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Agreed! I love watching the videos because I live in Hawthorne, which is a very modest suburb of Los Angeles (where homes in the safer neighborhoods are only $700k). So when they say things like "Hawthorne Control," it makes me proud of this town and hope for a little bit of a coattails effect for the Hawthorne airport vicinity.
At the risk of oversimplifying, I think you're overcomplicating it. What's happening is the forced serialization of more "jobs" than there is "processing power" to deal with it. the problem I've always seen is simply one of, if you try to cram 500 people through 2 tiny doorways , no matter how efficiently you do it, it's going to take a while, especially if more people keep on coming.

I don't mean to say that the bottlnecks within the serialization don't make things worse, but that primary problem is just one of raw pipe width. (to keep using the beating-dead-horse-computer-metaphor.)
No, he notified 11 of the vulnerable parties and failed to blind CC them.
Vending restaurants are already pervasive in Japan. There might still be a human cook involved, but you order with coins at a machine.
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I wish this were higher up on the list. I'd be eager to hear peoples' opinions on the experience NPR created
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Or even Nexus, which is $50 for 5 years, includes Trusted Traveler and Global Entry, and also expedited entry into Canadian and at Canadian airports' security lines.
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I didn't downvote you, but your tone came across as "closed source = sucks", which (I assume) some users disagree with.
I ate at the Mtn View uWink a few times before it died; it seemed to suffer from a few procedural issues:

* People didn't understand how to use the tablets, so you needed staff to explain things to them.

* Certain things (like drink refills) that are high-frequency are easier handled by human intervention, than by calling up the "order refill" option and waiting for someone to appear

* Food was expensive (presumably to account for the cost of POS systems plus a full staff) and not great (not really an issue for Applebee's / Chili's as they've made an empire out of mediocre food)

* As mentioned above, a fair share of software glitches - so you need IT support in addition to kitchen / service staff.

It didn't really seem to solve a problem - you replaced the customer-staff interaction with a customer-staff-computer-staff interaction.

I'd like the ability to page my server, but that's about it.
Technically the vendor responding is the only practical course of action. The customers are not likely going to abandon the software or patch it themselves.

This would only makes sense if the vendor didn't care. But even then its a long uphill battle.
Turning it over on downs is a turnover, as sure as fumbling is. It's not accounted that way in the box score, but in terms of impact on the game it is the same.

An interception is better or worse than turning it over on downs by the field position delta. If it is returned past the line of scrimmage, then it's worse. If it is not returned, it's better. A deep interception with no return is like a punt in terms of impact on the game.
Never give that up.

It's something you can never let go.
LOL, That's a fucking joke!

"If the source and destination overlap, the behavior of memcpy_s is undefined."

Wow, way to improve things microsuck! It's not like anyone has ever mistakenly used memcpy on overlapping buffers....
Thanks a lot for your comment. This is probably one of the best explanations I have read since a long time.
I don't understand why functions like gets and sprintf weren't removed from the standard and headers a long time ago. It can't be for legacy reasons, because removing them from the headers has no effect on binaries and when you compile source it should easy to replace gets with fgets and sprintf with snprintfe etc.

These functions have no right to exist.
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These restaurants have already eliminated cooks, so this move isn't all that surprising. In case you didn't know, most "food" at chain restaurants is prepared in advance, sealed in pouches, and re-heated via microwave. In other words, expensive leftovers.
I actually own licenses for various JetBrains products, I just wished they'd introduce bundled pricing.
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Is the food prepared by machine, too?
The thing though is that you can't really start taking your shoes off, laptop out of your bag etc. until you get to the conveyor belt and at that point you are blocking. Furthermore, they seem to adjust the speed so that the bags on the other side don't pile up as the people who went through are putting their shoes on again.
I am using an AMD APU laptop right now, and I welcome this future.
They are already getting drone deliveries.
I wonder how long it'll take before he'll get burned by this and have some tables dropped...surprised it hasn't happened already..
As these machines gain prevalence in America, maybe it will end the tipping culture. By placing an order through a machine, perhaps patrons won't feel obligated to leave a tip.
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Maybe he was, maybe he wasn't, only he knows. But when you're running 100000 websites, you should Google yourself once in a while at least. Besides, this isn't some 0-day, it's some extremely basic SQL injection vulnerability. This company wasn't capable of doing extremely basic security, and should be out of business. This is the kind of company that stores your passwords in plaintext. He doesn't seem to have done anything since he was notified either (see Phil's comment)
> Wait, are you saying that artists rely just on Spotify for income? That would be foolhardy.

Well, yes. Since the entire premise of Spotify seems to be that we should pay broadcast royalty rates for a service that replaces recordings entirely, it would indeed be pretty foolish to rely on that.

And in fact, some artists think it's so foolish they've realized its to their advantage not to participate.

> I would think that Spotify would be just one small chunk in a wide portfolio of distribution channels.

The problem being that once something's available on Spotify (or something like it), the structure of the service eliminates any access-incentive to look for it anywhere else.

> Also, artists have generally never been very richly paid on music sales. Touring and merch are where the money's always been.

This is pretty different from the history I'm familiar with -- touring supported/drove album sales for a long time, except for certain acts (huge like the Stones, jam-oriented like the Dead or Phish, or nostalgia focused). And people made a ton of money from recordings (though it wasn't always the artists because of gatekeepers).

The reverse is often true now mostly because we entered a transition to a new format with the uptake getting waaay out ahead of the vendors and legit recording sales collapsed (and then, right as we started to see vendors come on board, we had the biggest economic contraction since the great depression).

This isn't an inevitable trend, and revenue from recording sales this year is increasing again this year based largely digital sales increasing faster than physical sales are falling. And total revenue from recordings sales, while much smaller than what it was at its peak around 2000, is actually 50% more than it was at the beginning of the 1990s.

We could yet see another golden age of recorded music. This time better in that digital albums are cheaper and, with a shorter distribution chain, people who make the music are often keeping more.

At least, that's the potential. Unless we decide to go with buffet-streaming services that remove incentives to buy it.

But maybe that's the next step for our culture: if art can't be supported by t-shirts and tchotchkes, it's not art that we should be economically encouraging, right?
Its sad that this is 2013 and these basic fucking issues still plague websites (and the people who make them). I wonder if the root of these issues is in education or the tools used? Or both?
What's "responsible" about not telling the people who actually own the websites in question?
Are thieves an issue here? The parts might valuable in these low-income countries. When drones land to drop down goods, they are quite "vulnerable" for a thieve to catch them. Getting them from the air shouldn't be a problem too. There's even a sport for that too (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdIHOV6VGNU#t=196).
And in 2015 we will start replacing our desktops with convertible mobile devices. Slide your tablet or phone next to a keyboard, mouse, and monitor and voilà, you've got a desktop. I'm really hoping we're completely wireless on the monitor too.
This is a lot of fun http://i.imgur.com/seMWVWv.png
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You might expect any technology that's controversial or dangerous by first-world standards to get started in developing countries. However, I can't think of a big recent example. All of the following seem to be happening in the US as fast as anywhere else:

- drones
- self-driving cars
- stem cell therapies
- bitcoin
- electronic cigarettes
- legal marijuana
- secure communications

What could I find being done in a developing country that would make me wish the US wasn't so conservative?
Ask HN: How is your web development experience on the base model 13" MBA 2013? 
Because that's what I can really afford right now on a third-world country , entry-level salary.

Specs: 1.3GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 2.6GHz, 4GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM, 128GB Flash Storage

Follow-up: Given that SSDs are still expensive, is 128GB internal storage enough? (I'll get some external drives of course). Thanks HN!
Industrial-level automation, yes.
Engineering advice:
in your enterX() functions, consider calling another function that clears the text of the UL of dots in the top left corner
then have each enterX() function add the text of the currently selected page section, and maybe change the hollow circle to a filled circle. Breadcrumbs are usually a good design element.

You might also want to move them down to the middle of the left of the page. That's a design decision, entirely up to the design owner's discretion.

From a design perspective, it's not terrible. I'm not a fan of the supersaturated color trend, but, that's me. I can tell you that the last inch or so of the page has a jarring color change. Consider transitioning to a darker color in the section that is currently yellow/orange, or change the blues/greens in the bottom.

I agree with mcallan with the typography. Typography is a much harder part of design than most people give it credit for. It's one of the oldest forms of design, and people have very strong and unconscious expectations with regard to words-per-line, kerning (spacing between characters), and fontface matching. Read up on it if you have a few hours over the next few years. This is the main area your site needs work -- fewer words per row, and maybe a different main body font. The font choice is up to the design owner, though. Some people, like me, can spend hours choosing a font.

On a brief glance through your code, I notice the use of timers. I didn't really analyze why, so I could be mistaken here, but you could maybe use jQuery's promise/done functions as a matter of good engineering practice. Magic numbers are bad, and are a last resort. Monads are good. Learn them early on, learn callbacks early on, especially if you're doing web development. You'll jump through hoops that will make Java/C++ developers' noses bleed with frustration.

For all the feedback and criticism in there, it's actually a good site. That was some serious small detail talk above. Also, I'm going to start using the pallets = []; idea in a few places. Thanks, sir.
I'm not a member of your target audience, but I can't imagine BoredBanker is a very motivating name for people to start interesting discussions.
And so on, and so forth, as minimum wage proponents seek to end all opportunity for unskilled workers.
What is the point of hacking some random sites? Leave it to indian haxors.
Author mentions _product_ a few times without consideration to the problem it's meant to solve. Sometimes the problem being solved just isn't big/important enough for users to risk the social capital of making a recommendation; even when the product solves it perfectly
Improvements on synthetic benchmarks but real wolrd stagnation that we are no longer cpu throughput bound. Trig functions have improved from 90 ticks ti so.ething like 14 ticks. Getting an SSD mightatter more then 2 extra cores.The CPU is no longer the engine it is a piston.
"TSA Pre✓™"

Are government agencies actually given trademark protection under the law?
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Customers don't actually belong to anyone, you know. None of the vendors I have purchased products or services from have my permission to act as gatekeeper for communication with me, and as such have absolutely no right to act in that capacity. If I learned that a vendor had threatened someone for contacting me, that vendor would never receive another dime from me, and I would investigate whether I had any legal cause of action against that vendor.

Any notion that a third party could threaten someone for communicating with me, or even the notion that someone should go through a third party I have given no gatekeeping-like permission to, is offensive to my basic dignity as a human being.
I think he means that if we're not holding Prezi ethically responsible to pay the bounty, then we can't then start saying the researcher is ethically bound not to sell the exploit.
And now, realizing the danger they are in, they fix the door or harass their vendor into doing it. Finally, thanks to the efforts of one good samaritan, they're safe.
Surprise, many websites are not secure. Does he go around testing people's door locks to see how vulnerable they are to being picked with a basic lock pick set? Maybe knock on some doors and tell the home owners that their home contractor doesn't take security seriously enough and demonstrate how easily the standard door lock can be picked?

I could understand if he was making a business out of this, selling improved security. But this way it just looks like he's out to show people that he knows something they don't know and publicly shame them into some kind of response.
"Most of my non-technical friends have only vague ideas or know nothing about these topics." -- and yet, if they are like my friends, they probably have no feelings of regret, or sense of ignorance. They probably feel more qualified to speak about things like Obamacare and evil Profit-mongering Insurance Companies than someone who does know mathematics beyond the sixth grade.
Finally, a kindred spirit!

You said it best: "at the end of the day, money equals freedom." My previous sentiments: [0]

>At the end of the day no one can argue that someone that lives on $20,000 a month doesn't have a better quality of life than someone living on $5000 a month.

Oh, you'd be surprised. TONS of people will disagree; I know several of them :). They'll create strawmen, saying things like "Oh, yeah, he spends $20,000 / month, but he {had to sell his soul to get it | isn't happy | has a bad relationship with his family"}. Personally, I think it's just jealously, and bitterness.

Me? I'm a 1st year CS student. I have a math final on Thursday, but I owe about USD380 on my tuition, so I'm gonna be barred from sitting the exam, which means an automatic fail. The course is a pre-requisite for semester 2 courses. Which means my degree plans just got pushedback. Being in this situation, when I hear people talk like money ain't a thing, it kinda makes me shake my head. No beef with @carsongross, but to me, money is really, really important. For want of 0.4BTC, my kingdom is lost ;(.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2025537

My 'Ode to Wealth': https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2026680
Personally I think its great most of the time. Human interaction should still be an option, especially when it comes to specialty orders. I always felt something like this could work well at places that have a lunch rush in America. A string of machines that don't accept substitutions and only credit cards, along with a line for people who want a human to take their order.
Why would RAM, HD and GPU prices go up? Whos going out of business?
I started this way. I could iterate on new game prototypes quickly because I made many games then threw them away.

Might be worth noting his game plays and looks like minecraft.

After getting burned by my own design decisions, which each game I made I produced stronger abstractions and decoupled code. Aka learning from mistakes.

Devs who only write protoslop or devs who only maintain and clean code up are rarely effective on their own.
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Wow. Just wow. I used to manage client accounts at an agency. Here's how I'm seeing this:

- Author sends a condescending, threatening, passive-aggressive, and shaming email to a vendor and its clients.

- Vendor respectfully explains that it was an unprofessional thing to do, because their client relationships were put at risk without them having a chance to correct their mistake.

- Author completely fails to understand why the vendor would think this, and interprets the email as an effort to "intimidate [him] into silence."

To be clear, I'm not excusing the vendor for their shoddy development work. I just think this professor is clueless about effective communication.
Here's the thing, a lot of times people just don't care. I've sent emails to Amtrak, USPS, SallieMae and many others about bugs on their sites. Most of the time I just get canned responses saying they'll look into it or reply with something totally irrelevant. Sure it probably would have been the courteous thing to do by sending the webmaster an email first individually, but if you were the client, wouldn't you want to know about this vulnerability? Wouldn't you want to know your database has been compromised?
I also agree. But if you accept the premise that you want to put a lot of effort into stopping these people, then it makes sense to search everyone, even "little old ladies".
Yeah, it was so hard. I was getting pretty tired before I could finish typing 'yum upgrade' on the terminal, and then I had to wait a whole twenty seconds for it to resolve dependencies, reach all the way to my keyboard to hit the 'y' key and hit enter, and then it took like five minutes to download and install everything.

Major hassle!
Sounds like you should leave for the airport earlier.
Isn't that argument just turtles all the way down, though? If people stopped wanting jewelry, gold would not be desirable.
I think your sample may be skewed toward rich, well-educated Americans--and probably the more tech-savvy of those as well.
Oh, a more advanced tweak that I've only seen on a couple pages would be to take your vertical sections (about, intro, blog, those) and give them their own horizontal scrolling sections with left and right arrows.

That could easily turn into a significant time investment (a day or two, if you're a motivated beginner with some knowledge), depending on your current skill level, but it amounts to a few very wide <div>'s, and some jQuery to calculate scroll distances. It'll make your page easier to read, and more visually complex in a good way.
In today's world, you'd be expelled...

https://www.google.com/#q=expelled+for+reporting+security+bu...
Ion thrusters have atrocious thrust to weight ratios. You can slap more ion thrusters on, but that adds mass linearly. You can't scale up voltage much, or you get current arcing across the acceleration region, and you can't add more ions, because they'll interfere with each other. As far as I'm aware, there aren't any designs that have thrust-weight ratios anywhere near 1.

(For perspective on just how much this would need to scale up, the CAT thruster developes 2mN thrust [0.00045 lbf] on a spacecraft that weighs 2.5kg [5lbs] without fuel.)

In any case, if you're flying in atmosphere, you can probably extract your propellant directly (or just use propellers). The whole point of ion engines is that they're fantastically efficient. This is important when you need to carry all of your reaction mass along with you (and your mass ratio scales up exponentially as a function of delta-V), but not important when you're flying through atmosphere (and surrounded by reaction mass).
Who each have to go through the contractor to get them fixed resulting in a bottleneck. Thieves are already running rampant at the disclosure while the contractor is frantically fixing the windows.
It has been a few years, but my impression of the coin-operated stand-up ramen shops I frequented in Tokyo was that the cook and cook's assistant were the only people working there, and they often had no time to spare dealing with money. If labor costs must be reduced, it seems better to cut the cashier than the cook.
What does the vendor have to do with anything?

If I'm walking down a street and notice a broken door, do I have some obligation to track down the builder of the house and tell him about the issue?

To my mind, the good deed would be to inform the homeowner. At that point, I've done my part, and it's up to him to organise to fix his door if he wants to.

This dude went the extra mile even contacting the vendor.

I'm guessing the people on here all sympathise with the vendor because they can see themselves being in his shoes.
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Well, now the grandmother can just pay $85, and as long as she hasn't led a life of crime, she can take the easy path through security and blow the plane up with her granny panties bomb.
Quick back off the envelope:

100 Tablets ~ $10k

Guessing that this is roughly the number of seats a waiter can wait, this leaves a few thousand dollars for an automated delivery system per year. ( I hope something that involves a catapult.)
Interesting. If I may ask, what is the business model? Or is there one? If not, what's the motivation?
I am a member of his target audience, BoredBanker is not a very motivating name for me to start interesting discussions.

And thats a big shame, because I was recently lamenting the lack of Slashdot/reddit/HN for the finance industry.
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For whom would a tip be left?
This is best for the vendor, but not best for the customers. Vendors should have a healthy fear that if they don't provide substantial security they will be exposed for their lack of quality. Now, I hope I'm not soliciting a 'test' of my work by saying this...
While that is no doubt a valid name, I find it extremely amusing for some reason

edit: Probably too much time spent on hn
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Arby's tried this sort of ordering system back in the 90's. They had a touch screen CRTs at the point of sale. Customers placed orders by choosing from an on-screen menu. The system was setup to where an Arby's employee stood behind the machine, waiting for you to finish the order. There was no communication with this employee and so it made for quite an awkward experience.

The system only lasted for a few months and they went back to taking orders using traditional methods.

Here's a link to the system Arby's used..

http://www.quirks.com/articles/a1991/19910602.aspx