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+1 Type safe, autocomplete let me write code quickly.

-1 Has lots of boilerplate that requires an IDE to stay sane

+1 Pretty fast, good JVM

-1 encouragement from the Java community to write slow code

+1 Easy-to-understand code through interfaces

-1 Unnecessary interfaces and failing unit tests (for stupid reasons) cancels out productivity increases
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May I say I jumped at the excitement of seeing vanityfair.com as the source of one of the top 20 articles on HN?
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Why bother having a voting system at all, then? Karma that can only be seen on the user's page is simply just point-scoring. Sure, you gain minor functionality increases with karma, but you could do exactly the same thing with comment count for comments that aren't flagged (since you need to comment to get karma anyway)

Just give people a way to flag inappropriate comments, and then you've got pretty much the same system as we currently have. Early comments stay up the top, and there is no way to tell which has engaged the community apart from volume of response. Inappropriate comments get flagged and with enough flags they die. Get enough unflagged comments under your belt, and you're 'participating' and are then allowed the escalated priveleges.
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Thanks for pointing out some places where my article may have been misunderstood. I agree with you that there is definitely overhead for box.net to be providing the 50GB free for new users and I will re-iterate my point that I definitely believe that they will eventually profit from the risk they took. The point I was trying to make was less on the price but more on the rate at which the web is expanding in the sense of space and what we set as limits and caps.

Comparing how things were less than a decade about and now (with web hosting plans, gmail's release) suggests a growing trend that the web is quickly becoming "unlimited", and this sense of "unlimited" is quickly becoming the norm. The gripe I was trying to express with the article was how some companies fail to see that by continuing to quantify the resources available to users.
There at least needs to be a distinction between "this comment is inappropriate/spam" and "I disagree with the sentiment of this comment"
Agreed, zmq and some form of cross language serialization library (we're using protocol buffers) is a seriously powerful tool to have in your box. There are some patterns that seem perfectly suited to a small piece of haskell at the end of a zmq socket.
Generally it's a pretty good deal to trade hardware requirements for programmer productivity.
How can a company ensure he has deleted all of the data with legal action?
You appreciate not having to right click? Right click is on your mouse, where as in order to use the ribbon you have to go up to the top. This seems like pulling the most useful feature out from under your finger to duplicate it somewhere further away. How does this make sense?
Brute force hack is always the right way to start out, and I love the ruby community/the ruby approach for this. Get something that works, and then optimize the internals if project takes off.

For a solution to the rubygems index download they needed the changes to the rubygems api, which they could probably not have affected before being a successful project.
Genuinely excited about these guys. Referral systems are _hard_, social referral programs are potentially worth a lot of money.
The before and after pictures are supposed to speak for themselves, I assume. I know that for me, just seeing the two pictures makes is very clear "how they messed up." I'm willing to agree that not everyone is so offended by huge, ugly, attention grabbing, screen real estate hogging interfaces.
I'll preface this by saying that I like weev, and get a kick out of some of his antics, but...

He's a really unsympathetic defendant. Put him in front of a jury and they'd likely convict him regardless of the evidence. If you're going to be engaging in activities of questionable legality, even if you think you're doing the right thing, it pays to at least put up a respectable front. Just about everything he engages in is something his attorney will have to account for in trial.

"Yes, he founded a grey-hat security firm named after an infamous image of a man exposing his digestive tract, but..."

"Yes, he claimed responsibility for illegally taking Amazon offline, but..."

"Yes, he exploited a vulnerability in AT&T's site to collect 100k+ user emails, but..."

"Yes, he is a member of the Gay Nigger Association of America, but..."

He's a defender's nightmare. If you're going to put yourself at odds with the law, at least give your attorney a fighting chance.
I learned early on in my career not to mess around with account information, especially at a bank.

My first job out of university was in corporate IT for a big bank around the time that l0phtcrack came out. I used it to crack hundreds of user passwords, and then showed my boss the vulnerability.

He promptly told the director, the director sent out an email saying that people's NT passwords had been breached, and I got in a little bit of trouble for cracking people's passwords without authorization, even though people were using passwords like "password", "apple", etc.

I realize it's dumb to to blame me (or the guy in the original story), but I've come to learn that when you're dealing with big corporations like banks, they are eager to cover their own asses and to throw the blame wherever they can. So it's best to never mess with them.

The fact that the guy downloaded actually customer information is what opened him up to potential problems, that's the one step I probably would have avoided.

Of course, this ridiculous behavior by the banks will only make it more likely that any security breaches won't be reported, which means if you're a customer, you should change banks immediately to a bank that actually cares about the security of your information.
Not that native English speakers always use proper English grammar in situations where proper grammar is not required for business success (and spam is obviously one).
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A better way to do it would be to cut off responses to any thread once there are a certain number of flags in the parents.

The way it's currently set up, there's been a couple of times I've been having a valid conversation with someone, but then run into the wall of not been able to respond directly to them - no fight, no flagging, no reason given.
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I loath MS Office 2010's ribbon with a cold and fiery passion because it eats vertical screen real estate

You can minimize it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
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Can anybody explain how this makes sense:

"The account had seemed sluggish earlier that morning because my wife had tried to use it at just the moment a hacker was taking it over and changing its settings [...]"

It does not sense to me that GMail is sluggish when someone else changes the settings.
Not entirely the same, but check Mozilla's rust (still in progress) - https://github.com/graydon/rust/wiki
Whoops. Sorry ;)
Senator Elizabeth Warren is going to be amazing - but I fear she is going to have a huge political target painted on her and many of the people she cares about and helps are too ignorant of her help to support her.
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And your last three comments were iPhone-fellatio. Cool. Thanks for the reply.
Good show.

However it would also be nice if the FSF could come up with an alternative or "pro X" campaign. Like "pro free boot" with a user-defined key to run his/her operating system where the viruses cant do it. The pre-defined key can be printed on the board or similar, which malware cant see. Even GNU/Linux wins.
Indeed. So basically someone made a very high quality video of a creepy dude in a dark room creeping on Facebook and getting really mad. Then (with some special effects they used) they make it look like (almost perfectly) the guy is viewing your profile page, looking through your photos, and creeping on your friends. Then he maps your last known location on Google Maps, looks right at you, and drives over to your house.

It's eerily realistic.

Disclaimer: not my project, found it on the web.
Perhaps if several social sites offer targeted ads with the same level of precision it may decrease the ads' prices since the ads budget won't grow accordingly ? (then it would mean that people are using several services at the same time and not migrating from one to another)
This make me think - there was recently a huge scam in the poker world - some of the major sites (FullTilt for example) were using clients money as their revenue. With bitcoins the clients could check that the bitcoins were not transfered from the company address.
It's a very good thing Warren was pushed aside. In addition to being an enemy of the finance industry, she is also a terrible enemy of facts and data.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/07/consider...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870452360457551...
Does anybody ever address the fact that you have to violate the TOS of most sites (even if unintentionally) to do any white hat discovery in the first place?

Edit: though I do believe that reporting systems with bounties like those you linked are exactly the way to compete with the black market for vulnerabilities.
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does a vote from a high karma member count or more?
Poole is spot on. I'll add as a corollary, that users also don't want real-time communication that is a mirror. This is one of the reasons that videoconferencing has failed repeatedly since 1964. The entire cosmetics and fashion industries exist to provide avatars for when we must endure the gaze. And yet, we continue to work on videoconferencing and tele-immersion. Sigh.
Another corollary is that we need better tools for lying. Prismatic identity management require that you can manage the persona on each facet and lie about the occluded personas. One of the killer features of the telephone that is often overlooked is how well it has supported lying.
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Not really strange. I generally don't report security vulnerabilities either when I find them. Sure, if it's a simple process to file an issue, or I know a knowledgeable person in charge of the system, I'll do it.

But otherwise I simply don't feel like explaining it. I don't feel I have the moral obligation to jump through hoops to get through all the customer bla-bla to someone who understands, and face legal issues, just because I bump on some 'bug'. Someone else will find it eventually. Choose your battles carefully and such...
He says the whole thing will be worth it even if he just gets to play Gayniggers From Outer Space in federal court (to illustrate that he is not the leader of a hate group).

The man epitomizes "doin' it for the lulz". I agree 100% with all your points, but I personally feel that it's the unpopular or misunderstood speech that needs the most defending. What he does is not criminal, and should not land men in prison for a decade, trolling or no.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came...
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Unfortunately this happens more than you might think and other Australian companies seem to have a similar approach to dealing with security findings. Many years ago I found a huge hole in a large company's Australian website that allowed me to download their entire database of customer records including addresses and plain text passwords, by a similar method of just changing url parameters. This was millions of consumer records from a -big- international brand.

Instead of warning the public, that their records may have been compromised, they focused on me. I was immediately slapped with legal threats via phone, email and mail. They took my original email apart, saying that by modifying the url and downloading the database I had illegally obtained this data, I could be prosecuted under xyz law etc... They ended it by saying that if I ever spoke about it publicly I would be taken to court.

Needless to say I attempted to take my issue directly to several Australian newspapers. I talked to a couple, but none wrote a story. I don't understand why - this was 7 years ago, perhaps they didn't understand the issue. I spoke to a lawyer who told me that there was nothing I could do. They'd given me a way out so I should just take it and try to forget what happened. In the end I convinced myself that perhaps I was in the wrong. No one would listen to me. At the time I was a lot younger and had less resources. I would of course not deal with it the same way now. However, I'm not interesting in digging up the past - the proof is long gone, but the lesson stays the same.

There should be a government body to whom security breaches like these can be reported. Companies can not be trusted to police themselves when it comes to private data.
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More likely it was in the midst of the mass-deletion later referred to - deleting 6 years' worth of email could certainly make gmail sluggish.
There's a lot more to computing costs than $/kh.
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I'm not sure it's "the exact same thing". From published reports, Weev harvested data from 114,000 accounts and shared it with reporters. Another member of his hacking group says that the bug was shared with others before AT&T closed the hole, resulting in other accounts likely being compromised. [1]

He also previously claimed to be part of a hacking organization that brings in $10m annually, able to 'wreak havoc from anywhere". And he last encountered the feds while supposedly "in the midst of an LSD-and-methamphetamine bender". [2]

So, yeah, not exactly the same thing.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev
[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html?p...
Naw, that was me. He just said moot runs the world's largest CP site and that's probably not a good reason to listen to him.

This is the internet, so pastebin is as good as any other evidence:

http://pastebin.com/fPW1myL9

Of course that doesn't say NSA but my tinfoil is strong.

Seriously, if you don't believe that these large social sites that popped out of nowhere with no obvious need and no chance of profitability haven't at least been very happily ushered along the path to success by an all-too-eager network of governments that give not two shits about their population for anything but their perverse amusement and enrichment, you're a complete moron and a prime example of why the founding fathers knew you can't trust the people to run a country. Because you're morons.
In this case the law of diminishing returns is offset by the massive movement from TV-based advertising to web-based advertising. As long as TV loses add dollars, there will be plenty of "rising tide" to lift both Facebook and Google in terms of increased advertising revenues.

On the flip side, that's a confounding factor that makes it hard to compare Facebook to Google in terms of some type of battle for advertising dollars. For the time being they should both see revenue growth, irregardless of who does a better job.
We can disprove that pretty quickly and easily: show me a broad basket of goods that costs the same in gold ten years ago as it does today. Or tell me this: did everything suddenly go on sale or shoot up in price when gold recently shot up and then dropped 10-15%? No.
Strongly related: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Politics_is_the_Mind-Killer

Maybe after you read this, technical problem and political ones will start to feel the same.
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The bug was not shared outside the group, and the data was not released except for an excerpt to ONE reporter.

The second item you cite is entirely unrelated to the things he has been charged with.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20007309-245.html
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Images of the LG Prada were first leaked on Dec 15, 2006. The iPhone was announced on Jan 9, 2007. It's hard to imagine that Apple revamped the entire form-factor of their two-year phone project in 25 days.
The sad thing is: the only way those people would learn is when every hole would be pastebinned after such response.

After two or three loud cases, they would probably figure it out. Or not.

I pity their customers, tho.
Unless you don't use the same email account for password recovery, your email address is as important as it seems.

However many sites won't allow you to have a different email account just for password recovery, that is insecure, as people would then know where to go for.
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I've found that the error messages quickly start making more sense (most of the time anyway...); in fact, now I parse the Haskell type error messages faster and more accurately than similar messages in Java or the like. I'm sufficiently spoiled now that error messages in languages like Python just throw me off completely...
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It's somewhat amusing to see these surveys and articles by people who don't really understand the Gatekeeper system that Facebook uses for deployment and the vast amounts of data they collect about user behaviour.

Facebook can do test rollouts of features to specific segments of their users and exactly measure the impact. In comparison, making a survey gives you crap data that tells you nothing about how the usage patterns of Facebook will change. Because what people say they will do and what they actually do are two different things, and Facebook keeps very quiet about the actual patterns.

Sometimes though you can infer that announced features actually wasn't a success. They'll just be quietly rolled back or changed or never rolled out to the entire userbase. What happened to Timeline, for example?
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They just don't know the merits of two factor authentication. That's said, however, as both services allows users to "remember" the sessions for a lengthier period of time, it's still insecure to sign in two those services even with two-factor authentication.
For what it's worth, Stanford only actually half-gets it. The videos you find online are only a tiny fraction (probably less than 20% of all videos recorded). Stanford also has SCPD which is a program wherein non-students can [pay and] take classes remotely via watching the on-campus lectures on video. Since students can also access these videos, you can make it through much of college without attending class. (There's also a lot of scraping at the end of each quarter so that students can maintain their own OpenCourseware equivalent).
That was very, very well done.

How did they do video compositing on top of an embedded browser window in Flash?

Perhaps they pre-rendered the webpages server-side using WebKit or some such and sent a screenshot to Flash....
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I'm strongly in favor of boycotting the FSF until FMS finally kicks off.</fuck-you-too-rms>
There should be a government body to whom security breaches like these can be reported. Companies can not be trusted to police themselves when it comes to private data.

If the government is incompetent enough to prosecute you for making HTTP requests with non-obvious URLs, do you really have much hope for an smart government agency dealing with this?
> Anyone operating under the assumption that bitcoin is a stable system is naive.

"Stable" as in exchange rate, no. But the bitcoin technology in itself is really solid, and will continue to work well.
Mhm... the demo asks for too much information:

Name, email, organization, title, and phone number.

This immediately they'll get random gibberish from me. The majority of LMS provide a default demo login/password and do not require personal information.

About 3 years ago I researched broadly about LMS. I tested several (including Moodle, Dokeos, Claroline, Blackboard, etc) and selected Dokeos due to its simplicity and interface ease. Moodle was a second but the interface just did not make sense to me (too cluttered, no evident task flow for teachers and students). Right now Chamilo seems to follow Dokeos original goal.
I got as far as,

>since iOS was not built from top-to-bottom for multi-tasking functionality...

before realizing that the author is just trolling.

iOS supported multi-tasking from day 1 -- it was a stripped-down Mac OS X, after all. They intentionally restricted multi-tasking to avoid performance and battery-life issues, a trade-off which is still paying dividends in their UX.

Apple forces developers to ask themselves, "do I really need multi-tasking?" Often the answer is "no," and the user benefits from that conversation.
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Value is arbitrary. None of the major world fiat currencies have any inherent value. They are backed by nothing.

Reminds me of an episode of This American Life. Brazil's currency was down the toilet, so they invented a new currency and tricked the populace into thinking it had value.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/423/t...
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I bought iTunes gift card codes for the US store.

While there is an iTunes store in Germany, some of the apps aren't available (e.g. TV Station apps that I could use with a VPN) and with the current euro/usd ration, the US store is cheaper.
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However, it's likely that his post wouldn't have had the same effect if it had been fully anonymous. Being _by him_ carried with it a lot of other things. Reputation matters.