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The name "Photon" is used by at least three other opensource projects:

* A library of utility code by Alvaro Carrasco [1]

* A Mongrel2-PHP web apps framework [2] (which is what I was expecting the linked page would be about)

* A framework for Silverlight applications [3]

I know it's hard to choose names, but really, 10 seconds with google should have suggested this particular name is already a bit crowded.

[1] http://www.photonframework.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
[2] http://www.photon-project.com/
[3] http://photon.codeplex.com/
Relevant argument for the other case: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/259769/its_a_h...
I agree. For years I have believed that "Single Sign On is Single Compromise", but users and auditors love it.
Pretty cool content in the 3D frames. Reminded me of a childhood reading South Sea yarns and Tintin books.
the target audience likely arent web developers let alone people that know bootstrap. I think it looks fine.
Ask HN: SMS-enabling an app for a startup
I'd like to write a little app that performs a little service. As part of that service, it receives and sends SMS messages.

If successful, it might not be unusual for an average customer to send and receive 50 SMS messages a week from my app.

Is there some way to create this without getting into spending a lot of money? I checked into Twilio, but just by creating the app and sharing on HN, I could be out several thousand dollars from people just playing around. Isn't there any way to do this more cheaply?
That made me say thanks to Google 2-step verification.
But what if your phone gets stolen? Sure, I've it configured to be erased after 3 failed pin code attempts.

Or, what if my iCloud gets hacked and my iPhone is remotely erased, can I still access my Gmail and Facebook enough to remove my phone from them?
Yeah, I agree that it's bad this wouldn't be possible anymore. It could be that it becomes more popular as it'll be something that's forbidden ;)
Wait until the majority of users posting on the web are robots. Then it really will be hard to change someone's mind.
Statistically the 747 is 6x safer than the DC10, and its figures are distorted by the Canary islands collision that had nothing to do with airworthiness.

http://www.fearofflying.com/resources/safest-airliners-and-a...

That said, today both planes are (literally) perfectly safe.

The DC-10s problems all stemmed from a bad cargo door latch design combined with insufficient redundancy in its hydraulics.
+1 for the moral high horse. Everytime something gets hacked the hacker community blames the victim for using less-than-optimal security. Well guess what? There is no foolproof system. The same reactions are seen when sites go down. 'Oh, but they should have used a distributed, redundant buzzword compliant system in a multitude of nuclear bunkers and this would never have happened'. Every system has weaknesses. And every person or team is imperfect. Sure there are lessons to learn, but lets show some sympathy and ask the persons involved what they would improve, not assume that we understand everything and dictate what they should have done.
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While two-factor authentication may be a good idea to gain access to sensitive information, I'm not sure it would be practical to use it for remote wiping devices. Typically the device you would want to wipe is one of the two factors.

(Which underlines the point that you need to do backups...)
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Viskit.js - The javascript charting library
Viskit.js is more than just a charting library. It solves the data filtering part as well for your visualizations. Viskit has inbuilt constructs such as data filters and providers so the chart creators can easily retrieve the required data from a data service.

Viskit is open sourced and available under Apache2.0 licence.
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That makes sense, it would be nice if someone tested this theory to see if there were commonalities in which ads this apparent botnet liked.

... but then you'd assume that'd be something Facebook ran automated checks for.
"takedown"? I don't think it means what you think it means.

As for the article, I kept wanting to nod off. I guess it's just not my style.
If you expect your average customer to send about 50 SMS a week, why not charge them? Offer them a monthly plan to cover the cost of the texts plus some profit.
http://smsified.com/ has been in beta for ages, (looks like the free beta is now closed). They're not too bad, in terms of pricing (1¢ per sms)
Fun with in-engine color grading
Even simpler:

pmset sleepnow

sleep 10s && pmset sleepnow
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Sounds like the guy you talked to has the paranoia covered.
Altough it's rather hard to find one that is writes in Times New.
The disparity you observe is already reflected in the prices he paid, as he presented it and as I calculate in the post you just replied. He paid different order of magnitude for different kinds of likes. That's how the market functions when it functions.

We can theorize all day "why" but we don't have any information about that. What he presents is only how much he paid and how much he received, and there everything seems consistent.
What an asshole. Chromium's code is there for review, you know.
I suppose adhering to the echo chamber's rhetoric is where the danger lies. A savvy politician with an ear for techno babble and an agenda detrimental to the hungry listener could make a lot of headway turning his plan into concrete effects before anyone realises what is going on.
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/source/search?q=ABPerson&#...
The shuttle also contains design compromises caused by congress splitting up contracting. E.g. The o-rings are there to seal connections that an ideal design wouldn't have. The pieces joined were assembled in different congressional districts.
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On my system (Xubuntu), these environment variables are empty. Seems not to be much of a standard.
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Yeah, the printed quarterly report is a brilliant feature. I helped the everyday.me team with the design of it, esp around the data visualization bit. Excited to hear how people respond to it.

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You're right, I was trolling a bit.

Personally, I only give as minimum information as possible.
Well, we have camera and mic APIs.

How about we get around to <input type=date> now?

EDIT: That camera toy thing is a lot of fun. It has an awful lot of effects.

EDIT 2: The xylophone is also pretty cool. I want to play around with this, see what I can make. The xylophone app's entire source is this: http://www.soundstep.com/blog/experiments/jsdetection/js/app...

EDIT 3: Wow, I am seriously impressed by Sketchbots. Very, very nice.
Thanks! Comments like this mean I'm on the right track.
That's a good perspective. Monetization would thus depend on whether attention & intent are aligned - true in the case of Google search but not so with FB & Twitter.
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If successful, it might not be unusual for an average customer to send and receive 50 SMS messages a week from my app.

Will this create $20 a month of value for them? If yes, charge $20 a month, pay e.g. Twilio $2 a month for your most active users and mouse droppings a month for the majority of your users. Problem solved. If your app does not create $20 of value when getting someone's attention 200 times, why bother making it?

There's a app out there which, essentially, provided a particular type of SMS services to a user population who thought SMSes were expensive. They grew like absolute wildfire, because the company underwrote their SMSing. They had no monetization in sight, because their core customers were too poor to pay for SMSes, and (luckily) got acquired before their telecom bill exceeded several million dollars in funding. If that is a trajectory which sounds appealing to you, well, that's an option, too.
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Isn't that what /tmp is for? Why not put cache files into /tmp/<username> with 0700 permission?
Remote erase is a minor problem — you have recovery codes printed out.
These personal certificates are turning out to be Facebook accounts, which is arguably worse.
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If I'm reading this right then they actually only want the users contact information.

It's been bugging me for a while that the users information is lumped in with contacts in the normal way in most contact systems.

It seems to me that perhaps this is an argument for a specific permission request specifically for just the users contact details, as opposed to the whole contact database.
Spate of fake headlines hits the Web media; hackers responsible
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I also think it is a healthy sign that Indian democracy is working well in at least some respects. Their great rival China is apparently kidnapping some children who show signs of athletic potential and subjecting them to a life of intense training for a chance at an Olympic medal to promote the greatness of the mother country. India clearly hasn't chosen this route despite the pressure there must be to match China in all fields.
The herd of independent minds.
Depending on what kind of scale you are looking at you can get SMPP connections which should offer lower cost and beter throughput.

Depending on what your product is individual operators maybe willing to help.

Note - I work in TheLab part of Telefonica.
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Sour sour sour grapes.

The thing about TED is, wild-eyed though it may be, it's not a political agenda. It's (trying to be) beyond that, about technology and science and understanding, and while the result is often pretty technocratic it is actually often reflecting the benefits of self-organisation through tech. Stuff like Wikipedia, for example, is perfect TED-fodder because it shows demonstrable ways of doing things better.

People who do not understand that idea (of which they are many) criticise it on their own terms, and so miss the point. If you are used to seeing life through a political lens (as we might hazard the New Republic does) then TED looks like an agenda by a different name. However that's like religious people insisting that atheists must believe in something, even if that's belief in an idea. It is outside their framework of understanding to consider a person who does not hold any kind of belief.

So, personally (and I think the popularity of TED and RSA etc reflect this) this whole article reads like some venting from someone who doesn't really understand the concept, and so can only think of it in terms of politics. These Teddites must have a political view of some kind, right? No.

It's trans-political because it's about applied informational learning to solve problems. Politics itself being one of those problems.
Are you sure you want to do this over sms? Almost everyone has a smart phone these days and smart phones usually support push notification, which makes any messaging as integrated as receiving sms messages.

SMS is an archaic system with costs kept artificially high by telecom operators, there's no way around that except for doing your stuff over the internet.
To be fair, that's how it works. They have default values when they're not set. These are for when you want to override them, e.g. to keep cache files local instead of over your net mounted home directory.
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If I were him I wouldn't bother with transferring my transcript. College education isn't worth a flip if you already know how to code and can demonstrate it by making a decent app like he did.

I dropped out of college because I made my own app and started getting two job offers a month from decent startups looking for developers. I'm sure this kid will be getting job offers from the press coverage of this.

If I were him I wouldn't waste time with school, especially from such a dated and ignorant institution when he could be getting better real life experience.

Long story short I'd hire him, and if I were him I'd leave that school without a single backward glance.
I went to a solidly 4th tier university (out of 4 tiers, as I recall). I now work and regularly interact with people from the best universities, Harvard, Princeton, etc, and I can tell you that as far as knowledge and ability are concerned, they have no advantage.

If you're committed to learning and improving yourself, you don't need the ivy league's approval.
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It's obvious to me that you didn't get it right. Being retarded has to be hard.
Really great idea. I was actually pondering this concept to myself the other day. I had noticed there wasn't really a "go-to" place for people to buy and sell custom tech gear. I mean, I guess ebay would be the default, but ebay is a pile of shit aesthetically.

Good luck on this!
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> their reputation lies in tatters

Most of the brokerages who routed elsewhere last week were back using them as of Friday.
we were planning to use Ember.js in our production app last week, but dropped the idea of using it after learning that API might change in 1.0 release at Throne Of JS (http://throneofjs.com)

Now, that we are much closer to 1.0 release, We'll re-visit the idea! The whole team was highly impressed by it.
I'm not sure what SpaceX's "failures" were. Did the spacecraft crash and explode? Was this the Falcon 9 or the Falcon 1?

Historical safety is indicative of actual safety but not definitive, and not all you should be interested in. The shuttle was almost certainly less safe than its statistics indicate. If every launch delay of more than one day were considered a failure the shuttle's success rate would be very poor indeed.

Another question is how safety statistics are calculated. E.g. The overall safety of cars, measured by deaths per passenger mile, say, reflects many things, not just the engineering of cars themselves (in like manner, NASA's cautious use of the shuttle did much to ameliorate its excessively fraught design). On the other hand, crash safety ratings are prospective -- a five star crash rating won't save you colliding with a semi trailer, driving off a cliff, or into a lake, or having an accident at 120mph, or having your fuel tank explode.

There was an interesting discussion of actual car safety per model in the New Yorker a few years back, with the Toyota Avalon on top, and the VW Jetta second. Who drives a car and how it is driven turn out to be more important than crumple zones.
The model I'm thinking of is freemium -- allow free usage over SMS for most consumers, then charge for those who sign up for business-level features.

What's got me thinking is that, unlike a classic website/app model, using SMS means I could be burning quite a bit of cash. Heck, it meas some random competitor could just start making me spend money for nothing (From what I understand, guys like Twilio will charge you for incoming texts even if you don't want them) It's like opening up your wallet and asking people to take money out of it. A very different model from the kind of control over costs I'm used to having.

But perhaps I am borrowing trouble.
Whilst you're right that Windows fonts are generally rendered poorly in comparison to Mac/Linux, this is especially an issue with web-fonts afaict. Web-safe fonts like Arial, Georgia etc look (pretty much) fine under Windows.

In fact I think something else is at work here, because actually the main font this site is using is 'Lato' which looks just fine under Windows if you search for it at http://www.google.com/webfonts
my solution to this is to have an auto-login non-admin account on the machine that's not my own account.

Give them enough access to get on the internet & use the machine. Keep my files stored in my own account.
Although true that higher ed has its own set of problems as it resists adapting to contemporary realities; I felt compelled to point out that this incident is not surprising coming out of UCF. Through various interactions with UCF and its graduates I have come to understand that the institution is composed of low caliber people. I have no ties to UCF other than having come in contact with several of their "graduates" and I would be surprised if anyone else with a quality education didn't also get the same impression that UCF is nothing more than a Phoenix grade program. It is a borderline degree mill that primarily functions as a qualification for the poorly educated coming out of the Florida public education system and to slurp up GI Bill dollars providing degrees to the poorly educated coming out of the military.

The bigger problem with higher ed in this country is that it has no real standards. You can get a degree from UCF or from MIT, for all intents and purposes, it is the same degree. I have never understood why the Ivy League schools have not pushed for a distinguishing classification. It surprises me that even the higher and mid tier schools wouldn't want to distinguish themselves from the like so of UCF, Regent "Univ", Oral Roberts "Univ", the Pheonix, the Strayers, etc.

This guy really needs to just move on to a half-way decent program where his innovation and drive might even be welcomed. F doing all the bull he was sanctioned with. That is exactly the kind of nonsense I would have expected to come out of UCF. Go innovate somewhere where it's recognized and leave that UCF dump behind. I have yet to see anything good come out of UCF.

Don't ask me to substantiate what I said or any other such nonsense, they are observations.
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I wonder if the lack of a kill switch was linked to the power black outs in India - what if they set it going, got cut (power) and then only came back online 45 mins later? Could be that just one link - say a local exchange or power for an FTTP line failed.
Google's 2-factor auth comes with a list of onetime disposable keys one can use in place of not having their smartphone. I've had to use one specifically because I flashed a new Rom onto the Android device I was using before I thought about how I would setup the new Rom as a new device, which required me to log into my Google account. Almost the same idea as having the device get remote wiped unexpectedly. I keep a printed list of these keys in my fire safe at home with other important documents, like my birth certificate and passport.
How many recovery codes can you print out, and how many can you use? My cell provider (Avea, in Turkey) doesn't seem to pass automated SMS messages on, which has stopped me from using two-factor.
Airbus was some kind of convoluted giant joint venture between Europe's governments and largest aerospace concerns, with a Lot of national prestige (and defense connections) wrapped up in it so it was kind of too big to fail and not a very good example in this context.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EADS
I disagree strongly with most of the points you make.

I don't think this is a case of sour grapes... and if it is, so what? Because the argument made is entirely reasonable and well done. Whether you agree or not, it is an important view point that has to be aired more often. I personally agree with the author's premise and I think your view that TED doesn't have a political agenda is naive in the extreme.
> Almost everyone has a smart phone these days

In your social circles perhaps? Most of the world does emphatically not have a smart phone, and dumb phones still sell very well (more affordable and better battery life, for one). Go to any transport hub in Mexico for example and you won't find vendors hanging hundreds of styles of Androids and iPhones from their umbrella-shaded stands.
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Better yet, "Don't let anything over what you have no control whatsoever be a mission critical part of a project". If that single company can be heavily influenced by you, risks are acceptable.
> How about we get around to <input type=date> now?

It's been in Chrome stable for five weeks now. :) <input type=color> as well. http://miketaylr.com/code/html5-forms-ui-support.html

Chrome's webforms status is here: http://www.chromium.org/developers/web-platform-status/forms and www.chromestatus.com usually captures everything else.
Will this work outside of the U.S.? I know a number of talented hardware designers in South America, for example.
lolwut. and you still keep on using their services? Dude, get to Turkcell or Vodafone and use two-factor if you value your data.

edit:
downgrade if you want to but it will be the day of my death when I let a provider dictate my needs and wants with its stupid rules and regulations. I pay for their services and barring unreasonable ones they have to provide what I need. And passing automated smsses are something that is not unreasonable.
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The snow effect on the webcam toy is incredible. You can shake off that which settles! It falls in place but still... very impressive.
I'm sure those quarterly printed reports don't come free.
None of the examples work in ios chrome