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Aesthetics have no impact on usability? Aesthetics have no impact on enjoyment of a product?
I have to wonder how much benefit you're really getting from that coupon program if everybody is getting them. At grocery stores you basically have to use a club card to get the same prices you could have gotten if the store didn't have a club card. If you're an early adopter you can get good deals for a while, but as the number of customers in the program approaches critical mass, the benefit to each customer from having volunteered their information diminishes, and by then the Nash equilibrium is for everybody to be in the program. There's probably a name for this situation but I've forgotten it. It's like an inside-out race to the bottom.

And if stores can track you just as easily through credit cards, then I wonder how long it will be until Target offers discounts for using credit cards instead of cash, if that's legal.

(Also, you could be getting those coupons because you don't buy that laundry detergent as much as you could; if you bought it much more frequently they might guess that they couldn't get your purchase volume up much further by dropping the price.)
65,000 phishing accounts shut down in the past year, and they have a total of 700,000 accounts.

Nearly 10% (and that just assumes that all the accounts were made in the last year) of their users were using the site for phishing. That seems like a lot, and even if they were shut down, I wonder if they weren't doing enough to tackle misuse of their own site.
I worked at an investment bank. We used satellite imagery of EU countries to do demand forecasting. You should also know your communication signals aren't protected once they leave sovereign air space (around LEO).

If the government wants your data they can get it. Using cash, which providing some theatric value, won't make you un-traceable (commercial banks track serial numbers through their systems).

Not saying privacy regulation has no use - it does (though this example with Target seems innocuous; be wary of slippery slope fallacy). But you aren't protected against a determined counter-party.
As a Canadian, I was very surprised when I did a coop term in 1997 in Mississippi, at how grocery stores had discount cards. We didn't have them up here at the time.

Because it was only a 5% discount, and I didn't buy much as a starving student anyway, I only used it for certain, specific items, just to mess with their database. So if you mined my data, I appeared to be some guy who ate nothing, drank nothing but milk, and was an inordinately prodigious consumer of toilet paper.

We have them up here in Canuckistan, now, too.
I think the creepy feeling comes in that you don't realize the merchant is profiling you. At least not until they tip their hand a little too much (like sending you an entire booklet of nothing but maternity stuff).

You get a Safeway club card and you know full well that they're tracking you, because you hand them the card every shopping trip. Or you use Amazon or Netflix, where customers really want to be tracked -- the tracking and data mining are part of the draw, because they have such good suggestion engines.

I had LASIK a few years back and bought dry eye drops from Target - a lot of them, over six months time. Then my eyes healed and I quit buying it. A month later I get a coupon generated by a Target cash register for Systane drops, the exact brand I used to buy. I guess they thought I started buying them at Walgreens instead?

It was only when they gave me a coupon for a specific brand and product, that most of the population would likely not buy on a typical weekly shopping trip, that I realized all my purchases were being tracked and linked by my credit card number.

All that time before then, their prediction engine was selecting coupons for completely unrelated products, and I was using the coupons not even thinking about it.
Allowing only App-Store-signed apps on the Mac would be suicide for Apple. They know this. It wouldn't happen, and if it does happen, then it would mean the end of the platform. Techies only have locked-down iPhones and iPads because they can still run any open-source or third-party tools they want, wether to write their own programs or just create content like websites, or play indie games, etc..

It just won't happen. If anybody was going to do this on the desktop already, it would be Microsoft, and they've already made it clear that "trusted computing" is just a feature along side that all-important cornerstone of computing: running whatever the flip you want.
I was aiming more at the idea that it would be out of character for Apple to completely restrict access to just certain sources of apps. If we're talking about whether Apple would take something away that people had come to rely upon, well, there's a whole long list of technologies I could list off to support the idea that they have no problem doing that....
Oh, I managed to miss that part. Thanks for pointing that bit out!
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It's hard to draw a line on where privacy gets crossed, but this seems like it. Hard to imagine that Target doesn't lose a customer for life when their pregnancy gets prematurely outed.
>We want a modern Cloud service from Apple.

I feel like you're completely and intentionally ignoring the point I'm trying to make.
I'm sure you will be able to add certs in Keychain Access, just like you can now.
With their new OS version Mountain Lion, Its more evident that they are slowly bringing everyone into their product cyclone. It seems as if they are building out what they have envisioned without publicly saying it. Allowing them to own the majority of conversation mediums, including a social network.
Of course not, that's why electronics courses generally have labs. Same deal with CS theory and application.

Even then, there were definitely people who would do very well on the theory, but struggle with the labs. And vice versa.
JotForm today moved its domains away from GoDaddy to registrars NameCheap and Hover.

I'm glad JotForm is back up, but I'm curious how they transferred the domains so quickly. I would have expected GoDaddy to lock the domains and prevent them from being transferred away, either due to their own policies or because the Secret Service ordered them to. In my experience, it's always taken at least a few days to transfer registrars, even with an EPP code in hand and instantly responding to confirmation emails. Was NameCheap able to pull some strings to transfer the domains outside of the normal process?
I remember this from a few years ago; hopefully it's more complete now than it was then. I stuck with Sedra and Smith.

Edit: looks like there are still a lot of missing and incomplete sections in the semiconductor volume.
That's a fairly niche case, though. Personally I'm comfortable sacrificing it in favor of not giving apps full read-write access to everything on my system by default.

I can see how there are very specific cases in which it would be too cumbersome, but it probably works in > 80% of cases, and it's pretty clear that those 80% apps are who the App Store is aimed at.

Edit: Thinking about this some more: not to pick on your example, but the Downloads folder actually does need to be located by the user, because it's not actually in a fixed location (it defaults to $HOME/Downloads, but that's not where mine is located, for instance).

There really aren't many cases that I can dream up in which you can absolutely be certain of a file or folder's location, such that an Open Dialog is totally superfluous.
Surprising that they mine data? No.

Surprising that they mine data, and act on potentially sensitive information? Somewhat.

Worrisome that they effectively took it upon themselves to disclose to her father that she was pregnant? I find it shocking that anyone would think it's not.
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Scariest button on a porn site is the Like/G+ button.
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Haha, sorry about that, it is a little confusing.

Amazon is such a behemoth that if they used OAuth to dominate in payments, it could lead to a dip in their other sales by weakening their claims to one-click payments.
Wow that's faster than the range I was working with. Will look into it, thanks for the info.
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I guess I simply disagree. I want the copy to be aggressive and unfriendly, and I'm happy there's no "Continue, and shoot myself in the foot" button for users to fixate on.
Social took off when Zuck tricked users into giving out their real names, when meant social networks grew much faster (as old school friends would connect).

Porn does "social", but only anonymous social, which is naturally handicapped.

If someone created a social network which allowed better privacy controls, the porn sites would love it.
I was attempting to prompt you into retracting your ridiculous statement about malware not being a problem.

Ridiculous how?

It's perfectly valid, as in: VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY FEW OS X users ever had problems with malware. Less that what would be statistical noise. On top of it, all the cases of OS X malware, had been trojans. So, 99.9999% got scratch free, despite not even running any antivirus or anything.

So, an ACTUAL, EXISTING problem, it is NOT.

Now, a POSSIBLE, FUTURE problem, yeah, it can be.
Let the market sort it out, charge them more.
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Does this mean we can also legally play poker with prostitutes in the self-driving cars?

Hunter S. Thompson would have loved this.
True, and I don't believe Apple is taking my freedom away with Gatekeeper (yet. Always be wary of slippery slopes though). The point I'm trying to make is that I think the article was written in a crafty way, so as to alter what it's readers consider the "norm" and/or "right" as far as open vs closed ecosystems go.

I honestly think gatekeeper could be a good thing, and I would like to see a similar system be used to help open up ios. As it also appears that ios and OSX will eventually end up as the same entity (which I also think will be a good thing).
Amazing! I thought it's a desktop tool only feature. Really nice to see this feature finally available on web. I'm wondering why it's available on Chrome and FireFox only. How about IE9?
> In the U.S. it is illegal to offer credit to anyone under the age of 18 as they cannot legally enter into contracts

Minors can legally enter into contracts. Those contracts are entirely binding on the non-minor party. The minor is the one that can repudiate the contract before the age of majority to void it, but otherwise, it's a perfectly valid contract. If the minor remains bound past the age of majority, the contract can no longer be voided, either.

There are credit cards marketed directly to teens.
'Tell Vic Everything' tweets protest online surveillance
The problem is that allowing the holes he wants in sandboxing would defeat the security benefits. And that security is the whole point of the ordeal.

I don't know what the best solution is. Possibly allowing non-sandboxed apps in the app store, which go under extra review (possibly with a premium charge to defray the cost of extra review), or requiring the user to select a 'do not sandbox this' option when installing the app.

However, Apple can't give this app what it wants while keeping the integrity of their sandbox.
The current version of Xcode, released yesterday (two weeks prior to the sandboxing deadline), contains no code signing entitlements and hence is not sandboxed.
If anyone came here, like me, wondering what to do to help there's a petition that's linked to on his facebook page:

https://www.gopetition.com/petition/40162.html [includes unecrypted assets]
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If you belive this (http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2009/07/20/seattles-light...) it took seattle almost 20 years to make that happen. Also, i think that city, in particular, was flush with cash.
You mean besides all their UI widgets, right?

http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/javascript.html
I'd be interested in seeing some of those graphs like we saw in December to see if there is any spike in domains transferred away from GoDaddy.

How many times are we gonna have to hear these horror stories before we all get moved away from GoDaddy?
Those frequencies you are asking about correspond to wavelengths of several inches. That would require a very large and thick camera, and probably a different sensor technology to be sensitive to the less energetic photons. Near-infrared and UV are easy, though.
Wow, I hadn't realized how bad the 2011 lineup was! Seriously, McChrystal, the general that "retired" because he bad-mouthed the VP in front of a reporter? Amazing.

David Brooks, Jason Mraz, someone from Pepsi, puppeteers??? Mindblowing.

I actually listened to the Ford Motor dude's presentation and it was awful. It seems like TEDTalks now are just a way for business people to feel like they changing the world for the better (when in actuality they usually aren't). Instant gravitas.
"... how do they fit together with the cheap phone and dead-drops? ..."

If you don't want anyone to know you are sending a message to another person you encrypt a message & leave it at a specific place with a marker. I assume you get this. But if you give a call with an an encrypted message on any phone you potentially give the game away. With a cheap $20 phone used minimally or once, sending a hand encrypted message using Solitaire you get anonymity and security.
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If Google was only interested in putting a faster language into Chrome they could have just shipped with LuaJIT for Lua and been done with it. Obviously they're more interested in playing around in their own sandbox (Dart).
I think we can agree on the evil of Iran's leadership, but...

> "A lot of things happened in the past, it's customary to let it stay in the past."

Except this behavior isn't really past. The U.S. is still eager to unilaterally overthrow the governments of other countries, for purely economic reasons no less. I'm sure you know which country I have in mind.

> "try to isolate themselves from the international community and restrict free trade"

Yeah, and United States of fuckin America don't cotton to no isolationism. That shit's a sure way to get on our bad side, especially if the "free trade" they're curtailing involves oil.

Note that refusing to participate in America's version of "free trade" is not illegal under any sort of law.

> "not allow the UN inspectors to see whether they're building nuclear plants or warheads"

They do allow inspections. A team of IAEA inspectors was there last month. The US just doesn't like to acknowledge this because we already have our fucking mind made up.

> "surely there is a better way to control that than isolationism and totaliarism?"

I'd love to hear your ideas.
And Microsoft will likely never support it, so until IE dies completely (still around 50% market share total), this is a pointless exercise, and is likely to cause more confusion and wasted time than it will help web developers.

Wave died, Google Buzz died, Google+ is stillborn, not everything google does is magic. Until IE supports Dart natively, I won't be wasting any of my time with it. I don't care that Dart compiles to javascript, it's not a substitute for javascript that runs inside the browser.
On that note, two things.
First, when you actually start the animation, make sure that the images are loaded first. If I hit one the demo sites with a cleared cache, the images pop in pretty bad. Use document.onload instead of $(document).ready

Second, mobile performance is dreadful. From what I understand, you have it using CSS3 animation and simply add animations into divs. My suggestion would be to default to javascript on mobile. Most mobiles don't have css animations optimized as heavily as javascript animations.
In some situations, this sort of thing isn't just creepy - it's incredibly fucked up.

My mother gave birth a while ago, and sadly, the child only lived for two months. But for months after his death, we received a LOT of coupons - "20% off diapers for your bundle of joy," etc. It was a sensitive time, and checking the mail often led to tears. After reading this article, thinking back - Target ads. I specifically remember giant, full-paged ads for nothing but baby items from Target.

edit for type, it's =/= isn't
I can't find any evidence of that. The gfortran 4.3 release notes strongly imply it doesn't:

"Support for backtraces on glibc-based systems via the -fbacktrace option is now implemented. On all systems, a coredump can be generated for errors in the run-time library using `-fdump-core`."

The GCC suite has a pretty clear history of not being dependent on glibc, and some searching brings up no mention of it requiring glibc, and a few mentions of people clearly building it without glibc.
Well, to add insult to injury, resume plain out doesn't work as soon as you leave the beaten path ever so slightly.

I.e. I really don't need iTerm to resume because it can't restore my sessions anyway. And even most regular apps fail to resume for me because almost all of my files are on a network share that OSX fails to auto-mount.
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Socialism is impossible, due to the inability to use economic calculation when the means of production are State controlled.

When you don't have profits, and you don't have market prices, then you have no idea when you should be switching away from some resources and using others. Resources get squandered, there's no way to make sure they go to their most valued use. That's the beauty of Capitalism, we make sure resources go to where they are most needed by selling it to the highest bidder.

Ex: If copper prices go up, some people - those who can - will substitute away from it, thus allowing the copper to go to it's most valued use.

If interested, I recommend 'Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth' by Ludvig Von Mises [http://mises.org/econcalc.asp]

Also good is Friedrich Hayek's 'Competition as a Discovery Procedure' [http://mises.org/journals/qjae/pdf/qjae5_3_3.pdf]
Apparently a tremendous number of times... even though HN both likes to upvote "GoDaddy ate my dog" posts and downvote "Yeah, and you're still surprised? How many times do you have to hear it" comments.

I'm always curious, are people who downvote this in denial? Somehow downvoting me will keep the bad things from coming true to your domains? Funny, most of these stories also start out "I'd always heard bad things about GoDaddy, but..."
I was going to say that at least tablet users who want keyboards at least buy them as an add-on rather than buying tablets with keyboards built in. Then I realized that a tablet with a built-in keyboard is called a "notebook computer", and they're already quite popular.

Seems to me that it's all about the difference in size. A full-sized physical keyboard is well superior to a virtual one. But on a tiny phone, either way is going to be painful, so it matters much less.
"The Price" being that you have to click the "Allow unsigned apps" radio button if you don't want the system to bug you again? That seems like a much lower price than the actual price of their hardware.
There's a very tiny number of domains that can be registered easily but aren't available on GoDaddy.
Because it doesn't need them to do it's job?
Sure, but how many customers for life do they GAIN? That's how they are looking at it, as long as the net result is an increase in business, it's a good strategy.

I'm not saying I am on one side or the other, but every 'targeted' campaign will have some fallout, you just have to make sure it's a small enough number.
> Worrisome that they effectively took it upon themselves to
> disclose to her father that she was pregnant? I find it
> shocking that anyone would think it's not.

I don't think that they 'disclosed' that to the father. Sounds like it went down like this:

1. girl gets pregnant
2. girl gets pregnancy coupons
3. father gets angry, goes to store and complains
4. store manager has no clue why the ad was sent,
and apologizes to father
5. girl admits to father that she is pregnant
6. father apologizes to store manager
This is what happens when male marketing execs target female customers (no pun intended).
I'd find it creepy and invasive to get something physical in the mail with private medical information.

It's not private medical information. It's an analysis of your public actions. All the coupons say is that many people that bought the things you did are pregnant. It doesn't say that you are pregnant.
Well, if XCode can serve its purpose (build and debug OS X apps) without the CLI, why should it have them included?
Awesome job!!
I need your guidance on wordpress as I am redesigning a site myself..
How did you get posts in different menu tabs. Are you using some post category plugin in wordpress?
"You can tell an API is Hypermedia by providing only one API endpoint, but which accepts requests at other endpoints that are provided by discovery."

And then the docs provide you hardcoded URLs for each endpoint. Is there an actual, practical use for dynamically discoverable APIs that I am missing?
The point is that it's not as private as you think it is.
Just wanting to say that what one sees as "problems", other people are perfectly happy with, and even happier than with the old status quo.
They haven't reached them, that much is obvious since Lua is every bit as dynamic as Javascript and LuaJIT is orders of magnitude faster than V8.
If you aren't using something like Adblock, just wait until all the ad networks figure out you're pregnant. My wife was totally creeped out one day when she realized practically every site she visited was showing baby ads.
Why do some societies make disastrous decisions?
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Error rate seems like it would be incredibly high from a human perspective.
Ok. But,

1. Where does the one-to-many part come in?

2. Is there any reason other than plausible deniability to use a cheap cellphone vs. anything else (piece of paper, memory card, etc)?
On behalf of everyone who comes to HN for grammar lessons (and come on, that's all of us, right?): thank you.
>And what about those people that use the beta (e.g., me) and see the bugs and glitches as a result of your incompetence?

This line discredited the whole article for me. Firstly, you're writing a video game inside a browser. This is like making a space ship that does surgery. You've got two complex systems working together of course there will be bugs.

Also why on earth would you expect the browser to play the game exactly the same over the course of time. Every update to iOS or android introduces new bugs into the system. I don't understand where you come of saying that an update should never break anything ever.

Canvas is massively different across browsers. Its your job to figure out the difference and account for it. The spec isn't even finalized yet.

I honestly expected the author to touch on some important issues like the fact that your game is naturally open source. But this seems more like a frustrated developer expecting too much from a platform.
The fact that the death penalty seems reasonable in one case doesn't make it reasonable. The death penalty is inappropriate because it doesn't have any checks and balances; if you are executed and later found not guilty, you can't be brought back to life.

It's clear that fear of punishment does not deter crimes; otherwise death penalty states would have no murders.
I was surprised by the lack of research justifying the claims about the latin alphabet and/or supporting the concept of dots. Does anyone know of any research in this field?
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I know my one and only post was to ask if anyone out there was even using it.

And... no one replied.