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> That's not guaranteed. For example, see Droid Milestone's locked bootloader and XBox 360 (recently broken with a cpu bug).

I was originally going to say, "Well, that's a different matter entirely."

It's not really, though. It's taking longer and longer for people to hack "secured" hardware.

The lesson of the PS3 still stands, though. If you let the hacker community install what they want, then they may not even bother to hack your hardware, unless you piss them off. The economics of hacking and security works like the economics of guerrilla warfare. You don't set up a highly visible and attractive high value target for an enemy that greatly outnumbers you. Doing that is just stupidity.

Guerrilla warfare is just as much about knowing what to cede as it is knowing what to attack.
I don't know... I think I'm "and nothing of value was lost" on this one. Weather underground is spammy and terrible just like all the others.

Anyone know if there is a http://time.is for weather? Or someplace where I can easily see weather conditions on a driving route? Really just anyplace that has thought for more than half a second about the kind of weather info people want and how to present it? I mean this is simple shit.
Can anyone point to a Facebook representative saying that rollback is impossible? (I don't care at all what the CNET author says.) It seems like they should just put everything back to the email address they had before it was auto-updated to @ facebook.com. Then their apps would put them back to what they were on people's phones.

Lastly, if they were truly going to fix the problem, they would pump through all the emails they got a chance to spy on, this time to the correct address, maybe with an attachment or sending the email as an attachment with their official apology.

Can't rollback the delay and that impacts a lot, but email is theoretically unreliable anyway. Hurry up guys and gals... show me someone at Facebook actually cares about the product (their users) they are selling to their customers (their advertisers).
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I'd rather hire someone who excels only at two or three things on this list(#3, #20), along with some product sense and good communication skills.
This is sad news; what is becoming of this country? Does anyone know if they have those in Russia, China, or even on Cuba?

If you think about this, and how this country looked like 7 years ago, where is this all going? I cannot imagine all the changes by the time I will be dead, in 50 years from now, approx.
I would argue that the cross pollination is happening already. In my Convex Optimization grad course, three fourth of us were CS/EE majors (the majority being C.S.). The material is not that hard to pick up if you have a background in Linear Algebra and Probability which if you are doing research in Machine Learning, you have already picked up.

Depending on the specifics of the problem, I would assert that it is possible for a more traditional OR trained person (who is rapidly disappearing IMO) to beat the CS person. Software Engineering tells you to modularize your code, use meaningful variable names etc. Typically Matlab codes written for OR problems try to replicate the same variable names used in deriving out the analytic equations (e.g. v, \lambda, \eta etc). Also, there is a strong emphasis on trying to make the code as compact as possible at the cost of modularity as a way of ensuring that mistakes are minimized. I have learned from painful experience (17 hours of debugging :) that the latter way of thinking is not wrong just different and even makes sense in specific domain related problems.
"if there are two startups, one in Australia and one in the USA, both targeting the USA market, which do you think is going to win?”

99Designs vs. Crowdspring, http://www.google.com/trends/?q=crowdspring,+99designs&c..., leads me to believe that 99Designs is more popular, even though it was also later to market.
Do I think you got the $480k asking price? shrugs

This is answered in the comments on the post.
Where do you get an OR job? What would be the top OR employer?
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As does java - it's all the same jvm.

The VM is optimized for long-running applications, not brief scripts............ bang those out in whatever.
The Scrabulous case alleged both trademark infringement (the obvious name ripoff) AND copyright infringement (the board and tile design).
How long before they will start selling a lead-based shields to cover your entire house (inside) in order to protect yourself, your body and your family (even your dog) against all those invasive red/infrared/long/short waves that government is about to shoot at your house, without probable cause, just because they can.

I can see an eager SWAT team ready to raid that family house on the corner because since they have those shields they must be terrorist, or at least doing something illegal!
I see an entirely different dashboard after login too. Maybe they are still testing their redesign. It looks very cool.
Only Violet Blue has said that they don't have a complete rollback as best I can tell from the CNET article.

I would guess the only thing they can't undo would be the time that has passed. If any data Facebook ever had on any of their users (such as their primary email address [edit: at any point in time]) was ever lost, they wouldn't have as much to sell to their customers!

Read me blathering on further about this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4192299
Yes, but spread spectrum modulations are very much a minority among all our transmissions, so I see no reason to expect any different from other civilizations.
Did anyone who actually bid on the site take issue?

I'd think that anyone ready to spend $400k on a site would have the willingness to get in direct contact with the seller, and that this "Rise of the White Knights" episode on HN is not based in reality.
"Apple might be able to salvage the relationship with Facebook, but it's pretty clear that Facebook's relationship with users has hit the rocks."

I very much doubt that. Statistically no one will leave FBook over this.
From the same research ...

"Among the smartphone users surveyed in O2's research:

More than half (54%) say they use their phones in place of an alarm clock

Almost half (46%) have dispensed with a watch in favor of using their smartphone

Two-in-five (39%) have switched to use their phone instead of a separate camera

More than one quarter use their phone instead of a laptop (28%)

One in ten have replaced a games console in favor of their handset (11%)

Perhaps indicative of where things are moving, one in twenty smartphone users have switched to use their phone in place of a TV (6%) or reading physical books (6%)"
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I used to have an Android device, and let the thing sync my Facebook contacts into my phone. What I wound up with was a mix of people I'm actually friends with, and also a big collection on "Facebook friends" ... those people I'll never ever call, but knew from back-in-the-day and wanted to connect with on Facebook. I don't need them in my phone today because the extend of my correspondence with them will be what I consider "two-way read-only". They can look at my FB stuff. I can look at their FB stuff, but that's pretty much the extent of our relationship.

I'm on an iPhone now, and know that iOS6 will give users the same option ... to link your device w/ Facebook ... sucking in all your "FB friends". I won't be enabling that feature, and while the software apparently indicates you can disable this part of the connectivity, I'm reluctant to even link it for fear that it'll immediately hose my contacts in a way that requires me to manually clean out that kid I went to middle-school with many years ago.
It wasn't so bad. I was more annoyed by the bad sound (please! hire a decent microphone!)
> difficulty of pushing out firmware updates

They've obviously already solved that problem... this article is about an update that was automatically installed. It wasn't part of a "cloud service" when they bought it.
It's not clear that the router itself is considered part of the service, so maybe they would only brick your router if you transmit porn through their servers.

And I think those terms have been removed anyway.
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Being able to nest first-class functions without manual closure-conversion / lambda-lifting makes a big difference for the feel of a language, to me.

(Java is sort of in between -- it technically has that feature but with verbosity getting seriously in the way of using it.)
I don't believe my mother and I should be allowed to marry, no matter how good the sex is.
Apparently Virginia's single largest school has no drinkers.
We've considered this issue and done a lot of research on it, there's really only 12 states to worry about, and even those the problems can be overcome. It's never a good idea to see barriers and say "nope, too hard". Figure out a solution, there is one, it's the Hacker Way.
A couple issues pop to mind. My understanding was that this update took a week(+?) to roll out and may still be in progress. It could take them awhile to even start to roll back. Then if you do roll back what do you do about all the people that have changed their settings in the meantime? They have updated their email addresses, perhaps with different ones, so do those get over-written with the old data in all cases? I'm sure it could be figured out but how timely it would be is questionable... not to mention that FB may still be trying to salvage the bump in use for @Facebook.com they were aiming for in the beginning.
>>> Statistically no one will leave FBook over this.

If that's really true, it's very unsettling. If this doesn't trip a significant number of users' "not worth it" detectors, what would?
> It doesn't have the new car smell - you use Visual Studio, on Windows, to develop for it. I've been there (Win+VS) and I feel no urge to go back.

Honestly, what's stopping you? Is java/objective-c much better than c#? Do you hate VS and love Xcode/Eclipse?
Isn't the whole point of FRAND licensing so that companies can't ask for exorbitant amount of fees in licensing for technologies that are required for standards defined by various standard bodies.

This reminds me of the Apple v. Motorola lawsuit in which Motorola was attempting to charge more than FRAND for a patent that is related to UMTS networks and is part of the standard. That case got dismissed with prejudice (no re-filing). Samsung seems to be doing the same thing and I wonder if this judge will throw that part out.
Really, is this all you have?

How about not having time to write they programs they want?
Or being afraid of using the most powerful language?
>What did Britain steal from India? Some diamonds, but most of the other stuff was renewable resources (and time/opportunity cost), right?

That's a sad, sick peace of imperial mentality. Would you rather be butchered by an army of some foreign people who consider people of their skin to be superior to yours, and then say it's only some diamonds?

What did the British steal from Native Americans? Only some gold?

What did the British steal from European colonists of America? Only some tea?
That's a great question I've been struggling with for the last 3 years..
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The tutorial mainly tells about how to display the created flipbook on Facebook pages. You can embed logo, link etc into flipping book, and then embed it on Facebook page to reach your audience.
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>> Time to burn some Karma.

> Please don't do this. It serves no purpose other than hostilizing your readers.

Thanks for the advice, but that's simply incorrect. (Unless you add "some of.")

> Sure, but that's not what she's saying; she's claiming that about everyone who likes The Oatmeal ("...just look at their cartoons. They like to kill"). Which would be absurd when said about someone who likes war movies, but is downright insane when applied to fans of the Oatmeal, which are comics mostly about cats, iPhone apps and annoying people.

Wow, are you really taking what I wrote as a defense of the Carreon's position? Sorry, but that's just wrong.

> I don't get how is this related to the issue. Who is exploiting people here, exactly? Except maybe for FunnyJunk?

No one is exploiting anyone here, except maybe for FunnyJunk. However, there is a red flag that should go up with uncivil behavior and disdain.

> The Internet is just the perfect medium of communication for misfits, from the people with weird passions, to the non-socials (like me), to the anti-socials. And the gaming culture is worse because it's the zone of the Internet full of 14 year olds. I don't think there's any new worrying trend, compared to what I've seen before.

I've met people like a 33 year old man who is taking the warped version of morality he learned from championship FPS tournaments and is applying it to taking over and running a community 501C3 non profit. The Internet is also the perfect medium for relatively consequence-free communication with people whose social distance is very far away. The lessons learned in such a medium are often very bad in other contexts.

> So yes, they're human beings. Human beings who starting all this with their own douche behavior.

You've completely missed my point. I'm not defending or demonizing anyone. I'm suggesting that the self-righteous urge to demonize someone is often the best time for self-examination. Re-read and try again.
Hello,

I am trying to develop an app/site dedicated to matha matics for kids under 10.

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Maybe we see that 38 dollar stock price now.
i uninstalled FB app about 8 months ago, never used sync on it anyways since i use FB more like a glorified twitter. been using mobile site since then (which is quite good), posting photos by sending an email to a special status address. so much more privacy. if they ever get rid of the mobile site to force me to install the app, byebye facebook on mobile.
Talking Points Memo? Seriously?
I guess it depends on what are of OR you're doing. I've moved into Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics. There are all kinds of jobs in those fields. The math is very much the same.
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I see you've never listed a million dollar house for sale. :)
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What kind of jobs do people get after Singularity University?
Aw, c'mon. They probably worked their ass off to get those artists to sign up with them before the site even launched. Watch a band like Radiohead or NIN give 'em a wink and it will blow up like stove top jiffy pop.

Also, my 2c on the site design: Its trendy and neat, but off-white, sans-serif font on a black background makes for a hard read. Otherwise I like it. Minimalism, hoo-rah.

I love the concept. I hope it takes off like crazy! And I think it will.
Put the Hindus back in charge? The British just used divide and conquer to rule (and the people were stupid enough to fall for that). The division of India was because of insecurity of Muslims and due to rigidness of the Hindu leaders who weren't willing to compromise on power, they wanted to be "in charge" and that's why Jinnah insisted on a separate country.

http://arjunpuri.wordpress.com/the-economist-attacks-india-i...

Even 60+ years after independence India and Pakistan are still virtually at red alert because of the lack of trust and because of the Kashmir dispute and both countries spend billions of dollars to arm their military while 75.6% of Indians and some 60% of Pakistanis live under poverty (live under $2 a day according to HDI). It works out well for the weapons manufacturers of the world, the taxpayers of India and Pakistan are helping the economy of US, UK, France, Germany etc by buying billions of dollars worth of killing machines.

http://hdrstats.undp.org/en/indicators/103.html
I agree it's not a simple fix. Since they have everything stored, they could act as though the address had never been changed. (Primary email should be most recent non-auto-change. Email should be sent to value of primary email address [without auto-change] as configured when email arrived.)

This mistake/bug/zuck-style enhancement has had a colossal negative impact on many people. If Facebook tries to salvage anything from it then it's even more clearly time to walk away. I am not cheerleading for Facebook at all on this, I just want people's contacts back to normal and their emails delivered to where they want them. I think we agree this is possible, in fairly direct contradiction to the title of this article.
I think now it is fairly generally appreciated that interior point methods constitute perhaps the most powerful class of tractable algorithms there is, yet remarkably they are hardly ever mentioned in any of the undergrad CS algorithms classes. Usually there is a passing mention of linear programming to establish an auxiliary result like max flow / min cut duality but that's it.
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There are some serious problem with the immigration laws in Australia that would make such ecosystem very fragile.

For example, we tried to hire a remote friend to move inland and work with us - and he is over qualified - yet because he's over 30, his chances of making it after 2 years of struggle with immigration are next to none.

So as long as this happen, startups will be dead in the water. Australia has a lot of smart people, but that's not enough. The US west coast attracts all the smarts and doesn't block them in.
I actually agree with you there. Since OR is so multi-disciplinary, it is paramount to have a broad knowledge of all the fields it touches. Although I specialised in OR in my masters, my bachelors was actually CS&Economics/Business, which has been of great value to me.

In terms of CS moving into machine learning and artificial intelligence, the focus tends to be on applications in the consumer sphere - e.g. analysing big data to understand and recommend to consumers ala Amazon/Netflix, or image recognition to self-driving cars.

But these are mere sub-domains of OR. In business, what I think has the highest value and remains yet unexploited is the optimization branch/sub-topic of OR. The likes of production optimization, supply chain optmization, inventory optimization, facility location optimization, and my favorite, vehicle routing optimization.
Note: this is my second little app. I made this in one day on a weekend - I had the idea lying in bed in the morning and had submitted it to Apple for review by bedtime.
And thus I feel compelled to start a discussion of the German zeitgeist in the mid 1930s, thus causing myself to bring about Godwin's law.
"Stupid college kids" are going to drink in excess regardless.

More importantly, though, I don't think price is an issue that's stopping a substantial amount of college students from getting bombed. Unless something has changed drastically in the 5 years since I've been out of college, there are always ways to get free/cheap booze. With that said, I highly doubt you'd see a big increase in drunk college students doing harm.
Nice work Omri! I'm loving the UI, very clean. Good luck with ZIIBRA, and I hope I see more articles pop up here on HN! - Dan w
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>You know what, I'm not sure I see the downside there? The concept that certain people should get special privileges from the government is a concept that should be destroyed, IMO.

The downside is that it results in overall diminished social stability and cohesion. Marriage helps families by providing heavy incentives for partners to settle their differences and stay coupled rather than get frustrated and split. It provides a foundation of stability for and an obligation to children. It protects a dependent spouse (say, a mother who chooses to stay home and care for her children instead of producing her own income) from abandonment by supplying the dependent with legal recourse for support even if the breadwinner decides to blow it. It creates a default set of conditions for emergencies, death, etc., that would otherwise have to be defined contractually. It creates a social pressure for young couples to settle down and start having children.

I understand much of this is diminishing in the face of no-fault divorce and concerted efforts to make alternate lifestyles appear glamorous or beneficial (when in reality they are filled with despair, confusion, and turmoil), but that is the promise and benefit of legal marriage.

Simply deleting the term "marriage" and making everything a "civil union" for the sake of the feelings of religious people is ultimately vain. The same net negative effects occur from the equivocation of permanent heterosexual coupling and permanent homosexual coupling. Or did you mean we should do away with any default legal benefit and do all marriage-type relationships individually through contracts, etc.?

>You've got it backwards.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage#History_of_marriage_b..., where the first line contains "the institution of marriage pre-dates reliable recorded history", and then expands on implementations in "ancient Israel", "Europe", and "China". See also "Marriage in Ancient Egypt": http://www.kingtutshop.com/freeinfo/Marrage-in-Ancient-Egypt... , etc.
The ruling may be correct under the law, but that doesn't make it a good thing.

The Judge is a douchebag for referencing Samuel Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson in his ruling. Franklin, Hamilton and Adams wrote pamphlets anonymously with the precise expectation that the content be public while the writer stay anonymous. Obviously I concede that an ink on paper pamphlet is not the same as a tweet.

Rulings like this will only push reputable critical speech of the US government further into less civil minded groups like Anonymous.

Must TOR, I2P and IRC be the domain of our modern day pamphleteers? The sad truth is, probably. The First Amendment hasn't truly protected free speech since the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_S...

I guess those who prefer critical thought and freedom over security had better brush up on loathsome l33t speak.
That seems cool--CoffeeScript's syntax is definitely better-suited for this sort of thing than JavaScript's!

The main page says the library's in CoffeeScript, but the drag and drop example uses JavaScript. Do you have a similar (or even the same) example in CoffeeScript? I'd like to see what it looks like.
I can't stop my @facebook.com address from appearing on my timeline. The option shows up but clicking on it does nothing. Similarly, I can't make my @gmail.com address show up on my timeline. The mouse listener is also missing.
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weatherspark.com ROCKS (no affiliation)

You can customize how you want the data and then bookmark a link to that exact configuration. The two pieces of data that I want are the radar and temperature vs time graph (which not every app has). Here's my link as an example:

http://weatherspark.com/#!dashboard;a=USA/IL/Crystal_Lake;dt...
Yes, my bad for not clarify it: mock the repository part, but not to mock as an entire ActiveRecord.

for example:

FriendsRepository.java is an interface that can be mocked during unit-test while the integration-test would use the actual implementation.

I know that the Java solution tend to be brittle because it somewhat forces people to have 1 interface, 1 class implementation (the mock implementation would be provided by mocking library).