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The problem is, by releasing the patch they alert attackers to the existence of the bug. I don't know this to be the case here, but for things like Windows vulnerabilities the time between releasing the patch and it being exploited in the wild is only a few hours.

For systems (like core routers) that are simultaneously too critical and too available to permit timely maintenance cycles, the only solution is to not have any bugs ever.
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Hope you didn't have anything to do today:

http://fuckyeahmadeinusa.tumblr.com/
a better piece for an argument on jobs ethos
http://goo.gl/yHRct
Come again? Steve developed Woz?
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Thanks, glad you liked it. This should just be the start of things. :-)
if you squint hard enough, then yes. maybe.
What about iMac?
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Well I am a "Brit" and I don't support it. Such censorship is always wrong - no exceptions.
Jobs without Woz would have found another company to run and another great idea to build.

Woz without Jobs would just be some really good engineer inside some gigantic company no one has ever heard of. He even is quoted in the book as having aspired to that.
How effective do you find these video productions?
Article is just trying to expel the misconceptions around Jobs and say that brilliant engineering is more important than design & reality distortion field in a startup.
Interesting concept, but I'm skeptical how successful it can be. Banks are trying to get more money out of customers, in large part, to compensate for the costs of cyber-theft. Banks would rather reimburse your stolen money and recapture it through xyz fee, than lose your confidence.

Simple does nothing to solve the bigger issue of our insecure networks. From what I've seen, they're no different from any other company offering online banking services. Add in the fact that they don't have any physical collateral, and maybe they're even more vulnerable than traditional banks...
So... lets say someone hacks my Simple account (or simply phishes the password) and drains all of its funds.

What happens then?
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The Apple II would not have had a keyboard or power supply without Jobs' vision though.

You're probably right that it wasn't the design aesthetic that counted, but Jobs' customer focus was still very important.
They were both lucky to have each other.
Take Jobs, Wozniak or Markula out of the picture and Apple fails. You needed a hustler/product guy, a brilliant engineer and a great business mind for success.

Jobs legend was created because he built upon his skills. He enhanced his ability to spot and aquire great talent and learned (the hard way) how to become a great businessman.
Land of the free, indeed.
It sounds interesting but was there a market for what they built? I'm kind of curious why Facebook was interested in this network, or why this company was so quick to throw in the towel?
First statement is completely up for debate. Jobs did continue without Wozniak and he failed every product in the next 18 years and spent millions of dollars. Not something founders here can emulate.
Given my experience in dealing with military intelligence types - they probably have "PROPERTY OF FBI - SECRET UNDERCOVER OPERATIONS DEPT" printed on them along with an address and an orange flashing light.
I don't know; plenty of people I know throw away (read: recycle) functional stuff, just because it's functionally obsolete. Even I, who never bought a cellphone, have a working Nokia 3310 on some drawer. But who'd want it? You can get a better, newer phone for the same price as the shipping fees for a package.

Besides, do we really want unsafe, gas wasting cars to last forever? Electricity wasting fridges or TVs? Isn't it better to recycle them?
True, but the least important in the mix was Jobs.
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Most crafts require tools. Where do you draw the line?

Even with bushcraft you start with a knife and axe which are likely manufactured, not handmade.
Facebook has been acquiring a lot of technological talent, especially in design.

I've seen at least two TC videos where Facebook understands that the future of their product is mobile. It will be interesting to see in the long term if they can push the end user to the web. Today users are infatuated with native apps. I don't see that changing in the short term (5-7 years).
It really all depends on what your trying to do yourself. Im not naive enough to think Apple would have worked without BOTH Woz and Jobs. Every company needs an innovator/inventor, but then what good are they if they have no clout with regards to how to get the product to market, or what exact product the consumers would want? Thus the title is completely incorrect.

The company would not be what it is today if either of them had went solo, FACT.

These constant articles/opinions etc regarding Jobs are now getting pretty tiresome. Love him or hate him, he was amazing at what HE done.

Whatever happened to letting someone Rest In Peace
Not all startups want a VC in the office with them acting as a "virtual CEO." In fact I suspect increasingly few do.
I agree, about resolution.

But, people looking at the image may not understand it is a radar image, not an optical image.

People might think that the highlights on the top of the image are sunlight, and the dark area below is shadow, but of course they're not, because radar doesn't care about sunlight.

In fact, I'm not sure how they pseudo-colored the images. In vanilla radar imaging, you get the highest return off surfaces that are perpendicular to line of sight (generally speaking). Here's a (model) plane radar image: http://www.fhr.fraunhofer.de/fhr/site/drucken_c336_f4_en.htm... A lot of the radar imaging work is classified.
He can still seek legal advice. Just because a contract says "we can't be held responsible for anything" doesn't mean it's always going to hold up in court. It just wouldn't be fair, and lawyers would lose too much business.

What matters is the disputed amount ($13,000), whether the author wants to play hardball, and whether Amazon would rather pay him to go away or squash him like a bug (to set an example). Because even if he wins (and I've no idea if he can), it wouldn't be fun if Amazon got nasty.

I'm not a lawyer, and I haven't seen the contract in question, so I have no real idea, but it's not as clear cut as "you agreed not to sue us". It could very well be a bluff by Amazon.
I certainly do not support such a measure; nor does anyone I know.

973 people were polled. In no way can that tiny population represent the views of the more than 60 million Brits alive today. The pollsters should have made a bigger study and approached more diverse groups.
How did they got hold of such a generic domain ? how much did it cost ? was it still freely available ?
I agree some of my friends here in HN and also think BankSimple.com was way better than Simple.com
But good luck anyways, you are doing something I wish I could do here in Brazil without behind crushed.
Cheers
As a follow-on to this, it certainly appears (from quick searches of your site as well as reading through this thread) as though you are not disclosing which banks you are specifically partnering with... this is certainly your choice, of course, but given the events of the past few years, I think that there's a significant number of people that make an active choice not to use certain banks due to their past behaviors - if I were to sign up for something like this, I would be concerned that there would be a chance that I could be implicitly supporting a company that I'm actively not supporting today. Is there any notion of being able to "choose" the partner bank your account is held with, or at least being able to screen a list prior to opening an account?
Schwab rocks!

Fidelity also has a similar account although it is a joint checking/brokerage account and the interface is tailored towards the brokerage side.

Glad to see more competition in this space. Give me something even better than Schwab :)
Perhaps your FAQ should say that your money will be kept at a specific institution that you will be informed of.
Woz was the engineering genius. Jobs was the visionary entrepreneur. They both needed each other.
Out of curiosity, is there some place to locate a clear listing of the seminal works in your field?

I'm genuinely curious how much of the difficulty here is actual breadth/depth of the subject matter, and how much of the difficulty is due to some systemic inefficiency in the way research is published and consumed.
Yes - we provide you with the account & routing numbers so that you have direct access to your funds at the underlying account.

(Josh - CEO, Simple)
The arguement is whether this is simply the same as reporting your position in public.

Or by tracking everywhere you go and correlating that with tracks of other known suspects and then extending that to tracking people that you travel near they are approaching "unreasonable search and invasion of privacy".

For example you can hardly object to the police office outside the bank seeing your car at the scene and radioing that in - but that's different to having a police officer follow you around 24x7 and asking the name and address of everyone you speak to.
Peer review is slow because publishing and retracting used to take a long time, now it is instant.

Have you ever done a peer review? It took me hours to do each one. To do it well, you have to stare at each procedure and each conclusion and try to imagine what could be going wrong.

You may also have to read a lot of literature, both in general (so that you can recognize the difference between something genuinely new and something that was already published in 1975) and in particular (so that you can make sure the manuscript is not misrepresenting its own references).

And, given what's at stake in a review – you're basically holding a year or more of some grad student's life in your hands, at a minimum – it's only respectful to take it seriously.

perhaps it would make sense for the journal to employ professional scientists that only review...

This is either obvious, or silly. Obvious, to the extent that journals always have employed scientifically trained editors – they're called "editors" – to do everything from tweaking bad phrasing to offering criticism to ultimately making the final decision about what gets published. Silly, because journal editors are rarely experts in your specific field. How can they be? There are a lot of scientific fields. It's impossible to be "up to date on all the current research" in every single one of them, to the requisite level of detail. And most fields aren't awash in money to the extent that they can support a full-time editor with complete expertise. In the general case, you have to rely on peer review because only your peers have the incentive to be experts in your field.
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As SproutCore was still in the middle of a major rewrite / transition, it would be good to hear if Facebook intends to continue to support SproutCore directly as an open-source project, or not.

From the sound of the blog post (http://blog.strobecorp.com/?p=304) it looks like there will be no official support.
Come to think of it, I think there was something in their relationship that we might now call "development." There is the anecdote about how Steve "tricked" Woz into cutting down the number of chips to win a prize at Atari. Woz did the work, but it was probably Steve pushing him that made him consider it possible in the first place.

Although Steve had ulterior motives, this doesn't seem too different than what we would say now of managers who were good at developing their employees.
In YOUR opinion. I doubt those involved would agree.....if Woz was left to what he wanted to do he would have been giving away products......

All were equally important in starting the company.....
And I'm willing to bet the kind of users that tend to call technical support are not the kind of users that install their OSs.

That doesn't mean that users that can install Windows and OS X are in the minority. It's just selection bias.
It's only possible from trade commissions/fees they've generated in general, but not specifically from you. Some people definitely come out ahead.

And yeah, you have to open a brokerage account but you can leave it with $0 and no positions forever. That said, Schwab has some pretty killer deals on ETFs on the brokerage side..
I'd go with 'scary.'

I put my money in a bank because there is an assurance that I'll be able to get it out later and that it is safe there.
Which is why they're in a blind panic about Government spending/GDP? You need evidence if you're going to make broad claims like that.
Basically what I'm getting at is: He had greater means and so could take higher value risks, but the basic mechanism is the same; it's just at a different scale.

In the end it comes down to having the vision and taking the risk. And one of his risks finally paid off. That is the essence of entrepreneurship, and something to emulate.
driving a Crown Victoria with tinted windows.

Well, the GPS thing might be up for debate, but tinted front side windows are illegal in CA. :-)
Any plans on supporting objects in standard open CAD formats? It'd be handy on occasion to be able to be able to dump an IGES or STEP file out of Solidworks and get it printed.
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This shit is beyond absurd.

How can anybody write an article with a straight face suggesting that you should emulate any of these people who were notable chiefly because they emulated no one?

Can we get special flagging functionality to deal with this personality cult bullshit?
looks good, but I'm not sure if necessary very-good-modern-design == simple ?

not trying to be down on you, just asking about it now because when I make stuff for others I don't have this corellation and to me the simplest thing is many times command-line.
It's worth checking out how many of Jobs' "failures" eventually came to pass. Crazy ideas like the stability of Unix with an Apple GUI..
Finland is pretty bad when it comes to these things. They block political criticism against its web censorship policy: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikinews/en/wiki/Finnish_intern...
We hear you. Could you define some criteria as to the type and size of sample data you would like to see? We are working on producing more targeted/limited collections, like perhaps all most recently published blog posts etc.
Virgin Mobile USA is CDMA.
Avoid GMAC (Ally now) like the plague.

Rife with fraud internally (My mother used to work there and told some horrible stories of how they screwed over customers).
>But you have to get your work in front of a peer, and they have to understand your contribution.

A very small (but growing) minority of journals, like PLoS One or , make no effort to understand or estimate the significance of the contribution, only whether or not the work is scientifically sound.
It's not at all controversial--standard social signaling theory. GMU Econ professor Robin Hanson's blog, http://overcomingbias.com, has stuff about it all the time. Here's some more classic citations: http://octavia.zoology.washington.edu/handicap/honest_econom...
On the naming of the account, it is a little more complicated. Everyone gets, at least, two accounts with us. One is a joint account, that is named 'Simple', but titled for the benefit of (FBO) our customers. But titling it such, all FDIC insurance flows through to the individual customers.

In addition to the co-mingled account, everyone gets an individual interest baring account, which is directly titled in the name of the customer.

Either way, you can access your funds at any time.

In the case of the co-mingled account, we generate pseudo-account numbers that correspond to your portion of that account.

It is a complicated answer, but unfortunately, banking is complex. We do a lot of heavy lifting on the back end to make it as simple as possible for you.
Profits related to the iPhone tells you something about its users - money spenders, good market to target. Profits related to IIS, unless you're in the business of selling breain-dead. NET components, only tells you how fucked up you are for choosing a commercial web server, when the alternatives are not only better but also free and also preferred by the top busiest sites ever (except MSDN).
If you'd like to take a shot at it, feel free to try to convince me that I should be concerned about warrantless GPS tracking of subject cars.

* I'm a good-faith commenter on HN and not inclined to troll you or piss you off for no reason.

* I'm a liberal Democrat.

* I donate money to the ACLU.

* I do not think it is unreasonable for law enforcement agencies to designate, during the course of an actual investigation of a specific target, individual cars for GPS surveillance:

- so long as removing the devices if they're detected isn't a crime

- and research and development of technologies that shield cars from GPS monitoring isn't banned

My reasoning: the police already have the clear and reasonable right to surveil cars from a distance either by ground patrol cars or aerial surveillance. That low-tech surveillance, which has never required a warrant, is actually more intrusive than a GPS device, in that it records your actual actions at each location.

I'm not generally opposed to things that allow law enforcement to do a better job with fewer resources.

I don't want to get into the Patriot Act or anything; we're talking about GPS transponders, which is a specific concept we can actually get our heads around. So let's try!
Yeh without Jobs Excessive attention to details I doubt many of the products of recent would be as well recieved by the customers are they were.
You're right, we're agreeing violently. Above, you said that more rich people started a company than worked for others; here you're applying Bayes. That first assertion is not verifiable, but you're definitely right that starting a company increases your likelihood of becoming rich.

Also, apologies for my rude tone. :(
Even though the tech fades away, this is mind blowing tech right there, hidden behind all the blue!
Sounds like SproutCore will still be worked on outside of Facebook:

https://twitter.com/#!/wycats/status/133955395013181440

https://twitter.com/#!/wycats/status/133651471983050753
Under GPLv2, under which OpenJDK is distributed, that is technically optional. You basically have two options:

a) Ship the source code alongside the binary

b) Offer to furnish the source code to people who ask for it

AFAIK, the second option was intentionally introduced to provide for a delay in releasing source code, since providing the source code to uninterested parties might be cost-prohibitive if it's 1992 and you're publishing on floppies.
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HN isn't for kids, i don't think the family filter is required.
May I ask how Kicksend is mind blowing "tech"? I was under the impression this was a user-experience company.
i don't work for them. read their FAQ and their site. if it doesn't answer their questions, ask them. if you're not convinced, don't use it. i suspect this isn't for everyone. it might not be for you. not everyone "gets" mint either.
I'm fed up with the TSA. Everyone is fed up with the TSA. The TSA is a joke. It's clearly not a "liberal" or "conservative" issue.

But I'm not prepared to lump everything that law enforcement does in with the TSA. One of the biggest problems with the TSA is that they're not a real law enforcement agency; they're lowest-bidder contractors and subcontractors that exist almost entirely for the purpose of making people feel safer, because anything as annoying as the TSA must be making us safer.

Let's be as specific as we can.
That depends entirely on your definition of rich. While P(earnings > $1M/year) is probably going to increase, P(earnings > $100k/year) is probably going to decrease. It's also unclear whether your expected earnings are going to increase, and note that most people's loss function is not even linear (e.g. you're not going to be 10x as happy earning $1M than earning $100k -- and you're going to be much less happy when you're broke).
Tone is annoying but the question is good. Here's some background on why this is being done:

http://echo.jpl.nasa.gov/introduction.html

Briefly: asteroid geology, better orbit prediction through understanding of mass distribution, modeling for evolution of solar system studies.

There would have to be a rationale, because time on the telescopes is limited.
Yes. Real Soon Now (tm). :-)

Generic import is starting to be pretty close on the roadmap. After that it's just a question of adding file types as people request them. IGES and STEP are definitely on the list.
The banking market in europe is not as unified. Simple would have to approach europe country by country. For example, retail banking in italy is nearly ten times as expensive as in the netherlands.

There's a study by the EU on this topic: http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/rights/docs/study_bank_fees_en...
Thank you sir/madam for an opportunity to better explore the depths of my ignorance. I have previously wondered what sort of use abstract algebra and geometry would be put to outside of various parts of applied mathematics or physics, and I would now appear to have an excellent example.
:)

As I've mentioned in another reply, I'd like to see the system cleaned up and made more accessible. I'm a mechanical engineer by schooling and a graphics programmer by trade, so I don't frighten easily at math or algorithms. That said, this paper gave me quite a start. How deep down the rabbit-hole would you say it is in the field of computer vision? Is it fairly advanced/niche in application, or is it about some sort of foundational knowledge that is supposed to be known backwards and forwards by practitioners of the art?

I feel as though a better way of presenting the papers might aid in understanding (clear list of dependencies for knowledge, clear list of applications, clear note of "hey, this is a minor optimization, so don't sweat the details if you don't get it", etc.), but my personal metrics for judging this may not be correct. Any feedback would be appreciated.
I'm sorry, your claim seems to be: The process is working perfectly right now. This is absurd. The scientific method is a lot more open to interpretation than you suggest, and indeed it is interpreted with wide variety in different disciplines.

The methods of science will be disrupted and improved. Bright lay people will absolutely be able to poke holes in research once the methods and data are completely open, as has been indisputably proven with the advent and prominence of open source software. Research has shown systemic flaws in numerous disciplines. These sorts of flaws fester because of the closed nature of the system. Open research will have its day. It's only a matter of time.
Thanks for those links. During my own PhD, I was pretty sure that the "least publishable increment" became negative.

The underlying problem is that there is no penalty for publishing non-increments. For some inexplicable reason, citation impact assessments do not divide by the total number of publications.

I have no doubt that such a normalization factor would go a long way to fixing the problem.
Just out of curiosity, how much did the domain name cost?
Conservative is not equal to Republican and hasn't been for a while.
Customer acquisition often has a high cost. Identifying a group as "senior citizen" and offering a discount is just another such cost.

You see "student discount" at least as often. It is not about giving a "gift" to the students but making an offer to a self identifying group. Otherwise it is a hard and costly marketing slog reaching individual consumers.