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We do, too. Please try Persona out and let us know what does and doesn't work for you. We're trying to solve this thing once, for the whole web.

Also, if you've been waiting for Persona to hit "beta" before trying it out, well, check back Thursday morning. :)
d) To not keep 100K users' passwords in a public FTP server :)
The same thing is happening to me. I'm on Chrome v21 in Archlinux. I'm getting the following errors:

"Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (NOT FOUND) http://jetstrap.com/api/v1/project/last

"not dropping, no container or component found. builder.js:127"
On the other hand, of all the things to implement syntax highlighting could be very easy with a library like http://google-code-prettify.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/README....
> Well, how are you going to make the airplanes fly? Battery. Batteries are pretty heavy.

You could get a huge win by offloading the power to ground stations and beaming it aboard. You'd still need some onboard power reserve for reliability and backup reasons, but you could offload most of it. This would let you lighten your airframe, which has a snowball effect, allowing even more lightening and more efficiency. Get the craft light enough, and VTOL becomes a possibility, meaning you could land these things on heliports downtown and not have a 1 hour trip to the airport.

Just think of it as "high speed rail" with lower infrastructure costs and fewer right-of-way problems.
Quick data point, works beautifully under Chrome (Version 21.0.1180.89) on Ubuntu 12.10 beta.

Loving it.
It you want to make an impact as a data scientist, it helps to prototype your ideas as a testable product. Many product managers and engineers ignore their data scientists' work because fighting fires almost always takes precedence. The recent HBR article (posted here) showed how the data scientist at LinkedIn was able to make a huge impact by running his own experiments against live users. At my company, we always provide a non-optimized prototype that can be run directly with our existing product. If the idea is good, we can optimize the code later.
If you've ever been curious about what's happening in the Portland startup scene, this is the post to read. Luc does an amazing job of capturing both the tech and the culture of the town. And if anyone has any additional questions about "Why Portland?" I'm always happy to answer those, too.
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Why would they do that? Presumably to attempt to prevent or delay Apple maps as a valid competitor. The Apple maps fiasco is high profile enough that I believe a Google Maps iOS app would take a noticeable share of iOS 6 users away from Apple maps. Also, Google presumably has traditionals ways of generating revenue from their maps (sponsored POIs, subtle ads in search results, etc.).
Does anyone know what the two horseshoe looking things are in the bottom left of the RTR8600 die? I want to say inductors, but they aren't in the shapes I'm familiar with (that being said, my VLSI knowledge is extremely rusty)
James_Henry2,

That is true but is more US-centric. In Canada and the UK the merchant account provider and gateway have always (traditionally) been an integrated solution. It's only in the US that you usually have to go off to authorize.net or cybersource (or the like) to pull the gateway together. Stripe sure is making a name lately though!
Max Lynch and Ben Sperry are super talented. They are also getting really good at marketing! Great copywriting!
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I sometimes do go with the regular version of a website on my phone, but generally I prefer a mobile optimized version, less ads, more readable font size, faster loading, etc. Reading HN on a phone isn't that great, I use http://cheeaun.github.com/hnmobile/#/ and added it to my home page. It makes a world of a difference, except I can't comment from the app.
Not working for me on FF15.
Chips, like printed circuit boards, are often laid out by algorithms. These algorithms try to optimize amongst a number of parameters such as active transistors per unit area, signal paths, power requirements, interference (things like electron tunnelling) and whatnot. As with a circuit board you can set the dial 'wide' and get a quick layout that is not optimal. You can dial it in and the algorithm will do most of the work and then stop on things it can't figure out (which an engineer then goes in and manually places). It's time consuming to do manual layout and the effects are not always immediately obvious [1]. So there is both a time component and a risk component to manual layout. It can however result in a smaller and more efficient chip.

[1] When I was at Intel the 386 was the new hawtness. The first silicon samples powered up and ran which was awesome but at 'full speed' there were some issues that turned out to be related to a clock signal somewhere between the registers and the ALU. The design engineer replaced a metal feature (typical conductors were done in the metal layer) with a polysilicon version which had the effect of slowing down the propagation speed enough to line up the clocks. (it was fortunate it didn't need to go faster which is harder to do :-) These days the device geometries are so small as to require a lot of analysis which I would not enjoy trying to do by "hand".
Most people have their email open, not only on their desktop but also on their mobile devices. Most importantly, you'd only do this once per device, unless you need to log out or clear your cookies.

If you lose you email account password, you'd need to follow the email service provider recovery process. Gmail, Hotmail, etc. have significant resources dedicated to helping people with this.
any decent corporate IT dept make sure you don't by forcing often password changes and having quite secure rules for length and charactes in a password. My corporate IT force quarterly password changes for VPN, NIS and SSO, which all must be different, all must be 8+ characters, all must have mix of upper and lower and numerics. They also store the hash of all previous passwords to prevent users from recycling.

So I think the onus of responsibility lies with corp IT and not HR.
It takes way too long for the official releases to come out for the phone. I was under the impression the Note was to be the flagship phone for Samsung, but it seems to be a 1b, with the S3 being the flagship. The S3 is a fine phone, if it had the stylus I'd be a very happy person with it.
Definitely more informed than I am (upvoted). However, I would emphasize- the consumer remain concerned about their bank's security. You don't want to rely on the coverage and speed of dispute and remediations.
Nope. Collections are analogous to tables, and documents to rows.
Sure, you can do all of these things, and being able to view IEEE papers is not exactly the worst of problems. Now please let me know if I'm incorrect (and I hope I am), but it appears that in addition to viewing research papers your IEEE Web Account also lets you modify your @ieee.org e-mail alias account (if they have set one up; if not, they can create one) [1].

If so, it should be quite interesting if someone uses the IEEE Web Account username/password to re-forward your @ieee.org e-mail somewhere else. I can see all sorts of nefarious activities that can result from this, such as clicking on various "I forgot my password" links that also use your @ieee account in order to get access to other, perhaps more important resources.

[1] http://eleccomm.ieee.org/
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Really great work! One question belonging to this, do you know how to used 4x5 ColorTransform Matrices with JavaScript and WebGL/OpenGL? I can't find anything about this on the I-net.
If you are building a modern day site, there is just no reason not to make it mobile (phone/tablet) friendly. If you don't want to redesign an existing website, you can just make a separate site that redirects, but which is a less elegant solution.
Looks like it's time for a mashup with this: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/technology/homeless-as-wi-...
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> "No city in the world will ever manage to end congestion because when traffic flows, people are drawn to their cars.

Tokyo is proof that this is not true. There are many, many people who own cars but only drive them on the weekends because the public transportation system is so great.
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"not all of them have anything to do with whether the medicines actually work."

That's because in general I'm only interested in systemic problems, not specific case studies. There are entire books written about just anti-depressants, or statins, or whatever, which you can easily find on Amazon.

"How do you explain ever increasing life expectancies?"

Of the 30-year increase in life expectancy over the last 100 years, 25 years has come from better public health (e.g. sanitation), and another 1.5 years has come from preventive care like vaccination.

Source: Bunker JP, Frazier HS, Mosteller F. Improving health: measuring effects of medical care. Milbank Quarterly 1994;72:225-58.
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Well, the (admittedly) crummy weather produces (a) solidarity, (b) a lot of good music, and (c) our healthy coffee obsession. So get over it.

I should also note that this summer has been absolutely magisterial.
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>For example, my favourite online newspapers on my cellphone are those which don't default to some half-arsed mobile layout.

Again, that's an argument against bad responsive design, not responsive design in general.
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From my blog post:

"Yes, logging in by waiting for an email and clicking a link does take longer than entering a password. But you should only have to do this once per device. Unless you’re constantly letting other people use your computers (and logging out of your email client each time), you’re golden."

http://alexsmolen.com/blog/?p=194
Samsung Galaxy S III remote data-wipe hack reportedly discovered
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Hacker News in particular loves Stripe
The essence of what is a Data Scientist boils down to this awesome tweet by Josh Wills (@cloudera): https://twitter.com/josh_wills/status/198093512149958656

Data Scientist (n.): Person who is better at statistics than any software engineer and better at software engineering than any statistician.
This turns your email inbox into a giant password manager, except without the extensive storage encryption used by real password managers. Thought experiment: What are the possible unintended consequences of that?

Just a few off the top of my head:

1. Easier for email hackers to detect sites where you have logins. (Controlling someone's email usually means controlling most/all logins, but it takes some digging to get a good list of vaulable logins. With this solution, most of the list is on the first page or two of the inbox.)

2. Harder to detect being hacked. (Previously, a hacker with email access would have to reset your passwords, and you will notice that at least some passwords have changed. Now the hacker just has to delete any incoming authentication emails after reading them.)

3. Losing a job becomes potentially more catastrophic. (Hope you didn't associate too many passwords with your work email, because IT wiped your account while security was escorting you out the door. And before you say only dumb people use work email for personal accounts, consider that part of the idea of this nopassword system is to help "dumb people" who fail to (for example) use password managers.)

4. Your email provider now has a nice easily mined record of what sites you log into most often. But, hey, I'm sure we can all trust Google not to use that information in a terribly creepy manner, right?
If you haven't yet, I would like to encourage you to share more of your story. You seem to have both a fascinating history and solid self-awareness.
To be less adversarial, a passive website like the benchmarks game can never be enough, by itself, to educate and inform all (or even most) readers -- reading selectively is far too commonplace and errare humanum est.

The benchmarks game is a resource. There are enough examples that when someone draws a misinformed conclusion, we can usually show them a counter-example and ask them to think.
> Can you confirm this (because I don't have the 32-bit version installed)? It still stinks, especially because it "silently failed after hitting the threshold", but I personally would feel better about 10gen if this little story is true (i.e. they warn you about it not only in downloads page, but every time you run mongod).

Just as a data point, I installed MongoDB on 32-bit Ubuntu 12.04 from the Ubuntu repo. At no point during install or service startup does it say anything.

Installing from source may be different.
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Didn't work on Firefox 14.0.1 Ubuntu 12.04. Dragged elements don't appear on the canvas. The error in the console log, "not dropping, no container or component found". Same issue with Chrome Version 21.0.1180.81.

Looking forwards to when these are fixed though, I'd like to use it myself, and would be happy to contribute.

== Update ==

The problem I was having seemed to be I hadn't named my screen, I was then shown a blank white screen which looked like I could drag the elements onto, but this didn't work.
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Pretty exciting to see our FormAgent here!

There are also some great examples of how FormAgent has been used in the wild by charities and small businesses at rareloop.com/casestudies/gamos, rareloop.com/casestudies/clinicbeauty, rareloop.com/casestudies/cbaf and rareloop.com/casestudies/tcon
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Just installed it on ubuntu 32-bit (apt-get install mongodb). I now have a 32-bit mongodb process running. Minus all of the noise from apt about setting up xulrunner and the 101(!!!) other dependent packages, here's the entirety of the startup messages I see:

mongodb start/running, process 13660
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Ops face risk to downtime everyday. Destructive commands, loaded servers, forgotten backups, incorrect command prompts. Here's what I do to keep it together...
Most iPhones still are funnels into (some) Google services. It's not as pervasive as Android, but Google search is still the default in mobile safari.
The decision to include Amazon results (by default!) is not in itself a terrible move, but it is an incorrect one.

The fact that it is so patently incorrect to so many outside observers forces me to consider whether the internal vision of the project is completely distorted. No, it's not a big deal, it's just a silly & inappropriate use of your time, and potentially a symptom of a distressing detachment from the real.
I thought it was hilarious. Especially the bit about not talking to anybody about your product, they will know soon enough how great it is :-)

Of course the interesting question is whether or not the sarcasm comes through. Sadly I suspect there are people out there reading the blog and saying "Yeah, this guy really gets it!" In a way this totally screws that up because it might actually reinforce the wrong beliefs.
Interesting read with some good points albiet biased towards the aspect they will move. But does show that it is not impossible, though nothing soon and I'd agree that laptops would be there first target area. I also liked the aspect that OSX is becomming more and more phone OS like and that could indeed also be said of the upcomming win8 due to metro. Overall I see both Apple and Microsoft going for consumer level devices, remember calculators are computers as well, only biased for the application and in that both apple and microsoft are transitioning towards a unified interface and standard making computers more and more consumerised. Thats ok as there will always be Linux and many other operating systems to play with if you need that level of interaction and in that whilst its a change I don't like, I can understand it.

One aspect not touched upon in this article is the whole area of a server, one which apple walked away from and is a whole empty cavity that could become one which a 64bit version of ARM chips down the line could end up making that area viable for Apple again. Though it would probably be a solid white cube called iPortal j/k.

Either way, even if they do move they can still brow beat Intel for even better prices milking every avenue of options along the way. Though any move to a ARM base for OSX would at the earliest be 2 years away and relisticaly 4-5. Though for servers and processing farms it does become a whole new avenue.
saw this when it was in beta :) definitely cool.
AirLift is a companion tool for another app called Silverback. If you haven't heard of Silverback, you don't need Airlift :)
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I am not too well-versed in this sphere, but I would also require salting passwords when hashing. It obviously won't help if your database is compromised, but will protect your users (and your database) against the effects of leaks such as these.
There's a difference between a one-time, quickly-expiring password (requiring reset on use) being sent on email, as opposed to having the password reside there in perpetuity.

In one case the attacker needs full control during the password reset and in the other they can simply scour email for all passwords and get out - perhaps even without controlling the account - ie, transparent proxy + poisoned DNS would do the 2nd easily.
You can look to see if there is a theme/template on http://themeforest.net that you like and can afford.

In the past, I spent a lot of time trying to design things myself and they never came out well. Now I just buy a theme and make any tweaks that are needed and I have a much better looking website.
This is pretty darn dangerous already, but I would note you may not need a website at all for this. From my understanding, the problem is in the stock dialer, and it automatically executes when the number is entered. I will quietly note here that, as part of the standard, QR codes can embed phone numbers. I do not have a samsung phone to test this with. Anyone?
When I saw this and clicked it, I was preparing myself for a bootstrap-in-production-code abomination, but was pleasantly surprised. The design and interaction on this site are gorgeous and not boostrapped, and the tool looks really nice for putting together prototypes.

With all the horrible bootstrap default production sites i've seen lately, I've developed a pretty signficant hatred for the framework. But sometimes after seeing tools like this, I remember that it can be a very effective prototyping tool (as long as it's used only for prototypes, and you hire a real designer and/or front end guy to put together your production design and code).

That being said, awesome job with this site and this tool. Then only suggestion I could possibly make would be to change the header text from "build amazing websites" to "build amazing prototypes" - this at least helps to spread the concept that boostrap does not replace good, unique design and code.
If your audience is developers and designers, a pure flat design is great and will likely work well.

But normal people need their hand held as to what a button is. Subtle drop shadows and gradients are the best way to instantly get someone to understand that yes, this element does something. Something important is lost in flatland.

On a side note, the vault and picture frame image on the main homepage for layervault.com is the height of skeumorphism and realistic design. Beautiful, but also kinda ironic.
Actually, this is the beta, that was alpha before :)
IMHO, the groups who to that, are doing a very noble thing. But dipping this in the silicon valley startup sauce is quite insulting to the homeless individual. What OP should be doing is working hard and contributing to these groups/organizations who know the best way to render help and assistance. Making this into a treasure hunt does not make sense to me. Why would you want a random homeless already-struggling down-on-his-luck guy be disturbed by every smartphone wielding person? Peace and solace must mean something, right?
Can we amend c) to mandate bcrypt, scrypt, or PBKDF2 with a sufficient work factor that is reviewed every 12 months?
Browsers can't reliably know this. Although they could probably at least figure out if the form submission is going to be a freaking GET request!
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The strategy he was talking about was about what to do once Apple did something that made their customers unhappy, whether to release a fix immediately or wait. Many, many business strategies are built around a competitor making customers unhappy in some way.
Nice polite people, food carts, good restaurants, possibly the best coffee in the US, Ocean is 1 hour away, greenery, Mt Hood, the Cascades .... and much, much more.
I love the idea. This is a competitor that I've tried that has worked quite well so far - http://divshot.com/
> It obviously won't help if your database is compromised

Good news, everyone: it will!
Yay, great. Apple go. The day Apple moves to ARM on the Macbook will be the start of the downfall of Apple.

Also, when is Apple moving to Intel on the iPhone?

Actually, i can imagine running a server farm on ARMs, that'd be great (and there is ARM server hardware available). BUt for the desktop? nope.
Sorry for being blunt, but the site looks quite bad on a mobile device [1][2][3].

I realize that this tool is probably meant to be used from a computer with a large screen and with a mouse, but consider the following scenario: Somebody, who is using their smart phone, is landing on your page from a search for "bootstrap responsive interface-building tool". If that was me, I'd probably leave the site pretty fast.

[1]: http://i.imgur.com/UsYhZ.png?1

[2]: http://i.imgur.com/UzaB8.png?1

[3]: http://i.imgur.com/JEPSj.png?1

(Using Dolphin Browser on Samsung Galaxy S2, Android 2.3.5)
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Completely agree. I was the kinda kid that built his own crystal radio and endless science kits like that.

I used alcohol QTip and blowing, both self-discovered methods. And both equally effective, but solved different problems.
The whole article was sarcasm.
I actually think it wasn't blowing on them that did it, but the act of blowing on them and then inserting the cartridge more deliberately the next time. And each time after that, being more deliberate. It was the act of putting it in 'just right' that did it, not blowing at all.
The summer is the silver lining without a doubt. So many berries....
Are you really saying that it's only by religion that people can consider their impact on others?
Yeah, what a ridiculous quote. I'd give it maybe ten years before a number of world-class cities have ended congestion issues. The shortsightedness of people is incredible to me: "this is a problem in my city, therefore it will be a problem in every city on the planet for the rest of time".

Uh, okay. Ridiculous pessimism.
Looking into it...just pushed a few tweaks. It could also be the default menu wasn't clear what you were supposed to drag and where to drop it. We need to fix that.