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Quote: "I have long been a proponent of OpenOffice and LibreOffice. While I still think they are fine options for the financially challenged, they are no match for Office 2013."

That's quite an argument you have there -- LibreOffice exists only for those poor souls who can't afford Office 2013. It's a variation on the elitist notion that things with no cost have no value. That outlook fails many basic kinds of reality-check, like free sunsets.

I call it the "Pet Rock syndrome". An ordinary rock has no value -- but if you put it in a box and sell it, it acquires value by having a price: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Rock

When we evaluate something based more on its price than what it actually does, we let the tail wag the dog. It's like therapy -- once you could productively talk over your personal problems with your Aunt Tilly on a porch swing. Now you're under pressure to consult a mental health professional, even though studies show therapy doesn't possess an advantage over the time-tested Aunt Tilly approach:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8561380
The whole premise of this article is that "siphoning drivers away from Lyft" is wrong. Its not. Isn't "not poaching" what everyone is up in arms about when Apple and Google did it?
Well, except for this line:

"As a result, all anyone needs to open many locks previously considered “unbumpable” ..."

You are implying that this has made the impossible, possible. I think that may be valarauca's point of contention.
As it should. We are a community voicing our opinions about a company. If we find they are doing wrong, shouldn't we say something about it?
And as an engineer, this makes sense to me. True innovation in the field is respected just as much as if not more than implementation details.
No, Dropbox does NOT encrypt your data on the client site.

Alternatives would be Spideroak and Wuala or addon software like Boxcryptor. They work but not as flawlessly and user-friendly as Dropbox usually does …
Those are all apps that I'd expect to use Google's location service, which costs money to keep updated so I can understand Google restricting it. Maybe Amazon should provide (or buy) their own location service and provide a common API?
Maybe VAT law is different in your country but that is not true in the UK where reverse charging of VAT is required on services where the supplier is "outside the UK" (including outside the EU). Indeed, HMRC's guidance on this includes an example of a US-based Web hosting company providing hosting to a UK business: http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/vatpossmanual/vatposs14300.ht...

HMRC do note that "the UK applies the reverse charge provisions more widely than elsewhere in the EU", however, and for this I get the joy of having to reverse charge about 50 invoices a quarter for US services (all our hosting, SaaS bills, etc) ;-) For example, if a host in the US bills us $100, we then have to reverse charge $20 converted into GBP at approved rates, then claim the equivalent back.. so the net position is zero but it has to be accounted for (holds head in hands and rocks back and forth).
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Ask HN: Writing code on portrait screen
Are there anyone who like to code on portrait screen orientation?

Maybe anybody want to hear that:
I'm writing in portrait mode since a couple of days, and it's unpredictably awesome! o.O
I like the transparency in theory. In practice I don't want my salary to be so easily determined by a quick web search. It could really inhibit my ability to negotiate a higher salary at my next job where they'll likely offer something like 5% higher than my current job. It's hard to justify a 50% pay increase.

I doubt most employers would hide that they're paying you less due to where you live. Instead I think most would bring it up in negotiations hoping to use it as a means of keeping your salary low. And honestly, the argument that your salary should be adjusted based on cost of living would work on a lot of employees even though it shouldn't.
Then why do so many artists practice crystal magic and goofy food fads? Why are so many deniers of science? Maybe its just the posers, the non-masters that do that?
Dropbox does not claim to encrypt your data on the client side. They only claim encryption on their servers but that is not helpful in terms of encryption of your data …

In CrashPlan, you can at least set your own private key if you like. You still need to trust the provider/vendor, however, the software is at least built to do local encryption. Dropbox does not work that way.
I agree with the idea of what you're saying, but Hyundai vs Honda seems odd to me. I've owned and liked 2 Hyundai but really don't understand why people buy Honda's.
Even if they did encrypt the data client side, it would be pretty easy for them to also take a copy of the encryption key.

If you want to have security against the cloud storage provider, it is better to use some other encryption solution.
Not just gay; anything designed to annoy rednecks.

The ones that I remember:

* I'm Bi

* Man Love Rules OK

* Hilary For President

* NASCAR Sucks

* Country and Western Is Rubbish

Also, yes, they actually did have to stop and remove the slogans, which was not faked (not the lack of actual camera use, just a phone video).
I think you might be missing the point. No one is saying it was impossible. The whole point is that access, cost, and effort have gone WAY down with the advent of 3D printing. Your comment just drives this home - before you needed an expensive machine and a skilled operator, or a ton of time and skill to fashion one. Now you can just pick one up off the internet for $5.
^ to peter
[edited] Aha, just checked with my accountant and that is indeed the case, it is a net zero operation. Still doesn't matter for the $ / € story though.
> The America Invents Act changed the law to allow the public to submit examples of prior art while a patent application is being examined. And that’s why the USPTO asked us to set up Ask Patents, a Stack Exchange site where software developers like you can submit examples of prior art to stop crappy software patents even before they’re issued.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2013/07/22.html
http://www.uspto.gov/news/pr/2012/12-60.jsp

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2013/07/22.html
awk / gawk is super useful. For C/C++ programmers the language is very easy to learn. Try running "info gawk" for a very good guide.

I've used gawk for many things ranging from data analysis to generate linker / loader code in an embedded build environment for a custom processor / sequencer.

(You can even find a version to run from the Windows command prompt if you don't have Cygwin.)
Offensive to who? I'm mocking gone35 for asserting women are delicate and must be protected from the word neckbeard. Offensive to white knights? I have no problem with that.

I stand by the comments I've written here and would not change them if the edit button were still available.
… if you have the knowledge, money and time to manage your Owncloud server in a secure way. Since such configuration includes a more advanced firewall, most users will not have the necessary skills I am afraid …

Focused on Owncloud only, the latest version is indeed great! :)
A little off topic, but I'm curious where the HN crowd lies on the ethics of scraping.

I'm a bit on the copyleft side -- I say, if something is made public, it's fair game. If you want to protect your data from being scraped, you very easily indicate that by putting it behind a login.

But in my opinion, anything google is allowed to access and put in the index, I can access.
The existence of a shapeway $5 key kinda undermines 3D printing a plastic key from a ~1,000 3D printer doesn't it?
Wow. Yes. Exactly like that. Good looking out.
I prefer:

var Box = (a, b) => {};

I guess I just think that the more verbose form is more readable.
I'm a backend web developer.
The one thing I really came to appreciate is the polished UI that ships with rethink, especially the query editor.
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I'm Patrick McKenzie (patio11). I make and sell software. Ask me anything.
I'm already on the CrashPlan Family Plan. I love it. In all reality, I doubt I will get rid of Crashplan any time soon.
That is my point. Key locks have this fundamental design flaw. The difficulty of exploiting this flaw differs from lock to lock, yet the flaw still exists. Its inherited from the fundamental design of the lock.

When the flaw becomes easier to exploit its isn't so much news, it was bound to happen anyways, I mean your just wrapping iron bandages around a flaw and causing it fixed. This happens in software security all the time. The flaw still exists, just we added an abstraction above the flaw, that makes the flaw harder to exploit.
You literally asked someone to describe how they would have bumped it previously and I gave you a reasonable answer that included a scenario in which you haven't purchased the machine, but instead purchased a blank cut by the machine for LESS than what Shapeways are charging for your key.

Not to mention that you seem to be ignoring the second paragraph entirely.

And, honestly, this seems like a silly argument to be having. I actually think the boys did great work on this, and I really appreciate that you mention the possibility of forensic evidence (in the practice of which Germany is a leader) left by these keys. I just think that some people commenting on this thread are a bit frustrated by some of the hyperbole, and your insistence that there is no hyperbole is continuing to derail whatever point you are attempting to make.
patents.stackexchange is probably not the end source for them to base a decision on, but rather a place to find real sources of prior art for patent applications. So it seems very likely to me.
No, it's not.

Stop trying to feel smug because you just one-upped all those people without any proof (or accuracy) whatsoever; it just makes you look stupid.
> someone explained to me in a very serious tone of voice that getting rid of your mortgage is stupid because it is a deductible, better to wait with paying it off when you sell the house in 25 years

All else being equal, if you can deduct that from your taxes and spend the money on something else - like, say, index funds - you're going to be better off financially, no?
I guess I just don't like the name "Dropbox", haha.
what kind of keyboard do you have? i have the moshi clearguard keyboard protector and highly recommend it. http://store.apple.com/us/product/TV901LL/A/moshi-clearguard... there are others on the market though, so just do your research
It is unclear whether the packrat add-on for unlimited versioning is still available for Dropbox Pro.
There can be totally valid reasons for not getting rid of your mortgage even if you have the opportunity - if you have something better to do with the money. If you are paying 3.5% on your mortgage but you can invest somewhere with a return greater than 3.5% after tax, why would you pay down your mortgage?
Index funds do not have a guaranteed rate of return but mortgages do have a guaranteed rate of expense.
I would "argue" that fact, given the chance.
Do take a look at "ack-grep" if you've never done so before. Although it isn't significantly different it is so much nicer to see things be excluded from .git/ and similar.
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I've done this while at work - I don't anymore as my code responsibilities are fewer. It forces you to consider cleaner code arrangements and also gives an unexpectedly better overall picture of what you're doing.

Functions become clear from one to the next, especially if they're closely related. It also gives a "non-hard-coded" limit to function length. Instead of X-lines, I now see if the function is getting long enough to cover most of the screen. This also helps weed out my own failures in logic and draws attention to other aspects like clarity.

Ideally, I'd use two screens. One for code in portrait mode and one landscape for other work. Maybe a third monitor for YouTube ;-)
I get audio files of messages people leave me on MagicJack. I think this is something similar.

I communicate with someone consistently who does not like to type. So, you may have a good use case.

Your website has 90s look. It gives a look of a shaddy service. Doesn't look serious or even professional.

That is what I think. You asked for it.
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A: He implies it was previously impossible in the article with this line:

"As a result, all anyone needs to open many locks previously considered “unbumpable” ..."

B: He asked someone to tell him how it could have been bumped prior to this application.

C: I described, in my scenario, the purchase of a 1 Euro blank from someone who runs the machine, which is actually /less/ than the Shapeways scenario, which is otherwise the same - you don't purchase the equipment, you purchase the product the equipment makes.
"I'm not sure how that's fair. Should they also adjust your salary based on how expensive your car is? The value you provide to them remains constant despite where you choose to live. Why should you be punished for living somewhere less desirable?"

Well said and couldn't agree more.
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Yes, I had my monitor in that same orientation, but I have to get a new stand. When you have one portrait screen orientation it allows you to search more of the code, and review it in greater length.
Another Lisp variant developed for the Connection Machine was the cleverly named "Connection Machine Lisp":

http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/paperbot/25aa007a093cd69bbf0...

The paper on it by Steele and Hillis is well-worth reading, as the language's fundamental mechanism of parallelism bears more than a passing resemblance to the MapReduce of 20 years later.
one of the best tricks I learnt was not to put drinks in-front of your keyboard... very important (no joke), good space is behind your keyboard or the non-mouse side.
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It's just a joke of the 'you owe me a new keyboard' variety; I didn't actually laugh coffee into it (although I did laugh while drinking coffee).
If you pay off mortgage you need some plan for the extra money every month. If you save and invest it that is one thing, but if you just spend more freely (waste it), you are not better off. Economically, the best way is to not buy too much house, and invest all extra money into equities (index funds) over 20-30 years. If there is no extra money to invest, then you have bought too much house.
Amusingly, Jobs actually panned the idea of a laptop with a touch screen. Doesn't mean he wouldn't have done it if he changed his mind/marketing, but he did state it was an ergonomic disaster, and the history suggests he (and Apple) believed it.
The situation on background 'services' is not ideal that's true but it's not as bad as you paint it. Since v1.0 it's possible to wake up an app with the alarm api and let it run whatever it needs to. This is used eg. by the calendar app for periodic synchronization.
The future is Service Workers, and support should be there in gecko by the end of the year.
Note that anyway, you should always design your service as something that can be shutdown by the OS if it needs to allocate resources somewhere else.
“Metaprogramming” isn’t a scary word (not even in Objective-C)
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Great Idea, I like it. Just afraid I might start getting 'telemarketing' emails ... aw well ;-)
I doubt there's a strong correlation between an artistic propensity and an adeptness for critical thinking. But if the artist is commercially successful, the correlation may exist, on the ground that commercial success implies effective reality-testing.

Also, it's important to say that what constitutes an artist is very, very subjective. Virtually anyone can say they're an artist, because there aren't any objective criteria that would pass muster with someone skilled in ... critical thinking.

Not everyone can say they understand everyday reality and can function within it, because that claim can be easily proven or falsified. But anyone can say they're an artist who hasn't found their audience yet. Such a claim appeals more to the charity of the listener than to a meaningful comparison with reality.
So I have the $20/month a plan, and my reward appears to be that I pay twice as much and still have 200GB...? Do I have to cancel and re-subscribe? Anyone from Dropbox out there..???
I've got something I like better than Dropbox. It's called rdiff.

It does one thing only: deduplication.

All the other stuff needed for remote, incremental backups, e.g., moving files back and forth over a network, can be done with other open source tools. I think I have a pretty good command of moving files around with open source software... I do not need a third party to help me via an obfuscated blob of Python and who knows what else.

I like having control over my backups versus trusting it all to some closed-source, third party, "all-in-one" application.

In my mind having control and transparency will always be more powerful than handing over my data deduplication and backup to a third party, such as "Dropbox".

But I imagine there are few others who would agree. Forgive me for not loving Dropbox. Maybe some day I will see the light.
128MB on a phone is not that much, because the modem RTOS will use some, and the GPU too. Add to that the main kernel needs some, and there's not a lot left for user space...
I'm surprised that the Fire phone hasn't done better... considering that when I talk to my teenager and other teens they all want a Fire phone. Yet they actually carry iPhone or Samsung Galaxy S5 phones.
It wouldn't be the first RFC to begin life as an implementation instead of a spec document.
I'm not sure if any shell hosting providers post here. I operate one of the companies in this space since 2001.

This is a fun alternative to proper jails but unfortunately, security wise this would not last very long on in a real world application.

Not going to lie, would be pretty cool to set something like this up and auto provision upon payment.
Agreed. This was the first thing I checked. Still no client side encryption! Truly unfathomable in light of current world events, competitive offerings and the feasibility of the required technical implementation.
sponge is cool. But on debian/ubuntu, it's packaged up in moreutils, which includes a few helpful tools. However a programme called parallel is in moreutils, and that's not as powerful as GNU's parallel. So I often end up uninstalling sponge/moreutils. :(
The marginalization comes from the fact that you can't participate in society if you are a drug user/abuser. Even if you are healthy enough to be a productive, upstanding member in every other way, the system is designed to tear you down at any moment, based on nothing but the fact that you use an illegal substance.
Some people use regularly, but can still maintain and even excel in a job, and keep a healthy social life without anyone even being aware of the drug use or addiction. But they have to live with the knowledge that they are one drug screening away from being out of a job, regardless of performance, and that they can always be arrested the next time they have to purchase their vice, which would likely also lead to loss of a job and social ramifications.

If we treated addicts the same way we treated someone with any other mental or physical ailment, it would make it so much easier for them to actually function in society without "getting clean". Which might actually help a few of the ones who want to get clean, because from what I understand, it is much easier to kick a habit when you have more going for you, like a career and social life.

Just my two cents, from anecdotal evidence knowing drug users in a few different circumstances. Never been a user myself.
An unresolvable tension between openness and closedness
I think it is only available if you were already signed up for it. I just chose to continue with the packrat add-on for my pro account. It seems like the alternative they are now offering is only extended version history. (which would save changes for a year)
> Default-allow on the consumer routers

I remember the time of 56k modems. Port scans were fun back then. Sucked, would not dial-up again.

Host based firewalls: for some reason this sends the networking neckbeards into rage mode, god knows why. I'd say its slightly weaker than blocking everything on the router.
Wow, so does all the processing happen on the phone itself? That's impressive! I thought it was sent on a server to be processed.
Don't think of Dropbox as backup. Think of Dropbox as a convenient way of syncing files across multiple platforms, both traditional and mobile.

I'm a big fan of open source when it works but there is nothing as seamless as Dropbox when it comes to syncing.
A guy was blogging about it a while back :)

http://www.forumromanum.org/literature/seneca_younger/brev_e...
It might be hard to realize that not everyone who visits the site has been around as long as the site has existed. There's nothing wrong for old content to be revisited; either for new eyes or refresher for old.

Plus, I guess I'm sorry the masses don't find some articles as fascinating as you?
Apple phones push iTunes and iBooks

Actually, the reverse. Apple's goal is to sell more hardware; software/music/books/videos just exist to draw users into the ecosystem and keep them there. Apple doesn't care where you get your content (though iTunes & iBooks makes it more "sticky"), so long as you use Apple hardware and buy more of it. That iTunes & iBooks & etc make Apple truckloads of cash is just a bonus.

Google's MO is to gather as much info as possible. Selling music & books just gives Google more data to mine. Again, the truckloads of cash is a great bonus.

Amazon, however, is all about selling content. The Kindle line (Fire phone included) exist just to persuade customers to buy more - hence the magic find-and-buy-this button and other cart-greasing features.
Not to sound too much like an Amazon product page, but if you like this, you'll probably quite like "Unix for Poets" - http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~padro/Unixforpoets.pdf . It's my favourite 'intro' to text/data mangling using unix utils.
Great Course!! I didn't know that docker is based on LXC
Where rump kernels are heading
What do you mean by better? My grandparents manage to use Dropbox. I think that's pretty amazing.
I don't think you understand how encryption works.
> Already a Pro user? Dropbox will update automatically in the next couple days. You don’t have to do a thing.

Looks like you just have to wait a few days.
The philosophical concept of freedom of speech and the legal protections of that concept are not the same thing, although the one protects the other from which it derives. The protections are a viewpoint legally enshrined that was common in the political circles at the time and that I still agree with: No matter how much I disagree with your viewpoint, I think you should be allowed to express that viewpoint. If I am a family member or a friend I'm not going to disown or disavow you for them.

I think it is very important that bosses embrace this view too, because otherwise you just get a lot of sycophantic yes-men, an echo chamber. The correct approach is to let everyone be free to voice their opinion before the decision is made: if you don't want their opinions, then what are you paying them for? Once a decision is made it is necessary for everybody to work towards that, but making a good decision requires lots of input, and those who disagreed with the final choice shouldn't be punished in any way, otherwise there quickly won't be any disagreement.
Why use that horrible expression when there is already a word for that,which by the way is one of the pillars of OOP : ENCAPSULATION .

You bring the word twice in your article ,so no need for that "BBDD" expression.
And guaranteed returns aren't.
But doesn't the Fire phone come with free Amazon Prime (free shipping)?