skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
KeePass gets good comments. (IIRC there's a Linux version, I don't know how kludge-y.) Bruce Schneier (security guru / blogger) uses something similar (though I don't know that he tosses the data files out onto shared storage).

In the past, some people have commented about placing a TrueCrypt volume-as-file on DropBox. Apparently performance and storage consumption were, per them, not as bad as one might think. (Think about the potential implications of the version history that DropBox provides by default.)

There are some other programs, including some text editors, notepad type editors, and "personal wiki" programs that offer to save to an AES or Blowfish encrypted format. I imagine the correctness/robustness of their implementations may vary.

Finally, if you just want to encrypt a file already disk, the well regarded archive program 7zip (and others) includes an AES encryption/decryption implementation. I don't know how its implementation is regarded. Note that, under DropBox, this won't eliminate prior, unencrypted versions that are saved by its versioning system.

Also, GPG and PGP are always around.

If you encrypt a pre-existing file, outside of the DropBox context it's a good idea to encrypt to a fresh copy, then securely wipe the original.

EDIT: Depending upon what is being used for encryption, the DropBox versioning might itself represent a weakness. I'm not qualified to speak to such topics -- just imagining.
Yahoo is a sinking ship...
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I (and many others who weren't angered by the Google proposal) agree. But laws are often very specific things. A net neutrality law for wireless networks could very well impose significant, specific restrictions that address our current wireless networks while harming those in the future. And there may be no way of knowing what those "bad" restrictions might be.
Right, this is what I was acknowledging. The question was whether Helvetica Neue might render better than ordinary Helvetica.
If you think political realities don't have an effect on what can be accomplished with net neutrality, you're just being naive. I think this marks the point in time where (publicly at least) Google has moved on from the unfettered idealist stage to the more pragmatic realist stage. It might be a sad shift, but it was an inevitable one.
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Capsicum is a lightweight capability and sandboxing framework that was recently presented at Usenix. The authors have used it to improve the sandboxing of OpenSSL, dhclient, and a version of Chromium

Paper: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/capsicum/papers/20...

Slides: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/capsicum/slides/20...
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For the first time in a long time, I am working for a public company instead of a startup or near startup. You cant believe the amount of intrusive government crap. (This is not a political statement.) Timesheets reporting capital work vs expensed work. Sarbanes-Oxaly audits. Ethics and harassment classes. All of a sudden there are all these people who can deal with that stuff and it begins to filter into engineering. I think that it is remarkable that there are large technology companies that can compartmentalize this stuff.
> There, I've disagreed with everything you said!

:)

To me a domain specific language is a language that has been created on top of another in order to get 'closer' to the problem that is to be solved. HTML is layered on top of XML so I think that warrants calling it a DSL. It also is domain specific in a secondary sense in that it is targeted specifically at communicating layout to a terminal. (layout being the domain). Today that's handled partly by css by I think the principle remains. Javascript has become popular because of being embedded in HTML, now we see it ported to the server side.

> It doesn't suck for building UIs to such an extent that it didn't take over the world.

That's a lot of negations. It is used for building UIs in the same way that we use C to build operating systems, so far we've yet to find something that does a much better job. But javascript feels like a hack to make the browser do things that HTML currently can not, and to see it on the server feels a bit weird (even though it has obvious advantages, one less language to worry about).

With every new iteration of the HTML standard lots of stuff that previously was only possible using javascript hacks becomes part of the HTML spec. I can imagine for instance a 'validchars' property of an input field that would immediately validate characters typed in and would refuse characters illegal for that field. But I think that right now the only way to do that is to use a bit of javascript, and that may be disabled.

What it has to do with node is that node is yet another way of extending the capabilities of the brower, but this time in concert with server side code in a non-standard way that would be better handled by finding a generalized method.

I spent a lot of time building a javascript powered chat environment that would show users as avatars on other peoples website (so you could go 'group surfing' as well as to give guided tours and to interact with other public visiting a website) only to find it broken beyond repair in the next browser iteration.

Most HTML is here to stay and things that are deprecated are usually easily fixable.

I'm not saying 'node' will break beyond repair next week (it's server side after all) but I've learned my lesson (that was 4 months work down the toilet) well enough to be a bit more weary now, JS is an environment that is still very much in development.

It's fun to play with, that's for sure.
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300 DPI is the resolution recommended for images that will be printed on offset printers (like, for a magazine). The text - if black - in these applications will be turned into crisp vectors, so the DPI is in effect limitless.

I believe laser printers do print at something like 1200 DPI, like you're saying.
I know that dissing Java is cool these days, but some arguments would've been neat.
Why didn't they just both submit their own proposals and let the FCC make up their own mind on the various issues?

I suspect that the FCC would see no common ground between the proposals and do nothing. In fact, that was pretty much the state of play until last week.
That makes sense.. so it boils down to the ban on "exclusivity" - if it wasn't for that, then for sure there is no net neutrality.But even with that in there,

I am sure it won't be difficult to find a conflict of interest given enough time and freedom for verizon to strategize. For a hypothetical example, what if verizon itself spawns a paypal like website using its own secure service for free for which others have to pay?
Neat. How old? Mine are 11 and 9.
I wouldn't be surprised if the FCC ends up ignoring most of this anyway just so they don't end up looking like Google's butt boy.
I wonder why no one has answered yet.

I was/am a hobbiest and semi-professional photographer (landscapes). I'll try my best to answer your question.

I'd start with two 'threads': "composition" and "technical execution". The oversimplification is these are exclusive.

There are a lot of resources about technical execution: exposure, image manipulation, printing. Equipment is a concern as well: filters, Canon/Nikon, good "glass", etc. For the most part digital cameras have automated what was essentially a master craft. If you get really interested in the old school, Ansel Adams's The Camera, The Negative, and The Print are great to flip through. Photoshop and similar tools are incredibly powerful (and dangerous).

Composition is the artistry of the photograph. There are a lot of easy things to get you started with composition. This entry has 4 "rules" and there is a following post about how to break them:

http://digital-photography-school.com/four-rules-of-photogra...

Composition is often overlooked, but it's the most important skill. As you learn more and more you can find your own personal style. Also, you'll find good advice that is specific to the photography you're interested in: Still life? Macros? Portraits? Sports? Landscapes? Studio?

The most beneficial approach I've found are photography sites like usefilm.com and flickr. Browse through and find those inspirational images and photographers that you really enjoy. Then, set aside a little time to evaluate WHY you like what you are seeing? Is it the arrangement of light and dark? Geometry? Color? What are the things that make it great? What conditions lead to the great shot? Is what you are seeing repeatable by you?

If you have the time, you can learn about graphic design - just formal 2D design with basic shapes and layouts... these skills are general and apply to photography, painting, typography... big return for a small investment.

It's hard to answer your open-ended question to my satisfaction, but if you are able to reply with more detail I can try to help some more.

and remember

the best camera is the one you have with you. So, carry that camera around - even if it's a cell phone.
I'm sure that racking up $10-20k of credit card debt had nothing to do with the fact that there's no reliable social safety net, no affordable healthcare, cash prices for medical procedures (like a doctor looking at you for 5 minute) are sky-high, the cost of gas and food staples is redonkulous, and, oh yeah, no such thing as affordable public universities any more.

The people who got those ridiculous mortgages were snookered in a shell game. If a person can't trust his mortgage broker, who can he trust?

But, all that good financial education they got in school should have prepared them for that.

Wait, it didn't? NO WAY!
Note that a px is not the same thing as a pixel. On a 250 PPI display 1 px probably equals 2 pixels.

http://webkit.org/blog/55/high-dpi-web-sites/
If being pragmatic entails giving up the fight (as google has done in the wireless world), count me out.
If memory serves, Apple's OS X guidelines stated that the brushed-steel app chrome was only to be used for apps that mimiced physical objects.

... Then iTunes and Quicktime started using it.
ACTUAL FACT: they got the neutrality concession on that spectrum and it will apply to verizon's 4G network.
Personally, I am for total net neutrality (wireless, etc.).

But speaking pure strategy, you'd think after Microsoft antitrust, USL/BSDi, etc., that large tech companies would learn to avoid going anywhere near debates about the law.

Legal debates are really important. In fact they are so important that they have a habit of leaving some of the largest centers of innovation in their wake. And each legal fight is different, for sure. But I don't think people exactly appreciate the opportunity cost associated with anything but the most clear positions on social/legal issues.

Don't get me wrong: debate is important. Critical to our society and all that. But as a company, you can't ever afford to be kinda in a stance about something. Facebook, to their credit, come off as usually very decisive about their policy decision making (maybe it's that hacker, trial and error culture?), if wrong at first.

I think Google's approach in China was pretty good. They were almost decisive for about five minutes. But then it got mired in this or that proxy -- and meanwhile you create this doubt in people's minds. The doubters gain traction -- and it even infects your own focus, etc. -- all the way down the org chart.

And I don't know that I'm advocating disruptive, brash decision making. But you have to think of this whole technology and world environment as in a very fast-moving frame of reference. In which, anything that positions you in doubt and uncertainty grows with time until you clarify things. It's a fast moving set of integrals, running up area underneath at any given moment. Honesty is probably always the most important. But messed up frames of reference that seem like the right thing but actually tie up entire reserves of focus, etc., will quickly waylay even the best by the side of the road.
First: it's because it's making cultural observations about the people from both places, and trying to somehow say that this is reflected in the language.

For the sake of argument, let's just assume the British are "less emotional" than the Argentines (though attending a football match in each country may disabuse you of that idea). This may affect the way people use language, but it does not affect language. Language is a tool that people use to convey their thoughts. The tool not affected by the thoughts it is used to convey.

Second: sure, English may have lots of one-syllable words for things that are two syllables in Spanish (though the "lol" example you gave above is spurious because in my experience people just write "jaja."). But English requires more use of pronouns, articles and prepositions than Spanish does:

* "No sé" vs. "I don't know"

* "No lo vi" vs. "I didn't see it"

* "vamos" vs. "let's go"

* "saco la mano" "I take out my hand"

What's more "efficient?" It's subjective, and at the end of the day an utterly meaningless thing to analyze because trying to extrapolate cultural behaviors from the way a language uses propositions and articles is about as good science as phrenology or astrology.

Third: let's assume when people say "efficient" they mean "simpler grammar." People often claim that "Latin is more complex than English" because it has nominal declensions. But because of its declensions, word order in Latin is almost irrelevant. In place of declensions, English uses strict word order to distinguish subjects from objects. Which one is simpler? It's subjective, because your answer will depend on whether you're a native speaker of a language more like Latin or more like English.

But if you're writing a program to parse natural language syntax, Latin's "complex" nouns make it a lot easier to parse programmatically than English. What does this say about Roman culture? Nothing. Again, it's the wrong way to look at language - there's no valid reason to draw a connection between grammar and cultural behavior.
FTFA: "MYTH: This proposal would eliminate network neutrality over wireless.

FACT: It’s true that Google previously has advocated for certain openness safeguards to be applied in a similar fashion to what would be applied to wireline services. [...]"

I don't think you're allowed to have "MYTH" and "FACT" sections that agree with each other like that.

True, they wrote a bit more in the "fact" part about how Congress would keep a watchful eye, but that did nothing to debunk the "MYTH." Why wouldn't the FCC be better suited to keep a watchful eye?
Dear Google,

I'm new to this. Care to explain what is this "public Internet" you talk about? I always thought there was only the Internet.

Thank You
verizon wouldn't agree to everything right now. keep putting pressure on them and we'll get more commitments later.
Indeed, and they don't lose any of the analytic tracking data you mentioned that is now lost because businesses implement their own service.

They actually gain a metric: popularity of custom shortlinks vs t.co's universal shortlinks
This is one of (as I perceive it) a whole slew of similar posts that have hit HN over the past couple days. They convey no information. They aren't "news". What they basically say over and over is "girlfriends just don't understand". While that might make for an excellent DJ Jazzy Jeff song, it's creepy in the context of Hacker News, and while I'm not flagging this, I wish the trend would stop.

While I'm bitching, let me also offer a bit of predictive advice: if you find yourself making mention of your sex life in a Linux advocacy post, go shave, now. I bet you need it.
Yep, that's pretty much what it is. The words "upgrade" or "in addition" are purely PR: what is the difference between slowing down website A but not B, or increasing the bandwidth for website B but not A? I'd imagine that in the USA you'll get faster broadband in the future: either the "normal" usage gets redefined each time, or you could be stuck with "normal" being the situation in 2010 for the next decade or more.
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I'm sorry, how many raises have you had in the past five years?

Keep the personal debt out of the equation for now. The fact remains that while inflation is "under control", it's not zero. And the costs of other necessary things (esp energy and healthcare) have continued to rise well beyond the "under control" range.
60% is 2.1, however, and both of these new Android features are only supported in 2.2. I have an Eris that went on sale less than a year ago, and chances are my phone will never be updated to 2.2.
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I think it would be better for the FCC to keep doing nothing at this point.

Right now the ISPs are afraid that if they create a tiered network that there would be outrage and the government would move in and regulate their industry.

However, now Google has given them coverage by making it appear to the FCC and congress that there is a compromise that can be made into law. I'd actually prefer that there be only light regulation, but a healthy paranoia from the telcos that they would be strong armed by the government (and corporations like Google) if they start to violate net neutrality.

It reminds me of a debate in US history about the Bill of Rights. Some argued that by listing your rights, you are inherently implying that there are no rights other than those listed. The idea is that by not enumerating rights you expand them.
who said they gave up?
I never claimed my experiences were normal. I just questioned how widespread belief in the Boomers' retirement myth could be in the rest of the populace, if I'd never so much as met a believer.
(I didn't mean to suggest Boomers who were 5 years out didn't believe or weren't still banking on the myth. I was talking about the younger generations.[1])

My circles do contain a disproportionate number of creatives and the self-employed/start-up types - but you're off by a generation. And maybe half have degrees; if that.

The biggest de-normative aspect is surely that my family/friends/colleagues are all in and around Detroit: where high unemployment and essentially no economic growth has been normal for a decade.

[1] You know the boomers sure complain a lot about the 'attitude of entitlement' among the younger generations. But who was it that actually mortgaged our future for their present?
Google response: It is kinda Neutral
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I've noticed the same thing. My hunch is that the work involved to reach the pinnacle of human understanding in a certain subdiscipline makes one acutely aware of just how far they are from that same level of understanding in every other subdiscipline. On the other hand, high-IQ dilettantes often think they already know everything.
Ask HN: Are you Extroverted or Introverted
I'm fairly introverted, and I assume that most of HN is the same. So are you..
Introverted
I would think so. But you'd have to import the font remotely and not depend on the local hierarchy for everyone to take advantage of that. Otherwise we're back to square one with the windows users left out.

Typekit is the solution to that if you're willing to pay. I doubt open libraries will ever carry Helvetica. It costs too much. :P
Extroverted
What a mess of perverse incentives. I can understand how the best VCs can get away with insisting on such terms from their LPs, but how are the rest of the VCs able to get away with it?
i get a 404.
However it was not a shift that Google had to take. Wasn't the whole point that FCC was gathering information to make up its mind? Who knows what would have been the _acceptable_ compromise for the FCC.

Maybe if Google had kept the fight, the FCC would have agreed to most of its points. As it is, it will be hard for anyone now to argue against this: they'll just be told "Look, even Google that was the most pro Net neutrality company things this is a good compromise, so shut up".

That's why people feel that Google has sold the netizens out (which personally I think it's a bit extreme: they are a company after all), and why it will be hard for the final law to be much different than what these two companies cooked up. So much for democracy.
Both.

A healthy human is equally both. Extroverted enough to go out into the world and make something of yourself. Introverted enough to look within often and keep developing your potential.
This is probably a stupid question. If you have Fexl written in Perl now, what are the chances of just throwing a sand-boxed interpreter online for people to play with? I'm thinking just a form with an input field and a submit button which runs the script and displays any printed values.
We are fantastically wealthy, but we have a gigantic parasitic entity that sucks most of our surplus wealth away and burns it in endless pointless wars and in building bridges to nowhere and similar things.
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How can you reconcile this view with the new Google where "wireless is already very competitive so no need for regulations"?

How is that not giving in?
Ask HN: What do you think of my Facebook apps?
Hello everyone, I decided with some friends of mine to develop some facebook apps. I had built some apps in the past for a company where i worked (we had some high traffic ones, so we could cross promote apps in order to get more traffic on new ones).

One of the apps, is a music quiz like game. You select music you want to be present there and the alternatives' artists, the user will try to guess the artist for each song. Here's the link: http://apps.facebook.com/songfight

The other app, iTooner, is an app where you can add balloon speeches to cartoons to make funny jokes. There's only one cartoon available right now and is related to the portuguese soccer championship (we're trying to get momentum here in portugal first). link: http://apps.facebook.com/itooner

Thanks!
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From what I recall Twitter is planning on wrapping every single URL going through their system with t.co but include the youtu.be link in the status metadata when applications pull from the API. The youtu.be URL will be displayed to users but will be sent to t.co first then redirected to youtu.be.
>Wireless internet is already a total joke, where carriers charge you extra for tethering just to use the bandwidth you already paid for

Bullshit. Don't dumb down the argument just because it serves your personal desires.

Tethering completely upsets the usage models. Their choice is then either to increase prices for everyone, or, if it remains relatively rare, increase the prices for the few. They chose the latter.
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She said that this is a growing obsession. I'd imagine that his addiction won't affect his hygiene immediately. There will be a gradual decline.
Don't worry. The culture here has clearly upvoted you more! Please don't get turned off by the few negative people. Keep sharing.
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I don't believe in the Big Bang theory because it's a theory, just like everything else- no proof, just waiting for a closer theory to come along and disprove it.
No support for Google Apps accounts. Still.