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I was going to report a malicious app to Facebook, but...
So, yet again, one of my several Facebook friends did a Bad Click and now there's a Facebook Wall entry from them about winning an iPad for free (or something), with a bit.ly URL.

My first instinct is to comment on the post that nobody should click the URL, so that all of our friends are suitably notified, but in this case I had a mind to report the app itself. Lowering my mouse cursor to the similar-to-innocuous name of the app, I was struck by fear: what if this puts some crap on my wall from the app maker (even if I don't install anything). After all, I have to go to the app's site within Facebook. What if there's something malicious stuffed into the description or something?

Just like we saw with Microsoft all those years ago, this is yet another downside of being a big fish target of hackers: why should I contribute to what is apparently a black hole, helping a lost cause with security, and possibly harming my own resources? People just started expecting Windows to be bug ridden, blogging about how quickly an unpatched Windows box would get 0wn3ed on the open Internet (something less than 30sec, IIRC).

These kinds of problems were also demonstrated by Microsoft to be mostly a PR problem, but after a point it really starts to hurt the brand. I don't know what Facebook's internal metric for basic success, like what sales would be to Microsoft, but I have to think that follow-on effects from bad apps factor into it.
The slate logo is every bit as 'visually uncomfortable' as the Windows logo on that tablet. And the kinda-sorta-connecting office logo style is just plain terrible.
Attacks: I would guess that is dealt with on a netwok level for all of Google, not individually per app.

Plugins: Just drop the external sources that change their APIs.

Accounts: Accounts are managed by Google Accounts, not by individual apps.

iGoogle is mainly a client-side script that displays small amounts of data. Still think there is not much "maintaining" to do.
The problem is that you don't have cues about what you're looking for. Keywords and actual syntax give a lot of those cues.
Ever since we decided that all senate votes are going to be 60-40, the vp's vote has become a lot less important.
Thirding (sorry) Stripe. They're fantastic. You can have your account up and running in about 5 seconds. No merchant account, no gateway. You don't have to deal with PCI compliance even if you store customers cards (you don't actually store them, they have an awesome API for this).

The fees aren't bad at all in my opinion when you take into account everything else.

Not only is the API fantastic, but their support is amazing.

Another large plus is the fact you don't need a business bank account like some merchant accounts require, mine goes straight to my personal checking account (for now anyway, once I start actually making real money I'll reconsider this).
The first thing that everyone at my office noticed when I forwarded this link - they are only open from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM EST? Hopefully that that's the first thing that's tweaked, otherwise anybody on the west coast who wants to notarize something after 3:00 PM is still faced with heading out of the office, plunking down $5 and getting their document stamped.

I can see this being very convenient for people who are located in rural locations, though I don't know how much business those people will generate.

Of course - the biggest challenge here will be price competition and a race to the bottom. At $5/notarization, it usually takes 3-4 minutes to get somebody's passport, ID, data, etc...

Watching the video - the one thing going for signnow is it will escrow your notarized document. Maybe the real play here isn't so much notarization as a business, but the brand development of signnow by offering peripheral services.
That's pretty expensive considering most banks do it for free, even when you have a free account with them...
There was a question specifically about the GC during the "Go In Production" panel at Google IO, and everyone found that the GC was up to snuff, specially on 64bit systems:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKQLhGZVN4A

Also many improvements for the GC are coming in Go 1.1, some of them are already merged in the main Go tree.
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>Your entire argument is predicated on the notion that "family" === Mother, Father, and biological children. This is patently absurd.

I disagree. Rather than patently absurd, I think it is a natural and biological imperative that the traditional nuclear family is ideal.

I believe that children who do not have a conventional male/female parental duality (i.e., a permanent "mother" and "father" figure that operate as the dominate force in the child's development) are instantly disadvantaged.

>There are millions of infertile, adoptive, heterosexual couples who by your implicit argument don't deserve the protections and rights of marriage.

This is false; my argument does not exclude heterosexual relationships even amongst infertile people. First, there is the possibility these persons will become fertile; we cannot say for sure that they will not. Secondly, in a home ruled by a permanent heterosexual coupling, there is both a permanent mother figure and a permanent father figure for adopted children. I believe that duality is a majorly important part of the functional development of a child, and therefore intentionally placing a ward in the home of a permanent homosexual coupling is placing them at a serious disadvantage. A home ruled by a permanent homosexual coupling by definition does not have a mother and father figure that fill their respective roles; instead, they have "two dads" or "two moms".

Thirdly, even if a heterosexual coupling can never have or adopt children, it is valuable because it promotes a tradition of stability, garnishes the minds of those who observe its operation with thoughts of elevation, unity, and eternity, and allows individuals who, normally through no personal fault, are infertile to retain dignity and honor among their peers. Fertility is a very personal medical issue and we shouldn't need to broadcast it. I would also like to establish that in this context, polygyny is rather reasonable.

This doesn't mean that mockeries of the true way, like permanent homosexual coupling, are passable; these are counterfeits, minted by confused and misguided individuals. They are no replacement for a permanent heterosexual coupling. As such, we have no interest in the government actively encouraging them and awarding special privileges to practitioners.
The Chrome Developer tools are almost entirely based on the open source Webkit Web Inspector.
Good for him and all, but it's still a questionable product idea. He might be better off spending his 3 months figuring out a product people actually want and then moving up north.
Really? Who is both going to understand leap seconds, and also look at that graph and think power consumption went up tenfold.

I'd much rather see the detail that zoom gives.
Very unhappy about this... I've been using iGoogle as my start page for years.

I use iGoogle to see several custom Google News searches (for news about my current project, old company, college, etc), along with stocks, weather, and general news headlines, all in one screen. Can anyone suggest some good alternatives? None of the alternatives suggested by Google sound like a good replacement on my desktop.
Go can dynanmically load C libraries I believe, but there is no support for native shared go code.
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What is hilarious about stealing the best ideas from your competitors. It was Steve Jobs who pointed out that the best steal.

http://youtu.be/CW0DUg63lqU

"We have always been SHAMELESS about stealing great ideas" ... someone does it back to Apple and suddenly it is criminal (patent lawsuit fun) or laugh worthy because it looks similar?
I'm not sure what you mean by the last sentence, but despite rumors, Facebook has not bought Opera. I highly doubt Google would punish Opera because they might be bought by Facebook.
No way. I'd be exceptionally surprised if more than one developer is dedicated to it. All the components inside iGoogle are already supported by their respective teams. News, Calendar, Finance -- in iGoogle these services are accessed by RSS or JSON API's that already exist.

It should theoretically be possible to make iGoogle a 100% client-side one-page app and require zero maintenance, or additional resources.
Yes, but what the other threads will do? Answer: same stuff.

I can put it another way:

Some Tilera boards have 4x10GbE ports, but have no good floating point support.

On the other hand Xeon Phi has AVX2 (512 bit wide SIMD) with excellent floating point performance, but TCP/IP stack emulated over PCI-express.

So which one will you choose for network server and which for number crunching?
Disagree. What is good and often necessary for a start-up is not automatically necessary for a mammoth like Google. If you take all brain power of Google and focus it on Google plus, you get overheating, overengineering and other evils. The mammoth should have expandable parts, forgotten corners, people paid to do obscure work. They can't be a bunch of guerrilla teams and should do with it.
I can't see from a cursory glance how they verify identity.

But I assume they might use one of the schemes used by banks when setting up online accounts, or even by the TSA when you forget your ID and want to board a plane. They look at public/commercial records to come up with questions that only you should be able to answer.

Stuff like "DMV records show you own a Toyota Camry, what is the model year?," "which of these best describes your monthly payment on your mortgage?" or "which of these lenders holds one of your student loans?"
Yep. Energy is one of the more difficult things to explain, because it's really more of a mathematical property that results from a conservation law about symmetric transformations (Noether's theorem).

Luboš Motl has a great explanation here: http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/3014/what-is-ener...

Feynman's explanation is pretty amazing as well. I can't find the one where he gives an analogy to blocks (or something) but here is one definition he gives: http://www.phy.davidson.edu/fachome/swp/courses/PHY110/Feynm...
I would highly consider microsoft products if they were marketed that way...but they aren't and they never will be.
As mentioned, if you try that it works less than 100%. Trying to run a 32-bit program on a 64-bit host will fail in weird ways unless some of the expected bonus libraries are available.
That gave me an idea - to resolve disputes, we could simply send a link to the iTunes-listed support email and have people verify through that.

Don't want to make it mandatory, but in cases where it becomes an issue, it could work well.

Thanks!
There's something (unintentionally?) cyberpunk about this.

Not to be confused with the present-day software company, in Neuromancer a "microsoft" is a chip used in conjunction with a cybernetic wetware implant located behind the ear. Microsofts grant the user new abilities as long as the microsoft is plugged in. For example, a French language microsoft might be used to temporarily allow the user to speak French. The term refers to a small, portable piece of embedded software, hence "micro" and "soft."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprawl_trilogy#Glossary

For those who don't recall, Microsoft Corporation was not always a corporate giant; at the time the author wrote this book, Microsoft was one of the many small companies that made software for those newfangled microcomputers. Microsoft the company was started in the mid-1970's; the company name was registered in 1976 and went public in 1986.

Just a couple of years before this novel was written, most software for microcomputers came in a plastic bag with a disk and some photocopied instructions (if you were lucky).

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=123
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Because I don't believe homosexual coupling is good (for reasons listed elsewhere in this thread), so I don't believe that the government should promote it. As I stated originally, it's not a forgone conclusion that the reasons we want to promote heterosexual coupling are not necessarily applicable to homosexual coupling.

I do believe that heterosexual coupling is good, and I believe that it's good for the government to accept that marriage is a near-universal practice and its implementation may be codified officially in law and modified by nuptial contracts where applicable rather than leaving the whole thing blank, waiting until a legally illiterate spouse because widowed and/or abandoned, and leaving that person with no recourse against the abandonment and/or death, mechanism to gain control of shared property, etc. I think it's debatable whether the government should be in the business of providing less crucial incentives, like tax breaks, or whether that operates best as a non-governmental function.
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An operation like the MU investigation and raid takes many months, if not years, to plan and execute, especially when it involves cooperation with officials in several countries.

It is almost impossible that the timing had anything to do with SOPA, considering that the SOPA defeat was rather unexpected.
Sell the Civic get a Toyota Previa - my buddy whose been living in his car for years owns 3! Some people enjoy living in their car, especially if your work requires travel or you like being able to move someplace new easily or just don't want to stress over things like paying rent. That's great Palo Alto wont give you a ticket. I think Walmart parking lots are all safe as well. I always thought an app telling you safe places to sleep in your car or camp for free or even good dumpsters to dive would be a handy thing to have - get in touch if you want to work on it, I doubt its the right audience to get rich off of though :-)
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It would be more accurate to say dll hell happened because vendors decided to install their 3rd party dependencies in the windows directory. There are not as many problems with actual Microsoft dlls.
Opera at least had MDI then, though I don't know the exact timeline of making that more convenient.
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We use Experian's Knowledge-Based Authentication, which is similar to what ben1040 mentioned above. It is based on your name, address, and sometimes your SSN.

You can read more on Experian's KBA here: https://www.experian.com/products/pdf/knowledge_iq.pdf
Or here: https://www.experian.com/esolutions/esolutions/products/frau...
People who refuse to learn economics keep making the same mistakes. :-(

Nothing that I said makes any assumptions either way about the secondary market. In fact in the real world a secondary market serves a valuable purpose for people who want to go and then are unable due to unexpected circumstances (sickness, loss of income, etc). Or for people who buy an extra ticket to gift a friend, and then find that the friend you had in mind got their own ticket already. There are a lot of reasons other than being an evil speculator to want to sell a ticket on a secondary market.

But even with a secondary market, the mechanism that I describe according theory would vastly reduce scalping. If someone is willing to plan ahead and pay $1000 to be there, they are guaranteed of getting a ticket at the same price as everyone else. Of course there will always be people who fail to plan and buy at the last moment, but theory says that this pool should be much less profitable for scalpers than people who were willing to pay top dollar but got unlucky.

An additional benefit for something like Burning Man is that you get an accurate read of what your actual market is. A non-profit need not use this to maximize profits. If you could, for half again as much, get a space that is 2x as large, can you rent it and still break even? With the rich data set from the auction, you can get a much better read on whether that is feasible than with traditional ways of selling tickets.
Beyond that, Apple's minimalist design isn't manufactured by Apple -- so they tool up companies all over the world to make these Intel based 24" / 27" all in one computers. Obviously when Visio goes to a company that already built them for Apple, there is way lower production risk.
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I liked it until I clicked the Modest demo and it said my iPad needs Flash installed :(

Wouldn't that be a not-so-great idea for an iOS centric audience?
You can statically link if you also compile a static glibc with modules disabled. But it's a pita and you can still have kernel compat problems.
Crashed my browser.
You're using logic and an unbiased point-of-view.

Which is starkly different from the other side, which tends to revert to conspiracy theories every time.
It is client side in the www.google.com domain. Meaning it can potentially attack other services in that domain like, oh, most other Google services. You'd want more than just a lone intern watching over it in his spare time.
Would you mind telling why it is more expensive than traditional offline notarization (6-7 dollars)? Do you have specific expenses?
Maybe YCombinator judges applicants based on productivity rather than suffering.

I don't mean that as a criticism. He may be a great guy... he may be productive too.

But sleeping in a car (or a mansion) is unlikely to be the key to success.
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Yes, indeed. Breaking the 2000 barrier is really hard. But becoming a grandmaster is unimaginably hard. There are only a thousand living grandmasters on the planet today (the highest there has ever been in the history of humanity) out of 7 billion people. In 1972 there were only 88.
Accept nothing less than the full company board singing the entire key to you in binary at a restaurant of your choosing.
So, a female designer, a female community manager, and a female editor are commenting on the lack of female interns at Square.

Gee, maybe if more women went into engineering instead of going into design, community management, or editing, Square could find some female interns.

There are 13 interns in the photo. Given the number of women who go into software engineering, finding a group of 13 being all male is not at all out of line.
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Exactly. Plus you could just link to a chat - you didn't need an annoying bar or plugin.
Following suit on the trend initiated by Twitter, Facebook will allienate a handful of providers that came up with this idea - such as 8thbridge, payvment and novelo (disclaimer: my startup). Not that no one could foresee that - they signalled their intent on "picking a favorite and running with it" when announcing open graph and proeminently advertising spotify.

On the flipside, it will be interesting to see if Facebook manages to bootstrap the whole Facebook Commerce ecosystem by itself. No one had much success so far (compared to the likes of Pinterest)
very impressed. a couple of questions:

is it possible to change the url of the app? for example my app title was pretty long and would be nice if the url was shorter.

how often do you check for updates on the screenshots and description, etc? i have an update releasing in the next week or so.

android???
I started using Opera in the days when its free version was supported by adware (I actually purchased a license). It was always a technical innovator, so the question of why it failed to garner market share is a good one. The answer, of course, is that technical superiority is never a prerequisite for commercial success. Marketing trumps engineering every time.
For what it's worth Apple's laptop line starts at $999. I totally agree that a $1k+ PC laptop is going to be fine too but I think the confusing part for consumers is it looks basically the same as the $350 model so it's harder to make this leap of faith to the $1k+ price-point. Apple just doesn't sell a laptop cheaper than $999 so there's nothing to really compare it to.
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You pay for notarization? Does your company have a business account with a local bank?
This is a minor point, but one of my favorite details: the use of a simple table for the "Disclosure Timeline", which is really the clearest way to illustrate the step-by-step sequence of events. I would love to see this be a standard practice for any narrative in which order/visual comparison is vital. HTML tables are so easy to include (or, even bulleted lists).

A masterful explanation, on top of being an altruistic deed.
I'm not so sure that it's ironic as inevitable. There are exceptions, but the winners of this marketshare game tend to be those who are willing to play at least a little dirty.
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It likely has a diesel generator for electrical power, though. Either way, it has nothing on the alternatives for detecting subs.
I don't think that works as well. Doing an ad for nike feels cool, and you get to brag about it on your facebook page.
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As someone who has only had a cursory learning of JavaScript, I predicted correctly. The concept of overriding is known to me, although it's clearly in a slightly different context here and that 010 is 8 in octal I knew since I learned C.

I gather that JavaScript has a lot of quirks (eg: '==' vs '===' if I'm not mistaken) but I don't feel like these are too.
My somewhat circuitous point is that the ability of a server to perform work is bound by something that runs out - CPU (no more CPU time available), disk I/O (can't handle more I/O requests to disk), network I/O (can't put or get any more packets through your network card or some upstream device/pipe), and so forth. Colloquially, whatever runs out first is what you are bound by.

You can either increase the resource (upgrading CPU, adding memory), or use the resource in a different way/trade off one resource against another. For example, compressing data before network or disk I/O might be useful if you have spare CPU. Once you've done that, you may now be bound by something else - maybe available memory. If you have spare resources (CPU, for example), you can then choose to use fewer/less powerful resources in that space if it makes economic sense.

You can also talk about response time being bound by something - disk seek time, network latency, memory latency, and so forth. That affects how fast something can respond, and while that figures into how much work a server can do (per-thread/request memory usage), it doesn't generally largely affect how many machines you have to buy or their configuration (unless you have low-latency options).
if they're that owned, it's highly unlikely that you telling them about some additional vulnerability is going to help their attackers. and you'll figure it out soon enough when none of your proposed fixes are enacted.
That's very paranoid. Occam's razor, my friend. They were probably going to do this anyway with timing being a coincidence. People give the US government too much credit for planning devious things. Most of it is a lot of fuck-ups and political favors. Nothing more. I sincerely doubt the Feds did this as so to give the finger to protesters. They've been doing this long before SOPA was introduced and will continue too. SOPA just codifies the status quo so that the chances of anyone getting in trouble for shutting sites down becomes nil.