skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a stupid question. Logos aren't depictions. They're icons meant to represent something, not describe it. I never questioned the old logo. I actually liked it a lot more than the sad attempt at modernism they're announcing in this article.

It's disappointing that Microsoft doesn't seem to understand this essential design rule. They should read Paul Rand.

“Should a logo be self-explanatory? It is only by association with a product, a service, a business, or a corporation that a logo takes on any real meaning. It derives its meaning and usefulness from the quality of that which it symbolizes."
I agree. People that have followed Mixergy know the content is worthy. However, I can certainly see how someone finding it for the first time might be turned off.

My main constructive criticism would be this:

Don't make people spam their Twitter followers just to view the premium samples.

a) It annoys people that don't use Twitter (yes, we exist) b) It makes me have to have a relationship with you before I've even evaluated your content.

In my mind, it's more effective to allow people to sample your premium content with the least amount of resistance.

Keep the list building separate from the sample content. You can always find something to give away specifically for the list subscribers.
They shouldn't be allowed to use it. Who really wants to live in a 'fishbowl' world where every corporate entity and government organization can have full access to every minute detail of your life. It opens the door for rampant discrimination
I don't feel sorry for them - they chose that profession, and most are starting to feel the futility of their job. What I'd like to see is a recruiter that works backwards: they asks what companies you want to work with, then actively goes out and see if they can form connections to get you an interview in those companies...
ASCII Dicks API
Yeah, they're going somewhere nice with it but it's just not there yet. It actually looks like the logo hates its font and is turning away from it. It's not an iconic symbol by itself and is too plain, boring, and generic to become one later on. If they decide to use it I'm sure it'll stick eventually, it's just right now, it doesn't look done.
He may have found a security hole so disastrous and so ingrained that its easier to jail the kid than to fix the problem.
IU, eh, it's a gorgeous campus in my opinion. I was there once for a race (in college), and the only thing I remember (or don't remember) from that weekend is playing sink the biz at Nick's. In fact, I still have the mason jar beer mug I "liberated" from them.
I don't see any reason to think that upper management is any less committed to "Don't Be Evil" than they've ever been, and as long as Larry and Sergey are in charge it'll probably remain that way. But the larger a company gets the harder it is to impose that sort of thing on everybody, and the more stupid and random stuff a company will do, and some of that will end up being intentionally or effectively evil. Growing by acquisition rather than organically is probably making it worse than it has to be, too.
Well, that's true of incarceration in general.
I very much agree that currently there is no heavy competition to MS Office.

However, I think there is an interesting scenario that during the coming years, tablets and laptops might converge, into "convertible laptops" such as the Asus Transformer prime.

If Apple were to introduce such a device, that ran iOS in tablet mode, but OSX in laptop form, that could be a very real alternative to MS. Apple could then capitalize on the consumer desire for tablets, to move users from MS platform to Mac platform, where Apple have a good office suite in iWork.

Such a scenario could open up real competition on office suites.

Until then though, I agree that iOS or Android won't come anywhere near threatening Office, and it's a bit misguided of the author to announce the coming death of the market leader, based on a few personal experiences by himself and his wife.
I'm not sure you understand which one of you is being rude. Calling back later is a perfectly acceptable thing to do when there is no answer.
Gartner Business Intelligence 2012 Magic Quadrant
I also had the Silberschatz (such a weird cover!) and Oppenheim books. I think Sedra and Smith is pretty widely accepted as the canonical introductory electronics book.

Most frustrating book I had to deal with: Random Variables and Stochastic Processes by Papoulis and Pillai. I understand it's also very popular, but I found it really hard to follow.
Design by the Numbers
I'm not familiar with how either system works, but there are definitely "symptom checkers" which would qualify as AI.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1307157/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_decision_support_syste...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-aided_diagnosis
>So, wikis are cool and all (and we use them extensively at our startup), but let's not pretend businesses are going to roll them out. They require a server, and getting your IT department to set that up is nontrivial unless you are super tiny.

This is completely false in my experience.

1) Businesses use wikis all the time. The last 4 places I've worked at have had department wikis. This includes a University, a Mega-Bank, a family owned e-tailer, and a medium-sized consulting firm, which hits just about every size business you can have aside from "start-up".

2) Getting a wiki set up is trivial. For the large companies you request the IT side to give you a VM and an address on the intranet. For the small companies it's usually a spare box and an address on the intranet. It's dead simple.

Also I suspect you would be surprised at how much leeway managers have in choosing collaboration mediums. Email is the old standby, yes, but many managers will choose other ways to collaborate within their department. Most businesses have an IM server for internal chats as well.
I found myself wondering if perhaps the 'white-hat' reference is a blunder in the headline. This article woefully lacks any actual details regarding what he did or how he approached communication with Facebook, only stating that he was a white-hat hacker for Yahoo once (which obviously proves nothing).
there are 2^5 patterns... aren't there?
Yeah, mempodroid is a great example. You'd need to randomize the location of the setuid executable (w/PIE), randomize of the linker, and implement something like GRKERNSEC_BRUTE to prevent trivial local bruteforcing of a usable address.

Speaking of which, spender's recent blog post gives a good overview of some of the grsec/PaX mitigations that would hamper the exploitation of the /proc/pid/mem vuln:

http://forums.grsecurity.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2939
The Microsoft one really isn't all that far off the W8 logo...
I think you're using a different definition of "pleasant" than I was. The idea of something being ethically pleasant is odd to me. I basically meant "tasty." Some vegans find, say, fried chicken to be quite tasty, but they refrain from eating it nonetheless. The same cannot be said of human flesh for most people.

As for the suggestion that vegans are no more dedicated to their diet than anyone who does not eat human meat, I find that frankly bizarre. Refraining from cannibalism in a society where cannibalism is illegal is extremely different from avoiding all animal products in a society where animal products are nearly ubiquitous. People who don't eat other people are essentially going with the flow. (This is not to say that they would be cannibals in a different situation, just that few are even presented with the choice, and choice is an important distinction here.)
Well I'd love to know which DOM library you're hiding behind your words, that you believe is de facto.
Indeed. It's all about what you do as a result of your shenanigans. If you, say, leave a discrete note behind that you have a gaping security hole the size of a hallway on your systems, that would be considered white hat, as opposed to say, stealing a bunch of internal emails, code, etc and selling it or putting it out on torrent sites.
Facebook, Mozilla, Google, and lots of other companies encourage this with exploit bounty programs.
Better relations with Cassandra 1.1
Yes. White hat hackers often approach these large companies' white hat programs themselves.
I constantly use overlapping windows.

If I'm tailing a continuous log, I don't need to see the full text of each line, I just need to see when the pattern changes, which I can get by having the first 10 characters peeking out from behind the left of my active window.

My to-do list is big but really the first three words or so are enough to remind me of what each item is; it's behind and to the left of the tailing log.

Finally, I have a few corners of various other apps I'm using poking out all over the place. It's much easier to switch to the window I want by grabbing a corner than alt-tabbing or any other method.
use steganography and smuggle it out inside pictures you upload to your facebook
Actually, it's not the worse site, but the site could use a little polishing. There's actually a lot of material put out in HN in the past about that. A lot of landing pages look like this example: http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/landing...
app that feels like a web page, not just a single-page JS app

I think this is a key point and is one reason that server-side approaches will be relevant for a long time to come. Some applications, such as Gmail and Pivotal Tracker, feel a lot like desktop apps, and heavy use of client-side code is a necessity in these cases. But many—I'd argue the vast majority—of web applications produce a better user experience when they feel like ordinary web pages. I don't see that changing any time soon.
Usually "white hat" have some kind of responsible disclosure. It seems that this "white hat" did not disclose anything to facebook, then got caught and only then, pretended to be acting for everyone's good.

Admitting everything in police custody is NOT responsible disclosure
Surprised that Facebook didn't hire this guy on the spot.
#TellVicEverything: The Government Getting What it Deserves
"I am not saying the man is beating his wife, but (...)" is to perpetuate the idea instead of just plainly saying "I don't think they copied us". It reads like something out of an antagonistic lawyer from a procedural TV show. We need a Spock take on this.

My comment was a response to the original title of the submission, which read something along the lines of "HipChat comment on Apple logo plagiarism rumours" or something to that effect more so than the post itself.
Show HN: I built this to automatically backup photos on multiple online accounts
"You accessed the very heart of the system of an international business of massive size, so this was not just fiddling about in the business records of some tiny business of no great importance," he said.

This is the kind of thing that makes my blood boil.
IguanaBee buzzes into the game localization market for China
And no "textpad/notepad/vim" option? What about simply taking notes in your email/calendar client so you can add recipients and send/schedule?

I don't know anyone (even in the past 10 years) who's ever mentioned using OneNote.
Send Twitter $1.00
TEDxUW - Larry Smith - Why you will fail to have a great career
The way the W sort of points at the dot in the i makes me feel like if someone is poking my eye.
I think its the dot on the 'i'. It should be square too.
Now it really looks like the Swedish flag.
The insatiable force of Curiosity
MCSTL: The multi-core standard template library
On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences gem
I always interpreted it as a "flying window" (which was also the name of an old screensaver).
Yes, but that doesn't mean that other people couldn't trademark the same image in different contexts. Trademark really isn't like copyright.
Google did what I suggested in 2010
Whether or not you think a logo should literally depict a name, I think her point was that the logo was originally intended to be a literal window: the Windows 1.0 logo was a picture of on-screen desktop windows, the 1989 version was a physical window, but in 3.1 they hopped the rails to a wavy thing that got steadily more flag-like.

This new version is a step back to the roots of the original design. It's clean, it's clear, and I like it.
I'd argue that anyone using styles in Word is in the same boat.
There is no de facto DOM library. I just said as much ... jQuery would be "de facto" if projects adopted it without a second thought, and in my experience this doesn't happen except with beginners.
Detecting auto-answer in videoconference equipment
I dont think people would care so much if they receive baby ads. On the other hand, I imagine I'd be pretty pissed if I had a teenage daughter and she received this.
>> Using an ES5 shim is best-practice these days

Hmmm, seems like a huge distance to travel from being 'I think ES5 shims are awesome' to a 'best-practice' these days. I'd be hesitant to use the kriskowal library in production, especially since it states 'This package requires quite a bit more attention and testing. It is not likely to behave as advertised in a large cross-section of browsers.'
It's not wrong by itself, but making content encoding implied might become an issue later (e.g. load balancers or CDN, merging content or improving support on east-asian languages). It's likely they've never faced those kind of issues.
Issue #1 : Let there be light. [Pycoder's Weekly]
I think this guy is grey hat at best.
Moreover, he actually accessed files. White hat hacking includes finding vulnerabilities, not using them to actually steal data.

This sounds like someone who was accessing Facebook for profit and made up an excuse when he got caught.
If Google uses security holes in Apple's browser to "enhance" user tracking, what might Google do if they had their own browser?
I think you can shave off the "for beginners" from the title. It's really worth the read no matter your skill level. There are so many interesting and different ways to use JavaScript that I think almost everyone can gain something from this.
Really enjoying it so far :)
Assuming you have dot installed:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOT_language

Also, these are useful:

http://www.graphviz.org/pdf/dotguide.pdf

http://linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/05/06/graphviz_do...
Interesting... it never occurred to me that brute forcing an address was feasible enough to bother with. ;P (edit: Although, thinking more, some exploits have a more constrained range of addresses. That said, even here we have a 2-3GB area, but could probably expand the target to "any instruction executed between these points", which might be as much as a kilobyte; requiring just a few million attempts isn't that unreasonable.)

Looking at GRKERNSEC_BRUTE, however, it would not affect this exploit: it is designed to penalize the parent for forking exploitable children (so as, for example, to keep new copies of Apache from coming into existence rapidly enough for them to be remotely exploited); however, here we are assumed to have control of the parent, so we can just add a layer of indirection, never reusing direct parents.
Seems ridiculous for a company who has the word "HACK" all over the inside and outside of their office, to put energy into this. Hire the kid and move on.
"You accessed the very heart of the system of an international business of massive size, so this was not just fiddling about in the business records of some tiny business of no great importance," he said.

How small does a company have to be, where it's ok for someone to "fiddle about" in their business records?
Is Pinterest Illegal?
I wouldn't learn Ember in 2012
The share of U.S. workers in engineering and science fields below 5%
Lawmakers Question DHS Monitoring of Social Media
LackRack - ultimate datacenter-in-the-living-room (under $8)
So majority making decisions once every 4 years - that's democracy, but majority making decisions on every issue - it's populism?

I wonder how that magic that makes people wise enough once every 4 years works.

One possible way is that politicians are better than regular people, and they have to lie before elections to ponder to stupid voters. After the election wise and benevolent politicians do what is Right, no matter their stupid voters opinion.

Is THAT why indirect democracy is better? Because it depends heavily on the fact, that the most wise and benevolent politicians have to tell the best lies to the stupid voters. And it's not obvious to me, that this will be always true.
While it is indeed despicable to imagine that there's a different law for big and small companies, it is long known that the size of actual and potential harm is considered when crime and punishment is being discussed. One would probably get different punishment for stealing $10 and stealing $100K (though if you manage to steal $100M you may actually get away with it, but that's another story).
If his lawyer would argue (and a good lawyer probably should) that "he did no harm to anyone, of course it's illegal but he didn't mean to hurt anything and he did not, so let's not throw the book at him" - it could influence the outcome. In this case, the judge didn't buy it.
Complex solution to simple problems.
Who? Sorry, I don't mean to be rude, but there's no name recognition there...I had to search and found her to be someone pitching herself as a "product crusader."
> "What a function does" is encapsulated in that function's name.

I would like to suggest that the function's name should tell you the result (going to the store) and not have anything to do with what the function does (walk, bike, drive, fly) to get that result. Parameters could restrict how the function gets the result. In which case, a default parameter of ANY means no restriction and makes perfect sense with actually less mental effort for the reader.

GoToTheStore(); /* get me to the store */

vs

GoToTheStore(ANY); /* does ANY refer to any store? */

but when necessary

GoToTheStore(DRIVE); /* I'm feeling lazy, and don't want to walk. */
This is the kind of attitude that makes me pissed as well. It's like the phrase too big to fail. Big doesn't equal important.
Here is a blog post that describes the inspiration behind PicBackMan and how it works: http://www.picbackman.com/general/backup-photos-into-multipl.... Would love to hear your comments and feedback.
Easy there tiger! None of what you mentioned is dedicated note taking apps, though they of course might be used for the purpose.

The "I don't know anyone who use is so it doesn't exist" argument doesn't really hold. The only time I've heard of anyone using Vim was 12 years ago. That was a guy with very long, very dark hair who didn't talk much.

Does this mean Vim is not widely used? Of course not. It just means I don't work with people using Vim.

Look around the web for OneNote resources, I'm sure you'll find plenty.
Well in XP Tablet Edition, people with touch screens did have a high precision pointing device. Capacitive screens were uncommon with end users at that time, and almost unheard of (completely unheard of?) in laptops. I don't know if Vista had a tablet edition, but in Windows 7 it's pretty easy to get around the basic OS with a finger. The only real difficulty comes in with third party apps that do not follow finger-friendly design concepts.

Even for Windows 7 checkboxes, I've seen capacitive screen drivers/software that allow for some "fuzzing", where if you hit somewhere around the checkbox/button, it gets checked.
Developers React to OS X Mountain Lion
Great find. I'm really interested in the way they've focused on content strategies that are honest not for manipulation.
Perception Trumps Reality
Even considering I do not have an 8 core machine with 32 GB of ram sitting on my lap (or in my pocket)?

I realize that ruby is significantly slower than v8/JägerMonkey/Tracemonkey/etc, but is it so easy to discount the significant disparity between the average compute power of a server vs mobile/laptop?

I think a stronger counter argument would be flexibility, smaller http responses (and thus less latency), and possibly an argument that it is simpler or more straightfoward, in favor of client-side javascript templating/rendering, but rendering speed? Not so sure.
Tech shades of blue side-by-side incl new Win 8 logo (Can you guess correctly)
I find it interesting that consumerization is creeping into the highest-end enterprise software, including Oracle (hence their Endeca acquisition)
Why do you need an iPad with data? Not good enough just to have wifi?
"May you come to the attention of those in authority."
http://www.facebook.com/brandpermissions/logos.php
https://twitter.com/about/resources/logos
http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive...
http://press.linkedin.com/logo-images
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Tumblrful...
This is kind of neat to get named arguments in C as well.

Instead of calling:

foo_init(1, 'a', 1.0);

You can write:

foo_init(.arg1=1, .arg3=1.0, .arg2='a');
foo_init(.arg3='c');
// etc

edit: didn't see this in the blog comments, wasn't trying to steal credit ;-P
"The creation of that risk, the extent of that risk and the cost of putting it right mean at the end of it all I'm afraid a prison sentence is inevitable."

I'm not sure what the "creation of that risk" part is supposed to mean. If it refers to the security weakness the hacker uncovered, well as I said the hacker did not "create" it, he merely "found" it.

If the risk is the potential disclosure, then what is "the cost of putting it right"? Fixing the security weakness? Well since it was not "created" by the hacker, they are just fixing something that they should have, or would have fixed anyway..

Now I'm not saying that the poor hacker should not go to jail. The article doesn't give much details so I'm not sure he should be called a "white hat". However, I'm not convinced by the argument given by the judge..
MPAA Hires Four Ex-Federal Employees: One From ICE, One From The White House
OTOH, he's mostly doing consumption now, after the initial creation.
You do know this is the final season of House? Would you rather see them continue to turn Chase into a Mini Me version of House (getting scruffy, painful injury, ignoring protocol) or witness a battle for relevance against a robot with smarts like the Watson computer? I'll take the robot battle.
8 months for this? I thought that was the average length of a sentence given to murderers in the UK.
Teen who hacked Facebook sent to prison
Agreed -- it would have been to metro what the windows 1.0 logo was to it's tiled windows. If the colours were deemed too garish, then perhaps varying lightness of one colour.
> "He added that when Mangham was arrested he made "copious" admissions to police about what he had done."

Given the chance, I always bang the "don't talk to authorities" drum. So now you have to wonder, how did his "copious admissions" help him? Seriously, if you are suspected of anything, no matter how innocuous or momentous: Shut. The. Hell. Up. Get a damned attorney.

Of course the classic video needs to be linked: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
>Will there be an unwritten "normalcy code" that disabled people will have to follow to avoid assault?

You're lying to yourself if you honestly believe that doesn't exist today.
Bah. I prefer poor man's currying instead, just wrap the function.
Company culture and values always come from the top. If you have an arsehole CEO he or she tend to recruit those with similar characteristics and create a culture where that behaviour thrives. That's repeated at he next level, the level below that and so on.

It may be as little as a shifting set if priorities so don't be evil is less important and other things a little more and with that the cracks appear.

I'm not suggesting that they're now spending their days plotting how to enslave us all but I similarly can't believe that there hasn't been some shift, conscious or unconscious.
Meanwhile, he passes NDAA making most valley hackers subject to indefinite imprisonment under his administrations vague definition of terrorist. Oh, but we're so excited for you!