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> why it's taking so long to fix it on the Mac side

So, it turns out that they had a point release very far down the release engineering pipeline that included several new features (FaceTime Audio, FT call waiting, Mail bugfixes, et c).

A few days ago when the TLS bug became widely known they had two options: push a point release for _just that_ near-immediately, followed by the existing planned release (after redoing QA because the TLS changes would require the feature-add release be rechecked), or just integrate the TLS fix and restart QA on the planned release. They opted for making everyone wait a few days and just doing one release.

It was a trade-off, and both would have been okay decisions IMHO. There is a non-zero downside to releasing OS updates too frequently with an installed base as large as OSX.

"Unconscionable" it would have been if it had dragged on for a week or more. This was probably a heroic effort by the release engineering team(s) to get it out in in the timeframe that they did (after opting for just one release).
Or more importantly, to stop someone sending an email to N different emails just 1 time?

EDIT: Okay, I missed the part where the email must be registered with them. Assuming no one is interested in spamming with the confirmation email, which seems fair.
Based on the old adage that 'if you aren't paying for it, you're the product', where do I find the pricing model for TextSecure?

Are there plans to charge? If so, how much and when? If not, why is it free?
There are Richard Feynmans in math, biology, physics, computer science, etc.

I'm not sure there are Richard Feynmans in startups or similarly "soft" fields.
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What happens when Pirates bored an unmanned ship?

Negativity aside, this looks like the future I hope that consumer grade cars/transportation will eventually have this. I can imagine a highway of the future with a lane for autonomous vehicles instead of truck drivers.

Heck most airplanes fly themselves.
I highly doubt they have boats anywhere near that powerful.
What about non-Mavericks versions of OS X?
They SHOULD pay secured creditors which could include domain provider. I dont imagine its customers are SECURED .. so will be last .. in a proper insolvency..
I believe the hack is buying one ticket and then going to the back door and letting in 10 of your friends.
I no longer recall the title of the book but I read the history of this in the U.S. I did not say welfare grows the welfare class. It grows the number of single mothers who, thus, live in poverty. When welfare was designed in the U.S., "poor, single moms" were mostly widows and considered "deserving poor." They did everything right -- got married, had kids within the bonds of marriage, etc -- and had something unfortunate happen.

In Europe, a lot of "welfare" type programs are designed to help women or pregnant women or children or families regardless of income level or marital status. In the U.S., such aid is almost always tied to some criteria proving you "need" it. So you can't get help until a) you already screwed up and b) you are willing to fill out forms testifying that you are a screw up. This has substantial negative psychological impacts that I don't think you see in Europe (yes, I lived in Europe for a time and have read books and articles comparing European policies to American ones in this area).
True, but that's not at all uncommon. Perhaps it was submitted by the same person? Still, that'd hardly be a reason to shut down the conversation.
Very well done.

It actually always baffles me that so much of biology takes place on scales that are very close to human perception. When looking at microscope images, the sizes of things become very abstract. Atoms and cells might as well be of the same size.

But a 0.1 mm object is perceptible to the naked eye. This resolution is just an order of magnitude too crude to see individual cells (the human egg cell is just barely visible to the naked eye), and two orders of magnitude cruder than the resolution limit of optical microscopes. Imagine how differently science might have progressed if we had known about cells before inventing the microscope!
Elegant and elegant, the swizzle (alter it in runtime) the class to remove observers on dealloc (afaik I haven't seen the source yet)
I always thought it was pretty grim that Boston's "Charlie Card" was named after a man who was 'trapped' in the subway system because he couldn't afford to pay his way out.
Yeah, but webmail sort of fixed the disappearing email address problem. That's what I meant.
Agree with all your points.

For those who want to SMS from their desktop or tablet, http://mightytext.net/ solves the following problem:

|When you want to send/receive messages on your desktop, or tablet as well.
Funny thing about hangouts and SMS merge is that you can get away on a bill cycle or two of "texting" overdrafts by claiming stupidity to the whole merger things (which in itself is so damn stupid). What really annoys the shit out of though is that you can't text people from your contact list without taping all kinds of shit, it's really the worst UI of recent I've ever experienced and makes me hate google.
> Businesses fail all the time. Most startups fail. Should we have more startup regulation?

No, I want regulations for all other industries except my own. My industry is fine.
A bargain in Keyhole Downs is always too good to be true.
If someone competent want to start an exchange, why would they pay to be associated with the MtGox brand? After all of this, that brand must be poisonous.
Zircons are industrially useful as the primary ore for zirconium metal. If you keep it reasonably cool, like under red hot, it makes a great nuclear fuel rod protective cladding, assuming you refine out the hafnium which does little good in a fuel rod. Its also good for high temp ceramics, although too expensive for your fireplace, probably. If you get the metal red hot and dip it in water it does a fair impersonation of sodium being dumped in water at room temp. Unfortunately, recently, an extremely large demonstration of this effect was performed in Japan with predictable outcome.

Anyway there's lots of profit involved, leading to lots of geological research, leading to interesting discoveries.
10.8 and earlier are not vulnerable.
But it's good enough that an auto scraper or spam bot will find it easily.
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I wonder if mozilla plans to merge this back into b2g eventually, and how easy that will be. They have several very exciting projects on the go, but some seem to be heading in different directions.
Ask HN: How will Comcast provide better service for Netflix content?
Comcast and Netflix recently struct a deal last week that will improve the quality of Netflix video streaming [1]. What I would like to know is how exactly will this work? I envision two scenarios, which I will explain in a very general sense.

1. Comcast detects Netflix network data and somehow gives it preferential treatment.

2. Comcast uses algorithms to predict which videos are most likely to be watched in specific regions, and store the relevant video data locally so that network calls are more efficient (aka caching). I think this would be similar to the service that InstartLogic provides.

Which (if any) of these scenarios are happening? If it is the second, it seems like a really exciting innovation, and the story should receive much more positive reception in the media that it currently has.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/24/business/media/comcast-and-netflix-reach-a-streaming-agreement.html?_r=0
http://instartlogic.com/
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"Out of 60,334 of these route pairs, Haque says that switching mid-route for 4,666 of them could save at least $1 together."

Two things.

First, that's an awfully low number of people who could take advantage of this hack.

Second, You're going to save $1??? Not sure the savings to effort ratio on this one really makes sense.
In what universe is having a $400,000 bank account not winning the lottery?

Silicon Valley. Remember the guy talked about at the beginning of "The Social Network" who commits suicide because he exited with "only" 3 million?
I'm disappointed that "WHO IS YOUR DADDY AND WHAT DOES HE DO" doesn't appear to be a key phrase.
If you missed it there is OS X update.
You also probably missed a good book, check out „Mystical man month" by Fred Brooks.
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Which means the pirates just have to wait around with gas masks on until you do that.
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It's definitely included in that update. Just tested Safari post-update.

http://imgur.com/qXLQUSh
I was in downtown for about six months. I left about 18 months ago. I have no idea if we ever met. There is a profile pic of me from that time in my personal blog (not my homeless blog), though seeing someone once more than 18 months ago might not stick with your memory.
> As for needing dollars to pay taxes: That doesn't really make much sense, does it? If people didn't want to use it for anything but for paying taxes, how much taxes would they have to pay?

As long as taxes are collected other than based on just income in the form of dollars, just as much (or possibly, quite a bit more in real terms) as if they wanted dollars for everything else as well as paying taxes.

> If noone wants to actually have dollars, its market value would be zero, so if you measure the income that you want to tax in dollars, it would also be zero

Wrong, if the market value of dollars was near zero, and you have a tax system that has taxes other than on cash income (e.g., ad valorem property taxes, income taxes that include as income the cash value of non-cash goods and services received in place of cash income, etc.) but demands taxes in dollars, than the tax in dollars will be very large numbers, which will require you to acquire very large numbers of dollars to pay. (If the value of dollars was actually zero, the tax would be infinite, but then, the value of dollars won't actually be zero, because as the value of dollars declines, the number of them needed to meet tax obligations increases, which shores up the value.)
When I say unethical players I mean Mt.Gox who's master plan was apparently to hide their insolvency while at the same time creating enough uncertainty to tank the price so they could arbitrage their money problems away.
No sign of 4k@60Hz on the rMBP for the 32" Dell then?
Half of most apps I know of live in the /lib directory.
I would hope the built-in software-upgrade process does exactly that (independent of transport-layer SSL), but I have no evidence either way.

The manual-download pages on http://support.apple.com/downloads/ publish SHA1 sums. Unfortunately those pages aren't served over SSL. You could download the update and compare its hash against those of your friends: at least then you'd all be installing the same thing (preventing narrowly-targetted attacks).
Going from foodstamps to a $19B exit is not an example of "the rich getting super rich".

There are phenomenal obstacles to overcome when going from foodstamps to something resembling an upper-middle class life. Even more so when you're an immigrant. That's the real truth.

You're close to rock-bottom with foodstamps. Unless you've experienced poverty - not the "why can't I have $400,000 what makes this prick so special" meme that's pervading the comments on this post, but the kind of poverty that is inescapable, makes you feel hopeless about your circumstance, and constantly forces you to make stark choices about which of the basic necessities you'll have to do without for the month - then there really is no basis to calling Koum's story "warped".

An example of poverty here: http://qr.ae/tgPlq. Tl;dr - this guy went through bucketloads of shit, and still isn't out of the woods yet. Food stamps were of no use. Quote FTA: "... poverty can happen even to people you couldn't imagine it happening to, and when it does, it traps you like an ant lion." It's not the same story as Koum's, but what most people don't realize is how difficult it is to pull yourself out of poverty, especially when faced with mounting debts and health problems.

The fact that he went from virtually nothing to $400,000 in savings to the $19B exit is something that should be applauded, not derided.
they might want to reconsider their branding, given how popular the Go language has become.
The article is wrong. The two people are going the same direction on a Richmond-bound train which travels from Milbrae through Glen Park to Embarcadero and onto Berkeley.

There is also an example of doing the same thing on DC's Metrorail.
Who is this "we" you speak of?
If this was a feasible idea, they would have done it already, to discourage piracy of manned ships -- just have the cargo areas sealed up and filled with poison gas. But it's not feasible for multiple reasons:

* A modern cargo ship isn't a rigid, airtight vessel, it's somewhat flexible and certainly not airtight above the waterline.

* Also, the cargo on a modern cargo ship isn't inside the ship as in the old "On the Waterfront" days when unskilled laborers loaded and unloaded ships, it's all out on the deck in the form of cargo containers:

http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/0...
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Cool service, I signed up already. I wonder though, how big do you think this market really is? I feel like this might be just a small subset of the airbnb market.
Hi Amiad! Congrats and good luck first of all!

I would like to know how do you feel creating a startup totally built upon another company's service?
How do you deal with and mitigate the risk of it?

My own startup is completely based on Facebook's check-in feature, and this worries me a lot. I deal with knowing I am still under their radar, but it is the first thing I want to create a plan b to after I get some market validation.

I mean, don't you fear AriBnb pulls a twitter on you somehow? Do you plan to expand your services further than AirBnb?
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> If that were feasible, shipping companies would have done it already.

For shipping companies, it's not about feasibility. It's about profits. Thanks to insurance, they can afford to pay a ransom every now-and-then and therefore don't need to make the ships as secure as profits. Having no crew onboard would lower operating costs, leaving them with more money to spend on anti-piracy measures. And even then, they would only do it if the cost of adding said measures is less than the cost of insurance.

> Just look at Internet crime and compare it with old-style bank robberies to see my point

That's not really a fair comparison, is it. Bank robbers aren't after ransoms, and neither are the guys who robbed MtGox.
Thank you for replying. I am trying to understand what benefit there is to studying the frequency and strength. How is that information used? What good does it do you to know?

I am sorry if I sound obtuse. I am genuinely trying to understand this. I have a serious medical condition which causes extreme acidification. Reversing the acidity has reversed a lot of my symptoms. I did not need a fancy test to do that. So I am trying to understand ... why people do this sort of thing, I guess. It makes no sense to me but what I do makes no sense to other people. I don't know how to cross that communication gap right now. I am trying to figure it out.
You say this as someone who does not understand the issue at all and has a very naive take on it.
Alas, voice of tptacek was not heard on this issue for some reason :(
What convinced your whole network to switch to Telegram? Privacy concerns?
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Of course.

If it was an honest mistake, they're not going to publically throw an employee under the bus.

If it was a malicious action from the NSA, they're not allowed to make it public.

I suspect the only hypothetical way we'd hear about the "who" is if an employee weakened it for his own personal gain, and criminal charges were raised.
Looks like it risks $250 fine for:

(2) Misuse of a transfer, pass, ticket, or token with the intent to evade the payment of a fare.

See California Penal Code 640(c)(2)
http://www.sacrt.com/penalcode.stm
I've never liked Hangouts. It was a very poorly done, poorly thought out and unfinished app that runs very slow on my old phone. That's why to this day I keep using Talk. The Gmail version of Hangouts hasn't been any better, and I've kept using Talk there too as long as I could, until there was that big privacy bug sending people's messages to other people, and I decided to switch to Hangouts. But wouldn't have done it otherwise.

There's also the privacy issues. Google keeps refusing to provide proper privacy for communications that are really supposed to be private, and should be none of their damn business, data mining or not.

I've said it before, as soon as there are privacy-friendly alternatives to Google's app that look good and not like they were designed in 1999 user-hostile, I'll move away from their services. I'm already planning on recommending everyone I know to use TextSecure/Whisper, and I'll do the same as soon as a good DarkMail-based (ugh, yes I cringe at the name, too) client is available (and if the protocol doesn't turn out to be snake oil, of course).

Google should learn from what happened to MtGox, or I could even push the analogy with the recent mass protests/revolutions - if you keep people frustrated long enough and aren't answering to their concerns, they are going to dump you like there's no tomorrow, in a mass-exodus once there's a really good alternative or your latest blunder is so big they can't take it anymore.

Also, whether it's Google+ or Hangouts, Google has gained a bad habit of thinking that if they "own" a platform, they can push whatever crap they want at the users, and force them into using it - and they'll gain market share in that market like magic!

Wrong. What they'll get is at best very little engagement with their app or service, and a lot of pissed off users in the process, that weren't pissed off with Google's other services before, but now are.
They usually never intend to unload cargo, they just hold ship and/or crew hostage until they're paid a ransom. Hence the claim that without a crew on-board the risk of piracy goes down.
This should really have been a separate fix & installed without user interaction. Instead this is 450 Megs & requires a restart. It'll take days for it to get out to those at risk.
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Ask HN:How do you find an idea worth sticking with?
I have lots of ideas some good, some bad. Heck lots are bad for various different reasons. Some of them I have worked on quite abit and still failed. Do you take a shotgun approach or focus on one idea. if more than one how much effort do you put into each? or did you just know this idea was big.
> Has the Bitcoin show been stopped?

No, I don't think so, but the risks inherent in virtual currencies should now be obvious to everyone.

Bitcoin may recover, but I think in the long term, much better software and transaction protocols will be required than now exist. Remember also that Mt. Gox wasn't the only large online Bitcoin theft:

http://www.deepdotweb.com/2014/02/13/silk-road-2-hacked-bitc...
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Not just the existence of corruption and incompetence; I don't think anyone claims that you can completely avoid that. The claim is just that the unregulated systems might be "less bad", that is, less prone to major crisis due to the aforementioned corruption and incompetence.

Personally, I don't hold great faith in the future of Bitcoin as a currency, but so what? It's an experiment! A chance to actually try economic theories that are impossible to test in the real world. I just hope the know-it-all conservative curmudgeons don't kill it before it has a decent chance.
My favorite was "I'M THE PARTY POOPER" from Kindergarten Cop.
Why do I think the time spent on this will never, ever be made up by BART savings, theoretical or otherwise.
Ask HN: How do you know an idea is worth sticking with?
I have lots of ideas some good, some bad. Heck lots are bad for various different reasons. Some of them I have worked on quite abit and still failed. Do you take a shotgun approach or focus on one idea. if more than one how much effort do you put into each? or did you just know this idea was big. I'm working on starting 10 websites and I'm going to put about $1000 into each and see what happens, unless starts to pay off well in these areas: ecommerce, 2 markeptlaces, blog, Saas and android app. not sure about the rest yet. I figure worst off I will gain some good ip resources and skills.
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Sure yeah, Solaris is full of great technologies, it is undeniable, and DTrace is an awesome and unique one.

Now there's one thing those guys can learn from Linux: modesty.
Did you really? I literally don't think I've ever seen anyone recommend MtGox outside of mass media reports, but I might be wrong. I remember seeing online conversations (I think it was either a forum or IRC) from 3 or 4 years ago where the people making MtGox were basically bragging about how incompetent they are, and everyone else was doing a collective facepalm. As far as I can tell, they got a first-mover advantage, which got them into basically every media mention of Bitcoin, which compounded and led to them being the largest exchange for a long time. But my honest impression is that the Bitcoin community has been wary of MtGox for essentially as long as it has existed.
Favorite line: "getting enough honest, heartfelt, sincere and organically earned impressions that offer the necessary audience reach is a pipe dream for most brands"
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You may change your mind after reading some of his blog posts:

http://blog.magicaltux.net/2008/11/30/eve-online-pathfinder/

http://blog.magicaltux.net/2010/06/27/php-can-do-anything-wh...
As the author of IHaskell, I'd love to know what you find lacking! (I agree that there's still a lot of room for improvement) The front-end is entirely IPython, so there's probably not much I can do other than contribute to ipython, but would love to hear concrete suggestions (feel free to use github issues).
Looking at the details of the bug, I'm surprised it wasn't flagged with a warning. Why don't we warn on unconditional gotos?
But what if they don't turn out as good as hoped, why should they be marketed then? This is true in general. If they had crystal ball and saw that technology X is going to be popular at time Y, they they work on it until then and release. However things change, market changes, by the time X is 3/4 done maybe there is no more demand for X, or X just turns out not to work as well as hoped. Going full steam ahead with it just because of sunk costs might not be best use of resources.

So they try something else.

> them the proper marketing so they have a chance to thrive?

For mediocre products to thrive just marketing is not enough. Marketing is a good accelerator for already great products. If they are not great, marketing is working against the flow. Sure one can show people the cool Windows 8 tablet commercial with people dancing in it 100 more times and maybe they'll get a few more sales, but that alone is not going to be enough to make it a success.
This company is really good - http://www.simpleplanning.net/

Lots of good spreadsheets. Not too expensive either.
Would be cool to know what kind of problems is in hiring?
Salaries too high? Too few people? Not enough within 60 miles?
Both qualify as failures to me, but they did have at least a spec.
Speaking of which, we could use some help with hiring, Leo. :)