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For the record, Chip and PIN is kind of broken...

• "Chip and PIN is Broken" (Murdoch/Drimer/Anderson/Bond, 2010) [PDF] http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/papers/oakland10chipbroken.p...

• "Chip and PIN is Broken" (Murdoch, 27C3, 2010) [Video]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks_w352BS-Q

• "Chip & PIN is definitely broken" (Barisani/Bianco/Laurie/Franken, 2011) [Video]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JABJlvrZWbY ...and slides [PDF]: http://dev.inversepath.com/download/emv/emv_2011.pdf

glitchon Apple is not addressing the Bash bug

Incorrect. OS X does not use bash scripts for DHCP client tasks and was demonstrated to NOT be affected.

The DHCP vector was demonstrated to be an issue with various Linux distributions.

glitchon CSS 3D Solar System

Well, there are two issues here.

(1) Correct proportions of the distances between objects (namely the planets, planetoids, and the Sun), and (2) the correct proportions of the objects themselves.

The links (A) http://www.solarsystemscope.com/ and (B) http://space.jpl.nasa.gov/ show correct proportionality in DISTANCES BETWEEN OBJECTS but NOT the objects themselves.

For correct proportionality for both the distances and the objects themselves, see http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.h...

The problem with http://codepen.io/juliangarnier/pen/idhuG is that both the distances between objects and the objects themselves are not proportionally correct.

glitchon Tmuxp – Manage tmux workspaces through Python objects

𝗩𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxTse5Elq8s ❝Screen vs. tmux faceoff❞ (Jon Jensen, 2012 UTOSC)

𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀:

• http://tmux.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tmux/tmux/FAQ (Notably, the section entitled ❝How is tmux different from GNU screen?❞ at the top.)

• http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/549/tmux-vs-gnu-scre...

• http://www.wikivs.com/wiki/Screen_vs_tmux (Incomplete and lacking, but leaving this link here anyway.)

glitchon $2,999 Mac Pro to go on sale in December

For those looking for expansion:

• (qty. 2) x8 + (qty. 1) x4 PCIe 2.0 w/ Optional built in drivebay for up to four (4) 2.5" SSD or SAS/SATA drives: http://www.magma.com/expressbox-3t

• http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/Thunderbolt/PCIe_Chassis/Merc... (See also http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/Thunderbolt/ for other devices.)

• http://www.sonnettech.com/product/echoexpresschassis.html

glitchon DDOS Mitigation

ISPs that deploy solutions from Arbor Networks are typically very solid. ♥ Peakflow TMS

glitchon iOS 7 “activation required” error on iPhone and iPad

Read the continual developer release notes next time. When Apple released the GM, they had specific instructions about updating from the betas. If you are a developer engaging in the beta program, this is something you should have kept tabs on.

Having said that, yes, Apple should have handled this more smoothly. However, it was documented in the developer documentation.

glitchon Ask HN: What's the most beautiful language in your opinion? Why?

Smalltalk — because of a simplicity in sending messages between parts to create structure. As a signal propagates through various distinctions in a carefully crafted information space, a result emerges.

The LISP family also rather elegant.

glitchon Ask HN: Where do you get your images from?

http://www.istockphoto.com/

glitchon Apple records and keeps users' Siri queries for up to 2 years

Indeed. The more data points, the better. At least for speech recognition personalization for Google Voice Search, it is opt-in: http://support.google.com/android/bin/answer.py?hl=en&an...

Not so long ago, the primary goal of the 1-800-GOOG-411 service was to record people's voice queries for the purpose of bettering their voice recognition technology. After they got sufficient data samples, they discontinued the service.

http://www.infoworld.com/t/data-management/google-wants-your...

> "Google had stated that the company originally implemented GOOG-411 to build a large phoneme database from users' voice queries. This phoneme database, in turn, allowed Google engineers to refine and improve the speech recognition engine that Google uses to index audio content for searching."

glitchon (Presumably) Apple engineer comment on Lightning AV adapter design

Yes, he/she is thinking about Thunderbolt.

glitchon (Presumably) Apple engineer comment on Lightning AV adapter design

> Obviously they wanted an even number so you could plug it in every which way

How so? A center pin is still the center pin when you flip it around. Odd pin counts work fine.

glitchon (Presumably) Apple engineer comment on Lightning AV adapter design

Yes, and? Lightning 2.0. Sure. That doesn't mean the physical interface changes. That doesn't mean there isn't backwards compatibility. That doesn't mean there isn't forwards compatibility. "And thats where all this future proof talk goes deaf" argument made no statements to support itself. "Meanwhile, Lightning still has the same bandwidth" is like saying "Meanwhile, USB still has the same bandwidth with USB 2.0 as it did with USB 1.0". There will be higher bandwidth Lightning 2.0 peripherals with Lightning 2.0 devices; but Lightning 1.0 peripherals will still be compatible. The Lightning interface doesn't establish some sort of permanent bandwidth cap to its future backwards-compatible revisions.

glitchon (Presumably) Apple engineer comment on Lightning AV adapter design

So, you're saying bandwidth increase while maintaining backwards compatibility won't be possible through the Lightning interface? Surely, USB 1.0 to USB 2.0 demonstrated a counter-example to your statement.

glitchon Run sudo -k, set your clock to 01.01.1970, run sudo su and boom you're root

Is your account an Administrator account? Normal users are just Standard accounts and not Administrators.

glitchon Run sudo -k, set your clock to 01.01.1970, run sudo su and boom you're root

As far as I tested in the Date and Time preference pane,... Users enabled as an Administrator, yes. Standard users, no.

`date` still behaves as one expects.

glitchon Why ‘Ok’ Buttons in Dialog Boxes Work Best on the Right

Although, I've always preferred the Apple system of "Destructive"......"Neutral".."Constructive"

So that destructive operations are on the far left, isolated from non-destructive operations on the far right.

Yielding,

  [Don't Save]          [Cancel]  [Save]

Also, in a window title bar (more classical than OS X now),

  [Close]               [Minimize/Shade] [Zoom]

Any of the buttons grouped on the left side should be considered "destructive actions", and any actions on the right side should be considered "safe" or "non-destructive actions". However, this isn't the whole story. In cases where the main, intended action is destructive, the primary action verb should still be on the right, but the [Cancel] button should be the default enabled button (what Return key does when pressed)—e.g., emptying the Trash.

glitchon The New Retina Display MacBook Pro: A downgrade from my current MacBook Pro

http://images.anandtech.com/galleries/2078/Screen%20Shot%202...

It appears that the "Scaled" as "More Space" setting merely renders everything in HiDPI mode (2x widget size) with a canvas render resolution of 3840x2400 and then scales it down on the 2880x1800 display.

Just download the image linked above and display at as "Full Screen" and "Zoom to Fit" under Preview on an existing 15" MBP—it'll give ya an idea of what the "More Space" setting scales visual elements as.

glitchon Ask HN: Monitoring Installs on OS X

File system monitoring:

  • sudo fs_usage
  • sudo opensnoop
  • lsof

With respect to package-based installations:

  • /Users/*/Library/Receipts/
  • /Library/Receipts/

Tools of interest (check man pages):

  • /usr/bin/lsbom SomeBOM.bom
  • /usr/bin/defaults read /Path/To/Receipt/org.example.foo.plist (Explicit, general PList reading example.)
  • /usr/bin/defaults read net.example.Bar (Searches in Preferences locations for matching name.)
  • /usr/bin/installer

Preferences (configurations):

  • /Library/Preferences/ (Computer-wide, Local Preferences)
  • /Users/*/Library/Preferences/ (User Preferences)

Application Support (serials, etc.):

  • /Library/Application Support/
  • /Users/*/Library/Application Support/

Further/related readings:

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/MacOS...

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/FileMa...

http://www.gnustep.org/resources/documentation/User/GNUstep/...

http://osxdaily.com/2011/04/22/monitor-mac-os-x-filesystem-u...

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2006081704414926...

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#featuredarticles/Fil...

http://superuser.com/questions/97980/view-filesystem-access-...

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwi...

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Develo...

http://support.apple.com/kb/TA26118?viewlocale=en_US

Note: Different tools are available/unavailable in different versions of OS X.

glitchon Why does Chrome display eff.org with the EV green bar?

Did you install an additional certificate in your keychain perhaps? I don't see any Extended Validation fancy-pants business going on in my Chrome for https://www.eff.org/

If I recall correctly, Chrome and Safari use OS X's keychain system as its certificate store and Firefox does not. (Again, if I recall correctly, to manage certificates for Firefox, one must go to Preferences… > Advanced > Encryption.) I may be wrong. This is just off the top of my head. (Too preoccupied to verify.)

glitchon Sometimes a CSS color scraper comes in handy ...

Indeed. While objects with transparency are defined with their opacity, they are not opaque.

glitchon Deconstructing "K&R C"

SeanLuke, that is exactly how I'd write it too! ✼Whitesmith fistbump✼ — Related: I love the Wikipedia talk section on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Indent_style#Whitesmiths_s...