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I don't buy the hype around crowdfunding and its supposed boom.

I think, particularly in the video game space which has seen some of the biggest backings across all industries/verticals, very few successful "crowdfunded" projects hit the market, and those that do generally become available to mainstream consumers with the backers receiving little in the way of truly worthwhile bonuses for fronting the cash.

After being a hugely avid Kickstarter at the get go, I've long since abandoned the site as failed product after lackluster product either died or left much to be desired when it was released. Anything worth owning will eventually be made available for general purchase in a form far superior; it's like someone took the worst parts about buying first-gen, cutting-edge products and exacerbated them.
The service restarts. What happens if you crash the Linux kernel?

I'm a happy monolithic kernel user, but there are some great ideas in the microkernel model. Just seems to never quite be the best practical choice except in some niches.
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/persona/
It is only supported in USA. I'm in Canada.
Next please ...
I absolutely lost it at the "hockey gear" annotation. Would have been hilarious.
My son just asked why the English are so bad "spying on Europeans". I reassured him by saying that most western governments are almost cetainly corrupt (inc dear old Australia).
And he who controls the databases controls the politicians, police, lawyers, judges ... You get the idea.
And even better, just because you've got nothing to hide, it's easy for these databases to be changed by someone in the know.
These systems are extremely dangerous, and should not be underestimated.
What Is ROI
"Wales uses a cheap smartphone made by the Chinese company Huawei that a friend bought him for $85 in Nairobi."

$85? Cheap? In Nairobi? Is that a typo?
How the heck do you track Ad interacting habits through just an IP address? I call BS on that particular paragraph.
Interesting thing about this video to me is that Obama called Snowden a "hacker" which is a total mischaracterization even if you accept the media's definition.
Pseudonyms !== Terrorist

If that was the case than any single person who uses a proxy, VPN, or Tor might as well be a terrorist; you're attempting to browse the web with a pseudonym. The REASON that they were used is because the use of assassins back then was pretty common, especially by the Empire.
How MasterCard restructured for IT innovation
Then you have no reason to be adjusting the official figures by 10x: $23m is a perfectly plausible estimate of gains on an existing $166m industry.
Entire content of your argument referred to the means by which you were making the argument, not the ... forget it, let's not keep going into that hole.

Talking about what the practitioners of civil disobedience think is entirely irrelevant to justification. A boy helps an old woman carry her groceries across the street. The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., exclaims, "why would he do that! That's not civil disobedience! It is unjustified!"

People can do good things, that are justified, without it being civil disobedience. If one calls it civil disobedience, then viewed in that light, it gets complicated. But since it is not civil disobedience (I assert), why do we have to justify it against the standards applied to civil disobedience? It's also not "rule by divine right of Kings" -- is it therefore unjustified by that standard? It's not "because it helps the children", is it therefore unjustified? We can go over all the ways that it does not meet how various people justify actions, and still come no closer to looking at his actions for what they are.

Clearly, in my mind, this is a case of "whistleblowing", where someone reveals information that is hurtful to an organization but helpful to the public. A mafia informant doesn't stick around to get whacked, and nobody faults him, because receiving the punishment for violating the secrecy does not help the cause that he is trying to advance.
Using Nginx and UWSGI
It is wrong to treat WL as an intelligence agency, because WL lacks the power of a sovereign state.
It looks like someone bleached an orange fox's tail and rapped it around an old beach ball. However, you are correct, it's not a big deal to the average person. To me it's annoying. Then again, another designer will come by in 2 years and re-design it into something else.
Simple and flat are the words of 2013.
I'm unreasonably pleased that I was able to answer both the example questions.
The correct response would have been, "no thank you".
> When talking in public expect the public to respond.

I'm confused - how exactly was anything they did talking in public?

> We chose a remote location (Big Sur), invited no press, and did our best to conceal that location from the press. We didn’t court attention — quite the opposite, we asked guests to check their cell phones and cameras at the door and we didn’t sell our photos to tabloids.
But spilled paint doesn't have simple enough geometry!
Yes. The actual getter for a Text field returns StringPtr, which is a simple pointer-length pair. If you want to pass that on to a C-style function you call .cStr(), with the caveat that the content is effectively truncated at the first NUL char.
That was the longest run I've done, somewhere between 24 and 36 hours left mostly untouched and forgotten on the settings you can see in the picture (with Surprise! mode on to speed things up). Unfortunately I did mess with it a couple times when I got bored with its progress, cranking up the Mutation rate for a few runs to bring in some extra variety; so it would probably be tricky to reproduce intentionally. I've got a new version up and running again, since this one did eventually crash.

Definitely weird and interesting. The funny thing to me was that it is sort of a "realistic" evolution, since flying cars could be an eventual next step for real-life transportation. Although hopefully with a less violent launch system :)
Did you read onwards? He clipped himself in with safety lanyards once he was above the level of the streetlights...
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> Mühe's response when asked how he prepared for his role in Das Leben der Anderen was, "I remembered."

...Wow. I find it hard to even fathom that.
Am I running Windows 8 32 bit or 64 bit?
The ears already had that detail: https://assets.mozillalabs.com/Brands-Logos/Firefox/logo-onl...

Brightening up the earth would negate one of the main points of the redesign, which is to fix the lack of contrast by removing the distractive specular highlight.
Interesting - at that scale, the gloss on the globe in the 2009-2013 version looks unnecessarily distracting to me. The latest one "reads" best to me at that scale.
Gumroad for Good.
I'm amazed that Voyager is still sending us data. It had to travel a a bajillion (+/- 100) km and not get blasted by some flying scrap of rock. It's components had to withstand every form of radiation our solar system has to offer, and the signals themselves had to make it all the way back to Earth without degrading beyond use. Wow!

Still, I'm worried that the tools of the 80s are not going to be sufficient to provide the details we'd need to understand what happens at the edge of the solar system.

For my part, I hope that we find some of those hidden dimensions, and it turns up on the other side of the solar system in a couple weeks.
Ask HN: How to get a job at a hostile takeover company
A friend of mine recently said "you know, some day we're going to work at a hostile takeover company." That sounds great, if Hollywood has anything to say about it, but how does that work? How does someone get a job at a hostile takeover company?
I think your profile looks good. You look like somebody who likes a combination of real, working code and fun projects to tinker around with. That's pretty much the type of person I look for. I'd say just keep doing more of the same!
I will be the contrarian and say it was a great choice of font color for at least 2 reasons.

The first is purpose: those dark images really stand out on the dark page, and the text is easily ignored, creating lots of attention on the photos and their extraordinary qualities (location, location, location, not to mention some pretty colors and compositions). Face it, the text is for people who want to know how it was done, which is one tenth the importance of "pics, or it... never mind."

The second is aesthetic. The article title "Mr Strauss' masterpiece" is even darker than the text, and the blog title "No Promise of Safety" is so dark as to be almost invisible. Hence, you have to assume that all choice of dark colors was intentional, thus serving some intent of the author. The idea of hiding in the shadows and having secrets revealed is strengthened by the text color.

Thus, I feel the dark text contributed to the impact of the page and its content. Not everything has to be perfectly readable or follow all rules of design.
Physalis: a BDD effort to make testing PHP code easy and fun
They could track if you reply to an ad or, if they also track your IP connections, see if you click on a link in an email containing an ad.
If MasterCard can create an international version of this product before Stripe, then this will be big.
Computer Science Education Act (CSEA)
Lot of cool startups, hot over the summer, cheap living expenses.

Salary given with experience to taste.
Show HN: JS Cohort Viz library
Show HN: Tracking Brazilian protests in real time
Somewhat reminds me of Kim "Dotcom" Schmitz.
My understanding is that as soon as the magnetic field shifts, Voyager will be declared to have "left the solar system".

The solar wind has died down, the cosmic rays have increased (although they are unexpectedly coming from a single direction), and the magnetic field shift will be the third and final necessary event.

And they expect it soon (could be months or years).
NSA harvests the entire email.

Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/05/mark_klein_docu/
Fair point, but it is objectively better at small sizes (see comments above), a bit similar to the original one.
If anything, I feel like this highlights some of the problems mentioned above more clearly. Not that most normal persons will care though.
Is there any numbers on the amount of hard drives NSA have?
How to maintain a successful open source project
This is mostly about the transition to SVG, not really a "brand evolution". The new logo is fine, not that much better or worse than any of the other variations shown. I don't get the hoopla.

I like what Wolff Olins did for Firefox OS and would love to see Mozilla take major new steps in that direction, with more radical changes to the logo (which frankly has always looked like a shrimp at favicon size): http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/mozilla_...
A blog post with just pictures of the new design obviously doesn't make an interesting blogpost xD
It should be noted they are using a really old version of chef, and most cookbooks won't work it.
I've seen 6 comments in this thread that stuck out to me as being particularly good. It just occurred to me they were all yours.
AWS has freebsd.
It's very subjective, but I agree with you. It's colorful, simple, balanced. Full of character and life.
Let's keep some perspective. The fear of the Stasi wasn't just 'are they tapping our phones?' If it was, they wouldn't have been so feared - just be careful on the phones. It was having a network of informants, such that you couldn't trust anyone, anywhere, that really caused the oppressive atmosphere. Americans are not living under the fear that if they mention something anti-government to a neighbour, they have a realistic chance of being carted off in the night.
It's been a while since I worked with email headers and smtp, but I don't think the Bcc header actually exists in transit. The mail user agent and/or the mail submission agent remove it.

They could reconstruct this information from the graph.
At this time, however, the merchant must be a U.S. business

Oh well...
Why do you equate DRM with subscriptions? It's perfectly possible to have subscriptions to content without DRM.
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True, but he never called it a "revolution," rather an "evolution" and "Not a logo redesign, but a simplification in form and function."

Also, any changes to a product that impacts ~ 20% of all desktop internet traffic [1] deserves some level of attention.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Su...
I don't think there is any security damage, no matter what they claim. There is embarrassment because of the wrongdoing being revealed.
I feel the same way, and I think you conflated my comment with a lot of other people being angry and caring a lot about this. I didn't even explicitly criticize the cost or extravagance, and you've read a lot into that. My point was mostly about the dissonance between his own framing of the event as a "natural" "sanctuary", and the rather un-natural reality of it. If he had said "we just wanted an all-out, spare no expense, Disneyland wedding," I would have moved right along. I thought it would be interesting to discuss, but I don't really care what he does, especially since he did make an effort to be socially responsible about it.
I was going to post the same thing.

Hope Stripe get there first, as I'd like to support them over Mastercard.
Entering into a price war would kill Stripe: it does not have sustainable low cost advantage.
"The only possible explanation I can come up with for the sentiment that the EU was "all about the single market" is that UK voters were horribly misled by their press and politicians at the time of EU accession. Is this plausible?"

This is the correct interpretation, at least as far as public polls over EU prove time and again in the UK.

If you actually combine the different responses to EU surveys, almost everyone in the UK across all factions of life, even today, mostly have interest in remaining in the EU solely for the common market, if that.

It is probably not helped by the fact that the most respected or even revered UK political leaders of the last 50 years, i.e. Churchhill and Thatcher, were extremely lukewarm about the EU project.

The difference compared to political attitudes of the public on the continent is very stark indeed.

Note. As for the European Convention on Human Rights opt-out, that is mostly a UK Conservative government/conservative media issue that they want to force through and they have had very little actual broader public debate or support. Of course, that does not mean that it will not go through eventually regardless, especially when "terrorism" is used to justify just about anything these days...
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I've not investigated the how, or where/when/if data goes places, but consider:

1. In a newly launched chrome incognito window - login to Gmail.

2. Open a new tab and launch Google.com, search for "New Relic"

3. Click through to the New Relic page.

4. Close the tab with the loaded New Relic page.

5. Open a new tab and proceed to 'lxer.com'

6. I get a New Relic ad served from Google here.

Some important notes:

1. Even if you come to this page anonymously, New Relic is one of the ads that will get served. This likely has to do with Google's placement techniques and New Relic's adsense configs and purchases. Nonetheless, with an active search history or browse history involving the given ad, I see a very high likelihood of ad display.

2. From an advertising perspective this is great.

3. From a search perspective, see the don't bubble us discussions elsewhere. Some people like to have search results filtered based on previous searches and browsing. I don't, but I'm perfectly willing to be in the minority here.

4. This technique works for the above specifics (I happened to have noticed the New Relic google ads in conjunction with web browsing in the past), and probably for many others. It will likely fail for many combinations as well. If you search and browse for medical items, they will probably not impact your lxer.com advertisements.
Tell HN: The front page of Hacker News has been deindexed from Google
You can confirm this by searching for 'hacker news' in Google; the #1 ranking URL is /newest, rather than the front page. This isn't term specific - the site doesn't appear for other terms that it usually ranks well for, such as "news.ycombinator.com" or "hn".

I've checked the usual technical reasons (html head canonical/robots meta tag, http headers, robots.txt issues) but I don't see anything untoward.

I'll keep looking into it, but I'm posting this here in case the admins/mods have made any changes recently that could have had an effect. There's a possibility that the URL has been removed by Google for some particular reason, though I can't think of many pages that deserve it less than HN.

I'll update this thread if I see anything, but hopefully someone else will post an answer before I figure it out....
I haven't taken much time to really read over the Go documentation or work through their walk-through the entire way but this is just a simple and elegant description of go routines and channels that just clicks for me.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Dr.
Red & black; Black & Decker.
Blue moon, blue Nile, blue sky?
Apparently this has been common since at least the cold war.
Wouldn't that just mean that you need a lot more tries to do a successful timing attack? Not sure if the regularity of his algorithm is enough to make it entirely impractical. I'm not even sure if it's not entirely impractical already using one of the less regular algorithms.
Considering they have an upstream wiretap on all US internet traffic, it seems possible they could determine the BCC.
I have had a lot of luck with Rosegarden too: http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/
So who the F can we trust? All those denials from everyone and now we see this, which I kinda suspected since Verizon was ordered to hand over the same for phone calls.
I hate this current "make it flat" movement. Ok, it's good so smoothen the logo a bit, the oval light on top wasn't super pretty, but the grade of details (in the fox!) were just about perfect.
With respect to how imports and the dynamic API: When/If you do get around to implementing the parser in C++, Could you consider making the import statement relative to the path of the file that is currently being dynamically imported? In the Protocol Buffer runtime, it's relative to the path of the top level file being imported which makes sub-files have to know about the path they're located at in order to import anything else.
One of the best things you could do as a country is stop with the 'land of the free' parareligion. You're not particularly freer than your contemporaries. In some things you are, in others you're not. You have a great level of freedom, but due to the parareligion, there is a sentiment (obviously not shared by all) that other countries must somehow 'not be free'. It creates a distorted sense of self.
A DRM-free subscription service would immediately lead to a ripper tool that would download everything in one month, which would immediately lead to Hollywood studio execs pitching hissy fits.
As said by Scott, suicide is very rarely a well thought-out action. It's something that is decided on a whim and often passes just as quickly.

Drug companies in Britain experimented by putting pills in blister packs instead of bottles and found out that suicide rates dropped dramatically. Apparently, the amount of time it took to pull each individual pill out of the blister pack was enough to make people think about what they're doing.

The same thing applies with bridges. There have been many efforts to put signs up and obstructive railings in place. They won't deter a really determined person, but they do the next best thing - the people who aren't sure are shown that it's a decision rather than a done deal. And that's what they need at that moment in time.
Why not? Millions trust them with one their most important assets: cash.
So just use the CC field, problem solved!
via ad agencies?
no, see, there's this whole world out there, outside of the US.
How long has it been since Snowden has been seen?

If Snowden is in Russia, and he has encrypted data, and he himself knows the decryption key... then I wouldn't have boundless confidence in a 29-year-old's ability to resist the persuasive power of the Russian 'deep security state' to obtain his keys.

Given amnesia- and compliance-inducing drugs, Snowden might not even be sure he's given up the goods... just wake up one morning a bit more groggy and 'jetlagged' than usual.
The headline should be "Obama says he refuses to barter over Snowden". And every time a politician says something, that's just PR. What matters is what politicians do.
If you are using DuckDuckGo, you can use the !hn bang to send your query to hnsearch.com
Supposedly the speed of IE 10/11 comes from not having any portability or backwards compatibility layers.
I highly recommend reading the explanation on how this is significant, it goes into more depth about timing attacks:

http://cr.yp.to/antiforgery/cachetiming-20050414.pdf
I have never really liked the Firefox logo much. I guess this is a decent compromise given what they've got, and looking at an example of what a completely flat Firefox logo would look like it just doesn't quite work, think this is a at least a step forward.

http://www.iconfinder.com/icondetails/85101/513/browser_fire...
Anders Hejlsberg, TypeScript: Application-Scale JavaScript, Build 2013
Apparently not always:

"In the second case, recipients specified in the "To:" and "CC:" lines each are sent a copy of the message with the "BCC:" line removed as above, but the recipients on the "BCC:" line get a separate copy of the message containing a "BCC:" line. (When there are multiple recipient addresses in the "BCC:" field, some implementations actually send a separate copy of the message to each recipient with a "BCC:" containing only the address of that particular recipient.)"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_carbon_copy#Visibility

Depending on combination and location of the MUA and MSA, it is plausible that the NSA was able to get full BCC lines.
Yep, user space. It will be restarted.

(Note that I may lie to you about /, it's somewhat special and I don't remember details).

Edit: oh, and when it crashes it will get handled by crash server (you guessed it, user-space program) which can kill/suspend/coredump it. You can choose even by env variable!
This doesn't make sense, because you have to have the key to play the video. Cryptography and security practices are the medical science to DRM's snake oil, and I don't really expect this usage will help security at all.

A "known key" attack isn't an attack at all, cryptographically speaking.

In addition: it doesn't even look like they're meaningfully using "web crypto" APIs, but rather the much-debated proposed DRM blob APIs.
Both gunicorn and uwsgi are good stuff. Though a new contender is Phusion Passenger (https://www.phusionpassenger.com/), originally designed for Ruby but recently gained official support for Python. With the next release (4.0.6), Python support will be raised from beta status to production-ready status. Like uwsgi, it performs the bulk of the process management for you. It goes a step further than uwsgi by integrating directly into Nginx, so that the web server is the only thing you have to deal with.
Thank you. Sorry for posting bad info. It's a good reminder to doublecheck what I think I know.