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It's Google Compare, the auto insurance comparator, which is operated by another company, SSP. Apparently editing a link or a "document" allows you to view others' info.

The Register understands that the flaw lies in third-party software external to Google Compare, operated by insurance and financial specialist SSP. But although Google's own in-house systems were not directly compromised, the SSP system effectively allows criminals to operate Google Compare as a massive identity theft portal.
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I hear you. I never had any "real" issues with RVM other than I probably never really learned how to use it, so it kept tripping me up. (I'm not very good at this stuff..)

I was setting up a new computer a few months ago and decided to give rbenv a try and it hasn't given me any reason not to like it so far. Just guided someone on the west coast who has never worked with Ruby before through installing it and getting her first Rails project up and running last night, via approximately 65 emails. Does that make me an advocate?
Lots. I am one.

What I've found is that it roughly correlates with education, and not in the inverse sense. More educated and accomplished Americans usually scoff at any and all hint of real not-an-isolated-incident systemic corruption as "conspiracy theory," grouping it in the same category as David Icke's tales of shape-shifting reptiles. There is no organized crime in America, no systemic corruption. Everyone is just doing their job.
I love these guys. @dblockdotorg was nice enough to let me, my wife, and my CTO come check out General Assembly and their space while I was in New York earlier this year. Their code seems solid, I've happened upon stuff @dblock wrote when looking for solutions to something (grape-on-rack, some mongoid bits), and in general can't say enough nice things about this company. Congrats to them.
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According to http://www.jamwithchrome.com/technology

"The real time websocket relay system used to make collaboration with JAM possible was developed using the Go programming language."

And the web app is hosted on app engine. AFAIK though, you couldn't host the Go websocket component on app engine (even though GAE supports Go as a runtime) since GAE doesn't support persistent connections directly.

In any case, very very cool!
> It is the Duke Nukem Forever of window managers.

To be fair, though, E17 has been quite usable for years. I was doing daily SVN pulls in college (so, pre-2007) without stability issues. There are occasionally very minor bugs, but I can't remember it ever being as buggy/disrupting to my workflow as Unity currently is.
How Indian Farmers Use Phones to Water Crops
Does anyone here use this?
Microsoft's Big Hidden Windows 8 Feature: Built-In Advertising
So... it wasn't a Google vulnerability.
After my blackberry died around 4 months ago I've been grappling with the issue of what to replace it with. I really enjoy my Transformer Prime tablet and am 100% sold on Android, but the major issue for me is phone size.

Why on earth is every decent phone so bloody big? Now, I've never had a "large screen" phone before so my concerns may be unfounded but I feel that as I don't carry a handbag/manbag and my phone resides in my jeans pocket 99% of the time i'm on the move, anything over say 80/90mm long is just going to become an utter liability with respect to falling out and/or breakage? That aside from the fact that anything larger than that must be a pain to lug around?

Is this something anyone else has struggled with? Are my impressions unfounded?

For now I'm sticking with my old flip style Motorola Razor (beside it has the totally brilliant "Hello Moto" ring tone :)
Used Chromebook for few days
I put http://www.foundcamera.com together as a quick 1 day project a few months ago. I wanted to put an interactive map at the centre of it all.

It really is an MVP of a project currently and I would like to expand on it as I'm getting a backlog of cameras to list on the site even without any promotion - just good search engine rankings for popular phrases.

Lots of people are offering rewards in their posts too, a few people have said if I promoted the posts with rewards this would entice more people to help out but I don't think this is right.

I'd also like to monetize it in an unobtrusive way, just to cover its own running costs, as there's only so many projects that you can keep paying for.

I'd really appreciate feedback/suggestions.
The only reason I like to have a huge capacity is to carry a whole bunch of music (~40GB) and/or some movies to watch on the plane.

Spotify is replacing the former use case for me (Google Music is currently not available where I am), but the second stands.

--edit-- Also I'm loving the phablet form factor, which is keeping me on non-nexus at the moment.
Posted at 9:04am Eastern it would appear.
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This I disagree with. Why else would they made it available for download? (They might not be marketing the software, but they are marketing something -- e.g., their coding skills.)

I highly doubt that marketing their coding skills is why the Enlightenment developer(s) started writing OSS.
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Do Not Track in Google Chrome
From experience: it's harder to contract for the DoD (former company) than it is to contract for Fortune 100 companies (current company). Substantially harder.
ZTE doesn’t care about usability, building 5.9in 1080P Windows Phone
You're probably right that Amazon holds your data for as long as that, however, there's another way to look at 11 nines: If you upload one hundred billion (10^11) files on Glacier, you expect to lose one of them per year, and not more. That's probably realistically achievable.

Compare this with S3, where you will lose 1 in one billion files per year. Shocking!
This has been a major pain point for the Linux community since the Radeon days. It's such a shame, because ATI had a huge opportunity to steal that market from nVidia back then. Instead, maximizing value away from users and toward shareholders left us with a video-diminished Linux community.
I actually have exactly that setup (shitty Gateway with Turion and 5400 rpm hdd, dirt cheap).

It works well enough for what I need it to do - surf the web, Office, Facebook, Youtube, Plants vs Zombies, movies, - heck it has an HDMI port. And I've been able to do some light programming on it without trouble.

Only thing it really doesn't do is non-casual games.
I find when I have something I want to go to that has a specific start time, that the anxiety created from it can be a double-edged sword - especially when I start feeling even more productive and feel I could keep working - though then I'll miss the time-sensitive event..
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You can use the right tools in the wrong way and be productive. You're still using them wrong. Most people use Bundler and RVM gemsets in a way that Bundler wouldn't even be needed. Rbenv forces you to learn the proper way of project management and it actually reduces complexity once people get over the small learning curve of using the correct tools for each thing. Bundler manages dependency, Rbenv just switches rubies. RVM adds so much more that it blurs the lines between things.
I guess the conservatives get to reap what their racist, pro-slavery ancestors sowed.
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Why Apple's stock is getting demolished
Linuxers take note: now is probably the best chance for the Linux desktop in all of history.

Apple has their niche: luxury laptops and high-priced phones. Android is making inroads in the latter market.

But beyond these two, there is a massive market out there. Don't believe the hype about tablets and smartphones -- they are not going to completely replace the laptop and the desktop. They might eat into its market size at the edges, but these devices are more likely to define new markets and new use cases where desktops and laptops are less practical.

So now is the chance. Linux now has high-end gaming, courtesy of Valve, and Gnome 3 and Unity are the beginnings of passable non-ugly desktops. HTML5 makes web apps good enough to be first class citizens too, allowing Google Docs and other popular rich web apps viewed through browsers like Firefox and Chrome to make up for Linux's desktop app weaknesses.

Go!
> The other complaint I've heard is that this phone has a glass back, and it will break if you drop it. This is true, but guess what? Every phone will break if you drop it. Electronics aren't made to be dropped.

Say what you will about their recent problems, but Nokia made phones that were solid. I dropped them on numerous occasions without problems.

I've been pretty happy with the Samsung phone that replaced my Nokia (wanted Android, not due to a fall!) - it seems well made, and I figured I'd get a new Samsung when the time came. This looks pretty compelling, although getting one in Italy might be a PITA.
Seems to be completely broken on FF 16
I think Firefox and Chrome have different (experimental, advanced) audio interfaces right now.

I'm not really sure about the differing capabilities, or what standardization of either looks like right now. But I think Mozilla's api is more low level, so it might be possible to create a compatibility shim on top of it?
'Hello, world' in Celluloid, Ruby's actor library
My only experience of interacting with law enforcement in Germany is having my bags searched in a drug enforcement sweep on a train.
As far as I know http://www.dinahmoe.com did that part.
The same engine was used on http://exquisiteforest.com
I would argue that shipping around 20 sets of flatware is excessive in and of itself.
Hey, sorry I missed this. Actually NSF does have training funds http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=6201 . Be sure to tell your friends about this as it has to be submitted within the first 2 years of grad school (whereas the NIH grant can be applied for at anytime). It is actually much more generous than the NIH grant(stipend and research $), and is quicker to apply for.

ALso, and I think this may apply to CS people, there are dissertation grants which give a small amount of cash (when I applied it was ~$15k) to improve a dissertation project.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13453
NSF has some really nice programs out there. I've been funded by them on 2 different occasions and I really like what they support.
Sibling domains cookies isolation.
The post summarizes issues that arise when a site does not use a dedicated domain but shares a top domain with not trusted sites.
Curious to see where that goes. I've been wanting to try it for a while, but a combination of lack of time and lack of enthusiasm for the .NET stack has kept me away from it. Is this used in production anywhere?
This is cool and all but a lot easier said than done. The author is in college where free time is in abundance. I'm not disparaging the principles but working a full time job, getting 8 hours of sleep, and exercising an hour every day isn't always possible...
"That which is measured improves."

Be wary of measuring - and hence improving - the wrong thing.

Sometimes you optimize for the wrong metric. The classic example is measuring programmer output by lines of code. The are many more subtle ways this can manifest, though.
Tight jeans seem to be the only place where my S3 (4.8" display) gives me a bit of trouble.

If you are set on a smaller screen, look at the Moto RAZR M (or the RAZR i outside US). 4.3" display, where others normally fit a 4" display.
The F# Foundation is an initiative from the F# community to promote F# as an independent, open source language across multiple platforms. You're right this is not a technical change and the foundation is independent.
I like Gnome 3. It strikes me as incomplete, but what's there is good and does not look like cluttery crap. KDE is more feature-complete but looks like a clutterbuck 90s desktop. I can't stand it. After using Apple products for a while (I use both OSes) clutter makes me want to claw my eyes out.
I worried about large screen too, but after getting 4.8 inch Galaxy S3 i can say, that my next phone will have even larger screen.

It fits into my jeans perfectly (and i cycle with it too). Of course, my choice of pants is more limited now, but I always loved big pockets.
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I tried switching from an iPhone to a Galaxy Nexus and I couldn't. Not because of the software mind you, but because of what you mentioned: the bulk.

I'm used to being to hold the phone easily in one hand, and thumbing through some random trivia on the train to work. I found this difficult, or at least precarious feeling, on the Galaxy Nexus because of just how damned big it is. I heavily disliked how the phone practically begged for two hands to be operated.

It also felt huge in my pocket, though I suspect it's not enough of annoyance to stop me from carrying a compelling enough device - but the Galaxy Nexus isn't that.
Agreed. I currently hace a 4.3" phone which feels like it is pushing the limits for me. That said, I will be picking up a Nexus 4- because the phone buttons are now on-screen instead of hardware the 4.7" figure is misleading. But I think a 4" phone is the ideal for me, sadly no Android manufacturer is interested in it making a phone that is both powerful and a reasonable size.
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Unread Mail Count in your shell prompt
DMAF is our framework at www.dinahmoe.com. It stands for DinahMoe Audio Framework. I'm the one who's been doing the grunt work of the framework, so I'm quite familiar with it ;) We've decided to release the effects as open source at https://github.com/Dinahmoe/tuna , though it's not complete yet with all the effects.
The brunt of the proposed law was about "harsher punishments for human trafficking" and that is how it was described on the ballot (from the official voter's guide: "HUMAN TRAFFICKING. PENALTIES. INITIATIVE STATUTE."); the part about sex offenders having to register their usernames on all of the online services that they use was tacked on the end, related by way of pointing out that the "sex crime" classification that then requires sex offender registration "includ[es] some crimes involving human trafficking".

Many voters, thereby, probably did not even realize that this other aspect was a consequence; those that did may have not cared enough to think about it (as it doesn't affect them personally), and those that cared may have decided "on the balance, in this flawed democratic system where I have to vote on this as a single unit, I think the result is better despite this consequence" (I often wish I could vote "I agree with these specific diff hunks" as opposed to "I agree with this changeset" ;P).

(I say this not to defend the law, but as a way to try to explain why 81% of the people in my state apparently voted for it; when I saw the number I was thereby depressed, but not really surprised: human trafficking "sounds bad". Also, the official "CON" argument blurb was "I provide erotic services, and this (might) incorrectly label my son", which probably turned off a lot of conservative voters in addition to being an argument many would call "far fetched", even if it totally ends up happening.)
Bandwidth caps on T-Mobile vary from plan to plan. The $30/month prepaid option that many people are going with for the N4 offers 100 minutes of voice coverage each month, unlimited text messages, and unlimited data, but only the first 5GB of data is available at HSPA+ 42Mbps speeds. After you exceed 5GB your bandwidth is throttled down to "3G" speeds (but you're not actually cut off).
MS is not abandoning F#. This is a community-led effort to try to increase adoption of an excellent language and to create a better experience on non-microsoft platforms.
we don't generally have very many regional polls, and certainly not constituency polls, that are available for aggregators (an internal poll in a key marginal, perhaps.) There's a lot less money spent on UK elections.
Paul Graham wrote an essay on this. The most charismatic candidate is elected, every time: http://www.paulgraham.com/charisma.html
You could maybe use that to smooth out envelopes, but whether a note is played or not isn't something you could possibly predict. I mean, you could predict the most likely note to be played next based on some musical analysis, but there's no way you could get it accurate enough to not compromise the surprises that make music so interesting.
Can you please drop a note to support[at]art.sy with what you see?
It hasn't caught much attention or focus but could this be the first phone that makes any sort of headway in the US against the two year plan/subsidy model? If yes, that has ramifications for the overall industry much greater than any one phone. Anyone in the US know how much you'd save on a realistic smart phone plan if you bought your own vs doing the two year subsidized model?
It's somewhat anecdotal, but here's a question I asked on the quant stackexchange a while ago asking if F# was used in finance ... seems there are a few shops using it:
http://quant.stackexchange.com/questions/303/is-f-used-in-tr...
Maybe I'll get around to adding a forecast for the senate/house as well. Although any forecasts I make would be somewhat less compelling now that the results are out...
I hear this every time there's some shift in OS or architecture. Most recently, The Big Opportunity for Desktop Linux was the transition from 32 bit to 64 bit, XP to Vista, and Vista to Windows 7. Meanwhile, Linux continues its slow but steady rise on the desktop with little bumps from big improvements.

Personally, I have no reason to switch to Linux. Windows will come with any computer I buy for the foreseeable future. It runs Chrome and Firefox, is the native target for most games, and Microsoft's design decisions make more sense to me than those of the Unity and GNOME designers.
You are probably blocking some ports it expects to communicate on. WiFi or Ethernet?
Do you think "over-engineering" could be a contributor to an unmaintainable code base? Also, do you think TDD is key to faster/cleaner iterations?
I have a Galaxy Nexus, at first I thought it was big as well but it's actually "just the right size" for me. Any bigger and it was be hard to handle and any smaller and I feel like it's a phone for ants. I have it in my pant/short pockets all the time and haven't had a problem with it falling out and it's thin enough that it doesn't make an unsightly bulge. The only time it's fallen out of a pocket was when I was on my bike and it was in my cargo short pocket which I forgot to zip up, landed on pavement, and aside from a few scuffs it took it like a champ.
OMG me too. That also explains the large black population also along that belt. I always assumed it was a mildly racist thing. Now I feel kind of silly actually...
There's a blog post on 3d transforms here: http://artsy.github.com/blog/2012/10/18/so-you-want-to-do-a-...

There's also an awesome open-source project by a fellow NY dev here: https://github.com/hakimel/meny that accomplishes the same thing (we didn't use it because it's frame-based).
F# is a really cool language. However without it's interop with the CLR it looks to me to be another ML clone. I wonder what they mean by "independent."
Journalists and this site love to hate big phones (see: galaxy note), but users love them. Hope I can buy this soon, if it really is 1080.
This is the first Android phone that I'm actually excited about using.
Think of it like smashing your guitar or something else equally rock 'n roll :)
Awesome, great job with it, and nice that you open sourced it!

How long have you been working on it for?

There's going to be loads of "big brand" companies looking for crazy audio doodads for their websites after this Jam thing. Probably lots of contract work to found be there... :)
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I wouldn't say GTK+ is next, unity2D is discontinued and Ubuntu One is only made in QT because they use the same client for windows and mac.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, the Samsung Captivate has, in my opinion, one of the best designs and one of the best sized screens out there. If you can find one for cheap (and are on GSM), give it a try and slap Jellybean on it.
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Not overwhelmingly. The rural areas in the northwest of the state are hard-red, but the rest of the rural areas vary from mostly-red to evenly split. Des Moines is mostly split, but the SE and E areas are fairly blue. My federal house district includes the heart of downtown Des Moines and almost exactly split down the middle, which is partially why our last house race was so contentious. The state just happened to barely go for GWB in 2004 because of John Kerry's weak campaign.
It's being used commercially in a number of companies. Off the top of my head: Credit Suisse, Aviva, Trayport, Gamesys as well as quite a few hedge funds on both sides of the pond.
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I've dropped my galaxy nexus plenty, and its still getting by without a kink in the screen or the body, albeit scratches on the corners.
The idea is to have one password, with a salt(or service name) for all services. To make it a little more secure, you could set up different levels - email and social, news sites, games..., basically any way you want to do it, and have a different passphrase for each level.
When changing passwords, you just need to change the salt of that particular service.
This is great, and honestly I've found the same. I'm actually taking this term off from school to work on my business while remaining on campus. I also need to follow a pretty rigorous exercise schedule as I'm on the varsity track team.

I've found that achieving a consistent sleep and exercise schedule has been extremely difficult without any real commitments in the morning. I think one of the best things you can do to stick to a schedule is to commit yourself to something at 9am every morning.

That said -- the evenings are hard not to indulge. Weed and alcohol are pretty hard to resist... got any tips for that? :)
There is already an interesting tool[1] out there for this. I am surprised it wasn't mentioned anywhere in the post. I would also be curious to know how similar or different they are.

[1] http://hnpickup.appspot.com/
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Mozilla will be adopting the WebAudio API from Chrome and have deprecated their own (lower-level) API. Work hasn’t started yet though.
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> This I disagree with. Why else would they made it available for download? (They might not be marketing the software, but they are marketing something -- e.g., their coding skills.)

Speaking as someone who has developed and released open source software, I can tell you why: because it's damn cool when other people find your code useful. An added bonus is that they sometimes send patches. I'm certainly not getting rich from it (in the form of job offers or other things).

Plug: I'm a committer on a tiling WM written in python which is also gearing up for release soon: http://qtile.org
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He's also the fellow who brought us gnome-screensaver, which gave a hint of what was to come. It didn't just take away options, it did them under the theory that the user is evil and will do evil things if allowed to set screensaver options. (See https://live.gnome.org/GnomeScreensaver/FrequentlyAskedQuest...)
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