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I am sorry, I was unclear: The code seems to be often commented in Portugese or Spanish, I do not know which specific country they are from.

My statement may seem false if you only inspect the first pages. Though I seem to remember that the majority of the exploitable repositories were in fact Portugese or Spanish.

Source: https://github.com/search?q=mysql+%24_GET&type=Code&ref=sear...
By made this argument you really mean stole a Bill Hicks bit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOMDMWzhO9k
I highly recommend Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective

http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Systems-Programmers-Perspecti...
Iceland was not obliged to ensure payment of a minimum compensation to the depositors.

See the EFTA court ruling at http://www.eftacourt.int/uploads/tx_nvcases/16_11_Judgment_E...
No problem - got a spare €100,000 to pay for my lawyers?
Your argument is without merit, because you're conflating concepts that don't belong together. You are telling us that some of Pakistan's leaders, including of course religious leaders, are resisting American aid in the form of polio vaccination. The rest of this discussion, though, is about offering education to individuals, not to the often dunderheaded leaders who try to control them. These are two different target groups, and ironically empowering individuals will actually help de-legitimize the leaders we have a problem with.

Since you chose the example of polio vaccinations, I think it would be fair to mention that Pakistani leaders have an excellent reason to oppose polio vaccinations. It turns out, and you can easily Google for this, that the CIA set up a fake vaccination program in Pakistan to get a hold of Bin Laden's DNA.

It's bad enough that there are false allegations, mostly religion-based, against Western medical intervention in these countries. But to actively feed this distrust by abusing what little trust these people had, just to accomplish a public symbolic victory over a terrorist organization, was an utterly despicable act on part of the US administration.
Demise of Yahoo (YHOO) and Rise of Facebook (FB). Compare their financials.
So you can't connect to Wikipedia using HTTPS? What's the policy on HTTPS in general?

Edit: Never mind, you already answered it in another comment.
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I know, I know... Some people will obviously have a lot of points in StackoverflowPT by translating english answers.
Yahoo!: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=YHOO&ql=1
Many VPN providers these days accept Bitcoin, just buy it locally and send it around a little and you're good to go. Though I doubt the government cares enough to look into everyone who buys VPN via other means anyways.
Is Arabic even a single language? (I really don't know.)

But I don't think it's in the SO best interest to contain any group. They already have a moderation system for dealing with anoying people. I'd put that cinic at rest.

What this will achieve is making learning to program much easier for portugueese speaking people. A much needed thing. But I doubt that anybody will stop searching problems in english, just the sheer number and selection bias are enough to keep the best content in english.

Anyway, great icon. Stack Overflow with cedilha!
Do you mean "sonder"?

http://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/post/23536922667/s...
How does one search for unsanitized input on GitHub?
Neither of us have much of an argument because all you've got is anecdotal journalist linkbait, and all I have is experience on 2K footers not 30K footers and gossip from fellow (harder core) climbers. I'm more of a hiker than a climber but there is obviously huge overlap in the hobbies. Someday I'd like to do the 15 mile hike to basecamp but I'm not overly interested in the summit itself.

On the other hand I do agree that you have a sound theoretical argument that a famous summit like Everest is going to attract proportionally more crackpots than Cho Oyu.

I was thoroughly unimpressed by the Mail story and its implications. Here's a picture of about 100-200 climbers. Here's an explanation of why I think a whopping 2 of them don't belong there, although that's not very impressive. And here's a past glamour pic of two climbers who died but I very carefully avoid identifying the dead ones as being unqualified, which is bizarre because if they were unqualified it would certainly fit the predetermined conclusion of the article. So what the Mail implied was most of the climbers are noobs who die, but the facts of what it actually reported were very few climbers are unqualified or weirdos and deaths don't seem to correlate with qualification or lack thereof, so there really isn't much of a story. Just profiteering off tragedy.

I don't think anything can be learned from infotainment. Actual stats from reputable sources would be informative. Linkbait, eh, not so much.
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> Did the Icelandic government ever agree to this liability?

I believe it was part of some European agreement for open access to financial markets but I don't know the details. So I think that the answer is probably: Yes.

Edit: I've upvoted a sibling post with the judgment on the case. I haven't read it all but it seems clear to me that the rules were complicated and there were good reasons to believe that Iceland had such a liability.

>Was their ability to meet it ever looked in to?

Obviously not sufficiently. It may be that it was looked into initially when it was small and manageable but no-one said stop when the Icelandic banks grew beyond the ability of their government to rescue. Of course if you withdraw cover you can trigger the bank run that brings down the system. With hindsight you know that you should have stepped in to restrict opening of accounts before the risky position was reached.

Edit2 to add: Agree that FSA were at fault. My post was to explain the extent to which it was not an exotic foreign investment but a normal option available to regular customers and with the normal bank compensation scheme in place.
Intel is a big ship to get turned around. When they finally do they will end up more than competitive.
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Yeah, typically the trick here is to run OpenVPN on port 443/TCP (HTTPS, which almost no one bothers to examine), you can also stunnel it if by some chance they're doing deep packet inspection and blocking OpenVPN connections.
>Also I think that the copyright is (better) protected on Svbtle.

Why?
Ohh, good point. I never thought of that. I assumed employee of Twitter as well.
"mathematic (n.) - late 14c. as singular noun, replaced by early 17c. by mathematics, from Latin mathematica (plural), from Greek mathematike tekhne "mathematical science," feminine singular of mathematikos (adj.) ..."

http://etymonline.com/index.php?term=mathematic
IMAP is mostly slow as hell when dealing with large mailboxes. For example fetching the 10 most recently updated threads (for a sane definition of what a thread/conversation is, which imap doesn't deal with at all) is insanely slow. It entails scanning the whole mailbox trying to figure out what the threads are and when someone last posted to them. Not fast when you can have millions of mails in a mailbox. Is that the kind of problems JMAP might solve?

Also interested in hearing if you know anything about GMail's json api? Surely they must have something similar to JMAP which their web client is using even if it the api is proprietary?
The author talks about the different accounts of the people who came across the not-yet-entirely-dead-corpse. Two acquaintances of mine (who are extremely good friends with each other) will be attempting to summit Everest in the next two years. Here's the crazy thing:

They have promised each other that if one is injured or cannot continue and if they are past a point of no return, the other will not only leave the friend there to die - but also take his oxygen tank. In a very surreal, inexplicable and ironic way that's the beauty of human nature. I would not consider the risk viable myself but it amazes me how a person who is staring into the black abyss of the possibility of death would encourage their friend to let them die alone.

Their perspective changed my attitude toward Everest climbers from "idiots" to people who have true character - certainly more than I do behind my little computer screen here.
Worst funding announcement in the history of startups?
I really is. A visit to the conference will be worth it just for the location. And the food there.
I have an HP touchsmart haswell i7 that is fantastic with heat and battery life...
Hi! Cuban here, pretty much same situation as you, I feel your pain, every time I see the little broken robot when attempting to get anything from Google Code I thank we have Github and Bitbucket.

If Github gets blocked we should get something on, If only blocked governments took this issue seriously and had these essential services covered, but I guess something as amazing as github takes real starters and not some lame government founded dev group.

Anyway, just saying, we blocked people should hang around more often.
This is the core problem. The probability of two independent "inventors" (i.e., software engineers) discovering a similar solution is very high.

Before software engineering, the probability of this happening may very well have been low enough to where nobody cared.

But if you're writing code, you are relying on and creating thousands of "inventions" a day. To "claim" one of those inventions so that nobody else can use it is absurd.

The law just doesn't get that yet, which is weird, because big tech companies have been getting burned by it for decades now. I guess they just figure the benefits>costs for them, and when peons get screwed, who cares?
I had started with using MS Visio at my job.
Though I had absolutely no experience in making diagrams, Visio was quite easy to get started and become comfortable in quick time.

The downside of course is that it is not free.

I would also like to know open source alternatives to MS Visio. I can see that Ubuntu 12.04 comes with Libre Draw, but I haven't tried it yet.
Or being the guy who 'legitimized' the drone war and killing of American citizens without a trial. Institutionalizing the president's power to decide who dies under the "disposition matrix" (kill list).

Note: Not saying Anwar al-Awlaki was a good guy, or blameless, or anything of the sort. But it is still killing an American citizen from afar without so much as a thought of a trial.
This seems counterproductive. Access to western educational services should advance our causes there, not harm them.
Gandi's pretty good, except they have strange terms of service : "By accepting Our Contracts and using Our Services, You agree to abide to Our code of ethics which consists, in particular, of protecting and respecting minors, human dignity, public order and good moral standards [...]"

https://www.gandi.net/static/contracts/en/g2/pdf/MSA-1.0-EN....
>Yasser Arafat & Yitzhak Rabin were awarded it, its not clear if they intended to create a peace, but they did not.

I'm sorry, what? You aren't sure if Rabin and Arafat "intended to create peace"? What exactly do you think they were intending?
I'd second what others have said and go with a micro like an avr or a pic. Tons of open source support and a small system you can totally "own" will help you understand not just the code but how computers execute code at the lowest human-legible level.
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I'm gonna put an identity audit on my TODO list.
If you are under obligations that do not allow recipients to distribute the program, doing so anyway will put you under liability.

If you are under contract that says you can not use a patent within a BSD licensed software (that grants redistribution), you will suddenly not be able to distribute software as under BSD license. The contact forbids you, and if you remove the bsd copyright notice then BSD license forbid you.

If this happen often to you, my advice is to not get into contractual agreements that contradicts with what you are trying to do.

> because Section 7 requires that no restrictions be placed on anyone.

False. Section 7 require that recipient of the software can redistribute the software. The lawyer for the European Commission was very explicit in that analysis.
Why are all these attacks targeting Twitter usernames? Do these really have particularly significant resale value? It seems like much greater profit could be made with access to someone's Amazon account, but these seem to be used as merely a proxy in these attacks.
Indeed, I think it may be problematic that the arguments for encryption have tended to focus on dissidents and people with dramatic reasons for needing privacy. Large companies with mundane privacy expectations might have been a better bet in terms of spurring uptake.
Cambridge University has a 'Centre for Mathematical Sciences', housing both the departments for pure and applied maths.
It isn't "short for" anything. This is just a normal suffix for fields of study: Physics, mechanics, politics, statistics, optics, ethics, linguistics, and so on.

Etymologically it is a plural suffix, but in modern English it is singular.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/-ics
Ask HN: Am I the only one deflated about the new TLDs?
Come February 4th we are going to have a distinctively different web. With the onset of domains such as .plumber, .london, etc. Am I just being nostalgic of a world of .coms?
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Further to what you said, it has been pointed out that (with very few exceptions, meanwhile) there has never been a war between two countries that both had MacDonald's franchises.
I was thinking how witty that would be if THIS was the actually hacker, and he was using us to create a shitstorm in order to rush Twitter into giving him the account. I'm sure there is sufficient data to support that he was the original owner though.
GoInstant – Here's a video of our first internal hackathon of the year.
Until the money is in the bank you don’t have an investment.

There is a lot of talk about what went wrong, but I think this is the most transferable lesson spanning startups of every kind.
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Icelandic legal system does not operate under a common law system, so promise is just that, a promise and nothing more. If they have actually signed a contract, a guarantee or passed a law, that would be another topic.
I parachute, so I can totally relate. This is a GoPro clip (of intentional poor quality) shot by me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIsIqouBwo0

I've found greater satisfaction in parachuting than anything else I've tried in life. Parachuting was never a goal for me, but I found myself doing it one day and enjoying it. I kept doing it. It's rewarding in the same way as sports are, you find small goals and you reach them. You improve. You have a raison d'être. You feel things. Good things, horrible things, but you feel! You're not passing time. You're alive!

Had I been exposed to mountaineering earlier on in my life, maybe I would've been doing that instead. One should probably not underestimate the social aspect of such activities either. You do meet some great people.
+1 for Namecheap, I have 2 (going on 3 soon) domains with them and I've never had a problem. They also have a coupon code for pretty much anything you want to purchase for them.
It would be nice to have more substantive criticisms. While I dislike SBT[1], scalaz and spray are a large part of why I enjoy scala so much. While akka was so difficult to use that it almost soured me on the whole thing, and shapeless' monstrous compile times made it practically unusable. So don't think this post represents some kind of consensus.

[1] The notion of configuring your build tool in a full programming language is alluring but ultimately a bad idea IMO; builds should be simpler and more declarative than that.
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Written Arabic can be considered one language. Spoken varieties are not mutually intelligible and do not generally have standardized written forms, though many Arabic speakers can understand Egyptian Arabic do to popularity of their media.
You know very well that a lot of people in Brazil have really bad english and even though they might be able to read some english pages they are going to have a hard time asking SO questions.
Can this be used to hide API keys? It's fairly trivial to decompile an APK file. As another poster pointed out the key for Conceal would need to be stored somewhere also.

Any ideas or best practises of hiding API keys? Google has not turned up much. This Stackoverflow suggests storing keys remotely, but surely that too would be trivial to hack:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10203910/anti-hack-soluti...
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The damage was pretty big anyway, no? The currency lost half it's value and never recovered, right?
It's possible that this was gross negligence on part of the employee and that the thief just got really, really lucky - but that seems unlikely.

This is a systemic fault of PayPal and firing a lowly phone-jockey will not solve that. There are computer system protections that were clearly not in place (the representative was able to see this data on the screen, rather than having to enter it blind and have it validated - or, if they did, they had infinite re-tries which is also bad. Three wrong attempts, and the account should be locked and have to be escalated) but there are also culture/training problems: Until otherwise satisfactorily proven, anyone calling must be assumed to be in bad faith when they call. A representative with this mindset would not let a caller start guessing the "password".
> Thank you for explaining the reality of the situation.

I love it when people use this phrase. The "reality of the situation". Yes, this is how things are, and they will continue to be that way until we change them.

There is a world of difference between "refuse to support IE7" and "let's rewrite everything in [favorite framework]." Our startup is squarely in the enterprise space, and we don't support IE7. Our app will literally display a "you shall not pass" modal if you try to log in with IE7. Our client list includes a lot of local governments (cities large and small, counties, GPOs, etc), and we still manage to get by just fine without supporting IE7.

I think you'd be amazed at how small of a market you're giving up by telling everyone you simply cannot support IE7. When you just accept "reality", you never bother to push the issue, and you never make progress.
Unlike Reddit, on HN there is no "knights of new" subculture of random people reading and voting new submissions. Most of us only look at the front page and maybe 1-2 more pages (mainly because of the defective pagination). That said, there are 2 ways to get your submission on the front page:

- get enough friends to vote it

- be the first to submit a popular link and receive automated upvotes each time someone else tries to submit the same link
If you send the password in email, that's at least one instance where it was readable in clear text to everyone on the network between you and the server (and probably things like packet sniffers on the local network, right?). It's not as bad as storing it in the clear, but it removes some of the value of (e.g.) hosting a login page via SSL.
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AirVPN has obfsproxy, or you can rent a cheap vpn that takes bitcoins, check the bitcoin wiki, and set up obfsproxy yourself. It camoflauges traffic to look like regular http to bypass censorship.

Pretty sure most coursera vids and materials are ripped and avail via torrent too. If not could wholesale rip the site and mirror it free on yandex cloud. Russia laughs at US petty sanctions
This seems rather overblown.

There are a small list of countries for which the US has a pretty comprehensive ban on doing business in/with. For these countries, the rule is "no" unless there has been a specific exception made to allow some particular kind of business.

There is a much larger list of countries for which there are partial bans covering specific items or services, at least without getting some kind of license. With these countries, the rule is "yes" unless you are dealing with a kind of business that has been specifically restricted.

The article, and most of the comments here so far, make it sound like we are dealing with the second situation, and Coursera's type of business has been added to the restricted list.

That does not seem to be the case. The countries involved are in the first group, where the default in the US is "do not do business with" unless there has been an exception made for your business. (By the way, that's also how it has been in the EU for most of these countries until fairly recently. I believe the EU has been transitioning them to the second group, where they will have a set of specific areas that are restricted).

The US appears to actually be OK with offering MOOCs in these countries. There is already an exception in the first group for Syria that allows Coursera to offer courses there, and they have restored access. They are now working to get exceptions for the other countries, and from what they say on their blog it sounds like the State Department is going to be OK with this.
Tools like Typemock helps you make bad decisions that you will regret later on...

Isolating things is very important to make it easier to test, and lower the risk for tests to break when you change other parts of the system. Some times isolating one part from another is hard work. Typemock makes it easier, but in the same time it ties you closer to the part that you are trying to isolate from.

e.g. a database. You want to test something that eventually should store something in a database. You can either make a thin layer abstracting away your database so that you can test the functionality without depending on the database, or you can make a tighter coupling to the database, and use tools like typemock to get rid of it in test mode. If you want to change the way you store data, you now have production code tightly coupled to the current storage strategy AND tests tightly coupled to the current storage strategy...

Typemock can be of great help some times, but really you should strive to find better designs instead.
That's a pretty terrible defense of scala. Sounds more like a "I hate some random scala projects for made up reasons". How does scalaz have "colossal snobbism" exactly? Because it contains stuff you haven't learned?
Good point.

It's no indication, but it would generate fear and doubt when I code. What if the code I'm writing right now is patented by some company taking advantage of a system, with resources searching everywhere just to sue? I probably wouldn't, but I could become paranoiac because of this, looking on the internet to find if I am infringing patents, instead of being productive.

It's true 1.36% seems like nothing, but for a small company, it could mean a lot. Plus, it would be heart-breaking (or even outraging) to know that a program I made on my own, with no knowledge about some software patent, nor ill intention, gives money to someone that has nothing to do with it.

And, as you mention, legal costs, time wasted and stress could easily be real threats to a startup.
A bank failure vs. bailout is irrelevant to the financial health to the bank's debtors. Failure vs. bailout is only important to the banks creditors.

Those who borrowed from the banks and went bankrupt were the cause, rather than the result, of the banking crisis (speaking purely from an accounting perspective -- no moral or policy judgement.)
I think the comment was intending to highlight the fact that multiple international organisations are trying to arrest Snowden and his appearance at the awards would put him in jeopardy, not that travel logistics might be an issue.