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One thing that isn't highlighted much in the release notes or blog post (but will be once I get around to updating the docs) is the addition of the new 'replace' and 'force-replace' cluster commands in Riak 1.2.

Have a cluster A/B/C and want to replace A with an upgraded machine Z? Bring up Z and then: cluster join Z; cluster replace A Z; cluster plan/commit.

Have cluster A/B/C and C irreversibly crashes? Bring up node D from backups of C, and then: cluster join D, cluster force-replace C D, cluster plan/commit. Passive read-repair (or the newer repair logic) will resolve replicas missing from the backup.
> it just increases the amount of space in between the rows of icons.

iOS 6 is on the left, with 5 on the right. It's not before/after.

What you see is iOS 6 not "increases the amount of space", but add another row of icons.

My iPhone 4 s with iOS 5.1 has 4x4 icons. The new widescreen (tallscreen?) iPhone will apparently have 4x5 icons.
I'd expect blank space filling above the app (in portrait) or to the sides of the app (in landscape). Anything besides this would be very un-Apple.
I'm confused: Is racket a fully-compliant scheme? If not, which scheme should I use? And, what is racket?

I could not quite find that information on the Wikipedia/website.
In the UK at least you should never have to hand it over. You insert them into the chip and pin device yourself. A lot of places will do this for you but only in plain sight.
For the moment: Anyone who can push to the 5apps.com git master branch. That is people at http://unhosted.org

We would be happy to get th umbrella of a non profit org like Mozilla or the EFF.

Any way, if you don't like our decision: you can get involved. Or you can fork it.
is there an authenticator that can run on my computer? i see an android app - is there something similar that can run on linux?

or does that defeat the purpose because it's not going to be a push notification? (if so, anyway to fix that?).

i'm not normally mobile. if i am travelling and need gmail, i will have my laptop. i don't have a smartphone and my dumbphone won't work abroad.

EDIT2: oops. ignore previous edit. that was using Google to connect to linux. Not vice-versa.
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Who's Patterson? The personal lives of celebrities tend to not make it into history. 4chan is at the very least the other guy who invented the telephone (or am I thinking light bulb) but got beat to the patent office.
In the case of SF4, the official Arcade version of the game is just a PC running Windows XP embedded (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taito_Type_X2#Taito_Type_X.C2.B...)
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The thing about DOS's globbing is that it wasn't DOS that was doing the globbing, but executables. And they'd do it inconsistently. The executables were also aware if they were passed, say, a '*', and might change their behavior as a consequence (I'm trying to remember whether or not this was actually been the case, can't say, it's been too many years).

Which doesn't happen in any Bourne-compliant shell, as it's the shell which expands the wildcard, not the app (an unexpanded or escaped wildcard character can of course be passed to an executable).
Why would googles and facebooks do that? It's not their core and everyone wants to move fast.
That doesn't matter for the purposes of the crack. With your name, billing address and email the cracker was able to add a new credit card number
Nothing is 100% guaranteed secure. Let's start there.

As far as password recovery, I would like to see something more "physical", if you will. For example, Apple charges a small random amount to the CC on file and you have to come back and give them the amount.

A fingerprint scanner on every iPhone could be interesting.

I think the reality is that nearly all but the most safety conscious/paranoid hackers reuse easy-to-remember passwords across a multiplicity of sites. Some might have two or three passwords to fence-off, say, financially related logins from non-financial stuff. Still, the vast majority of Internet users are probably in the first group with a simple password across every single login they have. That's the problem. And, with such tools as Facebook logins you also have a situation where discovering on login gets you in to all manner of sites.

How do you protect Mom, Dad and Uncle Fester from this? You are not going to turn them into computer scientists or security experts. No, they are not going to create and remember fifteen different thirty-two character passwords with a mixture of alphanumerics and symbols. That's just not going to happen.

Not sure what the solution might be at this point. The Internet, due to the nature of its organic evolution does not have an underlying security construct that is, for lack of a better word, bulletproof.
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Knowing the entire JVM spec is frequently less useful than being able to code a for loop whose contents do some domain specific thing that a 22 year old ninjedi will, with diligent study, understand in ten more years.
Its certainly good proximatly, and the wages of people like us would go up in the short term. But I worry that because network effects are so strong and less skilled labor would hurt tech companies enough that we'd start to see tech hubs in other countries start to succeed, and a general shrinking of the pie available to us US engineers and programmers if that happened.

And from a "what's good for my country/the world/people less well off than I am" perspective easier immigration is an obvious win.
The future will tell, but I don't think tablets are very enterprisey. All the people I know use tablets casually, for work a larger screen and a good keyboard are golden.

I believe if there was a strong use case for tablets in the office, businesses would have bought iPads by now and many enterprise apps would have appeared, the compatibility in iWork is really good and it has all the hardware you could need. It's not like all managers are waiting for Windows 8 tablets as their savior, I think it's a fantasy that the world is waiting for Microsoft to enter the tablet market.

And it's not just a matter of solving OS problems, the geeks I know are usually in the position in which people go to ask if something is good before they buy it. If people come to ask me about a tablet with Windows 8 today I'll answer "I have no idea idea if it's good, but I have an iPad and it's great. Here, try it.". What do you think they'll do next?
As a founder of one of the companies mentioned (Ginkgo BioWorks), I have to say this is actually a very nice outline of the industry. It's not clear yet if there's enough of a market for individual services to be broken out and put in the "synbio cloud". Not even clear if there is enough of a market for platforms like Ginkgo that deliver a whole organism to spec vs application-focused companies. Early days, but it's a great field for those interested in getting out of the iphone app rat-race (no offense to the author). We hire lots of programmers.
Okay so what term(s) are acceptable to you?

I've worked at many large F500 companies, and trust me they can and do employ a much larger group of average and below average people, including developers. There are tons of people at F500s that if I brought them into a small startup, would KILL the startup because they simply can't produce.

Not sure what you actual work experience is but there are absolutely a range of skills/productivity/involvement. If you don't call them A/B/C or Ninjas or whatever, you have to call them something. Having worked with a wide range of folks, I have my preferences:)
I became a startup founder when I lost a position at a startup because they hired a younger (cheaper) person. I have 20 years of experience with several patents, etc. Literally we were expanding the team, I interviewed the person, he got the new position, then I was let go. Totally age discrimination, but I couldn't prove it, of course.

Even 20 years ago, Microsoft, et. al. focused on hiring kids right out of college... they're young, easy to mold, cheap, etc.

I won't say the job market is closed to you, but I think that the best power you always have comes form making something yourself. IF you have trouble getting a job in this field, building your own startup -- and I mean, a real business that sells someting to people, SaaS, or whatever business model works for you- something like patio11 -- would be making your own job.

These days we don't need the capital concentration that companies represent, you no longer need to do time as an employee. You can make your own job.
"aspect ratio was a deep design choice made many moons ago by Jobs"

any source for this?
>does anyone actually feel safe using cloud services for personal data storage?

For me, it's a balancing act. I find it hard to manage backups. I don't want to run a RAID setup at home. I really like the convenience of Dropbox and S3.
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I live in India, and I have been approached by these agents multiple times.
Some of my friends have taken this route to go to US. Yes, they can not code and can't even speak English. Fake resume and experience letters helped them get through.

If you can't speak English, these agents can even arrange someone else to do an IELTS test for you, and use it to represent your English skills.

Newspapers & streets in India (specially in Punjab) are full with ads like: "Get a Job and Visa in USA / Canada / Australia"
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It's like someone (in the developed world) not owning a
microwave or a bed.

No, it's like someone not owning a television, video game console, bible, or other popular source of useless entertainment.

Even if the account provided no utility, I don't see
why any intelligent person wouldn't maintain one, just
to avoid this type of stigma.

In my experience, on the rare occasions that intelligent people concern themselves with stigma, it is stigma perceived by peers, not stigma perceived by unintelligent people. Why should an intelligent person be concerned that unintelligent people perceive a stigma due to the intelligent person's lack of a Facebook account, television, video game console, bible, etc.?

If everyone thought the way you do and concerned themselves with stigmas perceived by unintelligent people, there would be no social progress.
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I think racket has all the way up to r6rs but much much more. Racket itself is an implementation of the standard, a GUI, a compiler / interpreter, a standard library and then some all rolled into one.
Let's not get carried away here. A quick poll:

If you are in a position to hire devs (with a proper
budget for it), would you hire this gentleman for $80/h
knowing that he is a 2nd year EE student in Australia?

Given the circumstances, I'd have hard time justifying $40/h. Not because $80 is too high, but because of the inherent performance risks associated with this particular type of hire.
The conventional wisdom say age is a handicap in any industry, because young replacement are by the dozen and cost less.

However, in software, barely decent developer are very rare. I have interview more than 100+ people before I start my own startup and another bunch for it, and hardly I can point to 3/4 people that at least solve my interview:

- Code in paper this: Have word, reverse it
- Say to me why that is wrong and/or how make it work for very large datasets.

The majority fail hard with the first one. Not matter if come from university, college, work before as developers, etc.

So, if you can do basic programming well, you will have a job. If also, can bring something else to the table - any other skill related to the job - then you will have a better job.

You can try with sell your services in something like odesk.com (I don't see how can age be relevant in that kind of market) if found hard get your first job.

However, I think a person of your age have a BIG advantage over younger: You must be, at this time, more mature, better communicator, more professional, better attitude, etc. That is very important, because everyone wanna have the best hackers, but in reality, prefer professionals ;)
In a platform race, in a business where multi-year contracts are typical, and platform lock-in is strong, there is an argument to be made that the first device someone purchases is most important.
It is easy to get any document for money in India. You can get a fake degree, job experience letters, driving license and even a fake passport.

I guess you would already know how things work in India.
So you have to live in the valley?
am I the only one who uses craiggers? although I suppose they'll have to go the way of the dodo soon enough now
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Ask HN: Which US startups are worth "cloning" in foreign markets?
In a nextweb article recently featured here in HN[1], Italian entrepreneur Stefano Bernardi recommends "cloning" startups that are:
1)Highly Regulated
2)Deeply Local
3)E-commerce
or
4)B2B<p>He mentions Stripe as the primary example of a company that is worth cloning in foreign markets. What other specific examples of companies in which the founders will get rich/have a lot of impact if they successfully clone in their home countries? (assuming they have all the relevant connections in the country).<p>Also, "cloning" startups in foreign markets sounds immoral, but [2] presents a good argument as to why it may not be that bad.<p>[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4091462
[2] http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/08/hey-thats-mine-give-it-back-the-fallacy-of-the-international-clone/
I got my first programming job in high school after about a year of learning how to do the job. I certainly wasn't the world's best programmer, and have improved significantly over the years, but I still was able to get the job done.

The problem, as highlighted by your post, is that companies only want to hire the best of the best. I understand why, but it sets us up with a situation where even those who know how to program (poorly) cannot find work, exacerbating the talent shortages.
it's not the maps that are a problem, it's the transit directions, but besides that, maps in a web view are painfully slow at best.
>For the second quote you go off on a tangent about costs.

Tanjent? That's funny. I was responding directly to your citing cost as a factor for arcades dying:

>But the arcades started dying when somebody had the silly idea that people wanted to play cockpit games or big interactive games for more than double the price.

It's right there.

>There's no way someone can tell me that a classic stand up machine with a PC in the cabinet costs as much to buy/maintain as those huge behemoth cockpit games. These new machines may have been an attempt to counter consoles since most people will not put a race car cockpit game in their home, but for the most part were boring. Who wants to rock a fake horse forwards and backwards in a crappy rendition of a horse race?

If this were true, then we would have arcades with lower end, more cost efficient games instead of the ones you're pointing out. But we don't. I submit that it isn't because every single former arcade owner individually misjudged the market and stocked the wrong machines in their retail space.

>If the industry, in the US for me, had stayed away from that nonsense then I would have gladly gone to the arcade despite having a nice console at home.

On this, I also humbly submit that you are in the extreme minority.
EDIT: soegaard's explanation above is more thorough

AFAIK, Racket the language is somewhat a fork of Scheme, but the Racket environment can run different languages (one of which is 'standard' Scheme).
Leaving aside Apple's choices regarding the degree of security employed to protect their customers, this would be a non-story but for the fact that Apple decided to treat Honan's Macbook as if it were an iPhone.

Email accounts get hijacked, phones loose data, and impersonation happens on Twitter. A blog post about one of these or all in combination may make the front page of HN, but unless the writing is compelling (and in this story none of it is), it will not persist there.

This story is a story because the Macbook was wiped remotely. That's what's scary. Losing data on a phone or iPad will never potentially entail the loss of years of work. They are second and third devices, and intended primarily for consumption not creation.

It's our computers which hold our work (and as this story shows, moving it to "the cloud" may not offer significantly greater protection). An architect doesn't store her design on her iPhone, nor a developer her code, nor an entrepreneur his company's books. Our computers tend to hold important parts of our lives. They are the tools we use to create and retain our work.

Apple forgetting that for the sake of a consistent sales sheet across product lines is really the heart of this story's traction.

Remote wiping at the flick of a switch is a bug, not a feature in the consumer world.
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The extension won't install for me but it is easy enough to follow his link to the user script that inspired 80% of the extension and just use that. Also easy enough to add the missing 20% as well. Great idea. I had noticed last week just how easy it was to manipulate the CSS on Quora to do this. Glad some people took the time to roll something up for the rest of us. I seem to be finding myself linked here more recently. :/
The prevailing wage rule is a joke, for several reasons:

1. The ostensible reason for the H-1B program is a shortage of technical know-how, yet most H-1Bs are under 30 and most unemployed Americans are over 35. Wages comparison is moot when you pit junior jobs against senior jobs - again, in view of experience being the supposed goal of the program.

2. Wages do not account for working hours. If you work 12-hour days, your salary is effectively significantly lower than if you work 8-hour days.

3. Wages do not account for the downward pressure on market competition. If you are handcuffed into your job per your visa conditions, you can't shop for better offers elsewhere.

Better explanation here:

http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/h1b.html
All this talk about security and multiple authentication levels yet, your browser --if you use Chrome-- is the worst security leak in a persons digital life. It would take almost anyone a minute in front of a computer to fire-up Chrome and have every single login and password available in plain text.

I've written about this before and so have countless of other techies. A non-techie has not a single clue, making them perfect victims. Any number of scenarios can be imagined: From taking your laptop in for repairs/upgrades to someone gaining physical access to your machine for just a few minutes. And, just like that, your digital life is turned upside-down.
Personnel retention is easy - just demonstrate on any level that the contributions of the workforce is appreciated.

I think you may be painting a simplistic picture, and are making an implicit statement about my experience.

I have never worked for a software company that didn't value it's developers or their contributions. Quite the contrary, in fact. Benefits, high salaries, flexible hours, work from home all on top of routine praise and a very supportive work environment. None of these will guarantee that a top employee won't be attracted to possibilities and challenges elsewhere.

We've got junior developers in the high $30K range and senior in the mid $60K range.

It is frankly unimaginable that a highly qualified developer would be paid $60k in the DC metro. The cost of living is easily on par with many parts of the SF Bay Area. It's quite possible that our standards for "senior developers" are different, but I'm quite confident my numbers are correct.

As far as $30k for junior engineers - frankly I know data entry technicians in Virginia who are paid that much or more.
Thanks! Very insightful.
Also, every recent credit card receipt printer puts at least the last 4 digits on paper receipts. A little dumpster diving could easily reveal that data.
Most of the "security questions" can be answered by looking at the Facebook profile (of the person or his/her friends -- at least some have the info public). A motivated hacker can possibly crack even bank accounts using the facebook profile. The account/security is indeed in a big mess.
Also looking for this -- do tell if you come across it.
Well, in the US it is common to hand your card to servers after your meal who will then carry it off to the register (wherever that may be, usually not visible) and bring it back to you with a receipt.

The UK may have a better protocol, but that doesn't change the fact that for a significant population, the number on the card is really anything but private. Certainly Apple should know this, being based in the US...

This is usually ok since credit card companies have the whole fraud thing figured out for the most part. It only becomes "not ok" when companies like Apple make them into something that absolutely needs to be secret.
I appreciate getting support information out there but don't take "supported" to mean "always works as expected". The primary example here is position fixed support which is _extremely_ broken in Android 3.1-4.0 on orientation change.
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I think ToS;DR is less nerdy. "Grok" makes me visualize gray-bearded Unix programmers, but young internet-savvy people of all stripes know what TL;DR means. Didn't 4chan popularize that abbreviation?
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Do people these days not even remember PDAs or is this willful blindness? Apple has some claim to being early on the scene wiith hanheld computers but not with the iPhone.
This article has great advice. I work on fraud detection, and a lot of companies start off by building basic checks like AVS, CVV, proxies, IP-billing location mismatch, etc. What usually happens afterward is that the fraudsters get more clever. For example, we've seen sites implement SMS verification, but then the fraudsters will set up Twilio phone numbers to fool it. The sites block IPs, but then fraudsters go through an internet cafe or proxy. Sites shut down one account, and the fraudsters rent a bot net and run scripts to create a thousand more. It's a cat and mouse game.

Companies where payments are central (e.g., PayPal, Square) end up building some combination of machine learning, investigation tools, a dedicated operations team to review/verify suspicious transactions, and custom logic to look at all sorts of signals correlated with fraud. Often they'll have dozens or hundreds of people working on this.

For everybody else, I'd echo Eran's advice to just outsource this. There are plenty of vendors out there. Here's one list:
https://www.merchantriskcouncil.org/index.cfm?pageId=702

If anybody out there is dealing with fraud or chargebacks, my company (Sift Science) provides an API to do exactly the checks Eran's article suggests and a lot more. Even if our technology doesn't apply, I'm happy to just give advice and point people in the right direction. My e-mail is brandon@siftscience.com.
I get unlimited SMS and 200 minutes voice for $25 a month through AT&T. The cheapest plan Straight Talk shows on their web site is $30 a month. Am I missing something?
What do you mean? Most important in what way? The Samsung Instinct was a failure for Samsung. They did not sell way, the grandparents' friend was one of the few that got one (and like most people, he didn't like it). If that's not the market working, I don't know what is.