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While it's true that almost all software has bugs that can result in exploits, I think most of the exploits used in Pwn2Own are typically the result of complex interactions between subsystems that are hard to predict. As software gets more complex, the attack surface increases.

The Apple bug isn't really in that class of exploit. It's a simple coding/merge error, and it's actually a regression from previously working code. One of the things that worries me is that this bug would have been caught so easily with basic unit tests.

Test 1: Make connection to server with a valid SSL certificate [PASSED]
Test 2: Make connection to a server with an invalid SSL certificate [FAILED]

Are we meant to think that Apple's build process doesn't use unit testing? Seems unlikely. Or perhaps this component didn't warrant an extensive test suite? I hope not! Not really sure what the explanation is.

I mean, I certainly can't claim that all my code is run through extensive tests before every deploy, but then I'm not working on the security tools that underpin an entire operating system.
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What a sad human they must be to know the Konami code but somehow not appreciate it.
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Think how much more productive the 90s could have been with Bootstrap...
Wow, thank you so much for that link. Just read five of Julie's articles and they are really great reads. Highly recommended for designers at mid-stage startups (and really everyone).
You can create much tougher classical competition by writing highly optimized code that accounts for the sparse connectivity structure of the current D-Wave chip.

Why should optimized code "account for the sparse connectivity of the D-Wave chip"? If the contest is to solve an optimization problem, then the "classical competition" doesn't need to know anything about the D-Wave. The only reason a competing code would need to model the D-Wave itself would be if it's simulating how the D-Wave solves an optimization problem-- in which case comparing the times taken to do the optimization is hardly meaningful.
No Bailout for Bitcoin Holders
You're talking as if it's possible for "we" to make a decision to start over; it isn't, the very nature of distributed means any talk of what should be is pointless. There is only what happens, no one is in charge. Bitcoin has the first mover advantage and has gained the network effect, it's extremely unlikely to be replaced by an alt no matter how good the alt is.
Heh. Dorkbot-SF is having a 20-year anniversary party for VRML, and they just requested VRML files for projection on the walls.
It seems to me that this article actually proves the opposite point that it's trying to make.

I have no idea what the program presented is supposed to do, or what problem is being solved, despite knowing all the types being used.

I swear the point of Haskell is to make people using Haskell feel smart :-)
Only if you can anticipate that the value of the metal is still there in 100 years, or that the coins will be worth something as a collector's piece.

Imagine if these were aluminum, which was expensive in the 1870s...

(http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/9511/Binczewski-9511.ht...)
Great news, now just waiting for a Humble Bundle deal with Portal in it.
This sort of integration of everything reminds me of Microsoft, where they seem to want to integrate everything, sometimes this worked out well and sometimes it didn't.
Internally a lot of it makes technical sense - reuse of existing libraries, services, components, thus lowering of support and development costs - but on the outside it just looks like vendor lock in.
The worst thing is he still runs multiple other companies:

https://www.autovps.net

https://www.kalyhost.com

https://www.tibanne.com

http://blog.magicaltux.net/2009/12/22/incorporation-in-japan...

If he was not dealing with other people's real money and data this experimentation and shotgun approach would be fine.
Oddly enough I did the exact opposite when they released Postal 2 for Linux.
> In my opinion HTML/CSS/JavaScript is the best interface design technology ever invented

i thoroughly agree with this if you say "interface implementation technology" instead of "interface design technology". i also believe anyone who disagrees has never fully explored the various print/console/mobile/mfc/actionscript worlds. i mean... have you ever even USED something like pagemaker?
This is a tempest in a teapot. There's no data on the stack as Quicksort proceeds, only indices to data, so by one definition, Quicksort is in-place. But if an algorithm is judged by how much stack it uses, many algorithms that we think of as in-place aren't.
I think you are right. I have accounts on many websites, but I am not worth the same amount as a user on each and every one of them.
Interesting. I hope this works on boring stuff I don't really want to read. Bye bye legal documents.
True, it was initially quite a Marxist program, though at the time it was Marxist it was also considerably more ambitious: at one time the Scandinavian social-democratic parties included among their goals the eventual ownership and democratic management of the means of production by the workers. Their main difference with the Communist Party was that they believed it could be accomplished through incremental, non-revolutionary, Parliamentary means.

Today's Scandinavian Social-Democratic parties have jettisoned that part of their ideological history and no longer mention it much, though, and nowadays the idea of workers owning the means of production is not so popular, and even the state doing so is less popular than it was, with many privatizations taking place over the past 30 years. Today's dominant ideology is probably something more like Poul Nyrup Rasmussen's "flexicurity" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexicurity), which is the idea that in terms of economic organization and control, the society should be fully market-based, not worker-owned, with things allocated by supply and demand, hiring and firing being easy, etc. But then there should also be taxation to provide for a safety net so the lower end of society doesn't fall too far. There are a few exceptions, for example health-care is still mostly non-market-based.

I think I agree that the Cold War cemented some of this, but afaik the idea of a capitalist welfare state originated considerably earlier, some of it in Marx's writing itself. He argued that one way capitalism would defend itself would be to institute reformist measures to ameliorate the worst conditions of the working class, in order to keep them from revolting (Otto von Bismarck pioneered the "right-wing welfare state" in the 1880s for precisely this reason). Thus the argument among many Communist parties of the late 19th and earthly 20th centuries that the Social Democratic parties were just helping capitalists to delay revolution, and not fundamentally leftist parties. And then later, capitalist theorists like F.A. Hayek were in favor of a kind of capitalist welfare state (basic income, free hospital care, etc.).
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Seconded. I had these on both of my 5 series and they were great.
Playing EVE Online taught me to spot scams, pyramids and ponzi schemes in an instant. When I first read about bitcoin I couldnt stop laughing, "people really pay for pretend money counting on price going up so they can sell and earn $? AHAHAHA" was all I could hear in my head.

Turns out I was too smart for my own good. Almost every ponzi scheme can be exploited _if_ you get on board early enough.

At the current stage of bitcoin only suckers are left holding the bag. Of course no one will see it, because "Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)" (its a book, read it).
VRML? Bah, back then I was still hoping GopherVR would restore gopher as the primary protocol for the Internet.

(This must be what it feels like to realize you're old...)
What is this parodying?
The capacity of Bitcoin is capped.
Probably not many. But everyone who doesn't have one wants one!
> 1x1.gif let you push elements all around the page effortlessly. To this day it is the only way to vertically center elements.

False, dynamic vertical centering has always been possible with tables:

<table><tr>
<td valign="middle">dynamically vertically centered</td>
<td><img src="1x1.gif" height="2000" width="1"></td>
</tr></table>

This is something CSS still can't seem to do dynamically except with table-emulation, which, you know, kind of defeats the whole fucking purpose of CSS (and isn't backwards compatible anyway). Seeing how much people decry tables as the antizalgochrist (guess what zealots: layout divs and lists also aren't semantic) I'm surprised this hasn't been fixed yet. But I don't care anymore since I moved back to app dev and my life got 100x less painful.

Here's something else CSS still can't do AFAIK:

<table width="80%"><!-- dynamic --><tr>
<td width="300">fixed"</td>
<td width="*">dynamic</td>
</tr><table>
Kind of dumb to compare U.S./Western Europe users to primarily non-U.S. users as is the case for Whatsapp. I'd bet a 19 year old in India is an order of magnitude less valuable from an advertising standpoint than a 19 year old in America. Not only because people have less disposable income in those countries, but because kids have less control over their parents' disposable income.
I'm glad to see that equity was so far down on the list here. Too many founders think equity and salary are interchangeable, but the fact is that equity doesn't pay the bills. All of the other things you mentioned, however, are good reasons for me to take a pay cut. Very, very good list. I'd add vacation as another item, like someone else said.

Another thing employers need to realize is that sometimes the job seeker is looking to move up, and just because they applied for your job doesn't mean they hate their current job. For instance, I'm rather content at my current job. I like it. It pays well. My team is solid. The work itself... maybe a bit boring. But is that enough for me to jump ship and take a pay cut? Probably not.

Sometimes YOU need ME more than I need YOU. Sometimes I'm desperate. You need to be able to figure out which kind of candidate I am and make your offer accordingly. I'm not saying rip me off, but you can save some $$ if I'm desperate. If I'm not desperate, though, you have less leverage in the negotiation and you either need to not make me an offer at all or make me one I can't refuse. Middle ground just isn't good enough for the most part. (At the very least, expect negotiation from a strong candidate.)

/rant :)
history repeats itself https://web.archive.org/web/20010331032727/http://www.manbee...
I can imagine people being offended depending on what happened when the code was entered.
I wrote programs to write &nbsp;s. Surely I am going to Hell.
Are those the rears? How long do you expect them to last?! I'd think of 20,000 miles as a reasonable lifespan. I'd always been under the impression that "only" didn't start until 10,000 miles ;)
Going from the center of an MC map to the edge would take over a month of continuous walking [1], so I don't think there's much motivation to create anything larger. I have never heard of any situation anyone even reached the end of an MC world without explicitly teleporting there, although one man had been traveling there for the last 3 years [2].

[1] http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Far_Lands
[2] http://farlandsorbust.com/
Agreed - how do we know the value difference for a "user" of Zappos and a user of whatsapp (among other dimensions)? This graph is not very insightful, it's just visualizing the easy way to look at and quantify the purchase.
Cognitive dissonance is strong with you my child (or irony, in which case I failed at detecting it).
20 days, 22 days, any entity thats solvent should be able to issue a withdrawal very quickly. It sounds like everyone was delayed, some far more than others for whichever reasons.
Yes.

Same genome.
An unknown author wrote Beowulf, an odd synthesis of pagan storytelling and christian piety.

Charlemagne. Fucking Charlemagne. Seriously, Western Europe emerging as a political entity.

The various Viking invasions, which end up having a major impact on European trade and English history (and thus by extension, American history).

The 9th century was kind of a big deal.
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No. To err is human. In the grand scheme of things, it's a PR fuck up; nothing more. I doubt it affects you directly enough as a Gentoo user to have such a strong reaction anyway, but if it make you feel superior, then all power to you. Lighten up and have a look at this and ask your self if you have honestly never done the same thing: http://xkcd.com/292/ if you think you haven't, I can gaur tee that you are deluding yourself...
Uhhh... neat, but can we see profit/revenue per user in that list? I think this is pretty much useless without that context.
The Model S is particularly heavy even for a large sedan, which combined with a lot of torque will result in extremely rapid tire wear even for a performance car.

The profile of the tires has almost nothing to do with wear. The treadwear (softness/stickiness) of the tire's rubber compound combined with alignment and driving style is what governs tire wear.

If anything, lower profile tires will actually wear less when driven aggressively as the sidewalls are less prone to folding (causing outer edge feathering) when cornering.
I too still have the blue bar in my vision. It's been there for about 4 minutes. I'm also sitting about 4' away from a 40" TV. I was able to read everything at all the speeds though.
Don't forget the w3c valid xhtml badges. Though that's more early-2000s
For many of these each active user drives many passive visitors. Examples: Geocities, Flickr, YouTube.
Curious: how is performance compared to the OSX port? All the Source games I've tried run horribly on OSX compared to Windows on the same machine. Strangely, they play just fine through a Parallels Windows VM running inside OSX, so it can't be the OSX graphics driver's fault. What's going on over there?
I fully agree, especially on an SUV or truck low profile tires are a joke. The Ride on most Sport SUVs is stiffened up already to try to correct for the higher center of gravity.
Divvy bikes data analysis challenge
Seems to be focused on Chicago (yay!), but there's lots of interesting data to analyze for prizes. Might be fun for the "data scientists", etc out there. Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with Divvy. In fact, I find their riders in Chicago pretty annoying.

There's lots of location data to chew on, especially relevant to geospatial folks.
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Oh my god...

I'd forgotten completely about YouTube. At under $2B, that must have been one of the best acquisitions of the whole bunch.

YouTube for 1/10 the cost of WhatsApp.
How are we defining a user here? For example in the case of youtube, do we count people who watch videos? People who sign up and comment? People who upload videos?
The problem is that the "non-optimized" solutions assume that every quibit can talk to every other one. So they are modelling what the quibits should do in a perfect case and modelling the perfect case is much slower than modelling what we actually have.

So the fastest ones are the ones that say, oh, the best answer that the D-Wave is going to give will be X so I don't need to be any more accurate than that. I'll just model the bare minimum necessary to have the same accuracy as the D-wave. Its like lossy compression vs lossless compression. If you are willing to have lossy compression you can do much better and faster. The D-wave is lossy (because it has a "sparse connectivity structure") and thus the other solutions which are also lossy are better comparisons on a speed benchmark.
Personal thing really, started about 10 years ago. I dont drive often but when I do I want it to be an enjoyable and luxurious experience which I often equate with the freshness of a new car. I also get bored of the character of a car over time. Leases gives me a controlled and knowable insulation (given the rapid depreciation of new cars) from the value downside. Basically, I get the new car experience far more often without taking big cash hits.
> Turns out I was too smart for my own good. Almost every ponzi scheme can be exploited ...

You're misusing the term "Ponzi scheme". A speculative system that relies on volatility and wishful thinking isn't necessarily a Ponzi scheme (might be but not necessarily).

A classic Ponzi scheme has layers or levels that are treated differently. Ordinary speculation about a volatile entity doesn't have this property.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme

Quote: "Typically, extraordinary returns are promised on the original investment[5] and vague verbal constructions such as "hedge futures trading", "high-yield investment programs", or "offshore investment" might be used. The promoter sells shares to investors by taking advantage of a lack of investor knowledge or competence, or using claims of a proprietary investment strategy which must be kept secret to ensure a competitive edge."
It was more about alignment.
Connect APP connections from social networks are on your map from the start
Hey, it was ours to break.
> to comprehend the scale of the universe is deeply unsettling, especially when thinking about our minute, insignificant part of it

Humans are 10^27 times smaller than the observable universe, and 10^24 times bigger than the neutrino, presently the smallest observable thing, and 10^35 times bigger than the smallest theoretical distance, the Planck length. That puts humans around the center of the Universe's scale, hardly minute and insignificant, and one could argue on that basis the human brain, even mind, is at the conceptual center of the Universe!
I doubt anyone from this era has a wallet with 100000000000 BTC.
Has anybody written a shim for <blink> that uses CSS animations?
Image maps, Server-side includes (I still have a current site using these), cgi scripts, "Creating Killer Websites" by David Siegel who must have been the first self-proclaimed self-important Web guru who gave us the spacer gif. And um, yeah, the D in DHTML is for Dynamic, Mr. Frontpage Webmaster (so much better than Homesite!). Tiled backgrounds, beveled buttons, <font face="Helvetica" size="3">, even used <small> and <big>, and definition lists of course. Has it been that long really? Seems like yesterday.
Don't worry, it's from a restaurant opening advertisement:

http://viewthevibe.com/king-rustic-opens-on-king-west/
Care to elaborate? That's not really enough to continue a discussion.
I always try to write code that my favorite English professors would approve of.
Because the books I bought from amazon are already in the kindle format. Amazon already lets me read them on a kindle app from a computer, an ipad, and an android as long as I'm authenticated. I figured they would let me authenticate via an API and read them from some other app. The issue I have is I want to consume my content using an interface that is not like a book, and doesn't have pages or page formats. If you look at the interface I linked, http://www.spreeder.com/, they show you one word at a time in rapid succession, so you don't have to move your eyes in order to speed read.
I was attacking the flipant attitude towards $400,000 by the OP. When I refer to being ignorant of socio-economic issues I wasn't talking about Koum, I've never seen him make any statement like that for me to judge his attitude by and I thought the context of my comment was clear in that.

But, in terms of Koum, he comes from an immigrant family that was lucky enough to have the ability to move to the US, this alone hints to me while they might have been poor by our standards they must have been doing well enough to make such a big move and afford it, people who do that are usually more well off then the general population they are immigrating from. Clearly he suffered some hardship when he was young and moved through it, that's commendable. But at 18 he got what seems like a pretty good gig at Ernst & Young and post that a good job at Yahoo, enough of a good job to save up almost half million dollars over 9 years, enough to basically take a year off from working and get to travel around a bit ... not too shabby. I'm sure plenty of people wish they had the ability to do this, but probably never will.

I'm not trying to detract from what he earned, and he certainly had a humble background and hardships while young with his mother being sick, but the idea he went from rags to riches really rubs me the wrong way. There are people who live in rags and I have a feeling most of them haven't had the opportunities Koum had. Whether the man himself is humble about it I don't know, I can't say because I never met him and I don't know his views, but I do know that the media portrayal of his background seems over the top. Let's give up this false narrative, humble beginnings isn't the same as being dirt poor and he certainly was quite rich when he started WhatsApp.
Someone will surely notice the French pun?
I'm trying to figure out how VHDL fits in that list. It's essentially a spec in itself, only for hardware rather than software, is it not?
Yup. "Cost per user" strikes me as a very '90s metric, for lack of a better way to put it. It is an unfocused average. It presumes that the singular purpose of any acquisition is user count. This makes especially little sense in certain cases, i.e., the Facebook/WhatsApp acquisition, wherein a large proportion of the WA users are likely to be duplicative with FB users.

"User doing what?" is a decent start. But of course, we have a host of other considerations to ponder: technology, platform, integrations, competitive blocking and tackling, etc.

FWIW, I still can't wholly grok the WA purchase price. The price seems largely to have been driven by competitive bidding between FB and Google. Also a healthy sprinkling of defensiveness and fear, mixed with a dollop of "because we can." Factor in some "we believe our stock is overvalued, and as such, we will realize a discount on price correction," and I suppose you arrive at a figure that will end up south of FB's nominal purchase price. The one thing I can say is that Instagram looks likes a ridiculous bargain in retrospect, and especially in comparison.

That said, to whatever extent we do want to talk about user counts, it's worth noting some history. Around the time Facebook had an estimated $15 billion valuation, on the heels of Microsoft's advertising partnership/investment in 2007, Facebook had about 50 million active users. WhatsApp has 465M+. Apples and oranges, to some extent. But still. Worth considering.
lol, yeah, everything is american, i forgot...
At this point I think current opinion is that pretty much all mammals are consciousness. It's not that rare.
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> we now know that something around 6-7% of the total bitcoins in circulation are now owned through theft. that's a staggering amount. in any normal currency - the heist of a millennium. there's no court system to adjudicate this or try and recover assets for those who lost money.

You say that like it's a problem. Who cares if some people lose their Bitcoins? Nobody is holding Bitcoin involuntarily, after all. Not having a court system to adjudicate this or recover the assets is part of the point of Bitcoin! It's an experiment in anarcholibertarianism, and at least in theory, measures should arise organically in the Bitcoin community to prevent something like this from happening again. The stable price of Bitcoin suggests that the community is optimistic.
"best overall"===Do Want.
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Damn - site not in responsive design - no salami on the go
Yep, I was hoping to see some sort of estimated lifetime value in the popup (horrible btw, Chromium 33.0/Linux).
All in good time, all in good time