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> Do you think hundreds of millions of users all would just buy from Microsoft their PC's?

More to the point, do they think Michael Dell will just sell the assets and give the money back to Dell's shareholders?
It doesn't matter what the sector is. Doing the same thing as everybody else, and doing the same thing year after year after year, is trivially easy.

Slicing bread is a dead easy business to be in. You buy a bread slicer, and you let it run. innovation, no matter the sector, is what is hard. And the point the article is making is that we haven't seen any innovation out of the tech OEMs in a long time.
Recs (therecordstream.com) is great for this. A JSON log file would be interpreted as its native record format, so you can use all of its processing tools (like recs-grep and recs-collate and recs-sort).
Why is it OK to have the security answers not hashed? They are just secondary passwords, and there is absolutely no reason someone else needs to know it.
I saw this documentary yesterday (which had a VERY interesting sequence about those rat neurons flying planes, interviewing one of their "fathers" ^^). It is about the future, AI and transhumanism, called TechnoCalyps, which despite the title is actually rather good. It's on youtube, too.. so if you have 3 hours to spare.. it is sure to make you think about a whole range of subjects.

IMHO these things cannot be considered in isolation. We as society should really start talking about our progress and where we want to go, instead of a few people being into it, the rest feeling threatened. We can do better, and we surely have to the tools for it.
This is a tough platform sell because you have to tell people to install some other app to run/participate in your app. I've been through this, and it's tough to get other people to be your distribution channel. I created somewhat similar functionality into Notifo to do mobile surveys (but never launched it publicly). This looks like a much more fully-featured and flexible version of that idea, it will just be a tough concept for people that this lives inside another wrapper app.

EDIT: unless i'm misunderstanding completely, and you guys (tasty labs) will be driving the installs so as to create a mobile mechanical turk force... in which case, this could be communicated better in the copy. Now I'm just confused.
emacsclient is about as lightweight as it gets, and Cocoa Emacs itself (24.1.50.1, built from the Git repository on Savannah this afternoon) starts up in less than 5 seconds on my Mac. As for "scripting in a number of different languages", that's more of an anti-feature for me. Specifically, running Emacs in a Windows, FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris, ... VM in VMware Fusion, I can symlink the init files and site-lisp directories in my guest OS home directory to the analogous items in my OS X home directory, and, given reasonably comparable fonts and Emacs versions, my Emacs configuration and most extensions work identically in the VMs.

If, on the other hand, these extensions were written in a number of scripting languages rather than Emacs Lisp, I'd need to maintain a like number of scripting language runtimes in each guest OS. Given the amount of code I write in Emacs pales in comparison to the amount of contributed third-party code I use, the fact that I have to write it in Emacs Lisp is a vanishingly small price to pay. Besides that, for lightweight scripting at least, I actually like Emacs Lisp.
I believe its called jargon. MBA's do tend to document jargon more than other professions, but every job has them.
Wow, Google's a great place to die.
SRP is a protocol to authenticate without exchanging passwords. It has the advantage that the server only ever sees and stores a verifier based on the hashed password. However, the password is still vulnerable to brute forcing. There is an extra modulo exponentiation which may make GPU calculation harder. I think the default hash for the verifier is SHA-1. It is possible to use a slow hash, like PBKDF2, for the verifier.
They can confirm identity with a one-way hash - the only reason I could think of not supporting this would be fuzzy matching.
You are completely confused.

All the Silicon Valley companies I've worked at give you automatic 2 x salary as a death benefit for free. This is without taking any sort of physical, etc. If you want additional benefits, you need to pay extra per month, submit to a physical, etc.

It seems like instead of the regular 2 x salary, Google is offering 5 x salary for free, which is really great.

Saying it's some sort of scare tactic is preposterous. That's like saying paying people extra is a scare tactic, because they won't be able to make the same amount of money elsewhere.
I always use warning to indicate something actionable for the developers. Some condition they should add to their next sprint, for example.

An error is something actionable that needs to be responded to soon. You probably don't need to send a page, but an error is a serious condition.

Stack traces are extraordinarily useful in your logs. When code breaks (and it will), you want as much information surrounding that event as possible.
There are multitude of other reasons why many students drop out of their PhD programs. Lot of my friends started grad school with doing something innovative and original research. But at the end of the day their advisor is funding them and in most of the cases they were too dependent on the research areas of their advisors rather than their own. Of course, you can choose your advisor based on matching your research interests with theirs but things always change due funding scenarios.
PadMapper doesn't take CL listings and put it into Padlister. What's listed on Padlister was listed by users.

PadMapper puts CL listings and Padlister listings on the same map.
Oh please, yourself. From the abstracts, several of those New York Times articles you linked to are actually about US probes. Those that report on Soviet activities appear to mostly be about the failed missions from the 1960s, as opposed to the 1975 and 1981 missions discussed by the OP.
> If I buy an ipad and complain, Amazon (If I'm buying from Amazon.com..and not a 3rd party seller) will make me return it before I get a refund.

What's wrong with that?
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Also, Blizzard has a 16-character password limit... seriously disappointing.
http://www.bingocardcreator.com/abingo/results

Looks like he's tested a size change and letting users pick their own font, and neither helped.
Did you guys think about just building a normal website?
No I don't, otherwise I wouldn't have submitted it.

The author has some good points on a hard problem - the nature of public internet debate combined with the permanency of the internet, is killing off debate in favour of soundbites.
Google is a great place to have your partner work there, then let your partner die...
The game loop is the game.
I think the loophole was that insurance premiums were tax-deductible, but insurance payouts were not taxed. Wikipedia has an explanation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate-owned_life_insurance#..., but I don't fully understand it.
Ya, if it was straight up insurance it wouldn't have made sense. The (theoretical) benefit was from some sort of tax thing that I honestly don't understand. Something about borrowing the money to pay the premiums now (so you pay less taxes now) and then ?somehow? not just having to pay the taxes later when the insurance got paid. Or something like that?
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This really needs a showcase of internally built use cases for human.io that I can play with right now.

I assume that: developers can create a micro-app with a dead simple API ... users run and discover these micro-apps from within the human.io mobile application.

An example micro-app would be where I create a bookmarklet that grabs an image, it sends it to human.io with the text "please identify this shirt" and then a human.io user can choose to run and solve that "micro-app"

It's confusing because micro-app implies repetition, whereas they are more like tasks: they have a "completion." This is a more powerful, easier to use, mechanical turk where the turks are on mobile.
They're key just so you can get the data out in the first place. (First law: all non-Free software is a dead end.) You may be willing to copy out data by hand for short one-off experiments, but not when datasets stretch over, say, years, as they will come to do so.
Anyone else notice the (somewhat hilarious) typo in the leftmost image?
Of course not! You're just a brain plugged into a highly advanced organic mobile platform - you should feel good about it :-).
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So if you want to use cmr, cmi, and friends, on your web site, what's the best way to do it? I see that you seem to have put them in a few different formats in /fonts/ and even stuck a base64 version into the stylesheet itself. I'd be delighted to hear more about the pains you had to take and why!
This is ridiculous. Maybe the world is ending, because it feels like every major website/provider of some popular service is getting hacked these days. A company of Blizzard's stature and wallet size has no excuse for this kind of thing happening, no excuse at all. If you're charging people exorbitant amounts of cash to buy your games and then charging some of your customers a fee for the privilege of using your so-called "secure" servers every month then you should be providing a certain level of security in return, it's not rocket science - employ someone who knows how to secure a server.

This is certainly not limited to Blizzard, it seems like everyday there is a new story about some kind of security breach and then we're told to change our passwords and some details may have been stolen. As an owner of both Starcraft 2 and Diablo III and I am heavily disappointed especially considering how much I paid for both of those games here in Australia (bought digitally as well).
It's a mix. We might do white-box installs (ie, add a library to push tasks to your already installed application.)

We're trying to make the the environment ridiculously easy to use. There are lots of organizations with large audiences but limited tech skills that can take advantage of something like this.

I hope you check out the API - I'd been meaning to reach out to you at some point.
I believe Blizzard makes you supply a scanned copy of your state issued identification in order to get a password reset.
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This is correct.

We were hoping for a quiet soft-launch so we could get more API feedback before a real launch (including use-cases like you suggested.)
"I call the big one Bitey."
Or just pop out the BIOS battery, short it with a paperclip for 30s, and pop it back in. Bingo, no more password.
No.

The Death Benefit is in addition to the Life Insurance.

Death Benefit = 50% Salary for 10 Years.
Life Insurance = 300% Salary at Death.

The above is provided for free.

Additionally you can increase the Life Insurance percentage by making additional monthly contributions.
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The Stranger disappoints, as usual. Easier to poke fun at people's clothes and other shallow topics than provide something of substance. Don't get me wrong, I love the occasional quip, but the author has put zero effort into understanding the culture before casually ridiculing it.
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That's correct.

We don't really want to be Turk per se - micropayments for microtasks is neat, but we're aiming for something wider. The activites are much broader (not just do work, but look up relevant information, or whatever) and the motivation similarly broad: eaderboards, or affinity to an organization, or money, or whatever, there are dozens of reasons that people do things. I don't want to just pick one of those and only allow a limited set of motivations.
Blizzard has numerous server side protections that prevent your lower case 16 character p/w from ever being brute forced. It's not that big of a deal.
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Blizzard operates in a free market. Average consumers don't care that much about security until something happens, then they forget. Therefore, security isn't a priority to Blizzard. It is really as simple as that.
First thing that came to my mind :-)
One word: ProxTube
I follow this in practice, but I always have to wonder: what if someone gets my password database and breaks it? It would only take a keylogging trojan to get everything they needed.

I would be in for a world of hurt! Way worse than if a few of my accounts were compromised because I had used the same password. But still, the chances of being compromised are probably much smaller.
Yeah, I noticed this as well. I had stopped reading comments for about a year, since I got really busy (nothing to do with the state of the comments), and only recently have been reading it again. The sentiment is different. Lots of people nitpicking at random little things that have nothing to do with the main point of the article.

It's like lots of people are perpetuating the cycle of:

1) Read the title and get offended and then write a snarky comment

1a) Read part of the way and and then write a ranting comment

1b) Read the full thing, but nitpick at something that doesn't have any bearing on the main point.

2) Get upvoted by other trolls

Sad thing is, I think it's chased away some of the better older users like http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=edw519 He hasn't posted much in the last half year, and everything he's said was met with negativity.

And of the older users that stayed, their sentiment is pretty negative as well. I'm not sure how this happened, as HN usually self-corrects. But lately, this has been going on for seemingly a while when I read back post comments.

I'm not sure what to do other than post more insightful and positive messages and don't reply to the negative trolls.
$750 isn't outrageous... For the authors to pay to Google for that kind if publicity/advertising.
Well, that would be thhe reason, I think...

Example:

For: "Who was your favorite high school teacher."

- Mr. Berners-Lee
- Mr. Berners Lee
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Mr. Lee

Never mind if you had two different teachers who were great, and you switch them interchangeably depending on whether you're in an English mood or a Music mood
Blizzard has 2 factor; the secrets for the mobile authenticator seem to have been compromised as well as the hashed passwords.
micro-apps are small, limited functionality things you get users to code. You couldn't really write a game in this.

Compare it to, say, an SMS. Instead of a bit of text, you get a bit of text, two buttons, a camera button, etc etc etc. So it's richer than a notification, but only by a little.
Security seems like a priority at Blizzard based on everything I know.

Priority =/= invulnerability.
dmethvin is a surprisingly nice person for being development lead on jQuery dealing with the crazy volume of complaints/ bogus bug reports. He's actually just being lighthearted and jocular here. I can see it from the other perspective, but that's not Dave's style.
I just ran into that idiocy when updating mine. Terrible. I generated a new password with 1Password and wanted to paste it in and had to type it in manually instead, twice, plus the old one.
No, I'm not.

I think people's confusion lies in the fact that there are actually two separate areas where javascript is run in Phantom: one is the javascript that controls Phantom and has a filesystem API; the other is the javascript that gets run inside the browser sandbox as part of the web page, just like any other javascript run in any other browser. It is possible to set up a bridge between the two such that the latter can issue commands to the former, just as you can curl sites and pipe them into bash. The point is that with default settings you can use PhantomJS to load a website without any danger whatsoever.

If you disagree, please write a more worthwhile comment showing me which part of the API is dangerous.
High school CS was my first exposure to what 'hacking' usually is. Grade 11, we were learning VB6 (don't ask). Our term project was to make a game, and three of us decided that we wanted to make a top-down shooter that had networked multiplayer. We soon figured out that only teacher accounts could see other computers on the network, so the obvious solution was to obtain the teacher password. Cue 48 hours straight of my poor 200Mhz Pentium Pro (with MMX!) trying to crack the SAM file, with no success. Frustrated, I was in the lab after school and went to grab a paperclip from the teacher's desk to reset the BIOS password. Open the drawer, and what do I see? The teacher's login and password written on a sticky note.

The game actually kicked ass, and the teacher never did figure out how we made the multiplayer work. We told him "it uses socks".
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The "highly advanced" part remains yet to be seen.
Moreover, removing the exclusive license provision retains craigslist’s compatibility with common licensing schemes, like the Creative Commons ShareAlike license or the GNU Free Documentation License.

Hold on a sec here. Are they saying that Craigslist postings are now licensed under CC ShareALike (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)? If so that's probably the most substantial point in this post.
It's not specifically publicity or advertising though, is it? They're indexing the entire text and making that available publicly.
FWIW, I ran a site last year very similar to LendInk, and was told by Amazon to make changes that they wanted within 48 hours or they would close my Associates account and Product Advertising API access. They do keep the Kindle lending club sites on a tight leash.

It is possible to run a site like this and stay on Amazon's good side, but not easy.
In this case, though, it's quite simple. When you publish a book in the KDP portal (which I'm guessing most of these indie authors did) there's a clearly labeled checkbox: "Enable lending for this book". You don't need to read the EULA. Amazon actually gives you a better deal if you enable lending (70% royalty compared to 30% on outright sales, and if you make the book an Amazon exclusive, you even get paid something when a reader lends the book).
Buzzwords must die.
Any password length limitation (within reason, not allowing a 1MB password is reasonable) says to me "we are not using hashes". That may or may not be the actual case, but it's the only reason I can think of for limiting password length. Hashes used for passwords have fixed lengths regardless of input, so any length password will "fit" in a database column.

If you're using hashes, limiting the lengths of passwords is extra work.
None of the "things you can do" lend themselves to justify me having to host the micro-app - eg, they do not tell a story of needing to pull in additional application logic: was it a conscious decision not to build an IDE and hosting environment for human.io so I could just jump straight into building micro-apps?
That's not necessarily what is best for the survivors. Managing money requires effort, and you can't get scammed out of something that you haven't been given control over.
At work (also MS) I use my personal IBM Model M keyboard...dated from 1993, the same year that I graduated from high school. You used to be able to find them for $10 in surplus stores, but these days you have to pony up $50 or $60, sometimes even $100.

Why can't someone make a nice tactile keyboard at an affordable price? Humidity is getting at my keyboard and I'll need a replacement soon.
Not only do they support it, they actually pay a higher royalty rate to authors who enable lending (making the book lendable is one of the requirements for the 70% royalty tier). If you make the book an Amazon exclusive, you even get paid something when the book is lent (at least for the period of exclusivity).
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No, they seem to be saying that a Craigslist poster may, if they choose, license their own post under CC-BY-SA. Why anyone would bother to do that is beyond me.

And I'm not convinced it's true given that the terms of use, last updated in February, still say "You also expressly grant and assign to CL all rights and causes of action to prohibit and enforce against any unauthorized copying, performance, display, distribution, use or exploitation of, or creation of derivative works from, any content that you post (including but not limited to any unauthorized downloading, extraction, harvesting, collection or aggregation of content that you post)." http://www.craigslist.org/about/terms.of.use

Very disappointing post from EFF here. The meaningless Creative Commons bit you quoted is a fine illustration of what toothless nonsense the whole thing is. It seems they have a major conflict of interest with the legal bully's founder (Craig Newmark) sitting on their Advisory Board.
>Automatic CSS prefixing

Does this mean I can apply rounded corners via jquery css without having to write 4 separate css properties for each browser?
joshu - your #1 use case caught my attention (check restaurant wait time). We're doing a lot of that at waitscout.com - can we chat?
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No idea myself - Sam Harris had some choice words about the degeneration of online debate a few days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4358376
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"That may or may not be the actual case"

It is not the actual case so I guess your blanket assumption was completely wrong.
I think sometimes we need a Debbie Downer to critique a party. Imagine if a similar article like this was written in the late '90s ridiculing the excesses and frivolity of the dot-com boom. Perhaps even when things are going great, we should take a step back and think if we're really going in the right direction?

Even if the economics are better this time around, the aesthetics could be better as well.
> Look at it as a living organism that can perhaps be healed, and can evolve.

What life we can see now is only survivors and most of gene line actually failed.
They're after my 150K DPS Demon Hunter.
It's because the people that want the system this way call it capitalism. If you say "banks shouldn't be too big to fail" you are called an anti-capitalist, etc, etc. Maybe the people doing this name calling are misusing the term, but it catches on.
I don't understand your post (or perhaps you didn't understand mine).

You are right that I didn't have nefarious goals when I did this stuff as a kid, though I knew it was illegal. In any case, the fact that I didn't get caught was mostly luck. If the police came to my door, my life could easily have turned out much differently.

I'm saying I (and many others on this board) were just lucky not to get caught. Certainly Jeff Atwood was lucky to get a sensible judge. I'm surprised anyone would dispute that.

Are you saying we couldn't have possibly been caught? Are you saying it wouldn't have mattered if we got caught and faced the wrong judge?

I'm sure there are a lot of people have really suffered for their kid mistakes. I'm not sure how you can dispute that I'm lucky to have gotten away with mine.
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