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"There are two types of people in the world: lovers and the others; we don't want to be part of the others".
Developers can already use Growl in their app without the user having installed Growl and notifications will work as required.

At least that seemed to have been the case with apps using Growl because I still see notifications but don't have Growl installed since they went paid.
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Best thing I ever read about interviewing/hiring:

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Well said. Mass Effect fails to deliver anything spectacular and fails on the promise of a non linear adventure as well. The 'reset' happening in episode 2 is laughable. Honestly it fares very low compared to previous bioware titles. For me it has been a major disapointment.
I appreciate the attempt but these are examples of what I find uninteresting. Toys, gadgets, household tips and trivia are not the kind of noise I want when trying to optimize for value.
"Sentencing Mangham, Judge Alistair McCreath said his actions could have been "utterly disastrous" for Facebook."

So what?? Facebook isn't a British business; why should british judical system should care that much? Even if he was that guilty.

Countries should totally quit being unpaid prostitutes to foreign companies.
Ask HN: Any advices to travel around the world?
I saw the WSJ video - Take Six Months Off Work or School and Travel the World. It's about Steve Yoder, WSJ's San Francisco bureau chief, and his 15-year-old son Levi took six months off work and school respectively to travel through Africa and the Middle East. But it wasn't a spur of the moment decision. Steve talks about planning, what they saw on their voyage, and how to live with a teen 24/7.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncyfPbJ2FMg&feature=g-u-u&context=G2846569FUAAAAAAAAAA

Am I thinking of doing something similar with my kid too! Anyone does something similar? Any advices?
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I recommend DJ River's Ambient Mixes:
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There are no doubt a lot of users like me: I don't have a Facebook account, and I will _never_ have a Facebook account. The result of my personal policy and utter dislike of Facebook is that as soon as I see a Facebook login popup on a new app, I immediately close the tab. Then again, perhaps you don't want customers like me!
Wish the tracks on that album were a little longer though. The original Bladerunner soundtrack is great as well.
There is something sleazy about Facebook that extends beyond privacy failures. I don't like the idea of blending a new community I'm about to join with the filth on my Facebook friends list. I think this mostly applies to younger people who ended up adding everyone they knew through high school: my Facebook friends are mostly just an accumulation of people I don't really care about.

If I wanted to join a network separate from Facebook, why would I want that network to have access to my Facebook?

I use Spotify and Songkick reluctantly only because they are great services. Facebook is a great way to get your name out there, but I'd rather fill out a few text fields than have a service I want to use depend on Facebook.

People join new networks to get away from Facebook, not extend it into every sector of their lives.
For the uninformed, what does this mean? (Btw, I did read the post; I just didn't understand it.)
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I had a very good experience in Asia, and I have a half-Japanese daughter. Travel should be a part of an education today (the geography in schools these days is horrid!), and a foreign language is always a plus.
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It annoys me when apps don't allow this. This was one of the first keyboard shortcuts I learned back in my first data processing class and everyone should know it.
This Ars article from last week gives some context and explanation:

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/02/critics-slam-ss...

In short, at least one CA, Trustwave, has issued a "subordinate CA certificate" (which allows another party to issue certs which will be trusted as if they were from Trustwave) to a network admin who used it to create forged certificates and intercept SSL traffic on their internal network.
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> My analysis is: they only send information back to Google when you explicitly request it.

your very shallow analysis.

they update the browser hourly. you do not have access to the build environment they use. and there's no authority linking the source you can read and the binary you allow google to install. so unless you build it yourself, not a valid argument.

and even if there's no evil doing in all that (i too believe there isn't. but again, only believe) there's still the issue of new features being added, and the bad defaults being to agree with all data sharing. So even if its all good, after each update you will be inadvertently sharing your information until you take time to review all settings.

And, there's also the cases when google simply decide agains some feature that may hurt them. They removed the options to not send referrer. it was added back several times. and removed again several times. first in command line argument, then hidden setting. when i stopped caring it was completely gone if not from compile time.
As someone that ran a marathon and didn't think much of it, there is truth in this article! I ran because I enjoyed running: but I didn't find this out until I had been running for two weeks. Enjoyment and ease are two separate things.

You can only do what you want.

I found my self wanting to run more than it was perhaps safe to do, because I found it pleasurable. I liked running as running. I didn't like the idea of running. In fact, I thought of running as something crazy athletic folks with no brains did.

I enjoy the austere beauty of coding. The long bouts of concentration. The feeling that your thoughts are alive within the computer. But I also like the idea of being a super 1337 hacker, you know, the one that makes the machine magically bend to their will. Sometimes liking the idea of what you are doing is a distraction for concentrating on what you really enjoy about the thing.

I found this with running as soon as I started setting specific running based goals. In order to complete these goals I had to commit myself to the idea of them being worth achieving. Weirdly, I found myself running slightly less when I fixed myself on such goals since I was no longer concentrating on the purity of the act of running, which was what I was enjoying.

Human psychology is a troll like that.

If I had to offer advice to someone beginning running, I would say, concentrate on enjoyment. Until this article, it had never really occurred to me to practice this elsewhere.

Also, at no time when I was training for the marathon did I think "this is hard work", until maybe the week or two before when I had solidified my intentions to run it. I had it in the back of my mind as something I might do one day, but really I was running because it felt like less work than not running.

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my bad, i thought it was not being maintained. well, i think it was when i last looked... even moved my desktop to wmii at the time...

my bad. it's still very alive.
I'm biting my tongue right now, trying very hard to stay within the site rules.

Its not even a very good link. 4 mediocre playlists. Big deal.

Ive been collecting electronic music for 15 years and this trance style music is quite boring and formulaic.

The web is awash with much better mixes than these all done for free by professionals.

Here are two you can subscribe to in iTunes (weekly podcasts)

http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast.aspx
- These have been going for years showcasing many varieties of house and techno.

http://www.datatransmission.co.uk/Podcast/
UK based outfit again going for years. They have 2 mixes a week.

Then there is http://soundcloud.com - find you favourite electronic artists and download their mixes.

The posted page looks a little pathetic compared to these.
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I would feel a lot more confident about actual compliance if Chrome came on board with this as well.
My current coding playlist is:

* Moon OST - Clint Mansell

* Donnie Darko OST - Mansell

* Inception OST - Hans Zimmer

* The Social Network OST - Reznor

* Simple Things - Zero 7

* Melody AM - Royskopp

* Abroreal - The Flashbulb (a lot of his stuff is good)
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Apparently some root certificate authorities have been issuing certificates that lets others generate their own, valid certificates at their own discretion. Sounds these subordinate CA certificates are being used for SSL man-in-the-middle attacks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-in-the-middle_attack).
So say your employer wants to monitor everything you're doing at work. In order to get around the fact that a lot of your network data is encrypted, they put in a device between your network connection and the internet that looks at all your network traffic. For any connection that is SSL encrypted (like https pages), it will forge its own valid certificate, and use it to prove to your web browser (etc) that nothing is wrong with the connection. Meanwhile, its logging the content of your Gmail, etc.
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Ask HN: pay Apple for revenue from SAAS with iOS interface?
I'm working on SAAS project to which I just built an iOS interface. The service is not free, but the app client could be. Do I have to pay Apple when I charge the user for the service?
We have been waiting so long! It looks it is much closer now!
if you think this is all noise why did you post your own noise to hacker news and with a obvious link to your thang at the bottom? Just trying to create noise in your favor. this post is not genuine.
For historical reasons (viz. NSS), Mozilla maintains its own list of trusted CAs. Chrome uses whatever is provided by the OS, so they aren't in a position to make the same sorts of demands.

Not that I disagree with the sentiment -- there's just a very specific reason why Mozilla is involved, and it's not simply because they write a web browser.
I don't think he got away with it. He did spend a year of his life in federal prison, and he'll probably have a very hard time ever getting another job now that he has a reputation for stealing confidential information (anyone who ever searches for his name on the web will immediately know). And Goldman Sachs could still potentially sue him for damages, breach of contract, etc.

On the other hand, I think it's an extremely good thing that judges get upset if the government tries to send someone to prison who didn't commit an actual criminal offense.
This is the unfortunate flaw with SSL and TLS. The certificates are bound only to the "domain name" which is a wobbly concept at best without DNSsec to validate your DNS responses.

Anyone clever enough to create a DNS redirector that turns paypal.com into 10.0.0.2 on their closed network could also create an accompanying SSL certificate that they own for paypal.com and you'd be none the wiser as they proxy all of your traffic through their server, logging every bit of it.
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I find myself venturing off to all my favorite online outlets when I'm doing a task I'm not particularly interested in. I guess I should step back and ask myself why I'm really doing something. If it plays an important part in helping my start up be succeed, then I should be stoked that I get to make my company better. If I can't find a good reason to be doing it, then I should move on to something of value and importance.
The square perspective design just looks out of proportions. Purely on an first impression basis, given a choice to choose between the two, I would choose the one by the MS team. Maybe they tested , and found that people liked the rectangle one better.
Again, why is this nit pick important anyway?
mmm... never thought this way. You're actually right.
I like microsoft's version better. The square one looks stubby and a little awkward.

I would say that perfectly square windows are just as rare as windows that are wider than they are tall. This is silly.
Why is this useless, pedantic piece of fluff in the front page?
Not even the most loyal Google apologists can spin this one.
A much better take on the lack of perspective in the Windows logo: http://imjustcreative.com/windows-8-logo-design/2012/02/18/
First of all .. are they going to enforce this? Indeed, can they enforce it? Is it possible to detect such certificates and will Mozilla remove root CAs.

Secondly, this doesn't do anything for the fundamental broken design of CAs which is that any CA in the world can issue a certificate for any website. Firefox ships with dozens of certificates for such eminent organizations as "OISTE WISeKey Global Root GA CA" (who they?), basically anyone who can stump up the fee and fill in a form on Mozilla's website. Any of these could issue duplicate or fraudulent certificates, and any of them could be attacked.
> 3. Migrate DNS, web serving and other critical services to non-US based servers.

What non-US alternatives there exist e.g. for Amazon?
A good example for comparison is FTP, which is stateful. For example, your login, file transfer modes, etc. are preserved between calls.
Only if you charge for the service through the app. Any purchase made in an app has to go through their in-app purchase system, which gives them a 30% cut. If they pay any other way (through a website for example) you're fine.
Good point. Basically all user-generated content sites could leave the US for countries that continue to respect safe harbor provisions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Ac...
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I'll add a couple:

* TRON Legacy OST

* Amelie OST (when I feel I need a change of pace, and something lighter)
Microsoft's logo makes sense. The logo matches with the windows (see the screenshot). It completes the pattern. http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/windows_...
I didn't know that javascript even had a shift operator. Neat.
Suppose you visit https://mail.google.com/ from inside a corporate network.

Assuming ideal scenarios no one can snoop on your traffic between you and Google because of SSL.

If a company wants to monitor you they have lots of options. One option is to try and record all traffic between you and Gmail. However if the try to do that your web browser will pop up a warning saying mail.google.com is pretending to be someone else.

To get around this a company can create fake certificates that are trusted by your browser. Then they need to intercept the traffic and basically pretend they are gmail all the way recording you.

Ignoring the fact that companies already have a lot of rights to snoop on whatever you do this is just bad precedent.
So, MS don't know shit because windows are square.
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I can not understand why, in Microsoft's blog post, they posted a Quality 20% JPEG of their new logo (http://windowsteamblog.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/Com...). It's compressed so much that there's a slight green hue around the blue borders.
That was the first thing I noticed. It's constantly bugging me when looking at it. Makes it feel half 3D and half 2D, like one of those impossible stairs.
So did they decide what to do with the TrustWave-case? Are they forgiven for their confession? That seems to be the implication of this announcement.
It's been a lot of years, and I think the information revealed by my posting on the topic is sufficiently de minimis that no harm is done. I did hesitate for a while over the "reply" button, though.
It can be enforced, because the certificate chain will indicate that the x.509 cert has been signed by an intermediate CA
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I fear being downvoted to censureland if I express the same.
I agree. I feel people are arguing just for the sake of proving they understand perspective better than the design team at Windows. I highly doubt Microsoft only did one version of the logo, there were probably many variations, including some that were perspectively perfect. It looks like Microsoft went with what more people thought was aesthetically pleasing, which is a nice sign from the Windows design team.
Or perhaps it was intentional. Most people don't have square monitors...
They can do public-key pinning like Chrome does (for example, they embed the "mail.google.com" public key into Chrome itself, and verify that it's the certificate you're TLS'ing to.
Such certificates are allowed in general, just not if the site is a 'global' site (whatever the definition of 'global' would be). That's why I don't think this is enforcible.
Or they can provide default VMs which have a company certificate as a trusted root, either locally or in the Active Directory. Then it's simply a intercept and dump without the browser complaining. (I cannot confirm the active directory problem in other browsers apart from IE)
The better the services and environment for doing business, the more extortionist tactics you can apply and still keep the majority of the business.
So in order to link/associate the accounts, the user would need to be logged in to at least one of the authentication methods? I guess there's no way to connect them otherwise...
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I do something similar with adding a description of what I have read on Pinboard. It makes you think about what you have read and in turn read less.
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My understanding from superficial observation is that they are trying to fix the (perceived) mess that was R6RS, and thus unify the community.
Chrome already has a mechanism to detect a MITM for Google's servers by embedding those servers' public keys into Chrome itself.

Of course, that doesn't stop a company from placing locally-trusted rogue certificates on computers they control, overriding Chromes public-key pinning check. But it means that they can't MITM a connection from your personal laptop when you're on their network.
Maybe Microsof prefers the modernist horizontal "square": you could put hundreds of those slightly stretched windows side to side to form a horizontal band of windows throughout the whole floor of a building. That is probably the way Microsoft wants to vision Windows' style of adoption.
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Yes. I am 16. I stay home from school because learning civics and history and math and science are super boring, so in between sessions of wallhacking on legacy counter-strike servers I refresh a startup tech news site looking for intellectually stimulating articles.

No, they are pretty interesting. The teachers are boring, may be. History? The civil war? The Isreali-Palestini conflict? The poverty in the world? Water distribution in the world?

Go and look for the interesting parts. There are lot of interesting stuff in the world, apart from the tech scene. I wish I spent more time when I was your age reading about politics.
Makes you wonder what actually happened with TrustWave (there's obviously more to it than "Oh, this was an ethical dilemma so we stopped."). Probably their customer found a way into the intermediate CA private key and was being naughty with it.

What I think sparked Mozilla is TrustWave's claim that this kind of thing is widespread and commonplace among CA's. That's shouldn't surprise anyone, though.
The keyword is human genome, not some other organism. Also the $900 product has not been released yet.
Well, despite all the "juvenile behavior", Anonymous is a force to be reckoned with. They mean it when they say "Expect us.".

I also think the fact that they don't care how you perceive them (by acting juvenile or otherwise immature) is one of their greatest strengths. Believe it or not, but it frees you from a lot of burdens if you don't have to be polite and politically correct, and makes it a whole lot easier to actually do something (whether or not that something is good and/or justified is certainly debatable).
I really like the video as it actually gives some "context" to the window and its relation to the text. I just wish this view was more transparent in the static version.
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probably because there's nothing else interesting today to fill the front page. there's nothing wrong with a little fluff from time to time.
I enjoyed Mass Effect, but Mass Effect 2 undid my interest in the series.

Mass Effect's locations offered some freedom of movement - they felt like actual places.

Mass Effect 2's settings were extremely constrained by comparison - no longer living locations to explore, but very much tight funnels that might as well have had "== One Way =>" signs posted.
Chrome could still maintain a blacklist of roots.
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