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Don't older versions of Winamp contain security vulnerabilities?
Overstock.com CEO takes out full page ad in WSJ to say Steve Cohen is corrupt
>This statement right here sets up half of this posts argument here and isn't realistic at all.

How is it not realistic?
If I have to trust them because they own the hypervisor, the fact they claim to deliver a "certified" image buys me nothing in terms of security.
Too obvious, made me smile :)

There might be a bit of desensitization involved, think 4chan culture.

Still, a stranger or the internet, or simply a stranger, does not mean anything to me if I don't know him beforehand.

I also would like to clarify that I do not doubt that this kind of abuse it is hard to deal with or anything. Just saying that it is pretty hard for me to relate, and that's probably the reason why not everyone is immediately siding with Phil Fish and other abuse victims.
I can imagine. Just for reference, I graduated in '98, so things have probably changed quite a bit since I was there. Every class after CS125 used C++ (except AI, which was in Lisp), but C++98 was still in committee and the STL wasn't really available (templates existed, though). So it really was more like "C with Classes" than modern C++.

I wonder if CS373 is still destroyer of students that it was in my day. The average score (before the curve) was around 40%.
You would have had to know how the internals work? Why?

I often hear people nostalgically talking about how it was better in the olden days when people could fix/tweak their engines as they wished. If you lift the bonnet of my car it's a sheet of plastic and a few colour-coordinated filler lids so that I can top-up fluids. No hackability whatsoever.
If you work at a startup, SOPA is more relevant than Sarbanes-Oxley ever was. It's only relevant, however, to people whose function is directly affected by it.

In that sense, it's similar to any serious, macro-level issue that affects your company, but which goes unnoticed by the rank-and-file engineers. That doesn't mean you can ignore it.
As the article mentions, the margins on the restaurant business are slim enough that the wage pool is effectively fixed - it's not a hypothetical scenario, it's a practical constraint.
Thanks. I signed up. It has some UI issues but I can live with that. Reader wasn't perfect in the UI either. I think I like Digg Reader better than TOR.
Not to mention the Defcon goons: http://www.defcon.org/html/links/dc-goons.html
EVA B773 at San Francisco on Jul 23rd 2013, descended below safe height
Yes, Gilles Dubochet crafted the Scala logo from these stairs.
Santa Cruz, the city "over the hill," works to build its own startup culture
Motorcycles are relatively high risk too.

GA is not some super-dangerous activity that's guaranteed to kill you. But let's not pretend that it's perfectly safe, either. Such an attitude does a disservice to all involved.

A GA pilot is still much more likely to die in bed than in his airplane, but the risk is substantially elevated compared to the average.
Rubbish.

HyperV is years too late. We've had VMware since 1998 and Xen, KVM etc for years as well.

PowerShell - Shit crock from end to end. It's a rotten mess of an over-complicated, inconsistent environment that barely works and performs abysmally at the best of times. They can't even get the story straight on dates. Half of it is UTC and half local time and when you mix, boom!

Desired State Config - We had this 20 years ago on Sun machines, plus it doesn't work very well and is not holistic.

VS2012 - Yeah a little better but still crashes 5 times a day with HRESULT errors and throws your workflow out of the window.

Exchange - "when deployed correctly". Enough said.

What! We get fuck all support. 30 support credits a year which we use up in a month and have to wait 6 months plus for a solution in most cases!

Have you ever tried to decipher microsoft licensing? Probably not - it's a rats nest that means you're always guilty of something.

We can't move to Azure - we have financial, insurance and healthcare clients. None of them want Azure.

I think you're looking through some rose-tinted glasses there.
Good reporting isn't about taking someone's word for something. It's about facts. The story has little substance to it. Who wrote it is besides the point.
fixing the bottlenecks. sorry :) our blog hadn't been designed to scale well.
I like Seth's final thought; Doing it well now is much better than doing it perfectly later.
Instead of mutual joy and "profit", breaking down the defense of people with means deliberately crafted for that, to get something they would otherwise not give you -- to me that is the little brother of rape, and at any rate it's the same process leading to slightly different results. But are they really that different?

Showing people pretty successful people with soft drink X is not just informing grownups about the properties of your product, it's trying to manipulate people, and it works on many, it's a HUGE industry. In that respect, we totally live in and accept a rape culture. Remember how everybody fawned over Obama's election campgain, especially the business and marketing world? Down the road, real people die as the result of that. How many children got neglected and died because someone played too much Farmville? I have no idea, it's not like that gets seriously explored, is it. Who gives a shit, I like money.

But you're right, a better example would have been a dating tip I recall somewhere in Ovid's writings (it was the last thing of him I read, I decided he's a scumbag just for this heh): take her to a gladiator fight because the excitement will transfer to her and make it easier to cop some feels, and most importantly promise her a lot to get her to sleep with you, and keep repeating that; exploiting that she'll consider the times she slept with you an investment, that might pay off by you fulfilling your promises to her, and which she would loose if she stops giving in to your sweet talk. That's like the ideal Skinner box loop, you get profit out of them, while they destroy themselves to be able to give you that profit.
It's nice, but it should really check for omitting the 'http://' from urls, because doing so will cause the site to be broken (showing a 404 page) until the page is reloaded.
I don't see why so much cynicism is needed to describe perfectly normal economic behaviour.
The page loads quite slowly on my macbook air. I wonder how many 'reactive' Scala web technologies went into the creation of it!

Scala is wonderful and all the hard work put into it is greatly appreciated. However, every Typesafe product targeting the web that I've tried has given my browser indigestion.
Scala means "stairs" in Italian (and perhaps Spanish; I forget.) As another person noted, the logo is based on the stairs at the birthplace of Scala, EPFL.
"and if you hate the food, you just don't go there again"

If?

With love,
Frenchie

disclaimer: not French, but having spent time in both countries it's clear that tipping is nowhere near as prevalent as in the States where 20% is pretty common.
An alternative that worked really well for me is "do not push broken code". Linus is saying "If you pull at a random time, you might get cruft in your local tree". Why is that? There should be no cruft upstream from you. There may be a conflict between your code and remote, but that is up to you to resolve as the remote works and your code does not work with it.

His suggestion that in order to keep your git history pristine you should just email patches until you can get to a working state seems bizarre. git is a tool that works really well for collaborating on something until it works. In a small project, who gives a crap if you see a commit that fixes the previous commit once in a blue moon. Yes, on a large project like the Linux kernel that might get annoying, but for 99% of people it's irrelevant.
If you missed part 1, here's the first half of the story:

http://jayporter.com/dispatches/observations-from-a-tipless-...
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Yes, sorry try it in a little while. There's a lot of load right now
Just because I eat does not mean I am bulimic, in the same way, having an ECG doe snot mean I "quantify my life". I meant quantifying a lot of things which are not usually done (tracking your time, measuring and weighing yourself everyday, calory counts, keeping track of productive output, etc).
Fixed service charge is very common all around Europe.
Yes - try in a little while pls
What if you can't separate the geometry you want from the geometry next to it, or the geometry it sets upon? That's the current public state of the art. Such systems become much more useful after they can identify objects so they can tell when two items are separate things, and when two sections of the same thing are in fact one object.
Will A Salary Sacrifice For Pension Contributions Benefit Me?
You can purchase a Cessna 150 for under $15k. And that's not a light sport.
Great post. I wonder if there's space for an alternate Hacker News- a Passive Income Hacker News (PIHN) that works as a sort of support group for PIHs.
When personal computers were just coming into the mainstream, particularly when GPUs were just coming about, there was a similar fragmentation issue. OpenGL sought to resolve this with a crap-ton of manufacturer bits and a difficult to use API, but DirectX came along and (for the most part) solved that.

Nowadays we hardly think twice about the fact that there are millions of combinations of monitor and GPU brands and models and configurations. Has anyone ever thought to do a similar comparison of desktop and laptop "fragmentation"?
So 42 ways to make money out of mobile games. I guess that most games usually implement 1-3 methods. Do you have any information regarding the most lucrative method?
But for various reasons (also known as carriers) google does crap job of pushing updates. The moment google wrestles back control from them and begins pushing updates chrome style we will live in a better world.

Otherwise we will be in situations like a friend was cursing me yesterday about how I dare have android 4.2 (and wait for 4.3 rom) on my unlocked 2010 device and he is stuck on his HTC with 4.1 and no signs of incoming upgrade soon.
Because wages/margins/costs/expenses are far more elastic than the zero sum game the author presents.
The problem with this argument is that no matter how much you make the developers aware that they are doing something wrong, there will be developers who do it when under pressure. (Meaning to go back and clean it up, but we know how that one goes.) And then when you break stuff, people OTHER than that developer will not be aware of how well you warned the developer.

In that situation, you'll be the one blamed. It is unfair, but that is what will happen.

For a case in point, Microsoft encountered this one repeatedly in the 80s and 90s. (It didn't help that sometimes it probably was their fault..but most of the time it wasn't. It really, really wasn't.)
If you care about anything or anyone then you have obligations. Such obligations are not liabilities. These are assets. The entire conceptual optimization offered is false.
I was waiting for the pitch at the end, but it didn't appear. Other than that it's a straight forward restatement of what others have said already.

The problem with these types of posts is that they make it seem like passive income is easy. In fact it is a hell of a lot of work to create, say, an info product, and marketing it can also be a full-time job. You need to have surplus income and time to take on the risk of doing this, which is hard to do if you're an employee. This probably explains why most of the passive income stuff we read on HN comes from consultants.
Ubuntu Edge smartphone funding levels dying off
It may be legal to fly an ultralight with no formal training, but I would strongly recommend against it. Attempting that is an excellent way to get yourself killed.

The barrier to entry for aviation is not steep at all if you approach it with the attitude that flying with an instructor is still enjoyable flying. People often think that you need to drop a few thousand bucks on training before you can fly. But not so! You'll be flying right from the start. You'll be doing it with an instructor, but if you pick an instructor whose company you enjoy, that can be a bonus, not a drawback.
There's one problem with the analogy - exactly the point what you're trying to use... a car is almost never updated. There's no patch for the turbocharger, the piston design stays the same after manufacturing, etc. So it's OK to retrofit a custom turbocharger.
Ah, but it's clear the author knows his stuff and is using the term "egoless programmer" as defined by Jerry Weinberg in his 1971 The Psychology of Computer Programming (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egoless_programming). It has nothing to do with being "easy to mange", it means exactly what he said, and is the opposite of at least the connotations of "rockstar".

Similarly, the iffiness of "rockstars" in working well in teams is legendary.

I really doubt the OP has a hidden agenda of making things easier for managers.
"Slow internet" could become legal in Brazil
MI6 and MI5 'refuse to use Lenovo computers'
I think the report could benefit from dropping the lowest 1/5/10% of devices by market share. As can readily be seen from the first diagram, Android has a long tail of obscure devices. Dropping that would make many of the other graphs more readable and more insightful. I guess it'd also be interesting to exclude devices by other characteristics, e.g. exclude all <4.0 devices because maybe you don't want to support them anyway.

I was first puzzled and am now intrigued by their choice to use physical screen size as a basis for that diagram, as opposed to screen resolution. Very appropriate in our resolution-independent times. Of course either way you do it, Android is going to have more variation than Apple. That diagram is also kind of difficult to read; what shade of blue corresponds to what market share?

Finally, it's awesome of them to share the source data! Maybe I'll actually get around to implementing my suggestions.
This is typically off-topic but you found that case interesting you might also enjoy reading "The case of the 500-mile e-mail":

http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
In his scenario the servers make $22, the cooks $14. Is that typical? There does not seem to be much incentive for a long time occupation as a cook.
In pubs in England it's traditional to tip by offering to buy the staff member a drink. They'll charge you for a nominal drink - often saying that they'll save it for later/when their shift ends as the explanation for why they're not pouring themselves a drink right then, and the money goes into the tip pool.

For more on Pub culture see the fascinating "Passport to the Pub: A guide to British pub etiquette" - http://www.sirc.org/publik/pub.html
I would suggest that, even if someone copies your front end code, don't worry about it. Run your own race. A business who just copies (instead of innovating) wont last long.

I would worry about a google penalty for duplicate content across the two sites. If they are really copying your code wholesale you can screw them over by defining the canonical urls for various pages (as your own domains).
I've eaten at this restaurant several times, and I should say the service was always excellent, contrary to what you might expect when the service charge is fixed.
Imagine a similar article about vegetable fragmentation. They all have the same operating system (DNA, ribosomes, cells, etc.) but gosh, look at that horrible, awful variety! And all the different manufacturers! What a disaster.
That's a nice way to think about it. Looking back at the big "travelling phase" in my 30s, there were lots of years where I only grossed between $10,000 and $20,000 for the year. That was plenty, though, to spend most of the year living out of a backpack on some remote tropical beach. A lot of it actually ended up in savings.

That was contracting, so I needed to come back to LA to refill the travelling stack. It doesn't take much work to pivot that into a SaaS product or two that replaces the same amount of income. Again, maximising for free time and flexibility with profit being a nice side effect.

Then it gets really good.
Amazon’s “two-pizza teams”: The ultimate divisional organization
Beware the courier scam: an express way to lose your money
>>Paul Graham himself says he advises every start-up to "work on something for which they are the initial market"

I would bet that there is a gigantic initial market for the cure for cancer.
Or you could buy a certified cessna 150 for $15k. Much less likely to kill you or have an engine failure.

Anyway this isn't really anything new. You can already build your own plane from plans, and the plans only cost about $100 (a very small portion of the cost of building):

http://www.quickheads.com/index.php?option=com_ixxocart&Item...
You're right, but you misunderstand the OP. Ruby, for example, has "advisory privacy". Private methods aren't shown in generated documentation but can be called if you really want.

On your analogy, the car has a small number of controls visible and they're all you need 99% of the time. But the engine compartment isn't welded shut.
Wages/margins/costs/expenses are far more elastic than the zero sum game the author presents.

If you need to pay somebody $2 more an hour the money can come from more places. Increase a drink price, decrease tomato quality, steam clean every 3 weeks instead of 2, wash the bathroom yourself instead of hiring, call the newspaper and ask for a reduced rate, etc etc etc.
I think there a few specific differences for them:

-Flash sales rarely have any inventory, and usually low enough quantities that they just sell through 100% of their buy and close the sale
-Inventory-based store models require significant planning months in advance to source the right amount of each product, color, size, etc. They also then have to deal with the extra (you can't just leave products with one size all over your site b/c people will be frustrated)
-Typically flash models need more focus on buying/sourcing (ie finding the cool new products to sell) and store models need more focus on planning (ie figuring out how much/when to buy, then managing inventory).

I'm not sure what their EU team was focused on, but from Jason's comments, it sounds like there was a lot of redundancy in buying/sourcing, which would need less resources as they pivot to a store model.

In terms of their open positions, it seems like a a company growing as fast as they have would want to keep the door open for hiring any position they might need - their open positions look like a broad range of resume collectors...
I saw an interview recently with David Chang [1] who implied that part of the thinking behind the design of his 12-seat, 2-Michelin star restaurant Ko was an experiment in ways to improve the wages of his employees. Because KO is so small and the kitchen bellies up to the diners, the cooks are also servers and can legally make tips.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chang

[Edit - Whoops. As a San Diego resident, I feel bad for neglecting to mention that The Linkery was awesome and like lots of folks here I'm sorry to see it go.]
He cares because his 96% interest is non-voting.

I'd be interested in knowing how this works in a legal framework, and if his shareholders have any legitimate legal recourse if he decides to ignore them.
It sounds like you didn't even skim the article... Here's a portion of the opening introduction:

> Over the next 10 days, 12 of his friends and acquaintances bought 929 shares, and Merrill ended up with a handful of extra cash. He kept the remaining 99.1 percent of himself but promised that his shares would be nonvoting: He’d let his new stockholders decide what he should do with his life.

He cares because he's a non-voting shareholder and the shareholders care because they are his friends and family.
It's a great logo and it's a shame it was stolen.
There's a middle ground between public and private, and some languages call it "protected".

In FOSS libraries that I maintain, methods and properties that I don't want to expose are prefixed with an underscore and designated as protected. Protected members are not directly accessible, but anyone who wishes to play with them can create a subclass to access them. They also don't need to make any further changes other than subclassing, whereas private members might need to be overridden or (even worse) reimplemented depending on the language. So I think "protected" hits a nice balance between simplicity, openness, and maintainability.

The requirement to create a subclass to access protected members might come across as an inconvenience, but it sends the same message as the article's "dodgy" JS syntax: Here be dragons, tread carefully and don't blame me if your app breaks. It would be very nice if users understood that the leading underscore is meant to send the same message, but since they're apparently not getting the message, a little more inconvenience might be needed.
Yeah, I was actually surprised at how generic those reviews were. I mean, I've been reading Amazon reviews for a long time, but this just takes things to a new level.
...Or you could put together a proper gaming machine for the same price.
The Guardian's been making a fairly obvious play for the US online market for several years now, particularly in their choice of opinion writers and topics.
It appears that the source data download at the bottom of the page is broken, it gives an XML file with two fields saying AccessDenied.

edit: it's working now

This is some great information to think about concerning Android fragmentation, and how, perhaps, it's not actually a bad thing.
'Hacker heroin frame plot' foiled by security blogger
On a side note, if you have a waiter or waitress that you particularly like and want to provide a tip that will not necessarily go into the tip pool, just leave a cash tip. This gives the waiter the ability to choose how much of the tip they report at the end of their shift.

Conversly, leave a tip on a credit card bill if you want to ensure that the entire tip is subject to any tip pool.
I found all of the available JS engines in Selenium to be insufficient for my purposes. None of them handled a wide range of javascript well and would often fail to execute it. I switched to PhantomJS and couldn't be happier.
How do you convince shareholders to invest their money if you can only promise returns on a 100+ year schedule?

Genuinely curious: what specific returns do you promise on this schedule, if you could obtain all the resources you envision? If this question is unfair, could you be more specific on a 50- or 20-year schedule?

From the bit of science history I've read, it seems rare for any successful investigator to have a 100-year plan. They work on the problems that are of current interest, and later researchers do the same, and it's only in long hindsight that we see any sort of logical path.
I agree with this, I reread it wondering if I had missed it.
They've definitely still got some kinks to work out on their update pushing. I've got a Nexus 4 and a Nexus 7 and despite my checking for updates several times a day neither of them have received 4.3.

I understand the necessity of the "rolling update" model in general, however in the case of Nexus machines it should not be necessary. At any rate, I should be able to opt out of the rolling update model and put myself at the front of the line without having to manually flash a factory image.
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MIT releases report on its actions in the Aaron Swartz case
Social Signals - best of social media marketing this week
I wish US-specific (or any country-specific) sites weren't allowed to use .com. There's a perfectly good .us TLD going almost unused, and as an international user it's very frustrating to find a shop I want to buy from on a .com, and then discover that it only sells to the US.
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