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I like it; better yet, if you can host live demos (it doesn't have to real rails apps, it can just be html)
To play devil's advocate, the original policy was nearly* unambiguously good for users of Apple devices: same content, same price or cheaper, without having to give your payment information to a 3rd party.

*with the very large caveat that it drove (and would have continued to drive) competitors out of the market decreasing customer choice & ultimately innovation. It's possible (though, I think, unlikely) that they didn't really know the extent to which this would throw developers large and small into a tizzy. Hence a lot of the confusion about SaaS etc.
And my point is that's wrong.

Things aren't that black and white, it's not a case of 100% good or 100% bad.

While the ideal would be that they'd got it right first time, it's clearly better that they correct their mistakes than continue with them.

And we should praise people for doing things that make things better because they should have the greatest possible incentive for doing so.
"starting an organic is not cheap"

You mean garden, right? Not farm?
A garden is very much a kind of "do only as much as you feel like doing" kind of thing.

I have a mini garden, which I suppose is more or less organic by default, because I don't fertilize (or buy soil for that matter), with chemicals or otherwise. I had a big compost bin already -- it was there when we moved in -- so I dumped a bunch of the soil from the bottom of that into some planters, plugged in seedlings for tomatoes and peppers from the supermarket plus a few basil plants, and just watered those now & again. At one point I put in stakes and tied the plants to them to protect them from getting blown over, but otherwise that was all the work (beyond harvesting the veggies when they were ready).

We also have fruit trees and berry bushes, which are even better -- it doesn't work out every season (sometimes there's a late frost that kills the cherries, etc.) but every year we get at least something -- sometimes an overwhelming amount of either cherries, apples, figs, kiwis, raspberries, red currants, and some other kind of berry who's name I can never remember but is sort of like a big raspberry. It's important to pick trees/bushes that are relatively "native" to your area so they won't require much care (our fig is a bit too far north for its liking, unfortunately, so the fruit isn't often ripe in time), but otherwise it's easy going.

Final note: ideally find a neighbor or two who already has a garden going. You can research how to grow anything online, but there's such a glut of information -- often focused on people with more spare time than you may have, and often based on a different region than yours -- that it's much easier if you have someone local you can ask for advice.
I use a similar approach. I have three folders I sort all mail into (Archive, ToDo, Followup). With one keystroke any new messages get sent to the proper folder and my task list simply consists of my ToDo email folder.
Why would they change your password? That just lets you know they are in. In Gmail, they simply search your email for other accounts and change the passwords on those accounts. They can see when you are logged in and simply send password reset requests for other services when you are not logged into gmail.
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Are file-systems on the way out?
"Bill Esbeck, executive director of the Wisconsin State Telecommunications Association, was quoted on Channel3000 saying that WiscNet should be allowed to run only without financial support from the University of Wisconsin."

This man speaks sense. Why throw away all the money already invested in this? I can only imagine that someone has a stake in the other internet service providers in the area and wants to increase their profits.

As for the $39million in grants... Taking them back after granting them is playing foul. Especially as they've apparently already spent some of the money. How are they supposed to trust grants when they can be pulled out from under them at any time? It's going to lead to stupidity like putting grants in the bank until they're sure the grant won't be stolen back, instead of using the grant to improve education.
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Disclosure #2: I work at Phonebooth and this is not some clever ploy.
I will probably end up doing the same I did for dapper and maintain both
Easy. Don't try and make a store that will turn a profit that same summer, use it to build connections. Throw a party/conference/hack-a-thon once every couple of weeks, maybe even some sort of tournament. By the end of summer, you will know everybody in your area that shares the same interest as you, and will never have problems finding work/co-workers/advisors. Those connections will be far more valuable long-term than whatever profit maximizing scheme you can think of and implement over a 2-3 month span
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Exactly, those clients should simply learn to do some background checks on these companies verifying their projects log(un/successful). But as said somewhere else, if the project is "golf course software" common sense doesn't apply.
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This is very old.
Copied from another HN comment, but if this is true it'd explain why there's so much furor about it on the boards:

> yardie 36 minutes ago | link

> From what I remember it used the published APIs which Apple then unpublished and rejected his app. This is why the story got so much traction in the first place. If it was another developer doing cool things with unpublished APIs it would have been sold through one of the other appstores and that would have been the end of it.
> Fair enough, but I don't see companies going away, as you still need someplace to invest capital/pool resources to be spent, to create large-scale projects, whether they're created by employees or by freelancers.

I think he's saying those sorts of investments will be fewer and further between.
I don't think it's a good analogy. You have procedures for protecting sensitive data. This was not sensitive data, even if it appeared to be to a naive viewer, so the procedures were not followed. This does not imply anything about the security of sensitive data.
How can one implement game logic and AI in CSS?
I thought CSS can do nothing much other than styling except mouse hover property which gives some interactive elements without JS.
Microsoft used to take on little companies too and either buy them out or run them out of business with any means necessary. If you wait too long they get hard to kill.
Isn't it about time a registry of 'Known Trolls' was created in order to gather information about their operation(s) and their patents. This would allow others to begin the process of gathering prior art and with legal help submitting same to the idiots at the Patent Office.
>"I can't find any that are listed as active in the U.S. arsenal"

Nuclear torpedoes usually sink two ships - one of them is the target.
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That website is terribly annoying. Please don't post things like that.
You are. Only one though.
Client pay for predictably mediocre. It's a scale: pay $X and get Y% probability of the project being done by D date. Of course they don't even get that; in practice, Accenture are as unpredictable as any large-scale software development effort. So rather than mediocre yet safe, you get mediocre, and late, and over budget. LOLZ on you! Or on your poor shareholders/taxpayers more like.
Id the feds are against it, I'm for it...
The subcontracting thing alone should be enough to never have anything to do with a company that does it, but usually the clients don't even know/suspect.

Edit: What about the downvotes? is subcontracting a good thing for the client (or for the small consultancies, that could become completely dependent on the contracts from the big players) or something that should be encouraged?
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Thanks everyone! Great suggestions and very encouraging... I'll have to sort out priorities/what to do next and find some more spare time to work on this :)
>>HP also said today that it will be partnering with AT&T to introduce a connected version of HP TouchPad later this summer. No details yet, but stay tuned.
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I agree it would be much more useful if there were ratings and comments.

Overall though it does seem like it has the potential to be quite useful.
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Seriously. It actually checks that you've completed one of the surveys! And checks for ad-blocking the wedget to prevent page load.

There is no way its content is worth all the hassle.
The same news from a source that doesn't fade out the content and put a pop-over, or pop up messages as you try to leave the page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13711528
Nice, but seems to me that a thorough study of Knuth V-1-4 plus computational Mathematics might be a better approach. Then cherry pick the offered list.
Although it might be considered "Pro"-European, I think

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

is a good book on the topic of US and European differences.
> The reason it won't work any more is because that style of 'total war' appears to have gone out of style.

The effect of nukes not withstanding, I think 66 years is too short of a history to say that "total war" has gone out of fashion.
It'd be neat if it texted me when suspicious activity occurred, rather than just the in-Gmail alert.
About 2 months ago my citi card was charged for various things originating in L.A. and also small purchases online such as netflix. I was in possession of the card the whole time. Citibank refunded me all the charges.
Pusher seems very expensive for the number of connections supported per tier.
You really equate continual physical and mental abuse with unfavourable trade practices?

Each to their own I guess.

EDIT: My point is that it's a bad metaphor not because there are no links between the two but, as with most heavily emotive metaphors, it comes with too much baggage which distracts from the intended message.

A metaphor doesn't have to be a perfect match for what it's describing but the broad content and emotional tone should be similar and here I think it's hard to justify that this is the case.
7:50 - arrive at work, turn on Windows workstation
7:51 - get coffee, greet co-workers
8:10 - workstation finally up, check overnight logs

You know you can just leave your windows computer on all night too, it will eventually enter sleep mode anyway (takes a few seconds the next day to "wake up") :)
dude can you please re check it :)
I should qualify the question with a little more detail:

Are user-visible and user-manipulable file-systems on the way out?
website looks fine to me.
can you tell me the things which bother you?
This simile sucks all of the air out of the discussion by invoking deeply emotional responses. Is that where you wanted to take it?
If you hit a site like that when looking at a news story, just slap the keywords from the headline into Google News to find many copies of the same information in a less irritating package, such as the BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13711528 in this case).

I would search the BBC directly but the last few times I've tried their search feature has failed to find the relevant story when an external search provider (Google in my case) found it easily...
This is actually a fantastic feature. I was recently traveling in Europe, and without thinking logged into Facebook without HTTPS (using a third-party iframe app that couldn't use HTTPS). Within a few hours, I had a notification from FB letting me know that there was a new login from the same city I was in and a different OS/web browser combo.
I see the founders are also doing http://new-bamboo.co.uk/

if Pusher got funding, does that mean they have to leave new bamboo and panda?
I like how he has ones like 'tag1', 'tag2', 'tag3' and also 'tags'
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This fact drives me insane. It's theoretically possible to write a perfect piece of software that can never fall down, break, blow up, etc. But it's actually pretty much impossible in practice unless you have either near unlimited resources (NASA in the 60's), but even with that you still might fail (Microsoft).
I think the key difference is whether or not it's a big, winner take all market. If it is, then you pretty much have to get all the funding you possibly can and grow as fast as you can as Amazon and Ebay did. Jeff Bezos has written about how he was aware of the damage such rapid growth inflicted on company culture and how difficult it made managing the company. But, in that sort of market, it was the only way to go.

For a small niche or for a market such as fast food that isn't winner take all, the lifestyle business is possible and probably preferable. VWO is a medium sized "winner take most" market, so it's reasonable that they're following a hybrid path.
I guess that real-time has lost its original meaning in computing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing
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I wonder when corporations will start taking true computer security seriously? Because it seems to me that companies just aren't. Toyota, Sony, Citibank, that construction company who allowed their computers to be compromised and thus have hundreds of thousands of dollars stolen.

It's a good time to be a hacker in the classic unlawful sense. Because of that, these events are only going to get worse and more frequent.
CMU undergrad CS curriculum revised, overview & detailed report
overview:
http://www.cmu.edu/news/archive/2011/May/may2_introcompsci.shtml

detailed report:
http://link.cs.cmu.edu/files/ugrad-report.pdf
That doesn't help much if they gained access to your Facebook through your hacked email account.
Silly question, why do you eat at your desk? And do you actually type in any code, or do you just look at your code and think about stuff in your mind?

It seems like you take breaks outside, but for me there's nothing like taking 30 mins to have lunch _at_ a table to clear your mind.
Well it looks like they have already done something better than all their non-Apple competitors - instead of rushing it out half finished they seem to have waited until it's done. Given the biggest complaint about webos on the phone was the power of the processor this stands a good chance of being a nice product. fingers crossed for them

(I'm unlikely to give up my iPad given iCloud now but there really should be a decent competitor in the market place)
((and by decent I mean something a casual purchaser will be happy with and not a tablet that is good enough to make someone happy who pointedly doesn't want to buy Apple and will put up with all sorts))
>this also means Fedora doesn't use LVM by default anymore

Uh, that's pretty big. How will I resize partitions on the fly?
I apologize for not talking about the main topic here but I have to say what an obnoxious website! I can't read the article because it says:

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When I try to close the tab, it asks me "Help keep this content free. Please take one minute to complete a SPAM-free market research survey to gain access to this special content. Are you sure you want to leave?"

YES. Especially when I can read it easily on http://techland.time.com/2011/06/09/now-citibank-hacked-thou...

If annoying your visitors and harassing them into taking ridiculous surveys is the only way to keep your site running, your business plan is seriously flawed.
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I mined 100 bitcoins last year after reading a HN article. Now the mining difficulty requires a dedicated mining rig, but I would rather simply purchase more and day-trade at Mt Gox.
Probably not since I too have encountered people who use this as an excuse for anything.
That's a separate issue. The article, IMHO, both maligns the MIT hackers (saying they were more malicious than they were) and then draws incorrect parallels between the MIT hackers of then and the hackers/crackers of today.
Nessus? I never tried it but i think it's what you are looking for.

http://www.tenable.com/products/nessus
This state continues to follow the Ned Ludd (Luddite) model, I can only hope that they all meet the same result.
Fantastic. Pusher is an awesome product that eliminates the headaches associated with building a real-time product. I'll never build a chat with polling again. I use it for my website and haven't had any problems (well one, but it was mostly caused by my inexperience with rails)

The best part is the pricing, especially for startups. 20 concurrent users for free is a big number. Compare it to something like MailGun, and it seems like $20/month gets you a lot more value.
It's the "by default" that's important. You can still use lvm to resize your partitions. But resizing volumes within the btrfs partition will be done by the btrfs tools.
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Planned the whole time?

1) Apple introduces a strict requirement for using IAP with a deadline

2) All the devs who were planning to comply to keep their apps in the store have likely done the work integrating IAP already

3) Apple reverses policies

4) Devs have the option to drop IAP in their apps but it's not likely that many will IMO
As far as I'm aware (I'm friends with the founders) they have hired someone to run New Bamboo (Rails Consultancy) and have also merged their other SaaS product Panda (http://pandastream.com - Video Encoding) with another US company.

So the founders full focus is on the Pusher product. Most, if not nearly all investors tend to want you to put in professional management in a service business and spin off the product to a separate company before investing large amounts of seed capital.
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Only checking for a bug reminds me of the Intel bug that they claimed would hardly ever happen, but turned out to happen a LOT.

I don't ignore bugs. I follow the same first step, and send the standard list of things to try like reinstalling, rebooting, etc. But if they still have it, I always look into it. Almost every time it's been a real bug. Some were really hard to track down, but would have caused a lot of grief later. I was always glad I did it.
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> I'm locked-in and I have to perpetually "agree" to whatever Apple comes up with.

If it bothers you, get out before you are locked in further. Stop buying new content via Apple's store, don't buy any more Apple (or Apple licensed) products and buy yourself something else to replace the functions the device has for you.

If the people who don't like being locked in but just accept it anyway and keep paying, Apple will never change as they won't need to. People like me who refuse to even join the game obviously don't seem to be a concern for them.
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I am a fan of the Android notifications but I have told that the webOS ones are even better! This should be an interesting device all in all.
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Hrm. Dan Goodin. I recognize that name. This is the same author who published an article on The Register with the title "Skype bug gives attackers root access to Mac OS X", which was factually incorrect. He corrected the headline after much hoopla, but it strikes me that Mr. Goodin is a professional link-baiter.

The title has it backwards. Isn't WiFi sync a fairly obvious feature that Apple has likely had in the works for quite some time?

Based on what I've read, this sync app was only possible because of some low-level sync frameworks that were already present in iOS. The feature wasn't ready by Apple Standards, but Apple didn't want a poor implementation of what should be a system-level feature in the wild. One could argue that the rejection of his app was an act of protecting the user experience. This is something Apple does regularly. If you don't want the protection, you should head over to another platform.

Acting shocked at any of these facts just shows that you haven't been paying attention.
You're assuming that the attacked hasn't hidden his IP (i.e. Tor) or is in a country that will actually give a crap (i.e. not Russia/China).
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Thought this as soon as I saw the question
Beware of metaphors when trying to understand computer issues. What happened (assuming this is the truth) is that a useless key was left on a public server in a public directory, and it could be downloaded by anybody, at which point it is useless. There is no helpful physical analogue to this situation. Just understand it as it is directly, it's not that complicated.

Your metaphor clouds the issue, it does not bring understanding. "Breaking in" to a computer network doesn't give you access to a "whole house", and what occurred wasn't a break in, there's no part of that metaphor that actually helps you understand the situation.

At best this shows a bit of carelessness, but then, a useless, expired key doesn't necessarily require much care in handling, either. The only damage here is PR, if what the company says is true.
WebOS notifications are nice because you can swipe away individual notifications. But they also take up more screen than on Android (which matters because Palm/HP loves tiny phones). I'd say it's a push overall.
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1. is indeed quite a problem. It would detect most people rummaging idly through the web interface, but not much more.

2. is not quite relevant. I'd say the idea is to know that someone has accessed the email. Not who. As long as you can be sure that it's not yourself, something bad is happening anyway.