skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anything that embarrasses Joe Arapio, in any way at all, is good news to me.
As someone who is (usually irrationally) paranoid about optimization, I found this talk to be inspiring. Also, Braid was by far one of the most wonderful gaming experiences I've ever had. So for that, thank you Mr. Blow.
Angry Birds Seasons brings Summer Pignic
We are talking about the new update of Angry Birds Seasons for Android, which brings the episode "Summer Pignic", contains 30 new levels.
Google Voice Search in Dutch (Nederlands)
Didn't you lose this battle back when the original Warcraft came out, seventeen years ago or so? Real time is not a technical term anymore in most of the conversations where it appears; it's popular jargon and it means "the opposite of turn-based".

However, I wish you and L'Académie Française the best of luck. ;)
I wish everyone could use complex, unique, strong passwords all the time, but some use cases just don't support it. For example, I have to type my Apple ID into my iPhone/iPad what seems like every 5 minutes in iOS. Without access to 1password or a similar tool, I just can't use a strong password. Even if I did, I couldn't change it as often as I'd like to. FWIW, I wish I could.
Yeah, but how many people have nose piercings? I won't ever put something in my body to control a computer, but I really like the few gestures I can do on my mac trackpad. I would much rather have gestures.
What is ttr?
Arizona DPS and the Maricopa Country Sheriff's Office are two completely separate departments that basically don't interact with one another.

It would be like targeting hacker news because reddit made you mad.
Presumably only the legitimate owner of a website is allowed to alter its content, or send e-mail originating from its domain, not anonymous people.

(Apologies for the potentially-mocking structure of my response; I intend only to point out that, when hacking is on the table, identity can be forged)
Who doesn't encrypt their torrent traffic already? But this does nothing to prevent your IP address from being easily associated with the torrent.
Facebook Loses Earliest Remaining Employee, Kevin Colleran
I think their new goal is to make as many enemies as is possible. It seems like they will not stop until every person on the planet wants them dead.
Plus trains are more or less locked into a path.
Really, IE9 on the desktop doesn't suck. It's not my favorite interface. Some of the design decisions leave me scratching my head (tabs next to the URL bar, on top but not at the top of the window, etc). But we're finally at the point where it legitimately attempts to compete with the browsers that used to trounce it back in the IE6 days.
Lulzsec has had a history of defending WL (PBS hack for Bradley Manning), but I don't know if they are willing to give them this data as it might shine the spotlight away from Lulzsec.
Type 2 diabetes in newly diagnosed 'can be reversed'
You're wrong on this (or at very least looking at the issue without nuance). More often than not "just following orders" IS a sufficient defense. Only in the most heinous of acts is it considered insufficient (if that weren't the case there'd be no reason to define what is and is not a "war crime")

Deporting someone, even if you feel it's unjustified, is a far cry from a War Crime.

That's the cogent point. The danger in an officer choosing to enforce the law as he or she sees fit is so great that they aren't excused in doing so unless the act is an atrocity. Because once an officer is selectively enforcing the law they actually become the one making the law.

Since officers of the law aren't elected that's unacceptable.
There's certainly a bunch of interesting stuff in there, like how officers are instructed to place iPhone in nickel or copper plated containers in order to prevent remote wipes and a ton of information about gangs and smuggling.

There's also other cool technical stuff in there, like how they gather digital evidence, information about hacker forums like ryan1918.com that have information on FBI honeypots and a book on how to "crack leetspeak".

Unlike the other releases by LulzSec, this looks like it actually is an useful, WikiLeaks-style release (except they haven't filtered out any private or irrelevant information like Wikileaks tries to do)
This cannot be overstated. Companies live or die based on the perceptions they create, technical details be damned.
The idea sounds awesome and I signed up but the site needs to be redone to be far more clear on what they are offering. I showed this to 3 people in my office right now and no one could figure out what they were offering until signing up and there is no clear call to action to go and sign up to the free version and then doing a proper upsell to the paid from that point Site looks nice though but needs to be far more clear on there product and the free option on the main page.
Everything I Needed To Know In Life I Learned At Computer Camp
How to Fail at a Job Interview
(with-training Clojure/conj)
I consider these to be the real value of my $99 developer fee. The talks from last year were outstanding.
Google Translate integrated with Jingle could/will be a joy to use.

I would love to talk to a college student in Greece about the local economic sentiment over VoIP.
I choked on my morning tea when I lol'd reading this.!! :-/
That's true currently— but I think you're neglecting the possibility that widespread use of robotic cars could effectively eliminate rush hour. If that hour and a half commute starts taking the twenty minutes it should, two hours is time for a bunch of round trips.

Of course there will be some limit to capacity, as with any public transportation. But having to wait a bit for a car isn't going to put off commuters who are used to spending hours a day waiting in traffic.
The NYTimes is hiring developers seeking to enhance society. Apply here.
Might not want the FBI to know he read the article if they come back for a "followup visit"
Effectively you are still using a hash without a salt, it's just that you've created a new, non-standard, hash function.
a lot of people feel the same
Since you also need a Mac to develop for iOS, they probably assume you have it. Can you download Safari for Windows to watch?
You're under the mistaken impression that the original work was used to create the new album cover. That's not the case; the Kind of Bloop cover was a completely new work that happened to look like the original. If it's possible for anyone to file a lawsuit because a given work looks similar to another work, then jeebus help us all.
The problem is the Officers are actually the least guilty here. SB1070 actually requires officers check people's papers. Officers COULD do that before SB1070 but they weren't. So the legislature passed 1070 in part to force officers to do it more often.

The truth is Officers generally don't want to get involved in immigration cases because it requires interaction with the Federal Government. That is a local cop's least favorite activity.
Files..not so Forever
And yet it should be the artist's choice on how THEIR work is used

Why? Seriously, I'm genuinely interested in why you believe this statement should be true. If this were actually the case, there would be no such thing as a fair use defense.
How is the DOD allowed to work on civilian law enforcement in any capacity?
Some of my friends work for Phoenix DPS. According to them, their "IT Department" (in quotes because according to them they don't really have an IT dept.) is...horrifyingly incompetent. Like really, really bad.
I hope lulzsec enjoy communal dining and sleeping with the lights on.
WWDC 2011 - Videos online
While it is certainly a good idea, as a user, to assume that the site developers have done things wrong (and therefore choose a strong, random, unique password), it is also a good idea, as a site developer, to assume that your users are doing things wrong (and therefore choose a strong password hashing method).
Finish Him. Humans are both fat and slow.
They can't go back now.

Before this, mostly what they were doing was small time. DOSing a website, or leaking some emails is annoying, this could potentially get people killed.

This is max level from what I'm reading so far (others' reports, I'm not touching that torrent). Homeland security info, info on ongoing investigations, etc. etc.

This might actually make lulz more dangerous. They have nothing to lose now. Before this, I'm sure in the back of the heads of whoever was doing whatever, was the thought of getting caught, and that they might go to jail for a couple of years. It doesn't matter anymore, because nothing that they can do now can make things worse for them. If [when] they get caught, they're going to prison for the rest of their lives or worse.

Basically: consequences will never be the same.
Yes, there have been many articles and letters written against this law by Arizona police officers and their representatives. I don't understand why one would target the Arizona police of all people. Probably not worth analyzing LulzSec too deeply, though, there aren't any real answers or justifications besides maybe psychological ones.
the beetle and many other volkswagens are assembled in mexico. their higher-end models are assembled in germany.
If DigitalOne's people are out of country, a truly evil tactic for the FBI would be to ask customs to reject any reps entry.
That was my point. valgrind is very user friendly. Keep using it!
Google Probe Stirs Echoes of Microsoft Antitrust Case
Registering a developer account is free.
Presuming you're asking this question in general, not to fullsailor specifically, yes you can.
If this had happened for email, we would have had to deal with a myriad of different clients, servers and 'interworking' gateways.

That was the networking prior to the wide adoption of IP and SMTP. There were DECnet mail clients, and clients for various other networking protocols, and users needed to know explicit bang-path routes and gateways.

Seeing this churn and this fragmentation is unpleasant, but it also means that you can see rapid advances and new features and different approaches. Once the market matures and the churn settles down, we'll see more of this sort out toward protocol consolidation.

In general, areas with high churn are some of the most interesting parts of the whole computer business. They're among the least mature, and often with the most innovations.
This is exciting. Imagine downloading open-source autonomous driving firmware that pushes your car to the limits. Cops will issue tickets for "using a non-dmv certified autopilot algorithm that automatically slowed down at known speed traps." All the data is there. :)

It'll also be interesting to know how automaker's efforts intersect with Google's efforts. Sounds like an exciting problem to be working on.
Frameworks are for dummies. Startups should roll their own. On that front, PHP is no better or worse than any other language. It just IS. If you're getting hung up on what framework to use, because you can't roll your own code for a bunch of custom pages, just use a damn CMS and stop pretending to be a coder =)
Is anyone else seeing pirate bay sans any CSS? Is somebody counter-attacking TPB?
I know I just assume that this is one of the things supported by that fee. These conferences can't be cheap to put together.
Unfortunately, an opportunity to better the system was lost by settling out of court.

Jay Meisel : you suck. For doing this.

(...too bad HN pages rank low on Google).
Showing yet again just how "stupid" they are...
Windows Azure: Ingress traffic free starting July 2011
With paid search you bid on user intent through keywords - what they are looking for right now. On Facebook you are bidding on people and trying to get their attention, a big difference :)

That's a very important distinction I hadn't really considered. Their method for "targeting" is entirely different.

I wonder which is more effective?
If you're using Windows, you can view probably the view the videos in iTunes (assuming you're a registered developer). I downloaded videos from the 2010 set that way.
The money for next years budget or your local schools would be on the bill as well. You woudn't vote against money for schools would you?
MySQL and PostgreSQL aren't in the same ball park as Mongo. It's irrelevant.

Based on merits, architecture, and implementation Riak handily beats several of the DBs listed. It's a glaring omission and not the only one. As many chose Other as did Oracle.
I do agree that piracy is a societal problem, but the "buying needs to be simpler than piracy" argument is crap. Look at music - I can buy any album I can think of on Amazon with one click. The problem is that people don't want to pay money for what they can get for free and they don't feel shame in pirating it.
Sorry about the wrong info.
If you attack someone, you make them a martyr. If you attack their wife and kids, you send a message.
HoneyComb - Because hiring for small companies seems NP-hard
My mistake. I thought my Gawker account was on another address, but a quick search shows I got the hint.io mail on 12/13.
"The two chambers still have to reconcile differences, but the bill has the advantage of being supported by the White House, major business groups, and leaders from both parties who have hailed it as a major jobs-creating measure."

This is a huge red flag.
Lol.

And if it does, the page will be updated to "Yes.", right?
Sure, you can download Safari for Windows. The page mentions that you need OS X, though. I don’t know what’s up with that and whether that’s actually true. As far as I know installing Safari on Windows also installs QuickTime, so all the necessary components (see below) seem to be there. (If all else fails you are still be able to download the videos inside iTunes on Windows and OS X.)

That browser limitation just doesn’t seem necessary, though. Apple is using the standard video tag, that should work in many modern browsers – but they are using a .mov container for whatever reason. Apple is realistically not going to use Ogg Theora or WebM but they at least could not put their h.264 videos inside QuickTime containers.

Even if they insist on using a .mov container it is possible to view those files in, for example, Chrome. Apple, in fact, does just that on their public facing pages (a current example: http://www.apple.com/macosx/whats-new/#video-lion). Same markup, same type of file, and it all works in Chrome (and maybe even other browsers).

It just makes no sense.
The reason he has a depressed wage is because he's undocumented and therefore can be exploited. Reduce the friction involved and more people will be documented, and more on their way to full citizenship. Shady employers won't be able to pay less than min/market wage since the now-documented workers have legal recourse.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but the Defense Department works with other government agencies and non-governmental agencies; and has for quite a long time.

One of these collaborations is responsible for you being able to type that comment and have it be readable by someone on another computer.

As to the specifics of the DOD CyberCrime center, it was set up in 98 to offer training/services to other law enforcement and counterintelligence agencies.

Basically, someone figured that instead of having to have each seperate agency stumble around in the dark dealing with cyber crime, they could pool resources and try to standardize. It's actually a pretty good example of getting rid of beaurocracy.
FBI knew where Whitey Bulger was
This would accurately summarize almost all of enterprise computing.
I don't think it's a matter of culture so much as a matter of scale. It's the same with most web communities, the quality of the community tends to go down as the membership increases.
However, a "should I change my password site" that takes passwords as an input would be pretty simple, just save the entered password and then say "YES".
Dynamic bindings are characterized by being bound not by the nearest preceding code at compile-time, but by the nearest preceding code at run-time.

Therefore, the way I understand it, the important bit is not the relationship between a try and a catch, but between the throw and the catch. You could imagine throw as a call of the function last_catch(Exception e), which is dynamically bound by one of the "parent" functions (functions below on the stack).
This is how the system already works. When you have a bill that no one can realistically vote against, a bunch of junk gets tacked on to the end.
Regarding both work/life balance and remote teams, I would say that it depends. We all see fairly small sample sizes in our working lives, but I've had much more success with a team that worked 8hrs/5days than the crazy 90/100 hour weeks. I think there is huge value in downtime, both to keep at-work productivity high and sustainable, but also to provide time to reflect on what we are doing.
http://static.thepiratebay.org seems to be down for me too, thus eliminating all/most CSS, JS and images. I've got no clue whether it's an attack or not.
Security through obscurity is never a good idea because it leaves a false sense of security.

I know I am getting totally destroyed here by the down voting and I'll probably end up in negative karma for this but I standby all of it.
That silly page have 6 of Pagerank... and i have years trying to get some of mine out of zero!
Bitcoin Theft – The Top Ten Threats
The FBI probably already has their number and was waiting for something good to prosecute. They inject their filthy politics into their "lulz" and as far as I'm concerned they can go straight to damnation.
unfortunately I get car sick. A robot car means either extreme boredom or sickness, I cant look away from the road. But I will be happy to be the last human driver, surrounded by safe robot cars.
A septillion CPU cycles a year
Can WordPress Developers survive without InnoDB? (MyISAM vs InnoDB benchmarks)
> I feel like software companies are always under fire for using outdated techniques and poor quality control and whatever else, and yet these complaints seem so often to come from people who haven't produced anything on the scale of the software they criticize. [...] What projects have you worked on that had 5MM lines of code?

I think you know that I'm not going to answer that when I'm posting under a pseudonym, but I've worked on some reasonably large-scale projects. I doubt anything I've written ultimately has as many end users as Firefox, but I'm definitely in both the millions-of-lines club and the millions-of-users club, probably multiple times by now, and I've worked on projects where faults can cause Very Bad Things to happen.

> I'm not really sure why you're going down this path, since I don't think I ever said anything about this, but I'll bite. What industries are producing significantly less-buggy code at the same (or similar) cost?

My point is that if you're going to write software with a huge cross-section for malware to attack, such as a web browser, and you choose to write it using decades-old technology, where it is difficult to write it securely, then it's hard to take seriously any complaints about how hard it is to maintain that code and keep up with security patches.

As for other industries, obvious ones would be defence, aerospace, finance, and infrastructure management. When was the last time you saw a plane fall out of the sky because of software failure, or your electricity supply cut off because the management software for the national grid crashed? (There are also oddities like TeX, but then that was written by Donald Knuth, so it's hardly representative.)

Software developers in these industries typically work to different standards than those developing consumer products, and yes, the up-front costs are typically significantly higher. The thing is, by the time you account for the time it takes to fix bugs post-release compared to fixing it at an earlier stage in development, the difference in the total effort isn't such a high factor. And at that stage, you still haven't counted the benefit to society (and to your PR) of not having perhaps millions of users disrupted by each serious bug.

The bottom line is that as an industry, we are mostly stuck in the past, but we are there only because of inertia and non-technical factors, not because of engineering merit. As I noted before, this is a rather ironic argument in a discussion about trying to move people onto newer and better browser technologies, but quite apt: it shows how little progress we make if all the better technologies live in their own little worlds.

> If you're going to have other people build on your product, you absolutely need to support them.

Exactly. I think that's the key point that I and a few other people in this thread have been trying to make.
The Mature Entrepreneur - Part III (What's in it for your customer?)
Is there an industry standard on $/like?

It seems like you can't really judge how much you should spend per like because you haven't yet calculated the revenue and profits per like.
"What about people who don't like or use the Gmail web UI"

Well there is always http://talkgadget.google.com/talkgadget/client

Opening a webbrowser window with that and you are set. No Gmail UI, and you get video chat.
"Uh sorry, I didn't mean to do that."

"Oh, phew, carry on."

You're kidding me, right?
How is it not fair? Because you say so? Because you disagree with the system?

Is it more fair to have a free for all where people sneak in?

It's convenient to say something is not fair as justification to break all the rules.
Like "negligent" bad?
What are your thoughts on the question he asks at the bottom of the blog entry ("Where would you draw the line?")
Tiny suggestion: add some user-agent detection on the tour pages (e.g., if userAgent == firefox: show firefox screenshot; elsif userAgent == chrome: show chrome screenshot;).
I use only one password for all web sites
The problem resonates with me. But I'm struggling to figure out how you could make me a system that was easier to implement than just writing it into my own app from scratch. Care to elaborate?
Or shoot people lying prostrate on the ground in the back and kill them.
I found that book to be disappointing, not up to O'Reilly's standards, and certainly not in the same league as JS: the Good Parts. I guess they rushed it out to capitalize, which is a shame.
What are your thoughts on the question at the bottom of the blog entry, where he gradually reduces the 'copy' to a 2x2-pixel mipmap and asks where the bright line of copyright should be drawn?
No kidding, and this one too-

"Opposition came mainly from groups representing independent inventors, small businesses and academics."
But remember that assets are only half the balance sheet...
yea but computers can work 24/7 and could potentially solves orders of magnitudes more captchas per second!
Not a chance, on either count. Martyrs are not made simply by being attacked, and attacking wives and kids does nothing so romantic as "send a message". It tells the world you play dirty pool, and it makes you enemies- but not the steal-your-lunch-money kind.
Camera+: The Road to 3 Million (infographic)
I'm glad one person got it.
"...describe the use of informants to
infiltrate various gangs, cartels, motorcycle clubs, Nazi groups, and protest
movements."

FWIW, this probably means some people are going to die.
The emulator itself is absolutely terrible, compared to, say, gnome-terminal or iTerm.
Just in case, I gave it root@localhost