skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's very straightforward for a proxy to have its own CA=YES certificate and mint/sign certs for every HTTPS site the proxy sees on the fly. If you have a corporate proxy that is intercepting HTTPS traffic, that is what it should be doing.

Then, the proxy makes its certificate available to users, you download it, and add it to your CA certs via the UI that browsers provide for that; HTTPS magically appears to work again.
Not sure which version of EF those benchmarks are using, or how representative it is. For what it's worth, the EF team has been focusing on performance for EF5 and is making some promising improvements:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adonet/archive/2012/02/14/sneak-prev...

(Disclosure: I work at Microsoft)
this seems way better than anything available on OSX at the moment.
At that time I think MS may have perceived Blackberry as its long term enemy. Now, it's too late.
Sounds like a valuable database...
I assume that the people who wrote it are employed, and getting paid, by GitHub.
I'm on Aurora right now (15a2), and after YEARS of bitching am cautiously optimistic this is really it!

Just a few weeks ago I was closing FF once a twice a day as it approached almost a GB of RAM. Now it's holding steady at under 230mb! I have few extensions, but use firebug. I knew it was part of the problem but it's unfortunately essential for me.

With this fixed perhaps they can now work on tab isolation, another of their last major issues, (instead of rearranging the interface again).
"Bing may be losing money but if MS keeps it in place, it will be able to capture search if Google just happens to seriously stumble somehow."

Really? That's all they have to do, huh. Wait for Google to stumble.

"MS has an indefinite stream of nearly guaranteed money from the Windows/Office franchise."

Let me paint this picture for you:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=msft+Balance+Sheet&annua...

Microsoft net tangible assets: 43B

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=goog+Balance+Sheet&annua...

Google net tangible assets: 49B

Google is not Netscape or Novell or anybody else that Microsoft can just execute incompetently against and "wait out". Not to mention the fact that "Bing" is just the latest rebranding of MS' search attempts going back many years so they have been waiting for Google to stumble for a while. And if you think Bing is even on the same plane of existence as Google search you are severely deluded.
> It was really a middle class flight from cities, but the black middle class was delayed in their "abandoning" the inner cities due to racist housing discrimination policies in white suburbs. Once these were taken away in the 60's, the black middle class also fled the cities.

You are right that white flight is really a class flight, but we should be clear that whites overwhelmingly benefited from this movement for a variety of reasons, including their easier access to better economic status and the enactment of racist laws that prohibited non-whites from participating in moving to the suburbs.

However, calling people "abandoned" still doesn't make any sense. How can a group of people be abandoned if they were never included in the mainstream in the first place? In a capitalist economy like the US, the middle class depends on the poor to continue to function and that kind of classism is a big part of our society. Ultimately all that matters is that people of color still face many barriers and oppressions, micro and macro, every day and those oppressions are intersectional with race, gender, and class, among other things.

> This statement is exactly what I'm talking about. As if there is one 'white' culture in America.

In the US, there IS only one mainstream culture and it places whiteness above other races. When I say white culture, I do not strictly mean the various cultures and histories of lightly skinned people. Rather, I'm talking about mainstream American culture: white, hetero-normative, imperialist, capitalist, and patriarchal enterprise.

> My best friend growing up was victimized (physically attacked) by 'Abandoned' kids because he did well in school and 'acted white.'(there words, not mine) Nice to see this type of thinking isn't limited to just them. /s

I'm sorry that this happened to your friend, but if you are insinuating that calling point problematic statements is the same as physically beating someone, you are saying that problematic shit is above criticism.
Ok, let's check this benchmark out, wait 500 iterations for a total of 651ms = ~1ms per iteration and no version numbers ahh never mind.
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"Update: Many are wondering why they see a “black” screen after launching the B2G Desktop build. It’s likely because you havent set up a Gaia profile prior to launching. here’s how you do it. (again, refer to Gaia/hacking for better steps!)"[0]

You need a full make environment to get anything running. While I understand that this is just a developer preview, this is really not a good way to get testers.

[0] http://dknite.wordpress.com/2012/07/18/desktop-builds-now-av...
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Heroku, but close enough.
Yeah, what I really like is that MS just open sourced a thing that is used in places that tend to not use open source software.

Talk about getting a foot in the door.
Microsoft's vision guy, in 2006, was Ray Ozzie. He even took over Bill Gates' old Job Title. He left in 2010.
I think that Microsoft's big problem has been its Windows fetish. Imagine if Microsoft treated Office as a truly independent business. Office for Android, Linux, and iOS.

It seems to me that Microsoft so desperately craves monopoly power, it is blind to the opportunities simply afforded by making a good product that people want and selling it to them.
... at the cost a myriad of other annoyances, breakages, and potential insecurities after DNSSEC is deployed. Deploying DNSSEC to help with the problem that HSTS is trying to solve is like deploying Homer Simpson's automatic hammer to pin an announcement to a bulletin board.
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> Valve has an amazing culture, but I'm not sure it would scale to a 50,000 person company

This reminds me of just a few years ago when I was arguing with someone about this, when 37signals was in their infancy and were kinda trucking along with the same 'bossless' philosophy. I was trying to show that it could be successful and the person hacked me off at the knees by saying "come talk to me when they get to 100 employees" ... well Github and Valve seems to be doing just fine with that philosophy ... but now the goalposts have suddenly shifted.

I wonder if they get to 50,000 people (how many companies even have this many people anyway?) if somebody isn't going to pop up and go "50k people? pffffft ... come get me when they have 200,000 employees!"
I was thinking the same thing. But my current phone does not do that any more. I liked that feature. Maybe now Google will be forced to bring it. :)
Hopefully by only responding to warrants, instead of trying to play the part of the legal system.
While stack ranking sounds terrible on paper the actual implementation might soften the blow. Managers probably bend the rules a bit when it comes to the actual distribution in their groups.

For example consider two managers that both report to a VP. Each manager has 10 direct reports. If the managers and VP are all friends then the actual ranking distributions could vary a bit: one manager really has a strong team and the VP knows this. The VP also knows the other manager has a weaker team. As long as the VP's stack ranks are approximately correct in aggregate the individual managers probably have some wiggle room.

The point is politics in large organizations usually trumps strict rules. This can work both for and against someone hence some people don't view stack ranking in such a harsh light.
it is a consumer-level product running non-ECC RAM

Sorry to break that for you but EC2 instances are in all likelihood not running on ECC-Ram either[1]. If they had ECC-Ram then Amazon would probably prominently advertise that or at least respond when they are directly asked. If you can find a link to prove the opposite then I'll take that back.

I would thereby love to see an honest comparison, and am happily willing to believe that I missed it: do you have a link to such?

You have probably already seen any of the blog-posts I could cite here, so I'll instead just try to wrap your two claims up:

1. You claim that dedicated servers are more labor intensive (setup, hardware failures) and require more staff. This is not my experience at all. In fact the complexity and idiosyncrasies of the AWS platform are much harder to abstract in the beginning, and no less labor intensive in the long term. You're just trading one set of problems (hardware issues) for a different one (cloud issues). What you may save on the hardware management front you have to spend on adapting your application for a cloud-environment.

2. You claim that equivalent hardware to an EC2 instance (with comparable performance, good support, network, etc.) would be roughly the same price as an EC2 instance. Sorry but that is laughable, when have you last time benchmarked an EC2 instance? Even a cheap rented dedicated server (hetzner, leasweb, ovh) will normally give you twice the bang for buck on every key metric (I/O, Ram, CPU). And this quickly raises to beyond an order of magnitude when you start comparing EBS to a local array or a 256G Ram box to 256G Ram in EC2-instances. Where redundancy is a concern you can usually quite literally buy two of each and still be cheaper than EC2.

I'll say what I always say: EC2 does have its place. However for deployments in the range of 10-~50 servers you will in pretty much all cases save a lot of money by sticking with dedicated servers for the base-load. That is unless your app needs the cloud-flexibility, of course (most apps don't).

What makes you believe this flexibility would come for free anyways? As all things it comes with a price-tag, and actually quite a hefty one in this case.

[1] https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=203167
I hadn't heard of the brain damage link. When searching for information on it, however, I mainly came across references to a study last year that said it is does not, in fact, cause brain damage. Additional mystery ingredients might be another story.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/feb/19/ecstasy-harm-b...

http://www.addictionjournal.org/viewpressrelease.asp?pr=147
I'm curious and also pretty sure that if I ever started a company, I'd at least try to do it without any sort of formal management. At least to try.

I'm pretty sure almost every big contemporary tech company tries this when the big company is small and growing, but it almost never works. Joel Spolsky wrote it about the management problem here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FieldGuidetoDeveloper....

Actually, politics happen everywhere that more than two people congregate. It’s just natural. By “no politics” I really mean “no dysfunctional politics.”

Funnily enough, he uses an example from Microsoft—but the Microsoft of the early 1990s.

He also writes about it here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/07.html.

No formal management doesn't appear to scale above some number of employees / workers. I can't tell what that number is, but I would guess that it's somewhere around 125 – 150 people—that is, the Dunbar number.[1] Maybe it could be as high as 1,000, but I'm pretty damn skeptical it could be higher than 2,000.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
Do you not watch any TV at all? Because if not, you could just chose not to pay the license fee. (I guess unless you do watch live TV but never BBC channels.)
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I built this during the evenings at a full-text search conference - we tested it on our in-house repositories to allow our admin to know where to route calls.
Eventually you will give out, and that is your limit.

Many natural athletes don't know where that point is (precisely) and harm themselves by pushing past it.

A serious athlete sustaining long term damage from training isn't just possible.. it's likely.
Awesome. I remember discussing Rapportive with Manu back when we started and although we didn't end up working together (maybe he didn't want too many companies that would sell to LinkedIn :p ?), the quality of his insights was off the charts.
The benchmarks are from StackOverflow's Open sourced Dapper ORM project - the source of which is contained in their repo: http://code.google.com/p/dapper-dot-net/
Wouldn't any investor be inclined to promote the qualities (Freemium, or not, etc) they best know and prefer to invest in?

To me, VC/Accelerators specialize in different things based on their expertise and their goals, and look for a match.

It doesn't make the opposite wrong. Or anyone right. It's just not in their area of investment.

By engaging this debate, are we inadvertently agreeing investors fund base decisions on one formula or model and nothing else?

These types of posts may, or may not try to influence smart startupheads to lean their way. But somehow the door opens for a religious debate - but the only thing black or white from where I can see is each investor's preference, and not spending time on something customers want.
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I been using the same technique for the hobby multiplayer game (http://softpoetry.com/projects/burgers/) I've been working on. Got it running using the same stack on iOS/Android and PCs, so it's a good thing to note that it's not just for web browsers.
It definitely took some work to get PostgreSQL up and running on OSX when I was trying to mirror my Heroku production environment locally for dev. This lowers a bunch of barriers, especially for a newbie to the PostgreSQL like me so I can appreciate this.

I'm sure anyone working through Michael Hartl's Rails Tutorial right now and trying to do the optional Postgres configuration is also pretty excited at the time savings.
Seems pretty clearly Urban Airship to me. If it's not, it should be, they're a great example of a startup that is a brilliant idea driven by a clear need. If I were a tech-savvy business guy I would have eaten my own foot to get in on the ground floor of UA when they were a garage project.
I store a passphrase which is 31 characters in memory.
To be fair, that image wouldn't exist (nor would we be having this discussion) otherwise as it wouldn't have been published to Instagram. I can't comment in regards to the photographer's filter preference though...
>What's really disastrous, though, is Steve Ballmer's recent comments about how they are determined to compete with Apple on every single front, regardless of whether they have any other reason to be in that portion of the market. This aQuantive debacle is a result of Microsoft trying to do exactly the same thing with Google. With that statement, Ballmer indicated in no uncertain terms that he has learned absolutely nothing from that mistake.

What a stupid strategy that is. The best defense is a good offense, not copying your enemy movement for movement. With this approach, they're always on the chase and never lead. Bad position to be in if you want to, you know, be the leader.
The post, well written by Naveen Jain, is arguing a 'fresh eyes' theory, and while it's wonderfully optimistic, I can't help but think it's somewhat naive.

Instead of attacking his position, however, I think it just needs a slight correction.

Innovation and disruption comes from people aggressively seeking innovation and disruption, regardless of their expertise. An innovator's expertise in their field can be a crucial part of iterating through possible solutions, previously failed attempts, and innovations in the pipeline. Imagine if Edison, while doggedly pursuing the light bulb filament, hadn't had his knowledge of current, metals, and energy.

Innovation is completely tied to a mentality of change, which I'll agree can exist in anyone. Innovators can quickly learn that their capabilities aren't up to the task and enlist experts to aid the project, or finance an initiative, and even have the 'fresh eyes' that help to find a better solution.

That being said, however, as we all preach time and again, it is in the execution, not the concept, that a true disruption will be judged, and for that, you need experts.
Disclaimer, I'm a lay person (marketing/business) with a tech company aiming for disruption, however, the market we're disrupting is one I have deep expertise in. I was smart/lucky enough to partner up with an expert on the tech side to ensure the execution will keep up with the innovation.
That's because it is essentially (good - and paid!) technical marketing :)
The first time I ever visited Kickstarter was almost a year ago today. I don't remember how but I became interested in a neat little device called the Klinggon (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/klinggon/klinggon-the-ma...). I thought about putting money down but decided that I would just wait for a public launch and try one in a store.

And wouldn't you know it, all that remains of the project is a website "under contruction" and no estimates of delivery for the product. Dodged a (cheap) bullet there.
Those are his criteria, not yours. He lives in the Bay Area and wants to be close to all the companies he invests in. As an entrepreneur, you'd have to start a company here if you'd like Manu to invest in you. If you want to start it someplace else, then he may not be the right investor for you. It's that simple.

What I like about Manu's criteria is that they are very clearly laid out. Not all investors make it so easy to know what they expect out of companies, so they end up wasting a founder's time.

Disclosure: I've known Manu since the late 90s, and he invested in my company (IndexTank).
If you guys are so "open" why aren't your performance advances compared in context against other ORMs? Benchmarks means a lot more in context and are more meaningful when they're compared to alt fx's on the same hardware specs / RDBMS / network configuration, etc.

But I guess it doesn't matter when you're still be the most popular .NET package http://nuget.org/packages (580k) whilst remaining more than a factor of times slower than the competition - that's the .NET OSS ecosystem for you.
I'm confused, hasn't this existed for a while now? I have had this installed on my machine since Jun 4th, 2012. How is this "News"?
Adsense.

Also I think GA was http only at some point.
Forgive me, but holy crap that sounds even worse! Not only does everybody seem to know the system can't work in practice, they actually have to conspire behind the scenes to prevent the worst outcomes? And the assertion that politics trump rules anytime isn't in any way reassuring either. We all know the kinds of people who excel at office politics and they're usually the most destructive, corrupt and unproductive members of the team!

So to summarize what I heard so far: stack ranking is a terrible system based on flawed assumptions, everybody involved knows it, it doesn't actually measure performance but charisma, and for a company to work with this thing they have to sidestep it anyway?
What's RDF?

>isn't quite a waterproof endorsement of lack of prior art.

That's why I said "I think is a reasonable way...they've seen similar."
I made no statement about it being waterproof or a lack of prior art.
Does anyone have any recommendations for search terms I could use to put together a list of news stories / posts about known man-in-the-middle attacks that have occurred?
I'm using it on a project right now. It's my first project with it, but so far so good. The tutorial is quick and straightforward, and it really gives you a flavor for it (http://docs.angularjs.org/tutorial/).

AngularJS is a lot like Knockout, without the ko.observables everywhere.
DejaVu is a fork of Bitstream Vera which added more characters for Unicode support.
Valid points.

To apply for a commercial license one of the criteria is that you have to represent a major brand. Not sure why but if you don't say yes to that, you end up with a non-commercial license.

Using the Flickr API to "recreate" the experience is a bit vague. Probably intentionally. But it's unclear if it means to build a Flickr-like interface on top of their API or exporting your photos and then re-uploading them somewhere else.

Additionally, we're helping users move their photos into their own storage accounts. Which is a bit different than moving them onto ours. We do offer a layer of functionality on top of their storage account so I can see how there might be some concern.

Nonetheless, we're respecting their rate limits and even have libraries on Github[1] if you wanted to do it yourself.

[1] https://github.com/openphoto/export-flickr
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Do you know which Chrome-specific feature they are using? I'm not sure, but I expect it's user-convenience features like out-of-spec persistent storage extensions and notifications.

My point is that Skids is a quite high-end 3D game written in JS&WebGL that is playable today. It's a big step up from the dozens of "spinning teapot"-style demos most people have seen come out of WebGL so far. Technically, in some boring sense, it's not "on the web". But, it's great progress and a showcase of what can be done very soon, if not today, in Chrome, FF, Opera and Safari if people start trying. Maybe it'll never be possible in IE or Lynx. But, I'll take what I can get.
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There's also this, similar but more full featured.

http://www.navicat.com/

I use it a lot, and have nothing but praise for it.
The latter is just as bad. Opinionated software, i.e. making things that are usually a bad choice hard, is a good thing. Making possible things deliberately impossible for the victims of other people's bad decision making is arrogant. So some idiot CIO chose to make https mandatory but their staff can't get it configured properly. I am sure the non-IT user's boss will be happy that, instead of, say, closing that one important deal, the user waits until the https issue is resolved. What a way to drive IE out of the enterprise...
We start it, early adopters. The mass picks up on it after a few years, only if it gets started in the first place.
It is crazy how C# is one of the few languages you can actually use to develop both iPhone and Android apps (as well as WP, obviously). It's a great language- I just wish that a license for MonoTouch didn't cost $400.

Also, does anyone know how to develop for MonoTouch using Visual Studio? I want to like SharpDevelop but I just can't... and of course, VS doesn't run on OSX.

(I haven't tried SharpDevelop in over a year- it might be dramatically better these days, but I don't think so)
I know right! There goes one of those Harvard Professors spouting out useless information again. Who in the world listens to them anyways!?
> rather than relying on adobe

I may be over-thinking this, but in case you didn't know, Flash Player in Chrome is still developed mostly by Adobe. Chrome has a different plugin API, I think, and some extra sandboxing, but the core parts of Flash Player in all browsers come from the same Adobe-owned codebase, including Chrome's bundled version.
That's your definition of technology. I don't share it.
I've no idea about the performance on mac, however if you haven't tried it out in the past couple of months they have really done some great updates to the clients. As far as slow with large datasets I have about 400GB (compressed down to ~300) that I am backing up, with regular additions on a daily basis. Some releases have been pretty sucky, but it keeps getting better, I would highly recommend them to anyone.
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Losing your Microsoft life is more of a selling point for skydrive, no?
No, because it has absolutely massive commercialization potential.

Whereas my "really bad examples" are much more in line with the "only monopolies have so much money they just give stuff away" premise of the whole discussion.