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Ah, you're right, that must be it. It's quite subtle, but certainly a noticeable change for someone who looks at iOS icons more often than I do.

The idea with that bevel is probably to make the icons look somewhat more three-dimensional when they are "stood up" on a perspective plane (like the OS X dock does with icons in its default position at the bottom). The problem of course is that the icons were not designed for this kind of pseudo-3D look, and that's not something that can be fixed by simply compositing a sharp dark shadow at the bottom edge of the icon.
From the title, I was hoping to read a crushing indictment of web developers for mostly creating useless crap.

Sadly, it's more like the opposite: a shiny button inviting us all to view useless crap.
Valve plans to sell apps via Steam ranging from “creativity to productivity”
>> the author has defended them by saying that <<

Please show where I said that, or admit that you are putting words into my mouth.
A one-way trip to Mercury takes three times as much energy as a trip to LEO and back.

We'd be exporting things/energy from Mercury, not to it, and the energy for the export would also be supplied by the sun through the use of solar sails.

If you need energy to produce goods, building power plants on Earth or Moon make much more sense.

Maybe. I can see how the difficulty of coping with being as close to the sun as Mercury would raise expenses. With selling antimatter, you wouldn't be selling energy so much as energy in a highly concentrated package. Economies of scale are going to come into play in an industry like that, and the ability to harvest more concentrated energy with mostly in-situ resources could be a big advantage. You'd have to bring resources up from the moon and from the asteroids to make the infrastructure to do that profitably in the vicinity of Earth. If you wouldn't have to do that for Mercury, it might be viable.
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Or add classes during output generation.
He must be making money from running the tor exit node servers, otherwise how does he afford the terrabytes of bandwidth?
Our concern is that if we return the direct S3 url, people less experienced will assume that the S3 url should work by default, when it will 403. So we return Filepicker.io urls which alias to your S3 bucket
"A season's worth of GoT Blu-Rays costs $50 1-2 years after the series has been released on HBO. Content is much more lucrative during its initial release window; it has a very definite time-value."

So weigh the cost for monthly fees accordingly to the value-add and factor in for the lack of subsidization.
Thanks for posting... I was looking for something just like this:

https://github.com/tadruj/s3upload-coffee-javascript
As I understand it, Unix was a research OS that was accidentally sold. Then they made Plan 9 and that stayed a research OS, because Unix was good enough in the market.
Not a new idea as pointed out, but very cool nonetheless. Google is stepping up its rivalry with Amazon a few notches here, it'll be interesting to see what comes of Bufferbox now.
I've always like what I've read about Plan 9, nice to see it's kept going.
I've begun flagging all the "I RAN A PROGRAM ON THE RPI" posts, but this is an exception. Though I'd still go VM: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/installing_plan_9_on_q...
This is a remarkably accessible way of explaining source code control to people.
Depends on how vocal that percentage is. All of the reviews on the App Store are now complaints about ads. Once you've set expectations you can't go back without backlash.
They're not complaining because it's difficult to change. They're complaining because they are unhappy with the mentality and the direction OSX is going.
Early builds of OS X 10.9 include Siri and Maps integration
Whatis 'mr'?
then you should have an example IAM Policy in a very easily accessible location

overall as someone who is currently using filepicker, i would recommend people avoid it if all you want to do is upload to files to your own bucket without any transformations like image resizing
Kind of the thinking behind http://adventlocker.com/
"Dunno about that.
I'd wager that "free" is a pretty damn big part of it, bigger than the size of the catalog for many folks."

Many folks will refuse to pay under any circumstance. This is not to "fix" that. iTunes, Amazon digital, Steam, and Netflix are proof that most people will pay to license content if the terms and technology are not intrusive enough, and they're not being exploited at the "convenience" price point.
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There's an old line about Dostoevsky's religious views that, for him, hell existed – but it was empty.
Is this a best solo guitar playing act ever or what?
That's an awesome idea, maybe you should fork the code behind this site and put it together.
Specifically, in MS-speak "trustworthy computing" means having fewer security holes and "trusted computing" is basically DRM.
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Pretty cool! Would be even cooler with vim commands ;-)
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Yes, well, P.O. boxes have been around since time immemorial too. In this case, the hard part isn't the idea of "a place where people can have stuff shipped that isn't their home address". It's handling the logistics, interfacing with online retailers, etc. It would be a lot more interesting if you could show BufferBox copying some specific, non-obvious technique.
Would you trust Facebook with ALL of your photos?
I'm not sure. In the new iTunes, almost all on-screen elements are now actionable, but only some of them have traditional visual indicators like button outlines or pop-up menu arrows. (For example, a playlist can be renamed by clicking on the large title which looks just like a static header.)

The new iTunes UI doesn't have any mouse-hover effects either, apart from those that are part of the OS X standard window decorations. This suggests that the new UI is designed primarily for touch rather than mouse use.
On OSX, you'd rather change the dd line to the much faster:

dd bs=1m if=9pi.img of=/dev/rdisk1
Because the deals are made with the content distributors, not the creators directly?
how can you miss this one? http://meatspin.com
> it's attackers who intercept TLS connections to online
> banks and swap out the Verisign certificate with a self-
> signed certificate

How is a MITM attack with a self-signed certificate any different than redirecting a user to a HTTP site instead of an HTTPS site? Do you really think that 'Joe Sixpack' knows the difference between http and https the way that you do?

You're saying that users can distinguish between the following possibilities:

- A site is over http, so it's insecure (and no big red warning).

- A site is over possibly compromised https with a big red warning, so it's insecure.

- A site is over verified https with a big green "everything is ok" light, so it's secure.

You seem to think that the average user knows that HTTPS needs a "red light/green light" system, but HTTP does not (because it's inherently insecure). I posit that the average user doesn't 'get' the difference between http with no warning and https with a green light. Why not have a system that is simple for the end-user? E.g.:

- green light == secure
- no green light == insecure
- no need to differentiate between http/https for
the average end-user
In Canada the post will hold it, but couriers won't, and the post office won't accept delivery by UPS.

I found a way around: get to know the UPS deliveryman, have him deliver my package's to the (neighbour's) back door when I'm not home. Mostly books, so nothing I would miss if it got taken.
You can bring the sidebar back with Cmd-Option-S
That looks like it. Too bad there's no websocket support in Firebug.
Imagine the trouble we could cause if we could. It would be glorious.
A German packstation is not a PO box. It is exactly like a buffer box.
That one was my favorite, I spent half an hour uncovering the picture of a kitten. Sadly it was not a koala as advertised.

It's comparable to bubble wrap IMO.
Ask HN: Nightmares with Stripe?
Have anyone of you had a nightmare with stripe? failed payments... holding of money... random charge backs... etc... I am about to deploy it on a project where the 'director' is a bit worried about not having a merchant account associated with stripe.

If you could share any bad times that would be great!

I have heard a ton of good but no bad so I don't have much ammo on possible situations...

Thanks HN!
"Yes, Star Wars sure drove Lucas into the poorhouse"

It helps to read what people post before jumping to the quips and insults. They were referring to "Hollywood accounting" as practiced.
Working on a school project with a friend, and we've been unable to push for several hours.

Funny part is, we were configuring his MacBook with his GitHub credentials, and initially thought we had some sort of error uploading his SSH keys. Turns out it was a service outage.
"What's the alternative? There is no difference on the wire between a self-signed certificate for a site that simply doesn't care about certificates, and a self-signed certificate that is the sole marker of an attacker having hijacked the TLS connection of a site that very much does care about its security. A MITM attack looks identical on the wire to a self-signed cert."

How about adding another signal? It sounds like you're arguing with the sea, expecting normals to change.

Use the recent https-only header that says "if you ever see an insecure connection to this site, it's a bug", and pre-populate the list.

Stop assuming that users will eventually get it, and design a better product.
This is something that both myself and a lot of other entrepreneurs have tried to figure out so I thought I'd share. Comments / thoughts appreciated!
Here's one with more pixels: http://imgur.com/vn0J0
Notorious for its copycats? Can you explain this? I don't know what you are referring to.
Speaking of which, why don't someone just sell boxes for peoples homes? You know, some reasonable size container that you can only put things into but not take out of. Wouldn't that eliminate that reason for BufferBox? I think the only use case remaining would be in urban areas where space is at a premium.

EDIT (in response to leddt since I can't reply): if you ask UPS to leave the packages without signing, will they refuse to do this even if they are placing it in a secure place?
Why are so many solar companies failing?
This is not supposed to be a political post - I'm genuinely interested in why so many solar companies have gone under recently.
A contemporary "Who's on first?" scenario.
This video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ5LpwO-An4
This is a deceptively large project and has many aspects.

1) Cataloging video content. Some sites may have APIs you can plug into, but others wont and will require writing a scraper or 10.

2) Creating a search algorithm - how do signify search significance? relevance is hard and is most likely done using some type of ranking system that requires a ton of research and testing.

3) Creating a UI to present search results. A website or are you targeting mobile?

4) Figuring out how to draw traffic

5) Monetization strategy? You will need this if you want to eventually buy ads or similar

This is all before you can start to fine tune the search results. Google has a massive team constantly doing multivariate tests on it's search algorithms to keep them competitive. You can bet this is done on the youtube search algorithm as well.

Now since you have not programmed before you are adding a significant step 0) Learn how to program.

I'd recommend starting a smaller project first to get more familiar with a specific toolset - use something simple and proven such as Rails, but Python as suggested by ddorian43 is not a bad idea either.

Start simple and experience early success - it will keep you way more motivated in the long run.

http://www.codecademy.com is a YC startup that would be a good first step.

Good Luck!
-Mikkel
The benchmarks game is not "The Debian ..." anything -- just one of 960 hosted projects.

The pi-digits page also shows a PHP program which does not use the GMP extension.

Why do you think no one has contributed a Ruby program that uses GMP? Is that too hard to do using Ruby?

The benchmarks game is the absolute truth about the reported measurements.
> The whole point here is that you don't do projects like this to save money. You do projects like this for the fun and learning experience, or to have greater control/flexibility. If you go in to this project to save money, then I think you're barking up the wrong tree.

That was where I was leading it, yeah. Attacking it on a price basis just seems weird to me.
This was just discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4847468
As a bitbucket user I can say that I've been using it for about 14 months and I can only recall one outage. But take that info with a grain of salt.

It may not be github's software as much as they are the number 1 git hosting service and therefore they are the biggest target for hackers.

I might be talking out of my ass here but it feels a bit like the argument for using Apple versus MS, i.e. there are no viruses for Macs since they are more secure... until Apple grew in popularity, which then attracted more hackers to write viruses for Apple's OS, which showed that it is was not invulnerable.

I doubt Bitbucket will supplant Github as the goto git hosting service, but if they grow they might be subject to more attacks? Just a thought to consider.
Right. What I should have emphasized is that the banking system will be provided entirely by Google. The credit card companies will be out of the equation.
How are you verifying the user owns the routing and account number being provided?
This seems like new news. There's a difference between a raid and a charge.
It works well in high-density cities, and where a large proportion of the workforce pass through major train stations every day.

In cities where people live mostly in suburbs, it is not quite so affordable to supply enough of these pack stations.
I'm really looking forward to using this, but very much dreading getting us migrated over to it. I expect we'll be spending some quality time with south, and lots of mucking with our relational fields.
For Packstation they had some serious problems with phishing. At first you only needed your Packstation User Number and the PIN. They then disallowed logins with user number and required the membership card. But it seems they started skimming those, so starting from last month they send you a TAN to your cellphone when the package arrives and you need card+TAN.

From what I see Bufferbox right now only has a few locations, for Packstation its over 2500 locations and a wide userbase, as with software: the wider the user-base the bigger the profit for bad guys.
Sure, and to secure those deals the content distributors should have to convince the creators that their channel/network is the best way to monetize their property.

So how does that still make sense in light of the trend towards households in lucrative demographic segments ditching cable TV at a rate comparable to landlines?

Is an exclusive deal with a cable TV premium channnel like Showtime really the best way for the Dexter creators to get paid? If so, I'm amazed.
If we assume it's intentional I would guess the problem is the majority of US places are either too population dense or not dense enough. There's a finite amount of parcels that can be stored by these sort of systems; if the city is too dense (and too many people opt to use the system) it will become a gamble on if there's a place for your parcel there and the value of this system is you don't need to organise your day around deliveries.

I suspect the reason BufferBox can work is because they're not a delivery company, so they have no obligation to try and fit it in to their current business model. Although then a pre-existing delivery company could have always gone with the BufferBox model... so, maybe it's just not that profitable in big places like the US?
(I posted this a month ago)

How do you know, if you are that you are indeed breaking DRM vs just doing complicated stuff with a firmware?

It seems obvious if there's PKI in there somewhere. But aside that, how do you tell the difference?

Might I add that the old proposed "Broadcast Flag" would have been a bit in the HDTV stream to signal no_copy. Changing that bit would have broken the DMCA.
Do you believe that the shootout results reliably show that one language is faster than another?
Clockwork Orange, mother fuckers. Eye for eye is how justice works. Yer going to jail.

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and said, I go, sir: and went not.

21:31 Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto
him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the
publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.

21:32 For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye
believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and
ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe
him.

21:33 Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which
planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress
in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into
a far country: 21:34 And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent
his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of
it.

21:35 And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed
another, and stoned another.

21:36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did
unto them likewise.

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God is just.

You're so screwed.

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Another part of it is that as far as I know, Linux does not support HFS+ journalling.
Were the operators of all the other dozens of routers, switches and exchange point nodes that the files passed through also arrested? Or did the police selectively choose to only arrest the operator of one particular node that just happens to also be used for preserving privacy?
Some places have cheap residential Gigabit broadband. Using 1/3 of that on TOR is 150 Gigabytes per hour and 108 Terabytes per month of bandwidth in theory without a user noticing.
Yes, it's probably not directly related to TPM DRM per se. But this position reads like it would involve privacy advocacy and strategy in general.
I understand that, it just comes across as someone moving their cheese. I guess I don't expect my desktop os to stay static forever. Change isn't always bad, I was in their camp until about a day after using it in which I realized it wasn't that big of a deal in the first place.
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IMO this all has to do with tradition. "Happy Holidays" was a phrase that received substantial amounts of negative press because people got upset when they were told they could no longer say "Christmas". Only in the last couple decades have people decided that Christmas should no longer be called Christmas...EVER.

This irks people. We are happy when people celebrate their heritage by saying things like "Happy Hannukkah" or "Eid Mubarak", but we tell people they must use "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas".

That has never made sense to me.
My path:

- Search github for 'mr'

- See: https://github.com/joeyh/mr

- joeyh is the creator of git-annex, and github says 'mr' is in Perl, which is one of joeyh's favored languages. Assume he's the creator of 'mr'.

- Go to joeyh's site: http://joeyh.name

- Browse to: http://joeyh.name/code/mr/
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Yea, I could see that volume from a SaaS service.

As a user though, I'd say github has service issues every month. I think the last one was caused by a massive ddos or an exploded db and faulty fail over.

They're pretty good a keeping a sinking ship floating and as long as `git` doesn't go down, it's not the worst thing in the world.

It's prolly terrible for you service guys.
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Great. Now I'm confused. Isn't "no right to expect a web form will let you enter your address with nested comments" the exact opposite of "liberal in what you accept from others"?
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"So, you're going to buy half as many cars and you're going to drive for free for the rest of your life. The punch line to all this? We could have been doing it in the '80s or '90s, and we could rush this technology to mass adoption in the next five years if we wanted."

Musk's talk at Oxford, he mentioned that one of the things enabling the current generation of electric vehicles is the latest generation of Li-ion batteries, which have existed only for a few years.
In the Netherlands, most package delivery companies, including TNT Post, will attempt (after you're discovered to not be home) to deliver to the neighbors. After another attempt at your home, you have go pick it up at their office.

TNT Post has "offices" located in many local stores so that's pretty easy.
(disclosure: I'm on the Chill team) There is still an incredible amount of friction in the distribution of longer form entertainment content online. There have been lots of fits and starts before to solve self-distribution of film (and specials, etc.), but we've never seen the confluence tech that is now available—higher bandwidth, seamless payment processing, video hosting, full integration into legacy social channels, etc.

Frankly the deals that most filmmakers are facing from direct-to-DVD distributors are atrocious. All rights are taken out of the filmmakers' hands, territory by territory, all on the promise of /maybe/ seeing your film on the shelves at Wal-mart. I think some of the smart ones are waking up and realizing that they have way more leverage to reach a global audience online and don't need to settle for a mythical distribution deal that is effectively just that, mythology. There's a movement underway and it's tilting the power back into the hands of creative people.
We just went through this... renaming the table is easy via south. The worst part is either ditching your historic south migrations, or rewriting them to be myusers_user, since auth_user (in our case, and typically) wasn't south-managed, so it can't be 'unmanaged'.

Remember to check you can recreate an bare database, or you'll be in for nasty surprises sometime later :)