skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you can't trust the 3rd party then why the hell are you logging in?

Well, you can't really trust any third parties. So, to minimize exposure, you want to trust as few of them as possible. Now, obviously the Sony incident shows us how trusting big companies is not a good idea, but in general, bigger companies are going to try harder to protect your data because they have more to lose. Your weekend project has nothing to lose if it starts spamming my Twitter followers. But I really didn't mean to bring up this particular topic; I apologize.

I'm discussing OAuth in the context of allowing applications to do stuff to your Twitter account, not to authenticate you as you. So Twitter isn't owning your users, you are merely allowing users to delegate their Twitter permissions to you on a fine-grained basis. This is nice because it allows, say, an app to read my public tweets, but not to send them. Giving an app my password means it can do anything, and all I can do is change my password (killing all legitimate apps, too) if it does Something Bad. I think we can agree that that's sub-optimal.

I personally will not use apps that require me to use a third party to create an account. I don't mind running my own OpenID server, though, or delegating it if I'm feeling lazy. I do mind being locked into someone else's platform forever.
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Adrian Thurston (the creator of Colm) is also responsible for the fantastic Ragel state machine generator.
> I'm researching anti-malware solutions for Mac.

I'd advise you to educate your users (as not to enter their passwords every time the computer asks them for no apparent reason), run proper backups and check Safari (and other browser) defaults.
I applaud your seriousness. But I don't want to spend the time on it. I would rather develop software in an ecosystem that is protected from such crap. If it ends up being Microsoft's, or Google's, or HP's, then so be it.

This is a threat to Apple's profits (directly, through lost app sales, and indirectly, by driving developers away from the platform). Can't imagine that Apple has other interests more important to protect.

Also, I think the 1% fund would be consumed by the first lawsuit. I don't know about Lodsys, but often patent trolls keep attorneys on staff, so they're not burning billable hours, while your legal team is. They can make us burn through our fund very quickly.

No, this is Apple's fight -- and if Apple won't fight it, the platform is doomed anyway, because all of the patent trolls will smell blood in the water.
I think jrockway is saying that because with Oauth, you shouldn't normal have a users password at all, if a user's password leaks from a given app then the app author won't have an excuse and thus would be banned from the app.

Oauth doesn't protect the user from malcious apps but it protects the user from dumb app and it keeps apps from "playing dumb" when they give info to a third party.

On the other hand, I know nothing of Xauth. It too may allow you not to save passwords.
Exactly OAuth works well on the web when the requesting application doesn't have control of the browser.

In any situation where the requesting application controls the browser you may as well just hand it your password.
Sure, using an A&P is fine. I'd still imagine the maintenance costs on this thing, consisting mostly of a drag engine, propeller, and chute would be less costly than that of a traditional airplane wouldn't you agree?

I do agree it would certainly make sense to opt in for covering the car as well. I was mostly making the point the liability rule could be a baseline showing insurance companies had no reason to charge a higher rate than, say, a sports car (under a minimum coverage scenario where they cover only liability costs).

It appears this vehicle costs $84K. I believe any person able to afford a 100K class of car would certainly be able to pay the maintenance and insurance costs to drive it as a car ;)
It doesn't help that there's a setting in Safari to automatically run "safe" downloads.

This feature has always struck me as a cordial invitation from Apple to trick their users via some means or other.
Haha. I'm definitely not about to ditch development. I'm wondering my if I'm in an okay place. The other devs are cool and I like working with them in spite of how miserable the work can sometimes be.

I'm just trying to decide if I should try to work somewhere else. I definitely think I'd be happier developing a project rather than working on client sites.
I know this is HN, but do we really have to frame everything in startupspeak?
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You may have reverted to older firmware in the past but that's because either you have an older phone (3G and below have no signature checking), did so before Apple started signing firmwares (I believe it started somewhere in 3.x), or you're caching the signatures using TinyUmbrella, Saurik's caching server, SHSHit, or something similar. Apple DOES sign firmwares now and generally refuses to sign older versions soon (couple of hours, maybe a day or two) after a fresh release.
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They link to a virtual debit card:

http://www.unblock-us.com/how-to-set-up/netflix/
Ryan Sarver (@rsarver) has posted a response with updates based on feedback:

http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/brow...
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linkedin started by getting top vc's and ceo's in the valley to use their product. Now if you asked me which company were more likely to succeed I would guess Linkedin. Regardless not taking anything away from Linkedin or mr Hoffman but there are things a company can do to increase their probability of success.
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Messages of hate, tools for murder, and child pornography are the downside to having a free society. What's good is that we can stamp out child abuse and murder in ways other than censoring the Internet. (After all, murder and child abuse happened long before the Internet or computers were invented. We dealt with it then, we can deal with it now.)

When giving someone a freedom, you have to balance the good that freedom can do versus the bad the freedom can cause. The freedom of speech is important because the benefits outweigh the risk. Being able to freely discuss election results is more good than someone selling murder-for-hire is bad, because the functioning of society as a whole is more important than one person's right to not be murdered. (Imagine if the Internet were censored. Would we have heard about Diebold's faulty election machines? Would we have had a recount in Florida? Probably not: nobody would have been able to talk about it for fear of losing their domain name or Internet access.)

Censorship is the opposite of a freedom, but the same rules apply: will the "bad" that censorship prevents be worth the "good" that is suppresses? It's not going too well for China, so I'm not sure why we think it would be good in the US.
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Poll: How much are you able to post about your company non-anonymously?
Or how thick is the PR filter?
Almost everything non-confidential
Because that's convenient and obvious...
That seems to square with my experience. Google Apps is free for nonprofits up to 3000 users, though they start you out with something like 100. I hit the "request more users" button and I was up to 500 almost instantly (though it said "we'll get back to you" after I hit the button.
Furthermore, what does this have to do with the first amendment?
Why not?

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...
By your logic, we should all live in government-run internment camps, just in case anyone wanted to produce child porn. Solitary confinement and constant State supervision would prevent that.

It would also prevent everything good that has ever come out of a free society. Art. Medicine. Literature. Technology. All gone forever.

Is preventing child abuse so important that it's worth trading in our humanity?
NVM for Nodeists. Managing your Node.js install.
Most of us here would be, but most of us out there wouldn't. It isn't secure if it only works for the techie folks.
As an alternative to anti-malware? You're kidding, right?

Do you really think that Mac users are inherently less gullible than Windows users?

I have been in this business long enough to know that there are always certain users who will click anything that pops up on their screen, no matter how clearly you try to convince them otherwise. If education solves your future Mac virus problem, then more power to you. But that's just not the real world.
My favorite quote, regarding Go: "When the three of us [Thompson, Rob Pike, and Robert Griesemer] got started, it was pure research. The three of us got together and decided that we hated C++."
Well, inMails let you see who is sending you a message including who you know in common and for some reason, I must fit the profile of someone people want to reply to.
Here is some interesting information about the Arresting officer Senior Constable Errol Coultis. Seems he may have a penchant for bittorrents. lol.

http://www.zgeek.com/showthread.php/101079-Article-Queenslan...
The practical use of an invisibility cloak?
You realize you can look at their finances in the S-1[1] that they filed?

[1]http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1271024/00011931251114221...
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That's still about the worst way to handle it. A change in one unrelated area can completely wipe out services in another. Just to protect against the edge case that you didn't delete your account, want to keep your data protected and let your domain expire and be registered by someone else. Don't hurt legit customers to protect a fool.
I wouldn't even call it that. They bought out Tweetie and made that their official client, then proceed to make it a pain in the ass for all other Twitter apps.
Here's the paper:

http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/upcoming_pdf.cfm?id=143769
Besides military and women's lockerrooms.
heh. I have a moleskin I draw QR codes in by hand when I need to zone out.

so far, none are readable with my phone. maybe graph paper next time.
There are no transaction costs with Bitcoin, or close to zero, and that is great, nor forex. It is also instant, unlike wire transfers.

What must happen with bitcoin now (I think), is people with large stashes of Bitcoin, or anyone that wants it to see it succeed must give it away to people who promote it, in the same way PayPal gave $5 to new sign-ons.

One way to do this is by having a site that authenticates against a twitter account, and then posts a promotional tweet to collect free bitcoin. The tweet is checked that it stays on a timeline for a length of time. If it does, the tweeter gets their free coin (and their followers can emulate.) The account is then nullified, or perhaps another promotional tweet after a set time with more free coin.

Ways to guage a twitter account's worth: is it verified, its metrics, or through APIs http://www.retweetrank.com/view/api http://developer.klout.com/api_gallery http://dev.peerindex.net/docs/profile/show

Site takes a commission. I just mentioned this to Mt Gox to consider something like this.

Add: the site can have a leaderboard: who gave the most coin away (# and $ at the time) and to whom, and how many signups were created as a result (and subsequent follower-follower signups.) People that reach the top have traded their coin for merit and can champion the bitcoin reality.

From pyramid to sphere. I have the name bit rific if anyone wants to build it with me.
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I'm just saying there is a reason that there is no global back button

Because as part of the original design, iOS had no particular place to go back to other than the home screen...hence the singular home button...which actually is a global back button of sorts.
Off and on in the car, but that's irrelevant. I'm not claiming every technology is irreplaceable, but that not all evolutions or supposed improvements of technologies REPLACE their predecessors.
Why should we be able to use a language without learning it?
I do not understand your confusion since those questions are clearly answered in the article.

- Chinese language searches on Baidu made from within the US are censored

- This is an infringement of the civil rights of the [edit: US-based] Chinese writers whose works are being sought out by US-based readers of Chinese

- Title VII forbids such abridgments of a person's civil rights

The bottom line is not that Baidu can't censor its results in accordance with the policies of the Chinese government, but that it can not conduct business within the US at the same time.

I'm not sure that the plaintiffs can win their case, but that's not really the point - even if they lose, it still shines a bright light on Baidu's censorious practices.
There is a personal account that does exactly what you are asking. On the pricing page just below the other options.
You are conflating virtual memory and swapping. A disk-backed page cache is not necessary for memory protection.
Not sure what your definition of "obscurity" is... anyone who's not Time Man of the Year? Partner at Greylock, angel investor, founder and CEO of LinkedIn... he's one of the most prominent Silicon Valley personalities.
http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000022753 <-- jump to 4:55 in the video to see what i was talking about
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I understand that even VirtualPC 2007 will load under Windows 7 even though Microsoft does not officially support it. But in any event, I don't think you should blame Microsoft for your lack of awareness regarding free virtual machine options (e.g. Vmware Player and VirtualBox).
Way too small - they'd have to contain a star, so they'd need to be at least as massive as one.
Does the mythical man month principle extend to money? That is to say does throwing twice as much money at a problem make it take half as long? Not being critical. Just seems like budgeting a huge hunk of money to make something happen more quickly might not be the best decision.
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Good stuff. If I can hassled into moving away from jekyll I’d probably migrate to this first.

I like Tumblr but the data lock-in + shoddy uptime scared me, and this uses CodeIgniter—something I’m familiar with—so I’d probably have an easier time hacking on it than even jekyll!
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It's not fucking sexism

There's a lot of geek feminists (myself included) who get irritated about assumptions that all geeks/hackers/programmers are male. No amount of dictionary definition quoting is going to make me think it's not sexist to put a gender-specific joke in a generalised list of advice.

post script: The dates on how long ago I started learning ruby are outdated.

It doesn't matter if you learned ruby 3 months ago or 7 years ago. The point of my comment is this - instead of giving a laundry list of canonical "do this, do that, become 'a hacker'" you could give some advice on how you learned to hack, that you think might be relevant to others. The more recently you learned to hack, the more valuable that advice is.

A generalised laundry list of "the path" is disingenuous. I don't care if it comes from you, me, DHH, Linus Torvalds, Donald Knuth, Jacob Appelbaum, RMS, Fabrice Bellard, Rusty Russell, Guido van Rossum, Jamie Zawinski, my mum, or some school kid. Everyone's path is different and personal, noone's is canonical. But therein lies the value.
Having fun at the Google OAuth Playground
I'm not familiar with the legal nuances. Does buying licensed music through iTunes Music Store count as "in-app purchase" which would be in effect, prior art, thereby violating the patent?
Gullibility isn't even necessary to have machines get infected by malware. There have been cases in the past of ad networks serving ads infected by flash zero days. You don't have to run a downloaded executable to get an infected machine.
I see your point. The law does not.

I use the same disclaimer on websites, in email, over the phone or down at the pub.
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> it's just an access token rather than a password. The end result is the same

No, its dramatically different. If someone has my password then they have full authority over my account right up to and including changing the password itself. If they have an OAuth token they have whatever limited rights I granted to the token (could be read only, or limited to a subset of data, or automatically expiring after 24 hours).

The analogy that is often used is the special set of valet keys that come with some cars. They allow someone to drive the car - but no faster than 20mph, cannot use stereo, etc. etc.
As I've been saying for some years now, China is/was the prototype.
It's not an either/or thing.

Zukerberg/Hoffman, Facebook/LinkedIn.

Otherwise good article.
So was Chrome 10.
I guess I was responding to "hunting down sparrows and enemies of the state" rather than the revolution specifically, so I will accept they are in a different league.

Still, I'm not sure killing around 3% of Iraqis is something that can be dismissed as "foolish and wrong-headed" either.
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For a smaller enclosure, is there no alternative to a star? What's the purpose of the star anyways? Heat and light? What if the sphere was perfectly insulated. Perhaps once you replace a star with something else, it ceases being a dyson sphere (by definition)

(obviously, I'm not a physicist!)
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Yep. There are way too many other factors. Many people who pirate may never have considered paying for the material in the first place, and pricing would probably be quite different if piracy wasn't ever an option.

This is just more finger pointing from big corporations trying to blame consumers for all their woes. While movies aren't quite the same as software in general, they should take the hint from Netflix success that there is a legitimate problem on the supply side when much of what is watched on Netflix is easily pirated via upload sites and torrents.
Yeah, just look at the Rails/CoffeeScript thing recently.
That Reid is a much better role model than this one:

http://www.reidfleming.com/rf01.html
Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible.

- Alan Kay

http://startupquote.com/post/5626579141
Will this project "emulate" a human brain down to the subatomic level? Down to even the atomic level?

The short answer is that each part of the simulation, from ion channels and synapses to cell bodies to network topologies and cell distributions, is done at the lowest level that people in the laboratories can effectively isolate and study. From that they can derive mathematical models of each part, and integrate those models to simulate them interacting over time and space.

Is it a simplified model of the brain? Yes, but its the most detailed model that science can produce (or at least it aims to be).

how would you even measure the "intelligence" of a simulated brain without any sensory organs or an ability to communicate?

What makes you think that's difficult to simulate? It's been shown that primate brains are capable of learning to interpret novel inputs, such as a grid of electrodes 'painting' an image onto cortex. There was also a study where they implanted electrodes in a monkey's brain where the rate of activation of the cells surrounding the electrodes moved a cursor on a computer screen. The monkey learned to move the cursor.

This shows that simulated inputs and outputs wouldn't have to perfectly correspond with reality in order for the brain to be able to process it.
Xcode has taken a big step forward with version 4. It still has some teething troubles (it seems to get sluggish after about six hours of being open, at least on my machine), but features like code completion actually work now. Most of the time, anyway. :)
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When implemented using a contained web view I agree, it's not terribly useful and arguably even harmful. However if the user is directed through the real browser then they can clearly see where they are logging in and doing the authorisation. This is partly just a problem with iOS and it's limited ability to flow and pass data between apps than OAuth per se.
Probably current employees.
Well in a way the proposed regime is more restrictive. China doesn't really care that much about intellectual property rights for instance.
FB is estimated at $85B and only 6 non-founding employees are worth more than $20M? Is this a full list?
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In other news, US porn sites infringe on Japanese decency laws by publishing images of genitals on the Internet?
Using 0s and 1s is advantageous here because you can operate on the sum of a group of numbers. If the sum is greater than 0 then OR on the set is true, otherwise false. If the sum is exactly 1 then XOR on the set will be true, otherwise false. If the sum is the length of the set AND on the set will be true, otherwise false. Just sayin
The deadline has been pushed back two weeks to June 14: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/msg/...
You're missing the point. The App Store is not a package management system.

In Ubuntu, I never, ever install one-off DEBs. Every single piece of software is installed through a repo. I'm able to trust that software and I don't let other apps get root privileges unless I grant them and know what's going on.

The Apple App Store is not a package management system. It's a store. Developers have to relinquish control and money to have their apps listed there. Thus, many apps must still be installed manually. It's not an open ecosystem and it's not really fair to compare them.

Synaptic and trusted repositories saves me from malware because there is no reason not to use them. There are many reasons not to use Apple's.
Couldn't agree more. Joel's post http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchool... comes to mind...
Feels like a feature rather than a product e.g. LinkedIn Groups. Great idea though!
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A very similar design to these guys:

http://www.skycarexpedition.com/about_skycar.php

I wonder who has been working on it the longest?

http://www.gizmag.com/the-parajet-skycar-britains-flying-dun...
"...I believe no one had ever known that little fact."

I submit for your consideration the vast number of truth tables written and referenced by engineers of Boolean logic circuits over the last many decades.
The patent system is not supposed to protect "first to come up with an idea".
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Ask HN: which internship to take?
I'm a university student (in Australia) and my uni runs an internships program with local IT companies. I've got two offers and am having trouble deciding between them.

One company is a large multinational. They have a corporate culture; uniforms for all, monthly compulsory drinks & awards sessions, conferences, etc. They couldn't tell me which team I'd be in (so could only say I'd use java or .net). Team sizes are 6-8 and there's about 80 people all up.

Company two is government funded but relatively independent. About 30 people, office space looks relaxed and colorful. Had a definite job description. One of my uni friends works part time there. Pay is a few thousand less than company 1 and they didn't mention and similar perks.

Both jobs are full time.

At this point I really can't decide which way to go. This is my first internship so any advice is appreciated. Cheers!
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You could still settle one of these. They'd probably be a very good source for He3, and might have rocky bodies for raw materials.