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Are The Big Players Being Hypocritical On Cloud Computing Standards?
Are The Big Players Being Hypocritical On Cloud Computing Standards?
MakerBot's New Replicator is Delayed
Hacker Shelf, two days later
Cloud Computing Market Hot, But How Hot? Estimates are All Over the Map
Cloud Computing Market Hot, But How Hot? Estimates are All Over the Map
That's exactly it though! Gruber thinks he's on an select list of writers and journalists. Instead, I believe he's an item on the Apple marketing checklist. Can you find another author who got the same treatment as Gruber?

This random article I stumbled across while looking myself takes Gruber's assumptions as fact, which I believe to be Apple's intention.

"The company is also changing the way it handles press events, according to worldwide marketing VP Phil Schiller. While Schiller has refused to go into any more detail, Daring Fireball's John Gruber notes that last week, he and others in the media were given separate, solo product briefings on Mountain Lion." http://www.macnn.com/articles/12/02/16/os.x.updates.to.becom...

Gruber actually wrote, "I'm guessing" because he didn't have the sense, integrity, or care to ask "Hey guys, how many other people will you be giving this personal, private, ego-stroking presentation to?"
> This is another example of why the death penalty is never an acceptable punishment for a crime

I disagree. Bashar al-Asad has killed 8300 Syrian in the past 11 months, and now the country is on the verge of civil war. Some crimes deserve death penalty (though, obviously writing an open-source app does not qualify!).
I wonder if Google had Firefox-Dart support in mind when they put together the deal to pay Firefox $1 billion over the next three years (http://venturebeat.com/2011/12/22/google-firefox-deal/).
It runs much faster with Chrome and Safari due to their better Javascript VM.
Citrix Brings The Power of True Amazon-Style Clouds
Citrix Brings The Power of True Amazon-Style Clouds
>you wont get anything like that out of Cupertino.

You do know the core OS, Darwin[0], is open source? See also http://opensource.apple.com/ You may have even heard of a little rendering engine named WebKit that Apple helped create.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)
I'm not sure why you're equating that with the "crime" that this person is accused of... Create some general upload program that was used without his knowledge by possibly a porn site operator.

If you want to use an analogy, use one that has an equal weight on both sides.
I'm not sure iCloud can work in Apple's walled garden. The whole point of cloud storage is to make things accessible seamlessly across all devices. People who use a Mac at home and a PC at work or own an iPad and an Android phone are going to find Dropbox and the like a much better solution.

I know Apple is using iCloud to sell hardware and not the other way around, but I cant help but think iCloud can never be what Dropbox is so long as they don't make it available cross platform a la iTunes.
Good point. Every interpreter - and program that loads anything - will have to be foolproof. There was a case some time ago where an Xbox (or was it ps3?) game did not correctly check the saved games before loading them. IIRC people where able to exploit this and get the game to run code on their behalf.

In theory, all the games and apps have to sign/encrypt/check everything they load. But I can't believe they will all implement this correctly or that Apple will find all the subtle bugs when reviewing.
damn, where where you when I was buying my latest bike headlight! I ended up with a super-bright flashlight that I am quite satisfied with, but that cost a bit more than $6.
If Apple is not going to be distributing software updates because of their asinine policies, Apple should refund their 30% cut to their customers.
Typically the tradeoff with secureity is usability/features vs. security.

It's also important to note that the point of black hat hackers is to get around limitations. Without putting serious teeth into the sandboxing, it's largely pointless and security theater.
Not having IE7 support is a pretty nasty limitation though, if you're developing a commercial web site.
If individual vendors mess up when implementing the spec from the standards body (which they are a member of) then they should have to clean up their own mess. IE did eventually change the default in IE6 and added quirks mode for compatibility with websites designed for <IE6.

Even if the majority of people preferred the IE5.5 box model, it didn't follow the spec and it is therefore wrong. We have standards specifications on the web to maintain cross-browser compatibility; if browser vendors don't follow them then whats the point?
Terremark Executives Honored with the 2012 CloudNow Top Ten Women in Cloud Award
Terremark Executives Honored with the 2012 CloudNOW Top Ten Women in Cloud Award
Location, Location, Location: You Don't Need to Know Mine
I for one welcome Dartium. I need to learn the language and JS compilation was an unnecessary barrier. I care less about people's whining.

A language that does not suck? Check.
Is it multi platform? Check.
Can it work in other browsers if necessary? Check.
Is it open source? check.
Can it run in server? Check.
Is it fast? Check.
And yet, oddly, one of the front-page testimonials for node.js is LinkedIn saying that use of that particular brand of server-side Javascript gave them "huge performance gains". That obviously doesn't mean that Node (or Javascript in general) will perform well in every situation, but it does show at least an existence proof that JS is capable of high performance in some very demanding environments.

What I haven't seen out of the Dart project, so far, is a description of what performance targets they're trying to meet, why they think that no set Javascript extensions (e.g., the "freeze" proposals for Harmony) would suffice to meet those targets, and why they think that any of this is relevant to people whose needs _are_ adequately met by Javascript as it stands.
Things Bosses Never Tell Employees
Social apps 'harvest smartphone contacts'
Moxie Marlinspike's CloudCracker Aims For Speedier, Cheaper Password Cracking
Moxie Marlinspike's CloudCracker Aims For Speedier, Cheaper Password Cracking
Basecamp Next: UI Preview
Zynga Gives Amazon Cloud the Slip
Zynga Gives Amazon Cloud the Slip
Sometimes, doing things like this can get "blown way out of proportion":
http://www.wtae.com/r/23653787/detail.html
(The blog writer was arrested along with 2 others for breaking into Pittsburgh Steelers' stadium in 2010.)
Thanks!

* The output is pretty robust. Everything compiles down to just a few basic forms: an atom, a function, lambda, and "if". I'm considering adding a form that lets you output raw JS if you need to optimize something, but I have yet to see the need for that.

* Outlet doesn't do anything crazy like CPS. When you call a function "foo" with "(foo 1 2 3)" it generators a simple function call "foo(1, 2, 3)". So you can call native javascript functions normally.

You can use arrays and objects inline, like so:

(define a [1 2 3 4])

(define b {:key "value" :another-key "value2"})

Those get generated to normal javascript arrays and objects, so you can pass them as parameters to a native js function if needed.

You can even reference objects with "." like:

(define foo {:one 1 :two 2})

(print foo.one)

That works as expected. The only difference is vector reference, instead of "foo[1]" you would do "(vector-ref foo 1)".

Of course, this is all subject to change, but the goal of Outlet is to not do something crazy and for things to work as expected.
PG: planning on hosting another YCNYC this year?
Having just one deciding factor seems implausible. Straw that broke the camel's back? Sure. But calling it "the real reason" completely ignores every other relevant factor.
Or, you know, the difference between headline-writing, bullet-point, "breaking news" "journalists" and the journalists that write long-form investigative reports, in-depth stories, and other less "news-y" pieces that flesh out things like atmosphere and details.
Apple needs to do better than this.

For the duration of the company's existence, one of their biggest customer segments has been the creative industry. I can't think of a single pro audio/video/graphic/etc app that doesn't make extensive use of plug-ins, another Mac App Store disqualifier.

Do the developers of these apps necessarily have a "right" to iCloud APIs, delta updates, and other benefits of playing in Apple's sandbox? Of course not.

But is Apple harming themselves and their customers by excluding the creators of these apps from the party and potentially causing them to focus their development efforts elsewhere? I think they may be.
More Doctors 'Fire' Vaccine Refusers
Messages.app gets cross-device notifications just right
TL;DR:

When typing in Messages.app, iCloud knows your in Messages.app. When typing on the iPad, iCloud knows your on the iPad. When you're engaged in a conversation on one device, the other devices do not get notified of new messages. This avoids cross-device notification flares currently experienced by calendar alerts, which makes for an especially noisey 9:55 AM for me.

Now say you're working, working, working and Messages.app is out of focus. At this point, iCloud doesn't know what you're up to. A new message comes in. Since iCloud doesn't know what you've done since the conversation stopped it notifies all your devices.

You're still in OS X so you reply to the message via Messages.app. Now you've got notifications to dismiss on your iOS devices, right? Total first-world bummer, right? Nope: iCloud dismisses the notifications across devices once the conversation picks up again.

No extra X-ing out of things. No burnt seconds of your life. Just gets rid of them because it knows you've started talking again.
Some serious fun with Kodu programming
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TL;DR:

When typing in Messages.app, iCloud knows your in Messages.app. When typing on the iPad, iCloud knows your on the iPad. When you're engaged in a conversation on one device, the other devices do not get notified of new messages. This avoids cross-device notification flares currently experienced by calendar alerts, which makes for an especially noisey 9:55 AM for me.

Now say you're working, working, working and Messages.app is out of focus. At this point, iCloud doesn't know what you're up to. A new message comes in. Since iCloud doesn't know what you've done since the conversation stopped it notifies all your devices.

You're still in OS X so you reply to the message via Messages.app. Now you've got notifications to dismiss on your iOS devices, right? Total first-world bummer, right? Nope: iCloud dismisses the notifications across devices once the conversation picks up again.

No extra X-ing out of things. No burnt seconds of your life. Just gets rid of them because it knows you've started talking again.

EDIT: Attempted to blockquote, failed.
> Teenagers aren't going to go on making careers out of tagging photos and checking into places.

Do they currently go on to careers managing folder hierarchies?
[video] Suzanne Vega's "Tom's Diner": From MP3 to Wax Cylinder
7 Astonishing Photo Editors Created in HTML5
HTML5 is one of the hottest trends when it comes to video, online gaming and advanced 3D elements rendered in web browsers, but what many don't actually know is that HTML5 also provides great solutions for graphic designers too. Bellow are some of the most light-weight and pro Photoshop-Like apps available online and created exclusively in HTML5.
I guess I am looking at Lion and Mountain Lion and not seeing a place for someone who works outside of the Apple target audience. I like the way I use mac books, which is "skin over Unix with usable UX and a mighty fine piece of HW".

I think it's time I started looking at high-end Linux laptops...
Totally! I'm going to do a post about reactive programming as well = )
This is silly. If you were the sort of person that needed to control the business (or me to control it for you) then I do not want to work with you.

I have held 50% of the shares of an active company since 1988 - and never a cross word. My counterpart and I have always respected the others foibles, weaknesses and strengths and thus we are still going strong.
So many critics here of Gruber and his writing style. I just see jealousy.

This change in Apple's approach is very encouraging and goes to show that for all of their success, they have not their moxy.
My buddy created this to allow easily switching between the various cities in a given state while keeping your query. I like how it stays out of the way yet provides a pretty useful feature. Some of the others I've seen will search everything at once but the user interface always seems to suffer.
Physicists Predict The Existence of Time Crystals
Another, Stereomood emotional Internet radio for your mood and your activities.
The sandbox lessens the risk of said overflows. Instead of exploiting a flaw in an interpreter or file handling function and getting control of the entire machine, you'd only get control of the sandbox's context.

The only way to parlay that into control of the system would be to break the sandbox. And then, because OS X default security is fairly sane, the only way to do real lasting damage is to use a further exploit to escalate your permissions.
How Well Do You Understand Static Variables?
"Mac OS" is officially dead
xbox, ps3, wii, psp, gamecube.. this has been a consistent successful attack vector against signed application environments on consoles.
Probably not, but maybe I would if I ever made profit on that domain. I think the upfront $100 cost is too much.
I agree. That was really interesting. I might not have understood half of it, but enough to get the general gist and it's really cool to read about advanced solutions like this.

And indeed you might want to consider reposting that explanation on your or your company's blog--just for showing off ;-)
I've been wondering/worried what Gatekeeper, sandboxing, and the rise of the Mac App store in general are going to mean for third party plugin type apps, say for instance Native Instruments virtual synth plugins, or photoshop plugins. iOS can't really handle them, but will they be able to continue to exist on future macs, or will they only work on the non-app store model?
MS and AT&T paying for anti-Global Warming Lobbyist Group?
similarly, i wrote an XPM renderer in javascript: https://github.com/bsdf/libxpm.js
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softmod#Softmods_for_Microsoft_...

Splinter Cell and MechAssault where famous for this. The bug is actually in the XBox Dashboard code itself, so the Host system was buggy.
try this:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/16/us-italy-church-ta...
> Google doesn't care if Chrome is perceived as faster.

I think that's rather unlikely.
The reviewers on Amazon don't like it: http://www.amazon.com/Super-Bright-Modes-Bicycle-Torch/dp/B0... . Do you have any sense of whether their complaints are valid?
Under OS X, the Mac Keychain framework hooks into ssh-agent, so you don't have to retype your private key passphrase over and over, just once per session.

There are other tools that do similar in other OS's, for example the "keychain" script in Debian. This isn't something weird IMO.
Reading tip for you: Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson. Especially the part about the first 4 primitive circuits of the mind which govern survival, dominance, sex, stuff like that. War is very centered on Circuit II: dominance, emotions and territorial thinking.

http://www.wikisummaries.org/Prometheus_Rising

It fucked my mind when I read it :) It's a bit far out sometimes though, but it's a cool read.
FWIW, until reading this article, I never thought one could just sign up for a Pinterest account randomly, so I never did. I had wanted to use the site, wanted to get an account, but was like "Request an Invitation?... bah, maybe I'll come back later".
Relevant : http://www.quora.com/Why-does-gravitational-acceleration-dif...
> You don't owe them anything more than what you would owe them by acquiring music through legal means - but you do owe them something.

What does the band get from me buying a CD of theirs used? Is it substantially more quantifiable than talking about the band?

> I have nothing more to say about it - you obviously can't see the forest for the trees.

I'll admit I'm trolling with the questions, but it's hard not to when you're attempting to divide pirates into "cool people" and the other kind based on categories you yourself seem to not have thought out very well.

> EDIT: I'm going to add in that I'm also not going to bother replying anymore because you obviously think the downvote button is the 'nuh-uh!' button. How productive.

Hacker News doesn't let users downvote posts in immediate response to their posts (replies one deep). I upvoted your responses to me as a matter of personal policy. The only other post of yours in this entire thread I've voted on is http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3590726; I recall downvoting due to general flimsiness of your argument, particularly the irony of dismissing word-of-mouth arguments as hand-waving when yours were no stronger, and the ill thought out attempt to distinguish cool pirates from uncool pirates. Thanks for asking.
> The news comes in the form of a Digitimes report, which is known for being hit-and-miss with its accuracy, but should generate some traffic if we summarize it.

The actual and probably just invented for traffic story:

http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20120215PD209.html
That was my first thought too. MAS is mainly for the general public. While it's a nice long blog with lots of details, it's not a universally correct criticism of MAS.
>Teenagers aren't going to go on making careers out of tagging photos and checking into places.

Some of those teenagers will go on to be CEO's and Execs at huge fortune 500 companies like Apple, Oracle, Microsoft, etc.
That means iCloud won't be accessed except by applications that have been scrutinized by Apple, which cuts down on an avenue of attack by malware, and makes it less likely that an application bug will cause problems with iCloud.

The first thing that comes to mind with Notification Center is that perhaps it could be used for phishing-type attacks, by presenting a notification that appears to be from something else.
Announcing Hortonworks University
I think you're pretty naïve if you think that "Google doesn't care if Chrome is perceived as faster". That's been the entire thrust of their marketing, quite literally from day one.
Facebook Launches Verified Accounts And Pseudonyms
In case anyone else is wondering, here's what they tested:

" Serum levels of nine biomarkers (alpha1 antitrypsin, apolipoprotein CIII, brain-derived neurotrophic factor, cortisol, epidermal growth factor, myeloperoxidase, prolactin, resistin and soluble tumor necrosis factor alpha receptor type II) in peripheral blood were measured ..."
Your point? I don't get it.
No. People from Mozilla here on HN said that this deal doesn't influence technical decisions.
I agree that I don't like where it is going, but we aren't really the target audience.

I was looking to get CrunchBang Linux running on my MBP, but realistically the battery life change will make the device hard to justify. If I am going to go back to 2-3 hours of battery life, I'm probably going to have to change my hardware setup to get a Thinkpad with a pair of nine cells.

That said, I can't even flip my virtualization set-up, because I doubt that it is going to be smooth sailing (license-wise and technically) running a copy of OS X in VirtualBox or VMware.
But one of the things Apple can now do is void you keys and make all the apps on people computer unusable at least as I understand it. So for legally dubious application this wouldn't be such a good idea.
Continuous Delivery reading and resource list
Slides: The Case For IPv6-Only Data Centers
Looks great other than the transitions jittering a bit (on ubuntu chrome)
Look at the five design goals of Dart: http://www.dartlang.org/docs/technical-overview/index.html#g...

Of those five, the only one that CoffeeScript doesn't emphasize is "high performance/fast startup", which basically can't be a goal for a language without its own VM or JIT.

It seems to me that focusing on adding this one emphasis to CoffeeScript would make a lot more sense than making yet another not-exactly-Java.
Oh, I see what you are saying. I guess we will see if anyone else got the "personal treatment". I'm also waiting for Siracusa's take - that is if they talk to him too.

IMO it's certainly a bold marketing approach.
It looks like command like tools are now an optional install. That should help resolve some of the Ruby on Rails issues for OSX and XCode 4.x.
Kaleidoscope is going to be massive! I told my sister about it this morning, and within an hour all of her non-Iphone friends were using it. I think you really stumbled onto something huge here Ryan.

I'm really curious though--How and why do you go into something so fashion-centric (I'm assuming to be a bit out of your comfort zone) with such a high barrier of entry? Obviously it's in the e-commerce sector, but fashion is it's own beast.

Good luck and congratulations.
Help write a recipe for the jQuery Mobile Cookbook
Launchpad is great and the scrolling behavior makes total sense. We also got fullscreen mode, which is the first multiple desktop like thing I've ever gotten used to using (even after years of using Linux, where I could never make use of virtual desktops because I couldn't remember what windows had gone where). The iPad-inspired improvements in Lion were probably the biggest jump in my desktop productivity since I got a Mac to begin with (around 10.4).
1. By the letter of the law, Mac App Store apps are to be sandboxed, which means no /Library access, which means no plug-ins. In practice, Logic, Mainstage, Final Cut, and others are currently available in the Mac App Store. To me, the only thing that would make these harsh restrictions worse would be uneven enforcement of the rules. We'll see what happens.

2. As of iOS 5, the platform has native Audio Unit support. I haven't seen much use of it, more commonly devs have been porting their work to JUCE (as in the case of the Auria iPad DAW, which features some popular third party plug-ins as in-app purchases).