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> Office 2010 only uses their own copy when running under XP though unlike older versions and 2013 don't support XP at all so they don't have their own copy anymore.

That explains why Office 2013 isn't vulnerable. That, plus the fact that it uses DirectWrite instead of GDI.

But then, why is Office 2010 vulnerable? It was released after Windows 7, which isn't vulnerable. Did it ship outdated libraries?
> Had the investor said, "Yeah, we don't see this becoming a $100M any time soon", maybe that'd make sense. But the additional order of magnitude (one billllllllllion dollars) strikes me as unreasonable.

Startups forget they are one company in a portfolio of companies that comprise a fund.

Venture capital expects a fraction of its portfolio investments to succeed. So it must invest in companies with very large target markets so the handful that succeed can offset the losses of those that fail.
Where do these numbers come from that you proclaim them to be universal human standards? Why not 7 hours of work? Why not 9?
Aiming Too High
+1 for keto. The wife and I have lost 20 lbs each in the last 3 months.
What's your source for the '...seizure of 5% of all Bitcoins recently'?

The FBI total seizure from Silk Road is 173,991 Bitcoins [1] -- which is about 1.45% of the Total BTC (11,954,825 [2])

[1] http://www.fbi.gov/newyork/press-releases/2013/manhattan-u.s...

[2] http://bitcoinwatch.com
As an English & French speaker I would say [du̵ːˈdiːn] (dood-EEN).
Seeing as I grew up on 80+ hour workweeks, I can promise you this is false for a certain group of people.

I spent two years in banking - normally we had 18+ hour workdays... definitely gave me stamina later on.

Tier 1 bonus bucket at a bulge bracket one year, Tier 2 the other year.

You pretty much always end up getting paid for hard work.
Ocean cleaning seems to be an even greater concern than every other green issues. The scale of the pollution is so big, if you take pollution from micro plastic bubbles and heavy metals into account that i'm not even sure we'll get back to clean oceans in my lifetime.

As for now i'm starting to avoid sushis and eat much less fish in general.
for what it's worth, this appears to be an invalid claim under the DMCA, and filing a counter-claim is actually relatively straightforward: http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/responding-dmca-takedown-not...
Shoot me an email at greg.ny [at] gmail.com with a few times that work for you for a chat. GA is perfectly fine, it just requires some minor configuration to collect and report actionable metrics that matter most to you.
I can understand using unencrypted network within a data center (unless you are doubly paranoid), but why wouldn't they encrypt data between data centers?
I asked this question 6 months ago, I liked the reply.

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Most programmers are very much unlike you or I. Think about those legions of DoD/DoD contractor engineers that trust government implicitly and totally, and really don't give a shit about more "hacker"/"technologist" subjects.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5836416
That the US intervenes domestically and in Europe, L. America, Middle East, etc, whereas China is mostly concerned with itself.
I do believe the volt makes Chevrolet a loss for every unit sold. If this is a deliberate loss leader to put Tesla out of business, then it is an issue. They're all looking for market share, but Tesla has less capital backing. OTOH it has less crummy baacklog and infrastructure, so it may be nimble eough to survive
"People like you." Yeah, that's exactly the caliber of discourse I was hoping for...
The terrible things the Chinese government does aren't being done to you.
Not to discount this, but where does commute fall into this breakdown?
Comment thread from last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6623205
I'm always surprised when professional (in this case Physiotherapists) say things like "we're seeing an x% increase in cases involving...".

CrossFit is growing massively, of course they are going to see increased cases. The military saying 16% of their test group were injured during their study. But if they had chosen to study running, they would likely have a similar or larger percentage of injured atheletes, if the 70% of runners will sustain an injury each year is to be believed.

I don't do CrossFit anymore, and am not a fan, but it's just becoming a whipping boy at this point.
The contemporary term is “hipster”.
Maybe you didn't notice the detainment of Greenwald's partner by the GCHQ whereby they demanded him to turn-over/destroy whatever he had.

Further, the break-in to Greenwald's residence and theft of his machine.

As well as the visit to the Guardian and destrution of machines....

The evidence is crystal.
Good point, because in the US at least, people will willingly sacrifice their leisure time for more money (longer commutes allowing for cheaper housing being just one example).
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It's a question of audiences.

To an expert on bitcoin, the description of "the address with the most Bitcoins" is self-explanatory and, yes, has one well-defined answer that it can be determined from the block-chain alone. If you're this person, I can understand why you think I'm being pedantic, and I'm sorry if I came off that way.

But someone who says "If anybody tells you Bitcoin is anonymous, they haven't the first clue how Bitcoin works" isn't talking to an expert on bitcoin. They're talking to someone that they fear may not know enough to avoid being easily swayed by the kind of inexact language that a non-expert doesn't even know that they're looking for. They're talking to the exact kind of audience that doesn't know that "person" and "address" are not interchangable

This person may then go on to claim, based on this evidence, that (1) no anonymity can ever be obtained by bitcoin (which isn't true in theory or in practise for the reasons I mention) and (2) that we know "who" (as in person, not address) has all of the bitcoins. But that's just not true, and it's a really, really important detail to someone that makes policy decisions, or that wants to decide if or how to use the technology.

It's the same problem with equating an IP address with a human. You may use exact language when you talk about these things, and you may understand that when someone offhandedly points at an IP address on a diagram and says "...but this guy over here..." that "guy" doesn't refer to an actual human being. But you aren't any of the grandparents to this conversation, nor are you the hypothetical uneducated observer (to whom I mean no ill will; we all are, given the right conversation). Most importantly, you're not ninetax, who is clearly referring to a person and not to an address, nor are you nknighthb, who is clearly referring to the notion of an address rather than a person.
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That was an excellent read. Thank you. I'll admit I'm often reluctant to read to much in to data I deal with daily (web analytics), as I'm unsure of how to measure its significance accurately. I'm going to dive in and learn more about this.
This is a nice missing tool for app developers. Only if I had enough reviews...
Wow that's great i really love to work on heroku
Some companies do this, some don't. Personally, I avoid the former ones.
How it that possible
There's a good deal of middle ground between the self-evident

>We are not merely rational creatures we are also feeling creatures

and a thought-terminating cliche like

>Objectivity doesn't exist.

The latter doesn't seem like a helpful response to someone who is apparently asking for scientific evidence for long working hours and/or overtime doing harm to you. If anything, knowing what science says on the matter is emotionally important as it could either (if the possibility of permanent harm is limited) provide some relief to or (otherwise) justify the indignation of a person currently doing overtime and unhappy about it (and hopefully lead to action on their part). Both scenarios seem desirable to me.

Edit: Could you explain the downvotes? In case it sounded dismissive I changed "thought-stopper" to the more formal "thought-terminating cliche" above and added the ellipses for clarity.
I agree, however I think it is very credible that a lot of people involved in this were not fully aware or complicit in regards to what was happen.

I do not think they were stupid, but just didn't see the entire picture, or were never given the entire picture.
Apparently these data centers were linked via dedicated lines -- there was no traffic or outside access to these fiber lines. They were used solely for communication between the two data centers (so technically still an isolated network).
Requiring proof of regular maintenance or even owning the process of maintenance is pretty common for dealerships.

http://us.lexusownersclub.com/forums/topic/70591-is-it-manda...
I suppose this article faired poorly because of its length and a touch of the vague. I think the premise of an "ideal capitalist product" is either self-contradictory or ill-defined. The analysis of the digital panopticon, and its effect on interpersonal relationships is spot on.

I'll summarize what you might see as HN antagonism in this piece as "refinement of the current digital trends will only make worse appear better". If the digital utopia (another ill-defined term) refers to current-trend network panopticon, then I surely and emphatically agree.

But computers are faithful servants, nothing more. They are currently recapitulating existing hierarchies -- this is how We The Hackers have commandeered them. Who wants to write a distributed system when so much in our tool-belts makes client/server architectures a comparative breeze. It's no surprise that on the first try we've made our servants into centralization machines, into pyramid builders.

The network effects -- for or against hierarchy -- of most (maybe all) previous tech is hard-wired. The steam engine's effects, etched in steel, support hierarchy only to the point thermodynamics and Mr. Carnot will allow. Radio and television are inherently hierarchal, supporting one-way broadcast on account of the physical limits of electromagnetic transmission. There are a myriad other technologies, to be evaluated by these criteria, and I think Lewis Mumford has done a pretty thorough job of it [1].

As for our digital servants -- they aren't hard-wired. Decentralization may be non-trivial today, but when it works, it persists as long as the medium. Bittorrent isn't going away anytime soon, and DHTs are here to stay.

So by all means, leave the digital utopia you've been sold so far. Most popular fiction utopias were strictly controlled hierarchies anyway.
Let's re-wire our servants to decentralize. We can fight the panopticon with the same silicon we used to build it. For in the end, the universe allows encryption.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_the_Machine
I am at the openstack conference right now. My colleague was talking in hebrew to a lot of folks the past few days. I said to him jokingly "Where did all these Israeli's come from that are here"

His reply: "Dude, all this shit comes out of Israel! its the whole tech/NSA bullshit used against the palestinians!"

It was a casual comment - but very interesting in that its a foregone conclusion that the surveillance state is just a function of the culture of Israeli tech development.
Is your app open source? I presume it's what's listed under [3] though you don't make that explicit (thanks for posting that).
Google Apps Unseat Microsoft in the Enterprise? Whats your take?
It's not smarter than that. http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/03/amazon-s3-performance-tip...
What if a company is deliberately lying (with a wink and a nod) about being under a warrant when in fact it's not? It's not illegal to lie. Would that force the government to prosecute you for breach of a non-existent warrant? If the government is not prosecuting, then they are admitting that no warrant currently exists, which in itself is a kind of signal. Another try could be for the government to quickly serve you with a warrant, but then you need to retract the statement to avoid prosecution. If the company retracts the statement that is another signal. If the company does not retract the statement and is not prosecuted, it also signals something.
Split California into North and South states, so that influence of Los Angeles Hollywood on valley will reduce.
I have a photo watermark product and I see photo backup as a natural progression of our product line up. Stories like these are a wake up call. Few things that I would take away are -

- They were charging too low IMO. The free tier gave away too much for free. If your product is of value then charge for it. People will pay. It does not matter that Apple and Google are giving it away for free.

- They should have spent at least some part of the millions they raised on acquiring users.

- It seems they blew almost all money on salaries and consulting. Even if the AWS bill was $35K a month, the money they had raised was enough to last them for two years and they also had paying customers.

At the end of the day it looks like a classic case of concentrating entirely on product and neglecting the revenue and user growth. You can afford to ignore revenue if you have the growth rate of Instagram or Twitter. But if you have neither revenue nor growth then it's difficult to keep going on VC money.
I don’t know the true origin, but it sounds like Scots to me. “Aw” = “all”, and “but aw” would presumably be like “after all”, or “though” in Bristol (or maybe Yorkshire?) dialects.
> and perhaps allied countries like North Korea and Cuba

Nobody is more distrusting of each other than two communist countries.
Well, no I think you're just wrong. Most academics would think of this as an early proto computer or programmable device. It is an automata. Just because there isn't a YouTube vid go some hipster showing you how to make a blog engine with it just change that.

But I guess we can play the Sarah Palin game blaming the "media." :)
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Bitstamp is less than 5% away from gox (and has comparable volume) so instead you can think of it as 5% from an all time high.
I use Trello and reportsfortrello.com (plug: I wrote it).

What did you find difficult using Trello? How did you track your time in Trello?

My recommended ways to track time using just Trello:

small team - List tracking - 1 card per person - whoever drags the card to your "doing" list is tracked. You can use the membership to track assignments.

big team - membership tracking - 1 card for many members - track the membership of a card while it is in your "doing" list. This way you can assign membership of a card in a "staging" list and then have any member drag a card to the "doing" list to track the team time. This way your Trello board becomes a real time view of who is assigned what and show if they are currently working on it.

Reportsfortrello.com will show all of the activity along the way. You can see the time spent by the: card, board, and member. You keep the simple interface in Trello and the ability to use the desktop, tab, iphone, android clients and still get detailed time tracking (for those that need to see it).

I really don't think it gets any easier than dragging a card from one list to another. Trello is great for having an awareness of the current tasks at hand (the present). This awareness is not enough to manage. I created reportsfortrello.com to give multiple views of the past.

Best of luck!
Seems like Lustig's point is that a high-fructose diet is worse for you than a high-fat diet. We have replaced the fat in our diet with fructose, but that isn't necessary. We could just eat carbs low in fructose and/or more protein instead of fat. Regardless, this article is discussing saturated fat, which is a subset of all fats. "Healthy" oils like olive oil, canola oil, and many nuts have lots of fat, but very little saturated fat.
I simply think that drones will/are be vastly more cost effective.
Just "being familiar" would probably slow them down too much, considering how much different protocols they attacked "1622 Google authorization protocols" are listed on one NSA slide here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/11/04...

I know how hard it would be, I implement low level protocols (not Google's or of men in black).
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That's on your own time:) Seriously, people need to start living closer to work (and demanding that work make that possible).
tl;dr: we don't know shit about the human body.
Pitch competitions are just that - competitions for who has the best pitch - this includes the quality of the pitch itself, and the performance and stage presence of the presenter.

I think the best startup in such competitions rarely is the actual winner.
Those who fail to read The Mythical Man Month are doomed to... actually, just doomed.
My feeling is that the NSA/GCHQ hack was arguably an unfortunate thing for them to do, although somewhat predictable, once one knows of the existence of the network topology vulnerability that was exploited. But presumably somewhere in Google someone knew about this possibility sometime back. I wonder whether there was an assumption that nobody would be clever enough to figure things out, or whether security engineers were working 24/7 to fill in the gap and just didn't get there in time.

Either way, this is a good stimulus for rolling out deeper encryption.
He did preface it with a "I don't speak for my company".
This is not correct, you don't 'pretty much always end up getting paid for hard work'.

I've worked in a few startups, as well as had my own where I was working 6-7 days a week 15+hours on most week days, and it didn't result in a big pay day. I've had lots of stock in bankrupt companies and experience to show for it.

However, I will say that it is possible you'll gain lots of experience, and I wouldn't give up my long hours in my youth for anything else. It was great experience and I loved being in the thick of it.

As I've gotten older, I've started to appreciate more of a balance.
Possibly related?: scroll down, then up. Before it reaches the top position, it locks up Firefox Aurora (current nightly build). Possibly a bug in Firefox, but those are relatively rare, even in the nightlies.

edit: specifically, here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/abbuk5ktjpmos7f/Screenshot%202013-... and you have to be scrolling in individual steps (since scrolling has inertia, can push you >1 step).
During the last decade I changed several jobs. For each next job I managed to get 3-4x of my previous salary. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't happen if I had disclosed my previous salary.
Those things aren't being done to most Chinese people, either. And they are being done to some Americans now, and increasingly so.
it was a Russell Brand joke, nm...
The biggest advantage is cross compatibility. Setting up a http server in any mainstream language is very easy, when compared to the task of creating native UIs for each OS. Look at how much hate Swing, GTK and even Mozilla's XUL got before they went to great efforts to use the native UIs.
observe is so slow however, not matter which way you do it.
ES6 features are already shipping in many browsers. http://kangax.github.io/es5-compat-table/es6/
Yes, I take all my health advice from newspaper articles summarizing single journal articles.
Having been in the most recent batch, this is one of those comments on the author's part that makes it clear that he doesn't quite know what he's talking about. There is a single person who cooks meals but they're hardly catered. They feed ~130 people out of slow-cookers and rice-cookers. Every meal is some slow-cooked...stuff..and then rice or noodles or something to put on the bottom of your bowl. It's no one's dream of a catered affair.
How do we know the Chinese or someone else hasn't hacked into the NSA and is using that data to gain access to secure systems that would otherwise be almost impossible to break into.

Wasn't there a Google break in not so long ago?
Have you ever tried to understand the rationale behind a religious ritual? Not from your viewpoint - but from the viewpoint of why such a ritual came into existence? Did you equip yourself with the tools to undertake such a study?

For e.g., I perform a religious ritual called Sandhyavandanam [1]. This ritual comprises of many components. I see merit in many components of this daily ritual. Some components, I have not been able to appreciate their rationale. But I trust the seers who would have formulated such rituals. I do not have the time to go into every detail of every ritual and understand the underlying motivation(s) and perform the ritual as is. Same with science. I do not question every theory/law/hypothesis. I just trust the scientists and researchers. If and when "I" perceive an inconsistency in a ritual or a scientific law/theory/hypothesis I question it or try to understand more about it.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandhyavandanam
Before jumping to conclusions based on an opinion piece of one researcher, I would suggest looking at the article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturated_fat_and_cardiovascula...
> The police involved, and anyone that went along with SIX probes and two x-rays, and still were not sure this guy was innocent, are far beyond "corrupt", they are simply insane. Corruption generally comes with some kind of substantial payoff. What could that have been in this case? I'm really baffled by this, and scared. Only truly crazy people could allow this to happen, much less support it.

If you think of the police (or groups of police officers) as just another gang (sadly a possibility in some districts), then this could be a targeted humiliation/retribution effort either on the behalf of a police officer (unlikely) or for a local patron/mafioso.

It seems the most plausible explanation to me.
The only published information is how the values are encoded, not what is encoded (the specifications aren't transported together with the data) so to crack 1622 different protocols only involved in authorization according to the NSA slide is not such a small task, at least if they are interested in more than just recognizing e-mail addresses which can be found using regexps. And just counting the protocols proves that they were indeed interested in more.
So are you using that the full tree shaking algo works with angular now?
There is no reason for the book author to be biased. We don't know if he is biased or not. However, we know for certain that Jeff Bezos's wife is very biased. She has a horse in this race, so to speak. So whatever she says is probably to protect Jeff Bezos's reputation, not to uncover the truth.
Non-shortened (HN doesn't like those, people want to know what they are clicking):
http://www.quora.com/Business/Whats-the-shrewdest-smartest-m...

Business: What's the shrewdest, smartest maneuver you've ever seen in business?

Cool little blurb hand-soap:

There was only one problem: Nothing he was selling could be patented. The concept of liquid soap wasn't new, and simple pumps had been around since the dawn of civilization. As a result, Taylor knew several huge soap manufacturers were ready to happily steal his idea the very moment it looked like it could succeed on a large scale. Armed with superior resources and the ability to quickly R&D an imitation product, the industry giants were ready to crush tiny Minnetonka.

Taylor, however, was ready for this. Before any other company had the chance, Taylor decided to go shopping one day and bought a few plastic pumps. And by a few we mean FUCKING ALL OF THEM. There were only two companies nationwide manufacturing those little pumps, and Taylor ponied up $12 million -- more than the total net worth of his company at the time -- and ordered 100 million of them, effectively buying every single pump these two companies would be able to manufacture for the next year or two.
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