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Google Maps/Earth is a simply amazing product. I've seen a lot of hype building about what Apple is to unveil in the coming days, but I honestly cannot imagine what they can present that can challenge Google (though it won't be hard for them to challenge the terrible mapping in iOS currently which, while using basic Google tiles, is in an app built by Apple). You mentioned Picasa and that reminded me that a few weeks ago I was showing my children some sights (e.g. the Eiffel tower) from around the world, and all over the place were overlaid, perfectly mapped personal photos.

In the demonstration they discussed how they do this, which is essentially Google Planes getting AirView with special cameras (very similar to Google StreetView).
It's better for their business now. In fact, I think it's true that they will get less money as online-only than in the current scheme. But that's not important, because I think the current business model is going to go away. That is, I think they'll eventually have to have an online-only option, or they'll die.
I'd love to see any that run as smoothly as if they were native.
Just pop a space at the beginning and it won't go into shell history.
"There was a smell of Time in the air tonight. He smiled and turned the fancy in his mind. There was a thought. What did Time smell like? Like dust and clocks and people. And if you wondered what Time sounded like it sounded like water running in a dark cave and voices crying and dirt dropping down on hollow box lids, and rain. And, going further, what did Time look like? Time looked like snow dropping silently into a black room or it looked like a silent film in an ancient theater, one hundred billion faces falling like those New Years balloons, down and down into nothing. That was how Time smelled and looked and sounded. And tonight--Tomas shoved a hand into the wind outside the truck--tonight you could almost touch Time." (Illustrated Man)

"And we lived in a world that [...] was like a great black ship pulling away from the shore of sanity and civilization, roaring its black horn in the night, taking 2 billion people with it, whether they wanted to go or not [...] to fall over the edge of the earth..." (Don't recall the story this is from...)
Obviously doing things for busywork is pointless, but there is plenty of good to come of trying to find hidden meanings in books. Not all meaning was put there by the author and if you find something that helps you get deeper into a book or get more out of it for yourself, good for you. A book only has meaning when filtered through your brain so if your brain finds something, it's there.

Note that this is not my idea and many, many wars of words have been fought over it so you don't have to believe it.
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The problem is when your cowboy coder leaves your company, you are fucked. The code is undocumented, and incomprehensible. It works but you have no idea how it works and neither does anybody else.
Lots of procrastination :)
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Google announces full offline mapping mode for Android smartphones
This article hits pretty hard on jQuery Mobile. I'm considering it for an upcoming project and hadn't heard about it being such a steep tradeoff on performance. Can anyone who has played around with it comment?
1) As far as I know, Anonymous never identified itself with any country. So what exactly is the meaning of "Anonymous India"? (Why do we lot, in this part of the world, have to shove nationalism in everything?)

2) The letter is apologetic right from the start. "We are no deleting your data or indulging in piracy, only blocking things up temporarily; Please don't arrest us".
Can you make this work in fish? http://www.developerzen.com/2011/01/10/show-the-current-git-...
Bing Sponsored Ads Results Are Out of Control For Keywords
Type in "keyword" into Bing and see how irrelevant the ads are. Do we have any other theories as to why this is the case?
> Far less likely is that someone could be trying to discover/exploit a timing attack on the forgotten password generation algorithm.

Didn't somebody do that already?
Right, that's what my assumption is too but I didn't see anything in the post that says "recently logged in users" or "once you log in you'll be protected by the new scheme."

Just "members whose passwords have not been compromised benefit [from the new scheme]".
Very nice entry effect, looks great on the ipad.

As a landing page looks great, and the app and page look desirable.

A couple of suggestions:

The boxes have maybe too much emphasis, the color distracts a bit.

I missed some visual indication of the steps on the carrousel, when cycling I felt a bit lost.

Good job on both the page and app
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When numbers don't add up
Maybe no trickery hidden in there now, but that could change any time.
Or sometimes. Or depending on IP, browser or OS.
Thanks! I've changed it now. Seems i didn't catch the key event properly. :-)
The list of cracked hashes is almost certainly not complete, one can conclude from this fact.
A few issues with this article. First, if jQuery is censored in the app bundle, it could be 500k and it wouldn't matter. 500k isn't big for an app.

Second, ontouchstart is a tricky game. It's wonderfully fast, but breaks scrolling completely if you start scrolling from an ontouchstart-bound element.

Basically, it's a shortcut around learning Objective-C. You get a lot of quick wins, but the end product isn't quite as good - except if you're doing something unusual, like one-page apps with no scrolling. I find it's good for prototyping.
god.. you just described one of my coworker to the dot.
True, that's completely possible. However, if this concerns you then you should probably not sign up for any account on any site, since they could be doing the very same thing with your actual password.
Can you articulate this any more than a really poor analogy that falls flat for more than one reason?

Do you just have a problem with the native components that are all always there versus just the shim pieces you need, etc? Any evidence that that really causes any sort of perceivable issue? It seems like it would all be microscopic compared to... anything else in a real application.
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I see this on my BlackBerry Dev Alpha.
http://imgur.com/lmInK

The music loads, the particles move, but not really in sync with the music. It just spins...
It's neat that the hashes are unique enough to serve as their own key. Obvious in retrospect, but still neat.

Curious why some of the hashes have been obscured with 00000 but not all. It means more than one possible password could generate the remaining characters, but what does that help or protect?
New York State as well. And reasonable includes not charging more than the rent being charged by the landlord.
That should work already - just use the other field and click the button. :-) There's no giant file though, i've split the giant file into ~65000 smaller ones that are more bandwidth friendly.
Some of the suggestions make PostgreSQL seem less mature than InnoDB, still: "[don't put] sessions in the DB", "[don't put] constantly-updated counters in the database", and "[don't put] task queues in the database."

My forum gets almost a million page views daily; we store all our data in a(n) InnoDB database, including sessions, task queues, and constantly updated counters. They work just fine and are not even bottlenecks when the isolation level is REPEATABLE READ.

We use SERIALIZABLE though, as a matter of principle, so we had to implement a more fancy schema, but everything happens in the InnoDB database. We don't have to worry about running VACUUM periodically either. I feel PostgreSQL may be a wee bit overhyped.
Your website is profoundly slick and aesthetically appealing.
Yes a few of the node consultants I know charge around 250-350/hr. Some newly funded startups or even bigger companies who are looking to switch will pay. It's nothing to them.
Choice. That jolly old chap is the icon for my iPhone home screen.

Unfortunately, the site doesn't play well with the iPhone.
2011 MacBook Pro 15" w/ Vertex3 SSD.

Runs Mac software

Runs Windows software

Only downside is the heat, which they may address with the update coming next week. Aside from that, it's a phenomenal machine.
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4063907
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I have internet through Verizon's FIOS, and I don't do any of their tv deals. I use streaming Netflix as my stand-by, and I purchase movies and shows à la carte from the PlayStation Network or Amazon's streaming service through my PS3. Everything I watch is legit.
Yes. Don't use it. Not worth the performance hit.
You should consider the password and hash that you test as already compromised and in the wild, thus making this app just a simple convenience for you and other linkedin users.
my grandmother drank 3 pots of coffee a day for over 50 years. it did nothing to help her alzheimer's. I haven't seen any causality in this study.
Good point. A VP of Operations/Infrastructure (of IT) who would report to a CTO/CIO would be more suitable. I guess I should have clarified that a bit better. It's also, as you allude, not as simplified as this.

Either way, my point was more about the fact that working day to day-to-day IT work won't give you the edge unless you have some sort of in with the guy/girl who ends up actually making the purchasing decision. It's also not as simple as this, as IT/Business organizations can be muddied with politics that don't always serve the IT personnel's productivity interest.

It also doesn't hurt to also get in with procurement. Which is another barrier I've found in "BigCo". Many large (Global 200) companies have a shortlist of companies they will work with and won't even entertain a conversation unless you are a certain size or have a pre-existing contract with them.
It does seem strange that the only reward is a chance at an interview. Most other contests at Kaggle at least offer something tangible. One of the first contests at Kaggle was a chess ratings prediction which offered signed book by Kasparov, Karpov et al.

I suppose it is one way to weed out those who would not be likely to apply to Facebook even if they did well at the contest.
I have a hard time believing that. Yeah it may take meg or so extra space, but if you think that is bloated it is time to upgrade that PDP 10 to a phone were it is about a rounding error.
40 high-end RDBMS servers for logging? Yeah, not really a big surprise that there's an easy win there.
www.wasmylinkedinpasswordstolen.com is much better.
Cool, maybe they can deploy it at comcast and deliver content via the same magical content pipe comcast uses for their xfinity service.
Dotcom info not 'physical'
The best DBA is a lazy DBA, I say. Automate. Be prepared.
That one passed over me. Time Warner spun off Time Warner Cable in 2009. Someone knew what was coming, HBO has a better shot than I thought. HBO Go was fantastic when I used it last year, when I still had Uverse.
I meant that the announcement wasn't very exciting. They've had offline maps for at least a year on Android.
Now just send phising emails with fake reset links to your targets at the same time. Password reset should be enforced at first login.
Can you please elaborate "node consultants"? What's their technical skill set?
I certainly don't claim I'm a great programmer, but I can attribute a lot of my career success to focus on and learn to improve #5. I got the itch to improve it because the greatest programmer I know is a true master of rapidly debugging problems, and great at un-sticking projects when no one else can/will.

I was able to improve my own skill in the matter with the "Learn to Debug" section in the "How to be a Programmer Book": http://samizdat.mines.edu/howto/HowToBeAProgrammer.html
The announcement of offline maps itself isn't very big: they've had offline maps on Android for at least a year as a labs feature.

Also, it's just for browsing. Searching and routing both require a network connection.
Are you writing a mobile only webapp?

In that case you don't need it. It exist mainly to paper over the differences between the different browsers (i.e IE) which you don't care about.

You will find that HTML5 can do most of the nice things jQuery can.
I've used my Xbox 360 controller with this drivers, http://tattiebogle.net/index.php/ProjectRoot/Xbox360Controll... seem to work pretty good!
I think that status correctly summarizes the incentive that the grand parent post describes. And from what I know about gamers I think he's onto something. It may be a more local status; e.g. within a close network of friends, but status is potent.

If you do not want to apply it across the player base, fine. But one must provide an alternative, perhaps some partition across the base according to motivation. I'd be interested to see that from you.
I was about to write "You must be an idiot". Then I read your reasons for quitting and understood completely. My compliments, sir.
It takes a few seconds to start. The particles should pulse on each kick. You may not be able to hear it very well, its very bass-heavy.
Hopefully they should be able to use these cost savings to purchase more content and get it into their system. Does anyone have any informed speculation about how much they could potentially stand to save? I'm unfamiliar with how peering agreements work and or the cost structure.
BigCo will refuse to buy your software purely because you ARE a startup.

Until you have a decent amount of employees and cash reserves, building any dependency on your product would be deal killing risk.

The assumption is you are likely not going to exist in 2 years.
When did you give it a try? Around .7 or so it became fairly download and run friendly for single node development. Setting up a cluster is fairly painless just tell it about other nodes in the cluster. Running it in production is about as easy as running any other java app in production, mostly a lot of memory tuning. I would say it is much easier than setting up a Mysql cluster.
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SRP note was very nice: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Remote_Password_protocol

On a more esoteric note: If you are looking to resist quantum algorithms attacks, there are post-quantum algorithms for that[1] (they are computed on normal machines, but the problems behind the crypstosystems are hard to solve even for quantum computers).

[1] http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/494/what-is-the-po...
If your system broadcast the same events for mouse and mouse handlers like you mentions, you could call them from a virtual mouse like this: http://www.senocular.com/demo/VirtualMouse/VirtualMouse.html from flash.
These are sexy.

If you are looking for ideas, it would be really cool to see an improved scrolling of some kind. Still feels 1.0 with the ugly blue scrollbar.

Something like this but with softer colors:

http://i.imgur.com/ixqa6.jpg
I would also like to know how well this would work with international flights, when picking up non-US citizens. I presume there's no way to know this, so one should still have to ballpark 30-60min buffer time for immigration.
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I assumed this website was a joke. I'm surprised it isn't.
Are you actually suggesting that using asynchronous commit on non-battery-backed disks is safe, while calling the article's advice "dangerous and wrong"? You do understand that asynchronous commit increases your likelihood of data loss, right?
Yes.

I'm wondering why some pixel changes constitute a reward, and others don't. To wit, the pixels that represent your bank balance are far more impactful, and yet people don't get addicted to watching those pixels.
Correct. Where "high quality" is pegged to apps like Tweetbot or Instagram, it's not currently possible to make webkit-based apps that are equally performant.

Even examples of "web with native wrapper" apps, like Facebook and OkCupid, are dramatically, dramatically worse than best of breed native apps.
You mean kind of like a super?

Has anyone here ever rented?!
Working on chrome 19.0.1084.46 m (haven't updated in a while). Seems weird that so many people are having problems
Bonus points for those who submit, read what it presented then proceeded to test another password!
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Before becoming more proactive, make sure your employer is not evaluating you on how many fires you put out.
So I have a funny wild theory...remember back when the Gawker database was compromised? And LinkedIn forced a password reset for users who (according to what I read) used email addresses that matched the Gawker leak?

What if they also (or actually) compared password hashes from their database to the ones released in the Gawker breach? In that case, they likely wouldn't have pulled data straight from the database but actually might have pulled passes from the db, output to text files, cut the text files up to parcel out for processing via Hadoop or something? And somehow one of those text files got loose somehow...or someone MiTMed the actual process (I'd vote for a floating text file just because it's been so long; the Gawker breach was in December 2010).
Yes, I actually have two.

One for my local library, and one to the Northwestern University Library, of which I am an alumnus. This is a nice benefit, I must say.
Because I'm obviously missing something: what's wrong with a hash + salt?

Depending on how it's done, wouldn't a hash of an unknown salt + password be impossible to translate back to plaintext? Even if the salt is known, as long as it changes per user, doesn't that make the look up incredibly time consuming? (Honest questions)
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It was gone last night, before the LinkedIn news. I know because my session happened to expire and I noticed. At least 12 hours ago, possibly more.
"ghoti" would be a perfect name for a ridiculous fish, though (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti)
I had one years ago that came from an IT auction for the princely sum of £40. That included basically everything but the PC including the big nest thing you had to stand in. I set it up to work with AlphaWorld on a windows 95 machine. It required a bit of work to get it to accept straight VGA signals and it wasn't the stereoscopic variant. It sat in my living room for a year and mainly collected junk.

The experience both rocked and sucked. The setup was dialled into UUNet at 14.4k and you could count the pixels but it was still slightly cool. It made your eyes and neck hurt badly though.

Ended up on eBay in '00 and sold for £1 because "buyer collects".
The specific heat is the energy needed to raise the temperature per mass. So for water it takes 4.184 joules per gram to raise the temperature by 1 kelvin. So if you heated water to 75 degrees you would have put in about 205 joules per gram. You then have to deal with conductive losses and the efficiency of a heat engine.

This is not directly comparable to the energy density of gasoline or a lithium ion battery which use chemical reactions to store the energy. So you can turn almost 100% of the energy in a lithium ion battery into useful work but if you put the equivalent number of joules into heating an object you wouldn't get close unless you have a handy 0 kelvin object.
Your last line reminded me of The Tao of Programming: http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html

This is very high praise.
> I don't find it that hard to believe that someone would blindly sign a lease after only quickly skimming over the important bits and then never look at it again.

I don't find that hard to believe either.

What I find revolting is someone not reading the lease, violating it, then playing the victim.
What would be good is to have the 'checking request' return a json (or just a short info) and not a whole html
I think you're confusing jQuery with jQuery Mobile. You're right about the former, but the latter exists to paper over the differences between different mobile platforms, as well as provide an HTML-based UI framework.
The hash of my password, set when I joined on October 10 2011, appears not to be in the list. Changed it anyway.
Bash's auto completion is a child's toy compared to Zsh's.