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It's intuitive if you assume that people are homogeneous and it is only circumstance that affects their behavior. I suspect that people who found companies that ever actually hire a significant number of employees are unlikely to have a hard time finding work.
It is effectively money printing which will lead to inflation but that does not mean it is the wrong thing to do. Inflation over time balances out old debt with new income.
> I've been hearing people tout smart drugs for as long as I have been involved in online discussions (since 1992), and I have never seen any evidence of regular users of smart drugs doing anything smart.

That people doing smart things aren't busy talking about smart drugs (if true) does not imply that some smart drugs aren't helpful.

I've heard plenty about caffeine and modafinil use from people who do good work. I use caffeine and I do good work.
I totally agree. Same goes for Google Fiber. People were saying that it will take too long for them to become profitable but it is already a win for Google if they can create enough pressure to force the telecom companies to invest more money into highest bandwidth/speed connections.
I think most people trading in the stock market would be pretty happy with 'second best'

I mean, I completely agree that the short term focus of the stock market destroys a great deal of the value it could be providing in it's intended role (efficiently allocate capital) - but then, I don't have good ideas how to fix that. I think that problem is way deeper and more prevalent than people being dissatisfied with being 'second best'

(though, I think, in the short term, the stock market looks awfully zero-sum, while in the long term, that doesn't seem to be the case nearly as much. Second place looks a lot better in a game that is not zero sum than in a game that is.)
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Could you elaborate more? I thought Argentina was doing well from the financial side.
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Oddly Saudi Arabia has just the other mindset, and is being wonderfully effective at working against the US. They are pouring tons of money into their religious schools which in many places are just the only place you can even go for any education. And so they are raising a new generation all over the world. All through out the middle east, but even more audaciously they recently opened on of their schools in central Paris to much controversy.

So yes, I agree short term forced solutions like armed invasions are extremely poor ways to effect chance (except retrograde) I do believe economic engagement and education promotion are the key. And yes, it takes longer, I agree you can't really change anything this drastic in any kind of short term (10 years is a short time). But there are long term ways we can effect change faster than ignoring it (imho ignoring it will probably let it get much worse)

So we can wait and see, does the American invade and destroy all infrastructure way work? Does the ignoring the problem and insulting it work? or does deep long term engagement and education work.

My bet's on the way the Saudi's are taking it. Which imho sucks for everyone.

EDIT:

for example

http://vimeo.com/46337060

This is an example of what I think is EXACTLY the right way to be moving forward: empowering a new generation and showing them freedom and other of our beliefs rock and giving them education to think critically not emotionally.

It will take time but this x100 or x1000 I think is the way to start changing things
Thanks for this feedback it is really helpful

Pleased you like the general feel - have spent a lot of time trying to cut out anything we don't need.

The UX points are all great. We are doing a daily update at the moment take it looks like we have missed some bugs now causing the 500 errors.

GBP is in while we get full financial approval from the UK processing bank - this will change when we have it

I'll post when updated with these points on board

Thanks again
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Dave,

For the video will a product (explainer) video suffice?
Quora is just so much better than Ask MetaFilter, Reddit's Q&A/advice subreddits (/r/askreddit, /r/answers, /r/doesanybodyelse etc.), or (dare I say it) Yahoo Answers for nontrivial, factual answers dependent on expertise. Quora is for people who benefit from or enjoy such questions and answers. The longtime existence of all these Q&A communities shows that there is a market for it. There's the most overlap with Ask MeFi I think, but Quora is far better at zeroing in on a good answer, when it exists.
Show Password prompts for the keychain password. This just prompts you to allow without password entry.
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As long as we have enough to fill it into toy balloons en masse and drive airships with it we'll probably have enough to fill up those drives.

On the other hand you're right, Helium is a precious resource - one of many that could be feasibly mined elsewhere in the solar system (in the hopefully not-so-far future).
For those interested: XRegExp (http://xregexp.com) is also relevant.

(Not a direct competitor to Matches.js, but has some nice features)
opposite opinion to the submitted article: http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2012/09/analysis-bernanke-...
From KeyChain's point of view, this command-line utility, /usr/bin/security, is no different from other GUI applications like Mail.app and Safari.app that relies on KeyChain to supply remembered passwords. If you expect KeyChain to prompt you for your master password when /usr/bin/security asks KeyChain for passwords, then you will be prompted every time Mail.app checks your email.

Actually you can configure KeyChain to do just that: just set the keychain to lock after 0 minutes of inactivity. But there is always the tradeoff between security and convenience. And when you give away physical access and a logged-in session away to a malicious user, offering protection will require a lot of inconvenience.
Open the thread with 200+ comments about a single tangent.

Personally, I thought the video was pretty funny and I love how serious most the people are while responding.
An application can only read passwords you've specifically allowed it to. When you upgrade Transmit it only gets access to that subset.

If you're curious go to Keychain Access, double click an item and look at the Access Control tab. You can even force password entry there if you want extra security on certain items.
ha! that makes me think of failure modes of SSD's.. just getting slower (but for a different reason). Imagine if the florist who does helium party balloons starts offering the service to refurbish your HD.
Something doesn't make sense here.

Turbulence is related to viscosity as far as I know.

Viscosity of air: 18.6 micropascal seconds.

Viscosity of helium: 20.0.

For comparison hydrogen is 9.0 and argon is 22.9.

Actually - maybe a higher viscosity is better (it causes the turbulence to die out)?

But in that case why not use argon? It's cheaper and a LOT easier to contain.

Yet the article talks about light atoms?
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That's a handy function! Thanks for sharing :)
Not too bad but some of the settings aren't sticking. I.e. setting "Open Full Site Automatically" isn't setting at all.
I live in Argentina. Since October 2011 the government has been enacting new legislation almost weekly to restrict citizens access to US dollars, as well as tightening tax control to an almost ridiculous level.
Also, for the last couple of years the government has been restricting imports, specially if companies refuse to export something (for example, Porsche is exporting peanuts so it can bring cars into the country). Apple for example refused, so none of their products can enter the country. The only Apple store in my city closed shop a few months ago.

Finally, inflation is rampant (around 25% annually) but the government denies it and so it can collect more taxes since salaries are going up every year and more people fall into high-income tax brakets.

In a nutshell, the economy is not that bad, but the government keeps screwing up and everyone can see we're going down.

There are country-wide protests right now, here you can see them: http://tn.com.ar/envivo/24hs
How about this Android is the perfect size because they have a size for everyone.
Don't shoot the messenger. The security hole was there for everyone to independently observe. Not telling the public just meant that the public couldn't take their own countermeasures.

Blaming security researchers for finding holes is a very strange anti-pattern. We should be blaming vendors for shipping insecure products!
Is 1Password more or less secure than Keychain? If my 1Password is unlocked can any application get passwords out of it?
Awesome, added to bug list.
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Does PayPal have offices in Argentina? If not, why does following the law matter?
Sure, I've tried it. Function calls are never splattered all over my page, so I don't have to care about that. And at best, it only allows me to cram more crap onto a single line, which is also not often helpful. Instead, I get to -- have to -- think about and end every function with something sane, in the event, for example with jQuery's .each(), I can't have my function magically returning false -- the last evalutated variable -- and terminating the each mapping.

My code already has significant whitespace; it's required by styleguide and linting. CS has prolific issues with whitespace usage, especially when it comes to parsing function arguments and lines broken over multiple lines. Just look through this or any other thread on CS being pushed.

CS often has mind fucks, and I'd rather have to ignore a couple lines with } on them.

Note: I mostly write in Python, if that gives any indication into how I very much enjoy significant whitespace.
I take a far more optimistic stance. Yes technology is part of the problem - we now receive five times as much information every day than we did in 1986, & our brains are exposed daily to more information than a laptop can handle.
Yet technology can be part of the solution. Our ways of communicating and relating to the world around us, and our knowledge of human psychology and brain development, have developed dramatically - surely there's a way we can tap this. (I've written a rant about this on my personal blog www.thecreativefiles.com)
You would have a point if the 'libertarian-oriented site' referred to QE as "asset printing." It didn't though. QE may not increase financial assets in an economy, but it does increase available money. The money used to purchase the bond did not exist prior to the swap.

Now if you really wanted to argue that this is not money printing, I might accept the claim that the Fed will at some point unwind this position. But even that is highly dubious.
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I'd say a case taht stops a phone breaking when it gets run over by a car is worth hearing about.
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I'd say pretty well. Samsung is the top phone manufacturer whether you agree with their strategy of peppering the market with dozens of slightly different versions of the same two or three phones.
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Do you know of any quality finance forums or sites? Perhaps something like HN but for finance? I'm looking for a place to read up more and learn. Thx
There are more cellphones than there are computers. With iOS and winmobile you have to play by their rules. You think Netscape enjoyed it when IE was default? iOS have some really stupid rules for browser too, Opera had to hack it. Netscape ended up bankrupt and releasing Mozilla and it worked out well. I can see some similarity to this and for example how the internet work. Let it free and capitalized on it via great services and ads.

What you're not seeing is the fact that GOOGLE make money mainly through ADs! They're first and foremost a search engine that get money via ads! If there are tons of these mobile computer aka smart phone out there than there are computer. The future gotta be smart phones. They're not going to wait and lose the market and let someone else dominate it. Microsoft lost the search engine market cause they were still OS oriented and google ended up capitalizing it and now dominate it. Google isn't going to sit back and let Apple do the same thing with smart phone. That's just foolish.

I think they also want to branch out to hardware to be like Apple. Or at least try to innovate and find new market, like the google glasses and such.
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Do you think that a "legacy" Node(or Sinatra for that matter) app will be easier to understand than a "legacy" Rails app?
Legacy is where conventions actually shine!
Human meat is often referred to as 'long pig'. That'd be a gutsy campaign.
Even if you fix the vulnerability present in the lock firmware (which you can't do without replacing the Portable Programmer as well), the encryption on the cards is still completely broken.

I've written at length about how this can be fixed; Onity has not yet responded with an effective solution.

(I'm the original researcher)

Edit: Link to my post is here: http://daeken.com/onitys-plan-to-mitigate-hotel-lock-hack Note that their statement about how they would fix it was pulled after Forbes quoted my post.
That's rather subjective, isn't it?

There's various other phones that I find more visually attractive than the iPhone and a whole lot of them are more comfortable to operate (no sharp edges, lighter).
I've heard people say that the Fed is deliberately creating inflation in order to sabotage the American and global economy. This makes it easier to consolidate real estate and business assets, so it is beneficial to the wealthiest individuals and companies.

But I'm sure I'm just latching onto a simplified explanation because I am too ignorant and stupid to comprehend the complexities of "economic science".
Just in case anybody else doesn't see the 'login' keychain: the square button with a triangle in the bottom left corner shows and hides an additional list of keychains
The USA do things like reroute planes for that purpose. I suppose Argentina can't do that so easily.
As someone who occasionally has business ideas, I've spent the past few years passing on ideas because I really don't feel like having patent trolls bleed me dry, both big and small. There's no incentive in my mind to try and fight these huge entrenched dynasties because they will just bleed you dry in the courts the second you show any promise.
The problem with Android is that recent devices don't get the newest features. I think it's acceptable that 2 year old iPhones and iPads don't get them.
Agreed as well! Just went to update my client's IPN file, and found the PHP errors as well. Insane to not make sure that's absolutely right before sending to all their clients.
Sorry, but that's completely bizarre. The whole point of a switch statement is to be able to test a single value against a list of single values, or groups of single values.

The supposed "correct way" you support moves the values outside of the switch statement, which completely destroys reading comprehension of the code. It explodes the number of lines of code necessary. This isn't refactoring, it's complete code obfuscation.

It also makes the switch statement itself completely superfluous, since you might as well just do a series of if / else if's, and save an extra line of code. I mean, the whole point of switch is to pass a parameter and compare it against values.
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Consider using Antetype instead: http://www.antetype.com

It's an app designed for screen design, by screen designers, and it saves me so much time.
the code and paper: https://github.com/daeken/LockResearch
> Tile floors are far more likely to result in a smashed device than any other type of floor, including concrete, so it's not surprising that there's a difference here.

My theory is that a counter-top or kitchen floor is more likely to have debris on it, generating a pressure point on the glass and causing it to crack.

I've dropped my 4S on flat surfaces (bricks, concrete) with no real issues. I dropped my old 4 two weeks in on the pavement, on a tiny rock, and the back shattered (Apple fixed it for free; otherwise it was AUD$39).
Personally, I'm looking forward to CinemaScope (2.66:1) A/R displays.
I can imagine a lens where the Occupy protesters are a warning shot, specifically the "we are the 99%" mantra.
I didn't create the world, I just have to live in it.
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I find it disturbing that a comment like this was actually made earnestly and not in sarcasm, and also that it has replies in the affirmative.

In short - in order to 'give' something to someone, someone else has to pay, whether in cash or in time. This is the mysterious free lunch that pops up from time to time.

If - clearly arguing by absurdity - there is so much machinery and automation that it takes 1% to feed, clothe and house the population - then one might ask - from where does the machinery and automation come from? It must be designed, created, maintained and operated. In order to be constructed, it has to be financed, the risk has to be taken, potential rewards have to be postponed.

For people to enjoy 'things that they enjoy' - it means that, instead of postponing consumption for production, it means eliminating production for people, and having their lives focussed on consumption. While, incredibly, nowadays most people can enjoy long breaks of consumption-only activity, if everyone decided to start consuming and stop producing, things would go backwards very quickly. It seems as though the 'good life' is miraculously easy - we take a day off, food is on the shelves, power is supplied to our hose, gas is available to be pumped. This gloss of good life covers up the furious production, risk and activity that goes on 24/7, globally, to make it happen.

The incredibly rich standard of living that most people reading this website enjoy is created through a system of voluntary exchange and specialization, whereby people create efficiencies by concentrating on a particular specialty, and exchanging the proceeds of that with the product of others. While there are a precious few people who have accumulated enough surplus through either hard work, theft or inheritance, this represents a tiny percentage.

The truth is - more people get to do thing they actually enjoy precisely because of the accumulated surplus of the increased productivity of people over time. But rather than rest on the laurels, most, if not all, people prefer to strive to improve their standard of living even more.

In short, what you're trying to describe is some type of utopia - a vision which has lead to the death and suffering of millions. It's dangerous thinking and I would urge you to become more educated in this area.
If you like that, you'll love The UNIX Haters Handbook

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Alright. Alright. Don't rustle your jimmies.
I've covered this a number of times. Simply put, I felt that the best route for hotel owners and customers (who I care about, unlike J. Random Vendor) was to make them aware of the vulnerability and make them aware that they've had a horribly insecure product on their doors for nearly 20 years. Given how ridiculously simple the vulnerabilities are, I'd put money on many others having discovered them in the past, almost definitely using them for malicious purposes. In addition, there's absolutely no way that Onity did not know about this themselves -- it would not have required digging, but been immediately obvious from the design of the system.

The route I took may not have been pretty, but it will get the issue fixed in a timely fashion, I believe, and hopefully alert people to the fact that we need real security processes in place around such things; not having your equipment audited in the case of a security product is simply not acceptable. Not now, and not in 1993.
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200+ replies answering and debating an easier question than what the OP posed.
Hotels can't even get their internet right. Shit is outsourced to some service company who can't fix on-site problems with their routers, and you just get a shrug of the shoulders from hotel maintenance personnel. How in the unholy fuck do you think a Ramada Inn is going to roll out hundreds of modded door locks?
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" for nontrivial, factual answers dependent on expertise. "

I would modify that to be "dependent on certain very limited areas of expertise".

There are entire realms of questions not well served by Quora at present, and we have yet to see evidence that they're ever going to be.
Reading the forum rules here, I'm at a loss why a user has gone through my posts on this thread and flagged each one, without a reason.. especially since the first rude post was the one that deserved nuking, not my responses, and <i>didn't</i> get one. Nuke the rude abrasive one, not the ones offering more, unless you've a reason?

The thread I responded to is still lacking in quality, esp. references ~ but I learnt down-thread s/he's a known poster, so I guess the rules don't apply.

Charming. ZZzzz.

[Edit: I'm having trouble finding the paper on this, for reference below, it's from a Welsh University ~ it might have been removed and/or hijacked for use for something else]
I don't think loud people contribute to the health of a community. In fact, I consider it a "community-smell" - when there is too much incentive to be a "rockstar", too many people will focus on being rockstars and not enough will be focus on actually getting the job done.
Also, this theoretical c compiler could make use of implicit hints (like which variables to place together in memory), making it faster than JS (except asymptotically, when the JIT has run long enough to figure everything out).

But the original point is basically right - one day JITs will be faster.
Curious. When you say "very optimized Eclipse for Android", what optimisations/improvements would you like to see exactly?
That's not fair. He's not taking sides in the Apple vs. Samsung case. He has a valid opinion about the validity of the patent system, but that doesn't mean that patents should always be upheld. He's just sharing his experience (though it doesn't really have much bearing on the original post either).
At least their subtly isn't outpaced by their guile. Easy enough to steer clear.
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That's an interesting question. 1Password isn't as integrated as the Keychain, but in both cases you have to manually approve access.

1Password is more portable though - Keychain is only useful in MacOS X.
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I have a lot of bad things to say about Reddit, but certain focused subreddits are excellent for getting good answers from experts. AskHistorians and AskScience are among the best available forums of their kind on the internet.
Mind changing it over to http://daeken.com/blackhat-paper please? I keep failing to keep the git repo up to date (been way too busy).
First of all, if someone has unauthorized physical access to your device, you're pretty hosed. Especially if they happen to have a current logged in session. Forget passwords, they have cookies and mail.app and bookmarks. Second, if you must lend your computer to an untrusted person, use the Guest session. I just tried this and confirmed that there is no immediately obvious way for a person logged in to a guest session to access my keychain.

Knowing this, I will rewrite the opening line to the article.

Original line: "Here’s a reason why you shouldn’t let anyone use your computer."

My revised line: "Here's a reason why you shouldn't let [untrusted persons] use [a non-guest session on] your computer."