skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A. My understanding is that at this point Intel isn't that good at making mobile chips which is what Apple needs -- my other guess is that you'd also get into some government concerns about a monopoly
I'm surprised they don't exempt high profile public projects from limits like that. Git being hosted on Github is hugely beneficial to their image.

Any roadblocks should be eliminated for VIPs, especially if the consequence is just a few bucks more in bandwidth bills.
Although that's true, Facebook wants to change the game, no? Facebook wants to be the tool you use to tell all your friends about being engaged. So what is ideal is irrelevant if Facebook manages to change the game and become the preferred tool over phone, direct email, handwritten letters, and surprise dinner parties. Difficult road, especially replacing surprise dinner parties.
It worked when Michael Arrington was there, because he was a bit of a celebrity himself. Lots of people loved him, or at least loved to hate him. Maybe that was just in the tail end of his time there, when he had established himself as a celebrity by writing lots of controversial stuff, getting publicly slammed for it, then firing back. But you can't leave out the first step - writing an initial article which genuinely stirs things up a bit.
This is why consumption taxes are good - you can't get away from them. On the £3B of sales from Starbucks, they would have contributed at least £600M in consumption taxes (known as the VAT in the UK and at a rate of 20%).

Getting rid of corporate taxes and increasing consumption taxes proportionately would be a good way around this, although as much as it makes sense, and it is a popular position amongst economist - I can't imagine it being a popular political platform.
Based on headers the limit is 100 requests (per hour if the same as API).
I know one of the guys mentioned in this article, and I'll say that this is just the tip of the iceberg. Its pretty nuts how relaxed people are with this stuff.
They weren't included in the poll for that year.
As an aside brought on by the fraternal ballyhoo going on here, do the ex-reddit guys still keep in touch? It's kind of sad that Eric (and, I suppose, Alexis) are the only members of the old guard still kicking around there.
Sadly not too many details are published. Wouldn't be surprised if the main vulnerability was caused by applications blindly trusting any certificate - which happens to be a fairly common design pattern when dealing with Android. Sadly, a lot of popular signing authorities are not trusted by default in some versions of Android, and it isn't an easy task to get a user to add others.

There's several apps I've used where I've had no choice except to trust all authorities. I know the dangers of this, but I doubt most Android users do.
Dang, all sold out. Got on the wait list, hopefully I'll be able to snag a spot.
you can proxy UDP over HTTP proxies, which is supported by OpenVPN and is what I do. so if you have web access you have SSH over UDP access.
If 25% of hacker news folks attend, then the talk will have about 100,000 people. Jeremy - you better get a whole football field for your talk!
In this vein, it's also worth looking at Microsoft's "Reactive Extensions" (which have a JS implementation, too.) It's a similarly monadic approach to asynchrony, but deals in "observables" which produce zero or more events, compared to promises which produce only one.

(Edit: corrected "one or more" to "zero or more".)
Intel basically owns the mobile chip market, they're in a significant portion of the non-Apple smartphones.
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tl;dr: 8% of the top 13k apps don't verify SSL certificates.

The scientists began their research by downloading 13,500 free apps from Google Play and subjecting them to a "static analysis." Those tests checked whether the SSL implementations of the apps were potentially vulnerable to "man-in-the-middle" exploits, in which attackers are able to monitor or tamper with communications flowing over public Wi-Fi hotspots or other unsecured networks. The results identified 1,074 apps, or eight percent of the sample, that contained "SSL specific code that either accepts all certificates or all hostnames for a certificate and thus are potentially vulnerable to MITM attacks."

<snip>

The paper made no attempt to measure the security provided by apps available for Apple's competing iOS platform. One possible reason the researchers focused on Android apps exclusively is that the openness of the Google platform made it easier to perform static analysis. That, in turn, made it possible to zero in on the apps with SSL implementations that exposed sensitive user data. It would be interesting to see the results of a similar analysis performed on the 13,000 most popular iPhone apps.
I can't see using a dremel to power a centrifuge working for non trivial lab uses.

I wouldn't even be willing to pellet DNA on that thing. Using an off-the-shelf centrifuge gives the comfort that should the rotor give out you won't be sprayed with its constituent parts.
I'm not sure it's because "no one has thought of a better one", but perhaps more that it's become the de-facto thanks to its almost universal use in software. I can't see how this could ever easily change.
>Isn't the assumption that universal health care will have no rules just as based in speculation as the idea that it will?

The problem is what's acceptable in terms of denying care is very dependent on culture. In the UK people accept that the NHS doesn't pay for a heart transplant when the patient is 80 years old. In the US people expect every intervention to be provided (if the patient wishes) up to the moment that person dies. Universal care isn't going to change that attitude, at least not for a generation or two.

The most likely outcome of universal care in the US is a two-tiered system, where the national system pays for some subset of the things that can be done, and people buy private insurance to cover what they're used to getting now.
Seems to be back up. I assume they waived the rate limit.

curl --head https://raw.github.com/git/git/master/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 05:32:02 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Connection: keep-alive
Status: 200 OK
X-Runtime: 14
X-RateLimit-Limit: 100
Content-Length: 1
X-Frame-Options: deny
Cache-Control: no-cache
X-RateLimit-Remaining: 100
It would be stupid of Apple to do so, because they have no core competency in running a semiconductor business. Apple's margins will be much better if the design and outsource the chip fab, rather than bringing it in-house. Apple purchasing Intel would also cause a large problem for the market since nobody really wants to buy from a competitor.
AngelHack is having hackathons in 11 cities this fall! Where are you located!
I think the country most similar to the US is probably Canada. Canada has both significantly cheaper medical care (US$4360/person/year vs. $7960/person/year) and significantly higher life expectancy (80.7 vs. 78.2) than the US.

Another candidate would be Australia. Life expectancy 81.81 years, medical cost $3445/person/year.

Or maybe the UK. Life expectancy 80.05 years, medical cost $3487/person/year.

I think we can get there from here. We've had Medicare for over 40 years. It's just a matter of slowly lowering the eligibility age until everyone is covered. Of course it's not politically easy -- the healthcare industry makes a ton of money and owns a lot of politicians -- but it's possible.
Why should Apple care about the market?
If you're ever in the area make sure you attend! Airbnb puts on a great evening... beer, food, and tech BS'ing. Doesn't get any better!
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Many of my clients were using MySQL, got freaked out by what's going on with Oracle, and decided to at least look into PostgreSQL. They were very impressed with what they saw, and in some cases admitted that they should have gone with PostgreSQL from the beginning.

In my experience, everyone who tries PostgreSQL loves it and sticks with it. That doesn't make it a mindless choice, or the "hip-now shiny thing." It does mean that Oracle's decisions are encouraging people to look at alternatives, and that the alternative is, in fact, often better than what they're currently using.
Voyager’s Long Journey: 35 Years of Incredible Solar System Images
the images are huge, but the quality is much higher than i expected for a GIF. is there something special rendering done to preserve the quality of the image, or is this fairly standard for animated GIFs?
http://stedolan.github.com/jq/manual/
Indeed. To add insult to injury, Java's handling of SSL trust verification is a complex beast that is hard to get right.

To mitigate the problem at least a little, you have to jump through hoops. <shamelessplug>I had to write my own (MIT licensed) lib to allow for SSH-style "ask on first use" behavior, which I needed for an XMPP client: https://github.com/ge0rg/memorizingtrustmanager </shamelessplug>
> do the ex-reddit guys still keep in touch?

Many of us are at Hipmunk now, so at least that many. We're also still friends with each other and with the current reddit folk
Most hackathons, like the Greylock one mentioned, are organized with large budgets in hopes of bringing in talent to find recruits for their companies.

Independently organized hackathons like AngelHack need to charge to ensure long-term sustainability of the event and ensure you're getting certain amenities that you should expect from a quality hack. If you've ever been to a Facebook hackathon you can tell they spend easily 20k between setup, employees, food costs, travel, and prizes.

If PenApps isn't charging yet, then that's because they are being subsidized by UPenn, which is an awesome luxury that most potential organizers will not have.
I'd rather have a set amount of PTO. In my experience, the companies who say "unlimited" really mean "you can, in theory, in the vague and distant future, have some unspecified amount of time off" and that future doesn't always come.
I use both at work all the time, too. I tend to prefer VS, too, but there's some points where Eclipse really shines. Eclipse's continuous build, for example, is excellent. Your tests start immediately when so requested, where VS 2010 decides to first build all of the projects in the solution. Especially once the solution gets fairly sizeable, this becomes unproductive very fast. There's workarounds, but I don't want workarounds. I just want it to work immediately.
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I'm not sure about that, if the UK wants to continue trading with the EU from outside then they will be forced to pay for that privilege some way or another.
Is updating worth it?
We all see each other from time to time, often at events thrown by the current reddit folks.
I tend to take a different tack -- instead of jumping into a project with code I want to emulate, I jump into a project with coders I want to emulate.

I've picked up a couple of my open source involvements based on the people they put me next to, and my life is richer for having done so. I've not only gotten to look at good code, but had my code reviewed by people a lot better at coding than I am. Additionally, I've developed relationships with some really bright and interesting hackers, who've helped me in ways I didn't always expect.
There are not many third-party clients for Facebook (mobile or otherwise) because Facebook's public API has several limitations that make creating and supporting such an application difficult. For example, users can change their privacy settings so that some or all of their information is inaccessible to the API.
I did not provide any arguments above. At this point this thread is nothing but a bunch of 'yes' and 'no's.

See my update in op.
He's right that filling every spare moment with compulsive news-checking and fast content consumption is distracting and stressful, but there's no reason he can't apply focus and deliberation to his surfing habits just like he did for other areas of his life. Indulge in the things you enjoy, and when you feel them becoming compulsive, cut back. For me, ditching the web would have a profoundly alienating effect on my psyche.
I guess my question then is, why does that hold more true for the App Store than for any of their other native apps?
Acquiring Intel doesn't mean replacing it's business operation. What if Apple kept Intel running as is, but merely use their designing and manufacturing ability to get better chip for their hardware?
PennApps is funded solely through our awesome sponsors! No money from Penn at all :)
...now if I'd ever use Oracle products and wanted to negotiate a cheaper license, this the type of "news piece" I'd publish! (and it wouldn't even have to be "a lie" people experiment with OS all day since they're hiring "just" "5 engineers" it can be seen as a "small scale" (for Salesforce bien sur...) too)
For one, all of apple's best-selling products use ARM chips. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A4

Macs sell well, but most of Apple's revenue comes from iPhones and iPads.

Buying Intel would require spending most of Apple's fortune, they're just not important enough to Apple to be worth it.
Have I wronged you in the past? I ask because pretty much every time there is a thread about reddit or Netflix tech that I comment on, there you are slinging insults at me (which are incorrect, BTW).

I'd love to know what I did to harm you so that I can apologize.

Or do you just like giving me a hard time for the lulz?
and without providing metadata to advertisers about it in the process
You are a spammer
Hey Greg!

Glad you liked the post. There were definitely some pretty cool ideas from the AngelHack I went to; I missed the walkie-talkies, which is a pretty nifty idea. I've also got a backlog of like 30 or 40 more hacks that I can write about, but the post was sort of getting long enough as it was. I may end up doing a follow-up at some point.

As for fundraising/charging participants: Both back in my day at PennApps, and with the organizers that run it now, have never had a problem raising funds to cover the cost of the event (learning how to fund-raise is actually an awesome way for CS majors to learn about the business side of things). I have no idea what fundraising for the non-college circuit is like, though, since recruiting is a less-obvious selling point for sponsors.
Singapore. Seriously, check it out. Great stability, awesome for business, gateway between east and west (in both directions), thriving startup scene, govt grants for entrepreneurship. Downsides: cost of living is a bit high, culture can be hard to adapt to for some, weather can be stiffling (equatorial tropics are hot and muggy).
It's lovely how Promises appear to be, in design, virtually equal to Tasks in the .NET library. This should make them very easy for C# programmers to understand.

`then()` is called `ContinueWith()`. .NET Tasks unfortunately lack the progress callback. In turn, JS Promises appear to lack the ability to cancel a running operation. Otherwise, they're nearly exactly the same.

I'd take this stuff over callback-passing anytime. I hope it becomes commonplace.
Well there is the convention that space starts at 100km up [1] but the atmosphere extends much higher just getting thinner and thinner. For a lot of people space starts when the sky is black during the 'day time' and you can see the curvature of the Earth, but of course that occurs much sooner, like 31km (~100,000') Balloons can reach 100,000' (Baumgartner jumped from 125,000' for example)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n_line
JavaScript Libraries Spilled EVERYWHERE Suggestions?
This article comes at a good time for me - was wondering how exactly I was supposed to be using the Promises in WinJS (which are woefully undocumented in terms of actual usage, as are, well, all things WinJS/Metro, unfortunately).
What's the business plan there? Make an app that becomes the default way to access facebook on mobile? Show ads?

Facebook decides it wants in on the action and cuts you off a la twitter...
>I wrote a YA fiction novel,

This is a pet peeve, but nonetheless I'll reiterate it: you don't have to call it a "fiction novel." A "novel" is sufficient. This is the sort of thing that will make a lot of readers simply stop.
We've been running SuperHappyDevHouse for over 7 years and we have never charged money for admission. $20k is a lot of money to run an event, ours usually run in the $1-2k range.
I really wish a day when I am able to download the code with minimal footprint. (few previous versions).
Quick tip: skip directly to page 4. Start reading from "The indomitable iPad". All you need to know thus far is that windows has been, for better or worse, mainly relying on a complex cluster fuck called COM.
i have a headache. I am going to sleep.
Anyone that blogs about giving up the Internet is doomed to failure and will realize the stupidity of it soon enough. Life isn't about productivity, these days being cut off from the Internet is to alienate contemporary society, there's nothing inherently better about reading books than hackernews. There is a place for both.

Whenever I read about someone that beleives that extreme and drastic measures are required it nearly always points to other more subtle issues that the escapism is happily providing distraction from.

This is just attention seeking.
Okay, so how much less likely?

I enjoy narrow genres myself, but I haven't actually done the math to see how this would affect artists etc. Have you?
Why in the Release Notes do they use the verb "learned" to describe adding a command line option to a feature?

"git cherry-pick" learned the "--allow-empty-message" option

It's not like Git has obtained sentience and has started to teach itself new tricks, though that would be an interesting development.

I understand what they are trying to say I just thought the choice of verb and subject was odd, leaving out the developers as those acting on the code.
You can selectively "speed up" the footage by dropping or merging frames.
Yes and no. You can have stream-like functionality (piping the response of one promise to another), but that's not what promises are all about.

A promise at its core represents a result that will be available in the future. The other thing you have to understand is that an instance of a promise supports monadic operations (i.e. filter, map, flatMap, depending on the implementation of course, but without these monadic operations any implementation is useless).

What does this mean actually? It means that these promises are composable. Piping is only one usecase, however you can compose them in any way you want.

For instance, you can do something like ... execute tasks A, B and C in parallel and from whichever one finishes first, from its result start tasks D1, D2 ... Dn in parallel, drop whichever of the tasks timeouts or throws an exception, then merge the results of the tasks that succeeded and pass it to task E, which will produce a final response.
Businesses might not be able to choose so much where their market is, but they surely have a choice in where they set up manufacturing, R&D, corporate HQ etc etc. Countries constantly compete for business investment.

Wealthy individuals are similar. They probably won't move their chosen country of residence for tax reasons, but I am pretty sure they will move their assets and investments to protect their value.

Most tax systems are inherently unfair with the middle-class and small business taking more than their fair share of the burden. The increasingly globalised and virtual nature of the economy only exacerbates this.
Race-condition-free deployment with the "symlink replacement" trick
Apple is the biggest player in the mobile market, they aren't using Intel chips in iPads or iPhone/iPod Touchs. Kindle Fires have TI chips in them. The best selling Android smartphones from Samsung/HTC/Motorola all use ARM chips. Only of late, a couple of small mobile manufacturers announced that they are releasing Intel-based devices along side of their ARM devices.

I don't see what market Intel owns.
I think he's defining a "Microsoft business" as a Microsoft-run operation that makes 5B+ profit a year. The Windows business is therefore a "Microsoft business" because it makes 11.4B profit.
> you're ignoring history by thinking that technology has changed anything

With your line of argument, what changes can happen? What is new?
As _delirium said, depends on the country. Sofia (BG) has wifi all over the place while my own hometown Zagreb (CRO) doesn't...
Perception: Post on startups external image
Reality: MPAA funded consumer education
nice idea. Are you aware of any similar service available in Europe (Germany)?
Good post.

"Palantir (I didn’t understand the market)" I'm pretty sure he said he didn't understand the size of the market. Subtle but important difference.
Was it live streamed via justin.tv? I ask because I thought it automatically archived what was streamed as soon as the broadcaster goes offline.
I'm concerned that some of your sources are 3.5 years old. Piracy is bound to happen with UGC websites, what really matters is how those sites react. Those sites you listed have done a fairly decent job fending off the illegal content by ways of both manual and automated removal of copyrighted content.

Also you stated the following, linking the source for evidence:

"The reality paints a different picture, of pirated content driving the lion’s share of pageviews, while other original content is left in the dust"

However nowhere in the TC article mentions pageviews, or the percentage of pageviews broken down by legitimate/illegitimate content.
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If you really want a new word, that's a discussion we can have. New words are indeed needed in a digital world. "Google", the verb, is a good example. Perhaps we should repurpose "burglar?"

How do you feel about choosing a word which does not refer to anything very similar, and which does not carry legal and moral weight? I think that would be easy and intellectually honest.
Thanks for the feedback, it's given me some food for thought.
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There are some manufacturers that take those limits to be over 60K feet AND the mph limit. Others assume it to be OR.

Spark Fun sells GPS modules which can be programmed, and interfaced with telemetry systems that send data back over radio so you can get it the entire time.

They talk about GPS devices being "altitude safe". That seems to mean they work over 60K.
Well, it didn't go _perfectly_ but I'm glad that it appeared that way!

The fixed setup that Alexey proposes in his article is totally the way to go. I totally agree with him when he says not to plug in "somebody else's laptop into the projector." He is correct when he says that "Pain this way lies."

Frankly, the only reason we were able to pull off the TwilioCon presentations is because we had 9+ people dedicated to them: 1 MC, 4 presentation assistants (2 per podium), 1 A/V guy up front, 2 A/V guys in back (1 to run the switching equipment, 1 to run the timer), and 1 other A/V guy to mix the sound.

(A good A/V tech is worth their weight in gold. Make sure you always let your A/V techs know how much you appreciate their work.)
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Facebook executive Joanna Shields to spearhead UK's 'Silicon Roundabout'
That's a pretty strong term, especially on HN. I don't know tomasien personally, but I find no reason to jump to your conclusion based on his comment--I, for one, would be happy to see a promoted post from a band/cause I like/care about, and that sort of content doesn't usually last long enough to be noticed on a feed dominated by daily/hourly/faster social interactions.