skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Widgets are a security problem for the embedding site" is old news (tptacek has mentioned it more than a few times) but "Widgets mean that certain high-value targets like gmail can get compromised on virtually any Internet session" is an obvious-in-retrospect-but-otherwise-new insight to me. That's significant enough that I would be thinking of some way to separate cookie/authentication architectures for high-value sites for on-site and off-site content. (e.g. You would give the cookie asserting identity as X associated with Facebook comment boxes on 3rd party sites sufficient authorization to post comments but not sufficient authorization to view the Facebook site proper, and otherwise track it in semi-parallel to the main FB cookies, expiring them at the same time, etc etc.)

Edit to add: While the "Only allow embedding over HTTPS" is attractive from a security perspective, this is one of those occasions where the business has needs which are distinct from and difficult to subordinate to maximizing security. There's very little difference between that remediation and "Turn off Facebook Likes web-wide, please." and that proposal (presumably) is an auto-fail at FB.
Why is it taking U.S. airlines so long to offer in-flight Wi-Fi?
Absolutely, even the concept of less credible journals should NOT exist. The idea that a study is not good enough for a journal with some credibility, so lets get it published in Joe-Shmoe's journal of bad science is insane.
Hence why we need a more open, social media based (ie, real time communication) method to communicate scientific data. Aside from the benefits of speed, you have a community of scientist that can talk about the data and if something sucks, it can get called out. I'm hoping this reduces the BS science that gets published and we can start to reserve resources for studies that actually progress knowledge.
Phone patents: An absurd battle
I thought this as well, except this is an actual mock up. So good it fooled you.
I pointed out further down, that my initial prototype ran completely on Dropbox. Right now, I backup all incoming mail instantly to Dropbox in JSON format for backup purposes.

I might want to look into a "on top of X"-solution. Thanks.
These trends are causing me to reconsider my computing setup. Right now I have a 13" Macbook Air with an external screen, which to my mind is the best of both worlds- portability when I need it, a large monitor when I'm sat down to do some serious work.

But I'm wondering if my minimal processing requirements (I'm doing web development) mean that I could buy an Asus Transformer tablet (complete with keyboard) and install Ubuntu on it. It would make the portable even more portable, but retain a good workstation setup when I'm sat at my desk.
With regards to your first point, you'll be happy to know that Steve Sinofsky was recently fired from his position as head of the Windows division.
"called anti-racist affirmative action as "not racist", and attempts to undermine affirmative action as "racist""

Policies that acknowledge and address systemic racism are not "racist" because they acknowledge race and make decisions based on these imbalances.
I disagree with practically everything you say, but I'm only going to address part of it.

Society shouldn't make rules to protect the income of specific groups, be they bricklayers, nuclear physicists, or writers. We should work together only for the common good. If you want to work exclusively for your own good, that's fine, but do it by yourself and stop trying to get the laws to serve you.

I think that the proper purpose of government is to secure my individual rights, particularly property rights, so that I can pursue my happiness. Laws should serve me, and everyone, in that sense. (I also believe this brings the best overall outcome for society, but that's beside the point.)

I do not have any duty to "serve the common good." If we keep going towards that model, to the point that my own productive work is no longer productive for me, I will literally "go on strike" and just do manual labor to survive. (Or go to a more free country, if there is one.) That's not out of dedication to ideology, it's out of a need for psychological survival. I can't make myself work hard to benefit a society that is mainly just extractive of my production (i.e., bad for me).

As an aside, "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" != promoting the "public good". This is a distinction the Founders would have been aware of. But the Constitution isn't perfect, anyway, so it hardly matters.
On BritRuby
Nokia's CEO, Stephen Elop is so Full of Shit
http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/19/iphone-connected-home-smart...
Rails IP Spoofing Vulnerabilities and Protection
Why your business might also be like Fifty Shades of Grey
"A lot of people oppose affirmative action (thus earning the label 'racist' according to the latter definition) not because they are prejudiced, but simply because they do not believe in the efficacy of the process."

As with many things in life, it's not necessarily what you say, but how you say it that determines context and intent.
No, I would not pay for a different design and a few extra features of gmail...
Easy. In the grant you say "portions of this grant will go towards funding a full-time position for 3 years", along with an estimate of how much that would cost.

Why does this make you wonder? It happens often.
1). Most of our posts are visual, so a grid theme made the most sense here.

2). The ensembles are volume based (magazine like), the curent volume is the HK Hipster (for right now our only volume) so the styling will be similar to what you see on the website. A user chooses a base ensemble and then they work with their stylist who then figures out the material, colors and sizing. Typically no 2 ensembles are the same.

Hope that helps and thanks for your feedback.
actually, i do know some israelis (and you are right - they are nice people). in general they are also as frustrated as i am with current politics and are quite happy with my attitude (in my experience, it's the american jews i know who get more annoyed, but some of them are cool too). in short, it's a complicated world, and takes all sorts. you're welcome to not share - and even belittle - my opinion, but i am, thankfully, free to state it...
Reports are that the Razr i based on an Intel processor is competitive -- similar performance & power usage to an S4 with twice the number of cores. The pre-game warmup is complete. Now the game starts.
This appears to be similar to Ghostery[1] except that Ghostery just blocks all these beacons/tracking scripts/social media scripts and has much more coverage.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ghostery/mlomiejdf...
Joining the illustrious ranks of Spotify, Hulu, Netflix, Zappos and countless other great Internet companies.

Yes, I am slightly bitter about this.
Siri's Possibilities: Controlling Philips Hue lightbulbs with your voice
It is not a western concept though the actual phrase in English might be a western term.

Freedom of speech was ubiquitous feature of Hinduism.
Related to this, I've discovered what I can and can't listen to depending on the task.

When I'm writing, I can't listen to music with lyrics or podcasts. That's not too surprising, since I'm obviously using the parts of my brain related to processing language for my work, so I can't process language in the background.

When I'm doing grunt-level programming or debugging, I can listen to music with words or podcasts.

But when I'm doing architecture-level program design, I can't listen to music with lyrics or podcasts. For me, this kind of thinking is too similar to writing.
IIRC, the default font sizing on iOS was weird without that rule. But I didn't realize we broke zooming. I did accessibility work in my last job, so I feel pretty dumb now. Will fix.
Exactly. The hindsight bias that is present when discussing CEOs, failed companies, successful companies and business in general is absolutely stunning.
> With the grasshopper technology the cost of a flight to orbit basically is the cost of rocket fuel...

Even my car costs significantly more than just the fuel.
The BeOS userland api had base classes with reserved functions that were there solely to reserve space in the objects vtable becase of the fragile base class problem:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragile_binary_interface_proble...

I wonder how modern C++ frameworks are handling this?
Don't do it cheap at 99designs. That's the equivalent of writing your site in ASP.net: it looks like a good idea now, but soon, you'll regret it.
For every one shining example of "doing it right" there are hundreds of terrible games though. Its still early days for free to play. You may be right, but I don't know yet. I currently play three free to play games (and have been playing them for a few months now): League of Legends, World of Tanks and Path of Exile. I guess we'll see in a few more months if I agree with you or not, but so far so good.

(Been playing LoL for 4 months and WoT and PoE for about 5 months now)
Spot on. The app currently is quite egocentric, how I would like to read/organize my mails. If there is a small niche, who'd like to work the same way AND pay for it, I'd seriously consider making a business out of it.

The great thing is, to respond to the initial comment: It's build on top of MailGun, so all the nitty gritty "details" are already solved. It's a great service, really.
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The new Intel phones didn't build themselves overnight.

We can all argue that N should be higher than it actually was, but Intel's still present and accounted for.
Looks good. I would love to see this as a Rails engine so I can just drop in a messaging system for users of my existing apps.
You're correct about the server market. AMD acquired SeaMicro earlier this year who specialize in high-density, lower-power x86 servers. They've already stated their intention to produce ARM servers.

http://www.seamicro.com/products/sm10K_overview
Good luck to the Lumawake team, but I think the recent Elevation Dock production-delivery fiasco is not going to help with this one.
Using your example let's assume myBar and myBaz are _owned_ by Foo. Before C++11 you would typically do this:

class Foo {
public:
Foo() : myBar(0), myBaz(0)
{
myBar = new Bar;
myBaz = new Baz;
}
~Foo
{
if (myBar) delete myBar;
if (myBaz) delete myBaz;
}
private:
Bar *myBar;
Baz *myBaz;
};

In C++11, the above could be written like this:

class Foo {
public:
Foo() : myBar(new Bar), myBaz(new Baz)
{
}
private:
std::unique_ptr<Bar> myBar;
std::unique_ptr<Baz> myBaz;
};

You don't need to call delete because the unique_ptr destructor will do it for you.

You would only need to use shared_ptr when ownership is shared among multiple objects. A shared_ptr holds a reference counter that is incremented every time it is copied, and decremented every time it is destroyed or re-assigned. When the reference counter reaches zero, the pointer is automatically deleted.
I use the Google apps version of gmail, so ymmv, but recently the spam blocking has been flagging so many legitimate emails as spam that I am actively looking at leaving the platform.
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Software Development Woes: Requirements.
Your TC link at the bottom is broken. :)
Your choice to compare academic papers with blogs and snippet sites, specifically on the metric of quality, confounds me.

We only expect one of the two groups of information to inform the life-altering (and potentially -ending) recommendations made by trusted physicians.

If we're in agreement about a general endemic of misinformation, though, that makes more sense. It does leave me wondering whether we underestimate the error rate of our native cultures' sources, though, due to subsumed experience with targeted fraud protection. In other words, maybe we miss local folly because we already know where not to look?
This looks really well done, but as a consumer I wouldn't trust a small-timer (no offense) with something as ubiquitous as my email.

As a company looking to self-host, however, your product looks very appealing, but then your battling other players than just GMail. I think in the corporate sector, it would be very hard to dislodge Outlook, which is a shame really.
The only thing worse than a nationalized industry is a multi-nationalized industry.
ESA is in a difficult situation to compete with a privately owned, agile, startup in spirit company. I suspect ESA is not much different to NASA in operation. And as Musk pointed out, the latter has two major problems: 1) fear of innovation and 2) inefficient production. First is a catch 22 where no components can be used in space unless proven to work in space. Second is multiple chains of subcontractors until you reach a manufacturing process. It's fine tuned to cash extraction, not product efficiency.

I looked up some numbers. Falcon 9 costs about $5k per kg to launch. Falcon Heavy is expected at almost $2k. While competitors run at $10k and more. The only viable competitor seems to be the Russians with their trusted Soyuz and Angara series, currently in development.
I worked with what became the Brit Ruby team on the Magrails conference last year, which did have a female speaker in the form of the excellent Rachel Davies, who is a leading Agile coach

I know the guys had the (perhaps unstated) ambition to get as many of the Ruby Rogues in a room and create the largest conference in Europe. The Rogues are all men, but if you listen to the podcast you will know that they all care deeply about these issues and have taken steps themselves in events they organise to make sure that there is no bias.

I was the old guy in the corner with Magrails and it was me who originally mooted the idea. I do remember we had some pressure from sponsors to do things like drive traffic to their websites, I was all for returning the cash and doing without their support because it was so annoying, we were creating a space for the community to gather and talk about Agile development using Rails and if we weren't driving traffic maybe they needed to make their product more compelling instead of blaming us. ;)

If I had still been on the team I would have been arguing strongly to tell the nay sayers to get their own ass in gear and submit proposals, or shut up, assuming they weren't themselves the white guys they seem to see everywhere.

The reason for sponsorship was to keep the ticket cost somewhere affordable by the jobbing developer, while still being able to pay for accommodation for the speakers. I know that a lot of people will come and talk anyway, self funding, but it's a big ask if you want some of the leaders from the US to come. Plus the cost of decent sized venues in Manchester is not cheap. Putting on Magrails cost a lot, let me tell you, and we have less than £100 left in the bank account.
Screenshot: you use grab.app, which is included in the utilities folder. OS X has shortcuts, yes, but at least they all give consistent, immediate feedback, something Windows, Android and the various Linux desktops still don't get right.
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What do RIM and Best Buy have in Common
Taiwanese telnet BBS still in heavy use, thriving
Haha, thanks for your frank words. I actually like your idea for 2 reasons:

1) OpenSource would definitely improve the quality of the app while still maintaining a way to profit from my work.

2) Finally giving back to OpenSource. Always felt kinda bad I haven't contributed much to a great community.
If you are going to use quotes, please be quoting. I've never talked like that, and don't appreciate it being attributed to me.
It looks quite nice. I'd pay for an alternative to Gmail. Here are my suggestions / needs.

* Shortcut keys, preferably the same as Gmail but customizable

* Custom domains

* Both IMAP and ActiveSync support

* Everything stored in an encrypted state, no back doors, privacy and security as core components of your service

* The same or more storage space as Gmail provides
Apparently protecting politicians and the rich from claims of corruption qualifies as a "reasonable restriction" on freedom of expression.

[ The idea that poor people deserve to be able to speak their mind without going to jail is just a 'quaint American ideal.' ]
> You say that like Gmail is the market leader here, they're not.

They are as far as I'm concerned. I'm curious, though, who you do consider to be the market leader? I'm going to have a hard time keeping my composure if you say Hotmail (or "Live" mail), Yahoo, or something similar.
> it will allow them to underbid the competition incrementally while raking in massive profits

I never thought of SpaceX as being something Musk was in for the money (based on interviews with him that I've read), but it sounds like if he can significantly lower costs and keep his technology secret, incrementally underbidding the competition will make him extremely rich.
This sounds interesting. I'd have to play with a working demo to know if its something I'd use and pay for, I'd love to see that.
that was my point...
no comments on the recent VEGA thingy? Was that DOA ?

http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMBTKYXHYG_index_0.html
I do remember feeling a little disappointed when Paul Otellini was announced as CEO. Paul's an impressive guy, and a local boy, but he is an econ major/MBA, and I always find it a little depressing to learn that a venerable tech company will now be led by someone without a strong engineering or science background.

Actually, I think "first non-technical CEO" probably deserves a notch on a technology company's time line. It doesn't mean that the company won't succeed, but it is a sign that it has become a different type of company (this may be more a reflection of this change than a cause).

But unlike some other high profile flame-outs, it sounds like Otellini was a success at the helm.
I'm a Mac user and i am worried that apple is gonna make osx to iOS like.
That is exactly what I'm suggesting.

The word "bitch" can mean a female dog, it can refer to the act of complaining (i.e. "stop bitching, Ron"), an annoying person-male or female ("Man, Ron sure is acting like a complaining bitch" or "Wow, that Cheryl sure knows who to be a bitch"), a frowned upon act ("Ron that sure was a bitch move to sell out your coworkers like that"). The word bitch in its versatility doesn't serve to single out one group of people; it's used to describe a lot of things.

Now tell me how has the word 'nigger' been used and how people react to "Stop being a little nigger" versus "Stop being a little bitch"? Saying the two are one in the same is trying to force PC into an affair just so you can say you waved the PC flag by comparing one word to another when it doesn't work. Grow up and stop acting like someone's word choice somehow inhibits your ability to live a normal life.
The article has been amended:

"Updated 11/19/2012@10:15am: AMD contacted us with an official denial of the story and stated that Kaveri and the big cores are still on track."
I'm doing mostly embedded work on ARM chips at the moment. Which is a world away the rooms of Sparc V9's I've also worked on. It's a tighter space and you can't use too much of C++'s bigger bits. But multiplexing an SPI bus with C++ for example was vastly more efficient coding and performance wise because you don't need to remember whether some function or other set a mutex and released it. A specific custom lock in the base class improved code review and mutability.

It has it's uses.
I will use it because of the UI (but for free). I love the simplicity. I'm also happy that you are using your own product. It's a good start that you satisfy needs with it.

If it has a very special feature, or will revolutionized the email, I'm sold! And I might pay for a subscription.
Gmail isn't free. You are paying with data about yourself, your habits, your medical conditions, your employment, etc.
Have you ever wondered why Mission Control is in Houston rather than where the rockets take off from? It's inconvenient, but they needed the vote of a Texan senator who was on an important committee, so they moved mission control to Texas.
I like it, I think people will adopt it if it was a Chrome plugin that converted Gmail into this UI. Their infrastructure and your skin. You could charge for some features for power users that Gmail does not have.
While Bal Thakare's politics might be irrelevant in todays times. Do not forget that he was the only voice common people had when Communists/Islamists ruled the streets and the Socialist Congress government ruled as helpless as ever.

When China invaded India, the communist party in India was calling nationwide protests "in support of china" and was running "fund raising drives". That was the first time Bal Thakare turned from a cartoonist to a mass leader.

The political party was truly formed when Islamists forced the central government to change Indian constitution to apply horrible Islamic Sharia law to ensure that a 60 year old lady divorced after 40 years of marriage will not get any alimony from her rich husband. Muslims across the mumbai would then celebrate their victory by blocking the traffic and holding Namaz on streets.

Bal Thakare seemed to be the only voice weaker sections of society had that time. Yes, like all other organizations even Shiv Sena was not perfect and many times local goons and mafias joined this party for their own gains but more or less this party remains much more faithful to common people than the other parties.

1. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shah_Bano_case]
2. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India#Commun...]
Israeli Hackers Leak Credit Card Data from Palestine ISP - Hacker News
It looks not like a scam-taking-your-money-away, but rather as a scam-register-for-a-fake-prize-and-we-get-paid-by-affiliate type. So it is less harmful, that's why I am not sure if "scam" word is appropriate. But it definitely waste time and might put bunch of spyware on your machine while you are going through this process.
I wonder whether this is something built on top of either ECL or Gambit-C, or something completely new? I'm certainly interested to find out more. ATM Gambit-C is top of my list of "alternatives for Lisp on iOS & Android".
Stress is created whenever available resources are less than needed resources. This happens in VC funded startups as well as bootstrapped startups.

Knowing that progress on your startup is slowed because of having to keep a day job creates its own unique type of stress.
Cool. Build it into the browser, and have websites say "if you are sending us flattr thingies we won't show you ads." That could even help bootstrap us there.
Even in an all ARM world, Intel would still be very much able to charge $100-300+ for desktop chips, and $1000+ for server chips.

With their fabs and engineering talent, they'd still be strong leaders in terms of IPC, core counts, computing density, performance per watt, etc.

The dynamics would be similar to AMD vs Intel today. Charge double for a 50% lead, 5x as much for a 100% lead, etc. When marginal performance is important, the premium is gladly paid.

While they'd have countless fabless design companies competing with them for the low end, few if any companies will be able to compete toe to toe at the cutting edge. Maybe IBM - who else?

While a shrinking percentage of the market is fitting in that high performance bucket, I would hazard a guess that the absolute numbers are still going up, if only because of server chips and gamers. Though I could not find any data on this and would be happy to be proven wrong.
Updated 11/19/2012@10:15am: AMD contacted us with an official denial of the story and stated that Kaveri and the big cores are still on track.