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There are really a couple or three genres of open source projects:

- Those which are basically just hobby projects that are coincidentally open source

- Those which are basically commercial projects, but coincidentally open source

- Those which are large, community oriented projects, with real open source dynamics

The first two really don't involve much additional benefit that wouldn't be picked up elsewhere, despite legally being open source work. The last of them is where you pick up the more requisite hackeryness.
Standards: who needs em.
"Thou shalt not" is not a security policy.
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This guy was an apparently-successful programmer and yet every damn account he had was hacked in a matter of hours. Not to sympathize with a murderer, but it's an object lesson in personal security.
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I saw this some place else the other day and he wasn't just modding his own game console. He was modding for others and charging them for the service ($100 a pop I think).

I don't think it's right that he's been arrested for that, but he isn't exactly the innocent youth this article makes him out to be if these charges are proven true.
Might just be an affiliate spamming Twitter. You should complain to the advertiser they are running the offer with- they will get kicked off and not paid for spamming/noncompliance.
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The best opportunities today lie with bootstrap startups.

Why?

If your startup has near-term capital intensive needs, you will find it hard to raise funds from VCs that are generally clamped down and, if you do get funded, you will take a big dilutive hit and get largely unfavorable terms.

For bootstraps, though, this is great time for positioning, either to take your company the distance once better times come or to get VC funding at a much later stage, when the dilutive hit is far less and the terms far better.

It is a great time to start, as argued by the author. But mostly for a certain nimble and resourceful type of company best suited to take advantage of the disruptive elements in play.

The erstwhile VC gatekeepers no longer hold the sole set of keys.
It's SO over: cool cyberkids abandon social networking sites
> This is an advantage that Go has over Chess, where removing pieces would just be silly.

It used to be rather popular, actually, to play at pawn-and-move odds. If you search through old games, you'll eventually come across one where black starts without an f pawn.

There's also a famous Capablanca game where a young Capablanca is given a queen by his opponent (he wins, of course.)

I'd say the two biggest problems with chess are:

1. Too many draws.

2. First move has too big an advantage.

Neither of these is a problem in Go (draws are extremely rare or even impossible in many rule sets, and the second player is now given enough points that the game is almost even.)

I like both games a lot. Arimaa is fun too.
TFA's main point is that it takes companies like Nokia a very long time to ship a new product. Fair enough, but the time frame and the value judgements therein are just ridiculous FUD, even if you consider that this type of prediction is always goign to have errors. A few points, off the top of my head:

1) Nokia had a touch screen phone (in addition to the tablets) years before iPhone, and released another in 2008 (5800 XpressMusic) and a third this year (N97, which the article mentions but which somehow seems not to count). TFA says first Nokia touch screen phones "with crude, unusable software" are due in 2011.

2) TFA claims that first devices comparable to the first iPhone would ship in 2014, and makes a snide remark about how competetive such a device would be then. This is, of course, a completely ignorant premise: Nokia's top models are, and always have been, technically ahead of the iPhone. If Nokia gets iPhone's usability in 2014, why would that come at the cost of losing their edge in tech?
I didn't realize it before, but I do recall (now that I think about it) always thinking that the good stuff on restaurant menus are on the right side.

I wonder if I'm just conditioned to look for that by now though. I'm somewhat ambidextrous, doing some things left-handed and other things right-handed. I did picture the "good animal" in the left-hand box though.
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Should I include references even if not asked to in the beginning?
I'm applying for certain 2010 college graduate positions and wondering if I should include references in my CV or in a separate .pdf sheet? Would putting references help justify that I'm a "valid, serious" candidate?
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A Pennsylvania man who served nearly six years in prison for robbing a southern New Jersey bank was charged with robbing the same one again. The FBI, state and local police arrested 45-year-old John Millison of Drexel Hill, Pa., on Tuesday and charged him with the July 27 robbery of a PNC Bank branch in the Marmora section of Upper Township near Ocean City.
A GitHub profile is not the same as a Myspace or Facebook account. Maybe if you had an account there you would understand.
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I can't help but feel that SVG is yet another misapplication of XML; that if we hadn't drunk so much XML koolaid around the turn of the millenium, we'd have been able to come up with a less verbose format.
I think it was celebration, the Linux UI changed recently, Glen's face appeared yesterday :)

I posted it on my flickr too: http://www.flickr.com/photos/igorgue/3789856159/ along with a chat log on the IRC channel.
Keeping one near the bed and unloading before I go to sleep.

Eg: things to do the next day, last minute ideas, thoughts, poems
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weird. I changed my twitter password and something went crazy. I tried starting my tweetdeck, it failed to connect for obvious reasons. It had my old password. After this, twitter would not allow me to log in again.
Here is what i see on twitter screen:
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He was modifying devices that those people legally own. Implicit in owning a thing is the right to modify it. These anti-modder laws are illogical and IMO indefensible. Essentially for these laws to be passed and upheld, courts need to accept the argument that despite paying for something, you don't really own it.

Protecting someone's business model is not enough to justify abrogating the most basic property rights.
I completely agree. Statistics is what I most wish I had studied more intensely in school. And not just so I wouldn't have those poor marks on my transcript.
Seriously? This seems like a well-disguised infomercial.

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I haven't applied for a job in years, but I've considered that I'd probably forego typical references and just include my LinkedIn profile (where other people's recommendations are visible).
A better hack might be to do the tragic words in a different language, like chinese.
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Looks awesome! I had no idea canvas had progressed so far already.
You should come by on friday!
Lots of high-quality articles on low-level hacking. I like the new editors!
Could you clarify a point? According to this [comment](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=743622), profanities in a dictionary are fine as long as the app is submitted with a 17+ rating. Wouldn't this also be true for Ninjawords?
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I want to buy $100 worth of credits from you guys. But what if I waste them bidding on items that never get delivered?

Also, do you cookie people once they click the referral link?

You have a bunch of typos on your About page
You can actually swish them on an iPhone (the real iPhone ones, not the ones in this kit.)
Wow, the major underlying flaws of Linux really come out when you try to do a simple thing like update Firefox!
Repositories and software managers is the only way to ensure that Linux will not compete with Windows.
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Every sysadmin has their own fingerprints. I read some of the suggestions and kind of cringe since they don't match my preferences (not that they're absolutely bad). One of my current aspirations is to "use the tools the way they were intended". Rather than perverting the core components or skinning over them with other admin tools, I believe it's important to appreciate the system as designed and take advantage of the toolset provided.

1) sudo NOPASSWD is the moral equivalent of making that user root. I don't care for it. My preference would be to configure sshd_config with "PasswordAuthentication no" and continue to use passwords in the regular way, with password complexity enforcement if your distribution supports it. I'm not going to blanket condemn ssh public key auth, since it's generally smart. However, you can not enforce a requirement that the public key be encrypted on the remote host. If someone is undisciplined with the distribution of their public keys they can end up turning a single box exploit into free reign of the network, particularly if NOPASSWD is enabled.

2) I prefer manually editing iptables rules myself, using -I and -D. It's certainly not intuitive at first blush, more like using "ed" than "vi". I've gained an appreciation for using the "-m comment -comment 'this rule does blah'" construct. The benefit of this model is that an unfamiliar sysadmin won't immediately know that a host has another FW package installed, but if a change is needed everything is documented and commented in an "iptables -L" -- a standard diagnostic command. Furthermore, firewall rule generators often create unreadable rulesets, making diagnosing specific problems tough.

A specific nit I have against Shorewall is that it requires (last time I checked) you to edit a bunch of different files, using boilerplate recipes that aren't really much simpler than just writing the rules yourself. It could be a big win if you had multiple platforms to support, I suppose.
There's no way to tell how many credits I currently have that are available for bidding.

I want to be able to get email notification when I get outbid.
What are your favorite iphone apps ?
or any mobile apps.
apparently you aren't familiar with corporatism. that is exactly what is justified. big businesses always hate and try to subvert the free market, competition lowers profit margins.
Good start ... I was able to get an app created and deployed to appspot. Had some trouble running it locally, though.

I'd be great to see some info on how to run migrations and other rake tasks on app engine.
Ask HN: How to learn about automated trading systems?
I've been reading up on automated trading systems and high frequency trading, and it seems like some pretty interesting stuff. I'd like to get started coding things like that, but don't really know where to start. Does anyone know of:
- Small (to start with) coding projects I can udnertake to start learning the ropes -- I'm already familiar with UNIX programming, kqueue, the tanenbaum books, etc.
- Where to find information about what the exchanges provide for automated trading -- I'm familiar with the basics of the market, different types of orders, efficiency/no arbitrage
- And finally, something I can use along with those coding projects to get my feet wet quickly! Perhaps some sort of simulation, or a brokerage that lets individual clients use tradingbots easily?

Thanks!
I'm tired of articles that disprove their own titles

"Clearly take-up among under 16-year-olds is very high … so we cannot say for certain whether this is people in a certain age group who are not setting up social networking profiles or whether it's a population shift which is reflecting people getting older and having a social networking profile that they set up two years ago," he said. "The main point is the profile of social networking users is getting older."
Just like: Plastics

Of course, should add the obligatory remark: Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics.
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TV is a bad example. Premium channels have a ton of money from their subscriptions, so they have a ton of money to invest into new programming. Take HBO for example, the Band of Brothers 10 episode series cost $125 million to make. The Pacific miniseries, has a budget of $250 million. Regular channels simply don't have the $$$ to match up. So while HBO has truly epic shows, regular channels are stuck doing cop shows, since they are cheap to make.

News on the other hand is static. The paid services aren't going to report better news. They aren't going to report more news. Nothing will change in how they are run, its just a way for them to start charging for content that is free elsewhere.
The purpose of the modifications is to run pirated games. I don't see anything illogical or indefensible with these companies (and the government) going after people who modify hardware in order to run pirated software.

This particular modder crossed the line between hacking for fun or knowledge to facilitating a crime. I know the "criminal" aspect might not get a lot of sympathy from the pro-piracy contingent on this site, but it's still a crime. If you don't want people like this to get arrested, then call your congressmen.
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This title is misleading and inaccurate! A 27 year old is not a "youth" and it wasn't his Xbox. He was modding other people's consoles to make money.
On Lisp is more in demand though... it goes for more than $100 on eBay.
I wouldn't say the protest was without fruit. Much of the economic progress of the 90s owe to the government trying to please an impoverished population. Empty stomach sits at the root of much political changes in history, ideologies ride the hunger waves.
Only 5,220? that seems rather high. I thought this site was much more obscure than that.
This is a classic case of a technology company patenting something that is a very generalized concept, and that gives it grounds to be removed. If the patent really is distinct enough, they should also sue anybody who makes money off of email services as well.

There's also a patent for a video player inside a browser -- funny that nobody has tried suing on that one yet.
I like this a lot.

Feature requests: How can I report an auction that seems fake? This one seems very fake. http://www.listia.com/auction/276

Watch item.

More options for listing, like a 3 day auction instead of 7 day or making my item show up more prominently in listings for extra points.
What is Google going to do with On2?
Anyone know who the Cliph they mention is? I did have a brief look on google without much luck. I'm presuming it's someone who's passed away based on the introduction mentioned there.
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Summary: Twilio is a voice service they integrated into an iPhone game. The player's phone receives automated phone calls.
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Where is loopback? this ish is teh suck!
well, yes, that's sort of the whole purpose :)
I don't think they're sitting on their hands. They bought Trolltech, and if you follow the work they're doing[1], there's lots of emphasis on small device functionality like multi-touch support, optimizing for small devices with embedded graphics processors, and rich declarative UI stuff that smells like CoreAnimation.

[1] http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/
With Twitter's (annoying/undeserved/silly) high profile, this may finally shed some light on patent litigation in the main stream. A politician may even see this as his opportunity to show the kids how cool he is and introduce patent reform legislation. Let's hope so!
I presume there is no loopback as this is an editorial reboot and hence no one has emailed the new team.
Phrack hasn't had steady management since route et al.
Why did you have to write "Get real"? That's just mean.
Its pissing off the developers - not the vast majority of Apple's customers.

Like it or not, Apple's popularity has made the iBrand fairly self-sufficient by now, and its going to take a lot more than a couple of unjustly-pulled apps to derail that train off the pop-culture tracks.
I think most of us are missing the point. The author is not implying that he discovered a "hack" or "secret code", it's that Google consciously chooses to not match advertisements to text such as this. You can rephrase the sentences all you'd like, and Google will still not render ads.
Actually, you don't quite have it right.

You can be perfectly solvent (and even profitable) as a news company without charging for access to your content. The problem most such companies are facing is that they think basic laws of economics shouldn't apply to them.

The entire network of printing presses, press operators, print designers, distributors, delivery people -- that's all overhead. And now it's possible to be a news organization without that overhead. Thus, competitors can deliver the "product" with less overhead than the established companies, and hence at a lower price. Thus, companies which keep all that overhead will be driven out of business. The companies which throw all that stuff overboard will have a chance of staying competitive (and thus staying in business).
I wonder if there's any speed improvement compared to XP/Vista after you've installed a dozen applications. It's almost ridiculous that it takes my PC up to five minutes from pushing the power button before I can start working.
Mod parent up! (slashdot ref).
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Definitely agree, and the series will move in that direction. However, I think it is important to go over the setup sans automation first -- for the sake of people who have never used the utilities I'm going over.

After all, some will need to step out of an automated script's / puppet config / chef recipe box to do something custom to their setup.
Enlighten me: How is a user with sudo rights different from a root user?
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Good article in general but I disagree with the assumption that creating a hardware+software integrated experience is the only way to compete with Apple. That's not how Apple lost the PC wars to Microsoft.

You try to integrate hardware and software to build a better iPhone, you're playing Apple's game.
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I've always been of the mind that whatever problems someone has with other persons is between that someone and the other persons. Just because I happen to use Ruby/Rails doesn't make any difference.

I've never met Zed but have been impressed with some of his talks that I have seen. I'd really value the chance to work with him.
Ask HN: How to promote Android applications?
I've created a free site monitoring Android application (Pigs Can Fly Site Monitor) and I'm wondering what steps I should take to promote it. Has anyone here promoted there own Android applications before? What worked? What didn't?
It also says this:

among 15-to 24-year-olds (...) data suggests they are spending less time on social networking sites.
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While Github differs from the social networking sites mentioned above, your employees must be allowed to keep their after-hours, legal programming private. Requiring the submission of internet profiles is intrusive.
I think the definition of ownership has been lost recently.

I pay other people to "mod" my car with new parts. That's perfectly legal because I OWN the damn pile of steel. The mechanics won't get arrested because the manufacturer has no say about what will go to my car after I BOUGHT it and, therefore, it's MINE.

Now, if I pay a hacker to "mod" my game console, it should be as legal as above. I OWN the damn pile of plastic and silicon. The hacker shouldn't get arrested because the manufacturer shouldn't think they have a say about what will go to my game console after I BOUGHT it as, therefore, it should be MINE.
I hope so too. But then again, RIM vs NTP was pretty high profile too: we were talking about millions of Blackberries just going off line, at a time when they were arguably as popular among the movers and shakers as Twitter is now.
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You use Prototype on your iPhone sites? I’ve tried to avoid using libraries on mobile sites as they add a fair chunk of download and processing overhead.

Actually, it’d be nice to see a Webkit specific (or at least modern browser specific) JS library that dumps IE workarounds and fallback DOM selection routines; leaves us with syntactic sugar for QuerySelector and XMLHTTPRequest, and an animation library.
I know of atleast one person whose account has been compromised. He swears he didn't give out his creds to any service. My guess is this is a 0-day being exploited
It's interesting that you brought up the car, so let's use that example. Would you argue that you should have the ability to remove emissions-regulating devices from your car? After all, they add weight, complexity, and reduce power.

We have emissions regulations. We also have the DMCA which prevents anti-circumvention of piracy protection measures (which the modifications in question aim to do). We, as a society, have generally agreed that emissions regulation is important. We have also agreed that software piracy undermines the viability of the computer/electronics industry.

It's not as black-and-white as "it's mine and I should be able to do anything I damn well please." These modifications have an effect on society at large. In the case of the car, your "right" to modify your car does not trump the rights of society to not have to deal with whatever modifications you deem you deserve. Similarly, even game console modifications have externalities and effects on the industry. They damage the online gaming ecosystem. They reduce revenue. The prevent game consoles from patching and regulating online play.
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It's worth remembering that the part of HP that everyone respected was spun off and is now called Agilent. The new HP wants to be an IT services company. Which makes this all the more bizarre.