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iOS can do this too. But most developers use in-app web views to try and make it slightly nicer for their users. It's too late to demand that oAuth always go to the native browser. You use oAuth apps, chances are you're using an embedded view that you're taking on trust.
It's interesting to think about what the perfect balance is, when sites like reddit, quora, and stack overflow all use "social influence" as a means of motivation. But that same driving force slowly drives the quality of the content into the ground. How do you strike a balance?

I think HN's approach of hiding vote counts is definitely a step in the right direction to cultivate quality.

Edit: Link to PDF for those too lazy to figure out where to click. (http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/05/10/1008636108.full...)
I worry too, but the good news is that Honeycomb looks like it may well escape the near-death experience of launching too early with the Xoom. If you gloss over the small glitches nearly everyone who uses it loves it.

Fingers crossed we're heading to at least two viable tablet OSes, if not three (number three being a total wildcard, but I would probably pick windows 8 if only because eventually business adoption will give the momentum).
Remember NaughtyDog?
I prefer Chrome, but the only time I've ever seen IE9 crash is on a system that was running old Nvidia drivers. After updating the nvidia graphics drivers to the latest (at the time) the crashes went away and I haven't seen an IE9 crash since.

If you are seriously having an issue with IE9 crashing and aren't just looking for a reason to zing Microsoft, try updating your graphics drivers... Unfortunately having to worry about that sort of thing is the price you pay for the fast low-level GPU drawing/compositor operations.
Agreed. It's a remnant from when we first launched on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 7 months ago. We'll get the error revised, and I'll get the restriction lifted ASAP.
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While that does sound awesome, wouldn't this be pretty easy to accomplish with some of Amazon's products?

In addition, based on their size, they effectively are a CDN!
> help me feel its a legit login

Inside a native app, that's all it would be. A feel good, since I could create the browsery chrome to look however I wanted (e.g. a URL bar that shows twitter.com when the page is mycredsharvest.com).
It shouldn't.

The browser chrome is just a handful of native controls the developer could drop into his own views in less than an hour.
This makes sense for servers, because they shouldn't really have any significant amount of virtual memory space tied up by non-resident allocations.

On a desktop OS, the user has a much larger breadth of software loaded and is only using a subset of a handful of software's allocated memory at once. As long as all of that can be in RAM at once, everything else can be safely swapped out without serious performance degradation. The OS can even prefer to swap out long-dormant processes (like, say, the rarely used SSH server on your desktop) to use that RAM for disk cache.
Woof: http://daringfireball.net/2011/05/wolf
It's not a flying car, it's a driving plane.
Definitely make this the front page, made things a lot clearer. It could still use work, though: it still feels a bit vague on how much its oriented toward caching (which I really need to know as it could potentially require changes in a web app) and security (because I'm really confused as to why someone would want to depend on the caching proxy layer for XSS protection).

Also, this line really put me off:

> We have designed the system to scale with our goal in mind: helping power and protect the entire Internet.

I don't think anyone wants one entity having the ability to re-route a significant proportion of http traffic!
How is this new? http://macscan.securemac.com/spyware-list/
What's Microsoft's track record here? "We're retiring XP even though everyone is still using it."? "We will only give you security updates on the first Tuesday of the month, even if it's currently the first Wednesday. Enjoy being hacked."?

I find that Microsoft doesn't care much about its users.

(I bought a netbook a year or so ago. It had Windows 7, which I decided to try instead of immediately installing Linux. The first thing I wanted to do was to change the desktop background. The control panel informed me that I needed to upgrade to Windows 7 Somewhat Awesome Edition in order to do that. The cost was $80.

Friendly or not, the box now runs Debian.)
Permit me not to freak out over a trojan. There's no conceivable way to protect perfectly against self-install malware.
I've got to say, if you're struggling with C's syntax, you should worry less about becoming "a hacker" and more with "just becoming a programmer".
Yesterday I spent several hours going through discussions.apple.com and collecting requests for help from Mac users who have been affected by this issue. I found more than 200 separate discussion threads, many of them from people who have been tricked into installing this software and are desperately trying to remove it. It started with four posts on April 30; this past weekend there were 42 unique, new discussion threads on this subject.

I am not unfamiliar with Apple’s forums. I’ve done similar searches in the past, especially after reading some of those same posts that Gruber called out from 2008. I have never found more than one or two in-the-wild reports. This time, the volume is truly exceptional.

This appears to be the first widespread malware attack.
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I've had Ruby processes run wild (think turning off the garbage collector) and grow to 20-30GB on my MacBook and it didn't make my system unusable. Things slowed down, but I could pretty easily open up the Activity Monitor and kill the offending process.
Isn't it still programms that the user explicitly has to install?

If normal users keep their random application installing limited to the app store they should be fine. If you DO install "video players" from porn sites or download stuff off the pirate bay, you might end up with malware...
There's been serious malware on the mac for ages.
You have to be doing some really stupid things to get it, e.g. illegally downloading software, several porn sites do it, etc.,

It looks as if it's now requiring much less stupidity to get malware on the mac, but that's really all that's changed. Email scams are now considering the fact that I might be using a mac.
Sounds excellent. I may be trying out your service in the near future!
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It would be much easier to build a traditional wooden structure once you've decided that you need one.

One of the problems Haiti has is that they have no more wood.
What is exactly new about this compared to (scientific paper link at bottom): http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/news/archive/2010/Title,59358,en...

I'm not a physicist but if someone knows enough that would be interesting.
Switzerland-Lugano, on the Swiss/Italian border is a personal favorite.
I would be on my feet agreeing with him if I didn't have teachers in middle/high school who absolutely butchered math and science. It almost seems more dangerous than not teaching the subjects at all until college to make kids hate what they think is math and science but is actually a nauseating imitation. Certainly in physics at least you have to un/relearn everything once you get to college anyway.

I really hope Khan Academy succeeds.
As most, if not all, learning books have you do exactly as you listed I'm not exactly sure why you're against starting with books.

I'm sure EVERY programmer should really be
interested in "teh womenz."

It's humour. Relax.

People program as a hobby. It's how a lot of
free software gets written. It's how people learn.

That's why it says "other hobbies". "Other", as in "in addition to" or "besides this one".
>WinPho is bad

What made you think WinPho is bad? Just curious.
Exactly. Nothing will protect you from stupidity.
You're wrong. If the app developer is actually malicious this is true, but there are some non-malicious applications i just don't trust. Look at Sony, they're not malicious (e.g. they wouldn't record my password when they're not supposed to) but i don't trust them with my passwords (for obvious reasons).
Gold and silver is useful for other things and will never be worth zero.
And you're allowed to say that. In the mean time, I'd rather not have my students struggle with verbose syntax.
Because they don't have to.

(And I say that as a longtime RH fanboi)
CIA is quite interested in Bitcoin
By "fundamentals," strlen means "memory management," "pointers," the gritty stuff. You can't escape memory management by using Ruby and Python, and a rudimentary understanding of pointers are also essential.

a = ["Hello", "World"]
b = a
b[0] = "Goodbye"
print a

The first time I tried this, I was baffled why ["Goodbye", "World"] showed up. The answer lied in the way this scripting language used pointers, and it wasn't until I learned C that I really understood that.

As for memory management, I often accidentally write scripts that use gobs of memory thanks to silly mistakes; e.g. not using weak references when I should (oh look, more pointers!), creating new objects instead of reusing old ones , forgetting to unregister event handlers in my nodejs apps, etc. C's "every malloc() must be free()d" policy teaches these things to you in a very explicit way. Sometimes you have to clean things up when your scripting runtime doesn't know it should.
I've been on there for over an hour to no avail.
You are confusing the difference between approaching the process of becoming a hacker for-profit and approaching the path to hackerdom because you seek enlightenment. When you are primarily seeking promised riches at the end of the path, you aren't following the path.
I think that starting with both Python and Ruby is
a bit strange idea - they are really similar (in almost
every way I can think of)

Exactly the point. They are so similar that the transition from one to the next is easier than most other languages. Once you have an easy transition students will notice similar patterns. "Oh, looping. Hey, this is something that happens in both languages."
I think part of the problem is that people have been sold on the idea that Macs are safe and "there aren't any viruses for the Mac." There is this ill conceived notion that naive users hold that they aren't at risk so they'll more more inclined to install malware without thinking about or understanding the consequences.
It looks like you've re-invented Midnight Commander, which was a re-invention of Norton Commander, which was probably a re-invention of something else.

Which is a good thing! I look forward to downloading and trying it out.
That's a nitpicky distinction based on the meaning of "app". The back browser certainly can switch you between applications. A user will be equally "confused" by their screen switching from facebook to gmail as they will if it switched to the photo app or whatever.
I really have no idea why I was downvoted for this: everything I said was factual in nature. It is an open question on whether or not we know how to create software that has the emergent property of consciousness.
Interesting how it is used in gov't.

My Senators reach out to me with Facebook and twitter, my congressman is on linked in. The FBI gets me via chat, the NSA #@@### NO CARRIER
I don't see that those disadvantages are inherent to using an HTML 5 based application at all. After all, the browsers on my desktop use native scrolling, widgets, etc. There's no reason Netflix couldn't spruce up the browser side of things to make it more "native", and continue to enjoy the benefits of having most of the application logic server-side.
At what academic level are these students? Every university^ I know of teaches incoming students in a language with C style syntax and they handle it just fine.

^Except those which use scheme...
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I never implied that hacking implies being paid. You're reading far too much into it.
My browser is already signed in to twitter/identica/whatever page is being requested. If the login page appears at all, it means the app is doing something shady.
I'd be willing to work for BitCoin, too. But preferrably for smaller projects atm. I am not sure yet how to best convert BTC to EUR - did some trades on BitMarket.eu, but it is pretty low volume.
This looks like a fairly old leak in all WebKit browsers. There's a year+ old bug about it filed against Chromium, and I think there's one against WebKit proper as well: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=36142

Frustratingly, the chromium and webkit devs seem to have been ignoring it. In my case, it made one of my products completely unusable on all webkit-based browsers... which includes Android, WebOS and iOS. Sigh.
The sense I get of it is that they can custom build neural network models of various sub-circuits to produce certain behaviors, but no one has been able to take the connectome and build a 302 neuron model that replicates any behavior. Would you agree?

I've searched for quite a long time for something like this and talked to a couple faculty members to no avail, so if you could turn up anything I would be very happy to read about it.

I agree with you on your last point: we can replicate behavior without going to a very low level of simulation. However, the case of C. elegans seems like very strong evidence that the connectome and current knowledge of update rules is not enough to create a model of an organism that replicates behavior.
Actually he makes it clear in the video, it's a good car that can be driven in excess of 95 mph does 0-60 in 3.9 seconds. So it is definitively a flying car ;p
Yea, that always sounded dirty to me. Everybody (dudes) wants to be a Bad Doggie! NaughtyDog tells more about the founders than the customers.
If you simulate a physical brain, but give it no input, what is the output? Consciousness? Look, fundamentally we've had "human brain hardware" for years now. A Turing machine is a Turing machine is a Turing machine. If you know the mathematical formula for emergent consciousness, there are a bunch of people who would be excited to talk to you.
Only someone who believes there are viruses for the Mac are going to fall for this scam, since it's "free antivirus software".

From TFA:

EB: So customers who get hit by this are installing it and giving their admin password?

AC: Yes.
IMHO, REST's "software design on the scale of decades" is a lofty claim that has probably been validated only when the "application" in question is a web browser with a human user consuming hypermedia.
This is just fantastic. Great work. I look forward to see how it evolves further.
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The lessons of REST are straightforward in the context of human-machine interaction. The common confusion happens when trying to apply it to machine-machine interaction. I've never seen anyone make much of a case for REST in that context, not even its creator.

If the server can evolve new functions independent of the client then it seems to me that the client has to evolve new intentions independent of the server. At present, clients can only do that with a human operator.
Just in time to pave the way for App Store only installs on OS X.
Gold and silver situation is a bit weird for me. Sure, it's got some market value in general, but how much is it worth accumulated in a single place? I believe it would be "worth more" distributed between many people. Large parts of the reserve cannot be spent, used, distributed in any significant way. So how much that gold backing part of the system really worth?

If we go in the direction of crazy theories - who can assure that the gold backing the system is actually there? ;) You have to believe a lot of the system works correctly, to believe in the value of paper money. Not saying that it's reasonable to suspect otherwise, but at the moment it seems we use money, because the government tells us it's OK to do so and what the value is. Is it really the gold backing anything in that case?
Somewhat related: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=25047

(This affects all Webkit based browsers)
It looks like a HOAX, the video doesn't show the vehicle in a test fly, or during a take off. 98% of the video either shows the vehicle going on the ground just like other non-flying cars or shows people discussing about a flying car.
No, consciousness is the sum of the brain hardware, brain software (which is malleable and not hardwired), and input. If specific input is required to produce emergent conscious behavior, we may not have that result.
Have a look into bitcoin and you'll see it's useful for things that conventional currencies aren't well suited for..
But SF hasn't, or at least I can't think of any big startups in the city, particularly that have stayed post IPO. Twitter is probably the largest at roughly 300 people.

And honestly, do the math: if Twitter goes public for $10B, and they've given 20% of the company as options to execs and employees, thats 2e9 * $.015 = $30MM. That would sure ease the pain of moving out of the city while simultaneously paying a lot less rent.
I was hoping for some pictures but....
His links to the Apple forums to "confirm" what a big deal this is:

"I have never found more than one or two in-the-wild reports. This time, the volume is truly exceptional."

I went to the forums and searched for Mac Defender, Apple Security, and Mac Protector and found a few dozen posts. Plenty of people posting straightforward solutions.

Definitely a nice piece of linkbait.
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Contact them directly and maybe that will ease your worries, but based on the amount of servers and DCs they have been adding to their network recently, I wouldn't worry about it.
It is very nice to see the notebooks. I grew up hearing stories about him from my mother, herself a math teacher. I especially remember learning about Ramanujan number 1729 at a very young age (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1729_%28number%29) and naively trying to invent my own number :-)
How so? Oauth2 still requires a web-browser part to it.
This is the tribal adoption scenario he's referring to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincaye
It shows the vehicle flying and landing. In order to be landing it must have had to take off at some point ...
I am taking exception to "Eventually every artist...". There are many who do not. Possibly even more than those who do.
Exactly. It seems pathetic to me that Google would sue over something like this.
You're probably right, and what's more, it's likely they didn't license this patent specifically, but rather it was included in a family of patents for which they negotiated a license fee.
It depends on how strictly you define "memory leak." I'm currently in the process of diagnosing a problem that causes steadily increasing memory consumption in one of our servers. Odds are that we are simply keeping a bunch of data around past the time when it should be detected as stale and expunged. If that's true, we still have pointers to the objects and know exactly where and what they are, so the memory has not been "leaked" by the strict definition that we are no longer able to access or deallocate it. Still, pending diagnosis, everyone refers to it as the "memory leak," technical and nontechnical people alike. Usually there is a lot of discussion of such a bug before the cause is detected and not so much afterwards, so there would not be much opportunity to use the term "memory leak" if it was only used postmortem. (Not to mention that true memory leaks are pretty rare nowadays except for those unfortunate enough to be programming in C.)
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Have you listened to the radio recently? ;)
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Good points. The chess-go/accountant-philosopher comparison in Shibumi was placed in the larger context of materialistic West (US) vs. inner looking East (Japan). It may have been farfetched for this thread.
Look, I'm not saying you're a bad guy or that working within the system for change is illegitimate.

My point is this: smoking while convincing others that smoking is bad makes you worse off but others better off. That's a failure of will.

But piling up millions in a trust while arguing that other rich people should be punitively taxed makes Chomsky better off but others worse off. That's hypocrisy.
I spent 3 months in Tamarindo, Costa Rica, and loved it. Rent for a nice 2 bed townhouse was $1000 but cheaper is possible. It's a surfing beach with a bit of a nightlife. Lots of europeans, I met several british people there. The food was okay, internet access was alright (1-2mbps) but sometimes unreliable. The weather is perfect during the dry season (nov-may), and apparently is tolerable during most of the wet season because the surfing is even better. It's not completely paradise though, its a poor country, drugs and petty theft is common, but altogether not too bad.
Looks like an extended version of the ultralight trike: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultralight_trike
So is this a real quantum computer? Seems like if this were legit there would be more noise about it.
Now, witness the power of this fully armed and operational battle station.
It's kind of disappointing overall, because package management has always been the solution to this kind of problem. You tell users "never install anything you don't find in the repo", but now it seems somehow tainted. I guess maybe it's that nobody cares about it until Apple can make 30% of your software's retail price through it.

I'm glad that systems are finally getting the same kind of package management that we have enjoyed on Linux for well over a decade, but it's a serious bummer that it has to come with such scammy-feeling commercialistic trappings before it can be brought to the masses. It's hard to put my finger on the feeling exactly.
>> WinPho is bad

Win Phone is fantastic but incomplete. I.e. not all the api's are there but the bits that are there work well.

I haven't used the latest xcode, but when I was developing for iPhone (2-3 years ago), it was god awful.

I haven't done android dev yet but the feedback I get from friends doing it on Windows is that it is a major PITA getting set up. ..
"A de facto currency is a unit of money that is not legal tender in a country but is treated as such by most of the populace. The United States dollar and the European Union euro are the most common de facto currencies."

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

Bitcoin could become a world de facto currency. A crypto one. That's the counter reality to the one you propose.
Yesterday's discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2555580
Interesting premise. Until I saw that it's a Sarah Lacy piece and promptly closed the tab.
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I don't think they'll ever do this (too many dev and education customers would be alienated), but if they do, I'll finally switch to Linux.
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Honeycomb is still proprietary, isn't it? And Motorola is notorious for locking down its devices so users can't control them, even if the users do have a version of software that they want to install. (Edit: glad to hear they aren't doing that on this one.)