skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"It's like people value obedience of arbitrary impositions of authority as the highest virtue." //

That is just about the greatest virtue in the context of being in a confined space with someone in a relatively flimsy metal tube jetting over the ocean (or wherever). One is already trusting the captain + crew with your life to a large extent.

>"he blames the FA exclusively, as if it would be reasonable to kick someone off a plane even if he had continued to take a picture" //

My take is that the FA flagged the subject's behaviour as suspicious [or at least potentially problematic] and the photography was used as the excuse to oust the passenger without troubling the rest of the people onboard with mention of "terrorism" or making potentially slanderous remarks about the general character of the subject.
Come on kids, the rootkits on audio CDs are already history for quite a while. Yes, they shouldn't copy stuff from others, but why link it to past mistakes?
Honest question. Did the author even attempted to contact Sony or anyone in the KDE organization to resolve this issue?
I like your perspective on this. It is impossible to see the 'damage' done by capital applied (or over applied) to the wrong thing. So people don't really think about it. What great things were NOT created by the great people LivingSocial hired.
It sells newspapers. People have a tiny little mental self congratulatory orgasm when they link things together
That's a serious case of Google-Image-Searchitis. My theory: somebody googled for "settings icon", swore to himself to get proper artwork later, forgot, and there we have it. (Yes, I'm guilty of that too, but I usually don't forget)
I think it's entirely sensible to think about the influence that companies like Google are gaining.

Each individual component is a sensible step forwards, but there's no doubt that Google could choose to do some pretty anti-competitive things if they wanted, and in the future there will always be different, more short-term, management in charge
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When something is this cool, it no longer requires a purpose. :)
SETI are one of the biggest supporters of research into dolphin vocalisations. Laurance Doyle, who is at SETI, is one of the pioneers of the field.

http://www.tusker.com/tusker-trips/eclipse-trips/archaeo/art...
How much was 2500 guilders in dollars?
Unless you're bald or buzzed. I'd expect this thumb sized computer... to be covered by your hair either entirely or mostly. That is if it doesn't wrap around your head.

Looking at most devices people have used on their head & the capabilities of this?! I can't complain even one bit.
Guess what, there are plenty of companies that are neither startups nor big co. :)
Good to know, thanks.
BTW, I was not particularly referring to India, but to countries that simultaneously start such missions.
It seems, Bhutan did not sign yet, so we can get nervous when they start a mission. ;)
He didn't say anything to indicate that he would stop taking photos.

He then went on to say that he always took photos on United flights and never had a problem.
Guy does know what's talking about but there are some limitations to his tests - which to be fair he's pretty open about in the post.

The biggest challenge is optimising for SPDY is different to optimising for HTTP and so many of the test sites may have behaviours that aren't optimal for SPDY.

In addition to Google, Facebook and Twitter are/have deploying SPDY so I think we can be sure it has benefits.
Which is why we need a consistent way to embed license data into media. Not as "enforceable" DRM but as metadata that is preserved by image editing software and can be checked automatically when you are about to send your creation to production. EXIF theoretically allows for this but it is hardly ever used.
Come on, he murdered that guy once and it was years ago!

Why should we forget when a company acts so maliciously? Why shouldn't we point out that they have a pattern of misbehaviour?
The Java Community Process back in the day was a good example of how lots of large companies working together could define a standard and yet still leave room for innovation.

H.264 and WiFi standards are recent examples of a lot of companies working together.
I wonder, if there is any public repository of dolphin audio recordings.
The lawsuits against people trying to mod their own consoles are not so long ago. They've a long history of being assholes about their 'IP'.

And it's linked to this because it's irony, dumbass.
Same way cats can detect whether you focus your attention at them or not.

Eyes are very popular organ and seeing eyes and recognizing what they are looking at is very useful skill. I think animals get this skill as soon as they have enough physical computing power to achieve this task.
India should immediately launch a mission to stop rape and corruption
I agree with your original point, but none of the stuff after [EDIT] makes much sense to me.

"Since TCP acts as a pure transport protocol, it has no per-packet authentication info and so any connection can be trivially DoS'd with a single fake FIN or RST packet."

I guess you mean if you're sharing medium or your adversary has MITM? You're generally screwed for DoS in that scenario anyway, no matter what encryption thingy you use. Otherwise, any modern TCP stack should be able to reject blind FINs or RSTs as out-of-sequence.

Generally, the reason people avoid TCP-over-TCP is not DoS, but basically "timer fights", as per: http://sites.inka.de/~W1011/devel/tcp-tcp.html. That said, everything-over SSL is still popular for practical reasons, such as clientless VPNs which need to work around proxies, firewalls etc.
I guess you can try to compare stealing cookies at home to be told by the pilot to get off the plane.

There is no way this was being reversed. Once it gets to that stage, it is too late.
I usually use a CC search engine filter (even Google has this!) to make sure I pick legal artwork from the start, just in case I forget.
A quick google [1] results in this article. Look for JS:V8 - Node runs off of that. Most of the graphs I glanced at show it's very close to C. I glance because I've properly checked out other benchmarks which confirm this.

[1] http://attractivechaos.github.com/plb/
Compiled a short list of the more famous sights for those of you not familiar with the city (I'll add more later):

1. The Shard (Tate Modern in the foreground) - http://btlondon2012.co.uk/pano.html?view.hlookat=-33.1601...

2. London Eye - http://btlondon2012.co.uk/pano.html?view.hlookat=-3.8135&...

3. Tower Bridge - http://btlondon2012.co.uk/pano.html?view.hlookat=-38.7356...

4. Wembley Stadium - http://btlondon2012.co.uk/pano.html?view.hlookat=140.7253...

5. Battersea Power Station - http://btlondon2012.co.uk/pano.html?view.hlookat=35.2192&...

6. Olympic Park - http://btlondon2012.co.uk/pano.html?view.hlookat=-73.9268...

7. Big Ben & Houses of Parliament - http://btlondon2012.co.uk/pano.html?view.hlookat=6.4768&...

8. MI6 Building - http://btlondon2012.co.uk/pano.html?view.hlookat=14.9167&...

9. St Pauls Cathedral - http://btlondon2012.co.uk/pano.html?view.hlookat=-43.8561...

10. Nelsons Column - http://btlondon2012.co.uk/pano.html?view.hlookat=13.4841&...

11. Behind the iconic billboards in Picadilly Circus - http://btlondon2012.co.uk/pano.html?view.hlookat=16.9026&...

12. Harrods Department Store - http://btlondon2012.co.uk/pano.html?view.hlookat=64.6214&...

13. The British Museum - http://btlondon2012.co.uk/pano.html?view.hlookat=-45.7275...
Another point to add is the worst case scenario is hardly ever as bad as you think its going to be. Its very easy to over-estimate the amount of work it will take to recover from a setback.

Sometimes it takes experiencing a setback before you learn this. The confidence you gain from the experience can sometimes be worth more than the gain from everything going as planned.
Yea you end up with a udp retrans storm on saturated links. It will start losing the rerequests and the rerequest for the lost packets.

Some solutions to this use tcp to do the resetting of the connection.
That's not how HN works... Or did an airplane just fly over my head?
So EXIF allows this but is hardly ever used.

Sounds like this is a people problem, not a technical problem.
Thanks - this is the kind of thing I was looking for! I'll take a look at those links too.
Whoa, this is such a simple, intuitive and straight-forward mechanic, and nobody (i.e. manufacturers) thought about it before!?

I very much hate selection and cursor handling in all platforms. This, or something similar, should definitely become a standard way of moving around text on virtual keyboards.
Does it matter (legally)?
This is more than merely UDP with encryption. Rather, this seems to be a reliable stream protocol that aimed at dethroning TCP. I don't think it intends to replace UDP. If anything, I would describe it as a user space replacement for TCP. It uses UDP, yes, but that's because UDP is about as close as you can get to IP at the user level.

It's about time, too. Certainly user-level substitutes for TCP are not a new idea (I've worked a good deal with UDT), but this the first one to my knowledge that has the weight of something like Google behind it.

There are a lot of advantages to doing this as the user level with UDP as well. Not needing to install a kernel module, for one. But also P2P rendezvous connections through NAT with UDP (we wouldn't even need to wait for router manufacturers to adopt anything), better control over protocol options without going through the kernel, custom congestion control algorithms, finer control over buffers (mmap'd files as buffer for file transfers anyone?), etc.

I'd much rather see this at the kernel level, but TCP as it's implemented on most systems has too many issues on modern networks, and most acceptable user-level solutions (ugh, parallel streams) are really terrible hacks. If Google does it right, maybe it'll force OS developers to wake up and rethink the increasingly clunky and antiquated BSD sockets API that is the source of many of TCP's woes and finally modernize the network stack for the fiber era.
In related news, Uganda is trying to launch a space probe: http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/639792-uganda-to-launch-its-...

"We shall send a mouse to space. If it comes back alive, it will mean that Uganda is able to send human beings into space and we shall embark on constructing a new space observer that a person can use"
I found buzby. :)
The image is clickable, which brings up a sweepstakes competition. Cute Easter Egg.

http://btlondon2012.co.uk/pano.html?view.hlookat=168.9705...
If someone put themselves between you and something you want via a lie, calling them out is actually the last option you have. While speaking of "lesson"... the captain couldn't make eye contact and the FA hid away; let's hope they learned their lessons; actual ones worth talking about.
Honest question. Does Sony do the same when someone accidentally uses their licensed material?
Honest question: did Sony ever attempt to contact anyone before installing rootkits on their machines or suing them for copyright infringement through proxy? They didn't even contact me quickly when my PSN account with CC info and everything was compromised.

While it might be good style, contacting a copyright violator before making things public is not at all a must. Sony is not exactly known for communicating well, so it might not have been worth the effort.
>and punish the guy that did this //

Couldn't they just add LGPL3 to the website and acknowledge the work of those who helped [albeit in this case in a small way] create their website unpaid?
TL;DR: using == to compare two floating point values is bad. Didn't you already know?
About US$1,500 in 1992.
http://fxtop.com/en/currency-converter-past.php?A=2500&C...!

Which, with inflation, is roughly US$2,400.
http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
I'm not sure how much credit Id give his answers as he was not at facebook very long and his investments in asia are all sinking (besides Perx which is doing great).

The social network movie put him on the map!
These use cases spring to my mind: real-time data and multi-player action games, perhaps even streaming media.

TCP and HTTP are less than ideal transports when it comes to real time data. In case of a network error, TCP retransmits the lost data but in a real-time environment, the data is already old and therefore next to useless. Real time action games (like quake) favor udp over tcp.

Some questions: Why replace UDP? Why not work on top of UDP? There must be a reason for this. What about multicast?
Indeed. Now that I have it it is SO intuitive and fast, one wonders why no phone makers have gotten creative about the cursor placement/selection UX.
This report is essentially a summary of network connectivity between 3 arbitrarily chosen external client VMs and 5 object storage platforms: AWS S3, Azure Blob storage, HP Object storage and Google developer storage. The results are highly dependent on network proximity between said clients and provider networks. With such a small client test population and no details provided about them (other than that they are on the east coast), I think the findings are inconclusive at best, and cetainly undeserving of these kinds of sensational headlines. Nansuni even acknowledges that the most optimal test conditions for object storage is use of clients within a provider's associated compute platform.
I've heard a teddybear works pretty well in a pinch.

For me, the epiphany usually hits when I finally break down and decide to ask for help. I realize my cognitive blind spot while composing a message for a forum post or email.

It's always good to step back and acquire a fresh perspective.
Why not use DCCP then?
So what now?

Are we going to see Sony GPL'ing their UEFI implementation?
I think what the author did is the better solution.

Big corporations must learn that they can't treat their users badly but disrespect the laws themselves without getting into PR trouble.
The full article is behind a pay-wall!
I've no idea how I'm supposed to install it. Didn't find instructions anywhere.
It's also in their UEFI settings. I've seen it with my own eyes.
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I wonder if this happens because of open source being mistaken for public domain. I've definitely had lecturers who confuse the two.
Yeah, but 90% of those standards were TERRIBLE. Like, GOD AWFUL. EJB? SOAP?

It's the hangover from those standards that leaves kids today thinking that Python or Ruby are simpler than Java.

Eventually the JCP turned into "take popular open source ideas like hibernate and spring, and bless them with a JCP number". Which worked a lot better, and each of those individual projects was usually launched by an individual or small group initially.
It's both (which is to say, it's about HCI). People would be more eager to use whatever license embedding mechanism we agreed upon if it was as easy as right click -> "License as..." -> "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0". That is not the case right now.
No, not the MITM. A simple denial of service - I can terminate your TLS-over-TCP connection at will by sending a FIN or RST packet.

More generally speaking, I can alter the state of your secure over-TCP connection with an unauthenticated packet. Compare this to ESP where every packet that can potentially alter the state is first authenticated.
> It doesn't take too much knowledge to maintain a biosphere, otherwise it would have collapsed long before humans arrived on Earth.

Well. It did. Multiple times.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event

It's just that things tend do kick back in if you give them few millions of years.
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In lieu of blogging about it? Yeah, yeah they do.
> Say, you want to design a protocol with reliable delivery and/or loss detection. You will then have ACKs...
> So - surprise! - you have no choice but to design a TCP clone.

Some use cases don't really want TCP or a TCP clone, for example multi-player games might only use a semi-reliable loss detection system which has ACK's but does not attempt retransmission on failure to deliver. This works a lot better than TCP for that use case, and is not really a "TCP clone".
Don't you think it demonstrates, in at least a small way, how companies like Sony continue to preach the benefits of strong, long-lived copyright protection and still continue to play fast-and-loose with the equivalent rights of small companies, FOSS and individuals.

The link to past "misdemeanours" demonstrates a continued failure with respect to the rights of others.
> it's a fricken idiom and automatic response in a photographic context. http://goo.gl/CnV1s

It's part of an idiom, and that'a among a small niche community, mostly in London.

Even if the guy was aware of the idiom I doubt the staff were too.
Technically Google is an advertising organisation which uses technology as a means.
And here he is again (zoom in!): http://btlondon2012.co.uk/pano.html?view.hlookat=-43.8694...
While this blows ... it's a bummer that companies keep getting blamed when things like this happen. Sure, at some point an employee is a reflection of a company but at the end of the day a person did this. It's easy to point the finger at a big company and use this as fud against them. But really... the correct title should be "Someone who works for Sony pirated KDE artwork."
You have now twice posted what I posted.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5256830

I should thank you for your promotion of it! ;)
I read this and had this small voice in the back of my head translating what I read into "Look at me! I'm special! I'm a shut-in! I do it because I'm special!"

In reality the author is just alike everyone else, with fears and emotions which caused him to shut himself in and rationalize it with some meditative jargon.
Connection reliability (we upload large files), the .net API is unreliable in the AWS SDK and lots of spurious issues.

We've basically had to implement a retry wrapper around their API.
I think (not sure right now because I always set it to hibernate) it defaults to Sleep on laptops and Shut down on desktop computers.
That solves the license input but doesn't make anyone more likely to check the license at go-live time.
Blind, or with some way to observe the sequence numbers?

If it's blind (e.g. window guessing) I'm interested in what your techniques are.

If it's not blind and you don't have MITM and you don't share a medium, I'm interested in how you're doing that.

Challenge: I have the following TCP connection open (oh man I'm really asking for it, but what the heck :)

tcp 0 0 192.168.0.10:52352 216.240.155.220:80 ESTABLISHED 16284/nc

If you can terminate it with a FIN or an RST in the next hour, I'll post proclaiming your victory. If either the box or my local link drops, we'll call it a draw.
I think SETI will be much more fruitful once we master neutrinos for communication.

Radio waves are probably in the same bucket of technologies as smoke signals for civilizations few hundreds years more advanced than us.
I have to agree on this point somewhat. I'm not saying you're "just some 23 year old boy who think too much" (Altho I'm leaning that way), but the difference in thinking, attitude and well-being between teens to early twenties to late twenties and into thirties and beyond can be drastically different in each.
Very cool. I wish there wasn't as much HDR-like post processing in these images. It kind of has an "uncanny valley" thing going on.
Sad that every criticism of a phone operating system requires an explicit justification of not being biased.
Nowhere to hide: Video location tech has arrived
New technologies are turning Web videos and photos into tools that will destroy your privacy
Things look pretty weird here: http://btlondon2012.co.uk/pano.html?view.hlookat=-96.9453...
Why there was no PS4 design reveal
Karma has perhaps already worked wonders.

$14 billion market value, down 75% from 2007, and down 60% in just the last year. The company has nearly been demolished by the incompetent management.

Remains to be seen if they'll learn from their cultural problems or not (many of which no doubt contributed to their current mess).
There is no general answer to this one, but I'd say those 6-12 first months are when the company is most derisked. If you're going to be employee #1 of a 12-months-old startup, it means it still exists (vs all those failed projects), so it is much less risky, and founders are compensated for this risk (don't forget that in most case, their huge share of equity will be worth nothing in a few years!).

Of course once employee #1 joins he usually works as hard as the founders and I understand if he wonders why he got so little equity but those first months are more crucial than appears.

Let's take the example of the company I'm cofounding (tldr.io). When we started 10 months ago it was nothing more than a crazy idea with a very low chance of success (summarizing the web). Fast forward to today. We're still not ready to hire but we're getting close. The crazy idea has become a "there actually is a chance, although small, that it will succeed". I feel that the difference is huge.
"How to build a giant travel industry startup" (The GetYourGuide story)
Yes it was an accident, heh. :) I meant to paste a link of an upside-down building, but I paste yours (having just looked at it) instead. I can't find the original link I was trying to paste any more! I feel kinda stupid now. >.<

edit: I found it! http://btlondon2012.co.uk/pano.html?view.hlookat=-96.8554...
There is a penguin in that Android suit, I don't think it really cares. :o)
My sarcasm filter is failing here: do you seriously mean what you wrote?
Intelligence[1] "the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills"

Good[2] "that which is morally right; righteousness"

Intelligence relates to an ability to do something, Good (in this context) relates to a moral judgement. They may be related in that to do Good you may need Intelligence, but its conceivable that someone could have Intelligence but may not be Good, or vice versa.

[1](http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/intelligenc...)

[2](http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/good?q=good)
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i use copy paste a lot and have been using samsung phones since the day of release of the SGS1 and never encountered an issue like this
jbooth: Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

The standards weren't terrible it was the entire concepts themselves and reflective of that era of computing. Most people thought XML was the future of the world and component architectures would be how all business software would be written. Little did we know.

But I still use SOAP everyday with Java, .Net, iOS and JS clients. So the benefits of companies working on commons standards is still pretty clear.