skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cookies should only be dropped on an action/click/whatever, dropping attribution cookies on every visitor (and hoping they convert by chance) is fraud
I think it's important to note that this is a bug that effects older browsers only. Modern IE, Chrome, and Firefox have security measures that do not allow scripts to capture values passed to constructors of a literal. That way, this hack is only needed for older browsers and will hopefully not be needed at all in the future. For more info: http://stackoverflow.com/a/16880162/372767

Also note that this attack, JSON Hijacking, is different than a CSRF (Cross Site Request Forgery) and has little to do with CSRF tokens.
> but the API really is terrible

Then use a different one, like xcb. Or even abandon it altogether and use Wayland.

> How have we managed to hang onto this monstrosity for so long?

Because it (largely) works.

And 99% of people don't ever have to come into contact with it.

> Now your average Linux desktop builds a lot on X11 to get it to perform how it does now

If you mean "builds a lot on" you mean "ignores the vast majority of outdated features of", then yes.

> but all this effort is a huge waste

Not really. A lot of the stuff replacing X11 cruft had to be implemented anyway, and the weird X11 hacks, well, they were just what was needed at the time to get work done. No use in crying over spilt milk.

> Just compare it to something like Apple's UIKit or Android's layouts

What would be the point in that? They serve very different purposes.
I've literally handled hundreds of second-hand iPads (I traded them for a while), and none of the lightning cables had issues. I'd venture to guess there's something wrong in your house rather than the with the cables.

I've seen tons of dock connector issues with broken ports, but none with lightning so far.
(this is getting a little off topic)

The way customer service works (again in my experience) is that you'll go through several people before you get to someone who has the power to change your bill.

It's a needlessly involved process, but it is an option in some cases.

The original comment was regarding Google Fiber's effect on competitors. If you're in an area that can get their service, then you should be able to back up your threat.

Either google fiber is faster and cheaper than what you have now, or it's not and what you have now is better.
> but the argument seems involve the claim that some people have no need for formal methods to correct their biases. I beg to differ, everyone needs that

Demanding that everyone has a formal method to correct biases only provable in statistics, really do go back to the "Prove that you're not a witch" argument a few comments ago. The exact same proof can be found against different color of skin, names and clothes. It can be found in parents who has more than one children. Statistical proven biases exist everywhere.

Yet, a formal method should only really be needed once the bias is found to actually exist on a individual level. Everything else would be insane.
The only belief that unites all religions as well as "non believers' is a general agreement that their is always something 'more' to life. In short the only thing anyone agrees on is their is always something 'more' regardless if you believe in god, aliens ... or whatever. The paradox is many people will disagree....and insist on their own religious or ideological box as being the 'only' rendition of "more"...IE Jesus, Allah, YHWH, or even science and any of its practitioners ideological and philosophical leanings (which do exist...ouch!) etc. ha!
All of the usable phones already use lightning. I don't see the issue.
I suppose one could consider two types of value destruction. The kind that would bother shareholders is the kind that buys a company for $1e9, then writes it off as a loss when that company turns out to be worthless. FingerWorks is not this kind.

The other kind, the kind that bothers consumers, is the kind that buys a company to keep the technology away from competitors and open source projects. FingerWorks definitely fits this description. I hope the same does not hold for PrimeSense.
Well, there is something to be said for rejecting a better solution just because it isn't a perfect solution.

(Not supporting drone strikes, but just making a general statement)
What's to stop everyone from setting up VPNs en masse? The difficulty alone?
So who created the aliens?
> Is that like "Real Estate only goes up?"

No, it's saying that Bitcoin has the feature that people who like Gold like, the supply can't be artificially inflated. That's all. Keynsian's won't like that because that means it's deflationary.

> This problem really does lead to crypto currencies having no floor like Krugman points out.

Krugman is wrong because he doesn't see the inherent value in them yet, and there is value in shopping online without giving the retailer my credit card details and without the retailer being worried about charge backs and banking fees; but he didn't see the value in the Internet either.

Brilliant people are often wrong when stepping outside their domain, and he clearly doesn't yet understand the technological advantages of crypto currencies.

He's right that deflationary currencies won't function well as currencies in the end, which is why Bitcoin could be MySpace and a better designed crypto may ultimately win, but network effects give Bitcoin the chance to fail before someone else can win. However Bitcoin need only become stable enough to be used to move money around and it'll have a ton of value to lots of people whether it's deflationary or not simply to avoid banks, fees, and chargebacks.
SIMtester: Open source SIM card vulnerability testing
The Snowden affair made ZERO difference to US alliances. Seriously zero. The US will still be able to depend on UK, JP, AU, NZ, CA, SK etc.

Alliances don't get torn up because of a bit of spying.
The D.S. Cohen cited for the burnt pancake problem later became a TV writer and became known as David X. Cohen (there was already a David S. Cohen in the guild). If that name seems familiar to many, it is because he was a Simpsons writer and then co-developed Futurama and served as its head writer.
I guess it was a privilege arguing with you.
Thanks for correcting me on the R&D, I was under the impression (based on product output) that nothing had changed and had in fact worsened.

I still don't rate Tim Cook though - he allowed Maps out of the gate. Scott Forstall took the fall for that one, but Tim Cook was ultimately responsible.
> then the individual accounts within its purview obviously have whatever values it records them as having.

I think there's a basic disconnect here about what we mean by "store of value". The simplest way to put it is that something stores value well if I can buy a predictable amount of stuff with it in the future. That the ledger does a good job of establishing that I have N bitcoins is different from telling me how much those bitcoins are actually worth.
Do You Have Your Paul Graham Pitchfork Out?
I think Jakub P. was implying that the CSRF-token defense could also guard against this attack.
That love really does exist, and will save us all.
I apologize, I do not. I read widely and generally do not maintain an annotated bibliography of what I read. Perhaps I should.
I think it's a good thing, to avoid the rampant NIH-ism and vendor lock-in which seems to permeate the industry.

Sony is a good example - look at their MiniDisc fiasco (I owned several MiniDisc devices), or their MemoryStick format.

Just use a open format like SD, and stick to it.

Or look at every single phone manufacturer back in the early 2000's, that had to invent their own (usually) inferior charging standard, in some misguided hope you'd stick with them due to all the chargers you'd bought.

Or the proliferation of laptop charging standards/pins.

Guys - we're delivering power to a portable devices - it's not like we're designing the bloody ISS.

Yes, I can admire the engineering that goes into say, the Lightning adapter being reversible.

But look at all the ridiculousness of Apple's previous 30-pin connector. They could have just used USB. But then the Apple fans goes "But...but....you can't use TV out!". Yeah, well, the Samsung Galaxy II and MHL would disagree with you.

And look at their MagSafe versus MagSafe 2 connectors - they had to change their entire adapter and make it incompatible just to make it what, 2mm thinner?

And even though I don't own an iDevices, I think it's absurd that Apple charges "licensing" fees to use it's connector, and needs to add in "authentication" chips. Really?

This is as bad as inkjet manufacturers like Lexmark putting in authentication chips to their ink catridges.

Same sort of proprietary vendor lock-in nonsense.
Well, one thing to do with the tokens might be that if the token were required for the GET request in question, then stealing the content via script tag may be harder. OTOH, putting one-time tokens on every request might be a bit too much for many apps, while(1) hack may be more efficient.
CSS: Styling the first N HTML elements
>[eigenvector]... utilities will need far more advanced software and metering infrastructure

...and as I take it from other discussion, re-design, -engineering and replacement of some distribution station equipment and software to allow net power flow upstream when a substation's downstream DG exceeds downstream load, presently taken to be a fault condition.

A DG participation fee payable to the utility for infrastructure development and upgrades seems reasonable to me in light of these considerations.
With self-driving cars on the horizon, will people even be owning their own cars for much longer? Centralization of car ownership would change how your scenario plays out.
Clearly a local government is going to be less receptive to more digging if high speed service is in place, but it's not a "natural" monopoly if a deal with the government must be made as a prerequisite to provide services. You are also assuming that the "digger" is necessarily the service provider. In my view, local governments are basically seduced by telcos subsidizing or eliminating the up front costs of building infrastructure. In the long run, it's a bad deal.

I would say the monopoly is "natural" if and only if the local government is required to allow anyone (or no one) to dig. Or if it pays for the digging itself.
Sexual dimorphism has large and powerful effects in most sexually reproducing species, including humans.

Hair color, as far as we know, is just about pigment. Sex differences go much, much deeper.
Tell them to build things from the get go. Give them some ideas on what to build. Tell them it's ok to suck.
"just lump their market power with media providers" is interesting considering that's Comcast, today. In a world without net neutrality, how do you stop Comcast from delivering NBC video content on the fast pipe, while degrading the performance of it's competitors?
Apple’s ubiquitous touchscreen came from the FingerWorks acquisition and it actually added value for sure but their recent acquisition "PrimeSense" an Israel based 3D sensor company sure makes me thinking. It would be interesting to watch how Apple wind up deploying PrimeSense technology in next-gen iDevices especially iPhone 6. I look forward to seeing this happens.
It's not quite a growth hack yet. They need Bieber to tweet out a link to his artist page. Preferably on Thursday.
when you die, nothing happens. You cease to exist and there is no soul, heaven, hell, - nothing is revealed, you do not become one with consciousness, etc.

But I hope I'm wrong
I'm in the one section of KC that Google has yet to actually proliferate (probably some shady dealings with TWC and the council, but alas... no proof). TWC still offers the same terrible rates in the adjacent areas regardless of Gfiber actually being present. I'm pretty sure they just wrote off KC as an experiment and not indicitive of actual market importance. Coworkers with Gfiber have recieved no resistance from abandoning their previous ISP.

You would think the OP area of KC without Gfiber would be the one area trying to 'make nice' with people offering better service, discounts, and/or promises, but there is absolutely zero signs of 'competition' in the market.
Ask them why they want to learn it and insist they find something they are passionate about building as an end result. As far as really learning,
tell them it will take 3-5 years of studying every day, building projects and adopting the process as a lifestyle. Most of the marketing shit around learning programming is fluff. BTW This is coming from one of the people you are speaking of who was (and still kind of is) a 'noob'. I just happen to have a technical background outside of code to help ramp me up. Other than that tell them to try it out and see if they like it. The learning curve will inevitably make you cry. But after you reach a certain point you can begin getting really creative which is very very empowering! This takes muscle memory and imbuing yourself in the culture, concepts and tools.
I agree that this is troubling in its own right. I just don't think that this power was abused in this particular case.
The other problem: Constant activity (charging/discharging) is going to murder battery longevity. Murder with a rusty spoon.
When related to happiness, some have said (annually) $75,000: http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertglatter/2012/07/27/how-muc...

Others claim $161,0000: http://www.cnbc.com/id/50027184

There was a good study about diminishing marginal utility of wealth I read a while back. I'll see if I can find and post it. Don't quote me on this, but I think $5M was a good number.
This is a great analysis, but I'd hesitate to call anything the "root cause" of WWI. Of course the Ottoman Empire's decay was a factor, but hard to say that it was more important than the many others listed here and elsewhere.
Sexual dimorphism is incredibly common in the animal kingdom, and humans are not an exception.

You are setting up a non-falsifiable belief system that asserts that men and women cannot be different above the neck. If that's what lets you sleep at night, who am I to deny you your comforting faith?

But you are fighting against mountains of evidence for cognitive differences between men and women. Are they all cultural? I'm friends with a few post-treatment transgendered people, and I'm inclined to believe at least that hormones have a powerful impact on personality.
I recall IE showed a dialog on javascript errors to ask if the user wanted to continue. An infinite loop will get the entire script aborted because there's no obvious way to continue.
Define innovative. One major goal of any shell is to get nasty shit done as fast as possible. Conventions accreted over time and breaking those too much diminishes the viability of an alternative project.

rush Ruby Shell [1] might qualify, but it has the problem of any "innovative" shell: different special syntax and doing something so different that the transition curve is too steep for most people.

Zsh is kind of weird because it feels academic with the option of having every feature imaginable AND not having hashes or signatures with releases. The good thing about zsh is that most of it isn't loaded by default. It has modules. It has lots of neat options lacking in other shells such as case-correction and interactive completion. That's all kinds of innovative.

Bash is the mysql of shells. It's pervasive so there's loads of pressure not to innovate.

I would like to see shells' community get more like node by having minimal, focused packages of added functionality that each do one thing well, because having to declare the same primitive functions to do something DRY and useful is a pain.

[1] https://adam.heroku.com/past/2008/2/19/rush_the_ruby_shell/
Except it didn't because there are 14. Unsurprisingly it was aesthetics.
No nuclear armed country has ever been invaded and war between two nuclear armed countries seems ridiculous.

On the other hand, as the article says, people in 1914 were making similar claims about the interdependence of their economies and their new technologies.

Still, it's quite a different situation.
Self-driving cars are potentially the greatest threat to human freedom since the advent of the internet.
Don't forget to factor your age into the equation. The more years you have left to invest and/or earn more, the less you really need. And don't forget to think about your skill with money too. The younger you are, the longer time you will have to avoid wasting away your fortune. If you are smart with money then you will need less than someone who is not.
Code or code not. There is no learn.
Clearly you have not read Siegfried Sassoon's Public Statement Of Defiance. It was published in The London Times on 17 July 1917:

"I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe the war is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it.

I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defence and liberation has now become a war of aggression and conquest. I believe that the purposes for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects witch actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.

I have seen and endured the suffering of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust. I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerity's for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.

On behalf of those who are suffering now I make this protest against the deception which is being practised on them; also I believe that I may help to destroy the callous complacence with which the majority of those at home regard the continuance of agonies which they do not share, and which they have not sufficient imagination to realise."

We have not moved on from 1917. The US seeks out war for fun and profit. Peace is a disaster for the military industrial complex, war, or at least the preparation for war, has to be perpetuated. Militarism is the cancer at the heart of almost every government, most notably the USA. Even Carter wasn't able to inoculate it. Although most Americans don't want war - it is not cultural - those people in Washington want nothing more for the exact same reasons Sassoon described.
> Heck, a Belgium company built both the Belgium fortifications... and the German artillery that eventually breached them!

Which fortifications are you talking about?

The Germans used Krupp and Skoda siege guns to reduce the fortifications at Liège. Krupp was a German company, and Skoda was an Austro-Hungarian company based in Bohemia (today's Czech Republic).
> Do I get equal access to the existing infrastructure (presumably paid for by the existing monopoly)?

No, the existing company retains ownership of the infrastructure they paid for and the ability to charge anyone whatever the heck they want for using it. Also, they retain all rights granted in private contracts (not involving government at the federal, state, or municipal level).

> Second, who am i? A startup [with new, cheaper tech]? Google? Another telco?

You get to pick, subject to three constraints:

* Your source of capital is rational (they'll replace you or refuse to fund you if you're acting against their monetary interests)

* Your source of capital is limited (or, rather, their trust in you is limited). Enough to cover a town, but not a city.

* Your competitive advantage isn't disruptive (for the sake of arbitrary concreteness, your up-front and continuing costs are 80% of what they are/were for the competition)

> My overarching answer is simply: I don't know, but let's get rid of the artificial constraints on the market and see what results.

That's what I was afraid of. The "game" we're playing is going to pit my knowledge of anticompetitive market practices against your ingenuity. My thesis is that the anticompetitive opportunities offered by the market will be enough to stymie innovation all on their own, unless the government takes an active role in leveling the playing field.

> In most unregulated industries, quality rises and price falls

Yes, but it works better for some industries than for others, and the industries where it has a track record of failing miserably (utilities, basic research, health care) require government intervention if we want a functional society. Adam Smith himself didn't believe that the market was suited to the task of optimizing infrastructure or military/police forces (he didn't think said list was in any way complete, either). Perverse incentives, externalities, anticompetitive opportunities, information asymmetries, and pathological nash equilibria (prisoner's dilemma) all frustrate the ability of markets to optimize society. Medicine is probably the worst rat's nest of such complications, but let's keep the focus on utilities for brevity.

> which industries do you see this not happening: 1. Finance 2. Medicine 3. Utilities 4. ?

You can't use these observations to support your point over mine because they also fit my model of reality (government must be more involved with industries that stymie the free market's optimization abilities). Also, health care in the US is ~2x as expensive as in "socialist" single-payer systems, so I find your choice of who to blame less than convincing. The ACA is the plan proposed by market reformists -- not even the Heritage Foundation thinks deregulation is the way forward on that front.
A place I worked at previously had a manager who managed 2 small teams. One that did analytics, and another that did media/communications, for a total of about 10 people. On my first week of work, we had a meeting and in the middle of some discussion, he literally said "girls are better than guys. If I could, I would hire only girls". No specific reason, just girls are better than guys (he had 3 daughters though, so I don't know if that was the reason). It still blows my mind to this day that he said that out loud.

At one point we had a female intern who was on a 8 month work term. 3 months into her workterm, the manager offered her a full-time position, not contingent on her graduation (she was in 3rd year and planned to return to complete school). Now I'm not anyone to judge, but I will say her performance wasn't particularly impressive, especially compared to other interns on the team, one of who (male) had already graduated, interned for a total of 20 months, and took on plenty of duties. 5 months into the workterm, she ended up wiping a ton of live data of a fairly important legacy application, effectively costing the company a few hundred k. A year later she's working there full-time as expected, but from what I understand, she didn't end up graduating anyways. The male intern worked on that team for 13ish months, then finally got full-time through a different team.
All I will say is that this company is one of the tech giants.

I agree we need more females in the field, but like many other people have mentioned, lowering the hiring bar in an intentional effort to hire a female hacker isn't very helpful. The problem is we're not producing enough qualified women, and overcompensating to fix that is not a good long term solution. There are plenty of very talented female hackers, and we do need them, but we also need to fix the root of the problem, and not intentionally skewing hiring to meet level of acceptable gender diversity.

Women in the field also face other challenges, such as not being as vocal as males when it comes to promotions/raises, so it's common for them to have lower salaries than their male counterparts. There are lots of issues females face in this field, but let's look at fixing the root cause.