skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Er right, the analogy is bit confusing for me too; let me see if I can clear up what I meant here.

> I don't think it makes any sense at all to treat each page as a separate household on private property.

It's certainly true that some pages on a site might be private to someone else and others not. The page/site distinction is orthogonal to the authorized/unauthorized distinction. It's not clear to me why, in your story, it was OK to ask for ID 334, but it if it were, that doesn't automatically make it OK to grab 335.

The library is itself an analogy and it's a bit broken here, because of course at a library the ISBNs and the books they correspond to aren't meant to be private, unlike the ATT/Weev case. So let's imagine that your iPad automatically looked up your email address using its ICC ID because that was why they built it (I don't actually know if that's the case or not). It doesn't follow that you have permission to look up everyone else's. That's where I was going with the doors analogy. I hope that clears that up.

> There is explicit permission to contact the web server.

I deleted my counter to this because I think it's an irrelevant semantics issue. Let's let that one go.

> In the former case, I may be doing something unexpected, but I am not exceeding the authority given to me.

We keep stumbling on this concept of authority, and this thing about design. The design part I don't get. Didn't the library software's author design the system so that it took query parameters and directly formed SQL strings out of them? So isn't it working exactly as designed? Of course not, because the designer never intended it to be used that way [1]. So their intention is exactly what matters, and the same applies to trying incremental ICC IDs--clearly not the intent of the service. That's why this design/expectation dichotomy isn't there, or at least isn't relevant (it's also why I was distinguishing the "purpose of the software" from the "design of the code" earlier).

As for authority, you continue to see it as something the webserver can provide by virtue of its technical characteristics, and I--and the law--simply don't. Authorization in the technical sense is a technological codification of an authorization policy, which may be implicit. If that policy is obvious (which I think it is here), then it's that policy that matters, not its technical enforcement. I fear we're retreading ground here, though, and this may just boil down to having different axioms.

[1] You could say that there are layers to design and that the flaw in the designs here ("don't do any access control" vs "don't sanitize strings") are at grossly different granularities. That's true, but I'm not sure how you plan to formalize the appropriate level of generality that makes such a design flaw equivalent to permission to entry as opposed to simply not working as designed. I don't think you can without resorting to the designer's intent.
I have to agree with you on that. I was really looking forward to iOS 7 being a step forward in that regard, but it's as bubbly as anything else, and inconsistent to boot. At least Helvetica is nice and neutral.

I think the word for all of this is kitsch.
I felt like the whole Flash bubble was a desperate attempt to make websites into mini Mysts.
Japanese sales trends are... boring. Monster Hunter xxx, Project Diva zzz... most of the top hits in Japan are utterly boring games, and there's not much to learn from that. Especially since the Japan market is unlike any other out there.
How many megapixels do you need? Smartphone sensors compared
Ok, I'll be the one to poke fun on a technical level.

XHTML, really?? One big splash image, really? Oh, and this unused javascript:

> onload="timer=setTimeout('move()',2000)"

Is this for real??
Refactoring in Xcode 5
Same here, but in our apartment across the river in Cambridge. Magazine, movie, and Ben&Jerry's. And it was freakin' cold out, close to zero!
I hope so. It puts an unusual amount of financial pressure on small companies who are trying to make that step into big companies. I know of quite a few companies who are artificially keeping their employment count below 50 to avoid the costs of obamacare.
Adobe just patched several remote code execution vulnerabilities in the latest update in the past month, don't you think it's a little premature to state that them patching shader compilation to prevent exploit is something that will literally never be solved ever?

More than likely, Adobe determined that it was much easier to secure a known slow path for shaders on the CPU than a fast GPU path. As a security-conscious user, I think I prefer that they adopted a quick fix that might have incurred a performance cost rather than put everyone else at continued risk for an indeterminate amount of time.
have you tried http://www.createjs.com/#!/SoundJS ?
>is there a typographic standard for labeling typefaces italics and oblique

As I recall it, oblique type uses the regular glyphs just slanted, whereas a 'true' italic typeface employs modified glyph versions having additional calligraphy- or cursive-like flourishes.

In the following picture I've just made using Arial and Times, both fonts are claiming an 'italic' version. The Times one really is italic by the above definition, while the Arial one is 'oblique'.

http://imgur.com/UVUZb5F
Yes. If you accidentally stumble upon something you shouldn't and don't exploit it or sell it to someone when you know you clearly shouldn't be you will be fine. It is pretty straightforward.

Everyone here keeps purposefully ignoring intent, but in the context of the law this is impossible. So no matter how much you hate it, this isn't something that can be a binary yes/no illegal/legal question based on some computer response to your query.
Pre-release? they were in ios6, been in chrome since version 10, ios6, safari 6, and the whole idea of them CAME from firefox. What is coming out in firefox now is the standardised version of what's already there.

http://caniuse.com/#search=web%20audio

If you want a nice abstraction library, check out howler
http://goldfirestudios.com/blog/104/howler.js-Modern-Web-Aud...

as for IE support, well, there's not really that much risk in using soundmanager/flash if you still need to support 7 and 8, is there? I even discovered that old MS even exposed some nice windows media activex controls that you can use to do simple sound playing stuff without loading up a flash plugin, if you're that serious about backwards compatibility.

Forget a year from now. You can start using this stuff today, and by the time you release a year from now, things will be even better.
Move to Texas!
OnionBrowswer: Surf using Tor on iOS
I'm not a huge fan of Windows, but I must say that the new Microsoft-designed fonts (Cambria, Calibri, Corbel, Consolas) strike a great balance between neutrality and character for an OS.
Why is that more useful than having a shortcut for Dash?

I've always just used the shortcut and searched in Dash. Although, I do tend to stick to mostly one set of documentation.
I don't think they're targeting the smoke detector per se. Think about what you could do if you had a device on the ceiling in every room in the house.

They can monitor who's in the room making the nest even more accurate/energy efficient or Offer security system products.
I'm sure they've thought for longer than the 3 seconds I did, and come up with many others profitable ideas.
Adobe actually wants to open-source Flash, but they're concerned about the security impact. The source would make it a lot easier to find a 0day and infect somebody's computer.

They actually have trusted customers that they share the Flash source code with: Google and Mozilla both have it, for instance.
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Well your comment says it better "The most interesting part of THESE comments is how many people were nodding in agreement until they saw the word "Google+".
reply"

Guilty as charged. I don't want to be pushed towards using some ghost town social network to comment on a video for laughs. Facebook is different, people actually use it by choice.
A way to rate your CrossFit experience and keep them honest
that makes 0.5 per dollar. nothing significant.
Hm, currently no capital letters ''XYZ'' on the demo page.
I am the exact opposite, I prefer to do all these sorts of tasks in a 'visor' terminal and leave Alfred as little more than a pretty app launcher. Different strokes etc...
How does this compare with pydev? http://pydev.org/
Minor correction: The final round submission specified c=512 and c=1024 bits for Keccak-256 and Keccak-512 respectively.
No one is in a position to tell US to "stick it", so no.

As a brazilian, I see that even though the speech is based on legit concerns, the bravado will end up more useful to secure Dilma's position in leadership (her popularity dropped this year, and by taking a jab at US she'll recover popularity with a portion of the electorate, who have a hatred for america) and make Brazil look like a beacon of freedom and transparency to the international community (or at least, strengthen it's multilateral diplomacy with the anti-US crowd).

The government will probably try to push a top-down agenda for (unilaterally) legislating and regulating Internet usage in Brazil in the next months, using the opportunity to force IT companies to move inside the country and heat the economy.

All in all, the Snowden scandal has been blown out of proportion by the media, and will now be used by leaders for all kinds of power play and political agendas. Anyone who understands the fundamentals of the internet can tell espionage is a feature that comes for free, and it's not like, suddenly, all countries in the world can get outraged to know the NSA has been spying. In fact, espionage is central to the diplomatic game, it only gets harder to justify on domestic affairs. US citizens have more right to be outraged than anyone else.
As an owner of every game you mentioned, and completionist of most of them, I couldn't disagree with you more.

Myst defined its own category and I'm still looking for an open other-world of curiously interwoven discovery to carry its mantle.
Yes, they basically shot themselves in the foot. It would have been fine if html5 provided all the features of flash, but that isn't the case yet.
Has instant delivery been made feasible by some underlying change? (e.g. cheap GPS in phones of deliverers, people being more comfortable buying stuff online, etc). Or, has it been feasible this entire time?
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> You're still creating a strawman version of psychology which ignores that psychologists and psychiatrists regularly develop studies that disprove or weaken earlier theories ...

Psychology isn't melting down because of what's present, it's melting down because of what's absent -- reliable, unifying, testable, falsifiable principles. Each scientific field is defined by those principles that stand the test of time and evidence. Psychology doesn't have any of those. It's a movable feast that can't stop moving.

> And you're still overgeneralising bad cases onto a whole field.

No, actually, Thomas Insel, director of the NIMH, is doing that. His predecessor at the NIMH, Steve Hyman, is doing that. Allen Frances, editor of DSM-IV, is doing that. If what I say relied on strawman arguments, or if I were the only person saying them, I'm sure these very intelligent people, these leaders in the field, would refuse to say the same things and take the actions they've taken.

It's not every day that you see a field collapsing from the top down.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/05/the-s...

Quote: "The reification of the D.S.M. might not have been more than a philosophical problem, were it not for the fact that, at least in Hyman and Insel’s view, it was beginning to hamstring research. And, indeed, the D.S.M. has frustrated scientists, who note that the most common symptoms of mental disorder—sadness and worry, for instance, or delusions and hallucinations—appear as criteria for many different diagnoses; that many patients can be diagnosed with more than one disorder; and that the few solid findings about mental illness that have emerged from genetic and neuroscience studies indicate that the D.S.M’s categories simply don’t correspond to biological reality."

Wow. Look at all those straw men.
Clearly a good use of Andreessen Horowitz's $100MM.
Nonsense. There are many reasons to shut down a service suddenly and almost none of them are things you'd want to brag about. Nobody wants to admit they failed as an entrepreneur.
Well, I would say Flash's inability to perform well on mobile was the killer-blow but even before that flash was the only thing that caused blue-screen on my Win7 box... and it's always the thing that makes may laptop's fan go into warp-drive... and on linux, Flash kept claiming the whole sound-system and I'd have to close the browser to get sound out of any other app(but that may have been a linux issue more than Flash. Just interesting that Flash was the only audio-enabled thing that would cause it.) Flash was great, certainly better than COM object that embedded WindowsMediaPlayer into your browser(IE only). I was a major[1] Flash lover at one time, but it's really past its expiration date at this point. We're just waiting for solid & frozen'ish HTML5,<video> and <audio> tag RFC specs and to agree on a non-patent-landmine-covered decoders for all significant browsers to support.
Then maybe someway to "compile" javascript so websites that do flashgames(Nintendo's Japanese website is big on this) can keep doing it with HTML5+js without worrying that it's super-easy to have their content "borrowed" and re-hosted somewhere else.

1.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vP692sCbw4

Note, there are ways to make a Flash game(swf) not work outside of a given domain that would be at least semi-difficult to remove since it generally follows the same-origin rules of XMLHttpRequest. If you test for that in your actionscript, export-to-swf with obfuscation enabled and make sure the string is obfuscated so it can't be found in a hex-editor even if the export-obfuscation was reversed, a flash game hosted at http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ will not run anywhere else and it'd be kinda difficult to alter that behavior.
Actually, you're describing a voting ring, which is against the rules and is bannable. Luckily the software is intelligent enough that it detects people who do such things and automatically nullifies the effect of those votes.
Get out of this thread and stay out, under 30s.
As far as i can tell, Kozmo.com is now registered by Yummy Foods LLC which operates Yummy.com, a chain of mini supermarkets in the Los Angeles area.

I believe that they are either doing a PR stunt, or that they are planning to offer deliveries under this brand name instead of Yummy.

Funny enough, when we launched Postmates we toyed with the idea to create a Kozmo themed teaser page but ultimately decided against it.
Then do not commute! If you were in Oakland, you workers could actually afford to live near work and...walk. Commuting in SF is horrible because it is packed. Oakland has enough problems without memes about non-existent commuter issues. PS you could live downtown SF and Bart to downtown Oakland in less than 20 mins. PSS downtown Oakland is a great place to live. Or Go Uptown
I work in information security, so don't get me wrong, I agree with you for the most part. People writing their own applications and/or setting up their own server/service are often extremely naive in how they go about securing them.

However, in terms of legal (or ethical) culpability it shouldn't really matter. An intruder is an intruder. Sometimes it's due to utter ignorance and foolishness on the part of the owner, sometimes it's due to a latent flaw in something they're using, sometimes it's a compromise of their hosting company, sometimes they get hit by a complete zero-day.

You should have legal recourse no matter the case, unless you are truly grossly negligent (posting your admin password on your index page, for example).
usually just seeing the autocomplete on the alfred input answers my question :)
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Funny how Adobe used to be one of the major promotors and implementors of SVG (remember the Adobe SVG plug-in?) because it was their answer to Flash, and then immediately after they bought Macromedia, SVG instantly became the red-headed bastard stepchild living out back in the dog house. And now Adobe's all like "oh yeah, SVG, that's part of HTML5, and we totally support that!"
I will not comment on the judgement passed upon the education system. The second article exhibits eristic tricks, obfuscatory language, and a plain confusion of ideas, especially when speaking about proof-carrying code and type theory.

It's interesting to see the author wishing for a Python of functional programming, and yet Hoon's syntax appears deliberately obscure.

However, there is one paragraph with which I wholeheartedly agree:

> I think the world could use a charity that funds creative programming. The software systems that people use today — don't even start me on "Web 2.0" — are awful and ancient, and hardly anyone has any reasonable plan to improve them. Free-software programmers are not at all bad at supporting themselves, but nothing like Xerox PARC exists today, and it should.

It should, and, hopefully, it will. Soon.
Well, sort of. To me, it's more like, use Django for what it's best at, which is making your app logic really organized, readable, and maintainable. I think it's a great story because it makes the point that just because Django isn't super high performance doesn't mean you need to go with something super stripped down or in an unreadable language to get good results.
Security by obscurity is not a real security anyway. So I don't think open sourcing would hurt it. If anything, it can even improve security, since more researchers would be able to review it.
Higher quality render of that first Riven image:

http://img7.hostingpics.net/pics/104111.jpg

More (low-res) examples from Riven in 1997 that I agree still beat modern realtime environments in many ways:

http://www.rpgfan.com/pics/riven/ss-004.jpg

http://www.rpgfan.com/pics/riven/ss-001.jpg
Let's just agree that from now on the NSA is responsible for all future security and privacy problems. If proven otherwise, we will assume the NSA is willing to share the blame. Then we can move forward with the rest of the discussion.
Nice? When did this become available I have never even heard of this
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Having originally been a Quicksilver user back in the day (ah.... Quicksilver) I jumped to Launchbar when QS started to become more and more unreliable (I'm aware that it has recently rearisen, like a phoenix, from the ashes).

But the workflow aspect of Alfred 2 is quite appealing, I should probably give it a shot for a while.
I wonder if that explains why the flash ads on sites like techcrunch have been so slow recently. For the most part flash is a pain in the ass. I've never programmed it myself, but my wife tells me it is horribly buggy.
As a Western Europe counter-example, I recently lived through a startup failure and and our creditors are also being extremely supportive, both in the liquidation process and in our next ventures.
As everything, it depends on the app. :)

ARGUS-IS [0]: 368 [5Mpx sensors] * 5 [Mpx] / 38 [MPx] =

49 [38Mpx sensors]

That's almost an order of magnitude reduction in the number of sensors needed, at about the same order of magnitude increase in bus bandwidth per.

Personally, I would like the option of selecting lower resolution default images (say: 2 MP, 8 MP, full).

[0] http://petapixel.com/2013/01/28/argus-is-a-1-8-gigapixel-dro...
Would you mind doing lots more screencasts? Maybe writing a jet, rigging a test, profiling, and maybe a bunch of other things. I very much like your demo style, and I have a hunch these docs are going to be pretty dense. ;)
Actually the rent is rapidly going through the roof, so don't expect it to last long.
Developing for iOS 7 and supporting iOS 6
IOS 7 & UITextView's UITextInputTraits bugs
I did flash/flex/air development for 5 years.. it was fun for sure but when you had problems you were at the mercy of adobe. Don't get me started on the many hacks I had to do to be able to use the core flash, hacks that fixed problems that adobe knew of but didn't care to fix for multiple version releases(they still break webcams every few releases). Needless to say I was sad when adobe stop pushing flash and I quickly had to switch gears ,but looking back I'm glad adobe did this. Flash is pretty pointless unless you are doing video. It hurts to see the company and tech you spent so many years/hours in just died without even fighting.

R.I.P Adobe and Flash
This is about Oakland, why bring race into it?

If the original poster had moved his startup to Stockton, we would be having the same conversation.
I'm not a heavy Linux user, but I have this on my experimental Arch Linux installation (it works on Ubuntu as well)...

http://engla.github.io/kupfer/
Don't forget about The Muppets!
I seriously doubt that. Myst was entirely unlike Minecraft - it contains a finite amount of content to explore, and your interactions with that content are limited entirely to viewing and exploring what the developers put there. You can't create anything, and you can't go outside the boundaries drawn by the game.
It is a "soundboard" app targeting pen & paper role players. Makes it easy for a DM to control mood music and SFX.

Probably useful for podcasters and theater shows too. Similar to this: http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/soundboard-mac/

Also plan on selling "packs" of themed music and SFX.
I once heard the upsurge in interest in comic books in the early 90s described as though they thought comic books were becoming as popular as pop music when in reality it was more like jazz: a lot of good stuff, but not widely popular. Adventure games are the same.
No, for the obvious reason that such costs remain unknown and therefore can't be accounted for by anyone. It's like trying to put a price on national parks.

What I do know is that the material underpinnings of the creative forms which remain the most popular took generations—and sometimes centuries—to reach their current stages of development. Like old growth redwood groves, they can't be easily replaced if people decide that chopping them down was a mistake.

In other words, we're not talking about "creative destruction" here. Just destruction. Saying "prove the unprovable or die" is not an admirable way to care for something that vast numbers value highly and which lives by careful passage from generation to generation.
It is actually faster to get to downtown SF from downtown OAK on BART than it is to get to downtown SF from the Sunset, Richmond, or even lower Haight on Muni.
Well, their non-failsafe thermostat could let your house freeze and pipes burst, if it happens to fail when you are away. So now they're going to take another reliable basic home item and make it complicated and unreliable?
Patent trolls are also a big disincentive to open-sourcing one's commercial products.
Future is Bright for Games, Less So for Consoles
As a backup, ECHO (nist round 2) has the nice properties of being expensive in both hw and sw execution speed, in addition to being based on existing crypto.

Go impl here, from yours truly: https://github.com/steakknife/echo
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