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Security experts analyze millions of X.509 certs, call RSA crypto flawed
Reports indicate Siri computes primarily in the cloud (the whole sound file is sent), and that it's not on iPhone 4 for other reasons (e.g. reduce server load, increase 4S sales)
I believe you, but these are pretty fantastic claims. Source(s)?
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Thank you for the feedback. It appears that I chose a title for my article that struck a nerve with some of you. It was not my intent to encourage readers to rashly quit their jobs to start their own poorly thought-out businesses; though in hindsight, I can see how it got interpreted that way. It was my intent to describe the intrinsic connection that your fledgling business shares with your current and past employers and the importance and benefits of honoring that connection. To clarify this point, I have renamed the article to "Quitting Your Job to Pursue Your New Company" and rewritten a portion of the first paragraph. I hope that this new title causes less confusion.
Interesting, but as a software guy I disagree entirely on the hardware/software side. I'd much rather have a 4s running ICS than one of the others running iOS, and I'd much rather have my MBP run Linux than even OSX (stupid EFI...). Granted, I have different tastes and needs than most, but I view Apple products not as the OS "in a pretty box", as Jobs put it, but rather as a pretty box with a good-not-great OS in it.
I think it bears mention here that Isaacson has acknowledged there may be some places the book could be improved in and may be putting out a version 2 soon (or maybe 1S? I'll show myself out...). The whole thing was a bit rushed to press.
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Of course, I would need to get better at circuits and things. :)<p>I've seen the iRobot Create, the Willow Garage create, and a couple of other similar platforms but I want to focus on the software right now. I remember seeing a hobby robot with a laptop but I can't seem to remember it this second.<p>I was inspired by the nnrccar posting that made the rounds earlier but I find that my hardware skills are not so great right now. Embedded stuff is fine (I do that during the day at a network hardware company, although our tool chain is super complex).<p>Do you have any recommendations?
The chances of any one key being compromised are very, very low.

If this is a pattern of simple software flaws, or something environmental like keys generating during cold start entropy starvation, the likelihood of pulling a truly valuable key out of that soup are even lower: generally (not always, but generally) the more valuable keys are generated using very well known software, and under tight process constraints.

So basically you get ~10k random certs that allow you to MITM ~10k random sites. It's not nothing, but criminals have better ways of monetizing attacker effort.
I feel the opposite. One example, when I use Linux I'm immediately met with the contortion of ctr-c/v/x not working as copy/paste across the board. Most notably in the terminal. Cmd-c/v/x works across the board.
The program is amazing. I did it last year and had a blast.

It's a great opportunity to run with an idea you have. The mentors are great people to know and are truly interested in helping you succeed.

Also, the office is right next to a 24 hour Safeway, which is fantastic for middle of the night snack runs while you're working.
So send multiple hashes per contact!

Feral, Chimp, myEmail, myDeskPhone, myCellPhone

H1 = sha1(Feral-Chimp-myEmail-myDeskPhone-myCellPhone)

H2 = sha1(F-Chimp-myEmail-myDeskPhone-myCellPhone)

H3 = sha1(Feral-C-myEmail-myDeskPhone-myCellPhone)

H4 = sha1(F-C-myEmail-VALUEOMITTED-VALUEOMITTED)

...

...

So flexibility is available, it's just more computationally expensive for the server to do the extra comparisons. The hash calcs use a little extra battery per user, but I'm much happier to donate some of my processor/battery than I am my Address Book contents.
Did you have much difficulty getting Ubuntu running? I couldn't get Fedora to boot from USB or HD, even using rEFIt. I suppose I could check out Ubuntu again.
Have you considered sublingual vitamin D? Just curious since I'd always thought it to be the preferred form but see more people caps.
One trick that really helped with the edit-compile-debug cycle, especially on iOS, was to run the app from the command line instead of using Titanium Studio. I set up a Rake task that would run the app and then listen for a timestamp change to tmp/restart.txt, at which point it would restart the app within seconds. I already had a vim command for touching that file (it's used by Passenger for a similar purpose) so all I do while developing is press a key combination and wait for the simulator to pop back up. Very fast.
Download bots are a well-known secret of the iOS eco-system
Eh. I agree with the Siracusian critique (echoed by Gruber) that Jobs "picked the wrong guy", at least for us hackers. But I don't think Jobs really gave a damn what Isaacson wrote about what went on under the kimono at Apple. If anything, he'd probably have preferred a biographer who would have left the TV "cracked it" quote on the cutting room floor, lest Samsung know what was about to hit them.

He wanted a bio that would help his kids get to know him better, and that's what he got. It's not a coincidence that the most intimate moments in the book all revolve around Jobs outside of Apple. That's what he talked to Isaacson about, and that's what Isaacson put to paper.
Here's an example of my usual pattern, using express: https://github.com/ryancole/node-simple-upload/tree/master/n...

The routes are not namespaced like you'd see with something like Python's Flask does, but it still allows me to group all my similar routes.
It computes in the cloud, but there's good evidence that the signal it computes on has at least been cleverly noise-filtered.
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At one time, extremely spiky usage: my primary use-case was short-term compute cluster deployments for specific projects, so it would fluctuate wildly. Typical sizes at any given time were 0 (no project), 16 (small cluster), 64 (moderate) and 128 (decent, at least for the particular domain I was in).

These days it's zero, because I work at an HPC-targeted IaaS startup that hosts our own hardware. (Because Infiniband is awesome when you're latency-bound.) But I used some decent-size ec2 deployments for a bit there.
This not a stupid idea! It's the STUPIDEST!
Thanks for sharing, Jason! What prevents you from scaling higher? Lack of need? Cost? Architecture?
Speed is not the only benefit of Titanium. I recently submitted a phonegap app it was rejected on the basis that "It would be appropriate to add iOS specific UI and functionality". I am pretty pissed-off. You made the right choice.
>"Elite Kenyan marathoners aren't particularly known for being heavily muscled."

Agreed. Their goal isn't to be heavily muscled. It's to run fast over long distances. What's your point?
Thanks for sharing! What kind of instance types did you use? Was it the cluster compute instances, or something else?
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When you have a very limited set of hardware, and work side by side with the people that made it, it's far easier to optimize your software vs. one company writing software for 20 other hardware companies they don't have direct contact with.
I might buy one if I could have some fraction of the payment (like 50% or so) be diverted into the ledger of my mp3sparks.com account
Same. I'd rather have a MBP running Win XP even.

In fact, I have an 8-10 year old Dell laptop and a MBP bought within the last year or two. I planned to make the switch but I've kept using the old Dell and the MBP sits at home as a net-browsing machine for my wife.
Correct me if I'm wrong but you're not disagreeing the conclusion that software is more important, you're just arguing the details as to which software is superior.

If I could mix and match here is what I'd take:

Software: iOS

Hardware: Nokia

Customer Service: Apple

Ecosystem: Amazon

Carrier: none of the above (the US sucks so bad...)
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Thanks for the insightful explanation, though I am wondering about the practice of creating the artificial "pop" when IPO opens, why is this kind of premeditated pumping allowed?
I think the original article alludes to this but doesn't say it explicitly:

If they built such a service to let people test their own public keys, the service would actually provide a much bigger service to attackers than it would to users.

Public keys are public, right? There are huge LDAP databases out there just brimming with certificates (i.e. signed public keys) just waiting to be harvested. And most of the people whose certificates are in these databases would not be paying attention to this news, but an attacker certainly would.

You probably see where this is going.
Kind of what my gut was telling me (from the Google Talk comments):

"I feel like a lot of assmptions were made in this lecture. We've thrown formulas out the﻿ window before because they didn't agree with newly experimental data. Using the schroedinger equation to prove the results of the quantum eraser is pretty much equivalent to using old newtonian formulas to prove that you can travel faster than the speed of light - it doesn't hold water. I'm not saying Ron Garret is wrong, but too many assumptions were made in this proof, i'd rather trust experimental data."

Still reading. Thanks!
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lego mindstorms. They're programable (python, ada, a bunch of languages) little robots. and they're cheap enough for parents to buy their children.
Yeah, this right here is probably the Mother of All Demos for this generation. Truly stunning. Every time Bret posts something I think he's finally released his masterstroke, but then he one ups himself the next time. Can't wait to see what he does next.
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Eyeballing Macca's Australian website [1], I'd say that the furthest point would be equidistant from Kalgoorlie, Broome and Alice Springs. That's pretty close to the north-eastern corner of the Gibson Desert Nature Reserve [2], 800km from the nearest McDonalds.

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In retrospect the biggest problem I had with Isaacson’s book was that he really seemed to dumb down his subject. I realize that Isaacson may have had to do this to appeal to a non-tech audience and to fit an entire complex lifespan into one book — but the result is that Jobs becomes a flat cartoon character of sorts and everything becomes oversimplified. And maybe that's what Joe and Jill Average want to read -- but as a fanboy and geek it left me feeling a bit empty and uninspired.
That would hurt the virality of their apps, and therefore not make their app ecosystem as useful (or as competitive, if competing with apps on other platforms).
Physics education is extremely baroque. There is a set way of teaching which has been done for the past 50 years and nothing is going to change it unfortunately.

Everyone learns from the same exact textbooks. My professors were using the same exact edition of Kleppner and Kolenkow (Into Classical Mechanics) textbook I used. It's even a point of pride for them. The canonical set of books are:

K&R -> Intro Mechanics

Taylor -> Advanced Mechanics

Griffiths -> E&M and Quantum

Sakurai -> Quantum

Boas -> Mathematical methods

(I'm prolly missing a few)

Every physics student in the US is familiar with these books.

Part of the reason for the intransigence is that it weeds out the weaklings. They make Physics very difficult and impenetrable in part so that 1/2 the class drops out and goes to do Bio or CS(which are taught sooo much better) and you're left with the most hard working masochistic students of whom the top 10% will become grad students and slave away for minimum pay for 7 years.

I mean.. they're not actively planning this in an evil-planning-room, but that's the end results and the physics establishment is happy and no one is pushing for new methods of teaching.
Nobody uses it with that meaning anymore, the phrase has taken on a different meaning. This happens with language, definitions shift, nuance is added, old meanings fall away. If you use the phrase with the original Latin meaning, you'd likely just confuse your listener. It hasn't had that definition in the common parlance for probably the last couple of centuries -- or at least since Latin stopped being necessary for a proper education.

Time to update your dictionary!
"Try it, track it, fix it. Now you know if it does or doesn’t work and you can move on – next."

It seems that a lot of people have performance anxiety, and find it very difficult to just "do" what they need to "do". In my opinion people need to learn that it's okay to be wrong. All that matters is that you are moving forward.

Great article and congrats on the exit.
Facebook only knows the contacts that match i.e. are already on Facebook. And that's exactly what the user wanted to find out.

It's true that they could store the hashes and build a graph of mystery contacts, but that's still not as bad as taking the actual contact info.
Good design is always opinionated. That you don't share those opinions doesn't make it poor design any more than it make you wrong for not sharing them.

I spent a long time thinking about whether the hardware or software is more valuable to me, and, in the end, I agree with Gruber. The software really does make the platform.
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A lot has changed in the 1.8 release, and I'm sorry to hear you ran into problems with earlier versions. Our abstraction layer can be a bit "magical" sometimes, and we need to do a better job communicating the tips and best practices that we've learned from our major apps, such as the NBC flagship iPad and mobile apps, and the Jimmy Fallon apps. We've actually been releasing a lot of content on manual memory management and app structures lately, which we hope will be helpful in this. That content is on our dev blog and wiki.appcelerator.org

In terms of the bugs I am hearing about, that really sucks on our part. If youre using Titanium and run into an issue that's really giving you trouble, my team monitors messages to community@appcelerator.com - we're out in the dev forums as much as we can but questions do go unanswered sometimes. Please let us know if your question does.

All that said, we've had over 30k apps (that we know of) shipped to the stores, the best of which stack up very well against their native-only counterparts. We have work left to do to make Titanium bulletproof but we think we're headed in the right direction.
I also "drooled over the 4" for quite awhile waiting but when I got the 4S I found it didn't take me long to recall Edward Tufte's words:

"the elegant sharp edges that encase many touchscreens require users to desensitize their hands in order to ignore the physical discomfort produced by the aggressive edges. Last year in Cupertino, I yelled at some people about touchscreens that paid precise attention to finger touches from the user but not to how the device in turn touches the hands of the user (and produces divot edge-lines in the flesh)."

http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...

It took me at least a full week to get my hand acclimated to the 4S edges.
I'm a longtime user of AVG Free editions, and based on this recently switched someone from Mcafee Paid to AVG Paid, mainly because they were experiencing persistent issues with mcshield.exe bringing the system to a grinding halt (even though Mcafee claims to have fixed this problem every year).

Before switching, I did some googling of forums to gauge community views. I ignored Norton, since my experience with that has been dismal, but in general the names that kept popping up were Mcafee, AVG and Kaspersky, with no clear winner on any particular front (viruses, malware, firewalling, identity theft protection, etc).

It would seem that for most intents and purposes, and unless you're after something highly specific, it's really a personal choice. Anecdotally Mcafee tends to be a resource hog, and while I've never used Kaspersky, I have friends who are unimpressed with it in a corporate setting. AVG has so far not disappointed me (and the feedback from my friend is that their machine is running great again).
Wow there is a lot of information about that algorithm on the web. Im sure ill be able to cobble something together from that. Cheers
Even the original iPod, which wasn’t based on NeXT technology, used the column-view concept for hierarchical navigation that NeXT pioneered.

Those are called Miller Columns, and NeXT popularized them, but they were pioneered much earlier:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_columns
The A5 has several integrated processors for specific purposes, specifically relating to audio and video. The Audience chip is likely one, but there are also processors specifically for the purposes of handling video encoding or decoding, and other things, probably like cryptography.

Apple was not specific about what all the coprocessors are or what they do, which is why I'm being vague, but they have publicly announced that these are integrated into the SoC.

So the "Rumor" part is that one of them is from Audience. That there are custome co-processors has been revealed publicly.
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That, and the American Craft Beer movement would like to have a word with you.
>They don't eat lamb, and prefer grain-fed beef

That really has as much to do with cost as anything. Grass-fed beef can be twice the price of grain-fed, and lamb's definitely not cheap, either.
I have operated a rather large crawl cluster on EC2 (several hundred nodes), and I don't see why anyone would point one at a third party DNS service.

we operated for about 6 months using the default resolvers than come with the AMIs, then Amazon contacted us, telling us they wanted us to stop using their recursive nameservers... apt-get install bind, point at 127.0.0.1, redeploy AMI, done (in under 5 minutes).

it isn't as if a crawler cares about an extra 250ms from non-cached entries, and the bandwidth from DNS is trivial* compared to that of downloading pages.

... so why would anyone ever offer to pay you/anyone else for a recursive DNS service? it's a trivial problem...

(* say 32 bytes for the query, 64 bytes for the response... 1B lookups is ~64gb, or $3.50 with Amazon's very expensive bandwidth costs)
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You're right in the case of SHA1. However, with a suitable work factor, you can't bruteforce bcrypt AFAIK
It fluctuates, but most recently somewhere between 34 - 56 instances for dev, staging and production search, crawler and content build clusters. (we index terabytes of data and hundred of millions of documents)
Not all names are simple or even computable transforms though. How do you deal with entries like "Mom" or "Steve," names like "St. Clair" that may be entered dozens of different ways, or non-English names like "姚明" that may have dozens or hundreds of different possible romanizations, anglicizations, francizations, and spellings under any other language?

How much extra battery are you willing to spend, and more importantly, how much effort are you willing to spend running your users' batteries down for something that you'd never yourself use?
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AVG free works just fine.
"I don't think Jobs really gave a damn what Isaacson wrote about what went on under the kimono at Apple."

You nailed it.

That's the opinion I heard from Gruber on The Talk Show podcast and it makes sense - that Jobs would've picked someone like Steven Levy if he really wanted to explain the inner workings of Apple and alternatively, Isaacson was perfect for a human interest puff piece.

All of the stuff that I wish Isaacson would've written about well - the years in the NeXT wilderness, lessons learned from Pixar, the inner workings of Apple from 97 on - are the things written about and examined in the exactly one place in the planet where it can help only Apple: the secretive internal executive training program known as Apple University, formed in 2008 and headed up by Joel Podolny, the former dean of Yale Business School. You didn't think someone that planned things at the scale that Jobs did would just have a succession program that stopped at Tim Cook taking over, did you?

Jobs' greatest creation wasn't any one product, it was Apple itself, a company engineered to innovate on a regular and ongoing basis for years to come.
"OK, whatever, nonsense but perhaps no more ridiculous than Pac Man."

Love it. Break down Super Mario Bros. sometime. "So there's this guy, he's a plumber and has a huge mustache, he runs left to right and jumps on enemy mushrooms, but if he eats different ones (which he gets by hitting floating blocks with question marks on them) he gets bigger. Eating flowers lets him shoot fireballs, which kills anything that doesn't have a shell, except for the hammer brothers and Bowser. When he eats stars (that he's extracted out of the more floating question mark blocks) he becomes invincible for a short period of time. At the end of every level he sees how high up a flag pole he can jump. Oh and there's a princess you are saving or something who's always in a different castle then the one you are in. Every living thing in the world is pretty much made of poison since you die as soon as you touch pretty much anything. Oh, and some turtles can fly."
Indeed – the original target publication date was March 2012. It was rushed to completion as Jobs' health worsened, leaving a lot of loose ends.
Thanks! Reserved? Spot? On-demand? What instance types?
I've never interpreted the claims of "Reality Distortion Field" as being part of his marketing spin. I'd always read about it as a management style, that he used on his team (internally). (This seems to be backed up by his recent biography).
Perhaps in the popular press the RDF has been bandied about as a name for his marketing spin. But popular press say a lot of things...

The RDF as a management tool is not unique to steve jobs, there are many charismatic people around who can make their teams really believe in a mission without any fact at all to backup this belief, (most cults start this way).
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I wholeheartedly agree.

It's hard when you find out that your hero was in many ways a contemptible person. And it's not a noble reaction, but certainly a human one, to go looking for some fault with the source of this news.
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