skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I just can't see any utility gain from subsidizing rural folks.

Ah, so it's "government subsidy" and you have a hard time imagining how that is good for society. Understood, you really are trolling.
I'm glad to see you agree. I haven't had time to evaluate CoffeeScript, and now I don't need to make it because the advantages CoffeScript offers are not issues that bother me and it introduces issues that would bother me.
No, it's more productive in my experience.
If you de-focus your eyes from the TV part of AppleTV, Apple is developing an interesting competency in making "pucks" to bring devices around your house into the fold of computer management/interaction:

With AppleTV they've done TVs. With AirPort they've done printers and speakers. With TimeMachine they've done remote storage devices.. As the size of the devices shrink, I imagine there will eventually just be a small Apple hockey puck that will endow any device it's connected to with the ability to be managed by your computer.
CoffeeScript is more readable if you follow Visual Basic paren rules. Visual Basic, at least the one I used way back when, differentiates between functions and subroutines. Functions whose return values are used in an expression must use parentheses. Subroutines and functions used as subroutines omit parentheses.

Example, I often see this. In this trivial example the intent is simple. In real code this style is unnecessary cleverness.

a b c, d e

In VB, since the return value of `b` and `d` are used, parentheses must be added

a b(c, d(e))
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I'm struggling with my photos as well. iPhoto stinks. Never tried Picasa yet though. I should probably give it a shot.
That's just code, not a scenario. Government IT systems are currently subject to oversight, testing, comprehensive threat risk assessments etc. Those controls don't disappear just because the software is open source. Right now it's not possible to just deploy new code, open source or not, into a production environment on a critical piece of infrastructure without review. If anything, the open source code should be significantly more secure, because you have added an additional layer of public review, testing and comment.
The problem with AES isn't performance. Sites have been using AES ciphersuites in TLS for many years.

The problem is that the widely-deployed AES ciphersuite, like the ciphersuites for triple DES and IDEA, uses a construction from the '90s that is itself insecure. It's based on CBC mode (which is fine) in a MAC-then-encrypt configuration (which is not), which lead to the Lucky 13 attack, and which until TLS 1.1 didn't properly set up the IVs for each record, which lead to BEAST.

No major site used RC4 because it was more performant. They used it as a workaround to Lucky 13 and BEAST, because they couldn't count on browsers fixing those problems fast enough.
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Leap Motion has JS plugin so it would be super easy to integrate with it.
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The theirs in this case is Google+
This is exactly how things work here in Cyprus and Greece for many years now! These very same people now are responsible to handle the bailout money. But we voted for them. They know better...
No the buck stops with the fundamental laws of physics.

What you are suggesting will quickly devolve into barbarism. E.g., if I build a house, don't I at least have the right to sleep peacefully in it with my family?

Suppose I start with raw materials Y, and transform that into X. Are you saying that everyone else has the same rights to X as I have?

Then, in that case you don't even own your body. Watch out for my horde of pillagers and looters! :)

"I owe no man."

Similarly, no other man owes you anything!
(Not strictly a reply to you, but following up since I found that interesting.)

The original quote was

> that, simply, is why mailing a letter through UPS is so expensive.

So the actual reason is: Mailing a letter through UPS does not exist. Mailing an express letter does exist and it is more expensive.

And I think they wouldn't bother either way, simply because it's not economical for them. Once again a reason why having it as a quasi-government service makes sense.
No, I think you've misunderstood this attack at multiple points. The attack gives the researchers the ability to use any HTML page on the Internet to trick your browser into launching an attack on your Paypal cookie. Once they have that cookie, they don't care about MITM attacks; they'll just impersonate you.

The attack is very time-consuming, though, so you're right that it's not a particularly urgent real-world threat at the moment.
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Steve Blank talks about a lot of interesting RF/defense stuff from ancient times, and of course Intel early on, so the 1970s were great. And Apple. And videogame boom/bust/boom.

I'd consider The Internet, cisco, Sun, Berkeley UNIX, etc. to have been quite innovative. (early 1980s to early 1990s recession)

Arguably the first part of the tech bubble was amazing -- 1995-1998 or so.

I think 2008-2011 was a low period, but that may just correlate with the economic downturn. 2005-2008 was interesting due to AJAX and not much else; that really was the weakest boomlet technically, but I think a lot of it was just proving we could have a boom again, just like GW1 was proving US military involvement didn't automatically mean another Vietnam.

I've seen plenty of awesome stuff in 2012+, and it seems to be accelerating.
(Disclosure: I independently comment a lot on TechCrunch articles.)

While I definitely agree that the acquisition of $100 million is absurd, I don't think it can be solely attributed to TechCrunch's coverage, given that other sites like GigaOm and The Verge also gave large amounts of coverage.

The relationship between the writers/CrunchFund is overstated: https://twitter.com/ryanlawler/status/313297205186408451 EDIT: article updated with Tweet

Also, large amounts of TC press does not mean success: (see http://techcrunch.com/tag/airtime/ )
I'm not sure that this can be reduced solely to a conflict of interest regarding Crunch Fund. Arrington left, and the piece (really more of a rant) never accounts for that or for any of the other possible motivations: it just asserts some sort of dubious manipulation of the system.

Frankly, I think the impetus is much more benign: TC wants trafic, and Mailbox is popular at the moment (primarily due to their brilliant if infuriating waiting list gimmick). Blogs write what will make them money.
I like not having to grow my own food. And I think rural people appreciate all the technology and media, enabled by population density, that we send their way. It's a nice symbiotic relationship.

This will probably continue to be the case until someone figures out how to make vertical farming competitive.
Well, I am not a surveillance expert by any possible stretch of the imagination. That said, I seriously doubt governments could access the kind of personal data (behavioral and otherwise) they can today back in the 70's and 80's. sure, if they targeted someone they could follow their life and gather lots of data. That required devoting people to follow, watch, study and record a persons every action. Today things are quite different. A "recording" of everyone's actions is being made every minute of every day. When someone becomes a government target they can virtually rewind the last n years and learn everything about them with nearly zero human cost in relative terms.
http://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/1323-pl...
CoffeeScript and co. ensure new developers who adopt those languages never actually be proficient in JavaScript. Its not a good thing. Perhaps its me, but I just don't get why I'd want to write in one language in order to get code in another. Why not just learn the target language?
And please don't bring up the "You write C which gets compiled to assembly or Python which ends up as C" etc. Its not the same thing. JavaScript is not Assembly and its not Machine Language. Its a very simple language and its quirks can be learned quite easily. Its not that more verbose than CoffeeScript. Don't get me wrong, I think CoffeeScript's syntax is nice, but its nice in an academic kind of way, not in as a replacement for a language that if you work and develop for the browser, you should know very well and be friends with. Its a dangerous short cut.
One notable ommission - Google Answers. It was like stack overflow but better. Answers were based on research, not popular opinion. And you could get answers for even obscure questions. I really miss that service.
I found a tech co-founder. Here is how.
1) We're not in a position to value the acquisition.

2) TechCrunch is more of a PR outlet than news source. It has an occasional news story, but the vast majority are PR pieces.

Surely Mailbox met the minimum bar for some glowing PR pieces in TC, so this controversy is misplaced.
So what was the right solution? Kick Cyprus out of the
EU and let them scavenge for themselves? Letting the banks fail might attract an invasion from Russia, and then it becomes a NATO problem....such a mess.
dropbox investors.
But do you think that is what made Dropbox buy them or that it substantially influenced the price?
The answer: Yes, if the "Hacker Ethic" is pure unabashed self-righteousness.
Number of people on the wait list is kinda significant. Call it a marketing list if you want and you'll realise there's definite value there.
It does apply to those protocols, except that it's much harder to coerce a victim into making hundreds of millions of connections to an IMAP server.

On the other hand, those questions are based on the logic that only the first few bytes of the connection are exposed to the attack. That turns out not to be true. There are biases hundreds of bytes into the keystream. The earlier biases seem to be easier to detect, which might make an attack somewhat faster against a protocol where the secret was exchanged earlier than HTTPS.
I'm not sure portability is why android has java as its primary language ... For example http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/ndk/index.html
Hacking the &lt;a&gt; tag in 100 characters
Different article, different (somewhat more detailed) explanation.
And I think they wouldn't bother either way, simply because it's not economical for them. Once again a reason why having it as a quasi-government service makes sense.

If nobody was in that market at all and there was no legal barrier to entering the market, it would be economical for somebody to offer the service, be that UPS or some other company.
Looks like there's already a very similar submission: http://js1k.com/2013-spring/demo/1382. This one however is significantly better.
From the standpoint of the little guy trying to get his product / service heard, this kind of thing can be pretty irksome. Someone else linked to this orgasmic description of the mailbox service going down: http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/14/with-20-of-reservations-fil... -- meanwhile in the comments, someone mentions that there's an app called TaskBoxApp that solves the same problem and is 100% client side so doesn't suffer the privacy concerns. Has TC ever mentioned that one? http://techcrunch.com/search/taskboxapp I don't read TC, I don't have any affiliation with any of these apps, but I find this kind of behavior really ridiculous. There can be no doubt that the front-page coverage of Mailbox contributed to an increase in signups. The Dropbox acquisition is what it is -- I'm sure they can value an investment despite its hype or overhype.
Where else would you put your money? Keeping large sums of cash in your home is stupid and dangerous, commodities are volatile (bitcoin behaves like a commodity in this regard), real estate has high associated costs, stocks can go down as well as up.
As was clear in London, Toronto, Athens...
Damn Google+ and it's 98% market share for providing automatic notifications when a site updates its content!

Wait, what?
http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/7/3961544/mailbox-app-for-iph...

http://www.macworld.com/article/2027388/review-mailbox-for-i...

http://allthingsd.com/20130221/mailbox-takes-swipe-at-tradit...

It's just not techcruch, mailbox app got rave reviews from other sites too. This post is insulting to mailbox team giving an impression somehow they are scamming.
Yes, I think it is. There can be a balance. Just like Costco has shown that companies can be good to their employees and still profit. Problem is a lot of people just focus on the money and not on society. After all my years doing business, I've realized that businesses have an obligation if serving society. They only exist because society has allowed them to.
One cannot be proficient in CoffeeScript without being proficient in JavaScript. How could they debug anything?
If you believe that, and are given a choice between (a) an asset which is going to lose 30% of its value but then gain it back and (b) a confiscatory 6% tax on cash, you still prefer (b); you eat the tax, wait for the devaluation of bitcoin, buy bitcoin, and enjoy the appreciation.

Of course, that's a silly hypothetical, because the reality is that bitcoin (or gold) is just as likely to stay devalued longer than you can remain illiquid.

Your logic is based on the idea that Bitcoin must at some point return to some predictable equilibrium valuation, or even that it must appreciate. The point upthread was, no, obviously that's not true. Next week it be worth pennies, or nothing, and stay that way forever. Which is why moving all your money into Bitcoin is not a rational risk management reaction to confiscatory 6% taxes.
Well? What is it?
I've had a good one of these, even went for help from StackOverflow (subsequently deleted) [1]

I couldn't figure out why my '%' key was exiting insert mode in vim. It turned out to be bad keying - I had remapped caps-lock to escape, and was grazing that key while hitting shift with my pinky. Drove me nuts until I figured it out, was especially hard to debug because it was an 'intermittent bug'.

[1] http://kevinlochner.com/physical-technical-problems
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In an indirect way, yes. Creating positive noise can attract more buyers/interest to the table, and that can put pressure on serious buyers like Dropbox to increase the price/make the offer sweeter.

I really doubt it was only Dropbox knocking on Mailbox's door. Specially given the rumoured price (I also think there is a large equity component).
Crossing my fingers real hard for somebody to pick this up eventually to make a no-nonsense FOSS SimCity clone out of this. Please, please, please.
"From the standpoint of the little guy trying to get his product / service heard, this kind of thing can be pretty irksome."

Specifically "little guy". I fail to understand why people seem to think that life is fair (hasn't changed and never will) and why people also seem to think that the existing filters and people that determine success don't still exist. They do and they always will.
I agree with the OP's point in general, but disagree with you on the game theory course. This was the first course I've ever completed on Coursera and I think it's precisely because the time requirement is very low. They don't have any projects or essays or special software like other classes. It's an hour of video (30 min at 2x) and 5-10 multiple choice questions per week. The whole thing honestly requires 90 minutes of your time.

Contrast that with Daphne Koller's PGM class, which I also started taking a while ago but stopped. You had to install Octave and learn to use it, you had really time-intensive programming assignments, you had to answer a bunch of assignment questions, and you had 10 multiple choice problem set questions every week. That class simply required too much work.
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Wow, very interesting, this tickles my fancy... Imagine something like this but with an airfield, you could model the airfield and every airplane landing and getting up in real-time.
This will be great until Google sunsets Google Voice next year.
I would love it if Atom gets AES-NI as most consumer/smb NAS devices us that CPU and it would mean that we could finally have essentially wire speed encryption for those devices.
Let's hope you are right.. :)

The UK gov does not have the best record with IT projects.
Who said life is fair or has to be fair -- I said the behavior was irksome. I actually think it points to a market need for a tech journal covering startups that has integrity. I'd love to read that.
For context I am a ruby developer first, DevOps second. The last cluster I managed was while I was working for Pivotal Labs. Out client had 50 VMs on top of about 30 Metal servers. We used OpenVZ, Scientific Linux (because centos didn't have ipv6 firewalls, WTF?) and chef-server.

We had to add a few patches to get features we wanted such as graceful shutdown and fix up the way the CLI api worked.

Chef was tested, but the way the tests were implemented were done extremely poorly. When testing a class they stubbed their own internal classes. Basically what ended up happening was none of the interaction between the methods were being tested. I was amazed that this class worked at all. This happend quite a bit too. I understand that what chef is trying to do is very difficult but maybe the problem is that they are trying to do too much.

I don't want my ops tool doing everything, I only want it to setup my servers and make sure that they are all the same.

Groupon has a pretty good internal solution that they are trying to open source soon. They released the client a few days ago. Now if only they had some documentation and the server.

https://github.com/groupon/roll
The fact that the alternative to Flash was an open standard was a convenient convergence of interests. Jobs disliked Flash and wanted to hasten obsoleting it.

I have no inside information, but from reading the proverbial tea leaves and following his career, I think Sundar Pichai might have a similar prerogative and management style with respect to shedding things that are "un-Googley" Particularly things that run locally & sync with their services, e.g. Google Gears, Goolge Desktop, now CalDAV, etc.
Well, if I look at C/C++, I feel that since & means a bitwise operation and && means a boolean operation, and & in front is a reference operator, that & is "Having a meaning that is mysterious or obscure" since the symbol changes in context.

I also feel your semantic example is overly obtuse.

func SumOf left and right
is left + right

--

result is SumOf left and right

--
You're right, that's kind of what I got from it by reading the other thread after posting...

You'd need to visit a page that exploits JS to make those connections to get that cookie. Afterwards, I guess it depends.
Really amazing to get this after only one month, when you know how difficult is building 3D stuff !
"TC has always been a big scam under the guise of journalism."

Why is that a scam? It's only a scam to the people freshly hatched that a) don't know it's a scam or b) can't figure out because they don't read it or other things enough to discover it's a "scam" (not my word just repeating).

Sometimes the reason that "scams" get people upset is the same reason a guy will get mad when another guy gets the girl because of bullshit. And the guy who lost out either has scruples (and feels cheated) or wouldn't ever think that anyone would fall for the particular bullshit that landed the girl.
I remember trying to 'enroll' in a courera class that had already ended and was unable to access the contents. that was infuriating to me. it's defeating some of the greatest advantages of online learning, namely that it can be self directed and self paced.

I am a udacity fan for this reason. Udacity seems to be the one most likely to experiment with how to maximally leverage being online and having nontraditional tools available.
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> There is nothing unethical in not opening your competitive advantages

So 90's Microsoft fit your ethics? Their competitive advantages being control of de-facto standard OS, file formats, etc ?

How quickly we relax after we've won the battle. I'm more scared of the worlds Google and Apple want to create than what Microsoft was doing (with the exception of the TPM).
Are you implying I was behaving inappropriately? Sorry, I am not one of those idiots. I was the only player at the table. I was sitting across the way from the dealer betting. I was actually engaging the dealer in occasional chit chat while running the patterns in my head.

With regards to what would happen over 5,000 or 10,000 spins, yeah, of course, the odds are the odds.

That said, I went across the street to another casino and did just as well.

Will it happen again? Who knows? Probably not.
Well said.

It also wasn't just TechCrunch who had articles about Mailbox. The Verge had 4 articles in less than a month.

Pretty much every tech news website had quite a few articles about Mailbox, as well as major blogs like Daring Fireball which have a huge readership of iPhone users.

It seems weird to me that this blog post attributes the entire success of Mailbox to TechCrunch, when really, Mailbox's success is because they created a simple and enjoyable email app.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/22/3903302/mailbox-for-iphone...
http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/7/3961544/mailbox-app-for-iph...
http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/7/3962414/mailbox-hands-on-vi...
http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/14/3988872/mailbox-email-ipho...
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/02/07/mailbox
What point is Google Voice at now, usability-wise?

I used it in 2010 and it was slow to make outgoing calls and had some limitations as far as text messaging from the gv number. There were also some concerns about its general reliability.

Is anyone using it fulltime now and happy with it?
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Yap :) just donate me some bucks for my work. I will buy ST3 when it will be released.
It is, minus the bits used for spam and vote abuse detection.

http://arclanguage.org

http://ycombinator.com/arc/arc3.tar
Their elected officials accepted a deal that involved this haircut. That's hardly by force.
I got into Google Voice very early on. I grabbed a number ending in 1337 in my area code.

That's now become my main number I give out to people. It brings a smirk to the few people who get it :)
The parable doesn't say the surgery is a sham. It says that the effective therapy is not the manipulation of the thoracic artery. That's all. The results can mean any supporting therapy (the anesthesia to the cutting of specific tissue) is the real therapeutic treatment. This article is just espousing bad science.
I didn't say it was a suitable replacement. It's hardly an uncommon notion that they're trying to push people to Google+. Most of the behavioral defenses of killing Reader have to do with the fact that "social" won. (I disagree. Different use-cases)
Not intended that way at all. I didn't even know the term "scare quote" existed.
FWIW addressing point 1:
The difference in pricing when using Cloudfront for serving 10.000.000 files (in the US) over HTTPS opposed to unencrypted is 2.5$
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How does it compare to the way BeOS was built?
I've also tried to post a couple of links discussing these attacks in practice, and comparing the risks from BEAST/Lucky 13 to these...

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5367805 - links to a very interesting answer on security stackexchange that puts things into pretty good perspective.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5368610 - links to an interesting possible browser workaround to these attacks.

(disclaimer: I'm the one who posted both the questions on security stackexchange and HN posts. I'm not trying to be a karma whore, just hoping to get some discussion going on around those... both went under the radar)
Yes, people frequently use the term 'bubble' these days when they actually mean 'fad'. Bursting bubbles attract more attention than passing fads, apparently. But accelerators are clearly a fad, not a bubble.