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Everyone who reads HN is smart enough to simply read the primary source for this:

http://lists.openid.net/pipermail/openid-security/2010-July/...

Follow the thread. Nate is Root Labs, Taylor works for him. This is the same vulnerability as Nate found in Google Keyczar last year, and that Coda Hale found in Rails several months ago.

Until people start handling crypto flaws the same way we handle buffer overflows, sweeping whole codebases to find and eliminate them, you can safely expect a major news story every year about some horrible pattern of abuse. Just a few months ago, Thai and Juliano at Netifera broke a bunch of Java web stacks with CBC padding oracles, another "old-news" crypto attack that was discovered in the '90s and promptly forgotten.
Why not put this contact info right on your front page? Even if you have to demo over a simple Skype session or provide a video, do it. If people want to see (even if it's no currently available) let them see. You could probably use Skype for one on one demos or WebEx or something if there were a group of people interested in a viewing.
Yes, systems that hash passwords aren't timeable, because attackers can't "propose" a hash that is correct to the first N bytes in order to find byte N + 1.

If you are comparing literal passwords, you may have something more to be concerned about.
I've noticed there is certain body language that people use when speaking into earphone mics.

They hunch over slightly, and exaggerate the act of speaking into it... visually emphasizing that they're not just casually strolling along talking to themselves.

I know when I'm listening to comedy audio podcasts and can't help laughing, I make sure I'm holding an in-ear bud in place in my ear, or looking at the blank screen of my phone.

We're a silly lot.
The only reason there are specific notability guidelines for porn stars was because somebody was at some point writing thousands of articles about porn stars. I know this, because I used to press the "random article" button a lot.
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Yes. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_BASIC.
That's great to hear nudge. Can you recommend me a few small blogs that you had great experiences with?
Wikipedia thinks it's an encyclopedia, not a search-engine aid or a "who's who"-style directory.
I guess this is mostly overblown drama. It's not like there are other great android phones.

In search of a perfect computer-phone means we now have to a minefield of droid and iphone like devices to avoid.
It's a question of whether you want a well manicured arboretum or a wild forest filled with it's share of beautiful trees but also lots of brambles and poison oak. Wikipedia is a garden. If you want the forest, there is Google. Adding additional pages to Wikipedia might not increase its value. Someone has to maintain those new pages, keep them updated, and remove the dated and biased crap that can accumulate in Wikipedia's less visited corners.
Go ahead. You can't "delete" an article (you're not an admin), but if you want to see a speedy-close in action, nominate your home town for Articles for Deletion (AfD). Nobody's going to humor your argument about consistency between Yegge and an actual town; they'll just kill the AfD and get on with their lives.
I think you hit what I believe with the phrase "cultural impact". Wikipedia doesn't deal well with a people/concepts/projects that have a technical impact on the lives of people. Look at how many video bloggers have pages then look at the technical people that influence the way we work.
Yes. He wrote MS Basic for example. He was a hands-on coder throughout Microsoft's early days.
> "unquestionably belong in an encyclopedia"

This is the problem. Wikipedia takes its lead from encyclopedias, but it's not an encyclopedia, because it's fundamentally different. It doesn't have the same space constraints, it isn't written in the same way, it isn't referenced in the same way, etc.

"Does this article feel like it belongs in an 18th century concept of an encyclopedia" kind of test for inclusion or deletion in Wikipedia just seems wrong-headed to me.
Just tried it on my 8330 curve. The signal strength goes down a couple of bars too.
A co-worker just showed me his new iPhone 4 this afternoon. I joked with him that he had interesting timing, and tried to show him the antenna issue. I've never used an iPhone 4, so I figured it would be easy to replicate the issue. It wasn't, and the reception at my office is terrible. I was able to drop a bar off by cupping most of the phone in both hands, but couldn't kill the signal completely. I think my co-worker installed the software update already, so perhaps this is partially why.

I have an iPhone 3GS and have put off upgrading because of the signal issue. I figured there was some media hype, but wouldn't have figured I'd be unable to replicate the issue.
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It appears to amaze you that Wikipedia doesn't understand how you understand Wikipedia. There are many hundreds of thousands of words of discussion about the WP notability criteria, which you'll never bother to read, but which fairly convincingly refute the notion that WP is just making a casual mistake here.
I haven't tried it out yet but I really, really like the idea of saving all my online activities to my computer. I put a lot of effort and I actually spend time worrying about how to make sure these things will not get lost when these companies go out of business or decide to delete old entries, etc. So, I look forward to trying this out!

And, I agree with another post here which says you need to emphasize that it is open source (and with local storage) vs. a startup which will fail/get purchased and then all my data is gone.
Point taken. Forwarding your PR lady's contact to bowei@cardmunch.com? :) Much appreciated!
Well it's not completely subjective either. It's related to a critical mass of people believing someone or their works to be notable.

Also re: fragmented world, I'm not sure that the world has ever been as connected as it is right at this moment.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1515665
Duplicate post.
This is really quite interesting!
Because it allows them to both point fingers somewhere else (damn you lefties, you complicated things) and downplay the issue- i.e. pretend that because it only affects 7% of the population, it doesn't matter.

I am left handed btw.
Hey I can't speak for anyone else, but Yegge made me a MUCH better programmer.

His article on "Java is the kingdom of nouns" and various writings explaining why lisp matters and the virtues and pitfalls of static typing/dynamic typing really made me question a lot of implicit assumptions I did not realize I had.
This software tries to solve a real life problem, that I feel everyday more important to me. Their intuition is right: the problem can be (partially) solved with good presentation of data. But why using only Firefox as a platform? They almost had me, but I'm using Chrome and I really don't want to install another browser just to use as a platform for another software.
They consider him smart and insightful enough. Notable (or "important") does not necessarily follow.
The standards for articles on bloggers and singers have to be high

If they're not high quality, said famous people are likely to sue or otherwise cause hassle for Wikipedia. That's something a rare flower is not likely to do.
When you deal with many millions, tens of thousands really aren't that big a deal, unless it's a really serious problem. Companies work at a different scale than you or I, and it's not reasonable to apply your own feelings about numbers to the numbers they work with.

And it doesn't happen 100% of the time for anyone, it's just very visible to some people when they try it, hence the complaints.
Ha, that landing page is from our stealth era, when we didn't want to give any information.

But good point, we should probably give a bit more information now that we're about to release. I'll get on that.
Templates as they were used/implemented in earlier days where quite okay, apart from having to use other people's libraries, I preferred to solve problems using generic programming than just building class hierarchies (which now nicely translates to functional programming).

Apart from very crappy compiler support (looking at you, Microsoft) I really liked the STL. It's simple enough (maybe a bit too simplistic).

Template meta-programming is a whole 'nother deal. It's like the rabid daughter of an unhappy marriage between Lisp's macros and Perl. From some angles, she looks rather enticing. Then she bites down on your crotch.
sound travels about 1/300000 as fast as EM radiation

Not going to nitpick about the wavelengths but you're off by a factor of about 3 here.
And git?
Some of the problem is that Wikipedia's supposed to be a tertiary source, so it can only really follow what other people choose to cover. Technical people who have had good biographies written about them, or are mentioned in history books, or anything else similar, certainly get Wikipedia articles (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Physicists), and those who don't yet have Wikipedia articles should get them.

But if someone claims a particular technical person is important, yet they've never had a biography written about them, never even had a newspaper article written about them, never been mentioned even for a page or two in a history-of-technology book, and have basically gotten no writeups anywhere, Wikipedia shouldn't really be the first place they get a bio. The problem is really with the rest of the world: if indeed the person is important, why haven't any historians or journalists ever written about him/her? Once they do, Wikipedia can easily follow, citing those sources. As a tertiary source, Wikipedia's goal is to just summarize the existing literature, but if the existing literature itself is deficient, that's a problem that needs to be fixed elsewhere, in the primary and secondary sources. Someone in history, or in journalism, or in some similar field, needs to ask, "why aren't we writing about [x]?"

Some might just be patience. Pop culture is very time-sensitive, so is covered almost immediately-- books, journal articles, and newspaper articles appear within months or even days, which the Wikipedia article can cite. Important computer scientists do eventually get mentioned in biographies and history of technology books, but it sometimes takes years--- nobody is rushing to put out biographies right now covering "Important Computer Scientists of 2010" or anything.
Since when did Google make cell phones? They use third-party companies like Motorola and HTC for the hardware.
I think you hit on a good story in a response to someone else, about your alpha user who needed to scan a bunch of cards he collected at a conference.

Think about your (small set of) users so far. What's the coolest, most noteworthy thing someone has used your product for?

Find (or make happen) a human interest story. A bride who used the product to scan all of the business cards of all of the wedding-related vendors (florists, caterers, etc.) Someone who is using CardMunch to cure cancer.

"Accuracy" and "Ease of Use" are great-- the point is to find a narrative that gets the point across.

Tell me a "real world" story about a time when "a wrong contact was worse than no contact."
Can we please stop calling things that aren't products "minimum viable products"? (Re: Slide 11)
Only by introducing a delay where is none is needed.

This makes things slower for the rest of us. 1 extra millisecond per user * 8 billion users * times 10 logins a day == Lots Of Lost Man Hours, probably enough to rebuild the great pyramids of Egypt by hand every year.

Security researchers are the reason we can't have nice things. :)
Suuuuure you did.
Does anyone else annotate their Google Analytics (or is it just us (http://www.olark.com) ;-)

-Ben
Well, I do need some hosting. And if I want to host at Wordpress.com, they will charge me 10 bucks a year.
Though not the successful ones... In Pittsburgh, it seems like everyone, even "old people", repeats the mantra of good hackers being a huge part of success.
Thanks for the kind words, pgbovine.

Yes I have thought about starting a blog for some time, but I was always afraid it would take time away from my programming.

Oh, what the heck...

http://edw519.posterous.com/

I have updated my hn profile.

Now I have a weekend project.
Chuck Feeney's Atlantic Philanthropies are well worth studying in this regard - they basically apply the same standards and practices to giving money away as Feeney did to making the money in the first place: http://www.atlanticphilanthropies.org/learning/atlantic-repo...

Feeney is the guy who came up with the idea of duty-free stores at airports. By the time anyone noticed he was a multi-billionaire, he had already set up his foundation and put almost his entire fortune into it.
I tried posterous but didn't like the themes they provide. Plus it doesn't work for my domain which ends in .info and not .com :(

So far I am loving Tumblr but was wondering what other options do I have.
This site analyzes your writing and tells you who you write like ...
Both HTC and Motorola are using protected boot loaders. What's the most open alternative?
There is a pretty large amount of back story to this whole deletionism and inclusionism nonsense:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deletionism_and_inclusionism_in...

I, for one, do not understand the deletionist mentality at all. As an inclusionist, I much rather see the deletionists spend their energy tagging articles as poorly sourced, containing independent research, etc. It seems that annotations to forewarn readers about possible non-notability and weak content is marginally more valuable than unadorned content, and significantly more valuable than removing content.
Space is not the limitation. The limitation is the number of people willing to put in their spare time to maintain the encyclopaedia.
Apparently I write like Douglas Adams ...
Maybe. It's just as possible he always loved being a comedian, even when it was hard to find work. The point is that he found a job he loved. No one should live under the assumption that everyone hates their job because of a joke.
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The one thing they never talked about is the difference between the iPhone 4's external antenna (exposed) and the internal antennas in most phones.

Testing a various websites shows that while most phones drop signal, the iPhone 4's signal dropped significantly more because the antenna is exposed and your skin comes in direct contact with the antenna rather than just in close proximity.

With the bumper "fixing" the problem, wouldn't putting the antenna inside the case essentially create the same fix by putting non-conductive material between the user and the antenna?
The funniest part about these discussions is that we're discussing an optimization that exclusively helps attackers. Virtually all HMAC candidate hashes are correct all the way through the final byte, meaning that even in a classic short-circuited compare, you still have to read everything. In virtually all traffic, you never get to take that short circuit. The only time short-circuited comparisons ever make things faster is when an attacker is waiting for a rejection.
I do a little bit, but not as deeply as you guys do, so got nothing more to contribute.

I've been on a recent analytics kick lately to learn more and do more with it, and your post prompted me to add that to the list of things to brush up on.
Oddly, I was just thinking this morning about how people here on this site think Steve Yegge is extremely famous, while I don't really know who he is. His own description is that he was programmer at Amazon who wrote a blog in the evenings while drinking, and the blog became popular.
This is cute and maybe even prescient, but if you recall there were plenty of Apple phone rumors swirling around in 2004.

E.g., a quick search found this (December) 2004 article from Forbes that validates some of the rumors that were circulating:

http://www.forbes.com/2004/12/16/cx_ah_1216aapl.html

It quotes an Apple source as saying they're "definitely on schedule" to release something in the "first half of 2005" and points out that in July of 2004 Apple announced iTunes support for Motorola phones.
HTC is also using a protected boot loader but it's possible to replace it with a non-protected loader for now. (could change in the future though)

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=725047
This is the post from the creator of the website: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1514016
I have a weird theory about that, actually. I have seen some similar issues in the Seattle area when moving from one part of the city to the next; the signal is at full strength, but the call suddenly drops, almost as if I'm crossing a boundary. Now, I preface this by saying I know little to nothing about the cell phone network handles calls, but thinking about this made me wonder if it had anything to do with handing off the connection from one tower to the next. Maybe it's better to have fewer, higher power towers to minimize hand-off than many low powered ones. Of course, that's exactly what most people don't want: high powered cell towers blasting them with radiation.

But I have to wonder if this problem is exaggerated by the 3G connection maintained by the phone. My dad used to have the same problem in NY (not the city), but he switched to edge and stopped dropping the calls. He just turns on 3G when he knows he wants to do some faster web browsing, which is rarely for him. Maybe you could try turning off your 3G and see if it reduces your problem in LA?
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I think a lot of businesses have large amounts of data that they need processed but don't know where to go for help. I am considering starting a freelance career using Hadoop to help companies outside of the software industry with their data analysis needs. But I am unsure how to gather leads.

Any response is very appreciated:

* I've heard that it is a good idea to target a specific industry. Any suggestions of industries with a particular need for data analysis?

* One strategy for gathering leads is just to bite the bullet and start cold-calling. Any better ideas for finding potential customers?

* Does anybody have success stories gathering consulting leads outside of the software industry?
Interesting. I've just finished reading Sex At Dawn which explores human sexuality from an evo-psych point of view, particularly the link between us and Bonobos.

I have a healthy amount of skepticism about most evo-psych but the book made a very well argued point about the natural state of humanity being non-monogamous, and that early hunter-gatherer societies were mostly non-monogamous, one variant being the polyandrous kind of relationships described in the article. Though most of the examples had a more free-ranging variant, similar to Bonobo groups where there were very few rules about who slept with whom, regardless of marital status.
I've never heard of that ever happening, and I doubt it's a serious concern for them (for starters, they don't have enough money to be worth suing).

The closest it's ever come was this incident:

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

where some guy's article stated for years that he was a suspect in the Kennedy assassination. He never tried to sue wikipedia, though he did complain a lot.

Incidentally, though, this shows another reason why wikipedia articles on borderline-notable people are bad: the fewer people look at an article the more likely it is that crazy non-facts will persist in the article.
In my case I submitted my simple online timer to Lifehacker Australia, on a hunch that it would feed through to the US site. It worked, but I wouldn't know if it would work again, and I don't know if they write about iphone apps.

I didn't submit it to unaffiliated smaller blogs simply because it wasn't really a business and after the lifehacker article I was happy enough.

You should read the blog of the Balsamiq mockup software creator. He has a great post - I forget where, I'm afraid - about exactly how and what he wrote to bloggers when he was launching.
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It's not fundamentally different. Wikipedia is explicitly like traditional encyclopedias in that it's not a primary source, and that it only wants articles about things which can be reliable cited in multiple primary sources.

Articles about random Internet personalities or some garage band are thus inherently not in the scope of the project, until they become more notable.
Positive that 'a' is on /dev/sda1. Running CentOS 5.5 and /dev/sda1 is ext3.

I get similar behavior on the other partition:

echo "a" > a; du -sh a

8.0K a

dumpe2fs /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 | grep "Block size"

Block size: 4096

Though if I 'touch' the files to create them, they are the blocksize. Which seems odd, since on my AIX and HP-UX boxes that gives files of size 0.
I develope software for 18 years now and left my job 6 years ago when I realized that working the whole day on shitty projects sucks too much. According to Nietzsche, 2/3 of my day wasn't disposable and that made me a slave - regardless of my profession. Today i live with few money, a friend supports me, but the day is mine. Software Development is fun again.
It feels like this same article could have been published 3 years ago. Most of these (Firefox, Wordpress and maybe VLC and Handbrake aside) have been great apps that no one uses for years.
That's a strawman. You in fact don't need a "universal ontology," you just need people to agree on first principles (e.g. URLs are unique, there are things called triples, etc.)
Nudge, I found it.

FYI for those interested, this is a very good read.

http://balsamiq.com/blog/2008/08/05/startup-marketing-advice...
Feature: Antenna tested in state of the art lab
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Wikipedia set out to be an encyclopaedia, not a collection of random facts. Complaining that wikipedia isn't a collection of random facts is like complaining that vi isn't Nethack. There's no reason why it couldn't be, but it isn't, and the people maintaining it don't want it to be, so that's that.

I've never understood why those who do want wikipedia to be wiki-random-non-notable-factia don't just start wiki-random-non-notable-factia. I predict it will be fairly unmaintainable, but I'm totally keen to be proven wrong.