skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It appears that the meebo chat requires the visitor to your site to login to their Google account or meebo account to make it work. This is a very large obstacle to engagement. The google chatback would let anonymous users chat with you.
I can't blame Titanous under these circumstances, though.

It's a whole different ballgame when you're testing applications under contract (as I know you know), but as a budding researcher/security guy, it might be better for him to publish via responsible disclosure (as he did just now) than to accept a temporary (presumably secret) contract.

I know that ethical disclosure is a whole can of worms that isn't completely relevant to this conversation, but I'm a firm believer that Titanous went about this the right way. First off, he is the customer (as a Heroku user), and secondly he notified Heroku and waited until the vulnerability was fixed before publishing his findings. If all researchers behaved in such a responsible way, we'd probably be in a better place as an industry.

Anyway, the point I'm making is that, sure, having a penetration testing contract with Heroku might have been nice for his career, but I think being able to point to this research that he's conducted on his own and responsibly disclosed is far better. Hell, I'd offer him a job right now if he seemed interested.
Fair comment. Custom CSS is available for pro and unlimited plans, so you can customise how it looks. Ultimately, we'd love to have several themes and templates available.
There's a big difference between the Hollywood liberal crowd, who have always been hardcore Obama fans, and the lobbying wing of the MPAA. They are not the same community.
Funny how when Gabriel Weinberg writes something, random anonymous HN commenters get voted to the top of the thread explaining how obvious and superficial the article is.

But when 37signals, which, like Weinberg, actually runs a real business that has to deal with these issues, acts in a way that is entirely consistent with that article, so much so that you have to wonder whether Weinberg's post is literally a response to them! --- the peanut gallery is up in arms about how "no company would ever walk away from 6 figure passive income".
"Whenever you apply for a position inside Microsoft, first question hiring manager asks is: What are your last three/four/five review scores?"

Does anyone know the rationale for blocking internal transfers? If somebody is unhirable by all teams but one, why are they not fired? If a manager might need a sacrificial goat, why would he not hire a proven low performer?
How US software ended up powering Chinese assault helicopters
I hope it doesn't sound like I'm blaming him for anything. I'm not.
Are you allowed to give your students assignments that involve redesigning existing brands?

I did not go to school for design, so I really have no idea if this is allowed, but what would happen if you told the students that their assignment was to create an ad for Nike?

I'd jump at something like that.
In general I agree, but when in the specific case of blogspot I dislike seeing a blank white page when javascript is off.
This reminds me of Nike branding, which is very powerful.
Isn't Microsoft more profitable than IBM?

http://ycharts.com/companies/IBM/profit_margin

http://ycharts.com/companies/MSFT/profit_margin
I totally agree minimalist design is hard. But I believe that in a given genre, minimalist designs will converge. Not completely, but they will tend toward one another simply by virtue of having a common destination. In this case having the simplest laptop design that can still get the job done.

I think that Apple has done the grunt work of whittling away the bulk material toward a minimal design. It would be stupid of somebody else with the same goals to try to pretend that Apple's efforts bore no fruit (sorry, camp not intended) and ignore them.
You were right: once you had engaged a unit of Salesforce for an app test, it would have been extremely difficult for you to publish this. Not black-letter impossible, but difficult.
This reads like a satire.
Awesome work, Greg! You may be interested in following some of the WebRTC work around peer to peer connections http://www.w3.org/2011/04/webrtc-charter.html It's in the distant future but they need real world cases to get the APIs right.
If you filter reviews, videos and comments and dig in a bit you can get a balanced view of a product.

Yes, ads do influence people somewhat, but the influence is not that big , unless it's supported by a product that can support the imaginary world of the ad.

So brand design is much more than ad design, you have to design every part of your offer to support this illusion.
An alternative to stack ranking: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4043188
Very interesting. I would make the "Legal" in intro, and in feature list a link - people will want to know the details, and most of them will not click the tiny link in the footer to the FAQ.
A valid point. Though, there's something to be said for having the right tool. Give me the headline "Human with shovel outperforms human without shovel at predicting crimes" and we'll talk.
I feel for you.

I totally buy that there can be unhealthy leadership throughout an org. The story sounds familiar to me. It only takes one bad grand-manager to ruin the show for a lot of people.

If there's one thing that has gotten on my nerves at Amazon, it's this insensitivity to employee retention. I don't know you, but I'm confident Amazon would be better off with you having fun on the right team rather than poking you until you leave. Not letting you leave for greener pastures would be a huge red flag for me. I would ask for the manager logins to avoid.

I've seen other situations where a bad policy followed strictly caused good engineers to walk out the door. Not because they couldn't hack it, but because the policy was arbitrary, or restrictive. Maybe this is endemic to big companies in our industry. I know I prefer a little more anarchy and humanity.

My experience has been one of more regular movement. I had a somewhat unusual move early on, about six months into my tenure. I spent a couple years on a great team and then moved laterally to emerging projects in the same org.

I know our mileage has varied but I think these are two very recognizable portraits (including crisis management) of the company.
Does ARM really need explicit hardware virtualization support? As far as I know, it fits the Popek and Goldberg requirements without it.
India's 'child Picasso' puts on his goggles and takes aim at the canvas
This looks really good, well done.

One of my apps is universal and it chose iPhone to display it, can that be changed ?

Also on my free app the name wraps as its quite long, I presume I would have upgrade to the paid version and change the CSS to fix that.

Dave
To celebrate, I'm giving away $50 iTunes gift cards.

Two winners will be selected. All you need to do is visit http://www.tinypiano.com/giveaway/ and like the Tiny Piano Facebook page. :-)
and of course then the famous 14 days in the life of a microserf (now called 7 days in the life ...) might also be unknown.

one of the first pre-prints of a book that made Wired famous (by Douglas Coupland).

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.01/microserfs_pr.html
Just wanted to touch on differences with other services. We've really focused on the folio element, allowing people and businesses to create a complete presence online. Instead of single pages, we feel developers want to create a complete online portfolio of their work outside of Apple's walled garden, with a minimal amount of effort required to maintain it.
As someone else noted, 3-4 years for perm residency is rather common. And just so you know, I was annoyed by that as well hoping it would be faster, but it isn't. And, yes, I do think the paperwork and runaround can be crazy in AU. My wife is a GP and I'm a MS in Comp. Sci.. There was no way for us to "hurry along" the process. To get perm residency, we needed to live in the country for 2 years before we could apply. 2 more years for citizenship. Even so, 4 years to citizenship isn't a bad deal.

I hear there is reform coming around July 2012 to expedite certain skills shortage list candidates, so hopefully that helps.

The crazier thing is the amount of paperwork my wife needed to do to prove that she was competent to practice medicine in the country. In the US, she went to a great med school, had MCATS off the charts, went to one of the best residency programs in the country and worked for the best hospital in the world for 5 years. In that regard, it was frustrating.
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I'm surprised that nobody has pointed out that the slash in the wrong direction. Or am I just a frazzled old MS-DOS programmer?
Is finding a notary really that much of a hassle these days? Every bank I've had an account at had a notary on staff who would notarize documents for free (my current bank has three branches within three miles of my house, all open 7 days per week, and late hours - however I'm sure not everyone is so fortunate).
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Jeezus, this topic is getting old. Everyone run out quick and crucify him because Square doesn't have any female interns. He must be the devil dressed like a man ready to squash all the women. eye roll

He even said "we made offers to female candidates & they chose other opportunities for various reasons. We continue to make offers". But that wasn't even good enough. He was asked if they dug deeper into reasons. Wait.. what? So now if you make an offer to candidates and some turn it down, you have to dig deeper into why they turned it down? Rubbish. Clearly they found interns that accepted the offers so I don't see why they would have to spend that much time trying to figure out why some did not. You do that if you are having a hard time finding people to accept... but it doesn't appear to be an issue here.
So essentially it modifies a shortcut (well, adds one, deletes another)?

It's funny, you don't even need permissions to do this on Windows.
It looks like a nice effort, but I'd say you're playing with fire given CL's recent treatment of padmapper.
Ballmer's a sales guy and the system is probably outstanding in a sales environment where individual effort is both more important and easier to measure.
>in 1994, BookLink Technologies featured tabbed windows in its InternetWorks browser.
Philosophically, I'd like every web page/app/widget/etc to be browser agnostic, and deliver an A-Grade user experience; but this is getting blown out of proportion.

1. Blogger ditching support for Opera, means the population that uses Opera to administer a Blogger blog is affected. Of all Opera users, how many administer a Blogger blog?

2. Browsers are just applications. Doesn't mean you have to do everything in one browser. Administer your Blogger blog in not-Opera; use Opera to consume your favorite web cotent.

Easy solution? Download another browser. If it upsets you that much, move your blog to another platform.
I find these types of actions as very important to the culture of the company. It says we keep our house clean, we don't leave old things we tried lying around, and we acknowledge that some things work and some don't.

It may be negligible in terms of workforce impact, but it sends a signal that I think is very refreshing. Good for Larry, and good for the teams who now get to focus their energies elsewhere on something that might work. It beats spending time on something nobody cares about.
Consider that LHC cost only a fraction the ridiculous amount of money wasted each year on war.
It justifies it's cost merely by it's existence, increasing fascination in understanding, instead of destruction.
Different Mobile Features - Same KPI's
Opera was at 4% last time I checked. Has that changed? If not, I find it hard to believe that's the motive.
Are you us only or will you be available in the uk?
I was into it, until I saw it running on the boring, generic hardware.

The reason Apple's products are so inspirational, so meaningful, and so timeless is because from the moment you see the computer, before it even turns on, you're entranced.

Apple knows that the experience of using a product starts right from the moment a person sees it, and they've made that part of their mission. Yes, ownership of everything from the hardware to the software is inevitably part of that, but in my mind, it's what makes Apple work from boot-up to shutdown.
HTML5 Taking Over the App World?
> It's not like the PC market is experiencing any growth.

Do you have a source for this? I'm pretty sure it's growing. Just not as fast as tablets/smart phones.
Conspicuously similar number to average CTR. Is there some correlation? Congrats on your success.
Having the company name start with a lowercase letter always seems "weak" to me.
What web application server will usually do is to accept HTTP request via TCP, fetch/update data in database server, render a web page and send HTTP response back via TCP.
So essentially it just waiting, either for TCP stack or for database driver. IO-bound.

Facebook photos application for example, can be CPU-bound, because image processing applications had to process millions of pixels efficiently.
This is not so unreasonable. In many neighborhoods, underprovision of actual police services (cf <a href="http://www.publicenemy.com/index.php?page=page5&item=3&#... Enemy</a>) is as big a problem as getting hassled for no reason.
Edit (past the editing deadline, whoops):

"Can you imagine a serious general purpose OS shipping without an OS today" should read "Can you imagine a serious general purpose OS shipping without a browser today".
Everything you just said assumes that there is never a secondary market.

There is. That is the problem. Nobody cares about spending $400 for a ticket. To burners, that's a very tiny price to pay to get "home" for a week, and is a tiny fraction of the overall cost of the trip.

If we can figure out a way (like, hello, names on tickets) to make the tickets non-transferable, then figuring our a reasonable price isn't an issue at all.

--

The burning man ticket problem is logistical, not economic.
How are they not the same community? The MPAA is Walt Disney, Paramount, Sony, Fox, Universal, and Warner Bros. The people at these Hollywood fundraisers work for and with Walt Disney, Paramount, Sony, Fox, Universal, and Warner Bros.

When the MPAA threatens to cut off funds, the implication isn't just that whatever amount the MPAA has to throw around will go away, it is that the big dollars from the 6 member studios and the super rich executive and celebrity donors will go away. But you still see that money flowing. Just one example, also from Hollywood Reporter, "Jamie and Michael Lynton - He’s CEO of Sony, and she’s a veteran Democratic activist. The two are raising $500,000-plus for Obama this season. Michael has had almost a dozen meetings at the White House, some regarding anti-piracy."
Some relevant writing on unsolicited redesigns from last year, worth bearing in mind in this context, by

- Lukas Mathis: http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2011/05/15/unsolicited_redesig...

- Khoi Vinh: http://www.subtraction.com/2011/07/28/unsolicited-redesigns

- Andy Rutledge: http://andyrutledge.com/journalism.php
Besides, Android device manufacturers effectively "pay" Google for Android in search traffic (or reduced revenue share from search traffic).

Actually google pays the android device manufacturers, not the other way around.
Startup Metrics 4 Pirates (Updated July 2012)
I wonder how log it'll be until "the bad guys" start stealing/sniffing/hacking/buying each days map from the cops, so they know where it's relatively safer to commit crime?
Can't say I'm a big fan of the name "Orwellian" for that category. I know the term commonly refers to the premise of Orwell's 1984 novel for which he's most known, but he wrote important pieces on other subjects, such as communism, which adds baggage to the term. Maybe referring to the novel 1984 more directly, such as /r/1984 or /r/bigbrother would be an improvement. Otherwise, I'd probably go for something a little less tinfoil-hat since there's already a /r/conspiracy with lots of followers.

Slashdot has "Your Rights Online". Ars has "Law and Disorder". Looking up a few keywords, I notice that there's also /r/SOPA, /r/rights, /r/yro, /r/privacy, /r/freedom, /r/internetfreedom, /r/civilliberties, /r/civlib and others. Maybe some consolidation is in order.
I disagree about the sense of IIS v. Apache: Apache won because of Linux not the other way around. (There is, after all, a port of Apache to Windows -- it seems to have done nothing to stop the bleeding according to Netcraft.) As for the "bizarre phenomenon" that Windows seems to be "irrelevant" despite that it's "dominant", there is of course a simple answer: it's not dominant. Windows lost; humanity won.
Or if you can't do that, tell them to invent a competitor and brand that?
Not sure what the best way to research is. A couple of websites that might help:

http://www.idealog.co.nz
http://unlimited.co.nz/

Few other high profile companies:
http://www.vendhq.com
http://www.silverstripe.com
http://www.optimalusability.com/
http://www.rakon.com
http://www.starnow.com
http://www.smallworlds.com
LuaJIT gets allocation sinking; Complex numbers on par with C; Better than java
From luajit mailing list:
http://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/Allocation-sinking-in-git-HEAD
http://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/Allocation-sinking-in-git-HEAD,3
http://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/Allocation-sinking-in-git-HEAD,5
-------------------------------

LuaJIT git HEAD now contains the new allocation sinking and store sinking optimization.

This optimization is enabled by default. In case you encounter any problems and want to check whether they are caused by this optimization, you can turn it off with: -O-sink

The optimization is geared towards the elimination of short-lived aggregates. It handles plain Lua tables as well as FFI cdata (e.g. structs, complex or short arrays). It also handles elimination of immutable FFI types that are implicitly boxed (e.g. 64 bit ints or pointers) in more contexts (e.g. loop-carried variables).

This optimization adds quite a bit of complexity, so I'd appreciate it if it would receive wider testing. Feedback welcome!

Here are a few examples that show the improved performance. The timings in seconds are for Lua 5.1.5 vs. LuaJIT git HEAD on x86 (32 bit). Lower numbers are better:

Typical point class with Lua tables:

local point
point = {
new = function(self, x, y)
return setmetatable({x=x, y=y}, self)
end,
__add = function(a, b)
return point:new(a.x + b.x, a.y + b.y)
end,
}
point.__index = point
local a, b = point:new(1.5, 2.5), point:new(3.25, 4.75)
for i=1,1e8 do a = (a + b) + b end
print(a.x, a.y)

140.0 Lua
26.9 LuaJIT -O-sink
0.20 LuaJIT -O+sink ***700x faster than Lua***

Typical point class with cdata struct:

local ffi = require("ffi")
local point
point = ffi.metatype("struct { double x, y; }", {
__add = function(a, b)
return point(a.x + b.x, a.y + b.y)
end
})
local a, b = point(1.5, 2.5), point(3.25, 4.75)
for i=1,1e8 do a = (a + b) + b end
print(a.x, a.y)

10.9 LuaJIT -O-sink
0.20 LuaJIT -O+sink *700x faster than Lua*

64 bit arithmetic in a loop:

local x = 0LL
for i=1,1e9 do x = x + 100 end
print(x)

45.8 LuaJIT -O-sink (x86)
40.9 LuaJIT -O-sink (x64)
0.84 LuaJIT -O+sink (x86)
0.48 LuaJIT -O+sink (x64)

I'm planning to add a standard "ffi.complex" module, which
implements all of the common operators and functions. But I'll
probably have to add a couple of things to the JIT compiler:
JIT-compiling calls to C functions with complex args/returns
and marking C functions as 'pure'.

One thing to remember is to always use a "complex[?]" cdata array
or cdata structs if you want to store lots of complex numbers.
Avoid storing them in plain Lua tables, because then all of them
must be individually boxed. No problem storing an occasional
complex value in a table with other data, of course.

Actually, that's one example where the LuaJIT FFI can do much
better than Java: in Java, a 1000 element array of complex numbers
has 1000 pointers to 1000 individually boxed complex objects. You
can imagine this isn't exactly efficient ...

OTOH a "complex[1000]" array needs only 2 * 8 * 1000 bytes with the
LuaJIT FFI, the same as in C. And it's not scanned by the GC.
This kinda reminds me of an article Gabriel Weinberg wrote a couple months ago about eliciting emotion: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2012/05/eliciting-emotio...
Codon Security Issue and Response
I like it a lot (except for the dotless 'i'), but can you trademark a parallelogram?
Heroku's official response: http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2012/7/3/codon_security_issu...
UN report comes up with a better way to size up nations' wealth
MixBall
Maybe there's some way for you to generate a special key/phrase that the app owner can embed in their app store listing to prove that they own the app.
He may be recognizable in a design discussion on HN, but hardly out of this context. Same goes for this guy.

That of course is not to say that these sorts of efforts should be avoided, but I do think you are overestimating their impact.
I'm very excited about this, but it would be nice to see the price without having to first upload a document.
Are your sites written in C++ and being attacked by China and Russia? Do they have plug-ins for several hundred apps, many of which work with ever changing external websites? Do your sites integrate with critical email and advertising accounts? I would not be surprised to learn they were burning $1M a year on iGoogle.

Re. random downvoting, it happens on tablets. Chill, somebody else will be along shortly to vote the comment up out of the gray.
looks good, but how is this better than App.net (what I used most recently)?
This will be a much better way to teach kids to learn to program. But I have to disagree with "kids learn XML and Java programming, which Meehan says are most appropriate for kids". Python would be a much better choice for the programming language than java.
I didn't see the 'slates fighting' in Office, I saw them as a bouquet, given that Office is made of several items that work together.
Appreciate the feedback there. We'll include the link up there for our next push.
Semi-related: I have begun work on a distributed, cryptographic and temporal notary system. Sneak peek it: https://github.com/Miserlou/CitizenMediaNotary#citizen-media...

Hopefully will be announced properly in the next two weeks. Input welcome!
That's awesome! Do what I say, not what I do! I completely agree though. I think an invite system, in theory, lets you build a sense of exclusivity. The velvet rope effect - people waiting to get in the hot night club. But in the end very few sites can really demand that kind of attention. We are using an invite code and launch page on our project - http://neufit.com and are allowing in-game invites for those 'lucky' enough to get under the rope! Hope it works! Just signed up for browsemob, btw!
> most of the really interesting work isn't done by little companies

What a ridiculous thing to say. Remember Google when it was small? Two guys came up with better web search algorithms than all their deep-pocketed competition. Look at what Arista and Gnodal are doing in the LAN switching space. Hell, look at basically all of Cisco's new technology offerings for the past 10 years. They're all based on technology Cisco acquired via acquisitions of small companies. In aerospace look at Scaled Composites and SpaceX.

New technology comes from small companies, not big ones.
What's impressive is that he went from relative obscurity to been known not only from the startup crowd like here but also from the more mainstream tech crowd that populate sites like reddit.

They maybe managed to shutdown and destroy his business but they also involuntarily made sure that his next business venture will have an enormous amount of free publicity by been talked about on all tech blogs and social news web sites.
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