer protection action."
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I'm confused. He says PageRank is useless but then go on to compare it favorably to toolbar PageRank?

What does 50% useless mean?
Hi dadads, thanks for your comment.

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Maybe someone was like me and they didn't think to not search for their password which ended up on their browser history. The title had password leaks in it and that's the first thing I thought of when I got there: "Hey my MtGox password got leaked lets google it."

For that matter, I have a unique password (with the necessary special characters) for each account that associates with my identity (Not naming any examples here), but only several unique passwords for websites I don't intend to use much e.g. to read newspapers, and apparently, MtGox.

(Yes, I was searching for my MtGox. password because it was the same password I used for random throwaway sites. No I never used it, I don't even remember having confirmed my account there. My asset in bitcoins amount to < $2 USD.)

I still don't understand why all the downvotes. It would've helped me if someone reminded me not to actually google my password with my browser watching. Apparently not anyone else.
Pivoting is when something rotates around a fixed point.

If you take the product you already built (your fixed point) and apply it to a different market, that's a pivot.

Pet Peave: If you rename your company and now it's doing something completely new with a new codebase, it's not a pivot, it's starting over!
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Good suggestion, thanks. :-)
I actually started working on a Ruby IF framework, with the intent that it could also be used to create MUDs and IF-ish games that had combat, so they can be played like an RPG.

I haven't gotten far yet, sadly. You are correct about the player's input being an issue, and the mapping has some issues to resolve, but the biggest problem is actually the interactions between objects or the player and objects.

For instance, the 'push' command is going to mean something different to every entity. Some won't respond (default response) but others might move or react.

I actually implemented that once in C# in such a way that it confused most of the other developers and they quit. I offered to scrap my code, but that was kind of the end of the project. -sigh-
The most compelling argument for me in using tau, (and I have started trying to think in tau when it comes up) is the radians argument: one quarter of a circle is tau/4, or pi / 8, you pick.

I am certain my kids will have an easier time remembering tau/4, as I do myself.

The other compelling thing for me came from remembering just how many integrals from 0 to 2pi I wrote over my freshman complex analysis class. A lot. Less notation is always nice; having tau represent the entire circle just makes a lot of sense!
Almost certainly due to lower obesity rates, rather than the negligible difference between normal sugar and HFCS.
I notice the contents are misaligned too...
We're getting rid of all the magic we can avoid. With 0.7 barely any magic is left with the notable exception of backwards compatibility.
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Same for me. Class-based views were basically the only thing I missed from django for my particular app.
I think the potential in India is huge after having worked there for so many years. Mobile developers shouldn't forget this here in the US.
tldr; Don't start over unnecessarily. Try to listen to your customers and implement reasonable changes to satisfy important needs.
The title in the previous submission was:

Unbelievable statements in GPL related
case in the Supreme Court of Mauritius

That looks pretty similar to me. As far as I can tell, all details of the previous submission are identical. Additionally, my comment was not a call to flag this one, it was information.

So I don't know why I was getting down-voted. <shrug> Lately there seem to be more and HN readers whose behaviour I just don't understand.
What are some inexpensive cloud options to run redis for large data sets up to say a gb or so?
Just played it. Fun game. Here's what it's missing...

First time I loaded it the menu seemed sluggish. When I pressed buttons, the button gave no feedback and I wasn't sure if the click had registered. I understand there's loading time involved, but some feedback would be nice.

During game play when I "Shoot" there is nothing that displays a shooting event. Balls just explode if my cross-hares are on it. That seems odd. Again, a feedback issue.

Also the menu buttons seem smaller than needed and there are too many options. If you could make it simpler that might be better.

Overall the game play is smooth and the gyro controls are cool. I think this would make a really engaging first person shooter. Maybe shooting something other than balls for points would be more fun.
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Yup, we get these at a place I work quite regularly. Presumably they're targetting small businesses to some extent. However I've had one at home and have friends in the same UK area that have had them (they have all Macs).

I strung them along a couple of times. For me they did the eventviewer thing, I played naive. They took me to gotomypc (IIRC) or at least an equivalent and wanted me to install a custom app from the site so they could "fix" my comp.

Now I tend to just ask them why they're trying to scam me and if they understand that we're not well off and trying to scrape a living too, usually they hang up. Once I said "You're just trying to scam me aren't you?" and the guy replied "Yeah, it's all just a big scam" unfortunately I was with clients so couldn't chat to him more.

If I'm not busy I'll ask them to hold the line and then just put the phone down (not on the hook) and leave it til it gives the "you forgot to hang up" alarm.
Because you don't go to Gruber's site expecting anything but Apple news. It's unfair to complain he writes about that, it's the only thing he writes about and the only reason to go to his site at all.

On TC it feels like they secretly wish they were an Apple blog.
SoSasta software seems coded by scriptkiddies. Groupon's takeover was a big blunder.
C'mon! Mistakes happen, sure. But a correctly written robots.txt would prevent this
i get the same type of result for 'gmail'. Most of the queries result in pictures of women showing panties or in thongs.
Exactly. Also, if the library uses a hash function, let the caller override that.
I guess a lot of people is abandoning traditional "mediterranean diet", but not to adopt something healthier.
Thanks for your comments. It was a good question at the meetup, and one we get asked regularly. We will definitely help motivate you. If you sign up, let me know your username and I will make sure we give you support. I'm http://tribesports.com/users/andrew
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At some point IT will stop treating crusty enterprise web apps as web apps and start treating them as legacy enterprise apps that run in IE6.

Instead of mandating everyone run IE6 from now to eternity, IT will provide a Citrix link to launch the crusty web app inside the controlled Citrix environment, and allow users to use more modern browsers by default.

Or so we can hope.
Opera 11.50 is live. And it's not half bad.
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Maybe I missed it: why aren't you using pip? As I recall, the set up is as simple as: sudo pip install lxml or sudo pip install BeautifulSoup. If you're learning Python, definitely learn pip. Pip will make your life easier! :)
Those kind of game servers are typically a binary blob that you cannot configure externally at all. Your only configuration options are in-game settings like the map list, server name, player limit, etc.
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I remember as kid, playing the Zork series and exchanging hints with my 4th grade teacher. Great game, and that made it all the more fun.

I think the game that had the biggest impact on me, though, was a game for the Apple ][ called "Odyssey"... I remember many hours lost to that game:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey:_The_Compleat_Apventure
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one large payment is not cheaper than periodic payments. You can use company money for non business expenses but the IRS may catch up to you at some point. The penalties are not that stiff, but I wouldnt do it. It would be better to put your effort into building your business.

Here is one (IANAL and you need one to do this - if you need one I can recommend one)

Form an LP, make your C corp a general partner in the LP, you will be officers in the C corp. You will be limited partners in the LP. This gives you liability protection. The LP becomes your operating entity. Money flows into the LP from clients. It turns out that LP's can distribute money to limited partners without paying social security tax. There is no minimum salary required to do this. Your actual employees can be employees of the C corp as usual.

You will save around 15K/year per person who does this.

If you want to get money out completely tax free, look up a SEP IRA. The SEP ira lets you contribute 25% of your income up to 49K tax free. But it must be available for all employees. The company can contribute up to 50%.

Meals are only 50% deductible and it probably isnt worth doing, but if you guys go to dinner and talk business then your should. But if you put your cars into an LLC you can have your C corp pay the LLC and then deduct all car related expenses (insurance, gas, maintenance, interest). You can do the same with medical related expenses. IANAL - get a lawyer who understands how to do this.
Well, the address on the whois record is just down the street from my office. I could stop by there this afternoon and see who's behind this.

EDIT - Never mind, I see that's the Google CoHo. Guess we'll just wait and see.
I just visited www.onlinesupport.com, it would surprise me if they actually have anything to do with that scam.

They are based in Canada and even raised some money for charity according to their site.
Fructose is much more damaging than glucose. So HFCS is much more damaging than regular sugar (glucose-fructose).
And more importantly, the widespread use of HFCS is a major concern. It's too cheap, it's too legal, and it's a toxin. There's absolutely no use for it in our bodies.

Yes, obesity is the problem. HFCS can be blamed as a significant contributor to the obesity issue.

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Page Rank is the great red herring that keeps many SEOs busy with unimportant stuff.

PR doesn't boost your rankings, doesn't give you more traffic, doesn't convert prospects to buyers... and yet so many people obsess over it.

Unless you sell links to people who don't have a clue, PR is useless. And if you are selling these kinds of links, you're probably a spammer, not an SEO.
The U.S. has made a choice not to have any effective regulation of such things. Perhaps in another country, there are data security regulations with a regulatory agency in charge and when you have such a breach, you get a call from the government which is annoyed with you. The regulator imposes some sort of fine, demands an action plan to fix the problem, and generally fixes things and reduces the chances of them happening again.

The public, being satisfied that things are now fixed and realizing they weren't really harmed, declines to litigate.

Or there's the U.S. model. Since there is no regulator fixing things, the only way of effecting change is to litigate. The regulatory role has been outsourced to the courts. Of course, the courts are poorly equipped to be regulators, but it's like using a hammer when you really need a wrench: you haven't GOT a wrench, so the hammer must make do. So the courts make do and in general it costs more and regulates worse than a proper regulator would, but hey: you haven't GOT a wrench.
I'd be interested to hear stories from anyone going the other way, too.
Previous submission with several comments:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2270878

Also here, but no comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2694292

Not the same story, but related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1286510
And I've thought the talk would've been on QSORT.
I think I said that. Perhaps you said it better.
Great. Now we need spam flags.
I find it depressing that your comment was down-voted by at least two people — two people who, by virtue of their karma, are supposed to somehow have an understanding of what a productive comment is and what it isn't. The response your comment has received from these Gaurdian[1]-like members of our supposed nerd virtual polis[1] is evidence that you have a point.

Several weeks ago, Daring Fireball featured a link to an exchange between Ian Fleming and a man who wrote him offering suggestions (and a critique of James Bond's current) pistol selection. In a comment here at HN, I believe, someone noted the civility, the maturity of the exchange.

I thought about that comment, and I decided that I was going to try to restrain myself and make comments that a hypothetical adult might make.

HN is part of a problem, and that problem is what I'll call the cable news-ification of everything. No, not the Fox News-ification, but the cable news-ification, because the premise of all these channels is that when something happens, the most important thing is to have an opinion about what happened, and to broadcast and debate that opinion as vigorously as possible.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Republic_(Plato)
I think you mean phishing, not pishing. :)
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you dont pay SS tax but you pay two income taxes. Regular corporate income tax then personal income tax on any distributions.
I believe "gcc" was changed to mean "gnu compiler collection" some time ago.

Also IIRC, writting a compiler for a new language was painful: little documentation and some people said it was intentionally difficult to prevent that the license is subverted.
Cool, thanks for the feedback.

The menu buttons do have an invert effect when you tap them, but it might be too subtle. There's also audio feedback when you tap a button, but that doesn't help if you have your sound off.