skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great partnership, however I do not want to become one with the Facebook collective. I spend too much time over there already.

Aside from my personal feelings about Facebook being the devil, congrats on a neat feature.
You can update the plugin.
Apple limits you to 20 areas, so sometimes you need to generalize these coverage areas in order to fit under the limit.
This revenue comes from the Megakey application that users have to install. Megakey works like an ad blocker, but instead of blocking ads it replaces a small percentage with Mega’s own ads. Those who prefer not to install the app have the option to buy the music instead.
“Music will be free for users who install the Megakey App. Anyone who does not like the App can just purchase the music,” Dotcom explains.

Yeah, seems real noble.

https://torrentfreak.com/top-artists-line-up-for-kim-dotcoms...
I'm not a googler but I do know a bit of Math and Statistics and many of the approaches they take can be cleverly reduced to optimization problems or matrix math both of which are more the domain of applied mathematicians then statisticians.
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I'm well aware of the issues noted in your first two big paragraphs. These are the typical reasons given in the informal research I mentioned. It boils down to this reasoning: A purported solution to a major outstanding problem in physics is not worth reading, simply because the odds of it being correct are too small.

It's rude to suggest that I'm whining. All I've done here is stated my opinion and reported my relevant experiences. The same as you have.

The quest for publication (or even one other person knowing the solutions to these major problems) was over for me some years ago. I'm only responding to the topic at hand here. I've long been satisfied with my ideas being lost to science. I only ever wanted publication to share the ideas, not to gain anything for myself. The physics community has made it clear that it's not interested in such solutions; I accept that. And that's not whining.
Cool. I'm on metformin (the drug from the article) and Actos for my American Diabetes[1]. Maybe metformin's anti-cancer properties will counter Actos' known pro-cancer properties! :-)

[1] By American Diabetes I mean diabetes due to being overweight. A few years ago, I changed my eating habits, got down to merely chubby, and all traces of diabetes went away. Eventually, changes in work threw my schedule into disarray, I stopped making time to go home and cook and reverted to too much fast food, much of the weight came back, and so did the diabetes.
Agree, awesome news for Twilio. Congrats Jeff and team.

Disagree that passion for Twilio comes from distance to traditional telecom. That has not been my personal experience, anyway. Can anyone imagine that Twilio operates in a vacuum without any need for telecom dealings? If anything, Twilio insulates us from interfacing with the big bad telecoms, and allows us peons to benefit from their legwork for a reasonable, predictable, per-transaction fee.

I doubt a blue whale flinches when a krill gives it the finger (proboscis? antennae? whatever appendage krill use as a rude gesture).
I'm not convinced that Python was ever all that beloved of web fashionistas or technology blogs. If you think that NodeJS could replace it, you probably don't understand what Python programmers find appealing in a language. These are people who like their code tidy, and are really bothered by little details like [] + [] == "".

Agree with you about Perl though. Definitely still a persistent hum of Perl usage amongst programmers I know.
Apple Events: Popcorn and Circuses
What's next? Stack overflow?
LayerVault - Cosmos is the universe of all our open source projects.
Routesy has MUNI and looks pretty nice, at least on my iPod touch.
And a much larger print area.
The underlying study to this whole, "money doesn't motivate us," idea often gets misinterpreted. What did the study actually say?

They took a group and had them perform two tasks. One was a problem solving task that required an abstract / creative solution. The other was a mechanical task that basically required the group to assemble widgets. The control group was offered no money and the test group was offered a payout. The results are well known, in the mechanical task, money was an effective motivator. People will put more effort forth for cash. In the creative task, money negatively impacted performace. i.e. Pressure chokes creativity.

The common interpretation misses an important confounding factor: Stress. The cash prize for success (up to a month's salary in some of the tests performed overseas), is stressful, and it's just as likely that stress, not money, caused the poor performance in the creativity task.

If you give an employee a good wage and strong job security, are they likely to feel more stressed, or less?

If we accept that stress kills creativity, then everything fits together nicely. Mastery, purpose and autonomy make for a comfortable work environment. So does job security. So does a fair (market) wage. I think the insight here isn't so much that you should (or can) pay people less, but that crafting a good work environment as defined in the article isn't expensive, or even necessarily hard, and can produce large gains.
It is certainly possible to hack something together, the national labs have done this for a while using off the shelf parts to create a 'video wall' that allows them to visualize their simulations. Taking the linked example and applying that technique would suggest you could use somewhere between 12 and 16 'copies' of their setup driving each driving a tile of your HD display.

'in world physics' is well managed by things like the PhysX engine that nVidia sells.
> To add it to the pain, VLC is a mostly C99 project, but C99 is too new a standard for Microsoft to implement it :)

Hah, better than that, Herb Stutter explicitly stated they don't give a flying fuck about C99: http://herbsutter.com/2012/05/03/reader-qa-what-about-vc-and...

> If you really need [...] features in C95/C99/C11 that are not part of ISO C++[, use] a different compiler
Well if 30pin was as future proof, then in theory we would not have a problem with angry people with lots of old accessories right now. And if it as good as they say, then if tomorrow HDMI is totally doomed and there's shiny new HDMI2 standard completely different from HDMI, I will not have to change the phone, apple just needs to release a new cable and possibly software update.
If iTunes switches, then everyone will use it ...

They use a different technique than in other lossy codecs (mp3, acc, etc.) without a psychoacoustic model.
And the algorithms are actually quite old and not patented anymore (as in aac, mp3) - so in theory it should work ;)

However, I think libopus should also compile on the iPhone, so it should be possible to play .opus files on i-devices.
my personal lack of interest stems from visual studio professional and ultimate costing hundreds of dollars, when on other platforms I receive free IDE's. VS express doesn't seem to cut it honestly.
forget the image stabilization comparison. the 920 image quality is incredibly better than the others.
Yup, check out https://github.com/lsb/passphrase-safety-ui
A small-ish point:

While the glass Apple chose does have issues with very hard impacts (the stuff that lead to catastrophic failure), it has really impressive resilience to minor wear and tear. It's difficult to scratch with metals and doesn't chip or dent. Yes, sand/silicates will scratch it, but not softer materials.

Further, ceramics and glass have excellent RF transparency, especially relative to metals. As you can imagine, this is incredibly important in smartphones. This has been a pretty big design challenge for Apple in the past: the Titanium Powerbooks has horrendous wireless performance, and generations of iPads and iPod touches have had to have glass or plastic windows in their backs. The iPhone 5 has two glass windows in the back for this reason. Note that stainless steel has poorer transparency than Al, and some types are ferromagnetic.

I definitely like the polycarb that Nokia is using in the Lumia line. That said, the feel that Apple has created by its material choices in the iPhone line is very nice, and that this complaint over scuffing is minor. Wear and tear happens, whether to plastic or steel.
I think a lot of people are excited about the progress against the RIAA and actually building services FOR artists. I'm just concerned that this isn't it...will artists rally behind Megabox, especially with Kim's reputation, legal issues, and the very obvious scrutiny that this site will face from world governments? It'd take some serious convincing for me to store my audio there, unsure of its security or longevity.

I don't know that the trust is there, although I do like the idea in principle.
Standards are set by international bodies (like ETSI) using a specified process which these companies are participants of. As part of the procedure, companies legally authorize the use of their essential patents to be part of a standard. Once this happens, the standard implementors have to pay a specified royalty (usually on a per device basis) from which individual compaies owning the patents get their share based on contribution.
My guess is that PhoneGap is going to be massively successful with WP8 apps, if the platform is ever to take off.
Nit picking: I know the copy isn't written for security geeks, but boasting of "MIT engineers" (mechanical engineers?) and "heavy security experience" doesn't ring of a strong correlation to me.

Could you expand on the bios in your "About Tinfoil" page? I don't know if an executive looking at that page would be convinced you're all security experts (and I know this isn't "cool" but slightly more professional profile pictures might help)

Other than those points and the name ('tinfoil' doesn't inspire tons of confidence in me, but whatever, it's a name) I like the idea and presentation. Good luck!
- Private IP address disclosure (1)
- Allowed HTTP methods (1)
- Non HTTP-Only Cookies (2)
- Insecure Cookies (4)

Note: This is a 2-page website. Looks like the cookie problems are a result of the default Heroku 404 page.
There's definitely a gap to fill in the web application security market, especially for startups who want to budget ~1k-5k to security and are simply outbid by established companies (simple, short web projects by good appsec teams start at around $10k).

That said: I'm not in love with the messaging here. The push/pull isn't between ineffective, inexpensive tools and ineffective, expensive consultants. Appsec teams are very effective. They just cost too much for startups.

My recommendation: stop positioning against security products and services. Nobody in the startup market really uses them and they don't care about their track records. Meanwhile, people in enterprise and large software markets are automatically wary of automated tools (like Appscan and WebInspect on the low end, or Veracode and Fortify on the high end).

You have a compelling story just by pitching the value of automated on-demand security testing at that price point. The direct comparison to competing tools just begs questions you don't want to answer.

(I've recommended Tinfoil to lots of people and continue to do so. Definitely glad they're finally launching!)
This article seems a bit odd because it almost seems to dismiss money out of hand. There must be some threshold level required to get people thinking about the 3 "real reasons" the author specifies.
OTOH, pursued as a niche market, it might be as profitable as first and business classes (while targeting similar demographics). (Aren't those generally fairly revenue-positive portions of the airline industry customer demographic?)
It's fine, I'll use MegaAdblock. Is this even legal? Replacing content providers' ads seems wrong.
LastPass, LastPass, LastPass.

Or 1Password, or whatever. But something. Please.
Glad you have your site back.

Let us know when ICANN has their report!
Getting comfy with Facebook makes me leery of Dropbox's commitment to privacy.
Clicking on the word gives you more info. Blue = not found in GBooks 1grams. Green = high-entropy word. Red = very low-entropy word (<10 bits in a 1gram model). Orange = low-entropy word (<8 bits in a 2gram or 3gram model).
The real question for me is how MegaKey will interact with other 3rd party software, such as ad-blockers - and how much / what / information they'll be collecting about my surfing habits (I'm assuming they'll be collecting all of it so they can better target their ad-serving)
Gullibitor, for people who don't question all those newspaper headlines about the latest wonder drug breakthrough. Though I will admit blueberry wine sounds like a good idea.
I've worked with some "brilliant jerks" before. But they were never the type to cover on holidays, bring in the most revenue, etc. The brilliant jerks I knew tended to be selfish and negative. Perhaps he didn't share the company vision, but this guy didn't sound like a jerk (well, until he started suing the company after he left).

I will say that the true jerks have a way of worming their way into the company. For example they'll do a lot of work with the goal of making sure they're the only one who understands some certain process. Then they horde knowledge and never want anyone else in there or any documentation to exist. The team is afraid to fire them because nobody knows or has the time to learn that part of the system.
What's to prevent a browser extension from listening in on any password?

Don't install stuff you don't trust.
What has bothered me most about Google Drive lately, is that when I try to open an epub file from Drive, even if I make it available offline, it doesn't want to open the file in the selected book reader. Is that Google's fault or the book reader app's fault (it supports epub, obviously). This is on Android.
It's good to have a fast check for these things, but you realize how simple that stuff is to spot, right? Insecure cookies and HTTPOnly (which: HTTPOnly is a bit of a band-aid; it's not a vulnerability not to have it) are trivial regexes on set-cookie headers; methods is something you can do with curl and a shell script.

If you're spotting these kinds of things only after using a 3rd-party tool, consider whether this is the kind of stuff you want to build into your integration testing.
Try HopStop.
Haha, wow. That's an incredibly novel approach. I won't be surprised if many here oppose it as it strips revenue from deserving websites and redirects it to Dotcom.

Is it any worse than AdBlock, though?
If my AdBlock software blocks the MegaAds as well then what? Will I still have access to free music? Certainly an interesting business model!
It actually reads worse for security geeks, but optimizing your copy for security geeks is usually a very bad plan.
No, but you would expect some kind of seriousness... Universities don't need to run image-similarity through papers published by their students right?
Plagiarism is a big thing.
I feel like I'm one of the few people that really likes the new mapping in iOS6. Granted I don't live on a college campus nor do I travel to rural areas often. The 9 or 10 times I've used the navigation so far it's been flawless.

I used to have a Droid Incredible and the navigation in iOS6 is far better in my opinion. The GPS seems to be a bit more accurate and the map UI just seems cleaner as well.
Typeface style can affect safety (2012)
If the call from United to the author's vet really did take place and can be documented, that is wire fraud. Which is, IIRC, a Federal felony.

Good luck getting a Federal prosecutor to pursue such a case (unless you have personal connections). However, I would suspect that per United's own internal policy, the people making and authorizing that call must be terminated. If it happened to include one of their fancy legal staff, that in itself could be a significant threat when combined with the proper publicity.
This is a good move, any government using Oracle is wasting taxpayers money and being irresponsible and negligent with its citizen's data.

One could talk of NSA backdoors, but there is no need, the security of Oracle products is laughable at best, there is no need for backdoors.
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Remember the aspirin has to be low-dose...
I would contend that API versions are a fundamental part of a resource. A resource is defined by its content and available operations. Changes to an API redefine the content and operations of resources. That redefinition makes different API versions distinct resources from each other.

Consider that a server may choose to provide the same resources in one of multiple versions and renderings, for instance to support older clients alongside new ones. I would consider it surprising if altering a resource at e.g. /v1/users/22 would also alter resources at other URLs, like /v2/users/22.

In addition, keeping version out of the URL allows the resources to be cross-referenced between different client apps, which are not necessarily browser-bound. One client expects the latest and greatest version, one client expects an older version, and they can pass data back and forth freely.

Also, api clients shouldn't give a damn about URI structure/content. If they aren't using links embedded within the representations you present then your "RESTful" API has bigger problems than the where-to-hide-the-version game.

I agree, but I'm talking about returning e.g. /users/22 instead of /v1/users/22 or /v1/users/22.json, not instead of 22.
best point i've seen yet- if he's poaching employees means they were poachable, and you can't poach a happy employee
Evolution of Social Networks like Google+
And what if I make something that does this too? If you have 10 applications all trying to replace 15% of ads on the web what will happen?
Yes, in my day-to-day use of each camera I've been moving. I guess my point is - there seems to be a massive quality degradation in what I've seen from personal use.
Assuming it was acceptable to both parties, why wasn't it possible to add turn-by-turn capability to the existing Google-powered app and ship that instead? Is this something that couldn't have been done without major changes?
i think the author's point was a bit subtler than most of the comments here give him credit for; he just clouded the issue with the unfortunate word "jerk". what he's describing is a high-performing, brilliant person who, when he doesn't agree with the new direction the company is taking, neither leaves nor realigns himself, but spends his time and energy trying to drag things back around to his preferred vector. however productive he might have been, he clearly has at least the potential to be a net drain now.
Step 1: Send children to Mars
How Star Trek: TNG Changed Culture Forever
iphone: mail, calendar, phone (obvious) DO (tasks) Openera (files/attachments), Evernote (notes) Tweetbot (twitter) Google Maps...oh wait... not anymore.
Great points. We'll definitely put up new photos and bios soon. Thanks for the feedback!
The codec itself is an entirely open standard, so no legal problems there. Whether there will be political pressure by major labels or Apple themselves remains to be seen. The benefits of Opus are huge, but then again, we got VHS, too.
I also learned on a TI-83 (handed down from my sister) and a TI-92 (from the boxes at school).

However, I much preferred my HP-50g, USER RPL was an absolute dream to program in, the USB interface was fantastic, an emulator was readily available, and you could even write applications in C and cross-compile them for the calculator.

That and RPN with a multi-line display and an [virtually] unlimited stack is the "one true way."
I'm looking forward to see what wins out in the social protocol space:

- Open and Decentralized (Tent)

- Open and Centralized (App.net)

- Closed and Centralized (Facebook)
Hmm. So the way I read this:

We have an old drug that helps diabetes to treat cancer.. The drug costs $.05/pill, for diabetes.

It will be called "Nocan", and feature a $24/pill cost, due to a new patent being granted. *

*Just like Eli Lilly with PMS-PMDD and name change of Prozac to Sarafem. All you need do is bribe FDA for new "disease" name, and you have another 17 yr patent.
Stainless steel is a pretty interesting material, but probably not a good choice for this design. A new variant of stainless probably makes it an even poorer choice (because full characterization is a prerequisite):

- Some variants of stainless steel are ferromagnetic, which would mess with the compass.

- Steel has very poor RF transparency, which would impact performance even with glass windows.

- Steel is heavy.

- Steel is far more difficult to machine: with Al you can easily (quickly, with little resistance) mill the curves and cavities that Apple likes for unibody design. Meanwhile steel chips, heats, and provides much resistance to a mill. It requires more finishing and incurs more tool wear.
I think having the home page marketed towards is a good plan because most small to medium businesses probably don't have security experts. In addition, having a not to hidden "Nitty Gritty Details" page for the security experts would be a great compromise.
That's me! Thanks for the kind words! I'm currently working on routing, and hope to have something ready to ship really soon. :)
HTTP is a teensy tiny bit more used than node.js
You're probably right, and if I were a betting man, I'd throw my chips on your side of the fence here. That said, doubling down on enterprise certainly seems like a better path forward for RIM than being a mass market iOS also-ran.

The other big issue RIM has -- and it may be a fatal issue -- is that Blackberry is just a device; it's not a platform. Not really. The big names (and startups/indies) in enterprise solutions aren't designing for it, or at least not exclusively. There isn't a total RIM solution that includes the Blackberry ecosystem as a unifying hub. Instead, there's just the Blackberry device itself, and the device is currently in a sorry state.
I'm curious, how much management experience do you have? More specifically, for how many years have you managed a company with 5 or more employees?
This reminds me so much of pitfall II http://youtu.be/TSUk_bmJQRQ?t=23s
In that vein, we search for a lot more than just these.

We're actually working on some tools to help integrate Tinfoil into your integrating testing scheme - more to come on that in the future. :)
Apple takes Openera's lead
I think this is what point #2 covered.

Google was willing to add in more functionality but only if Apple would give them an increased amount of branding. Apple didn't want to answer to Google so they decided to build their own.
The Linux Foundation, the Apache Project, et cetera.
Twilio's got to be one of my favorite companies in the world.

Their product was truly awe-some in the original sense when I first found it -- making real phone calls from code without a modem! For pennies! Their API was one of the best documented and versioned, with almost no learning curveand great code samples. They showed up everywhere my favorite companies showed up, from AppSumo startup bundles a few years ago, to StartupSchwag t-shirts and stickers, to the developer contests I entered where they gave away awesome prizes.

And they grew up, added features at a blistering pace for a company at the intersection of old industry and new, without (as far as I can tell) ever forgetting about the little developer. Their outreach and support is still excellent.

So, congratulations on the partnership, I don't know anyone at the company personally yet I'm personally happy for you all, because I know you deserve the success.