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Maybe I'm just really optimistic? =)
Actually it's called "20 minutes with my ChromeBook" and I haven't seen anything that suggests a full review. But it was interesting to read through someones first impressions.
Smoking is illegal because it's a huge expense on tax money!

That just isn't correct... smoking isn't illegal, just (depending on what country you are in) smoking in certain public places.

I've no idea about other countries, but in the UK (and I don't have a source to cite for this, and it's possible I'm incorrect, but as I was told by a GP - a General Practitioner docter) the taxes paid on tobacco more than cover the cost caused to our National Health Service by smokers.

Regardless, even assuming smoking does cost more than the taxes it raises, that's not the reason for public bans - that is simply because your personal health choices shouldn't be allowed to have negative impact on the health of other people.
No worries. I still roughly agree with your point that it's too expensive to do business here. That said, compared to the rest of Europe .nl is quite ok for technology companies (especially software) but only for people who actively go out and search for lawyers and accountants who know about the many special situations for IP creation deductions, R&D subsidies etc. Plus one needs to take advantage of EU freedom of establishment rules to move profits abroad for maximum tax optimization. A software company can optimize to only pay a fraction of the taxes what a plumber or widget manufacturer would pay. (and still legal)
I definitely like the new name!
I seem to remember Mark Zuckerberg using KDE in The Social Network. Seems ironic.
I think so, but it's obfuscated.
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Firefox isn't just killing their Enterprise customers. This is going to hurt all the users who like to use add-ons with Firefox.

I'm an Evernote premium user. New versions every 3 months means the Evernote add-on gets broken for a month every 3 months. That's not gonna work.
http://www.wdyl.com/#sex - explore sex in 3D hahaha

On a serious note though, I'd love an API for it.
I want to use this with iPad like turning the page.
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Raphael has put a lot of effort into a very robust DOM-based animation implementation, and at least in their examples and my experience their animation has worked beautifully.
I still miss Display Postscript.
If you're lucky, you might also realize that being condescending is alienating and a bad way to get your point across.
Remember to turn on private browsing.
The obvious comparison is with Raphael.js (raphaeljs.com)

Wouldn't it be great if someone did all the RaphaelJS examples in PaperJS, and vice versa, so we could compare performance and ease of use?
I don't think it's about a specific technology: it's about a particular organisation and working group. If they're willing to work with someone who telecommutes, then perhaps they're willing to work with someone who works while they sleep.
PCI isn't law, it's the product of an industry group, and is arguably more about the protection of the networks and issuers than consumers.

There is even less guidance and specific regulation pertaining to the encryption and security of banking records. The audits and regulations that are in place are more about overall controls than technological measures.
I'd say that any project where someone decides to spend hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars is pretty serious.
This is a valid response if you ask me.

There is a culture of half-arsedness with some businesses where they don't respect user's security and privacy requirements. This is partially down to plain old incompetance but in my experience it's usually down to the fact that if doing something properly and testing it properly doesn't add business value, then it's not done. At the risk of pissing people off here; that culture is prevalent amongst startups.

They screwed up, they're getting sued. They should have tested it properly.

If this was a public organisation that left everyone's files in an open skip overnight they'd get sued too.
Excuse me for following this up late, as I did not have time previously. The problematic aspect of this is that while an admitting officer has a great deal of discretion and someone excluded from entry to the US has little immediate recourse, a person who is already in the US has a somewhat different legal situation. Of course, how and when the person arrived affects that, but in the case of someone brought as an infant or small child (and thus, incapable of criminal responsibility at entry), it's legally rather difficult to say whether they have in fact broken any laws.

This raises some complex 14th amendment issues. In one sense, I'd like to see these clarified by the Supreme court. In another, I'm skeptical of the wisdom of doing so because Chief Justice roberts argued against equal treatment of illegal immigrant children in the Texas school system in a famous case called Plyler v. Doe (1982). He lost, and I have a hunch he is still a bit sore about it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plyler_v._Doe
The most fun part of this lifestyle is being able to say "I'd like to go to Paris again this year", then finding work close enough to Paris to pay for going to Paris. By not needing to squeeze every dollar out of my trips, I can be much more flexible and enjoy the travel more.
Despite the criticisms, I actually think that this is the best thing that Google has turned out in the past 5 years ...
Thanks a lot, i lost count of the hours i spent in searchyc searching for old threads, simply great.
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I completely agree. Dropbox made a huge mistake. Dropbox is run by humans, and humans make mistakes, that's life. But when it came to communicate the issue they screwed up IMHO. I shouldn't need to subscribe to their blog RSS to know this kind of stuff.

They should have mailed everyone, encouraging users to change their passwords right away while they investigated the issue.
I think you're overanalysing a phrase written by people whose first language is not English. :) I interpret it as "Don't kill yourself to make money if you can live /like/ you already have it."
Two remarks:

1. Don't 'earmuff' your stopwords, since you don't intend them to be rebound. An according guideline can be found here: http://dev.clojure.org/display/design/Library+Coding+Standar...

2. You could replace (remove nil? (map db (tokenize raw-text))) with (keep db (tokenize raw-text))
Execution may be poor, but this is definitely something Google has needed to do for some time. They have many services which serve niches but the popularity of those services is, in part, bounded because no-one knows about them!
It's not that they don't know this, it's that they don't care. Corporations used to have so much power over tech adoption that this used to be the software developers problem and it cost them time and money. Now with growing consumerization (what version of Google Search did your IT dept. approve? Which iPhone browser version?) the balance of power has shifted and it's now the corporations' problem.

Now that the pain point has been shifted it will soon become apparent to corporations that the current system is untenable, just as Chrome and Firefox discovered it was. The browsers couldn't change things except to pass the buck whereas the corporations can actually fix it, or be outcompeted by those that do (just as Firefox and IE were outcompeted by Chrome choosing this path).

The third option for big corps. is to bluster and try and frighten Firefox into acting more like IE than Chrome by claiming it will hurt adoption if they don't do what they want. You only have to look at the Chrome, IE and Firefox usage graphs over the last few years to see which way Firefox should be jumping.
Private browsing isn't going to help with sites that publish their databases in plaintext, as in the link.
Potentially. But see how Lastpass dealt with a potential breach [1]. Have not heard of them being sued. I don't think "cover it up to avoid getting sued" is the right message.

[1] http://blog.lastpass.com/2011/05/lastpass-security-notificat...
How are Mozilla developers like you going to keep my Evernote add-on working in Mozilla now? You guys will be breaking all the add-ons every 3 months, too.

Mozilla developers needs to be thinking about more than what is convenient for Mozilla developers. There's a whole of eco-system of add-ons, themes, etc that other people provide that makes for Mozilla you are going to be breaking every couple of months now.
Testing can be done on pre-release browsers, which would also allow problems to be fixed before the release.
I'd be pretty happy to be Turntable.fm right now (I know Seth and Billy). I'm amazed that they pivoted so completely from Stickybits to Turntable.fm.

There are definitely licensing issues, but with phenomenal growth, and at least some viable business model (embedded rooms, celebrity appearances, etc.), they should be able to negotiate with content owners.

Once they hit escape velocity, they could start restricting the catalog of music to lower licensing costs, and maybe partner more deeply with content owners (to promote new artists, etc.) Until then, subsidizing relatively low licensing fees with cheap VC money is a great strategy.

BTW, if anyone is an amazing backend engineer (python, streaming, etc.) (www.quora.com/Turntable-fm/What-is-the-technology-stack-behind-Turntable-fm) please contact me (ryan@venona.com); I think they're looking for help scaling.
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yea, it should be "to the ..."
Fluke is just one of those brands that doesn't need advertising, their reputation permeates the relevant industries on its own merit.
>the only feasible way to fix the situation (assuming a person even bothered looking into it, and I wouldn't blame Facebook much if no one did) was to just pull all photos that had been uploaded

Personally, having used the kipi plugins with Facebook since, I don't know, the last 3 years to upload photos I very much would blame them for not even bothering to try and fix it and just deleting probably 100,000s (millions?) of images on a whim.

Stop the API being used, message people who've used the plugin to check their photos, job done.

Argh!
I think he is talking about google logging your search for password databases.

EDIT: I, however, do not agree that it is necessary, even more being a link posted on HN
If all you do is upload your primary content directly to Facebook and nowhere else, you're just asking for trouble.

That applies to 99% of the Facebook audience.
They are not shy to advertise the security and privacy of the service, it would be an honest move to communicate the risks, too.
Understand that, but it's no small thing to be able to go out of a bar without your clothes stinking of smoke. Maybe you guys have gotten so used to it you 've forgotten how it was. On the other hand, if junk food becomes so junk that it ends up a public health hazard, then it wouldn't be an overreaction to ban it too.

One must keep in mind that, in essence, tobacco, food, alcohol are all addictive substances, tricks to the brain. And when one can be tricked, one can be manipulated.
Nah, that was an actor.
I can't think of a reason why Google would care... I certainly can't think of a reason why Google would care enough to spend money on staff/research in order to get that type of content out of the index.

If you don't want something indexed, don't put it on the web. And sure as hell don't link to it.
You're wrong. The Mozilla Evernote add-on is broken right now. The Chrome Evernote addon is working fine.
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THIS is the first time I read about this bug. How incredible is that not to tell your users about that? But okay, if at all I expect it from dropbox. It's already the second time they don't care about their promise so much (at least towards me). I will quit them just now.

But to not say just bad things: This kind of info here on HN is so very much important. That is exactly why I read here, to read what I can't read anywhere else.
An investor puts $20k in 15 companies and gets perhaps $50k back. Over the sum of his companies he's getting quite a lot of money for doing nothing but having a few dinners and answering some emails.

On the other hand, these guys are making perhaps $300k each, which they can easily make as highly capable consultants. And they end up with nothing much after that, just the chance to work even more.

The problem is not venture capitalists, it's those "brand name" investors who are putting $20k in many many companies.
Didn't all that untouchable but still working mainframe stuff at some point get stuck in an emulated window, or screen-scraped into a web app, rather than have everyone stuck on terminals forever?

It would be pretty ironic, but thanks to HTML probably not that hard, to be screen scraping an IE only web app to make it available to other web browsers.
Evernote will hopefully learn to adapt to upcoming changes in advance.
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Agreed. Ciniworld [1] in the UK has had this for £14.99 for about 6-8 months now. It seems popular enough although just like a gym the catch is minimum 12 month commitment. We flirted with the maths of getting it but decided going every other Wednesday on the half price Orange promotion was more worthwhile. Also just not that many good movies to see / better ways to spend your time.

[1] http://www.cineworld.co.uk/unlimited/intro?locale=GB&sec...
No black swan :P
In "Surely You’re Joking" Richard Feynman said:

Something else happened at that time which is worth mentioning here. One of the questions the rabbinical students and I discussed at some length was why it is that in academic things, such as theoretical physics, there is a higher proportion of Jewish kids than their proportion in the general population. The rabbinical students thought the reason was that the Jews have a history of respecting learning: They respect their rabbis, who are really teachers, and they respect education. The Jews pass on this tradition in their families all the time, so that if a boy is a good student, it's as good as, if not better than, being a good football player.

It was the same afternoon that I was reminded how true it is. I was invited to one of the rabbinical students' home, and he introduced me to his mother, who had just come back from Washington, D.C. She clapped her hands together, in ecstasy, and said, "Oh! My day is complete. Today I met
a general, and a professor!"

I realized that there are not many people who think it's just as important, and just as nice, to meet a professor as to meet a general. So I guess there's something in what they said.
"Free Will". The results made no sense to me.
I would definitely be happier owning Turntable than Stickybits.

That being said, there is no reason for mainstream content owners to negotiate with them. If Pandora has no bargaining power, why would Turntable? Pandora has even more ability to promote at will, since they pick the music. Some content owners may let them use the music for promotional reasons, but it's likely to be dwarfed by the use of mainstream music by most people using the service. Take away mainstream music and it makes it hard for most average people to DJ anything.

I do think that they have a better chance at monetization than a standard radio service, both by charging fees to get into popular rooms, or getting people to pay for cooler avatars, plus by having more engagement with the monitor (higher display ad revenues). However, they also pay even more for their music than Pandora, since at least one out of 6 users or so is an on-demand stream.

The major point of the article is, growth is great. Growing too fast to figure out how you'll make money before your costs are burying you is not a game you want to play in the music industry. In any other industry VCs will tell you to figure out monetization later. In music, very few will give you that benefit of the doubt anymore.
It has nothing todo with what is 'natural'. There is no natural right to land ownership - it's just the system we choose democratically because we believe that the advantages it brings outweigh the certain misery it causes the impoverished. Few of us believe that abolishing the right to Private Property would, on the whole, bring about a net gain for the majority. Personally, i don't believe that the Maisel case has much to say about abolishing Copyright. That doesn't mean i'm not in favour of doing so, but Maisel is an edge case.
The basic idea is that if you do something lengthy and laborious and generate documentation that no-one will ever read then if/when it all goes wrong, you cannot be blamed, no matter how spurious your work is. It's like making sure you do all the right steps in a raindance, or ceremony for warding-off evil demons.
The details do matter. I know it's a cheap product so you can skip that but for more expensive products I don't think judging a book by its cover is wrong. If an expensive product can't have a really good cover than I wonder how lazy that company is with what I can't see.
Private browsing won't stop google from logging anything. It will make it so your browser doesn't remember what you did, but it doesn't stop the authorities from knocking.
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They won't lost customers if they don't tell them about the problems. The bad press is this, right here.
Isn't there a pretty obvious business here? Neatly package (MSI) and test Firefox + every single update to it, and offer to certify webapps (run a cucumber/selenium test suite against each patch level) as guaranteed to run on "Enterprise Firefox". Plus support. Then corporate IT has their backs free (they're not installing cowboy open source weirdness), and the business gets to use a sane browser.
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Johnny (& others) have been doing this type of thing for years. The classic collection is here:
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Say you run a small startup and accidentally push out a production bug like this. What should your response be?

Does it matter whether it's been reported by someone else or you discover it yourself? Does it matter whether you're a sole proprietor or a formal business entity? And in general should you form an entity to shield yourself from personal liability because of the remote chance something like this happens? Does it matter what type of content is exposed (passwords, file storage, bingo cards)? How do you decide?
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For one thing, people will pay to be the kind of people who go to movies several times a month even if they do not actually go to movies several times a month. (You laugh, but the entire gym industry survives thanks to this. Ditto many other aspirational group memberships such as golf clubs, certain tutoring services, classes, etc etc.)

Yep I think the freedom to do something is very appealing. Things like "Lifetime guarantee", "100% refund returns" or "no subscriptions, quit anytime" sell. I also rather pay slightly more, say for an ISP, if in exchange I'm not locked in for 2 years.
Forced labor battalions? That's what they sound like
He said he was spammed about deals.
Pray where and when? I don't have a facebook account.
I'm pretty torn.

On the one side, this was a realllly stupid mistake that should have been caught earlier, not by some external party who was kind enough to report it to them. I feel like the stakes should be raised a bit for companies who are keeping my data.

On the other side, fear of lawsuits leads toward less disclosure and meaningless PR announcements.
Immediately lock-down, then communicate to all affected before doing a root cause analysis and taking steps to ensure it doesn't happen again.

Dropbox faltered on the communication, and they made claims about their security which hasn't been backed up by practise.

They stated that they would communicate to those whose accounts were 'compromised', yet those 'affected' by this was literally every user they have. They should've communicated to all, as that is who has been affected.

They also state and sell based on security, and do give you the feeling that you are able to trust them, then when you do you find that they leave the door open. So their claims of security haven't been backed up by the practise of it.

Locking down was the right thing.

Communication was dire.

And there hasn't been a follow-up to demonstrate clearly that lessons were learned, and that it cannot happen again. Hell, we haven't even heard if there are now unit tests over this piece of code.

Just act ethically, clearly, and don't be afraid to have egg on your own face by coming clean. But when you do this, come fully clean and be transparent. Don't err, or dodge the details... just come clean, put your hands in the air and admit you screwed up, and then say why you've learned and why it really truly is not repeatable.

And if you've already had a security flaw or two preceding this... then stop what the hell you're doing, stop working on new features, and go back and check every line of code and look for every attack vector or flaw in your processes and put them right.

They sell on securing our data... I want them to be paranoid on my behalf.
Also, how does a watermark act in a PDF?

Is it like those cases where documents requested under FOIA had black bars hiding sensitive text which could simply be moved/removed with the right tool set?
could you please add a link to "buy as a gift" ? I can purchase it twice, but it will keep getting linked to my email address.