skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the direction of gaming and streaming, your mp4 example seems apt... I think being able to do a 1080p stream at 30-60fps in JS is an appropriate goal for both hardware, and software. Canvas+JS is likely to be the "thin" client structure or the future... I think if it were possible to do this in JS, we wouldn't need ignorant plugin points for DRM.. encrypted streaming could "just work" on any platform, not that I want more DRM.

I like that we are finally at a point, where legacy emulators in JS are a reality. I do think some attention to worker interaction, and perhaps locking say a canvas, or audio channel to a worker should be something able to be done.
Pigovian taxes are just the "tax externalities" part. I think it's just as important that it be operational on a long term scale, with a steady and predictable increase, to influence decisions.

It would be unfair to tax a company overnight at a high rate for this stuff, because it would strand a lot of current investments. Replacing capital goods 20y ahead of schedule might actually have an environmental cost higher than doing so in 5-10 years, since there's a lot of energy and other pollution embodied in the capital goods. It also picks winners and losers based on something which wasn't made clear to people in advance.

Just as bad is saying "in 10 years, we're going to heavily tax or ban X", which would cost industry (say) $1t. "Good" participants, say half the market, spend $500b fixing things. "Bad" participants spend nothing on remediation but $10b on lobbying and then strand the $500b improvements made by the "good" participants.

In the US, it would essentially require a treaty or constitutional amendment to bind the government to a long-term plan which might otherwise be overturned through lobbying.

An escalating tax at least has the benefit of being minor pain up front, and viewed as "fair", so industry is more likely to cooperate. It's not worth going to the mattresses over a 5% tax, particularly if it takes an immediate ban or 50% tax off the table. Over time, the revenue stream will become important to the Government and to other positive government programs, so it'll be harder for industry to lobby to overturn it. At most, they might be able to lobby for a "temporary" freeze at a certain level.
NASA to get $100 Million to Drag Asteroid Into Orbit Around Moon
I laughed when I read the headline - I thought that it was likely something that applied to maybe 2 people, both CIA.
>It is not a better guarantee than previous digital cash systems made.

Yes, it is. Cracking previous digital cash systems fell into the class of "hire a hacker" difficulty problems, which are significantly less difficult than the P difficulty problem presented by pulling off a 51% attack on the Bitcoin network.

>that he (they?) is not well-educated in cryptography seems like a reasonable conclusion given what he published.

Right, the person/group who published what may be the most significant usage case of applied cryptography in human history is probably not educated in cryptography. Have you even read the whitepaper? Perhaps you would change your tune if you saw what is actually being guaranteed. Nakamoto was perfectly aware of the challenges. When I say "Bitcoin is secure", that's by my standard, not Nakamoto's. I can't speak for him/them.
That's exactly right. As you get older, you begin to derive joy from things other than mastering new skills. I understand the OP's original post was more about time in the abstract, but the point you make is in fact the reality.
Bitcoin, Sovereigns and the End Times
What such options are the for an Android? Do they generate skeleton code?
> Yeah, in a sense it actually makes it less reliable as far as mean-time-between-failures go.

It depends on what you're protecting against, how you're protecting against it, and how you've deployed those defenses.

Chained defenses, generally, decrease reliability. Parallel defenses generally increase it.

E.g.: Putting a router, an LB, a caching proxy, an app server tier, and a database back-end tier (typical Web infrastructure) in series (a chain) introduces complexity and SPOFs to a service. You can duplicate elements at each stage of the infrastructure, but might well consider a multi-DC deployment, as you're still subject to DC-wide outages (I've encountered several of these) and a great deal of complexity and cost.

Going multi-DC doesn't increase capital requirements by much, and may or may not be more expensive than 2x the build-out in a single DC. It though raises issues of code and architecture complexity.

In several cases, we were experiencing issues that would have pervaded despite redundant equipment. E.g.: the load balancer SSL bug we encountered was present on all instances of multiple generations of the product. Providing two LBs would simply have insured that as the triggering cipher was requested, both LBs would have failed and rebooted. Something of an end-run around our Maginot line, as it were.
At 13, I read How to win friends and influence people. It taught me how to deal with people. Has she shown any interest in a given topic? At 13, I was dying to learn about stocks, but did not have the resources to do so.
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Just to be clear here, since I think the combination of quickly and garbage collection is likely to create a wrong impression: quickly means days/weeks, not seconds.
Far less than that. My shiny quad core i7 gets 4MH, and I doubt most consumer desktop computers would manage that. You're probably looking at 0.5-2 at a maximum.
The JOBS Act has failed
A bit of a tangent: it might be a really particular use-case, but I kind of wish that Chrome's <webview> (http://developer.chrome.com/trunk/apps/app_external.html#web...) was a universal HTML5 feature for secure rendering contexts (extensions; file:// URLs; node-webkit, AppJS, and other HTML5 "platforms"; etc.)

It would be great if, in those use-cases (where clickjacking isn't a problem), there was a guaranteed way to have a page load in an iframe-like context, but with a separate renderer, separate JS state, asset(window.top == window.self) passing, X-Frame-Options passing, etc.
Leonardo DiCaprio bought one iirc. But Fisker failing probably just makes it even more collectible now.
A fair number of YC founders/alums have written about the application process and how to optimize for it.

I'm thinking about doing something like that, but it would be about helping people avoid false negatives (which make YC's decision-making harder, by obscuring/defacing otherwise great applications), rather than helping bad people or even marginal people get into YC when they otherwise wouldn't.

There are a lot of things you can do to make it less likely you'll get into YC. Not doing those things is the first step. It's the "do this and you'll get into YC" is much more concerning, because if there were exploits to the process, they would harm the set of YC companies, and if they were widely used, they'd rapidly be "patched".
Good news for everyone. Even if Google Fiber doesn't reach your city, it may lead to other ISPs increasing speeds in order to compete.
Do they review 85k (general and Masters combined) applications or grant 85k visas?
In my experience, the math courses tend to get easier later on for a variety of reasons:

1) You learn simplifying techniques. (you'll learn to love the Laplace transform)

2) You get better at studying. I also failed my first (and second) calculus course. It took me an embarrassingly long time to learn how to study. (Tip: Find a friend to study with!)

3) You'll eventually start applying it to interesting problems. I found control theory really interesting, so it became a lot easier to care about the math involved.
The problem is that some sites, either because they were designed before XFO or because they made the mistake of assuming they had to do either JS or XFO but not both, rely entirely on JS to prevent reframing.

So there is a scenario in which browser support for sandboxed frames could cause problems for preexisting websites.
Do you think you would get a similar volume of emails if you posted a list of VCs selected at random? I suspect so. Many are called but few are chosen.
Applaud the effort, despite the data problems. In its current state I consider it more interesting than useful, but future versions could clearly be massively useful.

One thought: since many reg d filings are purposefully delayed by 1-2 months to control timing (and press) it might be more effective to analyze the time period of 9 mo ago to 3 mo ago.

May also be useful to add levels of caution (yellow is no deals in the 6 mo period, red is no deals in 12+).

Also, factoring in deviation from normal behavior would be a wonderful addition (and would remove some of the folks without much data represented)
From the LucasArts final final party tonight:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1u95h9n5y9ytv8j/2013-04-05%2017.20...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1jyp0i5cvpuujhm/2013-04-05%2017.22...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/x9j2x7g6wfqavlj/2013-04-05%2017.19...
A high profile HN person has one, too (I've seen it, it's sexy, but too heavy by about 1200 pounds).
3-D Printing a Controversy
I disagree.

I'm in my mid thirties now, and it's not nostalgia for me. If it was nostalgia I'd feel that way about all the games I liked back then. I still think that The Secret of Monkey Island, in particular, was/is something pretty special, yet I don't think this about 99% of the games I liked back then.
Discussion on Reddit (from article): http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1bnrbm/scientist_wr...

Quite witty: If you can cover the shipping charges, I would be grateful if you to send me the head of the person who did this.
You are making a mistake regarding how you think about git.

Git is not really a revision tracking system.

Git is a content tracking file system manager. It happens to be the case that these two uses largely overlap, but what Git really lets you do is take snapshots of your filesystem, annotate each snap shot, and allow you to compare snapshots.

It does not keep track of your changes. You keep track of your changes when you use git by annotating each snapshot.
Thanks for sharing your experience and a tip man.
I'm too used to the 'one icon per window' paradigm which is why even on windows I do not combine icons. To open a program that has multiple windows on unity, one needs to click the relevant icon, and then select the window you want, which is two mouse clicks (well, one mouse click, mouse move, then click again) as compared to a single mouse click. And I somehow prefer a horizontal longer taskbar as compared to a vertical one even though a horizontal taskbar would rob be of vertical space.
Just an idea: the server room should be segmented into smaller areas with isolated power circuits. Using the sniff test, if you are truly concerned that you are about to have a fire, then it's only responsible to start an orderly powerdown to prevent equipment loss, and more importantly, prevent injuries to people.

If you start shutting down areas of the datacentre that appear to be closest to the smoke, then you will have a better chance of locating the issue in the fastest possible timeframe, with minimum disruption.

On top of this, if you then have critical infrastructure that you must keep running, then you keep your failover servers in different areas and failover to that equipment.

I'm not a server or datacentre guy in any way, but doesn't this seem sensible?
NASA To Capture Asteroid, "Park It" Near Moon
The shovelware on those systems actually offsets the cost of windows licenses, and sometimes to the point that they make more than windows licenses.. I'm assuming this doesn't come with that.
What JOBS act? Most of it has been buried in SEC bureaucracy since the act was made official.
E Cigarette Devices
People became aware about the risks and side effects of smoking more than hundred years ago. Ever since they understood the effects they tried to abandon this bad habit by choosing several options. Many Corporations have been revolutionizing and developed smoking termination merchandises for numerous years nowadays. From nicotine covers to secretion, the addicts of nicotine have been consuming them to leave their bad habit.
Anything useful to a wide audience simply gets manufactured in a more economical fashion.

3d printing is firmly about the long tail. I don't see how a "killer app" could make much sense.
Calling out racism and diversity might be a problem worth talking about, but it's a shame to me that this community seems more interested in having that discussion versus reflecting on why it continues to be called out in the first place. It seems like we're all about solving the worlds most difficult problems until it comes to the ones that hit closest to home.
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you can't be pushing much bw... anything over 1TB/month and they pass you off to their bigger network NetDNA.
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That'd be an interesting advertising alternative that could be good for both parties. In exchange for content, you give the website X CPU cycles (or GPU I guess). It could be built into the browser so that you'd have really efficient mining techniques. Clients (with beefier computers) could choose to give more cycles to their favorite sites.

I'm not sure if you could provide comparable amounts of revenue. I guess time-spent-on-site would be the most important factor. At the current cost and difficulty of Bitcoins, you'd need 1,000 concurrent users on average all day all running at 10mhps to just make $92 per day. 10mhps seems like it's asking a lot, it'd probably drain a lot of batteries.
I spent about the price of the low end to upgrade my desktop to a AMD's current top 8-core... that doesn't include re-using my video card, case and hard drives. It's not a bad option at all. May actually get a couple of the lower end ones, as both my grandmothers are due for an update, and one of them needs to get away from windows (too much crapware gets installed).
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The issue with this stance is that your 'opponent' can easily shift assets and IP ownership so as to absorb the loss via litigation in a company which has non-transferable licenses, but maintain ownership over the patents in a seperate corp, essentially shielding them from any substantial loss that litigation would bring. Even if they lose, they just need to open another corp and re-license.

The problem? That means that your mega-corp would be at a net-loss for every patent suit filed. What's more, it would create the issue wherein parties who couldn't adhere to the standards of whatever mega-entity are exiled from the industry.

The only corps that can be sued effectively are those with cash. This is why people are willing to innovate in patented areas; if they succeed, they're rich and can afford to pay for litigation. If they lose, they won't get sued anyways.

Additionally, how exactly do you sue an NPE? They aren't infringing a patent. That's the entire idea behind being an NPE in the first place; you're not dissuaded by counter-patent litigation because you don't practice. NPEs were a reaction to the exact type of litigation broadside that you're talking about, specifically that patent-rich corps (Apple, Google, Microsoft and most of the companies in the telecom industry, for instance are a notable subset) could amass a patent portfolio so large that any encroachment you made into their industry would saddle you with massive search and negotiation costs in order for you to pay licensing fees, or open yourself up to being demolished in court the moment they needed you out of the market.

Non-practicing entities aren't really the issue. Most companies cannot, and do not, have the skills and assets to effectively enforce their rights. If you're a developer, you're better at focusing on developing. Accordingly it makes sense to allow people specialized in IPR enforcement to do that work for you. The idea that 'anything under the sun' can be captured under a method patent is far more sinister, and it accounts for the massive inflation in patents. The fact that protections over electronics are receiving overlapping IPRs from copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret is a far larger issue. It shouldn't be an issue of 'who' is asserting the patent rights, but rather 'what' patent rights they can assert. You bring this up in one of your replies, and I think your follow-up argumentation is a lot closer to a solution than this initial post.

Circuit topography's protection in the law makes a lot more sense, as its tailored to the industry it seeks to regulate. Patent, however, is a circus with too many clowns under the big-top.
Funny, I downloaded Ubuntu free of charge last month. I know you have to click differently, but given their failed attempts to monitize, who can blame them.
a question to iframe spec writters, why didnt they make everything secure by default? if i want to allow javascript in a iframe ,let me explicitly write it for instance. if i want my content to be embedded in an iframe , let me explicitly allow it in my headers , etc ... wouldnt it make more sense ? rather than introducing more security holes and attack vectors ? third parties should have my explicit permission to embed my content into their site.
I don't think it's reasonable for anybody to setup a JavaScript playground like "SITE/playground?code=alert(1)". That's asking for trouble.
bought? such high profile celebs usually are given or lease at ridiculous discounts. di caprio is actually a face of the company (brand ambassador), he didn't pay a dime, rather was paid to show publically with it.
Google Fiber’s Next Stop Could Be Austin, Texas
Wouldn't this open up the possibility of a DDoS-type attack performed by having millions of transactions of 1 satoshi (0.00000001 BTC) in dirty coins flung at the merchant by someone's botnet? It would force the merchant to reject each one at a computational cost, whether by giving the money back or by transferring it to the government.
Good point.
It is setting dependent and the default is 2-3 weeks IIRC.
Well the so-called "Modern Liberal State" is an existential threat to humanity, so it seems fair to me.
The circumstances under which a clickjacking attack could be introduced to an otherwise secure site are quite narrow:

1. Attacked site use Javascript anti-framing protection
(otherwise there is no benefit to the attacker in
disabling Javascript).

2. Attacked site doesn't use X-Frame-Options to prevent
framing (probably rare for the bigger sites these
days).

3. Attacked site allows the functionality under attack to
work even when Javascript is turned off. Many common
clickjack targets (e.g. Facebook Like buttons) don't
work at all with Javascript disabled.

4. Attacked form has effective CSRF protection tokens
placed in it server-side (otherwise it would be easier
to do a CSRF attack rather than CJ and get the same
result).

I think that the circumstances under which the attack would be possible might be quite rare compared to those in which the sandbox feature would be a benefit.

One protocol fix that might get the best of both worlds would be to add a new X-Frame-Options token that indicates that the sender of content 'consents' to it being framed in a no-script sandbox provided it is consistent with the other X-Frame-Options. If the embedding frame requests a sandbox, and the embedded content doesn't have the appropriate X-Frame-Options header allowing no-script embedding, the frame just displays a browser error.
two thumbs up. Next time these Purdue kids dare make a stupid video, they better hit the right counts for all the demographic tokens. Also, from now on the assistant dean for diversity should review all student videos and other publications and censor those with the wrong percentages, stereotypes, feelings etc.
You know what. I will take 100 failed Solyndras over one war of lies and death and destruction.
You've got a valid point there, but with Unity 3D being ported over to Linux (granted, it was back in June '12), it should kick off Linux adoption among game devs sooner rather than later.
As a side note the thing I find most puzzling about RFC 6797 is that the 'max-age' field can be set to 0 to invalidate the HSTS flag for the domain, but can't be set to an indefinite value. The inability to deal with stripping before reception of the 'Strict-Transport-Security' header is understandable, but lack of indefinite retention of the HSTS flag is hard to comprehend.
Most things aren't hard if you're only working at the scale of a single server.

Running the actual Pinterest, with millions of users, would be pretty hard. (At least for those with no prior experience of working at scale.)
Monsanto Protection Act put GM companies above the federal courts
You'd still need a good excuse for receiving money from out of country.

"Sold a drawing of my cat on Etsy for $1000" will only work so many times.
I think the most interesting bit is on the last page:

While other game companies of the 1980s had to rely on the income from their games to survive, we had the unheard-of luxury of taking our time to get our games right, with years to experiment, try new things, push the envelope, and with no pressure from marketing, focus testing, or even George Lucas. We also had time to develop our company culture, starting where the Lucasfilm culture left off.

So we’d spend months thinking about our games... brainstorming with the other brilliant designers, refining, reworking, revamping, tossing out the parts that didn’t work (or the entire concept) and starting again. One of our edicts was “don’t ship shit” and we wanted to make sure we never did.

Maybe working in a creatively supportive environment like that, one that wasn’t just focused on the bottom line, enabled us to think outside the box, take time to add tons of backstory and detail... tune, tune, and tune again. Until WE felt it was time to ship. Unheard of then and I’m sure even more unusual now (other than with indie games done by people in their spare time).
I've experienced light-headedness from aggressive sniffing. And it wasn't glue ;-).
Hatebase Tries To Scan For Precursors of Genocide In Language
I understand that a mental illness stigma can interfere with a middle class career. And that is bad.

But does someone with no job, assets, or home face a stigma that discourages him from getting care?

I suppose the foolish pride we all have is a factor-- not wanting to admit you are broken. But that isn't a social stigma , it is a personal stigma. But social, um, "anti-stigma" could perhaps help?
Most good software engineers could probably prototype faster with code either html or cocoa.
I assume they simply take the money by force if you don't comply?
See also the Fundamental Attribution Error.
The cables are there to prevent the robot from damaging stuff during testing. If a human falls, it catches itself, or at worst breaks a wrist and spends a couple weeks healing. Unrestrained robots have far more spectacular failure modes; a falling humanoid typically lands on an outstretched limb and breaks it right in half, setting the project back months and costing huge amounts of money. Or it goes nuts but doesn't fall over immediately, instead flailing around on a short rampage that ends with the robot broken and everything nearby having been whacked by the limbed equivalent of a runaway golf cart.

Source: been there, done that, don't tell OSHA. :P
Thank you much. As soon as I get back from the photohackday (actually weekend) hackathon I'll have a look at them and work through as many as possible!
Yeah, marijuana and marriage are legal in all 50 states because the anti-social attitudes of the 70s are ancient history.

Oh.
Golly gee, I wonder where it went!
These guys are legit. You put those on there because the robot is worth millions. And yes, it has a sense of balance and very very fast reflexes.