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The award to Blizzard, Inc. for memory scans to prevent cheating in an MMO video game (something that I'd wager most players would accept) sort of cheapens the award when it's shared by widespread government-disseminated trojans and citizen surveillance.
This is why bitcoins will never gain mainstream use.
It seems that every few months a high profile bitcoin site gets hacked.
That would be awesome. I have two ASD sons and have spent endless amounts of time explaining social stuff to them. My oldest thinks in pictures, so I long ago learned to use very visual metaphors. They eventually began using video game examples to illustrate points when we talked.

Anyway, if it does not already exist, I hope someone is inspired to try to write it.
You have 50 red marbles, 50 blue marbles, and 2 buckets. You must put all the marbles into the buckets but you may distribute them any way you like. I randomly pick a bucket, and then randomly select a marble from that bucket. How, if possible at all, can you maximize the probability of me picking a red marble?
The thing that's scary is how easy it is for these people to get away with what they're doing. I wonder how much money is lost every year and how many hackers you never hear about going to jail for this stuff. I'm pretty sure this is the motivation to do a lot of this stuff. The risk/reward level is completely slanted.

I see a LOT of stories on HN and other Tech sites about these kinds of attacks. Unfortunately, I rarely, if ever, hear about hackers getting arrested for this sort of activity.
interesting, never thought of it like that!
Everything about Bitcoin seems silly to me. What exactly was "stolen" here? What if they just restore from yesterday's backup? Is there a bitcoin equivalent of the ink packets regular banks use to track stolen cash?
I find the really strange / off-topic / ranty stuff, the dust bunnies of the Internet, fascinating in its own way.
That's pretty relevant comment. GitHub pull request system is great if you want to attract a bunch of script kiddies to participate on your project. For serious work, not so much.
The idea that an iPad can perform all the functions that some people are (under) using a laptop for doesn't mean that an iPad is an adequate replacement for a computer. They should not be marketed as such.
yeah, email me kul at tagstand, look forward to it.
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OneForty.com (before being acquihired by HubSpot) tried to do this for Twitter apps - which were often just as you described: JS-Heavy, not terribly crawl able and they had what seemed a hard time of it.
Microsoft had an abundant supply vocal apologists back then. Moreover, they had the tech press (which was on paper at the time) in their pocket.
You're missing the point entirely. I'm not saying that chip & pin has no value. I'm saying that the value it has is finite (i.e. it saves money equal to the amount of fraud it eliminates) and needs to be weight against the cost of replacing all the card reader infrastructure. And I argue that the fact the US has not upgraded is an existence proof that the upgrade cost[1] outweighs the savings.

[1] Really the amortized upgrade cost. Remember that chips are dinosaur technology already, and have known problems. What's the point of doing an upgrade if you need to dump it all and start over in 6 years anyway?
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Not only will they be sued, but they'll no longer be able to accept credit cards. They'll most likely go out of business. It's a serious matter to be non-PCI compliant.
Contracts can be verbal. That's the first thing you learn in law school. Having a written contract as evidence is helpful, but testimony (however self-serving) of an alleged contract constitutes legal proof.
A lot of misinformation being spread here. Microsoft has not BANNED Firefox in Windows 8. There will be a version of Firefox for all editions of Windows 8, including desktop and tablet as long as Mozilla chooses to make one.

In Windows 8 for ARM-based tablets, applications like this have to run in a sandbox (Metro UI). Get over it. Either consumers will or will not buy a tablet that they can't run applications the way they wish. Perhaps a Windows 8 tablet will be a disaster and all this outrage will be for nothing.

Certainly the restrictions Apple places on iOS are in many ways worse. I don't see how you can be mad at Microsoft but give Apple a pass.
NodObjC is the bridge between NodeJS and the Objective-C runtime and frameworks, making it possible to write native Cocoa applications (both GUI and command-line) using 100% NodeJS.

Applications are written entirely in JavaScript and interpreted at runtime.
You are mostly right. I am freeloading on Ars. But I don't see how my subscribing to them would make them abandon the ad-based subsidized access. They would just keep both models. If they announced they were getting rid of the ad-based model and just stick with regular subscriptions, I would subscribe in a second.

I know that my proposition is not perfect, and if I got my way I would be forcing my will onto other people (the ones who would be okay with ads in exchange of free access) but it's the best that I can come up with.
Well his bank account would probably be less fulfilled if he hadn't stepped foot in the United States.
I hope the github folks get involved in this. I'm specially interested in what they have to say about why they decided to go with what Linus calls _their own totally inferior version_.

Love this no-nonsense style, but let me say that it's no only the style, but that Linus has enough on his side to back it up.
... if only business followed the logic of programming languages ...
The bitcoins are the data. If you steal their files, you can spend their money anonymously and there's nothing anyone can do about it. Restoring from a backup just gets them a bunch of worthless bitcoins that have already been spent.

And the answer to the second question is "absolutely not". The lack of tracking is a primary requirement that was designed into the system from the start.
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At least near as I can tell without signing up.
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I also do not care for the pull requests, for much the same reasons. I like there is a way to bring a branch to a maintainer's attention and updating its commit range in event of updates before it is accepted, but the way messages that result from merging in the code is irritating, so I end up just using "git pull" to do the trick once the branch looks good to me.
> This is a tactic for small thinkers

Quite so. Good riddance Mr. Saverin.
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Extremely relevant criticism. It appears to be a rather simple problem for Github to resolve.
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Often people don't sue over verbal contracts is because the burden of proof that one existed/exists is very difficult.

Oh, they definitely sue over verbal contracts all the time. Just trying watching any of the dozen Judge X shows on TV or visiting a small claims court. Indeed, the reason for small claims courts is largely to keep these types of disputes out of real courtrooms.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2975010

Could it be that he had the same kind of breach GH had?
Bitcoin is designed to be a cash replacement using digital cryptography. As such, one of the design decisions was to make transactions non-reversible (the conditions where this would not be true aren't relevant). Basically once the transactions of originating account, destination account, and amount is entered into the distributed ledger/transaction log, it can't be removed, since the majority of systems believe it.

Thus is the original account tries to use those same "coins" (really tokens) the network would reject it, as that account not having access to those coins.
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I'm going to put this question out here for everyone who's had some experience building a JIT engine of some kind: what exactly is the danger of compiling code, even unknown code like from downloaded javascript, when the process' operating environment is supposed to be hardened anyways?

Is it just that the only way to do this is with VirtualAlloc()/mmap()? Could a 'safe' executable page allocator be created for just this purpose?

If the JIT'ing code is tricked into compiling and executing 'malicious' code, hasn't the operating environment - what libs the process can load, what syscalls it has access to, etc - already been security-hardened? My understanding of WinRT is that it's already a bit of a sand-boxed environment, with limited and measured access to the machine's resources.

If it's possible for the JIT'ed code to do something REALLY bad, like install a driver or write to arbitrary system files or something, then it was possible for the JIT'ing code to do that too, and that's almost certainly a really really bad thing.

Even if it's just a matter of the JIT'ed code violating the trust agreement between the user and the JIT'ing code (ie doing something that the user was OK with Firefox doing, like reading the address book, but doing it for malicious reasons), maybe a new trust agreement can be designed, that would make users aware that the JIT'ing program is inherently a bit more dangerous?

Or maybe what really needs to happen is we have to treat JIT's as pluggable, upgradable OS infrastructure, sort of like the image loader or dyld/ld-linux.so? In that case, if the Firefox would install a browser and the Firefox JIT'ter as separate components, and then Firefox would ask it's JIT'er to compile/execute javascript into a separate process - one with much more limited access to the machine?
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I hope I get lots of likes for my seersucker suit (Thanks, Bonobos! I'm one of the lucky gentlemen mentioned in the article). Excited to combine two of my fave things in one night: technology & cocktails.
Only one of the organizations involved here has a court mandated consent decree.
Bottom line: Young adults today have it way worse than their parents.

Except we really don't. In most ways we're similar to or better off than our parents, as they'll no doubt tell you if you listen to them.
Agreed. I know a lot of people who start to flirt with the notion of using Bitcoin, only to have their dreams smashed when they learn how frequently these companies and their accounts are hacked.

It may be anonymous, but its far from being secure.
(Disclaimers: I work for Mozilla)

There is a huge difference between iOS and other platforms.

Apple, in legal terms, makes Firefox on iOS impossible. This was not the case with Windows; Microsoft was using covert means to undermine user choice.

To make a blanket statement that Mozilla thinks Apple's banning Firefox from iPad and the iPhone is 'not a problem' is wrong and disingenuous.

We have active projects around ways to give users choice within the constraints of Apple's licensing.

Mozilla fought and won against Microsoft's anti-competitive efforts, under an entirely different technical and legal landscape.

As a Mozillian, I'm pissed and have been pissed off since iOS's launch, but we also have to choose our battles on where we can fight to keep the web open.

To apple's credit, they've provided a web standards based browser to a mobile landscape that didn't have one (at the time) and which spawned many other web standards based browsers like Chrome.

Do I wish Safari on iOS have a freaking file input so I could upload photos from the gallery? YES! Would I want a Firefox browser that was proxy based to get around iOS licensing.... hell no. Is it worth the Mozilla community's time maintaining an iOS based port just for the people who jailbreak their iOS devices... probably not, but no one from Mozilla would stop you from doing the work.
Considering Linus created git, if I were running github I'd tend to listen to whatever he had to say about it...
Of course, there are other web browsers for iOS: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3961084
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The "sandbox" disallows JITs. That means JS performance in any browser (other than IE) will be basically unusable, effectively banning browsers from ARM Win8.
The "statute of frauds" doctrine only applies to certain types of transactions. Most transactions, including employment agreements (or for example, selling your business) can be executed verbally.
It's not fair to just look at it in terms of the cost of fraud vs. profit. Consumers whose CC info is stolen aren't liable for fraudulent charges but it can still be very expensive and time-consuming for them to correct everything, not to mention the affect it can have on a credit score. And obviously, the consumers don't get any say in whether the costs to upgrade the infrastructure are worth it.
I can't tell what your interviewer knew or intended, but the point of the question it seems to me is the "one non-Braille bump on the '5'" solution is actually better and simpler than using actual Braille. So answering Braille actually does seem wrong to me, and insisting it's not wrong seems like missing the point. You had generalized Braille to mean any bumps, so maybe your interviewer knew what Braille was, and that this was not Braille, and thought the point of the question was specifically that it was not Braille.
Can someone point me to the tool that comes with git for pull-request functionality?
Good for him. I fully support higher taxes on the rich, but this notion that the US can tax you anywhere in the world is downright offensive. He hasn't been in the US since the company started, so I have trouble seeing a case for him owing the US anything.
I'd say it's more an exemption for their own rendering engine. IE10 is more than just a "browser" in Windows 8, it is the engine used to execute several Windows 8 applications.
One example: The iPhone webkit doesn't support text reflow even though it's supported by webkit on Android and in Opera.

Many years ago you could have said "What's wrong with the IE rendering engine" because, at one time, IE was the best browser available on Windows.
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> The trouble with trying to dismiss an argument with accusations of hypocrisy is that hypocrites can be right

Touché!

Also, iOS was closed from the start and Microsoft is closing Windows down now because it feels that if it doesn't, it will lose the Win8 ARM market too.

And, obviously, Firefox is not the only target - they must be much more worried about Google owning the WOA web space.
Use iCab and try making a reflow widget. There's a text size and reset layout widget already, so seems like it might be possible.
When I see claims like this, why is it there's never any additional information about this company so I can avoid the hell out of it?
I would say the same about github's forks-as-top-level-entities system.

Forking a project is a huge deal. Forking a git repository is no big deal.

Github does the former, and it encourages too-broad forks, and at the same time, discourages coordination and contribution with the original project. Nearly all forks should be short-lived and completely subsidiary to the main project.
Which also has military service (presumably obligatory, though in practice it hasn't been so for some time)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_service#Brazil

"While de jure all males are required to serve, numerous exceptions mean military service is de facto limited mostly to volunteers, with an average of between 5 and 10% of those reporting for duty actually being inducted"
To balance out the critique I would like to point out that this has nothing to do with an inherent insecurity or fault in the bitcoin currency, but with the way the current marketplaces handle their security.

It is however a PR nightmare for an up and coming currency that the bitcoin 'user community' will have to handle better to have a chance to be mainstream recognized as a 'real' currency.
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What I don't really get is how the twitter/facebook is linked to your wristband. Do you "sign in" for the party at some sort of kiosk? Or once you get home?
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I did all of LoseThos myself. No GPL code. At one point I had a Linux floppy routine. I got ATA info. Linux is copyrighted, not patented. There are no issues.

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First you know you'll get religion, too. I never see such a son."

He took up a little blue and yaller picture of some cows and a boy, and
says:

"What's this?"

"It's something they give me for learning my lessons good."

He tore it up, and says:

"I'll give you something better--I'll give you a cowhide."

He set there a-mumbling and a-growli

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I wrote a compiler and kernel. Linus just did a kernel. (But a fancy kernel.)
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It's just a matter of having proper security. I'm sure that hacking into any real bank would be quite lucrative to hackers, but their security is more difficult to penetrate. Yes, if a 'regular' bank was hacked and money was stolen, those stolen from would be reimbursed, whereas with bitcoins there is no chance of reimbursement, but the gain to the hackers would still be there. Bitcoin sites run by individuals are low-hanging fruit, but I wouldn't say they will 'never' gain mainstream use. They simply need to invest more into their own security before I would trust them with my own money.
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> What kind of people use G+?

Google Hangouts, while being buggy as hell and locking up constantly (at least on OS X), are still unrivaled in the video chat / desktop sharing space.
Depends on when it is done ... for example as a child the rules are different for a lot of countries and dual citizenship would be allowed.
I am not sure anyone noted yet that his Facebook earnings will fall entirely under capital gains income, which only gets taxed at 15% in the United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_gains_tax_in_the_United...). Singapore has ZERO capital gain tax, so he may be trying to avoid any tax burden on this income. Still, 15% remain quite low (The go up a bit in 2013.), and I suspect he would not have to pay it until actually selling his shares. Some reports say he has already sold over half his stake, so I am not sure this Singaporean move does that much for him.

There are plenty of ways to shelter money in the United States (http://www.forbes.com/sites/deborahljacobs/2012/03/20/how-fa...) and pay basically nothing. Everyone here likes to make the tax burden on US citizens outside of the US sound so horrendous, but my experience is that it is a worst of taxation situation. One gets to exclude the first 95k of income from US, but I think you also can run money through a housing allowance of around $100k depending on the cost of living.

Yes, the US tax system sucks, but the weather and disney-like atmosphere in Singapore suck more in my opinion. I think I could have fun living there for a few years, but a lifetime would be hard. The US will definitely consider this a move to avoid taxation. He will probably never be welcome again in the US, and essentially becomes a pawn in international extradition should some US administration in the future have a point to prove. If it were me, I would just dump a ton of money behind Ron Paul.
Well, ASCII characters use only 7 bits (the high bit is unset), so it's really ~73 lines of 64 characters. And if you limit to alphanumeric that's only 95 symbols, so 172 lines of 64 characters. :)
What, Linus found something he doesn't like?
Don't forget iOS is a walled garden since day 1, while Windows used the 3rd party ecosystem to gain relevance on the desktop. Now, with the x86 desktop fading slowly into irrelevance, they are trying to control the environment on what they perceive to be their lifeboat.

Without a JIT they ensure IE will be the only usable browser available on the platform. It's like what they did with private APIs available only to Microsoft programs - all other programs had to rely on slower/worse system functionality and, therefore, Microsoft programs enjoyed better performance.

Microsoft already went as far as making Windows 3 deliberately incompatible with DR-DOS. This is not new behavior - they just resort to it when they are threatened. I expect a lot more of it.
For Xorg to vanish every application that relies on it would have to be ported to Wayland, and I don't see that happening anytime soon.
Try it without shouting --

select * from users

Looks more like Haskell now.
I find this line of thinking disturbing. I don't think it is worth it for a single person to pay $500M for anything. If this was a real concern, you could buy one hell of a personal army for $500M.
I've actually stopped using Firefox because it re-enables plugins that I've disabled (maybe it's more accurate to say it allows 3rd-party software updates to re-enable them).
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Devil's advocate:

Considering GitHub popularized git, if I were in charge of git I'd listen to what the GitHub guys have to say about it.
Looks ugly in Firefox on OS X, but maybe it's just a bad choice of font.

http://i.imgur.com/ze1iQ.png
Privacy probably doesn't strictly monopolize HN's concerns because cloud services are Good Enough when it comes to privacy for our Ruby on Rails MVPs, our benign blogs, and our JSconf slideshows.

Conflating privacy where privacy is needed with privacy for privacy's sake is a waste of time and dilutes real privacy concerns with a bunch of "Wolf!" cries.
I think I would feel dirty if I wound up saving $10k because someone I was going to pay it to forgot to do their paperwork for a month.
Considering that GitHub is probably the second best thing about Git after the fact of its existence, I think that both sides of the table have something valid to say.
Guessing he's talking about the format-patch/am pair, but can't be sure as I'm not him.

Either that, or just sending a mail with a link to your own git repo requesting a pull.
It's also saying that the Starcraft 2 ladder system, which records your games so you can review them later, and ranks players based on some ELO-ish formula, is a privacy invasion.

Plus, aside from the entire real name forums stupidity last year, which would be a valid criticism of Blizzard, but is not named here, the only functionality the RealID system gives is social: cross-game chat and the ability to group up with friends on a different server.
http://www.manhattancocktailclassic.com/NFC_at_the_gala.html Yep it was done beforehand.
> How long will it be before the net volume of bitcoins stolen exceeds that of those spent?

I don't know, but there's a graph I'd like to see.
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If you're a "Carder", and you've got 1,000 cards, you just try them once a day. You'll get 2 CVV2's a day, average. And a bet that a once-a-day wrong CVV2 doesn't trip very many, if any, fraud checks. How much more is a card worth to a carder with CVV2/CVC than one without? Another niche service to provide in the cybercriminal underground, I guess.

As far as being non-PCI compliant, you as a merchant are only compliant right at the time of the audit. And maybe not even then, given Heartland's experience. The whole PCI thing is to give Visa and MasterCard a way to do some CYA.