skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The last time I checked, I couldn't find any projects that looked very appealing. There's (now defunct) python CA-project: http://www.pyca.de/

Then there's http://www.openca.org/ (which I've not go any experience with), and of course plain openssl -- which I've always felt is more of a proof of concept than anything really useful.

We need a simple, opinionated project, something along the lines of salt/NaCl -- and I suspect go would be a great implementation platform.

The only sane option I know of, would be Microsoft AD w/CA setup -- but that's not Free, not open, and not really a good fit for this purpose either [edit: to clarify - it's much too big, and does much more than needed. I'm also not sure how well it works in a setup where you want to keep the root keys offline as much as possible].
πfs - the data-free filesystem
Simple.

1. Most people don't need or want complexity like what you see from the typical low cost Android devices. Remember most of these people are still upgrading from Nokia style feature phones and aren't after a computer in your pocket (just yet).

2. Android in particular is really nasty at the low end. The quality of experience you would get from a tightly optimised and simplified Firefox OS would be immeasurably better. Again. You don't need to have X, Y and Z instead just have X implemented really, really well.

3. The barrier to entry and cost for developing HTML/JS apps is far lower than Java and Objective-C. You really do need a decent PC/Mac to program for either. And we all agree that custom, locally developed apps is vital.
I'm not really talking about on the spot knowledge, though. After awhile, you should just know things. If every time you sat down to write a program, you had to look up the definition of a variable, you'd be in for quite a difficult time.

Some knowledge, like history or literature or even science outside of your field, doesn't really have an apparent application. I'm not really arguing against applied knowledge, but I'm saying that personal edification is a very good thing. Connections pop up in the strangest ways. In fact, I'd argue that without a degree of memorization, research skills will be lacking in most people, as they wouldn't have a clue where to begin.
I went through the steps of building the GNUnet stack yesterday - a nice idea, but they have a long way to go.

BTW, I watched the video of the conference in Germany yesterday and blogged my summary of what Richard said: http://markwatson.com/blog/2013-08/fsf-more-relevant-than-ev...
Thanks for your article reminding me of the need to iteratively check in with business clients to make sure the analysis will be addressing central not peripheral problems.

This reminds me of "Backward Market Research" by Alan R. Andreason (1985)

Harvard Business Review original (paywall) <a>http://hbr.org/1985/05/backward-market-research/ar/5</a>

Free scanned pdf of full article
<a>http://online.sfsu.edu/hussain/mktg632/backward%20market%20r...

The similarity that really struck me was running scenarios early in the process to discover which hypotheses really drive significant delta in business decisions.
PVS-Studio vs Chromium. 3-rd Check
WordPress recently added 'Tiled' galleries via their JetPack plugin. It seems like a similar approach. You can see an example gallery here:

http://ma.tt/2013/07/jay-z-picasso/

Additional info:
http://jetpack.me/support/tiled-galleries/

Code:
https://github.com/crowdfavorite-mirrors/wp-jetpack/tree/mas...
Cocos2D is really cool and incredible supported around the world. It is the most used 2D engine for iOS and it's ported to the most used platforms: iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, OSX, Linux, Windows, HTML5. It also contains Javascript bindings so you can use the same code in all platforms taking advantage of the native performance.
Analysis of the obfuscated malicious JavaScript
This post describes the detected JavaScript as is and then shows how the malicious actions is created during the page rendering. You can try and locate such code on your website and do analysis and removal if required. This article should not be used as hacking guide.
Nice site. I like how it suggests xerox.io. I imagine all you'd get for your $49 there would be a nice letter from a lawyer. (Reminds me about the famous Wired article from 1994 pointing out how many big companies, like McDonalds, didn't have their own domains. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.10/mcdonalds_pr.html)
How much of what FDA approves is due to lobbying and lowering of standards?

Of the kind that no FDA guy would like to feed his children with those if he had an alternative?
Big Data analytics at the heart of your strategy can get you ahead
Can you give an example of “==" failing to be transitive in C? The standard defines “==“ as a predicate that tests the numerical equality of the values of the (promoted) operands; unless you can hide something very clever in the promotion rules, that’s going to make the relation transitive. [Edit: as Stefan points out, there are cases where C’s promotion rules cause values to be rounded (which should have been obvious) — int32 to float32 and int64 to float64 in particular; this naturally leads to transitivity failures].

I’m also curious about your distinction between x == y and x - y == 0. Those are equivalent expressions for all reasonable integral and floating-point types (they fail to be equivalent when floating-point types lack denormals, but that’s “not reasonable”).
Though still think it's quite unfair to call Tesla and SpaceX "interesting sample runs".
> they do OK in very nutrient poor soils

I generally agree with your comment, but I'd maybe say that "they can thrive in nitrogen-deficient soils". There are still other variables that affect the growth of nitrogen-fixers especially: soil pH; the quantity of other macro (and micro) nutrients like phosphorus, potassium, calcium, etc; and availability of water and sunlight.

Soybeans are a major crop that can fix nitrogen, but they may still need supplemental applications of phosphate, and the crop will die if not irrigated during a drought.

In other words: this is not a silver bullet that will magically make the problems of the world's crop-growers disappear overnight.
Good point about possible faster implementation with patent incentive. I would love to see the research on that.
We are a democracy once every 4 years ... and that extends only as far as the legislative branch. Our government(s) are composed of more than just elected representatives. We have civil servants that propose and draft the law, judges that interpret it, and police officers who enforce it. Do any of these groups give more than a passing damn about elections or the will of the majority? Or are they more easily subverted by the glare of the latest media frenzy, selfish consideration of their own career advancement, or innate primal urges towards jingoism, nepotism and authoritarianism?

You tell me.
That geekphone seems to cost 150€ at the moment. 50$ would be really exciting.
Your post is about using NoFlo to rebuild Jekyll. So you're saying that you did that without the UI? If yes, that's not really rebuilding Jekyll in NoFlo. If no - sharing an interface that I can try and tweak is the single best way to quell concerns and incite support.

I might have a use case for a flow UI - not FBP, but a niche of an application that might be best suited to be administered with precisely this kind of flow UI. Pretty soon, I will have to make a decision on what to use there. NoFlo looks like a very strong contender, but I've had a couple of them, even with mature codebases, that turned out to be nice in theory, but not usable in practice.
Connectivity, Content and Consumers: Britain's digital platform for growth
>But he missed a much bigger scoop! The same is true of McDonald's burgers in every country! In fact, burgers from every chain aren't fit for human consumption without processing (at a minimum, cooking).

Ho ho ho.

Only he made a valid point, that they use the scrummiest parts they find, that would not be acceptable to pass hygiene tests or be served without chemical treatment, and you just made a not very good joke by taking the "unprocessed" thing out of very specific "processing" context he mentions.

>So the issue isn't "you can't eat it until it's been processed"; that's a given. The question is "what processing is okay", and in particular, "is using ammonium hydroxide safe". And according to the FDA, the UN, the WHO, and most EU countries, it is

OK then, that settles it. Because state agencies are not known to have approved tons of carcinogenic and harmful chemicals for everyday food use because powerful interests lobby for their use in order to lower their costs...

I mean, it's not like cigarettes aren't also approved and allowed to be sold (without any warning and with "studies" proving them safe, 3-4 decades back).

Or like the FDA approves Coke and Pepsi, products that are known to contribute to obesity, diabetes and several other adverse effects, just because there is a multi-billion industry to be made out of them.

If I'm allowed to be cynical, that the FDA approves something, only tells us that it's not a poison with immmediate effects, nothing much more...
Shopify launches 'Shopify Payments'
Whie these articles are great (and thanks for it), One of the biggest reasons I am excited about Firefox OS is the aim for these articles to not exist, if you do a good job building a mobile friendly web app then on Firefox OS it should 'just work'

The amount that this has proved true already is amazing, I have loved doing Firefox OS app days and seeing people spending a long time building phonegap / mobile web based applications and seeing it just work on Firefox OS, there is still a lot of work to be done but it really is the ubiquitous platform dream of mine come true.
Aaahh! The illusion of control!

How sweet.
It's the NSA-related articles that often come from The Guardian. That's simply because this paper is the window for Snowden (not sure if they have an exclusive agreement, maybe). They have the balls to stand behind him, unlike a lot of other outlets.

Also, know that the rest of the main stream media don't seem to like the idea of discussing this mess and any possible solutions - probably b/c they're ultimately controlled by influential politicians or other moneyed interests.
What time are the details due? Anyone know?
An OCR Powered Helicopter written in Node
Rdio does some fantastic design work. Just a shame their engineering is so bad that I can't even use the app.
No matter how you communicate,the NSA probably has a copy of it
Using Wiki Surveys to Forecast Rare Events
Integrate gmail on your website using IMAP
what are some issues you observed?
The whole point of fertilizers is to grow plants on soil with too little Nitrogen for the desired yield. If these bacteria can lower the amounts of fertilizer per yield, that's good enough.

It might be hard to patent though. As far as I understood it you just need to infect the plants with the bacteria, and once the bacteria are out in the open, it will be hard to stop others from using them with or without intent...
Ah, but the constitution permits or has a process for war, imprisonment, death penalties and taxes. (The others you lump in, not so much, though you could argue about cronyism).

At least surveillance can be dealt a blow by withdrawing funding.
I downvoted you because though I think your post is helpful, there's a lot of unnecessary negativity and it overwhelms the good. Point being, this is a really interesting project and they are showing an implementation of Jekyll in node, which is a boon to all of us non-ruby guys who want a solid blog engine we can hack on (e.g. for local management of posts), yet still be able to maintain compatibility with Github Pages' vanilla engine.

So thanks noflo guys, keep up the good work with the open source community.
ZTE Will Soon Start Sales of Firefox OS Phones on eBay
Today: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/356776740409974785
The other games by the same creator are just as awesome!
Of course, we also remember the landscape & competition at the time. The world has changed. This is like linking to a page showing the evolution of Windows to justify someone releasing an OS with the capability of Windows 98 in 2013.

Yeah, it evolved. But we're actually two steps ahead of the end of that page now. iOS & Android are leaps and bounds ahead of what they were at 1.0. Really the only point you've demonstrated is "Wouldn't FFOS be sweet compared to Android 1.x?" and the answer to that is yes, it would be. Android 1.x was terrible. But that isn't the landscape it's being judged against, and nor should it.

Not only that, FFOS wouldn't even be possible then. What made FFOS possible was the mobile revolution and renewed interest in pushing the limits of what ARM and associated mobile technologies could do. Turning 1GHz ARM chips into commodity hardware, which was the direct result of the growth of iOS & Android.

Will FFOS evolve and grow? Of course. The question is will it do so fast enough, well enough to catch up, exceed it's competitors in a manner that's so compelling, it stands a chance to actually gain a foothold? Judging by Windows Phone, WebOS, Symbian and Tizen, the answer is almost certainly no.
HTML is primitive. I'll take an internet application any day over a browser. I long for the day when my desktop is filled with application shortcuts, instead of browser shortcuts. I'm already there with android, where developers have learned that more rich, interactive and controlled experience can be had with an application instead of a webpage. I'm sure this burns with HTML developers, but it's only a matter of time before HTML is only a vehicle to direct the user to the app download link.
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+1 for everything about that Segway image.
Partially, but not the the same level as Haskell. It's pretty easy to get broken code past the compiler in C# for example.
This is http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/css-hidden-elements all over again :)

Here’s an even more extreme version with no HTML at all: http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/css-without-html (read it + try the demo in Firefox)
Your comment is almost useless. On which browser? Which operating system? What do you expect to happen? What actually happens?

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html
Writing is for startup founders
>So, show us. Show us how many people have been caught as a result of all this monitoring.

You do know what happens when law enforcement is judged on the basis of 'how many people have been caught', right?
Any chance you were you thinking of http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/css-without-html​?
I meant like 5pm EST. I'm aware it's today ;)
Or you end up flooded with low quality applications by amateurs. Both are equally likely.
Reportlab: How to Add Page Numbers
See http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/css-hidden-elements
Stock footage
That requires transparency. If there is no transparency, we'll never know... and the administrators of these programs have every careerist incentive to put the best possible shine on them.
How to get meetings with people too busy to see you
Mind blown. That's phenomenally cool. Thanks for the tip.
With a purely linear type system, memory management could be handled statically, negating the need for traditional GC. The underlying behavior would be closer to C-style just-in-time {de-}allocation, or C++ RAII. LinearML is an attempt at this: https://github.com/pikatchu/LinearML
How the Internet Ecosystem Works
As an FYI, the "Smartest Man" that he's referring to is George Soros. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros

Wein wrote a biography of Soros in the past, and the biographical sketch at the beginning match very closely.
I support both. A good investment.
My experience: I wrote a google authenticator app in 'HTML5' a year ago and it just worked on FirefoxOS.

It is the whole purpose of the OS. Is this news?
Context is nice to have, though.
>...Which is why you probably will choose not to eat those burgers and will spend your money on more expensive products and that's fine. Other people might have less money to spend and they'll look for the 'biggest bang for their buck'

No, that's not fine for me. Basic human decency doesn't stop at the middle class.

Why should poor people eat a subpar and dangerous food just because a chain wants to maximize their profits? Are they less human?
great points. I've been a big fan and advocate of android for some time. But I've have been disappointed and still am disappointed by how much hardware is necessary to run even basic tasks like getting onto the Internet and reading a static page, how even scrolling through the basic launcher interface stutters, even on the new nexus 7, how switching between apps can take so much time.

it seems that Android as a solution to the problem of a mobile phone is overshooting a big chunk of the market. in that sense I think FxOS is in a good position to disrupt the mobile space.

now how can I get my hands on a phone??
If both are equally likely, then we might as well be optimists; the glass is half full.
Pretty much everything I've tried lately has worked perfectly through Wine.

I have even less reason to care strongly about a Linux version as I often use OS X. I want either all three platforms or just Windows, but working through Wine.
I think better guidance and inspection in figuring out type errors would be of huge value in Haskell.
Thanks for sharing, added to my queue.
and it's not like other jobs don't require that
Exactly. Even my intelligent but not super nerdy friends had no idea what the hyperloop was when I mentioned it, Elon is not a name they know, and Tesla barely rings a bell.
is there something like this for Scala ?
And the three argument open has been in Perl since at least 5.6, which was released 13 years ago. No reason to use anything else.
Ask HN: Is Seomoz lying?
Mirage travels to OSCON'13: a trip report
My Puppy Keeps Chewing Things Around The House
Great tool, I would love to see it expanded to more TLDs, especially I with .com and .net, as there are still a lot of good ones available from time to time.
HTML apps do have a major advantage, namely cross platform compatibility and access anywhere - you don't need to install anything, it just runs. I vastly prefer the native app, or even just one that target a managed environment like .net or Java over a "webapp", but the they're not clear-cut better than a native app and for some applications it makes perfect sense.
Not sure whether there is some unwritten rule that a comment has to precisely balance positive and negative points.

I didn't even talk about a node.js Jekyll - neither positive nor negative points - I thought it was clear that I was opening a general thread of discussion about NoFlo. So I'm really not getting how that downvote is warranted. I usually don't write replies like this one, but I actually spend some time trying to properly phrase my argument to prevent somebody from seeing it as "just the typical HN snark". So I don't know - that offhanded downvote irks me.
It's saddening to see the potential uses go from saving a little girl's life to "military, coverts teams, even oil rig crews".
> I am told that my technical competence is undeniable but I'm way too introverted to be hired

My sympathy, because I can imagine this must be puzzling.

From experience, my analysis tree would go like this:

1. Is this a euphemism or excuse? Euphemisms can be used to cover up other meanings like "you look like a serial killer" or "bathe more." You might want to pursue those angles. Excuses can cover things like you wanting too much money, or being too strong in your opinions or knowledge. (Remember, the machine wants cogs, not governors.)

2. If you think it's actually what they mean, I'd look at the word as they're going to use it, which means "socially withdrawn" and not its actual meaning. Then I'd check these:

(a) Does my appearance scream "socialization difficulty"? Did I wear a monk's habit to the job interview, or talk about 1980s classic videogames too much?

(b) Does my behavior scream "socialization difficulty"? If so, I'd approach this as you would any other technical problem. Find some "normals" to observe and pretend you're James Bond, super spy, and imitate them. You must infiltrate the hive and shut off the reactor.

3. If none of the above are checked: something else is making them nervous. Talk to a recruiter, psychologist or other and have them observe you. Also, make sure no parts of your life or resume scream "serial killer" or "probably molests goats."

4. If that's not the case, think about where you're applying. The machine loves cogs -- I said that already -- but sometimes, silly people in charge of silly companies want cheerful happy cheerleader types who will socialize a lot, get really excited over foosball, etc. They like these because they're tractable and easily manipulated. These silly companies tend to be tech sweatshops that assess you based on the amount of code you grind, not how good it is. Do you want to work there anyway? If you do, you're going to have to play Halloween dress-up and imitate what they want.

I will never support bias against introverted people just so that there can be the illusion (sorry, I mean "appearance") of a happy enthusiastic go-get-'em workplace. That's just silly. But if your appearance or behavior makes other people nervous, and they're not nitwits, you might consider adopting a little bit of a charade so you can work with these people.
The PS3 and Xbox360 won't go away in the next 5 years. The issue is not so much PPC (which should get support anyway), but various other silly things, like needing to rely on certain interactions between the compiler and runtime library. This is not a huge issue, but any extra bump will deter people from trying.

And indeed it's possible to have an alternate toolchain, but lots of work that is best avoided most of the time.
You're looking for a unicorn. There isn't a convenient way to have a third-party deliver something to someone without knowledge of where that thing is going.

If you need a trusted chain of custody for whatever you're moving, than you need to build that infrastructure (as in the example I provided previously). If you need the ability to securely communicate outside of a secure infrastructure, there are various ways to do that (bank-style, ssl-secured messaging centers, PGP, S/MIME, etc).

Anonymity is a separate problem. Spies use techniques like dead drops. The boss in "The Godfather" didn't use the phone. Corporate executives use PIN-to-PIN blackberry messaging and swap phones periodically.
Thats sounds alot like the policy in the TeX world, where forks of libraries with breaking changes need a new name. Quite frankly, it's even harder to follow than the occasional breakage at version changes, especially when you try to find out what the "modern version" of what you are using is.
No, these are true lightweight threads (implemented on top of an OS-thread pool, just as they are in Erlang and, I suppose, Haskell). You can have hundreds of thousands or even millions of these on a single machine. They can block for IO or for any other kind of synchronization (message passing etc.), just like regular threads.
NoFlo is an engine first of all... And now we're building a UI for it. But that doesn't change the fact that you can still create flows in text if you really want to :-)

But I have to admit, I wished we had the UI every step of this project!
Since Musk said that it was a people transportation concept everyone immediately jumped on that bandwagon. The hyperloop could be a concept that disrupts the cargo train market. I could see GE taking a look at this concept with the idea of improved cargo transport.