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Android:

1) FBReader, without which I would do much less reading and be much more bored waiting in lines. I'm currently reading my way through the Project Gutenberg SciFi section.

2) Web browser / feed reader (I use Google web-based reader, not their app-reader).

3) Calendar (without reminders, I miss meetings).

4) KeePassDroid.

5) Camera / photo gallery.

6) Contacts / Phone.

7) email, but mainly when I'm on the road and don't have easy access to a laptop + network.

8) Dropbox - probably should be higher in the list, but it quietly does its magic in the background so I forget about it.

Five of the eight came with the phone. Of the three add-on apps, I would sorely miss FBReader. I survived without KeePassDroid for a long time, but it is awfully handy to have sensitive information at my fingertips. Dropbox is very convenient, but only a convenience.

I have 29 add-on apps total, but I use most of them only occasionally.
The press release wasn't written by them. [1] Also, "filthy politics"? Really? The best you can say of those who hold political views contrary to your own is that those views are "filthy"?

[1]http://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec/status/84075440024719361
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Until somebody shows me the names and covers of undercover agents, this means "acknowledging the fact that there are undercover agents".
> like how officers are instructed to place iPhone in nickel or copper plated containers in order to prevent remote wipes

Idea: a self-destruct mode where if your phone can't call home to check for remote wipe and kick an internal watchdog, it will prompt for local self-destruct override. Failing that, automatic wipe.
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1) They clearly don't care about collateral damage, and

2) WL still isn't accepting submissions until DDB hands back their database.
If you do that, I would change && to ; on the basis you want the halt no matter whether the umount succeeds or not.
Skynet will be able to kill off like 20% of the worlds popuplation by scheduling a car crash for everyone on the road at 8:50AM tuesday morning.

The most important feature of driverless cars is in the unexpected results. I can tell my car to pick me up, and suddenly we don't need big parking lots in front of walmart, you can just tell your car to "go find a parking place nearby" and tell it to pick you up when you are ready. Then we figure out I don't need to own a car, just a card to use a given car when I need it, so A car isn't taking up space at my house at night, or at my place of work in the afternoon. We can get by with much fewer cars.

You can use the SUV when you need to move something big and the family, and use a 1 seater when you are commuting to work.
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You were responding to someone's complaint about the lousy console window.
Remember, though, that a patent troll's business card doesn't say "patent troll" on it: It says "independent inventor".

Which is not to say that you might not be right to be worried.
Well 1) that is the rule of law. It's not just the case for the US but many other modern nations in this world.

2) Being a citizen doesn't just have benefits but also responsibilities. This is why we pledge allegiance.

At age 21 I had to register for the civil service. That means that if my country goes to war and I'm drafted then I must fight and possibly die for my country.

An illegal immigrant will not be drafted.

It also means other things I'm bound under federal law like paying taxes. There are also other civil duties like being on a jury to judge my fellow citizens. As a citizen, I'm bound by the laws on our constitution and those created by our legislature.

3) The privileges of a citizen allow them to contribute to the way our democracy functions including the right to vote.

An illegal immigrant cannot vote.

The rest of my argument was already stated above to you. If we completely open the borders to everyone, then our government wouldn't even be able to serve the current legal citizens.

You may dislike the system but in other countries such as Japan and Germany it is even more difficult and exclusionary. They are based on parentage and while that make more sense to you, it actually ends up leaving large classes of immigrants unnaturalized.
That. Downtime to reflect on what we're doing is huge.
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The victims are planning nothing of the sort. The voters of Arizona and their elected representatives are the ones responsible for the laws that the officers in question have to enforce.
So... do you think it's possible LulzSec is based in China or Russia? That's the only way I can imagine them doing this that doesn't involve being clinically insane.
Based on the type of documents released and the fact that they only released a few email accounts & passwords you can tell that this was not a very sophisticated attack. Probably a brute force attack against the mail server, or passwords gleaned from individual officers rooted home computers.
With 700 tweets already, it's probably getting massively DDoS'd.
I never said the informants would be killed. If a gang reads that they've got an informant in their midst, they'll find someone and punish them – right or wrong. I'm not saying LulzSec is wrong to publish it; I'm just pointing out that it won't be lulz for those particular people who catch the short end of that particular stick.
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I suppose. My quick read of the details makes me think this is no good. It sounds like the primary problem being solved for is the backlog of patent applications not the quality of patents being issued or anything at all related to litigation.
I honestly thought that this was a fitness related site. I can't help but still think of it that way even though I know what it is now.
Yes, it's clearly a derivative work. That doesn't necessarily make it a copyright violation. My reading of the fair use exceptions make this clearly not a copyright violation. The problem is that you can't know for certain until a judge agrees or disagrees.

The guy folded, yes, but not because he thought he would lose, but because even fighting and winning would be too expensive.
How do you know it isn't netflix that is the slow one here? Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's Reddit that has the slow servers, not my connection. Try downloading a large file from a private Linode VPS and see what your speeds look like. At least for me, the speeds match very closely to the advertised speed.
You are wrong. Work-life balance is extremely important, and suggesting otherwise is dangerous. First of all, health and well-being should always be your primary concern, and forcing your employees to throw that off balance is close to criminal.

Anecdote from past experience: Last year I worked at a successful startup, seeing it through an acquisition by a Fortune 50 company. At first, the startup was great… it pushed its employees to their very limits and shipped some pretty cool software. But one-by-one, the employees could not take it any longer, and pretty much the entire original team is gone. In its now almost 5 years of existence, very few people stayed for more than a year.

Personally, I'm a pretty good developer. I've done some very cool shit, and I love what I do. But if you expect me to be all work and no play, the quality of my work is going to start to decline very quickly, and I'm going to stop having fun and quit very soon. I live by the motto "work hard, play harder." I have no problem fixing the servers on a weekend, or staying at work late. But if you expect me to consistently work more than is fair, or are gonna give me shit for arrive late or leaving early, then it's not gonna work out.
Leaving aside questions of what constitutes "fair use", I'm arguing that this work should have already passed into the public domain.
Valid point are made throughout. I suppose we must keep in mind the balance that must be maintained:

1.) Protecting the rights of artists - those who dedicate their resources to CREATE

2.) And along the same lines, offering the freedom of expression to newcomers; re-creating art through new mediums.
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>Let's also assume that this perfect SHA-4 function is freakishly fast, say, a million times faster than SHA-1

This is why they invented key stretching: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2

Just set number of rounds to 10000000000 instead of, like, 10000 for SHA1.
From Will Durant's The Heroes of History, on da Vinci's work style:

"Leonardo had no trouble explaining...that an artist's most important work lies in conception rather than in execution, and (as Vasari put it) 'men of genius do most when they work least.'"
The moment you use eval to parse "JSON" data you _are_ trusting content from the client. eval _executes_ javascript, JSON just happens to be mostly compatible with JS object and array literal syntax so it "Just Works".

Because eval is executing the data it is using the full JS parser. That means that while '{"name":"bill"}' works as expected '{"name": window.location = "myevildownload.com"}' does too.

JSON.parse is built into the language. It enforces strict JSON conformance so you can't end up accidentally having invalid content that won't be parsed by other JSON libraries, and it does not execute data -- it creates the object graph and nothing else. If there's anything that is not valid JSON it fails and has no side effects. When constructing the object graph it uses the real Object and Array constructors, so nothing can be injected that way. When setting properties on objects it sets them directly and does not call setters.

If you use JSON.parse to parse your JSON data, it is not possible for an attacker to either run or inject code in your site.

And it's faster than eval.
Thanks for the excellent tutorials mhartl! For someone who is a Ruby Newbie, is it best to jump into 3.1? Or is it better to stick with 3.0 until there is better support in gems?
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Ask HN: How to explain LulzSec in layman?
I was trying to explain to a non-CS friend the other day exactly what LulzSec is?

Hackers? Security? Radical futurists?

Thoughts...?
Humans act a lot like apex predators in their environment (e.g. Lions in the Serengeti, Wolves in Yellowstone). It's just that our environment happens to be the entire planet.

We dominate the food supply such that only animals that stay out of our way and survive on a food supply that is unappealing to us can survive.

In addition, we kill competitors and handle all threats with aggressive tendencies. Finally, when all non-human threats are eliminated, we turn on each other.
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In every year there are always a certain percentage of students who manage to achieve really high marks on CS midterms and exams. How do you study for CS or math exams? I am sure there are many overachievers on HN. Could you please share how you did it? Do you need to have a really solid background before tackling a course or am I doing it wrong?

P.S. I know marks are not everything but I am still curious on how some students manage to do it in a top CS school.
Likely a lot less than 1 mile.

LTO5 stores approximately 3 TB with Compression. (1.5 Native). It is 846m long.

Let us assume you have 7597MB of emails in your gmail inbox. That's about .48% of the capacity of a Uncompressed tape. So that's a smidge over 4m. And if google compresses their data -- then you're potentially looking about 2m.
Most would agreed that campaign did not performed, instead aim to achieve CTR > 1% and Bid < $1.

Facebook ads is used widely by affiliate marketers, you could spend some time on blogs like MrGreen ( http://stackthatmoney.com ), or affiliate marketing news aggregator ( http://affbuzz.com )

I would change the following if my objective is to get more likes & users.

- Target person, i.e vc, developers, etc instead.

- Limit and test the age groups.

- Target Tech events.

Bids will be cheaper & CTR will be more targeted. If it is not CTR, KILL it. Personally I like what you are doing at signnow, much easier to use than those I used when opening up my trading account.

Maybe you want;

- Add the Facebook icon or something to link to your Facebook page in your website.

- I am kinda of surprised that there's no YouTube explaining signnow, considering doing a hipmunk-like video explaining what signnow does.

- If you have existing customers, do a video case study what it does your customers and how signnow could come in handy in other industries or applications, etc.
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LTO5 hit's about 1.8GB per metre. Or about 3.6GB compressed.[1]

There's a reason that people say tape is still cost effective -- and it's not DAT.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open
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Apparently you're no longer confused regarding the "moral right of the artist" being vague.

Regarding your claim that the original work wasn't used, I think this quote from the article is pretty clear:

"Before the project launched, I knew exactly what I wanted for the cover — a pixel art recreation of the original album cover..."

This wasn't a case of happenstance, as you suggest.
I haven't seen the document yet, but unless they went any more specific than, "we have informants in xyz gangs" then there's no danger. The gangs know there's informants in them, and have been for years.
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I think an idea like this could be great if combined with a partial javascript bookmarklet. Counting how many characters are in the domain name isn't exactly mentally taxing, but it would get tedious pretty quickly.
"The most significant change brought about by the bill would put the United States under the same first-inventor-to-file system for patent applications used by Europe and Japan. Currently the country operates on a first-to-invent system"

Wow, does this mean everyone who wants to not get patent trolled has to file immediately?
why don't you open source the iPad app ? The project will for sure help other people.
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As I'm sure Jason knows -- the iOS app store actually has over 400,000 apps. But at 200,000 was it a poor shell of its current self?

The problem with Mac vs PC in the old days was threefold:

1) Device drivers

2) Enterprise LOB apps (think VB)

3) Games.

These three concerns actually probably played a much larger role than app availability in the mid-90s. Apple stagnating the late 90s made it a no brainer. But now with OS X (1) has been knocked off the table. Notice no one talks about the much larger PC app ecosystem. Because it really doesn't matter once you get beyond a reasonable number of apps on the platform.

For this reason, I have no problem recommending a phone based on how well it nails the basics. My MIL has no clue what Color is, nor will she likely ever miss it.
No. It has no effect on patent trolling.
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The enforcers of the law are just as responsible for their own actions as the law makers are for theirs.

Separately, I personally would have redacted some of that data.
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A better title might be: "I use only one linkbait title for this blog post".

The author does not describe a single password, but rather an algorithm for creating passwords predicated on domain names.

Personally I'd prefer to memorise one complex password and use that as a key into a KeePass database.
I absolutely agree that they hold more responsibility. However, my point was that this is one criminal organization targeting another morally corrupt organization. I don't find the analogy that InclinedPlane gave to be appropriate
The biggest concern to me - given two competitors, the one who delays their product to market while they get patents wins. I want a patent system that I can safely ignore without someone else later 'inventing' the same thing as me and taking me to court.

"[T]he bill would put the United States under the same first-inventor-to-file system for patent applications used by Europe and Japan. Currently the country operates on a first-to-invent system" ...

"John Conyers [...] said it would permit the Patent and Trademark Office to award a patent to the first person who can win a race to the patent office regardless of who is the actual inventor."
An indefinite loop of follow-up articles, and every single one will be posted on HN. :D
Why not?

It sounds like looking for new gizmos without associated patents and then patenting them as yours would be an ideal strategy.

The alternative? Patent every gizmo yourself before release. Neat. A tax on innovation.
forcing the validator to HTML5 mode would imply the doctype, wouldn't it, as the only way to force a browser to HTML5 mode is to include a doctype.
Personal responsibility applies even to police officers.

If they cannot square their actions with their morals, then they are in the wrong job.
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The reality is that the vast majority of successful startups do work very long hours and push themselves to the limit.

Only once a company is established and has a successful product can you begin to see huge leverage off of every hour of work, so that working crazy hours becomes optional (e.g. you have 10,000 customers and a proven sales model, so a 0.1% improvement is worth a lot.) The fact is that it's really really hard to build something from the ground up.

If you want nice confortable work/life balance and 40 hour work weeks, you need to go work at Google or IBM etc. The startup world is not for you.
I'm trying to figure out if you're being sarcastic.
"If the cops acted within the law, then what are they afraid of?"

That sounds like the exact same statements we usually say with regard to what the government would say to us when we want our emails to remain private, etc. "If you've got nothing to hide, why do you want it kept private?"

You cannot hold both positions here. You cannot. I'm sorry.

In this instance, what LulzSec has released stands in the way of privacy and of freedom, and it is unforgivable.
I tend to be on the "MORE APPS" side of this discussion.

I like apps and in particular I like games. I spend a decent amount of time on the train every day standing up so reading would be unpleasant for me. I listen to music or play a simple game while I ride to pass the time. The people who produce those games provide me a real service.
This is a pretty interesting topic. I'm reminded of the famous trial of Adolf Eichmann in Israel after WW2 and Hannah Arendt's book about the trial, "The Banality of Evil".

Eichmann was responsible for over-seeing the trains that sent Jews to concentration camps. He tried, to no avail, to employ the "just following orders" defense. If anyone is interested, definitely check out Hannah's book.
They're not allowed to do that, in my knowledge.
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I enjoy the work I do. One would say it's not "work" because I enjoy it.

But there are other things I do that I don't make money from but still enjoy doing greatly.

Suggesting that I should be only doing the "work" stuff as much as possible, and leaving little time for the other enjoyable activities, is just crazy, in my opinion.

Your assumptions also completely ignore other lifestyles. All early stage startups are not run by single 26 year old males. Some have families too.

And, as SeoxyS points out, your health makes a difference in your work. I think so much clearer after a good bike ride than if I just wake up in the morning and hit the work.
Just reading the process hurts my head. Please. Security, yes, headaches, no!

Personally, I use rude sentences depending on the site, with numbers and punctuations. And a throwaway password for your "Show HN's" ;)
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You can't argue "You are wrong." with only an anecdote :P. Also, I don't think your company is still a start-up after 5 years... The author's point is precisely "When you are starting up," not 5 years down the road.
I have a full time job, young kids and I work on some small web projects in my spare time. I started on PHP as my first language many years ago and I am at the point where I can get anything done I need to in PHP and I enjoy solving problems with code. I use a lightweight framework (Codeigniter) because it saves me from having to write my own.

For me, exploring different languages, frameworks, platforms etc is a luxury I don't have time for. PHP works for me and on the list of things that are adversely affecting my projects it is way down near the bottom after getting users, revenue, marketing, scaling, one-click deployments, testing, design, databases, backups, security, sleep, motivation, server costs, monitoring etc.

At the end of the day basically every language/framework/server is just spitting out HTML/CSS/JS text to a browser so as long as it does that OK then I am happy to focus on building the business.
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It's first INVENTOR to file. If you just see someone else's gizmo, you can't patent it because you are not an inventor.

All this changes is how it is handled when two or more inventors have overlapping inventions.
Can anyone shed a light on how the "first to file" change affects prior art?

In general "first to file" makes sense to me because it removes uncertainty (who filed first is indisputable, determining who invented first requires an expensive lawsuit).

But what if I invented something, published it, don't intend to ever file a patent for it and someone comes in and files a patent for that invention?

If the can get a valid patent on my invention, it seems wrong and open to abuse (what if they didn't actually invent it but just filed for a patent based on what I published).

If they can't get a patent, then "first to file" seems meaningless.