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I like to think of Less as the MySQL of the CSS world, whereas Sass is more of a Postgres.
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The place, where the first nuclear bomb was tested
Microsoft slashes $100 off the price of its Surface Pro tablet
Yeah, I thought it was actually a good joke.. not sure why some people need to see drama behind everything
So? It's pretty clear that the owner knowingly allowed it and perhaps even promoted it. It's obvious that this person broke a serious law. Should the FBI just turn a blind eye because shutting down a hosting service won't be 100% effective at eliminating that content forever? No. We don't prosecute any crime conditionally on the basis of how effective that specific prosecution is at eliminating current/future instances of the same crime. Just because prosecutions of some Internet-related crimes are unjust doesn't mean you should employ mental gymnastics to side with every alleged Internet criminal.
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That is spot on really. And I like the circlejerk going on :)
+1
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> (I'm not shilling for Microsoft. I have no financial interests here).

Paid or unpaid, this post is pretty much shilling.
No I mean if you secure your dbinbox via the settings with a password. If you then login to that dbinbox you get the following url:

http://dbinbox.com/xxx?password=myplaintextpassword
To me it is not clear why stealing the proprietary code could have cost CG hundreds of millions of dollars.

Proprietary code that wasn't developed and tested with generic requirements in mind can rarely be economically re-used outside of the original company context, as it reflects the structure and the processes of the mother-company. In fact most organisations I know decided to throw away their code base entirely when restructuring or upgrading their internal systems as re-work was deemed uneconomic, because the gap between the code and changed environment is too great.

Data is salvageable and immediately valuable; however re-using the code requires a considerable effort, it would also be very hard to keep in secret. The news of their platform being fully or partially re-used at competitor's would have quickly reached GC and they could have shut down the competitor entirely whilst suing them for all of the profit.

Of course one could steal the code for analysis so they could try and exploit the technological weaknesses in GC trading patterns, however this is not the argument given by the article or GC.
Identity fraud is a criminal matter. Talk to the police. If they have stolen copyrighted material, file a DMCA.
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I can't say that I would buy this book, but I have been wanting to get started with OwnCloud. Best of luck with your sales.
Work issued Dell laptop. Dont have one of my own.

A simple wall mounted desk and a chair.

For the little bit of freelancing that I'm starting to do, and the paltry pennies I make from content writing, yeah, this works!

I dont have a machine of my own and hope that pretty soon, someone will ask me to write a lot and let me earn enough to buy myself a macbook air.
Fine. If that's what you want to call it. I just want to point out alternatives. Take it or leave it.
People are still using SVN for new stuff?
But the Vanity article explicitly states that the "Jury" asked him whether he took the strats (the trading strategies) and he said "No."; the response from the "Jury" was telling, they said "Why not take the valuable stuff?"
Quite obviously the coffee shop worker would not be serving time in Federal prison. He caught caught with source code, not with using the source code, selling the source code, threatening to sell or release the source code, etc etc. No actual damage occurred.
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Huge Russian meteor may be one of several that still pose a threat to Earth
> You should be using htmlspecialchars() instead.

Without trying to be too much of an arrogant arsehole, surely they should be using a proper language. That is the real core cause of the problem here isn't it?
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I have set up an OwnCloud instance on my server and I have noticed that it was extremely hard to get the master revision to work properly (which means: allowing it to install apps), and the last version they have for download also lacks some polish here and there (but wasn't too hard to set up). IMHO: the basics work good (file synchronization and such) but if you want a bit more than the vanilla package (like tell it where your music is, rather than it scanning everything in your data-directory indiscriminately) it might be a bit of a challenge. :)

Not to be a cheapskate, but I wouldn't buy a >$30 book for it though. You have to buy the Android app if you want file synchronization on your phone. But that's 80 cents or so.
So?

Happens sometimes. Have a coffee.
No big deal, happens all the time.
Currently, says: "Upgrading software, please check back in some minutes."
Why wouldn't you expect highly skilled workers to perform about the same as highly skilled local workers?

Your reply has nothing to do with potatolicious's point, which is that there are companies like Google which don't hire foreign workers for the sake of underpaying them. That's not the business model there.

What you're talking about is different. If increased supply of high-quality workers pushes wages downward a bit, that's not an act created by Google or other individual employers -- that's a macro effect you get even when they're paying any given foreign worker the same that they'd pay a local worker.
When I'm testing a mail server I'll sometimes use telnet to connect (eg to port 110), or openssl for testing secured connections. What should I be using; or is it just the nomenclature you're bothered about?
But playing the autistic spectrum (otherworldly technical types) card is an obvious legal ploy to try and mitigate the offense.

And you are only hearing Aleynikovs side of the story obviously he and his lawyers going to portray himself as doing nothing wrong.
Ask HN: B2B sales channels?
HN,

How can one do B2B sales online? Are there any sales channels/websites where "leads",prospects can be targeted? For example: Is there a appstore type site for business that fellow HNers have tried?
Being clever is only half the battle. Turing (amongst many others) had the perseverance to apply their intellect. Plenty of smart people - including geniuses - are happy to glide through life on their intelligence while applying the minimum effort they need to.

As for Porgy, I "met" him in person earlier this year when visiting a Bletchley Park. I was oddly surprised at just how humble that teddy looks in real life. I found it a great reminder just how hard times must have been during WWII and how much industry and technology have advanced since. Which is odd because you'd think the Bombe et al would be enough of a reminder itself. But I guess being a nerd I've grown up fascinated by those early machines so struggle to equate the wider development of society using the evolution of computers as my yardstick. But I'm digressing massively now :)
This article seems to be intentionally misleading.

It tries to make it sound like everybody (other than Congress) is mandated to buy their insurance via the insurance exchanges. That's not correct. The law (roughly) requires everybody to have insurance from somewhere, but that somewhere does not have to be the insurance exchanges. The insurance exchanges provide an additional option, but if you have something better such as insurance through your employer you can keep using that.
Great idea, I was previously using Filestork but they closed a year ago ( https://twitter.com/filestork )
It's one of the worst examples of "seamless design"[1] I have ever seen.

[1] http://jim-mcbeath.blogspot.co.uk/2008/11/seamful-design.htm...
You weren't just pointing out alternatives but actively dissuading someone. That's where I think it crosses the line.
Seems like a lose-lose situation for the FBI. They propose laws to spy on everyone to protect children, and people tell them to do some "old fashioned police work" instead. You know, go after the real bad guys and you don't need draconian laws to make it easier.

Then they do some old fashioned police work, and you get cynical responses like yours. They didn't warrantlessly wiretap anyone, or violate anyone's rights, to take down someone who was knowingly breaking a horrific law.
Yeah. It's just the wrong level of abstraction to deal with this. It's not even hard to do properly anyway.
Fair point, it's actually not my code and I've always been generally skeptical about its safety. I have found flaws in it before.

Thanks for the input, I'll look at changing it.
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From the comments:
"Why are you putting him in jail? Again, Goldman has no ability to put people in jail. Only the justice system does. Why this kind of narrative continues to be OK with people, I have no idea."

This justice system didn't decide out the blue to go after Aleynikov one day. G.S. asked them to do it. I suppose if you work for G.S. you need to be very good at rationalizing things in order to sleep it at night.

If I worked for G.S. I would probably tell myself:
"G.S. doesn't cause the starvation of millions of people, we just speculate on food commodities."
(Google "goldman sach starvation")
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Okay that makes a lot of sense. The way LessWrong uses the word "surprise" there is a little bit different than how it's used in day-to-day language, where it also carries a (subtle) value judgement, as opposed to being exclusively rational signal that ones model needs updating. Hence my confusion.

now I doubt we'll get an expert with domain knowledge to jump in after five days though :)
does this mean that unbreakable DRM will now be possible?
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Alan Turing's Thoughts On Edward Snowden

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It's worth the comfort and features :)
The Third Industrial Revolution - Jeremy Rifkin (2012)
Developed an app for Android and placed it on Android market. It had 5000 users after a week and then it got removed without notice, no email, no reason why, no nothing. First and last time I do anything with Google, malicious company not only for that reason but for many other.
The problems with Google start at the very basics of communication, with their policy of providing just one email adress (and nothing else) where you may or may not get an answer, effectively handling incoming requests more like petitions than providing real communication.

This is in constrast to many other big companies where you get at least some reply (although it's often canned and not very helpful, but still more than a generic auto reply), or where you can call a more or less expensive hotline, so you can at least pay them for hearing your voice.

This behaviour of Google is so restrictive that it even violates consumer protection laws in some countries. For example, here in Germany they got into trouble because they violated the so-called "Impressumspflicht". This law requests that they have to provide (among others) at least one postal address and one telephone number on their website, and that they can actually be contacted by those, in 60 minutes or less.

http://translate.google.de/translate?hl=de&sl=de&tl=en&u=htt...

http://translate.google.de/translate?hl=de&sl=de&tl=en&u=htt...
yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method
Any reason behind this? I've been using sass in node, and was just wondering.
I nearly fell off my chair at this response. The app is obviously aimed at non-programmers. Good luck getting them to pay you in Bitcoins.
This could have been written by my ex-boss, who hired me as a 'lean consultant', then proceeded to ignore everything I said, and do this instead. We're about to find out which of us was right; I suspect she was.

But getting to an 'Exceptional Viable Product' was tough. Constantly moving release deadlines. No idea who was 'right' in the team when it came to UX. No idea if a feature was valuable or necessary so 'done' was a constantly moving target. We ended up with a beautiful, if not bulky EVP (homerlearning.com).
Search support is for website owners, who are users as well. And I'm pretty sure that support queue is long.
If you are genuinely asking that question I suspect you already have the answer.
Where's the comparison there?
Artificial Intelligence being used to make a talking teddy bear
That doesn't mean people are willing to pay for faster support or even need it. Feedly offers a pro account but obviously decided against crippling the free account. I'm very happy about that. If people are willing to pay they get priority support as an additional value. And as bonus: if the support queue is short once it is implemented in the support software/workflow this feature costs feedly nothing.
Yep, that's called depressive realism. It's pretty bizarre to think about.
I have looked it the quality of Google API'S its horrible only partially complete and totally lacking in meaningful documentation.

If some one came to me saying my employer is saying I am a poor performer and trying to sack me and gave the Google apis's and its documentation as an example I would have sympathies with the employer.
I really like socat, and use it pretty regularly for interfacing with unix sockets. Ncat, and socat have a divergent featureset though. Some combination of the two yields good results.
I don't dispute that this if convicted is a criminal offence. I guess I was coming from the angle that the children who are the victims should be the priority...
I wouldn't call a 1 series luxury?
Nothing specific to the language here. Mentioned functions do exactly what their names imply.

Just like ruby or python, PHP has great templating languages, support for prepared statements, etc.
Other people have answered this for me, but I mean the overhead of another moving part in the tool chain. Sometimes this is worth it (i.e. your example of C v. assembly down thread), but I don't think it's the case here.

I don't mean to suggest CoffeeScript is without value. I just don't think it has hit the requisite "escape velocity" to make me want to integrate it to my tool chain.
I fail to see how you came to such a distinction. I'd say it's closer to one being mysql and the other one being mariadb, it's not like any of them focuses on correctness or anything.
£ 10 for the e-book, not bad really considering the niche market, may just grab this.
Maybe I'm missing your sarcasm, you place no value in your digital privacy, or you're just completely computer illiterate. If you're capable of installing any app on your computer, you can run the tor browser. There is nothing more involved to it than downloading the tor browser bundle, running the setup file, and finally click on "Start Tor Browser.exe". My 90 year old grandmother could figure this out.
I woudl put all the RS Audis into the luxury bracket
for me its upto the developer to choose between JS or CS. I used CS for some time and i liked it. But still i preferred to switch back to JS only to not to waste my time in correcting CS syntax issues and play with JS.
>Not helpful. My question demands an answer from the person making the claim, unless you happen to know what they're thinking.

No, questions can be answered by anyone, if they provide a relevant answer.

What the person making the claim thought is irrelavent. The parent gave you a valid reply.
One short article that was equal parts inspiring, heart-rending and heart-warming.

I look forwards to the animation.
Submitter here: I actually couldn't imagine that this hadn't been submitted before, but a couple of searches didn't turn up anything and the dup-detection also didn't pipe up...no idea why.
Not well thought out? This is a Tweet, not a press release. It seems to me like he's basically thinking out loud to get some discussion going.
Latvia blocking extradition of Gozi writer due to disproportionate US sentencing
VPN? Owned by whom? Which company / country can you trust? This discussion is about security and privacy, not avoiding content restrictions.
I saw the same happen with the brazillian one (it died infighting before even managing to finish the party registration process)

This has two issues:

One, it shows a younger generation that has a "fix everything" syndrome, they see lots of problems, and try to fix them all at once... It is obvious that at least in politics, this does not work.

The second, is that feminism, and other socialist ideologies, need a high amount of state control, while IP laws need less, and thus when you mix the two ideologies on your party you end with lots of infighting, hardcore feminists won't want to reform IP anymore, and hardcore IP reformers are most likely lean to the libertarian or anarchist side of things and are against feminist policies.
Did this just effectively mission-kill all copyrights on algorithms?
This is often said, but these problems are practically endemic in the PHP 'community'. I can't help but think that the lack of proper documentation or basic explanations is responsible.
> Both Sass and LESS are CSS preprocessors, which allow writing clean CSS

I'd say they both allow writing dirtier CSS with a clean source code, the ease of nesting & mixin can blow up the size and complexity of the generated style without it being immediately visible.

> in a programming construct instead of static rules.

Most of what less and sass do are static expansion rules.
6) Write HN titles that are grammatically correct.

;)

I hate to point it out, but you'll find that many people will not read something that is badly written from the off (the headline).

Some great points in that article, for sure. Getting the voice of your copy right is of the utmost importance, as otherwise it just doesn't work.
So, then if it's that important to you, give the people giving you the cover of HTTPS some money, stop being a cheapskate.
And you can pay for that feature. I have no real stake in the game here, but I'm failing to see why that is a must-have feature for every user of the service.
Compass alone is worth using SASS for me. I've developed on both for about 2 years now. When I get to pick, I pick SASS. They're both very powerful, though. After 8 years of development, they made me love CSS again.
The thing about that is the browser bundle they provide significantly reduces the number of variables they need to consider when making tor work to secure privacy. If everyone used it with the default firefox there would be significant problems for anonymity in terms of browser sniffing.

I think a more helpful move in response to the exploit would be working towards having tor base their bundle on more up to date versions of firefox.
That makes sense - I was under the impression that you need to keep the name's history etc; even so it wouldn't be much of a problem.
Is there anything that prevents running such program in a VM?
Your comment offers no value. Making videos, even if some of them are wrong is valid strategy as current educational system has, arguably, more elements that are wrong.
If you call A6 and 5-series luxury cars then half of Germany / northern Europe are driving luxury cars, that is by definition not luxury. Those are called "upper midrange" or "premium".
They may want to fix that JS heap spray exploit first in their ESR ...
Not completely down, very slow today though.
what are you projected timelines for your book? I need to learn Bootstrap "properly" for a project, sometime in the next 6-12 months, and wondering whether your book will be around in time!
I often have the opposite experience: there is a surprisingly large number of available good domains out there. With the proliferation of relaxed TLDs (.tv, .io, .ly etc, and now even more with the new arbitrary TLDs) domain squatting looks like a much less profitable activity than it was in the 90s.
When I was living in China, I used Tor daily to circumvent the great firewall. Back when the Tor bundle was using Firefox < 15, it has some bad memory leaks, but Mozilla has done a great job of fixing those. Chrome has turned into the memory hog. Chrome 2x memory usage has gotten so bad, I’m actually thinking about finding an old full install of a 0x or 1x for my laptop.

As far as it being slow to load sites, there will always be a high latency when using Tor. It’s the nature of onion routing. If Tor becomes more popular, I’m hoping there will be a way to donate to high bandwidth exit nodes to keep the network performance up.
Tracking bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=901365

edit: seems to be already fixed in ESR 17.0.7
A VPN is not the same.

A VPN will protect from a MITM attack, obscuring the resources you're accessing and the data exchanged to an observer. However, it does not anonymize you from the VPN provider, who can still disclose your information or be compelled to provide it. (you undoubtedly had to pay for that VPN with a legal name and payment information.)

Tor not only protects against MITM, but obscures the requester such that if an interested party can either force information from, or controls the endpoint, they cannot discover who the requester is.*

(* Provided that the requester is not divulging information in the form of cookies or other personally identifying information. If Mozilla were serious about providing native Tor functionality in Firefox, they'd no doubt provide it as part of the browser "Private" mode.)

Edit: This link doesn't cover VPNs, but gives a good idea of how different services provide security at different levels. VPNs obscure the "site.com" along the route, while the location in all locations as shown as the VPN provider, and not the end user. However, because the VPN provider knows the identity of the user, it can potentially disclose this info. A Tor endpoint does not know this.
https://www.eff.org/pages/tor-and-https
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Thanks for the links!

I really like this one by John Adams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi4A9bPDvTc

Also Steve Reich is quite famous for minimalism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLckHHc25ww

And Gyorgy Ligeti (who is a bit harder for casual listening)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os-cHI9G2KU
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArX-iNou_qg
Fast Android emulator using VirtualBox
You can be an idiot in any language, including PHP.
Blaming the tool is exactly what gets you in to this mess in the first place.

The fault is with the programmer. No one else.
I came here wondering why anyone would want this instead of just installing the client. Then I realized this script would prevent needing to keep another copy of your library on your system. Clever!
I can highly recommend going through this tutorial if you're interested in LLVM or just compilers in general. While it lacks some polish here and there, it's still quite easy to follow and what you end up with is some actually "useable".

It's also rather easy to extend upon what is made, adding your own features.
Turing was very good at finding good problems, and then had the courage to work on them.

The Lifehacker list is amusing, at best. I quickly run out of fingers and toes if I count the mathematicians I know who are runners, have messy desks, and break big problems down into small problems. Few, if any, of them are near to having Turing's influence.
That $20 is still a tax, albeit small.

The problem with the idea of charging parked domains is that defining what is "parked" is hard, and can easily be gamed.