skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While this is scary, Mac OS X and various browsers also ship with CA certificates of questionable motivations, such as China's CNNIC.

It's scary not only for inhabitants of those countries, but also those outside. The relatively frequent reports of BGP glitches routing arbitrary traffic through places it shouldn't go don't fill me with confidence.

In this particular case, do we know if the Tunisian government actually used this SSL MITM capability? Is there a reliable way to detect Internet Explorer at the SSL negotiation stage? If not, users of other browsers will see the "someone is trying to trick you" screen; you'd think that would be fairly obvious.
I wonder how much different their project is to the bank-id and e-legitimation used in Sweden.
I don't really recognize the "eager to spend money" category - I've bought a fair amount of apps for my iPhone and iPad (mostly games for the iPad at the prompting of my 12 year old son) - the main reason I end up buying stuff is because it is so easy to do and the prices are generally so low that they are almost literally "sweetie money".
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> That seems like the perfect feature set to me, I’m not aware of any situation where I actually needed to manipulate the pixels of an image.

Well then you're not creating any images, just modifying existing photos and screenshots. We're talking about different things.
The OS X built in Preview.app does most of the lightweight cropping and editing for me. In terms of lightweight editing, what it lacks is basically brushes.
Runaway Star Found Hurtling Through Space
This is the sort of story that tickles the delight of the amateur astronomer in all of us. Late Monday afternoon, NASA/JPL sent around a rare picture taken by its Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer of a star whose mass is about 20 times that of our sun.Astronomers say that the star, Zeta Ophiuchi, was given the boot by its former companion, another massive star, sending it hurtling at a clip of 54,000 miles per hour through space dust.
"... runners: What types of injuries do they mostly had? ..."

Usual for hard surfaces, long distances - knee and calf issues mainly. For the knee we had ligaments going, tears in calf, no ankles though and exhaustion. Most carried old injuries of some sort. I'm not sure if lack of conditioning could explain it. My reckoning with some other experienced distance movers put it down to "knowing" the limits of how far you could push yourself at any given time.

The two that ran all or pretty much most of the running leg, Dave (ex-forces) seen here on the left ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/4566748995/in/set-7215... and Steve (serious amateur athlete), seen here in the white top/shorts ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/4566748995/in/set-7215... I would class as both as serious athletes who would have done marathons before & could push on 15-20km/day running on hard surfaces in late 20 to low-mid 30 celsius, NSW outback heat, day after day.

I think myself, Dave and Steve are the only ones who did the entire distance without some sort of injury.
Who does create images? I’m pretty certain that the overwhelming majority of people do not, hence there is no need to include a drawing program with an OS. Cropping, resizing and adjusting photos is plenty for most people.
"Google also hopes to negotiate carrier billing agreements with scores of regional mobile providers, allowing users to buy apps and bill them to their mobile account."

Hopes...? Implementing this (and extending the coverage of paied apps) will completely change the market. No need to signup for any additional service and to have a credit card (in Europe/rest of the world not as diffused as in the US). If their objective is really to increase the sales, this should be the most important thing to do and that needs more people working on, not updating the market site (although changes are needed).
I think you might be a bit confused. Father (John) Chrysostomos, aka Ioannis Xrysostomos in Greek, was an archbishop in Constantinople. He was renounced for his preaching skills thus the translation "Golder mouth". I'm pretty sure he's not Santa.
To elaborate on this: assume the sine waves of voltage difference and current are fully in phase when the house is net-consuming. Multiplying the voltage and current functions and integrating over time gives you the total energy consumption.

When the house is net-producing due to solar panels, the current will be 180° out of phase with voltage, i.e. "negative" AC current. Multiplying and integrating yields negative energy consumption.

Note that current is directional, so "negative" current isn't anything special - if you reverse the meter, the sign will be inverted.
I love that idea. I used to create music samples utilizing random text in samples files, years ago when 8bit trackers were still fancy. Since you can't control / predict the outcome, you also can't subconsciously influence it based on standard cultural artifacts (i.e the interesting sound / track you just heard on the radio). This in turn leads to very innovative results.
But my French example doesn't include administration, office, power... Only the salary and directly related taxes and contributions (social security, unemployment taxes, pensions make the most of it).
Not to mention the inability to browse on a desktop browser.

I'd like a feature where I surf on the web and select apps, and later that day I press a "Sync" button of sorts and get the apps.
Automated Testing:
http://code.google.com/p/phantomjs/wiki/ServiceIntegration#J...

Screen Scraping:
http://code.google.com/p/phantomjs/wiki/QuickStart#Rendering
Nice feature, but they'd better not show 0 when no unread messages.
Actually, while he may be a closet Joycean, I think he's indeed an Orthodox religious figure. I've shared some mailing lists with him, and got this impression although I don't recall it being directly discussed. I could be wrong, but your reindeer comments might be more impolite than you intended.
See http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl-5.12.3/pod/perl5121delta.po... , that's not very long.

If you want to know the enhancements from 5.10.x to 5.12.x, see
http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/perl-5.12.3/pod/perl5120delta.p...
Why developing for Android sucks
Indeed, I also think that OpenID is not designed well. I mean, I have tried to implement it already twice. And everytime, I think, I got the idea of OpenID, later I realize, no I still didn't got real wht it tries to do.

What is wrong in that a spammer could easily host its own OpenID server and log in with that account on numerous sites. You even can write scripts to do it automatically, so I didn't really get the idea of OpenID.

I think in the future we get OAuth as the winner. Yes, its main purpose is different, however "signing in" with OAuth is so much easier. Even a simple user can understand how it works. And by implicit use of only specific OAuth providers (where you registered your app), you close the door for "bot"-providers. Of course one can argue, that you can also force to use only specific OpenID providers, but this is not core idea of what OpenID was created for.
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Alexis Ohanian on Bloomberg TV discussing Reddit, Hipmunk, and "Little Brother"
These two were the clincher for me:
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/01/google-translate-real...
http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/rush-poker-mobile/details
"... Don't do what Johnny Don't does. ..."

Love that Simpson quote, "Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood" S5E8 ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy-Scoutz_%27n_the_Hood
The role of the parents in a Startup
Inspired by post by Stefano Bernardi on the "Italian Startup Scene" facebook group, I ask that role did your parents in the creation, or work, your startup? We have encouraged encouraged (psychologically semi-forced) in the classical pathway school -> university -> work in a traditional company, or instead have supported you and encouraged to entrepreneurial careers?
Good intro for a programmer who just happen to not know javascript.

This propertyMap-thing for objects is scary, though.
but don't forget Google makes a lot of cash from advertising on free apps.
They own Admob and Google Mobile Ads so have a good chunk of the Android advertising market.

If an app gets purchased Google makes 30% of the sale, but with advertising they make between 15-35% for the lifetime of the app.

Whats that worth? about a billion a year or so...
http://www.mobilemarketer.com/cms/news/advertising/7772.html
Google has this idea in its head that the world should be html and web based. It wants a big server infra-structure and almost non-existent clients, because it IS a big server infrastructure. Google wants to be the platform that everyone is building on top, and take away the thick clients.

Now, unfortunately for them, things don't seem to be swinging that way. The chrome app store is a bust, chrome-os is not working and people by far prefer the native apple app store, and the native apple apps to the server based offerings.

However, google seems to not be paying attention to that. For their business, it would make so much sense if everything were running "in the cloud". That's what they would love, because they have the scale and opportunity to own this market.

So they cripple Android app-selling, such that people don't bet too heavily on 'owned' native apps. They are trying to buy time till cloud based apps become more prevalent - which frankly, is a really really long time from now.
Absolutely -- a total rewrite is only necessary if broad architectural decisions are all wrong. Otherwise, working to decouple the monolithic system is the crucial step which will allow the chunk-by-chunk rewrites.
What teams are located in Venice Beach?
oh yes. bring the "safety of kids" argument for tracking every click of mine. No thanks.
Your comment is just repeating what OP said.
Good article (apart from advocating developing for Palm??), bad title. It should be called "Why distributing your Android app sucks." No commentary on actual app development itself. My thoughts on that are that Google should develop an IDE for Android developers - Eclipse is unstable bloatware, the Android emulator sucks and supporting different screen sizes and resolutions is odious to say the least.
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Just 100 users responsible for two-thirds of illegal file sharing
That's exactly what they do. I'm not quite sure why you think it's such a bad idea though?
Photo to Warhol pop art
Simple and very straight forward Photoshop tutorial on how to turn your own photo to art, Warhol pop art Style in just a few very easy steps.
If you're also on gmail, you can manually set up a filter to 'never send to spam'.

I've had to do this for friends' emails before, e.g. someone whose domain has a letter->number substitution which sets off spammer alarms.
Wireshark Remoting
Hence the 'fearless'.
Well, https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ supports git, bash, sh etc, if you follow the instructions from the comments further down you can use git as a backend ^^
Actually I was wrong, I read it here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/279169/deploy-php-using-g...
Great job! Rich symbols (and their javascript api in general) are underutilized by users of Fireworks, great to see things like this coming out.

Editing the different fields of a rich symbol in FW isn't a very good experience though, in terms of responsiveness. Not sure if Adobe cares enough to fix that.
Not a bad idea. The anonymity of people who want you to sign up to their service (and usually give them your name) doesn't allow for trust building. Then again, a big picture of yourself on the page would probably also seem smug.

Laura Roeder http://www.lauraroeder.com is a good example of someone who uses themselves as the brand for their products.
It depresses me a little knowing that, even if we mastered faster-than-light space travel and I were to stand just a couple light-hours from the place, all I would see would be some stars, as the glowing gas of the bow shock is invisible to human eyes.

We need better hardware.
Encrypted email addresses don't need to be broken, all you need to do is run the addresses using the same hashing algorithm against a set of known addresses to see which ones pop up. Plenty of HN'ers have their email addresses out in the open.

If email addresses are stored 'encrypted' how can they be kept 'confidential', you store them for a reason or you don't need to store them at all, hashed or not.

What gain do you have from storing the hashed address?
MSR Commits Reconfigurable Computing Port Into NetBSD
Don't do this without very good guarantees that your data is not going to be tied to your identity somehow, you could be a in a lot of hot water for disclosing this stuff.

Sorry to rain on the parade but this is not a good idea.

If you do decide to go through with it use a proxy and a throwaway email address.

downmodders: you're clueless.
> Over the Air updates. If you have a Palm phone you will be on the latest version that your carrier has available

I wonder what happens when you use an unlocked phone on a foreign telco. Will it get upgraded using Palm's servers?
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54K miles per hour is barely 24km/s, or about 10% of our sun's galactic orbital velocity.
Looks like ascii.

2e 7a 6e .zn
6b 66 20 kf
61 6e 75 anu
67 20 65 g e
72 67 67 rgg
72 6f 20 ro
66 76 20 fv
61 62 70 abp
6e 6f 20 no

I may have read the binary wrong --- I'm surprised there are no 'm's.
CAS is definitely somewhat less of a clusterfuck than OpenID, and actually gets the SSO cookie-handling part right.

But it's still a pile of redirects where the net result is that you can tie a user to their identifier and nothing more — it's mostly useless without implementing it paired with an LDAP/AD backend to get group membership and whatnot.

Just not storing a password field in your backend does nothing — you really have to get rid of the per-app account models entirely. WebFinger is a nice step along these lines, but it layers on top of OpenID and even then still doesn't provide the complete picture.
i've explored that road actually, and it's not really possible. Besides having a US/UK/[other allowed country] account, they also require you to have an actual address in that country. There have been several developers who have been publishing paid apps for other people and they got their accounts banned.
Ask HN: Best Rails CMS?
Which is recommended and why? For instance, what does Refinery have over Rubricks or Locomotive?
You just described appbrain.com Sure, it's not Google's baby but it's still a hell of a lot better than the Market. It's been my go-to place for new apps for a few months now.
Except it's actually "Donny Don't" :)
http://trends.google.com/websites?q=news.ycombinator.com%2C+...

They're sinking in the last year or so while HN is rising somewhat.
As one of the comments on the page says: "Well, it's a nice new picture but we've known its size, speed and origin for a very long time. Definitely not news."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeta_Ophiuchi
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Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm not looking to build apps (or anything specific to the iPhone, which still has very low market penetration here), but normal websites.
The night sky from inside a nebula won't be very different since the gas/dust particles are very tenuous. You get a better view from further out.
Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook page hacked
I don't want to sit here trying to strain to understand a one-hour video and the site linked in the video description leads to a car loan ad site.

What's the low-down on this technology?
I think using the term 'mafia' is pushing it.

Having connections never hurt anybody, I'd assume that having YC connections doens't hurt either. Being on HN already gives you an 'in' with plenty of YC alumni and current start-up operators so by that definition pretty much everybody has a YC connection.

You'd have to be pretty specific about what kind of connection you mean and I think you should probably try to leave references to criminal organizations out of it.
I noticed the same. The animation is so smooth that it must be done in CSS. Nice to see Apple eating its own dog food. (And delicious food it is.)
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you only get what the other person is willing to give in life.
Interesting. How vibrant is the dev community for Palm phones?

OTA Updates are another story on Android. Different manufacturers price OS updates differently like Samsung, who price them as feature updates whereas some other Android phone manufacturers price them as cheaper maintenance upgrades. It can be a bit of a lottery as to whether your phone will ever receive an upgrade.
I do not think, that Diaspora will be FB killer for the next, say 5 years. Most people does not really care about big privacy or other things, what Diaspora meant to find solution for. The idea is good, yeah, damn good. However one still need some skills in order to run his own diaspora server or you still need to trust somebody if you put your data on his diaspora server.

Of course the trust connection to your local Diaspora server admin is better then to some unknown very far away Californian FB admins, so this might be a benefit. But you would still need to find a "pub" provider and still would have to decide either you trust him or just go the easy way with FB, where all your friends are already ;)
Read books, make music, build stuff, meet people, travel.

And I plan on doing plenty of those even while being capable of using a computer as much as I want.
Google's apparent academic focus is what puts me off. That and the doubt about whether interesting work is done outside of their main campus.

I'm self-taught and have been programming and making software from scratch for 15 years and have been pretty successful at it. Recently I did an MSc in CompSci in my spare time and was pleased with a merit (natch, only scored 69% and missed the distinction). This was the first time I've ever done exams or written anything (I was sleeping rough on streets when the peers I have now were being educated) and I feel good with the merit even though I kick myself at not finding that extra 1% somewhere.

What puts me off is a multi-faceted thing though:

1) That a late entry into academic and failing to get a distinction is going to count against me.

2) That my self-learning and lack of a strict appliance of a common vocabulary will sound bad in an interview (I felt in the exams that my struggle for the 'correct' term even though I knew what I wanted to express was not helping me get every point that I could).

3) That if 1) and 2) count against me, that a rejection will count against me in future (that Google collect and never forget data and that it would hurt a future chance when I might try again)

4) And then there's a deep concern with being in London... are the London engineers working on the same level of problem as the engineers in the US?

This last one is the real gnawing doubt... assuming I got through the interview, I'm not particularly interested in working in a body shop. I have ideas, I have creative solutions, I have dedication and I want to create world-changing product, and to improve life on this blue sphere. I want to invest my life's work into that... so I really really don't want to go through what appears to be a protracted process to arrive somewhere I didn't want to be.

Recently the work on Places is changing my view on Google back to a strong positive. It's making me consider applying again whereas before I didn't know why I would apply beyond the challenge of doing so. But the deep doubt remains... do people who work in the London office get the opportunity to work on the core of these problems?

To that, I've just not seen a strongly affirmative answer, and so I'll continue to delay any possible application because why would I risk a rejection unless I really know that I want to be there.
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as far as I can tell from the quotes, no curator is going to implemented, it seams a simple speculation from appleinsider. I might be very wrong but to me seems like a statement that google is strengthening his efforts started with the market itself to kick out out-of-term-of-service apps. Not only malicious, see apps like kongragate, that was considered an alternative android market and so was pulled; it is no more in the market, this doesn't mean you cannot install it your way, legally and easily.

The last two paragraphs are full of fud, BTW
Yes - CPAN is tremendous. I don't understand why perl is not more popular for this alone.
I don't think I could survive very long without an electronic address book.
As an employer, I wouldn't be particularly displeased by an employee revealing information like this anonymously (although I agree you should definitely not do so in a way which can be tied to you, just in case).

There is (some) justification in not identifying salary data within a specific company, to avoid jealousy and unproductive behaviors. At this level, it's not much more detailed than "how much do you make" on a loan application.

I don't think an employer has much right to try to pay the same people differential salaries based on their negotiating skill (at least for engineering/non-sales positions). There is a good argument for being 100% open with salaries and equity internally, at least in terms of ranges for given positions with given levels of experience. Joel on Software, http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090401/how-hard-could-it-be-em... I'm seriously considering doing "opt in to having your salary/equity public within the company", and Strongly Encouraging any senior person to do this; I think seeing a CEO making ~$60k and early engineers making $80k or so would help avoid runaway $140k for junior developers salary inflation, and I'd value my equity a lot more highly at a company where I saw the founders were still mainly motivated by equity upside vs. cash compensation.

Even at the granularity of per-employer salary stats (which Glassdoor type sites do), there is a net benefit to everyone in knowing that e.g. Netflix pays a 30-50% cash salary premium over Facebook, and that Twitter is particularly stingy with equity (relative to valuation) compared to other tech companies. If I were trying to hire people at Twitter, I'd be annoyed to be wasting my time with candidates who wanted >0.1% equity for anything but super-senior engineering positions, and I'd be sad if I were hiring at Netflix and people didn't know about the great cash component in deciding to apply.

If your first interaction with a company is them trying to mislead and/or fuck you through inaccurate perceptions and lack of information, this does not bode well.
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> I would not advise anyone to put their data in there as this stands.

Second that.
I agree, that's what I thought too.

But I don't know if starting from HTML5 will make a bad habit for beginners.
Amazing. I need to get one of these for my grandfather.