skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did a similar trip to his in April 2007. While you visit, you have to put aside your issues with the regime, that's not why you're there. You're there to experience something which seems so implausible yet exists, or rather, before it doesn't. We got to meet some really nice people and what we saw was remarkable. If they could make the rest of their country like the capital and the other places I was shown, then it would be a really nice country in the political sense. The culture that is there seems to me to be fragile yet precious. I shudder to think what will happen to it if reunification happens in anything but a gradual way.

My trip is documented here in the radio show Off The Wall: (link to mp3)
http://www.2600.com/offthewall/mp3files/2007/off_the_wall__2...
and
http://www.2600.com/offthewall/mp3files/2007/off_the_wall__2...
Thanks! Reconciliation isn't nescessarily out of the question. I expressed in no uncertain terms how unhappy I was with a few things earlier, we'll see if my concerns are addressed or not.
Saw it mentioned over at FlashGameLicense, hope you guys have a blast.
Well, the genie is out of the bottle, because Google created that market. If you type a question, Google will find an answer. If nobody is interested in the problem, spammers will give you something.
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This algorithm change could come across as more editorial and less empirical. It's publicized as highly targeted ("slightly over 2% of queries"), responding to small tech discussion (Atwood, SO, HN, quality launch meeting), and seemingly rolled out in a short period of time. The media could easily boil this down to "a small number people felt sites they liked were under-ranked, so Google moved them up a week later."

I mention this because Google often talks publicly about being entirely algorithmic, and elements of this narrative feel human.
Where were Wikileaks' servers hosted at the time? The US cops are going to go after the crimes against US businesses on US soil first.
> Hard to find a more universally understood symbol in the western world [...]

Sun!
The immense likelihood of attempts to quickly destroy evidence.
They're DDOSing websites run by big corporations, so they're obviously terrorists, which means you need to arrest them at gunpoint early in the morning so that you can be sure they won't have time to detonate a suitcase nuke before you can cuff them and get them into the back of the cop car.
Those are in fact the only crimes they are likely to have jurisdiction over.
Good one! I totally dropped the ball there, I searched for things too close to home :)
Nowadays, users are using Google instead of typing URLs. Even if they know they URL.
This is a great site, new to me. I have very limited time to find comics and am very specific about what I like to read, so would love recommended reading presented to me, i.e. browse by genre/rating etc. I only quickly reviewed the site without logging in and it didn't seem to offer these options. I'll happily sign up when this is possible, and would receive a weekly recommended reading list also (with # of pages please! Rarely can I dedicate time to a long novel unless in small pieces over time). Bookmarked for hope of these future options.
Does the FBI even investigate this sort of thing internationally? Does anyone?
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Or perhaps if you told them, it's like adding scenes to a film, they'd understand. There's a reason for deleted scenes.
I feel like Sony hardware has almost always been really good and, for the most part, still is today. Sony software though... not so much. Which worked fine for decades where their products didn't include any software, but it puts them in a really bad place in a world where software quality has become at least as important as hardware quality. I don't know what I'd do if I were in charge of Sony, though - you can't just mandate "we're going to become great at software."
Egyptian Military Chiefs Cut Pentagon Visit Short
Because the bombs aren't in phone form-factor, they're big vests packed with nails and shit, just set off by phones. People tend to notice when you walk into the middle of a crowd, drop a large bag, then walk away. Now, in situations where they can pull that off, say crowded busses..., I'm sure they employ that tactic.

Also, I imagine there is a heavier emotional impact associated with 'suicide' bombings.
I couldn't replicate the article's results for the 8 character cutoff, but I did verify my password is case insensitive. For the record, I registered in 1996 or so, and probably haven't changed my password since.
wow the growth is phenomenal! Everything is indeed going to be in the cloud
Does anyone?

Countries outside America do have law enforcement agencies for the most part, so yes.
I'm surprised it took so long, but wow, what a terrible UI! Whereas the majority of the other StackExchange network sites have fairly clean, sparse, and well whitespaced designs, this apple Q&A site is a real eyesore! It looks like a site from.... 2002? with too many colors and too many icons all packed together.
Sometimes they are told that they are just transporting and delivering the device to the actual suicide bomber. Then, a spotter sets them up the bomb instead.

Don't accept packages from AQ!
Only one of the reports suggests a door 'busted down'; is that nym known to give reliable, non-embellished testimony? (I can believe that some of the searches might be unnecessarily done that way, but also that there could be exaggeration in pseudonymous reports.)
Macs are a small minority of the total computer market. They're a huge percentage of the trailing edge, however--the tech-savvy people who are willing to try a new service like Dropbox or Syncplicity.

Leaving out Mac support in this case is like opening a coffee shop that sells $4 lattes, but can only be reached by people driving beat-up old Fords and Chevys.
This is different. http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/01/egypt-leaves-the-interne...
Surprisingly we have never had any push back on the name, which I was happy to see since we are obviously not racists, and we are all also Caucasian. We just thought it was a name people could remember and although I can't completely validate that that is why this business is successful, I think it has had a lot to do with it.
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You can get people to participate in DDoS attacks with a malicious website though.

Just use some JS to create image elements, script tags, iframes etc all with sources pointing at the target, should be able to do a few hundred a second at least.

Even trivial to get people to participate without using javascript. Just pop in a hidden iframe with a million <img> tags in the source.

As things move on, I don't think individuals who happen to fire off a few hundred requests at a website should be investigated/prosecuted/etc. Website owners just need to get better at protecting their systems.
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My tax dollars are going to this. I feel robbed.
It'd be good if they could setup a digital packet system instead. On lots of frequencies to prevent jamming.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_radio
I did it for a class assignment once.

In Java.
terrorists give up on cellphones, go back to pagers... police now randomly searches doctors for bombs.
Yes and yes, actually. Though the FBI naturally focuses on international actions against US people and companies.
Also, sign all of your articles with the name g0atbutt.
I meant, does anyone investigate them end-to-end, and not just in their own country? I find it hard to believe that the FBI interacts well with law enforcement in, say, Poland.
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I'll admit that it is a little busy (and there are a lot of gradients), but I wouldn't call it terrible. If you have specific suggestions, the designer is open to making changes:

http://meta.apple.stackexchange.com/questions/291/new-design...
Whiteyboard is an awesome product. I specially like their hilarious videos promoting it.
This one with the blonde chick is priceless -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr1jhit2hzQ
Would investing more in satellite-based infrastructure be one possible solution?
I know many corps who'd use your product, but couldn't buy it for threat of having their ass sued off.
Behind the scenes, South Koreans talk about a staged reunification over decades. The first stage? Use North Koreans as cheap, manual, unskilled labor like we in the U.S. use people from Mexico and South America (that's actually how it's described).

In a sense it's being tested right now in the Kaesong industrial area on the border. It gives the benefits of cheap labor, without having to use the Chinese.
All networks are government-controllable; the only difference is how easy or hard it is for government to do it. Ultimately networks run on physical hardware and men in black boots can go pull the plug (or install a wiretap).
Allright, who has been playing with the random number generator?

One thing you'll have to do before looking at the data presented here (if you want to give it a second look) is to take into account that there is a lot more to programming than just web programming.

But even with that in mind I have a hard time seeing Assembly on the rise and JavaScript dropping and named in one breath with delphi.

And I'm not a fan of any of those (ok, maybe assembly), so that can't be it.

If you want to skip the article to go right to the data it's here:

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....
How much time did you spend on it etc?
Not a bad starting for the modern era:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_revolutions_and_rebelli...

...it errs on the side of too much information though, and doesn't distinguish between successful/failed, and major/minor. Also, stuff like "the Mexican drug war" is on there from 2006-present - it clearly has elements of violence against the current government, but I think it's fair to say their objective isn't regime change.

I'm having a hard time coming up with a good source, because "revolution" is used for a lot of stuff in Google and having hard time narrowing it down. I study a lot of history, though, and the vast majority of revolutions go really poorly... you almost always wind up with a revolutionary military government in charge, which don't historically govern well. The U.S. is kind of a weird outlier in revolutionary history, in that the first President was a military leader who honestly didn't want the job, and abdicated after eight years to civilian government... that just doesn't ever happen. Like, ever.
Dropbox is such a great name for the service, much better than Syncplicity. I think that might have facilitated their success.
Given that Egypt is one of the places people sent to Guantanamo are threatened with (ie talk or we will send you to Egypt instead of this nice safe and comparatively comfortable place) I think almost anyone would comply.

More interesting would be if you happened to have satellite equipment already in country that they didn't know about or ask to have shut down. You can get a little l band terminal the size of a laptop, and a lotnof remote sites in egypt have real vsat links too.
Those links are not designed to suddenly handle all transatlantic traffic in addition to their regular load of J-pop.
That's a bit of a fallacy. They compare the US to single European countries. I'm guessing it would be as easy to turn off the internet in California as it would be to turn it off in Greece.
Just pop in a hidden iframe with a million <img> tags in the source.

Mostly agree, but thought it worth pointing out that no browser will respond to this by parallelizing the million requests - most browsers don't ever open more than a dozen or so concurrent connections to one site. So this wouldn't do as much as you might think, unless you could get lots of users to stay on your page for a long time.
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oh, hello our friendly neighborhood cybercrime legal expert. If I have written:

teenagers who most likely are not liable to the same extent as adults

would it have satisfied your pedantry, or would you still argue to the contrary?
Is there a good way to update passwords to a new encryption scheme? the article tries to ding amazon for failing to do this, but I can't think of a way to reinforce the passwords without announcing that there's a flaw in the implementation. Is there a standard way around this?
Format wars are like the lottery. If you play often enough you might strike it lucky one day and that will make up for all the tickets you bought.

I can see why they keep playing, the odds are considerably better than in the lottery, even if the price of the tickets is higher.
There's still a cultural divide in Germany.
We host our company blog on tumblr via a subdomain. So far the experience has been "ok", and considering we haven't paid a cent, I can't really complain about value for money.

My biggest problems with Tumblr's outage is this: It would be nice if their "sorry, we're down" page gave some indication that it is Tumblr that is having trouble with their service.

At the moment, if Tumblr goes down, visitors would have no idea that the "we" in "we're having issues" is not us, but in fact Tumblr.

And what really bites about it is that people understand if you have an outage when trying to serve up millions of pages. But when you have a company blog that has only small traffic, people don't have the same understanding. If your company blog is down, you just look an incompetent who has configured his server badly. And that irks me to no end.
Looking at the specific examples:

[nfl jerseys]

#1) http://www.nflshop.com/category/index.jsp?categoryId=2237409

Visit nfl.com, click "shop", then choose the "jerseys" tab, this is the page you are on. Seems perfectly relevant. The domain does not contain "jerseys" in it, and while the title does - it's the Jersey's category page for the nfl's shopping website, that makes sense. Hardly spam.

#2) http://www.footballfanatics.com/NFL_Jerseys

Visit www.clc.com, the collegiate licensing company, click retailers->collegiate retail outlets, Football Fanatics is one of 13 licensed collegiate retailers. Most major college universities sell their football merchandise through them. It's been around (run whois) since 1997, 14 years! Perhaps it's not ideal for NFL (non-college), but it's definitely Not Spam.

Unfortunately, below this some of the results do start getting ugly - there aren't too many online retailers that can legally sell NFL merchandise. Even Amazon is just a storefront for the NFL Shop (see http://www.amazon.com/NFL-Football-Fans/b?node=374273011). That might make it a good result, but it's essentially duplicated content given the NFL Shop result.

[pandora jewelry]

#1/#2) Pandora.net, totally not spam, this is the type in [amazon], get amazon.com kind of result.

#2.5) Below the second result I see a shopping results box which has only pandora jewelry from authorized retailers.

#3) http://www.pandoramoa.com/ - the Pandora Mall of America stores. Authorized pandora retailer. The domain has been around since 2007 (4 years)

Below this, the rest is getting ugly. Similar to [nfl jerseys], there aren't many online retailers legally able to sell pandora jewelry, so once Google has listed the only 3 good results available, what do want them to do? Try [jewelry] or [necklaces] - queries where there are lots of legit destinations and the top 10 results are all non-spammy.

[thomas sabo]

#1/#2) ThomasSabo.com, just like [pandora jewelry], this is exactly what 99% of the people with this query want.

Same story for the non-existant good results below.

These 3 queries are a very specific type of query where there are only one or two relevant results, but there are lots of sites that "match" the query. I'm not saying the rankings after the first few relevant results are good, but what would you propose to show after those relevant results as an alternative?

Writing an article about a specific class of queries is fine, although the author doesn't really propose a better set of results. The implication made is that this issue applies to a broad set of queries which it doesn't seem to. Ironically, the author's signature line is a link to http://www.tomsgutscheine.de/, whose title translated to english appears to be: "Coupons, Coupon Codes & Coupons (January 2011) - Tom's Coupons".
Same here. If you want my attention, you're much more likely to get it by being outrageous, than doing something "normal," "safe," and "professional" (that is to say, "BORING.")
The comment thread on Reddit, which the article references, is definitely worth reading. There's some good discussion about the difficulties involved in upgrading people's hashes to use a more secure system (eg: http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/f96w7/amazon_security_f...)
A similar thing happened with a famous Word Processor not having a word count.

The designers found that nobody used word count - except for Journalists. Guess who write reviews of new word processors?
I've played games where merchants had undo, and it was quite nice. You could buy things back for the same price until you end the transaction/conversation, or until you left town, etc.
Technical and cost factors make satellite basically uninteresting for most markets until Ka band comes out (there is limited use now, such as wild blue in USA, but the satellite with Ka coverage for Mideast was lost due to a launch problem with a rocket, and all other Ka capacity seems to go to HDTV broadcast vs data.

Personally the most interesting thing I see is O3b, which is maybe a year away.

Ku and L are good for limited markets, but just cost too much for YouTube users anywhere with terrestrial alternatives.

Bandwidth efficient protocols and proxies, combined with wifi and pirate gsm mesh networks, which can talk to unmodified laptops and cellphones for end users, are probably the best tech for situations like Egypt or post natural disaster.
Thanks...I know Stammy, haven't met Chad yet. I was mainly trying to find some new folks :)
The Iraq debacle (2003-) was something different: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community
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How is "greatly reducing the value of anchor text" going to improve search? Didn't we all start using google because anchor text was a great ranking signal? It seems the appropriate course of action is to devalue links from sites that either ignorantly or willfully pollute the link-o-sphere.
you only need a license to broadcast legally, if you're trying to over-throw a government, it would seem unlikely that you'd be too worried about doing it legally.

HAM radio is interesting, because it is the most decentralized form of communications. Cell phones are internet and land lines are all routed through some corporation or government entity. HAM radio relies only on RF propagation. Repeaters are another matter, they can be knocked out, but a decent HF tx will get you a good distance.
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There's a Twilio idea here somewhere...
It's amazing how little trash a nation of slaves generates. Also, very few emissions. It is always Earth Day in North Korea, as the nation does a remarkable job at conserving electricity[1], unlike decadent Western societies.

[1]http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...
I find it hard to believe that the FBI interacts well with law enforcement in, say, Poland.

you might be disappointed. Law enforcement cooperates extensively throughout the World.
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I've learned the most important key to making reliable software, a method that has served me well for over 20 years.

Follow this simple rule:

Write a comment for each line of code, making it a complete sentence to express a complete thought.

You should aim to write for two computers in parallel -- one is the CPU, and the other is between your ears.

Why does this technique work to make software more reliable?

Line-by-line comments serve as a kind of logical checksum for the code, such that if the code and its comment differ in function, then you know immediately that work needs to be done in that area. Often, a coding bug will be revealed as you are writing the comment that goes along with the code.

More broadly, line-by-line comments serve to hold the intellectual context and keep your mind connected to reality.
You're right - escaping is very dependent on context, and sometimes you need to escape data multiple times in nested contexts.

In inline script you need to get JS string escaping right and avoid </ sequence that ends HTML CDATA.
It's not legally harassment, but it's definitely not calm, rational, productive communication either.
well the RCMP and the FBI work together very closely, for one. An American FBI agent can get more done in Canada through RCMP connections than a rich and powerful Canadian can.

RCMP is the Canadian FBI by the way.
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"Dropbox limited its feature set on purpose. It had one folder and that folder always synced without any issues -- it was magic. Syncplicity could sync every folder on your computer until you hit our quota."

I think I had started to use Dropbox because of its popularity on LifeHacker and other sites. One of my first complaints was that I was required to use a single "My Dropbox" folder instead of being able to use my own folder structure. However, I quickly adapted to the Dropbox model and realized that for every computer that's connected to Dropbox, everything that's in the Dropbox folder gets synchronized and everything that is not in the Dropbox folder is not. Its simplicity is probably the reason why I am still using it.
If neither the perpetrator nor the servers are in the U.S., theres not likely to be any jurisdiction, but it's not actually necessary for the targeted servers to be in the U.S.; it's sufficient for jurisdiction for the (alleged) perpetrator to be operating from the U.S.
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The has been the most popular MSDN Magazine article for over a year. Is this really the best info out there on WPF and MVVM?
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I doubt it. All it'd take to shut down a satellite is to take over the control room on the ground and transmit a "power down" command or something.

Perhaps a better approach is to work to decentralize as much of our existing infrastructure as possible. Eliminate DNS. Fundamentally change how routing occurs to become more organic. Etc. Non-trivial, to be sure, but possible, IMO, and I think it needs to happen.

The goal should be that any internet-enabled device can mesh with the internet from any other internet-enabled device. Example (contrived) would be my cell phone talking to your cell phone with bluetooth, your phone talking to your laptop with a wifi connection, and your laptop talking to another device via ethernet, etc... and that ultimately, packets flow and end points can find each other all without central routing tables or artificial hierarchies, etc.
I can look at all the streaming content on Netflix and know it'll play on my computer, iOS device, Xbox, TiVo, Roku, whatever.

Hulu, however, has content that is web-only. For example, I can't watch the Simpsons on my phone, only on the web, even though I thought part of the deal with paying for Hulu Plus was having it on other devices. Why pay for being able to watch content on your TV when they don't permit you to watch the popular stuff on anything but a PC?

And given what they did to Google TV users, I know that if it were technically possible for Hulu to identify you were watching on a TV-connected HTPC and block you for it, they probably would.
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