skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pricewaterhouse to Buy Booz Consulting Firm
I describe an alternate widget that uses a single link instead of the typical javascript. Loading such a widget sends nothing at all to Facebook, and is untrackable unless clicked by the user.
I'm uncomfortable about the opacity of BTsync's privacy architecture. AFAIK even the protocol isn't documented. The code obviously isn't open source.

I wouldn't use it sync anything except Truecrypt volumes. :)
Design with images that are retina display ready.
Developer Preview of AWS SDK for JavaScript in the Browser
Frankly, I've had to maintain a huge C++-only codebase, and that's why I hope to never write another app in C++.

Yours is an argument for a high-level, typesafe, compiled-to-native and compiled-to-javascript language. But IMO the argument falls down when applied to C++, because it is not high-level, it is only marginally typesafe, and it doesn't compile to javascript well at all (tradeoff of either massive performance, or missing basic functionality like 64 bit ints).

It is very possible that no language will fit this role exactly for some time to come. But, to me at least, it is very clear that C++ is NOT the language for the job.
In case of Apple, the ID isn't shared between apps though. Every app now gets their own ID and even that can be reset across all apps in the privacy preference pane.

In earlier versions of iOS, people were using the device UUID which allowed tracking across apps, but using the UUID isn't possible any more, so tracking is now only possible within one app.
> Horrific is really stretching it too though.

I'd love to hear how you're better acquainted with 'nikatwork's feelings on JavaScript than he is.
Transcendentalist: You need to take some flying lessons. Seriously. I recommend helicopters. R22s and R44s have wide-open canopies with a magical view. If it's summer and warm, take the right-hand (pilot side) door off (you won't fall out, don't worry). Nothing you can see out of the cramped windows of a commercial cattle-class airliner comes close.
Why is the 'Search for transactions' field so far away from the list of recent transactions?
They don't care and it's not their call. Why is that so hard for you to understand?
>> Then, its re-enforced by repitive 'this is how you bold' work

I remember 10th grade computer class. We got a printed piece of paper, you had to center, bold, and italicize things. Anyone who had used a computer to type a paper before completed it in about 5 minutes while the rest of the class struggled.

>> Every computer teacher says they throw in some extra 'real' work, but why can't THAT be what they're learning.

Same teacher tried an HTML assignment later that semester. Center, bold, italicize somethings and place an image, make a link. Almost none of the kids finished it, and the 2-3 who knew HTML completed it in 5 minutes.
Speaking of nerd snark, calling flight attendants 'lowest-common-denominator' people is pretty arrogant on your part.
Who knows. There's a lot of inconsistencies in this story.
my takeaway from this article just reinforces the perception of Bitcoin I already had, namely: which do I trust more? a monetary system run by engineers & mathematicians. or a monetary system run by politicians/lawyers, government bureaucrats, and an old-money banking aristocracy? Choices, choices...
Bright Romanticism also deals with the appreciation of nature and natural living. Thoreau, Whitman, and Emerson emphasized natural beauty and individualism, although the belief in an innate morality is also true.

I think it's different if you learn about the Transcendentalists through a literary medium, rather than a philosophical medium. The literary emphasizes every aspect of the works, while philosophical texts emphasize the more metaphysical and abstract concepts that one can receive from deeper understanding into the initial takeaway.
Interesting. Let's hope it's more conclusive than the clean windows files he provided before.

[edit]: That comment is two days old, and the files were not provided publicly, he just says he is analyzing them himself. Again, needless obscurity.
And you know that the Kindle uses the same amount of energy when off as it does when it's "on" right?
Making a system like this safe is easy with a tiny bit of effort.

With cheap sensors, the room temperature, body temperature, humidity and perspiration can be measured.

Run some analysis and warning the wearer about heat stroke suddenly becomes possible!
who works from home only 3 hours a week
I was under the impression that precise measurements could be made at a smaller scale, but apparently that isn't the case.
Happy Halloween. Gee can't you guys get a joke!

It's clearly obvious on the second paragraph " Strangest of all was the ability of infected machines to transmit small amounts of network data with other infected machines even when their power cords and Ethernet cables were unplugged and their Wi-Fi and Bluetooth cards were removed"
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Many of the newer NYC trains, I am told, are more complicated - an emergency lever pull (someone caught in the doors) should hard-brake the train. If it's travelled more than 1000 feet, it is assumed the train is already in the tunnel, and the lever just signals the conductor, who presumably will radio for help and tell the operator to hold at the next station. I guess this implies that there's a computer inline.

The tripcocks, I hope, are still connected directly to the brakes.
Then evaluate things on their merits and ignore the fanboys. There are plenty of people in this world looking for silver bullets, that someone excitedly claims to have found one is no reason to believe them.
Allow me to summarize:

Guy who knows nothing about computers probably has unstable power, or EM radiation causing computer problems.

He imagines a vast conspiracy instead of the obviou.
Apple's change wasn't a feature expansion, it was a limitation and clarification of how the device identifier should be used. Originally, Apple allowed all apps to access a common unique identifier tied to each device. As a developer, it's incredibly useful to identify devices -- but it also had significant privacy implications, so they deprecated this common identifier.

Instead, Apple provided two alternatives:

* A vendor-specific identifier that is shared among all apps created with the same vendor prefix (essentially, coming from the same company). This provides what most devs need for identifying users within their apps and even across apps.

* An advertising identifier that is shared across all apps. This is intended for tracking, but Apple also provides a couple privacy protections for users: (a) users can set a flag asking apps not to perform tracking with this identifier, and (b) users can reset this identifier whenever they want –- the equivalent to clearing cookies.
Waiting for the Next Great Technology Critic
It's... a joke.
Chrome says this is a reported phishing page.
Nothing about that was "for fun".
I agree that non-US-citizens are endowed with the same fundamental human rights, including the right to privacy, as US citizens.

However:
1) US citizens alone control the US government's actions, at least indirectly and in theory. NSA's domestic spying presents a threat to our democratic processes. NSA spying on US citizens is more dangerous than if they spied only on non-citizens, because it provides the NSA the means to control their ostensible masters--making any reforms to NSA's foreign surveillance operations impossible.

2) In realpolitik terms, most Americans simply do not think or care about foreigners. Any bill that ends NSA's authority to conduct warrantless surveillance on foreigners is a non-starter in our current Congress. By first ending NSA's domestic surveillance programs, we actually have a shot at eventually ending NSA's unethical foreign dragnet surveillance programs. In other words: baby steps.
My point, perhaps too subtle, was that in 2009 there was not sufficient public evidence to suggest such weakening. Rather, the reigning opinion (supported by historical evidence) was that NIST/NSA routinely strengthened standards by selecting parameters so as to make the algorithm secure against publicly unknown mathematical attacks. That is, after all, their stated purpose and what they did with the DES S-boxes.

Turns out, the NSA is a shadow of its former self. But you'd have to have had non-public insider information to have known that with confidence in 2009.
Of course, cedar shakes tend to catch fire very easily in dry climates…
The C++ philosophy is to only pay for costs of things that you actually use. Making every check in -Wall an error by default would make every one pay the costs of those extra checks at compile time.
Ejemplos de Reunificación de deudas
My friend ran BTSync on a raspi, and it was dreadfully slow to index for large amounts of data. Like, multiple days of 100% CPU slow.
"Deceloper"?
From what I understand, an airgapped computer got infected back after having its disk erased, its BIOS flashed and its OS reinstalled. His guess now is that the malware would be inside the RealTek audio chip software. From there it could theorically download the bios malware back on the computer through the high frequency connection (that does sound crazy!)

See: https://plus.google.com/u/0/103470457057356043365/posts/3reW...
Yes, a hardware USB bus analyzer could record the entire usb session from when you plug it in to when you unplug. You'd think any researcher would have one of those considering they cost well below $2000
http://www.totalphase.com/products/beagle_usb480/
http://www.saelig.com/category/UA.htm

The other thing suspicious is the manner of troubleshooting:
"Even then, forensic tools showed the packets continued to flow over the airgapped machine. Then, when Ruiu removed the internal speaker and microphone connected to the airgapped machine, the packets suddenly stopped."

Hold on a second. What forensic tools were showing packets flowing? If he's saying that a software application on an infected machine showed "packets flowing"? That doesn't mean any data was actually going to and from the machine. That could even mean that the virus just simulates data transfer. Did he try putting tin foil around the machine to block any space signals that might be beaming down?

I'm not sure if it's the researcher or the ars writer who doesn't know what they are talking about.
I once did some work for a team that did ELF communication from a small autonomous sub to a surface ship for mapping. They had a 1200 bps channel up to the ship for the map data...

(I didn't get to do anything with the sub - I was just brought in for two weeks to give them a way of feeding that data from a Sun workstation on the tracking ship to another station via GSM data (mainly for demo and testing purposes); trivial in comparison to the software controlling the sub, but it was fun getting to go out on the tracking ship when they did test runs)
Didn't realise they existed until quite recently, variety of prices and use cases - research still ongoing as to what would actually work, and not eat into my purse too much, if taken as a significant part of the diet.

A lot of them seem to be a few hundred k-calories a serving, and even if you had three a day that's still not going to push you up to anywhere near the 2000 or so you need. I'm not sure what the effects of taking multiples of your recommended vitamin intakes for them would be either, since a fair few of them claim to provide 100% of your RDA per serving.

Basically, I don't know enough yet. (Google is fairly unhelpful, throwing out shakes to lose weight rather than as realistic meal substitutes.) But it's an area I'm looking into.
I could also see this being a liability. They will probably need to take steps to mitigate the issue by adding more technology to the wrist band that help monitor health in general (health relating to heat exhaustion). This will raise the price of the product, but possibly enable them to do something like send the user (or 911) alerts when your body temperature rises to dangerous levels.

In addition to that if they put a disclaimer on the box they can get away with a lot more. Something similar to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_packaging_warning_messa....

This is an obstacle, and how they could go about it in a way that may add to the quality of life, or one where they assume no responsibility for your health if you use this in extreme climates.

Also, I'd be interested to see if by "tricking" the body the wearer sweats less and then wouldn't get dehydrated as fast, possibly extending and improving quality of life in extreme climates... I'm far from a doctor, but you are right it needs to be looked into and addressed.
;) We've been an independent dev studio (Radon Labs) before being bought by Bigpoint, and the only way to survive was to support a wide range of platforms (we weren't big or successful enough to have the luxury to pick our target platforms). So our engine basically scaled from the NintendoDS to PCs. Being able today to just cross-compile our engine to JS+WebGL or mobile platforms(between 150k and 500k of C++ code, depending what modules you link) is very nice. Plus, for browser games, Flash and plugins as a whole are on the way out, so we need a solution to bring our games into the browser without plugins. A solution like emscripten or duetto to compile C++ (or maybe later other languages) to JS with a relatively small (and predictable!) performance hit is definitely "good enough" for us.
Or echo -e "\aNexus 5 is launched" perhaps.
The lightest way to implement Jack Dorsey's Do and Don’t List
TypeScript only does enough run-time argument checking to support default argument values.

Full run-time type checking would have overhead. It would also be unnecessary in places where data flows from Typescript function to Typescript function — those places should already be foolproof after the compile-time checks.
>>hipster-hate needs to subside.

Why? If someone is doing things for the sole purpose of being different and expressing their individuality and unique snowflake-ness, they deserve to be mocked.
> Arguing with low wage employees
> ...
> low-skilled, attendants

I down-voted this comment because I found it to be condescending. I don't know anyone who works as a flight attendant nor have any relationship to the airline industry that I know of.

What you said is simply mean-spirited. Not everyone is an engineer. Not everyone understands technology. Not everyone needs to. How much they earn and how skilled they are at technology is no measure of a person. That's really offensive.

I know many people who are virtually poor and uneducated who are better human beings --by far-- than some PhD's I've come across in my life. Why must some in technology behave as though these people are beneath them? This is shameful. What a horrible thing to say.
Are you being willfully obtuse, or deliberately misleading? No one said you weren't _allowed_ to express your opinion, recommend anything you want, that you _didn't have the right_ to say what you want, etc. Why do you pretend that anyone did?
This is pretty spot on.

Logos are hard. Even when large corporations spend time and cash for their perfect logo it can backfire. http://astuteo.com/desktop/articles/tropicana-redesign

In regards to the meta commentary on hipsters, no one is providing design tips to help handmade/artisanal products. If one is to deem them bad or overly attached to a trend, what is the solution. What would be the correct process to create a un-trendy/hipster focused yet modern logo?

My lady and I run a dog treat business in Chicago. We have focused on creating small batches of treats for dogs not because its cool or trendy. Instead we found out that in order to remove preservatives and artificial ingredients, we had to make our products in small batches to meet demand (not over-make product). At the same time, we want to locally source as much of each treat as possible. That means going to farmers markets, and meeting local butchers. This all adds up to a be a point of differentiation in the market for us (specifically in the dog treat world). So we use words like artisinal, curated, hand made...etc. But, we want them to be differentiators and not fall into a trend or fad. We believe in making treats/food for dogs that are healthy and nutritious. You would be surprised what is in most of the food people feed their pups.
As long as you include almost all Christian and Islamic movements and sects into that group you don't want us to give money to, I fully approve of this encouragement.
> See, the historical edition of "something real" and the mainstream reason to pay for the house is called "your children".

Your children need you way more than a pretty room. If saving on accommodation lets you spend less hours in the office and more hours with them, they will be happier for sure. The amount of space paid for and wasted in average houses is mind-blowing.

Pay for what you use, not what you think you need. That's the gist of the article.
If you ever wondered where the "X" originaly comes from (afaik).
http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/magazine/iconic-logos
Vybrid-based SODIMM-style COM starts at $26
seen the same with Chrome on Linux
How Groove's Email Copy Makes Their Posts Go Viral
This story reminds me of those "Pivot to Canada" billboards you sometimes see in the valley.
Writing a ReSharper plugin. Quick fixes.
Coursera partners with US State Department to create "Learning Hubs"
Tips for Software Innovators Inside the Federal Government
I feel you, but this move is one in the right direction. A small, independent browser vendor, why does that need its own webmail, social network, blogging platform, etc? Much better to focus on core. I have good hopes they'll manage to bring the new Blink-based Opera to v12 feature levels, but better. They won't be able to do that if everybody is busy debugging needlessly fancy forum software.
Things like Codecademy should make things like HTML assignments easier. Have the kids complete a few Codecademy lessons, then give the assignment.
I kept reading expecting an explanation for this, but there isn't one. Does he understand the difference? Who knows.

The explanation of "every step of the build" is pretty limited too.
I set the snooze on my phone alarm to 20 minutes, which is the standard for the Uberman polyphasic sleep practice. Feels good enough.
I guess I was still a teenager at 28 then.

In fact, I still enjoy reading 'The Little Prince'. Silly me.
Quantum-safe in the same respect that an md5sum of an ISO cannot reveal the contents of the ISO.
People don't like him because he decided to form a superteam with his friends. This ran completely against the old tradition of a single star leading their team through thick and thin.
Visas deter US-based startups from hiring foreign talent, but on the flip side, US taxation laws deter US-based talent from leaving the country.

I would love the idea of working for a startup in Berlin, but to make financially comparable, I'd have to be paid about 30% more[0] just to offset the cost of paying double taxes (both to the US, and to Germany). I'm ignoring factors like COLA, other expenses, etc., but for a US citizen this is a major deterrent to living abroad, even temporarily.

I guess a cynic would say that this is just the system "working as intended", though that just raises the question of whose intentions it's working for.

I would love to live in a foreign country for a few years in my 20s (the easiest time to do it), and assuming I eventually move back, the US will already get a cut of any foreign income I made via sales tax (when I spend it), capital gains (when I invest it), and (eventually) the estate tax.

[0] Edit: Apparently this figure is off - see discussion below. The tax/financial implications still do appear to be a hurdle, it's just (unsurprisingly) even more complicated than I realized.
In Which It's Raining
According to the last few comments on his G+ post, he was able to isolate the communication to the mic/speaker and disable it. He also took some recordings.

https://plus.google.com/103470457057356043365/posts/3reWRqDM...
Will Bitcoin Change How Kids Learn to Count?
As someone who is a non-US citizen going through the tortuous process of acquiring permanent residency in the US (estimated time: 8-10 years), I will advise any international people looking for their first job -- if you can get one in Berlin, Canada, or elsewhere, take it.

The US immigration system is fraught with bureaucracy, and is structured such that employers have strong incentives to delay your application for permanent residency for as long as possible. This, combined with per-country caps on green cards, makes for a process where you spend a decade or more in a country as an "alien" when you are working there and paying large amounts of taxes towards a Social Security system etc. that you have no chance of using in your present state.

(To be fair, there is a fair bit of reform in this system that has been proposed by Congress, but with the current state it is in, it could be years before those bills are passed and made into laws.)
It's been done

http://yourlogoisnothardcore.tumblr.com/archive
I don't mean any disrepect, but this comments seems a lot like the comments on the recent "Show HN: Dropbox" page from 2007, you are trying to think of a way this would fail, rather than potential uses.

Solving the issue of access to air conditioning or heating for the poor is a completely seperate issue than providing a solution to help lower our use of A/C or heating.
No, this was an attempt by Chris Bosh to say, "quick, somebody fill all those unfilled tech positions so the world keeps ticking over nicely while I spend this huge fortune and live in blissful ignorance"
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The N900 was the most frustrating touchscreen I've ever used in a consumer device. I stopped using it solely for that reason.
As a Heat fan I can smile two times (three if you include '06) at this. ;)

Just messing though. All in good fun.
I guess I don't understand why Datomic's entity id wouldn't work as your auto-incrementing id.

If you wanted something else, then why not just use a UUID to avoid relying on the DB?

Or if you are using a RDMS like postgres for datomic's underlying datastore, just manage a seq directly there.

One thing I have learned is trying to use one tool for every problem just creates a lot of headache.
Remember, though, that Germany's in the EU; that's a big pool of people who don't require a visa at all.
Regarding the 'Visual Art' requirement -- in junior high and high school we hat 'Art' and 'Music' classes which were a monumental waste of time. They taught neither history or technical skills, and ended up being 'Appreciation' courses which left you with neither any skills, nor any really knowledge of the history.

I think it would have been much more useful to teach singing and drawing, both of which are teachable, useful and would lead to a fuller, richer life.
Worse, Computrace ends up in the management engine firmware, which is more powerful and less auditable than the BIOS/UEFI (and works with powered off main CPU, too).

See https://events.ccc.de/congress/2013/wiki/Projects:MEre
People are keeping a close eye on the addresses holding all of those bitcoins. I wonder how he'll avoid being detected when trying to withdraw them.
So nice:-D I don't mind the (perceived) thickness and a hot swap battery is just awesome:)

Now all it needs is a OTA TV tuner :-p
I would have enjoyed the post more if about half way through, a giant popup didn't make me choose between entering my email or clicking a link that read, "No thanks, I don't want to grow my business." Pretty aggressive experience...
Interestingly, we used to joke about having a "yea!" button when we came across a particularly well designed feature or small UI touch (particularly on older Macintosh software.)

I guess its a glass is half ( empty | full | full of something noxious ) thing.

(Now that I'm older and more cynical, I tend towards the latter.)