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Nice to see a sync solution that lets me sync arbitrary folders. I was thinking of building a layer on top of dropbox for myself, but this works great. Thanks for the recommendation!
Entity Framework and Open Source
I was about to email you, but I couldn’t find your address anywhere
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Clipping Path is the name of technique which is usually used to knockout the background from the original image. It’s also being used for giving attractive shapes to an image, adjusting or sorting portions in an image or in creating layouts. Digital photographers, ad agents, web development companies, magazine companies, brochure and Prepress publishing houses are gradually taking the Clipping Path Service for their prospective work purpose. Wide range of developments in technology is another big reason for its rapid popularity.
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What? This is an awesome design and approach which will appeal to most people. Everyone's seen Batman, watched cartoons and comedies. This hooks into popular culture and uses it to deliver a message. I don't see references to memes here - can you point any out?

Besides, just what the hell is wrong with cats? Maybe you're a dog person but a lot of us are not. Elitist.
As a multicultural person who has lived in more than one country, as usual when I see initiatives like this, I wonder how well they will work in China, behind the Great Firewall.

http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17910953

I posted a Chinese saying attributed to Confucius the last time we discussed an effort to use the Internet to bring about more transparency.

始吾於人也，聽其言而信其行。今吾於人也，聽其言而觀其行。"At first my attitude toward people was to listen to their words and to trust their deeds. Now my attitude toward people is to listen to their words and observe their deeds."

I listen to the words "Internet freedom should not be restricted" and I say, as people did during the 1960s civil rights movement, "Right on!" But then I observe deeds and I wonder if anyone has an effectual plan to stop the prior restraint of all print publications in China or the direct party cadre oversight of all broadcast media in China. I can access the Chinese media (and do) just fine, via the World Wide Web, but the common people of China, even the many who now have Internet access, are far from being able to access any available news source from anywhere around the world to the same degree that most Hacker News participants can.

All kinds of tough world problems would be easier to solve if the common people of China (and Russia, and a few other countries) had less restricted access to news and information, both about the country they live in and all other countries, and more opportunity to practice political dissent and open discussion of public policy, culminating in voting for national leaders in free and fair elections. If an Internet Cat Signal helps bring that about, I'm all for it. But if the Cat Signal serves mostly as yet another silly publicity tie-in for a Hollywood movie, I have better uses of my time and the server for my personal website than to link into the project.

I would really like to see an Internet freedom project that has significant advice and direction from political dissidents experienced with one-party dicatorial regimes, such as the current regime in China. Such a project could help Western Internet freedom activists better understand what issues really matter, and what technical means can overcome determined governmental opposition.

See

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world/july-dec12/dictators_07...

for examples of research on this important topic.

Best wishes to everyone working for more free flow of information to more people all over the world.
Just donated - now a member. Will be installing the code on my blog.

If you think this is stupid and ridiculous, what exactly are you doing to save the Internet?

[edit]I just became an EFF member too.
"Microsoft is extremely competitive with apple and google, even in 2012" makes a good sound bite. All you have to do is ignore context.

Ballmer should have been fired ages ago. Clearly he has dirt on the board or something. The guy is a bafoon.
You're free to run Chromium instead of Chrome. I do.
I think this organization has bigger issues than facebook buttons on its website
If you're worried about "US government" snooping, you should really be worried about UKUSA snooping, and keep your data out of all participating countries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukusa
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I have to say I'm laughing, I was completely screwed by a Shell-franchised service station back in 1992 and I have held a grudge since. I never buy Shell gas unless there is no other choice. Formerly I was a loyal customer, if I needed gas I would always go to Shell if I could (since then I've learned that gasoline in any given area pretty much all comes from the same wholesale terminal and it doesn't really matter which station you buy it from).

In the larger sense, lampooning ads is as old as advertising. They are pretty obviously not "real." Not sure why this is news.
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Hey! No, no voting ring. But I do submit a lot of ET stories, that's for sure. I only try to submit stuff that I think is new/interesting/pertinent.

I think two or three ads per page is pretty good. I have seen some tech sites with much more than that. (As you probably know, running a free site that makes money from ad revenue is pretty tough at the moment, and isn't getting any easier.)

Apologies if you find the stories lousy. I try my best to dig up interesting stuff. Obviously the quality of the reporting isn't as good as if a professional cryptographer/material scientist/engineer etc wrote it -- but... I do the best I can :)
I am become Steve Ballmer, the destroyer of companies...

Don't let the bean counters or sales guys run the company. Always the product guy.
Except that once you start avoiding or ignoring them, it is never likely to become the "right time". Handling criticism appropriately is one of the most important skills any would be entrepreneur (or consultant or any other small business person) needs to develop.
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one thing at a time. the purpose of this is to have a more effective, durable 'internet lobby'. not to make everyone get rid of fb buttons.
They do it because hyperventilating articles get clicks. Just look at this submission -- how many of us clicked it just to see what astonishing, competition-destroying patent Apple was granted?

Oh, a scrollbar that disappears. Okay...

Of course they piss away credibility doing that, but credibility seems to hold little value these days.
Even more similarly, what is the law on answering machines? Can someone leaving a message on an answering machine be subjected to a similar interception and impersonation without a warrant?

What about emails? Can emails be faked without a warrant?
For click-jacking, the easiest thing to do is to set the X-Frame-Options header, but I'll get to that. And it doesn't help IE <= 7, so you need to weigh cost/benefit and your user base there.

And we'll get to session hijacking and why your session cookies in particular should always be HttpOnly and preferably secure.
A simple explanation for the non tech folks: http://crazyviraj.blogspot.com/2009/10/xsrfcsrf-attacks-in-n...
How to change Chrome's default (crappy) monospace font:

1. Go to chrome://settings/fonts

2. Click the dropdown for "Fixed-width font"
This rant completely ignores context.

In the air traffic control system, you can never have an error and need to take every possible precaution up front to avoid bugs.

In a lot of situations, you might be prepared to slightly increase the risk of introducing bugs in order to move towards continuous or much more frequently delivery.

I'd argue that in most applications and businesses the later scenario is true - it's just that where you draw the line just varies from project to project.

Once you've accepted that, proactive monitoring is your second line of defence.
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> "and the vertical bar is not a scroll bar." These words were added to get around prior art. All Google would need to do is allow its position indicator to also function as a scroll bar and this patent doesn't apply.

Interesting to note that on OS/X Lion, the indicator DOES function as a scrollbar. And when it doesn't on IOS, it bugs me (try flicking through a very long document with the non-grabable indicator on iOS). Sounds like Apple has been granted a patent for a less-usable variant of an existing technology.
Sorry about that. The blog was blown away :-) It should be ok now...
I strongly clicked with the Investor part. It's funny that every one and their mother is saying they are part of a seed fund these days, while they do not invest in companies that have less than 2 years/15 employees/numerous clients/revenue in the 7 digits already.

And, maybe could he add :
"11. Hacker News. After reading it for a while and understanding a bit better what it means to run a startup, just stop reading it all day long and focus on your customers. I've seen startups fail because the founders hired people only to monitor HN and report on interesting stories"
I think people have a much closer connection to electronic devices. We arbitrarily say that police can't force me to say something, so where do we draw the line? Can they fake my voice in a recording? Can they use a clone? As brain-computer interfaces become more feasible, this will be a less theoretical concern.

There's an interesting overlap with encryption laws, also. If the authorities can force me to decrypt encrypted material, can they also force me to cryptographically sign material? What if unlocking my device implicitly signs my communications?
This is a court decision by a low level court which applies only to a single county in the state of Washington. Assuming it survives appeal, it would, at most, apply to the state of Washington.

The distinction here (at least the one discussed in the opinion) is that the court found that texts were an active communication method, i.e., like talking on the phone, not one of the traditional protected methods such as postal mail. (I do not agree with this distinction, but this is what the court reasoned.)
The easiest position to take when disagreeing with someone is to stick a label on the opposition as if this justifies that you should not take their argument seriously.

I for one think he has a point and if you don't please come up with something better than name calling.
Over a sample size of about 10 million page views, our top 4 referring domains of all time are all exclusively social media, and account for a total of around 30% of our visits. Twitter is the most engaging, on average Twitter referals view 4.5 pages per visit.

I think it's easy to dismiss social media, it's gotten quite clichéd, it's sometimes dull, it's sometimes frustrating, but if you understand the differences between each channel and utilise them properly they can have great benefits.
No, it's not. Your laptop doesn't know your password and hence you can actually use it to generate and encryption key. This system needs the laptop to know your password.
I'm curious / young / ignorant -- can you give me a link or name of the big oil spill caused by the totalitarian government?
"Don't hate the player, hate the game"

If you find your arguments relying on catchy phrases like this, you should reexamine them, because they're probably lacking.

I especially dislike this one in particular because it's used as an excuse to avoid having to justify harmful actions. "Everyone else was doing it too" is not a valid excuse for doing something wrong, especially when you are--as Apple is--a large enough "player" that your actions help shape how the "game" is played.

In any case, your presentation of Apple's actions is a lot more benign than reality. It's one thing to acquire questionable technology patents to help you defend yourself against litigation. That's unfortunate, but doesn't really actively harm anyone. It's also not what Apple is doing: Apple is using its patent portfolio offensively to try to shut out competing products.
26,667 times less expensive?

Yep this test is gong nowhere.
Sure sure, I agree with your points. But usually these ISEF winners are even further removed from "novel" ideas - they are literally placed into projects that grads/post-docs are already working on.

Effectively, they become another pair of hands on a project that is well outside their intellectual input.

It looks like this guy synthesized his own idea rather than piggybacking off the work of another, partially completed project (which is usually the norm for ISEF winners)
Microsoft Open Sources their Entity Framework ORM
>You could just, you know, choose not be logged in with facebook. Im not.

I dont even have an account.

EDIT: It doesn't matter BTW if you're logged in. The cookie will still be set.

>And as for tracking cookies: every website has them to some extend. And every browser lets you pick the policy you prefer.

That's true, but I think it's just careless from the designers to leave out something like this on a website standing for a mission to get rid of "bad monopolies". It's obviously not a big thing, but still something which makes me scratch my head.

>But if you care some much.. Go help them out!

Yeah, I should do that since I'm bitching here.
That and a 2 year window would mean that companies would have to file in such a way that their patent is granted right before they go to market.

If the patent gets filed a year before they go to market, their market time is halved.
I think the point of the cat signal is nothing to do with promotion of Hollywood movies and everything with trying to rally the people who have a strong understanding and interest in the freedom of the internet.

Think something like the NRA or NAACP, but for the internet. Things like the EFF are cool but not nearly as popular and accessible as things like NRA.

Unfortunately there is very little which western political groups can do to force the hand of the Chinese government with regard to censorship.
> I would really like to see an Internet freedom project that has significant advice and direction from political dissidents experienced with one-party dicatorial regimes, such as the current regime in China. Such a project could help Western Internet freedom activists better understand what issues really matter, and what technical means can overcome determined governmental opposition.

So Tor then?
Pretty sure they were doing this far before smartphones or even cellphones - it was done with pagers and even home phones before that.

Think about it, they don't even need your phone.

All they have to do is find out the number and all the carriers have gateways for law enforcement without warrants to examine everything sent/received and locations.

Then they can route the number anywhere and impersonate you.

BTW I am 100% okay with this if a person was CONVICTED in a court of law or they go before a judge and can prove someone is in mortal danger (child, etc.)

The biggest problem is they can now pull you over for a ticket and clone your phone without challenge. That's not right.
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probably is the least beneficial change we have made

Maybe, but there are trade-offs. For example, would you rather live to 100 but bust your ass every day, or live to 90 doing a desk job? Many people would pick the latter.
I actually saw this on CollegeHumor scarily enough a week ago.
Google creates a giant database of links to pirated material
The icon frequently isn't enough to distinguish tabs
especially if you have a bunch of reddit/hacker news/wikipedia/google/tvtropes tabs open. Once it has shrunk to nothing there is little chance of knowing what any tab is except when going back and forth between a couple of tabs. Firefox also has a drop down list and lets you switch to a tab by entering a partial title/address in the address bar.

I remember Firefox used to have the bad behaviour like chrome(back in the 1.5 days) and I would occasionally use an IE shell called crazy browser to do my extremely many tab surfing(I also used 2 browsers partially so I could surf something else while 70+ political blogs or webcomics were loading since browsers tended to freeze for a long time on that back in those days).
I completely agree. Even if it is a completely false and fabricated story, if it inspires other kids to go into STEM and do great things, solve real problems of humanity, I still think it is a great story.
Ah ok, 100 pounds would be quite a challenging target. As I understand it though starvation diets don't work long term as they train your body to deal with food shortages by storing energy as fat.

Losing in bursts doesn't sound like it would be a healthy option for the rest of your body as well.

Do you include exercise at all? From what I've researched, and what trainers have told me, weight training is the most effective way to lose weight - when combined with calorie monitoring and some cardio.
Why doesn't Facebook sue Google for Google+?
News is breaking that Apple has some lethal patents that seriously threaten the fate of Google's Android OS.

Google is doing the same thing to Facebook with Google+.

Has anyone heard anything about any potential legal action Facebook might take?
Exactly, it's not so much the suits themselves as the goal they're pursuing. To extend the OP's metaphor, it's not enough to "hate the game" when one player is trying to change the rules. (To be clear, though, the game is indeed a terrible thing.)
>it really feels like a little club of geeks trying to have an impact in the world

What's wrong with that? Go geeks!
Don't you think the first time the "Cat Signal" is activated, it will make the news, and bring attention to the issue?

Also, old senators die. We'll replace them with redditors.
> Assuming it survives appeal, it would, at most, apply to the state of Washington.

That's not completely true. A decision at a state's highest court may not be legally binding elsewhere, but it can have precedential weight in other jurisdictions where similar laws have not yet been tested. A single case in a single state could well determine the course of law throughout the country.
#1 should always be medical insurance coverage. Large corporations get group plans at big discounts, and then offer it to their employees for free or hugely discounted rates that aren't taxed at all. Big corporations give health care coverage away for free as a perk.

Good luck getting the same plan at a start-up. Buying an individual plan is grossly expensive, especially if you're married with kids. Even if you're lucky enough to be at a startup with a group plan, you probably won't get it for free. And your company surely won't get the big discounts Dell, IBM, and HP get.
I'm willing to bet it's thought of more as a drastically increased profit margin.
I just use random gibberish for all passwords and security answers and store all of that in a password database with a notes field.

The classic security questions are bizarre because of the premise that any person (family or otherwise) who happens to know a bit about you has your complete trust.
I rode my motorcycle dressed like Batman.
News is breaking that Apple has some lethal patents that seriously threaten the fate of Google's Android OS.

Google is doing the same thing to Facebook with Google+.

Has anyone heard anything about any potential legal action Facebook might take?

Please contribute on Quora ;)
5 minutes a day is called "pretending" to be there for your kids when your mind is somewhere else.

Doing that consistently sounds like a punishment more than anything.

There are very very very very few people who can become a Great CEO and Great Dad within the same time frame.

You always have to give something.
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"A/B testing launch pages" is one utter waste of time tactic I'm constantly surprised gets so much attention from new startups.
1) Not quite. A person leaving a message on a suspect's answering machine can be called back without a warrant for them (as the original warrant/search would still be valid on the original suspect). But a separate warrant would be required to intercept (EDIT: removed impersonate) that caller. EDIT: They can impersonate a person without a warrant.

2) Yes. Emails cannot be searched without a warrant, but police can fake emails without a warrant. However, if they attempt to entrap another person by faking emails, they run into the classic entrapment defense. Furthermore, if they cause harm to a person's reputation, etc., through the impersonation, they are usually liable for crazy damages.
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Omits Walt Jr., the only character on the show who knows how to code.
For that matter, have you ever run "yum update httpd" without reviewing the source code first?
Oil companies don't really pay taxes in the US. Or they do at effectively very low rates, but they are given right back in the form of subsidies. The power they wield is largely through the amount of lobbying and advertising they can do, which means they can destroy the careers of most politicians with a minor opex increase (and that is probably something they can write-off in their taxes, because of other laws they have bought). Essentially it's extortion.
>A class people hire other A class people.

I like the quote but I think people throw it around far too loosely. It seems to be an impossibility or else every company founded by A class people (assumption: there must be at least SOME such companies) would only ever consist of A class people, but that clearly isn't the case. For sake of argument let's assume Google, Facebook and Microsoft (and likely many, many others) were all founded by A class people. Do these companies consist solely of A class people? If not someone, somewhere, must have hired a non A class person, thus the hirer themseves couldn't have been A class by the original statement. You can apply the recursive argument here eventually terminating in the founders :)

EDIT: Add Apple to the list of companies with (obvious) A class level founding teams. Funny oversight on my part since the quote is from Steve Jobs himself :)
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In the UK, incorporation is really very simple. Unless you're raising money (which you probably shouldn't), you don't need a lawyer to help you incorporate.

Now, if you want to do some kind of custom shareholder agreement or the like, then yes, getting a lawyer involved can definitely help - but if you stick to standard stuff, this is really not necessary in my opinion. Default terms and docs available online are good enough.
But there is a (nearly undocumented) native Linux AIO API.