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Ask HN: where to keep passwords
Right now my system for keeping passwords is terrible and unorganized. I'd like to know what the best and most secure and also accessible way is.

I'm talking about personal passwords too, but mostly I'm thinking about work passwords. Your client's hosting or domain registrar password, the system db admin password, your basecamp password, etc. etc., etc., -you can't remember them all, what do you do so that they're secure, but you can access a system when you're not in front of your main machine? Or instead of a super-mega secure bunch of passwords (that you change regularly, like they say you should), is it better to have a single (or a couple) secure one(s) you can remember, then not have to keep anywhere?
But he is geek. He is owned by a lack of control, not a lack of knowledge. Everything is so interlinked on this kind of web services that even if he did back-ups, he would still be helpless without the access to his social network.
They're panels. There's one task bar (window list) on the bottom panel by default. And you can get rid of them now if you want. I'm reading comments like above mentioning how Linux Mint's look is aesthetically pleasing. Really? It's almost all GNOME. Why discuss a whole change of distro to get a different theme/look? Just change the theme.

It's not even like you're downloading third party apps or doing registry tweaks/resource hacks on Windows 10 years ago. Context menu→"Delete this panel". It's less of a hassle than managing your desktop icons. It's just like making sure Firefox's "Always show the tab bar" preference is set to the value you want it to be.

More broadly, it seems like any level of hullaballoo about Ubuntu's default theme is too much. Who actually sticks with the default theme?
Definitely. What it lacks in appropriateness, it overwhelmingly makes up for in why-the-hell-is-everyone-around-me-tweeting-@wtf-ness.
How were you able to verify this?
The real news here is JVM 7 not Java 7. "Java 7 will provide improvements that allow implementers of compilers for dynamically typed languages to produce implementations for the Java runtime more easily, and for those implementations to run at much greater performance."

That's very good news for users of Clojure, Groovy, JRuby, Jython, and other languages > Java 7
I don't think the OP was talking about real, physical apples. Paragraph 3 off the response is the payoff, basically.
Although I like some of these parodies, the self-pitying use of the Niemoller poem is really tasteless.

I can see the parodic value because we've all had the experience of being unreasonably angry at having our plans thwarted (and doing a downfall parody about the takedown itself is particularly witty). But expressing disappointment by parodying a lamentation about the holocaust....not funny. YMMV obviously.
By "restrict what they do with them" I didn't mean the iPad's technological lock-down stuff, just the fact that Apple's attempting to stop resales, i.e. trying to control how people further down the supply chain dispose of the product.
Patents are long term intangible assets. There are two reasons to patent a technology.
1) Protection. Pharmaceutical companies invest billions in drug development. Patents protect them from low cost providers coming in without the dev cost.
2) Licensing. The Unreal game engine is in hundreds of games.

However with the accelerated development and apllication schedule in the tech industry, it is often more profitable to keep the technology in house. Unless you are developing products for licensing don't worry about patents. Conversely, startups that try to get into the patent game are not likely to have developed anything worth worrying about. Remember, the patent process takes time and you as the patent holder are required to police their property.
Nature (including what humans decide to do) is very good at iterative optimization. When people do something and it works, they tend to continue doing that.

The reason that overly-planned cities (I live in one: Phoenix) don't work is that it's impossible to out-think millions of people all working to optimize your city in parallel all the time.

Obviously you need some urban planning to assist with things that regular citizens don't understand (utilities), but for the most part, if you let people be, they will build a city on their own.
Yeah well the more important thing seems to be that they changed gnome-over-compiz setting to gnome 3.0 w/ gnome-shell, which means the compositing window manager is now part of the gnome. While some ideas in gnome-shell are quite cool (though obtainable in gnome 2.x as 3rd party stuff like gnome-do project), the stability on some GPU hw/firmware/driver configurations may be sucky.

And if you care about your current gnome2+compiz configuration, it will be most probably messed by upgrading.
The Marshmallow Challenge
Asteriod is the typo in the submission. Either that or there is some joke I am not getting.
This title is offensive to the millions of people who died defeating that sonofabitch. The line "First they came for..." is about the need to defend those who cannot defend themselves because one day oneself might need to be defended. Referencing this line to refer to the most evil individual in human history is beneath contempt. I would think HN would want to be a little more aware of the implications of its headlines.
Haven't you ever seen an apartment building?
Apple doesn't want middle men marking up their product? If that is so then how come I can buy an Apple product from Best Buy for the same price as from the apple.com? Is Best Buy selling these items for the same price they paid for them?

I believe Best Buy is what one would call a middle man.
One thing I would love to see from Ubuntu is clean fonts working out of the box

Sounds like a matter of difference in personal preference. I'm pretty sure that the way fonts look out of the box is intentional, not a deficiency for which devs are actively seeking a solution.
I was wondering that myself. It seems like it would - the netbook and viewing computer are broadcasting unidirectionally, so the cantenna array would pick up their reflections.
Where does it say that it's dry ice? That seems like an extremely inefficient way to cool a data center if that's what their doing with it. It would need to be replaced frequently. If it's just for show, it seems like a waste for a DC kept deep underground that no one ever sees.

Anyway, I'm not certain that it wouldn't be harmful to tape (which I'm guessing they don't have, so I suppose it's a non-issue.
It's not wrong, but it's not wrong for Apple to cut this guy off, either.
Well, distracting in that the pain makes them pause so I can run the hell away. Sometimes that's the best course of action. Inflicting permanent injury is always a last resort.
960x640 was a fairly obvious candidate for the resolution

A candidate perhaps, but not at all obvious. It's a higher pixel density than any device Wikipedia knows about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_displays_by_pixel_densi.... Other alternatives that would have been at least as plausible would be to keep it the same ("only geeks care about meaningless specs like that") or go to 720x480, where 1.5x scaling wouldn't be that bad.
I always thought "scalpers" just added a service charge, like ticket master.
This is a pretty awesome response to a not so well disguised homework problem.
Needs some Knuth: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/113445055/abstrac...

(Edit: bummer. A quick glance through the code at the following link leads me to believe it doesn't actually do hyphenation, though I may be wrong.)

http://ajaxian.com/archives/tex-line-breaking-algorithm-in-j...
Google Makes One Change Per Day To Search Algorithm
Ditto. Send 'im to David Thorne (http://www.27bslash6.com/p2p2.html)
Previous post at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1277459

Reddit comments on this one at http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/btzkp/more_on_t...
- More on the 90% of us who can't write a binary search (with a comparison of Hacker News and Reddit!)
A store PowerBook ?
Can't believe this shit hits front page.
They almost certainly undershoot deliberately because that creates a sense of scarcity which makes the devices seem more desirable.
Correct. Nobody is a moral villain here, except possibly Apple in a very minor way for refusing to provide a straight answer on their policies.
I've just seen a lot of dry-ice in my lifetime, and this looks a lot like it :-) They probably don't use it for actual cooling but more for showing off. Though I'm not certain I don't think it would be harmful to tape, after all it's just C02.
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Keep in mind that JDK7 (and a version of JDK6) is open sourced and GPL licensed at this point.
What a load of tosh. Picking _one_ example of a person unable to find the utility in having an iPad and extrapolating it to everyone who purchased one.

It's a weak premise with nothing to back it up.
If it's an SLR, you do, in that you block the stray light that can go in through the viewfinder, which is perhaps the counterpart of the wifi signal emitted by the netbook in your analogy. Most photo enthusiasts and professionals will block their SLR viewfinders when doing long exposures during which they aren't looking through the viewfinder, and pretty much every SLR comes with an eyepiece cover.
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Perhaps he's the one pushing the button.
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Shame the police can't be forced to give everybody their arrest tapes on a usb stick as a matter of policy.
Factor in the innate hilarity of anything involving the iCult with the soup nazi reference and you have what the kids call "comedy gold". There isn't any outrage here, just slightly amused contempt for the ridiculous way the retail drones handled things.
But can you give me an example that actually can't official API wise? Google Sky Map can be implemented on the iPhone with official APIs. Other than apps that edit system settings (like Locale) what can't you really do?
It is very unlikely that the liability could be transfered to Apple in this case. Of course IANAL.
How does any of this suggest that the purpose of limited government was to protect slaveholders? No one is going to say that allowances weren't made to protect them but the 3/5ths clause has nothing to do with the enumeration of powers or the scope of government. Limited government and slaverights are orthogonal issues and should be treated as such.
Well, you can extend the parent's solution by throwing in 9 "end of current box" markers with the 100 apples before randomizing the order, rather than declaring them to be every 10 apples after sorting. This is probably not an efficient solution from a programming perspective, but it's similar how you would count the number of distinct such arrangements in combinatorics.
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I have one of these, I bought it because I was having back issues. I have the mini version that I used with my own desk top. I alternate back and forth during the day standing and sitting, usually a few hours at a time either way. It took a little getting used to, but it has definitely helped my back. An added bonus that isn't immediately apparent is that you can easily adjust the desk height when you are seated, which I find helps my back quite a lot.
How is this person more qualified than Gruber to opine on the law? They both seem to be grasping at straws.
In other news, kids make millions from playing football.

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It costs money to retool a factory to produce something different. If the cost of lost sales due to undersupply is lower than the cost of setting up another factory, it makes sense to undersupply.
Better to memorize 3-4 master passwords. I heard about KeePass password management utility but never used it.

A new authentication device will be available later this year - based on Hitachi's Finger Vein imaging (VeinID) and fingerprint identification technology.
(Long shaggy dog story - you've been warned.)

June 5th, 1999: The New York Knicks are playing the Indiana Pacers in the NBA playoffs. At the time, I'm living in New Jersey, and I'm heading into Penn Station to go home. A scalper walks up to me (and everyone else, I suppose) and offers me a ticket to the game. The ticket's stamped price is $100 (maybe $125). The scalper wants $450. I think about it, think about it, think about it. I pass.

Hours later, with just over 6 seconds left in the game, Larry Johnson wins it for the Knicks with an amazing, once in a decade 4-point play. I'm at home, jumping up and down, screaming. (Links below for the play.)

So, yeah, that's a service charge, but not quite like Ticket Master.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/nba/1999/playoff...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3pGGjdBzns

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA7JVEHbuG4 (Less drama, more basketball version of the video)
Yes, good point. Probably by this time next year the top story here will be talking about the problem. Ah, well. I'm getting off lightly - as someone put it, Cassandra didn't get half the kicks she deserved ...
Scalpers are the people you'd see standing outside of a sporting event selling tickets at a markup. It works out because if you don't care about the beginning, you can often times score them for very cheap.

There was a beer tasting event I went to a few months ago where tickets were ~$60. I showed up really really late (I was the designated driver anyhow) and got mine for something like $15 (which was cheaper than what the promoter was offering the "designated driver" tickets [which don't allow you to drink the beer] for).
Unreasonable: we’ve got to do something about the users
But creating an arbitrage opportunity by buying all of the supply that would be readily available if you hadn't intervened is wrong.

If there are 100 widgets and 200 people want widgets, it is wrong for a third party who has no particular desire for widgets to buy all 100 widgets and sell them for an insane markup. He changed a 50% deficiency of supply into a 100% supply, artificially reducing it. This allows him to artificially increase the price.

All in all, this is why I'm hardly ever a first adopter. I let the sharks and the morons fight over the buggy 1st generation crap and then swing around when the 2nd or 3rd generation hardware hype isn't out of control.
Stay away from social networks as much as possible. The world will be a better place if personal data stays personal.
Is this for a special price or regular price? Any ideas on why they do it?
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Good. That would weed me out of the possibility of working for him, just like I would want.
If they had more money, they could try to buy up Heroku or ElusiveHippo. MediaTemple is the new SourceForge.
For anyone who might want to try the opposite - boldy highlight some users - try my Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/mkdhfabjcebcgnpg...
I have no idea why they do that. That’s why I remembered it :)

It’s for the cheapest noodles, you can presumably buy as much brand name noodles as you like. Maybe their cheap noodles are even cheaper than the cheapest in the local wholesale market and they don’t want all the pizzerias within reach come rolling in.
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How do you pronounce the word 'Tuple'? Just like the song.
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Nope they can artificially increase the price by hoarding and making it less available.

Think about any commodity... everyone needs sugar/salt, what if somebody starts buying all the sugar from the market and hoards it... some people will start consuming less but the prices will increase due to lack of supply and more or less constant demand.. and then the person can open floodgates and make some dough in the process... Pretty common in Third world countries (and hence illegal)
Hi, just thought I'd add a good example instructional video. I like this one because it' very casual, this guy is obviously not a professional screencast guy but he's really good imo. Main reasons why is that he's very human, very casual and dynamic with his voice. You can tell immediately that' hes really interested and passionate about what he is talking about. He enunciates a lot of his words at a natural pace.

http://vimeo.com/6918287 (heroku screencast)
My comment was mostly in jest. Thanks everyone for the downvotes though. Next time I'll try to remember that everyone on Hacker News is a frozen vagina.
I'm curious about both side of things, but the idea of testing is making sure it works -- would be bad if they paid for something and it doesn't work.
I've heard a lot about XMonad. Could you give a brief rundown of your setup (and what you like about it) and maybe a screenshot or two?
When you can't see the count in relation to the population of the country, the map illustrates nothing but the obvious.
$ nano passwords

<enter all your passwords here>

ctrl+x y

$ gpg -c passwords

and you have all your passwords in a password protected and encrypted file. To decrypt:

$ gpg passwords.gpg
The question of meta-followers is one that's confounded me for some time. I'd love to see a list of my top 100 followers by their own follow count—are most of them just regular users, or do I have a fair number of large-following followers? I'm sure there must be tools out there that do this, but I haven't come across any.

Ironically, while this would objectively demonstrate the imprecision of follower count, it should be easily translatable into yet another score.
I'm a huge fan of the Biomorph desks (http://biomorph.com), particularly the Personal desk in maple. I've got 4-5 in various places I work.

They're expensive ($2K), but I keep a standing Google search for them and buy them used ($400-600). Very well made and quite worth it.

You can crank 'em up and down but that's pretty tedious. Best to just leave 'em all the way up.
Basketball's where it's at. Good work if you can find it :).
"hoarders who were unloading iPads on eBay to cash in on the $150+ markup. Instead, my asking prices were very reasonable, just enough to cover all the tax, international express shipping, and Paypal fees with a little left over for unexpected costs"

Notice how he specifically mentions a price for the "eBay hoarders", but avoids mentioning his markup. I wouldn't be surprised if his markup was close to $150 as well without actually ever being over. Like somewhere around $140.

His story is contrived in a way to give you a good impression of him and a negative one of the Apple store employees. Another couple of telling parts in the story are: "reservations are limited to one per iTunes account. Luckily I have a second account so I used that to place the reservation" and "Ok, so the gig is up" followed by a whole unnecessary conversation.

The first quote shows that he knows that what he is doing isn't exactly kosher with Apple. He is willingly and knowingly flaunting their policies.

The second quote shows that he realizes he's been had. He already knows why he was busted, but he persists in trying to troll the employees into saying something slanderous, like euphemisms for the fact that he's an unauthorized reseller.

I call into question the morals and ethics of the author of the post.
The abuse comes from random applications that like to sit in your system tray. Looking right now I just notice Akregator, an application I launched probably a month ago is sitting in my system tray. Pidgin also has something there. I can't tell Gnome not to allow those apps in the tray.
"Brevity is the soul of wit" - William Shakespeare
Coming from a long history of Debian and black/fluxbox, I've always appreciated Ubuntu for their package selection and default hardware setup. They've hooked up a lot of stuff I hate managing by hand (like printing and video drivers) automatically. I still run openbox on it, though, which happily insulates me from Shuttleworth's reinvention of the stock UI.

Watching the debate over new window control placement and removing the systray reminds me it's nice to be a little off the beaten path. :)
Your analogy breaks down a bit because you can't really lose a car the same way.

Let's assume a different sequence of events, to help separate the issue of trade secrets and stolen property. Let's say that the phone was left behind at the bar, someone picks it up and hands to you, thinking your friend, who is currently in the wash room, left it behind. You've had a couple of beers and you know your friend has an iPhone, so you put it in your pocket for when he comes back.

10 minutes later (there was a line) he returns and you order another round, forgetting about the phone in the process. You don't remember you have it until you get home at 3am, having had a few more glasses of "golden liquid" (as Gizmodo would refer to it).

Realizing you have someone's phone, and it's probably not your friend's, you turn it on, seeing the last thing the guy used before leaving it behind: his Facebook page. Good, you have a way to contact him. You thumb through the apps, try the camera, and then decide to go to bed.

In the morning, you wake up groggy, and find the phone has bricked itself overnight. You didn't write down the name from the Facebook page because, well, you were drunk. So now what? You are now in possession of a "lost" item, meaning that, according to California law, you are "a depositary for the owner, with the rights and obligations of a depositary for hire."

While pondering your situation, you notice something odd about the device. It looks like a 3GS with a case, but the buttons aren't the right shape. You take the cover off to investigate. It is immediately clear that this is not a 3GS. Knowing you have something interesting on your hands (even if it's a fake) you grab your trusty Nikon, and photograph the device from every angle.

Once you're satisfied you have good pictures of it, you put the case back on and head down to your local police station to turn in the device, as required by California law. When you get home, you sell the photos you took to Engadget for $500.

According to my (limited) understanding of trade secret law, Apple would have no case against you on the basis of trade secrets because, by bringing the phone out in public and leaving it behind at a bar, they clearly did not make reasonable efforts to keep it secret.

Of course, the events of that night aren't nearly as clear, but, unless Apple can show that the phone was not lost but stolen (and not technically stolen because the guy misappropriated lost property, but stolen from the guy's pocket) there is no basis for a trade secret suit.

This whole narrative leaves out the potential for other charges, like criminal theft by misappropriating lost property, or a civil suit against the "finder" for misappropriating lost property, but that's kind of the point. I'm trying to separate the issues so we can discuss them a little more clearly.
Good god I certainly don't worship the napkin P.G. uses to wipe dirt from his shoe, but even I know HN is the anti-social network (in a philosophical sense). It has almost zero features but a feature it does have is no-procast! HN has a feature that BANS YOU from using the site!

Isn't that telling?

GET.WORK.DONE.