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Motorcycle Accident Lawyers Hold neglectful Drivers liable
There are different specialties in the legal field, and you need to hire an attorney that is an expert in handling motorcycle accident cases. Such motorcycle accident lawyers are well versed and well experienced about the Los Angeles judicial system and can obtain the right compensation for your damages and suffering.
They reflected sounds off of objects and played them back. This is not a language, that's how echolocation works!
I've posted about SHA1_Pass here on HN before, but thought it relevant to this thread, so here it is again: http://16s.us/sha1_pass/

It's an open-source, portable password generator. No ads, no gimmicks, no password storage. The basic premise is "Don't store passwords, generate them locally on your computer when needed."
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Penalizing drivers based on their speed is like paying programmers based on lines of code.

Speed != safety.

Lines of code != productivity.

It teaches motorists that instead of watching out for dangers, they should be constantly monitoring their speedometer. It makes our roads less safe.

Jeremy Clarkson is awesome. He should be made a lord. The liberal lefties and the easily offended hate him. Which is fantastic to watch. 20,000 complaints to the BBC after he made a joke about strikes? How absolutely hilarious.
Kaspersky Dumps Anti-Piracy Group in SOPA Protest
SSL isn't actually as computationally expensive as it used to be. Sure back when hardware wasn't as advanced as it is now, but you can no longer factor SSL into significant CPU cycles.
Apple fails to block Samsung tablet and smartphone sales in the U.S.
Thank you FTC for not doing your job and letting privacy die. Stupid article.
Usually some posts are marked as NSFW, if it contains objectionable content. In my experience, bad links never got to the first page at all.
Autoblogging - Does It Still Make Any Sense To Use Autoblogging Software?
Computational cost is not negligible when you scale up. It is very manageable, but it does end up costing extra.

Using SSL for all private data is an absolute must though.
I wrote a blog post related to this here: http://theagilepanda.com/2011/10/07/chinese-consumerism-deat...

This post was in response to a relevant article here: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-china-fake-phones-2011...
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So the only way you can answer accusations of being a troll and just doing (personal) attacks, insults and lies -- is more insults and you have no serious arguments to point at.
I like Elance. I've posted projects & delivered them & I feel the system works well from both sides.

However now when getting anything technical produced basically you're swapping dev hours to product management. That's fine if you don't have certain skills but you have to keep track of it all and write such specific instructions this can take longer than you'd have ever have thought.

I ALWAYS pick someone with a similar project in their profile & point to that as their starting point.

You've got to be sure you like their style before you pick them.
I've ridden motorbikes a few times on some narrow country roads in the UK - when creating a route for a GPS, it's not always apparent how wide the road is going to end up being.

And as a result, several times I've had to ride almost into the ditch, as I come around a corner cautiously at about 20mph (national speed limit road) and am faced with a 4x4 doing 40mph, who only notices me at the last second and makes a disturbingly exaggerated swerve away from me. To the point that now, when I see my route is going down what looks to be a narrow road, I just find a different path.

And that's where my other problem with interpreting these visualizations comes from: they'd be hugely more useful if there was some way of normalizing them with respect to journey count. Then you'd know whether the road has a high rate owing to being dangerous, or simply has a lot of traffic and may actually be safer than average.

For this purpose, the variant of the map that includes serious and slight injuries would be more useful - http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2011/nov... - but keep the individual incidents "smeared out", as it were, and modulate somehow with the amount of traffic.
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What would be fantastic would be to overlay the speedcamera locations on the same map.

What people would then see, is that there is no correlation between speed cameras and "accident blackspots".

If you were able to also plot "hidden hedges" and "shouldn't be a 30mph limit in the first place", you'd see that's where the speed cameras are placed, to generate maximum revenue.
It's not exactly about the money - I'm in Europe and the only providers I know of are situated in the US. The last time I looked into it they needed a DNA sample from me in person, so at least I'd have to book a trip to go there.

But from a cost-benefit perspective, it still is pretty flimsy. Definitively one of my worst cases of akrasia.
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Sarkozy and Merkel kick off week of euro crisis talks
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are to meet to agree on joint proposals aimed at resolving the eurozone debt crisis.
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What is INDECT?
GlobalSCAPE Acquires File Sharing Service TappIn For Up To $17 Million
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Wow, US interstates are simply paved with death.

From what I can see, it's not just speed that kills but people-interacting-with-people at speed that kills.

Because the 50-60mph backroads seem to have low death rates.
You're refering to onswipe, which has gotten flack on HN before, because it is a usibility track wreck that adds value for the publisher only.

See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2699610
Are you going to ask why ESPN confines its coverage to sports?

Confining your coverage to a geographical region or industry or both is not the same as confining your coverage to companies who are willing to effectively bribe you, which is an ethical breach of the highest order.

Edit: Forgot to mention, you're completely misusing the word "embargo" here. It's a term of art in journalism. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_embargo
I believe there's some sort of spam-filtering on the Newest page, but a lot seems to be getting through. I think it's worsening the problem that submissions have a hard time getting seen (and really heavily depend on the vicissitudes of the first few upvotes), because when legitimate submissions are interspersed with significant spam, even fewer people bother to read the Newest page carefully.
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My only question is how long it will take for Microsoft to follow.
> Most of them have an SMS option now.

Being forced to pay a small fee (by your phone-service provider) to log in isn't much better, I think.
Ask HN: is it just my eyes?
Is it just my eyes or do you have trouble getting your web designs to look good on windows?

I don't know what rendering engine windows uses to render colours but it's very difficult to get colours that don't look sickly when viewed on various PCs. I'm not talking about images as such (although they always just look mediocre) but CSS designs that no amount of tuning can liven them up.

What's your experience?
Mhh. LuaJit has quite shown that TraceJit can be awesome for dynamic languages. Sure JS has less potential to be optimized then lua (see in this http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3851 LtU thread somewhere and read the rest anyway if your intressted in JITs) but the genarall aprouch could still be used.

LuaJit does it by using a very fast interpreter and a tracecompiler. The secret souce seams to be a SSA based bytecode. Im not sure how the Mozilla interpreter works but since its a relice I doute that its a bytecode optimized for interpreting and compilling. If Mozilla would adopt the same method LuaJit uses they would have to reimplment everything from ground up. Witch probebly wouldn't be a smart move buisnesswise.

If the language is to hart to interpret one could write a simple first stage method-jit and a trace-jit behind it. Exiting times in JIT-Land spezially for dynamic languages. Lets see who comes out with the best implementation in the long run.
Apple Fails To Get Samsung Injunction In US
There is this video of Kevin Rose advising startups on how to hack the attention of the "top guys" at conferences.

Instead of paying a fortune and getting 5 mins with say a Fred Wilson, Scoble or Mark Suster; you and your pals can club together and offer to buy them breakfast/lunch/dinner. You will end up having almost an hour having a decent conversation which they will almost remember.

The idea is not that they need your lunch money, but that you were smart enough to fit yourself in the context of pleasant things they still had to do.

Brilliant advise I would say.

Here is the video: http://vimeo.com/6905398 (taking your site from one to one million)
Unfortunately I couldn't find a better source in English.

German Newspaper article:
http://www.derwesten.de/politik/polen-plant-die-totale-ueber...

Wiki article on the project:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INDECT

Telegraph article on the project:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/6210255/EU-funding-Or...
In short: the corporate wining-and-dining culture we like to shun as corporate-fat-cat-ism otherwise? Obviously very practical and even hackers want to be wined and dined...
Lots of fail here, but I'm surprised no-one has mentioned www.ironkey.com yet (I just did). I've been using one for a couple of years (admittedly mostly on Windowses) and was so impressed I bought a couple more for my partner, family members etc. The identity manager does a reasonably good job, and the two-factor authentication works well for Ebay / PayPal. I use the on-board browser, which I keep as my "secure" / trusted-sites-only browser (where trusted mostly means "can cause money to change hands") or the integration with IE for some banks. The only thing that doesn't work automatically is banks asking for random digits (from a 16+ character random string, yeah, thanks). For that I use the ability to store notes alongside account credentials in the identity manager. IronKey also provide a degree of device management on their website, which is maybe the obvious weak spot - the credentials and checks needed to log on to their site WITHOUT having the device. That sort of thing is maybe best written down and stored with a will in a lawyer's safe - it's a worst-case-scenario if you need it.
IT departments need to stop complaining and get their act together.
That, and enterprise software firms should stop charging an arm and a leg for updates, and stop making software that will only run in IE (6). If you buy that software, shout at your boss, not at Firefox or Chrome.
From what I know, IT-departments don't like that.

It's important to note that, yes, it is true that some IT department are reactionary and dislike the new release process, BUT that doesn't mean that are right.

There are plenty of analogous automatic update systems which are used every day in IT departments. Virus checkers are the canonical example, but increasingly SAAS applications are the same.

Many IT departments are stuck in a 1999 mode of trying to control the exact version of every software they run.

Fortunately businesses are wising up - firstly IT tried to tell them they couldn't use iPhone because they "weren't approved". That worked until the CEO demanded one.

Now some try and say rapid browser versioning and automatic releases are bad. They'll get over that, too, or otherwise they'll be ignored.

(And don't bring up the example of the IE6 websites that must use IE6 forever more. That's a problem to solve, not an excuse for keeping an entire enterprise locked to outdated technology.)
It does, but it's nowhere near as smooth, and I'm not talking about dialogs and user intervention.

Whereas Chrome has a stable extension API, Firefox really breaks at least one very popular plugin withe each "release." So then you get nasty warnings about incompatible plugin versions and whether or not you want to look up a new version of the plugin. Whereas Chrome a) doesn't break plugin APIs very often, even in alpha and beta channels and b) automatically updates plugins anyway.
Poll: Would you like a "Panic button" service to lock down your online accounts?
A few years ago I was one of the founders of Clickpass which offered a consumer single-sign-on service. There were lots of challenges with it. One of the overarching problems though was monetisation. It's very hard to make revenue from such a service and therefore to improve it.

Long after the company had been acquired I kept thinking about security and it occurred to me that one of the fears after an attack is worrying "what else is vulnerable". Your GMail account is compromised, what does someone get into next?

It occurred to me that it might be useful to have a "Panic button" or "Deadbolt" service which you could quickly access (after suitable authentication) and which would immediately lock down all your accounts, change their passwords and prevent any cascading attacks. You could pre-register all your accounts, even the esoteric ones you might normally forget and lock them all in via a single SMS (or similar).

I'm interested in what the sentiment of the developer community is. Is this something you would want?
Yes, that's valuable, I'd pay ~$10/year for it
Yes but only if it was free
No but I have some friends who I'm sure would pay $10/year for it
No but know a few friends who'd use it only if it were free
I don't see cost as being a counterargument for a SaaS. I paid about $20 for my certificate, took an hour or so to jump through the signing hoops, serving assets through cloudfront which charges me pennies, and heroku has $20/month SSL support. If you can't recover that cost per user through your SaaS, you have bigger problems.
> If banks would supply the password on paper, then that issue would go away for most people. And if the bank would use OTP then supplying passwords on paper slip is a natural solution.

So you have to get a new paper slip every time you log in? How would the logistics of this work? If you have to go to your bank / wait for physical mail on every login, then the convenience of online banking goes away, doesn't it? (Or would you get a collection of them? Then, if you're like me, you'd lose that; and you'd be right back at the inconvenience, while someone else has temporarily unfettered access to your account.)
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VendorKit – an iOS library management system
VendorKit makes the process of using and managing libraries in iOS easy. VendorKit is modeled after Bundler. VendorKit streamlines the installation and update process for dependent libraries. It also tracks versions and manages dependencies between libraries.
67,000 lines of C++ is actually not a lot of code. It really depends on _where_ these lines are (i.e. are they in a hot path? How _often_ they are the executed?) and how well written it is.

EDIT: I know it's been disabled for months - I'm referring to the original disabling of this code.
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Here's one solution for true geeks. https://www.grc.com/offthegrid.htm
The latter is much much easier: the answer is 1.0000, and "obviously" so. Now, if you happen to know that 21^3=9261 then you can do the 0.0093 one to 5dp with only a few lines of calculation, but it's distinctly more work than the 0.9999 one even so.
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"Do we break embargoes? Sometimes. Do we break embargoes even after agreeing to them? Sometimes (but very rarely). Do we agree to embargoes and then respect them? Sometimes. Do we refuse to cover some startups when they don’t want to give a story to us exclusively? Sometimes. Do we agree to cover a startup even when we know other media were briefed? Sometimes. Do we turn away some startups and then cover them even more vigorously after we ‘lose’ the story? Sometimes."

Short translation: "Should you trust our word? Sometimes.

Does anyone else find it ridiculous that a company/guy can even post something like that? He's basically admitted that they break their word and don't keep their word at times. Maybe "your word" is not a big deal anymore, but it matters a hell of a lot to me.
The explanation is trivial, what i meant is that using 2^4 * 2^4 as an example will make you fail this point of the exam.
IIRC, I became interested in ed after reading about the Plan 9 editor Sam, which was described as "ed on steroids, lots of steroids"[1]. Sadly, I never got around to trying Sam.

[1]http://sam.cat-v.org/
Most people won't. I've met him, and I think he is as likely to as most US startup programmers.

The issue is not whether the average Indian programmer is as good as an average American programmer. My guesstimate is that they aren't. The issue is whether out of a billion people, you can find quite a few competitive ones. The answer is that you can.
It would be nice if the author provided a citation or two to back up the sweeping statements he or she is making.
These lists of TAN [1] numbers are phased out everywhere around me. They usually were hard to carry with you (just as a token, but more easy to destroy), had usability problems:

- Ordered lists: You could only use a number that followed the last used one. So if you had 10 numbers and used the 9th by accident, all previous were void. Forgetting to cross out the used numbers lead to annoyance and the 'dammit, guess I used that number already' factor decreased security (someone could've used the next TAN on your list and you'd ignore the error and think it was your fault)

- A list with columns/rows: The server would know about your 'state' and ask you for a TAN in a specific location. Think of copy protection around the time of Monkey Island.. Progress in a couple of ways, but finicky.

- You had to manage the list to make sure that you don't run out of numbers (the second 'solution' above could help a little, but if you planned to do 10 transaction a day and had only 9 digits left: Bad luck).

Right now, as others said already, you're using your direct debit card with a chip inside combined with a tiny TAN generator that looks like one of these crappy currency calculators. You enter your transaction (you already logged in before, with or without a TAN), the server tells you to enter a checksum (parts of it are clearly identifiable as information that you just entered) into your device w/ the direct debit card inserted to receive a one-time only TAN. Done.

A mobile option is usually present (my bank asks me everytime I log in if I want to use TANs generated by that gadget or being sent to my mobile number), but I actually prefer the other option.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction_authentication_num...
I don't see it mentioned in the comments: The TC situation is exactly opposite of the usual company/business-press relationship.

Normally, a company will cut off access to people in news organizations that provide bad press. TC has managed to turn this on its head.

(It tells you why CNBC is all cheerleaders, all the time. The biz press pages aren't exactly filled with the next Woodwards and Bernsteins either.)
No, I wouldn't be comfortable with a single hosted service having access to all my passwords. All eggs in the same basket, you know. My Google Account - my single most important account - uses two-factor authentication so I feel fairly content with that.
Imagine a service that offered you ‘hashed passwords’, ‘encrypted credit card storage’, ‘backed up data’ or ‘up to date libraries’ if you pay for their advanced plan. Not cool, right?

All of those things relate to the security of the provider so you expect them as standard. SSL, as a customer facing feature, secures data when it's out on the wilds of the Internet or on the customer's network. It's a bit like charging extra to offer signed courier delivery instead of USPS.
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Looks great, very impressive.

Is user authentication in the works? Is there an easy workaround for securing the web app?
The TC reply to this: http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/05/going-too-far-the-techcrunc...

HN discussion of reply: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3314206
As said in the second sentence of the linked post, they were disabled even before they were removed.
> Solve this problem for your users.

Not only browsers aren't solving the problem, they actively make their users' lives more difficult by obeying autocomplete="off" set by overzealous webmasters. I had to hack firefox to save a password to my yahoo account in it -- crazy.
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It says in the first paragraph that TraceMonkey was actually disabled months ago. So it's says more about keeping the codebase clean then anything about memory or speed of the browser.
"As to the size of plugin-container.exe: that is all flash’s fault. There is literally nothing we can do to fix this other than to kill off flash usage on the web."

Interesting comment w.r.t. efforts to shrink Firefox's memory footprint being at the mercy of Flash.
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Humans who haven't thought about it aren't, but when you've thought about it you can predict very well.
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Tracing is no silver-bullet.
Mike Pall is.
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Somebody should start a website were interesting people could sign up for free lunches and startups could pick and choose who they wanted to get feedback from.
Looks like this feature was a student project: see https://github.com/Bibzball/Git-Mediawiki/wiki
This doesn't always work if one of the parties has something invested and the other doesn't - there's an imbalance. One party stands to lose and the other party has nothing to lose. Big difference!
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Almost there with the auth module, probably 2-3 days :)
1Password can sync between multiple machines via Dropbox. I'm not sure about other OS, but on a Mac there is a browser plugin for Safari, Firefox and Chrome (and a companion iOS/Android app).

I've been using 1Passw[or]d since 2007, and literally all my passwords are uniquely generated (including server root passwords, database root, etc.) At one point I'm a bit scared if I ever lost the database, I'd lost access to all websites forever (because I don't even "know" my email password).
People really pay to receive SMS (assuming you are on your home country)?
For serious cloud/SaaS products, especially B2B stuff, this really shouldn't be a question. When I was at Harvest we sent SSL-for-all in 2009:

http://www.getharvest.com/blog/2009/06/unlimited-clients-pro...

Sure, it costs a little bit of money. But it makes our users little safer when they log into our service. There aren't many levers you have a SaaS product that you can pull to really make user data secure once it leaves your servers.

As pwim said, if you can't recover the cost per user then your company must have some big problems. I always frown at a pricing page that says SSL is an add-on, it demonstrates that whomever is running things behind the curtain isn't really concerned about the safety of user data in their app.