skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I may be mistaken but I thought Safari's "activity" view showed downloads made by Flash applets. So you just get the URLs for every image served up right on a silver platter. I'd assume it works the same in Chrome.

You can just as easily deter casual image saving by doing what some folks do and put a clear image layer above the actual image, so the browser prompts the user to save a 1px clear png instead. If they know enough to view the source or use a DOM inspector you can't really stop them anyway.
Yep.

And it's a particularly relevant observation at a time when some segments of the industry are pushing for a VM or native code execution facilities in the browser. Having a universal client that works from human-readable code -- and having a `view source` feature for easy reading -- has provided a platform (and atop it, a culture) where every instance serves as an example and it's likely a significant portion of the reason why the web as grown and moved forward the way it has.

The other point behind the piece may be that the value "owning" an idea is limited at best; good execution generates a lot more value, both for you and your customers and the market at large. You could spend a lot of time trying to protect your ideas either by holding your cards close to your chest or through legal strategies, but the last 20 years seem to indicate you're likely to do a lot better by going to market well.
That is a completely ridiculous statement with no basis in reality.
I don't see how this example justifies your position, though. Nobody will ever write "++[[]][+[]]+[+[]]" to mean "10" in anything but an obfuscated code contest.
Thanks Sara! For some reason Github's search engine doesn't find you by name.

https://github.com/search?q=sara+chipps&type=Everything&...
You're not going to like hearing this, but unless those numbers are in kg's you're not likely to be "jacked". The reality is you're probably carrying significantly more fat than you think you are.
Exercising seems to be discussed in this article in mostly abstract terms and that's a real shame. People need to talk more about the quality of the exercise being performed as well as the time spent doing it. "Vigorous gardening"?

People don't like to talk about it or do it because changing what you normally do from day to day is hard.

I know because in the past I have gone from being a maintenance runner to being a semi-competitive distance runner and understand that carving out the time and putting in the effort to make those changes was difficult mentally and socially. I saw the results not only in race times, but in the fit of my jeans, pounds on the scale and skin on my face.

When I reduced my effort, weight and inches returned. Adding more prepared/restaurant food and alcohol increased the effect.

Now I'm approaching middle age, have slacked off the running and am watching my belly slowly grow. I know if I want it to stop or reverse, I'm going to have to change my ways: less late night partying, more discipline and even some pain. Aggressive yard work isn't going to do it, nor is biking to work (4 miles each way, mostly flat).

Merely changing your routine is hard enough. Changing it to introduce more discomfort (at least for a time, until you get used to it and your more energetic routine seems normal) is very difficult. It's difficult enough for me, a former football and track athlete who knows what to expect and has a decent tolerance for pain. It's got to be much worse for people who haven't gone through the cycles and don't know what their bodies are capable of doing and what their minds are capable of overcoming.

Talking about the exercise component can often drift off into lazy-shaming or sound like macho story-telling, but every time I hear from overweight family members or read an article like this one I always wonder, are you going for a short-term dip, or are you going to change your life? Because if it's the latter, you must prepare yourself for considerable inertia, metaphorically and physically. And then push through it.
Legal Establishment Up in Arms Over Shpoonkle
I saw the title and I thought: oh, an article written by a younger person. And boom, sure enough, there it was.

I do not mean that as a ageist comment at all. It's just one of the things I've noticed about younger people is that they feel there are all these different lives. And somehow they must choose between them. To me, part of the reason why is that they confuse who the actor and who the responder is.

To assume there are all these different lives, you must assume that there are all of these different social groups that "tell" you what to do and how to act. Then you respond doing as you are told. It's not that this is a lie, it is just woefully incomplete. A better way of looking at things is that you are the person communicating. As a good communicator, it is your job to communicate things in ways various groups can consume. For my existentialist friends, being deep does not preclude being authentic.

So no, I don't tell the same off-color jokes in a religious group as I would when going out with friends to a bar, but that's not because I am a different person, am trying to live a different life, or any of that. That's because I have learned that to effectively communicate with some people, off-color jokes shut them down. All communication ceases. This is bad for me and for them. So I choose to adapt my communication style. They can still know that I like an off-color joke -- I'm not hiding who I am or trying to change myself -- it's just that I'm smart enough not to share those things with them.

Something I've been cogitating on for a while: I think that younger people have kind of a hole in their life where they don't really know who they are. Probably a natural part of growing up. Because there's this uncertainty of their own personality, it's rather easy to begin to feel as if perhaps you have more than one! (Perhaps people of all ages feel this way. For some reason it is much more noticeable in younger folks. I know I felt this way when I was younger.)

Having said that, I'd also add that there's a difference between personal and public information. I am a firm believer in honesty and openness. But that doesn't mean that I have any responsibility to dump my life story on random strangers. It just means that for those things I choose to share publicly, I choose to be as honest as possible about them. Given the context.

In fact, for sake of argument I'll take the opposite opinion (I love being a contrarian!) I'd argue that most people are really, really bad at being able to adapt their communication skills to a wide range of audiences. Instead, they seem to feel that nuance and depth are somehow deceptive. I blame this on many things, but technology definitely plays a role. When everything you do or say is public, it has a tendency to turn you into a one-dimensional person. That's a shame. It lowers the level of civil discourse for society as a whole.
Central heating, too. 100 years ago, most people got cold at night.
As previous comments said, it is a lot better buying an used macbook, I had the same dilemma a year ago, tried with a hackintosh with no luck, a couple of months later I found an used macbook on ebay that it was in really good shape, still using it.
This comes from an attempt to write valid JavaScript without using any letters or numbers. It's partly for the sake of demonstrating it's possible and part for security testing reasons, to show that poorly written input validation filters can be bypassed.
Well, I don't mean to oversubscribe to the whole 'revenue is a feature' spiel by Twitter executives a few years ago, but honestly, if you are OK with taking VC funding, then getting a lot of users who love your product and engage with it on a regular basis is the most important thing. Because if you have millions of dollars to spend and millions of users using your site, you are probably not going to run out of money, and you can try things until you become profitable. At any point, you personally will have shares worth a lot.

David Heisenmeier Hanson (did I spell that right) proposed the opposite -- build your business with a revenue model right from the start, like a brick-and-mortar shop, and there's a lot to that as well. But there is not just One True Way. You can select from winning business strategies from both the free and paid camps.

Actually my personal advice would be to make a simple venture that doesn't fail as your first business, and give away as much equity as you need to investors to make sure your company has the best chance of succeeding. Even if you wind up walking away with 10% of the company in 2 years, plus a few million in cash, you'll have connections, a track record, a reputation, and MONEY. And you will be able to own 100% of your next projects if you so want to. Remember, this isn't your last idea.

Having said that, even though this is my advice, I have not followed it myself. I seem to be executing this big vision for the last couple years, and it's all coming together. I seem to be more along the lines of Steve Jobs in that I am trying to create something of lasting value for the entire world... and the little things just get in the way.
Another link, since the tweet is devoid of content:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/york-times-email-li...

They sent out an email saying subscriptions had expired to the wrong list
The intelligence explosion discussed in the original LessWrong post is a separate issue from exponential growth, only loosely related, although folks like Ray Kurzweil constantly conflate the two.

Please don't dismiss all ideas about AI, intelligence explosions, and superintelligence (e.g. http://singinst.org/upload/artificial-intelligence-risk.pdf ) just because some related concepts may be misguided.

(Not saying that you are being dismissive, just pointing out a distinction that you or others may not be aware of.)
The Internet is already heavily regulated. Specifically, the problem with letting the "market" sort out net neutrality issues, is that most places have granted franchises to only one or two broadband providers. Since this effectively makes real competition illegal, there must be "balancing" regulations to prevent abuse of the customers.

Some ISPs already throttle certain protocols, and some were forging reset packets to drop connections they didn't want on their networks. Others are on record wanting to charge Youtube for each gigabyte of video they delivered to a customer. We can pass consumer-protection regulation now instead of waiting for ISPs to implement their stated plans.
Cory Doctorow at 28C3: The Coming War on General Computation
I'm not sure if you're trying to say that calling an argument childish is itself childish, or something else, but if you're asking what "I" was thinking, it's "it's time for people to stop leaving dumb comments about the color schemes and decorations of blog posts on threads ostensibly dedicated to discussing the contents of blog posts".

Those comments are literally distilled meanness.
Get off your PC horse.

Reality based generalization is not "stereotyping" (and all stereotyping is not false).

Really, we people from other parts of the world --the victims of stereotypes ourselves-- are incredibly tired of all this "guilt" and "tiptoeing around issues" mentality going on from that side of the Atlantic. As if anyone's feelings will be hurt if somebody calls the typical teenager impolite or un-motivated...

In this part of the world we see as comic how people in a well known country are oh-so-sensitive about how someone "stereotypes", say, a Mexican person or a black person, while the same country has used black people as slaves first and second rate citizens second up until the '60s (with a disproportionate amount of them vs whites in prison even now), and has stolen several states (CA, TX, NM, UT, CO etc) from Mexico.

If you want to fix something, try to fix the harsh realities instead of BS like this.
There are different ways money are pooled and complicated reporting requirements. If you think Republicans are just peachy than you are an idiot.
Censored final chapter of 'The Rootkit Arsenal'
"Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all." -- The Great Gatsby
Alternatives for GoDaddy Dump Day
Cute; it really needs voting while you're getting a stream of traffic...
"There's no way he fit a useful semantic network in an iPhone app"

Define "useful".

It doesn't have to be big to be useful. A perfectly fine for summation purposes semantic network can fit in an iPhone. The bloody thing has several GBs of storage last time I checked.
Print Screen -> Open MS Paint -> Paste

Anyone can do that.
The secret is: This Is The Internet.

There's no reason a class can't have the same material presented two (or three or twelve) different ways for multiple audiences.

There's no reason a class needs a "start date" and an "end date." We can grow classes to be about communities, not authorities. None of us are as smart as all of us.

We shouldn't copy the Boring Ole' Lecture Format (and especially not "camera up my nose while I write on paper") when we could be doing so much more.
What is a gene?
diaspora...?
"""The writer was, at some point in his life, a spoiled teenager. Most of my friends and other teenage students near me, (By the way, I'm from India, 15) love to do their homework, as, it's challenging and we feel something after completing it."""

Yeah, we sure buy this...
Shouldn't you complain when anybody does it?

He wasn't saying technical as in technologists, and this isn't West Side Story. He meant when you're making a technical correction for the sake of it, being "a technical smart ass". "Non-technical" people do it, too.
Thanks! Yep, working on that.
Site is still down. Even the cache is not opening for me! :(
Twipsum - the fresh new Lorem Ipsum generator made of tweets
Well, I can live very comfortably for 10 years with that kind of money, and no work at all -- and I live in one of the most expensive European countries (save for rent, which is cheap).

I'd call it a jackpot alright.
I believe the more important point was, "Dude, you know what I'm talking about. Getting to a point of consistency requires discipline, so stop trying to correct me for the sake of it."
NYT sent email meant for 300 readers to 8 million people
Every changing? We've been complaining about Flash on sites like these for years. We wanted a way to view their menus on our phones. We wanted to be able to see their hours without waiting for a 10 megabyte flash object to load. We wanted to make a reservation online, etc.

I'm not sure why these Flash interfaces exist. More than likely someone who's good at running a restaurant isn't going to be know a lot of technology and will get roped into the most expensive flash-based design they can afford. Items like usability, mobile friendliness, etc never come up because the owner doesn't know or care about it and the designers are too invested in Flash to try anything else.

Is this hurting their business? I'm not sure. I never go to restaurant sites. I visit yelp instead. I only do takeout from places that have good systems in place. Its a competitive advantage now to take online reserverations and have a menu I can view on my phone. Considering something like 80% of all new restaurants go out of business after their first year, it might make sense for these owners to stop being so pigheaded about technology and ask themselves if that slow non-mobile $20,000 Flash site is really serving their customers.

This is the same battle we had with restaurants being cash only 15 or so years ago. The ones that embraced credit cards seemed to have flourished and the cash-only place is either gone or has degenerated into a dive. I think the lower tech your industry is, the most room there is for disruption. These blue-collar places really need to consider the big picture here.
True! you wont use it. I guess it'll end up being just an Interview Question.
I really want the word 'lulz' to go away.
My question is, when did that start working in Javascript?

Does this trick work in Brendan Eich's first JS implementaion in Netscape 2.0? Which came first, the spec or the implementation?
I tried out IFTTT (it tells me) three days ago. It's never run any of my tasks, though. I'd really like to see something awesome happen.
3.3 million e-mails between the most powerful men are about to be released.
Um, what I said: "...the most you'd see is a little excess belly fat if I took my shirt off..."

I know I have some fat. I'll start stressing about it when my lifts stop going up, or when it becomes visibly excessive.

As for being "jacked", I wasn't describing myself now, but rather a hypothetical future self. You can infer this based on my use of the future tense: "When I hit 253, I'll be obese, just like pretty much everyone in the NBA...I'll be eating just as much..."

I know I've got a long way to go. That's why I'm describing the future rather than the present.
Is it just me or is this design kind of awesomely baller?
"""Damn, I'm 32 and still cannot really justify one."""

In the US, about 20 million people have one. It's not that big of a deal.

"""I hate to talk about privilege, and this kid is clearly smart, but the smell of upper class is hardly bearable, sorry."""

Yeah, because it's so easy for them, that tons of other upper class kid have done something similar, right?

Actually, real "upper class" kids wouldn't bother do anything like that at all. Why spoil their perfectly good lazy existence and fun-having?
There are definitely better ways to showcase photography these days that allow cross-device compatibility.

Allie Siarto and Loudpixel have a great Wordpress theme product that derived from and is targeted to that very need: Whitespace
http://usewhitespace.com.
My first though when reading the title was if it only takes 4 hours it will take a better funded competitor 2, when you prove out the market for them. Seriously unless it is some really specialized technology and knowledge, 4 hours mean the entrance barrier is just too low. Every kid in his garage will be giving it away for free.
This article is lacking on any sort of details. It's not even clear if they are building a "facebook". The technical standards they think there can reuse include things like oauth and openid. OpenID does not a social network make.

It also talks about solutions looking for problems, likkr RDF. I don't think the semantic web will be a social network for the 99%.

The biggest problem with building a new social network is traction, ie users. This is a social, not technical, problem. If the occupy groups want to stop Facebook, they could try to get all people to never use it for occupy stuff.
Well for example take the least squares formula \theta = (X^T X)^{-1} X y. You derive that by setting a derivative to zero, and solving for \theta. If you don't know what a derivative is, then you're just using an equation that came out of nowhere and that you don't understand.
I have literally just returned from a meeting at the 28c3 conference in berlin, where the Social Swarm group were discussing strategy in this direction.

Social Swarm is an open think tank initiated by the German privacy and digital rights NGO FoeBuD. They are attempting to research and co-ordinate the many and varied efforts in decentralised, secure social networking. You should visit their wiki, where they have collected many resources from across the net, so we can get a handle on the many different projects and their statuses, as well as talk tactics with regards to that deciding factor, traction. You should also sign up to their mailing list if you are at all interested in these ideas.

http://wiki.socialswarm.net/index.php/Main_Page

Also, have a look at Secushare. Today I also attended a talk by some of the members of this project, and it seems extremely promising. They know what the hell they are doing, with something like a century of combined experience in the field. It's fully distributed, based on GNUnet, (similar to tor) and has some very innovative ideas around using the trust network implicit in the social graph for routing and distribution of data.

http://secushare.org/

(Note that I do not necessarily represent the social swarm collective, I only just met them today ;)
I asked over at Reddit but he won't see my question. What's the software he uses to scribble out his calculations?
Where's the new bundl.it?
"But those [diaspora, identica] developments aren’t specifically focused on protest movements. And the Occupy movement’s surprising rise in the U.S. has added new impetus to the desire for open source versions of the software that is playing an increasingly important role in mobilizing and connecting social movements, as well as broadcasting their efforts to the world."

So yeah, Diaspora. The article is not well-written.
Darts, Dice, and Coins: A beautiful article on a beautiful algorithm
The interesting thing to me in the article is that these metabolical changes show up at 10% weight loss. What happens if someone lose 5%, stay at that weight a year and then lose another 5%? Will the changes still occur?

An important point implied in the article, is that weight lifting works. (As the GP discussed.)

(Personally, I was outsourced a year ago and took the chance to remove sugar from my diet. Works well, but it might be something else in mybnew environment that makes me lose weight.)
You're making the assumption that photographers are concerned about the same use cases as you are. Without addressing their need for using Flash, you cannot begin a conversation about why it's a horrible and obsolete choice, never mind provide an adequate solution moving forward.
As recently as a couple of years ago I was writing my own custom AS3 based slideshows for showing off my own photos online.

Back then you simply couldn't rely on a browser to resize a photo correctly outside of Flash, which made it impossible to support different client resolutions without storing a ton of copies of the photos on the server or doing dynamic server-side resampling, both of which had their own drawbacks.

If you left the photo resize up to the browser you'd end up with a horrible non-resampled mess if the photo was shown in anything other than 1:1, whereas in Flash it was trivial to display a bilinear resampled version that looked great at any size up to and including 1:1 of the original photo.

I think at this point the usage of Flash is mostly just inertia... it is done that way because it was always done that way. But it was done that way for a purpose. Web browsers sans Flash were horrible about displaying resized images until relatively very recently.
That's not quite accurate. There are several definitions of the upper class. No one said he was a royal or a lord.

From the financial standpoint, he is upper class alright, even if the Eton guys would snub him.
Better link for info on the vulnerability: http://www.nruns.com/_downloads/advisory28122011.pdf