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My servers' SSH isn't publicly accessible, you first need to be logged in to VPN (OpenVPN). I don't why Matasano couldn't secure their system like this, especially that some "0-day SSH exploit" is circulating around web. And if you're paranoid (or security expert on war-path with whaddyacallthem anti-sec movement) you have even more simple ways to secure yourself - port knocking for example?
Your system's security weakest link should be human not software.
I don't understand why so many people are supporting Palm. They are obviously breaking the law by pretending the device was created by Apple. Not only that but they also try to make Apple look bad in the mean time.
I see what you mean about the lag. I hadn't realized that the trend was to not use the terms England or Britain.

The names of Chiang Kai-Shek is a complicated issue. He went by at least half a dozen different names over his life. One of them was 蔣介石, which he started using in Japan, I think. "Chiang Kai-Shek" is the Cantonese romanization of that. 蔣中正 was a name he adopted when he got closer to Sun Yat Sen (also a non-mandarin romanization from a different name), who was going by 孫中山.
And your argumentation falls under the Amazing Familiarity :)

Twelve million Africans were shipped to the Americas from the 16th to the 19th centuries (according to Wikipedia), I doubt any of us know how every single person involved justified this enterprise.
"We're sorry. Currently our video library can only be streamed in the United States."

I hate Hulu.
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We use Kohana, which is a lightweight php5 port of codeigniter. we like it a lot
Here is a documentary on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMSYGLbIUxc
And anybody with red hair knows how true that is.

Well, that's different. The ginger gene is recessive; a community that's mostly ginger has a high probability of being inbred. Other signs include webbed feet and hands, and extra nipples.
Ah, he is on the wonderful way into pure object oriented languages, like smalltalk, probably added with a bit of homoiconicity :)
Aka: the land, where everything is an object, all values are equal (unlike Java) and things usually go very smooth, because things are based and unified on the simple concept of sending a message to the right object.
I do this from time to time (especially when writing CSS), however, color picker is very useful when you're creating GUIs because most colors you need already present in the OS, you just need to pick them and apply to your project.

Also, with Cocoa I became tired of writing too many things like

NSColor *aColor = [NSColor colorWithCalibratedRed:1.000 green:0.810 blue:0.439 alpha:1.000];

Now I can click "Copy declaration" and paste the code.

[Before this amazing color picker I used DigitalColor Meter included with Mac OS X, and then my own simple app CocoaColor (http://dchest.posterous.com/cocoacolor).]
They didn't mention Facebook. Should they?
CYBERPUNK: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier, ISBN-10: 0684818620, ISBN-13: 978-0684818627, had a very entertaining account of rtm's youth and the creation of the worm. I have no idea how accurate the book is, but it highlights the fact that not all "hackers" are similar. Some did it for the pride that came with it, others did it to sell secrets, and still others did it by accident. None of the caricatures resembled Zero Cool. (Well, maybe Mitnick and his gang... a little bit.)
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Woops, drop the us.
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For the 2 or 3 remaining uninitiated readers here: The Robert Morris this is about is one of the 3 partners in Y Combinator.
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Maybe it is because they failed to make something people want badly enough.
The list is missing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_Hitlerum
Spotify is the same way... but US users cant use it. :-(

"Unfortunately, due to licensing restrictions we are not yet available in your country. We understand that you are currently in United States"
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Aren't you only allowed to submit once every 24 hours or something?
I'd like to know what the fallacious argument is called when someone cites an obscure logical fallacy in order to sound more intelligent, while ignoring the otherwise valid portions of the original argument.
-Fact. It's just polemics. It needed to be said.
What saddens me most is that scarcity of education makes this story possible. The fact that there are so few seats for so many candidates and that the rich have their own inside channels to getting their kids admitted are other reasons for being very careful.

What really is needed is the lifting of this scarcity so that everybody can learn to the best of their abilities not just a handpicked few (and not just because they happen to be poor!)
I don't understand why people are supporting Compaq. They are obviously breaking the law by pretending the device was created by IBM. Not only that, but they also try and make IBM look bad at the same time.

I don't understand why people are supporting Microsoft. They are obviously breaking the law by pretending the file was created by WordPerfect. Not only that, but they also try and make WordPerfect look bad at the same time.

I don't understand why people are supporting OpenOffice. They are obviously breaking the law by pretending the file was created by Word. Not only that, but they also try and make Microsoft look bad at the same time.
The North Korean leadership would have never been able to get this much traction with their populace had it not been for the Korean war.

The long term effects of such actions are often very hard to predict.
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That's a deeply unpleasant comment. For one thing, people I know with red hair object to being called "Ginger". To htem it's offensive on the scale of some racial epithets, and in the same way, it's OK if they use the term.

For another, you've just created the possibility that people will go "Ooh, they've got ginger hair, I'll bet they're inbred."

And finally, you started with "well that's different ... " which, in the context, suggests it's OK to be prejudiced against people who happen to have red hair.

I hope that in real life you're less prejudiced than that comment makes you appear.
I expressed myself wrong, they violate a license agreement:

"USB is a standard with a licensing body which mandates the acceptable USB protocol behavior of vendors that slap the approved USB logo on their product/box, part of the licensing agreement which Palm signed mandates that they supply their proper vendor id (in this case 0 × 0830 (Palm Inc.)) during negotiation. What Palm did was change the vendor id they were supplying to Apple's vendor id. Palm is in violation of a licensing agreement they willingly entered into" as written by evgen here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=723010
I'm surprised this didn't happen earlier. In corporate land, there have been two server OSs for the last five years: Windows Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Sure there might be the old HPUX or Sun box waiting to be retired, but it's not going to be replaced with something else. SLES often only exists as a bargaining tool with Red Hat support.
Outside of the USA you can watch it using this tool: http://hotspotshield.com/
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Guys I posted this to bring out some creativity within your own start-up, not a step-by step guide to bootstrap your business. I apologize for the confusion.
I agree with your point, but I do want to point out that mail theft (by postal workers, errant receivers, and malicious thieves) is not so uncommon. I have had a few things mailed without tracking numbers that I strongly suspect were stolen (mailed from post offices with complaints of theft or undelivered mail).
No, why ? Facebook and google operate in completely different spheres.

Twitter should be worried about facebook, after all twitter is a minor feature that can be grafted onto a whole bunch of other sites.

Facebook and twitter fans see facebook and twitter as the be-all-end-all, they don't realize that even though they're big they are not nearly as universal as google.

Search + ads = product, facebook / twitter / myspace / flavour of the day = fads / fashion.
I remember reading about this and the stated reason is the fact that his competition hates that he is offering his classes for free.
I think the publics opinion is that sex offenders can never change/be cured, whereas say a murderer can.

It'd be interesting to see repeat offense rates for sex offenders compared with other crimes.

Isn't trying to 'cure' say a pedophile, a similar task to trying to turn a homosexual straight? (Serious question, I don't know the answer).

It's not a good idea for anyone to witch hunt and obsess about such a small threat.
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The really amazing thing here is that it should take a full four seconds to launch a calculator application on a mobile phone.

That should be instant, no delay at all.

A calculator application with such limited functionality should be well under 100 K and load in a split second.
I think the target audience is people who read the daily mail / watch fox news etc.

The same people who are staying inside, petrified of catching swine flu and dying from it.
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I browse them individually. I don't really trust giving my credentials to aggregators. I only really use a few so it isn't worth it to have a separate app/site.
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Why do people insist on giving these idiots the attention they want?

There's nothing valuable or productive about their inane, impossible-to-read 'hack logs' and they're not encouraging any sort of useful discussion.

It's just dick-waving, and it's stupid for people to continually post links to their latest escapades on sites like HN and reddit.

I mean seriously. How can you feel good about linking to a thread that has tripe like this in it?

"Death to the Jews, death to the whitehats. All parasites must be destroyed in kind!"
Google wants to organise the world's information.

Hard to do that when a rival website has a large proportion of that information inside their closed garden.
Aside from the content, the presentation of this post deserves praise - it has to be one of the clearest presentations of data I've ever seen on the web. The text is concise and the graphs and other supporting graphics are unambiguous. Top work!
[Apache Sanselan] Demystifying how Sanselan determines image format
Are you claiming that the gene is not recessive? Because you're wrong.

Note: I am not saying that an individual ginger should be discriminated against. But a high proportion of them is a warning sign that something is going genetically wrong with a community.
I'm using a US proxy - in China - and somehow Hulu is still blocking me: 'Sorry, we are unable to stream this video. Please check your internet connection and try again.' How does Hulu know?
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Bud tastes way better in Prague though.
The sixth point may or may not be true, but surely plenty of software companies in the last 10 years have started on the VC model of spending a ton of money on upfront development and then reaping the economies of scale afterwards. He doesn't mention anything in his specific situation that would lead us to believe that model couldn't possibly have worked. It sounds like his consulting idea would have been a valid risk mitigation strategy, but ideally in software you always want to get to the point where you are selling zero marginal cost bits, rather than only charging customers for person-hours.
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I guess though similar arguments could be made for many academic journals, pay-walled sites and things like the deep web.

I don't think facebook is really something that is to be worried about except as an example of a broader problem.
They actually sell it in the US as Czechvar- one of my favorites, incidentally.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechvar
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> Are you claiming that the gene is not recessive?

Of course I'm not saying that. I know that the gene for red hair is recessive. And it's true that an entire community having mostly red hair has an increased probability of being inbred.

But think of it as a test that someone comes from a community that is inbred. Almost every positive (someone has red hair) will be a false positive (they most likely are not from a community that's inbred, although the chances are increased infintesimally). Your comment, however, seems to advocate pointing at someone and saying "They've got red hair, it's more likely they're an inbreed."

Now turn it around. Give everyone on HN a test for some rare condition (SRC). There are a few tests turn up positive, so you point at them and say "It's more likely they've got SRC." Yes, that's true, and completely unhelpful. It's almost certain to be a false positive.

On the other hand, you said:

Quoting>> And anybody with red hair
Quoting>> knows how true that is.

You said> Well, that's different.

The text from which you quoted is this:

> If everybody would be born exactly the same
> shade of medium brown as of tomorrow I'm sure
> we'd focus on hair colour next. And anybody
> with red hair knows how true that is.

So when you say "Well, that's different," your implication is that it's not OK to be prejudiced because of skin colour, but it is OK to be prejudiced against people with red hair. It's different, because having red hair makes it more likely that they are inbred.

That's how your comment reads. That's what your comment appears to say. It may not be what you meant, but it's still deeply offensive, even if you don't realise it.

Your comments about communities, etc, are correct, but when you insert them into a discussion about prejudice, the implications and import are entirely different. It's that juxtaposition that matters.
IMHO it cheapens the whole article and makes it plainly obvious that the main intent writing the article wasn't to be interesting, but to gain followers on twitter.

When someone ends an article with "You should follow me on twitter", they're being arrogant obnoxious and rude. If their only aim is to get weak minded sheep to follow them, then fair enough. But put the "You should follow me on twitter" link at the top so other people can just ignore the article.
If you like crazy, here's a blog of a guy who went from Vienna to Pyongyang by train, entered North Korea through the border with Russia and spent 36 hours without a guide...until he got to Pyongyang
http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/
To their credit, half of that propaganda is right: The United States is most definitely an empire- albeit one in denial.
A small mistake: this site is writing "Codelgniter" (with L) instead of "CodeIgniter" (with I).
Exciting, and real life stuff... thanks, great view.
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The Cyber-Attack that Wasn't. The hype that was. ('Korean' myDoom redux)
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Flash connects to the RTMP server directly unless you firewall it correctly and thus can do the geolocation there.
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For me this is funny advertising but I don't know if that's also the case for programmers!?
It's possible, but I wouldn't estimate the possibility as "probably." Odds are no one from North Korea has any idea this film exists.
No one should be confident. Given enough time and resources, practically any system will fall, typically due to human error (bad passwords being the biggest problem). I'd imagine more resources would be required to hack into a web server set up by a security company, but the rewards, in the form of publicity, for anti-sec are much greater.

Anyone who believes they can have a "secure" system connected to the internet is largely kidding themselves. There are ways to minimize this risk, but there really isn't any way (as far as I'm aware) to completely eradicate it.
"one fifth of all visitors are using IE6".

Erm, no. 71% of visitors are using IE, and of that 71%, 22% are using IE6. 71% * 22% = 15%, or just over one seventh.
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I'd rather have Hulu then Spotify!

I have YouTube and million other sites for music.
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Either this is an old campaign or ripped from an old image "from the internet". Still great.
Real quickly I just want to say I hope this comment didn't sound ageist. I didn't mean that he is less talented because he is old, only that I really wondered if he understood a post-WWII China instead of modern China.
Yes, I heard that it's been ripped from old fun-images on the internet and reused for the campaign. That sucks but the idea itself is really cool :)
It's why this isn't a story he can laugh about later:

http://www.recordcourier.com/article/20090703/NEWS/907029986...

Dude's life is ruined because there happened to be kids there.
Please read the article.

"Apparently the ideas for the ads appeared on the net some years ago and the advertising agency just grabbed it, but anyway - this is pure fun!"
They're also holding an Aussie mining company executive on charges of espionage. Kevin Rudd was there recently and did nothing but kiss ass.
Unfortunately, being caught e.g. urinating in public may also put you on the sex offender's registry.
Challenge vs. Skill
By your rules a community of mostly blue eyed people has something genetically wrong with them.

Funny how eugenics doesn't work whichever way you try to slice it isn't it ?

A gene being recessive or dominant and being expressed in a group of individuals is not immediately a sign of 'inbreeding'. By that standard we are all 'inbreeding', everybody will have a number of recessive genes expressed, even if that does not lead to them having a different phenotype.

Inbreeding refers to a population too small to have a viable sized gene pool, one of the traits is exposure of recessive traits.

You're confusing the cause and the effect. Not all recessive traits are exposed by inbreeding, the vast majority of them are regular recombination in a lively genepool.
Well, the claim that the opponent must be wrong, because he has committed a fallacy, is the fallacy fallacy...
oh god i did that @ school myself ... i flunked of course but my tacher had a laugh
I think gaius has made my point better than I could have ever made it myself.

Any outside distinction will lead to people using that distinction to draw far reaching conclusions about the people that have that distinction.

Inbreeding indeed.
I feel much the same way. I don't use that awful program at all and I'm just waiting for the fad to pass. I would feel the same way if the author plugged some supermarket chain at the end of their article, or there was some "This article brought to you by such-and-such company". I am sick to DEATH of advertising and twitter is basically advertising your mundane life.
I've just tried via this and it didn't work. The message is that "based on the IP address we notice you are trying to access Hulu via an anonymous proxy...". Any other ideas? Anyone seen this film anywhere else?
Sorry to be so thick but 'minimizing mindshare for your project' means what?
I, who feel as a mathematician inside, find these posters very funny and amusing, and I wish there were more of them to smile at. However, creativity and math skills are not negatively correlated as this ad campaign states.

Indeed, creativity is somewhat necessary for a mathematician (also applicable to programmers to some degree).

"A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician." - Karl Weierstrass
Anything that has Ivan Sutherland in it bears close observation.

I learned just about all I know about computer graphics from his textbooks and it still amazes me how relevant those books are today. The guy is definitely one of the 'great' names in the history of computing.
Software is rather good actually. Only a small percent of any of it is faulty. It could be improved but it is largely not considered worth it.

Civil engineering is not as perfect as often supposed. There are plenty of defects from barely noticeable to catastrophic. The software world simply knows nothing about other engineering. There is an easy way to see: just check the references in software engineering books and papers and count how many point to other such disciplines: practically none.

Neither is civil engineering as predictable (or controllable) as supposed. The majority of time, cost, and risk is borne by construction, so this overshadows the part most equivalent to software -- the engineering design proper. But this stilll has the same inherent difficulties as any design work.

Saying software makes other engineering look trivial shows a lack of knowledge. If you learn a little of civil engineering you will find it is just as complex as software.

Software is not all entirely new: look at all the reused components, libraries, etc. That is substantial, perhaps even the majority proportion in some sense.

There is probably more complexity of interrelations of parts in software, since physical designs are constrained to a more 'regular' physical substrate. But I don't think it is too bad, because the design activity is intrinsically isolating to a large degree.

Software has almost none of the physical constraints in other engineering, and it is so changeable at any stage. It really has distinct good fortune and advantages. And it is everywhere, it runs the world. It is a great success. Yet it is seen as failing. We don't have a mature, perceptive, understanding attitude to it.
If you're a decent enough programmer (web development is really easy compared to other fields) and you really want versatility, coding from scratch without using a framework is still the best decision.

This is not necessarily true for non web apps. I love Cocoa for instance and the MVC pattern is great for most kinds of apps. But not for the web, IMHO. It's overkill.

There are too many unnecessary abstractions from the protocols. The LAMP stack already gives you everything you need. For instance, PHP with mod_php already is a template processor. There's no need to build another one on top of it. Unless you don't know what you're doing, which is bad anyway.

I still prefer to parse the query string myself, to define my SQL queries (and most of the times a single query can replace 4-5 queries generated from a framework so apps are much faster) and to keep the data as clean and separated from the code as I can (data is always much more important than code and it's much better if it is code agnostic).

With web frameworks there's a lot of magic and it's faster to have a web app up and running. But it's a pain as soon as you want to modify the default behaviors. At least in my experience.