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See my reply to Volpe below.
Here Comes the Two-Faced Phone
AFAIK that edition had logoff instead of shutdown on the Start menu for that reason. You can still access shutdown by hitting Ctrl-Alt-Del on the console or clicking Windows NT Security.
Oracle made both patent and copyright claims against Google. The patent claims were pretty bog-standard, but the copyright claim (the loss of which is what Oracle is appealing) was quite... novel.
IF you don't charge it fully (or charge it over-night)

I live in Australia and go bush/camping a fair bit. I'm not getting a Tesla for raodtrips any time soon. But If I was to drive MEL->SYD in it -- I'd be recharging in full at each super-charger along the way (assuming they existed)
> I guess it's not exactly my palm that I use, but the first joint where the pinky meets the hand.

Yes, that's how I figured it'd work (as the palm would require having the fingers over the top of the keyboard), but I still find it odd.

Then again, my "desktop" keyboard has been an MS Natural Ergo 4000 for the last decade or so, so it's got a very small control key with precious little definition compared to the surrounding keys, can't help either.
God says...

25:2 And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that
the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his
face, according to his fault, by a certain number.

25:3 Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should
exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother
should seem vile unto thee.

25:4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.

25:5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no
child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger:
her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to
wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.

----

Yeah the torture they do to me has made me brain dammaged. God will fuck with them.

God says...
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I think a combination of something like TinyXHR (https://gist.github.com/shimondoodkin/4706967) and querySelectorAll would suffice for many simple use-cases on modern browsers.
I think what's important here is that it's funny.

Google exploiting good faith rules to shirk payment? Funny.

Microsoft blowing $70K in power to meet a contract? Also Funny.
Huh. I guess it just manifests differently in different people. I've never had any muscle pain from it -- just headache, sometimes severe. But it reliably shows up 8 to 48 hours after exercise.
What about the physical size of 1 GB in year 2000? How many HD do they need? and how much does it cost them to transport those drivers?
I love Google, but let's be honest. A company's source of revenue (and what it does with that revenue) determines what it is.
Oscilloscope Releases Feature Film Using Vine
Plausible deniability..

(for those situations when a conspiracy might be necessary)
It is funny, I use vim pretty much everyday for a decade. I install vim, I use "write", "close", "quit". I semi pretty vimrc file with line numbers and syntax highlighting.

I am still not very good at opening multiple buffers, I just close vim and open the other file.

But that is about it. I felt I have doing it wrong. But I can get work done and it is easier everytime I install a new server.
I wonder if part of their problem is that they will get sued for poBOX cloud software and Storage -- since there's already another player with a very similar name in the exact same market. ( http://box.com/ )
Twitter Is Testing A New Advertising Card For Lead Generation
Facebook attack was not targeting just them, but all iOS developrrs
The article at http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/02/facebook-computers-compromised-by-zero-day-java-exploit/ had an interesting section, which implies that it was targeting FB but all possible iOS developers:

Facebook's internal security team worked with a third party to "sinkhole" the attackers' command server, taking over the network traffic coming into it from systems infected by its malware. They discovered traffic coming from several other companies, according to Facebook Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan.
How we hacked Facebook with OAuth2 and Chrome bugs
Ethics aren't about the "rules".
And a bill. Both of mine incurred extra charges (~$80 each) for a one-page "non-response" brush off.
City living 'makes it harder to concentrate'
I think I remember what you're talking about (pretty sure it was just called Bow and Arrow) and I think this is it: http://www.download-central.ws/Win16/Games/B/Bow-and-Arrow/
Strictly obeying the rules != good faith
Especially given that Redshift, Greenplum and Aster directly build on or incorporate technology from PostgreSQL.
The cool part is - UNIX not is XINU
completely my own observation here, but...
Bitbucket may see an increase in user awareness due to the MOOCs. Reason being, if you're taking a programming related course, it's good to put your code in vc and online vc's let you easily switch between work stations. (myself, I use three different computers on any one personal project)

Github is out of the question for most, since there are no free private repos.

I've seen bitbucket recommended on the forums a fair few times because of the free private repos. Meaning students are getting exposure to bitbucket, meaning their market share may slightly tick up.
I'm not sure this is a hack as much as abusing a supplier providing a service.I'd like to believe hacks are pie-enlarging rather than zero-sum.
Admittedly, it would have been a lot of drives. Back in circa 2000, according to http://www.mkomo.com/cost-per-gigabyte, 20 Gigabyte Drives were in vogue @$200/pop. So, a Terabyte would have been 50 drives, 10 Terabytes @500 Drives.

10s of terabytes at a minimum 1000 drives. I'm beginning to question how "simple" an operation this might have been after all....
...Or sleep pills (ie, ambien,etc).

When we coslept with our first kid, I almost rolled over onto my daughter once - she squaked in a way that I would never be able to ignore - unless I had been medicated.
How does one "find" what's already been "found"? We already know where dark matter is just by observing changes in gravity, we just need to know what it is. Neil DeGrasse Tyson explains this the best : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSeXyDEWgyc

The tl;dr of that article is basically that Dark Matter is theorised to be made of WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles) which are matter that are their own anti-matter. Mind boggling concept since when ordinary matter meets anti-matter, it's an Angels and Demons style explosion. But these particles are their own "matter" and anti-matter in one, if that's what they really are.

These WIMPs give rise to positrons, which are basically anti-electrons (anti-matter variant of electrons) and this is what these sensors are alleged to have detected. WIMPs are what they think create positrons and regular electrons.

"The smoking gun signature is a rise and then a dramatic fall" in the number of positrons with respect to energy,
because the positrons produced by dark matter annihilation would have a very specific energy,
depending on the mass of the WIMPs making up dark matter...

Until they actually publish that paper with conclusive evidence, this is still all speculation and ad revenue for space.com .
Things won't stabilize until VFX workers unionize and negotiate with the Producer's Guild collectively for pay, benefits, and residuals. The money is there to make this work; what's missing is the bargaining power.

I'm not a particularly pro-union guy in general, but given the way the film industry is currently structured, it's not really optional. They'll have to do it or they'll just continue to go bankrupt.
The last two sentences you wrote are incompatible.
Open-source software is open for careers too and for everybody else. That's just the nature of the beast.

For all the complaints about Android, compared with iOS and Windows Phone, it's still the only one with the source-code available, it's still the only one that allows installation of software from third-party sources and it's still the only one that has Cyanogenmod.
SAP HANA has a column store, and a row store, and does OLAP (Analytics) and OLTP.

There is a lot of new DB tech, Redshift doesn't seem particularly competitive at the moment unless you only need to use it a portion of the time, where Amazon excels.
For anyone interested, here is the place in omaha where the photo was taken. I'm from omaha and I recognized that hotel in the foreground.

https://maps.google.com/?ll=41.255552,-95.938515&spn=0.0...
I'd be interested in seeing a comparison between Redshift and SAP HANA, but a more fair comparison than this one by someone who isn't partisan.
This is postgres-style query execution "above" hdfs/hadoop style storage.

Hadapt is hadoop-style job execution "above" postgres-style storage.
> writing a JS client for $PROTOCOL which runs in the browser, where $PROTOCOL is some TCP-based protocol like IRC that was developed years before websockets existed.

Yes that would be cool. Websockets make it doable. Framing is not as big of an issue. Most TCP based protocols (save for file streaming) already have some messaging at a higher level. In IRC you can think of the line as a message.

Almost every protocol I built on top of the TCP transport had to have framing and I had to mess with buffers, message headers, terminators, partially filled messages.

> I can only get the Websocket protocol.

One cool new feature is WebRTC it should support a datachannel connections and peer-to-peer (now you can make the web server a peer as well). So there it seems would be another case of streaming binary data to the server.

> I was thinking some cool hacks become possible if you could talk to an arbitrary TCP server from JS,

Yeah that would be cool. JS code would instead have to dealt with websockets or WebRTC data channels. It wouldn't open a TCP, socket, bind, listen, connect all those things. Now on the server side you can anything you want. For example I like the web STOMP adopter that RabbitMQ people have. You can effectively send and receive MQ (STOMP) messages from a browswer to an exchange. That is cool. There are VNC viewers built with websockets and canvas. So it is doable but I don't think its place is to put in nginx as a standard compiled in features. These all can be plugins.
Seems like homakov is making a name for himself, it's always interesting to see what he finds out. Can anybody recommend me other blogs with even more info about security holes in known platforms?
I'd rather see HN move in the direction of Quora: High-quality questions that any notable technologist can answer.
I'm rather surprised Egor is still an indie. Is this by his choice? He seems quite talented.

edit: Ahh, I should've looked more closely. This is just his hobby: http://homakov.blogspot.com/p/service.html
Amazing! This is the kind of stuff I want to see more at Hacker News!
When you find a way to hire 10,000 top engineers and scientists and put them to work on exciting web services with a decent salary (deployed on the most scaleable and power efficient datacenters out there), much of which, the average person loves to use, but won't pay for, and without using tax dollars or scraping by on donations, let me know, I've love to do a start up with you. Did you pay for Netscape when they used to charge money?

I assure you, revenue doesn't increase magically quarter by quarter, in case you haven't noticed, when Google started out, most of the population still wasn't online yet, and most advertising dollars were spent in print and video media. Most of the meteoric rise can be traced simply to growth in the online audience and a switch-over from print to digital, not somehow arm twisting someone to click on an ad, if anything, people are induced to click on ads by making them less annoying and more relevant, otherwise, they 'mentally adblock' them.

You can believe what you want about motives, I only know what I experience everyday as far as others I know -- we like working on interesting or hard problems, just like any collection of geeky engineers and scientists. That I get paid to do what I'm passionate about, I personally feel grateful and lucky.
not really. I decided to switch to security researching finally. It's almost a year after a github hack. I changed my mind. I love it.
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I’m not sure there are many former employees that are speaking out in public. The ones I’ve seen are my own (obviously), Chaals, and Wilhelm’s comment here. All of us left of our own free will, (long) before these latest layoffs happened. I‘m not sure I’ve seen anything from anyone directly effected (not that this doesn't mean people have and I missed it).

I‘m not saying there is any fear involved, or a conspiracy theory, just that I haven't seen this as the case, bar private posts, and tweets from some that they left the company. When Google laid a large number off at Motorola (of which I was included), there was some sort of agreement in the package about not speaking bad of the company or products. This could be the case here, I don't know.
Hard to have sympathy... All he did was "do some old thing on the internet" patents.

i may be wrong, but from the article it seems he just patented every electric device that worked with a battery, to work with a hand cranked generator.

He shouldn't even have got those patents if that's so.
It would be really meta if Aaron had snarfed this one.
BTW, shame on me but: Yes, you can hire me for an audit :)
MongoDB + Hadoop: Why & How
Would you call NBC an advertising company? Probably not. And yet their revenue comes almost entirely from ads as well.
I love simcity, but recently played it and noticed it is really paternalistic.

The attitude towards development it has is very much like China - everything is controlled and all land is owned by the government, and the government's job is to manage zoning, roads, schools, education, in order to make people happy. Nobody actually has any property rights - even trees don't grow without government planting efforts. Farmers can't choose their own crops.

This is actually really different than what happens in the real world. Really, if a community doesn't have a school, people get together and start one. Small civic organizations evolve into permanent buildings, training schools, etc. Pickup sports leagues evolve into organizations that commission their own stadiums.

If there is no fire department, a volunteer one starts. People build churches, or start them at home, whenever they feel the need. But in simcity world, everything good comes from the government.

I love simcity, but I do think it's weird that there isn't a mode where you can just let people build whatever they want. I love the built-in, realistic needs people in it have - but where are the entrepreneurs who will actually start a society, or borrow money to build a building on their own? Where are the rebels who start a revolution if the government doesn't meet their needs?
Well you learn c, c++, java and all those fantastic languages for years and you mastered them. Now you come across javascript and you suck. There is only one thing to do. Learn it and stop complaining. This is a whole new game
And you're good at it! Please keep it up, I find these articles fascinating.
It sounds like part of the issue might be the copyrighting of APIs, not the language.
As mentioned above around that time cost of data on hard drives was $20/gb so that would come out to around $240k at the time. It's crazy how things have changed and we can buy 16gb flash drives now for $5-10. I remember when the first flash drives came out and it was like 128mb for $20.
You could make up any small number of botched drives with over-the-wire transfers. If it were a sufficient number of drives, you could simply re-image and re-transmit the data.
Almost, but not quite. o opens a new window with the selected file, while nerdtree opens the file in the most recently used non-nerdtree window.

Also, there doesn't seem to be a way to tell netrw to create a vertical split rather than a horizontal split, which is inconvenient on modern wide screen monitors.
צ'אנדרה יוגה בתל אביב - יוגה תל אביב
Depends. What's your view on Steve Jobs and Wozniak's phone phreaking?
At $3 Million, New Award Gives Medical Researchers a Dose of Celebrity
Brian, could you respond why Coinbase has shifted from a clusterfuck pay-a-withdrawal-with-the-global-pool-of-coins to pay-a-withdrawal-with-the-user's-coins?

I noticed Coinbase credits users even without transaction confirmations. Then I noticed withdrawals used the same inputs from the deposits the user receives.

This could be bad and good:

1) (good) User is immediately notified when Coinbase is breached. It's the moment when they notice their deposit address is sending coins to a address that is not their's.

2) (bad) There is one chance to protect the coins. If you even think the private keys are compromised, you would have to be safe and broadcast the move of coins to new addresses. This will be really messy.

3) (bad) Anonymity reduction. The user can't launder coins in the network. Withdrawing deposited coins will appear to be a direct transaction from:

A -> B (deposit) then B -> C (withdrawal)

instead of:

A -> B (deposit) then Z (other user's coins) -> C

Also, is Coinbase moving to a client-sided wallet approach?
So what do you do when you have a user on Linux and another on Windows? That's right you can't have rounded borders now do you?
I find this a little hard to believe; it has the whiff of an urban legend. Besides the fact of minimum monthlies and the probability that the bandwidth provider is not so stupid as not to notice that they're moving lots of terabytes30 hours a month and nothing at all the rest of the time (especially over a period of months), where's the time saving? you could just do all the copying in the data center, repack the drives and fly them to the east coast. This seems a lot more efficient than trying to do it in chunks of <72 minutes/day.
I don't think its been settled. Mr Broder lost a lot of credibility when outright lying about how fast he was going for the entire trip. Why wouldn't he lie about whether he saw the charging station. Since we don't have any data about what was going through his mind, Broder knows he can say anything in order to defend himself.
The vast majority of all web businesses founded since the dot com era have had ads as their business model, because of either, failure to get a universal, easy to use, micropayment system standardized at the start of the Web, or because people came to experience surfing to be transaction-cost free, most people are unwilling to pay for web services, and if you think ads are annoying, how annoying is signing up for an account, inputting your credit card, and buying a service?

It would be nice if people would pay for newspapers, blogs, Search, email, Facebook, et al, and in some cases, in Apple iOS, people seem culturally prone to pay, but for the most part, attempts at pay walls have failed.

My only point is, if you focus only on the revenue source, you fail to differentiate between what the businesses actually do. If a school were to be funded by billboards on school buses, would you say it's an elementary school, or an advertising company?

If the source of revenue actually drives what the company uses that revenue for, I think you have a point, I think it is arguable that Google reinvests most of profits in ads. If you look at Android or Chrome, they are both large projects, that did not start out to generate ad revenue, but both to improve mobile and the web, and to build a defensive moat that would prevent a competitor from controlling the on-ramps. Indeed, it seems Apple iOS generates far more ad revenue, so getting people to use Android actually reduces ad revenue. :)
Don't you mean 'XINU ton si UNIX'?
Thanks, didn't know that, I will update the post to mention Burstable billing.
Try Fat Free Famework https://github.com/bcosca/fatfree
"storage cost about $12/GB "

Hard drives cost $12/GB. Tapes/optical media maybe $1/GB. Maybe I'm missing something but it seems like they would be fine for this.
So is it that the index didn't change that much in the months the transfer was happening? or the changes were cleverly isolated so they could be copied over last and the switch flipped immediately after?
Cute.

I'm really looking forward to the next article. I've heard talk of OAuth2 as an enterprise authentication mechanism and it's stuff like this that helps keep everyone honest.

That being said I'd much rather be the guy who has 10000 folks banging away at his stack than the one who is never tested. It's hard to know which buckets are leaking until you fill them.
My two cents. I worked for a few months in a local social network, a fairly-sized one by the way (second-only to facebook in traffic in our country). The engineers thought about the company as technology-based, and our work certainly was to develop such technology; we were the bread and butter of the staff, which means that most of the company's workforce was devoted to create software. As for managers and such, they only talked about advertising whenever revenue was directly involved in the discussion, but usually that wasn't the case despite it being our basic source of money, since we were already an established company without funding problems. Most of the time they took the revenue for granted, and the guidelines they gave us were not about ad visibility and such, but about user experience, increasing the time they spent on our site, etc. So, basically, there was a big separation between what we did and where we got the money from. I think that a company is far better defined from the former than the latter, and I'm inclined to think that people in google think the same, even the non-technical staff.
Isn't *that" the point he was trying to make?