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The main issue I have with password managers aside of being inconvenient and missing when you most need them: They are a bad single point of failure.

Your password manager is only a single point of failure if you only have one copy of the database. You do take backups, right?

Of course then the points of failure become the authentication credentials for that database, in the case of my keepass DB that is the key file and passphrase. The key file I have more than one copy of ferreted away (though obviously not stored anywhere connected to where the keepass DB is stored - keeping a backup of the key file in the same place as the DB would be silly). That leaves the passphrase, which is a set of random words that I do remember.

Using a set of four passwords for all your stuff does not solve one of the main reasons for keeping a password store. The main reason I have different passwords in keepass for every site/account/whatever (aside from one or two things that I might need to gain access to when I don't have keepass available) isn't that I want all my passwords so long and random that I won't remember them: it is that I don't want one hacked site to result in someone getting access to many of my accounts if said hacked account was on a system stupid enough to store passwords in plain text (or some easily compromised format, like SHA1 without a salt or with a salt that the attacker has also gained access to - see http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/ for why). You have no idea how your credentials are stored at the other end, so I err on the side of caution and assume it might not be secure.
It really sucks that Google+ doesn't allow for creating groups yet or exporting your circles.
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Step 1 in learning NoSQL: learn SQL very well. There is a good chance it already solves your problems AND ensures your data makes sense.
Interesting. I'm finding the opposite ... as WordPress grows I find more and more uses for it, more and more ways to hack to bits (which I enjoy doing :))
As I explained elsewhere in the thread, adult members (plural) earning ~$20k means (depending on number of children) you probably aren't poor, or at least not very poor. 12.9% of households earn under $15k, 24.7% earn under $25k, and 35.6% earn under $35k:

http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/cats/income_expenditu...

The use of subsidized education and dental services helps to prove my point, which is that the poor in America don't have much to give up, and need the assistance (government and otherwise) that they're getting.

Also, emergency room access does not equal medical care. It does mean emergency care, but it does not mean preventative or chronic care. For example, it means you won't have a doctor helping you avoid diabetes and you won't get your diabetes treated. However, they will amputate your gangrenous toes once the disease develops that far.

I'm really glad that your family has done well. Every family should do at least that well. Many don't.
Wow, those quotes all sound the same... it's almost eerie.

We welcome today’s news, which demonstrates Google’s deep commitment to defending Android, its partners, and the ecosystem.

We welcome the news of today‘s acquisition, which demonstrates that Google is deeply committed to defending Android, its partners, and the entire ecosystem.

I welcome Google‘s commitment to defending Android and its partners.

We welcome Google‘s commitment to defending Android and its partners.

Those quotes are from the heads of 4 major companies...
"We owe our success to ITIL certification before launching. Period."
So when you said, "looks just like Python," you literally meant, "lexically looks like Python," because you aren't building a language that works just like Python.
Meh, not much meat on this piggyback post.
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Google to Buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 Billion
Because they're not making money from investments—therefore they're not really getting tax breaks.
> We always knew better than our customers. Eventually, they realized that.

Pretty sure I've read quotes from Steve Jobs that follow that line of thinking actually.
Sure Google is not perfect, but all other companies have the motto: "Money first, morals second."

You're kidding, right? By law, this is the modus operandi of any publicly-traded company. If you think any different, you've simply fallen for their rhetoric.
Reporting a crime is a bit different than being questioned for one, but the point still stands that by talking to a police officer you are potentially risking a lot, and should take the situation very seriously.

"Which direction did they go?!?" "Which house is on fire?!" "Does he have a gun?!" are very different questions (with different moral obligations) than "What are you doing in this neighborhood so late at night?" "Do you live around here?" "Is this your car?"

Non-urgent questions and statements should be given in the presence of an attorney, recorded, and preferably on the condition of immunity :)
Schemaless (dynamic typing) is the most obvious difference.

I wrote about the pros/cons of schema here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2836242
interesting. Not sure how serious the potential 'shift' to Bing would be, as I think alot of Ffox users would still change it to Google as the default.

Do you think Microsoft Bing is actively courting Moz on this issue ahead of the contract expiry?
Not when the founders are major stockholders. They won't sue themselves.
ohhh... that's what all the release cakes sent to the Mozilla HQ from the IE team are for!
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You're absolutely right. I'm even trying to be careful about the use of the term "firewall" to avoid giving the wrong impression.

I made the conscious choice to only block applications that play nice. It should cover most of the use cases. If there was a malicious app on your system, it would probably be impossible to even select it using the current UI.

I have no idea how to make the arms race against malware nice, lightweight or unobtrusive. With this software, I did not even attempt to.
They're really going out of their way to not use Solaris.

SmartOS is comprised of the Illumos kernel (with ZFS, DTrace, OS-level virtualization and next-generation KVM) with BSD package management and a GNU toolchain.

I used Solaris for almost 5 years and when Sun was bought I thought for sure the cool parts of it were doomed. Illumos popped up and I thought that they didn't have a chance, it would wither and die. It's very nice to see that is not the case.
Smart way to add some interesting, relevant data to your initial product development, period.
Did Google buy Motorola for the patents?
The first one was definitely a mantra of the Google-acquired start-up I used to work for. My boss was unhappy with existing software in our field of expertise, so we set out to build something that makes us happy, not other people. It helped that we (especially my boss) knew more about the field than nearly all of our customers, so our customers bandwaggoning on our software was not surprising to me.
Sadly, I know a few entrepreneurs that also think this way. They're not having much success, but cling to the notion that the world will 'wake up' and see things their way, eventually, some day, if they could just talk to enough people (and they usually cite Apple as their inspiration for this approach).

The Steve Jobs / Apple approach is more the exception that proves the rule, and even then, they've had their Newton moments too. What that proves is that with a successful enough company you can have a few failures. When you've only got the one product, you can't afford the luxury of your own Newton.
Has Google wasted $12bn on a dud patent poker-chip?
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The idea that Google went bargain hunting would be stronger if anyone genuinely believed that what has happened to the market in the last couple of weeks is short term.

The reality is that before the recent drop stocks were over valued so all he's really saying is "they only paid a relatively small amount above a previous over valuation".
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Cool. I see this really helping me when testing my application prior to deployment. Would like to see some more movement with No.de. Have been waiting for a bit to get access.
I think the founders of Mint.com could have said that.
To make a broad point without going into details about patent quality:

Nortel: $4.5B / 6,000 patents = $750k per patent.

Motorola: $12.5B / 14,300 patents = $856,164.38 per patent.

Plus 6,700 patents pending.

Plus a hardware company.

There are obviously a lot of other factors, but it seems like a pretty good deal, and maybe a smarter way for Google to go about acquiring patents without having to deal with bidding wars with consortia of their competitors.

Either way, it seems the lawyers are winning. Everywhere.
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It's also not even approved for sale in the U.S. yet, so the whole thing is kind of irrelevant.
Won't bother with the upgrades until add-ons upgrading is dealt sensibly.
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I'm so glad I spent so much time on Hacker News.

Hence, CTRL + W.
Google is fighting in multiple venues. Public opinion requires getting all in a huff. Judges and attorneys require a legal defense (or appropriate offense).
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I'm really liking the design of the website.
Chrome releases do make it to the front page of HN; they just don't mention the version number so prominently: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2875906

It will take a while for the press to get used to the new Firefox release cycle, but by next year it will be treated just like Chrome. Mozilla has already stopped using version numbers in release announcements: https://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2011/06/21/mozilla-delivers-ne...
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In terms of what they'll add to Android (patent protection for partners, stronger steering of hardware & user experience), it'll pay for itself pretty quickly.
I think two of Google's major aims will be to improve competition among Android manufacturers and use the experience gained from building its own phones to improve Android for all of them.

That's not to say that Google won't make much money off the physical device, but I think Google's aim is to increase revenue from Android (ultimately adverts) by making the platform better.
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>This puts both points b), c) and e) off the table.

I don't see where you're coming from on b/c. Motorola makes great hardware - it would be hard to improve that. What Google can do is provide phones with unlocked bootloaders and the standard "Android Experience" UI. Google can make Motorola better precisely because they are a software company, and they can use that core competency to let Motorola focus on what they do best. (At the moment, Motorola shoots themselves in the foot by writing so much software.)

On e, yes, I think the hardware division will have to stay divided from Google.
This might be the dumbest thing I've ever seen on Hacker News.
Domain Squatter sent name without payment
Ok so obviously I am doing this from a throwaway account in order to not be thrown under the bus entirely here but i have an ethics question for you guys.

I found a domain name I really wanted for a webapp I am building and emailed the woman only to confirm that she squats on domains for a living.

She was originally asking $500 more than I could buy it directly from godaddy for (obviously she already had it for sell through them)

so I threw around the words alexa page rank and search term frequency and did my own "valuation" telling her the name was worth much less ... she agreed to sell it for a much lower price and sent me her paypal address then preceded to transfer the name through godaddy BEFORE i ever paid her.

so what does moral obligation say here? my gut says pay the lady but the part of me that hates squatters thinks it may be worth it not to

So whats the verdict?
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Yes, building what you know is right is satisfying, but can be a hard road. You have to educate at every level.

Ask a farmer in 1900 what he wanted, he would have said "A stronger horse that eats less oats". Never would he have said "a tractor".
I take issue with the offhanded remark that Heroku is cheaper. The whole point of Engine Yard for me is that it is a straight markup on AWS services, and you can run whatever you damn well please on your instances. With Heroku A and B might be free, and C is an add-on costing an arm and a leg, even though it's all open source software requiring the same amount of resources.

The way I see it, Heroku is ideal when you are small, Engine Yard is good up until medium size, but if you ever hit real scale, the overhead is not at all worth the benefit.
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I thought they farmed that out to Dell to build. Motorola is a slightly bigger operation. (I know Foxconn will probably ends up doing the assembly anyway, but they'll still have to design the products)
The first thing Steve Jobs did when he returned to Apple was kill off the Newton. There's been the occasional slip, but nothing too ghastly (except the flower power iMacs).
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It's still a pain to archive, and requires extra network roundtrips even in the best case. I not only need to be able to access my mail host, but wherever else the link is pointing to aswell.

When I'm checking my mail on my mobile phone, I'm sure as hell do NOT want to make extra network roundtrips just to be able to see my mail.

It's also far harder to index, sort and search in the proposed scenario: while I can quickly file an email under any label or folder I choose, and be sure that it will stay there, have the same contents forever, and I can search it easily, the proposed scenario does not allow for that. While I can still file and label the emails that have the links, I cannot easily search in the contents, unless I archived that separately, or I go online.

Again, a lot of indirection for no real gain. I can already use something like http://gist.github.com/ or the various pastebins, and a multitude of other solutions if I have a particular problem where they are appropriate.

But for everyday mail? Why would I want to do that? It just makes things more complex, for no purpose or gain at all in the vast majority of cases.
To clarify, Joyent open sourced SmartOS. Zones, ZFS, DTrace, and KVM are maintained by other companies and have been open source for ages.

Edit: That's not to imply Joyent is freeloading. There is another post on HN with an example of the awesome work they're doing: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2887092
They still have a feduciary responsibility to the minority stock holders.
I've wondered the same thing. It's not necessarily an either-or situation. If Google's willing to spend X billions of dollars on defensive patents, why not spend even a fraction of that on lobbying for software patent reform. If any company has the will and the means to do so, it would be Google.
They're really going out of their way to not use Solaris.

Considering that the Illumos kernel is basically the OpenSolaris kernel, I don't understand what you mean. They are using Solaris, but for some reason they're trying to hide it.
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"Changing the world is nice, but I mainly did it for the money."
Seriously? Pay her.
That was a good story, but the transcript had many typos and automatic transcription errors that should be corrected.
The beauty of emacs/vim is that they are a. highly optimised to enable quick editing of any text document, not just a specific subset of languages, and b. highly customisable - the customisation isn't an annoying overhead, rather it lets you define exactly how you want the environment to be whereas an ide tends to be harder to customise to that degree.

Horses for courses.

As an aside - I think the analogy fails purely in terms of quality, word is a horrible mess and a nightmare to work with, emacs is a (sometimes clunky) thing of beauty.
Pay her - or you are a worse person than a Domain Squatter.
Defending Android is just a minor aspect of it. What these guys are not talking about is their worry that Google is now a direct competitor rather than an enabler. They know what features will go into the next version of their OS. They have all the data they gather about user interaction and usage gathered from their OS which they can use to better design their hardware. Samsung, HTC and others should be worried.
At least it's too awkward to be fake.
Just because you don't like the way someone does business doesn't mean you have any right to steal from them.
Google buys Motorola, patents, and an Android business model for $12.5 billion
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You don't actually have to build something to file a patent. You just imagine what it might look like. You can do that pretty quickly.
If we want to get ultra-technical, releasing the git sources of Ice Cream Sandwich will pretty much require releasing the Honeycomb source as a prerequisite. However, there's not much point of basing your work off of Honeycomb over Ice Cream Sandwich at that point.
The law absolutely does not require corporations to make decisions on any particular basis, and definitely does not require them to put profits first. Please stop spreading this myth, it confuses people and gives amoral executives an "out" for their horrible behavior.

Fiduciary duty is an abstract concept that basically means a duty of trust. If shareholders are told that profits are secondary, you don't violate trust by not putting them first.
Portions of Android are open source. I can't go to android.git.kernel.org, download the complete source and compile it into an identical image of what's on my phone.

Additionally, vanilla Android on a consumer device is fairly rare. Most are molested with Sense or BLUR or whatever tragic "vendor-added experience" Samsung inflicts. So in reality, most consumer Android phones aren't really that open source at all, holistically.
> We always had plenty of time to spend with our family and
> friends.

If you cannot say that, I's say you failed.

> We always knew better than our customers. Eventually,
> they realized that.

Should I repeat Ford's saying about faster horse? And not doing focus groups hurts Apple so much…
>By adopting the mobile OS nobody wants

You're dissing an OS that's not even out for a full year, and has MORE customer satisfaction than Android phones.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/wp7-ahead-of-android-and-...

How is that something that nobody wants?

>By burying the one that was actually good (and whose kernel could power an Android device easily)

Did you even read the article I linked?

Meego/Maemo was not ready on time. Even though the N9 may look okay, there's a lot of things missing that will make it very hard for Nokia to push the OS to devs etc. and have it on enough devices to make a difference in Eurasia.

And what advantage will having a kernel that could power an Android device do? It's not as if Android's kernel sucks or something. It's Linux underneath too. I don't get your point. Also, Google told them to take a hike during Nokia's discussions about switching to Android.

Anyway what happened to WebOS? It's a decent OS built on Linux but there's no uptake because of lack of a ecosystem and people wondering if it will be around in a few years.
Compatibility with JSON is a characteristic of MessagePack.
If you're already using JSON, you can use MessagePack as a faster/smaller substitution of JSON.

Since Protocol Buffers brings their original semantics, you must change lots of codes.
I've used this trick to forward to a Twisted Conch daemon running as a non-root user. However, I would never consider this approach for load balancing.
I have the same fears as you, but maybe a little less because I really don't think Google's interested in the hardware business as such. The reason they started down the android road in the first place was so they wouldn't get locked out of the mobile market in the venue they actually care about: search (specifically, search ads). Doing anything "evil" in this case just doesn't seem to jive with their long-term incentive to commoditize mobile software and hardware.
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Quick thought — for the more-paranoid, would it make sense to let you switch to a whitelist, where only the listed applications are allowed to connect?
These statements actually also indicate that its only Google that is trying to defend Android. These companies Samsung, HTC, Motorola, Sony and others must have a bigger mobile patent portfolio than Apple and MS put together. If they wanted they could have easily banded together as an entity to protect each other. But clearly that is not what they want to do. That is the ugly truth about patents.
From the article:

A lot of NoSQL solutions are about solving specific problems. MongoDB is a general solution which can (and probably should) be used in 90% of the cases that you currently use an RDBMS.

As I use don't use any NoSQL solutions today, can someone list out a few of these cases where I am using an RDBMS and I should be using MongoDB?
I also reach ridiculously high IQ score on tests (no, not online one ;p), but I know I am not smart. In fact I am very dumb. This proves that IQ test have a lot of flaws.

Besides that I don't think intelligence can be measured. I know neuronal networks are simulated in a very similar way, but it still can be used to explain the concept of IQ is nonsense.

It's the same nonsense with people claiming brain size related or genomes relate with what people mean when they talk about intelligence. There are people who had half or their brain removed (for example because of epilepsy) which disproved pretty much every claims made. Some of these people were able to live a pretty much normal live, studied, etc.
Ask HN: Building the Online Trust Gold Standard. 
Next generation commerce platforms and marketplaces are launching at a frantic rate.

P2P and collaborative consumption commerce are only going to get larger and more mainstream.

Whether you're buying goods or services from others, renting their rooms, cars, power tools etc etc. You need to know with certainty the trust level of the person on the other end of the transaction.

Each service currently has their own silo'd (if any) trust and reputation system. This gives you only a tiny insight into the overall trust rating of the person you're transacting with.

Trust systems online are fragmented and decentralised. It's impossible to get a succinct, aggregated value for an individuals trust rating.

Much like Klout & Peer Index are doing for influence and reach, we are putting together a Trust Gold Standard which will take inputs from an increasing number of existing trust systems (ebay, etsy, AirBNB etc) and output an aggregated value.

This trust standard is valuable to people on both sides of each P2P transaction and can also be used by new service providers in lieu of building out their own walled garden trust systems.

We'd like to know what you thought of our plans and whether, if you run a platform yourself, whether you would integrate this trust score for your users if it made sense for your business.

We're at wibbba@gmail.com - if you want to chat..
That assumes that the trucks/carriers in regions A and B are running almost half-empty right now. That's not likely.