skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you have to trust the server, then there's no reason to do the client-side encryption at all. It's just overhead at that point.

Think of it as bootstrapping. If they released a service you couldn't use from a browser, probably nobody would use it. But if they release one, even if it isn't as secure as it ought to be, and get millions of users, then someone will write a browser plug in that makes it so you don't have to trust the javascript anymore, and anyone who needs better security will use that. At that point the javascript is irrelevant because no one who needs better security is (or should be) relying on it, but first you have to get to that point. What the javascript becomes is a gateway into the service for people who don't need security and just want to take advantage of 50GB free storage, or who interact with people who have a different threat model.

For example, here's a use case: You're a whistleblower. You want to distribute something to the world and you can't allow anyone to know who you are. So you don't use the javascript, you use an open source native client, and you make your upload using TOR or pick your favorite anonymizer. Then Mega has an encrypted copy of what you want to publish, they have no idea what it is. Now all you have to do is post the link and password to a public forum (again using an anonymizer, and possibly from a different country from where you made the upload) so that by the time any third party can even know what it is that you've uploaded, it's available to the world and you're in a safe place. Meanwhile none of the downloaders who don't need protection from anyone has to install any special software because they can use the javascript.
Thanks. That's a wise advice! Appreciate it.
Dear brilliant students, if you are truly brilliant, do what you wish to do with your life. If you wish to study, by all means do so. Just don't equate PhD with income earning ability.
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Just a simple question to ask, makes it an easy method to use in any org.
The most important thing when creating your business model is to understanding precisely who you're customer is. Often, someone creating an advertising thinks their customer is a the person viewing the page. In fact, this is just a sourcing effort.
Scala wasn't really the problem, lift and play were. Scala is fine, although it did feel like using an ugly crippled haskell at times. Lift and play both presented us with a bad combination of being both immature (which means lots of missing functionality) and opinionated (which means forcing you to do things their half-finished, not really working way). We ended up using snap in haskell which is just as immature, but because it isn't opinionated, it is easy to fill in the missing bits however you please,
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Mavica)

> Sony Digital Mavica MVC-FD5 (1997), the first digital camera of the Mavica series.

> The later Digital Mavicas recorded onto 3.5" 1.4 MiB 2HD floppy disks in computer-readable DOS FAT12 format, a feature that made them very popular in the North American market.

[...]

> and a new CD Mavica series — which used 8 cm CD-R/CD-RW media — was released in 2000.
10% is disappointing but it also means it's a good filter, particularly when you think recursive algorithms are critical in your projects. A question with 90% passing rate is useless as a filter.
Megafail: The File System Has Failed

Their new album needs work.
Writing the uber crazy make file to support both Raspberry and OLinuXino
I'm in a semi-similar situation. I'm 23, graduated college a year ago, but I focused on music. I knew some html/css and got a job as a developer and taught myself to code WP themes from scratch. I'm a good graphic designer, but programming interests me more, even though it's harder for me. I recently began using Udacity.com CS101, which is pretty neat. I make the same as you right now, I'm just not sure where to go from here..
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Considering that this post was written in 2008... What changed in these 5 years in the "battery" industry?
Fantastic, now we should combine that with a good text to speech engine so it can read aloud e-books, blogs, and whatnot during daily commute.
I second that. Try it in portrait on an iPad.
Finally Sony Lets Users Charge Their Phone From a Tablet
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What about Google? They hire plenty of competent netsec people, and yet the Chrome bug bounties yielded discovery of bugs that even those folks couldn't find.
What is disgusting to me is that the Apple Stores, marked by extreme profit margins, and high turnover due to a scarcity of locations, have become a model copied by every chain retail store in the US, ten to a shopping mall. Big amounts of sleek empty space separate units to toy with, and ten employees wander around begging you to let them assist you.

Cell phones are commodity items, not modular case+fans+CPU+GPU+PSU+motherboard+X+Y+Z purchases. You can (and some markets do) fit $100k of product into an 8'x8' stall and have plenty of space left over. Cell phone plans are perfectly centralized, and can be purchased online or over the phone. At the same time, online reviews are essentially the only reasonable place to seek unbiased advice, and are plentiful.

This is a market demand that, while it may have reason to exist, could be filled by 10% of the current locations selling cell service & phones. Instead, T-Mobile needs a storefront, Verizon needs a storefront, Apple needs a storefront, and half a dozen adjacent electronics stores or electronic departments sell cell phones on the side, in every large strip mall or indoor shopping mall in America.

In a functional market economy, profitability is minimized through competition; It's a waste that we tolerate in order to incentivize performance. By 2013, the cell phone companies & retail established have established de facto agreement that it's better for them to plow profits into essentially purchasing large quantities of well-manned empty space in every major electronics store in the nation, rather than lower prices or improve their infrastructure.
Obama's campaign operatives debate releasing campaign software as open-source
£50k - £60k would be considered senior territory in London. Most senior developers are closer to £70k and there are a smaller percentage earning closer to £100k.
Far Cry 3 if you uninstalled, install it back it's working
Far Cry 3 keeps crashing or you lost save games? Well this been already fixed by some IT nerd. And wait a sec NO SURVEYS it's free have fun.
What kind of data source? Can you be more specific?

If you're talking about Web APIs, you usually want to connect to an endpoint that gives you information about the user or the API.

Some APIs offer an 'echo' endpoint just for testing, other APIs offer an endpoint that provides information about the user account.
Amen. I do a lot of recruiting and one of the signs that a candidate is high quality is when they know what they don't know.

It's rare for someone without a degree to get the kinds of jobs that exposes them to the kinds of engineering challenges that makes for "10 years experience" as opposed to "1 year experience 10 times over". I'm not saying it doesn't happen -- just that in my experience, it's rare.

Also, having a college degree shows a certain minimum ability to start something and finish it. The more challenging that degree program was, the more important that factor is. A 'degree' from DeVry or Phoenix doesn't count (I'd actually talk to the guy without a degree first...).
They cannot do that during one period. They can only suggest such change and then the next elected government can approve it. This way the people will always be able to vote against such government.
And I really doubt any party would suggest any drastic change on this topic.
A Behavioral Neuoscientist, a Googler, and a Design Professor Walk into a bar...
You're asking the wrong question.

The right question is: How can I make a site that's more compelling than lynda.com or stackexchange?

I also think part of your problem is that you want to keep the information and videos for free. Yes a real infobusiness will give away some stuff for free, but it can and should also sell content if that content has any value.

Hint: If your content solves a problem, it has value.

Other thoughts:

- Not every hobby should be a business

- Another model can be to use free information to build a consulting business
Do you actually ask them to do this on a piece of paper?

because I went through an interview process not too long ago, and they asked me to take a test that was actually very simple stuff, fibonacci sequence, dealing with strings, etc.

And for the life of me I just couldn't do it on paper, if I was still in college I might have done it, but now that I'm a professional developer, I DON'T code on paper anymore, it feels weird and awkward.
Maybe do a test, and let a few take the test on the computer, doesn't have to be in an IDE, just let them hack away at notepad, or something.

I know most people believe developers should be those guys that can code their way out of any problem with just matchsticks or something, but really, would you ever encounter a situation where you need a developer to actually write code on paper?

And before anyone says I'm just a bad programmer, I am usually the go to guy at my workplace, the guy that usually solves hard issues, and the more competent I become at actually useful stuff, and actual day to day programming challenges, the more I feel far from things like your test.

Alternatively, you could also use a real world problem, I think there is nothing that can get a guy to prove they are a good developer than making subtle bugs in some code and asking the guy to fix them.
I haven't found a way, but you could try downloading it with youtube-dl or get-flash-videos
You should be able to get your contacts into Evolution or any other software that supports CardDAV. We will try and get some instructions up this week - check back on http://useadd.com/guides/connect later

Thank you for the comments, really appreciated.
Users won't be happy with 1kb/s uploads via Tor. If you're going trough that bottleneck, this offers no advantages over a a standard file-sharing service hosted at a .onion node.
BTW, here's a perfect example, just to contradict the title article:

http://allthingsd.com/20130123/wall-street-buys-googles-mobi...

"By last night, though, Wall Street analysts seemed to have come up with at least one consensus takeaway: Google’s mobile ad business is looking pretty good. Or, at least, less worrisome"
People chose to 'like' stuff generously because it was relatively harmless. It was not broadcast very loudly to other friends.

Stuff liked years ago can now clutter the feeds of friends and family and look like you wanted to show it to them right now.

They've changed the consequences of choosing to 'like' stuff without any indication to the user.
There's a big difference between what Facebook could argue and what Facebook's actual intentions are.

I'm very skeptical that this was accidental. Even if it was, it looks intentional: users don't see the promoted posts that are associated with their past likes so they don't have any intrinsic feedback that would make them curate their likes. That looks underhand. If it didn't we wouldn't be seeing the fuss.
If you already have some programming experience, it doesn't make much sense to invest time and resources to go back and get a degree. When I'm interviewing, I prefer people that have a CS degree, as they tend to be better programmers. However, if a candidate has the appropriate knowledge and skill for the job, then they'll be hired. My suggestion would be to go pick up some comp sci books and learn some of the fundamentals on your own, it will increase your skill level without having to go through the expense of college, and it will increase your competitiveness.
YES. Thank you.

If you hate drunken frat boys, don't open an Irish pub.
Everything you do attracts a certain kind of person. Better do it deliberately, or you'll screw yourself.
What's preventing us from putting fuel cells in laptops and tablets soon? Is it just that today's fuel cell designs are physically bulky? Are we near theoretical limits on fuel cell miniaturization or is there still lots of headroom? What's the safest way to store the fuel? Are there too many downsides to making the fuel cell air-breathing (as opposed to the danger of storing oxygen)?

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

Wikipedia says that fuel cells are typically "stacked" (placed in series) since each one only makes 0.7v, but if a new tablet is designed to save space by using only a single 0.7v cell and upregulating the voltage with a boost regulator, won't the total efficiency even with regulator losses still be far above li-ion?
Many developers who don't come from a CS or Math background will run from such questions for the following reasons:

1) They've never solved problems like this with code before.

2) They fail to grasp how such problem solving skills can judge their "real world" experience.

3) Someone across the street/city/village will pay them more than you are paying and have more softball interview questions because they are more desperate to bring in any programming talent they can find.

While reasons 1 and 2 are good reasons to pass on candidates, reason 3 is unfortunately a bigger challenge to solve.

It may be unpopular to say this, but I would take a hard look at the problems you need your developers to solve and come up with a more real world scenario to use for interviews and see if you get better results.
And btw, that's basically what Dropbox (and mostly every other private file sharing service) does: files are encrypted using your password as the key.
This is the best of Atari:
http://www.atariage.com/
http://www.atari.org/

Atari Force go! http://www.atariage.com/comics/index.html

I still have a working Atari 2600 system and some carts.

Too bad the Atari company is but a name for Infogrames and is nothing like the original Atari.
The semantics of "like", especially in the context where you "like" an organisation, has changed to "follows" or "subscribes to".
Interesting in the 5 years since this was written, what the friend claimed would happen has come to pass. Car2go runs several all electric car sharing fleets in various cities. I've used the one in San Diego a number of times.
Stanford Group Successfully Fabricates ‘Peel and Stick’ Solar Cells
Interesting reply. I like your hitch-hiking metaphor, but I would extend it by saying "sometimes you decide life is better in the new place and never choose to return, or do so only sporadically". Certainly this mirrors people's travel in the physical realm more closely, and it is hard to deny that all forms of experience leave lasting impressions on us...

While I certainly respect your experience, views and choices, I would highlight the fact that you are looking back upon experiences of the past and the human memory is a prickly beast. Further, wherever you make the statement that something is "not necessary", it's very much loaded. I think it's sometimes difficult to empathise with or second-guess other peoples' (like your former self's) life goals, experience, motivations-of-the-moment and general situation.

Remember: children and many free thinking types, such as artists and hackers, can be largely motivated by curiosity, and that's a motivational asset that it's probably fair to say is rarer than hen's teeth in the adult population.

Also, quite unlike some foreign cultures that celebrate serious schizophrenia (eg. India) and other more evident conditions, today in the west the dominant perspective on insanity seems to be largely defined by two factors.

(1) An outgrowth of the historic western response (ie. 'mentally ill' people are 'treated' to return to what is assumed to be a preferable 'norm', or otherwise doped-up on antipsychotics that can prevent them from fully functioning)... the net message here is 'something is wrong with you', and 'the rest of society is right'.

(2) Led by big pharma, aggressive Western-led drug marketing, and post-industrial-era 9-5 schedules (not to talk of related issues of mortgages, debt, lack of free time/exercise/social outlet/access to daylight) loads of people IMHO spuriously consider themselves to have depression, ADD, or some other 'illness' that in the past was either not present in society or fell in to the regular realm of human experience. Now I'm not dismissing that some people really have extreme mental situations that can cause social or personal problems, but I am saying that a lot of them could probably improve just as much if not more by moving, switching routines, eating differently, exercising more, or being allowed by their relevant authority figures to operate outside of the artificially imposed constraints of an Orwellian post-industrial-era clockbound mass-psychological consensual hallucination under high velocity, socially charged 24x7 multi-channel surveillance of themselves, by themselves/employer/school/state/cult/etc.

(TLDR;) Let's just cut to the chase here: often, these people can start to realise the possibilities outside of their current mode of experience by taking a psychoactive drug, and it can do them real good, or at least provide food for thought. Necessary? Let each be their own judge.
Do a degree part time. Don't leave your job.
What about dinosaurs? What about that "hobbit" species (Homo floresiensi)?
This CSS:

article, aside, footer, header, section {
display: block;
}

Does not make the new sectioning elements work in IE8. It sucks but since IE8 is the highest version of IE available for Windows XP and Win7 machines still ship with IE8 installed as default, supporting this browser will continue to be critical for all consumer sites for the next several years, minimum. Besides, using:

<div class="header">

Is not that bad.
Personally, I think it's hypocritical bullshit. Causing needless pain to animals "unnecessarily" is already illegal. If someone wants to have sex with an animal in a way that doesn't cause it pain, why should that be illegal while there are dozens of very painful (but apparently "necessary") things people do to animals legally, some of which the recent law originally banned but which were removed from it after industry lobbying.
No, it's definitely done at a computer, I know I'd find it more difficult to write code on paper too.
i apologize -- didn't mean to sound judgmental. i do think it is fun, and i think that building stuff for fun is (a) important, and (b) hones your skills for other stuff.

also, live life for fun. i realize now that the comment came off as disparaging, but i don't mean to be discouraging.

hack on.
How to use Photoshop in a VM on Ubuntu
Dropbox was intentionally included for link bait.
Nokia’s 41MP PureView camera is coming to Windows Phone this year
i never said whether it was right or wrong though.

Yes it is unenforceable, what i was saying is that Steve Jobs was a human and not a god.

FYI quite a few tech companies were in this pact not to hire from each other.
Took a minute to code a solution using the formula for line n of Pascal's triangle, and ten minutes (my usual mix of 30% manic typing, 70% bug-fixin' and finding the typo where I wrote "naemspace" :p ) to get an iterative line-by-line working solution in C++. You say you're hiring? I'm in the UK and I'm more than a little bored where I am.
I realised that the logo is rendered with svg. Probably a bad idea - Just render it to PNG with an alpha channel.
If Facebook had auto-liked a post on your behalf would you be annoyed? If so why?

If Facebook creates the appearance that this has happened are you annoyed? If not why not?

Suppose the latter was intentional. Does that affect your annoyance?
We’re Hipsters using Node.js and Mongo, and we love it
As a 'junior/mid' dev in the UK salary range is £25-30k on average.
At your age, your already on a trajectory to surpass the worth of a degree. That is, the cost + opp cost of getting a degree may not be worth it in the long term.

If I were you, I would try to find ways to transition my expertise. Let's face it, most managers can't gauge the abilities of a PHP expert. Many people are great at PHP, but can't cut it on other techs, so why take the hiring risk.

If, however, you could tell me a list of things you've built with Python, Ruby, etc. I would know that your stated "grasp" is probably validated. And so, by widening your expertise, you open yourself to new opportunities and prove your abilities along the way.
In theory yes. But... most browsers throttle javascript timers of tabs that are not in the foreground. For example, here's a commit for Chromium that limits the firing of timers for background tabs: https://codereview.chromium.org/6577021.

I can't find the particular commit/issue for Webkit, but the authors expressed that they were using the timer limitation to prevent non-foreground tabs from sucking up CPU time. Others came along with workarounds (scheduling 1000 timers at 1ms intervals that will each fire once per second) and the authors said if they saw something like that being put to practice, they'd have to re-evaluate their method for limiting javascript usage by background threads.
Also, they don't need to come up with an algorithm: to solve the problem, you simply need to implement exactly what's written in the problem statement - calculating each element based on the previous row, and with a couple of conditional statements (or other ways) to handle the edge cases at the, er, edge of each row. There is a bit of a conceptual leap in working out a recursive solution is possible (as is an iterative one), so I'll sometimes gently drop hints if a candidate seems to be struggling on this point.
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There's nothing appalling about this. Apple has every right to defend its patents, just as Palm has every right to attempt to poach Apple's employees. Jobs offered an agreement and Colligan declined, so Steve threatened to take alternative measures to discourage Palm from poaching its employees.
I have a site that has around 4-5m visits per month, yet all attempts to monetize it have failed. I'd love to use Amazon's referral program or Google Ads, but I can't because the site's content is somewhere between reddit and 4chan - deemed too shady for anything else than porn ads.

So, the site still remains a hobby project - exactly as when I launched it 6 years ago.
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I think you're right that I'm being unbalanced. I just get so sick of reading about people crediting him personally for all the great technological breakthroughs that I was probably over compensating with the aforementioned rant.
Seems like this could get me in trouble. Also I don't remember signing any document I just started receiving the bills. I live in a dormitory so maybe that somehow affects the issue.
I think the reason that most people in this story laughed at it when advertising was brought up is simply because advertising is the "default" answer from people who have not thought one bit about how to monetize.

And who, because of that, are not just answering "advertising", but are answering advertising without having a credible story of much about it in general as well as without having the faintest idea of what kind of model would be realistic to model their idea's income potential with advertising.

So really, "advertising" was a proxy for "haven't got a clue".