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I'm normally highly sceptical of anything which is essentially a how to guide on security of, well, anything but I have to say whoever this author is they absolutely know their stuff.

Normally security advice is just 1980s circle-jerking of the same meaningless "sound good" concepts (e.g. "At least one upper-case, number, special character") but actually, no, not in this case.

Instead he is giving advice which is modern, which is based on how people actually use these systems, and also the common mistakes developers make while building them (e.g. not hashing forgotten password keys).

He even linked to NIST Special Publication 800-63 and THEN talked about login attempts over time. This dude is just incredible. I literally couldn't have written a better article than this.
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it's $9M used to pay the US Government as your startup requires all the infrastructure, legal framework and military protection provided to get where it is (feel free to move your startup to Somalia, where I hear the taxes are close to zero).

I think a few here would feel free to move their startups to -- Germany, with less than 1/3rd of the US' military expenses per capita [0] -- or Hong Kong, where mass transit is privatized [1] -- or Canada, where the number of lawyers per capita is 1/15th that of the US [2]. I dare say some have a positive view of all three of these statistics, despite them being technically "more Somalia-like". Not to say (not at all!) that militaries, infrastructure, and legal systems are useless and shouldn't be funded; but perhaps that they can be less funded (by taxpayers) with a net social benefit.

And that the statement "we should pay more to government agencies for the benefit of startups" is not immediately obvious.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTR

[2] https://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/olin_center/papers/pdf/...
>do you think such a concept might have legs?

I do! I have been thinking about this much like you BjoernKW.. my dream is individual bid able pivotal tasks, that are part of a coherent whole agile project. When organized the right way, the fastest person to complete them on a distributed team wins, and there would be no limit of team size.

I actually ran a request on Bountify, and it was cool. There was some pushback for programmers who thought it was too much of a project for low $, while others enjoyed completing it for the challenge (and actually got paid).

Plenty of challenges (in making this really work for companies), but I believe Bountify has a good start here.
If you overlay a US map of broadband access on top of counties that voted democrat, the areas with highest broadband vote democrat with slower areas voting republican. It's a crude analysis but interesting.
Should we allow the passing of ordinances preventing the operation of such shops?

Of course.

Lots of people don't want porn shops in their neighborhoods, either. Or casinos. So there are laws about where they can be located, what the storefront can look like, how they can advertise. Some cities ban them entirely, and you get a few of them set up right outside city limits.

I'd stay it works pretty well. People who want it know where to go, and people who don't want to see it don't have to.
I agree with most of what Patrick is saying here.

One thing I'd add is that it's not just the non-technical founders job to do a great communicator that can get people to do things. A CTO needs to be able to do this to recruit a team and get them moving forward.
There are some issues which aren't fiscal (directly) but aren't really social policy (directly), where Libertarians are the farthest "left" (or right, or whatever) of the two big parties, and where people may vote based on morality.

GTFO Afghanistan ASAP (and their overall isolationist position) is one of the big ones. I could see someone who was pro-state intervention in domestic life, pro big taxes, etc. still voting Libertarian if he thought GTFO Afghanistan ASAP was the most important issue.

It's basically impossible to put US politics (or anywhere, really) on a strict left/right linear chart.
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Meh, not too happy about the same-sex marriage decision, but I do appreciate that this decision is being made at the state level instead of the national level. I too am proud to be a Washington native in this election, but mostly because of the public charter school system.

Being a fiscal conservative, the national election, however, did not go as I had hoped. Seeing stocks drop like that was not the best news to wake up to.
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What am I missing here? Thermistors are inherently nonlinear. Using a Wheatstone bridge or a current mirror won't change that. The reason Wheatstone bridges were so popular is that they made differential measurements easier in an age where dynamic range was limited and subtraction had to be done by analog means.

Configuring your thermistor with a precision resistor in a voltage divider, driven from the same reference voltage as the Arduino (or whatever) will give you equally good performance. If you want linearity, apply the Steinhart-Hart equation.
Is that really true? If you start a meetup.com group and fail to pay a bill, anyone can take it over?
I've long thought it would be awesome if someone started a business along these lines: a news source driven by data analysis; like fivethirtyeight but for analysis of all sorts of news and current events, not just elections.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4047424

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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2859234
It would be great to get even more granular and get to the county level to show how even the "divided" counties are purple as well. My guess is that you might get some counties that are 100% Red or 100% Blue.

These colors are great, but almost ultraviolet to my eyes. I can only look at the map for 5 seconds. Also, the color doesn't really tell me how far from 50/50 the states are.
Yes - all major US carries do this as far as I know. AT&T and Verizon for sure (unless you pay $30/month for unlimited SMS)
From the last paragraph: "a couple writers" -> "a couple of writers"
"its completion" -> "it's completion"

It seems really important to me, that you get these sorts of things right in all your posts, even if you yourself won't be writing your prospective clients' blog posts.
Thanks. We'll sort it out.
Actually I was trying to express that the birthday paradox does not apply when you to find a plaintext that evaluates to a known hash, as you'd need to do for password cracking or forging a signed email for example[1]. The birthday paradox only gives you the probability that of a random set of hashes, two are the same. It's "if I generate n random pieces of plaintext, how big is the chance that two of them generate the same hash." Actually it gives you the probability of picking the same element twice from a finite set of elements when you pick n times.

[1] When generating emails more restrictions apply: The colliding plaintexts have to be at least somewhat coherent and probably should express something the attacker wants to express.

Edit: Forgot a negation in a crucial place. Darn.
how does it prevent that sniffing data issue from happening when you are not using SSL? Or you just cannot use Persona without SSL?
Under direct democracy, there wouldn't be a candidate at all--the citizens propose and vote on every issue themselves, instead of electing a representative to do it for them. It's been done before, and the principle argument against it is that it doesn't scale (thus representative democracy).

"Merely manifesting what was already there" is exactly the point of democracy: the majority rules as opposed to some superior-minded entity. Your argument seems to be that representative democracy is better than direct democracy because compromise wouldn't exist without representatives or people wouldn't factionize without them. I find those claims dubious, but we're all entitled to our opinion.

What I think lies beneath your argument is a form of the old classical AI versus statistic AI debate. The classical side asserts that there's not much scientific value in statistical techniques because they don't increase our understanding. The statistical side emphasizes pragmatics and has the best results. Interestingly, even if your side were right, it's going to be (and is already, evidently) steamrolled by the other side simply because they have the results. It doesn't seem impossible to me that there could be something valuable about sharing values with candidates, but the candidate that employed the statistical method better won. As long as that remains the case--in other words, until voters vote based on actual values rather than statistically determined hot-button issues--it's a moot point.
Well, I guess I'm not starting my startup for another 4 years...
Since we're bootstrapping, we've pretty much only looked at MagCloud for the past three editions, but for the Spring edition coming out next year, I'm definitely looking into printing it ourselves. If I went that route, I'd probably look into a local printer so I could ensure press quality rather than another online solution.

I liked going with MagCloud to start too because it allows us to not worry at all about the printing aspect to start — I feel a lot more comfortable with the production of the lookbook so now we can branch out into printing solutions which'll cost less but take more of our time.

Keep in mind that the cost through MagCloud is only when someone buys — free to upload and distribute, and you can just tack on a "profit" to their base cost per issue.
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Seems like good advice when having to make weightier decisions, but when it comes to decisons of the heart, not so much.

On a related note, I remember hearing about a study (this is going back almost a decade now) showing that those who live in poverty were often found to have poor decision-making skills.

The findings sounds both obvious and patently unfair, but I wonder if anyone else has heard of a study like that. A link would be great.
I love a comment in that link: "This is the most wordy, pretentious way to say 'they do it for the lulz.'"

What a contrast in the writing style! Whereas I normally toil to be most concise, to pack the most semantic value into a sentence, this article dishes out a marathon of Olympic-strength verbal acrobatics.
Mozilla nurtured the web with Firefox. This is yet another great project for the Mobile ecosystem.

I always wished for myself and for the larger web community a 'Rock solid web based Open' Mobile Platform. And it is happening fast.

All such advancements are only possible today, as we have faster Javascript engines, can leverage Cloud services, access to cheaper hardware and much faster Internet Penetration and adoption than ever before. The web can function as a strong platform by itself and not a hybrid model.

Also let's not forget the big failure of the over hyped Palm WebOS.
Many said - it was too early; not ready for the market. I too agreed then. :)
Lets hope Firefox has good design patterns and moves agile.

Couple of things I wish everyone knows -

1. Are all the System level API's ready? Telephone API, Sensor API's et al. It looks to me, its under prototype and design, what's the current stage?

2. Can this leverage WebGL and all HTML5 features?

3. AFAIK, all the front end is around Javascript or some Javascript MVC.
Are there any other programming API's?
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The more serious lesson to take from this is that you should make it your job to know how your graphic designers are sourcing the images used in high-profile public-facing web sites. So often, the directive is just "get me happy old people" or "get me people who look patriotic".

This can also keep you out of hot water with copyright issues, where the production graphic person just does a Flickr search to find the pictures to use.
Well not a good starting point for networking in Cologne.
Please stop these short and un-insightful comments on posts related to zoomstra.
I doubt that. How many people try cigarettes for the first time the day they turn 18 or alcohol at 21?

Anecdotally at least, people first try these substances when they want to, not when it's legal for them to do so. I can't imagine this being significantly different for marijuana - it's already so easy to obtain as an illegal substance.
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WSO New update 2.5.1 ( Web Shell )

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Changelog (v2.5.1):
Remove comments from the first line .
Added option to dump certain columns of tables.
the size of large files are now well defined .
in the file properties field "Create time" changed to "Change time" (http://php.net/filectime).
Fixed a bug that caused not working mysql brute force if there was a port of the server .
Fixed a bug due to which one can not see the contents of a table called download in the database.

https://github.com/downloads/orbweb/PHP-SHELL-WSO/wso2.5.1.zip

https://github.com/downloads/orbweb/PHP-SHELL-WSO/wso2.5.1.php
Not in general. I was part of the VI-A program (http://vi-a.mit.edu/) at MIT, which allows you to do your thesis at a company.
A hidden message here is "Jerks exist". For many people startups are the first time they play a high stakes game and that's the first time they can really get burned by jerks. You might have encountered some in school etc, but usually you aren't put in a position where you rely on them.

This happened to me once and I found it hard to accept that someone would even be mean-spirited at all. It can take some time to get over this, but at the end of the day I think you shouldn't be overly cautious about this. If you worry too much about people being jerks, the cost of missed opportunities is likely to outweigh the benefit of working with less jerks. If somebody turns out to be a jerk, just be nice and try to remove yourself from the situation as gracefully as possible with as little damage to everyone as possible.

As a side note, as with most things, the jerk/not-jerk distinction isn't binary. Most jerks will have a nice side and friends that don't consider them jerks. Of course that doesn't help you if they're being a jerk to you, but keep it in mind.
Actually, those are correct. "a couple writers" and "a couple of writers" are both grammatically correct.

"its completion" -> "it's completion" is just wrong. "It is completion" is not the intent of the sentence.
Wrote a scraper for stock prices, what do I do with the data?
So, as a side project, I wrote a scraper in nodejs to scrape for stock price information for all companies on the stock market. Now, I have a wealth of stock price information.

My original plan was to write a simple moving average analyzer that tells me when averages cross above or below each other.

What else could I do with this data? Any interesting analytics I could do? Just curious to see what other hackers might do with this information.
The problem with the 48fps solution that Peter Jackson went with is that it is using a 48fps 360° shutter. Let me quickly explain.

Traditional film production uses 24fps with a 180° shutter: a film frame gets exposed for half of 1/24th of a second, and then during the other half of that 1/24th of a second, nothing is exposed. We learned to associate the motion artifacts produced that way as looking "film-like".

With digital camera, you can easily crank that up to a 360° shutter: each frame gets exposed for a full 1/24th of a second. Some films used 24fps 360° for selected scenes, and people immediately said that it looked "like TV". A fair response, since TV always had similar motion artifacts.

Now when PJ moved to a higher frame rate, he could have said "let's make sure we get a 180° degree shutter look for both 24fps and 48fps by filming at 96fps, then for every 4 frames, combining frames 1+2 to get traditional 24fps 180° footage, and using frames 1+3 to get a comfortable 24fps 180° (frame 4 would get thrown away in the process). PJ mainly uses Red Epic cameras that go up to 120fps, so this would have been no problem.

Instead, PJ went with filming at 48fps and a 360° shutter. This resulted in normal looking 24fps 180° footage, and very TV-like looking 48fps 360° footage for those cinemas that support 48fps. For me, this whole mess is just an unfortunate lack of good testing in pre-production.

Let's hope that James Cameron recognizes these issues and shows everybody how it's done properly by using the 96fps solution while filming Avatar 2.
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I agree. I'm not against entrepreneurship per se but this industry suffers from a special breed of entremanures. It seems each new generation has a subset with a misplaced enthusiasm for Randism. If you have put yourself through a degree in computer science then you've already sacrificed time and income. Now make sure you get paid a fair amount for every hour worked. Why risk getting Zyngered when you can pay off your mortgage, read books to your kids and have a beer with your wife.
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Ah awesome, last time I looked there was a few things missing that looked a bit of an oversight. I was trying to remember when exactly but it must have been a while ago.
Is all traffic being routed through their proxy or just the bare minimum to start the stream on the various websites?

Basically: is all my chrome browser traffic going through their servers?
I'm not really taking it to the level of bribery. I just think that by analyzing the different micro-constituencies and what makes them most concerned - social security, taxes on high pay, auto industry jobs - you can better tailor your message to them.

While I agree that voters vote more based on ideals - I know I do - if there are enough 'business propositions' that go against you, that is most likely going to be an affront to your ideals. If your job relies on corn subsidies, you more than likely agree with the idea of crop subsides, and therefore will vote for the candidate that supports your "ideals".
Perhaps taken as a whole, with home button at bottom and camera at top when in portrait could be the extent of what this protects?
I'm in the same boat. I've tried using Dragon, because talking is easier than writing for me. But then, I end up with a lot of umms and uhs and unstructured posts. Copywriting is super important, very difficult for non-writers, and time-consuming (for non-writers)
There is also a nice series of video with exercises about Rx in Channel 9 -> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Rx-Workshop
>> You made a blanket statement that multiple-basis currencies cannot and haven't existed

> No, I said that there's no such thing as competing currencies. Having a single currency with more than one base has obviously been tried, but it didn't work.

I still say flat out that you're mistaken. We have (and have had) multiple currencies in the world, used within a single area (quite often, especially during wartime), regionally, and worldwide. How do you deal with multiple currencies? Via exchange rates. These may be floated or decreed, but they exist. Dollars, Euros, Yen, and gold are all commonly used for current-day international transactions (with a strong preference generally for US dollars, though this may change). The dollar also has special standing as the preferred reserve currency, but again, this is largely a matter of convention, liquidity, and stability.

Over historical time, there have been (usually local and smaller-scale, though not always) systems in which multiple currencies managed by multiple sovereigns circulated and were commonly used. Sometimes usage is specific to transaction types (e.g.: use currency A for large and multi-region transactions, use B generally for local/smaller transactions).

On England's tri-metalism, Adam Smith discusses this at length in On the Wealth of Nations. The standards date to Roman times (copper basis), with silver emerging from the Saxon tribes, and gold from mainland Europe.
The iPhone 5’s sales behavior on the second-hand market through the month of October. After analyzing about 100,000 transactions, we found that:

· AT&T’s iPhone 5 is by far the most popular variant
· Sprint was the least popular and had the highest depreciation
· White versions tended to be more expensive
· Storage value is depreciates significantly, especially with the 32GB models.

All of our findings can be found on our blog post at http://blog.movaluate.com/2012/11/05/iphone-5-sales-behavior...

* The price reports are generated using data from completed transactions on eBay and other online merchant sites.
Fantastic resource. Just what I was looking for.
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I'm more interested in what lazyloading plugin you are using for jQuery -- is there an out-of-the-box one that works in Nov 2012, or did you make your own?
Hi, Vidar, the original co-organizer here. We're on top of the situation and will be announcing the next Hacker News Meetup Cologne tomorrow. In the meantime, it would be cool if everybody refrains from personal attacks on Meredith. It seems she's a real person. Let's keep it nice and clean.
They got a design patent for the iPad's design. Not for a rounded rectangle. Comp the first comment on arstechnica that jccc posted here.
Could you point some places where you find such acrobatics?

I found it pretty linear.
Out of the entire article, that's the question? ;) I kid... it's a Wordpress plugin - Lazy Load v0.5. We haven't had any issues with it, would definitely recommend.
I get what you are saying. I get that on Netflix for example they aren't just going to give away the latest series or episodes away for "free" to a standard account. I am fine with this. What I want though is an option where I can pay to watch the shows I enjoy. I feel it is so dumb that I need to request this.

If Netflix offered credits. £1 to unlock latest episodes I would pay that. I will probably purchase the DVD anyway. Why not? It would be really convenient. This shouldn't interfere to much with traditional TV channels. If you already have the relevant cable package you wouldn't be paying for the episodes again. You would just watch it on the cable channel or catch up or whatever.

Its the startling lack of consumption options which is empowering piracy. Right now I am downloading a US TV episode of a show I follow. The TV package to get this channel in my country costs £26.50 a month. Considering how little actual TV I watch it would be literally £7 per episode assuming the show is shown every week. I am buying the show's dvd box set when it comes out. I want to support the show. I want to see the extras. I would be paying episode by episode now if there was an option... alas... licensing prevents that. I find it so frustrating. Lobbiests in the UK are already pressuring Google to delist or devalue links to copyright infringed content. I just wish a little of this gusto was put into creating new ways to legally access copyrighted content.
Are you guys joking? I find it hard to believe someone doesn't catch it instantly i.e. in less than a couple of milliseconds.
It's a very sleazy way of getting meetup members. I bet her other "groups" were also formed this way. Sounds like Meredith Monroe is selling some kind of scammy product to startup companies.

In a way, it's also brilliant -- hack your way into acquiring targeted audiences without the audience knowing they signed up for something slightly different. But yeah, I would probably put Meredith Monroe into the same bucket of people who acquired my email from various sources and is now trying to sell me viagra pills.