skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But there is a blanket exclusion for the purposes of 'prevention and detection of crime'.

It is widely used by the Police (obviously) but also by the likes of insurance companies (e.g. unsubstantiated suspicious of "suspect" insurance claims) and high street shops (the major stores operate a facial recognition database of 'known' and 'suspected' shoplifters which they use to target people on entry to stores and either eject or detain them as they determine they want to do).

All you need to do is construct an argument about preventing and detecting crime and you're pretty much free to store and process whatever and however you want. The only case I've heard of this failing was in the building industry blacklist (which GCHQ helped create and was run by Sir Robert McAlpine, Balfour Beatty, Costain and Skanska Construction [1]).

Databases like that are part of the 'bulk collection' being used here. It has gone on since at least 1984 (the Telecommunications bill instigated the legal framework for it).

In the mid-80's, I worked in the UK with someone who was in the middle of some business dispute (normal business stuff, nothing unusual or noteworthy). A lot of the business involved dealing with military type customers who generally worked at the 'discreet' end of the business. In casual conversation with one customer, the dispute came up and frustration was expressed at the lack of ways to resolve it. A few days later a large envelope arrived with a complements slip from said customer, containing a huge ream of printouts of extremely personal and sensitive details on the business competitor, their businesses, their family and some choice friends. My colleague had the sense to burn the paperwork ASAP (but did look through it!) and was always way more careful about what and with who he discussed things afterwards.

From that incident, I know that any sort of record in the UK is fair game for GCHQ and it was normal for your doctor visits, bank records, credit records (purchase details), any store accounts etc. - everything - to be sucked up, even in the 80's. Any sort of political activism (of any type) moved you way up the interest & monitoring list, especially things like donations or driving your car near any sort of demo or sensitive site.

The irony was that 1984 was the year the UK made legislation for it. But it got way worse under Tony Blair, who is often chastised for treating Orwell's 1984 as an instruction manual rather than a warning.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/mar/03/blacklisted-...
This is a great idea! Packer script repo?

Also, common repos can include open-builds..
Yup. I worked with Tony on the tool. That's exactly what we had in mind. We didn't want people going through onboarding to be overwhelmed — and we also didn't want to have to manually date each task relative to their start date. i.e. If you do this on day on (April 22), then you must do this task three days later (April 25.) This tool simply lets you enter April 22 and then figures out what the next due date should be, based on the time length you specify.
Glare, because I can't just listen to music to block it
>On a tablet with a pen, which I'd really love to use outside to take notes, the added color depth is going to be useless.

This technology doesn't improve a specific use case for me, so it's useless... Let's ignore the other people, and other use cases.
I don't understand quite, why so much brute force?
It does, but you will have to go through captchas regularly.
This tool makes those inefficiencies more visible to everyone, so I think this looks like a good first step.
> The top ten sites are significantly lighter than the rest (worth noting if you want to be a top website)

Isn't that that the top websites have a lot more ressources available to improve asset management, cleanup and refactor?
AngularJS Authentication Screencast Series – Part 3
> Are you omitting Perl 6 because you don't think it's ready for prime time or you don't know enough about it's MD features?

Both. Are basic operations like `+` generic in Perl 6?
Did he contest that fine in court? If not, why is this story relevant?
"Stand still and think of the worst experience of your life. Thank you, next!"
Ubuntu is actively working on a solution to this problem with Mir. Is CoreOS contributing to Wayland or Mir? If not, perhaps they shouldn't be throwing stones.
I like rfc2812 style convo better, like the one used in Redis PING: http://redis.io/commands/ping

Updated: to reflect eli's help on origin of command style. Btw, why did someone down-vote me on this?
And don't forget to drop out after a year of college! You've made all the connections, so what else is there to learn?

There are some exceptions to this pattern though, like Jan Koum and Andy Grove. We desperately need more of them in today's tech environment.
Need to conceal your identity? Take some LSD before going to the airport.
Good point - Now I know why I wouldn't eat certain animals but is perfectly content to eat beef.

I've seen bulls, and they wouldn't mind knocking my eyes out with their horns if I stood next to their grass.

But with, say, cats, even when I was messing with her petting her fur the wrong way, she'd retaliate by making a noise and scratching me only lightly and mostly unharmed. The same gesture is not extended to guests.

Once during a chess game, she was watching us moving chess pieces move by move, and my cat, with her paw, moved a pawn side ways one step, matching the squares and lines of the board perfectly, even if the pawn could not legally move there.

I'd look into her eyes pet her fur, and she'd look back into mine, and pet my cheeks back. I'd talk to her and she'd meow back at me, sentence for sentence.

Oh and sometimes when she was trapped inside the house, she takes her dump in the shower.

There was a mind behind her eyes.
TOR is also useful for routing around damage (censorship).
I think this vaguely reminds me of the Content Centric Networking developed by PARC. There's 1.0 implementation of a protocol on github (https://github.com/PARC/CCNx_Distillery). A CCNx enabled browser could potentially get the script from a CCN by referring to it's signature alone (it being a sha-256 checksum or otherwise).
it's incredible that Walgreen, a public co., not doing DD for a non-proven, non-peer-reviewed medical diagnostic co, with a possibility of very bad PR. i would guess (simply speculation) there are some external factors, made Walgreen to skip that. that's probably the whole point for the politicians on Theranos' board, along with the DC connections (& Enron?) from EH's dad. and these 'external factors' also played same tricks for the other PE funding rounds. so here we go a criminal investigation is under going.
thoroughly disappointed in the Shriver interview, didn't ask any hard questions, didn't redirect after her answers, didn't really seem like she was at all fully informed about Theranos

now if John Carreyrou had been conducting the interview, that would be another thing but I get the feeling that he would never be granted an interview simply because he is much more qualified in terms of competency in Theranos and its history and science relative to Shriver that they would see him as a threat

Shriver on the other hand probably came across as a 'safe' interview to the company, which it was

real journalism is so hard to find these days, sigh

"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations."
George Orwell
Yes but no.

- jquery.com becomes a central point of failure and attack;
- jquery gets to be the biggest tracker of all time;
- cache does not stay forever. Actually, with pages taking 3Mo everytime they load, after 100 click (not much), I invalidated 300 Mo of cache. If firefox allow 2go of cache (it's lot for only one app), then an the end of the day, all my cache has been busted.
Careful not to drink the KOOLAID. Congress people, especially Wyden, have requested SCIF's for events like that before and were rejected on technicalities. Bruce Schneier said they requested one when they met him to discuss Snowden leaks DOD were still trying to contain. DOD wouldnt allow the SCIF.

CIA pulled same kind of BS with torture report allegedly for OPSEC then showed true motivation with hacking to cover up their wrongdoing.
The onion-name is a hash of the public key the service uses, so you can't just pick a name and use it. They had to try many keypairs to find some that hashed to "facebook...." (Normally you generate your key and just use whatever name that hashes to, but it's cool to have one that's easy to remember)
Exactly my thought
I didn't know that Adobe RGB has a straight 2.2 gamma. :)

I don't know the details about the Apple's gamma curve, but these guys have measured it. Perhaps it gives some answers. (I'm not sure how to read that graph..)

http://www.displaymate.com/Gamma_35.html
The ancient copper mines dug by children
URL: https://ahmia.fi/

There are search engine(s) specialized for TOR. As per Wikipedia[1]: 'Ahmia is a clearnet search engine for Tor's hidden services'. It was part of Google summer of code in 2014[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmia
[2] https://blog.torproject.org/category/tags/gsoc-2014
Exactly. You want a great tech role model for young women (and anyone else for that matter)? Look at Limor Fried (LadyAda of AdaFruit).

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

She is a great tech role model that built a thriving maker business from scratch. She didn't have the connections to drop out of school so she finished her BS and MS at MIT.

There are plenty of phenomenal female role models out there. I had three women on my committee in grad school. One co-directing a major research center. One a successful entrepreneur and one a new upcoming research associate.

Anyone looking for strong female role models just needs to open their eyes.
Ah, node-gyp. I completely forgot about all the f@$king problems that caused us.
> I find myself enjoying waiting until the last minute and then using stress to help me succeed.

It is far too easy to get used to this feeling. Wish it wasn't...
Try reading the introductory blog post[0] before asking redundant questions.

[0] https://www.facebook.com/notes/protect-the-graph/making-conn...
Office perks are dumb – Advertising copies startups
The name of .onion address is the hash of a public key, so you can't choose it, or rather the only way is to generate random public and private key pairs and to keep the one that interest you.

Facebook must have generated an awful lot of key pairs to get "facebookcorewwwi". By the way, I hope they deleted the other generated pairs…
https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/04/13/snaps-for-classic-ubu...

> The security mechanisms in snap packages allow us to open up the platform for much faster iteration across all of our flavours as snap applications are isolated from the rest of the system. Users can install a snap without having to worry whether it will have an impact on their other apps or their system. Similarly, developers have a much better handle on the update cycle as they can decide to bundle specific versions of a library with their app. Transactional updates make deployments of snap packages more robust and reliable.

> By bringing snap packages to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS we are unifying the experience for Ubuntu developers, whether they are creating software for PC, Server, Mobile, and IoT Devices. Snapcraft, a tool available for snap development, makes it easy for developers to package their apps and dependencies. Developers targeting snap packages get a great environment to write and test their applications – directly on their desktop, rather than being forced to use a device or a virtual machine.

I think it is just a poorly worded announcement that implied security isolation on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS when that was not the intention.

Similarly, they are just as secure as apt so there is no loss of security so the claim of the OP's title is misleading.
Mysqldump with Modern MySQL
I'd say that Theranos is so much of an outlier that it's failure won't really have a huge effect.

They weren't patenting nor licensing any exciting technology. They had no groundbreaking presentations of their technology. They had no experts in the field working at the company or on the board....

I mean, it's amazing they raised money to begin with
Oh God.

Every discussion about the web will continue to be a mess until we clarify what we're talking about.

Let's try rephrasing the title a couple times.

Rephrase 1: "The average size of a webapp is now the average size of a Doom install".

Response: Interesting, but not bad! Heck, some webapps are games. "The average size of a web game is now the average size of Doom" isn't a sentence that damns the web, it's a sentence that complements the web! (or would if it was true, and it might be for all I know)

Rephrase 2: "The average size of web document is now the average size of a Doom install".

Response: Well this sucks (or would if it was true -- still we don't know). Simple documents should be a few KB, not the size of a game.

Basically our terminology is shot to crap. Imagine if 19th century engineers used the same word for "hand crank" and "steam engine". "Hand crank prices are skyrocketing! What's causing this massive bloat!" Whelp, that could mean anything.

The best solution: web browsers should enforce a clear distinction between "web documents" and "web apps". These are two different things and should be treated separately. This won't happen though, which leaves us (the rest of the tech community) to explore other options . . .
The subuser project is using Xpra to isolate and bridge the untrusted code into the trusted space. http://subuser.org/news/0.3.html
Onion names are sort of public keys. You generate a secret key, then that's transformed/hashed into the public key that is your onion address.

Since onion addresses are essentially random strings of a certain length, the only way to get a "vanity" onion address is to brute force it.
thank you for sharing this; thank you for your extraordinary contribution to the open source community; thank you for writing so candidly and so eloquently about the process of building software; and thank you for making we want to be a better developer.
That was a fantastic talk, well worth the time. If I can summarize my takeaway it would be that Agile or agility is a holistic thought process to guide all your software decisions. The way people have implemented it is to have rigid guidelines that lets middle managers micromanage us to death. Sounds about right!
Onion domains are just an encoding of a hash of a public key. To get a memorable name, you have to find a keypair that hashes to some letters you want. There is no correlation between any of the characters, so you have to do an exhaustive search to find nice strings.
How would this compare/contrast with what the Featured Artists Coalition is proposing with using block-chain type approach to publishing works? They're discussing music but in digitial formats I don't see a large 'transaction' difference between music and text. For reference:

http://qz.com/620454/imogen-heap-wants-to-use-blockchain-tec...
Right, and password should be voluntarily entered. This system would be able to steal my password, e.g. unlocking my laptop, forcing me to look at some photo
This is very similar to what Enron did, although the vehicle was different - they moved liabilities off the books to make themselves look less leveraged. Enron did this through shell companies owned by Fastow - Fuld/Lehman did this through abusing a standard rule and then getting E&Y to hold their nose and say that these transactions were not material and did not involve reporting the information to shareholders. To me, that's fraud.

I'm not alone in this analysis:
"The segment, which marks the first time Vakulas has been interviewed since filing his nine-volume, 2,200-page report two years ago, claims there is sufficient evidence to prosecute officials at Lehman. According to Vakulas, Lehman Brothers was intentionally misrepresenting their financial health."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/23/lehman-brothers-inv...

The key question, to me, is whether they knowingly misrepresented the health of the company in reporting to shareholders. If it ever went to trial I think the answer would be "yes" - but of course we'll never know because no one in the US government wants to go after them.

At least the NY Attorney General went after E&Y and extracted a minor settlement (albeit one with no admission of wrongdoing):

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/business/dealbook/ernst-yo...
China has to play fairly carefully with Apple. On the one hand it's an American company that puts microphones and cameras into the cafes, offices, and bedrooms of many of their citizenry; but on the other hand, with decreasing competitiveness due to rising wages there isn't anything specifically _stopping_ Apple or other American tech companies from moving manufacturing out of China. Foxconn alone employs about 4.3 million people, and while it would be very difficult to move operations to Tiawan, Singapore, Japan, or even the United States; it would also provide a number of benefits since any new hosting country would very incentivized to make the move happen.
> The opportunity cost of the Apollo missions were enormous, even if there were positive outcomes that spun out of it.

True, but if you're talking opportunity costs then I see Apollo, and the space race in general, as a great success story. They took the polotical atmosphere of nationalism, paranoia, one-upmanship, costly signalling, etc. and funnelled some of it into exploration, science and engineering at otherwise unthinkable levels.

It it weren't for the space race, it's likely the majority of those resources would be poured into armaments, military-industrial churn, espionage, corruption/lobbying, (proxy) wars, etc.
Lots of people are focusing on excessive JavaScript and CSS but these combined are easily dwarfed by a single high quality image.

Try visiting Apple's website for example. I can't see how you can have a small page weight if your page includes several images that are meant to look good on high quality screens. You're not going to convince marketing and page designers to go with imageless pages.

Doom's original resolution was 320x200 = 64K pixels in 8-bit colour mode. Even an Apple Watch has 92K pixels and 24-bit colour (three times more space per pixel) now, and a 15" MacBook display shows 5.2M pixels. The space used for high quality images on newer displays is order of magnitudes higher to what Doom hardware had to show.
You should also see http://usedetox.com

You can access the feeds on Panda http://usepanda.com instead of Facebook feed.
>Although most animals might not show reciprocity now, we can look at extreme examples like dogs to show that it is possible over generations.

Wolves are social mammals in the first place. The creation of dogs amounted to deliberately taming and selectively breeding wolves who would understand ever-more-slightly humanoid social structures in place of their previous wolf social structures. Even now, a dog does not carry a fully human sense of reciprocity and equality, merely a very nurturing and cooperative concept of pack-structure.

(Actually, even now, most humans don't carry a fully human sense of reciprocity and equality. Most humans are more like the dogs than we care to admit in terms of which social structures we've trained them to understand: hierarchy and one-way domination over reciprocity and equality remain the human norm when we leave our armchairs.)

Since many animals are not even social mammals, I think it would take radical measures to instill them with a humanoid moral sense capable of reciprocity, and that brings on its own ethical issues.
Hi Pieter,

I'm not sure how long you'll keep on reading stuff, but rest assured me and many others will cherish the very fond memories of collaborating with you - you've always had a sharp wit and a practical sort of unconventionalism that gets things done. We have much to thank you for.

We worked together on Digistan and the "The Hague Declaration", which I helped host in The Hague - and I think it still is a strong statement that is worth repeating. People can sign that declaration:

http://www.digistan.org

I'm very much saddened to hear about your disease - and deep respect for the way you handle this unannounced change of plan. I hope your remaining time will be spent with those you love looking back on a rich life where you've left the world better than it is - and got the max out of it. I'll send you an email, so that when your kids are older and want to know about the things you've done they can contact me. Take care, my friend.
The Y Combinator
I certainly didn't mean to imply it would be easy or cheap. When I say quick, I mean "a few years".
There are command line tools/minimal libraries that allow you to compile C/C++ provided in the depths of Microsoft's webs that can/will let you do this without a full on VS install. Typically good for setting up a build server/etc.

If I wasn't on a spotty network ATM I'd dig through my old blog posts to find where I wrote about it. In general though, if you can get a free version of one of the VS flavors, you'll save a lot of hassle just installing that.
For now, the sun, later, the moon.
In my personal experience with an iPhone, it will not backup to iCloud without wifi and it will not connect to wifi without having the passcode entered at least once since boot. According to the government, the device was found powered off. If that is true, the iCloud backup would never have worked.

The government ran its own tests of the scenarios and found that to be true: https://www.scribd.com/doc/303759192/Declaration-by-Stacey-P... (paragraphs 37-39)

Apple's engineer's response left that assertion unchallenged (while challenging other stuff wrong with paragraphs 37-39, see his paragraphs 32-33): https://www.scribd.com/doc/304898553/SUPPLEMENTAL-DECLARATIO...

Of course, you can choose not to believe the government that the phone was found powered off (http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Apple-govt-R...), but I think you'd have to pick and choose what you're willing to believe and not believe from what the government have said.

Finally, even though it wouldn't have helped, it's clear Pluhar's team did not consider the iCloud backup possibility when they were making their examination, so they very well could have screwed this up. It's just that they didn't in this case.

It's also possible the phone was actually found powered on and the battery was drained and it turned off by the time Pluhar's team examined it the same day. It wasn't mentioned if anyone checked it and tried to make sure it was kept charged (probably not). I imagine it might be difficult to train the officers on the ground about mobile device forensics best practices, since they change fairly frequently.
It's more work, so one might not start with an FPGA but if you need performance...
I.R.S. Fights Back Against House Republicans’ Attacks
Not drinking any koolaid, I have just worked with classified info in the past and have run head-on with the restrictions regarding their handling. I have no idea whether the intelligence community has some ulterior motive, I'm just saying that not allowing them to take notes isn't some unbelievable restriction for TS information.
Chrome network tools has throttling that can simulate really shitty networks, I use that a fair bit.
Is there any info out there on how x86 without the legacy cruft in it would preform?
Images can load progressively, so pure HTML + one large image absolutely can appear faster to the user. The JS and CSS to load a SPA won't. Page weight is a good rule of thumb, but it isn't the be all end all of a good experience.