skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair point on imperceptible patterns (until we have something like google glass :b).

On the matter of addressing QR malware, you must appreciate that in order for the technology to be safe and widely adopted, the _masses_ must be educated on all the points you bring up. Every time I realize how such information needs to be understood by the lay person, I'm led to believe that QR codes won't become 'the internet of things'. My 2c.
Stealing tickets through bar code captures in social media
It wasn't about cronyism: they couldn't "bail out" specific, failing banks or else it would be obvious to stakeholders where the "bad" banks were. Every bank that would have received funds under these circumstances would be susceptible to a run. It was a crafty play, done against the will of the some of the banks.

The industry needed an infusion of cash, and they spread it around a bunch of the biggest players.
Previous Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5024010
Caching Doctrine Entities with Couchbase
I strongly recommend against using the Chrome app linked in the parent post. It uses a simple MD5 hash to derive the site-specific password from the master password, making it much easier for a site to use a brute-force approach to get the master password from the site-specific password. In addition, it seems that the code retrieves effective_tld_names.dat from Mozilla's server every time a password is hashed. Apart from performance considerations, this file is retrieved over plain HTTP giving adversaries another potential attack vector (by tampering with the version of effective_tld_names.dat sent to the browser).
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5024010
At a certain point, it's up to the users to show up.
I think that's what sinks OS X support. [1] And that's the big, recurring question-mark with gaming on Linux.

The vocal subgroup asks and cajoles and begs. But those devs who make the effort don't seem to find a large enough market to justify it.

[1] It didn't help that Apple's Mac App Store arrived so soon after OS X Steam showed up. Nor that mobile computing got so large to the point that PC upgrades basically stalled.
Google for "Second Hand Aerons". There are companies that buy them in bulk (from when offices close, etc) and then sell them individually. Here's one example: http://www.usedaeron.co.uk/
There's no official Android/iOS app. It feels like an unnecessary risk to use apps from different developers which can't easily be verified against their source.
Is it not true that the problem of waiting years for one's patent to be examined could be solved by hiring more patent examiners?
A smoothie is just a posh milkshake, surely?
After reading through this a second time, I'm convinced it's an elaborate press release. Way too much of the article is devoted to the benefits of Tide and why people are so brand loyal.

Also, many of the quotes and details given appear to be pretty tongue-in-cheek.
Notably both Android and iPhone require you to install a third-party app in order to scan QR codes. I think if (when) this changes, QR codes will really become frictionless, since you no longer need to instruct the end-user how to first install a scanner app with a help label next to the QR code.

Eventually people will "just know" what to do with QR codes, just like they already know what to do with http:// or www. prefixed strings.
Ballmer's '5 times more' means 10 million Windows Phones sold in Q4
I think the process was that a user was sent a 'forgot password' link. When they clicked the link, they were redirected to `wmPassupdate.html` with the cookie `referer={base64(email)}` set. Then, when users submit the password update form, the `referer` cookie is used to authenticate them, but it can be trivially generated.
Orchestrating Cloud Operations – A Practical Example by Cisco & Zenoss
There's a balance. You have to optimise to some degree (writing blatantly poorly designed code is just silly), but you shouldn't over-optimize. To me, that's sort of implied in the word 'optimize.' You should start with a good design, that's well-thought-out, and you should reduce it to the simplest and clearest possible concept, but you shouldn't go overboard until you know the path.
Lenovo's New Coffee Table Computer
I might be mistaken, but isn't the recommended procedure (even mentioned after installing the package) to run

mysql_secure_installation

which, among other things, sets the MySQL root password and removes the remote login capabilities...
Prohibitions Don't Work, And New Technology Makes That More Obvious
They already produce phones with one OS that is not popular. Why add another? If they want to focus on Windows phones then Android can serve as a safety net. Ubuntu or Firefox would be just another disaster for them.
Hmm, this is a weird list.

1. The following resources are badly missing:

* vimtutor (emphasis)

* :help (emphasis)

* IRC: #vim

* the vim wiki

* the vim tag on stackoverflow

* the vim tag on superuser

* r/vim

2. You should drop the "Plugins" part. These are not resources and your list probably only reflects your opinion.

3. You should point at Derek Wyatt's blog instead of ontwik.
Understandable but poorly handled.

Perhaps VMWare could find an internal product owner for vert.x. From there they could meet with Tim Fox and discuss the roles he will be allowed to occupy within the community while, understandably, protecting their interests. I'd imagine this would be some level of admin level role while funneling most important items through the new product owner.

If VMWare had gone this route and then made an announcement while introducing this new product owner/internal advocate with Tim Fox at their side I think it would have gone a long way to smooth the transition.

As it stands my first reaction is...'Uh oh, better fork it'.
It sounds like the link in the "Password reset" email doesn't use a secret one-time expiring token, but instead base64-encodes the user's email address, so it can trivially be generated by an attacker.
Not if additional examiners don't work in parallel, but sequentially, adding more layers to the process.
Next iPhone May Use New Touch Technology To Solve iPhone 5 Screen Glitches
Project soundtracks - how I killed procrastination
Nokia's mistake was exclusivity.

We can argue all day about whether Nokia was right to jump into bed with Windows Phone/Microsoft, but what might be a more interesting question is if they were right to sign exclusively with Windows Phone/Microsoft.

If they had not done so they could have their current line of WP8 devices on the market, and alongside them they could be testing the waters with an Android device or two. Just let the market decide.

Nokia hardware with a virgin Android installation and a handful of custom Nokia apps sounds like an appealing offering. In fact I would buy such a phone if it were available.

A lot of manufacturers have been installing gunk-ware over Android (e.g. Samsung TouchWiz, HTC Sense, etc) making it slow and laggy, and delaying Android updates by between weeks and sometimes years. Virgin Android (or "the Nexus experience") is actually a real selling point for many Android fans and something Nokia could exploit.

Another area where traditional Android phone manufacturers have suffered is that they simply release too many phones. This has confused consumers, weakened their marketing, and split their efforts too widely. If Nokia released no more than three devices per year (small, medium, and large) they could concentrate all of their efforts (marketing and development) in a might smaller area but get much more bang for their buck.
I don't have iPhone, but almost every phone uses same orientation for photo as for GUI to avoid confusion. Orientation for GUI is usually changed with some hysteresis and other filtering, so probably answer is "The same orientation as it was before rotating in this position".
Network as much as you can and keep studying on your own time.
>There is some legitimacy to that claim

Just because AIG ended up being some half-lucky and double-dumb middleman does not give them any legitimacy for such claims what-so-ever. They are nothing but lucky to still be there and the whole governmental stepping-in is not even a natural part of the system, while bankruptcy very, very much is.
Awesome! I didn't know what overlayfs was, but recently saw it while playing with OpenWRT. Thanks for sharing :)
What puzzles me is that Windows XP up to Windows 7 built-in picture viewer does not support proper orientation of iPhone photos with the original EXIF metadata in place.
Picasa (on Windows) handles that perfectly, as well as (obviously) all apps in OS X.
What the hell Microsoft? Is this a political thing or is there a valid technical reason?
You can enjoy all the freedom you want. Just root the phone (and install custom ROM, if you want). Carrier and manufacturer lock is then irrelevant. The only problem is locked bootloaders, but you can avoid that also - buy a phone that hasn't got a locked bootloader.

Nice to hear that you like WP8 UI better, but it's got nothing to do with freedom or linux.
Top 5 Predictions For Web Video In 2013
“Because your crop and scale function ignores and drops the EXIF orientation tag.”
How Python manages its memory, and why it goes wrong if you're not careful
Except that you should be changing the master password and other important passwords (e-mail, bank, Paypal, Mint) with some frequency. This scheme basically never allows for that to happen.
Because if there's anyone who desperately needs free WiFi, it's people who live/shop in Chelsea.
Very concerning because redis is also sponsored by VMWare.
Which applies to large areas, but is counterproductive to things like bathrooms and offices; such a door opening into a hallway will get in the way of people outside trying to evacuate.
That makes it rather easy to get new ideas for products, if a bunch of developers start using their wifi lol
The EXIF orientation tag encodes all orientations: http://www.impulseadventure.com/photo/exif-orientation.html
What the hell? Why is there an orientation tag at all? Why isn't the picture just rotated by the device that takes it?
nice book, but it was much, much older - mentioned in a column in the 80's
There's no official app for anything except Windows. They're all open-source, though.
Yes, that's a poor neighborhood right? lol
Had this same issue with a service that consumes pictures from iOS/Android/BlackBerry. They all seem to handle it in different ways. I added a similar EXIF check and a quick rotation when necessary. I should have written a blog post about it. :)
System Monitoring for Developers : Deployment
Public WiFi is useful when you're on-the-go.
If those repos are private repos, they show up to you and others that can see the repos but not to other users. I jsut checked that on my profile and half of my repos changed!
If you're going to gray out something in the UI (and there are reasons why you might), here's a few things to remember.

1. Your users won't know why it's greyed out. Is it currently disabled? Is it not available yet? Have I broken something? Is it paid only? Is it launched?

Resolve this by explaining why it is grayed out on hover.

Anecdote: We all remember trying to click "Make Table" in Microsoft word only to find it was grayed out for some obscure reason (Scroll lock was on or something). Telling a user they can't do something but not explaining why is a shit experience.

2. Track clicks to it or hovers on it, it's a good indication of how much action it'll get, in my experience. If no one is going near the feature, then chances are it's either not worth building, or it's positioned in the wrong place on the screen.

3. Consider bringing it to a splash page where you post a teaser of whats to come and ask your users what job they're trying to do when they click "Merge Users" or "Share Reports" or whatever. Just to make sure you're delivering the right value.

Hope that helps.

Des

(Obligatory: Use Intercom (http://intercom.io) to understand user behaviour and talk to them, this helps avoid a lot of second guessing)
Heck, you can even install launchers that clone the Windows Phone interface entirely.

I'm kind of surprised Microsoft hasn't released an Android UI library for Modern apps on Android, as I think it could push more Android users into choosing Windows Phone when its time to purchase their next device.
I started reading ready to troll, but that was really cute.
Brim? The toilets are generally about a quarter full of water.
Because lossless rotation is fairly expensive computationally so digital cameras have been leaving that job to a computer.
Why should it rotate, when it can use the standard method for notating the proper rotation? Your camera would be a lot slower if it had to rotate 16MP images between snaps.
Nokia hardware with a virgin Android installation and a handful of custom Nokia apps sounds like an appealing offering.

That sounds right for any manufacturer. Somehow though, manufacturers seems to disagree. They prefer lots of devices + lots of tweaks to the OS.
How Apple kept Safari a secret
>what mechanism

Obviously SOME sort of mechanism was used when the decision was made FOR the bail-outs. How about you very simply start there? You can always improve later.
Or writing angry posts on StormFront.
Criticizing the results of a speaker selection process is not "beating up on the people who organized" the event. Aral does indeed point to resources that describe speaker selection processes which successfully achieved healthy diversity. I'm not sure why efficiency needs to be a consideration here. Organizing a conference is not an efficient endeavor to begin with.

The notion that the people who organize these events shouldn't be held accountable is profoundly wrong. Event organizers appoint themselves leaders of the community that they're holding the event for. Sure, they're well-meaning volunteers usually, but that doesn't mean they're absolved of any and all criticism. Leaders organizing a software conference should recognize that an industry-wide lack of diversity is a problem, and should take steps to solve it. And the community should call them out when they fail at that.
Here's a metaphor to consider; think of financial crises as forest fires, easy to start and hard to fight when conditions are right for them. Bailouts act to increase the fuel load in areas where they apply, so while they solve the immediate problem (you put out todays fire) you are creating conditions to make future fires worse ( more fuel, faster spreading fires, greater damage ). In a very real way, bailouts have allowed vulnerable institutions to survive to make the rest of the economy more vulnerable than it would have been had the banks been allowed to die.
The top two increases to GDP are inflation and population growth. Adjust for both of them and your looking at ~2.5x growth over the fifty years from 1960 - 2010 which is about 2% growth per year.

PS: 2000-2010 it's flat to slightly negative despite better technology.
No, the people who use 'stealing' hoping for an easy emotional victory should stop trying to manipulate everyone endlessly. Stop using tainted words and simply make an argument.

Quit naming, start describing.
To me the only thing negative that stuck out was the purplish necrotic colour of the hands.
How does this compare to Travis CI except for the pricing?
The "typing code out" is important. A lot of us learned just this way in the early 80s, because that was the only way we could get the source: buy a magazine or a book that taught, say, game programming in BASIC, and then type in code. The inevitable syntax errors made you spend time going back through to figure out what you did wrong, not to mention the time you spent actually looking at each line.

Downloading the code from a book's web site has nowhere near the same effect, even if it "feels" more efficient.
While in the beginning you say you wanted more freedom like in the Linux ecosystem, everything you said afterwards contradicts what you said, and it seems you wanted the exact opposite - you wanted the company behind it to be in full control - and not really yourself to be in control of it.

If you look at the Linux "ecosystem", it's a lot more fragmented than Android, and every vendors does whatever they want to their own distro, and can completely change the UI, and they don't even have the same app extension across distros. So yeah, it seems to me like you wanted the opposite of all of that all along and not really the freedom/flexibility of such an ecosystem (that by default comes with many people doing different things in the ecosystem).
AT&T Announces Record Smartphone Sales in Fourth Quarter
“Windows Technical Support” scammers call me again
Not to mention all it really means is they're coming back to lobby again in 50 years, instead of 95 years. It's not like they win the battle once and don't fight it again.
Speaking of iPhones, this blog is pretty much unreadable on Mobile Safari. I side scroll to see the text; the paragraph disappears behind the left sidebar.
I retract my previous sentiments about Phonegap / Apache Cordova
It's actually not slow on the new iPhone 5, but on my iPhone 4 it is still significantly much much slower. I don't know if that has to do with how much faster the phone has gotten over the last 2 years, or if it's because my phone is old and is bogged down with all the stuff that it currently has on it. Long live Phonegap. Really the only gripe I had with it was speed, other than that it's a very useful framework.
> I dread to use this word, but it's gamification.

Which is the problem. I already enjoy writing code, and I don't need it to be gamified in order to give me an incentive to do so.

Worse, gamifying it skews the incentives, reducing overall code quality in the process.
I'm surprised people use vert.x -- I thought nodejs "won" the love of the hivemind
That would be an awesome app! BUT, I think 1 second is WAY too short. It's actually annoying to watch such a video, and you don't really get something out of it. I think 5 seconds is already a better number.
Meet Backbone.js
The whole elephant in the room about the Nokia should use Android thing is HTC.

HTC have, for a variety of reasons lost a lot of ground to Samsung.

The question I always find myself asking, is would Nokia have faired better there?

On WP they only have to out gun HTC really, thats it. On Android, Samsung are doing a good job carving out the high end, the mid range, and leaving the low to no profit margin to the Chinese and nock off brigade.

Will Nokia's Microsoft gamble pay off? Who knows, Would it have been raking in the billions if it had gone Android? Probably not, as HTC's problems show.
True, but if it's a bad cultural fit then you will probably quit anyways.

If the new offer was good enough to quit your current job, then you were probably ready to leave anyways.
Meta-question: should Ask HN questions (the primary piece of content on the page) be greyed out?
> Sounds dangerous - I don't think my employer would be okay with me exposing how frequently I contribute to our repositories,

Easy fix: the owner of the repository (ie, the organization) can {en,dis}able the feature per-repo.
> Your brain probably still has whatever memory of these moments it would have without the video

I don't have a citation now, but there were studies done that suggest you actually don't have reliable memories of past events; the brain actually recomputes parts of them based on what you know now, thus sometimes making false memories.
Asynchronous processing in web applications, part 2
Interesting, I think you could take that further for group presentations. Say when you are actually in a presentation - the 'presentation notes' are sent in real-time to mobile devices.

Could you explain further as to what the interface would be like? If the presentation is full screen, where would the notes be? Somewhere off-page that you could pull in if needed?
I'm a little skeptical of this because tons of people use obscure URLs for delete links or confirmation links. Wouldn't people see tons of entries in logs of Google hitting confirmation links and havoc being created by Google hitting one-time links for, say, deleting a file? It just feels like one of those things that if it were true, would have already been at the top of Hacker News several times.
This would be easier to fix in objective-c and a little custom camera wrapper application. I would expect a fix in a new OS release though. But if you need this little app let me know and I'll write it and put it on github.
In this case the camera is a computer though. A computer that knows its orientation.
Amazon dominant in cloud services, too
I like this but what the hell is the problem with base64?

'Still alive these day?'?

It's useful for what it does, always has been, never been a security feature.
Huh? :-(
http://i.imgur.com/taamA.png
Azure - Creating an Azure Cloud Service
In practice Itanium only competed with the existing 64-bit architectures from the Unix vendors. Many of whom got suckered into dropping their own stuff and moving onto Itanium, and got wiped out because of the very late & underperforming Itanium chips (frequently called "Itanic")...
What kind of contract does VMWare use to sponsor open source projects? Because up until now I thought sponsoring and buying ownership were different things.
Having taken a few seconds to look at my (meager) contributions, it took me a while to understand the vertical axis of the field of boxes.

Then it hit me: it's happily US-centric, with weeks starting with Sunday. Aaargh. This should really be a user setting, since in my mind weeks start with Mondays.
I'm still very disappointed Google isn't trying to make Android more of a "console platform", and then let a thousand OUYA-like devices bloom under it. Android may not have as many games as the others right now, but if Google was serious about getting game devs for console games, and was willing to spend a bit for that, and then if they made it easier for a lot of device makers to get that game store from them, I think they would end up having some good games in the end, and a pretty competitive console ecosystem.

I mean clearly others, like Nvidia and OUYA, are starting to move towards that anyway - whether Google helps them or not. If Google actually helped them, and allowed many others to do this, it would accelerate the process.

I know Google cares a lot more about the "TV" part of Google TV, because they want the advertising money from TV's, but they should use Microsoft's (probably mostly unintentional) Xbox strategy, where they first got the xbox in 70 million homes, and then started activating TV features. I think it's a lot easier than trying to convince people that they need a "smart TV". It would be better if they thought of it as a bonus to the console.

It would also benefit the Android ecosystem as a whole. Many people still are unwilling to switch from iOS to Android, because are afraid of losing some games. Plus, one of the major reasons people haven't switched to Macs or even Linux over time was that Windows had all the games, and a lot of people wanted Windows for being able to play all the games. So I think this strategy should be a top priority for Google, and not necessarily just something nice to do.
Ain’t nobody got time for that
The people at CIT GAP, from whom they got their funding, are cool people who are trying to do good work. I hate the insinuation that they had any negative effect on this company, enen if it's not strongly implied. They do uncapped convertible notes on their investments, it's awesome.
Startup accelerator + crowdfunding = the future?
you're absolutely correct there. it might be that the performance difference I'm seeing is caused by the hypervisor or something else.
So that's why that metal box seemed familiar to me. They used a similar design before. It's quite nice, I'd say.
Many studies referenced here for example
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyewitness_memory