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Disagree - piracy on iOS (especially for games) is exceptionally high. The generic nature of iOS protection means that once a device is jailbroken any cracked app can be installed simply and easily. There are numerous cracked app stores that make it just as easy as the Apple Store to install games.

People who want to pirate WILL pirate. By creating the locked-down system on iOS, you force people who wish to change the feel of the dashboard to jailbreak their devices. They then install a couple Winterboard themes onto their device and at the same time, they come into contact with some nice games that they can tap a button to crack and install for free. This actually creates pirates by forcing them to become pirates to simply improve their device's theme.

Same for removing carrier bloatware on Android - people will root their device to remove bloatware. Once rooted, they can easily purchase games from the Android store, copy them out of secure storage, and then get a refund for the game while keeping the game. If the bloatware was removable by default, they would not have rooted in the first place.

Making it difficult to pirate by affecting your paying customers is a terrible idea - focus on customer value - pirates WILL pirate regardless. If you give out your game for free, pirates will still pirate it and you will still see it sitting on TPB (and others).

Piracy is an industry, not a customer. You can't sell to pirates by making it difficult for them.
> As a reminder, Google literally have remote root on every Android device that has market installed. If your device is online, it's a few hundred bytes over an always-on socket away from remote install/wipe

Is there a source for this?
The definitive account is Steven Levy's book "Crypto":

http://www.amazon.com/Crypto-Rebels-Government-Privacy-Digit...
Amidst all the holiday hustle, you took the time to holidize
This is why I'm staying away from the "cloud" for as long as I can. I don't like this tight integration that much, you'll be frozen out of everything if one feature goes down.

And I have all my essential files on my PC and backed up several times. Even if Gmail is nuked, I still have a local copy.
Oh my god, I will troll my colleagues with this so hard. I'll add this to our website cms for their IP only and watch them panic "Why is our website falling apart?"...
Authors entering the Public Domain in 1 January 2013
Ah, so this was why Chrome kept crashing when I stayed up late last night! It prompted me to just go sleep though
The actual reason for the crash is explained in the bug report http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=165171#c2...

Renaming this bug as it really has nothing to do with GMail specifically.

To clarify:

- Chrome Sync Server relies on a backend infrastructure component to enforce quotas on per-datatype sync traffic.

- That quota service experienced traffic problems today due to a faulty load balancing configuration change.

- That change was to a core piece of infrastructure that many services at Google depend on. This means other services may have been affected at the same time, leading to the confounding original title of this bug.

- Because of the quota service failure, Chrome Sync Servers reacted too conservatively by telling clients to throttle "all" data types, without accounting for the fact that not all client versions support all data types.

The crash is due to faulty logic responsible for handling "throttled" data types on the client when the data types are unrecognized.
One or two security researchers have written about it, but you can easily see it for yourself: you can remotely install anything you want via http://play.google.com/ (as can anyone with your account username and password).

The protocol does not require mutual authentication. Your ability to install to the phone from the Play site is not dependent on your phone authenticating you being logged into the site. The phone simply trusts whatever Google sends.
I am really sorry about your situation but I definitely feel that you probably came off too strong. Also, unfortunately, when a person tells you to your face that something is illegal, they probably also suspect that you know that that something was illegal and were hoping that it would fly past them. I feel like there possibly was a communication issue but the only options you have are relaxing and talking to the recruiter again or trying to take up one of your other offers.

P.S: Advice for the future: Lighten up. If you are on an H-1B and you get fired, you have to find a job immediately in theory and practically within a time span of 15 days or so. While you will find some people sympathetic to your problem, empathy comes from shared experiences and sometimes people are just too involved in their own lives to feel for your problems.
A house financed with a mortgage (which is what he said, imo) can be an investment. A mortgage by itself is not an investment, it's what you use the mortgage for that makes the mortgage part of the investment strategy.

Really, all the 'mortgage = bad!' speak in this thread is depressing. How do you people ever think of making real money? Leverage is a wealth multiplier. Of course it comes with risk, but so does crossing the street - you need to manage it well (looking left and right before crossing, and checking the economic fundamentals of your leveraged investments).
Especially given that the article was released in a very renowned german newspaper in the "business and finances" section. There's no actual porn anywhere around.
I do this for a client of mine and over the years, have found the following to be the best solution:

1. iPod Touch / iPhone with LineaPro Barcode Scanners: http://ipclineapro.com/ - managers with personal iPhones get a new case, others get iPods.

2. Enterprise iOS license, annual update of certificates is the only chore. Otherwise no worries about deployment of code to each device because it's web-based. All inventory movements, order picks/puts are real-time, wireless.

3. Basic HTML webview that goes to //intra.net/barcode/scan/[barcode] upon each scan. The web server handles the rest.

4. Use HTML5 with type=tel for entering numbers. Use PhoneGap-style JS-to-ObjC routing for playing alert/warning/success sounds.

5. QR Codes are slow. LineaPro is instant and has a red-laser.

6. Print labels on Zebra Z Series: http://www.zebra.com/us/en/products-services/printers/printe... - by POSTing an XML to the printer's IP. Design multiple labels with variable fields and in the XML include label name, number of identical copies per label, and the data per label. Prints within 0.5 second.

I think I've deployed 40 of these scanners and 10 printers and they work great in a very heavy-use environment - think 10000+ scans, 2500+ labels a day. The app itself is styled with high contrast and readability / error-minimization in mind instead of gorgeous iOS end-user color scheme. So lots of red and green backgrounds instead of shades of beige.

If you can keep the user from having to go back to a computer after each task, it can save a tremendous amount of time and effort. Native iOS apps are great for AppStore users but in intranet environment, I vastly prefer HTML5 because not only can I test the app remotely, I can add any feature I want with minimal effort and show the user anything they need to see - from daily task list and current order status to inventory by bin location and empty bins.
I'm not sure what the pirate bay has to do with Megaupload. I'm not arguing anything in general here, I'm just saying in the specific case of Megaupload there really wasn't foul play outside of procedural errors, if the claims of the prosecutor are true then Megaupload were indeed breaking the law and the DMCA safe harbor protection meant nothing. The Pirate Bay is entirely unrelated.
It looks promising so far. The game actually explains mechanics to me is a good sign, it reminds me of Debian. Another interesting thing is separate action and movement points. I've been thinking about something like that. Basically the idea is you can move your legs separately from your hands.
I feel like if I don't know how large a position someone is purchasing, the whole intended purpose of this activity becomes rather futile: There is a distinction between a person buying 1 share of Zynga vs. 100000 shares of Zynga and that gets obscured.
I remember that one. Dark Colony was one of games that inspired Starcraft.
Is there potential for something like this to be safer than a car during a collision, ignoring the fact that it can stay upright? I presume that a car going 30 miles an hour is going to have more of an impact than a baby elephant pushing, so i don't like the idea of being enclosed in a soft shell which is just going to fall over and go under a car.

Is it easier to fit small vehicles like this with things like roll cages, or more encompassing air bags? Or will a car always have a safety edge because of crumple zones etc?
The solitaire encryption algorithm (1999)
What used 200 baud? I remember 110, 300, and then 1200 was the next progression. I don't ever recall even hearing about a 200 baud modem.
Apple Address Book synced with Google Contacts.
Next you'll tell me Microsoft will complain about not being able to put IE10 on iOS. Wouldn't that be ironic?
Yes thanks for pointing this out - I should have been more clear in the title!

If you look at spacewar.js you'll see the actual machine code in hexadecimal, I'd love to see this translated to PDP-1 assembly instructions, mnemonics and operands.

Edited: JonnieCache pointed out what I'm actually looking for: https://gist.github.com/4258114 This is really a lot of fun, I'm seeing a lot of exotic emulators in JS coming out recently.
Ask HN: How to Advertise to Python Fans
Looking for the best way to reach out to a wide audience of Python enthusiasts with a decent level of engagement. Something like having a blogger mention it would be awesome, but also open to more traditional suggestions like PPC.
So why would Oracle support it?
Both halves are copyrighted, though. Musical works have copyrights that are independent of the copyrights on any particular recording thereof.

Ref: http://www.masurlaw.com/3980/songs-and-records-two-types-of-...
Just before Xmas - Holidize My Logo
Microsoft has only given the numbers of what they sold to OEM's - not to consumers. It's like with chip deals. You can order $1 billion worth of chips. But if you can't sell them all to customers that's your problem. The manufacturers ordered a lot of licenses. But so far, I haven't seen market research companies say they did that well in the market with them. Guess we'll see in the next quarter results, if they even give those numbers, and also whenever Microsoft mentions when they sold new licenses, because I guess that would mean the manufacturers ran out of the first 40 million.
yea but how do you get out when the gyros fail/power fails and you can't deploy the legs. Mechanical fallback legs?
Also, if you'll get all precious about bowing to the statue. The number of people who get weird about it astounds me. You'll get told in advance, before going, that you'll go to the big statue and you'll be expected to dress nice and bow. For some people, this is a ridiculously big deal.
Site doesn't respond on my end.
Marketing hacks to boost your startup
Enclosed two wheelers do solve the problems of, its too hot, too cold, to wet, and more. Yet the price point isn't sufficient to get me or many others out of cars let alone off of motorcycles.

Twenty four thousand is definitely out there but even twelve thousand will price it beyond the means of many. Many used bikes if not cars will fall under that price and unless gas is just astronomical it becomes a bit hard to justify its purchase. Its a great idea, don't get me wrong. However compared to existing transportation options its very pricey.

Safety wise, with good use of LED lighting one could make it stand out very well in traffic without blinding other drivers because its a bit diminutive for my liking.
'Maximum' Heart Rate Theory Is Challenged [2001]
I don't use gmail either, but if "frozen out of everything" is you concern go and use the imap connector to integrate gmail into the local mail program of your choice. From there on the failure mode is about the same as you'd expect from any other mail server - and I'd bet that gmails uptime is about on par or better than any other mail-service you can get out there, including your own server.
The Power of the Elevator Pitch
Interesting that the author of this article is the Principal Engineer on Nokia's Windows Phone team, and previously worked for Microsoft ... he obviously knows this tech inside out.
> And what when AirBags stop working

Nothing happens

> anti traction in cars

Nothing happens.

Without Gyros this thing falls sideways
You're talking to an audience where the average person has a Github account and loves FOSS.
i think you are confusing f2fs and nilfs which work with regular block devices (including ssds, but also cheaper flash (and also poorly regular harddrives)) with jffs(2) which will only work on raw flash.
But did she STEAL the iPhone? App takes photo of woman trying to unlock it
Wow, that puts a new slant on the article...

1) He wants people to pirate Windows 8 apps to try and increase demand for Windows 8 itself through piracy?

2) He is getting ready to quit or is transferring to a new division and wants to make a point to his bosses?

Either way, wow...
Up-voted the article submission, not Bacon's reply.
The new age of Capital Intensity
Restricted access to this site by the uk porn filters. Is there something dodgy about it (before I make a telephone call to confirm I am over 18).
Ask anybody who runs a porn site; nobody is checking documents.
Senate votes to keep prisoners in Guantanamo Bay
Not if you read the second update to that page.
That taking a percentage of a transaction and giving it to a credit card company is OK.
I have the desire to avoid people hanging out immediately behind me, too, in the sense that it can keep me from losing myself in my work. In my case (and maybe in GP's case), the issue is not that they can see what I'm doing, but that it increases the expectation that I'm about to be interrupted, which destroys my ability to get into flow. A camera behind me connected to the intranet site wouldn't bother me in the same way.
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> gmails uptime is about on par or better than

I see this argument a lot, and there is truth in it.

However, there is a key difference. My own machine's uptime is certainly lower, but I have some control over when the downtime is.

Google chose to push a change that accidentally broke things. If I have a critical deadline, I can choose not to push any changes to my systems at all. When you use a cloud provider, you lose this choice.

So the question isn't really about comparing uptimes as a single figure any more. What about uptime during defined critical periods?

Edit: people replying seem to have inferred that I'm saying that running your own email server is better than using Google Apps. I didn't say that. I'm just saying that in any comparison, there is more to "cloud" reliability than a single uptime figure, and so using a single uptime figure comparison is not helpful in such a debate. The control you have over update timing is an important consideration to make in the general "move to the cloud" case.
...yes? I mean, how else would you do it?
1. I didn't criticize, I questioned

2. Pretty valid question!
And what happens to the gyros' energy in a crash?
35$ computer gets kids coding ( video)
bicycle = pedal powered bike
motorcycle = bike with a motor
scooter = bike with a small motor

(I am UK native, but not a bike person)
Have you ever used iCloud? It just takes a username and a password and you can replicate anything from an iPhone to another (minus some passwords that may not be all saved in iCloud). I don't know what's not working, I had no issue with it.
Yea. In the UK this week I have 4 work related drink orientated engagements. Poor liver.
Point 4: 'Hacker News'

Get to #1 spot on HN & you'll get tons of page views.

Reminiscent of 'How to draw an Owl' - http://i.imgur.com/Z1oTC.jpg

In all seriousness, Point 7: Share Buttons - are these actually effective? It's a genuine question as I've seen such a mixed response to them. We've chosen not to include any obvious share buttons on hackerjobs.co.uk as I figured no-one would want to share a job on their facebook account so lets not ruin the minimalism of the page. Thoughts?
I run ZFS on FreeBSD (have done for a few years now) and quite frankly I think it's a seriously overlooked alternative.
A Tough Lesson in Pitching
I was reading that Chrome wouldn't work either because of Gmail was down. Then we have algorithmic account deletions for "spam" or violating whatever rule. That's more than enough for me to be very cautious. Uptime is not as relevant, in 99.999% of cases we can wait to email or we can just pick the phone and call, losing access for ever is scarier.

Do not put all your eggs in one basket, be it Google's, Apple's or Microsoft's.
Doesn't seem like much for something so huge
Men are dumber around women.
The headline is definitely ridiculous link bait. Google doesn't have some big red button somewhere to nuke Chrome browsers. There was a bug which only appeared when there was an unexpected server behaviour.

That said, it was bizarre for a bit that Chrome was crashing because Google was down. I was actually considering switching off Chrome until I learned it was only an issue with Sync. Fortunately, Google doesn't make the Sync service mandatory, unlike some game ( and mouse ) manufacturers.
I tried the two logo's I could find the quickest but both were bigger than 260x260px, which is astronomically small. Maybe up those limits to something like 800x600?
Alternatively, there are some enclosed electric tricycles going around that may have some success like the Arcimoto: http://www.arcimoto.com/
Technical analysis is curve fitting run amok. There is so much data that the dangers of post hoc hypothesis formation is even more acute than usual. On top of that the 'field' is filled with people hawking a mix of appeal to intuition and techno-babble that is really smarmy.

As for gold bugs, you aren't going to learn anything about trading from them. They may be right or they maybe be wrong but if your answer to everything is buy gold, how interesting is that? On top of that, and something I'd rather not get into a huge debate about, their understanding of macro tends to be pretty medieval.
They seriously need to change the colouring of the links and text in the API table on this page: http://www.developergarden.com/apis/applications/
African developers are building apps for diagnosing and tracking diseases in humans, farm animals, and crops. Also pest-outbreak tracking/warning, getting offer prices at local agricultural markets, disaster mitigation.

From August last year: http://singularityhub.com/2011/08/16/80-android-phone-sells-...

Also, Kenyans have been using phone credits as a form of exchangeable currency since the early 2000s.

Exciting stuff.
I think you're viewing Tomorrow's World via rose tinted glasses. I loved it as a kid but if you watch an old episode now you're guaranteed to cringe.
PayPal, there's the company we should hand the keys to the kingdom to.
Point 4 - well in person I went over how Hacker News works etc (these are people that have never heard of Hacker News)

Share buttons - yes they're effective, I've measured the conversion rate on different sites and it's proved worthy to have them.
Here's a good article about share buttons - http://socialmouths.com/blog/2012/05/08/social-media-buttons...
Love the site, but I found the lack of the word Christmas a little weird. Not that I'm a Christian or anything, just that I don't identify with the term Holiday Season here in the UK.
Lovers
mmmmmm
Awesome, thank you for that picture.

When I drove into Poznan, Poland about 25 years ago and the first texaco station had just opened it looked really strange, a piece of high tech colour in the middle of a gray and drab city. A sign of things to come. This picture gives me a similar feeling.
Tip number one: tips are no longer popular. Call them "hacks" instead.
Presumably because Oracle wants you to use ASMlib / raw disks / O_DIRECT to partitions, and wouldn't support Oracle database on btrfs. Btrfs is for their RHEL clone OS. Big company, different departments ...
> these are people that have never heard of Hacker News

Then I feel that you are contributing to the dilution of the value of the site.
Point 4 now makes a bit more sense!

Cheers for the insight.
1. Yes.

2. Difficult how? You don't have to perform it on items that can't be automatically searched for. Then you do subtraction, square, check if you're over a kilometer.
My experience is that share buttons are pretty useless. I included share buttons in a free app I released about 6 months ago: http://scottvallanceapps.com/app/what-animal-are-you/

I've had about 30 clicks on the links included in the twitter posts, from about 2 or 3 twitter posts. Not a bad number of clicks per posting, but the app itself still gets over a hundred downloads a week from App Store searches.
less blood flow to the brain i guess.
My impression was that iCloud is OK at getting things from your iPhone elsewhere (like other iPhones), but it doesn't in any way solve the issue of creating a document "in the cloud" (or on your laptop or whatever) and getting access to it on your mobile device. Here is one of the places where iCloud goes tits up.

And that's before you bring up the confusion caused by iTunes backup + iCloud, for which there has been numerous reports here and other places, leading to complete data-loss.

On the flip side, Google has this nailed. Apple is still trying to get it right, and failing. With "iCloud not working" having over 21 million hits on Google.

I think saying the user-experience is lacking is putting it lightly. Google is light-years ahead here.
I'll make sure to have a Show HN post when it's ready! :-)
The Inside Story Of Pong And The Video Game Industry's Big Bang
Hmm ... Service Unavailable. I wonder if he pissed off people somehow.
Audio recording being installed for every seat on many public buses
thx, all bug-reports are welcome and will be fixed and tested a.s.a.p.
Trying it out as we speak.

One of the biggest issues with any reliance on recommendations is apathy. This is usually counteracted by offering incentives (typically monetary) and even that's proven to be relatively ineffective. Do you guys do anything to tackle this apathy?

Also worth noting, I've been waiting for my 507 linkedin connections to sync for the last 8 minutes. I've restarted the sync but this bit is incredibly tedious.
Codekit and Ruby ISSUE. Using all my fucking memory
Most "user generated" porn sites have almost exclusively unlicensed content. You're using "user submission" here as a cheap trick to get free content.
It's Ame Sakusan, from my (currently unreleased) album City Lights. You can stream it from https://soundcloud.com/zoeblade/ame-sakusan if you'd like.
> Please stop.

Neither I nor this forum is subject to your whims.

Use the 'flag' and downvote if that's all you have to say. All you are doing is adding unnecessary clutter.
Agreed, as a straightforward sync service for things like bookmarks, preferences, photos, etc it's fine. As a competitor to Google sync it's top notch. The fact that my iPhone photos just show up in iPhoto on the Mac automatically is great.

Where it hits limitations is for more complex apps where you want to share more complex content in apps with other apps or other people. It supports specific work flows that Apple has hard-coded into it, but it's hard or impossible to impose your own workflow on it. But then that's no different from other basic sync service like Google Sync, instant upload, etc. As a competitor to them it's fine, but as a competitor to Dropbox it's got a long way to go.