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The concept is technically interesting, but I don't want my e-mail address to be harvested by third parties and sold for marketing purposes. I am not a lawyer, but in the EU (which is where I assume you are located) data privacy regulations require the user to consent to the use of their private data. The sites you collect the information from supposedly have permission to process private information by means of their privacy policy and relationship with the user; which as a third party, you don't have. One could argue the data is already public; but since the user can not consent – you have no relation to the user – you are going to find yourself in muddy legal waters, especially trying to base a business on that data.
Though the release might be wrong, it is no uncommon to seed an audience in the music business to create buzz/interest.

This happens in many industries, it's a marketing tactic.

Hell even small restaurants seed tables to create atmosphere because no one walks into an empty restaurant.
A small MRI is, to a first approximation, equal to a room temperature superconductor.

The world that has them, has many wonderful things.
They're only required to pay if the contract was fulfilled. Usually in cases like this there is a dispute over that.
Actually, he does. With IP contracts the onus falls on the buyer, not the seller, who is granted full ownership of their work from the moment of creation. Making sure you have clear title to the the work of another isn't the contractor's responsibility, it's yours.

That said, there are a ton of things having to do with the scope of work, reviews of work in progress, acceptance or rejection of completed work, and payment terms that are absolutly the contractor's responsibility. But again, securing clear title to the work is the buyer's concern, not the seller's.
Your requirement conflicts with the requirement that passwords stored in Chrome are not discoverable by other programs. Hard-coded optional entropy will just be pulled out of the executable and these programs will still exist; randomly-generated new entropy for each installation of Chrome will have to be stored somewhere if it can't come from the user, and it can be pulled out of there and these programs will still exist. The only advantage that non-user-generated optional entropy will get you is that programs that do not specifically target Chrome passwords, and instead just dump the entire protected storage, will no longer be able to get Chrome passwords.

My personal suggestion would be for an optional user-provided password. I would be surprised if most people who wanted extra Chrome security would mind typing in a password once after starting it.
The war on drugs or the war on (child)pornography would have been stepped up instead. But terror is so much more effective.
It contains a lot of, fairly well developed, underlying theory on how to write good programs. The maths in the first couple of chapters may be a little off putting - there's an old idea that people write books that concern the problems they're interested in even when trying to teach you something else - but you don't really have to understand the mathy bits to benefit from the book.

If you've only done imperative programming before then it should be pretty eye-opening. If you've done functional programming before then it's not quite as O_O inducing, but still worth a read.

Also, it's effectively free so you can easily have a look yourself ^_^
So it's all free to download, then ads?
Every time I change a title, it gets changed back to the original one. So I just stick straight to what the original post's title is.
>A little brother using Chrome regularly won't know about keyloggers, how to write a clever bookmarklet, or even be allowed to be around when his big sister is typing in her password. But there's a good chance he does know about clicking that little icon, choosing "settings", and seeing all of his big sister's passwords when she's out on a date and forgot to lock her computer.

Oh come on, writing a bookmarklet is not a fair comparison. A fair comparison is the little brother googling 'chrome passwords' and finding a link to chromereveal.com[1] That's a more interesting activity than wandering around settings.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6169439
Having military base itself is nothing wrong, nor is sharing intelligence in itself.

But the german citizen would be responsible if their government is engaged in so called pre-emptive war, under the pretense of terrorism and engaged in multi-year war with thousands of deaths and the citizens didn't even lift a finger.

Similarly if the german government is engaged in country-wide surveillance program under the pretense of security to control and possibly suppress its citizen, then yes the citizen is absolutely responsible if they sit on their ass for years and do nothing about it.
It is important, if I didn't see this post, I'd have thought I was getting MitM'd.
I just saw your edit. In case you ever stumble back across this checkout the beta versions of DTA. The beta versions have been greatly improved. DTA nevers locks up the browser for me. Its an incredible improvement.
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The article mentions cracked encryption and how the NSA likes to bug. Does anyone know what the details on the cracked encryption are: key size, algorithm, VPN type? Or whether they obtained through one of the less-scary methods: trojan, stolen credentials, a brute-forced weak credentials, etc? Or perhaps it was just a touch of ignorance of Google Translate or the journalist(s)?
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And let's go from a non-enforced dejure wretchedness to a defacto enforced wretchedness!

The only 3rd party non-Google app/package manager I know of being used on Android is Debian, and it definitely doesn't have an app store or payment gateway for in app. Kindle of course is their own bag, and B&N is around too; it seems like there's got to be some place to start to begin to set both app-makers and app-users going.
That is a very specific design for bathrooms. Modern houses tend to have a bathroom with strong ventilation that pushes air out from the house. As such, most bathrooms door tend to leave rather larger space at the bottom for air flow into the bathroom.
How old is this project? That's the old download page from Google, and the old YouTube design. And an old version of Windows.
If you spy on the UN, you own it. You have a disproportionate advantage in all negotiations (unless other countries are also effective at spying[1]). You might think that it is fine that the US effectively owns the UN, but its credibility is ruined.

The compromised UN is effectively a body for representing and legitimizing the wishes of the cabal of US allies as if they were the actual consensus of all UN member states.

[1] But it is still not possible for any nation to be more effective at spying than the US, given the UN's location.
Nice, but ... webm needs to get hardware support (ie so it can be played from smartphones, tablets, raspberrypi etc), until then it's doomed to irrelevance.
> f we are not their products, then do they really need to know enough information about us to actually make a profile that is matched to our real identities?

Yes, because they can get more information about you from other sources using your real name.
Sadly neither StackOverflow nor Wikipedia have found the "PageRank of Edition".
Allies spy on each other all the time. Alliances are simple two dimension structures, counties align themselves will all sorts of interests that sometimes seem contradictory. Look at the Israelis for example, they spy on the US. But they clearly benefit from the US's support. nevertheless, it makes sense for them to spy on the US, first they need to know what the US really thinks to protect their interests (the US isnt always publicly stating its true ntetions) and sometimes the US may have intel the Israelis do not). thats just one example of allies spying.

In general terms, any intelligent government is going to want to know what's happening in the world to its interests because people, and countries, lie and withhold information. So in general terms, everyone spies on everyone.

Who is your ally in one matter may not be in another. For example, China is neither an ally nor an enemy to the US. US Sino relations are complicated, sometimes the two agree and work together, sometimes they do not. If two countries cooperate on some things, but not others should they blindly trust each other? Of course not. What if they mostly agree? Should they still blindly trust each other? I would hope not. Again, consider how allies sometimes to lie to each other to get them to support their cherished positions. Nations have a duty to their citizens, and shouldn't blindly follow their allies statements of so-called fact. How else does a nation meet this duty if it doesn't cast a wary eye on its allies? It spies on them.

Equally, sometimes traditional allies are opposed on certain things, or may be lying as the Greeks were about their national finances. Im sure the EU wishes it knew that earlier.

The word ally isn't the same thing as "always on my side". These are nations we're talking about, that operate in their own interests, lie to each other and dont always operate in their friends interests. It seems reasonable for allies to be a bit wary of each other and to not assume allies will just always act in their allies best interests. And alas, spy on each other find out what's really going on.
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See my earlier answer here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6272342

> The first netbooks shipped with Linux

The first netbook shipped with Linux but the launch announcement for the Asus included both Windows XP and Linux. Windows sold better and was more profitable.

> Once they'd conquered the market, Microsoft pulled the bottom out by seriously limiting the capabilities of netbooks.

No, the capabilities of netbooks were always limited. The netbook spec was upgraded twice to allow larger hard drives and screens etc.

You could certainly argue that it wasn't upgraded enough, but then, it was limited to protect sales of laptops that were more profitable for Intel, Microsoft and the netbook OEMs.

Netbooks had two main points: (1) provide a portable PC solution suitable for schools -- see Intel Classmate and, indeed, OLPC; (2) to provide a companion PC for existing PC users.

It was nobody's idea to provide cut-price netbooks that would damage laptop sales.

You might think it's a tragedy but it's just business.
> by providing a service

I don't think asking for GitHub source to be open is the same thing as asking for a free service. They can charge all they want for using their service while having an open-source version for those who want to host it themselves.
Suggestion noted, thanks. By the way, both issues you mention (git version and satellite state) are now in the gitlab:check rake task so at least they are easier to detect. I'll make sure that the git version is added to the readme.
> "Security analyst Paul Beaver said..."

I'm pretty sick of Neocon "security analysts" making shit up in order to give themselves excuses to have jobs.
> That completely crosses the line from whistleblower to espionage.

I thought that recent events had demonstrated that that "line" doesn't exist -- if it is unwelcome by those in power, its espionage especially if it is whistleblowing.
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So does Diaspora.
Each note is generated as a separate sound file when the piano first loads. They're all short wave files. So when you hit a bunch of notes at once, it's just playing several sound files at once.

If you click the square in the upper right, you'll get options to change the waveform and volume response. There are some other options too, like shifting by an octave or changing the color of the piano :)

Better things could be done by using the web audio APIs, but I explicitly started this project wanting to build audio using data URIs.
Compilers are getting smarter over time. Better analyses and clever optimization schemes are being designed and implemented. In my opinion though, as a compiler writer, the best route is to make languages easier to analyze. Things like purity and referential transparency (e.g.: as seen in Haskell) make code analysis and transformation much simpler. They enable things like pattern-matching type transformations on code. If the compiler has to reason about pointers, invisible side-effects and alias analysis, it greatly limits the kinds of things that can be inferred about a program.
How does it compare to APL/K+/J for some common problems?
Well, inlining plus subsequent optimization is exactly what he's talking about. He calls it "specialization." As soon as you start to do that really aggressively, you run into all the issues he brings up.
Only most for me as I think there are still some metro-mode "features" that I'll encounter during use. But overall Windows 8 was awesome and only got f*cked over by the forced GUI changes that made everyone (including me) get really defensive even though you could work around them.
BSD-licensed, not GPL? For some people that's important.
Good to hear 512MB works too. The recommended size is 1GB, see https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/blob/master/doc/install...
I am far from an expert in either case, but that doesn't seem logical.

The Russian government is killing press freedom and stealing the oil income. They need external enemies and blame the west. Any criticism from the Western world seems to be dismissed as anti-Russian hate mongering.

Re Israel, good luck influencing them: (1) Consider the US reaction on 9/11. Israel had something like that continuously since long before 1948. (2) I believe most of the Jewish population there aren't descended from European refugees but people kicked out from countries in the Middle East, for having the wrong religion. They think things like "They stole three times the size of Israel from us personally when they forced us out, we're getting back the parts of the West Bank some of us was kicked out from".
I wonder if adwords would display advertisments with potential to hurt their business in such way.
Same experience here. Our company is experiencing a serious MSDN service degradation, far from the "Developers, Developers, Developers" mantra. They are giving us less licenses and we can't get new ones automatically. We even tried to upgrade to a more expensive plan but they refused to give us the discount we have every year for renewals.
It's different because the stiffed party in your example does not own the store being locked and vandalized and cannot take those actions without breaking unrelated laws. That's not the case with IP for which the creator still has clear title and is (presumably) hosting on their own servers.

Seperatly, it's 2013. We are waaaay past the point where intelligent people think that laws pertaining to the ownership of tangible and intangible goods can, do, and should map directly to one another. The differences between these classes of property are not trivial, and neither are the laws and social norms that govern people's treatment of each. Making analogies that ignore these differences is just unhelpful, stupid, and irritating. It's a bit like saying to a judge "I don't see why you're issuing this fine. After all, what I did is perfectly legal in (insert name of foreign country here)."

None of this is to say that connections and parallels can't be drawn between the fields of tangible and intangible goods. It's just to say that doing so in a useful fashion demands acknowledgement of the wide gulfs that separate them, and clear identification of the specific points where they do overlap.
But it WAS too expensive. The fact that the iPhone price dropped within two months of it being introduced is proof of that. And you have to remember, that most touch phones sucked at the time, and they ALL sucked if they didn't have a stylus, and it was a really, really, big deal to have an all touch interface that truly worked.

And, it wasn't as if Microsoft didn't have a mobile OS. Windows Mobile always worked decently, but never was just truly great. And it never focused on being just for phones. It was adaptable to any type of mobile environments, like Android is trying to do right now.

It is also more difficult to implement new technologies on top of old ones, which was Microsoft's first choice when they tried to make the phone part of Windows Mobile more modern, until they realized that that house of cards wouldn't stand. Then they did a rewrite of, which lead to Windows 7.

So, from Microsoft's point of view, it was a limited phone, that had no way of adding apps, no business functionality, no keyboard for typing, no true enterprise security, and for a whole lot of money, only available on AT&T. I too thought that the original iPhone wasn't that great, only marginally better than the ROKR E1, functionality-wise. Though, I did think that that original iPhone screen was truly awesome.

So, let's not come down to, to hard on Balmer for not recognizing the iPhone at first for the threat it came to be.
You're leaving out the time to download, run, then delete the software and any traces that the operation was done. Going to the browser's settings and viewing passwords in plain text requires no installation or execution of code and leaves no trace. It is not as difficult or time consuming. It's kind of back the bike lock analogy: just because someone can take a bolt cutter to it doesn't mean it is pointless to use one.
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"How many thousands of times is reasonable for different standards?"

That is hyperbole. You've quantified something that is not really quantifiable. As long as that is your argument you'll got no satisfactory answer. All you are doing is begging the question.
Are you saying there's less 8 year old programmers now than there used to be? That's just silly.
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Just give it time - it will get discontinued like every other google project.
Or they will make it play an advertisement before you can watch anything.
Hi bloodorange, I'm sorry if I'm sounded strict. I agree that automatic updates would be very nice, but making these rock solid is not something we are comfortable with. Many people run GitLab with some kind of customization and we want to support that as well. We try to make upgrades as easy as possible but you do have to run each upgrade.
One way to get over that is to simply not bother updating. Make a reminder for every three months or so.
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I don't know if the author stopped at that level on purpose. That's basic SICP abstraction layer. And I believe types and then pattern matching was another abstraction on top of that to get literal symmetry, but to my eyes at this point it's two faces of the same coin.
Or they will use it to track every video you watch and post it on Google+ - for your convenience. All the while serving ads that are suited to your taste based on the video you are watching.
OK, but using foreign hardware which you have no control over, made in chinese countries is safer?
The parent asked about NSA. i replied.

But the lack of default https IS relevant to day to day hacking: the case of a wifi sniffer.
If it doesn't apply to me, it's a meaningless response
and a non-sequitur. I think it rather more likely it did and the insinuation (which you have extended with your own charming and baseless insinuation) was based on untested assumptions which could not be more wrong.
And now

(a) it's preserved because it has 'historical significance', yet

(b) the bits are rotting as new books are released and old books' information becomes out of date
I wish we could stop propagating this silly "math kid", "non math person" memes. I've seen so many smart people buying into this bogus idea of 'math kid' and dropping out of studying math bases fields of study thinking that they are not a 'math kid'
Great, I actually live in Kraków :).
I don't think you can use eBay without using paypal.
Actually, nobody knows anything except that onemine.com is willing to hijack the websites of its clients. Everything else is you simply accepting their side of the story without question.
That would be a fine argument if the police could not always find a reason to arrest people. The DEA has already admitted that it asks local cops to find a reason to pull people over and search their cars. What makes you so sure the same approach would not be used in the case of a cell phone search? We have already seen numerous cases of mass arrests of protesters; under this reasoning, the police should be allowed to search their phones and get more information about planned protests / strategies / etc. (from emails, text messages, etc.).
"We're sorry. This website requires the WebM plugin to function properly." - 1999
Every time you make an argument by analogy and feels the need to include a huge, broad, partially ad-hominem disclaimer about how people can't point out the flaws in the analogy, think again.

If the analogy is not essential to your point, just make the point without the analogy.
Why not purchase them locally in cash? Localbitcoins.com probably has some sellers near you who would be happy to help.
To expand a little on this: The region of Denmark from where I grew up has a lot of different dialects, all from within a very small area. A lot of Danish words resemble their English counterparts, and especially so when pronounced with a bit of dialect: hus/house, båd/boat, æg/egg, hest/horse and so on.

We did all live in the same kingdom a thousand years ago (during Canute The Great's reign). So I guess it makes some sense: http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/wiseman/Nordic/Nordic-1028AD....
Naturally, when MS implements WebM, this project will not be needed any longer and can be discontinued.

Seriously, why so much negativity?
>> [E.g. Sudan's atrocities is at least a factor thousand worse than anything from Israel] is hyperbole.

And that is not an argument. I motivated my position, you're calling names.

I wrote specifically that Sudan is at least a thousand times worse than Israel -- even with a Palestinian description (where e.g. killing people attacking civilians is not self defence). Look at number of dead, rapes, deportations etc etc -- what is NOT a thousand times worse?

If we can't quantify e.g. human rights violations we should close down international law.

Etc.
Not as far as I know, they are very good.