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I studied under Warren, he's a super-cool prof who knows a lot about his stuff. Also the nerdiest prof I ever had.

Edit: If you want more nice old UNIX-stuff, check out his paper here, on UNIX-archeology: http://works.bepress.com/warren_toomey/1/
I still cannot follow your line of thought.

If a user had FourSquare (or Parse) installed during the time of the vulnerability, that exploit would've worked. Maybe hidden in an obscure (partly useful? Wallpapers of a hot movie at that time?) and simple app.

Although the user 'just' logged in to known apps and services on his very own device. So your argument about not entering credentials on random devices seems off to me. The one about not installing each and any application out there is correct and spot on, of course.
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"Reasonable suspicion" is a pretty low bar.
Note that the name "Meteor" is already used: http://meteorserver.org/ it's a comet server, so there might be some confusion here (I thought that this was the next version of meteor I linked to, at first).

Other then that: "holy shit" was the first thing that popped into my head after watching 2 minutes of the video. Excellent work guys!
From what I have read it seems you need to have geolocation turned on in your browser and iphone.

Have I been hiding under a tinfoil hat for so long that I am completely out of touch with the world? Do most HN readers have these on by default?
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Another potential vector is a discrimination lawsuit.

Considering how careful most companies are to avoid any interview questions that would possibly open them up to this sort of thing, I'm kind of shocked the same organizations are silly enough to ask for a Facebook password in the first place.

Ask for password -> log into applicant's Facebook account -> Facebook account clearly identifies the subject as an openly gay Muslim -> applicant is denied job.

Because of discrimination? Maybe, maybe not, but prying into the applicant's Facebook account certainly opens the door to it being a reasonable possibility, just the same as asking them what their race/religion/sexual orientation is in an interview would.
I always saw Silicon Valley inevitably being covered and cared about as much as the Hollywood insidery cabal of power and influence.

As much as we believe in the ideas, teams, executions, it's still very much an old boys network. Don't fool yourself otherwise.

The community upturns its nose constantly about gossip or fluff. But you don't get it, that's all there really is. Gossip and fluff. Tech reporting is as dry and pointless. How many times can you rehash someone releasing, fixing, investing, or selling something?

On top of all this we got exactly the tech reporting culture we deserved. People clamor for dispatches from foreign lands, substantial news, authentic stories but here's the real secret... there's no demand for those things.

There is demand to sell ads on pages. There is demand to hire expensive publicists to befriend the journalists that switch from site to site like musical chairs. There is demand for real time updates of something happening because we're digital addicts. Read Silicon Alley Insider for a day and watch how they wring blood out of stone.

The game is rigged. We know to win you adorn your hastily put together A/B-ed MVP LP with TechCrunch and Mashable logos. Or you syphon off mojo storytellers that have consistently the past 5 years been slowly making the story equal part themselves; their backs scratched by everyone eagerly waiting their turn. Be that way long enough and you get dangerously jaded not caring whether it's fingernails or a knife.

If you don't like it, too bad, millions do. And the millions more that's descending into Silicon Valley seeking their fame and fortune do too.

It is what it is.
I find it saddest to see a university graduate with an honours degree (cum laude for the Yanks) and majors in economics, philosophy and politics go straight into marketing. In particular, 'social' marketing. Maybe that's just the way it is these days.

Yet another article from a marketer taking up programming. I wish the OP the best of luck in this endeavour.
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just for remembrance (don't read the title misleadingly): this ist just a poll!

edit: some more information: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,826540,00...
+1, what about performance? Does this mean all server will be blocked while doing IO?
This looks fantastic. I genuinely got giddy watching the screencast!

If I were to use Meteor for a partially closed source app earning around $1000 per month, how much could I expect to pay you? From the FAQ:

> If the GPL doesn't work for your project, get in touch (contact@meteor.com) and we will write you a commercial license to your specifications.
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I can't believe more people haven't stated this, but honestly stealing his idea is an UBER dick move. I can't believe you're even considering this, wow. There's plenty of ideas out there, you don't need to be lazy AND immoral to steal this guy's idea, especially since he trusted the two of you to discuss ideas in good faith. ESPECIALLY since you guys supposedly regularly meet up just to discuss ideas. I would seriously recommend you listen to your conscience and don't do it. It's really a dick move.
Well you got me to read the whole Wiki page, that counts for something. And it's a feature to be pretty excited about!
I also have the right-- freedom of association-- to not give them the password, and not work for companies that would even ask.

That right also, sadly, depends on how much choice you have in the first place. What about those in less fortunate positions, the cleaners of the world if you will, who need a job, and need it now?

Surely in such cases, an individual's perceived rights disappear as their desperation to pay the rent increases?
wow, the insanity continues.
There are more apps out there that use this permission to submit crash reports and logs to the developer for debugging. The Bible app probably has a large enough scale, high adoption rate, and enough moving parts to make for a bad app if they didn't get that feedback.

Edit: Have this app, contributed some translations. This app is pretty popular across many countries and locales, meaning the crash reports are essential for good user experience.
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Bump is known for their ingenious methods of relating lots of data to figure out which two phones were being bumped at the same time (there's a really cool answer on Quora about how they do it). I would assume this is their tech team figuring out how to apply the same techniques across two devices (browser/pc -> phone). I bet there is some really cool stuff at play here.
Yes. But in-game.
We need a registry of stolen smart phones to stop violent robberies
Make it a platform and instantly solve one of the biggest hurdles in user-content sites.
Quicksort is broken. Is it worth fixing?
The quotes can come off once FB goes public.
Yup, and sometimes particular option are the biggest part of the deal. I'm currently looking for cars that can sear 6+ passengers. Usually I see this as "third row seat". Don't seem to have that option.

Also, the min-max sliders are a bit tricky on an iPhone.
It explains some kitchen accidents...

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Politics in Germany are really interesting these days. Even if the Pirate Party should fail in the end, the discussion it brought up is already very beneficial.
I wonder why the photo says "Nerz Attends". His name is Sebastian Nerz. My guess is that somebody chose the first two words from a random sentence (i.e. "Nerz attends the general assembly") and tagged the photo with that as a name.
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I have been waiting all this time for Bump to be useful. It is finally useful, and I am happy.
I love PHP too, I can't agree more for the 'just work' point,
besides unicode isn't built in.
(It 's really a pain for far east users like me)
Since the topic has come up, one way to reduce collisions with all geolocation turned off would be to request the user tap a certain key (or even two keys in succession) with the phone instead of just the space bar.
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This is exactly what my bank requires. Worst part after I told them that this is irresponsible: A few years ago they only allowed a 5-digit PIN for their web login.
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I suspect people would either love or hate getting stuff like that with few people being ambivalent.
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GitHub uses the open-source Pygments (http://pygments.org/) to highlight source code. If you can find the code for whatever ASM highlighter Pygments uses, you could probably fix it yourself. Though I tried searching for it and didn't find it after a while, so it would take some tracking down.
Turbo Pascal 3.0 was my first contact with Pascal, and while it was great for the time, I doubt I can call it an IDE.

It was more similar to vi + integrated compiler as an IDE.
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Opinion: A different perspective on Instagram
First, I have nothing against Instagram or Facebook. I am an employee of neither, I am not privy to these conversations, this is a perspective I've developed as an observer. I wish the best of luck to both Facebook and Instagram in their business.

The question was very news worthy and generate quite a bit of buzz, patting on the back, but left me scratching my head (and apparently other people as well). How is Instagram worth more then NYT etc.

First a few oddities

- The ratio of cash and stock mix has not been released. (At least that I am unable to find)

- No other bidders for Instagram were indicated. (How could they come to that price in isolation? Especially after a recent VC round?)

- Facebook P/E has been claimed to be somewhere around 50 and above, depending on sources and when.

Here is my theory, as Facebook is currently aggressively using their capital to position the company for success, it is unlikely that there was a mass cash payout for Instagram. This leaves stock as the primary purchase power. Honestly I would be surprised if even 20% was cash, but for sake of argument assume that more then half of the purchase price was done using stock.

Now what is Facebook stock? It's a private company, about to enter an IPO, with a P/E ratio of possibly 50. It's not a liquid asset, until the company goes public (arguable considering what Goldman Sachs has been helping them with).

Based on the above, my assumption becomes that both Facebook and Instagram negotiated their agreement with an assumption about the future value of the stock. In that light, depending on their assumptions, Instagram really wasn't being valued at that. It's more a reflection on a the value of Facebook's stock vs it's evaluation prices. If I was in those negotiations I'd be arguing for more as well.

This of course has has the added benefit of generating a nice fluffy PR buzz for both Instagram and Facebook, a way to prime the pump before IPO.

Lastly, I know bubble has been tossed around a few times on this site (I've probably commented to that effect myself), but this has my wondering how much of the tech growth is legitimate vs hype.

I hope this perspective frames this in an insightful way, and makes you think about what value actually is for something that can not be openly bought or sold. Of course, welcome any feedback, corrections, and criticism.
Is this it?

http://www.quora.com/How-does-Bump-work
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They should have put a css transition in there so that the photo 'falls out' of the top of the screen when loading
I can absolutely see how this is legit. Did you see the AR system he's the lead developer on? CEO Vision: http://www.willpowell.co.uk/blog/?p=194
> Instagram being bought, despite no TOS changes?
> Privacy!

To be fair, this means that all of the Instagram data becomes a part of Facebooks 'profile' on you. I'm willing to accept a looser TOS when my data is silo'd into many different places that aren't necessarily talking to each other. When all my data becomes consolidated into the same place, I want more strict reins over what happens to it. Much in the same way the rules change for businesses that find themselves in monopoly positions.
Ask HN: New products acquhires developed (e.g. Friendfeed) in new companies?
An answer to the question about Instagram acquisition from Robert Scoble on Quora implies that Instagram acquisition can in essence be regarded as an acquhire operation for mobile:

http://www.quora.com/Facebook-Instagram-Acquisition-April-2012/What-was-it-about-Instagram-that-made-it-worth-a-1B-acquisition-by-Facebook

... which also implies that Instagram team will provide many other mobile products inside Facebook.<p>My question is, how frequent does that happen?

What are the examples that show things are better for acquhires and their new companies, in terms of resulting products?

Would it be better for them to keep going with their project independently?
There was a fantastic infographic a while ago here which showed a curve of the different stages a programmer goes through when learning a new language. Basically there's an initial euphoria when it feels like the new language is the best in the world because of the things it can do, that is later followed by boredom and despair when the novelty is gone and the warts are starting to bother you, and when you come out the other end, when you can see the good and the bad of a langauge, then you're a good programmer.

It's ok to have a favourite language, it's ok to love your favourite language and sing its praises, but if you can't point out the flaws of it, you're not a good programmer. Your opinion won't be taken seriously. You don't have the experience of working with it long enough to be bitten by the warts, and you don't have the breadth of working with other languages to know what you're missing.
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Firefox gives me a prompt like [1] on every site that uses HTML5 Geolocation APIs. My iPhone and Windows Phone do the same.

[1] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9061771/Screenshots/yebr_5sj_2ik.png
You're creating all kinds of strawmen here. Pot being banned doesn't make people smoke crack.

And sure, it's legal and ethical for an employer not to want to employ anyone they don't want to work with, as long as it's not a protected class. Drug use wasn't one of those, last I checked. It's not necessarily a smart idea to fire qualified people who smoke pot on their own time just because you don't like the idea of having pot smokers represent your company, but it's not wrong.
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Yes, PHP can suck in many ways. Yes, everything else seems to be more elegant. And yes, newbies don't care. They just want it to work, no matter how. They don't care about creating servers (node) or including something they know nothing about (sinatra). Heck, they might do it with PHP as well, if they knew how to (Kohana?). But they don't and they never will.

On the other side, put good developers on a PHP project and you will get a good product, regardless of the haystack position and possibility to suppress errors (etc. etc. etc.). The fact that there is so much spaghetti PHP out there doesn't make it impossible to write good code with it. And that matters a lot.
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It took me about 5 minutes to setup Pusher and for that I get private channels, presence, someone to handle the scaling etc... as djb_hackernews already mentioned.
We outsource DNS, email, hosting infrastructure, anything I possibly can which isn't core to the product itself.

The other side of the coin is that you now depend on dozen of external services that could go out of business one day or another.
Note that I'm not saying that what you're doing is wrong, but that everything should be pondered
I just tried with geolocation on my phone, and off in my browser, and it worked perfectly.

I tend to pick and choose on an app-by-app basis.
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Boston was not on the list previously. We hadn't aggregated the greater Boston area and just did.
Had bump on my phone for nearly three years now. Have used it exactly three times. This time being the third one. It was impressive, and I'll likely show someone this tomorrow.
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To be fair, Sarah Lacy has done more in covering startup ecosystems around the world than any tech journalist I know.
Great analogy. I never got the arguments telling you it's so simple to change little things. When is this ever useful except for when you just get started? It only takes a couple of hours until you leave the zone where small modifications are handy and you need to structure your code, mostly using some MV*-approach.
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I don't see the Pirate Party failing anytime soon. In fact, I'm quite surprised they're as successful already, but I cannot imagine a future where their popularity isn't raising. They are the embodiment of the younger generation (e.g. under 25, maybe under 30) that are just becoming voters and have no real say in the politics yet. They (actually We) are used to having broadband internet, smart mobile phones, etc., i.e. ubiquitous computing and free internet access. Right now, we're getting attacked head-on by the old established empires (media in particular), but the only reason that they can lobby some laws into passing is that they bribe old politicians who have no understanding and attachment to the internet, and really don't care what happens in the world after 20 years, because they will mostly be gone by then. However, the younger generations do care, and they will not accept it (barring some radical change in the social structure). When we come into power, the media empire will lose. The Pirate Parties are the only political organization that are catering to this voters need (so far - I'm assuming other parties will adapt... most politicians are not loyal to principles, but only to power).
Thanks for the trouble you guys have caused me. I'm gonna have to hose-whip my co-founder to keep this out of our project until it's mature enough.
> I'm not sure why you need to set suid on tmux

I guess I should have been clearer:

> This also gets around the "GNU screen" suid root issue

You can easily fix this. You can:

1) Use a combination of ssh-agent fowarding and manually exporting the $SSH_AUTH_SOCK variable to switch between two users' ssh-agent sockets.

2) Each user commits from a separate window/shell. Each window/shell has a separate ssh-agent running in it, with that user's ssh key ssh-add'd to it.

Though, options 2 is less secure.
Please God, let it be so. If Robert Scoble blows his nose, Tech Crunch is all over it.
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AFAICT, Meteor solves a different problem: eliminating the server-side of writing a JavaScript single-page application.

The auto-updating template stuff is cute, but unless your goal is apps that max out around the complexity of a todo list, there's a ton of performance pitfalls (c.f. Ember.js), especially in mobile browsers. A lot of apps are that simple though, so I don't want to knock Meteor (or Ember) here -- that's a useful niche to be in and anything that makes development faster/easier is great!

A Blossom app would simply use the server capabilities and data updating stuff in Meteor, but in the context of a normal, high-performance Blossom-based mobile UI with statecharts, hardware-accelerated surfaces and animation, and yes, GPU-accelerated Canvas rendering (although Blossom now supports old-style HTML/CSS views as well).

Mobile apps written with Blossom have virtually the same amount of resource control as a native iOS app, and to my knowledge, is the only mobile app framework with 100% JavaScript controls that can say that. (Appcelerator's Titanium is the other way to go – wrap the native controls with a JavaScript API.) Not to mention the ability to run on Android and iOS browsers from the same code base, or deploy via PhoneGap, or target desktop browsers or tablets with effectively native performance.

Meteor is really neat, I did something similar to at least the data syncing part two years with a tech I developed called HubSync, which kept a SproutCore datastore in sync across clients. The net effect was the same -- no server code, data stays in sync automatically, and you only ever dealt with the client API. (It could do a few other things, like still function offline, and was also shared nothing on the server side with Cassandra or BigTable -- I've seen serious problems with Mongo scaling in the past (yay, global lock!), and I have no idea what the offline story is for Meteor.)

But still, very cool tech overall, and the team looks like they've got some great ideas. Bravo!
This has nothing to do with their politics, it is simply the fact that they offer an alternative, people will vote for them because they don't feel represented by the other parties.

They are new, they are cool, they have an "anti-authoritarian" vibe, they will achieve nothing and be forgotten in a couple of years.

The funny thing is, the "Greens" are considered old, they have achieved nothing (there's still a massive oil dependency, there are still nuclear reactors, ...) and now they panic :)

Edit: the Pirates can gain traction by promising people "if we only had the power, we could do this or that" and they can increase their popularity by simply critisizing the current parties in power ("we would have it done some other way, we would have [insert popular opinion]") but in the end they will change nothing, just read up on the history of the Greens and just replace the name with Pirates
Also worth noting: the Austrian pirate party entered the polls at 7% with a sonic boom on April 7.
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but the difference is that you don't have to configure a web server to act like that for PHP, because (almost) all of them come that way.