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I didn't upvote it, but keyboards are, despite the rise of touchscreens, still a useful technology. Particularly for people who spend all day using them.

The Model M is a great choice for some people because of it's buckling spring design. Though for me, the Natural Erognomic 4000's layout trumps the superior tactile feedback - it also is very comfortable when sitting in my lap. But I've toyed with getting another Model M, one with the trackpoint...my ancient Toshiba Laptop has one on it's excellent keyboard and the trackpoint is the best mouse alternative out there...in my opinion...because I don't even have to move my hands from the home row.
... which is what the whole article is about.
Google Buys an Enterprise Android Company, Divide (Formerly Known as Enterproid)
Can you give an example for why that signup code is bad? In the case that I'm using Hoodie with CouchDB, wouldn't Hoodie just AJAX post a user document to the CouchDB _users database (which is a good implementation)? All of the access control would be in the hands of the server with minimal (if any at all) security logic in the front end.
Racism is far more than old white men using the N-word
The map should communicate that it is interpolating the geocoded address by a circle of probability. Or even show known addresses and then an alpha blended triangle between them.

As you are saying, assistance from a mapping service need not be binary, just add some extra information and communicate cleanly the probability of result.
Oh btw, you're talking to Jesus.
You really didn't read the article, did you? ;-)
Using Google Chrome Version 34.0.1847.132 on Linux, if I open pages (e.g. http://xeoncross.github.io/jr/, http://xeoncross.github.io/jr/john1.html) in a new tab that is not immediately focused, they never visibly render. I see that frequently with client-side-rendered pages.
YouTube to Double Down on Live Streaming With Twitch
To be fair, at least in iOS, the edge swipe wasn't implemented until iOS 7. Imgur has the same problem, annoying as hell, but that might be a reason to why they haven't fixed it. (Even though iOS 7 is soon a year old)
See also the (in)famous werc web anti-framework written in Plan 9 rc shell: http://werc.cat-v.org/
I guess this means that the sample web app no longer breaks if it's kept running for 15 minutes? Or is that problem still around?
The technology on which bytecoin is based is great, bytecoin itself though has a massive premine/instamine of I believe 80%+ of the currency already. There is a new solution out which is gaining traction, a fork called Monero which removed the premine and is currently gaining traction.
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Balsamiq Mockups - the desktop version not the webapp.

The webapp was pretty nice, but the desktop version is great.
And for the extremely security conscious, we also have moon computing.
Ansible Tower.
I am going to assume that the TL;DR is "The inmates are extending the asylum further and faster than ever."

How close are we to the point where you can't buy a "non-internet enabled" TV?
Game Retail files for £400m IPO
In case B, the NSA might not hand a briefcase of schematics to US companies for economic gain. But they have used stolen data to influence trade negotiations for the benefit of US companies. In both cases, the military could be said to have acted as an arm of corporate espionage, no?
Is TDD dead? How this debate reveals our values as software devs
You are right, the ideas are very similar, though the approach is quite different.

Actually, I tried nanoblogger before writing bashblog, and I found its design a bit old-fashioned and too configurable for my needs. It just looks like a Movable Type clone. Ah, and it also used templates, which I didn't want.

bashblog's main feature is that you just need to download a single file, run "./bb.sh post" and write your blogpost. That is it. Ah, it also supports markdown.
I'm a proficient VIM user of approximately five years, and I was utterly useless on this training program.

I don't think that training on it would be useful at all.
One case I think you left out (although I may have misread what you wrote):

You can talk between GTalk and a federated XMPP server if the the GTalk user is logged in via XMPP. So if I send a message from my work XMPP server to my google address, it shows up in Adium, but not in the hangouts client.

It's almost as if Google's XMPP network is separate from hangouts, and they only allow messages directly to/from the Google XMPP to propagate between them.
I've not used CACert since investigating a few years ago. At that time it was the case that their CA certs were not trusted by many platforms (i.e. most Windows users) so if you have users on those platforms their certificates are no better than self-signed ones for those users - this made them unacceptable for what I was doing at the time. If http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAcert.org is up-to-date then this has not changed.

StartSSL's certificates are accepted by all major platforms (including all Windows desktop variants from XP upwards since ~2009), though there are gaps in this coverage. The stock browser and mail client in at least some relatively recent variants of Windows Phone didn't like them last time I tried. They should be trusted by Android since 2.2, though I believe there are issues with some builds of 2.2/2.3.x (I've not heard of trouble with later versions).

StartSSL's interface can be quite clunky but I've never had it fail. Certificates usually come through in good time (often faster than certain paid certificates I could mention). The "non commercial use" clause added to the terms for the free certificates in recent times may be a problem for some. As I've not really used CACert I can't comment on how they compare on these matters.
With AdBlock+ and HTTPSB you still get the network traffic from unwanted sites.

AdSuck, from the good folks at Conformal, blocks unwanted connections and thus decreases unwanted network traffic.

https://github.com/conformal/adsuck
fml, i meant as in "after work"
Yes, this is the NSA's job - foreign SIGINT. If you don't like this, you need to use encrypted communications.
The biggest changes have been new sub-sites. The most recent of these is FanFare, for discussing TV and movies (and possibly expanding to other media in the future): http://fanfare.metafilter.com/

There have also been subtle changes, like removing the ability to post images in comment threads, or adding a five-minute window where you can edit comments for typos. I appreciate the amount of thought that goes into both implementation and policy changes and how they are likely to affect discourse on the site. It's the people and the conversation that make MetaFilter, not any flashy technical features.
> If you aren't being told "no, that's too much" by a hefty fraction of your potential clients

How could that possibly happen? You don't get that kind of feedback from all potential clients. You'll get a reputation for being overpriced and then nobody will waste their time talking to you. Further, you'll hear "no, that's too much" at most once from any given client. For the next 20 projects that they'd have considered you, they'll just hire someone else without even talking to you.
Why are Greenwald & Poitras writing this in The Intercept and not The Guardian, or Washington Post?
Sure, if they want to be sued.
In my experience, 20 hrs of project work / week is the ceiling for a solo professional. You'll need the remaining 20 hrs for a combination of new biz dev, paperwork, experimenting, and long-term planning. Once I adjusted my billable rates and expectations according - I was significantly happier & more productive.
I'm fine with octopress but if I had to change to another static site generator I'd probably go with 'Go' due to speed improvements.
I like the UX. CLean, intuitive and to the point. Any plan for a private cloud version?
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I was actually surprised to hear that they are employing multiple full-time moderators for a site like this. Is there any word on how much they were spending per moderator?

When I read things like "current response times to contact form emails of less than a few minutes will increase" I am tempted to say they might have actually had too many until now, but I don't participate enough on that site to judge this.

Maybe it would pay off to invest some money in the development of better "crowdsourced moderation" features (like rating/flagging of posts) to save on staff in the long run?
werc is great, I have used it for websites and works wonderfully. bashblog is focused on blogs, and doesn't use templates (though they can be hacked in easily, I do so on my personal page)
Well, skobbler did all this for iOS and Android. And TeleNav bought skobbler for $24M in January [1] -- so it's obvious why TeleNav might be able to do this now.

But will skobbler support stop? Why switch from skobbler to TeleNav's own products at all? With skobbler, you can get your whole continent's maps for roughly $7.50.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/30/telenav-buys-skobbler/
Sounds a bit like a proof-of-concept, on the way to doing it for larger countries.
Work / Life segmentation is noted as healthy, so it's easy to see why people should be excited for weekends and vacation.

You can frame TGIF as an achievement without it being about hating your job. It can be the same as completing a tough milestone / sprint.

A great way to further encourage this is to start the week with a celebration too. Whether it's free lunches on Monday or little team things.
Completely true, and also one of the most annoying things about work. I always find "morning people" to be incredibly annoying.

I understand that there are morning people and there are night people. However, as a night person I don't feel the need to quote what time I got up to everybody I meet that day. You'll see it in blogs on HN sometimes too - "I've been so successful ever since I started getting up at 5:30am blah blah blah..."

What kind of honour is there in getting up early? Really? You went to bed at 9pm so you could get up at 5am. That's 8 hours. I went to bed at 1am and got up at 8am. That's 7 hours. Surely I'M the one that should be getting the plaudits?

I've seen it used in arguments amongst team members when trying to assert blame: "I was here at 7am trying to fix this!!!"
Hi , from the docs " Hoodie will only sync data to the database if it belongs to a user!"

will there be ways to manage some complex ACL scenarios ?
Interesting point that the NSA spends billions of dollars, if not trillions of dollars, along with some of the most sophisticated technology on the planet to catch b-level smugglers and criminals.
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They have (or have had) developers on staff to assist Matt. It was originally written in ColdFusion (to be fair, the site has been around since 1999), though I imagine it's moved onto greener pastures since then. The look of MeFi is iconic, much like Slashdot, so any radical changes to its design would likely cause more problems than it might solve.
Its not the type of food really thats the problem, it's processed foods and "low fat" diets.

Processed carbs are easily digest and throw up your blood sugar levels. Insulin is released to counter this, which converts it into body fat. Raw "veggies" are better than smoothies because typically sugar is thrown in with it. Eating an apple is much healthier for you then drinking concentrated apple juice.

The "low fat" diets are also a problem because to substitute the fat they add carbs, usually processed carbs. Keto diets limit the carb intake to about 80g per day and typically people on that diet feel more energy because the body is burning fat for fuel but importantly they are not in energy saving mode.
Quit my job, permanently, and only do work that actually interests me. I live cheaply enough for it not to represent a significant change in lifestyle for me.

Trouble is, there are too many people like me...
How many people live in your town?

I suspect that points of interest would be fully up to date in places like New York City, but lacking in smaller towns and villages for obvious reasons.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/09/nsa-spying-braz...
It's added a lot of small features, like dynamic comment updating and edit windows, but most of the new development has gone into new sub-sites. They're pretty conservative about changing the core commenting dynamic, especially given their informal policy against undertaking technical solutions to social problems, which I think has been a beneficial policy for the quality of discussion there.
I think the AWS angle is a bit of a canard in this situation. I'm a non-privileged user of the database just making simple read queries over SQL. The AWS SDK looks to solve problems I don't have.
You might like the "Propagator Model" of computation, think of it is a probabilistic graph with CRDT like information augmentation.

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/propagators/

https://github.com/tgk/propaganda
> - This makes your site awesome to read with a text browser or curl.

Unfortunately, Pocket (getpocket.com) slams everything into a single paragraph, with a # at the beginning.

(Which, granted, is better than the silent failure you get with Blogspot on Pocket, and the garbage you get with it via curl.)
I've posted about this a few times:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7727075

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7544123

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7617961

HN's duplicate detector is left weak on purpose so that people can repost interesting things, either because they haven't received significant attention or because more than a year has passed. You may need to change the URL slightly for the repost to work.

Because it's an honor system, we ask people not to abuse this. Examples of abuse are deleting posts that didn't get traction and resubmitting them; or reposts of the same material over and over. In general, we're more tolerant when people are reposting things because they're interesting and less tolerant when they're promoting something.
> a marketing platform to get people to spend money on things that don't do anything.

Worse, a marketing platform for things that don't do anything but break after 2 years. Even if the hardware lasts, there will always be unpatched security issues.
My laptop has "many cores" and 16gb ram and SSD architecture.

My phone has quad cores, 2gb ram, 32G ssd.
Yeah, that is what I intended (as in fine-grained controls).
I used to love ask.metafilter.com!

I went there almost every day, up until a couple of years ago. Around then, I sort of lost interest, as most of the popular questions became 1) Can you recommend me a recipe X for Y?,
2) I hate my life, now what?,
3) Can I ask this question so that we can all bash men?

That's just my opinion. I'm sure it's not the reason for their downfall. It does make me sad, and I hope the data doesn't disappear.

(Losing karma is worth it sometimes, to state an opinion against the masses. Political correctness be damned.)
They both left to work at/build The Intercept.
I think Greenwald recently left The Guardian.
Securely destroying your old hard disk with thermit
US Justice Department to charge Chinese military officials with hacking
Might be important to find out who is selling all of that gear.
Many famous Nintendo games have been publicly disassembled before, and Nintendo is either unaware or turns a blind eye. The only different thing about this disassembly is that it is hosted on GitHub, where it is much more likely to be seen by people that aren't already interested in ROM hacking and retroprogramming.
The personal cost of applying for research grants
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terrorism isn't free.

neither side, funding the act or trying to stop it
I flagged this story because I don't like to see blatant copyright violations on HN. Instead, I would have loved to seen a tool that automatically disassembles a user-provided ROM to the equivalent of this repo.
More pictures: https://secure.flickr.com/photos/75613313@N00/sets/721576443...
we don't deliver all our business logic as JavaScript to the client, we just provide a nicer API. All security / scaling / business logic still lives server side.

Take hoodie.email.send(properties) as an example. It just the same as `POST /email` with email properties JSON, with the only difference that it's simpler to understand and to handle for frontend people, and it works offline (syncs when connection is back).
I suspect that you are right about appropriate analysis of simple activity level and location as containing significant useful information.

I looked into the telehealth market back in 2005 when I was an industry analyst. So much more seems possible/economically feasible, now with the rise of GPS enabled smart phones. I would still like to see a whole ecosystem of biometric sensors develop to deliver a much richer data stream that we could use to manage health.
As an avid SoundCloud user I hope this doesn't happen. Twitter's past attempts at music have been terrible and I don't see why SoundCloud needs someone to acquire it. They're pretty much the default place for musicians (pro and amateur) to host their music and they have a decent way to monetise users.
I'm not sure. A lot of this is guesswork.
MeFi already has favorites and flagging. However, flagging is only used to get a moderator's attention, and the final decision on whether to delete something is always made by a human. I think the userbase would be extremely resistant to changing that.

More importantly, an integral part of MeFi's culture is that the moderators aren't just behind the scenes, deleting spam and banning problem users; they try to actively steer discussions away from flamewars/trollbait and towards productive discourse, without being too heavy-handed on the "delete" button. It's similar to what I've seen dang trying to do here over the last few months, but it works a lot better without nested comments.
That link is, alas, outdated. pokered is now located here: http://github.com/iimarckus/pokered
However, it's being done from within the DEA - and actually erodes the DEA's long-term powers. Likely, governments will no longer allow DEA involvement if they know it now comes with the 'full-take' capabilities of the American NSA.

And so with the lawful directives of the FBI. And so with the CIA. Etc. etc.
Maybe this is just geek privilege talking here, but I think that emphasis and block quotes in markdown are perfectly legible.

The link format is weird (and I never remember how to type it), but I feel like it's not too cryptic.
Taking the date out of the slug made perfect sense and I put it into place right away. Be sure to add rewrite rules if you switch permalinks in WordPress, as simply switching to %postname% will won't automatically 301 the old slugs.
> A friend in a similar situation (but with regular .net domain) triggered one of their "must pay now" criteria (ref: the StartSSL business model).

One thing that surprises some who have been using SlartSSL for a some time is that a while ago a "non commercial use only" clause was added to the free certificates. I don't know how they police that if they do at all, but if your friend's site was taking money for services that may explain the change from his/her account's PoV. I've stopped using the free certificates for a couple of sites I administer for that reason. This doesn't apply to any of the other certificates they offer (though for a single domain it is cheaper to buy elsewhere).
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I'm stunned there was staff to lay off.

I've seen such disappointing vitriol in the comments of the main MetaFilter that I stopped reading it long ago. I do continue to drop by Ask, though. I'm surprised there was anything on MetaFilter that required so many full-time staff and looking back on years of reading MetaFilter still doesn't give me any appreciation for what they must have been doing. In particular, the quality of comment moderation on the main MetaFilter did not, to me, reflect the level of quality one would expect from several full-time staff.
Darkcoin has actually implemented a lot of new code. They have an advanced form of decentralized coinjoin called darksend mixed with a system of masternodes which share the block reward as a sort of proof of service. The masternodes require 1000 DRK ($6600+ as of right now) to limit network chatter and make it increasingly expensive for people to take control of a lot of masternodes. Additionally coins in masternodes are removed from circulation, allowing a sort of positive feedback loop as far as price goes.

Darkcoin V2 is also adding ring signatures mixed in with the masaternode system so I'll see how that works when it gets released.

http://www.darkcoin.io/downloads/DarkcoinWhitepaper.pdf
Sure, I don't necessarily mean aesthetic changes, but - particularly when you've developed a strong community - there's often a resistance to modifying a core offering. That benefits the community but also often begins to erode your ability to attract new users.

It's a difficult balance, no question.
MetaFilter is a site which I always value, when I read it, but am rarely directed to: I don't remember ever noticing it in a search engine result.

I'm sorry to hear this and I will endeavour to more actively support MetaFilter and other uniquely valuable sites in the future.
Congratulations on your launch Justin!
Exactly. Plus it's self-extandable, too. And expect many hoodie hosting providers popping up in the future, if you don't want that hassle.
The difference is server-side validation of untrusted client requests.
The pre-play vulnerability in Chip and PIN
I also tried `ls` before `help`. Not unix enough.
People are quick to call other authors' work worthless. Patio11's piece you just read was very valuable to me, but it doesn't have a timestamp on it -- did you think it was worthless? Patio11 calls TechCrunch pink slime. He may find it worthless, but it's valuable to others.

The truth is just have an audience/subject in mind and cater towards that. Writing a technical article that depends on current state of technology? Put a timestamp on it. Writing evergreen advice about salary negotiation? No need to put a timestamp on it.
I don't see Python/Django on the set of checkboxes, any advice?
There is a lot of justifiable skepticism regarding spycraft. Read declassified accounts of the cold war. What happened swings between delusional paranoia -- where the Soviets thought the US & UK were preparing for a pre-emptive nuclear strike, to extremely serious, where the Soviets knew everything the US Navy was doing for a year. At best a zero sum game, at worst, it creates situations where wars start based on things that just aren't true.

Espionage is a bit different, but still a mess.

Presumably the only enforcement the US can take against those indicted here is financial -- which would mean assets that fall within the US's control. How does Beijing react?

The most interesting end effect of this could be the US's loss of criminal enforcement on the global financial system, reversing much of the benefits of post 9/11 anti-money laundering policy. Co-operation occurs when both sides benefit. I suspect some people in the US State Dept are very annoyed today.
A point well made, and one which I hadn't fully considered.
The friction of the tidal forces would generate enourmous amonts of heat, and that energy would be taken from the rotation of the earth and moon, causing both the moon and earth to be locked into synchronous rotation. At least if the moon did not fall down on earth as it probbaly would if going this low. This would cause the moon to stay in a fixed spot in the sky. Since the area under the moon would be in shadow from it most or all of the time, this would be an extra region with polar climate, that could bind up large portion of the earths water as ice, making the earth a lot dryer elsewhere. That is provided that the water did not boil away in the process of locking the rotation.
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