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Thanks - will investigate. Currently having a nightmare trying to find a registration service that actually works, and getting tired of creating new passwords for every login.
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No jokes: I've had only 7$ bill instead of 200$ as usual in roaming
Why does anyone invest in security cameras then? What would be the point? Every street corner in NYC has one, buildings, and now peoples homes. Without video the Boston bombers would not have been caught as well. Video has a place in the court room and gives law enforcement more information about what happened.
I would personally add iOS7 to the list.
For my group of friends, I was the person who moved away after college. The rest are still together, and some of them are still roommates.

I keep in touch occasionally. A few of my friends I try to call (no one ever seems to call me). Mostly we IM on Steam, or sometimes I hop on Ventrilo. They're usually gaming, and while I've tried to buy the same games so we could kind of hang out, they keep different schedules, and anything with a leveling component they get really far ahead because they play all the time.

When I head back for whatever reason we generally try to meet up, even if it's just grabbing food.
In addition, you have to think that by even receiving this request we had an inkling early on that we were winning many more cultural battles in the cold war than the USSR. Pretty great article.
That would be a good move. I'm not sure how much last is in these tablets, but they don't tend to get as much use/abuse as smartphones.

If they're still nice to use 2-4 years after purchase, there will be second will be a lot of android tablets looking for a second life in a few years. iPads are already piling up

It seems like olpc is constantly being outrun by devices.
I've gotten normal usage of Glass-cast, as they call it, to work only 1 times in 10 anyway, heh. The feature is a distaster. You take a picture of the barcode over and over and have no feedback whatsoever what the problem is behind it not working.
> If you were even vaguely familiar with the case and/or fair minded

There are a number of court cases that find one way, but the public disagree.

We should not need glasses style propaganda to persuade the public, we should be happy with the jury, but you can see how it'd be handy? When we have someone saying they did something, and a video showing that they did do that it would go some way to stopping people knee-jerking.
Molecules don't emit radio signals that anyone ca intercept.
You're probably right. The info above also suggests that 1993 was early and 1938 was late to leave.

By some co-incidence, the BBC is talking about this today here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23261289

Spooky23 is probably also right - it seems easier to move if you're at the top (internationally known and/or could walk into a good new job) or at the bottom (nothing much to lose), but harder at the middle class.
My point was, it's more an illusion of security than anything. Best not to bother at all.
He might have turned them on prior to any altercation, which might have deterred both individuals from taking the situation to the next level.
> Pretty sure he wouldn't be able to transfer anything close to a million before lock down, unless he had clearance.

Unless he started working with someone on the inside of PayPal of course. ("Dear Respected One, GREETINGS, Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you. I got your contact from the PayPal accounting department, and I have the believe you are a reputable and responsible and trustworthy person I can do business with from the little information so far I gathered....")
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It's a corruption of "owned" and refers to a hack that gives the hacker total control of the target device. HTH!
Thanks man. In my opinion - too early to judge. Will see after the final release :).
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It also examined a list of 'selectors' (such as email addresses) that requested information on a list of UK nationals or individuals who were under surveillance in such operations.

This is of course misleading as it only talks about one process - using PRISM access to US providers from the sound of it. The entire UK is under surveillance under Tempora, and I don't trust our politicians or GCHQ not to abuse this information in the short-term let alone in the long term. The BBC doesn't have very good coverage of this issue unfortunately.

While the committee found that GCHQ had acted within the law,

In what way is collecting the information of every UK citizen and passing it to the NSA on demand within the law?

I see daily evidence of the integrity and high standards of the men and women of GCHQ. The ISC's findings are further testament to their professionalism and values.

For a very good example of why we should be suspicious of the platitudes of politicians and the security services about integrity, see the family of Stephen Lawrence - their son was killed in the street in a racist attack, and then the police used spies to follow the family and gathered intelligence on them, just because they demanded a better investigation of the murder.

Another example is Katherine Gun, the GCHQ whistleblower, who revealed that GCHQ was processing requests from the NSA to tap the telephones of UN security council delegates in the lead up to the Iraq war. She was hounded out of her job, prosecuted for whistleblowing, and finally all charges dropped after 8 months.
Awesome, I'm glad your really thinking everything over. To be honest, it wasn't entirely clear to be that you can pick the friends you want to tweet about you. I guess now looking at it that seems rather obvious, haha. It would be really cool to see a recommendation engine, for example, "We think you should ask your friend John Doe to endorse you because he has a massive Twitter following, speaks regularly to companies X, Y, and Z, whom are all hiring. We've analyzed his profile and it looks pretty non-controversial." It's good to see you guys are making use of Twitter and not Facebook. That's a huge selling point for me. Good luck to you guys.
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For those of you who are annoyed by the shutdown/restart processes in Windows 8, consider adding some shortcuts to your desktop and start menu to make this process 1-click[1]:

Shutdown:
Right-click on the desktop, click "New > Shortcut" and enter "shutdown /s /t 0"

Restart:
Right-click on the desktop, click "New > Shortcut" and enter "shutdown /r /t 0"

You can change the icon to look more appropriate, and pin this to the start menu or task bar.

[1]: http://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-add-windows-8-shutdown-rest...
No need to be a dick, I was genuinely interested in your opinion and trying to be helpful. But if you want to go down that road it is worth pointing out that you did not update it just for me; you updated it for anyone accustomed to well formed english sentences.
Maybe it would have or maybe it would give the prosecutor more evidence. At this point we will never know. The only fact we do know is that it would have provided more total evidence for both sides to interpret what happened.
Yep. I think you have to be especially cautious about absorbing BBC info during a Conservative government. They have to be subservient because they're a big target and it doesn't help that they keep tripping over their own feet.
> He was massively in debt.

In which case, I am surprised that PayPal gave in so easily instead of referring his acct to a collection agency. /s
Are you trying the screencast with a device that's already been BT paired & connected to your Glass?

I never see the barcode option, it just connects straight to my device immediately. I think you only end up with the barcode if you're not connected or having connectivity issues.

Google posted an update yesterday to the MyGlass app that supposedly improves connectivity, so maybe that might solve the trouble you'd been having.
> Paying for an Heroku dyno is basically the same as renting (and releasing) a small virtual server for the duration of a running process (and for possibly very short periods of time)

> Normally, we aren't paying for processes on (dedicated or virtual) servers, but are buying the server capacity whatever we do with it (limited by the server resource allocation).

That's one of the thing that makes me say we pay for processes, on heroku (even if it's indeed oversimplified). A dedicated or virtual server is not only about process and memory. You can have access to sendmail on it, handle uploads, store long and exhaustive logs, perform specific task via third party application (like resizing images), ssh to machine if any problem need deep inspection, etc.

The heroku model is about extremely specialized services. Whatever you need that is not processor share or memory needs an external addon. I'm ok with that, but it has to be stated clearly. It's not at all like if you had a standard virtual server.

Your stance "Paying for an Heroku dyno is basically the same as renting (and releasing) a small virtual server for the duration of a running process" would perfectly do. Way better than heroku's one "Dynos are isolated, virtualized Unix containers, that provide the environment required to run an application" which could let think that it's a regular virtual server. Well, sendmail, for me, belongs to an "environment required to run an application".
We can surely judge whether North Korea is democratic (in fact, very few places are "truly" in the Hellenic Athenian Greek sense: democratic).

Judging whether something is "truly" socialistic is arguably harder, since while the goal of democracy is a system by which the public expresses its favor or disfavor for laws and policies; socialism's goals (each according to its need) may not be achievable at all (at least if we look at the long term track record (1)).

If that is so, all we are left is what a socialist regime intends, and whether it organizes itself (at least formally) as a socialist order.

(1) From a long term track record, there "problem" of the perfect social organization hasn't been "solved" by anything. We can, however, see that some things are "less wrong"...
I wonder if that is on purpose or just an error.
its possible. just find a counterparty who wants to take the other side of the bet.

people short unshortable assets in finance all the time by getting the bank or a marketmaker to take the other side in an "over-the-counter" (OTC) agreement.

You just make up the rules and there's a signed document.

i.e. "bets backed up with legal documents".

And... I, for one, would probably take the other side of the bet against Tim Ferris in the short term.
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All that will happen is the recruitment agents will monitor the HireMyFriend tweets, contact the potential candidate and it will be business as usual.
Wait until somebody else connects to have his MAC, then wait until he disconnects. Otherwise, you'll see a ton of RST flying, making your connection quite useless. That's a good enough deterrent for the typical "attacker", who just happens to need a connection here and now and saw a network using WEP.
Windows Mobile? Worst OS ever? Why ? It was very usable with a stylus, and you could do tons of what you now do on the iPhone like 5 years earlier (or more). It was not perfect but it certainly was not bad.

Google Wave ? Bad usability ? Where? No reasons given.

Sony Remote for Google TV -> what's wrong with it? You don't like having a keyboard? Again, no reason given, just a picture that is supposed to explain everything.

Shitty Blogspam. The author did not even sign with his name (because they are several of them in About Us) so I guess he's not too proud of his shitty list.
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You can make it so that F-keys are F-keys by default, and the other actions require Fn. It's in the settings.
This bit of obvious linkbait would look less stupid if the headline read "10 of the Worst Gadget Design Failures of the Past 10 Years", though it still wouldn't show much knowledge of gadgets....
Google Wave was great. It's failure wasn't due to design either.
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I doubt that's him. Comments/submissions history is almost all about coding (Go, Ruby, Node/Express etc. etc.)
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I had the impression that cmd.exe was on its way out, soon to be replaced by Powershell entirely.

When I saw the option for Powershell to open by default in Windows 8/2012 instead of cmd.exe, I figured the writing was on the wall.
FoundationDB co-founder here. We're pretty psyched about this acquisition and the technical fit between our storage substrate and Akiban's open-source SQL tech.

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If you want to use C as intermediate language, you may be interested in the CIL project[1]. It stands for "C intermediate language"--might be relevant :P.

Fundamentally, CIL is a nice subset of C wrapped up into a nicely usable API. The idea is to shave off as many of C's inconsistent sharp edges as possible. You won't have to worry about quirks in the syntax or odd behavior because you have a nice high-level, curated API for generating C code.

It's designed to have a clean semantics, and semantics are very important. (Or so I maintain.)

[1]: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~necula/cil/
This.

I recently found the same irksome behaviour by Goog on another important issue:
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=56803
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I don't think it's aiming to fix that problem. It's aiming to fix the problem where someone can't look for work publicly while still employed for fear of being fired.
I remember using an older mac laptop and the keyboad was hard up against the screen with small function keys. Any time I wanted to use one, I'd bang my fingers against the bezel.
Funny how the wiki mentions all the names of stupid politicians/soldiers, Managers down to a "technical supervisor" but it credits the guy that actually made white coke as "a chemist".

F##k historians.
We call for Microsoft to implement end to end encryption/intuitive client side encryption for their services if "our privacy (really) is their priority" - and maybe even turn Skype back to P2P. Otherwise this just seems like a "Whoops, we got caught for allowing NSA to spy on our users since 2007 [1] - now let's do something quick to improve our PR" type of thing.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-...

Also, the calls for boycotting US companies over this seems to have worked pretty well so far [2], just as I expected, and the companies are now starting to use their money and influence to fight against the spying, in our name - which as I've said before it may just be the only thing to change the US government's mind over the mass spying apparatus, because I don't think having just us complaining about it will work - short of a million-man protest in front of the White House or a nation-wide revolution.

[2] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/17/nsa-court-challe...

But I think this is merely the beginning, and it's not nearly enough [2] to convince the US government that it needs to stop, so we need to push more with the boycotting.

[3] http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/07/a_call_to_boycott_us_tech_pl...
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The larger Chinese-made chargers generally don't have these issues (though a few apparently do).

Notice that this fake contains all or nearly all the components required to build a safe and working charger, including full safety isolation, fuse protection, and output regulation. The manufacturer's entirely capable of building one, they've just fatally compromised on safety in order to fit everything inside a tiny fake Apple shell.

(The blog post says it doesn't have a fuse, but generally instead of having a seperate fuse the input resistor on these power supplies is a special fusible resistor which is manufactured to also work as a fuse. Saves a few cents and some space at the cost of using a specialist component. Unfortunately it's impossible to tell it apart from a normal resistor just by looking.)
If there's one thing he knows it's marketing and hype, pretty sure that'd be useful for a startup with a proven business model.
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Hmm. That path doesn't seem to work on my Nexus 4 running Android 4.2.2. The closest I could find is Settings > Backup & reset > Backup my data (Backup app data, Wi-Fi passwords, and other settings to Google services). Tapping this, it says "Stop backing up your Wi-Fi passwords, bookmarks, other settings, and app data, plus erase all copies on Google servers?". So, it sounds like it's all or nothing.
With a spammy title like that, I doubt many people will click on this... However looks interesting.
Probably only a display problem.
Everybody is spied on, all the data are stored. According to Guardian it's 3 days absolutely everything from everybody is stored and 30 days the metadata from everybody. US, UK and foreigners. Everybody. And it's only the Tempora project. More (perpetually) is stored at least for those with warrants under different project names, but we don't know anything about these projects. The numbers 3 and 30 are just constants that can be changed at any moment as soon as there's more storage capacity. Because "they don't need warrants for that."

That they don't use the collected data against everybody at once is clear. But they certainly spy everybody, everything else is a spin. They just later decide on whom to use the data they already intercepted, collected and processed. That interception, collection and processing they call "nothing" and later usage they call "interception" with a warrant. It's a spin.

We also saw that a single warrant can order "everything." There are no limitations.
I've used Vagrant for this, and it works pretty well, including sharing directories between the host and guest. But of course you don't get to run Windows programs from within the VM, you only get to manipulate Windows files with Linux programs. So it's not a 100% substitute for a Windows shell.
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OK than. Couple of reasons - Windows Mobile was a single worse case of Fits Law violation. Small interface elements hard to reach even with stylus. I remember that one of my test devices was HTC Diamond. I don't recall slower, uglier mobile device. Apart from that UI guidelines were a joke. Microsoft tried to fit Windows into a mobile device and failed. Phone 8 is a completely new approach. Just try to compare them.

Google Wave failed to address one particular useful 'use case'. The interface was a mess and people didn't know what to do with it.

Sony Remote? It was actually canceled and changed because of problems with usability. Lots of buttons with lack of clear information architecture - straight way to design hell.

Each and one of mentioned devices could be throughly analyzed. I just thought it will be more fun to list them :).

Thanks for comment anyway.
I really must commend Roamer's marketing people. They have stories planted in many places and I have seen several threads here on HN.

I have no idea if the product is good or not. I am an example of their target customer -- international traveler and a buyer of local SIM cards when I land anywhere. I downloaded the app. Let's see what happens next time I am in Beirut. :-)

Anyway, congrats to the Roamer people for getting noisy and publicizing their product.
>Thankfully, Google has already patched the issue.

It sounds like they are on top of it.
Neat idea! It looks like the NLTK POS tagger is having trouble here so might limit your recall when used as a filter.

Instead I wonder if it would be better to use the context of each token to mine significant ngrams from the rest of Shakespeare's work and filter for rhymes with a phoenetic hash like Metaphone.
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Post-scarcity doesn't mean that there are "enough" goods, it means they are so plenty that they are free - therefore there is not need for policies to ensure their fair and/or efficient distribution.
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Powershell still uses the same terrible terminal emulator that cmd.exe does. This article is mostly about terminal emulators, and using windows shells for unixy stuff. Its not cmd.exe sepcific, I use Console2 for powershell terminals at home.
Yeah, I have to be honest I'm not really a buyer of Ferriss. No hard evidence, just not convinced by him.
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There's a lot of negativity about Ferris in this thread, and it's clear he's a very divisive figure, not only here on HN.

But I wonder, what about those successful startups he advises? Surely, if Uber, Evernote, WordPress, and Shopify are happy with his services, he can bring something to the table?

I'm genuinely curious why all the negativity. Just in case anyone's wondering, I'm not particularly a fan of his either, but I'm open to the possibility he can add value to companies.
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How expensive is a rolling buffer of 1 minute, which then gets written to disk (with everything following it written to disc too) when a button is pushed?

I'm imagining something like the Cisco Flip but at 360 (or maybe 720) and with much better batteries. (My Flip uses 2 AA batteries or a rechargeable battery pack.)
I'm sure that's something every average Windows users does as a first thing after they install the system. The point in usability is not having to do these things for common and obvious actions.
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They seem to have good reviews across their range of products and have certification logos. However, I've been hesitant.
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