skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, typical house locks are (apparently) only locks by way of cultural convention.

(I say apparently because the ease of using things like bump keys is pretty widely publicized but I have never actually tried it myself)
If you're interested in learning more, I highly recommend the book Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman.
Detailed account of using Spark and PVS theorem prover in such an app

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~jck/publications/Xiang.Yin.disse...
It decreases the severity of a breach but increases the likelihood. Per-app passwords can't be used to take over an account. But they can be used to read my email. I think just shifting the permissions a little so that I can "authenticate" without also giving out the creds to my email would be acceptable.
GHC has ThreadScope.
Day-Z goes standalone
I really love Racket/Lisp. But I wish I had more of a use for it. Probably the most beautiful language I used during my undergraduate days.
I'm no ninja-rockstar! I'm a cybernetic Viking berzerker, battling each and every bug and feature to the death. I might have scars from my many encounters, but I won... eventually. My software is a well honed and polished, though sometimes nicked, piece of work.

Seriously guys, ninjas were criminals! They were outlaws that killed mainly via indirect confrontation, OCD-like planning, and typically poison. They deserve no praise or idolization for that. Just like I wouldn't hire a diplomat-rockstar programmer either...
If I have to rely on keeping the billing address a secret, that's pretty messed up. I'm self employed, which over here means that I have to register as a company with the chamber of commerce. Chamber of commerce records are public and include the address of my business (which is my home address).

And obviously most people share their address with various online retailers and friends/family, etc. This is not something I expect to have to keep secret to securely use amazon.com.

(ps. I'm not an iCloud user. But I am a frequest amazon.com user, so I've sent them an e-mail voicing my concerns -- I hope they fix their policies).
> but that's only if you have something in public records, such as a mortgage (or, in some cases, leases).

Or a driver's license, or a voter registration form....
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IOS 6 Automatically Scales to Fit Taller 1136x640 iPhone Display
haha yes, I noticed that and edited appropriately
People go to stupid lengths to get them. They are a luxury good that is just cheap enough that a lot of people can realistically desire them, but just expensive enough that people will do stupid things to get them, instead of just paying for them.
This is the distinction between what is "legally" provable and the court of public opinion.

When you look at from a consumer's point of view, it looks pretty damaging. When you start to look at what
Apple legally can prove, this memo is not that damning. Like you stated, it says they wanted to use a similar design and UX, but never stated they would copy it verbatim.

It's just not the smoking gun Apple attorney's are probably looking for.
Computer Transport: Accomplish It Properly
They add viewers! They would lose a lot of traffic if people couldn't interact with the page in some way.
Just me but I've had a lot of external hardrives fail, and zero files lost on dropbox, google drive, and iCloud over the years. So... YMMV

I choose to just double up on cloud services as a "backup"
Personnel retention is easy - just demonstrate on any level that the contributions of the workforce is appreciated.

Since I'm in the DC area too, with clearance, the number you're throwing around are a bit of a stretch. We've got junior developers in the high $30K range and senior in the mid $60K range.
If this was an argument for damages every car company would spend all its time litigating. What exactly is the difference between a Corolla and a Fusion? Why does every car have about the same shape? Is it because anything other than that isn't aerodynamic and will destroy highway mileage, or is everyone infringing on IP?
My favorite is bank accounts:

'Tell us your account number, as well the amount of a recent transaction on the account'.

Oh, so you gave me a personal check? Great, let me go deposit it, so that's a transaction that I know about. And I already have your account number (and routing information) from the check itself.

This isn't just to be able to drain all funds from the checking account (for which the numbers on the check alone are sufficient) but to reset the passwords on the account, which usually gives you access to any linked accounts as well.
The Future of VoIP: An Interview with IPsmarx
Ever use a credit card? You are almost always handing them over to other people; often times they even leave the room with it for several minutes.
I don't know where you are, but in the US, almost everybody has at least one residential address in public records somewhere.
First gliders navigate ever-changing Penrose universe
Non-web apps don't have a UI for two-factor. App-specific password is a compromise, which is vulnerable if someone steals your local installation of the client to get its keys.
Apple yanks unloved Genius adverts
Feeding Interns Spaghetti
I couldn't agree more with this.

As an employer, what really concerns me are retention rates. I don't want to spend more time a month later looking for another developer.

The way your story sounds is like you want to work for one month and then you will part. I don't know what your plan is, but if you just want to freelance temporally I suggest you go to sites like Elance or oDesk, you will not get much but you will get something. On the other hand, if your looking to start freelancing, even when you begin studying, I strongly suggest you update your homepage and come across more confident.

Finally, if your in a bad financial situation, don't announce it. People will take advantage of the situation and make you work for something your not really worth, when in reality, you know you're worth more.
Sure, and hire a bunch of people who don't know what they are doing.

Do remember that Google has hired away pretty much all the top engineers already. You won't be able to get good people for cheap prices anymore.
ToS;DR — TL;DR for Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
A New content discovery platform - Yahoo Finance
I was just thinking that Google should open their service to others... Makes me think about switching from 1Password to Lastpass...
The last four digits are the ones on almost any receipt from a payment done with credit card which is not censored. And all the other info is in the phonebook or other places on the net.
I agree.

I worked for a company that gave me raises to bring me up to what I was worth for a few years. Then they stopped, and 2-3 review cycles is exactly how long it took me to catch on. By the time I left, my new job paid me 40% more than the old one.

And even before I got my first standard programming job, I knew that proper raises only come from changes jobs in this industry, and I was prepared for it.

I would have loved to pick a company and stay put, but companies just don't keep up their end of things.

In the end, it works out, though. I get an exciting new job every few years, and the fact that everyone is doing this makes sure there are plenty of job openings all the time.

I've yet to figure out what the companies get out of it, other than a temporary cost cut. (They end up spending the money to train the new guy.)
Xbox Windows coming, gamers yawn
I did this in the past, however I didn't wipe the existing iPhone contacts and therefore they didn't sync properly to my Google contacts. Now that I'm moved on to Android, is there any way for me to get my contacts out of iCloud?
Looks like the social-engineering form of privilege escalation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privilege_escalation
Business leaders take in simplicity and transform it into complexity
I like:
https://public.ducksboard.com/BFVzKVPeOoWRsL0VZ8MZ/
I love the look previously mentioned
https://www.leftronic.com/ and http://www.geckoboard.com/
Fund Raising Trade Offs
It's a non-story, all speculation about whether preferences might be contagious like a virus:

"That's an interesting idea but the acid test will be
whether it works in practice."

". . . Shang and co don't know but they plan to find out
using data from Yelp.com, which provides user ratings of
restaurants, spas etc. If it works, I'm sure we'll be
hearing from them again."
Tarsnap? Yes.

... That's about it.

I use gmail, but I don't trust it, and have been looking for an excuse to get away from it for a while.
Anyone know how they got the simulator to work at a different height?
Amazon's process is becoming more flawed as it grows. Originally for protecting against unauthorized purchases (balancing the write off of fraudulent purchases vs losing customers because of excessive security), it no longer works when the same account is used for their cloud services.

Excuse me while I delete all of my files from Amazon's Cloud Drive...
http://www.inipsoon.com/Patent/patentnews/071120037536469139...
Chemotherapy backfires, causing healthy cells to feed growth of cancer tumors
I lulzed when I heard that a Wall Street Financier said "We need to learn from the German model"

Wall Street will look at the "German model" and scoff at it because it is on the opposite end of the spectrum of exploitation, deception, manipulation, and fraud.

Don't get me wrong, humans are involved, so the "German model" is no where near perfect either, but it is a social democracy at its core; where the government at least tries to have the best interest of as many of its people in mind as possible. That is diametrically opposed to everything on Wall Street and the aristocracy that controls our country and effectively psychologically abuses the minds of Americans to the point of schizophrenic mental illness.

There is no way that anyone on "Wall Street" will learn anything, just like when they almost executed the American economy in 2008 they said "Oops! Sowy! We learned our lesson and promise to behave." And just like the primal animals they are, they continue to deceive, defraud, manipulate, corrupt, and exploit as they are building their next scheme to sell us all a house of cards.
iOS 6 is scalable to taller, 640x1136 iPhone display
Bremerhaven, not Bremerhafen. Sorry for nitpicking, but its my hometown and the f makes me cringe.
Thin Mini-ITX platform enables DIY all-in-one PCs
Shipments of all-in-one PCs are growing exponentially faster than those for typical desktops. Unfortunately, highly integrated systems like the iMac have traditionally made it difficult to replace or upgrade parts. And forget about assembling an all-in-one for yourself. Now, however, Intel has developed a Thin Mini-ITX platform that allows system builders and end users to put together all-in-one systems with standard parts. Our hands-on look at Thin Mini-ITX pieces together an ersatz iMac using off-the-shelf components, and the process is pretty easy. While the end result isn't quite as slick as one of Apple's creations, parts can be swapped out with ease, and the configuration can be tailored to suit one's needs.
I read somewhere that they have 720p full color video of the descent at 10fps, which will be transmitted eventually. I can't wait.
The microVC fund I started almost two years ago is now part of 500! Woot. There are awesome Mexican hackers down there and this should help us reach even more of them.
The Birth and Rise of Ethernet: A History
Beware the sales wolf in sheep suits
Salesmen man have management's ear, but operations teams are tasked with execution. How to bring the teams together so they can align and work towards a common goal?
The image linked from there says it's a new feature. I couldn't check it even by logging out of my account and logging in again (this doesn't deauth the computer? didn't know), so not sure if it's available for everyone yet.
I agree -- as I said above, you can get close to the 10x end of the spectrum from a recent grad.

In fact, I don't know that productivity goes up a lot after that point. Experience does, which certainly improves your OVERALL productivity, but I know that I was much faster at cranking out code as a new college graduate than I am now, so it might balance out.

Or maybe I'm just too old to be in the trenches, but too stubborn to leave them. ;)
The level of security you apply to a service ought to be proportionate to the potential loss. Apple have failed here completely, providing a woeful level of security for a service where the potential cost (loss of all user data) for the end-user is very high.

Amazon on the other hand doesn't (potentially) have the power to wipe your machines and cause havoc. If someone compromises your Amazon account, then worst case they can order goods in your name to be sent to you & Amazon will be out the cost of shipping and re-selling those goods, plus the cost of any chargebacks if they mess you about refunding your credit card. In other words, the risk here lies with Amazon, not the end-user, so they are rightly free to set the level of security applied to Amazon accounts to whatever they feel meets their goals.

It's not Amazon's fault that the 4 digits that the credit card companies decided that it was ok to leave on your receipts are precisely the four digits that Apple accepts as evidence that you own the card in question.
The fault lies with Apple for accepting data that you leave behind every time you make a purchase with your credit card (it's printed on every credit card receipt you leave behind at the local pizza joint IIRC) as being suitable evidence to permit an anonymous caller access to an Apple account.

Now, if Amazon applies the same level of security to accounts with personal data or other costs to the end-user (cloud drive, Amazon S3 or EC2 accounts and so on) then you'd be right to lay into them. Does anyone know if that's the case?
Huh? Where on earth do you get that number?
Damon Horowitz Says “Quit Your Tech Job and Get a Ph.D. in the Humanities”
If anyone's looking for a good front-end dev/designer, they should totally hire the guy that made this when he gets back from backpacking in China / Southeast Asia. I've worked with him before and he knows his stuff.
TL;DR Get out of the building & talk to your most fervent customers - it will result in learning & (hopefully) improvement of your product!
I just visited Funspot in Laconia, NH a couple of weeks ago:

http://www.funspotnh.com/

It was great. All of the old games are lovingly maintained with a sign above them telling when they were introduced and how many copies were sold.

I was able to show my 6 and 8 year old daughters the original Pong game that I played when I was about their age as well as my later obsessions: Battle Zone, Asteroids, and Tempest. I guess I had a thing for vector graphics
Great comment. Can you explain what 'Germany must let the ECB monetize the debt.' means exactly?
> We've got junior developers in the high $30K range

That seems incredibly low, especially for a major metropolitan area. You must give great benefits.
Don't know how they managed to miss talking about Baby Castles in NY :

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/nyregion/13joint.html?_r=1

http://kotaku.com/5670738/visit-a-place-where-it-is-ok-to-hu...
What if Apple provided some sort of 2-factor auth that you had verify with the phone rep? Like they'll send you an email or sms and you verify the code back to the rep?
Actieve voedingsdriehoek houdt je gezond en op gewicht
A followup email that actually works
I use Blackblaze for Desktop backup and Rsync.net for important data. I have reasonable confidence in these two services, as my data is encrypted at rest, and I have at least some control over the keys.

I'm not very comfortable with other cloud services.
I always use ls -lart. It's handy for a lot of different things. What's the name of that file I just downloaded? Which subdirectory of my home directory is the one where that program saves its config information? What have I been working on in the last month?
Yep! That's the one.
Well-said.

And it highlights how fast people adopt tech now. Major feature changes in automobiles happen over decades, and people can rely on the look signaling major features.

Now the uptake is so rapid that consumers have a lot of opportunity to make dumber decisions. A smartphone may well impact your life more than your choice of sedan, but because a smartphone is cheap compared to a sedan you just aren't going to research the choice as thoroughly.

Really, the consumers are the problem. They need to realize that despite the low cost of computers and smartphones, their choice of computer and smartphone is sometimes a decision on the level of "apartment shopping," not "Xbox or Playstation?," when it comes to impact it will have on their day-to-day life.
Building the Mail app on Windows 8
This is a pretty amazing development and I hope with WebRTC taking hold we can start to phase out Flash as a whole.
Since I'm in the DC area too, without clearance, the numbers you're throwing around are not realistic. Junior developers will start in the 50's-60's (with BS), usually 70-80 with MS, and seniors will generally be 110+... In the contractor sphere with clearances, it will be correspondingly higher.

I do know that some agencies tried to give peanut wages to certain fresh-out-of-college students, but everyone I knew scoffed at it and found positions that paid twice as much elsewhere.
"Silicone" valley? Really?
This is all well and good, but how you gonna get all those users whose behavior you want to hack? That's the hard part. If you don't have a way to get those guinea pigs, everything else doesn't matter.
He uses an LG Optimus V on Virgin Mobile because it's cheap, contract free, and is a solid little smartphone. If he was willing to drop $650 on a phone, he'd probably buy the iPhone on Virgin Mobile.
I need to launch online video tutuorial site
Which the best choice for hosting online tutorial site.
Wow.

My employer's content filter blocks Phoronix, but still lets 4chan through.

I have no words.
Microsoft's strength is that Windows 7 runs a corporation's crusty old legacy Windows applications better than any other operating system. If this somehow fails to be the case, corporations will switch to whatever platform provides this support better.

It's not unthinkable that Linux could be made to run Windows XP vintage applications better than Windows 8 can.
Seriously? Why wouldn't they move somewhere else then? They LIKE living in DC?
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Some resources if anyone is interested to read:

http://blog.apigee.com/detail/do_you_need_api_keys_api_ident...

In short:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6767813/api-keys-vs-http-...
"The iPad and iPhone are not, in any significant way, unique. They are more marginal variations on existing technology and design than not."

There are interesting points you make about IP law, but you lost me in the above sentence which is just plain wrong. Perhaps you forget what the pre-iPhone cellphone market was like.
I would love more insights though - from real implementations! :)
It's a lot harder to prevent bubbles when you don't control your own interest rates. The ECB kept interest rates low to reduce German unemployment, at the cost of feeding housing bubbles in Spain and Ireland.
I agree with this. I am not sure if I see a compelling reason why Win8 on desktop should take off for businesses. It will be a transitionary version just like how Vista was.

Windows 8 tablets? Same story. Why would I as a consumer want to spend $600 to get a tablet with so many unknowns? What does it provide that the iPad currently does not provide? I keep wanting to find a good set of reasons but I can't. You just know what your $500-600 is getting you when you go to iPad and Android. Unless MS lowers the price point to $150-200 it will be a tough sell in my opinion.

The software side of things are very different though. Being a .NET developer for years (after coming from UNIX) I find myself using Java and open source languages more and more often.

If you are an ISV/entrepreneur I am just not sure if it is a good idea to bet the future of your organization on Microsoft's mercy. They keep changing languages/platforms like they change clothes lately.

Nonetheless, the next three-four years will be fun to watch.
The Next Internet? Inside PARC’s Vision of Content Centric Networking
The RickRoll'D Youtube video has over 63 million views, an incredible feat for an artist whose career all but died in the late 80s.
Note the lack of stretching; it just increases the amount of space in between the rows of icons.

I'm kind of sold on the idea that apple is sold on the idea that old apps should work on new screen sizes either without any scaling, or with integer scaling (eg. 2x, 3x, etc). A taller display that keeps the 640 width would let them put old apps right in the new display, no scaling necessary. They could either fill the extra pixels with black, the dock, or widgets of some sort. Ideally all three with the user able to customize.

Anyone know the height in pixels of the iphone dock?
This just in: you can be a quality programmer even if you don't live in the Valley.

That said, I imagine H-1b paperwork is dreadful to deal with. A lot of smaller companies may choose to ignore international candidates simply because they don't want to deal with the paperwork
North of $100k for someone so recently out of undergrad that touching their degree would smudge the ink -- more for a good school or a candidate who looks particularly qualified. (i.e. Has done anything in life other than gotten good grades.) $120k+ for 3 years of professional experience with Ruby. I don't know what you'd define expert as but no plausible definition makes $107k sound reasonable.
This whole saga proves it's too hard for companies to implement effective security policies on their own.

What's needed right away is a "badge of security approval" from an independent third party, which verifies not just the technological side, but the customer-service side too. Including things like:

- password policies (e.g. not limiting to 16 characters)

- hashing and salting passwords

- standards for security questions (these are usually so horribly written)

- standards for identity verification if you've forgotten password AND sercurity question answers (most sites will not be big enough to bother with this, so you just lose your account, but Facebook/Apple/Google/etc. need to have a common model, so inconsistencies between companies can't be exploited)

- policies for sending out password-reset emails, adding/changing e-mail addresses, with appropriate user notification

- waiting periods between changing emails and passwords, so you can't just go and change everything about an account all at once

- special unique privileges to initiate operations that can delete large amounts of data (like a special second password, or extra security questions, for deleting your account, remote wipe, etc.)

These are just vague ideas off the top of my head, not an actual proposal. But we really need a set of "best practices", and a way of identifying that companies are actually following those best practices.

A secure "lock" icon in the browser bar is no longer enough.
I don't know how this whole affair reflect on Apple as a company, but this seems like Apple's best opportunity to let users know whether it should be taken seriously as a cloud service and specifically e-mail provider.
No, he's not serious. Actual salaries are double-to-triple what he's saying.
I can see "submodules" being a handy feature.