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Who cares what Zuckerberg's sister thinks? Does being his sister make her some form of authority on online privacy, such that her being confused would be some kind of "see, I told ya!"?
yeah, bad editing, but if it weren't fiction, would the author have mis-stated his own name in his first draft?
Misleading article tile's summary: We tried to use a technology that was less mature than another technology. We had to figure some stuff out that had already been figured out on the more mature technology. Using two technologies was more complicated than using one.
Out of the 3000 repositories which I estimate to be affected by this issue (using Google and eliminating some common techniques used to circumvent the problem), I estimate 1600 of them are not on Github. Even if Github does its best to remove the issue completely, I don't believe it will have a huge impact.

I believe that a better idea is to fix this in Rails. Why is a secret key loaded from the configuration directory? I agree with ajross's comment (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4970347).

This isn't to say that Github should do nothing to control the problem, but more must be done than just that.
Are status rules really so simple? Can it not also sometimes raise status to be accommodating, because it shows you can afford it? Of course it would all depend on the circumstances...

I struggle with that on the sidewalk. I tend to move out of the way to let people pass, because it seems more elegant to me, and often I am fitter than the approaching person. Should I really be bulldozing onwards just to assert my status?

What about the gift economy, where the people giving the most gifts has the highest status (examples: open source, science, feasts in archaic societies).
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He misses the most obvious problem of all, which is that you can't clean easily in the corners of many sharp-edged flat sinks.
Elko, Nevada is a mining town; having grown up in one that was such until a bit after WWII I can tell you these have long lasting cultural differences that include higher crime rates.
TL;DR: Randi Zuckerburg doesn't want her Twitter followers to see photos of her looking ugly
There's a very big difference between a random caller doing a survey (no connection, no ongoing relationship, no obligation) and your own son, or even between the random caller and anyone close enough to you to ask you to a funeral or party.

Do you really not see the difference between these situations or are you just doing a reductio ad absurdum?
Sister? No. Former marketing director of Facebook? She probably should know the privacy settings. Having people at your company (or that used to be at your company) confused about policies is usually a sign that you should either clarify or simplify them.
Having grown up in western ND, I keep myself pretty well informed on the situation in the oil fields.

First of all, Billings is nowhere near any of the current or probable future oil activity. The cost of living in Billings is irrelevant. In fact, it is likely that, unless you own a house already, the cost of living in or near the active oil activity actually exceeds New York City. Rent for a house or apartment can run several thousands of dollars, if you can even find one. There are entire families living year-round in camper trailers, and paying $1500/mo for the privilege of parking it somewhere. Or, you can live in a man-camp, which while cheaper, is basically the equivalent of an army barracks, where you get a bed and meals. Or, you could commute 2-3 hours each way, each day if you like, which lowers your cost of living, but have fun with that during the winter.

It's an extremely hard lifestyle. There's a reason North Dakota has thousands and thousands of unfilled jobs. Much of it is dangerous, back-breaking physical labor for 12-16 hours a day, which you have to perform whether it's 100 degrees or 30 below zero.
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Recently I found out that namecheap forces you to contact them and get domains with the word "hacker" in them approved by one of their staff.

(I was trying to register raspihacker.com [as in: raspberry pi], and got told that I can't until they approve it.)

This really rubbed me the wrong way, and I'd rather not give money to a company that equates hackers with criminals.

Who are you using? I've heard of some fabled google registrar, but have never seen it. Are there any that don't try to upsell you on a bunch of things during checkout?
Didn't know that about Amish, now I am actually interested in their ways :) Thanks for sharing.
Maybe phones should provide a "charge only" setting that can be toggled on when using non-trusted devices to charge your phone?
>>Sister? No. Former marketing director of Facebook? She probably should know the privacy settings.

Wait, what? I work for a software company, and our marketing people (including up to Director level) are some of the least knowledgeable people when it comes to how our software actually works.
Well yes, it could be teaching developers. But you would be teaching a single solution for a single problem. I think it would be better to entice solutions that target the bigger issue on security awareness. All this new tools that make it so much easier to develop complex applications have huge benefits, but I believe they are also pushing new developers away from understanding the concepts behind what they are doing. As someone who started as a designer and grew on my own into development, I've seen this issue first hand.
I would agree with you, but for the fact that she used to be Facebook's marketing director.
"4 hour workweek" it rocks.
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Fowler's writing is what makes the books so good: PoEAA is much more approachable than the GoF books. It's more approachable than his early books (Analysis Patterns).

I'm surprised that you didn't mention The Pragmatic Programmer..

I think that a lot of the people here (and who read your blog) could do worse than to check out "Team Geek". It's about people, not programming, but the impact it has had on me is equal to PoEAA..
I think it's better to use a tool that is more than a simple todo list. It should be specific to your home and it should learn what your home needs. http://redbeacon.com/my-home
Yeah, I am not a nice person. I never was and I will never be. Yeah, a lot of people call me nice, helpful and whatever, but come on that's what everyone gets to hear all day long.

...

I work more than 50 hours a week, spend most of my free time helping others and write here only because there really isn't anything else I can do right now - well besides thinking about what I could do better or sleeping (unlikely), when they need help (and someone always does), just to not feel like a bad person.

So you say you're not a nice person, and yet you spend most of your free time helping others so as not to feel like a bad person?
I'm not sure if you're joking. Ruby on Rails projects aren't the only ones that have files that shouldn't be made public on GitHub.

GitHub will already generate a .gitignore file when you create a repository on its website. It would be nice if the .gitignore file was based on the type of project being created. And it would be nice if it gave a warning when files that are in the default .gitignore were being pushed to the repo.

If the filename changes in the future, who cares? It defaults to the current situation where no warning is given, but potentially improves security in many cases. And it's not a big deal to add another file to a list.
Agreed this is an article churn for advertisement.

Recently this attack was back in the news due to NSA referencing it in a mobile device security paper.

BTW if anyone has questions about it, feel free to ask me. I'm the guy (along with friends) who was building these kiosks and deploying them at "hacker" conferences and then gave a presentation on the matter.
Hey, would you mind editing that top line of text on your comment? It is forcing horizontal scrolling, and breaks the comments page for lots of us :(

(It appears to be one very long string of text, and I don't believe that

word-wrap: break-word;

is on for the comments, meaning that long words force a scrollbar.)
My android does this when I plug it into my car to charge.
Another nice property of the 1/n! definition is that you can use it to define exponentiation for things which don't have division (e.g. matrices)
This wasn't really the point of the article.

The writer was talking about saying no to being used and exploited by people who felt entitled to his time and effort and did not respect or appreciate that effort.
IntelliJ during it's 75% sale and Cornerstone from Mac App Store. I also paid this year for Skype and Google Talk during my trip abroad.

All were great deals but IntelliJ was the best investment of them all.
Many android phones do this, however not all. This is up to the specific ROM you are running.

iOS devices have put in a phenomenal effort to secure against these attacks, including requiring encryption keys before allowing unknown computers to access the device or data.
Europe earns its moniker of "old world".
>I'd rather ask why Google didn't make vp8 defacto on youtube instead of adopting h.264, let the Apple mobile devices flounder without support, and push really hard on Android manufacturers to hardware accelerate vp8 (or 9 now).

Google makes money on ads. Including on YouTube.

Now, Android doesn't make Google any money. It's a long term bet to have a foot on the mobile space. Including the Motorola acquisition --and giving it for free--, Google has most likely LOST money on Android thus far.

Plus, Android doesn't have much presence in the mobile web. Despite outnumbering iOS devices, Android devices produce far less mobile web visits. Probably because lots of them are sold to the lowest consumer tier, free with a contract, that is, to people that don't care about the "mobile web" thing much at all.

So, Google pushing VP8 on YouTube / mobile would just serve to cut Google from the mobile advertising pie, which is largely iOS.

And it's not like Apple, if pushed, couldn't have added some basic flash player capability, even if only for video support. Adobe, for one, would have jumped at the chance to give it to iOS.
Since it's at blogs.nytimes.com, I assume it's a blog, not a an actual news article that goes through the normal newspaper editing process.

I've seen lots of posts on HN and elsewhere referencing blogs.nytimes.com. Does anyone know exactly what their organizational setup is?
Perhaps in 1922. Those old farts had it easy back then. They could reasonably expect the delayed reward when they get older, the business repaying their loyalty for all these years.

Fast forward to the eighties and "the business which feeds and clothes and houses them all" being acquired is a common event. Then the fat gets trimmed. The fat being you, the loyal employee whose work made the business acquire-worthy in the first place. Your loyalty being repaid is not in the books, the value you created is.

So, loyalty to the people is ok. The relationship with a business is governed by contracts and little more.
It's a bullshit conspiracy reference meant to make the GP look ever so cynical and wise. Specifically, saying that GM, Lockheed, Honda, and Boeing will all get together and assassinate Musk.
I'd just like to point out that by definition, that's not qualia. You're talking about something else—which is fine. You can deny the existence of qualia all you like, and many people do.

Dennett has made a very good case for the term being so abused as to be useless. He argues against its existence and seemingly the existence of anything like it. I don't really agree with him in this extended sense but I can't define exactly what it is I do agree with, so for now I can only say that there is a lot more to learn about consciousness and related phenomena.
I have a google apps account which runs something like administrator@example.com I put their domain www.suspiciousvendor.com@example.com as my email address when I sign up. I get all emails sent to *@example.com in the google mail archive folder and I can search if I need to

Too bad google discontinued the free option.
Given that she was a key force behind the "Startup: Silicon Valley" show, I'd say she is confused on a lot more than just FB issues she ostensibly should have been familiar with given her position there...

I cannot say enough bad things about hat show.
Keep the 1 month old baby warm. Not much to do other than feeding, diapers etc for them.

With the 19 month old, you have a few options. Show them funny TV/youtube clips, peek-a-boo (my 2 year old nephew loves it), hide and seek, just running around like a train etc etc. rinse and repeat.
Or rails could suggest additions to .gitignore (and equivalents for svn).
She posted it as "friends only" and tagged her family members. The person who tweeted it saw it and assumed that it was showing up because she is a subscriber of Randi's public posts, though in reality it wasn't public and she saw it through a friend connection with one of Randi's sisters. She tweeted the image based on that assumption. Randi saw it, was surprised, and then discovered how it happened (because Randi knows how privacy controls work quite well). They communicated on Twitter and realized the misunderstanding. The end.
Facebook privacy violations: blame the settings or the etiquette?
There is no privacy online. Period. A few years back when Mark Zuckerberg's pictures leaked out, he kept quiet which was a great PR move unlike this time.
I sure hope so. TLDs are irrelevant.
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I know what you mean. But that is still no excuse for a marketing director of a major brand like fb.
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It seems most people are not aware that tagging someone as present with you basically posts to their timeline and expands the viewership of your post to whatever the settings are of all the tag-ees.

We want to talk privacy with Mark Zuckerberg as well. We put a $2.5k bounty on it: https://businessleads.com/post/592-Mark-Zuckerberg-Wed-Like-...
That would be hypocritical but that's not what I did. Liberals and conservatives aren't ill defined at all, and its hardly a secret to say liberals are in favor of higher taxes. It's not even an insult. It's just a fact. It's a plank in the platform. It's just the way it is.
A valuable lesson from Randi Zuckerberg: Online privacy is complicated
The vast majority of people don't live in fear of their governments because they don't care. In fact, fear of government controlling out lives is mostly an American collective psychosis. (even then limited to internet activists, survivalists, gun horders etc.)

Not to say it's without merit, but this really doesn't preoccupy people's thoughts in other countries. I've tried to explaining to Japanese and British people that we have guns to prevent potential government oppression and to be able to take our personal protection into our own hands. They look at you ask if you're crazy/paranoid.

The whole slippery slope stuff doesn't resonate at all.

The whole thing basically boils down to:
"If I were to potentially at some point in the indefinite future plot anti government activities through my email I want to be sure that big brother doesn't read it"

This just seems ludicrous to most people.
I know documentation was found in Afghanistan outlining attempts to acquire sarin gas for use in a terrorist attack in the US.

On the other hand, maybe it was all faked, right, like the WTC attack? Maybe you should keep it "quit" yourself. And while you're keeping it "quit", take an English class. I would advise keeping it "quit" during the class so the teacher doesn't realize you're not the sharpest tooth on the saw.
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What? Ave USA lifespan for males is 75. So 5 year difference?

The only difference I see is that people pretend 45-50 is when "mid-life" happens. No, you're not going to live to be 100.

35-37 is mid-life. Accept it.
I very much appreciate gandi.net. Read their no bullshit™ policy :) https://www.gandi.net/no-bullshit
Did you see the entire movie? The whole premise is that a Japanese businessman is implanting a virus like visual into everyone's heads..
Personally I've switched to Namecheap, but that's interesting that they require approval for domains like that...

I used to use 1&1, and my only advice is to not use them. I've had so much trouble switching DNS around on their system that it's just not worth it. It often will take the full 48 hours for DNS to switch for me, whereas other registrars have it done in minutes. I'm not a DNS guy so I couldn't tell you if it was their system or some other issue with my DNS, but I've had enough experiences with them to avoid buying anything new.
Spotify, some android apps and I plan on buying Sublime soon.
The show was effectively canceled due to poor ratings, along with its sibling LOLWork.

It self-corrected.
> "Digital etiquette: always ask permission before posting a friend's photo publicly. It's not about privacy settings, it's about human decency," Randi said in a tweet.

Schadenfreude and just desserts aside, Randi has a good point here. So much of the talk about privacy on social networks overlooks the problem of human nature. Most people won't have their privacy most painfully violated by a service, but by those in their network who carelessly forward their digital communications.

(to clarify: I'm not absolving FB of blame...I'm assuming that just about everyone here agrees that FB's privacy implementation is not great. I'm just saying that Randi's point, even if it was said to deflect responsibility, is true in the larger sense. As we'll find out as Poke w/ pics becomes more popular)
> a case for a subset of C++

Do elaborate. I come from the same background and I've been contemplating forking C for several years now. What you said sounds all too familiar to my own reasoning, so I'd be very curious to know what you have in mind. In broad strokes.
How about golf.volkswagen for the VW page with information on the VW Golf, and mygolf.volkswagen for a community site dedicated to customized or modified VW Golfs? That would differentiate the car club from say, augusta.golf (which would represent the golf course Augusta National).

I believe the rules state that a registrar selling these domains (which VW would then be) must give equal access to everyone (or something along those lines).
Tech is a bit special because you also mix in the insecurity feeling that some people have towards that "black magic". I know a lot of people who just become frustrated and aggressive when things don't work as they expected.

When I was working in a computer shop one of my trick was to clearly state what was going to happen or to lay down the options that they had. That would often help them feel in control and calm down. Obviously before I had to wait for them to calm down enough to be able to listen.
It's kind of crazy that acetaminophen gets added to so many drug cocktails prescribed by doctors. When your liver is already handling a bunch of other stuff, do you really want to throw one of those most liver-toxic medications out there on top?

Even if your doctor knows all the drug interactions, he doesn't know the other stuff you're consuming like alcohol, grapefruit juice, over-the-counter painkillers, and so forth. See http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1158671/How-health...

Apparently I'm not the only one who feels this way. According to wikipedia:
On June 30, 2009, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel voted by a narrow margin to advise the FDA to remove Vicodin and another painkiller, Percocet, from the market because of "a high likelihood of overdose from prescription narcotics and acetaminophen products". The panel cited concerns of liver damage from their acetaminophen component, which is also the main ingredient in commonly-used nonprescription drugs such as Tylenol.[8] Each year, acetaminophen overdose is linked to about 400 deaths and 42,000 hospitalizations.
I could see lots of people doing it, only because Rails auto-generates the secret_token.rb file -- it's easy to just not think about it, forget it exists, put your whole source tree in the repo -- remember to keep database passwords and such out, but not ever even think about secret_token.rb, it just ends up in there.

Rails does the right thing by putting the secret token in it's own file that's even _called_ secret_token.rb (it could have just jammed it in the middle of config/application.rb or something instead, where it would be even easier to miss and/or not realize it should be kept private). So I don't know it's people who don't 'understand' it -- whether you understand it or not, the file is named "secret_token", if you actually look at a file listing and think about "should this be kept secret?", the answer is obviously yes even if you know nothing.

But... there's still a lot going on, and it's something easy to forget about, since you ordinarily _never_ need to think about the secret_token.
All about Juice Jacking: malicious cell phone charging kiosks.
So that makes you a spammer. Tell us about your business name, so that we can add it to our blacklist too ;).
I did not know this. Thanks.

We really could use a fantastic silicon valley focused TV/Video channel/site -- but I don't see it happening any time soon.
A lot more: From Wikipedia: "In 2011, ARM's customers reported 7.9 billion ARM processors shipped, representing 95% of smartphones, 90% of hard disk drives, 40% of digital televisions and set-top boxes, 15% of microcontrollers and 20% of mobile computers."

That roughly matches my memory of previous recent years' reported sales.
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I am not sure why Office 365 cannot be used by two people on different offices to work on the same spreadsheet.

Office 365 says We are the easiest way to work together.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/free-office365-tria...
Because it's not a particularly good database, but it's being marketed strongly.

There are better (more mature, easier to maintain, faster, etc.) alternatives for both single-machine (Postgres, MySQL) and distributed (Cassandra, HBase) usage.

It's a pain to take care of, it does table scans all the time (partly because it has no schema, partly because of design issues), it has pretty poor profiling tools. It's almost impossible to use without a model/schema in the app. Migrations are a pain.

The one thing it's particularly well suited at is indexing and searching JSON-like data.
Looks great, I think the website needs better code highlighting with larger fonts for text and code. Definitely disqus comments will help a lot. Are you looking for guest posts ?
I personally found it hard to believe. This fellow seems smart, but was foolish enough to leave college and a promised job at a Bank to work at a hardware store. He did so during a social visit at his friend's family for "moral support" against the family's push for the hardware store job? .
I use name.com for about 10 domains. Never had a complaint with them.
Privacy isn't some obscure feature or an implementation detail, it is one of facebook's major issues from a marketing perspective. The fact that she so publicly got it wrong is a disgrace.
If you post something on internet, not to mention on a Facebook page, be ready to make it public. End of story.
Decency/shmecency.
Facebook constantly leaks your data or change the policy by adding some checkbox to your settings that is set to yes by default and if you missed that change ( I am sure we all read through a huge policy updates) then you are screwed until someone points out the new UI change. I thought decency works both ways because Facebook is also "people"?