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It's strong enough to not have the springiness you normally see with levitating superconductors.
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Disclaimer: That's best to my knowledge.
So release peoples private information, just to point out security flaws.

He could have pointed out the security flaw without downloaded peoples details.

Admittedly the reaction was over the top. But sending hundreds of peoples personal data around to 'prove' there is a security problem is a bit irresponsible.
How? Advertisers are always looking to show targeted ads
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But in order to try for an effective policy, we have to have a consensus on what that policy is meant to achieve. If there's a persistent disagreement here, we're at an impasse.

Sure we can look at the unintended consequences of policies like prohibition (which is still a very current example, with its disastrous effects still readily evident), but when the disputes extend to the intended consequences, or when people resolve the tradeoff of primary result vs. deleterious side effects in opposing ways, the debate is irresolvable.

I think the highly polarized political climate is itself a deleterious side effect of the meta-policy of political centralization: the more people you try to cover under a single policy, the more conflict and 'gridlock' there will inevitably be. This, of course, is a strong argument for addressing policy questions as the smallest appropriate level; perhaps those who want to create economies of scale for their political projects are creating disproportionate diseconomies of scale.
The internet is not free or unlimited. There exists bandwith limits because the cables can't take more than that. There exists hard disk limits, because hard disks cost.
Any business who is offering something unlimited is taking a risk and trying to keep up with the need of space by adding more space when customers use space.

The price of 50GB storage is not free, it does cost but only about 3 Dollars according to the first 1TB hard drive which came up from DuckDuckGo. In this 1TB hard drive you can store 50GB partitions for 20 users. If the hard drive cost's 60 dollars then it's 3 dollars per user. So to say drop box is making about 6 dollars profit from 50GB accounts though the over all profit depends on the amount of free accounts.
Box.net took huge risk to steal dropbox users with the free 50GB accounts.

After it's in the amounts of tens of thousands users the 50GB free account is not really a free anymore. The space for 10k users is 500TB and cost is 30,000 dollars.

So it is not free nor unlimited. Get that idea out of your head right away.
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That's not particularly helpful.
It's baffling that you're getting downvoted for accusing a site of being government-operated with 0 evidence, and then you put down HN users? Really?
Is #2 true though?

Say we sell a groupon for cookies - $20 worth for $10. The customer pays $10 to Groupon, Groupon keeps $5.00 of it and gives the merchant $5.00.

Now, if the customer just does nothing, Groupon still has $5.00 in any case, the only winner here is the merchant, who got $5.00 and didn't have to provide any product.

So how is #2 pure margin for Groupon?

As for #3 - the problem I see here is that there are a lot of Groupon competitors in all the worthwhile niches - including the restaurant space you pointed out. Group-buying, in its current state, is a non-differentiated good. Which is to say, the barrier to entry is low, and customers have no loyalty since they're all peddling pretty much the same thing.
You forgot to mention that most of them are also Microsoft's Partners and has other business interests with MSFT.
I've never had to give a web system password over the phone. In which cases would this happen?
How can anyone possibly make this kind of prediction? Especially since Google+ has been dropping in activity level.
It's worth mentioning that some places embrace responsible disclosure, even going so far as to offer bounties when people do:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whitehat/bounty/ (disclaimer: I work here).

Tarsnap: http://www.tarsnap.com/bugbounty.html

Mozilla: http://www.mozilla.org/security/bug-bounty.html

Chromium: http://blog.chromium.org/2010/01/encouraging-more-chromium-s...
"What was really astounding about Michael's case is that the liquid nitrogen instantly expanded from a volume of about 3 or 4 cc's to about 3 or 4 liters and then dissected into five separate body compartments"

Ouch. http://www.wpi.edu/news/19989/nitro.html
TakeThisLollipop - really clever/creepy use of the Facebook API
I'm afraid I'm in the US for this one, but I'll see y'all next time.

If anyone here is on the fence about going, I strongly suggest it. I usually make the train ride all the way from Ogaki because it is the highlight of my month. Great people, great spectrum of involvement with the industry, and the right mix of talking shop and socializing.
> For example, the lightbox photo UI was panned as being confusing and slow, but brings in an extra billion (+5%) photo views a day [1].

If the interface is confusing, then it sounds like those extra billion image views a day were probably accidental -- which would simply mean wasted bandwidth (and money) for Facebook. Unless those extra image views somehow also produced additional ad impressions for Facebook or something like that, then I'm not sure why they'd consider having to serve up more images a success if people were happier using the old system...
The protocol between the service and the FOB allows for any program sitting on the computer to snoop the entire exchange and be unable to reproduce it. The simplest example of this was the Millicent protocol which used an MD5 running backwards as a one time pad, although that had other issues.

But lets say that at the 'introduction' stage the service set a cookie with the fob by saying 'remember this about me, I'll call my self ecb994af and your magic number is 3551eff' then later on verification passes it sends a message encrypted by its self key to 'tell me your magic number divided by 2 and encrypted with your id.' The attacker can see the whole sequence but if they don't understand what is being asked and returned they can't reproduce it, and they don't have the initial secrets either.

There are lots of ways to do this with smart protocols. Something I tried (and failed) to patent back in the Java days where you sent a packet which could be executed. The nice thing about such protocols is they can be dynamically designed between device and service and malware is stuck out in the cold.

There are things it cannot protect against, malware running in the Google servers or Amazon's for that matter which has access to all of their server data. But if it does get compromised it only compromises one relationship, no additional damage is done because other systems can have their own protocols, their own dynamic data.
I have one of those and it was very inspiring in my thoughts on this. I agree it comes part of the way there.
"To demonstrate the flaw to First State's IT staff, he wrote a script that cycled through each ID number and pulled down the relevant report to his computer. He confirmed that the vulnerability affected the firm's full customer database."

Seriously? That sounds a little more than just "Checking the vulnerability exists", that sounds like exploiting it. Tweaking the url, is all he needed to do to workout that there was a problem... then he writes a script and downloads all the data?

I'm actually not that shocked by the reaction. Equivelant:

"I noticed your door was unlocked, so I stole all your stuff, and put it in that truck parked just there. Just thought you might like to know". <--- Would you take legal action in that case?
+1 for Steve Hanov's blog. I enjoyed his post about how programmers/HR review your resume: http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=56
Another vote for onepassword. Good stuff.
Yeah, my first thought was "Will they also speak in slang from 30 years ago?"
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And why should we trust you (or Google etc) with our data? Perhaps you (they) will exploit our ignorance and manipulate our preferences?

Not everyone in the world can be assured their human rights and exposing personal information can lead to persecution. Therefore, there is a risk attributed to this data collection, at least for some. Not everyone is willing or able to take these risks.

While I can agree that this data may be useful for both customer and advertiser, its potential misuse should not be ignored. And when these networks deny the use of pseudonyms, they force their users to take (unnecessary) risks.
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Thanks Peter for chiming in. I'm fine with missing a great chunk of noteworthy stuff and rather read one focused source only. ;)
>There is a HUGE financial incentive to force people into using their real names.

"Financial incentive" is not, or rather, should not be a valid argument, ever. Especially not for infringing on fundamental principles of personal rights and liberties.

We (as in, the privacy/anonymity advocates) have always known that Google/Facebook wants to profit. What we question is why that is any justification for the shit they are pulling. Has capitalism really clouded most people's minds this much?
I'll be there, thanks to Jason and Paul for putting this on. Great crowd and great location. Looking forward to it.
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I'm confused, none of the mentioned invitees were ex-presidents, why would the secret service be there?
Hey guys - looking forward as always to Friday. See you all there.

Make sure you've registered (if you're coming), and you've un-registered (if you can't make it), so we can try to get the perfect amount of food and drinks there.

Cheers
You could get by fine on such a machine, so long as you were writing software for about 1993. But writing software for 2011? My source tree would just about fit on a disk that could be connected to such a machine, but it would take eons of page swapping to compile with 8MB of RAM.

Software does a lot more stuff these days, with richer media, more layers of abstraction and more reuse of code. We mock Iris as a poor knockoff of Siri, but the thing has text-to-speech and speech-to-text linked in to it, and was put together in 8 hours! Try doing that on your 486/33, with the tools of the era. You'd be lucky to have a sound card (MPC was a standard to encourage OEMs of the time to include them, along with a CD drive, if you recall) and a color console I/O library, much less a network connection good enough for cloud speech recognition.

My point? People today are forever bitching about how little we've progressed, how software development is still the same, but I can't agree. I remember what software development used to be like. It was great in that everything was small enough to be fully understandable, but that's all that was great about it - otherwise it sucked, deeply.
There is still the very real chance this guy has all their member information.

In this situation, how can a company ensure he has deleted all of the data, without legal action?
This is an articulate, succinct article that clearly outlines the concern without any FUD or name-calling. This is what I want to see from the FSF, and what would make me more likely to donate to them in the future.

I hate to turn this into an RMS rant, but this approach stands in stark relief to his "iBad/iGroan/Swindle" theatrics. This, I can appreciate. This, I can get behind. I just wish that these kinds of articles and press releases were what the FSF was most known for.
Fair enough. Just compete then. :)
Requesting a reason for a mod via an associated dropdown is not hard for anyone to understand - and I would expect users of "Hacker News" to be able to figure it out even if it were slightly difficult.

The "lightweight feedback" is "throwaway feedback", because you really only see how unpopular a comment is (is it dead yet? oop! there it goes!). Only the owner knows how popular it is, and even then, doesn't know if it's just a bunch of 'yeah, me too!' or 'that was informative or insightful!'

The most egregious example of 'why is this modded so' is this comment, so much so that I've stuck it in my profile:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3087822

The thread was about RMS and what an eccentric he is, and about his comments subsequent to Steve Jobs' death. The comment is defending RMS using an oft-quoted verse of Jobs', where he defends mavericks making their own rules and violating the status quo. The comment makes a very insightful link, and is not offensive or malicious. Yet it's downmodded to dead status, something that other comments in the same thread didn't have happen despite being much more fractious. Why was it downmodded? Who can say? It's probably fanboys, nothing else makes sense from a mature point of view.

Which reminds me of another issue with the mod system: it's totally anonymous. There is no accountability. You can diminish someone else's statement without giving a reason why nor standing behind it with your own name/pseudonym. Again, the forum I come from gives you the option to see who modded a comment whichever way - which while there is the occasional problem, is overall a significant net gain for an online community that strives to keep things mature.
So is the main language for this going to be English or Japanese?
Or: "it seemed like you left your private diary out, so I photocopied every page to make sure before telling you."

That said, I can see the temptation to want an answer to the question "did the really leave every account open?"
It is to preserve the plausibility of an unbiased viewpoint.
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The exact same thing (except in the USA) is happening to my friend: https://freeweev.info

He's looking at ten years in federal prison for what basically amounts to whistleblowing. They've charged him with identity theft and conspiracy to commit unauthorized access for scraping email addresses (and nothing else) that AT&T had published unauthenticated on the web.

The world is a crazy place, these days.
That's not the exact opposite because they are still talking about Facebook.
Not clear what this does:

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I tried it too. It's in insert mode, so it types an X, backspaces and then types a '#'.
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I don't believe these are entirely accurate.

1) The Rice survey regarding profitability of deals is based on anecdotal data only (it didn't crunch the numbers on the deals offered). The circumstances under which Groupon deals are profitable for merchants are very narrow and often difficult for merchants to measure, as they require tracking customers and referrals carefully over a period of months. How many businesses do you know of that could cut their prices by 75% (50% off list + 25% to groupon) and survive? Put another way, how many businesses have net margins > 75%? Answer: none. The profits to merchants are a mirage, as it's really future sales sucked into the present at a discount, not incremental increases.

2.) Not quite true. The current financial statements reflect the presence of breakage (for international), which is why the CityDeal acquisition actually saved Groupon's ass. The merchant agreement in the US says that unredeemed balances are split with the merchant after 60-90 days. Also, a customer's LTV goes down if breakage becomes too high--when customers don't use the coupons they buy, they tend to stop buying them.

3.) The latest numbers in the S1 show that the "backlog" of merchant deals in the US awaiting scheduling dropped in the most recent quarter. Given that Groupon has 900 employees in the US alone calling merchants all day every day, that's not a good sign. Sure, there are plenty of local businesses that haven't run Groupons yet. But that doesn't mean they haven't worked with a competitor or that they are good potential targets. Remember, Groupon has deliberately (per the S1) not repeated offers from the same merchant, and the pool of attractive restaurants/merchants is getting thinner. A 50% off coupon to a crappy restaurant isn't worth much if no one wants to eat there.

4) This is actually less true than you would think. Per the Deloitte annual restaurant surveys, food + labor (known as "prime costs" in the restaurant business) equal about 60% of revenues across all of the types/sizes of restaurants surveyed. These costs are largely variable, as it's easy to cut a server's hours on a weekly basis or put food in the refrigerator for a day and order less for the next delivery two days hence. Unlike hotels and airlines, where once the airplane takes off or once the hotel is built, there is no ability to easily adjust supply and significant costs are incurred to provide service to empty seats. Regardless, restaurant net margins (per the same annual study) are in the 7-10% range. Which means that a 75% discount to fill the empty seats would still be unprofitable.

5) Even if all of the above were true, that doesn't make it a good investment at the likely offer price. Assuming the offer price is $10B, the only question is, "if I had $10B in my pocket and someone offered me the chance to buy the whole company on the spot, would I take it?" Buying a single share at $10B/[shares outstanding] is the same question. Personally, I was eager to short it at $30B. (Sadly, the speculative bloom is off the rose, so while I still think it's a short, it's not a screaming short.)
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I don't know if personal information, including finances and info on your retirement fund, are like your diary. Perhaps more accurate would be "I found your checkbook with an exhaustive list of all your stocks, private information, bank balances, account numbers, etc. I recorded it all. You probably want it back?"

They aren't some online shopping store. They are a trustee.
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My solution to big monitors and small desks is a VESA arm mount and either a wall/floor stand or a desk stand; give in to the monitor being bigger than the desk!
Have you read "Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs" by Eliezer Yudkowsky[1]? It's the same principle: when civility diminishes and hostility increases, the first members to leave aren't the ones being uncivil and hostile, but the ones who are civil and gregarious.

All you have to do is note that the majority of quality contributors here are civil and polite to see who's going to leave if the civility of discussion decreases.

[1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/lr/evaporative_cooling_of_group_beli...
I think 'like' is still said a lot but not 'totally'. Unless something changed in the 6 years since I graduated from high school.
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By the way, what concrete benefits do you think lazy evaluation offers in contrast to lazy data structures?

I've noticed that with Clojure I can enjoy most laziness just the way I want to enjoy it by using lazy sequences and data structures. There's no lazy evaluation but I haven't really bumped into any problems with eager evaluation in Clojure. But Haskell goes deeper and has lazy evaluation as well. What additional, further good does it bring? (Besides nearly impossible debug prints...)
Even then, Groupon was basically a modified rip-off of Woot.com and other deals sites. Bernie Madoff would be proud of Groupon.
Seriously? I'd say checking that the vulnerability works on "hundreds of customers" out of 770,000 is a reasonable thing to do to see if it's really there and to get a bit of proof. I could easily imagine quickly banging out some shell one-liner with seq+wget to see if it wasn't a fluke.

First State Super shouldn't have worried about this guy. If he were evil, he wouldn't have told them. If some problem later developed with those few hundred people, they'd know who to nab. This is just scapegoating, presumably driven by IT people trying to distract execs from their total incompetence.
English is the norm.
Android has a great voice recognition technology.It works like a dream. Also it's pretty easy to integrate voice-to-text into your applications and again it's very easy to launch apps/do google searchs/open a map/etc in Android with Intents.
I've been playing with command voices and writing emails etc since maybe more than a year ago and if you have a little training in NLP (or even if you don't) you realize it's pretty easy to get your Android device to return wikipedia data in a pretty layout or get a few simple "natural language"-like commands working.

But what's amazing in Apple's system is not sending an email by saying "email to...". The really cool and difficult part is how the handle paraphrasing and uncertainty. Paraphrasing ("how's the weather today?" x “What is the weather like today?”) and ambiguity resolution ("What's up next" -> shows your next appointments) are still very difficult problems in NLP and even though research has improved lots[1][2] it's still totally non-trivial. The way they got it to work in the phone is in a total different level from what those guys working 8 hours achieved.

[1] http://www.nist.gov/tac/2011/RTE/index.html

[2] http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.3747
Oooh! Well played. I really want the candy, but I know they're going to do something bad with the information they take from me... I'm still tempted.

Ok, so I did it and now I'm never sleeping again.
Yes, I think too that the right approach is to have a LISP style equality of data and code. I think the reason people use templating for HTML is that it's rather simple do do, it's possible to do the same with PDF but nobody in the right mind would do this. There's a lot of power that comes from using something like clojures hiccup, or seasides html functions, for example the view, can actually contain the view and BE that programmatically, instead of having yet another layer. Templates must die.
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Well, not having security updates for something that you might use for email etc. is a bit scary too. (DigiNotar anyone?)
I can categorically state that the removal of publicly-viewable numbers has not made me more likely to read the 2-liner comments by latecomers, and I don't think I'm alone in this.
Even the CEO says he only downloaded info from "hundreds of other customers accounts", which would be 0.1% of "all the data".

Checking the extent of the vulnerability is a reasonable thing to do before reporting it. This is more "you have left all your doors unlocked" than "I stole all your stuff".
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if I heard of anyone actually using opencyc for anything, THAT would amaze me more than Siri lol.
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Although, we're getting more and more Japanese people coming along as well, which we think is great.

So it's a bit of a mix. Suffice to say, you can be comfortable using only English, only Japanese, or both.