skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen someone do it. If your workflow is 'git push -f feature' after rebasing, instead of 'git push feature -f', you can tap enter and break the world.
I am worried about that right now ... more precisely the Boss' Executive Assistant
I don't have the extension, but I wonder how many trackers/beacons there are on that CBS page.
Nothing here is Node specific. I don't mean that as an attack on the article, just an observation - keeping careful track of where your 3rd-party dependencies are coming from and running tests are good ideas for any application, particularly one open to a network.
This could just as well be a result of the modem's normal runtime (e.g. logging). No one has proven this interface is deliberately accessible over the air.
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I read a long time ago in some kinda official source, that they have a cold fusion source in the handle.
How to migrate from GlassFish to JBoss or TomEE?
the like and follow buttons in https://www.eventjoy.com/organizing/ overlap each other

Chrome 33 on Mac OS X
True. Nevertheless, silicon backdoors tend to be way more expensive to exploit and often require physical access.

This is in opposition to software backdoors which allow someone sitting in a room 4000km away to own you with no outlay of money or resources on their part.

One problem at a time. Once we get the software stack open, then we can start going after the hardware stack.
No doubt this thing is full of holes, but the fact the modem can directly access the RFS barely registers as an elevated security threat. There's so much an attacker can normally do when they control the modem (MITM, exploiting system services, etc).
who needs an explanation behind "its some space wizard stuff".
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/04/08/a...

It looks like under Thatcher got inflation under control, unemployment rose, then fell (similar to the US during the same time period) and the economy had a run of growth from '81 to '90 that peaked near 5%.

Not too shabby when you look at the 10 years prior when inflation was 25% and the economy shrank from '74-76.

Britain was regarded as a "sick man of Europe" before Thatcher took office.
Attacks over the (lack of a) gender gap in tech salaries
It's small relative to the Googleplex, which has 2 million sq. ft, and will be 3.1 million sq. ft next year.

It's small relative to the number of people who commute from SF to Google by private bus. ("more than 3,500" in 2012, says http://www.sfbg.com/2012/04/18/private-bus-problem; I can't find newer numbers in all the noise, but it seems that more commute to MV than work in the SF office.)

It's small relative to the market. That is, there's some 84 million sq. ft. of office space in SF. https://www.cassidyturley.com/DesktopModules/CassidyTurley/D... . The vacancy rate is 8%. So Google has under 0.5% of the occupied office space in SF.

To double check, the biggest employers are the city/county (25,000), UCSF (20,000), Wells-Fargo (8,200), SF school district (8,200), and Gap (6,000). See http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2014/01/top-5-l... . The Wells Fargo Bank headquarters building alone is 640,000 sq. ft.

I agree that it's mid-size were it a company primarily based in SF, but for most of the relevant metrics, it's small.
Wearable Ring
Yeah, I think they did a decent job of optimizing for constraints, other than the use of JSON and VLQ (Honestly, protobufs would have been a universally better encoding for this, since they provide fixed-size records you can seek through and already offer a superior variable-length encoding.)

I think extending what we already have instead of reinventing the format is smart. All of your concerns listed at the end are things I care about too.
Three problems I see:

1) This lightsaber appears to allow blaster fire to pass through undeflected.

2) There is no discussion of how sabers parry each other instead of breaking.

3) It appears to have a "blunt" tip.

1 and 2 could possibly be explained as a Force-related effect. Vader has been seen to deflect blaster bolts with his bare palms, so we know that the Force is capable of doing this; perhaps something in the design of the lightsaber makes it much easier to perform this feat with the surface of the blade, or perhaps it even produces a field or resonance in the Force that deflects energies without conscious effort beyond that needed to power the saber. Vader's deflection power may be inspired by study of the saber itself.

This implies that a sufficiently powerful Force user could parry a lightsaber with their bare hands! However, given that the blaster-deflection trick appears to be quite difficult, saber-deflection may be possible in theory but beyond any Jedi's abilities in practice.

2 could also be explained by advanced materials technology. The filaments, perhaps created by Force-guided elemental deposition, may simply be too strong for human muscles to break by whacking them together.

3 could perhaps be solved by making the filaments loop back around at the tip instead of terminating in a ceramic cap. A single filament, then, would spiral clockwise out from the base of the blade, make a 180-degree turn, and spiral back inwards counterclockwise. The only problem is that this would produce much greater light pressure in the tip than along the rest of the filament; saber designers would have to take this into account to avoid catastrophic failure.
If it is, it isn't conscious, Han Solo cuts open a Tauntaun at the beginning of Ep 5 with Luke's lightsaber.
I always thought light saber was basically plasma contained by magnetic field.
Congrats, but I wonder why they are doing this now. Are they trying to redeem themselves for that NSA show sell-out? Because if they are, this won't cut it.
I am millenial like yourself. I got the praise and worship from my other classmates for owning a charzard the difference from my story and yours is that I opened up the booster pack and found one. I ended up listening to my parents, saved the $75 dollars, and was ultimately happy.

Until some kid actually stole my binder and I lost it all.

The moral of my story is "don't trust anyone"
Ghostery reports doubleclick, adsense, new relic, omniture, and visual revenue (also adobe typekit, but not sure whether you consider that a tracker/beacon)

Disconnect reports new relic, "google", visual revenue

EDIT to clarify: The answer wasn't intended to suggest that Ghostery blocks more or different ads/trackers compared to Disconnect. I just read off what the blockers reported.
From what I can see, Mozilla is generally going in a direction that's alienating existing users, without necessarily bringing in any new ones.

For example, it's widely understood today that Firefox has a much smaller share of the market now than it did a few years ago. Most measures I've seen show a drop from somewhere in the mid 30%'s down to under 20% today. Proportionally fewer Firefox users means less influence over the future direction of the web, of course.

SeaMonkey never really had that much penetration to begin with, and still remains basically irrelevant.

Firefox OS doesn't really seem to be taking off. While it may sound nice from an ideological standpoint in terms of openness and standards and all of that, in practice it doesn't sound very enjoyable or practical to use. I've seen enough people show displeasure over the low-end devices it's commonly used with, with the highly restrictive development environment (being forced to essentially use JavaScript/HTML5/CSS for apps), with a lack of features, and a lack of apps. Those are very serious and fundamental shortcomings.

Thunderbird and Persona have both been "turned over to the community". That appears to be a polite way of saying that Mozilla has given up on them.

Asm.js is pretty unremarkable. It's a human-unfriendly subset of JavaScript. NaCl is a much better approach that would ideally be adopted by the major browsers. Unfortunately, we've seen nothing but hostility toward it from Mozilla.

Rust sounds appealing, but it's not really usable today. We keep hearing that there will be a stable release sometime later this year, but we'll need to see that actually happen first before it'll have any chance at being widely adopted. Even then, it's doubtful Rust alone will have any major impact on the web any time soon. Servo may, but that's clearly very much also an unusable work in progress at this point.

So overall, I don't see Mozilla as heading in a very positive direction. They really haven't had any wildly successful new offerings in quite some time now, and what they have been working on lately doesn't seem to be getting all that much adoption. Without a large base of users, their influence over the development of the web will just get weaker and weaker.
Yes, I considered that, but it’s been over 30 mins down (and still is for me from the East Coast). Anyway, this made me think that a service status page should perhaps be on a different subdomain handled by different DNS...
DHL sucks these days.

They deliver late or never and sometimes steal my stuff.

Hermes always delivers.
> Were our ancestors' lives miserable because they didn't have Snapchat and gadgets?

Yes they were (as well as for many other reasons).

Imagine a cancer patient hooked up to all the crucial life saving equipment that the engineers who did not choose "frivolity" in their careers built. What is that patient doing? They are on their iPhones, on twitter, on Snapchat etc. And these products are really really making a difference in their lives. In being able to not feel so isolated. Until you've seen something like this happen, it's very easy to dismiss these products as stupid cat picture networks. But sometimes cat picture networks really make people feel better, and that's kind of what it's all about.

I just think people frequently criticize others' non-infrastructure work as "frivolous," forgetting that the point of infrastructure is to support a life that is fun and feels good.
My critics of this system goes just in this direction. The construction is on purpose in a way, that responsibility is disconnected from Hermes and the pressure is made so that the contractors themselves are forced to create bad working conditions.

There are also contractors that admitted that they had to cheat the tax system to stay afloat. Many have gone bankrupt and the people involved are often left without social security. That's all inside the "System Hermes".
TBF He had heavy duty insulated gloves on and the lightsaber was only powered for ~10 seconds.
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It's a Samsung. I find hard to believe that Samsung smartphone users have any concern about privacy and/or security.
To be fair, Hoth was pretty cold...
"the .com was owned by a domain broker in South Korea. Within five minutes we emailed the broker asking for a price. A few hours later we had a price and quickly countered, which ultimately resulted in a low four-figure deal we accepted."

-> On an unrelated note, it seems like buying up a bunch of well-named domains 20 years ago would have been a smart thing to do lol (if you just wanted money). But I guess that's like owning real-estate in a way.
I agree, on mobile, the average device+browser today is not going to run WebGL well or not at all.

But, beta versions of browsers on the same devices show good performance. I think it's just a matter of time.

But again, right now, of course native on mobile is the way to go.
I always plug the same site on these threads.
www.zapreader.com/reader
I use that several times a week to get through lengthy articles. What I really want is something that shows all the text in the background kind of blurred out. The words should still flash on screen but with a keyboard shortcut I can make that disappear and have the word I was on hi lighted.
I would like the text in the background to scroll while it is blurred out and I'm speed reading. That way if there is an image or diagram I can quickly shift back to normal reading. Or if I just need to re-read a section. Then using only keystrokes have it resume blasting the words on screen.
Detecting changes to associations in Rails
Finally had a chance to play Three's since it came out on android today and it honestly just made me want to play this more. The games are very similar, but 2048 is just more enjoyable to me.
I know this is a shameless plug, but my company, Mighty Spring (http://www.mightyspring.com/getstarted) has a ton of front end people who would be interested in working at your startup ;)
> it's going to be damn hard to turn a buck

How about turning a micro Bitcoin with it?
The (Young) Man Working to Cure His Own Cancer
Don't think General Grievous is a force user either.
Show HN: Make your keyboard "clicky" again (Model M Emulation)
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There's also Gen. Grievous and his throphy lightsabers.
I use DejaVu Sans Mono as well for terminal and source editing, but I found that it looks more slim if you apply autohinting to it (for example on Debian it changes quite significantly because of it). I usually put this in $HOME/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf

<match target="font">
<test name="family">
<string>DejaVu Sans Mono</string>
</test>
<edit mode="assign" name="autohint">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="rgba">
<const>vrgb</const>
</edit>
</match>
From reading the first few pages I'm pretty sure it's not "what the 1% has accomplished and what they want to improve". They are describing existing and emerging "plutonomies" and conclude with the formation of a basket of equities of luxury companies.
How is this "pushing the envelope"?

Running existing software in some convoluted browser-based environment, and giving a worse experience in most ways, doesn't really seem like innovation to me.

I think we could say it was pushing the envelope if the browser experience was superior to the native experience in every or almost every way. But that just isn't what we're seeing with these demos.
"Elsewhere in northern California, a major earthquake along the subduction zone between Cape Mendocino and Vancouver Island—a region known to geologists and seismologists as Cascadia and which the Working Group gave a 10% chance of rupturing in the next 30 years—will almost certainly be followed within decades, perhaps even within hours, by a major earthquake along the northern segment of the San Andreas."

Notable that Sunday evening there was a 6.9 quake in that region which was the California's largest in the past 7 years. I believe a deformation (not a rupture) - but it was just south of Cascadia near where it meets with the San Andreas fault close to the Mendocino triple junction. [1]

[1] http://www.decodedscience.com/m6-9-california-earthquake-lar...
I don't count that as canon. Plus he had metal hands so...
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I'm looking to sell a crowdfunding site I created. It's equipped with Balance as well for payments. Shoot me an offer if you're interested.
Awesome, I've looking for something like this for ages!
Needs a bit of tuning, though.
Fails when reading this article on Chrome 33 for Linux:
http://aphyr.com/posts/311-clojure-from-the-ground-up-logist...
Awesome idea, thanks for making & sharing!

I tried it on http://blog.eventjoy.com/post/79387694078/how-we-restarted-o... but it choked/stopped once it came across the first linked.
Nobody needs an explanation, but explanations are fun. Don't go hatin' on a man's hobbies.
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I liked the lack of momentum. It made it easier to fall and collect coins stacked vertically!

Input lag not noticed here. Win 8, Chrome.

Yes checkpoints would be overkill in this size of level. I enjoyed the challenge of completing the last level, having to start again many times!

Well designed levels and fun graphics, sound and text. Make bigger games and I think they could be really popular!
Just one data point:

I replied to every NYC posting one month. I got zero on-site interviews. (I do get interviews when I send resumes via other methods.)

I'm not wasting time responding again.
An open stack is not enough because you can't trust any compiled software. In practice, even if we had a completely open stack and no binaries, we can't even begin to write error free code. Defeating the NSA [via software], a billion dollar agency with the power to ruin your life is completely unrealistic. Any real change must come through political action.
Number puzzle involving other players
This is nifty perspective. Thank you for the useful info.
I see. Well, have noticed some discrepancies between visitors between HeapAnalytics and MixPanel...maybe that's what's going on.
I think Rust is very interesting, but a language with a "periodic table of types" is definitely not one of the simpler languages out there. Just like the zero-cost abstractions of C++, the memory safety in Rust comes at a price of increased complexity.
This is not strictly about Ruby vs Python. Having used Pyramid (+SQLAlchemy) and Rails, I think the former is plenty fast enough such that no user cares about silly optimization, while the latter is the opposite.

Loading the Rails environment is just too slow, thus you need a preloader such as Zeus or Spring. And then you need something like Guard to make unit testing semi-bearable. But running the whole test suite would still be too slow, so you need parallel_tests to spread the tests across multiple cores (and multiple databases). And finally you drink the PORO kool-aid and start decoupling your codebase from Rails stuffs, and end up debating with DHH in HN.
Out of curiosity, what CMS did you use for your help center? My startup is hitting exactly the point where we're getting common questions and need an FAQ.
From your profile I see you're a physics major. Which year of your undergrad are you in?

Being a physics major myself, my advice is probably reasonable. In applying to internships make sure your skills are clearly displayed, applying for jobs with professors is probably the best thing for a freshman or sophmore.

If you haven't done any major programming, I'd suggest contributing to open source projects or building something that takes concerted, consistent effort, to show companies that they can actually use you.

Work of choice will be really hard to come by, unless you're really lucky; happy hunting!
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Lightsaber is anyone cares enough to read it.
That is true. He could do it. But there is the problem of the Tauntan. If the saber did produce that temperature, they wouldn't need to rest inside of the the warm carcass, therefore, by the movie's logic, the saber doesn't produce much temperature.
I think basing it on light is a mistake. I much prefer the solid core construction idea, with either a thin layer of plasma and/or a highly excited core material.

I re-watched Star Wars Episode 1 recently, and, as soon as the first lightsaber showed up on screen, I felt like a kid again. The movie is still terrible, and should be excluded from the series[1]. But, there is just something about watching space samurai, with light-up swords, that made me spend the next three hours imagining how to build something like it.

[1] http://static.nomachetejuggling.com/machete_order.html
Zendesk. They even have a startup program where you can get some months for free. You might have to search around to find it.
Nothing. However S230 creates a safe harbor for publishers, which is common knowledge for anyone practicing IP/cyber law.
I'm not even sure why that part is necessary. The mirror can be anchored at the other end and the filaments constructed/woven such that they assume the proper shape when charged.
Thanks! That answers my original question.

Now for the flamewar:
Is there anything that a non-emacs/vim IDE or editor can do that both emacs and vim cannot? Aside from social inertia (e.g. your colleagues use it, it's your first and only power editor), I have a hard time understanding why anyone would use anything else.

My hunch is that it's primarily a marketing problem, especially for emacs.
As a lawyer who dabbles in IP/cyber law (not admitted in VA, so I can't help out), I really love seeing personal injury/criminal defense attorneys send cease and desist letters to publishers who are clearly protected under federal law.
Han Solo cutting open the Tauntaun in ESB is the death-blow to any mystical theory about lightsabers.
...who was referencing the work of the similarly titled Bill Hicks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_Bay
You don't even need that. You could even just have a completely ordinary, run of the mill, valid opcode do something unexpected when given "magic" data. Like if you mov the value 0xDEADBEEFBAADF00D, the code also jmp's to the top of the stack, as an easter egg.
They would be sued for not taking down the post. If you post something here that is libel then someone can sue to force Paul Graham to take it down.

If MMM gets a lawyer he's going to end up defending the content of the post, not his right to operate his site independently.
It is far superior in one major way - everyone has a web browser, and you can give them a link to run your game if it runs on the web. This avoids losing most of your users which is what happens if you ask them to install a plugin or a native app.

Of course, on the other hand it is inferior in many ways. It's just another option for game creators (and other apps too). For some it will be useful, for others it will not, just like consoles are useful for some but not for all, tablets are useful for some but not for all, etc. etc.
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When we implemented the Go and Erlang lightweight-thread approach for the JVM in Quasar[1], we quickly realized that CSP/actors, while going a long way towards sane concurrency, are not sufficient. Every application eventually needs some shared mutable state (even if it's implemented at the database layer). One approach is to have a single fiber (or goroutine) in charge of managing state (Clojure does that with agents), but that doesn't scale for multiple writers. Neither does a global lock over the entire data store.

Good concurrent data structures that allow multiple concurrent writers are necessary. Java has some good basic ones like ConcurrentHashMap, ConcurrentSkipListMap, and ConcurrentLinkedQueue. Clojure takes that a step further with transactional refs. For more interesting kinds of data it's better to have a good in-memory transactional database.

So for truly "sane concurrency" you need both lightweight threads with CSP and/or actors, plus a transactional, concurrent (preferably in-memory) data store[2].

[1]: https://github.com/puniverse/quasar

[2]: http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/2013/10/16/spaceships2/
Regardless, my hacker opinion is that HN is not the place for this sort of posting. http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ is useful for this sort of thing.
You are being downvoted because security involves methodologies and all parts of technology, not just JS. (In addition to not making much sense).
Mini-PCIe sized COM runs Linux on ARM9 SoC
"The prevailing theory is that a thin layer of steam builds up around it immediately, preventing the rest of the water to come into contact"

A miss in front of an open goal :-). This should have mentioned the beautiful word "Leidenfrost" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leidenfrost_effect)