skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see why this is really a security issue. You can't control their pointer, it just becomes disabled. The popup and the pointer lock are managed by the browser, so you can't trick them into doing anything and they can always get out of it by just pressing escape.

Seems pretty solid to me.
If they are doing DPI, they can MITM your IPSec connections.

what, how? dpi just means looking at packets inside ip. it doesn't somehow grant you the ability to do man-in-the-middle attacks.

deep packet inspection is already possible. that doesn't mean that tls or ipsec or any other protocol is broken.

(i agree with the need for key management etc; it's just the quoted statement above that seems wrong).
I hope it works better than their existing hand dryer. They're installed at a couple of cinemas near me and are awful IMHO. I always have to put my hands through twice.
They are also applying this to rebuilding their local IT:
http://gigaom.com/2012/11/29/ge-needs-the-data-analytics-min...
Speaking as someone who has implemented [shallow] inspection/filtering and CALEA-type features on comms equipment for markets both in and outside of the US.)

I'm not trying to flame you here, but I really must ask: How do you live with yourself?

I know how trollish that sounds, but I seriously don't understand engineers who voluntarily work against our own ethos. It's not like this is an industry in which implementing CALEA is the only possible way to feed a family. Job opportunities are practically endless.
What specifically doesn't work? Do they not render (WebGL issue) or does your pointer not get locked (Pointer Lock issue)? Try googling "firefox pointer lock doesn't work", I'm sure something relevant will come up.
I can see that working in countries who might be reliant on others for parts of their tech infrastructure. But would that actually work in the UK?

Here in the U.S., we like to be the ones creating recommendations for the rest of the world, not following them (at least not blindly). The excuse of "We're just doing what the ITU recommends" would never fly here.
Email him! He developed the filtration for many major coffee chains (i.e. Starbucks) and has worked in the industry forever. I promise you he isn't a gimmick, and a regular consumer wouldn't understand the same things you would understand.
The ENTIRE homepage at the bottom of every article page seems pretty extreme and creates a bit of a janky scrolling experience. Wonder why they didn't just make the whole thing a single-page application and prevent the user from loading _all_ of that content when viewing the article page.
Really? This is really that much of a problem for people? I'm a developer/techie person/nerd same as everyone else here and I just could never understand the whole Facebook/Twitter thing. If I do use it it's basically to talk to myself and just as a tool for self-expression (which is why I created http://writeapp.me for myself). I never much did or enjoyed talking with others on Facebook and could never quite make any connections with Twitter folks (Twitter just moves way too fast for me). Why is it that once you're done communicating with whoever you can't just leave it? I'm honestly asking. To me, this sort of thing is as mysterious and foreign as video game addiction. I just don't get it and I feel kind of odd that I don't which is weird. It's almost like you're not normal unless you can't stop using social media.
Do you know what a plasticizer does? When it is used? In the preparation of what polymers? This is not an assault, just a hint.

Read up on BPA, then go to your local dept. store's bottle section. Most of the bottles will be made of polymers that do not even involve BPA or BPs, but still advertise as BPA-free. It's only marketing.
I learned a few years ago social media can be like any addiction and moderation is always the best philosophy.

I had every social media property you could imagine. Then, I realized a large portion of my day was spent following, commenting and chasing the latest fad. I decided to completely unplug for about six months.

I still have facebook and twitter. Facebook for my high school buddies and Twitter just for posting my random thoughts. I only check them once a day and post maybe a few times a week. It helps to keep a low dosage approach so when you need to step away, you can do it without thinking you're missing something.

I've always liked the idea of having to post something worthwhile at HN. It takes out a lot of the cruft you have to sift through and makes it easier to actually enjoy the conversations and insights I get here.
Working from home changed the game for me. I used to sit outside of the busiest conference room on the floor and not only did it affect me, but it opened my eyes to how many meetings people were going to.

I understand PMs being in a bunch of meetings, but I'd see devs and testers in that room multiple times a day. The worst would be how many 3 minute meetings would go on there that started 2 minutes late. People would show up a minute early, leave a few minutes later, then be back to their desk a minute later. They probably tuned out of work five minutes before that, wasted five or so minutes with this "meeting", then weren't back in the flow for another 10 minutes after that. Some useless or empty "status update" cost 25 minutes, and I think that's being pretty generous.
What it comes down to is money and how much Netflix is willing to pay for exclusif access to Disney content. Disney tries to maximize the amount of money it can get from its content & distribution partners. If the money made from providing exclusive content on Netflix > Money made from the same content available on Amazon + Hulu Plus + Netflix + Xfinity => then Disney goes with the option of exclusive content on Netflix.
I have a Tom Bihn bag too, but I don't know what kind of bags you were buying. I had an REI-branded backpack from age 13 or so until I was about 23. It broke, and I took back to REI (they'll take anything back) and got credit towards a new backpack, which is still going strong.
...is that sarcasm?
Who to host with (domain names, web space, SSL, DNS)
Also, people like to store water in the fridge, so it doesn't seem totally ridiculous to clean it and make it taste better before storing it.
An author with an established brand or significant following (and I count your HN reputation as an example) can sell anywhere, b/c readers will seek out his work and deal with all kinds of annoyances: usb cable device syncs, finding out which folder to copy into, which ebook format file to use, etc.

If you don't have a brand or following, though, selling through marketplaces that are not tied to devices is a huge disadvantage.

The typical ipad/kindle/nook user does not go outside the store built-in to the device looking for content (the majority of them probably don't even know it's possible), except for a small, bleeding-edge minority.
If you are on the edge about applying, I heavily encourage you to apply!

HackerSchool changed my life drastically on multiple levels. The intellectually challenging atmosphere made me a better person all around, not just programming wise.
Protip: Your listed email is private. Move it to the "about" section.
"For the record, around 1984 Tom Cargill observed that the use of the C preprocessor for dependency management would be a long-term liability for C++ and should be addressed."

And in 2012 Apple tries to address it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4832568
It seems to be a balancing act. Too little secrets, and your law enforcement has a very hard time detecting threats before they happen. When people use VOIP instead of telephone lines, it's very hard to wiretap Dangerous People (and non-dangerous people).

It's easy to find ways that such things make it easier for people whose job, goals, sworn duties, etc are to Protect us, or our nation. Many people join the armed services and civil service (of any country) for that reason. I rather like the idea of our intelligence agencies finding out ahead of time about genuine threats (whether from foreign states or from terrorists and the like), even while at the same time I am frightened by the potential slippery slope of where this could lead if unchecked.

At some point, you really do have to decide whether you prefer safety or liberty. Part of me wants to shout "liberty!", as it's a founding principle of our country, but as a parent and citizen it's very easy to also want safety.
These days just about any surface mount part should be assumed to have been attached by a machine, and for very good reason.

I am capable of assembly with 402 and 603, but I can't even begin to imagine that going well on an assembly line.

(805 is somewhere around the size of small rice, 402 is half that size)
The only options on it are -1, -2 and -3
Every feature I've implemented has been security/stability related. Inspection/filtering/shaping/limiting are absolutely critical on ISP networks. Taps/mirrors are critical to troubleshooting. If ISPs didn't deploy all kinds of filtering, the Internet would be mostly unusable.
They don't necessarily need to do anything with the packet then -- they could always pass a copy to cold storage, and then crunch the bits at their leisure in a massive data center.
A significant amount of bottled water is, in fact, tapwater. There are a lot of companies that are bottling your own tapwater and selling it to you for $4/L.
Not related to the article but the CSS text selection color is really bad.
No real difference between the baller at his own hedge fund and the fund.
Facebook Code Details "Ordered Friends"
Right click anywhere on a Facebook page, click “View page source”, Ctrl+F “orderedfriends”, copy the first number below and add it to the end of “facebook.com/”. This makes me wonder what the meaning of these numbers is and why are they referred to as "ordered friends". Ideas?
Cool. I misunderstand their changelog and never tried it myself.
Maybe off topic, but also "life changing": RSS

If I am not planning on using one or two hours, I read most social sites (subreddits, HN, blogs, ...) using an RSS (it's not dead!) reader. Web sites are built with some features that make the reader spend more time on a site. I think this is a fact people will get sooner or later.

Being on a program that let's you skim efficiently through articles makes you an efficient news consumer. Moreover, I can save articles for later, without using my already too-much packed bookmark section on my browser.

As for twitter, I have never used it too much for social purposes. It helps me reach more people that might be interested in my product (so, yes, another one of these shouting voices there).

Not that my story would be relevant, or had the number of followers the author has, but going back to using an RSS reader has improved how I use my free time reading news.
Nice job of showing/hiding the source behind each chart. For me the real power of D3 is binding it to data using APIs. I wonder who is already doing this.
“Person of the Year” Nomination for Higgs Boson Riddled with Errors
Based on my naive understanding of compressed video, it would still send full keyframes every x frames, but the diffs between keyframes should be minimal.
I might email him once I'm done studying.

My point is that precisely because he understands what he's doing, he has the duty to explain it to others, or at least not confound them. From my perspective, the sales pitch is relying on chemophobia to hook viewers.

No wonder people think of Kickstarter as a store. If the company really is serious, they should offer technical details concerning their product, the kind of details an investor wants. I'm willing to bet most people who funded the company so far have done so with blind trust in the designers/developers of the product.

I hope I'd lose my bet!
yes you should know him. very nice guy and straight talking.
Just make sure node is only executable by a restricted group of users.

This limits it both on the basis of which user can open ports and which programs can.
It’s kinda silly asking them not to use their identity system that was meant precisely for this sort of thing. A user doesn't have to “use” g+ to have a g+ account, and the review process is straightforward when you already have a profile set up on the account you're using to access the Play store with. Perhaps some refinements are in order but as mentioned it doesn't seem to be fully rolled out yet.

And reviews have somewhat more authoritative looking profiles behind them now, for example: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.etsy.andro...

Also I'm not sure that the boilerplate G+ bashing is necessary.
> So disruptive.

OMG you fucking tryhard SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!
Against big governments, nothing is stronger than the little men and women getting together.

If this is so bad (which I am not technically capable of understanding...), what shall we DO about it?

Signing the petition is probably not enough. Get people to have a minute of 'no internet' across the world? Similar to the Anti-SOPA movement? Suggestions welcome.
Unmoderated User Testing and You
An excellent paper, accessible in prepress form from the link. In a nutshell the author's thesis is that technology accelerates discontinuities, of wealth as well as everything else, allowing concentrations of wealth far in excess of Pareto (or any other) optimality.
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I have seen Haier products, including a small fridge, in stores since about 2 years ago.
FWIW the last time I used Gmail from a webkit-based mobile browser it worked very nicely.
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just an FYI, guys. Due to virality of this post and the waves of support on twitter, I got phone calls from both paypal executive offices and ebay's fraud teams that not only did resolve my issues, but also hinted at a serious effort at apprehending this fraudulent individual.

Its very unfortunate that it took this community outcry to get this far. Im currently working on a "post-mortem" overview of my what happened in the past few days resolution-wise and ill post it on my blog.

Tech-wise, its pretty amazing how much load a static octopress-based blog hosted for free on github pages would handle.

Also im pretty glad I chose to host the pictures on picasaweb. Hosting them on S3 would turn out pretty pricey :)
It would appear Apple is managed in a way that allows employees to have "extreme focus", or a single focus.

Also, Apple as a company seems to do a good job of staying focused on what they think is key.

Thoughts?
Another great example of Betteridge's law of headlines.
Interesting list.

Looks pretty clear to me that it is sorted by "most interactions with" descending for some value of "interaction" and probably on some recent time window. (I know I send lots of messages to my podcast cohost and brother via facebook and they are my first two respectively.)

Facebook frequently recommends I add Adam (cohost) as a "Close Friend" (which is internal, not some app) whereas my brother already is, so that feature seems to be derived off this list.
I think this concept is much better described here via a dream analogy:

http://alexthunder.livejournal.com/309815.html

(DON'T WAKE UP THE PROGRAMMER!)
Hardware we all want: FSF announces criteria for hardware endorsement program
Facebook uses an algorithm called Edgerank, to rank your friends by how much you interact with them, in order to give you better search results and filter your News Feed. The code appears to reveal one part of Facebook's EdgeRank. It seems like they order it based on who you interact with, whose profile you look at and who you have recently become friends with.
I'm not SafeSituation, but the demos don't render for me. Presumably that's a WebGL issue. (Google Chrome 23.0.1271.95 on Ubuntu 12.10)

Pointer Lock seems to work fine.
That's incorrect. Optimizing the guard macros works in all cases as long as you use the standard pattern and the C Preprocessor memorizes the name of the guard macro.
Thanks for writing such a valuable contribution. I've learned a lot.
> Disney could (should) be most profitable when they make access to their product (content) easier.

Ok I'll bite. Access to content has multiple facets:

First main point is price. Obviously it's not "most profitable" for Disney to make it's stuff free. A subscription service is going to charge a monthly fee and that fee is going to be primarily licensing and overhead. Dividing that over a dozen companies reduces the profit taking of a market leader like Netflix but also multiplies the overhead. Note, the 3 year contracts already control Netflix from taking too much of the profits so it seems like there is little incentive for Disney to want a market of say 10 netflixes over one.

Second main point is that not all access is equal. Disney has strong incentives to associate its content with: (1) a quality service both in delivery and interface; (2) a service that provides useful data back to Disney; (3) a service that will promote Disney. Why should Disney associate itself with your fly by night terribly performing service that streams in 360p, constantly drops and has a 15 step sign up process riddled with malware carrying flash ads? Why should Disney help me launch a foreign film centric service where Disney movies are also rans?
Facebook constantly bothers me. I've opted out of every possible form of communication from them. They still send me updates on profiles I don't care about, friend suggestions I have ignored 10x over, and "We're sorry you have been having trouble logging into Facebook" messages.

I can log in just fine, I just don't want to and your constant pestering is only making things worse. I'm also against the concept of single sign on. Users constantly forget their passwords and have their accounts compromised.

The last thing you need is to lose access to things you've paid for because someone hijacked your Facebook account.
well, for me it helped to have a company, a team, and projects with great data behind me in an area that few people could address at our level. that and a great PR group, although i preferred to drive my own opportunities (less marketing crap, more technical).

i am, however, off the stage and off the road by choice. couldn't be happier.
I was curious about statistics regarding devices 'in the field,' and all I could find were these figures from Google such as the ones you cite (55% on Gingerbread, 15% pre-Gingerbread), which I think should be tied to a very important measuring detail—they are percentages of Android OS versions hitting the Play Store during a two week period.

I think this is a deliberate choice of reporting statistic to make the Android device world look more modern. They could report on a number of other metrics[0], but from my observation, non-power users aren't frequenting app stores—perhaps they'll download apps a few times when the device is new, but after a while their phone is as customized as it's going to get. This issue is likely compounded after a few times of hearing about some app to try, and finding that it doesn't run on the dated OS.

Basically, I think there are loads of older Android installs in the wild, whose owners aren't going to the Play Store as often as people who just bought a new phone or tablet.

[0] I think something like access to Gmail via Android would be a better representation of the real market, and that figure is likely measured within Google. If not, it could be. I doubt the numbers would be very flattering... even the Play Store access metrics aren't so great to begin with.
Kickstarter's Remee Unboxing
I see Google releasing new Apps for Apple devices, but what about Android users? I hope something similar is in the works...
if you skip the steps of soaking the filter for a day then you'll get a ton of black dots.
Has anyone attended an I/O satellite event at a non-Cali Google office? I'm thinking about signing up to visit Google in DC for I/O.

I'd like to know your impressions.
and also by pg: http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
Fluentd: Store Apache Logs into MongoDB
Qualcomm invests in Sharp's low-power high-res screen tech
PairNIC.
Howdy, so I will try and answer your questions, but at the same time, we haven't officially launched, so can't give away too much strategy. :)

We are attacking developers, and smaller startup companies that don't have any existing automation or orchestration solutions in place to start. You'd be surprised at the number of companies that are still SSH'in manually, and cowboy coding. RunDeck is nice, good piece of open source software, but since its not a service, there is still that barrier to entry, and lack of a "wow" factor.

I argue that Chef and Puppet are for companies that are further along, however I personally know many people who use them with two or three servers, but again these are certainly more technical people, and not the market focus for us to start with.
cloudflare.com and gandi.net
We need to start establishing a DPI/MITM resistant secret sharing protocol, and a related IP protocol.

E.g., a series of simple recaptcha-style tasks that need to be solved within 3 seconds each to be considered secure - in order to avoid active MITM with either machine or manual labor. Once a secret key is established, it can be used from that moment on.

Otherwise, opportunistic encryption can be MITMed and becomes useless.

Less secure: Require committing the equivalent of 10 seconds of a modern i5 processor to establish the shared secret within 20 seconds. That would be acceptable for two side of a connection, but not for a server or a MITM attacker.
What I was thinking of was sending something out on a slower path, maybe back past Earth or something and then sending the main craft at a faster speed to meet somewhere along the way.

You are right it probably isn't needed, was more just wondering if it were possible or would the speed differences make docking too hard. I guess the slower moving craft would run through a lot of fuel to bring its speed up enough when close to docking.
We won't settle this here, although I'd like to offer lots of coutnerexamples. As I said earlier, it's not that I think China is so great as that I'm deeply disturbed by the flaws in the US criminal justice system. Maybe we should pick this up via email?
Lots of thoughts on this, not sure where to start.

Generally, if you try to reduce socializing, you're seen as antisocial. Trying to be more efficient for the "bottom line" or "good of the company" or whatever makes you sound like a brown-noser.

Yes, everyone gets interrupted. It affects some classes of workers more than others. Not that developers should be treated as "special", but most places I've worked at, mgt and financial people get private offices so they're "not interrupted", but somehow developers building the software the company runs on and/or sells are supposed to be fine in open-air bullpens, just like call-center workers.

There's an element of status I suppose to, but perhaps those with private offices should try to get their work done out in open-air offices for a few months.
Please note that Rails 4 will remove action and page caching, and put them in a plugin. In addition, 'declarative etags' have been added. https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/ed5c938fa36995f06d4917...

Oh, and the famed 'russian doll' caching: https://github.com/rails/cache_digests
Thanks for posting this. I develop games and I've always dismissed the browser for making games because I was ignorant of this API.

Now when all browsers support it I will look more closely.

Thanks.
Introducing Zite 2.0
>>I'm not trying to flame you here, but I really must ask: How do you live with yourself?

It's not the tool itself that matters, but how it is used and by whom.