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NSMetaon iOS 7 Lock Screen Vulnerability Discovered

Tried this with both "immediately" and 15 min on iPad Mini. Reproduced it every time.

As a side note, one can use this bug to access contacts list and send email on behalf of the owner (via share menu in photo stream).

Edit:

Just found out that I can tweet, post to facebook and send email just by using Siri (if that setting is enabled). Although, this might be the correct behavior.

NSMetaon Uber for Everything

Note 'anarcho-communism', not -capitalism. In fairness, I am opposed to anarcho-capitalism for the reason you outlined above:

> namely that money tends to lead to more money

In general, yes - there is no such thing as "panaceatic system", instead I was suggesting to trying to find different methods, organization structures to lower the possibility of (or in ideal world eliminating) power accumulation.

NSMetaon Uber for Everything

> Idealism? Surely. But many anarchists would tell you that anarchism is an ideal, a goal, more than it is a destination to be arrived at in short order.

It always struck me, that so many people discard the idea of anarchism either as "a teenage rebel idealism", terrorism, or simply "not going to work". Hence they go back to capitalism or however things work today.

But in the end, what anarcho-communism is trying to achieve is what most of us would agree with: eliminate poverty and exploitation (via equal rights to access means of production), let people have control over their own lives, direct democracy and self-organization. And when people say it's not going to work, it saddens me that we are not even trying to move in that direction. Of course, it may not ever happen, but innovating in this direction surely could lead us to a better world.

Of course, don't take my word for it, as I'm obviously biased. Instead research the topic if you're interested.

NSMetaon Google's Sergey Brin explains why he paid $330,000 for lab burger

> Is a somewhat brief existence worse than no existence at all?

This would apply to local farms perhaps, but from what I read industrial livestock production is causing suffering to many animals to lower the costs.

Disclaimer: I am not a vegan.

NSMetaon Sophie In North Korea

From what you say, you obviously have no idea what communism is. Not USSR, nor Northern Korea, nor China, etc.. they were never communist countries, not even a "form" of communism. Communism, in its origin form, means no government, gift-economy, direct democracy(as opposed to representative) and workers controlling the means of production.

"A communist society would have no governments, countries, or class divisions." [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism#Etymology_and_termino...

NSMetaon I Have 50 Dollars

Excuse me for a one-off useless comment, but a Communist country never existed. USSR was not communist.

Communism is being described as "A communist society would have no governments, countries, or class divisions."[1] Hence, no rulers. Communism in its essence is a form of Anarchist society.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism#Etymology_and_termino...

NSMetaon Clojure 1.4 released

Did post this earlier today.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3857082

NSMetaon Kickstarter: rails.app

I, for once, don't see a problem with getting paid doing open-source software.

With kickstarter I get an assumption that if for some reason he won't raise enough money - he won't work on the project. That, in my opinion, is wrong. It shouldn't matter if one raises money or not, as long as you like what you're doing. Otherwise why bother in the first place?

NSMetaon Poll: Do programmers care about FaceBook?

You can create a poll here: http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll

NSMetaon Building Memory-efficient Java Applications

I know I should thank you by up voting. But also, just want to say that the guide was a very interesting and insightful read.

NSMetaon Building Memory-efficient Java Applications

This is probably an 'apple and oranges' type of question, but I haven't used Erlang, nor Java to build large applications.

Does anyone know how Erlang compares to Java in regards to memory usage/performance?

NSMetaon Say No to Ireland's SOPA

Just a minor suggestion.

When I signed the petition, the link that says "Find out what else you can do" at the bottom does not work for me. (Windows 7, Chrome 16)

NSMetaon Why I'm a Pirate

I bought all the albums of my favourite performer and don't want to scratch the CDs or waste my time to rip the music from CDs, hence I download them from the web.

Does that count as piracy?

NSMetaon Rarest language? Objective-C has highest job posting to developer activity ratio

| iOS 5 already enables GC (a generational one at that), which already came out for regular Cocoa in in obj-c 2.0

Any links? Otherwise, I assume you're referring to ARC (Automatic Reference Counting) which is not the same as a Garbage Collector. In summary, based on code analysis the compiler(I think this works only with the LLVM compiler) inserts code for sending [ release] messages for you.

NSMetaon Piracy is not a problem; SOPA is not a solution

| There were no startups in the USSR because no one was willing to put a large amount of effort into something that would eventually be owned by the government.

While this is correct, people were prohibited to start their own enterprises in the first place. Hence it's not the lack of profits that stopped the people - it's the fear of getting punished by the government.

In my humble opinion, Soviet Union did not prove that society needs self-profit motivation, not in terms of accumulating wealth. What it did prove is that the State will sooner or later collapse(because of the class war) when it threatens, oppresses and all the power is situated in the hands of a few people at the top.

NSMetaon PDF with the official list of SOPA supporters was removed?

I apologize for this. Originally, I got this URL from the VentureBeat site: http://venturebeat.com/2011/12/22/list-of-sopa-supporters/

NSMetaon Android 4.0 Released for x86

What work:

* Wifi

* Multitouch

* OpenGL ES Hardware acceleration for AMD Radeon chipset

What NOT work (yet):

* Sound

* Camera

* Ethernet

* Hardware acceleration for Intel platform

[-] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/android-x86/JxSLaEDgYB...

NSMetaon Google’s YouTube Uses FFmpeg

My comment is somewhat off-topic.

Google is also using Aspose[1] for their Google Docs' Documents. You can see it's Aspose.Words for Java, if you read the source of the documents you download from Google Docs.

I've checked only for RTF and DOC formats though.

[1] http://www.aspose.com/

NSMetaon Sony's Captcha. View source to see why they don't "get" security

It's funny because this captcha probably required more work (disable right clicks, render tables, etc.) in contrast to a proper one, i.e. assuming they were allowed to use an image generation library.

NSMetaon Face.com's API now recognizes moods

I didn't find anything specific to open source, but in their FAQ[1] they say:

10. Is your API free?

Yes, our API is free, requires attribution and is subject to Rate Limiting. If necessary, these limits are also expandable for free through our Whitelisting program.

[1] http://developers.face.com/docs/faq/

NSMetaon The Google Plus 50 (ideas)

I was thinking over how Google+ fits in my everyday life. To me G+ is a perfect email addition, email with social networking. G+ allows me to address my posts to an individual, circles, public and have a social element to every way I communicate.

What I would like to see in G+:

* Search like in GMail

* Ability to read my email

Though, these are just my initial thoughts and we have yet to see how people would start using G+.

NSMetaon Run Linux in your Browser JSLinux (Update)

It still doesn't work on my Chrome v13.0.767.1 dev on OSX. Nevertheless, I'm glad to see the project is moving fast forward.

NSMetaon IOS games using JavaScriptCore without WebKit

Correct me if I'm wrong: Titanium compiles to Objective-C.

This is, of course, different since it runs actual JavaScript code. Does Apple prohibit use of Titanium? Sorry I wasn't following this for some time.

NSMetaon Russia's Crime of the Century

When I opened my law firm, Firestone Duncan, in Moscow in 1993, I was aware of the dangers of doing business in Russia. The stories about "mafia" groups of tracksuited thugs extorting businesses were well known to me. What I never expected was that the Russian mafia would merge with the government; its members are now the same officials who are supposed to be protecting the public.

As far as I know, in 90s mafia had the strongest influence on government's decisions in Russia. Then again, it might have really became the government. I'm too young to remember and moved from the Soviet Union some time ago.

NSMetaon Esty Vets Launch Postling as a Radian6 for the Non-Marketer

Just FYI, a slight typo in the title: Etsy

NSMetaon Endeavour: YC like startup incubator of Ireland.

Also, they have awesome mentors; e.g. Founders of YC funded company Auctomatic: Patrick and John.

NSMetaon Sendoid (YC W11): Finally, Sharing Big Files Isn’t A Huge Pain

Please, could anyone explain how Sendoid implemented in-browser P2P streaming?

NSMetaon Show HN: SiteSupport.com - Remote Desktop For Webbased Applications

This is a truly useful service. I would definitely be willing to pay for it.

NSMetaon The Solvers' Manifesto

Being able to solve problems outside of your domain knowledge is a very good skill to have. Especially, in start ups.

This manifesto implicitly states that you're either an expert, or a person with broad skills. Why can't one be both: an expert with broad skills ?