MediaBehavior
Re:Cracked Siri has been successfully ported to an iPhone 4
on Saturday October 15, 2011 @09:17PM (#3116250)
FWIW: I seem to recall something said at the keynote (or many a discussion afterward) that the greater power of the 4s' A5 was "needed". [ correct me if I just dreamt that ]
Not that that should stop anybody from processing it with an A4-powered iPhone.
Re:Why isn't all Internet traffic encrypted?
on Saturday October 15, 2011 @03:36PM (#3115585)
> 1. Encryption really was expensive in 1996 or so, but in the age of multicores, its questionable if there's a real cost now.
A lot of "budget-priced" hosting services are near-free for http and heavily-surcharged for https. - Pricing it to make it seem as if there were some huge cost difference. Makes a difference when shoestring clubs/nonprofits want to throw up a cheap static site.
Re:Forced Exercise's Effects on the Brain
on Thursday October 13, 2011 @09:02AM (#3107025)
Read the NYTimes article... you learn that the two sets of pedals are 1:1 connected. Your partner pedals faster and you have to pedal faster. Maybe not harder - but you do have to keep pace.
Re:Ask HN: Where/How do I learn about credit card payments and payment...
on Sunday October 09, 2011 @04:50AM (#3090048)
Plus, stripe.com has become visible only so recently (couple weeks) that other discussions linked here may not even include stripe. "A game changer by introducing developer-friendliness" is the takeaway that I got from the HN discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3053883
Ergomaven Work - Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics
Re:Tell HN: Another PayPal Farce - Refunds my money to customer
on Sunday October 02, 2011 @01:29PM (#3063402)
1000+ HN points can't be all wrong. From 2 days ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3053883
Xeround reinvents MySQL atop Amazon cloud
Re:UK government response to my letter about programming in schools
on Monday September 26, 2011 @11:08AM (#3039283)
I concur about what you say (although it's not exactly an argument for teaching programming).
How different would the online world be if knowledge were universal about:
- copy/paste
- cmd/ctl +/- for resizing
- why password mgmt matters - and its basic principles
Self-educated web-surfers out there have amazing gaps in their knowledge - for things that are practically spinal reflexes to even a low-grade hacker like myself.
HTML5 Adoption Might Hurt Apple's Profit, Research Finds CIO.com
Re:SSL Certificate Scandal Exposes Bug in Mac OS X
on Friday September 02, 2011 @09:10AM (#2953942)
Safari 5.1 won't even let me try that link, saying:
"Safari can't open the page... because Safari can't establish a secure connection to the server 'service.diginotar.nl' "
Re:Japanese breakthrough will make wind power cheaper than nuclear
on Tuesday August 30, 2011 @09:23AM (#2941290)
So the diameter more than the width of a football (NFL) field. And... one of those per each household? Besides the visual obstruction, just finding such space for each abode is daunting anywhere (not to mention somewhere with the population density of Japan).
EDIT: Or, consider the transmission costs from areas where such land is available.
Dropbox adds Lion support; fixes public URL generation
Re:Web Development Recipes Now in Beta
on Wednesday August 17, 2011 @02:05PM (#2896248)
Does that mean that whenever you recommend server-side solutions that the server must have Ruby set up?
[OT question that has blocked this PHP-hobbyist from dabbling in RoR: do professionals ever add a new functionality as part of a web app via RoR when the bulk of project has already been built with something like PHP? (looking for motivation to start some experimentation in Ruby)]
Re:China Applauds UK Move To Restrict Access To Social Media
on Wednesday August 17, 2011 @01:55PM (#2896215)
supposed by some.
Their parliament seems to have been effective in prohibiting that use of footage of parliament be used for parody. [see recent blackout of a John Stewart segment]
Re:Ww.com is up for auction
on Wednesday August 17, 2011 @09:37AM (#2895283)
And as for the "domain squatting" accusation... I don't see how that can apply to ww.com since it seems to be up and running at this moment.
Re:My ideas are shitty so I'm going on an Internet diet
on Wednesday August 17, 2011 @06:20AM (#2894783)
http://www.readability.com/
Takes me only a moment (upon landing at such a page) to hit my R bookmarklet. [Though there is now the pause while they process and resend from their server; I preferred the classic in-browser processing.]
Re:Philips wins $10M L Prize for LED-based 60W replacement bulb
on Thursday August 04, 2011 @10:05AM (#2846003)
After more than a year's use I've only had one failure of cheap CFL I bought in a package of 6 or so (for only about $60US at Wallys/Sams or some such). I wouldn't have paid $4/ea, but at <$2/ea they were hardly more expensive than tungsten.
Re:Google: You need identity
on Sunday July 31, 2011 @10:14AM (#2828349)
Better than email, I've always liked the idea of using URL to my own web site as an identity.
Even if not everyone eventually obtained their own domain name, the idea of using some URI as a (self-chosen) identifier seems to me attractively powerful - as long as one is able to re-select at later time).
Re:Mark Suster: One Book Every Entrepreneur and VC Should Own
on Monday July 25, 2011 @12:37PM (#2803332)
But then it wouldn't be just "like having Brad whispering in your ear when you pitch VCs," as one Amz customer revr said.
Helping hot private companies stay private -- maybe forever
Apple's iWallet on the Way in Time for iPhone5?
Media choose HTML5 web-apps over Apple/Google app platforms
Re:How to Make Text Look Interesting: Minimalist Web Design
on Friday June 24, 2011 @01:38PM (#2693080)
Couldn't find it at Amz, and thereby learned the title seems to be actually The Elements of Typographic Style 3rd edition, 2004 is ISBN 0881792063 --hope that helps
Re:The checkered past of Groupon's chairman
on Friday June 10, 2011 @04:18PM (#2642257)
How much skepticism will need to be raised before investors are deterred from funding "a possible bonanza"?
I also wonder how much Groupon is riding high based on the reasoning, "Well, if _Google_ thought highly enough of it..."
(forgetting that Google was willing to bet on it _on_condition_ that Google had control/oversight of the operation)
Re:Hacking Challenge: Change this website's homepage picture and win $...
on Thursday June 09, 2011 @06:40AM (#2636621)
One thing that time is telling: 24 hours later and this security firm has not yet removed the defaced image. :/
Re:Citi Confirms Data Breach at Citi Account Online
on Thursday June 09, 2011 @06:37AM (#2636613)
Reporter (in Bangalore) cites his source as Financial Times.
Googling offers: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/885a54e8-9225-11e0-9e00-00144feab4...
Which says, "The US bank on Wednesday revealed details of the breach...
And MarketPlace.com is similarly unforthcoming: "Citi reportedly said it discovered the breach in early May, and that it had affected about 1% of its card customers, according to a report in the Financial Times, citing a Citi statement." Link:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/citi-customer-data-exposed-...
And Reuters says little more. That's (to me) one of big disappointments of journalism (on/offline): lack of citation for further investigation.
Re:"My current theory is that programming is quite literally writing."
on Wednesday June 08, 2011 @09:26AM (#2632986)
And is not (good) writing also about logic - even though sometimes it's fuzzy or the (twisted) logic of human psychology?
Writing requires "logicking out" the likely responses of the reader - and the pseudologic of parsing by the human brain (see Dan Ariely's "Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions").
Re:An eruption from the Sun that happened today
on Tuesday June 07, 2011 @05:58PM (#2631068)
Yeah, but it's going to take science a while just to find the corners on the earth. ;)
Re:How Internet sales taxes in CA could drive VigLink & others out of ...
on Tuesday June 07, 2011 @01:29PM (#2630050)
From what browser? I had no problem with either Mac-FF or Safari.