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Then after the 30 second delay, if you guess wrong again, it goes up to around 5 minutes. The same happens repeatedly and it can get up to a few hours. I tried on an old iPod touch and got it up to around 4 hours.

However, it can be circumvented by restarting the phone.
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I don't know if it's possible to describe in words the affection that the American people feel for the other members of the Anglosphere - it's not quite brotherhood, because it's stronger than that.

With that said, I don't want anyone copying all internet traffic and sharing it with intelligence agencies. Of course, if I had to pick, I think I'd prefer it to be Uncle Sam doing it, but I fear the U.S. Government for drastically different reasons than I do China, in that the Chinese government is highly unlikely to be a threat to my basic freedoms and liberties, whereas the U.S. Government is looking more and more like they might be.
This is probably good for the Peepcode folks (at least monetarily), but I'm shocked. In my experience, companies like Peepcode (and also O'Reilly) provide cheaper content in a "DRM-free, own it yourself" model without treating customers like cheats and crooks. It's the exact opposite of Pluralsight's model. Pluralsight thrives on expensive and stupid silverlight based streaming and "limited offline caching" for higher tier paying subscribers. It's all proprietary content delivery that cannot be reused on another device as easily as non-DRM stuff. As a long time annual subscriber of Peepcode, I'd just stop using it if it moves to the Pluralsight model after this acquisition. If that happens, well, it was good while it lasted (and a pity that good products and services eventually get taken over by paranoid companies that cannot adapt with the times). Pluralsight won't miss me as a Peepcode subscriber - this is just something I wanted to vent out.
Hmm that's true, "Chinese firm Huawei to control proposed UK net filter" would probably be best if it fits. I think this is more of a proposal (albeit one he sees as de facto happening) by the PM than something he's praising.
Three things:

1. Linode are 8 cores but only 1 is guaranteed.

2. Linode are not UK based whereas Bytemark (bigv's parent company) are UK based.

3. Linode are unreliable. Google for citations.
If it's a killer idea and can be monetize why don't you consider invest on it?
You can't create iOS apps without a Mac. You can try to do a hackintosh but its a pain if you don't de right hardware.

Another option is to create using HTML 5 but its no the same as a native app.
I've found myself recently in that situation. That's what I am going to do about it:

1) I've been reading about startups and etc for ~2 years but have never did my own project ("but well there is XYZ which is perfect..."). At the moment, I have tabs open and looking for ideas for MVPs home page's design. The experience will be extremely valuable for the future.

2) I felt like I have something to say, but kept in my mind. Now I write everything to google docs, leave for a while to cool down (sometimes it looks like awesome idea but a day later I find it as an embarrassing) and going to publish as a blog.

The hardest thing about it? There's almost all the time "well it's not totally perfect... just few more days!".

Since I'm still a student (one year left), many people at networking events are like 'oh sounds interesting... you just graduated?' 'nope, one more year' 'oh......', the opportunities are a bit more limited.
This is some of the most racist trash I've seen on Hacker News.
Take a look at "juju". Canonical is doing a bunch of stuff in this area. Juju does service orchestration across containers. I don't particularly like how they've done it, but it shows a fairly typical approach (scripts that expose a standard interface for associating a service to another, coupled with a tool that lets you mutate a description of your entire environment and translates that into calls to the scripts of the various containers/vms that should be "connected" in some way to add or remove the relations between them)
There are a lot of applications using "Reddit" in their name.
Also I'm pretty sure they would have to trademark "Reddito" or "Reddit" as a prefix (like "i" prefix for Apple product).
So I think it should be good.
The article says that freedom refers to the absence of external structure, as if it's a grim state of confused aimlessness. I say that freedom refers to the absence of external coercion, which is a happy state of purpose and possibility.
I want to relate the story of the doorman in my old Manhattan apartment. First off, my apartment had like 5 or 6 doormen that alternated in some weird schedule. The residents and the doormen had a very kind relationship. One of the older doormen went on for a few months about his retirement (he defn looked older than 65) and how he was going to miss us (residents). When he eventually left, about a month later there was a notice in the apartment that he had passed away. On one hand, that's life. On the other, back in the old country, I've seen people whither away once their purpose in life goes away. I know mentally that there are so many problems on this earth, so much help we can provide each other. So you can argue that a person can keep doing new, good things despite their age. But I think when you get to your 60s or 70s or whatever, you come to terms with it - with your own purpose in life. Time is cruel and the human body is frail. We should truly respect our elders.
Jose Padilla was never held in Guantanamo. He was held in a military brig in South Carolina, longer than he should have because of litigation surrounding the authority of the Bush administration to hold him without charges. The Bush administration did charge him, likely because they lost Hamdi v. Rumsfeld which rejected their attempts to detain a different U.S. citizen.

The only American citizen targeted in a drone strike was Al Awlaki. The others were killed because they happened to be traveling with Al Qaeda leaders in Pakistan or Yemen who were targeted. We can argue about the legality of targeting Al Awlaki, someone who was actively waging war against the U.S. and tried to evade capture for a decade, but it's ridiculous to bring up the other three. Hundreds of U.S. citizens were killed in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The fact that U.S. citizens may be killed collaterally in a military strike with legitimate targets has never been construed to be a violation of due process.

Snowden is a completely different situation. He's not waging war against the U.S. and leaking classified information is a criminal charge, not an act of war.
I understand what you're saying, but disagree (up-voted your clarification anyway).

If I'm paying $10k for a service, I'd especially expect a one-click opt-out or cancellation (assuming that's possible contractually). So the point here is that more I pay the more I expect to interact with a provider on my terms. Think about it. Rich people don't have time to fuck about. If they've an assistant who does this for them then that assistant shouldn't have to divulge personal reasons on his or her employer's behalf.
True enough. Human nature is (moresthepity) what drives all of this ... which is why it is unlikely to change any time soon. In other words, we are all royally screwed.

It is interesting and fortunate that the NSA/GCHQ scandal was still bubbling away as a news item when the story broke about the UK government's moralizing censorship crusade. Viewing these two stories through the lens of my (inevitably dim) perspective on human nature has led me to some unsurprisingly depressing conclusions. (Apologies for the cross-posting):

You might not always get what you want, but the converse is more frequently true. For example, positions of power and authority tend to be occupied by the sort of person who actively seeks out greater power and authority. In contrast, those with no real desire to dominate and control others neither seek nor achieve power. As a result, our elite political, legal and corporate offices are inevitably dominated by an elitist, authoritarian culture and mindset. For as long as we allow people to self-select, even implicitly, there is nothing we can do to prevent this.

The authoritarian mind is characterised by a desire to dominate and control others. The more invasive, disruptive and widespread the control, the more satisfying it is to the authoritarian, and the greater the validation of their elite status.

Sex; particularly issues of sexual morality; are behavioural characteristics that are tremendously intimate, personal and difficult to rationalise/control. It is this very intimacy that makes the exertion of control over sexual behaviour so very compelling: Control over sexual behaviour is like crack cocaine to the authoritarian mind.

Time and time again throughout history, those in power have sought to control the sexual behaviour of their subjects, a motive that is exactly equivalent to the alpha male in the pack controlling access to the harem, and reminding all the beta males of their status by rubbing their noses in their inability to mate.

Technology is a lever - it gives increased power to those who wield it. Modern technology is already enabling those in power to gain greater control over their subjects. It is inevitable that technology will embed itself ever more intimately in our lives, and it is inevitable that this technology will be used by the alpha males in our society to exert their domination and suppression over the rest of the population - to mock, to belittle and to abuse those who are not in power.

Basically, as technology becomes more powerful, and exerts a greater influence over our lives, the humiliating and belittling reminders of our subservient role in society will become more and more pervasive ... and there is nothing that we can do about it.

The existence of the state - and the forceful dominance of one group over another - has always been the moral equivalent of rape - but the power of the state has always been diluted to such an extent that we have been able to persist in the illusion of freedom and self-determination. Technology is ending this dilution, and the truth of our subservient relationship to the state will forcefully re-assert itself in our everyday lives.
> The benefits to the planet of removing 1000 small (household) washing machines and dryers and replacing them with say 10 commercial ones is very very substantial

That's not a given without running the numbers. Whole picture statements like these get complicated in a hurry. Manufacturing 1000 small household washing machines creates jobs and so on.

The work to me seems to be such a big factor in this story that all other things being equal you're going to have to make the case either by ignoring a huge number of factors or you're going to have to go by a model that just focuses on the major component of the operation itself (washing).

Household washing machines last quite a long time (10 years or more), are relatively cheap, maintenance free and two steps away from the point of origin of your washing.

Commercial machines are expensive, require frequent maintenance due to increased use, may or may not be more energy efficient and require trucking around washing.

I don't think you can say that the commercial machines are more efficient due to their reduced number because that may not be where the majority of the expense is located.
No, the only solution is offline data.

The only reason any of this is an issue is because we have our data and communication in the internet. That's what makes mass surveillance possible.

If you keep your data off the internet, then you're only at risk of individual surveillance. But even that's difficult; stuxnet demonstrated that even air gapped computers are at risk, because we move data around on usb sticks and the like.

So, speech and paper, or human memory, are the only really secure media.

As for all the apps we carry around in our pockets ... do you really need instant online access to your bank balance over the internet on the bus? We used to carry around checkbooks and make entries in the register. If you really need to know your balance 24/7, carry a register booklet, or a moleskin. Then you don't have to wonder if Mint et al. are giving up your passwords.

Opt out.
> So each time a UK residents visits a webpage his ISP will send the url to Huawei to ask for permission?

No, each time a UK resident visits a webpage, his ISP will send the URL to a server in the ISP's network running software made by Huawei (which could be backdoored), loaded with watchlists maintained by a UK entity.

It's unclear how that software will redirect the request, but it's probably just a DNS hi-jack.
A lot of the techniques pointed out seem like plain spamming. Why/how does that count for growth hacking?
Properly configure your email and get rid of 'GMail' :-)
It's not a cold war per default, when a country refuse to do what the US demands. This is just a conflict of interest. Syria is in Russia's backyard, so of course they'll have opposing viewpoints.

Snowden and Wikileaks moved it into the public for a reason. Russia/US can't change that right now, so they have to play along, which seems like a good thing for Snowden/Wikileaks.
> If the application can control the whole stack, then the application author can fix it.

You are right, but the other point is that it becomes the application authors responsibility to fix it.

If you're bundling apache httpd with your app, and there's a security flaw and a new version released, it becomes your responsibility to release a new version of your app with the new version of httpd.

If there are 1000 apps doing this, that's 1000 apps that need to release a new version. Instead of the current common situtation, where you just count on the OS-specific package manager to release a new version.

Dozens of copies of httpd floating around packaged in application-delivered VMs is dozens of different upgrades the owner needs to make, after dozens of different app authors provide new versions. (And what if one app author doesn't? Because they are slow or too busy or no longer around? And how does the owner keep track of which of these app-delivered VM's even needs an upgrade?)
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But in the phone’s lockscreen, you are usually not bound by the 4-digit requirement of SIM card PINs, hence can use an arbitrary alphanumeric password (though likely rather short, as you have to enter it often on a small keyboard). 36^5 >> 10^4.
Better yet: Would you trust your life to them is US government wants you "dead"?
I watched him (Sam Simon) play in High Stakes Poker, and as I read the Hacker News headline, his name was the first that popped into my mind when I read 'Simpsons co-creator' (as I'm writing this, I'm also remembering of Matt Groening). I don't know him personally, but I find very impressive (and really positive) that someone is willing to leave his entire fortune to charity, while being rigorous in the process of who gets the money.
My previous company had a "technical ladder" for promotion of engineers without making them into managers.

The general idea was that as you progressed through your technical career, you would be making more and more important technical decisions, measured by the impact to the company.

A junior engineer would be making technical choices that affected one subsystem, a principal engineer might define a protocol between two large components, and an architect would be making technical decisions that affected the entire company.

You can always nitpick these things to death, but I liked the general idea.
I signed up with them a few weeks back to release my (still unreleased) SaaS on. Worked really well for me.

I've been using them to test live etc, set Dokku up and what not and I've had no issues.
So nostalgic - my very first system was SCO UNIX 3.2 v4.2, and then FreeBSD 1.1.5.1. I had a few happy moments with Dec OSF/1 and some fun with AIX on RS/6000. All these moments will be lost in time, like tears in a rain, so to speak.)
This is why only idiots lock their phones.
Wow, what a great site. Thanks!
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Go cheaper. I'd switch even though I have nothing to hide, I'd prefer a UK host, but it's not worth more money for me.
Authentication and initial key exchange is via ssh, so nothing to audit here. Afterwards data is sent AES-encrypted, which relatively simple.
I absolutely cannot believe this gets upvoted on HN. It's 3 paragraphs. NO INFORMATION + "But there are some fixed costs and infrastructure that you must consider. So why not partner with <OUR COMPANY>, letting us take care of that for you? Get in touch today for a chat."

Straight up spam.
You can make a full HTML5 App and later package it using PhoneGap.
http://phonegap.com

I wish we could have a node-webkit for iOS... damn you big brother Apple!
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Reputation ? The same company who's one of its chairman ran the biggest known ponzi scheme in recent financial times.
>It's not a cold war per default, when a country refuse to do what the US demands. This is just a conflict of interest. Syria is in Russia's backyard, so of course they'll have opposing viewpoints.

They also don't take well to fundamentalists wanting to turn Syria into Afghanistan masquarading as "freedom fighters".
Unethical companies are doing a similar thing with temporary foreign workers in Canada. I want an app with an ethical rating system for companies so I can research easily and buy from companies that aren't jerks. Something based on environmental stewardship, treatment of employees, customer support, etc. As for Amazon, this article made me resolve not to use them, but I'd prefer not to wait until a story blows up to be informed enough to be an ethical consumer.
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The phone stays in my pocket.

Worst case: restore from backup.
I treat pins/pattern as a way to keep casual pranksters and nosey people out of my phone, not as a real "security measure" in the typical sense.

If I wanted actual security I would be using a full blown password and full drive encryption (both supported by Android).

But then I'd have to turn off all my toys like sync, USB debugging, and unsigned package installation. Which I don't want to do. So therefore I just take my phone being relative insecure as a given, and try to keep out the casual pranksters and or nosey people.
>Yes. Let's not forget that it's Russia.

So? Russia has been a much more malevolent world player than the US.
Show up with a warrant for that particular user's data, and be happy with whatever encrypted data you get, and I'm fine with it.
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It is useful, yes. Here's another thing I picked up last week - how do you reboot a remote linux box that's somehow lost its root drive but you still have a shell open (because you left ssh running on another machine)?

echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq
echo b > /proc/sysrq-trigger
Hypothetically you are betting on future profits.

Historically, business ventures like Amazon have had two phases: a fast growth phase, and a long, stable, profitable phase. You don't expect profits while the business is still growing. You expect them to plow the profits back in to make it grow more. As long as companies can maintain absurd year-over-year growth, investors are willing to pretend that the company needs its giant cash piles to grow more faster. This is actually the rational reason why the stock market shoots a brick whenever one of these tech companies only increases its profits by 23% instead of the projected 27%.

Hypothetically, what Amazon's share price means is that investors believe that it will return more than that many dollars per share to its investors once it switches from its fast growth to its slow-and-steady phase.

Hypothetically; stock also has value because the expectation that it will go up or down creates a class of investor who buys or sells it based on its expected price regardless of its fundamentals, which can affect the price in either direction.
It sounds like a disease.
Ask HN: Should I learn to develop for android?
I have some knowledge in iOS development and now I want to learn something else with it.
I think I need more web languages like PHP, JavaScript...
But on the other side it's cool to create an app with iOS and android versions.
I also heard a lot of people saying that android doesn't worth time, it takes a lot of time creating the app and piracy is higher than iOS.
So my question is, should I learn Java and then Android development or focus on something else(what?)?
ITT: Armchair psychologists confuse "psychopathy" and "sociopathy".

The tops of government and business exhibit the signs of sociopathy, not psychopathy.

Psychopaths generally exhibit many behaviors that makes them fundamentally unsuited for public life, such as poor behavior control.

Sociopaths, on the other hand, have just the right mix of anti-social tendencies to turn their empathy on for the crowd, and off while making decisions that affect millions negatively.
I had no idea you could scrape Facebook ids from groups and serve ads to them. That's horrible, but brilliant.
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> Do we worry about the risk of homebrew technical innovation being inextricably linked to cyber theft and terrorism?

Absolutely. But it's definitely a double standard based on associations. It's the whole freedom fighter/terrorist coin argument. If you're against the status quo, you're a cyber terrorist who deserves no trial and bullet to the brain. If you're defending the status quo you're a security specialist and you're the beacon of light in a dark world.

So if you are a "hacker", this won't define what people think of you necessarily. It depends on what you do with that power.

Things you should not do, unless you do want to be labeled a cyber terrorist:

* Changing the parameters of a companies URL that might compromise security, then posting that information to the public.

* Downloading copyright protected material.

* Creating porn sites.

* Posting extremist/terrorist/anarchist ideas on the internet.

* Creating a shortcut or bypass that cuts into the profits of a monopolistic company.

If you avoid these things, and hide the fact that you understand computers at an intermediate level, you should be fine.
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Virtualized hardware and containers are roughly equivalent here - the reason for containers is lower resource usage, not some other fundamental difference vs. vm's.

But physical servers will not have "standard workloads" unless you wipe them everytime you reinstall, or run a system that can guarantee the server is put in identical state. It's not practical for most people to do.

The reason for binding containers or vm's together with "standard workloads" is thus because the key to standard workloads for most people is down to functionality for rapid, reproducible deployment coupled with isolation.

That Docker has so far been tied to LXC is a separate matter, but I frankly don't see that as a bad thing - too many virtualization / cloud solutions are hopelessly over-engineered.
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It's all backed up to the cloud, so you can restore it all
I found this interesting as well. Putin has developed a reputation for being his own mouthpiece when it comes to anything that helps to further the cult of personality he's built around himself.

In other words, I'm shocked Putin had someone else say this instead of having cameras on him while he was shirtless and wrestling a bear for control of the life of a tiger cub.