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Yes, twice actually.

Gruber's rebuttal that Gladwell's comparison is invalid is itself a fallacy. Gruber claims that Steve Jobs wasn't an inventor but his use of the term is different [1] than Gladwell's use. If you read Gladwell's comments (both the excerpted parts and the entire thing) you will see that Gladwell equates Job's 'vision' for the iPod (as an example) which he was very much in control of, as having both 'invented' the iPod (creative force behind it) and 'tweaked' in the sense that it was a refinement of a previous invention (product).

[1] It's called an amphiboly. http://blekko.com/ws/?q=define+amphiboly
Part 1 is NSFW in exactly the same way as part 2. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3253422
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The current Bell Labs is a spin off of only the US Government contracts that were in place when the Lucent-Alcatel merger occurred. This was done because Alcatel is a foreign owned company and cannot be a part of sensitive government contract. All of the other research was kept with Lucent-Alcatel. So what's now known as Bell Labs is really just a name.

Lucent-Alcatel disbanded all research in 2008.
It is a very popular license. Content on Wikipedia used to be GFDL-only, but the CC is obviously better suited. I doubt this connection has anything to do with the donation.
You assume that the over three quarters of a million US law enforcement officers act uniformly. What's the statistical significance of a youtube video?

(Edit: The question's phrasing is for effect; I'm well aware there are egregious abuses documented in number greater than one. But I'm still not convinced that with the non-uniformity of the LEO population between different jurisdictions, etc, as well as the non-random selection bias, that all the accounts we have of LEO malevolence provide statistical certainty that police, overall, are bad.)
Serious question: Do you really feel there's a material difference? There was creativity in concept and extremely masterful technical execution. Feels pretty "hackerly" to me.
In this case Brin might just be a convenient way to subsidize Wikipedia. Google depends on Wikipedia to provide good results for a large percentage of their searches.
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Did anyone else notice this choice comment:

“They just figured it’s part of the normal instability of the system,” Weiss told Wired.com. “But it wasn’t until the SCADA system actually turned on and off that they realized something was wrong.”

That's a pretty bad sign that the system is so buggy that at first it seems like a hacking attempt is just "normal" instability.
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It's a shame that so few of the big figures in tech really exude passion and enthusiasm (like the other other Steve also did).
I think you mean aesthetic. I definitely missed the ascetic part too :)
It can be much easier to separate people from their money using the App Store model.

As soon as you throw up a long-ass payment screen, where I have to fill in name, billing address, CC info, etc, a lot of people will bail, both out of distrust for you and sheer inconvenience (doubly true for platforms with meh text input like phones and tablets).

Compare with integrating with a payment service that is almost guaranteed to already be set up correctly and is a single password away from transaction.
Are you seriously pulling a "nothing to hide if you are innocent"? I can't believe this.
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I apologize for any perceived distortion, I just copied the article's original title.
are we getting so offended nowadays over a flippant piece of exaggeration?

When the flippant piece of exaggeration comes across as demeaning/classist/racist, then yes, that's going to get us offended.

There is a meaningful phenomenon of lower-income familes tending to be larger than upper-income families. There's even a non-insulting way to talk about it.
You are right of course, but I think tptacek knows the difference too.
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Once again, I must post the link to Jessica Livingston's full, extraordinary interview of Steve Wozniak. In case someone has not yet grokked it.

http://www.foundersatwork.com/steve-wozniak.html
That's a fascinating article. Thank you for sharing.
The XSS could change the text explaining the CAPTCHA and socially engineer people into solving it.
So in the case where you don't have accelerated vesting, what happens to unvested options in an acquisition? Do they get converted to options in the equivalent dollar amount of stock in the acquiring company on the same vesting schedule? (Obviously subject to negotiation, YMMV etc etc...)
But then the 'evil script' would select all his friends minus one; or maybe just send messages one by one.

The only real way to eradicate this problem is what he is already trying to do: educate the users.
Quick question, is there any difference between running code in the browser bar vs. running it in the Chrome console? If there isn't, Chrome should just disable this behavior. I don't think I've ever run code in the browser bar vs. the console because I usually have the console open or it's very easy to get to.

I bet most users would smell something fishy if they had to use something like the console to see a video. "Going to a website," even if it's a JS snippet, not a website, is something people are used to. Looking at developer tools, even if it's asking an end user to just see if there was an error, still feels very strange to them.
"US-CERT's mission is to improve the nation's cybersecurity posture, coordinate cyber information sharing and proactively manage cyber risks to the nation while protecting the constitutional rights of Americans. US-CERT vision is to be a trusted global leader in cybersecurity - collaborative, agile, and responsive in a complex environment."

From: http://www.us-cert.gov/aboutus.html

Certainly sounds like intelligence (and counterintelligence) is one of the main aspects of their work. Agree, they don't sound like _human_ intelligence gatherers... but I'm fairly certain that US-CERT would know plenty of information about hackers, hacking, pirates, and so on.
This is weird, the sidebar says "All Photographs © Irina Werning" but it seems obvious that the old photos were not taken by her.
He made it ubiquitous.
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one of the commenters nailed it - there are people who think these sorts of mind games are "inspirational leadership". some of them do succeed, and it's mostly because they have a really good team who see through them, shrug and decide to make a go of things anyway. the inspirational leadership is seen as merely another obstacle in the way of getting things done, which can be allowed for and worked around.
But at that point, you're already working with a user that's fallen victim to social engineering. The script could likely find a way to present the captchas that would similarly fool the user into completing them.
Being able to put things on the clipboard programmatically is a really useful feature. It's actually quite sad that you need flash to do this reliably.

Disabling javascript: urls in the address bar seems like a much better way to mitigate this problem.
It may be more responsible to use more exact terms like "academic performance" or "test scores" in headlines.

Personally, I find all of the focus on doing things to make one's children "smart" to be kind of creepy.
What project are you referring to?
so lets say that you don't have the budget to keep a fully trained staff of scada and network engineers on site, 24/7. and then there's a systems failure, and the choice is either "they debug it remotely and fix the problem within an hour" or "the staff drives 2-3 hours to the location where the airgapped systems are and then begins work".

now imagine the system is life-preserving or otherwise critical. those 2-3 hours could be hundreds of lives. wouldn't it be criminally irresponsible to not have the system as resilient as possible?
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Try a viral video or something?
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Got it. Unrelated question: how would you compare Thoonk to Storm? Thoonk's "jobs" seem vaguely similar to Storm streams.

Also, I threw together a little REPL that makes it little easier to play around with Thoonk.js: https://gist.github.com/1378241
If you nail down clipboard access then it'll just turn into 'drag and drop this to your address bar'. If you nail that down, well, I'm stumped just now, but there's no doubt a few more ways to trigger it.

I think the blame lies with the address bar. If you think about it, it's a bit like having a magic key sequence on your car radio that drops you into the engine management system debugger.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think the chrome console is essentially the same, but you needn't prepend with javascript: and it has like autocompletion and history and a bunch of other things. Not sure why anyone would legitimately use the address bar for js.
I actually meant the Word Wide Web. It is probably more specific.
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If you're receiving NQSOs (non-qualified stock options) instead of ISOs, note that the document is entirely confused about them. They have nothing to do with advisors vs employees.
They could just tell the user that the captcha is part of the "security check" the user must do to see if they're in the 2% or whatever. Users will do almost anything if you instruct them well enough.
> if I ever am the target of a police investigation I'll be happy to hand over as much evidence as possible

I'm glad you're not my lawyer.
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No surprises there since CNN is a content provider and MS is also believed to be pro-SOPA:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3249396
Spotify's response is spot-on:

“In addition, ‘revenue per stream’ totally misses the point when considering the value generated by Spotify. The relevant metrics are: 1) how many people are being monetized by Spotify; 2) who these people are (usually young people previously on pirate services which generate nothing for artists and rightsholders); and 3) how much revenue per user Spotify generates for rightsholders.
Hey there's something I'm a bit confused about. The text talks about how when you receive stock as an employee you pay income (gains) tax over them for which they might not have the cash. Does this also hold for other stock holders like the founders?

When the FMV has increased, do founders also have to pay taxes for their shares?
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It should be noted that Apple was interested in smart pens rather than styluses. Apple has at least 13 patents relating to smart pens.

source: http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2011/09/apple-wi...
I know the book is poorly (like, very poorly) edited, so maybe it's not that clear, but I think the actual idea is that Jobs became less of an asshole over time — at least partially thanks to realizing he's not invulnerable. Also, for me the first half doesn't feel like luck at all. Sociopathic con man, yes, but not luck.
This is sort of what the Motorola Atrix does.
Javascript can put things in your clipboard as well. Well, to clarify.. it's Microsoft's extension to javascript. Unfortunately supported by both Chrome and Firefox. Two of the most popular "alternative" browsers. I think that Safari anad Opera are clean when it comes to this "flaw" (which others call feature of course).

Why flaw you ask? It can edit your clipboard content on "copy" and "paste" action. So you just select text, press ctrl+c and end up with some malicious link in your clipboard.
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I would like to believe you are right, but I think Big Content has time for a few more tries before everyone of legislating age understands the situation.
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The biography is a complete disaster. After I finished reading it, I found that there was nothing to take away. Actually, I highly recommend John Siracusa's point-by-point dissection of the biography at 5by5, the show is called Hypercritical and listen to episodes 42 and 43. Link: http://5by5.tv/hypercritical

Siracusa pulls no punches and each and every one of his criticisms is well thought through.
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We were talking about work, weren't we? Also, child pornography is another matter.
I would think that'd make it easier to bring to the big screen. <shrug>
I believe, a joint venture should be formed between Redhat, Canonical, IBM, Microsoft, Google, Mozilla and Facebook to fund wikipedia and this kinds of open source and very much needed projects with some of their yearly revenues. I named those companies because much or they are making money over free and open source projects. And this kind of venture is a way of showing good will. This could make wikipedia to survive, build more kinds of projects that could lead to more innovation and this new created innovation and brain would turn into profits for this companies. A long shot maybe, but this organisations contributors would not be harmed.
For this to succeed, you need to reserve a lot of the legitimate .com addresses and have them mirror their .com counterparts. If you don't mimic .com as closely as possible for all entities that matter (real people and real organizations) then .bit is dead in the water.
I'm not sure how watermarking counts as spying on you. Maybe if the printer were secretly emailing a copy of everything printed to the CIA, that'd be spying.
mongoengine does do validation. It can be disabled on a per-model basis though.
I found the actual paper on the issue much more appropriate in tone than the tech blog linked above. Nowhere it suggests to change laws (the "legal approach" is essentially to get warrants that allow surprise approaches to the targets), nor to regulate encryption.

The meat of the article is simply describing how investigators should be prepared to deal with FDE, when they expect to encounter it, both via legal and technical measures. This alone highly increases their chances of success.

Finally, this reminds me of Matt Blaze's analysis of the 2010 wiretap report, where in the 6 cases where encryption was found, 0 of them actually prevented evidence recovery. I suspect well-prepared law enforcement will be able to be as effective, even in spite of FDE.
Assuming you have tested the deploy script altering the schema to check that the transaction locking tables does not take too long then there is no reason to take down the application. In my personal experience this is the case for virtually all of our changes of tables.
Generally when there is a major change to a currency (such as the move to polymer banknotes [an awesome Australian invention] in Australia 15 years ago) the old style bills only remain in circulation for a short period, perhaps a year or so.

Within a couple of years, the old style notes become so exceptionally rare in everyday transactions that the presence of one raises eyebrows, and is inspected carefully. While our older style notes are technically still "legal tender", I doubt you'd find a single retailer across the country that would accept it.
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Wouldn't it be easier to just add additional faint yellow dots to make the intended pattern impossible to determine?
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How about running the facebook javascript in a sandbox? Such as proxying the document.createElement and document.getElements* methods for the initial script while breaking it for everything else?
Give all email a URI. email is essentially a file on a server but not accessible by a URI. Invent email and text messaging that has a URI for each message.

For local broadcasting within a neighborhood, develop a system where you can send a message to cell phones with TV and radio as a failover.
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Yes! I'd normally stay quiet, but since the parent comment is the highest voted comment, I'll take from the guidelines[1]:

What to Submit

...anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity

Compare this with pg's latest submission[2]: Spotted Horses in Cave Art Weren’t Just a Figment, DNA Shows

It is not about startups, programming, languages, or technolody per se. But it is geeky and does bring some intellectual curiosity.

On the other hand, if you think that something shouldn't be here, please flag. I always trust my fellow HN users to keep me on my toes.

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3214336
looks a lot like what I did
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It was called YouOS. I think the company was WebShaka, which according to their web page either was or is funded by YC. http://www.youos.com/

I liked this project quite a bit.

Actually, I'm not sure if it was fully Open Source or not. But it certainly had an open api and had plenty of little apps whose source code you could view.
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http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/111012.html

"Industrial control systems are used in electric power, water, pipelines, etc. These systems were designed for performance and safety considerations, not security. Traditional IT security technologies, policies, and testing may not apply to these systems. Moreover, there is currently no university with an interdisciplinary program accross multiple engineering disciplines to address control system cyber security. There have already been more than 200 actual control system cyber incidents to date, though most have not been identified as cyber. In the US alone, there have been 4 control system cyber incidents that have killed people, 3 major cyber-related electric outages, 2 nuclear plants shut down from full power, etc. With the advent of Stuxnet, cyber has been introduced as an offensive weapon. The purpose of this presentation is to provide a state-of-the-state view of control system cyber security."

The speaker gets quite a grilling from the academics.
> - A lack of respect for the customer and an attempt to maximize profit at the expense of their enjoyment of your product. I do not subscribe to Hulu for this reason.

As someone who works for a different video streaming site (that also has legal content licenses), your ire may be misplaced. Rather than a lack of respect for the customer there's a very likely possibility that the ads must be shown, even for subscribers, due to licensing agreements.
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btw I have a mobile web application at the same url and you can see how many people online in your circle
The real question here is why is facebook embedding an untrusted widget. They should whitelist youtube, vimeo and all the major content providers and this issue is effectively gone.

I'm real curious about the url facebook is embedding. If it's an iframe, how does facebook tells that it should be embedded?
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what exactly are the benefits of creating a G+ page for YUI?
I would say any system whose failure quickly results in the loss of life should always have properly trained staff either on location or trivially close. Anything less than that would be, as you put it, criminally irresponsible, as is the idea of connecting such infrastructure to publicly accessible networks.
wow, interesting ideas. i love this out of the box thinking!
…kinda like how Jobs makes all the ideas he's accused of 'tweaking' ubiquitous?
On the other hand, by admitting that you have knowledge of the passphrase, you may be associating yourself with a piece of machinery or its contents more conclusively than would otherwise be possible to prove, which may be a non-trivial piece of information in itself. That, in turn, may be covered by 5th amendment protections.
Google+ may not be as developed as Facebook, but that also means that it hasn't had as much time to develop a half-broken, shabbily-documented api.
Did I say it wasn't useful? Maybe you missed my point.

I could post a link to a perldoc page for some builtin function, and that would be useful, and it's probably been around for awhile, and probably nobody knows who wrote it. Would you defend that too?
I will repeat myself and again state that I am not saying that Jobs did not have an effect on society.

I am saying it is not on the same order of magnitude as fucking electric lighting.

Why must this be difficult?
No, it's not sufficient (you'd need something pretending to be a terminal) but it is necessary which makes it much harder with NFC than RFID.
That depends on how the cost-benefit analysis came out. You did do a cost-benefit analysis, right?

Personally, I would consider connecting critical infrastructure to the Internet without taking adequate security measures to be the criminally irresponsible thing.
Of course, water pumps aren't really "critical infrastructure" in the same sense as, say, nuclear power plants. Hopefully their security is a little more reasonable.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I believed you were only allowed to do direct linking if that domain belonged to you. Seeing how that Dropbox referral is NOT then you could potentially get banned. Google has done ban waves before, and they will do it again.
actually it looks suspiciously an aweful lot like chatnearme.com that has been out for awhile :)
You have to put this test in context. It's basically testing how fast you can take floating-point values out of JS objects, put them in vertex buffers, and shuttle them through the JS <-> C foreign-function interface into the GL library. This is pretty much a worst-case scenario for JS, and Opera gets within about 4x of C++.

For more complex rendering, JS will be faster, relatively, because the GPU will have to do more work for each batch of vertices you send over.

For game logic, JS will be faster, relatively, because going through the foreign function interface is actually somewhat slow. You have to pin GC'ed objects onto the stack, etc. Moreover, calling into code the JIT can't see can disable certain optimizations.

If you look at certain FP micro benchmarks, like nbody and spectrum-norm in the Shootout, V8 is within 4x of gcc -O3 on nbody, within 3x on spectral-norm when using gcc's vector extensions, and dead-even with gcc on spectral-norm when not using gcc's vector extensions.

The places where V8 still falls down are property access (the prototype OO system forces some overhead) and lack of vectorization. The former can be addressed by using an SoA layout rather than an AoS layout, and if your code is amenable to vectorization you should break out the assembler anyway.
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I'm far more interested in what may exist along these lines for digital cameras.
i agree for both reasons. my first reaction was the same as yours - that this is simply gossip, and as so unworthy of posting to hn. but arielle is right too - it really is bad form to post a story by a third party about someone being rejected (if they want to post about their own yc application and rejection, that's a very different thing). i'm glad she spoke up about it, because that aspect of things really hadn't occurred to me.
I don't really see how it would be, based on what you wrote, but okay.
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