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Tell me it is not how it looks like, simpleCart
I just found a crazy little bug in the Javascript shopping cart plugin, simpleCart.js. I am a javascript noob. I do a lot of jQuery code writing and debugging at this stage, and I use Google Chrome. I found that if you change the price tag of any item using Chrome's "Inspect Element", you can purchase that item at any price you change it into. I don't know if there's something wrong with the demo shop, or the plugin itself is broken. Can some pros tell me if there's really something wrong?
One factor influencing photographers could have been that many of their high profile clients were (and are) creating and hosting Flash websites. A lot of ad agencies still espouse Flash websites. Check out thefwa.com or Comm Arts Interactive awards: http://www.commarts.com/interactive for examples.

A bit of a tangent, but many large advertising/"digital" agencies that really should know better are still serving up all-Flash sites with little or no fallback:
http://www.firstborn.com
http://ff0000.com
http://www.goodbysilverstein.com
http://www.toolofna.com
http://www.soleilnoir.net
http://www.toolofna.com/

Of the above, Red is the worst, offering this one-liner (in #333, no less): "You need to upgrade your flash." Yes, even on iOS. Other all-Flash agency sites, like http://www.ogilvy.com and http://www.razorfish.com prefer to serve Flash, but manage to offer nearly all information and content in the absence of a Flash plugin.
Yeah, I know the standard internet spiel about EPOC. I just think it's broscience and bad advice for the majority of people looking for health and fitness information.
> You've bought into some kind of radical left fantasy

And you've gone to the zoo, friend. Almost to the point where I wonder if you're being deliberately obtuse to troll me. (Nice one, if so.)

Two things to note, here.

1. Stratfor has public products and private analysis services.

2. I'm not talking about what they've disclosed publicly.

You could substitute "Stratfor" with "The New York Times Company" in this scenario and I would take the same position. Papers rarely publish all they know, as sometimes it's a better bet to keep quiet on something juicy to avoid burning bridges. Papers are also routinely asked to sit on a story, or bury it outright, as a favor in exchange for access.

A leak of all New York Times emails would probably include a lot of the same sort of content and people I'm imagining in a Stratfor leak. The SNR wouldn't be nearly as favorable, since the Times has a much more public profile and a much broader scope than just global events. Stratfor's specific focus makes it much likelier that any given source, or any given chum of the CEO, has said something via email that could be pretty powerful, were it disclosed. I'd also wager that Stratfor content will be more candid, since it's a smaller world than mass market newspaper publishing.
Introduce SOPA/PIPA/a variant thereof, and takedown/prosecute anyone hosting this content.
It's the internet, if you don't start adding random i's to words, people will think you're new to the place. Don't forget the Viri, or even Virii.
"One modality is better than none" does not equate to "one modality is better than several". Which is my point.

You're misreading me. Repeatedly. And on having had that pointed out.

I'd suggest again you look into just what strength training entails (and how it applies to dance). It's not all about getting muscly and huge, FYI.

Cheers, mate.
Looks really nice, but I'd like to know more about its unique value proposition (what makes me use it instead of Google Reader, where I have all my stars and shares, and great search).

It looks really great and it has some quite comprehensive features. Which actually sends me back to what one of LinkedIn's founder once said[1]: If You're Not Embarrassed By The First Version Of Your Product, You’ve Launched Too Late

If this is the first MVP of the idea, it might be worthwhile checking out Ash Maurya's great post[2] on the subject.

[1] http://articles.businessinsider.com/2009-11-13/strategy/3006...

[2] http://www.ashmaurya.com/2009/11/from-minimum-viable-product...
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This sort of thing really bothers me with Javascript. Using the unary + operator on an array should be an error. Hiding errors by having implicit type convertions doesn't help me fix those errors.

You may say that users don't need to see to see strange error messages they don't understand. Quite right, what we need instead is to have a way for browsers to transmit uncaught exceptions in JS to the server.
I would have to follow the twisted logic, Do you really expect these people to have not committed any crimes over the entire course of the emails?

I would have more of a issue if this was personal correspondence but this is dealing with large US institutions and people that deal with policy.
Why would you need to incorporate in Chile in order to stay? The initial visa is for a year, right? I'm curious because we're planning to stay the full year, and may stay a second year if we can get a renewal.
But it is still hard for an American government agency to subpoena documents from an European company.
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Add "using WPS" to the title please.
I've been noticing a good amount more down votes than usual.
I wonder what's happening, or if it's just the couple threads it's been in fresh in my mind.
I agree with you that some parts distract more from the main line than that they add, but not about what those parts are. I would probably remove everything from the header "Simulating a Fair Die" up to the header "Throwing Darts".

I would keep the "Throwing Darts" parts because it provides a smoother ride towards the main result. I guess many readers will need that to understand the algorithm (If the intended audience is hard-core, it could just have been a reference to TAOCP and an URL to Vose‘s paper. For me, that probably would have been enough, as I knew the algorithm from reading TAOCP, and have already implemented the O(nlogn) initialization method variant)

Finally, I have one minor nitpick: the header "Simulating a Loaded Die with a Biased Coin" is incorrect. It should read "Simulating a Loaded Die with Biased Coins".
I agree, but would prefer to keep the standards high for the public rather than see the courses separated. I enjoyed the first few ml-class lessons, but I quickly became bored with the difficulty level.
I don't think he's being cynical. The points smell of rhetoric.

"We must be mindful of the precedents set"
"Avoid collateral damage"
"Promote innovation over litigation"

None of this is actionable against the legislation in it's current form. What you're doing is interpreting actions based on your own bias and joining the dots in your own mind as to what these things mean. You're not seeing the other side, which is frequently the problems with these debates.

Bottom line - I think his heart is in the right place, I just don't see these points as being particularly poignant given the context in which they are being seen from the other side of the debate.
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Last time I checked this actually worked in production as well, as the values are changed before the form is submitted and no data is pulled from a server to validate. So SimpleCart should be used for low traffic websites, where orders are manually inspected, as they said on their github page https://github.com/wojodesign/simplecart-js/issues/150
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Depending on the watermark, it's usually easy to remove a watermark. In fact, Wikimedia Commons has info on how to remove them (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Watermarks#How_to...) not to mention the numerous guides online (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=remove+watermarks).

As to "stealing", it's the nature of the internet for people to use images they find online elsewhere for gratis, usually without attribution. I can completely understand if the copier claims they alone made the image, but these sort of claims can be and are disproven by the original author or other people who have seen the original work and are sometimes removed thanks to current copyright laws (at least in the USA.) Tools like TinEye or Google Images can also help find the original image.

However people do generally attribute images; those who don't (and don't claim the image as their own) are only "stealing" potential profit from the author, which can easily be prevented by either selling it to some group, like a newspaper or magazine, or not uploading the image to the internet at all.

Aesthetically, watermarks can look pretty gnarly, but this of course depends on the person and the watermark. For example, my current wallpaper is that of my favorite anime/manga and has only the compiler's watermark (not the author's) on it, one that is small and translucent. I don't mind it, because it's unobstructive, but if I put the image on Imgur, am I "stealing" from the author or just not giving credit where credit is due?
How about this...

Bradley Manning posted two types of information. War Footage and Diplomatic Cables. The War Footage was unpleasant to watch but didn't document anything that wasn't already well known (at least to anyone who paid attention to Iraqi Civilian Casualty Numbers). As such no change has been made by the government.

The second group, diplomatic cables, actually caused harm. The whole point of diplomacy is to avoid war. Manning leaked info (such as state department officials' personal opinion of other world leaders) that made it harder to deal with them. Hence making diplomacy harder and war more likely.

I think the larger point with the Stratfor hack and Manning's actions is it's dumb to release indiscriminately. Good reporting has always involved inside sources but those reporters targeted the actual corruption and only released that.
> Lifting heavy shit sucks. Some people like it sure, but it really, really sucks.

I was there. Then I had an ascending aortic dissection (I managed to survive mostly unscathed), and post-recovery, started weight training. (The doctors were ... amused.)

I HATED it for a while, but eventually got to where it has become a bit of an addiction.

About the only thing I don't do is the 'valsalva' maneuver. Too much risk there for me. (My aorta is dissected from the site of the repair (mm away from the aortic valve) to somewhere in my right iliac artery (thigh).)

If I can lift, anyone who doesn't have serious back injuries or NM issues can.
You seemed to think that those "quibbles" were important when you thought that they supported your position, so surely they're just as important when they don't.

She misrepresented what she did.

BTW - Comparing what she did with King cheapens King.
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There's a significant difference between business and personal emails.

If you write anything in a business email you should assume that it may become public at some point in the future. Both your employer and the recipients employer have the right to read it, as does any company that acquires either party.

The email may also be demanded by the government for a variety of reason or by a court in pursuit of a civil case.

Business emails have much weaker privacy protection than personal emails because it's assumed that from the very beginning that any privacy arises from the commercial implications of the contents rather than the inherent privacy that you have when two private individuals are discussing a personal matter.
http://blog.serverfault.com/2011/02/11/stack-exchanges-archi...

We use Linux for caching, load balancing, routing, monitoring, etc. The web tier and databases are Windows.
Ask HN: Best Statistics / Data mining book?
can anyone recommend me good stats/probability/ or data mining books (ideally with code examples in c or cpp).
Parse's SDK makes the syncing significantly easier. I tried a combination of REST + CoreData and also a locally running version of CouchDB replicating with a CouchDB server. Parse was by far the simplest to implement and comparatively surprisingly fast.

The Parse team has done a great job so far and I'm excited to see what other improvements they make. This little exercise is a good intro to their platform.
I'll probably just play with it, but a project I could use one for is a squid / DansGuardian server for our kids.
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damn, I thought you worked out at my gym, but the DBs there only go to 173#.
So I'm digging around in the Rack source right now trying to see what's up, I haven't seen anywhere that it doesn't just rely on the native Ruby Hash class.

Does anybody closer to the matter know if Rack's actually vulnerable in 1.9?
i think that might be outside the scope of what parse is trying to provide. 'lazily loading' images is fairly involved...even more so if you want to persist them into a http cache of sorts.
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Lua isn't mentioned there, so I'd like to ask: since Lua interns every string, isn't it vulnerable even if a framework doesn't put request parameters into the table?
So you implemented OpenID using a phone instead of the third-party identity provider's web site?
It's really not. If you want a citation for "growing trees takes CO2 out of the atmosphere", a high school bio book will suffice -- the carbon mass of the tree is carbon extracted from the atmosphere (and dead plant mass in soil, but the carbon there came from the atmosphere too).

If you want a citation for growing trees for timber and pulp as an effective CO2 sink, the citation is right in the grandfather post (an international climate change study by the IPCC including researchers from over a dozen countries, how much more authoritative can we get?), or just look up the paper and timber industries on wikipedia.
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What they could, and are discussing doing, is defining Hacking as terrorism. I heard this from my own congressman's mouth and that's why this scares me. Because there were a log of Senators and Congressman subscribed to Stratfor and this is exactly the type of incident that might push them to act.
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I was thinking more in terms of virtual universal drivers, than virtualizing the whole OS.
If updates were all people cared about, they would've all switched to iPhone from a while ago. Not having many updates now is a pain, but it doesn't necessarily mean people will want to switch to iPhone because of it.
Huge fan of the logo and its secret onclick event.
I am from 2010 pilot group with Vendder project. Most teams will agree the reimbursement process is broken, time-consuming and painful.

I dare everybody here to push forward a type of investment, loan or subsidy that provides you 40.000USD with so little effort from your part without asking any share of your company in return.

Once again, and for the entire web to read, Startup Chile is a governamental grant/subsidy and should be considered as should, even if they have a so energetic staff who shoot fancy videos and write enjoyable blog posts. If you consider this you see Startup Chile deal is much sweeter than most government initiatives everywhere else.

A person should not compare apples and oranges.
There's a lot of crossover in my understanding of fitness (diet/nutrition, strength, cardio), and of willpower and volition in its various states. Many food/fitness issues are born of concepts very similar to addiction (and heavily pursued by food marketers and advertisers under similar grounds).

I've tried going very low carb, and found the experience quite dissatisfying. Cognitive, strength, and cardio abilities all suffered. My best bet is to stick to a small quantity of whole grains (rolled or steel-cut oats generally) in the morning, some fruit and vegetables through the day, most carbs post-workout.

As to cutting the volitional element of diet control, a number of experiences, ranging from "Supersize Me" to other readings and experiences, made me stop considering a wide range of alleged "food products" as food, and instead, seeing them as toxins. The choice is then not one of "do you want to eat this food" but "do you want to eat this poison". It makes saying "no" much easier. Practicing a "thanks, but no" doesn't hurt either.

It also helps (and HN often assists in this) to realize that a great deal of modern "culture" and media are dedicated to polluting your choice-discrimination mechanisms. Avoiding commercial media (TV, radio, malls, etc.) drastically reduces your exposure to mental toxins as well. Yes, "gamification", "viral spread", "addictive experience", and all that.

Shopping also becomes the one time you're really having to make choices. I avoid stores that carry mostly junk, have my "regular items" I stock up on, and stick to them. Treats become nuts, dried fruits, dates, and figs.

Scheduling a regular time to be at the gym (or wherever else you exercise) is another key.

Stick to all of this: avoid the bad foods, feed your brain/body enough slow-burning glucose to keep it happy, avoid distractive influences, keep your home and personal environments free of temptations, and you'll spare yourself a lot of the need of having to exhaust willpower. Though as with any muscle, I suspect that occasional exercise with periods of recovery strengthens it in the long run.
I would be very disappointed to be able to recreate the scenario you describe.

'Delivered' should mean that the distributed transaction was 'committed', aka Alice has committed Bob's message :)
I think you're right about netatalk 2.2 avahi stuff.
I just want to add this little tip. If you can't be better than your competition at anything else, you can always be better at caring about everyone that touches your brand.

Imagine if byoung2 had said instead, "Yeah, I applied to six, and no one replied except favorite_yc_startup." How much that does for the brand. Now multiple that by the thousands of people who interact with your brand each year.
Yes there is red tape here but one of the things that doesn't come up much is the OPPORTUNITY. Who cares if the idea/start-up you came here with doesn't work, if you're willing to commit to being in Chile there is a lot of low hanging fruit. If you're willing to work hard and outcompete the competition (which is much easier here than in the States) you can be successful. I'll admit that our start-up, www.bungolow.com is not a "new" idea, but there are market opportunities here that we can't take advantage of in the US.
Excellent ideas, although it would never stick with a government... (I proposed that myself ;))

Santiago is a GREAT city indeed (one of the best in latam), although a bit expensive (specially if u eat out a lot!)
Plurals of Latin / Greek words used in English: http://alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxplural.html One of my favorite pages.
If you fail to lock your door, you are in effect allowing this possibility. If you communicate over a "clear" channel, without taking steps to encrypt that data, you are again allowing this. That's why I don't view this as a valid moral claim.

Regardless of your argument, that's not what happened here.

They broke into the (secured) Stratfor servers, then decrypted the email using a key they stole.

At best the real analogy is picking the lock on your house, taking your spare car key and then stealing your car.

The whole "but nothing was destroyed" argument is a whole other argument, but equally as weak. The fact that exclusive access information has value has been long established, and there are numerous precedents in the physical world showing it. The best example is someone breaking into a commercial office, gaining access to private commercial documents which they can use in negotiations. Clearly harm has been done, as it has in this case.
Well, there's also an established literature going back a few decades. Rather more than broscience:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=epoc+excess+post+exercis...
The FreedomBox Foundation inspired by Eben Moglen and which raised over US$85k earlier this year on KickStarter is also looking to cover this space through software and hardware:

http://freedomboxfoundation.org/
http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox
What the hell does "for the 99%" mean? Usually that means that refers to the bottom 99% in income but I think the bottom 99% in income are more likely to use Facebook, not less.
I'm curious to know why you didn't just create a chrome extension like http://reederforchrome.tumblr.com/ or Helvetireader.
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For brazilians in specific, there's a big plus for being on SUP: being "international" automatically doubles your perceived value in our dear xenophile country.

Although sny incubator would do the trick - even having a friend in Palo Alto and use his home address as "headquarters"

The ironic truth... ;)
I thought the comment was very funny. It was clearly a riff on the article. Maybe you need to get a sense of humor.
In my view, a startup is a commercial project -- which these days can easily be done online without formal incorporation, even by a single person. And if having a formal company hurts more than not having it, the choice is simple.
I've been in the financial consulting business for a while and I'm still sometimes stunned by the kinds of things clients will send me as unencrypted email.

What's the legal status of email? Is it treated as if it were "just like snail mail"?

My point being: wouldn't it actually be better in terms of fostering awareness and better processes if cleartext email bore no presumed privacy whatsoever?

Then, say, a couple standards might get updated, and companies might need to update their internal processes in order to comply.

EDIT: Rearranged some paragraphs. Taking the opportunity to acknowledge the alternative to my "simply stop legally blessing people's treating email as if it were snail mail": to regulate the internet further and try to impose "Intel takedowns" and/or stricter protocols than the ones that outline email today.
Yes, please. This is a side-channel attack. It should get more exposure so that people get wise and turn off WPS in their APs.
It's not just photographers who do this, there are painters and illustrators who have this fear as well. Mostly amateurs in my experience.
The idea (at least we thought so) was to incentive us to stay.
If everyone leaves, there's no ecosystem...
Except Nikola Tesla. All of us are still not as smart as Nikola Tesla
Yep. Also have counterparty risk. Just because you have a contract for a purchase and a sale doesn't guarantee that the transactions will go smoothly.
Plug a 1T LaCie all terrain HD into the FW 800 port. Works a lot faster than the wireless and it's easy to back up the backup (portably)
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Good job!
same here. got better after everything was loaded
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If you read those studies, they confirm what I said in my previous post. There is an EPOC effect, but it is minimal compared to doing more exercise. There is also an EPOC effect for cardio, it's just not as pronounced as weight training. (but it's not much less, either, more like 5% less)

The bigger issue is there is no way for the casual exerciser to measure EPOC, whereas it's straightforward to measure calorie intake and calorie expenditure. Thus, it's not very useful as a weight loss aid, because you have no idea how much of an afterburn effect really occurs. If you can't measure it yourself, it's effectively broscience, even if there is real science behind the idea.
I 100% agree with you. I imagine that the type of people who read HN and apply would be pretty influential in the startup scene. You don't want that crowd to think you treat your customers the same way I was treated as a job applicant.