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If my experience having worked closely with local government IT, also applies to the FBI (I would bet it does). Then they, just like any technology in the public sector, is usually 10 years behind in technology compared to the private sector. They're just mostly bored undertrained people, with no real incentives to do a good job. Who would rather play office politics to raise chances of getting promotion, than to learn the heck is this php injection thingy.

As opposed to the Hollywood scenes of ultra high tech rooms with floating transparent screens, shiny lights everywhere, and super advanced systems that can listen to your voice commands and instantly solve complex cases just by saying "enhance!". Which is probably the vision this person who talked to you had. Reality is more like windows xp and programs that compile even when the unit tests fail.
Yeah, I think it's trying to hard in this regard. It's got a nice clean look, but the font can be a little more traditional, and the dark background with glowing buttons makes it look more like a toy than something used for serious analysis.

It seems geared to comparing conferences and not arbitrary matchups. I was expecting to be able to compare any 2 teams. I'm sure you're working on it.

Good job presenting the data though.
Thanks Gabriel Synnaeve for the great comment - it's a great example in how it's always cool to be for something, as long as you clarify that your not for it "the same way everyone else is."

The "bullshit" that we spread on Rude Baguette cites sources, so if you have a problem with the way they're being talked about, that's called a "spin." We also wrote that "bullshit" about 36 hours after the creation of the #geonpi fan page, because we felt the "bullshit" was worth talking about.

I don't think the blogger her, who also write for RB, is calling himself a "journalist," writing in the blog of his startup's website - at best he's expressing his opinion.

PS: ending a comment with "/rant" doesn't make it any more justified - although thanks for clarifying that it was written with no forethought, afterthough, or thought at all.

Yours Rudely,

-Liam Boogar
Editor @ The Rude Baguette
So, how much memory would a real-world parser actually consume given this file? I'd try it, but I had to RMA my workstation's motherboard yesterday, leaving me with a machine that only has 3GB, which is the obvious minimum for a full expansion. But I could imagine an XML parser might use UCS-2 internally, inflating this to 6GB. Or, some parsers might be clever and not attempt a full expansion.
Good point, we're just beginning to realize this.

In this version, users get only one hint per level because we didn't want to spoil the game. But this of course hurts the sales of the hint packs as we've just found out. So we're moving to allow multiple hints starting from the next version.
Without knowing more about your specific situation it's tough to give anything but a vague answer.

Partnership is harder than marriage. I think this is part of why HN places so much value on co-founders who get it.

You also learn if your friendships are true friendships where the person is as willing to look at themselves as much as point fingers.

Ultimately you have to get and stay on the same page. Knowing how to disagree, and know who's driving the bus ultimately has to be in place.
Google Lets Photographer Into Secretive Data Centers
Retail, in general, is a low margin business. In any case, notwithstanding Amazon's current financials--it's been investing a lot in expansion--any retail business, even a large volume one, that can't do a reasonable job at customer service (a fair bit of which will inevitably involve talking to a human) is probably not going to be very successful.
This seems easy fixable by subsidizing fares to unpopular areas, financed by a tax in fares in popular areas.
Apple is the most valuable public company on earth. There are much larger non-publicly traded companies.

http://www.quora.com/Business/What-is-the-most-valuable-priv...
A lot depends on (a) what other positives the new smaller iPad has and (b) whether this speculation has any basis in reality.

E.g. the new iPad may have the iPad 3's camera or GPU.
Changing recruiting. I am working on a new recruitment tool.
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First, this is a report from 9 to 5 Mac (via macrumors), so their success record isn't exactly golden.

I just have a tough time believing they are going to put out a 7" model for a price that is within $70 of the 10" model. Also, $329 is a weird price for Apple. They are very much into $x49 and $x99 prices. I could see $299, but $329 is just odd for a base price. It seems like the speculation that led people to believe the original iPad was going to be $999. It also seems like a serious deviation from the iPod / iPhone strategy.
Not sure I buy it. They floated higher prices before the original iPad came out too. I'm still betting on $249. They want the tech media to parrot the 'it's a great value at $249' angle of the story instead of focusing on the 'it's $50 more than this other tablet' angle of it.
Most of the xml libraries already have the fix.
You have to work less hours in the US to be considered employed, you are considered employed if you work 15 hours a week (my source is Jacques Sapir)
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just made one of my private plugin public. let me know your feedback.
Yeah but there's a HUGE difference: bash is intended to be a turing complete language, while XML is a data format. It's trivial to use infinite resources if you can execute arbitary code.

It shouldn't be possible to use resources exponential to the input size for just PARSING (not doing anything else with) XML. This is a great example of why you want to use simple serialization formats like JSON.

It's the same reason I never liked YAML. The spec and implementations are just way too big. There's got to be something hiding in there like this.
Use a parser or data structure that doesn't duplicate identical objects.

Functional programming wins here.
Nah, they wouldn't launch a distributed dos attack, would they now?
Wouldn't it make it harder to remember which places accept a password with spaces and which don't? I already have trouble remembering which sites require long passwords and which require shorter ones.
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I've always been put off by the size of the iPad, and I could never understand why Jobs thought a smaller device would be too small for people's fingers when the much smaller iPhone was already a bazillion dollar business.

Having passed on every iPad to date specifically because of the size issue, I'm really excited by this one.
You include a battery in the package. You only need enough power to spin up the disk, flush from your RAM cache, and then power down. In fact, the DDR3 Disk Drive could include all three, RAM+Battery+Disk. Say, 64 GB RAM in DDR3 PC3-10600 1024Meg x 64 ( Crucial Part #: CT2KIT102464BA1339) for $600, 2.5" 80 Seagate ST980815A for $44, and a 10.8v, 4800mah (overkill for flushing, but they are cheap) PA3534U-1BRS battery for $19.81.

Add a charging element for battery $3.75, a controller for $5, Ram Sockets board for $4.25, Disk Interface connector for $2.00, case for $7.00, assembly for $6.50, assorted screws/packaging for $1.00.

You could sell a 64 GB DDR3 disk with backup disk for $693.5, 87% of which would be the cost of the memory itself - large such systems would be mostly the cost of the memory, as the other components (disk) don't increase in cost much, and except for the ram sockets, none of the others increase in cost at all.

Battery would need to be swapped out every four years, or so, but that would only be $20 cost each time.
We (me, my wife, two small children) have the original Kindle Fire, a Nexus 7, and two iPads (first generation). We used to have two iPad 2s but we had to return them to former employers. The Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire are only used in desperation, while we basically fight over the iPads.

I wanted to like the Nexus 7, but I find it borderline useless for everything including simply browsing the web. (There's a lot to like about the Chrome browser, but it's simply too fiddly to resize text all the time.) Overally, I find the Kindle Fire to be a superior device to the Nexus 7 (which is pretty depressing given the Nexus 7 is a year newer, ostensibly has better hardware, is running a far more modern OS, and was more expensive).

I think Apple is going to clean everyone's clocks with the new devices, even if they're a bit expensive. $330 for a really good device is a way better deal than $200 for a piece of junk.
Look at the difference in time when using a simple 'helloworld' password with and without spaces. https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm

Also, for some more reading on why using spaces will make it infinitely more difficult for hackers to try and gain access:
http://www.baekdal.com/insights/password-security-usability
At the time when I wrote this, I had three separate machines that I used regularly: personal laptop, work laptop, work desktop.
Resident Evil Damnation 2012 is a nice action movie.United States Special Agent Leon S. Kennedy sneaks into a small Eastern European country to verify rumors that Bio Organic Weapons (B.O.W.s) are being used in war.
http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/10/resident-evil-damnation-2...
What makes you think France is destroying its economy ? And what makes you think UK or Germany is that much better ? When you scratch behind the superficial discourses around european economy, some underlying issues are systemic and shared across all big European economies. One of them is the very weak capitalization of banks, and high asset/gdp of the private banking system [1]. This by itself explains a large part of the current European policies (for example, those countries don't/can't recognize that they will need to re-capitalize their banks at taxpayer-expense).

This is much, much more critical than changes in taxes which effects are at best very disputed, and mostly explained by political biases of each side.

[1] (asset / gdp is > 6x GDP for switzerland, > 3x GDP for UK and France, to compare to 0.6 x GDP for the US: http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303...)
How would you know if a unit test fails, if the program doesn't compile?
Am I the only one surprised that 8.8.8.8 is also Google's Public DNS address?
Let's not forget marketing, technical support, and regular software updates!
Why is it so hard to guess? Obviously GitHub is popular. Most popular sites have been DDOSing. People perform DDOS either they hate that site, they want to gain something out of it, or they just want to turn it down for fun. Stop speculating. It's really simple...
Google and Microsoft build systems that don't allow weak passwords. Security is a process, not a person.
Yes what I should have said was repeatable signatures are hard across large strings.

Having just worked on this with a few people implementing independent implementations everyone got at least one character wrong, and therefore a complete missmatch of signature.

For those involved this was pretty frustrating.
Some context: this is part of discussions that have taken place at Hacker School [0] on learning goals and doing things that scare you as a programmer [1].

0: https://www.hackerschool.com/

1: https://twitter.com/al3x/status/258631420665274370
Nice article. If only I had seen this last week, it would have saved me some time. I was trying to configure multiple github accounts last week, but I don't have enough experience with ssh.

...but now that I did manage to configure it, I wonder if it was really necessary. Github has a nice identity control, I think it was foolish of me to think I needed both a personal and a work account.
finally, i was getting tired of people recommending this old dinosaur.The django community is active enough to contribute to this wonderful resource.
Agencies deflect blame from the sources by harassing the messengers and recipients.
Facebook, banks, etc. I'd venture that some of these people's personal accounts are compromised by the leak.
What should give you pause for thought is not so much the 'quality' of the review but the fact that there is a ready market for such journals. Else they would not exist.

What drives this market? Can it in any sense be said to be good and in public interest?
You put them behind a landing page/login barrier like any other app.
> The poor are screwed by regressive sales and payroll taxes

It's worth stating that Sweden has a 25% VAT, which is a bit higher than the average for Europe, but not that much.
This is definitely fake! I did some simple googling and found this : http://leakster.net/leaks/fbimail

It seems someone else already did this hack and these guys simply copy-pasted the passwords to make it look like their hack. Apparently, these copy-pasters are The Hackers Army from Pakistan.
Just because an app is single-page doesn't mean there's only a single URL. A single-page app can appear to have as-deep a set of URLs as any other site using HTML5 Pushstate or an alternate solution ... something essential to allowing the bookmarking distinct page-states, or indexing of your site's content.
Those are pretty narrow requirements. I suspect the right answer is "telecommute".
I've read that these days many theaters only get 10% of the ticket sales for the first week or so at least on major films, (before dropping substantially, combined with much shorter runs. So the theaters get less than they used to as far as i know, especially that first week or so.
I am interested as to how this would be done with a REST API.

Would it be required that a client perform a pre call for each request, or for a window of requests possibly.

I have seen this sort of thing in SOAP aka WS-Security with their SecureToken.

I mite try put something together an example and see how it works out.

Thanks for the comment.
And this: http://leakster.net/leaks/fbivuln

This link on Hackernews is nothing but a publicity stunt by THA. Waste of few minutes of my life.
Not indeed. Variance matters. Look at the hedge fund industry.

Expected return is insufficient if you can't recover from death to regress to the mean. So yeah, zombies shouldn't buy insurance
Perhaps this is the wrong place for this kind of discussion, but don't these kind of leaks seem careless? I'm all for transparency, but how does exposing this kind of information help anyone?
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How? Do American phone companies give bulk discounts on call charges or something?
"It wasn't about taking over the world, it was about being baller in San Francisco."
-Travis Kalanick, Founder of Uber

Sounds like a good starting goal to pursue with a start-up.
A 25% immediate bounce out rate is to be expected for a free, no-expectations, no-commitments download. Meanwhile, 50% of users making it to level 20 is really good! Work on levels 20-25 to reduce their steep drop-offs then move the pay point from level 100 to level 20.
But this is known for years. I've been using this since the second week of using Linux.
Kind of like "Arrays" in PHP which are really hashtables.
I think his point (on the final slide) is that in Python, writing fast code means not using the high-level language features that make it pleasant to write, whereas writing fast code in Haskell (sometimes) means using higher level language features, meaning that it's still pleasant to write.

I don't have enough experience in writing highly optimized Python to know whether that's true or not.
I love reading through leaked password lists - so interesting to see what sort of passwords people are using.

Some of my favourites:

$$$$$$$$$$$$$
bebrian.nerd
ilovemydaughternancy
sallymylove1981
lisa.grossman
I think it will be nice move to restrict free level's to a max 10 level's,and then may be few more level's unlocked on the basis of his timing's or point's collected while playing free level's,for.e.g if his avg timing come's out to 2-3 sec he will get additional of 5-10 level's..
I wish the damn thing would support DNS. We have a bunch of servers to SSH into and I have to use the fully qualified domain name unless I want to hardcode all of them (and there are too many).
When you buy catastrophic insurance it usually comes with free preventative care, which benefits the insurer as well as the insured.

You can often get a lower premium for a higher deductible, and everyone who knows how to multiply does this.
Big pharma would be extremely happy if the FDA ceased to exist. It would make them more cost-competitive with homeopaths and supplement makers, because they would also be able to stop all of their testing and quality control.
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"Investment" is traditionally reserved for activity wth positive expected returns compared to baseline behavior.
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I suppose it depends on how you define "lack of order." Nature abhors a vacuum. When there is no government imposed order the "lack of order" is the ascendency of entities like the Taliban, Somalian warlords, etc. To me this a "lack of order."
I just install Synapse, which is very similar to the Quicksilver app on the Mac. Control+Space and you can type the name of the application that you wish to launch.
Interesting. IANAL, but I was under the impression that an important part of the Berne Convention was to give authors the right to approve translations in other countries, ie so that an American company could not translate and sell copies of Crime and Punishment without getting the approval of (and therefore compensating) Dostoyevsky.

This the interpretation I've seen repeated amongst many fan translation groups, the implications of which vary amongst mediums from "we don't have a legal right to anything we translate, but we'll try to voice our disapproval anyway," typically said by manga scanlators to the giant, quasi-legal online manga sites who they have little power over, to "we may not have a right to our translation, but we do own the rights to our code, and we will use that ownership to send DMCA takedown producers of pirate 'reproduction' cartridges" in the translation hacking scene.

In response to the, uh, great grand parent post, even if they are not legally entitled to protection for their unauthorized derivative works, I think they are justified in their feelings of ownership toward them. People in the various fan translation scenes put a hell of a lot of their own free time into their works; even if the law does not support it, in a "common sense" kind of way, I find it difficult to believe that they do not have the moral high ground here.
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You seem to be projecting.
Awesome, though I wish they would write the name of the person/company actually speaking, since I don't know what some of these (http://startupschool.org/speakers.html) people look like
I'm not experienced enough to know how much you can speed up your Python code by using functional features (I presume you man map, reduce, lambdas etc?) but given that the author has made a bit of a career out of making functional languages fast, I expect that he's considered it.
If playing lottery is worthwhile fun even when you lose, taxes don't matter.
Try using this:

https://edit.yahoo.com/forgotroot/

Or contact Yahoo at account-security-help@cc.yahoo-inc.com or 1-408-349-1572 and explain the situation.
FBI Hack news on Hackernews is Fake
The news (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4677527) currently on top in HN is a fake one. It was an old FBI hack by CyberZeist that happened in June 2012. Here's the real news url:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/CyberZeist-Claims-to-Have-Gained-Access-to-Hundreds-of-Federal-Accounts-276384.shtml

And here's the original url of the hack details:

http://leakster.net/leaks/fbimail

It seems someone simply copy-pasted the old stuff to make it look like a new hack by THA, (or may be they themselves did it for publicity?).

EDIT: Good news, the fake post is dead now. FTR http://pastebin.com/BjZMZV63
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The Transformer is nice. I held the new one and I like the hardware. I like that the keyboard charges the tablet. Does Ubuntu load side by side or does it over ride Android?
> The clearest example is the iPod Touch vs the iPhone. From a geek's perspective, they are the essentially same product, differing only in the presence or absence of a cellular radio.

This isn't really true though—Apple clearly gimps the ipod-touch in various small-but-annoying ways. I don't know whether this is just to keep costs down, or to encourage people to buy the iphone unless they really, really, can't afford it.

For instance, the camera on the ipod-touch 4g is downright awful, whereas that on the iphone4 is quite decent. Lack of GPS functionality is another example.
Sentences are easier to remember. Yet grammatically correct sentences can give you things like capital letter, whitespaces and even periods.
> hey, a program that modifies its own config files is great

I think that all the time. On a server I might be willing to muck around with configuration files. On a desktop? You're damned right I want a discoverable UI for configuration.
I think the G120 and/or G120HDR boards are so much better. Much faster, a ton more memory, full tcp stack and you get to program in a high level language: C#. This also means that there are a ton of libraries, should you need any. And the price is the same.

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> I conclude a for-profit-society is more transparent and navigable than a profit-for-society.

That doesn't follow, though. This is just as much fairy dust as the notion of everyone having a fair and equal say into "the agenda": not everyone is motivated by profit. You can pretend that they are and model them to be such, but you're inevitably incorrect.

Now, you could force them to be for-profit. But if you could do that, you could also force them to be profit-for-society. Why do the former rather than the latter?

> If one were to assume that everyone else lived a profit-for-society life, then one defector would be able to manipulate the entire society to their personal aims.

This is the problem of the demagogue, or "why direct democracy doesn't work". My ideas are an outgrowth of a proposal for education reform precisely because this is the most necessary step. The most effective countermeasure to the demagogue that we know of is a two-pronged response: (1) information saturation, such that any lies or half-truths are easily exposed and (2) critical thinking, such that the demagogue finds zirself useful only for thought leadership, but not thought determination.

And while you might imagine that #1 is being reached by the Internet, and I agree that it has made significant leaps and strides in the right direction, it is not remotely enough. The Internet does not reach enough people, and of the people it reaches, we have filter bubbles and echo chambers.

> Your proposal is akin to the ideal anarcho-capitalists* have, in that states compete.

Absolutely not. Please don't read in things I didn't say. I am not a Social Darwinist, and I'd prefer not to be lumped in with those who are. The paragraphs I wrote in my vision only outline legislative mechanisms; they do not consider changes in the judiciary or in the execution of law.
I was also quite amused by: 12345678987654321
Dude its a fake article. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4678064
Speaking from experience, most companies don't think to implement DDOS protection until they're under attack. It's just not on most people's checklists. Hence the need to implement something in an hour. The fact that its a problem proves my point.

Yes, it sounds like our scales here are quite different. I'm referring to a few machines in a single data center, not hundreds being geographically distributed.
I'd be interested to see if either 3 or 4 appear on existing password dictionaries.
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