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I first got really serious about it when we lost the RSS 2.0 spec on a server upgrade at Harvard. That's when I realized that unless we took serious steps to protect the content, by using least common denominator technology, and not requiring a separate domain, that it wouldn't last very long after everyone who cared about it was gone from Berkman.

It's turned out pretty well. The spec is still there and accessible, and now it's been almost ten years at that spot.

I'm also hosting my uncle's site and now my father's. I'm not happy with the job I'm doing on either of them, but I have my own work to move forward, and as I do that of course I'm creating MORE problems. But I'm also trying to be mindful of separating the content from the rendering. The actual content is stored pretty permanently, and the rendering is considered lose-able.

Eventually I hope to have ultimate editorial flexibility and have it also be very future-safe. CMSes can anticipate these problems, and I've tried to do that in my latest development.
To be fair, it's still early 2013 ;-)
This exactly describes the gun debate going on today.

Is it a terrorist or a freedom fighter? = Is it an assault weapon or a rifle?
I like your site, man.

You should check out contributing to http://sthgnw.com - I think it fits with your content style nicely.
To me, this comment reads as, "Aside from the horrible thing he did wrong, I don't see a problem with this."
Hi, thanks for the comment. At the moment there is no way of doing this automatically (in theory we could do this for you manually) but it's an interesting point and something we will definitely think about implementing.
Did you guys read the same thing I did? AFAICT it's a service for logging bugs, analysing who is most recently responsible for the bit of code at the point where the exception/segfault happened, and emailing them.
There are at least partially private prisons in germany. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justizvollzugsanstalt#Privatisi...
I conceal my identity the same way Aaron was indicted for
Thanks for pointing this out. Definitely worth reading.
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That's not what he meant when he said it though. After characterizing the supporters of prohibition as drooling religious fanatics, he made some pretty good points about the judicious use of alcohol as a social and physiological enhancer.

He was acknowledging that alcohol could be used for good or for bad things, and he was (maybe from our perspective only) making a good point about the use of polemic, misleading, and ridiculously overblown rhetorics. His was a reasonable argument, a witty meta argument, and a biting satirical observation all at the same time.

The point is, "Soggy" wasn't really undecided on the issue. Hell yeah, I'd vote for that guy.
The moral of Aaron's death is not that everything should be legal. As snarfy pointed out, he granted access to systems of a "critical infrastructure" company without any idea who would gain access. This is and should be criminal, as widespread economic and human damage could possibly result if these critical systems went down.

I say this as someone who recently had to spend two weeks without electricity and running water in New York City.
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get a hobby where there is some kind of socialization. R/C flying/racing and amateur astronomy are some nice ones that come to mind right now... you could also find a hackerspace in your city.
Yep - had a two year stint in Vancouver but moved back last year. Good to hear from you! Drop me a DM on twitter if you're around :)
It's self evidently an exception logger with built in static analysis. If you can't tell that from the lengthy description then the product probably isn't aimed at you.

It's definitely one of those simple "why didn't I think of that?!?" type ideas. Well done to the team responsible.
As I understand it, it acts as a reporting tool for errors that occur in your web app.

For example, when a user encounters an exception you get notified about it while at the same time squash gives you a nice interface to view how many times the error occurred, where in the code it occurred, etc.
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Turning people into walking video surveillance systems since 2013. I'll try to avoid people wearing these glasses.
In that video, what extras does he have installed on his Terminal? Anyone?
"Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it."

-Attribution unknown because the interwebz say several people said it.
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And once again, The Onion was way ahead of this one: http://www.theonion.com/video/more-american-workers-outsourc...
Aaaand they just raised the petition threshold to 100,000: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57564203-93/white-house-rai...
I consider myself one of the people trying to "take it back". See my article on the subject: http://rtigger.com/blog/2012/11/19/redefining-hacker
Yeah, there is an ongoing debate on the meaning of "representation", of course. After all, most electoral systems are based on geographical locations, but actual politicians usually belong to specific parties "representing" different political philosophies, so there's a friction even at a theoretical level. Add to that the vagaries of actual electoral rules (first-past-the-post etc etc) and an inevitable dose of human nature (corruption, ambition etc), and you have a recipe for the clusterfuck that is modern representative democracy.

Unfortunately, the few alternative models emerging in the last century (usually just variations on one-party rule, really) backfired quite spectacularly, so we're nowhere near finding better solutions to the problem.
The opening statement in the video is,

"Hello, I'm Tim Morgan and I'm going to help you get started using Squash, the open source exception reporting tool that's better than what you're currently using. Plus, it's free."

It looks like a tool that can automatically track bugs and notify specific developers whenever exceptions in your project come up.
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This has a big (but easy to fix) security flaw. Don't deploy this publicly without changing the secret token or else you are effectively publishing your app code for analysis by attackers.

https://github.com/SquareSquash/web/blob/master/config/initi...

More broadly, if you're writing an open source rails app please don't commit a hard-coded secret_token into the repo or session fixation attacks are trivial.
Is this a fallacy? It seems that the speaker is clearly being satirical, especially given that he prefaces his speech with

" On the contrary, I will take a stand on any issue at any time, regardless of how fraught with controversy it might be."

And then proceeds to argue for both sides of the issue.

Perhaps politics in 1950's Mississippi were just as solidly partisan as our national politics are today. In that case, perhaps Mr. Sweat's satire was meant to try to influence the partisans to, at least somewhat, understand the other side.
Looking into this. This API is free to use?
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I've got a ticket logged with PayPal currently, and I've seen reference in 2011 to a similar issue, but does anyone use the CreateRecurringPaymentsProfile with Express Checkout in the Sandbox and see it not billing?

I've got a recurring profile setup (and can see it in both the seller and buyer accounts in the sandbox OK) but the "next billing date" is set to 2 days ago (when I created it, the same as the start date of the profile) but the billing hasn't gone through (ie I can't see the funds either gone from the buyer or into the seller accounts)

I'm not using IPN (relying on periodic polling of the PayPal API to check the status of the subscription) but if I can't mimic the entire subscription process and check the periodic billing is working, I can't guarantee that everything's doing what it should - anyone using PayPal in a similar way and have any advice?
I loved the way you guys presented the simplicity of the app above the fold itself!

I agree that there are lots of players in the space and adding to the list given above, namely, Easyproof, Proofhq, Pixelapse and Conceptshare come to mind. Also, there's Framebench that's making some noise with its novel real time functionalities. I really think they might have something there.
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zsh with a custom theme probably
The name, seeing a word like Symbolication and having just watched an Onion video made me think this was a joke at first, even while watching the video.
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Odd. I must be missing something. Why not use leap motion, raspberry pi, and a battery pack? Will the google glass be that limited?
Nice app - a great alternative to some of the popular hosted services. Great work guys.
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I'm sure sending parcels to an embassy which has an X-Ray representation that could potentially by the same as a bomb or similar is a really good idea, and isn't any kind of risk at all ...
Yeah it uses a Yahoo Finance Community table (YQL). I'd check the license for exactly where/how you can use it but it's essentially free yes.
http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/?q=show%20tables&...
AFAIK, _the_ drive for AR in maintenance is that it makes it possible for you to look at a schematic while using both hands for the task at hand, and in whatever position you are.

For example, imagine inspecting a plane's fuel tanks from the inside. You could bring a manual, but getting it out of your pocket may be cumbersome, checking that you took it out after the job takes time, etc (forgetting your glasses is less of a risk; you would need them soon again. That manual? The next tank might have a different 200 page one)
You'd hope they follow the convention of having an LED on while recording.
I don't think that's really a fair comparison. Assault weapon is a strictly legal term which refers to a specific subset of the category we refer to as rifles. The word rifle usually brings to mind a class of weapons that were specifically not covered by the assault weapons ban.

A more apt analogy would be

Religious Conservative : Taliban :: Rifle : Assault Rifle

My point being that, in this case, it's not simply a matter of perspective. Now, if the debate were much more polarized, one could see something like

Terrorist : Freedom Fighter :: Murder Machine : 2nd Amendment Rights
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Odd that the article keeps calling it a scam. He was their most productive employee.
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> I and a few others have been trying to point out that 35 years in prison was never an actual option for some days now but I think it's kind of gotten lost in the storm...

here's what would help. If you are in fact a criminal law attorney and know these things via practice, or if you can point us all to some links of well respected criminal attorneys, without a stake in the case, on the record saying "it's very unlikely he would get more than four years".
The blame for the suicide ultimately cannot be laid anywhere but on Aaron's shoulders. But that does not mean that everything else is hunky dory. I would have (and DID) objected to the prosecutor's overzealous prosecution of this case even if Aaron had not died. Nor is it fully the fault of a single prosecutor who was using the same techniques used routinely. Perhaps a change to the system is needed.

More simply: the ultimate fault may be (is) Aaron's, but that does not mean that it is "no one's fault but Aaron's" -- there is blame enough to go round.
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> it seems somewhat ironic and counterproductive that she should face such harsh consequences

Losing her job is a harsh consequence??
>Squash uses git blame to figure out whose fault it was

Questionnable assumption, to say the least.

Still, not a bad idea. You could also send a file to the people who contributed most of the culprit file.
This seems like just another instance of the excessively-specific adjective fallacy. I would submit that it is humanity as a whole that doesn't much understand or care much about mental illness.
I think the site looks great. Kudos for giving the actual use case of the app with showing instead of telling. I think its a great overview of what you offer.

I am curious as to why you have so many monthly price points - I would have expected 3 for simplicity (or even 1 if you were so bold)

I don't have perfect clarity into the "buyers" of these servies, and maybe its as simple as them needed this level of options.
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It's pretty amazing that he beat his company to the punch and outsourced his own job before their could.

I think this should be something MORE people look into both companies/people as a team of people could do more especially if the job is "not challenging"
I think the maker of the software they use to product their magazine should solve that for them eventually.
Why the duck would you care how a contractor does what he does?

As long as he delivers what you paid for (and doesn't disclose information you deemed confidential), it should be OK for you.
I'm surprised that no one seems to have connected Swartz's death to that of Ilya Zhitomirskiy of Diaspora, and the discussions about depression and tech (admittedly startups) http://betabeat.com/2011/11/u-cant-haz-sadz-the-hushed-dange....
While Swartz's death obviously has the connection to the horrible MIT/JSTOR situation, both remind us that tech doesn't always take kindly to those that make a mistake or don't live up to expectations, or pay enough attention to depression.
"Why not ask for an investigation"

Lynch mobs have already done all the investigating that needs investigating.

Those grieving Swartz's death have my sympathy. Those fanning their natural anger to vengeance do not.
I thought about doing this. The problem would be finding someone that is not only good enough, but can get things in a timely fashion.
Interesting point.

You also won't be able to charge different prices for the iPad and iPhone versions either. Although you probably could make separate in-app purchases that get offered based on device type.
It is back up as of now: http://installmonetizer.com/
Would a private VPN from China to the original employee's home exchange followed by a hop onto the corporate VPN have prevented detection?
Another version of this story got flagged, but some of the comments are interesting (in particular, patio11's): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5064586

Also, the original Verizon report: http://securityblog.verizonbusiness.com/2013/01/14/case-stud... (seems to be down, cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...)
No... "he" wasn't.

The outsourced company was.

The company would be smart to fire the fraud and hire the outsourced company though since they already have access and knowledge of their systems.
Yes, they seem to express great shock when it's simply just capitalism at work.
>I say this as someone who recently had to spend two weeks without electricity and running water in New York City.

Oh, the humanity!
When you're a US attorney, yes. It's not like there's some other federal government you can go work for. Her job market is not as liquid as ours.
Have you considered using a professional voice over for the screencast? It will help you look more trustworthy.
I was curious about this as well.

It looks like a XML document with some standard XSLT presented in a browser and "printed" to PDF.

Which to me sounds way too technical for any lawmaker to be doing.

Anyone got any insight into this?
Shouldn't the title be "Google Glass to Hit Developers' Heads This Month"?
The moral of the story is: route your Chinese subcontractors through your own VPN first, so they appear to be coming from your house.

Also, use your freaking time to do something more interesting than surf Reddit and Facebook.
I just carefully re-read the text, and it never quite claims this is a security issue with Firefox. (I did not watch the video, so if it's in there, I did not see it.) It just says a lot of various true things, and leaves the implication hanging in the reader's mind without addressing it. I agree that it would be improved if the author was more clear that this is just the way of things in our current user-based permission model and there isn't anything Firefox can do to truly stop this.

As a factual presentation, it is worth pointing out to interested people that Firefox's protection is only advisory, and not completely perfect.
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Nice, going to give this a try, along with errbit! (https://github.com/errbit/errbit)
I'm part of this culture then because I don't believe in mental illnesses as defined by psychiatrists. Bring papers, proof and Science and we talk.

http://arachnoid.com/psychology/myth.html
I was feeling very similarly recently and have been trying to get out of the rut. I found user groups to actually be very helpful. Are there any around you? (Where do you live?)

I actually just posted my experience on this here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5066944
Not so evident; "exception" is mentioned once deep down. Zero mentions of "log", "logger", I thought at first it was a debugger ("bug" is mentioned 9 times, the first header is "Say goodbye to bugs").

They should have a once sentence description involving exceptions under "Say hello to Squash."
I don't see an email in your profile.
Great site, only problem I found was some wording at the bottom:

"I was built by Simon Reed & Chris Mahon. Simon made me work they way I do and Chris who gave me my good looks."

Simon made me work THE way I do and Chris -who- gave me my good looks.

------

Beautiful site!
Potentially yes. It completely depends on the level of access he gave. If the systems that he gave uncontrolled and unmonitored access to are in any way critical (and if he didn't properly review the code produced by the contractors) then he could have created a huge security issue. If he was truly working on critical infrastructure then there's all sorts of criminal liability issues there.

The issue with Aaron Swartz's case is that the prosecuters decided to throw the book at him for crimes which caused very little damage. The two cases have pretty much nothing in common beyond "computers".
I agree,
there is another similar article on Mashable:
http://mashable.com/2013/01/15/aaron-swartz-tech-world-depre...

Aaron could manage the trial if only he was regularly going to some sort of psychotherapy and was taking medicaments. The trial only facilitated his inner problems.
Also he was primarily a hacker, and his biggest accomplishment is not JSTOR but RSS specification and web.py.

RIP Aaron
Yeah definitely take a week or so break. Get on a meetup from meetup.com and talk to others.
Agree! Can't see why only large corporations should benefit from outsourcing.
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What backfiring? Getting fired? You can get fired even for being there and doing good work. You can get fired even if working overtime (plenty of people have). For most companies you are nothing, a mere "human resource".

At least the guy had lots of fun and free time doing his thing for while it latest. I don't see any backfiring.
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Yeah, but who picked the outsourced company? I wouldn't have fired him, but have him do the outsourcing, and see if he can make it work for the entire department.
Lately, "assault" weapons are (legally) characterized by the amount of ammo they can hold. For example this 30-round magazine is illegal no matter which gun you put it in, whereas the same gun with a different-sized magazine may well be legal. http://www.mediaite.com/online/nbcs-david-gregory-displays-3...
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Have you studied the documentation for rails and how/why it does things the way it does. Have you become proficient with Ruby?

Trying to learn an MVC framework without understanding the underlying architecture is definitely a large task. Trying to do that without a firm understanding of the nuances of the programming language used is even harder.
Hey thanks for the mention! I'm a founder at Framebench (www.framebench.com) and we're trying out some new stuff with real time technologies. We too plan to launch soon and would love all your reviews!

Again Chris, Kudos on the design and the uber cool way you explained the applications use case. Congrats :)
Also be careful of what people #tell# you they want and what they actually want (ie pull a credit card out).

Try and figure out how to align the needs of the advertisers and your customers and it will make things easier.
Forum's are very hard to do well. The bulk of their utility is in their userbase. 22 subscribers is not even close to enough. There tends to be dominant forums for a particular hobby. The thing they almost all have in common is age. Growing a forum today needs a core group of dedicated and knowledgeable people to produce meaningful content to discuss. It's hard work!