skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which includes 100% of freeware, and 99% of weekend "hey let's put this on the net and see if people want it" projects.

Both of those things used to be a big part of the Mac software ecosystem, but they're slowly dying away. And if Apple moves forward with its apparent plan to prohibit unsigned code from running by default, while charging $99/year for the privilege of having your code signed, both will be effectively extinct within the next year.
OK, but what if you're a web app that specializes in authentication (like, say, an Oath provider) or a database server where the attacker-facing app doesn't use connection pooling?

> but most websites I've seen so far always had some sort of slow operation that was easily exploitable without authentication

Yes, but those things are typically easy to optimize or temporarily disable in a hurry once they come under attack. Not so much with authentication.
Well the thing with languages are that they are always better, under some circumstances, than some other language (maelstrom and brainfuck excepted, they are no good under any circumstances) which are in turn better than others, under other circumstances. Nobody would choose ruby to write a kernel or do embedded programming. You can find better languages than C to write a web service in.

While languages don't get better over time they do change which means that there are more of them, which means it is more likely that you will find some that suit you.
Seeing that Statcounter shot, I was taken aback at the graph, as I recently looked at some regional data myself: the picture in Europe is vastly different. See for yourself, e.g NA[0] vs EU[1]

[0] http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-na-monthly-201102-201202

[1] http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-eu-monthly-201102-201202
Article summary: Go is a "better" Java. Why would it claim to be a systems programming language?

It is a fair point. If anything it illustrates that Google have mis-marketed the product rather than anything else.
Givit Gives Flipshare Users a New Way to Save Videos
LOL, fair enough. If we're talking about where the term "owner" fits in the capital structure, then we're well into the realm of pedantic.

Good luck.
Of course. Even here people can't resist the Apple hate pronunciations. What do people think they'd be developing if it wasn't for Apple? Would the $X billions of dollars paid to App developers be made some other way? Basic games?
Regular consumers really don't care about version numbers. They probably don't even know which version of Office they have installed, let alone their web browser.
In other way... login: Email password: xxxxxxx Its open account :-) I think You should gimme free account for this bug submiting :)
I'll say that, absolutely: databases should NOT store authentication information, but only salted hashes.

It's an equal certainty that there'll be implementations around for as long as humans remain that stupidly include un-hashed authentication data.
You could make the same kind of criticisms, but not with the same strength. there are real quantitative differences between the speed of explicit malloc/free and even a really nice garbage collector. (Unless you have a very special allocation pattern, like a whole lot of short-lived allocations and a generational garbage collector that uses stop-and-copy for the nursery generation. That's like the best possible case for GC.)
We use JPlayer here at Senzari (http://senzari.com/) and it's been a blast to use, very easy to skin and supports fallbacks (HTML5, Flash) for every supported file format.

My only issue with it is the progress bar integration with the flash player.

We reskinned and moved every single element of it: http://cl.ly/2s323p2a1a3D3I1f1H44
Perhaps it was the journalistic tone that the author presents while relying on stereotypes and massive generalizations that makes it difficult to take seriously.
I'm under the impression that iOS5 introduced no-sync-required activation.
Bain Capital Ventures. Venture Capital, not Private Equity.
Scribd Has 100M Users & A Mobile App It Needs To Rethink
Google understands that its goose might be cooked if the DMCA's safe harbor rules are trashed any time soon. All the things Google would plausibly be legally responsible for would add up to a very big liability risk.

It's nice when one of the giants has skin in the game on the good side of the table.
You know, lots of software have updates like that. They just don't tell you. Chrome came out in 2008 and it's already at version 17. Firefox came out in 2004 and it's only version 11. Mozilla just needs to make updating more seamless, which I believe they are working on.
You're not. It seems to drive some people nuts that I obsessively type "vim" instead of "vi" even though most of the time the default differences won't be an issue.

It's to be expected, people are threatened by anything different, no reason command line habits should be any different.
This is a good point and I agree. Given that Google has already been looked at for anti-trust violations, I'm sure a move towards disabling APK installing that essentially killed the Amazon market on non-Kindle devices would cause a massive blowup and as such they'll probably avoid doing this.

I'd still rather support a company that kept that feature in because they believed in it rather than because they are afraid of what Amazon and/or the US/EU will do if they change it. Unfortunately, I'm less sure than ever that Google will do the open thing because it is the open thing and not because changing it to the closed thing would be too painful. And that sucks.
This article uses a surprising amount of words to deliver absolutely nothing on the premise.
A year or so ago, I knew none. Today I know about 6 for whom the iPad is their only "computer" (people like my mother in law). It adds up over time.
This is really cool and I'd love to use it! The one thing I'd like to see is some more gap on the windows side when it is dragged all the way to the right. With some gap I wouldn't click close or minimize when trying to move it back. The mac has enough gap with the title.
Majority of "drugs" do not improve outcome. They "improve" condition.
I would be astonished if the Daily Show were found to be passing off bullshit as factual (not obvious hyperbole), or that their audience would forgive such a discovery. They take such glee in running clips that prove claims they've made.
Alleged Exynos 5 specs leaked in slide show spyshot
Not required any more. I haven't plugged my iPad into a computer in months. Everything has been over the air, including OS updates.
Could someone explain how the original content source is kept?

Seeing that you cannot link to a page but must hot-link to the image then I am failing to see how the source is kept.

For example, here is a regular pin for http://www.thesartorialist.com/photos/on-the-street-somewher..., http://pinterest.com/pin/189151253069642005/. The content is shown as coming from thesartorialist.com

Now trying with pinwords.com, I must upload the direct image (which makes sense, how else would it work to mark up the image) which results as http://pinterest.com/pin/189151253069642015/ The content is shown as coming from thesartorialist.com The content is shown as coming from pinwords.com. Though going into the original pin at pinwords there is no mention of thesartorialist.com in site.

I understand these are how previous bookmarklets have worked for other apps, yet I hate this so much. Not only does it make easier for users to mark up content they may or may not own, it makes it harder for Pinterest to remain mostly true about keeping content creators (the ones who actually produce the content) copyright concerns in mind.
Google defends Google in Court.
Put another way, prostate screening does not improve outcome at all. In fact, given the horrible treatment involved, it degrades life quality while not improving outcome.
Any feedback would be brilliant!
I assume krupan meant never physically connect a smartphone to an untrusted PC. (That's one of the two methods for obtaining an encrypted password database described in the paper.)
Between Google, Microsoft, Apple, Opera, and Mozilla, I definitely do trust Mozilla the most. They seem to value my privacy and freedom more than their competition. And it helps that Firefox has been a consistently good browser for a very long time (much longer project history than Chrome, and a much higher quality than IE).

Mozilla has a track record that demonstrates their intentions of making a more open web. We are still guessing about the future of Google, Microsoft, etc.
It's a great time to start a robotics company and I hope this exit will further accelerate the pace of new companies being created! Kiva is also a great example of nailing a single high-value problem even if it's not the sexiest challenge.
What's with this idea that they have to pick one and only one thing to do with a hundred billion dollars? What's with this idea that they should spend it all so they don't have any reserves?
> I wonder if Amazon is going to try to do in fulfillment / logistics / etc. what they've done in web services.

They're already doing it: http://www.amazonservices.com/content/fulfillment-by-amazon....
I'm referring to the difference in difficulty among putting a satellite into non-geosynchronous orbit and putting a satellite into geosynchronous orbit.
"..because, when compiled, it was known to produce code that could be unpredictable."

All the code I write is unpredictable when compiled.
Such is the life.
IE9 is light years ahead of anything else Microsoft has put out and IE10 will be amazing in comparison as well.

That said, a large percentage of IE9 users are corporations which don't want to support non-Microsoft browsers, new end-users who don't have a clue about anything that's not Microsoft, and the millions of foreigners who just use what's provided.

Supporting IE9 isn't that bad as it used to be to support older IE browsers.
Yep, should probably be the headline
It's measuring the overhead of a set of open()/read()/close() syscalls - exactly the situation where you would want to use the cache to avoid physical disk latencies swamping the language variation.
Note, to those that wonder: It moved to git.php.net as github only contains a mirror. And other parts of the PHP project are still in transition. There's also a mercurial mirror. The PHP source module is named php-src.
With Amazon's resources, Kiva's warehouse automation will be widely used. Amazon can take it down the route of AWS.

I am very happy for my advisor, who's the CTO at Kiva Systems. Congratulations!
Google would totally build those as soon as they find a way to sell ads to angler fish (I am betting there is a market for dating services, at least for male angler fish).

At the moment though there doesn't seem any reason to do that.
You don't need computer anymore, not even for activation.
Firmware upgrade is working too.

Backup to iCloud (5GB included for free).
HN thread from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3719200
Start-up lessons from Arrested Development
I've been using it since Firebird and tried to stick with for as long as I could on my Mac, but after trying Chrome recently, annoyed by performance issues (memory management, flash video, etc.) the difference was so big that it was impossible to justify to keep using FF. Been really happy with Chrome since. Incredibly fast browser in comparison.
Well, Woz is sort of right. The message - some workers in some factories are treated appallingly and that needs to stop and we can help it stop - is something that most people agree with.

People are not complaining about that. People are complaining that it was used in a journalistic programme, and the he lied about the authenticity of it when asked. If he'd been honest from the start no-one would be complaining now.
That's probably true. I wish I had better data ;)

As a contrast, I was the only resident who had an iPad 2 delivered during the launch weekend.

There are 300 apartments in my building, and I'm actually in the minority demographically (my building is ~ 1/3 diplomats, 1/3 graduate students, and 1/3 "other"). I suspect for the "other" though, that we're all at least in a moderately similar socioeconomic bracket.
The FDA has a number of ways of getting around this for drugs that have limited effect. This is for drugs to be used in the general population, drugs for major illnesses.

Orphan drugs are treated differently: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_drug

The FDA also maintains a list of pre-approved substances that can be used without testing. I think this is it: http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/InformationOnDrugs/ucm129662.htm
I don't think Chrome is getting bloated -- I don't care how much space it takes up, it still feels snappy.
> but simple malloc/free are much faster and more predictable than what you see in GC'd languages

More predictable, very likely. Much faster, this is simply not true. E.g., quotes from an article by Brian Goetz[1]:

The common code path for new Object() in HotSpot 1.4.2 and later is
approximately 10 machine instructions, whereas the best performing
malloc implementations in C require on average between 60 and 100
instructions per call. ... "Garbage collection will never be as efficient
as direct memory management." And, in a way, those statements are right
-- dynamic memory management is not as fast -- it's often considerably faster.

> allocation to the stack, something that effectively ceases to exist in GC'd languages.*

Not true, either. With escape analysis, Hotspot JVM can do stack allocation. The flag of doing escape analysis is actually turned on by default now.

[1] http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jtp09275/in...
It may disgust you, but Microsoft deserves its place at the table, Microsoft were there right at the start competing with Netscape, and that was a good thing healthy competition in browser development. And didn't Microsoft win their battle with Netscape. In turn hasn't that inspired Mozilla to come back fighting with Firefox and didn't that lead to chrome et al, not forgetting opera and safari and others. I rest my case for big softie.
The Time I Didn't Get Hired by Facebook
The funny thing is the worst thing Microsoft could do to this is ignore them.... That would leave the issue unresolved, exactly what the Desktop as a Service people don't want.

I suppose the real question is if Microsoft's position on the desktop makes it illegal to do a favorable deal with On-Live? I am not aware if this would be illegal or not? One would think it would be at least against the spirit of the law to carve out a market niche for a microsoft "old boy" and protect it through their monopoly position... but it wouldn't surprise me if there is no regulation in place to stop this.

I am wondering what the shareholders think. They are refusing to license to most players in order to protect windows and office on the desktop. On the other hand they are giving up a new non-trivial revenue stream during the transition period. I would think a lot of investors would want to take the short term cash and run.

Having previously worked for Red Hat on the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization support team, it always was strange looking at the VDI products that it was SO SO expensive to run the infrastructure purely due to Microsoft Licensing. Microsoft don't want to loose the grip so they make VDI licensing difficult, instead pushing mixed virtualization where you need to run windows on your desktop as well.

VDI struck me as almost purely a windows solution. If your running linux you have a range of other options to have multiple users on a single infrastructure in a workable way without having hundreds of VMs.
Why Amazon refuse to allow the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header?
I don't see it as manipulative. I'm not a massive fan of the phrasing, but the question is just a differently-dressed version of 'what are your priorities'.

If you get worked up about that, then it would be a definite black mark against employing you. If you would refuse a job offer because of it, I would say it was a bullet dodged.
Firefox still has a great chance. They've sped up their dev cycle to try to keep pace with Chrome. As soon as they finally end the ridiculous memory usage problems that persist to this day and enable silent auto-updates (auto-updates are coming soon, I think), they'll be back in the game.

I only recommend Chrome because it auto-updates. If one of my users starts using Chrome, I always know they'll have the latest and greatest. That's not yet the case with FF, but I'll recommend FF again as soon as the auto-updates land.
As of iOS 5 you can activate it over the air (WiFi or 3G) and optionally use iCloud for syncing your stuff instead of iTunes.
I didn't believe I was being hostile. It's just a matter of fact statement that if I need programs loaded for me and friends, I'll send it to Cydia.

I cannot afford a MacBook, nor the 100$ fee to develop.
Also according to their release schedule, the updates are soon going to be background (silent) updates. So version numbers will matter less and less.

Mozilla has upped it's game and I have started to see that memory usage is now quite competitive to Chrome.
I think the original idea (or at least the one that DARPA is researching) is that this tech will be only used on government computers, so, assuming they all use the same computer, that should eliminate some of the problem.

For other uses, you're right, this would be impractical, because typing on a physical keyboard is obviously different than a touch-screen phone keyboard.
Exactly. Chrome has gone from 10-17 in a year but it still "Chrome", not Chrome 17.
One interesting question is what will happen to the current clients of Kiva (of which many are competing with Amazon in ecommerce market) newegg. etc ??
It shouldn't be only Google defending them and fighting for this. Dropbox and any other company with similar services should join up and defend Hotfile. It may be their last line of defense before they find their own businesses in danger of being seized by the US Government.
how can you be so sure
Awesome, thank you. It was a sad day when the copyright claim made it disappear, and it's made my day to see it back. Kudos to the judge.
Google decided to kill Firefox. Not by lack of financial support, but by giving their own browser radically more financial support (the homepage marketing alone is worth an astronomical sum). There was never going to be enough room in the market for four or five major browsers, each with a lot of market share - markets consolidate naturally. Once Chrome gained traction, Firefox was destined to fall down to Opera's levels.
SoundCloud's 20% innovation time: the first 3 months
Chrome really is orders of magnitude faster than FF. It starts up instantly compared to any other browser I've used (FF, IE, Opera)

If FF had the speed of chrome, I'd consider switching back. I really want to try Pentadactyl for FF, but I can't stand how slow FF is sometimes.
> So I acquire a general understanding of cryptography to make a decision

But this is precisely what the cult priests don't want you to do. There are only two words you need to know: "use bcrypt". Any attempt to learn more is heresy.
Fully agreed.

And if Firefox goes, we'll only have WebKit browsers. And so you can forget about web standards and we'll be back at the best viewed with Internet Explorer era. Competing implementations are a good thing for standards, and standards are good for all of us.
The article seems to assume that a declining market share means that Firefox is going to "die" and that you should start switching. This might make sense for a company, but not that much for an open source project. Firefox could stay very healthy with a much lower market share as long as the right people are still using it (and developing it).
Does anyone else find high resolution text alongside up-scaled graphics (both in app and on the web) obnoxious?
Facebook inspires a shorter writing than a typical blog post, yes.

But Facebook is in a completly different category than Twitter.

Tweets are encouraged to be public. You don't need to fill in a form a agree to EULA to follow a link.

Anyone can compete with Google because the information they are indexing is public. Last “App” I did for Facebook required me to give them my cel phone number to access the information the user consent in giving.
Amazon acquires Kiva Systems
I still use FF for daily browsing. I have Chrome installed and use it for webdev but there are some annoyances (like adblock not working very well) which keep it from being my everyday browser.

I anticipate problems in the future, however, when I won't have access to Flash unless I use Chrome (I'm on Linux).
Unusual iPhones appeared in China
These are unusual iPhones appeared in China. Who wants to buy a couple?
Yep.

But the way it was stated after the multi round interviews appeared to imply that they were interested in me.

After a few weeks of nothing, I emailed the recruiter and got a terse "we've decided to go another direction" email.

I thought it was ironic that I had said poor communication would be a bad thing for us, and then there was poor communication in telling me they weren't interested.

:)

It all worked out great for both of us though, because the job I have now is such a better fit for me than twitter would have been.
I see it more as a way to assign value to the concept. If one pays for the access then someone is more likely to do something with it. I once met some guys that would offer free lessons in jiu-jitsu at the local college, but they had more students once they started charging.

The legal agreement is an interesting thought.

As for a barrier to low-quality apps, it doesn't seem to have worked.
Facebook inspires a shorter writing than a typical blog post, yes.

But Facebook is in a completly different category than Twitter.

Tweets are encouraged to be public. You don't need to fill in a form or agree to an EULA to follow a link.

Anyone can compete with Google in search because the information they are indexing is public. Last “App” I did for Facebook required me to give them my cel phone number to access the information the user consent in giving.
>The good news is...soon enough the grey beards...will all be dead... ;)

You're the one who asked. If thats what I got out of it it's probably what the people downvoting got out of it too.

For what it's worth maybe the intended message would have come through better if you were saying it in your voice with tone and inflection rather than the way I read it as words on the screen.
JavaScript is the bytecode that you can compile your python or whatever code too. Just make the standards committee implement some nice features that are useful for bytecodes and you are all set.
Except that SHA-1 and SHA-2 are constructed from a block cipher too.

"SHACAL". Look it up! ;-)
I don't know what it is exactly they need to do, but strategically, Firefox needs to attract browser power-users once again. Firefox is losing because most of them have already switched to Chrome. And when that happens, it's only a matter of time before the mainstream does it, too, under their recommendation.
Chrome is less than 4 years old. The browser world can change fast. Grab the Firefox Nightly and help test.

http://nightly.mozilla.org/

In my opinion, there's no reason why you can't run both Firefox and Chrome. They're both free and they're both great.
I just want to know what is so complicated / confusing about firefox.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-6cqbdjZl7gM/T2eqjPeprhI/A...
Oh, for sure. We were arguing within the context of the popularity of public funding for NASA, but if Musk succeeds in his goals he'll be a hero to many (myself included)