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7" is a world different than 3.5-4.0"

This is why I think the author came frustratingly close to having a good point. If 7" is so different, then shouldn't applications be different? Shouldn't there be more applications making use of that difference just as iOS applications may have different layouts on an iPhone than they do on an iPad?

I don't mean to suggest that it's impossible for Android developers to make 7"-targeted apps, but at the present time it doesn't seem like there is much reason to, giving the iPad an edge.
I'm suggesting writing a javascript function which takes pre-compiled bytecode

Sorry, I misunderstood.

Now you've broken the browser dependence on Javascript. At the cost of a VM written in JavaScript.

I keep looking at these two sentences again. On one hand I know what you mean. On the other hand, this doesn't make any sense because it contradicts itself. (Which is why I misunderstood the original comment, I think.)
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So, I just came across http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/ , and my school is going to be doing some online classes on it.

Coincidentally, my android development book just came in the mail today. I was all for learning how to program android apps.. but now it kind of seems like there's no need to learn it all since you can do it with a point and click gui.

Thoughts?
This advice is back-assward.

The attacker who uses your stolen password is just as likely to be trying it a year from now than he is to be trying it the moment he captures it. Maybe he's not even the person who originally stole it. A stolen password for an account whose password isn't regularly changed is a backdoor that can't be patched or detected. It's actually more valuable in some ways than a rootkit.

This isn't idle punditry. Maybe once a year, I end up on a penetration test that works its way onto internal networks or desktops, and every one of those engagements invariably has a "here's the chapter of the report where we ended the universe" because one person saved a password somewhere a year ago and never changed it.

Yes, attackers will mount active attacks, and yes, attackers will install backdoors. But they will also sweep your machine for textual passwords and then bank them.

There are classes of passwords that don't merit regular changes. Your one-off passwords for sites like Reddit (please, don't share passwords between sites) don't need changing. I'm also not religious about changing single-purpose rarely-changed Keychain-generated passwords.

The rest of them, change at least once a year.
Perhaps they feel it's going to open up competition to their console offering. If people start building cool PC games with the Kinect sensor, it might hurt Xbox sales. Just a theory.
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"""just as likely to be trying it a year from now than he is to be trying it the moment he captures it. """

Really?
I don’t mean to be a downer but I’m not sure how productive this is. I applaud his wanting to jump start something but this is a huge project.

Think about it. Just because the drivers let your computer see a hand doesn’t mean your computer can recognize it is a hand. That has to be done in software and doing that will be a massive amount of work. And that's just figuring out it's a hand. Not telling the program what a hand does. Anyone who has used a Kinect on the Xbox knows the software plays a huge part in its execution.

I’d wager the configuration program alone took Microsoft far longer than the 6 allotted weeks this contest gives.

I’d much rather see a high profile person like Matt Cutts start a fund for open source development of a Kinect library for Linux and then giving people the time to accomplish something great (it's certainly a project I'd be willing to donate to)
No worries, Aaron.

By the way, there's no need to sign your posts, we already see your username on your post. You can just move that line into your profile. ;)
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Ha, actually my point was that human languages ARE programming languages.

But this just demonstrates the general sentiment of the community - programming languages should only be thought of in one, narrow way.

Ok!
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Jesus, it was reverse-engineered, not "hacked". Did Linux engineers "hack" into every single piece of hardware they wrote drivers for? The overuse of this term in headlines drives me nuts. It's not like people can drive by your house and break into your XBox by waving their arms. And that's the colloquial meaning, which has sadly displaced the original, more positive meaning.
Yes. "You aren't supposes to..." seems to be the subtext with apple. You get a great experience when you buy everything from them and color within the lines. That doesn't make it THE way to run a superior company, but it is A way to do so.
Magazine uses pretty women to try to attract some men - oh the horror. (However, men as success objects is just fine, but I diagress....)

Look - wired doesn't "represent" anyone. It's a vehicle for attracting eyeballs to advertisements. It isn't obligated to appeal to "you" for any value of you.
I am on OS X (10.6.5). I did not see FF4 CPU usage anything near what you are seeing. My CPU is ~2-3% with 6 tabs open (2 being Gmail). RAM usage is steady after a day of using the same browser process.
They can, since they own the copyright to all the code in the project.
There's no reason someone couldn't create an IM client for this. All profile data could be stored on your local client.
Apple is just a good IT department for everyone else.

Every good IT department attempts to distill computer usage into a few core functions that are reliable and easy to use.
But wait, that's exactly what you can do with an Android device or an iOS device and a GoogleTV already. See the section "Your phone = remote control" here: http://www.google.com/tv/features.html.
I was going to leave a snarky comment but yours saved me some time.
One day, people will make a similar infographic for Facebook.
UGC is one thing, but without financial backing largely enabled by IP, it’s hard to imagine the most epic and polished movies & games would still be made.
I'd be on board to help with that. If you're serious about it, you can find my email in my about section.
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I've been impressed by both the new image search and the web previews. With the introduction of Rock Melt, the instant page preview while simultaneously browsing my searches was a productive environment and now Google added it to their page.

The image search I feel is even faster now that I don't have to click through every single page. Before I used Cool Iris. The whole point of image search is supposed to be a visual experience. If you liked an image, check its size. Also, why is his browser crashing? What's he using?
x86 was a historical accident, and yet it has become the most popular architecture for personal computers and servers in history.

There are plenty of examples of languages that are worse than Javascript for the web. Java being a perfect example. Java and Javascript co-existed on the web for quite some time (in theory they still do). Java is based on a "proper" IL. And yet here we are, talking about some hypothetical new IL to replace Javascript, despite the fact that there is no guarantee it would actually be better, as the historical example of Java has shown us.

You need to get more than just the VM "right", there's a billion other factors, Java screwed up, Javascript hit the mark (despite its many other flaws). Perhaps LLVM is the future of web applications, it's too soon to tell. What I do know is that Javascript may not be perfect but it's still fundamentally good, and powerful enough (largely through closures and prototypes) to allow for robust workarounds to its flaws (jQuery, coffeescript, etc.)
you can do it with a point and click gui

Er, no.
BASIC was one of the standard tools for 3rd party software. It was pretty easy to learn (compared to C or FORTRAN) and was migratable (I wouldn't say portable, but stuff written in certain dialects would generally be fairly straightforward to port to slightly different dialects or reimplementations on other platforms).

Not to mention a whole generation of people (myself included) for whom BASIC was their first programming language. To this day, I remember my first program:

10 PRINT "STEVE IS THE BEST!"

20 GOTO 10

A lot of computer games in the early 80s were written in BASIC with bits of machine code (no pun intended) thrown in for effects, copy protection etc.

Of course, the pinnacle of BASIC programming came in the form of QBasic, specifically GORILLAS.BAS.
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Well you'd be surprised actually: it's very secure if you're the only one with access to the post-it.
I wouldn't cry like a baby and pound my fists because it no longer specifically targets me and my personal usage needs.

It's very doubtful that either jshen or Dvorak "cried like a baby" or "pounded their fists". It's very doubtful that sort of comment will make anyone feel better or add much to the conversation. I agree with your point about complainers usually being the loudest, though.

That said, the new image search still bites. It's more time consuming than it used to be, at least for how I use it.
BTRFS was started by Oracle. There are contributors from Redhat and other places now, it's bigger. Oracle could fire Chris Mason and BTRFS should continue.
I don't think it's possible to extract "much less secure" from that post (he has carefully hedged it to avoid writing anything falsifiable). The only downside he's explicitly cited is that he thinks it might cause people to pick less secure passwords.

I have a hard time buying this argument, because people pick godawful passwords anyways; the very few people who pick decent passwords are probably not derailed too much by a periodic change requirement.

And, for what it's worth: Schneier himself advocates writing passwords down.
I wouldn't call this an infographic. More like a very long vertical slideshow that doesn't relay any actual numbers or data.
Steve Jobs appeared one stormy night on my father's farm and helped deliver a breach lamb. He was gone as quickly as he arrived.

Of course there's no email trail...
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Look, it's easy to muddy the waters here by talking about mechanized attacks by bot herders and the like, but when you're talking about people that care about passwords at all, yes, really: they're valuable and people hold on to them.
Sorry, I thought she scored a direct hit.
I was hoping the infographic infographic was the end of infographics
Yall are aware of infographic spam, right? It is a simple way to game social news sites because the appearance of a lot of information in one place makes it look interesting.
A great recent counterexample to this is Avatar, right? Super expensive, all financed by Cameron, right? Made tons of cash.

There will probably be less made, you're right. But they'll still get made.
Most of Google's competitors (in search) are already trying to discover/emulate Google's algorithms. There is no need for a contest. Any one who is capable of doing that can build a great search engine instead and earn a lot more money.

But a person/team making it easy to write programs that use the Kinect on Linux may not be able to sell the software. So a contest makes sense.
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I'd put Ruby on the list. I don't think it was really on the radar (outside of Japan, at least), when ESR wrote that. Javascript is also a lot more important than it used to be.
How did Mark Cuban manage to get his company (Broadcast.com) valued at 5.7 billion is my question (it apparently did have some revenue at the time, at least).

Edit: yet another infographic spam. Sorry for commenting.
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I am sure that there are many women that would disagree, but I, male, agree.

I am active in both computer science and astronomy and have connections to many other science fields. I agree there are not enough women in technology, but I dont think that has to do with the lack of opportunity, there are just as many as for males.
I would even go as far as saying that many places would prefer a female over a male addition to their teams, because most of our teams are 90-100% male. I believe women can bring a different view point to the table as well as fresh energy.
I can see the issue of women feeling uncomfortable entering a male-dominated field, but that does not mean that there are no/less opportunities.
In 20 years we'll all be back where we started.

Only if people forget the past. If the past is any indication, people will forget. What were we talking about again?
That just moves the bytecode compilation to the server -- so you're back to my original point of generating the code statically. In fact it'd probably be worse, since there is no reason to compile MyScript.rb to bytecode more than once. It's like generating a dynamic page with Rails when all you really need is static, cacheable HTML.
But he recouped the money through charging people to see the movie. Not a counter-example at all.
> Jesus, it was reverse-engineered, not "hacked". Did Linux engineers "hack" into every single piece of hardware they wrote drivers for?

I think reverse-engineering definitely falls under the "hacking" umbrella. I would go so far as to call the winner of the Adafruit prize a hacker, not to mention kernel devs who manage to get a device working without proper documentation.
This is great stuff (and I'm launching a balloon like this soon) but of course, it's not space. Space doesn't hold up helium balloons, the atmosphere does that.
Right. At first sight, the video sent in by the Kinect looks like it could have been generated by a good computer vision algorithm.
There's a difference between "There's a checkbox that's been ticked for this feature" and "this product has been designed around this concept."
What if we just want to be ActionListeners? I know about that.
You should definitely check out this recent thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1878559
> The attacker who uses your stolen password is just as likely to be trying it a year from now than he is to be trying it the moment he captures it.

Although this might sound a bit off to other readers, this actually correlates quite well with what we see in the (suddenly now sexy) APT space when a network gets 're-popped'. If the attacker has been in before they'll usually have some good intel on the Internal network structure and will often try old passwords, then potentially variants of them assuming the same lockout as when they took the configs/policies.

I can also vouch for the pen test story. It's also why I generally take last year's report with me, as it usually helps me find out what the password was. We don't usually write the password down in the report but do give subtle clues to jog the tester's memory.

I'm not sure what you mean about sweeping the machine for textual passwords. It's not uncommon to search the filesystem for files containing a current password or 'password', 'username' etc. but it's not that common in the wild as it generates a lot of i/o and can raise suspicions. The last thing you want is for the end user to ctrl-alt-del and see notepad.exe using a load of disk activity. Of course an adversary worth their salt would've migrated to a different process by then but even so, if you're wondering why is csrss.exe thrashing the drive like that, then you might have something worth investigating.

For places like reddit, I'd say sharing passwords between sites is fine as long as you're comfortable with them all being compromised. I have the same passwords for things I don't really care for as far as compromise is concern. For more important information assets I find it better to adopt a defence in depth approach than to rely on several hundred passwords alone.
Computer Engineers and Programmers use http://Stackoverflow.com/ for questions and answers. It's not as comprehensive as this site is, but there are other toolboxes, blogs, and profile sites which are perfectly accessible, even though they're not on one page.

Electronics and Robotics - http://electronics.stackexchange.com/ - is a question and answer site for electronic engineers. It already has over a thousand users and questions, and it's all up for viewing right now - No invites required. It is in beta, but that doesn't mean a lot - It's been running in some form for about a year, and it's due for launch just before New Years Day). It doesn't look as polished as this site, because the content is created in users' spare time for immediate use, not in preparation for screen captures.

If you're reluctant to sign up for EEWeb, enjoy using Stackoverflow, or want another source for getting answers to your electronic engineering questions (or all of the above), you should check it out.
This is why I think the author came frustratingly close to having a good point. If 7" is so different, then shouldn't applications be different?

Absolutely. A big thing about Froyo on tablets is that most apps assume that you have a small screen: The default email readers, for instance, show a singular list of emails, and then you open it and the single email takes the screen.

There is a very flexible layout engine in Android, and apps are by default resolution and aspect ratio independent, but making an app with a view pane, for instance, just isn't high on many people's priorities given the lack of real world targets.

Though of course the browser fully takes advantage of the larger screen and resolution, as does video. Both of those are the number 1 reason why people want a larger screen in the first place.
Doesn't seem to amount to a hill of beans when it comes to sales figures though, does it?
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IMO, the issue isn't if you like Javascript or not. It is is Javascript a reasonable language for compilers to target.

I think the core proposal is that Javascript stays the defacto language of the web, but you build a standardized IL that all browsers target. Of course Javascript would be one of the core languages that would guide the design of the IL, because you don't want this new IL and Javascript to incompatible.

The nice thing though is after you do that, other people can write new languages that target that IL, and they're not second-class citizens. It allows there to be real language innovation on the IL, just as there is language innovation on x86.

The problem today is that JS is not a great language to target, and it relegates anything that targets it to second-class status (why are you using XYZ, why not just use Javascript?).

I think its a great idea. IMO, this would be a far more important development than HTML5 for the life of the web.
I guess this is a Chrome problem, then.
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How else are you going to make YouTube comments? Hold shift?! Pssh.
It should be clear to anyone that the new TSA policies are nothing to do with security. Security theatre is over. This has nothing to do with it at all. It's about power, pure and simple. It's a demonstration of power over the individual, a kind of "don't fuck with us, we are the state", mentality.
Some reviewers liked "The Last Airbender" and hated "Inception".

These are reviews. They are based on some empirical data but still mostly based on the individual reviewers perception of the device. Of course there is bias, the whole concept of going into a review without bias is flawed.
I have one of these and I love it. I wonder why this shows up on HN now though, as it is at least a couple of years old now (the company started in 2005).

The story behind it all makes for much more HN-worthy fare: it was started by students as a spin-off from a University project and is now a successful, profitable company: http://www.senzumbrellas.com/en/how-it-all-started/
Of course there is. What is it that makes you think the latter is so vastly superior to the former though? I like the fact that I can choose an input device that meets my needs, one of which happens to be my phone. What's wrong with choice?
exactly the same use case here... :)
Maybe Amazon should go a step further and enable people to get logs aggregated together by the chosen time unit (hour, day, week), so we won't need to do round trip just to join files.
Am I not using Facebook like everyone else is? I've never had anyone post anything inappropriate on my wall, or tag me in a photo I'd rather not be tagged in. If it ever happens, I'm removing that person as a Facebook friend. Not sure why it needs to be more complicated than that.
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I wouldn't first argue that Dvorak spits out 'ignorant bullshit' while claiming that all design preferences are equally valid.

I personally prefer the older Google Images. For one, I lose the ability to scroll the website immediately after finding it. I do this, for example, when I'm searching for some algorithm by first finding a diagram that I think is clearer and then going directly to read the explanation, or when searching for a recipe by looking for the image first.

I find the new interface to be slightly cluttered to use (with all the animations and uncomfortable feeling when scrolling), At some point, Yahoo (and others) had pretty cluttered interfaces and people eventually shifted to Google, commonly citing simplicity. For this reason, I find that taking the leap to 'everyone complains about changes' to trivialize the fact that many people may, in fact, appreciate simple interfaces.

There sometimes is a superior interface, and discussing the pros and cons of a new interface is very valuable.
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I think this is an instance of the broken clock rule. People had been throwing this rumor around for years. That he repeated it at some point before it actually happened (but got the timing wrong even with a big window) is unremarkable.

For example, the rumor is mentioned (though rightly dismissed as impractical at the time) in this eWeek article from 2002: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Apple/Apple-Keeps-x86-Torch-Lit-wit...
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I haven't found any clause stating what they're going to do with my email either - Neither the site nor their company (http://www.aspenlabs.com/) has much of any information up. At least they give an address and a phone number on their company site where they can be contacted if I start getting spammed.
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In other words, you are more likely to be in the top-grossing list if your app is not free. (sorry for bringing freemium fans back to reality)
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