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These guys at Ford seem to really have their finger on the pulse of technology, don't they? Ditching one bad company for an even worse one.

From what I've seen, QNX is technically pretty great and has the most advanced and smoothest multi-tasking system on mobile, in a very battery-efficient way. I just don't think Blackberry, the company, will be around for long or in a very strong shape to support big customers in the future. That's why I believe Ford made a bad bet for the future, here.

That being said, my hope is Blackberry open sources QNX before it goes belly up, so it can benefit all of humanity. To do otherwise, and leave it for dead on the shelf of a corporate scavenger or a patent troll like IV or Rockstar when the inevitable sell-off comes, would be a damn shame.
Well, you can see how it works "under the hood"... not being ashamed of what they are/their works. I kinda understand the rationale for that picture (I'm wondering how hard it would be to draw "open standard" in a pictionary game)

I fully agree on it being questionable, though.
It's not, but it's linked to from their website, so it's official.
https://www.whatsapp.com/faq/android/22014642
Hey just signed up for free weekly. Cool idea! First - you did get classified as spam in my gmail. I feel for you because I recently launched something small, carefully completed my SPF and DomainKeys DNS stuff in Mailgun, and ended up in the same exact boat. Gmail SPAM folder. Maybe you and I should call Gmail's phone support number to discuss with them. Hahahaha.

Second - I clicked the activation link and when I went to my dashboard the default state was 'disabled'. You might want to make that 'enabled'.

Good luck!
I first read the headline and thought "oh god, how can they strike a deal with a company that will be dead in a few years". However since QNX is a separate business line than the phones, that could easily be spun off to its own biz.

I have a Ford now and the Microsoft sync software is atrocious. I have to run patches every few months and it takes hours to do it each time. Still randomly crashes on me too.
https://core.telegram.org/techfaq#q-why-do-you-use-sha-1-in-...

> Q: Why do you use SHA-1 in the place of a MAC?

> Technically speaking, in our implementation SHA-1 can be seen as a specific case of a MAC (but not HMAC), since it is also used as an encryption key.

> We use it, because it is faster, especially when you need to send photos or large videos (Telegram supports videos and documents up to 1Gb). And since this means still requiring at least 2^128 operations (instead of 2^256 with, say, SHA-2) to even begin trying to break this scheme, the trade-off seems fair.
No worries. It's sort of niche. There's a lot of overlap with early-ish Slashdot (some shared personalities/admins).
A More Universal Router Payload – Backdooring the Linksys WRT54G Firmware
I agree it's the only sane approach, but I have seen a lot of insanity in computing. It's not impossible telecom best practices were ignored for data processing until it became obvious computers are every bit as critical as telephones.
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are you seriously proposing making something illegal because you don't like how it smells?
too bad their hiring practices are flawed
6 Nations 2014 – England (13) – Ireland (10), Stuart Lancaster 
Highlights Rugby, 6 Nations 2014 - England (13) - Ireland (10), Stuart Lancaster
I wasn't being snarky, thanks for making it clear!
This sounds like a discussion of pirates I heard on the radio the other morning. It was about how pirates of a few hundred years ago had a very good idea of democracy, and how to ensure that the captain didn't become too far removed from the crew (though like all such systems, it was far from perfect).

It went something like this:

Captains get elected, and they get elected on cycles. At any point, if people are dissatisfied with the captain, they can overthrow them and reelect a new one (though not during chases or battles).

The bit that rings home with this article though, is that the captain generally had to eat with the crew members. If any one of the crew members decided they liked the captains meal better then theirs, the captain would have to swap.

Apparently, this helped to ensure some humbleness in the captain. Even though they called the shots, they were not this mystical being that nobody saw, interacted with, or felt out of touch with.

I think the tying of the presidents salary to that of his cleaners is a good example of this. He still gets to be the boss man, but can do it without being too far removed from the rest of the population of workers.
This is pretty ridiculous. Whatsapp solved two important problems. It was the first non-SMS cross-platform messaging service for mobile (telephone number as address, etc), and carriers were (and still are) price gouging on SMS pricing. Whatsapp quickly picked up initial users because of this and growth accelerated as it benefited from the massive network effects of more and more users joining the service. It's not clear that Whatsapp has any major problems as SMS does that would allow an upstart to make a significant incursion into Whatsapp's user base. Whatsapp also has massive network effect now, the switching cost seems too high.
They are one less factor needed in order to access an account that has 2FA enabled, so in that regard, I consider them less secure.

You're right about the part where they cannot hijack your account, but change data? Sure they can. They can delete all your emails, calendar events, contacts, images on picasa, the list goes on. It has unrestricted access to all Google-services associated with your account.
Seriously? Without even knowing the details you are able to conclude this is wasteful? In what universe is addiction treatment and police wasteful? I get that not all police are good and corruption exists but try living in a place without a functioning police force and then call it a waste.
Yeah, to be clear, I wrote this up because it's unfortunate and weird, not to vilify folks at the Treasury Department who have an unenviably difficult job. I don't think this one false positive for me is a huge burden (and most of the inconvenience is due to my bank, not the Treasury Dept).

On the other hand, I know that the next time I'm coming back gone to the U.S. from abroad, especially being a brown dude with a beard who has family in Sourh Asia, I'm gonna have to deal with this. That was part of my reason for publishing it now.
Back up again. 150 min delay

Updated story: http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/22/whatsapp-is-down-facebooks-...
FYI -- the source code here is public. Didn't help :D
> In conclusion, I love my country and like our lawyers and hate our bank

Why do you hate your bank? Chase is probably the best large bank I've ever dealt with and their online/mobile tools are excellent. It's very likely they're just complying with their legal obligations.

If you're just using their standard online bill pay, I'd be curious to see what would happen if you simply added a new payee and slightly changed their name and attempted to pay them.
I use Google Music extensively from within a Fluid wrapper, and the key thing this doesn't seem to do that that solution does is keep music playing and background the app when the window is closed.

Other than that, this is fantastic!
Is there any option to disable the vertical expansion of the song rows when hovering over them? The effect bothers my eyes and makes browsing distracting.

Otherwise, what an awesome execution; I've been looking forward to an app like this for a while, just surprised Google wasn't the one to produce it.

A+
You don't need the heavy hand of government for that. The market is taking care of it quite nicely. You can buy a variety of vaporizers on Amazon, and if you visit some dispensaries in California you'll find a few strains that are bred and tested to be rich in CBD and low in THC. I'm sure the same can be found in Washington and Colorado and other states with legal cannabis, medical or otherwise.
Has science gone too far?
So am I a genius, a dunce or what?

A 14 yr old, it sounds like.
Milk production in cows can increase by as much 3% when they listen to slow jams
Not the GP, but: No open-source server as far as I can tell (i.e. "cannot host it myself") and questionable security track record at the moment. The latter is something that can be fixed in parts, but .. without the ability to _not_ send my private conversations to a random company and tie my "identity" to their service I've got to decline.

To be clear: I've never used WhatsApp either - so I'm not really supporting the 'WhatsApp > Telegram' idea.
Um, sure, after it updates. Assuming a similar bug isn't found there and exploited when it connects to the Internet. Since, you know, it can't do anything without a network connection. Just playing devils advocate here, I like ChromeOS too.
Absolutely not. Purge systems like this WILL go off if they are not bypassed. Typically you have a short amount of time to hit the 'don't purge me, bro' button, before the system dumps.

They're designed to protect critical hardware, not people.
Mackup: Sync your rc files to Dropbox, GDrive or any folder
Will Venezuela Follow Ukraine?
Yeah, if there's no path to a solution, the text should say "Your computer is correctly following the undesired behavior described in HT6147" in a soothing green color.

...
100 new registrations every second... wow.

And I thought the Facebook hate was mainly in the tech circles. I guess it's a real "thing". 100 registrations per second can't all be HNers.
If by shocking they mean not shocking at all, and very similar to the level of opulence at the White House, then yes.
It appears to be in a cursory glance. Loaded for me in Xcode. That said, signing the security framework would be another issue ;-) I can't imagine apple would let malware replace security binaries that easily.
You're doing fine, this guy is just bikeshedding. Thanks for the tool, it certainly helped me.
messaging has network effects no?
I was surprised by that, too. I work in a lab that studies intelligence, and IQ tests are generally designed to measure G (general cognitive ability). It's like saying, "we're interested in measuring height, and I'm not talking about inches".

I'd imagine he's saying that they want to assess general cognitive ability in ways traditional tests do not.
Right. What I was getting at is that your menu system worked fine and made no suggestion that none of the games would work for me without me clicking into each game and pushing play to see the error.

How am I supposed to know all your games run on the same engine?
This is a bit self-promoting, but I wrote a simple Python app which sits in your system tray and lets you check BTC/Doge/UTC prices. It is more focused on Doge, but the source is easy to hack to whatever crypto you prefer.

It runs well on Windows and I've heard that it works in *nix as well.

https://github.com/aaron-lebo/dogetrack
I continue to be baffled as to why Apple hasn't rolled out a security update for this issue on OS X.
The eyes vary with the adaptions of each species, but overall fish have a strong vision sense, similar to us. They can focus, have day and night vision (rods and cones), most see in color and some can see into the UV spectrum. So, in the vision department, fish are capable.

I don't know how much a fish navigates the space based on vision alone (and I don't think it plays a big role, since visibility underwater is limited), but I know some from the Cichlidae family like the Oscar are able to recognize it's owner, which is quite a feat.
How about just giving the money back to taxpayers?

Nah, they'll probably just waste it.
Hackers may have jailbroken Apple’s iOS 7.1 – before it’s even out
At least they do offer the option relatively seamlessly (or so I hope). It might be cumbersome and awkward to explain to your non-tech friends why you want to enable it, but at least it's an option (although not necessarily proven to be secure).
How young does a startup founder have to be?
What do you think?
WA has had issues with delayed messages, too. Not so helpful to get those, "I'm running 15 minutes late" messages 3 hours later.
What are the key steps after launching a web app?
I mean after iterating a product with lean methodologies, what should be monitored on daily basis? Heatmap, analytics, fb, google ads conversion rates, blog posts what else?
Setting aside the psychometrics discussion, it's illegal in the US to hire based upon IQ tests.
Can't wait for Apple to patch this bug? Downgrade to 10.8.5 ...

The answer here, folks, is don't update until all the bugs have been found and fixed. Apple's golden days of OS updates was back in 10.6, when they spent most of the time just fixing bugs rather than adding new features. Every OS update since has had as many bugs as it fixed, though overall things were getting better.

It's the old Wait-until-SP1 advice. For security, it's often true. The exception being if the patch cycle is fast enough...I'm not going to say for sure whether one is better than another.
I have a Ford with the older, speech only Sync system (2009), and I've been pretty happy with it. Has is quirks, but does what it needs to do for the most part.

Am I correct in my history that it's really with the touchscreen version that Microsoft fell on it's face? That's when I recall hearing super toxic reviews.
Just like the real world
not at all. it just means you were always there in the past, and any action you took has already affected your own future.
There's no positive feedback, so I doubt the fish will ever develop control over it.
> Programming is a wild card - you can play it to improve any hand you have.

This is the truth. Every success I've had has been where I've applied my computing skills to an environment where no-one with those skills had yet appeared. The efficiency gains you can make to mundane, non-computing tasks by applying a bit of programming knowledge will often knock the socks off people who've been doing things the same old way for years.
Too much imagination? You've since lost too much of it if you think there is such a thing as "too much imagination" :)
Do Certain Countries Produce Only Positive Results? Systematic Review of RCTs
Another obligatory NSA joke.
[Goldacre] The NHS plan to share our medical data can save lives
sorry about the duplicate posts, my HN client was acting up!
Excerpts of Vickers et al 1998: https://plus.google.com/103530621949492999968/posts/9JaywVjg...
That's clearly what I have proposed. Let's ignore the decades of research that clearly indicates that smoke produced from burning any form of cigarette is carcinogenic and triggers allergy symptoms and complications caused by chronic illnesses like Athsma in others.

It takes a certain level of inconsideration to sit there and cause other people to breathe smoke. How much would it impact someone, say yourself, to kill someone by inducing an Athsma attack on your lunch break?

Further, it's already the case that laws exist to make certain behaviors illegal for the very reason that they inconvenience other people, not because they cause harm. That includes being excessively noisy and producing foul odors in some cases, among many other things.

What I've learned today is that there are a lot of inconsiderate assholes on Hacker News. Be it out of general apathy of others or just sheer stupidity. I'd have argued the latter could not have been the case many months ago, but given the recent discussions and new posters, it seems to be a contender. Perhaps then, it is vogue to "care about others" when it's convenient (for instance, when it makes you look good or benefits you), but otherwise fuck other people, because "what I want to do is more important than your entire life".

And here I thought this wasn't /., reddit, or 4chan. Wrong.
The comment about Time Warner Cable was the best part of this article:

"I'm going to write "Blue Sky" on checks sent to Time Warner Cable so they can never take online payments from anybody."
£220 isn't that cheap compared to used laptops. I bought a refurbished Chromebook for some £165 because I'd always complained loudly about not being able to buy a little ARM netbook with good battery life and native Linux, and I thought I should put my money where my mouth is. However, I found the battery life unimpressive for ARM, the OS irritatingly limited, and the build quality relatively poor. I dropped it and cracked the screen about two months ago, and as an emergency replacement bought a used Dell Latitude D430 (2GB RAM) from a local shop for £115. It's a dream, a nicer laptop in almost every way - rather faster, phenomenal keyboard (with F1-F12 and a delete key, thankyouverymuch), magnesium frame.
Here is a much better and quite popular (in engineering circles) post by Steve Yegge:

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-goog...

This of course applies only to engineers.
A friend and I get a lot of use out of a set of Backbone.js generators we created[1]. Even once you know what you're doing, I find generators a much more reliable way of producing the underlying code for projects.

1: https://github.com/th3james/BackboneDiorama
LOVE THIS! I have wanted this for so long! It's such a breath of fresh air to have a native app like this!
Just a few tips: http://blog.perfectaudience.com/2013/04/26/want-to-ace-your-...
Ford could easily buy the QNX business. PE could also come in and buy the automotive RTOS business (if they didn't want to be only used by Ford. I assume Ford purchasing is smart enough to negotiate this -- the biggest risk is that QNX development efforts might stagnate if Blackberry is failing, but if the QNX business is viable enough on its own, that seems unlikely.
Not a very flattering comparison. The USA is how many times wealthier per capita?
The switching cost being installing a different app?
"Hey, let's give wide, blunt political power to a bunch of un-elected functionaries, then we can start automating whatever their desires are! What could go wrong?"

And so we're going to end up with a government like Google, where people come to HN to beg for attention just so they can be treated like a human being.

I think it's time we just all acknowledge that the U.S. has the most onerous and insane financial laws in the world. The only reason other countries put up with them is because the U.S. is the sole remaining superpower.

There really needs to be some kind of correction here, but I don't see it happening anytime soon.

EDIT: Just to be clear, I am specifically referring to the Treasury Department handling of overseas payments and expats living abroad, not internal tax or financial regulations. There's a lot out there Google if you want to go look for it, including how various countries have protested being forced to comply with U.S. law, expats giving up citizenship at record rates (though still small in the grand scheme of things), and so on.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7282553
Many of the California dispensaries publish the test results for CBD and THC. Or you can go by the strain: ones to look for include Harlequin and Cannatonic.

As an example, the website for Harborside Health Center currently lists three Harlequin varieties with CBD/THC of 5.2%/6.7%, 5.8%/5.6%, and 8.4%/6.9%. These THC levels are well below the other strains that run 15-25% THC.
Sorry about the duplicate posts!
On the bright side, it's hard to think of a faster way to get an insane law fixed than to have it prevent a law firm from getting paid (except perhaps to have it prevent Congress from getting paid). Perhaps they might want to take this one pro bono?
First of all, I want to say that this comment is completely spot-on, and it also took me waaay too many years to learn it as well.

The other thing is, because so many things are such a slog, to get to the good parts, you've got to figure out what it is deep-down that does motivate you. The truth is, it's not going to actually be motivating you most days, but since you're going to be slogging regardless, you need to make sure you're slogging towards something that you consider to be worthwhile.

For some people it's family, for others it's money, for some it's a particular sport, for some it's owning their own business. For some it's writing, for others it's photography, or music. For some it's being a respected member of their community.

Think to yourself, who are the people you most respect? When you're 40, what kind of a person do you want to be? What kind of success will be most important to you? The answer might not always be immediately clear or obvious, but a vague idea can still help point you in the right direction.

But also: nobody can slog away at the same thing all the time, so make sure you make plenty of room for friends, fun, exercise/sport, romantic attachment, and whatnot. As long as you have those kinds of things, you'll find you can deal with the slog after all. And in the end, they're really what life is mostly about. :)
Umbrellas? Dildos? What am I looking at?
UPDATE: "WhatsApp service has been restored. We are so sorry for the downtime..."
https://twitter.com/wa_status/status/437358172983279616
I wonder if this would have as much attention without the Snowden leaks. I guess yes.

Not to be a conspiracy theorist, but history tells that computer technology was released to the public, so to me it still looks like there is no absolute objective, safe way to use a computer for a layman. It still looks more like a tool of surveillance than a tool of communication.

You'd want my opinion, but I'd be apple (or Linux for the days that happened for a certain commit with a =!0 thing), I'd try to sue the guy who was responsible for this commit.

You could argue in court that it's impossible to prove if it's voluntary, but I guess we must set an example and start to hold anyone responsible for this. It's time to set the courts aware of computer security standards...
> Your first paragraph does not gel well with the idea of democracy: rule of the people.

And who said that democracy, the rule of people, is ideal? It is the system that brought a convicted criminal that has been twice in jail to presidency. It was also the rule of people that allowed George W Bush to be a president of the US for 2 terms! I don't trust people, because they often choose idiots.

> In my book that's on oxymoron. Not only is he a criminal, but he committed crimes while in office, abusing the powers of his office.

I meant he was a criminal before becoming a president. And I will second, that the common crowd, the people still elected him.

> Also, the change on Friday was to restore the 2004 version of the constitution where the parliament has much more power and the president has less, so whoever becomes the president will not be in the same position as Yanukovych was just in.

Yanukovich stepped into presidency during the 2004 version constitution and it didn't prevent him from changin the rules of the game in his favour.
to be fair, she DID take the trouble to approach a science teacher on a subject she didn't know much about, instead of making a grading decision with insufficient knowledge.
It blocked several simple variations as being duplicates, likely because the address is necessarily the same.
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