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xSwagon Poll: Full-time software engineers in London, what's your annual salary?

As someone debating whether to do a Mathematics vs Computer Science vs Joint Honours, I'd really like to hear from graduates what worked out for them.

    - As a developer, how often are skills from CompSci degree applied on the job? 
    - What do you wish you knew about the job market as an undergrad?
    - How much part did the prestige of your university play in your current salary?

xSwagon [dead]

No. Wait till 9 AM Eastern time. There will be a post soon.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring

xSwagon Show HN: CMS Server written in Go (alpha)

Yeah, just thought I'd point it out because it will cause issues with spiders.

xSwagon Show HN: CMS Server written in Go (alpha)

Weird headers

The main page is active in the browser but the header says 404 Not Found, maybe it's a bug?

  ~$ curl -IL http://www.bytengine.com/    
  HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
  Server: nginx/1.1.19

    
  ~$ curl -IL http://www.bytengine.com/should_404    
  HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
  Server: nginx/1.1.19

xSwagon The making of Medium.com

Install Ad-block and add custom regex blocking all .mp4 files? I'd give you an example but I'm on my mobile right now

xSwagon Why high fructose corn syrup replaced sugar in US

I stand corrected!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucrose#Metabolism_of_sucrose

xSwagon Why high fructose corn syrup replaced sugar in US

I read researched this a few days ago.

You have to consider the taste, it tastes nicer because fructose has only 5 carbon in it's ring instead of 6 which leads to more pleasurable experience as it makes it fit better into the sweetness sensing in the mouth[1]

With Corn Syrup you get both glucose and fructose together whereas with sugar you just get sucrose. Another reason would be that more corn is grown in the US than sugar cane which makes it more efficient to produce corn syrup instead.

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23537367

xSwagon Pure: a set of small, responsive CSS modules

Just a quick heads up: Ghostery blocks Typekit which messes up your entire layout as the backup fonts aren't the same size.

As of 1500 GMT 28/05/13 it has 686,260 users on Chrome.

xSwagon Liberty Reserve Founder Arrested, Site Shuttered

Does not surprise me at all. Almost every cyber crime forum (Damagelab, exploit.in, Darkode, carder.pro, opensc etc) used Liberty Reserve (LR) to receive payments for malware, credit cards, personal information and other illegal content. This used LR because the payments could not be reversed and because the company did not comply with law enforcement.

Not to worry though, Bitcoin seems to be getting more and more popular among these forums and will probably take over.

xSwagon Ask HN: How do you protect yourself from bank fraud?

Eurograbber is a variation of the Zeus/Sopilka family of malware. I'm surprised his AV didn't pick it up because it's the most popular financial malware after SpyEye and Citadel.

What bank was this with? Did they cover the losses?

I'm assuming something like the following happened:

    Your friend → (direct) Mule in your country → (Western Union) to the criminal

I tell my parents to use a linux Mint or Ubuntu live disk whenever they're banking online. It seems to have worked so far.

xSwagon Ask HN: Why did Paul Graham stop posting essays on his site?

Quality over quantity. He won't write an essay unless it offers real insight into something worthwhile.

xSwagon Poll: HN Linux users, what desktop environmemt do you use?

Openbox + Conky + Tint2

xSwagon Review: CrunchBang – Linux 11 "Waldorf"

Relevant (Netflix): http://www.webmonkey.com/2013/04/netflix-plans-to-ditch-silv...

xSwagon Review: CrunchBang – Linux 11 "Waldorf"

I run crunchbang on a 6 year old Core 2 Duo desktop machine and it runs really well.

Why you should try it:

    - noob friendly, you don't have to compile from source or
      read the manual for hours to see what flags
      you need (compared to gentoo or arch)
    - Lightweight
    - Perfect for web browsing, irc etc
    - Beautiful font rendering (much better than windows)
    - Extremely friendly and helpful community forums
    - Beautiful non-bloated minimal UI, you don't have to spend hours customizing
    - Boots in around 6-7 seconds on my machine

xSwagon Show HN: Chrome Extension for the one thing I miss on HN

I realise that the extension is released in good faith, but am I the only person who thinks that this is probably the best way to xss users and gain upvotes for your stories and "show hn" due to the nature of these extensions they can bypass same origin policy since they can do anything on news.yc and hence get the upvote token and send an upvote request. Since the extensions are updated automatically, we wouldn't even know it happened.

Same could be said about extensions that require access to all websites. If the extension dev gets compromised you could potentially get compromised

    Attacker hijacks developer account
                ↓     
                ↓
    XSS cookie stealer or some 0-day payloads are dropped
                ↓
                ↓
    Your computer/accounts get owned. (paypal,mtgox,hsbc,gmail,yahoo etc)

Maybe there should be some sort of feature that blacklists websites that no extension is allowed to access.

xSwagon Show HN: ApplyBin - hiring as easy as email, made with Meteor

Meteor for what seems like a CRUD application, why?

xSwagon Shortly: a Serverless Pastebin Service - All Data is Stored in the URL

I'm getting

    Uncaught ReferenceError: $ is not defined

Chromium Version 25.0.1364.160 Debian 7.0 (186726)

xSwagon Watch Wired Get Rich Quick With A Sleek Bitcoin Miner

People who know what they're doing don't design Bitcoin mining equipment

Why? Is it not profitable enough?

xSwagon US Department of Defense requests Defense Distributed to remove content

Yeah, heaven forbid the masses all take up their little plastic guns that they printed on their $8,000 3D printers and decide to take a stand.

xSwagon Name.com Tells Customers To Change Password Due To Breach

I made an account on name.com 5 days ago. Anybody know when the breach happened?

xSwagon Google now treats .io as a gccTLD

It means that it's treated the same as a .com and no longer treated as an Indian Ocean-specific website I believe.

xSwagon Google now treats .io as a gccTLD

That's great! I'm guessing that a lot more startups are going to use a .io domain now since there are a lot of good domain names available.

xSwagon Setting up Sublime Text 2

There are a lot more keyboard shortcuts for this editor, makes you much faster if you don't have to touch a mouse.

Here's a "cheat sheet": http://i.imgur.com/yGrUAL8.png

xSwagon Ask HN: Do high quality work environments exist in India for programmers?

>they don't switch on the AC for cost cutting, even in peak summers when temperature here reaches around 100 F

If you don't mind me asking, what company does this?

xSwagon Show HN: Current HBOGO and MAXGO movies sorted by IMDb rating

I like it but the Maxgo link is broken and returns a 404: http://lak.in/gomovies/maxgo.com

xSwagon Ask HN: How many hours of sleep are you getting?

I forced myself to go to bed for a week at midnight and now I start to feel sleepy/tired around that time. I also stopped drinking coffee or energy drinks after 6pm.

xSwagon European startups: How not to raise capital in the US

Any statistics on what % of successful YC candidates that went to Ivy League schools? I'm going to assume there is a bias that people who go to prestigious Ivy are more likely to apply to prestigious programs like YC so probably a high percentage.

xSwagon Ask HN: How many hours of sleep are you getting?

I've always had a mentality that if I say I'm going to finish x, I finish x before going to bed. This, as you can imagine, means that I have a very unreliable sleeping schedule. I probably average 5 hours a night every week.

A really good comment I read on HN a few days ago recommended that I set an alarm for going to bed not for waking up, It's been working really well for me.

xSwagon Quotations Of The Dread Pirate Roberts, Founder Of Silk Road

Why does frobes insist on adding page numbers? For page views? It's terrible reading experience having to click every few paragraphs.

xSwagon Let's Make GitHub Better, Together

Videos are working fine for me.

Chromium + Debian