skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Skype Security
As a rule of thumb, if you are looking for a developer on these websites, focus your search on eastern europeans and skip the indians and pakistanis.

Of course there are good indians, but more often than not, you would be wasting your time.
Twin bombings at Pakistan paramilitary base 'kill 69'
I had the opposite reaction. There's so thing as a design that will work well for any topic and picking a pre-made design and tweaking it looks like a much more reasonable (and affordable) solution that I hadn't seriously considered before.
Those surveys are probably part of the reason why their picture quality is always fine.
Sometimes the Randian suggestion doesn't meaningfully differ from the caricature of Keynes: "dump a portion of production into the ocean to help the economy."

World War II spurred development of new metal alloys, better vehicles, and thousands of other innovations. Does that make Hitler a hero? Was war the only path?

(Sorry, I had to Godwin it before this thread got too long; the more general war analogy isn't too far off though: $300-million in heavy-equipment laden fiber laying probably resulted in some injury--is it too much to ask that we both get the beneficial externalities of R&D and put in the fiber for a useful purpose in the first place?)
And just like captcha, expect a decline in conversion :-), that's all i'm saying.
Do you have a source for "32x earnings"? I suspect it's even worse than that. In other HN thread someone mentioned the price was about 300x earnings, and via google I could find this:

Skype's revenues for the first six months of 2010 were $406 million, with a net income of only $13 million.
Chaining the role would make it easier to add the role to inherited_resources, you'd just need to add it to your beginning_of_association_chain
Amazon was definitely one of the companies people were referring to when talking about the last bubble, though.

It's hard to predict the future. A bunch of companies that people have thought could never be worth their outlandish valuations turned out to be. And vice versa.
sorry, a lot of us are just really tired of states killing people.
True, but... WebGL was finalized two months ago; Flash was released in 1996. Give it time.
I'm not convinced that the dangers of a kid browsing the internet are significant.

I think that they are significant. I'm saying this as someone who grew up during the time period when parents had little to no idea of what sort of deranged things were on the internet. A kid could erase the history and clear the cache and their parents would be none the wiser. I'm not in general a supporter of censorship on the internet but I saw some things that are frankly ridiculous for a 7 year old to see. I'm not talking about nipples or vaginas either, you all know that there is some really weird stuff out there. There is a large gray area but I strongly believe that there are things on the internet that an elementary school child shouldn't see.
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Triunfo del Amor Capitulo 144
Ver Triunfo del Amor Capitulo 144: Maria was shocked by the actions Maximilliano who canceled their wedding plans. In El Triunfo del Amor Capitulo 144 Maria recounted her feelings and regard devastated Max did not mean it loves her. What is the attitude the next Maria? ... Is Maria willing marry to Alonso? Watch Triunfo del Amor Capitulo 144 that aired tonight.
> I'm sorry, he lost me at comparing Microsoft stock to Apple and Google over the past 10 years. In retrospect, those are two of the most successful publicly traded tech companies of the period--not a fair comparison.

Apple and Google are Microsoft's biggest competitors. Is he not supposed to compare Microsoft to its direct rivals?
Awesome, thank you. Fixed.
A: You can integrate tokbox for that.

B: What is the difference between your idea and a classic online project management solution?

C: Buy your kid an ipad :)

My vote: start with A.
Except that this is actually news, and some of us are interested in ongoing developments in Fukushima. It's one of the bigger engineering stories going on right now, after all.

You don't have to read the comments or argue about nuclear power to be interested.
Chromebooks actually compete with Windows. Apple basically doesn't - it serves a small segment of premium users. Microsoft is still for the masses and will continue to be unless a competitor undercuts it.

Which is precisely what Google is now doing.
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One option relies on the rule of law; the other relies on the ad-hoc whim of whoever is in charge. While the result would be the same, there is a huge difference.

Nowhere in the law does Congress even have the authority to extend Mueller's stay for two years. If we're OK with that, we're essentially OK with Congress granting themselves powers outside the law. Congress certainly has the power to pass a new law removing or extending tenure. They do not have the authority to extend Mueller's tenure.
No, but thanks for sharing. Now I've got someone else to wish I was! (Filing Oatmeal Guy between Tina Fey and the homeless guy in my neighborhood that looks like Mick Jagger)
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good thought, thanks.
You make it sound so trivial and easy. Do you actually believe it's that simple?
Thanks for posting this.

There was a lot of care in delivering this product. As others have pointed out, this is so compellingly done that you could legitimately expect to pay for it. But no, it's open sourced - thank you very much for that.

I definitely now have plans to incorporate this as an experiment in the next application I cook up. Excited to have an option available which can reduce admin development time dramatically, freeing me up to worry almost entirely on UX and front functionality.
Agreed. The writer gives credit to Facebook, Groupon, etc. and then throws in at least 10 phrases of hedging/qualification and then warns us of the next, as yet unseen, wave of startups that, it blindly guesses, might just be, perhaps, possibly, a tad, just a bit, overvalued. Thanks for the tip, Economist. Let us know when you pair some facts with your sanctimonious speculation.
...and how is being denied access to AdWords over mistaken identity not penalization? If you get thrown into jail because of mistaken identity, that doesn't make the situation any fairer or just for you. You're still being punished.
> It may be that Chrome/V8 need to start using LLVM.

LLVM is far too heavy to be used in such a situation -- page load times would rise dramatically. Really, V8 just needs to start doing hot spot optimizations. Do a quick first pass like they're doing now, then incrementally optimize away the hot spots. If I had to take a guess, I'd say that'll be coming in the next year, in some form or another.
Buying Skype might have been the first smart thing Microsoft has done in a while. Skype is a relevant brand to consumers globally, Microsoft just is not anymore. The real question is will Microsoft destroy Skype.

Bing search is another good move Microsoft has made. Adcenter, on the other hand is an embarrassing disaster on its own two feet and an ugly nightmare in comparison to Adwords. Adcenter is like a buggy crashing version of Adwords in 2005. Given that Microsoft provides the only real alternative search engine to Google that is pretty damn pathetic.

I think you hit the nail on the head with the brain drain. The fact is even with a brain drain companies have assets. Apple was effectively a dead company in the late 90s. Microsoft needs this same type of brutally intense focused leadership right now -- not attention deficit disorder look at me showmanship.
Bizibly changes direction, pivots to mobile?
Except that it would no longer be about Ballmer, and that's who we're discussing.
Agreed. Or partner with one. Design is so critical to a successful application that it should be an initial consideration, not an afterthought. As with any other venture, if you have a great idea you should be able to attract either the talent or the money to procure the talent.
This is not the expected transition plan to IPv6. You do not turn IPv4 off. During the first phase of the transition period, new users are supposed to run IPv4 and IPv6 side-by-side, so they can reach both parts of the Internet without issues.

You just jumped to the third phase of the transition plan while the rest of the world is busy doing the first one. That ain't gonna work.
We gave away ipads and got about 150 people for each ipad (i.e. very expensive). One of our customers gave away ebooks and got about 200 users for each ebook, but everyone who entered got one.

Small items that are guaranteed might be a better bet. We are still testing this out. :)
Ask HN: Rate my mac+web app, Screendocs – Upgrade that wall of text.
Hi HackerNews,

About a year back, I asked you to review my mac+webapp, called Freshlog Storyteller:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1347513

After receiving a good bunch of feedback from you, I have conducted many iterations on the app to something I use myself on a daily basis, and I am deeply grateful for this community :)

The app has since been (hopefully more meaningfully) renamed to Screendocs:

http://screendocs.com

I humbly once again would like to seek your feedback in several areas:

1. Is it very difficult to market a native mac + web app bundle that needs each other to work? What's the best channel to do this? Do you know of examples? Does "mac+web app" sound awkward?

2. Is it immediately apparent how Screendocs can be beneficial? Would you be disappointed if I pulled Screendocs from the face of this earth?

One more thing, one of the posters in the previous HN thread mentioned that he learnt that it was possible to do annotations in Preview.app through one of my examples, so here's a sample screendoc to teach just that:

http://screendocs.com/messages/333

Looking forward to hearing from you brilliant folks =)
You probably wouldn't, it's just a convenience method (and patches over some of the cross-browser inconsistencies and naming-convention weirdness).
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I'm more concerned about a company that stores all of my private data and tells me what to look at when I am searching for answers having a dominant market shore.
No thank-you!

For better or for worse, if something is on topic, it's on topic whether it has been discussed before or not. For example, there are several separate posts about FB, PR, and Google, with the same arguments being repeated. There is no reason to flag any of the stories or the discussions just because you've read them before and you are no longer interested. Skip the post, or skip the comments, you have the power to ignore things, use it.

There is a deeper issue here around whether threads should be merged is some manner. So far, requests for this feature have not been heeded. Until there is a merge threads feature, each post on the subject is a brand new canvas.
Similar to living next door to a correctly functioning coal plant?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=coal-ash-is...

The result: estimated radiation doses ingested by people living near the coal plants were equal to or higher than doses for people living around the nuclear facilities. At one extreme, the scientists estimated fly ash radiation in individuals' bones at around 18 millirems (thousandths of a rem, a unit for measuring doses of ionizing radiation) a year. Doses for the two nuclear plants, by contrast, ranged from between three and six millirems for the same period. And when all food was grown in the area, radiation doses were 50 to 200 percent higher around the coal plants.

Or how about eating tuna every day and ingesting the mercury that primarily comes from coal burning for power generation?
http://www.webtypography.net/

check out this ebook
Accompanying mailing list post: http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/kernel/2011-05/msg0...
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Over the last decade they broke into the enterprise and built the server & tools business into something with income that exceeds the Windows client business in some quarters. They also appear to have built Xbox/Kinect into a $2 billion/year business. I don't think that's nothing.
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Once you get the data and the shaders over to the GPU, its going to draw at pretty much full speed. That said, penalties for running on the web include:

Even a well-written JS app on a great JIT is going to have trouble keeping up with an equivalently well-written native app that has access to SIMD, cache-aware memory layouts, prefetching and other native features. My CPU can do 200 million matrix x vector multiplies per second using SSE3. In Firefox4 JS it can do 20 million. Impressive, but not equivalent.

On Windows, you are probably running GL on top of a D3D translation layer. That adds overhead to an API that you sometimes want to call into 60,000+ times per second. The GLSL to HLSL shader translation step is a big pain during load times. I'm not sure how much of a run-time penalty it causes.

Web GLSL is somewhere between HLSL Shader Model 2 and 3 from 2003. The latest desktop GPUs run Shader Model 5 which has many sophisticated features and performance opportunities. However, many of those are a bit too sophisticated for casual 3D programmers. Hopefully WebOpenCL will come eventually and shrink that feature gap.
My day job is making low-latency trading systems. =)
The underlying "study" is chock full of design flaws and interpretation weaknesses mentioned in Peter Norvig's article about how to spot problems with research studies.

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

I would look for MUCH more replication of this finding across other data sets before supposing that there is any advantage to dyslexia. (P.S., the incidence rate for dyslexia in the general population reported in the thought-provoking submitted article is just one of several reasons I'm doubtful about the factual claims in the article.)
yes. but apparently he had a group of couriers, so we don't know if the couriers who were running the USB disks to internet café's were the same as the two brothers who owned the house

apparently he had a number of trusted couriers, and judging from what I have read on tracking these couriers down[1], it wouldn't surprise me if he had multiple levels of courier for his email

[1] apparently the couriers were so good at counter-surveillance that even when the CIA had tracked one of the brothers down to Pakistan, it took them two years to link them to the compound, since they both took exhaustive counter-intelligence measures to make sure they were not tracked. amazing story
Judging by source of revenue, Microsoft's an enterprise software vendor, Apple is a consumer electronics company, and Google is an advertising company. They're Microsoft's biggest rivals in terms of media hype, and they all make mutually competing products, but they're not a fair basis of comparison in terms of stock value. How have Oracle and SAP done?
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
Even a company that's growing ought to pay dividends in most cases. After all, if your shareholders have faith in continued good business they have the option of reinvesting their dividends. Companies that don't pay out are essentially telling you that your money's better off in the company, which strikes me as a rather arrogant way to treat your owners.
You could of course make the errors that RoR shits out look like IIS. In the interest of familiarity, of course, not because you're trying to conceal anything :)
There is a significant difference between bringing in a new product and having that product be a part of the standard install on every laptop/desktop from the perspective of Enterprise IT.
how could that possibly be known? Hopefully never, if you ask me.
only the ipad app is like that now. The iphone version has been "native" for quite a while now.
Interesting choice of words on his part. The stock goes down for every company. Anytime a dividend is declared the stock price is adjusted down by that same amount.
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Testdrive your requirements both screen prototypes and flow diagrams
A product has two parts, the user interface and the underlying business rules. 10screens helps to create screen prototypes and underlying business flow diagrams to cover both aspects of requirements.
You're wrong. The long term capital gains tax rate in the U.S. is 15% for most people. The tax rate for "qualified" dividends (essentially, dividends on stock that you've held for awhile) is 15%. Starting in 2013, dividends will be taxed at your ordinary income tax rate (which is the way they used to be taxed), while long term capital gains will be taxed at 20%, which means that for most people, dividends will be more highly taxed than long term capital gains.
@asr - I think the OP's point is a bit more subtle than that. He's not suggesting that MS - a large and mature company - should still be growing like companies that only hit their stride recently. Rather, he's noting the degree to which Apple and Google have dramatically outperformed the NASDAQ, citing this as an indicator of how much room to grow the tech sector has had in general.

The real point is that MS has realized none of this potential. Forget lead, it hasn't even followed. Instead of swiftly copying the wildly successful iPhone, they just mocked it, telling everyone that it was a hopelessly niche product. Likewise, the iPad was being written-off by Ballmer as a pointless device with no appreciable market. In reality, it was busy becoming the most successful consumer electronic product of all time.

This goes well beyond a failure of vision. A remark like that indicates total ignorance of present reality. It's a bit like calling Avatar "a flaming fiasco seen by nobody" on the same weekend it breaks a billion dollars at the box office. Coming from the head of a major studio, an assessment that poor would be career-ending.

If your model is imitating others, fine. But you HAVE to be fundamentally aware of what others are doing if you're going to make it work. So if you're demonstrably clueless about what "two of the most successful publicly traded tech companies of the period" are really up to, or why their products are selling so well, you're simply the wrong man for the job.
The graph starts around the height of the internet bubble. It's a dishonest comparison. You can't blame Ballmer for not driving the stock back up to unrealistic levels.

Meanwhile, Google is basically starting from zero - of course it's going to show faster growth than the lumbering behemoth that is MS. Keep in mind that few people outside of the bank underwriting the IPO and Google employees actually got the awesome starting price.

So yes, he should compare them, but no, he's doing it wrong.
Practically, no: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
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Personally, I find well-hyphenated justified text easier to read than ragged-right text. It is bothersome when a justification algorithm puts too much space between too few words, but that's what hyphenation is for. To the dyslexics and others who are distracted by the rivers of whitespace that run through justified text, are you never bothered by rivers of whitespace in ragged-right text?
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I am in the very early stages of bootstrapping a business[1], I have no problems using Photoshop or Illustrator from a technical stand point but my design skills are rather lacking (see link). My plan is to take an awesome premium theme that has the PSDs and use it as a framework from which to build a design if not original with be distinguishable as my own.

I wish I could afford the time of one of my designer friends, I know some kick ass designers but even at mate rates my current budget isn't enough. That said I am planning on bribing a couple of them with booze and a home cooked meal to get some advice.

[1] http://www.relishment.com
Microsoft has an execution problem. Plain and simple. Their competitive advantage for Windows and Office are huge, I'm not arguing that. However, if you look at the numbers you'll see that they are in decline.

Having an execution problem, long term, kills companies. No matter how great their advantage may be.
I think buying Skype was a good move — although letting Ray Ozzie go was a bad move.
What are the risks of this? there was an article(1) a while back which went through the google hits of "free wordpress themes" which had either base64 obfuscated js code directly in the theme code. What are the chances of code allowing other attack vectors?

(1) - http://wpmu.org/why-you-should-never-search-for-free-wordpre...
Chuck Swindoll says "the passage of time removes fear; Obscurity removes pride; and solitude removes bitterness."
I'm really disappointed that this is the top voted comment at the moment. @jsprinkles, it might be worth considering that your tone mars an otherwise worthwhile post.
Screw head escalation and countermeasures seem to have a lot in common with DRM.

In fact, I'm going to coin the term "Physical Rights Management", or PRM :)
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Note: I do not hold shares in any of the below companies.

Apple and Google were in their heydays during this time period. If anyone is interested in seeing a really interesting comparison then go to finance.google.com and do the following:

1. Look up MSFT

2. Click "All" for your zoom option, this should give you from 1986 to present

3. Add GOOG and AAPL using the compare box

Now look at the chart. MSFT is up 25,019.04% since it was publicly listed. AAPL is up 11102.07% since it was publicly listed. GOOG is up 394% since it was publicly listed.

If we want to truly assess Ballmer's performance as a CEO using stock performance as a metric then I strongly suggest we look at the past ten and five years of performance of Microsoft and compare it to similar tech companies.

Offhand, I think that IBM and Oracle make suitable comparison points. Looking at the past ten years of performance, we can see that MSFT is down about 27%, while IBM is up 49% and ORCL is up 109%. Now we can more clearly see that Ballmer has more than likely missed some opportunities along the way. When you narrow to the last five years, the picture doesn't change.

I agree with the author of the blog piece - Ballmer has proven to be a mediocre CEO of Microsoft. However, we need to make sensible comparisons to get the point across.

Frankly, I don't understand how MSFT could sit on 40 billion dollars in cash and short term investments without increasing its dividend to something more in line with what one should expect from a mature cash-rich business.

Increasing shareholder value should be the goal of all publicly listed companies. Purchasing Skype for $8.5 Billion dollars flies straight into the face of this - it is a crazy move. Any shareholders that are not screaming about this should wake and smell the sinking share price.

Edited: Formatting in the step-by-step portion of this post was messed up initially...
I doubt if the computers in most internet cafes in remote parts of Pakistan would have MicroSD readers.
Sinofsky is really good at running Windows & Office, but is he the right guy to successfully expand beyond that? MS is getting its butt kicked in mobile, social, and consumer electronics, all of which Sinofsky doesn't have direct experience.
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