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Every time this debate pops up on HN, I find this quote from Bell Labs scientist Richard Hamming interesting to consider:

I noticed the following facts about people who work with the door open or the door closed. I notice that if you have the door to your office closed, you get more work done today and tomorrow, and you are more productive than most. But 10 years later somehow you don't know quite know what problems are worth working on; all the hard work you do is sort of tangential in importance. He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important. Now I cannot prove the cause and effect sequence because you might say, 'The closed door is symbolic of a closed mind.' I don't know. But I can say there is a pretty good correlation between those who work with the doors open and those who ultimately do important things, although people who work with doors closed often work harder. Somehow they seem to work on slightly the wrong thing - not much, but enough that they miss fame.

Source: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html
Great tip and I will be following it. Usually we overlook goods around us which is usually 90% by discussing bad which is 10% only.
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You have received a few very good pieces of critical advice in this Ask HN. I encourage you to heed their points, but I will not reiterate them. Instead, I just want to say that I like your website - your design is great and the content is also quite good.

Good job and good luck with your app.
To this I would say jeez: worrying about how your eleven year old daughter might be restricting herself to particular technology platforms is really somewhat premature.
My practical solution is a nice pair of noise-canceling headphones.

I don't know what your office culture is like, but at ours it's 100% acceptable for the developers to wear headphones at pretty much any point when we're at our desks.
That benefit doesn't seem like enough to offset the fact that they'll be running an OS which is very difficult or impossible to actually modify for use. Any changes made would amount to a fork with one of the worst possible merge workflows; for beginners an open-source environment is much easier to start modifying, and for the more experienced it's much more productive to modify an environment that has a responsive upstream.

Really, we shouldn't encourage kids to waste their time on operating systems whose developers are hacker-hostile.
I do remember something about SGI making you pay extra for the C compiler for IRIX. Perhaps they only made it free for universities.
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2) base64 <yourimage >yournewimage
I made canweimage.com to solve some of the pain points with generic image search engines in mind. All search results come from Wikimedia, so licensing is usually pretty liberal. You can also limit results to public domain only. No images on Wikimedia are watermarked, that I have seen.

Strict search is the only option on canweimage. It's not full proof either, but I check every file name in the results against a very long list of NSFW words and phrases. Any matches are filtered out.

While you'll still be dealing with dimension issues yourself, each result displays its dimensions. That can help pick more appropriate sizes.
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The Repair Tool requires unrestricted physical access, it is running as administrator. The same way that a Live CD could.

> Do you really think that startup repair mode is required to swap the position of cmd.exe and sethc.exe?

A Live CD/DVD would work just as well. As would a USB-based OS. You could also (although it would require more work) use network boot to run your own code.

There's no vulnerability, this is unfixable, you just have to secure the system using full disk encryption and secure boot.
> Drapes? Are you being facetious?

I'm not sure if you are, yourself, but hanging fabric would actually block a lot of noise - it would cut down on noise reflecting from walls, and reaching you to begin with.

It wouldn't make things silent, but it would change the acoustics significantly.
Nothing is uncopiable for someone with a good OCR library and a lot of time.
>The Pi Foundation has done a good job of persuading everyone [that "the Pi is really about teaching kids to code"], but I'm left with a nagging suspicion that a computer designed for kids from the ground up would look very different. //

http://www.raspberrypi.org/about/ says that they designed it to enable kids to access a cheap platform on which it would be easy to code and that they considered the multimedia capabilities a good hook.

Price was clearly a major factor in making the RPi accessible to all [UK] kids. Their inspiration was in part the BBC Micro series - which were certainly not inexpensive.

RPi is cheaper than a second-hand Nintendo DS.

In short, as I understood it, the RPi was about removing the cost barrier to kids having their own system on which to code and hack both hardware and software.
Is that "no difference" in the sense that all turing complete languages are "the same", or in some more practical sense?
I don't like the low profile keyboards on most laptops now. I bought my own refurbished Lenovo Thinkpad X201 mainly for its fantastic keyboard, and I also requested and got a Lenovo T440 for work which has a different but still excellent keyboard.

Many cheap rubber dome keyboards are of course horrible, but some are pretty good. I use a Dell somethingorother at home, and its very good. I also use a cheap Lenovo SK 8825 and there's nothing wrong with it at all.

Cherry switches seem to have an industrial heritage, and they seem to have been adopted by the type of gamer who likes to treat their keyboard like a Hyper Sports cabinet. Indeed, the red switch was created for gamers.

The switches don't provide much of a typing experience, unless you like the feeling of a key slamming onto a hard surface. Which you can mitigate by using O rings to try to retrieve the rubber dome feel.

Here's a quick <del>keycap</del> recap on the Cherry switches.
- Blacks. Heavy duty basic linear switch used in Carphone Warehouse POS terminals, Police keyboards, and Steelseries G series. Guaranteed cramps.
- Red. "Fast" version of Blacks, for FPS gamers. Unsuitable for any typing.
- Brown. Like a version of Reds with a bit of grit on the stem to act as an "early warning alarm" so you can hopefully avoid the painful bottoming out.
- Blue. Makes an artificial "click" halfway down the stem to fool your brain that you're using a good keyboard. Highly antisocial - favoured by people who plant leylandiis at the bottom of their small gardens.
I can see where the next exploits will come from, the stylesheet doesn't even appear on Firefox Dev Tools.
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You people are smothering me with your cheeriness and positive thinking. Some of us LIKE to complain about things we can't change. Get a sense of humor.
Land can make money purely by rising value over time so people can speculate by owning land. There may be little incentive to actually use the land.

The ROI on a forest takes years whether or not the land value is taxed. You also said earlier that it was a tax on land value so presumably much lower for forestry land than urban land.

The primary impact of a land value tax is likely to be on the price of land itself because land will be less profitable. Introduction or increase will hurt those who own land (and its abolition would benefit land owners).

If we assume that the cost of access to land (rent) is set by the free market then we can assume that demand is essentially unchanged and the supply of land would if anything be increased (if some speculators sell or start to rent out their land) so access to land for the less wealthy should be cheaper.

I think your assumption that ownership is the way that less wealthy access land is fundamentally wrong. I think that this will also apply to the effect on prices of things made on the land on which I expect little impact (although there may be side effects on the rental market that make this more complicated).
Agreed,

We use gulp where I work and we don't want a full-featured MVC just the V which react claims to be so it would appear to be a slam dunk.... That said I can't stand the JSX syntax and the compiled version is overly verbose. Also "Facebook" in general makes me a little wary so I don't see us try React anytime soon...
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Dangerously close? We've already gone down the rabbit hole.

It will take a long time to undo the damage these people are doing to our society.
A spate of Range Rover thefts in London in Kensington has been a problem of late:

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/oct/27/thieves-range-r...
You can do this with a phone or tablet (Android). That's essentially how many root exploits are accomplished, boot into the default recovery (typically hold volume up during power on), run a script, and recovery replaces key files which are used later to provide you with root.

This is less common NOW, but back in the Android 2.xx days it was the defacto way of getting root.
That tax idea seems fraught with issues to me.

It talks about the BBC as a comparison, and I'm a great admirer of the BBC, but I'm not sure that's a relevant model for internet as a whole. The Beeb is governed by a specific charter covering what it should and shouldn't do. And whilst there's theoretically no government interference in day to day content, there is an explicit understanding that the government could pull their charter if they don't like what they are up to.

Only giving funding to web content that complies with a government-sanctioned charter doesn't seem a great future to me, and it becomes a worryingly small step from there to outright blocking anything that breaches it.
> The best intro book, in my opinion, is William B Irvine's "A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy".

Some previous discussion on this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8716631
I don't know what that was all about, but Google does, here's a blog post about it:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2014/05/understan...

And webmaster tools has a tool to verify that content is scraped correctly.

Not saying there aren't other good reasons to do server-side rendering, but SEO is not a real one.
Nothing is uncopiable for someone with a lot of time.
Any "secure eraser" - those programs that rewrite the contents of a file before deletion - does the job. Despite what is claimed (even by those programs and their developers), just 1 pass zeroing out the data is enough to securely delete information from a HDD.

Usually they reference a government document that says that physical destruction of the media is the only correct method to erase TOP SECRET (and above) data, but that is mostly paranoid burocracy.

If you're using a SDD however, you have to deal with firmware wear-leveling, garbage collection and the drive having a lot of GBs hidden from everyone, even the OS. There are some proposed techniques to force an unavailable block back into the available pool and then reading long-deleted data. Afaik, there's little you can do in this scenario, even full disk encryption might not help you with the old data blocks that are still waiting to be zeroed by the GC.

Then again, like you said, FDE is probably the easiest way. TrueCrypt was vulnerable to some on-memory-key attacks, but for data killing its more than enough. There are some projects that have forked TCs code, and there also the old version available thats still fully functional.
No, it's not, because sethc.exe resides in %systemroot%\system32 - an area that is protected by ACLs, only allowing regular users read access. Going into startup repair mode grants system-level access to files there. Without repair mode, users cannot swap these files.
I am just one data point, but: I am pleasantly surprised at how nice the Office 365 Android apps are. OneNote (a separate install) is also worth trying.
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Even iOS was vulnerable to drive-bys like that. No one is that safe.
"some directors don't know restraint."

IMO the Hobbit trilogy was pure indulgence.
Yep. "If you haven't got anything nice to say, don't say anything at all."

If I had a dollar for every time I heard my mother say that I could pay someone to listen to me complain.
Why don't they just directly integrate the Linux kernel while they're at it? (Not sarcastic, I'm seriously curious.)
Let them work at home. With the ones who cannot work at home or remain at the office anyway, you'll have a lot more space per person to implement offices.
Are you planning to have the ability to skip columns when importing?
> With such a proposal I'm not surprised how ca a party of technically skilled people and intelligent people ever come up with such a dumb idea.

After witnessing many sad political arguments on HN, I've concluded that technically skilled people are just as good as anyone else at supporting dumb political ideas.
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Here is my philosophy of Javascript, since it might be relevant here:

Javascript is great when it enhances webpages. When users get a faster and better web experience than they possibly could without it.

Javascript is awful when the fallback that remains, when it inevitably breaks, is worse than what had already existed in the past.
I did something like this once. I can't say as it made any difference, to be honest, and I can't really recommend it. This is what I wrote after the turn was done:

Finally, some of you may remember that late last year I pledged to disavow online negativity until the end of 2013. I would like to say I was successful in that, but in truth I did slip up on IRC a time or two, for which I apologized to those present. A promise is a promise though, and so I must confess that in the end, the experiment was kind of a failure. What I learned is that real life is not as simple as just trying to 'turn off' the negativity, and that shutting down the valve when the tank is already at pressure is not the best idea. Mostly what I've felt since I realized my self-imposed ban was over was relief. I've learned that expressing negative emotion is as important as expressing positive emotion, it's just a question of how, when, and to whom. So perhaps the real lesson is just learning a bit of self-control and understanding context, and the difference between healthy release and just meanness. Hopefully I know that a little better now. Time will tell.
This…this is abominable. Without JavaScript, there's no search; there's almost no content. With this change, Ward's wiki has gone from an invaluable resource to Geocities.
Based on those guidelines, people wouldn't complain at all except few cases of complaining directly to the source of the subject at hand. It feels to me like something between promoting apathy and this: http://markmanson.net/not-giving-a-fuck
Here's what you know: Apple used to have a warrant canary, and now doesn't.

I could put a warrant canary on my website, and then remove it. What does that prove?
Stop making this an introvert / extrovert thing. I don't care who you are. You can't concentrate when someone's talking on the phone.

http://healthland.time.com/2013/03/14/why-overheard-cell-pho...
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If you're interested in how the original movies had such high-quality effects: http://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/2ndx0r/the_full_jura...
Thanks for letting us know, we are working on fixing it as I'm typing this, will drop you a line once it's fixed as well so you can explore our page more.
While in some ways I agree that these password rules enforcements are not ideal (they are hardly scientific, they seem much more "common sense" to me), I think making you use a harder-to-remember password is part of the point. The current received wisdom on passwords is that if it's easy to remember, it's easy to guess.

That said, I'm not crazy about the inherent paternalism of this sort of thing. I think allowing weak passwords with a warning is, in most instances (not including corporate IT and situations where you're requiring that the user protect your private information rather than their own), a preferred way to go. Informing people when they are making a weak password should at the very least let them make a choice about how much they care about their own security.
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I've moved my immediate family over to Suse and Ubuntu, but I've had about half of all my conversions "in the field" backfire - something little breaks, and then the echochamber of Windows mindshare around them make them demand I put them back on Windows because they "can't get this different thing".

Then I get a dozen calls in the next six months about how completely broken something in 7 or 8 is, but they never consider switching back.

I don't know how to fix that. They get it in their heads that Windows is right and everything else is wrong and the first sign of contention drives them to panic right back to the MS camp, where every day is contention with the viruses and spyware.

Just an example, I had setup a small store with Ubuntu terminals. Six months later they wanted me to switch it all to Windows 8. For those six months the only service calls I got were software updates and general inqueries like "how do I download X?" or "how do I get flash?". Linking a one click Ubuntu install for Flash is insanely easy.

But now its been over six months again since the Windows 8 switch back, and I'm in about once a month to remove systemic viruses and spyware from all the computers because they all get horribly infected and I make them change their passwords every time. They even had the store owners credit card info stolen once, but they would never fathom using anything else again.

And they switched back because Office 2013 in Wine (because they could not stand LibreOffice) didn't interopt between each part properly - IE, trying to open an Access database as a form fill in Word never worked, and they didn't want me to just give them network disabled XP VMs to run Office in using all their old license keys because when they tried that the employees kept trying to use IE6 in the VM and complained it had no Internet connectivity.
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It is very expensive. I built mine from the ErgoDox kit on massdrop which saves a bit of money, but it's still expensive.

But in comparison to other ergonomically-focused keyboards, it's actually on the cheap side. I justified the purchase as an investment in my long-term health, and I think when looking at ergo keyboards you sort of have to look at it that way - you're paying for comfort, yes, but for comfort that will prevent injury.
In a perfect world, were humans make no mistakes, you are right. In the real world however it is best to think about security on every layer of the system to guard the other parts, which might have unknown bugs.
I noticed that as well. It's one of those things that once it's pointed out to you, it's impossible to ignore.
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I'd guess they either don't have the rights, or don't have the obligations. If you're suing for breech of contract, you'd have to show they have the obligations; if you're suing for infridgement, you have to show they don't have the right.
If you're not Hobbit-ed out, check out the Tolkien Edit. Some cool guy edited all three films into one 4 1/2 hour epic. Big improvement.

https://tolkieneditor.wordpress.com/
Ok, I've probably misunderstood you then... I'm all for what you are saying there :-) but why limit that to February?
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The website is designed to be a jarring shade of orange. You'll notice it's something you want to complain about, then stop yourself.
Get off Facebook, Gmail, Youtube etc. Even though there's not much I disagree with the author if you were to follow this I'd end up with very little to do online plus make my life extremely complicated & difficult.
The mistake you're doing is thinking only about impulse or intent driven advertising. But there's another form of advertising, which is brand advertising (i.e. CPV).

Why do you think that Coca-Cola or Pepsi insist on airing expensive ads in prime time or on conducting huge marketing campaigns? Because given hundreds of choices in a super-market, you'll go for the ones that have a brand you've heard about and this is because people hate having choices ;-)

And the funny thing is, even if you're isolated from mass-media and using ad-blockers on the net, you still end up noticing marketing campaigns on Facebook, or being suckered into reading ingeniously planted news pieces on the web, or ending up making choices because of your ads-infused friends.

Thing is, advertising affects you and the products you end up buying, even if you think it doesn't, unless you're completely isolated of course.
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Wow, it took 5 days for this to get reposted on HN? It's kinda cool watching the web go round.

(https://imgur.com/gallery/H8obU/comment/356517825)
Calling is absolutely a better substitute for maintaining contact with friends than Facebook. Actual real-life facetime is even better. A lot more information can be conveyed in a real conversation.

I can understand that Facebook might be a good way to keep in touch with acquaintances, but if you use it to keep in touch with friends that's what they'll soon become: mere acquaintances. Exchanging a few typed words every now and than isn't enough.

Also: nice ad hominem on the "not very many", please try to keep it civil on hackernews.
> Why not look into what he's trying to do?

I did. It's literally unusable. I.e., one literally cannot use it in lynx, w3m, Firefox with JavaScript disabled.

As far as I can tell he took 20 years of work and threw it into a garbage disposal.
Does that mean it will be Windows RT API-wise or something else?
3D printing will make old locks obsolete.
When Cloverfield first trailer came out, there was a shot where the Statue of Liberty's head was flung into a street. The first version of it appeared to be a rough cut CGI [1], then the second version came out of the trailer and the head was thoroughly improved[2].

I know that there is a need for buzz to be created, but where does the line between changes and false advertising occur. If for some reason I was super psyched about the dinosaur jumping out of the water and eating the shark and the scene is cut from the movie, then how is this different from car sales saying they have a car with a/c on the lot and then finding it never existed.

1. Trailer 1 screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/bqkryTL.jpg

2. Trailer 2 screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/A9uVtnx.jpg
It pleases me to see you mention the PSoC 4. I think it's a highly underrated educational tool due to the software stack used to develop on it. If they were to open up the platform I know several places that would love to use it when teaching kids about hardware and software development.
You should add some padding to the apps' icons, just like you did for the user's profile image.
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There was also this one[1] from a couple of years ago (that you may be referring to?) where with a inexpensive kit, a thief could intercept the drivers key fob transmissions to open the car, and then a ODB programmer to pair the car with a key blank.

[1] https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/09/18/bmw-stolen-hacki...
You have an interesting take on the issue. The question then becomes how do you form and stick to habits?
How do you feel about complaining about complaining?
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