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Crossfit. Anyone else?

Is Exe a Microsoft word?

EDIT: In my opinion, it's all about context.

I hope that Larry Page is the next Steve Jobs, not the next Jerry Yang.

[1] Dancho writes, "someone who understands the big picture of cyber crime and cyber espionage." I'm not so sure I understand the hidden side of cyber espionage.

[2] Dancho alludes to having done some sort of favor for the FBI, to which they "thank him" by releasing his name to the Bulgarian government – "clearly you can see how they say “You’re Welcome”. Could there be something going on here involving the US trading Dancho for some other information?

[3] "I’m sending you these not with the idea to see them published, but as an insurance in case things get ugly, knowing that a trusted third-party [...] can always distribute them." Here is where all logic breaks down. The use of a simple pronoun "these" throws everything off. We have up until this point assumed that the word "these" represents the photos. What else could Dancho mean by "these"?

Of course, there is always the possibility that Dancho is a paranoid schizophrenic and on a very bad trip.

Gruber had an interesting take: "It's unlikely that this will happen as there is too steep of a learning curve for this [touchscreen] setup."

On Intrade, would you bet for or against Facebook IPO'ing by April 2012?

People don't seem to be putting their money where their mouths are. Lack of confidence?

Try Techmeme.

Here's the discussion on this topic: http://techme.me/B0l1

Loving the post. Read it on my flight back to Chicago yesterday morning. The author did their research (even went as far as to grab a quote from Danny Sullivan).

Two options immediately come to mind: an API call (never used Twitter's API, but API's generally tend to be fairly easy to work around, though you'd have to write up some sort of script) or pull the data off the timeline's RSS feed.

Thanks Jason! Excellent concept. Is there any way that I or others can help?

If it was down (which it's not) I would like to know. My email is pinged to my Blackberry. There is no way for me to know that Gmail is not working unless I am told (otherwise I would just think that I had no new email).

From Google: "Fog ruining your lunar eclipse party? Open up Google Sky (in Google Earth) --> 'Current Sky Events' tab --> Slooh Telescope. Take that fog!"

Or you could do what Neiman Marcus does – employees are 100% commission based. In this case, the employees commission would be derived from how much over a hidden base price they were able to sell the item for. That way the could lower the price for the customer, but it wouldn't be in their best interest to do so.

Yeap, apologies. Wish I could delete it. Not sure why Facebook mirrors their own blog post on 2 separate FB urls.

Hey. Just a suggestion, but maybe it would have been better from a PR standpoint to come clean with your viewers in a blog post.

Explain how it happened without your knowledge. Explain how Wired won't let it ever happen again. Etc. Etc.

Readers love the transparency :)

I'm left wondering if both Wired.com and PerezHilton.com are going to be subjected to the same sort of lawsuit.

Related: http://techme.me/ANFk ("YouPorn, Perez Hilton Exploit Bug to Obtain Your Browsing History")

I have an intense desire to contribute to the Chromium Project, however, I too am a programming novice. I know a bit of Java, but not much else.

I understand that this is a monumental end goal given my current situation, but can anyone point me in the direction of the best tutorial books that money can buy?

Good karma for anyone that responds :)

Dear Apple, for Christmas I would like a Macbook Air with 3G. Can you make this happen?

Thanks, Andre.

Thanks for the feedback. You make a valid point. Have taken your reply into consideration and changed out the words "closed" and "open" for "private" and "public".

Unfortunately, the title on HN cannot be changed.

I was actually going to include a reference to Twitter in the original post, but I edited it out of the final draft. Here's what I had written up:

>Twitter isn’t social networking, Twitter is blogging. Therefore, the “closed” social networking argument does not apply.

>With blogging you wish to share everything you can with the rest of the world. The same can be said for Twitter. The Twitterverse, like the blogosphere, is a place to go and get educated. In these two scenarios, an “open” system trumps any and all closed-systems.

>Remember, a social network provides no real value other than fulfilling a social need. The blogosphere and the Twitterverse provide much more.

Without even reading the lawsuit, this has been declared official?

C'mon now, let's not be quick to judge. What if this lawsuit had to do with Kik violating your privacy? Sharing your contacts' information, etc.

Anyone able to attain a copy of the lawsuit?

This is what the article links to: http://cas-ncr-nter03.cas-satj.gc.ca/IndexingQueries/infp_RE...

I doubt this lawsuit has any real substance. Other than RIM dragging Kik through the equivalent of a legal hell, there doesn't seem to be much there.

Other than some basic HTML, the first true programming language that I mastered was that of my Texas Instruments "TI-83+" calculator.

I would make little programs in 7th and 8th grade that helped with the math that we were learning at the time. I then proceeded to sell these programs to friends and classmates. It was awesome.... until I got caught!

I would venture to say that they have something very large in the works. I checked out their team page and they have quite a few employees. They have been funded and are also looking for new hires.

http://www.dropbox.com/about

Regardless, when you purchase something you are buying its current iteration, not something that you hope for it to one day be. This was alluded to in the comments of the original article and I thought it was worth repeating.

In sum, you were a knucklehead and dug your own grave. More power to you, but no one on HN can help you out.

At this point, the only worthy advice that anyone can give you is to be honest. In this situation, honesty is by far the best policy.

Don't even try to "hide this" or "keep it a secret". Inevitably it will come out. Deal with it now before it snowballs into something much, much worse.

Worth noting, Adobe launched Reader X two days ago, which they claim has a "sandbox" design that prevents attacks such as these.

[1] http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9197230/Adobe_launche...

I not certain, I am under the belief that the function that is applied to the comments pages is very closely related to the function that is applied to the main page.

I.e. a bit of time decay, overall karma activity (Karma score + comment karma score), number of sub threads, etc.

Isn't this exactly the sort of service that the recently-launched "Path" provides? [1]

[1] From TechCrunch: "Path is designed to share photos with only your closest 50 friends" (http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/14/path-wrong-way/)

In addition, Arrington goes on to mention the following, which I would venture to say also applies in this case:

> I am going to make another prediction. The types of photos people are going to share on Path by and large are going to be the same as the photos you see already in more public photo-sharing apps: meals, drinks, friends, kids, cats, dogs, and the random dross of daily life. Knowing that it is “private” and “safe” is not going to change much of anything.

Facebook will gladly throw in a copyright notice if it means avoiding a costly lawsuit: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9193538/Oracle_Google...

Oracle are not very nice when it comes to Java licensing. Just ask Apache.

Google just recently acquired ITA.

http://www.google.com/press/ita/

As a result of this deal, I am left wondering if Google is interested in acquiring Hipmunk.