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I used to work club security for a lot of years and it happens all of the time. The people at the bar have seen it before. When the alcohol starts to flow some people can change their whole demeanor and surprise even the people that they are with. So you gently escort them out and if they become too belligerent then you have the police handle it.
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"Somehow I see no causation between a conference and the drunken comments by its attendees at a bar."

So could you just as easily imagine the conversation going down this way if they were coworkers? It still seems possible to me, but also more than a little bit less likely, like better judgement and potential long term repercussions would start popping into this guy's head. "Oh, she'd probably talk to HR and that sounds like a pain in the ass." No "ethical or moral standard" necessary - just the basic discretion that normal people in a social ecosystem usually exhibit.

The reason that these situations seem to be repeatedly playing out at tech conferences aren't hard to deduce, but mostly they just remove the need to have discretion. It's not alcohol or sexuality or immorality - it's an atmosphere with limited institutional memory and inherently short-term social contracts. Conferences are great places for assholes to take cover - you get to be introduced to many people, social capitalize on your work reputation, and sexually "roll the dice" with limited fallout.

Fixing this at conferences isn't a trivial matter of an accuser blowing a whistle once, just as it isn't in the workplace, but neither is a defeatist attitude warranted.
If the lady says she was harassed we should totally ban the criminal from any future conferences, jobs and parties. Forget the due process, she was disgusted by everyone associated with the rapist. Disgusted! Zero-tolerance means we don't even need Obama to look over the kill-list. The pedophile must pay.

P.S.: at last year's EuroPython conference in Italy we were greeted by a menacing organizer threatening to call the cops if we make inappropriate jokes. I blamed it on the fascist ideology still present in this country, but it seems to run deeper. Let's see how it will escalate this year: https://ep2012.europython.eu/code-of-conduct
I'm no physicist, and have no idea how technically correct this is, but I just love this answer.
The policy governs how the conference will react to situations like this - that's what it's there for, so there are procedures in place when something happens. By thinking it out ahead of time, it helps to avoid mistakes made in the heat of the moment.
Would a harassment policy spell out the appropriate ways to approach a woman? Or would flirting become some kind of Russian Roulette?
I laughed when I read the title, this was a fun read
Re "poorly designed", in fairness, its original designer (Brendan Eich) had to put the whole language together by himself in ten days under a mandate from his overlords at Netscape corporate that he make it look kind of like Java while not looking too much like Java (see http://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/2012/02/mco2012020007.h..., http://www.jwz.org/blog/2010/10/every-day-i-learn-something-...).

Given those circumstances, the amazing thing is that JavaScript has held up as well as it has.
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Most code-oriented version control tools are all or nothing, because if you take some of coder_x's changes, but not all of them, it's very likely that your software will break.

If you want to review changes like you're suggesting, Microsoft Word can support that.
good point but I think it was Slava Robin, the founder and CEO of Indiegogo.com's 4 points
Don't just stop joining hackathons but select what suits you.
for e.g. events organised by Startupweekend (http://startupweekend.org/) They start on Friday evening and end Sunday evening exactly what you asked!
In college I built something almost identical to this from a 40oz can of yams, and got a connection to a truck stop wifi a little over a mile away (we had direct line of sight). It actually work pretty well for like 6 months till the weather turned less optimal.
Seems like quite an over-generalization. I agree that a rational Bayesian approach would favor organic foods, because thousands of years of natural selection is probably a better indicator than laboratory tests of long-term low-dose toxicities and important but uncommon complex molecules in food supplies. But that doesn't mean that there aren't plenty of natural substances that are damaging to the human body even in moderation.
How I started to enjoy the ceremonial daily stand-up?
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it is clear to me that there is a definite lack of policies and procedures in place for sexual harassment at conferences and events.

FWIW, O'Reilly has had a policy - http://conferences.oreillynet.com/code-of-conduct.csp - for a while now. RailsConf also has one and I saw discussion about another Ruby event's policy recently on HN too (where people were saying 'is this really needed!?'.. answer is yes).
Here's the thing, A/V software is just one more thing to work around. There's no inherent aspect of an operating system that should require A/V, and there's nothing about A/V that suddenly makes a system invulnerable to exploit.

Yes, security should be managed in layers, but the management of those layers should be trusted to the "right" person. A/V companies believe that they are the right person. Apple believes that they are the right person.

If you're going to levy the "security theather" attack at Apple, we could just as easily fire that shot in the direction of A/V companies. When "malware" came on the scene, A/V companies were completely unprepared. Their response was that "malware isn't a virus". From a technical perspective, they're correct, but from the user's perspective, it was a huge failing. Virtually everyone I know who has been affected by malware said the same thing: "But I pay for Kaspersky/McAfee/Avast/Whatever anti-virus, how did I get infected!?" I'm supposed to believe that these are the "right" people with whom to entrust the security of my computer?
The article that the OP is replying to: http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/23/an-open-letter-to-...

Thoughts:
Both articles reek of the type of mood that was popular in middle school relationships. Double standards, talks of how to make the relationship work perfectly for everyone involved, rigid rules of conduct, accusatory claims about the other person. Reading this feels like I am back listening to people around a lunch table bitch about other people who don't happen to be around.

Neither of the parties involved sound very happy.

Quote from the NYT India Article (from a list of rules employees MUST follow or ELSE):

5. You are professional and ethical: Everyone loves to be considered a professional. But when you exhibit behavior like job hopping every year, demanding double-digit pay increases for no increase in ability, accepting job offers and not appearing on the first day, taking one company’s offer letter to shop around to another company for more money — well, don’t expect to be treated like a professional.

Similarly, stretching yourself to work longer hours when needed, feeling vested in the success of your employer, being ethical about expense claims and leaves and vacation time are all part of being a consummate professional. Such behavior is not ingrained in new graduates, we have found, and has to be developed.
That's not really what "security theater" means. Security theater refers to highly visible actions that make it seem like enhanced security, but ultimately have no effect. Think: the ticking agent asking you if you are bringing bombs onto the plane in your luggage.

The Apple review process, draconian as it may be, almost certainly has a real, strong effect in actually preventing malware.
FWIW, the Morris worm was a Unix worm from the 80's. It's not quite on par with the malware you'd see roaming around on Linux machines today, if such malware does exist and is, in fact, roaming around.

The existence of the Morris worm doesn't really say much about the resilience of today's Linux to worms or viruses.
Sure, Asus just announced another Windows device to fill that need.

http://blogs.nvidia.com/2012/06/asus-nvidia-unveil-worlds-fi...
One thing that really put me off about this article: the giant header that scrolls with the page. Vertical real-estate is already limited on a wide-screen monitor. I hate it when CNet does it, I hate it when news sites do it, I hate it all around. I understand I might not be speaking for everyone, but a nice thing would be an option to stick the header to the top. It could scroll by default until you click a button, where it would lock to the top of the screen.

As is, though, I find myself judging a site/article/company based on how many elements of their site irritate me. And it's a giant header.
Lean Startup Machine takes the three-day approach and it works extremely well.
I tried alternatives to Backbone after my initial (and collaborative) creation of Todos, and I could not find anything as light, as "out of the way" as Backbone.

Loving every moments of using it.
There were a few remote execution holes in iOS' Webkit implementation that were mostly used to jailbreak phones. I'm not sure how quickly those were detected and patched, though.
>"and the conference organizers should not have blinked before ejecting the responsible party from the conference."

So just assume guilt and throw him out, sans investigation?

That's completely unreasonable and why these are sticky situations. It isn't black and white. Even with an air-tight sexual harassment policy, you can't automatically assume that the accused is in the wrong.
In most of these stories, someone does something stupid, and the target doesn't immediately blow up.. they instead ask the other person to stop or leave them alone first.

So "flirt" by all means but as soon as someone tells you to leave them alone, that's the absolute end of it. Sadly, that doesn't seem to be happening in most of these stories.
48 or 72 hours total time spent developing an application should be ample time to have something bootstrapped. I don't mean 3 days, I mean total time working on a project.

I've found that if I go over the 72 hour mark, I begin to lose interest
Atlassian's JIRA and Confluence. Nothing more to say.
I'm ADHD too, actually, and my biggest problem is being paralyzed by worrying about which task to choose. Once I get past the first five minutes of HEY HEY GO LOOK IN THE FRIDGE AND HEY CHECK EMAIL ONE MORE TIME, it's pretty easy to get in the zone. If I sit down and just do something, I'll probably waste an hour or two here and there on fun-but-unimportant projects, but it at least keeps the wheel greased. There's a momentum that builds up.
Funny thing: the Talmudic sages actually came to a conclusion on how many angels could dance on the head of a pin. I think it was about 16 or so.
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You do know that anti-virus software is most definitely security theater at its finest, right? It gives users around the world a false sense of security.

"I'm safe because I'm running McAfee/Kaspersky/Norton/what-have-you." I'd say pretty much every infected machine I've dealt with has had anti-virus software on it.
Bed-Stuy is also one of the neighborhoods currently going through the most gentrification in NYC. Other tree-lined, brownstone neighborhoods, closer to Manhattan may have been first (Fort Greene, Park Slope, Clinton Hill, etc), but Bed-Stuy is the place currently dealing with it.

Sure, neighborhoods that don't have trees and brownstones get targeted -- look at what happened to Williamsburg -- but that's largely due to proximity to the city. Trees get planted after the fact in this case.

If Bed-Stuy wasn't beautiful, it'd be a lot harder of a sell for the gentrifiers.
Yes, it's true, you can build a whole computer from NAND gates

Or NOR gates like this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer#Design
I'm old enough to have hung out with others breaking into mainframes to play Star Wars inspired text games on printed-paper TTYs. (I was in grade school at the time.)
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Thanks!
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The distinction is that generally we think of "electricity" as a cascade of electrons, whereas action potentials are a cascade of ions. The net effect of both is a transfer of charge, but the mechanism is slightly different.
Speaking of UX, this is what that page looks like when JavaScript is disabled.

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I think it's an incorrect assumption that you'll be coming back as a junior (on their part, not necessarily yours). Senior Devs learning new skills do not get bumped down a pay grade or more, with the rare exception that their old skills are totally worthless.

I think the idea that 20 years of experience in mainframe hardware warrants a senior or even mid level web development jobs is just as misguided as the idea that a college degree warrants any job just by virtue of having it.
Yes, so next time your cleaning lady can use it. Or your babysitter --or her boyfriend. Or any random burglar...
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For everyone wanting to comment, "but Mac OS X is like this or that"...do note that this article is specifically about iOS, not about OS X.
And for some people a bike is acceptable (friends have a car), but i don't compare it to the price of a car.

This is an ivy bridge with a full HD screen, dedicated graphics, SSD option. Chances are it will be faster than the current MBP. It is not for 'casual users'.
I can understand PhoneGap will be handy when requiring cross platform compatibility and you are not a multi platform expert. The experience is always going to be underwhelming. RubyMotion is much more ambiguous, on one hand we have beautiful XCode and Objective-C environment which is a pleasure to use, and then this command line monstrosity! And it do not save you from learning cocoa libraries - So if you want to develop for iOS, try to use Apple tools - period.
A black hole is technically a single point. The part of the hole that we colloquially refer to is the event horizon. The headline speaks of universes "inside" a black hole, not an event horizon.

There's a brilliant explanation on reddit by RobotRollCall on this topic. I'll update my post when I find the link.
Site has a very simple and nice UI. Would be interested to see if we could bring it back to life. Worried how we can differentiate it from all the outsourcing sites.
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But how large are these? E.g. in LOC?
Quick note - EngineYard offers PHP in addition to RoR.
Great list, thank you for including http://Dudepins.com in your roundup.
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"to get to the App Store you need to pass the review process, you have to be really clever to be able to hide your malware.

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.

"Even if your malware gets trough you are still stuck in your apps sandbox"

Sandboxes can and are exploited. Recently [1]

"So virtually it's impossible to spread virus on iOS, an anti virus would be just crapware."

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

[1] http://www.techspot.com/news/47731-google-rushes-out-chrome-...
Maybe I'm missing something... but what is the reason for submitting 8 years old PHP tutorial here?
That trees have a calming effect on populations and create a feeling of comfort and provision. Also, in hot places, if you remove the stressor of hot concrete and more heat from above, you might help people feel more relaxed.
Yes, you can vendor pure C libraries and use their APIs in a RubyMotion project (assuming the C interface is simple enough). Here is an example that uses the OpenGL C APIs: https://github.com/HipByte/RubyMotionSamples/tree/master/Hel...
I believe discussions like this will improve both the attitude and work ethics of professionals as well as of the employers who might be exploiting the workforce.
Both sides need to concede some ground for a much more productive and stress-free work environment.
Much simpler to just do the experience of reading a book or see a movie you have completely forgotten a second time. (Of course you must remember which book you've read...)
Liked the shout-out to Robert Kieffer. Keep up the good work Jeremy.
Or maybe there's some kind of annual conference for hardware manufacturers in Taiwan where it would be natural to announce new products. Such a conference might even have existed for, oh, thirty years or so.

The world does not revolve around Apple.
That's true - in a story like this it seems obvious. I just worry that it might not always be so obvious in effect. In fact looking to the US across the pond, some of the rules around dating and sexual harassment already seem quite scary. Basically it seems really easy to ruin somebody's life with twisted interpretations of their behavior.

Another example of such laws gone wrong is maybe the sexting teenagers who are now on file as pedophiles.
iOS is not immune - it just has a far less surface area to attack when unmodified.

One can still do a driveby attack where a malicious webpage kicks Safari's teeth in and finds a way through the sandbox.

(Or replace Safari with 'any app that consumes network content')
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What's the frequency, Kenneth? (The factor some display campaigns overlook)
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to the people who downvoted: downvoting is not the way to say you disagree.
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The author mentions getting malware from a jailbroken device, without realizing that the jailbreak itself is a great example of "malware" (from apple's point of view) that is constantly getting around their presented security.

As long as jailbreaks work, Apple's security stack isn't worth much.
Mind you, string theory itself includes torsion: the Riemann tensor that arises in (e.g.) curved backgrounds includes contributions from the NS-NS B-field that correspond precisely to the effects of torsion. I don't think that non-zero torsion in itself is an outlandish idea, but I completely agree that it's fair to be skeptical of claims that torsion has significant observable effects. Disclaimer: I also have a PhD in string theory.
CSS rendering engines will need to get much faster before anything like this wouldn't feel glitchy or pop-in.
Why do people care about "visual programming"?

The idea seems nice at first, but you always end up back at traditional programming (http://drakon-editor.sourceforge.net/python/python.html#clas...). To think that this is for non-programmers is silly.

I guess also, if it aids readability, why not just generate the charts from code, rather than the other way around?
This is my first deployed web app and I'd love to get feedback on it. Code, design, idea, implementation; any constructive feedback is welcome.

Thanks in advance.
What if there is a hack/mistake/bug in the appstore ?

The de Cartes-style demon argument is generally a weak fallback. The end game of this argument is that you can't trust anything because you can't fully trust anything.

The reality of the situation is that the app store is most definitely more secure than Windows's distribution model because it normalizes the vehicle for software delivery. Security is scrutinized and narrowed down to one place. Users become less trusting of software coming from 3rd party sources (detrimental in some cases, to a more free and open platform), but added security is definitely gained as part of the tradeoff here.
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The commenter you are replying to (and downvoting) has done (IIRC) professional digital video work, and written many detailed and helpful comments on HN about digital media. The comment you're replying to isn't snarky. Assume good faith. Maybe he's just mistaken? Or maybe he's right, and the thread just doesn't like that?

Here are some best-of's to peruse before concluding that 'anigbrowl is part of the problem with HN:

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1875412 (MIDI)

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=995096 (3D film)

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4011770 (Google Moog doodle)

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1263289 (DV on DSLRs)

A couple suggestions:

* If a downvoted comment with no replies upsets you so much that you feel a need to pile on with a pointed negative comment, go to the bottom of the page, type the commenter's name in, click 'comments', then sort by 'score', and read the top 10 or so first. You may find the urge to pile on dissipates quickly.

* While it certainly isn't going to cause drama here ('anigbrowl being one of the more levelheaded contributors to HN, way more so than me), I think you'll find that comments like yours tend to read as personalizing disputes, and lead to embarrassing spats you'd be better off not attaching yourself to.
That is a bit redundant, as it would fall under the general don't be an asshole policy.

Also this happened at a bar. So it would seem the problem is that the bar didn't handle it, not that the conference didn't.
Even though there are some benefits in this case, hacking/jailbreaking/modifying doesn't need any other reasons except fun doing it.
Will they fit smaller teams and projects as well? Also, how do you handle incoming reports/requests from clients?
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I respectfully disagree. Fully functioning and frequently self-replicating malware does now exist in the wild for the Mac platform.

I've seen drive-by website infections, malicious software installs using social attacks, and malicious attachments infecting Office. When Flashback alone infecting the better part of one million Macs, it is now newsworthy.
?! Just because Chrome's sandbox was exploited, doesn't mean sandboxes will always be exploited, so they're not effective.
Is it possible to know underlying web framework of a website?
>why wouldn't you trust their reports?

Well, just imagine there was some emacs guy who routinely went around harassing people who used vim. He was offensive and yet they gave back words and didn't leave as he wanted. So he reported them on the next best thing that would get them baned.
Well, there are folks who don't find Xcode or Objective-C beautiful and prefer using the command-line. A lot of folks, actually. :)
What proportion of attacks are stopped by securing the boot loader like 2%? Does anyone really think this will stop most malware?
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For me the UI should be just one example of how the API of the model can be used, the model is the engine, the UI is the tool that the user manipulates to move the engine.

I guess there are different schools.