Magic Lantern have done the seemingly impossible and given us a continuous raw recording mode on the Canon 5D Mark III. Once activated in the menus the 5D Mark III becomes essentially a full frame Blackmagic Cinema Camera and amazingly mine has not yet exploded. No more short bursts of raw, this is the real thing.

At a deeper level loneliness research forces us to acknowledge our own extraordinary malleability in the face of social forces. This susceptibility is both terrifying and exhilarating. On the terrifying side is the unhappy fact that isolation, especially when it stems from the disenfranchisement of the underprivileged, creates a bodily limitation all too easily reproduced in each successive generation. Given that we have been scaling back the kinds of programs that could help people overcome such disadvantages and that many in Congress, mostly Republicans, have been trying to defund exactly the kind of behavioral science research that could yield even better programs, we have reason to be afraid. But there’s something awe-inspiring about our resilience, too. Put an orphan in foster care, and his brain will repair its missing connections. Teach a lonely person to respond to others without fear and paranoia, and over time, her body will make fewer stress hormones and get less sick from them. Care for a pet or start believing in a supernatural being and your score on the UCLA Loneliness Scale will go down. Even an act as simple as joining an athletic team or a church can lead to what Cole calls “molecular remodeling.” “One message I take away from this is, ‘Hey, it’s not just early life that counts,’ ” he says. “We have to choose our life well.”

Last week I was contacted by an agent of Mobily, one of two telecoms operating in Saudi Arabia, about a surveillance project that they’re working on in that country. Having published two reasonably popular MITM tools, it’s not uncommon for me to get emails requesting that I help people with their interception projects. I typically don’t respond, but this one (an email titled “Solution for monitoring encrypted data on telecom”) caught my eye.

Stringer has no external dependencies, no social recommendations/sharing, and no fancy machine learning algorithms.

Dagen H (H day), today mostly called "Högertrafikomläggningen" ("The right-hand traffic diversion"), was the day, 3 September 1967, on which traffic in Sweden switched from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the right. The "H" stands for "Högertrafik", the Swedish word for "right-hand traffic".

I bought a 'developer preview' Firefox OS phone to try. It's a pleasant little smartphone with the promise of making good, cheap smartphones a possibility.

Koken is a free system designed for photographers, designers, and creative DIYs to publish independent websites of their work.

We're pleased to announce that Koken will be free. No limits, strings attached or paid upgrades. Koken will be yours to publish web sites for yourself or your clients.

Adobe Product Manager Tom Hogarty stressed that Adobe has, 'no plans to make Lightroom subscription-only at any point in the future.' The statement, made in light of the overwhelming response to Adobe's Creative Cloud announcement last week, was made during a Google+ Hangout today in which both Hogarty and Lightroom PM Sharad Mangalick responded to audience questions.

This group is dedicated to find new sources of legal music that scrobble to Last.fm, this is not the place to find or place links to illegal ones. Please don't place links to them either in the shoutbox, threads or as a comment since I don't want to get banned. Any link/post/comment that does will be deleted and the member will be kicked. Artists who want to promote themselves, please don't put links to your music here since there are other (and much bigger) groups out there to do that.

“The traditional kind of corporate meeting starts with a presentation. Somebody gets up in front of the room and presents with a powerpoint presentation, some type of slide show. In our view you get very little information, you get bullet points. This is easy for the presenter, but difficult for the audience. And so instead, all of our meetings are structured around a 6 page narrative memo.” [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5703147 ]

Platsen är San Diego, i sydvästra USA. I det starka solskenet den här augustidagen, 1968, intervjuas en av de många krigsveteraner i staden som krävt att filosofiprofessorn Herbert Marcuse ska få sparken från University of California.

Last week, I stumbled across a BBC News article entitled How to eat healthily on £1 a day via a story on hacker news. Healthy eating on a budget is something I’m really interested in, but I was horribly disappointed by the article, because i) it didn’t show you how to eat healthily, and ii) it didn’t show you how to eat on £1 per day. [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5685812 ]

Rapportive shows you everything about your contacts right inside your inbox.

Two.js is a two-dimensional drawing api geared towards modern web browsers. It is renderer agnostic enabling the same api to draw in multiple contexts: svg, canvas, and webgl. [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5668374 ]

CUP is proud to present the first exhibition in Sweden from the most important street photography collective in the world, In-Public.

Stig Manner är loppishandlare, och kämpar för att klara dagen. Till sin hjälp har han Janos, en bohemisk trubadur som helst vill leva fri från samhällets alla krav. Stig ser en stor begåvning hos Janos och har bestämt sig för att bli hans manager. Nu ska en av världens hårdaste branscher få se på riktig begåvning! Men plötsligt blir Stig påmind om sitt förflutna, något som kanske förändrar allt. En charmig och rörande film om vänskapen mellan två udda figurer i samhällets utkant.

De är ett definitivt ett udda par, den åldrare loppishandlaren Stig Manner och hans adept Janos som spelar gitarr på gator och torg i värmländska Karlstad. Janos lever för dagen, gillar att ”tjöta” och plockar lösgodis från ”gölve” i Ica-affären men Stig har betydligt mer högtflygande planer än så. Hans livsprojekt, det som gör att han har näsan äver soptunnenivån, är att han tror sig kunna förvandla vännen till en slagkraftig artist. Att Janos är en riktigt usel sångare och ännu värre gitarrist stör inte Stig nämnvärt. Den ironiskt betitlade ”Framtidens melodi” ser ut som en dokumentärfilm men är en spelfilm, även om det förefaller av pressmaterialet som om skådespelarna Rolf G Ekroth och Sven-Olof Mollin har personligen nära till historien. Filmiskt inordnar sig ”Framtidens melodi” delvis i samma naturalistiska skola som Ruben Östlunds filmer där gränsen mellan det dokumentära och det fiktiva är, men kanske framför allt ser, flytande ut. Personligen börja jag känna jag en viss mättnadskänsla inför den svenska dokumentärfilmens fascination för och mytologisering av de psykiskt sköra kufarna som på ett eller annat sätt lever utanför samhället. Alla de här hästmännen och kokvinnorna och kvinnor på balkonger med flera... Är det egentligen en fråga om medelklassens behov av en exotiserad tillvaro utanför innerstans trygga men förutsägbara tillvaro? Och det är inte utan att ”Framtidens melodi” får en släng av sleven. Men visst finns det många ögonblick i historien som är minnesvärda och varma. Och när man gradvis förstår hur Stigs behov av pseudo-sonen Janos egentligen ser ut, blir det riktigt rörande.

The sale of Instagram to Facebook for a cool billion in the spring of 2012 was the ultimate Silicon Valley fairy tale: 18 months from launch to offer. But, for co-founder and C.E.O. Kevin Systrom, it was more of a roller-coaster ride, with several missed opportunities, at least two “aha” moments, and one major reboot. [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5660953 ]

Malaysia's governing coalition extended its half-century rule despite its worst-ever performance in a general election, a result that exposes growing racial polarization in the Southeast Asian nation and could undermine Prime Minister Najib Razak.

Today, I’m proud to announce the release of Jekyll 1.0. There are a million goodies and fixes to enjoy, and we’re (the still-active Jekyll core team members: Tom, Matt and I) really excited to share this first major release with you. Be sure to follow @jekyllrb for updates on future releases and links to cool plugins. [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5660153 ]

When I lost hope for a better hosting, I got the recommendation to use Uberspace. [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5657882 ]

Bitcoin. Everybody’s talking about it. What’s true, and what’s hype? Perhaps the only thing that’s clear about Bitcoin is that it’s not going away anytime soon. Who am I to say? I’m not an economist; I’m a hacker, who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks. And networks may very well be how the world works — financial, social, electronic, even physical. I’m on neither “Team Bitcoin” nor “Team Global Financial System.” I’m on “Team Lets Fix This Thing.”

This project aims to preserve some of the digital assets that are associated with the birth of the web.

Lifelogging is the process of tracking personal data generated by our own behavioral activities. While Lifestreaming primarily tracks the activity of content we create and discover, Lifelogging tracks personal activity data like exercising, sleeping, and eating. This may sound a bit confusing but hopefully the distinction between the two makes sense. The Quantified Self movement takes the aspect of simply tracking the raw data to try and draw correlations and ways to improve our lives from it. You can read more about this on my post here.

I lament the end of the personal CMS market; I was happy to back Ghost on Kickstarter today for the same reason that I back pretty much any effort at making blogging software — I think these tools matter. I find it interesting, and telling, that there are still so many static publishing tools that geeks care about, and though I think WordPress is an awesome tool, I lament the virtual monoculture that's resulted from its success in the run-your-own blogging software market.

William Gibson is the author of ten books, including, most recently, the New York Times-bestselling trilogy Zero History, Spook Country and Pattern Recognition. Gibson’s 1984 debut novel, Neuromancer, was the first novel to win the three top science fiction prizes—the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award. Gibson is credited with coining the term “cyberspace” in his short story “Burning Chrome,” and with popularizing the concept of the Internet while it was still largely unknown. He is also a co-author of the novel The Difference Engine, written with Bruce Sterling.

Anchor is a super-simple, lightweight blog system, made to let you just write.

The digital currency is rising in popularity among traders in the rebellious Kreuzberg area of Germany's capital.

rsync is an open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer.

Automatically sync files via secure, distributed technology. Much like AeroFS.

Welcome to The Old Reader, the ultimate social RSS reader. It's just like the old google reader, only better. We're in beta right now, but we're constantly working on improvements and new features.

CommaFeed is a bloat-free feed reader. It aims to replace Google Reader while keeping things simple. [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5580967 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5716126 ]

Used on: http://narrative.ly/shorts/i-am-not-a-terrorist/

Used on: http://narrative.ly/shorts/i-am-not-a-terrorist/

A Teehan+Lax Labs experiment for creating interactive Google Street View hyper-lapse animations. Learn more about this project.

“[Garry] Winogrand was famous for never asking people permission before taking their photographs;” writes Caille Millner in a review of the photographer’s current retrospective at SFMoMA, “a whole generation of male photographers idolized him for shooting however he wanted, whenever he wanted.” It’s not hard to imagine what the legions of Winogrand fans will have made of Millner’s review, which continues “No one seems to recognize that Winogrand’s beliefs are shared most seriously by the kinds of men who haunt Reddit subforums like ‘Creepshots.’ On those forums, the chorus is ‘Rape her.’ Thanks to his superior sense of aesthetics, Winogrand’s moments of lechery show up at SFMOMA, where the chorus is that he’s a visionary.”

Duration is a timeline for creative coding. Create live performances, interactive installations, and music visualizations by synchronously composing servos, lighting, and projection.

As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee thought her country was “the best on the planet.” It wasn't until the famine of the 90s that she began to wonder. She escaped the country at 14, to begin a life in hiding, as a refugee in China. Hers is a harrowing, personal tale of survival and hope -- and a powerful reminder of those who face constant danger, even when the border is far behind.

Det är första gången en amerikansk president ska besöka Sverige. 2500 poliser kallas in för att mötet ska gå lugnt till. ”Plötsligt gick det upp i rött läge, som vi säger inom polisen, och vi var tvungna att köpa hockeyutrustning i parti och minut…” 

[ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5543246 ]

A lot of cameras can be found using Google if you know which search string to use (and you have a lot of patience). I also used Shodan (a search engine created by John Matherly) to get a large number of potential webcam feeds. If you've never heard of Shodan before, I recommend watching these videos by Dan Tentler. Whilst I'm hat-tipping people, I should also give a shout-out to the /r/controllablewebcams community on reddit who helped promote this viewer. [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5543465 ]

For those who use this app, and like it more than the official lite English version.

And I'm not sure I really like this world. It's a world where I have to listen to CNBC reporters try to understand Bitcoin. Ouch. I think we can all agree that we were better off before this happened.

I was asked by an Italian newspaper to submit 96 words on the future of internet. Here they are:

Instead of further going down the corporate lane of Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook, I propose to go back to the original architecture of Internet as public infrastructure with decentralized nodes. It may be romantic to insist on the distributed nature of networks but it is a necessary political demand. Net criticism is a toothless project without a utopian dimension. Even if internet itself had a military origin in the Cold War, and is now dominated by equally destructive force of greedy venture capitalists, backed up by libertarian gurus. Let’s rethink the public sphere: another internet is possible!

Swipebox is a jQuery "lightbox" plugin for desktop, mobile and tablet.

When Google announced today it was killing Google Reader on July 1st, just one thought crossed my mind: “I bet this has something to do with Google+.” I didn’t have anything more than a hunch to go on, however, until Brian Shih, a former Google Reader product manager, confirmed my suspicions on Quora. Shih, who left Google in 2011, explains how the company’s insistence on building a social network (to counter Facebook of course) has resulted in the company’s engineers being coaxed away from the Reader group. This is because Reader team members, according to Shih, are believed to be the only ones at Google that truly understand social. After all, before Google Reader’s sharing features were converted to corresponding Google+ ones, users of the soon-to-be-killed service used to share like crazy. Shih postulates, with plenty of logic, that this activity dropped as Google pushed Reader users to sharing on Google+ instead.

According to data from the BuzzFeed Network, a set of tracked partner sites that collectively have over 300 million users, Google Reader is still a significant source of traffic for news — and a much larger one than Google+. The above chart, created by BuzzFeed’s data team, represents data collected from August 2012 to today.

Wikimedia France strongly condemns pressure on Wikipedia sysop by French homeland intelligence agency (DCRI).

MegaHAL is a "conversation simulator": a computer program which responds in natural language to what you type, written by Jason Hutchens, who is now working with Artificial Intelligence on an exciting project to create "true" AI. It is able to "learn" what to say by observing the things which you write to it, and is therefore not limited to the English language.

A 1994 surveillance law called the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act only allows the government to force Internet providers and phone companies to install surveillance equipment within their networks. But it doesn’t cover email, cloud services, or online chat providers like Skype. Weissmann said that the FBI wants the power to mandate real-time surveillance of everything from Dropbox and online games (“the chat feature in Scrabble”) to Gmail and Google Voice. “Those communications are being used for criminal conversations,” he said.

In the U.S., you can buy products with up to 100% DEET, but NRDC senior scientist Gina Solomon recommends 30% or less. While protection time increases with higher concentrations, it plateaus by 50%, and the protection afforded by 30% is sufficient for almost all circumstances. In Canada, 30% is the legal limit.

Icaridin, also known as picaridine, KBR 3023, under the INCI name hydroxyethyl isobutyl piperidine carboxylate, and the trade names Bayrepel and Saltidin, is an insect repellent. It has broad efficacy against different insects and is almost colorless and odorless. Icaridin has been reported to be as effective as DEET without the irritation associated with DEET. According to the WHO, icaridin “demonstrates excellent repellent properties comparable to, and often superior to, those of the standard DEET.” In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends using repellents based on icaridin, DEET, or oil of lemon eucalyptus for effective protection against mosquitoes that carry the West Nile virus, Eastern Equine Encephalitis and other illnesses.

Quit MAMP. Open the terminal and type: killall -9 mysqld. Restart MAMP.

By using this icon on my website I am stating... That I am opposed to the use of corporate advertising on blogs.

Some information for those users that implement WP YouTube Lyte’s audio-only embedding feature; it got broken because YouTube started to enforce the minimal player size they recently added to their TOS. Audio-only is, for many reasons, something that YouTube doesn’t want to support and indeed might even want to block, so this might break again. So if you want to be on the safe side or if you just don’t want to piss YouTube off, you probably should reconsider doing audio-only.

GIF Brewery is a Mac OS X app that converts clips from your video files to GIFs. There is no more need extracting frames from your movies and fiddling with Adobe Photoshop (tm). Let GIF Brewery do all the hard work for you.

I’ll start off this blog with something lightweight and relatively useless except for creating amusing internet gimmicks and perhaps the occasional animated diagram. Surprisingly, there are few good tools for making animated GIFs on a Mac or Linux desktop. On Windows, Paint Shop/Animation Shop used to be the go-to suite for doing this—now, the closest thing for Mac folks might be GIFBrewery, which has far less features and some mixed reviews. I haven’t plunked down $6 for that yet, so I’ve still been trekking about on the command line, which is certainly more tedious, but you can control every step of the process and get exactly the results you want.