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All the naysayers out there are neglecting an important viewpoint best explained by a personal anecdote. I have a 4 year old niece that is so into princesses, pink, high heals, the whole 9 yards, that any present that isn't themed pink and girly will just get ignored, yet she's very smart and likes playing with puzzles. Something like this might actually work for her, where gender neutral legos or erector sets would never get played with.
>It's a shame on OSX/iOS. When I've used these characters and viewed on Safari it turns them into raster icons ... exactly what I don't want. Windows and Linux are fine.

Your comment does not make sense.

1) When "you've used these characters" where? On a webpage?

2) They ARE raster icons. What did you expect them to be? Fonts don't have multiple colors.

3) How does "Windows and Linux" handle them better? Most apps there don't handle them AT ALL.
Robbing a convenience store at gunpoint or illegally downloading torrents usually also "leave a trail." That doesn't mean nobody is willing to do it, and I definitely wouldn't feel safe if random people had access to my bank account just because if they did anything law enforcement might be able to catch them.
I wouldn't go as far as blaming the Maps team for this. It's not their fault they haven't had YEARS to catch up with Google.
A cryptographic hash is one-directional (among other things).

However, encryption is the the same as hashing, and it can be decrypted. It is possible that they are not hashing your password, but encrypting it, before they put it into the database.
That's kind of the point. The fact that you have to show the prototype allows potential backers to make a judgement about whether they think you are likely to succeed or not.
No.

I think they've been pretty clear about this.
The role of a CFO (and his office) is to do exactly what resulted above.

And the role of Congress and its tax committees is to take note when they've left open obviously abused loopholes and close or limit them.

This Puerto Rico scheme has been going on since well before 2009 and more companies than just Microsoft have been abusing it. The Senate Finance Committee and the Ways And Means Committee have been well aware for many years before that.

Someone here is cheating. It's not the corporations that take advantage of a loophole that is legal even though it is unfair and harmful to the nation. The cheaters are the lazy and corrupt congressmen and senators that watch it happen and read their reports every year, year after year, and can't rouse themselves to do anything about it.

Lucky for you, you get to fire some of them six weeks from now.
Encrypted, not hashed. As in, encrypted with a key that can be used to then decrypt it later.
It's more a problem relating to the fact that many projects and their code bases are designed and planned to last for over a decade if not two or more. One simply can't just make drastic changes back and forth, because literally, peoples lives are on the line(let alone how much financial capital is invested...) with lots of written code. I'd grab Java, C++, heck, even C over Python or Ruby, let alone god damn JavaScript for a project which is going to ship after approximated 5 years of development and which has planned maintenance for at least 10 years afterwards. Considering how we miss deadlines, I'd assume such a project would be maintained after 20 or 25 years. Yes, someone would still work with the code base in 2037. Imagine that, and that's not even an unrealistic stretch. Welcome to enterprise software development! Do that with Python, Ruby or JavaScript and I'll give you a cake or two.
They're selling like gangbusters: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/aug/31/lego-frie...
I see this as a very welcome addition to the public stance of Kickstarter with regards to physical products (which it's been relatively quiet about). One of the reasons we chose Kickstarter as a platform to get our product off the ground was the fact that it would allow us flexibility and freedom to get our prototypes to full scale manufacturing, which were already relatively mature in their stage of production (tooling already complete, near final hardware etc).

Lots of things can go wrong at every stage after you have a final production sample. You still need to get the sample certified by a number of governing bodies, set up QC and shipping, and in the case of overseas manufacturing deal with the freight/customs and finally fulfillment of the product.

I'm happy that Kickstarter is taking more of stance on the subject, as we've had to in many cases provide "returns" to people or deal with "customer service" style requests, which we've done in good faith but it really misses the point of launching a product on Kickstarter.

I think this stance will really help back up projects when they need to make an adjustment, or have to deal with something unexpected. Also, it should improve the quality of projects moving forward by making people more skeptical and aware of the time/cost-instability of the manufacturing process. We were lucky to hit a pretty happy medium with regards to initial volume, and unlike some of the blockbuster projects when we have to change things we don't end up on TechCrunch for it, only the Guardian :)
Well, given Google's past history with iOS apps, they might just release a shit app. Your data is only as good as your interface to it.
Partly poetic license - my apologies.

The nearest I can find is http://www.uspirg.org/reports/usp/representation-without-tax... citing 18% paid on expected taxes of 35%. Which makes an extra 220 bn - almost double.

Given that the avg net margin is 6.3% (see below) doubling the effective tax rate would cause significant issues - but I need more data

Plus 1 for calling me out
http://seekingalpha.com/article/428181-debunking-s-p-500-p
Some level of proof is still necessary, though. Not just an accusation.

In general with Kickstarter failures current and future, I think we'll find the evidence weighs heavily in favor of incompetence rather than malice. There's no shortage in the world of business ventures that are honest to goodness failures.
That article made me laugh pretty freakin' hard.
Even better would be to have Kickstarter assess the creators claims on their ability to deliver and assess queries raised by prospective supporters.

I can't imagine that will ever happen. If they vetted projects or teams, it would probably put some liability on their shoulders. They are going to do everything they can to prevent that.
One of the bigger hurdles I had to deal with at my work at a :BigComapny was getting mongo installed. But even on our older systems I had no trouble with their provided packages. Which you wouldn't think would be notable, but it is. Actually getting the software to run in arguably the most important part.
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Another flaw in Google Content Experiments (which was mentioned in the article) is that it doesn't distribute traffic evenly. This is a big bummer with seasonal products/services where having the control start getting 80% of the traffic during a high conversion period makes the test useless. Overall, even though testing is easier in some ways, I definitely miss Google Website Optimizer.
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I love this site. My MBA fan had an issue and I only stumbled across it while researching my repair options.

I was able to buy a new fan and all the tools at less than half the cost of getting an Apple repair center to do it. I'll certainly be able to reuse the tools as I build up my "repair shop".

They have very detailed video guides that explain every step of the process--and they have them tailored for every MBA generation, explaining the little differences between them as they go. Very cool. I especially like their retro philosophy of DIY and repair vs. recycle and discard.
>And honestly I'm frugal and so when I buy devices I am focused on value

The iPhone is $200. You still can't get a tablet that matches the iPad 3 for $500. Saying Apple is expensive is like making one button mice jokes.

Value is a product of usefulness and longevity, plus resale value. It's ridiculous to proclaim that Apple products aren't high on value--I still use my 2007 MacBook Pro running Mountain Lion. It works out to well under a dollar a day and I didn't have to make any compromises in the process.

>The future is open source phones that you print out in 3d on your desk.

The future is also a Star Trek replicator, and just as relevant to the discussion.

>Apple is none of these things.

Because talented people want to be paid for their efforts, and I'm fine paying people for doing great work?
Everything on the site could conceivably fall into "Product".

It seems fairly clear to me that they are just trying to prevent these kind of shenanigans:
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/files/2012/09/bulbs.jp...

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/09/18/kickstarter...
It takes a lot of character to look at a lot of money in the eye and say no thanks.
Who said that perl web development is boring?
I'm not big on throwing this out there but I've struggled with dyslexia. As an example I wasn't able to read until I was in 5th grade. I can get lost in my own neighborhood. I have trouble learning something without physically writing it down or actually doing the activity. I'm 44 now and I wouldn't say that was a lack of skill from my teachers. When I grew up in the 70's and early 80s there was very little awareness about what to do with kids with dyslexia but it seems like your point is that if these kids just were taught properly then we wouldn't see this symptoms. From my own personal experience I can tell you that's not true at all. I also have a friend who's so dyslexic that he can't drive. He's so crippled by it that he can't even type in his own pin number. If he needs money from the bank I'll drive him and get the cash out of the ATM for him. I'm sure I could teach him how to type in 4 numbers but that's clearly not going to help. This is just a personal story with a sample size of two. I get that. With that said, maybe will shed some light on something that's affected me in a very profound way. best.
So what bad thing did that lead to?
Really? No renders? So how are you supposed to communicate what you want to build?

Terrible move. Require renders and sims to be clearly labeled as such, but this? FFS.
If Microsoft paid taxes unnecessarily, they would be doing a disservice to their stockholders.
This is not true. Aaron Swartz is being charged for distributing non-free content that he happened to obtain that way. You make it sound like he's being charged with a felony for scraping free content.
How is Google's data going to fall out of date? There are millions of activated android devices providing them data.
Actually, technically it doesn't have to be in the database at all. I don't know if anyone has looked carefully at the JavaScript, but it appears the password, unlike everything else, is populated from client side JavaScript. It could be stored in a cookie or HTML5 local store or any number of other ephemeral client side storage tricks. It would be set when you login, from your browser. The server might only store an HMAC.
You need a large antenna for NFC:

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nexus-S-Teardown/4365/1#s2013...

(hover over the second picture on Step 3)

Even if a chip existed, the iPhone 5's aluminum back wouldn't provide a spot to place an NFC antenna.
That makes it even worse then. Every Pandora user connected via WiFi is at risk. I wonder if Pandora is usable in airports?
NFC antennas are huge, it wouldn't be possible for the phone to have one internally with a metal backplate.
I thought the point of the article was that hard work, paying attention, and taking risks can itself be fun. Perhaps I'm just projecting my own views onto the author.
I haven't seen where it pulls the password from, but in theory it could pull it local session cookie.
That is exactly it. And though I do not have the quote in front of me, I can tell you this is how the justice who said it approached every issue.

Maybe "encouraged" and "engrained" were not the right words. How about "endorsed"? I think rational self-interest is a concept that might vary in the degree to which it is adopted into people's behavior as you move from country to country. That's only a theory. Certainly, in the US, reducing tax liability, and doing so vigorously, is believed to be the rational thing to do.

But if I'm the taxing entity, is it rational for me to endorse the idea of paying less? That would seem to lead to a reduction in the amount I will collect as those being taxed adopt and refine their tax reduction strategies.
Over 100 days ago... Now I'm outraged that the HN community didn't notice this before! xD
I for one would be more interested in general success rate. I'm not talking return on investment, but more so on how many projects actually come to fruition and deliver at any level.

This is outside the fraudulent activity. It's more out of my sheer, selfish interest in rate of success.

I could see such data publication helping and hurting Kickstarter. It could be inspiring and generate even more interest (aka revenue), but also expose the lack of completion and high failure rate turning off investors.
Intuitively that makes no sense so I'm wondering if someone could explain?
Best way of putting it that I've seen. These recent moves serve to alienate developers (and users by extension) and reek of typical corporate desperation.

Show's over folks.
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I don't think they really care if they are viable business models - see their investment in a Groupon clone. I think what they are doing is simply copying companies, creating them with the sole purpose of being bought by the company that originated the idea. There's nothing in any of these articles that says they're creating viable businesses (they may have some however). So what they are doing, in my opinion, is similar to what patent trolls do - extract money/stock from VC-rich startups. Wash, rinse, repeat.

It will/would be interesting to see how they do in a down startup environment where the VC money isn't flowing quite so freely.
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51% of the world currently lives in cities.[1] 79% of Americans do. The preferred mode of transportation in cities is public transit – a highly useful competency of the old Maps app in which Apple has replaced the UX of "here's how to get there from here" to "hey, go look in the App Store."

51% of the world. 79% of Americans "Edge cases," you say?

[1]http://www.globalhealthfacts.org/data/topic/map.aspx?ind=83
They could two-way encrypt which seems safer to me than plain text but some disagree (I'm not sure why).
Hi guys,

I made this, and here is the Github: https://github.com/hatboysam/hnreply

It's crazy simple, just a little workaround to get the "fnid" code the comment reply page uses to post replies.

Let me know what you think of it.
Not to say it's excusable by any stretch, but their revenue in 2011 was roughly $138 million, not billion.
Twitter just moved into a new office, has been acquiring companies (remember, they're what drove Instagram's price up), and you really think they're secretly cash-strapped or something?
Agreed. It's hard to get your average consumer and investor excited about a product they cannot visualize.

Kuddos on the Pebble project. It's an amazing product, and I can't wait to see you guys release to market. Cheers!
There's no proof that it's dishonest - it's possible that either legal or twitter themselves tapped them on the shoulder and said they should knock it off.

Ignorance before malice.
Worth mentioning that the major content of the Planetary Annihilation page was their simulation/rendering - completely concept-art.
Anyone capable of keeping my credit card details secure would know better than doing this. If the blueprint is in crayon, there's no reason to check whether the building would resist earthquakes.
You're on the wrong site if you can't even tell the difference between iOS and Mac OS.
Neither does Hover, still, despite being outed here nearly 18 months ago and assurances by a Hover rep that they were working on tightening security and would have it completed by September (2011).

Some companies just do not give a shit about (your) security,
Well, I know some girls like pirates at least, but when I think about the old pirate movies... well, maybe old movies in general.
That doesn't answer my question, which is: What has the label changed to?
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The only way we could conceivably get out of this situation is if our tax code becomes so complex, everyone -- even the beneficiaries of the loopholes -- is angry and upset at the complexity and costs of paying, and decides to support throwing the whole thing out and starting fresh. This scenario probably requires a united government

The last time it happened in 1986, the House was Democratic and the Ways And Means Committee was run by famously corrupt but effective old-time Chicago pol Dan Rostenkowski. The Senate was Republican and liberal West Coast Oregon Republican Bob Packwood was running the Senate Finance Committee. President Ronald Reagan and his tax policy chief Donald Regan were more right wing than the Koch brothers and Michelle Bachmann combined.

Together they pushed through the biggest tax reform in the nation's history.[0]

There was nothing united about US government in 1986. It's hard to imagine a political spectrum as disunited and full of genuine differences today. Nevertheless, Reagan bet his second term policy agenda on tax reform and Rostenkowski arranged an unprecedented public media campaign and put himself on television selling the Reagan idea to the people and his own party. The reform was pushed through with bipartisan support and only oil companies and employee benefits escaped unscathed. All the other pressure groups had to give for the national good.

The difference is not a united government. We had united government in 2003-04 and 2009-10 and it didn't do any good. The difference is leadership. This year we don't have much leadership available in Washington from either party and the challengers in the coming election seem even less likely to offer any.

So don't get your hopes up.

[0] Showdown At Gucci Gulch by Murray and Birnbaum is the classic book about the 1986 reform
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Do you have links for Kickstarter projects you think are outright scams?
Wow, did they actually go to Asia to buy the iPhone5 so that they'd be the first ones to post the teardown? (it seems that there are a few sites that compete in this teardown/BOM space)
It's not exactly equivalent, but often is due to poor implementations. The web application has to have access to the encryption key in order to make the password check. That means if the web process gets compromised in any way, the attacker can get the plaintext password.

However, it is still safer from a straight db dump type of attack. The concern for me, though, is if a company can reverse my password, I have no faith they are doing anything correctly WRT security.
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IFTTT seems like a perfect case for something that should be an open source project that anyone can install and run on their own servers, not as a centralized service, specifically to prevent things like this. Then anyone could contribute recipes and API clients and there's no central point of failure for them to be all removed in one go.
Protip: if you are interested in news that actually matters over blogspam, don't read Techcrunch et al.
I finally remembered what Grouper reminds me of! It's the fairly established practice of Gokon in Japan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gokon#Japan
These days, could probably just avoid asking for contact details and find them on Facebook later.
If a site is indifferent, incompetent, or stupid about password security, you should assume they are the same with credit card security until proven otherwise.
What about Zapier? Doesn't it provide the same Twitter connectivity as IFTTT did? I don't use either, but, from casual inspection a while back, my impression was that they are similar enough in that regard.
I get a "Manifest is invalid" error when trying to install.
Thank you, your answer bridged a gap for me. Will drop an update here as soon as I apply it.
Yeah but that "prototype" may not look nearly as amazing as a flashy 3D animation.

Is what kickstarter asking that unreasonable? (other than their lawyers probably told them do this now or suffer consequences that could mean no more business.) If someone can't produce a physical prototype of an item, do they really deserve hundreds of thousands or a million dollars?
I understand the problem that the Kickstarter founders are facing, but I don't think this is the right (or even close to the correct) solution. Despite saying "kickstarter is not a store" in the title, their rules basically force project creators to physically show exactly what they're planning to deliver...making it even more of a store.

Thanks! Working 24-7 to get these watches out, blogging here: kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-e-paper-watch-for-iphone-and-android/posts/
Great News! Have couple of questions though,
1. What are the PCI implications if I were to use stripe.js in my site? Will I have to get my application and deployment stack PCI verified?

2. I will have customers from both US and Europe, so what is the ideal approach to support multi currency so that customers end up paying the same (or close to same) price that they saw on my website?
>Because the Democrats want to press home the message that corporations and wealth are inherently evil

Excuse me while I go pick up my eyes that just rolled across the floor. This isn't even remotely true - there's nothing wrong with wealth or corporations in general - but when corporations begin doing evil things in the pursuit of wealth, big surprise, people are going to complain.
I'm gonna go ahead and call bullshit. Enjoying something usually comes after hating it. Did you love beer the first time you tried it? Coffee? Sushi? Programming? etc...
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Meh. twitter is wrong in this case. And so starts the reputation of being an asshat company. Nothing to see here move along.
Why are we idiots about taking care of our health?
From a language standpoint Ruby and Python are certainly more interesting languages than PHP. Most .Net devs I talk to find php a bit kludgey. I recommend installing a virtual Ubuntu machine on your windows machine and playing with Python for a few days. I found "Dive into Python" to be a great resource for learning http://www.diveintopython.net/.

From there, if web is what you are interested in, take a look at django. The django book and official django tutorial are both great places to start. Happy hacking!
Yes, and when APIs fail: P2P screenscraping. Regardless of its legality, as some other commenters here have brought up, Twitter can't stop distributed reading and storing without blocking lots of IP addresses.
I'm kind of late to the game but here's what comes out of my mind/mouth at lunch here:

Loser Trophies - What's more motivating than rewarding success? Reinforcing the fear of absolute failure. Loser trophies are trophies for the people who didn't place, a constant reminder that they should try harder next time. Perfect for fun intramural leagues and the tiger mom in all of us, loser trophies will feature models cast in defeated poses, slumped over and humiliated.

Spider sucking vacuum attachment - A super long extension to suck up those daddy long legs in the corner of your apartment. It'll be telescoping and lined with something to kill the bug. [this is from my coworker typpo]