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its apathy. The people "responsible" for the service don't actually care, and perhaps probably won't be punished for teh failure of the service. Hence, the vulnerability (and the publicity) only makes more work for them - therefore, they shoot the messenger as a form of blame/revenge.
Legitimate question: can someone tell me why something like this would be useful? Don't most libraries that handle json decoding make parsing it extremely easy? I read through the examples on the site, and I'm still not convinced something like JSONPath is necessary for what they're doing.
Yeah me too but was gladly disappointed
Didn't the shareholders lose out during the past crisis? Just look at the beating the stocks of the major banks took.
Can't you buy a template for a couple dollars?
This thread has some comment about the motel case. (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5084791)
There are some very rudimentary resources here: http://developer.android.com/design/downloads/index.html and guides can be found within that stack.

The best advise I can give you is keep it as simple as possible. You don't need a logo, a stellar design, etc. Just build a clean interface that adhere's to the standards and you'll be fine.

People, especially initially, care far more about it solving a problem than how it looks doing so. Just make sure it's usable and you'll be find.
The surprise isn't that they got their easily from their nearby office. It's that they so quickly decided to leave their office.
Perhaps CS is an exception, but I was under the impression that jobs in academia (in general) were in woefully short supply.

While I'm sure they wouldn't get the cream of the crop, there's reportedly an excess of under-employed & under-paid PhD's and post-docs in a number of STEM fields (again, specifically in academia).
The burden of proof is different for civil law than it is for criminal law http://www.rbs2.com/cc.htm#anchor222222 "Innocent until proven guilty, beyond a reasonable doubt", is a criminal law thing. The situation in the article doesn't fall under criminal law since they aren't accusing the hotel owners of a crime.
Wait, did this guy really just expose dozens of his friends' private newsfeed posts to the public while criticizing Facebook?!
Her behaviour is by no means uncommon which is why the press is having no problem digging up other cases in which she leveraged the resources of the state against those who were defenceless.

Don't think she's particularly evil, she's your everyday average prosecutor.
That's definitely not true. Everybody knows that speeding is a crime. But cops give warnings all the time if you didn't harm anybody and they think you're a reasonable person who will listen to them.
Almost certainly a query parameter, since he was reverse engineering their API it would be obvious.

For it to be a SQL injection, he'd have to have been looking for vulnerabilities.
That's part of the problem they are facing. C is much easier to deal with.
I got a B. The homework was to find and write an exploit for 10 security holes in deployed software, but I only found 2. (3 including the one above, which I must have found the week or so after exams. The holes I found were in nasm and in some amateur open-source smtpd.)

FWIW, the exams are quite thought-provoking nearly 10 years later, here's a link to them: http://cr.yp.to/2004-494.html
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It's possible for there to be more than one reason for the extent of the war, though this one is interesting.

Also, it's not like this process just magically freed up all farmhands. One of the reasons why Italy did so poorly in the invasion of Greece in WWII was because the decision to invade came just after demobbing 600k soldiers so they could go home and help with the harvest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Italian_War#Order_of_Batt...
Ahmed, if you're reading this, sorry about your college acting like idiots. If finishing college is important to you, I'm sorry they've made it so difficult.

That said, please don't think this is going to end your career. There are a lot of companies and startups that would love to have you for your kind of initiative. Not having a degree that you don't seem to need anyway will not be a sticking point with them. And the option of starting your own consultancy is a possibility - you already have some publicity that can help with initial gigs.

If you'd like to try your hand at a job, do check out ThoughtWorks (www.thoughtworks.com). We don't usually stand on ceremony or make a fuss about qualifications.
Who knows but I'm bound to look the way of GET URLs given that they discovered it trying to make an app around an existing system.

API not validating correctly. If this is true, it will take a long time to fix.
In the UK for criminal trials you have "beyond reasonable doubt" - the prosecution have to prove guilt.

But in civil cases it's "balance of probability".
With asset forfeiture, in effect your property is arrested, and property does not have civil rights.

One well known case in the early 90's was an old black gentlemen who owned a plant nursery, and was detained at an airport for the crime of being black and in possession of $30,000. I think the story was featured on 60 Minutes and the NY Times.

The guy was the son of a sharecropper, was illiterate, did not use checks or credit cards. He had flown from his home to Texas every year with a bag of money to buy plants to ship north to sell after becoming too old to drive. He wasn't committing a crime, so he wasn't arrested -- but his money was kept as it was considered suspicious by the Federal authorities. It was a catch-22 situation, as litigating against the Feds will cost alot more than $30k.
If the resultant crowd cancels the concert for everybody? Yeah, probably.
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My name is Eduardo Gonzalo Agurto Catalan, I am an entrepreneur in the field of IT security and a digital rights activist. i would like tohave Ahmed Al-Khabaz's e-mail or other contact information in order to contact him and discuss how I and a few fellow experts could help him. We believe it is a great injstice and that the business community cannot stay passive towards this situation which we perceive as a kind of bullying. You can contact me : eduardogonzalo@hotmail.fr
So the fact that the submission title is misleading makes the university's heavy-handedness easier to swallow?
You can get a horizontal slimline belt case for your phone. It's not particularly noticeable (unless your phone is huge, like my new S3) and is tailored for the phone, so you're not storing anything else in there that might scratch it, and it's not 'loose' - you can quite happily run with one without having to hold it in with your hand.
Agreed. The vendor involved with the security problem was quite pleasant to deal with, of course. It was just the bureaucrats that were worried/afraid/stupid/whatever.
At some point if you want to be absolutely sure, you'll have to send a validation link / email and not doing it frontend in JavaScript ;)
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Not exactly related to syntax, but one of the issues I've found with following the tutorials is that there is only a handful working programs which actually show the feature in question in use. While I understand that (as the tutorial explicitly mentions) the tutorial is very terse and quick glance at the language features, I feel it could be improved tremendously if there was even one a few line fully compilable program exploring the features per section.

Then again I also understand that because the language changes and evolves, maintaining more code in the docs means more effort. However, this is one of the few things I've felt bugging me as an end-user. Of course I believe this can be expected to change for the better in the future as the language matures and stabilizes, but I figured I'd voice this out given this perfect opportunity. :)
You misunderstand the purpose of an agreement like that.

It's not like it magically binds your tongue. It just makes it easier to sue you if you violate it. The fact that the student could win in a suit is irrelevant. He couldn't afford the time and money to fight.

Before he signed the NDA, they would have had a harder time suing him. Perhaps he could have spent merely $10k and gotten it quickly dismissed. After, the company could make it arbitrarily expensive for him to fight it. If he could have eventually proved coercion (which I'm honestly skeptical of) then he would have been off the hook -- after years of stress and massive lawyer bills.
What are the devices like to integrate with? Last time I had experience with bloodsugar tests, it was just a LCD readout. Do the devices now have things like bluetooth/etc to make connecting to a phone/computer easy? Or would this effort have to include working w/ manufacturers to create such connectivity?
They can raise price on xx% of their customers who use youtube that much.

Before raising prices (maybe not the best thing business wise) hey are trying to see if Google pays first. This is business, if Google could force Verizon to even pay for G's datacenters, they would. Nothing personal. Maybe Google will share some of the youtube ad money

Remember the outrage when Comcast and others imposed or wanted to impose caps?
I totally agree. But as design trends define the look of a decade, apps kind of need to adapt too or risk looking "old-school"
I think you would be rather surprised what those standard really are. Far lower than you would expect.
If the long name is too hard to remember: http://isup.me/ e.g. http://isup.me/stackoverflow.com
This sort of thing scares me. One time I found a security vulnerability in a popular forum I frequented. I emailed the site owner, and he thanked me and fixed it. Later someone else discovered another weakness and used it to post spam; the site owner emailed me asking about it. My initial thought was that he suspected I was the one doing it, but it turned out he was just trying to see if I could help him.

That scared the crap out of me though and I realized this was a VERY bad idea. Something as harmless as trying to help someone make their website more secure can get you more jail time than robbing a bank.

I also, completely accidentally, logged into another student's account at my university (a big university too). The school gives you an ID number. Your initial password is the same as this ID, and you're supposed to change it later. I didn't remember my ID correctly, swapped two numbers in it, and ended up in someone else's account. Home address, phone number -- all sorts of information staring me in the face. Will I report this issue? Heck no!

It's weird how many of these I discover by accident. My school also had a hackathon hosted by eBay and PayPal. In fact, one of the programmers from PayPal was there. During the hackathon, I stumbled upon a way to get account information without authentication (security tokens were being seriously misused). The PayPal guy was shocked and asked me to send him all the information on what I had found. Never did get any sort of reward out of that... (and I lost the hackathon too).
C and C++ indeed aren't future-proof, but it's not juste because of undefined behavior, it's by remaining stuck firmly in the 1960's in terms of programming style.

C++11 added many changes intended for "do-it-yourself" crowd, like auto, new function syntax, lambdas. It didn't add much in terms of "let the compiler do the work for me" crowd (one notable exception being variadic templates, something that was in my own XL programming language since 2000). In C++, you are still supposed to do the boring work yourself.

For example, C++11 still lack anything that would let you build solid reflexion and introspection, or write a good garbage collector that doesn't need to scan tons of non-pointers.

If you want to extend C++, it's just too hard. C++11 managed to add complexity to the most inanely complex syntax of all modern programming languages. Building any useful extension on top of C++, like Qt's slots and signals, is exceedingly difficult. By contrast, Lisp has practically no syntactic construct and is future proof. My own XL has exactly 8 syntactic elements in the parse tree.

So in my opinion, C and C++ are already left behind for a lot of application development these days because they lack a built-in way to evolve. If you are curious, this is a topic I explore more in depth under the "Concept programming" moniker, e.g. http://xlr.sourceforge.net/Concept%20Programming%20Presentat....
This is a great idea in combination with storing them in dropbox. Simply visit your ~/Dropbox/Screenshots directory and right click "Copy Dropbox Link" to easily share screenshots.

Edit: I use https://droplr.com for screensharing mostly which make the above moot.
Yes, Flat UI has its place and not the only way forward. One thing everyone is missing is the author's statement about all knowing Jonny Ive being and an expert in industrial design. UI design is a whole new beast.... That means having a UI with only 10 shades of grey will be the best look
Why should Mega being going out of its way to make you feel better?
I would expect no less from the Austrian School.
Tweet this link to Anonymous. I just did.

https://twitter.com/naman_k/status/293252007878328320
I'm not a rubyist, and I can see how this can be nice for ruby developers, but IMHO, if you need javascript - use javascript.

Why add another layer of complexity and error proneness?
What happens when a different js programmer needs to review your code? Or when you need to write some Node.js code and forgot all about syntax?

"The main motive is to have a decent standard library for JavaScript" - jQuery works just fine.
I've only reported a security issue once and wouldn't do it again. In this case a vendor and IT has agreed to allow several security settings to be disabled temporarily, making all user passwords easily available in the process, but then had apparently forgotten and left things vulnerable for 6 months. IT had to brief some senior people who then started freaking out about hackers. I was lucky to just get off with a few people annoyed with me.
People who are supposed to be the shepherds of an environment that fosters free-thinking openness, curiosity, creativity and learning should not lend credence to witch-hunts. If they have a critical-thinking faculty to match their titles, then they should very well have realised that the process they rubber-stamped was one-sided and questionable.
>"The conceptual stream" is hard to follow. What conceptual stream? Do you mean you're having trouble articulating what you want to say? Then why not say that? "Conceptual stream" is not something usually said in conversational English

A fair point. While some statements could be a somewhat unfamiliar/unusual, it only take a little more effort to process, if one just thinks about it.

eg "conceptual stream"

Take the concept of a stream (aka a social network news feed, or a data stream).
Take the concept of a concept. Then merge the two. Hence you should have an image of a stream of concepts, interconnected via a graph.

Another way to look at it could be to picture a sports commentator. We see him speedily narrating the action as he watches the game. Event's are often linked: "He hit the ball", "Now he's going for 3rd base", "Oh and it's a homerun", "the crowd is ecstatic"

Now what if we replaced the real word events, with concepts?

Sometimes events are completely unconnected too, concepts work in a similar way (at least for me).

Now in my head the nodes on the graph connect, although this may be non-obvious. Nodes could correlate with concepts and edges roughly with causality. How accurate that graph (map) to reality is, would always open to honest debate (if the goal is towards improving accuracy versus trying to score points).

It's difficult perhaps, because in some ways probably different to how you usually operate. There is also the very real possibility, that many simply find metacognition, largely uninteresting (which is fine too).

Continuing this theme, there are some are highly visual thinkers (such as Temple Grandin [1]), while for myself, for the most part am most comfortably naturally operating abstractly, conceptually, strategically and focusing on outcomes. In theory I tend towards impartiality, but in practice I'm biased towards a utilitarian framework.

Many highly intelligent people here operate highly tuned abstract pattern matching. I simply don't work like that, and yet I can appreciate its general effectiveness. I do feel genuinely happy, if on occasion, the courtesy is reciprocated. Ideally this would be irrespective of whether at that point in time, there happened to be agreement or not.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Grandin
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That's why I only mentioned what the President admitted to saying.
I'd say don't waste your time going through C++. Python is a great language to get started with, and will serve well for many web focused startups, as well as with dev ops and systems administration. This course will likely emphasize giving you the broad base of tools and habits you need to succeed, not drilling code syntax and algorithms into your head (which you can always do later). So imho, do your CS101 and dive in. // CTO, and tech advisor to several startups
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I don't think it's an ironic name, to be honest. .co.nz is just a New Zealand TLD.
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This is a bit ridiculous to be honest. I'm 15 and don't consider myself a programming, in fact I would say I can't program at all. But me and a friend "wrote"(well, we modified a few examples we found online and using a lot of pre-written code) a few Android apps one or two years ago. It was far away from this advanced thing as a game, but I don't really think it's a huge thing just because he's 14. Also, there is tools[1] these days that do most stuff for you. Using them I would probably been able to ship apps and games back when I got into these stuff. I don't want to ship products though, well not anymore, I want to write good code.

[1]
https://www.scirra.com/
http://andromo.com/
Still not common enough that it would confuse most people.
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A good outdoor lighting like kreon up can really transform your garden from a dim-dark dingy environment to a great, interesting and accommodating space. Now whether you are looking for security or safety lighting or if you want to create a more subtle kind of effect, this will really make a difference as you look at your garden at night and that too at the comfort of your home.
Shareholders have very little power over the big banks. The bank managers and traders have perfected demonstrating the principal-agent problem (link below). For example, huge bonuses being paid out even as the banks were being torn apart around them. Managers and traders kept arguing that they need to retain "talent", to the detriment of the supposed owners of the business.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_problem

More simply:

Taxpayers are suckers

Lenders are suckers

Shareholders are suckers

Managers and traders, not suckers.
Actually, even without jQuery, the native library for strings, arrays and numbers is usually more than enough. I might have needed something like `capitalize()` once or twice but would probably not include a whole library just for that.
Looks good! Except for the pharmacy symbol. That information is sometimes needed in emergencies, and what you currently have was totally unrecognizable. Make it the same as hospital, or very similar?

Some other things to improve: prison sign looks like railway crossing, college cap (?) would look stupid in many locales where there is no cap or different design, embassy and bank icons were difficult to figure out. Likewise for the minefield.
I think you are missing an important point. This isn't about email addresses that don't exist. You can't fix that. This is mostly about malformed or "illegal" addresses.

Scenario:

I somehow find myself at your landing page.

You have a single field for may email and a "Sign me up!" button.

I enter my email and sign up.

Your regex lies to you by thinking that the email is fine. In reality I made a mistake when I typed it in. I didn't notice it. Neither did your regex.

How are you going to contact me?

OK, if it is a small shop you can probably afford to have a human being review bounced emails and try to make some sense out of them. Well, what if you are signing up a thousand people a day?

Anyhow, the point is that a bad email addresses can cost you money both in customers that might never come back and also potentially in the manual work required to try to fix them manually.
Prof. Kerr doesn't explicitly mention it, but this amended version of the statute would likely have made Aaron Swarz's conduct in the MIT/JSTOR case not chargeable as a felony by removing or raising the bar for many of the felony enhancements. (The federal definition of a felony is a crime that carries a maximum penalty of more than a year so this is a little obscure.)

It would likely restore sanity to many other questions of computer crime law as well by requiring circumvention of a technological measure to count as unauthorized access, rather than merely exceeding the TOS.

Supporting reforms like this seems like a potentially very meaningful way to channel the anger at Aaron's treatment.
The president of the company is the one who allegedly intimidated the student into signing a NDA by threatening to call the police and have him arrested. If that's how it happened, then it's irrelevant what the school did.
Looking forward for your course on Coursera! By the way, while looking at your introduction slide on http://startup.stanford.edu I've noticed that "Frontend JS Framework" and "Frontend CSS Framework" are in the wrong order (Page 11, Column name "Type").
The core problem is that 100 more people on Hacker News think that your top comment is valuable, and further that you take this as justification that your viewpoint is supported by the community. As there is no way for folks to only participate in the HN that disagrees with your rants, folks are being negative. That's the only tool they have.

When you sell books on how CoffeeScript is great and then rant that people aren't solving difficult medical device issues, I wish that there was a version of Hacker News that did not include your comments. Maybe someone will make that.
It is highly unusual for an early stage board member to take cash out of the business, b/c every dollar is critical early on. However, it's not unusual for them to have travel to board meetings reimbursed. However, it's up to the company to set the policy regarding travel cost, hotel, etc.

It's worth noting that mature companies often pay board members in cash, equity or both.
This is one reason why I like using KDE4. If you don't want files on the desktop, just don't include the widget. Also, you have multiple folders as your desktop.
But what if I like to have my tools and artefacts visible at all times?

Think of it like a workspace or a garage where all the mechanic's tools are hanging off the wall. This lets the mechanic keep a visual inventory at all times and decide which one to use for the next job.
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Thanks. Will fix this and a few other typos (DCVS -> DVCS).
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