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Chrome's sandbox has an extremely solid design and implementation. It's far more robust than anything else available, and we have yet to see an attack in the wild that can bypass it. Our big remaining weak spot is NPAPI--because plugins can't be sandboxed without completely rewriting their platform layer. Using AdBlock addresses this weakness by preventing plugin content from loading. You can achieve the same effect by turning on click-to-play or plugin blocking.

The linked video from VUPEN doesn't actually show a Chrome hack. It's a Flash exploit, which affects any browser with Flash installed (including about 98% of desktop browsers). We've been working for almost two years on developing a fully sandboxed Flash implementation, and expect to ship it to all platforms early next year. It's taken so long because sandboxing a large existing application is a huge engineering effort--particularly when you have such a long compatibility matrix. FWIW, the custom PDF reader we ship has always been fully sandboxed, just like all normal web content in Chrome.

Currently, the only Chrome platform with a fully sandboxed Flash is ChromeOS, because we had to rewrite the platform layer from scratch anyway (and did not implement several Flash features initially). The Windows version of Chrome also has a sandbox of a sort; it runs Flash in low-integrity mode (just like IE on Vista+). This is nowhere near as strong as the real Chrome sandbox, but we were able to implement it relatively quickly as a stopgap measure. The shipping Mac and Linux versions have no Flash sandbox right now.
Nice!

I think I should look into this. I sense that I lack a general understanding of what is really possible with ML. (My current understanding is weighted toward underestimating what is possible with ML).
Someone should create a wikipedia entry for P. S. Landis as "inventor and the man who saved Sperm Whales"
Whaling needs to be brought back. Sperm whales are prevalent once again, so controlled harvesting of them should be possible just like hunting deer or anything else. This creates jobs, and contributes to finding renewable energy sources. Furthermore, because without whaling sperm whales have no predators they are getting abundant and taking up too much of the marine ecosystem's food supply. We need to limit their numbers for our own survival. Jobs. Energy. Marine food supply. For all these reasons we need to restore whaling, and we need to do it now.
If more gaps in Spotify's library really makes people purchase albums again?

I know it makes me switch to Grooveshark.
Chris Dixon talked a lot about "going big", growing big companies, etc. He talked a lot about a new "data tier" for the web and how Hunch would be an intelligent filter for all the data. I wonder what changed?
Thanks for the code. Gave it a spin but found the fonts a little too jarring, especially the main font. There needs to be more contrast too. I know you're trying to imitate an actual newspaper, but perhaps play a little more with the hues of gray? Right now it all seems a blur to me.
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I'd like to see .us used by more companies in the US.
Using Apple's server processing that they don't even want to offer to the current ipod touch?
more than 200 labels has withdrawn its entire catalogue from Spotify, Napster, Simfy and Rdio.

Somewhat sensationalist headline trying to make it sound like it's Spotify that's losing these labels when in reality it's the labels opting out of ALL subscription based music services. Not to say that it's not a huge problem but there is no need to single out Spotify in the title.
Sadly science can't beat the stupidity of Traditional Chinese Medicine: http://www.worldwildlife.org/what/globalmarkets/wildlifetrad...
So you think human should be playing God?
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Something about Hunch's trajectory is utterly predictable and ever-so-slightly depressing. I suppose building to sell is a perfectly valid business model -- if you succeed -- but it makes me feel a little dirty. And if nobody buys you, you're well and truly f#%@$ed.

Although who am I to argue with $80 million.
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Yes they are all different people, but it'd help Apple's case publically, but probably no differnce in court.
Hunch was always more of an API company than a destination site.
Cool idea, but I tried hotspot icon and it didn't work. Do more tests with different devices
It's just one of those interesting ideas which will not make it as a product into the companies which are run by sane people.

This is for idiots who think they can run a 100% public company - memos, emails, documents, work, clients, projects, payments, salaries, invoices, every sheet of paper and all there is in the company can be public.

P.S.: If I made a piece of software, I wouldn't accept such a thing at all. For the price of 10-1000 copies, these guys would be giving access to hundreds of thousands or even millions to my software for pretty much nothing.

If your software costs 50 USD, this is not acceptable. However, if it costs 7500-10000, it might be, depending on the sales figures.

However, this is a good thing to add to an EULA for a paid installable product.
Scumbag STHoldings.
Withdraws music from Spotify.
Available in Soundcloud.
A QR code with the URL would be a perfect addition.
Thanks for the feedback.

In the next version I will definitely try to do something to make it look a little cleaner.
To answer your question, PureData is excellent.
Consumer routers have included a statefull firewall for years. The only difference for the end user will be instead of configuring port forwarding you'll modify a firewall rule. The interface would be exactly the same.
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Price discrimination: the top plan that gets bought by people spending other people's money generates ~40%+ of gross revenue. Feel free to innovate in pricing and packaging, but this particular question is testable and tested.
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I suspect that there will still exist some situations where you only have a /128 but need to run a network behind it. I realize I'm in a tiny minority here, but when I travel I bring a WRT54GL, plug it into the hotel's Internet connection, and then plug my devices into it on my own private subnet. I kinda doubt hotels will be routing /64 to their guests, so NAT will be the only option.

I hope that IPv6 NAT will be used rarely, but I'm grateful that I will have it in my toolbox for atypical situations where there are no other options.
Hotspot works for me. Just tested
It's not that I think the utility of the general public making things at home isn't attractive. It's that 3D printing, in current forms, will be obsolete by the time it's able to do this. People have been trained, and with Apple even more, to like beautiful things that combine multiple materials, the latest electronic hardware, and great packaging.

To believe this, you'd have to this we've got at least:
- plastic/metal in the same machine - most likely simultaneously unless people are going to assemble it.
- home printable silicon, maybe they could ship it in, but I feel like that defeats the point - they could just ship the device then.

Both of these are really hard material science problems that require tons of research.

The process/materials that 3D printing provide can do none of those things right now - probably not for 10+ years. So, I think all these RepRap clone guys who think, like GNU/Linux, they'll be able to go RepRap -> ? -> Replicator, are a bit naive / hyping it.

They should be creating things that compliment the 3D Printer - like a laser cutter like this:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nortd/lasersaur-open-sou...
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>The factor that is often missed in this equation is that good music will always have a high value to the people who make it, because they pour their heart and soul into it.

Passion doesn't change the economic facts. Painters pour their hearts and souls into their works as well. That doesn't mean that they can realistically sell at a high price. Most painters are broke, and most of the art people own are cheap reproductions from places like Pier 1 or Art.com. And most people still own relatively few reproductions.

The question for musicians should be how can they maximize revenue, not price. Unless they want to live in a world where albums are purchased liked paintings: rarely and only by a small market.
If your app targets tech people, then the .com may not be necessary. However, if your app targets a general audience then a .com should be used.

Here is a good test. Find a non-tech person (someone that does not know about your website), and ask him/her to go to your website. Sit him/her in front of a computer, and say, "Please go to secq.me" See if he/she can get to your website without any further directions. Here are some questions you will likely get: "Is there a .com?" "How do you spell that?" If you try this on a few people and nobody has troubles, then great.
No, if a site uses SSL they'll just block the whole thing.
> But you guys are really ENGINEERS, and doing something with massive value.

Now you know the pain of legit engineers who share their title with Java cargo-culters and Rails bros.
The software process that develops the applications are very different. An avionics system must be able to operate autonomously, must have robust fault detection and tolerance, and must interact directly with many hardware components.

Web apps tend to layer on top of other systems and can reuse a lot of code. When I worked on avionics software we had to develop everything, from the hardware drivers for memory modules to the drivers for the display and all of the controlling systems for each of them. A high-performance web app just needs to perform well enough - at some point you can add more hardware. In an avionics platform you have specific weight, cooling, and power requirements that limit your total hardware capability. They are really very different.
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Codes are all used.
Really like the app.

I echo what was said before, don't like the header. I get what you're trying to do with newspaper, though a cleaner font would work better. Look at the UK gaurdian app in newsstand for inspiration.

I would also suggest images in the article though again it may take away from the newspaper feel.

The flipping doesn't always work, it opens an article on the odd flip try.

I would love to see:

- Instapaper integration
- Pull in the comments if possible - isn't that what makes HN,Hn?
- Bookmarking
- New threads instead of just front page
- Number of comments so far
- A very light tint of colour on the buttons, 10% blue?

All in all great experience, with a tweaks this could be a winner!
It is not playing God to hunt to get the resources we need, like, say, hunting buffalo for their meat and fur. That is just survival. We need the whale oil, so hunting them is no more playing God than is hunting buffalo. I do not see a problem here.
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Sperm whales are incredibly interesting animals. Amongst their multiple records is their ability to dive deep, fast and long.

They are the deepest diving warm blooded animal, they go close to 25 times deeper than their other equally famous and endangered cousin the blue whale. To give an idea of how deep they dive, here is an infographic http://i.imgur.com/ESp2j.jpg The jpg needs to be magnified to get the perspective. From the biological point view what is interesting is not only how they manage to hold their breath for so long but also how they manage to avoid/survive the bends (decompression sickness).
Woah, sopa is a future Wikileaks killer. Woah suddenly everything clicked in my mind. Mpaa, riaa, internet copying and "saving the children" are just pieces in a great chess game where Congress keeps itself the most powerful entity on the planet... With a website off switch to be used on any website worldwide that successfully challenges its authority. All bills giving any central authority power over the worldwide internet must be stopped. Internet > all governments... Combined. Internet should be free like a conversation in your home is free.
He never said or implied that Joel is a TDD fan in the article. He also concedes that TDD might be a controversial practice in the first paragraph. In any case, the merits of any particular practice have little to do with the main thesis of this blog post.
It boggles the mind why the car companies lobbied to keep whale hunting when their numbers were already so low. They wanted a few more years of automatic transmission working at then-current levels, and then what? The same mass transmission failures that happened, only without anymore whales left. Poachers are similarly mind boggling. Instead of leaving a viable population to harvest more animal parts (not saying it's OK, just for the sake of argument), they hunt down every last animal then move on to other animals.

Oh, and if automatic transmission had never been invented, maybe people would actually know how to drive.
I saw an interesting human-interest piece on TV over the weekend. It was about one of the cofounders of Cisco. She lives on an 800-acre farm and spends her time being a farmer.

The reporter asked her about her 40-room mansion. What's it like to live there?

She said, "I don't know. I never live there. I live in an old wooden cabin in the woods"

This led to a cute exchange: "Are you eccentric?

"Yes, I am, but only because I have money. Before I was just weird"

I was laughing when she hit me with the real punch line. "I find that if I stay active, thinking, struggling with problems that I am the most happy"

I think a lot of what we might call "lazy" or "burnt-out" is really low-level depression. Are you struggling, thinking, actively engaging in some problem that you love? If so, the words "work" or "lazy" doesn't really mean much. If not, then can you allocate some part of your life where you are?

There's nothing wrong with not wanting to do things you don't like doing. The real question is whether you can engage yourself to struggle and think with some part of life that you encounter. If so, then do that. If not, then that sounds a lot like being depressed to me.
Here's a UX tip for him... people click on underlined text. Find another way to highlight content.
As someone who went to Washington to meet with the folks who wrote this garbage, I can confidently say yes. It will be considered a circumvention device when you use a VPN or encryption service to route around the blocks.
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"The long established narrative in (especially American) academic physics that there is no questioning of quantum mechanics, and no use hoping for a deeper theory,"

Really? The narrative I've heard is that we know Relativity and QM don't go together very well and it's clear that we need something beyond the both of them to figure out how the universe works at all scales. And physicists in general seem pretty excited about any tidbit of data that might contradict one or the other, because they desperately need clues about what the non-QM/non-Relativity answer looks like. Who is out there saying that we must not look for anything beyond QM?
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Hype means excessive claims - 3D printing guys right now are claiming the RepRap can do useful things for average people, and that's just not the case. Even the commercial machines, like on Shapeways, only produce tchotchkes.

DEC wasn't wrong about the "cloud" - just way too early and in the wrong environment. RepRap clones are at this point now.
Maybe they are expecting 'trouble'. Certainly they seem to be downplaying the fact that they are deploying an autonomous robot with a laser that can vapourise stone.
My opinion is that when you're dependent upon a (possibly recalcitrant) upstream provider, it's best to have means of dealing with whatever they give you.

If in some circumstance someone hands you only one address (or, one address too few, perhaps), you can still hang your own network behind it.
Ask HN: Does anyone here actually want to get an MBA?
Or, if you already went to business school, why? Do you think your degree helped you run your business/startup/company more effectively? Do you believe you could have acquired the skills you got in B-school that you couldn't have acquired "in the wild"?
I don't know; ML has a lot of applications and the bar for most people to be able to implement it is rather high. Lowering the bar so "mere mortals" can have some serious infrastructure and data that's a mere API call away seems pretty huge.
I noticed a ton of "Rate My Startup" type of posts on here... I thought a site like this should help a bit.
> This is so pathetic, why do the Chinese government think they can tell users what they should and shouldn't be looking at

You are measuring a totalitarian regime against your own values of freedom and call their actions "pathetic" because they don't allow personal choice of having encrypted traffic?

You must have no understanding of China and its politics and the meaning of their censorship and their Great Firewall... that's like saying "Hitler was a real dork because he did not allow free speech and freedom of art which are totally awesome and everyone should be allowed to draw what they want!".
It's good fun, but its tcl interface makes me want to cry.

The audio engine imparts a very specific sound upon everything that comes out of it, much like Max/MSP.

It was developed by one of the original Max/MSP authors. I think it was released after they left cycling74 amidst some sort of drama, but don't quote me on that.
What is the gibberish between 31.000 and 36.000 feet supposed to mean? Just an oversight?
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That's a very interesting infographic. Is the pixel at 15,000ft supposed to be a scale representation of the Alvin?

And, Cthulu? WTF?
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It's also one thing to say something. But the situation changes when a ton of money is actually thrown right in front of you.
You really got me thinking here.

Have you heard of saying that path to hell is paved with good intentions?

I have seen two major categories of "asshole bosses":

1. The ones who don't care. These are in it only for the paycheck and maybe they want to see how far they can take it before they get sacked.

2. The ones who care too much. They want to be successful, they need to be seen as good example and will work themselves to madness trying to prove a point. They are also trying to achieve some ideal of their own, for which they feel it should not imposed on others. They think that they are running the show, but they rarely realize they are riding the wheel. Until they just cant take it anymore and drive everyone away.

There have been many people in your shoes. Arguably everyone who is in charge of other people has to face this situation sometimes in their career/life.

Perhaps you have read this essay from Derek Sivers, if you have not it might help you open your eyes and he even offers a pretty good strategy for dealing with your situation (http://sivers.org/delegate).

You say that you don't want to impose on your colleagues. What if there are some that want to be imposed? Who will leave you just because you didn't give them a chance to go through what you are going through now?

There might be people among them, probably most of them, who are willing to help you and have no need to see you suffering. For mutual benefit. They might help you if you are willing to admit the situation you are in.

I really hope you will be able to work it out. Go take a break. The world can do without you. Really. It will have to deal with you leaving one way or another.
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A similar argument can be made about original paintings, versus prints, versus (not really there yet, but can't be too far off) full-size, HD digital painting displays.

You have the information, and you have the physical object used to represent it. Of course you can take away the physical object and keep just the information. That doesn't mean there aren't those who enjoy the physical object for what it is.
How is he doing this? I've never seen anything like this before.
You are forgetting the most important part here: memory! Since you are getting pleasure from those songs, it is only fair to make it impossible for you to just remember a song and hear it in your head over and over again without actually paying for it!! And it can all be wrapped into a neat package where you can license music and you can listen to it and then when you don't want it anymore, it can be burned out of your memory so you cannot mis-use your memory of it!
80 million dollars is a lot to pay for a recommendation engine.

Netflix had their own and paid a million dollars as prize payout for an absolutely state of the art system.

If it really was just a tech acquisition they massively overpaid.
Machine learning is concerned with developing algorithms that enable programs to use data to evolve new behavior. Calling it a meme seems to put it in the same category as advice animals and Old Spice ads. Still, I see what you're saying--- it is really "in" right now, which is probably because:

(1) There's a lot more data now for people to use it with
(2) Infrastructure for doing it is cheap and scalable
(3) Automation is a key driver of progress, and ML algos are now getting good enough to automate a lot of stuff that humans used to have to do.
I've found in my data-mining experience that the most interesting data (at least on the Web) is not particularly easy to parse, even if you write something that automates a form's POST submissions. The second difficult part is normalizing it, as much web/text data is formatted for display to humans, which is quite different than data in easily analyzable form.

So given that, it's just worth learning enough program to do loops, conditionals, and regexes to get what you want.
If someone is going to solve the music problem, the business model should be as focused on addressing the concerns of labels and artists as it is on consumers. If the middleman is making customers happy, and artist/labels feel like their getting an equitable fee, lock-in will happen and it will become a strategic disadvantage to leave.

It's far too easy to say "give the customers what they want. Your model is antiquated, catch up!" That isn't solving a problem. If we only look at the consumer end, we're bound to end up with lots of models that don't interest labels and artists, and ultimately will not satisfy customers either. If the ultimate destination is a world where we largely marginalize labels (which seems to be something a lot of people advocate as it will push costs down), then does Spotify get us any closer to that goal? Not as it stands now.
That's a very good list. I think we're just starting to scratch at the surface of what is possible, which is why I've devoted myself to working in this field!
Is it me or on all the pages of space.com you cannot find a single link to the NASA website? As soon as you try to get more about the project, you are sent to previous stuff on space.com but no links to the original source, that is, the NASA website. Very annoying...
>Passion doesn't change the economic facts.

Nope, but it will change economic behaviour.
I tried it a couple of times too. First time I figured it was basically a slightly better stumbleupon. Next time I tried it was still the same thing and never went back.
A quick addition to the awesomeness of sperm whales: part of the reason they dive so deep/long is to hunt giant squid. While a sperm whale vs. giant squid battle has never been observed, there are multiple counts of sperm whales with scars that are from squids and in some cases almost certainly from giant squid.