skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is pretty exciting news - there are so many non-profits in Seattle, it's pretty sweet that they'll be a central place for social entrepreneurs to work from together.

Seems like Seattle is heating up overall with SURF incubator, another co-working space for Start-ups, opening up just a few blocks away from this location.
Can you cite a source please?

A little more than an anonymous one-liner in a forum would really help my confidence...
Stipulate that it's true that Libya owned a browser-trusted CA, and compare situations:

With signed certificates, Libya can MITM (unpinned) certificate-backed TLS sessions.

With signed certificates, random people cannot MITM (any) certificate-backed TLS sessions.

With self-signed certificates, Libya can MITM any TLS session.

With self-signed certificates, random people can MITM any TLS session.

I'm not seeing the argument you're making here.
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Thanks for explaining "Fake it till you make it".
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I can go on and on about this particular subject, but will refrain from doing so unless there's some demand for yet another DNS & security debate on HN.

I voted the submission up, by the way; thanks for posting it. I hadn't read it.
I think it has less to do with this and more to do with them not focusing their efforts on that front. It isn't like their current dev stack is the pinacle of performance either. Give it a few years and I'm sure they'll have native Dart applications which will be just as performant.
Given how MS effectively osborned Nokia's flagship Lumia series by refusing to upgrade it to Windows 8, Nokia has no credibility left.

(Note: I don't own a Lumia, and I'd be wary now)

Phone contract runs for up to three years, and people who paid for the top-of-the-line phone are going to feel regret every time they make a call for the next three years. From a reputational standpoint, Elop has burned his platform another time.
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The amazing thing to me is that they've been able to thrive simply by focusing on mobile... they dropped Moonlight on the floor even as MS-bound line-of-business devs everywhere found out that Silverlight is a dead end.

http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/moonlight-list/2011-Decemb...

>
> Some of the other work I believe is a gold mine of technology,
> in particular our media pipeline, the rendering/layout code and
> the animation framework. Perhaps someone would find a use for
> that code in the future, we currently do not have plans to
> continue developing Moonlight.
>
> - Miguel de Icaza
>
This is kind of a silly comment. Google is only crushing competitors where their services are actually superior. Dropbox still exists and I assume has many more users than Drive. Facebook still exists and is still by far the most successful social network. And even in an area where they were pretty much the first in the field, Maps, there is new competition from Open Street Map. These are just some examples.

People who really don't like Plus and its integration into everything seem to keep using it as some kind of example of Google using monopoly power to force it and its other services to market domination. This just doesn't seem to me to be how it's working. And it completely ignores the fact that all it's actually quite useful to the majority of users, the ones who don't for whatever reason have a problem with it.

> Google Chat, I didn't want, but it was integrated into gmail. Suddenly, I'd have chats from friends pop up as I was working. I presume there's some way to unbundle, but at this point, it's too late.

What does this even mean? Just set yourself to invisible or sign out, and don't go back.

Your "locking down the world's information" comment doesn't seem to make much sense either considering Google is one of the few (if only?) companies to have a data liberation teem, with the explicit goal of making all of your information exportable from Google.

And finally, to call Google's software in general "below average" is just weird. Think about it. Really. It's a weird statement. Their software is better and does more than it did 6 years ago, but has somehow gone from amazing to below average.

IMO Google still isn't anywhere near what Microsoft is. It has quite a long way to fall, if it does.
Remember back when consoles weren't connected to the internet and there was no way for developers to push patches to users? Remember how people used to complain their console games work fine, while their PC games require installing 3 patches right after installation in order to be able to play the game?

I'm not saying I approve of what Microsoft is doing here, but surely there must be a solution other than making all gaming systems equally fucked-up?
To be honest if I clicked on a link in a "GMail app" I'd expect it to open a new "full" browser window (or a new tab in an existing browser window). You'd have to be able to distinguish between internal and external links, of course, but the domain name is a workable heuristic.

The ability to open new tabs should probably be configured on an app-by-app basis. Opening tabs of mail is a pretty sensible idea, but a game developer using HTML5 would likely want to prevent that. Ditto the location bar. (I agree that the user should be able to override these settings.)
How much did MS spend on just getting market penetration with the XBox? Wasn't it over a billion? Do you not get how this market works? Do you not remember the Dreamcast? There are massive, colossal flops in the console market out there. How long before MS even started posting a profit?

On the one hand it'd be awesome if they pull it off.

On the other hand they have pretty pictures of controllers, mock ups and what seems like a very delusional CEO. This has all the potential of killing kickstarter forever. Watching the original video makes you think they've actually got f all at the moment and $5 mill's a tiny drop in the ocean for actually making a dent in the console market. And worse than that they've promised $99 consoles before actually manufacturing it.

But the Android angle and the massive free publicity they're getting, they could just pull it off. But their promotional video really gives me nothing but doubts.
Are you arguing with me, or with reality? I can't tell, because the system I described is how corporate proxies work pretty much everywhere.

If you want privacy against the administrators of your employer, don't use your employer's network to do things that need privacy.
I have a couple of responses:

1. Who wants to write complex programs in JS? I mean, it's OK and all, but it's messy when you can be writing native apps. I remember the iPhone being all about the webapps when it came out, but native apps ultimatly won.

2. Internet access is still not widely available. On Sprint, where I am, it sucks. If I'm out in more remote regions (which is part of mine and many others jobs), it's gone. Or if I'm in a tunnel on the train, or an elevator, or in my bathroom at work, etc. Or you're on AT&T, have capped bandwidth, etc.

No, we need apps that have a smooth offline to online transition. Maybe web apps will make it there, but I feel we're far enough away that I still like Android's approach.
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Especially when the examples are written in a language which has mixins as core functionality.
it goes to her google profile...lol..atleast link it to her twitter page?
I've been using AngularJS too.

Wow, it is nice...
I've been the victim of that flaw - I biffed a Rails migration and sent (what should have been) $200 transactions into the DB as $99. My local tests used SQLite, so I didn't catch it until we went live - true deal there. Very dumb on my part.

At the same time - changing data values not stupid? We may differ on this point but I believe it's insanity. I'd love to see NULLs honored as well as constraints.

That said - 1/0 = NULL is on par with Javascript silliness.

Finally, it's easy to characterize my comment as FUD but Oracle has a habit of using Open Source systems to its advantage. Why else would they buy MySQL? And the licensing is not as strong as you may think.

Either way - it's very argumentative and I'm happy to agree it's unsure at best.
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>If Intel really could manipulate the market successfully, AMD would not exist at all, instead of just having slightly lower profit margins but otherwise similar products, as you describe.

AMD has been less than financially healthy for years. They've spun off Spansion and GlobalFoundries in the past few years trying to keep head above water.

The point is that Intel was successful in keeping AMD from being able to expand its market share when AMD had a better product and the two were much closer to parity in terms of manufacturing process than they are today. As a result, AMD couldn't afford to reinvest in manufacturing and design, and Intel was able to widen the gap between them.

AMD is still afloat, but they're nowhere near the threat to Intel that they were circa 2000-2005.

>And also, there wouldn't be ARM, which seems to be taking more and more marketshare from Intel. Intel couldn't "lock them out."

ARM was in a completely different market segment that Intel didn't really view as a competitor. As things shift toward mobile, Intel is starting to address that segment, and I think that the process advantage they hold could end up being an even bigger deal there since overall package size and power consumption is such a major factor in mobile. Even if your design is equivalent or slightly better than Intel's from a performance per transistor standpoint, Intel can still win out by being able to churn out more chips than you can at the same cost.

>IE isn't such a huge kludge/security problem now, but it used to be a serious competitive disadvantage. (This is just a hokey theory only tangentially related to the discussion, though.)

Microsoft's bread and butter is the enterprise and IE is still a huge competitive advantage for them there. We're tied hugely to Windows at my workplace almost entirely because of IE.
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I recently got an message from a client who has a business email blocked because of a Spamhaus SBL listing for CloudFlare. I know they have already responded to this at http://blog.cloudflare.com/thoughts-on-abuse, but my client is paying them for speeding up their website, not to get blocked by an anti-spam filter. I see both sides of this, but the bottom line is that if they don;t resolve the problem with Spamhuas they will start to loose business starting with mine.
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Those 5m are pre orders. For the next batch, they likely need to prefinance production.

Off course, at that stage, banks would even be willing to lend money, to keep a conservative amount of consoles in stock.

I doubt the margins on this huge first batch are big enough to prefinance the production of the next batch.
Hey ... I'm partially nude right now, both arms all the way up to my elbows!

I prefer my private data to be "clothed" in an encrypted file system though.
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Firefox 14 intentionally breaks support for CSS transform skew()
CSS3 transform has had support for skew() for quite awhile, allowing us to do cool things like rotate and manipulate objects that would otherwise just be boxes.

skew() has been replaced with skewX() and skewY() due to some confusion over how skew() works. That's fine - CSS3 is still a work in progress. But Firefox intentionally yanking support for such a major feature, that large portions of the internet rely on, seems like a very shortsighted decision to me.

Interesting fact: css3generator.com is now broken on Firefox due to this.
You can also use urllib, which makes it a one-liner:

>>> import urllib
>>> doc = urllib.urlopen('ftp://ftp.example.com/foo.txt').read()

PyCurl is another popular choice, though less simple to use.
When there's not a 1000 bigger success stories that drown this out.
I always end up doing this whenever a programming font article comes up on HN.
Oooh boy was that ever a flash in the pan.
someone needs to implement Bolo in html5
Why should someone use Snipt instead on a gist? Besides the nice interface I mean. Honestly asking here.
Sorry, my bad. The URL to the actual Mozilla ticket is here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775763
Wow. Thank you very much for educating us, Thomas. Your comments require grabbing some popcorn or equivalent. In particular when you engage in a constructive debate with someone of your caliber. One of my all-time favorite threads in HN (or elsewhere...) is http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=893659. Thanks again.
Weird. My version of about:memory shows ~600MB used, but the Task Manager in Chrome (Shift-ESC) shows only ~160MB.

Not sure what the discrepancy is there.
That's ok, I find it difficult to take anyone seriously who seems to think fist-shaking at social networks is going to make them less important or go away.
Most of the holier-than-thou devs I've met, and I've met a few, are weaker developers. Anybody who has built something with a business-facing constraint knows how valuable the right kind of bizdev/hustler/whatever guy can be. Invaluable.

In fact, I'd say these people are rarer than competent devs, but their skills are applicable in fewer arenas and are in lower demand overall. And these people don't always fit in well within a traditional corporate environment, but they can sometimes will a startup with a merely decent concept to success on the back of their hustling.

Again, the traits that define such a person are hard to define and not nearly as marketable as somebody with, say, a solid Ruby background, a fact that produces a small group of devs who, frankly, overestimate their worth to a startup, although they're eminently employable at large, lame companies. There's no room for mediocre engineers at a startup focused on building well and building fast.
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MS probably heavily promotes exclusives to their users so free advertising on what was becoming the dominant console anyway.
Give it time. This too shall pass.
(founder / dev of Snipt, here) -- I need more organization that what Gist allows me. I have a whole bunch of tags that help me group my snipts: https://snipt.net/nick/

Searching is also useful. I'm always forgetting psql/mysql DB commands, and the search I've got working now is pretty solid.

Nothing against Gist, really. I created Snipt almost 4 years ago, before Gist was around. Gist is great if you want revision control. For me, I use Snipt for bits and pieces of code that I don't want to forget, but probably don't need to work on very often.
On first glance, I assumed "K9 Ventures" was going to be Kickstarter's new micro-VC fund that invested in their own users' projects. Then I counted the letters and realized the "Kickstarter" would be "K10" or "K9R". <:)
No source aside from personal experience working with them, sorry. They avoid publicizing anything about the hardware/infrastructure if possible, partly so that they can change it without customer awareness and partly because they have secret sauce in places (no, ECC isn't secret sauce).
I agree, it's insanity. I have no idea why it's still the default, there are probably a bunch of crappy apps out there that depend on this behavior. Anyway, sorry for hijacking your thread. I thought your video production and screencast techniques were top notch. As someone who dabbles in creating geeky youtube videos, I have to give you credit for a job well done.
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They have working prototypes. They can produce those for less than 99 dollars.

They need investors to prefinance the next batch. Buying the parts requires money,you dont have, until the finished product is sold to a retailer.

In other words: they need cash flow.
Without the proper tuning https will be significantly slower than http.
Snake oil is a product that pretends to be something that it is not. I think that's an apt comparison to "network effect" social services that pretend to be one thing, and then flip the script when they reach their plateau.
MonoTouch is $79/student ('currently enrolled at an accredited institution [...] even publish to Apple's App Store') per http://support.xamarin.com/customer/portal/articles/177042-d...

Be sure to check out MonoDevelop, which has a few full-or-most-time paid developers behind it: http://monodevelop.com/Screenshots
Wait: im assuming they have a working prototype.

If no, that would be shocking.
The point is, if you make them look stupid to the broader population, people are less likely to come in. It's about recruitment, not mitigation of existing terrorists, at least how I understood it.
From the list of prohibitions: "...is illegal or violates any applicable local and national laws"

So a photo of any woman not wearing a burkha, if placed in my private SkyDrive folder, can result in the loss of my Hotmail and Xbox Live accounts.

Wow. What kind of idiot would do business with these people?!
Like the Internet but Real...
> Why else would they buy MySQL? And the licensing is not as strong as you may think.

To compete with Microsoft SQL Server and to further solidify their customer base (most Oracle customers already use MySQL).
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I think the best example of this is Windows 8, which has 2 application environments, .NET and Trident (The IE10 rendering engine). They are, for all intents and purposes, on equal footing with each other, and an end user can't tell which environment an application uses.
Any experience with CORS and https?

Does it work properly?

If i have www.mydomain.com with certificate A, and api.mydomain.com with a certificate B, can i make CORS call with javascript?

(i know that if you try it with self signed cert, it will just drop the request)
Totally. Irritates me to the core. First give an option to update it 'automatically', then tell them "Sorry, please do a manual install'!
On my way to build a multi-tenant application I went through a great deal of articles recommending various architecture strategies. I was looking for an approach to organize the data for the app's various customers (multi-tenant). Most recommendations revolved around 2 solutions: 1 db per tenant, or 1 db for all tenants with a tenant_id in each table. Lucky me, I eventually stumbled upon a thread where someone mentioned Postgresql's schemas, which kinda give you the best of both worlds.

It's unfortunate that the web development world has been so very much MySQL (and PHP) centric, because it often constrains us to see solutions to problems with the capabilities of only these technologies.

I had heard much good about Postgresql in the past, unfortunately it was also introduced with the spectre of a costly adaptation period, which resulted in making me postpone the move. This time though, I was tempted enough to give it a shot and in that same evening I jumped in.

It's been about a month now and things have been surprisingly smooth. The only tool I use to interact directly with the db is the psql client. Other than that the symbiosis is nearly perfect with Python (I use SQLAlchemy with psycopg2). If I have a recommendation to current MySQL users who would like to try Postgresql, just give in. It's really not as hostile a transition as some seem to make it. Not everything will work as you'd expect from your MySQL background, but most issues are known, the tools are great, the community is great and the documentation is simply top-notch.
Could you clarify what "proper tuning" entails?
Back in 2001 when the original Xbox and PS2 were current-generation consoles, the Indrema console failed because they couldn't get $10mil in capital. With more accessible Chinese manufacturing, more accessible venture capital, and a Kickstarter campaign that's already netted half that amount, I think Ouya stands a pretty good chance of being profitable.
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>You could just, you know, choose not be logged in with facebook. Im not.

This utterly misses the point. This is not about being logged into Facebook or
not. I don't have a Facebook account I could be logged into, and they still
try to track me (if they could, and wouldn't be shitlisted by at least 4
different filters, that is).

Facebook has no business with me. They can - and should have to - stay the
fuck out of my life. The same goes for the other billions of people who don't
have a Facebook account and hopefully won't get one.

And even if you are logged into Facebook, that still gives them no right to
track you. Privacy is an inalienable right that you cannot give away by signing
up for a Facebook account.

>And as for tracking cookies: every website has them to some extend.

That's not an argument, that's a lame excuse. Everyone needs to stop this
shit. There's no justification for it. And no, targeted ads are not a
justification. If your business model depends on infringing on the privacy of
people, then your business modell is highly unethical and should be illegal.
If there is one thing I wish I saw more of on HN, it's posts about funding and business outside of the VC model. I feel the thoughts expressed in this post are on the rise.
You know it's not Google that makes you buy SSL certs for security, right? As far as "no dice" ... um check out some tutorials on SSL ...
Is the Internet Defense League just an American thing?
Good job Eva! Way to inspire people your age and your gender. Have fun in SF!
The second, of course.

Just like how its legal to shoot terrorists, but not Americans. All morality is based on drawing tribal lines, and BP isn't in my tribe.
There's a reason Oracle can charge an arse-load of money, and it's not because they're "evil": it's because their DB does some frigging incredible things when you know how to use it. I've worked with a 4 billion row star schema, partitioned by day then sub-partitioned for query optimization. It was OK to be "stale", so we inserted each day's data into an indexless table then swapped it in as a new partition over night.

Billions of rows in performance critical apps is pretty edge case. I think a lot of people paying for Oracle could pretty easily migrate away.
I found this alarming: " The majority of active apps on Heroku use Postres, but we found that many developers use SQLite or MySQL on their local development machines".

If your app is at the deployment to production stage, then I would strongly recommend using the same database as will be used in production. This quote isn't actually saying what proportion of developers don't do that, though.
Interestingly, Ingres was the first database I ever used - running on Unix (v6 or v7?) on a PDP 11/34. Since then, I've ambled through Oracle, SQL Server, etc, but I'm currently using PostgreSQL on a project, and loving it. The native spatial types are really handy for what I'm implementing, and the speed and stability are great.
Okay, I guess I'll take that as another datapoint, although honestly (no offense) I won't be basing decisions on it. ;)