skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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People have been thinking about this sort of attack since at least 2002 http://www.iacr.org/cryptodb/data/paper.php?pubkey=3091
It's also way the heck easier to get emails, provided that you give them some motivation to sign on. It's inherently a private, low-risk transaction (provided that your signaling is consistent).

As to domain expertise, "well-known value-producing field" x "very specific customers whose needs you deeply understand" is both sufficient and awesomely effective.
Sorry but I'm not buying that. I can see that squares with rounded corners are everywhere in apple's design. I don't think that comes from the Cube. It was just a result of this love for the rounded corner square.
Recently there was an article floating around where a VC asked why there aren't more B2B startups. This mindset is why - there's simply no way you can grow at these rates in the early days with most B2B products, particularly the ones in very hard to solve areas like ERP or the like. Anything with a longer sales cycles seems to be instantly disqualified by this definition, which is why we're relegated to so many photo apps and twitter thingies.
Open Source Politics: The Radical Promise of Germany's Pirate Party
Show HN: Didn't see a good hacker school in Mumbai, so I'm starting one
I do not believe that for one second. As someone who has interviewed hundreds of candidates, there are many things a prospective employer really, really does not want to know. Religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, the list goes on... A company that finds out these things and rejects a candidate for any reason, even a legitimate technical one, is begging to be sued.

That is what LinkedIn is for...
No offense taken.

I think it should be pretty clear that by "jailbreaking" I'm also referring to installing and using non-App store apps (what's the point otherwise?). I'm particularly concerned with the affect of running many apps that are using undocumented/unsanctioned apis (such as with the app that updates the weather icon). iOS has a bunch of restrictions to prevent apps from astonishingly degrading performance of the system (e.g. the API discourages or prevents apps from running invisibly in the background)
It is doable, but because these companies compete with each other, would they all be happy seeing their streaming links next to each other? They can cut off access to their APIs at any time.
Picard's Syndrome
> And the probability of a group of sufficiently smart and determined founders succeeding on that scale might be significantly over 1%. For the right people—e.g. the young Bill Gates—the probability might be 20% or even 50%. So it's not surprising that so many want to take a shot at it.

Which means that even Bill Gates may have failed repeatedly at creating a successful startup.

Just as in poker even great players will lose if it's not in the cards and even the mediocre player can win big on occasion.

The lesson is that even a founder as good as Bill Gates can only expect to succeed if she is willing to make multiple attempts.
That's cool. Starred.
Keep sucking apples dick, guys.
Maybe it's a kind of Milgram experiment.
I've read most of the points made here in an essay Joel Spolsky wrote a while back: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000056.html

It was very insightful at the time I read it.
I don't care for the title. Clearly these spots aren't for engineers to come on board and fix maps in a couple days, they are there for future development. "Scrambled" implies an imminent deadline.
Sure, it looks quite like the railway clock. I'd prefer Apple to pay for the rights and do an exact copy. As it is now there are several details that look not alike and in a sense not aesthetically pleasing.
You made great points, but I disagree about the morality part.

Wall Street had also produced explosive growth in our economy. It was also a ingenious system with participation of lots of hackers and talents. But I think most will agree now, that when Wall Street operates without considering its own morality, it is by itself, immoral.

In other words, I believe the essay's lack of reflection on the morality issue, which is definitely not a small one (e.g. the Zynga example), is what makes it biased, and partly, immoral.
Another explanation is that a substantial portion of their Maps team either walked out or was fired just prior to launch, and must now be replaced.

What does Fr. Occam say?

Exactly the same thing happened with Antennagate.
Advice from the London Underground (Subway) to iOS6 users.
In this particular case (Charlie H.) it's a PR stunt.
Do you have any gameplay videos or promotional videos?
Would you take the honeymoon pill?
"when compression is enabled"

SPDY compresses everything, together, by default.

CRIME relies on lots of things, one of which is a browser that makes requests for offsite resources automatically. Sure, Chrome does that, but not all broswers do, and certainly not simple http clients unless you're spidering.

It's pretty easy to not be vulnerable to CRIME, but not when you use SPDY; since SPDY was compressing everything. The protocol takes away the control that the HTTP 1.1 user had through specifying desired options in headers, such as whether or not to use compression. And compression was never the default in HTTP/HTTPS.

I wish that I liked SPDY. It's easier to go along with the crowd. But I just don't. IMO, it's something that should stay internal to Google and not be pushed on the rest of the web. Exactly for reasons like this exploit. It's way too easy to screw this stuff up.
Imagine the level of shouting there would be at Apple from Jobs after the iOS 6 maps fuckup. Is there anyway whatsoever that anyone at Apple is feeling that much heat right now?
It's not perfectly adequate. E.g. ARM can't let Samsung see the design until Samsung signs a contract. It makes it difficult to shop the design around. Also, a contract that provided the protections similar to a patent would be an ad-hoc informally specified version of patent law, and we'd replace patent litigation with more contract litigation.

It also provides no recourse against third parties. What if someone reverse engineers the design from one of Samsung's products? This is not theoretical--there's a major Chinese networking company that used to copy the designs of a major US networking company down to the silk screening. It also prevents ARM from publishing details in trade journals and forces them to keep documentation and designs under lock and key. It makes industrial espionage tremendously more valuable. Sub licensing, transferability, etc, become a huge hassle.

And to what benefit? Consider one suit wildly maligned on these boards: Oracle v Google. Without copyright, that lawsuit still would have happened more or less along the same lines, except it would be about whether Google violated its contract with Sun about how Google was allowed to use Sun's code. And t would have been longer and more expensive because the parties couldn't speak the common language of contract law.
Wow you really have no clue... that really amazes me.

The difference is for instance the cost of airlifting those citizens out of war zones will by far dwarf any taxes they may pay back while working in the country for 1-2 years before going back to the other one once the war is over. That's also IF they work and don't go on social assistance programs.

Canada is now experiencing this issue with a lot of Chinese who come here to get a passport as well. To most people, citizenship is the one thing you go all in on. By not doing so it hurts most countries and costs them a lot of money.

I'm not going to reply to you again, it's people with beliefs like yours who damage society as a whole.
It's not perfectly adequate. E.g. ARM can't let Samsung see the design until Samsung signs a contract. It makes it difficult to shop the design around. Also, a contract that provided the protections similar to a patent would be an ad-hoc informally specified version of patent law, and we'd replace patent litigation with more contract litigation.

It also provides no recourse against third parties. What if someone reverse engineers the design from one of Samsung's products? This is not theoretical--there's a major Chinese networking company that used to copy the designs of a major US networking company down to the silk screening. It also prevents ARM from publishing details in trade journals and forces them to keep documentation and designs under lock and key. It makes industrial espionage tremendously more valuable. Sub licensing, transferability, etc, become a huge hassle.

And to what benefit? Consider one suit wildly maligned on these boards: Oracle v Google. Without copyright, that lawsuit still would have happened more or less along the same lines, except it would be about whether Google violated its contract with Sun about how Google was allowed to use Sun's code. And t would have been longer and more expensive because the parties couldn't speak the common language of copyright law.
I think you are just repeating my point and misunderstood my original description. There are people who invest in and work for startups, people who invest in and work for non-startups, people who invest in startups and work for non-startups, and people who invest in non-startups and work for startups. The interplay between time and money and risk and growth with these combinations became clearer to me because of this post.
Judged by growth rate it's not doing very well: https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html
It's interesting to see whether it is an A5(X)-exploit that works on the A6 too, or if it's a iOS6 (perhaps iOS5) userland exploit.
If by ‘relaxed’ you mean ‘tabloid’, sure. It seems to be a requirement that any Register article about Apple products has to be dismissive towards people who use them (even though that is most people who might read the article these days):

> fanbois and fangrrls across the world branded the new satnav-like service as rubbish

1. needlessly trollsome, 2. alludes to them being irrational supporters, and yet… these are the people being critical? Maybe they're not irrational fanatics after all…?
Kandeh Yumkella: Energy chief on a mission to end poverty
‎"Rather than a bunch of feel good projects for Africa, Work hand in hand with African Countries to create a brighter future"
I appreciate your story, but it's very frustrating when people like you take away spots in tax payer funded universities from REAL Canadians who plan on staying and working to make this country a better place.

I hope the laws get changed to avoid loopholes like this in the future.
I am not usually a fan of regulation but his 10c tax for trades in less than an hour may help this out big time. It really is just like API throttling so people or consumers don't abuse the systems for all. Then again day trading and hedging is a big part of investment portfolios now and this would change things big time.

Whether its through a use of taxes on trades(hit every trade on a stock held less than 1 hour with a 10c tax and all these problems go away), or changing the capital gains tax structure so that there is no capital gains tax on any shares of stock (private or public company) held for 1 year or more, and no tax on dividends paid to shareholders who have held stock in the company for more than 5 years.

There are probably some edge cases where a time based tax would be a problem but for the most part I think it would drastically reduce the HFT skimming. Then again, if you are making money on the market you are probably doing the skimming.

A big problem for markets is weak or too many short term investors, they can create a snowball effect. HFT trading algorithms are very short and can create flash crash windfalls. Luckily they can also buy up when those things happen and the whole thing is over in a blink but that seems too risky. What happens when all the trades are by HFT algorithms? Eventually if those make all the money then everyone will use them all the time. Where are the long suckers then?
Might make sense. Microsoft Accounts are also user accounts in Windows 8.
Akorn / wheezy.web / overview — Bitbucket
Just listening about it on a local geeks meeting so maybe someone find it also useful for some project.
Motorola Admits Droid Bionic Owners Got Raw Ice Cream Sandwich Deal
Motorola’s new Vice President of Product has admitted that Droid Bionic owners have gotten a raw deal as far as Ice Cream Sandwich is concerned and that the team is working to fix things, particularly for the future.
Or that, once shipping a piece of software, the team was ready to re-staff for the next major release, coming in a year.

You don't add engineers on at the end but at the beginning.

There was no mass firing for "Antennagate" in fact there was no "antennagate"... like this BS maps "issue" Antennagate was just a bunch of apple haters bashing the company.

The reality is, the iOS maps app is already far better than google maps around here. Apple has terrain data and correct streets, google doesn't even know this major city exists (becuase it isn't in the US or europe.)
It came out as an ad hominem but what I said does attack the argument. Karunamon puts the rule of law above all other considerations, and that's a bad position to hold. People better their lives every day by breaking laws, and when laws at senseless and when your action is not hurting anyone, then breaking the law should be considered as a real option.

Let's take illegal immigration. Yes, there is legal immigration, but it's limited by draconian max quotas and a preference for the educated. But the US is still a great opportunity to find decent jobs and help support one's family. I feel for illegal immigrants in our country and if I had any way of supporting them (beyond just voting for pro-illegal and amnestey measures) I would! And I want to make the law and government as toothless as possible against.

Millions of people break drug laws. For some, it is damage themselves and the people around them, and encouraging them to be more dependent on the state and to resort to thieving.

But illegal drugs help a lot of people. There are possibly some various benefits for cannabis, and at the least it acts as a pain reliever. MDMA helps treat PTSD and potential has use in couples therapy. Mescaline, LSD, mushrooms and ketamine provide satisfaction to spiritual soul-searchers. Adderal and other amphetamines boost some forms of productivity.

Our founding fathers disliked taxes and were essentially smugglers and tax evaders. They had moral arguments against the law placed on them-- Karunamon would have them following the law anyway.

Karunamon has no empathy for the human reality of law breaking. If our political process does not find it convenient to de-criminalize actions that help humanity, how can we respect that law?

And so, I stand by my statement that Karunamon would make a great henchman. I can imagine him now, shouting at the criminals: "UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES AND MORALITY ARE OF NO CONCERN, THE LAW IS THE LAW."

This comic sums up how I feel about the law: http://asofterworld.com/index.php?id=469

I am using many appeals to emotion, but I've still demonstrated that: following the law blindly is not a good strategy for the improvement of humanity.
Screensharing a browser tab in HTML5?
Sweet lord, put the jug of juice down son.
Why does this nonsense keep being perpetuated on here.

Steve Jobs routinely launched products that were less than perfect. Hence his quote, "real artists ship".
Well, its better than the "Apple sucks!" And "This new product from Apple [which is actually really great] is terrible and Apple's going to fail!"

I remember that when people were whining that the iPod sucked compared to archos media players and predicted it would fail.

This season its popular to claim that somehow the magical Steve Jobs's death means the end of Apple --- always from people who hope it is true.

The sad thing is, They are the ones who have all along insisted Steve Jobs was magical, becuase they refuse to understand why Apple is a success.

Which is why they constantly bash Apple products and claim they will fail (And then are silent about them when they win.)

iOS Maps is already far better than google maps. Further, Google maps hasn't really progressed in the last decade, while iOS Maps clearly is progressing pretty quickly.

The iPhone was going to suck, the iPas was the worst product name ever.... hell, this tradition goes all the way back to the original mac before most HN readres (I suspect) were even born.

I'm tired of the "Apple's product sucks because I don't know anything about technology or design but am a fan of [competitor]" junk.
Ask HN: Will distributed social network work? Are they late?
Diaspora and tent.io try to create a distributed social network. Are they late in the game? Will they gain momentum?

I see a huge potential here. For e.g. XMPP is a successful protocol (atleast google adopted). I don't like monopoly, i don't want facebook the only option which everyone must choose (Because its centralized).

Whats your opinion?
From the OP's question:

> When I tried to calculate the square root of -1 on my calculator, it gave me an error.

This was a red flag to me. This person takes the answer from a calculator as the ultimate truth, whereas it (obviously) is not. I wonder how he would have reacted had he had an advanced calculator (HP50g or some TI) and got "i" as the answer instead of an error.

> To this day I do not understand imaginary numbers. It makes no sense to me at all.

Coming from a mixed EE/CS background, I had a lot of math and math-heavy classes in the first 2.5 years (linear algebra, real, vector and complex analysis, discrete math, systems theory)..

What I observed during the 5-yr master's degree was that the people who were seeking "meaning" in math courses were the same people who 1) had the most problems with math exams, 2) had the least ability to apply the math to other domains in order to do something useful.

What worked for me was to accept that math is manipulation of abstract symbols according to some rules, combined with some ingenuity (i.e., when you have to consider external information in addition to the rules).

In the case of complex numbers, you introduce a new abstract symbol called "i" with the property that i X i=-1. Other rules that you (hopefully) learned earlier still apply. So computing (x+y)X(x+z) or (2+3i)X(2-6i) is in essence the same process except that you replace i^2 with -1 when you encounter it.

I actually enjoyed doing math on that level: as a manipulation of abstract rules and invention of new rules (theorems).

In simple EE, inducntances and capacitances are modeled as pure imaginary "resistances"). However, I somehow figured out how to make use of math (not only complex numbers) in other domains. I made use of math in electronics for drawing Bode plots, information theory, systems theory, and even economics! (In economics, I was reading a lengthy chunk of text with some summations, only to realize that, in actuality, integration was described and everything could be summarized to few sentences explaining the meaning of the involved integral. On the exam, I gave MY explanation -- based on the integral -- instead of the lecturer's, and I passed!)

To me the problem seemed to be that lecturers in other subjects resorted to awkward, special-cased explanations instead of showing us how to model the problems at hand with the math we have already learned.
I take it you have a source for this assertion?
Apple is huge. When a company gets as big as Apple does, you'll always be able to find cracks and missteps.

Where I think Apple is failing is filling the gap of Jobs, and I don't mean the man, but the fear. Jobs was notorious for being an asshole and firing whole teams if they didn't deliver to "his standard". Without this fear, I wonder if things will begin to come out that would otherwise never have seen the light of day.

IMO, the last few products Apple has released have been much worse than the previous few. Lion was a bad release, Mountain Lion was better, but generally not a great release either. The new Nano with the round icons is, well, horrible looking. Would Jobs have let that go out? Would the team release that if Jobs was still alive and in charge?

I'm actually a huge fan of individuals being able to make autonomous decisions. I think that leads to healthier companies and better products. HOWEVER, Apple has never been structured that way and it could take some time before natural leaders step up inside the company. They have the money to weather storms and lets face it, the Apple fans are going to give them many years of free passes so there really isn't a fear of them ending anytime soon.
I've not seen Apple launch a half baked product in quite a long time, not like the crap that, for instance, google still ships and calls "android".

iOS Maps with its first iteration is far better than google maps, after 8 years.

The company is not perfect, but the idea that something is "half backed" is just standard issue FUD from the apple bashers.

Remember how the iPod was going to fail? The iPhone had "no chance"? The iPas "just a big ipod touch" and "reminds me of a feminine product?"

I really wonder if people foget all this nonsense. Remember "antennagate" and consume rreports selling out its integrity and honor for page views?

Noticed a pattern?
Drawing 3D scenes in HTML 5's 2D Canvas
Training in harsher conditions than you'll compete in works extremely well.

I suspect Github would have done worse if they had taken early funding. There should probably be more businesses built following their model.
> What exactly are they planning to put in the headers to make them so big they need to be compressed? Normal headers are not large.

Compressing headers is not for handling large headers. They are for handling repeated headers. For example, with every request-response pair, you waste a few bytes saying "Accept-Ranges:bytes", you waste a few bytes saying "Server:Apache/2.4.1 (Unix) OpenSSL/1.0.0g", you waste a few bytes saying "Connection:Keep-Alive", etc. Further, when you compress headers, you save a few bytes for repeatedly using the string "Cache-Control:", "Content-Length", "Last-Modified:", etc.

If you take a look at the work done here: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~amer/PEL/poc/pdf/SPDY-Fan.pdf, (ironically, the pdf is entitled SPDY-Fan after one of the authors), you will find that the average HTTP request they studied is (reasonably) 629.8 bytes whereas SPDY (after some warm-up) transmits 35 bytes on average. Similarly, the average http response they studied is (reasonably) 437.7 bytes whereas SPDY (after some warm-up) transmits 63.8 bytes on average.

> Another new addition was de-serialization. But I see nothing wrong with receiving the data in the order I requested it. If the transmission is interrupted, at least then I can restart where I left off. [...] Alas, no one used it. Why? Maybe because it didn't have a catchy acronym and a corporate brand behind it.

Historically, browser support for pipelining has pretty much been limited to Opera. Chrome has an implementation now, and I believe, so does Firefox. I don't think either of these are enabled, by default, although I could be mistaken.

For issues with pipelining, this document has a few hints http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nottingham-http-pipeline-01.... As well, pipelining cannot be used for non-idempotent requests, i.e. non-(HEAD|GET) requests.

Realistically speaking, pipelining is essentially a hack to make a synchronous protocol more efficient. If the creators of HTTP were to repeat their efforts today, knowing how the protocol they are creating is going to be used, I'd bet my left arm that they would create a multiplexed protocol.

> especially not now.

Are you also going to avoid all the sites that use an unpatched OpenSSL? CRIME seems to affect those just as it affects SPDY.