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If you are planning on deploying to the Microsoft stack then use the Microsoft toolset - .NET, Visual Studio, c#.

Winforms is pretty easy to pick up and the workflow between visual designer and hooking up to events is good. Double click on a button in the visual winforms designer and it puts you in the method in the code....something I wish Interface Builder would do :).

I've no experience with WFC, but as others have pointed out, it seems to be the way to go for good looking apps.
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Indeed not only that could be that mixing genders means mixing perspectives and this leads to better decision-making.

Additionally if a business is seen as a riskier investment does this mean that women would be less interested in investing time/money in it?
Interesting. I've had issues with a me.com email — for seemingly no reason at all it will say I'm providing the incorrect password. Seems to happen every other week at random intervals.
The article does not point out that sampling quora users might not be (I would say is probably not) an unbiased estimator of the the students of these places as a whole.

From the article:

Also, a word of warning: my dataset was fairly small and users on Quora are almost certainly not representative of their schools as a whole (though I tried to be rigorous with what I had).
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I'm... arguing against that notion (that FB is behind the bots.)
If Apple's Mac UI Came From Xerox, iPhone Came From Sony? 
Same story again, only this time the concept of iPhone was not born at Xerox but at Sony.
Agreed. I don't mind saying I'm wrong on that; I admit I have a typical American bias. I would say that HN is probably much more libertarian-leaning than the average US citizen but probably not enough to warrant my claim of a majority (of HN users). Can I claim my point is still valid though (re: guns as tools)? :-)
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Yeah, and that wouldn't be that hard, you can get a roland controller, one of the slim ones and just hook it up to the computer with some vst plugins.
Google TV's lack of success has certainly taught them a lesson or two here. Hence, the freebies as an attempt to win back good will.
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A few years ago I bought my daughter the "Sciencewiz Chemistry Experiments Kit". We got it home and opened it and found the chemicals inside... sand and baking soda!

You can't make this stuff up:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1886978042
> Any HNers interested in building me a site that's more secure than "a Wordpress theme designed for comics"?

Good question. Last month I was starting a comic and couldn't find an easy way forward, so I whipped up some Perl and served it from Dreamhost. About half the time I spend on the comic goes towards extending that software (so that features I'm going to need will be in place by the time I need them).

What kind of infrastructure would your comic need? Was it using everything Wordpress had to offer?
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WOW , thank you for highlighting that. Guess home brewers loved that law.

Another case of everybody assumed to be some major drug lord making drugs again :(.
I completely missed that, mea culpa, my apologies to the author. I'll leave the message above unedited as a little warning sign to other people who can't read: you too can look silly like me.
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Some if it ties in with this:

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/105013.php at least regarding sex at conception. I am not entirely sure about whether we really have hard direct data regarding sex at conception but that's one possibility regarding that data. On the other hand, it's possible that there are biological differences between sperm carrying X and Y chromosomes and that these might be selected for one way or another.

However, trans-historically (closer to my field of expertise) it is generally true that men take on riskier endeavors than women do, and that women follow as areas develop. Frontiers generally tend to be nearly exclusively male (at one point the Wild West had a gender ratio of 50 men per woman, and this is not isolated. Consider the early classical practice of having the men march off in search of fortune, for example.

The thing to keep in mind here is that women have a narrower window of opportunity to start a family than men do. If you are 40 and male, and you are not married, you could still get married to a younger woman and have kids, but if you are 40 and female, you are less likely to be able to have kids. Therefore men can generally better afford to move into immature markets and riskier endeavors than women can.
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I think they use IP addresses too. An old colleague once created a fake account to test an app, using totally fake data. Next time I signed up he appeared in the sidebar.
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I really hope that Dropbox use Google Authenticator.

The last thing I want is double the number of apps on my phone as every single app has another 2-factor auth app to ship.

Just add yourself to Google Authenticator and be done with it. It doesn't require a Google account, you can use Google Authenticator as the generator of the 2-factor auth code and that's all.

LastPass uses Google Authenticator for 2-factor, and it works well.

One of the problems I've found with Dropbox is that I tend to use a shorter and easier to type password because I enter it on my phone in addition to my desktop.

Good passwords are great when you have a password manager, but in the app you're stuck with having to type it in. So my Dropbox password is weaker than I'd want just because apps mean I can't use a password manager. 2-factor can't come soon enough for me.

On a related note, 2-factor is one of the weaknesses I want addressed. The other one I'll bang on about is client-side encryption. If it's possible at all for someone to access their systems I still want to feel sure that someone can't access my files.

It's not that I limit my use of Dropbox, but I use it differently. That 1GB file in my account... that's a Truecrypt volume. The other files are just less sensitive.
Standard move I'd say. Stops people from making services that pull information from Craigslist and advertise it elsewhere.
Interesting and something i'll look into more - thank you.
I've read studies that corroborate your assertions, but it would really behoove you when making such specific assertions to link citations if at all possible, and not assume your audience is on the same page.
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"Berkeley, sadly, is perhaps too large and diverse for an overall characterization."

That isn't sad at all. It's great. As a UC grad, the diversity of the student body was one of the absolute best things about my college experience. Do I wish I went to Harvard or Stanford? Sure, but not for their homogeneous student bodies.

Otherwise, pretty interesting read.
Given that the facebook graph is fairly mature I would think that this would actually be against their best interests - surely a good friend recommender is one of the things that a new entrant would need to break the market?
"Imagine how you would feel seeing 41% of your hard earned cash..."

Yeah, superhard way of making millions. Making a web site in your 20s and convincing the pension funds to give their savings from 30 years of real "hard work" while trying them not to notice the scam before you sell all your stock.
Oh really? What's the other company that's making a serious go at all three of those?
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Well, clearly, there is a strong correlation between a company existing and men being on the board.
"Perfect", especially in terms of UI is extremely subjective. I personally prefer the new Gmail design.
I still don't understand the desire for Android on non-touch devices. At all...

The more exciting bit is XBMC being available in Android, in my opinion.

I have XBMC on my desktop, laptop, phone, tablet and raspberry Pi. Using a single app, I can play media from any of those devices to another. It's so simple and elegant and it blows my mind everytime I do it.
Seems more like a reaction to Padmapper and 3taps.
> So would they still deploy new stuff like LTE quickly? Would they still subsidize phones?

GSM was developed and initially deployed mainly by the old european government telecoms before privatization took hold in Europe.
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Those two do not chime that well.
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Hmm I remember doing that & learning about the burn properties of sulphur. I had a lab under the house. My dads vice held an old bent spoon where I could mix things up and burn them. It was the first time I found a noxious gas burning sulphur, looking at the small blue flame. Taking a small breath of the stuff gave me a bit of a fright as the gas (SO2 or sulphur dioxide) literally sucked my breath away. I just discovered my first oxy-philic reaction :) (previous chemistry set Qs: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=bootload+ch...)
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I just can't subscribe to the notion that "god" is walking around with a measuring instrument and carefully distributing talents in a 50% manner.

Or that solely due to one's talents a person is obliged to "serve the society" in hers designated role.

Do I believe that diversity is good? Hell yeah!

Do I believe that enforcing mandatory quotas is the way to improve overall quality? Hell no.

If anything we should spend more resources on overall quality. And I am really afraid that this focus on females will cost us dearly. There is a lot of evidence that we are losing whole generations of boys. How is (not intentionally, mind you) making men feebler going to help society is beyond my comprehension.
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I don't know. I'm repeating hearsay. (sigh)

I thought it would be relatively easy to search on the email address itself to answer your question, because it's a good question, but obviously that email address is now plastered on every blog in existence. Should have Googled it a day ago, I guess.

From the account I originally read, though, it wasn't posted in a terribly obvious place but it was published somewhere on one of NBC's sites. Their bio pages don't have contact information, and that's about all I can find, along with a lot of press releases quoting the man. As the president of NBC Olympics since 2005, he's said a lot of boring things in press releases. "We're confident that Adobe is the right partner for our mobile app development," and so on.
Unfortunately, Google is developing a history of announcing – and later killing – products at their Google IO event.

I can appreciate the pressure: Every year, all eyes are on the company to match/outshine Apple's WWDC announcements.

It seems that Google needs to move IO to a different (less pressurised) time of year, and focus on only announcing release-ready products.
You could construct a de-duplicated system with client side encryption by building an index pre-encryption. There is some leakage of information about what files exist, but not the contents of those files, and IMO the "files which are shared widely among Dropbox accounts" are NOT the ones people care most about keeping encrypted...

There are several systems with client side encryption, some of which also have de-duplication, and at least one of which has interesting crypto (bitcasa).

This is all unrelated to the authentication problem with dropbox today, though.
AND a certification standard...

This would never be a problem without both fraudulent manufacturers and an unclear certification standard.
And nor will they ever be IMHO.
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Probably ready before the update for the LG smartphone I bought. sigh

But from the news coverage (don't own one yet myself) it seems that this is a good indicator for a generally healthy tinkering community. Sounds great.
Precisely -- I opened up the comments to see what people thought of the quality of the implementation. Does this guy know about cryptography and robust decentralisation? What are the trade offs in the architecture...?
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I don't see a problem with the triangles on any of my browsers. I had tested in 3 of them on my mac and 3 different in Linux, just for curiosity.
In the 60s, kids used to make bombs etc. In the 90s, we used to scan huge IP ranges on the net looking for open netbios ports. I'm sure in the future, kids will find their own stupid and dangerous stuff to amuse themselves with.
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Possibly. Take a shot at a Galaxy Spica. It's an atrocity.
How did he ensure followers were actual attendees of the schools programmatically?

He mentions in the comments "I basically just checked that they didn't follow any other schools (from a small list). It's certainly not the greatest filter, but it did seem to work for a small number of people I hand-checked."
It was a tongue-in-cheek comment :) -- sad from the perspective of me trying to find a cute pattern for Berkeley.
I really hope they don't make 2fa mandatory. I hate most 2fa systems I've seen (I use Google Authenticator for one gmail account I have, and it makes life even more of a pain than it needs to, even just on Google properties). Having to reauth ~6 devices every month is obnoxious, and I already have a perfectly good password manager with long random per-site passphrases, plus secure storage of my key file and a strong memorized passphrase for it, unlocking sets of passwords only on certain machines. 2fa, particularly a naive version involving SMS or telcos, would make my security worse.
Hopefully this shuts up people always complaining about EBS...
Does this license mean copyright? In Germany you cannot protect facts with copyright. Something like "Flat for rent: $size m², $price €, $coordinates, $link" seems more like a fact or an idea.
so stick with rgba() colours then?
Why would an employee have work-related data in a personal dropbox account?
Strange, how you say someone could wage a social denial-of-service attack against Freenet with a bit of kiddy-porn FUD...

None of the links I follow into the onion (coding mostly) have ever led to porn, let alone CP. Even if it's everywhere you look (and maybe you should consider why that is) it's nowhere I and most other people look.

Even if there were a non-insignificant amount of CP being distributed there are really just two options, 1) there's a super-secure, secret group of pedophiles who cooperate to abduct and molest children and they continue to get away with it, or 2) various law enforcement groups use the same few pictures over and over in stings and honeypots.

No, it's a nigh-unto made-up problem, and to the tiny degree it may exist at all, it's exactly the same on the Internet as a whole, on Dropbox, via shortened URLs in twitter, etc.

To combat the problem perception that Tor is for CP problem simply quit telling people about it constantly. And if you're told that's all Tor is, treat it exactly like you would someone who started at the sleaziest portal they could and complained the internet was full of porn.

As for you knowing what Freenet is full of, that's impossible unless you're claiming to have seeded it.
As a private company there is a 500 shareholder limit. This made it difficult to use stocks to 'incentivize' employees.

The second argument I've heard is that it allowed Zuckerberg and some of his closer companions to cash out a large chunk of cash for the first time.

Facebook itself did not need money to my knowledge
KOSMOS experimental sets are still somewhat popular in Germany.

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I only had the electronic sets as a kid, so I don't know how much the chemical ones have been dumbed down since.
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They may have made the best of a bad situation, but getting into this situation is still amateurish.

I'm all for listening to feedback. But there are ways of getting feedback on a product without doing a major product launch. Like, say, making 50 prototypes and trying them out on Google employees and external user testers. There's no way these problems wouldn't have surfaced in user tests. I suspect all the major issues would have shown up with just 5-10 testers.

The question is: why didn't they do that? Plenty of people know how. Since I can't believe that all their executives, designers, and engineers are that clueless/arrogant, I think it's reasonable to suspect that the problem is one clueless executive exerting power.
You can't protect facts with copyright anywhere, AFAIK. The listing consists of more than facts, including a descriptive title, the descriptive text of the listing, and the attached images. These are all protected. At the moment, PadMapper does not copy any of these things. It's been pointed out. Let's not rehash what's already been said ad nauseum in the PadMapper story comments and stick to discussing this submission.
Also, in Germany you cannot give up or transfer copyright to someone else.
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Exactly. Android on an underpowered device like the Pi is going to be underwhelming.
The one thing I'm missing from this thing is to be able to export the data. Migrating from one device to another is painful as it is..

Edit: I was annoyed so long by this missing feature and - never did something myself. My bad.

If you have the same problem (one device paired with a couple of services, you want to migrate the accounts):

'/data/data/com.google.android.apps.authenticator2/databases' contains the sqlite3 file 'databases', which contains a table 'accounts' with your keys (and counter values, if necessary).
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There may well be companies in the B2C or social space which would, six weeks after launch, say "Damn, we missed the opportunity to make a Facebook page on launch day! Now how can we possibly make our rent?" I would bet against this being a huge win for many startups/businesses.

If you put a gun to my head and said "Make business value out of a one-time burst of transient traffic, the overwhelming majority of which won't be customers" I would

a) Aggressively attempt to capture their email address, for follow-up in a scalable fashion over the upcoming weeks. The Trough of Sorrow is a very happy place to be if you have thousands of people who want to talk to you. A significant portion of the audience for early stage startups hates getting email. That's not a problem, because 5,000 of them plus $3 will buy you a cup of coffee.

b) tail -f email_submission_log.txt

c) "Hiya $REPORTER | $INVESTOR | $CEO | $INFLUENCER I just happened to notice that you signed up for $COMPANY. Let me know if I can do anything for you. Signed, the CEO. (Psst we have a super secret VIP only tour at $LINK.)"

But that's only if you put a gun to my head. My truest feeling is that there is an overemphasis placed on launch because of a) community sentiment that it represents an important milestone, b) we suck so bad at marketing that 1,000 transient users feels like an accomplishment, and c) launch activities feel like high status (Talk to the press! Be the center of attention!) and standard day-in-and-day-out-marketing feels low status. (When's the last time an email campaign generated a celebratory dinner after it for everyone involved?)

P.S. A micro-tip for receiving PR. If one expects PR, one can trivially create a landing page specific to that source of PR -- e.g. "Welcome TechCrunch readers..." There's a variety of ways to do this -- if you have a programmer who can 302 redirect their way out of a paper bag the simplest way is to look at the referer. You pre-write copy that uses the social proof of whatever the media source was with the name and logo of the source abstracted out, then launch those pages in real time as required. You can pitch an exclusive benefit for people coming from, without loss of generality, TechCrunch -- perhaps a special offer or an exclusive premium created by the founding team -- as an incentive to that particular audience... and offer it in parallel to several audiences.

You can arrange this with media in advance with their co-operation but, again, you don't need people's buy-in to make this happen. It's two hours of work or less. Your conversion rates will notice the difference.
I tried to make a hydrogen powered bunsen burner and caused a modest hydrogen explosion in my parents' basement..... The hydrogen generation part was easy (vinegar and metallic magnesium).

That and chlorine gas, and hydrogen sulfide experiments, and other sorts of stuff that would scare the living daylights out of most parents today.
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