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qqqqqqon Exploring aisles 9-13 at my local supermarket

It has to do with the FDA banning the import of confectionery with '...a non-nutritive object, partially or totally imbedded within it.' The FDA reasons that it may pose a potential choking hazard.

qqqqqqon Nginx security advisory (CVE-2013-2028)

So /that's/ what they were for. Thanks!

qqqqqqon Nginx security advisory (CVE-2013-2028)

I understand that they're doing string comparisons (of a kind), but what are those values defined in 'uint32_t'? Is it a translation of values into memory addresses?

qqqqqqon Microsoft prepares U-turn on Windows 8

FT has this incredibly aggravating policy of forcing registration on mobile devices. If you're on a mobile device, request the desktop version of the site, and you should be able to view the content.

qqqqqqon Keeping People

Great slides Zach!

Also, is there any audio of the presentation?

qqqqqqon Security Notice: Linode Manager Password Reset

It's good that Linode is taking security seriously, but the pessimist in me wonders; if all it takes to get a password reset site-wide is an attack on a single user, wouldn't that open up a whole new, rather aggravating attack aimed solely at making users fed up with having their password reset all the time?

qqqqqqon How to build a startup community

IMO, there seems to be something missing from these points. I personally am more pessimistic, and don't believe people will join a startup community unless there are incentives to actually do so. Incentives like Talent/Experience and Money are a good way to keep people interested. Lacking in one or the other will likely result in a very lopsided community.

qqqqqqon FundersClub: getting Crowdfunding right

I find it silly to say they've solved the crowdfunding problem when all they've really done is close off a majority of the crowd, and limited actual investment to a select few people who can actually meet their bar. What is it about this project that is actually crowdfunding, rather than a directory for qualified investors?

qqqqqqon App.net funded with $500,000.

>The biggest reason why non-developers would join is because of no ads.

IMO, the people who care about ads on social networking have Adblock+ installed. I would even go so far as to throw this (very probably unsourcable statement) and say that most users don't care about ads, period. The one thing that pulls me to social networking is people, not the ads. A social network isn't social or a network if there aren't people I know or care about using it.

qqqqqqon Oracle launches "a better alternative to CentOS"

But, if I wanted a better alternative to CentOS, wouldn't I just go and use Red Hat? Why would I lock myself into a company that has this bad a track record?

qqqqqqon Psd.js: A Photoshop Document Parser in CoffeeScript

Well that's weird. I tried giving the demo a Photoshop CS5 file and it doesn't like that. I thought maybe it was a parsing problem, since I remember there being something about the latest Photoshops doing something to PSD's. PSD's made in Photoshop 7 do not seem to work either.

I wonder what is going on? I've tried this on Chrome 16 and Firefox 10.

-- Edit:

Oh, it looks like browsers don't appear to be sending the MIME-type. In fact, there appears to be a lot of file types which I'm randomly throwing into filereader that don't appear to have any MIME-type attached to them. How very interesting indeed!

qqqqqqon Wat

Hilarious! This reminds me of a StackOverflow question which asked the users for the weirdest language quirks they could think of. I laughed pretty hard at that too.

qqqqqqon British student may be extradited to US on copyright charges

I hope that the appeal _does_ go through. This is a dangerous precedent for our legal system to be setting. I do not like the idea that US law can be applied to me here in the UK despite having no business in the US itself.

qqqqqqon Facebook intimidates developer, bans him and his code for life

Yes it does. But programming is one of those nice fields where you can usually pick up the pieces and relearn things pretty quickly if doors happen to close on you.

qqqqqqon Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?

10AM over in Norwich. I wonder if this poll can survive until the end of the US day, though, since at the moment they're all asleep.

qqqqqqon Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps

I am surprised the internet took this long to respond, considering that the HN discussion on this was started almost a week ago[1][2]. That said, after watching the video I'm all kinds of sceptical about the dude's claim.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3263955 [2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3273416

qqqqqqon Show HN: Slowy app, Real-world connection simulator and bandwidth limiter

Good lord, you really do learn something new every day with linux. Thanks!

qqqqqqon Programming Languages: What tool is right for which job?

Is it me, or do a lot of the 'statement' links not seem to load?

qqqqqqon Koders: Search Over 3 Million Lines of Open Source Code Around the Web

I think you mean billion, not million.