skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really. Only AltaVista is dead.

MySpace: Still going at https://myspace.com/

Altavista: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltaVista - shut down in 2013, 10 years after it was sold to Yahoo!.

AOL: Very much still alive at http://www.aol.com, owns sites like Huffington Post.

And in response to mattmanser, ICQ: Still going at https://icq.com/

They may not be the behemoths of the tech industry any more but they are definitely not dead. And the only one that is dead took a decade before it was shut down.

Sites with millions of users never die quickly.
Career advice from a VC is given with the VC's interest in mind, not yours.
That’s exactly the reason why those vendor prefixes exist, right? You test the waters in a way that can’t (or is at least unlikely to) screw things up for everyone else.

The functionality provided here is obviously useful and should probably become part of CSS – but through incidents like this we just found out that using only system is probably a bad idea and things should be changed.
"US over estimates Soviet threat for internal political reasons"

"Over-estimated" how?

I mean, there really was about a 2:1 Warsaw Pact tank advantage, and nuclear deterrence really was the only realistic way of countering it.

Can you be more specific about how this threat was "over-estimated"?
The maturity of adblocking is no ads. Are advertisers so convinced of their own propaganda that they really believe that users find any ad acceptable ? any hijacking of attention, any encroachment on display real estate, any consumption of computing resources for any use but the user's intended use is user-hostile and will elicit user response in the form of blocking. The user will take control of his environment - the rest of the debate is moot.
It's a browser setting. For example, I'm using Firefox 41 on Windows 7 and in Options->Content->Fonts&Colors/Advanced... it has "Times New Roman", "Arial", and "Courier New" as the defaults for Serif, Sans-serif, and Monospace respectively.

In Chrome, it's under Settings->+Show advanced settings->Web content/Customize fonts... (Times New Roman, Arial, Consolas on mine.)

In IE 11 under Tools (gear icon)->General->Appearance/Fonts it has "Webpage font" and "Plain text font" (Times New Roman and Courier New on mine). It's weird that they don't let you pick the default sans-serif font.
I'm surprised someone of Doc Searls' influence would give ABP's acceptable ads policies any credence whatsoever given how blatantly extortionist they are.
I originally considered making the title "Patent US5443036: method of inducing aerobic exercise in an unrestrained cat", which is what it says in claim 1.
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Patio11 has talked about how programmers are little respected and paid poorly in Japan compared with the US. Could this have something to do with Toyota's code quality being so poor and causing this issue?
It's basically the place you drop it, everybody agrees that we should drop it on the needy, but somehow we always drop it on the banks and the wealthy.
These unintended acceleration incidents seem to happen mostly to elderly drivers.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/03/how-real...
This is a growing segment, check out toofr and full contact. I'll give this a whirl.
just to clarify does that mean you should already have a work permit, or eligible to apply for the common visa's? I would expect the first but i couldn’t find any clear definition in the past since it changed from case to case
I agree.

I think that a big part of the problem is trying to make the new more layman friendly removing all the math. Quantum mechanics is unintuitive but the math is very clear, so "anyone" can get the same correct result for an experiment. When you remove the math, you keep only the unintuitive part.

Another part of the problem is linkbait, making slightly wrong interpretations make more interesting articles. Sometimes there are a few articles from different news sites about some subject, and it's very common that the more misleading gets more attention here.

Sadly, my rule of thumb is https://xkcd.com/1240/

For an interesting explanation of what is happening here, I like the stack of slightly rotated polarizers. (See this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10437289 ) The math is equivalent, but the result is not linkbaity. You can even try it at home! If you think enough about it, it's completely weird, but the calculation are pretty straightforward.
BNP did for a few things.
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Just tried this locally and on AWS at Change Heroes and its great! We've been looking to become more metrics driven as a company, and this might be the tool that makes it happen!

Thanks for building it and making it open source :)
Bitbucket down again (Thinking about creating an own Bitbucket Server Instance)
while you're technically right, did the implementers knew and followed the spec as well? now THAT's the real problem.

most of them did, but there are quite some gaps.

then you extensions and shit to complicate matter further:
http://hueniverse.com/2012/07/30/on-leaving-oauth/

I like OpenID efforts to making a OAuth 2.0 subset that works and is authoritative, but to be honest implementing OAuth dialect isn't that much of an issue.

now, having a single consistent user id across services beyond their email, that's an interesting problem to solve.

but for everything OAuth one can find out libraries in many languages.
I'm cynical enough to believe that this was caught in testing and someone thought it would make an interesting blog post so wrote it up as if it went live.
The newest update had me remove the extension straightaway. I don't need a 'get started with hibou now' layer on all my pages if I haven't used it yet on which I can't even press 'not now' because Hibou injects some google analytics which µblock blocks of course causing the JS to break...
> But 0x90 also means nop

As… the article even explained further down, sometimes. That's where the whole discussion comes from.

• In 32 bit mode, it doesn't matter. Some (dumb) CPUs treated it as xchg ax,ax; pipelined CPUs optimized it away.

• In 64 bit mode, it matters: Is "xchg eax, eax" a valid way to clear the upper 32 bits of eax? Or will it always be optimized away as legacy NOP?

AMD decided for the latter. They could also have introduced a new opcode for it instead (there are already multiple nop instructions, like nopl/nopw, so it wouldn't have been too far off) – as this only affects 64 bit mode, backwards compatibility didn't really matter, both would have been possible.
I think the question to ask people who favor punishment prisons is this: prisoners get out of prison one day. If a prisoner was moving in the house next to yours as your neighbor, would you rather have a prisoner from a prison focused on humane treatment or from a prison focused on punishment?
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First, the level of technical incompetence is staggering:

* Two significant breaches in 7 months
* Bank/CC and personal details stored unencrypted
* Pssswords stored in cleartext
* "We have taken all necessary measures to secure the website." That's what they said last time.

Second, the response is laughable:

* Two days since the breach was discovered, and customers still haven't been notified.
* No mention of the breach on the talktalk.co.uk home page.
* The site in question [1] says it is offline due to an attack, but doesn't like to the relevant help page [2]

[1] https://myaccount.talktalk.co.uk/
[2] http://help2.talktalk.co.uk/oct22incident
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Yeah, this is a common source of confusion, and the ipfs.pics tagline doesn't really help the situation. Personally I'd change it to "where you can ensure your pictures will be available forever".

You shouldn't read "permanent" as "eternal", but as "not temporary" --- in the same sense as "permanent address" or "permanent employment". HTTP is temporary in the sense that you're relying on a single server to actively continue serving a file for it to remain available. IPFS is permanent in the sense that, so long as the file exists somewhere in the network, it will remain available to everyone.

Edit: If you want to ensure your content remains available, you still need to host it somewhere (your own server, convincing/paying someone else to, etc). IPFS isn't so much about storage as it is about distribution.
really it's [js -> pdf]
I would also love to help out. But I also refrain from starting that on my own. "New Persona" (or "Persona NG?") should be started and managed by somebody who knows what they are doing.

It would be really great if some Persona insider would provide an umbrella for this and review the activities, if they they don't have the time to do the actual work. I'd love to join such a project.
Though I have a strong preference for analog/physical/mechanical systems in cars, the main reason for this is more that they're far easier and more fun to work on, rather than reasons of safety.

I'd hazard a guess that in a serious crash you're going to have a far better chance of survival in a modern car (crumple zones, airbags/side-cushions/curtains, ABS etc) vs a ~1980's or older car, and that the cause of said crash would be human error rather than a bug in the engine throttle code.
Hey thank you . Sent you an email with the details.
Adblocking does not mature to safe ads. It corrupts.
Privacy-wise, this smells fishy.
In cases like those I use unicodelookup.com to list suspicious characters :)
I guess someone should develop an IDE/editor plugin that marks non-ASCII characters outside of string literals.
true, but still no competition.
You've got a bit of a typo on one of your screenshots ("latter" -> "later"). Otherwise: looks very nice :D
The number of sites that have flaws like you mentioned (encrypted data and clear text passwords) is worrying.

Is there not a independent third part that can audit sites for this kind of incompetence and rank or award compliant sites so consumers can factor this in when choosing services?
It's pretty clear that the existence of nuclear weapons deterred political leaders from contemplating war. However, the actual number of weapons in place spiraled vastly beyond what was actually required for deterrence - largely, it has to be said, due to internal US political reasons:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomber_gap

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_gap

NB I'm in no way defending the Soviets, who were a deeply unpleasant bunch, but I think it's pretty clear that a lot of unnecessary risks were run during the Cold War and the UK would have been one of the worst victims.
Spoiler: if you email me out of no where you won't get a "lead" you'll get marked as spam. Public shaming will ensue if you continue to spam me.
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Wendelstein 7-X - from concept to reality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyqt6u5_sHA

Im Zeitraffer: Zusammenbau von Wendelstein 7-X: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJpSrqitSMQ (best @ 0.56x)
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> With Freenet, it's very hard to even prove even that you host pieces of any particular thing.

It's only hard if you don't know the content. Freenet uses Content Hash Keying, where the file is hashed and the hash is used as the encryption key (so only people who either know the hash or have the file can request it).

If you have a list of cleartext files or hashes, it's not very hard to check if those are hosted on your node.
Our Comrade the Electron
how does one hide from services like these?
Read "How to Win Friends and Influence People". Nobody in their own heads thinks they are evil. They may act in such a way, but they can internally rationalise it away. I bet even Hitler would claim to be acting with good intentions.
Do CEOs/directors of companies get hit but these data breaches, do we need to start insisting their personal/banking data is stored the same as customers so they get impacted? Too many companies just don't take security seriously enough.
Monitoring 100 servers with a $5/month node
Similar read[0] with an actual proposal replacement for OAuth at the end. Thoughts?

[0] http://hueniverse.com/2015/09/19/auth-to-see-the-wizard-or-i...
They also just announced a programming bootcamp the other day.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-22/google-lau...
Spot on question, bravo!
You're debasing the currency that you're 'printing' to use in the helicopter drop. That means you're stealing purchasing power from anyone that uses eg dollars, to redistribute it to whomever is on the receiving end of that helicopter drop (which is almost guaranteed to not be everyone you just stole the purchasing power from).

Ever see Canadians complain about the value of their loonie in threads online? I see it constantly, they complain because they've lost purchasing power. What happened? The USD soared when the Fed stopped debasing it so aggressively with QE, and the Canadian economy went into recession because commodities are priced in dollars (leading to a double whammy).

The US effectively did helicopter drop trillions of dollars. The Fed's balance sheet presently represents a housing, bank, government and stock market bailout.

The bottom 50% don't own much in the way of assets however, so when you debase their purchasing power and send the value of the dollar plunging (post 2002 or so), their standard of living falls significantly. The rich could mostly care less, within reason, because their assets can often be shifted to better returns based on what's happening at the moment. Average worker incomes however cannot be shifted, they simply get eroded.

This is fundamentally why the median US worker has seen almost zero inflation-adjusted income increase in 40 years, post Nixon's choice to debase the USD. No coincidence the cost of everything has soared (including commodities), perfectly timed from that fateful decision.

It's also no coincidence that every nation's GDP simultaneously skyrocketed - priced in dollars - when the Fed began debasing the USD around 2002/03. In vague terms that represents the vast loss of purchasing power that the dollar experienced, to the benefit of pretty much everyone else. It's also why, when the dollar turned back the other way after QE stopped, emerging economies like Brazil crashed so hard and fast (as the USD pulls capital out of Brazil like a gravity well), and it's why China is bleeding such large sums of capital right now (as occurred on a smaller scale across Asia the last time the dollar went on a big bull run in the 1990s, leading to the Asian economic crisis of 1997).

If you're the Fed and you run actual 3% to 4% persistent inflation (while lying and pretending the CPI is accurate at say 2%), and worker wages climb by 1% to 2% per year - then over 20 years the average worker gets destroyed.

In pretty much every country a helicopter drop has been tried, it has led to inflation in relative proportion to the size of the drop. Inflation harms the poorest the most (see: Venezuela, Argentina, Zimbabwe, Russia, Brazil). The US is a bit of a special case in that regard, because it can export some of that inflation to the world via the global reserve currency, which helps blunt the amount of inflation that immediately hits the domestic economy. That inflation often finds its way back however, which we may see shortly with China liquidating its treasuries.
I see your point.

If you allow dishonest stuff to pass because it combats racism, then there is a risk that you just paint SWJ crowd dishonest.

If racism is well enough hidden, I don't see the point opposing it anymore. I don't think people should be burned because of thoughtcrime.

We can agree that it's not cool behaviour to run around with plastick indian headress while high. Or dunkenly sing Elvis songs in karaoke. But I don't think it is immoral, and I don't think who does it matters too much.
Wow, now that's just pure evil.
IIRC, this novel idea has been filed multiple times (and may have been granted as well) at the USPTO at different times. I believe that this is because the USPTO sometimes leaves it to the interested/affected parties to raise complaints and go through these rather than do the donkey's work of exhaustive prior art search.
Also GREAT if you're trying to identify untaken phishing domain names to register for your next scam!
I've been using Jetbrains' 0xDBE recently (https://www.jetbrains.com/dbe/) and I highly recommend it:

* it works with IDEAVim
* it uses JDBC so you can easily connect to "non-standard" DBs by using any JDBC driver
* it's better than psql/vsql/... for dealing with complex queries (you have a real editor rather than limited readline support, if you're lucky enough to have readline support)
There is a special place in hell for anyone doing this. I'm going to watch this repo and blacklist pull requests from anyone who forks it :-)
Not all Chromebooks require physical modification for re-keying. (The Dell Chromebook 11 doesn't, for example.)
wouldn't you end up with the 'xn--' ascii expansion in the url window?
Though I think that's mostly diet related - Japanese don't really do dairy.
Looking at their status history this month has not been good.
They share the place with coding blogs that use &nbsp; instead of spaces for code snippets.
Debunking the Myth That None of Statistics Works for Big Data
Companies as large as TalkTalk should have a process in place for contacting their customers in exactly these kind of situations. They shouldn't be waiting until an event occurs and then going, "oh right, er, how do we tell everyone?"
services or frameworks?
which one will still exist in 3 years?
I hope I understood your question correctly. It's very very very difficult to take a photograph to catch the atom while tunneling.

The atoms in this experiment form a lattice, and the lattice acts a trap, so the atoms can be only in some fixed spots. To go from one spot to another spot, it has to have some minimal energy, so it's equivalent to climbing a hill to go from one valley to another valley. The atom usually get that energy by random movements, but in this experiment they are very cold, to avoid this possibility, so they are trapped in one of those spots.

By quantum mechanics, they can travel from one spot to another spot without enough energy. This is equivalent to going from one valley to another valley without energy to climb the hill, so the tunneling nickname. The probability is something like exp(- distance * energy_difference * constants) so it's harder to go to a spot far away and it harder to pass a tall hill (I must be missing a the time variable there, look at Wikipedia for the exact expression.) And it's exponentially harder, not jut harder.

To answer your question. It's very very very difficult to take a photographs of the atoms while tunneling. If you turn off the laser and you take a photograph from time to time, you see that some atoms jump randomly from one spot to another between photos while "no one" is watching :). If you turn on the laser, the "laser" is watching, so the atoms don't move between photographs. But don't expect to get a photograph of the atoms while tunneling.

EDIT: after a coffee and a shower, I changed "impossible" to "very very very difficult"
> Yes but the argument is unidirectional.

I'd say yes. IMO there isn't a single thing you can do with a AGPL licensed piece of SW that you cannot do with a MIT licensed one, -the other way around, -quite a bit.

> Also it would be good to recognize the work done before shooting out "wrooooong license (for me)"

Sorry. Wasn't my intention but I can clearly see it being read that way. I just wanted to point it out as I personally don't like AGPL and wanted others to avoid the disappointment had.
Not only is it complicated, the lack of documentation and the leaky XML libraries that abound ensure that whoever ends up implementing SAML are prone to make security mistakes.

I've audited two systems that used SAML to authenticate their users, both times I found XXE vulnerabilities that let me read files from their servers with the permissions of the webserver process.
The SNAP budget has doubled during Obama's presidency. It hasn't been cut.

Here's a chart showing its extreme increase:

http://i.imgur.com/tGgtpmL.jpg

And as a share of GDP:

http://i.imgur.com/4JbxWiT.png

The primary problem in the SNAP program, was the flood of people participating. The per capita sum didn't quite keep up with the large influx of people wanting to be on the program. However, that has been partially offset by increases at the State level as well.

The US has never spent more per capita on food programs overall, between the local + state + national level, than it does today.

There has hardly been a drop of austerity in anything in the US.
"I'm a customer myself of Talk Talk, I've been a victim of this attack."

- TalkTalk chief executive Dido Harding
I wonder if one could patent, say, "a means for ambulatory locomotion utilising appendages of bipedal mammals" - I.e. walking.

It's worth noting that having a patent doesn't mean it's enforceable, or even valid.
Bitbucket is Down :(
I have been checking since an hour or so, and it is down. Can't even pull from the repository. What do you do in this situation, when your git host is down?
Have you had a look at the code? I found a remote code execution 15min after waking up: https://github.com/ipfspics/server/issues/10
There's a link with some stuff here

http://www.livescience.com/38087-can-dolphins-detect-pregnan...
... but you know, that's expensive. Shareholders don't care about money being wasted on security and precautions. After all, you only really need to wear seatbelts if you crash.

Also, as a customer on my parents behalf, I've not received any communications either.
Paul Moore's findings from one year ago: https://paul.reviews/value-security-avoid-talktalk/
Ultrajson
Windows Phone has a new app problem
UK's TalkTalk says cyber attack could affect 4M customers
You create your own git host.
As far as I know, there are no truly federal prisons in Germany, so depending on whether you're in Mecklenburg-Pomerania or Bavaria, things might vary quite a bit (although stringent federal laws do apply).
Actually, the idea of patents was the exact inverse of what it has ended up as. Patent law came about to limit the period of exclusivity of inventions, and to bring them to the public domain sooner than otherwise, through the necessary acts of disclosure in patenting an idea. Until patents companies and inventors hoarded their ideas as they had no legal protection.

Patents have now ended up enforcing exactly that which they were supposed to oppose - corporate monopolies on thought.
Or “real” quotes in code examples..
The problem is a legal system where the side with money can bury the other. This stuff is just a symptom of that. Stopping one without fixing the other is just a free pass for the powerful.
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The English crown apparently introduced something like patents when it found itself too constricted by parliament.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_patent
Is there any reason why this pattern hasn't been widely reported?

Edit: I mean, -if it was this obvious we should have known it by now?
I was briefly a customer about 4 years ago - I wonder if my details are in the cache.
Yes, PCI QSAs. All they can do, and all the ICO can do, is fine you. A typical fine might be £10k-£100k. For these large businesses, they see it as being more cost effective to be cavalier about security and pay off the authorities. See amazon's credit card handling, for instance.

Like most things in life, it's a two tier system.
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yup but erlibird is costly perhaps their plans starts from $1000
Was just going to mention them. http://www.biocarbonengineering.com/