skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The product server throws bits at you, and your software displays them however it's setup. It's not an entitlement issue, it's how you let any browser/server/thing consume bits sent by any server (instead of, say, requiring some sort of specific viewer).
I remember being on Digg when the whole HD-DVD thing took place. That was glorious.
I think there's also a bit of "if the crypto can be trusted, opening the source code doesn't weaken it and helps build trust".

Personally, I'm running BTSync - and even though I've got it syncing EncFS encrypted data, the app has enough privileges to read the unencrypted versions of those EncFS filesystems if it were instructed to.

I'd feel happier if a few trusted security experts from a few different countries/jurisdictions had blogged about their analysis of the source code and the likelyhood of the binary produced from the source being either intentionally or unintentionally compromised.

Having said that, as you point out, we've got the Chrome source, lots of people look very hard at it, and it _still_ fails year after year… Hopefully, BTSync and BTChat (or my hypothetical Open Source reimplemetations) are significantly less complex than a full featured browser, and not would not require nearly so much focus on performance that "provably secure" or perhaps just "significantly less likely to have obscure bugs" coding techniques could be used in spite of speed penalties - browser vendors have significant motivation to optimise for speed above all else, hopefully the much smaller subject domains of sync or chat clients would allow security to sensibly be prioritised instead.
Saved.io is the Simplest Bookmarking Tool Ever
I don't want to feed the troll, but I'm wondering if Topsteed will be selling all of his Apple products
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/10/tim-cook-power-...

C'mon Topsteed, if you're going to live like a Neanderthal (no offence to Neanderthals), may as well get rid of all your technology and leave HN (and the internet) alone.

Who calls themselves Topsteed?... oh, that's too easy, just go get therapy.
Well, anybody can register for an account and no community is immune from trolls. They don't last long here though and there's some pretty decent moderation that happens both by the mods and the community itself.
Yes. Registered agents are commonly used even for brick-and-mortar old school entities, for privacy and to be confident that important notices reach the right people in a timely manner.
I'm a PC user who wipes Windoze off my hdd as part of setting up my preferred working environment.

Is there any plan to include Linux, and, or, BSD versions of Google Web Designer any time soon?
Well, that preference also has a lot to do with the fact that pirate sites have been criminalized, marganilized, and otherwise made sketchier and / or more difficult than they would be without state-imposed friction.
This looks great. This could be used to help discussions on Mozilla and WebKit issue tracker about how some changes will "break the web" or not. I am sure Google has this data and use the data to develop Chrome, but previously best public data was Opera's MAMA in 2008 and sadly that is completely outdated by now.
> He had nothing but dismissive comments about the language.

The comments were not intended to be dismissive about the language; I'm kind of surprised that statements with qualifiers like "might" would be interpreted as being "dismissive". Perhaps you didn't notice them?

If you look at my comments, while I was pretty strident about the facts, I took great pains to extensively qualify my opinion. To illustrate, I'll quote from my initial comments to you with highlights to draw your attention to the qualifiers:

> ...it might not qualify as "a good programming language" for the job...

> ... Do you think it is maybe possible that a language that had standard... just might be better suited for talking to hardware?...

> ... Maybe JavaScript makes working with hardware more accessible than other choices, but I doubt it...

Now, no question I was expressing a difference of opinion, but I think if I had said any more times and ways that my critique wasn't of the language in general, but of its suitability for the task in particular, I'd have felt like a broken record. Not only wasn't I dismissive of the language in general, but I wasn't even dismissive of the application of the language for the problem in particular. I expressed that I didn't think it was a good idea, but I explained my basis for the opinion and qualified it extensively, to the point of stating that I could be wrong even if I didn't think so.

I honestly can't explain your characterization of my comments other than speculating that perhaps you came in to the discussion already wearing your language advocacy hat, and that framed & distorted your perception of the discussion.

This is kind of obvious, but given the context I think it might be necessary to say it anyway.

Perfectly good programming languages tend to have strengths, weaknesses, and areas of focus (it's an inevitable consequence of both language design and Darwinian forces that dominate the marketplace of ideas). I don't think any of the flaws I pointed towards are necessarily bad points about the language and in certain domains are actually great strengths (probabilistic parsers are a great idea for web content).

> it only finally slipped out of him almost by accident what he was actually trying to get at, and even that isn't much of a relevant point.

I think a better way of describing it is that it "finally slipped in to you". ;-) When something is said multiple times in different ways, that's not "slipping out".

Obviously, you didn't understand what I was communicating, and no doubt this is partly a reflection on my own failings to communicate effectively. I apologize for not doing better.

However, you might want to consider the possibility that particularly given the limitations of the medium, the nature of communication failures, and that my point was deemed clear as day by at least one other 3rd party... you may have missed something.

Maybe we can learn something from this experience.
Right. But many people have neither the time nor money for prescriptions. Especially when OTC medicines claim to work. Especially in lower income states like Mississippi.

I grew up in rural blue-collar America. My father had health insurance through his work, but we seldom had the money for the co-pay to see a doctor. (anecdotal, I know)
I'm sure it will help with web apps for which JIT time is a significant performance drag. But even then, my knee-jerk response was to think that faster JIT compile times shouldn't really impact the life of anyone who knows about ngen.exe.

Reading the article, it sounded to me like Microsoft's primary motivation was cutting back on their development costs by shrinking the codebase. Faster compilation was just a nice side effect that also happened to make for a sexier selling point.
yep. me too.
Doctors and Lawyers are part of a cartel, hardware is an expensive industry to enter.

This is all basic economics, supply and demand and marginal cost.
Why would updating the manuals be a problem if it was in the instrument panel? Heck, you could even have the documents on an SD card the pilot just plugs in. Or the ground crew could be responsible for keeping it up to date. I just don't see the problem.
1) Different browsers can render SVG pretty differently, especially where two regions are within a pixel of one another. If you have a blue rect next to a red rect with a yellow background, some browsers will render the middle line purple, some green, some orange, and some brown.

2) Pixel choices by vector renderers are generally dramatically worse than a human artist's choices. We don't want accuracy, we want perceptual emphasis. Look at NES Mario in your head, then look at the blur you'd get if you took a modern hi-res Mario and vector rendered it at that size. For icons, this can be murder.

3) IE <= 8 is still a pretty significant chunk of your viewers.

4) There's a lot of knowledge built up around how to work with pixel images, especially when sprite sheeting for performance. Much of that knowledge needs to be re-learned for vector. Even when it's a good idea, many developers feel they don't have the time for a knowledge overhaul.

5) A big chunk of the web is legacy sites. This is why you still see javascript in html comments, or the occasional isindex. They aren't getting updated, pretty much ever.

6) For visually complex sites, SVG can still drag on budget and older mobile devices.

7) Older android had SVG turned off in Chrome.

8) It's a lot harder to get vector artists than pixel artists; it's a lot harder for artists to give developers SVG than pixel images.

9) Because it isn't trendy yet.
Not sure that's true if you factor in decent quality. In fact it's demmonstrably untrue if you look at mmj users or the heroin programs in the Netherlands.
Both the American Economic Review and the Review of Economic Studies rejected the paper for "triviality," while the reviewers for Journal of Political Economy rejected it as incorrect, arguing that if this paper was correct, then no goods could be traded.[2] Only on the fourth attempt did the paper get published in Quarterly Journal of Economics.[3] Today, the paper is one of the most-cited papers in modern economic theory
Well and 'Mac' is PC too.
The pressure is to make the phones more powerful to do more with teh instegrahms, not to have longer battery life. If it were we wouldn't have gone from month long standby times (Nokia 5xxx) to partial day battery life (any modern phone with everything turned on). You can argue it all you want but battery is not growing faster much as our hunger for screen size, processing power, network use, memory, gps, etc are. Anything we can squeeze out of a battery will get gobbled up for quite a while.

Feel free to use something like this. It's geeky cool. I've just been burned by things like not being able to contact my ride from the airport, or my phone randomly deciding that it's just too dead to turn on at 8%, that I'm not trusting it for keys to my transportation / apartment.

For those things, if they have battery, like say my apartment combo lock, I want things with a good battery life (in the years) for the whole thing, a good failure state that I will always have on me (a combo), and obvious notification EARLY when the battery is going low.
If Developers Are The New Steelworkers...
You have a point about "It's toasted" (as they were all toasted) --it'd be like selling "cholesterol-free water". Madagascar vanilla, however, is a variety distinct from Tahitian or Pompona. So, depending on what characteristics you're looking for in the vanilla, you might choose one over the other variety. Kind of like how vintners choose one grape variety over others for specific reasons.
If someone is paying you, that means they have 4 or more users. That's gotta be worth $15-30/month. Have you tested your conversion rate with other pricing?
Antartica you are disappoint :*(
I was thinking they'd be talking about Canada, but yes, Sweden is sensible too.
I downloaded and played the game one morning as fast as I could to get the free burrito and never touched it again. I didn't watch the video, I didn't read any of the crap on there...I basically just did the bare minimum and got my free burrito.

I have a feeling that's most people who downloaded that game. I can't imagine it brought back in a ton of revenue.

But, I could be completely wrong! Maybe most people aren't heartless bastards who just want a free burrito!
Howard Schultz did pretty well selling coffee.
I have several screens in this DPI range. Actually, at 4k 30", your phone is probably in this range.

Use your phone to contrast AA to non-AA. The difference is still pretty enormous in my opinion.
BAWSAQ = “ball-sack”.
I will pay a hefty sum (and a free ride from the airport) for a few breakfast tacos from Taco Window, Taco Deli, Tamale House, or even Bill Miller's (most underrated taco in Austin). I moved over a year ago and wake up every morning craving one.
SVGs are more expensive to decode: The law of spline demand.
How Network Clusters inhibit Growth and Traction for Path and NextDoor
12 Tips to Boost Your Content's Social Shares
If you make psuedoephedrine too difficult to get, meth cooks will start with extracts from Ephedra sinica (containing ephedrine). That may or may not be a good thing.
Aleph | monome
Ask HN: Tips to find an iOS developer position *starting in 3 months*?
I'll be graduating in 3 months and I want to work as an iOS developer. I have one app in the App Store I published with Stanford, and I will have another app published shortly with an open-source company as part of GSoC 2013. I have a 3-months head start in my job hunt, and I've already started getting in touch with companies, but most of them are looking for immediate hires. Any tips on how to improve my chances of finding good opportunities?
Microsoft PR department trying real hard in recent days trying to drum up some positive press.
Well, I am from Europe and from people I know only around 15% uses Mac. I was myself using Windows/Linux for all development and Photoshop work till last 3 years, when I moved to Macbook Air.
Hand some validation over to your database
PDS also wished you Merry Christmas if the date was December 25.

I coveted it an unhealthy amount whilst being stuck with various machine code monitors on the C64 itself, eventually later having the money to upgrade to an assembler. Of course then there was a whole other class of memory problems as most of them hooked BASIC to work so you were quite limited in the length of programs; everyone became very good at manually laying out blocks to memory and disc.
Yeah... no. Megan McArdle lays reality out pretty clearly: Banking Without Risk Is Impossible.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-19/banking-without-ris...
Sending newsletters from support (at) or (founder) (at) may not be a great idea
If you do that they will often end up in the spam folder in Gmail's promotions tab. What do newsletters have to do with support, really?
Is the Government Down?
Stay up to date on if the Government is down!
Epic 80's Entrepreneur Training Video
Are Functional Specs Necessary
From a "non US person" perspective, I go to BitTorrent's website and read:

Company Overview

BitTorrent Inc. is an Internet technology company based in San Francisco.

And immediately I've got _two_ things to worry about - 1) "will BT be evil/incompetent?", and 2) "will BT be leaned on by the NSA and be coerced into being evil?"

If you're a US company (or individual, or a company with US based management, developers, investors, or infrastructure) who are promoting security-related products in the post-Snowden era – many of us outside the US now have very good reasons to apply extra scrutiny to those products. Opening your source will make a _big_ difference in how readily suspicions of evilness can be allayed. As saurik points out upthread, having the source available doesn't guarantee the rest of the open source community will find and fix any carefully-enough-crafted backdoors, but keeping the source closed sends a strong message…
An Aberrational Way to Learn a Language
> AFAIK, Apple doesn't make it exactly easy to remote manage devices - that's not their main target, while it is for Microsoft.

Apple's MDM suite is actually pretty robust these days, and iOS 7 made it better with silent OTA installs and even more controls. Of course, that relies on a device being online (as any remote management tool would), and I'm not sure if the FAA approved the trial iPads or the Surfaces to have any kind of wireless on during flight.

Actually, if these are the Surface RT 2 and not Surface Pro 2, then I think Apple's MDM would win for remote management. Last I understood, WinRT lacked basic remote admin things like joining a domain and policies.
Need help a person who has private repositories on Github.
The first variant:
Need visit to site http://artzub.com/ghv/test
In the upper right corner click by word "On" and allow access to your private repositories.
Write github username and press button "Show".
Comment this post and say me can you work with your private repositories.

The second variant:
Add me to your private repository =) And I'll check operation =)
If its only being used for Siri and Maps, those are both low-bandwidth applications but with high expectations with regards to latency and availability.

I wouldn't recommend it for Netflix or bulk data transfers, but definitely for scenarios where you expect a response almost immediately (Siri, Navigation, Google Now, and so forth).
Whenever you see a story about market share, it's for a quarter.
Why Founders Can’t Afford to Have Any Weak Links
It's pretty simple. People in charge of corporate logos want COMPLETE CONTROL over how they look. If a rendering engine can mess it up, they're not going to use it. Thus PNGs. What you put into a PNG is what you get out. Not so with SVG.
Show HN: A pastebin for circuit diagrams(Clojure Cup 2013 entry)
Ex NSA contractor designs 'surveillance proof' font
"Maybe most people aren't heartless bastards who just want a free burrito!"

No, most people got a free burrito and ordered a soda and/or chips with it.

And that, my friends, is Step 3: Profit!
Tloewald is saying that if you save vector art at an 8x scale PNG, it will not be 64 times larger. Most pixels in vector art are in contiguous blocks of either solid colors or linear gradients. After prefiltering, both cases reduce to a single value followed by a run of zeroes, which DEFLATE will compress extremely well.

So the only size increase really comes from the edges. In practice, this means that an 8x size increase will often only increase the file size by around 10x.
I guess the mindset comes from TV/Radio land where content is just dished up, and there is only one way to consume it, or you can stop consuming it.

It's probably more an issue of, we are in a difficult situation where some businesses don't know how to monetize outside of advertising (like google). And if everyone could block them, you'd effectively destroy businesses like that.

But on the flip side, the advert business model have gotten everyone used to 'free'. If google started selling "Search packs" where you get 100 searchs for $20, I don't think people would go for it.
As an Australian, I've always thought of our country as the real-world embodiment of what Americans believe when they think of their own country...
Fab CEO Publishes Letter To Employees
"Let's rally for Lavabit to fight for the privacy rights of the American people."

What about the rest of us?
Yeah it seems odd that there are more people in Alice Springs than in Perth. Must just be "Australia".
Very excited stuff, I will be flying from Tallinn, Estonia, though I am from Costa Rica. Looking forward to a great event and meeting all of you.
Yeah, a list comprehension is the easiest way to write it in any of the languages. I think it's a little clearer/shorter to do
print sum(x for x in range(1, 1000) if x % 3 == 0 or x % 5 == 0)
OP = attention whore
Cross platform but not Linux. That's "limited" when you do web development.
Silicon Valley is a well known "home" for OSX.
I think the reason for the ban was comments in another thread.

Now, make a note of your new nick. Sad to se the old one go as it was easily recognizable.
Ex-Microsofties launch Kickstarter for high-tech home beer maker
Explosion, campus-wide power outage at UC Berkeley
Those of us who don't want government injecting itself into the intimacies of our health care, taking half our money, indebting our children for life, forcing us into crummy financial schemes we want no part of, compelling us to support what we consider moral evils, [insert remaining such conservative libertarian rhetoric here], etc. are running out of options for saying "no, you DON'T have a right to boss & bully us around."

You may not like our sociopolitical views, but that doesn't mean you get to put a gun to our heads and make us comply with & facilitate yours. Yes, there's a lot that a "shutdown" (deceptive term worthy of its own thread) would do that we don't like, but if polite discourse over serious matters is refused then we're freezing the credit card as a matter of having few polite alternatives.

If "science, the environment, and health" matter to you, then respect our equally valid views upon the same (and no, we're not anti-science, pro-environmental-destruction, and let-'em-die tightwads; stop demonizing your opposition). Diversity & liberty, remember?
Yeah, and a Mac is a PC, internally speaking too. So, it should OS based : OSX, Windows. This, coming from the number 1 tech company in the world. Kinda disappointing.
I think this sort of thing is entirely possible in small teams. Sharing important passwords via a Google Spreadsheet and having a known-password to the admin account for Google Apps is a great step that can mitigate most emergencies.
Holy mother duck! If I were roughly the size of a barge, I still wouldn't take meth to lose weight. I think you'd be trading your mind for your body.
Yahoo says email-snatching XSS worth a $12.50 coupon
I looked at the source and saw that you basically built a way to declare a method which asserts a contract at runtime.

I like the idea of an object or collection of objects having a generic interface that can be mapped to all sorts of things such as a commandline or an HTTP POST etc... I am also at a job where we are struggling with the ol' "monolithic codebase" and we're investigating solutions such as this architecture.
Sadly Google has more or less stopped supporting Linux on desktop since Larry Page came into office (Picasa and others...). Hardly surprising. Even though at Google everyone uses a flavor of Ubuntu for their desktops.
NGen doesn't help too many folks with asp.net, since it just doesn't work. And for a class of x64 applications, NGen is a terrible solution because it takes so long to precompile the entire application.
I'm going to put together a more detailed article for the Codegen blog regarding motivation, history, all that fun stuff...
Loud pipes do save lives, you can't control where the SUV driving, mobile phone texting crowd go on the road but you can make enough noise that they are less likely to blindly merge lanes into a motorcycle. The lack of noise was an issue that was brought up when electric cars started to appear, basically the current solution is to have a speaker and a synth make it sound like an engine, but a little bit quieter than a real one. Most people fit aftermarket pipes for more power, that doesn't make them dorks. That harley that went past you and sounded like a 747, well that's another story.
"Imagine coming to work to spend hours googling, wiring together unbelievably shitty, amazingly poor documented frameworks and battling Javscript and CSS."

Not all programming is writing web apps or gluing together frameworks. Some developers work on lower-level software, which involves writing more code from scratch and doing more algorithmic thinking. It depends a lot on the job. There are very few problems in the code I work on that can be solved using Google or StackOverflow.
Wow, that is actually... surprisingly simple, almost even elegant.

It's times like these when you realize just how flexible JavaScript development can be.
Also coming from Salt Lake City -- flying into SJ on Friday, and back Monday morning. Probably planning on renting a car, if anyone is interested in sharing.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6102405
I did until my day job required me to work on a project with a file named "con". Go try and create that on Windows. I dare you. No, I couldn't rename the file.

Now OS X is my primary OS, and it works fine.
You know what's really socialistic? The systems inside any large company. You need a computer and a cubical? These things will be provided to you, in return for your work. Nothing reasonable is denied as long as your productivity justifies it, comrade!

"From each according to his ability, to each according to his need." -- Karl Marx. Not a misquote.