skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Robo-eyes: Google working on Android gadget glasses
I'll give you that. It's one of the reasons I don't have the flash plugin installed.
A good post, and I think what this blogger is feeling is what anyone who has publicly commented on the internet has experienced. It can be discouraging, but the psychology of online communities is such that people view votes of approval as precious but those with an ulterior motive (trolling, promoting their own post, etc.) freely vote negatively. This leads to a tremendous imbalance and perception of a lack of worth.

I see this on my site often. Something will catch on a site like this and it will drive thousands (sometimes many thousands) of visitors to the site. However, on the originating site itself, I'll receive positive votes from only a very tiny fraction of visitors. Certainly more than that tiny percentage liked the post, but yet they don't vote.

That's just the nature of the beast and it has always been this way. I doubt it'll ever change.
This means that if a provider such as Netflix wanted to, they could supply you with (say) a USB crypto dongle that you would plug in to your PC, which could then interact with your browser to authenticate you, and potentially even decrypt content (or rotating media keys) on the fly. This is, I believe, pretty much what a lot of cable access cards do.
It's good practise first login as another user and then gain root priv's. This is auditable and if your sshd won't allow root login's, the can't be brute forced directly.
Unfortunate title for a blog post by Tesla con-founder,

"One Brick at a time"

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/one-brick-time
Yeah, most Linux users either have Flash enabled for the family and hate it or they don't install it. This is a tiny market. Nobody else will care. Linux users already didn't care. Nothing to see here.
Here, Gnash already works fine when I really need Flash, which isn't often.
I think Adobe is nuts to be so hostile to its Linux users. Surely it can't be that expensive to continue developing the old plugin? The thing Flash had going for it was its ubiquity: it worked on all (desktop) browser. Now that that's gone, this will be another good reason not to have new projects depend on Flash.
Thank goodness this sentiment is not widely preached in silicon valley.
Dear Adobe: just kill Flash already, for good. The world (wide web) will be a better place.
If you don't run ssh on port 22, it's been proved that it receives a lot less outside login attempts and stops the logs filling up with login failures apart from anything else.
Even further, have either of these guys actually done something successful in the SaaS space? I mean, it's obvious they're ridiculously smart and have a lot of academic credibility, but outside of the book they're writing (which you conveniently have to have for this course), I don't see anything that would lead me to think this course is more "I've been here, and here's how to do it" than "I'm taking my normal software engineering course and sticking in buzzwords."
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Can't tell if you are serious. Who uses AIR? I've never seen it.
Tim Minchin who wrote/narrated this poem is a brilliant comedian and musician. I saw him live in Dublin last October and I'm seeing him again in Malvern this summer. I don't know what it is about him, but I can watch him again and again - same goes for his music. Cheers me up no-end.
Whilst I agree with your argument, there is clearly something missing, as it's not how it's being executed.

The point is that if you are authenticated to view streaming content, you may not also be authenticated to copy and distribute it. This is flawed thinking on the content providers part, and has always been the case (recording the radio, using a VCR, etc.)

I'm not stating that I agree with the concept of this kind of protection, I'm merely suggesting that it exists, and needs to be accommodated. Clearly there will always be a way to circumvent whatever protection is in place, but there is no reason for a reliance on third-party plug-ins to do the job.
How does this fit in with an open source model? Surely you can just extract the keys/license without reverse engineering anything then?

It's daft.
Thanks for the summary. I was drawn in by the magic phrase "PostgreSQL benchmarks" but didn't know enough about DragonflyBSD to know the reason the results presented were of note.
The author doesn't link to the question and answer they posted, so it's hard to know whether they posted a reasonable question and answer, and were unfairly disparaged by the denizens of the php tag, or whether they posted a clueless question and a misleading answer and can't cope with the downvotes without blogging about it.
Has anyone tried to watch videos from here:

https://www.coursera.org/saas/lecture/preview

They took the voice recording from a live classroom lecture and added it to a powerpoint "pager" presentation. Oh my, is the course like that? Bullet points being read by someone? I think those instructional videos with papercuts, animations and things being drawn in real time are (much) more interesting and "sticky" than this. I'm not discussing content, but it's form. I think format is antiquate and wrong for its purpose as an online couse.
Anybody else disappointed that an article "How to do cheap backups" didn't at ALL describe how they, well, actually do the backups?
I was expecting some smart copy algorithm, not a post about the price of hardware. Also, they compare their hardware when at full capacity, to AWS and others scaling pricing model. Their first GB will cost a lot more than stated here in price / GB.
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Grooveshark's desktop app used it. Only place I've personally seen it in the wild.
Why do some smart people believe in nonsense?

I'm no psychologist, but I speculate it has something to do with emotion-driven self-deception.
This announcement further convinces me that Flash is gearing down to obsolescence.
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This might be more of a problem for FreeBSD than it is for Linux; at the moment, one can use flash on FreeBSD via linux firefox and hackery. I'm not aware of a way to use linux chrome as yet.
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300 million years...

now that's an impressive timeline
"But moving forward, that counts for nothing."

Sure it does count when you have patents over a new technology. Real patents of physical objects that work.

"I just want the best damn electric car there can be. I'm not paying for changing the narrative."

So? People want to benefit over things they do not contribute with. People want a pill that gives them everything they want without effort and NOW!!

It does not works this way.
Is there a "print" function with Sublime Text, for the odd time I need to print something out? How about converting a file to PDF?
Choosing-seo-services---the-principle-reasons
nowadays, business people are expanding their business into web business that is certainly more promising as increasing numbers of people today use the web.
You think?

They already blew it with the Data Retention Directive[1] - what makes you think that they'll bend on this?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive
Cool idea, but I think it would just shift the target from the consumer to the manufacturer. There is no way a sensible manufacturer is going to build one of these if they can be held liable (IANAL - I don't know if that is possible given current U.S. law, but I don't really doubt the governments ability to misapply laws or write new ones in an attempt to stop the proliferation of something like this.)for creating a device essentially designed to aid copyright infringement.
(This is off-topic, and I see how it is slightly offensive, but the biggest Fascist party, the Nazis, called themselves "National Socialists". And in terms of the effects — for example, the gulags, war-like nature and authoritarian rule, they appear quite similar. Now I assume you are the good kind of socialist, that wants good for all (e.g. modern Europe), rather than bad kind (e.g. the USSR), (and I agree with you) so I can see why you would want to distance yourself from the Fascists, but historically they are similar.)

On topic: Can I expect more or less dates if I put my political views as Fascist...?
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I am not aware of a single car or even motor manufacturer for car makers who licenses Tesla technology.

Car makers have long had hybrid cars well before Tesla even existed. Some even had prototype pure electrical cars before them too. After all, Tesla was only founded in 2003!

The only technology link is back to AC Propulsion who's founder made the controller that went into the first GM pure electrical vehicle. However, Tesla stopped using AC Propulsion technology long ago (it may even have been during the year of their founding).

So, who exactly are you talking about? It is highly unlikely to be any Japanese manufacturer, for example, due to their existing leadership in hybrid technology...
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When you don't want to be known as 'just a search company' how are you going to tackle that?

Provide a direct link your premier / 'home' product via your logo (reinforcing the idea that you're a one-product company), or encourage users to consider the full range of products by making them choose the one they're most interested in?

It seems sensible to me; there's nothing 'batshit crazy' about it.
"This debate must be based upon facts, and not upon the misinformation and rumour that has dominated social media sites and blogs in recent weeks."

Well, it would probably help the fact finding, when such treaties are not cooked up in total secrecy with the input of entertainment industry lobbyists, but excluding other interested parties, like internet users or representatives from the general public.

The whole process was a disgrace to democratic principles and I hope that it's this, which finally kills it for good.
I guess Mozilla could implement this and still allow the user to save the .mp4 in Firefox.

For DRM to be "effective" you have to control the client and not allow arbitrary implementations. Or what am I missing here?
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http://www.balsamiq.com is a popular software among people doing wireframes. The Desktop version is based on AIR (and it's the only reason why I've installed AIR on my Mac).
I think the bigger problem with Google's UI is that the top links to Google's top-level categories do not keep your search terms. Only the left links do... In other words if I search the web for "Afghanistan" and then realize I actually want news article search results, if I click "News" at the top I have to re-type "Afghanistan". This is terrible.

e.g. from
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&gs_nf=1&qe=YWZnaGFuaQ&#...

Link to left:
http://www.google.com/search?q=afghanistan&hl=en&biw...

Link at top:
http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn
Check out FlashVideoReplacer [1]. It replaces videos with your browser media plugin or can launch it in a separate player. I use it with gecko-mediaplayer and love it!

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashvideorep...
Do you have some more insight into this?
We currently run a hybrid Riak-MySQL setup, and are actively looking at Mongo to replace parts of it. In a few tests mongo 's speed seems to be all over the place: From REALLY fast to quite slow. And that is without the admin involved in a larger scale setup.
>I'm not finding any great hardship these days.

You must not watch many videos in your browsers then outside the odd one on Youtube. The reality out there is that Flash is still the main choice for delivering video. Flash is a necessary evil. It may be dying but for many it's still necessary and its removal from Firefox removes significant usability for its users.
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I got the email to say SaaS course went live on the same day that Udactiy's CS373 was published.

I tried both, but within 5 mins of each I felt like Udacity was the only one I'd enjoy (and, indeed, the only one I'm bothering with) - not because of the content (although SaaS class felt more like trad lectures, in a negative way) , but because of Udacity being a much more engaging experience.

Harsh, perhaps, but my time is precious to me, so something's gotta give.
https://github.com/mozilla/shumway

> Shumway is an HTML5 technology experiment that explores building a faithful and efficient renderer for the SWF file format without native code assistance.

> Shumway is community-driven and supported by Mozilla. Our goal is to create a general-purpose, web standards-based platform for parsing and rendering SWFs. Integration with Firefox is a possibility if the experiment proves successful.
This proposal reminds me of the RFC specifying a security flag in the IPv4 header.

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt
BBC use it for their iPlayer app (well hidden though) so I imagine the UK installation base of Air to be pretty large in comparison to other regions.
So Quora is the new Yahoo! Answers?
the League of Legends client uses it.

It's also one of the buggiest game clients I've ever used...
Yeah I think you should stay with Rails initially.
So Google really are evil after all.
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It's a US company. And your notion of US tastes leaves a lot to be desired. And fuel efficiency is only a small component of Teslas marketing.
I've been following that project and there's a lot of activity on it. So I wouldn't be surprised if they have something working in 6 months or so. I can see this being useful when flash becomes a strictly legacy technology.
The DRM stack is outside the browser.
Well more elaborately your mac can access all web services and download all data which can then be wirelessly backed up by the time machine.

For example my Dropbox folder is automatically synced on my mac which is then automatically backed up by the time machine.
my point is, I always mix the real with the hypothetical and get hooked up on details that prevent me from answering questions like this. Lions are very territorial, and respectful of territory. If a lion tamer enters a a cage with a lion already in it then he is invading a lions territory. If a lion enters a cage with a lion tamer in it, the the lion understands that he is invading someone else's territory and is highly unlikely to attack.

It's for this reason that you'll never see a Lion tamer enter a cage full of lions. He or She will always enter the cage first, and the lions will follow.

It has no bearing on a hypothetical question, but in reality it would make a huge difference.

I remember as a kid, a math teacher carefully explaining to me why my answer to a question that involved cooking was wrong. The maths assumed you could just increase the quantity of ingredients proportionally to the number of people you were cooking for, but that's not always the case, and in this example I was right in reality, but wrong mathematically.
"or you have specific privacy needs/concerns"

With all due respect, this attitude really disturbs me. It's becoming very common these days: the implication that only deviants, criminals, off-the-grid wackos, and the anti-social have any real need for privacy.

No. I reject that premise. We all have a right to privacy, and we shouldn't have to give our reasons. (That's why it's privacy, after all!). We're quickly turning into a society whose members need to opt into privacy, and in which doing so is somehow stigmatized as abnormal.

I'm not suggesting that you are championing such a viewpoint, or that you even mean to suggest it. But that line of yours -- the idea that only a subset of us have privacy "needs" or "concerns" -- is troubling, and it reflects the rapidly encroaching, popular attitude of which I'm speaking.

[FWIW, I agree with you that Google's data-gathering isn't exactly a cause for immediate alarm. It's hardly taking us on some ominous path toward 1984. But I'm more concerned about the slow, steady erosion of privacy in the digital space, of which Google's activities are only one small part.]
It's only been about a year since the flash plugin started assuming any sort of stability. Did Adobe just find Linux too hard to implement on?
Logs filling up with login failures is hardly a decent reason.
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I thought I was the only one that this change annoyed the hell out of.
Bye flash. Welcome flash alternatives. And downloading/torrenting even more videos.
The expensive part of https is session creation.
LightBeam adds intelligent object interaction to pico projectors
Because of the hits ACTA is constantly taking.

Initially the adoption process went silently, as in other places, like the US. There were a few mentions in some geek media, but 99.9% of the society never heard of ACTA (not to mention having an opinion on it).

But then we had the explosion in Poland, with street protests and mainstream media headlines and loud public debate, so no wonder that the Polish PM eventually turned 180 degrees.

And in parallel, street protests started popping up allover Europe, the EU Parliament rapporteur for ACTA resigned in protest, and now we have a case in front of the European Court of Justice.

Right now I'd say we have like 2/3 probability, that Europe will kill ACTA.
I don't know that the issues reported can be called "crashes." Rather it is locking up, probably because there are not enough resources reserved for the terminal and therefore the terminal becomes unresponsive while waiting for an opportunity to run.
No it's not. There are a variety of ways to engineer around this property of the batteries.
http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/18065079081/cogs-...
Google has a nasty habit of developing some technology in a dark room, then dropping it on the web community and being confused when no one is that interested (Dart is the other big example). It makes me wonder if they really want these projects to be cross-platform successful or not.
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Don't know if fanboy troll article or just ignorant...

You can do basically everything he outlined in Android.

1. Plethora of app switchers including the one that's always built-in.

2. Gmail and the built-in email app make switching to other emails to reference from pretty easy.

3. Android has this for apps, internet windows/tabs, and homescreens.

4. Again, Android already has this. Pretty much every app has a "share" feature that opens a universal list of applications you have installed/configured on your system. If they have a way that something can be shared to them, they show up in the list.

5. Android finally seems to be getting some nice things with the ICS keyboard. But oh, by the way, you can install OTHER keyboards on Android. Including my favorite: Swype. Look it up if you've never heard of it. Takes getting used to, but amazing once you do.

6. I love how this article passes over the fact that Apple stole Google's notification system from Android. It's a pull-down tray with centralized notifications including weather and stock objects that Apple (after swearing never to include these in their system) has the gaul to call "widgets." Most Android phones now have the option to clear notifications individually or en mass. ICS has implemented the "swipe away" feature and that feature has been around for a long damn time in the Android universe.

7. Depending on the phone you get, this differs. Unless, of course, you install an app that does it for any version of Android. Like Quick Settings or the pain version: Quicker. These apps can be brought up as overlays over any app or game and can be bound as either an ongoing notification in your tray to click on or as the long-press action on your search button (numerous other apps can share that functionality as well).
»OSX is the best OS. MacVim is the best editor. Zsh is the best shell. Pry is the best irb. Solarized is the best color scheme.«

It should probably be called »Chauvinist starter pack«.
Amazon Releases The Simple Workflow Service (SWF)
Amazon Releases The Simple Workflow Service (SWF)
I'd like s/By/Written by/ too, since my first thought was that Cory Doctorow was scroogling people.
Trying to keep the tinfoil hat off, but... when I tried to post a comment on the Adobe blog asking whether Linux is being singled out in this respect and if so, why, I got a database error.
Restricting what you can do with data doesn't fit well with open-source. If you can read a stream and decode it to a screen or speaker, you'll also be able to save it to a file. If you can't change the software to do whatever you want it to (and download copy-protected streams is one thing you may want) it's not open-source.
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"3. Only answer a question on Stack Overflow if and only if you are sure that you know the solution."

Well duh. It seems the blog author just discovered that he's not entitled to waste volunteers time, with either unresearched questions or ill fitting answers. I would call that being polite.
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I can't make much sense of this. Adobe declared Flash dead. Apple declared Flash dead. Google declared Flash dead in Chrome for Android.

Now, they're going to continue working on Flash, but only on a new API that is implemented only in a single browser in Linux (and from statements from Apple and Mozilla, will stay that way), but keeping it compatible with the old NPAPI on Windows?

What I don't even....

Edit: Could it be that Google is planning to release (or has released) some Linux-based appliance where Flash support is a must?
Yes, but it was published a couple weeks too soon. Someone may take it seriously.
Since nobody else is saying it.

The issue with this proposal is that it it creates a segmented web, whereby if a vendor does not ship a "CDM" for a particular platform, you will never see DRM'd web content for that platform.

To those of you who are thinking "Woo! Now there's any easy way to get my license keys!" you have missed the part where there's a media layer interacting with a DRM stack - this is essentially the same situation as today.

The only thing this does is give blessing to break principles of universal computing. I am opposed.