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Since they tell you the PIN at the point of use when you present the bar code, the PIN is not "something you know" from a security point of view.

Two factor authentication requires that you have two separate items of evidence to attest to your identity. The PIN in the Amazon system as described in the article is just evidence that you knew the bar code, not evidence as to who you are, so their system is just one factor.

A good way to think about it when considering a purported two factor system is to ask how many things a bad guy has to steal to impersonate you. In a two factor system, he should have to steal two things.
Is Warren Buffet wrong to ask the govt to "Stop coddling the super-rich"
Buffet made news headlines with an op-ed in the NY times regarding the broken tax system, which can be found here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/opinion/stop-coddling-the-super-rich.html

Becker, a Nobel prize winning economist, proposes an alternative.

I am interested to know how people, especially entrepreneurs and small-business owners view a consumption rather than an income tax.
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Love how appsumo is mentioned at the bottom without any real quantitative statistics. Leadgen.
I think waiting for Google to deliver on its promises of the world all while Apple is eating the tablet game for breakfast was, is and continues to be a huge mistake. Gingerbread isn't acceptable, Honeycomb isn't acceptable, and ICS is a ways off.

If anything, breaking Android compatibility and using it like an embedded OS is your only option right now. Google simply either refuses to polish Android for tablets or has too much on their plate right now to do so. Fixing that problem without Google's help will definitely cause compatibility issues. The question is what do people expect from a $250 tablet? I would say "vast app compatibility" is not high up on that list.
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Thanks guys this is a great starting point. I'll try each out and see how what works best. If I discover anything interesting I'll put a blog post up outlining in case others run into the same.
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It is great for talking through deductive reasoning with children. My 7 year old niece responds great to it. She has the base knowledge to think through the questions, and provide a possible answers. And, it is a lot of fun because she is clever enough to catch me and make me think through things more carefully.

Now, her 5 year old sister still doesn't seem to have enough everyday background knowledge, and focus to respond as well to it yet.
By 2050 we are likely to have achieved at least one of smarter-than-human artificial intelligence or sped up computer uploaded brains. If the resulting superhuman intelligence makes it a priority to make itself even smarter, it's very difficult to predict what will happen since we'd be predicting the actions of the being that's much smarter than we are.

http://intelligenceexplosion.com/primer.html

This is kind of like the futurist trump card--if it plays out, it will render predictions in many other fields (geopolitics, demographics, sociology and most kinds of technological advancement) null and void.
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Now HP just need to realize the amazing 'value' created by their flop with the Touchpad and release it again. At $99! Take a $4-$600 million dollar hit and create a HUGE base of WebOS users that they can profit off in the next few years!
Sniff a big lawsuit in the making - sounds like their might be an illegal search and seizure going on here - BIG RIGHTS VIOLATION.

I believe this is a strict liability case - meaning - would the normal guy think that his rights were being violated and he was the victim of an illegal search?

In what capacity were the cops and everyone involved identified at the time of the 'crime'? Should they have gotten a warrant? I definitely want to know what kind of documentation was taken - sounds to me like a good old fashion ILLEGAL police state shake up?

Anyone else?

Take care of these cops - this is ridiculous.
In several Asian countries it's been like that for the past 10 years. Good luck US becoming modern. What else is gonna be news next, electric toilet? :D
DigiNotar should never have been a top-level CA. They should have been a third-party CA underneath Verisign or somebody similar, with only a right to sign and verify certain certificates.

This is how most banks are setup.

There are far, far too many trusted top-level cert CA's now. The list was 3-4 long years ago, and was designed with third-party CA's just for this reason. Today you have a huge list and it changes every month
In a past life, I used to do mathematical modeling for IR and had the awesome opportunity to work with Bruce Bueno de Mesquita. The stuff I worked on under his direction definitely has developed in this decision making/ forecasting engine. You can probably find more information here:

http://www.predictioneersgame.com/game

A form of the game can be found here:

http://imcomputerconsulting.com/PredictioneersGame/
I'm not an expert in either language, but from my expose to the two, it seems to me OCaml is much heavier on the FP than the OO. If you asked me to imagine a FP-OO hybrid language, it would be closer to Scala than OCaml. Scala is both pervasively object-oriented and pervasively functional.

Scala's static type system also seems to be quite a bit more sophisticated than OCaml (though its type inference is crippled as a compromise).
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As far as I'm concerned, IE Tester doesn't have an exact copy of IE's code, hence not 100% reliable.
I travel full-time, and have no permanent residence.

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The one linked in the headline was the result of a professional programmer and OSS enthusiast spending probably an hour of their time doing something very difficult for the benefit of the community. The only reason they were able to spend that hour was because they had previously spent probably 10+ years studying English. Had they not spent that hour, the odds of me independently deciding to translate that email were zero. So, I would suggest upgrading that comment to "The one linked in the headline was a generous contribution to the community of the type which we should enthusiastically encourage."

Almost all professional translators strongly suggest that one translate exclusively from one's non-native language into one's native language. I think that is kind of a silly rule in the real world, but there is a reason it is so popular: idiomatically phrasing things in one's non-native language is really freaking hard. I've almost certainly produced Japanese much worse than that when paid money to do so.

More broadly, I'm reminded of a comment I heard from bilingualism debates when I was six: always remember, prior to criticizing someone for their accent, that it means they speak one language more than you do.
> As a programmer, I find the design to be the most important part.

As a programmer (teamed up with a designer) I consider marketing to be the most important part. We sank so many good looking (and well programmed) apps in the app store because our marketing sucked. And then I see crappy apps dominating the charts simply because their makers know how to get their marketing right.
What's this doing in HN ? Sad to hear it's false.

I've recently seen the movie about Hachi (the Japanese dog) who for 9 years after his "master" died, came to the station at 5 pm every day. Very moving.
Only sometimes. Right now, though, my Kindle is very convenient: I only have to charge it every couple weeks or so. Just like my trusty Nokia from 2002.
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I feel slimy making this comment, but "trotsky is completely correct".

Users can't side load Google Apps, because they require the Market. The Market (and it's underlying dependency of Google Talk [yes, it sounds funny, look it up, I wish I were kidding]), requires special installation and components that frankly I can't explain (I don't know how to). But I know enough to tell you that you can't simply download Market.apk and install it.
It depends on the company. I'm 57 and I've been programming for 35 years. I was hired to write air traffic control software for a contractor to Lockheed Martin because I had "a lot of experience" which I figure is what you need when you're trying to prevent one plane flying into another one. After that contract ended, I tried to get a job writing air traffic control software at Thales and was turned down because there were "too many jobs" on my résumé. I explained that most of them were short-term contracts but it didn't help so perhaps the "too many jobs" was a legal way of saying I'm too old.
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I guess I take this too far; I was staying in a friend's flat in Edinburgh; police showed up at the door, demanding entry -- I asked them for ID and then called the police to verify they were real cops, locked all my drives, etc., etc. Then after about 2-3 minutes, opened the door and went out into the hall -- turns out it was a gas leak. I'm sure they told stories about the paranoid American.
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We're still in private beta but would love to give more invites and get feedback.
Clickable link: http://getdenso.com/denso/hacker-news

There's also a Foundation channel (by Kevin Rose) - http://getdenso.com/denso/kevin-roses-foundation
Scala has a very interesting confluence of features. It's statically typed, which some people think is very desirable. It supports functional programming very well. It has strong concurrency support. It has an amazing breadth of libraries from the JVM. It has a lot of niceties that make your code shorter. Overall, it's a pleasantly practical language, aside from the fact that the type system makes Haskell's look benign and conservative.
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Some random advice about the first video -

It's unfortunate that the Default.png is a photo when the UI doesn't seem to vary enough to exclude the standard preview shot.

In the adjustments view, "Finish" should be "Done". And tapping it should not trigger a flip animation-- it's too distracting.

Also, the music is extremely loud.
Something similar has been around in Germany for 10 years now. The boxes there are not owned by Amazon, but by the Deutsche Post AG.[0] This allows competitors to use them as well.

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packstation
Way of missing the point. Also: There were no podcasts and hardly any blogs a decade ago. Both exist today (in their massive numbers) because the tools for content creation and distribution have become simpler to use and cheaper.
Transferring the unpublished cables to a (hostile) foreign government makes a charge of espionage against PFC Manning, Wikileaks (and their staff), etc. a lot more sustainable than if they were merely publishing the documents.
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While programming , I always get stuck up with inputs and conversions , i write the code (the basic logic) pretty quickly but when it comes to making it general like without having to type input , then comes the trouble, not just that , it always happens with type conversions , any suggestions ?
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Anyone on the list interested?
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Basically? Saying basically just avoids any real discussion of legal distinctions.

When you said "basically" did you also mean to prevent discussion of duress? False pretenses? Fraud?
What operating systems would you regard as "carefully engineered"?
Getting rare music through file sharing sucked. I know it, I was trying to get it. The iTunes music store has a greater selection of rare music than any file sharing I ever tried in the early 2000s.

Of course, unless devices like tablets continue to convince them that the mainstream is the only valuable stream.

Why should that happen? Why? I don’t understand. Non-mainstream content is a first class citizen on tablets.

I … I really don’t get it. You are postulating a effect that seems so wildly implausible and absolutely absurd to me.
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From a article from two years ago, when this rage wasn't at its peak: http://www.hazards.org/standing/index.htm
Hm, what are the downsides? The obvious ones are interface lag (speed) and battery life. I am thinking about taking a plunge, but if the interface is bad (doen't need to be FAST, as long as it's not SLOW) and it can last a day of moderate use, this could be an amazing market.
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No, your job is to be specific enough about what you are claiming that people can independently evaluate your claims.

You could have said "Comodo suffered a compromise in March that led to 9 fraudulently-issued certs." To say they "had huge issues very recently" could mean lots of different things, and it's not specific enough to Google for (even after searching there's no way to know whether the search results are what you were talking about or not).
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YMMV - I loathe the search in Windows 7 - which (apart from the "improvements" to Explorer) is a rather decent operating system.
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Not to be too negative, but out of the 15 apps in the showcase, the only three that are not games and have a native looking UI are:

Canyon County National Parks - looks good, but scrolling is noticeably non-native in several ways, and the app is oddly slow sometimes

Drum Toy - takes forever to load, ugly sliders

iSleepWell - UI is confusing and difficult to use (tap areas too small)
How many people are still "novice" on the computer, and need special simplified interfaces? I guess most elderly people have used a computer by now, the age group below this have worked with at least Windows XP on their day jobs, and children born in recent years grew up with computers.
Some of the R&D. The world is a big, big place. Tablets are not some big black hole that suck away all brainpower from all other tasks.
Thanks for the response and feedback on Stackoverflow. The site / network has been on my radar and I'm glad to know it comes highly recommended...I'll definitely be studying it, thanks again!
Lets be clear here: My job is what I am paid to do. Anything else I do I do out of the goodness of my heart.

Now, if we want to talk about what people should do while participating in a conversation, I would argue that '"just fucking google it" before posting a content-less "Citation needed" post' is fairly high on the list. Just google newsing "comodo" would have been sufficient, or as I demonstrated, searching hacker news for the same string. Hell, just googling "comodo issue" will get you great results, if you can't make that google search from my comment text...

This isn't obscure stuff, this is recent serious news.
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If Wayland delivers on the multiple monitor support that would help put Linux back in the running for me.
I think you're severely underestimating what a $81 machine is capable of:

http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html

and the choices available for fun projects:

http://www.lowendbox.com/
It sounds like you shouldn't buy one, then.

Here is a desk lamp. Maybe you have seen one like this before: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/images/h2/h2_1988.236.10.jpg

A brand new one costs at least $400. It doesn't have wi-fi. It doesn't even have a CPU. All it does is shine light on your desk, the same way a $5 lamp from Ikea or Target can. Nevertheless it's still a very popular product and plenty of people buy it even for $400 - partly because it is well constructed, partly because of the recognizable classic design, and, yes, partly because of Artemide's marketing and branding efforts. I don't own one, I have no intention of buying one, but I don't have a problem with other people buying them and I certainly wouldn't suggest that the manufacturer shouldn't bother selling them.
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In Denmark, where I happen to live, I've had two companies funded largely from a businessplan. The venture and startup ecosystem isn't as developed here, and frankly I don't think you'd get anyhwere without a businessplan and a powerpoint deck.

Businessplans are great for getting funding from people who don't really understand your business, are government employees, banks, or are looking for the safety of knowing you are an expert in your field. They're also great for making an appearance and looking "professional". For instance when I hand out businessplans they're always pesonalised (every page will be annotated with "private and confidential - this businessplan belongs to Joe Schmuck). People fall for this.

It's basically a great sales document for people that don't know much about startups. If you live in an area where nobody knows what the heck you're talking about when you mention retention rates, A/B split tests, etc. these are the tricks you'll need to get funding.

I've always included "we will produce (product) to enhance shareholder value" in all the businessplans I've written just to see if anyone would catch the Neal Stehpenson reference. Nobody has yet.
So you agree that it's a useless toy then. Like that lamp.
Try using some libraries provided with each language. You also need to learn some design patterns.
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Lots of downvotes, but I completely agree with you.
you guys are so cynical, CopterKid isn't the app that is making us $30k profit/month. We have a lot of other very successful iOS and Mac apps (and their profit combined adds up to $30k profit/month) - check out our main website before jumping to conclusions: http://www.fiplab.com

everything is going to be explained in detail in the next few parts, we are not going to hold anything back.
Good stuff. It is the first Show HN site that I actually bookmarked for later. It is well-done and it is interesting.

A couple of things though. Requiring an email address upfront means that I will feed you a @mailinator.com one. Let people play with the site a bit, and then require creating an account if they want to save the progress... or something along these lines.

Second, a confirmation email appears to include a numerical user ID. This inadvertently discloses the number of users you have to anyone who signs up. May want to fix that.
But then when site B and C send two visitors to A you need 4 sites to send 4 visitors (or another 2 sites to send 2 visitors each, or 1 site to send 4 visitors) to site B and C. And so on and so on, this can't go on forever because it multiplies. If I send someone 1 visitor I need to get back 2 visitors, the people that send me those 2 visitors will need to get back 4, for those 4 visitors sent we need 8 visitors sent back to the sites that sent us 4, and 16 visitors to make up for the 8 we just received and so on and so on. That can't go on forever, that's what a pyramid scheme is.

Even if there are sites that have lots of traffic from google or facebook or twitter the number of users on the internet are NOT infinite.

From what I'm understanding, which the site doesn't do a very good job of explaining, is that participating users put a widget on their site that displays thumbnails and links to other similar sites. Almost like a... "Visit / Discover sites similar to this one" which has links that send my visitors to other websites that have the same "topic" as mine. Other participating sites similar to mine have the widget as well and visitors from there can discover my site.

How is it possible, without being a ponzi/pyramid scheme, that every time a user clicks on one of the links on the widget on my site, you're going to send 2 visitors back to mine? That would mean on the other sites' widgets you'd have to display a link to my site until 2 visitors click through to it so I can get my 2 visitors. That means the links on the widgets will need to change so that those 2 sites get 4 visitors sent back to them, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, etc.... What if I send through 15 visitors, how on earth am I going to get 30 visitors back then the sites that sent me those 30 visitors get 60 visitors back then the sites that sent those 60 visitors get 120 visitors back, then 240, then 480, 960, 1,920, 3,840. And all of this is just from the domino effect of My ->1<- website. Imagine 700 or so participating sites.

Eventually you'll start getting into the billions and trillions of visitors needed to pay back all the sites for the traffic they sent in.

Even if you send back 10 visitors for every 9 sent, that's not sustainable. Even if some of those visitors count towards multiple sites.

I don't mean to call you out as a ponzi scheme but I just don't see how this is sustainable. Maybe I'm wrong, I'm usually bad at math.
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I've found IEtester to be really keen to cache code, to the point of having to clear cache's in settings sometimes - clearly not great for development.
+1 IETester better than nothing and a decent fallback, but running the actual IE's better than IETEster.