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I don't know how similar online password managers work, but I use PassPack. They store your whole encrypted password file in one field in their database, and the encryption/decryption is done only on the client side. The key is never transmitted over the internet.

This doesn't do anything to defend against client-side malware, but at least if their database is stolen the bad guys will be unable to decrypt your passwords (as long as your passphrase is strong enough.)

There is a weakness - they keep historical versions of your password file. Presumably because some customers forget their new passphrase but remember their old one and so they can recover their file, less any edits since they changed their passphrase. But if you changed your passphrase because your old one was compromised, the bad guys can now decrypt the old version and have a chance to get some still-current passwords from it.
I think the problem is that many of the stronger incoming students at MIT (at least from the US) will have already done AP Physics and thus not be taking mechanics at all.
He blames /dev/initctl not working on systemd - but wasn't that a change in sysvinit? They moved it to /run/initctl because /dev/initctl wasn't portable. Quite recently, too.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=638019
Some good ones as part of the Bruce Perens open series to add from here

http://www.informit.com/promotions/promotion.aspx?promo=1355...
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* unless you're driving
I don't think anyone is actually reading the whole question. The OP has already resigned, leaving in 2 weeks. He is asking what to do in the interim.

This is not legal advice:

1. Good for you, sticking to your principles and quitting.

2. They can try to force you, but you don't have to do it.

3. They can't hold salary for this, they might try, but they will loose.

4. They can however, fire you on the spot, not letting you work out your notice. You won't get paid for the next two weeks you would have been working. (Some states differ)
It definitely does address some of these problems, but raises others.

First and foremost is denial of service. If the identity toolkit goes, so does access to everything it issues tokens for.

To be absolutely fair, I've not used the toolkit so don't know whether I could use a Hotmail account when my Gmail account is inaccesible.

A business risk you take on is reliance on their T&Cs. It may (or not) be worthwhile planning a mitigation or contingency, depending on the value of your service.

The other part is that anything from Google is, by way of Google's business model, spyware. This is my (note: very personal) preference, but I don't use any Google products, services, or products or services that make use of anything from Google.
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I can't help but think if he was half way through his Ph.D., he perhaps should have finished it before embarking on this endevour.

"Would I finish and get a few letters after my name, or seize the day and do something that needed to be done?"

I'm not sure the two are in any way mutually incompatible, and the advantage of working with experienced researchers for a couple of years or so more (Ph.Ds are 3-4 years in the UK), especially if he's committed to a more solitary lifestyle, I'd have thought would have been rather useful.
I guess the recommendations will depend a lot on what people are interested in.

I'm interested in talks where people don't talk about their project itself, but about how they solved the problems encountered while developing it (i.e. where I can learn something for my own project).

I'll offer a recommendation: "Optimizing Firefox: Why Large Applications Start Slowly" which was useful even if you don't care for Firefox.

Any others like it?
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I completely agree that developers need to handle some promotion but there's a bigger reason for Apple to improve app discovery: the users. People who find apps they like are going to buy more and increase their lock-in to the platform.

Let Android start catching up revenue-wise and I suspect Apple will find they can have a UI expert look at iTunes and fix so many of the glaring warts.
Didn't downvote you, but .. How?

The project authors certainly don't care about people with 'special' requirements. For them it just saves time.
Now the packagers _could_ do what you suggest, but especially for such a central library it doesn't make sense. You want to have only one version of that thing for a gazillion reasons.

The original request for this thread? Well, it seems that person wanted to port a library to a completely different system _and created the binary for that system_. Right, he can statically link it. What does he gain? He still needs to gather all dependencies before and his complaint (as a developer/distributor) of having to meddle with glib would be the same. He didn't complain about distributing another couple .so files as far as I understand the issue.
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Nearly all websites mail out replacement passwords (or password reset tokens) in plain text. That is not good but is hardly unique to HN.

I was about to say "HN doesn't do SSL" but just tested and it does. I wouldn't make a habit of this though - the site struggles with current traffic levels as it is.
It's 2012. Who cares?

I think Linux on the desktop hit its peak in the early 2000s, when 'Windows, Mac and Linux' was in people's minds, we had Linux companies like Loki and Transgaming etc, commercial games from Epic and ID, proper UX-focused companies like Eazel and Ximian, etc.

I think most people have given up, but that's OK: Linux on the desktop, back then, still made a huge difference to today. GNOME had GTKHTML which spawned a rival KHTML which became Webkit which now seems to be the app platform for the thing that came after the desktop - the browser.

Now I have more apps open in Chrome right now than I do in the dock, taskbar, gnome panel. So do many users. And the direction is more in the browser than ever.

It's not just Linux: worrying about the desktop per se is irrelevant - like worrying about the dominant groupware platform or the dominant LAN manager. OS/2 might be better than NT, but nobody cares anymore.
I don't think anybody misunderstands the original usage.

I think that most people don't care in the slightest how something Aristotle wrote in Greek was translated into Latin and then awkwardly translated from Latin into English in the 1500s, into an archaic predecessor of modern English that is almost but not quite intelligible to the modern ear. Prior Analytics is not the Bible, it doesn't have to be quoted verbatim in whatever translation you favor to keep Aristotle from smiting you with thunderbolts or some such.
The issue with static IPs & Network Manager is posted all over the internet (just google "network manager static ip" so I assume they know about it already. Frankly I don't know enough about how NetworkManager works to dig into the source code and isolate the issue, since it's been ongoing for a while and I'm not the only person experiencing it I'm going to assume it would not be a simple fix.

I could use dhcp rules but then I sometimes have to move my development machine to other places where of course I will be on a different dhcp server which I may not have admin access to. The workaround of having a shell script that sends a bunch of "ifconfig" commands does the job for me whilst still allowing me to use NM for wifi config but it just seems like something that should be unnecessary.

I sort of assume that most experience Linux people have experienced some sound issues at some point. My problem with pulseaudio has always been the slight latency that seems to happen between sound being sent by the program and played by the speakers which means that for example when an MP3 file is paused the sound continues for a fraction of a second. Sure this may not be a huge issue and I didn't even notice it for a while but as soon as I noticed it, it really started to grind on me. Not to mention that it makes the system terrible for doing any kind of audio editing.

The solution for this is to uninstall pulseaudio and go back to ALSA which is a bit of a pain in itself, but once you've achieved this you get odd problems like (in ubuntu anyway) the sound control panel applet disappears and you have to run alsamixer to change the volume, also volume control for some programs (such as spotify) stops working completely.

There are a number of other various small issues that can make desktop Linux a pain to use sometimes, this is why I am often surprised that canonical seem to prioritize redesigning the GUI every few releases over fixing stuff like this.
Interesting observation.

I checked a couple of my 1Password files and you're right: usernames & passwords are encrypted, but not the website/URL they're associated with.
>My personal well-being (as well as my privacy and, I truly believe, my safety) are not worth the risk and grief.

Jesus. Melodramatic much?

I've been a low level Wikipedia editor for many years. I have edited and written a smattering of articles, and it has never been a waste of time, and certainly not dangerous to my SAFETY.

I don't know if anyone has gotten any value from my articles, but I have. I have written articles to help study for exams back in college, I've written articles to help my keep track of the TV schedule of a favorite but unpopular TV show, and I've written articles about favorite but unpopular books. I've also written and edited articles that I use as references for my work.

I never got involved in the "politics" of Wikipedia; I just care about making the content better for personal use. Maybe this is where this guy went wrong. Simply editing articles is not a waste of time, even if you're the only one that reads them. At the very least it helps you.
Pretty much. I when to school with the son of a founder of a large tech company. He's off on a business school track now. Over the past summer, we caught up and talked Facebook IPO for a bit. Basically, Goldman Sachs has it all wrapped up. If you've got a big name (like his dad), you could probably get in on the action. If you happen to know a big name, you might be able to get in on the action. For someone 3rd degree like me? Nope.
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Telenovela 
Telenovela presents a variety of information, entertainment, videos, television series, especially a variety of popular telenovela. You can obtain information as well as the video that you like.
That's a better question for the original poster - I described the generic technique but haven't heard of anyone successfully applying it to Google Public DNS.
Very interesting to hear those numbers. Is that personal experience, anecdotal, or public data from someplace?

Still, an explicit "sponsored app links" section would be much better than inflation through bot-pumping.
That seems overly cynical. He designed a method of vectorising images in order to ensure quality of resized stamps - I don't think you should be complaining that he's charging for such work.

What I don't understand is why Apple wouldn't indicate why an app is featured - if for example high quality and innovation are prized then this should be lauded aloud to encourage others.
Wow, what a terrible headline. Even by the usual linkbait standards, this is egregious.
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I watch a movie. I see an actor wearing a nice watch, or using a nice pen.

I want to go to a website and search for $ACTOR_NAME and $MOVIE_NAME and get a list of watch models, or pen brands, or clothing manufacturers.

See, for example, people searching for the coat worn by Zooey Deschannel in "Yesman".
It's hard to see how this could not work. /s

Do they really think this is a good tactic? It immediately creates tension between them and the client. Even if you paid up or added their link to your page would you trust them in the future? Absolutely not.
In the previous decade, the CIA has been expanding it's paramilitary officers too though. Less convincing people to spy, and more blowing stuff up. More of the action and cool gadgets part of James Bond.
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All imho...

There are some great things about the 4/4S hardware. The screen quality, camera and battery life are well attested to all over. The A5 benchmarks lap the field. The voice quality is much improved. My reception is far more consistent when about. The look and build quality is amazing.

There's no need to make up features though. I have on a couple of occasions balanced my 4S vertically for all of a few seconds. It felt precarious and was hardly stable or intended.
I don't think this is totally unreasonable. From their point of view, they offered a perfectly reasonable alternative to paying, which was ignored.

By ignoring (accidentally) the original email, the message sent back could be interpreted as: "We're not implementing your link back, and we're not paying for your service, but we're still going to use it anyway".

I'm playing devils advocate here, but there are two ways to look at this.
Agreed. But you're being too kind on Apple. This is the worst privacy breach from Apple in iPhone's history.

No point blaming app programmers. The functionality for apps to acquire the address book without asking shouldn't exist.

Dear Apple, thank you for protecting me from adult material in the app store. But, can you... er, this is awkward... can you NOT GIVE MY ADDRESS BOOK AWAY WITHOUT MY PERMISSION? Thanks. And sorry for yelling, it's just, y'know, my address book and all.
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Yes, I have. And I can confidently say that Mac OS X, even today after a decade of evolution and sweeping changes, is clearly a direct descendant of NeXTStep and has little in common with System 7. I'll also reiterate what others said -- there is everything wrong with Gates' statement.
>That said, I don't think this is an excuse to take 'revenge' on these companies, "one download at a time".

If this isn't, I don't know what is.

Note that the author was talking about the fragment of his own film that he uploaded (and subsequently took down). "one download at a time" is referring to the downloads of that fragment (which, by the other party's admission, he had the right to shoot, and holds the copyright to). He is not talking about anything illegal (such as pirating content).
Pleonasm and power terms make it sound like there's something terrible happening.
The option is there to purge malicious content; which appears useful to me.
If "they" would purge random items/apps the hue and cry of the masses would create damage to the brand and it's continuity; which in turn is a self regulating property that such events should not occur for the sake of the companies involved.
I developed a similar app for Android about a year ago. Check it out...

http://www.rogansoftware.com/caffeinetracker/

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.cafapppro
I've sent you the recovery link, if you're still interested. Again, sorry for the frustration.
I'm not sure , if more apps move to the browser then surely the desktop OS becomes more of a commodity as long as it is able to support running the browser itself.

One thing Linux does lend itself well to is providing a kernel and basic services for interacting with hardware etc and leaving a fairly blank sheet to build other stuff on top off which could be a very basic consumer system with just a browser or a full fat dev environment, Android is a good example of this.

If all I want to do is run HTML5 apps using Chrome I can't think of a good reason to justify a $100 purchase of a Windows license , or paying more for hardware in order to run OSX.

In the future I can imagine a huge amount of the population using Linux based devices, they just won't know or care that they are Linux based devices. However I don't forsee a future in which everyone uses KDE or Unity and run only "free as in freedom" software.
I think the student made one big mistake here: he didn't ask why (or at least, didn't disclose the answer to such a question). Aside from legal threats that appear to hold little if any merit, there's no reason this student should have let his career end. Irrespective of the choices he made, let this be a lesson to many. When you're talented and smart, you have much more leverage than you think. You have to go beyond the bs and if not to eliminate it, at least justify why someone is trying to harm you.

P.S. This doesn't just apply to "Hollywood," it happens everywhere.
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$6000 a year for a widget - without proper data & explanation is - extortion.
Calibre has some command-line tools: http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/cli/cli-index.html

The easybook project (posted on HN recently) is also a command-line utility: http://easybook-project.org/
Controller and display for another few hundred bytes...
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if I could downvote.

Linux is always about choice. If you have enough information and time you can choose what ever software stack you want with it. You can even change any configuration software that comes with your distribution with any tool you want.

Also author does not rant about building a self owned distribution. The rant can even be considered good if you do think Linux is only about graphical desktop applications. Linux software can be configured or used without these but it's getting real hard to disregard their influence over other software.
probably piracy concerns? much harder to photocopy 608 pges of a paper book, then to crack a kindle version & turn it in a pdf on piratebay
I agree. that'll give first time users a full description of the site in a more detailed way than any landing page could ever do.
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Link to website: http://www.attictv.com

AtticTV is a music video site that focuses on providing a super "kick back and relax" experience while watching music videos. We think it would be an excellent companion while you code :)

Many people currently use Youtube as their primary source of watching music videos. But, it's hard for them to discover as they would need to know the name of the song + artist name. And it's a rather irritating experience to create a playlist and manage different types of playlist content

Our big idea is to try to be the default way that people enjoy music and watch music videos while they work or are doing something else and want to have some music in the background, plus the ability to entertain themselves with a music video whenever they want to. The feeling you get when you leave MTV playing on a TV in the background while you're at the gym or getting some work done.

The experience is very simple and straight forward where you load up the site, pick a genre you like, and enjoy the best music videos (we're still working very hard on this part to improve it) from all over the web for that particular genre.

If you hear a song you like, you can always add it to your personal playlist for easy access. (you have to log in with Facebook to create your own playlist).

We're still in beta and are making a lot of changes and have a lot of work to do but wanted to get some feedback.
Haha, that would have been the perfect name for it!
I think the main problem with this type of technology is it's very easy to imagine the RIAA/AT&T/US Gov/whoever suing or pressuring Google to remove (Insert Non Malware App Name Here) for whatever reason.
I'd say the nuclear/final option would be getting a brand new system. Does malware which clings to the BIOS or specific hardware still exist today?
Threatening legal action was completely unnecessary and makes them look like an ass. Simply pointing out you will stop the service from working for non-paying users would have been enough.
Facebook has operations in Ireland. As such they are subject to the EU Data Directive[1] which gives much more control over the personal data Facebook holds to the data subject (the user). Two things have happened to Facebook recently:

1. They were sued by the FTC[2]
2. And a person, turned to a group, has been making data subject requests to Facebook causing them some trouble[3]

All of these things lead to Facebook protecting itself legally with statements in their terms of use. At the end of the day it is not that you are contracting with an Irish company but globally Ireland's laws (EU Data Directive) gives you the most rights, so they are pointing that out to you.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive

[2] http://www.bgr.com/2011/11/29/facebook-settles-privacy-suit-...

[3] http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Objectives/objectives.html
I don't use LastPass, but:

1) Using LastPAss doesn't mean one stores sensitive passwords in it. You can memorize a few that really matter (email, bank, etc) and keep the rest there.

2) They claim it's secure:

This is important because your sensitive data is always
encrypted and decrypted locally on your computer before
being synchronized. Your master password never leaves
your computer and your key never leaves your computer.
No one at LastPass (or anywhere else) can decrypt your
data without you giving up your password (we will never
ask you for it).

https://lastpass.com/support.php?cmd=showfaq&id=1096
I agree with the general trend that the author points out, but he speaks as if this was happening to all Linux distributions alike (he almost always uses the word "Linux" with no qualifications). This is not the case: distributions that have a strong command-line and server-oriented community (think of Debian and Arch Linux) still do support "no DBus" operation.
The correct way to transition from a freemium to paid service is to grandfather previous users in, not classlessly pull the rug out from under them and demand money or a backlink (seriously? $20M in venture capital and you're begging users for backlinks?)

Moreover, that e-mail was just really ham-fisted. Why not say "your service will be discontinued if you don't respond" instead of going thermonuclear with legal threats? It reeks of desperation and disregard for their existing clients.
Huh? Where did I ever imply "not as bad"? The previous poster said "technically" and I thought I would be a smart-ass by saying "well technically ...".

In any case, given the description here, how do you determine that theft of trade secrets is also involved? Pretend I'm a sophomore who doesn't know better and who can quote Wikipedia that a trade secret "confers some sort of economic benefit on its holder (where this benefit must derive specifically from its not being generally known, not just from the value of the information itself)". :) What's the implied trade secret above and beyond that of the copyright?

(Also, have you established that this crosses interstate lines? Otherwise the Economic Espionage Act does not apply and you need to deal with state trade secrets laws. OTOH, given the federal reach of the interstate commerce clause in Gonzales v. Raich, I realize that this is not a strong counter question.)
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