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> Works until the malware scans the disk for keydata remnants from 'deleted' files

http://srm.sourceforge.net/

I don't use Windows but there's probably something similar for it.
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Every new web technology will be littered with security vulnerabilities. That's inherent to new technologies. The article does not make it clear for me what _inherent_ problems exist with regarding to security and WebGL.

Web workers can be silently used for data crunching. WebSockets can be used for DDoS attacks. CSS visited links could be used to know what history you have. But as the web progresses, these problems will be smoothed out. As such, the security problems with WebGL probably will be solved too.

Is it very far fetched to think Microsoft sees WebGL as a big threat to their Xbox/PC gaming/DirectX/Silverlight establishment?
Quick, somebody called to question the effectiveness of your statements when you lace them with arrogant statements! Attack them!
Actually if you read, we waived all any fees to help our winery partners. We asked for no custom work and spent large resources to help promote Scvngr with no aspirations of revenue, just to help catalyze the wine industry through digital means.

We don't operate our wineries but if you look at our bio's, we have operated at wineries and for some of the largest wine tech companies in our industry (three of which we founded).
Just wanted to let everyone know that the site is up and you can view the post at http://www.vintank.com/2011/06/why-we-abandoned-scvngr-and-y...
Their existing web interface is touch-unfriendly in a few ways, most notably when it comes to modal popovers with scrollable lists such as a page's fan list.
Thank you David.
In retrospect, that would have been a better decision.
You can check their status page at http://status.linode.com/ or drop by irc.oftc.net in the #linode channel. They also usually tweet as well.
Which, in this case, would be a quarter-inch square of electrical tape.
while op is possibly being pedantic, aren't you agreeing with him?

shin_lao is suggesting that painting itself is not an art, but a craft. what you do with the paint defines whether or not it is art.

likewise, your code can create something menial the same way it can create something artful.

being able to program makes you no more of an artist than being able to put paint on a brush. whether or not being able to put paint on a brush makes you an artist, of course, is subjective. :)
Who is it that wants to deprive content publishers of their ad revenue?

Not me - without revenue they are out of business and no content. The free stuff on the web is provided because revenue can be made in other ways. I wish people would stop trying to break it.
Looks nice, I was looking for something similar the other day, easily sharing a directory over HTTP from command line. I ended up writing a couple of very simple bash functions that added/removed the current directory to ~/Sites (I'm on a Mac). Apache did the rest.
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I'm guessing there was more to this story than just a spam complaint OR they gave you more than 4 hours
My gosh that's one of the best stories I've heard in a long time. The thing that worries me is that things like this are going to me rarer and rarer - there seems to be less interest in electronics, and less electronics that can be hack-fixed like that.
I don't know how common an example I am, but I absolutely hate interacting with Facebook on their website (even on my laptop).

I pretty much only use it via the iPhone application, so I welcome an iPad app (assuming it's laid out similarly).
Or like python?
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Wow, you don't know us at all. Thanks for your responses although they lacked in any understanding or research. If you had dug deeper you might have noticed that we have all been successful and we are both a work tank and a think tank. We have one of the most prestigious clients lists of any digital agency and a PROVEN track record for success.

To answer your statement:

A - We have led the industry for years as an innovator and we are recognized for seeing the future (and present) time and time again. At the time Scvngr seemed like the right bet.
B - We had a server error. Do you need to really troll like this?

Napa Valley has the most tourism in CA next to Disneyland and generate a tremendous amount of income. This valley (and other wine destinations) represents an incredible opportunity for the right LBS company. I think it is less about the opportunity than it is about the focus of Scvngr changing from their app to thelevelup.com.

PS - you spelled Scvngr wrong.
They don't limit it to any extent besides giving you access to 4 cores of the host instead of all of them
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I couldn't even be arsed to spell it the way they want. That's my level of enthusiasm for them. It's branding failure on their part as I live down the street from their office and see their ridiculous vinyl-wrapped Cayenne all the time.

On another note, it occurs to me that the complaint levied against Scvngr, albeit illegitimate, is quite common. Normals couldn't be expected to understand what exactly it is they're getting into when partnering with a social service, especially one who has to pivot every six months to stay in business. But to label them a flash-in-the-pan is a little too much coming from a think tank for wine producers.
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Every year I check out the ICFP problem statement to see if anyone can match the delightfulness of the ICFP 2006 Challenge (The "Cult of the Bounds Variable": http://www.boundvariable.org/).

It looks like they may have done it this year. Seeing the images of the cards with illustrations was when I really knew this year would be special.

The only thing this lacks compared to 2006 IMO is the replayability aspect. The 2006 format is a binary image that you download and explore, and when you solve puzzles it awards you points. This is an AI that pits you against fellow competition members, which is cool but doesn't have the same exploration/discovery aspect.
Sounds like you have an iPhone 3GS or 3G (since you've had it for over a year).

The iPhone 4 is much better than either of those in terms of battery life and performance. Mine lasts about two days on one charge, whereas my previous iPhone, the 3G, barely lasted a day. The new phone is also much faster.
I imagine by using the emulator:

http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/emulator...

On Android you need to deal with a greater variety of screen resolutions and other features. Thus, even if you have a device, testing on it alone is not sufficient.
"We really believed in them and made a rare mistake betting on their horse. The net net is that we picked a 'dog.'"

The real mistake was betting on game mechanics without understanding the underlying psychological principles. The vast majority of 'game mechanics' startups are con artists, and without understanding the academic research on motivational psychology you're just giving your money away.
Great idead! Call it usesthese.com.
I think the difference is Google built Android with a cloud first mentality (and still pursues that) whereas Apple approached with an App first mentality. Subsequently, Google owns in the cloud (until we see how iCloud turns out) and Apple does better on hardware because they make their own hardware and Google farms it out (some better than others). Gradually they're moving towards the middle where Apple expands into Google's territory and Google starts imposing hardware requirements (and OS software improvements) onto manufacturers to improve hardware performance.
They are hiding something from someone. That "someone" could be a) competition (unlikely), b) future investors (most likely), c) applicants (unlikely because if I talked to them I'd ask "what do you do" and the cat is out of the bag), d) No reason (maybe). e) press (unlikely - everything can be done under embargo).
1. Take this problem (with working-age Americans/First-world westerners):

2. Add 600 million Indians, 500 MM Chinese, 110 MM Americans, 100 MM Indonesians, 80+ MM Brazilians, and 40+ MM Russians under the age of 25 [1].

3. Mix thoroughly in your Internet's blender of culture and ethics.

4. Vigorously shake world economic dynamics, then allow 10 years to settle.

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This has been true, but recently RIM has moved towards a system more similar to iOS and Android than their previous products. The Playbook is the first product in this new technology stack.

I imagine that they are basing their future growth around other products based on this new stack. They are behind, but they may still catch up enough to do well. After all, if Apple has proven anything it's that execution matters a whole lot. More so even than features.

Android is a good competitor to iOS only because they have both the features and execution down well enough. Apple may still have an edge in polish, but it's diminishing.
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Don't worry, we've identified the thief! Put out an arrest warrant for: f7c956f566b11751c4d3f5ca077c0406

More seriously, it's interesting that the people who have been robbed from could observe in detail exactly where their stolen money is flowing to. So close, yet so far away.
You mean if you change from horizontal to vertical? Droid-Fu uses a two-level cache so it should handle this case relatively well: the bitmaps are weak-referenced and kept around if RAM permits, otherwise the disk is consulted.

IMO, Android handles the whole orientation thing poorly. Destroying an entire activity because the orientation changed violates the principle of least surprise.
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Naive indeed. For example, I'll call my product Onlinez. I just register the domain, create the product, and people sign up. I need to allow credit card transactions. Where does this get charged to? I need a business account (ABN) and that is all? And then sign up with on of the online credit card companies?

What if a customer is unhappy with my service? What EULA/T&C do I need to provide? I'm just trying to get my head around all basics, and make sure that when I start I start in the right spot.

Another example, I suppose twitter is a case in point. Who owns Twitter? Is that the companies only product? How do they market Company X creator of Twitter. Or the original owners would just sell Twitter itself and move on to another product?
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I think you'd be surprised at how many hackers enjoy the conveniences of Google search for a known url.
You are both these id?

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Was vintank a customer? Were they paying for any services?

Edit: the blog comments feel like Astroturf.

Edit 2: submitter looks like a sock puppet account.
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Hi Jerry - I don't know anyone who works in search quality at Google, and they have said a few times that they aren't going to make any manual exceptions. I've filed a "reconsideration request" with Google, and only got a boilerplate response saying our site has "no manual penalties". Unfortunately, any spam report, reconsideration request, or communication via the Webmaster Tools interface seemingly goes to a black hole. I wouldn't even know who to contact or how to contact them.

I can understand why they can't reveal too much about their algorithm, but at the same time if they want to build a "healthier web ecosystem" I think they have to do a better job of communicating with legitimate webmasters (this is going to be the subject of a future post). There is so much uncertainty out there that I think even legitimate site owners are afraid to speak out for fear of being punished, when instead they should be working together with Google to help improve things. It's like the attitude is: if you're doing well, don't say anything or you might draw Google's scrutiny (especially because you're probably doing something shady), and if you are doing badly don't say anything either because Google will just punish you more (because they have not told you why you have been punished in the first place). So instead people are driven to anonymous postings on random forums where wild misinformation spreads.

The intent of this post wasn't to focus on why our particular site wasn't ranking well anymore in Google, but to try to see if there were other website owners out there who feel comfortable coming out with their stories, and to share anything they may have learned. Again, there is so little real information coming from Google that most people I know have just been grasping at straws, so it would be great to hear other people's stories. I recently read about another seemingly legit site with lots of good content punished (http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=...), so there must be more of them out there.
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I'd be really interested in this if you do it! I was thinking about doing this myself for security/infrastructure questions (blog + video interviews) as a research and sales tool (I'm building a security product company), but I guess business infrastructure questions might be popular too.

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Last time I checked, chat was also disabled when accessing the web-interface on a tablet. Chat's been my most used Facebook feature for the last few months.
I thought the article was pretty clear. It's not a browser security problem, but the fact that WebGL exposes the ability for malicious code to attack bugs and issues with graphics drivers (of which there are many).

For those that don't know, WebGL follows the OpenGL ES 2.0 spec, which doesn't have a fixed function pipeline. This means that you're doing two things: defining vertex information in buffers that get sent to the graphics card, and then writing shader programs to define how those vertices are rendered. IIRC It's the shader programs and how the drivers work with sending these programs to the cards that are the biggest issue (you are writing code that gets compiled and runs directly on the hardware).

Given that the Windows 8 preview made such a huge mention of HTML5 / JS / CSS for making desktop apps, I don't think competition w/ DirectX is a part of the issue here.

Add to the article that there are already a significant number of research attacks using WebGL to take full control of a computer, I have to say that MS isn't crazy and in this case has a pretty good hold on things.
Ok, I'll bite.

In the same way that you might be applying for many jobs, the employer has to sort through many applicants. A "bullshit homework" exercise is a great way to get a calibrated measure of an applicant's abilities and code quality. It's also a great opportunity for the applicant to show off: you can write awesome documentation, implement several variations of an algorithm to see which works best, add unit tests, etc. You can also half-ass the exercise and submit something that works but is mediocre in most ways. Of course, you would not want to spend 4 hours on a problem for each of 50 job applications, but you might pick 2-3 companies that really interest you and spend more time on those. As luck would have it, those are the ones you'll most likely get offers from once you dazzle on the code test.

Open source code is awesome, and I really enjoy looking at people's GitHub pages, but it's hard to learn what you need to learn from those pages. If it's a solo project, I know that the person wrote all of the code, but many times it's not and I don't want to run "blame" on each file. It's also unclear if the code I'm looking at is an example of the person's "best" work, or what how they program day-to-day, or something else. Furthermore, the code could be in Haskell or C# or Jython or whatever, which might have nothing to do with what I'm looking for.*

On another note, the employer runs a big risk when hiring someone. They are potentially paying salary, benefits, relocation expenses, etc. If they're wrong, they lose a lot of money, team morale goes down, and they might have to spend time cleaning up after bad work instead of implementing new stuff. Asking for a small homework assignment seems like a reasonable request when the consequences of a false positive are so dramatic.

Finally, a coding test likely means one of the following:
1) the company has so many applicants that they want to set up a wall that only the really interested applicants get through.
2) the company has high standards and wants to make sure they are not making stupid hiring mistakes.

I think both of these are pros rather than cons for a potential employer.

Just my two cents..

* I realize that a good developer can learn any language, but if I'm interested in technology X, and a developer knows X and Y, then it's not as interesting to me to see what they have open sourced with Y as it would be to see what they can do with X.
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Not really the same thing. I'm saying that HN shouldn't look down its nose at reddit, since it appears to be heading the same direction. I'm taking a jab at both sites (and all sites, really).
once i wanted to serve a quick and dirty page of 200 thumbnails but python's HTTP server choked after a few people tried it concurrently. it's single threaded and just wouldn't hack it.

luckily if you have twisted installed, you can run "twistd web -n -p PORT --path ." it's just as easy as the basic HTTP server but way faster.
Some nerd corrections:

He flew a Cessna 172, which is an all-aluminum four-seat aircraft. It's not fabric-covered as the article describes, nor is it the size of a Ford Fiesta. And 172's cruise speed is ~120 kph, which is considerably faster than a Fiesta as well.
I suppose if I had tens of thousands of dollars or more in Linden Dollars, my Second Life password would be the first of my worries.

What about your passwords to your real-life bank accounts? Or logins to confidential company data? Or emails?

If you're the paranoid type and have two-factor auth for all these things, why not Bitcoin?
Ah, awesome!

(I worked on XNA while at Microsoft about a year ago)

I knew that this was happening, but didn't know they released it yet. It's my understanding that they worked crazy hard to make this secure.
For anyone thats interested, I decided to donate time to Open Home Pro. Here's a quick outline of what I looked at:

- Quick logo design and colour palette to establish a more credible brand
- Added related illustration to help sell the idea
- Moved the call to action up and made it more visible (download button)
- Restructured the content so the user understands why the app could be use before diving into more detail with the video

You can find the mockup here:
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Thanks,
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Any one else find the FTP password amusing?
The "significant whitespace" here is a space between command-line arguments. For that to qualify, you'd also have to include C as such a language.

long jmp();
longjmp();
But can Google and Mozilla ignore the security concerns that are a inherent part of WebGL?
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Not sure when that quote was made, as I can't find the date on Google, but Douglas Adams had a similar one that may predate it:
http://www.quotes.net/quote/34668
That advice usually means that you're better off shipping 5 awesome features not 10 crappy ones.
Because many people like myself think the iPhone app is a superior user experience to the desktop Facebook website and the mobile website.
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Call and position yourself however you'd like. You're a social media consultant in an industry experiencing 25% growth over the past decade. You're riding the coattails of an artificially segmented industry that produces a drug that has sold itself with little to no branding for thousands of years and whose major players are trying to grab as much market share as they can before people tire of snooty enoteca employees and they stop overpaying for labels they know nothing about. Anyone can be successful when people are throwing money at you, Paul.

And yet you fail to understand a basic point:

Scvngr isn't playing their little games any more because there's no money in it.

And you don't understand the technology industry. One look at Scvngr's about page would've clued you in.
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Hey, but my field is computer science!!! ;D

But to be honest, programming isn't black magic here. Not in an university. Music majors have to learn CSound, PureData and Max/MSP. Visual artists need Processing and Quartz Composer. Architects here have programming on the first semester (some of them wrote some badass Blender scripts in python). And that's just the ones I know.

Oh, and since I mentioned music software, a good portion of the indie audio-plugin community (the ones that gather around www.kvr-audio.com) is made of musicians, ex-musicians and the sort. Ableton Live (a game-changer in music software) was started by a german duo called Monolake.

I believe Zed's point is that there's a lot of potential for programmers outside of computer science and corporate software. Domain knowledge can lead to amazing things.
I'd personally change that to "human beings need to learn statistics or I will kill them all".
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It's also tremendously easy to detonate a bomb on American soil a kill a lot of people. Yet they're still strip searching small children and hammering us with radiation at the airport.

I don't think they care much about logic....
I routinely work with vendors who make non-contractual promises, where the only recourse is damage to their reputation and the probable loss of me as a client if they break them.

Not everything needs to be a contract or a lawsuit. Sometimes it's fine to take a man at his word, and then simply tell him to walk away if his word is no good.
I have a Droid2 (from a conference) and a borrowed Galaxy Tab 10.1.

I really want to use my music app, but it's still really new and doesn't yet have autosync to keep my content up to date. Once we get that, who knows?