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Bitcoin, the unregulated currency of OC & black hats gets hacked. This really isn't a big surprise. There's little or no come back for an individual, group or even nation state on this. This is evolution at work, where instead of survival, its a more tangible quality being selected for. The most ruthless, unremorseful and skilled the hacker, the more bitcoin they make allowing them to buy/build more RATs
Ask HN: How should I handle making money in the App Store?
Hey HN, forgive me if this has been asked a million times before - I assume it has, but I've been Googling for the last couple of days and haven't found much of anything. I've got an iOS app that I've been working on for some time, and I'm finally getting close to ready to push it to the app store and hope for the best. I've decided to make the app free (and iAd-supported), but I'm not really sure how to go about setting up iAd in the first place. I don't mean the technical stuff; that all seems fairly straightforward; I mean the business stuff. Apple wants banking and tax information - should I just use my personal info? Or should I do this as a company, and start a single proprietorship, or a one-man LLC, or something like that? Is there a decent guide to this stuff anywhere out there? What are the things that you wished you had known before you started making money (or at least trying to) on the app store?
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Well to be honest we currently lack distinctive features, we're hoping to learn what users want and add that in the coming weeks...
It's under "Adjust ClearType text" on the control panel in Windows 7. It's also known as "ClearType Text Tuner."

It doesn't specifically ask you to pick your subpixel layout, but rather shows you a bunch of different renderings and asks you to pick the one you think looks best.
I think rmc is saying ads only require cookies because ad networks require them, but they're not absolutely necessary. Newspapers, magazines, billboards, TV ads, and other physical media don't have the equivalent of cookies and companies still pay to advertise that way. I don't know anything about advertising but I don't see why an online ad couldn't just consist of a jpg or text, a url and a contract between 2 parties. Obviously that type of ad wouldn't just be a JS snippet you drop into a page. I'm picturing a process like 1. Create some good content 2. Show it to an perspective advertiser with a 'Your Ad Here' placeholder 3. Agree to display an exclusive ad for a certain amount of time. The advertiser can check you're actually showing the ad however they do for physical media. They can also estimate it's effectiveness however they do for physical media. Obviously reputation would play a big role. If the content creator becomes popular enough advertisers will flock to them, if they're just starting out they'll have to solicit companies to sell advertising at a super low prices or give it away for a while. People would have to talk to each other, establish a little trust with each other and take a few monetary risks but isn't that what business is all about? The JS snippet ads could stay around too, but if this law spreads, which I hope it does NOT, it's going to annoy the hell out of people, a browser plugin is more annoying IMO, so that's not the solution. Again, I don't jack about advertising so I'm probably just being idealistic.
Alright, fair enough. I suppose my point moreso was that the fate of your very hard earned cash was bested by a rails update that any noob developer should have seen.

Given that simple scenario, think about who is watching your money..

That's great its ensured though. Good deal
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For all the students who have to work with Hadoop... this is an easy way to install Hadoop and test your MapReduce jobs!
Everyone's got to start somewhere!

In the sentence before I explicitly said I was a newbie to this stuff at the time. Obviously it's not exotic to a more experienced developer :)
Minor nit: She meant :)
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The market here IS protecting consumers by rewarding secure bitcoin exchanges through elimination of insecure ones.
It's pretty clear when they are trying to pump references; the papers they reference may be tangentially on not even related, or have no new content.
I think Mondriaan would dislike almost all Piet programs. Green? Cyan? Magenta? Light and dark? No gray?
Ask HN: What should I know going into a tech internship interview?
You also cannot publish little known pre-auth remote code execution vulnerabilities for your web-framework without first publishing a mitigation patch that doesn't paint a BIG FAT RED ARROW onto the attack vector.

You also cannot leave 6 years of vulnerable Rails-versions up on rubygems.org without even backporting your patch (yes, they're still up there now).

It makes no sense to blame the users of a web-framework, most of which are not security experts, for not responding instantly with the perfectly correct procedure to an event of this magnitude.

Put the blame where it belongs, on the idiots who "handled" the issue by releasing a "recipe to exploit"-Advisory. The same idiots who ramble about "not breaking old apps" when asked why the vulnerable gems are still up on rubygems.org and continue to be quietly installed by any Gemfile referencing them...
Given his intent with this, I would love something like this to make it to the SCOTUS, since the granting of personhood to corporations is absurd and needs to be overruled. Giving a corporation personhood gives it all the rights of being a person with none of the consequences. You can't jail a corporation like you can with people.
My associate is bothered that none of those has google drive integration like do.com does :(

(on do.com when you comment on a task you can tag google drive files on it, so the artist for example can send me a comment with the assets he created on the task where I will use them)
There is a pretty simple economic argument that people need to consider before jumping into the cookies are bad camp. The market for display ad inventory alone in the past year was to the tune of $40b in the US. There are 250m active internet users. That $40b dollars goes into the pockets of content producers on the internet that make it the tool it is.

Net, if you wanted to drop all of that and get rid of the advertisers, that is a balance of $160 per person per year (and growing) that would fall to some other solution (like increased service charges).

As others have made the case, cookies are important for advertisers. If you want to fix the problem, need to consider another viable solution that either does not sweep their legs out or does but provides an alternative revenue stream to keep the internet alive.
IMHO your mistaken about the second part. You can have a separate patent license. If the patent holder distributes software under the GPL, this would effectively license the patent for the related GPL work, or it wouldn't be correctly licensed under the standard GPL.

If a separate implementation is NOT a derived GPL work, then patent licensing may be a factor.(IANAL etc.)
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As an airline customer, I can always go to their website and check flight status. Sometimes, they even send u msg about flight delays over SMS/Email. This is not always consistent though. May be you can do the following:

- Create a messaging API to inform passengers with realtime msg. Obviously, you should be able to send mass emails/SMSs with proper custom msg about flight info.

- Partner with airline companies who could pay for this

- If someone buys an airline ticket, the airline usually gets a contact phone/email.

- If the flight is getting delayed, automatically send this information to the customer for that airline through SMS,Email etc as real time as possible. Airline will use your infrastructure to mass email the users.

Airline could pay you for the service/API you provide. I doubt this could be something that a consumer will pay for.
Dribbble suffers from this same problem too though, as evidenced by the somewhat depressing "Everyone" feed. It's more about who you know (or follow) rather than how talented you actually are. A lot of people just invite friends, co-workers or random people that get picked from a hat. There are "Get your invites!" contests every day that don't require anything but a reply, a retweet, a link to the inviter's website.

There's no way to reprimand players who [consistently] invite poor designers or people that don't post (likewise, there's no way for those of us who have invited people who don't use their invite to revoke it), or compensate those who have added valuable contributors.

I wish there was a feature like StackExchange's bounty where you receive praise, a Pro account or additional invites for onboarding someone prolific in their field or just someone that does fantastic work but hasn't really surfaced in the community yet.

Personally I'd love to see more dev/designer hybrids and ways to find those people (or use the bounty feature to promote people inviting the types of users the site is lacking). Right now there's the ability to add skill tags, but those have little to do with what my actual roles are within the organizations I work for. Being able to search by "product" or "motion" or "type" designers would help me find users to follow a lot more than just hoping I come across them through other means. Then we get into their follow cap, which.. I won't even go there.
Yup, familiar with the program. I actually spoke with the STEM outreach director for our middle school about a year ago. She was interested, but school policies would have made it difficult to get an FLL team up and running (she had looked into it in the past).

I may take another stab at an FRC or FTC team next year as I now know (personally) the chairman of the school board. He's an engineering prof/researcher at UIUC so I expect it to be a fairly easy sell, and as a school board member, may be able to "grease the wheels" a little.
You're right--the third is the worst by far. And this proves that you can't trust a pre-installed, commercial browser until it has been thoroughly audited by independent researchers.
It seems to me pagination is one of the big things keeping HTML back from being a replacement to LaTeX[1]. Would others agree with that statement? I know academics aren't exactly the major "customer" of W3C standards committees, but it would be interesting to see HTML6/CSS4 try to introduce the pagination and layout commands necessary to make it a viable contender.

1. When I say HTML, I mean HTML + a host of CSS and Javascript libraries
Good thing he published then! It may have been a long time before someone thought of the approach and ironed out all of the implementation details. This sounds like exactly how science progresses... incrementally building on the work of others.
There's no such rule on the website.

If you'd like to participate you might want to send and email to find out if you're eligible to enter. Or consider it just an intellectual challenge ;-)
Almost a rational debate on gun control
are approximately equally inflationary, over time.

Exactly. Both terminate in the end of the US as the world's reserve currency, with the yuan as its obvious replacement. China has already signed deals with Russia, Australia, Brazil, Turkey, and the UAE to eliminate the USD from bilateral trade. [1]

Your arguments appear to be directed at people who support the Republican party or are concerned about the partisan points here. Bush, Obama, Bernanke, Greenspan, Krugman, and the whole gang are peas in a pod. Bush won reelection in 2004 by having Greenspan inflate a housing bubble with Krugman cheering[2] the Fed Chairman on. Obama won reelection in 2012 by having Bernanke re-inflate[3] a housing bubble with Krugman cheering the Fed Chairman on.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/jackperkowski/2012/06/26/china-b...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/02/opinion/dubya-s-double-dip...

To fight this recession the Fed needs more than a
snapback; it needs soaring household spending to offset
moribund business investment. And to do that, as Paul
McCulley of Pimco put it, Alan Greenspan needs to create a
housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble.

Paul Krugman: August 2, 2002

[3] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-13/fed-plans-to-buy-40...

The Federal Reserve said it will expand its holdings of
long-term securities with open-ended purchases of $40
billion of mortgage debt a month in a third round of
quantitative easing as it seeks to boost growth and reduce
unemployment.
Well, in the long term turning the housing into hotels screws everyone because the people who work at and maintain the hotels need somewhere to live too, as do the employees of businesses that bring tourists into the city...
I am not offering any time & material cost model here which is typical outsourcing model. I will connect you with some really talented developers who would be equally passionate in your idea and they will not be on my company's payroll.
Just wanted to point out that searching on the term 'gun' probably skews towards those who beleive in stricter legislation.
Carpool Lane: "2 or more persons per vehicle"

CA Vehicle Code: '"Person" includes a natural person, firm, copartnership, association, limited liability company, or corporation.' (http://dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d01/vc470.htm)

Pretty reasonable argument in the abstract.

But I don't think that the Articles of Incorporation should be considered a physical manifestation of that corporation, so I don't see how you could claim that the corporation was "in the vehicle".
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"Lenovo’s culture is different from that of other Chinese firms. A state think-tank, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, provided the original $25,000 seed capital, and still owns an indirect stake. But those in the know say Lenovo is run as a private firm, with little or no official interference."
You raise a really interesting point here, and it seems there may be an opportunism vs principles dynamic at play.

Without debating the orthogonality of that assumption, (because it really won't change the overall point), let me begin by saying, most if not all humans I've encountered, have varying levels of principles and opportunism, but we are not made equal (CF fallacy of gray).

>I won't answer yes or no to a commitment but instead say "I'll do my best."

I am one of those, that have traditionally found that statement slightly annoying, especially in a business context. It just seems slippery. What does "doing your 'best' mean? Are you truly going to do your very best and drop everything to fulfill the request? I think not. Hence the precision one is aiming for, does not seem like an improvement on the original brevity of the yes/no.

Furthermore it could give one an opportunity to flake and blame the environment, versus sticking to one's word.
Bonus points for who ever can structure your code with whitespace to appear in a layout very similar to the resulting painting.
Roger! That seems _much_ more reasonable, but I didn't get that from your site:

> Ideal candidates will have some programming experience.

Maybe I'm just being overly critical, but this implies to me that it's good if you have it, but not required. Just a thought. :)
How is that a broken UI? Should they use frames instead?
My point was that a semaphore is freshmen or sophomore level undergrad stuff, something I would expect every professional developer to understand. Here someone who considers themselves a developer, which I assume means a professional software developer, considers it an exotic construct. Things like this shakes my faith in the computer science educational system.
This page repeatably crashes the browser in my Android phone (a 2-year-old Evo running 2.3.5).
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There's a few typos in this, in case it helps:

ps auxww -> ps auxww -H (H is hierarchy)

Faster than lsof, and only displays files - although most things in unix are files!
lsof -p -> ls -l /proc/$PID/fd

Run something forever
watch command

Overview of all disks du should be df.

Find files over 100mb
find . -size +100M

Low hanging fruit for size
ls -al | sort -nk5

Files created (modified) within the past 7 days:
find . -mtime -7

Find files older than 14 days:
find .gz -mtime +14 -type f
This will break when you have more archived files in the directory than the shell's glob char can support. Use:
find . -mtime +14 -type f -name '*.gz'
and it will run quicker too.

TCP Sockets in use, "netstat -antp" will be faster and also lists the process id.

EDIT: formatting
> You are literally arguing for the destruction of the planet when you argue against density.

Sure cramming people in like sardines makes it easier to make things efficient - but it's very realistic to make less dense populations efficient/sustainable too. Urban developement isn't some kind of ecological optimization problem. There are factors you are completely dismissing, like overall happiness, contribution to the community and the nation as a whole, cultural value generated etc.

> but how is it any of your right to tell people what they can and can not build on their land?

Are you serious? There is the whole idea of community and sustainability. If a community deems a certain construction project detrimental to the overall health and wellbeing of its members then they can stop projects. If I don't want to live next to a highrise and the accompanying noise, traffic, pollution, I have a say in what my neighbor can build.

I'm not personally telling people what to do (because I have no authority). I'm engaging in a public debate over the SF community's values and priorities.
She is. I'm of the opinion that you can never start early enough. My daughters (I have 2) have been playing with "engineering toys" since about age 3. One latched onto engineering big time (see above) and, at 12 years old, has even selected her preferred universities (in order: MIT; UMich; UIUC; CMU)

edit: grammer
All inventions are complicated math.
Cool.

Not everyone with strabismus has the same symptoms, right? It depends on many factors, as I'm sure you know, which is why I tried to give a bit more info on myself. When I had my third eye surgery (due to my strabismic eyes) around 1995, they told me reading from line to line would be harder at first. And they were right. At this point, though, they had gone into my eyes before I was 5 twice and had cut and then 'reconnected' some nerves. Only my third time was laser. As you may know, knowledge of the causes of this eye problem, especially in the 80s, was pretty minimal. I remember feeling like a guinea pig because they would contradict each other sometimes and say one thing then say they don't fully understand this condition and would have to try different things. And then the "Well, you can try it".

What I'm saying is, it's not as clear cut. It's always interesting for me to read others's experience with strabismus, though.
So when you need to make a contract with a corporation, who will you make it with? When you want to sue one, who will you sue? The individual officers? How are you going to prove they were responsible? If you sue the CEO because of something his subordinates did, and he dies 6 months later, what would happen to your legal action?

The legal fiction of corporate personhood exists for a good reason; it allows parties external to the corporation to transact business with and take action against the corporation without needing to know the individual structure of it. It's called a corporation because corpore is the Latin for body, giving it a distinct legal identity.
I thought it was a clever way to gain standing in order to litigate. While it might get the guy off a quick clarification in the Ca law would close the loophole. As a publicity stunt to drive the conversation about rights versus rights assignable entities it seems to have achieved that objective.
This is so stupid, I even laughed at this. Like one of the dumbest UI-related ideas I've ever seen.
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Here are some ideas.

1. With a free account they get an email. If they upgrade to paid they get a text message (you can use Twilio).

2. You can partner with area hotels and limo companies. If the flight is delayed the email suggests hotels they can stay at or cabs they can take.

3. There are two parties involved: the person who is flying and the people who are expecting him/her. Target them separately. The person who is flying might be interested in letting his relatives or friends know that he/she will be late so that they don’t have to rush to the airport to pick him up. So to auto-notify other people you could charge a small fee.

4. Offer a subscription based service for people who fly frequently. This way their family always knows if they are running late.

5. Gamify it. When a flight is delayed people guess how long the delay is. Sell the guesses as options that are traded on a free-market (for points not real money). Use crowdsourcing to predict when the flight will actually arrive.

6. Calculate statistics. How often is a specific airline late? How often is a specific airline late to a specific airport on a specific flight? There might be other factors. Keep running scores on airlines. Rank them. People buying tickets could use the list to decide which flight to take.

7. Turn the list from #6 into a press release. Newspapers might run with it. Or it could make for a good blog post. Publicize it on HN. Create marketing buzz for your website cheaply this way.
Any company past series A is not really a risk anymore. IIRC they have about a ~60% of having an exit that is not a loss once they reach series A. That's 4-6x better than for seed funded companies. Most of the companies on that list are in fact the opposite of risk. Most will actually add pedigree to your résumé because they probably already have stringent hiring practices that make sure they only hire the best talent, so if you join them you are likely to be identified as talented by others.
I get the to-do list... I used to make them myself.

However, I found that I would stress over the list. I need to do this or I need to do that... whatever! Stress sucks and my life is better w/out it.

Now, I follow the "whats the most important thing I should be doing right now?" and do it.

http://paulgraham.com/procrastination.html

Not everyone is like me, so I suggest sticking with what works for you and your life situation.

Cheers.
I don't think it's correct that professors don't do their own diagrams and typesetting for academic works. Sometimes they do. The complaints I hear are that the publisher screwed up the equations and introduced errors, not that they thoughtfully corrected their work and enhanced it.

When diagrams and typesetting are needed though, this is the perfect task for the students to attend to. I'm seeing this right now in the free online classes at Coursera and Udacity - teachers publish notes in lectures and students are providing transcriptions, translations, diagrams, deeper explanations, and overall creating massive improvement on the originals, in many cases creating an online textbook in pdf or wiki format.
Related: http://securityreactions.tumblr.com/post/40252712480/me-wait...
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