skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the measure is in place FOR casual root users. No doubt there will be ways to remove the check for root, but then you've installed a non-standard application, and Barclays are presumably no longer liable for losses.

If you were a casual root user, installed this app, and there was some back-door only accessible via rooted phones, it would be the bank's problem.

Whether this is a reasonable security measure or not, I imagine it was their line of thinking.
Yeah, YouTube has been serving up HTML5 video along with Flash for quite a while now (presumably based on some kind of browser sniffing, though I think you can configure your account to send it to the desktop as well, if you're logged in).
And then, Apple will come to your house, and eat your cat.
Their certainly regarded as probably being one of the busiest Catalyst sites and they were employing Perl/Catalyst developers back in 2009: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=565152

NB: The HN article link hits an expired job post. Here is original job ad via WayBackMachine: http://web.archive.org/web/20090418113245/http://jobs.perl.o...
I stated what malware writers will do.

You then replied by being sarcastic about how malware isn't really a problem.

I then asked a rhetorical question about why would they be doing this if not to defend against malware.

Now you're ranting about how malware could become a problem as if this is somehow news to me.

I'm sure you had a point.
cmake is not a makefile reinvention! Like GNU automake, it generates makefiles (or input files for VisualC/XCode). It configures the build for the specific target system, and library versions and locations.
After both your posts I just realised that yes, it is better to let it overwrite the page, because the option is there for the user to override this with the middle-click.
I've middle clicked all links for so long that I didn't even think about the fact I was choosing to open things in a new tab.

Thanks for changing my mind.
Reading the title, I immediately thought of Python's "is not" operator as "prior art". However, it seems to me that the patent is specifically about an operator called "IsNot" (one word) used in a BASIC compiler. So that might not be the same at all (but then again, IANAL etc).

Still, it seems a pretty silly patent... :-/
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Youporn used to work on Catalyst, it's been rewritten using Symfony 2.
As for Pornhub it's running a custom PHP framework.
Paul Vick, whose name appears on the patent, had a great blog post about this. Had to dig it out of archive.org:
https://gist.github.com/1846067

FWIW, as much as I hate[d] VB.NET, Paul Vick was (is?) clearly a superstar - both in terms of coding and writing.
Took me about a week and a half to get over that mentally. Now I can't use my girlfriend's computer who is still on Snow Leopard.
Firefox canvas performance is a joke. You should upgrade to Chrome.
Opacity transitions in CSS3 are painfully slow. Does anybody know why?

edit: compared to non-hardware accelerated transitions done by Flash, the difference is huge
Don't choose to be offended, then.
Ask HN: Viewing the stories under ASK Tab sorted by created date
Is there a way to view the stories under "ASK" tab sorted by created date?

Currently, I believe the stories are stored by the order of relevance.

I couldn't find a way to sort them.
isn't ddg a meta search engine (if I remember correctly they scraped google and used yahoo search api)? Or has this changed?
This kind of situation has two bad effects, first being that the "pet" journalists will have a hard time criticizing Apple in the future, for the fear of losing exclusive access, and the second being that impartial journalists would want to court Apple with positive articles, in the hope of getting the exclusive access.
If Duck Duck Go comes out with mail and an online office suite, and it has the same look and feel and the search, I'll abandon Google completely.
> it seems a pretty silly patent

In software, most of them are.
notes and reminders are features?? sigh... I miss steve...
Apple has a top dog and a few bosses. Who exactly will co-ordinate 1,000 OSS projects to give you a hassle free experience?

There ARE ways to make a kick-ass, no hassle Linux OS, even better than OS X and more open (and still open source).

But all of them involve throwing top dollar into it, starting a few projects from scratch, forking a few existing ones and stoping the bazaar-style, design by committee, approach. You should only rely on upstream bazaar-style approach for the userland (like OS X does) and server backend stuff, not for visible UI, no core components, no libraries.

Canonical, and all other Linux companies, always just wanted to act like integrators, instead of creators. Except maybe in a few select areas.
I don't see any candidate either, and it will not be Scala, for sure. I think Scala will continue to be a pretty interesting language, used in pretty cool places, for a smart and enthusiastic community, as Haskell or Clojure, but it will not replace Java as the major JVM language not even in a million years. Smart engineers will develop in Scala, Assembly, Lisp, whatever, but it's the average developer who accounts for the use of a language worldwide. And Scala will loose those developers from the start.

I also agree that Java will be dead by 2014, but not as COBOL. It will be dead as C language is dead. Java is the C of the XXI century.
It's not really considered offensive in the US. Here it doesn't have the connotations it has in the UK.

It's like "Fanny". In the US, it's an inoffensive synonym for your buttocks. In the UK, it's a woman's vulva, so a bit more risqué.
Forget the details. They are examples. Back up. Make something.
I hope it doesn't turn out to be Mountain Goat. Lion broke my external displays working properly while in clamshell (closed laptop) mode.

Conveniently, if I connect it to an Apple display, it's magic, but somehow not.
Basically I believe they are at the point where they can virtually go through our trash. Which is what spies can do.
Notifications API is only for apps distributed through Mac app store. So, if you are independent developer, don't get too excited.
I don't know if it is true about that book in particular, but if I'm buying a textbook as a resource I usually look for the international editions. They sell near identical versions of the books (shuffle the problem sets around) in other places around for much, much less.
I guess I missed your point. In which case it seems you missed my point.

If only approved programs can run on a computer then it is quite easy to disable undesirable programs. There's obviously a kill switch involved. If social unrest gets too great then move Twitter clients to the unapproved list and they all get deleted. This would be a lot easier than installing key loggers and...what? remotely logging into 100 million computers to delete certain programs?

Things like Gatekeeper can in the future be extended and used to exert more control of computing. It may even be a requirement for all manufactured computers as we enter the surveillance state era.
Farewell Microsoft, hello...
He's referring to the master key, which will be used to sign the per developer signing keys. If that is stolen, then it will be possible to sign arbitrary signing keys and issue arbitrary revocation certificates.
Don't be afraid of the platform
With Debian and Ubuntu, there is no difficulty installing arbitrary unsigned packages, putting your own binaries on and running them, etc. There is a source that the community recommends, but that's all it is -- a recommendation.

That's not the case with OSX, as far as I can tell.
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This last comment is interesting:

"On the Mac, Notification Center alerts are decidedly inspired by those of Growl, a longstanding open source project that is now sold for $2 in the Mac App Store. I hereby predict “Apple ripped off Growl” as the mini-scandal of the day."

It brings to mind Steve Jobs's rant against Android (the whole I-will-spend-every-last-cent scene) for "ripping off" Apple. But this is a case of "inspiration".

I've not seen the feature, but choosing the words "inspired by" makes everything sound a-OK. And that's a very fine line to walk.

The Reality Distortion Field is just kool-aid with capitalization.
Scroogle is down
Wow. It's the reverse digital hub strategy. The peripheral devices (iPod, iPhone, iPad) are now more popular than the Mac. So, rather than sunset the Mac, Apple makes it so that if you own own of these devices, a Mac will be the default choice.
I agree. But it's still better than letting Apple be the only CA. Would you like to have a single CA for TLS?
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how much you think you should pay? 1000$????? 500$????? nooooooo!! only 99$, you get a clock, paint and even reversi! for only 99$!!
Better link, includes figures and proper formatting: http://www.google.com/patents?id=m52fAAAAEBAJ&zoom=4&...
This replaces iChat when you install it.

For me it's nearly he same, the buddies window is exactly the same. Although they changed up how messages display.

You used to be able to not have windows grouped together (i.e. you could drag/drop different conversations out into their own window). You can no longer do that. You can move them to their own window, but if the buddy responds again it goes to both the 'main' window and the new window. Kind of weird.

I haven't really liked tabbed chatting, but I guess this may be time to deal with it.
Last time they took inspiration from iOS we ended up with "Launchpad", an inverted scroll-wheel, and the god-awful "restart all applications after reboot"-nuisance that cannot be fully disabled.

Thanks but no thanks.
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If option 3 is removed then how is this so? It's not in Apple's interest right now to do this. In five years? Maybe China decides that in order to get access to its market Option 3 must not be available. Maybe Gatekeeper gets enhanced in the future.

Obviously this is hypothetical but given the trend toward national surveillance is it hard to imagine that this can happen?
Isn't there a user agent switcher for iPad? That would seem to be the easy fix for such annoyances. (I don't have an iPad, but it seems like an obvious thing that would be available.)
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Isn't the real problem here that instead of an honest statement about why the app needs to be downloaded (ie. no Flash on the iPad), something looking like an advertisement is served instead? That the author assumed the worst might be due to the apparent dishonesty rather than any paranoia on the author's part.

Of course, the problem might be a little more complicated, because some less adept users seeing that a website will not load on their device might blame those who made the website.

Still, CBS's solution clearly isn't the one making lemonade out of lemons.
Ask HN: Hiring myself (web dev) out as a day laborer?
I've been doing freelance consulting work for some time, sometime 3 months, some project based. I've got a nice little company (group of UX/ Front-End/ Back-enders) going where we do work for some design agencies or startups.

A friend hired some guys as day laborers to help him with a painting job and I started thinking maybe that would be a good idea? Say $400 bucks where you get me for a day. Good way to mutually try out for a good fit for the company? Get to see a lot of different work styles. I feel like there is some beauty in simplifying on both the execution and project management side of things to slice off one day at a time. Anyone have any thoughts or experience with anything like this?
Content-box eliminated this?
Thats the way it works. My iPad, iPhone and now Messages Beta display every message
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The only thing that I really dislike about iCloud is sharing a computer (with your wife/family).

Our family room computer is a mac mini that is logged into one user account all of the time. It is shared by myself, my wife and my kids. The iPhoto on that account is set up to use my iCloud account. If my wife wants to get her photos (iPhone) downloaded from iCloud she has to log over to an account that only exists for this purpose.

So I'm sure the whole documents, todos, calendar and everything else on 10.8 is going to be a similar pain in the ass for people sharing one computer.

We have to manage three AppleIDs. My iCloud account, her iCloud account and we share an AppleID for purchases from the App Store. They need to fix this for multi-Apple families.
Firefox (10, linux) performance is fine for me; it may be his browser version or something else.
Gwern wrote in his experimental design that he took Vitamin D supplements in the mornings, when he hadn't taken them the night before.
> "Why are they all there?"

Maybe because it's a 'social event', like lining up to buy concert tickets, or a new video game, or going shopping on black friday, or getting to an amusement park early to be first in line for their favorite roller coaster.

Regular people do those sorts of things for products and experiences all the time and no-one feels a need to invent an "RDF" to explain it.

If you want to say "Jobs was persuasive" in meetings, that's one thing. What people who've worked at Apple and seen keynotes comment on and call an RDF is basically that. There is no doubt that he was a charismatic guy who prepared and presented well. But that's a far cry from saying it's at all reasonable to assert that his charisma motivates any statistically significant slice of people to buy Apple products without any regard for their quality or value.
When you are your own domain registrar and hosting provider, the government calls you directly and you can handle the user-generated content yourself.
> If malware on OSX is as small a problem as you're suggesting, why is Apple bothering with any of this?

Because they're not thinking about their current problems, they're thinking about their upcoming problems.
Nice blogpost regarding BEAST on IIS servers:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kaushal/archive/2011/10/03/taming-th...
In software, all of them are. It's like patenting a mathematical formula.

It's bad enough that the USPTO will rubberstamp everything with the right fees, but that they can issue patents on concepts that are far outside the original intent what patents are for.

Yes, developing software involves "invention" in every sense of the word, but if you can patent algorithms, why can't you patent mathematical formulae or proofs?
It preserves the freedom for developers to ship whatever they want, though I wouldn't say it benefits them.

But it's within the realm of possibility for Apple to start refusing support to users who disable GateKeeper. I would disable it anyway, but how many other users would?
I'm curious, what makes you say that taking away that choice is completely out of character when they've already done so on a different, more popular platform?
I stated what malware writers will do.

No, you stated what you THINK they will do.

For one, most Macs are updated very often, what with Software Update and Mac Store updates. So updating a black list of applications wouldn't be a problem.

Second, they cannot just get a certificate, because they will have to interact with Apple and the developer program. You know many malware writers that want to give their details away?

Third, even if they somehow get through the second caveat above, revocation would just be a step away.

I then asked a rhetorical question about why would they be doing this if not to defend against malware.

No, you said that if they don't do it to defend against ALREADY EXISTING malware then it's either a security theater or a mystery to you why they'd do it.

As if defending against POSSIBLE FUTURE malware is a "security theater" or a strange notion.
Totally agree. A great way to find opportunities is to consult and learn a business from the inside out, you'll stumble over so many opportunities that you can build a solution for and even sell locally at first to have those magical lean customer conversations before hand that you'll be left in awe.

Learning to sell is one of the biggest gifts to have. Selling your ideas, thoughts in a job, to others, is a skill that's critical, let alone doing it in business.

By speaking with customers and saying "Hey, I'm looking for something to build and I want to learn about your problems, mind giving me a few minutes?" is all the selling you'll ever need to do. There is no shortage of small business owners that won't mind.d

Remember, it's not always the problem you solve that has to be sexy. Having your time free and paid for is sexy. Learning the ropes of business on a smaller project that grows regularly is sexy.

Let go of your inhibitions and become a productivity pirate, use the technology that gives you the quickest result and most productivity.

Avoid configuration integration/masturbation like the plague or you'll lose momentum. This means, use what you know.
Tim Cook said the other day that the iPad is helping the Mac gain marketshare. That tagline is telling all of the iOS users. You liked your phone? Why not try a computer that integrates with it perfectly.
Regarding the impairment, keep in mind that alcoholics will show little impairment even at very high intoxication levels (2 per million and above). At the same time, alcoholics probably shouldn't be allowed to drive, generally speaking, so testable impairment is a bad measure.

I kind of think the 0.0 laws in the Scandinavian countries make a lot of sense, if you plan to drive, just don't drink anything, full stop.
Passive income from selling themes on marketplaces
I just wanted to take an opportunity to thank you for building this brilliant tool. I have used it many times and recommend it to people all the time. It's a brilliant way of demonstrating to non-techies that there is an actual problem with their server configuration.
The site seems to be very fast and reliable. I like the Javascript header and I love your pricing model. :P

To be honest, I think jpmc is right. Allowing demo users to upload files on a real server could cause U some serious damage one day.
Not only in software: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_exercising_a_cat

The documentary by This American Life about patents had an IP researcher claiming that over 1/3 of all patents ignore prior art, just by comparing identical text between them: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/android-app?destination=radi...
In NYC, that'll get you a decent fine, even if you're drinking it on the stairs in front of your own apt building.
Deploying Django on dotCloud - an insiders story
$99 apparently http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/16/os-x-mountain-lion/ but revenue from developers is not the business model here.
"The overwhelming majority of their users will never touch it."

That's unless they want to install any app currently available on the Web that isn't signed. There is a lot of legacy software people keep using, even Mac users. I don't see that setting staying default for very long.
Does Mountain Lion allow you to make apps full-screen on non-primary displays? This is the main problem I have with Lion.
I don't see how installing key loggers being easy is germane to whether or not enhancing Gatekeeper to delete unapproved programs is a future possibility.

I read the comment as being, "China's key logging exploits are evidence that it likes to control computing and it will seek to enhance this capability." The trend amongst world governments is to seek greater control of computing. I doubt this is going to stop with key logging software and won't be enhanced.
Catamorphism.com and hylomorphism.com, "free to a good home."
They were also first at SEO - all of these sites competing for the same words - "sex" and "fuck" being their holy grail.
Certainly that is the case with my plus account.

I have a plus account because I have a gmail account which is pretty much exclusively used for my Facebook account (Facebook runs in it's own exclusive Ubuntu VM).
1) When I started on mac it was targeted at (mostly) professionals in desktop publishing etc. So it was more B2B than B2C. I accept that this has been changing for a long time already, probably since OSX. Now I am a consumer, that's my point.

2) Nothing. But now I'm buying a consumer product to do my work. It's like Iron Maiden using Garageband, or Philip Halsman using Instagram. (not that I would compare myself to them, but you get the idea)
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I asked a few friends and couldn't get an answer. What features have been taken from OSX and put into iOS?

It seems to me that contrary to Gruber's claim, OSX is moving towards iOS and iOS is moving towards its competition.
It means apps with access to iCloud get some extra scrutiny, helping prevent malware tampering with iCloud.

I suppose notifications could be abused as well (perhaps some kind of notification-phising, where an app posts notifications that appear to be from something else?)
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"The central problem in American higher education today is that most of the people running things in politics, business, and academe come from the first group, but most of the actual students enrolled in college are in the second group. The former cannot see the latter, because they are blinded by their own experience. And so they think the problems of the many don't exist."

This is a typical problem, that you can call "separate connected components" problem: people tend to associate with people like themselves, so are very surprised at results dealing with other social groups that they are not connected. When Bush won the elections, I remember many Democrat friends asking, in bewilderment, "Nobody I know voted for this guy, who voted for him?"

The remedy is to go out of your comfort zone and try to connect with the other groups. During my volunteering with an inner city high school on FIRST Robotics Competition, I am amazed at the hard work and innovative spirit that the students are putting in, yet they won't be able to go to a good college due to many reasons. And going to a good college is shown as the only was to salvation to these kids, alternate paths such as entrepreneurship are not described at all.
i am now just wondering how long it will take to reverse engineer the protocol so we can get this working on more than just a Mac (Windows would be handy, but think about getting this to talk to your Web Service!)
Actually it won't be a good thing if Microsoft did the same thing. For starters, big features that need a lot of design and development (think Windows 8 GUI) take much more than a year. Also Windows needs to be tested across a lot more hardware and much bigger software ecosystem than OS X, so longer alpha and beta cycles are needed. They already release minor upgrades via service packs. I would rather have a solid OS like Windows 7 once in 3 years rather than an unstable OS every year.
I thought it was million*million as I was used to note million as a kk, e.g. 10M=10kk.
Another thing: we need a "tablet" mode for websites, that is distinct from "mobile." Several websites assume I am on a phone when I visit them with my Galaxy Tab, and enforce the use of a tiny font. Perhaps ironically, on these "mobile" websites, zooming seems to be broken, whereas on regular websites I can double-tap and it will zoom in to make the font size bigger and reflow the paragraph to fit my device. Examples are Slashdot and Live Journal, but there are others.
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