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Well if that's the extent of your analogy it's completely flawed. In your analogy someone has misused the bookmark feature to save too many. In my response - I point out it's a pain to remove apps. In future, sure maybe somebody will make app managers on par with web browser bookmarking features.
Bookmarking a site is not a prerequisite for using a website, whereas installing an app is.

To point to yet another crummy app that performs extremely basic functionality that should probably be part of the os, is not really a sterling defense of the app model.
Wow! It's looking great!
Let's make it like bookmarklet, like here – http://qwerjk.com/force-feed

and you forget about lines and pointer
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I am also very surprised by the lack of outrage in media, either mainstream or even tech related (including blogs and HN / netsec).
Am I the only one who despairs over redundant hashtags being appended to everything?
Well this is how it is now I'm afraid. There are "data scientists" using IPython convinced that they themselves and the tools they use are on the cutting edge. Like there are database people who think MongoDB is advanced. Or web guys using their favourite "framework" kidding themselves they're doing anything more complicated than Perl CGIs did in 1994.

It's like an Amiga owner being shown a "multimedia" PC in 1995 and thinking, I was doing all this 10 years ago.
I am sure if you went to any big CS university in your area you could find some grad student who well versed in the requisite knowledge in being a good C++ programmer (Like Algorithm design, linear algebra, discrete math), and have them tutor you, generally the going rate is about $20-40 an hour. I would also make it a point to make sure they are proficient in what they say they are, a good set of questions or something of that sort. Find someone who enjoys reciting what they know, and will let you pick their brain.
It's definitely absurd, but come on, unconscionable makes it sound like it's more irresponsible than the industry standard - when in fact it is less.

My guess is that they are close to shipping 10.9.2 and decided to hold on for that, not realizing how much attention this bug would get.

Yes, I agree that's a stupid call to make, but most smartphones have far worse unpatched vulnerabilities.

Also, it's worth saying that negative attention probably has little effect on Apple. In this case it's totally justified and well deserved, but the vast majority of it is 'they rejected my flappy bird app', or 'why Apple should fire Tim cook', so this doesn't add much to the pile.
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It's C :) edit: It's Linux kernel :)

/* current power of three, init to 3^0 */
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The security flaw is inside a library that has been released under a bsd style license (otherwise, the "goto fail;" hilarity would never have ensued). You're free to download the source of the 10.9 library, patch it, compile it and replace the vulnerable binary with the one you fixed.
If the bug affects Software Update, couldn't we use it to patch it ourselves? We could basically MITM our own machines to apply our own patch.

The above just made me think: This is a great datapoint in support of RMS and his rants against the dangers of proprietary software. Should we really be clamoring to some company for a fix, when we should just be able to patch it ourselves? (Should we choose to take the risk.) It's times like this when I feel like I don't quite own my own machine.
If they need more than a day to recompile one library with a one-line change and see if it still boots and runs software update, then they have much bigger issues than this single bug.

It's now been 5 days PLUS however long they sat on this for ios.
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As Yoda would say :
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It's not like iOS is some tiny little thing, but they got it out much sooner.

If their build process is so broken that it takes days to take the 10.9.1 tag, apply a one-line patch, and release it, then they're doing it severely wrong. Security problems happen, and you need to be ready to move fast.

Personally, if I was on that team and it came down to taking days to recompile and retest everything, I'd be seriously considering a binary patch as an interim fix. Take the actual built binaries, apply this one patch, and you know nothing else got somehow miscompiled or mislinked in the process.
There's a problem here. browsers do not send Referrer when on an https site. And they refuse to work without the header

For geeks: could not find "Referrer" header.
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Crowd crashed seems like the perfect word for this.
There's actually nothing technical on any mobile platform preventing apps from linking together. The reason it's not done is that in-the-cloud companies prefer the intermediary links be done in the cloud where the data can be analysed (inter app analytics is big business), and users actually find it disconcerting or mildly confusing, when the cloud model is actually that much worse for them.

What amuses me about the "web will win" crowd is you don't have to dig very far to find they all have a radically different conception of what they mean by the web.
You can make a custom form submit to a Google Forms endpoint, and it will go straight into a Google spreadsheet.
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I can't afford to switch environments at the moment. I don't however use any apple applications such as calendar/reminders/safari. Does this mean I have a modicum of relative safety?

https://www.imperialviolet.org:1266/ produces an error for me. And from what I gather that means I am at least safe using google chrome on OSX.
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No need to MITM anything. You can just patch the binaries on disk. People have already done the legwork for it: http://www.sektioneins.de/en/blog/14-02-22-Apple-SSL-BUG.htm...
Don't put everyone into one bottle. There are many different types of people who want many different types of lifestyles. There are also plenty of stories of people who gain huge success this way but hate their lives.
I think you do misunderstand it -- no one has been able to transfer bitcoin out of MtGox for weeks now.
Most likely it's that they're trying to do the patch in 10.9.2, and have a lot of non-bug-fix related 10.9.2 stuff to work out (they've done 7 prerelease builds to developers of 10.9.2 already).

The manager who is holding the SSL fix hostage to 10.9.2's shitty feature-adds should be terminated out of a cannon. It's hilarious that we don't know who that person is -- who is the head of software security at Apple? From what I've heard there are at least two separate teams, and the relevant team is closely tied to Federighi, but no one outside Apple (generally) knows sub-SVP people at Apple.

There should be 10.9.1.1 with just the SSL fix. If that means delaying 10.9.2 another month, so be it.
Does "wire fraud" even exist anywhere else in the world besides the good old USofA?
It was strategic thinking. One could argue whether it worked or not, but it was an application of game theory to international relations.
Software updates are signed by Apple's key, only signed and verified files can be installed by software update
That's an interesting line of thought, but:

1. if they can't use the update service, then they can't deploy anything that they're coding up anyways.

2. I assume they sign their updates, so it shouldn't matter that the channel is compromised.
That would be all the more reason for them to have released the update simultaneously with the iOS update.

Although we still don't know how this was discovered or if it's in the wild.
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Can this be applied recursively? Can you go short on your own going short, then go short on that as well?
I tried it. Didn't work.
Telegram's website has got a great layout that encourages you to install right on the first page. TextSecure's looks like a badly designed startup pitch deck. While Telegram uses misleading language that takes advantage of normal people's cognitive heuristics, TextSecure has in-jokes about anarchists and socialist revolutionaries. They're completely out of touch with normal users.
You can always switch from Safari and Mail to Firefox and Thunderbird which do not suffer from this bug. As a bonus, they are also cross-platform, making it easier to switch to Linux or Windows later should the need or desire arise. As for Facetime, switching to Skype or similar will get you around the bug and permit you to chat, talk, and videochat with people that own technology from all sorts of companies... not just other Apple users (which is silly).
So... yes.
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I'm sorry but for your run of the mill private investor that's awful advice. Unless you know what you're doing and have a very strong understanding of the investment, you are almost _always_ better off sticking your money in a fund (i.e. outsourcing the expertise to someone who does know what they're doing). Any investment involves risk taking but that doesn't mean you should just throw your hands up in the air and double down on 16 red.
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That appears to be correct if you look here: http://www.vill.ee/entry.php?17-GLSL-shading-in-WebGL

>Texture raytracing to simulate cornea refractions
I think simply not using Safari will mitigate most of the impact for most users on OSX.
Bad joke, consider it withdrawn.
Do you have examples of these far worse unpatched vulnerabilities? Not saying they aren't there, but I'd like to know what they are.

Anyway, I stand by "unconscionable" either way. It implies nothing about the industry standard. If Apple's unconscionable actions here are still better than the industry standard (and I'm skeptical about that, hence the "if", but even given that) then that just means the industry standard is unconscionable.

Why is it worth saying that negative attention probably had little effect on Apple? I really could not possibly care less about this. My statements are based on impact to the users including myself, not the price of AAPL or its balance sheet.
Thanks, this is a great response. I see the problem now. The SNR is plenty high enough for my use case of searching for content and following links, but to ensure that a high number of the links that I follow have good answers, it's important to keep the SNR reasonably high for those who are looking through the firehose for things to answer. Makes sense.
I enjoy that they're serving the patch over HTTP with no signatures or anything. So their patch may be just as useless or maybe make things even worse due to MITM
I can already read about 1200wpm normally, without that technique, but how fast can I go with this technique? Honest question. I've read that speed readers read 1500wpm, but I didn't learn this. Just got bored reading slow and tried some stuff. There is a big bad side to this. At school I had to read a part 3-4 times at least, because otherwise they didn't believe that I already read it. That's because everyone else was still reading.
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... am I the only one that thinks "pound" would be a better phrase than "hashtag" when saying these out loud ?

Cuts syllable usage in half ... has worked for decades with irc channel names ...
I'm not a Mathematica user, but I've always enjoyed browsing the Mathematica Stack Exchange, which might be what you're looking for. For example, here someone asks how to generate random snowflakes, and many interesting solutions are provided.

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/39361/how-to-...

Edit: here's a more real-life example, peeling labels from jars http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/5676/how-to-p...
I wanted to nominate myself but didn't have enough helpful flag. Which makes sense, because I DON'T ABUSE FLAGS.
Not any more than using an email like:

firstname@domain.com
firstletterlastname@domain.com
Firstname.lastname@gmail.com

Look, spam happens (unless you obfuscate your address to be unmemorable or unprofessional). Modern email filters are pretty good.
Point of interest, it's actually "Referer" - a misspelling that dates back to the original HTTP RFC 1945.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer
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Cool idea -- what kind of spam protection can it offer though?

I'm not worried about the email address being in the open, but my original contact page form was getting hundreds (thousands?) of spam submissions a day until I implemented some simple javascript 'traps' to filter out the bots.

I've still not worked out why a bot wants to fill in a contact form with spam anyway, seems like a real waste of time.
> or at the very least they don't give a crap about anything at all

They were the market leader, with substantial revenue and lots of cash flow.

Why they didn't prioritize hiring some people and securing their platform is still beyond my understanding. It's up there with the $100+ billion in cash Apple is evidently not using to hire enough code reviewers or implement adequate security processes for their most important and sensitive code that supports their entire (massively profitable) business.

I really wonder where people's priorities are. They're not total morons; it must be an interesting reason why these circumstances happen. It's not hard to solve these problems with money - so there has to be a neat (if utterly dysfunctional) story behind it.

Seriously, guys. Spend $20 on a flu shot for your golden goose.
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It's somewhat disconcerting that I find the "hacker attitude" in the first few slides of camlistore impressive.
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After the debacle around Yahoo buying a majority share I'm somewhat surprised that Microsoft would still be interested.
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Oh, cool! I've seen examples of the Reader monad in Scala, but we use the Cake pattern for dependency injection (self types and multiple inheritance)

http://www.cakesolutions.net/teamblogs/2011/12/19/cake-patte...
You are relying on third parties to accept the gold you receive for approximately the same value you spent to obtain it.

You have some apples, and Alice has some oranges. You would like some oranges, but Alice doesn't want any apples. So you go to Bob and sell Bob some apples for gold. You give Bob a bushel of apples, Bob gives you a bar of gold. Now you go take this bar of gold to Alice and try to trade it to Alice for a bushel of oranges. Alice tells you to fuck off, she doesn't want a bar of gold any more than she wants an apple. Bob doesn't want his bar of gold back, no backsies. No one in town wants a bar of gold, in fact.
Signed up for an invite on your site; looking forward to it.
I could be wrong, but it looks like it requires CGI
I just discovered Ragel also, and was wondering if you or anyone else might know of a tool that could convert a coroutine or generator to a state machine? I asked about it on stack overflow but so far no responses:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21713904/convert-coroutin...
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I'd say anyone who bought a house at the peak of the housing market also lost a significant fraction of their net worth. Should we say those are the ones who really should have taken the time to know better? Consider just how many people lost a significant fraction of their wealth and now have underwater mortgages. Do you see where I'm going here? Caveat emptor really does only go so far. That's why at the end of the day, there's supposed to be regulation, to ensure a safe place as possible for people to conduct their economic activity, realizing that risk is still unavoidable. There's acceptable risk, and then there's, oh-no-those-bankers-were-pulling-some-nasty-tricks-and-the-public-suffers risks.
Did you have cofounders at that point?
My guess is that since on iOS every "browser" uses mobile Safari as a backend it was critical. On Mac, Chrome and Firefox do not have this issue, so it isn't as much of an issue. I'm not sure what percentage of Mac users use Safari.
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I think it's different.

Inexperienced (young) programmers don't know what's been tried, and what's available. I've been dealing with this a lot at work recently, where we ended up doing poor reimplementations of off-the-shelf stuff due to a mix of ignorance, and honestly, a bit of hubris.

It's a good attitude to have in academia/non-production critical work, but the GP is right, production demands a more conservative approach, especially when money/safety is at stake.

The type of ignorance Joel writes about (see parent) is different, it's more like "slavishly following design patterns" and "writing copy-and-pasted, improperly factored code". Both are ignorance, but the first is better called "NIH", whereas Joel's is, "writing bad code".
Or since most people who did switch after the WhatsApp announcement already switched to Telegram or Threema and are not very likely to switch again, push these vendors to improve (Telegram) or open (Threema) their architectures.
Indeed, I think his la-la-la-I-can't-hear-you position is a reaction to the incredible wave of irrational exuberance around BitCoin.

That's certainly how I feel about it. I'm sure there are people capable having a rational, nuanced discussion about it. But 99.7% of what I see online is glibertarians, gold bugs, utopians, tulip bulb salesmen, tinfoil-hat survivalists, people dreaming of the singularity with one hand in their pants, sociopaths, wannabe-drug lords, day-trader driftwood, sexist creeps [1], and people who make Richard Stallman look reasonable and well-groomed.

I'm hoping that this crash is severe enough to get us to the Trough of Disillusionment [2], so we can find out if there's a pony in there somewhere [3]. But honestly, I doubt it.

[1] http://www.ariannasimpson.com/this-is-what-its-like-to-be-a-... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle [3] http://judymintz.com/2012/12/04/theres-got-to-be-a-pony-some...
More (only because I'm learning this as I go): the balance shows the flow of funds in and out of that account. I've traced a bunch to various endpoints and through intermediaries:

https://blockchain.info/charts/balance?timespan=all&showData...

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1yvdcd/heres_a_summ...
Email is and continues to be important to many to receive a paycheck. I'm very quick to scold clients and other professionals I interact with who send me texts instead of email. I can see email being supplanted by tools like Basecamp, however, and I wouldn't be surprised to see Facebook start to go in that direction ("Facebook for the enterprise")
Downloading your game right now. The fact that your app didn't require any extra permission is great. I wish more developers would follow this.
More than doubling your revenues on an existing product is never easy. Doubling production won't do it, because those most willing to pay will be satiated and it won't command the same price. Also, cocaine involves more processing and coca plants grow more slowly and need more space than cannabis, so even doubling revenues isn't going to double profits. It also takes a good year before coca plants can be harvested - and retooling a supply chain can always be expensive. Meth might be easier, but still suffers from the same market depth issue, and still involves building out more infrastructure, which is still expensive. It's also likely to raise the costs of precursors, which will again limit profits.

I really don't see that any of these considerations are any different due to it being a black market - if you think they are, explain why.
That brings up a point of confusion for me. As understand the news, Mt Gox didn't lose a single dollar. They lost 700K BTC. It is neither being pedantic, nor beside the point that this is not the same as $400M. It is the point.
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The app purchase process is definitely broken. You can't trust ratings, and it's hard to know what you get. In the end it's just "I'll toss a few dollars and roll the dice."

I really want high quality education software for kids. The only thing that works is word of mouth. App store reviews don't help. Googling the topic produces mostly reviews that may or may not be ads.

I'm waiting for Netflix of the App World.
If I were the NSA, I'd be keeping track of the full blockchain.
And they go out of their way to give you a version that's all scripted up for you so you can apply it without knowing what's going on!
As opposed to proof-of-work, where the people investing in mining rigs get richer.
Those kinds of guys don't seem like the type to trade cash, which they know well, for magical internet money that they know nothing about.
Also, any strongly positive or negative correlations to the price movements in other financial instruments.

It hardly matters that Bitcoin spikes and crashes its price every so often if you can't move your other investments around to profit from it. For this reason, every hedge fund manager on the planet is constantly looking for strongly negatively correlated prices that no one else knows about yet, or paying quants to invent instruments that show such behavior so that they have the information advantage until the other guys' quants decipher the formulas.

The graph that shows price vs time for a single asset is not a great thing to look at in isolation if your goal is to make piles of money on it.
And they want 15% of the world reading like this by 2016? (Did I remember that right?)
Hangouts is one of the worst messaging services I've ever used, and it pains me to be so locked into it. Unfortunately all of my friends and I jumped in on Google Talk back when it was still great, and no suitable alternative has yet come forth.

I was also an early adopter of Google Voice, which is now heavily integrated with Hangouts, and the recent merger of the two services has made it even worse. When Hangouts is signed in on my desktop and I receive a phone call on my GV number it will often only ring on my desktop and not on my phone, and there is no way to turn this feature off.

Additionally, some of my friends have poor internet service and Hangouts handles that about as well as a toddler falling down an up escalator. Messages are frequently significantly delayed or dropped altogether, we often find ourselves asking each other what messages we have and have not received because our chat windows frequently do not match up.

There are few things more infuriating than having a messaging service tell me it has delivered a message when it actually silently failed to send it.
Wow - great to see IIT taking the lead on this. This can dramatically advance the engineering education across India. Of course the limiting factor in MOOCs is student attention. You still need to put in the time to learn.
It surprised me to see the digit forms in the table at the bottom in use so late, since roman and italic types from the late 1400s look so familiar, but then i realized that the various samples I've seen likely had no digits at all. The earliest I can find quickly is from 1501†. Anyone know more? It seems plausible to me that these early roman & italic types established a standard by the newly wide dissemination of these forms, as they did for certain punctuation.‡

† http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Livro-Aldus.jpg

‡ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semicolon