skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To play the devil's advocate, a product that is cheaper to produce, doesn't necessarily sell for a lower price to consumers. The pricing could relate to consumer demand for the product, competitors' prices, etc., rather than being a simple function of the price of production. I'm not an economist, and I might be wrong.
Security theatre is also putting all your faith in some security authority who claim that it must be safe because they are the security authority - but you aren't allowed to look under the hood.

It's exactly like the TSA having magic terrorist detectors - but you can't be told how they work because of security
Isn't that dangerously close to anti-competitive behavior? (i mean noticeably enough to get attention)
I need to learn from this. I'm usually too excited to start turning out some code, and I almost always end up at a dead end a few weeks later (talking about personal side projects).
I figured it depends on the type of jailbreak. The drive-by web browser jailbreak was scary - the hole could easily have been used to install malware in the background.

But how dangerous is the average jailbreak that requires a USB connection?
Rethinking Privacy in an Era of Big Data
Let's hope no one sets up The International Obfuscated Objective-C Code Contest; or that the code reviewers at Apple are competent and experience enough to work with advanced software security threats.

Apple isn't doing thorough code reviews of every app they get. They're just checking sanity and adherence to "the rules". Even if the code was obfuscated and they wanted to review your code, they could write you an email that says "your code is unreadable, make it better or you're not going to get on the app store".

Sandboxes can and are exploited.

So are you saying that because Chrome was exploited, that the sandbox model in iOS some how makes the system less secure? The notion doesn't follow. Yes, sandboxes can be exploited, but it's NOT EASY TO DO THIS. The idea behind good, secure design is not to try to secure from every attack vector possible, but to eliminate low hanging fruit entirely, and make elaborate breaches very, very expensive to find and create. Apple is doing all of this here with the sandbox design, and it works quite well for them.

Sure on HN we all know that security is more than (anti) viruses.

Case-in-point: iOS. Quite secure, doesn't require anti-virus software to be as secure as it is.
There's no inherent aspect of an operating system that should require A/V...

Most operating systems allow you to install software. If the user installs software from untrustworthy sources an A/V is the only thing that can protect him/her. No it isn't perfect but few claim it to be.
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Well - try developing a pixel perfect app on command line and see! And by the way Objective-C is the fastest growing language out there.
It's amazing what rises to the surface for some people when they get a few drinks in them. I'd agree with the above posters and advocate the immediate handling fall to the establishment. It doesn't sound like this is a isolated incident and is likely to be an issue in the future. Being a public speaker you have to consider how you present yourself and if you behave like this it shouldn't come as a surprise if you end up being omitted from future events.

Edit:grammar
Or what? Hollywood will boycott the entire world?
Gregory Benford also wrote a novel that touches on this topic called "Cosm", which is a pretty excellent read.
Even more similar: http://www.whatsmyheartrate.com/
# just testing HN posting mechanism
IMO, the more Apple shakes their stick, yelling "You're not getting into my house" the more likely the right person is going to take on that challenge and succeed. You can only yell "Come at me bro" so many times before someone actually does come at you.
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You are right. Why is this bitching voted up on hn?

It gives no solutions.
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In theory, perhaps. But there is a lot more information in syntax than in names in my experience, such as the number of arguments to a function.

For example, suppose `f` is a function of type `int -> int -> int -> int`. In python, semantic differences are obvious between:

a = f(x, y, z)
b = functools.partial(f, x, y)

Where as in OCaml this difference is glossed over:

let a = f x y z;;
let b = f x y;;

Even though the names "f" and "x, y, z" are relatively evocative of their types, the two expressions are very different without any particular indication as to why.

That's why I think that there is a happy medium, where syntax is very helpful in determining types such that there is no need to give explicit types to "a" or "b" in these examples, but there is enough information explicitly available to declare that "f(x, y)" is an invalid function invocation, not a curried function of the type `int -> int`.
Perhaps the idea that code can only be read and manipulated by an educated intellectual minority seemed a revoltingly bourgeoisie concept to those in charge at the time.
There are much better mechanisms for dealing with harassment than a conference organizer.

It doesn't sound like she had any problems handling the advances at the bar. To wit, " I told him he should be ashamed of himself and walked away."

The question to me is whether the advances should have been reported to the conference organizer in addition to whatever happened at the bar.

If the harasser had been merely an attendee, then I would argue that there is little that a conference organizer would gain by knowing about it or be able to do about it. But we're talking about a speaker, someone who may have been invited, who probably had the cost of the conference waived and possibly even been reimbursed or given a stipend for airfare and hotel, and very likely appears in name and photo in conference promotional materials. To me, she was doing the conference director a big favor to let him know what happened. Since the director already had misgivings about allowing the harasser at the conference, you would think that the director would at least trust his judgement the next time and possibly spread the word to other organizers/directors. I certainly wouldn't want to appear to tacitly support this kind of behavior if I were organizing a conference.

Finally, I think it's very difficult to divorce the after hours happenings from the conference itself. Conferences often last several days, and there are often optional social events featured as part of the conference. You're probably going to see some of the same people the next day. I've never been sexually harassed, but I was bullied as a child. I know that the fear and humiliation imposed by a harasser don't go away just because the venue changes. If I were a conference director with the opportunity to gain specific knowledge that could help me prevent that kind of environment, I think I'd want it.

Silence and lack of consequences perpetuate harassing behavior. I think Ms. Elman absolutely did the right thing in speaking to the conference director.
I would politely disagree. XCode is a beast of a program to learn and to maneuver, RubyMotion's command line interface is comparatively very simple with only a handful of commands. Coming from Ruby, it behaves like most things in that ecosystem, command line oriented and no IDEs, obviously if you're coming from XCode, it's going to feel foreign.

Further, I think learning Cocoa libraries in verbatim Objective-C is a only transient problem for the near-term. Efforts are already underway to abstract away some of that complexity but it's hard to be overly critical of a 5 week old project for not being mature.
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> To get programs on your Mac that cause real trouble

I think this is the big fallacy of the UNIX security model. Every program you download can delete your home folder without warning, it only can't mess up the OS (and other users, but those are increasingly rare). That's terrible because restoring /System is the easiest thing in the world, restoring user data isn't. I think you can't delete Time Machine backups without admin rights, but malware could easily purge TM with an artificial mammoth file too.

I am super paranoid about downloading software to my work Mac even from the App Store. And even for iOS I only try random free apps on my iPad where I don't have my address book synced.
For reference as the parent of your comment, I agree 100%

I do however see disparity with general opinion and what is right, which is slightly worrying, hence the original point.
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Does that imply that PPC is limited to shifting at most 15 bits at a time?
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Always be cautious of advice that starts with the word "always". The UX you design first might preclude an innovative approach that you would have discovered if you had just started coding first without a plan.
You can still use XCode's interface builder and use Storyboards and XIBs with RubyMotion. It's not as nicely coupled as it is with Objective-C, but again, RubyMotion is in its infancy and evolving rapidly.
For reference, it absolutely fucking sucks under virtualization.
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Does ECC really make a difference in practice? Is it even worth the price? I don't have ECC in my iMac and I'm sure it'd do quite well if I used it as a web server...
Pics or it didn't happen.

Seriously. YouTube is worth a thousand zero tolerance policies.
> Is there something I am missing?

Yes, training.

I assume you've had much training at being a research mathematician. Even, things that seem obvious to a layperson, say using library resources to research papers, takes training/experience to do efficiently.

Version Control tools are no different.

Given that. There are numerous subversion GUI clients both native and web. Google "GUI subversion client"

Google docs also provides some revision control features I believe.
Did you take a look at Spine? Just curious what you thought of that.
What the article doesn't mention is that the universe inside the black hole is exactly the same as this one. So if you head over to a black hole, dive in, and travel to earth, everyone welcomes you "back" and asks how it went.
> If the user installs software from untrustworthy sources

This has never been an inherent possibility on mobile operating systems.
yours is the answer to "why do people care about non-programmers controlling machines" not "why do people care about visual programming".

how do you solve the issue you point out? isn't using symbols to represent something machine-readable what a programming language already is?
I believe I've run into the return code 60 problem before, IIRC, it had something to do with the curl library and https. Try using the SSH address instead, if possible, git@github.com/FrankThorne/Frank-Test-Repository.git.

What I found to work for using the https address was creating a file named '_netrc' (on Windows XP, it would be '.netrc' on Linux) in your home directory with the following:

machine <git_host_ip>
login <your_user_name>
password <your_password>

This wasn't for github, but a local git server. May work regardless. I don't have the link to where I found this solution for further information. Hope this helps.
The size of the team doesn't matter. It will fit your need regardless the number of the developers.
For the client interaction, you create an account for them with the right permissions and that's it.
I've been working for about a year now with JIRA and Confluence and I can't belive I didn't use it before.
I agree that the same exploits used to jailbreak iOS devices could be used to install actual malware, but what could third party anti-virus software do that Apple can't? If the OS can be exploited, the anti-virus software can surely be exploited as well.
can you write me your ideas? I got the same problem with git (I hate it!) and we could find a solution maybe!

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Rather focus on optimizing your GAE setup. It's a known entity and it's working for you, now just improve. There are almost always improvements that will reduce costs pretty significantly.
>It's not a competitor unless you plan running Windows 8 on your Macbook which is not very smart.

Agreed, the Macbook lacks touch hardware. If you're buying hardware for Windows 8, it doesn't make sense to buy one without touch support.
Microsoft have pretty much bought up Nokia.

rubs his Lumia 710 affectionately
Does this mean that black holes can be inside black holes?
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Maybe the reason that there is no policy at the conference is that harassment doesn't happen as often as its portrayed?

Going to a bar and then being hit on is hardly the end of the world. Its one thing to respect office/professional decorum, its another to start setting rules where men can only speak when spoken to.
I love how Warren Buffett uses plain language in everything he releases. It's easy and pleasant to read for simple folk like me.
In my experience, the text-editor/command-line path is the only way to be truly "pixel perfect". Visual tools can get you most of the way there, but it seems you always inevitably have to touch the drawing code if you want true accuracy.

Oh, and as for Objective-C being a fast growing language? The rise of Objective-C is directly tied to the rise of the iOS platform. If iOS had been written in any other language, Objective-C would still be a mostly forgotten language today.
So... don't do that then. My browser is set to deny requests to other domains by default, so the whole page is blank for me. But I'm not complaining about it because that's my choice.

Edit: oddly, Readability works fine.
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Thinking about it more, I suspect the Wifi comes from a different IP block.

The more likely answer is that Google developers screwed up, and made some normal, authorized, server access look like a user-level, unauthorized access.

I still vote for upgrading to two-factor, and I agree with trying to get in touch with support at Google to have someone look at the logs.
Doesn't surprise me.

Certificate signing is only as good as the weakest points which are 1) humans, 2) code, 3) maths respectively.

You can't trust (1), ever.

(2) is flawed by the fact that (1) made it.

(3) is pretty good but relies on a few assumptions which we appear to arrogant enough to assume will always stand.
Someone who's frustrated and being unable to control their teenage daughter?
Just want to point out how insane is is that none of us would price even the most basic SaaS product at less than $30/month, but people balk at paying $18/month to have a professionally edited newspaper printed and DELIVERED TO THEIR DOOR.

Newspapers are so hosed.
This is a note most of us wouldn't have read without it being posted to HN via Forbes. Apple ran TV ads claiming that Macs had no viruses years ago - those were much more provocative and not much happened. Or maybe the Flashback worm just took a long time to develop :)
While it is early days, it is worth mentioning (or at least taking note of) Ruboto: http://ruboto.org/

Between Ruboto and RubyMotion, I think there is a very real possibility that Ruby will become a significant player in the mobile space.
Since this does happen, (even if we don't know that this guy did anything to this girl.) then I think a bigger question to ask is pretty simple and will surely do better in the long run. When someone around you acts like a pig, girl or guy (I've seen some girls act downright crazy when alcohol gets into the mix, it's the thing to do when you want to act out your deepest desires, liquid courage I call it.) call them out at it. If you see someone groping someone else when they don't want, let them know it's not cool and you won't stand here while they do it. Same thing for any sexual advance that is unwelcome. You can usually tell when it's unwelcome when the receiving party looks nervous and tries to politely get out of the situation.

The below kinda-quote (it's disputed if it was Burke, or if it was said exactly thus.) comes to mind and rings pretty loud.

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing" - Edmund Burke

As an exiting thought, the pressure to be civil needs to come from peers. Meaning, guys don't let guy friends harass, and girls don't let girl friends harass.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted here. Isn't this the same effect Buffett is talking about in the letter when he describes the local paper's advantage in coverage of "local sports?" People will pay to read about their kid's soccer goal; people will pay to peruse the list of people who got picked up for DUIs last week and look for anyone they know. Am I misunderstanding Buffett's position here?
I've been in this conference organizer's shoes before.

On one hand, running a conference/convention is difficult enough without being asked to referee personal conflicts. It almost inevitably devolves into a he-said/she-said kind of argument.

But on the other hand, if we take that kind of an attitude, that's essentially a signal for predatory men to go ahead and harass women (or worse). That's pretty much what predatory men have been doing since the beginning of history - acting with impunity since claims of rape or harassment are almost impossible to prove if there are no additional witnesses or physical evidence.

What we've done is to stress proper conduct before the event, and if there are repeat complaints about somebody they're removed from the community permanently.

It's not a perfect process and we've given some "second chances" to people that we've later regretted.
Fittingly, your advice is also starting with always.
> Trying to argue that a conference organizer should hold some moral responsible for the people attending seems to me just ridiculous.

Part of creating a conference is trying to get the right people to attend.

The reason many people come to the conference isn't the content of the sessions, which could be delivered much more efficiently on-line. It's the conversations.

As an example, consider TED. I'm not sure how it is now, but at least in the early days, things were carefully arranged to encourage a ton of interaction. Speakers were strongly encouraged to stay for the whole thing. There was plenty of time for interaction, and the locations and events were chosen to keep people there and mingling. Certainly the things I remember most fondly are my personal encounters, not the admittedly great talks.

So yes, any smart conference organizer is going to be very concerned with who's attending, if only because that's a major part of the product being sold.
> I believe discussions like this will improve both the attitude and work ethics of professionals as well as of the employers

As a side note (speaking of work ethics), this reminds me how an American company hiring Indian programmers.

Indian programmers, I presume, due to not having strong cultural bias against openly discussing and comparing salaries among themselves, did exactly that. And found out that the American company was paying them widely varying amounts even thought they all had equivalent training, job duties and qualifications.

They promptly contacted their managers and everyone who felt they got screwed got a raise to match the highest one.

The higher ups were not happy and try to guilt the Indians into felling uncultured and uncouth, how dare they break such a sensitive American corporate taboo. I am sure they guilt the felt over this "terrible" breach of "ethics" was made up by what I hear was an almost 20% salary increase for some.

Pretty sure at some point the company explicitly added a clause in their employment contract prohibiting divulging or discussing compensation except with one's higher-ups.

But I thought that was an interesting "ethics" hack they did, and it was interesting how the company tried to guilt them into feeling uncultured and un-educated once they got caught with their pants down and found out there wasn't anything illegal or contract breaching in what they did.
Seems kind of an odd comparison to make. I see RubyMotion more in competition with something like Titanium. The question then becomes whether you want to use JavaScript or Ruby, as well as the support.

Personally, I just bit the bullet and spent time learning Obj-C, and found it to be much more pleasurable (especially when you don't limit yourself to just using XCode).
"f it was the other way around I bet you'd be complaining that you accidentally deleted some photos..."

Ahh no. That's what the trash bin is for. And backups.

"spend that much time in the terminal you would have looked up how to change the problems you're having with some easy defaults commands"

I know already. My point is I should not have to do type out commands with every install. A simple checkbox in preferences would be a better approach; allowing us "power users" to stay power users.
When I tried to view it from Instapaper on my phone I also got a blank page.
`Now, Since old is the new new...`

I remember one of the old timers at my former company saying the exact same thing. Something along the lines that Facebook is the new Usenet.
Why? Because that's how things are done around here
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Sorry about that guys. I just started using Blogger's new blog theme. I assumed they would account for javascript-disabled clients, but I was wrong. I'll fix that asap.

thanks!
Apple to bring full Siri voice-assistant to the iPad with iOS 6
"What Continues... and What Fails..." by David Brin, perhaps?
Both seem to do the same thing. The syntax differs lightly.

I used it once while working with someone else's code, so it's difficult to say, but I like the "less modular" and simpler ways of Backbone.
You consider the cost of printing and delivery to be much higher than it really is. You also ignore the elements of the newspaper that used to off-set various costs for you that are disappearing.

In essence, you were never paying for the news, and so unfortunately, you don't have a firm grasp of the true cost.
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It gives me great excuse not to use Microsoft Windows then!
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