skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking yesterday that the real secret of Apple's success is their obsessive focus on the end-user experience. Google's gone far on technical prowess alone but I think it's clear which philosophy the market rewards best.
a fusion between nethack and minecraft (and the sims) is a good description I feel.
I hope Google+ brand pages are easier to set up than Facebook's. First of all, your brand cannot have an account of its own. So you have to create a brand page via your own, personal account. Or maybe it can have its own account but that account can't be used as a usual Facebook account. Anyways. You got to select a proper category for your brand/company and this is confusing because there are many categories that overlap and it's not clear what kind of effect this has on your brand page. I've setup several comapny/brand pages and get equally confused each time. And you know what, Facebook? I create a specific account for each brand because that's what makes most sense.
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Dwarf fortress was started in 2002. Scala didn't even exist then did it?
Ok, Gruber's answer is probable, maybe even correct. But what exactly is Jobs responding to[1] here? Not the ramblings of a tabloid magazine, but the reporting of a world-class newspaper. And before we band together behind a blogger it's worth at least considering exactly why (or if) his position is better.

Where the WSJ seems to have black-box-trusted someone else's expertise, Gruber seems to depend only on facts that he has a good command of. In other words, yes, it's easy to side with Gruber here (I know I do), but the problem is that even if he has actually named the correct successor, in at least one crucial aspect of the debate, he is still wrong: it is a disservice to the transformation Apple will have to undergo to simply name the CEO. Who's next is an important fact, but it is not the most important fact.

One thing to notice here is that Apple is a huge and complicated machine, and from the perspective of the CEO who knows all of this, it must seem absolutely precious that people like Gruber, and organizations like the WSJ believe they have a firm grasp on what's going on internally. In a lot of ways, this seems to have inspired the "Hogwash" comment, and on a darker note, it suggests something about the discussion as a whole: that the important bits, the descriptive and interesting bits, the more useful bits, lie in a discussion about what Apple should decide to be post-Jobs. What goals are realistic? What can and can't it be?

The work here is paving the way for who's next, and ensuring that there are clear objectives. THIS is the discussion worth having; points about who the next CEO are subsidiary, and only useful insofar as they give us information about these important questions.

[1] Particularly with his "Hogwash" comment.
Edit: This is COMPLETELY INCORRECT (as pointed out by wallflower) but left for context.

I can't test right now, but if your phone has ADB enabled, can't you pull this file over USB? I could be totally, totally off on that, though.
In the mean time, be sure to enable two-factor authentication on your account. I'll admit it's not much solace as usually the second factor uses your phone...
Wouldn't Color be the worst copyright/privacy infringer ever created unless they setup some system to blackout certain areas? Sounds like a nightmare.

What happens when Tool and Madonna don't want photos at their venue?

http://asmp.org/tutorials/property-and-model-releases.html
One other reason Apple will make Cook the CEO -- it will make the least waves. No one at Apple will quit if Cook becomes CEO. If Apple were to hire anyone from the outside I think there's a decent chance that they lose Cook for starters (Cook can write his own ticket anywhere he wanted).
I am working in Node this summer and when I read "Javascript MCV" I thought great a new server side framework. off topic yes, but blurring the lines between server and client has unexpected repercussions.
Right, but even if you did that, wouldn't you still have to store that key somewhere?

Also, hi from downstairs!
Why don't speak about Keyword Exchange Markets?
The problem there is email is generally used as an authentication authority for most online services, and a stolen phone hands over exactly what organised criminal outfits need to begin start real indentity theft.

Having done some work with financial services this was a huge problem, as soon as an email acocunt is compromised hackers used automatic services to reset every password they can find... because the email was the point of authority.

Because of this the product we designed had a two point authority process. But alas the second point was a text message sent to the stored cellphone number, which would mean in this case all your data is pwned.

I see most banks I deal with now have moved to phone call only authority checks. But in all honest once you have access to a decent a email account you can harvest the needed information quickly. My current banks just wants name, access code (printed on my card FFS), birthday, mailing address and bingo I'm in.
My neighbour owns a roofing company and in the middle of the summer heat doing our shingling a few years back all of them were wearing heavy winter coats. When asked about it they said it actually made them cooler and also kept the sun off their skin. My cousin not believing this tried it and apparently initially you're a lot hotter but as you start to sweat it cools back down again(as long as there is a breeze). You also keep yourself insulated from the direct sun.
Try United or American Airlines...
I think Tim Cook would be a mistake as awesome as he is (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2134181). Tim is too operations-focused, and that will bleed over into the products.

Apple needs a design-oriented CEO. Tim can balance that and make the company amazing from an operations-perspective. I don't know who the person is, but I do think he (or she) exists.
Interesting. I am not sure I blame them for fighting the unions, honestly, but there you go.
I'm not sure where you got your info on Ballmer. Yes, he has a degree in Mathematics and Economics from Harvard, but he was a P&G marketing guy before coming to Microsoft.

That P&G gig is pure business, and though I think Ballmer has some understanding of technology and engineering, he doesn't have the near the depth that gates has.

I also disagree with your comments re: the executive engineers, though I'm sure you could convince me otherwise.

Executive Engineers or Designers isn't important, it is a leader with a clear vision which is needed. Gates was able to envision the future technology and push to get it done, same with Jobs. Ballmer just doesn't have that, and Microsoft has missed that over the last few years.
Depth in technology reporting
1) Assuming a virgin device, applications can't access the DB this stuff is stored in, or other applications' files (if an application wants to safely store stuff on its own, outside of the OS mechanisms), so it's not too big a concern that applications be unable to do this.

2) If you get physical access to the device, you can pull the DB and whatever IDs are involved. Without encryption, this is game over instantly; with encryption, your goal is to delay it as long as humanly possible.
The cigar smoking man exists. He just doesn't wait a week he dumps it seconds later.
I wonder how much of the simulation code could be appropriately ported to some sort of GPGPU (CUDA,OpenCL, etc) code. There'd be something nicely ironic about running an ascii-frontend game which required a serious GPU to play :)
Knowledge vs Experience
Indeed, this is the crux of Linux compatibility problems: people will break their firmware to ensure it runs smoothly on Windows (e.g., sending ASPM information in an unconventional, broken way) while Linux is left holding the bag. All Linux can do is assume that something works according to spec until proven otherwise, and then in cases like this, it's hard to "undo" it because some things will function correctly and other things won't.

In other words, vendors only test on Windows and only care about Windows compatibility. Compatibility with other systems is almost always accidental. This puts MS at an advantage and everyone else at a keen disadvantage.
Can't they just distribute the JRE like Apple suggested?
Indeed, but the hardest part is getting the 'haters' and bigots to ignore those...
Not when there is already a market harvesting data from stolen phones. I think you probably haven't considered the impact for the standard user around using email as a authentication authority point.

Its like a skeleton key to your personal data, and with that you can get access to financial services very quickly. Hence why a black market exists, and I garantanee there is already rooting kits out there designed to own that data in seconds.

BTW obfuscation is not a security measure, and IMO its shameful and irresponsible to perpetuate that myth.
If anyone else is wondering about the relevance of this article to real life, read the parent while mentally replacing "Minecraft server" with "community".
Can we please not try to capitalize on the linkbait value of a major terrorist incident?

Seriously, some stories do not have any technological aspect and I find stories like this to be extremely disrespectful of the people who had their lives turned upside down by this incident!
These types of sites can be very profitable if you operate a fleet of thousands of them and have automated tools to manage updates etc. to all of them.
YC or techstars see you as a point in time. Fixed and whether you are right for their model or not.
However, you are not fixed. you evolve, grow, talk to customers, pivot, refine business model, etc.

They don't see all of that. Or probably see your past as an indicator of future. May be you may not have the potential for another google or youtube but you might be successful.
Successful by your own measure not someone else's yardstick.
To better understand the role of Steve Jobs, I recommend reading this excellent article from Technologizer (that got buried on HN as some good submissions do) about Edwin Land of Polaroid and the innovative product of the time, the SX-70.

"Edwin Land was brilliant, prescient, prickly, and demanding, and hounded his employees into doing great things they might never have accomplished otherwise. That sounds like Steve Jobs. Land described photography as “the intersection of science and art.”

Jobs likes to cite Land’s quote and says that Apple’s work sits “at the intersection of the liberal arts and technology,” a location which is surely in the same neighborhood. Land demoed new Polaroid products himself at corporate events that were famous for their hypnotic effect. Jobs carries on the tradition.

And both Land and Jobs were forced out of the companies they founded, in two of the more preposterous decisions in business history."

http://technologizer.com/2011/06/08/polaroid/
Agreed. That's why I flagged this article (not that it mattered much). It's new I care about, but it was the #1 headline on CNN and every other European news site so I don't need to see it on HN.
I would imagine, as with anything, some balance would be needed.

I think one of the things that's helping me with this type of documentation is that it's just for me. I mean that I don't worry too much about other's being able to understand what I'm referencing, I don't plan on anyone reading it, so I'm free to write whatever my mind needs to quickly take me back to the place I left off and to make sure that I remember what loose ends I still have to work on tying.

I agree with you completely on the making some progress every day.

The documenting also helps to recognize when the direction I'm going in is not netting results fast enough or adequate enough for the desired end.
Right, because $54,000 wouldn't be appalling either.

A song is worth a dollar, which means $24 is the maximum actual theft here (but one could argue that since the industry is willing to sell songs for less as albums, they aren't "worth" a dollar either...more like 25 cents).

Restitution might demand a small fine, such as $50 or $100. That means this person should be liable at worst about $100.

So what the hell, exactly, is wrong with the music industry and the legal system? I would think it's largely a matter of doing math, and comparing this to other small theft cases like taking a candy bar from a store.
I recently flew Emirates from Europe back to Australia and read an article in their in-flight magazine about the failure of Brasilia. This story broadly reminded me of that article. Can't find an exact copy online, but this pieces makes a few of the same points as the in-flight story: http://www.macalester.edu/courses/geog61/jmoersch/reality.ht...
Try updating OTA, it worked perfectly for me.
I am reminded of the Android "reboot" bug where every keystroke was sent to the foreground application and an invisible terminal running as root. Try sending a text message with the word "reboot" and your phone would instantly reboot!

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/burnette/worst-bug-ever/680
Couldn't you have something like:

key = hash(hardware serial number, user password)

And then store the key only in memory every time the user unlocks the phone and wipe it from memory when they lock their phone?
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POWDER is worth looking at as a starter - it feels like a scaled-down, more accessible NetHack with much of the the identification fun and unexpected combinations of interactions, and it's just as playable with a control pad, due to its GBA origins.

http://www.zincland.com/powder/
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The Video Paradies (http://attmobile.savetheinternet.com/video-vote) make you laugh and Cry at the same time
Don't fall in love with your argument
It would be interesting if Cisco will take advantage of this in any way to allow the control of their networking devices. Not that it's too hard to plug in with an old laptop, but still, the iPad is convenient.

It's a little confusing to me why Apple makes it so hard for people to use their devices in customer specific ways like this cable. I read a while back that TV networks like CNN and ESPN were using iPads to control on-air graphics in near real time. They're huge companies they can afford the custom engineering to jailbreak the devices and to write custom apps. But why doesn't Apple make it easier for everyone else?
I'm not security expert at all, so I have a question.

If I lock my phone using pin does it mean that my passwords and keys (mentioned in comment #48) are not encrypted using pin+some phone HW ID?

Also does encrypting my passwords and keys using pin+some phone HW ID really solves the problem?
Way back when I was in high school (late 90s), my father worked for Kobe Steel's research center in NC. It's long since been closed now, but the summer between my junior and senior year, I got to do an internship there.

One of the many things they did was research into diamond-substrate computer chips. One of my tasks over the summer was taking resistance and capacitance measurements across tiny ICs (maybe it was just transistors? It was a long time ago) printed on diamond chips. They're beautiful - iridescent/holographic like the surface of a CD only translucent.

Years later when Kobe shut that research division down, my father gave me a gift of one of the now useless prototype chips. I also have a few lab-grown diamonds made there - raw plate shaped crystals, nothing like what you picture when you hear the word 'diamond'.

When I get home later, I'll see if I can dig out that chip and post a photo of it.

Edit:

Flickr set, pics of the chip and a piece of lab-grown diamond. My camera and photography skills really don't do the chip justice. Please ignore my horribly bitten fingernails. http://www.flickr.com/photos/cowpewter/sets/7215762725848649...
I am betting that this is well placed pr, paid for by freelancer.com. I thought I saw an article on the exact same topic several months ago, also featuring freelancer.com.
Interesting. I actually did the same. I haven't owned a TV since a few years. I often go to the theater, but I've stopped watching movies and series at home around 2-3 years ago. Same with computer games. This roughly coincides with a) getting my first job and b) discovering HN.

I seem to have replaced these hobbies with reading HN, reading books (lots of non-fiction), and toying with technical stuff (programming languages, libraries, security, ergonomy...).

While I learn a lot with these "productive" hobbies, I sometimes think I might be missing out on my previous hobbies... The NPR article made me realize I might have "culled" too much.
Why can't usernames include periods etc.?
Tell me if this is a bad place to ask.
did you check the price? it's around ~60USD.
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I didn't realize DF had been around so long. Scala wasn't introduced until 2003 and Haskell certainly wasn't nearly as mature then.
Yep, that's pretty much it. Where 'hash' is PBKDF2 with a good HMAC function and 10k+ rounds.
Re: Ballmer. He worked less than two years at P&G, which is why I said "not much in the way of business experience".

I also disagree with your comments re: the executive engineers

I'm not really sure what you're disagreeing with. I agree that Ballmer is no Gates. My first post in this thread was how Apple/MS aren't the same companies w/o Jobs/Gates. The follow-up poster made the point that Gates was surrounded by suits, and my point about engineering execs was that Gates wasn't surrounded by suits, but rather by engineers.
cool, would love to see a pic
There's another round. Initially we trusted (we should have known better) that only people in the 3 categories we listed would register. Unfortunately we also got a significant number of people who weren't, as far as we could tell. So we've changed the wording on the site to say that the form is to request an invitation, and we're examining the list of those who filled out the old form right now.
Seems to me that the post doesn't fully address the most important fact: "He cannot be replaced..." Gruber takes the paragraph to points about what Jobs' absence will do to the stock, and then takes the rest of the post to talk about the sourcing of the story and who might eventually replace him, but those strike me as ancillary issues at best.

Jobs can't really be replaced, can he? Certainly Apple will continue to make heaps of money for the forseeable future, but without Jobs, the company will lose its essential nature. How can it not?
Ashton Kutcher would be a near-perfect replacement for Steve Jobs. I'm not a fan of either, just sounds right to me.
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The correct answer is to use a TPM - Trusted Platform Module - for that key. Accessing the TPM itself requires a password, but the hardware prevents against bruteforce/dictionary attacks.
If you want to get an app into the App Store, you can't really use Bluetooth apart from audio and iphone-to-iphone gaming. You have frameworks for those at your disposal, but the actual Bluetooth stack isn't open.

As far as I understand this breakout cable, it should free you up a lot: You can use public frameworks to interface with the dock connector and simply send whatever you want over it to whatever you want on the other end.
The magnitude of experience pales in comparison to the shuttle launch, but I've always been glad I got to see the X-Prize winning SpaceShipOne launch.

If Florida were closer than Mojave, I'd have loved to see the shuttle, too.
Well since I have to be a jack of all trades AND have a few details that I need to have for my particular project that are not generally as vital in most development projects I have both a bit more complicated data structure as well as having the need to become sufficiently competent in a number of areas.

One example is a need I have to do all or virtually all interactions between my heavily normalized back end with stored procedures as well as needing to have data protection built on both the front end and the back end. This redundancy is also something I need to deploy in a somewhat consistent manner if I am to keep a handle on what I'm doing. When there's replication in protecting the data on both sides, at least it's been my experience, that the going back and forth makes more moments for things to be forgotten, so I find that being very systematic in my approach is needed, but being systematic while working in a piecemeal manner, at least for me, is tough.

Documenting my code helps some, but having my own linear, self directed narrative about what I've done, what I'm doing, where I'm going, written in a way that I understand and not encumbered by the preoccupation that should accompany, I believe, well documented code, helps a ton. If I can write and not worry about dotting all the I's or crossing all the proverbial T's then a few minutes reading/revising my narrative and I'm ready to jump back in to coding, even if I just got done feeding the baby, changing the diaper, paying the cell phone bill, putting the baby to sleep and then doing a 'honey-do' for my wife. I can sit down and quickly get oriented in the direction I need to go.

I hope that was what you wanted when you asked for details and an example. If not I'll need you to elaborate more on exactly what you want to hear.
> If I lock my phone using pin does it mean that my passwords and keys (mentioned in comment #48) are not encrypted using pin+some phone HW ID?

Yes.

> Also does encrypting my passwords and keys using pin+some phone HW ID really solves the problem?

Yes. No. Sort of. It really depends on what you're trying to protect against. It's absolutely not a panacea, but it will certainly make most attacks against it, where you solely have the DB and any relevant IDs, significantly more expensive. However, it won't help if, say, you can escalate to root from an app (or remotely!) and backdoor the PIN entry.
> And I wonder if the level of dedication he has demonstrated requires Asperger's.

People always jump to Asperger's the moment they hear this was all put together by one guy. It is as if they refuse to believe a normal person can have willpower enough to accomplish so much. It is simple: take a single step every day towards a single goal for several years.

Listen to his podcasts[1]. He is about as chill/normal/well-adjusted as people come.

[1] http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/df_talk.html
No, /data/data/* is protected (as it should be) on non-rooted phones.

mediapc:platform-tools media$ ./adb shell

$ ls /data/data

opendir failed, Permission denied

$
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the truely right way of doing that is having a digital key, not a password, that is part of your keyring, which do not reside on the phone, and be able to revoke that key when you lose the phone
additionally that key should be protected by e.g. your PIN code although its quite crappy its better than nothing

note that the key is only there in my post because its way easier to revoke and regen than to memorize a new complex password every time.

ideally the phone should also be encrypted with a non trivial key (not your PIN)
As at any conference the topics covered are those the presenters have something to say about.
Retail price != punishment.
No doubt you'll get the standard reply "Its open source the community should fix this".
http://whispersys.com/whispercore.html implements full-disk encryption for android.

unfortunately it requires unlocking the boot loader and installing that company's android rom, so it's not an option for many users.
There you go:

https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript/commit/a201e9d8dec8...