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There's been a great deal of talk about the need for open medical journals — it's s small movement but I hope it really takes off. Not only would you be able to get much more info, but it could be free — which can open that info up to wider and even non-professional audience.
Please don't punish the citizens for what our idiot politicians do. I didn't vote for them anyway. :(
RSA to their eternal discredit did not recommend replacement

Is that just your assumption? I believe everyone who received guidance from RSA on the subject was asked to sign a non-disclosure, but I think some of them might be surprised to hear you say that.
Ask HN: Visiting San Francisco in September, recommend startup event?
Hi,

I am..

* currently in London

* working at a startup

* as a developer, market engineer, and entrepreneur

Planning to

* Check out Silicon Valley sometime in September, for 2 weeks,

* planning to meet as many people as possible

* tapping into the startup energy.

Can you recommend an event around this time, where I can do this in a scalable fashion?

Many thanks in advance.
Except that ads are not a core aspect of anything. Businesses don't need (many) ads if they can get targetted access to customers through other means (ie Facebook, Groupon). Applications don't need ads if they can get funding from other means (ie micropayments, app store dollars), and customers don't need ads, especially if they can become aware of interesting products in other ways (forums for the like-minded, such as reddit). Ads in the way that Google is selling them may be a declining market to dominate.
There are quite a few countries we may wish to ban from the internet, but if we follow through with such desires we'll find that there is no internet left...
All those things you mention are exportable, and yahoo/msn/apple could write an importer against these APIs to make it easy.
Ah, right, that makes sense. Well then someone should put together a rainbow table of collisions with actual songs, haha.
There are so many instances where non-mathematical variables play an important role in authoring security conscious code. Yes, most security issues arise from not checking edge cases, but you have to know what they are. Mathematics will surely adapt you into thinking about this practically, but it will never teach this.
Todd Rundgren is an actual rock star (with a certified gold LP.)

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Since the article references Bruce Schneier, he gave an interesting TED talk where he once again describes the usability/security tradeoff and how humans are very poor (because of hardwiring) perceivers of risk. This might also be why one needs to be "trained" to get a security mindset.

http://www.ted.com/talks/bruce_schneier.html
Absolutely. But the more they say things like "post-pc", having removed the word "Computer" from their company name, and that the tablet shares an OS with the phone, but not their PC, all together would begin to make a case.

I just think they'd be prudent to be cautious.
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Funny thing that, I'm holding a SecureID token in my hand right now, having just remoted into the corp network via VPN.

Thanks RSA.
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thank you for the feedback. Fb-Like and Re-tweet promotes the post itself rather than the author. ( Of course it links back to author profile or blog post but not directly ). In our system "thank you" messages will be linked to author which will accumulate a score and will help indicate the influence of the author. In other words the user will be in the center vs the content.
I find this interesting:

You list the following as your "biggest trouble" with agile-
"hey you promised functionality X by date Y"

But that's not an agile contract! So, your biggest trouble with agile is being contractually prohibited from doing it, which is more a problem with the contract than with agile.

Also, the consultant dude explained velocity wrong. Velocity is how you measure the amount of work your team got done this time so you can plan how much you are going to do next time...
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They could similarly expose intents like Android does as well.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2041512
Of course Steve doesn't walk on water. The engineers do. Seriously though, iCloud is a major undertaking and it's unclear whether it'll work as advertised. 200+M devices getting synced daily is quite a feat.
In fairness, the majority of Android, as well as many of the smartphones it runs on, are cloned directly from Apple. Android phones were going to look totally different before the iPhone was unveiled in 2007.
Excellent! I've been holding off on renewing my Netflix subscription for just this reason. Maybe it's time to reactivate?
This doesn't make any sense. Netflix will not (cannot) stream anything without DRM protection due to licensing agreements. The video element from HTML5 obviously doesn't have any mechanisms for content protection. Perhaps Netflix is producing a NPAPI video player plugin for Linux browsers but that would mean they are not using the HTML5 video element.
Absolutely. It is with experience we start noticing the various niches that exist where we can add value and make profit out of it.

For example one of the first companies I worked for does online auction of "excess inventories". He was 34 or 35 years old when he started. The problem they were solving is an inherently big issue in manufacturing companies - liquidating excess scrap & other inventory. He identified a niche & built an online platform that gives these companies a much wider reach and platform to avoid cartels so they get much better valuation of their scrap.

Without experience it would have been hard for someone to make note of such a niche & diligently work on it. I remember it took him more than 5 to 6 years to evangelize & introduce the concept of online auction in a developing market like India. But he stuck with it and is doing more than 25+ million USD worth transactions now each year.
Github has also remedied that in their 3rd version of the API. For example, their issues comments collection is exposed through the URI /repos/:user/:repo/issues/comments/:id

That could be related to their decision to use only JSON as the interchange format though.
Remember, this is mainly pushed by those living by the profit in the public markets and not by individual scientists.

I don't believe that this group needs this caveat, but having worked in two research labs, I know that some people do have the belief that it is "liberal scientists" deliberately misleading the public.
>> What's the lock in?

I never said there was lock-in with this new update, I was pointing out what I perceived to be one of the biggest reasons your comment was down-voted.

From the brief bits and pieces I've read about this, I've heard of nothing so far that smells like lock-in. And I'm by no stretch an Apple fanboy either.
When twitter announced changes in their policies, you had said you will be concern about startups which are building on it.

Will you say you are now more concerned about startups (YC or not) which are building innovative apps for iOS?
I think the argument goes more like: When somebody else starts making better phones, computers, blah blah... You, and many other users will be so far locked in, you won't be able to switch.

Remember Microsoft?
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Accidental misleading is somehow better?

There's a lot of funding from the public trough and a lot of funding from the private trough, to say that one corrupts less is to misunderstand economics.

The private companies have pens, trinkets and buffets, the public companies have the school system, the army, the justice system, FDA, IRS, CIA, FBI, DEA, ATF and the police. If I wanted to mislead and force my will upon doctors I'd certainly take the latter over the former.
So's YouTube. It's also free and available worldwide.
Full screen apps? Seriously? Maybe they made sense on a 15" screen, but when I have dual or triple 20" monitors, I'd want to punch any developer that wants their app to run in fullscreen.

I don't like the trend I'm seeing.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110525181418.ht...

"The authors noted that the benefits, while large, were not as massive as previous researchers have suggested, and the side effects were also not as rare as first thought. In the short-term about 1 in 6 people experienced a side effect. Most were mild but about 1 in 20 overall stopped treatment due to side effects, indicating that treatment is best targeted to those at raised risk of disease."

British Medical Journal publications on the issue:

http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d3355.short?rss=1
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I would argue the opposite: The "security is mathematics" mindset leads to overall system designs that are often less secure. How? The mathematically inclined security experts fail to incorporate (mathematically fuzzy) human factors such as usability and carelessness.

Typical example: Require users to change a password once/month and there's a maximum of one month's time when a password thief has access to an account. True enough. So what do users do (and let's thrown in a requirement for at least one capital letter, at least 1 digit, at least one symbol, 9 character minimum)?

Month 1: Charlie1!

Month 2: Charlie2!

Month 3: Charlie3!

Month x: Charliex!

Meanwhile, formulations for password security that strike a reasonable balance between security and usability (and thus actually get used) are rejected immediately because of mathematical edge cases.

Here's my formulation for a balanced security approach for home users:

"Use a password manager to assign unique, random 15 character passwords for all accounts, protecting them with a strong master password."

I can think of quite a few edge cases where this system will fail. Keystroke logging is the most obvious. In actual practice, there has not yet been a case of a password database being breached due to keystroke logging the master password (at least not among the market-leading password managers).

In actual practice, taking into account human factors, this system is more secure than that practiced by the vast majority of end users. And far more secure than rotating Charliex! passwords.
It seems the author is missing the forest for the trees. It's not iOS 5 itself that is threatening apps, and not just apps. It's the entire Apple ecosystem which includes iOS 5, OS X Lion and iCloud versus everything else. With iCloud being free, and with iOS 5 being deeply integrated with Twitter, Apple is giving Google and FB the finger. No more indexable data through web crawlers.
I groan at iGroan because it's a bad pun, but Stallman's position seems more or less sound. DRM sucks.

This article from the EFF is too brief and poorly annotated to really lead me to any conclusions on its own. I would like to read a fully fleshed out position paper/article on the deficiencies of the PROTECT IP act. Anyone know of one?

edit: Found this from the EFF themselves:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/05/plus-ca-change-protect...

They link to the bill itself which is only 30 pages. It is pretty poorly thought out.
> Apple gets away with it because their spread makes sense to regulators

I'm not sure it's that. I think it's just that their strategy of only ever targeting the top 20% most profitable customers means they never broach market shares that make them a threat to competition by the conventional measures used by regulators.
This is something that i wpuld like to learn also. Is your trip already planned? How much does it cost?
>>EDIT: Re-read the original rejection of the Camera+ featur

It's kind of insane that they wrote that blog post explaining what other developers are doing (and the penalties they face for doing it) and then turned around and included "Volumesnap" through a back-door anyway. So yes, they're quite lucky they were able to resubmit the app later. There's no doubt they knew exactly what they were doing.
If you have a link from a https page to a http page, including say to twitter, you will get a warning. Once you are on your https page, if you go back to your other pages, they will also show up using https, so it gets that much harder.
Why? They have not engaged in any illegal practices—at least as far as anyone here knows—to secure this position, and the tablet market is in its infancy.

This is something that people continously get wrong. What are perfectly legal practices for a non-monopoly may no longer be legal once you're a monopoly.

For example, if Apple had a monopoly on mobile phones it might be illegal for them to block "replicated" functionality in their app store. Today its perfectly legal, but in a monopoly situation, its not.

For example, one of the things that MS was accused of was not allowing OEMs to put Netscape shortcuts on the desktop. If Windows wasn't a monopoly that's a perfect fine requirement. And as it stands today, Apple has strict requirements for what can get preinstalled on their phone/tablet by carriers -- virtually nothing.

Another thing MS was accused of by Netscape was withholding technical information. Apple does this today. In fact the Camera+ app, not only had to find technical information w/o docs, but once it did find the information, Apple removed their app from the app store. Imagine if MS removed Netscape once Netscape found the info they were looking for.

MS was also accused of "Giving Internet Explorer Away". All of these new features in iOS are basically free. Again, giving away something at below "cost" is fine if you're not a monopoly, but might be illegal when you are one.

MS was also accused of making it difficult (financially or technically) to remove IE. Again, you can't remove IE in WP7 or Safari in iPad, AFAIK. Both perfectly legal.

Now I'm not saying MS was in the clear. They were in fact a monopoly and did these things. My point though is that Apple is treading this line with the iPad. With the iPhone they're too small of a market. But with the iPad being the dominant tablet (by a huge margin), they're behavior, which would be perfectly legal for the iPhone, is now questionable.
Nope. Security is primarily social science and engineering. Mathematical training can help [and of course is crucial for areas like cryptography] but it's far from the only way to get a security mindset.
Could someone explain in layman's terms what exactly the PROTECT IP act proposes to do? I'm not much for politico speak and don't really have the time to rummage through the entire text myself to figure it out.
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2222191
This is something I'm actively working on.

There's a lot of entrenched interests blocking this kind of innovation, but several disruptive forces at work (like massive iPad adoption amongst physicians) are enabling interesting approaches.
Ask HN: How to "fire" an app co-developer?
I just launched a technical e-book, and I have been in talks for a month with a developer in the space to put together an app. Recently, I was approached by another - better - app developer in the field, who has a more powerful platform, better design prowess, and better rapport with me.
I haven't done much work with the first developer, but he knows the second - I don't want to cause a stink, but I know the second developer will help me make a much better product. Any advice for how to do this?
My comment was not meant to change the direction of anything or to disparage the efforts of a community which helps me earn a living.

It was simply to illustrate that linux is not yet an alternative to piracy.
I hope people who read this story are not just upvoting it but also signing the petition/form.

Politicians sticking their noses in technology is like a pshychopathic criminal with a machine gun. They don't have a clue what they are doing and what consequences thereof will be.
My feeling is that it makes sense for some apps, but not for others. Safari is often an app that people use maximized (even pre-Lion/Win8).

iPhoto? Sure. iChat? Not so much.

Plus that is three whole apps you can run at once on your setup... ;-)
Makes sense. CSCO found out as much recently. Chambers set up boards and councils to have collaborative leadership of technology groups rather than top down management. Reports are it led to less accountability and, I imagine, a "loafing" effect.

Two years later and the stock has lost half its value, market share is slipping away. So now the boards and councils are being vaporized... along with a few thousand employees.
This is nitpicky, but shouldn't the title (on Ars I guess, since it was used verbatim) be "was compromised" since this was a one-time data theft that rendered all currently-live SecurID tokens useless?
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Hm, defense contractors were attacked, and it's taken so long for RSA to acknowledge the compromise to the rest of the world? It's was most definitely perpetrated by a government, and it's taken so long for them to respond because our government has been assessing the damage.
What I'd like to see is a tiling window manager to go along with the full screen apps. I love XMonad on Linux, but some apps just don't work very well. Maybe if applications are written to be full screen they'll work well tiled.
If .NET has a place in first-class Windows 8 development, why is Microsoft remaining silent about it? Journalists who follow Microsoft, like Mary Jo Foley, have covered the internal strife over .NET. Reportedly, the Windows division just doesn't believe in it for desktop development.

The idea that .NET is going to be replaced by HTML5 and JavaScript is absolutely ridiculous.

VB6 developers probably wouldn't have believed that Microsoft would kill it off either, but they did.
Tell that to all the Windows users who think they're not really using an app until it's fully maximized to the entire width of their 20" display. Somehow it never seems to occur to them that stretching the background of a fixed-width layout (e.g., most web site designs) to cover all other running apps is actually reducing the amount of visible information on the screen. This is probably why the same subset of misguided individuals cannot understand why the zoom widget in the Mac OS doesn't simply "maximize" a window. Often, the best way to display the most data on the screen at once is to make each window as small as possible without clipping content. That Apple has relented on this point is unfortunate.
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A domain name server(DNS) is what leads you to a particular website, For example when u type http://news.ycombinator.com its forwarded to your ISP DNS and from there it is forwarded to the IP of Hacker news. This new act if passed will have let them have control over all the DNS servers of ISP's. That means the site which they dont want you to see get blocked easily.
You might say it's slimy, but turning it on its head (and without looking at the new APIs, etc.): Apple realised with Camera+ that there was a need for a physical button for taking a picture, the inclusion in iOS5 of this feature means that all camera apps (presumably) get the ability to use the physical button, rather than the camera apps hacking it in.

Again, I don't know if Apple is opening this up, so I won't describe it as slimy or not.

Someone like Red Pop [1], however, might be worse off though...

Edit: Re-reading the rejection notice from your link [2], it seems clear that Apple won't be able to reject people based on that clause again. At least, using the volume button for camera now seems to be pretty standard (IANAL so YMMV).

[1] http://www.red-pop.com/

[2] »Your application cannot be added to the App Store because it uses iPhone volume buttons in a non-standard way, potentially resulting in user confusion. Changing the behavior of iPhone external hardware buttons is a violation of the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement. Applications must adhere to the iPhone Human Interface Guidelines as outlined in the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement section 3.3.7«
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The private companies have pens, trinkets and buffets

They have far more than that, which is the whole point of the article.
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But enough idiot American citizens did, and those idiots have indirect control over much of the world's IT infrastructure. Too much.

But what organizational body can take control? The UN? I don't think the Internet would be any safer in anyone else's hands.
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I'm concerned with Apple's access to my data and was hoping they would offer a way to do encrypted storage with self-managed keys. They have, in the past, played up their privacy edge over Google, so it wasn't out of the question. But it was still wishful thinking because it's incredibly difficult to do while maintaining the "just works" quality that is so crucial to them.

I hope their opt-out is granular enough that I can still use the parts of iCloud that don't make me uncomfortable.
Many of the Mac sites have been running retrospectives on past Stevenotes leading up to this one. I ended up re-watching a number of them, and in particular a Q&A session Steve did when he returned to Apple (when Gil was still CEO, and the Clone Saga was ongoing) was extremely interesting. He basically blasted the Newton's usability and described the problems the iPhone solves, and that was just about 5% of the total talk.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LEXae1j6EY
You seem to be having chain issues. Consult back with your SSL provider for documentation on how to install any intermediate certificates.

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Could some one please elaborate on vim Vs PyCharm?
I mean pros and cons?
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I think this feature has been long since over due in Google calendar and i'm pretty excited to give it a whirl.... still waiting on android calendar API support from Google. :/

I would check out OHours, its actually been a pretty neat way to to set up office hours for myself and allow others to sign up and come meet me. http://ohours.org/
I really think that real, full-fledged applications will still be written in whatever languages are available today. All of this fear is IMHO just plain FUD

The issue is that those apps will be relegated to the crufty, legacy desktop tile while the first-class apps get to appear on the new shell.
Agreed. I'm guessing they are using the term HTML5 rather loosely here. They may have incorporated some other aspects of HTML5, but I don't see how <video> could be part of what they are planning to deliver.
PyCharm also has excellent JavaScript support:
http://www.jetbrains.com/editors/javascript_editor.jsp?ide=p...

This, the IDE's cross platform support and the IdeaVIM plugin have basically converted me back to an IDE toting developer again.