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> We already know that if you use an online social network, you give up a serious slice of your privacy thanks to the omnivorous way companies like Google and Facebook gather your personal data.

Not so, if you use a privacy respecting one like Diaspora*. Not that it offers a robust protection against either attackers or the Big Brother. But the network itself is not built to profit from users' data which is a huge difference in attitude.

It's annoying that such articles take it for granted that social network = FB / G+ way of doing things.
It's a big deal, especially for small dev shops, as they're less likely to have people available to plug security holes or monitor servers for vulnerabilities/compromises. If you're using shared hosting, probably not an issue. If you're using a VPS, PS, or other service where you are expected to maintain the server, well...

For some systems, it's just a matter of logging in to the server and running a single command line, like "sudo yum update bash" (replace "yum" with apt-get, or another package manager).

You can leave it, but know that you're leaving your clients vulnerable to things such as:

- stolen data
- data loss
- compromised/corrupted/deleted backups of data, code
- site disruption
- botnet participation
- illegal file dump/trading space
- unremovable rootkits

Having said that, I believe you should be safe if you don't use CGI to run your apps.

The earlier you plug the holes, the better.
of course I picked now to move to California. if only I knew
On average, money is a measure of added value. But plenty of people extract cash without creating value. Thieves, for example. Corporate raiders. Many speculators in the financial market. People running protection rackets. People running MLM schemes.

The classic medieval example is a bandit or a warlord who take over a section of road and extracts tolls. He didn't build the road, but he can extract plenty of money as long as he controls it.
Whats to stop anyone from doing that now using "open graph"/crowd sourcing and geotagging from seo queries upon names and identities? C&D letters from facebook lawyers they will inevitably send your way from complaints of users asking how you're doing what your doing and to stop, and claim to be protecting users? Ha… I mean seriously with all the public data-sets out there associated with identities, do people really need things like users and login accounts for people to engage in the same behavior as they do on facebook? Are people naive enough to believe that they need to have such to engage in the same social behaviors in a similar fashion?

With 20 VM's located from unknown places in the world, you can mine everyone from FB and query data that facebook declares "public" in about two months… for about $200 total… wanna build a open sourced facial recog database with profile photos (graph.facebook.com/{your_user_id}/picture?type=large)[and then use crowd-soursing to make such better for images that don't get put into the model from not passing simple feature detection from open source recog libraries out there]. Want to query an ip address and return a probability distribution for names associated with pages visited with such + browser fingerprinting techniques written about in enough detail to bore anyone? Prob can't build a business on top of it from it within the US (maybe), but that's what legal arbitrage is for.

Things existed before facebook, things will exist after…
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This will be visible in California in the early morning of Wednesday, e.g., see http://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar/2014-october-8
Small correction: Lomo saltado is actually a chineese stir-fry with soy sauce as a main ingredient.
Absolutely! Are there any games you'd like to see in particular?
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I was under the impression they would continue to use the existing channels of obtaining DHCP logs from ISPs as before (i.e. subpoenas), but the changes were aimed at some ISPs not retaining more than eg. last 7 days logs, or last 30 days/billing period, etc.

The RB guys made it sound so simple...
Sure, but what goes on in an experiment is a small part of science. Hypothesis generation is looser. As is public understanding. If I can take people who don't get evolution and talking to them in terms of what evolution "wants" pushes them over the edge, I still see that as a step forward.
5.2% risk of a heart attack for men with optimal factors, vs. 51.7% avg
Lima didn't evolve.. restaurants did. like the article says, these foods have always been there, Gaston just brought them to the fancy restaurants.
It is absolutely unusual, and undoubtedly wrong, to be fired because you disagree. I disagree to the fullest extent with the project I am currently on and its overall direction and I have made that clear to my management. We've identified that opportunity to scope it better and, amazingly, my badge still works.

That you think you were "pushed out" of Google because you disagreed with the direction of G+, and that they were headed for certain failure unless they dropped everything and pivoted due to your boundless German card game experience, is not evidence that Google regularly fires those that disagree. How you disagree also matters, and your little charade on eng-misc is a legend to this day. I have no love for Google but even I am the first to acknowledge that they have created an environment wherein dissent is encouraged and welcomed and, in my brief tenure, was given ample opportunities to have my voice be heard and considered.

I will disagree wholeheartedly with you taking your experience (as flawed as your interpretation of events is) and attempting to justify firing over disagreement as a normal practice. I disagree with my boss, and his boss, and his boss all the time. I've disagreed with my director in front of people, and called him out on bullshit in front of his boss. You just don't know how to do so effectively, mchurch, which leads to embarrassing situations like the one you've been trying to pin on Google for a few years.

And yes, I am aware of the letter.
Yes, it is truly a moral imperative that we allow people who can't afford to be ripped off access to the same "investment opportunities" as people who can.

Freeeeeeeedom!
> The main reason I've always remembered this man is because he's one of the few Chinese people in China (that I'm aware of) who actually enjoys making for the sake of making, and not just as a livelihood.

China has 1.35 billion people, and it seems incredibly unimaginative and frankly egotistic to think that you can make generalizations about overall Chinese culture and then just call it a day. The fact is that even "maker" culture in the US where its currently being celebrated (because it makes people money) is made up of a very small percentage of people working in North America - you would not meet nor have heard of a large group of people "making things for the sake of making" in China but it doesn't mean that they don't exist.
I switched from Ubuntu to Mint a few years ago while Canonical was rolling out Unity, because I found (and still find) the idea of a unified interface for PC, phone, tablet, and whatever the hell else, to be utterly absurd. Metro and Unity are in the same boat, as far as I'm concerned.

For those here using Ubuntu, has it gotten any better? Note that I did try Unity when it was first coming out and I hated it, so if you loved it then and are recommending it based on that I probably won't agree. I want to know, has it changed for the better?
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My dad worked at a heathkit dealer in Houston back in the 70s. Growing up he assembled both of our tvs, complete with a high frequency remote control that worked somewhere between 14 and 20khz that I could hear when I put up to my ear. We had a heathkit receiver that had an astounding 70watts per channel back in the late 70s/early 80s. I remember being able to look at the thin elastic cords that would allow you to tune into your station. Turn it fast and it had that rubber band effect like the iOS browser. I remember thinking there is nothing my dad can't make or fix back then. I hope the kits come back and are as comprehensive and cost effective as previous times.
Respect for human rights? Political liberty? Quality of life? Social Mobility? Economic opportunity?

Myopia means excessive focus on one aspect at the neglect of the whole picture.

I would consider many things in deciding where to live. Each person has different priorities, but for me the most important measure is liberty (political, economic and social).

Chile is one of the freest countries in the world (usually in the top 10 of such rankings) and Cuba is usually amongst the bottom 10.
Whales probably aren't very nimble. They don't have to balance on little feet.

And elephants have very wide feet, probably easier to balance on.
It's instructive to compare overseas Chinese cultures. Eg Singapore has a well rooted rule of law, yet old school Chinese business men there still are still coloured by the points chaostheory made.
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I like to keep things light.
> In the market, the more money you make, the less everyone else can make.

That's just not true. When you're trading with somebody, that's because you're offering a marginally better deal than somebody else was offering. Trading activity ends up affecting decisions on what to produce.
Because there is a tremendous amount of regulation surrounding finance - look at how it is impossible to make a backer liable Kickstarter. You cannot make your own stock market, and you cannot sell ownership in a company through anything but a public stock exchange.

I imagine there is also tremendous regulation surrounding venture capital, but I have never engaged in it much so I'm unaware of the complexities.

Too bad that, by nature of the fact the finance industry inherently has all the money, that money lets them buy the politicians to then use regulation to prevent competition and line their own pockets, while leaving them impervious to persecution when their greed fucks everything up.

I do not see how even the best intentioned regulation can work in finance. It is the proverbial tightening the fist while the actors slip through your fingers - if you try to restrict the flow of money, really big money, like drug money, then all you will find is you suffering for it.
Counterparty isn't an altcoin. All XCP transactions are BTC transactions.
Much better discussion going on there :) Thanks for the link!
Yes, it was on eBay that I bought it. But I haven't found a listing in Canada for a while now.
Real time biometric attendance Indian gov employees
http://attendance.gov.in
First Indian gov site which actually seems to be in touch with technology advancements. Very impressive. Now Indians have accountability.
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Interesting Concept, other countries think about it.
Yes, I didn't feel the need to eat anything else. Just drinking one glass of Soylent would satisfy me for a few hours. I ended up drinking 3 or 4 glasses per day.
No HacK!?
Algorithms is the new Algorithms
I'm wondering whether there are any Android games that'd use custom formats or whether lots use off the shelf engines.

I've always had a passing interest in game reverse engineering - I remember the days when "ripper" applications had a good chance of pulling the music out of a game.
Would a newer FxOs perform better? I imagine the keyboard would be better, at least.
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This is something that has been used in many countries already.

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

Maybe the main difference is that they will issue it also to non-residents.

By the way, I don't know in other countries but in Spain it was a complete failure due to a really bad implementation: only worked with Internet Explorer, reader with proprietary drivers, etc...
Note that there is a big difference between dried and "fresh" mozzarella.

The fresh [1] kind has a lot of water; it's typically sold either tightly plastic-wrapped box, or in a bag or box in a bath of liquid. It's noticeably squishy. If you use it as-is, your pizza will be a small sea of water. It needs to be dried a little out before use.

The dry kind has been dried (it's a little more than that, but drying is the important part) until its moisture content is around 45-52%, compared to at least 60% for fresh mozzarella, and it's either a block or shredded. The low moisture content means it lasts a long time in the fridge, and the long shefl life makes it popular in restaurants.

The difference, on pizza, is how it melts. The wet kind just doesn't melt that well; it turns into white globs with a kind of leathery exterior [2] and looks not unlike fried egg whites. The dry kind melts much more evenly [3], and doesn't have that same leathery texture.

Both types of mozzarella are definitely "real" mozzarella. The Italians even have several types of classic Italian dried mozzarellas, such as scamorza. You can also get smoked, dried mozzarella, for instance.

The true shredded abomination is the stuff that isn't cheese at all, but some horrific stuff made from vegetable oil and food dyes, sometimes in the name of being "healthier". Oh, and American cheese. There's no cheese in American cheese.

Personally, I think buffalo mozzarella is overrated. You can get good and bad buffalo-cheese pizza, and good and bad cow-cheese pizza; the big taste difference is usually elsewhere, in my experience.

[1] http://www.cheese.com/media/img/cheese/Fresh_Mozzarella.jpeg

[2] http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/cleanplatecharlie/grimaldi...

[3] http://bit.ly/1CQwsXW
I doubt there are really many custom compression algorithms, mainly just custom container formats.
> China has 1.35 billion people, and it seems incredibly unimaginative and frankly egotistic to think that you can make generalizations about overall Chinese culture

Ok I'm open to being wrong. How about proving me wrong? What parts of my description of Chinese culture are wrong? For one thing it's a pessimistic society hence the photocopy culture (why take a crazy risk for something unknown and original when I can just use someone else's safe and proven ideas?) and lack of open source (why share when I don't immediately benefit while others will for free?).

> The fact is that even "maker" culture in the US where its currently being celebrated (because it makes people money) is made up of a very small percentage of people working in North America

I agree about the small and minority part, people here are mostly about consumption and that needs to change. However, I strongly disagree about the 'because it makes people money' part. You're confusing the West with China. On a whole, people in the maker culture do it for the love and not as a job or lucrative opportunity. Most of the things being made seem unwanted and not polished for the mass market. Have you looked at Make, Instructables, or any of the other maker communities. People share their plans and designs. People do it for fun. They also make stuff as a way of rebelling against set institutions and consumption. (Maybe this is another strike against Chinese culture? Overall they are used to obeying 'emperors', while our culture is used to a near constant state of rebellion against old norms.) Making money for the majority of this idea tribe is mostly an afterthought. This is way different in China.

About the only thing I can think of in China's defense on this issue is that I'm guessing more people and a larger percentage of the population have the ability to make stuff as opposed to people over here which is probably due more to necessity than personal preference. EDIT: One last edit, there is one more thing that I can think of where people in China Make more due to love and pride and not mainly for money: things related to their space program.
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Flipkart, Amazon of India, has sales of $100M in one day
I’m a really bad person :(
Nothing in particular.

I love reading RE posts but I don't plan on making any mods to any games in the near future. Therefore I don't want to specify any 'targets' for your efforts unless I'm willing to extend them :)

I was talking about something big and sophisticated, like Crysis or Battlefield (from the top of my head). I'm under the impression they have something more than uncompressed bitmaps and 8bpp resolution but I've never done anything like this to be certain.

Thanks! Keep up the good work.
Love it. Any pointers for an easier old (or new) game to have a go at pulling apart like this?
I'm not familiar with the situation here, but it's nice to see the Monit guys retracting what ended up to be a misguided takedown.

Anybody know if there was any sort of formal apology made from Monit to the people behind inspeqtor (presumably @mperham on Github)?
@mblevin completely agree with you. Bigco will take its own sweat time to close, so better focus on product launch and have parallel discussion on acquisition.
Background discussion from earlier today in case you missed it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8416773
It's hard to argue with both socializing around and celebrating creativity. Maybe a little less fanfare would be due, but your argument wasn't very convincing overall.
Indianizing their offerings for the Indians.

what does this entail?
We had a manager at BP come and present at my University a few years ago on commodity trading.

When he as discussing how BP consistently outperformed the market he didn't call it insider trading directly. If I recall his words were "BP leverages our superior market knowledge to outperform the market". In other words they had significant non-public information due to the fact that BP owns a significant amount of the commodities market. Supposedly the trading branch works at arms reach, but they still have access to production information that isn't available to the public...

One of my favourite university professors invited him to come and speak after the BP Canada Trading Competition: http://people.ucalgary.ca/~sick, http://haskayne.ucalgary.ca/bp-canada-trading-competition-de...
https://twitter.com/mperham/status/519326759930454016
Yes, I'm definitely considering it. But I'd rather just wait a few more months (March 2015) and finally get the official Soylent shipped.

As much as I like the taste, for me the main selling point of Soylent is that for example, I could buy 28 bags of Soylent at once and automatically get more every month. Not have to worry about buying and preparing food.
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It's not unreasonable to assume Google/Facebook considering their market share (especially if you count Google's control over Android). http://www.marketingcharts.com/updates/top-10-social-network...
That is pretty darned sweet. I had been playing around with interfacing BiwaScheme (written in JS) to PhoneGap, but if this works as well cross-platform as it does when compiling for the host system, that project just went on the back burner, quite possibly permanently. :-)

Looks outstanding!
Sim Lim tower is actually better for maker stuff than Sim Lim square. The two are just across the street from each other.

(I hope I'm not mixing them up.)
They're being forced to reduce margins to keep sales up, so it's effectively the same thing. They can't make good enough phones for cheap enough.
I'd definitely check out Halo 2. The modding community was massive. In fact, modding Halo 2 was what introduced me to programming :)

The maps have a very basic encryption(checksum). Map signers are all over the internet if you don't feel like doing the work yourself. There's also many high level tools to play with the maps. I remember taking an a vehicle from one level and placing it in another was a trivial process. Youtube has a plethora of videos where modders show off what they could do
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The one thing I'd like to emphasize in addition to the good advice here is that they are costing you big bucks in opportunity cost. Your main goal is to launch! They don't seem to be helping with that.
Protip: If you start by saying "I do not see how", the problem may be that you are just not seeing it.

One of the reasons that foreign companies list on US markets is that we have some of the strongest financial regulations in the world.

A simple analogy: San Francisco has a vigorous health department, and food safety scores are posted visibly in every restaurant. Does this reduce the vibrancy of the restaurant scene? No, it enhances it. Because I know when a place is likely safe to eat at, I spend more money in restaurants and I'm more willing to try new places. That increases the effectiveness of the market because newer restaurants compete on a more even footing with established ones.
-Prioritize the things, discussions should not hamper the product launch.
- Brain storm the Pro/Con of getting acquired
- Write down the options you have and select the best one.
- Once you decide, then dont go back unless and until there is a major advantage
- Hire a Lawyer if you want to pursue further on acquisition.
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What a fun day.

Now here's the only URL you need. :-D

https://github.com/mperham/inspeqtor/wiki#getting-started
There are only some minor downsides to acquiring a second citizenship of a decent country. (Watch out for American residency though, the taxes can be bad.)

I don't think there are any downsides to the e-residency, apart from having to give some of your data (and a modest fee) to Estonia.
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Market share doesn't preclude the existence of choice. So the article shouldn't put it as if there aren't any better alternatives.
The cynic in me believes that monit's DMCA takedown notice was soon to be invalidated anyway. I'm seeing this as damage control more than an honest attempt to correct their mistake.
Regulatory capture's a real issue, but it's not a given. For those interested in the topic, I highly recommend Shelia Bair's "Bull By The Horns", which is her account of running the FDIC up to and during the financial crisis. It left me with quite a bit of respect for the FDIC's approach, and for what solid regulation takes.
if that's true then... wow and hopefully there's a new engineering position opening up at Yahoo right now
> long/short equity hedge funds have to be engaged in de facto insider trading* in order to consistently generate enough alpha to attract investors

You're probably right. Especially considering how big the fees were. Stevie's firm took 3% of assets for expenses plus 50% of the profits.[1] That's a very high hurdle.

The standard hedge fund fee is 2%/20% and even that is high enough that many funds don't beat the S&P (or whatever they're using as a benchmark) after fees and expenses.

BTW, Bess Levin at the site I linked to below is great for irreverent and snarky comments about Wall Street.

[1] http://dealbreaker.com/2011/02/absurd-speculation-that-sac-c...
Does anyone know how this compares to zombie js? I'm new to headless browser testing so apologies if question isn't relevant
Responses like this remind me why I fell in love with this site.
Thank you for that write up, it's very detailed and showed your thought process extremely well.
I think the note about the viewWillAppear is critical to what I'm doing wrong.

Additionally, it might be worth writing a follow up regarding creating a framework for shared code between your app/extension. (At least that's how it seems like you have to do it)