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The problem with Jacquesm is that he doesn't understand the term 'hacking' in general. Hopefully, I will try to explain what I know.

Jacques,

Hackernews isn't for people who hack stuff that is against the law or something like that. Why would PG want to create a site for criminals? Hackernews is for the other new generation 'hackers' (like growth hackers, design hackers) etc. Not for stuff like this.

Imagine, I rent you my apartment and you 'hack it' into a miniature casino or a drug dealership. When I rented you the apartment, I rented it to you in good faith that you wouldn't do these things. But now, you broke my trust and next time when I rent out my apartment, I would go take some extra steps like installing security cameras inside every single room of the apartment because I have to protect my apartment from unethical usage scenarios. That's the same case with Flickr.
So, clearly, this is something that is destructive to someone who gives you something with a good intent. Just because you can do it, doesn't mean you should.
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Randal Schwartz and the Intel VP with "Pre$ident" as a password was the first thing that sprung to my mind too.
Substantial discussion from an earlier submission is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5734480
Things to Bring on a Trip Around the World
only if this case is real
No, games aren't nearly enough. I'm a Linux user myself, but quite frankly Windows is simply a better consumer desktop. It's also already installed on every computer.

The switching cost is simply too high and the only people outside of the tech world using Linux are generally those with old computers who had a techy friend install it for them. Problem is they'll be back to Windows as soon as they upgrade that old computer (or in my mom's case, as soon as the first thing doesn't work like it does on Windows).
Rule of thumb: not too aggressive financial investment will make 4% on average. As long as the FED continues with "free money for all", the figures will remain lower.
Grab your excel and simulate your situation starting from the sum of your fixed and varying costs. Do not forget anything (retirement plan, kids, etc)
> I can see absolutely no compelling reason to switch to Linux.

and you are right - because going with windows means any hardware is going to work _by_ default, and you won't have to waste mental energy to work out whether its going to be supported on linux/GNU. Ditto with software (tho less of a problem i suppose).
Kepler or Not, We'll Find Life in Space
This is the same reason why credit card skimming still works in the US (no chip + pin here).

I got a magstripe reader for a project and had some fun swiping various cards and seeing what was contained. My drivers license had the number and my address which was interesting. The only cards I came across that weren't obvious plain text were hotel keys.
Creating beautiful CLIs for embedded systems – Part I
A question about remained days
I want send an email to my customers, and I need to notify them about a off on Wednesday. I want say them number of days is remained to the off day.
Today is Tuesday.
How many days is remained to Wednesday?
2 or 3?
Hmm. The problem is that self-replicating machinery, like all robots, would get a little squirrely when exposed to that much ionizing radiation. You'd basically need several humans, hiding out in a radiation-hardened shelter, to run out every 15 minutes, to reflash the machine's OS, because the radiation is going to start randomly flipping bits, and soon, the robots that were supposed to build a reactor will start building a sand castle instead. Only there's no sand.

Look how much trouble we've had with the Mars rovers: we can't even get the instructions right half the time. And it takes several hours to see if we can recover from some really stupid mistakes. And the funny part is this: I'm saying this, and I wouldn't want to be caught dead outside during a ionizing radiation spike; you'd think I'd be all for the robots handling it all.

So I think that's the first problem we need to address: we need much better radiation shielding, and faster engines (either that or status chambers, immortality, etc.).
So they argue that "Mac and Linux have the same fatal flaw: few games", and claim Valve is the solution.

Valve has been on Mac for a while now, right? Did it help?
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In this article, we look at why, right now, there is a unique opportunity to displace well established sites from Google's page one.
Randal is also a great example of someone who used adversity to become greater -- "oh, shit, my legal bills are hundreds of thousands of dollars" to he went out and did a lot of high-value consulting, becoming even more well known as one of the best Perl developers out there.
Straw man. Citation?
You might want to read up on the principle of least action. Light takes the shortest path, not because it "knows" or anything silly like that, but because that path's action is a minimum (actually it need only be a stationary point). From a quantum mechanical perspective (see Feynman's lectures about QED), light takes all paths, but the sum tends to the classical path, which is the shortest.
This can be summed up in a few words....
Lazy, incompetent management sucks.

Is this why most layoffs start with middle management?
Works well for travel: http://www.flickr.com/photos/terretta/

But poorly for featured photos with no relationship to one another. This set is generated based on Fickr's "Interestingness" algorithm:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/terretta/sets/72157594261074270...

The relative prominence of these machine selected photos is clearly not associated with artistic quality or visual impact.

I would think Flickr of all sites has enough data to do a visual impact based layout even on photos with zero views and no metadata.

That would have really impressed me. Otherwise, these new masonry layouts are just trendiness mistakenly misallocating artistic emphasis.
Why Rational People Buy Into Conspiracy Theories
There's a problem I had solved. Ver' nice.
Personally, I find both Lisp-1 and Lisp-2 easier to read (when it is pretty printed) than any other language syntax.

That the syntax or lack there of also expresses itself as an AST in addition to that is quite elegant.

Due to the reduction in syntax verbosity it is evident in the code what the important elements are as that is the only information displayed.

Lisp's syntax enables powerful utilities like Paredit to exploit that for unrivaled transpositions of the code as refactoring occurs.

I do think other syntax designs look more aesthetically pleasing on its face than what either Lisp-1 or Lisp-2 appear to the novice (the ML family of languages for instance) but it is something I have come to appreciate as my proficiency in Lisp has improved.

Code simultaneously being data and the converse as well is another elegant consequence of Lisp's design, so everything is optimized for the tail, which is what is important for tools and the environment to provide.

I wish the environment provided in other languages was as mature as that of Common Lisp (http://www.cliki.net/development), because it is immensely pleasurable to code in once the learning curve is overcome.

The quality of documentation and literature available for Lisp is also excellent, many of which are classics in Computer Science as a result and are worth reading regardless of actually using Lisp to develop with.
In shorter word, it is because Github's domain change from .com to .io, so HN just treat that as a different uri.
oops you meant to reply to another poster, me thinks
Is this not old news? Flashing the bootloader with adb was always doable. Gaining root in the current OS still requires an exploit.
If you're a Pro user, and thus without any storage limit, it seems they don't show you any usage information. If you're on one of the new accounts, you apparently do see a usage meter of some kind.
Will they only be blocking Microsoft, or will they shut off federation completely? I have an account on the FSF's XMPP server and I can talk to people on gtalk. If they are shutting off federation completely, then they are just making a walled garden for themselves and using the Microsoft situation as an excuse.
I'm guessing they're typing comments on a mobile keyboard, where the period character and the spacebar are right next to each other. With the sort of keyboard software that doesn't auto-capitalise.
That's such an arrogant thing to say :(
Why You Should Not Build a Recommendation Engine
I think the university in question deserves to be named.
Thanks for making it personal, I will refrain from a response on that level.

Making a proof-of-concept of something to show what you could do is not as far as I know against the law, and if it is then it shouldn't be.

Using this - and breaking the terms of service - should lead to account termination, possibly banning but definitely not a brush with law enforcement.

I can imagine all you want but this is what it is, a simple hack to show a proof-of-concept, not an incitement or example of widespread abuse bringing down a popular service.

So clearly, it is not destructive, though in theory it probably could be used as such, but then again that goes for all the hammers in my toolbox too, including the plastic ones.

Just because you can build it does not mean you can't or shouldn't, it means that you shouldn't use it. Any home chemistry set could be used to make bombs (in fact, any supermarket with a reasonable assortment could be used to make bombs). You can demonstrate such by making a small one, and you can cross the line by either making a large one or actually using it against someone or some property.

Knowledge and ability, proof of concept versus actual malicious use, it's not such a hard line to draw.

> Hackernews isn't for people who hack stuff that is against the law or something like that. Why would PG want to create a site for criminals? Hackernews is for the other new generation 'hackers' (like growth hackers, design hackers) etc. Not for stuff like this.

That's a false dichotomy for one there are other kinds of hackers (the real ones, imo, instead of the ones that borrowed a term because it was cool, 'design hacker', 'growth hacker' as the target audience for HN? and you know this how?), and simply wrong besides.

What is legal and what is not depends on many things, intent for one and location second.
The first security flaw I ever found was when the company I worked at used a cookie with an "encrypted" customer ID as sufficient to authenticate to their web app, which allowed you to access a lot of private details and run up substantial bills for the company via various phone services (e.g. you could easily use our API's to dial 30+ premium rate numbers and let the bills rack up...)

It was a big enough WTF that there was no nonce or time element to the authentication, so that if you got hold of a cookie you could replay it forever.

It was a bigger WTF that the "encryption" looked suspicious, and turned out to simply be base64 of the customer ID.

In a tripple whammy, the customer id that was "encrypted" was a sequentially assigned integer, so it took me about 10 minutes to demonstrate that I could access the accounts of everyone in the company and every customer simply by working backwards from my own id.

Thankfully my boss at the time was smart enough to not playing shoot the messenger. They thanked me, and were somehow amazed that I'd figured out how to "break" the encryption, and asked me to review their fixes, and we went back and forth a few times until it was reasonably secure.
> You should tax the things that "add value"

Ok we have a misunderstanding about the term, 'add value'. I was using it to mean profit but you are using it to mean costs. My gut feeling is that taxing costs instead of profit will lead to warped incentives, but I admit I cannot think of a good example just now.

> You're asking how common it is for a company to have a less than 10% profit margin?

No - I wasn't clear, sorry. I was thinking a company might typically have the following costs as a percentage of revenue: (a) domestic costs 40%; (b) imports from high-tax countries 25%; (c) imports from low-tax countries 25%. Increasing this last figure to 27.5% would not wipe out the company's profit margin.

> the value of that non-geographically-dependent asset ... can be whisked off to an entity in a low tax jurisdiction

A company's advantage over its rivals often geographically dependent. Toyota's famed culture of lean, just-in-time manufacturing allowed it to become the biggest carmaker in the world. That culture was a company asset rooted in Japan that could not be whisked to any tax haven.

As for intellectual property, is there absolutely no way to structure the tax code so that growth in the value of these assets can be taxed? What about a simple rule that says IP cannot be transferred across borders within the same company? That is, the value of a patent is tied to the country in which the R&D was done. The value of a book's copyright is tied to the country in which it was written. The value of a software licence is tied to the country in which the software was developed. Etc.

> The problem simply is that you can't have significantly higher taxes than the next country on anything that can be easily removed from your jurisdiction, or that is exactly what will happen. And the profits of international corporations fall into that category.

If that was the case then the corporation tax for most of the Fortune 500 would be zero. The current system, although imperfect, is still somewhat functional.
Judge Rules That Airbnb Is Illegal in New York
Unity Game Engine Goes Free For iOS And Android Developers
You spot a bug and report it. It's ignored. You make it public. That's it. Don't do anything else.
Would prefer a Chrome extension.
Considering that there are tens of thousands of people kept captive as sex workers in NYC, the decision to crack down on something like airbnb illustrates the strength of the corruption used to maintain the status quo.

These kinds of conservative (status-quo preserving) laws are usually exactly that, even if there is some social or humanitarian justification made for their existence.
opera:config does not work, but about:config does; it shows a curated list of applicable settings.
I live in a postgraduate student residence that we are only allowed to sublet to alumni and friends/family of residents.

Accepting that people have a need to sublet avoiding the cost of a empty room is combined with the community's need not to have weirdo's. Despite being in the center of London, it is like a small village.

What hasn't been included so far is the need for a airbnb host to include his community needs which is presumably where the law is coming from.
Philosophy of ShareCred - how its different from typical social blogging
Nice concept, but I'm wondering how inflating a mattress in this manner will allow you to achieve the pressure needed to support your weight.
Do not trust people telling you you can make more usually 8% or plus. They are only employees who want to sell something or have an interest making you believe it is the case. The 8% is only a figure that our parents had. These days are over. Average is 4% (which also means that some years you will be negative!)
I just spent 17 frustrating minutes trying to get it set up on my android phone. I had to remove flickr from facebook then the twitter page went white. .. I dont care enough really.
NYC Startup Scene Boosted by 50-Fold Return on Tumblr Deal
What will be the difference compared to sending money with Gmail? http://www.google.com/wallet/send-money/
How large percentage of PC users are active users of Adobe Creative Suite?
Sounds promising. I'll give it a shot.
So...launch some floating cities, send them to Venus, send the astronauts later on. There's more than enough energy in the atmosphere to run machinery, and unless there are some truly violent lightning storms, the cities should stay afloat. As tech advances, a cable can be dropped to the surface (or several of them), and colonization take place.

Pity the atmosphere is so inhospitable, the surface so bland, and the utter lack of lifeforms. But a little work, and it will probably resemble Earth.

As for Mars, Mercury, and the Moon...Mercury is a surprising read. Mars would need nuclear reactors, I agree, or some other process for creating energy (anything in the soil that could react chemically with something else?). And the Moon...hmm. There's just a lack of data here, for all of them.
Does this have practical consequences and if so, when? Because right now, I can still find plenty of appartments in NYC.
Title is very misleading, as this only applies to New York City, and not the other 57 counties!
I still have stats. Does something say they are being deleted?
> I think JS is actually a radically simpler language than either Python or Ruby.

Why do you think that?
Imgur does this.

It also compresses big files though so I'm not sure if it can do it without effecting the image data and format itself.
Ask HN: As a developer, how can I learn to build investors presentation?
This is unhappy news. I was hoping to visit NYC later this year and, for the price of a pretty underwhelming hotel room, there were hundreds of apartments in interesting suburbs.

Oh well. At least San Francisco is still OK.
How do you install multiple versions of Go on a single machine?
Who gives real information as answers to security questions?

Most people do. This piece doesn't really point out that people are a "weak link" (though they are) as much as it highlights that these "security questions" do not really add much security in most cases.
The experience of a friend and myself when we returned to D3 about three months ago was that for a relatively small amount of money (250k gold perhaps) you could get gear good enough to play on some of the lower monster power levels of Inferno. Inferno is the hardest difficulty level, and there's 10 settings of monster power to tailor the difficulty to your preference / gear. I think that he played on MP3 or 4, but I usually stuck around at MP 1-2.

However, I stopped playing because I couldn't even begin to afford the gear to go higher. I figure if I wait a few more months then the gear that I'd need for MP5 shouldn't be so expensive anymore. As such, even though my gold is technically becoming worth less in terms of top tier items, it's becoming worth more in terms of decent low-mid level items. As such, I think that the D3 situation is more complex than just hyperinflation.
you'd be surprised how little you need to inflate these types of things to be comfortable. Often times you only fill it 60% or so so it has some give when you lay on it.
IBM's Watson Now A Customer Service Agent, Coming To Smartphones Soon
Every meteorite since 861 AD: watch them fall
How Flickr Screwed Me Out of My Pro Account On a San Francisco Photo Walk
Adding an attribute to an existing element currently seems impossible unless I am really missing something.

Say you have..

<div>

In any other tools you can double click it and press tab to add an attribute. Most have a right click option to edit as well. With firefox this simple task isn't possible. So adding a class to the above element requires you to at least add class="" to the element...
Purely awesome.

I found that doing this manually was a pain; I knew someone would eventually write a script for it.
Agreed. It strikes me as correct that if I rent/own an apartment in NYC, I should not have to deal with my neighbor's AirBnB business. There is room for compromise, but I would tend to favor putting the burden on AirBnB.
Find a mentor who's done it, and learn from them. You can't beat experience.
I've been toying with the idea of organising a meetup for months. Glad to see someone else taking it up!

Shall we start with just meeting for drinks/coffee? I don't think we should do something formal like HNLondon until/if we ever get to their sizes. (Though having companies sponsor pizza/beer is always a plus!)
How about a person that owns a free-standing house?
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I use a Mac at work and a Windows 7 PC at home. I spend more time on my mac than my PC and like quite a bit of it. But when I think about switching at home (cause the hardware is so so nice and the OS fixes so many things that frustrate me with Windows), I start to make a list of things I do with my home PC and either can't do or the equivalent isn't as nice/doesn't have as much choice, doesn't run as well for whatever reason.

The same thing happens whenever I think about switching to Linux at home, but the list is much much longer.

Let's pick games, I don't game nearly as much as I used to. But I like having the option to do so, with pretty much any game I happen to want to play, and not worry about it not being ported to my platform.

Sure there are things that I can do on Mac or Linux I can't do on PC (reliably run rails for example), but they aren't necessarily things I want to do at home. Sure it might not run as smoothly, or it crashes every so often or whatever, but the desktop, consumer, software support for it is at least 2 orders of magnitude better than either other platform.

In the end Windows, despite its warts is a compelling platform because of all the shit you can do with it (and explorer is so much better than finder).

I enjoy my MBPr, a lot, I hate using my home PC for work-type stuff. Walking around with a thin light laptop in my backpack with great battery life that I can open pretty much anywhere and spin up a half dozen VMs and still have a performant web experience is really f-ing impressive. I don't even try and use my old windows laptops anymore, that experience feels far too clunky.
This, or somebody is making a lot of money selling flawed security infrastructure and doesn't want anyone to find out.

But yeah, Do... Not... Report... security issues unless-

1) The company has a history of being "chill" with that kinda thing: e.g., Facebook, Mozilla, Google, etc.

2) You do it super-anonymously. Like, drive 3+ hrs away to a college campus you've never been at. Go into their computer lab when it's really busy. Create a new yahoo email account with a name that is opposite from any hobbies you have, through a proxy in another country. Send them an email not using your regular grammar style. Stay in the lab for 3 hours, send the email during the 2nd hour. That way, if there are any cameras in the room they won't just see one person walk in and walk out within the 5mins the email was sent. Then leave the lab and never return, never log into that email account again.... ever.
If that is true, then why does this work?

http://xkcd.com/462/
http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/22402009.jpg
An apparently decent language with a soft real-time GC. Interesting. Macros, type system and sane syntax are nice bonuses.
Or keep it to yourself and wreak havoc.