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After all, Reuters would never doctor a photo, for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adnan_Hajj_photographs_controve...
Reminds me of the mess created by both telcos and Google lobbying on net neutrality.
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I recently asked a very similar question and I think the answers are relevant:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2138718

Quoting from one of the comments there:

> Hg, overall, seems a bit more user friendly for
> doing the run-of-the-mill things such as branching,
> merging, fetching code, delivering patches, etc. I
> find it more pleasant to use without knowing much
> about the internals. This makes it also easier to
> explain to people that used SVN etc.

> Git has a lot of 'magical command line switches',
> and (at least used to be) documented qutie sparsely.
> So you'll probably query google on how to get out of
> seemingly simple situations. On the other hand, Git
> allows a guru to do a lot of stuff such as re-ordering
> history to make nicer patches. Once you master how
> things work, these can be very useful.

(from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2138881)
Compilation is notoriously singlethreaded, generally speaking.

I believe Apple has made a deliberate choice that quad core offers little benefit over dual core with unjustifiably higher power usage.

So I wouldn't be surprised if the next gen is also dual core only.

I don't expect the MBP to die in the next gen either. Performance is much better than the Ars.
Is it not better to get someone in who is actually good at the job rather than me doing it reluctantly? I don't think I'll ever feel comfortable in a sales role.

Another reason for wanting someone else to do it is so I can dedicate my time to developing.
Plenty of Fish? Might as well rename it plenty of passwords.

The worst part is Markus stores his passwords in plaintext, or slightly better reversible encryption.

POF will mail a person their password. This is a security nightmare because basic precautions were not taken.

I just checked and POF is still able to reproduce and email me my password. I also checked the email I use for POF and there is no mention of this in any of their emails. If markus took this seriously at all he'd be resetting everyones password and have instructions to reset their email password.

"We have reset all users passwords and closed the security hole that allowed them to enter." This is a lie, I just logged in with my username and password. I wasn't even asked on login to change it.
Considering the pixel density improvement in the Macbook Air's, they should at least make 1680x1050 standard on the 15".
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I bought a new MBP a few months ago and back then, I was a little annoyed that I could not wait for the new versions to come out that would sure obsolete the computer I would buy now. Hearing this speculation, I'm even more glad I didn't wait. The speculation makes sense. But compared with my current setup - MBP 15" HiRes AntiGlare, replaced SuperDrive with a 240G OCZ Vertex 2 in OptiBay, installed 8G RAM - I don't see how the new MBPs could be any better for me. The only thing I'd like to see in the next MBP would be more RAM capacity. 8G is nice, but my desktop has 32G for a reason (or rather, reasons).
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I always assumed hackers would get the AntiGlare screen anyway. Isn't that plastic already?
SSD's really help compilation times! All those little files.
In my case neither would a car as there would almost never be a free parking space right outside of my apartment building, but point taken.
I have the i7 MBP and it is awesome. It has the processing power to do serious work ("video games") and also the mobility to do it on the train.

I'd be bummed out if they made the MBP basically a larger MacBook Air. I think most people buy the 15" MBP because they want a mobile workstation, rather than an ultraportable. For example, I hope the new 15" MBP has a top end video card.
"The Cove" (http://www.thecovemovie.com)

I had no idea what it was about when I flipped it on, but it's a great hacker movie. The guy who trained Flipper is trying to save some dolphins from being killed in Japan, so he teams up with some folks from Industrial Light and Magic to rig a secret cove with all kinds of spying equipment to catch the guys doing it. Really interesting.
Do you simply not worry about having no worry due to the OptiBay? I'm tempted. I'm also concerned about harming the resale value by installing an OptiBay...
edw519 said it best:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1343030
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It is mind boggling that the young 23yo Chris Russo was smart enough to hack PlentyOfFish but not make any sense with his crazy requests and compulsive lies.
This morning Markus Frind CEO of PlentyOfFish plans to do and official statement about the events.

Fun Fact: Markus Frind graduated the same year as I did from BCIT in Vancouver. I took Mechanical Design and Mark took Computer Science. Do I regret not taking CS, hmm maybe?
The company changed the world and is making billions of dollars -- which makes the number of "tricks" they have seem pretty minute, no?
That's exactly what it is. For every Asian woman who marries a white or black man, there's (statistically) an Asian man who has to either marry a white or black woman or remain single. Likewise, for every black man who marries a white or Asian woman, there's a black woman who has to marry a white or Asian man or remain single.

Now, it's true that for every Asian woman who marries interracially, there has to be a white or black man who also marries interracially, but in practice, having a large white majority population means that proportionally fewer whites have to marry interracially to really muck up the proportions among minorities.

Statistically, Asian men and black women tend to remain single as Asian women and black men tend to marry interracially. One possible interpretation is that there's kind of a continuum:

Black White Asian

where women interracially marry to the left and men interracially marry to the right. But it doesn't loop around.
It's actually worse than that.

I don't know what it's like now, since I haven't used POF since 2008 or so when I met my current girlfriend (though I only remembered to kill the account a few months back), but back then they would actually send you reminders every so often - I want to say once a week - that included your plain text password as a reminder.

I think this is just the kick in the ass I needed to go through all my accounts around the internet and make sure they all have unique, reasonably complex passwords. My email and banking passwords have always been unique, but I know I've been slack elsewhere. I won't let that happen again.
The only changes I'd make to the "air-ified" MacBook Pro would be, in addition to replacing the 3.5in HD's with the slim SSD's found in the air and getting rid of the optical drive, would be to fill the remaining space with even more batteries, allowing all day usage with a beefy i7 processor and a dedicated graphics chip.
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This reminds me of some of my friend Ethan's (completely analog) work: http://ethanturpin.squarespace.com/photography/ (The round ones at the bottom.)
I'll ignore the issues with the plaintext/reversible passwords since that's a trope that has been bandied about enough lately and ask if anyone has technical details on the hack itself, I'm quite curious if it was a simple SQL injection or something more artful.

I'd tend to lean towards injection, given that it took Russo (apparently?) 2 days to produce a working exploit with what amounts to fiddling around, but if anyone knows where I can read a write-up on it I'd appreciate it.

(Professional curiosity, I'm a web dev and like to be apprised of what catches the more popular sites. Sometimes you get lucky and it's subtle/neat.)
I was a little disappointed to see that I didn't get a dot from accessing HN from here in Juba, capital of (soon to be independent) South Sudan. I may have arrived here after all the data was collected. Still, this is a great reminder of how global the community is and proof that hacking is happening outside Silicon Valley.
"1920x1080 would be nice. But I doubt that'll happen..."

Actually, I think that is a real possibility. With the last MacBook Air refresh, screen resolution went up from 1280x800 to 1440x900. The current MacBook Pro 15" has a resolution of 1440x900, based on past refreshes I think it's safe to assume that the new MBP 15" will have a higher resolution than the current MBA. Most likely 1680x1050 but 1920x1080 isn't impossible.

"I would love to see the optical drive dropped in place of more battery life"

If Apple drops the optical drive in the next MBP 15", they'll likely reduce the thickness of the notebook, as well as increase the battery life.
Being a published co-author of a business case (http://hbr.org/product/vidalia-onions-sweet-and-sour-transit...), I find this to be a strawman argument for decrying business cases. I get your underlying criticism about lack of domain expertise, but case study analysis never devolves into "single strategic question" situations. Usually, cases are just meant to exercise brains into trying to understand and analyze different situations and realize that the various tensions can actually be quite complex. The methodology has its faults, but let's (edit: not) make it out to be less than what it is. It helps people to get into the mindset necessary to make good managerial decisions in diverse situations. The key difference between case studies and real life is that case studies hand all the information to you on a silver platter, while in real life, managers need to go digging hard both inside and outside the company for all the information necessary for good decisions. Case studies never intend to cause managers to want to avoid listening to their employees, especially the ones who are domain experts. Such instances reflect more on the manager's incompetence than it does on the case study methodology's inability to teach.

As well, there's something good to be said about being able to bring in outside perspectives to right sinking ships, thanks to not being chained to pervasive biases that may unknowingly be held by those who were "insiders" for a while. IBM's perhaps one of the most extreme examples. They brought a CEO with a non-technology background to right the ship. And he did.

"In April 1993, IBM hired Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. as its new CEO. For the first time since 1914 IBM had recruited a leader from outside its ranks. Gerstner had been chairman and CEO of RJR Nabisco for four years, and had previously spent 11 years as a top executive at American Express. Gerstner brought with him a customer-oriented sensibility and the strategic-thinking expertise that he had honed through years as a management consultant at McKinsey & Co.. Recognizing that his first priority was to stabilize the company, he adopted a triage mindset and took quick, dramatic action. His early decisions included recommitting to the mainframe, selling the Federal Systems Division to Loral in order to replenish the company's cash coffers, continuing to shrink the workforce (reaching a low of 220,000 employees in 1994), and driving significant cost reductions within the company. Most importantly, Gerstner decided to reverse the move to spin off IBM business units into separate companies. He recognized that one of IBM's enduring strengths was its ability to provide integrated solutions for customers – someone who could represent more than piece parts or components. Splitting the company would have destroyed that unique IBM advantage.[25]"

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

Not that John Sculley managed to do anything remotely as good for Apple when he was recruited by Jobs from Pepsi. ;)
i'm confused. are Apple and Microsoft competitors like Coke and Pepsi? as in, is this even a worthy comparison?
National Guard. (See G.W. Bush)
Mac OS X doesn't support TRIM does it?

I know a lot of people are gushing over the SSD drives but aren't they going to be bummed out in 12 months when it starts degrading?
If you just used a non-metallic container with a piece of metal inside, you can heat your soup via induction. Nothing fancy.
This makes me curious, why reimplement features that would've been built-in in PHP 5.3? After all, 5.3 is now available in most major platforms including a Ubuntu LTS release and the latest RHEL.

Other than that, Pharen looks very interesting. A minor detail is that I didn't yet figure out how to call static methods of external PHP classes.
I'v read this around that period. Learned a lot from it.
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So I read it, and it seems like his point is buried somewhere in there.

I get that he thinks like industry and academics in computing shouldn't mix, because they have very different time horizons and goals.

But what's the strength of the academic enterprise aka the title? The only part I saw in the entire essay was:

The explanation is that, with all its aloofness, the
university has an essential role to play, viz. to explain
to the world the foolishness of its ways.

That's it? Am I missing something?
2. 150 year life expectancy? This one I don't buy. (etc and stuff about "only the wealthy"...)

I don't know. I have a condition with a life expectancy of 36 or 37 and I'm 45. I nearly died at age 35 1/2, then was finally diagnosed shortly thereafter and have spent the last almost ten years reversing the damage. I'm currently healthier than I have ever been. I'm not wealthy and never have been.

I think the information is already available to do amazing things in that regard. Most people just don't believe it and don't pursue it.
Ah, there's several orthogonal levels of discussion going on. It's true that responding to tone is a poor form of disagreement, but it's a very good form of enforcing social norms. And once social norms are violated, it's often better to try and enforce them than to ignore the violation and engage the violator on his own terms.
Start here: http://scriptor.github.com/pharen/contribute.html

The project is on GitHub, so submitting patches is very easy.
Removing the optical drive and switching to SSD shouldn't make it any less a workstation. These changes would allow for a bigger battery, for instance, which would enable them to increase processing power without losing battery life.
Now that's an interesting product... I may have to pick one up in a few months / a year. Hopefully more come out, Newegg lists only one or two of those in their entire lineup, from what I can tell, and it seems a perfect pro-sumer use of the express card slot.
Its really ridiculous how many sites still store passwords that way. SurveyMonkey still sends forgot password requests in plaintext email. You'd think with $100M of funding they'd have sorted that out by now.
Put it into a sweep account, look for government subsidies and subsidized loans. I know here in Canada there are quite a few you can take (with requirements) that literally pay off 60% of the loan up to $150k.
The fact that a well known site like POF was hacked is eclipsed by the fact that they both store unencrypted passwords, and the bizarre tone of this article.

I managed to stumble through the first part of the article, but lost interest when Russo claimed that "he can see what the Russians are doing because they took over his computer." This sounds technologically implausible at best.

Maybe the official post in the morning will make more sense.
This is extortion, plain and simple.
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If there is an option to use some kind of hardware token with your banking then I would strongly advise you to take that.

Having just a password to protect your bank account sounds pretty scary to me. That's about as juicy as it gets. I'm paranoid enough about my servers having 'just' a password to protect them (oh, and an ACL), if my bank accounts would have only a password I wouldn't sleep.

Every time I log on I have to use my chipcard in a little electronic device with an LCD display and a bunch of buttons on it, the chipcard generates a unique ID every time I log in. When I want to do an actual transaction I have to authorize it using 1, 2 or 3 challenges depending on the amount and destination of the transaction. It's less convenient than a password protected system but it's fairly secure.

It's also protected against the most common form of theft called 'skimming' because it uses the chip and not the magnetic stripe so a thief using the data on a skimmed card could only use that to use an ATM but not to access the internet banking section of the website of my bank.
It's not especially the language barrier. But they have their own communities. I live in Belgium and my wife is Russian. For her western friends she uses Facebook, for her Russian Friends she uses the the known Russian clones.

The same applies for Russian Hackers.
As you mentioned scientific, and a lot of scientists use numpy/scipy these days, these links might be interesting to you:

Open source Python library that automatically generates linear algebra code for the GPU, pretty awesome, seems to be a bit slanted toward machine learning but is not specific to it:
http://deeplearning.net/software/theano/

Simpler GPU programming with Python (somewhat more low-level, but more friendly than using the plain C API):
http://mathema.tician.de/software/pycuda
Lift templates may predate Clojure and Enlive but the designer friendly variation are a recent development.

The designer friendly templates from still appear to need some markup added to the HTML - the lift:surround and other tags. Enlive will let you leave the HTML completely untouched - I'd prefer to use Enlive for that reason, most of my work get arranged by the customer so that I get buckets of HTML produced by external suppliers and modified throughout the project delivery.
Am I the only one confused by this? Either he took money he didn't need (and presumably gave up equity for it), or he didn't, and should have a use for it.
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What do you mean "young"? 12 year olds have broken into more sophisticated systems.
Mirror: http://d-ro.ch/2011/01/rare-pictures-of-north-korea/
This is why my pof passwords are always some variation of "zachary" (with some numbers appended).
Young compared to me for sure
Some excellent technical info lower down in the thread: http://greeksky.gr/GreekSkyForum/index.php?topic=2.msg9#msg9
Grumo media looks pretty cool. Maybe you shouldn't regret it? I'm doing a startup in Vancouver as well. Your videos look awesome but are out of my current budget. :(
As I understand it, Columbus was trying to find an easier route to India and thought he had arrived in India when he arrived here, thus the term "Indian" being applied to natives of this continent. They had no idea there was a whole undiscovered continent in the way of getting to India by sailing West across the Atlantic.
This may be obvious to many, but with regards to the Legal system and contract law Hong Kong is nothing like China. The Legal System in HK is based upon English Law and is very robust. You can be assured of a fair and balanced legal system here but if you are signing a contract with a large HK corporation, I would be more worried about the specific terms of the contract. I believe fighting a large corporation in court, even in the US, is a time and money wasting exercise.

edit: insist on all English contracts as english is one of the official languages of HK.
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I was wondering how you could hack this tech into something useful?
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Are you European? I only ask because my friend in London is the only person I've ever heard of using such a device.

Unfortunately, such a thing seems all but unheard of here in Canada.

Our debit and credit cards are being replaced with cards with chips embedded, which could be a sign that such devices are coming, but for now I'm afraid my password is my only real line of defense online. I have noticed that when I login from a new computer (for example, when I visit my parents), the site uses one of my challenge questions to ensure it's really me. I guess that's something, although I really don't know the exact circumstances that trigger the challenge.
The same can be said of many, most, or maybe even all countries.
Yeah, I use gigabit ethernet as much as possible.

I think it could be a wedge, just not as thin as the Air, and fit the ports.
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Dell has been selling 1920x1080 15" screens for close to 2 years.
Related, but slightly off-topic.

When I read this post on my iPhone, I saw a match.com ad on the top of the page. match.com competes with Plenty Of Fish.

POF is a multi-million dollar business. I'm surprised that they aren't paying Wordpress to provide an ad-free experience.
“We started off this article making it intentionally limited in scope as we weren't expecting, in a OS that doesn't support TRIM, to find anything all that interesting. What we found was the exact opposite: an OS that doesn't appear to be affected by SSD performance degradation, at least if you stick to the SSD Apple provides - but if you do stick with that SSD, you get, by modern PC standards, decidedly substandard performance. This one raises many more questions than it answers, and we're going to investigate further.” — http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/apple/2010/07/01/mac-ssd-pe...

TRIM itself doesn’t seem to be an issue. For whatever mysterious reason. (Or their methodology is in some way flawed.)

Edit: Since we really shouldn’t be looking at the old MacBook Airs but at the most recent models, this review by Anandtech is certainly also helpful: http://www.anandtech.com/show/3991/apples-2010-macbook-air-1...

No more substandard SSD performance, TRIM doesn’t seem to be an issue. The author suspects that Apple’s custom firmware is to blame.
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We use Excel and Dropbox :)
I have a new intel core 2630QM quad core and it is the biggest difference in compile times I have ever gotten from an upgrade. At least 3x times as fast as on Core2Duo T7600 that I was using before. Then again I'm compiling Silverlight assemblies which might be more CPU-bound than what you're doing.

Also don't take just my word for it:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/867741/ssd-drives-and-vis...
I wonder if Markus realizes that e-mails have been going out non-stop to customers lately from spam profiles using their 'wants to meet you' "feature". On the one hand, I feel bad for PoF becoming the target of an attack and drama, but from the tone of the post, it wasn't handled right on their side either. PoF really needs to get its act together on the security side. It's sad to because it was a fairly well executed concept when it first arrived on the scene, and has since just turned into what amounts to a spam/ad farm.
As a fellow Kiwi all of that really hits the mark, although I'm not involved in iOS development most of it still applies. Especially the attitude towards our own work.

Would love to be able to go to the MIX conference this year but really can't afford it. Thankfully though for MS developers in NZ Tech Ed does make its way down here.