skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Google Chrome goes into the top-10 list of "software/systems/services which have improved real world Internet security the most" -- wide reach, moderate impact. Probably in the top 3.

(I still think ssh tops the list -- pretty narrowly focused, but SO MUCH BETTER than telnet, rlogin, etc., even kerberized telnet which didn't encrypt contents, only auth. And, like Chrome, it's not just most secure, it's better than the alternatives in every other way, so it got wide adoption for non-security reasons too.)

I guess https falls in there too, but probably the move to "SSL all traffic by default, at least if the user opts-in" is the reason, not the "https just the final form for credit card processing."

SSL also IMO deserves a 9 or 10 place for START-TLS in mail protocols like SMTP and IMAP.
For "rain" see [1] using the mechanical energy of falling rain drops.

For "cold" see [2] the idea of using the potential energy of snow on mountains (or hills). Maybe create artificial avalanches.

For "darkness", no idea. :)

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[1] http://phys.org/news120216714.html

[2] http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/eng99/eng99635.htm
I read it initially as symbolic - feeling estranged in a relationship, so it feels even at home like ships passing in the night. But, I think the other explanations here are more likely :)
I wonder if this is intended as a flagship - not so much to actually sell, but to give Chrome OS the aura of quality, so that the cheap ones feel like a good deal, rather than a poor alternative for people who can't afford a 'real' laptop. Google presumably has the cash to do it.

Plus, of course, there's simple media exposure. Most people don't associate Google with laptops, but this is on the BBC homepage at the moment (first story under technology).
I have the $249 ARM Chromebook from Samsung. It is great if your workflow involves developing remotely over an SSH connection. I also have the Nexus 10, so I couldn't help but to notice the difference in screen quality when going between them. I don't know that I need a Core i5, in fact, I would probably prefer to keep the ARM processor for battery life/weight/etc, but a high resolution screen and backlit keyboard are the things I really feel like my current Chromebook is missing. That said, I don't think they're compelling enough for me to spend that kind of money.
Yeah. That's not public information for a private firm, is it?

Mind you, I don't trust anyone's word on this.
Whats annoying about all these new fandangeled web platforms is that they really screw third party developers over with drastic API changes which only benefit their own interests.

This is totally different to how things used to be done back in the desktop software era.... oh wait... oops.

P.s it sucks to be small and at the mercy of big boys
I think it might work reverse to this. You don't buy your think client and then figure out how to live with it. Rather, Google is betting that in the future people will be using thin clients and cloud services because of all the other reasons they are attractive.

Once you've already decided you want to live in the cloud, then your question becomes, what is the best possible device I could buy for doing that? And that is what the Pixel is for.
I don't know about missed connections, but I lost my car/house /bike lock keys in Boston while riding my bike to work (somewhere between the end of the bike path and The Garden)

I didn't realize I had lost my keys until after I locked my bike up, so it was a particularly bad after-work-surprise.

Anyways, after a few days of looking all over my house/work for them, my girlfriend suggested I check CraigsList's Lost+Found ... I told her she was crazy. What are the changes that (a) someone found my keys and then (b) that they would post that they found them on CraigsList and (c) I would be able to identify them from their post.

Well, a nice, older gentleman from Southy found my keys at a bus stop (that wasn't even close to anywhere I rode my bike) and had his daughter post about it on Craigslist.

So I can at least say that CraigsList's Lost+Found worked at least 1 time in the history of the universe... so maybe a Missed Connection has a chance too?
crosh is being deprecated in favour of a newer ssh client:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhec...
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I would actually be interested in knowing how others deal with a certain type of fraud.

We currently have an issue where someone is using stolen credit cards to buy "digital goods".

We in the UK and Scandinavia, so we started out blocking purchases of digital goods from the UK. Fraud goes to zero right away.

The fraudsters moves to using stolen UK credit cards in Denmark, via a large number of Danish IPs, fine... We'll just require that the card is issued in the country where your IP indicates that you're located ( not 100% correct, but close enough ).

At this point fraud has been reduced to zero for a few weeks. The next we really where not expecting. The same pattern of buying starts showing up, seems like fraud and it turns out it is. We now see a stolen Danish credit cards.

At this point we're more or less reduced to having to approve every purchase manually. The only real solution currently is 3DSecure for MasterCard or Verified by VISA. These solutions are very American and not at all what European customers expect to see. Enabling 3DSecure scares of legitimate customers, but it's currently the only solution.

The article looks at high velocity, that does nothing in some cases, if people are out to scam you, they will appear as a new customer for a new IP, with a new card.

CSC are useless, these are stolen all the time.

AVS is supported by almost no one.

Looking a transaction amount compared to the mean doesn't really work when you mostly sell one product at a time.

Recently created accounts are actually a good indication of fraud, but mostly you have false positives.

Blocking high risk countries don't work for digital goods.

Large distance between IP and billing address, doesn't work well in smaller countries, but worth considering. Somewhat difficult to implement though.

High number of card from the same person... That never happens. Our legitimate customer are the only ones that might use different cards. In the case of fraud cards and accounts are often used only once.

It's not that the article is a bad write up, but non of the information will protect you against someone that wants to scam you. Physical products are easier to safe guard, because the bad guy will need to pick it up at some point, digital good is a lot harder to secure.
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It all started a few years ago. People didn't understand at first. It looked hap-hazzard.. but now. Now they get it - but even more than that, they're trapped.

One used to be able to expect both freedom and choice. Now they have neither.

It was a kicker too, starting out with a service here, a device there, a bit of infrastructure over there.... but now? Now its one big system. From bit to brick, its all one big pipe - an experience fully enclosed, encapsulated, enumerated, evaluated and.... exploited. For every single bit of information about, well, everything.

They worked their way down the layers. What was once a web service is now the actual physical net.

You cant push a packet without them seeing it.Most people don' care though - they bought into the web services decades ago. Phones were next, then laptops, service providers and frequencies.

Its basically the commercial version of the NSA these days, hell, there hasn't even been a real difference between the two for some time now.

Now, pretty much any connection is provided by them. They started out nice enough... do no evil and all... but when you're the only game in town - it's pretty hard to not abuse your power. Hell, its more than power. Power is limited... omnipotence is not. That's what they are now - omnipotent, and there isn't anything anyone can do about it now, either.

Every spoken word, every communication mashed out from keyboard to carrier is captured in the goog. They pretty much own thought at this point...
Sure parallel code is harder than sequential code, but it's not really all that much harder (maybe about 8 credit-hours at your local university?). The reason it's "too hard" is that most programs aren't slow enough to be worth the bother.
$21k for 2 days in the hospital? Are the beds made of gold? To me it sound totally outrageous. I'm going to have an ACL operation in a very good European hospital, paying out of my pocket and the estimate is running at 4k EUR (say $5.5k) for the operation and one day in the hospital. I understand health costs can be unbounded, but it exceeds all reason.
Besides being too expensive for something in which you can't do real work (yes, I know, you can SSH into a hosted box, but why would I pay $1300 and $X.XX for hosting, to essentially use this new machine as a dumb terminal), what's the point of having a touch screen on a laptop? Haven't we concluded that this is a horrible idea? Just look at this demo (http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/21/4013480/google-chromebook-...) from The Verge, Dieter fumbles around trying to hit a tab.

It strikes me odd that Google, a company with no shortage of talent, can't get retail right. Who is this laptop for? The 12 year old Engadget/Verge reader who thinks this Chromebook Pixel is the nail in Apple's coffin?

This is so misguided. I know I shouldn't be so infuriated over a botched product launch, but this irks me for some reason. I guess it's because I like Google's products and want them to succeed in hardware, but I lose hope when I see questionable decisions like the manufacturing of this neutered MacBook Pro ripoff. Ugh.
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You are the one talking about riots, not me.
Using that logic I don't know how Apple sells so many of its MacBooks. They're all expensive and have "specs like this", but the vast majority are not used for development, design or gaming.

I can see the appeal of a small (thinner than a MacBook Air), well constructed, blazingly fast laptop. If I could run 1Password on it I would be very tempted to take it for a spin, with the LTE it would make an excellent travel machine.
The market is betting more heavily against Elon. TSLA is the ninth most shorted stock - see http://online.wsj.com/mdc/public/page/2_3062-nasdaqshort-hig... .

It's so heavily shorted that there's a possibility of a short squeeze, which I would find quite delicious - not because I own TSLA, but because I want to see people hoping for failure get screwed.
Price = Quality

When something is $1299, you don't even need to read the specs. You just know it will be worth it. But when something is $249, hmm better check the specs to see why it's so horrible.

It's just basic human nature. Google isn't wrong to capitalize on this principle the same way Apple has been doing from the start.
It's not hard to bet on a massively successful entrepreneur.
Fisrt time I've heard of privco, but just one look at their site screams 1998 scammy website. Ya know, the kind with bold lettering, a sticky caps lock, and looks kinda like those chain emails your grandma keeps forwarding....
The Urn That Will Turn You into a Tree After You Die
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Been there. And you know what's more difficult than letting investors down? ("Debts won't be paid" etc)

Paying them back. Not immediately, perhaps over a period of 2 or 3 years, while working on saving the co without making any salary.

Unfortunately, most entrepreneurs prefer to just walk away.
A very striking collection of photos. Was the industrial revolution in America and Britain ever this bad? I've heard stories about people in the 1950s in the US (can't remember where, but I believe it was in Utah) having respiratory problems while walking down a street because of the sulphuric acid fumes coming from a nearby factory, praying for a car to stop and give them a ride so they wouldn't die.
> Instead of having a 'Windows Phone', a 'Blackberry', an 'Apple', and an 'Android', you now have a 'Galaxy', a 'Droid', a 'Nexus', and an 'Android' (cheap Chinese), etc.

It's brilliant for another reason. Other companies might be tempted to go with another OS. But then they'd be foregoing the network effects and other advantages already established by the Android ecosystem. The competing OS project will have to compete internally with Android.
If you're interested in faster clock cycles, check out the specs on this beast: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/hardware/zenterprise/zec12.h...
TCMalloc and MySQL
'brain-dead easy ... assemble my own personal distro' :))
No. Buy a device for what it is capable of doing in the future.

You buy a computer with faster processor so it can support applications in the future.

The Pixel will be the same a year or so from now. I don't think the hardware is upgradable. But it will be handle resources-intensive apps coming in the future.

Imagine a video-editing app or 3D games.
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The idea that TSLA's valuation should be modeled in the same was as Ford, GM, et al is so preposterous that I have trouble comprehending how someone can make the point in an honest fashion.

I think TSLA is richly valued and I would not buy it now (nor do I own shares), but saying it should have a similar P/S or EV/FCF to F is like saying that VMWare is overvalued by virtue of it having a higher valuation than HP.
Practical reasons: The language is great for enhancing your style but in practice it's been one of the hardest languages I've come across to make do real things. It interacts with the outside environment very poorly and more awkwardly. It's got multiple slightly incompatible implementations and it's library set is relatively light, green, wastefully overlapping and not very well maintained.

There's a reason Java won't go away and that's that it runs everywhere releatively easily and interfaces with stuff acceptably well.

Python is now doing a good job of this too.

Lisp has a looong way to go on this front and I do speak from some limited experience.

It's very pleasant if all you're doing is staying inside lisp and interacting only with your own code but as soon as it's asked to play nice with others it gets a lot less fun.

And staying inwardly focused, never looking out and never talking to anyone else ultimately means get very little real productive work done.

:(
It's still allowed for games, though.
As a user of your stuff, it doesn't feel like it. It's been a few months, but I always felt the Java documentation and samples were lacking compared to Scala. Then again things may have changed.
Show HN: Like The Onion, But Real
I think the tap feature is what makes Vine really great.

I used an app called Dirctr before, it provides you with storyboards that you can fill with videos you record in order to make interesting videos, that are not just long shaky plan of what's around you.
http://www.directr.co/
The results are great but I've only used it a couple of times because you have to go back to the story board each time you want to add a new shot. That makes the UX complicated.

I use Vine all the time because the tap to record is the simplest way to make videos composed of several shots. You can even start recording a couple of shots, turn off your iPhone and come back several minutes/hours later to add some more.
And iPhones are pretty good at focusing so it doesn't seem to me like it's a big issue.
Some people likes downvoting instead of discussing.
Right, but that's what I like about Play. They took Netty, and they took Akka and all the other really nice reactive stuff and integrated it very cleanly.

With Akka you get most of the concurrency benefits you would get from a language like Erlang, but with the benefits of having access to the entire JVM ecosystem.
Isn't that why we have states?
First, apologies for taking so long to respond. I almost just edited my other post. (For some reason the "reply" link wasn't coming up.)

Regardless. I see that the Heist language looks like early Lift templates. They got stronger with time. For the TAL stuff, it looks like logic is directly placed in an attribute. Probably both would be a far cry better than the stuff I have become accustomed to, however, Lift still seems stronger. Again, the difference comes in how the templates are "split" and placed in the app. The lift way just requires judicious useage of class names.

Moving past that, though, I'm still interested to hear an analysis if you are up for giving it. While I'm most likely to only understand what I called "peer" comparisons, I'm interested in all.

Edit: Further apologies in that I am likely not going to be able to respond for a while at this point. So, thanks for the discourse!
Node.js. Realtime web apps using websockets look like they will take off this year. I've played around with Event Machine a bit but the Node syntax looks more natural.
There are countless versions of a similar story circulating by now.

The one I heard involved a Russian sysadmin, a giant server, the same 'X' mark, and a huge hammer.
> You don't walk into a room full of people playing Magic the Gathering and tell them you need three more for a bridge game do you? It's a group of Magic players, not Bridge players.

I very well might because people aren't one dimensional and an interest in one card game might indicate an interest in others.

> Isn't that leaving off a bit of context? Ask them if "Hiring someone who plays hoops on to a team that thinks basketball is a stupid waste of time and recently campaigned against tax payer funding of a local venue for an NBA team." is a smart idea.

If the team is a political action group, then ok, otherwise it has nothing to do with software.
'Missed connections' isn't just "made eyes but didn't speak", but also "spoke but didn't get to contact details". So in bars, perhaps a failure of persistence/crowds/group-dynamics rather than ice-breaking.
You mean slow? it is on AWS.
You're right about that. I was actually addressing the general attitude of the American public as well as pundits' and car enthusiasts and writers with regard to Tesla and the immense promises it brings to the game.

I don't know, I might just be naive about this but god, if Tesla were a French company created by an awesome entrepreneur from my homeland, I'd be over the moon and overlooking the little mistakes, the agitation over the tiny tremors of the stock market.

Tesla Motors is bigger than "reports from the market", in my opinion it's a total game changer in a world that hasn't evolved much in the past 40/50 years (at least in terms of groundbreaking mutations in the core technology), the automobile industry and something that I am (obviously) really excited about. Tesla speaks VOLUMES in the rest of the world about America's capacity to still be #1 in terms of science, innovation, vision at the beginning of the 21st century, I just wish people were more enthusiastically backing the company at all times, this is something the USA should be proud of.

Then again, the article addressing the financial/economical aspect of it all, which makes my comment off-topic and on the "that's cute" side :)
"iPhone"
> Google can't be Microsoft. It needs to be Apple.

Seems like Microsoft feels it has to be Apple too.
It's more of an advertisement to people on creaky Java stacks that require a manual full app reload to pick up changes, and often do so... messily.
SOAP implementations are almost always so terrible that XML parsers can't make sense of them. WDSL would be just as useless even with tools.
Except that's not true at all. Plenty of people check out the specs and build quality of expensive items. If anything, some people are more picky, because they're spending more and they want to make sure they're getting their money's worth.
The beds may not be gold, but the hearts are made of stone.
To encourage a world where

a) companies build desirable hardware

b) companies realise having a good screen is a feature

c) companies build screens with more code friendly aspect ratios
As a quick backstory: This is a mashup between /r/nottheonion, google image search, and The Onion's CSS. Pretty crazy what a little styling can do to the way your brain interprets information!
So this is this like the onion, only true? Manually curated by you or do you have some magic code to do it?
One time my sister-in-law met a guy at a bar and it was one of those movie conversations where they liked the same obscure writers and comedy and whatever. They parted coolly and casually, but the next day they reconnected through Craigslist. So it's happened at least once.
I like Play, currently using for a personal project. But ultimately looking forward to the day where frameworks are replaced by mixing and matching libraries where you get just what you need and wire it up exactly how you want to without any limitations.

On the JVM and especially since version 2.1 Play is one of the most lightweight/modular frameworks. At it's core it's just a fast/async http server. So why can't that just be a library you pull in and fire up in a main method?

You can have an IDE or somthing like sbt recompile your changes on the fly so you can get rapid feedback. Ultimately more rapid feedback comes for automated tests vs refreshing your browser and verifying something manually (unless it's UI/lookandfeel changes which are not generally limited by having to compile)
If they did, in fact, send an email to LS, I would hazard to guess they would send it at 2:30 am.
In Australia we have number portability and while we have contract subsidized phones they are legally required to be free and simple to unlock. For an iPhone, for example, you just run the reset in iTunes and the phone's unlocked.
MBAir is best dev laptop I ever had. Its super light, plenty of power and space for most app development and within reach price wise. Also, I suggest you look up Linus's rant about how he loves Mac book air and SSD for kernel development.
I like my Jetta. I'll probably get another one when I look to replace it. I am leaning toward a TDI. If VW made a Diesel Hybrid it would probably be a "Shut up and take my money" moment.

What I'm saying is I would really like VW to come out with a Diesel Hybrid. Given how they push their diesel cars as 'Clean Diesel' I'm surprised they haven't already released one.
That is what I'm thinking.
Yep! real headlines -- curation is done by redditors (why re-invent something that already kicks ass)
Regarding your investors not calling you back etc - they've written you off.

Surprise them. But before you can do that -

Come up with a new original plan, a pivot, anything that might just revitalize the business. It sounds like you had given up before they did. Look at your digital assets - can your codebase be repurposed for something? Would rebranding work? What about your user base - could you interest them with a new app or new service? Any IP you could license to someone else? There Amy be a well-funded company out there that's trying to build what you already have.
Even a stock that is ninth most heavily shorted isn't necessary heavily against. The market is very very very long TSLA, they have bought into the idea and given it a lofty valuation as a result. People who are short are just balancing the optimism... it's not like they just want failure for failure's sake.
I don't think I understand your objection. The comparison between coal and nuclear power is made because there is a public perception that living near a nuclear plant is dangerous, while coal plants are ignored.

The electricity I'm using to write this was in all likelihood generated by the local coal power plant (though there is some wind and hydro generation nearby); I wish they'd replace it with nuclear.

...people living near nuclear power plants might not have much of a radiation dose to begin with?

That's exactly the point.