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the problem with local privilege escalation issues is that they make a compromise in any service a root compromise.

Still, as a service provider, the scenario that concerns me most is one of the sysadmins working from a compromised workstation.
I'm sure you trust your bank with your credentials. They're just as likely as Mint.com to be hacked.
Riiiight. I guess that makes sense if one disregards the fact that the iPhone OS is by no means a standard in the cell phone arena. There is plenty of competition out there, unlike there was for x86, which would be a pillar for an antitrust suit.
Can someone help with UI/UX for a NYC-based startup?
Looking for a usability expert. Currently in the wireframing stages. Would like to collaborate with an interface designer.

here's one of many prelim mockups:

http://imgur.com/n5mlx.jpg
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Restricting developers' rights isn't a valid business decision.

Why?

Developers aren't a constitutionally protected special class.
I'd prefer the latter ("you have the right to not buy it") to the government interfering in the internal operations of Apple. If I didn't like how Apple was taking so long to decide on Opera Mini, I would have a world of alternatives. I could use an Android phone, use a Nokia phone, get a cheap flip phone, make my own phone, not use a phone at all. Apple does not have the obligation to approve every last web browser that developers submit, and I'm fine with that, so I've decided to use their phone.
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I came here to say this.

Most people's problem isn't that they have too much to do and therefore need to find out how to get it all done, it's that many of the things they have to do aren't ultimately worth doing in the first place.

And then Zen, as I understand it, isn't about doing, it's about being. Activity in Zen is an effortless extension of being, of acceptance.
Microsoft got in trouble for bundling IE. Why wouldn't Apple get in trouble for actively prohibiting competing browsers?

Microsoft got in trouble for using IE to strengthen their Windows monopoly - it wasn't too long ago that if you want to online banking, etc, you had to use IE and ActiveX which meant you had to use Windows.

Apple has no such monopoly, even in the smartphone space where Finland's Nokia has several times the marketshare of the iPhone.
Yodlee is highly regarded and has been around longer than Mint. Their primary business is running back end services for banks and financial institutions (Bank of America, Scottrade, E*trade) while offering the personal service for free. They have forums to get more info http://forum.yodlee.com
https://moneycenter.yodlee.com
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Ah yes, it is a problem if a language is not clear about the lifetime semantics of a loop variable.

In Ruby, for example, an idiomatic loop like 10.times{|i| ... } does indeed bind a new variable for every iteration, but that is implicitly clear to anyone with a basic understanding of the language. Likewise, the 3-part for loop of Java et al does not hide the fact that it's the same variable every time through the loop.

The Java for-each loop, on the other hand, is more ambiguous. A quick check seems to indicate that the iterator variable can be declared final and captured in an anonymous inner class. That means that for-each acts differently than for loop and I could see that confusing your average code monkey.
Wow... taking @dantheman's statements a bit too literally maybe? There are very, very few free market proponents who would be in favor a pure free market. Just about everyone agrees that some degree of regulation is necessary (or else paying for a murder would be a proper free market transaction).
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Sheesh, this is simplistic. The world is a complex place, and there are niches for all sorts of personality types. People can be cold-blooded about killing but care about their family (Tony Soprano?)

A good show about all this is "Damages". Mad Men gets it too -- simple morality narratives, where everyone is binary good/evil, do not reflect the richness of human character.
Nice talk. It would be nice to have a condensed 1 page version for sending to non-tech friends (or friends with a short attention span :-)
gmail product manager? :)
Ah, but musicians got screwed by Apple, too! (I might add that the record label bogeyman is clearly in no danger of disappearing from the collective consciousness of Hacker News.)

Here's the thing: Apple is a platform company, and in essence, it's been in the business of screwing those that are hostage to its platform at least since its renaissance. Apple doesn't want those in its ecosystem to make much money, because it wants you to give it your money.

That's why it said "Rip. Mix. Burn." with respect to musicians' work back in 2001 (to much cheering and adulation from developers): they were quite happy for you to get all your music for free (at the expense of the artists and labels), and instead allocate your disposable income to their hardware devices. When they opened iTunes, they added insult to injury by not allowing musicians to control how their music gets packaged and priced. I don't remember anyone complaining about the Apple's hard-driving tactics then.

And lo, now they're treating third-party developers with the same contempt they previously reserved for musicians -- and suddenly the Hacker Community is up in arms. Plus ca change...

> Maybe all of us 'rockstar' developers should be careful what we wish for.

It's what you wished for ten years ago that put you in the quandary you now find yourselves in. Apple's stranglehold on music is what gave it the wherewithal to extend into other areas.

Hacker News, you've just discovered what it feels like when someone's got you by the balls.
Because it solves the problem mentioned above i.e. the compiler's choice of which type of container to create becomes straightforward.
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In elementary school (at least where I grew up) every day we'd have "recess" where we got to go outside for 30 minutes and play sports or play on the monkey bars or whatever.
I don't get this. I'm assuming most of the folks here are in development in one form or another, and very few of them work for Apple.

Therefore, it is in everyone's collective best interest to have as many free and open platforms as possible. What Apple is doing is attempting to leverage their current success into future success by cutting off an avenue for cross platform authoring. This isn't about users. It's not about quality. It's about savvy developers (that's us) looking for ways to support multiple mobile platforms as painlessly (and profitably) as possible.

That's not in Apple's best interest, but it sure as hell is in mine. This isn't a legal question (yet), but as a developer this pisses me off. It should piss you off too.
It's pretty clear that Apple is maneuvering to ensure that CS5 is not must-have software for Mac users.

If you want to see an example of a vendor closing ranks to the detriment of users, look no further than Adobe.
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I personally use mint, and love it. This is for a few reasons:

* the product is really good; it's really easy to use, it connects to just about everything, and the alerts/trends system is great
* I really like the alerts system; they've given me tax tips and warned me about upcoming payments that I might have otherwise missed
* they seem pretty competent from the security side; they have a fair amount of material on their site covering this (e.g. http://www.mint.com/privacy/security-tech/)

Obviously mint has a huge incentive to have really strong security; since they have so much of your data they have to comply with stringent security regulations in order to just operate their business, and if mint were to be compromised it would be a huge blow to them. If you think about it, they have a lot more riding on their security than your bank does!

I can understand why other people don't want to give their credentials to mint, but the quality of the product and the fact that they seem pretty clueful makes me not really worry about it.
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LOL. There's a huge difference between a hedge fund manager and a management consultant. Perhaps the billionaire will never think he has enough, but the consultant will actually, in legitimate and reasonable terms, not have enough. They really don't make much money for the hours they put in. Factoring travel, they work as much as an investment banker and essentially earn what a banker would earn without his bonus.
I would guess a lot, too- because human beings are by nature hypocrites.
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Depressing but insightful article. But perhaps a bit premature; the e-ink folks are presumably still researching better techniques, and someday we'll almost certainly have e-ink that works in colour (in a CMY space, no less!) and with update times well south of a tenth of a second, and then you can have your cake and eat it too---at least on the readability part.

The distraction part of the argument I don't really have a response to, alas.
Depends. If you are making $300,000 a year and live like you are making $15,000 a year (and save the rest), then you can retire at 30.

Most people aren't willing to be this frugal, however. It seems some people making this much even have trouble "making ends meet", because they buy so much crap that they can't afford. Ah, consumerism.

(In the interest of fairness, I am almost as bad -- I love buying stuff. I just stop when I don't have any more money... and I might even be able to retire before I'm 90 :)
The same stories are also here:

http://www.ashidakim.com/zenkoans/zenindex.html

Did one of these sites copy the other? Or does it even matter?
The problem with maps is that they are half art. Who's to say showing New York and Washington DC before showing Philadelphia is best? Maybe their reasoning is that most people already know where New York and Washington are? It is subjective, not a "glaring" bug.
Mmh. My iPod Touch is second gen. I guess older iPhones don't load pages in the background and third gen iPod Touches probably do. It seems likely that Apple enables background loading only on devices with more memory (or maybe, on faster nes).
isn't this a repeat of history though? his controlling nature cost the apple II, to the anything goes Windows/Microsoft, and it will likely do the same to ChromeOS/Android and Google. if and when apple again loses it's grip, will he be ousted from Apple? my bet is no, if only because they wouldn't want to bet against him and be wrong for the second time. but in my opinion, he's an incredible innovator, but he sucks at follow through.
You can now do stuff like that in a lot of languages, but it's relatively recent

Saying "Lisp had it X years ago" sounds perhaps a little weenish, but... that sounds a lot like the Cells library, and the even older Garnet KR. Granted, they're quite a lot less accessible than spreadsheet programs.

FRP seems to be modern take on it. It's being very actively researched in the Haskell community.
It seems everybody copies everybody here in mainland China, from research papers to foreign technology to fashions. As a national (but "unofficial") policy, it's certainly helped them "bring hundreds of millions out of poverty" over the last 30 years, but I'm not sure if it'll help them much in the future 30 years.

I remember letting a Chinese teacher of English observe one of my classes. (I'm a Westerner, teaching English in China.) When I taught the lesson, I had a selection of possible activities, sense the students' moods, and choose some of them accordingly. But a few weeks later, I went into an empty classroom just as she was walking out, and on the blackboard was what had been there when I had taught the lesson, word for word, in the exact same positions.

So I think the entrenched Chinese habit of copying everything will prevent them having the creativity needed to succeed as a nation in the next 30 years.
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Upon the realisation that the question is to be framed in terms of money, I would've found a way to out-do the school (or parents, or whichever source of $100/mo) and make more than $100/mo doing something else at the expense of schoolwork just to spite them and make a point. I was a teenager, after all.

If I were a B student before, I would've been a C- minus student as a result, but highly motivated to succeed at revenue-generating activities. :-)

I would guess I'm not the only child who whose basic psychological response to a carrot predicated on an unattractive set of obligations would've been: (a) "Wow, that's really patronising," and (b) "Oh yeah? Well screw your $100. I'll either rationalise why I don't want it anyway and why everyone who goes for that scam is a sucker, or I'll make $200 blowing off schoolwork and laugh."

I would also guess that being paid for achievement in school is attractive to some children because it is novel, unconventional, and socially differentiating. If it became the norm, all the kids that fail to find redemption and/or motivation in mainstream, generally-accepted prescriptions would become ambivalent to it as well. These are often the kids that could use the most academic help, as a practical matter.

Are these the values we want to instill in otherwise ambitious children?
I want to give that a lot more up-votes.
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" 78% of American households 3 years ago had computers."
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Why? If I don't think that "government interfering in the internal operations of some company" is generally bad and morally wrong (and I don't [1]), is there any other reason to think this? Is there any objective reason why should the European governments let Apple do anything it likes at the expense of the European companies and customers? (This is not necessarily the case, but it's close.) I'm not saying that you are wrong and I don't think that some government should "interfere" in this case, but I'd like to know your reasons why it should not. Just curious.

[1] I don't even think that we're speaking about "internal operations", there are numerous external companies and customers involved, how is that an "internal operation"?
The tests for "section", "nav", "article", etc. fail in Firefox because it report them as "HTMLUnknownElement" not because they can't be really used and styled like any other element.
It got two upvotes almost immediately after I submitted it, but then no more since then. Maybe it triggered the anti-voting-ring software. (That would be ironic).
I got 138 with Epiphany.
It does seem strange, but here are some reasons why this happens:

- When you hire BCG or McKenzie to (for example) value a business segment or recommend an acquisition, their feedback can be touted as expert and unbiased.

- BCG will do whatever it takes to deliver what's asked, even if it's a banal Power Point. So the person who decided to hire them is taking a minimal risk by doing so.

- In many cases it's a chance for the client company to get insights on how competitors have solved similar problems. Albeit in the story everyone's right out of school, I've seen cases where a pharma company will hire a group from a place like BCG because they've also worked for a competitor.

- Lastly, it's a chance to work with some talented folks who might make good permanent hires at the client company.

Bottom line, is that this type of consulting is usually a huge waste of money. But it's also one of the only ways huge companies can get a group of talented degree-toting individuals to work on important temporary projects with the assurance that company will get exactly what it wants.
A) Hemochromatosis is a genetic defect, it has nothing to do with the health people who don't have the mutated gene.

B) The iron system has evolved with multiple mechanisms for storing excess iron and inhibiting uptake of excess iron.

C) Several forms of iron build-up are well documented, and none of them appear to have symptoms like MS.

Here's a good article on disorders of iron metabolism: http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/extract/341/26/1986
Hedge fund managers are to management consultants what wolves are to sheep. Please don't compare the two. One is a master, the other nothing but a slave.
If you really believe that mapmaking decisions are "subjective", then you have no business criticizing other people's "subjective" opinions about how maps should be made.
As a doc, the more I read of Colin Rose's blog, the more I agree him. The more I read about Zamboni, the less I agree with him.
I wish I had read your summary instead of the actual story. It really bothers me how they never just get to the point.
That sounds like an interesting option but I just think we shouldn't have to do that.
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It's not the Real World, it's just a certain part of it. Not a small part, but not all of it either. There are a lot of places that offer a chance to do far more satisfying work.

(BTW I'm not sure I'd recommend academe for someone with his mindset. The politics are perhaps even worse and the monetary gains much lower. A startup - even though far from the Disneyland some HN posts paint it as - could be a good place for someone like that)
How does this maintain the List interface, which defines methods for mutating the collection through methods such as add() and remove()?

If I get a variable of type List, I expect to be able to change the list.
You sound bitter. Are you speaking from experience?
Inside the Chinese firewall (from Wuhan city, at least), you can't reach the Python download page (http://www.python.org/download/), so the "right" answer must be Ruby.
There are multiple versions of Solver. To get the free one to do this requires a hack (using some sort of Fourier Transform into a cell or something, I think there are multiple ways). There are paid versions of Solver that are far more powerful, with fully developed APIs. Also, Iron Python can be used with Excel, which makes the whole thing really intense because many Python Libs can be used. Excel truly is Microsoft's shiniest, best piece of software.
Congrats on DreamIt Jesse.

I've worked with Jesse before and can vouch for him. I too would join his team if I didn't already have prior commitments.

Best of luck guys.
"Cheating skills seem to have an adaptive value in our society. The fact is: psychopaths often end up on the top of the heap, John Forbes Nash, for example."
John Nash is schizophrenic, not psycopath.
Musical talent may not have been the best example to choose to make Gladwell's point. Not only is genetics demonstrably important for musicians, but we even know that the strongly influencing genes come from a certain segment of chromosome 4.

http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/musical-talent-genes-16460.ht...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/musical-talent-pro...
http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/080429_music-genes.h...
Ask HN: mother of all todo managers in Lisp
I'm pretty sure I saw some link to some company using Lisp to build a todo manager that plans stuff for you so you don't have to. I've managed to lose the link to that site. Did I hallucinate that?
I believe the statistic that you are referring to is that it is projected that 78% of the households would have broadband connection by the year 2010 which was a 2005 study. My own experience is that in my own extended family, kids have no problem with computers, but less than one-third of the 18 adults are comfortable enough to use a computer. In any case, I am not making the case that iPad would change the World, but that it is the existence proof that allows the rest of the industry to change the world.
Interesting preview video on that site. I'm amazed that with Safari to copy from they still made the mistake of keeping a bar at the top with the current page to waste my precious screen real estate.
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I was pondering this question the other day while I was reading some server code I had to enhance. I'm a newbie to rails and ruby and I had to figure out how to work with the restful_authentication plugin that was being used by the site. It seems that there isn't any good documentation, tutorials for the plugin and the only way I could learn to use it was through reading the source. I've done a little coding in Python before and I wasn't fearful about reading other people's source code. With Ruby/Rails I have some fear...I hope it will wear off with enough experience.
Great line re: the 'pick up artists'-- If it all sounds cheesy, tedious, manipulative, obvious, condescending to women, maybe kind of gay, it’s because it is.

Pretty funny to read that coming from the Weekly Standard.
I thought Apple failed in the 90s because they tried to go mainstream.
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Do not confuse capitalism with anarchism.

Capitalism believes in a government which protects private property and human life with physical force. You can pay someone to punch someone else, but that's inconsistent with capitalistic philosophy.
thanks for the ideas. Out of curiosity, what could be done to make you feel more comfortable about the privacy of your text? Would a bit of verbiage help? Or would you distrust any cloud service?
Sorry, latest move may chafe some developers, but in the current offerings of Twitter clients, users suffer.

At least in my view, where none of the "third party" Twitter client choices are acceptable (though, disclaimer, I've not experienced Tweetie, but a half dozen others that inevitably send me back to Safari).

Contrast to Facebook where the iPhone app is extremely polished and eloquently bundles just about all of the core functionality.
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Yeah.... but like he said, RSA being in P does not imply that P=NP because RSA has not be shown (and isn't believed) to be NP-complete. If P=NP, then RSA would of course be in P.
And Apples delay is likely in talking to legal counsel in Europe. Trying to work out how to defend against a suit like that.
thanks much for the great suggestions. I was thinking that the "half sheet" would be more like a 1.5" bit of the previous page, to minimally trigger the writer's memory of where he/she left off before... for subsequent pages it's what you ended on, not the starting note...

I am in full agreement with the rest of your suggestions... btw I think the shading is a bit different on different computers, which led me to the larger drop shadow, etc. But I'll reduce it a bit and change the border color.
Give Solver Foundation a try: http://www.solverfoundation.com
I've not used Facebook for the iPhone but last time I used it for android it was basically for notifications and sent me to the mobile interface for all meaningful interaction.
The experience he describes of reading the NYT on the iPad is just like reading it online, they way most NYT readers consume it now.

For that matter, it's like reading the paper NYT in a room that has a TV on.

Yet, reading is still alive.

So we live in an ADD culture. We've been living in it at least since the invention of the Remote. The iPad is completely meaningless in that sense, even if it will manage to become more than a true-believer product.
If you like this, you would like Three Worlds Collide.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/y4/three_worlds_collide_08/
this would work well with http://www.dontbreakthechain.com