skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not buying that as an excuse for why the implementation REFUSES to let you on the WiFi.

Besides the fact that it's terribly fragile (as seen here), but if it's really an anti-imposter measure, it's a pretty awful one. (Okay, we'll just MITM every non-apple.com URL).
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I'm not going to publicly speculate on either party's moral character. But I did skim the transcripts, and I noticed one curious fact:

Zuckerberg starts and ends most of the conversations.

To clarify: I'm not sure precisely why I find it interesting, it was just one of those phenomena that raised an eyebrow, and passed my "don't publicly engage in debates about people's character whom I haven't personally met"-test. (To be fair I do make practical judgments based on moral reputation when deciding whether or not to enter relationships with others.)
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I just went to the parental access control section on the router (a free router the ISP gave me) and set apple.com to block.

I guess if you're a large corporate and you don't want iPads/iPhones using your wifi, this is an absolutely great way to block them with zero effort!
I don't think you are using that correctly, you seem to be using it as a synonym for jealous/hater. I don't get the impression Aaron is disparaging fame or success; he is making the claim that Mark Zuckerberg has a questionable moral compass. That really doesn't relate in any way to the Aesop's Fable you reference. The fox didn't claim to dislike the grapes because they were ethically dubious; he disliked them as a way to feel better about not being able to acquire them.
Great idea! :). Don't know how far I would go with the $5 gift cards but definitely getting users to interact a bit more formally.
iOS 6 Breaks the App Store
Flooding the front page of HN with any single source would make it less useful. I like to see a variety of sources on HN. If I wanted to see most TechCrunch posts on the front page of HN, I'd subscribe to the RSS feed instead.
There's a similar problem with vehicles, which was especially apparent when the financial crisis hit: many manufacturers use efficiency improvements to add features rather than lower costs. It makes perfect sense for a company that sees itself as a supplier to small manufacturing businesses, but it's counter-productive if one's goal is to reach consumers or expand market (rather than just market share).
When you need pixel precision, you generally would zoom beyond 100% on non-retina displays. The only thing that happens with retina photoshop is that at you need to zoom in farther to get the same detail. There is a potential problem for people designing for non-retina screens, as it would appear lower quality on the actual device; But this could be worked around with existing pixilation tools, or a more general option of rendering the image at a given pixel density relative to the display.
I don't think Greenspan is complaining - I think this is meant as a warning. He's not saying that Mark acted unfairly and that he should have been nicer to Aaron (which would come across as petulant, and I think Greenspan seems quite realistic and calm about what happened), but that Mark has acted with only ruthless, narrowly-defined "self-interest", displaying no loyalty or kindness, and this bodes very poorly for the company, its investors and its users. Facebook is Mark's creation, and at the core of the company, beneath its social-open-sharing buzzwords there is no philosophy of human relationships, only Mark's shallow, self-centered heartlessness and lust for power and profit. We might think so what, but maybe we've been desensitised by the often shitty and kinda sociopathic (or socio-agnostic) behaviour of web entrepreneurs. Anyway point is the arbiter of "friendship" on the internet is a megalomaniac who seems to understand nothing about friendship - a strange situation perpetuated by a star-struck, gutless press too busy slathering him with praise to think critically. Greenspan is just pointing this out, fairly it seems.
In the Enron energy trading fiasco:

"They're f------g taking all the money back from you guys?" complains an Enron employee on the tapes. "All the money you guys stole from those poor grandmothers in California?"

"Yeah, grandma Millie, man"

"Yeah, now she wants her f------g money back for all the power you've charged right up, jammed right up her a------ for f------g $250 a megawatt hour."

Even that doesn't compare to the choke-hold (and the potential for indenture-ment) FB has over your current and continued life.
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It doesn't matter if he was being fickle or not with his purchase, at the end of the day makerbot didn't make $2,000 from the loss of this sale. Any company that requires it's customers to register before making a purchase is just asking to get hurt.
Thanks for the mod point, I completely agree with you. I find it very worrisome that such ideas are getting popular among developers. If you want to destroy a people, destroy their self esteem first. I for one, do not welcome my unearned guilt dispensing overlords.
Tianjin? I only know of one guy in my entire lab in Beijing who even knows Haskell.
Great post Ezl. Thanks for sharing
Australian team creates working quantum bit based on a single atom (with video)
I think this lacks a bit of compassion. It's one thing to have some idea, not work on it, and then later see someone who made it happen. It is another thing entirely to work on an idea for years, bring someone into the group that is working with you on it (or at least advising) and then have them roll off with it and become one of the richest people in the country. Sure a zen master might take some comfort in validation of your ideas, but man it has to really hurt to not be a billionaire. That can really screw over your psyche in a bad way.

I know I would be pretty bitter in a similar situation.
New BBC Media Player solution for Android
I believe the greatest con of all was likely in reference to this line:

He may, in fact, be the greatest con of all time, having effectively convinced an entire nation, including the President of the United States, to believe in his extremist philosophy of radical openness.

It isn't clear if getting someone to believe in your 'extremist philosophy of radical openness' is necessarily a con, unless of course you yourself don't believe in it and/or are doing so only in furtherance of some other interest which you are obscuring.
I find it really interesting that this is all done in a simple LAMP stack. And they made a bunch of mistakes in their code.
> wrote a terminal which doesn't even support escape sequences for coloring

Color can be a powerful way to organize large amounts of information quickly. What's the Plan 9 way to do that?
For individual developers it seems useful.

Right now for $1.50 or a monthly fee of $10.00 I can send an unlimited amount of money to a Canadian bank account holder. This would allow Canadians to pay Americans through their bank account.

But I made the comment really to highlight how forgotten Canada is even when it is remembered.
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1) I don't think Greenspan is mad, he seems more disappointed.

2) It is absolutely possible to treat your fellow human beings well and find richly-deserved success - Mark Zuckerberg however does not seem capable of this.

3) Even though our society might tolerate and even reward (in the short-term at least) this sort of behaviour, should we be happy that a master-exploiter of this unfairness is the guardian of social relationships on the internet?
What if the URL gets successfully DDOS'd?
and Amazon, the writer seemed to have missed that one...
I had a large external monitor, but I haven't set it up in my new office yet. I'm actually enjoying the limitation of the smaller screen: ensures I'm only working on 1 thing at a time.
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You have a comically narrow definition of statistics, cf. "Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics)
Gee, I wish Microsoft would fix the innumerable bugs associated with Mac Office Outlook & Word before getting all excited about retina displays.
StearClear, The App That Gets Your Car Home When You’re Too Drunk To Drive
Apple ios6 appstore crashed, they are deploying
An important distinction between this and Google's sponsored search results in that it is happening in typeahead completion instead of on a results page. As far as I know, google does not put sponsored results in its completion suggestions (though even that is a little different: selecting a google suggestion takes you to the corresponding search page, not to where you ultimately want to go, as the facebook search does). And the real difference is that when you go to a page of google search results, even if there are sponsored results, you have to click on an ad to go there. In Facebook search, the expected result of typing someone's name into the search bar is to press enter and immediately go to their page.

I find the sponsored results in Google to be much less off putting.
I imagine that someone would have to come forward to complain that it was unauthorized access. I doubt anyone wants to claim to be running a botnet.
"The people who generally have their financial shit together don't usually realize when it's pay day." isn't a specious argument. You would have enough to pay your bills whether or not you got paid for a multiple of months.An emergency fund that covers 6 months of expenses is the first step to having your financial shit in order.If you can manage that it gets easier.

They only time I notice I got paid is when I make a ATM withdrawal and see the balance go up.
Hands-off hands-on: the HTC Windows Phone 8X and 8S
I don't get it either. A modern laptop is just as portable and far, far more capable. Actually after getting a nexus 7 recently I have no interest in a bigger tablet.
I think the lesson is rather that, for impulse purchases, even a very small bit of friction can interrupt the impulse and blow the sale. If he'd spent weeks agonizing over it before buying it, knowing registration was part of it, he'd have probably gritted his teeth and done it because that annoyance would have been factored into the price over which he agonized, and he'd have had time to rationalize it as a small thing. Instead, he went from "WOOHOO! Printing out real objects! Just a few more..." to "WTF? I HATE registration requirements! Why do they have to make me do this?" in a moment.
You're right; the photo in the post is a bit of a lie. I had just moved in, and I snapped a photo while everything was nice and clean.

Here's what it looks like now:
http://bit.ly/S8o7Ju
Go to a highly trafficked coffee shop, grab a latte, and just start talking to people around you. You'll just have to get over the awkwardness of talking to strangers :)

Have a set of questions you can rotate through. Sometimes you can ask 1 or 2 questions before they get annoyed. Other times you can have hour long conversations. Use your judgement to see how engaged they are.
Do people still think this was created by the NSA? It seems extraordinarily unlikely that they would use such a weak password, one that you would expect to fall to a rules based engine. The only way I could even imagine that happening is as a bit of misdirection, and there must surely be misdirection you can do that doesn't compromise your security.
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Greenmountain's link below (and the Wikipedia page for Rainbow Table) cover it, but you do a space-for-speed tradeoff by basically re-hashing your hash repeatedly, and looking up if the result is in the table, which gives you a short-list of passwords from the pre-computed domain to try.

There is a diminishing-returns limit to how small your rainbow table can be before it starts getting both false positives and false negatives, and bigger password domain makes it worse, but they require less than 1 bit per covered password.
I disagree. For someone at the very least arguably cheated out of a lot of wealth and at worst simply deceived and mistreated in a very nasty way by another human being, I think Greenspan writes with a tremendous amount of calm and balance, and also I don't think he is writing simply to vent bitterness or jealousy.
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It isn't a violation of free speech for a private publisher or forum to deny you publishing rights on their platform.

Facebook is a private playground. They are allowed complete discretion over what they allow and don't allow on their private network, and this isn't a problem because you can stop using it at any time.

It is much harder to "stop using" your country of citizenship, which is why many people feel that governments should be held to a much higher standard of openness, accountability and freedom.
6 years ago or so, when I first came across his website, it appeared as a revelation. His use of typography was very advanced at the time. I agree it looks rather ordinary and a tad busy compared to today's standard.
The author must be very tolerant or otherwise accustomed to lag. He says "no noticeable lag" but is 3G even that good on paper? Wavering pings of 100-1000ms are pretty normal on 3G in my experience, so given a round trip, if the difference is an optimistic 200ms that's should be pretty noticeable when typing, tailing logs or jumping around vim on a remote system versus doing it locally.

I'm sure you can build confidence and get used to pulling off a string of moves with no immediate visual feedback, but it sounds like something you'd have to get used to tolerating, rather than not notice?
Apple web page outage inadvertently disabled iOS 6 device WiFi
i was just wondering if any of those "company X raised $Y" articles does actually ever mentioned how much shares were given away. was it 10%, 50%, 80% of the company?
This article actually demonstrates Zuckerbergs savvy in being the one who took the social network to market. Mark played everyone extremely well and deserves credit for implementing an idea that everyone had. THis story isn't about coming up with new ideas, it's about shipping something people want.
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I've tried applying at three places. I've done web development "professionally" before and frankly I've always been extremely unhappy with the job environment, maybe it's characteristic of web dev or maybe just bad experience.

I would like to go into something deeper but my experience and interest in Distributed Systems, C/C++/Assembly and security is entirely self-taught and done out of a hobby so I don't have anything "professional" to show for it beyond the ability to talk for hours, a few web browser and plugin exploits I've written and the only substantial project I've done in C++ is one of the early WEP crackers for Windows which I wrote 6 years ago (and is riddled with classic C++ novice mistakes).

Plus, if I applied for a job now I would not feel comfortable asking for money up front to pay my rent, even if a company could figure out they wanted to make a hire before the end of the month.
There is a full listing of hacks here:
https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/pennapps-fall-2012/h...
Jeez, did you have to write all that? Anyway, although I think you are focusing on the weakest part of Greenspan's argument - the point where he comes closest to bitterness - I was wondering if you'd like to invest $20,000 in my new venture. I'd like to sell crack heroin to junkies in Detroit. I'm sure as a fellow champion of guilt-free founder consciences, you will support my endeavour as I give gangbangers the chance to flock to this exciting new industry and do something they scarcely thought possible - to help give people a diversion from life's burdens and problems.

And don't worry, I'll do it with plenty of integrity, drive, boldness, and energy. Just like Zynga : )
That's true from a legal standpoint, but it's still a double standard in principles.

edit: again, not sure why people are downvoting without explaining why.
Undo Facebook Hiding Your Email Address Before Friends Use iOS 6 Contact Sync
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Forgive me, but how exactly do you "teaser" 140 characters? Or am I misunderstanding and you are more meaning they show a few of the users tweets so you know kind of what they talk about.

I don't spend much time on any of the social sites so I am not familiar what was pulled, this just happened to stick out to me.
Wowzers, why are people so keen to be negative? Facebook are doing awesome in their mission to make the world more open and connected. And regardless of fluctuations, Facebook's value still sits around, what, $48 billion? This is far too personal - Mark was 19 and in a private chat with a friend (and he's remarkably more motivated, mature and respectful than many guys I went to uni with at that age lol). We all grow and learn a heap from college days, so to link the success of a company today to factors from almost a decade ago is a low shot. Go forth and direct your energy into creating your own empires!
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Can you clarify why that's interesting?
The time it would take me to design a CPU from scratch then I feel it is something that will be viable come that day I'm close to hitting print. But not today or any year soon then, but one day in my lifetime (cancer pending).
It was reported in the nytimes that this is indeed a cyberweapons [1].

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/world/middleeast/obama-ord...
I had no idea the entire internet became unreachable when a particular apple.com URL became inaccessible. Is there an RFC that covers this?
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taking this back to technology, and I'm thinking of Apple vs Samsung here. What do you all think?

Is scroll bounce magical, the way Teller's Shadow is? It is a lie, we all know that digital screens do not have bounces, and that's what surprises us and pleases us. What about slide to unlock?

Honestly, I'm torn by this. As much as I cherish things magical, I couldn't see how public interests would be served by giving these illusions exclusivity.
The Insight Data Science fellows program looks awesome, but it is disappointing that only phd candidates and post-docs can apply. There is some irony with the fact that the cover of their brochure uses the facebook friendship visualization done by Paul Butler, who was an undergraduate intern at facebook when he made it.
Hackaday mentioned that there are rumours that it will be closed source.
a) It's not a list.

b) The iPhone 3GS was on sale, new from Apple, until September 12th, 2012.
Been wanting to learn about this. Thanks!
…google does not put sponsored results in its completion suggestions…

Not yet, at least – but if you use 'Instant', where the results are appearing below the completion dropdown, you will see ads flashing there on less-than-your-full query.
In theory your right, you put whatever you want in the WAR it deploys.

The entire point of Arquillian is to test in a live container, which means using it for things that will interact with the container services. They love to put up examples of stuffing 3 classes into a war and testing it, to which I say, why? It makes sense if your testing a CDI extension (who incidentally seem to be the only people using Arquillian). If I wanted to test 3 classes from my app I'd mock the injects with mockito. Its far faster and easier to use mockito to inject instances, especially since mockito can instrument those injections allowing you to assert method call information.

Where this all falls apart is where Arquillian should shine: integration tests. e.g. put up a functional JSF controller/view and fire requests at it with JSFUnit. You now have to package up enough stuff into your war to get a functional JSF environment running. Arquillian doesn't help you at all to figure out what dependencies you need to include to just get JSF running. As a result you end up playing games trying to get the WAR to include what it needs to run which can be much harder than it sounds due to the way much of the EE6 stack is layered and intertwined. You end up having to include a ludicrous amount of stuff to get JSF running. Or you just say 'fuck it' and tell Arquillian to include your entire pom and get a huge deploy. On top of this is managing your own dependencies. Is your view modularized and using 5 different sub views and supporting controllers (and associated helpers?). Its all up to you to track and manage this. Its like being thrown back into a world without maven for every single test case you try to setup. I found I spent more time trying to figure out what I needed to deploy than I did writing tests.

Also your completely screwed if you try to do a service layer down to database integration test and your using hibernate. Waiting for hibernate to start up on every test class is brutal. Getting rid of hibernate makes testing and many other things so much easier. If you stop to think about how much crap exists in the stack just to deal with hibernates session lifecycle and transaction requirements its amazing. In my current app I have about ~65 entity and ~70 tables, switching from Hibernate to Ebean and ditching the libraries I no longer needed to deal with hibernates session management dropped my final war size by ~15MB (40%), cut startup time in half, and allowed me to remove over a thousand lines of code.
i updated, didn't have any trouble
BINGO Blitz being #2 is a much more curious to me.
Thank you for the advice, frankly I would love to work for Matasano, they are arguably one of the premier security firms in the country. However, I have difficulty placing myself in the top-tier category they are in (plus they are not in San Francisco). I honestly don't know if I could write a network protocol fuzzer without relying on SPIKE or Scapy off the top of my head in an interview.

As far as Square goes, I feel I have 0 chance there. I would love to work there as well but no computer science/Math degree, spotty work and residence record and entirely self-taught. I get the feeling that doesn't jibe with their culture and I would just be wasting their time and mine.
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And let's not forget the Google smear campaign, only last year, orchestrated / bungled by Burson-Marsteller.

http://www.wired.com/business/2011/05/facebook-google-smear/
Yeah, that has to be horrible. I remember working remotely from Thailand, and had around 150ms to a linode in Japan, and it was infuriating. Even worse when trying to access services at home, with latency around 300ms. With latency over 30ms you start to notice it. There are good tools out there, though. Mosh is one of them.
This isn't an article about iPad or about tablets. It's an article about working in the cloud.

Considering all of the comments here, is there a service where you can use a browser that's hosted in the cloud, but have its UI appear in a client over something like VNC?
I'm pretty sure Twitter does this too. I've signed up for accounts in other browsers and then had my other accounts suggested to me as people I should follow.
Sir, I like the cut of your jib.
That chart is seriously wrong.

For starters, not least of all due to the definition of "major version".

And also because being stuck on one Android version is not so bad since apps from the Android Market have way more control over the OS than Apple's. If the built-in WebKit is a security risk, you can download Firefox or Opera or a browser that comes with its own WebKit or whatnot, and will be able to do so forever. You can sideload it, if you're so inclined. On an iPhone 3GS, you'll be stuck with that version of WebKit forever.

And ever.

Until Apple shuts down their authentication servers (or 404s/times out a certain URL on their servers for that model of phone) for that phone and what you'll have then is a brick.

Your iPhone will last as long as Apple chooses. And if Apple doesn't choose, they're gone and it's a brick. Either way, Apple got your money.