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If you paid tens of thousands of dollars for your Android phone, you might want to check out the better prices available at http://www.google.com/nexus/.

Also, to answer your real question and not the hyperbole: you aren't locked out of your iphone or Android with anything like the security of the device he's describing. No one cares about installing software on their TV -- mine doesn't even have an obvious port by which this could be accomplished -- and cars share the same liability structure as medical devices, probably. Plus many of them are actually quite easily programmable.
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> Having 14 gold medals does not prove to anyone that your butterfly stoke technique could not be better.

Having 14 gold medals means that though his butterfly stroke might or might not need improvement, a random punk on the internet doesn't have the authority to make a judgement call.

> Nor does earning a lot of money prove that you always make good decisions with money. Take my $100 toilet paper example. Earning a lot of money through good investments does not make using $100 for toilet paper suddenly unassailable to criticism. Does this make sense?

No it doesn't make sense. Your $100 for toilet paper example is pushing the boundaries of ridiculous which doesn't have anything to with the topic under discussion.

People who haven't earned through investment preaching people who have made a fortune about efficient use of money, money which happens to be their personal money, is just sad.
Is there peer pressure? Sure, but at the end of the day, everyone of them made a personal decision to make that pledge. Could they have redistributed their resources to more businesses? Ok, but they chose the charitable route. Are there people that need these resources more than businesses? Absolutely: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Development_Goals#Go...

Sadly, we do not live in a perfect world. The resources and opportunities we take for granted are the same ones others do not have. Giving others a chance at the life and opportunities that were given to us is probably the wisest investment of all. The returns are deeper than dollars.
In Australia, close to a decade ago, the Microplex (Optusnet) servers had a backdoor that revealed all the passwords via a generated webpage.

Someone found this, posted the link to the newsgroups... then had their computer seized by the Australian Federal Police. Collecting passwords, at least in Australia, can get you in big trouble.

Incidentally, I don't think that's a good thing, but it is a thing. Beware Australian security researchers!
A/B testing is merely a variation of data-based business planning that has been taught in business schools for at least 70 years.

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Here is my implementation of the Apollo 11 computer in verilog on an FPGA:
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It has an assembler and IDE.
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Except when they save you money? As in the famous "Fuck you. Pay me." video: http://vimeo.com/22053820

I think it's more nuanced than simply "Lawyers are bad!" The cost of litigation, even when you are likely to win, is so high that it encourages whatever behaviors best avoid litigation, rather than whatever behavior fulfills the original goals of the company/sector/system. Companies and even entire sectors, once well-established, would rather optimize for continual, guaranteed success within a subpar ecosystem than risk losing big just to allow an environment of marginally more satisfied "informed consumers", or what-have-you.

Edit: I am rambling about "the system" and such, without offering any solutions, partly because I'm at a loss for one. The best I can muster would be for legal fees and penalties to be in a range that does not warrant selecting such behavior. But that topic is a deep rabbit hole unto itself.
Do you not see the irony of talking about 1.3 million individual common passwords?
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My experience wasn't nearly as bad as the OP's - one at-home sleep study, a tester CPAP machine for a week, and a prescription to get my own CPAP soon after. (My health provider/insurer was Kaiser, which is more integrated, so perhaps they have less incentive to milk it.)

It was, however, strange to need a prescription to buy a machine. The prescription includes the settings, so when it arrives, it's already tailored to your needs.

Even so, the machines I was given were relatively easy to understand -- I even fiddled with the settings a bit and found what was more comfortable. The machine I bought for myself is a DeVibliss, and part of its appeal is that comes with software to read its data. It is proprietary and Windows only, but likely hackable since we have readouts of what the data means. I haven't gotten around to figuring that out.

Medical techs take a really dim view of patients fiddling with settings. I know they did when I asked them all kinds of questions. Their assumption, which is probably verified for them daily, is that patients have no idea what they're doing, and conceding authority is to invite disaster. Hackers may trust themselves to figure something out, but let's be serious -- we can be aggressive because it's just data. We forget all the times we hose the filesystem, corrupt the database, have catastrophic memory leaks, and so on. Medicine is not as forgiving as computing.

Still, with CPAP, it's probably very difficult to cause yourself injury. Maybe a more open policy would be appropriate.
dkarl, Good response. The headline on hacker news is the headline of the site, transparent as that… but you're totally right about it being unobjectionable—its a _personal_ list.

Food for (my) thought.

Thanks!
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It's true that a lot of sites don't go to the trouble of implementing particularly secure login systems (it's a lot of work!). Sadly I think this includes many banks.

One way around this is using SSO with a site who does spend a lot of resources on making their login system secure. For example, using Facebook Connect is a great way to get all that security (plus all our fake account detection) and the added bonus of not having to store (and properly hash) passwords. If only RockYou, Gawker, Sony and others whose credential databases have been compromised had done something like that... Fortunately, we have an answer even to problems like that with 3rd parties: http://bucks.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/02/how-facebook-tries.... I've spent multiple nights up late trying to crack hashed passwords on a big dump before attackers can, so we can help the victims who shared credentials between the compromised site and Facebook secure their accounts.

I'd love to raise awareness around the stuff we do to protect users. We've done blog posts and people have written articles, and users often see this stuff when e.g. they're traveling (ever been asked to identify photos of your friends?). What else do you think we could do?

Here are some example articles about what we do around login security - if you're interested, check out http://www.facebook.com/security to see other related stuff.
https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150172618258920
https://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=389991097130
https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=425136200765
As a woman in a start up and indeed generally as a member of a start up, I find this recent uproar about Sheryl Sandberg quite frustrating.

I'll admit that I didn't watch the interview that she just did. However, I did see her speak this past year at the Grace Hopper Conference. Yes, she goes home at 5.30 to eat with her kids, but in this digital age it doesn't mean she is done with work. She just uses technology to timeshift and work when it best fits into her life. She goes home so she can be with her kids while they are awake but she's still responding to emails and does work after her kids are asleep. This is the beauty of digital age.

While I don't have kids, or a even significant other, I do, however, have a personal life that I refuse to sacrifice because I am in a start up. I'm sure many of you feel the same; this means I do work, I go out with my friends, come home and do more work. Maybe I wake up earlier then everyone else, work on weekends, etc. This is no different than what Sandberg does.
...case law has equal weight in the US.

That is what I meant to express, and I stand corrected on the details.
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These guys can help: http://www.apneaboard.com/

They have info on adjusting lots of models of machine. And there is nothing actually illegal about doing so for yourself.

You don't really need a sleep study with an APAP machine since it does it automatically. So what you do is find a friendly doctor to write a prescription, then go to http://cpap.com/ and buy your own machine.

Legally any doctor can do this, you don't need a specialist. Some are willing to prescribe based on symptoms without needed a sleep study.

And by buying the machine yourself you can research it to pick the best one instead of what the medical supply house picks for you.

These laws are incredibly annoying, but there are ways around it - while staying legal!

I remember once seeing a bottle of sterile water (for a humidifier) that said "By prescription only. Only for use by, or under the advice of, a Doctor."

Apparently by writing that they can charge more money for it, and insurance will pay for it. But if it's over the counter (remember we are talking about water here) insurance won't pay.
It may be complicated, but that doesn't make it any less outrageous. And it seems like "complicated" problems tend to go away rather quickly when enough people become sufficiently outraged.

Or more to the point: we shouldn't be making excuses for people blatantly fucking us over. Let them make their own excuses. Even better, let them get out of the way.
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I've seen this behavior with google gadgets as well, even with no user interaction or even having the page open.
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They add precise little for the trillions they cost us.
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I tried to schedule a sleep study, was told it would be a month, tried to price a sleep study somewhere else, was told it would be over $2000...

...gave up and bought an automatic CPAP machine off Craigslist for $650 from someone who knew how to access doctor mode (hold down button X for 10 seconds after turning the power on), set it to adjust automatically...

...and stopped after a month because the mask was preventing me from sleeping well, but at least I didn't spend more than $650.
Simple: They think the possibility of earning more money for their time is less than the possibility of winning the lottery.

It's a matter of desperation, not a matter of low worth.
Do you mean companies or groups or bands using it as a mean to communicate with their clients, fans, etc? Then, I guess it has some little real value, as had Myspace pages and second-life real estate.
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You have to understand the problems that CISPA seeks to solve.

1) Corporations will not share cybersecurity vulnerability data for fear of attracting lawsuits. As a result, known, relatively simple attacks succeed at company after company after company. CISPA seeks to solve this problem by limiting liability for voluntary data sharing. In theory this will help improve everyone's security by improving the dissemination of knowledge.

2) Federal cybersecurity intelligence is classified and therefore not available to private companies, who by the way run the vast majority of the U.S. data infrastructure. CISPA commands federal intelligence services to create a way to share their classified data with companies. Again: better dissemination of knowledge.

Both of these would help improve security.
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Prices have gone down since the last time I had to deal with all of that. I remember the company I was working with paying $1.67 per Mb/sec, I've seen offers for 1 Gigabit/sec for $1000 so roughly $1.00 per Mb/sec (using 1000, not 1024), but I didn't know they would go down to $0.65 per Mb/sec!

Guess the more you commit to, the better pricing you get!
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Just a heads up: Tormail.net (in the last screenshot) is now Tormail.org. Whoever runs the service was apparently foolish enough to transfer their non-Tor domain to a Russian registrar. It's disappointing that someone who claims to care about privacy doesn't check RSF's press freedom index before choosing a country to register their domain in.

https://opusmagnus.wordpress.com/2012/04/21/tormail-net-has-...
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My simpleton argument:

1. Linux users are much nerdier.
2. Nerds play more video games.

Some more speculations:

* Windows appeals to people who want to be in majority. This makes them feel comfortable. Of course, it has a stronghold in business world too.

* Mac devices are seen as status symbol. It's elegant, 'just works', 'stylish' 'gorgeous'. And they don't use it /despite/ highish cost - they use it in part /because/ it's expensive. You don't actually need to do anything with it, it's enough others see you have it.

* Linux appeals to people who like to brag how much they can do. Tweakers, tinkerers.
Sure, but they can ask, and they can say they asked and weren't answered.
Though I don't presume to have read his mind, I feel like sirrocco is falling prey to a line of thought that I often do with regards to law. As a programmer, I often want to build some sort of deterministic decision tree regarding matters. The instinct of "Once I have all possible behaviors and paths modeled, an optimal solution will present itself!" is a strong one.

And then my friends in law school remind me, sometimes loudly, how the facts or circumstances can vary greatly, and how nothing in life is quite that simple. Alas.
Instrumental rationality FTW, right? :)
> I fail to see how developing a similar product at a lower price point is stifling innovation or "resorting" to anything.

Pretty sure there was no mention of 'stifling innovation'. I think you misinterpreted. I believe he's trying to say that these guys are doing the exact same thing as MakerBot (ie not innovating or building something new), but selling at a lower price. Very different than 'stifling innovation'.
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All masks come equipped with an anti asphyxia valve. They are a very simple flap that fails open in the case of a power outage or other failure, a (C|A)PAP mask cannot asphyxiate you.

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See "Implementing Elliptic Curve Cryptography",
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Video is kind've long. can anyone summarize please?
The TSA is a big market-research project. The point is to start with everybody and winnow back TSA behavior based on outrage until they reach the line where nobody cares enough anymore. Everybody outside of that line will be subject to abduction and torture by the US and its allies.

The important part is that the TSA gets to find out who nobody cares about, because everybody is going to be forced to endure their intrusions (even for those who ride the bus or train, they'll find a way to touch you) until we tell them who we'd rather they hassle, by way of demanding freedom from their intrusions not upon principle, but upon "because not me."

You'll notice that people who can/want to pay $100 for a little freedom from Bush & Obama's TSA have a way to do that even before 95 year old veterans and 4 year old children. That right there is a plain, stick-figure simple illustration of Bush and Obama's priorities with the TSA.
Good call, thanks for that.
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What about www.dzone.com, it has a lot of good stuff. It even has code snippets.
As a hacker and someone that has a few things that I take medicine for I ask a lot of questions, and do a lot of research.

My doctors always find it interesting when I can pull up full charts and graphs of data that they simply have written down, mine will generally be more accurate and has contained data points that they didn't have due to being measurements I took at certain times of day (blood pressure), and it has helped them give me the medicine I require.

Not all patients are dumb, and while it has taken me a while to get my doctor to realise this, she has started realising that maybe there is something more to it and that it will be beneficial to both of us.

I understand the CYA policy, and I understand that for most patients that is the best way to go about it, but for those of us who are outliers I think it may be beneficial because we may have more time to look at the data and find significant data (and then get them verified by a doctor) than some other people. It is in my own personal best interest to be as healthy as possible and if I can do that by knowing more about what is going on with my body, then all the better!
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It's a shame you don't have anything to show publicly for your latest idea, even a landing page, because that's also a valid way of determining how your idea will be received.

You are pre- minimum viable product by all accounts, and even with experience that's a hard sell.

Good luck this time round though.
YES, thank you! I was just going to rant about tabloid titles like this on HN

FFS people, stop it. Just title your submission exactly what it is about, stop using the language of supermarket checkout line tabloids to try to pique people's interest. If that's the actual article title, don't copy and paste it, but make a better one.

An even more concise example for this one:

"Google Consumer Surveys: survey your target market before launching"

In other news, ironic how the article's header picture is a supermarket.
Even more laconic: http://coffeekup.org/
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This is the biggest glaring bug on the app right now.[1] Doesn’t seem to always affect the app (~30% of the time) when backgrounding to another app or if the phone is manually locked, but more regularly (>75%) happens when the phone idle sleeps.

I’m trying to nail this down, but it’ll likely take me some time to find a real fix.

[1]: https://github.com/mtigas/iOS-OnionBrowser/issues/2
I don't agree that bush's policy of fear was popular.
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Well, from one perspective, each of these failed companies could have been testing their own "sustainable competitive advantage" thesis. A thesis that turned out to be incorrect. After all, you don't know your sustainable competitive advantage really is in fact sustainable and and a competitive advantage until you win. (e.g. Google. They were just another search company, and one that could have failed like so many others.)

From another perspective, each of these companies is wandering through, as the author puts it, the "wildernesses nobody knows" looking for opportunities and either didn't find one or weren't able to grow that opportunity quickly enough.

Some say we're in a bubble. Others say we aren't. Frankly, I don't give a damn. I just see that there's tons of innovation being funded. Some innovations may be evolutionary, others may be revolutionary. Funny thing is: you often don't know what will be evolutionary or revolutionary until you try.

I'm glad many people are trying.
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Eventvue - mmm interesting concept, I just saw a pitch from a guy who'd been working on exactly this concept for a while.

Could be an interesting app for the Google goggles.
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The difference is that all of these passwords are public knowledge and already published in some form. My compiling these passwords into a single list is different from gathering them directly from the source!
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