skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Sony is doing a good job of redeeming themselves again.

Yes, there were the rootkit issues, PSN hack, propietary memory card requirements, ...

However, I feel like they have finally noticed that the consumer just doesn't take it anymore being treated this way and that they need to rethink their approach to earn back the trust of the consumer.

PS+ is an excellent example. You pay a minimal fee for the service every month and receive free games, which you can use as long as you are subscribed to their service.

You don't need to do anything and your game collection keeps on growing anyway!
This is a genius offering, which allows any adopter to quickly build up a collection of games, without having to shell out an additional $20-50 for each individual title.

Add their recent announcements in regards to PS4 & PS Vita and it really sounds like they are trying their hardest to convince the consumer on buying their products based on the actual features instead of trying to lock them in with proprietary hardware and devious protection schemes.

It's the first time where I feel Sony is showing off a product again saying "look how awesome this is" without adding a page full of * trying to explain how & why certain features will or will not work.
I think that was just PR nonsense from the beginning. Besides the fact that very few gaming related tasks (except multiplayer support) would benefit from remote servers, they couldn't assume an internet connection anyway, since the check-in was only once per 24 hours.
I guess the question requires further qualification, "What has Microsoft done, in the last 12 years, to compete with the Sony rootkit?"
Linux has splice now which can support more generic uses (and tee). You can feed one network stream into another and add headers etc. They are not yet widely used but some decent performance figures I believe.

But on the other hand user space networking is also performing.
There are some nice looking Spark vs Storm graphs in their streaming presentation slides: http://spark-project.org/talks/strata_spark_streaming.pdf . Makes me wonder how biased these might be.
The alternative is open post-publication peer review: any scientist that reads a paper in her/his field of expertise may act as a reviewer and publish a rating or review of that paper.

The end result does not create more work for the reader, as something like the average of ratings received by a paper gives in many cases more information than just the name of the journal where it has been published. For example, this Nature paper currently has a rating of 2% on Epistemio, although it has been published in the prestigious Nature: http://www.epistemio.com/p/Jr3gS9VW .

The journal name is a too weak information as compared to individual ratings of papers, as the distribution of the quality of papers from a given journal is very skewed.

See also the papers in http://www.frontiersin.org/Computational_Neuroscience/resear...
The people complaining are only a fraction of their total customer base.
I can check, I have a couple of contacts in that area. Send me your contact info (my email's in my profile).

edit: Sorry, misread that as Truckee for some reason. If Truckee's OK with you, offer still stands.
Groups brokering exploits is definitely scary stuff. But the non-privatized government researchers have existed long before them and are better at keeping silent and therefore largely perpetual exploits.

Under it all, the current model remains a by obscurity model, where anyone with orders of more magnitude of resources can certainly do enough reverse engineering to find the weak links and break in without planting backdoors.

Vendors reaching the point where they can offer bounties without contemplating bankruptcy implies considerably more resources are going into secure by design software and will continue to flow if they plan to remain solvent and unembarrassed (equally emabarassed?)

I've been playing with a chromebook and I am delighted to see frivolous and even fairly significant features were dropped to develop a secure boot model with a reasonable opt out. I'm sure it will still be broken, but 5-10 years ago it would have been trivially breakable to meet some last minute corporate request for tftp booting, marketing demo, or what have you..

Similar to the drug market, you can not drop the open market and expect everything to stop. Instead you must capture as many resources as you can and direct them to the right goal. I would hope that goal is secure kernels that expand out towards today's features, since the opposite clearly does not work with the resources at hand.
Networking uses tc and disk uses the block I/O controller. https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-contr...
A year is a very short period of time. Many people have been active on the internet for decades.
Has Microsoft ever given the possibility to install Linux on the XBox 360?
I did see the openstack Docker integration and it seems like a very interesting prospect. Hopefully something that will be integrated into the core Openstack project (although perhaps it might be better to integrate LXC into Openstack and then feed Docker through that).

The one thing I haven't seen any real solution for is the scaling/autoscaling portion of the equation. I think if that can be solved for, the rest would just be window-dressing on top of the Docker core.
I'm sure tort reform will happen eventually — after we abolish the Electoral College and rewrite the tax code, it seems like a good next step for the legislature to consider. /s
Sucks to be you. That's what happens when people shortsightedly complain about things over and over again. It just goes back to the status quo.

Without the 24 hour check, there's no way to guarantee that the games tied to disks are still owned by you and you didn't just give them to someone.
Not entirely on the same page, but the RRoD bricked two of my 360s. One was in warranty, they sent me a new one. It RRoRed a little while later, but I was out of warranty now, so no replacement for me. I bought a new one, then that one RRoRed after about 3.5 years. I'll never purchase another Microsoft product just because I don't have faith in their ability to create a hardware product after that debacle. Such a waste.

My NES, Playstation, PS2, N64, etc. all still work. 360s die within three years of purchase.
Great point. Give your customers something of value and make sure it is what they need, not just what you want to sell them.

When people feel they have been treated fairly they will come back over and over. Not being taken advantage of as a consumer is such a unique experience that it will stick out in their mind!
I try not to stop reading too early. Drudge is not a journalist. Indeed, I have seen at least definition of "journalist" (a "reporter who writes for an editor") that was described in the source I saw it in as an explicit exclusion of Drudge from the ranks of journalists.

A blog post, "Blogs lead in critical thinking, but newspapers still matter,"

http://www.dcscience.net/?p=6083

submitted to Hacker News earlier today to no discussion,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5907627

illustrates some of the reach that "traditional" journalism still has. The quality of professionally edited journalistic submissions to HN, as contrasted with the quality of many (although not all) blog posts submitted here, suggests that there is still a role for journalism in promoting more informed, more thoughtful discussion of issues we all care about.
> Phone lookups (they work?)

Perhaps not?

(https://www.clkbank.com/viewTicket.htm?key=01.BF205EF24EE6D9...)

> Reason:	I never received my product.
American Southern University has a plan for rescuing Atari
Glasshole (the comic)
> Perhaps maybe there are the same number of Android phones and iPhone (and Blackberry, etc), but the iPhone users tweet 50x more - does this map take it into account? We don't know either way. What phone are they using? Maybe a lot of people in Washington are using Samsung S3s, which aren't cheap Android phones.

a few outliers does not disprove the general trend presented in the article.
No. It was a week long, paid interview. After a couple of days I decided not to come back. Mainly because the main project seemed illegal (which I'll admit held some criminal mastermind allure) and I had another job lined up in Japan. In retrospect, I wish I would have done it as the job in Japan was terrible and I've not come across a similar opportunity since.
Well that's the thing. The old authentication scheme would have you log in to your friend's Xbox One and then you have access to your entire game collection.

No need to lug anything to your friend's house. It all happens in the cloud.
I knew we'd get some action from congress over this fiasco.
Google doesn't force you to use an Android phone. They give you one if you want it. But they don't care if you have an iPhone. It doesn't work like that.

EDIT: the parent comment has been deleted but it indicated some surprise that the Google campus has such a high concentration of iPhones.
LA to give every student an iPad
Most transit systems have either a fixed or minimum fee. So it usually does not make sense to pay for public transit if you are just going a short distance. If it were free, more people would use public transit for these short trips instead of walking or bicycling.

Wouldn't this more sedentary life have a significant negative impact on public health? Studies seem to show that an additional 150-299 minutes of walking each week (20-40 minutes a day) can increase lifespan by 3.5 years [1].

[1] http://www.gizmag.com/physical-activity-live-longer/24972/
Your computer and phone are big balls of blind faith in software/firmware.
With that logic Sony never should have allowed (like the Xbox) a second OS on the PS3, so people wouldn't bitch about the removal.
welcome. leslie fish has a great musical setting of the poem on her "cold iron" album (highly recommended if you're a kipling fan at all). this one's not up on youtube, sadly, but http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gYvS8L0nDY is her (also great) setting of "rimini" from "puck of pook's hill", which should give you some idea of her style.
I don't think it's funny because it's racist, I think it's funny because it reveals what kind of embarrassing data a security hole like this brings out.
WOW, maybe the hope of DRM being redefined as Dynamic Response Marketing over the more common Digital Rights Managment (We not only know what you did last summer but can dictate all yoru summers), has hope.

If anything it shows a more consumer responsive Microsoft, which can't be a bad thing.
Not with one that's active 100% of the time.

Which may not be completely accurate, the XB1 mic is on all the time by default, but I'm not sure about the camera. The benefit of my laptop webcam though is the hardware light built in to indicate when it's active.
Love that approach. You aren't losing a sale — you are (1) preventing what was almost guaranteed to be a dissatisfied customer and (2) winning over a potential future customer for life. If there is any need for your service in the future it is a guaranteed sale from a customer that already holds you in high regard.

Well done.
Whomsoever, surely
Wow. a 'journalist' that writes an op'ed piece and does not even mention trying to contact the company.
I just hope (selfishly) that this doesn't impact their release of the Digitizer (which I'm currently super excited about).
Thanks, yeah, that was my guess too (fix leaks by GCing DOM stuff, which is a nice idea), I was surprised to hear it was related to Dart somehow. I can't seem to find anything online explaining a connection between them (is it just speculation?).
1. Scan DNS registrations for administrators with @yahoo.com addresses

2. Claim as many of those E-mail addresses as you can

3. Hold your newly acquired domains hostage for $$$
I wasn't understanding the outrage either.
iPads and laptops aren't sitting there, listening to everything you say, waiting for you to say 'xbox, on!'. It listens to everything you say while waiting for that one command (like Glass, too). It'd be easy to give someone a hook for that audio stream, given the right motivations.
If done manually, it would also a great example of identifying a need before building a product. As long as it looks automatic why would the API user care.
> it showed that expression of CD95L on Sertoli cells in allogeneic mismatched testes tissue transplanted under the kidney capsule was able to induce apoptosis of invading cytotoxic T cells

I imagine the way reading this made me feel is similar to how an average person feels reading about complex computer science issues.
As if that will help public perception of these companies, I think after these outings of the companies in question, nothing stays the same, ever.

I personally will never ever trust any company with putting stuff into their systems.

For me the cloud as offered by them is dead and buried forever, even though I know that the NSA can capture anything with their split network rooms, the companies just lost my trust by lying as first.

It would have been less worse if they said that they were forced, but no, the arrogant adolescent nerd boys management thought it was ok to lie.
it's definitely not a talent acquisition.
most of the valuable employees left in the past few years.
One of the nice things about statistics is that cases such as those you mention tend to cancel each other out. I always laugh inside when I hear people say they give the wrong answers on surveys just to mess them up; it doesn't seem to occur to them that people with opposite points of view do the same sort of thing, and they both end up in the noise floor.
> But what were your intentions?

I fail to see why my intentions matter one whit in a discussion about increased surveillance by the government.
Why Makerbot Is Like Apple
How would this have moved the pricing meter at all? Major games are available for download on PS3 and Xbox 360 and they cost the same/more than physical media!

Looking at similar markets, movies cost about the same for a physical copy as they do on Google Play, books tend to cost the same digitally as they do physically, CDs cost about $11, which is what albums tend to cost on Play.

Basically I don't buy that argument. I wish I could, it's a great idea - and only fair considering the lack of transferability and the fact that there is no truck driving goods cross country to get them to me.
Consider using Fiddler some time without HTTPS decryption enabled and go roaming around HTTPS sites. You'll see how much information it can extract from the transaction.
But is Anderson Cooper making that money as a journalist or as a TV personality?

I don't mean to demean him by saying that, as I'm not very familiar with his background or his career. I would question, however, whether he is paid that much because of the journalism he does or because of his status as a TV star.

Maybe there's currently a large market for TV personalities who talk about things that are new but not a large market for actually discovering and distilling facts about our world. Maybe appearance, not content, is where the money and market is.
I don't see what's wrong with speculating about this. It seems to be a completely valid concern given the recent news that Microsoft has, in the past, shared 0-days with the NSA. It is not an outlandish conspiracy theory to think that, after being informed of a vulnerability, Microsoft could pass it on to intelligence agencies in advance of Patch Tuesday, giving them up to 2 weeks' time to make use of the exploits. "Past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior", and all that.

[edit]Link for reference, if anyone missed that particular news: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-14/u-s-agencies-said-t... [/edit]
The one firm? There are dozens of companies making cheap 3d printers. I can list a dozen without stopping to draw breath. Up!, Makergear, Printrbot, RepRapPro, Shapercube, etc etc etc.

This isn't even counting the non-FDM machines, like the Formlabs UV resin printer.
From a Bayesian perspective, papers that are demonstrating phenomena that are both (1) novel and (2) significant are the ones that are most likely to be false positives. If you have a journal built around publishing (1) and (2), you're bound to have an excess of studies that can't be reproduced.
The Apple TV SDK (aka your iPhone)
Pure – A set of small, responsive CSS modules
> I'm glad to hear that, but the fact that it is possible to just not serve the JS (or, just as badly, not test it: from what I've read elsewhere in this thread, the semantics of Dart2JS is not the same as the semantics in the Dart VM!) doesn't give me confidence that people won't write Web apps that depend on the Dart VM.

> The worry is that Web apps will come to depend on the Dart VM being present. I have seen nothing to indicate that this is not a very real possibility.

Dart has always their primary goal to compile to efficient JavaScript:

> For languages that are quite different from JavaScript: it's important for Dart to compile to efficient JavaScript
- http://www.dartlang.org/support/faq.html#compare-to-everythi...

There have been many times where language features were dismissed because they couldn't be compiled to efficient JavaScript (e.g. non-local returns and tail recursion). Google knows that Dart2JS is an important platform to optimize for (which has great source maps / debugging and tree-shaking optimizations) since it's the platform target that most browsers will be running and they want to ensure their own internal apps built with Dart2JS has a good experience across all browsers.

Following the mailing list, the only known deviation (that's wasn't a bug) is with some corner cases involving its use of arbitrary-precision integers: http://www.dartlang.org/articles/numeric-computation/ which relates from numbers in JS being stored in doubles (IEEE-754).

Other than that it's impossible for web developers to "target the Dart VM", the libraries in the Dart SDK are separated by platform so packages that can only run on the Dart VM like 'dart:io' cannot run on the client. Likewise there are some client packages like 'dart:html' that can only run in a browser and not on the server.
No kidding. Thanks for sarcastically pointing out the obvious.

I can make coffee by pounding my own grinds and boiling water over a campfire. But if I wake up expecting to turn the coffee maker on and can't, it can throw off my day. Further Google Maps is a terrible, terrible way to handle navigate on a smartphone, especially in a dense urban area with layers of highways.
My designs for Exec can definitely be improved - details in the spacing/layout of the website, as well as the branding overall.

There are always tradeoffs with design, and we make our tradeoffs consciously at Exec. Our priority is iterating quickly, with a design that is presentable and functional. For us, the 80% design done in a week is better than the 100% design done in a month.

Everyone's tradeoff is different - for apps that differentiate themselves on design (Clear, Paper, Flipboard) then it's worth it to take the extra time to get to the 100%.

As Coryl mentioned, I am definitely not discounting the value of design school, I have a ton of respect for the designers who come out of design school and I'm considering going myself one day.

Design school is expensive, both in time and money. It's 4 years of time and tuition is $$$$. Not everyone can do that. A lot of people just want to learn themselves, and you CAN get good enough to become a professional by self-teaching.

My design level isn't up to the standards of devilshaircut - heck, it's not up to the standards of myself yet - but it is up to the standards of many quality companies who are hiring. It's good enough to start a design career, and it's up to you to keep improving through the years.
Gluttony has always been a human failing. The National Security State is a relatively new one.
This was required reading for me (and most others) while going through the Marine Corps officer training program... A great read and probably one of the core reasons to hire former members of the military (in my biased opinion) along with a handful of other reasons that can't be taught in school.

The officer selection program screens individuals for potential to lead and thrive in a variety of very stressful situations THEN once they've screened for top performers they assign them a job and train them how to do it.

A completely different process than most companies who expect all of their talent to show up with a very specific skill set. Unfortunately this leads to some amazing people being excluded for the talent pool because "it is too much work to train" someone. If one learns the traits to look for I'd guess that training them becomes a breeze and you'll end up with a better hire who will stick around in the long run.
Ask HN: Good startup web hosting
Hey guys,

I'm working on build a website and curious to who you prefer for web hosting. I'm not looking to spend much, but I obviously want good service. Who do you recommend?
> There is, however, a nearly 20 minute long segment of various random people explaining why they think the Information Age and Silicon Valley is EXACTLY like the Renaissance period, followed immediately by a clip of Jobs saying, "Nah, it's not like the Renaissance AT ALL."

The computer industry kills art and it sounds like Jobs knew it. What perhaps the others saw as incredible works of art (like sculpted marble that will withstand the centuries) were actually just the most disposable consumer goods we've ever known. Computers are about cheap, disposable crap. For some reason, this also means software needs to be cheap and disposable, but that's another point entirely. The only layers of 'sediment' our creations will be found in are in the landfill. The only 'rare geologists' are likely going to be the picked-the-last-straw developer (or the terminally curious) that has to go knee-deep in the sewers of old code and comes upon a neat hack. This might sound real glass-half-empty, but it doesn't bother me. What's wonderful to know is that everyone else thinks we're all Michelangelos!
They have amazing history shows - like Pawn Stars and Larry the cable guy... Swamp people too.
I'm focusing more on the pricing model that Steam has. Sure, physical media has its benefits, but I'd give them all up for the equivalent of Steam Sales on Xbox. To be fair, I never trade or resell my games anyway.

http://cdn.leviathyn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/steam_sa...
My computer doesn't have a webcam or mic plugged in all the time pointed at my living room.
wow. It's amazing how phrasing and tone can change your posture and make your compliant or resistant to demands.

A form of mental/monetary Judo. Thanks for the example.
Meh. To me this just seems like codification of what's already happening. If there are criminal charges against an NSA contractor, what's stopping the government from stopping it by claiming "state secrets"?
Well everything is about trust, right? The PS4 could have a completely hidden camera that always on, but most people trust that Sony wouldn't do that, or that if they did, someone would quickly find it.
I believe they use the same model as Google, et. al. Sponsored listings for relevant searches.

edit: They also have an affiliate program when linking to eBay and Amazon (http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216405-a...)