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I still prefer TextMate & BBEdit. Sublime Text just doesn't feel like a Mac app.
Heh, at least he didn't get his account banned prematurely.

It's already been said, but as much headaches as Egor's proof-of-concepts gave headaches to Github's staff, they've really helped educate the general dev public (well, me at least) about security-mindedness. Github's security explanatory notes in the OP are helpful, but Egor's demo really made the issues memorable.
On the other hand, compounding languages (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_(linguistics)) such as Dutch and German are somewhat harder. Words of over 20 characters are fairly common in Dutch and German (hence, it is not surprising that Wikipedia's lemma on word length is only available in those languages (http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woordlengte))

If you meet a word that looks no way like anything you have seen before you must try and check whether you can construct it (or something similar to it) from constituent parts that each are in your dictionary. That can be difficult, because you must also know how compound words can be constructed. For example, a preposition can be a part, but (typically?) not at the end of a word, you (typically?) have at most one verb, adjectives (typically?) show up at the start only, etc. (the 'typically?' disclaimers show my ignorance)

A decent spelling checker needs to handle this, as it should signal missing spaces between words. For example, "blackeyed", "eyewhite", "blackkeyed", "grayblack" and "blackgray" are acceptable, but "eyedblack" is not.
I've already read that document. There's nothing about burned-in asymmetric crypto keys, only the burned-in symmetric AES key (the UID).
I find this a funny comparison because StarCraft is at least in part made difficult on purpose, as is the case with any game. In particular, APM/micro/etc are a key aspect that separate the range of skill levels of most players. So while some multitasking aspects in the game would certainly be difficult no matter what, any good UI designer could make StarCraft easier and more accessible to use, but then there wouldn't be something to advance at. A good example of this is MBS (multi-building select). This feature did not exist in SC1, but was introduced in SC2 and makes it easier to build multiple units. There was some backlash with this feature because it made things "too easy".
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I have Starcraft on my resumé. If I were a master in chess, I would list that, too.

I spend my free time voluntarily putting myself in fast-paced, high-stress situations where I am forced to make critical strategic decisions as quickly as possible in order to succeed.

If that's what I do for fun, imagine what I accomplish when I'm working.
That's interesting, I didn't know that! That makes the option of using an HTPC as a 'true' gaming platform (in addition to being a media center) a lot more likely.

Do most of the recent games (Need for Speed, Counter Strike : Source, Far Cry 3, Assassin's Creed 3) run well, or is it mostly older games?
> But the _representation_ of them is the issue. Therapy is for someone who's _crazy_.

I guess my own upbringing (which is irrelevant from a cultural perspective, I suppose) colored me differently on this. I see therapy as being on the same level as going to your family doctor -- when something is malfunctioning, go take care of it.

And honestly, I don't see a lot of characterizations of therapy as "for the crazies", except from people who say we need to fight it. That could just be because of the way my sensors are tuned, I guess.
Many of the donglegate stories were flagged off the front page. That story was broader, involving behaviours at tech conventions, responses to that behaviour, Internet bullying and mobs, etc.

Donglegate was still lousy for HN. Most threads had little useful discussion, a lot of entrenched opinion, and a lot of heat. ("shallowly, but intensely, interesting").

This? This is nothing useful.
Why is this getting voted up so much? The article is tabloid garbage. Let's not raise the specter of "censorship" (HN is not a nation-state) over an article that fails to meet the most basic editorial standard.
Yes, I understand that you are not responsible for that, and can't deal with it. I am just pondering whether it is possible to legally run Pinry-powered website, when I myself will be the only user and will want to pin also copyrighted content.

And if not, what do you think would be a typical usecase, i.e. who would want to run Pinry-powered website?
The number of colo issues I've seen triggered by various backup/redundant systems is pretty impressive.

Whether it was a redundant mains power system blowing (taking down the main PDU), spoiled diesel, failed generator cutover, UPS fire, smoke detector-triggered shutdown (associated with power management), a really bizarre IPV6 ping / router switch flapping issue, load balancer failures based on an SSL cipher-implementation bug (triggered an LB reboot and ~15s outage at random intervals), etc., etc., etc.

Just piling redundancy on your stack doesn't make it more reliable. You've got to engineer it properly, understand the implications, and actually monitor and come to know the actual outcomes. Oh, and cascade failures.
I used to be a hired gun that would be called in occasionally to, like you, code circles around bigger teams when deadlines were tight.

Last few years however I decided to stick around with one of my clients for a while and I realized that quite a few of the employees I considered sub-par before were actually pretty decent programmers doing their best to do quality work in a dysfunctional environment.

I've since then learned to really appreciate this quote, which my gut tells applies to your situation as well:

"Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by bad management."
It did, which is why almost all of the stories where removed. The few that survived tended to talk about the issues in a general, timeless fashion and use "donglegate" as an example.
I find the denial interesting.

It's quite obviously happening, and pg & co have regularly confirmed it. HN is heavily moderated, and the moderation is not particularly transparent.

You can argue that it's a good thing and it keeps HN nice and clean, but denying it is... kind of scary really.
Not at all. Python and Ruby are just two tools among many that I've used at one point or another in my career. Besides, this isn't an issue with the tools themselves, but with the developers who use them. There are generally very significant differences in attitude between those in the Python camp and those in the Ruby camp.
It would be interesting to see G-WAN too because it seems controversial. http://gwan.ch/
There's still plenty of popular games that don't run well under WINE and it's a PITA to set up not to mention having 2 versions of Steam installed.

Not really something you can sell as an easy games experience.
Not sure why they say 25. There seem to be 165 now, which is 65 more than Steam for Linux had at launch:

http://store.steampowered.com/browse/linux/
Hey yeah email us garry@posthaven.com -- it's not per blog though, it's per account (10 blogs per account at $5/mo) -- sorry for the confusion.

The other thing we were thinking of doing is having "contributor" accounts per blog -- so each blog is owned by the primary admin, but contributors can contribute without a paying account.
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I submitted a gawker story two years ago: ""Alien Life" in this Meteorite was already published in 2004 and 2007" (gawker.com) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2294142 (761 days ago, 1 point, 0 comments) [dead]

It was autodead. I still think that my story was interesting, at that there were a few threads about "new" "aliens" were "found" in meteorites. But whatever, I didn't want to start a war for this.

It was quite technical and not about some internet celebrity. I suspect that gawker.com is banned.
My guess is that the diffusion rate through the plastic pipes is very small compared to the average rate of water flow.

But I'd love to see measurements, particularly if they're taken early in the morning, when the flow rate has probably been low for several hours.
They seem to be censoring scandalous gossipy stuff like this and the Donglegate story. Out of good taste or some other motivation, I don't know. The problem is when you start doing that you open yourself up to accusations of vote-rigging, getting your buddies on the front page, etc. It's a bad road to go down but they're definitely on it.
As long as the editor lets me type cmd+t and insert opening and closing html tags that's all I need.

I read a lot, I scroll a lot, I browse a lot, I copy/paste a lot and my hands are always on the trackpad and the arrow keys.

Sublime is good enough for me.
How is a story killed after a few minutes (not the auto-dead filters)? Does it happen when a story receives a certain number of flags? Does it require moderator intervention?
If that were true, wouldn't this post be censored too? It's not, so it's not true.

Gawker.com and Deadspin are banned from HN? I don't mind that at all.
Same with BuzzFeed.
Ever wonder what happens when you post a parcel?
The new home screen on the HTC One?
Is there a camera? If there is, then definitely NO. If not, then: what extra $50?
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CS:S has a native Linux version that runs very well!
Assassins creed 3 has "garbage" rating on WineHQ (http://appdb.winehq.org/) and Far Cry 3 has "silver". So the answer for those is probably no.

Not sure about NFS, guess it depends which one.
Hardly anyone uses .info but I much prefer it vs. going to any country tld.
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100% agree. That story had too much crap being thrown around. On the other hand, this is a serious issue/story involving a very influential person in SV, tech-media and tech-investing. It shouldn't be ignored that easily.
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FYI, CSS isn't recent :P CSS even runs natively on through Steam for Linux :) You can check how specific titles run under wine here: http://appdb.winehq.org/
I have no problems with censoring in this case. These are pretty serious allegations. But they are just that: allegations reported to a blog(not a court of law or cops). The alleged victim should file an official complaint or take other official steps. Purely on what has been shared so far, Arrington stands innocent in my book.

Absent of her going to the cops, I think allowing allegations of this nature to surface on HN set a poor precedent when unaccompanied by appropriate legal complaint.
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Why not just let people use whatever works for them? After reading through all the replies here that's the only conclusion anyone can come to. Why do we need one editor to rule them all?
Iptables to block most ports. In general you don't have anything to worry about. Malware makers simply aren't targeting linux.
How much worse peformance-wise would generating PIC be to address this?
(This comment is not aimed at you, but at newer users who are not aware of HN's banning system for users.)

Some people are hellbanned. They post a link. They can see the link. They log out. They cannot see any of their posts. That's not because that URL is banned, but because none of their posts are visible unless a logged in user has 'showdead' turned on in their profile.
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I know Sublime is what all the cool kids are using, but I switched from it for a few months, to Chocolat (OSX only) and have never looked back. It's definitely worth a try.
So basically OP realized he could resubmit it thanks to the url change and went for it. I see.
Do we need to pander to VCs? I'm also not sure that your assertion that it hurts their credibility is true.

Fred Wilson has publicly admitted himself that he hasn't led a deal all year. I don't think that affects his reputation. If anything, I think people applaud him for his transparent efforts.
But there is insufficient demand to warrant a change?
But it would be technologically too demanding?
But we don't think its a problem to wait 6+ seconds?
But we will address this later as its not a priority?

Its great that you are aware of the issue, but it would be better if you could shed some light on why or why not this is not addressed.
That doesn't look aesthetically pleasing to me..
There's obviously no clear litmus test here...so I don't think the editorial decision is an easy one. In the Adria Richards case, HN mods couldn't ban all the submissions, nor would it be in their best interests to do so, because that controversy raised tech-related issues worth discussing.

Anyway, I don't know what the best mix of discretion and freedom is...but HN would lose some of its allure if its policy was: "Only allow links that are explicitly technical/entrepreneurial in nature" Because how many times do hackers need to learn that success in life and business is sometimes (or, rather, often) not based just on technical merit?
> I just wish the author iterated ST2 more before starting ST3, I'm afraid of another Textmate.

That's business...
Yes. I require a tiny bit of water to reduce friction.
> sum total of money available is equal to the sum total of value in the world.

This part is not completely accurate when you consider that money changes hands over time as value is created. (Multipliers)

If the someone produces 1 widget per day (different person each day), and someone else consumes 1 widget per day (and becomes the producer the next day), 1 widget-dollar is needed forever to help move the widgets. If the pattern of production and consumption is more complicated, we need more dollars (debt) to keep track.

The sum total of money needs to be something like the sum total of all current unsettled debt, and it needs to be less than the amount of future production of the debtors, in each's share (or else they will default).

It gets more complicated from there.
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Ah! Makes sense. And explains why I never would have seen it happen! :-)
Reminds me of 'Digital Needle' http://www.phys.huji.ac.il/~springer/DigitalNeedle/
That sounds like a very healthy attitude, I'm glad you've managed to escape from the broader societal one. :)

Try this: pay attention to the things you say, and make a note every time you say one of these things:

- That's nuts!

- That's so crazy.

- That's retarded.

- She's hysterical! (double whammy: sexist and abelist!)

- Wacky!

- Wow, that schedule is insane.

- That code is idiotic.

- You're an imbecile.

- You're a lunatic.

- This place is a madhouse!

- He's a psycho.

- What a spaz.

It might be my age or my speech patterns, but I say these things a lot. Working on it. But all of these phrases being common and acceptable is part of this issue. (abelism, if you're curious. Some of these bleed into mental capacity as well as health, I figured I'd include them anyway.)
I use Linux daily, I develop using open source technologies, it's not for me... it doesn't feel right.

+ I want my freedom! I don't to be stuck with one product...
I can't stand using IDEs like IntelliJ or Eclipse or just about anything else I've tried. For some reason, all that crap that hangs around the editing area makes me feel claustrophobic and distracted. I also feel like a lot of the development process becomes a black box. Instead of understanding exactly how your project is compiling (i.e. with what settings) and what external resources you're including, the IDE kind of shields you from that. When you do a project with UNIX-style tools, you have complete control and understanding of every step.

And then there's also the fact that I can't stand having IDEs underline everything in red when I'm in the middle of typing a line.
@jiggy2011 Thanks, that's very helpful! I meant NFS: Most Wanted, which came out in 2012.

CS:S on Linux is definitely awesome news, and makes me more confident of Linux gaming becoming viable in the near-term. I think the Steambox/Steam Linux, Ouya and other such systems are definitely helping improve adoption.

To be honest, I wouldn't spend much time trying to get something running under Wine unless it had a very high probability of success, and a moderate number of (easy) steps. After all, I already have the game running under Windows, and gaming's meant to be a casual activity I undertake after work :)

It's awesome that the option is available for Linux enthusiasts, however!

Edit: Ah, damn it, I meant CS:GO, not CS:S! I see that it's running fine under Wine, however!
poor guy can't understand vim
When there reports that Adria had been fired, stories about it were actively removed because it wasn't yet clear whether it was true or a hoax. So it's already a given that censorship of some type takes place.
Yeah but not all of them because that's how most people found out about that PyCon shit...
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Uhh, I may get hated on for this one and it doesn’t help that I just got out of a meeting with a bunch of academics, so I’m kind of annoyed right now, BUT, take note that I'm a PhD working in an academic environment.

[angry bold]Stop whining and start working. [/]

This article is one of the many articles, blogs, etc I’ve read from academics complaining that there are no jobs and how it's so hard, and OMG the hours are long, and why is this happening to me, and waaaaaaaaaa, I'm a victim. I literally have 2 of them talking about this right now across from me as I’m typing this.
You know what they aren’t doing? Working (says the guy who is typing on hacker news:) ).
Stop complaining and start being the best. Every academic that I have a lot of respect for was able to get a job. They are also the ones that work their asses off, networked, give talks, and play the game correctly. Being “smart” doesn’t get you a job, regurgitating papers isn’t what makes a good faculty member and thinking that you deserve a job because you have PhD does NOT quality for a job. Simple as that.

Yes, there are very few jobs and way to many PhDs. But, I’d bet that statistic would look much different if you looked at people who actually work smart ,play the game and have some business sense. When you have no business experience at all, and only have been through school with your parents paying your way , well..yeah, it’s an eye opening experience that working is hard. Deal with it, stop complaining and go work harder/better than anyone in your field or work at starbucks.
"If your Pages site was previously served from a username.github.com domain, all traffic will be redirected to the new username.github.io location indefinitely"

i.e., Phishers, no need to change your email templates!
How did you manage to get that from what I wrote?

Of course deflation hurts liquidity - if you have less money, there is less floating around for people to use.
Instead of getting a typical fad driven business book why not instead get a book about a creative women who launched a business? Just find a role model and find the best biography available. Also it doesn't have to be about someone who started a business, there are other sorts of leaders and amazing people out there (examples: Amelia Earhart, Marie Curie, etc.). Even you grown ups reading this would get far more from reading about someone like Coco Channel rather than some recycled Guy Kawasaki PowerPoint presentation.
Really? You can't think of any problems that a currency with wildly changing value will have? Or even a constantly changing value?
Paywall -- it's not a link, it's spam.
Maybe this is a bit of a misunderstanding? I wasn't refuting the "10 years" -- that's a fact. I was simply pointing out that you can't really know what's going to happen based on 10 sentences of extremely vague details in an article.

I was refuting this:

> Welcome to the New World Order where they can throw you into prison at will with supposed evidence which truth content can be hard to verify even by experts.

That statement assumes that he will be convicted and the judge will deliver a severe sentence, which is not necessarily a valid assumption since there's barely any information provided. It's possible he may simple get a community service sentence with parole, since he is 17.

And yes, the government "can" throw you in jail if you are found guilty and if the judge decides to, but neither of those "if's" have been decided yet.
No we're not. Gawker has been banned for years.
My experience is that this is true as well. It's hard not to equate the two in practice, given that it feels like shorthand.
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Yes, please! Spray.io folks, can we entice a pull request? :)
AppScale (Open Source Google App Engine) 1.6.9 Released.
This is Alienware we're talking about.
wow, that's 1st time since a few years...
While that's true, I just really don't understand why I have to resort to sucks hacks to simply eliminate idling. I am a paying Heroku customer with a CC on file... I just want to give them money to do something properly which I could hack around legitimately.

The fact that this has clearly been brought to their attention before and they have offered no real answers (I'm literally suggesting a checkbox for $10 a month or something that simply keeps my app un-idled) frankly gets me thinking about ulterior motives. I love Heroku, and find their services very valuable, but some of their decisions make very little sense to me, like this, or more recently how they've handled the RapGenius accusations.
Why are you divorcing actions from context and circumstance? Those are how we determine the seriousness of a crime and the legal repercussions of it.

For example, what is the punishment for crashing a car? Well, it depends on the context and circumstances. Sometimes there is no punishment. But what if the crash occurred due to being intoxicated? What if the crash was into another car? What if people died or were seriously injured in the crash?

It's not as though "hacking", "unauthorized access", and "web sites" are each monolithic things for which the seriousness of an act is independent of context and circumstances. There are just as many different levels of seriousness when it comes to the online world as there are in the real world. What are the consequences for property trespass in the physical world, for example? Well, it depends entirely on context and circumstances. If someone merely wandered into another person's land in order to pick berries or something that is very much different than, say, breaking and entering in order to commit robbery, for example.
bottom of page - contact sales to be listed. so this is paid for. advertising.
I have to admit, .io is probably one of the best geeky TLD's out there, so I can't fault you really. It just seems kind of trendy is all.

> without sounding like we were trying to make a mid-90's Personal Home Page Product™

That's not a dig on PHP is it? :)
It sounds like you need two separate JITcode phases: first, generate Position-Independent JITcode (and cache that); then for each script that requires it, load it and "link" it.
I found this article to be of some help: http://www.andrewault.net/2010/05/17/securing-an-ubuntu-serv...

To start, you will just need to set up IPTables and Fail2Ban.
Vim is great and this article is mostly FUD.

The only good reason not to use vim (or anything else) is if you don't want to. But don't let other people dictate to you whether you want it.
(I work at Stripe)

Sorry this wasn't clear! I can imagine it was a shock to have your number appear; I'll make sure we make this clearer when signing up.

For some background: it's a card network rule that you include a customer service phone number; this is intended to help reduce confusion with your customers and to ensure they have an opportunity to reach out to you. Since Google is an aggregator, they may include a phone number they control if you choose to not expose your own.

One approach you might consider is to have your phone number respond with a message suggesting users email you or visit a certain page on your website. The important bit is just that your customers have a clear way to get in touch with you.