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But yet, if they are using Google over https, searched the issue there and found your forum... the lack of referrer header on your http site and no other activity for the user would have you falsely identify the user as a spammer.

The cost of a false positive is great... you may lose a customer.

By adding an email field to your form you'd get to use the blacklist and avoid false positives and the risk of offending an already aggravated customer.
Great technology, but a couple of things make me doubt if their findings reflect real life.

The processed images are patently deformed and unnatural. The whole thing works only if you have a blue backdrop and even then filtering the fingers out fails. The guy in the video makes it sound like it works only for Oreos (in Japanese), and this video shows the experiments were probably conducted only with pineapples and/or Oreos[1]

Given that experiments would have to be conducted in such an artificial setting, how reproducible are the results in real life scenarios? These questions could from the paper but unfortunately that is behind a paywall. Maybe someone with access could clear that?

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzFNWLL0l-o

EDIT: Reading it back, this sounds like I am trying to dismiss their technology though that isn't what I am getting at. I'm just wondering how well this could be applied IRL.
> A web server isn't an agent of the company and has no capacity to grant or deny permission.

Imagine I send a company a polite letter, requesting permission. The CEO hand-writes a letter (with his quill pen) telling me that I may access the information. After doing so, some critics on the internet start complaining that "A letter isn't an agent of the company and has no capacity to grant or deny permission."

Your claim is completely bogus. A web server DOES have the capacity to grant or deny permission because it is simply the mechanism by which the granting is delivered. Those who configured the server were the ones granting the permission.

I do not believe that the judge is claiming a web server cannot grant permission, I believe the judge is claiming that having to construct the URL by hand (rather than clicking on a link) is "a security measure" that has been "bypassed". For what it's worth (not much) I disagree strongly with this interpretation.
Interestingly, it took me a while to figure out how to call a contact from a friend's iPhone.
> If these clowns don't know how to secure their own damn servers, let them pay the price that will be exacted by less scrupulous individuals.

AT&T will not be affected whatsoever by a security breech, only those people whose information is leaked will be affected. The whole point of a white hat is to show this vulnerability and have it fixed before damage is done by someone with malicious intent.

> That's how the free market works. Stupidity is severely punished. They will very quickly learn how to properly set permissions on their server.

We do not live in a free market, and corporations are disproportionately powerful compared to individual people. You are asking that individual people have their data leaked and their lives potentially affected so that AT&T can look bad and then walk away from this situation without any punishment.

Further, it is very clear that companies make mistakes all the time with configuration their servers and tools in ways that makes data leaks and theft possible. We should demand that this flaws be exposed and fixed ASAP, there is nothing to be gained here by harassing those doing that exposure.
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Nope, in all but a few airports (SFO being one), they are directly employed by the TSA, a Federal agency. This was an upshot of 9-11, when private contractors were criticized for hiring inappropriate employees.
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PG's analysis has a bias for Dropbox or Facebook like ideas which are true startups and VC's dream. Of course there is plenty of room between idea for startups and idea for minimum viable businesses.
I agree with the fundamental observation: Google is getting better at a lot of the stuff Apple does faster than Apple is getting better at the stuff Google does. This isn't surprising, Apple is a very, very focused company.

Here's where the article lost me: "They (Twitter) own scale". Seriously, Twitter has gotten shaky under load despite not doing push or even live updating its web page (compare this to Facebook's timeline).

For that matter, iTunes represents scale on a level unimaginable to Twitter. How much data does the writer think Apple is vending to support all the on-demand video, app purchases, and whatnot? Sure, iTunes goes down now and then, but so do Netflix and Hulu.

But there were a number of incorrect but less annoying observations beforehand. E.g. Apple doesn't NEED to take its online store offline to update stuff. It updates stuff all the time. Consider the rumor factory around Apple, I suspect the main reason is to stop folks spelunking the Apple Store constantly (especially during the lead-up to announcements) -- which they do ANYWAY.
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This looks like a huge capital loss for HP. But, is it actually a move to lower HP's tax burden ahead of the expiring Bush tax cuts?

It seems to me that they valued it one-way a year ago, based mainly on intangible value. But now, they are valuing it another way, based on actual sales, that gives it a lower value that looks like a capital loss for HP.

In real terms though, what capital has been lost? They still have all the Autonomy resources they paid for a year ago.
Well, if you do that, bitcoin wouldn't gain traction. This is the kind of scenarios that bitcoin excel at.

The others being that bitcoin is a great way to transfer wealth out of the country at any moment, allowing individuals to vote with their wallet.
So, who is working on a startup to help with climate change? There are many avenues: adaptation, mitigation, research.
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Do paleo people always treat their diet as some kind of religion? There isn't anything special about not eating carbs, I lost weight, got fit and did it just fine while still eating bread.
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If you watch the video, that's all that this is claimed to do. The headline it was posted under on is.gd and here on HN claim it's for clearing mines; but at 2:50 he says "My ideal scenario would be to provide it for local people as a tool to cheaply survey this danger in their own environment."

All this discussion is because of an over-enthusiastic headline, not what the tool is actually intended for.
Cool stuff! I don't use tmux but I might try it out just to see this :).
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How is it much better than Apple's maps app? It's just a thin wrapper over Nokia's web site (here.net), and for my location the data is worse and there's no satellite imagery at all. Directions are far more limited (public transport routing isn't even available in the UK) and the UI completely unintuitive (how do I start a route?)

I would welcome a superior maps app to Apple, however just putting a thin wrapper over your existing website isn't going to cut the mustard compared with a slick and native app like Apple's. I'm not sure even Google can match Apple's maps experience, although their superiority with data will make the bigger difference.
There's been a lot more activity lately about app design and quality in the Android community. Google esp. has made a big push to start talking about these things in accessible formats, the most notable format being live streams, G+ hangouts, and youtube archives of said streams and hangouts: http://www.youtube.com/user/androiddevelopers

Things aren't perfect, but things are getting better and we are starting to see a community come together that wants strong, high quality design.
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> Because life is pain?

lol... just a touch dramatic there.
To my understanding, the page you are linking to describes a sandbox environment, which is different from what the poster is doing.
Slightly off topic - can anyone explain why a patent, which often involves a great deal of research expenditure and is vetted through a long and expensive process, is granted for 20 years, but copyright, which covers almost any form of creative expression and is granted automatically with virtually no minimum standard, lasts for the lifetime of the author plus 70 years?
This is largely nonsensical. Apple has trouble with "The Cloud", so it should buy a company that doesn't solve any of its problems, as a signaling device to potential future hires? What? And I take second place to no man in my disdain for WebObjects, but I know for a fact that a) Apple has very good engineers working on tooling and b) it really doesn't matter to the problems as stated, which are much more about executive attention.

The cloud stuff doesn't make money. Apple is (or was, when I was there last) an extremely profit conscious organization. The reason that the various previous internet initiatives were failures is not because Apple can't hire good engineers, or uses yesterday's technology, but rather because no executive was going to make it to VP by spending a bunch of money and more importantly engineer time on something that by design loses money, and has only the vaguest connection to driving adoption of hardware.

This latter has certainly changed -- if the OP has noticed that Android "Just Works" in ways that iOS doesn't, rest assured that Apple knows.
Terrorism and activism are both political, but I wouldn't call terror attacks activism. They have different means and execution, even if they both strive for political change. Not that this distinction is helped by how politicians love to paint activists as terrorists for political purposes.
I don't know why EU seems to have so much more common sense for issues like these than US, but whatever they are doing is working, and I love it. Maybe US needs to model its democratic system more after EU.
Doesn't this solution as soon as people come directly to the forum from a search engine, and asking bots to maintain a cookie jar is hardly challenging.
Didn't know that, thanks. Similar to effect/affect.
Hi there - I'm the one who put up the $50k to bail weev out of jail.[1] (Otherwise he would have had to sit in Essex County Jail during these ~2 years since this started.)

There were some others in line to assist (I live in Europe), but they all feared various forms of retribution/harassment from the FBI/DoJ, so it fell to me (someone with comparatively little to lose, stateside). This only serves to underscore the truly chilling effects of these sorts of governmental abuses of power.

I also host his website, http://freeweev.info, where you can make donations to his case via both Paypal and Bitcoin. (He has various restrictions placed on his use of technology while out on bail.)

Please feel free to contact me directly if you have questions related to his case. Contact info can be found in my profile.

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[1] https://twitter.com/rabite/status/270668883172671489
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> Talking about Apple's web services being terrible and then slamming the technology that has made them oodles of money and rarely - if ever - has problems...

You can make oodles of money off of crappy infrastructure[1]. The fact of the matter is that Apple's web services really are terrible – especially from a developer's perspective. Why do I have to use Apple's tools to add a device to my iOS Developer account[2]? Why isn't there an API for retrieving reviews for my apps? (Yes, I know about the RSS feed – it's terrible and currently broken once you get past page 10.) Or app rankings? Why isn't there an API to retrieve my app sales reports? Why isn't there an API to iTunes? (Yes, I know about the Enterprise Partner Feed – that's not the same thing.) Don't even get me started about Radar, their bug reporter[3]. The list goes on and on.

1. The infrastructure isn't necessarily "crappy" for them – it apparently works well enough for them internally. The problems begin once you try to interface with them as a third party.

2. There are some web scraper tools that allow you to do this, such as @mattt's Cupertino: https://github.com/mattt/cupertino/

3. bugreporter.apple.com
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You will probably find the book "Snakes in Suits" enlightening:

http://www.amazon.com/Snakes-Suits-When-Psychopaths-Work/dp/...

You know those charmingly manipulative psychopathic serial killers? It turns out many people like that just aren't violent. Instead, they like money and power.

A person like this probably feels just fine about what they did. "Psychopaths are without conscience and incapable of empathy, guilt, or loyalty to anyone but themselves."
It scares me how strongly and violently geeks fight the idea that privilege exists in our community. As a white man I recognize that opportunities and advantages I've been afforded due to my race and gender. A poster here honestly believes its easier being a woman than a man.

As a man I never have to worry about going to the gas station at night because I might be raped. As a man I never have to worry that someone might slip something into my drink at a bar and assault me. As a man I never have to worry that on a date someone might not listen to me when I say no. As a man I've never had to worry about sexual advances from my boss costing me my job.

Its insulting for a man, who is so clearly privileged in our society, to stand up and say not only is that wrong but that they have it worse than women. Its also blatantly uneducated. For people who pride themselves on what they know, geeks tend to know almost nothing about class and gender equality in society.

In fact, when people post things like that here they're just reinforcing patriarchy. Things are changing and the role of women in our society is greatly improving, but its not equal. To throw out the considerably fewer areas where men are on the short-side of things doesn't add up to some sort of equality.

Worse yet are people who claim that any second spent discussing inequality is a second wasted. Of course someone from a privileged role would say that because it is not a constant attack of you every day. Its disgusting to suggest that people who are constantly minimized should have to just take it on the chin because it somehow offends your sensibilities.

This behavior reinforces gender/racial inequalities by painting the people who have to live their lives facing them as "complainers." As a community geeks need to grow up and recognize the inequalities of our society and find a way to make the technology world a safe space for all people.
The well known technical QA site Stackoverflow can be found here http://stackoverflow.com/ HN is not an appropriate site for this question
Yeah, go back and actually look at those comments RE: Larry Ellison. Everyone is pissed that he wasn't acting professionally; it's all about decorum and how Ellison is a jerk that nerds wouldn't want to work for, due to appearances. Zero interest in whether what was posted on Oracle.com was correct.

The focus on optics and "niceness" here is really unfortunate. Because, the thing about when somebody says something that's not nice, that you wouldn't repeat to your grandmother, maybe even contains words like "fuck", is that it could still be true. And it should be treated that way.
They only disclose it because they have to. What interests me is, what exactly is he doing with the BBC?
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You don't have to run them through the minefield really. You could potentially start from the side and drag two ends of the lines from the side.

May be harder with heavy / long lines / wind, but come on - we can build hanging bridges over very high canyons without anyone levitating to the other side first ;)
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I upvoted this story in the hopes that it would spark some interesting discussion. Look, it has.
halfwit, you appear to be hellbanned on HN. You might want to take that up with pg.
Respectfully disagree.

Twitter and Apple exist in the public sphere and they have many stakeholders. The public regulates corporations on many issues (down to the local planning board) so to limit discussion of a corporation to only those on the inside denies the reality that they have effects on the outside.

To take an extreme example: Nader and his book Unsafe at Any Speed.

Twitter and Apple are integrated in our lives (some more than others). Like Luther nailing his Theses to the church door, creating a stir is sometimes necessary.

To say one shouldn't create a stir seems conservative - if not defensive.

(If the author owns one share of Apple would that give him the right?)
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How much you need to reduce costs, in order to double your profit, is dependent upon your current costs and revenue. So you don't necessarily need to eliminate all costs to double profit.

Suppose you purchase widgets from a manufacturer for 100$ and sell them for 101$. In that case, 101$(revenue per widget) - 100$(cost per widget) = 1$(profit per widget).
Suppose you then change manufacturers and reduce your cost per widget to 99$. You now make 2$ profit per widget. By reducing costs by 1%, you doubled your profits. Much easier than doubling your sales.
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This sounds like something I'd be interested in. Link?
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I worked for a company that was Acquired by Autonomy. They made us fire a large portion of our staff before the final papers were signed so that they could continue with their claims that they never fired people as the result of an acquisition.

Slimy Bastards if you ask me. This does not surprise me in the least.
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Nope, we work with hosts that do exactly that. Patch and update if it is outdated, fix if it is broken and even remove any malware if it is infected.

Again, what you guys are doing is great, and I don't want to take that way. My only point is that you were not the first and some have been doing that for a while.

thanks,
The same thing happened when the US cut non-friendlies (or basically any nation that does business with Iran) with denial of access to the SWIFT system. What use to be a financial transaction highway became a political weapon of choice. This basically backfired when China refused).
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/15/swift-iran-sanction...
And how do you irrigate and fertilize mined territory in the Afghan desert in a way that's cheaper than actual demining? Walking around with a hose or setting up an irrigation system seems too dangerous (or require partial demining to create footpaths anyway), and using any type of aircraft is expensive.
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Post worth it for the final line

"It’s still a rich and profitable company and can go a decade or more with a cargo cult corporate culture based on hope that desktops will return"
I hope Samsung will succeed in revealing this deal between Apple and HTC, in their own trial.
I'm the author of the pages, and wow... I was wondering where all the sudden traffic was coming from. Thanks, dmmalam, for getting my stuff on the front page, and for those who emailed and let me know about it.

First, sorry about the Issuu thing. These pages are actually several years old, and at the time Issuu was actually the easiest way I knew to make them available without burning out my personal hosting bandwidth. I created the index page later on, but used the Issuu links since they were there. (You have to understand, there has never been more than a trickle of a demand for them outside of my own students.)

The other reason I was a little hesitant to bundle them all together is because I'm still working on them, and I didn't want to "publish" something that had the air of being complete.

But the internet has spoken... I've added a link at the top of the page which takes you to a single PDF. (Thanks to jamie_ca and pyroMax for doing this before I stumbled into the party.) Oh, and I fixed the <title> tag, too.

Also, thanks very much for the other feedback that has been sent my way; I do genuinely appreciate it. While I'd like to retain sole authorship (at least for now) rather than make them open-source, I most definitely welcome comments on how they can be improved.
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Collaboration, easier said then done.
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> Nothing, nada, not a thing.

We banned CFCs.
Well sustainable economic development is part of the World Banks remit. The report is a summary of other sources. The qualification required for summary differs from that of the originating science. As it forms the basis of donor contributions and allocation, it would seem to have some interest from that point of view.
Saw a young guy get on the DLR at bank with a limp. There was a bit of commotion as he excused himself past people and asked someone to shift out the disabled seats.

All the time I'm thinking 'typical Londoners, they could have made that so much easier for that poor guy if they just held back for 2 seconds'

He got off at Canary Wharf minus the limp! I laughed for about an hour.
aye, that's a good quote indeed, and a good fit in the context
I really have no dog in this fight, but placing phone calls consist of about 1% of what I use my smartphone for.
Back in May, ex-Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch was ousted by HP (or left out of frustration, depending on the source)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnol...

I have to say, I can't recall hearing about Autonomy...not that I keep up with all the tech news, but a $10B valuation is pretty big. Is it just accounting fraud that's going on, or was the technology not what it was claimed to be? $10B for tech that would encroach on what Google/Apple/the NSA would do seems like it would make Autonomy more of a household-tech name, even if it was based in the enterprise sector:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomy_Corporation
> Autonomy's technology attempts to "understand" any form of unstructured information, including text, voice, and video, and based on that understanding perform automatic operations, for example inferring what the user wants and on that basis finding other information that may be of interest.
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Their press release from 6 years ago: http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2006/...

They seem to have a wide range of people from different backgrounds and industries. It's a non executive role, so I assume it's more for 'experience and wisdom' in their respective fields and expertise than anything else.
Robert Caro: The times of Lyndon Johnson. Pick any of the four volumes currently printed. Plenty of examples. Similar kinds of things in UK I'm sure but it probably works differently...

At the end of the day, some change must happen in US else the technology of the future is developed elsewhere...