skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is limiting the application though. With client-side rendering you can have large view changes with little state change.
Soviet Space Propaganda Posters, 1958-1963
It was a flag.

I guess it's supposed to connote triumphalism. As in "yay, it finally shipped!" The NetBSD logo, itself based on a cartoon of daemons hoisting a flag like at Iwo Jima, has many of the same connotations.

Back in Windows 3.1, by going to ProgMan's About box and Ctrl-Shift-Clicking the Windows logo X amount of times, you could trigger an "easter egg", one screen of which was a flag waving with the Windows logo on it. Another of which was a credits scroll with a cartoon figure that had one of four faces: Gates, Ballmer, the Windows dev lead at the time (I forget who but he had a beard); and a creepy looking teddy bear (some sort of internal mascot for the Windows division).

Good times.
I tried the site with some minor nuisances in my sit-upon. It thinks I have Crohn's Disease. This IS like Dr. House.
This gets worse with each iteration.
Heh, the phrase "Authentically Digital" neatly sums up what I like about the Metro UI. If Windows Phone wasn't so locked down, I would get one just because it's the best looking option by far right now.

As for the logo, I think a flag shape would be better than the window shape they have. It feels a little bit generic and almost self-parodying. That said, I definitely see where they are coming from, and it does fit in with their new Metro UI aesthetic.
In the nicest possible way, I'm actually bored of this metro look already and it's not even released yet.

I find that logo boring, some squares with a warp on it. I know it doesn't have to be over complicated but I don't think there is any imagination there at all.

The blue is not very strong either, the branding it quite weak.

Just my opinion, which I am entitled to before anyone starts giving me grief!
GRKERNSEC_BRUTE will also trigger for suid binaries (in the case of memprodroid, run-as). See gr_handle_brute_attach() for details.
> Using an ES5 shim is best-practice these days

Says who?

I'm guessing about 90% of the reason most people start using a library like jQuery is because it lets you find almost any DOM element in a single step with a familiar syntax. And about 9% of the rest is probably to make AJAX less painful. Does your unspecified ES5 shim provide these features?

If not, a lot of people are going to be using a library like jQuery anyway, and you're advocating using an extra (unspecified) library to get portable utility functions that also work in older browsers. What happened to DRY? ;-)

This isn't to say that polyfilling doesn't have its place or isn't useful. I just challenge your claim about what is best practice, because I think the argument is far from compelling in the common case that a developer is already using another library with similar utility functions (which many, many general purpose JS libraries have, because the language itself was so slow to provide them; it's like strings in C++ all over again).
There is obviously a spectrum to this sort of thing, but I know of many people that will just habitually enter javascript alerts into a web services's forms to see what happens.

Mostly this is just to evaluate the product and to see if it is trustworthy, but they'll often send along a polite FYI to the site owners letting them know if they have security issues that need addressing.

Actions like that: finding vulnerabilities, privately disclosing them, not disrupting the service, are all fairly innocuous things that most reasonable technically savvy people would consider 'white hat'.
He says over Skype in the post I replied to. Mars rover is not real time, doesn't actually do anything, 5 of them failed, there is a team of highly trained scientists and engineers running the project and the whole thing has cost almost $1B. The current state of the art does not seem to suggest that it is possible for $1 workers in India to dig a basement in Illinois with a tractor controlled over the internet. It certainly is not possible for less than what it costs to just hire local workers to do it.
Yeah, I dont understand the Chrome love from the typical "hacker." I personally use Webkit Nightly.
It’s a little more than just the opinion of someone named Paula, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Scher
That's still not like sending a letter without an envelope.
I'm not sure why you would, without Goldman's entire infrastructure (SecDB, Slang, etc) it probably wouldn't be that useful. The only thing you could "steal" is what's between your ears anyway.
Sure they are, but they were't marketed using the term "IDE". That acronym appeared AFAIK in the late 1980's in the IBM PC world, and it was used to distinguish those software products from the unix-like MS tools.
Given that much of Google's growth was shepherded by Eric Schmidt, who seems to think privacy is orthogonal to evilness, I think you've hit the nail on the head.
Oh boy I hadn't noticed that but now that you point it out... I hope they don't change it so I can point it out to people
I don't think that "I don't really care if it's you or someone else that fills this role" is such a bad thing. Good companies want developers that are smart -- they don't care about you because you're you, they care about you because you possess the characteristics of someone who will do good work for them. Similarly, if you want some graphic design, there are a number of people who will do a good job. You want any of those people, not one specific person. Unless, that is, that person has done something specific that makes them a particularly good fit. But you can offer jobs without being that specific.

In my own experience, I've gotten jobs both ways. I got a job at a small Perl web app company because of my work on a Perl web framework. The lead developer approached me directly. I've also gotten jobs where someone has recommended me because of general ability rather than any specific work.
You can't compare this to $10 vs. $100000K because the actual damage done here versus him doing the same thing to the servers of a small company is not x10000 the size, if that makes sense. The harm caused in both cases is negligible.

I suppose you could count the large amount of time facebook probably had to spend going through their systems to make sure they were clean. Surely the money for their security team was already spent though?

Also, isn't messing around with the records of a small business somewhere that probably doesn't even have proper backups actually more potentially damaging than poking at part of a globally distributed, multiply redundant decentralised system like facebook?

It was really the way the judge chose to phrase that whole bit that annoyed me to be honest.
M-Pulse #6: Privacy + MVP, instant gratification, Roberto Pieraccini
It really depends on the intent and extent of the intrusion, which I don't know. If there was no malicious intent and nothing was irreparably damaged, I'd say yeah, hire him. Even Microsoft, when WP7 was jailbroken, hired the hackers and put them on their openness team. The end result so far is that Microsoft allows "developer unlocks" for non-developers, so sideloading is possible.

You'd think tech companies would have learned something from all the retribution the cracker community has laid down in the past few years. If you have security holes, own up to them and fix them. Hire real security teams and have external pen-testing on outward-facing products. And if, after all that, you get breeched still... at least learn something from the attack, and possibly from the attacker.
Upvoted. Never, ever, talk to the cops.
Even funnier, the military used it in the Iraq war to communicate.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.06/battlefield_pr.html

"We'll be in the middle of a battle and a bunch of field artillery colonels will come online in the form of these big-breasted blondes."
Why not see if there's a MakerBench or other hackerspace near you and just rent some time on the machines rather than buying your own?
And this is news why? Did Obama not have a field office in SF in 2008? I would find that hard to believe.
So, what did he break?
The design was by Pentagram, not Microsoft. They are certainly more than familiar with the work Paul Rand…
That's just giving an impulse to black hat hackers: "Hey, if they still punish us (although we just wanted to show them weaknesses) at least let's give them hell!"
This touches on one of the biggest problems when using compute-driven data. I'm pretty sure the data could easily tell you her age and residential status... if you had thought of checking. Ultimately, the algorithms can only answer the questions you ask.
Pretty cool for beginners, but I found that as I got more into Cassandra I tend to use raw byte arrays for just about all keys as they really give you much more flexibility and avoid a lot of headaches.

I understand the drive to make Cassandra more accessible to noobs, but I don't think this is going to be the long-term mechanism for taking advantage of the underlying platform.
Inroads to cloud settings were being made well before 2010. Xmarks was pretty close to that ideal as early as 2008 IIRC, and I'm not a 100% certain that cloud-based settings weren't present in Google Chrome in 2010 (in dev builds, if at all.)

On the one hand, it's somewhat inevitable, really, and it's that thought that keeps me from carping too loudly about having built (and launched) a carbon copy of Digg about three weeks before Kevin Rose did. Sure, it was a novel idea, but it was also inevitable, in the sense that automating a human-curated process almost always is.
Rest assured hackers are seeing these cases and acting accordingly. When the sentence for curiosity is comparable to malicious deeds, then the incentive is obvious. You have successfully incentivised hackers to make sure that their deeds are so great that their sentences actually come close to representing them.
Wonderful page, laughed alot. Firefox 2012 logo with meteorite crash and then 2050 with an all water covered globe.
Hello,
I am the author of the linked blog. Your idea is indeed very neat too. Refer to the comment made in the blog by Jens Gustedt. It has lots of potential imo
Funny that you mentioned Piers Anthony, he was my entry point into sci-fi/fantasy and I've been a voracious reader ever since.
If a linux install is 5GB, then you're choosing yourself which packages to install. Not so in this case.

I decided this in 2005, when a multi-GB download and 4GB install was relatively larger. And no it's not just a one-time thing, I had multiple laptops and I did reinstall them (adding linux to try out etc).
You stop supporting them. They haven't shown any indication of doing that and I'm not a paranoid conspiracy theorist like much of the HN community.

Rules like that are for the App Store to enforce, hence why they are part of the "App Store Submission Guidelines", it's not the job of code signing. They have specifically cited "malware developers" and only them when giving examples of devs that could have their certs revoked. If they stick by that, I'm happy.
Most Goldman exec should be executed already for crimes against the United States if that guy get's 8 years.
Did You Hear We Got Osama?
I suspect that any truly adequate automated essay grader would imply strong AI or at the very least some optimization process good enough that it might as well be strong AI.
Hell Is Cheap: China, Apple, And The Economics Of Horror
I'm very afraid that Apple is on slippery slope towards AppStore-only Mac.

They've added GateKeeper. "It's only an option!" people say.

They might switch default to AppStore-only. "You're free to change it if you like!"

And then when other software is a hard to install suspicious minority, they'll remove the option. "Nobody used it anyway. Who wants to invite malware?"
OS X Mountain Lion’s more than just another OS, and here’s why
This is the same way corporations run. Shareholders/the board of directors choose one person to run the whole enterprise and take the decision. The person runs the show and makes the decisions, even if shareholders don't like some of them.
The shareholders don't get to vote on every single decision, but if too many bad decisions are made, CEO gets a boot.

This is also a similar way the pirate ships were being run.

The reason for this is that person(s) at helm have the better perspective. Not because they are superhumans or sth, but because they spend 15 hours a day involved in the manner.

In other words - yes, the politicians are better to make decisions regarding the country. Not because they were born better, but because that's their job.

It doesn't mean that they won't make mistakes, or be misinformed (as in case of ACTA) - that's why they should listen to people, consult society. But by "listening to people", I mean "hearing their arguments and reasoning", not "doing what people want". The former is called "being wise", the latter "being populist".

btw. majority making decisions on every issue is not a populism. It's a direct democracy. I'd argue that it is as bad as populism.

Because of this distinction I was against ACTA, but at the same time against a referendum against ACTA :)
Using R and `ggplot2` to Contemplate Relocation
Bitmaps are surprisingly efficient
NSA declassifies handwritten letter from Nash in which he anticipates P vs NP
Which doesn't necessarily mean everyone would be interested in reading about the newest developments weekly.
Summary: Use window.pushState() to reduce HTTP requests and cache every thing.
Facebook hacker jailed for eight months | Technology | The Guardian
What is productive? I remember someone here being really pleased with themselves because they'd cut down on the time they "wasted" gossiping, and learned Chinese instead. But they never said anything about actually using the Chinese.

I enjoy making things too, but I don't kid myself into believing that I'm doing something "better" than watching TV.
I can spare my karma and you can downvote me now for saying this (but my blood is boiling too), but I can bet you my left arm (I'm left-handed) that if that "international business" called Facebook would go down for longer than 25 minutes, you would see world's work-power suddenly increased by 40%.
So - the post title does not quite reflect the msn.com title (do not editorialise - one of the HN commandments) - and the person sent to prison is not a teen (using any normal counting system)
Windows isn't dead until Apple makes something that beats direct X and is largely compatible with it.
Preparing for a mobile-first world
I agree with both of you; it feels fundamentally egocentric to broadcast one's thoughts on the web. But it's been an interesting exercise for me on many levels.

The feedback you get from friends and strangers can be valuable - like this discussion. And clear writing == clear thinking. I find that in the process of writing I edit and re-edit my thoughts and sometimes change my mind. That's helpful in and of itself.

As for public-ness making it difficult to quit -- many people (PG included) have written about this [1]. My goal in making my work public is not to benefit from this social pressure, though that would be a nice side-effect.

I want to document my hard work, and ensure that the good parts of what I work on don't die.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html
Yeah! Let's use the flag of Shetland so ... people won't confuse our logo with .. a flag?

Um?

Granted they didn't pick the flag of big country like Sweden or anything, and if Shetland, Calais and Pärnu, Estonia, as well as Iceland in the past, were already using it, why couldn't Microsoft?

On a more serious note, there's lots of valid criticism on this logo, the TM and (R) are clutter, their "Metro style" is not supposed to have perspective, and the font isn't particularly anything either.

But then, it's not my logo :)
You do realize there are people in jail in California for life for stealing very small amounts, due to the "3 strikes law", where as the people responsible for sucking billions out of the US economy... well, none of them have gone to jail. (I did read about someone that did go to jail, but he was a low-level actor... it was clear it was a sacrificial lamb).
I'm concerned about what happens when the RIAA and the MPAA push pressure on Apple to revoke developer certificates for things they don't like, ie: VLC and HandBrake.

BluRay ripping software? Sorry, your developer certificate has been revoked. It might be legal to write that software in your country, but not in the USA.
aka a "high concept" pitch (though "X for Y" is really just a subcategory of high concept).
It's interesting that "Excel" is listed as one of the valuable skills students learn in their Wall Street internships.
You must be a recruiter. Acceptable is leaving a message and waiting for me to call back or calling back a couple of days later if there is no answer.

If you are calling me every 20 minutes: 1) you know me personally or 2) it's an emergency.
It was the largest public school in Palo Alto in the most competitive division for non-private schools in Northern California. Also, they beat a team with 5-star college basketball recruits (including Taylor King who went to Duke Basketball) in the championship game.
Maybe finance firms are just more together with interview scheduling. I realize your comment meant there are few positions in finance, but I've never known any startup sized companies to do something like that, even though everyone says they are desperate for talent. The interview process is usually super disorganized, and people just get called in if it's an employee's girlfriend's roommate or other arbitrary criteria. It's usually like 2-8 people interviewed in a month, not 30.
Other than the color, it's a decent new logo.

There is, however, one huge flaw: separated from the wordmark, the icon is flaccid. It looks like they were aiming for Apple-like minimalism in both color and form (which isn't to say that Apple is the only company allowed to practice minimalism), but "a skewed, doubly-bisected square" simply isn't distinctive enough to be iconic. I really hope they iterate on it for Windows 9.
"Please stop repeating the 'mobile devices are just for content consumption' meme. It's bullshit."

Judging by the number and sales and downloads of both the Apple app store ( http://www.apple.com/iphone/from-the-app-store/ ) and the Anroid Market ( https://market.android.com/apps ), I would say you are somewhat out of touch.

EDIT: Also, you'll note that from your own posted link the author had to get a wireless keyboard. There was nothing he accomplished there that couldn't have been done just as well (and possibly more cheaply) using a netbook.
Universal Motorola Root Exploit : Reverse Bounty Experiment : Failed
is there any other? I'd like to know!
I searched around a little bit, since I found the lack of details somewhat disturbing. This is the best I found: http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Facebook-hack-lands-UK.... From the sounds of it, he broke into an employees account (likely their work computer, possibly further access). I'm speculating, but that makes it sound like he stole some portion of the Facebook source code, coupling that with the "intellectual property" claims.

I'm curious about this line, towards the bottom:

his intention throughout was to contact Facebook in due course when he had rectified their problems
it will not happen.. Right now I have an interview with Tumblr in a few weeks, how did I get it if not going through their own recruiter?

I asked David Karp if I could turn in a proof of concept Tumblr Android app as part of the application process.

Contrast that with FB, which I am still in the Internal Recruiter shuffle..but is a holiday today maybe it will change on Monday.
Seems I read a design article once that claimed the /best/ thing you could have for a logo was an abstract shape that consumers identified with your brand, like the Nike swoop. It's fairly unique, identifiable, and unlikely to be confused with anything else. Seems the old windows logo was that, the new one is not.
Ah, (for anyone caring enough to read this discussion) apparently the actual code in the patch (which was more complex than listed here [1]) doesn't just ban processes (as with control of the parent we really do have the ability to bypass the process check, as again: we can just keep making replacement exploit containers), but also bans entire user accounts that are causing suspicious memory accesses.

[1] http://xorl.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/grkernsec_brute-exploit...
Optimizing GIF Images
Sorry, I was referring to iMessage.
At that time, they were all about syncing data between 2 of Your browsers, that was somewhat different from my suggestion which is being able sign in you friends browser and sign out when you are done.

Btw, I am not saying that I am the first one though who this, I am sure someone else(Google?) did before me. But that was just my pure prediction and It happened, I am quite happy with that.

Also, thanks for your insights.
40% seems like a conservative estimate
The chat is not working right now but I've seen a link to the code about an hour ago.
Mobile Morning Coffee - Foxconn workers get a raise   why LTE sucks
>"Deliberately exploiting a loophole to circumvent privacy controls is scummy behaviour"

If (scummy < creepy){console.log("film@11")};
else google = evil;

Tracking users is Google's core business. I'd be surprised if they were the only people who have figured out how to do this sort of thing.

Holding Google to some higher standard than other companies is naive at best. Its management has the same duties to the stockholders as any other company.
Sounds to me like someone who accessed Facebook for kicks and made up an excuse when he got caught. There's no more evidence that he profited than there is that he was being helpful.

I knew a kid back in the '90s who got hauled off a couple of times by the FBI for hacking. He wasn't looking for profit — he just thought it was fun to break into systems.
Whether the bug is fixed by the Chromium team or not, Google should not have been exploiting it to track users.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope
Profounder is shutting down
yes I do understand. Keep in mind this is someone I've never talked to before, they call me during working hours and have some expectation that I will answer and when I don't they just decide rather than leave a message and call back a day or two later they are just going to keep childishly calling me back, interrupting my work in the process. I can understand if its someone with whom I've already had contact and I agreed to make myself available but only a salesperson / recruiter would actually believe that I am the one being rude.
For those who are newer to Cassandra, or don't want to host it themselves, we offer a hosted solution on Heroku (just REST), or a managed Enterprise ring (with a REST API) -- http://cassandra.io . I apologize for the website...we just hired a UI guy :)
Facebook has another mobile problem: Google  Instant Photo Upload
Facebook wins legal battle against Power.com over spam, unauthorized access
NDAA does no such thing. A pretty good explanation of what it actually does is available from these articles:

http://www.lawfareblog.com/2011/12/ndaa-faq-a-guide-for-the-...

http://www.lawfareblog.com/2011/12/the-ndaa-the-good-the-bad...

http://www.lawfareblog.com/2011/12/the-ndaa-the-good-the-bad...
Two types of recruiters those that have exclusive contracts and those that do not..

Your description does not hold for those with exclusive contracts.. in fact those are types of recruiters you should interact with as they are very pleasant.
I never really thought to do that, so thanks for pointing it out. It may come in handy one day if I absolutely must use one of those services.

But in general, that's still awkward, and enough of a (mental) hassle that I probably won't bother if it's just someone who wants me to check their site out. So my advice to any web designers would be to make sure your site is functional even without the flashy add-ons, the same way you would make sure your site is functional on all browsers/operating systems.