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Ask:Doc mgmt sys designed to interact through JSON/Atom Publishing Protocol
What is Document management system designed to interact through JSON and/or the Atom Publishing Protocol. How can this be used?
I found Bill Nguyen's response quite strange when asked about this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WGdwY6h5JI&t=25m30s

"Robert(Scoble) is right, everyone's right, we should have done it, we could have done it, we didn't because I don't like conferences. Again, my bad, it's my responsiblity, I just didn't want to do it."
New SMS Trojan Targeting Android Users
They're not too bad, the iTunes and iOS images took no more than two minutes, and the Xcode image is about 10 minutes for me. Not saturating my connection, but not terrible.
I totally agree with you. And as I said in the other article about this, I simply don't believe it is the duty of citizens to help the government make their case.
With the password hashes being unsalted MD5 and estimates of password reuse averaging from 12% this is valuable information that could be used to gain access to more sensitive systems. Sure it may be as simple as running an automated scan, but if a script kiddie could do that and get this information it's likely this information may well have been compromised before now, we just haven't heard of it.

[1] "A large-scale study of web password habits" http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1242572.1242661
via http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2011/02/09/measuring-pass...
Given Stuxnet's alleged potential, I think classifying certain software as a weapon is a lot more credible now than even a couple years ago.
Particle Debris (wk. ending 7/8) Fairly Legal
not all startups are lean. seriously, there is more than one way to skin a cat.
You'd need that button plus a change in the relationship model so non-friends could subscribe
Yea, the data is not very interesting at all. Looks like it might be the DB for this site http://jko.jfcom.mil/

The app is definitely over-engineered with 613 tables and few users. I bet Booze Allen charged millions of dollars for building that garbage.
Have you heard of Stuxnet?

Malware that specifically targeted (inadequately protected) control systems for critical infrastructure (think power/water/transport) would not be unlike an EMP bomb in my opinion.

A weapon is just a type of tool used with intent to harm.
This seems really fun. I'd love to be able to use this almost like a version of SQLlite, but a JSON interface.
I could see this in Android/iPhone, as well as Desktop apps.
This idea sounds nice, but in practice it will only be useful when the investigators are completely incompetent.

Any competent investigator will make backups of your disk, and work only on the backup. They'll probably also use their own tools to decrypt any content on the disk, rather than booting up the suspect's OS and relying on the suspect's tools.

Also, for trying something like this, you'll probably face additional destruction of evidence and obstruction of justice charges.
The post didn't mention if ssl_session_cache was enabled in the nginx config or not. In fact, I didn't see any configs posted. :(

Also, the article author apparently added support to stud (in his own fork) for x-forward-for. I don't think this is required any longer, due to this fairly recent stud commit: https://github.com/bumptech/stud/commit/9d9b52b7d3ce90fa84c6...
My main node in Workflowy is the work journal. The structure is year - week no - date. Other nodes (ideas, projects, travel etc) don't get that much input so it's easy to navigate.
New wireless-charging tech may be in store for future iPhone
GoDaddy might be cheaper but they have a history of fucking people. I prefer Gandi.
Hard Lines.

(I saw some article about problems with a version; just shows that all advertisement is good...)
Results of the 2011 State of Clojure survey
Crap Android SDK emulator got you down? Silly, use Android-x86 and VirtualBox
Yup. If you examine history, you'll find that you didn't get rich being, say, a mathematician or scientist. You had to be rich to be a mathematician or scientist.
Letters to the Year 2076 (from high schoolers in the Year 1976)
Harvesting solar power in space
In my opinion, social networking has always been low return, regardless of where it occurs.
I do. That's been around for quite some time and it can differ whether you are using the website or a client.

If a client, it could be due to Twitter throttling API calls to avert a meltdown.

If via their website, nearly the same thing, except they do have a hard-limit built-in now.

When I began on Twitter, we could have high-velocity conversations about things. These days, we really can't without someone winding up in what I've termed "Twitter Jail."

Twitter might also say this is to prevent mass spamming. But I doubt that. The spammers are still there.
Sorry about that. Thanks for letting me know. I'll fix that!
$100 melons and $10,000 rent: Interesting Facts on Visiting Angola
If you're using a DNS service, try removing that from your TCP/IP settings. Dramatic improvement for me.
obstruction of justice or contempt? If it's contempt they can only hold you for so long.
Ask HN: Why Usethesouce isn't much alive now?
May be I am one of the very few people who check UseTheSource for jobs anymore, but I still check it every now and then for jobs and I've noticed there has hardly been any postings there in a while.

I wish it would revive. Is there any other place I could look for HN jobs (except monthly)?
Google Plus Sucks (And Here’s Why)
90,000 Military Email Accounts Leaked in Latest #AntiSec Attack
I've said this many times... I see Android/iOS as the two parts of the vice grip that will squeeze RIM, Microsoft and Nokia right out of the market unless they toughen up quick.
Beer Advocate (http://beeradvocate.com/) has been around for a while.
For those of you who aren't familiar with Chris, one of his huge life goals is to visit every country in the world. Every now and again he runs up against one that's very hard to travel to (in this case, Angola) and the stories are always really interesting.

It's easy to forget that there are so many places where an American passport doesn't actually make it any easier to travel there.
Yes, and yes.

Use general-purpose computer parts, with some imagination.

One simple example:

Modify the power pins (in a USB keychain drive and a dedicated USB socket, naturally) such that +5v and ground are connected backwards.

Connect a diode in such a way that should the stick ever be plugged into an ordinary USB socket, power is applied to a small piece of nichrome igniter wire (model rocket store, or cannibalize any electrical heating appliance.)

The igniter wire is wrapped around a small magnesium ribbon glued to the exposed (use nitric acid) EEPROM die.

Make sure that the package still looks like a normal USB key from the outside, and is well-sealed to avoid unsightly smoke and light (if you do not take care to do this, you may well find "endangering a law enforcement official using an illegal pyrotechnic device" or the like added to the charges against you.)

And of course none of this will help if the enemy expects it. The above is merely an example.
If I see such bad numbers, usually, before I write a post about it, I try to investigate and share the results of that with the post.

I'll try to reproduce these results tomorrow, but if I had to guess, I'd say ssl_session_cache was left to its default (off) which means that every connection has to do the expensive SSL handshake.
Well as I said when Northern Rock collapsed, the best financial stimulus would be to refund everyone the income tax they paid for the last 12 months.
I fail to see how Circles is "high work". You make a simple decision about which circle(s) to put someone in. It's not multi-variable calculus.
Funny to contrast this with their coverage 3 months ago...! (as I've done here: http://swombat.com/2011/7/11/color-com )
Alright from Color's perspective losing a couple of big names is bad. But from everyone's view their technology is cool (or interesting at least) and they've got a truckload full of money.

This could be a good thing, the three headed startup hydra could have been a bad thing - too many chiefs not enough indians and likely a lot of different product directions. This is a chance to hunker down figure out what people want and the right way to deliver it. They've got enough cash to keep user groups in testing for years. This can be fixed. Lean is good. Lean with 3-5 years of runway is even better.
Most definitions of 'asshole' reference something that can be changed rather than something that you are. Restricting people based on being 'gay' or a 'nigger' is based around identity, which is not something easily changed. A black person can't become a white person, but an asshole can change their point of view and/or hold their tongue.
How about 1Password?
Apple Releases iOS 5 Beta 3 to Developers
I also use GoDady because they are cheap and it does the job. For DNS, I use DNS Made Easy because it's never a good idea to have your DNSes at your registrar (if you ever need to move).

The trick with GoDaddy, don't check the box to leave your credit card with them. You'll then have to manually renew all services and you never run into the risk of forgetting to uncheck some auto-renew option...
I agree with that and think they need to implement an obvious extension: shared circles.
If you believe the idea being thrown around that Microsoft makes more on Android patent shakedowns (licenses) than it does from its own mobile OS, then no, Android has actually helped Microsoft.
Embedded MongoDB on Android would be awesome.
This guy seems to be missing the entire point of Circles. So you can determine what stuff you post goes out to what people. If I post a link that I don't want my mom to see, I won't include the Family circle in it. That's a pretty high return for me.
Ah Booz|Allen|Hamilton ... or also known in the govt. contracting world as "we put warm bodies in seats and charge you tens of millions for it".

Anonymous rant about them is essentially correct, it is just a un-official wing of the government that shelters yesterdays' generals and other big figures from government institutions. If it weren't for the ol'govt'boys network and for all the nepotism and favoritism, there would be a large opportunity for small startups to undercut these large, wasteful, stupid and taxpayer moneysucking behemoths.
Low social return. High personal return.
Obviously your frame of reference is for a very limited use case. Three examples of social networking working in the last couple weeks (just from my limited perspective):

1. My mom rediscovering someone she hadn't seen in over 20 years through Facebook.
2. Two musicians chatting on each others' music profiles and figuring out how to collaborate on music online.
3. An engineering student from Africa reaching out to me to comment on his project.

Given Garry Tan's work at Posterous, there is some vested interest in the space, but at the same time I don't think his claims are any less valid. I haven't tried Google+ yet, so I don't know if I agree or not.
I'm not encouraging the act, I'm just saying the companies should respond pro-actively not just pretend the problem(s) don't exist. Doing nothing is the absolute worst option.
"Is anyone here surprised?"

Yes, somewhat. You have to believe really hard in something to do it as a startup. There are way more haters than their are believers in the usual case. So I would expect the executive ranks to be 'fanatics' in the sense that they have to believe hard enough to execute through to the complete vision. Once you've gotten there and the world decides they were right and you were wrong, then you go and try something else. So having someone as senior as the chief product officer step out at this point is surprising to me.

That being said, Color may be the latest example of the adage 'Don't take too much money.'

Brief digression. I once had an employee that wanted a promotion. I asked them (as I do anyone who asks me this question), what aspect of the promotion were they seeking? Was it more money? more responsibility? more influence over the decisions? And usually, yes, its one or all of those things. Then I ask if they are ready to be judged based on how well the project is going, or whether or not the right decision was made, or when the project had an unexpected side effect? That's really the rub isn't it? When a project turns out to be a turd, you fire the person who is 'running' it. So if you're willing to operate at that level then it makes sense to be promoted.

Startups are kind of the same way, in that money is the arbiter of impact/change. You take a $1M investment, create a product and are aquired for $50M that is a huge "win", but take $41M in investment and get acquired for $50M and you're a 'loser'. A good rule of thumb is "can I create 10x the value with this investment?" if not then someone is going to be disappointed down the road.

Color took a huge gamble when they took $41M in funding. That puts a lot of pressure on the founding team to develop clear value in the $300 - $500M range. Doing that is a really hard problem. If it were easy we'd all be bazillionaires.
I think it's wrong for the author to compare the functionality of G+ circles with Facebook's group feature, as the two are not the same. Circles are more directly comparable with Facebook's "lists" feature, which can also be said to have a high amount of work (significantly more than G+'s circles, in my opinion) for a low amount of "return".
Most of the servers suck at SSL without some sort of caching. Also, properly configured nginx setups have a fair share of keep alives.
Option B puts no money into the company. In option A existing stockholders are diluted but the company has more cash. So "taking money off the table" comes at the expense of what the company can raise. If there was additional demand for the stock (as evidenced by someone willing to pay for the shares in Option B) then this could have resulted either in a higher stock price (and less dilution for more money) or more funds raise (possibly with more dilution).
I don't agree.

Here's the most definitive definition of capitalism (written by what many today acknowledge as its greatest champion): http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/capitalism.html

From the link: Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.

Today, we don't come close to this ideal. One example of this is that the government is the largest single landowner in the country: http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/map-owns_the_... Need I mention Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the alphabet soup of regulatory agencies, the Federal Reserve, the giant social programs that redistribute forcibly? None of these things existed a century ago when this country was on the rise.

When I say “capitalism,” I mean a full, pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire capitalism—with a separation of state and economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of state and church.

This is something we've never had, even in the 19th century. When we do, the human flourishing unleashed will make the lives for those who live it more vibrant and fulfilling than anything seen before on Earth.
I use ikiwiki extensively and it's exactly what you want, and incredibly awesome and fully featured.
IANAL, but from what I understand there have to be rulings from the lower courts first before a case can make it to the Supreme Court level. And even then the Supreme Court chooses which cases they want to hear and which they don't. So just because the case makes it to the Supreme Court, doesn't mean they'll decide to hear it.

What's even more frustrating is that the Supreme Court doesn't have to state any reasons for refusing to hear a case. They could just do it on a whim, or for some completely biased reasons and no one would ever know.
Anonymous Releases 90,000 Military E-mail Accounts
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The usual time measure of computational complexity is in units of computation, not in terms of the wall clock time it takes to for a calculation to run.
How many tickets do you need to buy to win the lottery?
As in: an option when creating a new circle as to whether or not it's public?
>A weapon is just a type of tool used with intent to harm.

While that is correct, it can be extended to pretty much everything. In the end, weapons don't kill people, people kill people.

And while this will probably will get me labeled as conspiracy theorist, I still think that a lot about stuxnet was way too fishy, and it was way too conveniently timed for all the security facists that are raving about "Cyber War".
Especially since this decision is required to be made when you first "follow" someone. It's not like Facebook where there's a small box for you to choose a list after you've already accepted a friend request.
"Fab.com features daily design inspirations and sales at up to 70% off retail."

We've A/B tested many other variants and this far out performs all else.
Bill Gates is 55. Microsoft was founded 35 years ago.

You're really going to hold it against him that he isn't still a dynamo of ideas and innovation?
Military Meltdown Monday: 90k Email Accounts Exposed
I was wondering why I saw someone retweet "We have NOT been acquired." from Punchd's account last week. Now comes the rest of the story.

https://twitter.com/punchd

And as always, congratulations! Great and fun business and I'm glad for Google that they picked them up.
Agreed, also it is very easy since most of my friends are already in my GMail contacts. All I have to do is drag and drop.
So my Circles won't grow organically out of my control? Good. That's the point. Don't use the screwdriver to hammer nails.
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Thanks for the feedback!

In regards to how much I would need to stay in business: The current cost to keep the site up is just under $200 per month. My revenues are already above that. Obviously my credit card transaction fees need to be deducted and the registrar I resell through will get a cut. I plan on paying that out of pocket if it makes no money because I enjoy using it for my domain portfolio and I think my friends do too.

In regards to what would happen if it did shutdown (I obviously would prefer this not to happen): The registrar I resell through (Key-Systems) would then be the registrar you would use. They are among the 15 largest registrars (according to ICANN) and manage more than 3 million domains.

I hope that answers some of your questions. I do agree that with something like domain registrations you have to be very careful.

Thanks!
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Their habits show that they would not be interested in a job at the targets of their hacks, and a good portion of them are likely employed in the infosec industry already.

These aren't kids.
There are economic benefits to playing well together. Hopefully the hardware vendors will figure this out if they haven't already.
It's not multi-variable calculus

Obviously you're doing it wrong.
Or already have one and these are their Weekend Projects.
This is like saying you should be a citizen of more than one country, so in case you do something illegal in one, you can always flee to another.

Why don't you just not break the ToS?
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why you created this?

there's already leechblock for firefox and stayfocusd for chrome.

and https://github.com/leftnode/get-shit-done/blob/master/get-sh... too.
In my personal experience, working as a consultant or for a startup is a lot more stressful.

But as far as job stability goes -- I like keeping doors open with former colleagues, associates, customers and also with local software companies in general. That way, if the shit hits the fan, I can find another comparable job in a week tops; while being picky about it.

And all modesty aside, it rarely goes a month without being contacted with a job offer. Not all offers are good; some are downright insulting. But it keeps my confidence up.

But the advantage of a big company is in the stress levels -- you can take medical leaves, you can go on vacation without freaking out your bank balance will be negative on return, you can switch projects if bored. In many companies work assignment and the process are so fucked-up that you could also do nothing all day, while pulling a fast-and-furious before the and of the sprint.

But this kind of life won't make you rich and your salary will always be an average one in your industry.
Pretty shallow analysis, and dependent on the assumption that there is no legitimate reason to "keep people out", when there plainly is, as is obvious to anyone who has read stories of employers stumbling across embarrassing photos on facebook.
This is right on. If you contract you make more money, if you amortize that versus a large company and are good they are at least equal if you factor in time to get a new gig etc..
Think about it in terms of number of mouse clicks to model real-life behavior.

To be able to model n people in a system, Circles / Lists require n people making n connections, so n^2 actions. Chances are you won't even get there, so it'll be an incomplete and underused graph.

For Groups, where there's a shared space, it's only n actions. Each person has to be added once.
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but if a script kiddie could do that and get this information it's likely this information may well have been compromised before now, we just haven't heard of it.

Hi. This happens all the time. There is evidence of far more significant data breeches nearly every day in the press - Byzantine Hades, RSA, Aurora, Night dragon, the list goes on and on. Probably the best argument for why this specific sql database with web app passwords hasn't been compromised in the past is that it's of very questionable value.

The people holding up convenience stores aren't revolutionaries. And that's true even if you try to spin a yarn where removing the funds from a tax paying business might lead to an eventual budget shortfall.
As in: I have a Highschool circle and add my highschool classmates in it. I can then share it to all my classmates so they don't have to do the same work again.

Or: I have a circle containing all great hackers. I then post the link to it here on Hacker News so everybody can have that whole circle with a single click.
Twitter Now Has 1 Million Apps & 0.75M Developers (560% Growth)
Cute marketing campaign. Pretty straight up CHE-UP.
Yes, any user that can see your post can reshare it to people you did not originally share it to by clicking the share button.

They could also just tell person A or repost it if there wasn't a share button, though. Just use good sense.
Presumably you mean VOIPYourLife, http://www.vylmedia.com/ and so are in the USA using a non-localised business number.
This article has several scary insights. When Google has too many eggs, they start to work against each other for the user. And talking about monopolies: "If you think that Facebook has a monopoly in the social scene, just imagine for a second what your life on the web would be like if you switched to Google+" Sebastian didn't even mention Google Fiber! Eventually, Google might even be your internet service provider!!! WOW. It is interesting how this article starts out leaving you to believe that Google+ is beneficial to the social network industry, but then gives reason after reason why we live in a scary world that collects and sells your information.

I also think the vagueness about how Google defines "illegal" is ridiculous! Why don't they just make Google+ a self-policed community? This solves all sorts of issues.
I'm pretty sure I'd prefer to use a private family group for this. If my mom wants to post something to the group, I will have already created it and she won't have to re-make the circle.

Can you even imagine having your mom make circles?
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