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This is super cool looking, but it's not clear how one creates or edits the landing pages. There is nothing in admin I can see from iPhone to do so.

Thanks

Josh
It's always greener on the other side; Denmark is the happiest country in the world (not really); Finland has the best K12 school system in the world (maybe). And so on and so on.

There is a lot to be learnt from other countries, and I am sure it's not always easy to say that there are countries that do things better than the United States, but people tend to make it sound as if it's all rainbows and ponies, as soon as you get off the plane in Northern Europe.

It's not like they don't have their own problems to wrestle with in areas where the United States does better.
The room I'm in has a Ving lock. I witnessed it being reprogrammed by hotel staff when I was having problems opening my door.

Ving may have security flaws but I'm assuming it will be a bit more expensive to exploit.
I have a youtube account in my "real name".

I use only to satisfy my particular taste in videos. I have stale old accounts for other Google stuff but I never use them and don't care about any of it except to browse videos. Google still keeps demanding my cell phone number. constantly. I use my real with the youtube account but I actually don't want anyone to see anything I do there.

Google's opinion that it should be my world is quite obnoxious.
Do read the main letter by Jeff Bezos on the Amazon.com homepage. The link I have posted contains more details.
> what, exactly?

They could plug the access holes, with custom pentalobe screws. That's an under a dollar per lock fix.
I look forward to this, when (and if) it allows me to deliver an 'exe' file written in Javascript and HTML5.
Where does the content come from right now?

Also, can I add new "topics" for the stuff I see here?
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Looks cool! What're you using for the map generation? It's very fast and elegant.

Is there a way to see the front-end or how to submit entries? http://demo.desantapp.com/ is a blank page.

I'm building something similar for a well known fashion brand right now, shame I didn't see this a few weeks ago.

Deployment looks a little complex for the average business user who would get the most value out of this, but I'm not sure how/if you can simplify deploying a Rails app to where the average non-tech person can do it (does Heroku or similar have an easy way to click "Fork" and get started?).

Edit: Some useful things I've been using for my similar project are the Flot javascript charting library and the datatables.net AJAX table plugin.
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I can't speak to the actual security, but I know that it requires a contact card inside the slot to actually program the lock. That's not something you can likely build for a couple bucks in parts at Radioshack, so at least the barrier to entry is higher.
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You don't think this is a little nitpicky? He's at the "Black Hat Briefings".
The major one I can think of right now is using lifted financial information and Mechanical Turk to make new accounts and use it to juice SEO or FB fan pages.

There are some that have made amazing use of Mechanical Turk without actually getting caught - that is one vector I think the affiliate industry has greatly overlooked.
With all due respect to Mr Schneier, I think this comparison is not 100% valid. There is a substantial difference between a terrorist threat from a lone mentally ill person and an organized group with ideology shared by thousands of people.
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Interesting comparison, but of course it isn't a competition (and I'm not suggesting you mean that, of course).

It is interesting to think about how much 2011 attacks affected us Norwegians. Living in Oslo, I know people who work in the government buildings that were hit, people who earlier years have been to the AUF camp at Utøya, and I've also personally been to Utøya at a Maths camp. My girlfriend were a only few blocks from the bomb when it went off.

The next six months, I'll be working in R6, one of the buildings in the executive government quarter where the bomb went off, but only suffered minor damages. I'll be walking past the bomb site. In fact, I was there earlier in the summer. Here's a photo I took: http://instagram.com/p/MK9aWrtM3z/

Norwegians are generally peaceful. We have a low crime rate and high employment rate. We do rank 11th on number of guns per capita by country[1], though, but the few people I know who have guns are active hunters. Norway usually tops the UNs list of best places to live. Norway has its share of problems, of course, but it usually pales in comparison to problems other places.

The 2011 attacks were just unbelievable, and I try not to think about them in detail because it's too emotional. Before the attacks, Norway was so very, very innocent and unspoiled. We've managed to retain some of our innocence, perhaps, and even one year after the attack, I feel that we're still trying to find out how to handle it.

I'm not entirely sure what my intention was with this post, but now that I've written it, I might as well post it. If you've read this far, I hope you got something out of it - perhaps new insight into the Norwegian psyche, if anything.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_co...
+1. Where did this idea that weekend hacks should become startups come from? Hackathons are about building communities and making awesome stuff for the sake of making awesome stuff, not making money.
Wow, this is incredible. The entity relationship example http://gojs.net/latest/samples/entityRelationship.html is dia quality. great stuff!
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SimplyPayPal : Did PayPal just get more dev friendly?
The ability to pipe TV over IP is dramatically weakening the natural cable company monopolies. In AT&T phone service territory, as they upgrade their network you can switch to U-Verse for not just internet but also television, with a much improved set-top box experience.

I don't agree with the claim that opening up the ability to lay a cable network to everyone would help things -- heck, look how slow the deployment of U-Verse is taking over AT&T's existing infrastructure... having to do that from scratch, laying a whole new network over the city and in everybody's yards, would be a many times larger endeavor -- but technological changes are already making competition much more possible than before since now both of those entrenched networks can be used for TV.
Probably because if the system glitches out and they can't into the room anymore (even with maintenance keys) then they wouldn't ever be able to fix it?
But imagine, if he had told them a year ago, perhaps the locks would be mostly replaced with a fixed version by now! I think it's unbelievable that he wouldn't disclose this information because he "just knows" they wouldn't do anything. He's not a damn mind reader. Hell, he might even be right, but you've still got to give the company the chance.
You forgot to add, "Wake up sheeple!"
> Because you are taking it out of the context of the implicit "for a typical web app" that had already been established in the previous post.

I don't get that point. What's a typical web app? Most of those that I've built had in some way or another email connectivity. Many had a newsletter component somewhere that was used to inform users about new features/offers/whatever promotional content. Even more had the tentative idea of at least keeping the option open. And if you do that, you need to confirm the email address. So probably we differ on the notion of "typical" here and I guess that's a point that can't be resolved.

> You are still arguing a false dichotomy of "double opt in" vs "not double opt in". Double opt is entirely irrelevant. The only time I mentioned it was pointing out that it is not in any way a legal requirement.

Sorry, you kinda lost me here. I don't understand what point you're trying to make.

> People said it is a huge usability flaw.

That's the whole point. IMHO it isn't that "huge" when you have double opt-in anyways. And as I pointed out that there are some reasons to have double opt-in regardless of legal requirements as well, in fact, most services that I signed up for use it. That might be different for you, but it's certainly not a minority or a freak occurrence if you encounter some service that uses double opt-in. So it can't be that bad either.

I fully acknowledge that you have a different view here, that's completely fine with me.
Well, you can always drill the lock cylinder out, but that's a destructive process. It is possible to do this sort of thing in the right way, they just didn't.
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The picture of the bank of SLA batteries just reminds me how crappy energy storage still is; Those are just small improvements of what would have been used the year I was born.
A parked GoDaddy domain with a subdomain that has an invalid certificate? I'm going to go with… no.
Took me a few beats to get #1, but point well expressed :)
And at what point do such things become a pattern? Unfortunately, mass shootings happen in the US at a rate of roughly one per year.
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So, that's more than a million dollars more than NYSE:UTX's gross profits for the last quarter, and ~1/4 of their gross revenue over the same quarter. No, I don't think they were going to do that.
There's a follow-up post addressing some of the arguments given in the comments to the first post: http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2012/07/23/80-20-software-ii/
What does AppSumo do? It appears you first have to sign up to find out..
In response to your "towing isn't an option" comment, it most definitely is. Any decent tow truck driver will get that thing towed. Jack up the front end of the car, put a roller underneath, jack up the rear end, and winch it up the tow truck. My father used to tow cars and we would do this pretty often.
One problem for consumer goods production in europe / US is component sourcing. You will need a PCB-Fab, ICs, injection molding, ... . While you can get most (some things just arent built statesside anymore) of those things in the states, they will be more expensive and maybe not built to capacity (since they specialized on really small batches for example). In china you will have all of the suppliers down the road and pretty cheap.

From someone who worked for a large automotive supplier, which does a lot of manufacturing here in germany, that wanted to release a consumer device I heard that you can get the whole product finished in china for the price of sourcing the components in europe.
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http://gimpmagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Launch-Br...

I hate to say this, but that doesn't look very well designed. Every opportunity should be one to show how you can create gorgeous designs with the GIMP.
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What happens to the lock when the battery dies/the power goes out?
We can't even request features anymore. The topic linked on the bottom, which was treated specially and kept open for replies, suffers the same problem.

EDIT: the whole problem is gone as I finish posting. HN is back to its former shape. I should <strike> my comment.
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Under English law, swapping the barcode is still considered to be theft. The case of R v Morris[1] covers very similar facts.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Morris;_Anderton_v_Burnside
The content on there right now is actually being pulled from public twitter accounts we've manually added.

When we open up the organize half of the app, content will be generated from a user's shares/likes on other social networks.

When you sign in, you can add topics to the posts we pull from your other social networks. This serves two purposes: you're organizing your own feed of shares, and helping to organize the general explore feed.
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Manufacturing design jobs are for average humans, unfortunately. Until something replaces the jobs lost that are suitable for average humans, there will likely be a risk of political instability (which is likely one of the reasons why the US has been heavily investing in domestic counter-insurgence infrastructure over the last decade).
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I have read Steve Jobs biography and this is definitively a cautionary tale and a great warning for anybody, but for other reasons that stated in this article.

I am no Apple fan, as a matter of fact I don't like the look and feel of their product but I gained a great admiration for Steve Jobs because he seemed like a man in immense suffering. I'm not talking about the obvious physical pain of cancer and all his crazy diets ( we share something in common ) but mentally he seemed like a sad sad person. I don't want to do bar stool psychology but it seemed pretty obvious that he was missing something in his life and he probably never found it.

But he's the paragon of the self made man, in the Ayn Rand sense and people ( especially here, where there's something approaching a cult ) look up to that and as soon as they encounter problems they imagine themselves in the shoes of this man and try to act tough... or act Steve Jobs.

If there's one paradoxical lesson that should be taken from his biography it is that you should never to listen to anybody that tells you how to act, don't try to fit in a mold, even in the mold of a great man, because you fundamentally don't have the same substance and thus you won't come out the same way: ie successful nor happy. Be your own man, forge your own mold and challenge the statu quo.
Interpol requests like that are rare event reserved for server international crimes. The total number for 2011 was just 7 000 requests, which was substantial larger than for 2010 which was the year the Julian Assange notice was requested. To take it into context, a brutal murder where you have witnesses to it and the murder "suspect" flee the country, you still do not request a red notice. In the Swedish police words (asked by reporters), requesting help from Interpol is only done in exceptional cases where such expenses and laboure can be justified.
> But on three Onity locks installed on real hotel doors he and I tested at well-known independent and franchise hotels in New York, results were much more mixed

This is a long shot, but I was in a chain hotel in midtown recently and heard someone tampering with the lock, and found the door ajar in the morning. I realize you probably can't name specific hotels, but was one by any chance a chain hotel in midtown around the 11th?
No one doubts that he did some things right, but that doesn't excuse the fact that he mistreated nearly everyone who helped him make Apple the company it is today.

He should have been fired when he couldn't get along with anyone at Atari and he should have been fired the first time he ever called anyone a "shithead" at Apple.

I've worked for an abusive boss before, and no amount of success can excuse the fact that as a supervisor and as a human being he was a complete failure.

If someone thinks that I am being unreasonable, consider the fact that I have a disorder that basically acts as a get out of jail free card for me to be a total dick to everyone, yet I still find the time and energy to be respectful to everyone whom I work with, peers, subordinates, and even my abusive former boss.
YouTube comments may be the lowest common denominator of the internet, but at least they're a common denominator.
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Example of what's happening in San Francisco today:
Obama is in town, they shut down four city blocks.

Example of when I was last in Bulgaria:
Bulgarian president was in town, he danced Horo (traditional Bulgarian dance) with the people and made toasts.
Interesting, but it's not as if hotels in general have been high security installations.

Very easy experiment: Just go to the front desk an thell them that you sadly seem to have lost your room card. 90% of the time they will just ask for your room number without requiring any kind of proof that it's actually your room.
Once the batteries go out (they're not powered on guest room doors), the lock won't open to keycards anymore. The batteries, though, are on the front of the door just below the handle (see the panel at the bottom, in the story photo) and can be replaced from the outside. Otherwise, it's possible to use the portable programmer's open function to open the lock, if the batteries in the PP are full enough; that's really iffy and has a tendency to not work, though.
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And yet, I remember seeing an article here on Hacker News where one of pixar's first employees said Pixar was not great because of Jobs, but in spite of him
Cliques and entitlement? At Google? Unspeakable.
We've been yelling at the sheeple long enough to know it's ineffective. What I want to know is what would it take to wake them?
I really truly wish that there was an option for "No, I don't want to give you my cell phone number, and I NEVER want to give it to you."

Also, I used to love making throw-away Gmail accounts for various spam purposes. Now, my cell phone # is associated with 3 accounts so I can't make anymore.
Those are good points, but if someone is crazy enough to want to harm lots of people in a theater it's unlikely that the difficulty of surviving unscathed will be a deterrent.

And if the attack were not simply someone being insane (if for example it was terrorism intended to strike fear into people) then the success criterion is even lower b/c much fear would still be caused even if the only injuries were 5 people with smoke inhalation, and both "sides" in the issue benefit from amplifying the perceived severity.

My point is that the specific munitions used does not significantly alter the strategic aspect of this (if there is any).
Ask HN: Pitching my startup as X for Y
Hi, I'm working on a new startup (currently in stealth mode) and I have a question as to whether its a good idea to pitch it as X for Y (eg. Uber for Packages or Heroku for Mobile).

I've seen it pitched like that by the press but I'd like the community's opinion as to whether the founder should pitch it like that.

Thanks!
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Ask HN: Anyone here has experience with filing a patent?
We are thinking about filing a patent for one of our startups. Just wondering if anyone has experience with it and can share with us the Do's and Don'ts about filing one?

Also would be good to know about the average cost of filing one. And what stage is good to file a patent (i.e before launch, after launch, after some traction etc)?
C'mon. It's well under a dollar. And that's a 10 second idea, I'm sure there are other options.

(edit) That's not even considering that this cost can be carried by the hotels. I'm sure they can cough up $500 to secure their facilities.

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Please don't tell me that you, of all people on HN, think that there's no need for a private disclosure on this guy's part?
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Hotel safes in rooms are notoriously insecure.
Nope, I was in Europe at the time; we did the photoshoot late last month, though I can't recall when.
Testing this is rather a bad idea. It is quite likely that, if caught, the person would be convicted of theft (see R v Morris - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Morris;_Anderton_v_Burnside)
It's absolutely true that getting through the hiring process is a skill. So is miniature golf. The question is why companies are spending weeks on interviews and logic puzzles when they could just send all their candidates down to the mini-golf course and hire candidate with the lowest score. Unless there's evidence that the skill of resume writing is related to the skill of programming, your candidates will be just as qualified and you'll have saved everyone time and stress.
I was always curious about elock systems, particularly about how they are reprogrammed. Presumably they are reprogrammed by the front desk, centrally, but how does the signal reach the lock? Presumably there must be wires attached (at least for power). So why is there an external port on the lock at all? Also, what is the possibility that a lock exploit could affect the central reprogramming system?

Edit: just read below that these things are battery powered, which raises two questions, first, ok, how are they reprogrammed, and second, how does a hotel not go bankrupt replacing thousands of batteries all the time?
Graphing is made with d3 and geo extension - learning how to use it was one of my goals for this app, it looks nice so far but doesn't have all features i wanted to implement, though.

Deployment isn't that complex, app is prepared for heroku and actually goes with few commands:

heroku app create yourapp
git push heroku master
heroku addos:add cleardb:ignite
heroku config:add ADMIN_LOGIN='admin' ADMIN_PASSWORD='generated_password_hash'
heroku run rake db:migrate

Easy peasy! Development is super easy as well as there's configured Vagrant box available.

In case of frontend, it's disabled for this demo to prevent users from posting their emails - admin area contains only dummy auto-generated data. If you install the app on your own it will show proper, working front page.
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I think it has been encouraged to pitch startup as x for y as it helps your audience relate to something.
It's programatic system, you just fork, edit index page to your needs and deploy your own version. Maybe future releases will introduce some admin area for managing that stuff, but so far it's only MVP release after one-weekend rumble :)
I don't know about windows but it's pretty easy to install a single program and either edit a text file or go into network settings with a gui.
He's commenting on a BBC article, don't read too much into it.

Sure, we Norwegians like to blow our own horn and preach peace and tolerance, and can sometimes be shocked when we travel the world and discover how other people think. It won't stop us from preaching socialism and believing that the world can be a better place, though.

Interesting that you make a point about diversity - that was one of the things Breivik was fighting (or multiculturalism, specifically).
It's way more than a dollar. How many locks could one technician replace/fix in an hour, and what's their hourly rate?

"Me of all people"? Am I a spokesperson for "Responsible disclosure" now?

I would have notified the vendor ASAP, and I might not have put the vendor name into the talk at all. But that's me, and I am super conservative about this stuff. Lots of very reputable security people would do exactly what Cody did.
Robots are capable of ridiculously fast visual recognition for considerably longer stretches of time than humans.
Since everyone else replying is telling you what a lazy horrible person you are, I'll go ahead and let you know that I agree. Theres nothing they can really do at this point. And because of that the companies only real option is to just stonewall you for as long as possible.

EDIT: And if it weren't for the long history of large companies suing security researchers for blackmail/etc when they try responsible disclosure I'd have probably sided with everyone above.
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The locks are programmed by the front desk, but then the data is transferred to the Portable Programmer which then is used to update the doors. The doors themselves are not connected to power, but are rather completely battery-driven. The likelihood of anything impacting the front desk equipment is effectively nil.

(Note: This is all specific to Onity locks)