skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is actually a pretty strange restriction, if you look at it from some distance. I remember back then, when "mashups" were all the craze, I spent a weekend writing a website that parsed another site - forgot what it was actually about - and displayed it in a nice way. It worked perfectly offline, but failed online. That was the first time I heard about the same-origin policy.

The whole web security model grew organically and unplanned. Pages have access to your state and credentials, but are blocked from accessing other domains - but only under certain circumstances (e.g. loading scripts, or sending information is OK, just not "applying" your credentials). Retrospectively, it would have been much more sensible to allow scripts to access arbitrary HTTP (or even socket) addresses, but without sending cookies and credentials along when doing so.

There is just so much awesome stuff you can't build now because of that. Server-less RSS readers, a Wikipedia "shell", legally or politically sensitive mashups/JS apps hosted on some anonymous freehoster, and so on.
I beg to differ, the Wired article is great: http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/3.06/xanadu.html

Nelson did have some visionary ideas, but there is an important lesson to be learned here in how to bring visionary ideas into reality (and how not to).

For a deep philosophical lesson, contrast the Xanadu story with Clay Shirky's article on the Web, “In Praise of Evolvable Systems”: http://www.shirky.com/writings/herecomeseverybody/evolve.htm.... As Shirky says, "had the Web been a strong and well-designed entity from its inception, it would have gone nowhere”--as Xanadu was and did.
There is. plenty. but they are all a big no-no because it is a huge legal issue. Apple is very aggressive on that. So we have a few mac pros in a basement and access them via vnc (not the OSX native garbage) and run our tests there. It is retarded and feel like we are back in the 90s. ridiculous.

Also, why would you want OSX on a surface? it is silly. OSX thrives on little tiny buttons. it is hell to use even with a mouse (impossible to live with OSX without keyboard shortcuts) i can't imagine anyone wanting that on a touch device.
Why Every Terms of Service Page Needs Summaries
Agreed. Sprint is by far the bigger brand in the US. Although if this was even 1 year later it might be more of a toss up as T-Mobile has done great things to enhance the markets perception of them.
The ONLY people who need to know about this is the manufacturer and their regulatory body FDA, etc.

The company can then pull all the inventory that is in and out of the patients and apply fixes or facilitate replacements.

If this could kill people, I'd hope the above ideas would be obvious...but well I know they won't be to everyone.
I would imagine something like Cassandra scaling better (both on the reads & writes), but I'd suspect you'd have to change your data model quite a bit to see those benefits. If you're interested in this line of inquiry, shoot me an email 'jlh' @ 'opencore.io'.
Now THAT is how you do it. Grab a "shock of the week" angle and play it for anyone that wants to watch. Only issue is getting a "non-defective" pacemaker. Those things aren't cheap or easy to come by without ordering it from the manufacturer. Whatever profit you could have shorting the stock you'd lose almost immediately by having to purchase the devise.
You really want it to happen. T-Mobile's CEO will lead the combined company. So more of what you love but now with the resources to fix the bad parts.
I don't know the exact circumstances of how you came to accept an offer without knowing what you'd actually be doing, which sounds to me like accepting without other crucial information like e.g. what salary is or whether you'd be HQed in Mountain View or Timbucktu, but you can quit a job any time you want, for any reason, and the same goes for offers. I'd be appropriately apologetic with your point of contact at the company, but "Thanks for getting us this far. The actual position which the company proposes placing me in is not what I envisioned during our earlier discussion. I'd still like to work for you guys if you can be flexible on that, for example by offering me $BETTER_POSITION." If they're not flexible, then say "OK, I appreciate where you're coming from. You only want to hire the people who'd do their best work as $OFFERED_POSITION, and I only want to work in a position which is the best fit for my skills, so I don't think having me do that job is a mutual win for us. Accordingly, I think we shouldn't move forward on this."

They'll might hem and haw a bit, but ultimately, you have an absolute right to not work in jobs you don't want. You'll probably burn your bridges with that decisionmaker, and more than likely with that company, but the world has many companies.

For your future reference, and that of HNers in the peanut gallery: nail down major specifics like this before saying Yes. If you hadn't said Yes already, you'd have an absolutely not-in-the-least-bit awkward opportunity to continue the negotiation and say "That position doesn't sound like what I'd like to be doing. You should offer me a better one, or alternatively, compromise on one of the other levers in this negotiation.", and if that negotiation broke down it would cost you nothing and not leave anyone with a bad taste in their mouths.
I like the idea, but I'm not sure I would get anywhere near this as a US citizen. I can easily envision a federal prosecutor trying to make a name for himself coming up with an argument that it violates the Wire Act, and since it is parimutuel, then everybody who placed a bet also accepted a bet.
It is not an EULA for that case. they've taken companies out in silicon valley with other claims. But that was during Jobs times. And I doubt he needed anything legal to go after anybody.
True! It seems slightly hypocritical though. I think Techweek reacted pretty much the same way - accidentally did something offensive and reacted quickly when it was pointed out - but he's not willing to forgive them.
relevant: "It’s Insanely Easy to Hack Hospital Equipment" (wired.com)

[article]: http://www.wired.com/2014/04/hospital-equipment-vulnerable/

[hn thread]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7684291
This is not sexist. This is anti-his-girlfriend-ist.

Some people just love being victims I guess.
But I already own a mac, and it's fantastic hardware that I can do development for anything on, and the dev tools for OS X are free.
I was a Sprint customer for years. From my experience, their coverage was not a whole lot better than T-Mobile's. I'd also hate to see them switch their networks to be more CDMA centric. CDMA should go away IMO.
I feel like it could have benefits, but like you I lean pessimistic.

I had a deeply discounted unlimited plan with Sprint (a couple family members worked there).

I left when T-Mobile offered a lower price for unlimited web + text. The only people I know who use voice use OTT services for it anyway. On top of that, T-Mob offered BYOD, letting me run pure Android, without all of Sprint's then unremovable NFL, NASCAR, and Facebook apps. It beat Sprint's employee discount plan for me, and easily.

My family members who work there were frustrated by the news. They mostly rationalized by bashing T-Mobile, claiming their prices were unsustainable, arguing it must be a risky, poorly run business.

I think those prices are only unsustainable when you have a major carrier's assumptions. Assumptions about acceptable levels of overhead and expected levels of profit.

I think Sprint did some really bold things in its history. It fought the good fight as MCI against an entrenched telecom monopoly, back when sentiment was against them, when legislators were literally talking up how wonderfully efficient the telecom monopoly was.* Today I feel like T-Mobile is more like the scrappy startup that benefits consumers primarily by running aggressively trim.

Unlike others posting here, I've never had any network issues with T-Mobile, and had routine congestion based or coverage based issues with Sprint. But that doesn't really matter. A larger network could offer more redundancy, and faster speeds on both sides of the network.

Historically though, conglomeration of telecom companies has reduced competition, and essentially led to monopoly rents for a service that is especially susceptible to price competition. (There's a reason they try to lock you in with contracts. Competition is the enemy.) Here, I worry that Sprint's management has noticed that T-Mobile is unlike other competitors, AT&T, and is competing on price, setting a dangerous precedent. I worry they're trying to squash this unruly behavior through the purchase.

Potential benefits might be nice, I just worry the downside risk is very large.

* Check out "The Master Switch" by Tim Wu, or at least this review: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/books/review/Leonhardt-t.h...
I think that there are a lot of ways to approach this. The Heartbleed disclosure was very well done and has a lot of lessons, perhaps there's something to learn from that.

Personally, I think it's completely unacceptable the way many technologies critical to keeping people alive are so vulnerable. Especially if the vulnerabilities are as widespread as the article suggests (30%!), find a list of 10-20 that vary in importance. List all the products, and list the consequences of each vulnerability.

Then start dropping 0-days one at a time until the industry realizes you are serious. Start with the less severe ones, but if the pacemaker vulnerability hasn't been addressed after a few months of weekly vulnerability releases, don't hold back. The more publicity you can get the more likely a company is to patch vulnerabilities.

If _teenagers_ are capable finding vulnerabilities that can end lives using a script they downloaded online, then we need to be ready to take drastic action. The industry is in a terrible state and we aren't safe, and decreasingly so as these gaping holes continue to sit there and be discovered.
It doesn't have to be the original. In most of his writing, the refs have been content-addressed (hash). It's fascinating to see him backpedal to location-based addressing (URL) here, given the extent to which he's railed against that concept in the past. I would have imagined at least a hashsum retained as a field in the xanadoc file.
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Barnaby Jack was about to disclose a Pace Maker 0day last year... before he died (murdered?)
Try @netsolcares on Twitter. Maybe there's a real human there.
Applying symmetry to an asymmetrical situation is neither a new idea, nor is it very insightful.
Actually, RapGenius is the realized, "worse is better" version of Xanadu. It takes the simple idea of annotated hypertext and runs with it, and doesn't bother with all this unusual things like panning, backlinks, excerpts, and so on. That's why RapGenius is successful, and Xanadu is still vaporware.

OTOH, I don't think this is even supposed to come out. It's rather a demonstration of some pretty interesting, advanced (and thus also failable) ideas. It reminds me a lot of Jef Raskin's "Humane Interface" ideas.
Yes, because asymmetric problems can be parallelized.
And was never told ahead of time that risky edgy gender humor is a stupid idea in a professional context.

Kind of shameful that it even has to be said, but I guess it does.
IBM hardware is awesome. IBM is not (anymore).

As a sysadmin, I can't think of anything more exciting then the Power and Z stuff but keeping that hardware around is not realistic anymore for a lot of companies. IBM kind of screws up with prices, contracts, service level, etc.

Disclaimer: I have been on both sides of the fence.
It would, however, still be a terrible and counter-productive slide.

I feel like this isn't really a "the thought police have rejected your slide" moment so much as a "fucking hell, dude, that was dumb" moment.
Well, I don't know why the downvotes but I think this is hyperbolic. I saw the slide, it is crass and bad taste and I don't defend but what you're saying about this as evidence of some terrible culture because someone didn't see this "months ago" is just hard to even take seriously.

So in your mind, presentations that are not made 6 months in advance and are not thoroughly vetted means there is a bad culture problem at a company and not a place where diveristy can flourish? That's just ... I wouldn't want to be anywhere that you would find ideal; it sounds like a horrible place.
Go's compilation was fast, which made developement much more pleasant. Performance of the actual compiled code was a different matter (hard to get both fast binaries and fast compilations).

However, I understand that 1.1 and 1.2 has much improved code performance.
Would you consider Canvas, HTML5 Video, CSS Transitions and Animations, Application Cache, or WebSQL to be web-app-enabling features?[1] We were first to ship all of those. And they sure as heck aren't for documents primarily.

Editing a spec is a separate question from shipping order or general engineering priority. Not sure why you are conflating the two. Sounds like moving the goalposts.

I'd encourage to test IndexedDB in a WebKit nightly or in the Yosemite beta. It's still kind of buggy and not necessarily complete for final, but we'd love to hear about the key blocking issues from web developers.

[1] Yes, it seems like AppCache and WebSQL are both likely to be replaced by newer technologies, but I don't think that's relevant to whether sufficient priority has been placed on the area of webapps.
I miss Wimax.
But you can't pay a fraction of a cent per hour to run your unit or integration tests for every commit unless you set up the infrastructure to do so yourself.

Though now that travis-ci has beta support for osx, this is changing. But probably at a much greater cost and complexity than it could have without the VM restriction on the license.
Some discussion and several lectures expounding on Nelson's ideas, from earlier this year https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7639599 or "Ted Nelson's computing paradigms expressed as one-liners" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5771992
I downvoted you because (a) you jumped to conclusions about the company culture at Atlassian; and (b) you jumped to conclusions about why someone might downvote you.
Some say analogies are at the very core of our cognition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8m7lFQ3njk

Even if you don't agree, it's an interesting and fun talk to watch.
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This sort of 0-day has been known in the academic literature for some time[1].

Disclosure of critical vulnerabilities in implantable devices is far more fraught than your normal critical software 0-day. These devices require surgery for replacement, and a small number of those surgeries will have possibly fatal complications. The cost of immediately replacing all existing vulnerable devices could literally be measured in lives. (And that's even assuming that the device manufacturer fixed the problem!)

Implantable software is already a very tricky area, and there's no signs that it'll get any easier.

[1] Pacemakers and Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators:
Software Radio Attacks and Zero-Power Defenses, http://www.secure-medicine.org/public/publications/icd-study...
I don't disagree that the term 'imaginary property' is a bit middle-finger childish, but it was easier than rebutting OP's use of 'IP' and singling out copyright. By admitting terms like 'intellectual property' to your vernacular, you're allowing things to be framed in a non-beneficial way and setting yourself up for failure. "If we respect property rights, then why should we not respect intellectual property?", etc.

> This is exactly what RMS does, and it hasn't exactly worked well for him

I disagree. People pick on RMS for weirdness, but he's been providing a steady viewpoint while things continually degrade. "Right to Read" used to be some far off future scenario, seemingly hyperbolic at the time. The reason he's been so constantly spot on is that he hasn't been pandering to the current conditions of the world, but talking directly about abstract concepts and how they clash.

> You really believe that all [copyright] the world over is really one of those blindingly obvious binary issues ... to the degree that you don't care about changing anyone's mind

Yes, I actually don't care about changing anyone's mind about this with rhetoric, as my entire argument is that personal-use copyright will be made obsolete by communication technologies. Lack of copyright innately rubs people the wrong way (especially USians), and so the same effort that will convince one person through this route is better placed convincing several people (in the proper context) to cut the cord and setup vpn+torrent for pure cost reasons.

Since the two concepts are opposed, the corresponding positive idealistic argument is to preserve and promote the Internet (net neutrality, ISP competition) etc, which I do agree it is worthwhile to convince people of at an idealistic level - even if that just empowers them to politically push back against companies they're wed to directly supporting.
"... and a big part of the advantage with electric cars is that they use less energy in every step of the process except initial manufacturing."

The most important part for me for electric cars is the simpler power-train system which is less likely to break... which is why i would never buy an hybrid that has both systems.
Yes, but more importantly, medical device makers have broad immunity when their devices go through the PMA process (the most stringent type of FDA approval). Basically, the argument is "hey, the FDA said it was safe".
"the county is able to rent it out, as long as it doesn’t make money off the deal"

Can somebody explain the logic here? I can see why you wouldn't want to rent out an operational jail at a profit, but what's wrong with making a "profit" (read: tiny dent in the huge losses incurred in building the damn thing) if it's sitting there empty and unused?
Correct, it's not obvious to me. If there is a flare in my medical device, I want you to tell me about it...

It's amazing to me that you think I'm not entitled to know there's a problem. Do you also believe I shouldn't be informed if the lock on my door doesn't work? You must hate those consumer watchdog shows!

If someone is capable and willing to kill Mr with a pacemaker bug, they likely already have the skills to find the bug. Not telling me just withholds the opportunity for me to protect myself (stay indoors? Contact doctor, etc).
Every time I see one of these threads, I'm unable to understand responses such as yours.

Whether he's referring to his girlfriend or women in general, he's perpetuating a stereotype. This has less to do with sexism, and more to do with offensive stereotyping. You could replace the girlfriend example with anything from this page (first link i found) - http://examples.yourdictionary.com/stereotype-examples.html - and it's equally wrong.

He's doing it as a representative of his company, and so Atlassian needs to acknowledge that it's wrong, and they're going to do something about it. An employee made a mistake in a public forum - simple as that.
> unless you pay the ridiculous price for a top-of-the-line MacBook Pro

If you consider the time you'll spend tweaking your hackintosh into a useful state and the risk of bricking it on every update, it's actually a bargain.

I wouldn't buy a Mac to run Linux, but I wouldn't buy anything else to run OSX.
If you are comfortable with it, I think assembling your own openmotes[1] is the cheapest option. The actual parts on there are relatively cheap and hand solderable if you are okay with CFN components. In addition, there are other cheap and relatively easy options available in the community if you are feeling more adventurous. [2]

[1] http://www.openmote.com/openmote-cc2538/
[2] https://github.com/dmarion/cc2538-dev
It is distracting to the target and will require them to do lots more work. For example they will need to provide the materials necessary for due diligence. The fee ensures the acquirer is serious, and that the target is adequately compensated if it doesn't go through.

The acquirer also makes it harder for others to bid because they too need to take into account the fee.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_fee
It would be no less wrong, and would deserve the same scorn this case received.

Still, as a thought experiment, I'd love to see how different the reactions would be. It seems that gender discrimination is, sadly, influenced by gender.
I like what Freedom Pop, Republic Wireless, and Ting are doing. It is likely that if T-Sprintle was as big as Verizon or AT&T they would entirely drop their support of 3rd party providers and screw over the competitive market under their shoes.
Indeed, all pacers I know of don't have Bluetooth comms precisely because of the potential for vulnerabilities.

(I used to work for a pacer company)
Yes, but there is a subtext there. However, I don't totally disagree with you. It was bad taste, unneccessary, and childish but not exactly Douglas Sterling.
Write a script for CSI or one of these police procedural shows.
I'm sorry to have seen this drop so far from the front page. I found the link earlier today and have been using it to share some of the 360° shots from this new HTC One with friends.

Would love to see a native Android app that allows for simply choosing Panteca from the list of photo share outlets.

Very nice work! Thanks!
T-Mobile was great, but recently I experienced more and more data drops (have full bar of H or LTE, but unable to connect to anything) around the Bay Area. So I do hope they can have some money (either from acquisition or breakup) to improve their network.
The reason lawyers don't always OK this: contracts are lengthy and precise because the law values precision and negotiations/cases can literally turn on the position of a single comma. People don't naturally write like this.

If you write a contract with In Laymen's Terms next to the actual legal code, a court may in the future find that someone's inaccurate interpretation of your Laymen's Terms is controlling over the actual, unambiguous legal code.

Also: practically speaking, few enough people read ToS documents that, for the typical app, the only important audiences for it are a) in-house lawyers and b) people who want to sue you. It is probably unwise to optimize for the experience of people who want to sue you.
Yes, the types.

Strong types are far easier to optimize.
"This goes to show that as much as schools attempt to mask the image of a great environment for students to thrive, learn enterpreneurism and so on (mine does that a lot), they’re traditionalists to the point that it doesn’t make any sense. What do they have to lose with my app? How is that classification as copyright infringement even pertinent? They apparently just must have control of anything that has anything to do with the school."

Biggest problem with education. It is not about learning how to learn, enterpreneurism or any other fun thing you could think of. Is about learning how to obey, and letting those in charge take care of things (even if they're done terribly by people who actually don't like/care for it).

edit to add something else: I think more schools should allow for software to be made by the students. They understand the needs of the other students better.
behold, the leaky-ist of abstractions
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