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Where are all the people saying that we should only ever use Javascript in the browser? Mysteriously missing now that the language discussed is Haskell?
Surprised he never mentioned Coda 2. Isn't that considered the leading edge as far as web development workflow goes these days?
The UI looks identical to me. It's supposed to be like this right? http://people.mozilla.com/~shorlander/files/australis-design...
I doubt we'd ever see full spine replacement ("retraining" might not ever work) but for say arm / leg nervous dystrophy I can certainly see this being appealing.
Reading this article, I get the feeling that the real problem isn't porn at all, but rather societal attitudes toward porn and the web of shame that the author finds himself ensnared in. He seems to admit as much towards the end of the article.

Personally I find it kind of anthropologically fascinating that society has a natural impulse to record the reproductive act and view such recordings as a leisure activity.
Chromium Fix for SVG Sprite Scrolling Performance Bug
What Else Can We Do With Autonomous Military Vehicles?
Warren Buffet's sister launches world's first ever MOOC in Philanthropy
Thanks, always a pleasure to see the monkey man.
OP, keep in mind that this type of work (copywriting, sales, business) is a different kind of fun than coding. Still fun, just different. From your Ask HN text, it does seem like this might be more up your alley, though.
Whenever these things happen to me and my startup, I always get insane bursts of energy.

I think if you want to survive in this world, you need to have this ability of a super-sayan that when you very close to death and survive, you only emerge multipe times stronger than before.
http://www.davemark.com/?p=1829
Recommend us one?
Thank you for stepping in with some info before the pitchforks come out. Combining your statements with the fact that the js itself shows Amazon URL rewrites are only happening for people who have opted-in to the typo correction feature makes this seem much ado about nothing. The company could have been more transparent to begin with, but you guys have done a lot to improve the online advertising experience.
Original thread about PNG vs SVG scrolling demo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5924706
Bing integrated all over the place? Does Microsoft honestly think they'd lost enough market share that they are no longer viable candidates for antitrust lawsuits?
Not really. The thing is, people in Europe want privacy, and will go to great lengths to retain it.
Speaking from America, you sound like a pretentious stuffed shirt.

Through the miracle of broadcast media, like the printing press or YouTube, it is wholly unnecessary to experience an invasion to know that it is something worth repelling.

Besides, we American have experience with repelling invasions both large and small and from regular military and irregular forces, just not in recent years. Try searching on these topics: American Indian Wars, French and Indian War, War of 1812, Aroostook War, the Texas War of Independence, the Battle of Gettysburg, Sherman's March to the Sea, and the Aleutian Islands Campaign.

Lately, we Americans have been doing a good job of keeping the fighting over there instead of over here, and I imagine PRISM has been a big contributor to that success.
Really? There was a t-shirt printing API posted on HN just a few days ago. Lots of online t-shirt shops simply need you to upload an image in order to create a storefront selling that shirt. Wouldn't be that hard to automate it.
Apparently old news, but I didn't know about it and it looks pretty useful. Another point towards steering my parents towards a Chromebook. Though, almost ironically, the lack of Skype support (on the ARM-based ones, unsure about x86) is one of the negative points.
Sadly the self-aggrandizing belittling comment has become standard fare on HN. It's an evolutionary process methinks, similar to memes being upvoted because they're quick to consume. Tearing stuff down seems to emotionally appeal to some part of the HN crowd, and it's relatively easy to generate (or regurgitate) intellectual-sounding but ultimately content free objections.

If novelty accounts were allowed, I should like to start one called "HNtrarian". ;)
I don't think it's just a coincidence or necessarily a secret:

"Equifax Inc. (EFX), EBay Inc.'s (EBAY) PayPal and Intuit Inc. (INTU) have beguntrials to see whether social posts can help prove identities,and, in some cases, detect whether customers are lying abouttheir finances." http://finance.yahoo.com/news/facebook-posts-help-credit-bur...

Actually I remember blogging about this years ago, back when Myspace was at its peak. So it's not news. I'm just wondering if Google has revealed what data it reports to Equifax, if any. And if that's the case, I think the next question is: What sort of app activity will help improve your credit?
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I can't say you're wrong here. At the time, I lived for the long hours. It felt fulfilling and purposeful. It's hard to realize that everyone else around you might not feel the same way.

I think growth and the lack of defined future benefit also played a huge part here. Both are critical to job satisfaction.
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There are ports of ghc to both Android and IOS. I've run ghc directly on Android. ghci not so much, so you're technically right about there being no interpreter.
I absolutely love your UI, and the game idea while waiting.
Okay interesting. But it currently doesn't seem to have all the bells and whistles for a local or a web client. Something tells me my memory usage will shot up if I attempt to import thousands of feeds into it. Besides, the fetching doesn't appear to be near the real-time (HN rss it pulled in for me, were at least an hour or more delayed).

Anyways, my installation on the windows went well. For now I'm back to testing InoReader.
It also took me awhile to figure out what ngrok does. Once I did, I can see the usefulness for sure.

One path would be a list like you provide above, a sort of "your situation / your solution" approach, something like:

You ... are developing a website/service your local machine

You ... want to allow friends to test from outside your LAN

BUT:

You ... don't want to open a firewall hole to your DEV machine

You ... want secure connections, but don't want to setup a valid cert

You ... don't want to bother with your own reverse proxy

AND

You ... do want an inspectable, replayable copy of all traffic

That's where we come in!

obviously my text is clunky, but that sort of explanation would help me understand what "hassle" you are helping me avoid.
That's not what I took toyg's meaning to be. All legitimate sides of a stories should be reported. Sometimes that's two sides. Sometimes it's one. There might be times when it's thirteen and there might be other times where it's zero. The disease of modern politics is assuming it's always two.
Or it's an intentional Hobson's choice.
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Source code for the Carberp banking malware kit is leaked online
Did nobody asking this question look at this screenshot:
http://www.infinum.co/system/uploads/2013-06/kintek/kintek-f...

Look at the area immediately below the fold.

It's one of the most blatant examples of plagiarism I've ever seen.

It's arguably worse than simple wholesale lifting of css, since they've carefully and deliberately redrawn distinctive design elements, and lifted half the copy as well

And this is a medium-sized design company, in a developed country. And it got nominated for an award.

Sure, the design has evolved a bit since it started as a direct copy, and the design wasn't that original in the first place, but I'm baffled by people suggesting the similarities might have been accidental.
It looks like turbulence or presure spikes on the chamber at ignition, depending the magnitude that could lead to a explosion (I just an aficionado, so take this opinion for what it´s worth) I also follow the sugar rocket to space project, and I think they had some problems with this, and with cracking in the propellant. Is the data from the launch available?.
The current notation software options are really painful for anyone but the hardcore composer. This is needed.

I have some relations at music schools. Reach out if you'd like me to connect you.
That's a great story about Nelotsky, I hadn't heard that before.

For those interested, these fake entries to catch copyright infringement are commonly referred to as "Mountweazels". They are common in maps (fake towns, roads) and dictionaries (fake words and definitions). You can read more on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry
You're advocating against anyone doing these things, I hope, and not just cherry-picking this particular program because it happens to be associated with PRISM?
The process and procedure of an FISC warrant is one of the things that is being called into question. Not to mention the fact that there are challenges to the true accessibility of this data or if it can be mined without metadata information being attached to it.
I hear ARM support will be standard in the next GHC, and there currently are ports and cross-compilers. Unless you're specifically talking about ghci, which I agree needs to be ported, though that hasn't happened for the browser yet. It's possible a project like this could help that happen, though...

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/CrossCompi...
https://github.com/ghc-ios/ghc
Privoxy is associated with SPI, which is a 501(c)(3) non-profit. A far cry from that shady AdBlock garbage.

If you sacrifice privacy/security for convenience, don't be surprised when it has later repercussions. Privoxy is also highly configurable unlike AdBlock. I don't know about you, but I don't want to be at the mercy of some jerkoff named Wladimir, who seems to have basically zero accountability and a very lax sense of ethics.
All of that information is provided by the social media user, voluntarily to the public internet. If you don't want your mood analyzed then it is best not to post "I'm grumpy this morning" on Twitter. Companies do the same thing for marketing campaigns - I'm not seeing a problem here or how this relates as a "little brother" to other programs.
Plot twist: there is no start up, and this tumblr is an allegory for HN readers who thrive on triumph and failure.

Edit: and then I read the other comments and realize I'm not the only one with this thought.
RedBus ( India's Bus Ticketing System and Web Portal ) acquired
A similar offer from Austrian company Edis, featured on HN some months back, is still available as well: https://www.edis.at/en/server/colocation/austria/raspberrypi...
Don't let indecision make choices for you
Write your Google documents in Markdown
I'll agree but add that any withdrawal symptoms (physiological or psychological) should define addiction. If one quits World of Warcraft but can't stop thinking about it and it interferes with their day-to-day life, that's an addiction.
Cloudsweeper
I think they're just having fun and making light of a crappy situation.
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You guys should build data change visualization. So you can track the changes to the data visually for each commit. And then people can send in pull requests to enhance data and people can inspect and discuss the changes. This can ultimately be used as an api for applications that work with it. Implementing this will have a profound effect on the nature of collection and maintenance of geographical data.

I'm happy that this idea has found a good environment to flourish in. It's going to be a lot of fun and you're going to improve a lot of people's lives as a consequence of it. Enjoy it, and keep up the excellent work.
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Growth is not always good, if you don't have the processes, the people and even if you as an entrepreneur are not prepared to growth, then don't do it.
I don't understand - if Pimtim was worth $90k three months ago and not much has changed, why not sell it?
In their eyes it beats a carbonated beverage addiction.
Streamed from the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference.
Firm: Facebook 'bug' worse than reported; non-users also affected
Right? To me that's the only reason I stayed with Google for so long, key commands to quickly jump through several hundred items.
Fight fraud frugally
"Do Not Disturb" mode only mutes notifications while the iPhone's screen is locked. The text on the DnD settings page in iOS specifically says "When Do Not Disturb is enabled calls and alerts that arrive WHILE LOCKED will be silenced, and a moon icon will appear in the status bar" (emphasis mine)[1].

I've been bitten by this during a demo: I still received texts (from a co-worker) even though I had DnD enabled.

[1] http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5463
First of all, thanks for the reply :)

You wrote "I don't really understand how people can team up with perfect strangers they can't vet;" and that is a very strong reason why i want to team up with him. Because since we are starting something from ground 0, building connections, working like maniacs etc, i think i would like to rely on someone that i know for years, that i can trust and expect to behave in certain situations like i would.

That said, i think that will be very important for us to make something like a vow stating that we both are open to choose "bailout" as long the other part knows it in advance. Always communicate our beliefs and disagreements. And more important always act in the best interess of the startup.

Does that cover it?
> and website owners can create separate Live Tiles that can be pinned to the Start Screen to access RSS feeds.

That little tidbit really stood out as interesting to me. I seriously hope that MS does this well, and I can have live tiles for all my favorite sites that actually update with their new content.
Microsoft Adds 3D Printing Support To Windows 8.1 For Developers, Replicator 2
Barring unusual claims of extraterritorial jurisdiction by either the United States or the European Union (or any of its member states), Google and other American tech companies may be able to comply with both US and EU law by handling data on EU users only within the EU, through EU subsidiaries.

Under that arrangement, the EU subsidiaries of US tech companies would not ordinarily be subject to US laws requiring them to hand over data to the NSA, so those subsidiaries could comply with EU privacy laws with no problem; at the same time, EU law would not reach the US parent companies, so they could give all the data to the NSA that they must in compliance with US law.

But because the Obama administration recently expanded the United States' already broad (by international standards) claims of extraterritorial jurisdiction in another matter,† it now looks like the United States might indeed claim the legal power to compel foreign subsidiaries of U.S. tech companies to hand over data they control to the NSA. In that case, those foreign subsidiaries would find themselves in an impossible situation, one in which they would be operating illegally under either EU or US law no matter what they do.

† — See my comment above, at the same level as this one's parent.
I'd delete this comment if I were you. You're running the risk of getting hellbanned for this.
"But after some thought, Darko, our design lead (he's a very nice person) convinced me to give you guys the benefit of the doubt and not send the Croatian emmigration in Australia (known for working as bouncers and construction workers) knocking at your door."

Yeah. You tend to lose the moral initiative when you pretend you have the backing of some nefarious street thugs.

PS: Thanks for stereotyping Croatians, asshole.
Considering that this is Digg Reader's first public outing, it is very, very good. This can only bode well.
Well done guys!
If you visit a website and that website gleans this information about you, that is one thing.

If you simply receive an email and read it, and the sender can glean the same information, that is something entirely different.
I am pretty certain that the Kintek website is a Wordpress site built using the Roots Starter Theme.

Based on the fact they use:

* Make use of both the Yoast SEO and Gravity Forms plugins, which are well known Wordpress plugins.

* Twitter Bootstrap

* Have an /assets/ folder which most likely rewrites to /wp-content/themes/themename/assets/

* Have a /plugins/ folder which most likely rewrites to /wp-content/plugins/
Obivously, and I'd argue rightfully. Microsoft HAS lost market share, especially if you include tablet/smartphone OSs in the mix. I cannot seem to find it now, but not too long ago I ran across a survey which included portable devices into their calculations of OS marketshare percentages, and determined that Microsoft now has a minority share of the global OS market when those numbers are included.

Microsoft still dominates on the desktop, but the desktop doesn't matter like it once did. I doubt that the government will express much interest here, and rightfully so.
The TSA does not run the security at SFO. It's contracted out to a private company.
You got a bunch of replies already, but I think it's worth piling on. There aren't always two sides; if you always report there being two sides chances are you're doing irresponsible journalism.

Whether or not there are multiple legitimate sides to a debate that are best left to the discretion of the reader is something that depends on the facts of each particular story and is not something that can be assumed as some sort of metaphysical principle of journalism.
$23/hr?* Doable, although not at most unskilled-labor rates.

* http://www.syr.edu/financialaid/costofattendance/

Total Cost of Attendance	$57,450

(That does include transportation and "personal expenses", though (to the tune of about $1600/annum).)

Assumptions

* 2000 billable hours
* 3 months summer
* Half-time remaining 9 months.
So true, I was thinking the same thing...but it is great writing...I might just follow it for the drama -a web opera if you will. Oh gosh, that sounded dumb, but it's true. Maybe he'll get a new job as a writer and drop the startup altogether. What a "shock" that'd be.
It's also completely and utterly pointless. Just disable JavaScript and build your own minimal whitelist. Chrome supports this natively, without you having to trust yet another jackass plugin author. Probably 90% of authors will get an instant hardon for "monetization" the second their plugin reaches a million or so users, regardless of it's original premise.
> The one good thing about Windows 8 in my world is that it's forcing people to make decisions they have been putting off for years.

What do you mean?
At first, I thought this was a sarcasm.
Yes, that can and does go for anyone who puts a tracking pixel into an email.

And to address the: 'I don't get the "without their knowledge or permission" part.' - What don't you get about this? The recipient doesn't realise the tracking is taking place, and the sender never asked permission to perform the tracking, nor to store the data...
And we can't dismiss the majority's viewpoint as "apathy" just because we don't agree with it or find it appalling. It's not constructive to do so. We're better off having a discussion of why people think this type of surveillance is good. They'll probably say "reduces crime/terrorism," and we can counter with "that's questionable, but even so, your rights and liberties are violated." Most would probably shrug, but that doesn't necessary imply apathy.
original announcement here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/
and Somasegar's MSDN blog post on it here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2013/06/03/teched-...
Microsoft never had enough market share in search to warrant antitrust lawsuits[1].

[1]That doesn't mean the EU won't use totally unrelated market share stats from 5 years ago to continue treating Microsoft like a money pinata.
That would be tricky. People would need to have a good idea of which sites they care about would have ads removed if they pay X dollars/month. Then maybe their favorite sites use three different networks, all of which they have to pay for. Maybe you could do it where the user picks the network, not the site.
I'd like to highlight his post on the Broadcom SoC hardware watchdog, I'm glad I found that. It is something I can really use but I didn't know that was possible.

http://www.digimatic.co.uk/articles/tips-and-tricks/linux-pa...
I had no idea that stallman came up with the term POSIX: http://stallman.org/articles/posix.html
Thank you for the thanks :) What we do attracts bad press and subsequent flamewars, and I usually shy away from getting into those. But I couldn't bear this unreflected FUD on HN, which is important to me.

I suppose we could have communicated better. Maybe we should have talked more about our employees and their backgrounds, about who is whitelisted and why. We've made mistakes, and we're trying to learn from them.
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Same here. That thing is useless.
Whats the most intellectual joke you know?
This petition is poorly written.

The minimum age for enlistment in the United States Military is 17, with permission from parents or guardian.

The petition says "if one is old and mature enough to consciously make a decision to join the military knowing that they may very well die for this country, they are also old and mature enough to drink alcohol."

Therefore, this petition seems to be saying that the drinking age in the US should be 17, even though it implies that the age should be 18.
I actually really enjoy Windows 8 and will probably just wait for 8.1 to be released. Its cool their listening to their customers but I hope they don't force the start menu back on everyone. At least boot to desktop will be awesome considering my "D" key is broken and clicking the "Desktop" tile takes an eternity.
> why people think this type of surveillance is good

There's a difference believing that this type of surveillance is good and believing that Snowden should be prosecuted for leaking in the way that he did.
I find it intriguing to consider that in history and philosophy textbooks in 100 years time, Stallman is likely to have a number of very positive (and possibly even large) contributions to humanity, while Obama is likely to be regarded very negatively for his wiretapping and with no notable positive contributions. Meanwhile today, Stallman is regarded as some kind of madman while Obama is an amazing celebrity.
Atleast you should explain why you think he belongs there ?
Am I the only one who thinks they should call it VS 2014? By time it ships it'll only have a few months before it has an outdated title.
They very clearly put limits only around "targets". What about information picked up "incidentally"? Also, the whole parts about "information must be immediately terminated", reminds me of some big cos where they had rules that "all code must be fully unit tested". It's not going to happen unless there are steep penalties for not doing it.

Instead of "guidelines", I would love to see actual numbers:

The NSA collected X,000 Terabytes of Information in 2012, consisting of X,000,000,000,000,000 records. At the end of the year, 2TB and X number of objects were kept, and the rest deleted properly (data actually written over).

That would be so much simpler and better.
I doubt even the EU will act against the only meager competition to Google's absolute dominance. Not to mention that devices with Google as default are the majority these days because of iOS, Android on phones and tablets with declining PC sales. Bing is only default in IE which in nullified in EU because of the browser ballot, Google pays off Mozilla and some OEMs to have it as the default.