skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the improvements in Chrome were wholly done at Google. V8 was done from scratch at Google, as well as the security system, and Google contributed more to WebKit over the last few years than Apple (just go look at the commit graphs). The majority of Android/Dalvik was done at Google after Danger was acquired AFAIK. Google didn't acquire Android ready made.

These days, most software isn't developed in a vacuum. WebKit was a fork of KHTML. Does Apple get no credit for the changes made to it?

Google Maps and Google Earth were acquisitions as well, but the state of those products when they were acquired compared to where they are not is completely different.
Just two months? I've been doing the interview 'process' for at least three months, and i'm expecting another month if things go "right".

I was head-hunted by them initially. Had a casual phone interview within the week. Then scheduled and re-scheduled a technical interview (their fault, three more weeks). Then two weeks later I had another casual phone interview. Then waited two weeks for the on-site six-interview bonanza. I finished those 4th thru 9th interview two weeks ago, and recruiter just told me yesterday to wait for the hiring committee to give a decision in another week.
So basically if you have an infinite loop in your app's one and only thread, none of the callbacks will happen because they have to run on that one thread?
They can re-use the back end and banking relationships when moving to non-old-people markets, but I think they'd be better off using a new brand for cards for under-18, cards for normal people, etc.

Going 100% after the elderly market makes plenty of sense, though, for the future. There already are under-18 products, and elderly are kind of a unique market -- you don't want your parents/grandparents to be scammed, but they have every right to spend their money however they wish (since it's their money), unlike under-18 where it's usually money from parents.
Hell no you're not. Anytime I see a windows box I immediately notice how ugly and useless is their scrollbar.

I love how OS X/iOS scroll bar disappear. You know from the content you are reading where you are on the page. It's very, very rare (probably never) that I am lost on a page and I have to scroll slightly up/down to know where I am.
There is quite a good reason to carry around an apple cable. The connector is just better than micro-USB. The better arguments are that Apple should share their innovations with the rest of the industry so they can all have good connectors, but why should Apple even do that?
btw, what ide or editor are people using with julia?
And yet, a police officer would be fully justified in ticketing you for going 1 mph above the speed limit. That's the point of a speed limit - removing ambiguity and limiting speed.

You only disagree with it because it's not well-enforced. Seeing other people get away with it sets a precedent for you to feel like it shouldn't be a rule. And the same would happen to Facebook if they paid him - eventually, the whitehat program's "technicalities" would become as pointless to enforce as a police officer ticketing someone for going "1 mph" over the speed limit. "Oh but it doesn't matter! It's just 1 mph!" If a speed limit designed to make a clear cut line doesn't work for you, how do you define rules? There's no objectivity to it at that point. It becomes a slippery slope.

Many people feel that small "technicalities" don't constitute real, ethical laws. This is wrong and an error in thinking. Every rule and every law is a restriction by technicality. Technically, you can go 65 mph, but not 66 mph. That's the line that delineates legality. It doesn't matter if you agree with it, it doesn't matter if you see other people do it, that's what it is.

But it is a rule, just like Facebook's Whitehat TOS. Agree with it or disagree with it, they don't care. You either follow all the rules, or you don't participate. That's the bottomline. They don't owe anyone money, they offer a bounty if you explicitly follow the rules and have proper discretion. It's really not complicated.
What's wrong with his avatar?
Sue them on grounds that their negligence caused irreparable damage to your future earning prospects. Settle for a hundreds of K's. Use the money to launch a contracting career. Incorporate, do C2C contracts. Background checks are uncommon. Been at it for 2 years now and love it.
Not trying to be flamy, but, once again... why people insist on pushing on projects based on a... renownedly flawed programming language?

..Yea JS.

Today it's clear that the "only" reason for it being used is its widespread availability in browser, but that started in a time when you needed a way to change the mouse pointer from default to a rainbow colored one.

But still js it's the programming language we build frameworks for today, and the kind of industry standard we are proud of.. today.

We are we still stuck at this point?
[rhetorical question]

I am not even close to being capable of fixing this by myself so obviously the reason for this comment is just to create my own little tiny wave of resonance, hoping that it could hurt the next bigger wave, hoping this could go on forever.. till the point that js is replaced by something better and wiped forever from planet earth..
So one thing I can't help but wonder, is why they would choose to fly through Heathrow on the way to Rio, when there are any number of more convenient airports to fly through.

There's the obvious Lufthansa/Frankfurt connection he could have used, or the almost pleasant KLM/Schiphol route (which also seems the quickest from a cursory glance at hipmunk).

All of the other saturday/sunday flights that seem to pass through Heathrow to Rio are several hundred dollars more expensive and/or a five or six hour longer journey.

I suspect they were baiting the UK government, and were expecting this kind of retaliation. While it worked, it still feels kind of 'daily mail' of them.

Obviously it's circumstantial, and it could simply be that the Guardian had an existing account with BA or something as innocuous as that.

All I know is that you couldn't pay me enough to endure the horrors of Heathrow unless there was absolutely no other way to avoid it. And that's without the threat of the UK government possibly detaining me.
Yes, I heard he is going to black market next. That's a good lesson I think.

Nowhere I saw good faith, just greed for money. He was even asking for money in the initial bug "reports". http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4LbrTjyKBXc/Ug5sokeeR0I/AAAAAAAAAJ...
Shame on Facebook, other pen-testers are now going above and beyond and raising money for this person. For a person in the 3rd world, $10,000 is a LOT of money, so the guy must be feeling really happy!

That's about 7 months of salary here in Bolivia for a software developer. I imagine it's even less where he's from.
That's pretty much the textbook definition of a hack.
I had no idea Meta was a YC company until last night. If I had the money, they're the one company I'd invest in -- amazing team (Steve Mann! Probably ahead in 1980 of everyone else in 2013!), great product, great market, lousy competitor (Google Glass). Oculus Rift is more of a long-term competitor, IMO.
It could if it weren't added explicitly for people to use in the way described: https://blog.quora.com/Making-Sharing-Better?share=1
I wonder if a part of these site or services is how the name works in the language. I can "tweet" something I can "google" something, but "app" something?

Not saying its crucial or 100% important, but I do think the name and it's ability to work well in English has a lot to d owith success.

Maybe?
Read the her final article. Her reasons are more complex and personal than security and privacy. It's very real and poignant, and another element of the chilling effect of surveillance.

You don't have to be at risk of arrest to suffer the consequences of surveillance. Being listened to has wide reaching cultural and societal consequences.
That is hilarious!

He is telling the whole world what he thinks of them.
As long as you define very silent as running stories every other day.
It's one of the ways (maybe the most common way) to draw a pixelised middle finger.
The man who exposed Facebook bug is receiving donations from other hackers.
Honestly, I'd consider nixing it altogether by default. Even though it's in the CSS spec, :wait effectively duplicates an action that has a rather particular meaning at the level of the OS. Confusion over it is probably more common than one might expect.
Well they boondoggle'd this one, however the conspiracy theorist in me believes that this is a pointed distraction aimed at directing attention away from the Whitehouse/NSA. GCHQ is the sacrificial lamb, to put it bluntly.

Replace all instances of "GCHQ" with "NSA" and it should quickly sink in how serious this matter is. Imagine if NSA officers had stormed the Washington Post's office in a similar fashion, threatening and ignorantly ordering the destruction of a variety of named and un-named hard-drives.

How could GCHQ have known which hard-drives were which? Baffling.
Apparently http://www.hackermeter.com/ and https://onemonthrails.com/ decided to split the cost of the stock photo for their landing page and share it.
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You're obviously not married.
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Mostly vim, emacs and sublime (there's plugins for all of those). The folks at forio have also started an IDE for Julia, but last I looked they didn't have much more than an editor (and their website hasn't been updated in a couple months, so I'm not sure what the status is).
Thanks for the response. I would look back at some of the articles that came out on the imessage protocol several months back. They face a similar key distribution problem given that iMessages can potentially be delivered to multiple devices. I don't remember if the reverse engineering ever figured out exactly how they cracked that nut, but I seem to remember that there were some reasonable hypothesis.
Thank-you for replying again!

>The guilt by association essentially......

I'm sorry that I implied that, i did not mean to. I was trying to give an example of the type of articles that I would not want to see one HN.

Re: public schools. I completely agree with you. thanks for elaborating. I wouldn't ever dream of raising a child if i thought i would have to put them in public school. Mind you even then I would only dream ;).

well you've helped me realize how I can better express my thoughts and have also changed my mind on a few things. cheers.
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You're not far off.

My girlfriend and a couple friends recently went through this year's LCA process (H1B, H1B1, etc.) and the lawyers cost exactly that: $2-3k.

The $5k price point is only going to drive away your target market. These customers are people who have already busted their ass to get a work sponsor, so they know the ins and outs of the market, including what the laywers cost and who is typically better. If they don't, then they are deferring to their employer's lawyers, who are already experts, to handle it completely.

There isn't anything new that teleborders is bringing to the market here, except a more expensive price point.
It is hard to know where this is leading.

The NSA leaks seem to express a national security state that is immune to all but the most terrible publicity. Yet it seems like the escalation of power and arrogance means that said national security state is generating exactly that level of terrible publicity, demonstrating a cynically cavalier attitude so extreme it is actually keeping the situation in the lime light.

And of course we know that which nation engages in what exact tactic is somewhat beside the point. The Americans would say "we wouldn't force the destruction of hard drives" with what is now the standard, the standard, kind of disingenuous secret caveat; "no, WE would steal the data in the middle of the night" or "we would have the courts first declare the reporters to be non-reporters and then throw them Guantanamo" or whatever.
It's my preferred reading environment, but I hate that apple made this decision, because, as my sibling commenter here noted, it's outright user hostile. Apple never really totally understood the "visibility" requirement of usable interfaces. They like to hide things to make them look pretty, and it only leads to better advertising, not better interfaces.

Thankfully there's still a setting to always show scrollbars. For now.
I think this is correct for personal projects, but when working with teams it's better to create dev branches especially for major feature/functionality additions. I personally try to stick with separate branches and then merge just to uphold that practice, as well as being able to revert/find your mess-ups quicker.
I'm curious what game console/games he lost -- I suspect he could get a signed/etc. version from the developers for the asking.
I've been using adelinahost.com for a few months now (my vm is in Russia). So far, so good.
This is what happens when you use free stock photos. The photo in question is taken from Unsplash (http://unsplash.com) and can be found if you scroll to the very bottom.
There is the slight possibility that since The Guardian was footing the bill, they may have placed restrictions on the choice of flights and or airlines.
The tree graphics are really cool. I'm trying to figure out how that was done - it doesn't look like it's D3.js, which still lacks graphviz-style layout of trees. It looks like it might actually use graphviz behind the scenes, but then I'm not sure how it animates from one tree to the next when it changes.
What about the VPS provider being coerced into logging network traffic to the VPS? Then incoming un-encrypted mail is compromised..
Because you can have your own backend that does anything you want, and just uses App.net for the social graph.
If App.net it's trying to be a "social backend"... if that IS the case, then their work it's harder than just being a "Twitter alternative". But I'm really hoping they manage to make it!
Those pentesters are wrong for raising money for him. He didn't follow the rules, that's what he is being rewarded for. It's setting a bad precedent.
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I keep hearing this rumor, and while IANAE, I'm pretty sure the pacific current doesn't just go straight east to west... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Corrientes-oceanicas.gif
Or not destroy the hard-drives, merely steal them for 'evidence'. Or perhaps sue the harddrives for some crime.
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At that point wouldn't you be better off using a bigger social graph?
It does seem that YC companies have moved away from the "give some service away on the internet for free" model that used to predominate. Most of these seem like they are filling real needs.
I personally prefer the way iA.net does it (with an indicator next to the scrollbar):

http://ia.net/blog/learning-to-see/
This article is pretty silly. The example of "ringer" offered by the author specifically refers to instances of products that are made way better than what's available to the customer in order to mislead people about what the customer is getting. But the topic is the Nexus phones, which ARE available to any customer who wants one...it's just that a lot of people don't buy them. Claiming the Nexus is a ringer for Android because people buy other things is like saying Bently is a ringer for cars because a lot of people will buy a Toyota Corolla instead.

I'll agree that judging all Android phones based on the Nexus experience is silly since you miss the vendor bloatware and lack of timely (or any) updates common in many Android products. But I'm not convinced many people are doing that, and the author certainly doesn't do anything to support the idea that they are. People might be buying a lot of bargain basement crapware Android phones, but are they doing so with the expectation that they're getting the optimal Android experience?
https://www.statuspage.io might be good looking but it isn't responsive (on my desktop machine running chrome) and starts cutting off content if the window is less than 1218px wide. Ridiculous.
Well, that's the big question isn't it? Perhaps Larry Lessig will make end roads on the campaign finance issue, though I'm not holding my breath. The thing is that basically these sort of structural reforms will be difficult to institute without a broad movement that replaces scads of incumbents with independents unified on these issues. The current campaign finance rules heavily favor incumbents (aka current legislators), and so narrow, lukewarm political sentiment will yield nothing but lip service. I mean, it's hard to get incumbents to put that ladder back down after they've intentionally pulled it up behind them. It's a difficult problem, and I'm pessimistic on the prospect of it being solved when so few people seem to have the attention span to even see the problem. It's much easier to get outraged at narrow concrete issues than weightier abstract issues like campaign finance.
You've missed the point. The experience with other retailers seems to be quick dispatch of items to the shipping service.

The article is claiming massive warehouse investments by Amazon, yet that is somewhat at odds with shipping non-Prime items slowly. It would seem somewhat strange to deliberately ship slowly to push Prime upsells since that hands things to competitors, and is only doable if you are close to a monopoly.

It is possible that trailers (not trucks) are sitting around until full but that takes up space. They also generate the tracking id before it goes into a trailer, and you usually see less than 24 hours before it arrives somewhere outside the warehouse. I doubt there is any benefit to letting trailers fill up over several days. The shippers also use regional distribution centers so there isn't a need to have a full trailer, although full pallets would make sense. However Amazon should be able to fill those in a few hours.

Here is an article from 2008 about a Newegg distribution centre. Note that several trailers a day were filled.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2531/7

And another from last year explaining how the warehouse is almost empty moving stuff as quickly as possible.

http://www.stores.org/STORES%20Magazine%20May%202012/newegg-...
Destroying hard drives allowed us to continue NSA coverage
Sorry to barge in, my guess is that Google looks for the best of the best with a slant toward academia. So maybe a PM from a top notch b-school knows his calculus?
Seems like a bad time to start, if you don't need to.
Not really my place here, daeken, but shouldn't you try harder? If those bugs are still live then they constitute a security threat. Aside from you not getting a reward for it, it's probably not good they're in the wild, right?
>Many people feel that small "technicalities" don't constitute real, ethical laws. This is wrong and an error in thinking. Every rule and every law is a restriction by technicality. Technically, you can go 65 mph, but not 66 mph. That's the line that delineates legality. It doesn't matter if you agree with it, it doesn't matter if you see other people do it, that's what it is.

I don't agree. We're not robots, we're people. There is room for flexibility. To quote Captain Picard from Startrek TNG...

"Jean-Luc Picard: I don't know how to communicate this, or even if it is possible, but the question of justice has concerned me greatly of late and I say to any creature who may be listening, there can be no justice so long as laws are absolute. Even life itself is an exercise in exceptions."
There is a variant of this 'try before you buy' that was discussed on Firespotting some time back -

http://firespotting.com/item?id=1127

Lumoid is more of a 'rent to buy' equivalent though. My bet is that this would 'pivot' to be the AirBnB for gadgets.
Eating your own dog food is using your own product, which Google does without question

Devices not sold on the Play Store are not Google's product. Those products performing poorly, purchased as you stated, are the fault of the carriers.

I also wouldn't call the Nexus devices "ringers". Maybe if Play customers had faster processors or better displays than our carrier cousins, sure; but that's not the case. We are just purchasing our tiny little computers straight from the manufacturer, rather than buying from a third part.

The Nexus devices have their own history of problems as well. I still have no WiFi calling on my Nexus 4, despite T-Mobile Nexus 4's having the ability to do so. Of the 3 Nexus 7's I purchased for Christmas 2012, there's only one that will charge any longer: the one I rooted and run Cyanogen Mod on.

I'm not sure exactly what you are asking for with this post, for Google to run the bloated device you paid twice as much for from the carrier, as opposed to buying straight from Google (the Nexus 4 case study).

Uhhh... No? If my employer, or its customers, insisted I used my mom's computer to develop their software I would tell them to fuck right off.
British security agents lowered themselves to the level of "thug" when they confiscated David Miranda's property. Sadly, this event has reshaped my thoughts on what role government should play in our lives.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_(connector)#Reception

Please note under "Reception" about Micro USB and it being "standard". WHO'S LAUGHING NOW?!
CoreOS.com sounds super promising. I'm gonna be rooting for them. It's been a while since I last saw a real CS startup come out of Silicon Valley, much less YC. The action in this space seems to all be happening in Boston.
You assume they are living like fugitives, not like simple folks that just picked the cheapest flight available on the day/time they wanted. like, you know, you and me?
I can image a lot of people evaluating the price of having nothing to hide vs the capacity of 10GB -> 10TB. That is where the comment lead me.
And I assume you believe the previous success of Internet Explorer demonstrated the superiority of Internet Explorer and not Windows.

The connector succeeded because the IPod was extremely popular and then Apple got to leverage network effects.
If a Google engineer walks into Verizon and purchases a phone, he received one with stock Android installed? How in the world does Verizon keep track of all the Google employees? Do the sketchy early-20 yr old managers with their cracker jack "Small Business" certifications perform the downgrade?

I don't know how this would scale very well. Impressive Verizon!
they might go as far as implementing back-doors in OSes according to past rumors
In what way is it flawed?
What companies in Boston are you referring to?
>At his initial appearance, Assistant U.S. Attorney Karine Moreno-Taxman said the FBI's continued efforts had finally decrypted enough of two hard drives to find specific videos of child porn.

I didn't think that was supposed to be possible.

Can this be true? Is TrueCrypt broken? And if so, doesn't this have enormous implications for information security in the rest of the world? It seems like if it's that easy to crack modern encryption, the financial system should come crashing down any minute now.

It doesn't seem right that FBI would burn the fact that it's broken RSA on a small-time child porn investigation. Anyone know what's going on here?
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