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By 'usable', do you mean that your one year old child can browse the app store, find something they like, install it, and use it?

At a new location, can they identify the correct wireless network to use, and enter the password?

Or do they just use an easy subset of what the ipad offers? We don't go "Wow! the toy piano is easy enough for a toddler to use!" and gush over it, because we know the toddler isn't using the piano like some virtuoso.
Some. Interesting paper from some years ago on trends and missed opportunities in the computer industry. Unfortunately, it leaves off just where things get interesting:
http://econpapers.repec.org/paper/wpawuwpio/9406003.htm

The general trend is that the more general, more flexible, lower-cost, more modular solution tends to win out in the long run. That's been different solutions at different times, but "more open" is a good general rule.
The top 50 earners are interesting if you want to get a visa. The bottom 50 are probably more interesting if you have to compete with someone for that job.
It seems to have spurred a conversation on culture also, which I find interesting in regards to how our many, many cultures deal with each other. The protective vs. the laissez-faire lifestylers. Why it was requested to put an NFSW tag on this post, we should take into consideration how we censor ourselves in general, and in business.
How exactly is coercion ok?

These are not criminals we are talking about. These are citizens accused of crimes.
He must have a stack of phones and tablets a mile high in his backyard.
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Wonder why they're anonymous.
Would it be bad form/karma whoring for me to submit it? I'm new..
I started almost by accident. The place I worked at was "downsized" somewhat viciously in the space of a year from 5 of us down to just me. Finally, the boss decided that office rent was costing too much and I started working from home instead. About 3 or 4 months in, the boss started to complain that my expenses were now costing too much (he was paying half my internet bill & 1/8 utilities - maybe £80/month) so I decided enough was enough and sought out some freelance work. On my first proper gig I made a month's wage in a day so I quit to do freelancing full time.

It does have its downsides (see other post re work/rest space) but overall I'm much happier working this way and would hate to go back to a normal office job. I'm not very good at getting up in the morning and I don't take orders as well as perhaps I sometimes should, so the whole situation is well suited to me.

Also, it's worth trying to get out now and then. Work from a coffee shop or somesuch (I found it remarkably productive). Every now and again I'll jump on a train to some strange town and stay there for a few days, work from a hotel/cafe/coffee shop and power through things. Working from 'home' is effectively working anywhere if it's web/writing work - so make the most of it!
Unless you want your own TLC reality show, in which case you should just keep popping them out as fast as you can.
I may be misreading the summaries, but it seems like this is sort of a "bitcoin-like" style protocol, albeit with the history dags being stored centrally, plus additional machinery for all the standard certificate functionality. Am I interpreting this proposal correctly?
I think they are gold/uranium/diamond mines. these minerals are usually found in channels. depending on the concentration of the minerals, they dug out the sand/mud and half-filled them with chalk, so that they can take an aerial picture and analyze the area for coverage, further prospecting etc.
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How important is it to be able to try out your apps on your own phone?

What is the minimum financial investment to try your hand at Android development? My understanding is, there's no cost to start developing, but there's some cost involved in getting your app hosted. Is that accurate?
If I understand correctly, this proposal uses a globally-shared append-only log (like the Bitcoin blockchain) as a shared cache of server keys (like SSH's caching of the key first seen with a new endpoint).

Once the 'right' key is pushed into the global cache, you can't fool any users who can access that cache.

Revocation or recovery from the 'right' key itself being compromised or lost is still not really handled, though some ideas are discussed in the draft design. But at least later Certificate Authority compromises can't ruin the security provided by a server's declared long-lived key, once it's been registered in the global cache, as long as the server itself manages its own key well.
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Is this true? I thought web browsing was one of the primary features of smart phones. I thought it was taken for granted that the phones could browse the web.

Although your explanation does explain the huge number of companies creating stupid apps...
Disgusting but practical. I already know the keys on the right because I use them every day. If it were a function I'd have to look it up first.
How is that not common sense?

If someone's dad had a company, it would be very strange if at least one of their offspring didn't join the entreprise at some point.

I don't think most companies formed by the 1% are public, so it's more or less logical someone in the family would be groomed to run part of it or take over.

Look at Asia where lots and lots of family run business are run this way too. It's more or less "normal".
At work, our production databases are incrementally backed up every 2 hours with a full backup daily. The performance impact to the server is negligible and if little has changed the backup is small.
Why was the development version of Opera used, but not of the other browsers? Both stable and development Opera is shown there, but just stable versions of the other ones.

The development Opera does great, but the development versions of the other browsers are likely also much faster than their stable versions.
I believe the real problem lies in the fact that Flash can actually put things in your clipboard. There should be a security configuration in Flash that makes this clipboard "feature" disabled by default, or at least it should alert the user when the new clipboard content contains malicious code.

Another thing that Facebook can do, is detect Wall-spamming and require the user to confirm that (s)he really wants to spam all his/her friends.
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We always try to wrap documentation, procedure and ceremony around the occasionally necessary direct bulk update. Test in dev. Test in staging. All good. But inevitably there's that one-off special case; it's critical, there are immediate business implications, perhaps the hair of one's biggest customer is on fire. And it's late.

So this happens, and I devise a complex, clever, surgical, just-this-once query. Focused on the correctness of the cleverness, naturally I miss the elided WHERE clause deep within the SQL of a derived table. I run the query, and then spend several reflective hours restoring from backup and writing angry SQL to make things be as they were.

Having learned my lesson, I meticulously document the incident and the recovery steps. I'll certainly never make that mistake again, but I'll be magnanimous and help the next poor fool. A few months later I'm facing the same situation. This time, thank goodness, I have a clear process well documented. There's even big red warning text. A little copying and pasting of that clever SQL, execute the query, and -- what the...?!

Like a virus, the bad query with the missing WHERE clause had worked its way into my documentation of the event -- as the good code. It was convenient to have the restoration queries ready to go, shaving a bit of time off the two hour restoration process. Never assume you're not the next poor fool, I guess.
And it's not just common sense for the 1%. Plenty of sons will go into their father's company, for example mechanics, whatever. It's just that a higher proportio of company owners in the 1% than the 99%.
Apple is known for making 10 prototypes of an idea then culling it to 3, then 1.

Microsoft & others tend to start with one version and constantly evolve that. The difference is you can get stuck at local maxima / evolutionary dead ends.
This conclusion of nepotism assumes that the propensity for a son to follow in their father’s footsteps is independent of industry.

Aside from being an assumption that shouldn’t be made, it can’t possibly be true.

The industry of the top 1% and the skill sets required are completely different from those of the other 99%.
Woah, that's pretty sad, but kinda cool that the SD card still worked after that.
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Huh, I never thought of that. I always use A to get to the end of the line, so I never touch the End key. Good idea.
>tl;dr versions - Gruber thinks the title 'Tweaker' has less social value than 'Inventor' so he takes offense at Gladwell's argument which identifies Steve Jobs a 'tweaker'.

The second sentence: Jobs was neither. These men make for a poor comparison to Jobs because Jobs didn’t really “invent” anything
Probably hoping he will tweak it.
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"Terrorism" has less power to persuade, justifiably or not, when recent terrorist attacks are not on people's minds. "Child porn" doesn't have this disadvantage, because you can be told that it's going on all around you without your knowledge.
This is a little misleading (the headline is a lot misleading). FTA:

>The researchers found that 68 percent of the sons of top-percentile income earners have at some point by the time they're age 33 taken a job at a firm [at which] their father also worked. That's significantly higher than the 55 percent rate for the sons of the second-highest percentile of earners and the 40 percent average for all income levels.

There are fewer industries (and fewer total companies) that compensate someone at the 99th percentile than there are that do so at lower income levels. So by something similar to the pigeonhole principle, you're going to have more high earners with overlapping career paths, including when said high earners happen to be father and son.

I've had internships at various places - a startup, AMD, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, and NASA. I started a company in grad school and now work for Google. My dad happened to work for Goldman for much of his career, so technically I contribute to this statistic (I'm not in the 1%, but my dad is). But my dad's being at Goldman had absolutely nothing to do with my internship there (I applied initially without his knowledge, got through the interviews like anyone else, worked in a different division, etc.). There was no nepotism involved; it's almost coincidental that one of the many companies I've worked for happened to be one of the ones my dad also worked for.
Here is one of those oh-so-productive HN threads where virtually everyone is competing to find either cleverer or more emphatic ways of agreeing with the same statement; in this case, it's "the government shouldn't regulate encryption", but it might just as well be "the government shouldn't be electronically strip searching people at airports"†.

This phenomenon presents a manifold of problems, including:

* Because we appear to be unable to move past the most immediately obvious point, we can't fit any other thoughts in our head, like, "maybe there is a real societal problem that needs to be addressed here" --- not by regulating encryption, but, for instance, perhaps by allocating funding and training differently.

* It's boring to have a bunch of people with more or less the exact same life experiences competing to agree with each other.

* When it's not boring, it's exasperating, such as when the thread competes to build a case that all of law enforcement is a conspiracy to find more effective ways to predict who we're going to vote for --- or creepy, such as when people more or less suggest that child pornography isn't a real problem.

Two thoughts. That's all I'm asking. I agree that the first thought is "don't regulate full disk encryption". The second thought though should be something along the lines of, "yes, that's an interesting new problem for law enforcement"; it shouldn't be "OH MY GOD LOOK HERE'S THE GOVERNMENT LOOKING FOR ANOTHER EXCUSE TO SPY ON MY PORN STASH."

† I know, I was just as bad on those TSA threads as everyone else.
The article explicitly talks about "sons". What about the daughters?
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I actually believe pizza as a vegetable is easier to buy than what SOPA portends (plus pizza had the "ketchup is a vegetable" precedent). For that reason, I think its passing will be more contentious.
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The HN title is inaccurate. The article's claim is:

The researchers found that 68 percent of the sons of top-percentile income earners have at some point by the time they're age 33 taken a job at a firm their father also worked.

The statistic is whether sons have ever worked at any firm that their father has ever worked for. Not the same as "68% of sons work at their dad's company."
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If you had much firsthand knowledge of In-Q-Tel, you wouldn't be implying that Facebook is an elaborate attempt to collect information for the CIA.
Woz is a real technologist. He loves hardware and software. I really admire him.
>Another thing that Facebook can do, is detect Wall-spamming and require the user to confirm that (s)he really wants to spam all his/her friends.

The XSS code could just be modified to automatically confirm its actions.
I've had this set for a while now and haven't noticed any scripts breaking. It's far more common for scripts to break because I'm remapped something and they used 'nmap' instead of 'nnoremap' or 'normal' instead of 'normal!'.

Whenever a script breaks, I bite the bullet and fix it, fork it on Github, switch my dotfiles repo to use my fork and send a pull request. If they merge my fix I switch my dotfiles repo back.

It's a pain in the ass, but I like to think that it helps other Vim users a little bit.
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Reply from Senator Gillibrand

Thank you for writing to me regarding S. 968, the PROTECT IP Act of 2011. I understand your concerns.

I am a cosponsor of this legislation because I believe that we must protect American intellectual property against foreign websites that infringe upon our rights. By empowering the Attorney General of the United States to go after foreign infringing websites, this legislation becomes a necessary tool to ensure that U.S. companies remain competitive in the world marketplace. I recognize that there are technical concerns with the enforcement of this bill that need to be addressed. I am committed to working with my colleagues in the United States Senate to ensure that this legislation protects the Constitutional rights of Americans and does not stifle lawful free speech or innovation on the internet.

Thank you again for writing to express your concerns, and I hope that you keep in touch with my office regarding future legislation. For more information on this and other important issues, please visit my website at http://gillibrand.senate.gov and sign up for my e-newsletter.
Basically the SD card contains encrypted key which is required to be mounted while logged into the PC. If I pull the card away the PC will automatically shutdown.

if the SD card is not mounted when the user logs in the system is automatically shutdown too.

Basically the SD card only fights against using the computer. You of course could remove the hard drive and mount it in another computer, but that is why the whole drive is encrypted.
Oracle works this way, too. I fact I don't believe there is any such ridiculous feature as "autocommit" in Oracle, that is only something that might happen in a client application. Closest thing I can think of is that sql*plus will perform a commit upon normal exit.
I've never claimed there to be a singular European attitude.
Those are css transitions, i.e.:

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Agreed that it's unfortunate that flash can write to your clipboard. The only place I've seen that used legitimately is on bit.ly so they can copy the shortened link to your clipboard. Even there, I usually end up confused about what happened and manually copy it anyway.

As far as things we could do at Facebook, we definitely work to detect wall spamming. We end up blocking this kind of spam a lot the time, but there's always room for improvement.
Someone could use a two-factor system that splits the decryption key into a memorized passphrase and a physical token. Even if the person reveals their passphrase, the data cannot be decrypted without the rest of the key on the physical token (something that could easily be destroyed).
The point of labelling graphs, much like commenting code, is communication with others and your future self.
Regarding telling suicidal people to think about the people who care about them before taking their lives...some suicidal people don't have anyone who cares about them. That's why they're suicidal.
It's only included in the last chart, with this explanation: "The Opera 12 alpha comes with hardware acceleration but since it's alpha I don't want to include its results yet - sometimes making software more reliable also means making it a little slower, and considering I used the stable branches for all the other browsers I also thought it would be unfair to include Opera 12 alpha (until the end where I throw it in for fun)."
I am experiencing booking dates errors, my host's emails to my airbnb inbox was not forwarded to me, my host is trying to get in touch with support on live chat but they are not answering, plus the website is down now too. what's happening over there? I wonder.
Well, I wouldn't worry so much about bike-shedding [1] as much as financial industry moles injecting loopholes.

Also, it isn't a clean-room effort, so you just need trustworthy people who have been vouched for.

[1] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bikeshedding
I'm stealing "nnoremap <CR> o<ESC>" immediately. Thanks!
The HD is fully encrypted and the system does not only check if a file exists, but if the file in the SD card contains specific key, which is not stored in the system, but it's my own encryption implementation for the key so I'm not certain how secure it is.

a) Yes they can.
b) Of course they can do that if the HD is not encrypted or the encryption is broken.
c) Yes they can do that, but why would they do it if they already broke the hard drive encryption? They could just delete the script.
d) Well yes surely they could do this.

Anyway my only goal implementing the SD card shutdown was to secure the system from friends who want to invade my privacy and thief's. Basically I can do auto login to my admin account and if the SD card is not mounted it shut downs.
Google: facebook pepsi

Not sure how more integrated into google search results facebook could get.
Not if it required a captcha.
1) I read about at least one case where that's about what happened. The police asked the defendant to unlock the computer; they didn't ask for the password itself.
Funny how you can't post a link to The Oatmeal without a note like that. :)
f.readlines() really? You can just iterate over the file.
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> Most people hate ads, they're merely willing to put up with them in exchange for the content.

I agree. Growing up in a country (Denmark) that had two primary television stations, one sponsored without ads (Denmarks Radio - called DR, channel 1) the other with ads (TV2, channel 2) I can tell you that there was quite a difference between how the two were perceived. Both were good stations, but TV2 was more of an "entertainment" channel, while DR had more "60 Minutes" style programming.

Both channels had news and entertainment, but the station without ads I think was generally seen as a bit cleaner and more informative. Despite the fact that TV2 had ads, they made it nice by only showing ads in between programs. So when you settled in with the family for a movie, you knew you weren't going to be interrupted by all kinds of annoying ads.

Then there was TV3, a private Swedish channel, which broadcast throughout Scandinavia but offered subtitled programs (primarily British & American) in the local language. They showed ads during programs as well as in between. You also had to pay to get TV3 in your home.

I guess my point is that, in a smaller country, people are willing to agree communally that they'll pay taxes to support something so they don't have to deal with crap advertising on broadcast television.
Right. But if they're innocent, then the evidence won't incriminate them.
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No, you will need some societal inflection point to leverage. 9/11 is one such point, and OWS seems to be building upto another one.

This is another reason to support OWS - they are actively moving the overton window [1] back towards sanity while Wall Street and their "elected" cronies in office are doing the opposite... the extreme left wing / anarchist crazies serve a purpose.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
Native apps have push notifications. This is why Google released a Gmail app that is a just a UIWebView. Because there’s no way (yet) to have push notifications on a mobile website.
The included graph is an excellent example of graph distortion. One of the fun things about graphs is that they can be incredibly deceptive. This is one of those examples -- "Hey, let's make the bottom of the graph the normal percent, whatever that is, and then stretch it out so the top of the graph is the percent we're trying to highlight as abnormal"

Furthermore, mc32 nails it on the head by mentioning the disproportion of the self-employed in the 1%. I think a more revealing statistic would be, among those who run companies, which percentage of their children work with them at some point. With that filter in place, effect of wealth on that would be far more interesting, and I think the effect will be much much less, and perhaps even negatively correlated.
Agreed. The other thing app developers don't think about is discoverability. You would think you get found easier as a web app, but I would venture to think users still use google to find what they are looking for. If you optimize your web app for mobile users, in the long run, you could be getting more users. Not every app is going to get the Instagram following by just putting themselves on the app store. As patio11 puts it, I believe, Google is the navigation bar for the internet. The appstore isn't.

EDIT: I am a bit biased. Maybe if I was an app developer I wouldn't think this way.
Why deny the existence of Knol? Google has tons of failed projects. Like many others, I don't see Knol as a competitor; and I don't think it was even supposed to be.
While I'm hardly an Apple apologist, I just wanted to remind that technology that is initially only available to the top-of-the-line models ends up on cheap models a few years from now, but only because its development was paid for by the relatively rich early adopters.

In Ghana, more than 60% of people have a mobile phone, but that wouldn't be possible if the development of the hardware (both for the actual devices and the network infrastructure) hadn't been made cheap by years of development paid by the rich countries.