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For the same reason you don't negotiate with terrorists: If Apple pays up without a fight, then patent trolls everywhere will begin suing iOS devs with hopes of being acquired by Apple.
There's always Kenneth Reitz' GCC-without-XCode installer[1].

[1] https://github.com/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer
Almost none.

When people think they're in the right - they sue (or defend).

Further, because of the 'loser pays' system, if the case is obviously bogus or blown up, often a lawyer will agree to take up a defense just for the right to claim the other side's expenses (e.g. instead of paying the lawyer, the lawyer takes a relatively small fee plus the right to any 'expense fees' leveled on the other side).

In addition, I believe that in most of Europe lawyers cost a lot less than they do in the US (certainly so in Israel), to which a contributing factor is that less litigation going on.
Strange journalism, there isn't any quotes in the article that actually cite competition from Apple as the reason for the closure. Editorialized?
Except that this problem only existed on OS X to begin with - Linux and Windows never seemed to have it. Seems they manage to ensure that closing the last Window closes an app. The Lion way seems worse than the non-Apple way to me.

If the argument is really "today's computers have enough resources", then apps should maybe never close, not do a Heisenclose in the background.
#2: Any headless process that's scanning, or performing a behind-the-scenes operation. And note, it's window not application. Because an application could reliably stay open without a window… until now.

Mail.
File Transfers.
Staying available for chat.
Rendering process that can run headless. (Handbrake, I think, plus others.)
I know I can coerce OSX into being a Unix-developer-friendly OS, but, unless you require the hardware it comes bundled with or some specific feature only OSX provides, why not start with a more server-like OS? Most of the servers I deploy to run Linux. If I develop and test everyday under Linux, I'll have less surprises when I deploy to production.
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It's vulnerable to a known-plaintext attack. Eg, you have an account on the system, so you know your own password. You can encrypt your password with different keys until it matches the stored, encrypted version. Then you know the master key.

Edit: Of course you did say 128 bits, which is pretty good. But if you do manage to break it, you do have the master key, which can't happen with hashed passwords.
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I think the more relevant question is, how do you show you still have a license for music from a store that doesn't exist anymore?

How do you recover that music if you ever lose a drive or your phone or wherever the music is?
I'm not going to answer this, because I don't want to deal with the 15 counterfactuals someone else is going to come up with for how they'd deal with the way I'd implement this attack (now that they've heard one way to do it). I think you should take my word for it.
I was thinking more hours of enjoyment per $.

Sushi costs $50-100 for an hour of enjoyment.

A movie costs maybe $15 to see in theater, good for maybe 2h of enjoyment.

A $50 video game might be good for 50h of play. Maybe more.

Netflix is $10/mo for ~unlimited movies.
That's a good idea, but nobody who actually knows how to generate an AES key will be vulnerable to it.
I think some will consider it a _bit_ unnecessary. I upvoted you, gotta seize those moments when they come :)
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Wow, this is one of the best results of an early-stage acquisition I've seen. Not only did they preserve the original app, but they incorporated all of its awesomeness into the core product.
Behaviour #2 has resource management benefits too. App-less processes will be terminated when available memory gets low.
Bernanke Calls Deflationary Depression
The BackboneJS and Knockout Danceoff
If you like focus-follows-mouse don't upgrade to a newer version of Compiz[1] (assuming that you actually use Compiz).

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/755156
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Apple’s Trade-In Program Just Got So Much Better
China inflation rises to 37-month high in July
That's a bold claim. Even if it becomes one of the top 4 companies, what's the business model? Most of the sites I listed are non-commercial, absolutely free. It's a bitch to compete with free services, and pretty much identical functionality.

You must also realize that the sites I listed is just a small percentage, something I googled in 2 minutes. There are many many players in the collaborative editing "market".
Ask HN: Review my idea. Woot for services
The basic idea is this: a site like woot, where everyday there is a new service offered in limited quantities and at a discount. Anyone can sign up to offer their service (programming, graphic design, marketing, etc). The benefit to the sellers would be exposure, new clients, and having a way to sell their time between projects. What do you think of the idea? I set up a temporary page at minvp.com in case anyone is interested in getting updates on this (that's not the final name).
If your email provider supports CRAM-MD5 or DIGEST-MD5 authentication (on SMTP, POP3 or IMAP) — they're storing your password either in plaintext or reversibly encrypted.

If your ISP provides PPPoE, PPTP or IPsec-less L2TP connectivity and support CHAP, MS-CHAPv2 or PEAPv0/EAP-MSCHAPv2 authentication — they're probably storing your password in plaintext.

And while the email providers'd better start dropping this practice (as most mobile phones nowadays support SSL/TLS) and use TLS, ISPs are better stay with plaintext passwords. Wiretapping Ethernet, DSL line or open WiFi hotspot is orders of magnitude easier than hacking into the database. Obviously, that's only until the day majority of SOHO routers and other client hardware would support EAP-TLS.
Second US Recession Could Be Worse Than First
Applications that appear to quit are essentially suspended; they consume RAM but not CPU and cannot do work in the background.

If an application needs to do work in the background then it is not subject to automatic termination by either behavior #1 or behavior #2 and simply remains running.
Doesn't seem to be available in the UK yet.
On a possibly related note, there don't seem to have been any reports of deaths yet (apart from the original suspect shot by police that seems to have been the spark in the powderkeg).
If this is shopkeepers buying baseball bats it could be because faith in the UK Police to protect businesses was severely damaged over the last few days.

Summer's not over, and it could get worse. Get a bat on standing order for the future?
I find that HN's post quality relaxes on the weekends, too. ;-)

There seem to be a lot more reposts and borderline-spammy self-promotion or poorly disguised press releases.
Resource management is already covered by #1. #2 is strictly a UI convention.
[We] conclude that a transmission that weakens a sound computer system—or, similarly, one that diminishes a plaintiff’s ability to use data or a system—causes damage.

This sounds pretty broad to me. How the hell am I supposed to know how many messages or what size attachments your crappy -- I mean "sound" -- mail system can handle?
Alternative attack: Change everyone's email address to one you control, get the system to send everyone a "you forgot your password" email.
Is technology all that good for us?
Not always. For example, in case of website with open registration, an active attacker may exploit SQL injection and register new accounts (with arbitrarily chosen passwords), observing new records in DB.
I am sorry, but nothing beats needing MySQL, PostgreSQL, some Emacs thingie or a splittable terminal and being able to instantly issue a "sudo aptitude install" on a terminal and have everything taken care for you.

Some developers adapt to OSX, but, if you read TFA, you'll realize this is not a cross section of the hard-core hacker types: 80% of the sample prefers Windows.

OSX is quite acceptable in roles traditionally reserved to Windows PCs in the corporate world. It runs Office, Outlook, talks nicely to Exchange and runs Eclipse just fine. Many corporate Java developers (a bunch that traditionally used Windows) can use Macs for work and enjoy some advantages in relation to those who use Windows.

You may argue that Linux is not as polished a Unix as OSX (I disagree, but smart people believe it), but no serious hacker thinks Windows is acceptable for development unless they are also targeting Windows for deployment.
tried http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/ ? Tried brew with ffmpeg and image magick and it works
And some interesting links from my bookmarks:

* Intermediate and Advanced Software Carpentry in Python:http://ivory.idyll.org/articles/advanced-swc/

* Beej's Guide to Network Programming:http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/output/html/singlepage/bgnet.html

* How To Use Linux epoll with Python:http://scotdoyle.com/python-epoll-howto.html

* 6.006: Introduction to Algorithms, using Python:http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.006/spring11/notes.shtml

* Python beginner's mistakes:http://zephyrfalcon.org/labs/beginners_mistakes.html

* Python Gotchas:http://pythonconquerstheuniverse.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/py...

* Python Conquers The Universe
1. Command-line syntax, some basic concepts:http://bit.ly/r07qvK
2. Unicode for dummies:http://bit.ly/oMFvd8
3. debugging in Python:http://bit.ly/rmEQiK

* Pypy
- Tutorial: Writing an Interpreter with PyPy, Part 1 : http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/04/tutorial-writing-interp...
- Global Interpreter Lock, or how to kill it:http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/06/global-interpreter-lock...

* Be careful with exec and eval in Python: http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2011/2/1/exec-in-python/

* Guido van Rossum:Interfaces or Abstract Base Classes? http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=92662
Wait, what does your startup do? ("it's like ___ for ___" generator)
Google to Shut Down Educational Programming Tool Android App Inventor
This times 1,000. Mom's don't use alt+tab. The thing people aren't appreciating is that when you reopen the app (which is available via Mission Control, via Spotlight, via the Finder or perhaps via the Dock), it restores to the place it was when it was left (if there were windows open).
I type an artist or song name into the store's search box. I find what I want and click 'Buy'. Next time I plug in my iPod my songs go there.

This is the sort of straightforward workflow that people enjoy. They don't have to think about how to copy files from A to B or import them into their music app or copy them onto the media player. It's a straight line from store to device.
I believe Fog Creek has done something like that to classify which box to drop the customer emails in.
Ah, good one. Hooray for padding tricks!
You don't.

How do you recover music on a CD that you've lost?
What the 20 most popular websites in the world have in common
This is interesting to me because I've become obsessed with the idea of running a 10W, ARM-based system headless, that serves webpages (i.e. HTTP) with the requested data via my LAN. You can leave something like that on all the time, and have instant-on for your higher power devices with displays and such.
Sure. The point is just the naivete implied by being surprised that someone would invest in an Etherpad clone, as if anyone was likely to have simply invested in an Etherpad clone.
I'm not really wedded to a conclusion or "mind set" here. I just don't buy your assertions, which you seem to have pulled out of your ars :)

My proposition is pretty simple: I would like to see LED light bulbs adopt some of the same modularity used in other LED lighting products such as flash lights and bike headlights. I don't have to throw away an entire headlight in order to upgrade, and I don't want to throw away heavy aluminum light bulbs either. I have no idea if there's a market in this, but Nate's money is on the table.

Now, if you you really knew this subject well, you might have pointed out that cooling requirements are pretty specific to the type of LED and driver, and are likely to change rapidly, thus making current shrouds and heat sinks subject to imminent obsolescence. Or you might have pointed out the possibility that remote phosphors will catch on widely, which would seriously complicate the whole arrangement. Or you might have pointed out the fact that the economics of manufacturing mass-market lighting appears to favor arrays of cheap LEDs over single expensive LEDs, which would obviously make modularity difficult or impossible.

If indeed modularity would double the cost of a bulb, as you say, then that would obviously kill the idea as well. If you would be so kind, please provide a citation for this.
Dark Mirror (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087119/)
Obama campaign hiring frontend devs
Actually, I spend a week doing hands-on interviews with actual people whom had no prior programming experience. At first, I thought details like curly brackets, parenthesis and so on would put them off, but not a single person had a problem with that, to my surprise.

You might say that significant whitespace (i.e. the indentation level signifies structure) is a more natural way, but when you think about it there's no where else in these peoples lives where indentation of text determines it's function or effect. When you e.g. in Word indent text it's a purely visual effect (which might imply or give greater meaning to structure, but not define it). Thus, significant whitespace is not as natural as parenthesis and -- it turns out -- curly braces.

Now, I only did qualitative research and have yet to see a large uptake in usage. I personally use Move for 95% of everything I write nowadays and I have colleagues and friends who are also writing things in Move, so I guess time will tell if this is actually a more "natural" programming language than, say, JavaScript.

I recently wrote this update on the Move language. A sort of retrospect: http://rsms.me/2011/07/30/an-update-on-move.html
Tilt: Visualize your Web page in 3D
We are. The genetic advances that we'll make will probably allow us to extend our life considerably in the not very far future. Like next century if not earlier. Damn!
How could you possibly think you know this company's investment pitch based on the information we now have? You just want to bag on YC companies. And I don't care, except that you're doing it pretentiously.
that's why "Baden Baseballs (Pack of 3)" are up to 3000%
I don't have the stomach to hand in my perfectly functional (albeit extremely slow by today's standards) G3 iMac for recycling.
Wordpress Template ≠ Web Design
Wouldn't making the initial files available be slightly worse then uploading partial bits?
No, and I resent the interpretation.
As someone who has built a fair few restaurant sites, there are lots of reasons.

If a web design agency builds a site that doesn't work on the iPhone or iPad, which are both now considered critical to restaurant marketing, they get to charge extra for creating an iOS specific version, or an app, or whatever. If you create one site that works great on everything, you make less money.

Restaurants are also sometimes run dreadfully. There's a particular type of chef that just cannot delegate, cannot let go of the details. Some of the biggest names are barely breaking even - in recent news the "best restaurant in the world" shut down, having never made a profit!

Then there's communication: People running restaurants are often all over the country, hard to get hold of, it's quite difficult to get decisions made.

On splash screens etc: If the client wants it, they want it. You can try to talk them out of it but at the end of the day if they insist, you gotta build it, and sometimes what they ask for just isn't easily possible without flash (sorry!)

It's a bit unfair to pick on restaurants, to be honest. Pick a random, non-chain business off your high street. How good is their website? How many of them use flash? A lot of low-end websites are still in that quagmire, but the meat of it is that you don't need to visit the website for most of these businesses but for restaurants the web has become critical, so you notice it more.

Lastly, to anyone out there that does make restaurant websites: Push back. Try to explain to your clients why it's not such a great idea to use flash, or intro screens. Try to explain the use-cases etc, and above all show them there is a very good business case for having a good website. My current employer actually specialises in restaurant websites and I'm really, genuinely proud of what we're doing - and our clients love it too. It takes effort and it's risky, but helping your client have the best website possible can pay off.

Edit: Between this article and the recent attack from Cracked, I'm feeling a little under siege, especially as both were fairly light on actual facts. An issue that came up in both:

> This is because restaurants often don't have tools to update the text on their sites—saving and replacing a PDF file of a menu is easier than messing with the code on the site

This is a horrible simplification. In many cases the PDF menu is produced by a design agency, which is certainly a lot more effort than updating text on a website. It's also not hard to code either a PDF uploader or a page text editor or both, but you'll find plenty pick the PDF uploader. If you spent that sort of money on a PDF, you'd want to upload it too! And of course the menus are often very designed and they want that control (which the article does cover on other points)

My question on this issue is: Is a PDF download really so bad? It's not something I personally find particularly intrusive and for a restaurant menu it seems suitable enough.
They use the hoard, in part, to lock up supply of components that they think will be strategic in the near to medium term future. They had a strangle on the supply of NAND flash leading up to and through the christmas season when the first ipod nano's came out, for example.

http://www.tuaw.com/2011/04/26/apple-lays-out-11-billion-in-...

http://allthingsd.com/20110124/tk-3/

http://www.quora.com/What-would-be-a-good-use-of-Apples-76-2...
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Ah, but we also have threads with neither, or threads where the jokes have simply plonked to the bottom of the page with no discussion.
They brute force attack your password hash and then mail it to you.
Might I suggest the educators affected check out my visual programming editor for HTML5? www.scirra.com

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The boxee software itself hasn't been updated in a year at this point.

I honestly don't care for all these extraneous bits and pieces if they can't even ship the base system in any real timeframe.
Just for kicks, they showed my 17" MBP SR C2D 2.4GHz at $492.

Hahahahaha.
> they shouldn't have read access to the passwords table in a properly configured system. If they do, it's time to fire your DBA.

I can guarantee that it happens. A lot. And firing the DBA is a poor solution.
Damn! They all look the same to me!
This reminds me of the recent video floating around the web (which I now can't find) of korean americans defending their stores in the LA Riots with guns and ad-hoc militias.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots#Riots_an...

The sometimes we take the idea of "law and order" as provided by government for granted.
Tools for a new generation
I wasn't aware you knew the history. I find it odd, too, but i can think of à reasonable reason for doing this. Good apps without anything to do will not use CPU time, so the only concern is swap space. That, I think, must be the reason for implementing this: on SSD systems, swap space can be scarce (hm, there may even be hardware in the pipeline where it is even scarcer)

I do look forward to a better solution, though. The days of the "Quit" menu item are numbered. Longer term, I think we should get rid of File-Open, too, bring back Lisa-like Stationary documents, and remove File-New.
A history of DVCS workflow at Cheezburger
A shortgun would be a better choice than aluminum bat in that case.
Alternatively successful communication over vast distances turns out to be impossible or at least very rare.
I think I read this on an HN thread itself, but browsing through patents in a field that related to you is not a good idea.
This is the kind of strategy activists use, for instance Greenpeace uses this extensively:

To keep up the pressure we urgently ask you to send an email to the Danish minister for foreign affairs, Per Stig Møller. --http://oceans.greenpeace.org/en/take-action/denmark
It's harder to lose a CD then a phone/ipod/computer. If you've ripped the CD to your computer the disc/case is just sitting on a shelf till next time you need it.
I think it's more likely that as a part of the licensing agreement Apple agreed to not challenge the validity of the patents. This is not uncommon.
Cash hoard: Maybe they will buy their own hardware manufacturing facilities, right down to silicon foundries. They like vertical integration, and they don't like their manufacturers (e.g. Samsung) becoming competitors.

Long term: although Apple is defending its current properties, I think it is setup to routinely create new categories of products. This is where Apple's talents are most valuable (especially combining hardware and software to push the envelope), when new things are still difficult; they don't seem to be good at commodities (e.g. cheaper phones) nor want to be. They've gone iPod, iPhone, iPad. They're also trying TV hardware. What's next? Maybe a game console; a watch; a much smaller smart phone; an ARM/iOS laptop or desktop; or something I haven't imagined.

But yes, the question is whether they can manage it without Jobs.
Also a 4500% increase in sales of four-man tents...? Not sure these statistics indicate anything.
The cost savings of downloads are just too ridiculously huge to really think about going back to manufacturing circuit boards. Beyond the marginal circuit board cost, there's a huge physical goods infrastructure that just doesn't have to exist when you go with downloads. Servers are a good bit easier to manage than manufacturing plants and shipping infrastructure.
CRAM-MD5 and DIGEST-MD5 are terrible for exactly this reason; a similar argument is part of the reason nobody uses HTTP digest auth. Mitigating this vulnerability is part of the motivation for SRP, which is computationally hard to brute force and non-reversable.
Oh well, I had to ask.
What's amazing is that Apple still managed to grow its profit 125% year over year last quarter. A huge company, hugely profitable, and still hugely growing.
Why HN Got Slow
We got MSMed. The post about baseball bat sales in the UK was the perfect media bait and they all linked to the item page.

I turned on comment thread pagination to decrease the load. I'll turn it off tonight.
Which, with proper encryption, likely won't get you anywhere. If the encrypted password is hashed with the username (or something else unique/random to the record) as an add-on salt, you won't even be able to find out which users are using one of the 500 most common passwords this way.
Yeah, in the one case where I tried the wii virtual console with a game that was big in my childhood (Contra 3), it just doesn't feel quite the same. Noone's gotten an SNES controller quite right, either. So I hang on to a SNES to bring out every now and then.
Remember that an application has to support the sudden termination API, and indicate to the OS that it can be safely shutdown, in order to actually have this condition apply.

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

If you make no changes to your application, then the OS won't touch it. And if you do decide to support sudden termination, then hopefully you would call disableSuddenTermination before starting any background file transfers, renderings, etc.
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