skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It took me (years?) to upgrade from Firefox 3.x to 6, but then only a week to upgrade to 7."

It's just numbers, they dont mean much.
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Except thats a Samsung design that Samsung developed for Apple and now sells an almost identical version for other vendors.
No, PA Semi and Intrisity are. Last time I noticed they were still separate legal entities from Apple even though Apple acquired them.
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Glad you introduced me to it, it is really an awesome lib.
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Display? No. Those are iPads in the Etsy store. The typewriters are essentially USB keyboards. For $600-$800 you get an old typewriter and an pre-wired-up Arduino board. You're paying for the integration of this http://www.etsy.com/listing/62642931/diy-usb-typewriter-conv... into the typewriter.
You can't poll on TTYs for example. I remember this bug from 2004 and apparently they still haven't fixed it.
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xkcd on this piece of news, spot on as usual:

http://xkcd.com/955/
By that logic, you would have to open every single port on your firewall if you wanted to set up a web server. Fortunately, your OS just looks at the client IP/port to distinguish multiple TCP streams.
technically cool, and under the hood an improvement, but end users won't notice anything different. Comet and websocket work just fine.

I'm more interested in browser developments that mean you can do stuff you couldn't before - access to geolocation/multitouch/sound/webcam etc.
End users might not notice speed improvements, but they do respond to them, according to the data.
Then again by doing mitm you could maybe poison the cache with a known content having the same hash (depends on the complexity of solution of course).

That should be almost impossible; I mean, digital signatures (include PGP) are still considered safe, as far as I know.
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I'll put this near "scientific extremism", a lot of science discoveries have as a trigger chance and intuition, even if we don't have a precise idea of how they works scientifically, probably trial and error is a good way to express it, but the trial sources can be non scientific while the validation is scientific.

Food for thought and brain crawling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemological_anarchism
> There were a few cases you can find on Usenet of people saying "open source code", but that's not the same thing; "open" there modifies "code", rather than modifying "source".

Ah, come on! You can't be serious.

"Source" in "Open Source" is short for "source code", and no other meaning of the word "source". The history page you link doesn't state it explicitly, but they do mention "source code" a few times, in addition to mentioning no other meaning of the word "source", so I think it's pretty reasonably to assume that these OSI people, like many programmers, when speaking about "source" were using it as a short for "source code".

Because really, a "source" (in the meaning of "origin") that is "open", what does that even mean? That things can flow from it? Sorry but you are also aware of the term "closed source" right? Except that, if nothing originates from it, it's no longer a source. Yet if you interpret it as "closed source code", it still makes sense.

I don't really see how your link to the opensource.org/history proves your point, either. In fact it strengthens the other point as well. Sure it shows they decided to name their new licensing scheme "Open Source" (where it seems to me, "Source", from the context to be short for "Source Code") -- even though people had (naturally) already been using the term "open" for source code that is publically available.

So you can make the point, that possibly, they were the first that shortened "open source code" to "open source" and using that as a brand, while at the same time hijacking the meaning to something much more strict (namely excluding of open non-commercial licenses).
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It would be a pity if this particular idea died out because the author couldn't create a proper paragraph. It won't gain attention from a single petition anyway - there will need to be many of them.

That said, this one is worth signing, as will the ones that follow in order to make this happen.
For those who are unaware, Steve Gibson has a long internet history. While I don't have a strong opinion myself, there is further reading at:

http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/steve_gibson/

To be honest, I quite enjoyed seeing grc.com again after so many years. It brought back a lot of memories.
Sure, it doesn't stop a criminal, but it implies privacy that could be held up in court against unlawful search.
As far as I know, unlike trademark infringement, both copyrights and patents don't require active protection. You're allowed to pick your targets, and go after them only.

I suspect it's down to one or more of the following factors:

* Everyone else is suing Apple, and they want a piece of the action.

* Google or someone else has had a few words in the right ears.

* Apple has a huge amount of ready cash, and they might just settle for a sizeable sum or licence because they've got other things to be doing.
This has already been submitted as a one-page some time ago, but it didn't end up getting much love.

I rather enjoyed it, so I figured I'd give it another stab.

One-page is here: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/6471/the_valve_way_gab...

Favorite part: "Premature monetization is the root of all evil."
> Where's the line?

Apparently, it's wherever Facebook decides it is.
Speed is easy to engineer, easy to market. Reliability is hard to engineer, hard to market (they've been trying, after all). I'd love a network that's reliable and fast enough, but I don't see it coming.

[I have no idea how hard it is to engineer speed on a cell network, but I'm willing to bet it's easier than reliability. It almost always is.]
"Dollars spent to pay off a loan are worth less than dollars you get at the beginning of the loan. This means, the asset you put your money into, needs to return not only enough to cover the interests & fees on the credit cards over the time period, but the monetary inflation rate over the time period."

Sorry, but on top of confusing leverage and arbitration (AKA arbitration works even if your not taking out a loan but you can use a loan's leverage to increase your return). Your also making the mistake that inflation is bad when you hold another asset. If you buy 1000$ worth of wood and you get significant inflation that wood is going to be worth more dollars not fewer dollars when you sell it. When you get a loan inflation is good and deflation is bad, when you give someone a loan inflation is bad and deflation is good.

PS: When you get a loan you are required to pay back X% more than than you borrowed but that percentage is normally independent of the inflation rate for some period of time. It's true that with CC they will adjust their rates based on inflation, but the only reason this could work is the rate is fixed for some period of time even if inflation changes.
SPDY vs comet may be noticable if you're doing a real time game or something. But SPDY vs websocket should be the same.

I'm just saying, it's not "wow you can now do X you couldn't before". It's "Oh they made X a bit faster"
This is a good book along the same lines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_Method
Good luck making SCTP work with the $50 routers that everybody has in their homes. While you're at it, will you convince the rest of the world to switch to IPv6 please?
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Yeah, another revolutionary method for strengthening passwords that relies on the attacker behaving like the author wants him to behave (in this case: not using search targeted for padding.) Padding with a constant char to huge lengths? Gimme a break - this method only increases the search space by a (number of chars) * (max pad length) factor.
Diaspora? Is that thing still up and about?!
For me that's extremely valuable information. Thanks!
WebSockets do not work "just fine." Please don't use them.
It is hard.

Each time when I have to define callback inside callback inside callback using anonymous functions in javascript, I wish they chosen something shorthe than "function".
Getting rid of search robots and web crawlers - is that possible?
"its", not "it's"

It would seem unlawful for the USPTO to cease granting software patents. On any random issue, most folks are better off lobbying their local member of Congress than the President.
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The article does a really good job outlining the problem:

1. The web is losing ground to mobile apps. The New York Times should have been the perfect use case for the web, yet they are a native app on mobile platforms. If we extrapolate this rate of change, five years from now people will be self-publishing blog apps instead of sending you a URL.

2. That's because the web lags behind native apps in features and polish of user experience.

3. Which is because innovation on the web is gated on major browser vendors, who are slow and prone to political infighting (e.g. over video codecs).

4. The only way for little guys to add features to the web (e.g. video) is to make browser plugins (e.g. Flash). So the crusade against Flash and plugins was a bad thing.

Then the article goes on to propose a solution that I don't think is very good, but hey, at least it's a try.
Lol, reminds me of a season 9 episode of king of the hill. Not sure which one anymore. After half way I think.

One of Hank Hill's employees shows up on his doorstep demanding he hang out, but Hank refuses to mix work and personal relationships.

Just thought I'd share :P
How much ram does this single server have, what about its cores?
this article is simply wrong.

read this: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/22/protecting-the...
This man is crazy. He told us about not sharing but you can find like buttons everywhere! Shame on you.
I have been wondering for some time if it would be possible to find a correlation between some brain imaging techniques (MRI, PET...) and the act of consciously lying. This could create the ultimate lie-detecting machine.

Potentially, it could be much easier than recognizing full images, as there would only be two possible outputs to discriminate.
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You're going to have to give us more than that to go on. Like, you know, an actual downside to using WebSockets?
Not sure why you got down voted, last time this topic came up the author was using EC2 instances for test clients, it took them 17 or so to get the number of connections to their server that they wanted. When the server IP, server port part of the 4 tuple is constant, it takes quite a few client IPs to turn 64K ports into a million.
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Thanks. When you say "aborted", does that refer to an Erlang-style (micro) process, or the entire OS-level process?
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If you're running a recent version of OpenSSH, you can add the 'ForceCommand' param to sshd_config to add it for all users. The only downside to this is it is for all users, so if you run something that needs to use key based login without the two factor method you'll need to validate that yourself within the script.
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There might well be errors here, but what those errors might be is not stated.

From the cited article on ports of the libev event loop library: "The whole thing is a bug if you ask me - basically any system interface you touch is broken, whether it is locales, poll, kqueue or even the OpenGL drivers." with no particular details on what is broken in Mac OS X.

Issues with porting to AIX, Solaris and Windows are also discussed in that article, and with reports of errors, though with no specific details provided for those platforms.

Without error details, there is also insufficient information around whether alternatives or workarounds or fixes might exist, or whether there were bug reports and reproducers logged that would allow the vendors to address the (unspecified) errors.
The problem is not typing speed, but word size. It fills the screen with garbage and is typo-prone.

Small reserved words means I don't have another failed compilation because I typed "fucntion", or the small but significant mental pain of backspacing.
Cool, I wasn't aware of that option. Thanks!
Yeah, the lack of support for TTYs can be annoying when writing a terminal application (a workaround for some cases is to use pipes), but it hardly qualifies as a significant problem for writing network applications.

Here's a more interesting bug in OSX: kqueue will sometimes return the wrong number for the listen backlog for a socket under high load.
Apple are probably referring to the fact that they later bought the company that did some power tuning on the chip in collaboration with Samsung. Those engineers are presumably now "Apple engineers".

Intentionally misleading, but also factual as stated.
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Well, the fiddly part so far seems to be that's set to a single level (announce/don't announce) and every different app needs its own mute button.

Spotify, for example, will happily announce to the world whatever you happen to be listening to, and there's no simple way to hit "mute". So you're going to need to build a separate "mute" button into every app, on every platform, and have enough trust that it will work ...
Yes that's more or less the picture. The extraction of images from V1 has been performed before, the novelty in this paper is that they reconstruct motion too. In the case of dreams, the flow of information is in the reverse, higher level areas projecting to lower level, creating the illusion of vision. It's not yet known if an actual image is formed in low level virtual cortices from dreams.
It depends on your niche, but publishing data feeds to Google Base and Amazon were huge for us. Amazon can be a nightmare to work with, though.
I agree. If this guy is a customer instead of (friends, family, etc) for private beta, he's going to represent part of the people paying you for this.

Congratulations. You're basically getting early feedback by someone who really really wants this. He wants a beta to use in production, and he knows that. That's how much he wants it.

Lay down the ground rules as far as production support and bug fix turnarounds based on what you can manage without trying to spend every waking minute keeping them happy. They may not get every new feature request they ask for, and , like you said, some UI might change.
The "so-and-so read site X" thing will make this really transparent to people, really quickly. Its creepy how much "Friend X has read article Y on the Guardian" is happening.
What this means, in CoffeeScript, is that std exposes int and vec, which I am bringing into this namespace, and possibly other things which I am not. If I want to use all of std, I would have to write

std = require('std')

and access std.int, std.vec and so on.
Right...I don't know how frequent of a use-case that is. I know I certainly take advantage of it for my non-profit company. But first of all, I think the percentage of people who want to copy a photo as opposed to just looking/commenting on is relatively small. And the small slice of users who do want to copy a photo, a good percentage of them either don't care about honoring CC or feel that they don't need to worry about it (i.e. they want a photo just to use as their wallpaper).
United States Patent (1997): 6253311 http://1.usa.gov/o9tpqa

United States Patent (1998): 6253312 http://1.usa.gov/p0BErf

United States Patent (2002): 6754810 http://1.usa.gov/qI6MDt

i just can't figure what it will be in 10 years for all the patents currently filed ...
"I'm not exactly proud of every song that makes it to my most-played list."

It would be very interesting for me if you might write up a few lines on "why", if you can.
What has kept SCTP down is the fact that the NAT code would have to be modified to support SCTP connections because they can be multi-homed. That will never happen. So, ironically, once the majority of the world has transitioned to IPv6, SCTP should be theoretically usable to talk to anyone if you're both not behind NAT anymore.
Down-voted for suggesting IE support I suppose. The point was that 50% of end-users won't be able to use this site. I'd have said the same if the site didn't work in Firefox.

You do not make a site that doesn't support the dominant browser, especially not if you intend to sell, and double so, if the end-users are consumers and not businesses who might be forced into using a certain browser.

To you people who put your love for an arbitrary piece of software, above your common sense: Get a grip.
Another relevant example:

Minecraft is a game about placing blocks to build anything you can imagine. At night monsters come out, make sure to build a shelter before that happens. [...] So far 13,823,195 people have registered and 3,563,829 people bought the game.
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That metaphor has been around for a lot longer than 10 years and I'll continue to use it. Airplanes have been flown into human-made structures for a long time, either as an act of war (kamikaze pilots) or malice (Joe Stack) or mere stupidity.

I prefer that metaphor over "train wreck" because the latter has the sound of being accidental. No. It's not mere incompetence. You do not make CEO someone who made millions in IPO spinning unless you harbor a deep hatred for the company on whose board you serve. The intentional plane crash metaphor is perfect.
The same can be said of many of the other remarks in the article. You could even say it is elegant that SPDY only changes things under the hood, and keeps the good parts of HTTP.

SPDY is technically very cool. It's the update of HTTP that was way overdue. I didn't even mention end-users. Not only the user-facing parts of technology are important.

I've been playing around with asynchronous notifications to the browser for more than 10 years, when I wrote a simple html/js-based continuously loading chat. I've seen it all, from polling, comet, flash-based TCP, longpoll, to finally websockets. So for me it's great to finally see server push taken seriously as part of the spec and not sewn on as a third leg :-)
The BBC is indirectly funded, but not controlled by the UK government. It's possible that the government could threaten to cut the BBC's budget by reducing the cost of the TV license, or not raising it along with inflation, unless it changed its news coverage. However, a tactic like this would go over about as well as a proposition to repeal the first amendment would in the United States.
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Thanks for the advice. It's fun to play around with, even if most people can't see it yet. Makes traveling through Facebook history extremely easily.
Not a chance they would sell data, that would be a one-off! You want to "rent" access to the data clusters to advertisers without providing them ways to bypass you in the future!
> He is the proprietor of the Climate Audit blog (or, more accurately, "Climate Fraudit")

If you can't make an argument without resorting to name calling in the first line, please excuse me while I disregard anything at all you have to say. kthxbye.
It will probably be harder, but not as much harder as you might think. Handling new complexity requires new brain structures, which in turn uses up energy that could be spent elsewhere. Other things being equal, the brain tends to re-use as much as it can. There is some evidence that the brain re-uses the same structures for visual memories as it does for visual processing. I wish I could quickly find you a reference.

Richard Granger has some good articles on brain structures, and he is a very accessible writer. (For a start, Google for his paper "Engines of the Brain".)

Of course, take the "brain re-uses useful structures" hypothesis with a grain of salt. There is some evidence in for some brain structures, but by no means conclusive.
Every change Facebook has ever made has been met with wailing and gnashing of teeth, which blows over so quickly that it's usually a source of amusement for those who like the change.
I have, on very rare occasions, seen videos on Youtube muted for copyright issues on the audio. I don't how they choose to do that over taking down the entire video, nor if they still do it, though.

http://mashable.com/2009/01/14/youtube-mutes-videos/ for a random (and old) reference.
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ok let me apply some "science" to this. where did 70% come from? it's a very convenient number as it gives just below 50% outcome, to "prove" that "more often than not" our assumptions are wrong.

let's bump this "guestimate" by 1%. and, whoa, now we "more often than not" are right.

don't get me wrong. science is good and all that. but our gut feeling got us through some really rough ride, so let's not write it off just yet...
This comes BEFORE your business logic
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On the other hand they appear to be overspending in R&D, given that their primary products are derivative copycats of everything that's popular. (or are bandwidth and servers considered R&D?)
I have to admit, they seem to have been pretty thorough with their experiment, but I still think the main draw of Ikea isn't that you put it together yourself, but that it's so much cheaper.

I bought some barstools the other day for $20 each. And while technically I assembled them, that isn't why I like them. I like them because I was at a barstool store and the cheapest ones there were $300 each! (Which I was willing to pay, if there were some that I liked enough. There weren't.)

They only thing I can think that they didn't test would be whether or not seeing someone put the item together made a difference. If they just observed, but they didn't help. This would help determine if the draw was in knowing how (and how well) it was constructed, or that they did it themselves.
Yeah but they used to mean something which is hard to unlearn.

Now I just mentally shift them to the right so they are minor version numbers in my head:

ie. 1.6 1.7 1.8 etc. and then I can deal with it.

But 3.x to 6 is a big jump. Took me an entire weekend of fiddling, tweaking and lots of googling and research to replace extensions and get everything just right.
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I have read some small product, single founder success stories on HN over the last few years. Can you share some stories/links even though it has been shared before on an unrelated thread?

On HN, patio11, edw519, peldi & jacques have all shared success stories before. I am interested to know more.

EDIT : By success, I mean happiness in life & financial independence to do interesting things in life.
I actually hadn't thought of the rumored new iPhone 5 design as a possibility of it being the next iPod Touch. Maybe that's why we haven't heard any iPod Touch rumors yet?
Another way to see that there are no magic "dynamically selected" potrs is to run on the server "tcpdump src x.x.x.x or dst x.x.x.x" where the x.x.x.x is your client address - and check the outputs - the packets will have ports in them.

Alternatively one can read RFC793 or, better, Stevens' "TCP/IP Illustrated".
Beware that this may break apps that use SSH as a transport protocol (like rsync and mercurial, depending on your setup of course).
The extended example 'should' work with those kinds of apps. The trivial example does not.