skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You are not entitled to conduct your own security tests of other people's applications. Leave them alone.

Your attitude is part of the problem and why we need a solution.

Let's create an analogy: I drop off my daughter at daycare, I've entrusted this place of business with something vital to me, as have numerous other customers. I get off work early to go pick up my daughter, upon arrival, I find the guardian eating lunch in an adjacent room and the children are left completely unattended. This is clearly a problem on numerous levels.

So what do I do? Do I politely inform the administration of the issue and hope they will fix things immediately? What if they blow me off and do not discipline nor change policy? Do I withdraw my child's enrollment and just blindly hope that other customers know of their utter disregard for the trust we've placed in them? Do I report them to the police or child protective services? Do I picket the business and attempt to inform other people of the issues? What if informing the public simultaneously informs some criminals of the ability to do some baby snatching?

In this scenario, a parent actually has some legal recourse options to ensure the problem is fixed. The issue in web security is there is no governing authority to report the problem to and if we take our findings public, we place other customer's information at risk and put ourselves in a position of legal risk as well. We get branded a "criminal hacker" and find ourselves off to jail.
One thing I noticed so far is that you make mention of half vs. whole steps on while discussing accidentals on page one but they're not defined until the major scale is introduced on the fifth page. That could throw beginners off a bit.
Exactly, and one can conclude that the dollars spent versus lives saved makes the waste seem even greater. Converting the TSA to bee control as mentioned above would lively save more lives (to take an extreme example).
What matters is not whether someone can better articulate his thoughts when he speaks loud. What mattes is whether his recipient will better understand that someone.

If you need to talk loud to articulate your thoughts then place a teddy bear on your desk and speak to him as you are writing email to those who prefer emails.

Personally I hate listening to "oh" and "um" as the person who just called me tries to decide what he wanted to tell me.
Finland 2.2 - this is surprising. I expected less than 1.
As someone who works in the biopharmaceutical industry, I couldn't disagree with you more.
"8. Open standards
Everyone, whether members of TCG or not, must be in a position to fully use all trusted computing standards for implementation in architectures, implementations, systems and infrastructures. No licensing fees (e.g. based on patent rights) may be
charged for using the standards."

So then Microsoft's system where they charge for the key isn't compatible with this?
Teen Inventor from Sierra Leone travels to MIT Media Lab
True, though the security concerns of weapons in a courthouse surely justify a baggage scan, metal detector, and pat down. Security is far more of an issue in a courthouse even than on a plane.
I commented on the previous release of FF15 when they fixed the plugin memory leak fixes, but since I've used it a lot for responsive design, I've noticed this is still a big problem for normal everyday use, even with just two tabs open. I'm not sure what FF15 fixed, but I just don't notice the improvement I was hoping for.
I cringe a little bit whenever someone tries to present caching as simple or straightforward.
I opted out or chose a lane without a scanner for a long time until they implemented the new groin-feeling pat down. I opted out and got that enhanced pat down one day and I felt more uncomfortable with someone physically touching me than I did with the idea of someone seeing a picture of me. So now, I try to find a lane without a scanner, but I have gone through a scanner a few times just to avoid being felt-up. And yes, I'm entirely certain that one of the reasons for that pat down process was to push people toward not opting out.
I find it interesting when Americans don't want America as a whole to be compared to other countries as a whole, because inevitably it makes for an unfavorable comparison.

Of course looking at a country-wide statistic is an average across the whole country - that's the entire point. I'm sure if you really wanted to, you could find a part of Oregon where the homicide rate is 0.1, but that doesn't tell us much about the bigger picture.

Is America one united country, or isn't it?
Meet the samwer brothers:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/the-samwer-brot...

In 1999, they founded Alando, a German clone of the online auction house Ebay. Only 100 days later, they sold the company to Ebay for about $50 million (€38 million), making them legends early in their careers. Later on, they became involved with Jamba, StudiVZ, Citydeal, Groupon, Facebook, Parship, eDarling, MyVideo, Wimdu, HelloFresh, GlossyBox, Zalando and many other Internet up-and-comers.
Exactly. I'm Canadian and because of the TSA, I don't travel through the US anymore, even if it means my ticket
are a couple hundred dollars more expensive.
Peek unveils Perfect Day Builder
I wrote this to share some methods that I've found to be helpful for the startups that I work with.

What do you think? I'd love to know where others have found value in "launch hand learn" vs. other quicker methods.
That Thing You do With Apple? Don't Do it
Golden rule. He who has the gold makes the rules.

If I want something from you I'll buy you a dinner and stare you deeply in the eyes if you prefer that. But if you want something from me, please write an email.
The original idea was to build an implicit or 'implied' network with a social graph based on your behavior rather than social graph you manually select yourself (like on Facebook, Twitter, Path, etc). I think that was a pretty big idea, and it's a shame they couldn't get it to work.

( The photo app was just an MVP if I understand correctly. )
Microsoft building poo-powered carbon-neutral data center
Yup. That was the first line that stuck out to me too and prompted me to come over to HN and comment.

Innovation is happening at a breakneck pace despite software patents because everyone is just ignoring them and inventing anyways.

The patents do damage after the fact, killing good tech jobs by diverting money from engineering and R&D to the zero-sum game of patent litigation that just leaves society as a whole poorer.

TBH, I don't know how many entrepreneurs opt out of entrepreneurship due to the risk of being sued down the line, but I doubt that it is very high. Most of the entrepreneurs worried about patent litigation will just start amassing a patent portfolio of their own as a defensive strategy. The end result of that game is less progress since innovation efforts are diverted to patent defense efforts.

I don't know about everyone else here, but I would love a conversation on a national scale to discuss jobs that don't move the country and humanity forward, but just move cash from one pocket to another without benefitting anyone but the people moving the money. Wall street financial innovations, patent litigation and the TSA are just three examples of areas that have experienced job growth in the past 20 years (even with the 2008 meltdown), but that do little to nothing to improve the human condition. For some reason, the more we automate jobs and increase the productivity of the American worker, the more we divert our attention to creating jobs that don't add value.
It's definitely not fair use. Fair use would be allowed if the OP were discussing the content of the images, not appropriating them to make a rhetorical point.
Not working, currently?

Talk about a fast pivot!
Slavery of the Industrial Mind and the Path to Freedom and Success
But I don't think they'll ever make the whole OS work like that, unfortunately. I was hoping they would at least create a whole line-up of "Nexus" devices from all manufacturers that would be updated the way they update the Chromebooks. But I'm beginning to think that won't happen either
But... SMTP stands for SIMPLE Mail Transfer Protocol.
I remember color, their photo sharing app, never actually working... even in their 'best case' scenario. If somebody makes an app that actually works then we would know, I still think Color tried to solve a problem.
I remember that consent/voluntarism being important to the lawfulness of airport searches, but I thought the big two elements of administrative search were (1) searches not being intended to collect evidence for criminal investigations and (2) officers not having discretion as to who to search.
Yworld backs WebRTC for free P2P video conferencing
And yet to get signed up with Hubspot seems to require phone calls?
Yep. I'm cool with in-person meetings. I actually quite enjoy them (under the right circumstances).

There's something about phone calls that just makes me anxious and unhappy.
I'm with you - I opt-out every time, and I will keep on doing so as long as I can. I have yet to have any trouble with my carry-on.

What's more, these days I always choose to fly in a kilt, commando style, to make the whole process as awkward as possible for the screeners.
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Thanks for writing and publishing this article, Kowitz.

News and knowledge of these methods should be spread far and wide. If you aren't using at least a few of these on your online business, you should start incorporating them into your practices today.
* We all know that the planes themselves are weapons *

Which is why I don't understand why pilots have to be screened. They are flying a huge flying bomb. What will screening them for nail-clippers solve? (Side note: I did, in fact, have my nail clippers taken by the TSA once)
Skype 3.0 for Android: It's better, but still needs work
Yap, there was a change in the NumberPicker that seemed to have caused it: https://github.com/android/platform_frameworks_base/commit/a...
It's a computer with a display. I don't see how you can say with such certainty that it won't be able to do that. It just depends on how open Google makes the Glass app ecosystem.
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/corey-dunphy/33/404/9b1 right?

I see a postal dispute:
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:TRTRSY2PM0kJ:...

He's a US Postal Service Office of the Inspector General Special Agent.

Which is interesting because 1) the USPS Postal Inspectors are no joke when it comes to the mails, but have exceedingly limited jurisdiction otherwise -- I assume this extends to their OIG as well, if not more so and 2) they are one of the least internally corrupt USG agencies (DEA is probably the worst; FBI and USSS are also pretty bad; various OIGs vary wildly down to HHS OIG; US Army CID and USAF OSI are probably the best).

So maybe this claim is totally baseless, but I'd probably not brag about my post office friend's ability to put people on no fly lists or brandish his Glock.
The Obstacle With MicroPayments
I don't care how bad the scanner is or isn't; they shouldn't exist, and I will refuse to submit as long as I have the option to do so.
Sigh we killed the site.
Then don't fucking fly. Seriously, you guys make it sound the TSA breaks into your homes and strips you.

Yes, I disagree with a lot of their policies but this "Ron Paul" attitude of "the federal government actually has no power if you listen to my absurd interpretation of the constitution" isn't helping either. Its making my legitimate grievances sound lumped in with your extremist interpretations.

You can have sane security if you want it. The Europeans and others do it just fine. Its not illegal to search people or xray their luggage when they're coming on a plane. Deal with it. I'm getting sick of the weekly TSA hatefests. If site just a smaller reddit now? TSA has nothing to do with ycombinator or startups.
Surely you must be trolling.
You are right about App.net. There is no point in embracing a new centralized service. Protocols are the way to go.
Trust me, I do not wear it as a badge of honor -- but neither is it a cloak of shame (not sure what a cloak of shame is -- I just made that up).
What I cannot fathom is why the list of dates available via a date picker (which, as far as I can tell, is a standard kit component) is up to each app.

I can understand situations in which the available dates should be limited, but the People application does not need to impose any such restrictions; therefore, what is available in the picker should not be up to it.
That's exactly what I was referring to.
Completely. I got that from the description. I just sort of thought we were slowly moving away from that. Maybe I've seen too many commercials with the retailer swiping your credit card with a phone. Or those phone bump commercials. :) I'm sure the static point of sale method will not go away any time soon.
Privatise the TSA and have each airport pay for their own security. It will disappear like fog before the sun.
Lobbying is an essential and legitimate part of every democracy. Although it often has negative connotations, the process serves a very important role in the input of policy decisions. In the US, lobbying is constitutionally protected, without which citizens would have no guaranteed way to communicate with elected officials.

Your assertion that you and others live in democracies without such a process is false. Moreover your implication that lobbying is wholly negative and unique to the American democratic system undermines your position and demonstrates what appears to be a bias against the United States in general rather than an honest critique of the way lobbying is conducted in that country.
This headline is atrocious, this article has so incredibly little to do with REST mechanics.
Tech Startup Founder Used Funding On Drugs, Gambling: SEC
It may be a trivial <=12 instead of <12 in the controller that populates the view.

If it is more than that, ugh. It wouldn't be so bad for new devices, but for people who upgraded, this could be seriously ugly.
Thanks for the kind words! Just updated the link - great catch.
I agree with all that you say. Not sure about something though. I'm not sure you'd have access to the information that would allow you to discover/see the possibility of changes that could allow millions of dollars in positive changes. Also, I'm thinking in ranges of $10-$100 million+ per year ranges; Larger ecosystems, etc.. and to have such an influence in an existing company, where they'd be willing to pay you out anything other than bonus or work you're way up to a million-dollar salary, would require many many years working at said time, with lots of risk that you wouldn't be rewarded adequately.
The author hinges the entire article on "sees a lot of opportunity for mixing computing and crap."
Seriously though, brilliant idea, and kudos to MS for using other green energy sources.
What makes you say this? How many iOS system apps are inexorably linked to the OS itself (ie. not installed & updated through the app store)? This is a really hard problem. Features that you thought belonged at the system level during design and conceptualization half a decade (or more?) ago have grown to be fully-functional applications in and of themselves today. It's all too easy for us to sit back and think "I wouldn't have linked any apps so closely to the OS" but the situation probably looked very different to the original designers.
Garner AND Forrester. Yes, from hands-on use, my experience seems to agree with their assessments.
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And some people hate the stifled feel of email exchanges. Vice and writing are nearly fundamentally different ways of communicating, and the difference is not just the physical medium. I've done interviews by email and interviews by voice (and transcribed afterwards)...it's a different flow of discussion
In order to preserve the memory of Bill and Dave, the HP name should be replaced by something more representative, like cheesebag.ly
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/dec/20/nation/la-na-terror-...
Yes, we can and will judge, for it is our nature (and there is nothing wrong with that). The fault lies in our stubbornness to accept another point of view or to change our minds in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

But in MY case I simply offer another point of view. Take it at face value and save the speculation for the Mars probe news :-)
> We were very careful about that.

You still have to have in mind that even knowing that the FB parasite is somehow "in my browser and I cant remove it", even if it is not activated, makes me want to immediately toss it away in disgust and go Chrome exclusively.

16 is the latest FF I will be using and recommending and I am very likely not alone. Mozilla forcing FB on us is high treason, and many of us will start recommending Chrome instaed of FF to people we can influence just to harm Mozilla because of this betrayal.

The FF user base rose quickly by word of mouth and by word of mouth it can even more quickly disappear in Chrome's mighty shadow. FF needs us more than we need FF. Keep that in mind when you make decisions like pushing FB on us. You cannot afford playing a dictator.
Yay! Terrorists have made America a less free place. Sort of makes you wonder who's winning this "war"...
That's a great idea! I'm trying to think what the best approach for picking the items from the list would be. Maybe start with things in the same category - ex: movies vs books. Alternatively, it could try a bunch of combinations and only report the best based on some sort of "diversity of results" score.
Oddly, I enjoy small talk in person in very small groups, but hate small talk at "networking" events (like a cocktail party). It's all about the context.
The advantage of the existing hubs is the difference between a continuous vs. discrete labor market.

If you want a Scala + NoSQL + NLP full-stack expert with 10 years production experience with the JVM and 2 years as a product manager, and you want such a person to start in 3 weeks, you can find that in California-- for some price. In Madison, there are still a lot of great people, but not the massive number of technical people that makes it likely that you'll find an ideal match.

If you can't afford any hiring latency and have strict requirements, you need to be in a hub. All that said, I think these grow-fast-or-die efforts are pretty stupid. If something adds genuine value and isn't just trying to first-post some obvious idea, does it really need to grow at 20% per month?

Also, a lot of these work that startups are doing isn't that complicated and doesn't require the level of people they think they need. I hate that social-climbing useless selectivity of needing awesome people to do mediocre work, largely because these startups lie about their intentions and I'm one of those "awesome" (?) people they're looking to court (and then underemploy on their mediocre idea).

The continuous-market effect goes both ways: if your startup goes belly-up in California, you'll have 4 interviews in a week. If you hauled ass out to the Midwest and that happens, you'll probably have to move again for your next opportunity. Also, some cynical realism: it's harder to start a bidding war (which is how most people get their best jobs) in Minnesota.

The rest of the country has quality people and companies, but not the critical mass of them that creates a continuous market. Investors generally aren't comfortable launching a business in a place with a discrete labor market.

I'd love to see a better distribution of opportunity. It'll (a) generate more eligible places to live, and (b) lower the rents for those of us who stay. However, I think that's a really hard problem to solve, because technology has become so specialized that very few regions are big enough to support a continuous labor market.

Honestly, I'm a major fan of the Midwest: a lot of really great people are out there, and they have no idea what they're worth and what they could do in technology. That said, I tend to think the advantage of the hubs is vast. I'd probably move to California myself (as opposed to #2 New York) if it weren't for strong family reasons to stay here.
If everyone used encryption, and they started doing this, we could at least get rid of the facade of "we are not attempting to pool power in a way that will lead to a police state." It would be a bald-faced power-play.
Thanks for the feedback! Two quick questions for you:

Re: holdup #2) Are you saying you would prefer that it automatically post to social networks all the time, or that you would prefer to not have preferential treatment of users that are willing to make a post? Or that the default should be to post with an opt-out option?

Re: holdup #3) Our native apps currently only run on Android 4.0+ because those are the only devices where we can guarantee five-point multitouch capability. There are a large number of 2.3.3 and 3.0 devices that are capable, but there is no way for us to limit downloads to only those devices while simultaneously disallowing downloads to devices with those operating systems that can only do 2 or 4 point multitouch (and we definitely don't want to allow customers that don't have 5 multitouch capability to download our apps).

Our HTML5/JS SDK doesn't have such problems, though, and works on 80%+ of the current installed smartphone user base.

Also, re: holdup #1) We can make the stamps slimmer, but don't really have a reason to. We like having an analog to the inked stamps everyone has used at some point in their life, and this form factor does just that. IF someone wants to build an app that requires a more portable version of the stamp, we'd be happy to build stamps for them with a slimmed-down form factor.

Thanks again for the feedback!
I think you shouldn't beat yourself up about it. IMHO you did everything right and some people are just too sensitive.

What's your favorite culture good for if you can't cite it as you make a point.

People tend to get picky over everything when they strongly disagree with you.
I'm very specifically talking about custody searches, not pat-downs or "enhanced pat-downs" (an imaginary term created by the TSA's marketing team).

Anyway, to the best of my knowledge, there has been no Supreme court ruling on the constitutionality of any of these techniques in the context of airport security. I'm glad to be proven wrong.

The most relevant ruling I know of was from a half century ago and it wasn't the Supreme Court talking. United States v. Edwards, 498 F.2d 496, 500 (2d Cir.1974)
There are way more things you can't say in the USA than there are things you can't say in Germany.

Ridiculous. Name one.
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and your bag arriving in Minnesota while you're touching down in Dallas at worst

Is this even possible when gate checking? They literally walk your bag down the stairs at the end of the gate and place it into the plane cargo hold. EDIT: At the end of the flight, your bag is walked up the stairs back into the jetway.

I personally love the gate check loophole. If you intentionally wait to board last, you get a free bag check.
Who said anything about Ron Paul?
If someone feels that they can tell me what I consent to, they do not understand the meaning of the word consent.
anyone building a marketplace eventually comes to the realization that the key to success is getting to liquidity. It is an elusive yet obvious conclusion. This post is useful in that it attacks that problem with a bunch of tactics - and marketplaces like chess, is 90% tactics.
What about some sort of client library generator, similar to how .NET languages can generate code from other .NET WSDLs?
It's time for a resurgence in self-education. Schools no longer are providing us with what we need to succeed in the world.