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While reading the official rules, I noticed section six (DRAWING), has something special for Canadian entrants:

SPECIAL NOTICE TO CANADIAN ENTRANTS: THE PERSON SELECTED RANDOMLY WILL BE REQUIRED TO CORRECTLY ANSWER A MATHEMATICAL QUESTION INVOLVING AT LEAST FOUR OPERATIONS THAT INVOLVE AT LEAST TWO DIGIT NUMBERS.

Assuming they limited the equation to whole numbers, I thought about what combination of number and operation would result in the illusion of a quick answer, but actually be very difficult (since most scientific-calculators error after 10E999). I came up with: 10^10^10^10, which I believe equates to 10E1000, but would need confirmation.

10^10 = 10000000000

10^10^10 = 10000000000^10 = 10E100

10^10^10 = 10E100^10 = 10E1000
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Filter > when you sign up it uses your location to filter items, but maybe that isn't what you meant. Perhaps pre-sign up you can enter a location to filter items?
They hacked a company called 'RSA Security' [1] and not the cryptography algorithm RSA [2]. While the former is still interesting, the latter would be big news indeed.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Security

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA
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I'm curious to know why he chose the company he did among all the companies he looked at. I agree with the concerns about the difficulty of sourcing these services, and this may be a large part of why AWS is successful-- they provide the service as a utility.

One of the cheaper companies on his spreadsheet is hetzner.de They have dedicated servers that go down in size to about $20 a month:
http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/x2

Note that their price includes VAT. If you're not a EU company, you don't pay the VAT and so the actual price is cheaper.

For our needs, we're going to start off buying a cluster. Probably 4-5 machines. As load grows, we'll add nodes and larger nodes over time. (A nice feature of Riak is that you can do this, just give the ring time to rebalance and you can migrate from one set of hosts to a larger one relatively quickly.)

VPS offerings lose a lot of their appeal in the face of a $20/month 1GB dedicated server! And with no setup cost, it is pretty elastic, though as you get to larger dedicated servers hetzner has a setup cost.

I'm not shilling for hetzner, I am just sharing them because I'm considering being a customer and and curious as to what others think about them. Also, curious if anyone else is facing the "we need to start with a cluster of machines, but we're a tiny startup at this point" issue...
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"user-scalable=no".

Is this really the way forward? Why the assumption that the only reason I might zoom in is 'accidental'?

Also I am uneasy about populating all content via JSON but I can't put my finger on the precise technical reasons (but then neither could Gawker wrt desktop browsers so they went ahead with it anyway)
Yes, this annoys me as well. Don't like splash screens and advertisements in Flash? Well you're definitely gonna hate them in HTML5 because they consume more CPU and will be more difficult to block.
I've spent a while looking for tarsnap bugs; to date I count 86 email threads with Colin to report my findings. There are a couple of things I think are pretty good about the scheme Colin has devised.

Unlike some other bounty schemes, there are small bounties available. One can look for ages without finding a $50 bounty, so long that boredom would probably set in and the hunt would be abandoned. But coming across the odd $1 or $5 bounty keeps interest going at small cost to Colin and still improves the overall source quality. It's almost like a bit of a game, a treasure hunt, where small pickings on route keep one's hopes up of rich pickings down the road. A game that can be set down and picked up later as time allows.

Secondly, Colin was very fair in judging the bounty to be awarded. It soon became apparent that I could trust his judgement; whenever I thought a bug was undervalued another would come along that might be overvalued. On mentioning this to him, it turns out it was sometimes deliberate; he'd be wavering and thought it fair to even out which side of the boundary the bug fell.

As for the OCD, I boggle a bit at some of those style bugs and don't think they were all me! :-) I do recall sending in some trivial thing suggesting it wasn't bountiful but perhaps should be fixed anyway; Colin generously still gave a dollar. I thought it worth reporting even without expecting a bounty because I think anything that interrupts the flow of the reader, causes them to pause, irked at a possessive "its" misspelt as "it's", detracts from the odds of them spotting something more serious.

Overall, a well crafted and executed bounty scheme. In some ways I'm surprised other companies don't do something similar, even if it was with closed source under an NDA. If the feedback is prompt then the bounty hunter can decide to stop if the bounties aren't awarded fairly enough in his opinion, or the company can cancel, perhaps having shelled out their budget or unhappy with the quality of the bugs, without the hunter having wasted much time since the last bounty.
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This is the techcrunch I like. A warm and moving piece about a man who revolutionized the consumer electronics space. Not a piece with sensationalist issues. A piece of substance.

I have an emotional connection with Steve jobs. I admit that my first computer that I had an emotional attachment was an Apple II. I admit that the Macintosh computer brought me where I was today. Without a mac I wouldn't have created my android app, learned the scheme programming language, gone to HN, to Reddit, to slashdot. If there is any person I owe a consumer debt to it is this man. I can't even write this without crying.
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It's easy - for these kind of jobs hire those who don't use social media.

Also from other news stories it seems that social networks might help solve some crimes, but I still think that as long as most of the people don't care about privacy it will be difficult to enforce it.
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After this article the Nielsen Norman did work with Macromedia on developing Best Practices. http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/1178941

Jacob Nielsen later added the summary findings: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20021125.html
Well it seems like "Flash" could be replaced with "HTML5" and most of this article would still make sense - many points are arguable whether they apply to either though. Most of these are caused by poor developers rather than the platform itself.

* Gratuitious animation

* Granularity of user control

* Non-standard GUI controls

* Back button

* Moving text is harder to read for users who lack fluency (haha this one made me laugh)

* HTML5 content tends to be created once and then left alone

* HTML5 content is typically superficial

* HTML5 is typically created by outside agents who don't understand the business
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I suppose this is one level above ramen profitability.
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Well, "charge for support" works for amalgamations of code like Red Hat, but I agree it's probably not ideal for individual projects (at least small projects). I prefer offering services related to the code -- not only bugfixes for cash, but also new features and installation. CodeWeavers develops WINE this way and I think they're doing pretty well.
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Ok, I'm getting ready to write an HTML5 app for cross-platform use.

I grok what you're selling, but looking at JQuery, and especially Sencha Touch, I'm asking myself: how the heck could I make a native-looking app in plain JS without having to dive deep and beating the hell out of myself with all this crap that's already been solved?

Are you saying that the extra UI snazzle just isn't worth it? Or to buck up and start trying to replicate huge pieces of frameworks on my own?
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Since RSA Security is the company that supplies the tokens that are used to secure most banks and defense contractors, etc., and these tokens were in turn compromised via the hack, I would argue that this hack is still big news indeed.
No, that is pure awesome. Everyone understands it's a joke, and just their attempt to get you to resubscribe. Showing that the company has a sense of humor is a good thing.
In Flex you have the ability to work with a structured hierarchy of display objects - each with their own transformation matrix. Flex pretty much handles all of the relevant transforms when you are doing event handling.

Of course, ultimately you can do all of that in a canvas but it is an awful lot easier in Flex.

Also, don't you have to manage the redraw of areas yourself with canvas?

[NB I hate what people do with Flash as much as the next person - but the actually tool is actually a pretty decenlt development environment (I just used the command line Flex compiler)]
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You seem to be ignoring the fact that Flash doesn't work properly on Linux, Android and iOS. Unless Adobe does something about it soon, Flash is going the way of the dodo.
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Obviously, this false, but until you are smart enough you'll never know when the compiler is wrong.
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It wasn't "a basic e-mail" but a zero-day exploit inside Excel .
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> Sorry to sound blunt but why is it a given that if a person is successful, it is surprising that he/she is doing "lesser" things?

If a top scientist/inventor/entrepreneur is doing routine tasks that he doesn't enjoy, he's losing time that could either be spent creating new amazing things or relaxing/recharging and enjoying his life.

If you enjoy any particular activity - driving or cooking - by all means keep doing it. But if you're capable of improving the lives of thousands or even millions of people, then hire a car and driver and work in the backseat of your Rolls Royce or whatever. The world will be net better for it.

(Though, coding doesn't fall into that routine task category - it being a creative action that sharpens the mind. Doing laundry does though, except on the off chance it's really relaxing and enjoyable for you.)
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there are a number of projects that fix this. explorercanvas from google, which can be autoinstalled and doesn't require admin. then you have the SWF converters, and the live shims.

IE not implementing the tag isn't a big deal, since they expose the drawing (directx) interfaces anyway

I got a press release yesterday that said jquery was now more common than flash across the top websites. the 'flash is everywhere' argument is a bit 2004 and isn't true anymore .
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I don't know, but it does seem that in many cases the cost and aggravation of a suit are far worse than whatever remedy the suit seeks. That's the injustice of the whole thing.
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Flash works great for me on Droid X and HP TouchPad (only devices I own). You seem to be ignoring the fact that older (and even current) browsers, tablets, and phones have varying support for HTML5.
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I think I got my attitude from finding a bug in a major production compiler. I sent in my snippet to demonstrate the problem and got very short shrift from the company.

And they were right - my code had bugs in it.

So I recrafted my code and effectively, informally proved it to be correct. Then I sent it in again and got a formal acknowlegement that I had, indeed, found a bug.

Over the next 2 years I found 5 bugs in three different compilers, but in the first few cases I spent ages crafting my examples to prove the problem wasn't my code. Then it dawned on me, why not right the code to be correct in the first place, then I wouldn't have to re-write it when I found bugs that might be mine, and might be someone elses.

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After the MS' mobile team's cringe-worthy "funeral" of the iPhone[1], someone should have let them know They're Doing It Wrong.

[1] http://www.google.com/search?hl=&q=microsoft+iphone+fune...
it feels to me like a thinly veiled attempt to manipulate you into resubscribing by relying on your capability for empathy.

I can see that it's clearly not real but it isn't particularly funny and has just lowered my opinion of groupon somewhat.

Humour is clearly subjective.
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Whyday has come and gone and I was toying around with a simple app (I know its late, but what the hell). Eight is a social eight ball, which uses random people on twitter to answer your questions. Users either vote yes or no, or ask questions. I mostly used this app to learn about oauth and a bit of sinatra.

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It seems this is the guy who also did the unauthorized security audit of the Boston subway system.

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the first implementations of input video and audio will be out soon. the delay was about how to handle security and privacy issues, and how it will be implemented (eg. first it was devices tag):

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...
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I understand Gill Sans (isn't it the London underground font?), which isn't quite common on Windows machines. So it seems to be Arial/Gill instead of the usual Arial/Helvetica combo…

Boring, but workable. Yeah, I know, Arial bad, Helvetica good! -- never got any part of that argument. Both are quite boring Grotesques… (Still waiting for a high-dpi monitor that can finally end the reign of the sans serifs)
Please define "properly", at least regarding Linux.
There is a performance hit under Linux, sure, but beyond that?

I'm using Linux myself full-time, but for flash games I might even consider Linux irrelevant if there is no way of getting good performance.
The by far biggest part of the audience still uses windows and that probably won't change for quite a while.
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Which would have been useless without a means to get a mark to open a malicious file in Excel.
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Indeed... Extremely interesting.

Obviously a very advanced (team?) of people were involved in this and the whole story has only been hinted at.

I personally would have expected much higher standards of security from a company selling security.
So F-Secure has access and randomly digs through e-mails going through their virus scanner?
"why the heck does Excel support embedded Flash is a great question"

Gratuitously enabling embedding stuff like this in applications which don't really need it makes me always shudder when some software vendor is touting buzzwords like 'rich content' and 'rich user experience'. Most of the times it means unnecessary bloat, and as we can see from this example, a security hole too.
This kind of post makes no sense on Hacker news. It isn't newsworthy, or anything we can read/learn from, really. It's a link and a title - nothing else - representing only the OP's opinion. Now we do frequently see opinions here, but they are typically something valid we can comment on - get behind or disagree with. Commenting on a post that simply links somewhere and says it's the "Worst X", regardless of what X is, is a waste of time. This post should have never made it to the front-page.

Sorry about the vent, maybe I'm just whiny today, but seriously. What a waste of time. I do think this post shows a lack of respect for the community.

Edit: I get that this might be a strong post/opinion, but if you're going to downvote it, at least tell me why you disagree. Don't just hide behind anonymity.
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He said the Poison Ivy backdoor wasn't advanced - did the attacker create this trojan or is it something available?

If it's available, why didn't the virus scanner catch it?
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I'm a foreigner living in the Philippines, and I'm aware of a number of small tech businesses run by other foreigners here. Visa issues keep these businesses fairly low-key--foreigners technically aren't allowed to work on the easier visas to obtain. They tend to use their local knowledge to employ Filipinos as contractors efficiently. It can take time to find quality contractors, but it can save a lot of money.

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