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What about apps like Mail or another photo uploading service which never even ask for location information? How are they supposed to know when to strip out EXIF data?

If you want the system to manage that metadata properly you need to give the users better controls than the existing coarse grained per app location preferences. I think they should, but the suggestions most people are making to fix this on HN are very narrow.
I thought it was cool and had not seen it before. Sorry for ruining your day by forcing you to read and comment on a story you had already seen. I'll fall on my sword now.
This is a fun game. http://i.imgur.com/SbjjGlV.png
constructive comment.

On a more meaningful comment to yours, its not the millions they lose not selling it to those game developers, its the millions that they lose because games are being developed for their system, which is very much a big deal. Having developers on your platform is very important, and in order to have that, you have to give them the right tools, and if you are a hardware company like Apple, that includes the right hardware.
HTTPS with Client Certificates on Android
Unable to download ZIP files attached to email (Android)
Or "Come on..." :)
> But on the plus side, there hasn't been many terrorist attacks as have been in the middle east, so they're doing an upstanding job there.

Most of the cases the FBI has prosecuted for terrorism in the US have been entrapment cases where they supplied most all the material and know how to carry out a "bombing".
20 lines of Python to deploy and manage a server
This would seem to be correct but doesn't take into account different hardware specs.

For a start, the larger the disk, the more is used for formatting and is lost due to the difference in how manufacturers specify sizes, so you can't just add/subtract storage amounts, you need to scale.

Also, different combinations of processor, cellular modem, etc, will require different parts of the operating system, and Apple differentiates between these in the distributions it provides. It's not a massive difference, but it is something.

Finally, on Mac OS, the operating system reserves some space for a memory dump if the device loses power so that it can resume where it left off. This means if you have 8GB of RAM, you will always have 8GB of disk space reserved (search for sleepimage). I don't know for sure, but iOS may do something similar.
Tim has never really been a free software guy really (not against it, just not his issue) and here he was at linuxconf.au where pretty much the whole audience will be FOSS diehards and probably at his talk just to check out that guy who started it all. At the end of the day almost anyone will try to present some common ground there, even if its not super strong.

I don't disagree with your assessment of the general concerns web apps, but from a practical perspective its a lot easier to provide FOSS web apps that temper some of these concerns (self hosting, etc.) while still operating within a well tested security framework. To end up in the same position with most current native mobile apps usually requires a device configured for developers with all the security relaxations, difficulties with redistribution and often program fees.

Neither one is very awesome, but its not like many ios and android apps dont wall away your data while mining it on remote servers.
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Maybe because the same user who broke things on the computer is locked out on the phone/tablet so they can't break things. If it's broken it'll either be hardware issue or a firmware/os/app problem that has to be solved by the maker/developer.

In my experience supporting users of PCs, Macs, and Android and Apple phones/tablets, very few users have any desire for root access or any idea what to do with it when they have it. Their device is going to belong to others no matter what, maybe it's better for it to be Apple or Google or a somewhat vetted developer in a walled garden than the owner of a malicious bot-net.
Path reaches settlement with FTC, agrees to pay $800K fine for COPPA violations
I suspect that drawkbox's point was that it would have a ripple effect - Fewer MacPros mean fewer games, fewer games might mean people are less likely to switch in general.
If they had a new design in the queue don't you think they would have released it by now? Long before that regulation would be effective.
Ask HN: What kind of products would you rent after landing in a new country?
I have a kernel of an idea that I was thinking about but I think I need some honest external feedback before I decide pursue it further. Basic idea: Enable people entering a country on holiday/business to rent items that they can drop off again at the airport when they are leaving.

So an example use cases would be:
- A backpacker will be backpacking in the country for 10 days. Rather than having the hassle/cost bringing over a tent/sleeping bag they would like to rent them.
- A business person visiting Dublin for three nights. This person would like an ipad for this time.

In both of these cases the person uses our website/app to create and account and make a reservation. They determine the pickup/dropoff (I.E city/airport) locations and a prices is agreed and paid with credit card. Upon arrival they pick up the item, show some id and use the product for the duration of their stay. They can drop it off when they are leaving at a booth in the airport or perhaps at other convenient locations.

My question is: would you see a market for this kind of service? If so what products would you see as potentially applicable?

I am pretty aware of the pains involved in running a rental company so I under no illusions that this would be an easy company to run. However, I would like to know is if there is a potential for this idea. I dont want to invent a solution for a problem that does not exist(as I have done a couple times in the past). I do feel there is some interesting aspects to it especially when you think about the many potential revenue sources and I would like to hear some opinions.

Brief note: I come from Ireland (though I do not currently live there), which I think is the perfect test location for this idea : a small island, very few entry points, lots of tourists etc. As I am a soon to be unemployed web developer who will be spending the next few months travelling around the world and I would like a project to ponder/work on while I'm away :)
* I'm just curious if residency in the United States ever affects PhD committees in regards to admission. *

As a CS PhD student, I have asked this question before of professors on the admissions committee.

Once the applications come in, they sort them into 3 separate piles: US, India, and China. Each pile is evaluated separately, because they aren't comparable. e.g. grades and prof recommendations from the US matter a lot, whereas from China, it's hard to compare grades and prof recommendations are almost always fraudulent. (I don't know what differs about India.)

Then they accept the top ones from each pile, and try to overall choose the top students across all piles. So it's hard to compare "maybe accepts" from different piles, but they do their best.

I guess other countries (besides the big 3) get treated differently because they are more rare.

So, basically, the answer is no, being US based does not really help or hurt you.

I have heard that you have to be extremely good if you're Chinese, because if you're not, it's just too hard to compare you to people from the other piles reliably.

Obviously, this story is highly anecdotal. I'm sure other departments have other ways of handling the problem of compraring people from different educational systems.
How could I read/skim that entire article and not take home anything? Seems like linkbait.
Bloomberg - New York, NY and Washington DC - Full Time Ruby on Rails related dev jobs (I'm not from Bloomberg, just noticed it on their careers site)

http://jobs.bloomberg.com/search?q=ruby&location=

(the dates indicate when the job was posted)

Ruby on Rails Developer - Bloomberg Institute Job	New York, NY, US
Dec 14, 2012

Ruby on Rails Developer Job	Washington, DC, US
Dec 27, 2012

Ruby on Rails Developer Job	New York, NY, US
Dec 23, 2012

Bloomberg Government - Web Developer Internship Job	Washington, DC, US
Jan 8, 2013

Web Front-End Software Engineer Job	New York, NY, US
Dec 6, 2012

Senior Web Developer - Consumer Websites Job	New York, NY, US
Dec 23, 2012

Senior Java Developer Job	New York, NY, US
Dec 23, 2012

Senior Web Developer - Businessweek Job	New York, NY, US
Dec 8, 2012

Senior Cloud Builder Job	New York, NY, US
Dec 2, 2012

Web Infrastructure Architect Job	New York, NY, US
Dec 29, 2012

Senior Software Engineer - Data Visualization Job	New York, NY, US
Dec 5, 2012

Reliability Engineer - CTO Office Job	New York, NY, US
Jan 24, 2013
I think they will focus on higher level (and therefore value) enterprise applications - SharePoint, Dynamics ERPs (particularly AX) and Dynamics CRM.

It also wouldn't surprise me if they decided to take all product consulting in-house and become much more of a consulting company with products as a useful sideline - a bit like IBM.
What a strange comment. Why is Angular the greatest framework yet? Why is Webstorm the greatest web IDE?

I'm against worshiping tools...
> If Apple had a new version of the Mac Pro around the corner

Which is fairly likely, a Cook-sent email stated pretty much that last year: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1383915

> Although we didn't have a chance to talk about a new Mac Pro at today's event, don't worry as we're working on something really great for later next year. We also updated the current model today.

(emphasis mine)
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It's important to note there IS a difference between smartbear.com and asmartbear.com
This is true on some systems, but not others. On FreeBSD (and OSX, as I remember) /dev/random and /dev/urandom act identically. The underlying CSPRNG, Yarrow, is designed to recover from a compromised state vector. Unfortunately, Yarrow relies on entropy estimates to time its re-seeding.

I've said it before: entropy estimates are a fiction. Ideally, /dev/random and /dev/urandom would both offer non-blocking access to an underlying Fortuna implementation (using a cryptographic hash function instead of a cipher, to avoid export/import restrictions).
Unlikely, unless there's a very specific detail involved. I've seen plenty of computer cases in Germany that are designed to be opened up with just two fingers (those screws with a large grippy area).
Chicago's Excelerate Labs is now TechStars Chicago
Effortless CI and Deployment with Node.js, Travis CI & Capistrano
While I think the comment was overstated, when you stop selling to people who produce something your customers really desire, the effect is much more that the amount you aren't getting from your producer.

Think of the impact, for example, if MS said Valve could no longer have/use MS software[1]. The effect would be much more than the paltry amount Valve spends on MS licenses.

1. Yes, the two cases aren't even in the same ballpark (hence the "overstated above"). I'm just illustrating the point.
>Or will we start to see ports of stuff like Exchange,Active Directory,VS,SQL Server to other platforms?

Maybe. Some of that stuff doesn't make sense to port. For example, the value proposition of Visual Studio to Microsoft is not that it makes them particularly a lot of money, it's that it encourages its users to produce software that only runs on Microsoft's platforms. Obviously nobody is going to run Visual Studio on Linux if it can't produce Linux binaries, but it doesn't make any sense from Microsoft's perspective to allow that, so likely Visual Studio will never run on any other platforms.

And really the rest of it kind of suffers the same issues. Is Active Directory still worth it when the client devices are non-Windows? Probably not, unless they make enough integration modifications to the client OS that it would amount to producing their own Linux distribution. (That'll be the day.)

I guess I could see the case for selling Exchange Server for RHEL if they produced a Gnome, KDE or Android version of Outlook to go along with it. Even that seems like an ecosystem thing though: People install Exchange because they already have Windows and Outlook and Active Directory and Exchange relies heavily on all of them. If the starting point is Android or iOS and gmail, does that still happen?
Is there any parser autogeneration tool that can cope with c++11's grammer? Including weird edge cases like template vs. comparison depending on previously declared types?
I imagine that must be their thinking. Clearly a lack of technical resources it's not. Moreover, Amazon has already shown [1] good will when negligence led to an unexpectedly high bill.

I'm surprised (though empirically without much reason) not to hear stories from NewHotness et al about "how AWS burned five times our monthly budget in one day of frenzy". Even if those new visitors may very well be welcome for the business, I imagine there are many folks who would like some control (say, to double the limit), maybe at the risk of leaving the site offline for a few minutes.

[1] http://www.behind-the-enemy-lines.com/2012/04/google-attack-...
Same here, couldn't fully download some files from Gmail.
ok, I have a slightly unrelated question: is it advisable (efficient, easy etc) to run a linux vm over windows or the other way around? Why or wht not?
Leaving long time customers without options except to leave the platform is a huge error, really how hard is is to keep a line of Mac Pro going, it isn't losing money and there is a whole line of creators that are saying 'continue to take my money'. Amazingly enough, people still use PCs in the post PC era to make content for non PCs.

Many of the best developers on their platform use the Mac Pro. They also heavily influenced others adopting Apple devices. I think it seems small but the influence and impact of this decision is more than the revenue. iMacs will take the place of many of these customers like designers maybe but developers still want a beast with up to 64GB of RAM and 12 cores. You can easily run OSX and Windows dev at same time on it.

Might even be an immense error. I for one am disappointed if they don't hold true to the 2013 update. Once you go Hackintosh, why buy iMacs either if you have all that setup? Why walk away from die hard customers? They haven't even tried to grow it. So it could be much bigger and the desktop market for Apple is still untapped for the most part.
If you carry a gun, you think with a gun
FWIW, my wife and I visited Charleston, SC in December from Austin, found your coffee shop on Yelp, and really enjoyed the experience. We came back twice on a four day trip.

We were just in San Diego, and part of our trip was looking for a coffee place "as good as Black Tap"
HP Z series workstations (12 core xeons also) appear to be readily available, and so I suspect this really is a temporary issue about the current wiring design/psu in the box that Apple are selling.
This has to be one of the best ads for WebStorm. I hadn't heard of it before I saw these screencasts, but as someone who uses VIM for all my non-.NET development, I was really impressed with what the tool can do to enhance productivity. Similar to what ReSharper does. JetBrains seems to do good work all over.

It's no surprise he's an evangelist for WebStorm. He's doing a great job showing off its strengths.

Oh, and AngularJS looks really interesting.
I think it's wrong that this level of product integration is what everyone wants; i.e. functioning as a tablet and as a laptop. One of Microsoft's most powerful profit generators was software integration (both in Office and Windows).

But integrated products (ones that do BOTH X and Y) are necessarily inferior at being the best X or the best Y. A designer must make trade offs in order to make the integration work. In the realm of software, the trade offs can be quite small, and so the integrated whole is quite good. But in a hardware device, integration imposes critical constraints that make integration across functions quite painful; limited screen size, battery life, memory and storage, etc. Perhaps the most insidious is overall UI complexity. Making a device for keyboard and mouse is quite different than making a device with a great touch experience. Having both (and even adding legacy Windows UI) is very challenging.

Microsoft should not have released a "turd" if they could not achieve a great experience within the design constraints. I think most people believe this first attempt has serious flaws and compromises.

Because Apple has shown the world what a great experience a tablet can provide, I think users are unwilling to compromise just so they can occasionally connect a keyboard and mouse to it, or run legacy applications. I'd rather carry two devices than use one (inferior) product.
> She was considering a Mac Pro but I guess that's out the door now.

The Pro line will very likely (finally) be revamped this year, Cook pretty much stated so last year: http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/06/12/tim_cook_confirms_...
If you watch the video on the site you'll see that they fixed a tiny camera to it, though no info on range / data transfer rates.
Unfortunately, due to the evolution of systems the Mac Pro's market share is diminishing.

Of course, we hope that there's a new Mac Pro around the corner, but the chances are slim. Also, the advantages are getting smaller, except for the most specific uses.

I really want Apple to come up with a worthy Mac Pro substitute, something that has power. I sorely miss the G5 PowerMac, it seemed the epitome of what Mac could do. (even though the specs look silly today)
Surprised I didn't see the term "rock star" here.
Watch conferences' videos and slides
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When I started programming in PHP, my hosting setup involved a cPanel installation with Apache and MySQL. This has been the de facto standard for many PHP developers and for the most part I don’t think any of that needs to change. I simply never had to deal with websites that got more than 10,000 visits a day. This all changed when I started work at my current job a few years ago. We sell an educational product that serves a predictable 15,000 requests per minute for 10+ hours/day, every day. Instead of Apache, we use nginx with PHP-FPM to handle this traffic. This is becoming a very popular setup for many companies with non-trivial traffic, but I have also found success with it in my small 256MB Ram VPS. For various reasons, nginx does a better job with memory and concurrent connection handling than Apache. In this post, I want to talk about some of the reasons you might want to go with this setup.
Everyone with an iPad wishes it could run Word and Excel?
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Apple doesn't hold very much inventory and they could always ship them to another region. If this is a leak, I would bet it is for their customers. This gives them a month to buy should they want to before the EU regulation stops them from selling.
€10k reward to break Mega's encryption
This is a great introduction to Anvil. I've been using it for a few months and it saves a ton of time when doing front-end development by automating my build process.