skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Questionable is probably not the right word. The idea is to find characters that you might be surprised are in your document. It's specifically helpful for zero width or invisible characters, which is replaces with their name.

Future revisions might say "Most of your characters are European but you have this one Kanji character, let's highlight that"

But for now it just highlights all non-ASCII.
Except when you're fired without cause, you can collect unemployment, which costs the company money. So they usually either need cause - which means documenting poor performance for several months - or they have to gain more money than unemployment costs by letting you go i.e. layoffs. If you're creating value for the company, even if it's not the extreme 80 hours per week value they want, it still makes more financial sense to keep you.

Yes, we have at-will employment, blah blah. It's no reason to be a pushover. If you're skilled enough to get a job at a place like Amazon, there's plenty of less insane places you could probably work.
> The discoverability is pretty much the same as the old pull-downs and toolbar approach

One of the main points -- possibly the main point -- of the move to the ribbon was to increase discoverability, and it worked. Gates said Microsoft had lots of compliments about new features in office 2007 that had actually been in the old version, but people hadn't found them.

Microsoft did an enormous amount of work (and research) when developing the ribbon. Jensen Harris covered this in great depth in an 8-part series at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jensenh/archive/tags/why+the+new+ui_...

I'm pretty sure you can find videos of him giving presentations about it as well. (I saw him present.)
> who was probably way more candid than management would've liked.

This is me in interviews. I ask for a private interview session and give the real lowdown. I refuse to become one of these assholes that drops all this PR speak and then you take the job and realize you've been misled. I air a little laundry and give real day-to-day stuff. I think it benefits everyone to be candid, at least towards the later stage of interviewing. There should be an informed "Do you really want this job" moment for someone considering the move.

>and even if this guy had a chip on his shoulder and was intentionally lying to me

He's most likely honest. He also doesn't want to hire a primdonna who is expecting a cush job.
nice. i wish the blog was updated more frequently - http://blog.servo.org/
Maybe so, or at least it's an interesting thought experiment.

I've thought for a while that the dominant business model of the web is for-profit piracy. I don't mean The Pirate Bay -- those are small time players and are not very profitable if at all. I mean Google, Facebook, etc.

To make that argument work you have to define piracy independently of whether or not it's illegal piracy. In this case we'd define for-profit piracy as the "indirect monetization of content you did not produce or license and in which you do not pay the producer."

Google monetized the entire web. They didn't create the content, but they sold ads on it. It's like having a radio station where you don't make the music, don't license the music, and don't even run the transmitter, but you get to present ads in-stream. Then on top of that you get to charge people for those ads while you are also monetizing them. It's brilliant.

That's not illegal (in this case), but it is perhaps a form of piracy. Google would have had no value had the web not been full of people dumping valuable information online.

Does this mean Google is a value extraction enterprise rather than a value creating one? I'm picking on Google but this applies to a whole lot of the web's business models. I think it's legitimate to question the economic justice of this. Again it's not illegal, but there are many things that are not illegal that are shady. Is the monetization of what began as an open gift culture shady?

Obviously Google's founders didn't think of it this way when they built Google, but one of the things social criticism does is to question what things really are or really become independent of their original intent.

The counter argument is that Google provided a valuable service that made the web more useful. That's undeniably true. But how much effort went into that vs. creating all the web's content? Does building a road to make it easier to reach someone's farm entitle you to 100% of the proceeds of their farm?
It's a Nespresso machine - it's not even that expensive.

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2013/apr...
Don't forget the Large Hadron Collider
http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/
It's a natural monopoly. Of course other similar services failed, even those with substantial regional uptake.
I feel like you're looking at the past through rose-colored glasses, my friend.

> Websites like csszengarden.com showed us the promise of style sheets

That site was always highly artificial -- huge deficiencies in CSS meant that it always wound up being tightly coupled to the HTML structure for any non-trivial site.

> I always felt proud to make a website with only semantic HTML and CSS, and it always worked well. Even with all the browser issues (namely those of IE6), it was easy to write cross-browser compatible code that was clean and beautiful.

I don't think any language has ever frustrated me more than CSS. It never worked well (float bugs? box models? browser hacks? z-index problems? vertical centering? insane precedence rules?) and was anything but clean and beautiful.

The reason for the proliferation of tools like LESS or frameworks has been exactly to address some of the huge warts and problems of CSS (like no variables, no local namespacing, etc.) -- because these bring some desperately-needed sanity back to the CSS codebase for a large site.

I agree that there are way too many choices and not enough standardization around CSS best practices -- but the original problem here was the gigantic deficiences in CSS in the first place. CSS was never "clean and beautiful", it was and continues to be an eternal headache.
FYI, for others reading this comment: The wrongful practice implied here is the stoning, not being gay. Took me awhile to figure that out. I almost went on a rant.
Has a lost Nazi ghost train carrying gold finally been found?
You can use the endpoints for the Facebook Android App. You will not comply with their ToS, but you will get all that data.
I have some iOS apps around and I'm working on some new...
Most stupid one: https://itunes.apple.com/US/app/id928383455
Servos mirror hand motions with Raspberry Pi/Leap Motion
It was once possible access Google's archive of Usenet without Javascript. And there were "heavy" and "light" versions of the messages. The heavy versions have an enormous amount of Javascript, CSS and HTML cruft.

For example,
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.wizards/msg/24222e5...

However, later they switched to HTTPS and #! URLs. Around this time I remember getting $CLASSPATH errors. Perhaps this is evidence to support your incompetence argument?

The "content" here is nothing but some plain ASCII Usenet posts. How difficult is it to serve plain text?

Anyway, today the same URL has been converted to this:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.unix.wizards/bllj...

As I said in an earlier thread, Google itself developed a proposal to deal with this #! URL problem and advises webmasters to revise these AJAX URL's to "escaped_fragment" style URL's:

http://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/s...

But apparently when the webmaster is Google, the specification does not apply.

Years ago, I made my own archives of some important comp and net groups. Google is not reliable. This stuff should be placed with the Internet Archive.
I followed this advice as well. Squirrelled away as much as possible, became financially independent. I'm 54 and I was laid off in November 2014 after 26 years at one company.

I would like to go back work, but the engineering job market in San Diego is awful. I can afford to be picky on who I want to work for. Needless to say this will extend
your job search time with the current market conditions.

It could be that I might just have to retire if conditions remain the same for a long period of time. So be it, I'll just direct my energies to my open source hardware and software projects.
my theory is that in every case where this has ever happened, all of the saboteur's ex-coworkers afterward said "I'm not surprised in the slightest."
human race used to agree on a lot of things we find incorrect today, so that's a pretty weak argument.

But that aside, does it ? Do most people agree that the website shouldn't exist ?

Anal sex was illegal in some states up until recently, that doesn't mean it's a good idea for it to be illegal

The website doesn't force you to cheat on your partner, you could for example, let your partner know you are on it. Some people on it are in sexless marriages, for example
The thing that so many people fail to realize is that the data isn't valuable in and of itself. Excluding the type of information that lets you steal identities (and therefore bank accounts), there's not much you can do with huge swaths of data. There's not really a market for sheer information.

What makes Facebook (and other platforms that use your personal data) valuable is that they have both information about you and a place where they can show you ads. These platforms are not, contrary to popular belief, trying to "sell" your information. They're allowing advertisers to use the platform to display ads to you based on that information. The data is a means to an end, which is showing you relevant ads.

If everyone stopped using Facebook tomorrow, the value of all the information Facebook has gathered would be negligible. The real reason Facebook is worth $X Billion is because a significant portion of the population of the world logs in to use same product every day.

In other words, your attention is the thing that is valuable. Your data just lets advertisers be really efficient in how they pay for your attention.
Everyone else vests roughly 25% every year over 4 years.

Amazon was something like 15%/15%/30%/30% over 4. It's not very pro employee.
IANAL, but I feel obliged to point out that the company, not the employee, carries the responsibility for respecting copyright and contracts it signed. After all, the student has no way to know what those contracts are, has not legally agreed to be bound by those contracts (he has not seen them, and his employment contract does not change that), and might have been instructed by his manager to do exactly this.

Essentially, this person could legally claim that CERN or one of it's employees requested he install the software, and to just download it if the normal process didn't work.

If as part of your job you violate commercial agreements (this includes copyright related infractions and licence violations), the company is responsible for any and all damages and contractual consequences of these action(s). Even if there is no contract involved, for example in the course of your job function, you drop a pallet onto someone's car, the company is responsible for the damages. They can, of course, fire you as a result of this mentioning something about "lack of proper judgement", but that's the limit of what they can do. They can also not withhold wages for any period the employee was under contract, no matter how much damage he caused.

There are exceptions which mostly relate to an employee signing contracts in the name of the company and criminal acts, but they don't seem to apply here (the company board must name and publish a list of people who are authorized to sign in the name of the company in a government registry. Anyone who signs an agreement with said company is responsible for comparing the signature of the contact with that list. If you fail to do this, the contract may be null and void) (also, this is assuming it was not a criminal act. But neither copyright law nor contract law falls under criminal law, so only copyright violations committed as part of your job cannot result in you losing more than your job)

This employee should immediately cease all communication with CERN relating to these damages, neither admit or deny anything at all and resolve the matter with the help of a labor lawyer. Ideally, he should continue to carry out his duties as specified in his employment contract, but NOT talk about this incident, instead requesting all communication relating to this happen through registered mail.

This strongly looks like CERN is trying to pull a fast one on an employee. CERN, not the employee, has to pay damages resulting from one of their employees violating a contract they signed.
> "Look at all of the other social networks that tried to solve this in the past and failed."

FB has a network effect, which a a major reason all those products/services get used. However, it's not really fair to imply that FB is 'succeeding' at all the things you listed. If it were, then there'd be little talk of existential threat from things like Instagram/Whatsapp etc...
Edge is IE12. They forked the Trident engine to remove all the legacy stuff. Otherwise, everything else is the same and gets the same new stuff that IE12 would have. No different.
I'm writing a quick frontend to search the AM leak database. And sticking some ads on it. /s
Google will if you let them.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...

[and the corresponding payer endpoint: http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/home]
All major web frameworks have settled on a pattern of using components to manage not only private DOM, but also to manage data scoping. The web components standard is a long, long way from doing anything related to data-passing.

For anything larger than a simple widget, I highly doubt you will see a move to use native web components for a long time. There are application architecture issues they have not even begun to tackle.
Bipolar disorder may exhibit symptoms of 'racing thoughts.' Q?E?D?
Check out /r/financialindependence on Reddit one day.

While some people go the route of eating oatmeal and tuna every day, there are plenty of routes to financial independence that don't involve living a life devoid of nice things. It's less about never working again and more about having the freedom to choose what you want to do -- whether that's work for yourself without worrying about paying rent or working full time for someone else.
"brain of a 5 week old fetus"... isn't this completely nuts?
Who knows what it is capable of. I suppose not much. I'm trying to think back, but I somehow cannot remember that 5th week in the fetus. Still.. you are right... what is next?
80% of that is provided by dropbox or onedrive for free without any charge or privacy invasion.
> I don't have a FB account and I get all those things.

From where? Nowhere free or not advertising to you or selling your info to advertisers, I'd bet.
From what I observe[1] they're on it all the time because its a diversion. TV is another worthless diversion[2] but at least the TV networks don't (yet) sell your private information. But ultimately there is very little on Facebook that I see as critical or something I can't get from a myriad of other sources.

1: Watching my wife peruse FB but I suspect she is an example of a typical user.

2: I'll grant that worthless diversions have their place when used sparingly. But neither FB nor TV are used sparingly by most people unfortunately.
Not just unlicensed, possibly from a warez site, possibly bringing trojans and keyloggers into the network.

I'd suggest CERN run a deep scan and begin backing up data and formatting systems. If they think 30k is bad, imagine the bitcoin bill for a cryptlocker key to the entire CERN dataset.
(replying from old openid account due to rate limit)

I have no idea about StartSSL, but some cheaper EV providers Comodo immediately ask you to use a lawyer or CPA to write professional opinion letters.

This allows the CA to do less work according to the EV guidelines, but massively slows down the validation process and may incur additional fees unless you have an in-house legal team or CPA.
Isn't that true for many (if not most) free services? Would you pay to use Google?
Software is an anti-rivalrous, non-scarce, non-tangible good. The semantics of "theft" simply do not apply to it.
I've been building a program that plays Yahoo! Fantasy sports. http://fantasybots.com. It updates your roster every morning in case you forget or have too many teams to keep track of. Also great when you only care about the draft party and don't want the grind of actually coaching. Currently looking for beta testers!
I heard about a bug report once, where a guy contacted IT to say "I can't log in when standing up, only when sitting down."

IT guy is like "well that's the stupidest thing I ever heard", but he tromps up to the reporter's cubicle, and sure enough, same thing happens to him.

Eventually he discovers you can only log in if you're touch-typing, because a few letters got swapped, and nobody touch-types when they're standing up.
I was wondering how long it would take for one of those to crop up. Make sure you put a few ads for AM on the site for the irony.
Not two years ago I was having a conversation with an old friend that went approximately:

"Facebook, this whole internet thing, hasn't really..."

"...worked out"

"Yeah, this isn't what we thought it was gonna be. Let's just... "

"...turn it off"

There was a belief implicit in the idea of every human on Earth being connected. Many of the phenomenon that came about have made that belief look vulnerable to a certain cynicism, a cynicism about humanity, that we fear in each other, that we hold towards ourselves. A currency that bound us together face to face became fiat and then failed at scale. It is within the vacuum painted by this fear that the organizing effects of the old-world economy have been fallen back on, but I do not presently fear this cynicism, and I save my currency wherever I can earn it.
tptacek is like some sort of HN version of famous (note that his post was so important that his friend dang moved it from a completely different thread from many hours earlier), and I swear that the vast majority of his posts would wallow in light grays if his name wasn't attached.
i just started http://www.projecttalk.io

it's messageboards for github projects.

mainly because a lot of projects use live chat (gitter, slack), which i think isn't always the best solution (time zones, discoverability of past discussions, ...).
They ran it themselves if I recall correctly.
A platform to stay officially connected to things you "like" and their updates -

This doesn't work for long time already. If you have liked something, you rarely see the updates anymore unless the page owners pay for Facebook. It's called Boosting now. Really sucks for small companies or communities, unless you pay - your page is dead.

For me personally, Event management is the only thing it keeps me on Facebook. Part of it's success if of course because everyone is on Facebook, which makes it easy.
But again, if you're a small Facebook page owner and want to invite your loyal fans to your own event you created under your page - Good luck with inviting them, you can't - need you pay again.
Now this just shows complexity of Metal Slug, mortal combat trilogy and SF :)
Encrypted Public Contact Discovery
The point wasn't to leave people puzzling over it for hours. It was a bit of fun. But ... It'd be quite trivial to hide the string.

var msg = ['E','r','r','o','r',':','S','c','r','i','p','t',' ','n','o','t',' ','f','o','u','n','d'];
document.write(msg.join(''));
Mobile Safari also deserves hate because Apple prohibits all alternatives. You cannot ship a browser for iOS unless it uses Safari's engine. There's no technical reason, it's just a decree from Apple about what they'll allow.
If you're interested in checking out the progress, the build process[0] is really easy.

Here's the current page: http://i.imgur.com/NmRNaRz.png

If you want to poke around more, servo shell[1] lets you switch starting pages without having to re-run from the command line.

[0] https://github.com/servo/servo
[1] https://github.com/glennw/servo-shell
Dropshare

http://getdropsha.re
Not enough tables in the HTML though.
When working on client side js it often feels like safari is the modern browser that the most special care is required for. Some of this has to do with not the most recent version but the one one before that (much like the most recent IE was often not reqao, people cursed IE).

Another aspect is OS specificity, MS has made it very easy to debug IE without having windows via VMs they put out specifically for this purpose. Meanwhile there is no amount of money Apple will accept from you to run a mac vm on non Mac hardware. I have fond memories of trying to debug issues with Web Workers in safari via sauce labs.

(disclaimer, I worked with Nolan Lawson on pouchdb and he credits me with coming up with the safari is the new ie phrase)
h4ck1t

http://www.h4ck1t.com

a multiplayer strategy hacking game
Well, really it would be best if it were legislated that shadow profile type information not be allowed since by definition the user (or even a non-user) has not given informed consent.

It would be great if we could move toward a model where each citizen had copyright-like protection of his personal data.
MISLEADING TITLE

It was grown from ADULT brain cells and is now about the saize of the brain typically found in a five week fetus (pencil eraser sized).
I've been working on an app for reading email newsletters - http://mlist.io/. When you sign up you choose a username that you use as an email address (username@mlist.io) when subscribing to newsletters.

Part of the project is creating is also list of high quality newsletters across a wide range of topics. Feel free to provide any newsletter suggestions!
This is my weekend project, an attempt to break up my RSS feed of academic journal articles into more manageable bites and identify articles that are actually useful/interesting.
Specifically, it's by email or Facebook ID.

Most likely, your friend was targeted for advertising using Facebook's custom audiences. FB let advertisers upload a list of email addresses or Facebook IDs to show ads to.

Personally, I consider this much further on the creepy scale than it is on the genuinely worrisome scale, more creepy than harmful. It's pretty creepy though, so.. relativity.
I think their onboarding screen doesn't do to great of a job at explaining how the feature works. If the app only sends notifications after being explicitly asked to do so by the user, the text should reflect that. (something like: "You can mark flights you want to buy tickets for, and the bunny will send you a notification when they have the best price. We won't send you any other notifications.") It sort of hints at it, but doesn't spell it out clearly.
By deploying the same certificate/key to every machine you really cut down on the 'private' part of the private key.
So the hack was wrong in the remaining 29 states? Sounds like moral relativism right there.

In the US, justice must be pursued by legal means, else there's no case. These hackers just removed any chance of prosecution in the 21 states, because of tainted discovery.
No one asks to be buried with his ipad
Does this not apply to anything you send? Say you send a message that one spouse is involved in some illegal behavior. What if reporting child abuse results in the same outcome? The whole 'you could push them over the edge' can be applied to quite a lot of warnings to give a parent.
i read it all before commenting. how did you interpret "she drop her career and spent years caring for the son" as NOT dropping her career?

note how all the accomplishments are a result of staying at home. and the only big effort listed was raising funds for his research.

not saying it was right or wrong. I'd probably have dropped my career in similar situation. but trying to spin it is weird.