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There's another tactic too... one I use frequently for better or worse.

So I see someone who says something I don't entirely agree with but I want to see where they are coming from. I start arguing with them, asking the harder questions, pointing out things I see as problems, not to push back or prove that I am right, but to prove the merit of their ideas. Sometimes I will say something to indicate why I am doing it, but for people who know me, I usually skip that part.

The goal is then to argue, hash things out, force people to defend their ideas, and then what's left after that session can be assumed to be better than any of us could have come up with otherwise and we go forward on it.

However, there are two secrets to making this work:

1) You have to be known for actually using the ideas that are effectively defended. People need to know it's not personal and that it is both professional and empowering to them. If I argue with your idea, it is because I see potential value in it but I want to make sure it doesn't easily collapse. In some cases I will offer to stand aside remaining objections or in some cases, I will endorse the idea.

2) You have to be open to (and appreciate) everyone else doing the same to you. The point here is that it is a vetting process, and my ideas can be challenged just like everyone else's. In fact if you challenge my ideas, that's again a sign of respect. If you didn't value the ideas, you'd probably ignore them or (if they go against your stakes in the project) argue instead that they are dangerous or problematic.

Being argumentative, like being defiant, is a powerful tool, used right. It just takes some time and effort to make sure that it is used right instead of being used in a way that is destructive.
While I agree that it makes it easier to hack in that functionality, it would still be very useful to have named parameters for functions that don't implement that functionality.

For example, fgetcsv takes parameters for delimiter, enclosure, and escape char (as of 5.3). Right now, if I want to specify a different enclosure, I'm forced to specify a delimiter even if I still want to use the default. I'd much prefer the ability to tell the function call that I want to override the enclosure and leave the delimiter alone.
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I'd say this is more akin to stashing a bunch of money in a self-storage unit instead of a bank account. One explicitly insures against theft, the other does not. The onus is on you as a customer to decide what to go with.
I'd appreciate explanations for down-voting. I don't think the downvote is fair. Is any of what I said factually incorrect? How?

HN can be really weird sometimes.
For those of us late to the Bitcoin idea, how does one "steal" Bitcoins? Is it the equivalent of copying someones private key and then deleting all their copies of the key?
Well, I'm sorry for the confrontational reaction.

I invoked PCI because of the thread: the original post was from klodolph, who said:

(...) You can't process credit cards on a VPS and be PCI compliant (it's against the rules), but any moron can do what they want with bitcoins.

And to that gravitronic replied:

But all that regulation is evil and it's the freedom of bitcoin that gives it the power(...)

"All that regulation" only makes sense if gravitronic is talking about PCI, which was the only regulation cited by klodolph.
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The Clipboard privacy scandle
https://github.com/clneagu/pig

I get the fact that something like this might be used at first by paranoid people but give it a few more privacy meltdowns :)

Besides that it could save allot of money in data center costs. I see something like this supported by Mozilla when Google stops the spice flow :)
I had a similar experience to you 2004-2007 with an RSS-to-everything service called Feed Digest. It started as a way to get my Delicious links onto my blog and eventually turned into my full time job with 25k users. I sold it in 2007 after a number of mistakes on my part: http://peterc.org/blog/2010/257-three-years-ago-i-sold-my-st...

Anyway, the only reason I'm piping up is because I think NewsBlur is cool and I hope you manage to avoid the single bigger killer for my own project.. not charging enough! :-) I earned enough for it to be an OK living but not enough to hire people, get much help, etc, and it turned into a real burnout situation. There wasn't anything like Hacker News to learn from at the time either.

So if you're going full time with this, I wish you the very best of luck but I pray (and I'm not a religious man!) you find a scalable and realistic business model that makes this project comfortable to run, rather than just enough to keep you off the streets, as it were.
That's leadership. He just solidified a good team into a better one.
The www.php.net mirror will only be rsynced tomorrow, for now use http://docs.php.net/manual/en/migration54.php instead to get infos about 5.4 features. It's a good bit more up to date.
considering that a flash movie embedded in an excel document is what took down RSA, I don't think NaCl is going to be moving much on the priority list of places to look for vulnerabilities.
> Don't you love the smell of ad hominem attacks in the morning?

The "ad hominem fallacy" fallacy is my favorite. Why don't you learn what it means? http://plover.net/~bonds/adhominem.html
So, will Google have access to what State Dept officials browse and search? How can this be legal?
Fantastic art. They complement the tone of the article nicely :D

Wish I could experience all those things!
I've used Toggl (http://www.toggl.com/) and Harvest (http://www.getharvest.com/). I like them both, though they are not local apps. But, you can use them on any of the multiple machines you use.
I think this is part of Noah Kagan's genius. He always pushes with what works rather than what people are screaming at him to do/not do. I am not quite so resolute or thick skinned yet ;-)
User access to user settings is not a "security hole". And I don't think there is a way to protect your logged in, unattended session without demolishing productivity. If you walk away from your computer, lock it. I would expect the State Department to have some protections in place (proximity cards, mandated timeout settings, etc) when actual privileged information is concerned and being accessed.

Yes, it would probably be nice if Chrome had the kind of protection of passwords database with a master password that Firefox does. But it still isn't a "security hole".
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There's an opportunity in robotics that I don't currently see as being followed through widely enough.

Last year the predator algorithm for real-time object tracking was invented (there are youtube videos and a google tech talk on it.). The code is open source and on the inventor website I think.

The hacker news community is full of highly skilled people. For each of the following tasks there is very likely someone who can do it in few hours.

- port the predator algorithm from matlab to numpy (or c etc.)

- creating a mechanical turk website/api for allowing turk workers to do initial labels (watch the videos and you'll get how it works). This might not be necessary as not much labeling needs to be done, but it would be a nice to have anyway.

- creating website/api for experts to do labeling when that is necessary

- somebody probably already has robot arms lying around at their work or in the lab. If not, some people can chip in to buy it and house it someone's work/home (1000 people - 5 dollars each - 5000 used industrial robot)

- creating a website that allows authorized people to submit data to the robot, or even allow people to rent robot time

- creating a website to spread the word about predator algorithm applications

A first application I have come up with is to create hamburger making robot. A couple industrial robot arms (or even less accurate lightweight arms would do, such as in animatronics) and a few cameras placed around.

There is no reason why all this couldn't be done in few days collaborating over the net.

Other ideas

- automated laboratory mouse handling/dissection
- cooking
- cleaning
- checking on 3d printing machines (plastic and biological)

This would make a big impact so it's a great project for ambitious hackers.

There are business opportunities in this, but an open source project might move quicker.
Fun followup: http://harmful.cat-v.org/people/basic-laws-of-human-stupidit...

HN discussion of that: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2570448
Also awesome:

"Arrays cast from SimpleXMLElement now always contain all nodes instead of just the first matching node. All SimpleXMLElement children are now always printed when using var_dump(), var_export() and print_r()."
Creating wealth in itself isn't that admirable.

Making a difference in the world is.

The two aren't connected as often as us entrepreneurs like to believe, though.
Yeah that's fair enough - I'm working with RabbitMQ in Node at the moment, and I've got a simple domain specific wrapper around it, which I find fairly easy. Of course, not everything on it is in Node, which is one reason this wouldn't work for me - but if it works for you, that's great!

I'll be keeping an eye on it anyway - you never know when something like that might solve a problem you encounter.
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Is it though? 25% of people on the web has to include some pretty juicy targets (like... Google itself, Chrome's probably pretty popular there).
23. Long hair means you look a bit like startup Jesus. This makes the money flow.

Dammit, I've become bald.
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We do have an API, but it's very basic right now (https://www.lessannoyingcrm.com/help/topic/API). We're more focused on serving traditional small businesses rather than startups, and most small businesses don't even know what an API is. We'll need to build it out soon, but it hasn't been enough of a priority yet.

Good luck with Wishery!
Quite a change from three years ago, when State was stuck on IE6 and Secretary Clinton didn't know what Firefox was.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/13/firefox_and_us_state...
Many people write their PHP views in raw PHP to remove the (albeit small) overhead from a templating system. I think this is where the PHP short open tag syntax gets used the most (I know I use it there a lot), this is because:

<?=$username;?>

(Personal Preference Alert!)
Is easier to read, faster to type and easier for designers to handle than:

<?php echo $username;?>

The downside is, if you deploy your code on a server you don't have access to (meaning you can't enable short tags via php.ini) then you'd have to painfully replace every "<?=" with "<?php echo" BY HAND, find and replace is not allowed.

Eventually, there was a big argument over whether short open tag should be removed in PHP6 (it's not), the biggest reasons for removing it (from what I remember) was that it could conflict with the "<?xml" tag and if you don't have access to php.ini or a modern code editor, you're screwed.

The removal of one of these major problems (by forcing short open tag to work regardless of php.ini settings) brings PHP's short open tag one step closer to being loved and admired by everyone, including YOU, so get used to thinking things like this are great.

As far as chained string offsets, who cares! Long live short open tag! (Sorry I couldn't help it.)
There are two kinds of jobs. Pay based on time, and pay based on transaction. Sales, mergers and acquisitions, medical malpractice lawyers, those kinds of jobs tend to be paid in proportion to the size of the transaction.
Meh, just do what works. You will have a vocal minority opposing you no matter what - so just make data driven decisions and be on to the next one.
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> Fortunately, the city requires the vast majority of cabs to be able to take credit to be allowed to pick up a fare.

Could you elaborate on this? I'm in Chicago and have had cab drivers claim the same thing (about the CC machine being broken)
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They're free to spend their loot on whatever they want, including shares.
Bryden is my uncle, and although I knew he'd climbed a lot of cool stuff in his time (Centrepoint Tower in Sydney, for example), I'd never realised he'd done Ball's Pyramid.

Now I'll actually have an interesting conversation with him for once!
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Not necessarily. It's easy to imagine mojang as a producer for indy game developers. Make the game you want, we'll support you with a paycheck, art, music, marketing, all the stuff around the game. In exchange, you get something like royalties for big games.

Honestly i'm surprised you don't recognize this model from movies and music and books and every other kind of media ever. It's possible to have endless debates about compromising artistic vision, but the fundamental idea is the same. We'll support you so you can create the art you love, in exchange we're keeping some of the profits.
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I really doubt that "only HDD access" is a secure position in cases where your cloud provider CSR is pwned.

If that's even the case here. We don't have much indication that the attacker couldn't have taken a snapshot of a running system (or that that will be how it happens next time).

So, sure, use a loopback crypto filesystem. It just doesn't provide much in the way of a security guarantee (but it adds some measurable costs).
Right. Because it's a robust system with clear properties and sufficient risk tolerance to make that practical. The bitcoin economy lacks those properties, which is my whole point. And people who plus bitcoins as "investments" without awareness of these issues are hurting, not helping.
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He didn't retire. He handed the lead of the Minecraft project to Jens, but he is still very much working at Mojang.
Gotta love the "run through and downvote everything I said" response because I was being honest. I guess a certain HN member is channeling reddit a little today.
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I believe he's referring to the part about employees (at least the ones that have access to the customer dashboards) being able to run a script to scan for bitcoins.
Also, as has been written before (and in that chrome bug, I believe), it's trivial to hack the Firefox master password if you are at the physical machine, to say nothing of browser history, account cookies, etc that are stored in the clear.

It might be a good UI change, but agreed that it isn't the kind of "security" that the State Department is concerned about.
That isn't to say that shares in mojang are open to purchase, actually, I'd bet that they arent in fact.
I would think that it's not about not meeting payroll, it's about competitiveness. If you have to meet a burden that other startups in a different area don't, why would you choose to do business in that area unless you were forced to?
We use Yammer at our 300-person company and we've found it really valuable. We're roughly evenly distributed in 4 countries, so having somewhere which is asynchronous where people can see what's happening around the group provides a sense of connection between our staff.
Anecdotaly, I've found it particularly valuable amongst IT people who feel more comfortable sharing ideas and opinions on there than they might do in person.
Until it is ubiquitous, short syntax should still be used with caution.
Secure with what? A booby trap? There's always a level of trust you need to have for your provider. Even when you get a cage in their DC.
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If the animal is an introduced species that has decimated native populations, I would think the morality quite straightforward.
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He's right though.

I don't think I've ever met a professional sysadmin who could defeat the evil maid attack. All the ones I've met would refuse to think about an attack vector if it implied they could not boot their servers.
Retired from Minecraft and any revenue producing projects for Mojang, as far as I know.
Your comment just made me spend 4 hours investigating the Thylacine, its DNA restoration process and other extinct species. Thinking about dedicating my life to genetics atm.
Failure is ALWAYS a great teacher. As long as you're listening, you'll learn far more than you would from success.
a more typical way would be to give people equity based on impact with vesting - which, i think, avoids a lot of the morale downsides. i'm curious why he didn't do this instead.
That makes no sense. Plenty of people I know have applied to jobs that were more interesting to them than their current work, even taking paycuts in some cases.
There are a couple of insurance companies who will give you a quote on literally anything. You may not like their quote, but they'll give you one.
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> As a currency it is not as critical that the value only goes up.

Not just not critical, highly undesirable.
Forgive me, but... why should we care?

It's his money, he can do whatever he wants with it. It's not humble and awe-inspiring. He announced it to the world on twitter. I mean, it's nice of him, or whatever, but.. I don't care? Why should anyone care about this?

I could write a long tyrade about how this could be useful if more companies did this, because yes, the employees would have an invested interest in this company; and la la la; but really, this is just Notch tooting his own horn about giving his money away. Congratulations.

Yes, what you've done with Minecraft is absolutely amazing, and I love the game, but... very nice of you. Moving on.

awaits the downvotes

[edit: in seriousness, could someone tell me why the public, even the programming public, should care that Notch gave away his dividends? We're not told why he did it. He's not encouraging others to follow his example, he just did it and told everyone.]
I'd suggest going through the Canadian incubator and applying to YC in the cycle following the Canadian session
Clover has cracked online mobile payments.
The question is not "is money a part of their motivation", but rather "how much of their motivation to do this job is the money".

If your employee despises everyone and everything about the job but likes the money... that's not an employee you want to have.
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if you don't say anything, the default assumption is you don't know anything

This is an US-ism. In northern Europe it is often the opposite: constant talking heads are regarded as empty and being concise is a valued skill. We're just nice to the talking heads and let them fill the air with words, but we don't regard them as better than the quiet ones.

I've often experienced that the longer the quiet persons don't say anything, the more nervous the talking heads get, until they can't restrain themselves and demands that the silent ones say what they think.