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How to Break the Cookie Habit
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If he held citizenship in any country in addition to or other than Iran, that country would have diplomatic channels to go through to deal with this.

Specifically to this case, you would like to think Canada would do more then write a letter to the government of Iran if he had Canadian citizenship, but I do really doubt they would do more than 'tense negotiations.'
Yet everyone always thinks "It won't happen to me." Until it does.

This principle also keeps Paypal in business.
Note that this is specifically Canadian market share.
... and slurp up your address book.
A 10% revenue can drive more than 10% increase in profits.

Sounds like you're doing a fine job of following patio11's advice (getting close to the money). Hope that works out for you! :)
How Much Would Debian Cost to Develop? How about $19 Billion?
That IS my setup at work. I've recently discovered mutt and irssi which I use for email and chat, respectively. All development happens in tmux sessions with vim. My dock contains finder, iterm2, chrome and the trashcan. If I could remove finder and the trashcan I would...

On a slightly related topic, I've started investigating writing a console based email client recently in Python using Urwid for curses stuff that's a little less archaic than mutt.
https://github.com/lpinca/binb
I would argue that a lot of people (at least pre-election season) that googled "Santorum" wanted to see what everyone was talking about: spreadingsantorum.com. When people google "Michelle Obama", a humorous photo comparing her to a monkey is probably not what people are searching for.

Google makes refinements to their algorithm to try to improve relevancy in the results. Michelle Obama's monkey meme never became relevant; Santorum's definition did.
This looks great, but it really annoys me when Javascript/CSS plugins don't explicitly state their browser support.

'Gracefully degrades in older browsers' means different things to different people, and without a quick chart I'm much less likely to invest the time in trying it out.
I hadn't thought of that. I've only recently gotten a 3G-capable iPad, and I did manage to rack up 121MB in a few hours of browsing.
Technical Debt - How much is it Really Costing you?
IRS unearths Dirty Dozen tax scams of 2012
I've been on projects that have chosen failing in an acceptable way rather than succeeding in a non-dogmatic way, and I've promptly left those organizations.

That said, many new contractors seem not to realize that their primary job (no matter what is on the paper) is to make the person that is signing the checks look good.
Apple is ahead of the curve -- this is coming to Windows as well, although perhaps through 3rd parties.

About 2 years ago, my then employer was considered a "strategic" customer to one of the big security/AV vendors. They came in to give us their dog and pony show about the future of security, etc... which basically said that the current strategy of using AV to "blacklist" bad stuff is ineffective. (I asked the awkward question "So WTF am I paying for your ineffective AV product?")

The only thing that makes me nervous about "Gatekeeper" is that it is Apple-controlled, and Apple is a mercurial vendor whom I don't really trust to do things that are in my interest. I'd be happier if I could trust other certifying authorities, which would mitigate the impact of Apple cutting of the oxygen to unsigned applications in the future.
You should build this. I've often wanted to be able to have a button which will bundle OCW materials for offline use. Seems well within the terms of the licence.
And us corporate solution architects tend to use ArgoUML if we have to delve into that crud.

VS Express is actually pretty much fine for 90% of development work. If you are in a TDD environment, you don't even need the unit test stuff as NUnit ships with a GUI test runner.
Allowing 3rd party apps to access iBook notes and highlights would be useful, but will probably never happen. It's one of the weak points of the app model that there's not any good way to work with other programs' data. On the desktop, you could probably write a script to read annotations from a PDF and dump them into something like SuperMemo, but on tablets you need everyone to agree on a format to export so you can email them to yourself. Maybe Android is better about this.
5500 acres / 302 shipping containers = 18.2 acres per shipping container?
I would love it if it restored things to the proper desktop. When it actually matters (i.e.: you have multiple desktops setup with different browsers for different purposes, making re-opening them all in the proper place a pain) it is useless.
TO be fair, even apps without an installer will open a warning dialogue the first time it's actually run letting the user know this is an application that's "new" and hasn't been run before.

Also - as long as Apple makes it easy for developers to get signing keys, which seems to be their direction as far as OS X goes, there's no reason for developers to complain about it too much. Just sign your builds, and you probably avoid any warning message.
Pulse – Using Big Data Analytics to Drive Rich User Features
It's only integrated if you use it in the way that Apple expect you to. Otherwise, the coupling and integration between the applications is horrible. And yes I know about Automator.
I thought it was an interesting comparison.

Although I would disagree with it in the sense that any real hacker would likely come up with a far more creative defacement. :-)
Apple granted injunction, Motorola phones with slide-2-unlock at risk
Edit: Actually it looks like I may be mistaken about this. There is some confusion in the press currently about whether a paid developer program will be required for obtaining signing keys. If not, this is only a minor encroachment of control.

> This is a preference in system preferences that is pretty easy to change.

That doesn't matter. It means that if I want people to use my software, I will now have no choice but to join Apple's $99/year Mac Developer program.

Time to port to Linux/Windows.
I thought that was a really good marketing video. They positioned the product as a way of fighting back against crime, and it was constantly funny throughout.
Perhaps the 300k/s figure was at peak load.
If you're looking for a "be seen" light for city riding, I highly recommend reelights (www.reelight.com). They are mounted on the quick release and powered from magnets on the spokes, so no batteries to worry about and a little more trouble to steal (the light can be removed by unscrewing the QR but the light has no power without the magnets)
I bought my first mac this fall. I can honestly say I love Launchpad and the inverted scroll wheel. Don't be afraid of a lil change.
I doubt it. Very little annoys users more than taking away something they are used to and trying to sell it back to them.
Low Level Bit Hacks You Absolutely Must Know - good coders code, great reuse
The way I understand it, one can override the setting on a per application basis by control-clicking an app and choosing "Open" _once_. I would hope that would make Apple sign those apps ins some way, bu I do not think they will, as they will not want to store the master key of doing that on the user's disk.

Also, apparently, all applications already installed get this magic applied automatically.
People here want something that makes them think. They go out of their way to reject posts for which the primary responses are simple agreement ("me too") or disagreement ("is not").

Perhaps you simply weren't being ironic in a sufficiently interesting way.
YC would be able to invest in very few companies if it avoided companies that compete/overlap.
I think the OP is saying "don't fuck with the government or you will end up gone"
rNews is here. And this is what it means.
To me it seems quite an inaccurate description both of the theory and of the status quo.

For example, the SOAP section should be "WS", web service: that is the class of protocols like SOAP. The high-level distinction should be WS vs. RPC vs. REST. WS is centred about the services, RPC is centred about the methods and REST is centred around the resources. HTTP is just a transport layer, the GET/POST style is a primitive way to implement each of these architectures. It is the input and output data that makes a GET/POST request fit in one of these three categories.

But what really bothers me is that, to my eyes, the author main point is that REST is marginal and people who still seriously talk about it are akin to those hunting unicorns. This is not explicitly said, but this is the feeling that this article left me with.

The description of REST says

> Originally, REST was synonymous with what is now called "Hypermedia APIs." However, after large amounts of misunderstanding, REST advocates are rebranding REST to "Hypermedia APIs" and leaving REST to the RESTish folks.

I have never heard an use of "Hypermedia API" as different from "an API that user REST". REST is an blueprint for building distributed architectures. When you build one that follows such blueprint you end up with an "hypermedia API".

People who misunderstand REST are actually using RPC+GET/POST. These kinds of mistakes are routinely pointed out; people will comment "the API of XYZ is not RESTful at all! They are using _REST_ only because it is a cool term to use nowadays". Not much different from how people misuse "multimedia", yet the meaning of multimedia is not going to change any time soon.

When talking about REST there is spectrum to take into account: there are APIs that fully adheres to the REST principles, other that adhere less, others that are basically redoing SOAP or RPC yet call themselves REST because it is cool. The same thing has happened with Agile programming. People use SVN, a code review every now and then, write two unit tests that cover 1% of the paths and they will says "we are doing Agile development, like all the cool kids". Yet the meaning of what "Agile programming" is has not changed.
Yes, I really don't understand moves like this. With Israel poised to attack Iran's nuclear facilities, and perhaps start an all out air war with them, you would think Iran would want to gain some good will from the international community... I would just write it off as a country run by madmen that are not rational actors, but any number of other madmen have played things better. I wonder what the regime wants for freeing him, maybe they just want too much.
I'm not an apple fanboi, and all those new osx 8 features don't really vibe with my needs. but osx=> unix (more or less), windows ~= unix. That's game over in my book.
I'm usually fairly anti-Gruber. But this was, in all respects, an interesting and insightful read, well thought out, and offered little in the way of Gruber's worshipping at the pedestal of Apple.
Great visualizations that made history
Well, like the article says, signing-only developer certificates are free now. You only need to pay for it if you are planning to distribute through App store.
> A developer code signing certificate costs money whether you buy it through Apple or Verisign.

According to Gruber, signing OSX apps will be free (which is sensible: it's really a service to Apple)
That’s when Schiller tells me they’re doing some things differently now.

I wonder immediately about that “now”. I don’t press, because I find the question that immediately sprang to mind uncomfortable. And some things remain unchanged: Apple executives explain what they want to explain, and they explain nothing more.

What useless reporting! How about just asking a follow up question about what is different? Or why OS X will not support Siri in this release?

Strike out all Gruber's writing involving the feel of the room and this might as well be a feature list on Apple.com.

And instead of a room full of writers, journalists, and analysts, it was just me, Schiller, and two others from Apple — Brian Croll from product marketing and Bill Evans from PR.

Not even a head nod to let us know he has at least a small sense of what his purpose at this meeting is. Just any hint of self-awareness that he's merely an extension of Apple Marketing would suffice. One of the most valuable companies on the planet sees value in free advertising through Gruber. I'm not sure if that reflects more poorly on Gruber as the stooge, or his readers as pawns.
Yet more evidence of the ballmer peak [1]. This is a very interesting study since it's saying what a lot of people knew "intuitively" about getting a little tipsy.

[1] https://www.xkcd.com/323/
The reason he is scheduled for execution is that he is not a Canadian citizen yet. Had he been, Iran would just have expelled him.
I wished they'd fix bugs in lion before releasing the next version. Bluetooth problems, wireless connection (mostly with new MBA's, etc ) - there are huge threads on both these issues in the Apple forums. Among many others.
And rightly (although sadly) so. Consider the reverse: A Canadian citizen takes up residence in a third-world country, where he has sex with minors. He returns to Canada, where he is arrested under Canadian law for engaging in sex tourism.

The other country may want to prosecute him, they may not, they may want to protest, they may not. But the Canadian government is not bound by any treaty or agreement to send him back to the other country.
Researchers Crack Satellite Phone Ciphers
I wish Google would just embrace CoffeeScript instead of this. It's a prettier language, and already solves many of the problems Dart is concerned with.
I don't get it. The problem is solved.

Here in London, if you leave anything lying around it'll get nicked regardless of the security device.

The common wisdom is to take the bike inside (if you have fancy LED/halogen setup) or just have a detachable light that you can throw in your pocket.
Afaik they allow many different kinds of bike lights in NL, even the kinds you just clip on your clothing are enough to prevent a ticket--as bike lights are mandatory in NL.

But as they didn't develop a (red) rear light, it's not really a complete solution for Dutch bikes.
For the record, neither the iPhone nor the iPad restarts applications after reboot; the only applications that are started when the device boots are MobilePhone, sometimes MobileMail, and any app marked with "run in the background" permissions that explicitly request it for scenarios such as VoIP (e.g. Skype, so it can sign in to the service on boot).
I've recently done a double-take on my love for Google. I want to love Duck Duck Go. I really do. I tell all my less tech-savy friends/relatives about it.

Personally, though, I can't live without deep search. I'd say about 99.9999% of my searches are in the "brand something something" category, and there's not much point in adding an extra step to every search.

Unfortunately for DDG, my less tech-savy friends have had a similar experience. Since they're never going to try (or comprehend) the !bangs, after two or three attempts at a deep search they inevitably say "Well this is nice, but Google gives me what I'm looking for exactly."

Me, I was on Scroogle until recently when it's availability started to really suffer. Now, it's all Goosh, all the time!
> it's amazing that after years of lobbying IE to change its box model to match W3C, we realize that maybe IE's model made more sense after all.

Not really. Everybody I've known (in about a decade) has felt the IE box model made more sense.

But here's the thing: it wasn't the standard, the standard was not going to change its default box model, and dealing with a single slightly worse box model would always be better than dealing with two completely different box models.

box-sizing is the alternative, and a pretty good one. But I don't think anyone ever read about the differences between the W3C box model and the MSIE box model and thought "wow, the W3C box model makes so much more sense".
"End All Bike Headlights" this will not; it is a "be seen" light, not a "see at night" light. For that, you absolutely need a lithium- or dynamo-powered light with lots of throw and LEDs that output a few hundred lumens (not 40-60 as shown here, which is easily beaten by cheap alkaline-powered lights).

My solution is a $20 18650-powered flashlight (200 lumen) from DealExtreme attached to my helmet. At maximum, it is so bright that car drivers honk at me, and it can blind oncoming bicyclists. For this reason, I run it at medium unless I'm alone in pitch darkness. It is also very weather-resistant, and because it is attached to my helmet, it is never left on the bike for someone to notice a crime of opportunity. It is also much easier to read street signs when I can just point my head at them.

At best, this will be useful for the city bicyclist who rarely travels at night.
You weren't by any chance trained as an assasain or sharp-shooter or special force soldier? because if not, then there isn't much any of us can do. Sadly.
I actually like the idea of it being both (and and ipad becoming a desktop) Launchpad for ipad like utility, the normal desktop for desktop things, have both on both systems. Lets be honest here, we are moving away from a central computing device model, to a model with many peripheral devices. I'd like it if they all acted the same, and were capable of displaying the same content, as well as providing the same ability to create.
This is going to be a huge disappointment.

A mid range LED flashlight with a single CREE emitter will run for 10 hours on two AA batteries while putting out 50 lumens the entire time.

So we can guess guess the output of this bike light based on the batteries and run time. Works out to 15 lumens. Now that is pretty dim for outdoor use. Based on the 6 emitter design they would be using older Nichia LEDs. They may claim 40 lumens, but that will be on a fresh set of batteries. There will not be a regulator and after an hour it will be much dimmer.

Or (more likely) this guy has no clue what he is doing. Either way, it will still be a disappointment.

If you want a bike light that won't get stolen, buy a normal small two-AA flashlight and a flashlight mount. Unclip the light from the mount when you aren't on your bike and use it as a normal flashlight the rest of the time.
Anatomy of the Great Adderall Drought
iTunes updates often require a reboot. Previous iWork installs have also.

Most of the time, an actual restart is not required, just logging out and then back in.
Jobs didn't want apps or Jobs said he didn't want apps?

If the native SDK wasn't ready yet, I would have been promoting Web apps, too.
Submitted earlier - large amounts of discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3597707
If you think Visual studio express works as well as pro, or that pro and the like are only for corporate enterprise architects and e like. You've clearly never used visual studio pro. Profiling and x64 support are two trivial examples of what's missing, both of which are features included in the free Xcode.
typo in url:
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While I agree Google's politics mean they are probably less likely to care if GOP candidates are slandered, I don't think it is as simple as "if they aren't removing it, it's intentional". They removed the Michelle Obama thing, but pretty quickly put it back when they got called out on how it was a clear violation of search trust. And like "miserable failure", the algorithms over time adjusted and fixed the problem.

I would agree it would be evil if it was intentional, but this a search problem across Google, Bing, Baidu, and many others. Google has been pretty good about responding via improvements rather than just straight banning, except with the temporary Obama thing. I mean, for the longest time they had to buy an ad over searches for "jew" and link to http://www.google.com/explanation.html despite the background of their founders.
I've read enough news stories to think it possible.