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This presupposes that funding is a limiting factor. I don't know enough to know if that's true. However, in many areas of life, more money does not always equate with more success. I worked in pharma for years and there was no wanting for resources. That didn't make a bit of difference in new drugs discovered. Biology is hard and is unimpressed by money. I'm confident our success rate would have been unchanged, even with unlimited funds.
"log in with iPhone" button" - that almost sounds like Two-Factor authentication...? :)

Seriously - how is that any different than turning on your iPhone and clicking on the Google authenticator app to get your code?
Although it looks like you can't enable the Google Authenticator method without first enabling the SMS method...

I'm not sure about this (it was a while ago when I installed it), but I know you can install it on a new device after previously having it installed on another device (which disables it on the first device) without an SMS.
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In addition to Amazon actually being an FDIC insured way to store your money, it should be realized that your bank is only going to have you covered up to $250k. Do you feel like storing more than that much money for a company is then "incredibly irresponsible"?
Am I the only one insulted by this?

> Well, because I seriously love you guys and believe your inept fashion sense is holding you back. It's holding you back from getting the girl.

I can get girls just fine with my v-neck shirt, thank you.
If only changing the rules was as easy as creating a git repo. Not being snarky, just cynical of people who appear to have no experience regarding the realities of a career in hardcore life sciences.
"I realize not everyone has an Apple Store nearby but many do."

That could be a handy additional service to offer, but they'd still have to provide a non-in-store method for all the people who don't, so it wouldn't be any more secure.
> ‘markets’ don’t have nerves

Seriously? Market participants certainly have nerves, and it is perfectly clear to anyone without an ideological axe to grind that the term "market" is used here as shorthand for "market participants".

Don't just write. Think. Thanks.
Indeed. Despite our disagreement higher up this thread on who gets screwed and why, I did quite enjoy the article. I looked at it more as a cautionary tale about getting drawn into the hype surrounding IPOs in general and tech IPOs in particular. The market is not as efficient as economists sometimes like to pretend, but it does have a central tendency and if the fundamentals don't support the valuation, the market will bring the price back down.

I say, if you can IPO at an overpriced level, do it, but don't believe your own hype and buy into it yourself. You will be disappointed.
This is not a new phenomenon though. Look at tech bubble #1. hell, go back in time and look at Tulip Mania or the railroad bubble in the late 19th century.
Wall Street will continue to do what is in it's interest. With average returns from Underwriting an IPO in the range of 7-9% they have to.
Wall Street doesn't care that mum and pop investors get screwed - they just need to know that there are more out there that will continue to buy IPOs if they are presented in the right way.

BTW, IPOs have been in long term decline (in terms of absolute numbers) for ~20 years now - see the economist

http://www.economist.com/node/21555552?zid=300&ah=e7b937...
Rather than just talking about it, here's how to actually do it without you having to search around for specific instructions:

4chan ruleset is here:
https://gitweb.torproject.org/https-everywhere.git/blob_plai...

Download and place the file in the HTTPSEverywhereUserRules/ subdirectory in your Firefox profile directory. In Tor Browser bundle, the location for your profile is: {wherever you installed tbb}/Data/profile

When you're in TBB, navigate to http://4chan.org. If it doesn't switch to https automatically, then click the HTTPSEverywhere icon up in the corner, and make sure the 4chan.org rule is checked. Page should refresh, you should see that it is now https.
eh. i was thinking about this the other day. about how i'd like to tell people what style is. and how hard it is to tell anyone anything about such a personal choice.

i'm a nerd. i'm also someone who ended up in a completely different culture. one where, i realised, i looked just plain stupid. i changed. now, i think, i dress pretty well.

but it was a very personal journey. and i had to think hard about a lot of very important things on the way. i didn't wear a t-shirt and jeans just because i was clueless. it was also a statement about what was important to me. which certainly didn't include brands.

balancing that and finding my own style took a lot of time. it was also very interesting. and i now enjoy thinking about clothes (in a broad sense - it's all about context and culture; it's only about money in the sense that culture and class are deeply linked).

i'm not sure how much of that you're going to get in an "advice column" format. and i'm not sure if you're expecting the kind of deep emotion behind "anti-fashion" that a lot of people have. i think you may be surprised at people's (negative) reactions...
Agreed. When Katrina came ashore, it was technically down to a category 2. Should I be less concerned? No, more.
It is also a disservice to the entire editorial platform if they can't pay their own bills and go under. Or if they overload their servers to the point that people complain that "Wikipedia is always down" and migrate to one of the less free alternatives.
I think the issue is most people have email on their iphone, so you can send yourself a password reset to your phone, get your password, then use the code also generated on your phone.

Personally I have a pin on my iPhone - and I have my iPhone set to 'reset' itself if there are 10 incorrect pin attempts - so even if I lose my phone, I doubt they would get in...
I have noticed a lot of companies waiting a few weeks and then surreptitiously adding me to their newsletter. I assume that the idea is that I will not remember that I did not subscribe to it, and am more likely to re-visit the website.
> The homepage of current Wikipedia is overcrowded with display of languages, which overshadows the main functionality–the search area.

The main functionality of wikipedia.org is not search, but showing a list of Wikipedia language editions.

> Rolling over the top right corner reveals more options for languages.

What the hell is this? Why would you use JavaScript dropdown? That's not how websites work. Just look at 99% of websites. They don't require putting mouse over something to view hidden content.

> Quote serves as a felt pen. It can be an easy way to highlight the best parts of an article, just like in text books.

This functionality is better done as a web browser plugin. Because then you can save quotes from other websites too, not only Wikipedia.

> http://www.wikipediaredefined.com/img/26.png

Where Research, Edit, Talk buttons disappeared?

> Basically, there are two reasons to visit Wikipedia: to read or to contribute. Reading function is Research and contribution is called Edit.

This layout is bad for reading. Article text starts at half of screen, not at top. On most popular resolutions (1366x768, netbook 1024x600) it's even worse, article text would start at the bottom of screen.
Logged in just to comment here. Whoever's behind 140---STOP. Your copy SUCKS. Your alpha-ness or cool girl-ness or whatever wannabe intimidation factor oozes off the page, and you know what? Fuck you. Being "cool" wins you no points here. And here matters, at least to you, because you've apparently chosen it as your target market.

You want to know how to win friends and influence people here? Take a page from the book of OKCupid pre-acquisition. OKTrends was amazing. That stuff is crack to your target market. Look at the data. Figure out the principles behind the stuff. Figure out the Laws of Fashion. If there aren't any, and it's completely...well...fashion-driven, then drop down to the data again, and cut your advice to, "shirt x has been selling 30% more than comparably-priced shirts, and female focus groups rated it significantly more attractive than the rest of its cohort."

Without data, you're just a fashion blogger who thinks they're among easy pickings.
> but that was just free money

Except the employees would have been sacrificing a higher salary for these shares so they where hardly free.

> The only people hurt by the initial over valuation were the people that bought high

The people that got burnt where those that read the IPO document and assumed it was not a work of fiction. The people that made money where insider trading on information not yet public.

The others that will get hurt are the next set of companies that try to float. The market will be reluctant to make the same mistake again.

Bad IPOs damage the credibility of the market and dmaage the ability of companies to float and that Facebook IPO was just a joke.
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I guess it's just personal preference. "for(;;)" looks really messy to me, and doesn't seem obvious that it signifies an infinite loop. I think that even the standard format for for loops (for (initialisation; condition; thing done at end of loop)) is quite unintuitive, and I have to think a bit to remember what each part does if one of them is omitted. It's also the only place I can think of where semicolons aren't expected at the end of a line (conventionally).
I don't find a problem implicitly casting "1" to "true", I sort of do this automatically after programming in C for a while. Obviously if I were using java or something, I'd use "while(true)".
Basically, I don't have to think much to know that it's an infinite loop :)
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Yes and no. I'm building a library that allows you to at least pull in the database structure and have the code auto-generated so that your code agrees with the schema. You can see it here: http://wheaties.github.com/Squealer/

After that, if your production schema is that different from your development schema that auto-generated code can't help, then you've got more problems than that.
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It looks like the DB schema is generated from the class definitions by the library. Queries are type safe:
http://slick.typesafe.com/doc/0.11.0/gettingstarted.html#sch...
wouldn't that be better as just a good old-fashioned letter to the economist?
> This hack came down to social engineering and using flaws in two companies verification systems. That isn't epic.

Epic status is irrelevant. It was effective. It should not be. Full stop.
I remember reading somewhere how Amazon actively optimizes security vs user experience. I.e. as far as possible they try not to make the user login or enter a password unless absolutely necessary.

You could have a stale login from months ago and still access some parts of your account, but you need to enter your password before you purchase or access some sensitive information.
This is such a great point. Deceiving others to obtain certain information could have happened anywhere. The fact that Apple is recognized on such a large scale would most certainly make a situation like this get blown way out of proportion. I doubt this would make headlines to the same degree this has if it was a smaller less-known organization. These kinds of attacks on victims like Honan happen all the time, but why do we only hear about it the most when it involves a large reputable company.
My Page Down key melted from being pressed repeatedly so many times. Fucking designers.
> I'm here to let you in on the little secrets of fashion so people think you're more awesome than you truly are.

I hope that came out wrong, I really do.

The copy on this site comes off as pretentious and kind of annoying to me. Maybe it's just the groups I associate with, but am I the only one who thinks that the stereotype of the fashion-clueless nerd really isn't as pervasive in current reality as it once was?
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There's inevitably going to be someone who loses them or never prints them out in the first place.
nice post, but mildly unfortunate title - the phrase "real analysis" makes me think of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_analysis first.
I also like how there's no city marked in Louisiana. Of course, to their credit, there really is no civilization in Louisiana anyways.
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Ask HN: What is your favorite split testing/AB/lean framework for Django?
I'm familiar with this one and folks seem to like it, but it hasn't been updated in a while:

https://bitbucket.org/akoha/django-lean/wiki/Home

What do folks using Django like these days?
It's not human error. Their policy allowed for password resets given these 2 bits of information. Wired retried it and verified that it was indeed the case.
The author misses the point. The bad looks and ill fitting clothes are a fashion statement.

They're a huge middle finger to the status quo, like punk rock or braid (The video game.).

I don't think any of the people in those photos would tell you they looked good.
I think you're misinterpreting your parent comment; I believe he's referring to the fact that to become a featured article you must go through an extremely rigorous process that definitely improves the article it's applied to (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_crit... ). You end up with a thousand or so articles a year (rough guess, I'm not active on Wikipedia) that have gone through some or all of this process, which makes a surprisingly large dent. Also, after being listed as a featured article, it's theoretically held to that standard in perpetuity (in fact, Wikipedia has a group of people dedicated to maintaining these). Next time you're reading an article that seems exceptionally well written and researched on Wikipedia, check its FA status.
Really? I have my assistant find the article of interest and send a bit.ly link via courier.
I'd like to see a proper comparison of Geeklist, Masterbranch, Coderwall, Workforpie, etc. That aside, gratz to Geeklist - and awesome product!
I wouldn't have assumed OP was a broke college student if the home page hadn't told me. There's something about broke college students that just makes you want to make them work for free. And there's something about them that they do it without much persuasion.
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How about networking?
e.g. meetup.com. I found very good speakers giving talks in my area of interest.

About soft skills, I felt considerable writing efforts are required here as part of the normal master's degree. I am doing my master's degree in CS here. Even if I am writing a simple report on some project I spend extra hours to think from the reader's perspective. That builds up writing skills. You get constructive feedback if you present something. That builds up the presentation skills. May be this is a personal experience.

I also felt that you start appreciating positive things about your country more but this experience may not be specific to US.
I'm definitely interested in learning more about fashion but your copy rubs me the wrong way.

Also, linking to blogs like http://www.theurbangent.com/ is like linking a "first programming tutorial" to a CPU instruction set reference.

Things like http://www.theurbangent.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/patte... are baffling and incomprehensible to people who are not "into" fashion and are likely to make them reject the whole thing as a game for weird androgynous alien children.

As a nerd, what I would love to see is:

How to identify quality clothes - how are they made, what makes them awesome? Designer/brand name hacks - what's a huge bargain for the quality and when am I just buying a brand name?

Color/pattern theory - still not sure what colors go together and how to mix patterns.

Some sort of system for building a wardrobe where I can easily select stuff that works together when my mind is busy thinking of building stuff and not what to wear.

How things are supposed to fit. How to care for stuff so it doesn't shrink or fall apart.

Hope this helps...
But your argument cuts both ways. If a poster doesn't seem professional, then they do seem "real" and showing you have real fans may seem useful to companies.

Apple in particular probably doesn't need that but a company like, say, Microsoft might feel they'd benefit having trollish fan-boys making their case (making them, indeed seem more Apple-like), since they also wouldn't have to answer for the arguments of these "obviously unprofessional" fans...
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People did gawk at the amazing creation and throw money at Facebook needlessly, and that's the problem. In a way, Facebook has been able to do a bit of market segmentation, and take the initial money from those that thought that it had the most value, without having to listen to the dissenting voices that think it's worth less. Typically, markets prevent such a great information disparity.

Before IPO, nobody knows for sure what the real valuation of Facebook is. They have their own personal valuation, but the eventual price on the market is going to be a reflection of the combined valuations, it's an average of sorts of everbody's belief about Facebook's ability to make money over the time scale that each particular investor cares about. You can make a price-demand curve out of it; pre-IPO I wouldn't have bought Facebook at any price, some people thought $15 per share, some people $20, some people $38, and some would have bought no matter what.

Facebook was unique in being able to take advantage of this market uncertainty, namely each investor's uncertainty about what everybody else thinks. They shielded the overoptimistic from the pessimists' views, or the overoptimistic didn't bother to acknowledge that there would be pessimists, and Facebook took the optimists' money first. In doing so they got the most capital for giving away the least possible. (This shwredness probably bodes well for their ability to make money in the future.)

Usually tech stocks go the other way because the company doing the IPO has very little leverage to set their own price; investment banks are the gatekeepers and won't let anyone through unless their customers unless they and their most-favored-customers make a bundle on the initial sale. Facebook was able to flip that dynamic around and make sure that they themselves made a bundle while all the investment banks' customers lost out. It takes both leverage with the investment banks and knowledge of the demand curve in order to pull something like that off.

If the overoptimistic end up being right on the long enough timescale, they'll get their money back. But for the moment there are too many pessimists about the future potential of Facebook for a $38 buyer to be able to get what they deem a fair value.

Buy low, sell high, simply means being optimistic when others are overly pessimistic, and being pessimistic when others are overly optimistic. There's a bit of predicting what the objective financials of a company are, but it's far more about realizing the psychology of everybody else with money to trade. It's not just Silicon Valley engineers that are overoptimistic...
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Remote wipe is NOT enabled by default.
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We actually have created a few things from scratch. Specifically I'm thinking of Top7, a protein that a friend of mine works on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top7

Protein design is an exciting field.
It's pretty simple with a disassembler. For instance... http://cl.ly/image/330V1S0y3i1S
Yeah but it's one of those subtle privacy invasions that you have to realize has occurred before you can opt out, and most people will never see the "X viewed this" link tucked away at the bottom of the page.
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The article was also about apples policy change. The corresponding article about amazons policy change (1) had 14 mentions of amazon and 3 mentions of apple.
(1): http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/amazon-changes-policy...
Yeah i have to agree. Crash oriented or crash-only design is to my mind more useful than 'only' recovery oriented - it's also realistically achievable. I've taken to implementing my middleware this way since I've started working against Cassandra back-ends (also crash only design).
The best textbooks for this (this is something of a consensus in the field also) are Molecular Biology of the Cell by Alberts et al. and Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry by Nelson and Cox.
Exactly. On top of that, police are not required to tell you the truth, so they can claim they will only ticket you and so forth in an attempt to you get the drugs out in the open.
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Setting your profile to Public allows recruiters to scrape your data for future use.

http://blog.brusic.com/2012/07/how-private-is-your-online-jo...

Still interesting that they don't read blogs.
Glad to see more legitimate uses of bitorrent which currently are basically getting new linux distros and the odd free indie movie.