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Update: My 2 Co-Founders Are Being Head-Hunted By Apple, Google and Facebook.
3 months ago I wrote a blog post titled "So I’ve Invested In An iPhone App" (link: http://bit.ly/LcvU1U) which was picked up here on Hacker News (link: http://bit.ly/MDnkhY) where I asked for advice on an issue that was affecting the company. Essentially what happened was that I had invested in an iPhone application where 2 of the co-founders were being head-hunted by Apple, Google & Facebook. I received some great advice from members of this community however unfortunately 2 members of the team have now departed and we’re down to 2 people (myself and 1 of the original founders).

While this did initially set us back and have the companies fate in limbo, we’re now moving forward faster than ever with a lot of the applications design completed and a landing page already up (see: www.capptureapp.com). When I originally invested in the company my role was fairly simple and could be compared to as a silent partner: I would provide capital and advice if needed. Since the departure though, I’ve taken on a bigger role and while it does eat up a lot of time, I couldn’t be happier with the way things are going. Granted we’re without the original developer & a designer, it’s not something that will stop the progress of the app.

The co-founder I’m working with is an extremely talented UI designer and we plan on taking this as far as we possibly can, and then we have a crucial decision to make: do we invite a developer in for a share in equity or do we hire a developer. Obviously this will be a hard decision so we’ll leave it for the time being and see how things work out. One thing is for sure: Apple, Google & Facebook won’t be interfering anymore!
"People also seem to be obsessed with the number of users"
If people don't think bitcoin is fair they won't adopt it, and may even fight against it.
Underwear Bombers Show Limits of TSA’s Groping
Corporate networks get broken into all the time. Any machine that a copy of the repository is stored on is a potential attack vector.

Various strategies are used to specifically protect all kinds of sensitive systems far beyond simple network security. This article is a detailed exploration of a/some strategy/ies for protecting your git repository against malicious modification -- a scenario that is rare but far from unprecedented.
Hopefully Freeman's Mind will have more frequent releases.
In a nutshell, given IP spoofing, in order to hijack a TCP connection they need to work out the sequence number. They take advantage of a firewall that throws away invalid sequence numbers to pervert it into a device that reveals the valid sequence number.

It hinges on knowing if a packet was tossed or not. They do this with either a TTL that will expire between the firewall and destination, or by an unprivileged conspirator program on the target device (e.g. watching the linux packet counters on an android phone).

They apparently have success with about one third of the mobile carriers they have tried.
Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 now available On Three UK Network
That's not what I claimed because I didn't claim anything at all.

Your sources are all (I think?) about the fact that the way they deal with air is good, and you may well be right that it's cleaner than in your office. That doesn't mean that it's not less clean than when smoking was allowed - it may well be that in order to get rid of the smell of smoke they needed to clean the air way more than technically necessary, and that therefore after the smoking ban it could be lowered without being "some nefarious intent".
It's a detailed exploration of git object signing.

It's not trying to describe a "ground-shaking vulnerability". There is a current, known issue with display of git signature verifications, and he's including it in his article. That's not the point of the article.

The point is an exploration of options for securing your repository history. That's it.
You might be able to lose weight with a Twinkie diet but that won't cure the diabetes.
The Evolution of Railo
Two things that really interest me about this:

For a couple of decades we've been trading computational resources for programmer convenience. That worked very well when cores were rocketing up in speed year on year. But since we can't count on that, I think we'll be taking a harder look at our tools.

But I think we're going to have to take an even harder look at how we work. As processors stop getting faster, software won't become obsolete as quickly. We've all left a lot of mistakes behind in code killed in platform shifts. But now there may be no escape. I don't know what will come of that, but I'm sure interested to see.
From what i've read, the problem is that an attacker can add commits with forced Author information into a central repository to frame somebody else.

Wouldn't the signing of all commits as they are committed solve this problem? (ie. rather then trusting Author information from the commit, trust the signed-by information to give author information?)
I recently helped a friend get a Clojure job. I think there are good opportunities if you're looking.
Python and Redis: A mini search engine
Moore's law is very much rooted in photolithography which is a 2D process. And memristors do fit in this. So does the 3d computing that intel is doing now, actually, since it still has a flat product.

but if ever there were truly solid 3d computers then they might scale on a different curve, presumably sharper due to the cubic.
Delicate sensibilities. What is that phrase, civilization can be measured by how far we remove ourselves from our sewage? We're so darn civilized now we can't even indirectly refer to shit in polite company.
An alliance of creators who stay accountable and support one another
Beautiful iAWriter Becomes The Latest Victim Of A Mutant App Store Clone
I had to quit climbing for my life insurance policy.
I recall reading in someone's book - maybe Blank's - that Lean Startups can help when there is market risk, but not "innovation risk" - will the team actually be able to create the thing they have in mind? Something like a new cancer drug was the example - the market is not a problem, the problem is whether you'll be able to create it.
If they ask you for the password you could give them the one that erases all data :P.
The (un)Official Hacker Tee
Did Ellison sue Google as favour for Steve?
Would there be interest in doing this more informally? Just match up people here and holding us accountable to our projects? It might help beat procrastination?
Valid points. I wonder if stopping with a tool that does what you want or need is necessarily a bad thing? I personally hope we can get people into the more advanced stuff as well, but not everyone is getting a CS degree. So maybe it's ok if they don't continue. Then again, it is a shame if they stop programming at all because they have done all they can with the tool they learned.
2 years ago I worked at Intel and they talked about Moore's law and how people always said it would end, but it never does due to continued innovation. I think everyone knows they have a lot of people working on a lot of possible solutions to these physics problems. Intel is like a supercharged academia where hitting objectives matters. They don’t want engineers/physicists that say it cannot be done, those people are stuck on the outside writing posts like this one. Those posts come up continually, (do a search for “end of moore’s law 200X) and you will see articles written every year.

Here is a recent quote from an interview with Mark Bohr, Intel's senior fellow and director of process architecture and integration.

“"The end of Moore's law has always been 10 years away, and it will always be 10 years away," he said. He's been hearing predictions about the end of scaling since he joined the industry 30 years ago, so he isn't worried. He said 14nm is in full development and on track for manufacturing readiness in the second half of next year.”

http://forwardthinking.pcmag.com/show-reports/297801-intel-t...
This is completely an aside, but I thought the design of this is truly gorgeous. Particularly using color and metaphor to YC without stating the name (scroll down).

More on-topic, I very much like and appreciate the growing peer-pressure to build a product. I'm even starting to see this in my own office; we sell wine, but I'm teaching Python because, well, this stuff is cool and potentially useful (to, say, automate report generation rather than using excel.)
Everyone always seems to talk about Facebook for payments.

Am I the only one that finds this hard to believe? Why is Facebook in a good position to authorize payments? They have very few credit cards on file. Besides FarmVille, et al, who exactly is giving their credit card info to Facebook?

In what context am I supposed to use Facebook to pay for things? If we're talking about mobile, then we're talking about smartphones. What exactly makes you think Google/Apple are going to lay down and give the keys to the mobile payment castle to Facebook? Google and Apple already have our credit card info, we all already buy things through Apple and Google, and it is a logical step that I would use that same process for buying something with my smartphone in a store.

I don't think it is a logical step for me to pull out my smartphone, open my Facebook app and use it to pay for something, anymore than it makes sense to use my Twitter app to pay, or Instagram for that matter.

In fact, if we're going to use a third party app to pay for things, I have an app from my bank, why not use that?

I just don't see Facebook getting in to mobile payments...
Don't want to wait until Sep for a Pebble?  MetaWatch is shipping this month.
BlogFile: 2 weeks old, and going strong
If you're older than 37 you're probably out of luck, since before 1975 Germany operated a lovely double standard: citizenship was transmitted based on the father, not the mother.

Have a look here: http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/EN/Infoservice/FAQ/Staatsange...
Six hours a week? I used to play four to six hours a _day_ of CounterStrike back in college. And let me tell you, that's one of the biggest regrets of my life.

Most of my friends consisted of people whom I gamed with -- I barely made any friends in college. And of course, most of those gaming friendships never developed into any sort of deeper connection. Having made friends "IRL" with whom I have deeper connections than playing video games, I can't tell you how much more enriching that is.

Also, I now have all sorts of interests that require lots of something that I once had but now don't: time. In college, I now understand, I had so much time with which to learn and create. Instead I squandered it all away. I did graduate cum laude, so it's not like I was a total slacker, but I could have spent my time in ways that would have been far more interesting and rewarding than clicking, clicking...

Furthermore, I now have problems with my left hand as a result of holding down WASD so much. That's not something that can necessarily ever be fixed, which is frustrating to me as someone who once played musical instruments. I gave up being able to play guitar and violin for what? For video games?

Yes, I have Diablo 3 and I see that many of my friends are on Hell difficulty now and level 55 or whatever. They did that in 2 or 3 days while I still haven't beaten normal mode. And even though I'm having a bit of fun playing Diablo 3, it can never compare to the enjoyment that I once had playing instruments. And what's sad is that _I knew this_ at the time, but it was so much _easier_ to play games than to do any of these other more rewarding but more challenging activities.

Was I addicted to video games? I don't think I've suffered from any of the more classical addictions like alcoholism, so I can't fully compare. But in retrospect, I think that I was. I was always interested in games as a kid (playing NES), but I think that I really turned to games after a particularly traumatic event in my life. From that point on, gaming became an outlet for psychological stress and personal insecurities. And as time went on with me using gaming as a bad coping mechanism, additional negative effects accrued: for instance, I lost that drive in life which boredguy8 mentioned.

Well, I'm rambling a bit now... but what I wanted to convey was that if you find that what I said about my relationship with gaming resonates with you, please take some time to reflect upon yourself and the way in which you are using the gift that is your unrepeatable life. Examine yourself and see if there are perhaps deeper problems with which you need to get help, problems which are being masked by gaming. And if you can't figure this out through self-examination, please find someone who can help you. There's more to life than playing games.
RealNetworks vets' startup launches snazzy voice iOS, Android apps
> And I can justify my thoughts and feelings on computers because I cut my teeth working on them as I broke into the industry. I went from crawling under desks counting computer cables to talking to guys like you!

That's like justifying saying you understand the workings and limitations of the automotive industry because you work at a car wash.
$59; which is IMHO a totally fair price. Even if you're that strapped for cash, there's no cap on the trial so you aren't pressed for time to come up with the money.
Moore's law has been redefined several times already. At the beginning it was every 12 months, then 18, and now it's 24. What's being measured has also changed. It used to be frequency scaling that we measured, but that changed after the debacle of the Pentium 4.

But the essence of Moore's law has always remained: the exponential growth in the capability of ICs. The other relatively constant aspect of Moore's law is that people have always predicted it to last another 10 years. When Moore first formulated the law, that's approximately what he believed. So when somebody says that they expect Moore's law to end within 5-10 years, I take that with a big grain of salt.

What will kill Moore's law will be an unwillingness to continue to spend more money to build semiconductor plants. It used to cost only a few hundred thousand dollars to build an IC plant. This cost has increased exponentially to the point where a plant today costs $10 billion dollars. It's reasonable to suppose that a consortium of semiconductor manufacturers could invest $100 billion in a plant, but on current trajectories, a $1 trillion plant may be necessary to continue Moore's law in 10 years. Do you think that will happen?
Facebook is going down...
OK, by now we all know that GP meant expected number of fatal accidents.
First, the title should be changed. The source article is titled "Score One for the Robo-Tutors" or "Machine Learning: Score One for the Robo-Tutors", not "Students Learn as Well from Software as from Live Teachers".

Secondly, this is an interesting result, but not too surprising. Working through exercises on your own with software that presumably identifies and targets area of weakness ought to put the onus of learning on the student.

On the other hand, many college students sitting in a lecture don't engage the material themselves to the same degree and instead rely on the professor to "teach" them instead attempting to learn it on their own.

In fact, I'm sort-of surprised the machine-learning students didn't do better than the lecture-listening ones.
Certainly a valid opinion. :) It's a good point that hiding the difficulty could cause problems later. But I would personally prefer to focus on the difficulty surrounding how to think when it comes to programming rather than issues with syntax.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-14/20110714-greenpeace-gm...

Greenpeace destroyed a GM wheat crop study by CSIRO, a government research department. It's a shame because it would have found evidence whether such GM crops had problems.

"Greenpeace says it has taken action because of concerns over health, cross-contamination and the secrecy surrounding the experiments." facepalms
I expect some interesting announcement for Google I/O.
Too long to write it here. I've written some articles for this subject. I am waiting for Google liberating my data also (first, all my google reader favorites!)

http://blog.databigbang.com/google-search-no-api/

http://blog.databigbang.com/the-data-portability-fact-sheet/

http://blog.databigbang.com/extraction-of-main-text-content/
... and John has always come across as one of the Internet's premier jackasses.

(I'm tempted to add "I am genuinely sad to see this happen to him" but that would overstate how much I care for the sake of a cheap chuckle.)
Stopping piracy is not interfering with innovation, it is enforcing the law. Unfortunately the defense of piracy is based on it being trivial to copy. Lots of things are trivial to copy, like your private data. Surely you don't believe everyone should have access to your data just because it is easy to copy.
Oh, I'd agree that the App Store actually is revolutionary. But it's not a revolutionary new consumer product. There were for-pay apps for mobile phones before. The Palm app ecosystem was well developed; I bought a bunch of apps for my Treo phone.

Apple did, thought, create a revolutionary new distribution mechanism. But imagine for a sec that some third party had invented the App Store. Who would they have sold it to? Apple, Nokia, and Microsoft. Or perhaps AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon. The market for that innovative product was large companies who sold a lot of phones. Apple just happened to have an exclusive on it, and used it to crush their competitors.
I admit I get used to writing with the assumption that my readers know where I'm coming from. This is the first link that has ended up here (I didn't even know it for a while!), and it's a good reminder for me to ensure I work the context in.

The easiest way to list the languages I know is to share this:
http://gailcarmichael.com/work/technical
Moore's Law in Silicon will eventually run out. This is true and is physically provable. And there are already a lot of smart minds (at Intel and at a few other companies and at many universities) developing post-silicon technologies. It is possible that we will one day shrink down to true molecular electronics using organic semiconductors or similar. As Feynman said, there's lots of room at the bottom. 3D molecular electronics are exciting for me---architectures will have to be redesigned from scratch, maybe RISCs too. It's an exciting time.

(I omit talking about quantum computing because that's currently mostly theoretical. But back in the day, Turing, Church, et al were talking about computability, etc when a real computer (von neumann architecture) did not exist yet. So maybe (I would be confident enough to say probably) down the line, we'll have a quantum computer, but it may not be soon.)
Well, I'm not surprised Perforce wins the money-making contest... it IS quite expensive, particularly compared to git.

Nevertheless, I'm inclined to agree about the apparent popularity of git vs its actual popularity. I don't think I've ever met anybody who's used git professionally, and in fact I don't even know that many people who've actually used git at all. Everybody I meet (though I haven't met absolutely everybody!) uses perforce if they can afford it, and SVN if they can't. SVN supports binary files tolerably well, and perforce supports them fine. perforce keeps working fine even when your depot's head revision (if that's the right term) gets to 300GB. Well... SVN probably doesn't do that. But it's still cheap.
would be awesome if it was true
I suspect other phone manufacturers will be less eager to invest in Android as a platform. Symbian's ownership was a huge problem back in the day. We will see a repeat of the drama I am afraid.
I disagree. When you're on a bus for a long time and the option is either to sit with whatever trash you have on your lap/put it in your bag etc, or drop it, you may well drop it. If there's a trash can conveniently located, most people would place their stuff in it.

It's not foolproof. There are people who toss trash around regardless. It's a question of making people go out of their way to do something vs allowing them to do it easily.
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>> Fukishima plant

Actually it sounds like the plant failed due to some poor - in retrospect - design assumptions. The generators required to keep cooling systems running safely were buggered by the same disaster.

"fail-over" - they got it half right.
Startup weekend HK teams part 1
If you're a gamer and are looking for a way to get some physical activity, I suggest trying out fencing. I recently started taking lessons and I'm having a blast!

Fencing is a sport that appeals to many aspects of a gamer personality: it requires the use of the mind as much as the body; it is competitive; it has clear feedback as to whether you are improving or not. It will get your blood pumping and also stretch you out -- something that most of us need since we probably are sitting at computers all day!

When I first thought about trying fencing I watched some videos online and had no clue what was going on. Things happened so quickly that it seemed like people were just moving at random to get a touch. But now that I've fenced, I see why fencing isn't so popular as a spectator sport: in order to appreciate what is going on, you have to understand the techniques. It is only then that you can appreciate the brilliance and athleticism of a high level fencing match. It's much like watching chess or go: largely indecipherable to a layman.

I know that I don't have the patience or discipline to run on a treadmill, but fencing is a different story... and it's even motivating me to the point where I might hop on a treadmill or jump rope to improve my fencing. Give it a try!
A Practical Insight into MongoDB
Thanks a ton for this list of resources! My shop has just submitted our first app for approval and I know we will be getting further and further into the iOS world soon enough.
Why shouldn't private companies be required to divulge the information they are tracking about you when requested? (other than it is inconvenient) Note: Nobody should ask these companies to divulge the algorithmic results of their data collection)
New York’s Flatiron District: The New Sand Hill Road?