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Chrome extensions have had access to external devices for a long time. It's not often used, but I've done stuff implementing chrome + arduino.

http://developer.chrome.com/apps/app_hardware.html

A quick google search shows:
https://github.com/BertHartm/Chromeduino
Pretty misleading title. This is a product ad.
Sometimes things happen in America that do make me happy about how this country works.
> I don't see how your first two points are relevant to what I said

They're not, I just wanted to include them for the curious.

> You can love the GTR all you want, I don't mind, and I never claimed that there was anything wrong with it.

It's an amazing car, but it's not like I have one or even want one.

>As for point 3, if you were to compare to a theoretical manual transmission GTR, that half a second of extra power would still only net you a couple tenths advantage, since acceleration and aerodynamic drag are nonlinear. And I stand by my claim that a couple tenths on a 12 second quarter mile is 'not much faster.'

You've never tried to build a 12 second car have you? A couple of tens is HUGE for a well behaved road car with a sound system, air conditioning and creature comforts. You could easily spend tens of thousands on a drag car in an attempt to get that. (I just looked it up, Motor Trend ran an 11.6, which is F-A-S-T)
We're on the same page. That's my next hack — an OpenVPN server within Docker. The blog post, Dockerfile, and helper scripts should be out next week :-)
No, they are not isolated in the sense of ACID. This behavior violates P0.
This has never actually been implemented on OSX, which surprised me when I switched from linux, I missed it a lot
I wonder if Firebug & other tools will eventually support debugging web workers, making this usefulness against cheating a temporary thing.
1. Naked economics. This is essentially a primer on Econ, I read it when I was 17 or so and it taught me 90% of what I was taught getting ivy Econ degree. Short, easy, intuitive read, can't recommend it enough.
2. Innovators dilemma. This is where the now-meaningless-buzzword 'disrupt' comes from.
I don't get your point. PayPal works as a payment provider for IGG campaigns. If IGG is willing to absorb the risk, then PayPal, as their payment provider should as well. Or, if PayPal is not willing to follow through and act as payment provider for high-risk crowdfundings, then PayPal should not be payment provider for IGG campaigns. But the middle way, first offering payment through PP and then not cashing out the money just doesn't work in my eyes.
That reasoning is akin to a police officer ordering you about without any reference to the relevant laws, or justification, or politeness. Not a way to do business, nor indeed keep the peace.
Yeah, I keep hearing that, but just because some people perceive sexism, doesn't mean that they deserve special treatment lest one be accused of sexism. Also, reports of threats from anonymous internet trolls is the common denominator of every internet controversy, I can't take that seriously unless PA was encouraging users to send out hateful messages.
Awesome!

For as popular as JS is, I've found it pretty difficult to find good tutorials and resources online for it. I guess I was looking in the wrong places? Google was just failing? My google-fu isn't as good as I think it is? I dunno...

I think this will be a big help and a good resource, so thanks a million.
Rackspace Cloud Monitoring has an API driven way to manage notifications (people) and notification plans (groups of people) that can be flexibly tied to specific checks and alarms. It runs very similarly to this, with an open-source agent running on the host, or remote checks that try to connect from the outside.

http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/monitoring/
Chrome extensions have had access to external devices for a long time, including both USB and Bluetooth.

http://developer.chrome.com/apps/app_hardware.html

NPAPI has been available for awhile, too.. Not sure if that's what they're referring to when they say shell access.

https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/npapi.html
Does anyone familiar with NLP know how the sentence trees are parsed? Can something like python's nltk do that? I always assumed that was very difficult to do well.
I read the entire "Game of Thrones" book series and "The Count of Monte-Cristo" (and most of the other reading I've done in the last two years) on a iPod touch.

The new 5th Generation screen is quite nice in Landscape mode.
I think it is a self hosted solution for Flickr/Vimeo use cases.
Build your own face with CSS
Here the same[1]. This library squats vocabulary in a bad way. e.g.:

#word is (\w+). This works in english, but breaks very early. Still, it might be correct in some time. "word" is extremely context-sensitive.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6319584
If you read the article, Oyster is for select books too (100k, vs. Amazon's 350k). But for Amazon you have to have a Kindle. Won't work with the Kindle app on tablets, phones, or desktop.
If we start vindicating loud, sensitive or manipulative people who try to remove content that doesn't please them, I think society is going to suffer as a result.

Actually, I think Mike Krahulik qualifies as loud, sensitive, and manipulative when he used his platform at his own conference to whine about people who embarrassed and annoyed him three years ago. Why bring it up again?
Could be better, but few things are perfect. Nice to have all of that info compiled in one place without tons of ads. Now add more detailed descriptions to each of links and organize them in beginner/intermediate/advanced/expert categories. This way a newbie won't be completely lost and pro's won't lose interest by opening first few links that are easy. More ambitious project would be to add some kind of series of links/tutorials so that people who want to learn will have a decent way of tracking their progress.
How about we just support our public libraries? I haven't found a better alternative and I'm already paying for it.
An equally interesting question is, what would this injection do to people (or mice I guess) who are born without any deficiencies?
I feel the same way. I love owning my stuff. My MP3 files, my ebooks, my hardcopies, vinyls, cd's, etc. All this "in the cloud" stuff just adds an extra overhead to my already stressful life. "Will this company perish and all my shit be gone? Is it secure?" are questions I always think about.

When I have that physical copy, the (mostly) only person I have to blame is myself for not maintaining my items integrity.
Ruby and Scala are both feature-rich languages that give programmers every chance to abstract away any common logic that they can find anywhere, while remaining elegant at core. Python and Go are both minimalistic languages that provide basic abstraction facilities, but are designed to keep the programming language and source code simple and readable, even it comes at the expense of expressive power. Scala differentiates from Ruby with static typing, faster performance and better support for concurrency. Go differentiates from Python with static typing, faster performance and better support for concurrency.
Unexpected investment boosts moral
> Credit cards fundamentally allow chargebacks; you can't turn them off. If you want to do business with no chargebacks you cannot accept credit cards either directly or indirectly.

So why is this not a problem for IGG? Since it obviously isn't - they cash out 15 days after funding closes. If the difference is that IGG takes a higher cut, then fair enough, let PayPal take a higher cut.
Those are exactly the same, it's not an approximation. (212 - 32) / 9 * 5 = 100 exactly. Water boils at exactly 212 Fahrenheit under 1 atm pressure.
I was glad to upvote your follow-up question about better sources. I have not tried the Reddit group mentioned in the other reply you received, but the characteristics mentioned there sound helpful. I earlier posted a reply here on HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4735122

listing some of my favorite sources for science news. If I see a link (say, from my Facebook friends) from PhysOrg or ScienceDaily, I NEVER assume that it is worth submitting to Hacker News. (Longer story about that by request.) If the recycled press release looks interesting and plausible, I try looking up the name of the study author or key words from the study findings and see if I can find a better source.
Hashtags on Facebook Do Nothing To Help Additional Exposure
My experience has been that credit card companies act as an arbiter. They give the merchant an opportunity to respond to a chargeback... but they also charge you a fee just for handling it (or maybe the fee comes from the processor... I'm not sure). Too many chargebacks can also put you in a higher risk category which means higher fees for everything.

If you challenge a refund request, PayPal will ask you for additional information and then (at their discretion) fight the chargeback with the credit card company on your behalf. In my experience, this process is huge pain, but it usually works out OK.
Personalized shopping: an introduction to product recommendation systems
To be fair, isn't comparing this to a library similar to comparing Netflix to Blockbuster?
You're presuming that all reads occur after the system has quiesced. This is not always the case. I'm happy your write pattern works for you, and that you measure your consistency; I'm just trying to keep folks honest about what their systems actually provide; and give them tools to analyze those constraints.
Do you want to teach programming or CS? They are quite different in terms of what they encompass.
Any plans to make this available as a plugin for ebook readers?
Why Flywheel selected Riak over MongoDB and Cassandra
I love the idea(though I'd never buy it on an iPhone), but I can't see this playing out well for the authors. I see no mention of how much they get.
> In almost all cases, it's a holdover from someone going in their head "if a is true" (because "if a" doesn't read well in human languages) and writing that out,

It's interesting you admit that people are doing it "the long way" because that's how it naturally flows out of their head.

Doesn't it make sense that it would naturally flow into their head the same way?

What's the goal here - write very tight, concise code that fits some arbitrary standard of "correct"?

Or to write code that flows out of and into people's heads easily?
No, nothing will help. If PayPal discovers that you are doing crowdfunding they will freeze your money forever. Some people got away with it because PayPal didn't notice them, but you can't predict that PayPal will not notice you in the future.
How about craigslist?
I had that same engine you link to as a kid except mine was orange instead of blue. It's definitely one of my more memorable childhood toys and even though a fairly basic representation of an engine, I agree that it was a great intro. On a side note, I remember the screwdriver that kit came with was ridiculously bad. It made stripping the included screws really easy and made putting together the model more of a chore than it should've been.
Hi. This is very nice. It has the flavor of Racket's contracts:

http://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/contracts-first.html

http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/contracts.html
I'm using lastpass with Yubikey 2nd Factor.

What's great is there is an NFC Yubikey that I just put close to my phone to get the phone version of LastPass to auth.
Did this happen in every 6th grade? Or did we both know a guy named Walter?
Oh yes I have. Both on iOS and Android.

While suppressing disbelief that this is even something being argued, I present the instructions to run your newly built app package on your Android device:

1) Make sure your the appropriate security options to allow app installs are checked in the phone settings.
2) adb -d install <path to apk>
3) Enjoy the your own app on your hardware you own without asking permission from anybody else

For iOS, start by paying $99 to Apple to register in the dev program. Then go through this tutorial explained with the help of >20 screenshots:

http://mobiforge.com/developing/story/deploying-iphone-apps-...
what's the url?
I am not sure I agree. Many major online retailers do this and are very successful. Promotions can be site-wide or category sales, individual items, certain brands, offering mail-in-rebates, etc.

Done right, it is wildly successful.
I think this controversy is more about his initial reaction to the people who complained on twitter, which he's stated many times that he regrets.
I was ready to call B.S. on this but after actually seeing it in action, it seems very reasonable. I wonder why this hasn't been done before. I happen to skip lines very often, I'll definitely try this out.

EDIT: Some feedback after reading a Cracked article with it.

First of all, since the inception of the Readability bookmarklet I've always read online articles with some kind of tool (I started with Readability, then passed to the Safari version and now I've been using Clearly for quite some time and I'm pretty happy about it) and now I'm so used to it that if a particular article doesn't render properly, I just straight out don't read it. The first thing I noticed is that the coloration is applied even to single-line titles, I would do away with it and (maybe) apply it only on multi-line paragraphs' titles. The other thing that irked me is that small images are put on the left side instead of being centered, even worse is the fact that text appears on the right side of the images; I would follow Clearly steps in this regard and always put the text under the centered images. Lastly, I would reduce the text area to 600px of width or better yet, dynamically size it so as to accommodate around 60 characters. As far as I can tell, you totally nailed the font size.
We're in early-stage talks with some companies in the ebook space—DRM obviously forces us to deal with the owners of various walled gardens. We'd love to find a popular, DRM-free, ebook platform. Suggestions welcome!
This code sucks (why you should care)
You know what? I agree with you that regexes are not that hard, but the main problem from my POV is the lack of a standard. Each programming language implements those in a similar but always so slightly different syntax.

If we could come up with some sort of high-level API for regexes we might end up in a better situation, given that this would make them effectively language agnostic.

And you could always revert to your platform's native option if there are some missing features on the API (Given that those type of things generally end up with a least-common-denominator approach)
Except that libraries tend to be free.
Is he saying for the rentals that they entered rental properties onto their site without the lister's permission, and then contacted the lister to offer a paid version?
Does this buy you that much over a SSD?
Good story, great lessons for entrepreneurship.

The big thing I couldn't help noticing was how inefficient the real estate industry is. There's so much regulations and people taking a huge slice out of the consumers pocket.

Even the notion of ownership by consumers is at odds with modern times, after all, we hackers are finding it too onerous to even maintain physical servers and off-loading that to the cloud, while most people are still plopping down huge sums of money and mortgages to lay claim to small patches of land, in a clumsy procedure where we fork over almost a tenth of that large sum to people who provide little value (real estate agents, lawyers, city fees).

PG should put out a call to kill real estate like he did with hollywood. There's huge profits for hackers if we wrestle it away from the current players (bank, agent, lawyers), and a lot of good for consumers.

AirBnb's a good start, further steps might be to unify it with Uber, Shopify, SpoonRocket, Exec, and Mechanical Turk and reduce consumers experience down to a few button presses. There's a big opportunity for a company to offer complete life management in an app.
If you think this is about the comic itself, then you should get brought up to speed on the issue. It's this type of shortsightedness/inattention to detail/poor logic that sent the author down this path of scorched earth bullying.

>How does anyone go from that to suggesting the artist is supporting rape?

What are you referring to when you say that? The comic? Again, people on the other side of this issue are no longer talking about the comic. This is about the author's bullying and mobilizing others to bully victims & people sympathetic to victims that their opinions don't matter. It's about people in a position of power who would rather abuse that power than try to make something good come from it. It's about turning a deaf ear to decency & tact in the name of stubbornness (and monetizing bullying).

Also, from the article: @Teamrape wrote, “And remember, since @cwgabriel [Krahulik] will wear his dickwolves shirt, it’s okay to wear yours. We will show those that want to crush free speech"

That's from @teamrape, not @teamfreespeech. What's the issue here again?
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I believe you're missing the point. This is not another way to get spam, but to save some money on something you're interested in but did not yet purchase it.
> * taking quotes from troll accounts and implying those views are the same as Mike Krahuliks

Judging by the comments on the article page, those trolls are way too common. At some point if you're Mike Krahuliks, you have to ask yourself, why do I attract so many sociopaths?

Frankly, if they are any indication of the attitudes of those who attend PAX, I wouldn't attend either.
Scientists call for overhaul of UN 'blockbuster' climate reports
The sentence trees are parsed with the Stanford NLP Parser, available here: http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/lex-parser.shtml
MYOPENID WILL BE TURNED OFF ON FEBRUARY 1, 2014
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Oh poor little Microsoft, being extorted by a single piece of paper from big bad Motorola.

This is one of the most pathetic things I've ever heard.
What a bullshit headline. Fuck you Forbes.
If the difference is that IGG takes a higher cut, then fair enough, let PayPal take a higher cut.

So you're asking PayPal to create a new level of service. (They probably won't, but their business is up to them.) That's fine, but you[1] should probably do that before using PayPal. And if PayPal doesn't create the new service you want, don't use PayPal.

[1] By "you" I really mean anyone who's crowdfunding.
I remember attending a thesis defense while I was attending Edinburgh Uni. Is that you?
CoreOS could be a good starting point, but it's intended for servers so it's very bare bones (and the service discovery stuff might not make much sense)
I... I wasn't aware this was a problem.

Huh.
I think his point is that the original joke was punching at video game heroes (and the humans who play as them, the same people who are presumably the audience of the comic...), not at rape victims.

What followed was obviously a bit less benign... but the original joke was not "punching down".

(Also, the quality of humor is pretty subjective, I don't think there is a productive conversation to be had there.)
Seismic shift in the intrusion management landscape
... because words can have no meaning outside of what the people in power say they mean. So our only way of deciding if what is going on is wrong is to wait for the nobles to tell us.
Pakistan Government-Backed Incubator Seeds Local Investor Appetite
Former WebOS Exec Launches Big Data App
I recently bought this book "Growth Hacking - A How To Guide On Becoming A Growth Hacker" By Jose Casanova and Joe Casanova. I am on chapter 5 and it reads like the same blogpost repeated over and over. Unlike the MVP/ Lean Start-up phenomenon/movement which has scholarly work done to validate the idea and a distinct methodology , growth hacking blogs seem just buzzword centric babble.
Anti-pattern: individuals determining what is and isn't offensive to large, non-uniform groups of people.

I get that you posed this as a question, but if you think that people who find it offensive are just humorless and don't get the joke, you're just doing a variation on the aforementioned.
As someone whose brother has down syndrome, this is one of the most exciting things I've seen on HN in a while. Thank you for posting.
If you find this post interesting I strongly recommend looking at how Go, Clojure's core.async, and similar CSP systems attempt to address these issues.

One big advantage of a good CSP model is that you can express push/pull sensibly because you have a (buffered) channel abstraction between communicating processes.
Stuxnet Expert Proposes New Framework For ICS/SCADA Security
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The problem is that they followed up. I have no problem with anyone being intentionally or unintentionally offensive.

I have offended more than a few people in my life and have been annoyed from stuff other say way more than once and it evens.

When you see you hurt someone unintentionally you apologize. It is not hard. And then you shut up. That's it. Don't try to wiggle your way out from the situation or save face. Don't spin it or use "PR".

I used the word hurt intentionally. Because there is whole class of people whose job it to be professionally offended. And they are better ignored or teased.
Beginning A Mission Like Building A Startup
>> Its a language, not a specific implementation of a language.

It's not even that, it's a dialect of ECMAScript.
OK- that's a decent work-around, I'll admit. But middle-click is so easy...
Thanks for sharing the PDF. This isn't a subject I know much about but curious to learn more.

Bipartite biotokens do seem significantly more secure than naked biometrics, but I'm not sure I understand the benefit if security still boils down to user passwords, especially if one assumes that any static security component will eventually be compromised.

Using the password to salt the original biometric improves privacy and security, but there are a lot of other ways to compromise biometrics - people look at a lot of cameras and leave a lot of fingerprints, and existing biometric systems (while improving) are fooled by photocopies.
Brilliant that on win8 it sits in the taskbar, right where every Windows user expects a menu of applications.
Your argument might be stronger if it didn't rely on labeling ("absurd apologism", which is itself an absurd accusation when you think about what apologism means) and appeals to emotion. The short answer to your question is that you should concern yourself (not sympathize) with their problems when those problems intersect with yours and guide their decisions.
Just look at the recent Developer site snafu. Or look at all the times their simple alarm clock choked on New Year's Day or leap years. Or even that hilarious bug where typing File:/// would crash almost all OSX and iOS apps.
The not-social encumbered myopenid bows down to social login's only. This is an interesting decision in the light of recent steps back from social login's over privacy misuses.

There is a great potential for new services, which do not misuse globally trackable social logins.
It seems that way to me too. Funding a campaign isn't buying a product (and that we have coming to treat it as such is a Problem). The question, I suppose, is whether the credit card company will see it that way.

Years ago, when I was working on a shareware app for the Mac (long before the App Store), I released the beta as donationware, and gave users the incentive of a free license for version 1.0 if they donated a certain amount (which increased with each update). It was very small scale, but it allowed me to bring in some income while I was working on the project, and gave me an incentive to get it done. But it was an incentive for a donation, and that donation could be any amount. It wasn't a preorder, and it would have been silly to treat it as such.

It actually hadn't occurred to me until just now that what I was doing was crowdfunding before it was called "crowdfunding".