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As seen in the tracerts that I posted, while S3 is not on the direct subnet of EC2, it is certainly much much closer. However, without having tested it, I am rather certain that the added complexity and latency of putting an EC2 based UDP proxy in betweeen the colo servers and S3, probably wouldn't be worth it.
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Thanks jarcoal,

We're planning on implementing a scroll bar -- we just don't really enjoy the default browser ones and are going to have a custom-built one soon in JavaScript.
I think the amount of variation in innate human talent is vastly overstated. But every year that goes by in which a human fails to thrive (intellectually, etc.) he/she falls further and further behind. In America, many people are already significantly damaged by the 2nd or 3rd grade. By the time Junior High rolls around, it would take a drastic intervention to correct someone's course.

So I think it comes back to our educational system... both those who run it and those who consume it (the people). As a daycare/assimilation system it works great, which is not surprising since this is its primary purpose.

Your comment advocates a welfare state where I'd estimate the bottom 40% of earners would be on welfare. I'm not sure that such a system is good for peoples' sense of self-worth.

Instead, people should realize that the secret to success is personal empowerment, learning, etc. It's never too late to learn new skills, etc.

Many who share your view think that it's unreasonable to ask Joe Sixpack to learn anything new... that his pride at doing unneeded, outdated work is so precious that we should simply give him welfare.

As long as society's notion of a "normal" life includes working 9 to 5, watching sports and drinking beer on weekends, etc., then few will ever have the time to improve their lot in life.

Every successful person I know works like a dog and has earned what they have, at great sacrifice (skipping parties and fun activities, working weekends, late nights, etc.). The fact to be remembered is that motivation is not evenly distributed in society and that many of the people struggling are simply not all that motivated. In fact, many teach their kids to disdain learning and education, etc.

Why should anyone in the US be guaranteed comfort when there are children begging in the street in Mexico or India?
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In the US, Virgin Mobile (Sprint MVNO) offers 300 minutes/2.5gb/unlimited for $35 (used to be $25) and T-mobile offers 100 minutes/5gb/unlimited for $30.
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That phone is the LG Optimus.
If the exploit potentially allows downloading and running of unsigned code after release in the app store, how else could one prove that it is in fact a hole, other than by releasing it into the app store to confirm the behavior?
I also like how CSS has less layout functionality than tables, specifically <td width="*" valign="middle">.

Sure, you can emulate this with "display: table;" but a) it's not backwards compatible and b) that's the same darn thing as just using a table!
Well they're not really disrupting anything, they're reselling Sprint, so they're actually helping Big Carrier.
Downrank all you want. Nothing about this move means "Apple now has a bad relationship with security researchers." It just means Apple doesn't want Charlie Miller showing people how to side-load arbitrary code into their sheeps'-clothing apps.
Well said. I found the sentence you quoted fundamentally broken to the point of offensiveness. As though society has graciously allowed people to create value. Nobody asked for your permission; don't claim to grant permission for something everyone has the fundamental right to do anyway.
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He's got great skills, and NSA training is as good as it gets, but he explicitly violated the rule to not download and run code from a server, to see if the rule would be enforced. They enforced it, just as he'd known they would. There was no point to his doing that other than to get headlines.
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My expected value is 50% higher. That's assuming I get the standard bonus (rather than the superstar one), keep eating roughly the same amount of food, etc.
> I'm curious as to what they would do with people who sign up and don't live in cities.

I'm guessing they'll offer it in one or two cities, call it a revolution, fail to generate revenue and fade quietly into tax write-off oblivion.
I don't think you're actually disagreeing, because I think the entire point of the piece was to highlight the discrepancy between the putatively educated meritocracy and the fact that they have in fact not produced all that much merit. I think the "Meritocracy" in the title is intended to be subtly ironic. I think you're supposed to read this and then kvetch about how the meritocracy isn't.

I could copy and paste this as a reply to a number of other people complaining about how misinformed this piece is, then going on to argue in the comment about how the meritocracy isn't. This piece is a fine bit of judo, getting a whole bunch of people who probably would otherwise be defending the dominant educational culture to condemn it, by its own standards.
I'm not exactly sure what the issue is. This isn't (as far as I know) information that wasn't available before. It's just that it's now aggregated in an easier to reach location...
At $19/month for unlimited, they're probably operating at a loss unless they can build up a significant customer base.

I imagine we'll see an incentive program soon..."Refer 5 friends and this month's bill is free." If you refer the 5 friends you talk to most, the company will save much more than $19.

VoIP is cool, but traditional phone calls and text messages are not always ideal. I think innovation on the communication channels themselves would go a long way for this company. Think http://voxer.com

Facebook is in a particularly good position to pull this off correctly. They already have a "cool" factor, and if they could come up with a communication tool that people really like, so much that you're jealous your friend has it but you don't, the people will come. Blackberry pulled this off for years with BBM, but lost its "cool" somewhat recently.
Another vote here from Mailgunners for Context.io Those guys know IMAP like noone I've met before and their APIs are great.
Virgin's coverage is ass.
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No, he explicitly violated the rule in order to test the hypothesis that a security hole he'd uncovered would allow unsigned code to be downloaded after release into the app store and run on the device.

The sane response to this would be "Oh, we better fix that. Thanks. We're removing your app BTW." The Apple response was typical of a bureaucracy.
Oh my god, this whole thread is ridiculous. I need to say that I intended my original comment as a joke. I don't think it is ethical to misuse users' data, even if it's anonymous.
Virgin only uses iDEN. That's why their coverage is ass. You could be standing in line sight of a tower and have zero connectivity because that tower isn't supported.
A few days ago I heard from a recruiter who had scraped all the emails from the contributors list for a popular open source project.

They sent a mass email; it contained two typos.

Tip: this is a great way to make tons of people not like you, or the company you purport to represent.
There's that and there's also the fact that Virgin is only allowed to use iDEN towers and not CDMA towers.
I'm a firm believer in the personal network. Finding qualified co-workers through friendship networks has been productive for me and anecdotes I hear usually say this is a good approach.

Asking about family when interviewing a candidate is inappropriate and illegal. Don't.

Please do engage candidates about their current job, dream job, give that open-ended "what have you been working on lately that is really interesting to you" question that lets you find about what really drives them forward.

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we all should remember to skim the eeoc guidelines occasionally:

http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/practices/index.cfm
Apple is extremely binary. You're either with them or you're not. They don't seem to have flexibility and the only punishment is to be banned.

Awful.
Isn't this precisely the kind of thing that will trigger anti-competition lawsuits?
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Developer agreements are not a security mechanism.
Yeah, I'm with you on point 1, particulary since I know a lot of parents that got a grade school education, but taught their children to value education. It is kind of the standard immigrant story.

Her arguments seem really lazy and not well justified.
I'll dare to say that the two are just as important. Think of it as one being a heart and the other being a liver. Both are just as important since without one of them you'll die. Have a poor heart or a poor liver and you'll live a sub-optimal existence.
I think you misunderstood what I said about degrees. I wasn't comparing degrees from different countries, I was only comparing degrees acquired in the U.S. by U.S. citizens.

Your original point was that there shouldn't be a shortage of talent in the U.S.: that companies should be able to find enough U.S. workers for things like engineering jobs. And I'm saying that there may not actually be enough local talent; it depends on how many U.S. citizens choose the "hard" degree programs that companies want.

There's lots of money to be made by U.S. citizens in certain sectors such as finance. It's conceivable that some U.S. students would opt for an "easier" degree if that still leads to a high-paying job; they may see no point in the extra work of a "hard" program like science or engineering.

Clearly not all U.S. citizens do that, and those that do choose engineering are just as employable, or more so, than immigrant engineers; I never said they weren't.
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Of course, but there are way of combining data sources that will produce valid XML.
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The downside is poorer security, which could blow up in their face spectacularly at some point in the future.
Some interesting variants are thusly suggested:

• loading starts a countdown timer, visible on screen: after that long, the message is destroyed. (In the meantime, an iPad re-download succeeds.)

• the reader sees a big button on the page which must be pressed to complete deletion (or to speed deletion, if the above timer is counting down).

* on initial load, the browser is given a unique cookie (or even decryption key); from then on, even if the message has an additional countdown 'grace period' (of seconds, days, or longer), only that one browser can reload (or decrypt) it.
Regarding human talent, we both can't prove either standpoint, so we'll just leave it at that.

Welfare is not the only solution to this problem. If minimum wage is not enough to allow a single mother to pay for child care, then we should just offer free child care, financed by taxes. Mom still has an incentive to work for a living, but is much better off. Scandinavian countries demonstrate that this works very well.

>Why should anyone in the US be guaranteed comfort when there are children begging in the street in Mexico or India?

Because as I said, the US as a society is incredibly wealthy. It's possible with a few political tweaks to fix this, and not a single person will be noticeably worse off. There's no real reason not to fix it, except for the extraordinary greed of a few.
I think a lot of the problem with CEO failure come from risk adverse boards being unwilling to try someone new as opposed to the accepted stable of CEO candidates. Small pool equals big compensation even for failure.
I'd agree more if he didn't submit — and get approved — a working exploit in their store. Without telling them about it.

Edit: Now, I don't disagree that just banning him from the program isn't a great idea, and that pulling the app and having someone from the security team send him an email isn't a better one. But it's hard to say this that a bad move on Apple's part.
My Finger DNA has already memorized "Double Click + Camera Icon" from the lock screen, and then hit the shutter release/+ button on the iPhone like mad.

Even on the relatively poor shutter speed iPhone 4, I'm usually taking pictures within 2-3 seconds. Supposedly the 4S has significantly reduced the shutter-lag to first picture - looking forward to seeing the truth of that.
Increasing the number of photographs would definitely make this more significant (as increasing the sample size in any experiment does).

My point is that regardless of if a 4S shot better photos, the photographer could hiccup and get a blurrier photo than they might have taken last with a 3GS. In a less extreme circumstance, they could have just exhaled instead of hiccuping, in which case no one would have noticed and the error could be incorrectly attributed to the camera.

A great photograph with a camera phone requires a certain set of parameters that can almost entirely be individually measured outside of human interaction (and randomness). If you want good handheld performance, you need a fast exposure time, which can be measured from the EXIF data of each photo. If you want high dynamic range, measure the ratio of pure white and black pixels to the rest of the image (white and black is basically over/underexposed). The only thing that would be effected by motion that I can't think of how else to measure beyond being handheld is time to good focus (outside of crazy contraptions that result in more repeatable motion, like sticking your phone in a centrifuge), but there probably exists a way to do so while avoiding the inherent non-repeatability of humans behavior.
Have any of these all points bulletins for a missing person ever worked? I'm not trying to be a smart ass, just curious if this method has been affective in the past.
A few points:

1. This "guy" apparently didn't try very hard, at all, to cooperate, as evidenced by him putting the exploit itself in the App Store before notifying Apple about it, in direct violation of the dev guidelines.

What good is it to have such guidelines at all if you display in public that you won't enforce them?

2. Microsoft is doing a great job at this? So are we to assume that their security is therefore superior?

3. There are a few clued-in people at Apple, too.
Except that how else is he supposed to prove that it works other than actually demonstrating it with a real app on the real App Store?
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Indirectly answering your point #3 above, this would appeal to inter-country travellers. More specifically, there is probably a sizeable segment of customers who travel back and forth between Canada and the US where this would be a hit.

At $19/month, it's also cheap enough to be a work/travel phone that is assigned to you. Although there is a growing trend for IT-consumerization and multi-SIMs, there are still plenty of people who prefer to keep physically separate personal and work mobile devices. This could easily appeal to them and organizations.

For a smaller (but very lucrative segment) of roaming subscribers, being able to use a single phone number accessible over WiFi no matter what country you're in is a compelling value prop; no more need to worry about data/voice add-on packages.

It's like being able to take your voip line with you on your phone, accessible through one number. Surprisingly, nobody else can offer that right now. The closest we've got is FaceTime (cellular network for voice; free voice calling if you're on wifi and reaching out to another iOS device), and even that doesn't quite provide the same convenience.

And with declining voice revenues, carriers are fighting a losing battle knowing their margins are being squeezed. They are deathly afraid of voip cannabilizing their voice revenues.

This is a good move by Sprint. I wonder if they have any equity in Republic Wireless.
> Hopefully, she just went on a bender, had a absolute blast, but it got a little out of control- perhaps resulting in dehydration or something else without too much social stigma.

As long as we're using the absence of details as a springboard for wild speculation, we should also consider the possibility that she was kidnapped by a pack of wild monkeys.
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Anecdotal evidence is perfectly fine to say 'usually' here.
> How would you like the C compiler that tried to interpret any old chicken scratch as a valid C program? Never a compiler error again!

Oh fun, bad analogies time! How would you like it if your word processor refused to save a text document because it detected an incomplete sentence?
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I really like the simple UX, although I believe others have already provided some good suggestions for improvement.

I'm among the group of visitors who wants to know more before I click any of the big 3 icons. I'm also interested in improving (and adding to) my novice HTML/CSS skills, so I immediately saw value after reading the home page. It came as quite a shock you wanted $50/month to access your full content!

You may want to take this chance to consider a different $ model. Sure, you have plenty of competition- including big name universities- charging way more for effectively the same training. But free substitutes abound. The internet is flooded with tutorials, etc. about how to make stuff for the internet. No matter how much "better" quality you provide, I think prospects will balk at your rates and turn to free resources instead.

But you might still make a lot of money from providing your content "for free". If you only granted access to registered subscribers, you have a great tool for building a strong email list. The demographic has already identified itself: these are people interested in learning more about web & iOS development. There's a lot of cash to be had marketing software tools, templates and all sorts of tertiary materials to this same demo. Imagine the affiliate commission on 1 copy of Adobe CS5.

Also, I found it annoying the "Sign your team up" button on the http://teamtreehouse.com/groups page simply looped back to the main 'Plans' page. Seemed like a mistake when I first clicked; only realized it was intentional after scouring the Plans page to find out "you can easily add other users at a discount". But what are the multi-seat rates?
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And security research does not trump the developer agreement.

The guy submitted a real live exploit to the Joe-User facing App Store. What on earth did he expect would happen?
Love the idea, thought the same thing after having seen detexify and doing web development looking for suitable Unicode glyphs (glyph lists are a pain in the, well...). Keep it up and by all means fix the current error. ;)
Think of how it must look to a third-worlder who has trouble scoring a dollar a day to see that lavishly paid slackard mistreating customers despite being paid so very much.
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It does seem similar. I actually like Detexify's interface a little bit more because it doesn't require pressing a button after you've drawn your character, although I imagine that is a matter of preference.

Detexify's popularity and utility shows that this sort of thing could be very useful--I suspect I might end up using it myself in the future.
It seems he was pretty sure it was going to work - there's nothing magical about the App Store, he'd found a way to get around the code signing checks. I'm sure that once the vulnerability was fixed, he'd get credit. It's just that this sort of thing won't get you in forbes.

I personally don't really think there's anything at all wrong with a bit of harmless, nerdy limelight-seeking to boot, if that's what he was doing. Acting like he was somehow mistreated is what seems a bit iffy.
>I have little doubt that a group of people well educated in any given subject can do better than the average high-school text book. //

I don't understand this comment. The only person I know that's involved in creating high-school textbooks (UK) is certified by the subjects professional body and has 40 years experience teaching their subject; as well of course as a Uni education in the subject.

People writing textbooks are surely (paraphrasing) 'groups of people well educated in the given subject' with years of experience teaching the material? If not, what on Earth are they doing writing textbooks?

Also why don't States just buy in the whole syllabus and materials that other States have developed and save their time and money - it's not like Physics or Mathematics or whatever is a different subject according to the State you live in.
Perhaps it is because the very concept of wikileaks is flawed from the start no matter your political persuasion. If it is successful, information will be out there. Powerful entities (including, but not limited to the US Government) can do one of at least things to counter that.

1) Drive actual secrets further underground and out of reach of wikileaks.

2) Use the leaks to spread disinformation/propaganda to their advantage.

3) Use violence, lies, and intimidation to help "shape" the form of the leaks.

It was doomed from the start. It was either a politically motivated propaganda machine, in which case it's fair game; or it was a lofty, academic pursuit, in which case it was a game.
He is foolish if he did not expect this. My guess is he's doing it for the notoriety and succeeded.

A job well done.

Next time he either should submit a bug report to Apple or avoid using their products.
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Unfortunately, if he submitted an exploit and didn't get banned, we'd see more criticizing Apple for favoritism in enforcing the rules.

They deserve that criticism and it's true, but I can see where they would prioritize actually enforcing those rules, especially in a big publicly-visible incident.

Obviously the best choice from HN's moral point of view is to be more open, more even-handed and less draconian about rules in the first place. But failing that, I can see why they try for "even-handed" over "less draconian," given their own priorities.
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I use Google Voice and GrooveIP on my Optimus V on Virgin Mobile on the 300 minute/$25 month plan to get significantly more than 300 minutes of talk time, since data is "unlimited" (I'm sure it isn't really unlimited, but I've yet to hit any caps that I've noticed).

I agree with GP post though. This deal is good, but not quite as amazing as the article makes it seem. Even if you have to go with the newer pricing ($35 vs $25), Virgin Mobile has plans in this general range and their phones are a known quantity (and pretty well supported by CM7 ports).
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Hi,

I am a big fan of Dan Pink and his book Drive, and I have looked up Google Scholar for motivation papers - I was wondering if any of you had good resources/papers on motivation in the workplace ?