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Remember that there are many ways economic logic leaks into the the actions of governments at-large and within the institutions, but I think at the highest level this is an argument against government regulation. The principles of this argument are the same as a Keynes vs. Hayek/Friedman argument. Keynes basically pointed out that sometimes markets don't always adjust quickly, so in these cases there is an economic argument in favor to "helping" the market restore to equilibrium (a "visible" hand).

From macro issues like regulating the financial services sector to micro issues like antitrust and competition policy, consumers like you and I can be made better off via regulation. For example, competition policy is one of the most productive types of government regulation that takes place. Disregarding the DoJ's treatment of online poker [to date], the FTC and the DoJ have been doing some pretty great things over the last few years[1] (e.g. $500 million in fines issued breaking up LCD price fixing scheme; continued effort towards addressing the current and future problems of privacy on the Internet)

In the US, the goal of competition policy is to promote the economic welfare of CONSUMERS, however a good policy would be one that increases the economic welfare of both consumers and producers. Game theoretically, figuring out how to make a policy that increases the welfare of both sides of the market is a mechanism design problem.

[1] Relative to almost all the other sectors of government.
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So as i understand it , if you put the user id in a cookie it allows anyone to "spoof" the server and login as any user but sending just a fake cookie ?
what provider? Facebook never sends it in query string. It can also be available for Man In The Middle, in server side logs etc. Hash is supposed to be more secure.
Original paper :
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/sumitg/pubs/po...
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I would like to introduce MultiPLX as another alternative to Google Reader. As one of the founders, I would appreciate if you guys can try and provide your feedback on the same.

Try: http://multiplx.com/index.html
This is silly. It's combining local churches, individual universities, hospitals and other healthcare organizations which are all unrelated entities. The Church is not a single "corporation" organizationally or financially. The authors might as well have included the payrolls of all companies who's owners happen to be Catholic if they're going to just lump all "Catholic" things together.
If a phone/tablet/game console is new and sold out locally, what's wrong with selling some at a markup? (Especially at Christmas time)
You may want to try http://multiplx.com and create a password with any of your email ids - social authentication is purely optional.
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poor, poor prolog... (macros? unification is the real black magic stuff!)
Been using Gargoyle on my WDR4300 for about a month.

Was turned off by the look at the beginning after coming from DD-WRT, but I'm really happy with it so far - especially after getting QoS setup.
Patents protect incentives to innovate in capital-intensive industries. Software is by and large not such an industry, and is thus a bad point of comparison.

An estimate of the cost of developing a Linux distribution (Redhat 7.1) pegged the cost at about $1 billion (http://www.dwheeler.com/sloc/redhat71-v1/redhat71sloc.html) using software cost models. Monsanto spends that much in just one year on R&D.

Also, note that as a practical matter, most Linux development these days is done by commercial entities that leverage different IP monopolies. RedHat may make the software freely available, but they monetize it by leveraging their trademark in connection with services. IBM puts Linux on patented hardware. Various companies sell commercial copyright licenses for GPL-ed products.
I have tried GitLab and its stable to an extent - but not as feature rich as GitHub. But, still for smaller teams that want a hosted solution, I can second to use it.
You can patent genetic modifications to plants.
Here's another bonehead move by a lot more sites: http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/06/forcing-people-to-use...
When billg says "if you are working on male baldness or other things you get an order of magnitude more research funding" is he only counting the unfruitful research into baldness, or is he also counting the blood pressure and prostate research that accidentally led to baldness treatments?
It's exciting to see everyone interested in reading news again! It seems many people were taking it for granted.
Personally I feel #7 and #6 are far important than #1. Mileage may vary with the human model!
Maybe you are thinking of the code parameter? The one that can be exchanged for an access token in a server-to-server request?
But aren't the employees speaking on behalf of the company? If not, then the company should add a disclaimer to their statement.
Wonder if they fixed the lack of audio over HDMI/DisplayPort. Or the Calendar bug that causes alarms not to go off if the event duration is zero (as in any simple reminder you set).
This struck a little too close to home... =\
All our code is already written in PHP. But I'm more interested in a great coder that knows PHP rather than someone who's been writing PHP for years.

It would be nice to say any great coder would be good, but I do need someone who at least knows PHP.
That doesn't sound like procrastination to me as much as it sounds like a ritual. I say that because the steps, even though completely unrelated to what you want to accomplish, are still moving you closer to accomplishing your goals.

For those of us whose procrastination has had a negative impact, those steps invariably drive us further from what we want to accomplish.
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I have done that myself, and have seen it paying me much higher in the longer run (read an year). Tech firms may offer less to start with, but once they recognize your skill-set, there is no looking back.

Best of luck.
I often find myself in a similar cycle of procrastination, where the fear of commitment to a potential solution for anything worthwhile stems from the fear of failing at perfection. The only way to "finish" a project that I'm involved in is to have a very critical deadline that forces my attention to the most impactful decisions.

When I try to set personal deadlines, I end up always underestimating the duration of a task because I can never concentrate my effort to complete a single task at a given time. Instead, I find other problems that need attention, then more and more, until I end up with a stress bomb attached to my chest with a piercing beep that gets louder and louder until I just close my eyes, where it's quiet and I can think. Here I can think about how to address the problem, where it's coming from, hell - maybe even solve it.

Sometimes this proves helpful and leads to aha moments. More often than not, however, it takes me down a path of setting it aside - of giving up. A problem that can be solved in minutes by actually trying potential solutions instead of just thinking about them ends up lasting weeks.

When I realize the direction I'm headed, and the potential consequences of my decision-making, I refer to a quote that serves as a motivating factor that blinds the fear of failure - temporarily.

"The best way to finish an unpleasant task is to get started."
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So tell me what you're looking for? The ad doesn't say more than we're willing to pay.

Nowhere does the ad say "competitive salary offered". We all know that means "we're cheap and don't want to pay".
In the name of just shipping something, anything, here's something dumb.
I found that many things we avoid doing is related to pain avoidance. There are certain things we have done before that have caused a great deal of pain, and we hesitate to repeat it again. Procrastination helps in delaying the pain process. However, we sometime project and exaggerate the imaginary pain to other unrelated stuffs, which lead to general procrastination on general activities.

I have been putting off filing tax for so long because it's a painful process. I know. I need to do it now.
IMO, that's not procrastination. That's just guilt-free play. The key is that you are still getting things done that you need/want to do. You're just aware of when you need a break and are comfortable letting yourself do so. That's not the procrastination that the OP is talking about...
I don't quite get the "let me explain again response_type=code flow". Doesn't seem relevant to the article since the code flow isn't leaking any access token to the client side at all. Though the solution of making the redirect_uri explicit seems pretty good for the original problem.
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majority of startups fail. Most likely yours will, as well. Let’s say you succeeded. Do you want to work against all odds and succeed by creating a small company with small returns? So much hard work, just for peanuts? -by Rajesh

@Avlesh

You got great advice from great adviser and turned them into positive. i feel good you didn't giving up at that time neither you will and now we have grate entrepreneur to follow.
Keep it up :)
it is relevant — for Stolen Credentials threat.

if you have creds you can obtain access token for ANY redirect_uri, even for leaking. if it would be static it would not be possible to leak it at all
This is, at its core, the problem with webapps.
The OAuth Spec actually does address white listing redirect_uri's. This threat is discussed in section 4.1.5 of the OAuth 2.0 spec here: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-v2-threatmodel-0...

Oddly, Facebook has chosen not to follow this recommendation. So any websites that integrate Facebook OAuth must ensure that they contain no open-redirects or they can be hacked in this way. This is worrisome because open-redirects would not otherwise be considered much of a security problem.
I periodically get concerned about this, but I already assume that government:

(1) mostly, somewhat, has our best interests in mind, not totally, but somewhat, and

(2) not only uses fake accounts and taps lines, but has presence and/or influence at pretty much any major company like Google, Facebook, etc.

I think the right thing to do is to:

* Periodically speak up and support privacy legislation, semi-anonymously. (They can find out who you are, but don't be blatant or overly noisy, even from different accounts or locations, because that is more of a threat. Don't use Tor, Redphone, etc.)

* Realize that we have limited to no privacy when anyone can post info about you and credit card, phone/GPS data, etc. can be used/stolen.

* Know that there are politics, power trips, psychosis, and evil.

* Know that most people feel the same way you do. They don't want people killing their families and friends, and want to respect your freedom. Whether they are in government, military, or not, they are 99% trying to help. If you have family in government and military, think about them. They have your best interests in mind, usually.

I think it is fine to have these posts, but don't get too worked up about them. There is no reason to be paranoid. Just do your best with the knowledge you have, and don't act like a straight lace or a wierdo and you'll fit right in and probably won't be a victim.

If you join the militia, sell your house and build a bomb shelter in the woods full of guns, or start using cash-only without a recent purchase of a Dave Ramsey book, that's a red flag. Also, don't buy fertilizer in bulk, or from a bunch of different locations. Basically, don't be a moron.
/me goes off to play with his new C++11 project.
Many other countries have laws that allow negative gearing. The US has substantially cheaper housing (even at the height of the bubble in much of the country) and there you can deduct the interest on your own house against your income and get a 30 year fixed loan, something you haven't been able to do in Australia since the 1980s.

Australia has pretty tight land release laws.

If we had more cities with decent jobs you might see housing prices go down or at least go flat.

It's also worth noting that Australian housing was fairly cheap until the early 2000s (excluding Sydney)
I'd pay $50 a year for it.
>Vendor stores database IDs in cookies which are easily spoofed (USERID_COOKIE), allowing all user information to be accessed.

If this means what I think it means, why did it take until 2013 for this to be discovered?
I'd pay $50 a year. Maybe more.
As engineers, we are wont to analyze. But drawing a line somewhere helps us stay fleet-footed. This topic crosses that line -- it's not worthwhile analyzing your own actions to such an extent.
I'm not sure if I understand this problem or security hole here. When I write some OAuth application I need to register my redirect_url. So how somebody can steal access token / code?
Having good ease of doing business in general doesn't mean that Australia doesn't have a specific problem with startup equity and tax.
It doesn't bother me. Sometimes it's just more convenient not having to type sudo with every command. Especially if it's a throw away VM/host that you're experimenting with. YMMV.
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If you want top talent you need to pay $100-150k+
Honestly, I expect there to be far fewer security vulnerabilities in Go than in C/C++ code, simply because it's a managed language. I'm sure there will be some at some point, but it should be at least an order of magnitude less.

I also don't really agree with the "fire-fighting" approach to security. Developers are constantly removing security bugs, but they're also constantly adding them. Result: the system is always vulnerable. Why should we copy a failed approach to security, when there are other approaches like sandboxing and process isolation? (By the way, these other approaches are a good idea in C/C++ as well.)

Shared libraries are also on the roadmap for Go so at some point that will be a possibility.
you register not full path+query, only domain. Every website has huge attack surface
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What kind of insight into whether deep networks are interesting or not does the fact that they are (supposedly) not used in the industry bring to the table? To me, insight would be something like "they do not generalize well unless you have really a lot of data" or anything concretely related to the research done on them.

By the way, I am not asking anyone what their degree is, I am just asking to bring arguments and experiences or stay neutral.
"Last week, a baby was reported to have been 'functionally cured' of HIV after receiving a three-drug regime of ARVs almost immediately after birth."

I'm curious about the qualifier "functionally cured" and what this means exactly.

The basic idea I gather from the article is that unusually early drug treatments have been found to 'cure' people of HIV in this way, where they no longer need drug treatments.
For Sydney I am mostly unwilling to look at a job for less then 100k. That figure is somewhat dependent on what the place is like though its not a hard line rule.

My experience has previously shown that if you mention PHP though the salary expectations are usually less then 75.
> This is worrisome because open-redirects would not otherwise be considered much of a security problem

yeah, indeed. It becomes a problem for OAuth only. And, wait, Facebook is pwned, so it's he who MUST worry, not clients

Spec is very long and has many interesting discussions but have a look at real world. neither facebook nor twitter whitelist redirect_uri
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I hate the use of the term IT, and won't work again for the company that doesn't have an Engineering department, but only an IT department.
No, probably not 1-to-1.

However, before the industrial revolution we were all toiling in fields, so I think perhaps labour is more fungible that you give it credit.
Honestly that's not even close to my level of expectation. If you change flight plan you must notify me prior so I can decide where my child goes. Having my child spend the night in a hotel alone with a stranger without informing me is not acceptable.
It means they can't detect any HIV on repeated tests, but they don't know exactly what's going on so they're hedging in case they've overlooked something.
With the baby actually, from the NPR interview I listened to was that medication was given late. The mother did not know she was HIV positive until she was about to deliver so the preventative? medication wasn't given. Following that she was given very high dosage.
While making To-do lists is useful, I find that tackling low-hanging fruit is the best way to slowly but surely start overcoming procrastination.
A lot of people still refuse to purchase Nestlè products, the scale of that is quite impressive.
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Do you feel comfortable ripping out a shared library used by many different binaries on a production system and replacing it with a new one? I would be pretty scared to do that.

I would rather replace all the binaries separately. If one of the new binaries didn't work, I could go back to the old version.

I do agree that the shared library approach uses less network bandwidth, but is that really a big problem these days? Unless you're sysadminning over dialup, chances are you don't really care. The size of binaries has plateaued at a meg or two even as networks have continued to improve.
Not sure where you live, but legally in the EU it is even worse, though thankfully orders of magnitude smaller scale than the US at this time.

The EU directive "on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions" (Directive 98/44/EC), implemented by all EU member states and even some non-EU states as of 15 January 2007, states "biological material which is isolated from its natural environment ... may be the subject of an invention even if it previously occurred in nature."!

This goes even beyond an international agreement on IP rights (TRIPS). [1]

The main mitigating factor is that EU governments are not particularly IP conscious and are terrified of the public backlash if they attempt to enforce any bio patents - most Europeans have no idea DNA is patentable! In addition, most of the infringers are actually related to the state due to very large welfare systems or academia. Private companies do not have a strong or irreversible grip in these areas, yet.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_on_the_legal_protecti...

TL;DR. Everywhere is batshit crazy these days...
This was interesting, but I think there's another dimension to it. It's not merely that ag created a property incentive to promote monogamy - there's also a huge change in terms of shared experience and the creation of the idea of class.

In a tribe there's very a much a shared culture with shared culture and shared social bonds, while in the modern world there's an endless fractal of subcultures and individualism. And the more educated you are, the smaller the people here share enough of a permutation of culture to feel similar is.

I think this somewhat explains why divorce rates are higher for the less educated - having more in common it's easier for there to be widespread understanding and shared culture, which in turn sets a lower bar (or creates a higher probability) that people will be able to functionally bond with each other.

Conversely, going to college narrows the pool of people who have enough shared tribal characteristics to be a part of the comfort zone, and it increases even further when people express their tendencies to want relationships with people who share interests/traits/experiences/educational choices.

In a tribe every shared the same experiences. Likewise, nearly everyone shares similar K-12 experiences. So within these cohorts there would naturally be a high replacability, which should mean monogamy ought to become less valued.

On the other hand, people who go to college and matriculate through to different careers are basically funneling themselves into situations where there are fewer people with enough shared experiences to be a part of the tribe, making the value of an individual relationship increase.

TLDR: The less mainstream someone is, the more they should have an incentive to value an individual relationship. Thus the more uniform and cohesive the social group, the less value is likely placed on an individual relationship. Hence we can blame not just property rights, but the fact that civilization and agriculture destroy shared experience compared to hunter/gatherer tribes. This can also explain lower divorce rates among the more educated or uniquely experienced as compared to typical high school graduates.
Well now we sail off into matters of comparative advantage, division of labour / gains from trade and so on.

But the general point that labour and capital are highly heterogenous still stands. You can't pluck a boiler fitter out of the Pilbara, drop him at a desk in Perth, and expect to see anything useful for your web business any time soon. And vice versa.
Tell HN: Bye-bye everyone
Going to /etc/hosts hack myself to stop posting on HN. I'm way too addicted and it is affecting my sleep. See yous guys in the real world...
I've done similar while reverse engineering a protocol. Just whipped open a hex editor, found the signature of the certificate and bamn. Neutered.
I've been doing the same and adding them to StartHQ: https://starthq.com/apps/?q=reader

The web app profile pages include speed & trustworthiness info as well as mentions of the app on Hacker News. I will also add popularity rankings and TLDR versions of the ToS over the next few days.
1. Google hiring X is not the same as X's model being scientifically valid.

That's exactly what I am complaining about.

2. Model X for intelligence being highly technical or cool in some mathematical way is not scientific validation.

I never said that, it just narrows the amount of people that can comment on it with merit.

3. Google hiring X is not the same as X's model being successful in the industry.

It was just a side-comment.
Horrible arrow buttons that can't be undone. I want to first apologize for having my thumb slide past the down arrow.

Second, I completely understand the feeling of isolation and loneliness. And it makes it hard, if one's nature is to procrastinate, to push through. I've started talking more about my project with people in an effort to encourage myself to want to show more progress. And, yet, here I am. :/
~8 hours and 15 minutes of work, 5 days a week.

~$50k a year.

Where I live, that'd be similar to getting paid ~$75 to 80k a year in the Bay Area.
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Here's what I did.

Be Naive about Lisp and its abilities. It's a simple list structure how expressive can it get.

First understand the difference between a statement and an expression. I had a lot of procedural code hangover and it took me sometime to understand that difference.

Lisp limits your expressive ability by a simple list structure, all you have is the ability to nest expressions. So, Lisp invariably lets you break down your ideas into small expressions. So when you read code, just look the operator at the beginning of each sub expression and you will understand the code. Trust me, its as simple as that. It sounds very easy but it took me over 6 months to understand that.

You might argue lisp is the most expressive language ever. Its true, but for a beginner who is having trouble reading lisp code.. you should look at just the first element of a expression and its nested expression and you will get the idea.
don't find making money exciting enough to pursue it as an end in itself

Is this sour grapes or did they actually get better at making money before deciding it wasn't for them.