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Penn-testing today is growing into something it wasn't when I was having fun. The community consists of mixed talent and a trend is growing as more ease-of-use [e.g: nessus, metasploit] tools become available to infosec "pros". That emergent trend (SaaS?) disgusts and repels me because it eliminates one of the more captivating and rewarding elements of vulnerability hunting (the delicious, delicious, research experience). Reverse engineers, devs who are able create on-the-fly solutions, and vx community notwithstanding.

Also, as said in a previous post: my experiences with independent private disclosure is most often a futile waste of time - 'thanks' || ignored || threatened with LE.

WRT building an income generating product: I don't have many unique ideas or any marketing experience. I'm currently working with a friend exploring android os internals and platform development. We're going to throw our project into that market and see how it pans out.

I generally only create things I need to try out an idea or get something done. This project strays away from that principle so it will be interesting to see whether or not the venture is fruitful.
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What you described is meditation in its purest sense, as it can take many forms. The true definition of meditation is mindfulness. If you do anything with mindfulness you are meditating.

For me I practice sitting meditation, walking meditation, and yoga. Creating art, painting and photography, are also both highly meditative experiences that I enjoy immensely.

I've made great effort to meditate while coding, but I have found it to be nearly impossibly as my mind needs to change its pace in order to solve problems. Keeping with mindful breathing while coding is possible and very beneficial.

One of the greatest benefits of meditation, as you mentioned, is for problem solving. Solutions come when you 'allow' them to. Walking meditation is very effective for this. I keep a timer and take a 5 minute walk for every 25 minutes of work.
Probably incorrect.

And I could just as easily posit the reverse. Say we have one woman and nine men. If we add a woman, does it really double the likelihood of a harassment suit? Why would it? Either one of the nine men harasses women, or he doesn't, why would adding a second women change his behaviour?

On the other hand, if we halve the proportion of women by hiring ten more men, I'd say you may have doubled the chances of having a harasser on your staff.

I guess it all comes down to whether you walk around thinking that women cause sexual harassment lawsuits or men cause sexual harassment lawsuits. I think it's the men doing the harassing, but whoo-boy are there a lot of apologists out there who believe that women are making this stuff up.
Are there any similar tools available for Ruby? When I've checked it a few years ago, there were some projects at very early stages; hardly comparable to their Python counterparts.
A delete followed by an insert in the one transaction - break into batches for a huge table?

That's really simplistic but I don't know the use case.
Ah, thanks for the warning. I haven't even touched the non-english articles yet :/
Mother raising money through Kickstarter to send daughter to RPG camp
I just couldn't concentrate.

Lots of things would come to mind. Revenge, sex, regret, frustrations, hope, plans and a lot just used to happen in mind at that time. More than usual. More than it would usually come to my mind.

It's not that they are always on mind, it's not a problem. But at least for meditation you are supposed to be free of such thoughts and even if there's a thought it ought to be only just that thought(not two or more), so that maybe you can meditate just concentrating on that thought and sort of meditate if at all.

Actually I had started that to fight a loss I had suffered.

I gave up. Went to usual life again. Realised it is a loss and no use fighting it. Just accept it. Drink, travel, play, run(I love running and walking) and have fun in whatever way I could. I did that.

It's good now. At least I am not worried now that I need to meditate.
You actually need to understand "economic rents" are first.
It's funny how even in their postmortem they don't seem to understand the obvious: live mirrors are not a backup strategy.

Git mirroring is great, and periodic checks for consistency would help, but snapshots taken and stored (offline) for reasonable periods of time are the only reasonable backup model. There are corruption issues, availability issues, etc. where offline backups are far more reasonable. Ideally you would separately cryptographically sign your backups (which is easier than just keeping track of hashes), too.

(and obviously a backup system is meaningless if you don't also check for restores periodically, and monitor the success of the whole process)
Wow, thus may be the worst language comparison I've ever read. It spends half the time covering the module import system, then blasts through the rest of the language features so fast it seems that no real thought is given.

Also, a lot of the points you make on style are insane. If you think underscore is bloated then well what isn't bloated? It's one of the smallest libraries I've ever used.
Most emulators are not accurate. This makes some game's behavior quite unexpected. Here is an article describing the issues and how so much processing power has to be devoted to achieve full rendering

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/08/accuracy-takes-power-o...
WHAT AN AMAZING STORY ABOUT HACKING!

Seriously, HN needs to see if there is a service out there that spams these type of sites with these horribly uninteresting reddit/digg/boingboing/hurrderp stories.
> Sorry gentlemen

And ladies.
Another reason Google Reader died: Privacy and Compliance
And/or bring DRACO to market: http://www.ll.mit.edu/news/DRACO.html
Anything in the financial sector will get you fingerprinted and at least a cursory FBI records check.
Become a penetration tester. Do what you loved doing for a job, and without the legal implications.
Meditation is often confused with meditatIVE activities. Sitting and trying to meditate doesn't mean you'll meditate, but meditation almost always requires you to sit still. When you're in meditation, you'll know - your mind will be in a different state (akin to sleep).

Keep practicing :) it takes a while, but once you get it, I promise it's worth it.
"mpm-itk allows you to run each of your vhost under a separate uid and gid—in short, the scripts and configuration files for one vhost no longer have to be readable for all the other vhosts"

- http://mpm-itk.sesse.net/
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Well I think meditation is sort of like a minimalistic tool for training yourself. So I reckon it's part of the point to figure out how to get yourself "into a habit", etc.

Anyway, I don't think anything substantial can come out of meditation alone. If you use meditation as a "training ground" for learning discipline, etc. then you may argue those understandings are later useful in practical matters. But then, again, why not train yourself while at those practical matters? Granted, the simplicity of the meditative practice might make it easier to deal with things like what somebody else in this thread calls "negative thought patterns", etc. But I think the whole practice of meditation emerged from an interest of making the "world" to gradually "disappear". Somebody in this thread speaks of the "dissolution of the ego", fasting, etc. Meditative practice appears to have been birthed out of a yearning for...... destruction of details, diversity and complexity. But until when? That doesn't sound right to me. On the other hand, some other people equate meditation with going to a park, or riding the bicycle. That's disconnecting from one "world" and connecting to another; I can see the point of that, it's refreshing, relaxing. And I think it's better, because at least it performs a replacement with something mildly interesting and engaging, rather than... an empty wall (?!). Sitting in front of an empty wall just seems morbid to me.

As for the "feel good" factor, when you're meditating (in front of a wall) you are not contributing much to anything, so it sounds like meditation is a surrogate for "getting high"; or at least some form of really cheap entertainment. Surely there are preferable alternatives – like listening to good music, or reading a good book.
Maybe this?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0ApqWF3CqjgjSdE9...
Interesting article, I need to work on that in our apps too.
I also came to this realization and quickly built out http://saiko-chriskun.github.com/nutricount. Working on plans to make it into a more complete product with recipes and such :).
Brainfuck was missing. Here is Hello World in brainfuck

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After almost 20 years in the industry my considered advice is pursue another career.

That might not be the answer you want to hear but after thinking about it a bit that's my honest advice. Here's the reasons:

- Of all the employers I've had not one of them would have hired you.

- If somehow you "snuck in" and your past came to light, you would have been fired anywhere I've worked.

- Unless I knew you really well personally (as in friends for multiple years), I wouldn't hire you, based purely on your past. It's nothing personal, you might be a great, smart person. But it's a matter of the odds; your past makes you a risk that's not worth taking unless I know you well enough to be certain that you would never do anything like that again, and there's just no way you're going to convince me of that through an interview process.

The last one is the real sticking point, because I know what it's like to be a young kid on BBSes and the internet and wanting to try to break things, etc. But even with that understanding, I still wouldn't trust you unless I knew you really well.

And that's why I'd recommend pursuing another career. And you should think about this carefully because being a convicted felon (and I'm assuming it was a felony charge) will stop you from being able to do a lot of other careers. Honestly I'd do some research on careers for people with felony convictions.
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More like materializing a taxi out of thin air and then riding it through buildings to the finish line.

At that point the focus is no longer on the running aspect of the race.
There is 'nothing' to do when I go to sleep. Isn't that enough, and the best time for it?

Edit: Sorry, I do not wish to troll. You may wish to read the other post I made in this thread, where I question more elaborately the practice of meditation. My inquiry is genuine, I wish to have a critical discussion on the margin of the meditative practice.
I try to meditate about twice a week, but I haven't been keeping it up lately, so I put once a month. I started because there was a thread here where people described the benefits. I was (and still am) very skeptical of the self-reported effects, since there's a strong possibility of placebo, but at the same time, I figured if all these people like it, it's worth a try. Maybe it's just a placebo, but it sounds like a pleasant one, and the downside is essentially non-existent.

To get started, I read Mindfullness in Plain English [1], which is a pretty practical, no-nonsense guide with minimal New Age woo. It addresses a lot of the problems and questions a beginner will have getting started.

I can't really claim any long-lived effects or benefits of it. As I said, I'm very skeptical by nature, so I tend to be wary of attributing anything to it. One thing that's very clear and noticeable though is that I feel very mentally different during and afterward. My mind is quiet in a way that it otherwise never is, and I feel like I perceive the world differently somehow (maybe more clearly or more at face value.) It reminds a lot of a hyper-focused flow state, except it's non-directional. It's like I'm focused on everything and nothing all at once.

After I started, I did some reading on wikipedia and found that meditation has been found in scientific studies to have certain benefits and neurological effects. It's apparently even a treatment doctors recommend for handling stress and anxiety. That has helped me stick with it, because the meditation community is full of New Age bullshit. It's nice to know that there's more to it than that.

1: http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/mpe.html
> What's the point of this?

to show that's possible.

There are certainly better use cases for that. From the top of my head:

1) Per user VM. The first request for a logged in user will spawn a VM and then all requests for her will be routed there

2) Fine grained elasticity control. Currently it's difficult to decide when to spawn new VMs, because it takes time to spawn a new one (and billing is computed hourly, but that's another issue), so it complicated to decide whether to pump up the steam or wait a little bit more. Having a sub-second startup time could help creating better elasticity controls.
Look, anyone is ready to pay for what they need. So instead of finding something people are willing to pay for, start by finding something people NEED (=> solve a problem).
Cash will come on its own ;)
Quite true. I worked for large digital agencies for much of my career until now, and while we may or may not do our own background checks (I don't know since I was not in HR), I've had a number of clients in the financial sector over the years. If I had been unable to pass a background check with a client, it would have been detrimental to my position at the agency, to say the least.
I agree with you, the title could have been a little more descriptive. I have seen the same video posted here and on Reddit multiple times in the past few months. Although I don't mind it being posted again, since there is always a group of people who haven't seen it, a descriptive title could have prevented me from getting overly interested about this.
don't tie a store discount card to your real name/email/phone numbers?
I would hire you at my company for the following reason:

- Your ravenous intellectual curiosity. Sure it got you into trouble, but there aren't enough people with a hunger to learn and tackle challenges.

I would not hire you if I didn't believe

- You were truly remorseful
- You wouldn't get bored in a straight gig and become a liability to the company

I believe that you can use history as a good predictor of future behavior, but a mistake someone made 10 years ago as a youth should be past the statute of limitations. Let me know if I can help...
On the contrary, the backups were all too recent.

The system is designed such that the master repositories should never actually lose objects (even with force pushes and branch deletions, the admins make backup copies of the HEAD branch before letting those run so that the blobs remain in the repo).

As it turns out though there are repo tarballs generated periodically which would have served as a perfectly acceptable backup, and some other things the sysadmins could have done. The bigger shock for them was that git clone --mirror wouldn't actually run the git integrity checks (which they had mistakenly assumed).
I used to meditate to relax, to clear my mind, to be more healthy. Nowadays I do it just for the joy to be free of the ego.
I thought about this topic in the last two years manly (maybe because i am a dad of a 2 years daughter?).
Since already a lot of "cool" work i did in the past no longer is showable, or i even lost backups (DOS games, simulations, 3D games, startup failures, web frameworks) i guess that the same would apply to the current projects.
My conclusion was: as programmers we, at least, have to play the Museum Keeper role and consolidate our deliverables with proper VMs to show our software to our grandchildren.
Let's all hope VMWare stays solid and VirtualBox never dies! :)
The KDE sysadmins are well aware of that, at least. Mutable operations that would leave dangling blobs cause a backup copy of the appropriate ref to be generated before the force-push/branch-deletion/etc. are run so that there's nothing for git to garbage collect.
EDIT: I saw it was "economic history"; I didn't realize "bloomberg view" was the opinion section, vs. just bloomberg; too many levels of nesting.
Out of 150 students that graduated my year of high school (2003), an all boys school, I was the only one who chose to follow a computing career.

All my friends, even those with a similar (or more advanced) aptitude and interest in computers, chose different paths. Chemistry. Theoretical Physics. History. Politics. Economics.

Nobody wanted to be doing computing professionally. Men were/are afforded to be outcasts or underdogs, socially; there's some romanticism to it. I'm not sure the same has applied for women, but maybe that's changing.
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One thing I still don't understand is why one would use a proxy server at all?

Why not just have your load balancers (which can operate cheaply at the TCP layer) throw traffic directly at your application servers?

If you need caching, that's cheap to do, too. If you need static file serving, can't you another load balancer end-point that points directly at static content servers, or make your application servers faster?

Is nginx primarily useful for slow application server runtimes that can't keep up with what nginx can do?
I appreciate that you took the time to be a bit more detailed about why you disliked the core game mechanic.

However, while it's ok that you don't enjoy the core game mechanic, I still believe you could have been more objective about your original evaluation.

I won't pretend that I'm perfect in this regard, but given that this is hacker news, I expect more reasoned responses.
Thank you for your comment. I was just posting it, I am not the author. In this thread I found out this was posted before and I hope Josh reads all of this.
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>>>> Over here, there's a pretty strong sentiment that having parents that are well off shouldn't give you an unfair advantage to people whose parents are less well off.

This is both counterfactual (money alone matters very little - worst schools routinely spend per pupil more or roughly the same as good schools with no improvement in results) and futile. Of course children of successful educated parents would be better off that children growing in broken up family with absentee parents and zero attention to their education. The only way it could be otherwise is to drag everybody down to the lowest possible level. The whole talk about "unfair advantage" sounds insane to me - why not then beautiful people or smart people have "unfair advantage"? Let's do it like in the Vonnegut's Sirens on Titan (or Harrison Bergeron) - let everybody be dragged down to the lowest level, let everybody has poorest education that we can provide to everybody, let everybody be as ugly as the ugliest person alive, as weak as weakest person alive, as dumb as dumbest person alive, as miserable and sick as the most miserable and sick person alive. This is only way it can be "fair". And people seriously think this approach is not only sane, but the ONLY sane one? Just boggles the mind.

The problem is that redistribution does not solve the problem. Moreover, by becoming obsessed with redistribution solving the real problems only becomes harder. We are way beyond the stage where the money were the actual issue, all bake sales aside. The problem is much harder and has to do with the community, the general environment, the history, the social engineering failures, there's a huge mess there, but it there not because of the lack of government involvement. If anything, partially it's there exactly because of this involvement, which failed to predict the consequences.

>>>> That's probably why if you want to live out the American dream Denmark is a better place than the US to do it

Highly doubt it. Somehow where I live there's Google, Facebook, and hundreds others already done, and thousands others in the making, and in Denmark you have.... well, I couldn't name one, to be frank. Maybe there are some, but not many heard of them. Somehow Stroustrup is in Texas and DHH is in Chicago, and we don't have a huge wave of US citizens moving to Denmark to pursue their dreams.

Maybe if you move there, you have higher chance of secure mediocre living, but it's not exactly what people call "American dream".
Show HN: Yards Gained lets you query NFL stats instantly
This is incredibly well done! I happen to love lightweight markup languages like this, so the fact that you're using one makes it irresistible.

To the authors: you said you used Jison[^1] to parse the text. Did you use any external resources to familiarize yourself with its syntax?

EDIT: It looks like Udacity has a series of videos that touch on it: http://www.youtube.com/user/Udacity/videos?query=CS262+

[1]: http://zaach.github.com/jison/
really ? i thought USA was the land of the free ...
In case anyone is looking for a more complete solution, search PlantUML. It supports almost all UML diagrams. I use sequence, class and activity diagrams.

PlantUML uses Java. Theming support in PlantUML is horribad.
1 tip for making a good app: gamify as little as possible.

Users don't want to feel rewarded for something that's probably wasting their time. They want to know that the action itself is useful. If your app can't do that, how will you retain users? I guess there are still a lot of people are willing to use pointless apps that track which Wikipedia articles they read and give them a gold star, but most people aren't.
Do you meditate: yes

What kind: zen

How long is each sessions: at least 15 minutes, twice a day

Alone or with others: usually alone

Why / Benefits: About a year and a half back I noticed I was very agitated on a daily basis. I found it hard to focus on work, get rid of the distractions and deal with all the daily stimuli around me, it also made me more difficult to work with. Meditating allows me to deal with the daily stimuli and find some calm, order and structure. I can more easily take on challenges, I sleep better yet need less of it and I'm a more pleasant person for it.
I think switching where you shop is probably the most practical - it's rare for independent groceries to have such a program, and the smaller the chain the less likely they are to be selling shopping data on. Under a certain volume it's apparently not appealing to bother doing the deals to buy it.
I think your local uni Arts department probably have this one covered...
If you're saying anybody who Googles you can find out about your record, it would obviously be silly to lie about it. If your employer somehow fails to do that during the hiring process, somebody will eventually do it after you start working there.
Because it's inconceivable that a pregnant woman might be buying things for someone not pregnant. Anyhow, as the others pointed out, it's part of the randomness disguise.

But this type of marketing is creepy and invasive. No one likes this because we're basically powerless to choose an alternative. My fiance is marketed tampons on Facebook during the correct time of the month. Because of things she bought on a shopper's card. Disturbing. The real impact will be when your rates on all types of insurance are affected by this data. Or when employment decisions are made.
Yeah, I guess in tech we're lucky enough to be able to say check somebody's GitHub and see if they actually can write code...
True, the best way to tell without real hardware is to playback the input on bsnes [1] (in accurate emulation mode) and see what happens.

[1] The name of bsnes recently changed, but I forget to what.
Oh man, I've been holding off on upgrading Alfred for a while because I didn't see the point, and now I'm upgrading so I can download a free add-on. This is an honest killer app for Alfred's new workflow feature.