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AntiSec Hackers Deface Panda Security's Website
Any recommendations for alternatives?
I agree with the OP, pretty spot on, while bootstrap sites look good, they generally all look the same. For CRUD/admin, yes, bootstrap is a definite go; for public front facing, not for my clients.

Client identity should be based on a unique brand, and bootstrap, short of major tweaks, does not provide that.

To umm, boot, boostrap is a wee bit on the heavy side for my liking (80KB css minified), and the javascript features are not mind blowing (for example, would prefer flyout menus like in Foundation or HTML Kickstart).

I'm rolling with Skeleton and jquerytools (sadly behind the maintenance curve) on the front end.

If bootstrap becomes themeable, I'll consider using on the front end, but until then, differentiation is king in my book.
I've just seen it and I headed to Hacker News to verify if it was legit :)
How about .eu? An obvious choice for any European company planning to expand beyond national borders.

EURid European Registry for Internet Domains) is a non-profit organisation established by the European Commission is a consortium of three European ccTLD operators: DNS Belgium (.be), IIT-CNR (.it) and NIC-SE (.se).

Am I missing something?
It changed everything in a sense that Apple pushed display technology to a new level so the others now could benefit(better notebook panels, displays).
I think the article forgot its own criteria half way through...

> Countries with military mutual defense agreements (NATO, etc).

And then he continues to name both Sweden and Norway...Norway is a NATO-member (though not part of the EU, just the EEA), and while Sweden is not a NATO-member, it is an EU member state, which means it is involved in EU-defence just as well...(and even though Iceland's economy has recovered well, they are also a NATO-member) Norway is definitely not militarily neutral, since they have troops in Afghanistan.

He also doesn't give a definition for what a "small"-sized or a "medium"-sized country is...

[edited for clarity/spelling]
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Yessssss. SWIM should make a bootstrap theme builder with these in mind!
Just looked at your portfolio. You should have no problem finding an internship.
> The level of complexity tends to be very different and design is far more important for a website.

Design _is_ more important for a website but that doesn't mean that design _should_ be more important for a website.
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I've only really seem them sold to equipment vendors as modules (or displays); sometimes to radiology vendors. The monitor I personally want is a Barco 10MP (http://www.barco.com/en/product/2195/specs), 30" 4096 x 2560), but I think it's about $12k.

Until then, get the old version of the 4k2k from Amazon?

Viewsonic VP2290B-2 (discontinued) 22" 4k2k TFT. Basically an IBM T221.

http://www.amazon.com/Viewsonic-VP2290B-2-22-2-LCD-Monitor/d...
"What the Mac realized is that there are a set of things that all software has to do, so why shouldn't they all do them the same way?"

Indeed - but I'd venture that the standard behavior for most web elements is already well-established. Pretty much everyone knows how to use a dropdown or a modal. Bootstrap makes it easy to implement these, and that's really handy. You could do the same with jQuery plugins or CSS snippets, though it would take more time.

The bigger aspect of Bootstrap (IMO), and the one that really grabs people's attention, is its distinctive and consistent styling. That's what shouldn't be kept consistent across websites. (It's not like different styling will confuse users.)

Tangentially, overriding Bootstrap's styling can be a bit messy, especially if you aren't using Less/SASS; but it's necessary if you intend to design a site with its own look. That's what I'm dealing with now.
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To rephrase: "[I think it's] very bland, it turns off [myself] before [I] even use it." It'd surprise me if most users pay enough attention to even see that a Bootstrap button looks different from a 37signals button or a Facebook button.

Bootstrap provides a bunch of reusable elements. You can still make the non-reusable elements (the layout chrome, logo etc.) as pretty/ugly as you want, and you can use those reusable elements to create very bland or very inspired websites.

Frankly, I don't see what all the fuss is about.
Rails Lightweight Stack.
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I've just registered yesterday on Github (it's suggested for Coursera's Saas Class i'm attending) but they've sent it to me too, even though the vulnerability has already been resolved before my account was created. Maybe they've not checked account age..
It would be interesting to know the details of the vulnerability. Given that they've patched it, it would be good to see what the error was in case others are affected.

Was this Rails-related and what was it?
Both myself and my co-founder left well paying (not as well as yours though! :)) jobs to create our startup. It was definitely worth it and we plan on doing this as long as possible.

I love programming and always have. I realised I needed to leave my job after I started considering changing careers. The place was completely soul crushing. I've been doing it for almost 6 months now and the funny thing is I could go back to my old job any time if I wanted to. I have no intention of doing that though.
Twitter Now Available in Right-to-Left Languages
What do you think of the addition of these languages? Do you think more people from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia will start tweeting?
If you don't remember how to generate the fingerprint for your key:

ssh-keygen -lf .ssh/id_dsa

or

ssh-keygen -lf .ssh/id_rsa
There are a number of articles that surfaced on Sunday/Monday, but in short, yes - it was a Rails mass-assignment vulnerability.
Lots of online poker sites have been switching to .eu
From the article:

"Seeing a default Bootstrap “theme” site makes me leave it right away because I feel the person doesn’t care about what they are doing."

That's a great way to miss out on content, which I believe is the reason many web sites exist in the first place. I read lots of great articles on HN and unless the site is absolutely hard to read due to font size or contrast, I don't really notice what theme it's using.

To me, this comment comes across as snobbery. Us "in the business" types can spot these things, but in the end, does anyone care but us? Design is ridiculously important when selling a product or establishing a brand, but I don't believe design is a substitute for content.
Will sites that cross-post blog posts be penalized by Google's new algorithm?
> In Pig, Java code is written to create new functions that can be used for analysis--i.e. Java is written in support of Pig Latin.

It doesn't change your larger point, but Pig also allows writing UDFs (user-defined functions) in Python via Jython:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/PIG/UDFsUsingScr...

We are using this in production and it works quite well.
I actually think iOS is a terrible example, and that Apple apps are undoing years of good design lately. One of my favorite features about my Android phone (despite that fact that all the apps are still laid out however the designers feel) is that there is some consistent UI and I can navigate more quickly by using the menu, back and find buttons which provide a consistent way to find the settings in any random app, or to find the search feature.

I too don't really understand that backwards patterns were creating with the web, i.e. when a few years ago modal dialogs got much more popular (i.e. jquery-ui, etc). I remember not too long ago in the mid 90s when every magazine was awash with complaints about apps that had too many modal dialogs, saying they were bad for user experience, which was generally true.
Agreed. I used to dig RVM and rbenv but have come to realize that they are band aids for a problem that should have never been.

BTW, as for pyrus/pear, local install hardly works and it's more of an after-thought anyhow.
I've got a .co on namecheap now. No controversial plans but curious as to how safe it is.
They also did a notification when you tried to push:

ERROR: Hi andrewjshults, it's GitHub. We're doing an SSH key audit.
Please visit https://github.com/settings/ssh/audit/<removed>;
to approve this key so we know it's safe.
Fingerprint: <removed>
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

A little weird to see when you're doing a push but good that they put it in there. Their email got flagged as bulk in gmail so until I saw this I didn't know they were doing the audit.
Seth Godin on Libraries, Literary Agents and the Future of Book Publishing
Apple Sold More iPads In Q4 Than Any Single Manufacturer Sold PC Devices
Very funny. Ha. Ha.
"Fissile material is not useful for making nuclear weapons (of any more than the dirty bomb variety). So far, we seem to have converged on uranium and plutonium, and while at least uranium is relatively common in the Earth the processing and dredging required to get a useful amount of it, and then the refining to get the useful isotopes from that, is nontrivial."

I did not express myself well; this is exactly my point -- the barrier to (U-235 based) nuclear weapons is isotopic enrichment -- very difficult engineering -- and not so much access to natural uranium -- raw materials. So that, should difficult engineering become unexpectedly easy (as with singularity-type scenarios), then would be no major barrier to weapons, as access to uranium cannot possibly be blocked.

"Thank you for attaching some interesting facts. Allow me to do the same:"

Apologies for editing and expanding my comment after you read it -- it's a bad habit. ("Release early and release often"?)

"Engineering and fast computers are great and all, and will get you arbitrarily close to the physical limits--but we're there right now, and physics says you aren't getting a centrifuge with meaningful output in your garage."

Could you elaborate on this? I know the underground Fordow complex is about 6,000 m^2 [Forden] -- only about 1-2 orders of magnitude off, and it's built for human workers to access (not robots). And there's at least a factor-of-4 miniaturization in current laser technology (refs [APS][NYT]). I can't describe a design for a garage-sized enrichment plant, but I don't know that it's strictly precluded by physics or engineering constraints.

[Forden] http://forden.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/2481/cut-and-cover
Same here, reading the title I was already sure this was some kind of bad mashed up article. I guess extremetech got a lot of "friends".

Give me a break with supercharging photoshop on ipad..

It kind of does not change anything, maybe it makes a big change in games for antialiasing, but that's it. It remains ti be seen if it will really improve reading on the device

Anyway..
The scare quotes are well placed. The problem with Bostrom et al. is not that they are spending money. It's not even the fact that they are wasting their time on imaginary risks. It's that, by trying to bend policy around those imaginary risks, they are increasing our vulnerability to real-life risks.
For curiosity sake, could you post a screenshot as an example of "not looking anything like bootstrap". Thanks!
Another interesting thing might be easy markup for HAZMAT or disaster planning -- having the actual plans as a background layer and then overlays with specific emergency information. Given the ~infinite DHS money for local police/fire/emergency forces for counterterrorism, you could probably get some good adoption.
Thank you.

They should include that information on the page because otherwise it is really unclear how you can tell if the listed key is correct.
What makes me the most happy about this is that they ask for the password in order to add a key now.

I was always very afraid of XSS attacks (I know - there shouldn't be any - but there could and were, though not for this) that would add another key, so I always hoped they would add that additional bit of protection.

As such: Another huge thanks to @homakov for forcing the issue.
Apple Unveils New iPad With 4G LTE, Retina Display & A5X processor
The problems you mention are why user land components should be used where possible and wrap builtins. Install the components local to the project and you control the outcome.
> It filters really heavily against people who submit the same domain a large part of the time, and we (moderators) tend to stick to that as well.

Is that done on a per-subreddit basis, or a whole-site basis? If I submit mostly my own content to proggit but mostly other people's content to other subreddits, will the proggit filter hate me?
More on Dwolla's evolution: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=67680.0
The problem with symlinks is that there's manual intevention needed when you deploy.
Yes, I would not have thought countries gets much smaller than Iceland! :)

Small countries are a poor choice for many reasons, not least because too much can change too quickly and it does not require much capital (monetary or political) to capture such a state. Though, obviously, they can be useful for redundancy.

That said, it could be the author meant the list more as optimization criteria rather than a firm checklist. In which case, both the strongly-independently wealthy Norway and the politically liberal and neutral Sweden, are not bad choices.
Battle: Internet Engineer vs Physicist. Which side are you on?
I take issue with the author's criticism of .is. They've recently told most of the world to go fuck themselves, and one of their members of parliament is a Wikileaks spokesperson. I'm thinking they're pretty pro-freedom.
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From the article: John Doyle, Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems at Caltech, has maintained for years that this analysis was not just wrong, but so “comically wrong” to anyone who knew anything at all about Internet architecture that “most engineers thought it was a hoax.” As Doyle explains, “The irony of the claim is that the Internet is incredibly robust to physical challenges—but it’s terribly fragile to more sophisticated, software attacks that leave the routers intact but send unwanted packets and malware to the users.”
Um, is anybody else having the experience that their keys really do seem to be different?
It was a mass assignment vulnerability in our code.
You may like Dwarf Fortress. Can't think of a more in-depth, intensive, slow, thinking game than that. http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/
Are you posting this because you think the article is rubbish, or because you think it applies to you?

I guess it applies to me. But I never thought of it as an illness. Who would work in paradise anyway?
It is rather the source of disease. The pressure of trying to be of worth to other human beeings combined with beeing unable to find motivation and commit to change is an unbearable combination.
Cause it hasn't become a big problem yet. The main sites that have been taken down are minority or suspicious sites. Most of the countries that would care enough to do something about this (e.g. Europe) are mostly ideologically similar to USA on a lot of issues. The internet is still so very young, a lot could happen in the next 50 years.
> People want to make a valuable contribution, and feel great when they make progress toward doing so. [...] Many leaders, from team managers to CEOs, are already surprisingly expert at smothering employee engagement.

It's amazing to me to what extent superiors waste their subaltern's time. This can hardly be over-estimated. Of course, it's a demonstration of power (besides incompetency).
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Huge Solar Flare's Magnetic Storm May Disrupt Satellites, Power Grids
How does Unity compare to something like CoronaSDK for 2D games? Unity clearly seems geared more towards 3D gaming, but I've seen some references to locking the Z-axis to create 2D experiences.
Why Keyowrd Variation is Important in Link Building
Same here, wasn't sure seeing no reference to github.com in mails' header, even if the link pointed directly on their domain.

i guess that's the precise moment when I should feel too much paranoid.
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I actually put this on my website a long time ago. I'm still not sure if anyone else is using it for a real, production website.

http://www.easyautosales.com/register
You contact your interviewees' references before the serious interview?
This is a great event idea. I wish the some of the VCs around Boston or NYC would get together and do this for the East Coast.
Two articles benchmarking Judy arrays compared to hash tables:

http://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=153

http://www.nothings.org/computer/judy/
You should probably tell GitHub
I use HipChat daily:

- AIR doesn't play nicely with dynamically switching graphics chips (read: all MacBook Pros and iMacs). The app itself, AIR's installer, and updater, will all randomly crash due to this, with no hint at what's wrong. The only way to fix this (if you've somehow realized this is the problem) is to lock your graphics card in System Preferences.

- It will peg your graphics card, just like Flash on Mac. You can be looking at a plain chat window and hear your MacBook Pro spinning up like a jet engine, as if you're about to do something, well, more substantial.

- It crashes, and worse, it has a really bad habit of corrupting itself when crashing. To-date I've reinstall HipChat at least 10 times on my machine. The "AIR installer crashes randomly because of graphics card problem" undocumented bug makes this even more annoying.

- It's just slow.

johnnydoe is right. AIR is like client-side Java, or any other write-once-deploy-many products. It's lowest-common-denominator crap. It has all of the limitations of its target platforms, none of its strengths, and all of the laziness that comes with trying to design a one-size-fits-all UI for everyone.
Can designers come too?
Each fingerprint listed on my audit page was exactly what I expected it to be.
Who sent out GitHub's security notice during the iPad3 announcement?
To bootstrap or not to bootstrap
>The overbidding for avian meat should induce more "mining" (hunting) of the avian meat -- it should be wildly profitable relative to effort invested. This should tend to raise supply, making the overbidding market cornerer's job even harder.

I believe in this story, there was a limited supply of meat - it couldn't be infinitely mined.
I don't believe this is true for doctors, although, I could be wrong but I think HMO's get around the restriction. The bottom line is that lawyers are a protected guild with rules like the one mentioned above that artificially inflate the value of their services.
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HTML5 Isn’t The Future, It’s The Present…
Non-centralized approaches like Namecoin will be more likely offer DNS security than the establish approached.
On the other hand, they're seeing a spike in exactly the same place that the LHC's been seeing a spike. That's good news - it means that there's new physics in there rather than just a measurement error.
How to create realistic candles in Photoshop
Anyone have a good book which analyze the source code of Python? Or just describe how important/most-common-use functions/methods be implemented in Python?
Would be great if the presentation videos are recorded in Justin.tv
The QWERTY Effect: How typing shapes the meanings of words.
Depends on your budget of course. Machine tools don't 'depreciate' past their accuracy. Which is to say that a mill that can hold one thousandth of an inch repeatably costs $X used and on that can do one ten-thousandth (tenth) repeatably is $10X.

The challenge of building a sports car is generally building your own engine (which people don't do often unless they are steam based). You need to get the engine block cast and that requires a steel foundry. Building a blast furnace in your garage is quite difficult if it needs to have the volume capacity to make even a fairly small engine block. Once you have the castings however the various other bits can fit in your garage easily and do cost between $8K and $150K depending on newness, accuracy, control methodology etc.

I'm also assuming that you would use fiberglass layup for the body panels since a sheet metal press that can make a 'hood' sized piece, or fender sized piece, is also quite large (and tall).
Both excellent techniques. I think the reason I didn't suffer from these techniques was:

Chinese Gold Farmer method: You needed as large a bankroll as myself and you needed to buy enough avian meat to last the month. My first mover advantage on this market insulated me from any casual gamer - none had the bankroll (or were willing to invest it the way I was) and I guess I was lucky that a 'professional' CGF didn't appear :)

Lazy method: Because you needed such huge quantities to last the month, I tended to ignore the 'casual' buyers of avian meat - the ones who would offer prices above mine, but in small quantities. I didn't mind people selling buffs in small quantities because I knew they would run out after a few days whereas I could sell continuously through the whole month - and once the other vendors started running out, I jacked my prices up again further building my bankroll and cementing my position for the next cycle.
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Coverage from MSNBC with details

http://www.gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com/technology/gadgetbox/live...
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. You seem to imply that somehow I prefer iOS over Android, when in fact I never owned any Apple product. I still prefer my 2.3 Nexus S over any iDevice I could have.

I'm simply responding to a post where someone assumed that buying a Nexus device will guarantee you the latest OS update. This isn't true as I showed that the Nexus S, which I bought essentially for faster updates. Still didn't get the official 4.0 in my region/carrier even 4 months after it's available.
Clarified CQRS
> There is no tradeoff, just advantages.

Though I don't have deep expertise in Hadoop, I find this claim highly suspect. High-level APIs achieve user-friendliness by making decisions/assumptions about the way a lower-level API will be used. I would be very surprised if there was no use case for which your API does impose a trade-off vs. the low-level Hadoop API.

I feel much more confident using a high-level API if its author is up-front about what assumptions it's making. If the claim is that there is no trade-off vs. the low-level API, I generally conclude that the author doesn't understand the problem space well enough to know what those trade-offs are.

I could be wrong, but this is my bias/experience.
They probably will be; we'll talk to them.
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This magazine in the spirit of the defunct DDJ deserves more attention. It's amazing that they can create a free monthly magazine without (much) advertising.

P.S.: As expected, "Comparing Java and Scala’s Expressiveness" is from a Scala fan-boy and not to be taken seriously.
That reminds me of Albert Gonzales and The Great Cyberheist (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/magazine/14Hacker-t.html?p...) - awesome story. Gonzales was broken by FBI and became their agent - but then he got somehow bored by the cooperation and returned back to his underground activities while still working for FBI.
Is this because you live in Singapore and are going away somewhere else but don't want to miss his talk?

Or is it because you live elsewhere and are planning to holiday in Singapore but can't stand the idea of being in the same city as stallman?