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micro frameworks provide incomplete feature set. You tend to reinvent the wheel many times. I see no advantage in using them when I can have something more complete and feature rich.
Ask HN: How did Lulzsec inject the Javascript redirect?
After noticing that the page loads first then redirects to the Lulzsec Twitter, then after after disabling javascript the redirect stopped... I was certain it was some sort of Javascript injection.

Then after looking at some comments from the the following HN story (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2778422) I saw that someone had posted the link to the injection script on pastebin here: http://pastebin.com/pWQtngDc

After reading through, I am still a little unclear on how it all works.

I may be a little thick, but I would love to have someone explain how the injection worked!

Thanks,

Wesley
Georgia. On the East Coast you'd want peaches from Georgia.
The sort of mentality championed here is important to keep in mind, but it can also be dangerous if implemented the wrong way. I keep this in mind, too:

"The ninth virtue is perfectionism. The more errors you correct in yourself, the more you notice. As your mind becomes more silent, you hear more noise. When you notice an error in yourself, this signals your readiness to seek advancement to the next level. If you tolerate the error rather than correcting it, you will not advance to the next level and you will not gain the skill to notice new errors. In every art, if you do not seek perfection you will halt before taking your first steps. If perfection is impossible that is no excuse for not trying. Hold yourself to the highest standard you can imagine, and look for one still higher. Do not be content with the answer that is almost right; seek one that is exactly right." http://yudkowsky.net/rational/virtues
I'm not sure what you mean when you say that the rate "is not that good of a guide." Do you mean that you feel the rate of 1.2-1.8 million a year isn't as high as it sounds because the population density of the US is still relatively low?

Yes. I do think the US is one of the more immigrant-friendly nations, but the numbers admitted can't be divorced from their context.
I can't tell if bookstores have gotten markedly worse or if I've simply become more discriminating in what I'm looking for. When Barnes and Noble, Borders, et al first swept through the US I thought it was wonderful. I've spent an inordinate amount of money and time in big-box bookstores.

I moved to Germany some 9 years ago. In my first trips back to the US a bookstore was one of the detours I was most excited about. I'd typically return to Germany with a couple hundred bucks worth of books stuffed into my bag. My family, noticing this, started a habit of buying me B&N gift certificates (a pattern that's continued to this day).

But now, 9 years and thousands of dollars of Amazon.de purchases later, I can't say that I'm terribly excited about visiting the big box stores. I struggled to spend my most recent gift certificate. Struggled! I went looking for books on Chinese history, and in a two story Barnes and Noble in an upscale Houston neighborhood there were two books on the history of the most populous country in the world. There were huge aisles of random throwaway junk, games and other silliness and two books on Chinese history. Nor did they have Bertrand Russel's Principles of Mathematics or Aldous Huxley's Chrome Yellow.

I love books. Paper books. I have around a thousand of them. But I won't cry for the passing of the big-box stores if they're bent on becoming the Wal-Mart of reading.
A lot of Borders problems have nothing to do with the bookstore business itself. They've been horribly mismanaged for many years.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/01/what-wen...

I personally preferred our local Borders stores over the Barnes and Nobles. They usually had more titles in stock and were a little nicer furnished. But they started to go downhill about 2 years ago, with more and more empty space, damaged carpets, trashed bathrooms, etc.
Please learn what's actually meant by 80/20 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle - "roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes".
I don't know. In 1996, I think this would have been pretty novel. The idea of parsing a random block of text and converting everything that looked like a phone number certainly didn't exist in any device or software I can think of. I don't remember any email or IM clients detecting email addresses and making them links either.

Some software patents are in fact valid inventions. The fact that today, 15 years later, it seems obvious, doesn't mean it was at the time.
Neat. Apparently, it makes root vegetables too :)

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First, everyone assumed that no one knew knew about anything they did on the net. They thought that when they looked at an oven mitt in an online store, only they knew about it. The truth was that information was just unused by the store, and so the user never saw it.

Gradually, this notion became slowly dispelled when stores actually started leveraging this information to provide, for example, suggestions. It's all fine and good here.

Finally came targeted ads. The part that people find terrifying is when the suggestions are "following them around!". This is creepy in multiple aspects:

The first is that people don't quite understand how this happens (of course, we do). How is this information showing up in different websites? Did the store just let these other sites handle my information? In their eyes, the boundaries for who is allowed to my personal information seem to blur. This also breaks the paradigm of location that the user has in their mind. "If I don't go to site X that is, I won't see anything about site X." It looks like everyone knows everything.

The second is that it's creepy-through-analogy. The fact that it's going wherever you're going and nagging you constantly is weird. When I walk into a retail store, I'm usually asked if I want any help, and I decline politely. If, however, the salesperson keeps approaching me and trying to sell me things that I don't want, I get the fuck out. With targeted ads, the average user can't do that! The creepy sales guy is following you out to the street and into your home. This usually ends in extreme frustration.

Finally, there are also some nuances that targeted ads miss. Targeted adds are actually not that targeted, they're just there to grab at the "low hanging fruit" customers that are on the verge of making a decision. Just because I looked at a dildo once because I thought it was funny doesn't mean I want to be bombarded with the world's finest penis emulators for the next 3 days.
Robots arent doing most of the work americans used to -- people oversees are.
A friend of mine once brought a photocopied version of a 500p book to the open book final exam. The prof was the author of the book and went up to the student during the final exam.

"You photocopied my book???", and the student was "Yes, that is exactly what I did." Then they had a bit of skirmish.

In the end, the prof backed off -- and that is a good thing. He made us buy his 100$ book and, essentially, do proofreading for him. He was also a visiting prof, so none of this 100$ was going to be recoverable next year...
Complete madness. The US patent system needs a serious injection of common sense. Removing lawyers would also work. Same thing really I suppose.
Thanks for your comment. Please don't feel frustrated because of the downvotes you got. We have gotten some crazy people here. I hope it'll correct itself later.
Acquisition is the primary exit route of startups, only a very very tiny minority of startups going the IPO route.

Despite me giving a list of Groupon clones who Groupon have acquired you seem to have missed the point. Groupon enters new markets by acquiring the leading player in the local market, it's absolutely not about features but rather about market share.
Heh, not sure how the pastebin got mixed up but I updated the post above. It was setting parent.location.href to the twitter account.
Is this a sign of the future of books in general?
Got the message, I'll try to stop reading about stopping to read startup advice ;-)
It's obviously an off the top of my head post. Obviously that's part of the equation, and would have to be solved. It's not something that could happen immediately. An economic solution would evolve slowly, but only if it was decided.

Mexico does have a lot of oil, so part of those decisions could involve moving some of that oil from quick money exports to longer term desalination, little by little. It may not always be oil, maybe a good portion of the needed energy could come from tides, winds, chemical differentials between deep sea and shallow sea water. It could be Mexico's Moon project.
There's only one new TLD that we need, and it's ".app". If I had the money, I'd be building a registrar for it right now. :)
First, you have to define "bad". It's not bad for the planet, or bad for society as a whole. It's bad for the person who has that belief, because it leads him to act against his self-interest (as a poor person) and making him act for the interest of richer people.

It depends on how important your principles are to you. One expression of altruism that the left in the US doesn't seem to respect at all is the idea that someone who's poor or unemployed might still believe that it's not healthy for society to grant him all sorts of entitlements.

Put another way, apparently "voting for your own self interest" is a good thing only when the lower and middle classes do it. I find this hypocritical in the extreme.

Shouting "Why should the rich pay higher taxes so the poor can get better healthcare?" when you're yourself poor isn't "good" for you, is it?

I'd like to think that my bank balance doesn't determine my political thinking, with regard to what I believe is the best way to run a society for the long term benefit of all of its members.

I wholeheartedly reject the notion of 'class' when applied to productive adults in the United States. So the rhetoric of rich versus poor means nothing to me, beyond referring to an unreasonable concern that some people seem to have with numbers stored in a bank's database under keys associated with other account holders.
Looking for true partner might interested in activity/interaction graph
Well, I'm student and currently working on new project. But I'm only good at UI/X Design + some frontend, so I want to find someone interested in building this with me :)

I worked on project similar with this with other guys but I want to find true partner who is interested in it. Not about business partner, a true partner who can share thoughts, visions, and all funs and journeys.

My project is basically autogroup with nearby friends and share activities. so basically it will let people auto square(group) their friends by activities they did together, hangout together(autogrouping histories). Activities graph will include location area,histories and activity words and keep changing graph by interactions between friends and me. and then, notify that might be interested in.

It sounds like cool grouping app, But no. It will suggest where you go next, nearby same-minded people, and next activities. This will use shared activities and histories, but also Facebook connect. Grab facebook account and get all things, then system will analyze and turn into personal db.

and keep them interact thru frolic by that, notification system i said above. But also behind it- It will know, and change how we get info and act outside. The reason I put auto grouping thing on the front side of concept is, people usually not gonna use something looks very technical. By covering graph side to nice auto grouping to let them share activities without feeling something awkward.

comment or email me toddoh [at ] me.com my bio is on YC profile :P we can talk more about it!!
Borders is going out of business, the Kindle is now selling rental books to students: http://mashable.com/2011/07/18/amazon-textbook-kindle/

Is this a good thing? Or will books never disappear?
I'd love to see functions too, and am not sure your concerns are necessarily dealbreakers. Optimization should be easier if you use something like node-burrito for the low hanging fruit, and node.js developers are already aware that long synchronous loops should be avoided in a single-threaded environment.
@Bazookoid I've been thinking of something similar for the Japanese market as well. So I would be interested in a collaboration..

Some questions:
1. What is the technology stack you chose to develop in?
2. Have you integrated i18n into the code base?
3. Will the whole or part of the code be open sourced to Github? (or similar)
4. Does this have a mobile component? Smartphone and/or feature phones? Or are you expecting to go to html5 based web apps for mobile? Responsive design?
There is a separate permanent resident application category with no quota for those individuals. For doctorate holders, it is the EB1-EA. If you have significant capital and invest in the US, you can apply via the EB-5 category.
Analysis of the jailbreakme v3 font exploit
The US has plenty of rich, educated people. What we need (according to current illegal immigration activity) are less educated lower wage hourly workers.

I don't see a lot of Canadian PhDs smuggling themselves in to the US, compared to Mexican laborers. Because there isn't demand to support the risk. The US seems far more willing to pay for laborers than PhDs.
In my area, every Borders was built quite close to an existing Barnes and Noble location. It's pretty frustrating because there are other perfectly viable locations with no bookseller or a tiny Waldenbooks.

I've spent some time trying to come up with good uses for empty big box stores. I now have an empty Circuit City, Borders, and grocery store within a few miles of my house. They get used seasonally for fireworks or Halloween or calendar retailers ("the hermit crabs of the retail industry") but nothing else.

I'd love to see someone go into one and open a laser tag / trampoline / rock climbing / indoor playground type space, especially one with tables and wifi.
LulzSec Hacks The Sun, Posts Fake Story on Murdoch Death
I'm using an excellent GoTasks for iOS http://shurakov.name/gotasks
The Sun newspaper gets hacked by LulzSec
we'll show those jerks that hacking people's voicemail is unacceptable... by hacking their CMS.
No it's not. Japanese cellphones probably have had Japanese-English dictionaries in them even before smartphones took hold here. I saw them being used to look up English words all the time.

What Japanese are attached to is the 12-key flip phone form factor. So much so that Sharp released a 12-key flip phone running Android a year or two ago. My guess is that the dictionaries fill a high-end niche that cellphones historically could not: when you need a more extensive dictionary, have to look up a lot of words or translate entire sentences, and need to type quickly. As smartphones (iPhone, Android) become dominant, I think those dictionaries will disappear.
Interesting post, but mixes 2 really interesting topics up. I would have loved to learn more about that 2 different thinking styles mentioned.
No, the reason is that the time to file all those thousands of patents, and the filings fees, makes it infeasible for normal people.

But very feasible for IBM, Microsoft, Apple, etc. - companies with many laywers and engineers, and lots of money.
Don't blame e-books for Borders' death. It was a dead chain walking for years.
Same idea, not the same implementation: https://github.com/laverdet/node-fibers
I was 17 at the time, and heavily into computers, programming, and the Internet as a hobby. Far from being novel I thought this idea falls into the "bleeding obvious" category.
Not to excuse Lulzsec's actions, but don't you think that we should hold an international news organization to a higher standard?
Rohrer is one of the few game-artist around. I'd encourage everyone to check out his life, career or works of art.
I am counting on longevity as my most worthy talent.
Not sure about Android yet... gotta figure out marketing for one platform first :)

the apps are targeted at Games (a Hanging with Friends cheat app), News (BlogFire - a mainstream RSS reader app), and Twitter (TweetFire - an upcoming twitter client)
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If it actually works, why wouldn't Google just feed the stock data to it, and make billions by predicting future prices?
> This seems really inappropriate for HN, to be honest with you. Please, with all due respect, leave this stuff for digg or reddit.

I'm always curious upon what basis comments like this are made.

I mean, if the test for HN-worthiness is "nerds think it's interesting" and you have evidence that, say, 87 nerds find it interesting enough to make the top post, what's missing? Is this an odd myopia/literalism thing where everything must be startups and compilers and funding and nrghlhmm?
not really. people who do the work are usually pressured to share it, and are ostracized if they don't. I don't really think its fair to punish a victim unless there's some kind of evidence that they played a more insidious role.
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Watch Green Lantern Megavideo
The parts of the Green Lantern who do not feel awkward and familiar are the generic parts that take place in space when Hal is called to the planet Oa to meet other Green Lanterns there are over 3000 of of them
Newscorp or LulzSec?
I did a similar study of traffic solely attributable to a single post on ReadWriteWeb. I wrote a technical paper with the results: http://www.stinkyteddy.com/documents/SocialMediaResponse.pdf The long tail traffic is well described by an exponential function with a "half life" of about 10 days. You should check your data to see if that number is universal.
Agreed completely. At minimum, and this should be obvious, but you should never leave the text/I-beam cursor on something that can be interacted with (e.g. buttons, sliders, tabs). (I would have only upvoted you, but with hidden scores, who does that help?)
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Seems that the websites of all of NI's newspapers are down:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/
http://www.thesun.co.uk/
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/
We should... they are sufficiently compensated for their position as an international news organisation, that they should operate at a higher standard.

But the internet has leveled the playing field. We should hold ourselves to a similar standard. Rather than lulzing as it burns. We should step up.
"Most of us who went to American grade schools can remember long hours of copying articles out of encyclopedias. 'The abode of the penguin is a hard and difficult one.' It was called doing research. Then in college we found that it was also called plagiarism."

-- Mary Claire van Leunen, "A Handbook for Scholars"
Ah, yes. Japan's idiosyncratic, parallel personal computer industry. My how times have changed. Strangely enough, these days when shopping in Nipponbashi I saw Dells everywhere. But outside of Dell and Apple, the big computer vendors are still Japanese or at least Asian. Also, the DIY computer market is big, and largely targeted at the same audience (gamers), but the marketing strategy is different. Since Western style FPS games are unpopular in Japan, video card and motherboard manufacturers use marketing campaigns tied in with home-grown MMORPGs like Final Fantasy XIV and the like.
Warning: Multiple backgrounds can lead to LOTS of waste in the CSS (defining gradients over and over) if you aren’t using sprites for those icons (and setting all of them at once).
I think one of the reasons that RoR might seem bigger is because RoR is a much bigger part of the "Ruby experience" than Django is for Python. Rails had a huge hand in making Ruby what it is today and I think you'd have a hard time finding a Ruby dev that wasn't introduced through Rails.

This isn't true of Python, though. Most people are Python coders first, web framework users second. Their level of experience with Python has a part in dictating what they're looking for in a web framework and many experienced Python devs are more attracted to small or micro-frameworks like Bottle, Flask, web.py, etc. Django has never been the "one true web framework" for Python the way Rails is for Ruby. Personally I have never touched Django, just Flask and web.py.

Also, if you are going to base your framework usage on its popularity in comparison to Rails you're going to have a tough time ever being satisfied. When has any framework (web or otherwise) generated the same level of cult following as Rails? The Rails community is an absolute outlier in the open source software world (and I mean that in a positive way).
It kind of sucks that people can't just treat it as is - a game, and go with it, but whatever...a cool idea, nonetheless.
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I like your post. Feel really honest.
Return is absolutely a keyword in Ruby: http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/keywords/1.9/files/keywords_rb....
Most of the your examples look like they're caused by the base class library not keeping up with language advancements. Which I agree can be a real issue.
"Don't the poor and uneducated deserve that dream just as much as anyone else?"

Of course! The question is, how many poor and uneducated immigrants would you advocate naturalizing every year in the United States? 100K? 500k? 1.2 Mil? 4 mil? No limit? I feel that until people answer that question (and it will vary from person to person), there's no way to have a meaningful conversation about illegal immigration, which is about setting and enforcing limits.
This is a great idea, and there is a market for this, as anyone with a baby will tell you. But have you done any customer development? As others have mentioned, you have a lot of competition.

First you have relatives. They buy lots of new clothes for you. Then you have consignment shops for lots of basic items, which as a new parent, you are suddenly very aware of. Finally, you have the parents themselves, who can usually afford to splurge on a nice outfit here or there, after the bulk of clothing's been supplied by #1 and #2.

I just don't see a burning need here that will get you across the chasm.
You learn one thing about someone and they lose hero status? Neil deGrasse Tyson (one of my heroes) one said that you need to assemble your heroes out of the parts of many. No one is perfect.

You can still admire the admirable things about the Wright brothers while disagreeing with their use of patents.
It says something about our culture that we don't even consider going to the library to get a book. I think we are so demanding and particular, that the thought of not getting what we want, when we want, is too much to bear and we would rather spend the cash.
Thanks for updating! I've opened the new pastebin but still am not sure how it all worked together with the sun website to get it to redirect.
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It was the refuse of Europe that made this continent what it is not the elites. We would be selecting for qualities that have an unknown relationship to our past results (and perhaps values).
People can leave their jobs at-will, which makes it is lower-risk to employ people your competitors trained than to train them yourself.
I would be interested to see some quantification of the total cost to educate a company's work force, compared with its tax burden (and the "taxable activity" it sparks, if that is quantifiable in some way), for a number of different types of companies. Has anyone seen data like this? Doing some napkin-style calculations it seems like I could convince myself of either conclusion.
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