skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP seems like exactly the kind of customer that the cable industry would want to bend over backwards to make happy, not unnecessarily hamstring. He has all the devices and subscriptions he ostensibly needs, and appears to be a Good Cable Citizen. The fact that HBO feels it necessary to restrict him in this way smacks of hubris.
I've been pondering exactly this for my current business plan, what's been clear to me is that this is more of a business/legal issue as opposed to technology. Oh to sunder the walled gardens.
"A dump/restore using pg_dump, or use of pg_upgrade, is required for those wishing to migrate data from any previous release." Heh.
Semes like a linkbaiting headline (of the original article) once again...
Don´t see these "1 MILLION" accounts anywhere an neither the mentioned blog post [1] nor the original announcement at pastebin [2] does mention that. (EDIT: The pastebin statements indeed mentions "one million accounts/records leaked", buy thats not quite the same imho (emphasis on "records").

The blog post states explicitly that "a lot of the stolen content did NOT include any sensitive information".

[1]http://blog.imperva.com/2012/08/analyzing-the-team-ghostshel...

[2]http://pastebin.com/BuabHTvr
Didn't Pascal use to be popular for that?
Firefox never claimed to "fix the problem". The press tends to simplify things.

What is true is that multiple releases addressed separate, significant problems. It's important to remember that there is no 100% solution to a complex problem like memory usage in a large program that runs arbitrary code (the web).
Personally, I'm just happy it wasn't an ULTRAHACK.
All browsers except IE9/IE10 work on XP, I am not sure what on earth your complaint is about.

I use XP exclusively too, I only fireup vmware to test IE9/10
InstaEDU Online Education: Letting Students Schedule Specific Tutors & Lessons
I met Ev and Taylor a couple months ago. They're a brilliant team, in a not-so-glamorous market (there's not a lot of buzz around sending mail). These guys are committed to building a reliable/developer friendly email service though. They totally deserve this.
There is a "grocery store" myth related to Detroit, and it is just that, a myth. There a numerous markets and stores in Midtown and Downtown that supply fresh food to residents.

Edit: I lived downtown for nearly a year and a number of grocery stores opened in the downtown business district while I lived there, with plans for more. According to this article [1] from 5 days ago, there are 80 grocery stores in Detroit. Not to mention the awesome Eastern Market year-round farmer's market.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jay-walljasper/detroit-fresh-f...
There are a ton of small firms that are new, lean, and operate primarily via websites. I think a lot of them are totally oblivious/unconcerned about the start up tech scene. They are primarily concerned with running profitable businesses.
>> A different quote had the phrase about coming back to it later.

Which other quote?
Harvard Business Review Clutches Its Pearls at Pivot ‘Promiscuity’
Very cool. I would like to have some automatic revisions for example of my /etc tree.
All good points. I sometimes think it would make more sense for companies to skip Detroit and just open an office in Royal Oak or Ferndale. I would work there in a heartbeat.
Project Urges Disconnect from Internet for 24 Hours: Seriously Not That Hard
The press tends to jump the gun a little, because each blog and news site wants to be "first".

The actual launch is planned for sometime today.
Even if the original article capitalized the "million", it's good practice here to convert to regular capitalization when submitting. It just reeks of loudmouthed sensationalism and linkbaiting. I refuse to clickthrough on such submissions.
If it is so "teenie-weenie" why did Samsung insist on breaking the law by copying it?
If you don't like the law don't do business here.
How did they fail? They cannot force people to use what they coded, even though it works fantastically.
What's the idea behind that "Submit a Story" uncollapsible floating tab on the left side of the page? Seems like you're obstructing a pretty important, content-dense part of the screen with something unimportant and obnoxious that doesn't even generate revenue. Please reconsider this design.

EDIT: It's come to my attention that this only appears to be an issue at 1024x768, which I'm currently using because I'm at work and my employer's computer hardware is ancient. This is probably not a problem for the typical user.
"Team GhostShell said the online leaks, which are part of its Project Hellfire campaign, were made in protest against banks"

Hey there, lady trying to make a car payment! Hey, guy checking his balance before he buys groceries! Your bank's a dick, so we ruined your week. Hope that's okay.
This story was mentioned in the penultimate paragraph.
A small-ish blog post by Imperva security discussing the leak: http://blog.imperva.com/2012/08/analyzing-the-team-ghostshel...
Amazon Instant Video suffers from the same problem.
It's OK HN, I got this.

- Bad Google! Bad Google. On another note, here's a link to my totally unrelated startup.

- These guys are idiots for depending on someone else for their data. They should be out there building a nationwide - hell, worldwide - array of weather stations. It's the lack of ambition that gets me. On another note, here's a link to my totally unrelated startup.

- These guys are idiots for building a service around an unsupported API even throught it was fun, useful and there are many viable alternatives out there. On another note, here's a link to my totally unrelated startup.

- This is really bad. On another note, here's a link to my totally unrelated startup.

- I blame Apple for this. On another note, here's a link to my totally unrelated startup.

- I will now tell an irrelevant, self-absorbed anecdote about how I left school early, didn't go to college, got funded, ran my company into the ground, flipped and am now working on my next startup. On another note, here's a link to my totally unrelated startup.
Nice! Reminds me a bit of a better version of VMS's versioned filesystem.

Also: I'm old enough to have used VMS's filesystem. :(
Installing Arch is easy as long as you don't want to do anything clever. As soon as you want to do something like setting software RAID up, it becomes much less easy :P. At least that's been my experience.

Maybe with my next laptop I'll try Arch properly, but it was too much of a pain last time I tried to install it with my current setup.
>When such innovations become possible, they will need to be protected.

The underlying implementation details should be protected, sure, but not the idea itself. Just because you're the first to successfully make a flying machine doesn't mean someone competing with you, implementing it in a different underlying way, shouldn't be able to make a flying machine.
This seems to be a reasonable review of long-term injuries (specifically osteoarthritis):

http://www.jaoa.org/content/106/6/342.full

I've seen some of the studies referenced in that review, and what I gathered is that elite level running (in shoes) correlates with signs of osteoarthritis (seen in x-rays), but does not correlate with increased symptoms of osteoarthritis (runners did not report more pain than non-runners). If I recall, this was from the small study that included only Finnish elites. Other studies (the Lane study) have not found an increase in signs of osteoarthritis in non-elite (shod) runners.

Anyway, it's an interesting question.

> To say that barefooters have just as many injuries as other runners might simply be a consequence of many people transitioning too fast from inch-thick heels to barefoot.

It may indeed. I'd just like to add that I personally know shod runners who never get injured (former coach), so any hypothesis that claims "shoes lead to acute injury in all cases" is simply false. Of course, the more interesting question is what happens in "most cases".
This made me switch back to Vimperator and I haven't looked back.
Yes, it's an ongoing project, now in week 62. To see details of what's been fixed, and where, read this:

http://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/category/memshrink/

This latest fix is for misbehaving addons. Other, previous fixes, have solved a lot of problems with FF itself. For me, it's less memory hungry than Chrome.
And it breaks pentadactyl, I feel entirely helpless.
Fixed (I just copied-and-pasted the original).
Reconsidered.
Jury foreman in Apple vs. Samsung had 'light bulb moment'
10 million is the amount of Giganews subscribers.

There's probably double that in users of alternative Usenet providers (including ISPs). Then consider that there's at least 10 times as many people who don't know about Usenet that would use it if they knew. So the potential global amount they could be making is 200 million times $15.

Three billion dollars. Think the grand scheme might be interested now?
There are so many public pods, and have been for years. Are you pretending you actually at some point tried to sign up and check it out? Really?
> An analysis of the hacks by security biz Imperva reveals that most of the breaches were pulled off using SQL injection attacks.

Client-side encryption, even in JS, would have prevented this, it seems.
No, big number changes mean that six weeks have passed. That's all. The scale of the change doesn't affect the number at all.
They have the trade off between paying for that with oil money directly now, or being able to continue to pay for less of it, but being able to continue "forever" by investing the oil money, while the principal grows rapidly as long as their oil revenue keeps coming.

It's the age-old tradeoff between saving vs. immediate gratification.
I get: "TypeError: Object #<Object> has no method 'api'"
"What kind of banks got hacked? Banks you never heard of."
India is not a functional state. It is not a state even. It is a collection diverse states that are held together through British Era bureaucracy. The states that indian union is composed of has very different outlooks and cultures. Blame it on British for the invention of India!
Thanks for the warning, I'll try not to upgrade.
http://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/rele...

http://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/rele...

Direct links to the OS X version and win32 version.
No. YOU don't know what running an OS secured with least minimum requirements are until you are running a linux server with all ports blocks from the command line. Then at that point you can use lynx to browse the web if you want the most secure, minimal web browser. Older versions of IE, especially on windows XP are nothing but security flaws.

So when you want to get off of your high horse, feel free to update your OS and install a modern browser. The browser market absolutely does not look pathetic as there are at least a hundred browsers that you can try if you put in any effort. Until then, you actually don't have a valid opinion on this matter.
Would love to have you build on this...do you live in the area?
The reason for this is that iOS allows an app to opt-out of video AirPlay, but not opt-out of AirPlay audio [1]. HBO has opted out of video AirPlay most likely to satisfy its cable provider partners who provide the vast majority of its income[2].

1. http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/AudioVi...

2. http://dcurt.is/hbo-forbes-journalism
" it's impossible to write a test without an interface to call into, after all"

This is not at all what pure 'test first' has even been described as to me. You'd write a test - run it to watch it fail - then write the code to make the test pass. Whether that code is interface/ui/logic/whatever shouldn't make any difference.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development#Test-dr...

"In test-driven development, each new feature begins with writing a test. This test must inevitably fail because it is written before the feature has been implemented."

EDIT:

"Test-driven development is difficult to use in situations where full functional tests are required to determine success or failure. Examples of these are user interfaces... "

The TDD article on wikipedia is seeming to confirm that TDD for UI is hard (or is at least a shortcoming of a TDD approach).
In all of this the funniest part is that the government/bureaucracy is so uselessly inefficient and corrupt that the very IDs they ask for are meaningless.

Case in point, my driving license has my name and address incorrectly written on it. I didn't make any effort to do this, it was just carelessness by the person filling in the details. I can now continuously use this as an ID everywhere and they believe they are 'tracking' me. Extend this to the other millions of folks out there who have similar documents.

The main issue here is that they are trying to track people with a broken system. Their efforts at security are laughable at best and redundant at worst.

Meanwhile the average Indian citizen suffers from documentation hell. (unless they're friends with someone important ;)

Obviously there's also the question: Should they try to track you ? Unfortunately respect for the average individual in India is so low that this discussion does not make sense there. Privacy has absolutely no meaning in India. It's almost like asking "Should dogs wear collars ?". There are no philosophical discussions involved. Just practical ones.
NO

If you depend on the client for your security => Game Over

(of course, SSL is kind of dependent on the client, but it's their security not yours in risk)
Not responding at all is VERY bad, it is a very strong sign they aren't paying you soon per my experence. First, read your contract slowly from end to end. Second, you need to hunt them down and make sure they are alive; note this doesn't mean you talk with them. Also get ready to talk with a lawyer.
I think the press (overly) publicized the add-on leak fix as it progressed through Firefox's 6-week release pipeline (Nightly -> Aurora -> Beta -> Release).
so you mean after you reach a certain valuation all your IP should be taken away? WTF.
Regarding the À la carte / "let me pay for it"; keep in mind that historically HBO sells their content to cable companies - they don't have the support infrastructure to go "direct to consumers" at that scale yet (though I think there is some limited HBO GO support at present). Additionally, I'm not sure how thrilled their currently customers/cable companies would be about HBO going direct - essentially opening up a channel for getting content without the need for a cable subscription. I'm not at all saying it's a bad idea, but I think HBO is in the very early stages of flushing out the kinks...
It's useless in Germany. It is just the same overdubbed stuff you can see on TV, several months too late.
the days where new people brought packages are over

You know HBO subscriptions are up, right?
I've written about the issues with HBO Go extensively. It's a terrible app that has a lot of promise, but it's really hampered by old-media ways of thinking about content distribution. The app is intended to be a second, third of fourth screen in your house, nothing more. That's not what the name implies, nor does that fit the reality of how many people consume content today.

You can't cache/download shows to use on the go, meaning that your streaming ability requires a connection and a good one at that: http://interchangeproject.org/2012/05/14/game-of-thrones-loo...

Why is HBO Go not a to-go service? http://interchangeproject.org/2012/05/10/why-is-hbo-go-not-a...

Here is a podcast discussing the issues with HBO Go: http://interchangeproject.org/2012/05/22/episode-38-to-go-or...

Essentially, what I'm trying to say is that HBO Go is a needless usability mess.
HeatRate - new, tiny jQuery & CSS3 library for sparklines/heatmaps
Helpful feedback. For most of our current clients, we find that the amount of value we generate / cost of what we replace (lots of engineering work and excel usage) is a lot higher than this.

That said, I think our sense is that for startups / newer firms it would be great to come up with some sort of plan that makes this more feasible. We'd love to hear thoughts and we're certainly glad to figure out something that works based on specific needs of people. Email me at ed.hallen@klaviyo.com and glad to chat.
Microsoft Secure Boot Could Ban Windows From PCs
New Megaupload Will Change the World
For those who don't know the back ground context behind these links.

The reason she is protesting is a law called Army Special Powers Act: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Forces_%28Special_Powers%...

Why the law was enforced in her region etc is a huge history and is well beyond the scope of a HN comment.
"Satisfy" meaning "pander to their stupidity instead of forcing them to think things through."

Software patents. This shit. Every avenue of consumer product delivery is now pervaded by crippling stupidity.

Remember NBC's lies about its Olympics streaming: http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/08/nbcs-olympic-lie.html
The iTunes video store bs doesn't end with AirPlay. I bought a full season of a TV show through iTunes but can't watch it because the monitor connected to my Mac Pro isn't "trusted."
Errr... SendGrid is $9.95 for 40k emails. You get 200 for free, just as with mailgun.

My guess is they'll integrate both products after which Mailgun and SendGrid will become largely equivalent services.
If you want to look at education as a privilege earned by having wealthy parents, maybe.

If $60k feels like a burden to you, imagine what it would be to the child of a single parent making $35k. If everyone were charged the same price, only the very rich could afford it.
Your comment is needlessly negative.
I'm really curious which claims will stand if it's accepted. Obviously not claim 1, but maybe some of the others could look novel enough from a patent examiner's point of view.

Doesn't Rails do this already? What other prior art could a prosecutor show?
silly question: Do I only need a black and white TV licence if I only watch live TV on my kindle?
I said this elsewhere, but I switched over to vimperator and order was restored to the universe.
Wayne Westerman is one of the identified Inventors. Published papers/articles by the inventors can count against their being able to get a patent, dependent upon the character of the disclosure (did they tell a couple friends or write a widely circulated article? etc) and how long before the filing that disclosure was made.

Since this appears to be dated after the priority date, I don't think it would pose any problem, even if it were published in a professional journal.
There are preferences to make updates not silent, if you like.
me too, and the new downloads panel is still not in this build, I wonder what the hold up is.
The issue for us is trying it out. We've dropped Highrise already, and are probably going to drop our current CRM soon as they just don't fit our needs. We really feel the need for a CRM but we don't want to commit to one till we're ascertained it can really do what we want. A limited trial plan would be good for this. We're a startup (mynaweb.com)

HTH.
Interactive 3D animation of 2D images
>So you're basically saying that Apple innovated but it shouldn't be granted a protective patent. Isn't this what the patent system was created to do?

It was created to encourage R&D by granting those who come up with complex implementations a window in which they can recoup the expenses. It wasn't created so the first person to implement an idea in general can have a competitive advantage.

If companies had used the patent system to create artificial monopolies in this fashion throughout the development of personal computing, we'd be living in much less functional world.
It's also an extremely narrow patent; the only claims that are likely to be accepted only cover web applications, and the later claims only cover programs written in Javascript. If you can successfully convince people that your game is not a web application, or if it is not written in Javascript, this patent may not even apply to you.

We'll have to see.

(IANAL)
Sendgrid. At first glance, their pricing is better than mailgun anyway.
Don't really have one. After some more research, apparently its sort of a gray area filled by anecdotes, pithy observations (such as my own), and snow about copyrights and trade-dress.
You don´t have accounts with MoneyMantra,Mitsukaru, Commerce Bank of Wyoming or the Central Bank of Bangladesh? Great rates!
It is unfortunate that nuance can be lost as the description of improvements moves from bugs, to technical blogs, to release notes, to the press, and finally to the reader, but I assure you that there are a number of memory-related improvements that have been made over the last year or so. These are all real, quantifiable improvements, but because modern web browsers are complex pieces of software it is not possible to fix all memory problems in a single patch.

If you look at various comparisons of browser memory usage (which are admittedly somewhat tricky to do), Firefox has, in the last 6 months or so, consistently been at or near the top of the ratings. This was not always the case, and is the result of cumulative improvement over many releases.

To the topic immediately at hand, what Firefox 15 does for memory usage is that it eliminates the single most common source of unbounded memory leaks in addons. The problem was that addons would accidentally leave behind a reference to pages, keeping them alive after they were closed, using up gobs of memory. Now, if addons try to do that, the link is killed, preventing the leak. Arguably, this is a bug in an addon and not the browser, but this has affected literally dozens of addons used by millions of people, so it called for a hardening of the browser itself to prevent this error.
US doctors back circumcision
Let's make a list of prior art. What demonstratable open-source projects do this? Rails, I think?
its official America is also a police state, how disturbing

http://boingboing.net/2012/08/28/how-police-can-obtain-your-...
IBM folks never aware of Erlang hot code replacement. https://www.google.co.in/search?q=erlang+hot+code+replacemen...
and it's also missing some curly braces!
>[auto updates are] inaccessible to normal people

Right, asking people to update their OS and browsers is totally accessible. They get it and definitely do do it.
As I said, I think XP is a fine OS for most people, but you don't use it in a vacuum (obviously, since you're posting here). Support for XP at the OS, application and driver level is only going to get worse. And this will become a bigger and bigger problem.

Also, Windows 7 is actually just a better OS. In my experience the kernel is more stable and the memory management is better.
Windows 8 gets TouchWizzed, Samsung adds back Start Menu
An excellent and long New Yorker article on Peter Pronovost's Checklist crusade: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/10/071210fa_fact_...
This isn't Apple's doing per se, but it sucks for consumers nonetheless. And people don't really care whose fault it really is. They just want it to work, and these silly restrictions put in place by old media companies are really making streaming video hard to love.

I was going to purchase the Jurassic Park trilogy on iTunes last week, but noticed that it is no longer available to purchase in HD. I have no idea why. Apple certainly would like to sell it to me in HD, but the movie studio must not really want to sell it that badly.

Maybe this is related to the blu-ray release. Who knows. Not my job to figure it out. So, I just won't buy it.
I'd be surprised if Google doesn't have at least a data center in Detroit. Considering how much Google has been investing in urban real estate lately (NYC, Chicago) you'd think they'd want to snap up one of the big old factories and put a mini campus in there.