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I've been paid as part of their white hat program, $4.5k doesnt seem that high compared to what i was paid for my 'exploit'. I picked up $1k for finding a bug in their event invitations, a user could add friends to a private event when using a mobile phone.

The fact that his exploit was getting actual private data from people, i'd of thought he'd of been paid more. Thats not to say $4.5k isnt a lot of money, its a very nice reward.
Exactly - I think that's the point of the article :-)

All the author is saying is that if you are going to compare the price of one item that gives pleasure with another, then you should ensure that they the pleasure to price weighting needs to be the same.

Which, to be honest (when comparing TV series and coffee) for most people - it is!
New Gun Regulations Favor Concealed-Carry
Interesting that they're integrating with in-classroom experiences.
Author here. I don't think the BSD license is broken, just that the legal implications of that clause were surprising to me, and I thought I'd share what I learned.

I'm still likely to use the BSD license in other contexts, but will probably default to MIT/ISC/zlib specifically for embedded libraries.
so is this IPS or TN?
Agreed.

I look at Scala stacktraces fairly often (but not that often, because static typing) and I didn't get the dollar signs until I read the blurb on their page. Notice that Scala doesn't replace S with $ as they're done, but rather puts $s around words. I think it would be better to use a headline like

Make Sense of your $Scala$$stack.trace
On ChromeOS chrome works just fine. On debian webpages are rendered perfectly because I can change font settings for those, but the tab titles are drawn with text that is too small. There is no setting exposed currently from what I can tell to control the font of the tab titles.
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I hooked one up to the intercom/door unlock system at the office. Most electronics with physical pushbuttons can be disassembled and wired in with a relay for control by the Pi.

As usual, be very careful if you're disassembling something using AC.
Gamers may swear by them, but that does not mean there is an actual difference. Have there been any double-blind tests between 60hz and 120hz?
Ask HN: Has something changed with HN's IP ban rules?
Lately I've found myself getting IP banned abruptly and often. I guess I'm requesting too fast, but this issue has only cropped up recently and I've been addicted HN for years.

I'm not running an HN scraper, I don't have any auto-refresh extensions or scripts, and I don't believe I refresh (unreasonably) often. I'm just a guy with a fat pipe trying to use HN.

I've used the unban url, but that only works once per IP. I could just switch over to ihackernews or something similar, but I figured I'd put this here to see if any admins are aware.
Price is generally a signal of quality.

It's hard to infer your attitude from two sentences, but I'll go ahead and advise that you change from making suggestions to making recommendations. The difference in connotation is one of leadership. If you are an expert, then be confident. Don't follow the spec, write it yourself.
There are a few ways to change the "text scaling factor" http://askubuntu.com/questions/60044/how-do-i-change-the-fon... but that doesn't change the real DPI that X uses. If your hardware supports XRANDR, it should automatically configure your device. If it gets a wrong value or you just want to override it: http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12#III.3._Chan...
I think YC takes mid single digit percentages in some form early on? So you figure they get diluted down over time and maybe they have, as a firm, 1-2 percent of the total, so, maybe, 150-250mm? And then PG certainly has a big chunk of that - a quarter? A third? He was already pretty rich because he got Yahoo stock (in substantial amounts!) for selling Viaweb, and then Yahoo stock went on to increase by a factor of more than 10 to its peak - if he had 20% of Viaweb at sale (10mm on the day of the transaction) and got out at a reasonable time he had, say, 75mm by the early part of last decade...

All of which is to say, it's true that YC has been very successful for all parties, and PG is probably much richer now than he was when he started it, but I suspect he'd say the money wasn't the important thing to him and based on these numbers I'd be inclined to believe him.

Edit: incidentally, I think PG has probably been underpaid for his YC work - I suspect most investment firms do not add substantial value to the companies they invest in, but the YC brand is clearly enormously influential and, given the enormous amount of noise in startup-land, I bet the brand - which PG has worked on very carefully for years - is responsible for a meaningful percentage of the value of the portfolio.
Bigcommerce moved to the US (Austin), just as almost every successful tech company (and tech individual) out of Australia ends up doing.

You can't blame Australia too much for that. It's a tiny market, and the US is an abnormally large one. It's logical.
I personally believe Musk is smart enough to avoid thinking about digging tunnels in earthquake zones.
Most of the time when I hesitate over something like that it's because of the DRM. As Randall Munroe put it, "In the end, you'll be a criminal anyway."
http://feeds.feedburner.com/zurb/blog
>My business model was based on the ignorance of my poor customers

1. The majority of patients are otherwise uninsured and cannot afford health insurance, so if they need primary care they pay out of pocket. Google walk-in clinics and get a feel for the typical "co-pay" for a walk-in clinic in your area and compare the same to our cost.

2. Some of our patients are insured, but they prefer not to use their insurance for primary care visits, because: a. they can not see the primary doctor they want; b. it takes a few days before their primary can schedule an appointment; and c. using insurance their co-pay is significantly more expensive than joining our network.

Our model is serving a need to uninsured not because they are "poor or ignorant" as you suggest, but because uninsured need primary care. Many other practices offer memberships, so this our model is not unique but I have not come across any that offer memberships at our prices - feel free to find one, it might exist.

>"now obamacare makes it clear to them they can get it easier than paying cash every visit."

Almost all insured and medicare patients pay out of pocket per primary care visit, it is called co-pay. However, in addition to the patient out of pocket co-pay either medicare or their insurance is getting billed...which drives up the cost of the patient healthcare, and guess what the patients are paying these costs in the form of FICA and/or insurance premiums.
I keep local backups of everything. The HP Microserver I bought is very handy for stuff like that. If anything happens to my servers (ALL of them) being back online will be a matter of hours/days and not years.
> The difference between me and the other partners is mostly that I got to be publicly known by writing.

I wonder what the rate of Y Combinator founders' blogging (either personally or placing importance on their official business' blogs) vs those outside of it, if such a thing could be quantified.
Come now, let's not editorialize titles.

From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html :

Don't abuse the text field in the submission form to add commentary to links. The text field is for starting discussions. If you're submitting a link, put it in the url field. If you want to add initial commentary on the link, write a blog post about it and submit that instead.
Thank you for pointing that out. Sometimes I feel as though movies should have a negative cost because they're generally not worth the time required to watch them.

And then that quickly turns into a argument supporting piracy.
Ask HN: Anyone bought or sold businesses (online/offline) ?
Just want to hear stories if you have bought/sold an online/offline business that generated profits (not just revenue). Would love to hear from you.
California Individual Health Insurance Premiums Could Increase 64-146% in 2014
A precursor to Elixir, Reia, got me interested in Erlang. After having written Erlang for a little while now, I'm not sure of the benefits of a language like Elixir or Reia anymore (which seem mostly focused on improving syntax). Sure, Erlang syntax is odd starting out, but you get over that very quickly.

I can't help but compare it to CoffeeScript. Sure, CoffeeScript papers over some inconveniences of JavaScript, but at the end of the day I find myself writing JavaScript in a disciplined way instead of reaching for yet another abstraction. I realize it's not a good comparison as CoffeeScript compiles to JS while Elixir and Erlang both compile to a shared VM (BEAM), but I don't think Elixir has added enough new ideas to warrant focusing on it in favor of Erlang, yet (for me at least). That may change in time.
> If you're thinking operators your probably doing it wrong in functional programming.

Stating that the creator of Erlang is doing FP wrong is a bold statement.
> Makes me cringe to hear someone say

Do you have an inkling of who the 'someone' is in this case?

Let me help you, in case you don't:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Armstrong_%28programming%29
sleep as android + qr code in kitchen ( Not affiliated, I am just a happy user, now having two hours more in the morning to do something I want to/need to.)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid...
> It's because of stuff like this that Cloud Computing is not a very good solution

I think it's important to note that it's not the technology's fault that this is happening, it's built into the way that we execute it. What if cloud storage wasn't just disk or datacenter redundant, but it was provider redundant as well? That way when one provider goes out of business, users aren't affected.

It's still way too early for this to happen (nobody likes turning into a commoditized service), but I think (hope) some day it will.
Registry.npmjs.org cert is borked
Avoid off the shelf CMS, frameworks where possible. They add bloat and are often a huge overkill plus using them does not teach you fundamentals that you should be learning when you do projects like this.

Building yourself one should take around a week or so. My advice is look at some other CMS / Frameworks for some inspiration and take the best bits from them and roll your own.

Good luck

nodex.co.uk
Explain this confusing line of code
"A judge has ordered the police to sift through all digital material taken illegally from Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and to return anything irrelevant to their investigation--at their own cost."

ahahaha, have fun sifting through 25 petabytes of data!

As I've said before, I really wonder how much of that data really is copyrighted content (of course, just about all data is copyrighted in a manner, legally speaking, what I mean is stuff that the RIAA/MPAA have a copyright claim to, who are behind this international shakedown). Perhaps we'll find out, and if not I'd be very interested in the numbers because I can't seem to find a way to make them add up to something in the ballpark of 25PB.
What language do you use to write apps for Android?
If you answered "Java", congratulations, you alongside thousands of Google employees have just participated in committing trademark and licensing infringement on the owners of "Java".

But I can't blame you, Google after all doesn't call it say "Visual Basic", they would probably lose that case pretty quickly, but why?

When MS tried to fork Java years ago they settled in court. This case is no different, nay its worse because MS didn't step on SUNs mobile licensing agreements.

So now EFF is coming out saying this is a copyright spat (which its not) Be careful of that. Saying that "APIs" are not copyrightable will render tons of open source projects licenses invalid, since all open source licenses "rest on top" eg append copyright laws.

Yup that crap at the top of the file wont mean a damn thing once we start parsing what can and cant be copyrighted.

The only possible defense Google has is denying that its Java. But thats what they called it before they stole it. And thats what they still call it.

If you work at google I suggest you come up with a new name because even referring to "whatever" that is that runs on Android as "Java", is licensing and trademark infringement. White gloves and all.
G+ will be more successful, IMO, if it can be more closely integrated with Gmail
Looks like you forgot to buy the American spelling. Got your back bro.

http://colorco.de/
Like so many other great shows, B5 was destroyed by network executive short-sightedness.
View the source, Luke:

http://zurb.com/article/rss.rss

or

http://feeds.feedburner.com/zurb/blog
by attaching more than one label/tag to an inner representation?
A jukebox that scrapes songs from the internet and from my own collection and pipes it to a small FM transmitter (from a Jameco kit). This is for my technophobic inlaws, who are used to radios.
The first sentence makes me wonder if you understand publishers.
To them, games are not art.
They are valuable IP assets.

They can and do compare sales of games dissimilar to each other.
I think the whole argument is a bit silly (and in my opinion it's no one's business but my own what I spent money on or why, so I don't care one way or the other about this particular point), but let's be realistic.

Assuming you want to simplify spending choices to this degree, be realistic:

If it's Netflix, it's closer to $10 a month for unlimited usage. If it's a latte, it's more like $4 per day.

If you only buy one latte, and only on weekdays, that's in the neighborhood of $86 per month.

So if you accept the idea that you should select the thing that brings you the most "joy" for the lowest expenditure, then unless you plan to get Netflix and then just not use it at all (or if there's nothing on it you want to watch), it's clearly providing more value for a lower investment.

As I said... the whole thing strikes me as a bit silly and seriously presumptuous, but it's also pretty unambiguous which option "wins" if you consider it past "x and y cost the same" without bothering with the frequency of payment for both of them.
Well yes, but I'd rather play at 1920x1080 and not have to sell a kidney for a graphics card that can drive the 4K display.
Or maybe it's the way the law is executed by law enforcement, interpreted by courts, and legislated by legislators.
Just to clarify, "drive-by clientside RCE" means remote execution on the browser just by visiting a website? Like one of the recent Java 0-days?
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The black hats exist either way because there is a lucrative market. If there is no incentive for white hats, they just won't play the game. It's not that they'll "turn into black hats", but the effect for Facebook and their users is pretty much the same: the only people looking for exploits are black hats.

If they value responsible disclosure, they should pay enough to make it worth the effort. They need not compete with black market prices.
can you email me a link to this support? I'd love to dig into it. jnoller@gmail.com
And that one is worth every penny (looking at it right now).
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An enterprising hacker could possibly make it work with Wine at some point but not today.
> If you're thinking operators your probably doing it wrong in functional programming.

I'm sorry but that simply makes no sense. Yes, many FP languages have custom & customizable operators. They still have built-in operators which are actual operators for real. And there are also FP languages which do not have custom & customizable operators. Erlang is one of the latter.

> My reasoning might be really flawed as I have no idea if erlang/elixr can define functions that look like `operators`

It can not.
From my experience, there's quite a bit of difference b/w North and South India. The North encourages entrepreneurship, while the South's family structure favors "stable" jobs (doctors, engineers, etc).

So you see a lot of founders coming from North India, and a lot of engineers coming from the South. Of course, I'm just generalizing this, its not a hard and fast rule, but something I've noticed.
Because obviously putting more people on Broken Age will make it release faster. Man-months, right?!
Finally some movement in the desktop display market. I've been hoping for this every time I dragged a window from my retina display to the desktop monitor and it lost 3/4th of it's pixels.
Isn't that a standard deal as far as government loans go? It's nothing compared to the auto industry bailouts, where even the equity taken turned up a loss.
There's almost nowhere with low COL and good access and reasonable amenities, though. Whereas in the US, small towns are still pretty well connected to the rest of the country with a solid interstate highway system and excellent freight rail, with decent basic amenities available everywhere, and high speed internet access, small towns in Australia can have crippling remoteness in an already remote country. For example, family in Ballarat, which is a regional Victorian town about an hour from Melbourne (it's not very remote; many people commute to Melbourne every day via rail), can only get wireless 3G internet access to their suburban house. I know the NBN will change some things, but they will most likely remain wireless.

And the smaller cities aren't going to be much cheaper, either. The median house price across all of Australia is around $500k (!).
I see. But I suppose that this kind of monitors are not made for gamers, anyway. Ultra-high resolution is good for sharp text/CAD/etc rendering. A game is just too fast-paced and textures aren't that high-resolution anyway.
You have pretty cheap consumables whereever you live!

This would be amazingly hard to translate and adapt for various places where AppStore is present (the whole world).
Fwiw, sleeping with socks on also helps you get a better nights sleep.
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Does NaCl/PNaCl have a future now we've seen what Emscripten/ASM.js can do?﻿
Specs on page say 8ms response time.
Did they really move though? My understanding are both co-CEO's are still in Sydney. I understand they opened a major office in the US but what growing Aussie company wouldn't?
That's part of the problem with impulsive purchases on Steam. Paying $50 for a game on Steam that I'll play for 100+ hours is an amazing deal.

For a game that you don't play, paying any amount is not worth it. And there's almost no limit to how many of those I can buy using a "latte argument".
What is the noise output of one of those?
Also don't limit your suggestions/recommendations to UX. Get involved in the product - it's features, who they're targetting etc.

Development is so commoditised nowadays it would be a shame not to use the opportunity to expand our skillsets.
You can get the same panels for 1/3rd to 1/2 the price from the usual Korean suppliers.

I bought two.
These companies don't have to compete with the bad guys, but smart companies would be competetive with each other for the finite amount of time that hackers have.
This is the whole "Innocent until proven guilty" thing is being replaced with "Guilty until proven innocent" in the world of web services.

One itch I would like scratched is a cloud service that protects against the Insanity of the legal system. I have a dream that a program or set of hardware can stay online until a judge has ordered its termination. You can't take the thing offline with an ax first, and then give the broken pieces back to the defendant (without anti-static bags) after the judge clears you of wrong-doing. That's not right.

A service where the judicial system can rape your data centers and get all the information they need to convict you, while your income streams remain intact, UNTIL the judge decides you are illegal.

The notion of having a business destroyed upon accusation, and then giving the broken pieces back to the defendant after the judge says: "No wrong-doing here", makes me sick to my stomach. I don't want to give my kids a world that works like that.
Does this view not presuppose that the exhibitors of the anti-social behavior cannot be fixed or remade into useful members of society? If you believe that, fine, but if you think that some could be reformed, why is that not worth the money? "Reform", in my mind, has nothing to do with pampering. It could be even more torturous than now...For example A Clockwork Orange. Not that I'm advocating that.

Does this view also not presuppose that all prisoners have exhibited anti-social behavior? I think we can both say that this is not the case. Although, prisons tend to somewhat separate the two populations.
This reminds me of when I worked at a gardening company. Some asshat middle manager decided to outsource without consulting the dev team. He neglected the little detail that instead of having "a database", we had two databases - a MSSQL one that was attached to our accounting system, and a MySQL one that was attached to the site. So I basically had to rewrite it with people breathing down my neck so I quit because fuck doing that stuff for just above minimum wages.
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I think the second point was completely unnecessary. I didn't find it amusing or funny, just sarcastic. Yes, sarcastic, but not funny. I guess you consider wise.io your competition, don't you?
Yeah $2 can add up. I like to read the early retirement blogs and would like to somehow someday be financially independent.

The way I like to think about it is to figure out how big of a nest egg do I need to earn enough of a return to cover that expense in retirement. For example, I would need an investment of $18,000 which earns 4% avg annual interest to cover my $2 daily coffee expense forever.

Its fun to think of all your expenses this way and as you build your investments you can see how much of your lifestyle is paid off forever!

I built a little calculator to do this math for me:
http://networthify.com/calculator/recurring-charges
> but they don't even think about spending $10 at the coffee shop

Sure those people exist, but don't forget that not all are like that. I wouldn't even consider spending that much at a coffee shop, especially not regularly.
A cleaner way of doing the immediately-invoking function in CS is to use a `do` statement.

MyModule = do ->
# module body

No need for any parens.
When I buy apps, games, movies, etc. I always have a simple rule to follow: 1$ per hour of entertainment. Short games that cost a lot aren't worth it, but short games that barely cost anything are totally worth it. I never go to the movie theater because it's way too pricey for the amount of enjoyment I get from it. But that's just me.

The only thing on which I almost never count my money is food and drinks. I agree that it doesn't make sense to not have problems throwing money for a coffee that lasts a few minutes while not wanting to spend money on a movie or an app. I get what the author says there, but the experience he describes is only a once in a while deal for me. For instance, I buy Earl Grey tea because it tastes good for the amount of money I put in it. It's less than $0.10 per tea cup, which seems more than fine considering the amount of time I spend drinking it. However, most of the time, the less pricey food/drinks I can find often turn out to be the worst in terms of healthiness. We shouldn't count bucks when it comes to that.