skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who on that list would want to succeed Steve Jobs? I agree, for once, with Gruber that Apple's best bet is to change as little as possible. Don't fix what ain't broken.

And conversely, there's virtually no upside for any high profile CEO to take this job. You'll get none of the credit for keeping the company on a roll, and take all the blame if it begins to turn downwards.

With that said, Apple w/o Steve Jobs and MS w/o Bill Gates just aren't the same companies. They're the Magic Johnson/Larry Bird of my generation. You have to pick one to cheer for, but you respect them both.
Will Wall Street Quants Corrupt Online Advertising?
I was going to say: I admire Tarn's exquisitely esoteric sense of taste, which informs his art and makes both him and others happy, but I try not to shame other people for being addicted to achievement. We are all addicted to achievement. Some of us are just much, much kinkier about it than others. ;)

I have yet to definitively locate the bright shining line between a great game and an evilly addictive game. I certainly believe the people who say that WoW, Minecraft, and now Dwarf Fortress are excellent games, yet I don't play them because I don't want to be addicted. And the fact that, say, bridge and chess are socially approved addictions, requiring much more practice to attain skill, doesn't make them harmless. People get addicted to Scrabble, ice hockey, knitting, model making, composing tiny essays on Hacker News, mathematics, and of course programming just as they get addicted to Angry Birds. Is it the fact that these hobbies are less accessible that makes them less "evil"?
TSA officer accused of stealing from passenger luggage
Android account passwords are stored on disk in plain text
i wouldnt be surprised if it turns out he did something to violate google's tos.

regardless, they need to communicate with their users if they close an account, and give users an opportunity to take their data.
Great event, awesome host and lots of good / original ideas for a meetup. I'm used to technology meetups with pre-planned presentations, but the top-10 / buzzwords "improvised" discussions were actually really cool.

As a bonus point, I got to practice my English. Still need to get rid of my french accent, though...

EDIT:
I forgot to add the two links I talked about, in case you were interested but didn't write them down:

- http://talkfast.org/2010/07/23/a-cure-for-hacker-news-overlo... --> HN RSS and Twitter feeds

- http://html5slides.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/template/index.h... / http://code.google.com/p/html5slides/ --> Google's HTML slide templates (relatively similar to those used at Google I/O 2011)
You can see the reason for this if you move your eye slowly (by following a moving object)— say, place your cursor under a line of text and move it across the screen, following it with your eyes. If you do this right, you can notice motion blur in the surrounding text.

Now look back at where you started, a movement that takes tens of milliseconds. Imagine how much blur that creates— that image must be completely useless. You're doing yourself a favor to ignore it.

Edit: Since I mention it, I've wondered before if there'd be any value to training yourself to move your eyes smoothly without following an object. This test suggests probably not; the image just isn't good for anything unless it's correcting for a moving object.
AirBnB is great if you have time, but there is something to be said for the zipless convenience of just booking a room with a hotel. It is a genuine pain to go back and forth with a few different people to get a room. Unless they have some sort of solid state, instant/confirmed booking option, it's better for casual travelers and sublets than business travelers.

(May all be obvious, just my $.02)
Another way to help calculate the price is: If you were doing this full time, how much take-home post-tax money would you need? If you need $80,000/yr post-taxes then $80/hr will get you pretty close after self employment, federal (income, fica, medicare, ss, etc), and state taxes.

Granted, this calculates how much you'd NEED to charge to have X income, but it does kind of help with the process of starting to determine a ballpark figure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damocles

I thought you looked familiar.
The GoF book itself doesn't describe them as good, unequivocally.

It's been a while since I read it, but I remember using the book itself as ammo for arguing when not to use particular patterns. They cover trade-offs, and the situations when the pattern may be appropriate or not.
This isn't a full change log, it's just a list of known issues changes between releases.
from what I understand (which is admittedly not much) it's actually both the cornea and and lens which are manipulated together by these 3 sets of muscles.
I'm not making it up. It's a real thing: http://www.loonwatch.com/2010/01/not-all-terrorists-are-musl...
Here's The Presentation That Inspired Google+
Interesting that it doesn't get brought up when the manipulating "story" is all pro-AAPL unicorns and panacea.
The code can work with the models without touching the DOM. You just access the models via ids.

eg

parent_model = window.models[foo_model.get('parent_id')]
parent_model.set('text', 'foo text')

When you respond to a button click or whatever, then yeah, you use a jQuery callback. The model id is stored in the DOM element (the view) which you access with $(this). Whenever the model changes (via set), the render function is automatically called. The render function is responsible for passing attributes to a template which renders html. Then the render function sticks the html wherever it's supposed to go. I think that's basically how all MVC frameworks work under the hood.
"Put another way, the obvious structure for a post-Jobs Apple is simply Apple as we know it, without Steve Jobs."

Steve Jobs is as unique as it gets and if that wasn't already obvious - the one line summation was more than enough to express everything written in preceding lines. "Proving" other people as not being Steve Jobs was optional.

Although it remains to be seen how much of Apple as we know it remains after Jobs (things may warrant a change who knows).
IMHO there is a big difference between Apple and Microsoft, Bill Gates was surrounded by suits, Steve Jobs is surrounded by Engineers and Designers... I like all the guys that surround Jobs, Philip Schiller, Scott Forstall, Jonathan Ivy even Bob Mansfield are a good candidates, there is no reason why Apple should look elsewhere for CEO candidates.
CoffeeScript, Sass and LESS support for Visual Studio and ASP.NET
on-device/over the air upgrade works now!
Ok, I stand corrected.
Debt talks break off
For me it boils down to:

1. Trust. I feel like I can trust Github. While that may not be true, the fact that the majority of the folks I know use github vs gitorious makes me feel trust, whether it's earned/valid or not.

2. Github's cost, for me, is negligible so I don't really bat any eyelashes at it. The $7/mo plan is perfectly fine for me.

3. Their UX is splendid. Every thing feels fairly intuitive me.

4. The social/community aspect I quite enjoy, though I do not participate as much as I should.
I don't believe this "ex-quant" in the slightest. He's OK on the technical details, but then right at the end, he doesn't make the connection. So, there's no cigar smoking arbitrageur doing the financialization of on-line advertising? I don't think there was one in all the CDO places either - that was an institutional failure, not an individual failure.

But as a consumer with "AdBlockPlus" turned on, I have to just say, "Rave on, Brother".
I feel as though you're assuming facts not in evidence, here.

Can you explain a little bit more what legacy you feel Steve Wozniak has left at Apple that persists to this day, along with why it has been important to the company's success?

My analysis of Apple's latter day success:

- Steve Jobs, demanding a high standard of quality and providing vision for ongoing products and strategy. Selecting and grooming smart people for crucial leadership roles. Requiring accountability and virtuous integration between product components and even different products.

- Tim Cook, optimizing industrial and business processes, ensuring high margins, protecting profits and structuring clever, unmatched deals for manufacturing and supply sourcing

- Jonathan Ive, designing the physical incarnations of Apple that create strong connections to the brand for customers

So is your position that software engineering has had an equally critical role to what's described above, and the engineering leadership has been Woz-esque? While Apple does make world-class software, I'm not sure I agree about the Woz bit, but I'm open to a persuasive argument.

edit: Especially when you consider how much of Apple's software engineering assets and talent came from NeXT.
does it also support the official HTML5 syntax[1] for placeholder attributes in select elements?

I'd be impressed if it does. I can't parse that sentence in the spec.
This is indeed something memorable, but considering main stream America's view on homosexuals, I don't think this is something that should be mentioned too often.
I think I would be perfect for the job. he he, but seriously, they should look the the startup world, that is the only way to match the creativity of the jobster.
I thought that was pretty cool. It was obviously all the "In"terns at LinkedIn. Although the suit guy in front didn't seem too happy with the interruption...
Here is a Bluetooth breakout like I described: http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10559

It's cheaper than the cable. You don't need to implement any protocols.
I get the impression that the mainstream already thinks that Apple users are basically equivalent to whatever they think homosexuals are, so this probably wouldn't have an effect.
The comment doesn't seem to involve when the languages and frameworks were respectively created, though if you do look at the pairings (Ruby w/ Rails, Python w/ Django as large examples), they are relatively new after all.
I would try playing Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup instead. It's another roguelike that is heavily inspired by nethack but is more modern and more beginner friendly. I love nethack (I've ascended twice) but it's definitely showing it's age (not to mention that the game is pretty broken in some regards). Crawl has a better interface and tries to remove all the tedious parts of roguelikes, though there's still a learning curve.
IMHO there is a big difference between Apple and Microsoft, Bill Gates was surrounded by suits, Steve Jobs is surrounded by Engineers and Designers...

You know very little about Microsoft. You're right there was a difference. Jobs was surrounded by engineers and designers. Gates was surrounded by engineers. Gates top business guy was a math geek from Harvard with not much in the way of business experience (Ballmer).

If you look at Gates's colonels you'll see they were mostly engineers. Allchin was a widely respected developer prior to MS. Silverberg was a dev on the Lisa project. Rudder, Muglia, Sinofsky, Maritz, all rose through the ranks at MS in enginnering.

It wasn't until Ballmer became CEO did "suits" start moving up the ladder.

If you look at the execs that Gates surrounded himself with, you'll have a hard time finding a stronger team of executive engineers than he did. It even puts Google's current execs to shame (w/ respect to engineering horsepower).
Cleartext passwords are perfectly fine in this case. I speak as a software engineer specialized in security.

This bug report was filed by someone who doesn't understand that obfuscating a password is different from encrypting it. No matter how you store it, the application must be able to extract a cleartext password from whatever storage options are available on the Android device.

For a longer explanation: http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/PlainTextPasswords

That said, one defense-in-depth mechanism that I would like to see on portable devices like phones would be to have an encrypted storage area that is only accessible after typing a passphrase at boot time (the key derived from this passphrase should be stored in volatile memory only). That way if the device is shut down, this secure area would not be decryptable.

Edit: I am defending the mail application because from its viewpoint it is fine to use cleartext passwords. On the other hand the OS should provide a secure storage area as described in my previous paragraph.
Why Brands Will Leave FB for Google+ (And Take Users with Them.)
Long Before Google+, Google Declared War On Facebook With OpenSocial
I honestly have not heard about this until now.
Mexican Senate rejects the ACTA because it violates their constitution (Spanish)
Google Acquires Facial Recognition Software Company PittPatt
This also goes back to how News Corp has changed the Wall Street Journal since it's acquisition. The quality has deteriorated. And it's shows what News Corp real focus is - it's not news, and it's not really conservative or liberal issues either - it's sensationalism, in any form. Because thats what gets peoples attention.
Judge Slashes ‘Appalling’ $1.5 Million File Sharing Verdict to $54,000
Both worked for me with a sudo pip install after downloading Xcode from the MAS.
I recently joined the cult of the smartphone (after my feature phone finally kicked the bucket). Since I, like presumably many folks, set things up so that I could check my email, used the web browser and let it store some passwords, I became curious about how those passwords are being stored.

It turns out that it's just an SQLite database where they're stored in plain text. This leaves me somewhat disconcerted since I carry my phone around everywhere (and have a bad habit of losing them – hence waiting for ages to get a smart phone until they dropped below the price of "this won't hurt too much if I lose it"). My assumption had been that since I set a password to unlock the screen (and have a SIM card password) that it'd be tied into a keychain mechanism that unlocked access to an encrypted password store.

While normal apps can't read said file (unless the phone is rooted), it's still a pretty huge vector for identity theft making it rather trivial to extract passwords from a lost / stolen phone.
The article states the reasons for the rejection include:

1. violating the principle of presumption of innocence

2. legal uncertainty and ambiguity regarding citizens rights

3. obstruction of network neutrality

4. risk to e-commerce, culture, and creativity

5. potential for internet censorship
Actually it does get brought up regularly. A lot of articles were written last year about how Apple itself fed stories to the Wall Street Journal, for example: http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/how_apple_does_contro...
The sooner we ignore minor details like someone's sexuality, the sooner they become irrelevant.
My understanding is that the cornea is essentially fixed and non-adjustable, with all of the tuning done by the lens. I am not an ophthalmologist, however.
please fix! </me ducks>
Cook was palatable to both Wall Street and Apple employees while SJ was on medical leave. IMO, he's passed the test already. Everyone was willing to accept him then, back when there was serious doubt about whether Jobs would return after his leave. So there's no reason why they wouldn't be willing to accept him in a genuine succession event.
In Daniel "Fake Steve Jobs" Lyons' book Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs, the real Steve hires a stand-in so he can finally take some time off. Are we sure this hasn't already happened? :)
Building a learning engine to understand what tweets are relevant.
Basically, using AI techniques to classify what tweets are relevant to me. Building this in rails.
The title should probably mention that it only effects email. Comment #48 explains the reasoning behind it, and frankly seems perfectly reasonable.
The name and photo of the arrested man has been leaked.
Here is his facebook and twitter page:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002651290254
https://twitter.com/#!/AndersBBreivik
Except that we don't know if Cook is gay.
Oh phew, looks like custom APN settings finally got fixed, meaning you can get 3G data with a GoPhone SIM again :)
The Lesser Depression
Just as an aside, a game like this with deep algorithmic complexity but trivial graphics seems like a natural fit for a functional language like Scala or Haskell. I wonder why Tarn chose C++ instead. Was it just out of familiarity? With his background in math I'd imagine he'd be very comfortable in an FP language.
What do Controlled Leaks have anything to do with alleged willful downward stock manipulation attempt by WSJ using a story which was later refuted by Jobs?
What is sad is that I have culled so many things that I used to love, that I very likely still love. I used to be known among my friends as someone who watched a lot of movies. I don't watch movies anymore. Or TV. Or play computer games.

I'm not even certain why this has happened. As best I can figure, I am trying to create something and am still stuck in the phase where I figure out what the hell it is.
Hmmm... I seriously doubt spotify will have any major impact on iTunes there markets aren't the same, the uses cases aren't the same, its just the same products.

I buy tracks to listen on my ipod, say in my car, out fishing, at the gym... all places where there is no internet service ... places spotify has no service, spotify is not portable.

At my computer I use groove shark quite extensivly, but it hasn't altered my buying habits one bit. Because the use cases are not the same. I don't just buy music for that reason, and besides I already have piles of streaming sources at home (TV,radio,internet). Its nothign new, jsut maybe abit mroe adaptive.

So I doubt Spotify would have a real business impace unless they implement a music purchasing service, maybe thats there end game, I dunno. But currently I'd say that article is just speculative rubbish.

Also the instore as aspect of iTunes is nto to be frowned at either. I have seen alot of people getitng iTunes gift cards lately, they have adapted into the mainstream purchasing paradigm which I doubt spotify will be able to do anytime soon.
Aaron Swartz' response[1] is quite interesting.

> If Apple is to continue, it will be with a tastemaker at the top. And there are no serious candidates besides Ive.

(He remarks on Twitter[2] to Gruber, "I think we had this debate briefly over email many years ago, but nice to revive it in long form in public".)

[1] http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/howappleworks
[2] https://twitter.com/#!/aaronsw/status/94550094199783425
Have also heard good things. Given that I keep hearing them, I think it's time I got off my butt and checked it out!
That video is inspirational. This is from Brett Victor, who did the 'Magic Ink' essay and the BART app; if you liked that, you'll like this.
MacPorts version 2.0.0 is available
At what point does a hobby become a startup?
Woz isn't a real hacker?

Disagree. Read up on him.
Historically, there were probably more gays and such in public life than the history books would suggest. One American president (never married) is thought to have possibly been gay. Lots of historical figures who were very successful were minorities of some sort and hid it and tried to blend: Jewish, Hispanic, etc. They altered their names, dyed their hair, learned to dress more "white" and so on. (Rita Hayworth comes to mind -- half Spanish, dyed her hair blonde and made her name more anglo.)

I wear my health issues and alternative medicine approach to them on my sleeve when online but have gone out of my way to downplay it without lying when at work. There is just not enough time in the day to explain my situation to everyone I interact with for five minutes and it is too distracting. It's not important.

Peace.
> people who were searching for the news directly would have typed in "oslo bomb".

Actually, the author of the article knew that something had happened in Oslo, but not what. That's exactly the kind of situation where news search is useful. He wants information on current events; news search is where I would expect to find that.
beats me.

I'm sure a lawyer can come up with something

Maybe something along the lines of "Google accused me as a violator of their Terms of Service when I didn't do anything wrong...this caused duress and headaches for me, to a point where I can't sign up for a service under fear that I'll get accused again for doing nothing...this has made a huge impact on my quality of life , which is why I'm seeking $2.5 million in damages"

then times that a million or two users.
I've done my share of Java GUI programming (and still have Java applets running on a fairly active site... I can't replace them -- HTML5 and Flash aren't likely to support MIDI input, ever), and the "write once run anywhere" flaws are generally all in GUI programming.

But I think everyone has known for a long time now; that's not Java's sweet spot. It's do-able, but for obvious reasons it's harder to do cross-platform, and they made a few large missteps along the way trying to crack that particular nut.

Nowadays the vast majority of my Java work is server-side, and it all runs anywhere, without a hitch. The last time I had cross-platform Java issues with server-side code was on an AS/400.
FYI looks like they weren't going out of business, they were getting acquire by Google: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Google-...
No, definitely not the whole city. I can usually cache strategic bits between wifi hotspots though, which gets me by.
Well, what's the right way to encrypt this kind of stuff?

Even if you're doing some kind of public-key cryptography, you're still going to have to store the private key at some location on the device, to decrypt the password for IMAP/SMTP/whatever authentication.

Is there some foolproof way to do this that I'm not aware of? How are you supposed to store a password for future retrieval, not in plain text or basically plain text (encrypted but with the key on the device)?
Actually, they are not perfectly fine in this case. They should take the Apple approach and use PBKDF2 to derive a key from the PIN/passphrase, if one is set, then use that to encrypt the database. Anything less is simply not OK.

Edit: You should also use some sort of hardware ID in addition to the PIN/passphrase, otherwise it's trivial to distribute a database of, say, all the <=7-digit PINs.
It’s Hot Out & I Hope You Stayed Cooler Than This Startup CEO
Au contraire, this is something that should be mentioned as often as possible. It's time that "mainstream" America realizes that gay people are just as valuable members of society as everybody else.
The consensus is that apple users are generally hipster, and/or metro. Metro as in metrosexual, not necessarily gay. (Not my own view) But yes, there are a lot of generalizations and stereotypes to this extent.
Oh, I had no idea of that... thanks.
What kinds of problems did you run into?

I've deployed onto primarily Solaris and various flavors of Linux with no problems, but don't have much experience with *BSD... though I've generally assumed it would be a similar experience.
Varnish Cache Architecture and what's wrong with 1975 programming
You derive a key from some piece of user input and use that to encrypt it. If you also mix in, say, a hardware ID, then you also make it impossible to distribute a set of common keys.
It's a solid post but this is batting practice by Gruber. Anyone following Apple would bet the farm on Gruber's shortlist and the only serious candidate I'd entertain besides Cook would be Ive. Notably, Gruber missed a chance to link back to the Apple University effort which is another huge giveaway that a successor will almost certainly come from within.

Glancing over the archive, imho Gruber's best posts in the last few months have been his iPad 2 review (custom benchmarks!); taking All Things D, Engadget, et al. to task for weak attribution; and taking non-Apple tablet reviews to task for grading on a curve.