skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although interesting, that talk highly exaggerates its claims. There is certainly a strong correlation between power exposed to file formats and both likelihood of bugs and exploitability, and reducing that power is certainly a good idea, but such protocols are far from "effectively unsecurable". It's certainly possible to create a safe bytecode parser and even formally prove it correct with automated tools, and while length fields are easier to get wrong than simpler formats, this is mostly caused by C integer and pointer computations being so easy to mess up, and the problems could be effectively solved with little overhead by using bigints and checked pointers inside parsers - a matter of engineering, not computer science.
crehbslaai. You legend.
Even so your quality of life is going to increase a lot more from $30 million to $1 billion, then $1 billion to $3 billion.

I always liked the quote from Entrapment "What can you do with 7 billion that you can't do with 4?"
Oh, now I see what you're driving at.

I'm still pretty stunned you weren't able to get in touch with them.
Facebook isn't just losing ground to a specific demographic, they're losing centrality and relevance in a market they defined. While Facebook may be pervasive, it's pervasive in the way that Microsoft Office was in an era of Macs and Google Apps 2 years ago; We all kept a copy of Word installed for when someone emailed us a .doc or .ppt file.

Would love to grab lunch or discuss further where this is all headed from a broader market and societal standpoint, for anyone in the Bay Area.
Presumably it'd work the other way, too? Supercaps that let you recover more of the energy produced by regenerative braking should also give you short bursts of acceleration, no? I imagine a system similar to the KERS system used in F1:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_energy_recovery_system
This appears to be a reaction to Google Hangouts more than anything else. From the Play Store description for Facebook Messenger, it sounds like you can indeed send messages to friends based on their phone number, but it does not appear to be via SMS. It's more similar to something like Snapchat, where it uses your phonebook to find people who have registered their phone numbers with the app.

Furthermore, last week, information leaked regarding Facebook dropping SMS support due to lack of uptake. One source for this: http://thenextweb.com/apps/2013/10/29/facebook-testing-new-m...

Long story short, this appears to be a data-only messaging app, not unlike pre-SMS Hangouts or some of the other apps people in this thread have mentioned (Kik, Whatsapp, etc.).
an 18 year old in the NYC area actually was decapitated by one of those hobbytist copters about 2 months ago. Yes, [one of the reports says] Decapitated.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/teen-killed-remot...

http://nypost.com/2013/09/05/man-decapitated-by-remote-contr...

They're already incredibly dangerous. That trick helicopter just needs one uncontrolled bounce and hit a person and someone will have very very unpleasant day.

Quadricopters seem much easier to make safe afaict.
First production helicopter with an ejection seat (the rotors have explosive bolts), which is pretty interesting I think.
<rant>

The copyright lawyer in me is irritated by the "(C) Om Malik" legend on the photo of a slide. Yes, photographers can get copyrights in the original elements of their photos, but this is just a picture of a someone else's slide from where he was sitting.

>:-(

</rant>
Having worked at a rendering plant for a couple of weeks during my (late) teenage years as an industrial temp worker, well, I can tell you what comes out of those places beats just about anything imaginable. Manure pits? Slaughterhouses? Way too fresh, my friends, to get anywhere near the full experience we endured. Think slow-cooked rot--and we were the ones on cleanup duty picking up bones and other ephemera left behind.

Here's a good taste of what one could expect, and it really was amazingly terrible prior to the stench becoming peripheral from exposure: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendering_%28animals%29

A friend and I spent an entire summer working jobs nobody in our (typically) white, middle-class peer group would dare even consider to touch in order to understand for ourselves just how important and respectful these roles were in our daily lives. And boy, let me tell you, it was an amazing and formative experience; I wouldn't trade those experiences for the world. It was "Dirty Jobs" 10 years before the show came out, and in more than a couple of cases, likely illegal given our age versus risk at the time.
Yes.

Well the web doesn't have a native UI. But iOS and Android DO have one.
I think part of the theory behind the "life of the author" is that there shouldn't be a disincentive to produce your work now. If you're a creator of some kind, you might not publish a book you're writing until you think it'll be ready.

In single-author creative endeavors, like book publishing, you want to encourage people to create all they can before they get hit by a bus.
I didn't, but making it a requirement to enter your phone number to use the app with no mentions of what the privacy controls for people being able to message you with just your phone number are made the new app a quick uninstall.

Facebook, you've had enough privacy problems in the past, is it really that hard to outline what's going on here or even just not require the number? I've heard that GVoice numbers don't work, as well, which just makes it even worse.
Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics by Sussman and Wisdom explores some of the issues surrounding mathematical notation. Their primary thesis seems to be that by using uniform notation, s-expressions in this case, we can better understand and reason about mathematical concepts than what using standard math notation permits.
Just so long as you don't start setting up artillery on the sierra nevadas.
Or taste in mouth, I suppose.
OAuth as Single Sign On
I've seen this a bunch of places, until it's done real time with arbitrary images + content, I don't really see the value.

Would be cool if we could do it for translucent toolbar etc.
I think more has been tried than you imagine, look at the single-wing offenses of the 1930's and triple options offenses.

But ultimately, the stop-and-go nature of American football makes possession so important that there isn't much to be gained by all the laterals.
>>"Equally, at the equivalent stage in Microsoft's life, it was well known that PCs were a toy and that people wouldn't pay for software."

You're mistaken in your analogy.

Regardless of what some people thought they "knew", Microsoft was always in the paid-software business.
Microsoft was formed in 1975 and that year, their revenue was $16,000. In 1977 it was $381K (with net income of $112K). 3 years after formation, Microsoft's revenue was $1.3M.
Microsoft's business plan was based on selling software and they did that from the beginning.

Snapchat was formed around 3 years ago. At this "equivalent stage", they seem to have zero revenue. It also seems like they are holding out for a better purchase-offer. They seem to be on the familiar VC-guided route of "selling a company and its users" as opposed to the old-fashioned route of "selling a software product/service".

In general, I don't think you can equate the growth strategy/prospects of an independent/self-sufficient company that sells software-products with a company that wishes to sell itself.
Did you read the whole comment? His whole point is that the email did seem to impress at least someone, and word did get out about his company, and that it was a good thing.
Hustle is Hype (Must read for startup founders)
> Even now Windows don't have basic feature like..

Hyper-V? Powershell? Search has been in Windows since forever.
I'm pretty sure that OP knew the issue, not just you, so it's not ignorance. And it's not the moment to cite The Good Parts either.

There is no failure here to be seen. There is a clever hack to make a spreadsheet shared quick and dirty.

Just a reminder that all the JS code you run, in particular on jsFiddle, is untrusted and is part of the security model of the JS engine in your browser that evil JS code must not be able to do any harm. If it did, report it to the browser vendor and earn a bounty.
The boundary where pieces of code manage to control voltage. Where text crosses into electro magnetic flux. How does that happen?
While I haven't gotten a business license, I have found that regularly increasing my hourly rate for new clients has done wonders, and moving from hourly to then daily to weekly rates. I now position myself as a data and code synchronization specialist, I guarantee my clients a seamless use of their data and code no matter where it is, and this is enough value that people are eagerly willing to pay. Be the specific solution for a company, then you'll be in charge - not the other way around.
Some time ago there was a "Startup FAQ" (can't remember the exact title) circulating. But it has this:

"Q: A company wants to buy us, what to do? A: Sell"

I don't think truer words were ever spoken.

Are they really taking themselves that seriously?

Dropbox could get away with it, they have a good source of revenue. Not something like Zynga.

Then you can use the 3B to either go on vacations or build something even cooler.

Edit: nmb found it: http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2013/08/the-ultimate-cheat-shee...
Workers Burned At Tesla Car Plant
I took the mark as more of a: "look, I was there for the announcement!"
I did this right away when I became a freelancer. Registered my own company, which I understood to be necessary to send invoices. Got an office to work from. But I'm still a freelancer. Or an independent contractor, but what's the difference?
Do-it-yourself EEG, EKG, and EMG
This was my thought as well, pushing to a remote repo is that moment after which I stand up and walk away from my computer. I can stretch, make coffee or whatever. If I get back to my computer and it has exploded I know how far I am.

Heck, without git how do I revert changes? How do I stay organised?
hah. I haven't even managed to get recruiters to throw me a small bone when I give them people.
From this article — "one roadblock in the talks with Facebook was that Mr. Spiegel questioned whether he wanted to work for Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s young billionaire chief executive”

Excerpt From: Nick Bilton. “Hatching Twitter." — “Biz and Ev had driven down to Facebook’s campus a few days earlier to meet with Mark. Like most meetings involving the chief of Facebook, it had been almost unbearably uncomfortable”

Looks like founders don’t want to work for Zuckerberg. Any company looking to sell to Facebook would need a 50% Zuckerberg premium.
- I like it. Seems like you have alot of Nigerian traffic to the website. What are you plans for it?
Would you care to elaborate on how they're a "very rich company"?

(Edit: I actually read the article after my post and saw the section about Benchmark Capital's $13 million investment. The rest of my comments still stand...)

Now if you meant they have built such a large following that a buyout is inevitable, and/or they stand to make a lot of money by introducing a business model into the equation, then I'd agree. However, that does not change the fact that the owners are incredibly greedy not to accept a $3 billion cash offer, especially considering the fact that there's no guarantee they can come up with a viable business model at all. Now that they've turned down an arguably hugely inflated offer, they may have made a huge mistake in the long run.

Let's not forget that Snapchat isn't exactly a difficult product to clone, and the only thing going for them right now is user numbers. If they introduce a poor money-making mechanism into it, users will not hesitate to flock to the "next big thing" instead of forking over cash or dealing with intrusive ads.
Yep. Just another bite at the apple. It only takes one mistake.
To clarify, he wasn't decapitated, he was hit in the head which caused fatal injuries.

Overall such helicopters are not insanely dangerous, when operated incorrectly they can be hazardous, but that's also true of ordinary lawn mowers.
I should say, a weapons equipped version. I can imagine these things being both agile enough to perform in urban environments and fast enough to perform in rural, open environments.

Imagine a dozen of these swarming an objective in Afghanistan, expiring their batteries over the course of a 30 minute attack, disappearing, and just when the combatants thought it was safe, another dozen show up because there is a drone acting as a recharging hive for dozens of these things and it's is doing slow circles around the objective.

That's sci-fi sounding and yet seemingly plausible.
yes, this is daft.
Yeah, like a 1st level cache for energy.
Open Source self-hosted file sync, version control with client side encryption
Foundation 5 to be released next week
Oh, if I have to, OK. [pouts while a billion people hope for clean water tomorrow]
Am actually in Nigeria, and i plan to make it a community of students learning from each other. thestudybox is to a students academic life, what facebook is to their social life.
I would appreciate any advice, thanks.
check the new Facebook messenger, with sms verification, send message to your contacts on phone and a lot more.

same as whatsapp and snapchat does
Not sure if I want to carry that kind of high power energy source in my bag, or on my lap... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoWMF3VkI6U
Put it in my phone, tablet and laptop ... if I have something that I could charge for 16 seconds I don't care how much it power source will last.

Also super-capacitors aren't that bad for medium term storage - they lose 10% of the charge per day which is not much.
Roll of duct tape for Internet of things
IOS: Facebook Messenger 3.0 - no Facebook account needed
Unlike Disney movies, books don't have to be "magical".

And interesting should mean "provides important insights" not that it's a fun read (there's always Malcom Gladwell for that).
Oh come on, beats, seriously? If you don't have any idea of the quality/price ratio then why post them? They are horribly overpriced.
Here's another classic:

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-America-Penguin-Classics-Toc...
That makes me curious, what do you think it was? Chomsky talking about kickstarter?
In the past couple years VCU presses almost every possession and has had a lot success against great college teams.
I didn't realize this before, but has Dropbox for Business always been $795 / year at unlimited capacity?

This sounds like a very good deal to me.
Just put all your project files in Dropbox!

Seriously, it's so easy. Every time you hit save, you'd have to try to lose the file. Pair this with git going to github or bitbucket and it would take several well placed nuclear explosions to destroy your work.

If my laptop instantaneously combusted at any point in time I would, at maximum, lose approximately 6 seconds of work (or the last time I hit "save"), and could set up a new laptop and be productive on it in about an hour (to install Dropbox and give it time to sync, Sublime, iTerm, Chrome, and custom keyboard hacks). Pet peeves, man.
I think the idea is that you capture the energy from regenerative braking in the super capacitors and then drain them almost immediately when acceleration is called for (which means the batteries need to be used a lot less and thus last a lot longer).
Why Google+ integration to Youtube comments is a dumb move
To be clear here, I'm in no way involved with the documentary. I am however, an avid reader of books, and Chomsky is a major author in that collection.

Personally, I think the trailer is a bit of a glorification of Chomsky's social political criticism. And in that respect, this would fit perfectly. I just hope they leave out the melodrama in the documentary.
Yes, more or less, but they are generally not as generous as the US.

E.g., the UK equivalent of fair use, "fair dealing", is limited to a definitive list of circumscribed purposes of the unauthorised use of copyright material, e.g., in writing a review. By contrast, US law has a non-exclusive set of tests to check if an unauthorised use is fair use, of which purpose is just one factor to be weighed in the balance.

I gather that Germany does not have any fair use law [1], but in practice a regime similar to the UK's has been established through several precedents in the German courts. France seems to be in a similar situation, with a more generous court interpretation of fair use [2].

Wikipedia tells me that Israel has a fair use law similar to the US; cf. [3].

[1]: http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/students/groups/is/files/2013/08/8-... - note that vog's comment below seems to refute this source

[2]: https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2011/01/who-said-france-d...

[3]: https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2008/01/israel%E2%80%99s-...
There's nothing you cand do and nobody will sue you. They can use other methods to grab the data, if they really wanted to. It's not as if you'll be completely secure if you don't use Amazon's services.
Great story!
btw - chess is a lot more about confidence & psychology than purely intellectual
Martini: Classy web development in Go
Someone died. let us not quibble.

edit: One of the above articles explicitly says decapitation. If someone has a coroners report i'm all ears
Seems you're right, though I think it would depend on the rigidity of the rotor with respect to the body of the helicopter.
Constructing a list in a Monad
"An objective", "combatants" -- you mean people, right? If so, say it.

We should not hide the uncomfortable truth.
He tried to sell for $75m in early 2005. Then for $750m in late 2005. Apparently a lot of luck mixed with a lot of greed turns anyone who succeeds in to a savant.
Really cool effect. Great way to get it without resorting to images.

In the future, I wonder if something like this could be done with the -filter attributes, though those may only work on images. I know those have been used to do blurring before, though possibly not in the same way.
It turned out that actual people didn’t behave like the imaginary proxy. Economists are learning that the poor and the wealthy respond differently to austerity and stimulus. This could present challenges to politicians. If people behave differently, then policy might have to treat them differently.

Preference heterogeneity by itself does not imply anything about rationality. However, that is not to say the topic is so simple. We know this empirically by looking things like revealed preference for risk taking. One example might be propensity to take risky bets, despite known zero/negative NPV expected values. These people are happy to buy earnings Vol because the distributions on the downside has such little variation (poor today = poor tomorrow). Whereas a middle class person can make more use of the savings (investment opportunities are greater, and the downside risk of less savings is too), on the one hand, and is not so desperate for upside on the other (even if its just the psychic hit of the "chance" to be rich).
In other news - TechCrunch is now friends with Microsoft.
This is cool, nice job.
When I drag over a label, it seems to flicker. Maybe try pointer-events: none; on the labels.
> Ctrl+PrintScreen or WindowsKey+PrintScreen (if you want to be fancy).

You actually don't need the Ctrl key. Just PrintScreen will also do the same thing.

WindowsKey + PrintScreen is a nice idea. Problem is, I usually do Alt + PrintScreen. Adding the Windows key doesn't do anything in that case.
Dropbox has been a life saver for me. The ability to restore previous files in particular has helped me in many situations.
How a Jump in Home Ownership Boosted Entrepreneurship in China
Switzerland isn't planning to limit 'upside' in any way, as simply owning [part of] a rapidly growing company is something completely different from compensation like getting stock options that you didn't have before.

The 'cap', in essence, would refer only to hired managers.
fun fact: there are a few miles of metal interconnect (wires) inside the microprocessor chip you are using right now [1].

[1] www.itrs.net/Links/2007ITRS/2007_Chapters/2007_Interconnect.pdf
> The real question is how in the world any of these companies are going to making $100/user.

How much were eyeballs worth back in 1999? I don't quite remember. Was it more or less than $50 per eyeball?
It's difficult, because you cannot see the pixels in an HTML element's rendering with JavaScript. If you could copy a link to a canvas, then you could see if it has been previously visited, for example. So, canvases would not work.

I may be possible with SVG filters or WebGL, but that also has security implications. It's possible to read cross-origin content using timing attacks and filters. http://www.contextis.com/files/Browser_Timing_Attacks.pdf
> Everyone thinks that backups aren't necessary until something happens to them.

On the contrary, everybody knows backups are necessary, the problem is bothering to actually do it regularly, especially on a high-intensity time of pre-launch. Personally I forgot to eat at times when working on our Kickstarter campaign video...
Try adding -webkit-filter: blur(5px) to the body tag of a document. It'll blur anything, not just images.
It is done client-side in real time with arbitrary content using an SVG GaussianBlur filter. Decode the data: urls in the SVG to see the full source.
I don't know about internet, but I really loved Croatia. Perfect weather on the beautiful Adriatic with some incredible cities. Dubrovnik is the best known, but I spent a couple of weeks living right by Korčula and that was also wonderful.

To me, at least, being in Europe is also a really big plus. I love the idea that I could just take a ferry to Italy and going to Paris or London is only a slightly longer trip.
Gah! Thanks for the tip... it's hard work being a novice. :)
Now I really love the feature of Chrome, "Prevent this window from creating new dialog box" ( or something like that ).
Some *$%#@ put alert in the cell.
With all those new computers I'd say you don't have to worry about backups for at least another 2 years.
In Amazon and Walmart’s Battle for Dominance, Who Loses Out?
There are a number of valid and interesting perspectives on manufacturing output. "No longer produces physical goods" is not one of them.
> they don't have a liquid inside

They do:

"...electrolyte (an ionic liquid called EBIMF 1 M)..."
The Switzerland example was just what got me thinking, not the focus of the question.

I was thinking about redistribution of wealth. There's all these founders making billions of dollars. What if instead they only made a couple million, and we gave the rest of it to poor people? Would they still have started their startups?
Silver also defended Bill Belickick's controversial decision to attempt a 4th-down conversion over a field goal against the Colts in 2009:

http://fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/16/defending-beli...
Oh sure, I don't mean to validate the dehumanizing language of the military, it's just how I wrote it. At least I didn't refer to these things as being instruments of kinetic operations.

Not that the machines care much about that, though.
Jolla picks Yandex’s Android app store for its smartphones