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This is not legal advice. Please don't try to build one of these devices. I haven't researched this answer. But off the top of my head:

My guess is it's legal to have a phone that can be programmed to perform activities at specified times. You'd essentially just be making robo-calls/robo-texts, which lots of people do. For example, I get a lot of texts from political campaigns, and I wouldn't be surprised if these were written then scheduled to automatically go out at a certain time.

That being said, fabricating evidence is clearly a crime. So, I suspect that you could legally build and possess such a device, but could be guilty of a crime depending on how you use it. The same could be said of probably any non-contraband object.

Again, don't build one of these on my say-so. I'm just speculating.

As to the second part of your question--how the law would look at this kind of evidence in light of the possibility of fabricating it--that really depends on the jury. As it would play out in court, the party presenting the phone evidence would try to convince the jury that it's authentic, e.g. with expert testimony. Likewise, the other party could try to raise doubts as to its authenticity, perhaps by bringing expert witnesses of their own, who would testify about how easy it is to fake and such. And then it would be the jury's decision to give the evidence as much or as little weight as they see fit. So, there's no one-size-fits-all answer. It would depend entirely on the case each side makes and the whims of the jury.
I'll play. I worked at a financial institution for several years. On the one hand you'd think we were secure because we used a relational database, but we also had a heavily segmented network with all of the databases in their own VLAN's with highly restrictive permissions. On top of that each application was locked down to exactly which data it could use and what could be done with that data.

So if you buy the premise of the article, it wasn't NoSQL, so it must have been secure. In reality we were very secure from external breaches, at least as secure as you can reasonably be.

Personal information was secured to the maximum extent possible. Encrypted, backed up to multiple independent tapes stored in separate locations etc. On the other hand, the overall complexity of the system was very high and if someone breached our network there would have been a very large surface area to attack. I didn't feel like the article addressed this aspect of security in the least. Security just isn't one of those things that are easy or are ever done. It takes constant vigilance and continuous adjustment and improvement.
Although I don't agree with his opinion, he's surely entitled to one. It doesn't take a chicken to judge an egg.
Agreed but I would note that the benefit to a defendant of having cell phone records as an alibi is that it is ostensibly an objective record.

I doubt a DA would want to establish a precedent by arguing against the credibility of such a third party record.
Exactly -- for his example of a financial services system, just buy the commercial version, or tunnel using ssh.

You can also encrypt the underlying file system using your OS's tools.

I can't speak to how financial institutions use, say, Oracle's authentication and authorization. Most web apps & services use their own logic to manage access control. I'd love to hear what someone form that industry has to say. (An "architect" preferably. Not a mere "developer", who are the cause of this whole security problem ;) ).
It's unlikely to be a jet for such short distances.

From their website it looks like the Pilatus PC-12 (single engine turboprop). Those burn around 65 gallons per hour @ ~$5.50/gal for Jet-A and cruise at somewhere north of 300mph.
For those looking to try a less drastic version of this, I recommend LeechBlock:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/leechblock/

It lets you list websites and then set rules around when and how much you can access them. My current way to set it up: during business hours, I have to wait 60 seconds to access a distracting website. And by wait, I mean sit there and stare at the countdown screen; if the window loses focus it cancels the countdown.

I'm amazed at the number of times a day I try to access something like HN when, after 5 seconds of thought, I really don't want to.
It's crazy to see the way the "modern web dev stack" has progressed over the years. I'm not so confident of whether this is really one that will last in the way LAMPP ever did, but I'm interested in seeing Padrino in particular. These days, the stack relies so much on personal opinions I can't wait to see where we go in the future.
Fear of being ostracized is universal. If anything, I'd say "high-IQ" communities are less susceptible to groupthink and penalizing dissent.
FBO's are more fun anyway ;)
Missing the following (I don't really know how well these flow with Padrino since I'm a Rails guy)

A BDD framework such as Cucumber or RSpec.

Something to give structure to your Javascript as all modern web applications are usually Javascript heavy such as Backbone.js or Knockout.js.

Templating for Javascript such as Mustache.
I wouldn't call a service that is only of use to people that regularly spend more than $1,000/month traveling between four California cities "disrupting the airline space."

Not every company with a slightly different business model is "disruptive."
Briefly contemplate the day ahead, it only takes about five minutes to get to work.
Good question. I guess it would have seniority over shareholders (investors) in liquidating the company's asset. Assuming the company is a C corp, you should not be responsible for the debt personally.
The solution I proposed was perhaps flippant, but not ill-thought out.

I stand by my claim that the fundamental problem that the author has is not with the Internet, it's with their willpower.

I read the same article as you many years ago when it was first published.

My conclusion, however, was different from yours. You seem to have stopped at "manipulate your environment to change how you behave." I preferred the conclusion, "manipulate your environment to change how you think." When I have distraction problems with the Internet I'll restructure my environment to provide gratification in different ways. If Internet browsing is rewarding to me to the point where it causes a distraction it now becomes an effective reward mechanism. I can make a schedule wherein a certain amount of work is rewarded with a small amount of Hacker News.

Moreover, the entire Internet isn't to blame for this person's problem, only a certain set of behavior on the Internet. They describe how slower or less rich internet didn't present a distraction. Why not cap their connection speed or disable images, javascript, and sound?

I see many options and "get rid of the Internet" seems the most naive and harmful in this case.
I think what he probably means is that, despite a draconian review policy, 98% of the app store is junk. Like seriously junk. Like fart apps junk.

So this means that they aren't reviewing for app quality.

How about bugs?

"Updates: Updates take ages to get approved. They sometimes get rejected while being only a bug-fix update to an app that got approved. (This has happened to me.) And even when they get approved, it takes forever, possibly leaving some critical bug or crash in your application and costing you tons of negative reviews and ratings."

So not really for bugs.

And on down the list till it appears the only things they are looking for are scams, undocumented API usage and similar other junk.

It's not that these things aren't worth reviewing for, but it'd probably be better for everyone (Apple included) if Apple was simply overt about this and didn't mess around with the rest of the stuff.
We use the authentication in our apps. It's simple, and as Zephyr suggested I wouldn't recommend using that as your only security - it's not our only security, just part of the overall approach.
Do you think that 99+% of the kids learn best by reading a textbook?
You can use iTunes as well. Click on the Radio item under Library on the left pane, and you will find the DI radio stations under the Electronica genre.
I had a LOT of headache trying to make a posix compliant script with that. Output to stdout, err to stderr, nothing too esoteric. The docs even have one section devoted only to that, yet was the most unpythonic time I've spent with the language... And I've done a lot of string manipulation :)

And ok, I'm dumb. But hundreds of others struggling with the same thing at stackexchange might mean something.
That is largely why Incline Village exists.
bought a plan, out of curiosity. while I don't doubt the results, the website is quite un-friendly for beginners.

1. There is just one line, saying "if you don't know what this means, just go to bodybuilding.com and search for it". It'd take a couple of minutes to directly link the exercises to their video pages, and save a lot of time and frustration for the users.

2. As someone pointed out, quite a few minor spelling/grammatical mistakes, even on the FAQ page

3. "We will provide fitness plan that can completed at home with zero equipment." - doesn't seem like it

I'm not trying to be negative or anything, just trying to make it a bit more user friendly. The website itself is very straightforward, so it would be nice if the founders can do these minor tweaks.
As I read it, you're positing two things:

1) It's effortless to build an infrastructure that handles reviewing half a million apps and hosting billions of downloads, and to scale up to those levels from nothing.

2) The app store review process doesn't serve its intended purpose.

If that interpretation's correct, how do you support those assertions?

#1 is demonstrably false, given the effort that many companies exert to handle reviewing and approving numerous kinds of content, and then vending that content to consumers around the world. Netflix, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and Google are just a few companies that have large chunks of their organization devoted to approving content (be it movies, ads, apps, or ebooks) and then supporting the systems which host and vend that content around the world. Both are non-trivial problems and difficult things to scale at those magnitudes. To claim otherwise is disingenuous.

I'd also claim that #2 is false. Malware is not a problem on the App Stores, and I feel eminently confident as a consumer that I can trust apps purchased on Apple's App Stores. As a developer, the review process has caught bugs in my apps before they've hit my users, and they've also been quick to approve updates that address urgent bugs that slipped past both my and their testing. You may disagree with some of their policies and the review process does make mistakes, but I don't believe you can assert they're largely ineffectual or incompetent, nor do I believe you can claim the process doesn't offer benefits to consumers. What other software store is as confidently and easily used by consumers around the world?
Probably $5 or 10 a month.

Otherwise, A LOT of cents.

(someone who does not pay that silliness and have sms blocked)
What's wrong with http://docs.python.org/howto/logging.html#logging-basic-tuto... and http://docs.python.org/howto/logging-cookbook.html#logging-c... coming directly from the library reference http://docs.python.org/library/logging.html ?
Because the guy making the decision (the professor) doesn't pay the cost of that decision. Publishers give the professors free books, and court with them (like big pharma courts doctors) to convince them to use it.

There are other reasons, like the big advantage that inertia gives you: once your book gets established as the best book in one field, at say $40, you increase the price to $150 b/c the professors already know the book, so there is a big switching cost (for them).

What actually baffles me is why people think this would NOT happen. Align the professor's incentives, and you'll start seeing some change.
RequestHN: undo up/down vote
I read most of the time on mobile, i downvote people i intend to upvote and so on.

Most of the time i have to unflag links when all i wanted was to go to the fine article.

This is duckling infuriating.
I found a list of VPN providers
http://lifehacker.com/5759186/five-best-vpn-service-provider...
It is kind of terrible though: all the cheaper ones are PPTP-only, and PPTP is insecure. Security is why I'd want a VPN!

Some of the comments on that article suggest running your own OpenVPN instance on Amazon EC2 or other VPS. If the EC2 suggestion works, it looks reasonably priced (at least as long as you don't use it all day every day).
If you want lots of detail (which, eventually, you should), then those absolutely do a great job. But if you want a quick-and-dirty intro just to get down to business, then this sort of post does a great job. I mean, clearly it's benefited some folks, so it serves some good purpose, right? :)
Cool (free, easy). Where are you going with this?

I wrote an app that does almost the same thing through the UI (not API) http://textfrom.me/ but it's not free. I made that project because I needed to txt a group of folks at a specific time in bulk.
I don't mean to be rude, but I may be missing something. Surely it didn't take you an afternoon to write an audio tag?
The government doesn't have the "virtually unlimited" prosecution budget you're claiming. Many prosecutors are overworked and given almost zero time to prep a case. High-profile cases get more time and money, of course, but these are statistically very rare.

Also, a person probably won't be convicted on a Google search alone. The burden of proof falls on the prosecution, meaning that they have to present more than just a few shreds of suggestive evidence.

Simply exercising one's right to remain silent, demanding a lawyer (even a public defender), and pleading not guilty vastly improves one's chances. The vast majority of convicts in the US sealed their fates by talking to the police, pleading guilty, or both. We'd have a much lower conviction rate across the board if everyone shut up, lawyered up, and pled not guilty--which could be seen as good or bad, depending on your perspective.

As an aside, public defenders are better than most people believe. They often do just as well statistically as private defense attorneys.
Another good source, the trance tag on mixcloud.com. I particularly like Paul Oakenfold's "Planet Perfecto".
So negotiate strongly on the cap - don't undersell yourself.
Why I'm Learning Node
Exactly this. I don't particularly mind sharing some of my personal data with 3rd parties, especially because I actually like ads if they are for new products that I am actually interested in purchasing. However, not being able to reliably control what exactly that data is without keeping up with the latest subtle changes in wording is too much for me.
All you have to do is write two Windows Phone apps in the next month! You can test them on real hardware after you release!
It "sounds" interesting, but it "looks" like a scheme to harvest email addresses.
I suggest you rethink the numbers.

Several states impose a fuel tax that's below their sales tax limit. They still need to pay for road maintenance.

"U.S. annual gasoline consumption is 140 billion gallons and growing." The federal tax is 18.4 cents per gallon that's 25.76 billion a year but you need to subtract out the oil company subsidy's, NHTSA's billion a year for safety, federal reconstruction aid after a disaster etc, and not just the new federal construction costs.

While 'free parking' is available in large sections of the country it still takes land and someone needs to maintain it. However, it's vary unusual for federal, state, or local governments to pay for such parking as part of a gas tax, it's generally taken from the budget of the agency providing that parking space.
There's no reason I have bad habits continuing year on year, there's no reason he's spending too much time on the internet

I addressed that rather simply, I thought. It seems that his biggest problem with the Internet was that it was too easily accessible. Not having Internet is a very obdurate way of approaching this, in my opinion. Note that most of the things the writer did as an alternative were not on the computer. Instead of separating the Internet from their computer, I simply suggested separating themselves from the computer.
It's not even just mobile. Even on my laptop, I always check the URL on the voting button before I click, just to make sure. The buttons are too small and too close together even on a full sized screen, IMO.
This page http://wiki.python.org/moin/LoggingPackage gave me a lot of indirect insight into why the logging module is the way it is. The user "VinaySajip" is the author and maintainer of the package.
I don't use Facebook applications, but I use Pidgin to Facebook-chat (using Facebook's XMPP interface). This requires* "If I'm Online" to be shared with apps (even though Pidgin is not a Facebook application). I have everything else unchecked. I wish I could uncheck that too. *last I checked.
Agreed. Both sides of this relationship should be heavily regulated and scrutinized.
Thanks for the suggestion. I'm going to be adding Tumblr import soon and I'll take a look at Flickr.
The boilerplate required to enable logging is just too much. This is why people rarely do it and then we end up with a million types of logging styles.
So as a library author, how do I effectively use logging? Should I? What Is there a way to embed logging in my library, turn it off by default, and allow end-users to turn it back on, when required?
The Apps are Too Damn Big
No, his experience was horrible. I've used the exact sane app for small miscellaneous deposits and haven't had 1/10 the problems Marco had. The Chase app isn't perfect, but it works in a pinch. If only we had his problem of not being able to deposit more than 5k/day...
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Remember the last time when the language poll unveiled a whole large group of C# people? :-D
I also like Psytrance. I just search for Psytrance on shoutcast and go with one of the top 3. The nice thing about these kind of genres is they're loud and monotonous and drown out the world, whilst not being too much work to listen to.
Seriously?

Basic Info

Location: BTMLayout Bangalore, India 560076

Contact Info

Phone: 0000000000

Shouldn't this be at least a little Redmond-related?
Love the military transport style plane idea. If they were using an actual military cargo plane, I would be all up for that, just for the experience.
Adding to your “how the law would look at this kind of evidence in light of the possibility of fabricating it--that really depends on the jury”: making the case that the evidence was fabricated would probably not be too difficult looking at the accused’s normal call patterns (from which this “night of the crime” will probably deviate), no incoming calls (or worse; a missed incoming call), testimonies from the people called by the accused at the night of the crime, asking questions about the alleged conversation etc.

For a fake alibi, making fake calls at the night of the crime is probably not the best option.
Gabriel, here are some ideas for you how you measure your idea.

One approach is to list your assumptions (e.g. why does Evernote suck, why would they rather use your app versus writing on paper, they are willing to pay for it, etc). Find customers of your competitors (Evernote, paper-pencil), and validate those assumptions (or reject).

Another method you could try would be to create a landing page on http://unbounce.com/ and start pimping that page and collect email addresses. You can also buy some Google Ads for "Evernote sucks". Once you get those email addresses don't get excited about build an app... that'll just be your initial list of customers to interview.
You can, but don't expect to be able to use it on any test in college, high school, or the SAT.
pink noise < brown noise < Liquid Mind

I previously listened to brown noise daily until I found Chuck Wild's Liquid Mind albums.[1] The latter don't filter out environmental noise as well as brown noise, but I've found that they help me concentrate and minimize stress when my environment isn't noisy enough to warrant brown noise.

[1] http://www.liquidmindmusic.com/mp3/download.html
Doesn't Delta give you this with their private air program?

I'm not sure how it compares to Pan Am though---because I wasn't alive during those days.
In San Francisco I can walk, bike, or take the train to most places I care to go. I realize other places (particularly SoCal) aren't like that though.
1) is any web developer. 2-6 is any developer.
Cool! I was a smartass and wrote mine in COBOL.
RDBMS's, put a large focus on data integrity and access within the datastore layer itself (To differing degrees); NoSQL systems more or less offload that responsibility into the application layer. There is still a responsibility of running it within a trusted network.

This is a decision that may not be appropriate for everyone, but that does not make it wrong. Many people who used mySQL to power web applications did use just one credential to access the database. In that scenario the authentication overhead is pretty much just a waste of time.
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I still remember reading about the Don Dodge/Microsoft/Google fiasco. Legacy PR based on top-down control of the message is fundamentally flawed.
You're right it wouldn't
You are very, very wrong, because not only are you not accounting for state fuel taxes, but toll roads, AND, the extra fees paid by truckers and other commercial vehicles. However I am not goint to write a dissertation for your sole benefit - suffice it to say, that each 18 wheeler you see, is a source of over $25K per year in taxes. Yes, over $2000 per month.
browserify (https://github.com/substack/node-browserify) is great for providing require() and bundling necessary dependencies for the browser.
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Your car is only 15% as efficient.
Don't use logging.py. It's awful, and the complete opposite of the "do one thing and do it well" philosophy.

Consider:

$ python
>>> import sys
>>> x = set(sys.modules.keys())
>>> import logging
>>> y = set(sys.modules.keys())
>>> len(y - x)
31

Yes that's right, you're importing 31 new modules just to log a string. This is only the beginning, I could go on and on.

At most python shops I've worked, we replace logging.py with a 100-200 line module that outputs strings to stderr at levels configurable per-module. You can pipe that logging output into programs that timestamp each line, or ship them over the network, or send email notifications on errors, etc. There are plenty of good reasons why your program shouldn't concern itself with the delivery of logging messages beyond sending them to stderr.

Unfortunately, this particular battery included is a D, even if you only needed an AAA.
I'd add one more "focusing on your core".

With PHP it is really easy to hack little things together so it's tempting to build everything yourself when faced with new small challenges. Depending on third party services can save a lot of time/effort to help you deliver what matters.
Thank god for this - I've been doing a lot of work with some NPM packages that I want to use on the client but for the life of me couldn't figure out how to do it. This looks like it'll do just the trick. Thanks!
If u don't mind me asking, as a bit of personal curiosity,...what do u do to support yourself from home? I too would like to become self employed, so I'm looking for any input on ideas to begin my venture. Thanks for your time, - Jay
(off topic: curious if you evaluated riak-core, and if yes, why did you pass on it?)
That wouldn't solve the problem at all.