skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're being fed the government story re: leaks. They are leaking because the administration wants to be able to technically deny that it happened and avoid deeper questioning in public. At the same time, they get to control the timing, tempo and content of reporting in the mainstream press. From the Sanger story:

"...according to participants in the program."

"...based on interviews over the past 18 months with current and former American, European and Israeli officials involved in the program, as well as a range of outside experts. None would allow their names to be used because the effort remains highly classified, and parts of it continue to this day."

"...according to participants in the many Situation Room meetings on Olympic Games"

"Mr. Obama, according to officials in the room, asked a series of questions, fearful that the code could do damage outside the plant."

"...the focus of attention, as one administration official put it, "has been overwhelmingly on one country.""

Each one of these quotes indicates that an official senior enough in the US administration to be attending meetings on the topic with the President was willing to commit a serious crime by leaking this information to the press.

Do you seriously think that a person crazy enough to leak secrets that would land him in prison would also take great pains to describe the President's deliberations on the topic as generously as this account does?
Bigger flash drives are good as well, I think they may go up to 768gb, or at least 512gb.
> Charging customers $100/month/user for SaaS certainly beats selling them a new $100 cdrom every 5years

These numbers don't make a bit of sense. The most expensive Office 365 plan (excluding the ones that include desktop Office) is $14/user/month. And a license for desktop Office costs a whole lot more than $100.
What would be the point when there's not a single US cell network that offers unlimited 3G data for computers? Or is there someone in California? There's not here. Might as well just tether from your phone since you can only do it a few times a month without hitting your data cap.
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There's actually a few tactics being used here that's very common in search engine marketing (SEM) that's not necessarily intentional (at least the ad copy part):

- They are targeting "meeting burner" and variations as part of standard expansion strategies. In fact, some of this could have been suggested by Google through Keyword Suggestions. Has meetingburner filed a trademark protection request with Google to prevent competitors from using their name in their ad copy? Google actually doesn't protect your keyword from being a "trigger" to show ads since they claim that the user intent is to search for "meeting software" and both companies have relevance to that query. Usually, if it's your brand name, you should have an exceedingly high Quality Scores which translates to your competitors paying extremely high CPCs to even show up against your brand. Try using "meetingburner - Official Site" to let people know the other ad is not meetingburner.

- The ad copy appears to be using dynamic keyword insertion so it's using keywords being targeted to build the ads so it's something like "{KeyWord} Software" and it could be "Meeting Burner Software" or "Online Meeting Software" depending on the keyword being used but the ad copy can be universally used and not specifically targeted at meetingburner. Filing a trademark protection request with Google will automatically flag/disable competitor ads that can trigger against your trademarked terms.
"There are a lot of things I don't understand about China's economy, and every time I think I might have a handle on it, I come across juicy tidbits like these ones:"

Every tidbit you state is fully explained in the article's explanation of the lack of investment vehicles for middle and low income Chinese. When your bank account has a negative real interest rate, then real estate becomes a great vehicle for it, provided there is no crash. I suspect that the lack of non-government media in China causes many of the investors in these properties to have no idea that they sit dormant.
I did look at this book a while ago, I was unable to make amendments to the code examples. early versions made common C gotcha mistakes, although of the more subtle and less disasterous kinds... starting with non-standard entry-point function signature and generally relying on non-standard features of particular compilers. fortunately someone else seems to have gotten there in the end... i'd be wary, simply because the author is (as much as I am a fan of much of his work) clearly not an experienced C programmer.
Hi Eykanal,

Thanks for your comments.

1. Providing the link text and a much better interface for inserting links will be provided before production launch. Inserting links is definitely incomplete in the Beta.

2. Inserting images is also missing from the Beta but will be included in the production version. We wanted to show the insert image feature when it was implemented with automatic resizing of the actual image (i.e. not just changing the width/height but resampling the image as well). When it does get implemented, we also plan on releasing drag and drop abilities, auto-sharpening (if you like) and multi-image uploading. We have experience implementing all these features except drag and drop already (see Orbs.com).

3. We have a way to do styling changes using "Named Styles" which are element/class combinations. This is already implemented but not yet exposed because we want to get the interface for it right first.

4. Not sure which context you mean tabs don't work. Probably within the next few days though tab/shift-tab in lists and tables will work as expected. It is on our do very soon list.

5. Justification: Based on our interviews, we found that people were unsatisfied with their editors in 3 key areas that we address. It is probably true that in its Beta state, its usefulness is not all there yet. For a better idea of where SnapEditor will be going in the months ahead, see the "What's Coming" section.

TinyMCE is definitely a major competitor to us. One of the major differences is that TinyMCE cannot do In-Place editing. We don't believe that will be a niche market in the future. Many of the new editors focus only on In-Place editing.

Thank you for your comments Eykanal. We will continue to try and provide features that make SnapEditor the obvious choice of editor. :)

TheSunny
On Win7 now, have been on the Mac and would get back if I had the means. One thing I will never get used to on Macs: no Ctrl-C.
We won the cold war.
Over the past 10 or so years Microsoft has been a behemoth moving glacially on whatever inertia it had left

They completely overhauled Office. They've built wholesale online experiences, cloud services, and have purchased and entered new markets. They took the gaming market and owned it. They continued to make incredible progress with their development tools and runtimes/platforms.

The only difference this time is that they're risking it all because they're so afraid of Apple. They are essentially betting both their gaming and desktop experiences to desperately try to claw back in the smartphone industries. It is an incredible gambit that I think will prove to be a profound failure, but I think it's incorrect to see that as progress, any more than a salaryman betting it all on Red.
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Ask HN: Need to move to think?
Does anyone on HN need to move in order to think well?

I'm working at my first office job and I'm having huge problems adapting to the 8-hours-in-a-chair culture (I did well in school only because I was smart and didn't have to study). The harder the problem, the more I want to move around (a hard to describe yet very physical sensation of agitation and unease) - yet I haven't been diagnosed with ADHD or anything of the like (though it hasn't been ruled out either...)

Is anyone on HN similar, or are most people content to not move most of the day???
Datameer's new website looks like Square's. Coincidence?
There was a pretty good explanation of how this process works: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4086887

It seems they would have had to purposely put "MeetingBurner" as one of the keywords to be stuffed into the ad. If they truly are just that stupid then it speaks as much about them than if they were being malicious. o_0 It sure does look shady to me.
The Macs are awesome and I can't wait to throw down and replace my MBP, but I'm going to be nauseous from my iOS friends trying to rub iOS features in my face. Congratulations, Android users had that for years, or even a year.
Aloha is purely an in-place editor. However, there are times when you need an editor in a form. You either have to fudge it, or use two different editors. SnapEditor provides both, an in-place and form-based editor.

Aloha is currently sitting at over 1mb. I know that there are talks about cutting down the size, but SnapEditor is already small, coming in at around 180kb.

We have the utmost respect for the Aloha guys for making an open source editor, but it is still quite buggy. SnapEditor concentrates on providing a predictable experience with clean HTML. We built it from scratch to do this right.
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I would posit a challenge to you: for one month don't consume any media, read any newspapers or magazines except those available to you locally. If you live in NYC, great. If you live in Santiago or Sydney, after just a few days you'll find the global discussion quite weary as you are not privy to references, certain author's critics and reviews will not be available to you, you will start avoiding most discussions that pose a risk of exposing spoilers for your favourite series.. as an native english speaker who travels and does not have access to such things in various cities I find it very difficult not to contemplate piracy just to remain up-to-date with the few media items I care about.

An example: the Daily Show is available on the Comedy Central website, but it doesn't work well in all countries due to the nature of their streaming method (buffering.. buffering..). What level of piracy is it, to open the Daily Show website, be exposed to their ads, then actually watch it from another location? Another amusing point on this is, if you watch it in the U.S. you are presented with ads at the breaks. Watch it in Mexico: no ads.
Thanks LubuJackson, we put a lot of work into trying to figure out what speaks to developers. Wesley did a lot of research by interviewing over 2 dozen developers before we got really started which really helped us identify what developers needed.

TheSunny
This is just rich to me. Yes, enjoy your Visual Studio and broken command line, I'll be using lightweight tools and an actual POSIX command line.

*edit: Wow, -10? Sorry, I was just sharing my experience of being mocked by people who proudly brag about their Windows 7 machine and are barely proficient at .NET programming who give me a hard time because "Macs are lame and Windows is for geeks".

Didn't know there were so many fucking yuppie Windows people to be so defensive. Jesus. Literally, 10 people downvoted this. Stay classy. (And the GP backed up what I said anyway, jerks)
Honestly, the CPU/Memory load is pretty minimal and disabling Aero for performance on a modern machine is micro-optimization at best.
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Nixon was worse than we thought
it'll be disturbing, though.
It shouldn't be too difficult. We have discussed creating plugins into things like MediaWiki, but that will be later on down the road. Lot's more to come.
Hi JFitzDela,

Thanks for the comment and specifically for telling us what you would pay. I think that is the third comment on pricing so we will continue to evaluate.

Note that there is a $1 charitable license for people who want to use SnapEditor but can't afford it. It is a charitable license and not a license for charity by the way. Perhaps we should change the name...

TheSunny
Not that that says much, but I am not aware of that. More importantly, googling for "GPU vs rainbow table" leads me to phrases such as "a fully GPU accelerated set of rainbow table tools". Or has the term changed meaning?
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From user command line:

for i in `seq 1 1000`; do mysql -u root --password=bad -h 127.0.0.1 2>/dev/null; done

Confirmed it gets in easily on:

Ubuntu 11.10 (GNU/Linux 3.0.0-14-server x86_64)
mysql 5.1.62-0ubuntu0.11.10.1

Does not seem to apply to: 5.1.58-1ubuntu1
The rationalwiki article linked above links to that article and several others. So IMHO your charge of "name smeared in a vague way" is incorrect.
3D is cool and all, but where are the transit, walking, and cycling directions?
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The Passbook app struck me as a big deal.
Thanks for the comment. We hope you will consider us for your next project. I promise that there are many more fantastic features to come and that we are just scratching the surface.

We feel that the WYSIWYG editor has stagnated over the last 10 years and there is room for dramatic improvements.

TheSunny
The new maps app means the end of native street view, and probably transit route finding... bummer on that front, pretty awesome otherwise.
New Macbook Pro
actually that justification for memcpy is quite poor. usually, performance wise, it is quite easily beatable once you start using the hardware. most implementations I've seen loop byte copies in the most naïve way possible... almost every architecture supports 32-bit copies, most support more... :)

incidentally I've saved some .2-.8ms per frame in a "AAA" (I use the term loosely and with disgust) game title by replacing compiler generated assignment operator in one struct with an explicit 128-byte copy. copying individual bytes is slow, and the compiler is never as sufficiently smart as people claim.

in analagous cases involving memcpy, the fact that memcpy is not memmove saves much less than actually copying the data in a way that squeezes everything out of the data buses. :)
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Bundle Hunt is at it again with a super discounted pack of apps and resources. This time is focused on productivity. Hands down the best productivity bundle I’ve seen. I bought it for only three of the included items (LittleSnapper, Typinator and Picons, which them alone worth $150) and got a ton of goodies as a bonus.
who lied to you and told you was a hacker?
I agree with the sentiment, but just to be clear: There are valid reasons to allow MySQL to talk to the wider internet, the most important one being off-site replication.

If you do need your mysql to be exposed to the internet you can use bind_address=x.x.x.x or some kind of firewall.
I want one of those new shiny MacBook Air Pros! :) Seriously Apple, why not name them like that?
Thanks! I guess it's not too late to use SnapEditor on future projects though. We'll keep improvements coming so keep an eye on us.
No Ethernet??
> And don't forget about the TV. The iTV simply will not sell, because people are not going to throw out their existing TVs just so they can get the latest shiny toy from Cupertino.

There isn't any value to be had in arguing that Apple has designed a terrible product that has no reason to exist when it does not, in fact, exist. When and if Apple releases a TV product other than the current Apple TV, I'm sure it will be fascinating to see what form it takes and whether or not it manages to capture any meaningful marketshare. Until then, you're needlessly attacking a strawman based purely on rumors and hearsay.
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"Apple is trying to impose that density is the same thing as resolution"

I think you've confused "resolution" with "my preferred resolution". The new MBP has both a higher density and a better resolution then what you're looking for. You may be disappointed but I bet Apple thinks it can make more money by selling 2880x1800 MBPs.
Hi FisaDev,

Thanks for the info.

I've been using SnapEditor almost exclusively on Chrome and haven't had problems. It's been tested in both Windows and Linux.

We'd love it if you could provide more information so we can make sure the experience is great for you.

TheSunny
Ask HN: How do you keep your PC safe?
I could explain to you SQL injection or a rainbow table, but in practice, I don't know how to keep my own PC safe (eg. when browsing on public WiFi). What configuration do you use to keep your computer secure?

1. What antivirus do you use?

2. Do you use a VPN? A personal one or a service?

3. What Firefox/Chrome plugins do you use? (eg. HTTPS Everywhere)

4. Do you use a program to store passwords?

5. What do you use for backups?

6. What other tricks do you have?
I think Eykanal means justification as in text alignment (right/center/left).
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Why would you need three Thunderbolt ports? The devices chain pretty well, if you have an external monitor for example it will also have a Thunderbolt port that other devices can be plugged into. Not needing another adapter to use HDMI is great. You already need one for Ethernet and FireWire.
The rest was worse at marketing and monetization. So you have the huge players (with millions marketing money) and far after that the old ones which were dying anyway and then us and then the 1000s of sites who couldn't manage over a 1000 members (in total, not per month even). And ours was free as well, we had good free marketing and managed to monetize more than the other free ones.
Apple Inc's Salary report for H1B and Green Card Filings
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I, like the others in this thread, can only speak to Chicago laws. Here, a verbal lease is a perfectly valid lease, subject to the laws of the city and state (we usually call it "month-to-month"). I wouldn't say it's exactly common, but it's not exactly uncommon either. My last apartment was rented month-to-month for 4+ years (and was a nice apartment with a nice landlord).

In the cases I'm most familiar with, the apartment starts with a lease, and rather than renew the lease specifically, just shifts to a verbal lease, provided the landlord and tenant trust each other. (Were I renting an apartment to someone else, there isn't a chance in hell I would do it without a lease, though.)
My external hard drive :-)

I throw a lot of data around. I like backups. The difference between USB2 and USB3 will be non-trivial for me.
Apple Introduces All New MacBook Pro with Retina Display
Yeah, but I'm not submitting my homepage to Hacker News seeking work as a UX dev. :P

Thanks for the heads-up; blog's back up now. That'll learn me to not set up nagios.
Pborestein, Thanks this looks good as well. I was more looking for graphics/animation demo videos. Anyway, I'll give this a try as well.
Although I didn't watch the keynote, I tuned in to the live tweeting CNN gave. Don't get me wrong, Apple's Macbook Pro is a nice piece of hardware, but I failed to see anything earth-shattering in their recent announcements.

At a high level, they're really just upgrading to Ivy Bridge, USB 3.0, and Retina displays across their notebook line. Nothing mind-blowing really.
It is always possible their adwords sales person suggested it. Ever since Google prevailed in their advertising against trademarks suit [1] where they aren't responsible for folks who buy ads against someone else's trade or service mark I see more of it (well when I use Google anyway, which is hardly ever :-)

I expect that some sociopath at GotoMeeting has the 'win' bit set to "we get more referrals from Google" and they haven't had a penalty created for being underhanded (or as they would no doubt say, competitive). Bid more for your own name and you won't get ads on top of you. Google wins, you lose. Sorry about that.

[1] http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2012/01/keyword_adverti... - and many links at the end.
The New MacBook Pro: specs
Currently most TVs and other large displays don't support Thunderbolt, but almost all support HDMI.
cheap extra hard drive dock would be first

http://www.amazon.com/Thermaltake-ST0022U-Plastic-Docking-St...

all the thunderbolt ones are very expensive.
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QT's move to modern C++ standards gives the "which cross-platform C++ framework should I use to create my app" another data point.

Want to use the latest C++ features? QT has your back. Not a fan of modern C++? wxWidgets has your back.
Changing the name would certainly help, but if I'm honest, I couldn't reasonably ask for a "can't afford it license..." My business could certainly absorb the cost, I just don't wanna. :-D

Thanks for the suggestion, though!
What do you mean, "No ctrl-C?" As in no keyboard shortcut to copy? That's "command-c", just like pasting is "command-v" and cutting is "command-x". And if you mean ctrl-c, to kill tasks on the command line, that works just fine. And delightfully doesn't create confusion when you wanted to copy something out of the terminal instead of killing the program that was running.
"Ignorance is no excuse" - I don't need a wiki article to demonstrate this
Flagged. The title is misleading and the very first sentence is factually inaccurate.

MS is not eliminating Aero (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Aero) they are eliminating Aero Glass (http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/05/micros...).

Basically they just dropped transparent window chrome in their default theme.
They're taking saltwater from brackish aquifers inland, not pumping it from the sea. In terms of pumping costs, it's no different than their current sources of water that are pumping out of the Edwards aquifer or other fresh groundwater sources.
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FB seems like the lowest-bar when it comes to usability. Most people have a facebook account, and are familiar with the "app needs your permissions" flow.

I'm not familiar with how you write a web-app to use FB authentication - how much does using FB auth obviate the need for you to worry about user credentials?
that's kind of like saying i did something to my turds to make them less smelly. may be true, but i still don't want to hang out with one.
I'm curious to know how Mac handles apps moving between a Retina Display Mac and a non-Retina display (Thunderbolt, whatever). Apps need to be updated to handle retina, otherwise they draw double pixels.. so what happens when you have a window that's halfway between a Retina and non-Retina?

My two guesses:
1. The entire window draws as doubled pixels, as if it didn't support Retina at all
2. The window gets two separate paint events, one retina and one non-retina.

Anyone know how this works yet?
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I'd guess two is a limitation of the Thunderbolt controller they're using, and adding the HDMI is a cheap way to free up one of those ports.
The new Macbook Pro landing page is out http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/
Within cygwin, you can run Windows executables via bash, for example. I can't speak for the parent, but it would make sense that niceties like that are part of it.