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What always confuses me about stories like these is that the guy is always doing it from his basement apartment. Surprise, you got caught. And if you're an exit node for tor, you're going to be under the microscope for something somebody else did.

And if you're hanging out on IRC a little too much, your linguistic fingerprint is probably strong enough to match up to something somewhere else on the Internet with your name on it.

If he really wanted to fight 'the man', he could have gotten a nice cushy job and donated what he made to EFF.
I would never use a contact form if I can avoid it, I like to have a copy of my outgoing mail in its original form.

For me a button to copy the email-address directly to the clipboard would be the best solution.
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Again in 1951, the Nationwide Hockey League mandated white jerseys for house video games which made the Rangers create a logo new uniform; although this changed solely an issue of years later and in the 70's, every thing changed as soon as again and it will carry on altering for a couple of years to come. Whilst the league multiplied again in the overdue 60's, to a twelve groups, it used to be more fashionable than earlier than especially with extra teams being added each few years also. That is how the merchandise has change into increasingly in demand ever since.
Glad to be one of the users who uses vagrant every day!
I prefer mailto links, since I keep a copy of the mail I send to you. Using my mail program also means I can CC and sign the mail. Plus, I'm not restricted to a 30x5 character sized text area to type my letter in. And I've got your email address in case I need to ask you more. All plusses for mailto:.

What's probably a problem is that many people use web mail clients, and the browsers do not have a standard way to assign mailto: handlers to websites.
The paintings for the first movie were pre-production visualizations done well in advance of filming. In fact, well in advance of the story. In the painting of Luke on the cliff looking down on Mos Eisley, you may notice that "he" seems a bit wide hipped. That's because at the time this painting was done, the "Luke" character was a girl.

If I remember correctly, most of the paintings for the other movies were done mainly as marketing and promotional items, for books, posters, and art sets. I don't think he was as involved with the rest of the original trilogy as with the first. By then Lucas had a whole army of artists working for him.

The original trilogy owes most of its look and feel to McQuarrie.

I always liked the original set of paintings, where things looked different and strange. I actually saw many of them before the movie came out, as they were used to promote the film in science fiction fan magazines. (The first movie came out between my junior and senior years of high school.) The later paintings are much more "on model" than the original, exploratory paintings, and not as fanciful.

My cousin was a film critic at the time, and somewhere my brother has a press kit that my cousin gave to him that included a lot of goodies, including a very nice, oversized black portfolio of the original set of paintings. I wouldn't be surprised to find it's worth something these days, but my brother and I spent hours pouring over those paintings, and enjoying every detail.

It's one of things that got us involved in the special effects industry years later. So I feel I own Mr. McQuarrie quite a bit.
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Ask HN: How to prevent bugs in your code?
We're struggling with bugs. Of course they are a reality, but what are some ways to prevent and fix bugs quickly?
Note that for the download, you should go to http://mclide.in-progress.com/

I submitted that link, but it just bumped up the points on the 500+ day old original submission of that url.
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I've set up scripts to convert an existing virtualbox/vagrant .box file to a vmware compatible OVF. I would use those to deliver to clients at my last employer. I know github is doing a similar process. Additionally there's mccloud, which lets you deploy to aws. If you need help getting any of these set up, let me know.
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It went OK with my parents and iPad until my parents managed to delete Skype app. Holding the finger on the icon a little longer, then pressing it again and hitting the cross that appeared. Maybe even tapping OK afterwards. iOS should get a little better fitted mode to delete apps for "old or challenged people" (hint: not so easy to do). You show them how to tap, you don't show them how to delete apps as they will never needed, but they still accidentally enter the mode as it's just a longer hold on the icon.

Only programmers can like modes. Normal people die because of modes, two years ago one a computer in Airbus turned off "controlling with software" mode because some speedometer didn't get input, pilots didn't understand the effects of such mode change.

Modes bad. Not always having a clear "go level back" bad. And even if I haven't tested, I'm quite sure that anything non-Apple is even worse. Although I'd like to be proved wrong, it seems that nobody is even able not to just badly copy Apple.
Brilliant. I absolutely love this, and will absolutely use Font Awesome in my next project.

While the name Font Awesome is catchy, it doesn't say much about the product, and won't carry seo juice or meaning for your main selling point: better icons. A name like "fonticons" (pronounced like "emoticons") might be stronger, and you could own that term which may go generic (like "kleenex") if the technique is widely adopted.

In fact, you could literally own it. After making sure a google search was relatively clean, and a USPTO.gov trademark search was clear, I just registered the domain fonticons.com, and would be happy to give it to you if you want it as a token of appreciation for your project.
Probably not so useful but a more hardcore challenge: limit yourself to a visual equivalent of a braille terminal.
Could we have a tl;dr version please?
Create this http://www.iubenda.com/blog/2011/10/25/dissection-of-a-viral...

It's a landing page for a product being built. After adding your email to the waiting list, you can move higher on the waiting list for referring users, and liking the site, and following the sites twitter.

The best thing about this site is that is shows you where you are in queue. As you do more social things to share the site, you can see yourself moving up in the queue.
So you want your music clipped or limited by the DAC? Or do you envision amps and speakers capable of generating shockwaves powerful enough to level entire cities?

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I often think about a quote that I cannot recall the source for, but the gist was, "A technology doesn't change the world until it becomes boring." Meaning that technological paradigms don't alter the way humans interact until they become weaved into our common culture to the point where we no longer think about them. I believe this is starting to happen with much of the internet technology that has been maturing for the last 20 years. What once was limitless and magical is now commonplace and banal, yet the sands have shifted beneath our feet so much in the last 20 years and we don't even realize it.
People in my family who never wanted to try a real PC or a notebook now send messages, read e-mails and do video talks on the iPad, iPad is a first device with a microprocessor since microprocessors exist that got them do this.
What if the scanners actually take a 360 degree xray?
This article might be a bit out of date... it appears the $ selector has been changed to an exclamation point:

http://dev.w3.org/csswg/selectors4/#subject
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If you're an EU/US exchange, someone steals bitcoins, makes them to money with your help, police starts to investigate, you get sued and need to pay the stolen money back out of your pocket. Technology is no way around laws. You know the word enforcement in law enforcement. But you as a merchant are probably safe. Risk is taken by the conversion service.

(Obviously you're safe if EU/US/Russia/China can't get you because your service is in country that does not work with EU/US/Russian/Chinese law enforcement).
Just hope that somewone will be helt accountable for it. Anyway, the link to the relevant xkcd:

http://xkcd.com/651/
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Anyone with insider details ?
You're obviously doing it wrong if you use 7 proxies and then log into an account that can be easily traced back to you. Proxies should only ever be used with anonymous and/or throwaway accounts.
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As a Facebook game developer, all of our employees are friends with everyone in the company
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And this is why Facebook is going to crap ... the idea that you can just friend anybody is why myspace quickly became a ghetto and facebook will eventually go down that road too.
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Painfully slow on my Samsung Tab 10.1 running Android 3.2. It even crashes on the stock browser.

Also, for some weird reason I can't view the main content on Sencha's site.
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> Is iOS really that much less fragmented
> in real-world terms?

http://pxldot.com/post/18754186750/ios-ebb-and-flow
just so you know prostitution isnt illegal everywhere, so here's something to think

If an US citizen pays to prostitute at overseas can US sue the prostitute for offering the service to united states citizen where it isnt illegal?(assuming states finds out about it somehow)

Because this is basically the same, a serviceprovider offers a service thats legal in the country the company and hosting is based on for customers of said country.
When someone not from the said country finds out about the service and starts to use it the company is doing something illegal?
Internet is global and it is nearly impossible to make a service that ISNT ILLEGAL SOMEWHERE (see china & citizenrights/laws)
It's fine (or at least has been to date). I know wives, girlfriends, husbands and boyfriends that have all been supported with identical 12 month work visas to founders but their costs are not covered so it'll be out of your own pocket.

If you're a sole founder I recommend putting them on your application form as you'll be able to reimburse more for accommodation, salary, flights and visas which are probably your main costs.
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> 1. Git saves 'entire' snapshots of a directory on each commit.

Every time I've tried to explain this to someone who doesn't understand how gits content addressable data-store works, I've been met with disbelief or mockery. These days I just point people to the docs.
That's some creepy robot, right there.

I really need to reboot my creepy robots blog.
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I've never seen a button increase the crossing time, either. What I have seen, however, is that on a light that normally has, say, a 10s green with no crossing indicator, pressing the crossing button will extend the next green to something like 30s and display a crossing indicator.
In early rounds about 1/3 were single founders and there are still many in more recent rounds.
FontForge has a "Merge fonts" command. It's scriptable in Python, though that command doesn't seem to be part of the API. It would probably not be hard to implement the same functionality simply adding glyphs in a loop... or to add a function to the Python API.
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So should they not have posted at all or should they have used a different title?
Sabu was doxed repeatedly, and his family was even the subject of a NYTimes story.
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There is an open-source font-making program called FontForge. Some people complain about it but I've used it to make several fonts without too much difficulty (besides, of course, the inherent difficulty of designing a good typeface).
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Why only select an element based on its children? How about

el /if/ el > .someclass:hover { some:style; }

Style an element "el" if some other element exists or event occurs.
Does this apply to their small phones? Perhaps it is because of reading HN that I am of the perception that only the larger more feature-full phones are maintained well (or perhaps just that my friends who have bought these just got the big version, having large male rucksacks). The Nexus that I am aware of doesn't fit in my purse.
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I upvoted this because it links to a lot of useful-looking terminal programs that I didn't already know about.
No insider detail, but I also experienced downtime. Posted about it here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3674560
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Most people with critical thinking are hardly surprised by this; this needs to be shown to average Joes, not hackers.

Hence I suggest to vote this up on YouTube, rather than / in addition to HN.
No. This doesn't work. At least not for the Humble Bundle games. The market shows an update available for Osmos, but when I click the update button it says it couldn't download the update because I haven't purchased the app.
Do HN folks even use fb?
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Agreed. Send an email to your clients:

IMPORTANT: We're changing our TOS

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We've always tried our hardest to be the Good Guys, to not put burdens on our clients. Unfortunately, we're seeing a large amount of fraudulent activity that has forced us to implement chargebacks. We're sorry, and despite this we will continue to fight as hard as we can and then some for you, our clients. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Then, you're clear. You may lose some clients, but you won't be the assholes who sold your product as, "X, but without the terrible Y!", then went behind your clients' backs and implemented Y after you realized the big boys did it for a reason.
>You can't say that prices are high for corporate legal services because supply is restricted

I'm not saying that. I agree with you that there is a surplus of corporate lawyers, and so deregulation wouldn't really reduce the price in that sector.

Even if there were cheap lawyers who learned through apprenticeship instead of law school, large companies still wouldn't hire them.

I'm talking about prices being driven up in other areas, where law school grads with insane debt don't want to work.

I know several law school grads who couldn't find the kind of high paying job they were looking for. However, since they had so much debt they ended up taking non legal jobs (one is a project manager, the other an entrepreneur), instead of moving into another lower paid area of the law.

Because of high education costs (and the requirement that lawyers posses a graduate degree, which means most of them are going to be at least 25 by the time they can start practicing, plus the psychological factors involved in having spent 7 years in school), there is a minimum price below which most lawyers will not work, and will seek other opportunities.
Quick, painless, and makes mailto useful: http://updates.html5rocks.com/2012/02/Getting-Gmail-to-handl...
They're the same soldiers we would expect to fight the just wars. It's not as if they're the ones starting these things.
Better, meaning better than Tor? Better than I2P?

I think we've got to get people to start using the decentralized internet we have.
Thanks for the comment, but when writing for an audience that consists mostly of people who aren't familiar with military terms, you may want to avoid slang or at least explain what it means. Points in case: CONUS, ODA, CONOPS. (probably 'shiv' too, I only know it because I used to listen to a lot of rap music).
Yeah I know, I said I don't blame google. We all know who is at fault here, and I was referring to them ...
There is one good point in the comments: "MATH! We need math! 50% -5px It’s stupid having to do things like this in JS."

Completely agree! It should be possible to do this.

And please: vertical-align:center for any block element. Or is that in CSS3 and I am not aware of it?
Spot on. Thank you.
So I have been teaching Computer technology to kids in schools and also to non-techies as a hobby for a while.

I urge you to NOT start with technology. From her interests, identify something that can be augmented with programming first.
[for example, she wants to share her hobby via a blog]. Just show her what is possible in that instance with knowledge of coding. From there work backwards to show what she needs to learn to achieve this goal. You will find her lot more motivated.

I talked about this with Hack Education's Audrey just yesterday. Some more thoughts captured by her here:
http://www.hackeducation.com/2012/03/06/harry-shah/
Seems to be a DNS issue, which is why it works for some and not for others.
Thanks, I'll need this in a few weeks.
I guess if you're a group planning an attack, training and equipping 4 instead of 1 attacker isn't an insurmountable obstacle.
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Bruce Schneier who coined the term in the first place did give one example where he was okay with it. It should be noted that the costs are extremely low for this example and doesn't delay anything:

http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securityma...
If you go through the forum threads, you can see that I am not alone in being frustrated by iOS5 on the original iPad. Even scrolling on the home screen is laggy from time to time. I have already disabled Spotlight for all except apps and most notification BS.
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Ignorant maybe, but not dumb.
I'm far from an expert but from what I know about the way Ben Gurion handles security, I don't see why any of their security measures wouldn't scaled.
Maybe even the reddit devs hang out on HN these days? ;)

Generally, what's the beef with not liking "self promotion" i.e. me posting my own blog articles?
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In Middle Europe, too.

I'm actually quite happy about it. Tons of companies use their Facebook pages for marketing instead of driving traffic to the website they control. Similarly, almost everybody I know now communicate through Facebook only.

I hope this is a good lesson for them, and everybody can get back to distributed systems.
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Your comment is kind of funny because I remember when people bitched about the iPhone not being suitable for the enterprise.

What people are missing is that when a product gets really popular amongst consumers, the enterprise will follow regardless of its shortcomings.

Plus, Android does have advantages for the enterprise. Like its integration with the other Google services. For instance I love that my whole contacts list is backed-up in Google Apps. And the Gmail app on Android is the best Gmail app available on mobile phones.

It's a pity that I'll have to wait for an Android 4 upgrade for my Galaxy S. I blame Samsung for this as I buy from them for the hardware (which is awesome), not for their shitty "additions" to Android. This is why my next phone I buy will be a Nexus, or whatever Google's next blessed phone will be called.
I don't understand the comparison with Nokia. Many people I know still happily use their dumbphones from around that time. It sucks that the economic system punishes this.

Android phones are smartphones that fall apart after two years. Google doesn't care if these get replaced as long as people view ads, vendors know they can sell another device to the same person two years later. Both sides benefit from market share.
Noticed this as well this morning. It's back up again. (Of course).
His statement about no one boarding a plane in the US with explosives seems to be false: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-02-16/underwe....

Although he seems to be right that the detectors are useless since the guy who was pretty incompetent (set his underwear on fire) and still managed to get it on board a plane.
It's down for me as well in Sweden. Using an SSH tunnel right now to my Linode box to access it. This also came in handy last night for watching Die Hard on Netflix :)

If anyone is interested in how this works, there are hundreds of things online that explain it, but here it is in a gist:

SSH to your server using the -D <port> flag, so in my case it's "ssh -D 8080 whalesalad.com"

At this point, you've got a local SOCKS proxy running on 127.0.0.1:8080. I typically use Chrome, so when doing proxied stuff I rely on Firefox as it can have it's own proxy settings.

In Firefox, open prefs and go to Advanced > Network > Settings... (For, 'Configure how Firefox should connect to the Internet')

Choose manual proxy config, SOCKS Host is 127.0.0.1 and port is 8080 (or whatever port you specify with your ssh -D command)

Save everything and visit something like ipchicken.com to confirm that your browser appears to be tunneling traffic through your server.

Voila! Netflix, Hulu, Facebook, everything works. My friend also used this while he was in China to access everything.

i <3 ssh

p.s. as I write this, 9:02AM in Sweden, FB is back.
The short answer is: You can’t. But you can try.

Try doing the following to reduce bugs:

1.Write a lot of unit test cases covering all know scenarios that you have in your spec or mind. This only assures that there are no bugs in your set of test cases, however there could be bugs lying out side your test case set.

2.Before changing your code check if you have test cases written for the code. If not do step 1.

3.Have good logging for your code in action. If a bug is found later it will help you to root cause it.

4.If you are in object oriented programming try to replace if else codes with polymorphism. Its difficult but if you can it will either reduce logical bugs or help you find them quickly as they unfold.

5.Test for all if and else conditions. All if condition with complex logical arguments (using AND / OR) must be checked for all conditions.

6.Learn from your mistakes in coding and try not to repeat them.

That said, its easier said than done. I would follow this thread how other suggests and learn.
Its working for me in Sweden now.
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